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Jennifer Turcios, the city of Santa Clarita first woman inspector. Coutesy of the city of Santa Clarita.
An average person spends approximately 90 percent of their time indoors, yet many of the buildings in which we currently live and work are some of the largest sources of greenhouse gasses, waste energy, and harm our health.
In our time of climate crisis, our homes and buildings become our refuge. State level codes set the standards to make sure our buildings are safe and sustainable places to live, work, and raise our children. By serving on one of these very important boards you can help change an agency and make your voice heard.
Women, and especially women of color, are significantly underrepresented in Oregon's decision-making processes around building codes. Building energy codes are the primary mechanism in place to regulate energy performance in new construction or major building renovations and they need to hear your voice.
Building Codes?
Building codes are set at the state level in Oregon. They regulate important aspects of fire, life, and safety in new homes and buildings. As a subset of overall building codes, energy codes establish minimum levels of energy performance in these homes and buildings.
Building codes in Oregon are administered by the state Building Codes Division (BCD), alongside legislatively mandated advisory boards. These advisory boards play a vital role in determining the minimum energy efficiency of Oregon's new homes and buildings. Board members are citizen volunteers representing different construction-related industries.
The boards include the Residential and Manufactured Structures Board (RMSB) focused on low-rise residential dwellings and the Building Codes Structures Board (BCSB) which focuses on commercial buildings. Members are appointed by the governor and subject to confirmation by the Senate. The RMSB consists of 11 members with four-year terms. The BCSB consists of 9 members with four-year terms.
Board Service
Serving on the RMSB and BCSB Advisory Boards is an important role which helps set the direction for how homes and buildings are built in Oregon. In addition to having a voice on key codes decisions, advisory board members interact with construction industry professionals on a range of topics and hear expert testimony on all codes proposals coming before the Advisory Boards. Advisory Board members also interact with State of Oregon Building Codes Division staff.
Historically, the BCD has been reluctant to set codes and standards that will help move Oregon towards creating resilient and climate friendly homes and buildings. With your involvement, that could change.
The Advisory Boards include legislatively mandated representatives from various construction industry specialties:
"A Representative of residential building trade subcontractor" (RMSB)
"A Contractor specializing in residential structures" (RMSB)
"A Contractor specializing in remodeling residential structures" (RMSB)
"A Public Member" (RMSB)
"A Representative of the building trade" (BCSB)
The state does not provide any specific experience requirements to serve on Building Codes Boards, but applicants should be able to show they have related work experience for the seat they are applying.
Residential and Manufactured Structures Board (RMSB)
Building Codes Structures Board
General "Become A Board Member" Information
Please feel free to reach out with specific questions:
Amy Cortese: amy@newbuildings.org
Anthony Roy: aroy@earthadvantage.org
To apply, please visit:
https://www.oregon.gov/gov/admin/SiteAssets/Pages/How_To_Apply/Interest%20Form.pdf
Posted in Career Path, Community Partners, tradeswomen
Oregon Tradeswomen recognizes the need to provide options to working women to participate in our programs. Many of our Trades and Apprenticeship Career Class (TACC) pre-apprentices are not only juggling family demands, but working while attending the program. In fact, many join while employed full time and have to give up employment in order to attend. To help these students achieve their career goals while financially sustaining their families, Oregon Tradeswomen responded by offering a night and weekend TACC class this Summer.
Here are some of the participants' accomplishments observed so far, thanks to the alternative night and weekend schedule:
Two TACC participants work full-time jobs during the day and are committed to graduate while preparing for IBEW's Electrical Apprenticeship.
A third student is working full-time as a teacher aid while caring for a newborn and a toddler while attending TACC.
Another participant is able to work part-time, care for her kids, and thanks to the current schedule, her husband can watch the kids in the evenings.
We also have a participant who is a full-time mom, and is able to leave her kids with their dad in the evenings so that she can attend classes.
Oregon Tradeswomen is able to be responsive to jobseeker needs, and shift our programming with the valuable collaboration of industry partners and we will continue to make our program more accessible. Look for additional evening and weekend classes in 2022!
Posted in About Oregon Tradeswomen, Career Path, Pre-Apprenticeship, TACC, tradeswomen
In 2019, Jamie Jarrett came to Oregon Tradeswomen with a tenacious drive to change her life. Having grown up in a cycle of poverty without a strong support system, Jamie found herself battling drug addiction and had to do whatever she could to make ends meet to survive. From working in a strip club, to managing a fast-food kitchen, the opportunities available to her did not provide the long-term stability she needed to live a happy, healthy life.
Despite the barriers she faced, Jamie's determination to overcome adversity was a key asset as she evaluated what she needed to do to secure a bright future for herself. She originally found out about Oregon Tradeswomen (OTW) from her fiancé, a union carpenter who had worked with an OTW graduate in the field. It wasn't until a miserable day at work that Jamie seriously considered pursuing a career in construction. With fire in her belly, Jamie did everything she could to get involved with Oregon Tradeswomen, attending events, social hours, and information sessions until she was selected for the Fall Trades and Apprenticeship Career Class of 2019.
Joining this training cohort offered Jamie a positive community of women that fostered friendliness and support. Jamie told us, "I have never experienced an environment like this before where women were helping each other instead of fighting to get ahead." This support system did not end with the 8-week program. Being the only woman on a job-site can sometimes be isolating, but having a network of women who are going through similar experiences is a truly invaluable resource.
When Jamie finished her 8 weeks of pre-apprenticeship training, she set her sights on the electrical trade because of her enjoyment of science and math. Jamie also got involved with various Facebook groups for electrical apprentices and female electricians to get a better idea of what the work would be like. When she saw photos of huge substations and carefully bent conduit, her excitement for the trade intensified. "If I was to go and learn something new, I knew I wanted to bend pipe and make an electrical room look like what I saw online. There is something aesthetically pleasing about electrical work," Jamie explained.
Jamie is now a 4th term electrical apprentice at the NECA-IBEW Electrical Training Center where she now goes to work every day looking forward to learning new things and putting them in practice. Not only does she love her job, but she has broken through the cycle of poverty. Jamie shared with us that, "In the trades, I know I can be on my own and be okay. I know I have food to eat every day, I have an apartment to go home to every night, and I have health insurance for the first time in my entire life." The newfound security and comfort in her life, both financially and mentally, also allows her to take time off to visit places she has always wanted to see. She also stresses that "I never thought five years ago that I would be here and working towards a career that is good for my whole life, that nobody can take away from me. No matter what I go through in my life, I will always have this."
When we asked Jamie about what motivates her to keep going on the hard days, she said that the progress she has made since she took her first steps at Oregon Tradeswomen just about two years ago is what inspires her. In those two years, her life took a total 180 degrees all on her own merit. "I have achieved so much," Jamie says. "So far I have completed three terms of schooling and have gotten straight A's. The fact that I want to go to school and learn feels so good!" Jamie proved to herself that she can accomplish anything she sets her mind to and that is a power in of itself.
Jamie's optimism about the future is undeniable. Her goal is to give back to the next generation of tradeswomen by becoming an instructor at the NECA-IBEW Electrical Training Center, but for the time being she is truly enjoying her day-to-day as an electrician. Her love of the work and the stability it affords prompts Jamie to help other women navigate to a career in the trades. She is open about her own journey and how getting involved with Oregon Tradeswomen changed her life. When asked why someone should support Oregon Tradeswomen, she says, "They give chances to people that might not ever have had any. If Oregon Tradeswomen didn't take a chance on me, I wouldn't be where I am today."
Its stories like Jamie's that keeps our mission moving forwards. When we hear Jamie say, "my biggest achievement is learning who I am supposed to be," and that "being in the construction world has been that piece that I was missing," we know we are making a concrete impact on people's lives. Everyone deserves to have a career that they love, and everyone deserves to have a prevailing wage with generous benefits.
Oregon Tradeswomen is proud to be a part of Jamie's success story, but it was her perseverance that got her to where she is today.
Posted in Apprentice, Career Path, OTI Graduates, Pre-Apprenticeship, TACC, tradeswomen
Liz Nichols grew up in Massachusetts, and like so many teenagers, she received the clear message that her next step after high school was to go to college and get a degree.
Liz started college in 2002 and achieving that college degree was no easy feat. College itself was challenging for Liz. She told us, "I was just a mediocre student. I had ADD and a learning disability and getting through college was a struggle."
But Liz persevered and in 2006, earned her bachelor's degree in English.
The next steps were not so clear, but the next challenge was in front of her: finding living wage work, paying off college debt, and building her future.
Liz shared that she "had a bit of a crisis of confidence. I got the degree, but it was still a struggle to earn a living wage." Liz added, "After going through college telling myself, 'just get through this, and everything will be okay…' it did a number on my self-esteem because I wasn't okay – it was still a struggle to earn a living wage."
Liz moved to Portland and found employment working gardening and landscaping jobs in the spring, summer, and fall, and working at coffee shops in the winter. Her situation was unfortunately common – Liz had her college degree, but was in debt, earning low wages, and receiving no health or retirement benefits at either job.
While working the landscaping jobs, Liz discovered she really enjoyed working outdoors and doing physical work, and it was during a conversation with a customer at the coffee shop in the winter of 2013, when Liz made the connection that she could have the best of both worlds with a career in the trades: living wages and a physical job, not behind a desk. "One day while chatting with an IBEW electrician, I learned about Oregon Tradeswomen's pre-apprenticeship program. I applied immediately. Liz continued working as a barista until class started. It was meant to be, as Liz almost didn't get into that class. She said, "I was on the waiting list and lucky for me, someone dropped out!"
Liz loved Oregon Tradeswomen's pre-apprenticeship class. "I knew immediately I wanted to go the union route." Liz was drawn to the debt-free career training, the pay, healthcare, retirement benefits, and stability.
Liz said she started TACC with a bit of 'imposter syndrome', or "who am I to think I can go down this path?" But what she heard from Oregon Tradeswomen instructors throughout the class: "You're here because you don't have experience. You will get on the job training and that's okay – that's expected."
Liz started a one-week class with the Cement Masons right after graduating from TACC. On Wednesday after class, Liz was asked to stay late, where she was offered entry into the apprenticeship program starting the following week! She called Oregon Tradeswomen immediately, very excited and slightly unsure. Liz LOVED the work, but wasn't completely sure she should go for it so quickly? She trusted her instinct and joined Cement Masons Local 555 and is so happy she did.
"My Union has been wonderful." Partway through her apprenticeship, her father-in-law was diagnosed with a terminal illness and Liz and her husband packed up their home in Portland within a week, were moving back to Massachusetts. "It was intense but being in a union saved me!" Liz had virtually no gap in her apprenticeship training – she picked up the next week after arriving in Boston. "There were fewer women on jobsites when I was working in Boston, but I was glad to be able to continue my apprenticeship training without missing a beat". When she moved back to Portland, it was seamless again.
During much of her last year of apprenticeship, Liz was pregnant, and she worked up to 3 weeks before her due date working concrete! Four months later, Liz was ready to take her journeyman exam. On the scheduled day, she couldn't secure childcare and brought her young son with her and her instructor and Business Manager babysat while Liz took her journeyman exam! Liz reflected warmly on that day and said, "I felt very supported throughout my apprenticeship there."
When we asked about any challenges Liz had along the way, Liz shared that most of her male coworkers have been supportive, "there were a few who tried to talk me out of the trade, encouraging me to go to an 'easier trade' – to go push a broom or become a flagger."
Liz also shared that there are not yet any formal structures in place for parental leave – or nursing mothers. "I nursed for 20 months, but there were no facilities on the jobsite, so I was discreetly pumping and dumping breast-milk into a porta-potty. I was still able to nurse son though."
Today, Liz is loving her work as a journeyman cement mason, and a recent competitor on the CBS television show Tough as Nails! Oregon Tradeswomen was contacted last year by the show's producers, and we shared the information on social media. Liz told us, "I saw the post on Instagram and went to the website. I filled out the form and sent photos of myself on the job. A few weeks later, I was contacted to participate on the show in LA!"
Liz couldn't share much about the show, as it was airing at the time of this interview, but she did share that one of the things she loved most was seeing the other undeniably amazing women. "It makes me so happy that the show offers such a physical representation of strong women – increasing visibility in places where there aren't as many women doing physical work."
Liz loves the work she does! She told us: "Concrete is like alchemy! It's challenging work that's different everyday and I love that you get a final product so immediately. Every time I leave the job site there is something new there that will probably outlast me."
Posted in Career Path, OTI Graduates, Pre-Apprenticeship, TACC
Happy Retirement, Madelyn!
As it happens with many long-range plans, a day once so far away, is suddenly upon us. Oregon Tradeswomen's CEO and lauded labor activist, Madelyn Elder, is retiring in June!
Madelyn came to Oregon Tradeswomen with firsthand experience of what it's like to be female in a male dominated industry. She worked for more than 20 years in both Seattle and Portland as a cable splicer before shifting her work to focus on worker justice and financial management. Madelyn served as president of the Communications Workers of America (CW) local 7901 for 15 years. During this time, she also earned her post baccalaureate degree in accounting.
Madelyn retired from CWA in 2014 and joined Oregon Tradeswomen full time as our first Chief Financial Officer. Madelyn's work and leadership has been invaluable to our growth as an organization, and living our work and mission to ensure equity and dignity in the workplace.
Madelyn's team will miss her leadership, sass, and joyful laughter. We know she will continue showing up and speaking out for worker justice.
We wish Madelyn all the best in retirement and know that while she will get to spend time with friends, family, and go on many birding adventures, she will continue to raise hell.! Much love to and best wishes to our sister.
Oregon Tradeswomen
Posted in About Oregon Tradeswomen, Career Path, tradeswomen
International Worker's Day 2021
On May 1st, we recognize International Workers Day, also known as May Day, to honor workers and the fight for worker's rights throughout history. May 1st was chosen to commemorate the 1886 Haymarket Square Massacre in Chicago where, what began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour workday, ended in several dead, dozens of wounded, and an aftermath of social unrest.
This fight continues. The month of May marks the anniversary of a heinous crime of hate on a jobsite in downtown Portland where Oregon Tradeswomen graduate and UA Local 290 member Leslie Cotton found a noose on job-site where she was working as an apprentice plumber. Our industry and our community were outraged, and rightfully so, that this blatant act of hate was put on display for all to see, and to serve as a threat to some of the workers on that jobsite.
Since that awful day, our industry and our community have come together to work to put an end to jobsite harassment, collectively working to make construction jobsites safe from hate.
This week, the House Judiciary Committee of the Oregon Legislature is taking up SB 398, which passed the Senate in March. If it passes in the House, the bill would make it a crime to display a noose. There is much more work to do.
While the construction industry provides excellent careers pathways, family-supporting wages, and benefits such as healthcare and pensions, it also has a long history of harassment, hazing, bullying, and discrimination. This unacceptable behavior is most often directed at women and people of color, and for too long, this hostile culture has been permitted to continue.
Oregon Tradeswomen, along with many other industry stakeholders, have long spoken out against discrimination and hate on jobsites and remain committed to changing toxic jobsite culture. Through our participation in the Safe from Hate Alliance, the Metropolitan Alliance for Workforce Equity (MAWE), and in implementing a jobsite culture program called RISE Up (Respect, Inclusion, Safety and Equity), Oregon Tradeswomen is pushing for long-overdue, needed changes to make workplaces safe for all workers.
Our guiding voice for jobsite culture change is the Tradesworker Equity Council (TEC). The TEC is comprised of a diverse group of committed tradesworkers who are part of the Safe from Hate Alliance Steering Committee. Leslie Cotton, the tradesworker who found the noose on their jobsite last May, is a member of this council. She, along with the other Council members and the many tradesworkers in our industry, are the unsung champions in this work. They show up every day not only to do the heavy and hard work of construction, but the equally difficult work of fighting for worker justice and equity.
Oregon Tradeswomen is immensely grateful to the members of the TEC who are the true heroes of this work. Their candor, courage, and tenacity is helping make our industry safe and respectful for all workers.
Thank you for showing up, speaking out and standing up. We are now, and always, humbled, inspired and honored to work alongside you in fighting for justice and equity.
Mary Ann Adkins-Bahena, IUOE Local 701
Janett Arellano, UA Local 290
Leslie Cotton, UA Local 290
Jessica Hendrickson, Heat & Frost Insulators Local 36
Nickeia Hunter, PNW Carpenters Local 1503
Warren T Hunter Jr., UA Local 290
Miranda Jenniches, IUOE Local 701
Jelani McRae, IBEW Local 48
Alejandra Prado, PNW Carpenters Local 1503
Posted in About Oregon Tradeswomen, Advocacy, Career Path
Oregon Tradeswomen Graduate Ruby Fjeld
Ruby grew up in Boulder Colorado and has been around carpentry most of her life. Her Dad is a finish carpenter, but until recently, she never thought about it as an option for herself.
Ruby moved to Portland in 2010 for college – taking a year to establish residency. After more than 7 years in and out of college and working full time, being broke, and stressed out, Ruby came to a turning point.
She was working in the lumber department of Home Depot, the first woman to work there, and struggling to juggle the demands of a full time job and going to school full time and studying. One afternoon, a customer noticed Ruby's hard work and hustle. The customer said, "Hey, you work really hard and we need people like you in the trades. My union sponsors this organization, Oregon Tradeswomen. You should check them out."
Ruby looked into our programs and the timing was perfect. After applying and getting accepted into Oregon Tradeswomen's Summer 2018 Trades and Apprenticeship Career Class (TACC), she was laid off from her job in the lumber yard, but pursued our training program anyway. "It was an incredible struggle at that time. I lost my health insurance, and my ability to access needed care and medication. I was in a dysfunctional housing situation, too. It was a really huge milestone for me to graduate. My whole family was there at graduation which was really meaningful for me, and the whole experience has truly been life changing."
Wanting to go into the Ironworkers apprenticeship, Ruby put in her application and went to work at Vigor as a temporary employee. It wasn't long before she heard back from the Ironworkers. She was accepted, went through orientation and started out as a rod buster. "It was the most incredibly difficult work I have ever done or will ever do."
Ruby wasn't sure this was a good fit for her, but she isn't the type to just show up and quit, so she kept doing the hard work "More than 9 months into my apprenticeship, I was either carrying a heavy load on one shoulder or stooped over tying rod all day. When I realized this wasn't going to be a long term fit for me, and that I needed a change, I started exploring residential carpentry."
After doing some research, Ruby submitted a few applications with local companies, and in a couple of months, she got an offer. This was a turning point for Ruby in her career path. She was hired on by Green Gables Design and Restoration as a laborer two years ago. "I took a pay cut, but it was okay, because I knew it was the place I wanted to be. My first week with the company, I thought they were playing a trick on me because the people were so nice, respectful, and easy to work with. The culture was relaxed, friendly, and positive." The teamwork oriented crew helped her feel excited to learn.
And learning is one of the things Ruby loves most about her career. "I love that I am constantly being asked by the work to use my brain and my body in creative ways. There is always something to learn, something new, even if I'm digging a hole, there some unexpected thing I learn. I also appreciate that this is viewed as an asset by the people I'm working with."
When we asked Ruby to share something that would surprise us, she shared, "I am very business-like when I get to work, and in layers and rain gear, we all look the same. People are probably surprised when I take my gloves off. I like to paint my nails – I'm femme."
When asked to reflect back on her time in the class, Ruby said:
"I have nothing but positive things to say about my experience! Oregon Tradeswomen allowed me to get out of the 'poverty track' – the jobs available to me where I could just barely scrape by. Graduating from OTW got me out of that cycle of living paycheck to paycheck. But it wasn't easy! It was a hard class. OTW is not kidding around. It's a serious program. But it paid off. It's a stepping stone or a gateway to a different level of prosperity!"
Posted in Apprentice, Career Path, Ironworker, OTI Graduates, tradeswomen
Oregon Tradeswomen Grad Jess Ross Featured in Short Film!
Oregon Tradeswomen Graduate and Ironworker, Jess Ross, was recently featured in a film created by Peripheral Vision, and screened at Communion: A Virtual Film Fest.
The feature with Jess follows her on her way to work as she recalls how she first became interested in Iron work, stories from the field, and what her experience has been like over her 5 year apprenticeship and journeying out.
Watch the film featuring Jess!
We have so much appreciation to Peripheral Vision for uplifting the voices and experiences of tradeswomen. Peripheral Vision PDX is a 501(c)3 nonprofit film production company and training organization dedicated to celebrating the vision, narratives and leadership of marginalized people.
Posted in Career Path, OTI Graduates
Deena Barbera, Power Line Tree-Trimmer
"2 weeks of work, 8 straight days of 16–17-hour days with only 4 hours of sleep between…"
This is part of a message we received from 2013 Oregon Tradeswomen Program graduate and Power Line Tree Trimmer, Deena Barbera, and we're both proud of and exhausted for her!
With the inclement weather conditions brought on by the huge winter storm that hit Oregon in February of 2021, Deena worked tirelessly and didn't stop until power was restored for the thousands of Oregonians who were left without electricity.
Deena and her crew of tree-trimmers are the essential workers who clear the tree debris obstructing power lines, allowing the line-workers access to power lines and restore power to communities facing record power outages. The work of a Power Line Tree Trimmer is crucial for community safety even when they aren't busy clearing tree debris for the line-workers to restore power during an outage. When trees and tree limbs grow freely around power lines, there is a risk of electric shock or electrocution due to leaves or branches touching the lines. Other times, trees that are left to grow without maintenance and trimming have branches that grow heavy and break, taking power lines down with them.
Deena wasn't always in the Tree Trimming trade though; before joining Oregon Tradeswomen's Trades and Apprenticeship Career Class (TACC), she worked in retail. Despite always giving 110% and making it clear she aspired advance in her company, management only offered promises for career mobility – never delivering. Wanting to see real outcomes from her hard work, Deena decided enough was enough and came to Oregon Tradeswomen's Annual Career Fair. From here, Deena's eyes opened to a new world of possibility in the construction trades.
During Deena's time as a pre-apprentice with Oregon Tradeswomen, she built her skills and gained industry knowledge. She also found community in other women like herself who want to work hard, get their hands dirty, and build a better life. Beyond that, Deena shared that "Oregon Tradeswomen's pre-apprenticeship prepared me for what to expect in a male-dominated career."
After graduating from TACC, Deena first started a career welding and spent 4 years in that line of work before learning about opportunities with NW Line. Intrigued by the trade, Deena went back to Oregon Tradeswomen's Career Fair to make connections at the NW Line JATC booth and to try out the hands-on activities. With the solid foundation she built during TACC, Deena had the confidence in herself and her abilities to know that she could be successful in the line trades.
Today, Deena is thriving as a 4th Year Apprentice working for Asplundh under the NW Line JATC. When she's not clearing tree debris during storms and power outages, she and her crew visit sites each day to trim trees within 10 feet on any power line. Some trims are short, while other jobs take hours. Those long-haul jobs are usually "burners," a shorthand term for trees that make contact with the lines. In those cases, they use special techniques and non-conductive tools to safely clear the trees without getting electrocuted. To say the least, it takes serious skill and precision to be a tree-trimmer.
Trades workers like Deena play such a huge part in keeping our communities safe and functioning! We are so proud of Deena for her hard work, dedication, and accomplishments and are hope she and her team got a lot of much-deserved rest when their work was done doing the critical work to restore power for so many Oregonians who lost electricity during the historic winter storms of February 2021!
Your Support is Life-Changing
Tracy Weber: On A Path to Financial Stability and a Secure Future
Tracy graduated from Oregon Tradeswomen's (OTW) apprenticeship readiness class in March 2020 – the first full class in our brand-new building and workshop before COVID shifted our in-person gatherings.
Since completing OTW's class, Tracy had another baby and recently started her Carpentry Apprenticeship. We are so happy for Tracy in these next steps in pursuing a career in a trade she had always been interested in but just didn't know how to get started. OTW is happy to be part of her success story and will be here for future support, training, and connections.
Tracy recently shared her personal story of working in customer service, becoming a mother, and wanting to provide a more stable future for her family at Worksystems' EOP program presentation at Prosper Portland's Board meeting. We invite you to watch it and hear directly from Tracy how she went from working a dead end job, and smoking pot all the time, and not caring about the future, to getting serious to get the training and support needed to pursue a career as a Carpenter.
Oregon Tradeswomen is grateful to our community of supporters and donors who make it possible for strong women like Tracy to get the information, training, and support they need to build strong lives, families, and communities.
Posted in Apprentice, Career Path, Community Partners, Pre-Apprenticeship

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Item title reads - Fashion tear-up.
Good item about paper dresses from Paris, France.
M/S of a girl in silver paper dress, she walks into C/U. M/S as two girls in silver dresses come through glass door. C/U of girl's legs and skirt, she tears a piece of the hem away. C/U as she writes on the piece of torn dress. C/U hands making adjustments to dress. C/U of material being wound through a hand machine which appears to be sticking it. M/S of two girls working at bench, camera pans to man showing girl the material which he tears.
M/S of girl in a kitchen, she rubs her eyes and walks to the kitchen cupboard. C/U as she takes a can out of the cupboard. M/S as she opens it and pulls out a paper dress. M/S as she holds it up in front of her. Exterior C/U sign outside a bar 'New Jimmy's'. M/S girl getting out of car in evening gown, (paper dress) and walking into club. C/U of man adjusting engine under bonnet of car. He stands up, takes off paper gloves and throws them away. M/S of girl dressed as bride being carried across the threshold by her new husband. C/U dustbin as gown is placed inside it.


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HomeNewsSadiq Khan, London's 'Liberal Muslim' Mayor, Has Ties To ISIS
Sadiq Khan, London's 'Liberal Muslim' Mayor, Has Ties To ISIS
March 27, 2017 Baxter Dmitry News, World 6
In order to remain "politically correct" the British media has failed to report the fact that London mayor Sadiq Khan, a so-called "liberal Muslim", has been affiliated with organizations tied to Hamas, Al-Qaeda, Al Nusra, ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood.
In 2016, then Prime Minister David Cameron was widely criticized by liberals in the UK when he claimed that Khan had ties to the terror group ISIS. An investigation has determined that Khan has ties not just to organizations associated with ISIS, but also groups such as Hamas, Al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.
During his time as mayor, London has seen an increase in terror incidents with concerning indications that terror groups wish to stage a major attack on the City of London. Rather than focusing on combatting terror, Khan has used his forum to tell Londoners as well as citizens in other parts of Europe and the United States that "the West must learn to live with terrorism as a part of daily life."
Disobedient Media report: Khan's extreme flirtation with radical Islamic extremism raises serious questions about his commitment to fighting a wave of extremist fueled terrorism that only continues to spread after a number of attacks and police operations in London and other areas of the UK.
1. Khan's Relationship To Figures Tied To Hamas And The Muslim Brotherhood
Khan has openly associated in the past with individuals and organizations tied to Palestinian terror group Hamas. During his time as a legal advocate, Sadiq Khan served as the Chief Legal Advisor of the Muslim Council of Britain's legal affairs committee. Khan was a member of a delegation organized by the Muslim Council of Britain in 2003 to protest what they described as "indiscriminate" arrests of Muslims for alleged terror ties.
The Muslim Council of Britain was placed under investigation by the British government over "irregularities" surrounding £1,263,000 in aid given to it by the government. In the past it has admitted to funding groups tied to both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and is banned from Israel as a result of its ties to terror.
On September 19th, 2004, Khan spoke at an event which included Ibrahim Hewitt; Hewitt has decreed on record that adultery should be punished by stoning. Hewitt serves as the Chairman of The Palestinian Relief and Development Fund (Interpal), an organization which has been labeled as a Terrorist Entity by the United States Department of the Treasury for providing support to Hamas and acting as a part of its funding network in Europe.
That same year, Khan spoke out in defense of Qatar-based Egyptian cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who has praised suicide attacks and decreed that homosexuality is a crime under Islam. Qaradawi has travelled directly to Gaza for the purpose of providing Hamas with ideological legitimacy and stated that Palestinian suicide attacks against the nation of Israel are justified. Qaradawi was also barred from entering into the United States in 1999, the UK in 2008, and France in 2012.
While the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) claims to be non-sectarian, a government report released in 2015 revealed that supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood "played an important role in establishing and then running" the MCB and continues to exert "significant influence" in it. In 2009 the UK government cut ties with the MCB after it signed a public document which appeared to condone violence against any country supporting an arms blockade of Gaza.
The government report also found that a number of Brotherhood groups have for years been raising funds in the UK. Some of those funds have allegedly been linked to Hamas, whose military wing was proscribed by Britain as a terrorist organisation in 2001. The MCB was also criticized for its ties to Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamic group linked to a number of terror organizations in Pakistan whose members have been accused of war crimes in Bangladesh.
2. Khan Supported Convicted Taliban Sympathizers
In 2009, Khan acted as a member of an international campaign which sought to resist attempts to extradite Babar Ahmad and Syed Talha Ahsan for their role in providing material support to the Taliban and Chechen jihadist groups via a number of websites they ran under the name of Azzam Publications. Ahmad and Ahsan were ultimately extradited to the United States, where they pled guilty to terrorism charges.
Khan went to visit Babar Ahmad on multiple occasions between May 21, 2005 and June 2006, while he was being held in Woodhill prison awaiting a ruling on his extradition request. It was reported that Khan visited Ahmad, not in his capacity as an MP, but as a friend, as the two had known each other since they were children. In September of 2005, in an attempt to thwart Ahmad's extradition to the United States, Khan presented a petition containing 18,000 signatures to then Home Secretary Charles Clarke, calling for him to be tried in the UK instead. However, Ahmad was ultimately extradited to the US on October 5, 2012, where he was held in custody until his release in July 2015.
3. Khan Has Involved Himself With Groups Connected To Al-Qaeda, ISIS and Al-Nusra
Sadiq Khan has historically maintained close relational and professional ties with groups associated with both Al-Qaeda and ISIS. During the 1990's, Khan's brother-in-law Makbool Javaid gave fiery public addresses advocating jihad and whose name even appeared on a fatwa calling for holy war against the United Kingdom and United States.
Javaid was a member of the Islamic group Al-Muhajiroun. Al-Muhajiroun was founded by Islamic hate preacher Omar Bakri Muhammad, who has been banned from the UK since 2005 and acted as a sponsor and recruiter of British jihadists seeking to join ISIS. Al-Muhajiroun was also lead by Anjem Choudary, a British Islamist who was jailed in 2016 for supporting the Islamic State after he released guides on making bombs and establishing "Muslim gangs" for the purpose of committing terror attacks.
The guides are indicative of an increasingly tight relationship between organized crime and ISIS in Western Europe previously reported on by Disobedient Media. Other connections to Al-Muhajiroun include Parliament attacker Khalid Masood, Lee Rigby's murderer Michael Adebolajo and Abdul Waheed Majeed, an Al-Nusra affiliated militant who in 2014 became the first British born jihadist to carry out a suicide attack in Syria.
While Khan has tried to distance himself from his brother in law and Al-Muhajiroun, in 2003 he shared a stage with Sajeel Abu Ibrahim, another member of Al-Muhajiroun and convicted terrorist who ran a camp in Pakistan which trained Taliban militants and Al-Qaeda 7/7 bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan. Also speaking at the same event was Yasser al-Siri, a terrorist who has been sentenced to death in absentia by Egyptian authorities over a political assassination attempt there which left a young girl dead.
In 2004, Khan made an "error of judgement" by attending four meetings organized by Stop Political Terror, a group supported by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula senior recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki. Stop Political Terror was later merged with the Islamic organization CAGE, who represented the ISIS executioner "Jihadi John" (Mohammed Emwazi) as a "beautiful young man." Khan claimed that he was merely there as part of his efforts to help fight the extradition of convicted terrorist Babar Ahmed to the United States. He has furthermore stated that he condemns CAGE despite his appearances at events organized by their affiliates and the fact that he wrote a forward for a report run by CAGE in 2006.
In 2008, reports revealed that Khan was serving as a legal consultant for convicted 9/11 plotter Zacarius Moussaoui. It was further revealed that Khan was the only practicing Muslim on Moussaoui's defense team. Moussaoui was ultimately extradited to the US, where he pled guilty to taking part in the 9/11 attacks. Moussaoui is currently being held at the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, where he is serving 6 life sentences without parole.
Khan also regularly attended Tooting Islamic Center (TIC), which was run by Suliman Ghani. Gani is a vocal supporter of convicted Al Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui, as well as a supporter of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Shaker Aamer. Khan has shared a platform with the controversial imam at least nine times between 2004 and 2013.
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Neil Robertson insists his surprise first round defeat in the Betfred World Championship did not take the shine off an otherwise excellent 2015/16 season.
The Australian won the Champion of Champions and UK Championship last term as well as reaching the final of the Welsh Open.
He was rated one of the favourite heading to Sheffield, but lost 10-6 in the opening round against Michael Holt.
"I just ran into an in-form opponent who played some really inspiring snooker," said world number five Robertson. "These things happen, there were a lot of upsets in Sheffield this year and that's because the players ranked lower down have a lot more belief that they can beat the top players.
"You can't win every tournament – the most important thing is to take advantage when you get to finals and I won two out of three so I had to consider it a great season.


ICE tech is going to be phased out.
How many decades we talking here? If you look at other industrial advancements, the ICE tech is doing pretty good at keeping itself around with not much knocking it off the perch in the US at least. The infrastructure is gigantic, the business built around it is massive, and disrupting that is going to take a lot more than a few electric car companies.
Not to mention that ICE tech is still the best option for rapid refueling and long trips, which is a big deal everywhere west of the Mississippi River (and probably much of Canada too).
One thing I rarely see discussed is that current (and near term) BEV options tend to do best where mass transit (rail/bus/etc) also do well. Short commutes in high traffic areas. The more your city's density and mass transit resemble a place like New York, the more redundant BEVs are.
So BEVs are pinched on one end by the need for long range and quick refueling, and on the other by easier/cheaper/quicker mass transit options. Maybe the middle is broad enough, but I still think that barring massive battery/charging improvements, pure BEVs will be pigeonholed in the long term. And yes, we've been hearing promises of revolutionary breakthroughs in capacity and charging time for decades, but the reality is still proceeding much like any old tech (and batteries, regardless of chemistry improvements are old tech) - slow and incremental.
Yet ICE tech will lose ground simply because it is inherently inferior from the perspective of the end user.
A fellow at work has a Nissan Leaf with only a 150 mile range.
From my end user perspective, I don't feel like ICE tech is inherently inferior, for the forseeable future.
Choice of plastics will be the big differentiator from the GM version.
Hmm. So the early Leaf is the best we can expect from BEVs?
Good luck with that. For many decades numerous automakers have toiled at refining ICE-based designs. I wonder how much better they can get. What we can assume is that the complexity associated with ICEs is unavoidable. Oil changes. A cooling system. Transmission technology. All pretty much unavoidable. At best fuel efficiency can be improved to some extent but we're likely talking incremental improvements delivered at a snail's pace. Meanwhile BEV range is improving at a significant rate, not to mention that there are fuel cell vehicles under development that would address range anxiety while delivering many of the benefits of going electric. On top of which there is little chance of ICEs ever delivering full torque at launch.
As for the Leaf being rather frumpy, that's because it's a Nissan. There is nothing related to employing electric motors that means a vehicle has to be appliancesque. I would say the chances of electrics replacing ICEs would be zero if the early Leaf was the best we could expect. It's more likely the worst we're going to see going forward.
Every three, four years will likely see significant improvements whereas with ICEs it's more or less what you see is what you get. Smallish improvements every couple of model of generations. As such alternatives to ICEs will outpace the technology relatively soon. The cost of fuelling a BEV vs. an ICE is already ridiculously lower and that means long before non-ICEs come down in price to be at par with ICEs, they will make more sense in terms of cost. Long-term, simple is better, and electrics have far fewer bits and pieces associated with them on account of there are fewer negatives that require measures to counteract them. It means that as these vehicles age there is less to go wrong because there is simply less involved.
We've gotten used to using ICEs because they were the only game in town but we've had to go to a lot of trouble to compensate for the technology's ample flaws. Eventually all that compensating will be rendered unnecessary.
He bought it last fall brand new.
There's no question that the pace at which the technology can be upgraded at the production level is tough to assess.Way back I can recall projections that fuel cell vehicles would arrive in 2008 which at the time was a few years away. I do think that the amount of effort going into addressing battery tech issues is significantly more than we saw 10, 15 years ago and that should impact the rate of progress. Even so the needle has moved significantly regarding range of late.
Range concern, I think, depends a lot on lifestyle. If you don't travel much beyond a vehicle's range round trip, it's not an issue. I would say in the past year I haven't fuelled up more than once in any given week. An electric with a 500-kilometre range would likely work just fine for the vast majority of my driving. Others would be in a different situation. Canada is a vast country, to be sure, but a lot of the population is relatively concentrated. In my part of the country, i.e. southern Ontario, driving distances are not that extreme.
I'm by no means suggesting that ICEs will be gone in the next three, four, five years. That said, as range improves and purchase cost lowers, electrics will be rendered viable to a broader range of consumers. For me the sweet spot would be a minimum 500-kilometre range coupled with a purchase premium of no more than let's say $7,000. At that point the numbers, for me, favour the electric.
I expect co-existence for a few years followed by ICEs fading. What I don't expect is that the transition would be motivated by a desire to save the planet. It has to just make sense case by case for consumers to switch. When that reaches critical mass is hard to determine but it appears to be where this is headed.
The other thing about BEVs not mentioned as often recently, is the not insignificant issue of where all the extra electricity will be generated, if BEVs become a dominant force in day to day transport? Or has this issue been over-rated in the past??
Already models are coming to market in Canada with about a 400 km range for about $45,000. Those numbers don't work for me personally but they're much better than what was on offer a few short years ago. Unless BEV development stalls at this level, the direction this is going in certainly means BEVs are moving towards numbers that will appeal to a much broader segment. Add 100 km to that range and lower the cost by about $5,000 and this gets interesting. Conceivable? I would guess yes.
While mainstream automakers would prefer selling higher-maintenance ICEs, if viable electrics come to market, the pressure will be on to offer something along those lines or risk losing market share. It doesn't mean everybody will rush out to buy an electric but with each boost in range, market share for electrics will increase.
One good thing for me is that if I'm wrong, it'll take three or four years to figure out if that's the case. If there hasn't been any progress by about 2023, sure, electrics will not broaden they're appeal for quite some time. We shall see.
Hopefully it has or at least a version has a Internal Combustion engine so it can actually be bought, driven, and sold in all of the US instead of only being sell able in one part of one start or else it will be a total waste of money and resources.
That's an odd comment. Does Tesla sell it's non-ICE products in only one state?
Besides, really a pricey halo product isn't about putting one in every driveway. It's about PR for the brand and that means a product that the automotive press is impressed by.
ICE tech is going to be phased out. This is inevitable, not because we need to save the planet but because there are major advantages to driving vehicles with electric motors, however the power source is provided, compared to ICE tech. No oil changes, considerably lower ongoing fuel cost, no cooling system, no gear changing. Best of all, torque is 100 per cent at launch which apparently makes driving an electric, with good output, a real blast.
Acura/Honda would do well to start transitioning to electric propulsion because it's where this is headed no matter how aggressively the transition away from ICE tech is opposed by those who stand to lose profit if ICE tech loses ground.
Yet ICE tech will lose ground simply because it is inherently inferior from the perspective of the end user. It might be bad for automakers' bottom line that maintenance is cut significantly but that's not a bad thing if you're the consumer spending less on maintenance. And so on and so on. The positives are all in the favour of consumers at the expense of all those making money off the infrastructure built up around ICEs and that's why the transition has been proceeding glacially. But even still, there are just too many positives to be had from transitioning away from ICEs for it to not eventually happen.
I think the comment comes from the fact that there are currently very few pure BEV options outside of ZEV states (mandates/incentives) because BEVs are very difficult to build and sell profitably. Honda is one of the companies that only sells/leases BEVs in ZEV states. As I have said many, many times all along, when BEV tech becomes economically feasible for the manufacturers, it will have its day and truly take over at a massive scale.
It is my belief that this day will not come with current or near-term lithium ion battery chemistry/tech.
Also, BEVs are not "zero-maintenance" - that's a myth. They still have fluids (LOTS of coolant for one thing), tires, brakes, lighting elements, and wear items which require servicing just like any other vehicle.
There are components that wear, absolutely. I certainly wasn't suggesting that a BEV would be like an electric lawnmower that you simply plug in and use for x number of years then discard. And where there's electronics in a vehicle there's always potential for issues to arise as many Tesla owners have discovered. But there are fewer systems requiring regular maintenance.
By the way, regarding what it would take for BEVs to become attractive to the average consumer, it varies from place to place. The US pays less for its gasoline than we do here in Canada and in Europe the cost is even higher still. Right now it's costing us around $1.20 to $1.30 a litre. That's roughly a range of $4.74 to $4.92 per US gallon. My car does roughly 8 litres per 100 km on account of I do a fair bit of quasi highway driving. Annually at 20,000 kilometres, I've used up between 1,600 and 1,800 litres. At the low end it's about $2,000 but I suspect it would end up somewhere higher than that. Some tankfuls I'm using up more than 8 litres per 100 km and certainly in winter it's more expensive. In any case, the point at which I personally would prefer the math of an electric option is going to be different than someone living in a warmer climate with access to cheaper gas. I suspect that where it gets interesting - the tipping point if you will - is round about 500km (310 miles) in range with a $6,000 purchase premium. You're talking break even about four years in so if you keep your car longer than that, the savings are substantial. Easily more than $1,000 a year.
Not sure what technology it will take to get us to the required numbers or when it can be achieved but that's when this turns in a big way. It looks viable to me within a five-year time frame and if at that point, which is when I'd be trading in the TLX, other manufacturers offer me an electric option, Acura would have to as well or lose me as a customer.
The rumors for this vehicle was it will be a FCEV like the FCX Clarity. FCEV can only really be bought, driven, and owned in the Southern part of one State in the US and Japan so it will be a total waste of money if they made it FCEV only. After explaining this there is now a suggestion it may possibly also be a BEV and HEV. I am suspicious of this as I doubt Honda would engineer and make 3 versions of this vehicle and knowing Honda I would not be surprised at all if they did in fact only engineer this new vehicle to be a FCEV only which will make it a total waste of time and money and another stupid decision.
BEV have a lot of issues too like range, limited charging networks/facilities, cold weather performance, maintenance/repairs(Teslas cost a fortune to work on, insurance is higher on them) so doing just FCEV and BEV would not be much of a improvement as it will still have limited appeal/market will not sell anywhere near as much as a ICE only or BEV as Acura does not have the green/tech image of Tesla where people ignore the compromises, Tesla sales are also plummeting, other BEV's sell in very low numbers with little interest.
It would cost a lot of money and take some major changes to engineer a car that was designed as a FCEV or BEV to also accept a IC engine because the platforms/chassis for those electric vehicles are generally designed around the enormous batteries/electric motors first and not designed to just drop a IC engine in them which gives me more doubt they even could offer a IC engine unless this is some unique design from the get go designed to accept a IC engine.
ICE tech is not being phased out nor is it inferior, ICE is still by far the most popular type of power plant in vehicles today, it makes up around 99% cars on the road. The fact that you can put 12-15 or so gallons of a pretty cheap fuel into large heavy vehicles and travel hundreds of miles on that in comfort and easily re fuel it in less then 5 min and travel hundreds of miles again can not be ignored, the established gasoline infrastructure around the world shows the IC engine is not going anywhere for a very long time. There is no rush or big market for electric vehicles outside some parts of California for one brand in the US, they are still rare and there are still very few models to choose from because there is no real demand for them in the US. I rarely see them on the road, there is not a single one in my large neighborhood.
ICE is still evolving, fuel economy and performance is still improving and still have the least compromises when it comes to ownership, cost, weight, complexity, etc. Tesla's cost a fortune to work on/repair, there are plenty of complaints about that, they cost of lot to insure too. The cost of a battery failing in a electric will offset by far the cost of oil changes, fuel, etc. Electrics also make poor sports/performance cars, yes they can be decent drag cars for a couple runs and then they start getting really hot and losing a lot of power, they are not suited for racetracks/endurance racing or even longer high speed runs off tracks. The tech and charging infrastructure is simply not there for electrics to gain any real popularity in the US, their long trip compromises make them poor choices for the US market and some others for the majority of buyers. I don't see any real evidence electrics are going to gain much popularity in the near future in the US nor do I see where FCEV's will gain any real popularity in the next 10+ years unless someone really wants to spend a ton of money on infrastructure for them and there is simply no demand for that.
I get ads for Prius battery replacements for $995 on TOV. That is pretty resonable considering I had a $3K+ transmission failure on an Accord at 115,000 miles. Absolutely battery tech is in a quickly evolving state, but you must remember that customer demand means little, what matters is politicians mandates. Forget thinking what is better, the politicians are deciding the market, period. It's central planning. Look at how many design decisions are already decided for car companies.
Soon you won't be able to go into cities and burn fossil fuels. The ICE Age is coming to an end. Funny. The battle is not which is better. Irrelevant. The battle is who can do what is allowed best.
I disagree in that the resulting product has to make sense to the purchaser for any emerging technology to take off. Only if consumers perceive an advantage to switching will it happen in significant numbers. To happen quickly enough to help with climate change it has to be about consumers embracing greener tech and automakers responding by supplying it. Government action is far from a certainty and besides, the less this is imposed on consumers the quicker and easier the transition will be.


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