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Can airlines force travelers off a plane for being sick?
By Washington Post
PUBLISHED: June 29, 2019 at 5:30 am | UPDATED: June 29, 2019 at 6:52 am
By Hannah Sampson | The Washington Post
Khalid Adkins was just trying to get home from the Dominican Republic.
But before the Denver man's flight left, family members told media and later wrote on a fundraising page, he was sweating profusely and vomited in the bathroom. The airline made him get off, and he went to the hospital, family said.
Loved ones tried to raise $20,000 for a medical evacuation, but Adkins died Tuesday of unknown causes, becoming the ninth U.S. citizen to die in the Dominican Republic this year under circumstances that families are questioning. Now, his family is using the donations to bring his body home.
It was not clear which airline Adkins was flying, and various carriers either did not respond to questions from The Washington Post or said they would not be able to comment for privacy reasons. But the case sheds light on the power that airlines wield to decide who can and cannot fly.
"It's totally up to the captain onboard the plane," says Charlie Leocha, president and co-founder of Travelers United, a consumer advocacy organization.
He says travelers face a conundrum: Show up sick and risk not being allowed to fly, or delay a flight because of illness and pay a penalty. He ran into that situation this year when he was diagnosed with pneumonia before a flight back to the United States from Spain. Taking a few extra days would have been so costly that he ended up flying sick.
Travelers who are very sick should still try to change their flight, he says, because airline employees might be able to make an exception to charging extra fees – especially if a passenger shows up in person and looks terrible. Those who want to fly but aren't allowed should at least try to make sure they won't be charged extra.
"If they don't let you get on the plane, then there's probably a different system, such as they'll let you go back on a future flight without paying anything extra," he says.
The World Health Organization says airlines "have the right to refuse to carry passengers with conditions that may worsen, or have serious consequences, during the flight."
Carriers may need to get clearance from their medical department or an adviser if a passenger's health could be a hazard to the safety of the plane; would have a negative impact on other passengers or crew; might need medical attention during the flight; or if their condition might be aggravated by the flight, the organization says.
Allen Parmet, a Kansas City physician who served as medical director for TWA, says that although the captain has the authority to decide to refuse to transport someone, most airlines have medical consultants they can call in real time to assess whether someone is too sick to fly.
"The principle is, we don't transport people who are too sick to travel, because their illness or their condition threatens either their own safety or the health and safety of others," he says.
Parmet, an aerospace medicine consultant and instructor at the University of Southern California's Aviation Safety and Security program, says he's only encountered six or so cases where someone was not allowed to fly because of illness in his 12 years at TWA.
"If you're a threat to your own health or the health and safety of others, you shouldn't be on an airplane," he says. "It's not an ambulance, it's a bus."
Most carriers say travelers with contagious diseases that could be spread to other passengers can be refused; health officials have recently warned people believed to be infected with measles that they could be prevented from getting on a plane. Beyond that, some airlines include a warning about their right to keep someone from flying in case of illness – although they don't spell out how sick someone must be for that to happen.
In its contract of carriage, for example, American Airlines warns: "If your physical or mental condition is such that in American's sole opinion, you are rendered or likely to be rendered incapable of comprehending or complying with safety instructions without the assistance of an attendant, American may refuse to transport you."
Delta says it can decline to transport or remove passengers who are seriously ill, unless they provide a doctor's written permission to fly.
While Leocha, the consumer advocate, says he doesn't hear many cases of sick people being forced off planes, the possibility is real enough that travelers should consider travel insurance with a medical evacuation plan, "because the airlines are not known for being nice about it."
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Jennifer is a systems engineer for EDF Energy. She has worked at Hunterston B nuclear power station in Scotland since 2010. EDF Energy is one of the UK's largest suppliers of gas and electricity; they own and operate eight nuclear power plants that produce a combined total of almost 9,000 megawatts of power.
When I was at school I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I found myself picking subjects that I enjoyed. My favourites were maths and physics and I happened to be really good at them.
"When I was at school I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so I found myself picking subjects that I enjoyed. My favorites were maths and physics and I happened to be really good at them.
"My dad is a mechanical engineer. He always seemed to have an interesting job and that inspired me when I was growing up. I initially chose accountancy at university because I wanted to do something different, but it turned out I was simply naturally suited to engineering. After my degree I did a postgraduate course and studied sustainable engineering to gain my masters in science.
"I guess I was aware that it was mostly men working in engineering, but that wasn't something that bothered me. I don't think about it, I just think about myself as one of the team. It was only different when I was the new person, but then a new face always stands out and I don't think gender really matters. More females are getting into engineering now and I'd really encourage them to do so, it's a very interesting career.
"It's hard to describe a normal day but that's what I like about the role. I look after the long-term health of my plant areas but I do spend time in my PPE uniform, which gives me a good mix of office and plant-based engineering work. You might have in your mind what you're going to be doing, but then something emergent happens and it refocuses your attention.
"The most challenging part of my job is probably to prioritise what I'm working on because a lot of the time we have different work areas and demands. It's knowing what your focus should be and trying to balance that.
"You always have to be spatially aware of what's going on around you on site. You have to know what jobs are being carried out and have a general knowledge of what's going on. There was one thing I never used to do before I started here and that was holding handrails on the stairs because of germs. Now I automatically hold on and it's become second nature as we have to do this at work as a safety measure.
"Maybe the reason for there not being so many females in technical roles in the industry is because of subject choices at school. I think girls aren't naturally as interested in sciences and maths but that is definitely changing.
"When I come to work, I come dressed quite feminine, but when I have my PPE uniform on, which is unisex, I feel a bit like I'm in boy's clothes! I'm quite a girly person so it's important to me to keep my femininity, but I don't really think it matters too much what I'm wearing at work, I'm here to do a job."
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Samsung is preparing 8K TV upscaling tech
Samsung Electronics is Allegedly making advancements in its AI-based upscaling technologies for 8K TVs. The company wants to apply deep learning upscaling to all of its future 8K TV models intended for release next year. It might also prepare the changhong ruba led in expectation of a future microLED TV lineup that might not be a part of The Wall collection, said to be unveiled at CES 2020.
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Samsung was using Machine learning-based upscaling tech for a few years now, but the business continues to increase its solution and deep-learning AI must push this concept to the next level. As detailed in this newspaper , profound learning is a subset of system learning and provides greater precision, especially in image and sound understanding.
Upscaling is now a vital Part of contemporary TVs because they've advanced than broadcasting technology. Samsung leverages AI to 1080p or even content to 8K and 4K resolutions on its own TVs, although broadcasting in 8K resolutions is not really a thing yet.
Are you currently in the market for a New Samsung TV? In that case, are you going to hope to purchase one at a discount and make the most of this holiday season, or will you wait till later CES 2020 to see what this enhanced upscaling technology is all about?
Samsung is preparing enhanced 8K TV upscaling tech for CES 2020 lineup
Samsung Electronics is Reportedly making progress in its own AI-based upscaling technologies for 8K TVs. The business wishes to apply deep learning AI-based upscaling to all its future 8K TV models planned for release next year. It might also ready the technology in anticipation of a future microLED TV lineup that might not be part of The Wall collection, said to be unveiled at CES 2020.
This bit of information comes from Korean information outlet Pulseciting principal engineers Ahn Tae-gyoung and Park Seung-ho of Samsung Electronics Visual Screen Business Division.
Samsung was using Machine learning-based upscaling technician to get a couple of years now, but the business continues to improve its solution and deep-learning AI must push this notion to the next level. As detailed in this paper, deep learning is a subset of system learning and provides higher precision, particularly in picture and sound understanding.
Upscaling is now a vital Component of modern TVs because they have advanced than broadcasting technologies. Samsung leverages AI to 1080p or even content to 8K and 4K resolutions, although broadcasting at 8K resolutions is something yet.
Are you currently in the market for a Brand new Samsung TV? Are you going to hope to buy one at a discount and take advantage of this holiday season, if so, or will you wait until later CES 2020 to find out what this upscaling technology is all about?
Why it's important to buy LED TV's with official warranty?
There has been a Massive Sector of Smuggled/Non-Custom Paid Led Televisions. Consumers frequently consider led television over guarantee just to save a few bucks. Businesses like Samsung needed to pay custom duty as per the law and imported their televisions. A difference was in the costs of non-custom paid/smuggled led televisions in comparison with a official led tv that includes guarantee. There has been a difference in prices between non-custom paid since the inception of SKD units being manufactured in Pakistan and custom contributed tv in Pakistan.
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Smith & Nephew agrees to buy OsteoBiologics for $72.3 mln
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Published: July 11, 2006 6:09 a.m. ET
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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Medical device maker Smith & Nephew SN, -0.24% SNN, +0.10% said Tuesday that it has bought privately held, Texas-based, OsteoBiologics Inc. for $72.3 million in cash. OsteoBiologics' primary product is used to repair bone and articular cartilage defects and the company recorded sales of $3.3 million in 2005. Smith & Nephew said that the acquisition is expected to reduce earnings by $7m in the second half of 2006 and be broadly neutral in 2007.
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In my thesis paper I turn a critical eye on the history of American landscape photography. In it I explore problematic issues of representation in historical as well as contemporary photography. I argue that our relationship to the landscape is changing as we better understand our impact on the environment, and that artists need to depart even further from traditional means of landscape depiction to help expand our perception of our surroundings. In my paper, different eras of landscape photography are compared and contrasted and I refer to other mediums such as sculpture and land-art for potential alternative ways of looking at landscape imagery.
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Mark Zuckerberg to Give Away Fortune
10:42 PM PST 12/8/2010 by Philiana Ng
PALO ALTO, CA - AUGUST 18: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg smiles before speaking at a news conference at Facebook headquarters August 18, 2010 in Palo Alto, California. Zuckerberg announced the launch of Facebook Places, a new application that allows Facebook users to document places they have visited.
The 26-year-old Facebook founder is one of 16 billionaires who have agreed to join Bill Gates and Warren Buffett's "Giving Pledge."
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has signed on to give away a portion of his fortune, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The 26-year-old is one of 16 billionaires who have agreed to join "Giving Pledge," which asks its participants to publicly commit to giving away a majority of their wealth.
Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook in his Harvard University dorm and is portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network, is one of the youngest billionaires in the world. According to Forbes, he is said to be worth $6.9 billion, though the Journal notes his value is theoretical.
Earlier this year, Zuckerberg donated $100 million to the Newark public school system, which was announced on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, who is played by actor Joseph Mazzello in the film, has also agreed to participate.
New additions to the pledge include AOL co-founder Steve Case, Carl Icahn and Michael Milken, an ex-junk-bond king. Other billionaires who had previously signed on include Oracle founder Larry Ellison, George Lucas and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett started Giving Pledge in order to persuade the rich to be more philanthropic. Last year, the two hosted several dinners for billionaires to discuss setting up the pledge, which then led to its official launch in June.
"I view this as a call to others who might in their 30s or 40s use some of their creativity to get involved in philanthropy earlier in life," Milken said of Giving Pledge.
Steve and wife Jean Case chose to participate because of they wanted to learn from each other. "It is less about what size of a check that you write and more about the outcome," Steve Case said. His wife noted that people who start web companies, like Zuckerberg and the founders of AOL, want "to change the world," so it was only appropriate that "they are giving back in big ways."
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Using data from the U.S. Census, the study looked at the share of income that people spend on their rent in metros across the country.
The number of renters across the U.S. is nearing 44 million households, or 37 percent of the population. The total number of cost-burdened renters fell to 49.7 percent, the lowest since the 2007 recession. But that's still nearly double the percentage of cost-burdened renters in 1960, when it stood at 24 percent.
Although Miami rents aren't as high as in cities such as San Francisco, Seattle or New York, a greater share of the renters there make higher incomes, so the burden is lower. Other cities, such as Dallas, still have plenty of available land to develop, so rental housing can be built to fill demand and keep rents lower.
As of Sept. 30, the median rent price in Miami-Dade for a one-bedroom apartment was $1,981, according to Zillow. The number of rental households in Miami-Dade is projected to reach 700,000 by the year 2030, which would require an additional 185,414 units to meet demand. But at the current pace, new construction will only reach 69,400.
Even worse, many of those new apartments will be too pricey to be within reach of workforce salaries.
Bennet said Miami renters can be divided into two general groups: younger professionals who are willing or able to spend more on rent in prime locations, and lower-income residents pushed far from the most desirable neighborhoods by steep rents.
"Doubling up with roommates and eating ramen is one thing," she said. "It's another thing for families who can't afford to pay for healthcare, the water bill and groceries. You have no discretionary income to save up to buy a car. The consequence is that people decide to move out of a metro. You lose a lot of working-class families."
There is one bit of good news, though: Our paychecks are getting a little bit bigger.
The financial website SmartAsset ranked Miami first in a list of the top 10 U.S. cities with the fastest-growing median incomes, with a 16 percent jump from just under $30,000 in 2015 to $34,900 in 2016. Eventually, Miami-Dade might even catch up with the national median income of $57,000.
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BBC's Sir David Clementi or Channel Four's Charles Gurassa - Who will lead on tv diversity?
Why it seems likely, going into 2018, that we should expect more Ofcom reports saying "The BBC should be leading the way, but its performance is behind that of Channel 4".
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Journalist Carrie Gracie speaks to the media outside BBC Broadcasting House in London after turning down what she described as a botched solution to the problem of unequal pay at the BBC. Dominic Lipinski/Press Association. All rights reserved. 14 September 2017 was not a good day for the BBC. In the morning, Ofcom released its first Diversity Monitoring Report. Ofcom said:
"As the UK's largest broadcaster, the BBC's position on diversity is likely to have a disproportionate effect on the wider industry. The BBC should be leading the way, but today's report shows its performance on most characteristics is behind that of Channel 4."
In the afternoon, Karen Bradley, the DCMS Secretary of State, told the Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention:
"Diversity is not merely a buzzword.…… the BBC should be leading the way with both on- and off-screen diversity…… just because something is hard does not mean that we shouldn't try."
BBC resists change
Bradley included some positive words about the new BBC structure, telling the Conference, "The new BBC Board brings effective, modern governance and will deliver further transparency and efficiency."
Before the month was out, it became clear that the Secretary of State's optimism about the new BBC Board delivering transparency was badly misplaced. The new BBC Board had been captured by the siege mentality of the old BBC management – defending its customs and actuality, right or wrong.
The matter in question was BBC complaints. ITV and C4 were required to report on complaints every two weeks. Ofcom asked the BBC to bring its complaints reporting in line.
The BBC told Ofcom to get lost, explaining that while it accepted the principle of transparency, it thought that, in practice, the actual transparency provided by the BBC under clause 56 (8) of the BBC Agreement should be limited. This was an extraordinary assertion given that clause 56 (8) couldn't be clearer:
"The BBC must publish information about the operation and effectiveness of the procedures in relation to relevant complaints in such form and at such intervals as Ofcom may determine."
Notwithstanding this clause, the BBC also argued that Ofcom's powers to require greater public transparency of the BBC were restricted and it took issue with Ofcom's proposed use of them.
Ofcom is very reluctant to take enforcement action. It strongly prefers persuasion but on 29 September, Kevin Bakhurst, Ofcom's Group Director of the Content Media Policy Group, wrote to the BBC, telling the Corporation, Ofcom had "determined" the BBC should do as it was told, publish complaints every two weeks, and that:
"We continue to consider that the greater transparency we proposed is necessary to build and maintain public confidence in the operation of the BBC under the new framework and to provide public accountability."
Is the old BBC management tail wagging the new BBC dog, the Board?
The new BBC Chair, Sir David Clementi, also speaking at September's RTS Cambridge Convention was clear that "the new BBC structure with one unitary board allows the BBC to speak, perhaps for the first time, with a single voice. And to get behind one clear strategy, with accountability for the BBC resting unambiguously in one set of hands."
Nobody in this new unified structure had thought to tell Clementi that Ofcom's Diversity Monitoring Report, in the morning, might require a change in his prepared text for the late afternoon. At 6pm, Clementi rose to tell the delegates "the BBC is one of the most diverse workforces in the UK" – an old BBC assertion for which no evidence has ever been adduced. This rang hollow after Ofcom had revealed that the BBC trailed so poorly behind C4 on diversity.
On complaints, the BBC had also argued that it shouldn't need to report fortnightly on it because this meant changing BBC systems and more regular reporting would require too much work from senior executives and the press office. In Karen Bradley's terms, fortnightly reporting was too hard and the BBC wasn't prepared to try.
The task of addressing diversity is much harder than addressing more regular reporting of complaints. Will the Board take diversity more seriously?
Tanni Grey-Thompson, Tom Ilube, Ashley Steel
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson poses in front of the Olympic Stadium in London, 2013. Geoff Caddick/Press Association. All rights reserved.The new BBC Board includes at least three diversity champions who know how boards work. Will they be able to overcome the BBC's reluctance to change? Of these, Tanni Grey-Thompson, a Paralympian who won 16 medals in five Paralympic Games is the best known. Now a Crossbench Peer, Baroness Grey-Thomson has been a fierce diversity advocate. Two years ago, speaking on diversity to the Royal Television Society, she said:
"We need to do things much quicker than we have done in the past and the BBC should be leading the way. If the BBC is not doing it, it gives every other organisation an excuse not to do it as well."
Grey-Thompson has sat on the boards of the National Disability Council, the Sports Council for Wales and UK Sport, and currently sits on the boards of TfL and the London Legacy Development Corporation.
Tom Ilube, founder of the African Gifted Foundation and the African Science Academy, was named the most influential black person in the UK in Powerlist 2017. His 30-year career in the UK technology sector includes roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Goldman Sachs and the London Stock Exchange. Ilube is currently CEO of cyber security firm Crossword Cybersecurity plc and has previously founded several start up technology businesses. Ilube's TED talks on "Why Africa's girls will engineer the future" and from "From Artificial Intelligence to Intelligent Africa" reveal him to be a deft and persuasive speaker.
Ashley Steel, too, has been a strong diversity advocate asking:
"If there is a war of talent going on, then why on earth would you want to put people off who are gay or black or female?" It simply doesn't make business sense. And I think clients want to see a diverse workforce."
Steel was Vice Chairman at professional services firm, KPMG. During her time with the firm she worked in over 40 countries advising both listed companies and national governments and, while based in the USA, led its global technology and media practice. As well as the BBC, Steel is a non executive director on the boards of National Express plc, the Civil Aviation Authority and the international law firm, Ince & Co. She has also appeared in the Pride Power List, the World Pride Power List and was a founding member of the global advisory board for Out Leadership which promotes the idea of "the Return on Equality".
Urgent issue - BBC Diversity Code of Practice
Clementi who, as Chair, must have had a decisive role in board appointments, should be congratulated on these formidable choices, but will he and they be able to overcome the management on which the board is so dependent for data, information and implementation – a management which has been so determined to resist change and whose record on diversity is so poor?
By April, the BBC must publish a Code of Practice. It will cover on-screen portrayal and casting, workforce diversity and the production and commissioning decision process. The Code should apply to the £1billion of BBC external supply, set clear minimum requirements with penalties for non-compliance and require suppliers to implement Ofcom's "Guidance: Diversity in Broadcasting". The Code's terms and scope will provide the first clear signal of whether or not the new BBC Board is taking diversity seriously.
Later, the Board must produce the 2018 BBC Annual Plan. The 2017 plan received a pasting at Ofcom's diversity stakeholder event on 13 July. Critics pointed out that the section on diversity was strong on assertions for which no source or evidence had been provided, and a former ITV company board director said that such a threadbare annual plan for diversity would never have passed muster even in a small ITV broadcaster. Ofcom offered to circulate, later that day, the relevant sources and methodological basis from the BBC, on which some of the BBC assertions were based. That information never came.
In November, when Sir David Clementi appeared before the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, he told the MPs that while he took responsibility for it, the Annual Plan was "pretty much baked by the time this Board was put in place."
The 2018 plan, will be baked at an away day this month and finalized in February or March. It will give the new board an opportunity to show it can do better on diversity. The plan is important because much of Ofcom's regulation is based on monitoring the BBC's progress towards meeting its own goals in the Annual Plan.
Charles Gurassa and Channel 4
There is, as yet, no gold standard in public service broadcasting for driving diversity but Channel 4 has done more than any other broadcaster as the positive outcome from Ofcom's first Diversity Monitoring Report shows.
Channel 4's "360-degrees Diversity Charter" sets out 30 initiatives and every year the channel reports on each of them stating the Objective, the Result and the Lessons learnt. At C4, on diversity, there has been no split between the tail and the dog. This approach was developed under the old board and the old management, led by Oona King who has now left and Executive Director Dan Brooke who remains.
Channel 4's new board and management is even more committed. In October 2017, Alex Mahon became the new CEO.
The November 2013 Broadcast Diversify Conference marked the turning point in the diversity debate. Alex Mahon, then CEO of the Shine Group spoke from the floor and followed with an article, "Diversity: time to act, not talk", in Broadcast.
Mahon reported, "Frustration was evident that our industry has made incremental progress over the past decade and has merely played a blame and pass-the-parcel game. All of us within the industry have a moral and social obligation to change the status quo .…..For anyone not swayed by the social imperative, there is a clear, positive commercial impact of making change."
In March 2014, at the Enders Analysis Creative UK Conference, Mahon proposed that the top ten programmes by ratings/year should be representative of the UK and suggested that this would be widespread enough to make a substantive difference and simple enough to measure.
Heading the RTS Programme Awards, in 2016, Mahon ensured juries were 27% BAME and 52% female. She found "Talking to the Chairs it was clear that the tone of the conversations in the jury room changed for the better. Making this change was relatively simple because the high quality talent we need was easy to find and in plentiful supply."
Coming clean, last December, on the negative outcomes in C4's BAME staff experience research marks Mahon out as a trailblazer.
C4 now needs to require its suppliers to implement Ofcom's "Guidance: Diversity in Broadcasting" and demonstrate that its Commissioning guidelines actually drive diversity. They look good on paper but do they actually work? We don't know.
Charles Gurassa, the Channel 4 Chair, was in the audience for the channel's last diversity conference and kicked up a fuss when Karen Bradley refused to allow the diversity champion Althea Efunshile to be appointed to the board in 2016, quibbling over the criteria. A year later Efunshile has finally been appointed with Bradley's blessing. There she joins another diversity champ and Paralympian medal winning Peer, Chris Holmes. With Mahon at the helm, it is unlikely that this team will rest on its laurels.
Will Clementi or Gurassa lead on tv diversity?
Sir David Clementi is widely admired in the City and in Westminster. He was the architect of the BBC's new unitary structure but designing a structure and making it work effectively are two different tasks. It is said that when Eisenhower was elected US President in 1952, his predecessor, Truman remarked, "When Ike gets his hands on the levers of power, he'll find they aren't attached to anything." Clementi may find himself in the Ike position. Despite his own talents and the commitment of his formidable non-execs, it is improbable that in 2018 he will be able to overcome the BBC's deeply embedded resistance to change. The unitary structure is most unlikely to be united on the radical changes needed to advance diversity in the BBC and its suppliers.
Charles Gurassa, by contrast, has shown that on diversity he can fight and win as he did with the Efunshile appointment. At C4, he finds himself with a CEO and management which is fully committed on diversity and should be determined to do even better.
This week the BBC China Editor, Carrie Gracie, resigned over pay discrimination – unequal pay for the same job. Gracie would be bound to win any tribunal or legal challenge, unless the BBC is able to demonstrate that the male international editors have unique characteristics which entitle them to be better paid than their female counterparts with the same job title. This seems unlikely.
In July 2017, the BBC Director General, Tony Hall said that closing the gender pay gap had been "a personal priority over the last four years." It is clear that the inflexible BBC culture can thwart even a Director General when he wishes to address diversity issues – even when they carry a legal risk.
Sir David Clementi's experience of the rationale commercial world may not equip him to get a grip on the inflexible culture of the BBC. It seems likely that we should expect many more Ofcom reports that say "The BBC should be leading the way, but its performance is behind that of Channel 4".
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President Trump has become the first sitting president to address the anti-abortion March for Life rally in Washington D.C. The 45th president addressed the 45th march via satellite in a speech from the Rose garden at 12:30pm today. The annual march is held on or around the anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade ruling which was issued by the US Supreme Court in 1974 which decriminalized abortion.
VP Mike Pence introduced the president to the podium, saying that 45 years ago the "United States Supreme Court turned its back on the right to life" which had been handed down by their forefathers. He went on to add that America had nominated the most pro-life president in the form of Donald Trump. VP Pence then praised the marchers for their activism saying "their prayers were saving lives." The marchers, watching Mike Pence via satellite applauded his comments.
He said that because of the pro-life marchers tens of thousands of American's had been born and went on to live good lives, adding that "love saves lives." He said Roe vs. Wade had brought about some of the most permissive abortion laws in the world, saying that the only other nations that had such laws were nations such as China and North Korea. He went on to say it was wrong that abortions could be performed in the 9th month of pregnancy. He said his administration would be determined to protecting the right to life.


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Buscot Park National Trust
The Faringdon Collection
The London house
John Rocque's map of Berkshire (c.1760), showing the rural landscape before the construction of Buscot Park
An estate plan of 1798 showing the construction of the park and gardens at Buscot by Edward Loveden
A mid-nineteenth century view of the Loveden house and the maturing landscape (lithograph by J.S. Kell)
A woodcut of around 1860, by Laurence Davis, showing the new porch and steps added to the front of the house by Robert Campbell
Campbell's extensive alterations to the parkland surrounding the mansion, including the creation of the reservoir and a new approach to the house, can be seen in this Ordnance Survey map of 1876
This aerial view of Buscot Park was taken in 1977, before the present Lord and Lady Faringdon began their redesign of the Walled Garden and surrounding grounds
An anonymous architect's sketch (probably executed around August 1859) illustrating one of the grander schemes considered by Robert Campbell - but mercifully never implemented - for the enhancement of the house.
Owners of The Buscot Park Estate
Marriage & Money
Murder at The Priory
Basque and Spanish Exiles
Architectural Landscape History
An Industrialised Agricultural Estate in Berkshire
Architectural and Landscape History
When Edward Loveden Loveden decided to build Buscot Park, he chose a local prominence, then called Farnhill, or Farn Hill, for the site of his new mansion. This land lay outside the historic Loveden estate, forming part of the adjacent Throckmorton estate. Loveden paid the existing tenant a premium in order to acquire the lease. The hill, to the east of Buscot village, commanded northward views to the Lechlade-Faringdon turnpike and to the flat lands beyond the Thames. John Rocque's map of around 1760 shows a barn and an avenue close to the site; both were removed when adjacent farmland and heathland were enclosed to create the first park and garden.
The design of the house was once attributed to Loveden himself, but it is now known that he also employed James Darley (1744-1821) to build the mansion and main phase of the park. Darley, of Hullavington, in Wiltshire, was described in his own day as 'an able and experienced architect', and had previously been employed as clerk of works at Charlton House, near Malmesbury, during alterations carried out for the Earl of Suffolk in 1772-6.
Another possibility is that Buscot was designed by William Newton (1735-90), a London architect who, like Loveden, was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Newton published the first English translation of the works of the ancient Roman architect, Vitruvius, and so was steeped in the neo-classical style. His papers include reference to a drawing that he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1780 of a house 'now building in Berkshire', which could well be Buscot Park, though the drawings themselves have not survived. Adam and Wyatt have also been cited in the past as having had a hand in the design, but no reference to any of the four possible architects has been found in the building accounts.
The one architect how is mentioned in the accounts is James Paine Junior, who was employed in 1782 to assess the cost of the work completed so far, and who supplied chimney-pieces worth £105 in 1783. As the only professional architect mentioned in the accounts, Paine cannot be ignored, and though his other designs are quite unlike Buscot Park, it is possible that he was responsible for the interiors.
No matter who designed the house, the architectural historian Christopher Hussey wrote in 1940 that:
'The designer of Buscot displayed excellent taste and no little skill in the management of his proportions and his choice of detail. He owed much to Adam, obviously, and perhaps to the pattern-books and moulds of the admirable tradesmen of the day. But the plan of the house is conventional, with its hall and saloon in the centre of either facade and transverse corridor, deriving rather from earlier, Palladian, tradition. As was frequent in the Age of Landscape, the principal rooms are on a piano nobile approached by the broad steps to the front door and from the windows of which a prospect is enjoyed over the surrounding countryside.'
Begun in 1780, the house was built by local craftsmen using local materials, but with mahogany doors, Westmorland slates and block steps and landings of Portland stone, all acquired from a sale by Darley's former employer at Charlton House. Stones, lead and further slates were also bought from Kempsford House, in Gloucestershire. Roofing began in October 1781, and an early view of the new house, painted by Joseph Farington, RA, was engraved by J.C. Stadler and published in June 1793. This shows the double flight of stone steps, centred on the nine-bay south front, with its pedimented three-bay centre and the seven-windowed orangery to the east of the mansion. To the west, at the foot of Farn Hill, are the approach road and the turnpike lodge. Further west, the clock tower, with its turret clock and cupola, is visible, rising from the roof of the courtyard stable block. This, along with the adjoining kitchen garden - broadly oval with an outer wall of brick and an octagonal inner core - was built during 1781, along with the mansion works. Fruit-tree planting is recorded in the autumn of 1782.
Parkland work commenced in earnest as the mansion works were nearing completion in 1782. Park paling was completed during the summer of 1782, when deer were bought. Underground drainage was carried out in the spring of 1782, followed by the digging of the fishpond in the summer, and tree planting in the autumn. The sward was sown in the spring of 1783. These initial works comprised 120 acres of parkland pasture, 5 acres of water, 23 acres of plantation and 5 acres of kitchen garden, plus one acre of shrubbery around the house. The layout made the best use of the local topography, and its simple arrangement created a setting for the mansion that echoed the English Landscape fashion of the period.
Between 1786 and 1792, Loveden spent the considerable sum of £60,000 in order to expand the estate by purchasing numerous local landholdings. In 1788 he acquired the neighbouring Throckmorton estate, and so became the owner of the Farn Hill land on which his house was built, and by 1798 he owned most of Buscot parish, as well as parts of Eaton Hastings, Coxwell and Faringdon. To the east of the house he created a new 20-acre lake fed by an existing stream; to the west he extended the deer park and to the south he took more heathland and pasture into the park, adding a further 107 acres overall. The lake was a particular feature, creating long views across the water from the north front of the house to an eye-catching bridge that closed the eastern end of the lake.
The Estate Matures
J.S.Kell's mid-nineteenth-century lithograph of Buscot Park shows the mansion in its mature setting some seventy years after its completion. Further changes and additions were prevented by financial constraints and Robert Campbell, the new owner from 1859, seems to have cared more for his experiments in the industrialisation of the estate than in changing the design. A number of anonymous and finely executed sketches have been found, some dated August 1859, which indicate that Campbell was toying with various ideas for reworking the mansion, deploying an eclectic mix of Italianate towers, mixed with Gothic and Elizabethan windows.
In the event, Campbell's enhancements to the house were far more modest, consisting of a new porch and flight of steps to the south front, and the addition of gabled dormers and balustrading to the eighteenth-century parapet. The orangery was demolished in order to create Italianate terraced gardens to the east and north of the house, with broad paths and geometrically shaped lawns, supported by bastion walls, and embankments. A new approach to the house was created by laying out a new carriage drive from the south front of the house leading eastwards through woodland and offering fleeting glimpses both of the house and of the lake.
Harold Peto & Ernest George
Campbell's improvements to the park and gardens, along with his creation of a number of boundary plantations and his opening up of various vistas, laid the foundation for the most exciting phase in the garden's development. When Alexander Henderson acquired Buscot Park in 1889, he employed the Ernest George Partnership to enlarge the mansion and build various cottages, farm and public buildings in Buscot village. It was through Ernest George that the renowned landscape architect, Harold Peto, was then invited to Buscot to work on improving the links between the house and the lake.
Peto was a former partner of Ernest George, leaving in the early 1890s to establish what subsequently developed into a substantial garden design practice. Peto worked much in the Mediterranean and was a leading exponent of the revived principles of Renaissance garden design, as well as an avid collector of antique, Gothic and Renaissance architectural fragments. At Buscot Peto laid out the renowned water garden between the north-front terraces and the lake. He also added a new forecourt to the south front of the mansion, adding balustraded walls and stone gate-piers. Next to the forecourt he planted a semi-circular sweep of yew hedging to contain the figure of Diana returning from the Chase, which he had purchased in Rome.
Geddes Hyslop
Ironically, the 2nd Lord Faringdon's first action on inheriting Buscot in 1934 was to remove his predecessors' additions, including Campbell's elaborate porch and balustrade and the 1st Lord Faringdon's large west wing, which marred the restrained lines of the original Darley and Loveden design. His architect was Geddes Hyslop, who designed, at the same time, the two balancing pavilions that now stand west and east of the house.
Today the main elevation is much as it must have appeared in 1780. The severity of the composition is relieved by the slight projection of the three central bays, which support a pediment enriched with a flowing foliage design and bearing the Faringdon crest. A broad flight of steps, flanked by bronze centaurs after the antique originals in the Capitoline Museum, gives access to the house on the piano nobile.
To the south, Hyslop introduced the wrought-iron screen and stone gate-piers on a ha-ha wall and linked the south-front lawn to the kitchen garden by creating a hedged flight of steps, centred on the pond at the centre of the walled garden. The north-front lawn was linked to the Peto water garden by semi-circular stone steps, and a radiating patte d'oie (goose-foot) of avenues and garden enclosures was laid out to the south of the Peto garden, aligned on the mansion.
Recent Garden Works
The gardens and grounds have continued to evolve under the present Lord Faringdon. As well as adding a fountain to the north-front pool and a new avenue to the south east of the mansion as part of the twentieth-century garden circuit, he has been most active within the walls of the eighteenth-century kitchen garden. New works have included the richly planted borders in the former melon garden, designed by the late Peter Coats, and the Four Seasons garden, laid out within the octagonal garden walls
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The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa - Eureka Springs, Arkansas
The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa photo by Thomas Routzong
The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa
Eureka Springs Historic, Haunted Hilltop Hotel
By Steven Skelley and Thomas Routzong
For 130 years, The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa has housed guests from the wealthiest of the wealthy to those conned out of their savings in a historic 1930's medical scam.
Originally opened as a lavish resort in 1886 with over 100 horses in the stable for guests to enjoy, the property then became a women's college in 1908 and eventually a fake cancer hospital run by a con man peddling worthless medicines to those in desperate need.
In 1997, Marty and Elise Roenigk purchased the hilltop hotel and invested $10 million for refurbishing and upgrading. It is now a member of Historic Hotels of America and has earned a place on the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
We asked Director of Marketing and Communications Bill Ott about The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa.
Please describe The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa in one sentence:
A proud member of Historic Hotels of America that is a mountaintop spa resort in the midst of the Arkansas Ozarks.
How does The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa hold a unique place in Eureka Springs history and U.S. history?
In the mid-1800s, the little village of Eureka Springs, Arkansas became a national and international phenomenon... its more than 60 natural artesian springs were reported to have healing powers.
Newspaper accounts of these springs healing powers brought tens of thousands of people to Eureka.
A group of entrepreneurs, the Eureka Springs Improvement Company (mostly railroad men) saw the potential of reaping big dollars from "the carriage set" so they built the hotel (the finest west of the Mississippi River) and invited the well-to-do (in the early years guests came by invitation only) to ride their train and stay in their hotel.
Today it is the "symbol of Arkansas hospitality" and vital to the one local industry: tourism.
Describe The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa's current lodgings and amenities:
Today for Eureka Springs lodging, the full-service Crescent Hotel features 76 rooms including luxury suites and cottages, hot tub and swimming pool, the New Moon Spa & Salon, the Crystal Dining Room, Sky Bar Gourmet Pizza with al fresco dining, concierge and bellman service, a resort activities coordinator, all surrounded by 15 acres of manicured show gardens and pristine woods with hiking and walking trails.
The hotel also offers Daily Activity Programming including a Kids Kamp, Spa Fitness, History Tour, and Back Porch Social.
What can you tell us about The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa's ghost tours?
Come get to know "guests who check out but never leave" as you tour "America's Most Haunted Hotel."
You will hear about and walk past the "active" rooms of Michael, Theodora and "the lady in the Victorian nightgown", have a chance to communicate with the host in the morgue, walk down the hallway where the nurse has been seen pushing a corpse on her gurney, see where "the girl in the mist" fell to her death and began haunting the courtyard below, and so much more.
The tour ends up in Norman Baker's morgue, site of where Syfy's Ghost Hunters caught a full-bodied apparition on their thermal imaging camera - what they called the holy grail of ghost hunting!
What are the future plans for The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa?
To continue growing year after year after year after year as they began doing in 1997 when Marty & Elise Roenigk bought the hotel and named Jack Moyer as its vice president of operations and general manager.
Strict adherence to a plan of economic sustainability and to the tenets of hotel's creed:
1) create lifetime memories
2) build the individual
3) protect the irreplaceable
4) be community minded
Add to this the Crescent's continuing active participation and leadership in the local, state, regional and national tourism industries and the hotel's future is guaranteed to be as bright as the dome of azure blue Ozark sky under which it sits and as stellar as the crescent moon after which it was named.
We enjoyed dinner and spent one night at The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. The hotel truly has the feel of the bygone Victorian era. What stories these walls could tell if they could speak!
If you enjoy historic lodgings and ghost stories, make sure you spend at least one night at The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa when you visit Eureka Springs.
The 1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa is located at 75 Prospect Ave, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Their phone is 855-725-5720.
For more information, visit http://crescent-hotel.com/index.shtml
For LGBT travelers, nearby Eureka Springs is the only city in Arkansas with a full non-discrimination ordinance clearly stating that Eureka Springs embraces equality, diversity and welcomes EVERYBODY. Eureka Springs celebrates the LGBT community several times a year with Diversity Weekends.
For more information about Eureka Springs, Arkansas, visit http://www.cityofeurekasprings.us/ or www.arkansas.com/Eureka-Springs
Check our USA Spotlight for more of our articles about Eureka Springs, the Ozarks, and Branson, Missouri.
Article and photos by Steven Skelley and Thomas Routzong
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Celebrating 45 Years of Great Music: The founders of FMAYS
by Jane Linde Capistran
Bruce Houglum
I had the chance to visit with Bruce Houglum in September. He was so kind to stop and visit with me at Concordia while he was spending some time here in Fargo. Since his retirement as the Conductor of the Concordia College Orchestra, Bruce travels between two homes – one here and one in Nashville. Bruce's daughter Kirsten, once a member of FMAYS, has been a violinist in the Nashville Symphony for many years. Bruce, and his wife Diane, get to visit grandchildren in both Nashville and Fargo!
It was so interesting in hearing the history from Bruce about the start of FMAYS. He, along with the other three educators (Eunice Pitmon, Dewey Possehl and the late Jack Harris) knew the value of bringing area students together to play classical repertoire. They enlisted the conducting skills of Andy Froelich, professor at NDSU and Bill Wilson, professor at MSU(M) to work with the students. He said most importantly it was the area teachers and parents that were the "behind the scenes" figures in making the youth symphony operate. From organizing the rehearsal locations, setting up stands and chairs, scheduling concerts, and being the board – it was all done on a volunteer basis!
I can share a memory of mine when I was hired to organize and conduct the Concert String Orchestra in 1990. Diane Houglum was the board president, treasurer, and she, along with Bruce, were also outstanding parents, audience members and a string teacher! At that time, Bruce was the Director of Orchestras at Fargo South High. During their tenure on the board and as parents, the youth symphony did an exchange concert with GTCYS (Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphony) and traveled to Detroit Lakes for a performance. I was a member of the orchestra when the exchange concert occurred. We played under the GTCYS's conductor William Jones and performed in the old Festival Hall at NDSU – circa 1974. Other performance venues Bruce recalled were Weld Hall and Hanson Theater at MSU.
Our thanks to Bruce and Diane for their vision, and their many years of dedication to the youth symphony.
Dewey Possehl
Growing up in Moorhead, I had the privilege of being surrounded by wonderful music educators since my father, Erling Linde, was the Director of Bands at North Junior High and at several elementary schools, as well as an adjunct flute instructor at Concordia College. I remember at an early age meeting Dewey Possehl, Director of Bands at South Junior High, and becoming friends with his talented daughters. I also have a very fond memory of Dewey's late wife, Marge, as our chaperone on one of the Apollo Strings' trips. Mr. Possehl was a famous figure in our house, as he instructed both my brothers in their musical education.
When I visited with Dewey about his role in the re-birth of the youth symphony (since the organization's hiatus in the late 60's), he noted that he and the committee were aware of the success of the youth symphonies in the Twin Cities, and they were hoping for that to be a part of the culture in Fargo-Moorhead again. Dewey agreed with Bruce Houglum that it was very much "hands-on" for the parents and local music faculty. There were decisions to be made about finding a conductor, where and when to rehearse, and how to support the organization. He recalled being in charge of the programs for many concerts and also the weekly set-up required for the rehearsals. Even though no long-term plans were made for the organization back in the early days, Dewey said their hope was for the orchestra to mature and continue growing. Thanks to his and the other founders' vision, the community continues to support the youth symphonies.
And Dewey continues to keep music in his retirement! He is an active trumpet performer in area bands, jazz bands and brass ensembles, and also in a duo that entertains in many assisted living communities. Thank you Mr. Possehl, for your dedication and love of music.
Eunice Pitmon
Eunice Pitmon was a string music educator in Moorhead, MN from 1957 to 1980. She directed the orchestras at South Junior High and also traveled to three elementary schools. (I began my studies with Miss Pitmon in 1966 at Thomas Edison Elementary School.) Pitmon was also a violinist in the FM Symphony. She studied at the McPhail School in Minneapolis and operated a music store in Detroit Lakes, MN before teaching in Moorhead. While teaching at South, her String Ensemble performed at MMEA on several occasions. Many of her students were members of the FM Area Youth Symphony.
I had the pleasure of visiting with Miss Pitmon on Sunday, August 16, at the Colonial Acres Health Care Center in Golden Valley (Miss Pitmon is now 94). She told me… "if I could do it all over again, I would do the same thing. I had so much fun teaching the violin to students!"
Hats off to Eunice Pitmon – FMAYS Founder!
Our final founder to be remembered is Mr. Jack Harris, who passed away in 1996. Jack was an excellent trombonist, composer, and arranger. He and his wife, Thelma, owned and operated Harris Music Center located in Crookston and later in Detroit Lakes. After moving to Moorhead, he became the director of orchestras at Central Junior High, which was in the old senior high building on 8th Street South in Moorhead.
I can remember attending a solo and ensemble contest there and Mr. Harris being such a wonderful host. Central closed in the mid 70's, and Jack then led the orchestra program at Oak Grove Lutheran High School. While on tour, my college orchestra performed a concert for their students, once again Mr. Harris being such a gracious host.
We are grateful for Mr. Jack Harris's contributions to the FM Area Youth Symphony.


Is your running style a problem?
Few forms of exercise are as natural as running- yet sometimes we may get into bad habits.
Young children manage to learn how to run without any special training and, as we enter adulthood, running remains an often unconscious activity.
However, for people who like to run as a sport, especially in middle age, nasty side effects such as pain in the knees, twinges down the side of the leg, and painful cramping in the foot can make you wonder whether you are running correctly.
The first person to publicly question our natural style of running was a British runner, Walter Goodall George, who trained as a chemist in the 19th century. Mr George invented a famous running exercise called the 100 Up, which many runners still use today. It had the virtue of training runners to land on the balls of their feet rather than their heels.
When jogging became a fashionable form of exercise in the 1970s, shoe manufacturers raced to provide cushioned shoes to help weekend athletes deal with the impact of pounding out miles on concrete roads.
But there is another way that might prove beneficial to runners who are still suffering agonies. Taking their cue from Mr George's work, a number of sports scientists have looked at running to see if the method can be improved.
Christopher MacDougal, author of a book called Born to Run , has championed the running method used by Mexico's Tarahumara Indians; another school follows a method loosely based on t'ai chi chuan, a form of Chinese martial arts, and yet another technique is called the Pose method, which was invented by a Russian track coach named Nicholas Romanov.
Although these styles employ different postures, they all state that heel striking, which most of us do when running, is bad for your body.
Mr Romanov, who has written a book, The Running Revolution: How to Run Faster, Farther, and Injury-Free – for Life, and holds running clinics in locations around the world, says that his Pose technique can reduce common injuries.
There are some scientific studies which back up the idea that by changing the way your foot strikes, you can reduce the impact forces on your knee joints. Of course, this force is now transferred from your knees to your ankle and foot, which Mr Romanov asserts are better equipped to absorb the shock.
The Pose technique is best learnt from a teacher, who can explain what each individual runner is doing wrong. In short, the Pose method not only has you landing on you forefoot, but also shortens your stride considerably from the days when you were heel striking. Romanov's method uses gravity — you simply fall forward after landing — so there is no appreciable effort on the part of the runner.
Changing habits can be devilishly difficult because they are deeply ingrained. I was able to change my foot fall by running barefoot on a treadmill for several weeks before I even tried on the street. But if you suffer from aches and pains after running, as I did, learning a new technique could be the key to saving your knees.


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Daniel W. Drezner: Has Bob Woodward jumped the shark? Has Bob Woodward jumped the shark...
Has Bob Woodward jumped the shark?
There are many peculiar rites of passage for each incoming U.S. administration: the first scandal, the first resignation, the first broken campaign promise, and the first botched use of force. Add to this list the first Bob Woodward book of an administration. Like a debutante's coming-out party, there are highly formalized rituals — the press leaks ...
| September 22, 2010, 9:24 AM
There are many peculiar rites of passage for each incoming U.S. administration: the first scandal, the first resignation, the first broken campaign promise, and the first botched use of force.
Add to this list the first Bob Woodward book of an administration. Like a debutante's coming-out party, there are highly formalized rituals — the press leaks about the good stuff in the book, the Sunday morning talk show commentators obsessing over the more controversial bits and pieces, the inevitable meta-essays on Woodward himself. As a young foreign policy wonk, I remember looking forward to the latest Woodward tome the way others looked forward to the latest Stephen King novel.
That was then, however — with Obama's Wars, has Bob Woodward demonstrated that he's about as irrelevant as the debutante circuit?
Woodward is operating in a very different media environment now. What used to be his bread and butter — the political and bureaucratic machinations of presidential administrations — is no longer his exclusive province. Beyond the Washington Post and New York Times, media outlets as varied as Politico, Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, and the New Yorker now generate monthly weekly hourly revelations that Woodward used to be able to hoard for his books. As my old dissertation advisor used to say, "is there anything new here?"
Let's see what Steve Luxenberg's preview in the Washington Post has to say:
President Obama urgently looked for a way out of the war in Afghanistan last year, repeatedly pressing his top military advisers for an exit plan that they never gave him, according to secret meeting notes and documents cited in a new book by journalist Bob Woodward….
Among the book's other disclosures:
— Obama told Woodward in the July interview that he didn't think about the Afghan war in the "classic" terms of the United States winning or losing. "I think about it more in terms of: Do you successfully prosecute a strategy that results in the country being stronger rather than weaker at the end?" he said.
— The CIA created, controls and pays for a clandestine 3,000-man paramilitary army of local Afghans, known as Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams. Woodward describes these teams as elite, well-trained units that conduct highly sensitive covert operations into Pakistan as part of a stepped-up campaign against al-Qaeda and Afghan Taliban havens there.
— Obama has kept in place or expanded 14 intelligence orders, known as findings, issued by his predecessor, George W. Bush. The orders provide the legal basis for the CIA's worldwide covert operations.
— A new capability developed by the National Security Agency has dramatically increased the speed at which intercepted communications can be turned around into useful information for intelligence analysts and covert operators. "They talk, we listen. They move, we observe. Given the opportunity, we react operationally," then-Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell explained to Obama at a briefing two days after he was elected president.
— A classified exercise in May showed that the government was woefully unprepared to deal with a nuclear terrorist attack in the United States. The scenario involved the detonation of a small, crude nuclear weapon in Indianapolis and the simultaneous threat of a second blast in Los Angeles. Obama, in the interview with Woodward, called a nuclear attack here "a potential game changer." He said: "When I go down the list of things I have to worry about all the time, that is at the top, because that's one where you can't afford any mistakes."
— Afghan President Hamid Karzai was diagnosed as manic depressive, according to U.S. intelligence reports. "He's on his meds, he's off his meds," Woodward quotes U.S. Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry as saying.
Hmmm…. there is some interesting stuff, but it's more in the details (Karzai's depression, the CIA's paramilitaries) than in the overarching narrative. Obama feuded with the military on Afghanistan? There was bureaucratic dissension on Afghanistan? Well, blow me down!!
This ain't how it used to be. In The Commanders, for example, Woodward showed that JCS Chairman Colin Powell was much more reluctant to attack Iraq than previously known.
Now it's possible that this is simply a function of me being more cynical older than I used to be. But the fact is, I just don't look forward to a new Bob Woodward book anymore.
Question to readers: has Woodward jumped the shark?
Tags: Afghanistan, bureaucratic politics, Media, mediasphere, Military, Obama, Obama Administration


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Results: Laka Competition'15: Architecture that Reacts
Laka Architektura is pleased to announce winners of Laka Competition'15: Architecture that Reacts. The objective of the competition is to investigate the socially engaged architecture that is able to respond and adjust dynamically to the current needs and circumstances. The first edition gathered over 100 of submissions and almost 200 participants from 5 continents and 30 countries.
We wish to thank all participants for their inspiring interpretations of the theme of the competition. The Jury formed by leaders in the fields of architecture and design selected 3 winners and 10 honorable mentions. Laka Architektura will continue the architectural discourse about the objectives of architecture in further editions of the competition.
From the anonymous submissions received for the single stage competition, Laka Competition'15: Architecture that Reacts, the jury selected 3 winners and 10 finalists:
1st prize
0084: Calvin Fung. Research with Victor Huynh. (Canada)
(Fluid Architecture)
In architecture, the ability to traverse scales is key. It is here, with such system as a model, we can reconceptualize architecture's basic components—the potential to "rethink the brick." Synthetically designed granulates, at an architectural scale, can produce a fluid architecture—a unique system that exhibits properties of a liquid through its reconfigurability, but is capable of self-stabilizing structurally, forming a solid-like state. Through a phenomenon called "jamming," these metastable configurations are far from equilibrium and actually sit at "the edge of chaos." It is this key concept that gives these systems great potential to evolve and adapt to natural and social pressures.
The proposed construction system is accessible to many, unlike current nano/bio-technologies. 3D building blocks were generated with digitally fabricated, slot-fitting wood sheet materials requiring little tools to assemble. The idea of precise control, as we are traditionally accustomed to in design, must be reconsidered. The relationship between the local elements and the global system in this case is important as it suggests that the exact outcome cannot be totally planned. For an architecture to react, and to react to unpredictable circumstances, requires that architecture adopts uncertainty in its formulation and materialization. A fluid architecture challenges conventional architectural practices and the foundation of permanence on which architecture was built.
0012: Joseph Mwaisaka (Pakistan)
(Alveolus)
Alveolus is a skyscraper that works as a colossal urban air purifier, capturing pollutants such as smog from the atmosphere, through large cylindrical vents that suck in great amounts of air which is later on channelled into aluminized air bags for compression into smaller volumes. After compression, it is later on released into the Activated Carbon Chambers. A regeneration centre with the electrochemical cell is situated nearby the chambers in order to restore the carbon adsorbent. After channelling the mixture through the Activated Carbon Chambers, the air passes through the vertical farm where it is naturally purified and released into the city.
Alveolus exhibits a housing scheme for its working staff and tourists who wish to travel and explore this 'floatscraper'. The housing scheme boasts 3D printed residential units, walkways and elevators that transform the space into a microcosmic urban village. A vertical farm working on hydroponic systems is located below to feed the residents. Energy for the building is sourced from an ion based power facility that generates high voltage electricity from naturally occurring ions in the air. This electricity is also used in the electrolysis chamber that takes in water from the tank and produces oxygen for the village and hydrogen gas for inflating the doughnut blimp.
3rd prize
0041: Sungwhan Kang (South Korea)
(Genesis of Human Hive)
'Genesis of Human Hive' is an experimental project to revive soon-to-be futile apartments in Seoul. This project seeks ideas on how to adapt the apartments in Seoul for future lifestyles of Seoul citizens. This project also aims to fully utilize advanced technologies to renovate the apartments in Seoul. The author suggests a 'growing' structure that can flexibly respond to changes in lifestyles of its residents.
Structural module suggested in this project can be constructed without using bracing because this module can distribute load power. Moreover this module has a directivity, in a sense that it can mutate its physical form according to changes in urban environments (e.g. road conditions). These newly-suggested buildings will function as clothes, which help people to adapt to their environments in the best way. Like primitive humans who used to find and build space that helped them to survive in the cruel nature, these buildings will help citizens of Seoul to have flexible lifestyles in future.
Go to the competition's results
Laka Competition 2018: "Architecture that Reacts"
100-hour Individual Design Contest: architecture drawing of the month • issue #01 jan 2021
THE ARCHITECT'S STUDIO COMPETITION
Categories: Results
January 6, 2016 Marcin


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This new initiative is called 500 Women in Medicine. But it could benefit many, many more people of all genders, both inside and outside medicine.
Why? Consider these questions. Do you want your doctor to be the best person available? Do you want the best available people researching ways and developing products to improve your health and cure diseases? Do you want the best people guiding health care?
If your answer to these questions is yes, yes, yes, then it would make sense for the medical system to be a meritocracy. It would make sense for the medical profession and leadership to be diverse because no single gender, race, ethnicity, or background has cornered the market in abilities to be the best physicians, researchers, or health care leaders.
Then, try searching the lists of doctors for major health facilities, medical centers, and medical schools that serve significant Black, Hispanic, or Native American populations. See how many Black, Hispanic, or Native American doctors you can actually find. Moreover, how many are in positions where they can really influence the type of care that is administered, the research that is being done, or where the money flows?
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If you question the leadership potential of women in medicine, simply look at the five who formed 500 Women in Medicine. They are busy medical students at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine who somehow found the time among their classroom, clinic, hospital, research, and life duties to put together this initiative. They include two third year medical students, Kate Gerull and Tamara Sanchez-Ortiz, and three second year medical students, Jane Hayes, Iris Kuo, and Maren Loe. Their faculty advisors are Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, and Victoria J. Fraser, MD, Adolphus Busch Professor of Medicine and Chair of Medicine, both at Washington University in St. Louis.
One of their initial activities will be building a physician database that people such as conference organizers and members of the media can search to find female physician experts for speaking roles or to serve on committees. Many medical conferences don't have the most diverse lineups when it comes to speakers. The term "manel" has emerged to describe an all-male panel. This can be extended to the term "not-much-diversity-nel," which doesn't quite flow off the tongue the same way.
Another set of activities will be establishing weekly blog posts to highlight activities of women in medicine and creating a central hub for career resources. This will include career advice such as information on grant writing and how to put together a CV. This will be important not only because women and minorities often lack mentors but also because they may need tailored advice to overcome unique challenges that they face.
Dr. Julie Silver's work has shown that women are much less likely than men to be given awards from medical societies. In examining 14 awards from societies in 7 specialties over 72 years, only 9 awards were given to women. This degree of disparity would be difficult to arrive at by chance. Instead, it seems likely that bias played a role.
Again, increasing diversity is not a "nice to have" or "let's help some people" issue. Diversity means allowing everyone the opportunity to fulfill their potential and getting the best people for the job. Efforts like 500 Women in Medicine are trying to help the medical world better mirror the diversity that exists in society and medical school classes and in turn provide better care and research. After all, for your health, don't you want the best doctor available? Don't you want the best researchers tackling the biggest problems? Don't you want the best and brightest leading health care and being thought leaders? There are a lot of talented people from diverse backgrounds out there so why not use the entire pool? And, yes, they aren't hiding, and you should be able to find them, assuming that you know what the Internet is.


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Q: Celery / redis value too large for Redis backend We are using celery 5.2.3 with redis-server 6.2.6 as backend and rabbitmq 3.9.10 as broker:
backend="redis://redis/0"
broker="amqp://guest:guest@rabbit:5672//"

Redis and rabbitmq run from the standard dockers with default configuration.
When posting huge tasks (about 700 Mb in size) with celery, we get
value too large for Redis backend
As the 512 MB String size limit has been removed in redis 5, I used the redis-cli to increase these values:
config set client-query-buffer-limit 20737418240
config set proto-max-bulk-len 15368709120

That didn't do the trick – I still get the error about the value being too big. There are many articles about this problem, but they were mostly written before proto-max-bulk-len was introduced in redis. Is there any up-to-date / additional information on how to lift this limit?
Is setting the limit in the CLI OK, or does it have to be done at startup?
Thanks in advance for any ideas!

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Public KB - KB40278 - Pulse Secure Desktop for Linux fails to establish VPN connection with error message "Certificate Verification Failed"
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KB40278 - Pulse Secure Desktop for Linux fails to establish VPN connection with error message "Certificate Verification Failed"
This article describes an issue where Pulse Secure Desktop for Linux fails to establish VPN connection with error message "Certificate Verification Failed".
If the Pulse Secure Desktop for Linux client fails to establish a VPN tunnel and the pulsesvc.log states "Certificate Validation Failed", then this would indicate that the client is unable to validate the device certificate on the PCS device.
Under Certificate Details, click Download. The certificate will be saved in PEM format.
Copy the following file to the Linux machine.
Using a text editor, open ca-certificate.crt or ca-bundle.crt and paste the certificate hash value at the end of the file.
Click on connect button from Pulse GUI.
Note: For scenarios where the device certificate is issued from a private CA, steps 5 to 8 should be followed.