THE PRIVILEGES Committee of Parliament has found Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, guilty of contempt for making disparaging comments against Parliament.
Chaired by First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joe Osei-Owusu, the Committee in a report observed that it "concluded the matter in the light of the totality of the evidence gathered, and, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, the Standing Orders and other relevant enactments.
Mr. Agyapong's alleged insult was reported to the House by Minority Chief Whip Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak, and the Speaker subsequently referred the matter to the Privileges Committee.


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Trump's 'Blue Water' Foreign Policy
The administration's new security strategy is reminiscent of Pax Britannica.
By Walter Russell Mead
Dec. 25, 2017 3:19 pm ET
President Donald Trump speaks on his administration's National Security Strategy at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, Dec. 18.
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Most National Security Strategy statements are appallingly platitudinous, numbingly conventional and quickly forgotten. In the history of the U.S. government, no ranking official in a moment of crisis has ended a bitter policy debate by turning to a dog-eared, well-thumbed copy of the current National Security Strategy and saying, "Wait, people! Just calm down! The answer is right here on page 37."
Yet the Trump strategy represents a significant accomplishment. It reconciles the instincts of an unconventional president with the views of a more seasoned and conventional national-security team. The new approach breaks with the conventionally globalist assumptions of American foreign policy and instead embraces an older strategic approach.
As recently as the early 20th century, Britain ruled the waves and took the lead in the construction of a liberal, capitalist world system. During its long reign, two foreign-policy schools faced off over how to engage with Europe. On one side were advocates of a "continental" strategy, which prioritized alliances and close political cooperation with key European states. On the other were advocates of a "blue water" policy, who encouraged Britain to turn away from Europe and toward the open oceans, using its unique global position to maximize its power and wealth.
The bitter fight over Brexit shows that the blue-water-vs.-continentalist divide lives on in British politics. That division also matters in the U.S., Britain's successor as the world's leading naval and commercial power. In contemporary America, continentalists see the Atlantic world, and the thick institutional web that developed among the Cold War allies, as the template on which a peaceful global society can and should be built. From this perspective, the wisest American foreign policy would work through these international institutions and with Western partners to make the rest of the world look more like NATO and the European Union.
The Trump administration hews closer to the blue-water school. In the time of Pax Britannica, blue-water partisans believed Britain could accumulate great strength and wealth by advancing its interests in the wider world. This would do more to keep the country strong and respected than success in the intricate games of European diplomacy, they believed. A strong and rich Britain could always intervene in European politics if necessary to preserve the balance of power, and a globally dominant Britain would always be respected, even if it failed to make itself loved.
This is the view now driving many of America's key foreign-policy decisions. The Trump administration sees the Paris climate accord as a potential obstacle to America's recent exploitation of unconventional hydrocarbon resources, which has upended global power politics to America's advantage. It sees current trade agreements as unfairly privileging commercial and geopolitical rivals like China. Above all, it sees itself embroiled in a geopolitical competition with China that cannot be won by invoking principles of multilateral institution-building and maxims of international law.
Asia before Europe, realism before liberal internationalism, American prosperity before global solidarity: This is a vision that appears to blend the pragmatic approach of the professionals in President Trump's national-security team with the less disciplined but still sometimes acute insights that helped him win the election.
A modern blue-water approach to foreign policy need not entail abandoning the West, turning away from the world, or discarding the democratic ideals that resonate so deeply in American history. To the contrary, blue-water strategists in the Trump national-security team believe that it is American power, not multilateral institutions, that keeps the West afloat. If challenges to American power from countries like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are successful, the wider West will weaken and crumble.
Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster and his team deserve credit for finding ways to narrow the gap between President Trump's strongly held personal views about foreign policy and the ideas embraced by mainstream Republicans. Whether they can make the strategy work in the real world remains an open question. But they appear to have done with this document all that an administration can hope to accomplish with a National Security Strategy—that is, to lay out the broad principles and elements of consensus on which the administration will base its work.
The world remains as unstable and crisis-prone as it did before the publication of the NSS. The Trump administration's national security apparatus, on the other hand, seems to be finding its sea legs.
Mr. Mead is a fellow at the Hudson Institute and a professor of foreign affairs at Bard College.
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Poemat dla dorosłych – poemat Adama Ważyka opublikowany po raz pierwszy 21 sierpnia 1955 w "Nowej Kulturze". W 1956 opublikowano go w zbiorze Poemat dla dorosłych i inne wiersze. Po latach wznowiony w "drugim obiegu".

Autor, który do tej pory był znany jako twórca wierszy bezkrytycznie chwalących ustrój socjalistyczny, w Poemacie dla dorosłych podjął próbę rozrachunku z epoką stalinizmu w Polsce, krytykując m.in. socrealizm, fałsz propagandy komunistycznej i demoralizację obyczajową robotników, a zwłaszcza jedno z głównych przedsięwzięć stalinizmu w Polsce – Nową Hutę. Tadeusz Drewnowski określił ten utwór "bombą polityczną odwilży", ze względu na radykalizm krytyki realiów społeczno-ekonomicznych Polski pierwszej połowy lat 50.

Publikacja tekstu wywołała reperkusje. Władze komunistyczne odwołały redaktora naczelnego "Nowej Kultury", Pawła Hoffmana. Niemniej echa poematu spowodowały powołanie specjalnej komisji partyjnej i odwołanie zarządu kombinatu Nowej Huty oraz dymisję miejscowej organizacji PZPR, a także zmiany na lepsze w warunkach socjalnych pracowników.

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The Early College High School (ECHS) Initiative at El Paso Community College (EPCC) provides students in the Far West Texas region the opportunity to complete an associate degree before graduating from high school. The first ECHS opened in 2006, and now EPCC has partnered with six independent school districts to create twelve ECHS's. The EPCC ECHS Initiative works closely with its partners to support ECHS students while maintaining academic rigor and creating a college environment by focusing on "college first".
The premise of an ECHS is to provide an accelerated environment for motivated students who, along with their family, have made the commitment to pursue this higher goal. These are students who may not have otherwise had the opportunity to pursue a college education.
To date, approximately 2,500 students are attending EPCC's ECHS's. The schools recruit economically disadvantaged, first-generation, English Language Learners, and minority students. The majority of the EPCC ECHS student population is Latino and economically disadvantaged. The college graduation rate for ECHS students at EPCC is significantly higher than the national average (24%). For the 2016-2017, academic year, 74.2% of EPCC ECHS students graduated with an Associate's Degree, and the schools have a 100% high school graduation rate. Some ECHS students complete their associate degree during their junior year and take courses towards their bachelor degree at University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) while still in high school.
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Previously listed on the American Stock Exchange, the company moved to NASDAQ on June 2, 2008.[54] Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. is a holding company whose primary asset is the sole ownership of all issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. On June 30, 2008, the company announced that it had been added to the Russell 3000 Index.[55]
The patrician-looking (and rather taciturn) sadhu in the top photograph did tell me that he had a family, had held a managerial position in the Indian Railway from which he earned a pension (now paid to his wife), but had decided to detach himself from temporal life and was currently studying the Vedas. These are the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. He was the embodiment of a real sadhu who had really espoused the Vairāgya, and was far different from the "sadhus" I encountered on the ghats of Varanasi (below) almost 8 years later.
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During the 1980s, Hawaiian also embarked on the development and construction of Kapalua Airport on west side of Maui. Opened in 1987, the airport was designed with a 3,000-foot runway, which constrained its ability to handle large aircraft.[23] As a result, when the airport first opened, Hawaiian Airlines was the only inter-island carrier with aircraft capable of serving the airport. With its de Havilland Canada DHC-7 Dash 7 turboprops, Hawaiian had a distinct competitive advantage in the Maui market.[20][21]
It was in 2006 when I traveled to the sacred city of Varanasi for the third or fourth time; this time in search of real sadhus rather than those I encountered on the ghats of the river Ganges. The more photogenically flamboyant of those would "earn" a few rupees from tourists and photographers who sought to augment their inventory of exotic portraits of these characters; perhaps paying them a tidy sum if they agreed to be photographed in a rowing boat or next to a temple.
Besides the travel publications like National Geographic Traveler, Conde Nast Traveler, etc., the demand for this genre exists in industries like Travel, Photo Education, etc. Many travel photographers are today leading photo-tours through companies such as Intrepid Exposures, utilising their knowledge of unique travel locations, experience of working as professional photographers and using this to help travel enthusiasts take great travel images during their trips. Many others are doubling up as educators in the field of ambient light photography. Some of them are doing assignments which intrinsically use their strengths, e.g. shooting exteriors or interiors of buildings for architects and interior designers. Photographers like Steve McCurry are often commissioned to shoot commercial advertising work using their skills from travel and documentary photography to produce powerful advertising images.
In August 2012, Hawaiian announced an upgrade to its economy-class inflight U.S. mainland service. Among the upgrades were a new menu, a complimentary glass of wine on lunch/dinner flights and a free tropical cocktail before landing on breakfast flights. This was in contrast to other airlines cutting back on meal service.[99] According to Hawaiian's CEO Mark Dunkerley:


A binary phase diagram shows the phases formed in differing mixtures of two elements over a range of temperatures.
Compositions run from 100% Element A on the left of the diagram, through all possible mixtures, to 100% Element B on the right. The composition of an alloy is given in the form A - x%B. For example, Cu - 20%Al is 80% copper and 20% aluminium.
Weight percentages are often used to specify the proportions of the alloying elements, but atomic percent may be used. The type of percentage is specified e.g.
Cu - 20at%Al for atomic percentages.
Weight percentages will be used throughout this text.
Alloys tend to solidify over a temperature range, rather than at a specific temperature like pure elements.
At each end of the phase diagram only one of the elements is present (100% A or 100% B) and therefore a specific melting point exists.
Sometimes there is a mixture of the constituent elements which produces solidification at a single temperature like a pure element. This is called the eutectic point. The eutectic point can be found experimentally by plotting cooling rates over ranges of alloy composition.
The phase diagrams for some very simple binary alloys do not have eutectic points (more info).
By cooling alloys from the liquid state and recording their cooling rates, the temperature at which they start to solidify can be determined and then plotted on the phase diagram. If enough experiments are performed over a range of compositions, a start of solidification curve can be plotted onto the phase diagram.
This curve will join the three single solidification points and is called the liquidus line.
In the same way that sugar dissolves into hot tea (a liquid solution) it is possible for one element to dissolve in another, whist both remain inn the solid state. This is called solid solubility and is characteristically up to a few percent by weight. This solubility limit will normally change with temperature.
The extent of the solid solubility region can be plotted onto the phase diagram and labelled appropriately. A solid solution of B in A (i.e. mostly A) is called alpha and a solid solution of A in B (i.e. mostly B) is called beta.
It is worthwhile to note that some elements that are alloyed have zero solid solubility; a good example is Al - Si alloys, where aluminium has zero solid solubility in silicon.
If an alloy's composition does not place it within the small solid solution regions at either side of the phase diagram, the alloy will become fully solid at the eutectic temperature, shown as the eutectic line on the phase diagram.
At alloy compositions and temperatures between the start of solidification and the point at which it becomes fully solid (the eutectic temperature) a mushy mix of either alpha or beta will exist as solid lumps with a liquid mixture of A and B. These partially solid regions are marked on the phase diagram.
The region below the eutectic line, and outside the solid solution region, will be a solid mixture of alpha and beta, and is labelled to reflect this.
A phase diagram is a temperature - composition map which indicates the phases present at a given temperature and composition.
It is determined experimentally by recording cooling rates over a range of compositions.
We will use these diagrams to understand and predict the alloy microstructure obtained at a given composition.
Very simple binary phase diagrams do not have a eutectic point. The liquid mixture will cool through a solidification region (temperature range) and become a solid solution of the two constituent elements.
These simple phase diagrams normally only occur when two very similar elements are being alloyed or as part of a more complex phase diagram.


Former City Council woman, Susie Bartlemay gave a warm and thoughtful speech in honor of retiring City Manager, Peter Vargas.
The Allen Kiwanis Club honored Mr. Vargas for his 20 years of service to the City of Allen with a celebration at Blue House Too on Thursday, March 28th. In attendance was the Mayor, City Councilman, City management, Kiwanians and guests.
They were entertained by Magician, Alan Paoletti, music by Jeanie Clark Fisher and food and beverages by Market Street. It was a wonderful tribute and Mr. Vargas was also given an honorary Kiwanis membership for the next year.


Ian Adelman is Director of Digital Design at The New York Times, leading the team of world-class designers and user experience professionals responsible for the Times's digital experiences. Previously, he was the Director of Design and User Experience at New York Magazine, a consultant in digital product design and business innovation, and founding art director of Slate.com. Ian graduated with a BFA in Industrial Design at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Amid Amidi is the award-winning author of numerous books about contemporary and classic animated filmmaking, including the essential "Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation" and "The Art of Pixar: The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art from 25 Years of Animation." He is the editor-in-chief of the influential industry website cartoonbrew.com. In addition to writing extensively about the animation art form, he lectures at studios, schools and festivals internationally. He lives in Brooklyn.
Jake Barton is principal and Founder of Local Projects, which is creating the media design for the 9/11 Memorial Museum, StoryCorps, Change By Us, and the Frank Gehry designed Eisenhower Presidential Memorial. Local Projects has visited the White House three-times as a National Design Award finalist, and was named the second most innovative design firm by Fast Company for its use of technology to redefine urban spaces and emotional storytelling. Jake is recognized as a leader in the field of interaction design for physical spaces, and in the creation of collaborative storytelling projects where participants generate content. Current clients include the BMW Guggenheim Lab, Seaworld, Microsoft, Google, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.
Eddie Bautista is an award-winning community organizer and urban planner who currently serves as the Executive Director of the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA), an umbrella network of community-based organizations in low-income communities of color throughout the City. From 2006 to 2010, Eddie served as Director of the Mayor's Office of City Legislative Affairs. As Director, Eddie spearheaded efforts to pass several major pieces of legislation, including the City'Äôs 20-year landmark Solid Waste Management Plan. Previously, Eddie was the Director of Community Planning for NY Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), where he served as the lobbying/communications/community organizing director for this non-profit civil rights law firm. At NYLPI, Eddie organized numerous grassroots coalitions and campaigns, including the Organization of Waterfront Neighborhoods (OWN) and Communities United for Responsible Energy (CURE). Eddie has a B.A. from N.Y.U., an M.S. in City and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute and was a Revson Fellow at Columbia University. In 2003, Eddie was among 17 national winners of the Ford Foundation'Äôs Leadership for a Changing World awards. Eddie is also a Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute' Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment.
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Vicki Been is the Boxer Family Professor of Law at New York University and the Director of Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. She is at the cutting edge of legal scholarship in land use, urban policy, and housing. Been writes about land use and housing policy, the Fifth Amendment's takings clause, environmental justice, and fair housing. She is the co-author of a leading land use casebook, Land Use Controls, with Robert Ellickson, Rick Hills and Christopher Serkin. Been's current research focuses on the public policy aspects of the mortgage finance crisis, the effect of the housing crisis on Black and Latino families, the role of zoning and other regulations in shaping development patterns, and historic preservation. In February 2012, the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, which Been co-directs, was named a recipient of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions in recognition of the Furman Center's excellence in providing objective, policy-relevant research to address the challenges facing neighborhoods in New York City and across the nation.
Charles M. Blow is The New York Times's visual Op-Ed columnist. Mr. Blow joined The New York Times in 1994 as a graphics editor and quickly became the paper's graphics director, a position he held for nine years. In that role, he led The Times to a best-in-show award from the Society of News Design for the Times's information graphics coverage of 9/11, the first time the award had been given for graphics coverage. He also led the paper to its first two best-in-show awards from the Malofiej International Infographics Summit for work that included coverage of the Iraq war. Mr. Blow went on to become the paper's Design Director for News before leaving in 2006 to become the Art Director of National Geographic Magazine.
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Claudia Calhoon is the Director of Health Advocacy at New York Immigration Coalition, leading development and execution of city and state campaigns to improve health access, coverage, and delivery for immigrant communities. She has provided leadership to a diverse array of public health and non-profit settings including the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, the Open Society Foundations and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cuenca, Ecuador. Claudia is currently enrolled in the Doctorate of Public Health Program at CUNY Graduate Center. She received a MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and a BA in American History from Earlham College.
Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, Lizania Cruz is a New York-based designer working in fashion, advocacy, and the arts. She brings a decade of design experience to her current work at the branding studio Language Department. Her clients have included established brands, like Anthropologie, startups, and nonprofits, such as the American Cancer Society. Her work has been recognized by AIGA, the Type Directors Club, and Communication Arts. Lizania recently launched her own jewelry line called Bagavundas.
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Priscilla González has over 10 years of experience working to build power among immigrant communities of color in NYC. Until 2012, she had the honor to serve as the Executive Director of Domestic Workers United, bringing the historic fight for the nation's first Domestic Workers Bill of Rights to a close and successfully transitioning DWU into a full-fledged, independent organization. Recently, she joined another historic and high-profile campaign, working for real police reform inNYC. Priscilla is a graduate of Barnard College and the London School of Economics. She is the proud daughter of a fierce South American immigrant woman who taught her the values of justice and struggle.
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Adriene Holder serves as Attorney-in-Charge of the Civil Practice of The Legal Aid Society, and is responsible for managing the provision of comprehensive civil legal services through a network of 25 neighborhood offices courthouse based offices, and specialized city-wide units serving all five boroughs of New York City for the oldest and largest provider of legal services for low income individuals and families in the United States. The Civil Practice works on over 43,000 civil matters yearly. In addition to her formal duties, Adriene also serves as an executive member on several boards, is actively involved with not-for-profits, and in 2002 was appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to serve as a Tenant Representative on the New York City Rent Guidelines Board.
Prem Krishnamurthy is a principle of the graphic design studio Project Projects and teaches design at the University of Connecticut.
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Scy-Chazelles és un municipi francès, situat al departament del Mosel·la i a la regió del Gran Est. L'any 2007 tenia 2.799 habitants.

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Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Scy-Chazelles era de 2.799 persones. Hi havia 1.135 famílies, de les quals 340 eren unipersonals (143 homes vivint sols i 197 dones vivint soles), 352 parelles sense fills, 361 parelles amb fills i 82 famílies monoparentals amb fills. La població d'habitants censats ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 1.263 habitatges, 1.177 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 18 eren segones residències i 67 estaven desocupats. 655 eren cases i 606 eren apartaments. Dels 1.177 habitatges principals, 742 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 420 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 15 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 14 tenien una cambra, 93 en tenien dues, 234 en tenien tres, 248 en tenien quatre i 588 en tenien cinc o més. 957 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 555 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 508 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 1.831 persones, 1.377 eren actives i 454 eren inactives. De les 1.377 persones actives 1.293 estaven ocupades (651 homes i 642 dones) i 84 estaven aturades (35 homes i 49 dones). De les 454 persones inactives 171 estaven jubilades, 160 estaven estudiant i 123 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Scy-Chazelles hi havia 1.151 unitats fiscals que integraven 2.681 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 23.075 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 166 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 5 eren d'empreses de fabricació d'altres productes industrials, 23 d'empreses de construcció, 29 d'empreses de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 4 d'empreses de transport, 2 d'empreses d'hostatgeria i restauració, 3 d'empreses d'informació i comunicació, 9 d'empreses financeres, 15 d'empreses immobiliàries, 45 d'empreses de serveis, 20 d'entitats de l'administració pública i 11 d'empreses classificades com a «altres activitats de serveis».

Dels 45 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 2 eren oficines bancàries, 6 tallers de reparació d'automòbils i de material agrícola, 1 taller d'inspecció tècnica de vehicles, 3 paletes, 1 guixaire pintor, 4 fusteries, 3 lampisteries, 1 electricista, 3 empreses de construcció, 2 perruqueries, 12 agències de treball temporal, 1 restaurant, 3 agències immobiliàries, 1 tintoreria i 2 salons de bellesa.

Dels 7 establiments comercials que hi havia el 2009, 2 eren supermercats, 1 un supermercat, 2 botiges de menys de 120 m², 1 una botiga de menys de 120 m² i 1 una fleca.

Equipaments sanitaris i escolars
L'únic equipament sanitari que hi havia el 2009 era un hospital de tractaments de mitja durada (seguiment i rehabilitació). El 2009 hi havia 2 escoles maternals i 2 escoles elementals.

Poblacions properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Scy-Chazelles a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Scy-Chazelles a l'INSEE
 France par commune Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

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Kazakhstan | Tokáyev begins a purge in a climate of false stability
HELEN HERNANDEZ1 week ago
Traces of several days of violence, with dozens of deaths and more than 4,000 detainees, are visible in the streets of Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan. The riots have ceased after the order to "shoot to kill" given by the Kazakh President, Kasim-Yomart Tokáyev, and the deployment in the country of a military contingent commanded by Russia.
Even so, in Almaty the shootings continued this Saturday and people fear to take to the streets. A man shows the bullet that has hit his car. "It happened at eight in the morning. The shot came from the mayor's office.", he relates.
Purge in the State security organs
The power ignores the reasons behind the social protests and attributes the crisis to an attempted coup. In fact, it has launched a purge in the security organs. The former head of the National Security Committee, Karim Masimov, dismissed along with the rest of the Government on January 5, has been arrested for high treason, as the alleged organizer of the riots.
The Kazakhs reject the violence, but they also criticize Tokayev's handling of the crisis, as well as his decision to request military aid from Russia and other countries to quell the revolt.
"I think the people have awakened. No president will reign 30 years again. I would like the authorities to listen to us.", asks a supporter of the protests.
No internet, queues at banks and supermarkets and repatriation of Russians and Americans
A sign that calm is a mirage, the information blockade continues, the internet is cut off and the population is queuing at supermarkets to stockpile food and banks to obtain cash.
Russia has repatriated 25 tourists from a military airfield who had traveled to Kazakhstan to ski for the New Year holidays and is also going to repatriate all Russians who wish them from the Almaty area.
The United States has also authorized all non-essential officials and the families of all employees to leave the Almaty consulted.
The military contingent, commanded by Russia, continues to strengthen
The military contingent arrived in the country at Tokáyev's request continues to strengthen, as shown by the images of the landing of Belarusian troops. Participating in the force are Russia, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia, all members of the Collective Security Treaty, a military alliance that brings together six former Soviet republics.
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Man allegedly held woman hostage with hammer
Posted at 8:20 am September 12, 2019
Rickey Moore
A 44-year-old man allegedly held a woman hostage with a hammer and reportedly charged at fugitive recovery agents in Powell on Wednesday, the Anderson County Sheriff's Office said.
There were two Anderson County warrants for Rickey Moore, including a failure to appear, and bail bondsman fugitive recovery agents reported he was holding a woman hostage with a hammer inside a home on Bison Court at about 3:42 p.m. Wednesday, the Sheriff's Office said.
Moore refused to surrender to the bail agents and reportedly charged at them with a hammer, the Sheriff's Office said.
"That is when the agents called our office," said Tyler Mayes, director of administrative services for the Anderson County Sheriff's Office.
Filed Under: Anderson County, Front Page News, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault, Anderson County Sheriff's Office, domestic assault, fugitive recovery, resisting arrest, Rickey Moore, Tyler Mayes
(For members) Five ORPD officers injured in fight with defendant
Posted at 3:46 pm January 10, 2019
By John Huotari Leave a Comment
Five Oak Ridge Police Department officers were injured in a fight with a defendant on Saturday, a man was held against his will by the defendant, and officers used a Taser on the defendant more than once, police said.
The 39-year-old defendant is now charged with five counts of aggravated assault on an officer and aggravated kidnapping, among other charges.
It's not the first time the man has been accused of assaulting a police officer. In September, he pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer in a previous case.
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Filed Under: Anderson County, Courts, Front Page News, Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Premium Content, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault on an officer, aggravated kidnapping, Anderson County Criminal Court, Anderson County Detention Facility, Anderson County General Sessions Court, assault on a police officer, disorderly conduct, evading arrest, manufacturing delivering selling or possessing a controlled substance, Oak Ridge Police Department, ORPD, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of methamphetamine for resale, resisting arrest, Sherrill Selby, Thurman B. Bates
Warrants: Anderson County man allegedly carjacked two vehicles in Clinton, tried to steal third
Posted at 11:34 am April 4, 2017
Justin Wade Welch
An Anderson County man is facing 13 charges that include carjacking and robbery after allegedly taking two cars by force and trying to take another in Clinton on Thursday, and then fleeing from officers and resisting arrest, according to arrest warrants.
Justin Wade Welch, 30, remained jailed in the Anderson County Detention Facility in Clinton on Tuesday morning. His bond has been set at $500,000.
Welch has been charged with two counts of carjacking and one count of attempted carjacking. He's also been charged with three counts of robbery and two counts of attempted robbery.
The Clinton Police Department also charged him with two counts of vehicular assault.
And the Anderson County Sheriff's Department charged him with evading arrest, resisting arrest, and driving on a suspended license.
Arrest warrants filed in Anderson County General Sessions Court in Clinton said Welch allegedly carjacked one vehicle at Clinton Towers on North Charles G. Seivers Boulevard in downtown Clinton, tried to carjack a second vehicle several blocks south at Food City on South Charles G. Seivers Boulevard, and carjacked a third vehicle on Highland Drive next to Food City. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Anderson County, Clinton, Front Page News, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County Detention Facility, Anderson County General Sessions Court, Anderson County Sheriff's Department, attempted carjacking, attempted robbery, carjacking, Charles Relford, Clinton Police Department, evading arrest, Justin Wade Welch, resisting arrest, robbery, Scott Gregory, vehicular assault
Norris man allegedly fights officers, grabs lieutenant's gun; now faces charges
By John Huotari 1 Comment
Donald Berry
NORRIS—A Norris man who allegedly fought public safety officers, resisted arrest, and tried to grab a lieutenant's gun from its holster on Thursday is facing charges of aggravated assault and resisting arrest, authorities said.
Donald Howard Berry Jr., 25, has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault and two count of resisting arrest, according to court records.
The Norris Department of Public Safety responded to a reported disturbance on Oak Road on Thursday afternoon. Berry's stepsister told police that he was upstairs in a bedroom behaving erratically and possibly trying to harm himself, arrest warrants said.
Norris Officer Rick Roach and Lieutenant Carl White entered the home and made contact with Berry, the warrants said. But after the bedroom door was opened, Berry charged White and grabbed him around the waist, according to the warrants.
Roach tried to restrain Berry, but he resisted the officer and the lieutenant, the warrants said. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Anderson County, Front Page News, Norris, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault, Anderson County Sheriff's Department, Carl White, Donald Howard Berry Jr., Norris Department of Public Safety, resisting arrest, Rick Roach
ORPD arrests home intruder
Posted at 6:19 pm April 22, 2015
Thurman B. Bates
The Oak Ridge Police Department on Tuesday arrested a man who entered the home of his ex-girlfriend without permission and threatened to assault her, authorities said.
Officers responded to the home on Inn Lane at about 11:25 p.m. Tuesday. The man who allegedly entered without permission was later identified as Thurman Bates, 36, of Oak Ridge, a press release said.
Officers said the victim managed to escape the residence by crawling out a window and fleeing to a neighbor's home to call the police. When they arrived, officers entered the victim's residence in search of Bates, who had barricaded himself behind the door in the residence, the release said. Officers forced entry into the room and found Bates hiding in a closet.
The release said Bates was taken into custody with the assistance of a police canine after he briefly resisted arrest. Bates was arrested and transported to the Anderson County Detention Facility, where he was charged with aggravated burglary, domestic assault, and resisting arrest.
Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated burglary, Anderson County Detention Facility, domestic assault, Inn Lane, Oak Ridge Police Department, ORPD, resisting arrest, Thurman Bates
Five arrested after shots fired into Claxton home, marijuana found
Kevin Scott Garner
Five people were arrested early Sunday morning after deputies responded to a report of shots fired into an occupied home in Claxton, authorities said. They said deputies were helped by a series of anonymous 911 calls from a Powell man who was found with the Knoxville man alleged to have been the shooter.
Anderson County Sheriff Paul White said dispatchers began receiving anonymous 911 calls from a cell phone around 5 a.m. Sunday, reporting a shooting into a residence at 120 East Circle. However, the calls were not coming from the actual residence. Some 30 calls were made over the next several minutes, White said.
Deputies responded to the East Circle home and, when they arrived, spoke with a person on the front porch who initially gave a false name and false information about what happened. Another person was found hiding in the back yard. A third person was inside the residence.
Bullet holes were found in the front of the house. No one was injured. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Anderson County, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: 911 calls, aggravated assault, Alyssa Mansfield, anonymous 911 calls, Arthur Allen Bourdeau, assault on an officer, Blacksferry Road, Claxton, Cody Shane Awais, contempt of court, controlled substance, David Harry Wender, disorderly conduct, drug paraphernalia, East Circle, Kevin Scott Garner, marijuana, misuse of 911, probation violation, reckless endangerment, resale of marijuana, resisting arrest, Samir Joseph Awais, shooting, shots fired
Police arrest driver who resisted officer, hit steel post at Rocky Top
Posted at 1:25 pm June 24, 2014
Police have arrested the Knoxville man who resisted an officer at a Rocky Top convenience store early Tuesday morning before hitting this steel pole in the gas station's parking lot.
Knox County and Oak Ridge officers have arrested the Knoxville man who resisted an officer before he accelerated toward a Rocky Top store and hit a steel pole in the gas station's parking lot early Tuesday morning, authorities said.
Sherrius Smith, 20, was arrested at an apartment on West Vista Ridge Way in Knoxville at about 11:10 a.m. Tuesday by members of the Knox County Sheriff's Office Warrant Division and Oak Ridge Police Department Special Projects Unit, the ORPD said in a press release. He was transferred to the ORPD, which is taking him to the Anderson County Detention Center in Clinton, where he will face the following charges, a press release said:
two counts of aggravated assault,
possession of schedule VI controlled substances for resale, [Read more…]
Filed Under: Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault, Anderson County Detention Facility, evading arrest, gas station, Knox County, Knox County Sheriff's Office, Knoxville, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge Police Department, ORPD, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of schedule VI controlled substances for resale, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, Rocky Top, Sherrius Smith, Special Projects Unit, store, violations of a drug free school zone
Charges pending against juvenile who attacked several officers, police say
Posted at 6:01 pm March 6, 2014
By Oak Ridge Today Staff 1 Comment
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Charges are pending against a 17-year-old male student who allegedly created a violent disturbance in an Oak Ridge High School classroom on Thursday morning, fled the campus, and then attacked several officers trying to make contact with him in a parking lot across the street, authorities said.
The high school staff reported the classroom disturbance to Oak Ridge Police Department school resource officers at about 8:01 a.m. Thursday, a press release said. The student was located in a parking lot across the street from the high school. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Education, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: assault, disorderly conduct, disturbance, Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge Police Department, ORPD, resisting arrest, school resource officer, student
Charges pending against ORHS student who assaulted officer, police say
Charges are pending against an Oak Ridge High School student accused of assaulting an officer and classmate on Monday, authorities said.
An Oak Ridge Police Department press release said School Resource Officer Michael Swigert saw the 17-year-old male involved in a disturbance with a high school staff member at about 2:13 p.m. Monday. The staff member said the unruly boy had just assaulted a 17-year-old female classmate, the release said.
"Officer Swigert attempted to contact the student, who refused to comply with the officer's commands and continued to create a disturbance, yelling, slamming doors, and knocking over a floor sign," the press release said. "When Officer Swigert ordered the student to cease his actions, the student again refused to comply and assaulted the officer." [Read more…]
Filed Under: Education, K-12, Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: assault, Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge Police Department, ORPD, resisting arrest, school resource officer
Intoxicated, wearing only a shirt, woman tries to bite officer, police say
Posted at 12:09 am July 18, 2013
Crystal Jane Wombles
She was extremely intoxicated and was outside on her porch wearing only a shirt when Oliver Springs police arrived, and neighbors said she had been completely naked a few minutes earlier, authorities said.
Crystal J. Wombles, 35, of Crystal Lane in Oliver Springs, was not wearing "bottoms or underwear…showing her bottom private parts to children and the neighbors," Oliver Springs Police Department Patrolman Nathaniel W. Nelson said in an incident report. The neighbors had instructed their kids to go inside, the patrolman said. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Oliver Springs, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: aggravated assault, Anderson County Detention Facility, Crystal J. Wombles, Crystal Lane, escape, indecent exposure, Nathaniel W. Nelson, Oliver Springs, Oliver Springs Police Department, possession of controlled substances, possession of drug paraphernalia, public intoxication, resisting arrest
Three arrested, crowd pepper-sprayed during arrests at fireworks show
Posted at 2:58 pm July 2, 2013
By John Huotari 2 Comments
Information from WYSH Radio
Three people were arrested Saturday night during the "Fire on the Water" fireworks show at Sequoyah Marina on Norris Lake after a disturbance that ended with an Anderson County Sheriff's Department deputy deploying pepper spray on an allegedly angry crowd of onlookers.
The incident began at around 9:30 p.m. Saturday when a homeowner on Sequoyah Drive approached three deputies assigned to a special detail to monitor the festivities and told them that he was having a private engagement party on his property. He told the deputies that two men and a woman had come onto the property from the public area roped off for fireworks viewing, taken beer, threatened party guests, and refused to leave. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Anderson County, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: Aaron Rodriguez-McCleary, Alyssa Bryant, Anderson County Sheriff's Department, Bradley Nimitz, disorderly conduct, disturbance, Fire on the Water, fireworks, Norris Lake, party, pepper spray, public intoxication, resisting arrest, Sequoyah Drive, Sequoyah Marina, Shawn Bannach, William Lucas
Police chief tackles one of two men fleeing in vehicle, on foot
Posted at 11:45 am February 6, 2013
James T. Akagi
A police pursuit of a speeding SUV through Scarboro on Monday ended when Oak Ridge Police Chief James T. Akagi tackled one of two men who ran from the vehicle, and backup officers apprehended the second, court records said.
In affidavits filed in Anderson County General Sessions Court, Akagi said he was in an unmarked police car turning left onto Tulsa Road from Tusculum Drive at about 5:10 p.m. Monday when he heard screeching tires and saw a Ford Explorer approaching him from behind at high speed.
The chief said he quickly turned left onto Tulsa Road and pulled to the right to avoid being struck. The Explorer did not stop and swerved right onto Tulsa Road, Akagi said in the affidavits.
Filed Under: Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County General Sessions Court, evading arrest, James T. Akagi, Justin M. Harris, Landon Duvall Thomas, Oak Ridge police chief, Oak Ridge Police Chief James T. Akagi, police pursuit, reckless driving, resisting arrest, Scarboro, South Benedict Avenue, Spelman Avenue


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Sikh Coalition Updates Its Racial Profiling Travel App
[Image: Flickr user Tom Maisey]
By Addy Dugdale 1 minute Read
A travel app created by the Sikh Coalition to keep an eye on alleged racial profiling by TSA workers has been updated following claims that the Department of Homeland Security has not been dealing with complaints properly. Staff at airports have allegedly been pulling over some travelers based on their appearance–with those wearing turbans or other head coverings especially being subjected to extra scrutiny.
Last year, over 150 complaints were registered on the FlyRights app after it was created in April 2012. The DHS, however, claims that just nine complaints were received by the end of the fiscal year in 2012–three of them in regard to alleged racial profiling.
Amardeep Singh is cofounder of the Sikh Coalition, and says that for every four trips he makes by plane, he is pulled over on average three times. "Talk about reinforcing negative stereotypes," said Singh, "the government itself is targeting the object that folks are most fearful about–the turban."
Singh, who calls the news "troubling," says that the app will now forward each complaint registered to the traveler's House member and both their Senators, as well as logging a running total of how many complaints are registered at each airport, in order for air passengers to bypass airports where they fear they might be pulled over. In its first iteration, FlyRights, which was created in coordination with the TSA, allowed travelers to complain to the Sikh Coalition and the TSA.


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For a long time Norway had one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world.
The year 1993 was a peak with 6%, and since then it has been down to 2.5% and the peak in 2016 is estimated to be 4%. The country has a booming energy and construction sector and a strong need for skilled workers and professionals to meet this demand.
According to statistics on Norway, 31% of businesses in the private sector currently have foreign nationals in their workforce and 28% of state enterprises employ foreign nationals. Furthermore, 1 in 6 workers in Norway are currently non-Norwegian nationals. 22 000 new work positions within Oil&Gas are expected in the period 2018 – 2020.
Norway also has some of the world's highest salaries. Average salaries are 15 – 60% higher than the EU average for most sectors. Income taxes are generally high (36% on average), but the country has a generous system of benefits, healthcare and public services. Norway has been deemed the 'happiest' country to live by the UN's Human Development Index.
Norway is a highly technologically developed country and many overseas professionals benefit from gaining valuable experience while working for a company in Norway which is at the cutting edge in their field.
To be at the cutting age is especially the case in the Engineering and Energy sectors in general, as well as certain niche industries such as the Subsea sector, where the country is a base for many companies that are leading technological developments in this field.
In a time with challenging conditions in the oil and gas industry with lower oil prices, Norway welcomes export opportunities for its rich natural resources and many products. There is also an increase in the repair and reuse industry.
At the lower end of the pay scale salaries differ even more from other European countries with many semi-skilled or unskilled workers able to earn the equivalent of a year's salary in their own country from only 3 months of work in Norway.
The cost of living in Norway is high. Food and transport are generally more expensive than in most other European countries. Accommodation can be pricey in cities, especially Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger, whereas in smaller cities and the countryside accommodation can be surprisingly affordable.
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After seeing Astronautalis the night before, I really wanted to catch the DC show as well because it was Oxymorrons' last east coast date. I was bummed they weren't going to be in Baltimore, so I made the DC trip which also worked out because my homie Seez Mics opened before he ran away into the wedding chaos. Ardamus also came out for his birthday so I made cookies for everyone. Which inevitably leads to people asking what's in the cookies. I'm never sure if people are more excited or disappointed to learn that they're just regular ol' chocolate chip cookies...made with love. Seez and DJ Addikt kicked it off with a tight set as always. If you enjoy these videos, definitely check out the Cruel Fuel album! Of course my favorite part of this video is the shout out from Seez. =) Oxymorrons killed it next. I didn't get to catch the entire set the night before so I'm glad I got a do-over. They deserved the bigger crowd and energy that DC always brings out for Astronautalis. Check out their debut album "Complex but Basic."! I originally broadcast this live on the Facebook page. Ignore the poor quality because you can see and hear Joe yelling at me for not singing along. Haha! And of course, Astronautalis. I took way more video than I intended! This is the Facebook live broadcast so the quality isn't on par with the others, but I wanted to include it. This one is probably my favorite. I love this 2 songs so much.


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Remembering THE TIMES
Gloria Beigleman's grandson Earl was in my Communications class at Dawson and turned out to be one of my most successful students. One day I asked Earl if he knew anyone who would like to sell ads for us. I was thinking of students. He answered immediately: His grandma, Gloria. Gloria had been a teacher and came to us with her gusto and incredible sensitivity to our personal problems. Of course, her advertisers know that you can't say no to Gloria B.
I met Shirley Cohen in a Creative Writing class I was teaching at the Creative Social Centre in 1994. Shirley had been working at the Canadian Jewish News on collections and I asked her if she wanted to try her hand selling ads. Shirley is the longest-standing member of our sales team. She combines sweetness and feistiness with good humour and humility. The Liberals know that Shirley will keep them adorning the pages of The Senior Times for a long time to come.
Amy, Molly, Barbara and Zaida (William Levit)
Kristine Berey was introduced to me through my Dawson colleague Louise Arsenault about 10 years ago. Kristine wanted to write for me and we've never looked back. Kristine is one of the most talented writers to grace these pages. Her knowledge, sincerity, compassion for the underdog and advocacy for seniors of all ages makes The Senior Times what it is today. Thank you, Kristine for your devotion, integrity, talent and heartfelt writing on the issues that manifest our Times.
I met Sandra Schachter through her daughter Sharonne, who taught with me at Dawson. Sandra had just returned to Montreal after living in Israel for 30 years to be with her mother. Sandra began as a copy editor and sales rep and has been a loyal and beloved member of our team. She is loved by her advertisng contacts as a calm, knowledgable, helpful professional.
I met Albert Cormier at La Scena Musicale, Wah Keung Chan's masterful music monthly. After years of climbing the stairs and bringing the entire staff over to Wah Keung's for production on Waverly, I finally got the courage to do production at our Décarie offices and that's when Albert joined our team as our sole graphic designer and changed my life and the life of The Senior Times forever.
Albert is a one-of-a-kind guy, dedicated, gifted in his work, and a friend whose company I have enjoyed on our tours of Saturday morning garage sales and our joint adventure in Havana in March. For my 60th birthday, Albert gave me the most beautiful birthday present I have ever received—a painting of my dog Becky, who died four years ago. He had it commissioned by a famous Canadian pet artist. He also gave me a beautiful mosaic of The Senior Times for my birthday last year, which he worked on every day at home after surviving a heart attack a year and a half ago. Albert managed to come back to us, missing only one issue of The Times.
Visiting Sid Stevens and Manny Perez at Sun Youth with my twin uncles Frank (L) and Willy (R) circa 1990
A mon frère, Albert, merci pour tout ton travail et dévouement!
Jodie Alter is our newest edition to our sales force and a force she is. When Jodie gets on the phone speaking French as quickly as she does English, you know you're going to be in The Senior Times, come hell or high water. Jodie has been through health issues and a bar mitzvah but continues to persevere, and … she looks like a model when she struts her stuff at The Senior Times.
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To Adrian Bercovici of Generations Foundation and Sid Stevens of Sun Youth, thanks for the long and fruitful partnership we have enjoyed for more than 20 years.
It has been my privilege to be associated with two of the finest Montrealers of our Times, generous, perseverant, courageous individuals who have changed the lives of Montrealers and who have proved time and time again that one person can change the world—one step at a time.


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Stubborn Persistent Illusions by Do Make Say Think
My heart smiles one of those subtle, knowing smiles whenever I hear the opening notes of "War on Torpor" from Do Make Say Think's latest album, Stubborn Persistent Illusions. With all the frenzied energy of a frantically shaken bottle of Coke, "War on Torpor" lays waste to the seminal instrumental post-rock band's years of dormancy and inactivity. It is their first yawn after years of sleep; Do Make Say Think have come out of hibernation.
They're not just waking up, they're working out, too. Stubborn Persistent Illusions is the sonic equivalent of high intensity interval training (HIIT to you gym rats). It's a direct challenge to the weak and lazy crowding the instrumental indie rock world to flex muscles they've never engaged before. The rippling guitar lines, taut drumming, and new musical contours of "Horripilation" finds Do Make Say Think at their most poised. The band is no stranger to long stretches of musical exposition, but "Horripilation" is perfectly paced storytelling.
Telling stories isn't easy to do without lyrics and a traditional language to communicate, but this has always been Do Make Say Think's strength. As the world's attention span collectively shrank over the last two decades, they've never shied away from the hard work of detailed, long form composition. It's taken nearly a decade to follow up 2009's Other Truths, and yet, when they debuted "Bound" and "And Boundless" earlier this year, the years in between new DMST music instantly dissolved. Though it may have taken even longer than the band itself estimated, Stubborn Persistent Illusions appears before us, wild, untamed, and full of life, ready to tell its tale.
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For the poem "Greeting", the greek poet Zoi Karelli uses mainly adjectives to qualify the notion of time. I invited many cosmetic assistants of the department store Hondos Center in Omonoia, in order to compose a word by word recitation of the poem.
Video stills, documentation of the exhibition at Karaoke Poetry Bar and the making of the video, photos my Maria Petrou & Lea Petrou, many thanks to all participants!


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Hockey Stick exonerated. Again.
As you probably know, leading scientist Malcolm Hughes held a press conference today to announce what could be a game-changing result in paleoclimatology.
Flanked by coauthors Raymond Bradley and Michael Mann, Hughes said that thanks to new, better data, they'd finally succeeded in approximating a 'hockey stick' curve without the use of cheating—putting paid at last to denialist claims that the iconic temperature-reconstruction is somehow 'fraudulent.'
Hughes et al. have written up their findings in HBM2015, due out next month. Here's what the lesser outlets are saying about it.
The instantly-recognizable "hockey stick" graph made its debut in MBH'98, a seminal article by scientists Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes that has been plagued by suspicions of monkey business ever since its publication last century.
That accusation, according to the authors of a major new peer-reviewed study, "is irrelevant."
It turns out jiggery-pokery isn't even necessary to get "essentially" the correct, hoccobacilliform curve for historic temperatures, Dr Malcolm Hughes explained at a media conference today. That's the take-home conclusion of a paper Hughes authored with colleagues Raymond Bradley and Michael Mann, which goes to print next month under the title Millennial Climate Reconstructions are Robust to the Addition or Removal of Shenanigans.
After eliminating any disreputable or disingenuous steps involved in producing the original graph, said the authors, they found it was still possible to get "just about as good a hockey-stickish result as most recent studies"—all without straying an inch from accepted climatological practices.
The finding is just the latest in almost two decades of independent vindications of the work of Mann, Bradley and Hughes in 1998.
Lead author Hughes said he hopes the new facts will silence once and for all the 'skeptics' who allege—vocally if not outright vehemently—that the disturbing diagram presented in MBH'98 is necessarily the product of sleight of hand.
But one coauthor, Dr Mann, failed to share his optimism. He interrupted Dr Hughes to say that in his experience deniers, as they're technically known, seldom learn from their mistakes. A roomful of journalists tittered in sympathy.
Today's revelation won't be official until it comes out in November's issue of Sap (the journal widely considered the Bible of dendroclimatology). Because of the extraordinary public interest in the findings, however—a function of the sheer urgency of the climate issue in general—the researchers decided it was unethical to wait. This morning's media event was their way of giving the world as much notice as possible, as far away as possible from the noisy scrutiny of self-appointed literary critics.
Science-by-press-release is frowned on in normal fields of inquiry, but such are the existential ramifications of global warming theory—and the toxic counterarguments of its doubters—that the practice has increasingly become a necessary evil for climate scientists.
Which doesn't mean they have to like it. Hughes, Bradley and Mann weren't entirely comfortable with today's publicity, and it showed. Throughout their remarks they had the resentful, almost haughty bearing of pure intellectuals dragged into the political spotlight against their will. We'd rather be in the lab—said their petulant mien—enriching human knowledge by discovering the next killer argument against hockey-stick denial.
One of the two non-lead authors of HBM2015; probably Raymond S. "Ray" Bradley, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Hockey sticks seem to be popping up everywhere!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Hockey Stick, Michael Mann on September 29, 2015 by Brad Keyes.
A prestige press classic: Science historian Fred Pearce on the unhidden story of the 'decline'
From a story by Fred Pearce—Dendroclimatologists blame industrial emissions for the sudden inability of dendroclimatology to measure the sudden climate change dendroclimatologists blame on industrial emissions—which first appeared in the science pages of The Guardian:
No man's proxy
But why the decline? What was behind this sudden, obviously unprecedented, divergence?
Using common sense, Mann, Jones and colleagues worked it out:
Things are going fine, botanically, for thousands of years. Then one day during the Kennedy administration, a new chemical (its precise identity still subject to debate) emitted by the pollution industry makes previously-compliant bristlecone pines fly into a tantrum and reject the science of bristlecone pines. The irritated individuals—some of the oldest living life forms on Earth—dedicate themselves, from the organelle level up, to a vendetta against peer-reviewed botany that continues to this day.
To hell with the literature on growth rings, MXD and the "proper" way to respond when the temperature changes, they thought. They were here, keeping their ghostly vigil over the American desert, when Moses first experienced the thrill of taking a life, and they were sick of letting ivory-tower dendro geeks 1% their age say when to decline, incline, submit or deviate.
After all, this wasn't the Middle Ages anymore.
They were no man's proxy. They had too much self-respect.
Twisted science: Bristlecone pines are "straight like denier logic," quips Dr Michael E. Mann, whose PhD in physics enables him to extract "rings" from these miracles of evolution.
News of the physiological mutiny spread throughout the brotherhood of bristlecones like a shot (at least by Ent standards), thanks to the well-known, centuries-old, mainstream science of 'teleconnection.' Don't be misled by the New Agey voodoo-science name: 'teleconnection' is no figment of Dr Mann's imagination, no pseudoscientific deus ex machina born of a perfect storm of ambition, career panic and unscrupulousness. Far from it. You'll find 'teleconnection,' of trees, in the index of any decent college-level Intro to Biology.
The long march through the literature: First steps
Eager to share this explanation with their colleagues—and subject it to the scrutiny of peer-reviewed scientific examination on the off chance that there was a minor flaw somewhere in their thinking—Mann and his collaborators had soon submitted a paper about the divergence.
Alas, replied the editors of prestige glossies like Nature, Science and the trade rag Sap, the thesis was too self-explanatorily true for its own good. An arboreal Internet; a xerosphere convulsed by trophic revolt; an unknown industrial byproduct that continues to sicken the oldest living species on Earth, and the government that allows it to happen? Yes, yes, all eminently plausible.
But where's the hook? There doesn't seem enough "new" here to justify a whole paper. Perhaps it's more of a letters-to-the-editor job, they suggest.
That's what Mann, Jones and subauthors try next. But it's like flaying a baby. Their baby. They'd have to find thousands of words of fat to trim—and Mann isn't in the habit of writing fat. Every word had a job. It was there for a reason: to feed its family. Michael Mann can't stand to put a single hard-working American word out on the street, and he'll be damned if he'll do it to thousands.
This excerpt was reprinted with the author's protest. —BK
Ode to a Bristlecone Pine
What good is that wood?
That wood is no good.
Would you graph that wood?
I don't think I would.
Twisted Tree Heartrot Hill, Utah Territory, Oct. 1813
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The list, which included 500 companies from around the world, led by Google, Microsoft and Apple.
Forbes magazine published a list of the best employers in the world, compiled on the basis of the rating of the two thousand biggest public companies from 60 countries.
As a year ago the leader was holding Alphabet, which is the parent company Google.
Second place went to Microsoft, and the third with the fourth rose Apple.
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Clearing Up Common Misconceptions about Japanese Food: A Tadaima Japan Roundtable Discussion
Our readers often ask us to provide more personal and diverse perspectives and stories about traveling and living in Japan. One of the ways that we've decided to address this is to launch a new series of articles: roundtable discussions addressing common misconceptions about Japan.
Each roundtable will cover a different topic and capture a spontaneous, free-flowing conversation among Tadaima Japan authors and staff. For our inaugural article on Japanese food, I'm joined by fellow writers Amelie and David. Representing the U.S., France, and Belgium, we have a combined experience of nearly 30 years living and working in Japan, and look forward to sharing our perspectives with you through this new series of articles.
2019-06-14	2019-05-13	Anthony Food & Drinks, Life and Manners in Japan,
Is Japanese food really healthier than western food?
Does fish really dominate Japanese cuisine?
How should you really eat sushi?
Anthony: The greatest misconception I hear about food is that all Japanese food is healthier than western food. As with a lot of misconceptions, there is some truth behind this—traditional Japanese food that you would have at home or an expensive restaurant is very healthy.
However, one point I'd like to make today is that Japanese fast food—tonkatsu [breaded, deep-fried pork], for example—is actually no healthier than similar food in other countries. When I'm on the go and looking for something to eat quickly, it's really hard to find a quality salad or vegetarian options. Even though I'm not a vegetarian, sometimes I just want to eat a more balanced meal.
Amelie: I agree. I think one of the reasons behind this misconception is that Japanese people typically live very long, with many people living for more than 100 years. However, it seems like most of these people are living in Okinawa, and they have a completely different way of eating there. Everyone talks about the famous Okinawa Diet and thinks that this represents the typical diet for the whole country of Japan.
David: On the other hand, I feel that all Japanese food is very healthy. This is one misconception that I might have fallen for. I just feel that if I choose to eat Japanese food—even if it's curry, ramen, gyudon [beef bowl], or tonkatsu—it must be healthy because it's Japanese.
Actually, I'm guilty of asking myself: What's wrong with eating ramen every day? I find myself thinking that compared to eating western food every day, Japanese fast food is not so bad. But as I'm listening to you two, I'm having second thoughts and feeling kind of bad about my diet…
Amelie: If you just compare fast food, of course Japanese fast food is better. But if you're thinking about your overall diet, Japanese food does include a lot of greasy food too.
David: Yeah, I know food like tonkatsu is deep fried, but I think to myself that it's deep fried using Japanese cooking methods, so I can eat it every week. I just convinced myself that way.
Amelie: So did you two gain or lose weight after moving to Japan?
Anthony: Good question. That brings me to the positive aspect of almost all Japanese food. Not only did I lose weight after moving to Japan in 2009, but I also lost weight as a tourist on the two 10-day vacations that I took before I lived here.
So even though I think Japanese fast food isn't necessarily healthier than western fast food, one thing that can help you stay healthier and lose weight is the portion sizes of meals. Japanese portions are almost always going to be smaller than their western equivalents.
Amelie: My weight remained the same until I got involved in sports. Then I started losing weight. But, that might be because in Europe, portion sizes are similar to what we have here in Japan.
David: I lost weight. I think the reason was due to eating rice. Bread, pasta, and potatoes disappeared as side dishes. Having rice seven days a week, month after month, seems to have had the biggest effect on my weight. Whenever I started adding potatoes or bread back into my diet, my weight went back up.
Anthony: But, rice, as you know, contains carbohydrates as well…
David: But if I eat a bowl of rice, I just don't feel so full after I eat…
Anthony: So, what are some other misconceptions about Japanese food?
Amelie: The one that I hear most often is that Japanese people only eat fish, which kind of leads us back to the previous topic. Additionally, people often tell me that everyone here only eats raw fish. I can't speak for the U.S., but in France, I think those misconceptions come from the fact that most Japanese restaurants serve sushi and sashimi, so people tend to believe that Japanese people only eat these two things.
Of course, we all know that Japanese cuisine is filled with variety. So, people are surprised when I tell them that many Japanese people actually don't like raw fish. Many people would also be surprised to know how popular other kinds of meat are in Japan. It's true that the traditional Japanese diet included a lot of fish, but things have changed a lot over time and Japanese people are enjoying all kinds of meat.
David: You kind of have to go out of your way to eat raw fish nowadays. If I want to eat sushi, I would have to go to a dedicated sushi shop or buy it at the supermarket. It's a choice. It's rarely the only option on the menu. I'm actually not a big fan of fish. I like raw fish, but apart from sushi and sashimi, I don't really eat fish.
Anthony: I can relate to that. I'm not into fish, but I've grown to like sushi and sashimi. However, I still don't enjoy cooked fish—grilled, boiled, or otherwise. When I first told my former co-workers in the U.S. that I was moving to Japan, they were so concerned about how I would survive as someone who doesn't eat a lot of fish. But in reality, if you don't eat fish, you have tons of options in Japan. Even people who stick to diehard western diets can easily vacation here without issue.
David: In Tokyo, we have almost the opposite problem. It's such a large international city and has attracted so many American restaurant chains. There are so many temptations. So much food that I didn't eat in Europe—tacos, pizza, and burgers—is so accessible here. In a way, it's actually worse for me here [laughs].
Anthony: Let's discuss one more misconception. David, what comes to mind?
David: This is not a very big one, but one thing that I discovered in Japan is that you don't have to eat sushi with chopsticks. Eating sushi with chopsticks is actually quite difficult. You have to grab the rice, turn the sushi upside down, and dash it with a little soy sauce. If you fail, the rice crumbles, the slice of fish falls off, and it just becomes a mess.
It's debatable—and not something that all Japanese people do—but it's okay to eat sushi with your hands. It used to be that way in the past. The first time you try it, touching the rice feels weird, but it's an easier way to eat sushi.
Amelie: Before I became a vegetarian, I would always eat sushi with my hands. Most people I've seen so far eat it with their hands and not with chopsticks. This makes sense because sushi was originally sold by street vendors, and customers would grab it and eat it quickly.
David: That being said, I make a point of eating it with chopsticks just to show people I can use chopsticks [laughs].
Anthony: I guess I'm going to different restaurants than the two of you [laughs]. Most of the people I notice use chopsticks. However, I have also read that it's perfectly fine to eat sushi with your hands.
Anthony: In summary, it's important for everyone to explore what we discussed on their own. I'd like to emphasize the positive point that if you eat a lot of home-cooked, traditional meals you can enjoy some really healthy options. However, you can say that about the cuisines of many countries—not just Japan.
David: We covered a lot of topics, but obviously [long pause]… I don't eat ramen every day [laughter]. In all seriousness, I do care about my health. I've only thought about eating ramen every day. I haven't actually done it.
Amelie: What David said reminds me of something. I had a couple of friends who came to Japan last year and they were surprised to see that noodles are so popular—seemingly just as popular as rice. So, David, you can have rice and ramen every day [laughter].
David: You mean my hypothetical daily ramen…
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