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ONE LOVE Puerto Rico - Orlando Bravo - See the VISION - PLEASE - Horrific SUPER STORMS - WILL - Crush Puerto Rico - YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR - UNTIL. . . "It Is THE END!" ONE LOVE Puerto Rico is GOD'S SOLUTION!
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5/16/19 ONE LOVE Puerto Rico: PUERTO RICO is Certainly One of THE MOST THREATENED PLACES - DUE TO ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE! ONE LOVE Puerto Rico - The Solution to A HORRIFIC FUTURE - THAT HAS JUST STARTED! IS THERE ENOUGH TIME TO GET ONE LOVE Puerto Rico started before the next CAT 5 Hurricane devastates it Again? Possibly!
Today on CNN I saw Orlando Bravo, a successful technology entrepreneur, who has gifted $100 million of his fortune to helping Puerto Rico. Now this sounds like someone who just may be willing to fund the ONE LOVE dream. He has the money, he has made the commitment to Puerto Rico, where he is from. Orlando, if you can see the dream, you may really be able to position the people of Puerto Rico to Weather - "The ERA of THE SUPER STORMS!" What a blessing this would be to the people of Puerto Rico. God would bless you beyond your wildest dreams, for helping all of the people in such dire need in Puerto Rico.
ONE LOVE Puerto Rico: Abrupt Climate Change Safe and Sustainable Communities for Abrupt Climate Change Refugees
Concept Summary: The simple concept is to have "Octagonal Structure Community" on the NW side Puerto Rico, away from the Ongoing SUPER STORMS / CAT 5 plus Hurricanes, that - WILL - destroy Puerto Rico, almost every year, if not Multiple Times during the year, like IRMA and MARIA did! The communities are made to sustain winds of 250 mph, low cost, easy to assemble, limited tools required.
There will be "Operational Pods," "Food and Cannabis Growing Pods," "Living Pods," "Training Pods," and "Emergency Shelter Pods." The simple concept is that the people of Puerto Rico would live in these Pods during Hurricanes, with those most in need living year round. The food growing and cannabis growing pods, would provide sufficient food, water, and cannabis for as many as possible, while providing an income to the people of Puerto Rico, through cannabis and related products production. Cannabis production could be sold to Canada, and other areas that allow us to import the product. Cannabis may be the ONLY product that Puerto Rico can grow that will help them provide an income to their people. They have medical cannabis now, which should allow us to get ONE LOVE going. Obviously getting it completely legal, should not be a big task.
Proposed Structures: Octagonal Domes structures, easy assemble, extremely strong and with flexible floors, low cost. I actually assisted a client with a "Quick Set Up" version for Hurricane relief of what I have envisioned, due to their designs and my work with them. So A Universally Adaptable Octagonal Community, with Food Growing and Storage, Community Living Pods, Community Eating Pods, Operational and Utility Pods, etc. Is what I have envisioned, with as few parts, and few tools as possible needed, highly durable, Extreme Weather durable, flood, tropical cyclone / hurricane / typhoon of enormous power sustainable, modified for cultural and geographic needs, and abrupt climate change trends.
I was CFO/COO of a Specialty Parts Manufacturer for the Auto Parts Industries in Detroit, MI area out of college. I was hired to help turn the company around, and developed the Turn Around Strategic Plan for the company, and presented it to the court. I also negotiated all of the secured and unsecured creditor payment reductions and agreements. I designed a complete computerized quality control system for the company, along with a Complete Job Enrichment Program, with all job tasks, timing and tracking on a major board, for easy access. The Company developed strategic relationships with Asia manufacturing, which literally allowed the firm to import finished parts, at less than the cost of the raw steel! The Judge complimented me, stating that it was the best reorganization plan he had seen.
At the University of Utah, Graduate School of Business, SBDC, I assisted hundreds of companies annually on developing, refining and executing their Venture Capital and Strategic Partnership Plans. This knowledge and skills, are critical, to making ONE LOVE as successful as rapidly as possible.
ONE LOVE Design Challenge: Provide an Award for Students at Critical Universities, or Globally, if funds allow, for Studies on the items below.
Proposed approach: Offer an award of $10,000 to the students, and $50,000 to the Best Proposal Team or Student, to meet the following objectives.
ONE LOVE GRANT'S COMPETITION - Primary Objective:
How do you create a "sustainable" and "humane" community for Puerto Rico to Weather "The ERA of THE SUPER STORMS," while providing a path to Raise Our Spirits Up to God, Notably in Puerto Rico, in the very short time period anticipated, by 2040-2050, at the latest?"
1. "What Abrupt Climate Change Efforts and Strategies WILL help make the "Coming Hell on Earth" Less Horrific for God's Children, and God's Species in Puerto Rico?
2. What Fast Implement / Low Cost Options / High Value Objectives should be Priority Items, to Begin Implementing NOW!
OBVIOUSLY - FOOD AND WATER - WILL BE - CRITICAL
Managing Water Needs, In the Abrupt Climate Change Future
High Productive Farming and Ranching Strategies at ONE LOVE Communities
Farming and Ranching Strategies in The Abrupt Climate Change Future for Families and Existing Communities
Mentoring Training of The Youth on Abrupt Climate Change Farming, to go Out to Families and Communities, and Teach These Skills and Techniques
The Potential for Cannabis Farming and Related Products As Good For Local Medical and Psychological Needs During The Coming "Hell on Earth," and as Good Export Products to Canada, and other countries legalizing cannabis
WHAT TO EXPECT, AND HOW TO BE AT PEACE, RAISING YOUR SPIRIT UP TO GOD:
What to Expect over the next decade, and beyond, and how to plan for it
Understanding Humane Spiritual Release To God
Understanding A Humane Ending for Their Culture
Choosing To Exit Humanely Versus in Horrific Violence / Mad Max
3. What Strategic Relationships (Country Relationships: Thunder Bay and Canada, The Nordic Countries, The Great Lakes States; University Relationships: Michigan Technology University, University of Michigan, University of Toronto, Centennial College, Toronto, Illinois Institute of Technology, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, University of Copenhagen, University of Bergen, Karolinska Institute, Uppsala University; Non-Profits, The Venus Institute, Democracy Now, The Gates Foundation, etc; Corporate: Patagonia, Tesla, etc., and Other relationships) are likely to be most successful to manage Abrupt Climate Change Refugees, and provide them with a humane path home?
4. What Organizational Structures, Food and Shelter, and other operational support designs are optimal, given limited available resources, cultural considerations, abrupt climate change forecasts, etc.?
5. Which geographic areas offer the longest-term survival potential in Puerto Rico.
6. How can ONE LOVE's designs be made both optimally "universal," and "customizable" to the various EXTREME WEATHER NEEDS facing climate refugees globally!
7. How do "We as a Rational People, Agree, that The Most Humane Path Home is God Assisted Raising of Our Spirits to The Logical God of Love." How can God share with God's People and Species, that this is God's Will for them to follow a Humane Path Home? What are the specific suggested culturally unique ways that will make this a "humane ending?"
The Wealth of Information, Plans, and Ideas to come from this effort could be quite astounding! Everything will be made available, free of charge on ONE LOVE's web site. Everything will be set up to rapidly expand ONE LOVE as quickly as possible.
Hell On Earth WILL be here by 2025! ONE LOVE MUST BE GLOBAL BY THEN!
This "ONE LOVE GRANTS COMPETITION," will also result in training your future team of leaders to develop and expand ONE LOVE: Abrupt Climate Change Safe and Sustainable Communities Providing to Abrupt Climate Change Refugees!
The purpose of THE GRANTS FOR ONE LOVE, are specifically designed to create a Wealth of Knowledge on the Optimal Strategies, Resources, and Use of those Resources Globally for Mitigating and Managing the Horrors of Abrupt Climate Change.
The Other Primary Objective, is to create a Global Team of Specialists, capable of implementing what they just designed, and make ONE LOVE A Global Force Helping "Those In Need" due to "Abrupt Climate Change!"
ONE LOVE: Abrupt Climate Change Safe and Sustainable Communities for Abrupt Climate Change Refugees. . . .
. . . . "Is THE SOLUTION sent to you from My Father, My Mother and Mamma! As Their / God's Solution to the MOST HORRIFIC WORLD CRISIS, ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THE DEMISE OF HOMOGREEDIOUS!
THIS IS MY GOD'S SOLUTION, YOUR GOD'S SOLUTION, TO THE COMING "HELL ON EARTH!"
It is why I have been given this Vision, so that I may pass it on to someone like you! Orlando, I know that my walk with The One, is politically, abrupt climate change, and religiously a bit challenging for some to take. So if you like this idea, and any of these issues are concerns to you. Just do ONE LOVE, and call it whatever you want! I have NO ownership interests. I will even help you for free behind the seen. This is how much I really want to do ONE LOVE Puerto Rico! Or whatever you would like to call it. It is the CRITICAL SOLUTION to the "Hell on Earth" that WILL destroy Puerto Rico, again and again, until. . . .
Note: The File Above is my old newsletter "Living Giving Networks," which overviews my non-profit, healthy organization, management model. This company is no longer active, and this is NOT a solicitation for financial or other services. But it will give you my management approach.


Mosa porcelain tiles production tourBrad Turner. July 17, 2014.
Materials Council visited the Maastricht facility of Mosa, The Netherlands' last remaining porcelain tile manufacturer, to see first-hand the advanced production employed there.
Ege carpets production tourBrad Turner. March 9, 2013.
Materials Council visited the central Herning factory of Danish carpet brand Ege, one of Europe's largest carpet manufacturers, to see first-hand the advanced technology employed in the production of their carpets.


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Lina: Sondra Radvanovksy; Stiffelio: José Cura; Stankar: Andrzej Dobber; Raffaele: Michael Fabiano; Jorg: Phillip Ens. Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conducted by Plácido Domingo. Performance of January 14.
Above: José Cura as Stiffelio
All photos by Ken Howard courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera
You can't say the composer was at the height of his powers, because he got better still. But there are stumbling blocks along any path to greatness, and Stiffelio long appeared to be one of them.
Verdi had great hopes for the piece. He was gradually renouncing the hackneyed traditions, seeking out new ways of expressing drama and new sorts of drama for Italian opera to express. A play about the love life of an evangelical minister — a married priest — struck him, as it would strike any discerning Italian of the day, as deliciously original — unfortunately, the Italian audience of 1850 simply found it weird. The minister in question, Stiffelio, is not only married, he's the lead tenor in an Italian opera — stranger still. His wife has been seduced by a bounder — which means, in any Italian opera, the tenor ought to kill the fellow and perhaps his wife as well. The audience expected no less — on the stage — though in private life, even then, married couples often simply agreed to live apart with their subsequent partners and sometimes, in Verdi's time and circle, managed to divorce. But Stiffelio, as a man of the cloth, much as he might want to kill, cannot do so. In the end, he cannot even fail to forgive his wife, on the advice of Jesus in re the matter of the woman taken in adultery and casting the first stone. The multiple ironies were precisely what tickled Verdi and led him to compose Stiffelio — but they went too far for the Italians, even the sophisticated audience of Trieste (polyglot Austro-Hungarians, not peasants). The opera failed. Verdi revised the score as Aroldo, but that only removed the priestly tang that made the opera interesting to begin with.
Stiffelio, says Julian Budden, is "worthy to stand beside its successor," Rigoletto. Not exactly. Stiffelio's a sturdy piece, full of attractive numbers and fascinating scenes, great fun for any lover of Verdi — but it is deeply flawed. Verdi threw out two early acts of the play on which he based the opera, and the personality of his villain went with them. The heroine's motivations for her lapse are never clear either — Verdi focuses on her morbid regret. Stiffelio is the only rounded character, and him too we see only from the outside, never examining his own feelings — as Rigoletto does, and Violetta, and Otello, and King Philip, and even the Count di Luna and poor Master Ford. We see Stiffelio is torn, we feel his pain — but Verdi doesn't prove he is worth our comprehension. The new musical language that would suit this new sort of drama did not come to him — he was still inventing it.
The opera, then, is rough-hewn — vigorous but shallow, workmanlike. Rigoletto, in contrast, is nothing of the sort — each of its pieces fits into place as tightly as a jigsaw puzzle, the characters tell us exactly as much as we need to know to care about their fate (or dislike them intensely), and yet the music is never businesslike for want of beauty or beautiful without attending to business. Stiffelio is an interesting experiment; Rigoletto is a miracle.
José Cura as Stiffelio and Sondra Radvanovsky as Lina
But good Rigolettos — and even decent Luisa Millers — are so frequent in any Verdi-lover's life that a run of Stiffelio makes a pleasing variation. The Met's production of Stiffelio was originally given to permit Plácido Domingo to add another tenor lead feather to his well-furbished cap. That ensured a sold-out run, and the sets were handsome and distinguished enough to attest to Domingo's prestige, now that he merely conducts the opera. They are handsome, gaunt dark-wood veneers and furnishings, a romantic graveyard with ample space for duels, a stormy sky, a church somehow gothic on the outside (Act II) but eighteenth century within (Act III). David Kneuss has revised Giancarlo del Monaco's direction, to the production's decided benefit — there is now something like human psychology on the stage. (Del Monaco's showy but often absurd stagings should be manhandled whenever possible.)
Sondra Radvanovsky, who has impressed me as Luisa Miller, Leonora (Trovatore) and Elena (in Vespri Siciliani), is a technically accomplished singer with a Met-sized voice; too, she is a slim, handsome woman and an ardent actress — a pleasant change in this role from the bovine Sharon Sweet. Radvanovsky's Lina is very fraught, on the edge of depressive hysteria, which is as Verdi wrote her. Her voice has an interesting vibrato and expresses passion well. But there is something about its color that does not give pleasure. It is not a voice to relax with. She does not lack body or sensuality, but she lacks velvet — there is a metal, clash, a hardness, that makes her appearances thrilling but never ravishing.
José Cura sings Stiffelio. He is a pupil of Domingo's and, like him, a conductor, and like him, a tenor with a baritonal approach. This suits Stiffelio better than most Verdi tenor roles — the part sits low, the high lines come only at emotional climaxes, and Cura does emotional climaxes well. His meditative moments are pleasing, his more passionate ones edge into growling lack of clarity. He does not always thrill at moments designed to thrill.
Andrzej Dobber as Stankar
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I returned to Stiffelio for the performance of January 19, the only cast change being the appearance - in her first major role at the Met - of Julianna Di Giacomo as Lina. Di Giacomo has a sweeter, more well-rounded soprano than Radvanovsky; if somewhat less powerful, still pleasurably audible over orchestra and ensemble. She is a young singer (early thirties), and lacks the full vocal body for later Verdi heroines just yet, but she has the intensity and the grace with ornament that his earlier roles demand. A short woman, on the plump side, she gave evidence of strong theatrical instincts, standing up for herself when Stiffelio suggests divorce, and sobbing on the ground at the conclusion of the opera in emotional exhaustion rather than stretching herself in theatrical supplication as Radvanovsky appeared to do. I had heard her before only in I Due Foscari for Opera Orchestra, an exciting night. She had a great success in Stiffelio and I would be eager to hear what she could do with Amelia Grimaldi, Luisa Miller, or the more dramatic roles of Donizetti.
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Mr. Video Games – Eric Martin and Game/Japanese Music
This entry was posted in Features, Music and tagged Ballads, Covers, Daytona USA, Eric Martin, Game Music, J-Pop, J-Rock, Japanese Music, Jun Senoue, Mr. Baseball, Mr. Big, Mr. Vocalist, Pro Yakyuu, Sega, Spencer Nilson, Spider-Man, Tak Matsumoto Group, TMG on 05/22/2018 by BClarkOMP.
Almost anyone that knows Eric Martin undoubtedly knows him as the singer for the rock band Mr. Big, that enjoyed such popularity in the early 90s for their mega hit "To Be With You". Though they largely disappeared from the consciousness of the American music scene afterward, their popularity in Japan hasn't really diminished. They still exist as a band today, and on the occasion that they do play in the US, you'll usually find them at clubs. When they go to Japan, they sell out the Budokan. I could argue all day long about how "To Be With You" is not very representative of the band's signature sound, and how they deserved to be far more popular in the US than they were, but I'm not here to talk about Mr. Big. I'm here to talk specifically about Eric Martin, and how he's become a small but stand-out part of not only video game music, but Japanese music in general. Continue Reading
Region Locking on the XBox 360
This entry was posted in Features on 08/21/2013 by BClarkOMP.
Why did I decide I needed a Japanese XBox 360? I cite the plethora of shooters (or "shmups", though I really do hate that word) that never made it out of Japan. One of the first things I wondered though, was just how the region locking worked exactly. Let's face it, there are a lot of ways to play games on the 360: Physical discs, XBox Live Arcade, and Games on Demand being the most popular. I scoured many forum posts that attempted to explain the ins and outs of how points worked across regions, and what games could be played on which region of system. None of them had all of the answers, and often the information was incomplete or just plain wrong. My goal is to ensure that no one else seeking these answers has to go through the same process to find out what they can or can't play on what and where. Continue Reading


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Hamilton Mausoleum will open its doors this weekend
The Doors Open event will take place this Saturday and Sunday.
Kirsten McStayReporter
(Image: Hamilton Advertiser)
An iconic Hamilton landmark will be opening its doors to the public this weekend.
Hamilton Mausoleum will hold their annual Doors Open Day event this Saturday and Sunday, September 7 and 8.
In Hamilton and the surrounding areas, Hamilton Mausoleum, Hamilton Old Parish Church and St John's Parish Church are among the other buildings opening their doors.
South Lanarkshire Council's executive director of community and enterprise resources, Michael McGlynn, said: "Doors Open Day provides a fantastic chance for the public to visit buildings they would not normally be allowed access to.
"Some of them have an important place in the history of South Lanarkshire and are simply quite stunning examples of architecture.
"I hope as many families as possible take advantage of the fantastic opportunities available."
Plenty more buildings will be open across Lanarkshire, and the details, along with the dates and times, are available via the Doors Open Day South Lanarkshire booklet, and more information is also available from the Doors Open Day website.
Hamilton Mausoleum.
Hamilton Mausoleum was built as a tomb and monument to Alexander the 10th Duke of Hamilton around 1842.
It was built at a cost of about £33,000 (£1.2 million today)
The duke decided that he wanted to have a proper resting place for himself and his family, but passed away before the building was complete in 1852.
The mausoleum stands at 128ft high with the main room originally being intended for a chapel, but the 15-second echo prevented these plans from going ahead.
Below the crypt is where private ceremonies were held, and the duke moved his ancestors' bodies there in 1852 from the old Collegiate Church.
When Alexander died later that year, he was laid to rest in an Egyptian sarcophagus.
He was then laid on a black marble plinth in the chapel, which is still inside the mausoleum today, and work on the mausoleum was completed.
In the years to follow, permission was granted for the area around the mausoleum to be mined for coal, which resulted in the foundations becoming weak and the building to subside and sink 18ft.
By the 1920s, there were fears that mining subsidence would damage the mausoleum and as a result, the bodies of Alexander and his ancestors were removed and reburied in the Bent Cemetery in Hamilton.
Inside Hamilton Mausoleum. (Image: Feelance)
Hamilton Mausoleum
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The NHS Is Already Disappearing, and There's Only One Way to Stop It
For 40 years, the Tories — along with New Labour — have sworn up and down that they support the NHS while surreptitiously hollowing it out. Last week, Jeremy Corbyn caught them red-handed, showing once again that the program will only be safe under a Labour government.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn poses with members of NHS staff as he presents documents related to post-Brexit UK-US trade talks during an election policy announcement on the NHS at church house in Westminster on November 27, 2019 in London, England. Leon Neal / Getty Images
Fifteen years ago, Boris Johnson wrote a mostly waffle-filled column for the Daily Telegraph , complaining at length about an argument he'd had at a dinner party. Despite deriding his evening interlocutor at length in the national press, Johnson claimed she was a "friend" and a "classic posh-liberal" (the prime minister was born to upper-middle-class parents and educated at Eton College, rather than being born in a sewer to wolves) who had made the error of praising the National Health Service (NHS) as a program that "unites the nation." She had seen an NHS dermatologist and had a small growth (that Johnson termed "a Rice Krispie") removed for free. This fact troubled him: "it is unjust, surely, that the taxpayer is coughing up for Rice Krispie removal, the kind of cosmetic operation that in France or Germany would almost certainly be covered by insurance. What my friend fails to understand is that she has a choice in healthcare, where millions have none; and what the Tories want to do is extend that choice."
Stating that you wish to privatize the NHS is considered political suicide in the United Kingdom. Conservatives, therefore, argue extensively for back-door privatization and other forms of subterfuge to make the prospect more palatable, because the fact that health care is not fully open to the market rankles them. In the same column, Johnson opined that middle-class people are brainwashed because they "feel all gooey and warm inside because they have participated in the socialising marvel of free healthcare," letting slip the fact that socialized medicine is still too close to socialism for comfort for these ideological hard-liners. "Labour believe they have a monopoly on virtue and on caring and that they somehow have an ideological freehold upon the NHS," he complained. A decade and a half later, this remains the complaint Conservatives make whenever the issue of health care is raised in the general election.
During the first television debate, the one Johnson actually bothered to show up for, Jeremy Corbyn waved a 460-page document at the audience: minutes of meetings in which US and UK officials explored a post-Brexit trade deal that would include the NHS. The document Corbyn waved at that moment was almost entirely redacted. The context was that, back in June, Donald Trump had said "everything will be on the table" when asked if the NHS should be in a trade deal, as then-prime-minister Theresa May visibly grimaced next to him in London. Corbyn's question was therefore astute: Why was the document redacted if the NHS were not for sale to the United States, as Johnson insisted? At Labour rallies and manifesto launches, "NHS: not for sale" has become an omnipresent chant and a slogan throughout the election. Polls show that despite Conservative attempts to frame this as "the Brexit election," the NHS remains the top political concern for many voters across the country, and any Tory prevarication is likely to harm them electorally.
Last week, Jeremy Corbyn held a press conference that was billed as an announcement on the NHS. But rather than a policy, Corbyn brandished the unredacted trade deal. Copies of the document were handed out by qualified doctors and nurses in scrubs. It revealed that the US negotiators expected total market access to the NHS, and believed the talks to be at a near-complete stage. The documents also included reference to chlorinated chicken, a US practice banned in Britain and hugely unpopular with the British public, as well as an insistence that the UK not mention climate change in the trade deal whatsoever.
The NHS portions of the deal include lengthening the duration of patents — a move that would drastically increase drug prices in the UK, and that Trump was merrily pushing on behalf of the US pharmaceutical industry. Corbyn used the example of Humira, a medication to treat rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's Disease, that currently costs $1,822.80 in the UK — and $10,498.43 in the United States. One of the drugs I take daily, Pregabalin, is Pfizer's bestselling drug under its brand name Lyrica, and it was the subject of a long patent battle that the company only finally lost in the United States this year. It has been available in generic form in the UK for years, costing the NHS $3.60 for fifty-six tablets, whereas in the United States, Lyrica costs $8.25 per tablet, or $462 for a pack of fifty-six.
When the news broke, I was in an NHS hospital for a routine epilepsy appointment with several medics. Mentioning the news, one nurse remarked to a colleague that the NHS is "an incredible resource of critical data," and multiple health and technology experts have pointed out that in a trade deal, pharmaceutical and technology companies would be desperately keen to access the huge trove of patient information held by the NHS. Could any government fully communicate the risks and possibilities to patients whose information has already been entered into the system?
The Conservative response to the shock leak and announcement was to dismiss the claims and state that they were merely a read-out of ongoing talks. Credulous voices in the media argued that privatizing the NHS would be so unpopular no government would ever dare to consider such a move, and even more subservient members of the right-wing press complained that Labour had made public a document civil servants had marked "sensitive."
This misses the point, but also makes it quite neatly. The NHS will not one day be privatized publicly, with a stroke of a pen: it is already being hollowed out. Like a homeowner denied planning permission but continuing with forbidden renovations in the hope that local authorities don't notice, the facade remains while the rooms behind the front of the house are being ripped apart. Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair's governments laid the foundations of slow-drip privatizations, with the outsourcing of staffing and care contracts, and private finance initiatives (PFI). Many NHS hospitals were rebuilt under PFI contracts that offered no risk to private companies but came at massive cost to government, and health trusts are still struggling with the financial burden. Under David Cameron, further complex reforms were brought in that doctors and nurses protested against, including bruising changes to overworked junior doctors' contracts that led to the first ever doctors' strikes since the formation of the NHS.
The Conservatives will continue to argue unconvincingly that they are not putting the NHS up for sale and will never privatize it, even taking out Google ads stating, "The NHS is not for sale and never will be" to sit directly under related search terms. When Aneurin Bevan founded the NHS, he stated its three founding core principles: "That it meet the needs of everyone; That it be free at the point of delivery; That it be based on clinical need, not ability to pay." Already, many people, especially migrants, do not have their needs met, and many more, including disabled people, have limited access. On Friday, the Guardian obtained a leaked memo detailing thirty-four tests and treatments that were to be rationed, putting cost above clinical need, in addition to many more treatments that have been limited due to cuts over the years. "Free at the point of use" is the core principle mentioned near exclusively now — and that too will be winnowed away.
The NHS is already being privatized. It is already in huge jeopardy. What the leaked trade talks with Trump reveal is not a secret plan to finally sell off the NHS, but the fact that Boris Johnson and the Conservatives continue to lie about the NHS — not only because they are pathological liars in general, but because of a pathological Conservative unease with free health care for all. But above all, it is simply the continuation of the path set in motion by Thatcher, extended by Blair, and maintained by each new Conservative prime minister elected by the British public, to slowly but surely hollow out the NHS until it is unrecognizable and dysfunctional, so that privatized medical insurance is preferred as a progressive choice, just as Johnson framed it in his column fifteen years ago. The NHS is rightly held in great affection by the British public, and in high regard across the world. It has already been damaged by neoliberalism, and only Corbyn's Labour will actually halt and reverse this slow death.
Dawn Foster is a Jacobin staff writer, a columnist for the Guardian , and the author of Lean Out .
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New Short Course Tutor, Alison Rigby, tells us how the travel bug brought her to ITC.
Alison initially studied animation for three years. After completing that course in 2008, she moved to Vancouver where she worked at Grouse Mountain Ski resort.
Alison moved to Melbourne, working in customer service jobs and extending her skill set while she saved to get to Europe.
In 2012 she moved to Amsterdam where she had a role as the new Meeting Point Manager for Sandemans New Europe Tours.
"In this position I was required to manage the tour guides' schedules, the timing of the tours and banking. I was the face of the company and the first point of contact for tourists.
"No day was ever the same, and I had to be able to think on the spot and problem solve, as any experienced traveler knows not everything goes according to plan.
Alison had been travelling and living abroad for over 6 years when, in 2013, she decided to return to New Zealand and study to become a teacher. She completed the Trinity Certificate in TESOL and began teaching pre-intermediate level teens at Unique New Zealand on a short-term contract.
When she saw the advertisement for a Short Course Tutor at ITC Alison says she knew this was the job for her.
"I am thrilled to be working here and able to share my experiences and passion for travel and tourism with the students.


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Supreme Court of Japan
The Supreme Court of Japan (最高裁判所, Saikō-Saibansho, called 最高裁 Saikō-Sai for short), located in Hayabusachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, is the highest court in Japan. It has ultimate judicial authority to interpret the Japanese constitution and decide questions of national law. It has the power of judicial review, which allows it to determine the constitutionality of any law or official act.
最高裁判所
Supreme Court Building
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
35°40′49″N 139°44′37″E / 35.68028°N 139.74361°E / 35.68028; 139.74361Coordinates: 35°40′49″N 139°44′37″E / 35.68028°N 139.74361°E / 35.68028; 139.74361
Composition method
Selected by the Cabinet of Japan
Constitution of Japan
Judge term length
Mandatory retirement at age 70
Chief Justice of Japan
Naoto Ōtani
2 Powers and responsibilities
3 Use of judicial review
5 Facility
6 Justices
The modern Supreme Court was established in Article 81 of the Constitution of Japan in 1947.[1] There was some debate among the members of the SCAP legal officers who drafted the constitution and in the Imperial Diet meeting of 1946 over the extent of the power of the judiciary, but it was overshadowed by other major questions about popular sovereignty, the role of the emperor, and the renunciation of war.[2] Although the ratified wording in Article 81 states that court possesses the power of judicial review, a part of the court's early history involved clarifying the extent of this power.[1] In 1948, the court declared that the constitution meant to establish the type of judicial review that was practiced in the United States. In 1952, the power was clarified to apply only in cases with a concrete case.[1][3]
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Supreme Court experienced a "judicial crisis" between older judges and generally younger, liberal judges.[4][5][6] For example, there was controversy when some judges in lower courts were seen as frustrating the implementation of ordinances that would limit anti-government demonstrations.[4] In 1971, the Supreme Court deliberately did not reappoint assistant judge Yasauaki Miyamoto, who participated in a legal organization associated with left-wing ideological leanings.[5][7] This "Miyamoto Affair" resulted in significant media coverage and protest by other judges.[7] Since then, no judge has failed to be reappointed.[7] Ultimately, the court was reshaped during the 1960s and 1970s to become more conservative, with more representation among the justices from lifetime government employees, which resulted in decisions that tended to limit free expression and public demonstration.[4]
Powers and responsibilitiesEdit
Article 81 of the Constitution of Japan defines the Supreme Court as a court of last resort and allows it to conduct judicial review through "the power to determine the constitutionality of any law, order, regulation or official act".[3] In its first role as a court of last resort, the Supreme Court hears civil, administrative and criminal cases appealed from lower courts.[3] This responsibility and the inability to apply discretion in the appeals it hears results in civil and criminal appeals being a significant majority of its caseload.[3][8] In its second role, the Supreme Court can exercise its power of judicial review when a concrete legal dispute involving a violation or misinterpretation of the constitution is appealed.[3][9]
The Supreme Court also manages the operation, budget, and personnel of all of Japan's courts.[10][11] Decisions are made by a regular Conference of the Justices in the Supreme Court and implemented by the Administration Bureau of the Supreme Court.[10] The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, through the office of the General Secretariat, also has extensive control over judicial personnel, including judges.[6][12] This includes the ability to determine posts of judges, which has a significant impact on their careers and advancement opportunities.[12] The Supreme Court also oversees the Legal Research and Training Institute, which prospective legal professionals who have passed the National Bar Examination are required to attend to receive practical training.[11]
Use of judicial reviewEdit
Although the Supreme Court has established the power to strike down legislation that is unconstitutional, it has used this power extremely infrequently.[13][14] By a simple numerical count, the Supreme Court struck down only eight laws on constitutional grounds over a period of six decades, during which the German Federal Constitutional Court struck down over 600, and the United States Supreme Court over 900.[14] Furthermore, in at least one case where a constitutional violation was found, regarding election district apportionment, the court has been unable to achieve compliance with its ruling.[14]
Observers have proposed several possible reasons for this. One critical view is that the membership of the Supreme Court is influenced by the political dominance of the LDP, and therefore is less likely to challenge legislation produced by aligned politicians in the National Diet.[14][15] There could also be the desire to maintain good relationships with judges in the Ministry of Justice or other departments.[13] Another critical view is that the court functions like a bureaucracy, with a conservative leadership promoting like-minded judges that less likely to make significant decisions.[14][15] A historical perspective argues that the early judges were influenced by a Meiji Constitution and German jurisprudence tradition that did not allow striking down unconstitutional legislation, and that over time this expectation resulted in a reluctance to act in politically sensitive cases to maintain judicial independence.[8]
One more favorable explanation is the role of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau in the legal ecosystem. The bureau is composed of senior bureaucrats and a minority of judges, some of whom go on to join the Supreme Court.[14] It has the responsibility of thoroughly investigating government legislation to avoid constitutional flaws.[13][14] Proponents of this view argue that this process prevents the need for the Supreme Court to frequently strike down legislation, as violations of the constitution are removed during the legislative phase.[6][14][16]
CompositionEdit
The Grand Bench
The composition of the Supreme Court is defined by the 1947 Judiciary Act.[8] The Supreme Court is composed of a Chief Justice and fourteen other Justices. These Justices are divided into three Petty Benches of five, which adjudicate most appeals. Questions of constitutional interpretation are adjudicated by the Grand Bench of all fifteen Justices, of which nine are needed for a quorum.[9]
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court are both selected and appointed by the Cabinet of Japan but the Chief Justice differs in being appointed by the Emperor of Japan.[8] Justices are required to be over the age of forty and possess an extensive knowledge of the law.[17] Unlike in other countries, Supreme Court judges in Japan are subject to retention elections after being appointed. In the first general election after being appointed, a judge can be dismissed if a majority votes against them, but a Supreme Court Justice has never been dismissed in this way.[3][18] Although a public review is stipulated to occur every ten years after appointment, since Justices are generally appointed at age sixty or older and must retire at age seventy, there are effectively no "second reviews."[6][18]
Particular to the Supreme Court of Japan is the uncodified custom of having seats of the court be allocated to different legal professions: career judges, private attorneys, prosecutors, academics and bureaucrats.[4] The numbers for each group have been subject to some variation, but overall have been remarkably stable since the court's inception.[4]
FacilityEdit
Façade of the Supreme Court building
The modern Supreme Court was first convened in May 1947 in the former Privy Council quarters of the Tokyo Imperial Palace. It moved to the Tokyo District Court building in September of that year.[19] It was intended to occupy the building of the Supreme Court of Judicature, the previous highest court during the Imperial Japan era, but the building was largely destroyed in the war and had to be rebuilt. In October 1949, this reconstruction was completed and the Supreme Court of Japan would use the building for twenty-five years.[19][20]
In 1964, a plan for a new Supreme Court building was created. It was decided that the building should be created in a modern style, and that the design be selected through a public contest.[19] Of 217 submissions, one submitted through a joint effort of 17 people including architect Shinichi Okada was chosen.[19][21] Construction began in 1971 and concluded in 1974.[19][21] The new and now current Supreme Court building is located at 4-2 Hayabusa-cho, Chiyoda, Tokyo.[20] It is of steel-reinforced concrete construction, and makes ample use of Japanese white granite, just as the previous Supreme Court building did.[21][20] There are five floors above ground and two floors below ground.[21]
JusticesEdit
Main article: List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Japan
The current justices are:[22]
Chief Justice Naoto Ōtani (1952-06-23) June 23, 1952 (age 69) Tokyo Judge President, Osaka High Court
Justice Atsushi Yamaguchi (1953-11-06) November 6, 1953 (age 68) Tokyo Academic, Attorney Member, Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association
Justice Hiroyuki Kanno (1952-07-03) July 3, 1952 (age 69) Tohoku Judge President, Osaka High Court
Justice Katsuya Uga (1955-07-21) July 21, 1955 (age 66) Tokyo Judge, Academic Professor, University of Tokyo
Justice Saburo Tokura (1954-08-11) August 11, 1954 (age 67) Hitotsubashi Judge President, Tokyo High Court
Justice Yasumasa Nagamine (1954-08-16) August 16, 1954 (age 67) Tokyo Diplomat Japanese ambassador to the United Kingdom
Justice Mamoru Miura (1956-10-23) October 23, 1956 (age 65) Tokyo Prosecutor Osaka High Public Prosecutors Office
Justice Koichi Kusano (1955-03-22) March 22, 1955 (age 66) Tokyo Attorney Managing Partner of Nishimura & Asahi
Justice Yasunami Ryosuke (1957-04-19) April 19, 1957 (age 64)
Justice Kazumi Okamura (1957-12-23) December 23, 1957 (age 64) Waseda Civil Servant, Attorney, Prosecutor Commissioner, the Consumer Affairs Agency
Justice Michiharu Hayashi (1957-08-31) August 31, 1957 (age 64) Tokyo Judge President, Tokyo High Court
Justice Katsuyuki Kizawa (1951-08-27) August 27, 1951 (age 70) Rikkyo Attorney
Justice Takuya Miyama (1954-09-02) September 2, 1954 (age 67) Tokyo Judge President, Tokyo High Court
Justice Masayuki Ikegami (1951-08-29) August 29, 1951 (age 70) Tohoku Prosecutor Osaka High Public Prosecutors Office
Justice Eriko Watanabe (1958-12-27) December 27, 1958 (age 63)
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Japanese law
Judicial system of Japan
List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Japan
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Paizo, rpgnow and drivethrurpg aren't the only ones but probably the largest ones. With Wizards stopping the pdf distribution of their products they probably try to harm a bit of the industry on one side, and will limit the former-canon products available to be used with PathfinderRPG. In my opinion this sounds very much like the Music industry to me and their everpresent fear of piracy. Hey guys, we're your customers – have you ever – EVER – heard of Customer Relationships? You should try to inform people about measures you're taking, you should try to make them understand.
Looks like I'm not the only one hoping sincerely that WotC sells the IP rights for the whole D&D products soon. Well, I've stopped buying original WotC products when 4e came out, my disappointment with the license that ended the revolutionary era, started by the whole d20 and the OGL, and ended with the rest of 4e – for which not a single player of my group could find a little motivation for – it was in short just a disappointment with a few ideas but intended obviously for a different audience. For now I'm still waiting for WotC to search for a legal action to be taken against PathfinderRPG – that would just seem to be the next step a giant like WotC – obviously blind to see the most loyal customers around… Hell if this happens I really hope we would find a way out.
ault at the GSL (license of the 4th edition D&D). With a copyright lawyer in the real world as president, I keep my fingers crossed that the GSL will fall before it causes any serious harm.
Besides of all things that I like and don't like with the new edition of Dungeons and Dragons, their new license was one of the things that just make me shrug and shake-head… Honestly, I think one of the main keys to success of the 3rd edition was their open policy – the open readable SRD enabled everyone to take a look at the rules and more importantly the OGL enabled dozens of other companies to release products for the d20 system.
Maybe there is someone among you, that knows why they changed this open and (journalists would probably call it Web 2.0 approaches) friendly license to the GSL type of license that bans almost everyone from releasing new material in this regard, unless they wait for quite some time.
I really don't get the point of this – maybe you can help me.
Update: Looks like I'm not the only one thinking about the licensing of the 4th edition lately. A few hours before this posting was online, Critical Hits put their own comprehensive posting on different companies and their licensing strategy online. It gives a general overview on different companies, whether they stay with the OGL (3rd edition), go for the 4th edition GSL or try a fair-use copyright approach – but have a read yourself.


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Traditionally, a couple's 60th wedding anniversary is their "diamond" anniversary.
Shalyn Nelson, though, decided to give her grandparents something else that would last forever for their 63rd anniversary.
Nelson, a professional wedding photographer, arranged a glamorous photoshoot for her maternal grandparents, Billy Wanda and Joe Ray Johnson. She also went the further step of setting up her grandmother with a new gown, professional makeup and styling and floral arrangements for the shoot, courtesy of her network of professional friends.
Nelson shot the couple at their ranch in Jewett, Texas, "where they've worked their entire lives," she told ABC News.
Nelson asked her grandparents to write love letters to each other, a theme she's hoping to expand into a series with other couples and eventually, a book.


Note: When performing an integrated audit of financial statements and internal control over financial reporting, refer to paragraph .98 of AS 2201, An Audit of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting That Is Integrated with An Audit of Financial Statements, which provides direction with respect to the subsequent discovery of information existing at the date of the auditor's report on internal control over financial reporting.
.02 Because of the variety of conditions which might be encountered, some of these procedures are necessarily set out only in general terms; the specific actions to be taken in a particular case may vary somewhat in the light of the circumstances. The auditor would be well advised to consult with an attorney when he or she encounters the circumstances to which this section may apply because of legal implications that may be involved in actions contemplated herein, including, for example, the possible effect of state statutes regarding confidentiality of auditor-client communications.
.03 After the date of the report, the auditor has no obligation2 to make any further or continuing inquiry or perform any other auditing procedures with respect to the audited financial statements covered by that report, unless new information which may affect the report comes to his or her attention.
.04 When the auditor becomes aware of information which relates to financial statements previously reported on by him, but which was not known to him at the date of his report, and which is of such a nature and from such a source that he would have investigated it had it come to his attention during the course of his audit, he should, as soon as practicable, undertake to determine whether the information is reliable and whether the facts existed at the date of his report. In this connection, the auditor should discuss the matter with his client at whatever management levels he deems appropriate, including the board of directors, and request cooperation in whatever investigation may be necessary.
.05 When the subsequently discovered information is found both to be reliable and to have existed at the date of the auditor's report, the auditor should take action in accordance with the procedures set out in subsequent paragraphs if the nature and effect of the matter are such that (a) his report would have been affected if the information had been known to him at the date of his report and had not been reflected in the financial statements and (b) he believes there are persons currently relying or likely to rely on the financial statements who would attach importance to the information. With respect to (b), consideration should be given, among other things, to the time elapsed since the financial statements were issued.
.06 When the auditor has concluded, after considering (a) and (b) in paragraph .05, that action should be taken to prevent future reliance on his report, he should advise his client to make appropriate disclosure of the newly discovered facts and their impact on the financial statements to persons who are known to be currently relying or who are likely to rely on the financial statements and the related auditor's report. When the client undertakes to make appropriate disclosure, the method used and the disclosure made will depend on the circumstances.
When the effect on the financial statements of the subsequently discovered information cannot be determined without a prolonged investigation, the issuance of revised financial statements and auditor's report would necessarily be delayed. In this circumstance, when it appears that the information will require a revision of the statements, appropriate disclosure would consist of notification by the client to persons who are known to be relying or who are likely to rely on the financial statements and the related report that they should not be relied upon, and that revised financial statements and auditor's report will be issued upon completion of an investigation. If applicable, the client should be advised to discuss with the Securities and Exchange Commission, stock exchanges, and appropriate regulatory agencies the disclosure to be made or other measures to be taken in the circumstances.
.07 The auditor should take whatever steps he deems necessary to satisfy himself that the client has made the disclosures specified in paragraph .06.
Notification to the client that the auditor's report must no longer be associated with the financial statements.
Notification to regulatory agencies having jurisdiction over the client that the auditor's report should no longer be relied upon.
Notification to each person known to the auditor to be relying on the financial statements that his report should no longer be relied upon. In many instances, it will not be practicable for the auditor to give appropriate individual notification to stockholders or investors at large, whose identities ordinarily are unknown to him; notification to a regulatory agency having jurisdiction over the client will usually be the only practicable way for the auditor to provide appropriate disclosure. Such notification should be accompanied by a request that the agency take whatever steps it may deem appropriate to accomplish the necessary disclosure. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the stock exchanges are appropriate agencies for this purpose as to corporations within their jurisdictions.
(i) The disclosure should describe the effect the subsequently acquired information would have had on the auditor's report if it had been known to him at the date of his report and had not been reflected in the financial statements. The disclosure should include a description of the nature of the subsequently acquired information and of its effect on the financial statements.
(ii) The information disclosed should be as precise and factual as possible and should not go beyond that which is reasonably necessary to accomplish the purpose mentioned in the preceding subparagraph (i). Comments concerning the conduct or motives of any person should be avoided.
If the client has not cooperated and as a result the auditor is unable to conduct a satisfactory investigation of the information, his disclosure need not detail the specific information but can merely indicate that information has come to his attention which his client has not cooperated in attempting to substantiate and that, if the information is true, the auditor believes that his report must no longer be relied upon or be associated with the financial statements. No such disclosure should be made unless the auditor believes that the financial statements are likely to be misleading and that his report should not be relied on.
.10 The concepts embodied in this section are not limited solely to corporations but apply in all cases where financial statements have been audited and reported on by independent auditors.
1 If the financial statements have not yet been issued, see the guidance found in AS 2801, Subsequent Events.
2 However, see paragraphs .10-.13 of AS 4101, Responsibilities Regarding Filings Under Federal Securities Statutes, as to an auditor's obligation with respect to audited financial statements included in registration statements filed under the Securities Act of 1933 between the date of the auditor's report and the effective date of the registration statement.
3 See paragraphs 26 and 27 of Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 9 and paragraphs 25 and 26 of FASB Statement No. 154, regarding disclosure of adjustments applicable to prior periods.


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Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan on Thursday said that it was 'unfortunate that Indian media tried to politicize the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor by giving Pakistan's positive gesture a political colour, reported the Dawn.
"We have religious sites that are important for Hindus and Buddhists; we should open them up and facilitate the people," he added.
"The Sikh community has responded very positively to the effort [to open the Kartarpur border]. It is to them what Madinah is to us Muslims. We hope that India will also respond positively in return," Prime Minister Khan said.
Khan,during the groundbreaking ceremony of the Kartarpur corridor, stated that there was only one problem between India and Pakistan, which is Kashmir.
While welcoming "our Sikh brothers and sisters who have come from all around the world", he likened the happiness on their faces to finally being able to visit one of Islam's holy sites, Madina.
The Kartarpur Corridor, which will facilitate the visa-free travel of members of India's Sikh community to their religious site in Pakistan, was inauguarated on November 28 and is expected to be completed within six months.
Earlier, the Union Cabinet headed by PM Narendra Modi announced building the Kartarpur road corridor up to the international border between India and Pakistan to let Sikh pilgrims visit the gurdwara on the banks of the river Ravi in Pakistan.
Both Pakistan and India made the decision to allow the pilgrims visit the holy shrine without having to secure a visa.
The foundation stone in Gurdaspur was laid by Vice-President of India Venkaiah Naidu in the presence of the CM and Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday.
The Government of Pakistan had also said that it would provide land to Sikh organisations for construction of modern hotels in Kartarpur, Nankana Sahib and Narowal, besides construction of a railway station in Kartarpur to provide state-of-the-art board and lodging facilities to Sikh pilgrims visiting Pakistan.


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Six Nations Chiefs need to draw more fans to remain viable
Monday, November 16th, 2020 2:25pm
Six Nations Chiefs, a Major Series Lacrosse franchise. Photo courtesy Six Nations Chiefs
"They're a marquee team in our league. I wish them nothing but the best." — Commissioner Doug Luey of Major Series Lacrosse
By Sam Laskaris
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Duane Jacobs
Last week Duane Jacobs, the president of the Six Nations Chiefs, the famed Major Series Lacrosse (MSL) franchise, granted permission to issue a press release that stated the club would compete in its league during the 2021 campaign.
But the release also said indications suggested 2021 could be the final season for the Chiefs, who have been in existence since 1993.
"It's a difficult decision to make," Jacobs said in last Wednesday's announcement. "It's one I don't want to have happen. Our organization feels Major Series Lacrosse is not feasible on Six Nations. Our ownership group is also concerned over the lack of fan support."
The announcement rocked the Canadian lacrosse community. Many voiced their desire to have the Chiefs, who have captured the national Mann Cup championship six times, continue playing well into the future.
A few days after the release though, Jacobs said he was surprised that many interpreted the release to read the Chiefs would be folding after the 2021 season.
"I've been around the game a long time and I've seen many teams come and go," said Jacobs, a former professional player himself. "We're hoping that's not the case here and we'll be around for many more years. As an organization we have been around for almost 30 years. We want to continue with our organization for the future."
But that future, said Jacobs, depends on plenty of changes being made now.
"We're not getting as much support as we feel we should be getting," he said.
Besides drawing more fans, Jacobs said the Chiefs' brass is also seeking more recognition from the Ontario Lacrosse Association (OLA) and the Canadian Lacrosse Association (CLA).
"We need more inclusion at the OLA and CLA levels," he said. "I don't see one Indigenous person on the OLA board. We need to have a voice at that level. And there needs to be more cultural awareness training at their annual and semi-annual meetings."
The OLA's AGM was held virtually earlier this month. It should be noted no Indigenous person ran for a position on the board of directors.
As for the CLA, Findley Wilson does serve as its Indigenous director. Also, Brian Phillips is the president of the First Nations Lacrosse Association, one of the CLA's member associations that has its squads vie for some national championships.
The Chiefs are members of the Ontario-based MSL, which features six franchises. The others are Brampton Excelsiors, Brooklin Lacrosse Club, Cobourg Kodiaks, Oakville Rock and Peterborough Lakers.
The MSL season typically runs from June through August. Squads are stacked with professional players who also toil in the National Lacrosse League (NLL), which usually has a season beginning in late November or early December and continuing until May.
While NLL contests attract several thousand fans, some teams in the MSL, including the Chiefs who traditionally feature a roster with many of the top pros in the world, struggle to draw a couple of hundred fans to their home outings.
Jacobs said one of the reasons the Chiefs have difficulties attracting more support at home is because their community has another Senior team and three junior franchises.
The Six Nations Rivermen participate in the Ontario Series Lacrosse and captured the 2019 national Senior B title, the Presidents Cup.
Because of the pandemic there were no Canadian lacrosse tournaments at any level in 2020.
Six Nations also has the Six Nations Arrows competing at the Junior A level, the Six Nations Rebels in the Junior B grouping and the Six Nations Stealth, a Junior C squad.
"We probably have one of, if not the lowest attendance (of the five Six Nations teams)," Jacobs said, adding attendance figures are disappointing considering the elite talent the team assembles each year. Plus, the Chiefs already have quite an admission deal with adult tickets costing $10 each.
Jacobs is at a loss as to what it will take to entice more fans to the Chiefs' home matches.
"It's a question I don't have an answer for," he said. "We're going to try to figure something out to get them in here."
MSL commissioner Doug Luey is among those hoping the Chiefs will be around for the long haul.
"They're a marquee team in our league," he said. "I wish them nothing but the best."
While the Chiefs are not drawing as well as they would like to at home, they are a big attraction at games away, drawing larger than average crowds for the opposing squads.
Local Journalism Initiative Reporters are supported by a financial contribution made by the Government of Canada.


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