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Talking and Teaching about Afghan Refugees and the Fall of Kabul
By the Re-Imagining Migration Program Staff
This current events resource is designed to help students make sense of the refugee crisis brought on by the fall of Kabul. The teaching ideas will help learners reflect on what they see, feel, think, and wonder while building habits for deeper learning, inquiry, and exploration of migration.
Over the weekend and into Tuesday morning news of the fall of Kabul spread through the media as Taliban forces surrounded and then took over the capital of Afghanistan. The speed of the Taliban's advance stunned observers and prompted thousands of Afghanis to seek refuge outside of the country.
In advance of their planned military pull out, the Biden administration had been preparing a process to allow the families of Afghanis who had worked with the U.S. during the nearly 20 year invention to receive asylum in the United States. However, as events over the weekend accelerated, the urgency and number of those seeking to flee escalated dramatically.
As educators, how can we help students make sense of what they are seeing, feeling, thinking, and wondering. Below are some suggestions. We look forward to hearing your thoughts as well.
While many questions from our learning arc can help to illuminate the stories of Afghan refugees. You might might consider focusing on the following set of questions:
How do refugees, asylum seekers navigate life with an ambiguous and uncertain status?
What are the rights of people with ambiguous status seeking to flee their homes? What should those rights be?
What are our moral and ethical responsibilities toward people on the move with ambiguous status?
The fast moving news story can leave people feeling helpless and overwhelmed. Consider beginning reflection on the situation by using images to humanize the story, build empathy and connection.
We have found several images particularly striking. They include this images in this photo gallery from Reuters. As well as this image of 600 Afghan refugees aboard a US Air Force Plane.
Consider using the see-feel-think-wonder thinking routine from Project Zero to structure reflection on the images. Psychologist Paul Slovic suggests that when we are exposed to news of massive suffering it often leads to psychic numbing. Journalist Brian Resnick explains, "As the number of victims in a tragedy increases, our empathy, our willingness to help, reliably decreases. This happens even when the number of victims increases from one to two."
Veronica Boix-Mansilla has been piloting a new Project Zero/Re-Imagining Migration thinking routine called "Seek to See" that is intentionally designed to humanize those that are vulnerable to dehumanization. Dr. Boix Mansilla writes that Seek to See is a "routine to nurture a disposition toward proactive empathic perspective taking, de-stigmatization, and recognition of dignity." We outline the thinking routine below. Consider using it with the image of the 600 Afghan passengers on the plane.
Seek to See
Take some time to look closely at this photograph with the information you have, explore the following ways of seeking to see. Now focus on one individual and consider:
Multiple Feelings What might be this person's various feelings in this situation?
Strength What might be this person's strengths, cultural richness and power?
Connections What might be some ways in which we connect as human beings?
Human Dignity What words would I choose to honor your humanity and make you shine?
Reflection: Take a moment to reflect about your experience seeking to see. Did you notice any shifts in your thinking, perspectives or feelings? Did anything surprise you? What questions do you have? How did that exercise influence the way you think about the stories of those trying to leave Afghanistan?
Inquiry and Understanding
Select a set of questions from our learning arc to guide an inquiry about the range of responses to the escalating refugee crisis.
You might use the articles we have curated below to create an inquiry using this question "What are our legal, moral and ethical responsibilities toward people on the move with ambiguous status?."
Malala Yousafzai, a Nobel Peace Prize winning refugee from Pakistan, urges countries to open borders to Afghan refugees as Taliban take over, CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/malala-yousafzai-afghanistan-refugees-taliban-open-borders/
As Afghans scramble to escape the Taliban, Fox News hosts lean into anti-refugee rhetoric, Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/17/tucker-carlson-afghan-refugees/
Uganda to take 2,000 Afghan refugees at U.S. request, Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/uganda-take-2000-afghan-refugees-us-request-2021-08-17/
Get Afghan Refugees Out. Then Let Them In. Opinion Column, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/opinion/afghanistan-refugees.html
Gov. Kim Reynolds supports certain Afghan refugees resettling in Iowa, Axios https://www.axios.com/kim-reynolds-afghanistan-refugees-iowa-f7106193-4029-414e-8994-d43b7efa3dc2.html
Wisconsin's Fort McCoy Could Host Afghan Refugees Amid Chaotic US Withdrawal, Wisconsin Public Radio https://www.wpr.org/wisconsins-fort-mccoy-could-host-afghan-refugees-amid-chaotic-us-withdrawal
Joni Ernst: Iowa 'absolutely' has a role to play in accepting Afghan refugees, Des Moines Register https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/16/afghanistan-news-joni-ernst-says-iowa-should-accept-refugees-fleeing-taliban-biden-us/8159455002/
The Fall of Afghanistan, New York Times, The Daily Podcast
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/podcasts/the-daily/afghanistan-taliban-kabul.html
Afghanistan: 'My family is stuck and there is nothing I can do" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58233043
Fort Bliss in El Paso could receive thousands of Afghan refugees as Taliban topples government, Pentagon says
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/16/fort-bliss-el-paso-afghan-refugees/
As students read, have them note what they are learning, what they are feeling, and what they are wondering.
Media Literary Connections: It is helpful to consider whose voices are being heard in the media we consume. Consider using the "By whom, about whom, for whom?" routine to make power and positions in the texts we consume visible.
Many people have commented that the fall of Kabul is similar to the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war. This article from CBS News includes photographs from the fall of Saigon. Review the images and use one additional Project Zero thinking routine to explore the connections and distinctions between the two events. This routine is called Same – Different – Gain and it is designed to encourage thoughtful and purposeful comparisons.
How are the images the same?
What do we gain by comparing them?
And, what might be lost in the comparison.
Where are the Afghani voices? Make sure to share stories of Afghani's in their own words. Colorín Colorado has created a list of books with Afghani voices for students and adults.
As we noted earlier, reading about all that is going on can often leave people feeling overwhelmed. While we might have empathy towards the people we are learning about, that empathy may not lead to action when we do not know how and where to begin to make a positive difference. The routines below are not designed to tell students what to do, how to feel, or how to act, instead they help students identify the issues that they feel are most important and would like to act upon.
In particular, these Project Zero thinking routines are designed to help learners:
Have a sense of belonging to a learning environment and to society and an inclination to participate regarding issues or situations involving human migration.
Be sensitive toward opportunities to act constructively in groups, contexts, and relationships and a desire and inclination to make a difference.
Employ understanding, voice, and capacity for influence to foster well being among immigrant and host communities to strengthen civic life and democratic institutions toward inclusive and sustainable societies.
Reflect on actions to employ a repertoire of civic engagement tools to take informed and compassionate action (learn from the stories of the past, examining prior attempts, engaging others, planning executing).
Nurture an identity and sense of self-efficacy as a change-maker in more intimate and broader spheres.
Let us know if you found the ideas we have discussed here helpful. If you have any suggestions, reach out to Re-Imagining Migration through DM on social media.
Thumbnail Image Credit: Hashoo Foundation, Creative Commons 2.0
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Papias Malimba Musafiri, is a Rwandan academic, researcher and politician, who has served as the  Minister of Education in the Rwandan cabinet, since 25 June 2015, replacing Prof. Silas Lwakabamba.

Background and education
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce, obtained from the University of Dar es Salaam. He also holds a Master of Business Administration with majors in Finance and Information Technology, obtained from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. His Doctor of Philosophy in management was awarded by Vellore Institute of Technology, also in India.

Career
Circa 2001, Musafiri has served in various roles in academia, research and as a consultant. Prior to the establishment of the University of Rwanda (UR) in 2013, he held senior management positions in several institutions that today comprise the UR. He has served as (a) Director of Administration and Human Resources (b) Dean, Faculty of Management (c) Vice Rector Academics and (d) Acting Rector, in former institutions of higher education. Immediately prior to his appointment as education minister, he was the Principal of the College of Business and Economics (CBE) of the University of Rwanda.

In the cabinet reshuffle of 5 October 2016, and that of 31 August 2017, he was retained in cabinet and he retained the education portfolio. In his role as minister of education, he announced the termination and expulsion of Ugandan teachers from Rwanda, following the expiry of their teaching contracts.

See also
 Education in Rwanda
 Parliament of Rwanda

References

External links
Website of the Rwanda Ministry of Education (Mineduc)

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Education ministers of Rwanda
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GM financing arm investigated over subprime loans
08/06/2014 [Original: Autoblog]
Category: Car Buying, Government/Legal, GM, Earnings/Financials
General Motors just can't seem to avoid controversy in 2014. Of course, there has been a continual run of recalls throughout the year, and now, its GM Financial division is under investigation for possibly violating the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act, according to Reuters. FIRREA gives the DoJ the power to examine and potentially sue companies that are found to be acting fraudulently. In this case, the feds want to know the division's criteria when securitizing subprime loans.
GM bought the company previously known as AmeriCredit in 2010 for $3.5 billion and renamed it GM Financial. It allowed the automaker to have an in-house division to offer finance and lease options through dealers, since it sold off GMAC, now Ally Financial. According to Reuters, GM Financial has issued $2.15 billion in subprime-auto-loan-backed securities in the first six months of the year.
Subprime auto loans have been on the upswing this year, despite the recent financial crisis. According to a recent study from credit reporting company Equifax looking at data as of April 2014, $46.2 billion in auto loans have been extended to subprime buyers. That's an eight-year high and about 28 percent of the auto loan balance.
Safety systems supplier Mobileye raises $890 million in IPO
Category: Safety, Tech, Earnings/Financials, Middle East
Israel-based vehicle safety technology company Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY) has successfully launched its Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange, raising approximately $890 million to value the company at a reported $5.3 billion.
You may have never heard of Mobileye, but that doesn't mean its system isn't in your car. The company, which lists its headquarters in the Netherlands (much like Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and the Renault Nissan Alliance) but operates its R&D center in Jerusalem, develops and produces safety systems for automobiles that combine cameras (instead of radar) and software algorithms to detect other vehicles, pedestrians and lane markers (among other objects) to keep the car on the straight and narrow. While it sells systems (often purchased by fleet operators) that can be retrofitted to existing vehicles, a large portion of its business is in selling its devices to automobile and truck manufacturers for installing in their products on the assembly line. Mobileye lists among its customers General Motors, Ford and Chrysler; Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi and Hyundai; Audi, BMW, Volvo, PSA and Jaguar Land Rover. The company is said to be developing its own autonomous vehicle prototype.
The IPO launched on Friday was the largest ever fielded by an Israeli company in the United States and makes it the fifth largest company trading on Wall Street. While Israel accounts for the third largest number of companies listed on the NASDAQ, Mobileye chose the NYSE instead, opening trading at $25 per share (higher than the expected $21-23 per share) to raise $890 million for the company's principal owners and stockholders. After a fierce day of trading that saw its stock jump as much as 58 percent to $39.40/share, it closed at $37/share for an increase of 48 percent.
While the company included outside shareholders in the IPO, it was the company's founders who benefited the most. Mobileye was started in 1999 by Professor Amnon Shashua and Israeli businessman Ziv Aviram. Shashua studied at Tel Aviv University, the Weizman Institute of Science and MIT, lecturing at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before founding Mobileye with Aviram, who had previously run local operations like Keter Publishing and the Gali shoe chain. The two were said to have made $92 million between them from the IPO.
Mercedes, DVAG continue sponsoring Michael Schumacher [UPDATE]
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Up until his tragic accident that left him in a coma, Michael Schumacher was still one of the highest-paid Formula One drivers in the world... even though he was no longer actively competing. That came down to the numerous lucrative personal sponsorship arrangements that the seven-time world champion retained even after retirement. But while some of his sponsors have been canceling their arrangements with Michael as he fights to recover, Mercedes is reportedly committed to standing by its former driver and brand ambassador.
Speaking with German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, Daimler chairman Dieter Zetsche said "We have given no thoughts to changing something in his contract," wishing the retired F1 driver the best of luck in his recovery.
By way of contrast, bottled water brand Rosbacher reportedly canceled its sponsorship contract with Schumacher in June.
UPDATE: When reached for comment, German investment company Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG, whose logo has long adorned Schumacher's hat, told Autoblog that "At the moment, the health of Michael Schumacher is ranked first.... We back Michael Schumacher and his family and wish them all the imaginable energy they need for the next months."
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CARS set out to kill two birds with one stone: jumpstart slow automobile sales and get a large number of older cars off the road.
A lot has happened since 2009. President Obama was re-elected. The Arab Spring saw popular uprisings overthrow dictators across the Middle East and North Africa. General Motors declared and subsequently emerged from bankruptcy. Fiat bought Chrysler. And the Cash for Clunkers program came and went.
That's right, it's been five years since the federal government launched the Car Allowance Rebate System - known as CARS for short, or more popularly as Cash for Clunkers. The program set out to kill two birds with one proverbial stone: jumpstart slow automobile sales across the country on the one hand, and get a large number of older (and less environmentally friendly) cars off the road. Identifying both problems and a single way to solve them, the government offered financial incentives (cash) for drivers to trade-in their old cars (clunkers) in favor of new ones, following the lead set by similar scrappage programs that had taken place in other countries around the world.
Even with a moribund economy, buyers jumped at the opportunity, and in less than a month, the entire $1 billion allotted by Congress to the program had been used up. So legislators approved an additional $2 billion, which ran out before the end of August 2009 - two months ahead of schedule.
The question that lingers five years later is whether the program was actually a success. Proponents point to the rapid rate at which customers took advantage of the program as a sign of its success, providing a boost in sales to automakers and dealers across the country. The Department of Transportation also reported that the new vehicles acquired averaged over 60-percent better fuel economy than the ones that were traded in, all the while giving a shot of adrenaline to Detroit's automakers.
Critics, however, debate the veracity of those claims and paint a different picture. The program's detractors claim that the increased sales promoted by the program were not created out of nowhere, they merely pulled ahead future sales that would've taken place anyhow, resulting in a zero net gain at the cost of $3 billion to the taxpayer. Implementing the program also required the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to take on thousands of additional employees to process the applications for reimbursement and necessitated the government setting up the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System just to keep track of it all.
Meanwhile, detractors point out, it was not American automakers but Japanese ones like Toyota, Honda and Nissan that brought in the lion's share of new car sales from the program (while American cars were ineligible under Japan's own scrappage program). The initiative is also said to have had the unfortunate side-effect of raising prices on used cars (which only made things harder on those who couldn't afford new ones during difficult financial times), and reduced the number of old cars being donated to charities that depended on them.
As for the improvement in fuel economy, critics claim that drivers are likely to drive their newly fuel-efficient cars more (canceling out any environmental benefit of their improved economy), also arguing that the environmental impact of manufacturing and shipping the new cars bought hadn't been taken into account. Further, they note that many large SUVs and crossovers qualified for the program even though they didn't meet the 20-mpg threshold for eligibility.
Whether the program, now five years in hindsight, could ultimately be viewed as a success or not, one thing's for sure: it was certainly expensive.
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Outstanding auto loans total higher than ever
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It looks like Americans are feeling more confident about borrowing money again, at least when it comes to their cars. Credit reporting giant Equifax has released its latest National Consumer Credit Trends Report, and the data suggests that auto lending is booming in 2014.
The total amount of outstanding auto loans in the US amounted to $902.2 billion in the company's analysis. Not only was that a new record, it was also a 10-percent increase from a year ago. "Auto lending continues to thrive, accounting for more than fifty percent of all new non-mortgage lending through April of 2014," said Dennis Carlson, Deputy Chief Economist at Equifax, in the study.
The results mixed some bright spots with some seemingly worrying trends following the recent subprime credit crisis, though. According to the report, year-to-date new auto loans as of April 2014 reached $163.5 billion, the highest amount since 2005, and the number of them in that period was also at record levels. According to Carlson, the amount of delinquencies was at near-record lows of less than 1 percent of that $902 billion.
"Subprime lending has grown across all sectors in 2014. This is good news as a fully functioning second-chance market is essential for a healthy economy," said Carlson in the study. Auto loans to these buyers reached $46.2 billion year-to-date, an eight-year high, which made them about 28 percent of the total loan balance from this year.
The rest of the report indicated a strong credit market elsewhere too. Banks issued more credit cards, and overdue accounts were at a five-year low. The total amount in mortgages was actually down from last year, but delinquencies were lower as well. Want to know more? Scroll down.
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Porsche acquires Kyalami race track at auction
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With more victories under its belt than any other manufacturer, you could say, in a figurative sense at least, that Porsche owns countless numbers of race tracks around the world. But here we're not talking about figuratively owning a track - we're talking about literally buying one. And Porsche has just bought Kyalami.
Kylamai, for those unfamiliar, is a grand prix circuit near Johannesburg in South Africa. Between 1967 and 1985, and again in '92 and '93, it was home to the South African Grand Prix, and has since hosted a variety of local and lower-level international races, but apparently fell on hard times. As a result, the track's owners - listed as Universal Property Professionals - put it up for auction. Bidders had to deposit four million Rand (about $380k) to participate, but after just 50 seconds, the auction was over.
The winning bid was placed - via telephone from the local press launch for the Macan - by Porsche South Africa CEO Toby Venter, who bid a reported 205 million rand (about $19.5 million) to take over the complex. The German automaker's South African division reportedly intends to keep the track open for racing, but could also be expected to use the facility for testing, customer track days and such moving forward.
It would not be the only track, after all, owned by a Porsche - even if the South African option is owned and operated independently of the German automaker and its holding company. The factory at Leipzig has its own test track on premises, there's another one in the works for the company's new US headquarters in Atlanta, Porsche Engineering owns the Nardo high-speed test track in Germany and there's probably a few more we're forgetting about, not to mention facilities like Ehra-Lessien which Porsche effectively owns through its 50+ percent stake in the Volkswagen Group.
Porsche also has a number of customer experience centers opening at tracks around the world - including LA, Atlanta, Silverstone and Le Mans - and given the new acquisition, we wouldn't be surprised to see it set one up at Kyalami as well.
VW's Winterkorn tells 20,000 staffers of big cost-cutting plans
Category: Volkswagen, Earnings/Financials
During a gathering of 20,000 Volkswagen Group employees at company headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany on Wednesday, CEO Martin Winterkorn dropped a bombshell. The boss stated that the automaker isn't operating efficiently enough and admitted the company needs to radically start cutting back to raise its profit margins. To right the ship, Winterkorn has proposed killing off less profitable models and spending less on research and development.
According to Reuters, Winterkorn wants to raise the VW brand's profit margin from about 2.9 percent in 2013 to a target of 6 percent. To make that possible, his plan amounts to increasing cost cutting until Volkswagen reaches about 5 billion euros ($6.7 billion) per year to get things back in order. "Over the short-term, we urgently need more efficiency and higher profit," the CEO said during his speech, according to Reuters.
However, Winterkorn can't make these decisions unilaterally. Volkswagen's works council also has a seat on the supervisory board to represent laborers, and it isn't likely to take the proposed cuts sitting down.
Winterkorn's plan is especially interesting because the Volkswagen Group is going gangbusters worldwide, even if it's not meeting expectations here in North America. In the first quarter, it posted the equivalent of over $3 billion in global profits after taxes, and the group is aiming to meet its 10-million vehicle sales goal in 2014, four years early. Contrast that to the problems of the VW brand that saw its Q1 operating profits fall to around 440 million euro ($592 million), compared to about 590 million euro ($794 million) in the same quarter for the previous year. At the time, the automaker attributed the lower figure to falling sales, like in North and South America, poor exchange rates and higher investments in technology.
Ford books $2.6B pretax quarterly profit
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While its crosstown competitors at General Motors are smarting over a drastic drop in net income to $200 million in the second quarter, Ford has reason to celebrate. The Blue Oval has announced its own Q2 financial results, including a growing net income of $1.3 billion, a $78 million increase over last year. Pretax profits for the company reached $2.6 billion, up $44 million from 2013, but total revenue dropped slightly to $37.4 billion, down from $37.9 billion. Profits per share before one-time charges totaled 40 cents per share, beating Wall Street analysts' expectations of 36 cents a share.
Regionally, the Blue Oval performed strongly, as well. North America posted a record quarterly pre-tax profit of $2.4 billion, a $119 million increase. Europe also showed signs of turn around with its first profit in three years of $14 million after a loss of $306 million in Q2 2013. Ford is actually predicting profitability in the troubled region in 2015. Asia Pacific operations also performed well with $159 million in profits, up $29 million from last year. The only region where the business posted a loss was South America.
According to Automotive News, Ford also announced more precise plans about the changeover to build the aluminum-intensive 2015 F-150. In August, the Dearborn plant will shutdown for eight weeks to retool and its Kansas City plant will do the same next year.
For the end of the year, Ford predicts it's on track to meet its pretax goal of a profit between $7 and $8 billion. You can read the entire financial announcement in PDF format, here.
GM quarterly earnings tank due to recall costs
Category: GM, Earnings/Financials
Given General Motors' steady stream of recalls this year (including a single day with around 8.4 million vehicles needing repair), it's not a huge surprise that the cost to deal with all of the problems will be high. However, few analysts expected the tab to be this steep. In the General's just-announced second-quarter financial filing, it revealed that net income for the quarter was just $200 million, compared to 1.2 billion in Q2 2013 - a drop of over 80 percent. To put this in proper perspective, though, that figure is still up from the $100-million income booked from the first quarter of 2014.
The cause of the sharp descent was not only the recalls themselves, but other costs related to them, as well. According to the report, GM paid out $1.2 billion in recall-related repairs during the quarter. The company had to set aside $400 million for ignition-switch compensation, an amount it admits is an estimate that may need to be raised by an additional $200 million in the future. To prepare for possible future campaigns, the automaker also took a charge of around $900 million to be ready to pay for them.
Earnings before interest and tax also fell to $1.4 billion, compared to $2.3 billion in the same quarter of 2013. However, net revenue was up slightly to $39.6 billion, compared to $39.1 billion in the previous comparable quarter, and revenue was also up through the first six months of the year.
CEO Mary Barra put a positive spin on the tepid results, saying, "Our underlying business performance in the first half of the year was strong as we grew our revenue on improved pricing and solid new vehicle launches," she said in the company's announcement. Scroll down to read the entire release, including a table comparing Q2 2014 to 2013.
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Maserati to cap output at 75,000 cars
Category: Sports/GTs, Maserati, Earnings/Financials, Luxury
Maserati appears set to take a page out of corporate sibling Ferrari's playbook with the possibility that it may cap global annual output in the coming years. Ferrari announced in 2013 that it would limit itself to 7,000 vehicles a year to maintain exclusivity, and so far, it has stuck to the plan.
According to an unnamed Maserati executive speaking to Reuters, the Italian luxury car maker wants to cap its sales to 75,000 vehicles a year. However, it's hardly there yet. The company doesn't forecast reaching that production benchmark until 2018.
Dave Sullivan, an auto industry analyst for AutoPacific, thinks that limiting sales could be a smart move for Maserati. "If it is profitable at 75,000 and doesn't require a significant investment in capacity to get there, this appears to be sound," he said to Autoblog via email. "Alfa Romeo is intended to be the volume brand and by capping Maserati, it means that even if you opted to buy the 'entry level' Ghibli, you still have a level of exclusivity."
Maserati is on a spectacular growth path at the moment. After selling just 15,400 cars in 2013, sales are on track to at least double this year. Getting more units out the door should be helped by the brand's expanded model lineup, too. It plans to add the Levante crossover in 2015, a production version of its Alfieri Concept in 2016, a convertible version of it in 2017 and a replacement for the aging GranTurismo in 2018. For now, though, the still-new Quattroporte and Ghibli are making lots of friends.


This song, from the VOLLMER album GET YER HANDS DIRTY was recorded at Noble Studios in Toronto. It was produced by Gavin Brown and co-produced by Sean Kelly. Playing on the track are: Brian Vollmer/lead vocals, Gavin Brown/drums, Sean Kelly/guitar, Daryl Gray/bass, and Matt Weidinger/keyboards. This is an old Wilson Pickett song which has been recorded by some of the greatest artists in rock and roll.
The video was shot at The Aoelian Hall in London, Ontario in December of 2017 and released in January/2018. The leading lady is Maggie Park, the usher Randy Heywood, and Sean Kelly & Brian Vollmer play themselves. Brent Doerner of Red D film was the producer and primary camera man. He was assisted by Nick Olmsted of Rock Dog Pictures and Ted Van Boort, who also shot the photo that appears on the back of the VOLLMER album. Thanks to Mike McDowell from "The Hippy", Jim McCormick of Allstage, and Dave Southen for all their help in making this happen.
Interesting to note: The cab company that we called that day was "U-NEED-A-CAB". Underneath was their phone #. Brent changed that to "IF YOU NEED ME" and the number, when translated from the number into letters reads "BROKNHRT". lol.


Davidson attended Baylor University, and played professionally for the National Football League's Baltimore Colts (1954, 1957), and the American Football League's Dallas Texans (1960–1962) and Oakland Raiders (1962–1968). Davidson also played quarterback for the Fort Bliss Falcons in 1955 to 1957. A game between the Fort Bliss Falcons and the Fort Sill, Oklahoma Cannoneers was played for a trophy called "The Little Brown Dud." The Cannoneers won the game and took home the Little Brown Dud. Cotton was awarded All-Army Quarterback in 1955.
Davidson was selected in the first round of the 1954 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Colts. In addition to playing quarterback, he also was a placekicker and punter. An original Dallas Texan, Davidson was the first starting quarterback for the franchise.
On July 2, 1962, the Texans signed Len Dawson, thus ending his career as the Dallas quarterback. After the 1962 season opener, he was traded to the Oakland Raiders for the first overall selection in the 1963 American Football League Draft, which was used by the Chiefs to select future Hall of Famer Buck Buchanan. Just two weeks later, Davidson started at quarterback in his first game with the Raiders. Playing against his former team, he threw for 248 yards and rushed for a touchdown in a 26-16 loss to the Texans.
The high moments of his career were being selected to the American Football League All-Star Game twice: in 1961 and in 1963. He was honored as the MVP of the 1961 AFL All-Star Game while with the Texans.
Davidson finished with an all-time record of 19-33-1 as a starter.
The 1953 Baylor Bears football team represented Baylor University in the 1953 college football season. They finished with a 7-3 record in the Southwest Conference for the year. Tackle James Ray Smith was selected as an All American player; Cotton Davidson (Quarterback), Jerry Coody (Halfback) and Smith were all selected All-Southwest Conference players.
The 1961 Dallas texans season was the 2nd season for the Dallas Texans as a professional AFL franchise; They finished the season with a 6–8 record and second-place finish in the AFL Western Conference.
The club moved its training camp to Lamar Hunt's alma mater of Southern Methodist University and started the regular season at 3–1 before hitting a six-game losing skid, the longest such streak of head coach Hank Stram's tenure with the franchise. One of those losses was a 28–21 decision in a Friday night contest at Boston (11/3) which featured a bizarre ending as a raincoat-clad fan knocked down a potential game-tying TD from Cotton Davidson to Chris Burford on the game's final play. The team rebounded to claim wins in three of its final four contests to finish 6–8, marking the club's second straight finish behind the Chargers in the AFL West standings.
Jeffrey Scott George (born December 8, 1967) is a former American college and professional football player in the National Football League (NFL) for thirteen seasons during the 1990s and early 2000s. He played college football for the University of Illinois after transferring from Purdue. George was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts with the first overall pick of the 1990 NFL Draft, and also played for the Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings, Washington Redskins, and Seattle Seahawks of the NFL.
The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. Center E. J. Holub was the initial first round selection by made by the franchise. From 1960 to 1962, the Chiefs were known as the Dallas Texans until their relocation to Kansas City, Missouri. The team participated in the American Football League's annual player draft from 1960 to 1966 until the beginning of the common draft in 1967 and the AFL's subsequent merger with the National Football League in 1970. Since 1970, the team has participated in the National Football League's annual player draft.
The Chiefs have only had the first overall selection in the draft twice in franchise history, once in 2013 (Eric Fisher), the other in 1963 (Hall of Famer Buck Buchanan) when the team traded quarterback Cotton Davidson to the Oakland Raiders for the selection. The franchise has selected two players in the first round in the same year on five different occasions, coming in 1963, 1968, 1979, 1984, and 2008. The team has also traded away their first pick eight times, in 1973, 1975, 1993, 2001, 2004, 2016, 2018, 2019.
Only two of the Chiefs first round picks are still on their roster, quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tackle Eric Fisher.


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WHEN LARRY MET LAWRENCE
Melissa Anderson on Ken Russell's Women in Love
Still from Ken Russell's Women in Love, 1969, 35 mm, color, sound, 131 minutes. Rupert Birkin (Alan Bates) and Gerald Crich (Oliver Reed).
I ALWAYS THINK I've misremembered the title, or that the name itself is a red herring: Why is it Women in Love when the most infamous scene from Ken Russell's 1969 film—an adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's 1920 novel—features Alan Bates and Oliver Reed, both nude and sweat-slicked, their dongs jouncing, wrestling in front of a roaring fire? The lusty grapple lasts three minutes and feels like thirty. "Was it . . . too much for you?" one man asks the other, panting.
The query could apply to nearly any segment of Russell's third movie, his breakthrough. (Within the next ten years, the English director would advance his immoderate style with a film about witchcraft, several florid biopics of artist-geniuses, and, most ostentatious of all, a screen version of the Who's rock opera Tommy.) The film is too much. But is it—was it—enough?
Yes, there are women in Women in Love, set in the Midlands in the years immediately after World War I: the Brangwen sisters, Ursula (Jennie Linden), a teacher, and Gudrun (Glenda Jackson), a "sculptress." And they may be in love—Ursula with Rupert Birkin (Alan Bates), a school inspector and wearisome intellectual, and Gudrun with Gerald Crich (Oliver Reed), the sulky scion of a benevolent coal-mining magnate. Bearded like Lawrence, Rupert is the author's surrogate. He gives voice to and enacts the writer's incoherent libidinal doctrines, which include a proto-poly platform, some version of dendrophilia, and what Susan Sontag once disdainfully called, in a 1961 essay, Lawrence's "mystique of male separateness." In that same piece, Sontag also decried the British novelist's "puritanical insistence on genital sexuality." Yet it is to the film's great credit that, in depicting that "puritanical insistence," heterosexuality is revealed to be the most unnatural form of coupling—never more so than during a scene of frenzied rutting between Gudrun and Gerald in an alpine chalet, the camera wildly zooming in and out as the grimacing industrialist pounds away.
Still from Ken Russell's Women in Love, 1969, 35 mm, color, sound, 131 minutes. Gudrun Brangwen (Glenda Jackson) and Ursula Brangwen (Jennie Linden).
Some of this straight-bashing was likely unintentional, simply an expression of the hysteria common to Lawrence adaptations of the era (cf. Mark Rydell's The Fox, from 1967)—or, more accurately, an amplification of the lunacy found in the originals. But it might also have resulted from a generative tension felt by at least one member of the principal cast. In a 1976 TV interview with Glenda Jackson included in the Criterion Collection's new home-video release of Women in Love, the actress recounts her extreme reliance on the source text, no matter how much she repudiated it: "I never had that book out of my hand on one day that we were shooting. I found it quite difficult because I tend to discount—well, I do discount—most of Lawrence's philosophy and certainly his view of the male-female battle." Jackson, here in the first of five films she would make with Russell, evinces slinky hints of misandry in an early scene, as her character explains the etymology of her given name to Gerald: "In a Norse myth, Gudrun was a sinner who murdered her husband." (Jackson won an Oscar for her performance.)
However foolish it may be to assign talismanic significance to the date that Women in Love premiered, 1969 was, of course, year zero of the LGBTQ intifada. Can we call the man who wrote the script (and also served as producer) an insurrectionist? Seeing Larry Kramer in 1968, during a brief on-location interview featured in another of the disc's extras, proves supremely (but not unpleasantly) disorienting: How is it possible that the galvanic éminence grise of gay activism was ever this young or mild-mannered? Standing on a sloped patch of grass in Derby, Kramer, who is preppily dressed and sports a thick mane of side-parted dark hair, nervously smiles and rarely looks his interlocutor in the eye as he explains why he thinks "Lawrence would be proud" of his page-to-screen transfer.
Ultimately,Women in Love's greatest claim to sexual sedition stems from what its success made possible almost a decade later. Kramer, as detailed in a New Yorker profile in 2002, was next asked to write the script for a project that bombed (a musical version of Lost Horizon) but for which he was paid the then-exorbitant sum of nearly $300,000—money that, owing to his brother's wise investing, guaranteed his financial independence. He could write what he wanted. In 1978, he published a book that inspired another kind of uprising and that will likely never be made into a movie: Faggots.
Women in Love will be released by the Criterion Collection on Blu-ray and DVD on March 27.
Melissa Anderson is the film editor at 4Columns, where she is also a regular contributor.
— Melissa Anderson


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Bryan Edwards
CollegeSouth Carolina
DraftedRD 3, PK 0 (0)
Weekly Performance vs WR 1, WR 12, WR 24 , WR 36
2021 2020 PPR Non-PPR
Bryan Edwards's percentile rank in each category, among s with more than 50 fantasy points.
Expected Playoff Games Played
Danny Tuccitto, Jan 12
Sunday Showdown Week 18
Adam Wilde, Jan 9
The Replacements: Week 17
Matt Waldman, Dec 30
Jason Wood, Dec 30
Monday Injury Rounds: Week 17
Jene Bramel, Dec 26
Passing Matchups Week 16
Devin Knotts, Dec 22
1 vs Baltimore Ravens
2 @ Pittsburgh Steelers
4 @ Los Angeles Chargers
5 vs Chicago Bears
6 @ Denver Broncos
7 vs Philadelphia Eagles
9 @ New York Giants
10 vs Kansas City Chiefs
11 vs Cincinnati Bengals
12 @ Dallas Cowboys
13 vs Washington Football Team
14 @ Kansas City Chiefs
15 @ Cleveland Browns
16 vs Denver Broncos
18 vs Los Angeles Chargers
RecYD
Y/Rec
RecTD
2020 LV 9 0 0 0 15 11 193 17.5 1 127 77
2021 LV 16 1 0 0 59 34 571 16.8 3 61 70
Total 25 1 0 0 74 45 764 17.0 4 0
2021 1 BAL 57 0 0 0 5 4 81 0
2021 2 PIT 49 0 0 0 3 3 40 0
2021 3 MIA 63 0 0 0 5 3 89 0
2021 4 LAC 51 0 0 0 4 1 4 0
2021 5 CHI 51 0 0 0 6 2 22 0
2021 6 DEN 43 0 0 0 4 2 67 0
2021 7 PHI 59 0 0 0 4 3 43 1
2021 9 NYG 64 0 0 0 4 0 0 0
2021 10 KC 43 0 0 0 4 3 88 1
2021 11 CIN 39 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
2021 12 DAL 63 0 0 0 1 1 12 0
2021 13 WAS 40 0 0 0 5 3 30 0
2021 15 CLE 48 0 0 0 4 3 8 1
2021 16 DEN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2021 17 IND 46 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
2021 18 LAC 56 0 0 0 5 4 63 0
2021 LAC 811 1 0 0 59 34 571 3
2020 1 CAR 47 0 0 0 1 1 9 0
2020 2 NO 49 0 0 0 2 2 42 0
2020 3 NE 24 0 0 0 3 2 48 0
2020 4 BUF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2020 5 KC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2020 7 TB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2020 8 CLE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2020 9 LAC 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2020 10 DEN 20 0 0 0 1 1 16 0
2020 11 KC 9 0 0 0 2 1 1 0
2020 12 ATL 19 0 0 0 2 1 15 0
2020 13 NYJ 15 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
2020 15 LAC 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2020 16 MIA 12 0 0 0 1 1 11 0
2020 DEN 259 0 0 0 15 11 193 1
Tue Jan 18 21:55
Bryan Edwards disappeared from offense
Mon Jan 10 1:09
Week 18 Game Recap for Las Vegas
Las Vegas Raiders QB Derek Carr completed 20 of 36 passes for 186 yards and a pair of touchdowns in Week 18 against the Los Angeles Chargers. RB Josh Jacobs carried the ball 26 times for 132 yards and a touchdown; he also caught a pair of passes for 12 yards. WR Hunter Renfrow had four receptions for 13 yards and two touchdowns. WR Bryan Edwards led the team with 63 yards on four grabs. TE Darren Waller posted two catches for 22 yards. On defense, LB Denzel Perryman had a team-high nine tackles (eight solo).
Thu Dec 30 17:00
Bryan Edwards off COVID list
Las Vegas Raiders WR Bryan Edwards was activated from the Reserve/COVID-19 list Thursday, Dec. 30.
Mon Dec 27 18:08
Bryan Edwards, Marcus Mariota to COVID list
Las Vegas Raiders WR Bryan Edwards QB Marcus Mariota were placed on the Reserve/COVID-19 list Monday, Dec. 27.


Livestreaming LaSalle's Legacy. Will be on in 10 minutes.
State of the DeviantArt SiteHi everyone!
I've been sort of off and on here at DA, mostly working very hard on my webcomic, LaSalle's Legacy, so I haven't had too much time to really do Dragon Age fanart. Or, I could if I didn't want to play Inquisition all the time. Play game, or fanart.... such a hard decision.
Anyway, I'll be on here even less in the coming months since I'm having a baby. : : I'm due April 17, which means I could have the baby just about any day now, and I'll have even less time on my hands for fanarting and other things. So things will be extremely sporadic as I adjust to new life and figure out what I'm doing. LaSalle's Legacy will continue on until the first week of May, finishing out Chapter 19, and will then be on hiatus until probably 2016. More details will be posted on the site itself.
Thank you!Thank you to everyone who sent me birthday wishes a couple of weeks ago. You all made me so happy! I wish I could hug you all in person, but virtual internet hugs will have to do.
Thanks again! You all are awesome!
Disney EnterpriseDuring our walk on Sunday, Mr Bukittyan and I began discussing which Disney Princesses would we choose to make up the crew of the Enterprise. Since I love hearing what other people think, I'll post a mini-poll! Which Disney princess do you think would be best suited for the following positions on the Enterprise?
If you agree, or disagree, let me know!
Patreon!So I've started a Patreon campaign for my webcomic, LaSalle's Legacy, because I'm a joiner. If you enjoy my work and would like to support me, please take a look! I pay for my webcomic out of my own pocket (and occasionally my savings account) so any help is greatly appreciated.
Also if you're thinking about contributing and would like me to provide other content in the campaign, let me know. I'm never really sure what you guys would like so I just guess. Feedback is always appreciated.
If you can't contribute financially, spreading the word about the comic also helps!
Thanks to everyone who's supported me so far.
Happy New Year!I'm a little late on the bandwagon, but I hope all of you have a wonderful year this year! 2013 had a lot of downs for me, so I'm hoping that 2014 is going to be better. Mostly I went to a lot of funerals, which was not fun. I'm hoping that I can hear about fewer deaths this year, but since my step-aunt just died from lung cancer on the second, things are not looking up. It wasn't a surprise, but still.
On the bright side, I'm going to be working hard both on my art and my writing as well as work on my webcomic. I've also pledged to try and finish up any fanart things I've been leaving on the backburner so hopefully this means Final Farewell will FINALLY be finished.
I'll be at booth number B12 with :iconansuz: and :iconChezhnian: of Tamuran with Books 1, 2 and 3 of LaSalle's Legacy. And there will be a SpiderForest booth at W22 there as well, with more of the best webcomics the web has to offer. Precocious has his own booth at A8, and Adrastus has her own booth at C5.
It's Con season!Or, it's the beginning of Chaos for me. Next month I have Otakon and Intervention, and after that SPX (and possibly Nekocon, but haven't heard back from them, so I don't know.) I will have all sorts of LaSalle's Legacy merchandise, including Book 3, fresh from the printer, and will be available for at con commissions.
I'll be in the artists Alley at Otakon for the first time in three years! I'm at table W06, sharing with :iconmegamijadeheart:, inbetween :iconsenshistock: and :iconansuz:; one of the best places to be. Here's a handy dandy map to find me in the massive AA.
I will also be in the AA at Intervention con in Rockville. I'm not sure where my table will be; I'm assuming I'll be at the same spot as the last couple of years. If you've gone and plan on going again, I'll be there!
Livestreaming! (edit: Livestream session is over)Decided to Livestream today. Will be working on LaSalle's Legacy pages. There's a shirtless Jared.
I need your votes! (revised)So, I've entered an art contest for my friends who write Snow by Night. The winners will be decided by votes, and since there's a lot of entries, I'm going to need a lot of help.
If you could spare a moment to vote for me once every day this week, I will be eternally grateful!
Vote here The picture is under my name, Jennifer Zyren Smith (you've probably seen the art piece up sometime last week).
Of course, voting for my comic on Top Webcomics would also be nice too.
Livestreaming! (Edit: Livestream is over)Livestreaming LaSalle's Legacy. Will be on in 10 minutes.


More coverage in The Gazette at which @dariusglaws, @jon_manning and others talked a lot of sense.
Cabinet has referred the proposals to reserve the power to ban recordings, and to silence councillors' tweets, to full council on 20th March.
I'm going to be rolling up with a copy of the petition. Please sign it if you haven't already.
Great coverage of the #anticocialmedia campaign in today's East Anglian Daily Times.
Please tell Colchester Council it's not acceptable for them to keep us in the dark. Sign the petition.
Is the word 'pikey' offensive? Racist even?
I don't know. Neither does the BBC.
But I can't help but sympathise with the owner of News Plus on Colchester's Barrack Street. I hate thieves.
A dimber damber upright man.
And I bet he revelled in it.
The last time I followed a map that indicated a public right of way, my wife and I ended up in a field full of tetchy bullocks.
"Look big," was my sage advice as the bovine heavy mob ran en masse from the far side of the field and encircled us.
Thankfully they escorted us from the field without trampling us to death. But I've a sneaking suspicion that was no public right of way.
You can avoid mistakes like that – in Essex at least – thanks to a new interactive public rights of way map developed by Essex County Council.
If there are any walkers out there, please give it a try. Before I reach for my walking boots again, I want to make sure it's not a load of bullocks.
I've written an article on Conservative Home about the campaign against #antisocialmedia. It's for a primarily Tory audience, but it's really aimed at local politicians of all parties.
What has happened is a Task and Finish Group which is made up of all political parties looked at all the Technology issues, twitter, facebook, filming Council meetings etc, their recommendation after taking everything into account such as cost etc was sent to Cabinet as per constitution of CBC. I have instructed that the recommendation is sent to Full Council for decision.


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In the last post I presented an itemized list of concepts associated with the dorea gift of Jesus on the cross versus the charisma gift of Jesus in you. Check it out.
In this post lets take a quick look at one of those concepts: Anointed. This can be a very churchy word I know but don't be put off. Like the word "gift" there are two Greek works translated "anoint." One means to "smear with fat" and the other means "to pick by touching." Remember when you used to play tag as a kid or how about when someone is knighted? That is the idea of the "pick" version of anoint. The first anoint is something that started with Jacob.
Jacob spends the night in a strange place and has this amazing dream or vision of God standing above a ladder that touches Earth from Heaven. The angels are going up and down this ladder and God has a conversation with Jacob. Jacob is so amazed and overwhelmed, he wants to remember the place and the event, he wants to make it a special place. He does this in the customary way by "anointing" the rock he slept on with oil. Realize this was an extravagant display. It is an "over the top" expression of importance. It is like having a dinner party for your friends and you serve only the most expensive Kobe beef or import gelato from Italy or something like that. Jacob recognizes this place as God's place. His anointing this place is his expression of affection and adoration for this event and the location of the event. It is a man's recognition of something very special. It is an anointing by man.
The elders "anoint" the person to show their favor towards that person. They are saying "you are very special to us and to God." They are showing everyone around them that their sins or any other flaws are inconsequential. They are declaring that "you are beloved" and forgiven. This would be a huge relief for anyone. The fallen nature of man says "there needs to be justice!" The lawyer in us says "curse them!" This is the driving force behind shame and condemnation and guilt. Jesus says there is no condemnation in Him. The elders take an opportunity to agree with Jesus and demonstrate to "a fallen nature" that the sick person's sins are forgiven. This way the enemy has no grounds for condemnation. The people around have no grounds for judgment. The sick person is freed from shame and guilt. This is a public display of the genuine and unconditional love of Jesus for the person in need. The elders are expressing that same love as believers. It is the declaration that Jesus made on the cross: "It is finished." There should be no doubt that the person who needs prayer is forgiven, redeemed, reconciled, restored, renewed and accepted, period.
If you remember when Jesus was baptized by John in the river Jordan the Heavens opened and God said "This is my beloved Son." I claim that is a first anointing. God declares to all mankind that this is His loved one, He is special. The Holy Spirit descended on Jesus and rested on Him in the form of a dove. I contend that this is a second anointing. This second anointing is part of the charisma gift package. It is God picking His team. It is knighting His agent of will. It is selecting the chosen one for the mission. It includes supernatural power and authority to get the job done. It is what enabled Jesus ministry for success. It is also what God has offered to us.
That should really blow you away!
We have the two anointings available to us.
The first: Jesus on the cross declares to all creation including the enemy that you are His beloved. God so loved the world that He died. This is irrevocable and undeniable. Fallen man, religion and even the devil himself has no grounds to judge you, condemn you, put guilt on you, put shame on you or anything else against what God has declared through the cross. You are His beloved, period. He loves you enough to prove it.
The second: You have the Holy Spirit. You have been picked, chosen and predestined to be His kids filled with Him. You have been formed of the dust to be redeemed by the cross to be endowed with His power and authority. God has anointed all His children with His touch. He has declared "these are my heirs." You are royal priests and kings. You have all the resources of Heaven and the perspective of Jesus.
The problem is we mostly agree with the first anointing but hesitate to receive or completely reject the second. It is clear that God has chosen us for this privilege and opportunity. Why would we turn it down? I believe it is the work of the enemy. He has planted the fear of religion. He has worked his lies into our denominations and doctrine to keep us from living in the anointing. Listen, it is up to you. God does not force anything on any of us. You chose. You have everything sitting right there in front of you. Jesus went all the way to death on a cross and justification in resurrection to give you these gifts and anointings. God says "I pick… YOU!" What is your answer?


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