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Highlights from USG Town Hall
by Emma Harris November 22, 2019 November 22, 2019
Undergraduate Student Government President Shaheer Khan speaks at the town hall on Wednesday, Nov. 13 in Frey Hall. He and other USG members answered questions about the proposed changes to the constitution, implemented on Friday, Nov. 15. SARA RUBERG/THE STATESMAN
Compiled by Emma Harris, Alek Lewis, Alex Bakirdan and Brianne Ledda
In a town hall with the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) on Wednesday, Nov. 13, President Shaheer Khan and other USG members answered questions from five Statesman reporters about the proposed changes to the constitution, implemented on Friday, Nov. 15. Two students attended, but did not participate.
The Statesman livestreamed the event, which is currently posted on Facebook. Highlights from the conversation, edited for readability and clarity, are included below. A full transcript of the event is available here.
A lot of students expressed that they couldn't vote on individual amendments. Why wasn't it packaged that way?
Khan: I think it would overwhelm the voting system we use right now. If we had to make 250 yes or no tabs on SOLAR, I don't think people would vote. That's a hassle, period. On top of that, if you look at some of the footnotes in our constitution, because we are adding and removing clauses, a lot of them just fix the clause numbers. Would students want to vote on every single individual change to the constitution? I think it was better to make it one broad based election, where students have the option to read documents. Cheat sheets were made so that students can get a more concise version of the constitution. And also, there have been promotional materials out both on Facebook and Instagram. There's information provided and ultimately the students have the right to vote yes, and the students have equal right to vote no. So I think that it's balanced.
Note: There were 264 proposed changes.
How long have you guys been working on implementing these changes?
Khan: We haven't implemented any changes yet. We've been working on this version of the constitution since we got elected into office. So I've been informed about the different issues within USG, like day one after spring elections, but I made the executive council aware at the start of the summer. So we've been in constant communication, not just with executive council, but also our advisors and Christine Marullo, as well as our administrative director, Rayna Simon … On top of that, we provided the constitution to our legal counsel and we gave this out during the senate meeting. It was a sheet with specific recommendations as to where USG is not compliant with New York State law, and where we have to change that. So we've been working on this for about five, six months. It's very deliberate, it's very cautious and very articulate in the sense that we didn't want to make changes that were rash.
When were students notified that they were going to be voting on this referendum?
Khan: The students were notified, I believe. I think the information was sent out Friday. We released the constitution to the senate the Thursday before.
Note: The email was sent on Saturday, Nov. 9. Voting opened on Monday, Nov. 11 and closed on Friday, Nov. 15.
If it took five to six months to work on these changes, why were students only given about a few days to review these changes before voting on them?
Khan: The changes were released during senate meetings. So any students who attended senate meetings could've asked for the constitution and we could have provided that information. And we do understand that the time frame is very limited, but what we were waiting for ultimately was the final word on the final draft of the constitution from the lawyers to make sure that our language was inclusive and in compliance with New York State law. So I think that the nature of bureaucracy really slowed us down. In that sense, we would have ideally liked for this information to go out to the student body a lot earlier, but we were restricted in factors that we really couldn't control.
If that is the case, why not give a longer voting period?
Khan: The election timeline is actually voted upon by the election board, which is a separate entity outside of the USG senate and executive council. We want to make sure that there is a division between the elected members and those who control elections because if they're combined, there might be a conflict of interest where the people who are being voted upon control how elections are actually run, which shouldn't be the case. So I think that because the elections board already set the deadline for not just the constitutional referendum, but for the senators that were running for senior class rep, freshman class rep, we really couldn't interfere with that. It wouldn't be fair to the candidates that have been petitioning and then also going out and campaigning for themselves. Ideally, if we had the chance to be like, yeah, let's push back elections two more weeks, we would have done it.
You said that you've known that you were going to make changes to the constitution since day one, but we had an Associate Justice tell us that he was blindsided by the changes. Why weren't they notified?
Khan: They weren't notified when we were actually making the changes but once the first draft was made, we actually had a sit down meeting with multiple members of the judiciary, whoever was free to come, and we were able to break down and articulate the reasons why some of these changes were being made. A common perception of the judiciary is that they always seem to remain outside the operation of both the executive council and the senate. The executive council and senate try to make it a point to be in contact with each other and to make sure that at the very least we remain accountable. But the judiciary is often not a part of senate meetings, nor are they part of executive council meetings. So the functional operation of USG is not really known by the judiciary. So it was really trying to make sure we get the entities who had been working with USG as a running organization and really think about it systematically. Not saying that judiciary was not capable of that, they just weren't involved in that process.
Why were the guidelines for the constitutional amendment referendums relaxed? So rather than requiring approval from two-thirds majority of the executive council and senate, or petition with signatures from one-third of the undergraduate student body, the segment requiring signatures from one-third of the undergraduate student body was changed to a petition with signatures from one-tenth of USG members.
Khan: Students now have a better opportunity to canvas to their student body, to petition and then make that change directly within USG and then put that thing on the ballot. One-third of the Undergraduate Student Government is about 6,000 students. That's insane, expecting a student to be able to get 6,000 signatures. By bringing down the number to one-tenth, students now have to get 1000 signatures.
Didn't the constitution say that the signatures only need to be from USG members, not the student body?
Khan: We're all USG members. All undergraduate students at the university that pay the undergraduate student activities fee shall be members of the USG. So the Undergraduate Student Government, anybody who pays into the student activities fee, is now a member of the USG. That means you have access to all the resources that students have, USG members have, currently. I think that's where the issue is. For some reason, we see that, you know, the people who are working in USG are separate from the actual students. Meanwhile we're kind of on the same boat. We're providing experiences and we're trying to bring in as many people as we can to be part of that shared decision making. So, you know, that's why we had the rationale to bring down the number of petitions that any Undergraduate Student Government member needs to be able to put something on the ballot. Again, it's making student participation a lot more easier.
Could it be confusing, if you're reading the constitution, to know whether you're referring to the student body or to the student government when you're calling both USG?
Khan: That's fair. We can identify who's an Undergraduate Student Government member because you've paid the activities fee. There are some students that request waivers for not to pay the student activities fee. So in that sense, you know, then we have to be cautious as to who gets into, you know, the different events that we hold, or who gets to be covered under our insurance policies. These are really the reasons why we use the language that we do. It's to make sure that we're compliant with who we represent.
Do you mind elaborating on the insurance policies?
Khan: So that's separate from the constitution, but yeah, at the end of the day, we host large events, we fund clubs that have different level of activity. They go on trips too, you know, there are a lot of clubs. We have to make sure that we keep our students safe. So that's the reason why we have insurance.
Other SUNY schools have a similar structure in their USG governments, and they all have judicial branches. So can you explain why you decided that you want to get rid of the judicial branch, even though all these other schools have elected to have it?
[Note: It's not clear whether every single SUNY school has a judicial branch, but SUNY Buffalo, Binghamton and Albany do.]
Khan: Yes, other SUNY schools definitely have judiciary branches, but we have to see how we're operating and whether that operation works. The old method, the old responsibilities for the judiciary was one, to conduct impeachment cases and two, to review the constitutions of clubs and organizations. In regards to clubs and organizations constitutions, we already have Student Engagement and Activities that handles that and we have an SSC committee that just focuses on the funding. So that removes one facet of what judiciary members are doing. On the second half, in regards to impeachment, the most recent one was an impeachment of judiciary. In regards to how the student body votes, they vote directly for the executive council members and senators. But there is no real check, nor is there student representation within the judiciary board itself. So how does a student make a decision on legal matters when they don't really understand what the students' best interests are?
[Note: Khan is referring to a judiciary case last semester. A senator sued the judiciary to overturn a senate confirmation of the chief justice, on the grounds that it was unconstitutional. The judiciary unanimously agreed that the confirmation was unconstitutional, because it was held more than a year after his judicial appointment. The previous constitution required chief justices to be confirmed within the academic year they were appointed. The chief justice was subsequently removed from his position.]
Vice President of Academic Affairs Justin Ullman: So the main difference between us and other SGAs is that we are a nonprofit corporation, a 501(c)(3) organization, which is federal tax exempt. So us as an organization, we also mentioned have a significantly larger yearly budget and we have to be accountable like a business. So, our organization is handling this amount of money. No penny should be wasted and our end goal should be to reach 100% operational efficiency and get rid of large amounts of waste.
So you're saying that Stony Brook's USG has a significantly larger budget than other schools?
Khan: No, we know that University of Buffalo has a larger budget. So we wouldn't say we have the largest budget out of the SUNY system. But a $3.7 million budget is huge. Just this summer, we had the privilege of going to a national conference, in which we were able to hear the different stories of other student governments. And some governments only have the budget of you know, $20,000 for the semester.
So why can these other schools afford judiciary branches, but we can't if we have a large budget?
Khan: It's not that we can't afford it. We can afford it. We can continue to spend money on the judiciary branch. But if the output is not directly impacting the students, and it's just a hindrance for students to receive a service, then why are we paying into it? The job itself sometimes required judiciary members to sit in the judiciary office. Not really having cases come in, not really conducting impeachment, not really doing much. So that just seems like a waste of money. Because at the end of the day, even if work is not being done, if they're in the office, we are still required to pay the staff. $10,000 can fund 20, 30 extra clubs on campus, it can be another trip for us to attend.
One of the major criticisms that we've heard from people, is that people are afraid this could topple the checks and balances on the student government, which some argue is more important because you guys operate such a large budget. And among those student services, wouldn't that include a student's ability to go to the judiciary to propose cases if they have issues or they encounter a problem?
Khan: I'm glad you bring that up. So yeah, there were times where people would come to the judiciary to talk about conduct issues, whether it be you know, matters that should not be handled within USG and something that has to do with discrimination, hate speech, anything that is not directly related to USG's funding. There's no reason that USG should be operating cases in that regards. That authority should be given to administration, it should be given to the Title IX office, because they are trained professionals that know how to deal with these types of topics. Would you be comfortable with students being able to make judgments based on issues as serious as discrimination? I think that's really the rationale.
Let's say it's something not as major as that, something smaller, like students feel that a club is abusing its power, or they feel that a club is not following its constitution. Who would they bring that to, if not the judiciary?
USG Treasurer Adrian Ortega: So Christine is the Director of Student Engagement and Activities, and they do deal with constitutional issues, if a student does have an issue with a club abusing against the constitution.
Announcements posted by USG, such as the one on Facebook, encouraged students to vote yes for the referendum. Do you think that's appropriate? And do you believe that USG should try to remain unbiased, since it's hosting the election?
Khan: Understood, and that's a good point. That is a really ethical question. And we can open discussion to that if, in general, it seems that it's more ethical for USG to remove language that says vote yes for the Constitution, then as USG's primary account holder, yeah, as the USG's official Instagram page, we can remove any language that says vote yes. However, what we what we would continue to do is put up the flyers that says that the current constitutional referendum is coming up. Now, one thing I see is that there are elected members of USG that function as USG members, but are also individual students with their own voices. So then this also brings up that question that if a student is, you know, is an elected member saying vote yes for the Constitution, is that okay? Or would you see that also bring up an ethical question? Maybe we didn't consciously think about the language of including yes and, you know, showing some bias might affect how students perceive us. So I think that might that that's something that we can correct, because that is valid.
In the section about freedom of speech on page five, several segments were deleted. What does this mean and why were they deleted?
Ullman: Because media isn't specified, our legal counsel just said get rid of that. If you look at nine it says, "to engage in the free exercise of religion or politics," we removed politics as well. All of those changes were recommended by our legal counsel because we're a 501(c)(3) organization and we're not allowed to promote any political activity or endorse any legislation at all. And if any of our funding goes directly towards promoting a political activity, then in that case, we can get sued, or well, we would lose the lawsuit.
Page five of the rough draft of the Undergraduate Student Government Revised Constitution. The green highlighted text are words added to the document, and red highlighted text are words removed. PHOTO CREDIT: UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Could you expand a little bit about what you meant by unspecified media?
Ullman: Yeah, because it's unclear whether media here is being like… Okay does B make it clear because it's "Media published and distributed electronically or in-print," but C, it's not clear whether media are the organizations or the material, so it doesn't really make sense to keep that when the organization, if it was a matter of protecting the rights of the organization, they're already protected in clause nine, so that clause would also be redundant.
Khan: So at the end of the day media is still protected under the USG constitution, it's just the amount of times it's been mentioned has been reduced.
Some people are seeing the removal of the judiciary branch as a power grab. How does USG respond to that?
Ullman: Overall we don't feel comfortable with having an entire branch having essentially virtually no checks except for impeachment between appointment and end of tenure, when the entire branch can make a decision based on, at best, four people, out of seven, which is a majority, and when they're not even elected. On the other hand, when you have accountability lying in the hands of student elected officials, then you have accountability of those officials to the student body because they are more reflective of the [inaudible] of the students.
So then why not amend how the judicial branch functions, and possibly make it into an elected position?
Khan: So that's a great point. And one thing is that when the constitution was first being drafted, it was drafted to make sure that reflects the United States Constitution. And we look at the judiciary system right now, the Supreme Court judicial numbers are appointed by the president and then confirmed by the Senate and House, right. But at the end of the day, we see that those who are appointed in the judicial branch usually reflect the views of the President. So there's always a skewed perception as to a skewed, you know, way that they do this is based on you know, what their appointer really believes. For us? Yeah that's a valid point like yes, judiciary members could have been made elected members. But at the end of the day, what again, what will be the role of the judiciary, it's like, sure, we changed the fact that now, judicial members are more responsive to the student body, but there still is work that's in the middle that is not being done. And adding extra responsibilities just for a branch to remain seems fruitless. It's like opening a job position for, you know, [a] position that has no work and then just giving it tasks to make sure that it exists. But there is no functional reason for that entity to exist.
Can you clarify what you mean by "more power"? Isn't the impeachment process the only power that the judiciary has over other branches of the USG?
Khan: So it's impeachment process, but it's also like the impeachment process is based on the interpretation of the constitution. So you know, based on a couple of judiciary members, they can really decide what the constitution is saying.
Statesman editors Samantha Robinson, Alex Bakirdan, Brianne Ledda, Maya Brown and Sara Ruberg asked questions. Editors Sara Ruberg and Emma Harris livestreamed the event on The Statesman's Instagram story. Editor-in-chief Gary Ghayrat livestreamed the event on The Statesman's Facebook page.
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Running head: LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT AND PERSONALITY PAPER Lifespan Development and Personality Paper Jocelyn F. Oatman University of Phoenix Introduction to Psychology PSY 103 Michelle Williams October 22, 2008 Lifespan Development and Personality Paper Development does not end with adolescence. Adults, too, go through modifications and experience physical, cognitive, and social changes. Adulthood has been suggested that emerges as early as 18, but for our purposes, adulthood can be divided into three periods: early adulthood (ages 20 to 39), middle adulthood (ages 40 to 65), and late adulthood (beyond age 65).
In young maturity, bodily development continues. Shoulder length, tallness, and chest range increase, and individuals continue to expand their physical capabilities. Through their mid-thirties practically everybody demonstrates some hearing injury, but for the majority of people, the years of young adulthood are the best part of life. In the heart of adulthood, additional physical modifications slowly appear. The most familiar of those affect the extra loss of sensory sharpness.
Individuals become more responsive to light, more precise at distinguishing dissimilarities in distance, and more slowly and less able at considering factors. At age 40, escalated farsightedness is usual, and glasses may be essential to rectify for it. In their late '40s or early '50s, women usually experience menopause, the shutdown of reproductive capacity. Estrogen and progesterone levels decline, and the menstrual cycle finally stops. Most individuals are well into delayed adulthood before their physical functions illustrate perceptible destruction.
Nevertheless, within the body, bone mass is deteriorating, and the chance of heart disease is expanding. Male get smaller about an inch in height, and female about two inches, as their stance transforms and cartilage disks between the spinal column become thinner. Older adults tend to go to sleep earlier, but may find it harder to sleep through the night without awakening to use the bathroom. Coagulating of the heart vessels and an increase of fat buildups on the artery walls may lead to heart disorder.
The digestive system decelerates and becomes more proficient. Both digestive disorders and heart disease sometimes result from problems of diet, too little fluid, too little fiber, too much fat and inactivity. Additionally, the brain shrinks during late adulthood. The few reflexes that remained after infancy, such as the knee-jerk reflex, weaken or disappear. The flow of blood to the brain slows. As in earlier years, many of these changes can be delayed or diminished by a healthy diet and exercise.
Regardless of the maturing of the brain, cognition experiences diminutive change for the inferior until delayed adulthood. Previously that time, vigilant older individuals may function as well as aware younger people. In reality, elders may perform even improved than younger adults in circumstances that strike their long-term reminiscences and well-learned talents. The experienced teacher may deal with an unruly child more skillfully than the beginner, and the senior lawyer may understand the implications of a new law better than the recent graduate.
Their existence of gathering and categorizing information can make older adults practiced, competent, and clever. Until age 60 at most, significant cognitive capabilities increase. For the duration of this period, adults do better on tests of vocabulary, comprehension, and general knowledge especially if they use these abilities in their daily lives or engage in enriching activities such as travel or reading. Young and middle-aged adults learn new information and new skills; they remember old information and sharpen old skills.
Furthermore, young and middle-aged adults in their forties through their early sixties that people tend to put in the best performance of their lives on complex mental tasks such as reasoning, verbal memory, and vocabulary. The quality of contemplation may also transform throughout maturity. Grown-up deliberation is frequently more complicated and adaptive that youthful concept. Unlike adolescents, adult understand the contradictions inherent in thinking.
They see both the possibilities and the problems in every course of action in deciding whether to start a new business, back a political candidate, move to a new place, or change jobs. Full-grown adults are more knowledgeable that youngsters or adolescents at creating logical resolutions and at correlating reason and generalization to actions, feelings, common concerns, and special affiliations. As they appreciate these relationships, their thought becomes more global, more concerned with broad moral and practical issues.
The achievement of these new kinds of thinking reflects a stage of cognitive development that goes beyond Piaget's formal operational period. In this stage, people's thinking becomes dialectical, which means they understand that knowledge is relative, not absolute such that what is seen as wise today may have been thought foolish in times past. They see life's contradictions as an inevitable part of reality, and they tend to weigh different solutions to problems rather than just accepting the first one that spring to mind.
Adulthood is a generation when modifications appear in social connections and situations. These transformations do not appear in efficient, foreseeable stages but as an alternative resulting in different courses, depending on personality experiences. Transitions involving divorce, being fired, going back to school, remarrying, losing a spouse to death, being hospitalized, getting arrested, moving back home, or retiring are just a few of the turning points that can redirect a person's life path.
Male and female in western backgrounds frequently enter the mature world in their 20's. They choose on an employment, or at most obtain a profession, and regularly become inattentive with their professions. They also happen to be more concerned with matters of love. The sixth of Ericson's stages of psychosocial development that young people become able to commit themselves to another person or they develop a sense of isolation and feel they have no one in the world but themselves. This intimacy may include sexual intimacy, friendship, or mutual intellectual stimulation.
The intimacy may lead to marriage or some other form of committed relationship. All this comes at a time when having separated from their parents; young adults may also be experiencing isolation and loneliness. They may view the future with a mixture of anticipation, fear, and insecurity. Just how willing and able people are to make intimate commitments may depend on their earlier attachment relationships. Researchers have discovered that young adults' views of intimate relationships parallel the patterns of infant attachment.
If their view reflects a secure attachment, they tend to feel valued and worthy of support and affection; develop closeness easily; and have relationships characterized by joy, trust, and commitment. If their view reflects an insecure attachment, therefore, they tend to be preoccupied with relationships and may feel misunderstood, underappreciated, and worried about being abandoned; their relationships are often negative, obsessive, and jealous. Otherwise, they may be unapproachable and unable to trust, or commit themselves to a partner.
Throughout maturity, the knowledge of becoming parents signifies access into a main recent developmental phase often supplemented by personal, social, and occupational variations. The challenges of young adulthood are complicated by the nature of family life today. Parents are older now because young adults are delaying marriage longer and waiting longer to have children. The changes seen in family life over the past several decades have made it more challenging than ever to successfully navigate the years of early adulthood. Sometimes around age 40, individuals go through a midlife modification.
They may reappraise and transform their lives and affiliations. Many people may feel invigorated and liberated and see midlife as an opportunity for personal development, but others may feel upset and have a "midlife crisis. " No one knows how many people experience a crisis during the midlife transition, but researchers suspect that these people are in the minority. The contrast between youth and middle age may be especially upsetting for men who matured early in adolescence and were sociable and athletic rather than intellectual.
Once the midlife transition is past, the middle years of adulthood are usually a time of satisfaction and happiness. An essential inquiry in developmental psychology distresses the family member control of nature and nurture. Gesell pressured personality in his theory of growth, recommending that adulthood is maturation the normal describing of capacities with age. Watson obtained the conflicting outlook, declaring that maturity is knowledge, as outlined by the external environment. In his theory of cognitive growth, Piaget illustrated how nature and nurture perform jointly.
Nowadays individuals understand the notion that both nature and nurture influence growth and inquire not if, but how and what degree each contributes. Research in behavioral genetics shows that complex traits, such as intelligence and personality are influenced by many genes, and by many environmental factors. References: Bernstein, Douglas A. , & Nash, Peggy W. (2005). Essential of Psychology, Third Edition Carpenter, S. , & Huffman, K. (2008). Visualizing Psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.


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The Chairman of the taskforce set up by the British Plastics Federation ahead of the Government's Brexit negotiations is to address the key priorities for the UK plastics industry during a conference at K 2016.
Mike Boswell will present a talk entitled 'Business beyond Brexit: Future relations between the UK and European polymer sectors' on Thursday 20 October as part of a conference looking at plastics markets in a changing world.
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IS THE NISSAN LEAF ALL THE EV YOU NEED, OR SHOULD YOU WAIT FOR TESLA'S MODEL 3?
The Nissan Leaf and the Tesla Model 3 are a lot alike in some ways, and polar opposites in others. This article in Digital Trends breaks down the differences and the similarities. Worth a quick read.


County election boards across Ohio are preparing to buy a new generation of voting machines, and although it's unclear what systems will be chosen, it's becoming more likely that tens of thousands of voters in southwest Ohio will fill out paper ballots rather than voting on touchscreens as soon as the May election.
Voters in Montgomery County along with those in Butler, Darke, Greene and Miami counties and 36 others, currently use DRE machines, or direct-recording electronic voting machines that have touchscreens. But as election officials work now to get new systems online and proven before the 2020 presidential election, no DRE machine has been certified for use in Ohio, according to officials.
That leaves many counties looking at a switch to paper ballots and optical-scanning equipment to count ballots, or hybrid systems coming at more than twice the price that employ touchscreens to mark a paper ballot.
Nationwide, 47 percent of American registered voters in November 2016 lived in jurisdictions using only optical-scan technology that requires voters to fill in bubbles, complete arrows or make other machine-readable marks on paper; 28 percent lived in DRE-only jurisdictions; another 19 percent lived in jurisdictions where both were used, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Verified Voting Foundation data.
Area voters in Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Preble and Warren counties already use paper ballots, but those in others, including Miami County, could be in for a change – perhaps one they don't prefer, said Beverly Kendall, the Miami County elections board director.
"I think people like the new technology, and they would like to stay with some sort of touchscreen," Kendall said.
But of the three systems the Miami County Board of Elections is considering to replace 445 machines, two require paper ballots. The third is a hybrid system that would have a touchscreen. But the decision will come down to cost, she said.
Counties will receive a share of $114.5 million from a bill signed last week by Gov. John Kasich.
The County Commissioners Association of Ohio and the Ohio Association of Elections Officials estimated it would cost the counties altogether roughly $116 million to purchase optical-scan equipment and $267 million for hybrids.
It could take up to $8 million to replace Montgomery County's more than 2,100 DRE voting machines with new technology. The county should receive a little more than half that from the state — $4.2 million to $4.5 million, Kelly said.
The Ohio Secretary of State has certified systems from five main vendors, all of which demonstrated their equipment for Montgomery County in June. The county plans to have new machines by the May 2019 election and has picked its top two choices, but Kelly won't divulge which ones.
It's possible Montgomery County will purchase two types of voting machines, a hybrid with a screen for early voting at the Board of Elections office while those who vote at their precincts will cast votes on paper with a marker, Kelly said.
Greene County also wants to replace its DRE machines with new before the 2020 presidential election when turnout is much larger, but the county is biding its time, said Llyn McCoy, Greene County Board of Elections director.
McCoy said there's an outside chance a DRE system will yet be certified.


What's the hottest trend in narrow web printing today? Presses that are competitively priced, use lightweight sleeves, offer fast changeovers for short runs, and utilize electronic line shaft technology.
Peru-based Tech Pak boasts an arsenal of world-class equipment. Its new PCMC gearless Avanti is the latest addition to its flexo regiment.
Thirsty for new business, forms converter BBF Printing Solutions finds success in the private label beverage market with help from material supplier Raflatac.
Most flexo presses producing packaging run in the range of 300-1,000 fpm. Occasionally, a few customers want to increase their press speeds still further.
to the future. Although consolidation is making it more difficult for independent converters to compete, a BST Pro Mark Genius Digital web inspection system is helping Kendall Packaging thrive.
The Flexographic Technical Association presented 127 prizes in its annual Excellence in Flexography Awards Competition. Winners were announced May 5 during the FTA's annual forum, held at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Creo exhibits at Ipex, showcasing various innovations in flexographic printing technology, as well as upgrades in current systems, one of which involves the company's packaging workflow.
Slated for this Thursday, April 11, 2002 (10am to 4pm), DFI's open house reportedly will give industry representatives, high school and college vocational programs, community-based organizations, and prospective press operators a first-hand look at the educational methods, curriculum, equipment, and procedures used at the institute.
Flexography is moving ahead of offset due to process controls. FFTA to hold a forum to present this case and debate flexo vs. offset.
Flexo professionals, if you want to learn how to get digital quality at conventional prices, the upcoming free "New Technology for Flexography" conference is something you'll want to check out.
From maximizing technical and technological developments to tips on how to expand service offerings, the Mark Andy/Comco two-day educational seminar provided converters and industry professionals a veritable feast of information and ideas for their operations.
North America's 6,000-plus flexographic printing establishments will produce in excess of $85 billion (US) of printed work in 2002. That's the Flexographic Technical Association's best estimate and is part of the organization's business-based analysis that was presented to the FTA's board of directors in early December.
Enercon Industries Corp. reports its surface-treating products can be purchased in Canada through Canflexographics, Brampton, Ontario. According to the co., Canflexographics now is Enercon's exclusive Canadian sales representative, providing sales and service support for Enercon's full line of narrow and wide web surface-treatment systems.
With the donation of its Powerscope video web inspection system, BST Pro Mark now is among the suppliers helping DiTrolio Flexographic Institute (DFI) students get a hands-on education.
CNF, MNF, CTP, LAMS — Flexography's imaging material acronyms are growing. For the proper fit, the methodology continuously tries on sleeves and much more.
The recently acquired Comco div. of Mark Andy announces it will host its next educator seminar series on November 7 and 8, 2001. To be held at the Advanced Training & Technology Center just outside of Cincinnati, the two-day "Flexo Feast" will educate packaging buyers, printers, and converters about the diverse range of narrow web flexo applications.
During the recent FFTA (Foundation of the Flexographic Technical Association) annual conference, Hell Gravure Systems and Artwork Systems confirmed their alliance to service the digital needs of the flexo market.
The FFTA Forum, featuring an emphasis on technology and a host of awards, proudly shows off just how far flexography has come.
What's Really Going on with Your Anilox Rolls?
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Has your company invested a good deal of money in an anilox roll inventory? If so, shouldn't you have the proper tools in order to get top performance from this investment?
From fake flowers to hygienic-paper packaging, Germany's Böhme family has been in plastics for nearly 50 years. For almost as long, the company has linked its print quality to Fischer & Krecke presses.
Hammer Lithographic is a company that knows how to focus for success. When it decided to tackle the difficult job of converting sheet-fed BOPP, that ability proved invaluable.
In the second of a two-part series on Amcor Flexibles Europe, Paper Film & Foil CONVERTER visits two plants in Belgium that are on the leading edge in their markets.
With the help of a Prime UV ultraviolet curing system, Canadian-based Bonar Packaging has given glamour to the plain pet food packaging bags of the past.
As flexo continues to advance, 100% inspection systems are helping more and more converters see their way to a competitive edge.
Flexography is the fastest growing printing process. This growth has come from many flexographic printing sectors, including wide web flexible packaging and narrow web label printing.
The Flexible Packaging Assn. has announced the winners of its 2000 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards, which honor packaging and converting excellence.
The Netherlands plant of Amcor Flexibles Europe already produces an impressive range of flexible packaging, but it isn't satisfied yet.


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Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales Strategy: June 2019 to June 2022
Victims' Commissioner Strategy 2019 to 2022 (PDF, 504.7 KB)
The purpose of this document is to set out the Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales' (VC) strategy for her first term, between June 2019 and June 2022. The Victims Commissioner is Dame Vera Baird QC.
This plan sets out high level strategic priorities for the VC and should be read in conjunction with the relevant annual VC workplan and stakeholder engagement plan.
The VC's statutory remit
Pursuant to Section 49 of the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004, the VC must:
(a) promote the interests of victims and witnesses;
(b) take such steps as he considers appropriate with a view to encouraging good practice in the treatment of victims and witnesses;
(c) keep under review the operation of the Code of Practice issued under section 32.
The Commissioner may:
(a) make proposals to the Secretary of State for amending the Code;
(b) make a report to the Secretary of State;
(c) make recommendations to an authority within his remit;
(d) undertake or arrange for or support (financially or otherwise) the carrying out of research;
(e) consult any person he thinks appropriate.
If the Commissioner makes a report to the Secretary of State:
(a) the Commissioner must send a copy of the report to the Attorney General and the Lord Chancellor;
(b) the Secretary of State must lay a copy of the report before Parliament and arrange for the report to be published.
The Commissioner must provide advice if required to the ministry of the crown.
Strategic aims 2019 to 2022
The VC is committed to ensuring victims are supported in coping and recovering from the impact of crime and are empowered to play a full part in the criminal justice system of England and Wales This means they are able to access victim services that are tailored to their needs, they receive their entitlements as set out in the Victims' Code, and they are treated with respect and decency by all the agencies who come into contact with them.
She intends to work towards a Victims' Law, so that these aims become their legal rights and she wants to see the provisions of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Equality Act 2010 utilised to ensure equality and diversity of provision and support.
She is further committed to championing the cause of victims in all forums where their interests are at stake, including Crown and Magistrates Courts, Coroners inquests, Parole Board hearings and Mental Health Review Tribunals.
She is determined to be a voice for all victims, and intends to inform her message to policy makers and service providers by reference to victims and witnesses' lived experience.
The VC has five key strategic aims:
A. Work with criminal justice agencies to ensure victims of crime are treated well, with a focus on the treatment of victims in the court room, so as to aid them to give best evidence as well as the support on offer to enable them to cope and recover from the impact of crime.
B. Monitor and report on criminal justice agencies' compliance with the requirements of the Code of Practice for Victims of Crime and the Witness Charter; identify areas that are deficient and make recommendations for change based on evidence of best practice; improve public awareness of entitlements.
C. Ensure the interests of victims and witnesses are fully considered at all stages in any proposals for development and/or change to the criminal justice system and its constituent agencies, including to victim support services and any related or other agencies whose activities may impact on victims.
D. Through regular contact with victims and practitioners of victims' services, articulate a view of the criminal justice system from the perspective of victims; contribute to, review and challenge decisions taken by policy makers and those responsible for developing practice.
E. Through gaining first-hand knowledge and understanding of victims' services, identify and actively promote examples of good practice and excellence.
Ethics and behaviours
The VC will work in accordance with the Nolan principles. She and her team will aspire to demonstrate positive and ethical standards of behaviour at all times:
Human rights: Ensure all victims and witnesses enjoy full respect and support for all of their human rights throughout the processes in which they are present with that status.
Independent: Taking into account, with equal measure, the views of all victims and stakeholders, making independent and impartial assessments of policy and practice and offering a perspective independent of government.
Public Interest: In all external relations with victims, the public, with government and the CJS agencies, the VC and the OVC will endeavour to deal fairly, openly and supportively, with the intention of serving the public interest in every interaction
Equality: VC work will be targeted on all communities, mindful of the nine protected strands within the Equality Act 2010: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion/belief, sex and sexual orientation.
International provisions: Utilise international provisions, ratified or adopted by the Government, on the treatment and support of victims and witnesses to argue the lawfulness or appropriateness of aspects of their treatment in England and Wales and to consult with and use comparator criminal justice systems.
Analytical: Ensure a strategic approach to the use of research and analysis is in operation in accordance with the HM Treasury (2011) Magenta Book: Guidance for Evaluation, including employing a rigorous analytical approach to all aspects of the remit of the VC.
Collegiate: A collaborative, open and friendly working relationship between the VC and members of the OVC team, as well as with all stakeholders. Willingness to provide and receive both support and challenge.
Transparent: A presumption of full openness and disclosure about the work of the VC.
Reflective: Reflective about the work and performance of the VC and her team and how it can be improved. Open to different approaches. Empathetic to the experience of victims and witnesses.
Fairness: Ensure we deal with each individual fairly and with sensitivity. A commitment at all times to identify where there is inequality in the services provided to victims, potentially according to their demographic characteristics, crime type, geographical area or the services and criminal justice agencies that they encounter.
The VC's strategic aims will be underpinned by a number of objectives. Some of these are underway already, whereas others are in development. Most objectives will contribute to more than one aim, but for simplicity's sake are grouped
separately.
A. Ensure all victims of crime are properly empowered to cope and recover from the impact of crime, by being treated in a positive, inclusive and respectful way by all agencies, particularly those in the criminal justice system.
Engage with police, judiciary and legal profession to build greater awareness and sensitivity towards the needs and interests of victims, with a view to improving their experience in the court room as well as at inquests, parole hearings and mental health review tribunals.
Continue to work with agencies and third sector organisations to develop training and messages for staff in respect of victim awareness.
Engage with law schools and colleges to talk to students and future legal practitioners about victim awareness with a view to informing the practice and culture of future prosecutors and judges.
Continue to include the quality of engagement between practitioners and victims as a part of all future reviews.
Through engagement with victims and their support organisations, feedback victim experiences to criminal justice agencies, so that it can help to shape policy and practice.
Raise public awareness of the victim experience of the criminal justice process through media and speaking opportunities
B. Victims and witnesses are given their entitlements in accordance with the requirements of the Victims' Code and the Witness Charter.
Undertake regular reviews of areas of the Victims' Code and publish findings and recommendations.
Undertake an annual VCOP compliance assessment and report findings to Parliament.
Follow up and monitor the Government's response to VC recommendations and seek to evaluate the impact where recommendations have been fully implemented.
Raise with Ministers, policy makers and Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) persistent non-compliance with the Code and highlight non-compliance through the VC reviews and website.
Regular engagement with the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, to support their delivery of victims' service and to challenge when areas of poor compliance come to light.
Ensure witnesses to a crime are treated with respect and have support for their consequential needs from all the relevant agencies
C. Feed into strategic changes to provision for victims, including the Victim Strategy, the VAWG Strategy, the Domestic Abuse Bill so that the needs of victims are reflected appropriately. In particular, drive the development of the promised Victims' Bill.
Ensure the victims voice is heard and victims' rights are advocated to government, by continuous engagement through membership of the Criminal Justice Board(CJB), the MoJ Victims Panel, CJB sub-groups other relevant policy making bodies.
Liaise with the judiciary at all levels to raise victims' issues, seeking a place to advocate for victims wherever they should be heard.
Monitor and feed into the implementation of the proposals contained within the Government's Victim Strategy.
Develop within the criminal justice system a shared appreciation that victims' rights and interests are not antipathetic to those of defendants and that public confidence in fair trials requires both the care of victims and the protection of defendants' rights.
Feed into the Government consultation on the future of its Violence Against Women and Girls strategy (VAWG).
Liaise with third sector providers, charities and legislators as well as Ministers and officials in respect of legislation.
Use media and speaking opportunities to highlight opportunities for change.
Work collaboratively with the Domestic Abuse Commissioner, setting out the basis for engagement in a joint memorandum of understanding.
Assess opportunities for evaluating the impact of new strategies and legislation.
Work closely with the Welsh Assembly Government having regard to their legislation in this area and exchange good practice between England and Wales.
D. Victims are offered and receive high quality victims support services wherever they live, tailored to their needs and negotiated with them. Where appropriate, they are supported in a trauma-informed way by experienced specialist services. At the end of their engagement, they should feel that they have been treated as valued and respected citizens, helped to leave the negative impacts of their victimhood behind and able to go forward positively.
Organise regular focus groups with victims or victim representatives to receive feedback and first-hand accounts of victim experiences.
Meet with and challenge ministers and policy leads in respect of victim services, policy and practices.
Develop systems for regular engagement with third sector service providers and charities campaigning on victim related issues.
Maintain VC press and social media profile, so that victims and public are aware about VC work and how to contact the OVC.
Use the VC website to provide a continual update on all the VC's work and actively seeks victim feedback.
Increase transparency of meetings between the VC and ministers and heads of agencies so that victims, wider public and media have a greater awareness of her work.
Issue quarterly VC newsletter updating victims and practitioners on VC activity and current issues.
E. Identify and actively promote examples of best practice and excellence
Encourage and support the criminal justice agencies in improving practice for victims and witnesses and utilise visits across England and Wales to identify and promote best practice
Work with policymakers and service providers to develop a clearer understanding of "what good looks like".
Continue to develop the VC website so that it offers practitioners new examples of good practice.
Undertake "good practice reviews".
The key measures we will need to monitor these aims and objectives are:
The staff resource that can be applied to undertaking reviews
The number of reviews completed and published and the quality of the evidence they present
Quarterly editions of VC news
A programme of engagement with victims
Increased press and social media coverage of VC activity
VC recommendations accepted and implemented
Policy makers and practitioners taking on board changes advocated by the VC
VC influencing policy formation
Greater awareness of the VC's work, as evidenced by high levels of contact with victims through correspondence, more invitations to meet with victims' groups and practitioners, increased number of Twitter followers, etc.
Examples of good practice being implemented more widely
There will be a range of other measures which will need to be looked at different levels and with different frequencies. Progress on key objectives will need to be monitored.
The VC's key strategic risks include:
Budget: Insufficient funds to deliver the strategy;
Political instability: A change of political direction due to Ministerial appointments;
Staff recruitment: The VC is unable to recruit the staff she requires, who have the necessary skill set, in timely way, therefore having a detrimental impact on her small team's output of work; time lags between staff recruitment delaying the work programme.
IT failures: MoJ IT failing to provide adequate support to deliver the business
Reputational Damage: Inaccurate information published in VC reviews of statements that cause the VC and Department reputational damage.
Strategy: The VC is unable to obtain sufficient support for the strategy from internal and external stakeholders.
It is important the VC receives buy-in to the strategy from those who will have to implement it, including her team, as well as internal and external stakeholders.
This delivery of this three-year strategy will be supported by annual business plans, a stakeholder engagement plan and a communication plan, all of which will be reviewed on a regular basis. Progress in delivering the strategy will be clearly documented in the VC's annual reports and website.
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Mother with terminal breast cancer reveals little-known symptom everyone should know
Kate Pounds
8 December 2022, 10:32 am ·4-min read
A cancer-stricken mother given two years to live is still fighting on five years later - and is now running a busy shop.
Brave Gemma Ellis, 39, was given a terminal diagnosis in 2017, leading her to quit her NHS job.
But five years later, she is still alive and now runs a charity shop that supports other people with stage four breast cancer.
The mother-of-two, from Manchester, said: "I don't know how I'm doing this. The shop is really busy and I just love it.
"The first full day I did made me feel like a normal human being. It was lovely to get up, load the dishwasher and go to work.
"I felt like a proper working mum again, I'd missed that so much. I never imagined I would do this, I'm really, really happy!"
Gemma was diagnosed with a rare form of breast cancer in February 2017 while working as a discharge co-ordinator for the NHS.
She said: "Inflammatory breast cancer is very rare. You don't get a lump. I had pain, rash and redness all over the top of my left breast.
"Nobody knew what it was and it doesn't show up on mammograms. I had months of going back and forth to doctors before I had an MRI and was diagnosed."
Gemma then went through six rounds of chemo, surgery, and 15 rounds of radiotherapy - and was back at her desk again that September.
But incurable lesions were then found by a CT scan on her lungs and spine in April 2018.
Shocked by the lack of resources available, Gemma decided to help others with terminal cancer.
She, husband Ben, 33, and their daughters - Ruby, 12, and Scarlett, 10 - started sending out packages containing comforting products and pages of information.
Gemma also created a website, a social media support group and started her first GoFundMe. Locals began delivering items for the packs to her home.
She was spending so much time sending out support packs that she quit her NHS role in 2019.
(Gemma Ellis/ SWNS)
Her organisation then became a charity in July 2022. Gemma was mentioned in Parliament and even received a letter from then prime minister Boris Jonson.
Her fundraising has been such a success she founded a research foundation and opened her charity shop on October 1 near her home in Manchester.
She said: "It's been pretty mad, but I've always been the type to just get up and do something if I want to.
"Stage four means treatable but not curable - you know then that you're not getting away from it.
"I was given one to two years but have survived five. It was very very lonely at first, there was no support out there.
"When you're diagnosed with primary cancer you're given all sorts of booklets about treatment, support groups, and recovery.
"When it's secondary it was very different, there was very little information.
"I needed that support group, and positive stories. I needed to hear about people who were still living normal lives and how long they had survived.
"There was nothing to help my family or to show me how to tell my children.
"It's a one-day-at-a-time existence. You can get friendly with someone and then lose them after a few months, while others carry on for 13 years.
It's dependent on the kind of cancer and treatment and different people respond in different ways, but there's no way to predict it. Really you've just got to crack on."
Gemma's secondary lesions are now in her brain as well as her spine and both lungs.
She talked frankly with her daughters about her illness, and they even held wig parties when she began losing her hair.
Gemma has run her organisation despite her own three-weekly chemo, and even brain surgery.
Because of a post-surgery infection she has a 20cm hole in her skull, just behind her forehead, but that doesn't stop her.
To others with terminal cancer Gemma said: "Don't panic. Let people help you, let them in and take everything you are offered. Look for positive stories."
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The 1975 and Lewis Capaldi among star acts to play at Radio 1's Big Weekend
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'Absolutely not': William Hague rules out Tory party chairman job after Nadhim Zahawi sacking
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George "Slaine" Carroll, left, and Daniel "Danny Boy" O'Connor; Credit: Danielle Bacher
La Coka Nostra Returns, With Scars
Danielle Bacher July 31, 2012
See also: Don't Call Him Country. Everlast is Hip-Hop, Dammit.
In the back lounge of venerable Mid-Wilshire Irish pub Tom Bergin's, West Coast hip-hop supergroup La Coka Nostra members Daniel "Danny Boy" O'Connor, 43, and George "Slaine" Carroll, 34, take their seats at a table covered with creased white linen.
"I'll take a Jameson on the rocks," Slaine tells the waitress. Meanwhile, Danny Boy stares at the shamrocks splayed across the ceiling walls in an adjacent room. Next to him sits a cop friend and Slaine's girlfriend, porn star Cadence St. John. Danny Boy, seven years sober from alcohol and meth, orders a 7UP. He sips it slowly while perusing the menu.
"I'm so glad you chose this place," he says. "I haven't been here in 20 years. It's like walking onto a movie set of your childhood." The bar, in fact, was the location for the back-cover photo of the 1992 debut album from House of Pain, Danny Boy's former crew.
He says he feels blessed to be alive and creating music with La Coka Nostra, which also includes members DJ Lethal and Ill Bill. The crew formed as a loose affiliation in 2005 and came to include others including Everlast, who left earlier this year to care for his daughter after she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.
Despite the turnover, La Coka Nostra are poised to drop their second album, Masters of the Dark Arts, out on Fat Beats today. Musically and lyrically, it's a change in direction from their previous, posse cut-driven output. The production team, including Statik Selektah, Lethal himself and others, creates a hazy, narcotic sound that employs downbeat loops and layers of spoken-word samples. The vibe often recalls East Coast hip-hop like Wu-Tang Clan and Mobb Deep.
The rhymes concern themselves with violence, drugs and despair, although there is a distinct contemplative, spiritual bent. The single "Malverde Market" tells of a paranoid cocaine trafficker haunted by visions of drug-war casualties and dreaming of peace, whether in this life or the next: "Division in the distant haze, the pistol plays like hellfire/Bullets whistle by like voices beyond the grave in the dead choir."
The group members know all about drug-fueled chaos. "I used to be worried about where I was going to get my next fix," Danny Boy says. "I would run out of drugs and spiral out of control."
Slaine abused PCP and cocaine throughout his life, and spent the better part of 2006 living in a Roxbury, Mass., warehouse owned by a drug dealer friend, with only intermittent electricity and running water.
He clearly still enjoys his whiskey, but he has cleaned up his life significantly. "Before, I didn't give a shit if I lived or died," he says. "Dozens of my friends have died from drugs and suicide. I feel like I would be spitting in their faces to attain this level of success and throw it all away."
The waitress returns with the check, and Danny Boy figures out how the tab will be split. He admits, "This music isn't making me stupid rich, you know?"
La Coka Nostra's Masters of the Dark Arts is out today.
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In March of 2014, The Los Angeles Unified School District entered into a partnership with the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) to bring the groundbreaking curriculum, Reading Like a Historian (RLH) to every Secondary History/Social Science classroom with in LAUSD.
The Reading Like a Historian (RLH) curriculum embodies the instructional shifts required by the Common Core State Standards. RLH makes disciplinary, historical inquiry accessible to diverse groups of learners. A disciplinary approach to history instruction engages students in the creation of historical knowledge. With this approach, students read closely, evaluate, and interpret historical sources in order to use text based evidence to reach a conclusion.
The RLH curriculum includes four primary components of historical inquiry: 1) the introduction and application of relevant background knowledge; 2) investigation of central historical questions; 3) analysis of multiple documents and artifacts; and, 4) development of evidence-based claims through writing and discussion. The RLH approach represents a significant departure from typical history instruction. In order to be accessible to diverse groups of learners, particularly second language learners and struggling readers, the curriculum focuses on the following instructional strategies: primary and secondary source documents; using targeted guiding questions and graphic organizers; implementing explicit strategy instruction; supporting group discussions; and, engaging in formative assessment of student learning.
Please see below for links to the materials needed to implement Reading Like a Historian in Grades 6, 7, and 8. Note that each lesson is preceded by a standards alignment page. The standards alignment contain two primary focus standards: one for reading and one for writing. These standards are indicated in bold. While the standards do not function in isolation, teachers should emphasize the standards bolded in each instructional component.
The writing emphasis for the first instructional component is expository and for the second is argument, at each grade level.
For additional information on assisting low-achieving students, high-achieving students, students with disabilities, and English learners click here.


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Antikrist
Sten Byriel (Lucifer)
Spirit of Mystery (Anne Margrethe Dahl)
Helene Gjerris (Echo of Spirit of Mystery/Mystical Voice)
Poul Elming (The Mouth Speaking Great Things)
Susanne Resmark (Despondency)
Camilla Nylund (The Great Whore)
Jon Ketilsson (The Scarlet Beast)
Johnny van Hal (The Lie)
John Lundgren (Hartred)
Morten Suurballe (The Voice of God)
Danish National Symphony Choir
Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard
Dacapo DVD 2.110402 95 minutes, plus bonuses
Danish composer Rued Langgaard (1893-1952), one of the great outsiders in the history of classical music, never saw a production of his allegorical opera Antikrist ("Antichrist"). In fact, even though he completed his revision of the opera in 1930, it wasn't until 1999 that the opera was produced, and then in Innsbruck. It took the Royal Danish Opera more than six decades to correct their mistake; this production from 2002, in alliance with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, is an outstanding – albeit too long delayed – "correction."
The composer's apocalyptic libretto is not easily understood. There is no plot, per se, and there are no real characters. In six scenes (with a prologue and a finale), Langgaard depicts humankind under the sway of materialism, blind progress, platitudes, pleasure-seeking, and arrogance, all because of the power of the Antichrist. In effect, Man has replaced God with himself. Throughout the opera, humankind struggles to find meaning and to justify itself, amid the chaos of life and self-proclaimed prophets who are agents of the Antichrist. Finally, by bringing the world to an end, God brings the Antichrist's power to an end. We are reminded in the closing chorus that only He has the ability to give meaning and purpose to life. Langgaard was influenced by the music of Richard Strauss, and also by his countryman Carl Nielsen, but despite those similarities, the daring and iconoclasm of this score are unique. One feels Langgaard both loving and despising the decadence of "modern" music in this opera.
Antikrist is as difficult to grasp upon a single viewing as it is to sing and stage, and this DVD gives viewers every opportunity to comprehend Langgaard's radical treatment of a reactionary theme. The bonus material includes a 13-minute documentary on the composer and his opera, and I recommend watching it before tackling the opera itself. Also, the opera can be viewed with a subtitled commentary by the conductor. (There's also brief footage of Langgaard as a conductor, but it is silent.) The booklet contains several essays, and these are very helpful as well.
The production, while not literally faithful to Langgaard's vision, is visually and conceptually striking. The soberly dressed singers (they reminded me of characters from a Carl Dreyer film) play many "roles," if you will, but they essentially represent a civilization in decay. Stage director Staffan Valdemar Holm enhances the opera's mood of despair and horror by engaging the singers in activities which often seem fatuous or useless. Nor can the role of Linus Fellbom's lighting be overestimated as well. What really gives this DVD special immediacy, however, is the camera-work, which seems to bring us right on the stage with the singers, so much so that there were moments when I felt dizzy or on the verge of stage fright – surely an appropriate reaction in an opera as challenging as this one!
This is an ensemble opera, and everyone pulls their weight and then some. Voices of Wagnerian proportions are required in the later scenes – and Susanne Resmark and Camilla Nylund do not fail to hurl their voices over the orchestra pit as if the notes were fiery comets falling on the Earth. The orchestral playing is a tour de force, and the chorus, finally appearing on stage at the very end of the opera, is appropriately moving. Both the sound and video quality of the DVD are superb.
I can think of few opera DVDs which use the medium as effectively as this one. Furthermore, given its difficulties, Antikrist is perfectly suited to release on DVD. Here's an opera (and a DVD) to ponder and ponder again when one tires of more traditional fare.
Copyright © 2005, Raymond Tuttle


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How good are you at differentiating fact from fiction when it comes to news?
MANILA, Philippines – Can you tell if a news story is fake?
There's no denying that fake news has become part of people's social media lives – a potentially dangerous part. Every day, more fake news sites pop out of the woodwork and, every day, more fake news stories are spread online.
The reality that fake news is even shared so many times that it goes viral is a disturbing one which begs the question: Have people become so gullible that they believe everything they read online? Are people now unable to discern truthful articles from ones that aim to spread fear or propaganda?
If you weren't successful with this quiz, don't worry! It's not too late to learn the easy ways to spot a fake news story.
With the growing number of fake news sites, the quality of fake articles has become almost at par with that of real news websites. Many put in quotes which they claim were said by well-known personalities. Some even mimic real news websites using URLs which closely resemble the URLs of the authentic pages.
It has become even more important for people to learn how to identify fact from fiction, and to be more careful with the stuff they share on social media.
Fake news doesn't just cause much confusion online. Its effects could also spill over to the real world, such as what some believe about the 2016 US elections. Here in the Philippines, senators Antonio Trillanes IV, Francis Pangilinan, and Leila de Lima all called for a probe into the spread of fake news.
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Ру́сская руле́тка — экстремальная игра с револьвером. Также может означать:

 Телепередачи
 Русская рулетка (телеигра) — телепрограмма, транслировавшаяся по Первому каналу в 2002—2004 гг.

 Игры
 Русская рулетка (компьютерная игра)
 Весёлая ферма 3. Русская рулетка — казуальная компьютерная игра в жанре time management, разработанная компанией Melesta и изданная Alawar в апреле 2010 года.

 Фильмы
 Русская рулетка (фильм, 1990) — советский фильм 1990 года.
 Русская рулетка (фильм, 1993) — американский фильм 1993 года.

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 Russian Roulette (значения)


Cozy Lakefront Chalet w/ Hot Tub, Gameroom & Outdoor Fire Pit!
TwinBridge is a beautiful & cozy lakefront chalet-style house in the Poconos with high ceilings, spacious living area with Air Conditioning, a Fireplace, full kitchen w/ large dining table, excellent lake views from all rooms except one bedroom. Outside deck, Jacuzzi, Gas grill, picnic area with a fire pit for roasting marshmallows. Downstairs has 3 Bedrooms (King, Queen, Double and Single) and a full bath as well as a washer/dryer. In home entertainment offers Cable/DVD/VCR and free Wi-Fi/ Internet Access. There is also a game room with Foosball, Air Hockey, Darts, Basketball and Skee Ball. As for the fall, it is a beautiful time of year with the fall foliage all around the lake. Or take a hike in the nearby Hickory Run State Park. One trail even has a waterfall!
For the Winter months, we are only minutes from 4 major Ski areas (Jack Frost, Big Boulder, Camelback and Blue Mountain). Or look in our Adventure basket for Shopping, Wineries, Casino, Paintball, Water rafting and other fun excursions nearby. We also have a Restaurant basket with menu's for great places to eat.
This 3 Bedroom Chalet is just what you are looking for. It has AirConditioning, a Hot Tub right outside sliders on the lower floor from two of the Bedrooms. Beautiful views of the Lake. The Kitchen is fully equipped with dishes, glassware. Pots & Pans, Utensils, serving dishes etc. Everything you need to cook and entertain. It has a Game Room with Skee Ball, Electric Dart Board, Foos Ball, Air Hockey, and a Basketball game..
The Hot Tub and Picnic Table in a secluded area that also has a Fire Pit to roast marshmallows.
House has everything you need for entertainment-DVD/VCR/CD/Cable TV, Free Wireless Internet, gas grill, fireplace and fire pit--Wood included!!!! Take a quiet nap in the Hammock or Play Badminton or have family game night at the big kitchen table with the games & Puzzles provided in the Hutch. A Playground, basketball court and a ball field are all nearby within walking distance.
Come relax by the fire, release your stress in the Hot Tub and enjoy time with family & friends. It doesn't get any better than this!
Full Bath Downstairs near bedrooms. Half Bath upstairs off Living Room and Kitchen. Also has an outside shower.
Row boat included. Lake has only Non-power/Kayak boats allowed.
Electric heat with thermostats in each room.
We have an indoor wood fireplace as well as an outdoor fire pit. Wood is included!!!!
Has reclining couch and love seat as well as a recliner chair. End tables and a fire place all in the family room.
Yes we have a dishwasher and we supply the detergent!
Mr Coffee maker. We have sweetners and filters in the cabinet above.
Yes the basic herbs and spices are there for your use.
Kitchen has all utensils for cooking and dishes for a family of 8.
Big TV in Family room with smaller flat screens in each bedroom.
VCR/DVD Player with lots of movies stored below in the cabinet for your viewing pleasure.
Plenty of board games located in the kitchen hutch.
The deck is a balcony style with outdoor furniture and great views of the lake.
Deck right outside the family room with great views of the lake. Sit on the outside patio furniture and hear the birds chirp while sipping your coffee and looking at the lake.
9 hole Indian Mountain is only 5 minutes away or try HideAway Hills and Jack Frost 18 hole courses nearby.
There is absolutely No Smoking and No Pets. Paryies/Events not allowed.
We had a really nice time. The restaurants and attractions, outlets/snow tubing are approx. 20-30 min drives, but that was ok. The house has everything needed and the hot tub was a big plus! Everything was very clean. Thank you for having us.
Super clean, comfortable & relaxing!
My boyfriend and I stayed here for our anniversary and loved it. We had fun relaxing in the hot tub, sitting by the fire pit, playing games, and cooking out. The entire house was very clean which is very important to me. We were a little disappointed about the lake size but it turned out to be ok! We took a little walk around the lake and watched a huge snapping turtle come out of the water which was pretty cool. We were only an hour or so from Bushkill falls so we ventured there one day and went to the country junction afterwards. Overall, we had a great stay. The place is also great for families as it has a playground within walking distance. Thanks again Billy & Mary Jo! Your house is beautiful!
Amazing time at an amazing home. Loved everything about this property will definitely be coming back. I highly recommend this rental. You will not regret it.
We are so happy you love the house as much as we do! We would love to have you come stay at our property again.
Beautiful, fun, relaxing Lake House!
I was very happy with Bill and Mary Jo's lake house. The house and property looked to be a nice size online, but I was surprised how much space we had in person. The house was in perfect, clean condition when we arrived and the living room/kitchen/dining room had a great open floor plan, the outdoor deck was a nice size with an outdoor patio set and a picnic table downstairs in the yard for eating after bbq-ing. The hot tub was the main attraction of our weekend, and the sliding doors walking out to the hot tub in two of the bedrooms was a very convenient feature. The fire pit was our favorite evening activity as well; great for roasting marshmallows! The lake was a nice view and we enjoyed walking around it, but it was too mucky for swimming and a few attempts at fishing proved unsuccessful. The only initial disappointment was the game room; the pool/ping pong table was child sized and the fooseball table could use some fixing. We quickly forgot about that, however, since all of the other amenities made up for it. We did bring our own board games and cards, only to discover they had great options to choose from in the house already also.
We didn't ventured off the property much, but one day we went on a walk through the woods on an adjacent block and found a stream that we hiked around for a few hours. The house was also a quick 20 minute drive to Barley Creek Brew Company-our favorite restaurant near Camelback. I would definitely recommend this house to anyone looking for a relaxing weekend in the woods; I could see this house appealing to people of all ages. Thanks for a great weekend! When looking to rent again in the future we would love to come back!
We are happy you enjoyed our house. We love sharing it with others so they can enjoy the beauty and serenity of the house and location. We do list on the description that the Pool/Ping pong table is a child size and we will look into the foosball table to see what needs fixing. But we are happy you were able to enjoy the other many amenities of the house. Our favorite is the fire pit, it is a nice time with our family sitting out there roasting marshmallows and telling stories. We would love to have you come back and visit again. The winter months are also beautiful with the snow on the ground and we are only 15-20 minutes away from 4 skiing/tubing locations. Camelback is the one 20 minutes away. So we will be looking forward to hearing from you again soon to come back to our Lakehouse!
Mary Jo and Billy have a great place in the Pocono's The week we stayed was very hot even for the Pocono's. However we were very comfortable. My wife especially liked the bird that was nested in the flower bed on the deck and the chip monks that would eat some of the bird seed we provided. Sitting out on the deck on the mornings with our coffee was one of the best parts of our stay. My wife and I have rented through VRBO many many times and we found Mary Jo and Billy's place to be one of the best we have stayed at. . Highly recommended.
This truly is one of the most beautiful places we've ever rented. The house was clean and roomy. The setting is remarkably peaceful. We loved the area so much that we are considering looking for property there. Great vacation!
All year round attractions Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall: Skiing at Big Boulder, Jack Frost, Camelback, Blue Mt all approx. 15 min away. Outlet & Antique shopping, Winery Tours, Casinos and White water rafting close by. Country Junction "Worlds Largest Country Store" is a must see on Rt 209. Hiking trails in nearby Hickory Run & Beltsville State Parks. Beltsville also has large lake for motorboats, jet skis, & kayaks with sandy beach, picnic tables and restrooms. There is also Fishing, Hiking, Golf, Biking, Cinemas, Gambling, Swimming, Boating, CamelBeach, Amusement parks, Mahoning Valley Raceway, Pocono Int'l Raceway, Basketball, Miniature Golf, Fall Foliage, Birdwatching or just relaxing by the lake or by the warm fireplace.
Ski: Just minutes away from Down hill Skiing at Jack Frost/ Big Boulder, Camelback, Blue Mt and cross country skiing also available nearby.
Train: Jim Thorpe has 4 season train rides. Check out the Christmas and Fall Foliage rides.
Weekends start at $695. This Lakefront property starts as low as $695.00 for a weekend!


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The Vatican has released the text of Pope Francis's first apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel).
Vladimir Putin's audience with Francis "continued twice as long as had been planned", an aide to the Russian president has said.
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem has said that, while "it's certain" that the Pope will visit the Holy Land, it is not known when.
The National Catholic Register has published the full English text of Benedict XVI's letter to Italian atheist Piergiorgio Odifreddi.
Peter Kwasniewski ponders the fate of the "hermeneutic of continuity".
An American Catholic blogger explains what made her change her mind about Pope Francis on Sunday.
And Sister Theresa Noble presents 10 signs you may be a Catholic introvert.
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Rethinking Society for the 21st Century
Report of the International Panel on Social Progress
Volume 2. Political Regulation, Governance, and Societal Transformations
Editor: IPSP, International Panel on Social Progress
This is the second of three volumes containing a report from the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP). The IPSP is an independent association of top research scholars with the goal of assessing methods for improving the main institutions of modern societies. Written in accessible language by scholars across the social sciences and humanities, these volumes assess the achievements of world societies in past centuries, the current trends, the dangers that we are now facing, and the possible futures in the twenty-first century. It covers the main socio-economic, political, and cultural dimensions of social progress, global as well as regional issues, and the diversity of challenges and their interplay around the world. This particular volume covers topics such as democracy and the rule of law, violence and wars, international organizations and global governance, and media and communications.
Provides a comprehensive synthesis of social science on how to pursue social progress, useful for students, researchers, think tanks, administration experts, politicians, or NGOs who seek ideas and arguments
Avoids disciplinary limitations and goes beyond the usual Western perspective to offer many insights about the rest of the world and give perspectives from varying schools of thought
Offers a balanced assessment of the positive and negative aspects of current trends, with many ideas for improving institutions and policies
'This ambitious project with contributions from more than 300 scholars engages in true interdisciplinary dialogue to consider the evolution of society and possibilities for long-term social change. Professors who teach on globalization, political and economic sociology, social justice, and similar topics will find this to be a very useful tool.' Kumari Jawayardena, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
'A masterful, innovative, and challenging work by a highly qualified team of social scientists, which provides a wide, coherent set of insightful and penetrating analyses of the long-term structural processes of twenty-first century society with special regard to change-makers. The three volumes share the global, interdisciplinary approach of the International Social Science Council and the perspective of 2016 World Social Science Report on 'Challenging Inequalities'. They will provide a fundamental contribution to the implementation of the sustainable development goals of UN 2030 Agenda.' Alberto Martinelli, President of the International Social Science Council
'The publication of the first Report of the International Panel on Social Progress is a significant intellectual event, both because of its hugely ambitious aim - of uniting the world's leading researchers from social sciences and the humanities to develop research-based, multi-disciplinary, non-partisan, action-guiding solutions to the central challenges of our time - and because it represents the completion of a mammoth effort in the service of this aim by a diverse set of 269 authors.' Alexander Raubo and Alex Voorhoeve, Economics and Philosophy
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10. Violence, wars, peace, security
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12. Governing capital, labor and nature in a changing world
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14. Challenges of inequality to democracy
IPSP, International Panel on Social Progress
The International Panel on Social Progress brings together more than 300 scholars from all disciplines of social sciences and the humanities, and from all continents. Since 2014, the mission of the Panel has been to gather expertise and disseminate knowledge on the perspectives for social progress around the world in the coming decades. The Panel is an independent initiative supported by more than thirty scientific or academic institutions and international foundations. With Amartya Sen as President, Nancy Fraser, Ravi Kanbur and Helga Nowotny as co-chairs of the Scientific Council, the Panel has been co-directed by Olivier Bouin and Marc Fleurbaey.
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Environment and Development Economics is positioned at the intersection of environmental, resource and development…