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From Derby DQ to Lasix, horse racing has problems. Could a national set of rules help?
The lack of centralized leadership in horse racing continues to allow each state to operate independently without uniformity in the sport.
From Derby DQ to Lasix, horse racing has problems. Could a national set of rules help? The lack of centralized leadership in horse racing continues to allow each state to operate independently without uniformity in the sport. Check out this story on courier-journal.com: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/horses/kentucky-derby/2019/05/16/national-regulations-horse-racing-industry-could-solve-problems/1132389001/
Gentry Estes, Louisville Courier Journal Published 10:53 a.m. ET May 16, 2019
To illustrate the hurdles to meaningful reform in horse racing in the United States, Pat Cummings pointed to a national meeting he attended in December.
It was called by he Association of Racing Commissioners International, a non-profit group in Lexington that aims to provide "a mechanism for collective policy formation" in the sport despite the fact that the organization has "no direct regulatory authority."
As the meeting was beginning, a representative from New York called a point of order. He would be abstaining from any votes.
"The gaming commission or the laws of New York did not empower him to vote on behalf of the entire state to accept whatever was being agreed to within that meeting," Cummings said.
"That's frustrating. Here's an organization trying to bring some degrees of uniformity to as many elements of the sport as they can within the confines of the rules, medication rules and limits, and before the day is even begun it's made clear that one of the people on the committee does not have a say to represent his own state."
A racing executive with international experience, Cummings heads the Thoroughbred Idea Foundation, another non-profit group in Kentucky with the goal of improving the industry and introducing new approaches to help.
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And like so many others, Cummings agrees that the time has come for that improvement. Horse racing continues to be uniquely legislated on a state-by-state basis. Addressing the sport's numerous problems in many cases with centralized, uniform leadership could be a step forward, Cummings said.
"The sport has been far too divided for far too long on far too many issues," Cummings said. "… At some point, we think we're going to get to that tipping point where people finally realize that fighting for our own space and fighting for our own piece of the pie is a race to the bottom."
The drumbeat of change is pounding for horse racing, accelerated by the recent rash of equine fatalities at Santa Anita. In response, national legislation has been introduced.
The Horseracing Integrity Act of 2019 could revamp and standardize medication rules nationally for horses. It had to be approached federally to override the authority of state commissions that may or may not seek change independently.
"There's reason to be alarmed," said Jim Gagliano, president of The Jockey Club, which is strongly advocating for the Horseracing Integrity Act. "We don't have a system that's agile enough to react to protect the public and protect the horses in quick fashion. It takes months, years, multiple years. …
"(Santa Anita) put a lot of people at a sense of unease, no question. So I think it was not unreasonable for people during that to say, 'Wow, this could change a lot.' And I think that gets people thinking about other aspects of the sport that should also be fixed."
Racetracks recently teamed up on their own to try to phase out race-day use of Lasix. It was a bold move that caused disagreement from horse trainers who were not included in the process.
And then, of course, you had the controversial result from this year's Kentucky Derby, another development that highlighted horse racing's lack of national standards.
A historic Kentucky Derby: Country House wins after Maximum Security dis...
Left to right, Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House, Maximum Security and Code of Honor battle for the lead at the head of the stretch. May 4, 2019. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Jockey Flavien Prat hoists the trophy in the winners circle as trainer William Mott, right, smiles at him after Prat rode Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House to be declared the race's victor at Churchill Downs. May 4, 2019. Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
Mud flies as the field for the 145th Running of the Kentucky Derby makes its way past the grandstands on Saturday. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger and Kelly Estep/Courier Journal
Maximum Security, second from right, bumps into other horses on the lead at the head of the stretch. Maximum Security was disqualified for interference, awarding the race to Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Maximum Security, with Luis Saez aboard (pink/center) crosses the finish line of the 145th Kentucky Derby. However, a protest was lodged and Country House was declared the winner. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger and Michael Goodwin/Courier Journal
Trainer Jason Servis shrugs as he learns that Kentucky Derby winner Maximum Security had been disqualified. May 4, 2019 By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Mud is splashed up on the horses as they make their way past the grandstands at Churchill Downs for the 145th Running of the Kentucky Derby. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger and Michael Goodwin/Courier Journal
Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House's jockey Flavien Prat celebrates as her learns he has won the race after Maximum Security was disqualified. May 4, 2019. Timothy D Easley/Special to Courier Journal
Jockeys fought for position on the first pass in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. After a disqualification, jockey Flavien Prat aboard Country House was later declared to be the winner. May 4, 2019 Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
Jockey Luis Saez, left and trainer Jason Servis wait and watch for news of the stewards inquiry against Maximum Security. Moments later the horse was disqualified, awarding the race to Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House. May 4, 2019 By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Maximum Security leads the field for the 145th Running of the Kentucky Derby to the finish line for the 145th Kentucky Derby. However, a protest was filed and Country House was declared the winner. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger and Erik Mohn/Courier Journal
Country House, left, with Flavian Prat up, and Maximum Security, (center/right) head down the stretch to the finish in the 145th Kentucky Derby. Maximum Security finished first but, after a protest was filed, Country House was declared the winner. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger and Brian Butler/Couier Journal
Jockey Luis Saez reacted after finishing first aboard Maximum Security in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, but was later disqualified. The decision awarded the race to Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House. May 4, 2019. Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
Jockey Flavien Prat and Kentucky Derby 2019 Country House, seen near center, was declared the race winner after Maximum Security in orange with jockey Luis Saez in pink, was disqualified Saturday. May 4, 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Maximum Security leads the field for the 145th Running of the Kentucky Derby past the grandstand. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger and Erik Mohn/Courier Journal
Maximum Security, with Luis Saez aboard, crosses the finish line first in the 145th Kentucky Derby. A protest was filed and Country House was declared the winner. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Country House, left, with Flavien Prat aboard, battles Maximum Security, right, in the stretch of the Kentucky Derby. Country House was determined the winner after an inquiry after the finish. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger and Kelly Estep/Courier Journal
Jockey Flavien Prat is congratulated after Country House was announced as the winner of the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., Saturday, May 4, 2019. Maximum Security was originally announced as winner, but was disqualified after a replay showed the horse may have impeded War of Will. Jenna Watson, The Courier Journal via USA TODAY Network
Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House, left, with Flavien Prat aboard, battles Maximum Security, right, in the stretch. Country House was determined the winner after an inquiry after the finish. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger and Brian Butler/Couier Journal
The field for the 145th Running of the Kentucky Derby makes its way past the grandstands on Saturday. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger and Erik Mohn/Courier Journal
The field for the 145th Kentucky Derby make their way down the front stretch. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Mud flies as the field for the 145th Kentucky Derby passes the grandstands for the first time. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger and Erik Mohn/Courier Journal
Maximum Security, with Luis Saez aboard, passes the grandstands on the way to the finish line at the Kentucky Derby. Country House was declared the winner after a protest was filed. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger and Erik Mohn/Courier Journal
Jason Servis, trainer of Maximum Security, reacts as he learns that his horse was disqaulified as the winner of the Kentucky Derby. The decision awarded the race to Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House. May 4, 2019. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Maximum Security, with Luis Saez aboard, enters the first turn of the 145th Kentucky Derby. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Maximum Security, second from right, leads the field around the last turn and into the home stretch. Maximum Security was disqualified, awarding the race to Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House. May 4, 2019. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Horses leave the starting gate for the 145th Kentucky Derby. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger and Laura Stanton/Courier Journal
Maximum Security, with Luis Saez aboard (pink/center) heads to the finish line of the 145th Kentucky Derby. However, a protest was lodged and Country House was declared the winner. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Jockey Flavien Prat and Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House was deep in the middle during the first pass. Country House would be declared the race's winner after Maximum Security in orange with jockey Luis Saez in pink, was disqualified Saturday. May 4, 2019 Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Horses break from the gate at the start of the 145th Kentucky Derby. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Maximum Security, with Luis Saez aboard (pink/center) crosses the finish line of the 145th Kentucky Derby. However, a protest was lodged and Country House was declared the winner. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
People watch from the grandstands at Churchilll Downs the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby. May 4, 2019 Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Maximum Security, with Luis Saez aboard, crosses the finish line first in the 145th Kentucky Derby. A protest was filed and Country House was declared the winner. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger and Christopher Granger/Courier Journal
Jockey Luis Saez, aboard Maximum Security, celebrates after crossing the finish line for the 145th Kentucky Derby. However, a protest was filed and Country House was declared the winner. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Maximum Security, with Luis Saez aboard, crosses the finish line first in the 145th Kentucky Derby. A protest was filed and Country House was declared the winner. May 4, 2019 DGREEN@2019, By Michael Clevenger and Christopher Granger/Courier Journal
Jockey Flavien Prat aboard Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House, with the garland of roses, heads to the winner's circle after being named race's winner after Maximum Security was disqualified Saturday. May 4, 2019 Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Bill Mott, trainer of Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House, is all smiles as he crosses the track to the winner's circle after learning that his horse was declared the Derby's winner following the disqualification of Maximum Security. May 4, 2019. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Horses make their way around the first turn in the 145th Kentucky Derby. May 4, 2019 By Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal
Jockey Luis Saez, left and trainer Jason Servis wait and watch for news of the stewards inquiry against Maximum Security. Moments later the horse was disqualified, awarding the race to Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House. May 4, 2019. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Trainer William Mott hoists the trophy in the winners circle after jockey Flavien Prat rode Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House to victory at Churchill Downs. May 4, 2019 Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
Jockey Flavien Prat and Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House, illuminated by the finish line light, would be declared the race's winner after Maximum Security -- in orange with jockey Luis Saez in hot pink silks -- was disqualified Saturday. May 4, 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Owner Guinness McFadden hoists the trophy in the winners circle after jockey Flavien Prat rode Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House to victory at Churchill Downs. May 4, 2019. Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
Luis Saez crosses the finish of the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby on top of Maximum Security on May 4, 2019. Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House was named the winner after an objection. Scott Utterback/Courier Journal
Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House with Flavien Prat up at the third turn during the race's 145th running at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday, May 4, 2019. Mike Weaver/Special to Courier Journal
Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House's jockey Flavien Prat celebrates as he learns he has won the race after Maximum Security was disqualified. May 4, 2019. Timothy D Easley/Special to Courier Journal
Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House Mike Weaver/Special to Courier Journal
Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House's jockey Flavien Prat celebrates as he learns he won the race after Maximum Security was disqualified. May 4, 2019. Maggie Huber/Courier Journal
Jockey Flavien Prat sits aboard Kentucky Derby 2019 Country House with the garland of roses after being named the race winner after Maximum Security was disqualified Saturday. May 4, 2019 Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Jockey Flavien Prat sits aboard Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House after being named the race's victor after Maximum Security was disqualified Saturday. May 4, 2019 Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Jockey Flavien Prat sits aboard Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House who was named the race's victor after Maximum Security was disqualified Saturday. May 4, 2019 Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Maxiumum Security,right, leads the pack in the home stretch ahead of Will of War (1) and Country House (20) during the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 4, 2019. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
Jockey Luis Saez who rode Maximum Security looks on as his win was reversed following the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 4, 2019. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House trainer Bill Mott talks to the media following the race at Churchill Downs. May 4, 2019. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House crossed the finish line behind Maximum Security in the race's original outcome. Michelle Hutchins, Special to Courier Journal
Jockey Luis Saez who rode Maximum Security walks back through the chute after as his win was reversed following the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 4, 2019. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
Jockey Luis Saez, left and trainer Jason Servis wait and watch for news of the stewards inquiry against Maximum Security. Moments later the horse was disqualified, awarding the race to Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House. May 4. 2019. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House's jockey Flavien Prat holds up the trophy as he stands next to trainer William Mott after Maximum Security was disqualified Saturday. May 4, 2019 Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Jockey Flavien Prat celebrates aboard Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House in the winners circle after being declared the victor at Churchill Downs. May 4, 2019. Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
Jockey Flavien Prat throws up some roses while sitting aboard Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House in the winner's circle after being named the race's victor after Maximum Security was disqualified Saturday. May 4, 2019. Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Gov. Matt Bevin presents the Kentucky Derby Trophy to Miss Maury Shields, the widow of the late Joseph Shields who bred Country House, named the winner of the 145th Kentucky Derby Saturday after the disqualification of Maximum Security. May 4, 2019 Matt Stone/Courier Journal
Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House makes his move at the head of the stretch as Maximum Security , in pink, leads the field. May 4, 2019. By Pat McDonogh, Courier Journal
Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House's jockey Flavien Prat celebrates. Michelle Hutchins, Special to Courier Journal
The field of horses rounds turn 4 and into the home stretch during the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 4, 2019. Matt Kryger/IndyStar
Jockey Flavien Prat celebrates by spraying champagne in the winners circle after riding Kentucky Derby 2019 winner Country House to be declared the race's victor at Churchill Downs. May 4, 2019. Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
Jockey Luis Saez, far, right, led the pack to finish first aboard Maximum Security in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, but was later disqualified. Jockey Flavien Prat, far left, aboard Country House was later declared to be the winner. May 4, 2019 Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal
The final turn, where the bump took place in Kentucky Derby 2019. Michelle Hutchins/Special to Courier Journal
Jockey Flavier Prat sprays champagne to the delight of the owners group after Country House was declared the 145th Kentucky Derby winner. May 4, 2019 Matt Stone/Courier Journal
For example, Kentucky's rules that led to Maximum Security's Derby disqualification on grounds that he drifted into the path of other horses might be worded differently from other states, where stewards could apply the language differently. The same goes for jockey Luis Saez's subsequent 15-day suspension, which can be enforced at out-of-state racetracks despite the decision being solely by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
"All those bettors who had their money shifted away from the 9-to-2 winner to the 65-1 payout … if they tune in to another horse race and they see something similar and the decision isn't made because the rules are slightly different in one state or another, that is a confidence-zapping experience," Cummings said. "When our customers lose confidence as the rules enable them to do based on how they are written from state to state, that's a bad experience."
The idea of centralized leadership in horse racing isn't new. It's just the current structure is ingrained and those in charge in each jurisdiction operate independently out of self-interest.
As it has always been, each state's commission simply does what it wants.
"The word that best describes the structure of racing in this country is fiefdom," said Lexington-based horseplayer Mike Maloney, "because racing is regulated on a statewide basis. … Every one has their own self-important little fiefdom that, 'You can't tell me what to do.'"
The sense for horse racing is that fiddles are playing as Rome is beginning to burn.
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Meaningful change on a national level is slow given the structure of collaboration that would have to be required and often doesn't exist. That's despite the fact that many of those working closest to the horses – the trainers – wouldn't be resistant to centralized leadership.
"There should be," said Florida-based trainer Kathleen O'Connell. "I mean, does NASCAR have one? Does football have one? Does baseball have one?"
"You see it with football. You see it with every sport. They have a governing body," said Brendan Walsh, who trained Plus Que Parfait in this year's Kentucky Derby. "That's the first thing they need to do in this country is to bring everybody together and have a set of rules that everybody agrees on. Then they can deal with the problems American racing is having before it gets too late – if it's not gotten too late already."
"The word that best describes the structure of racing in this country is fiefdom … Every one has their own self-important little fiefdom that, 'You can't tell me what to do.'"
Mike Maloney, well-known horseplayer
Richard Mandella, trainer for this year's scratched morning-line Derby favorite Omaha Beach, proposed the formation of a group "not run by the government" with leaders voted in to enforce licensing.
"And that group – who would be the professionals that were voted for – would then decide who should run it. They would vote on the leader," Mandella said. "Then have a check-and-balance system and come up with solid standards that racing had to abide by and not let every little group, state, city decide how they're going to run their races. There should be standards that we go by."
An overriding aspect of the problem facing horse racing is that there are so many problems that haven't been addressed.
The Jockey Club in April commissioned a national survey of likely voters and found that 69% of respondents rated horse fatalities as a "very important" problem, followed by drug misuse (65%), integrity issues (63%), image (41%), lack of central authority (34%), field size (28%), wagering menus (22%) and takeout on wagers (20%).
Mike Maloney has plenty to say about the current state of horse racing. (Photo: Scott Utterback/Courier Journal )
Maloney had advocated on behalf of the gamblers who have continued to bring less money into the sport as the cost of making a bet has increased through rising takeouts at tracks.
"Most racings execs – and I've talked to a lot of them and know a lot of them – they really aren't bettors,' Maloney said. "They kind of look down their noses at their customers. I think that's part of this disconnect and part of how we've gotten to where we are."
Gambling is down 47 percent in the last 15 years, Cummings said, while the industry just experienced its lowest foal crop in America since 1965.
"You look at those metrics and you say, 'Gosh, horses are down. We're running fewer races. More racetracks are closing. All of these entertainment options exist in a much more easily accessible format. Gambling options are more significantly diverse than they once were,'" Cummings said.
"These things would be expected of an industry that has chosen not to diversify itself and chosen not to get together and work together to find a better way forward. … As the pie continues to shrink and people continue to fight – or bicker cordially – that just becomes a losing-sum game. Instead, we should be focusing on how we can collectively grow the pie for everyone."
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Meanwhile, the concept of a "racing commissioner" or even a centralized authority to oversee the sport remains a vague theory with few substantive ideas on how it could be created or implemented.
Substantive discussions by industry leaders capable of enacting change would be a good first step, according to Cummings.
"There is no reason why we shouldn't get together in some neutral location … and sit in the room for three days with no agenda other than let's talk through our problems and let's try to come up with some agreements," Cummings said.
"You know what? It's never been done."
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We're excited that QueenSpark Books and Brighton Trans*formed have made project transcripts available to the public and to researchers. These generous contributions of individuals' life stories enrich not only Brighton's diverse history but wider British LGBTQ histories as well.
What brought me to Brighton? I'd been living in Tokyo for five years, I moved from Tokyo to Madrid and lived there for three years. My mate came over and visited me from Brighton, who I knew from Tokyo and said "You have to come and visit me in Brighton" and I didn't leave. [LAUGHS] That was over 10 years ago now. So, I've been a transman walking the pavements of Brighton, promenading, as we say here, don't we, for over 10 years now. I adore London and I'm a big city guy, I like the anonymity and the business, but Brighton is as – how should I put it? – Brighton is a socially aware space, it's a place that has activists, it's got some beach, you can walk everywhere, so there's some health factors that contribute to my decision to be here and there's a very friendly, albeit small, community here, who I think get along by and large very well, because we're all very different people. So, it's just a really, it's a fun and easier place to live than London, but then I can still go to London every week to see national galleries, you know, so yeah, I like Brighton.
I think I really want people to, when they hear the word "diversity" especially in Brighton, to not just think about gender and only people who are transgender but to understand that it means people who are from all genders and all cultures and backgrounds and, you know, all classes and abilities and disabilities and really, really think about that word "diversity". I think it's one of my kind of pet peeves when people say that "Oh, Brighton's so diverse" I'm thinking "Oh is it really, and what do you think about when you say diverse? Do you think about everything about, you know, Brighton Pride I hate, probably yeah". So yeah, I think I really just want to bring diversity through everything I do and make people understand what that really means.
I think Brighton definitely has a reputation for being trans-friendly, you know, one of the reasons I came here was because it had this reputation for being accepting of trans people. And it could have happened in London, but I think Brighton gave it that extra special kind of atmosphere that it would have been lacking anywhere else. I don't know, I just think people in Brighton are very aware of gender-variance and they've given it the thoughts that other people around the country haven't, it just seems to be more of an in-depth subject here, I think.


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Almost every month of the Islamic calendar, has a renowned subject. Sha'ban, for instance, the greater part of it, is for nafl fasting. Ramadhan, is for fasting. Shawwal, is for six days. Still Shawwal, Dhul-Qa'dah, and Dhul-Hajj, are for performance of pilgrimage to Makkah. Yet Rabi'ul-Awwal, no doubt Muslims around the globe, remember the birth of their beloved Messenger Muhammad, peace be upon him (PBUH). In Uganda, my first home country before Pakistan, some sections of Muslims celebrated the Messenger's birthday in varied ways. To a considerable number, especially the elderly, 12th Rabi'ul-Awwal was a public holiday. Mauled cerebrations that involved poetry like recitals in the praise of the Prophet from classical treasured books with entertainment interludes took place. That would be followed with some heavy feast. In other circles, seminars, workshops, pulpit based Friday sermons, and public lectures to elucidate the greatness of the Messenger were witnessed. Several other Muslims were cognizant of this memorable date, but to them, life went on as usual. Of course don't forget that some people up to now are not aware of which Islamic month is current. What happened here in Pakistan will be for next year, insha-Allah. Remembrance of our Messenger Muhammad (PBUH) in this month does not essentially mean that he is forgotten in other months. In fact, he is the only single human being frequently remembered in every minute throughout the world (Allahu Akbar!). American author, Michael H. Hart rightly ranked him No.1 in his "The 100 most influential people of all time." Take for instance the five daily prayers, he is mentioned in each several times. What about during nafl salaat that are conducted at each one's convenience? What about those who just say: "Allahumma salli alaa Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wassalaama" just to get rewards from Allah for that? Those who call for prayers during Azaan and Iqaama still make mention of him. Allah sums it up when He says: "And have We not raised high your fame? Qur'an, Al-Inshirah, 94:4. One commentator, Mujahid says the verse implies that whenever Allah is remembered, the Messenger will also be remembered. In a similar manner, a great scholar Qatada said: "Allah elevated the remembrance of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) both in this world as well as in the hereafter." Belief in Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is an element of faith in Islam. It is also the second part of the first pillar of Islam i.e. to testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad (PBUH)is His Servant and Messenger. This latter part implies: trusting whatever he said as revelation from Allah, obeying whatever he instructed, and shunning whatever he forbade. The three mentioned benchmarks can be used as of now to do some self-assessment. For sure, he is a unique Messenger, sent to entire humanity unlike other Prophets and Messengers. He is the seal of Prophethood. Allah elevated him to the highest rank; HE (PBUH) is the best human being, the intercessor on the Day of Judgment for humanity including other people he wasn't sent to and must be dearer to us than our selves, parents, children and all other people. He is the gate-pass to Paradise. Prophets, Musa and Isa prophesized his coming (As-Saf 61:6; Al-A'raaf 7:157). Allah sent him with historical miracles, Qur'an being the permanent one, to prove his messengership. Whosoever obeys the Messenger, he/she has indeed obeyed Allah (An-Nisaa' 4:80) and love for Allah Ta'laa is only attained through strict following of the Prophet's teachings, Al-Imraan 3:31. Now that we know him, some actions must be observed. He must be preferred to our own desires, follow his lead in all matters, don't rush in making decisions before him, and do not say or do anything that contradicts the Qur'an and Sunnah, (read Al-Hujuraat 49;1). He should not be called plainly as we call ourselves like Abdulhamid, Mustafah or Khan; a word like rasuulullah or peace be upon him should precede his name or follow it (refer to An-Noor 24:63). Obedience to him without deviation is mandatory and the contemporary disorders in the Muslim Ummah appear to be the consequences of our disobedience. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, while giving his translation of Al-Qur'an 24:63 in the Noble Qur'an, he observed: "And let those who oppose the Messenger's commandment (i.e. his Sunnah¬¬__legal ways, orders, acts of worship, statements) (among the sects) beware, lest some Fitnah (disbelief, trials, afflictions, earthquakes, killing, overpowered by a tyrant) should befall them or a painful torment be afflicted on them." Being the best of all creatures (khair-khalqillah), makes him the right model for anyone with hopes for the Meeting with Allah and the Last Day, (read Al-Ahzaab 33:21). Since he was a human being like me and you, his humane attributes must be emulated. For instance, his honesty, truthfulness, forbearance, cleanliness, care for his family, patience, love for his followers, respect of everyone, rigorousness for the obligatory prayers, leadership skills etc. But emulating his ways calls for another vital step; reading his biography to get exposed to how he dealt with all matters of life. We ought to take part in reviving his sunnah. He observed once; "Whoever revives my Sunnah at a time when they will be forgotten, he/she is striving in the cause of Allah." Let us love his companions and family members. The former, he considered them to be his starts that must illuminate our way. Finally, in order to get his intercession on the Last Day, we must pray for him or salute him ten times (x10) every morning and evening, and make special supplication for him after every Azaan.
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Birth Day: September 13, 1885
Birth Place: Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Age: 134 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign: Virgo
Birth Name: Richard Anton Robert Felix Revy
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Richard Revy studied in Vienna philosophy and was trained as stage actor in Munich, Vienna and Zurich. He later became a well respected senior director at Stadttheater Zurich and Munich Kammerspiele. Revy furthermore directed plays in Bohemia, Berlin, Breslaw, Dresden and Frankfurt/Main.
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Casablanca (1942) $1,600 .00
The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943) $200 .00
Richard Revy studied in Vienna philosophy and was trained as stage actor in Munich, Vienna and Zurich. He later became a well respected senior director at Stadttheater Zurich and Munich Kammerspiele. Revy furthermore directed plays in Bohemia, Berlin, Breslaw, Dresden and Frankfurt/Main. In the early 30s he became busy as an actor in a couple of German movies. He also worked as an acting trainer, such as promoting Lotte Lenya. In 1934 he fled the Nazis into Switzerland before emigrating to Hollywood in 1938, where he assumed the name of Richard Ryen. He became an US citizen in November 1944.
Ironically, as was the fate for so many German-speaking actors and actresses of that time, he was mainly casted in Nazi roles, which kept him alive during the war years. His most renowned performance was that of Col. Heinze in Casablanca (1942), where he constantly had to tail his superior Major Strasser and thus was quite often visible in the picture. It was the importance of this movie that kept his appearance in the mind of the audience. Reportedly, his scenes took four weeks to shoot, earning him $400 a week.
In almost all of his Hollywood performances Richard Ryen had short and sometimes hardly noticeable roles. In The Cross of Lorraine (1943) for a change, his part as Lieutenant Schmidt of a POW camp in Germany is more distinctive. He appears as a comic relief in three scenes with a number of dialogue in German and English. He orders his subordinates Sgt. Berger and Cpl. Daxer to organize for catering and clothing across the French border. In his last sequence he is upset with Peter Lorre for delivering him French lingerie which is much too small for his opulent wife. An amusing scene.
After his last US performance in 1948 (A Foreign Affair) Richard Ryen was left unemployed and returned to Switzerland in order to take up theater work again. His retiring years were spent back in California.
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She will also oversee plans to restore the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah to their original size, before President Trump greatly reduced them, and to reinstate protections against oil and gas extraction, mining and logging. And she will be in charge of the incoming administration's efforts to prevent oil and gas leasing in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which the Trump administration is racing to carry out before the inauguration Jan. 20.
Federal judges have already suspended or voided hundreds of leases issued under Trump, finding that the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management made procedural mistakes and violated environmental laws in its haste to increase domestic oil and gas production. Even if the new administration is unable to overturn leases sold in the final months of Trump's presidency, the courts could still reject them.
Tribal officials, environmental advocates and many Democrats cheered the news of Haaland's expected nomination.
"After four years of fossil fuel executives and lobbyists opening up Native lands and sacred sites to industry tycoons, the next secretary of Interior will be a Laguna Pueblo woman who went to Standing Rock in 2016 and cooked for the people," tweeted Julian Brave Noisecat, a Native American activist who promoted Haaland for the job, referring to protests against an oil pipeline through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota. "She's going to make our ancestors so proud."
New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall, another Democrat who was a top contender to lead the agency, which his father Stewart headed in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, released a statement calling Haaland an "outstanding leader" who would "undo the damage of the Trump administration."
The American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry's principle trade organization, is all but certain to vigorously resist any interruption to more drilling. Nonetheless, the group issued a conciliatory statement, saying it would work with Biden's environmental policy nominees to address climate change.
For Biden and his transition team, the selection of the next Interior secretary has been full of political minefields.
When news broke that the president-elect had offered the job to New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, and that she had turned him down, Haaland's allies were disappointed and Latino leaders complained that Lujan Grisham hadn't been chosen for a different job: Health and Human Services secretary.
Early on, Native Americans and progressives in Washington pushed Biden to make history by nominating a Native American to lead the Interior Department. They coalesced around Haaland, a citizen of the Laguna Pueblo who, along with Sharice Davids of Kansas, became the first Indigenous women elected to Congress in 2018.
Haaland has served on the House Natural Resources Committee, which oversees the Interior Department, for two years. But some Biden advisors worried that she didn't have enough experience to lead the agency that controls roughly 500 million acres of land across United States — about one-fifth of the nation.
Other Democrats were worried about appointing a current Democratic member of Congress, narrowing the party's slim majority in the chamber, which was reduced significantly by election losses last month.
For so-called movement progressives on the Democratic Party's left, Haaland is the first of their number to be tapped for Biden's Cabinet. Allies worked to counter the argument that taking her from the House would put a Democratic seat in danger, pointing to evidence of her district's increasingly blue tilt. The liberal website DailyKos calculated that Biden overwhelmingly won in Haaland's district, 60%-37%, compared with Hillary Clinton's 52%-35% edge in 2016. Haaland won reelection 58%-42%.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco appeared to give Biden the green light earlier this week when she released a statement praising Haaland as a possible nominee to lead Interior.
"Congresswoman Haaland knows the territory, and if she is the President-elect's choice for Interior Secretary, then he will have made an excellent choice," Pelosi said.
Armenian monuments at risk in Azerbaijan. L.A. artists react
FDA authorizes COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna and NIH


Nan Rubin has been strengthening and building infrastructure for community-based media for more than thirty years. Her business Community Media Services has been providing organizational assistance and support to public television and radio stations, independent producers, media service organizations, social justice groups and foundations since 1985.
Her specialties include feasibility studies, policy analysis, organizational assessments, and technology planning. With a strong technical bent, Ms. Rubin also provides technical assessments, facilities planning, and operations support for media and other non-profit groups, including analog to digital media conversions, media archiving, and the impact of new technologies on non-profits.
Ms. Rubin has extensive experience in policy analysis, planning and organizing. She built two community radio stations – WAIF in Cincinnati, and KUVO in Denver – and she is a founder of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) and a founding member of AMARC (Association Mondiale des Radio Diffuseurs Communautaires/World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters) an international NGO based in Montreal, Canada.
From 2003- 2010, Ms. Rubin was Project Director of Preserving Digital Public Television, a Library of Congress-funded project building a preservation archive for digital public television programs based at WNET in New York. She has been an Advisor to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on creating the American Archive, and the European Commission on their media archive project PrestoCentre.
Ms. Rubin serves informally as technology and policy adviser to a wide range of grassroots media and telecommunications groups, youth media projects, independent production organizations, and similar grassroots and local media groups where she often facilitates meetings and leads trainings.
She speaks frequently on panels and conducts workshops on a broad range of issues relating to media ownership, community-based media, spectrum issues, technology, and public policy. In 2010, she was invited to testify at the FCC on the Future of Public Media, speaking of the historic and future role of community media.
Among her many studies are Funding Media for Social Change, on foundation support for media activism, and The State of Native Public Radio, analyzing the successes and obstacles of tribally-based radio stations. She was also the organizer or the Highlander Media Justice Gathering, which was instrumental in launching several branches of the modern media reform movement.
Recent publications include articles on digital video preservation in Library Trends Journal and International Preservation News, and she has presented internationally at conferences in Budapest, London and Copenhagen, as well as at the New York Public Library; the National Library of Medicine; Alliance for Community Media; NYC Grassroots Media Conference; Association of Independents in Radio; the Society of American Archivists; the Association of Moving Image Archivists; and the Open Video Alliance, among many others.
Ms. Rubin was a Founding Member of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice in New York City, and was a long-time Board Member of Vision Maker Media (formerly Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc.) in Lincoln, NE. She also served for a decade as Board Chair of the Prometheus Radio Project in Philadelphia.
She holds a B.A. degree in Sociology/Mass Communications from Antioch College, Yellow Springs OH ('71) and a Certificate in Public Broadcasting Management from the University of North Carolina Business School. She was born in Newton, MA and resides in New Mexico.


What inspired you to write "The Foreign Cinema"?
The story was first written in grad school after I'd heard Pete Turchi's lecture on stories with a short timeframe. I'd been writing stories based on my paternal grandmother's life—she was born in Istanbul in 1906 and came to the U.S. newly married at 15—and because her life always struck me as monumental, I'd been thinking in great sweeps of time. The idea of a story that was narrow in its frame was appealing, and also freeing. So I gave myself strict parameters: the story had to take place over a meal, at a table, and the table I knew I'd use was the formal, old world one I knew from my grandmother's house in Los Angeles.
The protagonist, Cenem, goes on a "journey of time more than distance," in her trip from Istanbul to Los Angeles, to visit the sister she has not seen in decades. She also metaphorically travels back in time through the cinema. What made you choose to use the cinema as Cenem's medium for connection with the past and present?
The challenge for me in drafting a story is to find ways to stay engaged, to stay inside the story, which is also what makes the writing interesting. One way to do that is to pull in subjects I feel a connection to, or that fascinate, and in this story, it was Curtiz's film, Casablanca. I'd never written about film before, fictionally or otherwise. The prospect was exciting, and quickly brought a new energy to the story. I didn't know where the thread was going, but as the characters responded to the film, I grew to know them better, and as the film came to have greater importance in the action, it echoed important emotional junctures in both sisters' lives. Casablanca quickly became an integral part of the story, which was a surprise, and also a relief. The film turned out to be a useful dramatic vehicle, and had meaning for the characters and their story.
Places are important and hold meaning and memories for Cenem. Why did you decide to focus on Istanbul and Los Angeles specifically?
I'd always felt that my grandmother life, which began in Istanbul when it was still Constantinople, and ended in Los Angeles, was a remarkable one. The eldest of seven, she left home at fifteen in an arranged marriage to my grandfather. Being married so young and leaving home was difficult, and she grappled with it throughout her life—the feelings of uprootedness, of being separated from family and the places she knew—though there were aspects of the separation she could never reconcile. In "The Foreign Cinema," the character of Sofia represents my grandmother, but I endowed the character of Cenem with what I knew to be my grandmother's sense of loss, and the effect the distance had on her experience, and continued to have over time.
In a similar way, the story's dual settings of Istanbul and Los Angeles, were natural to think of in terms of loss, dislocation and longing, but there were challenges too. I grew up in Los Angeles, but know little about Istanbul apart from family stories. I've never been there, so I had to imagine the places that Cenem and her sister might have lived, beginning with what little I knew about my grandmother's early life. Google Earth helps too.
What was your biggest challenge in writing this piece and in writing overall?
For this story, it was dreaming Cenem into existence. From the start, I knew there would be an encounter between sisters who'd been separated for decades, but not much else. The character of Cenem developed slowly—the story was written over eight years—made slower by distracting real-life facts that I stubbornly pursued, then discarded. It's a problem I struggle with in general, chasing detail and my fondness for descriptive elements. I'm not always as selective with detail as I should be—I can be indiscriminate, a habit that can run a story into the ground. It's a tendency I always have to pay attention to. Detail, I constantly tell myself, is like calories: include only what's essential and nourishes.
What excites me more than anything is a strong narrative persona. So much can be contained there: voice, tone, an idiosyncratic take on the story, and the world. Mavis Gallant, William Maxwell, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Charles Baxter—their narrators are defined by voice, tone, a conspicuous commentary. For me, reading fiction that has a strong separation between story and storyteller is like a trigger that sparks an awareness of story, character and voice in my own work.
The book I'm currently reading is William Finnegan's Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. As Geoff Dyer recently said, it's a book that can make you feel like you wasted your life because you've never surfed.
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The next Parish Council Meeting is to be held on 7th May 2019 at 7.00pm in the main room of the Village Hall.
Monthly Meetings to follow - APM 21st May & 4th June 2019 (subject to change). You can submit items for inclusion through this website, see the Contact section.


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The importance of a phrasebook on holiday…
Recent reports have explained how a Polish man recently spent 18 days in São Paolo's airport. Having arrived at the airport on a flight from London the 17th June, he finally left the airport on Tuesday 5th July. In a story reminiscent of the Tom Hanks film "The Terminal" (though without the appearance of Catherine Zeta Jones, as far as I'm aware), Robert Wladyslaw Parzelski arrived at the airport, on a mission to go to Brazil and then return to England with two telephones. Why he was undertaking this trip with this particular goal in mind is, as yet, unknown. (more…)
Britain under-represented in European Union Institutions
European Union institutions are currently under-represented by British natives, in part due to low-level language skills. Just 5% of positions in the European Parliament and Commission are filled by Britons, despite the United Kingdom comprising 12% of the total population of the European Union.
English is commonly used as a universal language in international situations and, as we commented in a previous post, the number of students of foreign languages in other European countries is high above the figure in the United Kingdom. What's amazing to me is that some people still argue that there is no need for native English speakers to learn other languages, when in conducting international relationships with other EU countries, understanding another language, culture and country is paramount. As Michael Shackleton, Head of the London European Parliament Office, commented "The balance of the use of language has been in favour of English, but to understand what people are thinking about you also have to get a sense of them and how they see the world." (more…)
Do the British mean what they say?
A Spanish friend recently sent me the link to an article published online. This "guide" explains to the rest of Europe what British people really mean when they say certain things, and what others understand by what has been said.
For example, according to this article, when a British person says "You must come to dinner", the real meaning is "It's not an invitation, I'm just being polite", whilst the listener will think "I will get an invitation soon". Obviously, this is an extreme generalisation, but I have to admit, it does ring some bells. If you accidentally bump into someone and they say "we must do lunch" or "we must get a coffee one day", chances are you won't set eyes on them again until you accidentally bump into them again… (more…)
Is the Government right to consider removing a foreign language from the curriculum?
As schools contemplate the removal of a second language from the national curriculum, the fast approaching Olympic Games should actually be reminding us of the importance of languages.
The government's decision to include French as a core language at the Games demonstrates the significance of languages and communication in today's society.
With every word spoken at the games repeated in French, Great Britain will seem diverse, cultured, and prepared for the international visitors who have arrived on our doorstep to watch the games. Can we say the same about our school pupils, however? (more…)
How many words are in your vocabulary?
I have to say, if asked, I would find it difficult to say how many Spanish or French words I know. An article on the BBC website reported that Fabio Capello recently claimed he uses just 100 English words to communicate with players. (more…)
Where to Find Free Foreign Language Lessons Online
If you are interested in learning a new language or improving your existing skills, there are many free online resources that can help. A number of schools, including MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Utah State University, have begun to offer free foreign language courses online. Free lessons can also be found through the BBC and the many foreign language learning networks that have cropped up on the web. This article provides a list of 15 places to find free foreign language lessons online:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – The Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers over 60 courses in foreign languages and literature. Users can find courses in Spanish, Chinese, Spanish, German, and Japanese.
The Open University – The Open University's modern language unit features courses for Spanish, German, English, and French. Courses are available for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level language learners.
Utah State University – Utah State University offers several free online courses in languages, philosophy, and speech communication. Two courses that are particularly popular are the Chinese I and Chinese II language courses.


BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Vulcan Materials Company (NYSE: VMC) will host its fourth quarter earnings conference call on Thursday, February 14 at 10:00 a.m. CT (11:00 a.m. ET). Financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2018 will be released before the NYSE market opens.
The Company invites investors and other interested parties to listen to the live webcast of the conference call at www.vulcanmaterials.com. To participate by phone, call 800-347-6311 approximately 10 minutes before the scheduled start. For international calls, the number is 720-543-0197. The confirmation code is 7323197.
A replay of the webcast will be available approximately two hours after the call at the Company's website.
Vulcan Materials Company, a member of the S&P 500 index with headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama, is the nation's largest producer of construction aggregates – primarily crushed stone, sand and gravel – and a major producer of aggregates-based construction materials, including asphalt and ready-mixed concrete. For additional information about Vulcan, go to www.vulcanmaterials.com.


For those who have not read the beginning of this saga you can read about it here.
I know, give it up bee-otch. Maybe you really are that ugly. Maybe you do have the neck the size of a linebacker. But seriously, I really don't look that bad in person.
Jana came home from school and decided that she, too, was not happy with her photo. (starting to see a pattern here?). The Monday between Christmas and New Year's we lost our minds and were unconscious enough to not realize the entire universe was off that week and at least three-quarters of that said universe thought DMV biz was a good idea. So off we went to have the pictures taken and then sit on the bench watching the numbers roll by on the monitors for somewhere in the neighborhood of an hour and forty-five minutes. I know, what a lovely bonding afternoon for the reunited college girl and her mom. Hey, it was a great place to people watch.
Finally we get called up. She pays her 17 some odd dollars and then I go to my window.
Clerk: Can I have your old license please?
Me: Look at that picture! Isn't it awful?
Clerk: Really, do you think anyone looks at these?
Clerk: Does it REALLY matter?
Me: Ok, I am vain. There I admitted it.
Clerk: Thanks, that's all I wanted from you.
I swear, that was the conversation. Then she proceeds to tell me that I do not have to pay because you have 6 months to keep retaking your photo for free.
Clerk: Now, ma'am, please do not become a serial DMV photo taker.
I was playing around with the Mac's photobooth features and decided that posterized would be the preferable filter for me to use on all official documents. What do you think? Kind of babe-ish in this shot, right? In a maybe a you swallowed a lava lamp sort of way, but I kind of like it.
Love that pic…you look like Tiger Wood's 14th woman…My license expires on Feb 20 and maybe you can give me a consultation on how to prep for the Big Day!
You look 16 and very sultry.
You see, no there are my two of my boys being all sweet. but neal, you could have said 40 and it would have been a more realistic stretch.


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Eric Graise (* 6. März 1990 in Atlanta) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Tänzer.

Persönliches
Graises Mutter war 18 Jahre alt und College-Anfängerin, als er geboren wurde. Ihm wurden in der Kindheit beide Beine amputiert, weil die Wadenbeinknochen nicht ausgebildet waren. Er benutzt im Alltag Beinprothesen und zum Tanzen einen Rollstuhl. Er studierte zunächst an 2008 an der Shorter University mit Hauptfach Musik statt Schauspiel, weil er überzeugt war, dass er mit seiner Behinderung keine Arbeit in der Branche finden würde. Er hatte ein Vollstipendium für ein renommiertes Opernprogramm, aber wechselte zu der University of West Georgia mit dem Fach Wirtschaft und nach drei Jahren zu Kunst. Weil er währenddessen zu Vorsprechen ging und an Shows und Musicals teilnahm, überzeugten seine Professoren ihn schließlich, zu Schauspiel zu wechseln, worin er nach sechs Jahren am College mit einem Bachelor den Abschluss machte. Für ein Praktikum arbeitete er drei Monate lang in New York City für eine Castingagentur des Broadway.

Karriere
Graise hatte zwei Kleinauftritte in The Walking Dead als beinlose Zombies.

Er tanzte mit der Full Radius Dance Company, die aus Menschen mit und Menschen ohne Behinderung besteht. Diese stand gerade vor einer Tour nach Spanien, als der Gründer und Leiter Douglas Scott für die YouTube-Serie Step Up: High Water, die auf den Filmen Step Up basiert, kontaktiert wurde. Graise erhielt, nachdem er ein Bewerbungsvideo eingesandt hatte, die Rolle des im Rollstuhl sitzenden Tänzers King, die er 2018 nach der Rückkehr aus Spanien zu spielen begann. Für den Modedesigner Tommy Hilfiger wurde er Teil einer Kampagne für adaptive Kleidung, die es Menschen mit verschiedenen Einschränkungen einfacher machen soll sich selbst ankleiden zu können.

In der Serie Locke & Key erhielt er die Rolle Logan Calloway, die nicht in der Comicvorlage existiert und für die Serie kreiert wurde. Die Rolle sollte ursprünglich einen Rollstuhl benutzen, aber er konnte die Serienschöpfer überzeugen, dass er lieber die für ihn normalen Prothesen benutzen wollte.

In der Neuauflage von Queer as Folk aus 2022 ist seine Rolle Teil der Repräsentation Schwuler mit Behinderung, wozu etwa auch eine Sexszene gehört, um Menschen mit Behinderung als sexuelle Wesen in freudvollen, nicht-traumatischen Momenten darzustellen.

Filmografie
 2011, 2016: The Walking Dead (2 Episoden)
 2018: Limited Space (Kurzfilm, auch Drehbuch und Regie)
 2018–2022: Step Up: High Water (29 Episoden)
 2020–2022: Locke & Key (9 Episoden)
 2020: Der Denver-Clan (Dynasty, 1 Episode)
 2020: Teenage Bounty Hunters (8 Episoden)
 2021: The Tomorrow War
 2022: Queer as Folk (6 Episoden)
 2022: The Places We Won't Walk (Kurzfilm)

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Filmschauspieler
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1990
Mann


As of November 19, 2012, a total of 490 cases, which includes 34 deaths, have been reported in 19 states (see CDC's website for up-to-date information about case count and distribution by state). Exserohilum rostratum continues to be the predominant fungus identified in patients and confirmed by the CDC laboratory.
Currently, more than 7 weeks after the three implicated lots of MPA1 were recalled, CDC continues to receive reports of fungal infection in exposed patients. Previously, the majority of new cases reported to CDC were patients with fungal meningitis following injection.
Although cases of fungal meningitis continue to be reported, CDC has recently observed an increase in the number of patients presenting with evidence of epidural abscess, phlegmon, discitis, vertebral osteomyelitis, or arachnoiditis at or near the site of injection. These complications have occurred in patients with and without evidence of fungal meningitis.
Of the 91 cases reported to CDC since November 4, 2012, a total of 26 (29%) were classified as meningitis, 61 (67%) had spinal or paraspinal epidural abscess or osteomyelitis, 2 (2%) had peripheral joint infection, and 2 (2%) had more than one condition (Figure 1).
Note: Data presented in Figure 1 are preliminary and subject to change. Additional patients may ultimately meet multiple case definitions (e.g., meningitis and osteomyelitis/abscess) as more time elapses and additional information is provided to CDC. Reporting dates to CDC may lag behind onset dates.
In patients with new or worsening symptoms at or near the injection site, physicians should obtain an MRI with contrast of the symptomatic area(s), if not contraindicated. This recommendation also applies to patients being treated for meningitis. In some cases, radiologic evidence of abscess or phlegmon has become apparent on repeat MRI studies performed subsequent to an initially normal imaging procedure. Clinicians should therefore have a low threshold for repeat MRI studies in patients who continue to have symptoms localizing to the site of injection, even after a normal study. However, the optimal duration between MRI studies is unknown.
CDC has received reports of patients being treated for fungal meningitis who had no previous evidence of localized infection at the site of injection, but who were subsequently found to have evidence of localized infection (e.g., epidural abscess, phlegmon, discitis, vertebral osteomyelitis, or arachnoiditis) on imaging studies. Therefore, in patients being treated for meningitis, even in the absence of new or worsening symptoms at or near the injection site, clinicians should strongly consider obtaining an MRI of the injection site approximately 2-3 weeks after diagnosis of meningitis. Early identification of new disease may facilitate additional specific interventions (e.g., drainage) and provide information for measuring effectiveness of therapy thereafter.
For patients demonstrated to have epidural abscess, phlegmon, discitis, vertebral osteomyelitis, or arachnoiditis, early consultation with a neurosurgeon to discuss whether surgical management, including debridement, is warranted in addition to antifungal therapy (for information about antifungal therapy, see Interim Treatment Guidance for Central Nervous System and Parameningeal Infections Associated with Injection of Contaminated Steroid Productshttp://www.cdc.gov/hai/outbreaks/clinicians/guidance_cns.html).
CDC continues to gather data from existing and newly reported cases of infection and will use this information to inform updates to existing guidance. Healthcare professionals with patients under their care should check CDC's website for the most up-to-date clinical guidance because information is subject to change.


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Chauvé este o comună în departamentul Loire-Atlantique, Franța. În 2009 avea o populație de 2,464 de locuitori.

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Three people are dead after a small aircraft crashed at the Laredo International Airport in Texas on Thursday morning.
Operations at the airport were suspended Thursday as a result of the incident. Authorities are investigating the scene.
The National Transportation Safety Board has been notified of the incident, according to the Morning Times, and will oversee the investigation going forward.


In its January 2015 decision, Teva Pharms. USA, Inc. v. Sandoz, Inc., the Supreme Court held that the ultimate construction of a patent claim term is a question of law, subject to de novo appellate review, but that the underlying findings of fact (based, for example, on expert testimony) are subject to deferential clear error review. In doing so, the Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit's holding in Cybor Corp. v. FAS Technologies, Inc., 138 F.3d 1448 (Fed. Cir. 1998) (en banc), which had been recently reaffirmed in Lighting Ballast Control v. Philips Electronics, 744 F.3d 1272 (Fed. Cir. 2014) (en banc) vac. and remanded 135 S. Ct. 1173 (2015), that all claim construction questions are subject to de novo review.
Given that claim construction is disputed in most patent cases, Teva has the potential to have a far-reaching impact on patent litigation. The Court's holding that factual findings are given deference on appeal would appear to give parties and factfinders alike an incentive to infuse claim construction proceedings with extrinsic evidence in order to shelter lower court claim constructions from reversal on appeal. How much impact that incentive has in practice, however, will depend on the extent the Federal Circuit actually defers to district court claim construction in light of subsidiary findings of fact.
Three recent Federal Circuit decisions, all on remand from the Supreme Court in light of Teva, send mixed signals.
In two of the cases, the Teva standard did not change the outcome. In Teva itself, the Federal Circuit had initially invalidated the patents-at-issue for indefiniteness, based in part on its de novo reversal of the district court's claim construction, which was in turn based in part on expert testimony. The Supreme Court vacated and remanded with instructions to review the district court's factual findings for clear error. On remand, in a decision issued on June 18, 2015, the Federal Circuit reaffirmed its previous claim construction and concluded that the patents were invalid for indefiniteness. The court acknowledged that there had been no clear error in the district court's factual findings based on expert testimony, but held that the district court's claim construction, and therefore its indefiniteness conclusion, were incorrect in light of the specification and the prosecution history, which the Federal Circuit reviewed de novo .
The Federal Circuit's decisions on remand in Teva and Shire suggested that the effect of the Supreme Court's Teva decision on claim construction may not be as profound as some might have expected (or feared). But then, on June 23, 2015 the Federal Circuit issued its remand decision in Lighting Ballast and concluded that the Teva standard did change the outcome. While the Federal Circuit had initially disagreed with the district court's claim construction of the term "voltage source means," it concluded on remand, in a relatively terse, fact-bound discussion, that the district court's construction was supported by expert testimony in the record and didn't contradict an unambiguous claim meaning as determined by intrinsic evidence. The court therefore affirmed the district court's claim construction, rather than reversed it as it had done before Teva.
While the post-Teva case law will continue to develop, the Federal Circuit's recent decisions on remand suggest that Teva will have a significant, but circumscribed, effect on claim construction jurisprudence. When claim construction can be decided based on intrinsic evidence, the Federal Circuit will not shy away from deciding it de novo, even where the parties have presented expert testimony to the district court. But where the intrinsic evidence is truly insufficient to construe the terms, making expert testimony legitimately relevant, the Federal Circuit does seem prepared to heed the Supreme Court's call to defer to lower court fact-finding.