Starting April 4, 2018, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum presents Lived Space: Humans and Architecture, which features photographs, paintings, and drawings that explore our psychological and physical attachments to the spaces we build and inhabit. The exhibition will be on view through September 30, 2018.
The artists featured in Lived Space examine the link between architectural elements and our inner world. In their work, interior rooms function as receptacles of memory, emotion, and identity. Some artworks show the human body merging with the built environment, while others present imaginary structures that exist solely in the artist's mind. Drawn from deCordova's permanent collection, the exhibition addresses our impulse to adapt and relate to our architectural surroundings, as well as the ways in which these spaces shape and inspire us.
Figure and Form: The artworks in this section feature the human figure interacting with and inscribed by architectural forms. While some of the artists address harmonies between the body and the built environment, others accentuate the contrast between organic and human-made, soft and rigid, vulnerable and stable. For example, in Arno Rafael Minkkinen's photograph Self-Portrait, Castello Tancredi Gate, Bibbiano, Tuscany, Italy [pictured above], an arch in the background appears to rest on the artist's shoulder as he aligns his body with the surrounding architecture— creating an unusual and intimate relationship between the body and the physical space it occupies.
Architectural Fantasies: The photographs, paintings, drawings, and prints in this section present buildings that often exist solely in the artist's imagination. They include surreal spaces, architectural follies of the mind, and wild musings on the urban landscape.
The exhibition will also feature a slideshow of archival images that trace the history of the Dewey Family Gallery as it transformed from a room in a private residence inhabited by the de Cordova family to a public museum open to visitors from around the world.
Inspired by Lived Space: Humans and Architecture and the new interactive furniture projects by Boston Society of Architects' MakeTANK committee, we will design and construct imaginative functional sculptures with cardboard in the Park. For children (and adults!) of all ages.
Take an indoor/outdoor tour of the history and art of the Sculpture Park and Museum located on the former estate of Julian and Lizzie de Cordova.
Lived Space artist Sarah Malakoff's color photographs examine the home and its psychologically charged spaces and objects. Malakoff will discuss the inspiration behind her portraits of interior spaces and offer a close look at some of the works from this series.
"Space that has been seized upon by the imagination cannot remain indifferent space," wrote philosopher Gaston Bachelard in 1957. "It has been lived in, not in its positivity, but with all the partiality of the imagination." Join Curatorial Assistant Scout Hutchinson for a look at how the complex relationship between humans and architecture sparked the imaginations of the artists featured in Lived Space.
Taking cues from the Museum exhibition Lived Space: Humans and Architecture, explore the ways in which we are inspired and informed by architecture, both real and imagined. Insert yourself into deCordova's history—past and present, inside and out.
Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Self-Portrait, Castello Tancredi Gate, Bibbiano, Tuscany, Italy, 2000; printed 2005, silver gelatin print, 3/25, 24 x 20 inches, Gift of Arno Rafael and Sandra Hughes Minkkinen and the Robert Klein Gallery, Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.
Sarah Malakoff, Untitled Interior (Lion In Stairwell), 2002, C-print, 1/12, 24 1/2 x 21 inches, Museum Purchase with funds provided by Joyce and Edward Linde, Courtesy of the artist and Howard Yezerski Gallery.


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Traveling with Pomegranates – Excerpt
National Archeological Museum- Athens
Sitting on a bench in the National Archeological Museum in Greece, I watch my twenty-two-year-old daughter, Ann, angle her camera before a marble bas-relief of Demeter and Persephone unaware of the small ballet she's performing– her slow, precise steps forward, the tilt of her head, the way she dips to one knee as she turns her torso, leaning into the sharp afternoon light. The scene reminds me of something, a memory maybe, but I can't recall what. I only know she looks beautiful and impossibly grown, and that for reasons not clear to me I'm possessed by an acute feeling of loss.
It's the summer of 1998, a few days before my fiftieth birthday. Ann and I have been in Athens a whole twenty-seven hours, a good portion of which I've spent lying awake in a room in the Hotel Grande Bretagne, waiting for blessed daylight. I tell myself the bereft feeling that washed over me means nothing– I'm jet-lagged, that's all. But that doesn't feel particularly convincing.
I close my eyes and even in the tumult of the museum where there seems to be ten tourists per square inch, I know the feeling is actually everything. It is the undisclosed reason I've come to the other side of the world with my daughter. Because in a way which makes no sense, she seems lost to me now. Because she is grown and a stranger. And I miss her almost violently.
Our trip to Greece began as a birthday present to myself and a college graduation gift to Ann. The extravagant idea popped into my head six months earlier as the realization of turning fifty set in and I felt for the first time the overtures of an ending.
Those were the days I stood before the bathroom mirror, examining new lines and sags around my eyes and mouth like a seismologist studying unstable tectonic plates. The days I dug through photo albums in search of images of my mother and grandmother at fifty, scrutinizing their faces and comparing them to my own.
Surely I'm above this sort of thing. I could not be one of those women who clings to the facades of youth. I didn't understand why I was responding to the prospect of aging with such shallowness and dread, only that there had to be more to it than the etchings of time on my skin. Was I dabbling in the politics of vanity or did I obsess on my face to avoid my soul?
Furthermore, whatever room I happened to be in seemed unnaturally overheated. During the nights I wandered in long, sleepless corridors. At forty-nine my body was engaged in vague, mutinous behaviors.
These weren't the only hints that I was about to emigrate to a new universe. At the same time I was observing the goings-on in the mirror, I came down with an irrepressible need to leave my old geography– a small town in upstate South Carolina where we'd lived for twenty-two years– and move to an unfamiliar landscape. I envisioned a place tucked away somewhere, quiet and untamed, near water, marsh grass and tidal rhythms. In an act of boldness or recklessness, or some perfect combination thereof, my husband, Sandy, and I put our house on the market and moved to Charleston, where we subsisted in a minuscule one-bedroom apartment while searching for this magical and necessary place. I never said out loud that I thought it was mandatory for my soul and my creative life (how could I explain that?), but I assure you, I was thinking it.
I felt like my writing had gone to seed. A strange fallowness had set in. I could not seem to write in the same way. I felt I'd come to some conclusion in my creative life and now something new wanted to break through. I had crazy intimations about writing a novel, about which I knew more or less nothing. Frankly, the whole thing terrified me.
After being crammed in the tiny apartment for so long I began to think we'd lost our minds by tossing over our comfortable, old life, I was driving alone one day when I took a wrong turn that led to a salt marsh. I stopped the car by a For Sale sign on an empty lot, climbed out and gazed at an expanse of waving Spartina grass with a tidal creek curling through it. It was low tide. The mud flats glinted with oyster shells and egrets floated down to them like plumes of smoke. My heart tumbled wildly. I belong to this place. Perhaps living here, my creative life would crack open like one of those oyster shells. Or sweep in like the tides, brimming and amniotic. In those moments, the longing I felt to bring forth a new voice, some new substance in myself almost knocked me down.
I called Sandy. "I'm standing on the spot we need to live."
To his everlasting credit he did not say, "Don't you think I need to see it first?" Or, "What do you mean you don't know the price?" He heard the conviction and hunger in my words. After a pause, a fairly long one, he said, "Well okay, if we really need to."
Later I went to the store and bought a red leather journal. I carried it, blank and unchristened, to the lot beside the salt marsh where we now planned to build our house. Construction hadn't started, wouldn't start for a few months. I sat on a faded beach towel beneath a palmetto palm and began making a list of 100 Things To Do Before I Die. It started off with a 10K race and riding a hot-air balloon over Tuscany. I didn't like running and really had no desire to travel by balloon. I turned the page.
Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning. And why, I asked myself, had I begun to think for the first time about my own mortality? Some days, the thought of dying gouged into my heart to the point I filled up with tears at the sight of the small, ordinary things I would miss.
Finally, I wrote a series of questions: Is there an odyssey the female soul longs to make at the approach of fifty– one that has been blurred and lost within a culture awesomely alienated from soul? If so, what sort of journey would that be? Where would it take me?
The impulse to go to Greece emerged out of those questions. It seized me before I got back to the minuscule apartment. Greece. That would be the portal. I would make a pilgrimage in search of an initiation.
A few days later, flipping through a small anthology, I stumbled upon four lines in May Sarton's poem, "When a Woman Feels Alone:"
Old Woman I meet you deep inside myself.
There in the rootbed of fertility,
World without end, as the legend tells it.
Under the words you are my silence.
I read it a half dozen times. I became entranced with the verse, which attached itself to the side of my heart something like a limpet on a rock. The image of the Old Woman haunted me, this idea there was an encounter that needed to take place at the "rootbed" of a new fertility. Who was this Old Woman who had to be met deep inside oneself? Sometimes I woke in the middle of the night thinking about her. About her dark fertility. About the silence beneath the words.
When I made my first trip to Greece in 1993, I'd inscribed a quotation on the first page of my travel diary– words by theologian, Richard Niebuhr: "Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys." Recalling this, I recopied the words in the new red journal. What I wanted– at least what I was trying hard to want– was to create in myself a new poetry: the spiritual composition of the Old Woman, not through words, but through the wisdom of a journey.
I imagined the trip as a pilgrimage for Ann, too. She had come to Greece almost a year and a half ago on an academic trip and fallen in love with the place. Returning would be the graduation gift of gifts for her, but I also wondered if it might become an initiation for her, as well. She was officially exiting the precincts of girlhood and stepping into young womanhood– another threshold that wasn't all that defined and acknowledged– and she did seem daunted lately. Not that we talked about it. When I inquired, she said she was fine. But on the flight over, during the hours she sat next to me, she stared out the oval window, at the Sky Mall catalog, at the movie playing on the monitor over our heads, and there was an emission of sadness around her, like the faint dots and dashes of Morse Code blinking secret distress.
I realized it was conceivable that Ann and I both, in our own way, were experiencing a crisis, which according to its definition is: (1) a crucial stage or turning point, and (2) an unstable or precarious situation. At the very least, Ann was struggling to figure out the beginning of being a woman and I, the beginning of the ending of it.
Now, though, I sit on the museum bench and consider this new epiphany, how surprising it is that for all these months I've thought traveling to Greece was basically a pilgrimage about crossing borders into foreign regions of the soul. About meeting the Old Woman. I haven't considered it has anything to do with mothers and daughters. With Ann and me. With us.
I watch Ann hone in with her telephoto lens on Persephone's face, the nose of which is partially missing. If you asked me to describe Ann, the first thing I would say is: smart. Her intelligence was never just scholastic, though; it has always had a creative, inventive bent. When other eight year olds were busy with lemonade stands, Ann set up a booth for dispensing "Advice for People with Problems"– minor problems cost a nickel; major ones, a dime. She made a killing.
On the other hand, it must be said that Ann's defining quality is kindness. I don't mean politeness so much as tender-heartedness. Growing up, she railed against animal abuse and was unable to bear even the thought of a squashed bug, insisting we carry all insects from the house in dustpans. Indeed, whatever her sensitive and fiery heart attached itself to, she was passionate about it: Bugs, dogs, horses, books, dolls, comic strips, Save-the-Earth, movies, Hello Kitty, Star Wars.
The list of attachments revolved continually. Her constant testaments to these passions were the poems and stories she wrote throughout her childhood, filling one composition book after another.
The only thing that seemed to curb her fervency was the other predominate thing about Ann– her natural diffidence and the way it often veered off into self-consciousness.
I wrap my arms across my abdomen and look away from her toward the room we just left, which like this one is a cluttered bone yard of sculptures and myths. I have the most absurd impulse to cry.
I've had intimations of this feeling of loss before, but it was a shadow passing in the peripheries, then gone. After Ann left home, I would wander into her room and catch the scent of dried prom corsages in the closet, or turn over an old photograph of our beagles and find myself staring at her handwriting– Caesar and Brutus 1990– or come upon her poem "Ode to a Teddy Bear," or open a cookbook to her perfected horse head sketch in the margin, and I would feel it, the momentary eclipse.
I tell myself it's natural for the feeling to surface now with the two of us captive in each other's presence, brought together in a way we haven't experienced in… well, forever. Once, when Ann was twelve, we'd traveled– just the two of us– to San Francisco, but that was hardly comparable to this. At twelve, Ann had not been away for four years during which time she transformed into a young woman I barely know.
Her backpack is plopped open between her feet while she copies something from the sign beside the bas-relief into a blue spiral notebook. It has not escaped me that Demeter and Persephone have captured her attention.
We have by this point tromped by a few thousand antiquities at least– frescoes from Santorini, gold from Mycenae, bronzes from Attica, pottery from every nook and cranny of ancient Greece– but this is the spot where I tell Ann my feet are in abject misery and I need to take a break: before Demeter and Persephone. At the intersection of mothers and daughters.

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Nvidia Showcase: Four big reasons why Overwatch will be a must-play FPS on PC
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Blizzard is entering the world of first-person shooters in a big way with its upcoming game, Overwatch. It's a shooter with an emphasis on fun and teamplay, with locations set across a near-future version of Earth and a huge range of characters to play as. The game is looking to be a graphical treat, brimming over with fast, frenetic action that you can experience early by participating in Overwatch's closed beta beginning February 9.
Overwatch has been in closed beta for a while, enabling Blizzard to give it a good hard testing and ensure that everything is properly balanced before it launches. Here are five reasons why PC gamers will want to keep an eye out for Blizzard's Overwatch.
It's got character
In Overwatch you're not playing as yet another marine, all big guns and no personality. Instead, Overwatch has a huge cast of heroes for you to choose from, each with their own stories, personalities, weapons and abilities (including a super-powered ultimate ability that can turn a game in your team's favor in a few seconds). Each hero plays differently, and if you want to gain the edge in an Overwatch game you'll want to familiarize yourself with all of them.
It won't let you get stuck in a rut
There are four main classes in Overwatch: offense characters are fast and well-armed, defense are better suited to protecting key locations, tanks can take a lot of damage and are great for drawing enemy fire, and support characters can protect and heal allies while weakening the enemy side. While it's tempting to slip into a preferred role, you're encouraged to mix things up and try something new; whenever you get killed in-game you can immediately switch to another hero, changing your abilities and altering the flow of the game.
It's bright and colorful
Take one look at Overwatch's visuals and you'll see that this isn't just another gritty FPS with accurately-rendered real-world locations. Instead it has more of the look of a Saturday morning cartoon, set in bold, colorful worlds populated with over-the-top heroes with a lot of character. Each of Overwatch's levels is huge, intricate and unencumbered by the need to accurately represent the real-world, and the other players are never lost against all the details. You can always spot enemy players by their red overlays. On PC, NVIDIA recommends you play the game with a GeForce GTX 950 GPU for 1920×1080 gaming, a GTX 970 for 2560×1440 gaming or a GTX 980 Ti for 3840×2160 gaming. Check out the full PC specs here.
It has variety
There's no deathmatch in Overwatch. It's all about the teamplay and combining your players' various abilities into an unbeatable whole, and there are two basic modes on offer, as well as missions that combine the two. There's Payload, in which the attacking team has to escort a vehicle to a specific point in the level before the time runs out, and the defending team has to try and stop it. The other mode is Point Capture: the attacking team has to capture a number of points on the map, while the defenders have to stop them. And while two modes might not seem like much, when you take into account the assorted maps and the large number of available heroes, it all adds up to a lot of gameplay possibilities.
Nvidia Showcase


Beginners Yoga Vol. 3 is an easy to follow 60 minute class that has been devised for the absolute beginner. The class continues the Yoga 2 Hear Beginners Yoga series by naturally progressing some of the postures included in the Vol.1 & 2 classes. This class introduces more foundation postures designed to increase ability and advance your practice towards the next level.
As with the other classes in the series Beginners Yoga Vol. 3 starts with a short guided relaxation to clear and focus the mind and prepare the body for the session. The class then continues with 18 carefully selected effective yoga postures including The Cobbler, Extended Triangle and Snake before concluding with a longer guided relaxation. Each posture is introduced using clear, easy-to-follow instruction which is combined with a soothing background music track.


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Blog Pensions & Benefits
Four Egregious Benefit Enhancement Bills
2018 Benefit Sweetener Scorecard Update
2018 Benefit Sweetener Scorecard (Updated 01/03/2019)
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The 135 active bills identified on the Citizens Budget Commission's 2018 Benefit Sweetener Scorecard this session could cost the State and local governments at least $428 million. The exact cost cannot be determined since two-thirds of the bills do not provide a cost estimate.
Most of the bills enhance pension benefits; other costly bills would increase disability benefits, enhance death benefits, grant additional paid leave, or expand eligibility or limit changes to health insurance benefits. Some bills apply to public and private employers, and others would reverse recent agreements between the State and organized labor that decreased pension and health insurance costs in exchange for avoiding layoffs. All of these bills should be rejected as they would increase taxpayers' liabilities without improving services.
Highlighted below are some of the more egregious examples of costly bills moving through the legislative process.
A7250 (Englebright), first introduced in 2006, would prohibit public and private employers from decreasing retiree health or disability benefits. Regardless of the fiscal predicament of an employer, or changes to the overall social safety net that may offset the need for such benefits, the employer would be required to provide the same level of benefits that were provided when the individual retired. Although not completely clear, it appears this bill applies retroactively; if this is the case, it would cause State and other employers to restore benefits to retirees that have long been changed, at an untold cost.1
A6319 (Montesano) increases the calculation of final average salary of justices and judges in the New York State Unified Court System for the purpose of calculating pensions. Instead of calculating final average salary based on the average of the final three years of earnings as is typically done, a justice's or a judge's final year salary would count as the final average salary. This would provide a significant benefit increase that would cost almost $50 million retroactively and an additional $2 million annually thereafter. There is no reason to provide an additional benefit to individuals who are already among the highest paid public servants in the state.
A7599 (Abbate) S5731 (Parker) would provide a special benefit to Tier 6 New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) employees who are enrolled in the program allowing for early retirement at age 55 with 25 years of service. This bill would exempt them from the cap on overtime in calculation of their pensions. Per current law, all Tier 6 plan enrollees are subject to a cap on how much overtime can be included in the calculation of final average salary – Employees Retirement System members are subject to a $15,000 per year cap (adjusted for inflation) and Police and Fire Retirement System members are subject to a cap equal to 15 percent of salary. The cap on overtime inclusion was one of the major cost savings achieved by Tier 6. Exempting one group from the cap would likely cause other groups to demand similar treatment. Allowing an exemption for this targeted group would increase costs for NYCTA by $4.7 million in the first year, rising by almost $1 million per year over the following four years.
A8021 (Abbate) S6381 (Alcantara) would also provide a benefit to Tier 6 NYCTA members enrolled in the 55-25 program by decreasing the employee contribution rate from a graded rate that goes as high as 6 percent to a flat 2 percent and increase NYCTA costs by $28.1 million annually. Like A7599/S5731, this bill would increase employee compensation costs for NYCTA at a time when it faces tremendous financial pressure. If adopted, this special benefit to one subset of public employees is likely to result in other employee groups demanding the same.
The four bills described, along with the other 131 bills in our scorecard should be rejected. See the chart below for the most up-to-date benefit sweetener scorecard.
Impacted Benefit Bill Number and Sponsors Last Actions Description Past Service + First Year Costs
(dollars in millions) Fiscal Note
Death or Disability Benefits A10015 (Jenne) S7525 (Ritchie) Referred to Governmental Employees Committee on 3/7/18 (A), Referred to Finance Committee on 2/27/18 (S) Enhances in-service death benefit for State correction officers who are retirement eligible and die while in service. The death benefit for Tiers 2 through 6 will be the same as if those individuals had retired on the day of their death. The beneficiaries can decide whether they want to receive this in-service death benefit as a lump sum payment. Expires 5 years after enactment. $13.20 One-time past service cost of $13.2 million.
Death or Disability Benefits A1451 (Cahill) S1195 (Avella) Referred to Local Governments 1/3/18 (A), On Third Reading 2/13/18 (S) Requires volunteer firefighter and ambulance worker death benefits be paid within 90 days. None No fiscal note provided.
Death or Disability Benefits A4093 (Hooper) Referred to Local Governments on 1/3/18 Adds Bay Constables in the Town of Hempstead to list of individuals entitled to full salary if they become disabled as a result of their duties. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Death or Disability Benefits A4331 (Abbate) S5699 (Croci) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Increases disability benefits for certain correction employees in Suffolk County who are injured by a civilian visitor. $1.48 The benefit would be 75% the final average salary less workers' compensation. Increase in annual county contributions by $220,000. Past service cost of $1.26 million.
Death or Disability Benefits A6367 (Magnarelli) S3904 (Griffo) Passed Assembly on 3/20/18, Referred to Finance on 5/2/18 (S) Increases volunteer firefighter and ambulance worker total disability benefits from $600 to $650 per week. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Death or Disability Benefits A6413-A (Abbate) S4634-A (Funke) Passed on 5/8/18 (A), Passed Senate on 4/23/18 (S) Includes SUNY police officers for purposes of presumption of work-related disease regarding impairment caused by heart disease. Minimal Bill may lead to more disabilities classified as "performance of duty," but anticipates few performance of duty disability retirements will be granted rendering costs negligible.
Death or Disability Benefits A6501 (Abbate) S4564 (Golden) Referred to Ways and Means on 1/3/18 (A), Advanced to Third Reading on 3/13/18 (S) Provides all cancers experienced by a firefighter were incurred in the performance of duty. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Death or Disability Benefits A6784 (Buchwald) Referred to Local Governments on 1/3/18 Makes permanent the presumption that heart-related disabilities experienced by firefighters are caused by firefighting activities, unless proved otherwise; originally adopted in 1977, set to expire in 2020. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Death or Disability Benefits A6991 (Abbate) S6274 (Lanza) Passed Assembly on 3/21/18 (A), Referred to Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions on 1/3/18 (S) Provides paid time off, medical bills, and light-duty determination for Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers who become ill or injured in performance of their duties. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Death or Disability Benefits A7120 (Jenne) Referred to Local Governments on 1/3/18 Makes permanent the presumption that lung disabilities incurred by volunteer firefighters are caused by firefighting activities; originally adopted in 2006, set to expire in 2020. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Death or Disability Benefits A7600-C (Abbate) S5594-C (Golden) Amended on 2/21/18 (A), Passed Senate on 5/1/18 (S) Allows members of the division of law enforcement in the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), forest rangers, university police officers, and regional state park police who are injured in the performance of their duty and can no longer perform their duty due to such injury to receive 3/4 accidental disability retirement. $2.42 Increased annual contributions of $350,000; immediate past service cost of $2.17 million.
Death or Disability Benefits A7837 (Abbate) Ways and Means on 4/24/18 Requires state to pay for salary, wages, medical, and hospital expenses of injured revocation specialists, revenue crime specialists, and investigators. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Death or Disability Benefits A8115A (Abbate) S6550 (Golden) Referred to Governmental Employees 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Allows Tier 3 members of Police and Fire Retirement System to file for accidental disability benefit regardless of whether he or she is eligible for a normal service retirement benefit. The bill would also allow retirees who receive an accidental disability pension to continue to do so despite being disapproved from receiving a federal social security disability pension. Minimal Applies only to approximately 100 individuals.
Death or Disability Benefits A8164-A (Brindisi) S3770-A (Akshar) Amended on 3/26/18 (A), Passed Senate on 5/14/18 (S) Creates presumption for police officers and fire-fighters that staph/MRSA infections are work-related. Minimal May lead to more disabilities classified as accidental; however, few retirements anticipated to be granted, costs expected to be negligible.
Death or Disability Benefits S2305 (Murphy) Referred to Labor on 1/3/18 (S) Would continue death benefits to a surviving spouse regardless of remarriage, impacting public and private employees. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Death or Disability Benefits A8769 (Cusick) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 Extends performance of duty disability retirement to New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) employees. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Death or Disability Benefits A9010 (Abbate) S7140 (Golden) Referred to Government Employees on 1/3/18 (A), Passed Senate 5/17/18 (S) Allows any sheriff, undersheriff, deputy sheriff, or correction officer employed by Nassau County to be eligible for a performance of duty benefit due to the act of a civilian at an institution under the jurisdiction of such county. Current law only applies to injuries caused by an inmate. $1.43 $210,000 annual cost; past service costs of $1.22 million.
Death or Disability Benefits A9667 (Paulin) S7554 (Gallivan) Referred to Ways and Means on 3/20/18 (A), Referred to Local Government on 1/23/18 (S) Extends optional disability coverage for probation officers to all counties, currently only applies in Nassau County. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Death or Disability Benefits A9909 (Abbate) S7705 (Golden) Referred to Ways and Means on 3/20/18 (A), Referred to Finance on 2/27/18 (S) Allows Tiers 3, 4, 5, 6 uniformed court officers and peace officers in the Unified Court System to be eligible for an accidental disability. Benefit for accidental disability would be 75% of final average salary less workers' compensation. TBD Fiscal note does not provide a specific figure.
Death or Disability Benefits A993 (Simon) S3726 (Montgomery) Reported on 5/15/18 (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Allows workers to use accrued sick time, compensation time, or vacation time if injury is not yet covered under workers' compensation. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Death or Disability Benefits S5410 (Flanagan) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 Expands eligibility for enhanced disability benefits for certain members of the NYC Police Department (NYPD). $13.50 Cost to NYC $13.5 million for FY 2018.
Death or Disability Benefits S6135 (Golden) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Waives requirement for 10 years of service for uniformed NYC Correction employees to apply for disability retirement. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Death or Disability Benefits S6261 (Amedore) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 Provides accidental disability retirement benefit for fire protection specialists injured in the course of performing their duties. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Death or Disability Benefits S6378 (Krueger) Enacting clause stricken on 4/25/18 Establishes optional plan for all NYC uniformed employees in Tiers 3 and 6 that calculates disability benefits using final average salary of 6th year salary; eliminates Social Security Disability Allowance (SSDA) Offset, and restores prior Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA). Employees qualifying for SSDA receive enhanced 75% Final Average Salary benefit. $47 No fiscal note provided; however, the sponsor's memo identifies fiscal impact of $47 million for NYC through FY 2019.
Health Insurance A1444 (Crouch) Held in Government Employees on 5/15/18 Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees, retroactive to May 1, 2008. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Health Insurance A2000 (Abbate) S1612 (Golden) Referred to Ways and Means 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Finance 1/16/18 (S) Provides that state retirees be reimbursed by the State for both Medicare premiums and any other Medicare charges. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Health Insurance A2823 (Abbate) S1862 (Golden) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Finance 1/29/18 (S) Establishes State health insurance contribution rates and eliminates authority of president of Civil Service Commission to establish rates for retirees; sets retiree contribution rates at those in effect on last day of employment for employees retiring on or after January 1, 2012, for state workers only. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Health Insurance A5455-A (Weprin)
S8220 (Lanza) Amended on 4/23/18 (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 4/19/18 (S) Prohibits state and local employers from diminishing health insurance benefits and employer contributions made toward such benefits for retirees below the level of benefits in place 30 days after this act becomes law. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Health Insurance A7250 (Englebright) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 Prohibits any public or private employers from diminishing benefits of retirees. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Health Insurance A804 (Pretlow) Referred to Government Employees on 1/3/18 Permits school board members who have served 10 years to elect to receive state health insurance. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Health Insurance S2688 (Breslin) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees, between May 15, 2017 and May 15, 2018, unless similar changes are made for active employees. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Health Insurance S4637 (Sanders) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 Prohibits public employers from diminishing health insurance benefits to retired police officers and firefighters and their dependents. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Paid or Unpaid Leave A11 (Cahill) Referred to Labor on 1/3/18 Grants retroactive leave for state employees who provided bone marrow or organ donation. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Paid or Unpaid Leave A1797-A (Kim)
S3749-a (Parker) Referred to Labor 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Labor 1/3/18 (S) Requires public and private employers to grant up to 24 hours of unpaid leave per 12 month period for parental involvement. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Paid or Unpaid Leave A2024 (Fahy) S5574 (Golden) Referred to Government Employees on 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Children and Families 1/3/18 (S) Requires provision of 5 days of paid leave and counseling to Child Protective Services employees investigating child abuse or maltreatment when the child dies from such abuse or maltreatment. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Paid or Unpaid Leave A2462 (Dinowitz) Referred to Ways and Means on 1/3/18 Permits excused absences of state employees for purposes of donating blood. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Paid or Unpaid Leave A3983 (Solages) Referred to Labor on 1/3/18 Requires public and private employers to grant leave for parenting. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Paid or Unpaid Leave A4147 (Rosenthal) S5669 (Carlucci) Referred to Ways and Means on 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Grants excused leave to public officers and employees to undertake screening for cervical cancer. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Paid or Unpaid Leave A4947 (Simotas) Referred to Labor on 1/3/18 Requires public and private employers to provide an additional 12 weeks of leave for birth or adoption of a child, in addition to leave provided by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Paid or Unpaid Leave A7779 (Crouch) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 Provides state employees 4 hours of additional leave for ovarian and cervical cancer screenings. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Paid or Unpaid Leave A820 (Crouch) Held in Government Employees on 5/15/18 Extends paid leave to civil air patrol volunteers at rate equal to full salary. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Paid or Unpaid Leave A8616 (Abinati) S3684 (Addabbo) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Provides excused leave for any cancer screening, doubles number of paid leave hours to 8. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits A10093 (Fahy) S7771 (Young) Held in Ways and Means on 5/15/18 (A), Third Reading on 5/16/18 (S) Provides special payment to now retired management/confidential employees who had previously authorized raises withheld. $9 $9 million per sponsors' memo; however,no fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits A10119 (Zebrowski) S7667 (Stavisky) Referred to Governmental Employees on 3/16/18 (A), On Third Reading 3/5/18 (S) Allows retired police and firefighters to work at public colleges as faculty of a criminal justice program or director of public safety without loss, suspension, or diminution of retirement allowance. TBD Fiscal note does not provide a specific figure.
Pension Benefits A2068 (Montesano) Held in Government Employees on 5/15/18 Alters method of repayment of outstanding loans against an individual's retirement benefits following retirement. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits A2454 (Miller MG) Referred to Government Employees on 1/3/18 Awards pension credit to members of public retirement system called for active duty military service since September 11, 2001, if they were in public employment during time of service. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits A2979A (Brindisi) S2926A (Golden) Amended on 1/23/18 (A), Amended on 1/8/18 (S) Increases survivors' benefit of a retired state employee by $500. $1.90 $1.9 million annual costs. For employees retired before April 1, 1970 benefit increases from $2,000 to $2,500, and for employees retired after from $3,000 to $3,500.
Pension Benefits A2983-B (Abbate) S2910-A (Golden) Amended on 5/15/18 (A), Amended on 1/8/18 (S) Allows retired police and fire officers to work at community colleges as faculty of a criminal justice program without loss, suspension, or diminution of retirement allowance. Minimal Minimal
A3327-C (McDonald)
S3576-B(Tedisco)
Referred to Ways and Means on 5/15/18 (A), Amended on 4/24/18 (S) Increases amount of money a retiree may earn in a position of public service from $30,000 to $35,000 without diminution of retirement benefits. Minimal The increase over the current limit is less than the increase of the consumer price index over the time that the current limit has been in place. Due to this, retirement patterns would be unaffected, rendering annual cost negligible.
Pension Benefits A3380 (Lalor) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 Increases from $30,000 to $32,500 the amount of money a retired police officer may earn as a school safety officer without reduction in pension. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits A3459 (Ra) Held in Governmental Employees on 5/15/18 Removes income earning limitations for retired New York police and fire pensioners employed full-time as teaching faculty in specific fields. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits A3466 (Lalor) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 Removes income earning limitations for police officers employed as school safety officers. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits A3965A (Abbate) S3552A (Golden) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 (A), Third Reading on 5/2/18 (S) Provides that public employee retirees seeking to be hired as a firefighter, police officer, or EMT, are eligible for a 5-year waiver from the $30,000 cap on wages. Current law provides that all waivers are limited to 2 years. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits A4292-A (Thiele) S4050-A (Lavalle) Referred to Codes on 2/22/18 (A), Referred to Local Government on 2/22/18 (S) Increases $30,000 cap on public employment salaries to an amount calculated as the individual's final average salary less pension for retired police officers working as school security guards. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits A6029 (Gunther) S4479 (Larkin) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Removes earnings limitation for retired firefighters employed as fire science instructors by career and technical education centers. Minimal Note expects few retirees to be affected with negligible additional annual costs.
Pension Benefits A6045-A (Steck) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 Provides that the COLA for members of New York retirement systems should be based on a higher base benefit. $2.94 First year cost of $2.94 million to state, and $12.3 million to participating employers in Police and Fire Retirement System (PFRS). Increases present value of benefits by $927 million.
Pension Benefits A6319 (Montesano) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 Increases calculation of final average salary of justices and judges within NYS Unified Court System. $48.90 Increases the annual contribution by the state by $1.9 million for FY 2018. Future costs will vary as rates and salaries of affected members change. Past service cost $47 million.
Pension Benefits A6321 (Weprin) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 Provides equal retirement benefits for persons who have been appointed to the title of superintendent in the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). $2.93 Immediate past service cost is $2.93 million in addition to future costs that depend on affected members, whose salaries total $2.8 million for FY 2016.
Pension Benefits A6548-A (Thiele) S5134-A (Lavalle) Amended on 2/5/18 (A), Amended on 2/5/18 (S) Allows additional libraries to participate in the NYS Retirement System. TBD Depends on age, service, salary, tier status, and plan of affected employees.
Pension Benefits A6603-A (Brindisi) S5329-A (Tedisco) Referred to Ways and Means on 4/24/18 (A), Amended on 1/16/18 (S) Extends minimum retirement allowance and increases allowance to some long retired teachers. $0.45 Annual cost is $448,000.
Pension Benefits A6785 (Kolb) Held in Governmental Employees on 5/15/18 Allows SUNY campus public safety officers to transfer to the NYS Local PFRS to participate in a special plan with a 25 year half pay retirement benefit. $1.07 Annual contributions increase $210,000; immediate past service cost of $855,000.
Pension Benefits A7223 (Zebrowski) S5453 (Ortt) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Empowers NYS Comptroller to provide corrective remedy for any member of the retirement system, or any member who would otherwise be entitled to membership. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits A7248 (Englebright) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 Revives cause of action for denial of retroactive membership by public retirement systems for members who would have qualified for such relief under section 803. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits A7354-A (Ramos) S5640-A
(Croci) Amended on 4/16/18 (A), Advanced to Third Readin on 5/2/18 (S) Provides temporary retirement incentive to members of the Teachers' Retirement System, by waiving early retirement reduction for enrollees with 25 years of service who are 55 years old or older. $29 $29 million annual cost going forward as well.
Pension Benefits A7452 (Abbate) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 Allows school district employees to obtain service credit for up to 10 years of service for the federal government, provided such service was not provided credit in another retirement system. TBD Total amount cannot be determined; however, costs would increase $22,200 per year of service credited for Tiers 1 through 5, and $17,300 per year for Tier 6 enrollees.
Pension Benefits A7598-A (Abbate) S5618-A (Ortt) Referred to Ways and Means on 4/24/18 (A), Third Reading on 4/18/18 (S) Credits teachers who served as graduate assistants or in similar positions ability to purchase and receive retirement credit. TBD It is not possible to estimate the amount of retirement credit that would be claimed under this bill.
Pension Benefits A7599-A (Abbate) S5731-A (Parker) Amended on 5/9/18 (A), Amended on 5/10/18 (S) Removes limit on inclusion of overtime pay for purposes of calculating final average salary for Tier 6 NYCTA employees enrolled in an early retirement plan. $4.7 Annual costs would increase each year by approximately $850,000.
Pension Benefits A7602-A (Abbate) S5593-A (Golden) Amended on 4/19/18 (A), Passed Senate on 5/14/18 (S) Permits retiree members of NYS and Local Employees Retirement System to repay outstanding balance of a loan at any time. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits A7706 (Abbate) S4277 (Gallivan) Amended on 5/9/18, Amended on 4/27/18 (S) Allows certain supervisory titles in DOCCS to opt into the early retirement plan. $54.50 Immediate past service cost of $54.5 million borne as a one-time payment, with future costs dependent on age, service, salary, and tier of affected members. Currently 613 members with total annual salary of $67 million.
Pension Benefits A7735-A (Abbate) S6098-B (Golden) Amended on 2/21/18 (A), Third Reading on 5/7/18 (S) Grants members of the NYPD with 15 years of service as lieutenant the same pension benefits as a lieutenant commander detective squad or lieutenant special assignment. $1.40 Increase in employer contributions of $1.4 million annually
Pension Benefits A7762 (Walker) S6140A (Golden) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Allows certain NYCTA employees participating in 25-year, age 55 retirement program to purchase furlough time as service credit. $0.16 Annual increase in costs of $160,000.
Pension Benefits A7872-A (Titone) S5725-A (Lanza) Amended on 1/30/18 (A), Amended on 1/26/18 (S) Increases amount a retiree may earn in public service without diminution of pension from $30,000 to $50,000. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits A7900-A (Abbate) S3651-B (Felder) Amended on 5/9/18 (A), Amended on 5/14/18 (S) Provides that if an NYPD officer achieves 25 years of service, his or her pension should be calculated as if he or she was a detective of the third grade who served in that position for 2 years at the highest rate of pay. If the officer has more than 30 years of service, he or she shall be treated as a sergeant. $16.80 Costs grow to $19 million in 2022.
Pension Benefits A8017-A (Abbate) S4540-A (Young) Referred to Ways and Means on 3/20/18 (A), Referred to Finance on 4/16/18 (S) Authorizes participating employers in the NYS PFRS offering 20 year retirement plans to offer such plans on a non-contributory basis. TBD No past service cost. Additional annual costs are borne by employers who elect to provide this benefit.
Pension Benefits A8021 (Abbate) S6381A (Alcantara) Referred to Governmental Employees 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Modifies member contribution rate for Tier 6 NYCTA members who participate in the Transit 25-Year/Age 55 Retirement Plan from the current graded schedule of 3% to 6% based on members' wages to a flat 2% of wages. $28.10 Costs would increase by $28.1 million per year.
Pension Benefits A8109-B (Abbate) S6571-B (Golden) Referred to Ways and Means on 2/5/18 (A), Amended on 2/1/18 (S) Allows NYS Retirement System and NY State and Local Retirement System member who files for service retirement after being eligible to retire for 5 or more years to be eligible to receive a partial lump sum of up to 35% of his or her reserve in exchange for a reduction in annual retirement allowance of up to 35% thereafter. None Lump sum payments would be actuarially determined to have no net cost.
Pension Benefits A8269-A (Cusick) S6573-A (Golden) Amended on 3/28/18 (A), Amended on 3/28/18 (S) Establishes 25 year retirement program for NYC water supply police. $0.26 Annual costs to NYC would increase by $259,000 per year
Pension Benefits A8327 (Gunther) S2946 (Boyle) Referred to Ways and Means (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Removes earnings limitation for retired police officers while employed as school resource officers, school safety officers, or other substantially similar positions. Minimal Expects few retirees to be affected with negligible additional annual costs.
Pension Benefits A8365 (Abate) S6102-A (Golden) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Creates 25-year early retirement option for fire inspectors and associate fire inspectors in NYC. $0.39 Increase annual employer contributions by approximately $385,000 per year.
Pension Benefits A8375-A (Abbate) S6683-A (Golden) Amended on 1/17/18 (A), On Third Reading 3/21/18 (S) Authorizes counties to include time spent in NYPD basic training in the calculation of optional 20 or 25 year retirement plan. - Fiscal impact should be minimal.
Pension Benefits A8402 (Abbate) S6435A (Flanagan) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Allows any SUNY registered nurse in the Professional, Scientific, and Technical bargaining unit, who first became employed by SUNY Stony Brook Hospital between January 1, 1996 and December 31, 1999, and who enrolled in the Optional Retirement Program, to terminate membership in the Optional Retirement Program and to be deemed a member of the NY State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS). Affected members would have to pay entire past service cost. TBD Cost of 16% of salary for each person who joins NYSLRS; substantial retroactive costs.
Pension Benefits A9776 (Abbate) S6059-A (Golden Referred to Governmental Employees on 2/7/18 (A), Advanced to Third Reading on 5/7/18 (S) Provides that an NYPD lieutenant who has been a lieutenant for at least 15 years would have the same pension rights as a lieutenant commander detective squad or lieutenant special assignment. $0.18 Actuarial present value would increase by $1.5 million; annual costs of $175,000 beginning in FY 2021.
Pension Benefits A9910 (Abbate) S7704 (Golden) Referred to Ways and Means 3/20/18 (A), Referred to Finance on 2/27/18 (S) This bill will allow any Tier 6 member who is a uniformed court officer or peace officer employed by the Unified Court System to retire without early age reduction upon attaining 30 years of creditable service and age 55. It would also reduce the normal retirement age from 63 to 62, and lessen reductions in benefits for those who retire prior to normal retirement age. $1.50 Annual costs of $363,000; one-time retroactive cost of $1.12 million.
Pension Benefits S1457 (Avella) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 Alters Tiers 5 and 6 pension provisions in relation to including all mandatory overtime pay in final average salary calculation. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits S2945 (Boyle) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 Requires waivers from $30,000 maximum public sector salaries for public retirees be granted for the period of time requested by the prospective employer. $0 No additional costs.
Pension Benefits S3306-B (Ritchie) Amended on 2/28/18 Increases COLA for members of New York's public retirement systems. $3.30 First year cost of $3.3 million to state, and $13.6 million to participating employers in PFRS. Increases present value of benefits by $1.03 billion.
Pension Benefits S5446A (Griffo) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 Allows school district employees to obtain service credit for up to 5 years of service rendered as a teacher in a private elementary or secondary school or a private college in New York State. TBD Cost cannot yet be determined.
Pension Benefits S6100-A (Golden) Advanced to Third Reading on 5/16/18(S) Exempts uniformed NYC Corrections disability retirees from the cap on private sector wages once they reach minimum retirement age. TBD Fiscal note does not provide a specific figure.
Pension Benefits S6133 (Golden) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Allows NYC correctional officers enrolled in the 25-year retirement plan to earn pensions in excess of 50 percent of final average salary if they serve more than 25 years. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits S6139 (Golden) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Allows former NYC Correction officers to withdraw their pension contributions if they have less than 15 years of service. TBD No fiscal note provided.
A10416 (Abbate)
S6234-A (Akshar)
Referred to Ways and Means on 5/15/18 (A),
Amended on 3/14/18 (S) Allows DEC officers and forest rangers, regional state park police officers, and university police officers to be eligible for a special 20-year retirement plan, which provides a benefit of 1/2 of final average salary, and an additional benefit of 1/60 of final average salary for each year of creditable service in excess of 20 years. $40.30 Annual increase in costs of $2.9 million; past-service cost of $37.4 million.
Pension Benefits S6267 (Robach) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 Authorizes Monroe County to offer 25-year retirement plan for sheriff, undersheriffs, deputy sheriffs, deputy sheriff-civil, and correction officers. $0.09 Annual cost of $11,000. Past service credit of $75,300.
A10324-A (DenDekker)
S6505-B (Larkin)
Amended on 5/7/18 (A), Third Reading on 5/16/18 (S) Gives veterans who retired prior to May 21, 2016 a supplemental pension equal to the first $15,000 of single life allowance together with any COLA, multiplied by 3% per year for up to 3 years of such service credit for military service. $23.1 NYS would be responsible for the $23.1 million one-time cost.
Pension Benefits S663 (Boyle) Advanced to Third Reaing on 5/2/18 Authorizes the commissioner of the DOCCS to waive the $30,000 limit on post-retirement wages. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Pension Benefits S7134 (Ortt) Committed to Finance on 1/16/18 Creates a county-option early retirement plan for corrections officers and deputy sheriffs. TBD Fiscal impact would be dependent on local participation
Pension Benefits S7791 (Gallivan) Passed Senate on 3/5/18 Increases post-retirement salary limit for retired police officers serving as a school resources officer from $30,000 to $50,000. TBD Fiscal note does not provide a specific figure.
Pension Benefits S7979 (Sanders) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 3/15/18 Grants members of the city's police force eligibility for retirement and pension based on previous service as traffic enforcement agents. TBD Fiscal note does not provide a specific figure.
Pension Benefits S8142 (Phillips) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 4/6/18 Allows retirees to opt-out of the pop-up pension benefit, subject to certain requirements. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous A1932 (Peoples-Stokes) Referred to Government Employees on 1/3/18 Allows regional transit officers who were laid off to transfer to municipal police departments. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous A2668 (DenDekker) S1899 (Comrie) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Labor on 1/3/18 (S) Prohibits mandatory overtime for individuals who have reached the cap on overtime included in the calculation of their final average salary. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous A2717 (Miller MG) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 Extends salary supplementation for mobilized military NYC employees to NYC Health + Hospitals. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous A291 (Paulin) S3825 (Robach) Referred to Local Governments on 1/3/18 (A), Referred to Local Government on 1/3/18 (S) Increases salary of a police chief by the same amount received by the highest ranking subordinate subject to a collective bargaining agreement; only applies in departments with less than 575 sworn officers. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous A4421 (Colton) Referred to Labor on 1/3/18 Provides pay and leave benefits to state employees who are transferred to another state agency after elimination of their prior job. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous A4986-A (Weprin) S5483-A (Golden) Referred to Governmental Employees on 2/12/18 (A), Referred to Cities on 2/14/18 (S) Affords uniformed personnel of the NYC Department of Correction and NYC Department of Sanitation the option of taking a monetary payment in lieu of terminal leave. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous A5806 (Jones) S752 (Little) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 (A), Advanced to Third Reading on 5/2/18 (S) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, authorizes the villages of Malone, Saranac Lake, and Tupper Lake, in the county of Franklin, to employ retired state troopers as part-time village police officers. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous A6233 (Abbate) S698 (Funke) Advanced to Third Reading on 5/3/18(A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Requires various public transit authorities and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous A693 (Magnarelli) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 Extends volunteer firefighters exercise benefits to informal, but approved, activities. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous A7548-A (Abbate) S5866-A (Golden) Amended on 4/27/18 (A), Amended on 4/25/18 (S) Removes requirement that paraprofessionals register for the New York City Teachers Retirement System. Instead, enrollment would be automatic. $14.70 Annual recurring costs would be $8 million, with $6.7 million additional costs in the first year to account for accelerated enrollment.
Miscellaneous A7760 (Abbate) S2329 (Alcantara) Advanced to Third Reading on 3/22/18 (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Provides state and local government labor class positions with bump and retreat rights. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous A7783 (Abbate) Referred to Governmental Employees on 1/3/18 Requires regional pay differentials for state employees equivalent to federal differentials. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous A8006 (Abbate) S5815 (Golden) Passed Assembly on 3/26/18 (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 1/3/18 (S) Provides that the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority employee organization may opt into binding arbitration. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous A8585-A (Lentol) S6823-A (Lanza) Amended on 4/23/18 (A), Amended on 4/19/18 (S) Extends benefits of the variable supplements fund to NYCTA police from those who retired after July 1, 1987 to those who retired after October 1, 1968. $37.8 Since there are no active employees, increase of Actuarial Present Value of $37.8 million, The full value will be due immediately.
Miscellaneous A907 (Perry) Referred to Government Employees on 1/3/18 Requires courts granting injunctive relief to employers during a strike to also order temporary cost of living salary increases. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous S4096 (Sanders) Referred to Cities on 1/3/18 Makes all NYC police officers, firefighters, housing police, transit police, correction officers, and all surviving spouses eligible for variable supplements fund, regardless of number of years of service. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous S4097 (Sanders) Committed to Finance on 4/30/2018 Requires all public employers to allow employees to transfer sick time to coworkers. TBD No fiscal note provided.
Miscellaneous S6097B (Golden) On Third Reading 3/21/18 Allows correctional officers to be paid for unused vacation time, accruing up to 1 week of vacation per year for such purposes, paid at the rate of pay applicable when leaving service. TBD Fiscal note does not provide a specific figure.
S7933 (Benjamin)
Referred to Governmental Employees on 5/16/18 (A),
Third Reading on 4/18/18 Restores sick leave balance for former state employees employed by a community college for purposes of calculating retiree health insurance contributions. TBD No fiscal note provided.
*Pension Benefits A10350 (Abbate) S6048-B (Golden) Referred to Governmental Employees on 4/16/18 (A), Advanced to Third Reading on 5/16/18 (S) Increases New York State and Local Retirement System and the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement system surviving spouse cost of living adjustment benefits from 50% to 100% of the benefit that the pensioner would have received. $13.6 First year cost of $2.6 million to state, and $11 million to participating employers in PFRS. Increases present value of benefits by $1.1 billion.
*Pension Benefits A10351 (Abbate) S6049-A (Golden) Referred to Governmental Employees on 4/16/18 (A), Amended on 3/19/18 (S) Reduces the age requirement from 62 to 55 to receive a cost of living adjustment for New York State and Local Retirement System and the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement retirees. $9.3 First year cost of $1.8 million to state, and $7.5 million to participating employers in PFRS. Increases present value of benefits by $77 million.
*Pension Benefits A10352 (Abbate) S6047-B (Golden) Referred to Governmental Employees on 4/16/18 (A), Amended on 4/9/18 (S) Increases New York State and Local Retirement System and the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement system cost of living adjustment for members who retired between 1961 and 1972. $0.1 First year cost would be approximately $25,600 to the State of New York and $105,000 to the participating employers in the PFRS.
*Death or Disability Benefits A10415(Abbate) S8066 (Golden) Referred to Ways and Means on 5/15/18 (A), Advnaced to Third Reading on 5/2/18 (S) Allows employers to increase accidental disability benefits from 2/3 of final average salary to 3/4 of final average salary minus worker's compensation. TBD Participating counties would have to make a retrospective payment of 1% of impacted salaries and annual contributions thereafter would increase by 0.3% of impacted salaries.
*Miscellaneous S8436 Referred to Labor on 5/7/18 Requires public and prive employers to provide paid overtime for work performed on certain federal holidays. TBD No fiscal note provided.
*Death or Disability Benefits A10485 (Montesano) Referred to Governmental Employees Requires that any sheriff, deputy sheriff, undersherrif or correction officer injured on the job will receive a 75% disability benefit. This bill would remove the requirement that such disability be the result of an act of an inmate. TBD Fiscal note does not provide a specific fiscal impact.
*Death or Disability Benefits A10695 (Abbate), S8293 (Phillips) Referred to Governmental Employees on 5/10/18 (A), Advanced to Third Reading on 5/16/18 (S) This bill would grant any Nassau County Tier 3, 4, 5 or 6 fire marshal an enhanced disability benefit for injuries sustained in the performance of duty equal to 50% of final average salary. $0.2 There would be an annual increase of approximately $34,000 plus a one-time retroactive cost of $199,000
*Pension Benefits A10715 (Abbate) S8486 (Golden) Referred to Governmental Employees on 5/15/18 (A), Advanced to Third Reading on 5/09/18 (S) Allows member of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system who became a member on or after July 1, 2009 and before January 10, 2010 to elect to be covered by article 22 of the retirement and social security law. This allows members to join the Tier V system, instead of only Tier III. None The fiscal note says that there would be no cost to taxpayers.
*Pension Benefits A10716 (Abbate) S8486 (Golden) Referred to Governmental Employees on 5/15/18 (A), Advanced to Third Reading on 5/09/18 (S) Allows member of the New York state and local police and fire retirement system who became a member on or after July 1, 2009 and before January 10, 2010 to elect to be covered by article 22 of the retirement and social security law. This means members can elect to join the Tier V system, instead of only Tier III. None The fiscal note says that there would be no cost to taxpayers.
*Death or Disability Benefits A10721 (Abbate) S8284 (Phillips) A10721 (Abbate) S8284 (Phillips) This bill would grant Nassau County Tier 3, 4, 5 and 6 ambulance medical technician supervisors, ambulance medical technician coordinators, and ambulance medical technicians an enhanced disability benefit for injuries sustained in the performance of duty. The benefit for a performance of duty disability would be 50% of final average salary. $2 An annual increase of $300,000 per year with a one-time retroactive cost of $1.74 million.
*Death or Disability Benefits A10723 (Abbate) S8782 (Murphy) Referred to Governmental Employees on 5/15/18 (A), Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 5/16/18 (S) This bill would increase disability pensions to airport firefighters and training and safety officers in the New York State division of military and naval affairs who sustain a disability in the performance of their duties equal to 50% of FAS, or 75% of FAS less worker's compensation when such disability is related to heart disease, lung disease, or certain forms of cancer, unless the contrary be proven by competent evidence. Currently, affected members are entitled to a disability benefit of approximately 1/3 of FAS. $0.7 There would be an annual increase of approximately $85,000 plus a one-time retroactive cost of $632,000.
*Pension Benefits A10726 (Abbate) Referred to Governmental Employees on 5/15/18 This bill will expand the definition of credible service under special plans in the New York State and Local Police and Fire Retirement System (PFRS) to include service credit earned in the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System (ERS) for Deputy Sheriffs. This legislation will not become effective until NYLSRS obtains a favorable ruling from the IRS stating that these provisions would not harm the tax status of the System. TBD It is estimated that the costs to obtain an initial ruling would be $28,000 for the services of the IRS, and $800 per hour for legal consultants. There would be no costs from implementation of the bill.
*Death or Disability Benefits S8361 (Golden) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 5/3/18 Would grant a presumption of work-related disability to New York City alarm dispatchers with post-traumatic stress disorder. TBD The fiscal note does not provide a specific fiscal impact.
*Paid or Unpaid Leave S8432 (Golden) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 5/7/18 Would provide a 10 minute break for every four hours worked by NYC emergency medical technicians. TBD No fiscal note provided.
*Pension Benefits S8452 (Croci) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 5/8/18 Increases the earnings limitation for retired corrections officers while employed as school resource officers or other substantially similar positions from $30,000 to $50,000. TBD The fiscal note does not provide a specific fiscal impact.
*Death or Disability Benefits S8622 (Golden) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 5/10/18 Provides that the families of retirement-eligible Suffolk County corrections officers who die before retiring, should receive a lump-sum pension reserve equal what they would have received had the corrections officer retired on the date of their death. TBD No fiscal note provided.
*Pension Benefits S8655 (Golden) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 5/10/18 Provides a tiered system for when NYC automotive members will receive benefits based on years of service and grants a life annuity. TBD No fiscal note provided.
*Pension Benefits S8765 (Seward) Referred to Civil Service and Pensions on 5/15/18 Allows town and village justices to receive a minimum of 1/2 year of service credit per fiscal year that they serve in such title regardless of the number of hours worked. TBD The fiscal note does not provide a specific fiscal impact.
* Denotes bill added on May 18, 2018
By David Friedfel
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When Steven Wilson of the English band Porcupine Tree, a lifelong King Crimson fan, began work on reissues of Crimson's 10 1969-74 and '81-84 studio albums — remixing for CD and DVD-audio, excavating outtakes — one of the first he wanted to tackle was 1970's Lizard, a notoriously turbulent merger of art rock and modern jazz. Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp was shocked. "His eyebrows went up," Wilson says. "He said, 'Really? That's the least-popular album.' I said, 'I'm going to change people's minds.' "
Wilson's remix of Lizard (Inner Knot) is the record Fripp intended, minus the LP's original murk. Up front, in "Cirkus" and the title epic, is the intricate interplay of mellotron and Fripp's scouring guitar with the horns and pianist Keith Tippett's glass cascades, like a classical-gas explosion of Tool and Arcade Fire. Wilson cites "the baritone saxes where you normally have heavy guitars" in "Indoor Games." After he heard the remix, Fripp said to Wilson, "Thank you. That's the first time I've actually heard the music."
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Location: Castiglioncello del Trinoro, Italy
Brief: To renovate the key buildings of the almost abandoned Medieval hill top village of Castiglioncello del Trinoro in Tuscany, fulfilling the clients ambition to bring the village back to life by re-imagining the buildings as a hotel, private residences, restaurant and bar.
We created a masterplan for the village, aimed at restoring the buildings and attracting international visitors to this unique place. We designed a series of sensitive public spaces that would function to help the village celebrate its local culture, food and wine and to make the most of the beautiful landscape.
It now boasts a charming hotel, private accommodation, a restaurant, a bar and an Archeological Garden at the top of the village. The church has been restored and now hosts concerts and cultural events. An art gallery and further accommodation for tourists is still to come.


We're pleased to announce that Thyme Supperclub has been featured in ELLE Spain in their Nueva Cocina Clandestina supplement.
We get a lot of enquiries from visitors to Berlin who are here only for a very short time. As we only host dinners once a month, this means that we frequently have to disappoint people when we aren't holding an event during the period that they're visiting.
A big thank you to all our guests who joined us on Friday night.
Your table art can all be seen below - though some of it sadly a bit damaged by spilt drinks.
Those of you you asked for recipes can find them them by following the links from the menu.
We hope to see you all again in the future some time. There are still a couple of places left for our dinner on March 4th and we'll be announcing our dinner dates in April and May very soon. Get in touch here to request a place.
Herzlichen Glückwünch zu Andrea, und eine Selektion von "Tisch-Kunst" kann unten gesehen werden.
Das Geburtstagsmenü kann hier gefunden werden, mit Links zu Rezepte.


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Армейский или солдатский ранец (от  — котомка, сумка) — заплечная сумка для солдат, гренадер, егерей и так далее, получившая широкое распространение в XVIII — XIX веках.

По-немецки — Торнистер (Tornister).

История
Армейский ранец — входил в комплект индивидуального снаряжения военнослужащего (пехотинца, гренадёра, егеря и других) и предназначался для переноски постоянно необходимых вещей в походе. Походный ранец должен быть прочен, легок, непромокаем и удобен для носки.

В русской императорской армии
В Российской империи до воцарения Александра I ранцы изготавливались в виде цилиндра из чёрной яловочной кожи, а потом стали шиться из телячьей и тюленьей. Ранцевые ремни по роду войск изготавливались из белой лосины, юфти или лакированной кожи.

В 1808 году были введены ранцы для офицеров пехотных полков и артиллерийских бригад. Ношение ранцев солдатами регламентировалось. Ранцы выдавались воспитанникам и строевым нижним чинам военно-учебных заведений.

В 1862 году во всех пехотных войсках были введены ранцы из телячьей кожи, по установленному образцу.

В 1874 году в частях гвардейской и армейской пехоты взамен ранцев из телячьей кожи были введены ранцы из непромокаемой парусины, окрашенной в чёрный цвет. Изготавливался с не пришитыми плечевыми ремнями.

Во время русско-турецкой войны 1877—1878 гг. использовавшийся (по образцу западных армий) ранцы из телячьей кожи оказались тяжелыми и неудобоносимыми, поэтому многие воинские части заменили их вещевыми мешками из непромокаемой парусины.

В 1882 году ранцы были заменены вещевыми и сухарными мешками и сапожными чехлами из непромокаемой парусины, но в 1889 году мешки отменены в гвардейской пехоте, пешей артиллерии и инженерных войсках, а взамен вновь введены ранцы образца 1874 года; в гренадерской и армейской пехоте принято снаряжение из вещевого мешка и сапожного чехла новых образцов.

В ранец образца 1874 год укладывались: 2 рубахи, исподние брюки, 2 пары портянок, полотенце, пара рукавиц с варежками, башлык, 6 фн. (ок. 2 кг) сухарей, 1/8 фн. (ок. 50 грамм) соли, принадлежности ружейные и для содержания чистоты и опрятности, чарка и 24 патрона.

В 1894 году был введён ранец пехотный гвардейский, который состоял из четырёхугольного мягкого корпуса из чёрной непромокаемой парусины с крышкою и пришитыми к нему ремнями из юфти. Ткань пропитывалась непромокаемым составом. В 1899 году утверждён подобный образец ранца для пешей артиллерии и инженерных войск и отличавшийся от образца 1874 года меньшим размером. Указанные образцы использовались до 1917 года.

В РККА
В комплект ранцевого походного снаряжения рядового состава стрелковых частей РККА (образца 1936 года) входили:
 Ранец, с 4 ремнями для приторачивания скатки шинели, 2 ремнями для приторачивания котелка и стального шлема и 2 наплечными ремнями для переноски ранца;
 Принадлежности для ранца:
 мешок для продовольственного запаса;
 мешок для принадлежностей чистки винтовки;
 мешок для ремонтного запаса;
 мешок для предметов гигиены (несессер) с мыльницей, футляром для зубной щётки и коробочкой для зубного порошка.

Ранцевый запас продовольствия
Ранцевый запас продовольствия носился пехотинцем на плечах, а кавалерист транспортировал его на коне. Он позволял войскам несколько дней обходиться без обоза, всегда сильно тормозящего передвижение. Без ранцевого запаса особенно сильно затруднялось бы продовольствие в дни сражений, когда обозы не могут быть притянуты к войскам. Поэтому все начальники должны были строго наблюдать, чтобы ранцевый запас содержался в постоянном комплекте и произведенный из него расход как можно скорее пополнялся. Ранцевый запас бывает:
 неприкосновенный — расходуемый лишь в крайних случаях.
 расходный — для текущего довольствия.

Размеры первого определены были точными правилами; размер расходного ранцевого запаса законом не был нормирован и определялся в каждом частном случае распоряжением войскового начальства.

См. также
 Вещевой мешок
 Патронная сумка
 Полевая сумка

Примечания

Литература

Военное снаряжение
Ранцы

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Николай Гушмаков — болгарский самбист, чемпион (1992), серебряный (1987, 1989) и бронзовый (1990) призёр чемпионатов Европы, серебряный (1986, 1988) и бронзовый (1989) призёр чемпионатов мира, участник чемпионата мира по самбо 1984 года в Мадриде (6-е место). По самбо выступал в полулёгкой (до 57 кг) и лёгкой (до 62 кг) весовых категориях. Тренировался в спортивном клубе города Панагюриште.

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Q: 19.04 distribution upgrade hang I'm doing a partial upgrade from Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS to 19.04 using the Do-partial-upgrade tool on a Dell XPS 15. The installation froze while configuring Linux:

Is it safe to cancel the installation and does anyone have any suggestions for how to get it to succeed?

A: I wound up killing the Distribution Upgrade process with xkill, switching to intel graphics, following the instructions here to remove locks, then running:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

And it looks like everything is working after a restart.


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TEHRAN, October 5 - The United States and Israel cannot tolerate Iran as an "independent force" and that is why Washington and its allies have been "tormenting" the people of Iran over the past decades, says prominent American scholar Noam Chomsky.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - In an interview excerpted from his upcoming book Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy, Chomsky discussed the real reasons behind his country's years-long animosity towards Iran, dismissing as mere smokescreens Washington's objections to Iran's nuclear program and its support for resistance groups in Lebanon and Palestine.
"Iran has long been regarded by US leaders, and by US media commentary, as extraordinarily dangerous, perhaps the most dangerous country on the planet," Chomsky said in response to a question by David Barsamian, the book's co-author.
Chomsky explained that America's branding of Iran as a state sponsor of terror was based on Israel's interests.
"In the real world, Iranian support for terrorism translates to support for Hezbollah, whose major crime is that it is the sole deterrent to yet another destructive Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and for Hamas, which won a free election in the Gaza Strip—a crime that instantly elicited harsh sanctions and led the US government to prepare a military coup," he argued.
The US has been providing weapons and intelligence to the Riyadh regime over the course of its more than two-year-long aggression that has killed more than 12,000 Yemeni civilians.
Chomsky dismissed US claims that Iran was in possession of nuclear weapons and said any concerns in this regard had been alleviated by Tehran's own calls for destroying all weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in the Middle East region.
"Such a zone is strongly supported by the Arab states and most of the rest of the world and is blocked primarily by the United States, which wishes to protect Israel's WMD capabilities," he said.
The renowned historian said the "true reasons" behind America's hostility towards Iran were the country's growing regional influence and the 1979 Islamic Revolution that led to the ouster of US-backed monarch Mohammad Reza Shah.
Citing more instances of US double standards, Chomsky noted that former US President George H. W. Bush had invited Iraqi nuclear experts to the US for advanced training in nuclear weapons production.
"After the 1953 military coup came US support for a dictator described by Amnesty International as a leading violator of fundamental human rights," he said.
After that, the Unite States, under then President Ronald Reagan, directly helped Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein with his military invasion against Iran, which lasted for eight years.
"Hundreds of thousands of Iranians were killed, many by chemical weapons. Reagan's support for his friend Saddam was so extreme that when Iraq attacked a US ship, the USS Stark, killing 37 American sailors, it received only a light tap on the wrist in response. Reagan also sought to blame Iran for Saddam's horrendous chemical warfare attacks on Iraqi Kurds," Chomsky added.
After the Iran-Iraq War, Washington tried to pressure Iran by resorting to harsh economic sanctions.
"Washington has been the driving force behind harsh sanctions against Iran that continue to the present day," he added.
Although Trump has on many occasions threatened Iran and imposed new sanctions against the Islamic Republic in order to weaken a landmark nuclear deal it signed with six world powers in 2015, Chomsky said the animus went beyond the billionaire-turned-president.


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I wakened quickly and sat up in bed abruptly. It is only when I am anxious that I waken easily and for a minute I did not know why my heart was beating faster than usual. Then I remembered. The old reason. He had not come home…
So begins Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls. With the support of the Dublin: One City, One Book festival we are bringing together a fascinating panel to discuss The Country Girls trilogy as it is being celebrated in Dublin as the chosen festival book. Quite clearly we are not in Dublin but we're delighted to extend the consideration of O'Brien's work to London, a city pivotal to her writing career and the setting for the last part of the trilogy. The special edition of the trilogy produced for this celebration is published by Faber & Faber and is introduced by Eimear McBride. The trilogy changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s and inspired generations of readers and writers.
O'Brien's invocation of female characters who dared desire more from life than domestic and sexual servitude, emotional disaffection and intellectual abnegation, was nothing short of revolutionary. Not only was O'Brien giving voice to the voiceless, she was washing the nation's dirty laundry in public, laundry which has proved so dirty that, more than 50 years later, it is still proving in need of a rinse. Eimear McBride
The passion, artistry and courage of Edna O'Brien's vision in these novels continue to resonate into the 21st century. In addition to readings and discussion our panel will consider the role of the city in the books, how the romantic aspects of O'Brien's work have coloured her reception and O'Brien's influence on younger writers. Dublin One City One Book is a Dublin City Council initiative, led by Dublin City Public Libraries,
Presented in association with the Dublin: One City One Book:
Chair: Dr Anne Goudsmit
Dr Anne Goudsmit left Ireland to study at Sussex University and at the Sorbonne before moving to London. Her early career was in Finance, when she worked at Citibank and subsequently at ITV. Anne wrote her PhD thesis on Northern Irish fiction at St Mary's University, Twickenham, where she was a visiting lecturer. She is a member of the Irish Literary Society. She recently became a member of the board at the Irish Cultural Centre where she convenes a monthly Book Club.
Speaker: Helen Cullen
Helen Cullen is an Irish writer living in London. She worked at RTÉ for seven years before moving to London in 2010. Her debut novel, The Lost Letters of William Woolf was published by Penguin in July 2018. Helen is now writing full-time and working on her second novel. She is also a contributor to the Irish Times newspaper and Sunday Times Magazine. Helen holds an M.A. Theatre Studies from UCD and is currently completing an M.A. English Literature at Brunel University. She was nominated as Best Newcomer in the An Post Irish Book Awards 2018.
Speaker: Dr Sinéad Mooney
Dr Sinéad Mooney is a graduate of University College Cork and the University of Oxford. She is currently a senior lecturer in English at De Montfort University, Leicester, where she teaches Irish literature and creative writing. Her monograph, A Tongue Not Mine: Beckett and Translation (Oxford University Press) won the 2012 American Conference for Irish Studies Robert Rhodes Prize, and her chapter on Edna O'Brien appeared in the recent in A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature, edited by Clíona O'Gallchóir and Heather Ingman. She is currently working on a study of Irish women's modernism.
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Paula McGrath lives in Dublin. A History of Running Away is her second novel. Her first, Generation, was published in 2015. She has a background in English Literature and is currently an Irish Research Council (Government of Ireland) PhD scholar at the University of Limerick. She received an Arts Council literary bursary in 2016, and was recently Irish Writers Centre Writer-in-Residence in St Mark's English Church, Florence. In another life she was a yoga teacher.
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Our wooden dhow crosses into the channel as local entrepreneur Harry Potter sails us away from the island to enjoy a day of magical snorkeling in crystal clear waters. A seafood dinner cooked fresh on a deserted beach awaits us following an afternoon exploring the island's hidden treasures. Another day passes in this most tranquil of places - historic, charming, Mozambique Island located just off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991, Mozambique Island is a crossroads of people from Africa, Europe and India (Goa), and headquarters of Portuguese colonialism for almost 400 years. Inhabited for centuries before the arrival of Vasco da Gama who claimed it for Portugal in 1498, the island's mix of Swahili, Arab, and European history blend for the ages in architecture, food, and tradition.
While the whole island and town are truly precious, there are treasures from the past like the huge decaying Portuguese San Sebastian Fort started 1509 and the largest in Africa at the north end. In its shadow is the Capelade Nossa Senhora (Chapel of Our Lady) Baluarte - considered the oldest European building in the southern hemisphere.
As you explore the island further, you find The Governor's Palace Museum that started out as a Jesuit college in the early 1600s and now displays the island's colonial history. The island has still more churches,and mosques to explore, with its great pier extending out into the channel, the ideal place to catch the daily, glorious African sunset with a cold beer and local seafood snack.
Connected to the mainland by a very interesting two-mile, one-lane bridge, the two-mile-long island is far from the capital Maputo. Once you make the effort to get here, you discover a great hideaway from the hustle of the mainland. Half of the island's old colonial city has been beautifully reconstructed, though still rustic, while the rest remains in ruins, still waiting to emerge from the destruction of a civil war that saw the Portuguese withdraw in 1992.
With the red and orange sunlight still lingering in the clouds, it's back to enjoy one of the various restaurants and hotels, each with their own local flair unique to the island. En route, I loved walking by the statue of Luís de Camöes, a Portuguese poet who lived and wrote here many centuries ago, inspiring my creativity. If only I, too, could spend two years here as he did, I would write and paint my stories.
Exploring further, you reach the local Macuti town in the southern half of the island. Formerly the source of labor and stone to construct the grand city of European power further north, today it is a bustling hub of local merchants and tradesman. The locals live an island life, finding sustenance from the sea, and the youth take to the streets in the evening.
Ultimately, we make our way back to a tranquil beach absorbing calming warm ocean breeze and colors, past the ancient cemetery, down quiet streets, savor a local Portuguese dinner of giant lobster prawn and experience a feeling of peace so rarely felt on the road. I pledge to return.


The term 'improved' means that the breed shows increased productivity as compared to local breeds i.e. for example, it's birds produce: more eggs, are heavier and are more resistant to diseases than local breeds. Examples of improved Kienyeji brands available in the country are: KARI Improved Kienyeji, Kuroiler (from Uganda) and Rainbow Rooster.
In this article, the terms "local breeds" refer to the breeds of chicken natively found in the country; the ones a lot of us had on our farms growing up that were sourced from our local market.
Poultry farmers are commonly either rearing birds for meat or for eggs. The Improved Kienyeji breeds mentioned above are great for both purposes; growing heavier than traditional breeds in a shorter span of time and producing a lot more eggs annually than their indigenous counterparts.
Rainbow Rooster farmers in Bungoma report having up to 320 eggs produced by one Rainbow Rooster in its lifetime compared to the 80-egg lifetime average for an indigenous Kienyeji layer . Kuroiler farmers in Uganda report that it's not unusual to have a bird weigh up to 4 Kgs at maturity compared to 1.5 Kgs for indigenous Kienyeji birds .
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