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With the annual Heroes Night dinner scheduled for later this month, Michigan's Children hit the road recently for an inside look into the work of another group of Heroes through its first ever CommunitySpeak, which builds on the success of the signature KidSpeak and FamilySpeak forums. At CommunitySpeak, the heroes highlighted were those working directly with our most vulnerable children day in and day out at two of Michigan's premier human services agencies.
Lessons from the Judson Center: Building a professional service workforce and supporting parents
State legislators, Congressional staff, philanthropic representatives and others convened at the Judson Center in Royal Oak, where attendees were welcomed by Lenora Hardy-Foster, CEO of the 93-year-old agency which serves children and adults across five counties.
Hardy-Foster made clear that "when you serve people who need mental health or foster care services, the job isn't Monday through Friday but Monday through Sunday," and she asked that policy makers consider children, youth, and families in care while deliberating changes to public services and budgets. Despite a small increase in the foster care administration rate over the past two years, she admitted that agency child welfare programs remain financially unsustainable, and, if service providers cannot afford to provide services, what happens to the children who need them?
And the financial uncertainties described were not limited to agency budgets.
Foster parent Sean shared his personal involvement with the system, having grown up with his own biological parents who fostered 24 kids throughout his childhood. After Sean and his wife had two children, they chose to begin fostering, and their oldest son has now continued the family tradition by becoming a foster parent himself. Sean asked for legislators to consider ways of increasing pay for social workers serving in the child welfare system, sharing that high turnover has resulted in the breaking of bonds between social workers and children, often increasing feelings of insecurity in children who have already experienced trauma.
Carr particularly got people's attention when he spoke of a conversation he had with a particularly effective social worker who had worked with one of his family's foster children: this social worker had decided to leave the profession and return to delivering pizzas, because pizza delivery would provide him with comparable pay and significantly less stress.
I must agree with Mr. Carr that increased wages are essential if we are to attract – and retain – strong talent in this critical field.
Lessons from the Children's Center: Meeting the Holistic Needs of Every Child
Following a tour of the Royal Oak Judson Center space, the group boarded a charter bus to travel together to the day's second location: The Children's Center in Detroit.
"All children deserve to have their basic needs met – and to be able to just be kids," opened Debora Matthews, the agency's CEO. "Our children have needs right now, and it takes all of us remembering that these precious babies will be making decisions for all of us very soon."
Attendees went through a guided tour of The Children's Center, visiting, for example, the Crisis Center, where we learned that the agency is reimbursed $300 per "crisis encounter," despite each encounter actually costing the agency between $1,200-$1,500. We also saw the "wishing well", where children had posted their personal wishes – ranging from heartbreaking to hilarious – as well as walls filled with impressive art created by talented children and youth.
Following the tour, attendees were able to hear from additional youth and parents. One parent advocated for mental health services to become more accessible for foster children and youth.
This sentiment was echoed by a client of the organization's Youth Adult Self Sufficiency program, which supports and empowers youth aging out of foster care. Now a student with a full scholarship to the University of Michigan, this particular young woman shared that she had fallen through the cracks because her behavioral challenges were not viewed as severe enough to make her eligible for funded mental health services. She was unable to qualify for care, despite having been sent blindly to Detroit from California by her stepfather.
"Any child who has been removed from their home," she stated, "has experienced trauma and should be automatically eligible for services to help them get through that trauma."
She and others were able to provide personal insight into the power of services and the need for their increased reach. While many of the issues discussed were related to needs for additional funding, others were around the ways in which the systems themselves are structured.
The formal and informal conversations promoted further highlighted the importance of ensuring high-level decision-makers are educated regarding the populations and services impacted by their budget and other policy decisions. Particularly with our state legislators, due to the regular turnover resulting from term limits, it is critical that this education for legislators be ongoing. The participation by the Judson Center and The Children's Center was critical in this case, as their staff members, youth, and parents understand better than anyone what the issues are, what works, and where gaps remain. For this reason, it is essential that the voices of youth and parents are uplifted whenever these conversations arise. They can speak for themselves, and they want to. They just often are not asked.
These issues are real, they are important, and they are time sensitive. We all must continually advocate for change. As Sue Sulhaney of Judson Center asked during CommunitySpeak: if not us, then who will be there for Michigan's children?
Kayla Roney Smith is the Executive Director of the Hazel Park Promise Zone and College Access Network. Roney Smith, a graduate of Michigan State University, played a key role in coordinating the day's events.
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Brother: 'Coward' Defense Secs Refused Sgt. Rafael Peralta the Medal of Honor
John Gastaldo/San Diego Union-Tribune via AP
9 Jun 2015 Washington, D.C.
The family of fallen Iraq war hero Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta accepted the nation's second-highest award for valor, the Navy Cross, on his behalf nearly a decade after the Pentagon denied him the Medal of Honor.
At age 25, Sgt. Peralta from San Diego absorbed a grenade blast with his body during house-to-house fighting in Fallujah, Iraq, on Nov. 15, 2004, while participating in Operation Phantom Fury.
Ricardo Peralta, who followed his brother Rafael into the Marines, told The Washington Post before the award ceremony on Monday that the long and unsuccessful campaign to get his brother's award upgraded to Medal of Honor has been difficult on his family.
He expressed frustration that "coward" defense secretaries refused to upgrade the award, reported The Post.
"For me, it's pretty disappointing," Ricardo said. "It's almost like a slap in the face."
Although the Navy and Marine Corps recommended the Medal of Honor, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates denied the award in 2008 amid concerns that Peralta may have been too wounded to understand what he did.
"The decision came after the inspector general of the Defense Department fielded a complaint and Gates assembled a team of experts that recommended the highest honor be denied," notes The Associated Press (AP).
In his memoir, Gates wrote that he initially approved the Medal of Honor, but changed his mind after the investigation.
Many Marines were outraged after Leon Panetta and Chuck Hagel, Gates's successors as secretaries of defense, upheld the decision to deny the Medal of Honor.
"While attempting to maneuver out of the line of fire, Sergeant Peralta was shot and fell mortally wounded. After the initial exchange of gunfire, the insurgents broke contact, throwing a fragmentation grenade as they fled the building," states the Navy Cross award citation. "The grenade came to rest near Sergeant Peralta's head. Without hesitation and with complete disregard for his own personal safety, Sergeant Peralta reached out and pulled the grenade to his body, absorbing the brunt of the blast and shielding fellow Marines only feet away."
During a ceremony at Camp Pendleton in California, Rosa Peralta, the deceased sergeant's mother, accepted the posthumous Navy Cross awarded to her son.
She received the award from Navy Secretary Ray Mabus after long refusing to do so, believing that her son deserved the Medal of Honor instead.
According to the sergeant's brother, "His mother relented as plans progressed to name a missile destroyer after the fallen Marine. She plans to donate the medal to the USS Rafael Peralta when it is christened later this year," reports AP.
"She felt, for the first time, something that displayed his spirit in essence," said the brother. "That gave her a complete change of heart. She thought it was appropriate for now for her to receive the Navy Cross."
Sgt. Peralta's former comrades who were present when he was killed and U.S. lawmakers who pushed for a Medal of Honor for the fallen warrior attended the award ceremony.
Sgt. Peralta was an infantryman serving with the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment. He was a naturalized citizen who was born in Mexico.
"Long after his death, conflicting accounts of his last actions and accusations of an unfair review process for his failed Medal of Honor nomination persist," notes The San Diego Union-Tribune.
During the award ceremony, Staff Sgt. Adam Morrison said he remains convinced that Peralta voluntarily smothered the grenade with his body despite the fact that he was dying.
"Because of Rafael Peralta, I'm here today," said Morrison, 30, who was injured by the blast. "Because of Rafael Peralta, my father is now the grandfather to three boys."
Nevertheless, in interviews with The Washington Post, three Marines in Peralta's unit in Fallujah suggested that fellow Marines there lied about what happened to memorialize the sergeant by saying that he covered the grenade with his body.
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), a Marine veteran who served in Iraq, was a lead advocate in the fight to upgrade the medal.
Through a spokesman, he reportedly indicated that "he and other supporters may lobby the Pentagon for a fresh look at the totality of the evidence, after bureaucrats who blocked the appeals retire."
"This is what it means to be a hero. This is what it means to know what the values of this country stand for, and go and do something about it, and go fight. And in this case, die," Rep. Duncan said of Peralta during the ceremony on Monday.
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Northumbria University to welcome Justice of the Supreme Court for public lecture
Justice of the Supreme Court Lord Hodge is to deliver a public lecture on fraud and its legal consequences at Northumbria University, Newcastle.
The Right Hon Lord Hodge will deliver his lecture, titled The Defence of Commercial Morality: Fraud and its Legal Consequences, at Northumbria Law School on Thursday 12 November 6pm - 7.30pm. Prior to the lecture, Lord Hodge will speak with law students with the hope of developing strong links between the Law School and the Supreme Court.
Lord Hodge was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1983 and appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1996. From 1997 - 2003, he was a part time Law Commissioner at the Scottish Law Commission.
Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court in April 2013, Lord Hodge was the Scottish Judge in Exchequer Causes and one of the Scottish Intellectual Property Judges. He was also a Judge in the Lands Valuation Appeal Court and a Commercial Judge.
Lord Hodge joined the Supreme Court in October 2013 as one of the two Scottish Justices.
Dr Michael Stockdale, Director of Northumbria Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies and Principal Lecturer at Northumbria Law School, said: "Lord Hodge is an extremely welcome visitor not only as the first Justice of the UK Supreme Court to visit us since the Supreme Court was established in 2009 but also as an extremely distinguished legal practitioner and judge in his own right.
"His evening Eldon Lecture will undoubtedly prove fascinating to the audience of students, staff, and members of the legal profession and of the general public whom we anticipate will attend in considerable numbers.
"A particular highlight of the day for our students is that Lord Hodge has expressed his desire to engage with students prior to the lecture. We hope that Lord Hodge's visit will enable us to develop long term links between Northumbria Law School and the Supreme Court."
Northumbria University runs a programme of public lectures between September and May each year. The lectures, which are given by leading public figures and prominent scholars, cover a broad range of engaging topics. For further details about the lectures visit: www.northumbria.ac.uk/publiclectures
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Virgin Money Chief Executive delivers inspirational lecture at Northumbria University
The Chief Executive of Virgin Money has given an inspirational public lecture at Northumbria University, Newcastle, focusing on the need for innovation and positive change.
Former Lord Chancellor honoured by Northumbria University
The Rt Hon Lord Mackay of Clashfern has received an honorary degree from Northumbria University, Newcastle, for his contribution to the UK judicial system.
Unfit laws on trial at Northumbria
Northumbria Law School's Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies has hosted a multi-disciplinary professional seminar discussing the Law Commission's proposal to overhaul the law and practice regarding Unfitness to Plead in the criminal courts.
Northumbria Law School brings spirit of collaboration to Newcastle
Press releases • Feb 29, 2016 16:22 GMT
Northumbria University, Newcastle, is proud to be hosting the 51st Annual Conference of the Association of Law Teachers (ALT).
Victims' Commissioner to deliver Northumbria University Eldon Lecture
Northumbria University, Newcastle, is hosting a high-profile public lecture by leading community reform campaigner and activist Baroness Newlove.
Northumbria academic gives Lecture at world famous Old Bailey
Doctor Michael Stockdale from Northumbria University's Law School has given a lecture to the Criminal Bar Association at the Old Bailey on recent changes in expert evidence law.
Prestigious lecture comes live at Northumbria
Northumbria University, Newcastle has been selected by the UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA) as one of only a handful of venues to host a live screening of this year's Garner Lecture.
Supreme Court Justice inspires law students at Northumbria University
A leading member of the UK's highest judicial body spoke with law students before delivering a public lecture at Northumbria University, Newcastle, recently.
Lord Justice Laws to deliver legal lecture
Press releases • Jun 02, 2014 00:00 BST
The Rt Honorable Lord Justice Laws will deliver a public lecture at Northumbria University, Newcastle, next week as part of the prestigious Hamlyn Lecture Series.
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And that was only The Magician's Apprentice.
Series Nine has had some knock-out moments which will go down in the history of the Whoniverse; the mighty Missy meeting Davros, an epic Earthly Zygon invasion, and the Doctor riding a tank while playing a guitar solo in front of a crowd of Vikings.
Oh, and the return of Gallifrey.
Peter Capaldi was at the top of his game with a much more rounded and nuanced Twelfth Doctor than we had seen in series eight, certainly showcasing an unforgettable performance. More importantly, his charm and charisma have the chance to shine through now that the writers have established he's 'not Matt Smith.' He's funny, witty, intense, and a strong individual. Peter knows who Twelve is, how he works, how he thinks, and he excels under the core themes of mystery and intrigue.
Jenna Coleman, on the other hand, was given far less material than in the previous series. After a bright series eight, the main development of Clara's characterisation lies in her reckless abandon – something we've only seen slight glimpses of in earlier episodes. Saying that, Jenna adds more to her scenes than what is expected of her, and time and time again proves she is every bit the match for Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor. The highlight of series nine is undoubtedly the shared chemistry of Twelve and Clara, and as a viewer, you can't help but feel an overwhelming sense of nostalgia that their time together has come to an end.
Michelle Gomez as the wonderfully crazy and delightfully evil Missy (a.k.a the Master, who we all love to love, we can't even pretend to hate her) returned in the opening two-parter and set the bar incredibly high for the rest of the series. Her flawless companionship with Jenna Coleman, not only enticed viewers but made some ask Doctor, who? That was, until Peter Capaldi, through nothing less than sheer brilliance, captured the audience through a battle of words and bravado against the deceiving Davros. This winning combination, along with the few extra touches of the sonic sunglasses and the only other chair on Skaro, stands out not just from series nine but from the entire era of New Who. This is Doctor Who at its best.
Series Nine also saw the return of UNIT headed by Kate Stewart (Jemma Redgrave), and the mysterious yet loveable Osgood's (Ingrid Oliver), two favourites with viewers since their introduction in the fiftieth-anniversary special. While Kate wasn't given much development this series, she did once again prove to be her father's daughter with some lovely homages to the Brigadier; "five rounds rapid." Not to mention the Zygon Inversion was particularly notable for its entire female cast aside from Peter Capaldi. Do we even need to mention that politically allegorical speech?
Then came the three-part finale. The return of Rigsy in Face the Raven felt special if nothing else – his character now feels unique to the Peter Capaldi era, and alongside Maisie Williams as the immortal Ashildr/Me, the episode delivered what series eight lacked; memorable repetitive characters belonging singularly to Twelve. An emotional piece with some lasting images (I imagine at the next Comic Cons many a Whovian will be sporting a numeral tattoo at the back of their neck), Clara came to face her fate in the ultimate chapter of characterisation; protecting someone she loved, standing brave to confront her fear, and in one moment of daring recklessness – gone, like breath on a mirror.
Heaven Sent – the only episode guaranteed to go down in history of Doctor Who, this one-hander (well, almost) with Peter Capaldi was unique and powerful storytelling at its finest. If Heaven Sent is small in space but big in nature, Hell Bent was the opposite; big in space but small in nature. It was personal, emotional, romantic, and perfectly summed up what we'll miss most about this team TARDIS of Twelve and Clara – two friends, who unashamedly adore each other, learning and loving and leaping through the stars.
So what can we learn from series nine? The return of two-parters is welcomed. Peter Capaldi is getting stronger with every passing episode and we eagerly await his return in series ten (whenever that may be). Jenna Coleman will be missed as the wonderfully complex, flawed and impassioned Clara – she's left big boots to fill for the next companion. Missy and Ashildr/Me are both welcomed back with open arms, and it will be curious to see how Missy reacts to the Doctor's actions on Gallifrey.
We now have ten years of similar storytelling and Doctor Who keeps moving forward just as it should. Onwards and upwards to the tenth series!
Hilarious. I thought that Tennant was an unbelievably overblown mess. But what do I know? I'm obviously stupid. I'm a Classic Whovian who hated just about everything New Who seemed to stand for (basically, insanely overblown, trashy, emotionally-overwrought "Rose is the Doctor's Twu Wuv" RTD-style messes) until Matt Smith surprised me into liking him, but now Capaldi's "my Doctor" in terms of modern DW. I'm definitely very stupid, with no taste. Couldn't give a damn, Weller.
For Sarah: I'm not having a pop at modern or classic WHO fans, Sarah. Where have I called anyone stupid, with no taste? They can like what they like and are entitled to their opinions, in the same way you and others should tolerate mine.
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Milestone unlocked as Herbalife Philippines celebrates its 22nd Anniversary
Herbalife Philippines has reached another milestone as it celebrates its 22nd year of providing good nutrition in the Philippines. To mark this event, the company held an Anniversary Fun Run at the Bonifacio Global City last December 4, Sunday.
There were about 3,000 people composed of Herbalife Independent Distributors, professional athletes, running enthusiasts, media, bloggers and company employees of the multinational brand here in the country. The event, according to Herbalife Philippines General Manager Bong Valenzuela, coincided with the Herbalife Nutrition Day celebration across the Asia Pacific Region.
"This is a free fun run. We have mounted this activity to thank everyone for the continued support they have given Herbalife for the past 22 years," said Valenzuela.
The event was attended by some of the country's top athletes such as First Norseman Xtreme Challenge Finisher Omar Paredes and his wife Laarni, who has been drafted recently to compete for the Norseman Challenge next year.
Herbalife is a global nutrition company that has been changing people's lives with great products since 1980. Our nutrition, weight-management, energy and fitness and personal care products are available exclusively to and through dedicated Independent Herbalife Members in more than 90 countries. We are committed to fighting the worldwide problems of poor nutrition and obesity by offering high-quality products, one-on-one coaching with a Herbalife member and a community that inspires customers to live a healthy, active life.
We support the Herbalife Family Foundation (HFF) and its Casa Herbalife programs to help bring good nutrition to children in need. We also sponsor more than 190 world-class athletes, teams and events around the globe, including Cristiano Ronaldo, the LA Galaxy, Western Sydney Wanderers FC and champions in many other sports.
The company has over 7,800 employees worldwide, and its shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: HLF) with net sales of US$4.5 billion in 2015. To learn more about Herbalife you may check out their Website.
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Delphine Seyrig: The Eternal Return
Dan Callahan
"Seyrig is capable of stopping an entire film with one decisive physical gesture, one smile, one glare, one sound from her smoky, murmuring voice."
"I'm not an apparition," insists Delphine Seyrig in Truffaut's Stolen Kisses (1968), "I'm a woman." While we would like to give her the benefit of the doubt, there can be no denying that Seyrig is the most ghostly of actresses, haunting her own movies with a druggy, dazed quality over which she placed a severe intellectual patina. Something as simple as a different hair color makes her an entirely different person; in the Truffaut film, she's a platinum blond, and so delicately tender with Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud) that you can almost smell the scent of her perfume as she makes his romantic fantasy of her come true, if only for a few hours. At one point on their fateful afternoon, before they make love, she remembers the words of her dying father, who told her "people are wonderful." Seyrig creates so vivid a picture of benevolent, mysterious beauty for Doinel and for us that she briefly brings Truffaut to the level of a life-embracing Jean Renoir. A phantom of the cinema and truly ageless, Seyrig is capable of stopping an entire film with one decisive physical gesture, one smile, one glare, one sound from her smoky, murmuring voice.
She turns up in some movies quite unexpectedly, like her debut, Pull My Daisy (1959), a short featuring Jack Kerouac, Allan Ginsberg and other assorted Beat artists goofing around a Lower East Side loft. In the midst of their tiresome horseplay, Seyrig looks stranded and angry, and she brings a Viveca Lindfors-like, acting-class intensity to the flimsy film, transfiguring it with her mere presence. She had her first real impact, though, in two movies for Alain Resnais, Last Year at Marienbad (1961) and Muriel (1963), which made her one of the most tantalizing figures of the art cinema of that time. In the famously inscrutable Marienbad, she wears harsh, heavy make-up and dark hair, and her sense of preoccupation holds the entire non-narrative together; there's a palpable rage bubbling beneath her various commanding facial expressions in Marienbad, and even a madwoman quality when she opens her hard face to smile slightly. Already, Seyrig was showing signs of complex feminist yearning, and her real-life passion for feminism activates all of her creations, even something as outlandish as her Dietrich-like lesbian vampire in the enjoyably trashy midnight movie Daughters of Darkness (1971).
Seyrig offered us the most extreme of her spooky transformations in the pretentious Muriel, making herself into a sort of grown-up Mouchette, a goosey, grey-haired, physically awkward woman continually smoking cigarettes, her chin jutting forward protectively; her face has a childish, questioning look in this film, as if she's demanding the reason for some long-ago humiliation, and she has the over-sensitivity of a frozen-in-time adolescent. Seyrig takes a lot of risks here, especially with her comic walk (it looks as if her legs are buckling with each step she takes), but she hews closely to the pathetically unaltered heart and hopes of this rather embarrassing woman. If in Marienbad her face always seems to be asking, "Yes?" in an imperious way, in Muriel her face keeps returning back to the unanswerable question, "Why?" Very much a Method actress, Seyrig created a voluminous back story for every character she played and sought a complete kind of osmosis with her women. "The act of moving, say, a cigarette lighter doesn't interest me in itself," she said. "What interests me is how to move it as the character would."
The Resnais films opened up fruitful possibilities for Seyrig; she worked twice for Joseph Losey, in small roles, and twice for Luis Bunuel, bringing her fastidious high style to one of his late masterpieces, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), playing a spacey blond matron whose motto seems to be "Keep on smiling!" In Daughters of Darkness, she speaks so softly it's as if she's afraid of bruising the words as they trail out of her lipstick-red mouth, and her body keeps tipping to one side and then another, theatrically revealing her need for fresh blood. The film is pure camp, but Seyrig took it seriously enough to rewrite some of her dialogue in the later scenes so that she eventually starts spouting feminist rhetoric to her chief victim (Danielle Ouimet). Above all, Seyrig seemed self-possessed, yet she wandered helplessly into two commercial American films, The Day of the Jackal (1973) and The Black Windmill (1974), in which she had brief sex-object roles that required her to get gratuitously naked but gave her no room to create. It's distressing to see an actress of Seyrig's caliber in these degrading parts, and it's almost as if she consciously or unconsciously chose them to highlight the need for feminist insurrection.
Bouncing back with a vengeance, Seyrig took three roles in 1975 that enhanced her prestige, and one of these roles ensures her immortality. She was back to the nouveau roman beat in Marguerite Duras' maddening India Song, playing an unstable flirt of an ambassador's wife whose loose, arm-swinging walk gets across the listless sexiness of imperialistic decay. Duras burns a lot of incense and asks a lot for very little; denied direct dialogue, Seyrig incarnates a kind of weak-willed, supine sensuality, clarifying the film's vagueness with her out-of-it charisma. In the odd, confused Aloise, a biopic of an artist who might or might not have been mentally ill, Seyrig gently sketches an unnerving portrait of barely perceptible derangement. She's so attuned to this woman's often-sexual frustration that she makes her plight very moving, even when asked to lip-synch to an aria in the woods or expose her breasts to a doctor. More and more, Seyrig moved toward female directors and specifically female themes, and this urge led her directly to the ordeal and triumph of Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, a mesmerizing three hour and twenty minute descent into a domestic heart of darkness. It isn't a film so much as a trance, or an Edward Hopper painting that moves.
A widowed housewife and anal-retentive loner, Seyrig's Jeanne is charted over three days as she cooks, cleans, cares for her son and turns one trick in the late afternoon to keep them afloat (from 5-5:30pm, according to Akerman). Her movements are precise, proud and electrically tense with the effort of holding herself together and ignoring all that has to be ignored; when her son mentions lovemaking, she counsels that this act is "merely a detail." We learn that her late husband was "ugly," and that she perversely married him only after his business declined; she also says that she once had a job for "horrible pay." The anxiety barely submerged under everything Jeanne does is always there, and Seyrig embodies this anxiety second-by-second, but she doesn't show it to you in any "acted" gestures. This is a long way from her work in Muriel, which, impressive as it is, is clearly a detailed "performance." Her Jeanne Dielman is work on so high a level that it transcends the usual criteria of gestural acting; it's work that could make face-pulling Meryl Streep weep. In fact, on this Everest height, even the great Jeanne Moreau could seem like a tricky exhibitionist.
There's an enormously revealing on-set documentary included in Criterion's recent, essential DVD release of Jeanne Dielman that lets us see just how resistant Seyrig was to Akerman's style, at first. When Akerman tells her that she must move slower, she asks why, and Akerman doesn't really give her an answer. "That's not good enough," says Seyrig, waving a cigarette in a fancy holder. "Find a reason." Then, gradually, we see her bravely giving in to Akerman's point of view, letting go of her Actors Studio needs and slowly sinking into Jeanne's frieze-like stasis. Just one staccato, indicative gesture from Seyrig would spoil the whole movie, and this is part of the film's suspense; she never falters, even while Jeanne herself begins to collapse in slow motion. Seyrig gets so close to the way day-to-day life is actually lived that she isn't really "acting" finally; that's how far she got.
Jeanne Dielman is a woman at war with time, and she clings to her habits desperately. What really drives Jeanne crazy is that nothing can ever remain exactly the same; buttons fall off coats and can't be replaced, shoes wear out, someone takes her favored seat in a café. We see the rigidity of her routines on the first day, and we become so immersed in them that when they start to go haywire on the second day, something as small as dropping a spoon on the floor has a momentous impact. Jeanne is alone for most of the film, and Seyrig never lets us see that she knows a camera is watching her; she (merely?) exists. This is radical work mainly because it takes place almost entirely in the realm of the unconscious, and the smallest quasi-expression on her face gives us the impression of half-thoughts, half-emotions, a general emptiness and daily sluggishness. This woman longs for complacency and even achieves it for brief moments, but on that second day, when her client takes longer than usual and her potatoes burn, Seyrig starts to blur Jeanne's stoicism, and when she sits down to peel some more potatoes, she begins to disintegrate before our eyes. Akerman has said that Jeanne experienced her first orgasm with the second client, and this intrusion of disconnected pleasure is not something she is prepared to deal with.
Jeanne holds her facial muscles in a mask that keeps slipping as she moves into her fateful third day. Men laugh at her as she tries to get a stamp from a closed post office. At her kitchen table, she almost knocks a milk bottle over and rights it just in time. She tries to drink her coffee, and it tastes so sour she has to throw it out. A neighbor's baby yowls and yowls and cannot be consoled. Then, on her back with her third john, she looks prim, unyielding; she doesn't even take her clothes off for her clients. Catastrophically, Jeanne has another orgasm, of sorts, with this third client. As we watch her sitting before her mirror afterwards, tucking her shirt neatly into her skirt, it's possible to feel that her need for order might prevail and that she doesn't have it in her to take drastic action, but this would be to underestimate the size of her repressed fury; when this fury finally comes out, it looks strangely ineffectual, as if she was just squashing an annoying bug rather than killing a man with a pair of scissors. Overcome with a kind of Zen calm, Jeanne finally sits at her dining room table with blood on her hands. For Jeanne Dielman, there will be no more men, and no more cooking responsibilities. Having run this marathon, Seyrig gives Jeanne a tranquil smile of blessed relief.
Jeanne Dielman was the summit of Seyrig's career, and it dwarfs the rest of her work; then again, it dwarfs the work of all other actors, too. Her allegiance to female directors did not always work out so well, as evidenced by her participation as a stylish figurehead in the interminable films of Ulrike Ottinger. She worked again for Akerman, most touchingly in the shopping mall musical Golden Eighties (1986), where she convincingly sold optimism as she did for Truffaut, while Jeanne Dielman stared at the wall of her prison cell. Seyrig died of lung cancer in 1990, like a real woman, not an apparition. The Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective of her work in 2002, and even screened oddities like the Polish On the Move (1979), which seems to be a film about Seyrig's awful perm, and The Garden That Tilts (1974), in which she claims to read novels "for ten hours at a time." At a symposium on Seyrig, another cerebral cinema goddess, Tilda Swinton, remembered meeting her at a women's study conference and wandering through an art gallery with her. "She was so beautiful," Swinton said, "but that wasn't the most important thing about her. She knew she was beautiful, and she'd stare at you as if to say, 'alright, have a look,' but then she drew you in much, much deeper. . . ."
— Dan Callahan
Dan Callahan is a film writer based in New York. He's the former Arts Editor of Show Business Weekly and Book Editor at Culturedose.net. He has written for Slant Magazine, Time Out New York, and Senses of Cinema.
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August proved to be a break in this year's election schedule. Only Mali conducted a national election, in the form of a runoff round on August 12th between incumbent Ibrahim Keita and three-time contender Soumaïla Cissé. Keita was declared the winner with 67 percent of the vote amid controversies over alleged vote fraud and anti-election violence conducted by militant jihadists.
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In Pakistan, former cricket star Imran Khan officially assumed the office of prime minister on August 18th after receiving 176 votes in parliament. His victory over opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif is part of a global trend in the rise of "maverick" politicians, and he has stated that he plans to tackle systemic corruption and implement an ambitious set of governmental reforms.
Two major elections that could result in changes in leadership are planned for September. First, the Maldives will hold its presidential election on September 23rd. The election is surrounded by controversy as opposition candidate Mohamed Solih has publicly accused incumbent president Abdulla Yameen of attempting to rig the election. In Europe, Sweden will hold its general election on September 9th. This coming election has the potential to shift Swedish politics further to the right as the Swedish Democrats Party is forecasted to win at least 20 percent of the vote.
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Kimmo Tuominen is Docent of the Year 2019. Tuominen's merits as a researcher and teacher influenced the appointment.
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Physicist Kimmo Tuominen, specialist on dark matter and the nature of mass, is a teacher premiered by the students.
– I have to admit it feels good. Some of them have noticed that I've invested a lot in research and teaching, says docent in theoretical physics and University Lecturer Kimmo Tuominen in response to the good news about his title as Docent of the Year.
The board of the Docent Association at the University of Helsinki decided on the appointment in its meeting in February.
Tuominen is the leader of a particle-physics research group studying dark matter, the Higgs boson, and origin of mass.
– In my research, I move in two very different scale levels; the level of minuscule elementary particles and the level of huge cosmic distances. What attracts me in this kind of basic research is that we're not looking for ways to apply it or make it pay off. It is purely about curiosity. Finding out the inner workings of nature, says Tuominen.
All in all, what fascinates him in physics is the power of explanation. You can make detailed calculations about everything, and compare it with data found through empirical testing.
Tuominen became interested in Higgs and dark matter when working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics NORDITA in Copenhagen.
– I didn't have a supervisor or a specific research group, so I could work with researchers from very different fields. These topics emerged there. The international contacts made in Denmark have carried to this day, he says.
A story with a lesson
As a teacher, Tuominen has received acclaim. In 2017, he was elected into the Teachers' Academy at the University of Helsinki. In 2015, the Student Union at the University of Helsinki awarded him with the Magister Bonus reward.
– A prize from the students feels especially good. It's a sign that I've done something right, says Tuominen.
In his teaching philosophy, Tuominen specifies that it is only a small part of learning that happens during a lecture.
– I like classroom teaching, but there can easily be too much information in too short a time. You have to study outside the lectures, as well. Having headed a project for digitalising teaching, Tuominen thinks such as online teaching, electronic assignments, and videos are good methods.
The other pillar propping up the teaching of the docent of the year is story-telling. Facts that seem unconnected have to be brought together by explaining, building up a story. Story-telling is a natural way for humans to process information.
– Studying can be compared to sitting by a campfire, says Tuominen laughing.
As a teacher, Tuominen works with upper-secondary pupils, university students, and postdoctoral researchers.
The Docent of the Year was announced at the docent gala organised by the chancellor on 2 April, 2019.
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Drywall was developed as a alternative for lath and plaster construction. Reduce a sq. of drywall barely bigger than the hole. It's best to do a restore with three or 4 thin coats of compound-if attainable leaving sanding for simply the last coat. Merely adhere the patch to the wall and canopy with drywall compound. Maintain them tight to the bottom of the drywall when fastening them. Let dry and sand smooth. Sink the screws beneath the surface of the drywall.
To add sturdiness to the repair, the contractor could apply an adhesive patch product of aluminum screen to the dried and sanded compound. But double check the thickness of your existing drywall earlier than heading to your local unbiased home enchancment retailer. Two coats of drywall compound, applied with two swipes of the knife in a +" sample, should fill the holes (Picture 3). The first coat will shrink a bit, leaving a slightly smaller dent to be stuffed by the second coat.


Following a withdrawal from global professional services firm PwC, the task of auditing and infrastructure for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2019 in Cameroon has been awarded to Roland Berger. The selection comes after a tender was called, which drew bids from a number of firms across the world.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has turned to the consulting industry to help prepare for AFCON 2019. The tournament, which was due to take place in January two years from now, has already been postponed to June/July of the same year after the country was found in a state of unpreparedness.
Last year, President of CAF Malagasy Ahmad Ahmad declared that the country would not be ready, following a visit to the planned areas of action. A week before an inspection trip to the country this August, Big Four accounting and advisory firm PwC announced its withdrawal from the project, which further dealt a blow to the country's prospects.
As a result, the CAF invited bids for the contract, and have selected Roland Berger to assist with organising the event. The consulting firm will conduct a comprehensive organisational audit, as well as an inspection of the infrastructural capability in the host nation before the tournament in 2019.
In addition, the firm has been assigned the duty of auditing and inspecting the CAF Centers of Excellence (COEs), which operate across Cameroon, Ethiopia and Senegal. The COEs host training and development workshops and seminars across these countries, with the primary objective of promoting football on the continent.
Currently, Roland Berger's presence in Africa is limited to Casablanca in Morocco, where it established an office in 2008. The firm will send a team to Cameroon in weeks to come to oversee the auditing activities.


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The Supreme Court's refusal June 15 to review the case of the Cuban Five, whose original trial began in November 2000, invites comparisons of their sentences with those handed out to others with convictions relating to espionage, especially involving countries other than Cuba.
Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino, Fernando González and René González were arrested and jailed on Sept. 12, 1998. They had volunteered to monitor private groups in southern Florida that for decades had organized violent attacks against the Cuban people. An airliner had been brought down, hotels bombed and, according to the Cuban government, over 3,400 people killed.
Charges the men entered the country illegally and failed to register as foreign agents were uncontested. Two men so charged, René González and Fernando González, received 15 and 19 years respectively.
Three others, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino and Gerardo Hernandez, were also convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage ― but, importantly, not of espionage. Hernandez was also convicted of conspiracy to commit murder ― but not of murder. The three men share four life sentences.
At their trial, high U.S. military and intelligence officials testified that the five men caused no harm to U.S. interests, did not steal documents, did not infiltrate U.S. agencies and did not work at U.S. facilities. They exclusively targeted private Cuban-American foes of the Cuban government, appropriately described as paramilitaries.
The political character of the prosecution, trial and cruel sentencing of the Cuban Five becomes clear through comparisons. Their fate, for example, differed sharply from that of five other Cuban agents who had also monitored terrorist preparations in Miami. When arrested along with the so-called Cuban Five, they pled guilty. Eventually they served prison sentences ranging from three-and-a-half to seven years.
They avoided a trial and hoopla and subsequently returned to Cuba. In the case of the Cuban Five, the opportunity to stage a judicial extravaganza with Cuba's revolutionary government in the dock made all the difference.
Comparisons with the sentencing of real spies, those who did more than conspire, are also instructive. Sentencing of the latter group was far milder than that of the Five, even though they targeted the U.S. government itself rather than the privatized proxy warriors investigated by the jailed Cubans.
A federal judge, for example, fined Ben-Ami Kadish $50,000 on May 29 for conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of Israel. He admitted to transferring classified documents to an Israeli agent between 1980 and 1985.
Early this month the U.S. government dropped charges against Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, accused four years ago of providing Israeli diplomats with sensitive information.
In 2006 Lawrence A. Franklin was sentenced to 12 years in prison for leaking classified documents to an Israeli diplomat, although he remained free pending appeal. Last week a judge reduced his sentence to probation plus 10 months in home confinement.
Khaled Abdel-Latif Dumeisi worked for Saddam Hussein's intelligence service spying on Iraqi exiles. He served three years and 10 months in prison for acting as a non-registered foreign agent.
Former FBI intelligence analyst Leonardo Aragoncillo took 736 secret documents from the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department to keep the Philippine government informed. He received 10 years for espionage.
American citizen José Padilla was sentenced to 17 years and four months for conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping and conspiracy to aid terrorists.
Former State department official Donald W. Keyser was sentenced to a year in jail and fined $25,000 for illegally possessing secret documents, communicating with a Taiwanese intelligence officer and lying to investigators.
Analyst Ana Belen Montes was caught spying at the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency. She pled guilty and received a 25-year jail sentence. That relatively harsh treatment perhaps stemmed from her having spied for Cuba.


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Government says Europe should use funds to 'reforest'
Updated Aug 27, 2019 6:57 AM CDT
Charred trees stand after a forest fire in the Vila Nova Samuel region, along the road to the Jacunda National Forest near the city of Porto Velho, Rondonia state, part of Brazil's Amazon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. . (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
With thousands of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, the Brazilian government has decided it is more interested in trolling Emmanuel Macron than in accepting assistance. After the G7 offered $22 million to help Brazil fight the fires, a spokesman for Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro rejected the offer and mocked the French leader, the BBC reports. "Thanks, but maybe those resources are more relevant to reforest Europe," Onyx Lorenzoni, Bolsonaro's chief of staff, told Globo News. "Macron cannot even avoid a predictable fire in a church that is part of the world's heritage, and he wants to give us lessons for our country?" Lorenzoni said, referring to the fire that devastated Notre Dame cathedral in Paris earlier this year.
Lorenzoni, echoing Bolsonaro, accused Macron of colonialism, saying: "Brazil is a democratic, free nation that never had colonialist and imperialist practices, as perhaps is the objective of the Frenchman Macron." The relatively modest offer of assistance—the equivalent of less than an hour's revenue at Amazon.com—was initially welcomed by Ricardo Salles, Brazil's environment minister, but it was turned down after Bolsonaro met with ministers, the Guardian reports. Macron, speaking after the summit, said the world respects Brazil's sovereignty, but the Amazon is a "subject for the whole planet," the AP reports. He said his message for Bolsonaro is: "We can help you reforest. We can find the means for your economic development that respects the natural balance. But we cannot allow you to destroy everything." (Earlier Monday, Macron accused Bolsonaro of insulting his wife.)


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Aarhus University Hospital is now a part of 13 new networks for rare diseases
At Centre for Rare Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, patients with a rare disease can get diagnosed end receive specialised treatment (photo: Tonny Foghmar).
Patients at Aarhus University Hospital (AUH) with rare diseases can look forward to international world-class treatment.
The assessment started in 2019. Specific professional competencies as well as the overall competencies and resources at AUH have been thoroughly evaluated and the result is finally ready: AUH is now a member of 13 new European reference networks (ERNs) for rare diseases.
AUH is already a member of another four ERNs, and the hospital is now a member of 17 networks of a total of 24.
The 24 ERNs for rare diseases each cover a specific area e.g., liver disease, heart disease or cancer in children.
The idea behind the ERNs is that doctors and researchers from the EU member states can draw on each other's expertise in particularly difficult cases. A doctor from Department of Clinical Genetics at AUH can present a case and suggest that certain experts in the network have a meeting focusing on this case. In other cases, AUH can help other networks by sharing their broad knowledge and expert advice.
- As a university hospital it is important to be among the best, also among those with the highest level of specialization. We show that we are among the best through our participation in the ERNs, says Claus Thomsen, Chief Medical Officer at AUH.
-At the same time, I of course hope that this will lead to good results for our patients because it is possible to discuss cases in the ERNs with colleagues from all over Europe.
Many benefits from AUH membership
Anders Bojesen, Head of department in Clinical Genetics, has been leading the ERN application process. He is convinced that there are many benefits from the AUH membership of the networks for rare diseases.
- Our experts get better at diagnosing and treating rare diseases. They form international networks, and they can use these networks to the benefit of our patients. Moreover, it is easier for our patients to take part of international trials or research projects, says Anders Bojesen.
- The application process has also created a stronger network internally between departments at AUH because our doctors and researchers have become aware of people at other departments who have knowledge about the disease, they work with themselves.
Clinic for rare type of cancer
An example of the network result at AUH is the work with the rare type of cancer Li-Fraumeni syndrome.
Through the network ERN GENTURIS (network for genetic tumour risk syndromes), the doctors at AUH became aware of the need for a clinical network, to better the follow-up and care of patients suffering from Li-Fraumeni syndrome. A special clinic has now been established at Department of Endocrinology and Internal Medicine where these patients are now followed. In this way, overview of the patient group has improved, and patients are now offered a more standardized programme of care and follow-up.
AUH is now a part of the following 13 new European Reference Networks (ERNs):
ERN BOND: Bone diseases
ERKNet: Kidney diseases
ERN-RND: Nervous system diseases
ERN EuroBloodNet: Blood diseases
ERN EURO-NMD: Neuromuscular diseases
ERN EYE: Eye diseases
ERN GENTURIS: Genetic tumour risk syndrome
ERN GUARD-HEART: Heart diseases
ERN ITHACA: Congenital malformations and rare intellectual impairment
ERN PaedCan: Cancer in children
ERN RARE-LIVER: Liver diseases
ERN RITA: Immune system defects and autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases
ERN VASCERN: Rare multi-systemic vascular diseases
Since 2017, AUH has been a member of the four ERNs:
Endo-ERN: Endocrinological diseases
ERN LUNG: Respiratory diseases
EURACAN: Cancer in adults (solid tumours)
ERN eUROGEN: Urogenital diseases
English website for European Reference Networks: https://ec.europa.eu/health/european-reference-networks/overview_en


Rhode Island has an issue with food.
Or at least, providing residents access to healthy, affordable food. But the Rhode Island Food Policy Council is doing something about it.
The state has the second highest rates of overall food insecurity and child food insecurity in New England. This, despite multiple programs dedicated to improving access to healthy food, from fruit and vegetable prescription programs to SNAP educational programming at farmers markets.
"Everyone has an interest in food because we all eat," says Sumana Chintapalli, communications director of the Rhode Island Food Policy Council (RIFPC), an organization seeking to leverage that shared interest to spur collaboration across the state to improve accessibility.
RIFPC was created in 2011, with a mission to increase community food security while simultaneously growing the local food system. It accomplishes its mission through the coordination of a network of stakeholders from all sectors of the food system.
"The creation of the RIFPC brought together people concerned about food issues and combined their individual interests into an organizational entity and network. It connected people," says Ken Payne, RIFPC chair.
To organize its efforts, RIFPC first established four work groups, each dedicated to addressing one of RIFPC's goals: to increase access to healthy food (Access), to increase production of and demand for local food (Production), to cultivate a healthy environment (Environment), and to contribute to a thriving food economy (Economy). RIFPC also has a Policy Committee, which works to keep legislators informed on RIFPC's priorities as well as identifies and supports food-related policy and legislation. Each of the work groups tackles dynamic challenges to help push Rhode Island towards a stronger food system.
RIFPC, through work group meetings and events, strives to create a network of stakeholders across the state, where individuals have the opportunity to connect, share their work, and problem solve. It has been especially beneficial in including people who are interested in community food issues but don't know how to get involved or what their role should be.
With the passage of the recent Farm Bill, USDA's Food Insecurity and Nutrition Incentive (FINI) grant program provided an opportunity for RIFPC to test out its coordination and network-building capabilities. The grant program is designed to support initiatives that provide fruit and vegetable incentives to SNAP participants.
RIFPC's effort ended in success – Farm Fresh Rhode Island and a range of other independent markets in the state were funded for incentive programs through Wholesome Wave, while Fresh to You, a program run by the Rhode Island Public Health Institute, was funded through a pilot grant.
With the help of general operating support from the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, the Rhode Island Food Policy Council has become a model for other states of how to build a food policy council from a grassroots effort. Leo Pollock, RIFPC's Network Coordinator, describes the council as having a bottom-up approach, working with as minimal resources as possible. "This approach, opposed to a top-down, government organized and funded approach, can allow for more creativity and flexibility, especially in terms of setting goals and priorities as the council develops." A recent example of this flexibility manifests itself in the addition of a fifth Work Group, which will focus on engaging the public health community around the connections between food and health.


Martin Miller has been Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Criminal Law since 1993. That Board Certification mark of excellence and distinguished accomplishment that Martin has enjoyed is attained by only one in ten Texas attorneys, and indicates that Martin has substantial, relevant experience and has demonstrated the same in criminal law cases.
Admitted to the Texas bar in 1987, Martin began his legal career at the Dallas County Criminal District Attorney's Office as an Assistant Criminal District Attorney. He prosecuted cases ranging from the simplest misdemeanors to capital murder cases. He has had more than 150 jury trials as lead counsel and participated in more than 200 jury trials as second chair. He held several supervisor positions including Chief of a misdemeanor court, Chief of a felony court, Chief of the Family Violence Division, and Chief of the Gang Unit. He was also assigned to the Child Abuse Unit and the Organized Crime Division prosecuting drug cases.
After nearly twelve years of prosecuting cases for the State of Texas, Martin left the District Attorney's Office, went into private practice. From March of 1999 to May of 2002, he practiced as a criminal defense attorney in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He handled all types of felony and misdemeanor cases. Martin joined the law firm of Bailey & Galyen in May of 2002 as the Managing Attorney of the Tarrant County Criminal Law Department. He supervises the staff and handles a full criminal docket.
Martin received his undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice at Southern Methodist University, earned his law degree from the Baylor University and also a Master of Business Administration degree at Texas Tech University. He is a member of several associations including the State Bar of Texas, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, College of the State Bar, the Tarrant County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, American Bar Association, and the Tarrant County Bar Association.
Martin specializes in criminal defense law and has been Board Certified in Criminal Law since 1993. He is located at the Fort Worth Main Street office in the Criminal Law department.
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Iranian Women Won More Than A Medal At The Olympics
Women's ability to participate in sports is a pressing human rights issue.
Firuzeh Mahmoudi, Contributor
Founder and Executive Director at United4Iran. Passionate about human rights, and improving civil liberties through technology.
Aug 19, 2016, 02:09 PM EDT | Updated Aug 22, 2016
Let Iranian women enter their stadiums
As the world watches the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, it is clear that this year's games boasts not only incredibly talented athletes who dominate their sport, but also sportsmen and women who are literally making history.
From Simone Manuel's gold-winning and world record-breaking performance in the women's 100 meter freestyle, making her the first African American woman to win an individual swimming event, to the debut of the first-ever olympic refugee team (a recognition of the 60 million refugees in the world today), the Rio Olympics have been a vehicle for social change.
In fact, breaking barriers and protesting social issues have long been a part of the Olympic tradition. In the 1908 London Olympics, the American shot putter and flag bearer Ralph Rose refused to dip the American flag before King Edward the VII, a policy continued by the US team to this day. At the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, American track and field Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists on the medal stand protesting racially discriminatory policies in their home country. At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, LGBT athletes and allies spoke out against Russia's anti-gay policies and staged protests that ranged from large demonstrations to kisses with their same-sex lovers after winning Olympic gold.
"To have access to public spaces is a critical human right; it means that society recognizes your worth as a person with a voice and the ability to contribute."
This year, Darya Safai, a Belgium-Iranian woman, joined that fabled Olympic tradition of protest and barrier breaking. At the Iran versus Egypt men's volleyball match in Rio, Safai held a sign reading: "Let Iranian women enter their stadiums," protesting the Iranian government's refusal to grant women access to soccer and volleyball matches in Iran.
Since 1979, Iranian women have been prohibited from attending football matches. That ban was extended to volleyball matches in 2012. What is worse, women who have protested this gender apartheid have been harassed, arrested and imprisoned. In 2014, the Islamic Republic made its opposition to the presence of women in these public spaces clear when it arrested Ghonche Ghavami, a British-Iranian activist who had protested for equal access to a men-only volleyball match at Iran's Azadi Stadium. She was arrested attempting to enter the stadium, charged with "propaganda against the state" and sentenced to one year in prison. She was held in prison for five months.
In Rio, Safai picked up Ghavami's torch and helped shine a light on the Islamic Republic's denial of fundamental human rights to women. By criminalizing women's bodies and forbidding their attendance in men's sporting events, the Iranian government is denying women access to public spaces.
And make no mistake — the ability to be in and be seen in public spaces is a fundamental civil liberty. To have access to public spaces is a critical human right; it means that society recognizes your worth as a person with a voice and the ability to contribute.
The policing of Iranian women's participation is not just limited to sports matches either. In the Northwest Iranian city of Marivan, bicyclists gather and ride through town every Tuesday night as part of a "vehicle-free" campaign. Last month, an Iranian religious leader declared that women biking was a sin, and for two weeks guards stopped female bikers from participating in the cycling event. Since the state-enforced religious edict came down, women and their allies have held multiple protests in Marivan demanding equal access to the right to bike.
Of course, any form of public participation by Iranian women have to meet the government-required dress code. All Iranian women, regardless of faith must adhere to hijab (modest Islamic dress that includes the headscarf). For Iranian women who are not observant Muslims this means their access to public space has been forcefully limited.
However, despite all of the Islamic Republic's efforts to keep women out of public spaces and sporting events, Iranian women refuse to end their fight, as they took center stage at the Olympic games in Rio this year.
"Despite all of the Islamic Republic's efforts to keep women out of public spaces and sporting events, Iranian women refuse to end their fight..."
Just last night, Kimia Alizadeh won the bronze medal in Taekwondo, becoming both the first ever Iranian woman and the youngest Iranian to win a medal. "I am so happy for Iranian girls because it is the first medal and I hope at the next Olympics we will get a gold," she said.
Zahra Nemati is another inspiring story. Second ever woman flag-bearer from Iran, she captivated the viewers during the opening ceremony as she proudly held Iran's flag while sitting in her wheelchair. Athletic from a young age, Zahra was a taekwondo prodigy. She took up taekwondo and while still a teenager qualified for Iran's National Taekwondo Team. But life for this Olympic hopeful changed in an instant. When she was 18, a car accident left her with a spinal cord injury, and paralyzed her in both legs. But that tragedy did not put an end to Zahra's Olympic dreams. She continued to press on with incredible determination and courage, winning the gold medal in archery at the 2012 London Paralympic Games, and qualified for both the Olympics and Paralympics in Rio. Zahra is, as one fan described, the epitome of the Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has made a public stance stating in its charter that it is "committed to the goal of equal participation by women in sport." The IOC has set up the Women in Sports Commission to ensure its gender-equality policies are overseen and implemented.
"The IOC has a responsibility to ensure that female athletes and fans can participate in the sports they love."
Though a small and tacit gesture of solidarity, the IOC's permission for Darya Safai to hold her sign at the Olympics will be remembered by Iranian women fighting for their rights for years to come, and it sends a clear message to the Islamic Republic. It is now time for the Olympic Committee to put their words in practice and explicitly support those who object sports gender apartheid. Gender-equality practices must be encouraged and enforced both on and off the field. The ability for women to participate and watch sports is nothing short of a pressing human rights issue, and the IOC has a responsibility to ensure that female athletes and fans can participate in the sports they love.
As Kimia and her fellow women Olympians finish their competitions in Rio, they have become beacons of hope to many Iranian women, demonstrating that even in the face of extreme discrimination they can aspire to achieve more. But equally as important, Iranians are looking at how those who dare to ask for equality for women are treated in the International domain — as we look back on these Olympics and remember what we've protested and celebrated, we should remember Darya Safai alongside brave Iranian women Olympians.
In the same way that the 1968 Olympics has been remembered as a sign of the times — then the civil rights movement in the U.S., the Vietnam War and South Africa's Apartheid regime — the 2016 Olympics will be known for #BlackGirlMagic, Team Refugee and for the brave Iranian women fighting for gender-equality and public access to sports.
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Home » Blog Posts » Skateboarding and engineering. Two passions. One career.
When I was 12, on a family trip to the beach, I kept going back to the same surf shop along the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland, eyeing the "big" skateboard that was embellished with a skull/vulture-type graphic. Ever since the day I finally bought it—my first skateboard—I've had an innate passion for the sport of skateboarding. Throughout my adolescence, I spent my free time learning the ropes of skateboarding, riding around my neighborhood, skating in school yards, and meeting other like-minded people.
In the late 1980s, skateboarding was counter-culture. It wasn't popular and it wasn't big business like it is today. You had to really WANT to be a skater. I think that's the main reason why the friendships I made riding skateboards are the strongest friendships I have to this day.
One of the skateboarders I met in my early years of corporate sponsorship was Kanten Russell, who is now a leader in Stantec's Action Sports team and a skate park designer. At the time, we were both just teenagers on opposite sides of the country. Later, we ended up being sponsored by the same company and appeared our first printed ad together, eventually turning pro about the same time in the early 1990s.
Before I knew it, I was traveling the world as a professional skateboarder. Between 1993 and 1999, I crisscrossed the United States and taught skate camps and performed demonstrations in Japan, Holland, Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, and Columbia. By the late '90s, skateboarding was gaining some national media attention through ESPN's X Games, and I was gaining in years. Unless your career goes absolutely perfect, by your late 20s you can already be on the downward slide.
And my skateboarding career didn't go perfectly.
Professional skateboarding came to a halt before I was 30 and I returned to school to study civil engineering at George Mason University (GMU) in Virginia. Computer Aided Design (CAD) was gaining in popularity and accessibility. I really took a liking to my AutoCAD courses while learning multiple aspects of civil, environmental, and land development engineering. It was time to start my second career.
While attending GMU, I worked full time with a local engineering firm, gaining invaluable experience in drainage and site development. In my limited spare time, I prepared construction drawings for a local skate park design company that sent out plans for DIY skateboard ramps. This was my first experience combining my skateboard passion with my newfound love of site design. By the time I graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil, environmental, and infrastructure engineering, I had a number of land development projects under my belt, including multiple residential and municipal site plans, a premier 27-hole golf course design, and a $10 million Asian animal exhibit at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. My senior year, I was actually designing a research building site plan for the same university I was attending.
As the land development software packages improved along with my site design experience, I began consulting for a skate park design firm performing fine grading, drainage, and earthwork calculations along with 3D modeling, control files, and other tasks necessary to prepare a set of construction documents for skate park projects. I've been fortunate enough to have worked on over 50 skate park and action sports design projects.
We can prepare a skate park model in three dimensions and manipulate its position on the site to balance earthwork, generate export for or import dirt from a different project. I love the flexibility to give our clients what they need in addition the visual element of 3D models and rendering.
And the future is exciting. Now we're looking at truly integrating skate parks into their surroundings. How can we capture storm water so that it's more environmentally friendly? How can we make these huge slabs of concrete sustainable?
When I joined Stantec in 2014, I never expected that my background as a professional skateboarder and civil engineer would serve our Action Sports clients so well. And the fact that I am not the only skateboarding design professional here at Stantec truly shows that we design with community in mind. Who better to design skate parks than skateboarders?
Now when I call Kanten to discuss an action sports project, it feels that I've come full-circle. Sure, I feel a little nostalgic. I flash back to the VHS video of us skateboarding as teenagers, looking for our big break, and then I think about how we're designing skate parks for the next generation. To have a career that blends two of my passions makes it easy to come to work.
Andy Stone is a senior project engineer with the water group in Denver, Colorado. He specializes in utility infrastructure rehabilitation and design and has worked on multiple Action Sports group projects, including the Burnsville Lions Skate Park in Burnsville, Minnesota.


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Montgomery area family back in Super Bowl spotlight
Rusty Baynes making first appearance as official in Super Bowl on Sunday
Montgomery area family back in Super Bowl spotlight Rusty Baynes making first appearance as official in Super Bowl on Sunday Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: http://on.mgmadv.com/1T2Gm3y
JACOB HORTON, Special to the Advertiser Published 10:18 a.m. CT Feb. 5, 2016 | Updated 12:22 a.m. CT Feb. 6, 2016
Montgomery resident and NFL referee Rusty Baynes talks about his experiences this past season at his office in Montgomery, Ala. on Thursday July 21, 2011. (Montgomery Advertiser, Mickey Welsh)(Photo: Montgomery Advertiser)Buy Photo
For the first time in 17 years, a member of the Baynes family will be back on the field during the Super Bowl.
When Super Bowl 50 kicks off at 5:30 Sunday, Rusty Baynes will be working as an on-field official.
The Tallassee native and Montgomery resident will serve as a line judge in the golden anniversary of the NFL's championship game between the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos.
This marks the third time in family history that a Baynes will be refereeing in the Super Bowl.
Ronnie Baynes, Rusty's father, worked for 26 years as an SEC and NFL official. He refereed in Super Bowls XXIX in 1995 between San Francisco and San Diego and XXXIII in 1999 between Denver and Atlanta. He also served a stint as the NFL's supervisor of officials. He is now the coordinator of scouting and recruiting for the NFL Officiating Department.
Before making it as an NFL official, Ronnie coached football and baseball at Banks, Selma, Talladega, Tallassee and Mountain Brook high schools. He also coached baseball at Central Alabama Community College, where he led the Trojans to a third-place finish at the NJCAA World Series in 2001. He's compiled over 35 years of coaching experience.
Ronnie and Rusty aren't the only referees in the family, either.
Allen and Mark Baynes, both sons of Ronnie, are currently working as officials.
Allen has been officiating in the NFL since 2008, and Mark works as a college official for Conference USA. Allen recently worked as a side judge in the AFC title game between Denver and New England on Jan. 24.
"I didn't really have a lot to do to initiate it, they just grew up with it," said Ronnie Baynes. "I found out when I went to the NFL to work as a supervisor, that growing up with it seems to really instill some skill and confidence in officials.
"We have a lot of second and third generation officials that are working now. It seems to be a good format to develop officials like that. My three boys have fallen into that category too."
Prior to their officiating careers, Mark, Rusty and Allen all played football and baseball at Tallassee High School.
Rusty and Mark continued their baseball careers at AUM, where they both lettered under hall of fame head coach Q.V. Lowe from 1990-'94. They played in two NAIA World Series, including the 1990 season in which AUM finished national runner-up.
Rusty began his professional officiating career in 2010, when he worked 15 games as a line judge. He got his first taste of postseason action when he worked as a line judge in a 2012 NFC divisional-round matchup between San Francisco and New Orleans.
He was also the line judge during the infamous 2015 NFC divisional-round game between Green Bay and Dallas Cowboys, a game most notably remembered for the overturned call on a 31-yard fourth-down catch by Dez Bryant that would've set up a go-ahead touchdown opportunity late in the fourth quarter.
Rusty, who is general manager of Ozark Safety Services LLC an urban planning consulting company in Montgomery, officiated in 16 regular-season games this season, where he served as line judge for Ed Hochuli's officiating crew.
He is slated to work as a line judge under head referee Clete Blakeman in Sunday's Super Bowl, and will wear No. 59. Blakeman, the referee, recently made headlines across the country when he failed to successfully flip the coin during the overtime coin toss between Green Bay and Arizona on Jan. 16.
"It's quite a thrill, quite an honor," said Ronnie Baynes. "I'm real proud of Rusty and my other sons. I'm proud of them for being the kind of people they are. They're good dads. They're hard workers, good husbands, and I'm just proud of them for that. The officiating is just a little gravy on the side. They've taken to it, and they've enjoyed it."
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Dylann Roof Set To Face Federal Death Penalty Trial In The Fall
A judge set the accused Charleston church shooter's federal trial for November.
By Mike Hayes
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Posted on June 7, 2016, at 3:51 p.m. ET
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Police lead suspected shooter Dylann Roof into the courthouse in Shelby, North Carolina, June 18, 2015.
A federal court judge in South Carolina set November 7 as the start of Dylann Roof's death penalty trial.
The court is considering calling 1,200 to 1,500 potential jurors from around the state to be considered to sit on the jury.
The decision to try Roof in federal court effectively ends the debate over whether he would be tried in state court first — last month, the state-level trial was pushed back to at least January 2017.
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#BREAKING Judge sets November 7 date for Dylann Roof's federal trial. #chsnews
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Only a "shot out of the dark" would delay Dylann Roof trial from Nov. 7 date, judge says. #CharlestonShooting
Dylann Roof jury selection expected to last 3 weeks. Guilt phase 2 weeks. Then break. Then penalty phase 2 weeks. #CharlestonShooting
Late last month, the Department of Justice announced a long-awaited decision that it would seek the death penalty against Roof, who is accused of gunning down nine people inside a historically black South Carolina church last summer.
"Following the department's rigorous review process to thoroughly consider all relevant factual and legal issues, I have determined that the Justice Department will seek the death penalty. The nature of the alleged crime and the resulting harm compelled this decision," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement.
On the evening of June 17, 2015 Roof allegedly attended a Bible study at the Emanuel AME church and sat with the group for an hour before opening fire, killing three men and six women.
According to a witness who survived the attack, Roof told the African-American churchgoers, "You rape our women, and you're taking over our country, and you have to go."
In its filing, the DOJ lists Roof's racial motivation in the killings as a factor in deciding to pursue the death penalty.
Roof is represented by David Bruck, one the country's most notable and sought after trial lawyers for defendants facing the death penalty. He most recently represented Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his federal death penalty trial last year. Bruck has previously said that his client would consider a plea deal if the death penalty was taken off the table.
Michael Hayes is a senior reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
Contact Mike Hayes at mike@buzzfeed.com.


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Another option would be a cms which encapsulates template rendering and is able to swap the default template engine for another one.
I'm not sure if something can be accomplished with XSL (Symphony CMS?).
Thanks in advance.

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