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CHHS win the MEN School of the Year award 2018!
by Admin | Jul 6, 2018 | News
We are delighted that our lead school, Cheadle Hulme High School has been crowned Secondary School of the Year 2018 at the Manchester Evening News School Awards. This is a huge testament to the hard work by all our students, their families and of course our wonderful dedicated staff.
The awards, now in their fifth year, were open to all primary, secondary and independent schools across Greater Manchester's 10 boroughs.
Supported by the Manchester Evening News and Manchester College, the awards recognise the inspiring achievements of children, teachers and schools. There was a record number of nominations in 2018, with CHHS taking home one of the ceremony's highest accolades.
Headteacher Linda Magrath, said: "It was a very proud moment collecting the trophy with colleagues and students.
"In many ways, that what makes this award so special. Our success is not down to a single individual or a small team, it recognises the collective efforts of all of our staff, students and leaders. This really is a team award."
Over the last 12 months, Cheadle Hulme High School has been named in the top 3% of schools nationally for the progress that students make. The Good Schools Guide has recognised CHHS as the top fully comprehensive non-denominational state secondary school in the North West and last Summer's GCSE results saw 40% of all exams graded at a 7/A or above.
Mrs Magrath was keen to stress that the school's success was down to more than just data and results.
"Strong academic outcomes is not about exam preparation, it is about helping all out students develop a love for learning and ensuring that they become positive role models in their community.
"That is why we are just as proud of how our students excel on the stage, on the sports field and in our clubs and societies. We are driven to provide young people with the best possible start in life. At the heart of this is our belief that for so many years there hasn't been a level playing field for students who are educated in the state sector. As Cheadle Hulme High School shows, that 'norm' can be challenged."
The Manchester College sponsored the glittering awards ceremony, which took place on Friday, July 6 at the Hilton Deansgate in Manchester.
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Cathy Rustin Joins the Sarasota, Florida, Office of RE/MAX Alliance Group
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Press Release (ePRNews.com) - SARASOTA, Fla. - May 04, 2017 - Catherine Ann Rustin has joined RE/MAX Alliance Group in the Sarasota office. She was formerly with Keller Williams on the Water, where she won the Rookie of the Year award, as well as the Gold Circle award for achieving more than $5 million in annual sales volume.
Specializing in Sarasota waterfront homes, Rustin is a Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist (CLHMS) and member of the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing Million Dollar Guild. RE/MAX Alliance Group's corporate culture is compatible with Rustin's belief that customer service is number one. "I am impressed by the professionalism of the leadership, and the policies and procedures aimed at agent success," she said.
Rustin has an entrepreneurial background, serving as a commercial printing broker in Atlanta, Georgia, for 35 years, while also maintaining a real estate agent and associate broker's license. She has a bachelor's in Advertising and Marketing from the University of Georgia. She serves on the Board of the Florida Winefest, the Administrative Board of the Pines of Sarasota, and the Board of Advisors of the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast. She enjoys photography, scuba diving, boating, bicycling and traveling.
The Sarasota office of RE/MAX Alliance Group is located at 2000 Webber Street, Sarasota, Florida 34239. Rustin can be reached at (941) 650-2256 or cathy@rustinluxuryhomes.com.
RE/MAX Alliance Group is the #1 RE/MAX franchise in Florida for both transactions and sales volume. It is the #1 office in Florida for contributions to the Children's Miracle Network. With more than 300 agents and staff, RE/MAX Alliance Group offers residential and commercial real estate solutions throughout Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties, with offices in Sarasota, Bradenton, Anna Maria Island, University Park, Venice, Siesta Key and Englewood. For more information, please visit http://www.alliancegroupfl.com.
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Responses courtesy of "New Jerusalem" director R. Alverson.
There was a time in my adolescence when i realized the power of movies, not a moment that I can pinpoint, but a series of experiences, primarily the experience after seeing a movie in which I'd feel for hours on end a kind of detached euphoria – most often as though I was looking, physically, from behind the eyes of the character I had been so voyeuristically exposed to. That intoxicant was powerful, but ultimately detrimental to navigating the ordinary world. I began to realize it infused my perception of the mundane events and people in my life with a kind of lackluster tolerance, even a desire and proclivity to inflate or pervert those elements into a kind of fiction. There seem many unforeseen dangers of being exposed to a mixture of the actual and imaginary in media. This promoted a deep suspicion of the medium in me, particularly narrative film and television, and I wanted to be part of a subversion of some of those detrimental, even dangerous, qualities in the thing that divorce us from our senses and our lives rather than being a tool to orient ourselves with more aptitude in the world. To me, it seems there is the common flirtation with technology and the proliferation of its output without even the smallest consideration of what the medium actually does to us. (I'm not advocating that the MPAA become more like the FDA, both are thoroughly corrupt and irrelevant organizations at this point, but that we should attempt to perceive from scratch, consider the basic senses and be, at the very least, conscientious about the material we work with).
"New Jerusalem" was born of a desire to explore the blindness of faith (in what are essentially supernatural constructions), to analyze what utility it has in our lives and minds, what purpose in the 21st century, in a time when access to a mapped and certain world is readily available, in some form, to most people in this country. As with my previous movie "The Builder," I also wanted to consider how a personality is constructed, what it is made of, what is at its root when all the nonsense and culture and information are whisked away by an inopportune event, or series of events, or just by a reckoning with the lack of one's utility in the world.
I believe strongly in constructing a film as pragmatically as possible. That includes an attempt to remove much of the will and ego of the filmmaker during the capture of the thing, as well as the utilization of the innate social behaviors of the subjects of the films – essentially recontextualizing those behaviors into a fiction that allows us to view the world in a controlled way, one without all the arrogance and authorship of the everyday. This would include utilizing the native vernacular of the participants, and the actual chemistry between them. To remove much of the responsibility of the fiction from the "actors" (it seems it has always been their responsibility to create the fiction), and place that burden on the director. To try and not have the conceit to avoid working as simply as possible, as directly, instead of all the elaborate fabrications that usually attend moviemaking to try and arrive at an actual moment. Much of that seems asinine to me.
We worked with a church whose congregation was in the thousands. The biggest challenge, for me, existed as a struggle to subvert my opinions and prejudices about religion (as I am an atheist), to prevent my will from prescribing what these bodies and expressions and interactions naturally can illuminate about us. Film seems to have an actual therapeutic potential in this way, for both the maker and the audience. There is a line from a terribly overlooked poet named Clark Coolidge, really one of the great artists of the last 40 years in my opinion, that goes "To finally not know whether I am reading or writing." I think of movies that way.
"New Jerusalem" essentially bookended the most important non-familial relationship in my life. It was, in essence, the catalyst for its end. It taught me a great lesson about the risks and arrogance of attempting something beyond what one is made for physically, emotionally. That loss, or change, is the subtext of the edit, and ultimately the construction of the film – it would be silly to leave it as some mere detail and not assert its relevance to what was left in and what was taken out of the images and sequences and sounds.
Colm O'Leary, Will Oldham and myself are collaborating on a feature called "Rabbit" which we're shooting over 4 days in Vermont this winter. Then there is "The Comedy" a feature which begins production in July. Then another feature next winter called "Clement" set in reconstruction era Virginia, with Will and Colm again.


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Q: Book about AI called "Angels" who look after a child left alone on a spaceship I'm trying to find a story about one or more AI called "Angels" who look after a child left alone on a spaceship.
I think they ended up landing on Earth, and it turned out it was set in the past not the future. There might have been religious connotations beyond the AI being Angels where the child was Adam or Eve, but I'm not certain.
I didn't read this - I listened to it as an audio book, so I don't know if it was a novel or short story. I listened to it in the early 90s when I was a child (maybe 10 years old), but I don't know if it was a children's story or not. It was on tape, and I don't remember seeing the case.

A: Earthsearch (1981)? Originally a BBC radio series, which later got a novelization.
The main difference with your recollection would be that there are several children, not just one.
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Three crew-generations previously, the starship Challenger - a vast ten-mile-long survey vessel – was launched from Earth on an interstellar mission to search the universe for an Earth-type planet to colonise. This has been unsuccessful, and the ship's once enormous crew-count has now been reduced to four. Telson (the ship's Commander), Sharna (Science officer), Darv and Astra are the third-generation crew- the only survivors of the disastrous Great Meteoroid Strike which seriously damaged the ship two decades previously, killing the entire second-generation crew and rendering large areas of the ship "uncontrolled" and inaccessible to its electronic systems.
From infancy, the four third-generation crew members (now in their early twenties) have been raised by robots and by the Angels – mysterious unseen beings who run the ship and who only manifest as disembodied voices. Darv, the most sceptical and enquiring of the crew members, suspects that the Angels are merely computers; but the others consider them as "Guardian Angels" and work entirely under their guidance. [...]
Unrevealed to the crew, the Angels (who are the ship's control computers; their name being an acronym of ANcillary Guardian of Environment and Life ) have their own agenda. They desire absolute control and mastery over any colony resulting from the mission. To this end, they covertly engineered the apparent accident which killed the second-generation crew (who would otherwise have ended the mission before the Angels wanted it to end) and have kept the third-generation crew sexually immature and innocent via drugs and disinformation in order to keep them more tractable. However, their machinations have begun to backfire already. [...]
Earthsearch eventually reveals itself as an inverted creation myth, providing a possible "factual" story which could lie behind various Earth legends. The story deliberately misleads the listener in order to gradually reveal that the planet Paradise is in fact the Earth of human history as we know it (with the original "Earth" being a previous forgotten homeworld for the human race) and that the legends of authoritative and fear-inducing "angels" refer to the domineering computers.

Found by searching this site for [story-identification] computer angels which brought up, among others, British Radio serial with a tyrannical computer looking after a teen boy and girl on a spaceship (although I could have remembered previously identifying it for Radio drama with four kids in a spaceship returning to a missing Earth ...).

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You might head out to the DuPage County Fairgrounds to see prize winning cows, pigs or sheep but now, you can also see spectacular butterflies.
While golf carts silently roll across manicured fairways, monarchs are flitting over tall tufts of vegetation in the rough. It's just another summer day for golfers and the resident wildlife of Village Links.
The Village Links of Glen Ellyn, a municipal golf course, was established in 1967 with an environmental purpose. It was designed to manage the storm water causing flooding south of Roosevelt Rd. Managing storm water with green infrastructure was an inspired solution that created a recreational asset and a low cost public works project. According to Chris Pekarek, Golf Course Superintendent, the golf course is financially self-sustaining and is not supported with tax revenue.
The course took on a new look in the early 1990's through its participation in Audubon International's innovative Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf (ACSPG). Land use patterns had been rapidly changing with an alarming loss of habitat for birds and wildlife. The search was on for finding compatible ways and places for wildlife and people to co-exist. The ACSPG program offered technical and financial support for reducing the environmental impact of golf courses through improved water quality, reduced reliance on municipal water sources, decreased chemical usage and the addition of natural plantings in out of play areas.
Village Links enthusiastically embraced the concept and in 1993 was the first ACSPG public course to be certified. Forty unmowed acres now encircle ponds, carpet hillsides and add interest along the fairways. For years, 200 native shrubs and trees such as red, white and swamp white oak were planted annually, reaching a stable population of 4,000 trees.
Managing some areas as habitat quickly produced results. The morning after six bluebird houses were installed, Pekarek observed a male bluebird perched atop a house whistling for a mate.
In 2018, Audubon partnered with Environmental Defense on a new program, Monarchs in the Rough, designed for golf course to meet the specific needs of monarch butterflies. Audubon International estimates there are at least 100,000 acres on golf courses that have the potential to become suitable habitat for butterflies and bees if appropriately managed. Village Links currently exceeds the targeted goals of the program with an estimated one million stems of milkweed.
During a July tour of Village Links, monarchs were observed bubbling up over dense stands of common milkweed and gliding through pink swamp milkweed flowers. Lavish drifts of tropical milkweed near the clubhouse welcome golfers and monarchs looking for a place to lay eggs.
Pekarek's vision of an eco-friendly golf course led to the addition of a "farm to table" operation in 2013. A poly hoop house grows heirloom tomatoes, mint, kale, strawberries, cutting flowers for the restaurant and hot peppers. Eleven hives provide honey for the restaurant and bar.
Available land is necessary for establishing wildlife habitat but Pekarek identifies a committed land manager as an essential ingredient for a successful project. His tenure of nearly 50 years with Village Links provided the time to visualize the land's potential and the opportunity to make thriving, vibrant habitat a reality. It's a model of human and wildlife coexistence that inspires the search for more.


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As a trial lawyer, Jim's philosophy on litigation is based on integrity and hard work for his clients. True to his roots as a prosecutor, Jim values fighting for justice on behalf of those people harmed and always acts with a sense of urgency to hold wrongdoers accountable.
As the youngest of six children born and raised on Chicago's Southside, Jim learned the value of hard work and how to stand up for what was right. Blending his strong sense of social justice along with his work ethic shaped while working in his family's restaurant and as a union railroad laborer, Jim became a lawyer to help people and his career proves just that.
After attending law school, Jim served 14 years in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office where he proved to be an accomplished litigator in all aspects of trial work in the Illinois and federal trial courts and appellate courts. During this time, he routinely worked on complex matters, including wrongful death, highway negligence, civil rights, labor and employment, medical deliberate indifference/medical negligence, class-action, criminal and other significant tort matters.
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Beyoncé Thinks Reebok's Team Isn't Diverse Enough
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Beyoncé Reportedly Declined an Offer from Reebok Because of the Pitch Team's Lack of Diversity
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Update #2, April 8: Reebok addressed the rumour that Beyonce decided not to work with the company due to a lack of diversity in the following statement to Refinery29:
"The report that Beyoncé walked out of a meeting with Reebok due to lack of diversity is categorically false. Our discussions with Beyoncé and her team continued for several months after our initial meeting. We are disappointed that false information is being reported as fact."
Update: In a recent episode of ESPN's "The Jump," writer Nick DePaula said Beyonce was previously in talks with Reebok about a potential partnership. He claims she opted out of working with the sneaker brand because of the pitch team's lack of diversity.
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"She had a meeting at Reebok and they had a whole presentation of everything, potential products, how this could all look," he explained, "and she kinda took a step back and said 'is this the team that would be working on my product'? And somebody said 'yes' and she said 'nobody in this room reflects my background, my skin colour, and where I'm from and what I want to do'. And so she kinda took a step back and left and then, it did not come to terms."
ESPN Writer @NickDePaula reveals Beyoncé walked out of a meeting w/ @Reebok after she highlighted the pitch team's lack of diversity & non-existent representation of her background and skin color. 👑
He also talks about Bey getting offers from Jordan (@Jumpman23) & @UnderArmour. pic.twitter.com/J2P3cvGw6I
— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@BeyLegion) April 5, 2019
According to DePaula, she also had discussions with Under Armour and Jordan Brand as well, but ultimately, she decided to move forward with Adidas.
This story was originally published on April 4, 2019.
Beyoncé is joining the Adidas family, which already includes a familiar face, Kanye West and his infamous Yeezys. On Thursday, Adidas announced a new "multi-layered partnership" with the Lemonade singer that will include inspiring and empowering the next generation of creators, driving positive change in the world through sport, and identifying new business opportunities, according to a release.
"This is the partnership of a lifetime for me," Beyoncé said in the same release. "Adidas has had tremendous success in pushing creative boundaries. We share a philosophy that puts creativity, growth and social responsibility at the forefront of business. I look forward to re-launching and expanding Ivy Park on a truly global scale with a proven, dynamic leader."
The new Ivy Park will include exciting products in the athleisure space that focus on empowering and enabling the next generation of athletes, creators and leaders. And because it's Beyoncé, we can expect rich storytelling and graphics.
"As the creator sports brand, Adidas challenges the status quo and pushes the limits of creativity through its open source approach," Eric Liedtke, Executive Board Member - Global Brands, Adidas
said in a press release. "Beyoncé is an iconic creator but also a proven business leader, and together, we have the ability to inspire change and empower the next generation of creators."
Last year, Beyoncé bought back Ivy Park, her athleisure line, from Topshop after mogul Philip Green's alleged sexual harassment case. Her new partnership with Adidas will respect Beyoncé's full ownership of Ivy Park which continues her journey as one of the first black women to be the sole owner of an athleisure brand.
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Sweden proposes 'total' ban on bestiality
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Sweden on Thursday proposed legislation that would completely outlaw bestiality, tightening current rules that only prohibit sex with animals that causes mental or physical harm.
"The government is now toughening bestiality laws so that there is no doubt that it's prohibited to abuse animals," Rural Affairs Minister Eskil Erlandsson said in a statement.
"There should be no doubt whatsoever that bestiality is unacceptable."
Until now, bestiality was illegal in Sweden only if it could be proven that the animal had been subjected to suffering.
Starting on January 1st, 2014, however, any sexual act with an animal will be punishable by a fine, a maximum prison sentence of two years, or both, even if the animal shows no sign of injury or suffering.
"I hope that this sort of act doesn't take place in society at all. And now we're putting that explicitly into law," Erlandsson told the TT news agency.
In 2008, Erlandsson came in for criticism for using graphic language during a debate on the floor of parliament in an attempt to describe the difficulty of legislating against bestiality.
While he first expressed his "disgust" for anyone who has sex with animals, Erlandsson continued to offer a graphic example to demonstrate that "what counts as sexual abuse of animals" isn't always easy to define, much to the surprise of fellow MPs.
"It was distasteful. It sunk to a horrendously low level. I don't think one needs to discuss details like that in the Riksdag," Social Democrat MP Monica Green told the Aftonbladet newspaper at the time.
"He mixed up people's sexuality with animals' sexuality. His example was also appalling."
While it's been nearly 18 months since the government first commissioned an inquiry into the bestiality ban, news that the law was finally on its way came as welcome news to Sweden's veterinarians.
"It's very good that the law will be changed," a spokesman for the Swedish Federation of Veterinarians (Sveriges Veterinärförbund), Johan Beck-Friis, told AFP.
"It's very important that society makes a clear statement that it is unacceptable to use animals that way," he said.
The ban will bring Sweden in line with a European Union directive.
Germany introduced a ban in December, following in the footsteps of Britain, France, and Switzerland among others.
The Swedish parliament is expected to pass the bill into law soon, as there is broad political consensus on the issue.
According to Beck-Friis, under the current law veterinarians may suspect that an animal has been sexually abused but they are generally unable to prove it.
As a result, there are no statistics available on how common bestiality is in the country.
In 2006, the latest year for which statistics are available, about 100 cases of animals suffering injuries suspected of being related to bestiality were brought to the authorities' attention, Beck-Friis said.
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Democratic senator holds town hall meeting on Maui
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Maui County Council Member Stacy Crivello, who holds the Molokai residency seat, asks U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz for help with her island's transportation woes during a town hall meeting Tuesday in Kahului. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
KAHULUI — With talk of the impeachment of President Donald Trump stirring on Capitol Hill, Hawaii U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz addressed the possibility of the president's removal from the White House a couple of times Tuesday during a town hall meeting before a mostly progressive crowd of about 150.
Instead of using anti-Trump rhetoric to whip up the midday crowd gathered at the Binhi At Ani Filipino Community Center in Kahului, Schatz was informative and objective, although he made clear he's no fan of the president.
The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have different roles in the process of impeaching a president, he said. The House drafts the articles of impeachment to initiate the process, and the Senate conducts a trial.
"As critical as I have been of the president, his conduct, and his policies . . . I have been careful to remember that there could be a time when articles of impeachment could be brought," he said. And, if the articles come before the Senate, then "we are effectively jurors in that trial, and we would be sitting in judgment. So, I'm really careful not to prejudge a president, except to say that the law has to be followed."
Later, in an interview with The Maui News, Schatz was asked about the possibility of impeachment, and he said, "I just don't have a read for that" since the process is initiated in the House.
U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said he is cognizant of his possible role sitting in judgment of President Donald Trump should articles of impeachment be sent to the U.S. Senate. "I'm really careful not to prejudge a president, except to say that the law has to be followed," he told about 150 people at the Binhi At Ani Filipino Community Center on Tuesday. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
"We do not talk about it very much in the Senate, except to say that we need to be aware of the possibility that we will be sitting in judgment, and be judicious about that particular matter," he said.
According to CBS News, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., has announced plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump, citing potential obstruction of justice and violations of the U.S. Constitution.
As further grounds for impeachment, Cohen pointed to Trump's response to violence in Charlottesville, Va., this month that left one person dead and dozens injured. Instead of unequivocally condemning the actions of neo-Nazis, white supremacists and members of the Ku Klux Klan, the president spoke of "very fine people on both sides" and blamed both sides for violence that erupted following a white nationalists march to protest the city's plan to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Schatz received some of his loudest applause when he discussed the fallout of Charlottesville and said there are Republicans "who are patriotic" who are saying that "enough is enough."
"I think Charlottesville really changed a lot," he said. "There's really nothing particularly progressive or conservative about being opposed to neo-Nazism."
U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz answers questions Tuesday afternoon at the Binhi At Ani Filipino Community Center in Kahului from a largely progressive crowd of about 150 people. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
It's bad for the country, he said, "if only one political party is vehemently opposed to racism."
He said he believes that "there are enough conservatives with a conscience, with a love for the country . . . (who believe the United States is) a country of laws and not people . . . And, that there are basic standards of human decency."
Schatz drew national attention Aug. 15 when he tweeted — following Trump's remarks about Charlottesville — that "as a Jew, as an American, as a human, words cannot express my disgust and disappointment. This is not my president."
When asked about his statement following the town hall meeting, Schatz said: "I've never seen an American leader lack clarity about the most basic moral questions, about literally who the bad guys are and who the good guys are. And so this was a deep personal disappointment to many of us, because whatever one's views are on the Affordable Care Act or gay marriage or reproductive choice or the Supreme Court, we ought to all be able to agree that the people marching and shouting Nazi slogans need to be rebuked. And so I felt very strongly about that. And, I think that a lot of my Republican colleagues do feel the same way. But I don't know for sure if it's a watershed in political terms. I'll just tell you that I thought it was a watershed morally."
Schatz expressed optimism for a turnaround.
"I think it's going to get better," he said. "I don't know when, but this is exhausting for the country. I think that over the next couple of months we may see Republicans and Democrats coming together and saying, 'We don't want to be led this way. And this person is uniquely dangerous to American values.' And that's got nothing to do with the fact that he decided to run under a Republican banner, but rather that he's not displaying the kind of moral leadership that we would expect in a president."
Also speaking on numerous other subjects, Schatz said many of Trump's budget proposals that came through Office of Budget and Management Director Mick Mulvaney were simply "ignored" by Congress.
And, Hawaii came out of the budget appropriations process with an "excellent" bill for the 2017 fiscal year that expires at the end of September, he said.
"There's an old saying in the Senate that there are actually three political parties: Democrats, Republicans and appropriators," he said. "We've done pretty well with the appropriations process."
On North Korea and its ongoing tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles, Schatz said that the first question he gets is: "Are we safe?"
And, "the answer is yes," he said. "We are safe for a couple of reasons. We do have a missile defense that now works. It didn't work always, and now it does. But also, although the North Koreans have shown an increasing capability in terms of an ICBM, they haven't put all the technology together. Although they are moving faster than we want, they are not anywhere near being able put it all together and put us in danger. The problem is that we're no longer talking about decades away. We are talking about — if everything goes right for them — years."
Schatz advocated aggressive diplomacy, beginning at low, intermediary levels, but he cautioned against relying too much on the influence of China, North Korea's chief ally.
"People put too much faith in the ability and the inclination of the Chinese government to get involved in this," he said. "They don't want a refugee problem on their border, and that's pretty much where this conversation ends. . . . They are not going to do our foreign policy for us."
When asked about Trump's promise to unleash "fire and fury" in response to threats from North Korea, Schatz said that the president was "speaking off the cuff."
"And that may work when you're running for office, but it is extraordinarily risky when you're dealing with North Korea," he said.
* Brian Perry can be reached at bperry@mauinews.com.
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I was born and raised in Newport, RI, where my parents still reside. My journey as an assistant pro included stops in Naples — where my son was born. I've also had stops in Vail, CO, Palm Springs, CA — where my daughter was born, Nantucket and Cape Cod. My pursuits and accomplishments include my existing position at Cranberry Valley, the Cape Cod Chapter of the PGA Junior and serving as Golf Chairman since 2012; and golf coach for Saint John Paul High School. In my career I've been honored with the CCPGA Junior Golf Leader Award in 2013 & 2016 as well as the New England PGA Youth Player Development Award and US Kids Top 50 Teacher both in 2016.
My parents and I learned how to play golf together when I was a kid, taking our lead from my Grandfather. When my kids where born I couldn't wait to share the game with them. As they hit golfing age I was ultra-motivated to make every clinic and program that I was running for kids as fun as possible. 10 years later our junior golf journey continues and it has been one of the thrills of my life that we have shared this fun journey together.
MATT WARD: Is enough being done by major national golf organizations — including equipment companies, in regards to exposing more young people to golf?
ROMAN GREER: I think that there is a major effort in place from the national golf organizations to catch up with the need to generate more interest in junior golf. There are so many great PGA professionals on the ground level connecting with and inspiring junior golfers but more are needed.
MW: More importantly, is there a focus on exposing golf to young people who are minorities and females and not just those coming from affluent families and those geared towards strictly a competitive dimension?
RG: There are many great efforts to focus on minority groups and segments that are less represented such as females. It is much more difficult to reach first generation golfers who have had no exposure to the game. Efforts to embrace these groups will take more time and creativity. As for junior girls, the LPGA/USGA Girls Golf program has made great strides and has a formula that really works. More chapters are needed to reach all of the girls with interest in golf.
MW: From your perspective — are various golf facilities — both private and public — actively involved in junior golf promotion or is there still dragging of the feet to get involved?
RG: In the New England area there is a true commitment to junior golf at both private and public facilities. The unifying program, and the best junior program that I have ever been involved in, is PGA Junior League. PGAJLG brings together all junior and pros with central resources, advertising and a very strong organizational model for junior golf. Where PGAJLG really succeeds the program is truly fun — encourages teamwork and interaction among participants and keeps the parents on the sidelines while the kids learn and grow.
MW: If you had to provide a roadmap for professionals and facilities to get started in junior golf — what are the three key steps they should do to get the ball rolling?
RG: First I would reach out to your regional PGA Player Development Specialist. They have resources to help and get your program integrated with local, regional and national programs. Second, I would design a road map for parents to understand which program is right for their kids. Parents, especially non golfing parents, need our help to decide where/how to start their kids in golf and where to go next. Third, make sure fun is the most important goal of your program. Once they are hooked with the fun then you can work on their grip.
MW: Curious to know — what personally got you focused on junior golf teaching?
RG: Easy answer — my kids! I wanted to show them how much fun golf can be and all of the good the game can bring you.
MW: How much emphasis among all their respective duties should golf professionals give to teaching young people?
RG: Depending on their role at their facility, all golf operations need a policy maker to fight for kids rights and affordable access to the golf course. They also need a professional on the ground to champion the junior programs and inspire the kids.
MW: In your experience — what role should parents play in exposing their children to the game?
RG: Parents play a critical role. First, they physically need to get the kids to the golf course by reaching out, finding the right program, getting the kids equipment and keeping them involved at the correct level. The best result is a family the ends up sharing golf together.
MW: Millennials often times view golf as being the recreational choice of Dad and Grandad. How do you counter that perception when reaching out to younger people?
RG: Exposing kids to golf and how much fun it can be is the best way to counter perceptions. I always encourage kids involved in junior golf to tune in and watch the pros. The new generation of tour pros are real athletes that exude cool. It's great for kids to see what cool golfers look like. Dustin Johnson doesn't look like Grandpa!
MW: If you could change thing in golf unilaterally — what would it be and why?
RG: Tough question because I love the game and the traditions of the game. I do wish some of the older perceptions of golf would go away such as: the need to be quiet and still. Let's make some noise! The need for the world to come to a standstill for someone to complete their pre-shot and shot routine: just step up and hit it! The entitlement of a perfect lie: accept where it is and hit it!
RG: "Do what you love," from my beautiful and always supportive wife, Nicole.
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The Top 18 Heavy Metal + Hard Rock Cover Songs Of The Modern Era
Here are 18 of the Best Metal and Hard Rock covers.
I love cover bands. I can't help it. We're supposed to look down on the bar band in the corner banging out "Don't Stop Believin" or "Livin' On A Prayer" for the zillionth time. But, I am helpless to their charms when they are really good, like the seasoned pros in New Orleans and Nashville or Steel Panther when they do their cover show in Hollywood. I have my own damn cover band I like them so much.
It can be murky territory to traverse when original bands do the occasional cover tune. Busting out a crowd pleaser at a live show is fairly low risk and high reward, knowing a well-worn Iron Maiden or Pantera classic will appease the masses for at least a few minutes.
Recording a cover song is a drastically different undertaking. As the years have rolled on, I have developed a sort of unofficial rulebook on the do's and don'ts of recording covers:
1. Don't cover something too famous. For example, Maynard James Keenan from Tool's side band, Puscifer, did a cover of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody".
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There is nothing wrong with the cover version of the song. It's pretty damn close to the original, which itself is impressive to accomplish. But, what exactly is the point of recreating a monumental classic virtually identical as it was? Your version will not supplant the original in cultural zeitgeist. The original was just too impactful. To the contrary, you are best off recording something obscure with minimal history. Which brings me to my second rule.
2. Make the song your own. If you are going to cover a famous song, make sure you do it in your style. This is easier said than done because: a.) Your band needs to have a definitive style to begin with, and b.) It requires significant creative depth to be able to look past the origins of a tune and envision it in a new light.
3. Avoid recording something that has been recorded and executed too well. There are a few bands whose music musicians should avoid recording, because the originals were just too virtuosic and transcendent. Artists I put in the category are The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Pantera, Van Halen, etc. There have been some good covers of these bands, but these are tall mountains to climb. A good example of someone attempting and falling flat is the Thriller: A Metal Tribute to Michael Jackson album because MJ is just to damn good. It's not that the musicians involved aren't excellent.
4. Conversely, you want to set yourself up to win, record a cover of a good song that had shitty production, and was performed just ok. This is why Metallica has so many great cover songs; they picked NWOBM hidden gems that had a fantastic foundation with mediocre presentation. This is the original, modest version of "Breadfan" by Budgie.
Keep in mind that there are exceptions to all of these rules. For example, if you are going to cover a really famous song, make sure it came out a really long time ago. I'm talking about a 30-40 year statute of limitations. You can get away with 15-20 years, but then you have to make sure it was from another genre altogether. This can often work for songs that have success at radio like The Ataris' cover of Don Henley's "Boys of Summer" or Fear Factory with "Cars". Successful doesn't always mean "good" though. Not that I don't like the aforementioned cover songs. A Metal band covering a Pop song can have a novelty appeal, which can really go either way. After a lengthy forward, on with the list:
Metallica – "Mercyful Fate" (Mercyful Fate)
As far as Metal bands go, Metallica may be the best cover band of all time in terms of quantity and quality of cover songs released. They wrote previously stated rulebook. In general, they picked material that was obscure, modestly recorded, and when it's all said and done, it sounded like a Metallica song. When I first discovered Garage Days Re-Revisited, I felt like I was getting a new Metallica album. "Mercyful Fate" is an 11-minute medley of 4 songs from Danish legends, Mercyful Fate, released on Garage Inc. in 1998. To me, it was evidence that Metallica was not done with real Metal post-Load, and educated me that I needed to respect the epic riffage laid down by Mercyful Fate. I had some Metal history to learn. Pro tip, "Mercyful Fate" is the best bang for your jukebox buck.
Sepultura – "Symptom of the Universe" (Black Sabbath)
I have big pet peeve when bands on the extreme end of things cover classic songs; I hate it when vocalists scream songs that were previously sung melodically. My old band God Forbid was guilty of this on a Guns N Roses tribute. It even bothered me when a band I love covered another band I love like when Arch Enemy covered Megadeth. For reasons I am unable to articulate, Sepultura pull this Black Sabbath cover off seamlessly: even with Cavalera's signature grunt. The song sounds like it is just another tune from Chaos A.D. It's heavy as nails, Igor Cavalera shines behind the kit, and the outro is smooth as hell, showing you the Brazilians are versatile.
At The Gates – "Legion" (Slaughter Lord)
"Legion" is a B-side recorded during the sessions for the Melodic Death Metal instant classic, Slaughter of the Soul. I never heard of the band that wrote "Legion", Slaughter Lord. All I knew was that I had a slightly more groovy and Slayer-ized At The Gates song to jam out to. The original sounds fucked up, like it was recorded underwater at half speed. It's Cvlt as fuck. At The Gates followed the rulebook on how to record cover songs. They turned lemons into Mike's Hard Lemonade. If this song doesn't make you headbang, than maybe Metal just isn't for you.
HIM – "Wicked Game" (Chris Issak)
HIM might not be very Metal, but they are peripherally part of our twisted family of heavy music due to their Gothic leanings. I know all you hardliners are secretly visiting the Goth clubs looking for some strange. Let's face it; "Wicked Game" is just a great song. The Chris Isaak original is iconic, especially the sensual music video. This is just a case where HIM, and Ville Valo in particular, were the perfect conduit to reimagine the song. The HIM version is heavier and different enough to make it their own, but the soul of the tune remains the same. I suggest you hardcore metallers put this song on and get pumped up to score some strange. I believe in you.
Killswitch Engage – "Holy Diver" (Dio)
This is a perfect example of when you can break certain rules, but following the other rules more than make up for it. Killswitch covered a very, very popular Dio song, which is often a no-no. But, they made it sound like a Killswitch Engage song with all of their signature affectations including the pinch guitar squeals, bruising low end crunch, and a much improved guitar solo section. What is so peculiar about this song is that KsE never did a cover song before or since, and by most metrics including YouTube and Spotify plays, it's their most popular song. I think it's because they are reinvigorating the song for a whole new generation, which is amazing for young fans and in honoring the late Ronnie James Dio.
Body Count – "Institutionalized" (Suicidal Tendencies)
At first thought, the idea of anyone covering Suicidal Tendencies immortal classic, "Institutionalized", seems ill-advised. The original video is perhaps the most iconic music video ever aired during MTV's Headbanger's Ball glory days, which makes its resurrection even more sacrosanct. Out of the gate, we understand that it's not a direct cover song. Ice-T updates the song by creating his own original verses that address a handful of grievances and annoyances. The Body Count version is absolutely hilarious, and is equally an homage as it is a cover. "I just want to play X-Box" is definitely the new "I just wanted a Pepsi".
Shadows Fall – "Welcome to the Machine" (Pink Floyd)
Covering Pink Floyd is ballsy. A Metal band covering Pink Floyd is even ballsier, because there is a higher probability you will fall on your face than do it justice. The Shads hit this one out of the park though. The guts are relatively the same, but there are distinctions marked by an infectious opening riff, a marching drum groove, and a tasty guitar solo by Jon Donais that is hair raising. The Art of Balance is my favorite Shadows Fall album, and this song as a closer provides a somber and fitting conclusion.
Six Feet Under – Every cover ever (But mainly AC/DC)
I had the fortune to tour with Six Feet Under in 2001, when the band was at its peak playing big venues. The band released a covers album in 2000 called Graveyard Classics featuring Death N Roll renditions of Classic Rock standards like "Purple Haze" and "Smoke On The Water". The track that really stood out was the band's version of AC/DC's "TNT". On the surface, the experiment may be a bit absurd, comparable to an act like Richard Cheese, a singer that does tongue-in-cheek lounge versions of popular songs. "TNT" was so popular that it led to Six Feet Under recording Graveyard Classics 2, composed completely of AC/DC songs, and a 3rd, more Thrash inspired covers album. You need this in your life. Tongue firmly planted in your cheek or not.
Nevermore – "The Sound of Silence" (Simon & Garfunkel)
To be truthful, this "cover" of the famous Simon & Garfunkel song is only a cover in the lyrically sense, even if the intro guitar section pays homage to original's vocal melody. To be even more truthful, I will use any excuse to champion the criminally underrated Nevermore, and their classic 2000 release, Dead Heart, In A Dead World. I'm not alone in this crusade as thriving New England Metal band, All That Remains, deftly covered "Believe In Nothing" from the same album. This method of lyrical covering was also exhibited by the infamous and haunting rendition of Slayer's "Reign In Blood" by singer-songwriter Tori Amos. Getting back to Nevermore, let us appreciate that fight riff 1 minute into the song. This is a great song from a great album.
Vitamin String Quartet – "Schism" (Tool)
I unearthed this treasure when I came across an mp3 pack for Apocalyptica. My iPod was stolen, I lost the track, and I couldn't find it in the time since. Researching this article, I discovered that it was in fact performed by a group called Vitamin String Quartet, not Apocalyptica. Anytime you hear an excellent classical interpretation of an epic Metal song, it makes you appreciate the original even more because you realize the writers have great compositional minds, but just utilize different mediums than the classical composers, like this beautiful piano version of Mastodon's "Oblivion". I put Tool in the category of being almost impossible to cover, but this interpretation is irrefutably moving. Especially the bridge, which reminds me of composer Clint Mansell and the Kronos Quartet's brilliant work on the score of Darren Aronofsky's film, The Fountain.
Bullet For My Valentine – "No Easy Way Out" (Robert Tepper)
Because Rocky IV is more important to America than the Constitution. Because in the 80's, you would solve your problems by having contemplative walks or drives with a montage of your trials and tribulations, and bitchin' song in the background. Because Rocky IV ended the Cold War. Because Bullet For My Valentine killed this Robert Tepper cover, and had the balls to do it. Because," If I can change, you can change. Everybody can change!"
Marilyn Manson – "Sweet Dreams" (The Eurythmics)
The inclusion of this cover was a given. Marilyn Manson's interpretation of The Eurythmics classic smash kicked started not only Manson's entry into the mainstream, but also a trend of Rock bands repackaging Pop songs from the 80's as a lynchpin to prosperity at radio and MTV. Notable examples include breakout hits like Alien Ant Farm's version of Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal", Orgy doing New Order's "Blue Monday", Fear Factory with "Cars", and Limp Bizkit breaking big with George Michael's "Faith". Manson followed most of the covers rulebook, and made "Sweet Dreams" a song that you have to associate with him almost as much as The Eurythmics. The music video is also incredible.
Cave In – NIB (Black Sabbath)
I didn't grow up with Black Sabbath. I didn't have an uncle or cousin to school me on the classics. I had to do my own homework as a young man to learn up on Metal's history. When I discovered this song on a Relapse Records sampler, I was hypnotized. As far as I'm concerned, Cave In are one of the greatest bands of all time. I love their Metalcore stuff, and I love their Space Rock stuff. Cave In performed "NIB" completely in their own atmospheric style, as they have done with some other classic tunes including Led Zeppelin's "Dazed and Confused" and Bad Brains' "I Luv I Jah"[4]. I can't make you love Cave In as much as I do, but I will certainly try.
Gojira – "Escape" (Metallica)
Metallica is another one of those bands that is very difficult to cover, especially if you try to do something from Master of Puppets through the Black Album because the production and performances are so phenomenal. Most of the time bands can only get a very close replica like Trivium's version of "Master of Puppets." You have to do a double-take to realize it's not the original. Gojira knock this version of "Escape" out of the park without even having to change the song. Gojira's signature dense, detuned guitar tone and Joe Duplantier's distinct vocal grit just own the track.
Hatebreed – "Ghosts of War" (Slayer)
I almost included Hatebreed's cover of Metallica's "Escape" as a double-feature in the above post, but Gojira had a slight edge, and Hatebreed totally crushed Slayer's "Ghost of War". Like Gojira, Hatebreed did not need to change the song's structure or style, outside of tuning the guitars down a bit. It's Hatebreed's tone and attitude making a standout Slayer jam even heavier, intense, and more pissed off. I hear this track and want to kick an old man down a flight of stairs. (Disclaimer: No old men were harmed in the making of this article).
Korn – "Word Up" (Cameo)
I have a soft spot for clever cover choices, and I guarantee you that zero bands in the heavy music world were thinking about covering any songs by R&B, Funk band, Cameo. This might be a little too funky and anti-Metal for the hardliners, but it's an awesome rendition of an irresistibly catchy song with a hilariously charming music video, and has become one of Korn's most popular songs. Reintroducing old, great songs to new fans is the best reason to do a cover song. I love it.
Nine Inch Nails – "Dead Souls" (Joy Division)
This may be a sentimental pick, but like many children of 90's who enjoyed all things dark and macabre, I was obsessed with the film, The Crow. The Crow had a legendary hard-edged soundtrack including Pantera, Stone Temple Pilots, Rage Against The Machine, and this Nine Inch Nails cover, which is played during a pivotal moment in the film. The lyrics and gothic ambience meld perfectly with the aesthetic and narrative of The Crow. This is also another example where the cover version is dramatically better than the original.
Unearth – "Sandblasted Skin" (Pantera)
Pantera may be the most difficult Metal band to cover, period. Avenged Sevenfold did about as good as I've heard with "Walk", but they were clearly trying to match Pantera's tones in the original recording. Unearth did a few things that really made their cover their own and truly kill: They covered an album track from the worst sounding Pantera album. They also picked a song that was straight-up underappreciated and unheralded. "Sandblasted Skin" just happened to fit perfectly with Unearth's style signified by the hardcore energy, swampy groove, and Trevor Phipps' vocals matching the backdrop without doing a Phil Anselmo impersonation.
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School Principal Says 'No' to Animal Rights Club. This Student Is Fighting Back.
According to the United States Supreme Court, students do not give up their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and assembly when they walk in the door. If the animal rights club at Volunteer High School is not approved, there could be serious consequences.
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All Thomas Flack, 16, ever wanted to do was save lives. Since he was little, he wanted to be a veterinarian, pretending to operate on stuffed animals. Now, he is a junior at Volunteer High School in Church Hill, TN, and regular at the Hawkins County Humane Society where he has logged over 1,000 hours caring for at-risk animals over the past five years.
But strangely, when Flack tried to start an animal right club at his school, filing the necessary paperwork and getting two teachers on board to help organize the club, his principal said no.
Without much of an explanation as to why he could not start an animal rights club, Flack decided to take matters into his own hands. Last week, he began circulating a petition in favor of the club to his fellow classmates and meeting with members of the student government to advocate for his cause.
Volunteer High School students and parents poured in their support. Flack's petition has already collected over 1,500 signatures. He also caught the attention of international animal organizations. PETA, the Hawkins County Humane Society, and Appalachia: Mission Pawsible have reached out to him in support.
Still, his principal wouldn't budge, so Flack sought legal counsel and found that his principal's disapproval of the animal rights club may be in violation of federal law. After all, students do not give up their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and assembly when they walk in the door.
Why say no to Students Against Animal Cruelty and Testing?
According to a recent poll conducted by Flack on Facebook, almost 300 of his friends support the founding of a Students Against Animal Cruelty and Testing (SAACT) club at Volunteer High School. While the poll is anonymous, some of his friends went out of their way to show solidarity and identified themselves as students at Volunteer High School in the comments.
Only a handful of people, 12 or so Flack says, have said no, they do not support an animal rights club. One of those 12 happens to Flack's principal—Bobby Wines.
Principal Wines said no to an animal rights club at Volunteer High School because, as he put it, the vehicle for students serving others is already in place. He cited the Key Club, a service program for high school students founded back in 1925, and told Flack to try and partner with them.
Flack was angry—and rightfully so. The Key Club is expensive to join and does not have an animal-specific mission. An affordable, animal-specific club would allow more students to raise funds for local animal shelters and be sure that the money was only going to help animals.
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On Tuesday, Flack spoke with representatives from Volunteer High School's Student Government Association (SGA), who claim Wines broke Hawkins County Board of Education policy in denying SAACT. According to Board of Education policy (6.702), Wines is supposed to bring the club idea to the faculty and student body representatives before he approves or disapproves of it, which representatives from the Volunteer High School SGA allege did not happen.
Hawkins County Director of Schools Matt Hixson gave the following statement.
Mr. Wines decision was based on the following: he absolutely supports students' wishes to get involved and support issues inside and outside school. He has approved SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), Fighting Teen Addiction, Fishing Club, and Move to Stand clubs within the past five years. He didn't feel the proposal for this club offered opportunities for students not already offered in existing clubs. The Key Club, for example would likely be very supportive of a Humane Society fund raiser without creation of another club. Mr. Wines is open to discussing this further directly with student Flack.
"I spoke with [Principal Wines] once and he wasn't very nice about it," said Flack. "He made sarcastic and rude comments and continued to repeat himself."
Flack said he thought Wines was amused, at best, by their conversation earlier this week. He said Wines even mocked him afterward, asking if he got a good recording of the meeting.
Let's keep in mind what Principal Wines is mocking. Flack's decision to start an animal rights club at his school is founded in his experience nursing neglected, malnourished, and abused animals back to health. Wines said 'no' to a club dedicated to animal rights because other clubs already "cover these issues."
"[Wines] says 'I love animals,' but it really doesn't seem like it," said Flack.
If Wines loves animals, as he claims to, then wouldn't he be proud to add an animal rights club to the list of clubs he introduced to the Volunteer High School student body during his tenure?
Principal Wines may be in violation of federal law. He has 10 days to approve the club or face legal action.
Yesterday, Flack and his attorney sent Principal Wines a letter of intent to file a lawsuit if Volunteer High School continues to infringe on students' speech and assembly right by obstructing the formation of a Students Against Animal Cruelty and Testing (SAACT) club. If the club is not approved within 10 business days, Flack and his attorney will file a lawsuit against Wines, Volunteer High School, and the Hawkins County School District, as stated in the letter obtained by Sentient Media.
"The Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Tennessee recognize that as Americans and Tennesseans all citizens have certain rights protecting speech and assembly," the letter reads.
According to the United States Supreme Court Decision, Tinker v. Des Moines, students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and assembly at the schoolhouse gate."
The rights of these students to assemble and form an extracurricular organization such as SAACT is also guaranteed under federal law thanks to the United States Congress passing the Equal Access in 1984 which compels federally funded secondary schools to provide equal access to extracurricular student clubs. This Congressional Act was challenged before the United States Supreme Court in 2990 and the Supreme Court led that the Act was in fact constitutional and that school officials cannot deny students the opportunity to form an extracurricular club organization on the basis of religious, political, philosophical or other content of the speech, so long as the organization would be voluntary and student-initiated and that it does not interfere with the orderly conduct of educational activities.
Flack's attorney, Kevin Teets, goes on to write, "[Flack] knows firsthand what it feels like to be able to make a difference and save an animal from a dangerous environment and he wants other students at his high school to be able to organize and assemble with him to do more on campus and in the community to promote proper and responsible pet ownership while working to lower the number of animals that are subjected to inhumane and abusive environments.
Is this not the very type of civic engagement and entrepreneurial spirit that we want all students to have so that they can become leaders of tomorrow?"
Standing up for animals, one student at a time
"The most effective way to spread awareness," said Flack, "is to start at schools and work your way around the community."
In Hawkins County, he says animal abuse is rarely looked into by local authorities. The city of Rogersville has gone without a full-time animal control officer for years. The responsibility for animal law enforcement fell on local police officers, who found themselves ill-equipped to handle animals in need.
This past year, Flack rescued a dog through the Hawkins County Humane Society in Rogersville.
Thomas Flack
"When I adopted Athena, it was my fourth year volunteering at the Humane Society. She was tiny. Her story, to me, was absolutely horrifying. A couple found her on the side of the road in a small box, along with her mother and eight puppies. Apparently, they were there for a long time because she and one other puppy were the only ones to survive. Her mom and six puppies died from starvation."
Flack says he wants to be President of the United States someday. His first order of business? Make animal abuse a felony, start a national animal abuse registry, and limit the number of animals slaughtered for food every year. At sixteen-years-old, he may have the most animal-friendly platform to date.
"Students are the future generation," he said. "We are the future politicians and we are the future taxpayers. Animals don't need to continue to suffer because of us."
Sentient Media reached out to Principal Wines for comment.
Please consider showing your support for Volunteer High School's Students Against Animal Cruelty and Testing club by signing this petition.
Matthew Zampa
Matthew is lead reporter with Sentient Media. Follow him on Twitter at @matthewzampa.
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The Green Wave
By Bradley Gibson	| October 18, 2020
Louis Mulkey, subject of the documentary The Green Wave, was the basketball coach at Summerville High School in South Carolina, in 2006. Testimonials from former players and colleagues at the school unfurl Mulkey's tale. He works shifts as a firefighter and spends the rest of his time at school with his players.
Director Guido Verweyen paints the details of a man obsessed with helping people. Mulkey pushed his athletes to finish high school and then to graduate from college. His tough love seems very intense, but his approach worked in context: he knew how to communicate with the student athletes he was dealing with. He met them where they were and spoke their language. Many of his players credit him for providing a father figure and preparing them for life in a positive way. He went so far as to sit in the classroom with struggling students and help them succeed at their academics, and only then could they play sports.
Mulkey was white, and his players were mostly black. It's an important dynamic to call out. He treated these young men as human beings, with full respect. They were people he deeply cared for, and this all happened in South Carolina, a state not well regarded for positive race relations. He pushed for racial awareness and diversity. Black players point out that Mulkey was regarded with suspicion by the school's racist elements and the community because he acted as an authentic anti-racist. Mulkey was tenacious with his players, insisting they stay on the team even if they were in trouble, preferring to help them resolve their issues and stay attached to the team, rather than jettisoning them for infractions, whenever possible. We learn about Mulkey in the words of the people around him. He leaves a powerful legacy.
"…credit him for providing a father figure and preparing them for life…"
Louis Mulkey died in 2007 in a fire at age 34. The coverage of the fire that killed Mulkey is chilling and disturbing. He went into a big-box furniture store blaze with 8 other firefighters, and the fire spread so quickly they were trapped and couldn't find a way out. Everyone in his life deeply felt his death. His players were devastated.
Fast forward to February of the next year, and the biggest game in Summerville High School history. The mission: Beat Spartanburg and win the state title for Louis Mulkey. The end of the game is a dramatic cliff-hanger that pivots on whether a final shot beats the buzzer or not.
This piece will land hard with nostalgia and deep poignance for anyone who was part of the school during Mulkey's time but struggles to be accessible to a general audience. A couple of recollections of events are interpreted as supernatural messages from the great beyond from Coach Mulkey, and these derail the story with their strangeness. Filmically, the one-note structure of The Green Wave falls flat. It's an effective approach, but not as engaging as it could be. However, this is a minor flaw, and the film still makes a moving tribute to an inspiring story of a rare gem of a vibrant young man and the people whose lives he touched in such a profound way. The world would be better if there were more men like Louis Mulkey.
The Green Wave (2020)
Directed and Written: Guido Verweyen
Starring: Louis Mulkey, etc.
Movie score: 7/10
"…The world would be better if there were more men like Louis Mulkey"
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