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Remember Anita Martini….
Anita Martini
Media Reporter/Analyst
Texas Baseball Hall of Fame
Art by Opie Otterstad
Although we never met, I was bedazzled by her beauty, her class, and her baseball mind and moxie from the time I first heard her easy-to-hear voice, floating through the local Houston radio and television coverage of baseball from the the mid 1960s into the early 1970s.
Where did this Galveston "girl" really come from? She knew deep parts of baseball lore that none of my then world of male contacts knew at all. Hell, I may as well say it. – She often knew more about certain aspects of baseball history, especially if those things had anything to do with the New York Yankees, than even I knew – and that was back in my ego salad days – when a beautiful age contemporary girl (type) wasn't supposed to know more about baseball than a dedicated male former kid player and history nerd like me.
Yeah, I know. I know now. There was a time in the days of my youthful arrogance when that sort of thing was hard to admit. We had been so culture-slammed with the notion of "guy things" in separation from "girl things" as we were growing up in the post World War II years, that we often simply did what we could to avoid conversations that might reveal the presence of superior knowledge in a girl – or even differences in opinion from our own – whenever a brash girl started talking about something that was really and truly an anointed "guy thing."
I was lucky. I snapped pretty quickly to the realization that this old "guy thing/girl thing" assignment was just another of those tough rules that a more fundamentally sexist society came up with years ago as a way of trying to steer people in narrow ways about what we have to do to be OK as men and women. It was conclusively Grade A malarkey to the better goal of teaching all young people to pursue the dreams that are honestly available to all of them as individuals.
Anita Martini often declared that she wasn't into sports media work to be the first woman to do anything, and that she was simply out to be the best she could be at whatever she did. In reality, both things happened. And both were true.
On October 1, 1974, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Houston Astros, 8-5, at the Astrodome, clinching the NL West title. After the game, thanks to the work of Dodgers Manager Walt Alston, Coach Tommy Lasorda and Center Fielder Jimmy Wynn, Anita Martini became the first female reporter in all of history to be invited into an MLB clubhouse post-game press conference – ever. Furthermore, the Dodger players were given strict instructions by Lasorda to be respectful of Anita and to let her do her job.
It was the first footstep of a galloping horse of change in the history of women covering baseball as media people. And it was a step that Anita Martini handled like the champion she always was.
"Anita Martini was definitely the 'Jackie Robinson' of female reporters when it came to locker room press conferences," Jimmy Wynn has said many times since that day. And you know what? Former Dodger Jimmy Wynn was right about that day. Jimmy Wynn even served as the guy that instigator Lasorda sent barreling out of the Dodger clubhouse to find and bring Anita Martini back inside for this groundbreaking moment. Even though I wasn't there to eyewitness it, a story listener's mind movie plays on in my head.
A smiling Dodger road-uniformed Jimmy Wynn catches up to a strolling unaware Anita Martini on one of the nearby concourses. Out of our earshot, the smiling, now also moving rapidly lips of Mr. Wynn have managed to generate a smile and an up-and-down cheerful raising of her arms in the otherwise motionless posture of a jubilant Anita Martini. It's only a moment. But it's a moment that shall last forever. In my movie mind, Jimmy takes Anita by the hand and the two of them jog happily back to an inner door and disappear from public view for her date with destiny. And the history of Anita Martini and women media in baseball is changed.
It's just too bad that Anita Martini had to leave us so early in a beautiful game.
Anita Martini died on Saturday July 10, 1993 after a long tough battle with brain cancer. She was only 54, but her relatively short stay among us left a rather large impression upon the future of women in sports media, doing the game of baseball, especially – and doing it so very well.
In 2007, during my last year as a member of the Board, I'm proud to say that we inducted Anita Martini into the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame for her career media courage, quality and performance in behalf of our favorite sport – the great game of baseball. No matter what. And no matter how much she downplayed the importance of her pioneering. She will always be the first female to do a live post-game locker room interview in a regular season MLB game – just as she always shall be one of the best reporters many of us have ever seen or heard on game coverage.
For those of you planning to attend "An Afternoon with Lisa Nehus Saxon" at the Baseball Reliquary program scheduled for 2:00 PM, this coming Saturday, March 18, 2017, here's the program schedule:
http://www.baseballreliquary.org/2017/01/afternoon-lisa-nehus-saxon-march-18-2017-pasadena-ca/
Please show up to honor Lisa Nehus Saxon, another of baseball's female heroes – and pass along this link on Anita Martini to others who need to hear more of her contributions, as well:
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7 Responses to "Remember Anita Martini…."
Fred Soland Says:
Bill, I knew Anita and Nelda Pena and Mike Edmunds well from the early days of Rotissorie Baseball (Now days referred to as fantasy baseball generically). I got to know her as a person, and got to be close to her. I was invited to her celebrity roast, which I attended along with many celebrities of the time in the Houston sports world. When I got to the event, Anita grabbed me and said she wanted to introduce me to someone special. She walked me over to a table and said she wanted to introduce me to her college roommate, Dawn Wells…..yes THAT Dawn Wells…none other than MaryAnne Sommers herself. Dawn was very sweet and we talked quite a while that night. I still speak to her occasionally and we reminisce about Anita, and what a genuinely fine lady who was fun to be around, but wouldn't take crap off of anyone. I could tell you many stories about her, but we will have to save those discussions for a personal visit. Unfortunately, I tell stories much better than I type.
Anita was a pioneer, as was Nelda Pena. Oh, and for the record, I won the Rotissorie League all three years it was played. But then again, I also played the boys at the Houston Chronicle….Harry Shattuck, Neil Holfeld, David Barron, Fred Faour, Neal Farmer and a dearth of others….and I beat them regularly too.. She was in good company, and she never could understand how I was always the one riding the lightning.
Excellent post
Little known fact but Anita was being discussed by the folks who ran KTXH-TV 20 more than 35 years ago to be hired as the analyst for Houston Rocket basketball. I was the new hire as the play by play announcer starting in the 1982-83 season and was asked how I would feel about having a female partner? After they explained to me who she was (I was coming over from San Antonio and did not know of her and being totally confident in my own abilities to run the show) I thought the idea proposed by the Ch20 leadership had merit.
It would break a glass ceiling for a qualified female sports announcer and secondly give the Rocket telecasts some national coverage.
Alas, the idea was never brought to fruition. I was never sure who decided against making the move, but the Rockets did have right of refusal. The veteran sportscaster Barry Warner was hired to fill the second chair for road telecasts and former Rocket star guard Mike Newlin worked the role on home games for the HSE cable telecasts. I totally enjoyed working with those two very different personalities for the three years I did PBP for Rocket basketball on TV, but did wonder at times–especially after I got to know Anita a little bit –how things would have worked with her in a seat at courtside.
Anita might have not worked at all well in the role and far better at her speciality as an interviewer and talk show host. But we never got a chance to know.
Had she come along just a few years later roles were being created for women on telecasts. The spots that Patti Smith and now even more so Julia Morales hold in Houston are local examples, but ladies in many other cities are being given a chance to demonstrate their knowledge in sports and not just their femininity. Anita knew baseball. She would have been one of the best all time and fully able to be a real sideline commentator and not just a reporter/interviewer.
Greg – My money would have been on you and Anita becoming a smash hit together as a broadcast team. The public loved you both from limited exposure and that only grew over time for each of you individually. The synergy of watching two bright and lovable people working as a team for a regular season together simply wreaks with the cachet of another great "might have been" pairing of people in sports broadcasting history. It wasn't meant to be, but that's OK. Sometimes it's enough to just vote for what appears to be the best bet on a question of past theoretical outcome possibilities. – Finally, let me put it this way. – I can't think of any other male contemporary out there at the time who could have been a better pairing for Anita Martini than you in this next break in a glass ceiling.
David Munger Says:
Great article Bill. What impressed me the most about Anita Martina is the fact she knew her Sports, she was pre Google and actually had to "work for her stories". I remember her on the radio and she could get as Red Neck as any of the callers that challenged her . That Galveston Lady had no fear of The Glass Ceiling.
firebird65 Says:
I remember listening to her sports talk show on KPRC-AM with Mike Edmonds back in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They actually talked sports and kept listeners informed, instead of riled up and entertained, as today's shock jocks do. No "takes," just facts and good conversation. Nice contrast, and one that is sorely missed.
Robert g Duzan Says:
I listened to Anita's broadcast summaries. I was hooked as it was obvious how knowledgeable she was.
I also was overjoyed when she discussed motor racing. As a auto race fan she was the only reporter that discussed and interviewed Sprint car drivers in town at Big H speedway. Nobody else in town was willing or knowledgeable to talk the sport. She was a treasure for Houston Sport fans.


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I Watched This Game: Canucks vs Canadiens, February 22, 2011
Posted by Daniel Wagner
Canucks 2 - 3 Canadiens
Not sure why, but the Canadiens started this game like they had embarrassed themselves on national television in their previous outing. Frankly, they skated like it was their first time on indoor ice in days, shooting like they hadn't scored a goal in over sixty minutes, and playing like above zero temperatures were suddenly new to them. Spurred by a novel appreciation for insideness, they jumped out to an early lead, and never looked back. The Canucks, meanwhile, drifted for the first ten minutes, spoiled by their indoor malaise. I say this malaise cost us the game. Also, we scored fewer goals. I watched this game:
To be perfectly honest, I hated this game. Not just because of the Canucks, mind you, but because the Canadiens play ugly hockey. Ogre ugly. They even employ an ogre. Have you seen James Wisniewksi these days? After taking advantage of a flat-footed Canucks team early, they spent the evening defending their lead by collapsing in front of Carey Price like the 1929 stock market, and clogging up the neutral zone like a big ball of hair in the J-trap. It was unattractive hockey.
Speaking of hate, Harrison would like everyone to know that he hates P.K. Subban. He claims he's allowed to, because they're both black. That said, I thought I heard him say something about the white way, but it turns out he was saying the white whale (he's in Darren Pang's book club). I'm actually a Subban fan. He's a jerk, sure, but no moreso than Kesler or Burrows. He's a pain in the posterior to play against and is unapologetic about being young and talented. Nothing wrong with that.
Tonight's big story? Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg were in the audience tonight. I'd be upset about this if I were Nick Frost. Cruise is a much better-looking running mate, and considering his career-trajectory, he might soon be reduced to playing sidekicks. Anyway, considering Cruise and Pegg are from the United States and United Kingdom, respectively, I assume they spent the majority of the game wondering where the ball was. And fending off thetans. Couch jump.
One of Ryan Kesler's most underrated skills is his overall opaqueness. He used this ability to great effect tonight, proving to Carey Price that it is impossible to see an incoming puck through a body. Not even with X-Ray Specs. You would need military-grade x-ray glasses, and the Canadiens just don't have access to that kind of hardware. Come to think of it, that's about the only kind of hardware they don't have a tonne of. That's a french ton, for those who don't know.
Kesler was also a beast in the faceoff circle tonight. He went 13-for-13 in the defensive zone, 4-for-5 in the neutral zone, and 8-for-11 in the offensive zone. That's 25-for-29 overall. I say again: he took 29 faceoffs. He lost four. But those four cost them the game. Trade him for money.
The Canucks Scrabble challenge (in which Harrison will be competing tomorrow) was enough of a big deal to get mentioned twice. It was sort of neat. That said, just to establish, Shorty's proposed Scrabble technique of spelling the word "THE" to block triple word scores is not recommended, and doesn't really make sense. I really can't think of a single scenario where spelling the word "THE" to block a triple-word score--without actually using the triple-word--score would work. That said, Shorty's Scrabble knowledge definitely tops Garrett, who only seemed to know that A had a low-point value.
Between his poor puck management, and his incessant urges to go wide and try wrap-arounds, it's a wonder Mason Raymond remains an NHL second-liner. He should try managing a truck stop diner, where the turnovers, wraps, and poor management are expected.
Keith Ballard and Dan "Community Man" Hamhuis both played tonight, but neither was really back, if you know what I mean. They weren't at 100%. For example, Dan Hamhuis only built one Venezuelan orphanage during the game.
Christian Ehrhoff played 28:35 tonight, which is more than he played in the games Hamhuis and Ballard missed. That's too much icetime for the Hoff, who doesn't play a steady enough game to be on the ice for half of it. Without Alex Edler, he's a bit manic and overzealous. In the last ten minutes of the game (when he didn't seem to leave the ice), Ehrhoff rushed the puck well, but tried to force play after play, and often wound up getting turned back or flummoxing his forwards. A steadying presence like Edler's would have helped greatly. One might say that Christian Ehrhoff misses Alex Edler like Raffi Torres misses the net. That is to say, constantly.
Actually, I'm going to the Canucks superskills on Sunday, and I'm hoping Torres competes in the shooting accuracy competition. More than that, I hope he wins, just to increase his already astronomical ability to boggle. Think he plays Boggle? Should this be our next challenge? #BoggleMeRaffi
The Canucks evidently got 39 shots-on-net, with the Canadiens blocking another 22. The number of quality scoring chances, on the other hand, was significantly lower, and this is the third or fourth game in a row where this has been the case. During this stretch, with the defensive injuries, the Canucks' shot totals have actually gone up, but the overall quality of their offense has gone down. One example would be the very common occurrence of the Sedins parking behind the net. Typically, they make something happen from back there, but half of the threat is predicated on the defensemen being viable passing options. They really weren't tonight. Instead, you had long stretches of Alex Burrows darting back and forth in front of the crease, hoping to get open, before Henrik gave up and went somewhere else.
For the first time, Chris Tanev looked a little out of place in the NHL. He's really only had one unimpressive game prior to this evening, but tonight, the Canadiens took advantage of how raw a talent he is. Unlike Mikael Samuelsson, whose minus-3 was not reflective of his overall defensive play (it had more to do with playing with Mason Raymond), Tanev's minus-2 was self-made. On the opening goal, he drifted into center ice while David Desharnais tiptoed in behind him (inasmuch as one on skates can tiptoe) for a breakaway. On the second Montreal goal, he took himself out of the play with a poorly-timed hit and couldn't get back in time to cover Andrei Kostitsyn. To this, I say: Tanev, play to your strengths, one of which is not strength.
The Canucks' power play quite nearly bailed them out tonight, potting two goals on six powerplays (one here, one above), despite looking discombobulated, at times. Part of me feels like the power play let the team down tonight, especially considering the ill-disciplined nature of Montreal's penalties. It was especially aggravating to see a five-on-three go to waste. The Canucks remain one of only two teams in the NHL that hasn't scored on a five-on-three, the other being the special teams juggernaut that is Edmonton. Suffice it to say, sharing any statistical anomaly with Edmonton should be somewhat embarrassing.
At under five minutes, Cody Hodgson had one minute less icetime than Victor Oreskovich. Thinking about the playoffs, that is not a sign of trust. This is.
Carey Price played well tonight. He's been good all season, really, and it wasn't that long ago that everybody was calling for Bob Gainey's head because he'd traded the wrong goalie. I brought crow for everybody. nom nom nom
And finally, I wasn't a huge fan of Alex Burrows's game tonight. Not too long ago, he was scoring like crazy, so it's unfair to complain that he's not scoring. But he didn't score tonight. It would have been nice if he had done so, especially with the golden opportunities he was given. It was especially bothersome because he didn't do much else. His puck retrieval was below-average and his forechecking was ineffective. He's at his best when he's creating turnovers and getting the puck to the Sedins, not when he's waiting for the Sedins to get the puck to him.
Labels: Boggle Me Raffi, Burrows, Canadiens, Canucks, community man, I Watched This Game, indoor malaise, Kesler, Torres
I was really struck by how long AV waited before pulling Luongo. The Canucks had possession in the Habs' zone for most of the last 5 minutes, but Lu didn't get pulled until the very last minute and after Montreal cleared. By the time the 6 skaters were out, they didn't have time to fight their way back through the neutral zone. I don't like to criticize coaching decisions, but this really bothered me.
Not as frustrating as the first ten minutes though. Good grief.
Daniel "Skeeter" Wagner February 23, 2011 at 1:39 AM
The Canucks couldn't keep it out of the defensive zone long enough to get Luongo out of the net. That had nothing to do with AV and everything to do with the players on the ice.
Reece February 23, 2011 at 2:03 AM
"He went 13-for-13 in the defensive zone, 4-for-5 in the offensive zone, and 8-for-11 in the offensive zone."
By-Tor February 23, 2011 at 2:19 AM
Montreal played the final three minutes really well. Like Daniel said, we couldn't get Luongo out. We had maybe 30 seconds of 6 on 4 hockey. Anyhow, I hope we have a bounce back game against the Blues
sportsfan1981 February 23, 2011 at 2:22 AM
Way to go Montreal! Congratulations on the first win at Vancouver in over a decade! Good to see them bounce back after a terribly-played game on Sunday in the Heritage Classic at Calgary.
Harrison Mooney February 23, 2011 at 8:06 AM
@Reece fixed, thanks.
The "stretch drive"
is here.
been wont
to sneer
fans fear
the nosedive
is near.
And still I jeer
at those who cheer,
and taunt:
"The Habitants
are up by two
halfway through
the first -
the bubble's burst,
the Canucks are curst,
with a beer.
after ten
I did not
watch this game.
I caught
CIS.
Canucks fall
to Montreal.
Three Consecutive Assertive Sentences
They've themselves to blame.
Catch-up is a loser's game.
Luck's a fickle dame.
vanna February 23, 2011 at 9:23 AM
I have to say, I'm getting really tired of Mason Raymond. Every time he does the May Ray Go-Around I shout at the TV in frustration.
@Vanna agreed. I think most people agree. I have to think that, if we notice, the coaching staff probably does also.
I am a little mad we lost to Les Hobbitants.
He's a pain in the posterior to play against and is unapologetic about being young and talented. Nothing wrong with that.
I'm glad the Canucks tried harder after the first part of the first period but IDK if they deserved to win that one.
A game I'm glad I didn't see. And agnostic that I am, I'm of the opinion that if I didn't see it, it probably didn't exist.


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Fraudulent Papers Now Central Issue
Brent Symonette
As of Thursday, February 1, 2018
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By AVA TURNQUEST
Tribune Chief Reporter
aturnquest@tribunemedia.net
AS HE confirmed plans to speedily facilitate Bahamas-born deportee Jean Rony Jean-Charles' return to the country, Minister of Immigration Brent Symonette yesterday said his case will bring the longstanding issue of fraudulent documentation to the forefront.
Mr Symonette made clear he was not seeking to establish the fraud issue as relevant to Mr Jean-Charles' matter, or speaking directly to his case because he had not yet reviewed the matter fully.
However, he said there was an "overriding provision" that being born in the country did not mandate automatic citizenship, and noted Mr Jean-Charles had never applied for citizenship previously.
Mr Symonette pointed to draft regulations for the Carmichael Road Detention Centre and foreshadowed amendments to the Immigration Act during an interview outside the House of Assembly yesterday. "No," Mr Symonette when asked whether the ruling signalled imminent changes to deportation practices.
"Persons born here, as I've said, should not normally be deported, that is a fair comment. I'm not commenting on what happened in the court case because I have not followed it. One thing that is very certain is there are a number of, and I'm not saying this relating to this particular case, there are numerous cases of fraudulent documentation.
"So the (Jean) Rony Charles case will bring the issue to the forefront. As you've heard the attorney general say, there are certain regulations, new amendments to the rules being drawn up which will put in proper perspective the detention centre etc," he added.
"But there is still an overriding provision that persons have got to realise, is the mere fact that you are born in the Bahamas does not automatically make you Bahamian. There has to be an application for those persons who were born in the Bahamas to non-nationals to apply to the government for status, and that's an overarching issue that cannot be avoided.
"So upon his return if he has not already done so, Mr Jean-Charles will have to apply to be registered as a citizen of the Bahamas, which according to our files he has not done."
Attorney General Carl Bethel yesterday confirmed the government plans to "fully appeal" Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hilton's Tuesday ruling, which ordered the government immediately issue a travel document for Mr Jean-Charles and reimburse him for his travel back to the country, declaring that his rights under the Constitution have been breached.
Justice Hilton furthered that Mr Jean-Charles, upon making an application, be issued legal status no later than 60 days after his return.
The ruling stemmed from a habeas corpus application made on behalf of Mr Jean-Charles, who had been detained at the CRDC for some three months before his expulsion from the country.
Justice Hilton is expected to deliver his ruling on six more habeas corpus applications on February 8, part of more than 15 separate cases challenging the lawfulness of detentions at the CRDC and the immigration safe house for women and children.
Yesterday, former Minister of Immigration Fred Mitchell called for the government to appeal the judgement up to the highest level, the Privy Council.
He suggested the Privy Council should be asked to determine whether the courts can substitute their decision for the Immigration Department, as opposed to remitting the matter to the executive branch of government for reconsideration according to law.
In a statement yesterday, Mr Mitchell advised the current decision should be stayed pending appeal.
Jean Rony come home
Jean Rony's ruling impacts thousands
Rulings on Jean Rony Jean-Charles and Bahamian man's pregnant wife expected Tuesday
Jean Rony 'lost automatic right to citizenship'
BRING HIM HOME - Govt told: Fly Jean Rony back and grant status
proudloudandfnm 1 year, 11 months ago
Time for our government to start using computers for more than just solitaire....
And I hope immigration learned its lesson and stops the nazi/communist tactic of approaching people on the street and demanding papers because they look foreign. A lot of money wasted on this guy because of immigration officers breaking the law...
TalRussell 1 year, 11 months ago
Ma Comrades, I been long posting that there has never been legislation in place to have allowed the immigration detention (IDC) center to operate... that if someone simply walked away from their forced confinement at the IDC,, there is no way in hell that you could legally charge them and obtain a court conviction for committing an unlawful escape from an unlawful forced into detention place. The red state should and can be sued for a Billion Dollars in damages for unlawful confinement of human beings.
Good Lord, even the Bahamaland Humane Society is more humane and lawful than the IDC.
licks2 1 year, 11 months ago
If that was the case Mr. Smith would have done so. . .or why would the supreme court rule on a ha-bus corpus petition in favor of the complainant "from an illegal holding facility" . . . is the court condoning the illegal holding facility operation. . .knowing they are existing? Use ya head and leave the dumb nonsense to the politicians. . .
Ma Comrade, best you asks the courts. Illegal is illegal. In fact the public treasury should not be paying the salaries of government workers who perform their duties at a place never legalized. Go ask QC Brian Moree, if its all legal? If you're correct, then we no longer need fund the House of Assembly and its MP's.... nor upper red chamber senators?
joeblow 1 year, 11 months ago
So if Mr. Jean Charles papers were 'destroyed', does the government not have a copy of what they issued to him? If they do not, does it not suggest that the papers he claimed to have had were fraudulent or that he lied to the authorities? If that is so, is that not a criminal act?
These idiots are destroying, sorry, have destroyed our country with their bumbling incompetence!
That's where the government is going with their "review" of Mr. Charles' case. . .they have no record of him in our records. . .he says he was born one day with a different name and his family says he is another name. . .and another birthdate. . .messy situation at most!!
My2centz 1 year, 11 months ago
These affadavits in lieu of verifiable birth certificates, is what Wayne Munroe was trying to clarify and correct. But people were so caught up in their politics and cried foul. Whatever Mr. Munroe''s intention, he made a valid point. I can validate the birth records of my great, great, great grandparents. Lost and mishandled documents are a convenient excuse.
MR. CHARLES' CASE IF FAR DIFFERENT THAN THE FAMOUS "RED PARTY" CASE. . .the reds case was not trying to prove who was born where. . .but status at birth. . .the "'afterdavids" (lol!) . . .said that Mr. Charles was born here to two illegal parents of Haitian decent. . .Mr. Red was born here to one illegal woman of Haitian decent and one Bahamian citizen as father! Mr. Red was smack-dab Bahamian at birth (because who was parents at birth, not where was birth). . .Mr. Charles had to wait until 18-19 (some disagree) and apply for citizenship status! Mr. Monroe point was used by Mr. Smith on behalf of Mr. Charles. . .Munroe's point is already a point in law in this country. . .he was playing politics at that time!
The common issue here is the acceptance of affidavits from illegals, friends of illegals and in this case a sibling maybe 2/3 years older than the individual. This needs to stop, because it only facilitates fraud. This man has two names, two birth dates and his immunization card that was floating around social media, clearly showed the birth date was written over.
DEDDIE 1 year, 11 months ago
Registration of birth is a huge problem in The Bahamas. Why not have a Registrar General officer at the hospital to take the babies finger print before the child goes home. That will go a long way to solve the problem
Simply issue a birth certificate for non Bahamian citizens with parents name and photo ID on the form upon entry to maternity ward.
This is done from dog years (not finger prints).. . .each hospital birth is. . .I mean with a big IS. . .recorded before that child leaves the hospital! I was in the RG's office getting a birth record for my last daughter when a Haitian woman brought a yellow legal pad sheet saying that the individual was born in a house in cowpen road. . .all signed by a midwife. . .not even notarized by a notary public. . .she was furious at the clerk because she stated that she could not accept that document as proof of birth in the Bahamas. I could remember thinking: "what do some of these people dealing with"!
I just saw the lack of procedures last month. I pickup a relative from the hospital after she give birth and all they give her was a paper with the doctors signature and the hospital stamp indicating that she had a baby boy. They also gave her a birth registration form.
bogart 1 year, 11 months ago
The question must be asked why was noone ever charged with fraudulent documents since Indepemdence??.....or even bribery??.....or even fake marriages....??......or deceiving the Bahsmian authorities.....??....or hiring illegals...???.....or not payingNIB for the illehals working....??....Unless of course all this just started with Mr.Symonette noticing something.
Well_mudda_take_sic 1 year, 11 months ago
SYMONETTE HAS BEEN MINISTER OF IMMIGRATION AND ATTORNEY GENERAL UNDER PAST GOVERNMENTS LED BY HUBIGGITY AND TRUE TO FORM HE WILL ONCE AGAIN DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO ADDRESS THE SERIOUS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ISSUES TEARING APART THE FABRIC OF OUR SOCIETY AND THREATENING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY. SYMONETTE AND CARL BETHEL WILL ONLY GIVE LIP SERVICE TO THE ENORMITY OF THE ISSUES INVOLVED IN PROPERLY FIXING OUR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRISIS. BOTTOMLINE: SYMONETTE, MINNIS AND THE ENTIRE FNM PARTY LEADERSHIP WOULD RATHER PANDER TO THE "HAITIAN VOTE" THAN DO THE RIGHT THING EVEN THOUGH 50% OR MORE OF THE "HAITIAN VOTE" IS LIKELY ATTRIBUTABLE TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO HAVE OBTAINED BAHAMIAN STATUS BY WAY OF FRAUDULENT DOCUMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN "SOLD" BY CORRUPT OFFICIALS WITHIN THE DEPT. OF IMMIGRATION AND REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE (I.E. REGISTRY OF BIRTHS).
Now you know that I don't follow you many places. . .but I must say that I too am wondering "what Symonette is dealing with". . .the activist judge in this ruling, the illegal Hatitian community, Fred Smith et al all have denied the Bahamian constitution its ''right to rule our nation without interference from outsiders" . . .and BS seem "geeing them the kitchen sink and een listen ta da peoples dem"! Make no mistake, I don't believe that the people are fighting Mr. Charles as much as they are pissed with Mr. Smith. . .who is so spoiled and biased that now he brought down the whole house on his people's heads. . .that ruling has long and detrimental effects for the illegal immigrant community. . .and for those who were born here to illegal parents and missed their constitutional application dates. Don't forget that IRC requested that all children of illegal parents be deported with their parents. . .
DDK 1 year, 11 months ago
Well Mudda, I certainly hope you are wrong this time!
sheeprunner12 1 year, 11 months ago
The basic problem in The Bahamas is the ability for rank & file civil servants to competently create, file, store, and retrieve Government documents .......... every Department has the same challenge ........ and "missing files" tend to retard or thwart many a person's career, promotion or personal life situation or the ease of doing business........... It slows down or stops overall productivity in the country.
You are 100% right sheeprunner. I went to the Registrar Generals office for a copy of my birth certificate and my mothers name was spell wrong. I was fortunate to have a handwritten one from the 1970's or else they would have required me to get an affidavit sign by someone who is older than my eighty-two year old mother. Imagine that.
This matter has to be addressed by Minnis & his Cabinet ........ too many semi-illiterate and functionally illiterate people have been employed by the Government over the past 50 years (the friends, family & lovers syndrome)........ The RBC man got it wrong ...... The problem is endemic in the civil service ..... and the Unions or senior PSC officials do not wish to address it because it is "too political" .......... Either they get trained or send them home!!!!!! ................. But this must be addressed immediately!!!!!!
Sheepr I feel your pain..you trying damn hard to save this country ......but......many are actually well trained but will turn a blind eye as they part of the nomenklatura, They have to tip toe for fear... Even educated Lawyers will tell you its a conflict to challenge a govt or bank for a customer who got ripped off and can least afford it. Plenty Bahamians get really hurt and noone to turn to. No ombudsman, no financial consumer protection bureaus,.....The poor suffer and the workers who serve the people gets paid. Hopefully now we are so far getting a few select investigations....Dr Minnis is trying....
The Patriots among us must continue to fight ......... Hope must triumph over despair ......... or else we will reach the S-Hole status


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Lynn Wagner, Ph.D.
Group Director, SDG Knowledge Program; Interim Director, Reporting Services; IISD
The Most Read Stories on the SDG Knowledge Hub in 2017
Themes of measurement and assessment, institutional reform and policy coherence, finance, and addressing gender issues emerge from a review of the top 20 most accessed stories during 2017.
In 2018, we will continue to report on these themes, as the UN Secretary-General releases his next SDG Progress Report, discussions take place to align institutional agendas, private sector entities engage in the SDGs, new bonds are issued, and new guidelines for implementing the SDGs are launched.
The SDG Knowledge Hub's most read stories in 2017 tell us about the information that is needed and challenges that the international community is facing as we embark on the third full year of SDG implementation. Themes of measurement and assessment, institutional reform and policy coherence, finance, and addressing gender issues emerge from a review of the top 20 most accessed stories during 2017 (the full list is below)[1].
The measurement and assessment of SDG implementation is one of the most interesting topics for readers of the SDG Knowledge Hub, based on the frequency with which readers viewed stories on those topics.. The most read news story was a summary of the UN Secretary-General's progress report on SDG implementation, which was released prior to the July meeting of the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 2017) (1. UN Secretary-General Issues Second SDG Progress Report in June 2017). Our summary of the report prepared by the UN Statistical Commission prior to HLPF 2017 also was a top 20 read (13. SDG Report 2017 Provides Overview of Efforts to Achieve SDGs).
News about SDG data sources are also in high demand for our readers. The second most read news story was a summary of Data República's website with data sets on SDG implementation in Latin America (2. Data República Catalogs Data Sets on SDG Implementation in Latin America). The World Bank's Atlas of SDGs provides readers the opportunity to visualize SDG data according to a number of dimensions and also was well-read (4. World Bank's 2017 Atlas of SDGs Provides Tool for Tracking Implementation).
In 2017, the SDG indicator set was finally adopted, and our stories regarding the selection process and challenges involved with identifying the indicators received a great number of viewers (9. UN Statistical Commission Recommends SDG Indicator Framework for ECOSOC Adoption, 11. The 2030 Agenda's "Missing Piece": Update on SDG Indicators and 17. ECOSOC Adopts SDG Indicator Framework).
Institutional reform and policy coherence, as well as interplay among institutions, also emerges as a theme in our top viewed pages from 2017. Five of our top 20 stories focused on either setting the UN institutional agenda according to the 2030 Agenda, aligning the UN General Assembly with the 2030 Agenda, or aligning the G20 priorities with the 2030 Agenda (3. Secretary-General's Report on Repositioning UN System Highlights Gaps in Addressing SDGs; 6. Argentina, Australia to Co-Facilitate Alignment of UNGA Agenda, 2030 Agenda; 7. Germany Outlines Priorities for G20 Presidency; 8. UNGA 72 President Outlines Priorities for 72nd Session; and 20. In Advance of UNGA 72, Reports Consider Globalization and 2030 Agenda; Technology and Innovation; Water and Sanitation).
As the institutional home and focal point for assessing progress on the SDGs, the UN must lead by example. The propitious timing of the Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review (QCPR) in 2016, which allowed Member States to decide how to align the UN according to the 2030 Agenda they had just adopted in September 2015, resulted in a resolution that called on the Secretary-General to prepare, by June 2017: a system-wide outline of present functions and existing capacities of UN development system entities that conduct operational activities in support of the 2030 Agenda; options to improve the UN development system's entities accountability and coordination; and proposed improvements to the Resident Coordinator system. At the close of 2017 the Secretary-General released his second report on the repositioning of the UN development system to deliver on the 2030 Agenda, including a proposal tore-name the UN Development Group (UNDG) the UN Sustainable Development Group (UNSDG) "to reflect the comprehensive, integrated nature and the scale of ambition of the 2030 Agenda." We expect the continuing efforts to reform the UN and align its bodies with the 2030 Agenda will be valuable information in the coming year.
Stories about the means of implementation for SDG implementation, particularly finance, also received a great many views. Private sector engagement in the SDGs, such as that illustrated in our story about the 2017 World Economic Forum (10. In Davos, Private Sector Highlights Business Case for SDGs), and news about how businesses are incorporating the SDGs into their reporting, are of particular interest to our readers. In 2017, our stories about the launch of green bonds were also viewed frequently (14. Climate Finance Update: Major Emerging Market Green Bond Fund Launched). And a guest article that discusses the potential for digital finance to "overcome some of the pervasive barriers to deploying private finance for the wider good, and so to improve environmental outcomes" (18. Greening Digital Finance) also hit the top 20 in readership.
Two stories related to SDG 5 (gender equality) were also on our top 20 list for 2017. An overview of preparations for the HLPF's consideration of SDG 5 (12. Achieve Gender Equality to Deliver the SDGs) and a review of the outcome from the 61st meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women (19. CSW 61 Reports Highlight Women's Economic Empowerment, SDG Implementation) revealed how the UN and its Member States aimed to move forward on this goal.
Three other stories round out our top 20 list. Two offered briefings on the 2030 Agenda and how to engage in it (5. Getting Up to Speed to Implement the SDGs: Facing the Challenges and 16. What to Expect at HLPF 2017). A third related to the humanitarian aspects of the 2030 Agenda (15. UN Reports on Changing Face of Human Trafficking).
In 2018, we will continue to report on these themes, as the UN Secretary-General releases his next SDG Progress Report, discussions take place to align institutional agendas, private sector entities engage in the SDGs, new bonds are issued, and new guidelines for implementing the SDGs are launched. We will also keep in mind the challenges with taking that first step to engage in the 2030 Agenda, and will continually illuminate the multidimensional nature of the SDGs as we work to assist the international community in tracking implementation of the Goals.
[1] While the list is not a scientific assessment of our readers' interests during 2017, especially recognizing that it includes a disproportionate number of webpages that were published during the first half of 2017, we still think the themes that these 20 stories represent identify key information needs and challenges for SDG implementation.
2017 Top 20 Viewed News and Commentary Pages
UN Secretary-General Issues Second SDG Progress Report in June 2017
Data República Catalogs Data Sets on SDG Implementation in Latin America
Secretary-General's Report on Repositioning UN System Highlights Gaps in Addressing SDGs
World Bank's 2017 Atlas of SDGs Provides Tool for Tracking Implementation
Getting Up to Speed to Implement the SDGs: Facing the Challenges
Argentina, Australia to Co-Facilitate Alignment of UNGA Agenda, 2030 Agenda
Germany Outlines Priorities for G20 Presidency
UNGA 72 President Outlines Priorities for 72nd Session
UN Statistical Commission Recommends SDG Indicator Framework for ECOSOC Adoption
In Davos, Private Sector Highlights Business Case for SDGs
The 2030 Agenda's "Missing Piece": Update on SDG Indicators
Achieve Gender Equality to Deliver the SDGs
SDG Report 2017 Provides Overview of Efforts to Achieve SDGs
Climate Finance Update: Major Emerging Market Green Bond Fund Launched
UN Reports on Changing Face of Human Trafficking
What to Expect at HLPF 2017
ECOSOC Adopts SDG Indicator Framework
Greening Digital Finance
CSW 61 Reports Highlight Women's Economic Empowerment, SDG Implementation
In Advance of UNGA 72, Reports Consider Globalization and 2030 Agenda; Technology and Innovation; Water and Sanitation
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Haredi support for Jerusalem mayor candidate said to be part of draft law deal
Moshe Lion reportedly recorded admitting that Defense Minister Liberman promised ultra-Orthodox factions he'll promote softened enlistment law in exchange for backing
By Michael Bachner	25 October 2018, 9:21 am 1 Edit
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (L) speaks with Moshe Lion (R) during a special cabinet meeting for Jerusalem day in Ein Lavan spring in Jerusalem on June 2, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
A contender to be the next mayor of Jerusalem has reportedly hinted in meetings with local activists that his endorsement for the job by top ultra-Orthodox rabbis is part of a larger political deal between Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and Haredi parties in the Knesset.
According to recordings from several months ago and reported by the Yedioth Ahronoth daily on Thursday, Moshe Lion has insinuated that in exchange for the religious leaders' support for his candidacy, Liberman has promised to promote a softened version of a law to draft ultra-Orthodox students into the military.
The recordings' existence was published by the highly circulated newspaper just five days before the bitterly contested Jerusalem elections.
Last month, the spiritual leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Shas and Degel HaTorah political factions, Rabbis Chaim Kanievsky and Shalom Cohen, threw their support behind the Jerusalem mayoral candidacy of Lion, a Jerusalem councilman who was previously defeated by current mayor Nir Barkat in 2013.
Lion is running against Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze'ev Elkin; political activist and councilor Ofer Berkovitch; ultra-Orthodox councilor Yossi Deitch; and little-known Avi Salman.
Moshe Gafni (center) and Yaakov Litzman (right) of the United Torah Judaism party in Tel Aviv, January 2013. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash 90)
In the recordings, Lion reportedly reassures activists concerned about the draft law by saying "it is going to work out" since Liberman had met with MKs Yaakov Litzman and Moshe Gafni, leaders of the two factions that make up the United Torah Judaism (UTJ) Haredi coalition party.
"I'm going to tell you a national secret. Can I tell you?" Lion tells an activist in one of the recordings, after discussing the draft law, adding: "He met Litzman and Gafni."
"Who? Ivet?" the activist says, referring to Liberman by his nickname, to which Lion answers: "Yes."
Lion said that Liberman's claim that the defense establishment would be crafting the ultra-Orthodox draft law was just a cover, and that in reality the defense minister can shift its position according to his political needs, the report said.
The mayoral candidate also sounded "very concerned" that such a deal would be publicized.
Lion is a longtime friend of Liberman and Shas party leader Aryeh Deri.
A Jerusalem council member for five years, Lion received the backing of much of the Haredi community in the city in the 2013 mayoral race, but was nonetheless defeated by Barkat.
Moshe Lion (R) seen with Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat, during the wedding of Lion's daughter in Neve Ilan, June 19, 2016. (Yaakov Cohen/Flash90)
The fight over the ultra-Orthodox vote is central to the October 30 race, representing some 37% of the Jewish population of Jerusalem, according to recent CBS data (the Arab population of Jerusalem largely boycotts the municipal elections).
A central issue for that population is a contentious Knesset law bill, written by the Defense Ministry and promoted by Liberman's secularist Yisrael Beytenu party, which sets minimum yearly targets for ultra-Orthodox conscription that, if not met, would result in financial sanctions on the yeshivas, or rabbinical seminaries, where they study. At the same time, it also formalizes exemptions for the vast majority of yeshiva students. Many ultra-Orthodox are deeply opposed to enlistment in the army.
Analysts had predicted that disagreement over the bill could collapse the government within weeks of the Knesset reconvening earlier this month, with national elections being moved up to spring instead of the scheduled November 2019 date. But although ultra-Orthodox coalition parties have said they will oppose the bill, they have also indicated they won't quit the government if it passes.
The government must pass the law by a Supreme Court-set deadline in December.
In August, prosecutors announced they would not pursue corruption charges against Lion, citing insufficient evidence. He had been suspected of illegally giving money to Deri in 2013 in exchange for supporting his failed mayoral bid.
Marissa Newman and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
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Once every year, there is a time where religions go jolly in the celebration of holidays, name them Kwanzaa, Hanukkah or Christmas, temperatures drop in the northern hemisphere and a little German town called Erfurt is becoming overcrowded due to a cultural phenomenon called "Glühwein".
In this merriest time of the year, it is the good tradition of each house to offer its services for activities that may be deemed extra-curricular on first sight, but are in fact nothing if not a breeding-place for intercultural understanding, tolerance and practical learning. Be it how to put up decorations in places that are not meant to be reached, agreeing to listen to that song you really never wanted to hear again, or how to fit a whole band worth of instruments into a Ford Ka.
In late 2012, the job of orchestrating all this merriment fell to the newly elected Student Government of the Willy Brandt School, green in experience and brilliant in mind they set out to find date, place and time, succeeded and invited the world to a very WBS kind of Christmas.
The Willy Brandt School Christmas Party took place on 15th of December in 'die Stube', in Erfurt with students of the Brandt School, friends and our very own band 'The Willys' – the best band in the world, as it turns out.
On behalf of the whole Student Government, I would like to thank everyone for making this great evening happen, for all the tiny things in advance, the wonderful decorations and all the singing, dancing, talking. And The Willys of course, you guys are … very WBS indeed!


The Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks indicated that the beach implies a sanitary risk for its 200 enterococci in each 100 milliliters of water.
The Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks ( Cofepris ) announced that of the 269 beaches in the country, only one is not in a position to receive vacationers this holiday period of Holy Week; it is about Sayulita Beach in Bahía de Banderas Nayarit, which is under permanent sanitary surveillance.
In a statement, the commission said that in coordination with the state health authorities and the National Network of Public Health Laboratories made the sampling of seawater on the beaches of 17 coastal states, during the weeks leading up to the current holiday period , in order to obtain the geometric mean and generate a statistical value that allows to indicate whether a beach represents a risk to health.
He explained that based on the guidelines of the World Health Organization ( WHO ), the level that the Ministry of Health and Semarnat use to establish that a beach implies a health risk, is 200 Enterococci in 100 milliliters of water.
"This revision task is part of the Playas Limpias Program and allowed the monitoring of Enterococcus faecalis bacteria to assess the sanitary conditions of sea water, since it is very resistant to adverse conditions and due to its characteristics can develop in an environment with 6.5 percent of sodium chloride, pH of 9.6 and between 10 ° and 45 ° Celsius ".


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10 lowest-paying cities for physicians
Eric Oliver - Updated Tuesday, November 17th, 2020 Print	| Email
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a lasting effect on healthcare compensation, according to Doximity's 2020 Physician Compensation Report released Oct. 29.
Doximity used its data repository, including responses from approximately 44,000 licensed U.S. physicians, to calculate the findings in its report. Doximity received annual salary information from physicians and calculated the median annual salaries reported below.
Here are 10 cities with the lowest compensation rates for physicians in 2020:
1. San Antonio: $329,475
2. Virginia Beach, Va.: $331,952
3. Boston: $347,894
4. Baltimore: $348,389
5. Washington, D.C.: $351,572
6. Denver: $352,073
7. Philadelphia: $354,768
8. Memphis, Tenn.: $356,875
9. Louisville, Ky.: $360,609
10. Providence, R.I.: $365,807
Note: This story was updated to clarify methodology.
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Sajid Javid, né le  à Rochdale (Grand Manchester), est un homme politique britannique. Membre du Parti conservateur, il siège à la Chambre des communes du Royaume-Uni pour Bromsgrove depuis le .

Il occupe plusieurs fonctions ministérielles lors des années 2010-2020.

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Origines, études et vie personnelle
Fils d'un immigré pakistanais arrivé à Londres en 1961, il est élevé dans un deux-pièces à Bristol avec ses quatre frères et sœur. Son père est ouvrier textile, chauffeur d'autobus, puis tient un magasin. Sajid Javid effectue une brillante scolarité secondaire, puis étudie l'économie et les sciences politiques à l'université d'Exeter. Fasciné par la Première ministre Margaret Thatcher, il adhère au Parti conservateur, créant par ailleurs un groupe d'étudiants pour promouvoir l'entreprise privée.

Il se dit musulman par tradition familiale mais n'est pas pratiquant. Il est marié à une anglicane. Il estime avoir  vis-à-vis du Royaume-Uni et considère que son héritage pakistanais .

Carrière professionnelle
Il intègre la Chase Manhattan Bank à New York. Il est remarqué par la Deutsche Bank, qui l'embauche : il accède au conseil d'administration de sa branche internationale et devient membre de la direction de ses affaires asiatiques, qui siège à Singapour.

Parcours politique

Premières fonctions
Élu dans la circonscription de Bromsgrove depuis 2010, Sajid Javid occupe des fonctions dans le gouvernement britannique depuis 2012.

Premiers portefeuilles ministériels
Le , il fait son entrée au cabinet en devenant secrétaire d'État à la Culture, aux Médias et au Sport du gouvernement de David Cameron. Le , il quitte ces fonctions pour devenir, dans le second cabinet Cameron, secrétaire d'État aux Affaires, à l'Innovation et aux Compétences, puis en 2016 secrétaire d'État aux Communautés et au Gouvernement local dans le gouvernement de Theresa May. Il est aussi membre du Conseil privé du Royaume-Uni. Le , le portefeuille du Logement lui est rajouté.

Secrétaire d'État à l'Intérieur
En , la secrétaire d'État à l'Intérieur, Amber Rudd, est critiquée pour sa gestion du dossier des Caribéens installés au Royaume-Uni depuis plusieurs décennies : pour atteindre les quotas que cette dernière lui avait fixés, le ministère avait renvoyé certains de ces étrangers, alors qu'ils avaient parfois deux générations de descendants en Grande-Bretagne. Sajid Javid donne une interview au Sunday Telegraph, dans laquelle il s'émeut de ces expulsions : . Le lendemain, le , il lui succède au ministère de l'Intérieur, avec notamment pour mission d'apaiser les tensions à la suite de ce scandale, son profil personnel apparaissant alors comme idéal. Il est le premier homme politique britannique musulman et d'ascendance asiatique à détenir un tel portefeuille ministériel. Le 19 février 2019, il déchoit Shamima Begum, une adolescente qui avait rejoint Daech, de sa nationalité britannique.

Il signe l'ordre d'extradition de Julian Assange vers les États-Unis le .

Candidat à la direction du Parti conservateur en 2019
Candidat à l'élection à la direction du Parti conservateur de 2019, il est éliminé à l'issue du quatrième tour du vote des députés, après avoir obtenu 34 voix sur 313. Il apporte son soutien à Boris Johnson. Après la nomination de ce dernier comme Premier ministre, il devient chancelier de l'Échiquier le . Il démissionne de son poste le , après que Johnson lui a demandé d'évincer ses collaborateurs, et est remplacé par Rishi Sunak.

Secrétaire d'État à la Santé et à la Protection sociale
Le , il est nommé secrétaire d'État à la Santé et à la Protection sociale. Un an et neuf jours plus tard, alors que Boris Johnson et son cabinet sont mis en cause dans une série de scandales dont celui du « Partygate », Sajid Javid annonce démissionner de ses fonctions tout en déclarant que « la situation ne changera pas sous ce leadership », et que le Premier ministre a « perdu ma confiance ».

Résultats électoraux

Chambre des communes

Notes et références

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  Debrett's People of Today

Naissance en décembre 1969
Naissance à Rochdale
Étudiant de l'université d'Exeter
Banquier britannique du XXe siècle
Banquier britannique du XXIe siècle
Personnalité du Parti conservateur (Royaume-Uni)
Représentant de l'Angleterre à la Chambre des communes
Député du 55e Parlement du Royaume-Uni
Député du 56e Parlement du Royaume-Uni
Député du 57e Parlement du Royaume-Uni
Député du 58e Parlement du Royaume-Uni
Député du Parti conservateur (Royaume-Uni)
Membre du Cabinet (Royaume-Uni)
Secrétaire d'État à la Culture, aux Médias et au Sport
Secrétaire d'État à l'Intérieur du Royaume-Uni
Secrétaire d'État à la Santé du Royaume-Uni
Membre du Conseil privé du Royaume-Uni
Ministre britannique des Femmes et des Égalités


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Imagine York's Rt. 30 with NO Traffic Lights (Pinterest graphic, Annotated by S.H. Smith)
Posted by Stephen H. Smith October 22, 2020 March 23, 2022 All Posts, Maps, Pennsylvania, Roads, Springettsbury Township, York County
Imagine York's Rt. 30 with NO Traffic Lights
Don May recalled a State proposed plan to construct a real East-West Bypass of York; i.e. four-lanes, limited access, with NO traffic lights. Don often heard details about the plan from his father, because the North Sherman Street interchange, on the proposed bypass, would have taken the house; which his father built.
Don shared: "The main interchange on the east-west bypass was supposed to be I-83. It was to be the major interchange of two four-lane highways and was supposed to be in the fields north of Rutters main farm. Local roads would access that major interchange from all directions. From the north, they'd use the Emigsville interchange of I-83. From the south, they'd use the Arsenal Road interchange of I-83. From the east, they'd use the Sherman Street interchange of the east-west bypass. From the west, they'd use the Roosevelt Avenue interchange of the east-west bypass."
Don recalled his father often remarking, "Our house was saved because prominent locals wanted a bypass lined with businesses and signal lights. Nixing the State's plan of a through bypass, extending into the ridges between the York and Druck valleys. In turning down an actual east-west bypass, influential locals strongly believed: We don't want tourists merely speeding between Lancaster and Gettysburg on our bypass. We must slow them down, so they spend some time and dollars in York." I hope that philosophy has produced a nice pile of tourist dollars, to make up for the aggravation to present locals; burdened with traveling that stretch of Route 30 around York.
Don inquired if I ever saw drawings of the bypass he described. For a while it was part of the May's dinner table conversations; beginning about the same year I-83 opened. Using that tip and Newspapers.com, I discovered a 1959 State Highway proposal to relocate U.S. Route 30, as an East-West Bypass of York. The map for this plan matched the bypass going through the May house on North Sherman Street and agrees with his comment about the bypass extending into the ridges between the York and Druck valleys..
In 1959, a State Highway proposal to relocate U.S. Route 30, as an East-West Bypass of York, included NO Traffic Lights. (The Gazette and Daily, York, PA, October 23, 1959; page 3)
Don recalled six interchanges were discussed on the East-West bypass in York County. The York interchanges were: Sherman Street, I-83, and Roosevelt Avenue. The other three interchanges were: at Wrightsville, at Hellam, and near Thomasville.
The 1959 plan had the Wrightsville and Hellam interchanges about where they ended up with the present Route 30. However in the 1959 State proposal, heading west, after Hellam, the bypass started gradually ramping up the hillside, eventually headed west though present day Rocky Ridge Park. The following schematic shows the location where Mount Zion Road bridges the 1959 plan to relocate U.S. Route 30, as a real East-West Bypass of York.
Schematic of location where Mount Zion Road bridges 1959 proposal to relocate U.S. Route 30, as a real East-West Bypass of York (Annotated on 1956 Aerial Photo, S. H. Smith)
Don May recalls discussions about: should Mount Zion Road or Sherman Street become the site of the eastern York interchange? Ultimately the Naval Ordnance Plant had a major say in having the interchange located on Sherman Street. After all it would be a short trip out the back of their plant along Paradise Road to that interchange, and part of the bypass would take the extreme northern part of the NOP property.
Don remembered his father, at one time, having a hand drawn sketch of the Sherman Street interchange. I crafted his recollections of that sketch into the following schematic of a clover-leaf interchange at North Sherman Street, on the 1959 plan to relocate U.S. Route 30, as a real East-West Bypass of York.
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Schematic of clover-leaf interchange at N. Sherman St.; per 1959 proposal to relocate U.S. Route 30, as a real East-West Bypass of York (Annotated on 1956 Aerial Photo, S. H. Smith)
The western York interchange on the East-West bypass was at Roosevelt Avenue. From that point, westward, the location of the present four-lane Route 30, closely follows the 1959 proposal. The following schematic is my guess at the general layout of the clover-leaf interchange at Roosevelt Avenue, on the 1959 plan to relocate U.S. Route 30, as a real East-West Bypass of York.
Schematic of clover-leaf interchange at Roosevelt Ave.; per 1959 proposal to relocate U.S. Route 30, as a real East-West Bypass of York (Annotated on 1956 Aerial Photo, S. H. Smith)
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Stephen H. Smith retired as a Manager of Design Engineering at York International Corp. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from Penn State. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and chairman of the Springettsbury Township Historic Preservation Committee. He wrote an award-winning family history and, during his retirement, continues to write and give family history and local history talks.
Reach Stephen at stephen.smith4@comcast.net.
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The International Symposium on Computational Medicine is one of the frontier forums of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers with an interest in complex networks based on brain imaging techniques (MRI, Diffusion MRI, fMRI, fNIRS, EEG/MEG) and their applications to brain disorders. In this meeting, we will discuss new frontiers in brain mapping and brain connectivity, and their application to neuropsychiatric disease.
All speakers of this symposium are the active experts in this field and are invited only. For the last symposium, please also refer to ISCM2008 and ISCM 2009.
Jeffrey Anderson, MD PhD studied abstract mathematics and neuroscience at Northwestern University before completing residency and fellowship in neuroradiology at the University of Utah. Dr. Anderson is Director of Functional Imaging at the University of Utah, and runs the Brain Network Laboratory. He is author of 2 national bestselling science thrillers.
Very low frequency blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) fluctuations have emerged as a valuable tool for describing brain anatomy, neuropathology, and development. Such fluctuations exhibit power law frequency dynamics, with largest amplitude at lowest frequencies. The biophysical mechanisms generating such fluctuations are poorly understood. In publicly available data from 1019 subjects of age 7-30, BOLD fluctuations exhibit temporal complexity that is linearly related to local connectivity (regional homogeneity), consistently and significantly covarying across subjects and across gray matter regions. During late neurodevelopment, BOLD fluctuations were unchanged with age in association cortex while becoming more random throughout the rest of the brain. These data suggest that local interconnectivity may play a key role in establishing the complexity of low frequency BOLD fluctuations underlying functional MRI connectivity. Stable low frequency power dynamics may emerge through segmentation and integration of connectivity during development of distributed large-scale brain networks.
He is a professor at University of Electronic Science Technology of China (UESTC). 1993.9-1996.7, in Applied Mathematics at Sichuan University, China. 2000.3-2004.12, Biomedical Engineer at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; 2005.9-2006.3 Visiting Professor at Texas University, USA.
Brain Network of Epilepsy: Functional Connectivity Network in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy(TLE) , Altered FC and SC of DMN in mTLE FCN and SCN coupling in Generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCS); Brain Network of Social Anxiety Disorder(SAD): Altered RSNs in SAD, Altered Effective Connectivity in SAD, Multiple Brain Network in SAD; Brain Network of Human: Topological Fractionation of Resting-State and Large-scale brain networks in board game experts.
After completing his doctoral studies in 1988 at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University under the supervision of Dr. Brenda Milner, Dr. Doyon accepted an academic position as assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Laval University. He then joined, as professor, the Department of Psychology and the Research Center at the Geriatric Institute, University of Montreal, in July 2000. At present, he is the Scientific Director of the Functional Neuroimaging Unit at the University of Montreal, Co-director of the Laboratoire International de Neuroimagerie et Modélisation (LINeM), Université de Montréal – INSERM, and Director of the Quebec Bio-Imaging Network (QBIN).
Title: Determinants of Brain Plasticity Associated with Motor Sequence Learning.
Motor skill learning refers to the process by which movements, either produced alone or in a sequence, come to be performed effortlessly through repeated practice. From a functional neuroanatomy viewpoint, Doyon and colleagues (2002, 2003, 2005, 2009) have proposed that interactions between the cortico-striatal and cortico-cerebellar systems are critical for establishing the motor routines used to acquire motor skilled behaviors. With extended practice, however, activity within the cortico-striatal network is then believed to be sufficient for maintaining the neural representation of a sequence of movements (i.e., motor sequence learning) in long-term memory. In this presentation, I will present the results of a series of studies that aimed to investigate the consolidation process of such motor abilities; a phase during which the memory undergoes "off-line" transformations allowing an initially labile trace to become fixed into the physical structure of the brain through a cascade of events occurring at both cellular and systems levels. I will focus on the behavioral determinants, neural substrates and sleep characteristics associated with this mnemonic process.
Simon B. Eickhoff is currently Professor for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf and leads the research group "Brain Network Modelling" at the Research Center Jülich. Following medical training in Aachen, Sheffield and London, received his PhD in Neuroanatomy and later worked as assistant professor and clinical psychiatrist at the RWTH Aachen. To date, he has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed journal articles and has an h-index of 31. His main interests are the integrated analysis of brain structure, function and connectivity using multi-modal approaches as well as the neurobiology of cognitive control mechanisms and social cognition.
Whereas the potential inference from any single neuroimaging study is limited to method-inherent drawbacks, the high degree of standardization in neuroimaging research allows to pooling and integration of activation results from several thousends of experiments. Moreover, several large-scale databases of neurimaging results have emerged over the last years, that compile this walth of information. In this talk, I would like to outline, how emerging meta-analytic tools may be use to draw on these resources and provide new insights into several aspects pertaining to the organization of the human brain: i) The localization of brain functions and its relationship to task-specific confounds ii) The functional roles underlying, e.g., morphometric, structural findings, including formal inference for functional decoding iii) The identification of functional connectivity in a task-based state through the mapping of co-activations, which may complement information of interactions in the unconstrained, endogeneously driven task-free "resting" state iv) The delineation of cortical modules by data-driven clustering of co-activation patterns, which, in combination with the other described methods described in this talk, entails the possibility for functional brain mapping and atlasing.
Dr. Yong Fan is an investigator and a professor of pattern recognition and intelligent systems at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Chinese Academy of Science in 2003 and finished postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. He is a recipient of President Scholarship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2002), National Institute of Health Career Development Award (2009), and the Hundred Talent Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2010). He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of Sigma Xi. His research interests include medical image analysis, pattern recognition, and their applications to studies of neuropsychiatric disorders. In medical image processing and analysis journals or conferences, he has co-authored over 50 papers, including "Neuroimage One of the Top Ten Cited Articles of 2008" and a paper awarded "Editors Choice Award of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping".
Neuroimaging based functional brain connectivity is typically investigated by using independent component analysis (ICA) or graph theoretical analysis of brain regional temporal correlations. Many neuroimaging studies have focused on statistical analysis of independent components, regional temporal correlations, or graph properties at group level and demonstrated that neuropsychiatric disorders are often associated with aberrant functional brain connectivity. However, it is of interest in clinical studies to identify brain connectivity patterns which are able to achieve individual diagnosis with sufficiently high specificity and sensitivity. This talk will introduce a pattern classification technique for discriminative analysis of functional networks on Grassmann manifolds and its application to neuroimaging studies of schizophrenia.
He is a Associate Professor at School of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. He received the B.S.degree in Information and Computational Science from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, in 2005. In 2011, he received the Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from UESTC. He is the author or coauthor of more than 30 scientific articles. His research interests include brain rest-state networks; data-driven EEG/fMRI fusion; EEG inverse problem, Dynamic Brain network and Bayesian inference.
EEG and fMRI recordings measure the functional activity of multiple coherent networks distributed in the cerebral cortex. Identifying network interaction from the complementary neuroelectric and hemodynamic signals may help to explain the complex relationships between different brain regions.
In this presentation, I will introduce multimodal functional network connectivity (mFNC), which fuses EEG and fMRI in a network space. First, functional networks (FNs) are extracted using spatial independent component analysis (ICA) in each modality separately. Then the interactions among FNs in each modality are explored by Granger causality analysis (GCA). Finally, fMRI FNs are matched to EEG FNs in the spatial domain using network-based source imaging (NESOI). Investigations of both synthetic and real data demonstrate that mFNC has the potential to reveal the underlying neural networks of each modality separately and in their combination. With mFNC, comprehensive relationships among FNs might be unveiled for the deep exploration of neural activities and metabolic responses in a specific task or neurological state.
Human connectomes constructed via neuroimaging data offer a complete description of macro-scale structural/functional connectivity within the brain. Assessing connectome-wide structural and functional connectivities not only can fundamentally advance our understanding of brain organization and function, but also have ultimate importance to systematically and comprehensively characterize many devastating brain conditions. Here, we constructed structural connectomes of 240 brains and assessed the connectome-wide functional connectivity alterations in mild cognitive impairment, schizophrenia and post-traumatic stress disorder, in comparison with their healthy controls. By applying genomics signatures discovery approaches, we discovered informative and robust functional connectomics signatures that can distinctively characterize these brain conditions from their healthy controls. Our results suggest that connectomics signatures could be a general, powerful platform for characterization of many brain conditions in the future.
Ruthger Righart is research fellow at the Institute for Stroke and Dementia, Munich, Germany. He works in the neuroimaging group and performs research on anatomical imaging and specifically measures of cortical thickness in different patient populations. Previously he has also undertaken functional imaging studies (fMRI and ERP) particularly in the domain of visual perception (face perception). He has obtained his PhD in cognitive neuroscience at Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
Brain atrophy has been recognized as a major predictor of cognitive decline and dementia. There have been no systematic studies directly examining the relationship between incident subcortical infarcts and morphological alterations in connected cortical areas. To investigate this question we applied serial brain imaging in CADASIL patients. Using measures of fiber tracking and cortical thickness we observed that incident subcortical infarcts result in focal cortical thinning in connected areas. Additionally, we found that deficits in processing speed relate to regional cortical atrophy in frontal areas. The research altogether underlines the importance of cortical morphology analyses in subcortical ischaemic vascular disease.
He is pursuing a career in clinical cognitive neuroscience, combining clinical experience with the powerful tools of computational neuroscience. Alongside this effort he maintains an active interest in the education of medical students and doctors in the broadest sense and in the promotion of global health issues.
A key feature of neurodegenerative diseases is their selectivity for specific anatomical and functional networks. In order to investigate the association between underlying pathology, changes in functional networks, and clinical measures, we examined two neurodegenerative diseases associated with tau pathology and age-matched control subjects. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) causes an akinetic-rigid syndrome with a characteristic vertical gaze palsy and executive cognitive dysfunction with markedly reduced verbal fluencies; Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD) presents with asymmetric limb dystonia, apraxia and rigidity often with features of the alien limb phenomenon, visuospatial disturbance, and variable cognitive changes. I will discuss how we have applied Independent Component Analysis to resting state fMRI scans with a Goodness of Fit Measure to look for changes in disease and to correlate with clinical measures. In particular, we have found changes in networks relevant to the disease processes that correlate with clinical disease measures. In addition, I will describe how we applied a regression model to identify regions within networks contributing to altered connectivity. Our findings support the use of functional connectivity measures as biomarkers in neurodegenerative disease that give information about both the disease pathology and clinical features.
Within inter-individual comparison, registration should align images as well as cortical and external structures such as sulcal lines and fiber in brain imaging. In image-based registration, neural fibers appear uniformly white giving no information to the registration. Tensor-based registration improves white-matter alignment, however misregistration may also persist in regions where the tensor field appears uniform.
We propose an hybrid approach by extending the diffeomorphic Geometric Demons algorithm which combines the iconic registration with geometric constraints. The algorithm work in the log-domain to efficiently compute the geometry deformation field. We represent the shape of objects of interest in the space of currents which is sensitive to location and shape.
We present results from simultaneously registering T1 images and 65 fiber bundles consistently extracted in 12 subjects. We compare our results with non-linear T1, tensor and multi-modal T1+Fractional Anisotropy (FA) registration algorithms.
FMRI provides high-dimensional --tens of thousands of voxels-- and noisy measurements of in-vivo brain activity. It is the workhorse of human brain mapping and has widely been used to define brain regions characterizing a cognitive task with mass-univariate statistical approaches. I will discuss how fMRI studies can be cast in classification task, or statistical learning, in order to apply multivariate methods to the extraction of brain regions. In particular, I will introduce the "recovery" problem, i.e. how to guaranty that the regions extracted not only predict well, but also are close to a ground truth. In addition, I'll discuss how these methods can be extended to resting-state studies, in which the subject is not performing a specific task.
He is currently the Melbourne Neuroscience Institute Fellow. He is based at the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, a centre in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne. He was an ARC Fellow (APD) at the same centre from 2009-2011. In 2008 he was an ARC International Fellow.
I will present recent evidence for widespread disruption to axonal fiber connectivity in individuals with schizophrenia. Diffusion imaging coupled with axonal fiber tracking was performed to chart high-resolution connectivity maps of the brain's anatomical connectional architecture. These connectivity maps were then analyzed for differences between a large sample of people with schizophrenia and healthy controls. Our results point to a multifaceted pathophysiology in schizophrenia encompassing axonal as well as putative synaptic mechanisms. I will discuss the computational and statistical methods developed to map brain connectivity and identify disrupted connections in the schizophrenia group. I will also discuss the significance of these findings in regards to understanding the biological basis of schizophrenia.


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