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Dropping the antisemitic rugby ball at Goldsmiths University
November 3, 2016 November 27, 2016 David
It was a few days ago whilst conducting a regular sweep of recent campus activity, that I noticed Goldsmiths RFC (Rugby club), have become deployed as a political weapon of the anti-Israel movement. As announced by the Palestinian Society:
"We've teamed up with Goldsmiths RFC to put our logo and the Palestine flag on their new shirts!"
I had been to Goldsmiths only a few weeks ago at the Palestine Society 'freshers event' seeking new recruits. I heard Alessia Cancemi, the President of the society seemingly suggest suicide bombing (blowing up civilian commuters on buses, that sort of thing) is a legitimate act of resistance. At the time I described the talk as one of the 'most nonsensical, baseless and insane rants I have yet to hear *from a student* on a university campus'. Goldsmiths is not new to regressive hate. Last year, the head of the Goldsmiths Islamic Society resigned following a homophobic tweet.
So I listed Goldsmiths as an active society driven through a marriage of blind hatred and ignorance. No surprise then, that it reappeared on the radar so quickly.
Once I had digested the implications of this latest vile action, I used twitter to highlight my disgust and within an hour or two, Jewish News picked up on the issue and ran an article. Since then everyone has become involved, and the Goldsmiths RFC Facebook page was visited by many Jewish people not willing to sit quietly in the face of antisemitism.
Wiping Israel off the map
Let us first clarify. There are two symbolic elements on the rugby shirt, the Goldsmiths PalSoc logo and the Palestinian flag. This is important because those supporting the action only refer to the flag. As we all know what the Palestinian flag looks like, let us look closely at the logo:
This of course is the classic map of the radical Islamic extremists who wish to see Israel obliterated. This map of 'Palestine', includes within all of Israel. They have taken the democratic will of a nation of 8 million and simply trodden it out of existence (with big rugby boots apparently). The astonishingly ignorant Vice President (Welfare) at the National Union of Students, Shelly Asquith, tweeted her support for the action:
One wonders just what about the 'welfare' of the students who might not like such an obscene political statement placed on a piece of sporting kit. Like the two dozen Israeli students studying at Goldsmiths. Or the majority of Jewish students there. But it isn't just the NUS that doesn't care about Jewish students. Their welfare is of absolutely no importance to Goldsmiths either, as Daniel Nasr, the Goldsmiths Student President, was so quick to demonstrate yesterday.
Danny the Goldsmiths dunce
As the anger over the decision rose, the university appeared to criticise the action, suggesting, as we all know, that sport and politics are best kept apart. Danny Nasr then published a defence of the decision and attacked the university. His response is both enlightening and frightening.
He firstly defends such political actions, using examples of individual voluntary sporting protest, such as an athlete choosing not to stand as an anthem is sung. I do hope he is not so stupid as to fail to understand the difference between an individuals voluntary act of protest and a creeping imposition of political will onto others. Note too, the title of his piece refers to the wearing of the flag, whilst completely ignoring the fact that Goldsmiths RFC has publicly promoted a political ideology that will inevitably lead to a second genocide of Jews. Don't believe me? Look at the map.
On Facebook, Daniel was even more indignant:
"This morning I met with the University's communications team and asked them to retract their statement and issue an apology to the Rugby Team. They refused at 5pm today.. "
He went on to suggest that the university threw the students "under the bus", "opening them up to more abuse, harassment and senseless trolling".
Nasr simply cannot understand why the university is failing to support such a stupid and outrageous action. 'We should be protected', he screams. The fact the idea should be scrapped because it was wrong and steps well over the lines of acceptability doesn't enter his mind.
His reasoning is simple:
"Although some argue that sport doesn't typically have an audience that is 'political', we can use these platforms engage a diverse cross-section of society- to enable a proactive and immersive political experience, opening up debate and bringing it into the mainstream."
Nasr is willing to go far to protect the beliefs and sensibilities of people like him. Cross a line of what is considered acceptable, and abuse will be hurled in your direction. 'Homophobe', 'Islamophobe', 'racist', 'sexist'. There is of course only one group not protected by these thugs; Jews. They give lip service to antisemitism of course, but don't actually ever see it. Jewish claims to antisemitism are discarded.
And when it comes to those things they believe in, these we must have shoved down our throat. Even into areas not normally transcended by politics. And the Student President at Goldsmiths doesn't see the problem with such insidious encroachment. An invasion of political will into areas normally protected from such interference.
"why not" he cries.
Because otherwise there is no freedom you fool. It is like hanging the 'party flag' at every meeting, every dinner engagement, every sporting event. Don't you see what you are promoting? Individual freedoms, opinions, the right to choose, all get trampled underfoot, taking a back seat to your sensibilities, your vision, your opinion. You justify 'invading' safe space, because you can 'use the platform'. Shameful. Disgraceful. We have names for people like you.
And then Daniel, I believe you were born in Lebanon. Which is interesting, because of Lebanese treatment of Palestinians. Inside Lebanon Apartheid really exists. Special property laws. Career paths that are closed. Children born inside Lebanon denied citizenship. Lebanon has seen brutal treatment and slaughter of Palestinians. Why not boycott Lebanon until it provides citizenship to people who were born in Lebanon sixty years ago and have lived every day of their life deprived of their basic freedoms by the Lebanese government. Stick that on your rugby shirt.
Antisemitism in the Palestine Society at Goldsmiths
But of course, unlike Lebanon, Israel is majority Jewish. And as every PalSoc and Isoc (Islamic Society) around London is brimming with Muslim students eager to demand we all boycott Israel, we have to remind ourselves of the driving force behind these actions. This short clip from the recent attempt to deny an Israeli speaker a platform at UCL:
Or in other words. The two dozen Muslim majority states in the Middle East that abuse human rights on a daily basis are not a problem. One tiny state however, has too many Jews inside. Perish the thought we should make an accusation of hypocrisy. Last time I mentioned Alessia Cancemi's stupidity, let us now look at one of her partners in crime at Goldsmiths, fellow 'Twinning Officer', Mona Mounir. This a photo from her Facebook.
So let us not beat around the bush and pretend we are dealing with rational humanitarian arguments. It is antisemitism. These students are importing a fight we should want no part of. They will not accept 'no Jewish majority state'. The entire Middle East is full of nations brutally abusing the human rights of everyone in sight. Genocide is actually taking place. Israel is by far the most free, most liberal and most democratic nation in the entire region. So putting aside the whining of a few radical left communists, why is there BDS on campus? The simple truth is that Israel's Jewish majority is the problem. If Israel was a Muslim majority state, there could actually be blood in the streets every day in Hebron and still there would not be a single Palestinian Society on any campus in the UK.
Brutal hypocrisy at Goldsmiths
And just before Mona Mounir protests and suggests that hers is simply a call for equality and the rights of the Palestinians. Let us expose the hypocrisy further, via more assistance from her Facebook page.
Think about this for a moment. Read a news report about Egypt's brutal closure of Gaza. One about Egypt flooding tunnels. Scan Egypt's Amnesty report which states the "human rights situation continued to deteriorate". Egypt completely trampled on democracy and slaughters political opponents at will. It has demolished homes and forcibly evicted thousands of Palestinians, and yet here is Mona Mounir, part of Goldsmiths dynamic Palestinian Society, promoting tourism to Egypt. Why? Well why do you think?
I think Mona was recently in Saudi Arabia too. Most of the Goldsmiths rugby cannot openly step foot in Mecca. Mona herself states she cannot enter without a male family member as escort. Let us not begin to analyse Saudi abuse of freedoms. Yet Saudis are not Jewish enough to boycott.
The Zionist brain
As always, you don't need to dig deeply. On the society page, I looked at the list of PalSoc events. On October 20th, they had an event titled "What is Modern Israel". Apparently, someone called Samia Malik attended. She appears also to have been Goldsmiths educated.. Malik is one who believes ISIS is an Israel creation. These are just some of her posts:
I think the last image really needs looking at properly to understand the depths of this antisemitic hatred. 'Holocaust memory centre' 'compulsive lying' 'frontal money lobe' 'world domination'. This is the ideology being fed at Goldsmiths PalSoc. This is what the BDS movement caters for. An end to the Jewish majority state.
The university needs to stamp this out. I have no doubt the rugby club has been 'won over' via a friend or girlfriend, but the squad, should see through this transparent action and ask themselves whether they really want to be used to push what is blatantly Jew hatred. To take antisemitism out of the secret theoretical confines of the university and onto a sports pitch that really should remain totally free of such vile, hateful and regressive ideologies. This continent has seen enough thank you very much.
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8 thoughts on "Dropping the antisemitic rugby ball at Goldsmiths University"
Josephine Bacon on November 3, 2016
The Board of Deputies has boasted recently that it has met the prime minister but nothing specifically about the universities. Clearly, the Palestine Societies of various universities have been given a free hand to do what they like, in whatever way it threatens its Jewish students. Pressure MUST be brought to bear on these universities, including the threat of expulsion of students who behave in this way. Can you imagine if any other ethnic minority were treated like the Jews.
Mike Abramov on November 3, 2016
Phew! That was a really heavy read. Well, it still comes as no surprise that anti-Zionist = anti-Semitic. I recall as a teenager what an amazing college Goldsmith's used to be. However, like most places of learning, it has become 'trendy' to support the PSC even if you do not fully understand the situation in Israel.
LET US NOT BE INTIMIDATED BY THIS NEO-NAZISM.
stephen bellamy on November 4, 2016
Palestinians are anti-Zionist almost down to the last man and women. So in stating that anti- Zionism = antisemitism you label an entire people as racists. That, I think makes you a racist.
davebt on November 4, 2016
not often I agree with you Stephen… actually in fact I don't think I have ever agreed with you, but the equation anti-Zionism = antisemitism does the cause of fighting antisemitism no favours. I disagree however that all Palestinians are anti-Zionist today. I think it depends on what you mean by Zionism.
A universalist, who sees a world with no borders, would naturally oppose theoretical Zionism just as he would oppose all ideas of peoples, nationalism, races and so on. This isn't antisemitism. Similarly as you point out, Palestinian opposition to Zionism is widespread and is further complicated because the Zionists chose the Palestinians, not the other way around.
However, I think you need to be careful about conflating opposition to a theoretical construct, with opposition to the State of Israel. There is a lot of antisemitism within the modern anti-Zionist arguments. So much so it does make it difficult to distinguish sometimes.
Theres some truth in there. I would guess that all antisemites are antiZionists Hard to see how one would not be. But the onus is on the " accuser " to establish that a particular antii Zionist is antisemitic, or an expression of anti Zionism is antisemitic.
Any evidence would have to be independent of the persons anti Zioniism or the argument is just circular.
Anyway, that they are not the same notion is easily seen by running a few substitutvity tests.
I would be inclined to say that , overwhelmingly, anti Zionists are not antisemitic. You, doubtless would say that the weight was the opposite. Its not decidable so I guess everyone will go along with the view that creates less cognitive dissonance.
Also The State of Israel is the manifestation of Zionism that Palestinians see as their everyday problem.
Dorothy on January 25, 2017
You are the two biggest idiots I ever had the misfortune of glossing over.
"palestinians' a part of the south syrian people, including all antisemites ex. those who went from Bosnia to aid murdering and looting the Jews in their war of extermination in 1947, became 'palestinian', and many Saudis and Arabs sent for the obligation of colonial Jihad, arn't a people ever at all, and they certainly are not a race, how does someone as stupid as you exist?
Rob on November 3, 2016
Anti-Israel activists have been trying to mix their cause into anywhere and everywhere for a while now. Churches, regional councils, unions, music and sports. The latest idea is intersectionality where the Palestinian cause can be linked to any other form of "oppression" – enter Black Lives Matter. Therefore their agenda has no boundaries. Just yesterday I received an email from An anti-HP campaign encouraging the building of a municipal, campus or faith-based campaign.
So this action at goldsmiths is not too surprising. Of course us normal people feel revulsion at the idea of hijacking anything apolitical and using it is a political tool. As you pointed out, their logo includes the whole of Israel in their map of the Palestine they are campaigning for so there should be no doubt at the university as to their antisemitic motives. Any ideas who at the university we should contact David?
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It's true! My brilliant and talented friend Jess Constable of Jess LC jewelry and handbag fame has done it again. Today she is debuting two new collections, The Quincy Collection, which includes leather iPad cases and coin purses, and the Belmont Collection, which includes silk scarves in four colors and two sizes.
Congratulations, Jess, on two new gorgeous collections! That gold iPad case lined with pink is going to be on every woman's wishlist! Now I feel like I have to get an iPad just so I can use one of the beautiful cases.
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Alaina! The styling is fantastic!! Lovely! I love the shots of you two sitting under the Quincy sign, on the bridge with the polka dot shirts, and the individual iPad shots. And you look so natural as a model! Glad to hear that you're feeling better.
Yikes--these scarves are amazing! So are the iPad cases, but since I don't have an iPad I can only dream :) Maybe that's a reason to invest in one? Congrats to your friend!
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P.S. Glad you're feeling better!
aaaw love what you have done, super cute Alaina!!
You look gorgeous! How fun. What a great experience. Glad you're feeling better. I definitely have whatever you had... not fun.
I wish I had an iPad so I could buy that pink + gold case! Sooo pretty!
These photos turned out beautifully. Congratulations to you all.
P.S. I spy a pretty sequined Express dress. I work there part-time, and I'm so sad these never made it to our store!
oh I love the gold with the pink lining! I see some retail therapy heading that way!
Absolutely adorable. Now not only do I want the scarfs but all the items in your gorgeous wardrobes too! Both of you look so lovely.
oh my gosh you two look so cute! love all of your outfits and love all of the JC stuff! Want one of those scarves & IPAD case (even thought I don't have an IPAD) Lol.
You and Liz rocked it and Jess' new collections are amazing! Can't wait for more projects together in the future. Had fun as always!
Loving this collection like crazy- you girls are all so talented!!
I'm going to need an Ipad asap.
These photos tug at my heart strings. I miss Chicago so much! I lived there for a short but wonderful while and seeing a group of fun ladies prancing around the beautiful Chicago streets sure does make me nostalgic and envious. Hopefully I'll return one day :). Great job with both modeling AND styling!
Love the new collection, and all of the photos. Well done, ladies.
And it turned out beautifully! Love all of the pics, and you're a natural!!!
You look beautiful!! I love her products---and the styling in these photos are great. Great job to all of you. : ) Also, I am so glad you are feeling better.
CONGRATS! Just seeing these now and they turned out BEAUTIFULLY! Both you and Liz look gorgeous as does Jess's new line.


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Reimagining United Methodist Education
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What would it look like for United Methodist colleges and universities to be identifiably Wesleyan in ethos and practice? Most Mainline-related institutions of higher education have very little about them that is recognizably Christian: maybe a rarely used, symbolically neutral chapel, or perhaps a required religion class that may or may not have anything to do with Jesus. Some formerly religious universities are even shunning any organization that would expect certain beliefs (say, the resurrection or the Trinity) from its leadership.
To explore this question, I present to you an interesting exercise. I have replaced "Catholic" with "Methodist" in the quote by R.R. Reno below. I believe the thrust of his argument (found in an article here) still holds. The only problem is, no one is seems to be interested in what the Wesleyan tradition has to say to higher education. See what you think:
Maybe I'm simple-minded, but I don't think the solution is all that difficult to understand. Methodist universities should challenge students—with the full force of the Methodist tradition. A truth that presses us toward holiness is a far greater threat to naive credulities and bourgeois complacency than anodyne experiences of "difference" or easy moves of "critique," which bright students master and mimic very quickly.
I don't think that the lectern should be turned into a pulpit, but the soul of Methodist education requires classrooms haunted by the authority of the Church and the holiness of her saints.
Ironically, I read this the same day I watched the opening mass for Catholic University of America. Cardinal Wuerl drew on the tradition that R.R. Reno names, challenging students, especially the incoming freshmen, that there is more to their education than just career ambition. Rather, he beautifully articulated the gospel's call, preached and lived by Jesus, to live for something above and beyond self. With the Spirit's power, Christian students ought to be driven to transform the world inspired by the vision of the One who proclaimed, "I am making all things new." (Revelation 21:5)
To receive that power and see that vision, the Cardinal then led the whole assembly in the celebration of the Eucharist.
By contrast, the United Methodist university I attended has not, as best as I can tell, had Communion celebrated in at least a decade and probably more. And it's not merely apathy to the sacrament. I was honored to be invited a couple of years ago to preach at the chapel service on homecoming weekend. I requested that we have Communion as part of that service – because what, after all, says "homecoming" for Methodists more so than gathering around the Lord's Table?
But I was told "no" by the alumni office. So many students and alum are not Methodists, you see – what they were really saying is that we have all these Catholic students – that we wouldn't want them to feel unwelcome.
For a Catholic university, that would be unthinkable. The Mass is who they are, regardless of who goes to school there.
I suspect the neglect of the Eucharist and the neglect of United Methodist identity and formation in holiness at our educational institutions are intimately related. We believe Communion is a sacrament, a means of grace, a way to grow closer to God.
But we have, as best as i can tell, abdicated the vision of the Wesleys who began the tradition of Methodist education: educating people both for their own flourishing and as part of our comprehensive mission as followers of Jesus to renew and sanctify ourselves and our communities in all aspects of life. At our best, Methodists have not educated young people so that they can go out and be decent, middle-class citizens with 2.5 children and an SUV.
At our most Wesleyan, we have educated young people so that their lives can flourish in holiness and thus be a blessing to others. We educate soteriologically. Our goal ought not to be merely informational, but formational. James K.A. Smith, in a recent lecture at Harvard, made an excellent case for why Christians in general should be invested in this vision for higher learning.
A lofty ideal, of course. But then, we are a people who claim to strive after perfection. What would it look like for our colleges and universities to take that seriously?
One example that goes against the grain that I have been identifying – that is, a United Methodist university that is proud of its Methodist heritage and builds on its faith-based identity – is Pfeiffer University outside of Charlotte, NC. I would encourage any United Methodists considering college to seriously consider Pfeiffer.
What do you think? Are Presbyterians, Lutherans, or others doing any better than Methodists are in educating for holiness? Are there other UMC colleges I should know about?
The Rev. Drew B. McIntyre is a United Methodist pastor in Asheboro, NC. He blogs at Uniting Grace.
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Wild Day at the UC Regents: The Stakes of the Tuition Wars
Finally it wasn't about the money today but about the decline in quality. And it was the students who explained the core issue as getting affordable quality in their education.
Left: Felicia Garcia, Julian Mariano, and Kimmy Tran at UC Davis. Photo credit: Paul Kitagaki, Jr, AP).
One such student was Melvin Singh, AS VP for External Affairs at UCSB, who said students struggle to get into classes, to meet with TAs, to get academic help. His counterpart at Berkeley, Caitlin Quinn, told KCRW's Warren Olney that money worries are "a huge factor in how you do in school" (13'). She said,
Students don't see the benefit of so many administrative positions. At UC Berkeley it seems like there's a new vice-chancellor of something-or-other every week. . . . I think students are fed up with what they see as administrative bloat. They aren't seeing this supposed quality education. I've been here for three years and ever since I've been here students have been struggling to see the value of a UC education. We're in huge classes. I've been in classes as big as 800 people. I don't think there's more than one or two professors who know me by name. (16'00" - 16'28'')
The regents seemed to hear the quality message loud and clear. The problem is that almost no one thinks UC would direct new state money straight to education, as opposed to another new business scheme. When the Regents' Committee on Long-Range Planning voted 7-2 to forward the 5-year, 5 percent annual tuition hike proposal to the full Board of Regents, they faced stone opposition from the elected officials and the students in the room.
The only good outcome in the renewed UC Tuition Wars will be a state buyout of the planned tuition increase (Stability Plan here). That would mean the planned 4 percent increase in state funding plus the proposed 5 percent in tuition. This works out roughly to a 9 percent increase in state funding (figures here), and another year of frozen tuition. But Gov. Jerry Brown made pretty clear that he won't go for both. And his Deputy Director of Finance, D.J. Palmer, confirmed that the tuition hike could void the 4 percent state hike, leaving a net 1 percent increase in UC revenues for next year.
This evening, UCOP's EVP for Business Operations Nathan Brostrom said that discussions will continue. Earlier in the day, the Speaker Toni Atkins proposed a version of a tuition buyout with a lower state increase and many conditions. When Gov. Jerry Brown announced in committee that he would vote against the tuition hike, he also requested a selected committee to consider a five-point plan for fixing UC, which involve three-year degrees, a "wide range of online courses enrolling large numbers of students far beyond the capacity of any seat-based classroom," and program consolidation among the campuses. In effect, Gov. Brown restarted parts of the UC Commission on the Future, and negotiations on those issue would go on for years.
Then the non-gov regents started firing back. I have never heard them so frustrated and openly disgusted with the state. When Regent-designate Pérez called the tuition hike proposal a kind of hostage-taking of students, he produced remarkable denunciations of state policy from Regent Reiss and of leadership defaults from student Regent Saifuddin. My storify record is here--it's been the best Regents TV in quite some time, and is getting closer to the real issue of how public universities under incessant austerity are supposed to support their historic mission of mass quality.
So: why a 9 percent increase? Because it's closer to what UC actually needs to close its structural deficit. UCOP's estimates have varied and the situation continues to change, but the clearest quantification of the remedy was in a March 2011 budget presentation in which UCOP estimated it needed many years of 12.4 percent per year from the state just to close the deficit that had been created by the massive Schwarzenegger-Brown cuts (Display 46). Here's the graphic, measuring impact on the deficit not the amount of increase.
This suggests a need for 16 percent annual increases when tuition and state funds are combined. Alternative C is more or less the Gov. Brown plan -- 4 percent state increases with frozen tuition. The situation today, three and a half years later, has gotten worse. On KQED's Forum, Mr. Palmer, agreed that the governor's plan in effect restored about half of the recession's billion dollar cut over a four year period. 9 percent is better than 1, 4, or 5 percent, but it still isn't enough for solvency, much less "greatness."
UC constituents have unfortunately failed to endorse a funding reboot of the needed size. Academic Senate chair Mary Gilly signed on to the tuition hikes but not to a full restoration, and as far as I can tell neither the Associated Students nor various unions are calling for full state funding either.
A major exception is the UC Council of Faculty Associations (CUCFA), which is recommending a complete reset of UC and CSU funding to 2000-01 levels. This would put state funding and tuition back to trend ($4,717 for UC). Professor James Vernon, the co-chair of the Berkeley Faculty Association, made the case in the Sacramento Bee, which is based on a straightforward calculation. One of the authors of the calculation, UCSF professor of medicine Stanton Glantz, appeared at the regents' meeting to call for the reset. He declared, "You should not be arguing how much to raise tuition, but how to mobilize the public support to restore the California Master plan of low cost high quality higher education for all."
The reset is cheap-- $50 a year for the median taxpayer, or $384.30 extra for someone making between $100,000 and $150,000 and whose child will be borrowing fifteen times that figure each year they are at UC. Given their desperate money worries, why wouldn't UCOP endorse a version of the reset? Why wouldn't everybody else at UC? All the energy is going into blocking tuition hikes rather than into setting specific funding goals for Sacramento.
Some of the problem is a kind collective fatigue, if not depression. UC leaders don't think the reset is politically realistic, which is a self-fulfilling prophecy. On the other hand, few people think the governor, the legislature, UCOP, the regents, or the public are ever going to make things right. Most of us who work at UC, CSU and the CCC have become unconsciously resigned to doing crisis management for the rest of our lives in semi-distraction from our higher-level work. Some of the problem is that the campuses don't like or trust UCOP any more than Sacramento does. UCOP has become a kind of "third force," as UCI professor Rei Terada put it at Reclaim UC. It didn't help itself with what many people, from student leaders to the Lt. Governor of the state, described as a secretive process. During a particularly good four-way discussion on KQED's Forum earlier this week, Mr. Palmer and Associated Students president Kevin Sabo shared identical complaints about UCOP's failure to develop the tuition proposals in partnership with them (Mr. Sabo at 18'; Mr. Palmer at 26'). Mr. Palmer said UC had failed to comply with the provisions of AB 970, which requires public notice and consolation around tuition increases. UCOP is apparently resisting the calculation of undergraduate degree costs as required by AB 94, whose deadline was missed. Throw in general resentment about executive compensation and recent increases of over 20 percent in some chancellors' salaries, and everyone has a reason to cut off their UCOP nose to spite their budgetary face.
Although the budgetary discussion went nowhere, everyone seems now to see how serious the basic threat has become. Under the epic title "A Battle for UC's Soul," the LA Times editorial board identified the long-term stakes for UC and other public research universities:
At issue is whether the 10-campus system will continue to rank among the nation's premier research universities, drawing top students and the best professors from throughout the world, or whether it will slowly shrink its ambitions, becoming a more utilitarian institution that concentrates narrowly on moving students to their bachelor's degrees and into the workforce quickly and efficiently.
What state leaders should be figuring out is not how to diminish UC's role, but how to preserve UC as a national example of great public higher education.
That is not what state leaders are doing. Regent-designate Oakley spoke at a recent forum about PPIC's ongoing concerns about workforce shortages, and the whole event suggested the focus of the state's establishment to be workforce training. Lt. Gov. Newsom called for a fuller integration of the three segments in a way that would facilitate this, and Gov. Brown's proposals aim at the same thing. Five years of five-percent tuition increases will merely make UC a more expensive pipeline segment. The main effect of the new tuition wars will more shrinking not so much of ambition, which is obviously alive and well in UC students, but of the financial means of achieving them.
We're in year six of the official mediocrity threat, so it's not to soon for this to get everyone's undivided attention.
We did get confirmation today on at least two of the preconditions for any real movement that Michael identified last week. One is the full re-engagement of the faculty, tenure track and non-tenure track, in defining and explaining the academic functions of the university. What does research do for undergraduates? Why do graduate students do? What is research? Why does it cost so much? Why, really, do we need it? What, concretely, are the activities involved in being a "premier research university." UCOP and the regents can't answer these kinds of questions. But if faculty don't answer them now, the funding situation will never change, and the workforce mission will take over.
Second, UCOP will need to comply with AB 94, and account for the costs of undergraduate teaching, graduate education, various kinds of research, and administration. EVP Brostrom excused the delay again tonight, but Sacramento obviously isn't going to budge unless it gets real answers on costs that most political leaders believe are still way too high.
Tearing off the band-aids wasn't pleasant, but at least now everyone sees the wounds.
Labels: Budget, Costs, Cuts, Funding Model, Future University, Jerry Brown, Tuition Hikes, UC, UC Regents
Anon2 with some thoughts....
I agree the three higher ed segments should be more integrated. Moving between the CCC and CSU or UC should be seamless.
I also question the focus on research at UC. CSU faculty are doing tons of research, although research is not supposed to be a major part of CSU's mission. Why couldn't UC adopt the same model?
Gov Brown does have a valid point. The primary purpose of higher ed is to prepare people for careers, not research for its own sake. I also agree that some consolidation of majors is in order.
Chris Newfield said...
point well taken. This is why faculty need to get involved explaining what is involved in full or deep preparation for both careers and the rest of their lives -- the higher order thinking involved, etc. I think more interaction between CSU and UC would be great. But I don't want underfunded and overworked CSU campuses to become the template for UC's funding or activities. I'd rather see faculty redefine CSU's mission and then improve its funding and working conditions as a result.
Anon2: I hope the conversation you're suggesting also includes students, administrators, legislators, and the public who'll be footing the bill...
One two three four we don't want to pay no more ! Five six seven eight, send the bill right to the state ! Nine ten eleven twelve, the tax payers pockets we must delve !
Anon2 here....
While I agree fees/tuition are excessive, the notion that California higher education should be free is equally ridiculous. I'm sorry but it's been my experience that something that's free is ultimately not valued.
After working for the state for 30 years I have to blame unionization for many of the problems. My agency had a flat organization chart until the engineers' union (PECG) objected to rank and file supervising rank and file. Despite best efforts by the agency to solve the problem, the union continued to object. The end result: we ended up with two-three new layers of management that weren't really needed.
What does this do with higher ed? Over at the CSU I've seen the same thing. New layers. Associate VP of this or that, when deans used to do the same work. I suspect the unions had a lot to do with the trend.
Everyone talks about the Master Plan as if it still mattered. The MP died in 1970 and has been on life support ever since. What killed the MP? The anti-war movement on the UC and CSU campuses. Hopefully, a new MP will be developed, as the legislative analyst has recommended.
Anon2-I've never seen evidence that free UC was less efficient. In the humanities and qualitative social sciences, it was the golden age of breakthrough research, and I think many STEM faculty would say the same.
I completely agree about excess layers, but don't know why you blame excess management on unions.
third causality problem -- the MP wasn't killed by the anti-war movement, but by indiscriminate political reaction against university students orchestrated by pro-war forces.
Or so it seems to me. What I'm sure about is that there's no ethical reason for making this generation go into debt to get what their foremothers and fathers got for free--to the benefit of the state and national economies as well as to their individual lives.
Chris, you're laboring under a misconception. UC and CSU were never free. Low cost yes, but never free. As an undergrad, I paid $100 a semester at CSU in 1975-78. Ten years later, I was paying $500+ semester fees as a grad student. What was fee free was the community college system.
To be frank, I'm not a fan of unions in general. I've worked in four union environments over 40 years (three public and one private) and all the union seemed adept at was extracting money from its members.
registration and ancillary fees yes, education fees (tuition) no. See MP p 172 "Continuing a principle in the Organic Statutes of California in 1867-68, under which the University of California was created, public higher education institutions in California do not charge tuition to bona fide legal residents of the state. On the other hand, students who do not qualify as residents must pay tuition. For the year 1959-60, nonresident tuition for regular students was $127.50 per semester in the state colleges and $250 per semester at the Univer- sity. Currently, the University is charging according to law the maximum permissible nonresident tuition. (See Section 23053, 1959 Education Code.) The 1959 Legislature passed a law which permits local governing boards of the junior colleges to charge a nonresi- dent fee.
Incidental and other fees are charged at all state colleges and campuses of the University. In the state colleges, a materials and service fee of approximately $33.00 per semester is charged all regu- larly enrolled students. The University, on the other hand, charges an incidental fee of $60.00 per semester to its enrollees. In addition, student body and other fees are paid by students who are the recipi- ents of special types of noninstructional services. . . ."
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Like other businesses, salons close their doors for good when they no longer turn a profit. The financial failure that pushes a salon under may stem from a single issue, such as overextending during startup. In other cases, the roots of financial disaster come from an array of factors that range from poor marketing to bookkeeping.
As a business centered on altering people's appearance, salons depend on customer satisfaction. Many salons offer a number of services, from basic haircuts and coloring to facials and manicures, which also provides a number of opportunities for customer service to break down. The normal customer service issues faced by every business, such as a staff member acting in a rude or unprofessional manner, can crop up. If a customer gets a hairstyle he didn't ask for, the wrong color in his hair, or a bad manicure, he will almost certainly tell his friends and family about the bad experience. If a salon develops a reputation for poor customer service, it will lose customers and revenue.
Insufficient Financial Oversight
Salons require careful financial oversight to survive. In addition to the normal taxes on the business revenue, salons running a traditional business model with a permanent staff must also pay taxes on any tips employees receive. Failure to monitor tips and pay the taxes in a timely fashion can lead to fees and fines from the Internal Revenue Service and state tax agencies. Salons must also price services in a way that allows them to compete in their market, but also turn a profit. Insisting on offering expensive services that the market cannot realistically afford or under-pricing services to appear more competitive can push a salon out of business.
States typically require licenses for hairstylists, aestheticians, cosmetologists and manicurists to work in a salon. Licensure typically calls for several hundred hours of practice and formal instruction at cosmetology school. Some owners try to cut costs by hiring unlicensed staff for a lower hourly rate. In addition to the potential legal ramifications, such as expensive fines and lawsuits, the salon runs a much higher risk of delivering substandard service to customers and developing a bad reputation.
Failure to Adapt
A failure to adapt to the changing landscape in the salon industry can lead to financial ruin. Historically, the salon business model involved hiring a permanent staff of stylists, aestheticians and even manicurists. The new model, which originates on the West Coast, consists of renting out a chair or booth to effectively self-employed stylists. The salon owner receives a consistent payment each month from the stylist and the stylist gets use of the salon facility. Salons that ignore this trend risk getting pushed out by more progressive salons that run a booth-rental model.
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So I'm Indian - well as Indian as a girl living in Dubai her whole life can get - but well I'm Indian.
We started our dining experience with a passion kiss and a long island iced tea, I absolutely loved this drink. J shockingly had never had an iced tea before and very predictably he loved it!
We were then served these complimentary items - all of which were outstanding!
Our starters were really the highlight of the evening, the puri platter and the aloo tikki chaat are a must try - soft yet crunchy and oh so inviting - its almost a necessary dish to start off the dinner!
For our mains we decided to order the butter chicken (which is sweet for the Indian palette so when ordering the waiter will allow you to choose the level of spice as well), sikander nali ghost, the goan prawn curry and the chicken biryani. Each of their portions can easily be shared by 2 people.
A special mention has to be given the tandoori items since in a way it bridged the palette between the starters and the mains. The flavours are all there however the bonus was this thin char grilled smokey effect which really added the finishing touch to the lassoni prawns, the kesari lamb chops and hariyali chicken tikka.
The lamb chops were by the far the best I've had in Dubai!
The masala creme brulee was a little thicker then expected.
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Samir Amin, Imperialism and the 'Arab Spring'
January 23, 2019 UNAC Editor Socialism, Syria
Photo: Mideast Crisis in Manbij Syria, 01/02/2019, ~Reuters
Editor's Note: Anderson explores the basis of the political fracture of 'the left' over the Syrian war. Don't be dismayed if you aren't a Marxist or don't know the authors he cites. The issues are clearly stated and the point is that this dialog cuts across the antiwar movement and undermines the unity necessary to act. This subject arises not only in relation to the Syrian war but to the economic and political wars waged against the nationalist and socialist governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua and others.
by Tim Anderson, from TeleSUR, January 4, 2019
In his analysis of the aggression against Syria, Samir Amin remains well ahead of western Marxists, writes Tim Anderson.
The late neo-Marxist theorist Samir Amin had as good a grasp as any of imperialist plans for the Middle East – or West Asia, to use non-Eurocentric terminology. Amin was indeed a pioneer for the non-Eurocentric left. However, he showed little appreciation of the actual resistance from Arab states, such as Syria and Lebanon. This is a blind spot shared by many western Marxists.
Although his primary focus was his native Egypt, Amin also wrote of "the Syrian disaster." In the 2016 epilogue to his 2011 book 'The Reawakening of the Arab World,' he recognised:
"A coherent plan… to destroy the Syrian state in a manner modeled on the United States' work in Iraq and Libya. For the United States, the goal is the breaking up of the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah alliance, which is an obstacle to the United States entrenching its control over the region. For Israel, the goal is to have a Syria fragmented into sectarian mini-states. For the Gulf Arab states, the goal is the entrenching of a Sunni dictatorship in the Wahhabi style… established on the massacres and criminal elimination of Alawis, Druze and Christians. Turkey plays an active role… in the implementation of that plan."
So far, so good. There would be few objections from Axis of Resistance nations to this analysis. It is also an appropriately revised neo-Marxist view of imperial pretensions. But where is Amin's recognition of the resistance which, at great cost in human lives, has effectively defeated this appalling war?
Drawing parallels with the failure of political will in Egypt under and after Nasser, Amin writes of Arab "nationalist popular experiences" which, having reached "the limits of possible, actual achievements," turned to liberalisation. So he claimed: "Hafez al Assad turned to a project that sought to combine the preservation of nationalist patriotism that is oppositional to colonialism… [and] to benefit from the right-conservative concessions reflected in the 'openness'" of Nasserism. Syria's nation-state is a hollow shell", he suggests.
How easy idealists find it to dismiss the achievements of patriotic, post-colonial states. Even basically anti-Syrian government tracts, like John McHugo's Syria: A Recent History, begrudgingly recognise progress sunder Syria's Baathist system:
"[Hafez] completed the Ba'thist revolution which… brought education, electricity and piped water to virtually the entire country for the first time. Infant mortality was reduced and life expectancy increased."
McHugo does not mention that health improvements were due to the creation of a free-of-charge public health system, an accomplishment which presidents of the richest country on Earth have attempted but have been unable to match. Nor does he mention that the creation of free and universal school systems, in other countries, have only been possible after great political upheavals. Such achievements are not to be sneezed at.
In any case, McHugo goes on:
"From 1963-1993, the mileage of standard gauge railway lines in the country quadrupled while the length of all-weather asphalted roads increased five-fold … [and] by 1990 the [literacy] figures had improved substantially. By 1993 virtually all boys in the countryside were attending school, although there were still a number of girls who were not. By 1992, 95 percent of villages had electricity. Before this [Taqba dam] project, only approximately 5 percent of Syrian villages had electricity."
These achievements may be what Amin had in mind, but trivialised as "the limits of possible, actual [patriotic nationalist] achievements." But there were more, as McHugo admits:
"Another Ba'thist achievement was the ending of the exploitation of the peasantry by usurious landlords and money lenders. It was the Ba'thist revolution that ended usurious lending and brought affordable credit to the countryside."
Nationalised or joint venture big business brought in the state revenue needed to fund public health and education systems, along with other subsidised, universal services.
What did Samir Amin say about a Syrian state which, if it had not met his dream of a socialist utopia, had at least brought about the above major reforms? What did he say about a patriotic nation which, even by 2016, was crushing the imperial conspiracy he himself had described so well: "breaking up of the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah alliance… [leaving] a Syria fragmented into sectarian mini-states … [if not] a Sunni dictatorship in the Wahhabi style"?
Amin claimed: "The Syrian regime has confronted protests with repression, and nothing else. The Assad regime remains unable to respond with the only effective policy, which is to engage in genuine reforms and negotiations." If he was aware of Assad's reforms over 2011-12, including the constitutional reform which removed the Baath Party monopoly, he does not mention them. Those reforms satisfied many of the opposition demands, minus those of the Muslim Brotherhood for an (extremely unpopular) Islamic State.
Most importantly (especially for those who pretended the war in Syria had something to do with democracy), most Syrians have voted, both at the ballot box and with their lives, to defend the secular state. It remains an inconvenient truth that around half those killed have been patriotic soldiers and Syrian civilians who opposed the foreign-backed sectarian gangs.
McHugo's main thesis was that the Ba'thist government in Syria parallels the French colonial 'pacification' regime of the 1920s. He does not mention any colonial regime which has built universal public health and education systems, nor those which engaged in serious land reform; he does not do so because there are none.
Amin clearly identified the elements of imperial strategy against Syria, but dismisses the patriotic nation which has defended itself against massive foreign aggression and has maintained, for the most part, its social achievements.
In his analysis of the aggression against Syria, Amin remains well ahead of the western Marxists who, for the most part, fell for the 'colour revolution' scam. In his refusal to see the post-colonial state as central to the necessary resistance, he joins the 'imperial left.'
Tim Anderson is an Australian academic and activist. He is a senior lecturer on political economics at the University of Sydney and the author of several books on independent development and anti-imperialism. He is active in prisoners' rights and civil liberties groups, and has been involved with international solidarity and civil rights campaigns. He has worked as an academic since the early 1990s. He was suspended from his post at the University of Sydney in early December 2018 for his political activities, and is intending to appeal against a decision to terminate his employment.
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Kudos To The Supreme Court Banning Liquor Shops On Highways - It's About Time!
With 2016 being the year of the 'ban' here's another one, The Supreme Court has ordered a ban on liquor shops on the highway and the old existing licenses will not be renewed!
The Supreme Court had been hearing petitions that challenged the High Court's verdicts which had ruled that the liquor shops should be located at a certain distance from the National and State highways. It's said that the thekas shouldn't be visible/accessible to the commuters of the highways.
The SC has even considered closing down all thekas on the highways because they feel that this distracts the commuters and leads to accidents. The decision taken now is that the thekas must be at least 500 metres away from the highways and that liquor banners and ads be removed from billboards!
The Chief Secretary and police chiefs of various states will be taking charge of this action and will make sure it's implemented.
We wholly support this ban and hope it will lead to better concentration and lesser accidents!
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Graaf Tibor Károlyi de Nagykároly (Pozsony, 26 september 1843 - Abbazia, 5 april 1904) was een Hongaars politicus. Hij was voorzitter van het Magnatenhuis, het hogerhuis van de Hongaarse Rijksdag.

Biografie

Tibor Károlyi werd in 1843 geboren in Pozsony in de oude aristocratische familie Károlyi de Nagykároly. Zijn vader was graaf György Károlyi, opper-ispán, het oudste lid van het Magnatenhuis en lid van de Hongaarse Academie van Wetenschappen. Zijn moeder was gravin  Karolina Zichy, een schoonzus van Lajos Batthyány. Tibor Károlyi had verschillende broers die hoge functies bekleedden binnen het Koninkrijk Hongarije, zoals leden van het Huis van Afgevaardigden of keizerlijk en koninklijk kamerheer. Zijn zus Pálma trouwde met Aurél Dessewffy, die later ook voorzitter van het Magnatenhuis was. Zelf trouwde Tibor Károlyi met gravin Emma Degenfeld-Schonburg, met wie hij vijf kinderen had, waaronder de latere premier Gyula Károlyi, Antal, die keizerlijk en koninklijk kamerheer werd en Imre, ridder in de Orde van Malta. Bovendien was hij de oom van graaf Mihály Károlyi, die na de Eerste Wereldoorlog de Democratische Republiek Hongarije oprichtte.

Tijdens de Oostenrijks-Pruisische Oorlog van 1866 sloot hij zich aan bij het Hongaarse legioen. Na afloop van de oorlog verhuisde hij naar Parijs en keerde in 1867 naar Hongarije terug. Hij was lid van het Huis van Afgevaardigden van 1875 tot 1884 voor de Liberale Partij. Aanvankelijk vertegenwoordigde hij daar Orosháza, nadien Pécska. In 1884 werd hij gepromoveerd tot lid van het Magnatenhuis en in 1894 tot vice-voorzitter. In 1898 werd hij benoemd tot geheimraad en in juni datzelfde jaar, toen zijn voorgang Vilmos Tóth overleed, tot voorzitter van het Magnatenhuis. In 1900 nam hij ontslag uit deze functie.

Naast politiek hield Károlyi zich bezig met economie en schone kunsten en vertaalde verschillende werken uit het Frans en het Engels. Bovendien nam hij deel aan operaties ter controle van de waterkwaliteit in Hongarije, waarbij hij het water van rivieren zoals de Tisza en de Maros controleerde. Hij stierf in 1904.

Hongaars politicus
Hongaars parlementsvoorzitter
Hongaarse adel

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Q: How to create wordpress-like option table and get values for each row? I'm looking to create an options table in my db that makes every record a system option, so I can work with a little number of fields.
My db has the following structure:

*

*3 columns named id, name, and value
The following data is inserted as an example:
+--+-----------+--------------------------+
|id|name       |value                     |
+--+-----------+--------------------------+
| 1|uri        |www.example.com           |
| 2|sitename   |Working it out            |
| 3|base_folder|/folder1/folder2/         |
| 4|slogan     |Just a slogan for the site|
+--+-----------+--------------------------+

That way I can include a large number of customizable system options very easily.
The problem is that I don't know how to retrieve them.
How do I get the value of uri and store it as a var?
And better yet, how do I get, for exmaple, values of id 1 and 4 only without making a query each time? (I assume multiple queries are useless and a pretty ugly method.)
I know the question is pretty basic but I'm lost here.
I'd really appreciate your answer!

A: Here's something to get you started. No error checking or other niceties included. I assume your db name is $db_name and the table you describe above is called 'site_params'.
To get a single parameter from your table...
// select your db
mysql_select_db($db_name);

// get the uri setting
$query = "SELECT value FROM site_params WHERE name='uri'";
$result = mysql_query( $query );

If there aren't too many settings, you could just get all of them at once...
// get all the settings
$query = "SELECT * from site_params";
$result = mysql_query( $query );

Or get some of them...
// get uri and sitename
$query = "SELECT * from site_params where name in ('uri', 'sitename') ";
$result = mysql_query( $query );

You can receive the result as an array called $site_info by adding...
$site_info = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC);

Clarification: this puts a single row in $site-info. Call it repeatedly to get multiple rows of the result.
To change one of the parameters...
// set new sitename
$newsitename = 'http://mynewsite.com';
$query = "UPDATE site_params SET value='" . $newsitename . "' where name='sitename'";
$result = mysql_query( $query );

Is that what you're looking for? Go to http://php.net for all the info you need. For example:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-query.php

A: $values = array();
$q = "SELECT * FROM table";
$resu = mysql_query($q);

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($resu)) {
    $values[$row['name']] = $row['value'];
}

usage:
echo $value['variable_name'];

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The Plaque was unveiled by Air Marshal Sir Colin Terry KBE CB DL, representing the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire, in the presence of Senior officers from the Royal Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force and the New Zealand Defence Force, local dignitaries and VIPs, including representatives of the Quainton and Waddesdon Parish Councils, relatives of both aircrews and other invited guests and the media – over 200 attendees in total.
On 15 March 1944, Vickers Wellington Mark X (LN660: KJ-O, "O" Orange) took off from RAF Westcott at 20:05 on a non-operational night cross-country training flight. After being airborne for two and a half hours, the aircraft was on finals for landing at RAF Westcott when it collided with a Short Stirling Mark III heavy bomber (EH989: WP-P, "P" Peter) of No 90 Squadron, based at Tuddenham, Suffolk flown by Flight Sergeant Joseph Spring RAFVR. The Stirling aircraft had been diverted from its parent airfield, was returning from a mission to the Amiens railway yards in France and was en route to a diversionary airfield when it struck the Wellington from below on the starboard side. The Wellington crashed at 22:35, half a mile east of Quainton Road railway station, and one and a half miles north-east of Westcott, killing all eight crew members. The Stirling, whose crew were on their first mission, crashed at 22.47 at Astwell Park, Wattenham, Northamptonshire killing all on board.
The memorial plaque was erected in memory of the 15 aircrew who died by a relative of one of the crew members Flying Officer James Henry Scott Lyon DFC. Royal Australian Air Force, a Staff Pilot (Instructor) at Westcott, who was flying the Wellington. Mr Bruce Blanche, the nephew of Flying Officer Lyon, explained that his uncle's wife (his aunt) who was pregnant at the time lived at 28 Station Road (now 81 Station Road) Quainton, in rooms rented from Mr Frank Wheeler. Thankfully she was visiting her parents in Coldstream in Scotland at the time of the tragic crash.
The plaque has been placed just before the main gate, next to the existing Westcott Airfield Memorial erected by the Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust on the September 2012.


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A. O. Smith announces acquisition of water treatment solutions provider Water-Right, Inc.
Milwaukee, Wis.— Water technology company A. O. Smith Corporation (NYSE-AOS) today announced that it has acquired Water-Right, Inc., a Wisconsin-based water treatment company, for $107 million in cash, subject to customary adjustments. The acquisition includes all Water-Right subsidiaries, real estate, and sister company Mineral-Right, Inc.?
Family-owned Water-Right, Inc., based in Appleton, Wisconsin, is a water quality solutions provider with a complete line of residential and commercial products and systems for a wide variety of applications, including solutions for problem well water. Water-Right products are sold under the Evolve?, WaterCare?, Sanitizer Series?, Impression Series? and CustomCare? product brands. In addition to its advanced and innovative product solutions, Water-Right also has a retail facility, Water-Right Services, and a state-certified lab, Clean Water Testing LLC?, specializing in water analytical services.?
"The acquisition of Water-Right squarely supports A. O. Smith's growth trajectory in water treatment and enables A. O. Smith to expand beyond its strong presence in the direct-to-consumer and retail spaces with Water-Right's capabilities in the wholesale and independent water quality dealer channels," said Kevin J. Wheeler, president and chief executive officer. "With its exceptional market knowledge, established relationships and array of training programs, Water-Right is the ideal fit as the newest member of the A. O. Smith family. It is an innovative, family-run and Wisconsin-based company that takes great pride in addressing customers' problem water needs with the highest level of care."?
"We're honored and excited that the business founded and nurtured by my father and expanded by my brothers and me is finding a long-term future home with A. O. Smith, an innovative and global leader in water technology," noted Kurt Gruett, Water-Right president. "We're confident that A. O. Smith – with its global capabilities and manufacturing expertise – will be able to take Water-Right and its family of products to the next level."?
Kurt Gruett, Guy Gruett and Greg Gruett will continue to lead the Water-Right businesses, while father and founder Glenn Gruett will continue to provide insight and business counsel. The Water-Right offices will remain based in Appleton, Wisconsin, and Mineral-Right will remain in Phillipsburg, Kansas.?
Water-Right employs approximately 90 employees with annual sales of approximately $60 million. On April 30, 2019, A. O. Smith plans to release its first quarter 2019 results, including the financial impact of this transaction, which is expected to be minimal in 2019 due to purchase accounting and one-time costs. ?
This release contains statements that the company believes are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.? Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of words such as "may," "will," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "forecast," "guidance" or words of similar meaning.? All forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated as of the date of this release.? Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these expectations include, among other things, the following: a further weakening of the Chinese economy and/or a further decline in the growth rate of consumer spending or housing sales in China; negative impact to the company's businesses from international tariffs and trade disputes; potential weakening in the high efficiency boiler segment in the U.S.; significant volatility in raw material prices; inability of the company to implement or maintain pricing actions; potential weakening in U.S. residential or commercial construction or instability in the company's replacement markets; foreign currency fluctuations; the company's inability to successfully integrate or achieve its strategic objectives resulting from acquisitions; competitive pressures on the company's businesses; the impact of potential information technology or data security breaches; changes in government regulations or regulatory requirements; and adverse developments in general economic, political and business conditions in key regions of the world. Forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date of this release, and the company is under no obligation to update these statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.?All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributed to the company, or persons acting on its behalf, are qualified entirely by these cautionary statements.