Gun control groups praising Connecticut's Supreme Court decision to allow the Soto v. Bushmaster case to move forward are, ironically, using the court decision as an opportunity to perpetuate false narratives, the same misdeeds of which they accuse the firearms industry. Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence struck out at the firearms industry to push an agenda of half-truths, omissions of fact and obfuscation.
The firearms industry supports, and actively works to pass laws that prevent the sales of guns to people who can't legally own them. We've changed the laws in 16 states to make background checks work as intended, requiring the input of disqualifying records, and increasing the number of those records to the FBI from 1.7 million in 2013 to more than 5 million today, a 220 percent increase.
The firearms industry, just last year, worked with senators and members of Congress on both sides of the aisle and opposing views on gun rights to give states the resources to submit all disqualifying records to the background check system, and to require federal agencies to do the same.
The firearms industry partners with the ATF to prevent straw purchases of firearms, or cases when someone attempts to purchase a gun for someone who legally can't buy one for themselves. For nearly 20 years, the firearms industry has been working with U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, to educate retailers on the warning signs of such a crime and warning the public that buying a gun for someone who can't risks 10 years in jail and a $250,000 fine.
The industry also partners with the ATF to improve security and help prevent burglaries and robberies at licensed gun dealers, and matches ATF reward offers that double the money for the arrest and conviction of those who would steal guns.
Steve Sanetti is the chief executive officer for the National Shooting Sports Foundation.


Announcing the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Community Insider Event and @BlackBerryHelp Giveaway!
Hey #TeamBlackBerry, it's Bo, your Community Manager from the BlackBerry® Support Community Forums – and I'm happy to announce that it's time for the third BlackBerry Community Insider Event!
For those of you who are new to our blog community, we launched the Community Insider Event series in July 2011 with a BlackBerry App World™-focused discussion hosted by Alex Kinsella. This session proved to be such a success that we decided to organize another event around the launch of the BlackBerry® 7 OS. This session took place in October 2011 and was hosted by Annu Dawar from the BlackBerry OS software team.
Now that BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet OS 2.0 is available for download, we're looking to help you get even more from this software upgrade. On March 7th and 8th, 2012, we've invited Michael Clewley, a Senior Product Manager for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet OS, to discuss the recently released BlackBerry PlayBook tablet OS 2.0.
Michael, who was a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet OS 2.0 ambassador at CES 2012 (see videos here and here), is looking forward to discussing features such as the updated BlackBerry® Bridge™ app and native email functionality. I had the opportunity to chat with Michael last week and he's very excited about hosting the event.
To provide some background info, Michael has been with RIM for over 10 years, during which he's held different positions starting in BlackBerry Technical Support. After being a Team Lead for Technical Product Development, he's been on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet development team for the past year and a half. Michael loves to get customer feedback for the development of products for both consumers and developers, and has said that he's looking forward to "interacting with customers and telling them how to get the most from BlackBerry PlayBook tablet OS 2.0." In terms of his favorite features of the new OS, he's a fan of the social integration capabilities, which allow him to stay on top of his friends' activities.
The third Community Insider Event will take place from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST on Wednesday March 7th and Thursday, March 8th, 2012. Make sure to stop by the Support Community during that time for a chance to connect with the team behind the scenes! If you aren't already a member of the community, make sure to register here before March 7th, 2012.
In preparation for the Community Insider Event, @BlackBerryHelp on Twitter® is hosting the #InsidePlayBook OS 2.0 Accessories Giveaway from February 27th to March 2nd, 2012. During this time, we'll be asking users to share BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 topics they'd like to discuss during the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet 2.0 Community Insider Event for the chance to win* one of several BlackBerry PlayBook tablet accessories. Prizes include (but are not limited to) the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet Convertible Case and BlackBerry PlayBook tablet Rapid Charging Pod. If you want to participate, look out for the #InsidePlayBook hashtag on @BlackBerryHelp next week! Check out the Official Contest Rules for more information.
* No purchase necessary. Five (5) prizes available to be won; one (1) each day of contest period. Prizes range in value from $50-$95CDN. Must be legal resident of Canada (excluding Quebec) or United States (including the District of Columbia) who have reached the age of majority in their province/territory/state of residence. Odds of winning depend on likelihood of being the 5th eligible tweet each day during the contest period. Skill testing question applies for residents of Canada. See Official Contest Rules for complete details.


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Alumni Reflect on Student Teaching Experience at Timothy
By Danielle Woodruffe October 31, 2016 Alumni, News, School News
It was just four years ago that alumni Dan Decker and Rachel Janho said goodbye to Timothy as students, both embarking on a journey to Clark Summit University in Pennsylvania for studies in Early Childhood Education.
Four years later, as they are college seniors, it is Timothy where they chose to come back as student teachers.
"It's funny just reminiscing of things that are similar, things that are different. This experience has brought back a lot of memories," said Decker.
Both alumni were placed in the first grade, helping out Mrs. Sciacca and Miss Ramunda for the first eight weeks of school.
"Mrs. Sciacca has really helped me with the ins and outs of the thought process of being a teacher," said Janho. "It helps to be in one classroom for weeks on end. I've been able to see every student excel. I've been able to see where they hit walls. I've been able to observe their emotional levels and what they can handle, and that's something that when you're in the classroom, it's invaluable. You can't learn that when you're a student in college. You have to go to the classroom to see it."
For Decker, learning to balance organization and flexibility, has been key.
"It's great that I was learning under Miss Ramunda. She's a veteran teacher and I've learne d so much from her just in the last few weeks. She taught me that it's very important to have a plan, but sometimes you need to abandon that plan to do what's best for your students and determine what engages them and what activities they enjoy."
Their college requires eight weeks of student teaching in a private school and eight in a public school. Both experienced TCS as students, but being part of the faculty and staff has given these young educators new eyes for their alma mater.
"Being a student at Timothy, I always felt loved and now being a teaching assistant here and observing the teachers is something really special. They have such a great heart for their kids," said Janho. "Mrs. Babij especially, she always likes to check in on us and see how the kids are doing, how she can help us and help the kids. She's definitely there for the teachers and it's such a great support system of teachers and of families."
"I think the biggest thing that separates Timothy from other schools and other organizations is that these teachers really want to get to know their students on a personal level," said Decker. "It's not so much about how they perform in the classroom and making sure they look good because their students are doing well, but it's really about making sure the students are put in a position where they're going to succeed in the future."
For Janho, the experience has caused her to appreciate Christian education, having seen the difference between this and a public one.
"I didn't know if I would like teaching in a Christian environment. I was hesitant. I thought I would like public school better, but coming back to teach here and being with the elementary school teachers and the faculty, has really been something special and I think I would definitely come back to teach in a Christian school. The freedom that we have in a Christian school to interact with the families, kids and other staff members is really special to me. You can pray for one another, you can pray for the families, you can pray in class. It's very different. It feels like home."
In choosing Timothy as a student or educator, Janho believes it's not just about gaining an education or a career, but a family.
We wish these almost college grads, a blessed end to their school year and look forward to seeing what the future holds! They are choosing one of the most important careers you can have in the life of a child – training them in the way they should go (Proverbs 22:6) academically, socially, emotionally and most importantly, spiritually.
TCS Blood Drive
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The marriage took place on Saturday, June 1, 2019, in North Rauceby, Lincolnshire, between James, son of Mr and Mrs Steven Padley, of Anwick, Lincolnshire, and Susanna, daughter of Mr John Manby, of Oakham, Rutland, and Mrs Juliet Reid, of Uppingham, Rutland. The Rev Georgie Machell officiated. The bride was attended by Miss Rosalind Manby, maid of honour. Mr George Padley was best man.
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Dell plans to axe more jobs in bid to cut costs
The hardware giant is conducting an "organisational review" which "always results in some job loss or restructuring"
Dell has notified employees that it will be making redundancies this week in a bid to cut costs as it prepares for a tough economic climate.
The company's chief operating officer (COO) Jeff Clarke told staff on Monday that these job cuts won't be limited to a particular unit within Dell, according to Bloomberg.
The coronavirus pandemic has transformed the workplace more than any disruptive technology
Salesforce to cut 1,000 jobs despite record earnings
Dell Technologies reports strong Q1 as laptop sales soar
There are no official figures for how many cuts there will be, but Dell is reported to have some 165,000 employees around the world. The firm said in a statement that it was "evaluating" its business to make sure it had "the right number of team members in the right roles".
"We're addressing our cost structure to make sure we're as competitive as we should be now and for future opportunities," a Dell spokesman said.
"While we do this type of organisational review regularly, and while it always results in some job loss or restructuring, we recognise that there is nothing routine about today's environment. We updated our team today with this information so they understand the actions occurring this week."
Dell announced a round of job cuts in August, which wasn't attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Again, the tech giant refrained from commenting on specific numbers, but an anonymous source told The Register it could be in the region of 6% of its global workforce.
The Texas-based tech company has seen uneven sales during the pandemic, with businesses spending more on personal computers due to the shift remote working, but being more cautious with spending on data centres. The company has reportedly suspended bonuses and promotions for the fiscal year.
Dell is also planning to roll out a remote working strategy, allowing staff to work from home as much as they like, from one to five days a week, provided their line managers agree. This will include $400 to put towards home office equipment.


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Rightbloggers Have Another Miserable Pride Week
by Roy Edroso
Hope you folks had a good Pride week. Rightbloggers didn't, much. For one thing, last week anti-same-sex-marriage heavyweight David Blankenhorn finally gave up the fight. And with more states (and President Obama!) on the SSM bandwagon, rightbloggers' traditional hatred of homosexuals looks like less of a winning proposition all the time.
But some of the brethren made an earnest effort, ginning up outrage over some gay White House visitors who were disrespectful to a painting of Ronald Reagan, and comparing gay people to Jerry Sandusky.
Few rightbloggers went in for straight-up, in-your-face gay-baiting. Sure, occasionally there was someone like Short Little Rebel of The Constitution Club, who saw pictures of muscle queens and such like from Pride parades and went berserk: "Complete lust for the sensual and craving for unlimited appetite," he howled. "Sodom & Gomorrah on display… Where is Jesus' command to be humble servants? Can you see any of these disgusting examples of humanity bending down to wash a poor man's dusty feet? Or feeding a hungry child's mouth?" (OK, wiseguys, let's just walk away from that one.)
And rightwing relics reliably rose at the sight of the rainbow flag like enraged, spavined bulls. "How is it that we have become a nation of such compliant sheep that we accept this rubbish?" quavered veteran gay-basher Brent Bozell, who sputtered that "gay bully, Dan Savage" was repped by CAA and had his own MTV series while Brent Bozell has to content himself with gigs on NewsBusters and at the Washington Times. Also, Bozell interpreted Savage's playful crack about his own kid — "he's a little thuggy snowboarder-skateboarder dude" — thus: "he's insulted his own adopted son D. J. as thuggish… Thanks, 'Dad.'" (See, he's not really his dad, because he's gay.)
Most run-of-the-mill rightbloggers seem to sense, if dimly, that this sort of thing is de trop. But they're willing to make an exception when a couple of guests at a White House Pride event were photographed giving the finger to a painting of Ronald Reagan.
A White House spokesman later expressed official disapproval of this behavior ("while the White House does not control the conduct of guests at receptions, we certainly expect that all attendees conduct themselves in a respectful manner"), but so what? Some of the boys seemed to think the gay guests should all have been monitored and, if seen to gesture rudely at paintings, tackled by the Secret Service.
"If there's one thing that Barack Obama has taught us it's that a president cannot be held responsible for any misery that occurs while in the Oval Office," said Baron von Ottomatic at Wizbang, who also denounced the liberal idea that "the government is supposed to hand out free rubbers in the gay community where they don't really want to use them. Forcing dirty needles into the scabby arms of junkies and condoms onto the engorged dongs of gay men. Your tax dollars in action."
At gay conservative site Classical Values, Eric implied Obama set it up on purpose. "Think about it," he invited readers. "The people who run the White House might not be capable of fixing the economy, but they are certainly politically savvy enough to realize that when you invite certain people to certain places, certain things are certain to happen."
Eric didn't say what purpose Obama hoped to accomplish by conspiring to have gay people flip off Reagan, but his colleague Simon described it as "the latest pander to gays by the President." Gay readers, is this a thing, like hanky codes? Please advise.
Rooster (look, we aren't making this up, these are the names they use) at Conservative Outcry ran a picture of simulated fellatio allegedly from a Pride march in Ohio and asked, "don't you think they should have known?… Since it was the first-ever Gay Pride Reception at the White House, wouldn't one expect some of the same crowd that recently gave us this beauty [below] in Columbus, OH?" Well, in Obama's defense, none of the guests were oiled up.
You monsters! (Foto di Giovanni Dall'Orto.)
"This is the lowlife vermin that Obama invites into the White House," gibbered The Conservative Monster. "This is a perfect example of the demented freaks that would support a radical Marxist. I am going to laugh my ass off when the Marxists throw these 'useful idiots' into prison camps one day…"
At the Christendom Review, one William Luse spent Pride Day reflecting on his own disgust when "President of the United States Barack Obama (God, that gives me a headache) announced publicly his support for the same-sex caricature of marriage." Worse for Luse, though, when he went "seeking the encouragement of like-minded conservatives," he found gay-friendly rightwing figures "popping up like zits on an otherwise promising countenance."
What these wets do not understand, Luse said, was that "homosexuals want marriage because they want approval of the sex that accompanies it, the same approval that heterosexuals enjoy. Without the sex, the controversy disappears, their 'romantic' relationships devolving (or evolving) into the chastity of friendship. Everyone knows this, but not many want to talk about it, forthrightly at any rate." But now that you good people have heard this forbidden truth, we assume your attitudes have been utterly transformed, so here's a link to NOM.
Jesus conservative Rod Dreher started Pride Week bemoaning a New York Times "Father's Day column extolling the virtues of being a gay father… The New York Times will go out of its way to find a gay angle to just about anything…"
When some commenters asked what's the big deal, Dreher explained, "does the Times really aspire to do nothing more than confirm the prejudices of its readers? I am one of its non-NYC readers, and I don't want to see anti-gay coverage. I want balance." William Luse is available!
Then Dreher, obviously struggling to be fair, testified to the Times' power to do good: An approving David Brooks Times column helped get Dreher a book deal! Yet, he lamented, when not advancing Dreher's career the Times editors insist on being favorable to gay rights "in a way that dramatically harms the interests of social conservatives and religious institutions," and "there's not a damn thing conservatives and religious people can do about it." The free market's a bitch, ain't it, Rod?
Later, when Dreher heard that David Blankenhorn had defected, he mourned, "Anti-SSM Giant Falls." Then he heard and was outraged about the finger-giving at the White House. We think it's safe to say Dreher didn't have a happy Pride Week.
Marvin Olasky was also in despair about Blankenhorn, among other things. "The tendency to follow the crowd and satisfy ourselves, in high or low ways, is always with us," he sighed. That Blankenhorn "recanted his opposition" to same-sex marriage showed Olasky that "intellectual arguments do not save us. A jury found Jerry Sandusky guilty of sexually abusing 10 boys. Football does not save us…. Only Christ saves us, through faith." (From gay people.)
Ah, Jerry Sandusky. Some of the brethren saw a connection between the convicted pedophile/former Penn State defensive coordinator and gay liberal activism.
Debbie Schlussel, for example, found significance in the fact that Sandusky's victims from the Second Mile organization were fatherless. "A father is far more important in a child's life than a mother," she asserted, "especially today, when women are not nurturers, but aggressive players in the workplace who are not home for their kids… Despite what any liberal, lesbian couple, single mother, or social engineer might tell you, there is NO family without a father. Period." Ellen and Portia are just asking for their kid to be raped!
Just a Conservative Girl read an article about pedophilic urges being inborn, and agreed that they were — just like homosexuality! "I am 100% against gay marriage as well as civil unions," she said. "…But I do think that you are either gay or you are not. You are either attracted to children or you are not. I don't totally dismiss other factors, but I do think there is a biological function in there somewhere."
But when Just a Conservative Girl read further in the article that "pedophiles perform more poorly on various tests of brain function, tend to be shorter in height and are three times more likely to be left-handed or ambidextrous (characteristics that are observable before birth)," she made a great leap: "Is it just me," she asked, "or did this man just make another reason to abort babies that could 'possibly' show signs of being a pedophile?"
Before anyone could give her an honest answer or a sedative, Just a Conservative Girl ramped up to a more glossolaliac level of discourse: "This is the continued slippery slope that is part and parcel on the left," she declared. "They 'normalize' something, such as abortion, homosexuality, and the push to start normalizing pedophilia has already begun. So is really that far of leap to think that this man is suggesting that aborting babies that show the 'characteristics' of pedophilia should be aborted? I don't think it is." Not only are they gay, they also want to abort their pedophile fetuses! Why does anyone vote for them?
"Was the Jerry Sandusky tragedy partly the result of GAY ACTIVISM, and a rluctance to challenge someone for homosexual 'attraction' ('orientation')?" asked a cowboy, new to us, called The Maverick Conservative. "It is entirely possible — even probable."
The Maverick Conservative didn't say how, but he was dead certain that "you should not hire a homosexual man–or accept him as a volunteer–to supervise young boys in ANY sports program, or any program like the Boy Scouts. It is actuallyWORSE lthan hiring a heterosexual man to be in a similar positoin in the Girrl Scouts (which I would not do either, unless in desperation)."
Why is it worse, Maverick Conservative?
"Why is it worse? Because of all of this GUFF about 'discrimination' against homosexuals, and supposed 'harassment' of homosexuals."
"When a heterosexual man inapporpriately 'looks' at girls showering, he has NO 'defense'. Oh, a coach of a girl's basketball teeam may get away with a certain amount of inadvertent exposure of girls in a state of semiundress. But ANY kind of complaint is going to be taken VERY seriously, and the man is going to get absolutely nowhere claiming he is being 'discriminated against, or 'harassed'. An admitted homosexual, however, can easily make a claim of 'discrimination' or 'harassment'."
What all this had to do with Jerry Sandusky, a married man who never declared himself homosexual, or with gay people, was never made clear. But if the Maverick Conservative ever gets a job coaching women's gymnastics, we'd suggest someone keep an eye on him.


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Red State Socialism And The Politics Of The Stimulus
In just their latest posturing for the 2012 Republican presidential race, governors Sarah Palin (R-AK) and Mark Sanford (R-SC) joined Texas' Rick Pe
By Jon Perr
In just their latest posturing for the 2012 Republican presidential race, governors Sarah Palin (R-AK) and Mark Sanford (R-SC) joined Texas' Rick Perry, Mississippi's Haley Barbour and Louisiana's Bobby Jindal in announcing they would reject some of the federal stimulus funds allocated to their states. But as the steady one-way flow of tax dollars and earmarks spreading the wealth from Washington to their states shows, de facto red state socialism is alive and well.
As a 2007 analysis (above) of federal spending per tax dollar received by state shows, the reddest states generally reaped the most green. Eight of the top 10 beneficiaries of federal largesse voted for John McCain for President. Unsurprisingly, all 10 states at the bottom of the list - those whose outflow of tax revenue is funding programs elsewhere in the country - all voted for Barack Obama in 2008.
The numbers for Sarah Palin's Alaska are particularly telling. While Palin declared she would reject $288 million (31%) of the $931 million funds allocated for schools, energy assistance and social services, her state led the nation in earmark dollars received per capita in the omnibus spending bill just passed. (Alaskans got almost $210 per person in earmarks, while Californians got $16 and New Yorkers $13 in comparison.) Overall, Alaska ranks third in the federal gravy train, taking in $1.84 from Washington for each dollar sent there.
Bobby Jindal's Louisiana also gets a pretty sweet deal from taxpayers around the United States.
Jindal's home rates #4 in pocketing federal spending per tax dollar contributed, just behind Haley Barbour's Mississippi (#2) and Palin's Alaska. (In all likelihood, the massive spending of the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort may have moved Louisiana to number one since this 2005 data was compiled.) Foregoing $98 million in funds designated for unemployment insurance out of $3.5 billion set aside for his state won't be a sacrifice for Bobby Jindal. For the residents of his state, that is another matter altogether.
After the Obama Office of Management and Budget refused South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's request to use $700 million to pay down the Palmetto State's debt, Sanford confirmed he would refuse those funds altogether. (Ironically, Sanford, too, is rejecting intended to provide extended unemployment benefits in a state where joblessness is a staggering 10.4%.) Still, Sanford will take the rest of the $2.8 billion headed for South Carolina, which already receives $1.35 from DC for every tax dollar paid.
Alone among the Republican refuseniks in leading a state which is a net contributor to federal coffers is Texas Governor Rick Perry. While Perry has threatened to turn down $555 million in unemployment benefits from the $787 billion ARRA recovery package, Texas at least gives more to the U.S. Treasury than it receives in return. Ranking 35th, the Lone Star State gets back only 95 cents on its tax dollar. (That will come as welcome news to Texas secessionist Chuck Norris.)
None of which is to suggest that there is anything untoward or inappropriate in the underwriting of red states by blue ones. On the contrary. After all, many of these Republican states are home both to key defense contractors and military bases which help ensure U.S. national security. Just as important, Americans nationwide want to provide the funding and resources for the education, health care and anti-poverty programs their red state brethren badly need - and deserve.
So while Palin, Perry, Jindal, Sanford and Barbour vie for the crown of mythical fiscal conservative, most Americans want them to just take the stimulus money. (Sadly, a report from the CBO this week suggests that state legislature may not have the constitutional authority to override them.) No doubt, most of the residents in their own states feel the same way.
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BET "Hip Hop Awards" 2017 Announced; Cardi B and Kendrick Lamar Lead Winners
Cardi B Wins Big at the BET "Hip Hop Awards" 2017 with 5 Wins Followed by Kendrick Lamar with 4 Wins
Hip Hop Legend Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell is Honored as the "I Am Hip Hop" Award Recipient
Eminem Drops a Moving and Politically Charged Verse Exclusively for the BET Hip Hop Awards
Miami Heats up with the Hottest Performances by DJ Khaled, Cardi B, Migos, Yo Gotti, Trina, Trick Daddy, Rick Ross, T-Pain, Plies, Flo Rida and Playboi Carti
#HipHopAwards
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The BET "HIP HOP AWARDS" 2017 brought the heat to Miami, Florida on Friday, October 6, 2017 for the annual taping of the most prominent hip hop showcase on television. Multi-platinum artist, mega-producer and holder of 'the keys to success' DJ Khaled hosted hip-hop's biggest night of the year at The Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater. THE BET "HIP HOP AWARDS" 2017 premiered on Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 8:00PM ET.
Cardi B stole the show with 5 wins for 'Single of the Year' for her Number #1 Billboard hit, 'Bodak Yellow,' 'Best New Hip Hop Artist,' 'Best Mixtape,' 'Made-You-Look Award (Best Hip Hop Style),' and 'Hustler of the Year.' Kendrick Lamar followed closely picking up 4 awards for 'Best Hip Hop Video,' 'Album of the Year,' 'Hot Ticket Performer' and 'Lyricist of the Year.' Host DJ Khaled snagged 3 honors for 'DJ of the Year,' 'Best Collab, Duo or Group' and 'MVP of the Year,' dedicating the accolades to his son, Asahd Khaled. Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell received the night's biggest honor, the 'I Am Hip Hop Award,' for his unmatched achievements and contributions to hip hop culture.
Viewers tuned into the hottest performances by DJ Khaled featuring Trick Daddy, T-Pain, Plies and Rick Ross with their 2007 anthem "I'm so Hood." Migos kept the energy going with a performance of their latest single "Too Hotty"; Playboi Carti had the house rocking with hits "Woke Up Like This" and "Magnolia (Milly Rock)." Over at Club Liv, Gucci Mane performed a medley of club bangers including "Tone It Down," "I Get the Bag," "Curve" and "Make Love First"; Yo Gotti performed new single "Juice" and chart-topping hit "Rake it Up." Cardi B hit the stage with a much anticipated performance of her Billboard Chart-topping hit, "Bodak Yellow," and Rick Ross, Trina, Trick Daddy and Flo Rida all hit the stage in a nostalgic tribute to hip hop pioneer Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell, during which "Uncle Luke" performed some of his classic hip hop hits "Scarred," "It's Your Birthday," "Me So Horny," "Pop That" and "I Wanna Rock (Doo Doo Brown)."
The complete list of 2017 BET "Hip Hop Awards" winners are:
Best Hip-Hop Video
Kendrick Lamar – "HUMBLE."
Best Collabo, Duo or Group
DJ Khaled ft. Rihanna & Bryson Tiller – "Wild Thoughts"
Hot Ticket Performer
Video Director of the Year
Benny Boom
DJ of the Year
Producer of the Year
MVP of the Year
Single of the Year
"Bodak Yellow" – Produced By J. White Did It (Cardi B)
Best New Hip-Hop Artist
Hustler of the Year
Made-You-Look Award (Best Hip-Hop Style)
Best Hip-Hop Online Site/App
TheShadeRoom.com
Best MIXTAPE
Cardi B – "Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 2"
Sweet 16: Best Featured Verse
Nicki Minaj – "Rake It Up" (Yo Gotti ft. Nicki Minaj)
Impact Track
Jay Z – "The Story of O.J."
Jesse Collins, CEO of Jesse Collins Entertainment, will serve as Executive Producer of the BET Hip Hop Awards along with Connie Orlando, BET Head of Programming and Jeannae Rouzan–Clay, Vice President of Specials, Jesse Collins Entertainment.
BET.com/HipHopAwards is the official site for the BET "HIP HOP AWARDS" 2017 where fans can visit to get up-to-date info on this year's show and take a look back on past BET Hip Hop Awards. The BET "HIP HOP AWARDS" 2017 will premiere on Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 10:00PM ET.
BET "HIP HOP AWARDS" is fresh, legendary and, as always, a memorable night that you don't want to miss!
Join the conversation on social media by logging on to BET's multiple social media platforms:
On BET.com: http://www.bet.com/shows/hip-hop-awards.html
On Twitter by using hashtag: #HipHopAwards; follow us @HipHopAwards and @BET
On Facebook by liking the fan page at facebook.com/HipHopAwards
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Twitter @DJKhaled
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BET Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ:VIA, VIA.B), is the nation's leading provider of quality entertainment, music, news and public affairs television programming for the African-American audience. The primary BET channel reaches more than 90 million households and can be seen in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and sub-Saharan Africa. BET is the dominant African-American consumer brand with a diverse group of business extensions: BET.com, a leading Internet destination for Black entertainment, music, culture, and news; CENTRIC, a 24-hour entertainment network targeting the 25- to 54-year-old African-American audience; BET Digital Networks - BET Gospel and BET Hip Hop, attractive alternatives for cutting-edge entertainment tastes; BET Home Entertainment, a collection of BET-branded offerings for the home environment including DVDs and video-on-demand; BET Event Productions, a full-scale event management and production company with festivals and live events spanning the globe; BET Mobile, which provides ringtones, games and video content for wireless devices; and BET International, which operates BET in the United Kingdom and oversees the extension of BET network programming for global distribution.
ABOUT BET "HIP HOP AWARDS":
BET "Hip Hop Awards" is an annual celebration that pays homage to a culture that changed the world while highlighting the best in hip hop music. Year after year, BET Networks delivers the best in hip-hop for an unforgettable night of performances, cyphers and tributes honoring hip-hop legends that have and continue to make hip-hop culture a global force.
ABOUT LUTHER CAMPBELL:
Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell is a businessman, community activist, author, television personality, radio host, artist and most importantly the first Southern rapper to appear on Billboard's Pop charts. In addition, he was the first Southern rapper to start an independent rap record label, Luke Records. Known as the "Godfather of Southern Hip Hop," Luther Campbell was the first in the music industry to provide "parental advisory" stickers on product, responsibly ensuring his music was only bought by those of a certain age. Soon thereafter, the entire music industry made it mandatory for elicit material to provide advisory stickers. With his likeness highlighted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of the 2 Live Crew, Luke fought to ensure the freedom of speech all the way to the Supreme Court - and won. Campbell's endless philanthropic efforts has found him giving to refugees from Cuba and Haiti on the shores of Miami and those less fortunate than himself in the community. Campbell is also a sports radio host, long-time columnist for the Miami New Times and owner of several Wingstop franchises. Campbell is currently in the process of producing a biopic on his life with Lions Gate as well as several other television projects.
ABOUT JESSE COLLINS ENTERTAINMENT:
Jesse Collins Entertainment is a full service television and film production company founded by entertainment industry veteran Jesse Collins. For more than a decade, Collins, the company's CEO, has played an integral role in producing some of television's most memorable moments in music entertainment. Formerly Executive Producer/EVP of Cossette Productions, Collins has produced ground-breaking and award winning television programming including the BET Awards, the GRAMMY Awards, BET Honors, The UNCF Evening of Stars and the BET Hip Hop Awards. Collins currently Exec. Produces "The Real Husbands of Hollywood," (now going into its 4th hit season) alongside industry Icons Stan Lathan and Ralph Farquhar; and has worked with superstar talent such as Will Smith, Chris Rock, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Prince, Mariah Carey and many more.
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England's Mark McGeeney is sitting pretty at the top of the British Darts Organisation (BDO) rankings on 371 points and looking good for automatic qualification at this year's Winmau World Masters.
The 45th staging of the world's longest-running darts major takes place at Bridlington Spa, Yorkshire on October 4-7. The top 16 men and eight women players in the BDO rankings by the September 9 cut-off date will qualify as seeds for the stage matches with other players having to compete on the floor.
McGeeney, who has been a Winmau World Masters runner-up for the last two years, is looking to go one place better and will be delighted at his ranking table-topping form. Points from his third and fifth places at the BDO International Open and Welsh Masters are enough to take him above two-time Winmau World Master, Glenn Durrant on 355 points which includes 49 points from his win in the World Trophy.
A win in the BDO International Open for Jim Williams, along with third place in the World Trophy, sees the Welshman well-placed in third place in the rankings on 342 points. Twenty-five points further back in fourth is Team Winmau's Scott Mitchell. He picked up valuable points by winning the England National. Just behind him is Scott Waites.
Making up the rest of the current BDO top 16 are: Ross Montgomery (287 points); Gary Robson (276); Wesley Harms (273); Willem Mandigers (269); Richard Veenstra (257); Dave Parletti (247); Kyle McKinstry (246); Chris Landman( (243); Dirk Telnekes 238); Michael Unterbuchner (236) and Martin Phillips (234).
In the women's race to the Winmau World Masters, eight players are vying for seed placings and automatic qualification.
England's Lorraine Winstanley is continuing her strong form. Second place in the World Trophy and BDO International Open, and third in the England Open and Welsh Master, puts her top of the rankings on 435 points.
Compatriot Deta Hedman is close behind on 429 points thanks to strong performances in the England Open, Swiss Open, BDO International Open and Welsh Open.
Third placed is Holland's Aileen de Graaf on 410 points, due largely to the 42 points she earned as runner up in the England Open. The victor on that day was Lisa Ashton, who also won the LDO Ladies Classic. Those wins, plus a fifth place in the World Trophy put her on 396 points.
The other women players currently ranked in the BDO top eight are: Anastasia Dobromyslova (384 points); Fallon Sherrock (382); Sharon Prins (331) and Corrine Hammond (302). Team Winmau player and 10-time Lakeside World Champion, Trina Gulliver MBE, is ninth on 281 points.
McGeeney in Pole Position in Race for Winmau World Masters ?
England's Mark McGeeney is sitting pretty at the top of the BDO rankings and looking good for automatic qualification at this year's Winmau World Masters.


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Samsung Foundry Updates: 7nm EUV, 10LPP, and 14LPC
by Joshua Ho on April 22, 2016 5:00 AM EST
Earlier this week, Samsung announced a number of updates on the foundry side of their business. While process technology might not be necessarily as interesting as the actual end product from a consumer perspective, it can often give us a good idea for what to expect in terms of performance and power from future products. Of course, it's up to the various fabless chip design companies around the world to actually exploit the full potential of a process, but in general power and performance are often gated by process node. Almost everything in computing revolves around supporting abstractions, which inevitably means overhead to support these abstractions, so progress at the foundry level is critical for moving the industry forward as a whole.
The first, and probably most important announcements are related to process roadmap. The most important point that Samsung made here was that they fully intend to deploy extreme UV (EUV) in mass production for their 7nm processes, which is a pretty significant claim to make as even imec was reluctant to say that EUV would be happening at 7nm. However, those at Samsung seem to believe that this is necessary because otherwise the first metal interconnect layer would require triple patterning, and the transistors themselves would likely be facing similar multiple patterning requirements.
While we've discussed EUV before and the challenges that it faces, Samsung believes that triple patterning is not really a viable solution because the number of masks needed goes from roughly 60 or so with double patterning to 90 or so with triple patterning, which results in a steep increase in costs and long lead times for prototypes and production ramp as the masks are made with e-beam lithography for precision, so mispredict penalty for a design isn't nearly as severe as it would be with a 7nm 193i-only process. Of course, EUV is only going to be used in critical layers, so 193i will still be used for the majority of the layers in the chip, but even so EUV will still be a major hurdle for Samsung to clear here as EUV sources still don't have enough power to be viable for mass production. Interestingly, Samsung claims that they have mask inspection tools internally for EUV masks, which could help them get to deploying EUV sooner in mass production.
On 10nm, things are less murky as it's pretty clear that this process will be able to mostly be scaling of the 14nm node to improve performance and possibly improve cost, so the primary update here is that 10LPP (Low Power Plus) will be following 10LPE (Low Power Early) for a 10% improvement in performance. A design done in 10LPE can be directly ported to 10LPP with no new design work.
At 14nm, Samsung seems to be doing well here as their fabs in Korea and Texas are running full time, with over 0.5M wafers shipped and defect density below 0.2 defects/cm^2 in production. This defect density is said to be highly competitive, but I'm not really qualified to say whether this is the case. The primary update of note at 14nm is that 14LPC will have an RF option by the end of the year to enable connectivity for applications like automotive and transceivers.
On the process side, 28nm is still pretty critical for a number of applications as this is the last process where planar is viable. Even if 20nm is technically the last planar process, it's not all that attractive compared to 28nm due to cost, DIBL leakage, and sheer heat density. Samsung's 28FDS process has been in mass production for some time now as a higher-end node designed to provide ~20nm FinFET class performance on 28nm, but the main news of note here is that 28FDS will have an RF process which adds elements like inductors and is properly characterized to allow for high speed electronics to work properly. 28FDS will also have embedded non-volatile flash memory to enable embedded applications where some memory is needed as a ROM. Kelvin Low of Samsung noted that FD-SOI is also notable for reducing soft error rate relative to bulk CMOS which reduces the need for design-level mitigations, although this was mostly in the context of safety-critical systems that could be seen in automotive and other segments.
On the design and packaging services side, Samsung is providing more here than before in the form of reference design flows for their 14nm process, and a similar flow will be available for 10nm. Packaging services that used to be for internal use only will also be opened up, with things like 2.5D interposers to enable HBM on GPUs and similar use cases, although it was noted that in that particular case the interposer is currently a bit too expensive for use outside of high-priced components like GPUs. Samsung is also providing some IP blocks for customers to speed up time to market for things like DDR4 and PCI-E controllers.
Overall, Samsung is seems to be quite aggressive on the foundry side and it'll be interesting to see whether this pays off. Of course, there are the inevitable questions of whether this is comparable to Intel or TSMC's process, but for now we can't really say absent details about the pitches of the key layers, operating voltages, and other aspects that we need to consider in order to really compare process nodes. We saw how Samsung's 14nm push paid off, so it'll be interesting to see how things shake out with 7nm.
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vladx - Saturday, April 23, 2016 - link
Samsung would have no interest in x86 tech, Apple on the other hand will keep selling Macs for years to go so they definitely wouldn't want to be at the hands of Intel. Reply
Michael Bay - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
>IBM
>litographic tech
>Samsung
>ahead of Intel
>guaranteed at that
IBM is nothing but a overmanaged slaughterhouse for its employees, trying to turn into outright patent troll. And Samsung always promises and never delivers.
I guess they make a good match. Reply
jospoortvliet - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
Samsung's been promising and (not) delivering a load of products... Mobile phones, memory, SSD's, heck my Microwave is Samsung ;-) Reply
Anymoore - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
The triple patterning argument doesn't fly with me because they're using it for 10nm M1 layer. Reply
ingwe - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
Hmm...my guess would be based on the fact that E-beam lithography takes twice as long (at minimum) to make a mask at 7 nm compared to 10 nm. So either double the time or double the cost compared to 10 nm and something has to give. Reply
The mask for EUV would take exponentially longer since the features are actually smaller. Reply
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mentor-gra...
"The Olympus-SoC place and route platform is also certified for use at 10nm, with a comprehensive colored design methodology covering floorplanning, placement, extraction, routing and chip finishing requirements. To address the particular challenges of FinFET manufacturing, the platform supports M1 triple patterning, color shifting, non-uniform tracks, mask- and width-dependent spacing rules, and other new capabilities. Active deployment is underway at multiple mutual customers."
Triple patterning already qualified for Samsung 10nm M1. Reply
jjj - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
Where are they saying they'll use EUV? If anything they are saying that they won't. We are reviewing...... means yeah sure maybe at some point if it is ready and that's pretty much a no. Reply
Ryan Smith - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
We had a call with Samsung on Thursday. They were rather explicit about intending to use EUV at 7nm (though obviously they still have challenges to resolve). Reply
It's the same as saying, "we're stopping at 10nm, for now." Reply


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Teasing apart meaning
Economists are talking about repugnance, a crucial, complex, and culturally varied driver of what people will and won't do, comfortably.
And last week a woman in Ohio whose ad to sell a horse mistakenly appeared under the heading "Good Things to Eat" in a newspaper's classified section received dozens of calls, some expressing outrage and others from people interested in turning it into dinner. (In Europe and Japan horse meat on a menu would stir no more comment than macaroni and cheese would in an American diner.)
"It's very hard to predict what's repugnant and what's not," Mr. Roth said. Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at Yale, agreed. He conducted a two-year study to try to get at why people consider athletes who take steroids to be cheating, but not those who take vitamins or use personal trainers. He and his team offered different possibilities: What if steroids were completely natural? Or were not at all harmful? Or were only effective if the athlete had to work harder than before?
The only change that caused the interviewed subjects to alter their objections to steroids was when they were told that everyone else thought it was all right. "People have moral intuitions," Mr. Bloom said. When it comes to accepting or changing the status quo in these situations, he said, they tended to "defer to experts or the community."
Often introducing money into the exchange – putting it into the marketplace – is what people find repugnant. Mr. Bloom asserted that money is a relatively new invention in human existence and therefore "unnatural."
We've written before about how people naturally slip from one idea to the next; our structures for organizing information are not like an Excel spreadsheet. This necessitates a triangulation approach to trying to get at what somebody's mental models might really be and move beyond monolithic statements like "Steroids are bad!" The example of pulling apart the possible objections to steroids (fairness? composition? safety?) is right on. We might also take the reverse approach and frame it as a participatory-design thought-exercise: "You're the executive of a pharmaceutical company and you want to find a way to make steroids acceptable to the general public. What could you do?" By looking at what people might change, we can reveal (sometimes more easily) what is stopping them from adopting something now. These barriers are crucial design opportunities that producers must understand and address.
adoption, barriers, ethnography, horse meat, meaning, mental models, participatory design, repugnance, steroids, thought exercise


Proposal to hire dons on contract bad for autonomy.
A proposal by the education ministry to employ university teaching staff on contract has evoked mixed reactions. Historically, universities by their very nature existed as institutions where knowledge was created and dispersed.
While this has changed, universities are still viewed as places where knowledge is still considered sacrosanct. Knowledge was viewed as sacred and is still so, to an extent that the decision-making in learning institutions is a preserve of "those who know" as opposed to the financially endowed. That is why there was optimism when Dr Fred Matiang'i, a scholar, was picked to head the Education docket.
The academic fraternity welcomed his appointment despite the fact that his predecessor, Prof Jacob Kaimenyi, who was also one of their own – having risen through academia – had hardly addressed issues related to the academic freedom and autonomy of universities.
The University Academic Staff Union (Uasu) hailed the new CS as the "right person to tackle issues bedeviling learning in universities such as frequent strikes over staff welfare.
As the academic citadels, universities are not only nurseries but catalysts of innovation, knowledge, information and ideas for the transformation of society. But his latest declaration to universities management to hire staff on contract—a move seen as a tactic to counter frequent agitation for pay perks and other welfare issues—has not only left many of his former colleagues astounded, but also angry.
Higher education operates at a time when knowledge is ever more vital to societies and economies to an extent that any innovation or discovery can bring instant fortune.
German Philosopher, Immanuel Kant considered university autonomy as the root of human dignity and the source of all morality that is required for the success of universities in delivering their roles in society. However, the route Matiang'i took has drawn criticism as stifling academic freedom and interfering with universities' autonomy.
As long as the Education ministry and politicians continue to interfere with academic freedom, universities run the risk of losing their edge as drivers of economic growth other societal transformations.
The autonomy that universities root for in Kenya can be classified into three categories – financial, organisational and staffing. Indeed, public universities in Kenya depend on the Exchequer to fund programmes. However, the financial autonomy that universities want refers to the ability to raise funds without depending on the central government to do so.
This implies that universities can set fee guidelines as they deem fit for various programmes in order to remunerate lecturers adequately. However, the organisational autonomy refers to the ability of universities to establish sub-units such as research centres and satellite campuses.
Lastly, staffing autonomy means that universities have the power to recruit employees as per respective needs and requirements. Interestingly, these are among issues which the education CS was expected to tackle. Universities also need the autonomy to hire vice chancellors instead of leaving politicians and the Executive to have a say.
What Matiang'i ought to push for is autonomy that comes with responsibility and that would provide leeway for lecturers to guide students to conduct meaningful research.
The ministry should know that policy formulated in Jogoo House, its headquarters, may lead to excessive regulation and cumbersome procedures that hardly encourage proper research – which is core to innovation.
When universities are bent on a system steeped in hierarchy, which believes in foisting orders and commands, disallowing greater autonomy and academic freedom, the result is red tape which, to the scientific community, causes delays in funding research and approval processes.
For us to thrive among nations, the State must limit its role as a regulator and delegate matters of academic governance to universities in order to protect their autonomy.


Last week, as the rising tide that is the Super Bowl lifted all nacho related news into the media forefront, a little article came out in Bloomberg Business with the clickbaitable title of "There's No Such Thing as Nacho Cheese". Spoiler Alert: That is a complete falsehood. If you want to call it something more accurate you could title it "There No Such Thing (As a Standard or Legal Definition of) Nacho Cheese", which isn't nearly as popping, and also not really news.
The argument of the article boils down to "There isn't a standard or legal definition of Nacho Cheese, CRAZY RIGHT!?!?" But no, it's not really that crazy.
You know what has a standardized recipe? Coca-Cola, and it's probably guarded by super ninjas willing to kill and fight to their deaths to protect it. Do you know who owns Coca-Cola? The Coca-Cola Company, a multibillion dollar business. Do you know what would happen if they didn't have a standardized recipe? People getting it expecting the same smooth taste every time would be horribly disappointed, and the word "Coke" wouldn't be the second most recognizable word on planet Earth. Do you know what doesn't have a standard recipe though? Cola.
Now, nobody owns the darkish kind of soda beverage known as "Cola" that Coca-Cola, Pepsi, RC Cola, Tab, and Count Cola all fall into the family of. "Cola" is a flavor of soda, an idea of a soda if you will, but you know that when you get it somewhere you're going to be receiving a sweet, blackish/brown beverage that's pretty close to Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Tab, or Count Cola. Guess what? The United States Food and Drug Administration doesn't have a definition of the flavor Cola either, but somehow everyone magically knows what it'll taste like. It's the same thing with nachos.
Pasteurized process cheese, which is made from one or more cheeses (excluding certain cheeses such as cream cheese and cottage cheese but including American cheese), and which may contain one or more specified "optional ingredients" (includes both dairy and nondairy items). Moisture not more than 41%; fat in the solids, not less than 49%.
Pasteurized process cheese food, which is made from not less than 51% by final weight of one or more "optional cheese ingredients" (similar to the cheeses available for Pasteurized process cheese), mixed with one or more "optional dairy ingredients" (milk, whey, etc.), and which may contain one or more specified "optional ingredients" (nondairy). Moisture must be <44%, and fat content >23%.
Pasteurized process cheese spread, which is made similarly to pasteurized process cheese food but must be spreadable at 70° F. Moisture must be between 44% and 60%, and fat content >20%.
Granted, I'm no cheese scientist, but I think you could use one of those to make some pretty gnarly Nacho Cheese. Gnarly as in not radical, because Nacho Cheese is gross.
Since Nacho Cheese is sold in stores it is safe to assume that somehow the FDA gave it their blessings, even without making a very special definition just for it. Perhaps if they wanted to taxonomically breakdown their cheese definitions more than they already have Nacho Cheese would find a home outside of the umbrella of processed cheese, but we seem to be doing pretty well without it. If you ordered something with the adjective of "Nacho Cheese" and didn't get something yellow/orange in color, cheesy flavored, and a little bit spicy, you would be highly surprised, even without a legal definition. Without an official definition you could still order nachos at a football game and not be surprised when a strange orange goo showed up on it and gets the job of cheese done, much the same way that my nose still gets blown when I use a nasal tissue rather than a "Kleenex", or my paper still gets copied when I use a machine that's not a "Xerox". There is something that exists here, and you can eat it on nachos, although you should use real cheese instead.
If some company was to make the Coca-Cola "Gold Standard" of Nacho Cheese and needed the FDA to bless it with an official legal definition, maybe then people would be happy and consider it a "real thing". Philosophy students could probably debate the semantics of whether Nacho Cheese does or doesn't exist, but they're probably busy blowing each other's minds with whether the color one sees as blue is the same color that another sees as blue. Get out of your heads nerds, spend less time thinking about that and more time writing about nacho cheese like this cool dude. So what, there's not a standardization for Nacho Cheese, but there's not a standardization for nachos either. Somehow I'm still able to eat the idea of nachos, and they're the most delicious idea you can eat.


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| ICE raids signal agency policy shift
ICE raids signal agency policy shift
Colin Ross 12:00 am, Feb 13, 2009
New Haven's controversial immigration raids may be a symptom of a simple, but momentous, political change at the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
A report released by the Migration Policy Institute this month highlights a crucial policy shift that created an incentive for ICE agents to detain as many illegal immigrants as possible, rather than focus on high-priority, criminal targets. And while it is unclear what impact this policy shift had on New Haven, in particular, this has not stopped city officials from continuing to scrutinize ICE raids.
ICE conducted a raid in the New Haven area last month — its first since its controversial Fair Haven raids two years ago, when just four of the 31 immigrants detained had deportation orders. Community leaders accused ICE of retaliating against the city's Elm City ID program (which, among other benefits, provides a picture identification regardless of immigration status) and terrorizing the immigrant population with dragnet raids. Federal officials maintained that the raids were routine.
But the real reason behind the controversial raids may lie in ICE's 2006 policy change, which altered the definition of what constitutes a routine raid.
Before 9/11, there was no such thing as ICE — the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Customs Service were two separate entities. But after the September attacks, when it was discovered that several of the hijackers had been in the United States illegally on expired visas, Congress and the 9/11 Commission emphasized the importance of a coordinated effort to find and remove fugitive aliens.
In 2003, the Bush Administration created ICE, which, under its newly formed parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, began aggressively targeting illegal immigrants. But not all immigrants were deemed equal. In a Jan. 22, 2004, internal memo, the head of ICE's Detention and Removal Office, Anthony Tangeman, told agents they must prioritize whom to target. They were to go after criminals.
"No less than 75% of all fugitive operation targets will be those classified as criminal aliens," he wrote.
Immigrants without criminal records would not count toward fulfilling each team's arrest total.
But on Jan. 31, 2006, a new director, John Torres, eliminated the 75 percent criminal requirement and drastically increased the desired number of arrests — to 1,000 from 125 per enforcement team. At first, non-fugitive aliens were still not counted toward that goal. But on Sept. 29 of that year, Torres lifted even that restriction: "Non-fugitive arrests may now be included in the total," he wrote.
It was this last shift that was the most decisive, argues the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute in a recent report. By increasing the quota and including noncriminals in it, ICE agents had little incentive to prioritize criminal targets.
"This was not the original goal of the program," Shayna Strom, co-author of the report, said in a telephone interview. "This pressure, and quota, reduced the ability to get criminals."
New Haven officials have even stronger criticisms of the policy. Kica Matos, New Haven community services administrator and designer of the Elm City ID card, said this was inexcusable.
"They tell Congress they're prioritizing, but they're getting all these incidental arrests," she said. "Enforcing the law is no excuse; it's immoral, unethical and unconscionable."
But ICE Spokesman Richard Rocha defended the policy, saying it was well in accordance with the agency's mission.
"The number of arrests is a goal, not a quota, and we do prioritize," he said. "But if, in the course of our work, we encounter other illegal individuals, we have to enforce the law."
And, he added, it is important to note that in 2008, arrests of individuals with criminal records had increased by 179 percent.
The biggest numerical increase has been in ICE fugitive teams' budgets. From 2003 to 2008, funding increased 2,400 percent, from $9 million to $218 million. And indeed, criminal arrests have risen, but only in the last year. Until 2008, the number of criminals arrested stayed flat, while total arrests skyrocketed. Even with the recent increase, noncriminals represent the great majority of arrests.
Alexandra Dufresne, immigration policy expert and lecturer in the Yale Political Science Department, believes ICE's strategy uses government resources inefficiently and inhumanely. She cited the high costs of detaining immigrants on minor charges and the absence of a right to a government-appointed lawyer as major obstacles.
"Many noncitizens do have valid defenses to deportation, but being detained makes it nearly impossible for them to prevail on otherwise viable claims," she said. "Detention is also a frightening and dehumanizing experience, particularly for people who find themselves in jail but who have never committed a crime."
She added, "There are more humane, just and cost-effective ways to enforce our nation's immigration laws."
The new Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, has ordered a complete review of ICE's enforcement operations.


On Sunday, January 13th, a touch of magic fell upon The Carlu. No pumpkins or glass slippers in sight, but our venue certainly transformed into a modern-day fairy tale! Entering through a myriad of mirrors and lush florals, stepping off the elevator felt more like a step into every bridal dream. Looking left and right, each bride and groom was able to see themselves reflected in the luxe environment that could potentially be their future wedding.
With wall-to-wall exhibitors ready to offer their advice, their services, and perhaps a special treat, WedLuxe was the perfect place for our guests to begin envisioning their dream weddings. From makeup artists, to jewelers, photographers and florists, everyone who had something to offer in cutting-edge wedding planning was there.
Last year's show debuted the WedLuxe Show Runway, where couture gowns and bespoke suits from top designers such as Ashi Studio and Harry Rosen, showed off their most stunning pieces. This year's WedLuxe Runway took place in our Sky Room. The room's floor-to-ceiling lavender embellishments, clear chairs, and lush lavender seating, were illuminated by large neon signs on every wall. No other word can be used to describe the room, the runway and the couture, other than CHIC.
Post-Runway, our Midnight Snack Bar was the place to be. O&B Catering offered our guests everything from Fried Chicken and Waffle served with radish, snow pea and jicama, to Liquid Nitrogen Mango Guava Ice Cream. Taste buds were dancing as guests strolled through the beautiful décor to visit the plentiful list of exhibitors waiting to greet them.
Setting the tone for 2019 weddings, Oliver & Bonacini's carefully crafted mocktail, Mi Amor, was inspired by Pantone's Colour of the Year, "Living Coral." Our Bar Living Coral was a huge success, offering the most delicious mocktail with a blend of ingredients such as: candied pineapple mango, lavender tea infusion and a vegan merengue to top it all off! Next to the bar, guests were delighted to see an even more delicious backdrop for them to to take as many pictures and boomerangs as their hearts desired!
Before they left with happy stomachs, and visions of florals, tabletops, custom invitations, and perhaps a prize to put towards their wedding, guests visited the show-stopping attraction of the show. The WedLuxe Gift Bar was nothing short of perfection. The Grand Conservatory was designed by Engineered Arts and Truly Yours Planning, and featured a garden of opulent flowers, ballerinas from TDC Entertainment, and all of the gifts any bride and groom-to be could dream of.
The WedLuxe 2019 Show was everything we had hoped it would be, and more. We are so happy to be a part of this truly opulent event, and cannot wait to see what they have in store for us next.


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Manager Ben Chenery reflects back on the 2018-19 season
It has been a very positive league campaign for our club and we have improved on our league position from last season, finishing 6th in the Bostik North Division. The players have been a pleasure to work with and I have enjoyed seeing each one of them grow and improve to meet the challenges which we have faced. I am sure this squad of players will continue to get better and better and I am looking forwards to seeing this come to fruition.
Things have been just as promising off the pitch and I would like to thank Russell and Chris Ward and the Board of Directors for the tireless work and commitment they have shown to keep moving Bury Town Football Club forwards. Thank you to Rebecca Frost, Chantelle Dodds, Wendy and Bernard Turner, David Scarfe, Tina Chaplin, Mary Brind, Liz , Doug Mott, Christine Powell and Jason Day who all go above and beyond and a special mention to Matty Lewis who along with Tina who continue to quell the players hunger after every home game and thank you to the bar staff and stewards and to LVG who offers a few words of wisdom at the players tunnel! All of these volunteers help to keep the Football Club moving forward and progressing. (Apologies if I have missed anyone out)
The Under 18 and Under 23 teams have gone from strength to strength and I am indebted to the hard work and trust which Bradley Barber, John Kennedy, Mark Jolland and Steve Revell have given me and the progress which they have made this season.
While I stand at the front of Bury Town Football Club as the manager, I am only as good as the people I have in my backroom staff, Alex, J.K, Blair, Barbs and Jim, thank you for continuing to drive me, challenge me and stand by my side through good times and bad and thank you to Alan Lee who has picked me up when I have needed it, reassured me in tough times and the hours and commitment he has given to the Football Club and youth teams has been exceptional.
Finally a big thank you to the fans, your support this season has been a huge driving force behind our form this season and I look forwards to welcoming you all back next season.


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The Times They Are A-Changin': More Important Stuff on Expert Witnesses
Original Newsletter(s) this article was published in: Blaneys' Coffee House: August 2017
It is trite to say that the hallmark of the Canadian judicial system (and of most common-law jurisdictions) is fairness. In pursuit of preserving that hallmark, the law governing expert witnesses has evolved greatly over the past 20 years. Gone are the days of the 'hired gun' - the biased expert witness, whom a party could retain to do its bidding, and who would say whatever it took to win. Nowadays, expert witnesses must be independent, and advance evidence that is fair, objective and non-partisan, despite who is paying their bills.
In our last newsletter (April 2017: 'DIY': Experts Must Write Their Own Reports), I had talked about the obligation of expert witnesses to write their own reports, and to not have them ghost-written. This mandate contributes to ensuring fairness at trial, and to maintaining the integrity of the justice system.
This article focuses on the role and obligations of the trial judge to ensure that the expert witness does not jeopardize a fair trial.
Recently, the Ontario Court of Appeal addressed the important role of the trial judge as gatekeeper, in the context of expert witnesses.
In Bruff-Murphy v. Gunawardena (2017 ONCA 502), the plaintiff had been injured in a motor vehicle accident. The defendant admitted liability, leaving the issue of damages to be resolved by a jury at trial.
The defendant called two expert medical witnesses, one of whom was a psychiatrist. Counsel for the plaintiff objected to the admission of the psychiatrist's testimony, on the basis that the psychiatrist had attacked the plaintiff's credibility, and was biased.
Notwithstanding the plaintiff's objections, the trial judge qualified the expert, and allowed the psychiatrist's evidence to be admitted. During trial, it became obvious that the psychiatrist had adopted the role of advocate, and lacked independence. The trial judge, however, did not raise any concerns with the jury.
Ultimately, the jury awarded the plaintiff the amount of CDN$23,500 for general damages, but rejected all other heads of damages including special damages, future care costs, and past and future income loss.
The plaintiff appealed the damages award, on the basis that the trial had not been fair because of the trial judge's failure to deal with the expert's impropriety.
The Court of Appeal affirmed the following threshold test to qualify a witness and allow his evidence to be admitted:
The evidence must meet the threshold requirement of admissibility: relevance, necessity in assisting the trier of fact, absence of an exclusionary rule, and the need for a properly qualified expert. The essential question, at this preliminary stage, is whether the expert is able and willing to carry out his primary duty to the court.
If the criteria under the first step are met, the trial judge must balance the potential risks and benefits. In other words, she must determine whether the evidence ought to be admitted because its probative value outweighs its prejudicial effect (the 'discretionary gatekeeping step').
It is only after the court has applied this two-pronged analysis that it can be properly determined whether it is probable that the witness' testimony would impair the fairness of the proceeding.
Ongoing Obligation of the Trial Judge
At the qualification stage, although the expert's report provides a roadmap of the anticipated testimony of the expert, and the specific limits to be placed on the scope of that testimony, the trial judge cannot predict, with certainty, the nature or content of the expert's actual testimony. In other words, although the issue of admissibility is determined when the evidence is proffered, and qualification is requested by a party (which is prior to the expert's report being admitted, and before the expert testifies), this does not mean that the expert will, in fact, remain fair, objective and impartial throughout the trial.
If, during the trial, it becomes apparent that the expert lacks independence and poses an acute risk to the fairness of the trial, a judge cannot act as if her job is done. She has an obligation to independently act, regardless of the initial qualification, and whether or not an opposing party makes an objection about the testimony.
Options for the Trial Judge if Prejudice is identified after the Qualification Stage
It was the Court of Appeal's view that, in the face of prejudice after the qualification stage, the trial judge could have:
advised counsel that he was going to instruct the jury that the psychiatrist's evidence would be excluded, in whole or in part. In that event, counsel could have made submissions about the extent of the instruction; or
invited submissions from counsel regarding the prospect of a mistrial.
It is important to note that the plaintiff's counsel did not ask the trial judge to instruct the jury regarding the problem with the psychiatrist's evidence (the general rule is that the failure to object to a civil jury charge is fatal to a request for a re-trial on appeal based on misdirection or non-direction. This rule, however, is subject to an exception: Where the misdirection or non-direction resulted in a substantial wrong or miscarriage of justice, it may warrant a new trial).
The Holding of the Court of Appeal
The court reasoned that if the trial judge had properly applied the two-pronged qualification test (he failed to apply the second prong of the test, altogether), he would have reached the conclusion that the potential risk of admitting the psychiatrist's evidence far outweighed the potential benefit: the psychiatrist lacked independence, was essentially an advocate for the defence, and was coming dangerously close to usurping the role of the jury in assessing the plaintiff's credibility.
The trial judge's inaction resulted in the evidence adversely affecting the fairness of the trial, and ultimately resulted in a miscarriage of justice. The court, therefore, granted the plaintiff's appeal, and ordered a new trial.
It is clear that, had the trial judge intervened and provided options in the face of the prejudice, the chances are that counsel would have rejected a mistrial (a Draconian step) and instead requested that the jury be properly instructed. In that regard, the court commented,
No doubt, another trial will be costly and time consuming, but it is
necessary because the defence proffered the evidence of a wholly
unsuitable expert witness.
So, despite the negative financial repercussions of a second trial, and the consequential adverse impact on the parties, the Court of Appeal chose integrity over efficiency.
Now, there is some certainty about the conduct of the expert witness: the courts have spelled out the expectations of experts, lawyers and courts, in order that fairness will be maintained throughout the process.
A thought came to mind: What does a lawyer do in a highly complex, large-scale case, when she requires technical assistance in order to successfully examine or cross-examine an adverse party? How does she get input from her expert without crossing the line and leading him down the road to impartiality? In circumstances where the budget can tolerate it, it is often worthwhile for the lawyer to retain a second expert, on a short-term basis, who will assist her in successfully prosecuting or defending the case. For example, in a construction claim, the second expert could enhance success by directing the lawyer to ask the right questions of adverse parties, thus eliciting the best evidence. He would not have to maintain independence because he would not be called to testify at trial as an expert witness. If a second expert is not in the budget, then it is important for the lawyer to ensure that her expert witness remains impartial when providing her with technical information and assistance.
Nowadays, the court, the lawyer, and the expert witness each have an independent obligation to ensure that the witness remains impartial and independent, and does not morph into a 'hired gun' at some point during the process.
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Raymarine's new chart software engine can also display NOAA's vector charts — known as ENC's (electronic navigation charts) as opposed to the paper-like RNCs — but first Ray has to convert them all into its new LightHouse chart format. This intermediary step means that Raymarine probably won't issue updates as frequently as NOAA does, though I'm told that quarterly or even monthly updates are being considered. While users will need a fast internet connection and a large SD card to get the updates to their Ray a-, c-, e- or gS Series displays, most already do (I suspect).
Having its own chart formats and distribution system means that Raymarine can conceivably offer other free charts for countries where they're available — like New Zealand and Brazil — or even sell cartography from other sources like Furuno does via its MapMedia partner and Navico does at its Insight Store. Their long relationship with Navionics is not over, though; LightHouse II will also support all Navionics chart cards and can purportedly display them in new ways.
So, while this a significant strategic change for Raymarine, I think that the first impression for the U.S. owners of their current hardware will be something like, "Holy cow, after December I'll be able to download, update, and use two official chart types – all for free!" Some shoppers are going to perk up at this news too, especially as Ray may lower some U.S. MFD prices, since they will no longer have to pay a Navionics fee for embedded charts. And while there are some boaters who don't give a hoot about paper-like raster charts, there are a lot of us who do.
Vector charts may be "smart" — you can turn data layers off for simplicity, highlight important depths, etc. — but the display is assembled by software, not the human cartographer who actually draws a paper/raster chart and thus can put extra emphasis on perceived dangers. With Raymarine joining Furuno and the various plotters that support C-Map 4D with its NOAA raster layer, not to mention the Navico-compatible NV-Charts and all the PC/tablet apps that support raster, the "paper chart" format appears very much alive and well.
Did you notice how the first two screens are all chart? That's because LightHouse II let's you auto-hide the data bar that's always occupied the top section of LightHouse screens. Just touch the screen or hit a button and it appears again. As a navigator who often splits these wide screens into two head-up radar or chart windows, this is a much appreciated change. It will free up pixels for better fishfinder display, which is further improved because the new software can support multiple Ray fishfinding devices.
It's also nice that Raymarine is switching its waypoints, routes and tracks to the standard GPX format, which will be much more easily shared, and apparently, LightHouse II also makes waypoint and route management much easier. In fact, as the photo below suggests, the whole menu structure has been rethought and graphically polished. I look forward to when all Ray a-, c-, e- and gS Series owners can try LightHouse II, but what do you think so far?
Some people think that only old folks like digital raster charts, and who am I to argue? (Heck, I turned 67 today!) But isn't there more value to the hand-drawn chart than just the fact that many of us used them when we first went boating?
Raster or vector, choice is good. In fact, the ONLY chart I've found so far that properly portrays the channel and entrance marks at Emeryville, CA (my home port) is the NOAA raster chart. All of the others have the marks offset (though the channel is properly depicted, which looks odd). I really should send Navionics a note about it, I guess.
Are the i70 displays affected by the new menu system?
I don't know, Dan, but isn't the i70 menu system already quite different than what's on the MFD's?
What has happened in recent LightHouse updates is that some of the fancy i70 instrument screens can now be called up on the MFD's, and I was told that one major reason for the new databar auto-hide feature is that some people are using the a65 primarily as an instrument display. It wouldn't make sense on some boats because of the extra power and ethernet cables, but for not much more money you get a 1.7-inch bigger screen and a backup full-featured MFD that can even handle IP video.
I don't have a recent MFD (E-80 still going strong) to compare too. The i70 menu system is described in the manual as having the lighthouse user interface, as does the Ray website which reads "New LightHouse user interface is simple and quick to use".
Wouldn't it be great if the new Lighthouse II also utilized ActiveCaptain for crowd sourcing data. A real win for everyone!
Hartley, what do you mean by "offset"? Emeryville is also our home port and both of our plotters seem to accurately depict the channel. One chart is Jeppesen C-MAP on Furuno NN3D and the other is ENC on Rose Point. I'd be curious to see how ours differ from yours.
As an aside, for us raster charts are totally useless for anything except getting an overview of an intended route. The fact that the labels and soundings don't rotate when you are not viewing the chart north up (or heading north) adds dramatically to the cognitive load of figuring out what the plotter display is telling you while underway.
Adam, I am using Navionics Silver, and all three sets of marks are displaced significantly East and slightly South of their actual location. The outer pair is the furthest off, the last two that mark the turn are only off a little. I initially thought it might have been an issue with them being private aids, but when I looked at the NOAA raster charts (using RayMarine's Voyage Planner program), they were depicted in the correct place.
Every other significant point I've passed has been pretty much where it was supposed to be (the end of the Berkeley Pier, for example) so this may be just an isolated flaw.
This is certainly a step in the right direction. No longer will Raymarine customers be saddled with overpriced and underfeatured proprietary "charts", Of course, iPad users have had access to free NOAA charts for years.
Difficulty in locating zoom dependent navaids in Nantucket Sound and Vineyard Sound has turned me to a fan of raster.
Also happy to see Ray going to GPX format. High time the industry move to a single, portable format for waypt, route, track data.
Hartley, these are the NOAA raster and vector charts discussed in the entry, just reformatted to display well on Ray a,c,e and gS-Series MFDs.
Hi Ben, Yep – already downloaded a bunch of 'em (lotsa gigs, took a couple hours). I won't be back on the boat for another month or so to try the update and charts out, unfortunately.
I just finished a trip to La Paz to visit our boat. One of my projects was to upgrade my e125 and e165 to the new Lighthouse II. The upgrade went off without a hitch and the raster charts are cool.
Am I the only customers that thinks this is a big deal?
Really great to see you pop up on Panbo again, Jeremy!
I don't think that you're the only boater with this issue, but I fear it's also a scary deal for the manufacturers. To my knowledge only Furuno lets their TZT Touch work with their viewing and control apps through a boat's WiFi router.
Navico does publish guidelines for how to set up your own router to work with their GoFree but they look complicated and I think they position the guidelines as only appropriate for people with deep IT experience. In other words, I think, please don't call tech support about this.
Meanwhile Maretron changed their whole N2KView architecture to protect it from boat router issues, and protect themselves from having to solve problems they didn't create.
In short, this is a tricky area.
But on a jollier note, I'm hearing about some exciting new ways Raymarine and Navionics are going to use WiFi, and I'll be at the press conference next Thursday.
What I think Raymarine should offer is the option to use an existing ssid–with all the appropriate warnings.
Jeremy, I agree, it catches me out all the time. I forget I'm on Raymarine Wifi then I go to try to get an email and I can't until I switch off Wifi and use 3G (or if docked, another Wifi network). What might be nice is some kind of prompt when exiting Ray Control that would ask you if you wanted to switch networks and make it easier to do so. It could take you to wifi settings, or switch wifi off (to activate 3G) at the very least.
Good news on Raymarine WiFi. Both the MFD product manager and new General Manager want to support onboard routers. They brought it up, but no timeline.
When the Fusion 700 is connected to the e165 via ethernet, you should be able to use the Fusion-Link app on your tablet while connected to the e165's Wi-Fi network.
With nv Charts already available, Navico users have two choices for U.S. rasters, though neither is free.


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An experienced reconnaissance Marine officer, Bruce Meyers paints a colorful and accurate picture of the special recon landings that preceded every major amphibious operation in the Pacific War. Credited with saving countless lives, these Marine scouts went in stealthily at night from submarines, PT boats, Catalinas, and high-speed transports. Swift, silent, and deadly, they landed on more than two hundred enemy beaches, from Tarawa to Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa to collect intelligence on potential landing sites. They measured water depths, charted coral heads, gathered soil samples, sought out enemy locations, and took photographs. In short, they obtained information vital to the success of American operations in the Pacific. This book represents the first time World War II Marine recon landings have been chronicled. Meyers explains that only the story of their contributions in later wars has been previously documented. His book describes the start of it all, letting readers join the men as they slip over the sides of their rubber boats and make their way inland. Only now can the public appreciate the accomplishments of these daring and intrepid Marines.


Recently, talk show host Wendy Williams made national news when she informed her audience that she would be taking a hiatus from TV due to her diagnosis of Graves disease. Wendy Williams is not the first celebrity to be afflicted with this disease. Rapper Missy Elliott has also been vocal about her bout with Graves disease.
Graves disease is an autoimmune disorder of the thyroid that causes an overproduction of thyroid hormones.
The thyroid gland is a piece of glandular tissue shaped like a butterfly that sits in front of the windpipe. Thyroid hormones control body temperature, body weight, metabolism, brain development, cholesterol levels, and other physical and cognitive functioning.
Graves disease is much more common in women than men and affects approximately 10 million people. Unfortunately, as with most autoimmune diseases, the cause is unknown. However, those with a family history of Graves disease are more likely to develop the disease.
Overall, the most of the signs and symptoms of Graves disease can improve with treatment. However, should a person develop 'thyroid storm', their life can be in danger.
Thyroid storm occurs in people with untreated Graves disease. They develop a high temperature, increased anxiety, heart palpitations, increased heart rate, other metabolic changes, and can lead to death. Thyroid storm is a life-threatening emergency.
An enlarged thyroid is typically discovered during a routine physical examination. The practitioner will feel a change in the size and/or texture of the thyroid gland.
Diagnosing Graves disease involves a simple blood test to check the levels of thyroid hormones secreted.
How is Graves Disease treated?
Treating Graves disease depends on the severity of the disease. Treatment may only include medication, or it could include radioactive iodine, or even surgical removal of the gland. Those who's thyroid is removed can lead normal lives with hormone replacement therapy.
If you have these symptoms, please contact your healthcare professional for an examination.
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The Practice of Vulnerable Reading: A Workshop in Health Humanities
This workshop will consider how Shakespeare's King Lear depicts different forms of human suffering, making it a resource for those who feel vulnerable. We will begin with a short synopsis of the play, and then structure our discussion by progressing through five layers of questioning: (1) reading for the characters, (2) reading for the plot, (3) reading for dialogical relationships, (4) reading for vulnerabilities and suffering, and (5) reading for a sense of rightness in how characters act, how the author tells the tale, and how we as readers respond. As time allows, we will do reflective writing in response to prompts exploring each layer and how they interrelate.
Vulnerable reading understands literature as a resource for both ill persons and healthcare workers. Their vulnerabilities range from physical distress to task overload and alienated relationships. To vulnerable persons, literature offers characters whose troubles mirror their own, and stories that can instigate new understandings of their own story.
The workshop is intended for scholars and professionals interested in health humanities. The objective is to prepare participants for teaching health humanities, facilitating groups that practice vulnerable reading, and incorporating vulnerable reading in personal and professional writing. The workshop will be experiential, but its emphasis is professional.
Participants' experience of the workshop would be enhanced by seeing a DVD of King Lear or reading the play, if possible. Reading different versions is useful: Lear has been retold as a graphic novel and as novels set in the present, exemplified by Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres. But no specific preparation is expected.
Arthur W. Frank has been studying illness experience and clinical responses to suffering for three decades, beginning with his memoir of critical illness, At the Will of the Body (1991). His present work turns to fiction as a way of rethinking the question asked in The Wounded Storyteller (1995): what is the relationship between embodied suffering and narrative representations of suffering? How can narration help? Vulnerable reading also develops the idea of companion stories, introduced in Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-narratology (2010). Vulnerable reading seeks to discover what is companionable in works of literature generally, and in this workshop, what is companionable in Shakespeare.
Arthur W. Frank, Ph.D., FRSC
Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary
arthurwfrank@gmail.com
www.arthurwfrank.ca
Hvor: MH L11.104
Målgruppe: ansatte, studenter, gjester / eksterne, inviterte
Kontakt: Olaug S. Lian
E-post: olaug.lian@uit.no


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