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Posted on July 23, 2017 by RankTribe
News | Robert Whitcomb: Flexible City Planning; Seeking Startups; Single Payer Will Prevail
Robert Whitcomb, Columnist
Robert Whitcomb
"We go in withering July
To ply the hard incessant hoe;
Panting beneath the brazen sky
We sweat and grumble, but we go."
— Ruth Pitter, "The Diehards''
Boston's new master plan, called "Imagine 2030'' is refreshingly flexible. It encourages improvements in accessibility and interconnectivity across the city through more reliable public transportation, better education and more recreational resources. However, it leaves many of the details and decisions to private-sector organizations and individuals, with city government acting more as referee and cheerleader and improvements promoted more through economic incentives than through regulations.
Providence officials would do well to study the Boston approach.
It's not a heavily top-down government-run "urban-renewal'' approach of the wrecking-ball-and-bulldozer sort that did so much damage in many old American cities in the '50s and '60s. Rather it takes more of a Jane Jacobs (author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities) stance – treating the city as an immensely complicated organism with vibrant and open neighborhoods and walkability as key strengths.
The plan has a couple of powerful forces behind it: One is that cities in general are on the upswing; suburbs have lost a lot of their allure. Another is that Greater Boston's great research and innovation machine, lubricated by its famed higher-education sector and its roles as a major financial center and the capital of New England, will probably keep running indefinitely to pay for the improvements. Let's hope that more of that money washes down to Providence.
Wexford's proposed campus
Best of luck to Social Enterprise Greenhouse, a Providence-based local-business accelerator.
The Providence region, between the huge dynamos of Boston and New York, has long lagged in business startups. But progress has been made in the past few years. While Rhode Island has only one well-known angel investment firm – Cherrystone Angel Group — the state is increasingly on the radar in Boston, one of America's venture-capital centers. Particularly attractive are the Ocean State's lower costs, its natural and manmade beauty (well, not everywhere) and, in particular, colleges doing important research and innovation. The state-backed Slater Technology Fund, for its part, provides limited amounts of funding to tech startups.
Cambridge Innovation Center's plan to expand into the new Wexford Science and Technology Center in downtown Providence may help a lot. Kudos to Governor Raimondo's administration for helping to bring it in.
Obviously it also would help if Providence again became more of a big-company headquarters town again, to provide another source of money for local entrepreneurs.
I think that many, perhaps most Rhode Islanders would be happy to pay a few more dollars in taxes to hire more people to pick up the trash strewn along so many roadsides. And clean off the graffiti, too. People going to the National Governors Conference last week must have noticed the squalor, including on the streets near the beautiful State House. Crummy advertising! More attention to catching and prosecuting the people who make this mess would also be appreciated.
I have noticed over the years Providence police officers' habit of keeping their engines running when they leave their cruisers to get a coffee or something else. Presumably they want the air conditioning or heat to be at exactly their desired level when they return. They often leave the engines running for long stretches. I guess they don't care because they don't pay for the gasoline. But this is polluting, even in the air that Providence's finest breathe, and a waste of public money. It really ought to stop.
The bureaucrats at Harvard University want to ban most private social clubs for students at Harvard College – "final clubs''(the most socio-economic "elite'' organizations), fraternities, sororities and the like, alleging that they undermine an idea of "diversity'' and foment discrimination. The bureaucrats would bar students who take part in these organizations from holding leadership positions at Harvard or getting recommendations for scholarships.
This attack on freedom of association (a sibling of freedom of speech) and on the ability to form close and lasting friendships will probably succeed: After all, being a Harvard student is not obligatory. And, I might add, there are many other colleges where you'd get a considerably better undergraduate education than at Harvard.
To become good citizens, and leaders, students would do well to know people in as wide a range of society as possible. But they also need to be able to form bonds within smaller groups for the loyalty and mutual understanding people need. And if you're compelled to be "friends'' with everyone, you're friends with no one.
Harvard College graduates will seek to join or form such groups when they move into the real world. Imperial Harvard will not succeed in transforming human nature.
Last week, President Trump met with people from a curious mix of companies in part of his Made in America campaign (which doesn't apply to Trump Organization branded products). The New England companies included, according to Fox News:
Connecticut: Sikorsky
"Aircraft manufacturer Sikorsky, a division of Lockheed Martin, is known for its production of the Black Hawk helicopter. Sikorsky claims to have built 'the world's first practical flight helicopter,' in 1939.''
Maine: Hinckley Yachts
"What began as a company that built boats for local fisherman in Maine, Hinckley is now a world-renowned builder of premium boats between 29 to 79 feet long.''
Massachusetts: St. Pierre Manufacturing
"St. Pierre Manufacturing makes horseshoes and tire chains. It was founded in 1920, inspired by Henry St. Pierre whose car got stuck in the mud when he was driving to a nearby village.''
New Hampshire: Cider Belly Doughnuts
"Located on Moulton Farm, …this company is praised for its fresh, homemade cider doughnuts.''.
Rhode Island: Narragansett Brewing Company
Narragansett Brewery
"The Narragansett Brewing Company is the fifth largest lager beer brewery in New England. The company was founded in 1888 by six local businessmen and produced it first beer in 1890.''
Vermont: Dubie Family Maple
"Located in the heart of Vermont's Maple Country, this family-owned-and-operated company has been producing Pure Vermont Maple Syrup for 14 years.''
Many readers have heard about the sociopath Donald Trump's previously undisclosed second private talk with Vladimir Putin at the recent G20 conference. Many probably didn't know that Trump didn't have with him an American translator – an extraordinary situation! They only used Putin's translator. I'm sure that's because Trump didn't want anyone to testify later on what they talked about.
I suspect that in the chat, the Kremlin's thug-in-chief reminded Trump, with perhaps only a wink, of the dirt that he has on our corrupt president and the vast sums that have gone into the Mafia-like enterprise called "The Trump Organization.''
It is chilling that the Electoral College has delivered the Executive Branch to a family and their retainers who are effectively mobsters and in thrall to a foreign dictator.
Single payer?
Since the current version of the Republican Party is most passionate about making the plutocracy richer, with tax cuts the preferred vehicle – it's not surprising that many of its leaders hate the Affordable Care Act. That's because it put new taxes on the affluent to help pay to expand health-care coverage. To be fair, I should also note that many Republicans on principle don't think that the government should have any role in health care. Rather, they would leave it all to the "magic of the market'' and the kindness of families.
But the rich folks who own the party and run it for their own benefit might consider the long-term effects of opposition to helping the poor and middle class – social disorder and a less prosperous nation. A growing impoverished underclass does not bode well for America's future.
The Affordable Care Act, while far from perfect, was meant to do a little leveling of the playing field by trying to ensure that poorer people had broad access to healthcare and not just hospital emergency rooms, whence the rest of us indirectly get the bill through taxes to help reimburse hospitals for providing mandatory "free care'' to anyone who shows up.
For years, the nonrich have seen their inflation-adjusted wages drop as more and more of the country's wealth has gone into dividends and other investment income instead of into wages. At the same time, senior executives of for-profit and "nonprofit" (i.e., not taxed) enterprises have gotten ever more astronomical compensation. (This very much includes health care: Look at hospital executives' salaries!).
And company senior execs and boards have ditched defined-benefit pensions for their employees in favor of much less reliable defined-contribution vehicles, such as 401(k)s, even as employers have cut way back on how much they contribute to cover employee health-insurance costs.
All this has severely hurt the purchasing power of average Americans, which is one reason that GDP growth has generally been very low, or worse, since about 2001, when George W. Bush and friends pushed through massive tax cuts for the rich – i.e., for themselves.
The plutocrats who now run Washington might consider that a healthy country is a more productive than one with millions of untreated or under-treated people. America has the worst health outcomes in the West despite its great wealth (albeit wealth that's increasingly concentrated). That and the increasing likelihood of mass social disorder as more and more Americans realize how much the system is rigged against them might get the attention of America's increasingly sequestered rich. It would be to their interest to back universal health care and yes, a rise in the federal minimum wage.
By the way, some conservatives have gloated about a University of Washington study that seemed to suggest that Seattle's raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour has hurt the local economy. In fact, the data were analyzed inaccurately. Seattle is the fastest growing big city in the nation and has a 2.6 percent unemployment rate. Further, jobs in food service, where much of the debate about the minimum wage has been concentrated, continue to grow at a rate far exceeding the nation's. One reason: More people have more money to buy stuff in the Seattle area.
America is not overtaxed. It's somewhat undertaxed, as seen in our crumbling infrastructure and frayed social services. That is, it's undertaxed compared to what most Americans say they want in public services and infrastructure and what most developed nations see as essential public investments to remain competitive. God knows, we've let our infrastructure fall apart.
Consider that the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ranked the U.S. as fourth lowest in overall tax burden at 25.9 percent, considerably less than the average of 34.2 percent for the 35 nations in the OECD. And because of tax-avoidance laws that favor the wealthy, some very rich Americans pay very little.
Our tax laws give a great deal of preference to investment over wage and salaried work. The idea is that such incentives encourage risk taking and innovation but in fact these investments are mostly in old stock in existing companies, not in startups.
None of this is to suggest that corporate income taxes should be raised. Indeed such taxes should eliminated. They cause great inefficiencies within companies and fuel corruption in Washington as corporate lobbyists jockey to manipulate the tax code to the best advantage of the companies.
So how to make healthcare work in America? The first thing is to accept that the most equitable and cost-efficient system is single payer –"Medicare for All''. So we should extend Medicare to everyone to cover important treatment. For less important stuff, people can buy supplemental insurance in the private sector, as in Europe. Medicare's administrative overhead is 2 percent, private insurance companies' over 20 percent – gotta pay insurance execs their multimillion-dollar salaries and put out all those ads. And of course the shareholders need to be taken care of, too.
You'd also have to address the cost issue by letting the new and expanded Medicare negotiate with drug companies to get lower prices.
Health & Human Services Secretary Tom Price, M.D., a fox in the henhouse, wouldn't like that; he made piles of money by investing as a congressman in health-related companies. A recent example from The Wall Street Journal: "ProPublica reported that on the same day his stockbroker bought him up to $90,000 of stock in six pharmaceutical companies, Price arranged to call a top U.S. health official, seeking to scuttle a controversial rule that could have hurt the firms' profits and driven down their share prices.'' Honest people are rare in the Trump orbit and seemingly nonexistent in the inner Trump mafia of family and retainers.
Extending Medicare to all would presumably mean higher taxes but it also would mean that Americans would not get stuck with private insurers' astronomical premiums. Overall, they'd pay less than they're paying now. And it would all be much, much simpler to deal with than the current red-tape-upholstered private-sector insurance labyrinth/nightmare. Of course, among the people who would pay higher taxes are U.S. physicians, who are by far the highest paid in the world, and too many of whom have become far more interested in maximizing their already high incomes than in their patients, and ditto hospital executives. The size of their compensation, along with sky-high U.S. drug prices, are major reasons why American health care is so much more expensive than health care in the rest of the Developed World – and with crummy medical outcomes to boot.
Given the power of insurance and some other health-care sector lobbyists in Washington, it will of course be very difficult to move to single payer. But I believe that the current hybrid "system'' will eventually collapse.
The Obama administration, fearful of taking on the insurance companies, included many originally GOP ideas in the Affordable Care Act. This included the individual mandate to buy insurance, whose aim was to get as many people as possible onto the ACA insurance exchanges in order to create a healthy risk pool, with young healthy people with few claims offsetting the cost of the heavy claims of older, sicker ones.
But the penalty for not buying insurance has been too laughably small to get an adequate number of younger, healthier people into the pool. Meanwhile, Republican threats to destroy the insurance exchanges by killing subsidies to insurers ("cost-sharing'') for covering poorer people, have led insurers in some places to leave the exchanges. Funny how so many folks with cars who complain about having to buy health insurance forget that buying car insurance is mandatory.
When we go to single payer the country will become more productive and stable as many more Americans can go about their business without worrying whether they will lose their health care. This will be good news even for the rich enjoying concierge care. And certainly for employers, all of whom could finally escape the Developed World's worst health-insurance "system''.
An example of why the Democratic Party has problems in many places is Oregon's new abortion law, which will make all insurers in the state cover abortions for pretty much any reason and at no cost to the women having them. The only organizations that can get an exemption from what will be America's most enthusiastic abortion-rights law are nonprofits whose main purpose is "the inculcation of religious value'' and serving and employing those who share their religious beliefs.
Previous law made abortion readily available in Oregon. This one goes a bit too far on this very difficult and sensitive matter.
Maureen Callahan, in her New York Post column, had an entertaining piece that said: "For anyone still wondering why Middle America's so angry, just take a look at the guest list for the annual bash thrown by Washington Post heiress Lally Weymouth, currently the paper's senior associate editor, in the Hamptons last week.
"It was full of politicians and power brokers — the ones who pantomime outrage daily, accusing the other side of crushing the little guy, sure that the same voter will never guess that behind closed doors, they all get along.
"Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner partied with billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, who rubbed shoulders with billionaire GOP donor David Koch.
"Chuck Schumer and Kellyanne Conway were there. So were Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Ronald Lauder, Carl Icahn, Joel Klein, Cathie Black, reporters Steve Clemons and Maria Bartiromo, columnists Richard Cohen and Margaret Carlson, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, Ray Kelly, Bill Bratton and Steven Spielberg.
"Oh, and Lally's uncle, former Gov. and Sen. Bob Graham, and cousin Gwen Graham, who's currently running for her dad's old job as Florida's governor.
"Weymouth's party is the latest reminder that for all the bruising rhetoric, the constant polls showing a deeply divided America and the most polarizing president in history, our battle isn't red vs. blue, right vs. left: It's about the 1% vs. the rest of us. They laugh as we take their political theater for real.
"'If you believe any of these people care about you, you are mistaken,'' Samuel Ronan {a Democratic congressional candidate in Ohio} tweeted. "The Hamptons might as well [be] another planet."
Actually, some, perhaps most of those people do care about you in an abstract or even idealistic way. Some (not the Trumps) give a lot of money to charity. They'd even like to help you a bit, albeit not if it means any decline in their status. But as the segmentation of American society by wealth/class accelerates they'll find fewer and fewer ways to talk to you and find out what you're feeling.
Robert Finch's new book, The Outer Beach: A Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod's Atlantic Shore, is an often stirring stroll through the geological, meteorological, zoological, botanical and human aspects of this sometimes wild, sometimes gentle and always haunting strip of glacial debris.
Richard Grosvenor
Born in France, educated at Harvard, Grosvenor has been the head of the art department at St. George's for decades.
A brilliant water colorist, Grosvenor was selected by the White House Historical Society to paint a scene of the White House for their bi-centennial calendar for the year 2000. That same year, the Newport Art Museum honored Grosvenor with a 50-year retrospective of his artwork. Grosvenor was also commissioned by the Tall Ships Committee to create an oil painting commemorating the Tall Ships' visit to Newport in 2000.
Paz, formerly Pazienza, fought 60 professional bouts at the Lightweight, Light Middleweight and Super Middleweight weight classes.
He won the IBF World Lightweight Championship. His overall record was 50 and 10, and he fought in one of the golden ages of boxing. He fought Roberto Duran, Roy Jones, Jr., and Joe Frazier, Jr..
Far from perfect, he has been arrested a number of times on a range of charges. His colorful life story is the subject of a feature movie, "Bleed for This," developed by Executive Producer Martin Scorcese.
Howard Ben Tré
Ben Tré is a world leader in innovating cast glass as a sculptural medium, and his work has been exhibited at more than 100 museum and public collections worldwide — and his studio is located in Pawtucket, RI.
His works have been at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Art, Houston; the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nice.
Bill Reynolds
Sportswriter
Reynolds' books use sports as the framework, but are deeper examinations of poverty, race, and addiction.
His book "Fall River Dreams" defined him a leading American writer who uniquely captures the intersection of sports and culture.
"Bill Reynolds is one of the best writers around, and this book is the Friday Night Lights of high school basketball," said Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe.
"Success is a Choice," which he co-wrote with Rick Pitino, is a business "how to" book that was a New York Times best-seller.
Reynolds has written 11 books and is a sports reporter for the Providence Journal.
John McCauley (Deer Tick)
McCauley has been a leading voice in the alternative, indie rock sphere for more than a decade. His work is a mix of rock with folk, blues, and country influences.
Along with his band, McCauley won Rock Artist of the Year at the Boston Music Awards (beating out Aerosmith) in 2013. He is married to fellow musician Vanessa Carlton — Stevie Nicks officiated their wedding.
With Deer Tick he has produced five albums.
Ira Magaziner
He created one of the most innovative university curriculums in America while he was an undergraduate at Brown, and went on to a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford.
Magaziner founded a leading business consulting firm – Telesis — and then sold it to Towers Perrin. He served as the policy point person in President Bill Clinton's Health Reform initiative that was led by Hillary Clinton. The effort failed and Magaziner was sued and fined — it ultimately was overturned
Today, he serves as the vice chairman and chief executive officer of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). His son Seth is RI's General Treasurer.
Angus Davis
Few business innovators in America have had the success of native Rhode Islander Davis.
He co-founded Tellme, raised raised more than $200M in capital, and helped to lead the company to more than $100 million in sales and 300 employees. Tellme was acquired by Microsoft for nearly $1 billion.
Now, he is trying to do it again with Upserve, formerly Swipely. The company is "the smart management assistant serving up clear guidance that makes your restaurant thrive" – a tech firm that creates an information infrastructure for restaurants. He has raised upwards of $50 million for Upserve. Davis is a leading American business thinker — all before the age of 40.
Terry "Mother" Moy
If the Navy SEALs are the best trained and most respected in the United State Armed Forces, Moy is the "Mother" of the SEALs.
The Newport native is the embodiment of military lore. He was a famous SEAL instructor and one of his most infamous trainees was Jesse "The Body" Venture – Seal, professional Wrestler and Governor of Minnesota.
While most SEAL activity is undisclosed, his effort to recover Apollo 17 was globally broadcast.
Phil West
Government Reformer
Once dubbed the Godfather of Ethics Reform, West has been the driving force in reforming governmental ethics for three decades in Rhode Island.
His successes include a then-record fine against Governor Ed DiPrete, Separation of Powers, downsizing and modernizing the legislature, and the requirement of electronic filing of bills and making hearings accessible to the public.
He was the head of Common Cause RI for eighteen years and retired in 2006, but still remains a guiding force in reform. Two years ago, the master lever was eliminated and this year major ethics reform is moving through the General Assembly — all under the watchful eye of West.
West has taken on the most powerful forces — sometimes alone — and made Rhode Island a better place as a result.
Jenkins is the consummate American actor. His work ranges from everything from "The Witches of Eastwick" to "Hannah and Her Sisters" to HBO's "Six Feet Under" to his award winning role in "Olive Kitteridge"
His formative acting years took place at Trinity Repertory Company (now Trinity Rep). Jenkins then returned later in his career to help save the financially struggling theater.
He has starred and appeared in more than 80 movies and television series or movies. In 2014, Jenkins and his wife Sharon received the Pell Award for Lifetime Achievement from Trinity Repertory Company in Providence.
Alan Hassenfeld
The former CEO and Chairman of Hasbro was a driving force in transforming the company from a toy manufacturer to an entertainment company.
Michael Jackson and slews of others came to Rhode Island to tour the company and negotiate licensing deals.
In the early 1990's he became a force in initiating ethics reform in Rhode Island. More recently, he endowed the creation of the Hassenfeld Institute for Public Leadership at Bryant University.
The Rhode Island-based Hassenfeld Foundation gave out roughly $4.7 million in donations in the most recently reported year.
M. Therese Antone, RSM, Ed.D
Sister Antone was born in Central Falls, and educated at Salve Regina University, Villanova University, Harvard University and MIT Sloan School of Management.
Correspondingly, she has taught almost every level of education, rising to President of Salve Regina. There, she transformed the school, and Salve Regina's national rankings and student profile vastly improved under her leadership.
During her tenure, the University's endowment grew from $1 million to more than $50 million and the University invested $76 million on renovations and expansions and has received numerous awards for restoring the historic mansions, cottages, and gatehouses on its campus. She transformed the University and correspondingly has won countless awards for her service.
Umberto Crenca
Artist and Entrepreneur
Artist, visionary and business leader, Crenca took a crazy idea of developing a sustainable art cluster in Downtown Providence and made it the most unimaginable success, and has become a national model.
AS220 was founded in 1985 to "provide a local, unjuried, and uncensored home for the arts," and has grown to own and operate multiple facilities, currently providing fifty eight artist live and/or work spaces, four exhibition spaces, a print shop, a media lab including a black and white darkroom, a fabrication lab, a stage, a recording studio, a black box theater, a dance studio, and a bar and restaurant.
In 2016, Crenca was awarded Honorary Degrees from two different Rhode Island Universities.
Flynn Brothers
In the history of the modern U.S. Military, there are only a handful of brothers that served as Generals simultaneously — Charlie and Michael Flynn of Middletown were one such case.
Michael Flynn recently retired from service, and has been seen on "Morning Joe" on MSNBC — not surprising, given the latest news.
On Tuesday, GoLocal cited a story in the The New York Post that Michael is on the short list of Vice Presidential candidates for Donald Trump The Post wrote:
"A surprise name on the list is retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a national security adviser to Trump who has emerged as one of the most buzzed-about veep contenders, sources familiar with the deliberations said.
Regardless of his national political future, these two brothers are two of America's most accomplished military leaders in the past half century.
Louise Durfee
Environmentalist and Attorney
When one talks about trail blazers in Rhode Island, Louise Durfee's image should be the first thing that comes to mind. She was the first female partner at a major Providence law firm at a time when most law firms did not employ women attorneys. She was one of a small group of Tiverton residents who joined together in the early 1970's to oppose a proposal to build a major oil refinery.
The fight was so profound that it was featured in 1971 in Life Magazine and resulted in the founding of an organization that ultimately became Save the Bay. Again, Durfee the trail blazer.
In the 1980's she helped to clean up the aftermath at Rhode Housing after widespread corruption was found. In 1991, Governor Bruce Sundlun named her Director of the Department of Environmental Management and just three years later, he fired her.
So she ran against him in the Democratic primary for Governor.
Ron Machtley
Politician and University President
Rhode Islanders were first introduced to Ron Machtley in 1988 when he traveled around Rhode Island with a pig named Lester "Less" Pork to point out the wasteful spending of then-Congressman Fred St. Germain.
Machtley upset the 28-year veteran and Chairman of the House Banking Committee to take the Congressional seat. In 1994, he was the odds-on-favorite to win the Governorship, but was upset in the GOP primary by Lincoln Almond, who went on to serve eight years as Governor.
After his defeat, he was the surprise choice to serve as President of then-Bryant College. At first appearances it was a strange choice, but Machtley could not have turned out to be a better selection.
Under his leadership, the college transformed to a University, with massive improvements in the University's campus, an elevation to Division I Sports, and an overall improvement in Bryant's academic position.
When he assumed office Bryant had a $1.7 million operating deficit and a tiny endowment. Today, the University's endowment is nearing $200 million. Over the past 20 years, Bryant has become one of the most improved higher education institutions in America.
U.S. Senator Jack Reed
If this list of greatest living Rhode Islanders had been developed twenty years ago, it might have been rich with elected officials – the likes of Senators Claiborne Pell and John Chafee, the retired John O. Pastore and Bruce Sundlun, but today there are few with the gravitas of achievement of those politicians.
However, there is the now-senior Senator from Rhode Island, who has a national reputation as an expert on issues of national defense and is a constantly rumored to serve as the Secretary of Defense.
The former Army ranger worked his way up the political ladder as a State legislator and Congressman before winning the Senate seat of the retiring Pell.
In a time of great diverseness, he is a rare member that has conversations across the aisle.
Trudy Coxe
Environmentalist and Historic Preservationist
Coxe has now headed three of the most most important preservation organizations in New England. As the long-time Executive Director of Save the Bay in the 1980's and 1990's, she was a powerful force in driving the preservation of Rhode Island's open space and improvements to Narragansett Bay.
Coxe lost a close race for Congress against Jack Reed, but was later appointed head of the largest Environmental Agency in New England when then-Governor Bill Weld named her head of the Massachusetts environmental agency – the Department of Environmental Protection.
After a multi-year stint in the Commonwealth, she came back to Rhode Island to lead and transform the Preservation Society of Newport. In that role she has helped to recpaitalize and modernize the non-profit that stewards the mansions and other assets in Newport and across Aquidneck Island.
Ken Read
No one on this list may be more accomplished in their individual field than Ken Read is to sailing. Twice the Rolex United States Yachtsman of the Year, three times leading America's Cup yachts, and dominant in the Volvo Ocean Races for decades.
One could argue Read may be the most accomplished sailor in the world. He was a three-time college All-American at Boston University.
Today, he sails leading privately owned yachts and has been involved with the North Sail company.
Michael Littman
There are few computer science professors that get tapped for their celebrity for a national television commercial (see below), but Brown University's Littman is an academic rock star. After ten years at Rutgers he left to join the faculty at Brown
He leads an effort called Humanity-Centered Robotics Initiative (HCRI) in which Brown University aims to become a global leader in the field of creating robots that benefit, learn from, teach, support, and collaborate with people.
One of his recent journal articles he co-wrote was titled, "Learning behaviors via human-delivered discrete feedback: modeling implicit feedback strategies to speed up learning."
His commercial was easier to understand — it has been viewed 550,000 times.
Johanne Killeen
For decades the nicest restaurant in Providence might have been the old Rusty Scupper, but in the 1980's, Johanne Killeen and George Germon not only transformed the restaurant scene in Providence, but also proved that small cities with brilliant chefs could compete.
Food & Wine honored Al Forno for launching 'a new era of ambitious cooking in Providence [in 1980] with their thin-crusted grilled pizzas topped with superfresh ingredients.' The editors singled out Al Forno's Margarita Pizza (with house-made pomodoro, fresh herbs, two cheeses and extra virgin olive oil) as the signature item.
John Mariani, the food writer for Esquire put the new restaurant, Al Forno, on the national map by naming it the best new restaurant in America. Other food and travel magazines followed and the recognition transformed Providence, and as a result other mid-sized cities.
Al Forno put Providence on the food map and sparked many other creative and smart chefs. George Germon passed away in October of 2015.
Terry Murray
It has been a number of years since Terry Murray ran one of the biggest banks in America. In 2004, Fleet Bank was acquired by Bank of America. Even today, Bank of America is headed up by a former Fleet executive — Brian Moynihan.
In the 1990's, Fleet was a superstar financial service firm — it gobbled up bank after bank in the U.S. and in 1999 Murray and Fleet made the biggest buy – acquiring BankBoston. The new FleetBoston was a megabank.
FleetBoston was the seventh-largest bank in the United States, as measured by assets (US$197 billion in 2003). It employed over 50,000, served more than 20 million customers globally, and revenues of $12 billion per year.
Murray grew Fleet from a small RI community bank to a global player.
Movie Producers
The Cumberland brothers – Peter and Bobby – are two of the most prolific comedic movie makers in Hollywood. They created a genre of politically incorrect, slapstick humor that has generated billions in box office sales.
Their movies include Kingpin, There's Something About Mary and Dumb and Dumber — to name a few of their 15 movies.
The Farrelly Brothers also co-wrote one of the all-time great Seinfeld episodes — titled "The Virgin."
Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson
In 1965 Thompson came to Providence from South Carolina to attend Brown University and never went home. Today, she serves on the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals – one of the highest federal courts in America.
She was elevated to the seat previously held by Judge Bruce Selya. Before serving on the court she served on the District and Superior Courts in the Rhode Island Courts.
Today, she serves on the Brown Corporation, the Board for College Unbound and Save the Bay.
Sid Abruzzi (Johnny Morocco)
Surfer/Skater
Abruzzi is known as the "godfather of the New England surf/skate mafia."
"With a face that launched a thousand spliffs, 'The Package' has skated, surfed, and partied over the last 50 years with no end in sight. After reaching rockstar status with Big World in the mid '80s, Sid's infamous Water Bros. Surf shop brought vert skating to the beaches of Newport, RI," wrote Jim Murphy in Juice Magazine.
Before ESPN's X Games (Extreme Games) or the Gravity Games were envisioned, Abruzzi was an innovator helping to create a movement and industry that was primarily a West Coast phenomenon.
The blues guitarist and Woonsocket native is well-known locally for co-founding Roomful of Blues, but his presence on the national stage, performing with The Fabulous Thunderbirds and recording with the likes of Bob Dylan and Tom Waits has helped make Robillard a bona fide star in American music.
He is a two-time Grammy nominee, won the W.C. Handy Award in 2000 and 2001 for Best Blues Guitarist, and in 2007 received a Rhode Island Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts. But don't take our word for it — Tom Clarke with Elmore Magazine extolled Robillard's virtues when he reviewed "The Acoustic Blues & Roots of Duke Robillard" in 2015."
"A jazz man, a front porch pickin' blues man and one-time guitarist for Dylan. A string band, jug band, ragtime, delta, Louisiana, Appalachian folk and Jimmie Rodgers-country aficionado. A backwards traveler, but forward thinker. A writer and singer with distinct style, and a studio owner and in-demand producer. Did I miss anything? Duke Robillard may wear a handsome, if nondescript, lid lounging on the cover of The Acoustic Blues,but he almost literally wears a hundred hats—all of them damn well. It's hard to believe any one man can be as prolific as this Rhode Island Duke of the blues," wrote Clarke.
John Ghiorse
Ghiorse may be Rhode Island's most trusted and beloved television and digital news personality of all time. The Air Force Veteran and Harvard educated weatherman studied Meteorology at Penn State. He transformed weather reporting in Rhode Island and created his own branded measure — the Ghiorse Factor.
He first joined WJAR-10 in 1968, then moved to Channel 6 for nearly a decade and then back to WJAR. He retired from Channel 10 in 2009 and joined GoLocal and helped the digital media company launch its first site in 2010. He has delivered the daily Ghiorse Factor to GoLocal for the past five plus years.
Ghiorse continues to be one of Southeastern New England's most beloved news personalities.
Eugene Lee
If you have watched Saturday Night Live, the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon or many a production of A Christmas Carol at Trinity Rep, you have seen the work of Eugene Lee. He is one of America's most creative and accomplished set designers.
The Providence resident has won three Tonys for Wicked, Sweeney Todd, and Candide. He has won multiple Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Set Design and has won an Emmy for the design of the set for Saturday Night Live.
He is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Claire Andrade Watkins
Rhode Island has always been one of the top destinations for Cape Verde emigres — and next month, Emerson College Professor and Brown University Fellow Andrade-Watkins, who grew up in Fox Point, will have a thirty year retrospective of her work at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The subject? "Our Rhode: 30 Years of Cinema by and About Cape Verdian Rhode Islanders."
Andrade-Watkins, a PhD, is Professor of Africana and Postcolonial Media Studies at Emerson, and is a Fellow at the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown (as well as a visiting scholar). She is the Director of the Fox Point Cape Verdean Project, President, SPIA Media Productions, Inc., and a pioneer of global, intercultural media, marketing and distribution. Her CV of work and accomplishments is 17 pages long.
In 2006 Dr. Andrade-Watkins released "Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?" A Cape Verdean American Story" (SKFPR), the "popular and critically acclaimed feature documentary about the Cape Verdean community in the Fox Point section of Providence, RI, and the first in a trilogy of documentaries about this unique and important community of the Africana Diaspora," states her Emerson bio.
She's won numerous awards including the 2008 Community Service Award from Fox Point Boys & Girls Club Alumni Association.
Freidrich St. Florian
St. Florian is one of the most accomplished and varied architects in America. At one extreme he was the architect of the critically acclaimed World War II memorial in Washington, DC and on the other he designed the Providence Place Mall.
St.Florian has won numerous awards for his architectural achievements. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. His drawings are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris. In 2006 he was an awarded an honorary degree from Brown University.
Brad Read
Sailor/Educator
Over the past few decades, Brad Read has built Sail Newport into a leading world class sailing education organization. Their programs vary from a partnership with the MET school that introduces urban children to sailing to running world class sailing events.
In 2015, Read was the driving force to bringing the Volvo Ocean Race to Rhode Island and then followed it up by leading the state's effort to successfully bring the Volvo race back in 2017.
Read is a leading sailor, educator, facilitator, organizer and leader. His impact on Newport — and Rhode Island — has been remarkable.
Gordon Wood
In a scene in the movie Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon humiliates a Harvard grad student by picking apart the student's thesis regarding Wood's "pre-revolutionary utopia." (see scene below)
Matt Damon aside, Wood is one of America's most accomplished scholars on the American Revolution — he won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for his work The Radicalism of the American Revolution. In 2010 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.
He is the Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. His list of academic awards over the past 50 years is unmatched – he is the leading Revolutionary era historian.
Barrett Hazeltine
For the past 60 years Hazeltine has been one of the most important educators at Brown University. While Brown does not have a traditional B-School like Penn's Wharton, it does have one of the top American business mentors. According to many of the top business leaders in America, Hazeltine was a guiding influence on their careers.
A 2000 article in Brown Alumni Monthly unveiled in 2000 that 10% of the freshman class at Brown University took his "Engin. 9" class — short for Engineering 9.
Entrepreneurs as diverse as "Tom and Tom" (First and Scott, who met at Brown), Founders of Nantucket Nectars to John Koudounis, the CEO of Calamos Investment to Marques Coleman at Carlyle Group all identify Hazeltine as being a driving force in their business careers.
John Donoghue
Brain Scientist
Donoghue is one of the leading brain science researchers and entrepreneurs in the world. At Brown, he led the enhancement and growth of the Brain Science Center and his work to develop BrainGate, a mind-to-movement system developed in Donoghue's lab.
Donoghue has published over 80 scientific articles in leading journals including Nature and Science. His work was featured on 60 Minutes and he has served on advisory panels for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and NASA.
Presently, he is on sabbatical in Europe.
The Warwick native is a two-time Academy award nominee and winner of a Golden Globe, and three time Emmy Award winner. His acting career ranges from The Onion Field to Casino and Nixon.
More recently his voice work has been featured on The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Stuart Little 2.
Between TV, voiceover work and movies he has played roles in more than 100 productions.
Once dubbed as a genius by Business Insider for his attendance at MIT and his reported near perfect SAT score and IQ of 184.
Today he is a Republican activist and supported Ted Cruz for President.
Arlene Violet
Violet was one of a group of pioneering women who changed the face of politics in Rhode Island.
Claudine Schneider had been elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1980 in the 2nd Congressional District. Susan Farmer won the Secretary of State post two years later in 1982. Violet was the first female Attorney General in the United States when she was elected by Rhode Island voters in 1984. The new decade had ushered in a new era in Rhode Island politics. All three were Republicans.
It was her work and the work of other women that set the stage for Governor Gina Raimondo to be elected Rhode Island's first woman Governor in 2014.
Violet was beat in her re-election bid in 1986, but her political presence continued in the state.
She was a talk radio host.
She penned two books, Convictions: My Journey from the Convent to the Courtroom and Me and the Mob, a book about the witness protection program. Violet was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 1996.
Meredith Viera
Journalist/Entertainer
A native Rhode Islander, TV-journalist Vieira is one of the leading Portuguese Americans in the United States. She attended Lincoln School and Tufts before landing her first job in Worcester in radio and on television as a reporter at WJAR-TV in Providence.
Her hard news journalism bona fides were earned while working on the CBS news magazine West 57th, then as an investigative report for 60 Minutes.
Then in the late 1990s she shifted to more entertainment focused broadcast as a co-host to The View, hosting the game show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire," co-hosting the Today Show and Dateline NBC. She hosted her own show, The Meredith Viera Show for two years.
More recently she has been involved with a range of event and initiatives in Rhode Island including speaking at RIC regarding her heritage — all four of her grandparents were born in the Azores. Last year, URI's Harrington School of Communication traveled down to Viera's show at NBC Universal.
Leon Cooper is Brown University and Rhode Island's only Nobel Prize winner.
Cooper won the Nobel Prize in 1972 for Physics (along with J. Bardeen and J.R. Schrieffer) for his studies on the theory of superconductivity. The winning work was completed while still in his 20s.
He has received seven honorary degrees from leading academic institutions from across the globe.
In the past few years, his work at Brown has focused on neural and cognitive sciences and has been "working towards an understanding of memory and other brain functions, and thus formulating a scientific model of how the human mind works."
Ernie DiGregorio
There are certain athletes who transcend the game and elevate it from sports to a higher level of entertainment. Ernie D. was one of those rare athletes. He was am epic story, the 6 foot guard from North Providence who helped to take the beloved Providence College Friars to the final four. His skills and showmanship helped to transform the game from fundamentals to entertainment along with players like Connie Hawkins, Pistol Pete Maravich, Dr. J, and then Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan. They all may have had better and longer careers, but none of them put on any better a show.
His NBA career was cut short due to injury but in his first year in the league he dazzled and won the NBA Rookie of the year. He was the third pick in the NBA draft.
For Rhode Islanders at the time his achievements were mythical. He teamed with fellow local boy Marvin Barnes and put little Providence College in the same sentence with powerhouse programs like UCLA.
Elizabeth Beisel
Arguably the best swimmer to come out of Rhode Island, the Saunderstown native and North Kingstown high school grad first competed in the 2007 World Championships at the tender age of 14, placing 12th in the world in the 200 meter backstroke after advancing to the semi-finals.
Beisel was the youngest member of the U.S. swim team at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, finishing just out of medal contention with a fourth place in the 400-meter individual medley and fifth in the 200 meter backstroke. Four years later in London, Beisel made it to the Olympic podium with a silver in the 400 meter individual relay and a bronze in the 200 meter backstroke.
The SEC Female Swimmer of the Year in 2012, Beisel won two individual national titles and was an eighteen-time All-American at the University of Florida, and a first-team Academic All-American. According to her USA Swimming bio, the college communications major had dreams as a child of being an actress, but now has professional aspirations of being a news anchor. As someone accustomed to being in the headlines, it's not hard to imagine we'll be seeing more from Beisel in the future.
The Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals would not be among the top American music festivals were it not for Wein, who celebrated his 90th birthday last year.
Trained as a jazz pianist, Wein might be Boston-born and educated, but it was the Newport Lorillards who invited Wein down in 1954 to the City by the Sea to establish the first outdoor jazz festival in the country. Wein went on to form Festival Productions to promote large-scale jazz events, and has been well-lauded for his efforts — both nationally, and internationally.
In 1995, Wein received the Patron of the Arts Award from the Studio Museum of Harlem, and in 2004 given an Impact Award from the AARP. He was decorated with France's Légion d'honneur and appointed a Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres (Commander of the Order of Arts and Literature) by the French government, and has been honored at the White House twice, by Jimmy Carter in 1978 and Bill Clinton in 1993. In 2005 he was named a "Jazz Master" by the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received honorary degrees from the Berklee College of Music and Rhode Island College of Music.
GoLocal's Ken Abrams sat down with Wein for a one-on-one last summer — read more here.
Jeffrey Osborne
Grammy Award-winning Osborne, born and raised in Providence, came from musical lineage. His father, Clarence "Legs" Osborne was a trumpeter who played with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie. And the Osborne roots are firmly planted here — in 2012, the city named a portion of Olney Street "Jeffrey Osborne Way," to honor him.
Osborne's biggest hits include "On the Wings of Love" and a duet with Dionne Warwick, "Love Power." He wrote the lyrics for Whitney Houston's "All at Once," appeared in the fundraising "We Are the World" video in 1985, and has sung the national anthem at multiple World Series and NBA finals games.
While Osborne is an international legend in his own right, his star status continues to grow and impact the community here through his charity work. He's done golf and softball classics, comedy nights, celebrity basketball games. And he brings in the big names, from Magic Johnson to Smokey Robinson to Kareem Abdul Jabbar — the list is extensive. Osborne is the epitome of a "greatest Rhode Islander" — one who's gone on to make the state proud, and keeps coming back to help use his celebrity to benefit the community.
Tom Ryan
Pharmacist/Business
Ryan helped to build one of America's Fortune 500 top 10 companies, as CVS is a leading retail and healthcare force in America.
More recently, the URI pharmacy grad has been involved with two of the biggest initiatives in Rhode Island in the past few years.
He and his wife Anne donated $15 million to fund the George and Anne Ryan Center on Neuroscience at URI. The effort is one of the key elements in bringing together major educational and health organizations in a broad-based neuroscience initiative in Rhode Island.
Ryan's neuroscience gift coupled with his fundraising leadership and donations to build the Ryan Center have made him the single biggest individual donor to URI.
Born in West Warwick and a URI grad, Hood is a best-selling novelist and short story writer; and the author of fifteen books, with her latest, The Book That Matters the Most, due out this August.
Hood has won two Pushcart Prizes, two Best American Food Writing Awards, Best American Spiritual Writing and Travel Writing Awards, and a Boston Public Library Literary Light Award. Her essays and short stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Tin House. Hood is a regular contributor to The New York Times' Op-Ed page, and is a faculty member in the MFA in Creative Writing program at The New School in New York City. Hood's "An Italian Wife" was recently featured as a play at the Contemporary Theater Company in South Kingstown.
Of Hood's The Knitting Circle, The Washington Post wrote, "A wondrously simple book about something complicated: the nearly unendurable process of enduring a great loss." Fellow best-selling writer Jodi Picoult even asked if anyone could top Hood. "Is there anyone who can write about the connections of ordinary people better than Ann Hood?" posed Picoult.
While her reach is worldwide, Hood, who is married to businessman Lorne Adrain, lives in Providence and is a fixture in the Rhode Island community.
Bob Ballard
Ballard found the Titanic. And yes, he was a URI undergrad and now serves multiple leading roles at URI as a Professor of Oceanography; Director, Center for Ocean Exploration; and head of the Institute for Archaeological Oceanography.
Today, the Archeological Oceanography, which he started in 2003 is a unique institute "combines the disciplines of oceanography, ocean engineering, maritime history, anthropology and archeology into one academic program." The institute involves a broad cross section of URI faculty and includes faculty from Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Florida State University, MIT and Woods Hole.
He is the rockstar face of oceanography in the world.
Jonathan Nelson
Nelson is one of America's leading investors. In an era of Wall Street mega firms, Rhode Islander Nelson has built in Downtown Providence a $40 billion private equity fund Providence Equity Group.
Once the golden boys of private equity and lauded for putting together "the biggest deal in the world," he and the firm have had a series of set backs.
The highest profile bump was the firm's loss of nearly $800 million in the firm, Altegrity, that was contracted to review federal contractors like Edward Snowden.
As GoLocal previously reported, the domino effect of Snowden's absconding with federal data bases exposed the deficiencies of Altegrity's vetting process.
He has become more active as a philanthropist and is listed by Forbes richest in Rhode Island.
Dennis Littky
Littky is a rebel, a disruptor, an innovator, a trouble maker, and an educator. They made a movie about him, Newsweek has featured his schools, President Obama talks about his schools and Bill and Melinda Gates gave him millions to grow, refine and scale is model of disruption.
In 2009, Littky defied all and created an alternative college and by 2015 the Rhode Island Council on Postsecondary Education approved College Unbound as a degree-granting postsecondary option in the state.
In Rhode Island, The Met School celebrated its 20th Anniversary this past week. Thousands of students who would not have finished high school have graduated and moved on to college, business and beyond.
There may be no more accomplished innovator than Littky.
Bill and David Belisle
Bill and David Belisle may be the best high school and youth coaches in history. Going by the statistics, the record of twenty-six consecutive state hockey championship (1978 to 2003) and a total of 32 may be a record never to be matched. Bill Belisle (the father) has coached at Mount for 42 years and his son David has been his assistant for years.
The younger Belisle made national headlines with his post game speech to the Little League team he was coaching was defeated in the Little League World Series.
Twice their players have been selected #1 in the NHL Draft, countless others played in the NHL, and dozens played college hockey. There are movies and books on the exploits of Mount Hockey under the Belisles.
Photo courtesy of Dave Belisle
There are few people in the world that are recognized as the very best in their craft, but Nick Benson of the John Stevens Shop in Newport is globally recognized as the best stone cutter in the world.
Founded in 1705, The John Stevens Shop specializes in the design and execution of one-of-a-kind inscriptions in stone — the MLK Memorial, FDR's Four Freedoms Park, and the inscription for the John F. Kennedy Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, to name a few.
Benson won a Genius Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation, and was recently featured on CBS news. The John Stevens Shop is one of America's longest continuously running businesses.
Davis is one of the most accomplished actors in the United States. She is the winner of two Tony awards, an Emmy and a SAG award as well as being nominated for an Oscar. With regards to her Emmy, she became the first African-American to win the Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2015. Amazingly, she did not earn her SAG card until she was 30 years old.
Davis self-describes that she grew up in abject poverty in Central Falls and worked her way to Rhode Island College and now beyond but has been a constant force in helping Central Falls to recover from its bankruptcy and rebuilding its spirit.
She is a leading fundraiser for a range of Rhode Island causes. Davis is the embodiment of the Rhode Island spirit and a model of how to overcome the greatest challenges to reach greatness.
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Die Tour der südafrikanischen Rugby-Union-Nationalmannschaft nach Frankreich 1974 umfasste eine Reihe von Freundschaftsspielen der Springboks, der Nationalmannschaft Südafrikas in der Sportart Rugby Union. Das Team reiste im November und Dezember 1974 durch Frankreich und bestritt neun Spiele. Dazu gehörten zwei Test Matches gegen die französische Nationalmannschaft und sieben weitere Begegnungen mit Auswahlteams. Die Springboks entschieden acht Spiele für sich, darunter beide Test Matches.

Spielplan
 Hintergrundfarbe grün = Sieg
 Hintergrundfarbe rot = Niederlage
(Test Matches sind grau unterlegt; Ergebnisse aus der Sicht Südafrikas)

Test Matches

Aufstellungen:
 Frankreich: Jean-Michel Aguirre, Jean-Louis Azarete, Roland Bertranne, Victor Boffelli, Claude Dourthe, Alain Estève, Jean-Martin Etchenique, Jacques Fouroux , Jean-François Gourdon, Alain Paco, Jean-Pierre Romeu, Olivier Saïsset, Georges Senal, Claude Spanghero, Armand Vaquerin
 Südafrika: Paul Bayvel, Niek Bezuidenhout, Gerald Bosch, Robert Cockrell, Morné du Plessis, Jan Ellis, Carel Fourie, Klippies Kritzinger, Hannes Marais , Kol Oosthuizen, Ian Robertson, Dawie Snyman, Willem Stapelberg, Johannes van Heerden, John Williams

Aufstellungen:
 Frankreich: Jean-Michel Aguirre, Jean-Pierre Bastiat, Roland Bertranne, Victor Boffelli, Henri Cabrol, Claude Dourthe, Michel Droitecourt, André Dubertrand, Alain Estève, Jacques Fouroux , Jean-François Gourdon, Alain Paco, Olivier Saïsset, Georges Senal, Armand Vaquerin  Auswechselspieler: Jean Iraçabal, Jean-Pierre Romeu
 Südafrika: Paul Bayvel, Niek Bezuidenhout, Gerald Bosch, Robert Cockrell, Morné du Plessis, Jan Ellis, Carel Fourie, Klippies Kritzinger, Hannes Marais , Kol Oosthuizen, Ian Robertson, Dawie Snyman, Willem Stapelberg, Johannes van Heerden, John Williams  Auswechselspieler: André Bestbier

Weblinks
 Ergebnisübersicht auf rugbyarchive.net (englisch)
 Springbok Rugby Hall of Fame

Rugby 1974
Südafrikanische Rugby-Union-Nationalmannschaft
Rugby Union (Frankreich)
Französisch-südafrikanische Beziehungen

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Senator Dino Melaye was again absent in court to face charges for dealing illegally in arms.
The Kogi West senator, allegedly almost abducted on his last court appearance date but was lucky to have 'fled in the bush and hid atop a tree' for many hours in order to escape from his assailants.
Kabir Seidu and and Nuhu Salihu, who were charged alongside the senator, were present in court but Melaye failed to show up.
His lawyer Mike Ozekhome(SAN), who was represented by tomorrow Mohammed told the Magistrate Sulyman Abdallah, that his client couldn't make it on health ground.
Melaye's lawyer presented a medical report to that effect.


Michael Fulmer's eight gritty innings the only positive in 4-2 loss.
Detroit — Michael Fulmer spent a good 20 minutes sitting in manager Ron Gardenhire's office after the Tigers' 4-2 loss to the Oakland Athletics Thursday afternoon.
Fulmer's eight-inning performance was the lone bright spot on the day for the Tigers, who were swept at home and have to lug a nine-game losing streak across the border and into a four-game series in Toronto.
Still, he endured his seventh loss. The club is 5-11 in his 16 starts. And as he sat with Gardenhire and pitching coach Rick Anderson, he couldn't hide his bewilderment.
"I just asked them, 'You got any suggestions,' " Fulmer said. "Everybody is saying don't change anything. I just have to put up zeroes."
Truth be told, Fulmer made the one adjustment the Tigers have wanted him to make on Thursday — albeit maybe three innings too late.
"That one inning he was basically trying to muscle through and they scored a few runs," Gardenhire said. "Andy had a little talk with him about pitching — use all of your pitches — and the rest of the way through he did that."
It was the second time Fulmer has gone eight full innings this season, only the third time any Tigers' starter has. He struck out the last batter he faced, Stephen Piscotty, on three 97-mph fastballs, the last one on his 110th pitch.
"I'm tired of saying it, but I thought my stuff was good again today, just didn't get the results I was looking for," Fulmer said. "It's not more frustrating to anybody but myself."
His frustration was palpable in the third inning when the Athletics poked five singles — only one ball hit with an exit velocity above 87 mph — and scored three runs. His body language was so bad, pitching coach Rick Anderson raced out to the mound to buck him up.
He slumped his shoulders again in the fourth inning after he gave up a two-out, RBI double to No. 9 hitter Chad Pinder — four runs, eight hits and 70 pitches through four innings.
"I try never to show too much frustration but when you get four or five of those in a row, it's tough to stay level-headed," he said. "I didn't think I made a mistake over the middle of the plate because I was frustrated. I still made decent pitches.
"They just got the bat on the ball and that's what happens when you put the ball in play."
Fulmer threw mostly two-seam and four-seam fastballs in the first three innings. He didn't throw his change-up until the final pitch of the third inning — the first pitch after Anderson's visit — and got an inning-ending double-play.
"We had a plan to attack with the fastball and he did a really good job early on," catcher James McCann said. "And I don't want to say they started to hit it because they blooped a few in."
Still, between innings, Anderson told Fulmer that he needed to start pitching. That all he was doing was throwing and needed to start using his secondary pitches — the slider and change-up.
"I think part of their game plan was to sit on fastballs and work to the opposite field, especially the righties," Fulmer said. "We made the adjustment and started using the change-up and slider."
Fulmer bowed his neck and allowed just one hit after the fourth inning. He still threw 70 fastballs on the day, but mixed in 24 sliders and 16 change-ups.
"The best thing he did was the in-game adjustment," McCann said. "We started using off-speed stuff more, and he did a great job of competing and getting through eight innings."
Fulmer didn't get many strikeouts (five), but induced 13 ground-ball outs — no runs, one hit and 40 pitches in his last four innings.
"My game plan was to get deep and we did that," Fulmer said. "Maybe we could've done something different early in the game, but it's tough to say."
Fulmer, as Gardenhire said, gave the Tigers ample opportunity to come back and win the game. But the offense has gone cold. After scoring seven runs in the first four innings on Tuesday, it managed just two runs over the next 23 innings. Insufficient.
"Just keep grinding," Gardenhire said. "We're playing hard and we are in most of the games. We've got to start putting some hits together and we need to get some confidence. Right now we don't have a lot of confidence. We have a lot of guys struggling at the same time.
"And when you have that, this is what you get."
The two runs came in the first inning Thursday on Nick Castellanos' 11th home run of the season. It was one of the few balls hit hard off A's starter Sean Manaea. Of the 21 balls the Tigers put in play off the left-hander over six innings, the average exit velocity was 78.3 mph.
They didn't muster a single hit against three A's relievers — Emilio Pagan, Lou Trivino and Blake Treinen.
"What's the (losing) streak? Nine games?" Gardenhire said. "If that doesn't knock your socks off and wake you up, then nothing will."


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I went through (with a bit of database help from MalooMF9, and some bug squishing by Xochi) and created a PV calculator that is, as far as we can find, the most accurate released PV calc to date. And as a bonus, it works in browser through google sheets! (Yay if you have a mac or are on android).
Please respond with problems or errors you find. You'll have to save a copy of it to your google drive. Also, It will not work if you try and export it to XLSX, because it makes use of regex.
What's the prospect that you could add a BT to AS converter also? Otherwise it looks good!
That's for sure coming soon (added to upcoming features list)! I want to get the PV calcs done first though, as that's by far the more complex math compared to converting from BT to AS.
FYI, I just checked a couple units so far and found a problem with this one.
Your spreadsheet comes to 39 PV.
BHJ2 and BHJ3 are broken at 2 points.
On the L_Special_Abilities tab, BHJII and BHJIII need to be renamed BHJ2 and BHJ3 respectivly.
Jump Capable: Is being applied to infantry that can't jump.
Units that actually receive a +1 movement modifier for being jump capable. This +1 counts as part of the movement modifier which is important to LMAS and MAS calculations. As is my 2j movement BA with LMAS is receiving an additional 1 point to its defense factor calculations.
Something seems to be wrong with the brawler calculations. And I can't figure out what. The equation looks good to me. but its not working.
I got 41 when I plugged in that unit.
Can get 39 if you leave off the special abilities and say its a wheeled or hover unit. Could that be it?
I got 41, so I'm not sure what's happening here?
My bad. Looks like I miscounted armor. Putting 10 instead of 9 fixed this. Sorry for the wild goose chase!
Ok, this one I checked twice to make sure I wasn't cross-eyed again!
MUL PV = 55, your spreadsheet shows 54.
The IF0* wasn't acting properly, fixed this in the Dev v1.2 so it will report correctly when that version is released. Good catch! Thanks.
Somehow J12 was asking if J10 was true.
Researching to see if the rules are correct, or researching on how to get the spreadsheet to work right?
I'll go ahead and implement this in V1.2! Thanks!
A bit of both. If an equation is wrong, I need to look into it and go back over the rules to see why it's messed up, and also run tests to make sure it doesn't break anything else!
Most fixes only require localized changes in the sheet to get a small section to spit out the correct number or condition.
Large unit defense factor coming out to .9 was an example in the errata. V1.1 was attempting to use the units base TMM for that portion of the calculation. When its the total defense factor modifiers that needs to be taken into account.
Industrial mechs getting offensive size. Rules state 'mechs get offensive size points. Correction was an OR statement checking to see if either a battlemech or an industrialmech was selected as the unit type.
Longer term problem, I think there is a hole in the defense factor rules. For the edge case of a jumping unit without weapons, that has a jumping movement split from its walking movement. For example 20/4j or 4/20j or 12/10j. I think I'll need more sleep, time to think, and probably an errata question to fix it. Fairly sure I went with the spirit of the rules in my own spreadsheet rather then the RAW.
I'm waiting to hear back on my own rules question before I push v1.2 out, but Yeah, it's not so much that I don't believe you, it's that I want to learn why I messed it up in the first place, to make my equations better in the future!


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Google Fact Check goes global
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Lately Facebook has been in the news for accuracy of news feeds on a users' timeline and the company is trying hard to convince skeptics that it is doing everything in its power to curb this menace and make people aware. Apart from adding a pop-up educational tool that will direct users to the help center to give tips on how to spot fake news, the social media giant is also leading a consortium that is pouring in millions of dollars to create the 'News Integrity Initiative'. With the huge amount of information and content on the web, it is slowly becoming difficult for users to define fact from fiction especially on when searching for information online. Having said that, Google is the latest entrant in the fight against fake news and content online. Last year in October, the global search engine partnered with its think tank Jigsaw to start enabling publishers to show a 'Fact Check' in Google News in a few countries. 'Fact Check' was announced as a tag for users to check for the right information in large news stories. Users could see the tagged article in the expanded story in news.google.com and in the Google News & Weather iOS and Android apps, starting in the US and UK. This label would ideally identify articles that included information fact checked by news publishers and fact-checking organizations. After assessing feedback from users and publishers, Google has made 'Fact Check' generally available and expanded it into search globally in all languages. According to the search giant, users for the first time can get authoritative results when they conduct a search for one or more public claims. The snippet will display information on the claim, who made the claim, and the fact check of that particular claim. But it will not be available for every search result. In an official blog by Justin Kosslyn, Product Manager, Google and Cong Yu, Research Scientist, Google, publishers must use the Schema.org ClaimReview markup on the specific pages where they fact check public statements, or they can use the Share the Facts widget developed by the Duke University Reporters Lab and Jigsaw, for using the feature.
"Only publishers that are algorithmically determined to be an authoritative source of information will qualify for inclusion. Finally, the content must adhere to the general policies that apply to all structured data markup, the Google News Publisher criteria for fact checks, and the standards for accountability and transparency, readability or proper site representation as articulated in our Google News General Guidelines. If a publisher or fact-check claim does not meet these standards or honor these policies, we may, at our discretion, ignore that site's markup."
Google claims that the fact checking feature has been agreed to by 115 organizations from across the globe that are working with the search giant for the feature. And with this Google joins a consortium of sorts with Facebook, non-profit organizations, academic professionals, Mozilla and Wikipedia.