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Book review: AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain by David Wearing
Considering the region's importance to the UK, it's surprising to discover this essential and deeply impressive book is the first comprehensive study of the UK's relationship with the authoritarian states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Taking a broadly Marxist perspective – the Middle East scholars Gilbert Achcar and Adam Hanieh are thanked for their guidance in the acknowledgements – David Wearing sets out how Britain has played an important role "in the promotion and preservation of monarchical rule in the region", which, in turn, has helped the UK to maintain its global power status since the demise of the British Empire.
Turning to the primary reason for Western interference in the region, Wearing, a Teaching Fellow at in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, notes "The UK's current interest in Gulf oil and gas is less about direct energy supply and more about strategic, geopolitical and commercial interests". He takes a similarly wide-angle analysis of the billions of pounds worth of weapons the UK sells to the GCC, arguing the arms trades are of key strategic value to British military power rather than simply about commercial profit. In addition, British arms sales have "enable[d] autocratic governments to stay in power", Professor Eugene Rogan, the Director of the Middle East Centre at Oxford University told the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee, with many of the weapons "used against their own people".
For example, Saudi Arabian soldiers rode into Bahrain to help crush the 2011 popular uprising in Tactica Armoured Personnel Carriers manufactured by BAE Systems in Newcastle Upon Tyne. "Even the police dogs we have are trained up by a British company called Top Dog", the Bahraini activist Ala'a Shehabi told me in 2015.
Wearing also does a public service by devoting a section of the book to the ongoing Saudi-led, UK and US-backed assault on Yemen – the biggest humanitarian crisis on the planet today, according to the United Nations. With the war energising Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, according to a UN panel of experts, Wearing contends the ongoing slaughter is a good illustration of "the strength of the British state's commitment to support the Saudi kingdom even in the face of considerable pressure and criticism".
Carefully written and well referenced, Wearing writes in a very controlled academic style which is accessible to the general reader. He ends with some brief comments about an alternative UK foreign policy: abandon attempts to project power on the international stage, restrict the military posture to one of self-defence, and transfer the arms industry's highly-skilled workforce to the growing renewable energy sector.
Though Wearing doesn't mention it, the best chance of achieving these much-needed changes in the near future is almost certainly a Corbyn-led Labour government. If implemented these unprecedented shifts would, of course, transform our relationship with the Gulf autocracies, giving civil society activists and the people of the GCC a fighting chance of winning significant democratic change in their own nations.
This entry was posted in UK Foreign Policy, US Foreign Policy and tagged Bahrain, David Wearing, GCC, Jeremy Corbyn, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, UK foreign policy on October 22, 2018 by ianjs2014.
New report highlights the inaccurate news coverage of antisemitism controversy
Though it is the first in-depth, academic-level research focussing on the media coverage of the controversy surrounding antisemitism in the Labour Party, the Media Reform Coalition's (MRC) new report has been ignored by the mainstream media.
This media blackout is perhaps unsurprising when you consider the report's broad findings: "we identified myriad inaccuracies and distortions in online and television news including marked skews in sourcing, omission of essential context or right of reply, misquotation, and false assertions made either by journalists themselves or sources whose contentious claims were neither challenged nor countered."
An "independent coalition of groups and individuals committed to maximising the public interest in communications", the MRC's current chair is Natalie Fenton, Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.
The report is co-authored by Dr Justin Schlosberg, Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Media at Birkbeck, University of London, and Laura Laker, a freelance journalist with eight years' experience, including appearing on Sky News, BBC Breakfast and LBC radio. Schlosberg is an active member of the Labour Party and Jewish Voice for Labour, while Laker is not a member of the Labour Party, and has not voted consistently for Labour in local or national elections. For the research geeks out there, the researchers analysed their sample of 258 news items separately, "yielding a 93% agreement across the coding decisions", which they argue "is considered near perfect agreement and indicates highly reliable findings."
The report looks at the media coverage of the core document at the heart of the controversy – the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which the Labour Party has been under intense pressure to adopt.
The authors' provide crucial context missing from most media reporting, noting that although the IHRA itself adopted the definition in 2016, only six of its member state countries have adopted it to date, and only eight countries in total. In contrast, the media has repeatedly inflated how widely the IHRA definition had been adopted. Speaking on the BBC Today Programme in September 2018, presenter John Humphrys said the definition had "been accepted by almost every country in the world". Similarly, writing in the Guardian Jonathan Freedland referred to the "near universally accepted" IHRA definition.
The Board of Deputies (BoD), Jewish Leadership Council (JLC), Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) and many commentators have also repeatedly referred to over 120 UK local authorities having adopted in full the IHRA definition. However, the report explains "to date, less than a third [of local authorities in the UK] have heeded the call" and that "several of those local authorities that have adopted the definition do not appear to have included any of the accompanying examples" (which are defined as being part of the full IHRA definition by its supporters). Suspicious of the "over 120 local authorities" claim, I personally contacted the BoD, JLC and LFI and asked for a list of all the local authorities that have adopted the IHRA definition. All three organisations refused to provide me with the list.
Discussing sourcing, the report notes "A number of news reports focused on the code controversy also featured no defensive sources at all. The Guardian was a particular outlier in this respect, with critical sources given an entirely unchallenged platform in nearly half of the articles within this sub-sample".
"In sum, both quantitative and qualitative analysis of sourcing revealed marked skews which effectively gave those attacking Labour's revised [antisemitism] code and championing the IHRA definition a virtually exclusive and unchallenged platform to air their views", the report concludes about sourcing. "By comparison, their detractors – including a number of Jewish organisations and representatives of other affected minorities – were systematically marginalized from the coverage."
The report ends by looking at media coverage of the alleged antisemitic remark Labour activist Marc Wadsworth made to Jewish Labour MP Ruth Smeeth at the launch of Shami Chakrabarti's report into antisemitism in June 2016. In actual fact the video footage shows Wadsworth simply accused Smeeth of "working hand in hand" with the Daily Telegraph newspaper. There was, the report notes, no evidence of antisemitism in Wadsworth's remarks (Wadsworth has always maintained he didn't know Smeeth was Jewish). However, taking its framing from Smeeth and her supporters, the media coverage repeatedly reported that Wadsworth had accused Smeeth of conspiring with the press in general (which chimes with a longstanding antisemitic trope), and even of being part of a "Jewish media conspiracy" (The Sun).
"Nearly half of the reports in the sample (15 out of 33) either quoted Smeeth directly or referred to her allegations without mentioning Wadsworth's denial", Schlosberg and Laker note. "This was a clear subversion of the journalistic principle of offering a right of reply to those who face reputational damage from an allegation of harm."
With the so-called left-wing Guardian and trusted BBC coming in for lots of criticism, the report concludes "overall, our findings were consistent with a disinformation paradigm" – defined by the authors as "systematic reporting failures that broadly privileged a particular agenda and narrative."
"This does not mean that these failures were intentional or that journalists and news institutions are inherently biased", they caveat.
Whether the skewed, anti-Corbyn coverage was intentional or not, this vital research provides some important lessons for those wishing to see a Corbyn-led Labour Party in government powerful enough to carry out its manifesto promises. First, it is clear the media, including those organisations which are perceived to be sympathetic to the Corbyn Project, cannot be trusted to report accurately on Labour Party politics. They must be consumed carefully and actively monitored. Second, to overcome future attacks on the Corbyn Project, Labour Party members, Corbyn supporters and concerned citizens must become better organised and more powerful – and, most importantly, build up their own independent media to combat the lies and distortions.
Read the Labour, Antisemitism and the News: A Disinformation Paradigm report http://www.mediareform.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Labour-antisemitism-and-the-news-FINAL-PROOFED.pdf
This entry was posted in Media, UK Domestic Politics and tagged Anti-semitism, BBC, Guardian, IHRA, Jeremy Corbyn, John Humphrys, Jonathan Freedland, Labour Party, Media on October 17, 2018 by ianjs2014.
Russian Interference in Western Politics? What about Israel, Saudi Arabia and UAE?
With almost the entire Western media in a constant state of mass hysteria about Russian interference in Western political systems, it's worth considering some pertinent information largely missing from the debate.
First, it is likely the scale and effectiveness of Russian interventions has been greatly exaggerated. "The simplistic narrative that basically imagines that a bunch of subliterate-in-English trolls posting mostly static and sort of absurd advertising could have influenced American public opinion to such an extent that it fundamentally changed American politics is ridiculous on the face of it", argued Masha Gessen, a US-Russian journalist and outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin, when asked about Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election by National Public Radio.
"I feel a lot of pressure… from interviewers and from people to kind of blow up the threat", said New Yorker's Adrian Chen – one of the first to write about Russian internet trolls – agreeing with Gessen. "People want to talk about how scary this is, how sophisticated it is. There's not a lot of room for, you know, just kind of dampening down the issue."
Turning to the Brexit vote, research by the Oxford Internet Institute looked at 22.6 million tweets sent between March and July 2016, finding just 416 tweets from the Russian Internet Research Agency – the organisation the US Senate says is involved in interfering in Western elections. A second report from the University of Edinburgh discovered 419 accounts operated by the Agency attempting to influence UK politics. However, the study's lead researcher told the Guardian these 419 accounts tweeted about Brexit a total of just 3,468 times – mostly after the referendum had taken place.
Second, when asked about US claims of Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential race, US academic Noam Chomsky replied "My guess is that most of the world is just collapsing in laughter." Why? Because when it comes to undermining democratic systems Russia is an absolute beginner compared to the United States.
Here is the New York Times in February 2018: "Loch K. Johnson, the dean of American intelligence scholars, who began his career in the 1970s investigating the C.I.A. as a staff member of the Senate's Church Committee, says Russia's 2016 operation was simply the cyber-age version of standard United States practice for decades."
According to a database compiled by political scientist Don Levin from Carnegie Mellon University, the US attempted to influence elections in other countries 81 times between 1946 and 2000. In contrast, he found the Soviet Union/Russia had attempted to sway 36 elections in the same period. Reporting on the database in December 2016, the Los Angeles Times notes the US figure "doesn't include military coups and regime change efforts following the election of candidates the US didn't like, notably those in Iran, Guatemala and Chile."
On top of all this, the evidence clearly shows other nations have exerted a level of influence on Western governments and political systems that Russia could only dream of.
Chomsky again, this time speaking to Democracy Now! in August 2018: "If you're interested in foreign interference in our elections, whatever the Russians may have done barely counts or weighs in the balance as compared with what another state does, openly, brazenly and with enormous support."
Chomsky is referring to Israel, whose "intervention in US elections vastly overwhelms anything the Russians may have done", he says. "I mean, even to the point where the Prime Minister of Israel, [Benjamin] Netanyahu, goes directly to Congress, without even informing the president, and speaks to Congress, with overwhelming applause, to try to undermine the president's policies" —a reference to Netanyahu's attempt, in 2015, to destroy the US-led deal to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.
Back in the UK, in January 2017 the Middle East Eye reported on "undercover recordings" that "revealed how an Israeli diplomat sought to establish organisations and youth groups to promote Israeli influence inside the opposition Labour party, in an effort to undermine Jeremy Corbyn's leadership." Shai Masot, the Israeli diplomat, said he had helped set up other groups in the UK which, although they presented themselves as independent, received support from the Israeli Embassy.
Israel is not the only Middle East nation who works to undercut Western democracies. In 2006 the Guardian reported that the British government – citing 'national security' concerns – had halted a Serious Fraud Office investigation into alleged corruption by the arms company BAE Systems, connected to their dealings with Saudi Arabia. According to the article "In recent weeks, BAE and the Saudi embassy had frantically lobbied the government for the long-running investigation to be discontinued."
Like its regional ally in Riyadh, the United Arab Emirates has also been busy, carrying out an "intense lobbying campaign… over the last few years" in the UK, according to a new Spinwatch report. This campaign has "helped shape UK government policy towards Muslims at home, and UK and US foreign policy in the Middle East".
This "massive" PR effort by the corporate-friendly Gulf dictatorship appears to have "had the desired effect", Spinwatch notes. "With pressure building on Downing Street… the Emiratis pulled off" a "spectacular lobbying success… in March 2014, [British Prime Minister David] Cameron, out of almost nowhere, announced a review into the Muslim Brotherhood" – a useful folk devil for the UAE government.
The UAE and Saudi Arabia have also been trying to influence the heart of global power in Washington. For example, the Associated Press noted the diplomatic crisis between Qatar and the UAE that started in June 2017 "ignited a multimillion-dollar battle for influence" with the two rivals spending "heavily over the last year on lawyers, lobbyists, public relations and advertising to seek better trade and security relationships with the United States".
In a March 2018 article the New York Times reported on "an active effort to cultivate President Trump on behalf of the two oil-rich Arab monarchies" UAE and Saudi Arabia. The aim? "Pushing the White House to remove Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson" and "backing confrontational approaches to Iran and Qatar" – something Tillerson was seen as a block on.
This lobbying seems to have achieved one of its goals, with the New York Times's Roger Cohen revealing that a European ambassador had told him about a December 2017 dinner party in Washington he attended along with Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner and UAE Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba. After the ambassador had complained to Kushner that his nation's foreign minister was having difficulty organising a meeting with Tillerson, apparently Otaiba said "Things will be much better when Mike's installed." Tillerson was sacked four months later, replaced by CIA Director Mike Pompeo.
What all this confirms is that media reporting and commentary is largely framed by the concerns of the governing elite. Which explains the difference in the size and tone of coverage – Russia has been designated an Official Enemy of the West, while Israel, Saudi Arabia and UAE are close allies. However, it is important to separate the interests of Western elites and those of the general population. So while it is obvious why the British elite would want a close ties with the authoritarian monarchies in the Gulf, it is difficult to see what the British public get out of these unholy associations.
The obsessive focus on Russian interference serves a couple of important functions. First, as highlighted above, it hides inconvenient but important truths – that many of our so-called allies are carrying out sophisticated and long-running campaigns to undermine the will of Western publics. And second, it acts as a displacement activity – instead of looking at the deep-seated domestic reasons behind Trump's victory and why the UK voted for Brexit we continue to be fixated on the all-powerful evil Disney villain Putin.
As always, to see through the fog of propaganda and gain an accurate understanding of the world citizens need to be careful and critical consumers of the mainstream corporate news, making sure to combine their intake with a healthy dose of alternative and independent media.
Ian Sinclair tweets at @IanJSinclair
This entry was posted in Media, UK Domestic Politics, US domestic politics, US Foreign Policy and tagged Brexit, Donald Trump, Israel, Masha Gessen, Noam Chomsky, Putin, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spinwatch, UAE on October 8, 2018 by ianjs2014.
Changing the Media to Beat Climate Change
A common, dispiriting problem activists often face is the difficulty in discerning any direct effects of all their hard work.
This does not apply to Dr Rupert Read's latest action on climate change.
On 1 August Read, Chair of the Green House thinktank and a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, tweeted that he decided to turn down an invitation from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire to debate with a climate change denier. "When the call came through, my initial instinct was to say 'Yes', just because it is a media opportunity", he tells me. "But before the word 'Yes' left my mouth, something deep inside me made me hesitate – and say 'No'. I couldn't stomach it any more. I couldn't see how, in the midst of a summer of climate chaos, it made any sense to be debating whether this was really happening."
The next day Read published an online piece with the Guardian – retweeted by the former Head of BBC News Richard Sambrook – arguing that by giving climate change deniers "a full position, producers make their position seem infinitely more reasonable than it is" even though "the scientific debate is as settled as the 'debate' about whether smoking causes cancer."
"I will no longer be part of such a charade", he pledged, calling on others to refuse to debate with climate change deniers.
This wish became a reality on 27 August, when an open letter organised by Read was published in the Guardian pledging exactly this. Importantly, it was signed by the great and the good of the green world, including Jonathan Porritt, Greenpeace's John Sauven, Caroline Lucas MP and George Monbiot, along with Morning Star editor Ben Chacko.
Then, amazingly, on 6 September, Fran Unsworth, the BBC's director of news and current affairs, sent a briefing note to BBC journalists on climate change, including the corporation's editorial policy.
"Climate change has been a difficult subject for the BBC, and we get coverage of it wrong too often", it reads.
Under the heading What Is The BBC's Position? the note explains "Man-made climate change exists: If the science proves it we should report it", before asking journalists to be aware of "false balance".
"To achieve impartiality, you do not need to include outright deniers of climate change in BBC coverage, in the same way you would not have someone denying that Manchester United won 2-0 last Saturday. The referee has spoken."
The note does say there may be occasions where "contrarians and sceptics" could be included in debates, though the example given is "debating the speed and intensity of what will happen in the future, or what policies government should adopt", rather than whether climate change is happening at all. Promisingly, it says the BBC should highlight which organisation a speaker represents and "potentially how that group is funded" – something climate activists have long pushed for.
CarbonBrief news website, who published the internal memo, noted "this is the first time the BBC has issued formal reporting guidance to its staff on this topic."
"I think that this memo is a game-changer", comments Read. "The BBC is a 'world-leading' media organisation, and it has been dragging its feet on this for so many years. Now, perhaps, no longer. I am hoping that what we have done on this will 'go international'; and in the meantime I am looking at seeking to ensure that other UK broadcasters follow or indeed exceed the BBC's lead here."
"What broadcasters need to do now is to have the right kinds debates about climate", he adds. "Who wants a carbon tax, and why? What are the possible downsides of geoengineering technologies? etc. We need to put pressure on them to do this, right."
However, a note of caution needs to be added to the huge victory it looks like Read triggered with his actions.
As Justin Lewis, Professor of Communication in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, has noted, the erroneous presentation of climate change as a debate is just one problem with the media's coverage of the topic.
For example, as well as providing news, the media is an important vehicle for advertising, with the corporate press in the UK relying on advertising for more than half of its income.
This pervasive advertising promotes "the pleasures of consumerism" and helps create "a set of cultural conditions that make us less inclined to deal with climate change", according to Lewis and his co-author Tammy Boyce in their 2009 book Climate Change and the Media. "Advertisements may be individually innocent" but "collectively they are the propaganda wing of a consumerist ideology… our current growth in consumption is unsustainable", Lewis argued in a 2011 Open Democracy article.
The Guardian, seen by many greens as the newspaper that best reflects the environmental movement, is not immune to this humanity-endangering ideology, with a December 2012 editorial preposterously titled Shopping: Your Patriotic Duty.
Another connected problem with the news media when it comes to climate change is its reckless reporting of economic growth, the engine that is driving up carbon emissions.
For her new book Media Amnesia: Rewriting the Economic Crisis, the academic Laura Basu studied 1,113 news and comment items from the BBC News at Ten, Guardian, Telegraph, Sun and Mirror between 2007 and 2015. She found just one of the 1,113 pieces challenged the assumption that economic growth was a good thing – a 2008 Guardian op-ed written by Monbiot.
In thinking about the media and climate change, Boyce and Lewis "insist that a media and telecommunications industry fuelled by advertising and profit maximisation is, at the moment, part of the problem rather than part of the solution."
If correct, this analysis creates additional obstacles to the central argument made by Naomi Klein in here 2014 book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate – that stopping climate change will require mass social movements successfully "challenging the fundamental logic of deregulated capitalism".
Because if Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party has taught us anything it is that the British media is overwhelmingly hostile to significant change that takes power away from the corporate-backed British elite, mass grassroots movements and any attempt to increase democracy within the Labour Party itself.
And though it may seem unconnected, the BBC's pro-establishment coverage of the 2008 financial crisis highlights just how wedded the media is to the current economic system. There was, for a brief historical moment, a chance for fresh thinking and policies following the crash. Instead, in a 2012 study Cardiff University's Mike Berry found in the weeks after the banking collapse the debate on the BBC Today Programme "was almost completely dominated by stockbrokers, investment bankers, hedge fund managers and other City voices. Civil society voices or commentators who questioned the benefits of having such a large finance sector were almost completely absent from coverage."
"The evidence from the research is clear", Berry notes. "The BBC tends to reproduce a Conservative… pro-business version of the world, not a left-wing, anti-business agenda."
Being positive, Read's actions pushing the BBC to cover climate change in a more serious and helpful way shows that significant changes can be made. However, successfully challenging the media's reliance on advertising, its assumption that economic growth is positive and its de facto support of the neoliberal status quo – all of which will needs to happen if we are to stand a chance of stopping climate change – is a substantially larger, far more difficult task.
Furthermore, time is very short. "Climate change is moving faster than we are", Antonio Guterres, the United Nations Secretary-General, recently warned. Discussing the 2015 Paris climate agreement, he noted "these targets were the bare minimum to avoid the worst aspects of climate change." However, "scientists tell us that we are far off track".
"Nothing less than our future and the fate of humankind depends on how we rise to the climate challenge."
This entry was posted in Advertising, Environment, Media, Protest/activism, Uncategorized and tagged BBC, Climate change, George Monbiot, Guardian, Jeremy Corbyn, Justin Lewis, Mainstream Media, Media, Rupert Read on October 2, 2018 by ianjs2014.


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Ask Google who the 'leader of the free world' is and you learn who it isn't
by WorldTribune Staff, August 5, 2018
The term "leader of the free world" is usually reserved for the President of the United States.
According to Google, however, the current occupant of the White House doesn't make the cut.
Leader of the free world – and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
As of Aug. 5, the top search result on Google for "leader of the free world" was a CNN.com opinion piece titled "Trump is no longer leader of the free world".
Other top results from the search included a July 1 article by The Hill titled "Who is the leader of the free world?" and a July 19 piece by The Washington Post titled "Trump's US is no longer the leader of the free world".
Under "videos," the search results yielded "Why Trump gave up 'leader of free world' " by MSNBC.com and "German Chancellor Angela Merkel is now the 'leader of the free world" by USA Today.
Since Google relies heavily on Wikipedia, a search of "free world" on that site did not feature a photo of President Donald Trump in the United States section, but of President George H.W. Bush. Under Germany was a photo of Merkel, the current German chancellor.
On Aug. 3, Breitbart had reported that the top result from a Google search for "leader of the free world" returned a photo of the crisis-plagued Merkel, followed by the CNN opinion piece.
"The top result scrapes information from Wikipedia, which notes that the English-language establishment media has increasingly used the term 'leader of the free world' in connection with Chancellor Merkel. This is true – although it says more about the media's bias than it does about Merkel, whose long dominance over German politics appears to be on the verge of breakdown," senior technology correspondent Allum Bokhari reported for Breitbart.
"The Wikipedia page also notes that German commentators, as well as a leading member of Merkel's own political party, have largely disagreed with the western media's assessment and that Merkel herself has 'rejected the idea as absurd.' Strangely, none of that information made it to the Google results," Bokhari wrote.
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On the first day of spring, I met up with Taylor and Russell for their engagement photos! It was actually pretty chilly, but they toughed it out and we got some great photos! We started off in the cute town of Covington and then took photos at a camp where they both worked!


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Robin Hines grew up pursuing a love of dance. She started and ran a dance team for the Austin Ice Bats for many years by raising money herself through sponsorships in the community.
Robin has had success in television, film, and commercials. Favorite Credits Include: "True Blood," "Bones," "Grey's Anatomy," "Ghost Whisperer," and a starring role in a CBS movie of the week, "Vampire Bats." Robin was also part of a loop group for the TV show, Bones, providing the voice overs for several episodes after landing a guest-star role.
Robin has studied acting and improv with some of the best, including being in Warner Loughlin's Master Class taught by Warner herself. She also studied with Janet Alhanti, CK McFarland, Eric Hunicutt, and Julie Welch at the legendary Groundlings improvisation and sketch comedy theatre.
Robin has had experience in many of the different facets of the entertainment industry. She has worked as a script reader for producers, sifting through scripts, giving notes and feedback.
Above all, Robin loves working with kids and teens, inspiring their love for the arts. She has privately coached kids and teens on auditions and taught acting and improv in Los Angeles at Warner Loughlin Studios for many years and recently at TexARTS in Lakeway.


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'The guy shot him' — SWAT officer recalls finding slain Det. Benjamin Marconi slumped in patrol car
Jacob Beltran, Staff writer
July 21, 2021 Updated: July 21, 2021 8:33 p.m.
Witnesses testify on the eighth day of Otis McKane's trial on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. McKane is accused of killing SAPD Detective Benjamin Marconi on Nov. 20, 2016.
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San Antonio Police officer Parker Morris (right) looks over a booking sheet with state Prosecutor Tamara Strauch (left) as witnesses testify on the eighth day of Otis McKane's trial.
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Judge Ron Rangel listens to a discussion between Prosecutor Tamara Strauch (left) and Defense Attorney Raymond Fuchs as witnesses testify on the eighth day of Otis McKane's trial.
SWAT Officer James Ybarra points to the defendant during the eighth day of Otis McKane's trial.
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Retired Sgt. David Anderson testified on the eighth day of Otis McKane's trial on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. McKane, 36, is accused of killing SAPD Detective Benjamin Marconi on Nov. 20, 2016.
Witnesses testify on the eighth day of the trial against Otis McKane (pictured) in the 379th District Court, Judge Ron Rangel presiding on Wednesday, July 21, 2021.
A San Antonio police officer described for a Bexar County jury Wednesday how he walked out of Public Safety Headquarters after a meeting and saw a fellow officer sitting lifeless in his patrol car, slumped "as low as you could get."
Officer Christopher Zygmont said he grabbed a piece of cloth from a female bystander and tried to stanch the bleeding from the head of Detective Benjamin Marconi.
The testimony came in the trial of Otis McKane, 36, who is accused of capital murder in the shooting of Marconi, 50, on the morning of Nov. 20, 2016.
Marconi, a 20-year veteran of the department, was working an overtime shift that day, a Sunday, and was shot twice in the head as he sat in his patrol vehicle, writing a traffic citation.
Zygmont, a member of the department's SWAT team, had been at headquarters that morning for a meeting with homicide investigators about an unrelated SWAT standoff the night before.
McKane had gone to the building the same morning to file a report related to his efforts to visit his child, according to evidence presented to the jury. Security video shows a man dressed in black circling the building on foot and in a black Mitsubishi Galant that the prosecution says belonged to McKane.
Zygmont said that he stepped out of the building after his meeting and heard squealing tires and a crunching sound. Then he saw a black car drive into the headquarters' gated parking lot and leave through an exit on the other side, he said.
SAPD Detective Frank Rodriguez testified on the eighth day of Otis McKane's trial on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. McKane, 36, is accused of killing SAPD Detective Benjamin Marconi on Nov. 20, 2016.
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Surveying the scene, Zygmont said he saw Marconi's police vehicle and, nearby, a bystander with his hands raised and a stricken look, "like the blood just ran out of his face."
Zygmont said the bystander told him, "The guy shot him."
The officer said he rushed to the patrol car to find Marconi slumped against the console. He said he called for emergency assistance and put out a description of the suspect on police radio: Black male, black hoodie, baseball cap with a straight build, facial hair.
Zygmont and four other SWAT officers testified that they captured McKane in eastern Bexar County the day after the killing. During separate appearances on the witness stand, each of the five identified McKane, seated at the defense table, as the suspect they had arrested.
They said he was found driving a Buick Century with his girlfriend, Christian Fields, in the passenger seat and a child sitting in the back seat. The officers surrounded the car at Interstate 10 and FM 1516. They said McKane was cooperative.
Officer Parker Morris said that as McKane was being processed later, he was standing about an arm's length from the suspect when he overheard him mutter: "It felt good to shoot him."
In her opening statement last week, prosecutor Tamara Strauch foreshadowed Morris' testimony, telling jurors she would present evidence that McKane was chillingly matter of fact about killing Marconi.
The trial is set to resume Thursday at 1 p.m. in the 379th District Court.
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Jacob Beltran cover crime, breaking news and general assignments for the Express-News. Since beginning his journalism career in 2010, he's worked at local college newspapers The Ranger and The Mesquite. He is a San Antonio native who enjoys video games, photography and exploring during his free time.


Though it loaded the bases in the sixth and ninth innings, American River College's baseball team was unable to bring in more than one run in each frame en route to a 6-4 home loss to Diablo Valley College despite starting pitcher Kirby Broadbent's 7 ⅔ innings pitched.
Trailing 4-2 in the sixth, ARC had the bases loaded with two outs, and scored a run following a walk to second baseman Steven Mercado to cut the deficit to 4-3.
Right fielder Alex Gaskin followed, but grounded out to shortstop to end the inning.
Broadbent came up in the ninth inning with the bases loaded and ARC trailing 6-3 after pinch-hitting in the eighth, but was only able to manage a sacrifice fly as the rally attempt fell short.
Andrew Fuentes pinch-hit for starting catcher Matt Elliot, but struck out swinging to end the game as DVC relief pitcher Eric Crispell notched his third save of the season.
Broadbent, while spectacular at the plate so far this season, has struggled on the mound in his starts. The loss dropped him to 1-3 in his outings.
Broadbent allowed six runs (five earned) on 10 hits while walking three before finally being pulled in the eighth inning after a single by DVC left fielder Richard Lindsey.
Lindsey led the offensive charge for DVC, accounting for three of the team's six RBIs.
For ARC (6-6), the game was a bit of a setback as the team scored only four runs and played its first home game in over two weeks to now 3-9 DVC.
After struggling to bring in base runners last season, ARC's offense has been a pleasant surprise to this point, with freshman Broadbent holding a .500 batting average, top in the state.
Broadbent also holds a slugging percentage .763, good enough for fifth in the state, and has an on base percentage of .593, second overall.
Despite the hot play of late, the offense slipped against DVC, with no one in ARC's lineup managing more than one hit throughout the game.
The team totaled six hits and left 13 runners on base.
ARC's next game is today at Modesto Junior College (5-5-1).
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In this week's episode we meet World Champion Julie Golob. Julie is an author, and activist, a mom, and a the first and only 7-division USPSA Women's National Champion. She has over 140 Championship titles in her career including 45 national titles and 22 world or international titles. She competes and has won titles in Biachi Cup, IDPA, IPSC, USPSA, ICORE, NRA Action Pistol, and Steel Challenge.


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Fujifilm X-T100 – Performance
Other than a few criticisms regarding the responsiveness of the touchscreen and the effectiveness of its touch functions, the X-T100 is a reliable performer that you can rely on to capture great images, be it on your travels abroad or for use closer to home.
Although it may not have an X-Trans sensor, colour reproduction straight out of the camera is excellent. A majority of our test images were taken with the white balance set to auto and the film simulation mode set to Provia or Velvia. The camera served up faithful, vibrant colours with each and every shot.
The sensor records excellent colour, producing bright, vibrant and faithful results
The tried and tested 256-zone metering unit rarely disappoints and delivered accurate exposures when it was challenged by dark indoor scenes and bright natural light outdoors. Only occasionally did I find that my images benefited from a tweak of exposure compensation. As we said when we reviewed the X-A5, there isn't much to fault with the X-T100's Bayer-array CMOS sensor at all.
The X-T100 provides accurate focus-lock on in bright lighting conditions and doesn't disgrace itself in low-light environments. Anyone who'd like to photograph moving subjects will want to have a good understanding of its zone and wide/tracking modes, however users should know that the X-T100 doesn't employ the same sophisticated AF-C algorithm and tracking modes that Fujifilm's X-Processor Pro models have and neither does it offer the AF-C custom settings you get on the X-T20 or X-T2 to fine tune how the camera reacts to the way a subject moves within the frame.
The metering system can be relied on to deliver excellent exposures in tricky scenes
The wide/tracking mode is best for capturing a subject that moves unpredictably up/down, left/right and closer/further from the camera, where you do not wish to move the camera around to chase the subject. Zone AF is more effective for shooting moving subjects when you're prepared to move the camera with the subject. You'll want to choose the zone size carefully from the 3×3, 5×5 or 7×7 focus area options, and with AF-C enabled, the camera will continue to refocus on your subject all the while the shutter button is half depressed. If you'd like to switch between the autofocus modes quickly you'll want to set the AF mode to all. Hit the AF button at the rear and use the scroll dial above the thumb rest and it's possible to cycle through all the AF modes and focus area settings at once.
The menu system of the X-T100 is more dated than you get on Fujifilm's X-Trans III cameras. Settings are listed under shooting and setup icons at the side of the screen and there's no My Menu setting to collate your most frequently used settings in one area.
An 8MP image extracted from a clip of 4K video using the X-T100's 4K Burst mode
For those who'd like to shoot discreetly, there's the option to take shots silently by activating the electronic shutter. This is also handy when you'd like to exceed the mechanical shutter's 1/4000sec limit and push as high as 1/32,000sec using the electronic shutter, enabling you to easily shoot with wide apertures in bright lighting conditions.
The status screen that provides a general overview of all shooting settings is useful too, however you can't view the remaining battery power as a percentage so you'll want to observe its three-bar battery level closely. There is the option to charge the camera via USB. I lost count of the number of times I recharged the camera on the go in my car or via my portable USB power bank. When the green LED light goes out the battery is fully charged.
Users can crop in tightly when required and retain an excellent level of detail
The X-T100 is only available with the XC 15-45mm f/3.5-5.6 OIS PZ kit lens, which is Fujifilm's first attempt at making a compact motorised zoom. It's smaller than the older 16-50mm kit lens and features built-in Optical Image Stabilisation technology.
The lens extends by 24mm in length when the camera is switched on and it's operated via two control rings: an inner one that operates the zoom in power assisted mode, and an outer ring that either acts as a focus ring when focusing manually or as a manual zoom control that alters the focal length in minute increments. It's good the lens automatically reverts to the last focal length setting used when the camera is switched off and back on again, but its motorised nature does slow you down and the two-step process of using both rings to find the optimum focal length is a bit finicky.
Yet another example of the excellent colour produced by the X-T100's APS-C CMOS sensor
The lens isn't the quietest zoom in operation either. Users should know that the built-in microphone picks up the whirring that occurs whilst zooming and focusing during video recording. Optically it delivers sharp results and the fine detail it resolves paired with the X-T100's 24.2MP sensor won't disappoint.


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Are You a Real Live MilkMaid?
Then don't leave your baby and go back to work!
If you breastfeed, then YES YOU ARE!
• Is my baby getting enough milk?
• How can I stay at home a little longer with my new baby?
I don't wanna go back to work!!!
When I had my first son that's how I felt.
He was my first baby! No one else could love him like I could.....right?
Well at least that's what I felt like.
I spent the next bunch of years trying to find ways to stay at home. From selling products online to multi-level marketing.
I actually made money in some of them!
I also wasted my money in some of them.
And others, I bought the information but never got around to putting in the work. So I don't know if they would've worked or not.
I started something else and in my second month I made $1500. All at one time!
Why I quit both of them is another story which I will tell you later.
The MilkMaid is designed to tell you how I made my money and give you other ideas that has allowed me to stay home with my babies.
Including what I'm doing now!
A lot of mothers stop breastfeeding because they have to return to work. What if your work came to you instead?
Do you think your baby could benefit from that?
What about you? Would you enjoy staying home with your baby a little longer?
I will show you how! Ways that I have done it and lots of ways that people I know have done.
And by the way, it's none of that mystery shopper stuff either......not even close!


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After a year lost at sea, Ada the SailBot is coming home
Written by Koby Michaels
Courtesy UBC SailBot
When her phone woke her early one morning, Vivian Cheung didn't think much of it — and she definitely wasn't going to wake up to answer. But then, a thought snuck into her mind: what if Ada had been found?
"Being Ada's mom, you assume she is still out there. You have hope," said Cheung.
A few hours later, an email confirmed Cheung's wildest dreams — Ada had been found. Ada was coming home.
On August 24, 2016, Ada, an autonomously sailing robot designed and built by a team of UBC students, set out to be the first boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean completely autonomously.
After the launch, the team watched with hope as Ada's GPS signal sailed closer and closer to Europe. In London, Cheung and fellow UBC SailBot team member Cody Smith prepared for Ada's arrival. But then, four days after leaving Newfoundland, Ada wandered off course in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The team kept hoping she'd turn east and continue on her way to Europe, but she never did.
The team watched helplessly as Ada drifted further and further off course until November 14, when Ada's GPS stopped sending GPS heartbeats back to the team. The record-setting voyage was over and Ada was lost at sea.
The team returned to Vancouver to work on Ada 2.0, a boat they hope to race from Victoria to Maui, Hawaii.
Cheung, who has since graduated, never lost hope in finding Ada again. But as the months rolled by, Smith left SailBot to join a different design team and work on his mechanical engineering degree.
"I hoped for it [finding Ada]. I didn't think it would ever happen," said Smith.
When they found out that Ada had been found off the coast of Florida by the Neil Armstrong, an American research vessel, Cheung and Smith were shocked and excited.
"I was in disbelief. She's been on her own for one and a half years," said Cheung.
The Neil Armstrong noticed an unidentifiable object in the early morning on December 1, 2017 and changed course to investigate. Seeing Ada's name and research vessel label, Dr. Jennifer Miksis-Olds, a research scientist on board, googled Ada. When she read Ada's story, the team scrambled to get in touch with UBC and rescue Ada.
Miksis-Olds chronicled the rescue in a blog post and the Armstrong's captain sent an email to SailBot describing Ada's recovery.
Cheung jumped into action to organize Ada's return to campus. Backed by financial support from the university, Smith and another former SailBot team member, Dave Tiessen, flew out to Massachusetts to meet the Armstrong on its return home to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod.
"She's been battered, she's been through a lot, but she's still alive," said Smith, describing seeing Ada for the first time in over a year.
According to Smith, Ada is missing her mast and suffered some bumps and scrapes but is otherwise intact. It appears no water breached her hull so the electronics that serve as Ada's eyes, ears, navigation system and brain should be in tact.
In-between sending near constant updates and photos to team members at UBC, Smith and Tiessen constructed a cradle to carry Ada back to Vancouver. In the new year, a truck will drive the 5,226 kilometres from Woods Hole to Point Grey, finally returning Ada home.
The SailBot team hopes to collect data from Ada to determine what went wrong. When Ada originally floated off course, the team guessed something was wrong with the rudder. Smith said it was too early to say for sure, but once Ada is back at UBC, he's hopeful they will be able to determine the exact cause of Ada's failure.
Cheung and Smith both hope Ada will eventually be displayed somewhere — possibly on campus, at Science World or at the Vancouver Maritime Museum. SailBot's hope is for Ada to serve as inspiration for others to dream big and build those dreams into reality.


Focus: If you are not the perfect candidate for the specific role, you will likely not be considered for the position. Insight: understand your skills, strengths, and weaknesses, then look for roles/organizations that match.
Communications: Ensure that your resume looks sharp – and is written by you. Your cover letter must be focused on the organization's needs – not yours. And you must have the ability to communicate confidently throughout the interview process.
Research: What are the trends in the industry? What are the issues that the organization is facing? Check out the web site, annual report, product brochures, etc. Who are the competitors – and what are their strengths/weaknesses? Who do you know that works there, and what do they say? Insight: the better your research, the better your interview questions.
Perseverance: Job search really started when you started school – it's just that no one told you. And it should continue, even if you are now happily employed. While you may not exactly be looking for another job immediately, don't neglect career planning, mentoring meetings, internal networking, etc.
If you thought that these ideas were only for job-seekers, then think again: this process is even more important if you hope to keep your job – let alone get that promotion.
This Week's Action Plan: Imagine that you were applying for your current job. Look at the process, then choose one new item to add to your calendar. If you already have everything done, then set a quota for networking, information interviews, phone calls, etc. Practice the process, and you will become a professional at it.


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RUSHING WATERS
Autor : Danielle Steel
Izdavač : CORGI
As Hurricane Ophelia bears down on New York City, millions are caught up in the horrific flooding it unleashes.
Successful interior designer Ellen Wharton flies into New York from London, heedless of the hurricane warnings. She is intent on seeing her mother, Grace. But when the storm hits, the women are forced to wade through freezing waters to the police boats outside.
British investment banker Charles Williams is travelling on business but is also eager to see his young daughters, who live with his beautiful, estranged ex-wife. As the hurricane rages, he desperately checks the shelters where thousands have taken refuge to find them, and runs into Ellen and her mother.
Meanwhile Juliette Dubois, a dedicated ER doctor, fights to save lives when the generators at the hospital fail.
The day of chaos takes its toll as New Yorkers struggle to face a natural disaster of epic proportions. But as lives are shattered, heroes are revealed – and then the real challenge begins, when the survivors face their futures . . .
Kategorija CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Autor Danielle Steel
Izdavač CORGI
Format 13x20
CONTEMPORARY FICTION 351146
Interleaving ten completely new and unpublished stories with some of her best-loved pieces...
THE GIVER OF STARS
Alice Wright doesn't love her new American husband. Nor her domineering father-in-law or ...
MAYAS NOTEBOOK
Abandoned by her parents as a baby, Maya has been brought up by her tough grandmother Nini...
CHRISTMAS SHOPAHOLIC
Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It's always the same - Mum and Dad hosting...
A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many ye...
Henry Chinaski has a penchant for booze, women and horse-racing. On his precarious journey...
THROW ME TO THE WOLFS
WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER 2020 A young woman has...
MUSIC LOVE DRUGS WAR
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THE WOMAN WHO WENT TO BED FOR A YEAR
The day her twins leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. For seventeen years she...
THE ONLY STORY
Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less...
SEVEN STONES TO STANDS OR FALL
Featuring all the characters you've come to love from the Outlander series, this brilliant...
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Boat People • 1h 1m
Directed by Ann Hui and Vincent Chui • 1987 • Hong Kong
Starring Ann Hui
AS TIME GOES BY is a rarely seen, deeply personal work of nonfiction by Ann Hui, made at the beginning of Hong Kong's handover from colonial British rule to Mainland China in 1997, a year of unprecedented transformations. In it, Hui discusses her peripatetic childhood, her formative years in school, and her family, and shows how her past and present coalesce to form her uniquely humanist approach to filmmaking. The film was produced by Peggy Chao.
Up Next in Boat People
Keep Rolling
Directed by Man Lim-chung • 2020 • Hong Kong
Starring Ann Hui, Ann Hui, Nansun Shi
This 2020 documentary, the directorial debut of Ann Hui's longtime production designer and art director Man Lim-chung, is an intimate and candid portrait of Hui's astonishing life and prolific career as one of Hon...


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Bradysia microcteniuni är en tvåvingeart som beskrevs av Yang och Zhang 1987. Bradysia microcteniuni ingår i släktet Bradysia och familjen sorgmyggor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Seba armata är en kräftdjursart som beskrevs av Édouard Chevreux 1889. Seba armata ingår i släktet Seba och familjen Sebidae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Camping in Ohio State Parks. ... Most Ohio State Park campgrounds are open year-round for four seasons of fun, though many offer limited facilities in the winter.


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HomeArts & CultureRMFA to honor the memory of artist Jason Bombaci, Reception planned for...
RMFA to honor the memory of artist Jason Bombaci, Reception planned for 7/8
The Rochester Museum of Fine Arts will present a selection of works by Jason Bombaci, for the month of July, in Suite 135 of the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center. There will be a public reception on Thursday, July 8 from 6-8pm.
Volunteers are curating this exhibition in memoriam. Bombaci, 38, died of cancer in November 2020, at his home in Rochester.
"We've worked with Jason a few times in the recent past," said Amy Regan, Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. "We're honored to exhibit his great works again. His passing is a great loss to us. We will miss him."
A native of Concord, NH, Jason Bombaci spent his youth exploring New Hampshire's mountains, rivers, and rocky streams. His interest in the study of art was sparked at a very young age.
Bombaci began a private study of art at age nine in Marblehead, MA and by high school was studying under Estelle Smith in Manchester, NH. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire's Bachelor of Fine Arts program and received a Masters of Fine Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. He has also studied landscape painting and art history in Italy through the University of New Hampshire in Italy program.
An avid kayaker and fisherman, Bombaci spent a lot of time on the water and these activities seem to recur as a theme in some of his work. When asked if people ever misinterpret his work, he replied, "I paint what I paint and let viewers make what they will of it."
Viewers may recognize many local scenes from his collection of thickly-layered canvases which use a broad palette of colors to capture the play of light so handily.
Bombaci always said he liked to "build an image abstractly, focusing on mixing and laying down marks of pure color." As the colors come together and meet, an image starts to emerge. This way of working builds what he calls "an active surface" which he would work over repeatedly before arriving at the final image.
"We hope people will take the time to see these works in person," said Regan. "We encourage the public to attend the reception and honor his memory."
The Rochester Museum of Fine Arts and Bernier Room is located in the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center, 150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH, behind Spaulding High School.
The museum is sponsored by the City of Rochester, Rochester Main Street, MacEdge, Bernier Insurance, Lenharth Systems, and Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce. Visit www.rochestermfa.org to learn more.


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Tiger Bay is a 1934 British film directed by J. Elder Wills and starring the Chinese-American actor Anna May Wong.

The film is about a  young Englishman abroad, Michael, who deliberately visits a tough Chinese  district of  Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love with Letty at Lui Chang's nightclub and battles a protection racket. Meanwhile, Lui fends off Olaf and his cronies, who attempt to intimidate Fay and Lui.

Cast
 Anna May Wong as Lui Chang
 Henry Victor as Olaf
 Lawrence Grossmith as Whistling Rufus
 Margaret Yarde as Fay
 Rene Ray as Letty
 Victor Garland as Michael
 Ernest Jay as Alf
 Wally Patch as Wally

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Bras-sur-Meuse est une commune française située dans le département de la Meuse, en région Grand Est.

Géographie

Urbanisme

Typologie
Bras-sur-Meuse est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Verdun, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des forêts et milieux semi-naturels (56,7 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (56,9 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
forêts (47,3 %), terres arables (35,4 %), milieux à végétation arbustive et/ou herbacée (9,4 %), prairies (4,8 %), zones urbanisées (3,1 %), zones industrielles ou commerciales et réseaux de communication (0,1 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Transports

Bras est reliée à la commune de Verdun avec la ligne 4 du réseau TIV, a raison de 3 trajets quotidiens.

Toponymie

Histoire

Politique et administration

Liste des maires

Politique environnementale
Le village est classé trois fleurs au concours des villes et villages fleuris.

Médias
La commune possède le label ville Internet, avec cinq arobases (@@@@@); décerné par l'association Villes Internet.

Population et société

Démographie

Économie

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

 L'église Saint-Maurice, première construite en 1792, seconde reconstruite en 1928.
 La mairie.

La nécropole nationale de Bras-sur-Meuse

Ce cimetière militaire français de  abrite les dépouilles de  français morts pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, dont  reposent dans des tombes individuelles et  reposent dans deux ossuaires.

Personnalités liées à la commune

Héraldique, logotype et devise

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de la Meuse
 Liste des nécropoles militaires en Lorraine

Liens externes

 Site de la commune de Bras sur Meuse

Notes et références

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Commune dans la Meuse
Villes et villages fleuris dans la Meuse
Ville Internet
Ville décorée de la croix de guerre 1914-1918
Aire urbaine de Verdun
Localité sur la Meuse en France


Will I need Building Regulation approval?
It depends on the size of the conservatory. In order to help you understand the issues please see below some of the conditions that apply to planning permission and building regulations (these apply to England/Wales only). Scottish, Northern Ireland, Eire and North American regulations are quite different – Please contact your local planning authorities for full details.
b) The extension walls are substantially glazed. Must have at least half the area of the walls formed of windows. Must have at least three quarters of the area of the roof formed of glazing, poly carbonate sheets or similar translucent material.
h) The extension does not contain any drainage facilities. (i.e. sink, WC, or washing machine).
An example of where building regulations approval may be required is a Kitchen / Conservatory Extension. We suggest you contact your local council - explain your intentions and they will be able to give you more specific advice.
As further guidance, conservatories that require building regulation approval will need glazing of the highest insulation quality i.e. - Pilkington K Glass (low E) with argon filled units.


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beyond scared straight where are they now jordan
When she's not in school, Katie spends her time working at a resort hotel near where she lives. The Beyond Scared Straight program relies on the concept of vicarious deterrence. Beyond Scared Straight is an A&E reality T.V series that follows teenagers who spend a day in prison to learn from the inmates the realities of living an incarcerated life. Since the series' inception in 2009, Beyond Scared Straight has profiled 331 teens in crime prevention programs in 29 prisons and jails across the county. The wiki was created by Supervegito22 on January 29, 2011 and is currently managed by PacintoshX. Beyond Scared Straight is an A&E reality show that follows state-sponsored programs that send at-risk teens into prison to get a glimpse of what their lives will be like if they continue down the paths they're currently on. Beyond Scared Straight is an A&E reality T.V series that follows teenagers who spend a day in prison to learn from the inmates the realities of living an incarcerated life. Logan lives at her new apartment, which she pays for herself. Latest Update: December 2011:Logan was one week away from turning 17 years old when she found out she was pregnant. Tyler is no longer smoking marijuana, and the structured environment at the military academy has helped Tyler learn how to control his temper. 20 Years Later (1999).[9][10][11]. Beyond Scared Straight is produced by Arnold Shapiro Productions for A&E Network. Dr. Finckenauer also stated that the extreme nature of the punishment shown in programs such as Beyond Scared Straight doesn't match the expectations of our youth. "I am so proud of the teenage lives that have been changed and even saved over our 83 episodes and six years of production.
Teenagers in this documentary and the 1980 sequel, Scared Straight! Harold still maintains a relationship with Spelaisha, his baby's mother, and sees his son on the weekends. Katie and Logan have agreed to be roommates, and Katie plans to move into Logan's apartment in the next couple of weeks. An equation Dr. Greene gives in one of his books titled: The Explosive Child, which provides a conceptual framework for understanding children with behavioral difficulties is: Inflexibility + Inflexibility = Explosion. Or the girl who thought it would be a good idea to swing on a corrections officer. When looking at the effectiveness of such programs, one of the things we need to consider is the idea of deterrence in regards to thinking and behavior in relations to children. Then, thanks to some arguably bad judgment from both parties, things got out of hand fast. Get the latest on new episodes, bonus content, exclusive articles and more. It gave kids who were heading down the wrong path a preview of their future and a road map on how to change it. In the Beavis and Butt-Head episode "Scared Straight", Beavis and Butt-Head are sent to prison for a day as part of a Scared Straight program. The only thing Beyond Scared Straight and programs like it provides is anecdotal, not evidence based. Another thing these programs fail to inform you of is the reason as to why these kids have the explosive outbursts they do. She quit smoking marijuana the day she learned of her pregnancy and has been clean ever since.
In the end, the Cosby Kids vow to stay out of trouble and promptly disassociate with Larry.
As a result of the film, many states introduced "scared straight" programs in an attempt to rehabilitate young delinquents.
All Rights Reserved. [3] A New Jersey law enforcement source has confirmed that Speziale is the same person who appeared in both documentaries. IV OF SPADES – Wher The problem with that is that putting a lot of energy into teaching a child 'who's boss' may be counterproductive since the child is typically already motivated and knows who's boss.
He visits his own father on weekends. at her local community college and is currently working two jobs to support herself and her baby. experience changed him,[13] although he admitted in the film that he had failed to lead a straight life. In the third season episode of Arrested Development entitled "Notapusy," a former prison inmate mistakes a gay conversion therapy seminar entitled "Startled Straight" for a Scared Straight!-type program and lectures the group of men about the horrors of incarceration, especially the prevalence of homosexual prison sex. [1][2] None of the "graduates" of the original documentary have since been convicted of a felony except for Angelo Speziale, who in 2010 was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison for the rape and murder of his neighbor in 1982 (after the film was made).[3]. Is there anything I could say that would change your mind? Latest Update: December 2011:According to Katie's counselor, Katie is doing well in school.
Follow-up: Lieber, SC.
Six teens, some of whom had already served time in juvie, got a dose of grown-up prison life at the Lieber Correctional Facility in South Carolina. Dr. Finckenauer continues by saying that Beyond Scared Straight is developed by adults for kids. Narrated by Peter Falk, the subject of the documentary is a group of juvenile delinquents and their three-hour session with actual convicts. They say that, "when it comes to our children", policymakers and parents should "follow evidence, not anecdote". Twice right after, still at the age of 17 and 18, and then about five years ago, I did fifteen days in the county jail for disorderly conduct." All Rights Reserved. Katie is still very close friends with Logan. Latest Update: December 2011:According to Tyler's counselor, "Tyler is thriving." Most of the at-risk teens who appear on A&E's "Beyond Scared Straight" put on a big show of bad attitudes at first and fall in line as they continue through the prison-based program. [5] It also won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement–Informational Program and Outstanding Informational Program. Katie is still very close friends with Logan. Finally, in the middle is the general public, which consists of those who are tempted to cheat on a tax return, to run a red light, or to be deceitful on an employment application.
Watch how quickly the teens' demeanor turn from smug to grim. [6], The original Scared Straight!
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Integrating climate adaptation, water governance and conflict management policies in lake riparian zones: Insights from African drylands
As river basin authorities and national governments develop policies to achieve sustainable development outcomes, conflicting signals between existing policies are undermining cross-thematic integrative modes of policy planning. This raises fundamental questions over how coherent portfolios of…
Climate Variability Impacts on Land Use and Livelihoods in Drylands
This edited volume is devoted to the examination of the implications of the inevitable changes wrought by global change on the welfare and livelihoods of tens of millions of people who live in dryland regions. Global change is more than just climate change and the ramifications of changing trade…
Land degradation and climate change
The world's soils store more carbon than the planet's biomass and atmosphere combined. An increase of just 1% of the carbon stocks in the top metre of soils would be higher than the amount corresponding to the annual anthropogenic CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning. Many innovations in…
Regenerating Urban Land : A Practitioner's Guide to Leveraging Private Investment
Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure…
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The negative impact of a lack of plant functional diversity on ecosystems is well-documented, and can be seen in action in most dryland ecosystems. However, the indirect effects of biotic interactions – activities of certain living organisms that can impact the survival of others – are still unknown…
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Mark, My Words: September 27, 2020
There used to be a TV show called "What NOT to Wear, where fashion experts, Stacey and Clinton, fly a woman to New York for a "renewal" of hair, make-up, and clothing. But it's a reality show with a difference: Painful issues arise, as women must overcome self-hatred; deal with their scars or insecurity; or admit, "I dressed like a slob because I've never had one minute in my life that I ever thought I was beautiful." Most women end up saying, "I didn't respect myself, or feel any dignity," and "I now feel transformed inside.
Today, Jesus is urging and inviting the religious leaders to accept another form of transformation: a vision of life in which you actually practice what you preach--how refreshing! One son says "I'll go to the vineyard" but doesn't; and the other says, "I won't go," but then changes, and goes.
The Jewish leaders had said "we obey" but didn't; while the prostitutes said "no way", but then did follow God's ways. This gospel is about seeking consistency between our words and our deed. But to replace an old behavior with a new one means getting rid of the "old clothes." We have to change our exterior behavior, which triggers inner transformation. We have to empty ourselves of anything, in fact, which is not helping us live for God.
As St. Paul says, "Have this mind among yourselves, which was in Christ Jesus… (who) emptied himself." So, let us prepare for our transformation. Jesus is asking us to listen again, and do what it takes to receive our inner and outer make-over.


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Collection List module enables you to view file related activities and user related activities. Activity report means what operations have been performed on the files or operations performed by user will be listed according to criteria selected in a report format.
Click (Activity Report icon) from the action bar. The Activity Report menu appears.
Click File Activity. The File Activity Report Generation window appears.
Select a Collection from the Select a Collection drop-down list. The operations performed on the files of the selected Collection will be displayed on the report.
Click Calendar button to select Start Date and End Date respectively. This means that whatever operations have been performed on the files of the selected Collection within the Start & End dates will be displayed in the report.
From the Sort By section, select a particular option from the drop-down. The options are folder, file, user, date, and action. Selecting a particular option enables the application to sort the file operation details as per requirement. For example, if Folder is selected as Sort option then operations on files will be listed on the report according to their association with a folder. The application will list down operations of files from the starting folder in the Collection, then the next folder and so on. If User is selected as Sort option then operations performed on files by each user will be listed separately in the report.
Select Ascending or Descending option as per requirement.
Click View. The report is generated automatically and the File Activity Report window appears displaying all the actions or operations performed on files. The report can be viewed in various formats like XML, CSV, PDF, MHTML, Excel, Tiff & Word.
Click Export to download the report into your local system.
Click User Activity. The User Activity Report Generation window appears.
Select a Collection from the Select a Collection drop-down list. The operations performed by the user on the selected Collection will be displayed on the report.
Click Calendar button to select Start Date and End Date respectively. This means that whatever operations have been performed by the user on the selected Collection within the Start & End dates will be displayed in the report.
In order to view the activities performed on the selected Collection by a specific user or users of a specific team, select the user from the User list drop-down or select the team from the Team list drop-down, respectively.
From the Sort By section, select a particular option. The options are User, Date, and Action. Selecting a particular option enables the application to sort the user actions as per the selected sorting option. For example, if Date is selected as sorting option then the report will display the actions of any user on the selected Collection date-wise.
Click View. The report is generated automatically and the User Activity Report window appears displaying all the actions or operations performed by user according to the criteria selected. The report can be viewed in various formats like XML, CSV, PDF, MHTML, Excel, Tiff & Word.


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When Low Taxes Aren't Enough: How State-Backed Incentives Help Lure Businesses to N.H.
By Todd Bookman • Jan 3, 2019
Available office space at 3000 Goffs Falls Road, where BAE Systems plans to locate 400-800 new positions.
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Corporate subsidies are something of a taboo topic in New Hampshire. The state historically doesn't offer them and, to hear most elected officials explain it, they wouldn't even consider subsidies when courting new businesses. That was the case when Amazon was scouting potential sites for its new headquarters and 50,000 accompanying jobs.
"We don't play in the game of giving massive tax gimmicks and tax breaks, and all that,"
said Gov. Chris Sununu during his pitch to Amazon last year. "Other states do that because they have to. Because they have massive taxes. We've had the best tax breaks in this country for the last 200 years."
Listen to the broadcast version of this story.
Sununu was referring, of course, to New Hampshire's lack of an income tax and broad-based sales tax. For him, and many other state officials, what's traditionally thought of as the New Hampshire Advantage is the best way to lure companies.
The reality is a bit less clear cut.
While New Hampshire fell short in its Amazon bid, in recent months the state has landed three other corporate expansions. And in each case, sizable incentives packages helped seal the deal. Between BAE Systems, Hitchiner Manufacturing and Lonza, the state, quasi-public organizations and municipalities have put forward nearly $26.9 million worth of incentives to lure expansions, with more than 1,500 promised jobs in the balance.
Breaking Down the Deals
BAE Systems says it will employee between 400-800 employees at a facility on Goffs Falls Road in Manchester.
BAE Systems, one of the world's largest defense contractors, promises to create between 400 and 800 new positions in a giant office-park near the airport. It's the type of good news any politician would love to share, as Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig did, to a round of applause, at a campaign event last September.
But BAE's decision wasn't solely based on New Hampshire's tax climate. Also included in the state's pitch to BAE Systems was an incentives package valued at just under $15 million. Just don't call it a corporate subsidy.
"I would call it an innovative package that address BAE's needs for the future, and just shows that New Hampshire knows how to get creative without giving away large subsidies," says James Key-Wallace, executive director of the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority, an quasi-public organization that encourages job creation in the state.
The BAE deal is a bit complicated, but the upshot is the Business Finance Authority will buy the building in Manchester, financing the deal in part with a bond backed by the state treasury. BAE Systems will then lease the building for 10 years, and has the option to purchase it outright at the end of the term. All in, the financing package saves the company about $12 million.
A summary of recent incentives offered to companies considering relocation or expansion in N.H., based on proposals submitted by the State of New Hampshire.
"Since we are not giving anything away, the actual cost to any taxpayers is zero," says Key-Wallace.
That's true at the state level, but the City of Manchester is also involved in the deal. The Board of Aldermen in October approved a property tax savings proposal with BAE Systems that's worth another $2 million. That's money the city won't have to spend on schools or roads.
Two other recent expansions follow similar playbooks. Hitchiner in Milford is going to build a new plant in its hometown, and Lonza, a pharmaceutical giant, is going to expand its facility at Pease. All in, those two companies say they'll add more than 1,000 jobs. According to proposals obtained by NHPR through a public records request, the companies will benefit from financial incentive packages valued at more than $12 million, as well as the promise of fast-tracked building permits.
The deals don't sit well with some.
"I'm disappointed to see New Hampshire going down the path where we are offering special deals to specific large businesses rather than focusing on making our overall economic climate better for all businesses," says Drew Cline, president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, a free-market think tank.
In these deals, Cline sees a muddying of the waters. When incentives are introduced, companies no longer compete based purely on their products or their ideas or their talent. It's also suddenly about lawyers and lobbyists.
"Big businesses like to play the game where they get to be insiders and they get cozy with a government and they rig the system in their favor," he says. "New Hampshire has avoided doing that to a large degree. If we go down the path of having the government favoring big businesses over smaller competitors, that has the potential to really harm our economy in the long run."
Exhibit A, the incentives deal that Cline finds hardest to swallow, was the Legislature's passage last year of a tax break for companies in the business of growing human organs. The Manchester-based group ARMI, led by Dean Kamen, pressed for it with the promise of a new industry taking root here.
Cline says it's not ARMI's fault--or BAE's or Hitchiner's or Lonza's--for pursuing these deals. Any company would.
Taylor Caswell, commissioner of the state Department of Business and Economic Affairs which helped put together these deals, says these projects are modest, almost quaint. compared to what other states offer. But he says they're necessary.
"It helps us show that we have something competitive to put on the table with other states. It shows that there is a willingness in the state to have some skin in the deal," says Caswell.
He believes these financing arrangements should be thought of as investments that pay off in jobs and economic growth. They don't meet the definition of corporate subsidy. They just hopefully produce the same result.
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Who Shipped $61 Million Worth of Weapons From N.H. to Saudi Arabia?
Small Arms Defense Journal
It's an eye-catching statistic in an otherwise routine data dump.
Through the first ten months of 2018, sales of New Hampshire-made weapons to Saudi Arabia soared.
Same N.H. Economy, But Sununu and Kelly See It Very Differently
By Todd Bookman • Oct 22, 2018
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In most election years, the thinking goes that a strong economy boosts the party in power. The incumbents can argue 'Hey, just look at your wallet!' as they make a pitch for another term.
Governor Chris Sununu is very much following that playback, while his challenger Molly Kelly works to paint a different economic picture in the state.
Are Manufactured Kidneys Really the Future of Manchester's Economy?
By Rick Ganley & Sarah Gibson • Sep 20, 2018
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Scientists, tech entrepreneurs and government officials are in Manchester this week to talk about human tissue engineering. It's a complicated new technology, but backers say it could transform southern New Hampshire's economy.


Home City Life Satanic Statue Presented in Detroit – Where's It All Leading to?
Hundreds of people gathered in Detroit for "the largest satanic ceremony in history" to unveil a satanic statue.
As the end of July approached, approximately 700 people made a gathering in an old warehouse in Detroit to witness and participate in a satanic ceremony.
Most of the people present are openly Satanists, and a part of the occult group proclaimed as a religious one. Those not part of the cult came to satisfy their curiosity. Although there are many Satanists who cause no harm besides occasionally killing goats for the sake of occult sacrifice, the size of this event may signify something far more serious and troubling.
The festivity, considering the pictures posted on Facebook, really looked harmless, no more serious or dark than a well organized Halloween party. The purpose of the event was to unveil the statue of Baphomet, a mythical creature with the head of a goat and a body of a human, which in the modern world represents the symbol of Satanism. Above the head of the idol there is a pentagram (which is widely known as the symbol of orthodox Satanism), and beside it there are a boy and a girl curiously looking at the creature.
The statue itself is very artistically and meticulously made – someone would even call it a work of a true artistic genius.
It goes nine feet in height and it has around a ton in weight. The idol also has large wings on its back, so magnificent that they served as an inspiration for several movies and series dealing with the occult and fantasy, including the hit TV series The Iron Throne. Besides its powerful and fascinating wings and a goats head, this statue represents Baphomet as a very strong, muscular man. Other than its feet (that are not actually feet but hooves), the head and the wings, the statue could also represent an idol of a modern man. The entire statue was made in bronze, including the two children looking at Baphomet.
The person who organized this event, Jex Blackmore shared her views on this statue and its unveiling for TIME magazine and said "Baphomet contains binary elements symbolizing a reconciliation of opposites, emblematic of the willingness to embrace, and even celebrate differences".
Simply put, this statue could be a test to see how open-minded Americans can be. Maybe more importantly, they want to see if people can accept differences and respect them.
Blackmore, who goes by this pseudonym for the sake of her own safety, directs the Satanic Temple in Detroit, the largest and most organized satanic outpost in the U.S. – all the others are relatively disorganized. She got the idea to found it after attending a lecture on Satanism at Harvard.
When journalists from TIME asked Blackmore whether her group is religious, she explained that it is an affinity group which believes that suffering is bad and "that which reduces suffering is good".
She also explained that they do not worship evil as people might expect. The group also doesn't believe in Satan as a person, but as an abstraction which stands for "rationality, skepticism, speaking truth to power, even at great personal cost", as Nancy Kaffer wrote for The Daily Beast.
The state didn't support the placing of the statue on legislative property, although the same disobedience came recently from Christians who placed a marble slab engraved with the Ten Commandments on city property near the Oklahoma State Capitol, more precisely – beside the capitol dome. Although this Ten Commandments monument went against the state constitution, the statue will probably not be removed, while such civil liberties will not be granted to the Satanists and they will probably have to move their statue.


Today, we're in Sedona, AZ for the Raw Living Expo. As we're on the road, we don't always have electricity, i.e. we can't use our juicer. Hence we're making a serious dent into our juice powder stash… and our giant bag of oranges has all but vanished. After finishing of our Spirulina and Healthforce Vitamineral Greens, we've moved on to chlorella and Dave Conrardy's juice powders. We've been having LOTS of freshly pressed orange juice with these… not too sweet, rather tart in fact; perfect. In fact, I think I'll have some more right now!