Refugees bail from an overloaded raft and swim towards the shores of Lesbos, Greece. It is only one leg of the treacherous journey across Europe to reach their final destination, Germany in Another News Story.
"Another news story" is a phrase one might use when referencing media coverage of Trump's latest antics, or the most recent development of a long-standing social issue in another corner of the world. It signifies both a habitual regard for and detachment from the social phenomena that make headlines—a reflex that is all too common among those on the receiving end of the news.
In the last few years, coverage of the European refugee crisis by major news outlets around the world has saturated the media landscape with scenes of the calamity. Yet, the story has never been told from the perspective British director Orban Wallace takes in his debut documentary, Another News Story. Wallace steps away from the sea of tripods and media personnel to instead focus his camera on the journalists themselves as they navigate the working conditions and ethical dilemmas of reporting on a humanitarian crisis. This unconventional take on a widely-reported topic isn't just another news story; it goes beyond surface-level media criticism to probe the relationship between news subjects, producers and consumers.
In this story, there are no heroes or villains; it quickly becomes apparent that the ethical and moral divisions of right and wrong are not so clear cut. Each journalist Wallace encounters projects the honourable intention of bringing truth to viewers so they can grasp the severity of the crisis and care enough to do something about it. However, under the unflinching gaze of Wallace's camera, it's unclear whether the journalists themselves care, whether they are at all invested in the reality they report on.
Journalists are essential to society, yet the profession's nobility is questioned as Wallace follows reporters who seemingly go through the motions, setting up tripods on the shambles of people's lives without enduring the emotional weight of the situation. At one point in the journey, Wallace finds out a refugee has been injured in an aggressive confrontation with police. When Wallace questions the bystanders, one journalist observes that the man is now swarmed with cameras but hasn't actually been offered aid. It was one of many instances in which the journalistic imperative to "get the shot" overrides the human instinct to help someone in need.
The documentary does not seek to champion the virtues of journalism, nor does it take a hostile view on the news media. Another News Story simply poses the question: If the news media holds the government accountable, who holds the media accountable? The answer places Wallace in a new, unfamiliar position—the watchdog's watchdog.
A journalist captures the last shots of a refugee-packed train before it pulls out of the station enroute to Germany in Another News Story.
Though he stays closely attuned to the lives of the journalists, Wallace doesn't ignore the emotional intensity of the refugees' journey. He travels alongside Mahasen, a Syrian refugee, and a group of others who have embarked on the perilous journey to Germany, to experience the bureaucratic minefield and physical stress firsthand. Wallace juxtaposes the sanitized broadcast news coverage of his colleagues with his own intimate, handheld footage from the field, effectively widening the audience's field of vision beyond the CNN news desk to see all that lies in the periphery.
The group of refugees is seemingly always being pursued, either by journalists or authorities, to be tokenized or victimized. Wallace, with his camera and valid passport, is not excluded from the hoards of news media personnel and the security his press pass permits him. In this story, the roles can only be defined by power—who stands on either side of the camera, and subsequently, the television screen.
Towards the end of the film, a reporter Wallace encountered offers an observation: "The story is over from a news point of view." Yet life goes on for Mahasen and thousands of other refugees who will begin a new life in Europe. Only, now, the cameras have stopped rolling.
Cinema Politica's screening of Another News Story on March 19 was followed by a panel discussion moderated by filmmaker Muhammad El-Khairy, in which activists Fatima Azzahra Banane, Dalila Awada and Houda Asal addressed the residual questions posed by the film: With no end to the crisis in sight, where do we go from here? What kind of news coverage is needed?
Awada suggested journalists need to be increasingly aware of the language they use when identifying vulnerable people, and how these prescribed labels are then represented in the news media. Language poses the unique threat of unconsciously alienating individuals and groups, as it's used carelessly in public discourse, she said. The most subtle linguistic divides—in this case, the interchangeable use of the terms "refugee," "foreign person" and "illegal immigrant"—can erode any common ground between the vulnerable group and the audience.
Azzahra Banane stressed the need for context, to make both journalists and viewers aware of the social, political and cultural roots of the issues they are witnessing. When context is limited to what is considered breaking news, viewers fail to comprehend the extent of the problems and are not compelled to solve them, she said.
In the same way Wallace held a mirror to the frontline of journalists, the film calls for self-reflection among media consumers as well. News producers and consumers maintain a symbiotic relationship; the interests and preferences of the audience directly inform the nature and content of the news. If we are to honestly criticize the journalist's vulture-like scavenging of the remains of human lives, then we must also acknowledge the North American appetite for superficial, sensationalized news coverage.


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Day in the Life of a California Nurse During a Pandemic
Sarah Hart
Social distancing sign at Lake Park, Huntington Beach, CA.
Sarah Hart, Staff Writer
It has been nearly three months since COVID-19 was first officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), and has grown increasingly worse each day as many people continue to ignore the "stay-at-home" orders. Though the beaches are as crowded as ever, and many claim that they fail to see the significance of social distancing, the effects of the virus have hit hard within the walls of California hospitals.
Beth Henshaw, a nurse at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, has had to adjust to the unprecedented pandemic within her workplace.
"Patients that have the correct criteria and symptoms for testing are placed in special isolation," Henshaw said. "Normally, a nurse on my unit would be assigned three to four patients, but with how quickly this virus is spreading, we only assign one nurse to that patient during an entire 12-hour shift. Anyone that does have to go into that room has to wear special protective gear, including a special helmet…that filters the air."
Though Henshaw personally has not worked with or treated anyone with the virus, her hospital has reported multiple cases already. She explained that if someone displays symptoms of Coronavirus, they are immediately isolated until proven positive or not. People who are confirmed to have the Coronavirus receive very little contact from anybody, including minimal doctor or nurse contact in non-urgent cases.
But what is a Coronavirus? The title "Coronavirus," in this case, is a bit of a misconception in itself. According to the World Health Organization, the Coronavirus was intended as a label for a series of related viruses that stems from mammals and birds, which ranges from the common cold to respiratory tract infections. Very rarely have these viruses proven lethal, but there have been several well-documented cases including SARS, MERS, and now, of course, COVID-19. As of now, medical professionals have yet to find a permanent and one-hundred percent effective vaccine for Coronaviruses, but many companies and organizations are diligently researching and experimenting at the moment.
According to the John Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health's daily COVID-19 newsletter, the United States is almost at two-million cases of the Coronavirus, with the "total… [reaching] 100,000 deaths."
For nurses like Henshaw, the global pandemic has taken a toll on not only her work life, but her family life as well. She no longer changes into her scrubs at work, and she now cleans all of her tools and personal items such as shoes, stethoscope, pens, and badge with bleach wipes. As soon as she gets home, she puts her clothes into the wash and immediately takes a shower before even greeting her family.
"Day to day at home, shoes are not allowed in the house," she affirmed. "We wash our hands a lot more and we're trying to keep the house cleaner in general."
According to Henshaw, the best way to avoid the virus on a day-to-day basis is to wash your hands with warm, soapy water for at least twenty seconds.
"You've heard this before, but hand washing is key… not only [on] the palms of your hands, [but] the back of your hands and wrists too."
At this stage of the pandemic, staying home and only going out for essential reasons is vital. After the massive protests in downtown Huntington Beach, over 150 new cases emerged, raising Orange County's total number of cases to over 4,350 and the death toll to about 90 lives. Now, more than ever, medical professionals everywhere are urging citizens to think of the well-being of their community and to stay inside. No hair appointment or day at the beach is worth a human life.
Henshaw explained "that people are feeling quarantine "fatigue.'" With the state set to reopen, she suggests for everyone to "remain vigilant and [to] not let their guard down too much. Continue to mask, wash hands, and think twice before going into crowded places. The virus hasn't gone away by any means."
She maintained that teenagers who do not have an essential cause to go out should stay home. Henshaw wants to remind others that "if you do not need to go out, don't. This will decrease the chance of you picking something up."
Many of the youth at our local Huntington Beach High School have treated the social distancing orders–which caused school to close after March 13th–as a time to go out and hang out with friends. In response, Henshaw said, "think about someone… most at risk… a parent [or] grandparent… and think about how they would feel if that person died in the next month or two… Again, it's not so much about you as it is about helping to protect others. Every time you don't adhere to the recommendations, you are putting yourself and your loved ones at risk."
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Hibs goalkeeper Cammy Bell is wanted by three different clubs after impressing between the sticks for the Easter Road side, according to the Scottish Sun.
The 31-year-old was thrown into action following Ofir Marciano's red card against St Johnstone but managed to make a number of saves both in that match and the subsequent league fixture, a 2-0 home win over Partick Thistle.
Oldham scouts watched him in action during the clash with Thistle and were intrigued with what they saw.
Bristol City boss Lee Johnson is also considering a swoop for the ex-Rangers and Kilmarnock custodian as he searches for a back-up goalkeeper for next term.
An unnamed Scottish Premiership club is also in the mix. Bell is out of contract at the end of this season and would be able to agree a pre-contract deal with another side.


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WFP and UNHCR call for urgent support to avoid brutal cuts to food aid for refugees in Chad
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warned today of an imminent cut to food assistance to crisis-affected refugees in Chad unless urgent funding to bridge major funding shortfalls is received imminently.
WFP requires US$161 million by the end of 2022 to avert a suspension of its refugee assistance programme and provide life-saving assistance to crisis-affected communities in Chad including 519,000 Sudanese and Central African refugees.
Refugee communities in Chad already face severe malnutrition levels, with some areas seeing acute malnutrition rates of over 19% and chronic malnutrition rates of 42% - a situation expected to worsen without additional funding that could stem the food aid cuts.
Starting in June 2021, WFP was forced to provide half rations to refugees and other groups due to major funding shortages. WFP and UNHCR are concerned that any further suspension of food assistance will have a severe impact on the food security, nutrition, and protection of refugee communities – especially the most vulnerable - including children being pulled out of school, forced to work, or forced into marriage.
" Refugees count on us for what is sometimes the only meal they eat in a day – WFP's food is a vital lifeline. Cutting this lifeline now will have devastating consequences on the most vulnerable, especially women, girls and children – we're extremely concerned," said WFP Country Director and Representative in Chad, Pierre Honnorat.
While WFP and UNHCR continue working with the Government of Chad and partners to find lasting solutions, refugees are largely dependent on humanitarian assistance due to limited access to fertile land and livelihood opportunities. This year, refugees and host communities have also been hard-hit by unprecedented flooding and spiralling food costs.
"We have received reports of an increase of malnourished children admitted in health centres, and have witnessed less children than usual attending school when compared to last year, as they are sent to the fields or towns to work," said UNHCR Chad Representative Laura Lo Castro during a joint visit with WFP to assess the situation of Central African refugees in southern Chad, 40% of whom have arrived in the past three years and face a particularly worrisome situation. "Food aid is critical to save lives in the short term, but also to safeguard ongoing and future resilience programmes."
Chad hosts 577,000 refugees, more than any other country in West and Central Africa. The refugee population has increased by 10 percent in the past year and is mainly comprised of people who fled political instability, social unrest, and insecurity in neighbouring Cameroon, Central African Republic, Nigeria, and Sudan.
About UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, leads international action to protect people forced to flee because of conflict and persecution. We deliver life-saving assistance like shelter, food and water; help safeguard fundamental human rights; and develop solutions that ensure people have a safe place to call home where they can build a better future. For more information, please visit: www.unhcr.org.
About United Nations World Food Programme
The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change. For more information, please visit: www.wfp.org.
UNHCR/Chad, Aristophane Ngargoune, [email protected], +235 66 98 37 92
UNHCR/Dakar, Alpha Seydi Ba, [email protected], +221 77 345 74 54
WFP/Chad, Ingela Christiansson, [email protected], +235 98 98 31 03
WFP/Dakar, Djaounsede Madjiangar, [email protected]; Mob +221 77 639 42 71
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Video: Israeli police officer slaps Palestinian woman lawyer on Nakba day
Ali Abunimah Rights and Accountability 16 May 2011
A video posted on Youtube shows an Israeli police officer slapping a woman. The Arabic title of the video says: "Aggression of an Israeli officer against the lawyer Maysa Irshaid, 15 May." Separately, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) issued a press statement received by The Electronic Intifada by email that appears to describe the incident depicted in the video. The slap is clearly visible toward the end of the brief, 43 second video.
The PCATI release says:
Advocate Meissa Irshaid, from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, accompanied demonstrators, who were marking Nakba, day in order to monitor the behavior of the police forces. In the course of her duties she approached a police officer in order to inquire into the circumstances of the arrest of five of the demonstrators. She was then slapped by the police who arrested her as he simultaneously launched tear gas over other demonstrators. Ms. Irshaid, at the time of this statement, is still being held in a northern precinct police station.
May 15 was marked as Nakba day – a commemoration of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1947-48. Israel recently passed a "Nakba law" criminalizing commemoration of the event.
Here is the PCATI release in full:
Public Committee Against Torture in Israel Press Statement 15 May 2011
Police Officer Slaps Human Rights Organization Attorney While Attending to the Needs of Demonstrators Under Arrest
An attorney from the Israeli human rights NGO, "The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel" was physically assaulted by a police officer and then arrested today in the course of a demonstration marking Nakba Day in Northern Israel
Dr. Ishai Menuchin, executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, the NGO that dispatched Adv. Irshaid to scrutinize the manner in which the police forces treated demonstrators, stated "Israel's police force continues to prove that the rule of law remains foreign from its perspective. The physical assault and arrest of an attorney who approached an officer in order to inquire into the reason for the arrests of demonstrators is unacceptable, immoral and patently illegal. The time has come for the police to act in accordance with the law and not according to their power to use unlawful force against human rights defenders and demonstrators."
PCATI
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Co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine, now out from Haymarket Books.
Also wrote One Country: A Bold-Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse. Opinions are mine alone.
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This is a scraper that runs on Morph. It scrapes lodged development applications from the South Australian City of Burnside web site.
Last run completed successfully 2019-03-28 .
Injecting configuration and compiling... Injecting scraper and running... Retrieving page: https://www.burnside.sa.gov.au/Planning-Business/Planning-Development/New-Planning-Applications-Register Parsing document: https://www.burnside.sa.gov.au/files/assets/public/planning-amp-business/planning-amp-development/new-planning-applications-register/2019/01.02.2019-28.02.2019.pdf Parsed 94 development application(s) from document: https://www.burnside.sa.gov.au/files/assets/public/planning-amp-business/planning-amp-development/new-planning-applications-register/2019/01.02.2019-28.02.2019.pdf Inserted: application "180\1137\18" with address "24 Conyngham Street GLENSIDE SA 5065" and description "WITHDRAWN - Variation to application 180/1087/18 New Build in Lieu of Dwelling Additions & Alterations" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1278\18" with address "202 Greenhill Road EASTWOOD SA 5063" and description "Removal of one Significant Tree - Pepper Tree" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1305\18" with address "15 Burnalta Crescent BURNSIDE SA 5066" and description "Variation to DA : 180\1232\17 - Increase height of additions and changes to external finishes and front fence" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0060\19" with address "58 Highfield Avenue ST GEORGES SA 5064" and description "Front fence" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0066\19" with address "113 -115 Glen Osmond Road EASTWOOD SA 5063" and description "Change of use (retail showroom to service trade premises for motor vehicle showroom)" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0069\19" with address "23 Inverness Avenue ST GEORGES SA 5064" and description "Demolition of existing dwelling and ancillary structures and construction of a pair of two-storey semi-detached dwellings" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0071\19" with address "484 Glynburn Road BURNSIDE SA 5066" and description "Single storey detached dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0073\19" with address "7 Hay Road LINDEN PARK SA 5065" and description "Carport" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0076\19" with address "89 Alexandra Avenue TOORAK GARDENS SA 5065" and description "Alterations to existing Residence" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0082\19" with address "29 Brigalow Avenue KENSINGTON GARDENS SA 5068" and description "Tree Removal - Regulated Palm Tree" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0084\19" with address "28 Hauteville Terrace EASTWOOD SA 5063" and description "Additions to the existing semi-detached dwelling and construction of a verandah" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0085\19" with address "5 Rosedale Avenue WATTLE PARK SA 5066" and description "Removal of one (1) regulated tree and one (1) significant tree" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0086\19" with address "481 Greenhill Road TUSMORE SA 5065" and description "Change of use from consulting room to personal services establishment" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0089\19" with address "South Australian Water Corporation 1 Conyngham Street GLENSIDE SA 5065" and description "Upgrade to an existing telecommunications facility" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0090\19" with address "257 Beulah Road BEULAH PARK SA 5067" and description "Amendment to DA 180\1002\17 - increase cellar/basement level to Dwelling 1 creating a three-storey dwelling and incidental earthworks, reduction in side boundary setback, increase in" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0093\19" with address "364 Glynburn Road KENSINGTON GARDENS SA 5068" and description "Land Subdivision including new common roadway and fencing. Demolition of existing outbuildings." into the database. Inserted: application "180\0094\19" with address "12 Riesling Crescent WATTLE PARK SA 5066" and description "Domestic outbuilding comprising verandah and new fence along northern boundary" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0095\19" with address "59 Dashwood Road BEAUMONT SA 5066" and description "Freestanding carport" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0096\19" with address "32 Old Norton Summit Road SKYE SA 5072" and description "Construction of new dwelling and conversion of existing dwelling to storage shed (non-complying)" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0097\19" with address "30 Ormond Grove TOORAK GARDENS SA 5065" and description "Alterations and additions to rear of existing dwelling including verandah" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0098\19" with address "5 Loma Linda Grove WATTLE PARK SA 5066" and description "Removal of one (1) significant SA Blue Gum" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0100\19" with address "1-7 Mulberry Road GLENSIDE SA 5065" and description "Internal works to existing state heritage building" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0101\19" with address "99 Alexandra Avenue TOORAK GARDENS SA 5065" and description "Variation to DA : 180\0585\18 - relocation of outbuilding, changes to roof form of addition/outbuilding, increase in height of alfresco and reduction in height of carport" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0102\19" with address "269-273 Kensington Road KENSINGTON PARK SA 5068" and description "Alterations to a state heritage building" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0103\19" with address "2 Tregenza Close BEAUMONT SA 5066" and description "Removal of a significant tree - (Eucalyptus rubida - Candlebark Gum)" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0104\19" with address "9 Grandview Grove TOORAK GARDENS SA 5065" and description "Double Storey dwelling addition, in-ground swimming pool, and attached garage" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0105\19" with address "134 Penfold Road WATTLE PARK SA 5066" and description "Construct outbuilding" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0106\19" with address "13A Jellicoe Street LINDEN PARK SA 5065" and description "Amendment to previous application: 180/0468/18 – Alterations to the approved dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0108\19" with address "9 Lerwick Avenue HAZELWOOD PARK SA 5066" and description "Two storey detached dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0109\19" with address "10 Craighill Road ST GEORGES SA 5064" and description "Two storey detached dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0111\19" with address "120 Kensington Road TOORAK GARDENS SA 5065" and description "Modifications to existing pergola at Attunga Gardens - removal of paving and benches, install of mulch and additional metal hoop around middle of pergola. Paint pergola black." into the database. Inserted: application "180\0112\19" with address "3 Cooper Angus Grove WATTLE PARK SA 5066" and description "Removal of one (1) significant SA Blue Gum" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0113\19" with address "43A Hyland Terrace ROSSLYN PARK SA 5072" and description "Single storey detached dwelling and swimming pool" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0114\19" with address "19 Dashwood Road BEAUMONT SA 5066" and description "Land Division ( Torrens Title ) - Creating two (2) allotments from one (1) existing." into the database. Inserted: application "180\0115\19" with address "8A David Street MAGILL SA 5072" and description "Attached Patio" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0116\19" with address "17 Verdun Street BEULAH PARK SA 5067" and description "Internal Renovation works, demolition of rear lean to proposed rear extension to existing dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0117\19" with address "131 Allinga Avenue GLENUNGA SA 5064" and description "Pergola" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0118\19" with address "3 Bakewell Street TUSMORE SA 5065" and description "Two Storey addition to rear of existing dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0119\19" with address "42 Wootoona Terrace ST GEORGES SA 5064" and description "Installation of a Vergola." into the database. Inserted: application "180\0120\19" with address "28 Hauteville Terrace EASTWOOD SA 5063" and description "Outbuilding" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0121\19" with address "30 Queens Avenue BURNSIDE SA 5066" and description "Two -storey detached dwelling including garage, portico, alfresco, balcony, front fence, 1800mm fencing above existing retaining walls and associated landscaping" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0122\19" with address "79 Tusmore Avenue TUSMORE SA 5065" and description "Internal alterations to existing residence, including replacing one enclosed verandah with new construction and replacing another enclosed verandah and an open verandah" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0123\19" with address "3 Muscatel Avenue WATTLE PARK SA 5066" and description "Verandah" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0124\19" with address "24 Heatherbank Terrace STONYFELL SA 5066" and description "Replace existing dilapidated rock wall and replace with new concrete sleeper retaining wall." into the database. Inserted: application "180\0125\19" with address "1 Ash Grove MAGILL SA 5072" and description "Amendment to DA 180\0065\18 ( Res code land division and 2 detached dwellings) retaining walls, fencing, balconies and privacy screening" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0126\19" with address "Burnside Tennis Courts Newland Road BURNSIDE SA 5066" and description "Advertising Display" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0128\19" with address "8 Warwick Avenue TOORAK GARDENS SA 5065" and description "Construct shed, verandah & carport" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0129\19" with address "34 Royal Avenue BURNSIDE SA 5066" and description "Construct roofed balcony & screening to existing dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0130\19" with address "14 Slapes Gully Road BURNSIDE SA 5066" and description "Construction of 2x decks, continuous with balconies (retrospective)" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0131\19" with address "209-211 Fullarton Road EASTWOOD SA 5063" and description "Proposed free standing sign" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0132\19" with address "33 Main Avenue FREWVILLE SA 5063" and description "Alterations and additions to the existing dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0133\19" with address "32A Kensington Road ROSE PARK SA 5067" and description "Masonry wall on side boundary" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0134\19" with address "3 Garden Avenue BURNSIDE SA 5066" and description "Two (x2) two-storey detached dwellings including garages, porches, alfrescos, retaining walls and fenicng" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0136\19" with address "14 Woodhouse Crescent WATTLE PARK SA 5066" and description "Alterations and additions to existing dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0137\19" with address "30 Howard Street BEULAH PARK SA 5067" and description "Swimming pool & associated pool equipment" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0139\19" with address "446 Glynburn Road ERINDALE SA 5066" and description "Boundary fence" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0141\19" with address "134 Penfold Road WATTLE PARK SA 5066" and description "Remove existing retaining wall and place a safe secure wall with a 1.8 metre Colorbond fence that is 22 metres long" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0144\19" with address "6 Adnunda Place BEAUMONT SA 5066" and description "Converting the garage which is attached to the house under one roof to living space by removing the roller doors and installing two windows without any structural changes" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0145\19" with address "1 Everard Street GLEN OSMOND SA 5064" and description "Variation to application 180\0605\16 separate garage, delete out building add privacy screening to upstairs bathroom window" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0146\19" with address "2 Patrick Auld Drive AULDANA SA 5072" and description "Proposed Addition to Existing Residence" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0148\19" with address "2-4 Borrow Drive BURNSIDE SA 5066" and description "Amendment to existing DA 180\1181\16" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0149\19" with address "6 Tusmore Avenue LEABROOK SA 5068" and description "Variation to condition 3 and 4 of previous Development Authorisation : 180\0312\18" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0150\19" with address "6 McGlasson Avenue MAGILL SA 5072" and description "*WITHDRAWN * Double Storey Dwelling With Attached Garage" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0151\19" with address "25 Conyngham Street GLENSIDE SA 5065" and description "****Require CT *****Proposed Tree removal" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0152\19" with address "17 Lewis Avenue GLEN OSMOND SA 5064" and description "Amendment to DA 180\0809\18 – Change in finished floor levels and amendments to approved dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0153\19" with address "18A Fifeshire Avenue ST GEORGES SA 5064" and description "Land Division ( Community Title ) - Creating three (3) allotments from one (1) existing." into the database. Inserted: application "180\0155\19" with address "14 The Parkway LEABROOK SA 5068" and description "Minor amendment to recently approved (25/01/19) DA 180/1021/18. Footprint enlarged by 12 sq m, alfresco reduced and laundry relocated" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0156\19" with address "9 Hallett Road ERINDALE SA 5066" and description "Retaining wall and fencing" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0157\19" with address "76 Coach Road SKYE SA 5072" and description "Alterations and additions to existing two storey dwelling comprising garage" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0158\19" with address "41 Glen Osmond Road EASTWOOD SA 5063" and description "Advertising hoardings and associated displays" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0159\19" with address "12 Fort Avenue KENSINGTON GARDENS SA 5068" and description "Two Storey Detached Dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0161\19" with address "2 Orient Road KENSINGTON GARDENS SA 5068" and description "planning application to erect single storey house, and to demolish existing house and 3 sheds" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0162\19" with address "379 A Kensington Road KENSINGTON GARDENS SA 5068" and description "Retaining and Fencing" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0164\19" with address "44 Tusmore Avenue TUSMORE SA 5065" and description "Outbuilding (garage)" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0166\19" with address "33 Delbridge Court BEAUMONT SA 5066" and description "4 Storey Building" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0168\19" with address "35 Rawson Penfold Drive ROSSLYN PARK SA 5072" and description "Amendment to DA - 1. delete pool enclosure and provide 1.8 mtr screen wall to northern boundary 2. - reduce pool FFL 3. delete master suite sliding doors and balustrade and provide a" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0169\19" with address "133 Grant Avenue TOORAK GARDENS SA 5065" and description "Domestic Garage" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0170\19" with address "22 Watson Avenue ROSE PARK SA 5067" and description "2 x Pergolas" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0171\19" with address "25 Yeltana Avenue WATTLE PARK SA 5066" and description "Two storey dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0172\19" with address "54-56 Rawson Penfold Drive ROSSLYN PARK SA 5072" and description "Solar PV system installation" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0173\19" with address "46 Howard Street BEULAH PARK SA 5067" and description "Alterations and additions to residence" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0174\19" with address "26 LEstrange Street GLENSIDE SA 5065" and description "Minor variation to pool house" into the database. 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Inserted: application "180\0181\19" with address "18 Royal Avenue BURNSIDE SA 5066" and description "TRI/SPLIT LEVEL RESIDENCE WITH POOL" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0182\19" with address "9 The Parkway LEABROOK SA 5068" and description "Alterations and additions to existing single storey dwelling including garage, verandah and swimming pool" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0187\19" with address "Resthaven 1/334 Kensington Road LEABROOK SA 5068" and description "Installation of small aluminium sign to garden area adjacent road entrance" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0188\19" with address "26 Hallett Road WATTLE PARK SA 5066" and description "Extension for an existing dwelling (single storey dwelling)" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0189\19" with address "Miller Reserve Lacrosse 59 Hay Road LINDEN PARK SA 5065" and description "Transportable Public Toilets in Miller Reserve" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0190\19" with address "18 Seaforth Avenue HAZELWOOD PARK SA 5066" and description "Retrospective application car port addition to existing dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\0191\19" with address "20 Watson Avenue ROSE PARK SA 5067" and description "Replacement of Garage" into the database. Parsing document: https://www.burnside.sa.gov.au/files/assets/public/planning-amp-business/planning-amp-development/new-planning-applications-register/2018/december-2018.pdf Parsed 74 development application(s) from document: https://www.burnside.sa.gov.au/files/assets/public/planning-amp-business/planning-amp-development/new-planning-applications-register/2018/december-2018.pdf Inserted: application "180\1081\18" with address "Hostel 6 Booth Avenue LINDEN PARK SA 5065" and description "Fence" into the database. 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Inserted: application "180\1213\18" with address "14 Pembroke Street KENSINGTON PARK SA 5068" and description "Minor demolition works to rear portion of existing residence and part of garage, re-construction of garage, construction and extension to rear portion of residence, internal" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1214\18" with address "403 The Parade KENSINGTON GARDENS SA 5068" and description "Two-storey domestic outbuilding" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1215\18" with address "6 William Street BURNSIDE SA 5066" and description "2 x two storey detached dwellings" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1216\18" with address "62 Stanley Street ERINDALE SA 5066" and description "Construction of retaining wall and fence on side boundaries and part on rear boundary" into the database. 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Inserted: application "180\1239\18" with address "18 Bonvue Avenue BEAUMONT SA 5066" and description "Alterations and additions to the existing dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1240\18" with address "41 Lockwood Road ERINDALE SA 5066" and description "Verandah" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1242\18" with address "44 Howard Terrace HAZELWOOD PARK SA 5066" and description "Demolition of existing dwelling and structures and construction of new two storey detached dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1243\18" with address "7 Waterfall Gully Road BURNSIDE SA 5066" and description "Land Division ( Torrens Title ) – Creating three (3) allotments from one (1) existing, demolition of existing buildings and structures, and the construction of three (x3) two-storey dwellings" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1244\18" with address "5 Benacre Close GLEN OSMOND SA 5064" and description "Land Division ( Torrens Title ) - Creating two (2) allotments from one (1) existing." into the database. Inserted: application "180\1245\18" with address "41 Beatty Street LINDEN PARK SA 5065" and description "Land Division ( Torrens Title ) - Creating two (2) allotments from one (1) existing." into the database. Inserted: application "180\1248\18" with address "3B Stonyfell Road WATTLE PARK SA 5066" and description "Removal of significant tree (eucalyptus camaldulensis)" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1249\18" with address "13/35 High Street BURNSIDE SA 5066" and description "Change of Use (Butcher to Cafe)" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1250\18" with address "9 Kurralta Drive BURNSIDE SA 5066" and description "Verandah" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1251\18" with address "26 Clark Street STONYFELL SA 5066" and description "Three (3) storey detached dwelling comprising earthworks in excess of 9 cubic metres" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1252\18" with address "19 Bushy Park Drive AULDANA SA 5072" and description "Concrete swimming pool and safety fencing" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1253\18" with address "18 Bolingbroke Grove TOORAK GARDENS SA 5065" and description "Alterations to existing residence including an in-ground pool" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1254\18" with address "20A Primrose Terrace ROSSLYN PARK SA 5072" and description "Retaining wall & fencing" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1258\18" with address "17 Lerwick Avenue HAZELWOOD PARK SA 5066" and description "Single storey detached dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1259\18" with address "24A Fort Avenue KENSINGTON GARDENS SA 5068" and description "Swimming Pool" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1260\18" with address "12 Wilaroo Avenue BEAUMONT SA 5066" and description "Roof mounted antenna (retrospective)" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1261\18" with address "546 Portrush Road GLEN OSMOND SA 5064" and description "Installation of transportable classroom on grounds of Seymour college" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1262\18" with address "106 Swaine Avenue TOORAK GARDENS SA 5065" and description "Remove existing terracotta roofing tiles, replace roof timbers as required, replace roof with corrugated iron. Existing terracotta roofing materials are at the end of their useful life." into the database. Inserted: application "180\1263\18" with address "248 Beulah Road BEULAH PARK SA 5067" and description "Build new deck and veranda to the rear of the main house with new bi fold doors existing" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1264\18" with address "548 Portrush Road GLEN OSMOND SA 5064" and description "Variation to DA : 180\0954\12 - Extended operating hours and increase to seating capacity (non-complying)" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1265\18" with address "285-287 Kensington Road KENSINGTON PARK SA 5068" and description "OTR integrated service station complex" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1266\18" with address "23 Rochester Street LEABROOK SA 5068" and description "REPLACEMENT DECK .NEW PERGOLA INTERNAL ALTERATION" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1267\18" with address "117 Swaine Avenue TOORAK GARDENS SA 5065" and description "Section 54a tree removal" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1268\18" with address "440 Greenhill Road LINDEN PARK SA 5065" and description "Domestic garage carport and garage with games room and demolition of existing garage" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1269\18" with address "51 Bevington Road GLENUNGA SA 5064" and description "Section 54a tree removal" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1270\18" with address "58 Stanley Street ERINDALE SA 5066" and description "Construct outbuilding" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1271\18" with address "546 Portrush Road GLEN OSMOND SA 5064" and description "Alterations to Exisitng building" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1272\18" with address "58 Stanley Street ERINDALE SA 5066" and description "Construct verandah" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1273\18" with address "58 Stanley Street ERINDALE SA 5066" and description "Construct carport" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1274\18" with address "269-275 Glen Osmond Road FREWVILLE SA 5063" and description "Amendment to DA 180\0333\18" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1276\18" with address "41 Stuart Road DULWICH SA 5065" and description "Amendment to original application 180\0789\14" into the database. Skipped: application "180\1278\18" with address "202 Greenhill Road EASTWOOD SA 5063" and description "Removal of Pepper Tree within 10 metres property being the cancer Council lodge used to accommodate people from rural" because it was already present in the database. Inserted: application "180\1279\18" with address "6A Whitington Avenue GLEN OSMOND SA 5064" and description "Tree Removal of two significant trees" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1284\18" with address "22 Duncan Road BEAUMONT SA 5066" and description "THREE STOREY DETACHED DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED IN -GROUND POOL AND RETAINING WALLS" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1285\18" with address "81 Tusmore Avenue TUSMORE SA 5065" and description "Amend previously approved DA 180/0581/18 to reconfigure rear outbuildings and swimming pool location" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1288\18" with address "36 Windsor Road GLENUNGA SA 5064" and description "Demolition of existing dwelling, proposed new two storey dwelling with basement, swimming pool & shed" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1290\18" with address "21 Rothesay Avenue HAZELWOOD PARK SA 5066" and description "Addition to single storey detached dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1291\18" with address "32 Hallett Road STONYFELL SA 5066" and description "Lopping of significant tree (tree-damaging activity)" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1292\18" with address "13 Lerwick Avenue HAZELWOOD PARK SA 5066" and description "Single storey detached dwelling" into the database. 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Inserted: application "180\1301\18" with address "47 Gurrs Road BEULAH PARK SA 5067" and description "Stage 1 & Stage 2 Addition to Rear of Existing Dwelling" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1303\18" with address "14 McAllan Avenue BEAUMONT SA 5066" and description "SLEEPER RETAINING WALL" into the database. Inserted: application "180\1304\18" with address "4/14 Avenue Road FREWVILLE SA 5063" and description "pergola assembly -- covered" into the database. Complete.
Land Division - Creating two (2) allotments from one (1) existing.
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This summer I've found myself taking quite a lot of overnight trips. And whether I'm travelling for work, or spending a night at a friends' house, I absolutely dread packing! A few things do make the process easier, however. So scroll down for three of my overnight packing tips.
For me, the worst part of packing is rounding up my cosmetics. Because, inevitably, you always end up forgetting something – whether it's toothpaste or makeup remover. So now I have a fully-stocked travel cosmetics bag, which lives in my suitcase. It includes a toothbrush, toothpaste, dental floss, cotton pads, makeup remover, cleanser, night cream, day cream, deodorant, ear plugs, tampons, painkillers and a hairbrush.
This stash is kept completely separate from my day-to-day products. So when I'm about to travel I just grab the travel pouch, add contact lenses and any other bits and pieces I might need (SPF etc), and I'm good to go. It saves so much time, and minimises stress like you wouldn't believe!
If you do a lot of international travel it's also a good idea to keep travel adaptors in your suitcase at all times too.
As an impressionable teenager who read a lot of magazines, I really thought that "day-to-night dressing" would be a big part of adult life. Because the likes of Vogue, Glamour and ELLE mentioned it all the time ("this peplum dress will take you from the office to cocktail hour").
But, shockingly, I've got through the majority of my twenties without having to give "day-to-night dressing" much thought. As, let's be honest, it's only really useful when you apply it to travel.
If I'm spending a night or two away from home I try to pack items of clothing that can be worn more than once. For instance, I could wear this skirt with a T-shirt whilst heading to my destination, style it up with heels and a halter top for evening, then throw it together with a different tee for the journey home the following day. Easy peasy!
This is true for any form of travel, really. But I find it even more important to have good quality luggage when you're just travelling for one or two nights – as it's more likely you'll be carrying it around with you all day.
I've tried to save money by purchasing cheap luggage in the past, but it always comes back to haunt me. Usually in the form of broken zips and wonky wheels.
For longer trips away I use an Antler Juno suitcase; and the Away Carry-On [pictured] is my go-to for overnight travel. It was a bit of an investment, but I'm so happy with my purchase. The suitcase has 360° wheels that are SO smooth, an interior compression system which makes packing much easier; it's lightweight, has an "unbreakable" polycarbonate shell and also includes a hidden laundry bag and a phone charger.
Do you have any overnight packing tips of your own? Feel free to share in the comments section below. Packing cubes are on my "must-buy" list, but I feel like they're probably more useful for longer trips away, right?
Hmmm, that's a good idea- I once stayed overnight after a gig- took out and threw away my contacts, only to realise I'd forgotten my glasses. And I'm blind as a bat, without. The horror.
The pre-packes cosmetics changes my life. I always used to forget something (toothbrush, deodorant), and that has not happened at all since I've started an "away" toiletry bag.


1 Departemento de Ciência da Computação, Instituto de Matemática e Estatística – Usp, rua de Matao 1010, Cidade Universitaria, CEP 05315-970 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
2 Research of this author is suported by CNPq and PRONEX, Convênio 76.97.1008.00.
3 Departemento de Matemática Aplicada, Instituto de Matemática e Estatística – USP, rua de Matao 1010, Cidade Universitaria, CEP 05315-970 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
4 Research of this author is suported by FAPESP - Processo 96/09939-0.
Proximal Point Methods (PPM) can be traced to the pioneer works of Moreau , Martinet [14, 15] and Rockafellar [19, 20] who used as regularization function the square of the Euclidean norm. In this work, we study PPM in the context of optimization and we derive a class of such methods which contains Rockafellar's result. We also present a less stringent criterion to the acceptance of an approximate solution to the subproblems that arise in the inner loops of PPM. Moreover, we introduce a new family of augmented Lagrangian methods for convex constrained optimization, that generalizes the PE+ class presented in .
Key words: Proximal points methods / augmented Lagrangians / convex programming.


Eosinophilic airway inflammation is the dominant pathology in atopic asthma, and anti-inflammatory drugs are the maintenance treatment of choice.2 5 However, only a weak correlation exists between airway inflammation and conventional measures of disease status, such as lung function or symptoms.5 This raises the important question: is it better to assess a child on the basis of improvement of symptoms or lung function or a reduction in inflammation, or even a combination of these?
A recent study measured FeNO and the percentage of eosinophils in induced sputum, in addition to carrying out spirometry, in 150 consecutive white children with a mean age of 12 years, who were referred to a respiratory clinic for evaluation of possible asthma.10 Children with eczema or allergic rhinitis were included, but those with other "systemic manifestations of atopy," such as food allergy, were excluded. After 18 months of follow-up, 69 children were diagnosed retrospectively by conventional criteria (two or more wheezing episodes documented by a doctor; dyspnoea or cough relieved by bronchodilators; bronchodilator reversibility or variability in lung function over time with or without controller drugs but blind to FeNO and sputum eosinophil results) as having steroid naive asthma, 37 as having asthma already being treated with inhaled corticosteroids, and 44 as not having asthma. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of FeNO and sputum eosinophils depended on the cut-off values used but compared favourably to forced expiratory volume in one second (table⇓). However, application of the best cut-off levels placed 10.6% of children with asthma in an inconclusive "borderline" category. This study was performed in a selected population with a clinical suspicion of asthma. In reality, forced expiratory volume in one second is not considered in isolation from the many other factors used to diagnose asthma.
Advocates for the use of FeNO in childhood asthma argue that the context is crucial, with clinical usefulness being greatest in the specialist clinic.7 FeNO should be viewed as complementary to conventional history taking, examination, spirometry, and measures of bronchial lability. The history, clinical assessment during an acute episode, and response to anti-asthma treatment are arguably the most valuable criteria in reaching a diagnosis. If several components of the picture are not suggestive then the probability of asthma is reduced. FeNO seems to represent a small but important piece of this clinical jigsaw.
Competing interests: The authors have completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declare: (1) no support for the submitted work; (2) no relationships that might have an interest in the submitted work; (3) no spouses, partners, or children with financial relationships that may be relevant to the submitted work; and (4) no non-financial interests that may be relevant to the submitted work.
Sennhauser FH, Braun-Fahrlander C, Wildhaber JH. The burden of asthma in children: a European perspective. Paediatr Respir Rev2005;6:2-7.
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network. British guideline on the management of asthma. 2008 (revised June 2009). www.sign.ac.uk/guidelines/fulltext/101/index.html.
Brodlie M, Spencer D. Growth recovery after withdrawal of inappropriate inhaled fluticasone proprionate. Pediatr Pulmonol2008;43:307-8.
Stein RT, Martinez FD. Asthma phenotypes in childhood: lessons from an epidemiological approach. Paediatr Respir Rev2004;5:155-61.
Pijnenburg MW, De Jongste JC. Exhaled nitric oxide in childhood asthma: a review. Clin Exp Allergy2008;38:246-59.
Pavord ID, Shaw DE, Gibson PG, Taylor DR. Inflammometry to assess airway diseases. Lancet2008;372:1017-9.
Bush A, Eber E. The value of FeNO measurement in asthma management: the motion for Yes, it's NO—or, the wrong end of the stick! Paediatr Respir Rev2008;9:127-31.
Lex C, Payne DN, Zacharasiewicz A, Li AM, Wilson NM, Hansel TT, et al. Sputum induction in children with difficult asthma: safety, feasibility, and inflammatory cell pattern. Pediatr Pulmonol2005;39:318-24.
Franklin PJ, Stick SM. The value of FeNO measurement in asthma management: the motion against FeNO to help manage childhood asthma—reality bites. Paediatr Respir Rev2008;9:122-6.
Sivan Y, Gadish T, Fireman E, Soferman R. The use of exhaled nitric oxide in the diagnosis of asthma in school children. J Pediatr2009;155:211-6.
Zacharasiewicz A, Wilson N, Lex C, Erin EM, Li AM, Hansel T, et al. Clinical use of noninvasive measurements of airway inflammation in steroid reduction in children. Am J Respir Crit Care Med2005;171:1077-82.
Petsky HL, Cates CJ, Li A, Kynaston JA, Turner C, Chang AB. Tailored interventions based on exhaled nitric oxide versus clinical symptoms for asthma in children and adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev2009;(4):CD006340.


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Yes, Please! is the sixth studio album of the jazz group Fourplay which was released by Warner Bros. Records in 2000.

Track listing

Personnel

Fourplay
 Bob James – pianos, keyboards
 Larry Carlton – guitars
 Nathan East – bass guitars, vocals (6, 7), backing vocals (10)
 Harvey Mason – drums

Additional Musicians
 Ken Freeman – synthesizer programming
 Chanté Moore – vocals (6)
 Sherree – lead and backing vocals (10)

Production
 Fourplay – producers (1-9, 11)
 Nathan East – producer (10)
 Marcel East – producer (10)
 Don Murray – engineer, mixing (1-9, 11)
 Moogie Canazio – mixing (10)
 Steve Mixdorf – mix assistant (10)
 Ken Freeman – additional engineer, ProTools engineer
 Staffan Karlsson – additional engineer, ProTools engineer
 Christian Robles – additional engineer
 Dave Fisher – assistant engineer
 Jimmy Hoyson – assistant engineer
 Charlie Paakkari – assistant engineer
 Patrick Q.K. – assistant engineer
 Dylan Vaughan – assistant engineer
 Harvey Mason, Jr. – ProTools engineer
 Bill Smith – ProTools engineer
 Robert Vosgien – mastering
 Josh Henson – guitar technician
 Artie Smith – drum technician
 Debra Johnson – production coordinator

References

Fourplay albums
2000 albums
Warner Records albums
Albums produced by Nathan East

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Top 10 Most Visited Shop & Services in West Mifflin
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Mariko Kusumoto  (b. 1967, Kumamoto, Japan) is an artist known for textile art and metal art. She studied at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo. She relocated to the United States where she studied at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She is based in Massachusetts.  In 2010 her work was the subject of a solo exhibition entitled Mariko Kusumoto: Unfolding Stories which toured the United States at the Fuller Craft Museum, the Racine Art Museum, the Society for Contemporary Craft, and the Morikami Museum. In 2019 she exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Design.

Kusumoto's work is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Her work, Seascape 1, was acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum as part of the Renwick Gallery's 50th Anniversary Campaign.

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External links
Micheko Collect2021 Artist Talk with Mariko Kusumoto video

1967 births
Living people
People from Kumamoto
Jewellery designers
20th-century women artists


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Beyond Defending the State
January 23, 2008 Marc Lee 7 comments
PEF member Tom Slee sends this missive challenging the Left:
The recent blog post by Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson is a wholesome read. It reminds us that markets and private enterprise deserve less credit than they receive for our current prosperity, such as it is; it lays out the contribution of the state to innovation; it reminds us that unregulated markets are hazardous and often crooked; and it points out that cornerstone social democratic policies such as a healthy minimum wage don't have the dire side effects conservative economics would have us believe they do.
And yet it makes depressing reading.
I'm not here to pick a fight with Chernomas and Hudson (it was a short excerpt from a bigger piece, after all), but it touched a nerve because for all my adult life (ie since the late '70s) I've been reading the same defensive tone from left-wing economists and after thirty years it's getting a little stale. Is defending the role of the state the best we can do? I hope not because it's not enough.
Just to get back to basics, how many of us became left wing because of a belief in the beneficent power of the state per se? Not me and almost certainly not you. Most of us are left wing because we believe that, left to itself, economic wealth is used to exploit the poorer and weaker in society and that the best response to such exploitation is, the the words of Pete Seeger, to stick together. I don't see the word "state" there. Yes, a democratic state has the potential to be a levelling instrument in an unequal society. But it's not the only such instrument and it's not always a reliable one.
The non-economist left is not always so cozy with the state. I look on my bookshelf and see titles from the UK in the 1970's like Pluto Press's In and Against the State, and Ralph Miliband's The State in Capitalist Society. They both have harsh words for the institutions of the capitalist state and they identify forces that cause those institutions to act on behalf of the economically powerful. Once you move away from economic policy, most of us on the left are decidedly ambivalent about the state. State institutions have oppressive tendencies; nuclear-armed states are dangerous; the state defends the interests of the powerful. So why, when it comes to economics, are we so tied to the state?
I think it's because the left is a victim of its own successes. The structural achievements of the post-war world are the great social democratic institutions rooted in the state: the construction of social security, the provision and expansion of public schooling and post-secondary education, public healthcare. We've identified with these achievements, so ever since Thatcher & Reagan we have stood as conservative (small c) defenders of the state against the market-populist radicals.
Unfortunately a siege mentality does not encourage adventurous ideas or internal debate, and as a result unorthodox economic ideas on the left, at least the public expression of them that I'm aware of, has been stifled. As a non-economist, it seems to me that our attitude to economic ideas that don't stem from the state-driven social democratic tradition is too often one of suspicion. I'd love to be proven wrong…
Statist social democratic institutions are not the only tradition that we have. We have traditions of self-government from the co-operative movement, we have traditions from the trade union movement of course, from community-focused movements and small-scale economic organizations, and from social protest. The feminist movement has a far more ambivalent relationship to the state than the traditional left. So maybe we can look at some of these for non-state driven left-wing economic ideas too.
What's more, the world has changed in the last thirty years. It need not be defeatist to say that the policy prescriptions of 1970 may not make sense today. After all, would we expect the policies and goals of socialists and social democrats in 1948 to be the same as those of 1910?
Here is a scatter shot list of policy areas, mainly micro-economic, in which left-wing innovation seems possible, but is happening slowly if at all in Canada. I do hope that I'm missing things. Can readers can put me right?
Corporate ownership The left has a long tradition of supporting worker ownership. A successful example is the John Lewis Partnership that has a prominent position on Britain's High Street. It's commercial, it's a business, and it's worker owned. Have we seen any policy initiatives that encourage and promote this kind of corporate governance?
Corporate taxation In one blog comment I asked Erin Weir whether the Scandinavian model of low corporate taxation makes sense in Canada. He thought not, but it makes sense to me that in looking at progressive taxation we should direct tax efforts at the owners of corporations, not necessarily the corporations themselves.
Innovation Is there a left-wing innovation policy that goes beyond university research to industrial development, and if so what would it look like? The most interesting idea I've seen recently is the suggestion of replacing pharmaceutical patents by prizes, supported by Stiglitz and others (short PDF here). Has this idea been followed up in Canada?
Post-secondary education Historically, the left has been opposed to means testing. But historically we didn't have computers. Stephen Gordon at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative recently argued that the best way to increase the accessibility of post-secondary education is not through cutting tuition fees for all, but through targeted subsidies. When I challenged him on means testing he replied that "if we can handle the GST credit, why not use the same data for tuition subsidies?" Makes sense to me (even though I am forking out too much money for my son's university).
Microfinance and community initiatives How does the left feel about the Grameen Bank and its emulators? The movement has been praised and damned from both left and right. Surely there is something there that has relevance to the Canadian experience? I know I dislike the focus of microfinance organizations like kiva.org on "entrepreneurs", but perhaps that is just a generational linguistic shift I am not prepared to make. There is also a sense of solidarity in such movements, and a direct approach to providing support for powerless people to take control of their own lives – surely a left-wing goal.
Public health The debate on health is always phrased in terms of a public system versus a private system, but one of the most successful social health initiatives of the last few decades was sparked by efforts outside both these spheres. The building of a network of sexual assault/rape crisis centres in many of our cities came from feminist activists (see here (PDF) for example) and remains, if I understand it right, at arms length from government. While government funds have been used (and more could be needed) these have not always been state institutions. Are there ways to emulate the success of this movement in other areas of our society, and what policies would promote this kind of emulation?
Small Business Our relationship to small businesses is ambivalent. We support them when we talk about communities and worry about the impact of big-box stores coming to town, but we don't see them as a partner in an economic sense. What kinds of small-business economic initiatives have come from the left?
Cities and towns The Jane Jacobs tradition of diversity and small-scale thinking is one that many on the left love, even while some on the right think she's a great thinker too. She was no fan of central planning of course, but she's also no fan of letting cities just grow according to commercial dictates. Why has the left's adoption of her ideas has been piecemeal? Initiatives at the city level (especially in transit/traffic and housing) seem small-scale, but have the potential to spread from country to country in a remarkable way as activists and planners search for inspiration. The London traffic congestion charge and the bike-friendly initiatives of places like Lyons (now spreading to Paris) act as experiments that can be modified and built-on by others.
Well, that's probably a confused list. What initiatives have I missed? Is the Canadian economic left less hidebound than I give it credit for?
Stuart Murray
I think the unionization of private-sector jobs is a pretty big deal, and it has almost nothing to do with the importance of the state. What I find most interesting coming from private-sector unions is when they develop a sophisticated critique of productivity initiatives. Whereas public sector unions will often oppose any initiative that could potentially eliminate jobs, private sector unions are pretty keen to ensure that the businesses where their members work are still competitive and able to sell good products to consumers. Getting a class analysis of productivity initiatives, without getting obsessed with making all solutions public-sector, is a worthwhile addition to the list.
I would say also that civic society and the "third sector" (i.e. the non-profits and volunteerism) is an area where the left needs a stronger role. But by "stronger role" I mean we need to learn what the third sector has to offer, rather than teach them how to become traditional public-sector unionized large scale institutions, which is our default setting.
While we're at it, let's listen to what anarchists have to say about hierarchy and large-scale institutions. I think a lot of left-wingers are totally in bed with the right and the corporations in the bigger-is-better mindset and the encouragement of the supreme rule by the top person in every organization. Party, labour, and charismatic leaders rarely tip their hand to this critique, and it's pretty obvious why.
I had not thought of the distinction between the positions of public and private-sector trade unions. I absolutely agree with you about the "third sector" role and small-scale institutions (see a post of mine at my personal blog for something on that). I find the ideas of Erik Olin Wright in pieces like this (PDF) a bit wordy, but with some challenging content.
Larry Gambone
Good posting! Historically statism has only been one aspect of socialist thinking, and for most of the time a minor part of it. (Marx and Engels had no use for "state socialism.") Self-management, coops, mutual aid societies, municipal government are all part of socialism and I should add, the most important part. Indeed, German and Austrian Social Democracy had a vast counter-culture built of coops and other non-statist associations before they were destroyed by the Nazis.
Greetings Tom,
You stir the pot with your thoughts. These are quite interesting micro questions you raise. There are a few more that should no doubt be included within that realm.
Before getting to them or potentially concurrently, I think there is a macro dimension that requires an answer from the left in response to your argument about defending the state.
It essentially goes to the core of why we have collective action. On a daily basis the economy and society and culture require maintenance and regeneration. Labour is allocated to assets and tasks are performed on both the shop floor and the home floor. Somewhere in that mix is the means of production and who owns and controls it. Be it public, private, a combination of both or volunteer based. I guess the questions you raise on the micro level is asking at the macro level are there alternatives to these modalities in the ownership and thus the social relations of production and also what shape and form will society allocate resources towards these production modes. What mix of public, private, and so on.
On the macro scale it comes down to defining and solving the collective action equation. i.e. what tasks are allocated to what groups and who owns these means of production. Throughout history the mode of production and the relations therein come in a wide variety, from hunter gathers as some suggest as the most egalitarian and most community and ecologically focused but least productive on a material output level, to nomadic, to early agriculturalists to feudal and on through the centuries to capitalism and socialism.
Where are we headed next at the macro level. Will capitalism survive the ecological crisis. Will its apparent innovative strength in producing material wealth save it. Or will its inability to account for the social and environmental costs that run like a web through the fabric of our being, strangle, through its alienation and destructive power the very lifeblood of its existence, i.e. profit making abilities.
Can the future, given the outposts of capitalism under its current incarnation, deliver the needed outputs of an eco-friendly and eventually socially sustainable future in a manner that profits can be made.
Within the space of innovation that will be required to transform the current productive capacity, will the enormity of the task attract the private capital to undertake such tasks? Many draw parallels between the ecological changes and resource requirements needed to those of wartime production. I think it was Adam Smith himself that agreed that no one private interest would ever undertake such an endeavor as say war, as the return on the outlay of assets would never justify such investment. So with that logic guiding my thinking, one could argue that the future must entail a shift towards publicly backed initiatives. Or at least funded. Moving forward into the topic of how these new societal and individual needs are met from the production process is the challenge. A starting point on this would engender a quite lengthy debate on what exactly is progress, from an individual and a social perspective. It would seem that given the Risk Society we have moved into, that even a question such as progress is relatively difficult to measure. Hence the debate surrounding climate change.
Once these question are asked and answered then I would argue you can move forward at the micro level. I am not saying that a concurrent discussion cannot be entertained, but a final micro scenario cannot be entertained until some of these macro dynamics play themselves out.
So I would add onto your interesting questions with a few macro questions.
Larry – Thanks for the pointer; I know a little bit about the German-Austrian socialist movements in the '20s but I'll now talk to my brother, who knows much more.
Paul T. – To take up just one of your points, I obviously agree that the modern economy has many aspects to it that will not be satisfied by the market and private industry and require public commitment of some sort. I recognise that most of my items are on the micro scale, both economically micro and socially micro, but I think these things can be talked about and acted on in parallel.
I want to encourage everyone reading this blog, that a great many points made on this, wing, let's say, of the blogosphere, have close mirror images way over on the other extreme, where I spent most of my life, politically.
Please pardon this aside, which explains why I'm visiting this blog:
There is a war going on in the "Republican Party", "conservative", sphere in the U.S. right now, as a great many people are disgusted and fed up with a system that they vaguely realize has been a big lie. Most, though (I admit probably including myself) can't formulate exactly what is wrong, and they don't push the argument as far as in my opinion it should be pushed (Republicans=Democrats=One World Machine).
About the original post and statism: Through these decades during which I've been politically aware, I can assure you that it was the threat of *statism* from the "left" that most motivated our votes. While I guess others were manoevering for whatever they could get (in an unprincipled way), as ordinary voters, we simply were opposed to creeping dictatorship. So, believing the lie that the other party was for small government and individual liberty, we unwittingly elected a statism of the other side. (This is easy to understand: we were taught from the earliest age in school to love and believe in the goodness of our government. Naturally, we projected onto "liberals" that they loved and believed in a different (Soviet style, of course) government, and that was terrifying.)
We did not dream that the political system of our beloved country offered no option. Well, many believe it now, and we see it ultimately descending over the entire world.
Small government, plus cooperative self-governance as described in your post, sounds good to me. It preserves the self-respect and motivation of well-meaning free individuals to make the contributions they value.
Lastly, I hope you take care not to dismiss people you might think are ignorant or provincial or hopeless. Millions are listening who weren't before, and some kind of "movement" is possible. Keep talking. Thanks for your blog.


Let's call this Quad day 1 and what a ride its been so far. Admittedly, my Linux skills are limited and that most certainly did not help in this process. There's been quite a bit of learning about command and control of files systems and mount points that I had previously been able to get through life with which not having to become so familiar. This is all without brining up the oracle discussion…which I'll skip, for now.
As it stands right now, I have created and deployed twelve, count them, twelve virtual machines to support this meager deployment. This sounds like an extraordinary number of servers, and it is, except for the fact that it's all running on only two UCS B-Series blades and barely touching the CPU and RAM counts. Each blade has a single 6 core processor and 48GB or RAM.
For performance and failover testing reasons, I have all images running from one host and it's topping out at less that 10% average CPU and 21GB of RAM consumed.
The number of virtual machines and the subsequent installation of each was initially disconcerting. Having said that, through the install process I have gathered a pretty good understanding of each machine and the role it provides. The manner in which Quad separates services would easily allow for rapid growth and roll out capacity to the tens or even hundreds of thousands of users. This isn't all that surprising when you take into account Cisco's history or delivering a product for the enterprise market and over time bringing it downstream.
Cisco's approach to separating services isn't all that different that say SharePoint; however, SharePoint allows for database, search, web, and cache services to be installed co-resident. Quad is in essence doing the same thing except that its abstracting the services out at the virtualization layer as opposed to a windows service layer. If anything, this gives Quad a bit of an advantage from flexibility and agility in allow services to be moved around or scaled without having to re-spin.
Now that we've completed the installation phase of this little project, we move into usability testing. Over the next few weeks I'll be making a number of integrations with Communications Manager for phone services, Unity Connection for voicemail presentation, Exchange 2010 for calendar accessibility, and the WebEx Connect cloud for presence federation. It's going to be an exciting few weeks. More info to come!


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Do People Move to Access Legal Marijuana? Yes — Meet 'Medical Refugees.'
Posted by Americans for Safe Access on August 14, 2019
By Juliet Bennet Rylah for Weedmaps News
According to American Medical Refugees board member Sebastien Cotte, the organization helped about 400 families in some way midway through 2018, up from about 150 two years earlier, according to media reports. These families had moved to Colorado from more than 35 states and three countries.
Cotte and his wife Annett know well what these families face. Their son, Jagger, has Leigh syndrome, a neurometabolic disorder that manifests in seizures, muscle pain, difficulty breathing, and other symptoms. Cotte became interested in cannabis as a possible treatment for his son in 2013, after seeing "Weed," Dr. Sanjay Gupta's documentary about medical cannabis, on CNN. He connected with other parents in Georgia through medical cannabis advocacy organization Americans for Safe Access, but their initial attempts to pass a bill legalizing medical marijuana in Georgia failed. In 2014, Cotte's family decided to move to Colorado. They were one of 17 families to leave Georgia at that time, many of them receiving financial aid from Republican state Rep. Allen Peake.
It's not uncommon to hear anecdotal stories of individuals or families who must move for medical reasons — specifically, access to medical cannabis. Some of these cases draw considerable media attention, like that of Yvonne Cahalane, the Irish mother who moved to Colorado for her then-2-year-old son, who suffers from a seizure disorder called Dravet syndrome, according to the United Kingdom newspaper The Guardian.
For Cahalane, her journey to find help for her son took her across an ocean. But many Americans are moving for the same reason, shifting across the nation as legislation governing cannabis changes state-by-state.
The displacement of families seeking legal medical marijuana is becoming so well known that they now have a name: medical refugees. They tell their stories to reporters, document their struggles on social media, and while caring for ailing family members, hope to inspire legal changes.
They also join groups such as American Medical Refugees, a Colorado-based support group for families hoping to connect with those in similar situations and find resources. The organization was co-foundedby Amy Dawn Bourlon-Hilterbran after she moved to Colorado from Oklahoma in 2013 for her son, Austin, who has Dravet syndrome. (Oklahoma wouldn't legalize medical marijuana for another five years, but the plant has proven exceptionally popular among patients in the conservative state.)
These heart-wrenching anecdotes of ailing children and the risks their parents take to help them are not hard to find, but data that measure their numbers are sparse.
Data Not Readily Available
The moving company U-Haul tracks migration trends, but it and others don't ask customers how they feel about cannabis. The tech company MoveBuddah.com, which helps people figure out the best methods for their move, doesn't specifically ask people why they're packing up. However, founder Ryan Carrigan noted in 2018 that of the 1,500 inbound moves his company had facilitated to legal states (then Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, and Arkansas) almost 5% voluntarily mentioned legal cannabis as a reason for their move. Of those, three said it was the No. 1 factor in their move. Two were individuals older than 65 hoping to use cannabis for pain relief, while one was a parent seeking cannabis treatment for a child who suffered from seizures.
Census data can also chart the ebbs and flows in a state's population, but it doesn't ask whether people relocate for medical marijuana. Researchers have done their own polling. In the study "The Pot Rush: Is Legalized Marijuana a Positive Local Amenity" released in March 2018, researchers Diego Zambiasi of the University of Basque Country in Spain, and Steven Stillman of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Germany, reported that they found "strong evidence" that migrants saw legal cannabis as a positive amenity. They compared the actual post-legalization growth of Colorado with a "synthetic Colorado," or, a composite of 13 states where cannabis isn't legal.
According to Zambiasi's and Stillman's study, prior to legalization from 2005 to 2009, 187,600 people on average migrated to Colorado annually. After medical marijuana was legalized in 2010 and up to 2013 when adult-use was legalized, in-migration increased by 20,760 people per year, an 11% increase, in Colorado compared with synthetic Colorado. After full legalization in 2013, in-migration further increased by 15,470 people per year, an additional 8.2% increase.
The researchers' statistical analysis determined that the rise wasn't from chance, but that Colorado was "a clear and significant outlier."
Further, "In total, 155,500 more people moved to Colorado than predicted … ." In the end, the researchers concluded that marijuana legalization increased Colorado's population by 3.2% in 2015. Numbers tell part of the story.
Helping Families Move
Jagger's condition makes it impossible to fly, and Cotte described the six-day, cross-country drive as treacherous.
"When Jagger gets his muscle pain, he starts screaming. The more he was screaming, the more oxygen he needed. So pretty much every three to four hours we had to stop, spend the night in a hotel, calm him down, and recharge the battery on the oxygen [machine]," Cotte said.
Cotte's difficult move illustrates a common pain point for these families. Not only do they have to move, but traveling is often far more difficult with an ill child or family member. They are forced to make a complicated journey, away from their home, friends, and support network. Cotte said some families were forced to split up, with certain members moving to legal states while the others stayed behind to keep their jobs and provide financial support. And many of them just want to go home.
"You leave everything behind and hope for the best and you don't know if it's gonna work. It's taxing emotionally and financially. It's not something easy to do or that I would recommend anyone doing unless you really have to," Cotte said.
Cotte moved back to Georgia in after it became legal to possess low-THC cannabis oil in 2015. The bill was called the Haleigh's Hope Act after a young girl who suffered from near-constant seizures. Her family also moved to Colorado for medical cannabis.
Cotte was happy to return to Georgia. The altitude in Colorado made it hard for Jagger to breathe, plus it was a financial strain to pay both their Georgia mortgage and their Colorado rent. Most of those other 17 families have also moved back home, too, Cotte said. Yet things aren't perfect.
For one, Georgians can possess cannabis oil with only 5% THC or less, and they must have a qualifying condition to apply for a card. And while it may be legal to possess the oil, there's currently no legal way to purchase it. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill that now allows the production, distribution, and import of medical cannabis in April 2019, but months will pass before the state's patients will be able to walk into a dispensary. Those who need it now must break the law to get it.
Advocate and lobbyist Jason Eassa pointed to two high-profile cases of someone intentionally breaking the law to get medicine to Georgia families. Peake, the same lawmaker who provided financial aid to Cotte's family, has admitted to running an underground medical marijuana network. And there's Dale Jackson, a Georgia father whose son takes cannabis oil for autism and who has openly described in the LaGrange Daily News how harrowing it is to smuggle $15,000 worth of cannabis oil out of Denver International Airport.
"There's no reason somebody should have to pay for a plane ticket or use a private jet to get to Colorado and buy $15,000 worth of oil and bubble wrap it, scared that TSA's gonna see it, and fly it all the way back [to Georgia]," Eassa said. "And frankly, there's no reason someone should have to drive down to Florida for it."
It's the constant worry of legal ramifications that silences many families and individuals who move for cannabis. According to Cotte, there may be double as many people who moved to Colorado for cannabis than American Medical Refugees even knows about.
'Fear or at Least Uncertainty'
David Brown, an attorney, lobbyist, and president of Sensible Marijuana Policy for Louisiana, said there's often "an element of fear or at least uncertainty" for these medical refugees. He points to a veteran who was worried that if he were more vocal about his need for medical cannabis, he might lose his federally funded veterans benefits. Some parents worry about the legality of providing a federally illegal substance to a minor, or that they may face prosecution or lose their children if they speak out. As a result, Brown said it's hard for his organization to accurately track how many people they work with and how many people are moving.
"I'm certain that even if we had assigned everyone a number, we would have only captured a small fraction," he said. "A lot of these people are not networked. Maybe they heard from a friend or family member that there's someone they could stay with in another place, so they leave and don't talk to anyone about it."
And while cases involving ill children often receive the lion's share of media attention, there are adult medical refugees, too, including veterans, senior citizens, and individuals suffering from myriad conditions.
Zoey Bullock, a cannabis consultant who goes by the nickname Betty Chronix, said she moved from Virginia to Florida for access to medical cannabis. Bullock was 12 years old when she was sexually assaulted, which left her with anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). At one point, Bullock even attempted suicide. Then, as a teen, her friends introduced her to cannabis.
"It was, really, just the only thing that gave me some calm and some peace with anxiety," Bullock said. "Today, being a medical patient, it's even better because I'm able to really know what I'm consuming and it really helps to be able to use medical cannabis."
Bullock and Rhian Santini, an esthetician and reiki practitioner, are in the early stages of their nonprofit, The Healing Light Foundation. They work with local shelters to find women survivors of abuse and domestic violence and connect them to healing and wellness services, including medical cannabis, massage, and spiritual work. Some women are already fleeing domestic violence or volatile situations in their home states, so Bullock hopes to expand her network to cities and states that are not currently 420-friendly.
"We want to have a bigger presence in the U.S. to be the supportive element for women who want to relocate for cannabis," Bullock said.
While individuals and families are still relocating for cannabis, the moves for medical cannabis have likely already peaked because of changing U.S. laws. Cotte noted that back in 2014, when his family was preparing to move, some families were leaving home simply to access CBD. With the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, which allows people across the country to purchase hemp-derived products, those moves may no longer occur.
Until medical cannabis is federally legal and easily accessible, the stigma and fear these families and individuals face will likely remain. There may never be an accurate count of medical refugees in the U.S., but some are working hard to make that number zero.