Molly is a mystery to me and has so far defied all my expectations. She is so much more than the poor girl who fancies Sherlock.
This is my attempt to understand her professional career.
If Molly is really Dr Hooper what kind of pathologist she would be and what she would actually do.
What else Molly could be doing in a morgue – technician or surgeon?
All pathologists in the UK are qualified doctors. Pathology is a specialty of medicine that requires speciality training of 4-6 years depending on which branch of pathology you choose to specialise in. All potential pathology trainees must have completed Core Medical Training programs beforehand and received their membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP).
Pathologists have their own Royal College and administer their own fellowship exams (FRCPath) for everyone who wants to be consultant pathologist (i.e. the top job).
Molly didn't bother to correct it. Doctors find it rather hard to say "actually, it's Dr Hooper". It makes you sound awfully arrogant.
Molly doesn't actually have a medical degree – this would make her more likely to be morgue technician.
Molly is a surgeon with a full medical degree and a Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons. For traditional reasons, Molly is entitled (and usually required) to drop the doctor from her title and revert to Miss. What on earth she's doing wearing in white coat and wandering around a morgue will be explored later.
This is probably much more likely than the other scenarios because she certainly spends a lot of time looking like a pathologist.
If you've ever had a blood test or a biopsy: the pathologists are the people who actually do the tests and write the report that your doctor gets. They have very little patient contact, which suits some people, and spend nearly all their time working in a laboratory environment.
Technically patients in the UK can't get white coat syndrome because their doctors do not wear white coats anymore and have not done for nearly ten years. White coats are not the most hygienic of clothing, given that they have long sleeves that can trail all over the patient. The NHS regulations now state all medical personnel who come in contact with patients must be "bare below the elbow". Ties have also been banned in hospital because they can also pose an infection risk.
Nurses all have uniforms that signify their rank but doctors can wear whatever they like as long it looks professional. However I know one doctor who likes to wear colourful shorts in summer and his patients love it!
So fanfiction writers: please do not have John wandering around a hospital wearing a white coat. He should be in a shirt with the sleeves rolled up and not wearing a tie.
Going back to Molly – as a pathologist she will be wearing a lab coat because she works in a lab most of the time. She also appears to spend a lot of time in the morgue and knows who all the dead bodies are. Therefore it is more likely that she is a histopathologist because they end up doing the post-mortems as well as looking at specimens sent from live patients.
Histopathologists also do forensic post-mortems (which can explain why two murder victims were in Molly's morgue in TBB). However the procedure for a forensic post-mortem is very stringent and requires special training. If you think Molly is a consultant pathologist (i.e. a senior doctor) she might be doing the hard post-mortem cases: the unexpected and suspicious deaths.
However the police force also employs fully qualified pathologists. In a big force like the Met, they would have their own resident pathologists (who are doctors) doing their forensic post-mortems. Police forces don't usually have morgues, though, so this may be why they needed to store the bodies in Bart's. Additionally at that point in TBB when we see the bodies - foul play had not been suspected and NHS pathologists do end up doing post-mortems for suicides.
Having said this, post-mortems do not take up all of Molly's time. A large bulk of her work is actually preparing and examining specimens from both the dead and the living under a microscope. Biopsies and excisions from any organ in the body need to be reviewed and reported on by histopathologists.
Pathologists usually work very sociable hours. Their patients/specimens are not going anywhere - mostly because they are dead. However there are always pathologists on call because there are genuine emergencies when a result is needed immediately perhaps for the patient's individual treatment or public health concerns. It is not far-fetched that Molly would be on call at Christmas. She does not need to actually stay in the hospital nor does she have to put her social life on hold. She just needs to turn up if there is an emergency sample to be processed. Therefore, I think she wouldn't have really minded going into hospital again to show Sherlock Irene's "corpse". She was mentally prepared to go into hospital at a moment's notice anyway.
Given the types of experiments Sherlock tends to run – I often wonder if Sherlock actually did Natural Sciences at Cambridge instead of just Chemistry in another University (Natural sciences in Cambridge form is not offered anywhere else).
In Cambridge the Natural Sciences course contains modules from all branches of science: physics, chemistry, biology, geology, material science etc. The Natural Scientists (Natscis) all have to do Chemistry in their first year regardless of what other modules they choose. In their second and third years they get to choose just the bits they like. In my personal opinion (and given there is a head in the fridge) Sherlock specialised in pathology.
The pathology course at Cambridge is the same course that the medical students take. There are lots of lab practicals, which teach students how to stain for bacteria, test for toxins, culture bacteria/viruses and examine post-mortem slides and gross anatomy. No practicals that involve microwaving eyeballs or saliva coagulation, though.
Sherlock uses all these skills in his work as a detective. For example: he manages to identify C. botulium on Carl Power's shoelaces.
This is what Clostridia actually look like stained properly under a light microscope (they are the blue rods with white heads).
For a more detailed exploration of Sherlock's university life please read: Oxbridge - Camford? Sherlock's University Life.
Pathology labs and by extension the morgue employs lots of technicians. They generally keep the equipment in order and file away specimens if need be (this actually includes corpses). In haematology labs they may run samples of blood test for the doctors and perhaps fill in routine paper work.
Otherwise they don't make any of the decisions about what happens to specimens/corpses, nor do they do any medical stuff such as post-mortems. However they do have the same unrestricted access to the lab/morgue where they work.
This is consistent with what we see Molly doing during the TV series but this explanation is a bit boring.
This is personally my favourite interpretation – I'm all for women in surgery because there's current not enough!
If Molly is rightfully addressed as Miss Hooper, she would have already passed her Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS). This exam allows her to progress into a surgical speciality training program. We have no clues as to what kind of surgery Molly might have chosen to specialise in but we can deduce something from the fact she is spending a lot of time looking like a pathologist.
Getting a consultant post in surgery is very hard – many surgical trainees who want a post in big teaching hospitals like Bart's take time out to do either a PhD or an MD. They are both research degrees but an MD takes less time than a PhD.
In order for the extra degree to count in a job interview, you need to do something related to your surgical speciality. Orthopaedic surgeons like to investigate how bones heal, for example.
Molly is wandering around the morgue in a lab coat because she's doing a research project in the pathology department as part of her surgical training.
The fact that Molly is doing a (most likely) histopathology project can suggest anything. However she does spend a lot of time in the morgue, although we never see her doing a post-mortem. I personally think that Molly is doing a research project into surgical mortality.
The surgical specialities with the highest immediate mortality rates are: colo-rectal surgery, cardiac surgery and heptobilliary surgery. These usually involve very large operations that require anastomoses (joining up) of bowel or blood vessels. Patients can die on the table due to blood loss/shock or immediately afterwards due to short term complications like infection, anastomosis failure, blood loss etc.
If you want to imagine Molly doing lost of post-mortems in the morgue, her project may be investigating the causes of anastomosis failure in patients who have died in hospital. She may be training to be an, upper GI, colo-rectal, hepatic or heptobiliary surgeon.
Most surgeons doing a PhD also do on call rotas at the hospital they are working. This may explain why Molly appears to be in the hospital any time of the day or night. She's not actually doing her project but helping out with emergency cases.
This puts a whole new slant on Molly's character. Being a woman in surgery is difficult because it is still a male dominated profession. It is also extremely hard work. I personally think Molly is an very strong character despite her reactions to Sherlock. Sherlock is not a patient or a colleague, he is her unrequited love interest. Just because Molly occasionally goes a bit soppy over Sherlock and lets him walk all over her doesn't mean she isn't capable of making tough decisions or leading a team of doctors.
Good news to all those fanfic writers out there: Molly could totally forge Sherlock's death certificate (as long as she's a doctor).
Any qualified doctor is allowed to write a death certificate. Usually in the middle of the night, it's the most junior doctors who get the grisly task of pronouncing someone dead and then filling out the form. If they can do it, everyone more senior is able to as well regardless of what speciality they are in.
If a body is bought straight into the morgue off the street, it will be the pathologist-on-call's duty to certify death. If Molly is a pathologist she can easily arrange to be on call during Sherlock's suicide attempt. If Molly is a surgeon doing a research project she may still be able to do this.
Doctors doing PhDs "moonlight" as a great number of things for money. PhD funding is about minimum wage and doctors are used to living on much bigger pay cheques. Being on the pathology on call rota is actually a much easier (if less well paid) way to spend your time. Pathologists do not have to be in the hospital during evening and weekends if they are on call, unless an emergency happens. Surgeons below the level of Consultant must stay in the hospital because they will be the person responsible for all the surgical patients in many different wards.
The pathology department could be practically begging Molly to do some on calls to take the pressure off everyone else. This might have been very attractive to Molly as you don't actually have do every much as an on call pathologist. There are very few occasions when you have to examine a specimen right now. All you have to do is prioritize the list of jobs received over the on call period for the person coming into work the next morning.
Many fanfic writers have been quite caught up in how Molly is going to fake Sherlock's post-mortem.
The answer is: she doesn't have to.
Post-mortems are usually only carried out in the cases of unexpected death, suspicious deaths or undetermined cause of death.
Clinical autopsy - perform only with written consent from the patients family to determine the pathological sequence leading to death. This is usually only done for unexpected deaths. Open and closed suicides are a very sensitive topic and pathologists usually do not offer an autopsy to the family.
Therefore as long as Mycroft does not demand an autopsy and the police decide the carnage at Bart's was a double suicide, there is no need for Molly to even produce a post-mortem report.
If Mycroft is in on the whole thing, Molly might not even need to produce a body. A simply death certificate filed correctly will be more than enough.
I'm fairly certain, and I may be mis-remembering this, but I'm sure I've heard Moffat refer to Molly as Doctor Hooper. Can't recall if it's in commentaries or interviews but I'm so so sure he's called her Doctor somewhere along the line.
Perhaps you're right - Molly may be a straight forwards pathologist. I just though I'd explore all the options. It was really fun.
Interesting! Moffat has referred to Molly as "a pathologist" before, so that's what I always assumed, plus the implications in Reichenbach Fall that she had some kind of power when it came to determining the disposition of the cadavers in the St. Bart's morgue.
I also really, really like your idea about Molly being a surgeon and doing research, though.
And I never really knew about how the pathology thing worked in the UK - in the US, there are specific morgues where everyone who dies a sudden or unexpected death goes, and those morgues employ full-time forensic pathologists whose training includes histopathology (although some larger ones may also have histologists or histopathologists who do nothing but review the more complicated samples), and this is all run either through a local police force or through a local government's health department.
I think the US system is probably much more practical than having every hospital with its own bunch of forensic pathologists.
What I'm still trying to figure out is how Sherlock managed to abscond with those body parts. Molly wouldn't have helped him - not if she didn't want to go to jail for a very long time.
Seriously, are you looking over my shoulder when I write? Because a week before I start posting a story about John Watson's background, you start posting those metas, and now that I'm working on a story that features Molly in her lab, you post this. I would tell you to cut it out, except I'm finding it endlessly helpful and informative.
I agree, the third option for Molly is a fantastic one, because it does make her out to be far more of a complex character than the other two possibilities. The only problem with it is that at some point, she'd finish her research project, wouldn't she? I mean - she's in the morgue throughout the two series so far, which covers 18 months of time. How long would Molly's research project have taken her to complete?
And this also brings up another issue, though this is more fanon related than not: most post-Reichenbach stories have Molly signing Sherlock's death certificate and post-mortems, and thus she's in on the ruse. If Molly were in the morgue solely to do a research project, would she have the authority to sign such documents?
A PhD takes between 3 and 5 years depending on how lucky you are at getting data and how hard you work. An MD only takes two years.
Molly is a qualified doctor so she definitely has the right to do death certificates. Given that her research project is very "morgue-based" she would also be trained in how to do post-mortems. She may also be "moonlighting" as a pathologist in her free time. PhD funding is below minimum wage level and Molly as a doctor is used to much bigger pay cheques. It's not far fetched that she would do some work for the histopathologists particularly as post-mortems are not a popular part of the work.
Can I (as a person who works in a hospital) just take a moment to thank you for writing these?
Understandably, due to peoples' varying degrees of medical knowledge, there's a great deal of variation in fics when it comes to John's career and Molly's as well. Fair enough, can't expect everyone to know these things, but it's always jarring to me if (as you mentioned) you have John walking around in a lab coat etc.
Molly has always confused me as well - she states in ASiB to Mrs Hudson that she 'does post-mortems'. And then there's the fact that, in the morgue with "Irene", Sherlock and Mycroft, she says 'everyone else' was busy with Christmas, suggesting she would be the one to do the necessary with "Irene" and there appears to be no one else in the morgue with them. And then there's the fact that she is involved with the high-profile suspicious deaths, suggesting seniority to her position. And THEN there's the fact that she is referred to as Miss Hooper, although I think this was by Sherlock(?) and could therefore just be read as another way he devalues her, and her not bothering to correct him.
My interpretation has always been that she must be a doctor to do post-mortems.
Thank you very much! I'm happy someone else thought along the same lines as me.
I hope Molly gets more screen time next season because she's an awesome character and so much more than just Sherlock's fan girl.
John is a GP and they can pretty much wear what they want. Most of them are old fashioned and wear a suit and tie like John does. Bare below the elbows is only for hospitals. If John worked in A&E he would have his own personalised scrubs with doctor written on them to wear all day.
I have a few general questions, feel free to ignore them. These are all assuming she's a histopathologist, rather than a morgue technician or a PhD candidate.
How much interaction would Molly have with students? Would she ever be called upon to do practical demonstrations, or have to share her lab space with students?
How much additional education would she need to take up teaching (presumably for Bart's)?
How likely is it she trained at Bart's, assuming there was a position open there when she finished her education?
How likely is it for her to be doing independent research for publication if she isn't going the surgery PhD route you described?
How many pathologists would generally be on staff at Bart's?
Would she be paid a standard salary and receive a per diem for actually working while on-call? What would her pay rate be (I'm guessing on the higher end of 8a, but I don't quite understand everything about the NHS pay scale)?
Molly can have as much or as little contact with students as she wants. She can easily volunteer to teach/demonstrate post-mortems for medical students. Bart's no longer does human dissection as part of their medical course but students are still encouraged to attend at least one post-mortem. As Bart's is a teaching hospital Molly's job contract will include a clause about doing some teaching. In reality students tend to avoid the pathology department just because all the patients are dead and no really useful for learning.
Some medical students stay within the Deanery (group of hospitals) where they trained. Bart's students won't all be at Barts all the time, they get sent out to lots of different small regional hospitals within North East London and Essex. It's not unlikely that she trained at Bart's medical school but it is more likely that she got a surgical or pathology training post at Barts having worked elsewhere in London.
Pathologists are very lab based so they get many chances to do research, although it would not be independent research. It has to be approved by the lab, be of relevance to the area Molly is working in and most projects take more than one person to complete.
I have no idea how many pathologists are on the staff at Bart's. In a big teaching hospital there are usually at least 20 - 50 pathologists but only a small proportion of them would be consultants. The rest would be Registras and junior doctors.
If Molly is a pathologist, her pay depends on how many years she's been a doctor. If she's a junior consultant: £70,000 - £100,000. If she's a specialist Registra: £40,000 - £70,000. A certain number of on-call hours is included in your basic salary. If your contract requires you to work more than these on call hours you get banding e.g. 1.5x basic salary or 2x basic salary.
However you will not be paid for any hours worked outside of the European Working Directive which is average 48hrs/week over a period of six month. The hospital just gives you several weeks of unpaid leave at the end of each six month period so your hours average out.
Therefore on-call is not a separate part of the Molly's pay cheque if she's a pathologist.
If she's a PhD student: she will do locum work for the hospital (which is usually on calls at evenings and weekends) and this is paid per hour rates vary from £15 to £30. The PhD will also provide her a basic salary.
These are very rough estimates to the annual salary because you also get extra money for living in London. Every job can in theory have a different salary depending on exactly how much you work.
I've been loving this series!
Thanks for this look at Molly-- since in the US it's not common knowledge that surgeons in the UK don't go by doctor, I feel she sometimes gets stereotyped as "just another poor young lovesick woman" instead of a "surgeon doing cool things in a morgue who also happens to be lovesick for Sherlock." Molly's got a lot of potential hidden away under those frilly blouses!
I really love all of these informational posts!
Just shows you how long ago it is since I worked in a hospital since I hasn't realised that white coats were totally out. Glad they are though.
Very much enjoying your informative essays.
Thanks! I really need to beta read these essays before they get published.
Which makes me wonder how much access a student would have to the labs. With the actual employed pathologists and technicians doing their jobs 9:00 - 5:00, would a student be more likely to be there after hours for their research work?
Also, are female surgeons more likely to go the teaching route than their male colleagues? I imagine it'd lead to more flexible working conditions, which might appeal to women wanting a family as well as a career. That'd be another nod towards her being a student.
Oh yes, I think Molly would have to be in the morgue when Sherlock was bought in but she would have 24 hour access to labs/morgue as a PhD student, technician or pathologist.
In most hospitals there's swipe card access and the morgue is never physically locked with a key any more. Obviously only the qualified individuals had swipe card access but Molly would have been one of them. PhD students are treated more like a proper working scientist than an actual student. You are completely right that they work weird hours so no one is going to be surprised if Molly was there.
However Molly does have to be the on-call pathologist or she wouldn't have been able to get sole access to Sherlock's corpse or certify his death.
Actually there are less academic and teaching opportunities for surgeons than physicians. Being an academic in the field of surgery doesn't make for a particularly good work life balance unfortunately. You must do research and you are pressurised to produce papers. On top of this you also still have to do some surgery for the NHS.
Very very interesting! Thank you so much for this.
Love this one! And I really want to see more Molly in S3.
I am still loving your meta series.
I am familiar with doctors and hospitals only as a patient but it seems the system here int he Caribbean is very much like there in the UK.
I think Molly is a pathologist and Mycroft knows her since their exchange does not seem to be that of strangers. So he continues to address her as Ms. Hooper.
But if that's the case, I would wonder who would have had to sign Sherlock's death certificate. I suppose a post-mortem isn't always necessary in certain cases, but I assume that a death certificate is always necessary, yes?
Yes a death certificate is always necessary - but a junior doctor could write that out without ever having seen the patient alive.


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The Centre for Aviation (CAPA) has named the Mactan Cebu International Airport as the Asia Pacific Medium Airport of 2018.
MCIA General Manager Steve Dicdican received the award from CAPA officials during the November 8 gala night of this year's Asia Aviation and Corporate Travel Summit held in Singapore.
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Dancing in front of mirrors for 15 years is a taxing yet admirable feat. Ask Aliza Russell, a 20-year-old dancer in the Tisch School of the Arts and recipient of the Princess Grace scholarship.
Russell never saw herself as a ballet dancer. For her, it was an unrealistic, implausible feat. Mentally, she couldn't picture herself doing the steps. Physically, she could not grasp the movement.
However, Russell spent a great deal of her adolescence working to obtain this unbendable image. Born and raised in Kansas City, MO, she was minutes away from the Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity, the home of professional dance troupe and school Kansas City Ballet. But before her days of tendus and plies, Russell took the conventional route of entering competition dance.
At age five, she enrolled in the local studio Priscilla and Dana's School of Dance. There, she immersed herself in jazz, tap and heaps of tulle, dancing for trophies rather than for herself and the art form. Her run at the studio wasn't for nothing; competition dancing endows Cirque Du Soleil-like flexibility on its dancers and a stage presence leagues above the rest. But like most dancers on the cusp of adulthood, Russell was tempted by the prospects of a more formal training ground: ballet school.
Off went 16-year-old Russell to the land of classical ballet and even more heaps of tulle. She described the whole experience as interesting at best. It wasn't until she crossed paths with Haley Kostas, a University of Missouri graduate and the founder of Defy Dance Project, and Jenn Freeman, Tisch graduate and faculty member of the Summer Dance Sessions, that Russell found her footing in the dance world.
Freeman, a 2007 Tisch graduate, widened the scope of what dance could be for Russell. Spending multiple summers under her guidance at the Summer Dance Sessions, a dance intensive in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, Russell was inspired physically, mentally and artistically through the fusion of jazz, athleticism and modern techniques. That inspiration carried Russell all the way to West Fourth.
The end goal for Russell was always New York City, but it wasn't always NYU. In fact, Russell took a year off between high school graduation and college orientation just to freelance in the city.
Upon graduating early from high school, she enrolled in The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, the oldest professional school of dance in the United States and an emanate hub for postmodern dance. It was there that Russell found her niche in the wide-encompassing canon of dance and strengthened both her palpable and impalpable foundations as a dancer.
However, afraid of never getting a taste of the college experience, Russell made a blind leap of faith into the anxiety-crippling college application process. A few months later, she started at NYU.
Having since amassed a broader vocabulary and extensive experience in choreography, Russell doesn't exactly look back on "Kitchen Sink" with reverence. To others, like Tisch Dance Chair Seán Curran (Tisch '83), it was the first glimmer of a principal dancer in the making.
Under Curran's leadership, the Tisch Department of Dance was named number one in the country by OnStage. He mentioned he feels like "a proud papa" that one of his students received the Princess Grace scholarship — one of the most prestigious dance scholarships in the world — instead of the more classically trained ballet dancers or Juilliard kids uptown. Curran was adamant about having zero influence in Russell's award besides filling out paperwork. Russell attributes her success to the various styles of dance and professors she invested herself in under Curran at Tisch.
Among those professors, Russell cites Assistant Arts Professor Rashaun Mitchell, a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and 2012 Bessie Award for "Outstanding Emerging Choreographer." A former recipient of the scholarship in 2007, Mitchell was one of the major influences for Russell's application. Another catalyst for her application was collaborator and choreographer Michelle Dorrance — a Princess Grace Award recipient and, more recently, a 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Grant recipient.
Engulfed in a community of fellow recipients and an encouraging faculty willing to place stock in her application, Russell found her roots in the New York City dance scene and gained the courage — and recommendation letters — to apply for the esteemed scholarship.
After a few essays and dance reels that consumed most of her junior year, her application was ready. A few months later, in mid-July, Russell received the crucial call. After shaking the initial disbelief, she accepted that her life was about to change.
This artistic excellence accelerated Russell into one of the most exclusive circles of talent in the art world. And the scholarship: it would go toward that hefty NYU price tag.
With this support, Russell will be finishing her final year at NYU in hopes of dancing anywhere in any capacity possible. In preparation for her impending graduation date next spring, she has her eyes set on a few modern dance companies around the city.
Her true love, however, is modern and contemporary dance. From the likes of Kyle Abraham and Silas Reiner to Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham, Aliza Russell can do it all, and she does it in her own distinct and unreplicable way.
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Enhancing marine assurance capabilities with SIRE 2.0
01 Jan 2023 MARS
Since its inception, OCIMF's Ship Inspection Report Programme (SIRE) has helped to support continuous improvement in the safety of the marine industry.
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To create the CVIQ, the SIRE 2.0 compiler software assesses the vessel type and other information provided by the vessel operator through the Harmonised Vessel Particulars Questionnaire (HVPQ) and the Pre-inspection Questionnaire (PIQ) and then selects questions from the question library based on risk ranking. SIRE 2.0 questions require responses from the inspector based on hardware, process and human factors as applicable, which can be graded and supported with documentary evidence, including the option to append photographs (where permitted).
Once a report has been submitted, it will be verified by the company that initiated the inspection. Reports will be checked for accuracy, completeness and alignment with OCIMF requirements. It will then be submitted to the report database and sent to the vessel operator for comment before being published.
The result of this new inspection process will be a significant improvement in data quality, with a specific focus on equipment, processes and people. SIRE 2.0 reports will be compiled from more detailed, dependable, and focused information and presented in a format that can be read intuitively and easily. Due to their design, reports will be more easily comparable, and the data more readily analysed.
Observations will be set in a meaningful context as inspectors will be able to provide more detailed written insights and linked data, and where applicable, supporting photographic evidence. Consequently, programme users will be able to better assess issues and risks onboard. Integration of records including photography, HPVQ, PSC reports, crew matrix and incident data into the inspection report will provide programme recipients with a much more informed picture of a vessel's condition and performance. The new SIRE 2.0 reports will also enable vessel owners and operators to better understand the root causes of observations and to improve safety across the board.
Recognising excellence
Importantly, because SIRE 2.0 inspections are 'made-to-measure' for each vessel and for each inspection (ie no two CVIQs will be the same but will be drawn from a library of potential questions), vessel operators and crew must be prepared to answer any question that is applicable to the vessel based on its type, outfitting and information provided by the vessel operator. In this respect there is no significant change from the current SIRE programme.
It is important to point out that this does not make these inspections a punitive process; in fact, quite the opposite. Under SIRE 2.0 there will be opportunities to demonstrate best practices and recognise excellence, as for the first time positive human observations that exceed expectations can be included in the reporting process. The compound result will be, in OCIMF's view, a tanker inspection programme that is fit for the future, which enables industry to continuously learn and improve, and which can more readily evolve in line with the changing risk profile of the marine industry.
Take 10: Issue 32
202305- Fixed CO2 system serviced yet left unserviceable
202306 - Too many negative factors can give a negative outcome

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SPANISH CITIZENSHIP
New app looks set to solve Spain's huge citizenship backlog
Spain's Justice Ministry is reportedly unclogging the bottleneck of more than 300,000 citizenship applications that has caused foreigners to wait two or three years longer than they should for an answer, all thanks to a digital application.
Published: 2 November 2022 13:53 CET
A man sits and waits next to a queue at a migration office in Spain. Spanish citizenship applications currently take between two and three times longer to process than they should. (Photo by JOSE LUIS ROCA / AFP)
In the last 12 years, more than 1.6 million foreigners have applied for Spanish citizenship, but a lack of human and material resources has created a huge backlog.
Spanish law states applicants must get an answer within a year of submitting their application, but this rarely happens.
Currently, more than 300,000 people are still awaiting a response.
Although waiting times are in most cases between two and three years, there are applicants who have been left hanging since as far back as 2015.
READ MORE: How long are waiting times for the Spanish citizenship process?
Fortunately, since mid-2022, the Spanish government is reportedly speeding up the process.
A new type of software or "app" is helping Spain's Justice Ministry to automatically verify documents and data relating to each application without the need for them to be checked by civil servants.
And, as opposed to Spanish funcionarios' notoriously short work hours and lax attitude, the application works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Although the decision to grant or deny Spanish citizenship still rests on the shoulders of civil servants, the automatisation of other important steps involved in the application process is helping to save a lot of time.
Since the new system was implemented in August 2022, more than 79,000 citizenship applications based on residency have been processed, meaning that at the current rate around 316,000 cases could be closed in the next year, in theory resolving the bottleneck.
READ ALSO: How foreigners can get fast-track citizenship in Spain
According to Justice Ministry sources, the software has saved the team of civil servants who are responsible for citizenship applications more than 157,000 hours of work.
The ministry also hired an extra 295 civil servants in 2022 to address the backlog, which comes preceded by similar 'action plans' in 2019 and 2021 which also saw extra civil servants temporarily hired to unclog the system.
However, it's worth noting that Spain's public administrations are plagued by painstaking delays in all manner of official processes, from the recognition of foreign qualifications to the concession of disability benefits, and what is promised in theory as a solution doesn't always work in practice.
The timing of this new automated system is certainly positive, as the recent approval of Spain's new 'grandchildren' citizenship is expected to see as many as 700,000 foreigners who don't even live in Spain apply for Spanish passports.
As part of the EU's coronavirus rescue plan, Spain announced in 2020 that it would plough €15 billion into the country's digital transformation, which included funds geared towards modernising the systems used by the country's public administrations.
READ ALSO: How long do Spain's main visas and residency processes take?
SPANISH CITIZENSHIPSPANISH BUREAUCRACY
Descendants of International Brigades can get fast-track Spanish nationality
Why Spain's nationality deal with Romania is good for other foreigners
Spain will give the descendants of International Brigade fighters who fought fascism during the Civil War an expressway to Spanish citizenship and dual nationality, with people from the UK, the US and many other countries eligible.
Published: 1 December 2022 15:28 CET
The children and grandchildren of fighters who fought for the International Brigades during Spain's Civil War will be able to acquire Spanish citizenship – and won't have to give up their other nationality in order to do so.
The fighters themselves have been able to apply for Spanish citizenship since 1996, though they were required to drop their other nationality. Spain's 2007 Historical Memory Law removed that requirement, though the offer of citizenship was not extended to their descendants.
There was confusion in 2020 when Spain's then deputy Prime Minister Pablo Iglesias tweeted that descendants of International Brigade fighters would be included in legislation, but when the final legal text appeared, it confirmed that the proposal did not stretch to descendants and only included the International Brigade veterans themselves.
Now Spain's new Democratic Memory Law, which passed the Spanish Senate on October 5th and officially became law on October 21st, finally extends the citizenship offer to descendants who can get Spanish nationality without losing theirs.
They will even be able to do it through the fast-tracked naturalisation process – seen as the expressway to Spanish citizenship and used by public figures such as Barcelona footballer Ansu Fati and actress Imperio Argentina.
What are the other ways foreigners can get fast-track Spanish citizenship?
Do you really have to give up your original nationality to become Spanish?
According to the Asociación de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales (AABI), a group involved with drafts of the legislation, there are at least one hundred known descendants that have been identified so far. They come from around the world, including France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Cuba, the former Yugoslavia, Argentina, Canada, Australia, and the United States.
As there are so few descendants of international brigade fighters, however, many view their inclusion in the citizenship legislation as a symbolic gesture that is part of the Democratic Memory Law's efforts to settle historical debts with the past.
Though the legislation does extend citizenship, it's not thought that a flood of applications will follow. "There will be no avalanche, it is a symbolic measure that has a purely sentimental importance for the relatives of the fighters," the AABI explained to Spanish news website Newtral.es.
Participants wave republican flags during a 2015 march called by the Friends of International Brigades Association to commemorate the involvement of the International Brigades in the Battle of Jarama during the Spanish Civil War. (Photo by CURTO DE LA TORRE / AFP)
The International Brigades
Between 1936 and 1939 at least 35,000 international volunteers from around 50 countries, including around 2,500 Brits, fought against Francisco Franco's fascist troops in the International Brigade during the Civil War. An estimated 10,000 foreign volunteers died in Spain, according to the Spanish Civil War Museum.
The British novelist George Orwell, who fought with a Communist regiment of the Republican army during the war, described in gory detail the sacrifices of the International Brigades in his seminal work 'Homage to Catalonia'.
READ ALSO: Remembering the Battle of Jarama and the role of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War
Anti-fascist demonstration in London reported on the front page of Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia on September 11, 1936. Photo: Dorieus/ Wikipedia (CC BY SA 4.0)
What is Spain's Democratic Memory Law?
The citizenship offer is part of the broader Democratic Memory Law that aims to "settle Spanish democracy's debt to its past" and deal with the legacy of its Civil War and Franco's dictatorship.
READ ALSO: Spain's new 'grandchildren' citizenship law: What you need to know
In recent weeks, the Spanish government confirmed that as many as 700,000 foreigners with Spanish lineage are eligible Spanish citizenship without having ever lived in the country, including those with ancestors who fled Spain for fear of persecution during Franco's dictatorship.
Between the end of the Civil War in 1939, and 1978, when Spain's new constitution was approved as part of its transition to democracy, an estimated 2 million Spaniards fled the Franco regime.
Legislation concerning Spain's dictatorial past is always controversial, and this law was no different – it passed the Spanish Senate earlier in October with 128 votes in favour, 113 against, and 18 abstentions.
The Spanish right have long been opposed to any kind of historical memory legislation, claiming that it digs up old rivalries and causes political tension. Spain's centre-right party, the PP, have promised to overturn the law if it wins the next general election.
READ ALSO: Spain's lawmakers pass bill honouring Franco-era victims
Other aspects of the law include the establishment of a DNA register to help families identify the remains of the tens of thousands of Spaniards were buried in unmarked graves; the repurposing of the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum, where Francisco Franco was buried until his exhumation in 2019; and a ban on groups that glorify the Franco regime.
Conor Faulkner [email protected]
How to apply for Spanish citizenship for a baby born in Spain to foreign parents
Spain's new 'grandchildren' citizenship law: What you need to know


This is how Luci reacted to the news anchors presenting news on the various channels on television.
I really don't have anything more to add to that.
All for what — a sky-rocketing TRP graph!
Life has gotten in the way, let's say. Two family deaths, plus school where the semester is ending puts you in a time constraint.
Ohh, sorry to hear that.


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The Five Books Project
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by Moment November 12, 2019 in Latest
Five Books Project
Five books to be an educated Jew.
New book recommendations added weekly.
Including contributions from:
Jack Nusan Porter
Ido Aharoni
Rabbi Jason Miller
Adam Milstein
Esther D. Kustanowitz
Read the first installment of this feature, from our summer 2019 issue.
Read the second installment of this feature, from our Sept/Oct 2019 issue.
Send us your selections: What five books would you recommend?
Porter is a Research Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Internationally recognized as a founder of the field of Modern Genocide Studies, he is a child of Holocaust survivors who were also Soviet partisans. Porter was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2015.
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the HolocaustDaniel Jonah Goldhagen
A Guide to Jewish Religious PracticesIsaac Klein
The Zionist IdeasGil Troy
The Book of ShabbosRabbi Yechiel Michael Stern
Revolutionary Jews from Marx to TrotskyRobert S. Wistrich
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Anti-Semitism's alarming and violent rise in the United States has served as a wake-up call for many Americans and proves that, even in America, nobody is immune to this radical hatred. In How to Fight Anti-Semitism, Weiss exposes its alarming rise, which many believed could never resurge in the United States. Weiss masterfully explains how this bigotry has found a home in America across political and cultural movements. More than just warning about the threat anti-Semitism poses to Jews and America, How to Fight Anti-Semitism calls on all Americans to take personal action.
A Guide to Jewish Religious Practices
Isaac Klein
Rabbi Klein was rabbi emeritus at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Buffalo, NY and former president of the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly. I have found this book to be the best non-Orthodox interpretation of Jewish laws and regulations. Nearly everything is covered: the laws of kashrut and keeping a kosher home; the significance of the holidays and how to observe them; and laws governing the rites of life—birth, marriage, conversion, death, divorce, adoption, burial, and mourning.
The Zionist Ideas
Gil Troy
We live in a post-modern world where the meaning of Israel is confusing to Jews and non-Jews alike. Scholars say we are in a "post-Zionist" era. What does Zionism mean today? What is the difference between criticizing Israel and being "against" Israel? (A great deal, by the way.) As a young boy growing up in Milwaukee and going to Habonim Camp (where Leonard/Label Fein was my madrich), I read Arthur Hertzberg's classic 1959 book The Zionist Idea. Troy has expanded Hertzberg's six kinds of Zionism (political, labor, revisionist, religious, cultural and diaspora), and three kinds of leaders (pioneers, builders and torchbearers). His book will help us sort it out.
The Book of Shabbos
Rabbi Yechiel Michael Stern
When I was in rabbinical school, I found it difficult to understand the laws of Shabbat. Then I learned from my teacher Rabbi Isaac Mann that the laws of Shabbat are built around 39 categories of Shabbos work known as Melachos. Rabbi Stern defines and illustrates each Melachah, cites its source and explains its prohibitions. These Melachos go back to biblical times and include, for example "dishnah" (extracting liquid): Are you allowed to squeeze a lemon on Shabbat (no) or cut a grapefruit (yes) or put ice cubes into a cup (yes) or wash dishes (no). A fascinating book.
Revolutionary Jews from Marx to Trotsky
Robert S. Wistrich
One of the great mysteries of Jewish life—why are there so many Jewish radicals and liberals? In short, why do Jews live like Episcopalians but vote like proletarians? The late historian Robert Wistrich has written a brilliant book that helps answer this question. Marxism became a messianic religion, a substitute for Judaism for many; it also transformed the critique of religion into a political issue by reducing spiritual phenomena to a function of impersonal economic laws. The universalism of the prophets and concern for the poor, the widowed, the disabled and the marginalized run deep in Judaism. These factors have moved Jews to become radical.
Global Distinguished Professor, New York University, Consul General of Israel in New York (2010-2016), Ambassador.
As an Israeli, it would be safe to state that I underwent my main Jewish education in America. Generally, Israelis do not fully appreciate the level of intent, commitment, effort and devotion required to maintain a complete Jewish life in America. All five books on my list have educated me about being Jewish, Judaism and Christianity, Zionism and Israel's complex ties with its Jewish foundations.
HerzlAmos Elon
Ben-Gurion: A BiographyMichael Bar Zohar
Judaism and the Origins of ChristianityDavid Flusser
The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933Amos Elon
Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious RadicalismAviezer Ravitzky
Herzl
Amos Elon
Theodor Herzl is one of the most important Jews of our time. Many books have been published about this visionary of the only Jewish state in the world, but none is as deep and concise as Elon's account. Central to reading this important book is the omnipresent question: if Herzl had lived today, what would he think of his creation? With his universalist view of the world, he would probably be condemned by most members of the Knesset for not being "Zionist" enough. Elon's text is more relevant than ever, especially now that Israel is retreating into an ethnocentric form of Zionism and many of its supporters and well-wishers take its existence for granted.
Ben-Gurion: A Biography
Michael Bar Zohar
I chose Bar Zohar's comprehensive three-part biography because of its wide historical perspective and heavy reliance on Ben Gurion's own detailed record of his long political practice. Israel's former president and one of the closest people to Ben Gurion, Itzhak Navon, once said that while many had greatly contributed to Israel's independence, it could be safely stated that without Ben Gurion's dedication, meticulous planning, focus and zeal, there would not be an independent Israel today.
Judaism and the Origins of Christianity
David Flusser
Flusser, who died in 2000, authored one of the most important and comprehensive books about the early roots of Christianity, widely regarded as the "Judeo-Christian Heritage." He was a professor of Early Christianity and Judaism of the Second Temple Period at the Hebrew University and published his monumental work in 1988. As a devout Jew himself who mastered no less than 26 languages (!), Flusser's thorough exploration of Christianity and Jesus led him to firmly hold the view that Jesus "comfortably lived as a Jew who was largely misunderstood by his contemporaries." Understanding Flusser's work is critical to every Jew who would like to envision and design a better Judeo-Christian future.
The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933
One cannot avoid the temptation of comparing the Jews in Germany at the eve of World War II, with current Jewish life in some of the most prominent countries in the world, such as the United States, England, Canada, France, Australia and Brazil. Elon, who died in 2009, saw his job as a gifted storyteller, skillfully weaving history through personal stories of some of the heroes and icons of the German-Jewish narrative. A must-read book.
Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism
Aviezer Ravitzky
As an Israeli diplomat who spent his entire career in the United States, I can say that Ravitzky's popular book greatly contributed to my understanding of Jewish life as well as its theological evolution. Ravitzky is professor emeritus of Jewish thought at the Hebrew University and this book, first published in 1993, still is essential to understanding the complexity of Jewish life in Israel. The book provides an invaluable overview of the role messianic views play in shaping Jewish history and modern Israel, from its domestic political processes to the evolution of orthodox theology.
Miller, an ordained Conservative rabbi, is a tech entrepreneur, owns an IT company, founded a successful kosher certification agency, and officiates at dozens of destination b'nai mitzvah ceremonies each year (www.mitzvahrabbi.com).
The SabbathAbraham Joshua Heschel
As a Driven LeafMilton Steinberg
When Bad Things Happen to Good PeopleHarold Kushner
Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish TextsEdited by Barry Holtz
Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the JewsJoseph Telushkin
Heschel, one of the great theologians of the 20th century, published The Sabbath as both about theology and spirituality as well about modern Jewish life and Jewish law. I first read this short yet eloquent book when participating in a discussion with other Jewish high school students. At summer camp I recall that the study session brought much meaning and spirituality into my Shabbat experience. Heschel brilliantly explains how our faith is about balancing space and time, creation and rest. Originally published in 1951, Heschel's words are just as powerful and meaningful today as they were almost seventy years ago.
As a Driven Leaf
Milton Steinberg
To understand the Talmud, one first must understand Jewish life in 2nd century CE. Certainly, this could be accomplished with history books, but it's much more enjoyable to get this knowledge from Steinberg's beautiful novel. The protagonist is Elisha ben Abuyah, a Talmudic rabbi who was excommunicated for heresy. Steinberg takes this little-known character and allows us to enter his confused head and heart. We become immersed in the community of scholars who gave voice to Rabbinic Judaism and we see the clash between religious faith and the modern, secular society of Rome. Steinberg's novel is not only captivating, but also a wonderful theological and philosophical work.
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
One cannot understand Jewish theology without reading Kushner's well-known work. Published in 1981, less than five years after Kushner's son died from an incurable genetic disease, the book addresses the problems of theodicy. If we believe that God creates and controls the world and is good, how are we to explain evil? Why is there pain and suffering if God loves us? Kushner offers his own theology.
Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts
Edited by Barry Holtz
Back to the Sources is more than a primer. The authors explain the text and then dissect examples to teach the reader how to learn that core text. Holtz, one of my teachers at the Jewish Theological Seminary, believes that each text requires a different learning approach. In editing Back to the Sources, he found foremost scholars to explain the importance of the text and how it informs Judaism. I first used this book in college, referred to it again many times in rabbinical school and have recommended it to countless others.
Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews
I was tempted to simply list five of Telushkin's works here because one can learn just about everything there is to know about Judaism from his books: Jewish Literacy, Biblical Literacy, Jewish Ethics, Jewish Wisdom and Jewish Values. I chose Telushkin's book about Jewish humor because these jokes teach us more about the Jews and Judaism than most history books. Telushkin chose the best Jewish jokes and then analyzed them to explain their source, why they are funny and why they're accurate. The book is funny, but is also an informative read on important topics like anti-Semitism and other faith's view of the Jewish people.
Adam Milstein is an active philanthropist, thought leader, and real-estate investor. As president of the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation, his philanthropic work is focused on strengthening the U.S.-Israel alliance and combatting bigotry across America.
The Israel TestGeorge Gilder
The Political and Social Philosophy of Ze'ev Jabotinskyedited by Mordechai Sarig
Antisemitism: Here and NowDeborah Lipstadt
How to Fight Anti-SemitismBari Weiss
Zionism is the liberation movement of the Jewish people. It paved the way for the reestablishment and preservation of Israel—the ultimate lifeline of the Jewish people. Every Jewish person should be proud of its legacy. Gil Troy's collection brings together the Zionist visions of the past, present and future and highlights how Zionism's roots of self-determination and freedom have strengthened the Jewish nation and the Jewish people. Through his book, Troy makes old and new Zionist ideas easy to digest.
The Israel Test
The Torah says that those who bless the Jews will be blessed, while those who curse the Jews will be cursed. In The Israel Test, Gilder reveals how hatred directed towards Israel is often rooted in age-old anti-Semitism, which includes the envy of Jewish success. This hatred, Gilder demonstrates, falls in line with the Torah's ancient philosophy about those who curse the Jewish people. Furthermore, he emphasizes how hatred of the Jews will not end with Jews, and how anti-Semitism is not only a Jewish problem but an American one, too.
The Political and Social Philosophy of Ze'ev Jabotinsky
edited by Mordechai Sarig
20th century Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky warned that anti-Semitism would never stop following the Jewish people and that Jewish strength and taking the offensive are the ultimate ways to safeguard the Jewish people. For years before the Holocaust, Jabotinsky called on Jews to leave Europe and settle in the Jewish homeland. He was a founder of the Betar youth movement and later led Haganah—the precursor to the Israel Defense Forces. Jabotinsky's ideas are of critical importance today as we find ourselves facing unprecedented amounts of anti-Semitism around the world.
Antisemitism: Here and Now
Deborah Lipstadt
Anti-Semitism is moving from the fringes to the mainstream in the United States and Europe. This hatred is spread by three radical movements: the radical left, the radical right, and religious extremists. To fight anti-Semitism, we must understand its origins and networks. In Antisemitism: Here and Now, Deborah Lipstadt examines how contemporary anti-Semitism has manifested itself on the left and right. Through her book, Lipstadt emphasizes why we must call out anti-Semitism wherever and whenever it rears it ugly head.
How to Fight Anti-Semitism
Bari Weiss
Esther D. Kustanowitz, an L.A.-based writer, editor and consultant, has written for the Jewish Journal, J., The Jewish Weekly of Northern California, Haaretz, JTA, The Jewish Week, The Forward, eJewishPhilanthropy and other publications.
Fourteen years of formal Modern Orthodox Jewish education, Camp Ramah and NCSY provided a literacy and social baseline for an active and engaged "Conservadoxish" Jewish life, and my traditional family–complete with my Hebrew teacher grandmother and Conservative rabbi grandfather whose own grandfather was a founder of Petach Tikvah–provided an anchor to observance and a connection to Israel.
Sedra Scenes: Skits for Every Torah PortionStan Beiner
Turbulent Souls/Choosing My ReligionStephen J. Dubner
The Year of Living BiblicallyA.J. Jacobs
Here All AlongSarah Hurwitz
The Haggadah
Sedra Scenes: Skits for Every Torah Portion
Stan Beiner
While my day school education is the cornerstone of my Jewish literacy, books like Sedra Scenes encouraged critical interpretation and made Jewish learning fun. These short comedic skits based on the weekly Torah portion were meant for educators, but my family read them at home. For instance, the skit for the portion Mishpatim was structured like a game show–"Let's…Play…Mishpatim!"–in which contestants answered Jewish law-based questions, like what to do when a Hebrew slave refuses to be freed. "I don't know…staple him to the door?" one character guesses. (Technically correct: You pierce his ear against the door with an awl.)
Turbulent Souls/Choosing My Religion
Stephen J. Dubner
What pulls a soul to Judaism? How does one connect to a faith dismissed, discarded or actively denied by one's parents? Stephen J. Dubner, formerly of the New York Times and best known as the co-author of Freakonomics, wrote this beautiful, entertaining and thought-provoking spiritual memoir about his journey from Catholicism to Judaism. More than any other, this is the book I recommend and re-read most; I find that reading Dubner's story of finding his faith–and exploring the abandoned and found faiths of his parents–can often renew my own.
The Year of Living Biblically
What if an adult with little previous Jewish background or interest spent a year observing Jewish laws as laid out in the Bible? What rules would be incompatible with his contemporary life? Would it help him become a better person? And would this comedic, performative format help him find meaning or create more of a connection to his Jewish identity? Unfettered by the strictures of a traditional Jewish education, Jacobs asked critical questions I had never dared utter aloud, and the results were entertaining, edging on heretical without crossing over, and fascinating.
Here All Along
In our interview for the Jewish Journal, Hurwitz–former speechwriter for the Obamas–said that all Judaism is hyperlinked. Prayers borrow phrases from the Torah; the Mishnah and Gemara go deeper into those Torah phrases and extrapolate from them the way we are supposed to live our lives. But unless you have a Jewish background, those links lead to nowhere. Her book charts her systematic discovery of Jewish text, tradition and identity with a clear and intelligent voice perfect for the contemporary adult searcher.
At our Passover seders we used different Haggadot (pl.), so we could share different interpretations of the Exodus story. I love so many Haggadot, but the Polychrome Haggadah, with color-coding texts to sources of origin, revealed the Haggadah as a living, changing document, hyperlinking before hyperlinking existed. Today, Haggadot.com—where users start with traditional text and add their own or other people's uploaded content–enables the creation of personalized, uniquely relevant Haggadot. My late mother wrote a children's Haggadah, and my close friend created Haggadot.com, so I'm a bit biased. The Haggadah urges us to see ourselves in ancient narratives—an extremely powerful message to those seeking meaning and connection.
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Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez has reiterated his desire to remain at Anfield for the foreseeable future.
Benitez is due to hold talks with the club's co-owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks, possibly following the crucial Barclays Premier League match against Manchester United at Anfield on Sunday.
"I am very happy in Liverpool and I would like to be here for many more years," Benitez told Spanish newspaper AS.
The high-profile meeting follows the fall-out over the new American owners' transfer policy.
Benitez was angered by suggestions - in the wake of his comments about the January spending policy - that perhaps he should stick to training and coaching and leave money matters to others.
The attitude concerning all parties seems to be softening, however.
"We have had some disagreements (with the owners) at a professional level, but when we meet and talk everything will be cleared up and it will be seen as a simple misunderstanding.
"We all want the same thing which is the best for Liverpool and as such I am sure that we will understand each other well."
However Benitez accepts managers are under more scrutiny than ever before because of matters financial.
He said: "Maybe there is more pressure. They (the directors) look for quicker and better results because there are people who are investing a lot of money. This possibly makes the owners a little more nervous."


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FALLEN ANCIENT TREE DESTROYS NOT LESS THAN 100 GRAVES IN LAGOS COMMUNITY
Sep 9, 2021 cemetery, Lagos, tree
A WIND , which pull up an ancient tree at Abari Cemetery, in the Lagos Island East Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, has disrupted the peace and quiet in the public burial ground.
NEWSNAIJA learned that no fewer than 50 graves were destroyed by the tree, which broke into some of the vaults.
Newsnaija further learned that the tree was over a century old.
Workers at the cemetery had closed for the day when the windstorm fell the tree around 9pm.
Shortly after the tree fell, there was a downpour in the area.
When our source visited the cemetery on Wednesday, it observed that the tree had blocked the passage leading to the graves.
While some graves were damaged , others were partially damaged.
Some families whose members were buried in the cemetery were said to have matched to the site to check if their graves were still intact.
A worker at the cemetery, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it was the second time a tree would fall on graves in the cemetery.
He said, "This tree has been here for long; we can't even say the exact number of years because the elderly guards that we met here said it was there when they were young, so that showed that it had been here for more than 100 years.
"this is not the first time, a branch of a tree had fallen before and destroyed some graves, so we got someone to cut the tree into pieces. But last week Wednesday, we had closed and were at home when one of the laborers that used to come to the cemetery to work called me that the big tree in the cemetery had fallen.
"When we got here the next day, Thursday, we saw that the tree had covered some graves. It was the storm that uprooted the tree. We cannot be certain about the number of graves that were affected till the tree is cleared because there are a lot of graves under the tree.
"The chairman of the council, Alade Folawiyo, came here with some management staff and the council engineer to inspect the cemetery.
"Since yesterday, families have been coming in their numbers to check if their graves are affected and we are also taking records of people trooping in, but they can't repair them now because the tree has not been removed."
The worker added that the council chairman had contracted some people to cut the tree to enable affected families to repair their graves.
While our source counted 50 graves that were damaged a council official who asked not to be quoted said over 100 graves were affected.
The Chief Press Secretary to the council Chairman, Olushoga Olushola, in a statement on Wednesday, urged families whose loved ones were buried in the cemetery to contact the council engineer.
The statement read, "This is to inform all the families that buried their loved ones at Abari Muslim Cemetery, Lagos Island, that there has been a natural disaster (the biggest tree fell heavily with its branches) which happened a few days ago as a result of heavy downpour. This has affected many burial vaults. Families are directed to get in touch with the council engineer for more information."
DEAD BODY OF A TEENAGE GIRL FOUND DISMEMBERED IN DELTA
MAN ALLEGEDLY BEATS PREGNANT WIFE TO DEATH OVER FOOD IN ENUGU


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Posted May 13, 2017 by Leo Nulty	News
Disappointing Race for @SMRWorldSBK but @eugenelaverty unharmed after spectacular shunt.
It was a mixed Race 1 for Milwaukee Aprilia at Imola, with Lorenzo Savadori scoring more points and Eugene Laverty retiring following a crash.Saturday's Superpole sessions were promising for the team, Eugene qualifying an encouraging P6 after going straight to Superpole 2 from Free Practice. Lorenzo also made the SP2 cut after a strong lap in the first qualifying session, lining up 10th on the grid despite struggling with his bike so far this weekend.
Lorenzo suffered a slow start, dropping to 13th place initially. Although his pace was not fast it was consistent, and he held position for most of the race. With the bike coming back to him towards the end of the race, he forced a pass on the Kawasaki of De Angelis and brought the bike home in 12th.
Eugene had a good getaway and quickly took fifth place. Although he couldn't manage the pace of the top four he ran well in the middle of the field, enjoying battles with the Ducati of Fores and the MV Agusta of Camier. As his pace dropped Eugene fell towards the Yamahas of Van der Mark and Lowes, defending well against both until a late move from Lowes resulted in a contact of the bikes. Eugene's bike suffered a broken front brake line and he was unable to slow as he approached Turn 17, but managed to jump from his bike at high speed and avoided a collision with the wall. He visited the Medical Centre for precautionary checks but was deemed fit to race on Sunday.
The team now have a great deal of data to analyse in preparation for Race 2 on Sunday, where they will aim for more points and a strong result for both riders.
The action continues at #ItalianWorldSBK with Race 2 at 13:00 (GMT +1)
Keep up to date with the Milwaukee Aprilia team on their website, and Facebook, Twitter & Instagram channels
Mick Shanley, Team Manager
"It was a really disappointing day for us obviously. We made some good steps this morning and qualified well with both riders, but the race was tough.
Eugene got away well in the race and was able to maintain his positon around 6th and 7th. There were a few electronics problems on his bike which allowed other guys to get past him, and then he sustained some damage after being struck by another rider. It caused his brake lines to rip out and Eugene lost all braking, so he had to jump off the bike. We have a lot of damage but fortunately Eugene is fine and fit for tomorrow, but there is a lot of work for the guys to do tonight.
We had a difficult day yesterday with Lorenzo, as he didn't really gain much in practice. The team worked really hard last night on his bike to make him more comfortable today, and we made good steps. He made it to Superpole 2 again which was positive, and he held onto 12th into the race which gives us lots of useful data to help him improve in Race 2."
Lorenzo Savadori #32
Grid – P10 Race – P12, 4 points
"The weekend has been difficult for me so far. We still have some problems and have changed a lot of things on it since practice, because I didn't learn very much on Friday. Today we made a good effort in Superpole 1 and I was happy to get into the second Superpole session. The race was quite difficult because I struggled with the feeling on the bike. My pace was fairly consistent but not quick, but I'm glad I was able to hold my position and get some more points in P12. For sure none of us are happy with the result today, but I know that the guys will all work really hard and I like this track a lot. Losing time on Friday really hurt us, but I think we can have a better race tomorrow and I feel positive."
Eugene Laverty #50
Grid – P6 Race – DNF, crash
"I was optimistic at the start because the bike was feeling good, but I started losing pace after about 7 laps and I was moving backwards. I tried hanging in, and just before the crash happened the bike started to feel good again. We didn't have much rear grip today. It was good at the start and then went away, but then it came back in the middle of the race which was strange. That's something we need to look closely at, at times I felt I could really push but it was disappointing to see other guys coming past. I'm OK after the crash and I thought it would hurt me more, but my gear did its job and I'm ready to get on the bike again tomorrow. It's hard to know how tomorrow will go, obviously there are positives to take from today but we have to analyse where we're struggling."
Pleased to confirm Eugene is OK after his crash at Turn 17. @WorldSBK #ItalianWorldSBK pic.twitter.com/6ezLAV6KrV
— Milwaukee Aprilia (@SMRWorldSBK) May 13, 2017
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Knocked Over By a Feather: McCarthy and Book Burning
- by Laura Malone Elliott
McCarthy and Book Banning
Knocked Over by a Feather
McCarthyism didn't just focus on the State Department or federal workers. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ranted: "Communists in America are everywhere—in factories, offices, butcher shops, on street corners—and each carries with him the germs of death for society." Their list grew to include educators and librarians.
Hoover and McCarthy were obsessed with rooting out and removing radicals and progressives from any institute of learning, "as long as school boards and parents tolerate conditions," said Hoover, "whereby communists and fellow travelers, under the guise of academic freedom, can teach our youth a way of life that eventually will destroy the sanctity of the home, that undermines faith in God, that causes them to scorn respect for constituted authority."
And the most effective tool in contaminating and corrupting thoughts, they said? Books.
With Hoover's help—and following fast on the persecution of the Hollywood Ten screenwriters for supposedly peppering movies with hidden communist philosophies (more on them in a later blog)—McCarthy went after libraries and what was shelved there. With a vengeance.
Take, for instance, Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, McCarthy said, it encouraged men to protest American law and order. Or that John Steinbeck. Look at how his Grapes of Wrath focused on pain and tragedy, making workers look oppressed, that America was a hard, unfeeling place, that the rich caused the Depression and did little to help its victims. Nothing short of Leninist propaganda!
A storm surge of Red-hunting swept into our libraries. What followed was one of the worst waves of censorship our nation ever experienced.
In honor of those who fought it and this year's National Banned Book Week, I'd like to share the story of some daring college students who helped snap McCarthy's hold on the American psyche.
It all began when Robin Hood was banned.
In 1953, an Indiana State textbook commissioner called for banning all references to Robin Hood in books used in schools because he "robbed from the rich and gave it to the poor. That's the Communist Line. It's just a smearing of law and order."
Across the country, librarians immediately pulled copies of Robin Hood—out of fear of retribution from local councils, trustee boards, or neighborhood watchdog groups. By that point dozens of librarians had been fired or hounded out of their jobs. The reasons? They might have refused to remove liberal magazines like the Nation or New Republic. Or they wouldn't sign loyalty oaths and affidavits swearing they had never "been a member of, or directly or indirectly supported or followed" a long list of organizations the FBI tagged as suspect. (In California, the list included 146 groups.) Perhaps they did not cooperate with background investigations and invasive questions about their personal beliefs, what they liked to read, and their friendships.
Like all people, librarians' political beliefs ran the gamut. Some succumbed to the Red-hunt fever or agreed with the purge. Claims that particular books were dangerous often bordered on the ridiculous. In 1952, two Midwest librarians complained to the Newberry-Caldecott Committee about the winner Finders' Keepers—a picture book my character, budding-artist Natalia, pulls out to show Richard as an example of bold, new graphic illustrations. Natalia opens the book to a page with a drawing of a big black dog trying to take a bone away from two little red dogs, and says, "… some crazy librarians are claiming the book is subversive. I mean, really! The dogs are just figuring out how to share a bone between them. But these women claim that the white spots on the black dog resemble the outlines of the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Taiwan, and Japan. That the picture is suggesting imperialism, that we and our capitalist allies are trying to bully Communist-leaning countries." She makes a face and adds, "I think those librarians must have been smoking some tea." (I love Natalia!)
No library was safe from such scrutiny and attacks. The Boston Post attacked the venerable Boston Public Library for displaying Lenin's Communist Manifesto, the editorial wondering why the library didn't have a copy of Senator McCarthy's new book: McCarthyism: The Fight for America. The insinuation being the librarians were facilitating, even encouraging communist thought. (The library countered the senator's recently published book was on order.) The Post demanded Boston follow the lead of countless other libraries across the nation and "label its poison"— all books by any author thought to have any communist associations should bear a stamp. Works about socialist governing should be quarantined in reference rooms so their messages could not be carried out into the community. That also required the reader to sign for it, leaving his/her name emblazoned on a list of people interested in Soviet philosophies.
Remarkably, the famed FBI double agent Herbert Philbrick—who exposed a communist cell and whose memoir I Led 3 Lives spawned a TV series—said the library should actually stock more pro-Soviet materials to provide the public a way to study communist dogma "to better know the enemy."
In protest of this increasing pressure to censor, the American Library Association (ALA) braved passing a Freedom to Read statement in 1952.
But that didn't stop McCarthy's right-hand man, Roy Cohn, from traveling to our State Department overseas libraries and pulling as many as 46 authors and hundreds of books from their shelves. The justification: embassy libraries were supposed to provide a "full and fair" impression of the United States. Books that seemed to criticize or question the American way of life undercut that purpose, fueling Soviet propaganda against Western democracies. McCarthy's men even burned some books.
Their targets included works by Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Thomas Paine (whose Common Sense had been a call to arms during our own Revolution), poet Langston Hughes, journalist/novelist Upton Sinclair, playwright Lillian Hellman, and detective writer Dashiell Hammett, among many others.
Against this pervasive inquisition and hysteria rose up five Indiana University students. Banning Robin Hood was their tipping point.
The co-eds had been looking for a symbol to use in protesting McCarthyism's siege on freedom of speech. They found it in the legendary feather-capped green hats worn by Robin Hood and his Merry Men. The IU coeds went to local farms, gathered bags and bags of feathers, and dyed them green in a dorm room bathtub.
In early March 1954—when McCarthy was in his height of power, arrogant and confident enough to accuse the Army and a decorated WWII general of coddling communists—these daring students proclaimed themselves "The Green Feather Movement" and spread their Robin Hood-defiant feathers across campus.
They were immediately attacked as being "communist dupes" and radical "longhairs." Newspapers denounced them. Some student groups jeered them. Hoover's FBI began watching them.
But even with such intimidation tactics, the Merry Men protests spread. First to some other Big Ten universities, then to Harvard, then to UCLA (where my fictional character, Natalia, joins its ranks). Their feathers helped knock over that terrifying king-of-the-hill bully, Joseph McCarthy, and his minions.
Their legacy continued into the next decade. Many historians credit these five feather-wielding students with initiating campus-activism that would prove so important to the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s.
They certainly inspired me to make my two teenage boy protagonists book-lovers. Richard and Vlad often find their answers, their courage, in what they read. Isn't that what books are all about?
Those IU coeds proved, once again, that it is often the idealism and fearlessness of youth that wakes a nation's conscious. I hope today's students are planning their own feather-like symbols.
EDUCATORS/ LIBRARIANS: Please see a Banned Book Week classroom unit to help students find symbols to fight book censorship, p. 7-8: https://www.lmelliott.com/download_file/view/214/342 )
To learn more about the Green Feather Movement: https://zinnedproject.org/materials/the-green-feather-movement/ and http://www.teachingforchange.org/green-feather-movement (You can even order green feather pins!)
To watch a wonderfully authentic dramatization of the way librarians were threatened, see this clip from Storm Center, (1956), starring Bette Davis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=Gst7BKUbObY)
For Richard's "reading list" and the 1950s books featured in SUSPECT RED: /book_landing_page_historical/suspect-red/richards-reading-list-suspect-red.
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Benny The Butcher Revisits "Tana Talk 4" Project With New Single "Thowy's Revenge" Visual
After the BET Awards, where Benny was nominated for 'Lyricist of The Year' and 'Best Collaboration' for "Johnny P's Caddy with J. Cole, Benny has released a new video for "Thowy's Revenge," (produced by The Alchemist.).
Benny the Butcher & Black Soprano Family Release New Album 'Long Live DJ Shay'
'Long Live DJ Shay' includes features and production from Westside Gunn, Conway the Machine, Boldy James, Stove God Cooks, DJ Premier, and The Alchemist just to name a few. The album is also accompanied by a music video. The visual for "Pandemic Flow" which features Conway the Machine & Cory Gunz with production by The Alchemist. Most importantly, 'Long Live DJ Shay' is a celebration of the legacy and Impact of DJ Shay.
New Video: Armani Caesar Featuring Benny The Butcher & Stove God Cooks 'Hunnit Dolla Hiccup'
Armani Caesar releases the new visual for 'Hunnit Dolla Hiccup'. The song and video both feature Benny The Butcher and Stove God Cooks. 'Hunnit Dolla Hiccup' is the lead single for Armani's newest album. After announcing her sophomore album, 'The Liz 2', is set for release September 16th, via Griselda/ GXFR Records.
BOLDY JAMES X REAL BAD MAN 'KILLING NOTHING' ALBUM OUT NOW + NEW VISUAL
With plans to release their album, 'Killing Nothing' on May 20th of this year, Boldy James and Real Bad Man give listeners a taste of what is yet to come. Boldy James and Real Bad Man release, "All The Way Out", the first single off their new album coming later this month.
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After taking a four year hiatus, on March 11th, 2022, Benny The Butcher released the fourth installment of the Tana Talk series: Tana Talk 4.
J. Cole Shows His 'Wrath Of A Reaper' On Benny The Butcher's New Single "Johnny P's Caddy" Ft. J. Cole
"Tana Talk 4" is the fourth installment of Benny's Tana Talk series that has always documented Benny's Career. If this is a small glimpse of what "Tana Talk 4" sounds like, we are in for a classic.
Femcee Che Noir Is Redefining The Nostalgic East Coast Sound.
The 27-year-old initially gained traction in 2020 with the release of her debut mixtape "Poetic Thoughts", securing the interest of fellow Buffalo, New York artists Benny the Butcher and 38 Spesh, subsequently releasing music with the two. In 2020, she released breakthrough album "As God Intended", with legendary Detroit producer Apollo Brown.
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using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Data;
using ServiceStack.Common;

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{
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Mary Carew (Estados Unidos, 8 de septiembre de 1913-12 de julio de 2002) fue una atleta estadounidense, especialista en la prueba de 4 x 100 m en la que llegó a ser campeona olímpica en 1932.

Carrera deportiva
En los JJ. OO. de Los Ángeles 1932 ganó la medalla de oro en los relevos de 4 x 100 metros, con un tiempo de 47.0 segundos, llegando a meta por delante de Canadá (plata) y Reino Unido (bronce), siendo sus compañeras de equipo: Evelyn Furtsch, Annette Rogers y Wilhelmina von Bremen.

Referencias

Atletas de Estados Unidos
Medallistas olímpicos de oro de atletismo
Medallistas olímpicos de oro de Los Ángeles 1932

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