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Anchoring Ban Impacting Some Players More than Others
This January, the long-awaited USGA and R&A ban on anchored putting strokes went into force. We are only three short months into the ban, but we are already seeing evidence of how the ban has impacted some players more than others.
Adam Scott and Bernhard Langer are two of the more notable players that have been successful in the post-anchor ban era. That probably shouldn't surprise us. Adam Scott was an accomplished player before he switched from a conventional putting stroke to the anchored broomstick. In 2004, he won The Players Championship as a 23-year old, becoming the youngest to do so, when he made a 10-foot putt for bogey on the final hole. Scott continued to rack up wins and nice checks but along the way his confidence with the putter waned enough that he began using the long-putter and the anchored stroke. He won the 2014 Masters with it and seemed more comfortable on the greens than he'd been with the conventional stroke and short putter.
Despite all the dire predictions that faced Scott in 2016, he's come out of the gates fast, winning both the Honda Classic and the WGC Cadillac Doral Championship. While he's not among the elite with regard to putting this year, he is avoiding three putts and stroking it solidly enough to take advantage of a lot of good shots. That's why he's winning.
Two other PGA players everyone's keeping close eyes on are Webb Simpson and Keegan Bradley. Simpson and Bradley are two other players, besides Scott, who won major championships (a U.S. Open for Simpson and a PGA Championship for Bradley) using anchored-strokes. While Scott has managed to not just survive, but thrive under the new rules, Simpson and Bradley are struggling.
Bradley has been one of America's best players the past five seasons. Besides his PGA Championship win, Bradley is a two-time member of the U.S. Ryder Cup team and also played on a President's Cup squad. For the past five years, he's more or less been one of the top 25 players in the world.
Then 2016 happened. Bradley currently ranks 134th in the FedEx Cup point standings. His world ranking has fallen to 93rd and is dropping quickly. Through the Valspar Championship, Bradley was taking 1.2 strokes more per round on the greens than he was during the 2015 season. Bradley's only made 3 of 9 cuts this season, with a single top 10 and less than $260,000 in earnings.
Webb Simpson's situation is equally dire. While we should probably avoid overreacting just a dozen or so tournaments into the new year, Simpson is in such a funk his existence as a PGA Tour player is likely at risk if he continues to perform the way he has the first three months of the season. Last year Simpson was gaining 0.3 strokes on the green vs. his PGA Tour peers, this season he's losing 0.7 strokes.
One thing worth noting about Scott's transition vs. Bradley and Simpson is their personal histories. Scott putted conventionally for a number of seasons before switching to an anchored stroke out of frustration, whereas Bradley and Simpson have employed anchored-strokes for most of their careers. The old adage – it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks just might be true.
Speaking of old dogs, Bernhard Langer was another player who benefited tremendously from the long putter. Langer famously battled the yips off and on for decades and has constantly experimented over the years with different length putters, different putting grips and different putting strokes. While not as dominant as he has been, Langer did manage to win on the Champions Tour just a few events into the new season.
Langer and Scott had the ability to channel the traditional putting stroke back into their games. Bradley and Simpson have work to do. Both players have said that essentially thousands of hours on the putting green have been thrown out the window by the rule change. They are learning to crawl all over again. The big question is if they can learn quickly enough to preserve their places among golf's elite professionals.
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One of the very best things about your new doll is her beautiful hair.
But if you're not careful, one of the very worst things about your doll may be her hair.
Because your doll's hair can get dirty, and it can get messy, and sometimes it can get badly tangled. But we know that you love your new doll, and want her hair to look good, so we created this page just for you. It's about how to take care of your doll's hair.
First, every time you take dress or undress your doll, her hair gets a little messed up. So you will need to be brushing her hair regularly to keep it pretty and tangle free.
A lot of 18" doll's clothing has Velcro™ fastenings. Be extra careful not to let the hair get caught in the Velcro. Velcro EATS doll hair!
Second, when you are styling her hair; like changing it from braids to a ponytail for example, you will probably need to use your brush to divide it into sections. But you need to have the right brush.
Did you know that you have oil in your hair? It comes from the skin on the top of your head, and it's what makes your hair so shiny and pretty! But when you brush your hair, that oil gets on your brush. So you can't use your brush on your doll's hair! You will have to get her a doll's hairbrush.
Now because your doll's hair is not made from real hair, but made from pretend hair, also called 'synthetic hair,' we need the right kind of brush: a Doll's hairbrush.
A doll's hairbrush should have wire bristles, and no rubber ends.
Plastic bristles can cause static, which makes the hair stick up and look funny!
Rubber bristles can catch in the hair and break it.
If your doll has curly hair, then you should have a metal hair pick instead of a brush.
And finally, you need a misting bottle, because the best way to brush her hair is to get it a little wet first.
"Where are you going to put your doll when you brush it?
So we're ready to brush her hair. What do we do?
First, mist her hair with your mister. Just a little. It doesn't have to be too wet.
Pick a section of her head.
Now start near the ends, and brush out her hair, using short, gentle strokes.
Work your way up: ends, then middle, then top, gently brushing out any tangles.
If you are going to style your doll's hair, clip aside the sections until all of the hair is brushed out.
No matter how careful you are, everybody's hair gets dirty after a while.
Yours does, mine does, and dolly's hair gets dirty too. How do we clean it?
Get a big bowl and fill it half way with cool water.
Do not use warm or hot water because the heat can relax curls.
Gently stir in one-quarter teaspoon of baby shampoo.
Undress your doll, and put her in a plastic bag up to her chin. This is to keep her body dry.
Dip your doll's head into the bowl, and gently swirl it around, until the hair is completely wet.
You may use a spoon to get the top of her head and scalp wet.
Gently massage the shampoo into her hair, being careful not to twist, pull or break it.
Get as much of the doll's hair in the bowl as you can, and let it sit for about 10 minutes.
Empty the 'shampoo' and refill the bowl with cool clean water, swirl and rinse three times.
You can also use your mister bottle to rinse off the shampoo.
Hold the doll upside down so her hair hangs, and gently shake out the rinse water.
Wrap the hair in a soft cloth like an old towel, and gently squeeze out the water. Do not twist or wring your doll's hair.
Brush out her hair when most of the water is gone, but while it is still damp, damp like when you use your mister.
Remember: do not brush wet hair and do not brush dry hair. Only brush damp hair.
'Air Dry' your doll's hair.
Never, ever, ever, use a hair dryer!!! It will melt your doll's hair!!! And that goes double-triple for curling irons! No!!
Just let it air dry.
Between washings, a light mist and brush should be just fine.
If your dolls are not played with, they can still get dirty from house dust, so ask Mommy or Daddy to get a can of air to blow the dust off.
Same with styling, remember always mist and brush gently.
Some doll mommies have told us that they like to put one hand on the top of the head while brushing with the other. Fewer hairs get pulled out.
Do not use metal hair clips or rubber bands in your doll's hair, both will break pretend hair.
Do you have a doll stand? It's a good way to hold your doll so that you have both hands free, and it holds the doll upright.
Once a year, on your doll's birthday, you can condition her hair. To make it shiny use baby oil. Shake the bottle so that the inside of the bottle cap gets wet from the oil. Unscrew it, and turn it upside down on the table. Put the first finger of each hand into the bottle's cap and get the oil on the finger. Gently rub it into your dolls hair. Too much oil will make the hair sticky for dirt. You want just enough oil to make the pretend hair shiny again.
Detangle Spray: Use a baby's detangle spray for minor tangles. Spray a little on and gently work your brush through the hair, starting at the ends.
The fabric softener soak: If your doll's hair is in really bad shape, tangled and frizzy and awful, you can shampoo her hair in fabric softener. Use three cap-fulls in a large bowl half-full with water, and then just follow the same process as in the "How to wash your doll's hair."
Unfortunately this will also straighten most doll hair. You will need to re-set, curl and style it after.
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PS: These are general suggestions only - based on all our years in the doll business. But The Pattycake Doll Company can not guarantee this doll's hair care guide for your doll. Different manufacturers use different materials for their doll's hair. Please use care and gentleness with your doll's hair and body when cleaning.


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Unlike firearms, stun guns are often acceptable for people within the United States to carry – mainly due to the fact that they are typically categorised as defensive weapons. Different States will dictate varying policies and legal responsibilities, but as the majority will permit their residents to carry these devices under the agreement that they may only be used defensively; the legalities are fairly minimal.
In the majority of States, a stun gun can be carried by anyone aged over 18, although this can instead be 21 in particular regions. Furthermore, the individual must have a reason for carrying the device as well as making sure that it is sufficiently concealed at all times – unless it requires use. Finally, the voltage must comply with industry standards and it is not legal to tamper with the energy levels to enhance the current to greater amounts than the manufacturer defined.
In most States it can be legal to possess a stun gun with a power of up to 20,000 volts. Anything higher than this amount could be deemed lethal and so penalties of possessing a modified, or a high power stun gun can be quite severe. In some cases, the penalties can result in thousands of dollars needing to be paid as a fine. In other instances, prison sentences can be issued.
Stun guns are legal within a total of 42 States as of 2017, but certain States may be willing to offer alternative solutions to those that wish to protect themselves. In any event, an individual hoping to purchase a stun gun will need to demonstrate that they are completely free of felony records and even minor felonies such as shoplifting or theft can result in a complete ban on the use of these devices.
Is this still the case when buying online?
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The login process has been very streamlined. Our users don't even realize that OneLogin is working behind the scenes, authenticating all of their logins.
RANDY MOON, Senior Manager of IT Security
As a Fortune 1000 organization with 6,500 remote access workers across the globe, maintaining an open, collaborative environment is key to getting work done at Steelcase. Adoption of cloud services has helped create a productive digital environment by increasing collaboration and providing anytime access to information on any device. But it has also put sensitive company information at risk of unauthorized access.
GETTING A HANDLE ON SHADOW IT
Two years prior, the Steelcase Board of Directors' Audit Committee had expressed concern over the vast amount of cloud applications and services in use at the company and requested an audit, which required finding, vetting and approval of all cloud services.
As a result, Randy Moon, senior manager of IT security at Steelcase, decided to bring in Skyhigh Networks to assess the cloud usage and provide the granular visibility he and his team needed to perform the audit. After deploying Skyhigh in their environment, Moon and his team discovered 3,500 cloud services in use within the company, with only a handful of them sanctioned by IT.
In utilizing Skyhigh's Cloud Registry, which includes comprehensive CloudTrust™ 1-10 risk ratings for over 20,000 cloud services across 50 attributes, Moon and his team were able to quickly identify the risk associated with each service and had actionable information they needed to be able to enforce governance policies. "We immediately started blocking all applications with a risk score of seven or higher," says Moon. "That is high enough risk that we knew we didn't want anyone to use those services."
In leveraging Skyhigh's just-in-time coaching tools, Moon and his team were able to start an open dialogue with their users and gain acceptance of the new cloud governance policies, all while directing their users to safer, sanctioned services. "We have blocked about 600 high-risk cloud services," says senior security analyst, Ed Kryda. "With the help of Skyhigh, we can now offer our users alternative cloud services that are safer and low risk."
The added visibility has also provided other benefits for the team at Steelcase including the consolidation of services and a reduction in cost and man-hours to vet services, allowing Steelcase to onboard cloud services more quickly. "We have other business units approaching us and asking about new cloud services. Since we have the risk ratings literally at our fingertips, we have been able to help procurement teams understand the risk we could be incurring if we brought them into our environment," says Steelcase's security architect, Stu Berman.
PROTECTING IDENTITY WITH ONELOGIN
With over 37,000 users worldwide, including external partners, Moon and his team chose OneLogin as their identity management tool to quickly and securely unify their four Active Directories for employees in the U.S., EMEA and APAC, as well as for their external users, and provide secure login authentication for their cloud services.
In leveraging OneLogin's Identity Management as a Service (IDaaS) solution, which enables SAML 2.0, the open source standard for single sign-on (SSO), Steelcase is able to deploy new applications – an average of 30 per year – to their users in days instead of weeks. Additional IT savings derive from users' ability to lean on OneLogin to complete self-service password resets instead of having to open a ticket every time they need password assistance related to their various applications.
"The login process has been very streamlined with OneLogin. I sign-in once in the morning and then I don't have to enter my login credentials again, regardless of whether I am accessing Office 365 or ServiceNow," says Moon. "It is very transparent and our users don't even realize that OneLogin is working behind the scenes, authenticating all of their logins."
OneLogin enables single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication for applications access based on location, application, and user privilege level, ensuring that only authorized users get access to sensitive data
In addition to Skyhigh, Steelcase has integrated close to 100 apps with OneLogin, giving employees and external partners the ability to safely access any cloud application or service from any location across the globe, while ensuring that necessary security and access controls, such as multi-factor authentication or session time restrictions, are being applied.
SECURING OFFICE 365 WITH SKYHIGH AND ONELOGIN
When Steelcase rolled out Office 365 across the organization to take advantage of its productivity and collaboration features, Moon and his team were concerned about employees uploading sensitive data like intellectual property or their personally identifiable information (PII) into the cloud. To help tackle this, they added Skyhigh for Office 365 via API integration and leveraged OneLogin's Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities as additional layers of control over Office 365.
OneLogin centralizes access management to Steelcase's cloud workloads. Managing employee access to the cloud through an app portal greatly reduces their risk of shadow IT applications and the unauthorized use of access privileges by terminated users. OneLogin makes it easier to integrate adaptive and two-factor authentication into Steelcase's applications. With OneLogin, it's administratively easier to see who has access to specific applications, reducing the security risk.
While OneLogin is used to authenticate logins for Office 365, Skyhigh is used to enforce data loss prevention (DLP) policies and threat protection. Using Skyhigh's API integration with Office 365, Moon and his team are able to enforce existing DLP policies to detect PII and other sensitive data such as credit card numbers. They also use Skyhigh to enforce collaboration controls that alert the IT teams to files that were shared publicly.
"We need to be able to see what is going on in Office 365 with DLP and analytics tools to check for bad file permissions or people sharing data that they shouldn't," says Kryda. "The borders for data are changing and eroding. You can't just protect your core networks any more, you have to go out to your data." In utilizing Skyhigh's threat protection capabilities and geo-location analytics, the team at Steelcase has been able to detect anomalous usage within Office 365 that is often indicative of threats and compromised accounts. "We have seen six compromised accounts with superhuman logins," says Moon, referring to login activity that would be otherwise impossible, given timeframes and login locations across the globe.
Skyhigh's threat protection was also used in instances where users downloaded sensitive data from Office 365 and uploaded it to unsanctioned, shadow IT file-sharing services. "Massive data exfiltration was one of our main concerns," says Moon. "Our risk profile has greatly improved since bringing in Skyhigh. We have been able to remove vulnerabilities that could have done a lot of damage."
THE VISION GOING FORWARD
As Steelcase continues to evolve its technology infrastructure to meet employee needs, the company is looking to expand its offering of secure cloud services, including applying real-time DLP and encryption controls to Office 365 through a reverse proxy to further enable collaboration for their global users. In this architecture, OneLogin will authenticate access credentials and redirect all Office 365 traffic to Skyhigh, which will enforce security controls.
"We are still pretty early in our cloud journey," says Kryda. "But we are taking the right steps to forge our own destiny. Skyhigh gives us real, actionable data and now we know what we are using the cloud for – not just guessing."
Why OneLogin?
OneLogin brings speed and integrity to the modern enterprise with an award-winning single sign-on and identity management platform. Our portfolio of solutions secure connections across all users, all devices and every application, helping enterprises drive new levels of business integrity and operational velocity across their entire app portfolios.


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Factory Sealed 2008 2LP 180gm Triple Gatefold First Pressing Original With Custom Hype Sticker (Brown Title). The Sophomore Release From The Band Fronted By Jack White (White Stripes) And Brendan Benson (Brendan Benson!). "The Raconteurs Have Plunged Fully Into Their Chosen Era Of Vintage Rock, 1965-75, Sounding Less Self-Consciously Retro Than They Did On Their Debut. While They Gleefully Sock Out Garage-Rock Riffs, They Also Allude To Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Even The Beatles For Patches Of Harmony In "You Don't Understand Me." They Get Down-Home And Bluesy, With Slide Guitar And Banjo, In "Top Yourself." They Try Something Like Soul In "Many Shades Of Black," And They Move Toward Spaghetti-Western Rock With Horns For A Snake-Bitten Desert Fable, "The Switch And The Spur." The Songs Are Tautly Constructed; Some, Like "Rich Kid Blues," "These Stones Will Shout" And "Consoler Of The Lonely," Leap Suddenly From Riff To Riff. And There's Nothing Sloppy About The Band, Which Keeps Dynamics And Details In Mind Even When It's Bashing Away. Yet The Raconteurs Sound As If They Could Go Off The Rails At Any Second. The Vocals Verge On Mania, The Guitars And Keyboards Thrive On Distortion, And Mr. White Whoops And Hollers Through Many Of The Tracks. The Raconteurs Are Singing, More Often Than Not, About Desperate Characters. But That Desperation Only Makes The Crunch Of The Music More Euphoric." - Jon Pareles, New York Times... more details
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Risk Management Basics: The Application of Law and Ethics to Risk Management
SKU: B4705-B15 Categories: All CE Courses, American Professional Agency Ethics, American Professional Agency Risk Management, At Health, Risk Management Tag: Text Format
This course provides practitioners with essential information on how to reduce the potential for becoming the subject of a malpractice lawsuit or licensing board complaint. Topics include meeting the standard of care, record keeping, confidentiality, office policies, and boundary violations. Includes information on the application of law and ethics to practice.
Target audience: Psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, addiction counselors, nurses.
This CE program is designated as intermediate.
This course meets the requirement for the risk management discount for the American Professional Agency.
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Part 1: Patient/Therapist Relationship
Part 2: Friendly Advice or Professional Treatment
Part 3: Patient/Therapist Relationship Defined by Law
Part 4: Meeting the Standard of Care
Part 5: Malpractice
Part 6: Document. Document. Document.
Part 7: Before Treatment Begins
Part 8: Confidentiality
Part 9: Duty to Warn
Part 10: Office Policies
Part 11: Protocol for Handling Patient Calls, Including Crisis
Part 12: Preserving Your Records
Part 13: Billing and Collecting Fees
Part 14: Termination of Therapy
Part 15: Boundary Violations
Part 16: Responding to a Subpoena
Part 17: Risky Practice Areas
Part 18: Vicarious Liability
Part 19: Additional Ways to Reduce Your Liability Exposure
Part 20: Retirement
Part 21: Responding to a Law Suit
Part 22: Licensing Board Complaints
Part 23: References
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Question: "Does the self-guided Hiker's Haute Route follow the same itinerary as the guided version?
Answer: The guided Hiker's Haute Route is two days longer than our self-guided version. It wasn't always this way. We extended the guided itinerary by two days for 2014. The extension allows us to explore a remote section of trail between the villages of Champex and Arolla.
Put another way, the guided and self-guided itineraries are identical in every way until day five. The guided trip transfers to the village of Verbier while the self guided trip transfers to Arolla. The guided trip spends two nights in remote huts before descending to Arolla to pick up where the self-guided itinerary passed through a couple of days before. Both trips follow the same route from Arolla all the way to Zermatt.
It's worth noting that self-guided trips can run at any time during the summer, but we don't usually schedule them during the same dates as our guided tours.
Additionally, we are happy to add the two-day extension with hut stays to any self-guided itinerary for an additional supplement. We can also add a three-day extension from Zermatt to the village of Saas Fee at the end of the trip. This extension carries hikers across the famed Grächen Höhenweg and offers views of Switzerland's tallest peaks to the south and the legendary Berner Oberland region to the north. The extension also includes a simple inn, a four star inn and a dramatically situated refuge.
Our recommendation: Upgrade the simple inn in Saas Fee with a Relais & Chateaux gourmet retreat. You'll want to set aside the entire evening for your sybaritic experience!
All totaled: A self-guided Hiker's Haute Route can easily reach 15 days in length with add-ons. Without add-ons, the self-guided trip is ten days long. The guided trip is a twelve-day tour.
Give us a call, or drop us an email to plan your next adventure.
Image: Hiking to the Forcletta pass (2874 meters) with the Matterhorn in the background (right). Hiker's Haute Route, Switzerland | By Ken Fuhrer.


Outlet shopping, Victorian homes, the trial of the century (well, the 1930s anyway) and riveting railways – Flemington's attractions are numerous and diverse.
If you're a train aficionado, head to Northlandz (495 Rt. 202 S.), which houses the world's largest miniature railroad, with more than 100 trains navigating eight miles of track. The exhibit meanders for a mile and includes minute mountains, cities and bridges.


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Ponting fiasco exposes Aussie 'crisis'
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 12: Ricky Ponting speaks after being inducted ito the Hall Of Fame at the 2018 Allan Border Medal at Crown Palladium on February 12, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images)
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Justin Langer's reported desire to have Aussie cricket legend Ricky Ponting join his coaching staff has been overruled by Cricket Australia's stretched coaching budget.
The Australian's Peter Lalor reports Langer wants to bolster his coaching squad by adding Ponting and fellow Aussie great Simon Katich to the mix, but has been unable to compete with the money the pair are able to earn through television deals and overseas coaching.
The reports makes it clear that Langer is entirely satisfied with top lieutenants David Saker, Brad Haddin and batting coach Graeme Hick, but the former opening batsman has also identified Ponting and Katich as desirable additions.
Hick has come under fire recently for the fragile state of the Australian batting line-up with Test legend Shane Warne last month calling for Cricket Australia to swing the axe following Australia's struggles against South Africa on home soil.
Channel 7 is keeping Ricky away from the Aussie team.
Cricket Australia's inability to secure the signatures of Ponting and Katich, who both have deals with Channel 7, has exposed a broader "crisis" of retiring cricket greats choosing to chase careers in media over coaching.
The report claims the dollars involved with professional cricket coaching in Australia are simply not competitive with other options available for Aussie cricket greats.
Ponting in May reportedly signed a multi-million dollar deal with Seven and also earns around $600,000 for his Indian Premier League coaching role.
Langer is reportedly the highest-earning coach Australia has ever had, with an annual salary of $1 million - but he is trumped by several players in the Aussie squad, including star Glenn Maxwell, who have played just a handful of international matches in 2018.
Maxwell's superior salary to Langer is just one of several startling revelations in The Australian's report, including:
- Highly rated Aussie coach Jason Gillespie earns more coaching Sussex in the English County competition than he would if he returned to coach in Australia
Justin Langer is expected to make changes for the fourth Test.
- One of the Big Bash franchise coaches last summer earned just $30,000; and
- Australian batting coach Michael Di Veneto left to join Surrey in 2016 because Cricket Australia refused to pay an additional $50,000.
Ponting last summer was able to balance his Twenty20 assistant coaching position with his TV commitments, but Langer has been unable to find a way to lure him back this summer.
Ponting has previously said he will continue to help the Aussie team when able.
His return would be a welcome boost for the Aussie side after he received widespread praise from the Twenty20 outfit last summer.
"He was great for me through those games," Queensland fast-bowler Billy Stanlake told cricket.com.au recently of Ponting.
"So he instilled great confidence in me.
"When he spoke, everyone was glued to what he had to say. We know what a great cricket brain he has."
Langer earlier this week opened up on the mental toll he has endured while guiding the Aussie team following the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa.
"They've been bashed for nine months a lot of them and you now have a couple of hours where you can sit back and enjoy it," Langer told Fox Cricket after his team's win over India in Perth.
"So much goes into every Test match. Test matches are really tiring mentally for the coaches, physically and mentally for the players.
"There's been a lot of emotion in the last nine months, so it's good to get a result."
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Tale of the Gael
taking Ireland's music up a scéal
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The Atlantic Orchestra Project
The Atlantic Orchestra Project is an international mix of classical and traditional musicians, singers, a film maker and a storyteller. In 2018 the group first worked with Spanish Armada Ireland and the Irish Underwater Archeology Unit to create a musical theatre piece telling the story of three of the 16th century cannon recovered from the seabed at Streedagh Sligo. This included research, scripting, composition, direction and performance.
Their next piece was a focus on the work of author and filmmaker Bob Quinn, premiered in Zurich in 2020.
The Colmcille Connection: 1500 years of Light in the West. December 2021
The 11 strong group of musicians / singers / narrators combine to present an evocative and thoughtful look at the Colmcille influence in the northwest and beyond. An original script, haunting film footage and powerful music highlight work together to celebrate the landscape and the legacy of of this legendary son of Ulster.
with Ray Coen, guitar/fiddle, Felip Carbonell, Spanish guitar, Dave Aebli, bass/bouzouki, Catherine Rhatigan, harp, Robert Tobin, flute/whistle, Treasa Ni Mhaioleann, sean nos singing, Prannie Rhatigan, percussion, Seamus Gallagher, percussion, Anto Brennan, Isabelle Hauser, Tricia Keane, narration
Cairo to Connemara: Routes and Rhythms in Irish Music Jan 2020
East meets West in this piece which starts with a 12th century Moorish Dance and swings over into a zippy trad composition by Sligo musician Ray Coen, featured in the clip on fiddle. From a live performance of "Cairo to Connemara: Routes and Rhythms in Irish Music' Zurich , January 2020. The Atlantic Orchestra Project arranges its own music and features a mix of traditional and newly composed pieces.
Cannon in Sea September 2018
Detail from the cover of Bob Quinn's book 'The Atlanteans'
Cairo to Connemara: Routes and Rhythms in Irish Music is inspired by the work of Bob Quinn in his book 'The Atlanteans', first published in the 1980s. The music works with his suggestion that the main influences brought to bear on Irish west coast culture arrived there via people who took the sea routes from north Africa and the Iberian peninsula over several centuries, bringing layers of musical culture, art, song, and dance that survive in Connemara to this day. Extensive studies show that the sean-nós culture in the west of Ireland is not European.
The performance is a layered affair. Music from the 16th century airs with percussion that could be timeless or 21st century. Authentic Irish sean-nós singing and Spanish strings sit amicably with newly composed and traditional Irish dance pieces. The spoken word provides context and fantasy by turn, while selected film clips provide a backdrop anchoring the idea of place firmly with the audience.
As a group, these artistes unearth the fabulous, the mysterious, the earthiness and the beauty of this musical heritage and present it to audiences in 90 minutes of spellbinding entertainment.
Music from the Project: The Innishmurray March and The Julianna Jig composed by Catherine Rhatigan, arranged by the Orchestra. From live performances.
Innishmurray March
Julianna Jig
Original artwork by MArie Drumgoole for Cannon In Sea, September 2018
Cannon In Sea, scripted and directed by Catherine Rhatigan for Spanish Armada Ireland first aired in Grange, Co. Sligo in September 2018. The resoundingly successful was performed in a former Napoleonic courtyard, just yards from where the actual Spanish Armada ships foundered and wrecked in 1588.
In this creative mix of original film footage, music, narration and song, the musicians collaborated with the National Underwater Archeology Unit of Ireland who provided original film footage of 16th century Spanish cannon recovered from the Sligo coast in 2015. The specially scripted piece revolves around the imagined 'lives' of three of the majestic cannon, part of the Spanish Armada wrecked in 1588. Enthralled, audiences got a backward look through time into the 16th century and the fascinating, long gone world to which the brass cannon once belonged.
The Performers
The Atlantic Orchestra Project is made up of people who are all involved in other bands and projects, but their collective energy really swings in this one! Veterans of the international stage, (Japan, Europe, The U.S, South Africa and Australia), these musicians are both competent exponents of music from other folk cultures, as well as highly respected members of Irish traditional music at home and abroad. All are recorded artistes, and have been working together in various combinations since 1995.
Their collective résumés include appearances with legendary super-groups like De Danaan, Clanad, Chris de Burgh, and Alan Stivell, a tour of the U.S with The Chieftains, another with the award winning Druid Theatre and appearances in Zurich Opera House and Carnegie Hall, New York.
Catherine Rhatigan, Project Director/ Irish harp
Catherine Rhatigan, Project Director / Irish harp. A founder member of Tale of the Gael, she created and directed the 12 events for Yeats 150 Harp Festival of Moons which ran for a year. Most recently, she has scripted and directed productions with the James Joyce Institute Zurich, The Dept. of Foreign Affairs, as well as with universities in Switzerland and Germany. She has performed and taught harp music in the U.S, Europe, South Africa, Japan and of course Ireland.
www.irelandharp.net
Robert Tobin, Ireland, Silver flute, whistle
Robert Tobin, Ireland, Silver flute, whistle. Currently working and living in Helsinki, Robert toured Europe and Ireland with Tale of the Gael, and The Deirdre Starr Band and has appeared in both the Zurich Opera House and Carnegie Hall during his career to date. Robert will begin work with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra as Principal Flautist in April 2020.
http://roberttobinflute.com
Isabelle Hauser Switzerland, storytelling, narration
Isabelle Hauser Switzerland, storytelling, narration. Isabelle studied storytelling with Liz Weir in Co. Antrim, Ireland, and is a founder member of The Celtic Fragment, a storytelling/music trio which has performed all over Switzerland, as well as in Austria and Ireland since it formed in 2017. She was recently invited to participate at an International Storytelling Festival in Dubai, March 2020.
www.isabellehauser.com
Dave Aebli, Switzerland, Guitar, Double Bass, Irish Bouzouki
Dave Aebli, Switzerland, Guitar, Double Bass, Irish Bouzouki. Dave plays Greek, Balkans and Irish music with equal verve. His Balkan and Greek music can be heard with Chef de Kef, and he is a long standing member of both Tale of the Gael, and The Joe Mc Hugh Band. He has been part of the Rigiblick Theatre house band in Zurich for several years.
www.kafenion.ch/chef-de-kef
Prannie Rhatigan Ireland, Bodhran
Prannie Rhatigan Ireland, Bodhran. Prannie is best known these days for her work with seaweed cookery, and was recently a First in the World in 2019 for her latest book. In another life she played percussion with a renaissance group, and accompanies Tale of the Gael on their various international tours whenever time allows.
www.irishseaweedkitchen.ie
Ray Coen, Ireland, Guitar, Fiddle, Vocals
Ray Coen, Ireland, Guitar, Fiddle, Vocals. A musician of many parts, Ray can show up anywhere in an ensemble. His singing ranges from full on rock to gentle ballads, and his fiddle style ranges from authentic Sligo traditional to improvised, as the occasion demands. He and Catherine performed a mix of traditional Sligo and 18th century music to great acclaim at the Tokyo Irish Festival in 2019. He plays guitar, fiddle and sings with the international touring band No Crows,
www.nocrows.net
Felip Carbonell , Spain, vocals, Spanish guitar
Felip Carbonell, vocals, classical guitar. Felip grew up in Mallorca listening to various kinds of Spanish, Latin American and Catalan music, about which he knows an awful lot. His current projects include working with No Crows, Jazztalk, and Amy O Hara and A Band. He regularly gigs with his daughters at home and in Spain and also writes music.
www.felipcarbonell.com
Treasa Ni Mhiollain, The Aran Islands, Ireland, sean nós singing
Treasa Ni Mhiollain, sean nos singing. Treasa grew up on the Aran Islands where she learned her vast repertoire of Gaelic songs from her parents. Apart from performances worldwide and at home, Treasa has been entrusted with the job of teaching the art of sean nós to younger generations on all three of the Aran Islands. In 2011 she was artist in residence for the National University of Ireland in Galway, and released her second album in 2019.
Seamus Gallagher, Ireland, Percussion
Seamus Gallagher, Percussion. Seamus comes from a family of drummers and his experience ranges across every spectrum of music out there. Musicals, traditional, rock, pop, covers, Seamus has played it all at least twice over the last 30 years. His musical travels have taken him to several European countries, the US and South Africa.
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Adrien von Ferscht Joins Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
British fine art and collectibles auction house Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions have appointed Adrien von Ferscht as Consultant: Chinese Export Silver, in a move that allows Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions to make further inroads in to the flourishing Chinese fine art market.
James Nicholson, Deputy Chairman of Dreweatts and International Head of Jewellery, Silver and Watches said: "As an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, Scottish Centre for China Studies & School of Culture and Creative Arts, Adrien is considered to be the global expert in this highly significant silver category, and its rich history. He is the only person in the world to be actively carrying out in-depth research into Chinese Export Silver and we are delighted to have him as part of the Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions team."
"I could not be more delighted at being appointed a consultant at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions. For some time now I've identified them as being one of the few auction houses in the world that has displayed a real understanding of Chinese Export Silver, and its importance as a silver category. The time is absolutely right for an auction house to be known as a specialist house in this field" said Adrien von Ferscht.
Throughout the economic downturn in the West, Chinese Export Silver has remained one of the most globally buoyant antique silver categories. It is one of the largest categories and has the longest manufacturing period, covering almost 150 years. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions will be the first auction house internationally to have the necessary expertise to understand what is a highly complex silver category manufactured in a country that has no assay system, or accepted form of silver mark. Both Adrien and Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions believe that accurate and informed identification of Chinese Export Silver is the only way to optimise hammer values in an auction setting.
Adrien von Ferscht's weekly articles are published across Europe, the USA and China on various online platforms and are read by over 60,000 people. Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions will be co-sponsoring future editions of his book "Complete Collectors' Guide to Chinese Export Silver."
• Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions' sale of Fine Silver on Wednesday 26th February will contain a selection of choice Chinese export silver, including a pair of Qianlong Chinese export silver gilt filigree vases and covers, estimated at £3,000 – 4,000 [Lot 801] and a striking pair of 29.5cm high Chinese export silver models of Chinese Huabiao ceremonial columns, estimated at £1,500-2,000. [Lot 803] The sale is on view at Donnington Priory, Newbury, Berkshire from Sunday – Tuesday, 22-25 February. Online bidding with no additional charges will be available via www.dnfa.com
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March Favorites
March feels like it was a year long. It's strange to think about how March started and how we've progressed to this point of quarantine. I hope you're all staying healthy, washing your hands, and hanging in there.
in the time we lost by carrie hope fletcher
I finally got around to Carrie Hope Fletcher's latest novel, "In The Time We Lost," and I read the whole thing in just a few days! I love her style of magical realism and while the book absolutely broke my heart, I loved it.
I finally got around to watching "The Mandalorian" and I really enjoyed it. It took me a couple of episodes to properly get into it, but the last few episodes are truly great. And of course...Baby Yoda is super adorable.
I watched the 2006 BBC mini-series of "Jane Eyre" for a podcast (more on that later) and was shocked at how much I enjoyed it. Charlotte Bronte is normally not my cup of tea, but this adaptation with Toby Stephens and Ruth Wilson is really wonderful.
I was nervous about seeing Autumn de Wilde's new adaptation of "Emma" because it's my favorite Jane Austen novel and I'm very fond of the 1996 film with Gwyneth Paltrow. But I was absolutely delighted with this new version. I highly recommend you rent it if you're looking for something to watch!
I'm not a huge Pixar fan, but I do love Tom Holland so I was excited to see "Onward." I got to take my sister to a press night and was so charmed by this film and its lovely message about sibling love. You can read my full review here.
I can't believe I hadn't seen "Gifted" before, but I finally fixed that. What a heartwarming story! McKenna Grace is the most talented young actress, more than many women three times her age. And of course, Chris Evans as a father figure is exactly what I would like from a film.
most of us are strangers by seafret
I recently discovered Seafret's first album so of course I was thrilled when they released their second album this month. I absolutely love the sound of this British duo. My favorite songs from the album are definitely "Be My Queen" and "Girl I Wish I Didn't Know."
petticoats & poppies: history girls at the movies podcast
My dear friend Maggie and I launched our own podcast during the month of March! On it, we review period dramas from the perspective of two women who are trained as historians but work in the film industry in some way. This month we did episodes on "Emma." and the BBC miniseries of "Jane Eyre." You can find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Twitter, and Instagram.
skype/facetime/zoom
I think I've actually been socializing more than I normally do since quarantine started. I only have a handful of friends in North Carolina; my friends are pretty spread out across the United States and even the world, so I'm kind of used to keeping up with people over the Internet. I've been having a lot of Skype, Facetime, and Zoom chats with people, much more than normal. I think that it's so important to see people digitally face to face while we're isolated; it makes it all a lot easier to handle.
What did you all enjoy during the month of March? Let me know in the comments below or on Twitter. x
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Governor Greitens' former charity supports investigation into his campaign's use of resources
March 7, 2018 By Jason Taylor
A veterans' charity founded by Missouri Governor Eric Greitens says it will support an investigation into his campaign's possible misuse of resources.
The president of The Mission Continues posted an online statement Tuesday assuring supporters that the charity did not authorize Greitens' campaign to use its donor list.
In 2016, the Associated Press reported that Greitens raised more than $2 million for his gubernatorial bid through a donor list that included people who contributed big sums of money to the charity. Last year, the governor paid a $100 fee to the Missouri Ethics Commission for violating state campaign finance laws related to the list.
In his online statement Tuesday, Mission Continues president Spencer Kympton stated his organization did not provide or approve any use of donors' information to the Greitens campaign for political or campaign purposes.
He said the charity had not been contacted by Attorney General Josh Hawley's office but stressed the organization would support any inquiry by the attorney general into misuse of its resources by the Greitens campaign.
Hawley announced his probe into the governor's campaign's use of donor and email lists connected to the charity last Thursday. The investigation involves his office's enforcement responsibilities under the consumer protection and charitable registration and reporting laws.
Greitens started the Mission Continues in 2007 and departed from it in 2014. He's denied using the list for campaign fundraising purposes.
In his Tuesday statement, Mission Continues President emphasized his organization's compliance with non-profit requirements. He said the charity does not share, sell or rent information about our donors to any persons or groups.
Greitens currently faces numerous challenges.
He was indicted by a Grand Jury in St. Louis last month on a felony invasion-of-privacy charge for allegedly snapping a nonconsensual photo of a partially unclothed woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair and then threatening to distribute the photo.
A Missouri House committee investigating the charges against Greitens will hold a closed-door meeting at the Jefferson City Police Department today.
Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, Elections, News, Politics / Govt
Missouri congressional expert thinks Republicans face hurdles repealing ACA
December 21, 2016 By Jason Taylor
A congressional expert in Missouri thinks Republicans will face challenges if they plan to quickly repeal Obamacare once Donald Trump becomes President.
While the Republican majority in the House can abolish the health care law with a simple up or down vote, the Senate is more complicated.
Measures can only be passed there by a 60 percent margin, unless they're budget related, when only a simple majority is required.
Professor Steve Smith is director of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy at Washington University in St.Louis. He notes some parts of Obamacare can be repealed through the budget process, which is known as reconciliation. "Subsidies for people on the insurance exchanges or expansion of Medicaid funding to the states, (both) clearly have financial implications and could be included in reconciliation bills."
But other parts of Obamacare are not budget related, and will still require a 60 percent margin to be repealed. One of them is the provision ensuring people with preexisting conditions are covered.
Smith thinks congressional Republicans are now thinking through their options on how to repeal the law and face a complicated situation. At this point, he says they're trying to figure out what their options are. "Congressional Republicans are thinking through those options right now, knowing that some parts of Obamacare can be treated by a simple majority vote in the Senate, and other parts cannot" said Smith. "So they're trying to sort this out, and it's not a simple matter."
Senate Republican have limited power in the Senate because they control the chamber by a narrow 52-48 margin.
The ramifications of repealing some parts of the health care law while leaving other portions in place have been championed by President-elect Donald Trump. After initially declaring he'd repeal the entire law as one of his first orders of business with a Republican controlled congress, Trump waffled after being elected, saying some provisions, such the preexisting conditions measure, would remain intact.
Congressional Republicans have yet to coalesce around the idea. Smith says they'll need to be careful moving forward. "Pulling some parts (of Obamacare) out, but not others may leave very incoherent policy that even the Republicans do not want to be responsible for administering".
A major stumbling block to leaving popular parts of the law in place, while stripping others which help finance it – such as the mandate that almost all individuals purchase health care – is the likelihood that premiums would skyrocket.
One plan being floated by some GOP lawmakers would call on lawmakers to repeal the law in early 2017, but delay the effective repeal for up to three years. Complete repeal of Obamacare also faces headwinds after recent polling shows only about 25 percent of Americans want to the entire law rescinded.
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll showed 26 percent favor full repeal while 30 percent want it to be expanded and 19 percent want it to continued in it's current form.
Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
Missouri expert sees merit in effort to disrupt Electoral College
December 5, 2016 By Jason Taylor
A Missouri based expert on the Electoral College thinks an effort to tarnish its credibility could be effective.
A number of Democratic electors are trying to convince their Republican counterparts to abandon Donald Trump as Hillary Clinton now leads in the popular vote by well over 2 million.
While admitting their efforts will likely fail, the Democrats remain committed. They think persuading just a few GOP electors to reject Trump could serve to undermine confidence in the Electoral College, leading to its eventual collapse.
Law Professor Greg Magarian of Washington University in St. Louis thinks the strategy makes sense. "If you were going to try to jump start a movement to amend the constitution and eliminate the Electoral College, this might be a logical first step" said Magarian. "(To) try to really focus public attention. Not just theoretically, but by making the Electoral College less tidy, and the electoral vote less tidy and formulaic than it usually is."
270 electoral votes are required to win the Electoral College. With Trump likely to secure 309, 37 electors would have to peel away from him to block his path to the White House. Even if the effort was successful, the House of Representatives would make the final decision on the presidency. The Republican controlled chamber could simply vote Trump into office.
The group trying to undermine the Electoral College is also looking to possibly encourage fellow Democrats to abandon Hillary Clinton and join Republicans in a consensus pick to support Mitt Romney or John Kasich.
Magarian thinks such a collective effort could build momentum against the Electoral College. "Basically that's a strategy of just destabilization. When you're destabilizing something, you're not necessarily pointing the way forward toward how we're going to change this thing. You're just opening up the possibility of change down the road."
There are two groups aiming to sack the Electoral College. One of them favors a constitutional amendment to eliminate it. The other is a compact among states to award all their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular election.
Enacting a constitutional amendment would seem to be a long shot effort at this point in time. After three were adopted in the 1960's, only two have been ratified since.
Ten states and the District of Columbia have signed onto the National Popular Vote Compact which awards electoral votes to whoever wins the popular vote. The compact will need greater participation to be effective. It's current lineup of ten states and Washington D.C. account for 165 electoral votes, well short of the required 270 to win the election.
Regardless of the odds of doing away with the Electoral College, Magarian, the Washington University Law Professor, contends it's not serving its original purpose.
He notes founding father Alexander Hamilton created the Electoral College in the 18th century with the intention of preventing the public from electing unqualified candidates. Magarian says that intention was turned around with Hillary Clinton's loss.
"She's the one Hamilton would have wanted. Trump's the guy that Hamilton was trying to stop. Whatever the wisdom of the plan for the Electoral College in the 18th century, it's not just failing to serve that purpose now. It's serving the opposite purpose."
Magarian thinks the Electoral College runs counter to the country's democratic norms and ideals, but admits it would be difficult to eliminate.
Political observer thinks Republican grip on Missouri not ironclad
November 22, 2016 By Jason Taylor
A political expert thinks the current Republican lock on Missouri is more fragile than in neighboring deep red states.
Dr Terry Smith – Photo courtesy of Columbia College
As a result of the election, the GOP will control all but one statewide office in January, and Donald Trump won Missouri by 19 points.
But Columbia College Political Scientist Terry Smith contends the Republican coalition under Trump could unravel over issues such as trade and federal spending. Trump has vowed to back out of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement, which most Republican support as advocates of free trade. Trump has also promised to invest heavily in infrastructure to rebuild bridges and highways as well as airports, something fiscally conservative Republicans are resistant to.
Smith thinks Democrats in Missouri could benefit if a GOP split occurs. "It wouldn't take much for them to start winning statewide offices again" said Smith. "As recently as four years ago, they won most of them." Smith says even through it was a wave election for Republicans, the statewide vote was fairly even because of the heavy concentration of Democrats in large urban areas.
He also contends the urban-rural split in Missouri fundamentally separates it from other Republican dominated states. Smith thinks the Republican grip on Missouri can be loosened by the Democratic domination of St. Louis and Kansas City. "The fact that Missouri has two big cities matters electorally. And I think that that would be a reason that Democrats could still have hope (in the future) at the statewide level."
Missouri also differs from neighboring Republican controlled states in that it has several Democrats in Congress. Although she could be endangered in her reelection bid in 2018, Senator Claire McCaskill remains a two term Democrat from Missouri, while adjoining southern states along with neighboring Kansas have Republicans occupying U.S. both Senate seats.
As well, Democrats from Kansas City and St. Louis occupy safe congressional districts. Democratic congressional strongholds in the other states is spotty, where they even exists.
Smith thinks Missouri uniquely different the surrounding deep red state in another way – the electoral map. "Given the electoral map, it's more like a red state with blue polka dots. You've got the two big polka dots in St. Louis and Kansas City. And then you've got the third polka dot in the middle." Smith was referring to Democratic leaning Boone County, home to the University of Missouri, as the third polka dot.
Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, Elections, Legislature, News, Politics / Govt
Missouri group happy Trump targeting infrastructure, but wants broader financing
An advocate for the state's road builders is happy President elect Donald Trump has pledged to rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure.
Photo courtesy of MODOT
But Len Toenjes, who heads the Associated General Contractors of Missouri, thinks a more broad based approach is needed to finance roads and bridges.
Trump's plan relies heavily on private financing, offering almost $140 billion in tax breaks to companies who invest in projects, claiming those breaks would stimulate $1 billion in investments over 10 years.
However, the firms making those investments would require a revenue source to offset their expenses, which would result in a vast expansion of toll roads. Toenjes says those "Public-Private Projects", or PPP"s, would have a limited impact.
"In Missouri, if you look at some of the lettered roads, or some of the arterial roads that receive state or federal support right now, it's unrealistic to think that those could be privatized" said Toenjes. He mentioned highway 36 in northern Missouri and highway 67 in the southeast part of the state as examples of roads supported by federal and state money which investors would shy away from.
Public-private partnerships let private companies bid on transportation projects, build and maintain the project for a set amount of time, and recover costs through tolls or other payments handled through the state.
Toenjes thinks there'll need to be a multi-faceted method of financing highways. He says a combination of PPP's, fuel taxes, levies on freight transportation and an increase in various fees could satisfy the $1 trillion price tag.
Republicans in Congress have mentioned using repatriated tax dollars, which would first require an overhaul of the tax system, as a onetime boost to federal transportation needs. Such money would be realized after firms brought back into the U.S. profits currently being held in foreign countries.
There's also talk of taxing companies which transport freight across the country, mainly on interstate highways, to help finance road projects.
Toenjes with Associated General Contractors is happy roads are finally being addressed by the president elect. "The fact that this is a cornerstone of where he's looking at going forward is absolutely wonderful" said Toenjes. "I think as it gets into the legislative process, and all these nuances and variations and facets of the complexity of it come to light, the good news is, it is coming to light."
Toenjes points out a national plan to fix roads would have an outsize impact on the state. He notes Missouri gets between 65 and 70 percent of its funding for highways from the federal government. "It's good for us that we get more back. It would make sense for us to support something at the federal level because Missourians do receive more back than what they contribute."
Highly populated states like California and New York generate more federal tax dollars than what they receive from Washington. Toenjes says Missouri is in the top-third of states getting more money back than they contribute in.
Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, Economy, Elections, Labor, News, Politics / Govt, Transportation
Missouri road building group react to election results
The state's transportation community is reacting to this month's election results. President elect Donald Trump has said he's committed to rebuilding the country's roads and bridges.
I70 corridor in Missouri, photo courtesy of MODOT
Len Toenjes heads the Associated General Contractors of Missouri, which represents the construction industry. He thinks Trump's pledge sounds good, but lacks details on funding. "I guess until a piece of legislation is actually introduced at the federal level, that's sort of the question mark" said Toenjes. "I think there's a commitment to spending. The question is 'What's the commitment to funding'. That's sort of the unknown at the federal level".
Toenjes says current ideas for funding infrastructure projects center on public-private partnerships which have no recognized revenue stream. He notes 65 percent of money for roads and bridges comes from the federal government.
Within the state, Governor elect Eric Greitens will have a significant impact on the future of roads and bridges. Toenjes says Greitens has talked about making the state spend existing money more efficiently and using the savings for road projects. He's skeptical the plan would generate enough funding to address the state's needs. "I'm sure there are some places to get some dollars to reposition, or reallocate into transportation funding. The question is what's really the long term plan because, ultimately. I think almost everyone in the transportation community realizes the current level of revenue is not sufficient."
After coming under fire for waste and abuse of funding itself, the state Department of Transportation has reorganized itself over the past few years, eliminating over 1,200 positions and closing several district offices.
Toenjes contends $400-to-500 million in additional money per year will be needed to maintain roads. He says the cost will be much higher if projects to rebuild highways such as I-70 and I-44 are undertaken. Toenjes also thinks lawmakers and Governor elect Eric Greitens must come up with a plan to adequately maintain roads and highways.
"Is it $500 million tomorrow? I don't think so. But I think over time, you're going to have to have, or the legislature and the governor are going to need to come up with something to really address this over the next three to five years." Toenjes notes Arkansas has passed a half-cent sales tax to pay for road projects while Iowa hiked its gas tax by ten cents which will raise $215 million annually for its roads.
Looking at surrounding states which compete to bring in goods and services and attract industry, Toenjes contends Missouri is falling behind.
Critics of increased road spending say the state maintained network is too large, and should be divided more evenly with counties and cities. Lettered county roads are part of the 34,000 mile system which the state maintains. Missouri has the 7th biggest network of roads to maintain, but is 47th in funding.
Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, Elections, Legislature, News, Politics / Govt, Taxes, Transportation
Missouri law professor: Eliminating electoral college a long shot
A Missouri based constitutional law professor thinks Democrats will have a tough time eliminating the Electoral College. The party's retiring U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer introduced a bill to do just that Tuesday.
Greg Magarian of Washington University in St. Louis notes the Electoral College is part of the Constitution, and only an amendment could remove it. He says accomplishing such a feat has been rare since the early 20th century. "The Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970's was, sort of, the break point" said Magarian. "(It's) where you saw what seemed to be a pretty well run and highly motivated push to amend the Constitution fail. Since then, constitutional amendments have tended to go nowhere." Magarian says since the Electoral College has only hurt Democrats, Republicans will fight to keep it in place.
Democrats have now lost two election under the college since 2000, even though they won the popular vote both times.
Further, Magarian contends scrapping the Electoral College would be messy for the states – while some would benefit, others would be negatively impacted. "The Democratic candidates would spend all their time trying to run up their numbers in New York and California. Republicans would spend all their time trying to run up their numbers in Texas and other southern states. A lot of states would be neglected. And I think that's a serious thing to take into account. But I also think that under our current system, if you're not a so-called swing state, then you're not getting any attention."
Magarian also thinks an existing effort to sidestep the Electoral College, the National Popular Vote, is a longshot. "Number one, again, there's a problem of the Democrats seeming to benefit from this at this point in history, the Republican not. Number two, it involves a bunch of states, sort of trusting each other, which is kind of a dicey proposition."
Ten states and the District of Columbia have signed onto the National Popular Vote Compact which awards electoral votes to whoever wins the popular vote. The compact will need greater participation to be effective. The current ten states and D.C. account for 165 electoral votes, well short of the required 270 to win the election.
Missouri Sierra Club and college to hold panel discussion on election results
In the aftermath of this month's elections, the Missouri Sierra Club and Webster University are holding a panel Wednesday on environmental issues.
Sierra Club logo – Image courtesy of Missouri Sierra Club
President elect Donald Trump has tapped one of the foremost climate change skeptics to dismantle President Obama's environmental efforts. Myron Ebell of the libertarian group Competitive Enterprise Institute will set the direction of federal agencies which address climate policy.
Among other things, he rejects research showing global warming to be man-made and real, and has called the Clean Power Plan "illegal". John Hickey with the Missouri Sierra Club says the panel discussion will focus on reacting to Trump's moves. "We will fight vigorously to make sure that the Environmental Protection Agency follows the law and does its duty under the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act to protect people in Missouri as well as in the country from air and water pollution" said Hickey. "And if that means we've got to sue the EPA. We are more than ready to do that."
Trump has repeatedly called the concept of man-made climate change a "hoax." Ebell, who is not a scientist, has said "a lot of third-, fourth- and fifth-rate scientists have gotten a long ways" by embracing climate change.
Hickey says the panel discussion will also center on what he calls "bright spots" from the election, including voter approved renewal of a sales tax to fund soil conservation and state parks. "We know from evidence like that, that Missourians support public lands. They support clean water when that is set up as stand-alone issue." Hickey claims the tax, which passed by an 80 percent margin, was supported by all 114 counties in the state. He says the Sierra Club will now try to get those voters involved in a campaign to support environmental policies Trump wants to eliminate.
Hickey further notes another positive result for environmentalists was the election of several sympathetic state lawmakers. "Senator Scott Sifton in St. Louis County had a very strong reelection despite having hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent against him" said Hickey. "You look at a Crystal Quade from Springfield. Or you look at a Martha Stevens in Columbia. Or you look at a Mark Ellebracht in Clay County. You had a number of pro-environmental candidates who did win."
The panel event takes place at noon Wednesday at Webster University in St. Louis, and will also be attended by 91st District State Representative Jeanne Kirkton. Hickey will serve as moderator. Also on the panel are Megan Price, the Student Government Vice President at Webster University, Don Corrigan, an editor at the Webster-Kirkwood Times and Amanda Rosen, Associate Professor of Politics & International Relations at Webster University.
Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, Environment / Conservation, Legislature, News, Politics / Govt
Missouri based professor connects religious embrace of Trump to distaste for Clinton
A Missouri based expert thinks Donald Trump's strong support among religious voters may reflect an intense distaste for Hillary Clinton.
According to exit polling from last week's election, Protestants voted for Trump by a 58 percent margin. Meanwhile Catholics, who normally vote Democratic, favored the Republican nominee by 52 percent. And his strength with white evangelical Christians was reflected in their embrace of him by a staggering 82 percent margin.
Professor Marie Griffith is director of the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. She's done extensive research on the topic, having authored a book released in 2000 called "God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission".
Griffith says evangelical hostility toward the Clintons dates back to the 1990's when Hillary was referred to as a wicked, evil person. "That language is not used so much publicly anymore" said Griffith. "But I think that it certainly led the way for accusations of her criminality to be taken very seriously. There's just been this underlying sense of her as a wicked person that was never going to be shaken."
Griffith thinks evangelical voters were never going to embrace Clinton because of such strong distrust of her over 20 years. She also contends Trump connected with religious voters, despite moral shortcomings, because he presented himself as a fighter against the evils of the world. "They were much less concerned about the sexual vulgarity. They were much less concerned about that sort of thing. But he still managed to mesh with that portion of Christian values that's really about fighting the evil powers of the world. And he seemed like the strongest, best candidate to do that." Griffith notes Trump outperformed other Republicans in the primaries, such as Red Cruz, who publicly identified themselves as evangelicals.
She also points out the now President elect's robust performance with religious voters came despite efforts by prominent evangelical leaders to make a case against him.
Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention, Washington Post newspaper columnist Michael Gerson and several evangelical bloggers all pointed out the moral flaws of Trump. Griffith thinks their pleas to evangelical voters failed to resonate because they failed to make a case to vote for Clinton.
Trump's success with religious voter could also be signaling a shift on their part according to Griffith. "The fact that his divorces and affairs have garnered almost no attention in those circles I do think is quite striking. Used to be, it's the kind of behavior he exhibited in even just his own marital history, would have disqualified someone a few years ago." Griffith thinks the fact that those issues don't seem to matter reflects a change in religious voters which experts will closely examine for years.
Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, Elections, News, Politics / Govt, Religious
Incoming Missouri Lieutenant Governor sees challenges and success for Republicans
Missouri's incoming Lieutenant Governor thinks his party will be on the hot seat in January. Republicans swept all five statewide seats in last week's election, and those future office holders will join a GOP supermajority legislature in the next session.
Lieutenant Governor Elect Mike Parson
Lieutenant Governor-elect Mike Parson thinks the party needs to prove it can get things done. "The pressure's going to be on us" said Parson. "People have put you there. Now what are you going to do. And can you deliver an agenda and get it through there. I think there's going to be a huge responsibility with that. And I thinks we're going to have to step forward quickly to prove we can do something."
Both Republican legislative caucuses have announced their goals for the upcoming session. Senate and House Republicans agree labor reform will be a top priority. From the GOP perspective, labor reform means implementing a right to work law.
Parson thinks such legislation will be introduced and passed quickly. "Right to work definitely is going to be on the table. I think we all know that. In this state it's been a long time coming. It's been vetoed several times by the current governor. I think with a Republican governor you'll see that go through pretty quick."
Right to work laws let employees avoid joining unions that negotiate wages and benefits for them. Republicans say the laws stimulate job growth, while Democrats claim they destroy unions and lead to lower pay for workers. Outgoing Democratic Governor Jay Nixon successfully vetoed right to work measures a number of times during his term-limited eight years in office. Republicans now seemingly hold all the cards and can pass and sign laws at will.
Parson says his boss – Governor elect Eric Greitens – will make the final decision on policy issues, including right to work legislation. "I think that'll be a top priority for the next administration. But that's up to Eric Greitens to decide. And I'm going to be there to help Eric Greitens be the best governor in the state of Missouri. That's what I'm going to do."
Greitens beat Democratic challenger Chris Koster in this month's election by a 51-to-45 percent margin. Parson won the Lieutenant Governor race over Democrat Russ Carnahan by almost 11 points.
Republican leaders in the Senate and House have stated their top priorities. Senate Majority Floor Leader Mike Kehoe said "With good communication we can work towards our goals of economic development, labor reform, and regulatory reform." GOP House Speaker Todd Richardson says House Republicans will focus on labor reform, tort reform and education reform in 2017.
Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, Labor, Legislature, News, Politics / Govt