Wow, how this seasoned unravelled to the point the entire organization is under the microscope and looks real bad to the world. Hiring a coach with no NHL experience was bad. Forcing the coach to keep Bucky and Smith – bad again. Evaluating Dubnyk and concluding he's a starting goalie – soooooo bad. Making no attempt to fix the D which everyone knew was a problem – bad. Gagner's contract which greatly diminishes his trade value – bad. Employing a chicken-crap heavyweight who wears a face shield and instigates fights – just plain bad. Katz not accepting Lowe's phoney offer to resign – bad. The very fact the offer was made – pathetically bad. The rediculous letter to the fans – bad and oh so desperate. Censorship of the fans – bad on so many levels. Cheerleaders at the game – embarrassingly bad since this is Edmonton, Alberta, not Japan. Competing, yet again, for another first overall – bad. Jeeze, this list could go on forever. Anyone else want to identify some "bads"?
Also the worst radio play by play announcer ever. The guy is just brutal. Also color guy (Debrusk) is getting pretty boring too.
Time to make a complete change in both radio and tv crews. Even Gene Principae is starting to annoy me. His schtik is getting old already. He acts like a clown first and then the real clowns hit the ice.
One new first line centre and at least one really good d-man will go a long way to help this team. Very big challenge for MacT. I just dont know where he goes to get these players as no team wants to give them up. MacT will have to grossly overpay to get anything close to what we need.
Even the headlining clowns need an opening act.
Then overpay!!! I don't care anymore. Give Markov 9 million and let's just get the guy! Same for whoever else! Just buy these guys! Everyone else overspends!
No way the Oilers don't trade that pick..
CONNOR! CONNOR! CONNOR! CONNOR! CONNOR! CONNOR! CONNOR! CONNOR! CONNOR! CONNOR! CONNOR! CONNOR!
Just think of how much potential we could ruin if the oilers manage to grab that kid. with our current track record we could have him ran out of the nhl and playing in the icelandic elite league in, im saying 4 years after draft date.
oilers nation should have a poll and ask the Question if to fire the coach now with 9 games left or keep him for next season for the first 10 games and see .and it is a serious request .
Eakins is clearly dead man walking. Most (maybe all) of the players have tuned him out and do not respect him.
When Redford had her crisis, somebody said "Let's develop a 'work plan' and put her on probation". Then everyone woke up and said "If she is that bad, let's just get rid of her".
So the "experienced associate coach" idea is goofy. If your coach needs training wheels, you need a new coach.
At one time I fovoured giving Eakins 15-20 games next season but now I think that is a mistake. The writing is on the wall. Also, there is no point firing him before the end of this season. They need to do a thorough, professional search and not hire somebody because MacTavish falls in love with him in a meeting.
But I have zero confidence in Lowe and/or MacTavish to make a reasonable HC hire. So the ultimate solution is for Katz to fire Eakins, Lowe and MacTavish about thirty minutes after the last game of the year.
The Oilers are like the bad girlfriend that I just can't stop loving, even though she's now overweight and arrogant.
It's time for a clean break, it's not me, it's you.
Once things are sorted out in upper management (6 rings will not be POHO when the season starts) Taylor Hall will lead this team to glory.
He is an outstanding hockey player and completes every night. Every year he will get better and better and he will eventually win a Stanley Cup with the Oilers.
Katz is weird and he is about as shady as they come! It seems to me there was another owner in Edmonton who almost ran the team into the ground as well…PP anyone?
Had we, like a lot of NHL teams, never won the cup, our expectations would be much much lower, therefore we would not be nearly as irritated about the current situation as we are.
Katz Jr. will not have this same problem, by the time he inherits the team, everyone that remembers the glory years will be dead, and expectations will be in alignment with any other team that has not won the cup in 60 years.
Absolutely right… I've tried several times this year to make a clean break, but always find myself checking this blog & others.
Need to find something else to fill the void… But what?
I've started building my secret underground evil layer. When it's complete I am going to take control of the worlds frogurt supplies and all will bow to me.
How about the Rush?? Now there's a team that's worth cheering for!
I think it is safe to say even Edmonton FC is more worth cheering for than Oilers.
This is true. To all of those disgruntled oilers fans. Go to a rush game, rexall beers are still 8 dollars but you wont care after 3 of them. Go be loud and watch a team that wins and gives a fudge. The compete level of the edmonton rush, guys who work other jobs and are paid pennies, is so much higher then our 6million/year doll house hockey players its emberresing. go away oilers go rush go bring on the champions cup.
I used to live 11 time zones away, which is not as bad as you might think for watching the Oilers. Most mornings I would get up at 5 or 6 AM and watch a couple of periods before going to work. I knew they were terrible, I knew they would lose, but I just couldn't stop.
Now I have moved to 8 time zones away. The games are on at 1 or 2 AM and it is impossible to watch, and I am a happier person.
I just get to work and read about the latest loss in the morning.
had some warm milk and slept like a rock!
To me there is a great flaw in the analysis of the Oilers. Many MSM types repeatedly state that the Oilers are talented offensively. Their rationale for arriving at this conclusion is that they must be because they have drafted 3 forwards first over all.
Unfortunately this analysis is wrong because the Oilers are not a good offensive team. This is confirmed when you look at the Goals For statistics.
They have some offensive talent, but they have no strength or depth at centre and therefore are destined to fail until this is corrected. . Accordingly, the Oilers need to draft a #1 or #2 Centre in order to actually become a talented offensive team.
I remember Jay Feaster Calling it how it is a couple of years ago. "Wandering the desert" I believe he said… I hear he's looking for a gig.


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Demand and investor interest in the co-living model are on the rise, even as skepticism over scalability and affordability remains
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By Will Parker and David Jeans
The Collective plans to build the country's largest co-living development in Brooklyn.
It seems co-living is finally coming of age. The problem is how to scale.
The high-end communal housing model is expanding in a number of cities, including New York, and fewer property owners, investors and bankers are cringing at the thought.
In late March, Tishman Speyer teamed up with local co-living company Common to launch Kin, a shared living space for families in the city. The move came just after the Collective paid $58 million to buy Long Island City's 125-key Paper Factory Hotel, the London-based co-living startup's second New York real estate purchase in five months.
But unlike its sister concept co-working, which often involves repurposing singe-floor office leases, co-living's requirements are far more robust. In many cases, entire buildings with shared kitchen and other communal spaces are needed to make it work.
"To scale, you really have to do ground-up [development]," said Common's co-founder and CEO, Brad Hargreaves. That's a path his four-year-old firm has taken in order to expand nationally, he noted.
Some landlords are reluctant to overhaul their properties to accommodate that, and others still have doubts about whether co-living can compete with traditional rental housing.
But those in the business claim demand for their services is rising, with more tenants willing to pay for flexible leases and all-inclusive amenities. In 2018, Common said it had more than 14,000 applications for just 700 open beds nationwide.
Debt brokers, meanwhile, say banks and other lenders are becoming more comfortable with co-living, thanks to an increase in returns that can beat out other rental properties. Matthew Polci, of the brokerage Mission Capital Advisors, said the "higher rents that co-living units can achieve typically translate into an operating margin [that's] 30 to 50 percent higher than conventional multifamily."
Polci, who has negotiated financing for co-living start-ups, said lenders interested in co-living are the same firms providing debt for standard rental apartments, student housing and hotels. Their acceptance of the co-living model has steadily increased within the past two to three years, he added.
Common CEO Brad Hargreaves
That shift comes as European co-living companies flood into the U.S. in an effort to build on a concept that has swelled in popularity overseas. However, some remain skeptical about co-living's viability given American cultural norms.
"If you think about Europe in general, and people who travel there, they stay in hostels — it's much more of a transient community," said Avison Young investment sales broker Brandon Polakoff, who's based in Manhattan. "In the U.S. … people have opted for hotels in the major cities."
The co-living calculus
With the fate of co-living's growth in New York heavily leaning on new development, the sector could also face the same challenges as affordable housing: a lack of supply constrained by high land costs, strict zoning laws and a relatively shallow, though growing, pool of financing options.
The pitch to investors and lenders is simple: Only affluent young professionals can afford to rent their own one-bedroom apartments in the city's more desirable neighborhoods. Average monthly rental prices in Manhattan and Brooklyn are $3,161 and $2,722 respectively, according to recent reports from the brokerage MNS.
Co-living residents rent bedrooms in shared spaces, furnished and stocked with virtually anything they would need — from new friends to an array of entertainment options. In return, they pay a premium on a square-foot basis.
As a result, co-living spaces can cost more than a bedroom in a shared apartment. The lowest monthly price offered by Common is $1,340 at a building in Crown Heights, while studio apartments at the We Company's WeLive outpost at 110 Wall Street start at more than $3,000 a month.
While prospective renters can find rooms in some shared apartments for closer to $1,000 a person each month, co-living providers seek to give customers a better arrangement when it comes to the quality of the bedrooms and shared amenities.
New York-based co-living startups, such as Common and Ollie, began small in boroughs and have since branched out to do multiple ground-up projects nationwide. European outfits like the Collective and Germany's Quarters, meanwhile, have sought to capitalize here in the States on their success at home.
Quarters, a unit of the Berlin-based Medici Living Group, has raised $1.4 billion in equity and debt for co-living projects internationally, including $300 million in North America. The Collective plans to build the country's largest co-living development at Brooklyn's 555 Broadway, with 500 apartments, and turn the Paper Factory in LIC into a "short-stay" co-living community.
Mission Capital's Polci said that when talking to banks and other lenders about co-living projects, he points to the premiums many can earn. Larger banks have their preferences for how co-living deals are arranged, said Common's Hargreaves, noting that many prefer hard leases, which require a good credit rating, over management leases.
Hargreaves started Common in 2015 with the conversion of a walkup Crown Heights rental building the company bought for $4 million. Today, more than 80 to 90 percent of his business is in new development, which has been the quickest way to scale, he said. In February, Common launched a private equity fund, in partnership with Mexican multifamily investors, aimed at ground-up developments internationally.
But Ben Thypin, whose firm Quantierra owns a Crown Heights building where Common is a tenant, said it remains to be seen if investor interest in co-living in New York will match that of prospective renters. That potential shift could help determine the business model's long-term viability in the city, he added.
"A lot of these companies have raised a lot of development money, but regular real estate investors have not bought any co-living properties," Thypin said. "We don't have any proof yet that they've bought into the model."
One ongoing question is whether co-living can reinvent the wheel of apartment renting on a scale comparable to co-working's office leasing impact. For Medici Living Group's Gunther Schmidt, a former folk musician who launched Quarters in 2017, the answer is yes.
Quarters CEO Gunther Schmidt
"I see an opportunity to build a platform that is 20 to 30 times bigger than anyone else on the market," Schmidt said. "We want to be the WeWork of co-living."
Confidence in Quarters' co-living model is high in Europe. Schmidt said he plans to open 6,000 beds across the continent, thanks to a $1.1 billion investment Medici landed in December from Luxembourg-based real estate investor CoreState Capital Holding. Quarters received $300 million from W5 Group, a London-based family office run by German real estate investor Ralph Winter, the following month.
Buoyed by those funding rounds, Schmidt has embarked on a tour around the world to promote the benefits of co-living. In February, Quarters announced it would manage 84 units at 1190 Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant — a project being developed by Brooklyn's Bawabeh Realty Holdings — as part of a plan to open 1,300 co-living beds in the U.S.
Schmidt, who also founded a company that conducts online surveys, said he discovered co-living's potential after enticing prospective employees to his previous venture by offering them free accommodations.
On the other end of the spectrum, the We Company has shown less confidence in its WeLive division. The co-working giant's co-living endeavor is one of three businesses under the parent company's umbrella. But WeLive only two has locations, in Washington, D.C., and Downtown Manhattan, with a third planned for Seattle. That expansion rate that pales in comparison to its core WeWork business.
Kushner Companies' Charles Kushner told TRD last year that he ditched WeLive as an anchor tenant at his One Journal Square apartment complex in Jersey City, despite losing a $6.5 million annual state tax credit. Kushner said the communal living plan put forward by WeLive was "bastardized" and could cripple his plans for the development.
"[If] their concept was wrong, we would have to rebuild the building," Kushner said. The We Company declined to comment for this story.
Though landlords like Kushner have yet to be convinced, there are other potential avenues for co-living's growth in New York.
In November, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development held a conference calling for submissions from co-living firms to partner on an initiative called ShareNYC, which aims to address the city's affordable housing crisis. The conference attracted Common, Ollie and the We Company, all of which are expected to submit partnership proposals. Landlords including Brookfield Asset Management and CIM Group also attended.
"We are very optimistic about partnering with these firms," said Leila Bozorg, HPD's deputy commissioner for neighborhood strategies. "There's a strong potential this model can work."
Common, a New York co-living company started in 2015, recently formed a partnership with
Tishman Speyer.
The agency would not disclose which companies, or how many, submitted proposals.
Since the November meeting, Ollie has issued its own call for partnerships with landlords to make a proposal to HPD. Bozorg said the co-living model would need to be aligned with the city's requirement that rent be based on income parameters and not surpass 30 percent of an individual's monthly wages, rather than a set dollar figure. Whether that comes in the form of subsidies remains to be seen, he added.
"There are some features of shared living that will make a unit more naturally affordable than traditional apartments," said Bozorg, noting that partnerships between HPD and private enterprises will likely be announced before year's end.
But issues around affordability underscore a major question for co-living companies as they seek to penetrate New York's hypercompetitive real estate market.
The Collective has already committed to making 30 percent of the 500 apartments at 555 Broadway affordable, but those units will be managed by HPD's housing lottery. The company's 30-year-old founder, Reza Merchant, said the details of how those apartments are put together still need to be worked out with the city, but he emphasized that the affordable units will "be included in the wider [co-living] environment."
Merchant said he also hopes to participate in ShareNYC.
Eternal struggles
Co-living companies are confronting other issues in New York apart from affordability.
That includes security deposits, the heaping piles of cash landlords collect when they sign new leases. Complaints regarding the return of that cash are overflowing, with the New York attorney general's office telling TRD last year that it recovered $920,000 for tenants who complained of having their deposits withheld in 2016 and 2017.
Common was threatened with a lawsuit in 2017 from a tenant who alleged it had not returned her $2,000 security deposit at a Boerum Hill building. Common said that responsibility was with the property's landlord.
Investors in co-living properties in the city may also have to wait a while for their returns. Ollie has raised at least $17 million since it launched in 2012, including a Series A funding round in 2018 that involved the investment arm of the Moinian Group.
But the co-living startup's slow growth speaks to the time it takes to acquire and renovate rental apartments in New York. Ollie is now managing the bottom half of Simon Baron's Alta rental complex, a 467-unit development on Northern Boulevard in LIC. But the project took four years to develop — a potential warning sign to investors eager to reap the rewards from co-living's rise.
"It's got a number of challenges," said Zillow senior economist Grant Long. "The co-living trend is asking renters to make a different set of trade-offs. But we are seeing real strength in the rental market right now, and there is a lot of money to be made for companies to take advantage of that."
Some co-living companies claim to have quicker turnarounds.
New York-based Roomrs, a membership co-living service, now has 400 rooms in 160 apartments throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan. Unlike Ollie, Roomrs does not lease out entire chunks of buildings, and instead furnishes apartments for rent so tenants can take residence within five days.
In a Roomrs pitch deck presented to landlords and shared with TRD, the company states that customers stay for an average of 7.9 months at a mean price of $1,577. Founded in 2017, Roomrs has since raised $2.4 million in venture funding.
Merchant, who started the Collective as a London School of Economics student in 2010, said co-living buys something that can't fit into a pitch deck or a deal sheet.
"We've had people that at one point were in a really bad place in their life, almost suicidal, and have come to live in the Collective and gained that sense of purpose," he said. "They have turned things around completely. Real estate is a vehicle through which we see that."
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So, Why Are Bob Dylan's Videos So Violent Anyway?
Homme Fatale: In 'The Night We Called It a Day,' Dylan and Robert Davi vie for a woman's affection Image by YouTube
By Jay Michaelson April 6, 2015
If you've been watching Bob Dylan videos lately (I know it's a select group, but if you're reading this article, you're probably in it), you may have noticed that a number of them are violent. Seriously violent. Gunshots, stabbing, torture violent. You may have wondered, what's up with that?
The three most violent — "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" (from 2009's "Together Through Life"), "Duquesne Whistle" (from 2012's "Tempest"), and the latest, "The Night We Called It a Day" — are all directed by the same man, Nash Edgerton. In Hollywood (and on IMDb), Edgerton is best known as a stunt man and stunt coordinator; his 126 credits include "The Matrix" and the second "Star Wars" trilogy. Other than the Dylan videos, his other directing credits are a handful of shorts.
According to an interview with Pitchfork, Edgerton had hardly any contact with Dylan when he worked on the first video. Because of privacy concerns, Dylan's management only played Edgerton the song once, over the phone. The two never met — and as of that interview, Edgerton didn't know whether Dylan had even seen it.
Well, at some point he must've, since Edgerton was invited back — first for the atrocious "Must Be Santa" from Dylan's mystifying 2009 Christmas album, then for "Duquesne" and "Shadows In The Night." And while Dylan doesn't appear in "Beyond Here Lies Nothin,'" he has appeared in each of the videos since. At some point, there must have been a meeting of the minds.
Which brings us back to the question of what, exactly, is up.
Let's dispatch one concern, which is the violence itself. I suppose there are still some folks out there who think of Dylan as the peacenik protest singer, "Blowing in the Wind" and all that. But even if that persona is reflective of reality (which it mostly isn't), it's about eight Dylans ago. As early as 1967, Dylan was singing about John Wesley Harding, who "was a friend to the poor" and "traveled with a gun in every hand." Since then, so many people have been shot, stabbed and beaten down in Dylan's songs that Rolling Stone could even compile the hilarious "History of Violence: Murder and Justice in Bob Dylan Songs" that spans five decades.
In fact, that juxtaposition — violence, murder and justice — is the key to understanding the new videos.
Let's remember, even John Wesley Harding himself was "never known to hurt an honest man." And if you look closely, that's the principle at work in the videos too.
Thematically, Edgerton's three compositions (omitting "Must Be Santa") bear little connection to the content of the songs. Rather, they are evocative of the moods the songs create.
"Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" is one of Dylan's so-called "Mexican roadhouse" songs, because it sounds like it's being played by a bar band somewhere along the Rio Grande. The lyrics are secondary to the way they're delivered; as John Lennon once said, you don't need to know what Dylan's singing, only the way he sings it: "I love you pretty baby/You're the only love I've ever known/Just as long as you stay with me/The whole world is my throne." As someone once said of the entire "Together Through Life" album, these words could be song by a teenage pop star, and they'd be innocuous. But in Dylan's ragged growl, they take on a sense of doom and foreboding.
That darkness is all over the video. In it, a man walks into a cheap apartment (probably not far from that Mexican bar) and, sensing something his wrong, enters the bedroom — only to be hit over the head with a bottle by his (ex?) girlfriend. A full-on brawl ensues; it becomes clear the woman is trapped in the apartment, and she and the man punch, kick, strangle, stab and throw one another. Eventually, the woman escapes (just barely), runs over the man with his car, and, as he lays dying, kisses him.
Edgerton has picked up here on the darkness in the obsessive lyrics ("beyond here lies nothin'") and the rollicking tone of the music. This isn't even a love affair anymore; it's obsession, control and violence. "These songs take no prisoners," Dylan once wrote of the classic blues songs he covered on the "World Gone Wrong" album. Neither does this video.
And yet, justice is served. The man who has been abusing women gets his comeuppance.
There's a very similar pattern in "Duquesne Whistle." This time, the feel of the song is deceptively light, jaunty, even. And sure enough, the video begins with a young man trying to woo a beautiful woman.
But that all falls apart. The narrator of the song (co-written by Dylan and the longtime Grateful Dead songwriter Robert Hunter) is similarly obsessed ("You're the only thing alive that keeps me going") and possibly at death's door. And the "hero" of the video turns out to be creepy. The woman maces him. But when he sees her next, again he chases after her — knocking over a ladder, running across traffic.
And that's where the video goes insane. The "hero" is spotted by the man he knocked off the ladder, and is thrown into a van, taken to a warehouse, and beaten with a baseball bat. The violence is shocking, especially as everything had seemed to be so light and sweet just a minute ago. But it, too, is just: Again, a man disrespects a woman and suffers terribly for it.
Dylan, meanwhile, saunters down the street with a motley crew reminiscent of the group assembled for the cover of "The Basement Tapes." He appears in the story only briefly, when the young man is dumped on the side of the road (still dreaming of his girl), and Dylan steps right over him.
That brings us, finally, to the latest video, for a song Frank Sinatra made famous, "The Night We Called It a Day." Once again, the video tracks the mood — not the lyrics. The words of the song are mournful, plaintive: "There wasn't a thing left to say/The night we called it a day." The mood is one of loss; the song and its arrangement possess a kind of elegance and class that evoke a bygone era.
Fittingly, the video is film noir — black and white, stylized, a treat. Dylan is now center stage; he and actor Robert Davi play dueling lovers, vying for the affection of the femme fatale played by Tracy Phillips. But Davi's character breaks into the woman's apartment, forcing himself on her — only to find Dylan already there, pointing a gun at him. Once again, violence ensues. The woman chloroforms and kills him. She and Dylan run off into the elevator — but each pulls a gun on the other. She who lives by the sword dies by the sword, and Dylan gets away.
In all three of these films, there's a kind of Old Testament justice that reminds one of Clint Eastwood with his mournful, tragic tone; there are no heroes here, only violence. Yet the violence is not random. Dylan remains a believer — whether Jewish or Christian or both — and the world of these videos is an ordered one. Men abuse women, men die. (The only woman who loses in the end is the one who double-crosses Dylan, who has not done her wrong.)
Through it all, both the videos and songs rely on evocation rather than description. "Shadows in the Night," with Dylan covering songs written by others, is the clearest example of this. (The album contains his best singing in years, and also reveals how much of the growl on "Tempest" and other albums was a stylistic choice.) But it's been this way with much of Dylan's later work; the lyrical tropes of blues, rock and roots are just the framework for the expressive voice. The sad songs are gesturing to sorrows that go unspoken: those of aging, perhaps, or friends who have died. They use the language of love to express truths of the heart that might be cheapened by being conveyed literally.
The world in these short films is brutal, but not senseless. Like some of Dylan's latter-day personae, especially on "Tempest" — with songs like "Pay in Blood" and "Narrow Way" — or like those of Johnny Cash, the worldview of these videos is colored by experience and the hard truths of human existence. But they do not end in nihilism. Amid all the blood, there is faith.
Jay Michaelson is a contributing editor of the Forward.
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The Chairman of the Discipline Committee must determine whether or not the complaint is frivolous or vexatious or whether there is enough evidence for the complaint to proceed to a formal hearing.
If the Chairman of the Discipline Committee decides that the complaint is not to go forward to a formal hearing, then the complainant has the right to appeal the Chairman's decision to the entire Discipline Committee.
The complainant may appeal the Discipline Committee Chairman's decision but the appeal must be received by the Association within 30 days of the complainant receiving the notice that the complaint is not proceeding to a formal hearing.
If the complaint does proceed to a formal hearing, the Alberta Land Surveyors' Association will draft the charges and the Notice of Hearing.
As the complainant, you will likely be asked to appear as a witness and testify under oath.
A panel of the Discipline Committee will hear all evidence presented before it and render a decision.
The Discipline Committee has the authority to make an order against a practitioner if he is found guilty of unskilled practice or unprofessional conduct or both. The order can range from a reprimand to a suspension of the practitioner's license.
Please note that the Discipline Committee does not have the authority to order the practitioner to compensate the complainant for any damages that may have occurred.
The Alberta Land Surveyor may appeal the Discipline Committee's decision to the Council of the Alberta Land Surveyors' Association and then to the Alberta Court of Appeal. Neither the complainant nor the Alberta Land Surveyors' Association has the right to appeal the Discipline Committee's decision.
Once a decision is rendered, the Alberta Land Surveyors' Association shall inform the complainant of the Discipline Committee's Findings and Order.
A landowner may disagree with an Alberta Land Surveyor as to the location of a boundary but that does not mean that the practitioner is unskilled or that a complaint should be filed.
Instead, ask the Alberta Land Surveyor how he determined the boundary and if you are still not satisfied, it may be necessary to hire another Alberta Land Surveyor for a second opinion.


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Meet the Utilisation Management Unit
Dr. Deborah Atkinson
Clinical Programme Development Lead
Dr. Paula Bennett
Associate Director, UM Unit
Darren Biega
Clinical Development Manager
Dr Deborah Atkinson (Registered Nurse – Adult) is clinical programme development lead with the NW Utilisation Management unit, part of Health Innovation Manchester. Deborah is a registered nurse with a long background in acute medicine and urgent care. Previously, Deborah was the executive nurse director at Mastercall Healthcare with responsibility for delivering urgent and primary care services across Greater Manchester; prior to this, she was employed as Consultant Nurse in Emergency Demand (acute medicine) at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. Deborah has managed widescale system change involving providers across acute and primary care interfaces. Her interests are in service development and improving patient safety.
Dr Paula Bennett is the Associate Director of the UM Unit and (Registered Nurse – Adult and Children's) has 26 years clinical practice in adult and paediatric emergency nursing. Paula has a Doctorate from University of Salford that evaluated the impact of computerised clinical decision support on frontline care.
Paula first joined the Utilisation Management Unit in October 2016 as its Associate Director of clinical development and has recently taken on the responsibility of strategic lead for the team.
Darren Biega (Registered Nurse – Adult) is a Clinical Development Manager working within the Utilisation Management Unit, part of Health Innovation Manchester. He is a senior registered nurse with extensive experience in emergency medicine and urgent care commissioning and has worked in the NHS for over 20 years.
His current portfolio of work is primarily focussed on supporting CCG clients with the development and management of their respective urgent care strategies and related operational system resilience infrastructure. This work requires direct engagement with health and social care partners across the GM footprint but the UM Unit also supports clients across the UK and Northern Ireland.
Darren is a medical instructor and continues to enjoy teaching Advanced Life Support resuscitation skills to doctors, dentists and nurses at all stages in their career pathway from student to Consultant.
Caroline Dykeman
Clinical Development Lead
Sarah Fretwell
Analytical Manager
Elmira Hajdari
Information Analyst
Caroline Dykeman (Registered Nurse – Adult) is a Clinical Development Lead with The Utilisation Management Team. She has over 25 years' experience working in the NHS, specialising in Emergency Medicine and the field of Utilisation Management. She has a BSc Special Honours degree in Psychology and is currently working towards a Master's qualification in Health and Social Care Leadership. Caroline provides expert clinical intelligence to inform and support integrated care systems and sustainability and transformation partnerships in meeting local NHS and Social Care challenges.
Sarah Fretwell is the Analytical Manager for The Utilisation Management Unit. She has a BSc in Biology and Information Systems and an MSc in IT and Management. Sarah has 9 years experience working across multiple roles in NHS Informatics and Analytics.
Elmira Hajdari is an Information Analyst for the Utilisation Management Unit. Elmira has a MSc in Computer Forensics and a BSc in Computer Science. She has worked in NHS Business Intelligence for over 2 years and previously worked at an Acute Trust.
Charlie Heaven
Zoe Marsden
Andrew Mullarkey
Head of Analytics
Charlie Heaven has a BSc in Molecular Cell Biology and an MSc in Bioinformatics. She have worked for the NHS for 6 years in various roles. Most recently she has worked at The Christie Hospital as a clinical trials coordinator and a research assistant for 2 projects in the Greater Manchester Cancer Vanguard.
Zoe Marsden is an Information Analyst for the Utilisation Management Unit. Zoe has a BSc in Mathematics and after graduating Zoe took a year out to take part in the Cultural Representative Program, living and working at Walt Disney World, Florida. Since then, Zoe has worked as an Information Analyst in both the private sector and an NHS Community Healthcare Trust
Andrew Mullarkey is a specialist in data analysis techniques having spent 17 years working in Business Intelligence.
Andrew uses his vast experience in Statistical Process Control (SPC) analysis and time series analysis techniques to predict potential surges and pressure points in hospital systems on a regular basis.
Senior Information Analyst
Andrea Riley
Clinical Nurse Reviewer
Catherine Nelson is a Senior Information Analyst for the Utilisation Management team for the past 8 years. Prior to this, she worked within local authority and the private sector, working within quality, improvement, performance and project management roles.
Catherine's role within the analytical team involves: producing the Daily Pressures Reports, supporting the clinical review team with the development and maintenance of review databases and analysis of the data collected, along with the analysis, interpretation and presentation of health care data, mainly within Urgent Care.
Andrea Riley (Registered Nurse – Adult) is a Clinical Nurse Reviewer with The Utilisation Management Unit. She is a Registered Nurse (RN Adult) with a distinction in 'Research in Health & Social care'. She has a wealth of clinical experience having worked across surgical assessment units and surgical wards, specialising in Burns and Plastics, during her 10 year NHS career. Andrea's role involves reviewing a variety of care pathways across a range of settings, collecting retrospective patient level data from clinical records or prospective data at the point of care is delivery. In addition, she supports the senior clinical nurse reviewer in carrying out provisional analysis and interpretation of data outputs. This enables productive feedback and recommendations to commissioners and providers in relation to supporting redesign of patient pathways.
Jen Pover
Clinical Team Manager
Helen Tomlinson
Jen Pover (Registered Nurse – Adult) is the Clinical Team Manager within the Utilisation Management unit, part of Health Innovation Manchester. She is a senior registered nurse (RN Adult) with over 30 years' experience working in the NHS, with a wealth of experience in emergency and urgent care working across roles as both a commissioner and a provider. Jen's role involves liaising with CCG's to manage the clinical pathway review process. Jen leads a team of clinical nurse reviewers who scrutinise pathways at the point of care delivery to provide robust evidence for clinical pathway improvements and strategic service redesign.
Helen Tomlinson (Registered Nurse – Adult) is a Clinical Nurse Reviewer within The Utilisation Management Unit. She is a Registered Nurse (RN Adult) and a former midwife, with further qualifications in nurse prescribing, chronic disease management (specialising in respiratory work) and community nursing. She has also worked within clinical research.
She brings with her a wealth of clinical experience having worked in hospital and community in her 34 years NHS career. Her role involves reviewing a variety of care pathways across a range of settings; collecting retrospective patient level data from clinical records or prospective data at the point of care delivery. In addition, she supports the senior clinical nurse reviewer in carrying out provisional analysis and interpretation of data outputs. This enables productive feedback and recommendations to commissioners and providers in relation to supporting redesign of patient pathways.


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Since This Cop Attacked A School Girl, Only Ones Facing Jail Are The Victim And A Girl Who Filmed It
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AFRICANGLOBE – Earlier this year, we covered the story of a high school student who was thrown from her desk by a school police officer and brutally slammed to the ground. A video of the incident was taken by another student, and it sparked nationwide outrage after it went public.
After seeing the video, it should be obvious to anyone that the officer was guilty of assault, and that the girl was actually doing nothing wrong, aside from disobeying the officer and refusing to get out of her seat.
Disobedience from a teenager surely does not warrant this type of response, especially a teenager that is sitting down and not posing a threat to anyone. However, shockingly, the officer is facing no charges, but the girl who was assaulted is, and so is the girl who filmed the brutal attack. Officer Ben Fields, the white thug cop guilty of the assault, was fired from his position, but he has faced no legal consequences as a result of his actions, as any normal person would in the same situation.
"If any one of us would have done a youngster or even an adult like that, we would be in jail that day," pastor and activist Thomas Dixon told the Associated Press.
Both girls face misdemeanor charges of disturbing schools, which could result in a $1,000 fine or 90 days in jail if they are found guilty.
Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of ColorOfChange spoke out against the charges in a recent statement, saying that:
These two young women have suffered enough without the justice system dragging out the process of eliminating these ridiculous charges. Solicitor Dan Johnson has the ability and opportunity to do the right thing. By failing to take action, he has aligned himself with far too many prosecutors around the country who criminalize black youth while failing to hold police accountable.
Solicitor Dan Johnson responded to these accusations by claiming that the case is now in the hands of the FBI, adding that "I do not simply decide cases based upon feelings, public opinion or sentiment, nor do I decide them based on political pressure."
This week, Federal Judge Mary Geiger Lewis dismissed a separate lawsuit against officer Fields that had nothing to do with the attack on the teenage girl. That case also involved an incident where he used unnecessary force against a student at Spring Valley High.
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8. Don't Care If It Sounds Cliché
8. Structure And Cosmetics – The Brunettes
Oh, great, glorious, silly pop music. The Brunettes are Jonathan Bree and Heather Mansfield, two New Zealand multi instrumentalists (and perhaps to two sexiest people in music) who have put out previous albums of indie pop fare. Adorable little Jonathan Richman tributes, with titles like 'When Ice Met Cream'.
That's all pretty much gone out the window for this year's best BIG pop record. Opening with Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth, a huge, symphonic, kinda Pet Sounds-y, kind of Queen-esque, but utterly charming opening number. It sounds like several hundred people singing "B-A, B-Y, I love to call you baby".
And from then we are off. Eight more wonderful pop confections, each moving and swaying with no real sense of strong structure. Just brilliant catchy pop bit after brilliant pop bit.
Heather is singing her heart out. Her layers and layers of vocal melody, matched with the sweetness (and oddness) of the lyrics are the album's heart. She sings about hairigami sets, banana bread, aliens, and lots of sha-la-las.
But the star is Jonathan Bree. Nothing about the Brunettes before suggested they could make such big leap. Breezy psychedelia, beautiful arrangements…this sounds like a classical record, or a song suite. Keyboards, guitars, trumpets and all manner of noodling swim in and out. It's very exciting on headphones.
In the end, this record is something new. I can't really think of anything like it. And I like it. More than like it, I love it. I suggest you start with "If You Were Alien" and go from there.


Full of memories of an alcoholic verbally and psychically abusive father named Hamilton- Hammy for short. He was a dental equipment salesman and he liked to remind Kevin that he was fat and couldn't meet girls.
Like the beginning of many biographies of comedians, Kevin's burden pushed him to become "the funny guy" and after getting kicked out of acting school, he joined Toronto's Second City Improv where he met Dave Foley and this other dude who is pretty much the equivalent of "the other guy" in Wham! It was there that they formed the first incarnation of The Kids in the Hall (a name that Jack Benny gave the young writers hanging around his offices). After a few years of performing the Toronto comedy scene, the group met Mark McKinney and Bruce McCulloch (who were part of a popular Calgary comedy troupe called The Audience). The teams combined forces and took Toronto by storm!
But where did Scott come from, you ask? Well, as Kevin explained, Scott just kept showing up at their shows and forcing himself onstage (Kevin shares a number of stories about the "functioning craziness" of Scott Thompson).
The troupe spent years writing and developing new material. They broke up for some time in the mid-80's to work on separate endeavors (Mark and Bruce had brief stints as writers on SNL, Dave tried acting, and Scott and Kevin kept doing improv), but ultimately reconvened and landed a TV pilot for CBC and HBO with SNL creator Lorne Michaels. During this time, Hammy's drinking got worse. His family had already left him and he was living on the street.
Kevin goes on to sing and dance (using those words lightly) the history of The Kids in the Hall (the successful five year TV show run, the Paramount feature, Brain Candy, a number of popular comedy tours, and their latest TV venture, "Death Comes to Town") and his father's further decline into alcoholism. During the crucial script deadline for Brain Candy, Kevin's father called to tell him that he locked himself up in a hotel room and would drink himself to death unless Kevin came to see him. Kevin arrived at the hotel room to see the bed covered in blood and his Dad incoherent and refusing to get help. Being a self-proclaimed passive aggressive (another song featured in the show), Kevin finally let out years of anger towards his father and forced him into the hospital.
As the show ends, Kevin explains that there is no happy ending for him to conclude with. Though his career has continued to survive with The Kids in the Hall, he never had the fairy tale movie ending-esque heart-to-heart with Hammy, who died about ten years later.
This show was dark. Some friends even complained that it may be too dark, equating it to a public therapy session with a sad middle aged man. However, that was my favorite aspect of the show. Having been obsessed with The Kids in the Hall from the ages of 15-18 (and wanting to move to Toronto to become a filmmaker because they were from there and because I was an asexual nerd) and knowing every nuance of their biography, this shed a whole new light on not only the never-before-heard facets of the troupe, but what made Kevin into Kevin. Though I thought some of Kevin's jokes seemed a little force, he proved to us again that one of the areas he's best at is story. Kevin's characters always balanced the fine line between comical and pathetic (think "Weekend with Daddy"or Chris Cooper's father in Brain Candy, which I kept help but feel are homages to Hammy), and that is exactly what "Hammy and The Kids" is. Kevin knows just how to take us on that emotional roller coaster of snickering one minute, then wondering if you should be laughing at something so horrible the next.
And I believe that is the essence of what made the Kids in the Hall so great. Finding the funny in the sad reality of alcoholic fathers, awkward adolescence, homophobia, dead-end jobs, and Canadian suburbia .
Here is an interesting interview with Kevin regarding his show and the other Kids reactions to it at The Onion's A..V Club.
P.S. and on a side note, if anyone cares, my ex, Mustache, the one I wrote the post about and got in trouble with, we're all cool now.
Maybe three years ago I got to see Kids in the Hall live. They basically did a two hour version of their show on stage. It was one of the greatest things I've ever seen.
@Jessica- I got to see them a number of times in various tours and they were all great! They put on a great show and are so talented! Where did you see them?
I'm glad they're back on television. I've always enjoyed watchign the Kids and the Hall repeats since I was a kid.
Glad to hear you've patched things with the mustachioed. Always good.


Forty-eight year old Paul Meza was driving drunk in his GMC pick-up truck eastbound on Highway 180 close to Highway 41 running from police. A Fresno Skywatch helicopter got wind of the pursuit and shone a light beam on him as he drove along Belmont Street. He crashed into another car before driving onto his own property and crashing into his garage. Police arrived and arrested him after a short struggle. The occupants of the other car were not hurt.


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Bad Ass (2011) (BluRay)
A Vietnam veteran who becomes a local hero after saving a man from attackers on a city bus decides to take action when his best friend is murdered and
the police show little interest in solving the crime.
Heat (1995) (BluRay)
Hunters and their prey--Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunte
d by Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery/Homicide police division. A botched job puts Hanna onto their trail while they regroup and try to put together one last big 'retirement' score. Neil and Vincent are similar in many ways, including their troubled personal lives. At a crucial moment in his life, Neil disobeys the dictum taught to him long ago by his criminal mentor--'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner'--as he falls in love. Thus the stage is set for the suspenseful ending....
Predators (2010) (BluRay)
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Death Race 2 (2010) (BluRay)
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Death Race: Inferno (2012) (BluRay)
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Rise of the Zombies (2012) (BluRay)
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A kidnapped young woman is forced on a road trip full of murder and mayhem that takes place entirely in her captor's getaway van.
Bad Ass 2 Bad Asses (2014) (BluRay)
Frank Vega teams up with grumpy old agoraphobic Bernie Pope to kick ass and clean up the streets of L.A.
Boost (2016) (BluRay)
When Jimmy finds a mysterious package in the trunk of his latest boost, he is thrust into a violent underworld of criminals, and a race against the cl
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Recoil (2012) (BluRay)
A cop turns vigilante after his family is murdered, exacting vengeance on the killers - and then on all criminals who have slipped through the system.
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Range 15 (2016) (WEB-DL)
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Machete (2010) (BluRay)
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Preggoland (2014) (BluRay)
A 35-year-old woman fakes being pregnant to fit in with her friends.
Cross Wars 2017 (2017) (BluRay)
Callan (Brian Austin Green) returns to the scene with his team in order to oppose the return of the evil Gunnar (Vinnie Jones); his path crosses again
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Cyborg X 2016 (2016) (BluRay)
After X-Corp, a radical weapons manufacturer, is taken over by a Cyber Virus, a group of survivors must fight to save humanity from the army of Machin
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Dead Again in Tombstone 2017 (2017) (BluRay)
Guerrero returns from the dead once more to protect a stolen relic from getting into the hands of a gang of soldiers, which will ultimately cause hell
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Animal Factory 2000 (2000) (BluRay)
A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.
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A shy British graduate gets dragged on a wild road trip across America to a fraternity party by his soon-to-be stepbrothers, as his mother marries int
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Retired hitman must reawaken all his deadly skills, and fight a one-man war against his former employer.
McDick (2017) (HDRip)
When the world's worst cop is fired he becomes the world's worst private detective. For reasons unknown he finds himself the target of every criminal
in town. He must overcome his incompetence and several character defects to solve the case and save his life. Written by Anonymous
Roxy (2018) (HDRip)
Cyrus Nollen is a teenage computer genius and legendary joker with a "nose for trouble" at Bergerac High. He's smart, sensitive, funny, and
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Grand Daddy Day Care (2019) (WEB-DL)
A family man turns his house into a 'day care' center for senior citizens.
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All About the Money (2017) (BluRay)
Two "down on their luck" buddies are convinced by a third to take a vacation. Only after landing in Colombia, South America, do they realize
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Wish Man (2019) (BluRay)
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Bare Knuckle Brawler (2019) (WEB-DL)
When cop Steve returns home in the midst of his brother Joey's investigation into the murder of two bare knuckle fighters, the case becomes personal w
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Bully 2019 (2018) (BluRay)
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Final Kill [Hindi] (2020) (BluRay)
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Machete [Hindi] (2010) (BluRay)
The highly skilled Federale Machete is hired by some unsavory types to assassinate a senator. But just as he's about to take the shot, he notices some
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9th April 2012 - STAR MARITIME
7.3% rise in Penang Port cargo
GEORGE TOWN: Penang Port Sdn Bhd (PPSB) handled 298,552 twenty-foot-equivalent units (TEUs) of container cargo at the North Butterworth Container Terminal (NBCT) for the first quarter of this year. This represents an increase of 7.3% over the previous corresponding period. The target set was for a 4% increase.
Penang Port chief operating officer Obaid Mansor told StarBiz that for the month of March alone, there was a 17% jump in total container cargo handled to 119,495 TEUs compared with 101,379 TEUs in the same period last year.
"We achieved a 17% jump because of our short-term business strategy. This involves targeting local and international shipping companies affected by the global economic crisis to increase usage of our storage facilities for non-operational container cargo at NBCT," Obaid said, adding that very attractive leasing rates were provided.
As a result of the slower growth in world trade, the number of export container cargo has shrunk. For the first quarter of this year, the ratio between export container cargo and imported cargo handled was 51:49 at NBCT. This compares with a ratio of 55:45 for the whole of last year.
"PPSB is targeting the total container cargo handled at NBCT to hit 1.278 million TEUs this year, an increase of about 7.4% from last year," he said.
"About 75% of the cargo handled at NBCT is full container load, which is expected to generate 70% of Penang Port's revenue for this year."
On the implementation of new port tariffs, Obaid said the review was now being studied by Penang Port Commission (PPC) and the Penang Port Consultative Committee.
"We will meet with them soon to make a presentation on the need to raise charges," Obaid said.
The tariffs were last revised in 2003 and implemented in 2007.
As a result of the revision, there was a 30% hike in handling charges for container cargo. The rate for a 20-ft container today is RM182 and RM273 for a 40-ft container.Obaid said the new tariffs would enable Penang Port to continue providing competitive pricing and quality services, and help improve its position as one of the top 100 container ports in the world.
"The tariff review will be timely due to higher oil prices and other operating costs which are eroding Penang Port's profit margins," he said.
Both Port Klang and Johor Port have also submitted their proposals to the Transport Ministry to raise tariffs.
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RECAP: Brexit and democracy protests take place in Cheltenham, plus demonstrations across county
Updates throughout the afternoon
Kim HortonSenior Reporter
Protesters from Cheltenham at the People's Vote march (Image: Cheltenham for Europe)
Protestors are gathering in Cheltenham today as a series of events take place across the county and the nation today as chaos engulfs the political climate.
An anti-Brexit rally is taking place in the town between noon and 2pm, starting at The Promenade before moving to Montpellier Gardens.
A number of anti-Brexit demonstrations are taking place across Gloucestershire this weekend, including events in Stroud, Cirencester and outside the offices of Forest of Dean MP, Mark Harper .
The Brexit Party is holding a stall outside St Mary de Crypt church as celebrations for Gloucester Day take place, but there are no pro-Brexit demonstrations taking place, Gloucestershire Live understands.
It comes after a number of protests have taken place across the county in the past week and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has secured an extension to a suspension of Parliament.
This is a developing story and we will bring you more updates as soon as we have them. New details will appear at the bottom of this article.
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'Boris has a populist agenda'
Max Wilkinson (Image: Carl Hewlett/TWM)
Cheltenham Councillor Max Wilkinson (Lib Dem) gave a speech at the Imperial Gardens in Cheltenham. There he said: "We are people that are standing up for what is right.
"Boris has a populist agenda. We do not have to put up with that.
"There should not be a British election now.
"Let him stew for a while and paint himself into a corner."
'Britain is safer in the EU'
Martin Griffiths, 65 from Cheltenham said: "I am here at the protest against Brexit and to support remaining part of the EU.
Martin Griffiths, 65 from Cheltenham
"The future of Britain is safer as part of Europe.
"The best way to keep peace within Northern Ireland is staying in the EU."
'Brexit would completely obliterate the Good Friday Agreement'
Jessica West, 35 from Cheltenham was born in Northern Ireland. She said: "I came today because I have my niece and nephew in Northern Ireland. I do not want them growing up there having memories like what I had growing up there.
Jessica West, 35 from Cheltenham
"I can remember when the Good Friday Agreement happened. I did not believe at the time it would stop the shootings and violence. I do not want that for my niece and nephew.
"Brexit would completely obliterate the Good Friday Agreement."
'Time for another public vote'
Rebsie Fairholm, 50 from Cheltenham said: "I am here as part of the protest today due to the proroguing of Parliament. It is time to have another public vote as to whether we leave the EU. It has been three years since the last vote and it is an out of date vote.
Rebsie Fairholm, 50 from Cheltenham
"It is the future generations that will suffer. I feel that people did not really know what they were voting for originally. As time has gone on it has become clearer what the implications of Brexit are."
Not a fan of Boris Johnson
Anti-Brexit protesters in Cheltenham. (Image: Eloisa Wildsmith Photography)
The turnout
About 300 people took part in today's protest in Cheltenham.
Outside Mark Harper's office this morning
Anti-Brexit protesters outside Mark Harper's office in Cinderford. (Image: Eloisa Wildsmith Photography)
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Why Adding Even a Small Amount of Coastal Wetlands to the Great Lakes Region Was a Significant Feat
Sarah Goodyear January 9, 2014
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The wetlands surrounding the Great Lakes are beginning to come back — a least, a little bit of them — and not because of benign neglect. They are coming back thanks to a concerted effort by a combination of government agencies and environmental groups that have advocated and worked for the restoration of these fragile and vital environments for decades.
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According to an October report, some 13,610 acres of coastal wetlands were added to the eight-state Great Lakes region between from 2004 and 2009. Given that the total wetlands acreage in the Great Lakes watershed is 8.5 million, that may not seem like a lot. Plus, some of that acreage comes from receding water that has exposed land. But it nevertheless represents a positive trend that stands in contrast to the rest of the country. During the study period, 360,720 acres of such wetlands disappeared across the nation at large.
An Associated Press story on the report points to the restoration of Erie Marsh on Lake Erie as one of the ongoing success stories in the region. The Erie Marsh Preserve, which encompasses 11 percent of the coastal wetlands that remain in Southeast Michigan, is part of an ongoing Nature Conservancy effort to rehabilitate the Western Lake Erie Basin, undertaken in partnership with businesses, hunting groups and many others.
That basin, according to the Nature Conservancy, used to be a complex wetland environment larger than the Everglades today. But generations of agricultural, commercial and residential development have transformed it. Despite dramatic improvements in water quality, pollutants from agricultural runoff remain a huge problem, as do invasive species. Part of the basin is still a dead zone.
Now, with the help of nearly a $1 million in funding from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GRLI), an Obama administration effort that launched in 2010, the Nature Conservancy is bringing Erie Marsh back. That's good news for the 65 species of fish, 29 species of waterfowl and 300 species of migratory birds who live there.
The GRLI has been responsible for the restoration and cleanup of countless other sites across the Great Lakes watershed. It's been a commitment of more than $1 billion in federal funds so far — signaling a recognition of just how important the Great Lakes are to the country's health and security. After all, they contain 84 percent of the surface freshwater in North America and provide drinking water to 30 million U.S. citizens.
At a time when the vital importance of clean water is becoming ever more apparent, this remarkable ecosystem — the largest freshwater system on Earth — seems more precious than ever, and more worthy of protection.
But the GRLI is just one of the many federal programs threatened by the budget wars in Congress. Initially funded at $475 million, its annual allotment has been cut steadily. A House subcommittee voted to slash its share in the coming fiscal year to $60 million, a number revised upward to $210 million by the House Appropriations Committee. But the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, along with many other local observers, says that isn't enough for the enormous task at hand.
From the Journal Sentinel's editorial:
This is not money for programs that would be "nice" to have, as one of the slashers put it last year. This is money for programs vital to the health of the Great Lakes, which serve not only as an international environmental treasure but as an economic engine for a large part of the United States and Canada.
As water scarcity becomes an issue in more communities around the nation, the wisdom of cleaning and maintaining the water we have is gaining urgency. The Great Lakes states and neighboring Canadian provinces have shown astuteness and foresight in protecting those resources with the Great Lakes Compact, sometimes to the frustration of those just outside the watershed. Increasingly, elected officials living in water-rich areas talk about how important those resources will be as the climate changes and traditional solutions become less reliable. Restoring wetlands is a vital part of a comprehensive approach to water management. Initiatives like the ones funded by the GRLI are not a luxury, and Congress should think long and hard about cutting them as if they were.
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The Martyrdom of St. John Fisher - 22 June 1535 (By Michael Davies)
[Taken from Saint John Fisher, by Michael Davies, The Neumann Press, 1998. Also available at St. John Fisher, Bishop and Martyr]
Statue of St. John Fisher outside St. John Fisher Church, Rochester, England
The Martyrdom of St. John Fisher
The last four days of the saint's life were sunshine. All his depression of soul had left him, so that his jailors marvelled at the joy and sense of freedom which possessed him. At five o'clock in the morning of 22 June, the Lieutenant of the Tower [of London] came to his bedside and found him fast asleep. Waking the prisoner gently, [Sir Edmund] Walsingham broke the news of his execution with great courtesy and sympathy. The cardinal [St. John had been Bishop of Rochester, and was made Cardinal Priest of Saint Vitalis by Pope Paul III a month earlier on 20 May] thanked him, and asked when it was to be. When he learned that the hour fixed was ten o'clock, he made answer:
Well, then, I pray you, let me sleep an hour or two, for I may say to you, I slept not much this night; and yet, to tell you the truth, not for any fear of death, I tell you, but by reason of my great infirmity and weakness.
And he turned over and went to sleep again. When he was awakened he called to his man to help him up, and commanded him to take away the shirt of hair he always wore, and to lay him forth a clean white shirt and all his best apparel, saying: "Dost thou not mark that this is our marriage day, and that it behoveth us, therefore, to use more cleanliness for solemnity of the marriage sake?"
When he came out of the Tower, a summer morning's mist hung over the river, wreathing the buildings in a golden haze. Two of the Lieutenant's men carried him in a chair to the gate, and there they set him down, while waiting for the Sheriffs. The cardinal stood up and leaning his shoulder against a wall for support, opened the little New Testament he carried in his hand. "O Lord," he said, so that all could hear him, "this is the last time I shall ever open this book. Let some comforting place now chance to me whereby I, Thy poor servant, may glorify Thee in my last hour" - and looking down at the page, he read:
Now this is eternal life: that they may know Thee, the one true God, and Jesus Christ Whom Thou has sent. I have glorified Thee on earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do (John, 17:3-4).
Whereupon he shut the book, saying: "Here is even learning enough for me to my life's end." His lips were moving in prayer, as they carried him to Tower Hill. And when they reached the scaffold, the rough men of his escort offered to help him up the ladder. But he smiled at them: "Nay, masters, now let me alone, ye shall see me go up to my death well enough myself, without help." And forthwith he began to climb, almost nimbly. As he reached the top the sun appeared from behind the clouds, and its light shone upon his face. He was heard to murmur some words from Psalm 33: Accedite ad eum, et illuminamimi, et facies vestræ non confundentur. The masked headsman knelt - as the custom was - to ask his pardon. And again the cardinal's manliness dictated every word of his answer: "I forgive thee with all my heart, and I trust on Our Lord Thou shalt see me die even lustily." Then they stripped him of his gown and furred tippet, and he stood in his doublet and hose before the crowd which had gathered to see his death. A gasp of pity went up at the sight of his "long, lean, slender body, nothing in manner but skin and bones ... the flesh clean wasted away, and a very image of death, and as one might say, death in a man's shape and using a man's voice." He was offered a final chance to save his life by acknowledging the royal supremacy, but the saint turned to the crowd, and from the front of the scaffold, he spoke these words:
Christian people, I am come hither to die for the faith of Christ's Catholic Church, and I thank God hitherto my courage hath served me well thereto, so that yet hitherto I have not feared death; wherefore I desire you help me and assist me with your prayers, that at the very point and instant of my death's stroke, and in the very moment of my death, I then faint not in any point of the Catholic Faith for fear; and I pray God save the king and the realm, and hold His holy hand over it, and send the king a good counsel.
The power and resonance of his voice, the courage of his spirit triumphing over the obvious weakness of his body, amazed them all, and a murmur of admiration was still rustling the crowd when they saw him go down on his knees and begin to pray. They stood in awed silence while he said the Te Deum in praise of God, and the Psalm [70] In Thee O Lord have I put my trust, the humble request for strength beyond his own. Then he signed to the executioner to bind his eyes. For a moment more he prayed, hands and heart raised to heaven. Then he lay down and put his wasted neck upon the low block. The executioner, who had been standing back, took one quick step forward, raised his axe and with a single blow cut off his head. So copious a stream of blood poured from the neck that those present wondered how it could have come from so thin and wasted a frame. There was certainly divine irony in the fact that 22 June, the date of the execution, was the Feast of St. Alban, the first Martyr for the Faith in Britain. If the king had realized this he would certainly have arranged for the execution of Cardinal Fisher to take place on another day. The judgement passed upon the king in a contemporary account could hardly be more severe:
More monstrous was it that the king or any man could be so cruel to put such a man to death, yea, though he had been an offender; for very shortly he must have died by nature. And surely, I think, if he had been in the great Turk's land, and guilty of a great trespass there, he would never for pity have put him to death, being all ready so near the pit's brink. For it is the most cruel thing that can be, to put any to death that is presently dying. Wherefore in this point I think that this king Henry passed all the Turks or tyrants that ever was read or heard of.
Plaque on Tower Hill at the site of the execution of Sts. John Fisher and Thomas More, among others
The headless body of the martyr was stripped of its clothes by the executioner, the clothes of the condemned were one of his perquisites, and lay on the scaffold for most of the day until out of pity and humanity someone stepped forward and cast a little straw over the naked remains.
At about eight o'clock in the evening commandment was come to bury the body to certain men that tarried there about the scaffold with the body all that afternoon with halberds and bills. Whereupon one of them took up the dead body without the head upon his halberd and carried it to a churchyard of a parish church there hard by called Barking, where on the north side of that church, he and his fellows with their halberds digged a grave (for other grave had he none but this that they digged with their halberds) and therein without any reverence they vilely threw this holy, innocent bishop's dead body, all naked, flat upon his belly, without any winding sheet or any other accustomed funeral ceremonies, and then covered it quickly with the earth, and so, following herein the commandment of the king, buried it contemptuously.
The faithful began coming in large numbers to venerate the place where the body of the Saint was buried, and so the remains were removed and reburied in the little church of St. Peter-ad-Vincula in the Tower, near the body of St. Thomas More whose predetermined sentence of death had been pronounced in Westminster Hall on 1 July 1535. Once he had been sentenced St. Thomas openly avowed his conviction that the oath of supremacy was unlawful. He stated that supremacy in the Church could not belong to a layman and that it "rightfully belonged to the see of Rome, as granted personally by Our Lord when on earth to St. Peter and his successors, and that just as the city of London could not make a law against the laws of the realm of England, so England could not make a law contrary to the general law of Christ's Catholic Church." He added that for England to refuse obedience to the See of Rome was the same as for a child to refuse obedience to a parent. In a letter to [Thomas] Cromwell written fifteen months earlier, More had expressed the belief for which he and Fisher were prepared to die: "This is the Catholic Faith: which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved." St. Thomas More was executed on 6 July and met his death with the same courage that St. John Fisher and the Carthusians [who were executed on 4 May 1535] had shown. Eyewitnesses testify that he even displayed cheerfulness upon the scaffold, affirming that he died a faithful subject to the king and a true Catholic before God.
St. John Fisher's head was placed into a bag by the executioner to be impaled on London Bridge. One account claims that it was first taken to Anne Boleyn who ha[d] expressed a desire to see it. Gazing upon it contemptuously she is said to have remarked:
"Is this the head that so often exclaimed against me? I trow it shall never do more harm!" And with this striking it on the mouth with the back of her hand, she hurt one of her fingers upon a tooth which stuck somewhat more out than the rest did, which finger grew sore, and putting her to pain many days after, was nevertheless cured at last with much difficulty, but after it was healed, the mark of the hurt place remained to be seen when her own head was not to be seen on her shoulders.
Even if this story is not true it shows that the people regarded Anne Boleyn as another Herodias and the saint as a second John the Baptist who gave his life for the sanctity of the marriage bond, but in view of the vindictiveness that she displayed towards Catherine, Princess Mary, Wolsey, and Fisher the account seems far from improbable. Fisher's early biographers compared him to the Baptist and stigmatized Henry as more cruel than Herod. The next day the head was parboiled and impaled upon a pole on London bridge among the heads of the Carthusian Martyrs who had offered their lives for the unity of the Church. To the embarrassment of the authorities the saint's head remained incorrupt:
Almighty God was pleased to show, above the course of nature, in this preserving the fresh and lively colour in his face, surpassing the colour he had being alive; whereby was noted to the world the innocence and holiness of this blessed father, that thus innocently was content to lose his head in defence of his mother, the holy Catholic Church of Christ; whereby the people coming daily to see this strange sight, the passage over the bridge was so stopped with their going and coming, that almost neither cart nor horse could pass, and therefore at the end of fourteen days, the executioner was commanded to throw down the head in the night time into the river of Thames, and in the place thereof was set the head of the most blessed and constant Martyr, Sir Thomas More, his companion in all his troubles, who suffered his passion the 6th day of July next following.
St. John Fisher, martyr and patron of marriage, pray for us!
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