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Spanish side admit they want to keep Arsenal striker
07:53 01 June 2012
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Arsenal transfer news: Real Sociedad keen to keep Carlos Vela
La Liga outfit Real Sociedad claim they want Arsenal striker Carlos Vela to remain with them next season.
The Mexican scored 12 goals for the Basque side during a season-long loan deal to help them to 12th in the table.
Vela has said he wants to leave the Gunners for good, while Sociedad have said in the past they would like to wrap up a permanent deal.
And coach Philippe Montanier has himself said he would like Vela to stay.
"We want to keep Vela," Montanier told Infosport.
"Eighty per cent of our players are Basque. We want to continue to work with our training centre and also make one or two adjustments to the team."


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Voices of Truth: The First Genocides of the Twentieth Century
George Horton: Word Analysis
Excerpts from Rev. Henry H. Riggs, who was a American missionary in Kharpert (Harput)
Eyewitness report from His Eminence, the Metropolitan
of Ephesus, Chrysostomos Hatgistavrou, to the Ecumenical Patriarch, Meletios
IV, in Constantinople concerning the destruction of Smyrna. Bishop Chrysostomos
was visiting Smyrna at the time, and wrote the report after arranging for temporary help for refugees from the massacre.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio led the nation in job growth last month, to the delight of Gov. John Kasich and his fellow Republicans in the Statehouse, but at least one researcher says there is less to the May jobs report than meets the eye.
Led by increases in the service sector, the state added 32,100 jobs in May, though the unemployment rate remained at 7.0 percent, unchanged from April, according to data released Friday by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
It was the greatest single-month gain in 10 years and prompted Kasich and Republicans in the General Assembly to take credit.
"Job creators are believing in Ohio again," Kasich said in a Facebook post.
"Ohio's state government is finally stepping out of the way of private-sector growth and removing the barriers that for too long hindered our economy. Since the House Republicans gained control of the gavel…170,400 new private-sector jobs were created," said House Speaker William Batchelder (R-Medina).
Ohio, Nebraska, and South Dakota had the highest rate of job growth among states in May, each state generating 0.6 percent growth, but that does not add up to a robust recovery, according to Hannah Halbert, workforce researcher for the non-partisan think tank Policy Matters Ohio.
"It is unwise to make too much of month-to-month changes. Longer-term trends are a more accurate gauge of the state's economic health. Ohio's 12-month increase of 33,200 jobs amounts to a very modest 0.6 percent. May's gain accounts for nearly all of the increase, as only 1,100 jobs were added in the previous 11 months," Halbert said
Even those celebrating the jobs report admitted it was only a step in the right direction.
"We can't rest while we have friends and neighbors still struggling to find work…We need to do all we can to ensure Ohio remains the most desirable place to open a business and the most coveted place in the nation to make a living and raise a family," Sen. Tim Schaffer (R–Lancaster) said.
Over the past year, Ohio and Alabama recorded the 10th worst job growth rate in the nation, Halbert said.
"While today brought good news to Ohioans, it is imperative that we work together to continue to cultivate an environment for growth and success," Sen. Jim Hughes (R–Columbus) said on Friday.
The May unemployment rate for Ohio was down from 7.3 percent in May 2012.
The U.S. unemployment rate for May was 7.6 percent, up slightly from 7.5 percent in April.


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Images: Tactical PsyOps Team Hands out 1500 pounds of food [Image 9 of 15]
Photo by Staff Sgt. Dennis Henry
U.S. Army Soldiers from the Tactical PsyOp Team 1484, Tactical PsyOp Detachment 1480, Tactical PsyOp Company 318th, St. Louis, Mo. and Headquarters and Headquarters Company Alpha, 478th Civil Affairs Battalion, Miami, Fl. handed out food and other items to Iraqi's in the village of Al Murtada, Mahmudiyah, Iraq on 9 June 2007. U.S. Army Soldiers handed out about 1500 pounds of food to about 200 people.
This work, Tactical PsyOps Team Hands out 1500 pounds of food [Image 1 of 15], by MSgt Dennis Henry, identified by DVIDS, is free of known copyright restrictions under U.S. copyright law.
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The Entertainment Software Association has filed a federal lawsuit against the Chicago Transit Authority, challenging a 2009 CTA ordinance which prohibits ads for games rated M (17+) or AO (18+) from appearing on its vehicles and facilities.
GamePolitics readers may recall that in April, 2008 the CTA ordered ads for Grand Theft Auto IV removed from buses even before the game was released. The CTA action followed local news coverage of a rash of shootings in Chicago.
Shortly thereafter, GTA IV publisher Take-Two Interactive sued the CTA, charging that the agency had broken a $300,000 contract for the campaign. The parties settled the case later in 2008, with the CTA granting T2 a six-week GTA IV ad run. However, CTA officials moved to block future ads for M-rated games by passing the new ordinance, which took effect on January 1st and prompted today's legal action by the ESA.
ESA boss Mike Gallagher commented on the lawsuit in a press release:
The CTA's ordinance constitutes a clear violation of the constitutional rights of the entertainment software industry. Courts across the United States, including those in the CTA's own backyard, have ruled consistently that video games are entitled to the same First Amendment protections as other forms of entertainment. The CTA appears unwilling to recognize this established fact, and has shown a remarkable ignorance of the dynamism, creativity and expressive nature of computer and video games. The ESA will not sit idly by when the creative freedoms of our industry are threatened.
The press release also explains some of the legal rationale behind the suit:
The ESA's suit contends this new ordinance unconstitutionally "restricts speech in a public forum that is otherwise open to all speakers without a compelling interest for doing so." In addition, the Complaint argues that the ordinance impermissibly discriminates on the basis of viewpoint and ignores less restrictive means of achieving the supposed ends of the ordinance.
The ESA also stated that the CTA's ordinance is unnecessary because game-related marketing is already subject to the Entertainment Software Rating Board's Advertising Review Council (ARC), which strictly regulates computer and video game advertisements that are seen by the general public. The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) assigns content ratings to computer and video games, which, in turn, are displayed on the advertisements for those games.
As GamePolitics has reported, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority has a similar ban on M-rated game ads, likening them to X-rated movies. It is unclear at this time whether the ESA will pursue a similar action against the MBTA.
While the lawsuit also encompasses AO-rated games, as a practical matter, such titles are virtually non-existent in the U.S. market.
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Cops Engage In Anger Management
November 08, 2008 09:00 AM by Joe Reality
In two back-to-back episodes of Cops, officers attempt to help suspects deal with anger issues. In the first episode, Las Vegas officers assist with a hit-and-run suspect. The suspect claims abuse in an attempt to get out of formal charges.
In addition, Rancho Cucamonga, California officers are called to a domestic disturbance. Surprising, the suspect actually requests to be sent to jail. Also, Las Vegas, Nevada officers stop an erratic, out-of-control suspect, who is high on drugs.
In the second episode, Pomona, California officers take part in a high-speed chase. The officers utilize a helicopter to patrol overhead, but the chase ends when the suspect's car hits another vehicle. Also, Lansing, Michigan and Las Vegas, Nevada officers question suspects who appear to have difficulty remembering their names and ages. Cops airs on Saturday, November 8 from 8 PM to 9 PM ET/PT on FOX.
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This red-orange is gorgeous, but the 'cheerful yellow' is more
common in the Mid-South. The yellow honeysuckle does have a very pleasant, sweet odor.
Thanks, twig.
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Cape honeysuckle
A winter bloomer! Evergreen vines or shrubs, cape honeysuckle can grow to twenty-five feet or more in Zones 9B -10, although it may need some support. The red-orange is the most common color, but there's also a cheerful yellow.
These are sturdy plants that seem to tolerate negligence, as long as they have sun and some water, especially during hot spells. They don't have much going fragrance-wise, at least not that I can tell. But the bees like them, so they get an A in my book.
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common in the Mid-South. The yellow honeysuckle does have a very pleasant, sweet odor.
Thanks, twig.
You warm zone folks have some fine plants. I'm down to colorful branches, bark, and evergreens in the rain here.


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Gold medal at 19 The Netherlands has long been the dominant force in international speed skating, a sport that has produced 35 of its 37 gold medals at the Olympic Winter Games (and 105 out of its total of 110 medals). In a country that has bred champions for decades, its latest star Ireen Wüst has propelled herself into a league of her own.
Wüst first made her mark on the Olympic stage at the Lingotto Oval in Turin in 2006, when at just 19 she became the Netherlands' youngest ever champion at the Winter Games as she claimed gold in the women's 3,000m, before going on to take bronze in the 1,500m. It was an achievement that saw he voted Dutch Sportswoman of the Year.
Second title in Vancouver She followed up her Olympic triumph by winning the world all-round speed skating title on home ice in Heerenveen (NED) in 2007, adding a silver in the same competition in Berlin (GER) the following year. She also took golds in the 1,000m and 1,500m at the 2007 World Single Distance Championships in Salt Lake City (USA), in the team pursuit at the 2008 Worlds in Nagano (JPN) and in the 2008 European All-Round Speed Skating Championships in Kolomna (RUS). Wüst maintained her dominance going into Vancouver 2010, where she beat home favourite Kristina Groves by 0.025 seconds in the 1,500m at the Richmond Oval to retain her Olympic title.
Raising the bar In the Olympic cycle leading up to Sochi 2014, Wüst continued to raise the bar with a raft of world titles. She regained the world all-round crown in 2011, and went on to defend it successfully the following two years running, while she also claimed the 1,500m and 3,000m titles in 2011 and then again, in Sochi's Adler Arena, in 2013, where she was also a member of the Dutch trio that won the world team pursuit title.
Queen of SochiThe Dutch were utterly dominant at the Adler Arena, the stage for the speed skating events at Sochi 2014. In total they claimed 23 medals, including eight golds. Five of those medals went to Wüst, who started with a successful defence of her 3,000m title before adding three silvers in the 1,000m, 1,500m et 5,000m. She then teamed up with Marrit Leenstra and Jorien ter Mors to smash the Olympic record en route to gold in the team pursuit, thanks to a margin of more than seven seconds over fellow finalists Poland. Her five podiums in Sochi made Wüst the most successful female athlete at the 2014 Winter Games.
Next stop Pyeongchang?The odds are that the flying Dutchwoman will add to her impressive Olympic medal tally, as she is already eying a trip to the Winter Games in 2018, when she will still be just 31. "I would like to compete in PyeongChang," confirms Wüst. "That's my goal. I want to compete there and then retire, but you don't know for sure. Hopefully I can stay healthy and not have any injuries. Then, we'll see what happens."


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Every year, the lead-up to the Oscars is rife with horse race terminology: there are front-runners, films that lag behind and, of course, last minute surges. As Hollywood bounces from award ceremony to award ceremony, from SAG to the Golden Globes to the Guild awards, the Oscar-predicting crowd gazes into its collective crystal ball and makes its pronouncements. Taking the cue from one of this year's Oscar contenders (that'd be "Moneyball"), we here at TOH decided to take a closer look at the data to see just how Oscar actually takes his cue from the other awards shows and, most importantly, the critics.
We looked at the Best Picture winners for the last two decades and asked whether or not those films were the critics' favorite for each year (using data courtesy of Matt Atchity, Editor-in-Chief of Rotten Tomatoes). We also asked which other awards the Best Picture film garnered throughout the awards season. The results, which can be seen below (along with a look at the ratings of this years Best Picture nominees and their previous awards), were often surprising.
Perhaps the most striking trend across the years is that the vast majority of Best Picture winners were in fact not the highest rated films according to Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus. Still, over the two decade period, critics and Academy voters seemed to agree more and more: in the 1990s, Best Picture winners were often only critics' third or fourth favorite films, while in the 2000s they started moving towards the top, with a clear trend in the last three years of critics and Oscar voters overlapping on best pic.
A few select factors explain why the critics' picks have often gone home without the big prize: "Up" squeezed past "The Hurt Locker" in the critics' eyes (98 percent to 97 percent), but did not make history as the first animated Best Picture winner; Scorsese's American noir thriller "The Departed" beat out British indie "The Queen." "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Two Towers" both topped the critics' charts in their respective years, but the Academy shied away from giving Best Picture to a fantasy blockbuster until it did award the top prize to the finale, "The Return of the King" (which was beat out in critics' circles by "Lost in Translation"), as a nod to the entire series.
If the critics are an unlikely indicator of which film will take home Best Picture, however, the other awards are much more indicative. The Golden Globes show the weakest correlation, and haven't predicted the Oscar winner in six of the last five years (2004's "Crash" wasn't even nominated for a Globe). SAG's track record is more successful, but it is the DGA and PGA who are most predictive of the Oscar winner. DGA winners have gone on to take home the Oscar for the last four years; PGA winners have done so for the last three.
The biggest outlier, of coure, was 2004's Oscar race. Although critics loved "Good Night and Good Luck," it received no major awards, and Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" had the momentum going into the Oscar ceremony. "Crash" won a stunning upset for Best Picture, having won previously only with the Screen Actors Guild. For "Crash," it was probably an issue of gender and discomfort with the movie's gay themes: the overall Academy is dominated by men, whereas SAG (like the Academy actors' branch) is more balanced between men and women.


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escribing the deep, murky, and uncommonly inspired techno produced by Toronto's Sandro Perri – better known as Polmo Polpo – requires a bit of an unusual starting point, so I propose something of an experiment. First, dub your favorite Basic Channel record to a well-worn and wobbly cassette tape, preferably one that once featured some steel-guitar-laden instrumental rock or a twice-erased Tony Conrad violin drone. Next, drive to the nearest fast-moving body of water and toss the weighted cassette toward the middle. Once the tape has been completely submerged in a layer of rippling silt, retrieve the cassette and shake until a thin deposit of grit coats the playing surface and just a hint of water sloshes inside. Find the most bass-heavy sound system available, play loud, and enjoy.
Of course, this plan is more than a little reductive and hardly does justice to the refined sexiness and masterful atmospherics that grace Polmo Polpo's full-length debut, The Science of Breath – but it's a start. True, your river-constructed cassette would feature many of the signposts of the Polmo Polpo sound. You would still find plenty of driving house rhythms decked out in echo-chamber fashion, dub bass rumblings, hints of cello and high lonesome slide guitar, and more-than-generous doses of hiss and drone. The results of the experiment would, however, lack all the less tangible qualities that make The Science of Breath such an intriguing listen. Lost to chance would be the painterly knack for texture cultivated by Perri over sold-out series of pre-Science 12" EPs released on his own Audi Sensa imprint. Also missing would be Polmo Polpo's preternatural gift for thematic richness and coherence, a gift matched only by the producer's sharp ear for subtle and haunting melody. Unlike your soggy cassette, Polmo Polpo has more than just a sound – there's an abundance vision and careful craftsmanship, too.
As suggested by the title and accompanying undersea photographs, The Science of Breath is rich in aquatic metaphor. Undulating with the grace and hidden strength of its octopi cover models, the album's four beat-based tracks – culled from Perri's final two EPs – and four ambient interludes speak to the darker depths of the ocean. Their ambitious length and busy layering summon images of an expansive sea floor stirred by static-spewing steam vents and the constant rumbling of unseen fault lines. On "Oarca," for example, a steadily pulsing bass pattern cycles beneath a grainy current of hiss and whispering feedback while clouds of muffled clatter gather overhead. Obscure mumblings shrouded in decaying delay float lazily through the haze, as do slow-moving drifts of white noise. In contrast, the more active shuffling of "Acqua" suggests a twilit realm closer to the surface and teeming with life. Stereo-panned synths flitter in ripples over a murky bass and a distant 4/4 thump; meanwhile, a duo of looping slide guitars shimmer like shafts of undersea sunlight amidst billowing delay disturbances. The surrounding ambient interludes – entitled "High Breathing," "Mid Breathing," and "Low Breathing" – suggest the changes in depth between these imaginary landscapes, their languid washes of crackling drone shifting from airy ocean-surface evocations to the rhythms of scuba-masked breathing and back.
Polmo Polpo's true masterpieces, however, reside at the conclusion of The Science of Breath . "Rottura," with its smooth-contoured elegance and poignant lyricism, finds Polmo Polpo at its most openly melodic. Amidst subliminal cello bowing, tendrils of coarse distortion swirl from a rock-solid bed of muffled drum throb and sultry dub bass. Tremulous vibrations surround elegiac eddies of a processed steel guitar whose wavering reflections sound out like sonar pings from a lonesome submarine crawling through an inky sea. "Rottura" dissolves into the murmuring of "Complete Breath," a delicately textured interlude marked by far-off rattles of guitar and a gently insistent bubbling – a fitting prelude to the album-closing "Riva." The urgent call-and-response of bass drum and hi-hat coupled with a buoyant pedal steel loop suggests a final drive toward the surface, while the chugging of bowed double bass supplements the track with restless motion. A final triumphant upturn marked by a buzzing, overdriven bass yields to an infinitely decaying final chord signaling a silence apart from the sea – or perhaps the relief of the "complete breath" hinted at by the preceding interlude. That such imagery can be drawn from Polmo Polpo's arrangement of the raw materials of dance music – unchanging drum pulses, tightly motivic melodies, delay-influenced textural play – stands a testament to Perri's singular gift for aural imagery and well-chosen sonic detail.
Indeed, Polmo Polpo's debut emerges as something more than a mere record of dirtied-up house tracks; instead, The Science of Breath is an album that is truly more than the sum of its constituent parts. Within the framework of grainy, dubbed-out techno, Sandro Perri has succeeded in creating a work of uncanny emotional resonance and lyrical grace without compromising his gritty textures and faultless dance floor sensibility. The human warmth and attention to detail evident on The Science of Breath reflects a vision so individual that simple attempts at stylistic description – such as our previously-mentioned experiment – can only tell half the story; only repeated listens can unearth each ear-tingling prickle or heart-tugging melody. A fascinating first offering from a promising new producer.
Reviewed by: Joe Panzner
Reviewed on: 2003-09-01
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Sometimes you happen across a recipe that you personally feel is "The Best." I do not take this term lightly. Typically when I deem something to be "the best" it has been compared to others and has triumphed. This banana bread recipe is just that. I adapted a recipe I found at AllRecipes because I love the flavor of brown sugar and vanilla and felt these two ingredients could really jazz up the original recipe.
The flavor of the dough (yes I could eat it by the spoonful) and bread is insanely delicious and the bread is so moist and has the perfect texture. I ALWAYS have bananas that have reached a point of sweetness that my kiddos will no longer eat them plain and need a recipe to be used up within. Banana Bread has been made at my house often and I couldn't believe there wasn't already a recipe on my blog for one yet. I was a little shocked actually.
So here you have it, my favorite banana bread recipe. You will have to try it out and let me know what you think and how it compares to yours.
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cup buttermilk
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup mashed bananas
- 1 cup white sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1¾ cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Spray a 9x5 loaf pan with cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, buttermilk and oil until well beaten together.
- Add in mashed bananas, both sugars and vanilla and mix well.
- Sift in flour, baking soda and salt and mix in nicely, do not over mix.
- Pour into greased loaf pan and bake at 325 degrees F for about an hour. Check at an hour by doing the toothpick test. Bake longer as needed until cooked through.
(Recipe adapted from: AllRecipes)


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July 15 Declared National Pet Fire Safety Day to Help Protect Pets from Home FiresBy: Staff Writers
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– AKC and ADT Offer Prevention & Rescue Tips –
To help reduce the estimated 500,000 pets affected by home fires each year, The American Kennel Club and ADT Security Services today launched the inaugural "National Pet Fire Safety Day." This nationwide awareness day educates pet owners about potential risks when pets are left home alone and provides them with proven prevention measures to ensure their safety.
According to a recent AKC study, 88 percent of pet owners consider their pets to be valued family members so it makes sense to include them in fire prevention plans and rescue alerts should a house fire strike. As part of National Pet Fire Safety Day, AKC and ADT have developed helpful prevention, escape and rescue tips for pet owners.
"One of the hallmarks of responsible dog ownership is keeping pets safe and planning for unexpected emergencies, including house fires," said AKC spokesperson Lisa Peterson. "Pet proofing the home, developing pet-friendly escape routes and alerting rescuers of your pets presence with 'window clings' is the best way to keep your four-legged family member from harm."
That's something Lia Wentworth of Maryland knows well. One Sunday morning she and her family left their Labrador Retriever "Justice" home alone. They didn't realize they left a pot of boiling water with plastic baby bottles on the stove. When the water evaporated, the bottles began to emit a toxic smoke. No one knew Justice was in trouble because there was no flame. Luckily, the Wentworth's had a monitored smoke detector and the firefighters were alerted. Their prompt response saved Justice's life.
As part of National Pet Fire Safety Day, the American Kennel Club's Lisa Peterson leads Justice, a Labrador Retriever and home fire survivor, through a mock apartment at the FDNY Fire Museum to point out safety tips.
"After ADT alerted us that the fire alarm had been activated, we rushed home. We had one thought the whole way there, and that was the fate of our beloved pet. The minutes passed like hourstrying to get home to him,"Wentworth said. "I can't describe the relief and gratitude I felt in seeing Justice playing with the firefighters in front of our home. Along with smoke alarms, I encourage everyone to have a home fire monitoring system. Ours was there when we couldn't be, and called for help because Justice couldn't. Withoutthat system, there would literally be no Justice in this world."
"National Pet Fire Safety Day" Tips to Keep Pets Safe from House Fires:
"Each September as part of AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Days, we educate first-time dog owners about what dog ownership entails. This year we are pleased to distribute ADT pet alert 'window clings' at our flagship event in Raleigh, North Carolina and at the more than 600 local events nationwide to focus attention on how to potentially save pets' lives," Peterson added.
ADT will be part of the Meet the Breeds™ event at the Javits Center in New York, Oct. 17-18.
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The Real Housewives Of Atlanta Recap: Battle Of The Booties
January 20, 2013 07:47 PM by Megan Thompson
The Real Housewives Of Atlanta is all new tonight on Bravo. It's an all out booty war in Atlanta, when Kenya announces she is coming out with a stallion booty video. Yes, it's the stallion versus the donkey booty on tonight's episode. The gossip flies and team are formed, so buckle down for a bootylicious episode and decide whose team you're on!
The show starts off with Cynthia parading into a hair show that she calls the "NY fashion week for hair." It looks a lot more like a low-budget conventions center, but the good news is we get to see our favorite gay hair stylist – Derek J. Cynthia is honored to be hosting a segment and choosing a winner for a hairstyling competition. The surprise is that Kenya has shown up to support her and the two are becoming do we dare say – friends. Cynthia even gives Ms. USA a shout out over the mic. Who does Kenya bring with her? It's her gay BFF, Miss Lawrence. I wish I could rock heels as well as Miss Lawrence! After the show, the housewives and their gay BFFs gather to gossip. This is where Miss. Lawrence drops the bomb that Kenya is going to put out a stallion booty video! What? "Would you rather have a donkey booty or a stallion booty?" Lawrence asks Derek. "Let the games begin!" Lawrence laughs as they can only picture Phaedra's reaction. Cynthia is completely on board and thinks it is a very good business decision.
The next day, Kandi just so happens to be getting her hair done by Derek J. Now we know everyone gossips while getting their hair done, so Derek is dying to tell Kandi about the video news he heard from Kenya. Minutes into straightening Kandi's hair, Derek tells her all the details about the stallion video. Kandi thinks he has information confused and is sure he means the Donkey video. But Derek repeats himself and is crystal clear in relaying that Kenya doesn't want a jiggly donkey booty. "You're damn lying, hell no!" Kandi yells as she reaches for her cell phone. "Phaedra is going to go ham-burger on your ass!" Kandi tells the cameras. I'm not sure what that means, but it can't be good! Right away, Kandi calls Phaedra to tell her the news. Phaedra thinks she is getting pranked, but then quickly realizes that she isn't. "Ain't nothing legit about doing something like that," Phaedra yells into the phone. Phaedra is on a roll now and starts critiquing Kenya's lumpy booty, like only Phaedra can. "I knew Miss. Kenya was thirsty, but I didn't know that heifer was starving!" Phaedra tells Derek. Ouch! After they hang up the phone, Kandi thinks that maybe this is just a big misunderstanding. I think it's a full out booty war! Derek jokes that Kenya might be coming out with Kenya Koated nights.
"Business is booming at the Bailey Agency," Cynthia brags. This time Cynthia is dealing with little tots, trying to teach them how to walk a runway. Porsha and Phaedra show up to support Cynthia and also gossip about the butt video. Porsha is not surprised at all about Kenya's behavior. "I think she could have a chemical imbalance," Phaedra tells the ladies about Kenya.
Speaking of Kenya, she is hanging out with Kandi introducing her to a production designer. Right away, Kandi just HAS to ask her about the bootie video. "You're straight coming for her," Kandi explains to her. But Kenya denies that she is stealing any deal – that she is merely a business woman. Then Kenya goes off about how she worked for weeks on the video and she feels the offer was fair.
Forget Kenya, Phaedra and Apollo our shopping their donkey booty to other producers. "A nice, round firm bootie," is how Phaedra explains the term donkey booty to two white business guys. Even Apollo gets embarrassed and shy when he gets up to demonstrate the moves. But in the end, the producers love the donkey booty video idea and are ready to produce it! Kenya who?
Now that Phaedra and Kenya are on the outs, Porsha wants to swoop in and get to know Phaedra more. The two ladies meet for coffee and gossip about – guess who – Kenya? "She manipulated you," Porsha tells her. Phaedra agrees and calls Kenya the devil's little sister.
It's the Bailey Agency's big event – a fashion show that has adults and children walking the runway. Cynthia is running around fixing makeup and telling people what to do. She is the woman in charge and she is loving it! All the girls, including Kenya show up to support Cynthia. Kenya is annoyed that all of a sudden Phaedra and Porsha are new BFFs. After the show, Kenya fills NeNe in on the whole stallion work-out video. "I don't think the word donkey is cute," NeNe encourages her. Then Phaedra pops into the conversation and everyone goes silent. "I'm doing a work-out video," Kenya finally yells out. Of course, Kenya says the producers told her she would be crazy not to do it herself. Phaedra tells her that a stallion is a male horse! But Kenya still thinks a stallion is beautiful creature. "If I want to make a video because I'm hot, I'm going to make a video because I'm hot!" Kenya announces to anyone who is listening. She twirls away and says, "I'll be copycatting all the way to the bank!"
So what did you think of tonight's RHOA? Are you on Team Donkey or Team Stallion? Let us know, leave us a comment below.
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Feb. 20, 2014
RUSTON, La. - Registration for the annual Argent Financial Classic College-AM is now open with the event set for Sunday, March 2 at Squire Creek Country Club.
Louisiana Tech head golf coach Jeff Parks said that anyone interesting in playing in the event should contact him at (318) 245-8211 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The College-AM will be a four-man scramble with each team paired with a collegiate player. Cost to play in the event is $250 per person which includes cart and green fees, dinner following the competition and prizes will be awarded to the top teams.
All proceeds from the event go towards the Louisiana Tech Golf program.
Collegiate players will be selected from 13 teams competing at the Argent Financial Classic. That tournament begins on Monday, March 3 at 8 a.m. as Louisiana Tech hosts Arkansas State, Central Arkansas, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe, Missouri State, New Orleans, North Texas, Rice, Sam Houston State, Southeastern Louisiana, Texas State and UALR.
For complete coverage of Bulldog Golf, please follow @LATechGolf on Twitter or visit the official home of Louisiana Tech Athletics at LATechSports.com.


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In this edition of the ArtTactic Podcast, Ian Peck, CEO of Art Capital Group, returns to the podcast to update us on the art financing industry. First, Ian touches on the extent in which current economic conditions are impacting art lending activities. Then, he speaks on how he envisions the art financing practice growing within the art market in the future. Also, Ian elaborates on demand for art lending outside of the US as well as why we can expect to see more extremely wealthy individuals continue to cheaply lend against their art.
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By Matt Tomsic
Published Nov. 7, 2011
Lowcountry blacks are more than twice as likely to be denied a mortgage as their white counterparts.
In a 16-page report, the Charleston Trident Urban League presented the disparity between white and black access to mortgages in the Lowcountry.
George Bresnihan, director of housing services for the league, said the report leads to a simple question: "Why is there a disparity between whites and nonwhites?"
But wrapped in that question are hundreds of data points — black loans originated, white loans originated, total approved, denial ratios, approval rates, applications denied — that lead to several issues — financial literacy, marketing to minorities, lending requirements, credit history, down payments, employment, collateral — that influence the disparity, which has implications on racial wealth gaps as well as equitable opportunities for Lowcountry residents to own their own homes.
More than homeownership is at stake if the availability of mortgages doesn't correct itself.
The report
The city of Charleston contracted the Charleston Trident Urban League to study loan data organized through the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, which requires financial institutions to maintain and disclose data about home purchases with conventional, Federal Housing Authority, Veterans Affairs Department, Farm Service Agency and Rural Housing Service loans.
The report, released in July, studied mortgage applications and approvals in the Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville metro area and compared those figures by race.
For 2007 through 2009, blacks received 9% of the Lowcountry's total mortgage loans and were 2.37 times more likely to be denied for a mortgage than whites, according to the report.
"With blacks making up 30% of the population, it is reasonable to expect that financial institutions provide a level of service closer to the percentage of the population," the report stated.
Bresnihan said the report doesn't argue the cause of the disparity is race. The numbers just happened to break down that way.
"It's really not an indictment of the banks," Bresnihan said.
Otha Meadows, president and CEO of the league, said the report shows homeownership isn't working the same way for some as it is for others.
The report, Meadows and Bresnihan cited a plethora of issues — marketing by banks, stricter lending requirements, financial literacy and management — that impact the disparity.
"I think there is something that can be done in a better way in terms of outreach and marketing to different segments of the community, the minority community specifically," Meadows said. "If they're not engaged, if someone is not going out and actively seeking their business, then what's the motivation for them to go and do business there? The other thing that I think we have to look at is why is it that there are financial institutions that have never taken an application from a person of color. So what we're asking institutions to do is look at their marketing effort. Are they effective in targeting the minority communities?"
Bresnihan also cited stricter lending requirements banks began enforcing because of the Great Recession, which helped slow all mortgage activity. Overall, the Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville MSA saw a 53% decrease in mortgage lending from 2007 to 2009. Bresnihan said banks began trying to reduce their risk, requiring higher credit scores, larger down payments and more financial documentation that went further back.
"After the dive in the economy, they're going back at least two years, and if that doesn't look too cool, they're going to go back further," Bresnihan said. "There are still avenues out there for people to purchase homes, but the primary thing is you have to be ready — credit-wise, job-wise. Those two are the key."
From 2007 to 2009, banks denied 42% of black applicants because of their credit history, while 3% were denied because of their employment history, according to the league's report. Banks denied 24% of white applicants because of their credit history and 4% because of employment history.
"Financially, credit is the most important thing that is in your life," Bresnihan said. "Your credit score determines how your life is going to be, your financial life. If it's good, life is good. If it's not good, life is not good."
The league hosts first-time homebuyer workshops and educates anyone interested in financial basics. The group uses several approaches, Meadows said.
"I think its key for us to understand while persons may come to the league for a particular situation, there are other factors that will have an impact on their ability to be successful," Meadows said.
He used the example of someone who comes to the league for help finding a job. To help that person, the league considers transportation needs, home life, education and other criteria.
People must learn how to manage their income and expenses, save money and maintain a good credit score to be financially stable and to position themselves for mortgage approvals.
"You operate your house like it's a business," Bresnihan said. "The budget has to support whatever you do without going into debt. That's a discipline change in a lot of folks."
Homeownership and the wealth gap
Racial wealth disparities are exacerbated by the inability of blacks to qualify for home loans at the same rates as whites.
A 2011 Pew Research Center study found that white households have 20 times more wealth than black households, according to 2009 figures. The median net worth of white households then was $113,149, compared with $5,677 for blacks.
Rakesh Kochhar, a senior researcher for the Pew Research Center, said the 2011 study examined the outcomes of the plummeting housing market and recession, and homeownership plays a role in household wealth because often it is the largest asset.
"It is true that homeownership is a major asset, and generally speaking, homeowners have more wealth," Kochhar said. "Those groups that have higher homeownership rates do have higher wealth."
Meadows said asset-building — including homeownership — helps drive the economy and provides stability. And those opportunities have to be equitable.
"What better asset to have than a home?" Meadows said.
Kochhar said most people would like to see economic activity that is more widespread and available to everyone.
"One way to frame it is that the economic opportunity or economic equality, whichever way you want to express it, one would think of that as part of social fabric," Kochhar said. "With more inequality, you essentially have a social fabric that is more stretched."
'Great potential'
Meadows said Charleston has been recognized nationally for its quality of life.
The Lowcountry is also bringing new industries and companies — the Clemson University Restoration Institute and the Boeing Co., to name two — that are expected to create higher-paying jobs.
"But what we have to do if we are truly going to realize potential, we have to make sure that everyone is able to participate in that prosperity equally," Meadows said.
To accomplish that goal, the Lowcountry needs an approach that tackles education, workforce development and other criteria. Meadows said groups like the Charleston Trident Urban League need to create partnerships with government and community organizations to address all of the Lowcountry's needs.
"No one organization has the ability to address all of this by themselves," Meadows said, adding that groups need an effective strategy to help everyone participate in prosperity. "And the better we're able to do that, the more we're truly able to realize this great potential that we have in this community."
To realize the potential, banks, advocates and residents have several issues to address thanks to the study, which provides the information to start a conversation about an equitable way to homeownership and prosperity.
Reach Matt Tomsic at 843-849-3144.


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Brandon Great Eastern
previously known as Great Eastern Railway
Real Ale
Bridge St, IP27 0AX
01842 810229
grid reference TL 783 871
opening hours:
- Mon-Thu: 1130-2300
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- Sat: 1130-0200
- Sun: 1200-1800
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CAMRA West Suffolk & Borders branch.
last updated 22/05/2016
A large bar close to the station. Accommodation available and the spacious dining area is also used for functions.
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Evening meals
Restaurant or separate dining area
Traditional separate public bar
Function room available to hire
Traditional pub games available
Children are welcome
Accommodation available
Bus stop nearby (see public transport tab for details)
Railway station about 0.03 mile away (see public transport tab for details)
Car park
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
The Great Eastern Railway was formed in 1862 by amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway with smaller railways: the Norfolk Railway, the Eastern Union Railway, the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway, the East Norfolk Railway, the Harwich Railway, the East Anglian Railway and the East Suffolk Railway among others.


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Ever wonder how a stalagmite grows ? Here it is, in action. Drip ... drip ... drip. Just wait a thousand years and these cones will be joined.
The cave went deep into the mountain, splitting into different caverns and passages, some easy to walk through and some a scramble. There were tunnels underwater too, but we didn't have scuba gear. Lots of bats ! Really freaky to have them circling around you. Up in the ceiling cavities there were hundreds of them, making their bizarre squeaking noises as we passed by a few feet below.
We sailed over to North Caicos and took a long dinghy ride to a marina where they charged $ 20 just to tie up the dinghy. Then rented a car, as there were no bicycles like the guidebook had promised. Drove 60 some miles to visit the larges cave system in the Caribbean. Here I am with our guide, who wouldn't go in more than a few feet. But as long as we paid our $ 10 and proved we had flashlights, we were free to go deeper.
We anchored off this very swank resort. Super high end. We landed the dink and they escorted us to the bar. I had a little cup of ice cream for $ 16 and Chris had two fish tacos for $ 20. Plus government tax of 11%. Plus gratuity of 15%. Yikes. I walked around the place a bit when they weren't looking and it was beyond cool. No photos allowed. We thought about staying for just one night, a bit of luxury in the midst of the rough sailing life. But at $ 1000 a night for the cheapest room, we decided sleeping on the boat was good enough for us.
We found cups in the rock where the seawater had evaporated over many years. All that remained were sea salt crystals. The salt was very concentrated. It tasted great.
Chris enjoying one of the perfect little beaches.
A very cool arch in the shoreline, where you could swim in and find your own blue hole, looking out at the sea. This is the cover shot for the magazine !
Another crappy day, another boring sunset. It's a rough life, this.
West Caicos was an interesting shoreline, with caves and cliffs and ruins of an old plantation. We explored with the dinghy, stopping to play wherever it looked interesting.
The mesmerizing sea floor, as it passes by under the ship. A sparkling kaleidoscope of white lines where the sunlight intersects the sand. Would you believe this was over twenty feet down ?
My buddy Chris Ernst came for a visit and we had a blast. The first of my friends to take me up on the offer of sailing in Paradise. We had a blast, once we got out of the repair vortex at the marina. He said he wanted to experience what the cruising life was like, and that's what he got. A few days of mind-boggling frustration and a week of blissful beaches and snorkeling and exploring. That's pretty much how it's been !
A few stressful days at the Caicos Shipyard Marina, trying to figure things out, make repairs and get underway again. Thought we had fixed the big water leak by repacking the shaft seal, but that wasn't it - still buckets of water pouring into the bilge. Guess #2 made it out to be the heat exchanger gone bad and the whole engine ruined by salt water, or so said the mechanic. But then he also thought it might be as simple as a bad hose clamp. "Either you need a new engine or a new hose clamp" were his immortal words. Thankfully, it was the hose clamp only ! Also remounted the bilge pickup feet and float switches, and cleaned out a lot of nasty gunk. And remounted the autopilot compass. And patched the dinghy. And all is well with Nereia once again.
Finally arrived in Turks and Caicos, after 4 passages and 3 island transits. The Caicos crossing was so rough I broke the motor mount, which made the shaft wobble, which blew the dripless seal, which let in many many gallons of sea water, which overloaded the bilge pump ... So I've been undertaking repairs - even more than usual. At least I had something to do while waiting to clear customs. It took 3 days, and involved trying to help a customs guy new to the job get his briefcase open, find the right forms, make up forms he didn't have, figure out how to work the stamper, etc. I am finally cleared in, at a marina getting some serious assistance for the boat work and catching up on emails and sailblog.
The tip of the island was covered with some strange vegetation. The colors were really cool, but it was hard to walk through.
Seaweed, and lots of it, dried in the sun. Anyone want nori rolls ?
Lots of fossilized shells on the beach. They look like they had been there a long time.
Mayaguana : an ancient Lucayan native name meaning the illusion of batshit. The final jumping off point for Turks and Caicos. I had lots of wind here for 4 days while I waited for the conditions to mellow, and worked my way to the very tip of the island. There was a cool shoreline with reefs extending way out into the ocean.
This is what an uninhabited island looks like when it appears off your bow. What a pretty little spot to stop for a day, in the middle of one of the longer passages. I snorkeled and walked on the beach and it was pretty sweet.
Crooked Island turned out to be nice, especially a beautiful meal served island style, and some nice folks to chat with. One guy had sailed around the world in ten years on his 35 foot boat, just like I hope to do. There was a nice little resort with an airstrip, and this stunning Grumman Super Goose, an amphibious airplane for the ages. Imagine flying between the islands, landing on the bank side, wading ashore for a picnic ...
The last ten days have been a lot of work, moving from Long Island to Rum, then back to Long, then to Crooked, Acklins, Plana, Mayaguana and finally Provo. Much of it has been heavy weather, which means big seas and stong winds, and sometimes current too. Nothing that Nereia and I couldn't handle, and certainly nothing an experienced seaman would even mention. But for me, it's been pretty exciting. I tried to take photos of the giant waves, but they all come out looking mellow and friendly. So here's a picture of a squall.


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Courtney pines for KurtCourtney Love still misses her dead husband Kurt Cobain.
Courtney - who was married to the Nirvana frontman for two years before he tragically committed suicide in 1994 - insists she has never fully got over his tragic death.
She said: "I really loved him. He was my best friend. I really miss him a lot."
The 'Man on the Moon' actress - who is a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict - also claims Kurt's life could have been saved if he'd received the proper help he needed.
She said: "I spent a lot of time nursing him. As well as the drugs he had a stomach ailment and was in a lot of pain a lot of the time. I would find him on the floor vomiting bile. I had the adrenaline kit that you would put in the heart. I was on my own with it."
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Smelling the ethanol
Filed under: Recovery
The links between alcohol consumption and offending are well-documented, at least at a topline level. Over a fifth of prisoners surveyed in 2012 reported an alcohol problem when they began their sentence (a survey which was likely to underestimate the prevalence of alcohol problems among offenders due to under-reporting and recognition of problems), and an earlier survey in 2010 found that three fifths of those entering prison with an alcohol problem would also leave with one.
This week the RSA asked how we might break the cycle of alcohol-related criminal behaviour. Informing the debate was a new survey from Addaction's Alcohol and Crime Commission, which found that almost two fifths of respondents believed they had a 'big drinking problem', with almost three-quarters of them (some 25% of all respondents) reporting that they had been drinking at the time of committing the offence for which they were sentenced.
Prisoners in work: a broadcast to the nation
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Sunday's episode of Channel 4's Secret Millions series focused on a venture supported by RSA Catalyst. Led by Fellows, it aims to reduce reoffending by making offenders more employable: manufacturing and assembling quality furniture during the time that is often spent sitting in cells and being unemployed on release. The venture was selected by the RSA's Social Entrepreneurs Network to be part of their Spotlight initiative and it also made perfect sense to me that this was the first Catalyst-funded idea to make it onto primetime television:
The size of the problem
Recent figures published by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) (1) underlines the positive impact that securing a job on release can have on reoffending rates – they are lowered by more than 50% if employment is found upon release among those serving short term (less than 12 month) prison sentences. A previous MOJ survey found that 68% of prisoners said having a job was the biggest factor in helping them to stop offending (2).
While some employers such as Virgin, M&S and Greggs have taken a lead in employing offenders, many employers remain nervous, often irrespective of the nature of their crime, their skills-set and real (rather than perceived) risks. This will at some point affect the almost 100,000 prisoners in the UK and the roughly 1.25m benefit claimants and 0.5m JSA recipients who have been cautioned or convicted (3). Their difficulty in finding a job will also increase as the labour market moves online (difficult to access in prisons).
The programme brushed over the difficulty of negotiating the bureaucracy of the prison service when helping prisoners to get employability skills through work in prisons:
- As Kate Welch (one of the two RSA Fellows who co-founded the venture in the programme, Reap & Sow) explained, owing to the responsibility that a Governor has over an individual prison, expanding a social enterprise would take considerable time persuading each Governor;
- There are also problems in that the longest a working day is allowed to be in many prisons is 5 hours long. Even those hours are restricted by staff shortages and emergencies/searches. This Howard League publication discusses some of the institutional barriers in more detail;
- Selecting the right people who have the skills for the job can take time. And getting the data on how they do upon release is also not easy – as a Fellow voiced at a recent Social Entrepreneurs Network event.
Some of these barriers are reducing as government sees it as more of a priority to "Make Prisons Work."
(Presenter:) It's a product with a conscience, do you think that's a selling point?"
(Furniture retailer:) "To have a strong story behind a product is always very good"
(P:) "We were looking to sell it for about £1000…"
(FR:) "I think that's feasible"
(P:) "How would you feel about having this in your shop. Is that something you would consider?"
(FR:) "Definitely"
Turning problems into opportunities
It was genuinely encouraging to see that some key elements of the social enterprise these Fellows wanted to test appeared to be viable. The furniture retailer interviewed signalled that the £1000 price-tag for the furniture was commercially-viable. The retailer also said that the social side of the enterprise – it was helping turn around the lives of the offenders – was a selling point. This echoed with what I heard from the CEO of Blue Sky Development. They have employed more than 500 ex-offenders since 2005 and 60% of the business is funded by delivering commercial work (4), in which he said firms are keen to take part.
Not only can the "turning-around-lives" line help sell products, but it also helps reduce some of the costs of producing them. Reap & Sow made use of the RSA Fellowship's cultural partnership with Northumbria University to get students and designers in residence at arguably the top design school in the country to do the designs (helped along by our Catalyst grant award).
One interesting dimension comes in the form of studies that show ex-offenders display more entrepreneurial traits than average. It is this kind of evidence, when combined with problems set out above that has informed the RSA's Transitions project, which is working with a prison in Yorkshire to test a new approach. It is aiming to provide prisoners and ex-offenders with resettlement services alongside opportunities for work and skills development both in custody employing ex-offenders on site and on release, with the assumption that some people will become 'sole traders' but will need support on developing their business, while others will go into employment but will sometimes need additional support. (Here's a recent post from our Chief Exec on its importance and progress.)
There have already been smaller-scale successes by focusing on self-employment: Startup has supported 230 clients into self-employment and their clients have a re-offending rate of under 5% (5). Baillie Aaron FRSA set up Venturing Out which helping offenders plan micro-enterprises in prison. She now runs Spark Inside, who provide life coaching to young offenders before and after they leave prisons. Spark Inside believes that coaching can help ex-offenders break down long-term goals into small steps; for example how to use what might at first look like a dead-end low-paid job to build up the sufficient skills and capital needed to launch a business.
The RSA as a Catalyst
Many start-ups fail and we don't expect every project that we support through Catalyst to become a gigantic social enterprise. Reap & Sow has been put on hold because of a breakdown in the working relationship of the two Fellows who co-founded it (which is why you never heard the words "Reap & Sow" and the programme is quite unclear where the idea came from, whether it was via Acumen Trust or Katie Piper herself). But given the success of the first batch of production both for the ex-offenders and the response from retailers the Fellows are looking to make tweaks to the model and set up new vehicles to take it forward.
As well as supporting the success of individual ventures, we hope that Catalyst-funded ventures offer lessons to others trying to tackle a similar social problem. Getting the venture's concept out to a primetime audience of at least a million will inspire others to run something similar and increase the demand for products made by ex-offenders.
There are some fascinating stories in the programme, not least the attitudes of the presenter who was herself a victim of serious crime. You've got 26 days to watch it and if I haven't persuaded you, I'll let Dostoyevsky: "The degree of civilisation in a society is revealed by entering its prisons."
If you want to get in touch with Kate Welch, you can do so via email@example.com
RSA Transitions is doing a feasibility study to deliver a site next to HMP Everthorpe. If you are interested in finding out more see here or get in touch with Rachel O'Brien firstname.lastname@example.com
Alex Watson is Catalyst Programme Manager at the RSA. He is also a volunteer member of the Independent Monitoring Board of a London prison – follow him @watsoalex
New internship opportunity at the RSA
Filed under: Social Economy
A new paid internship opportunity has arisen within the RSA's Action and Research Centre.
The role will support RSA Transitions, a new initiative that aims to ease ex-offenders' transition into society by radically improving their rehabilitation prospects – partly by encouraging and enabling more prisoners to work in social enterprises while in custody. The RSA has already developed its vision for the Transitions initiative and is now conducting a feasibility study to test out some ideas that may form the basis for future work.
The successful candidate will support the RSA team as they undertake these activities on a site near Brough, East Yorkshire (where the internship will be based). Tasks will include engaging with a range of stakeholders (including prisoners, ex-offenders, prison officers and voluntary groups), identifying potential partners, helping to coordinate events and other activities, and potentially undertaking primary and secondary research (e.g. surveying).
We are looking for candidates with an interest in criminal justice, excellent communication skills, experience of coordinating events and good research and writing abilities. Above all, we are searching for individuals who are hardworking, interested in the mission of the RSA, and in a position where they would benefit strongly from this opportunity.
The internship will last for 9 weeks from late January onwards and will be based in Brough, East Yorkshire. All our interns are paid the living wage.
Applicants will need to send in a CV, covering letter and short written piece on the transition from prison to the community.
The deadline for applications is 9am Monday 17th December. Interviews will be held w/c 7th January.
For more details on the role and to find out how to apply, visit our internships page here.


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Majoring in biology at Yale University, Dr. Hsien Seow always had an interest in science, but experiencing cancer illness within his family is what solidified his career path in health services research, particularly palliative care. "I started asking questions about how people accessed health care, the needs of the dying, and how the organization of the health care system affected outcomes. Most importantly, I began to inquire about how the system could be improved," says Seow. Now he conducts research into the delivery of care for serious chronic diseases as a member of the department of oncology at McMaster University, where he is funded through the Cancer Care Ontario/OICR Health Services Research Program.
Seow says that although major advancements have been made in the treatment and diagnosis of chronic diseases such as cancer, the system for delivering health care is still organized for treating acute conditions. "In order to solve this problem, we need to examine the bigger picture of health care from the system level. We need to align financial incentives for providers to 'do the right thing' for the patient, within models of care that support multidisciplinary, team-based approaches to care that follow the patient across settings and providers," says Seow. Some of his interests include home and community care, particularly the impact of increasing access to homecare services, as well as evaluating innovative models to deliver care so that care is coordinated, integrated, and meets the needs of the sickest patients.
A recently conducted study showed that providing more homecare nursing hours to end-of-life cancer patients could reduce their likelihood of dying in hospital and using emergency department and hospital services at end-of-life. These results have major quality and costs implications within the health care system. Seow has set out to verify these findings using more stringent criteria and by expanding the study beyond Ontario to include Alberta, British Columbia and Nova Scotia.
"What I hope to find is that the findings of the initial study are indeed true; that we can provide better care to patients with cancer and save money within the health care system through a marginal increase in the amount of homecare nursing," says Seow.
One of the main uses of health services research is to use science to inform the process of policy-making, something Seow says Ontario has a strong reputation for. "After I finished my PhD at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in the U.S., I returned to Ontario because there is a stronger linkage and dialogue between science and policy," he says.
According to Seow, Ontario's strong research infrastructure was another good reason to come home. "The Health Services Research Program is a great example of this infrastructure. It has brought attention to this field of research and has the people and the resources to study the entire continuum of cancer care. We are able to collaborate with an amazing group of cancer scientists, access incredibly rich data sources, and involve policy-makers in the research process. These factors together give us the potential to build the best cancer health care system in the world."
"What I hope to find is that the findings of the initial study are indeed true; that we can provide better care to patients with cancer and save money within the health care system through a marginal increase in the amount of homecare nursing."


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The Tongass National Forest has completed the first phase of a large-scale watershed restoration project begun this summer with the National Forest Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, and communities on Prince of Wales Island.
The Twelvemile Creek watershed encompasses 28 miles of salmon and other fish-bearing streams as well as 59 miles of additional streams covering an area just under 20 square miles in central Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. In 2012, 1.5 stream miles were restored in a project that included placing more than 200 logs in the river. Returning large woody debris to the river helps create pools and eddies for fish.The project will strengthen salmon and steelhead populations and boost recreation opportunities in the area while providing jobs and bolstering the local economy.
Past logging and road building in the watershed occurred under less protective regulations in the 1960s and 70s, including harvesting of 92% of the riparian forest along salmon streams. Crews carrying out the first phase of the project this summer thinned dense young-growth forests to improve wildlife habitat and promote larger streamside trees; placed wood in streams to stabilize banks and improve fish habitat; removed invasive vegetation; stabilized roads; and converted several stretches to OHV trail.
Twelvemile Creek is one of several restoration efforts that exemplify the highly successful and productive partnerships the Forest Service maintains with invaluable partners like National Forest Foundation and The Nature Conservancy.
"Whether we are restoring salmon habitat or building trails, these partnerships are critical in our efforts to restore long-term productivity and health to key areas on the Tongass," said Forest Supervisor Forrest Cole. "Twelvemile is a very important part of the larger restoration effort we're committed to carrying out."
The Twelvemile Creek project is a featured site of the National Forest Foundation's Treasured Landscapes, Unforgettable Experiences conservation campaign, which is focused on restoring damaged forests and grasslands and renewing people's connection to these shared public lands.
"The National Forest Foundation is thrilled to be a part of the tremendous work taking place at Twelvemile Creek," stated NFF Northwest Regional Director Kathleen Dowd-Gailey. "As the largest National Forest in the country and home to the world's largest temperate rain forest, the Tongass holds a special place in the hearts of many Americans."
Randy Hagenstein, Alaska state director of The Nature Conservancy stressed, "Salmon are a way of life in Alaska, and restoring streams helps ensure our traditions continue for future generations." Tying the project to the Economic Transition for Southeast Alaska, Hagenstein continued, "Restoration projects like this show how the transition toward sustainability now underway on the Tongass National Forest is good for fish and wildlife and provides jobs in rural communities."
The next phase of work at Twelvemile Creek is set for next year.
The Nature Conservancy is a leading conservation organization working around the world to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the web at www.nature.org. To learn about the Conservancy's global initiatives, visit www.nature.org/global. To keep up with current Conservancy news, follow @nature_press on Twitter.


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TOUCH OF CLASS CHORALE, 2 and 7 p.m. at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, 5607 N.E. Gher Road. The 45-voice choir will present Christmas favorites and a sing-a-long with the audience. Tickets: $10, $5 children and seniors. Proceeds will benefit the Winter Hospitality Overflow ministry. * 360-892-7160, http://www.salcvan.org.
RESCUE PERFORMS AT CHRISTMAS CONCERT, 6 p.m. at Meadow Glade Seventh-day Adventist Church, 11001 N.E. 189th St., Battle Ground. Free-will offering will be taken. * http://www.meadowglade.com or 360-687-2265.
THE ADULT CHOIR and Sunday school children from Memorial Lutheran Church will present "Canticle of Joy" at 8:15 and 10:45 a.m. at the church, 2700 E. 28th St. The cantata was written by Joseph Martin. * 360-695-7501, ext. 10.
MILL PLAIN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH will feature the chancel choir with a sermon in music, "Lead Me Back to Bethlehem" by Pepper Choplin at the 11 a.m. worship service Dec. 18. The church will offer three services on Christmas Eve: 7 p.m., featuring the choir (child care provided this service only); 9 p.m., with music by Thomas Rheingans; and 11 p.m., with music by the Plain Truth Praise Band and candlelight communion. One service is planned for Christmas Day at 10:30 a.m. * 360-892-2421.
CHRISTMAS AT PEOPLES CHURCH will include a Sunday worship service at 10:30 a.m. with adult and children choir music. Child care is available for newborns through age 4. A Christmas Eve candlelight service will begin at 5 p.m. The Christmas morning worship service begins at 10:30 a.m. The church is at 6801 E. Mill Plain Blvd. * 360-750-7235.
CHILDREN'S MUSICAL: "Dr. Newheat's Christmas Cure" begins at 4 p.m. at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, 5607 N.E. Gher Road. A musical prelude at 3:30 p.m. will be followed by children from Sunday school classes presenting the Christmas story. * 360-892-7160, http://www.salcvan.org.
WINTER SOLSTICE LABYRINTH WALK with drumming, dancing and chanting, 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Church of Vancouver, 4505 E. 18th St. Bring an enclosed votive candle and participate in a ritual "warming of the labyrinth" at 6:30 p.m. or bring hand or frame drums, rattles or digeridoos and join the drum circle from 8:30 to 9 p.m. A $10 donation is suggested. * 503-502-3178.
COMMUNITY HANUKKAH CELEBRATION, with a menorah lighting ceremony, begins at 5:30 p.m. in Esther Short Park, followed by a concert at Hilton Vancouver Washington, 301 W. Sixth St. Hot latkes, doughnuts and other Hanukkah treats will be available. Cost is $5, online in advance, http://www.jewishclarkcounty.com, or $10 at the door. The event is sponsored by Chabad Jewish Center of Clark County. * 360-993-5222.
MEMORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, 2700 E. 28th St., will have worship services at 7 p.m. during Advent. Services will be preceded by a 6 p.m. soup supper. * 360-695-7501, ext. 10.
MIDWEEK ADVENT SERVICES at noon and 6:45 p.m. at St. Andrew Lutheran Church, 5607 N.E. Gher Road. A soup supper at 6 p.m. will precede evening worship. Child care is available at the evening worship. * http://www.salcvan.org, 360-892-7160.
MIDWEEK ADVENT SERVICES at 7 p.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1309 Franklin St., Vancouver. A soup supper at 6 p.m. will precede evening worship. * http://www.stpaulvancouver.com, 360-693-3531.
ST. ANDREW'S CHANCEL CHOIR will sing at The Grotto's Festival of Lights, Northeast 85th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard, Portland, at 8 p.m. Dec. 28. Other activities at The Grotto include a petting zoo, puppet shows, food booths and the Christmas story told in a half million lights. * http://www.salcvan.org, 360-892-7160.
NEW YEAR'S DAY LABYRINTH WALK, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 1 at First Presbyterian Church, 4300 Main St. An offering will be taken. * 360-695-4965, firstname.lastname@example.com.
SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS LUTHERAN CHURCH, 161 Lutheran Church Road, Stevenson, will hold a simple soup supper at 6 p.m., followed by an evening worship service with Holy Communion, "Unfailing Light," at 7 p.m. Several members of the congregation will present the devotional series "The True Gifts of Christmas." Donations of bread and soup are welcome. * 509-427-5972.


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AMAGASAKI, Hyogo Pref. (Kyodo) A municipal government in Hyogo Prefecture has rejected a resident's application to obtain newly instituted child benefits after the man, a South Korean national, attempted to apply for 554 children who he said were adopted in Thailand, a city official said Saturday.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry issued earlier this month a notice detailing some conditions for children residing abroad and others to be eligible for the benefit, such as being in the same household and individually approved by the local municipal government.
In it, the ministry cites a case of a foreign national who has adopted 50 orphans in their home country as an example of being ineligible.
The monthly allowance, to be disbursed from June, is aimed at helping families with children and is set at ¥13,000 per child. In the man's case, benefits would have totaled about ¥86 million per year for the 554 children.
The ministry said this is the first time that someone has tried to file an application for several hundred children at one time. The child benefit law enacted in March does not require residency in Japan for eligible children, generating concerns in some quarters about abuse.
According to the Amagasaki Municipal Government, the man, who appeared to be in his 50s, visited the city office on Thursday and applied for the child benefit by showing documents that he said were certified by Thai authorities, along with translations, that showed the names of the children and their birth dates.
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The city official said they do not know if all the documents were authentic as they did not accept the application.
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MotoGP's got to make a lot of changes according to the former world champ
CASEY Stoner has hit out at MotoGP following the Assen race, slamming the grid sizes and calling Yamaha's replacement for Rossi 'a joke'.
The fiery Aussie known for speaking his mind has told reporters that Yamaha's decision to replace the injured Rossi with Wataru Yoshikawa is 'atrocious'. Stoner claims Yamaha should have 'put anybody in that seat, but not a nobody'. Nicely put, Casey.
Ducati's world champ went on to say that grid sizes in MotoGP are 'a joke'. Former MotoGP rider, Toni Elias has also hit out at Moto2, calling it too dangerous.
Stoner's fix? Make the manufacturers, including Suzuki, field more bikes.
Dorna are aiming for 22 bikes on the grid in 2011, but this isn't enough according to Stoner, who went on to say: "They need more bikes on the grid. Suzuki need to be forced to put four bikes on the grid.They've got enough money, they've got enough chassis.
"It's just ridiculous, it should be a minimum of four. I don't understand why companies don't put last year's bikes out there like they used to. Put more bikes on the grid, make more opportunities for teams.
"I'm sure there's a way they can sort it out to run last year's bikes, then smaller teams can grab a hold. It's always been like that for years, but now it just seems to have disappeared."
Posted: 28/06/2010 at 14:11
i thnk stoner is worried about his contract 4 nxt year......if he drives like in the previous races he wil not have any major contracts and is worried abt it.....
U CAN OBSERVE IN HIS SENTENCES lol
Posted: 28/06/2010 at 14:22
Posted: 28/06/2010 at 14:26
Something needs to happen. You only need look at how explosively successful Moto2 has been already - or even World Superbike - to see that the top tier needs a good, firm kick up the arse.
It's clearly too expensive in its current state, and is dying a slow, painful death as a result. It's not going to last much longer if Dorna don't recognise this, accept it, and do something brave to change it over the next couple of seasons.
Posted: 28/06/2010 at 14:37
I agree too
Good that Stoner has spoken out - MotoGP needs a major overhaul!
Posted: 28/06/2010 at 15:11
Posted: 28/06/2010 at 16:02
Well spocken stoner, i have to agree moto gp used to exciting and great to watch, but now its getting as bad as F1 , why have we not got british or N,Irish riders out there, the talent we have is second to none .
There is nothing to stop us from putting a couple of good teams together and keep them an all british moto GP team , Ime sure there would be riders champing at the bit to get a ride at the so called best in the world,,
Me myself think world superbikes and the british superbikes are the best in the world right down to the 125s allways brill racing .
Posted: 28/06/2010 at 17:14
Posted: 28/06/2010 at 17:29
MotoGP has become almost wholly reliant on one man, Valentino Rossi, the lack of his presence has detracted a number of people I know from watching the sport. IT SHOULD NOT BE LIKE THIS!
MotoGP was a close, interesting and personality fuelled racing class, as of late, poor riders, financial struggles and a lack of excitement has lost the sport a lot of fans
I for one watch every race in some shape or form, I love racing, however even now I am wondering where the competition and improvements will come from.
Posted: 28/06/2010 at 17:46
Posted: 28/06/2010 at 18:18
Posted: 28/06/2010 at 19:50
Not subtle - and you wonder why he's saying it but . . . he's absolutely right about the size of the grid.
Basically they shouldn't call it a 'world champioship' if they can't rustle up more than say two dozen bikes.
The irony being that there is great racing going on in both the 125s and the new Moto2 classes and trying to get to SEE those races is a real challenge - MotoYawn headlines . . .
Competition = exciting races . . . + lots of competitors = competition
Shhimples . . .
Posted: 28/06/2010 at 20:55
Im not realy a casey fan , but he is making sense on this issue as moto gp is falling on its ass . Bearing in mind these proto types arnt much quicker than the WSB bikes so it begs the question ( do they need to be as expensive ) .
Also who else thought ben spies was ridding rossi`s bike in tech 3 colours . when he finished 3rd lol. maybe it was just me lol .
Posted: 29/06/2010 at 00:09
"Also who else thought ben spies was ridding rossi`s bike in tech 3 colours . when he finished 3rd lol. maybe it was just me lol ."
I was thinking the exact same thing.Moto gp has become a 3 manufacturer farce. Some of the riders who have come in over the last couple of years are simply not good either, and it should have NEVER been changed to 800cc.
The racing have become boring as well. I only turn it on to watch rossi and lorenzo.
Posted: 29/06/2010 at 00:33
Posted: 29/06/2010 at 00:57
One can't be too hard on Yamaha for putting Yoshikawa on the bike simply because there aren't that many guys who could make a decent go at things on a Moto GP bike that aren't already employed elsewhere. Yamaha offered the ride to Cal Crutchlow but he declined so that he could focus on WSBK. Who knows if they made the offer to Toseland but other than him where could Yamaha go for a replacement rider? Any rider who is quick in Moto2 can't race Moto GP the same weekend unless he wants to screw over his Moto2 team and his chances in the championship.
Maybe Yamaha could've taken Alex Barros, Jeremy McWilliams, or Garry McCoy out of mothballs but excepting that they just didn't have many options.
I agree with Stoner about Yoshikawa being a nobody and all but who does he think Yamaha should've put on the bike?
Posted: 29/06/2010 at 02:57
Personaly i'd hardly call the guy who help the lap record at Laguna Seca for several years and has won the Japanese Superbikes twice and been place in WSB and the Suzuka 8 hours a "nobody"
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To get to the short explanation of this loaded assertion I have to narrowly define what I mean by "Black" movies. Black movies are those films with a majority Black cast that situate Whites, if any, in peripheral or non-influential roles. No matter what the genre and no matter what the race of the director, these kinds of Black films, we are told, form a niche market within the broader domestic U.S. market and are but a tiny fraction of the Global film marketplace. Now that I've established this narrow definition we can explore a brief series of questions beginning with the assertion that is the title of this piece.
Why White people don't like Black movies.
A vast majority of White people don't like Black movies because they lack the empathy necessary to identify with Black characters which in turn affects their ability to "suspend disbelief" and surrender to the narrative of a Black film. What has been called the Racial Empathy Gap in various sociological studies conducted by researchers at the University of Milano-Bicocca and the University of Toronto Scarborough have revealed that," The human brain fires differently when dealing with people outside of one's own race."(1) This study found that the degree of mental activity when White participants watched non-White men performing a task was significantly lower than when they watched people of their own race performing the same task. "In other words people were less likely to mentally simulate the actions of other-race than same-race people." (2)
When we watch a film we are watching images of people doing tasks in the pursuit of a goal to change a circumstance and it stands to reason that if the threshold of empathy in Whites is higher when watching non-Whites perform certain tasks because of the Racial Empathy Gap, then if the Whites are watching a Black film such a high empathy threshold would make the suspension of disbelief difficult and attenuate the pleasure of their viewing experience.
But it is often difficult to transpose such highly controlled academic research into a diverse cultural enterprise such as the cinema, so I offer here my own anecdotal evidence that would seem to confirm how the Racial Empathy Gap negatively impairs the ability of Whites to be entertained by a Black film.
In January of 2011 the Wayne State University Media Arts and Communication department hosted a special event with Academy Award winning Asian-American Editor Richard Chew (Star Wars IV: A New Hope-1977, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- 1975, Waiting to Exhale- 1995) at the esteemed Detroit Film Theatre. There was an on stage interview with the acclaimed editor with clips from the various films he had worked on throughout his career. He amused the audience with juicy tidbits of behind the scenes encounters with various movie stars and directors of whom the audience was familiar.
The event also included a full screening of the groundbreaking 1964 film NOTHIN' BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer) which Chew credited as a major inspiration for getting him involved in the film industry since he was in law school when he saw it and started his career soon after.
This Black film starring Ivan Dixon and Abbey Lincoln which has a story that can be understood as an important harbinger of the Civil Rights Movement was playing to a packed house that night: ¾ White and ¼ Black. Yet I noticed and couldn't help but to keep track of the fact that 10 minutes after the house lights went off and the film started many Whites began discreetly heading towards the exits. Two by two, White couples and individuals continued to leave the screening as the film was on, until by the film's end only the Blacks and a handful of Whites remained. I was stunned because I assumed that the older White couples in attendance, who would have been young adults during the Sixties, surely could empathize with the Civil Rights issues dramatized with the film, but the emptying out of the theatre would seem to confirm that some Whites –no matter how tolerant- are unwilling or unable to overcome their Racial Empathy Gap and watch a dramatic film with a majority Black cast.
Specifically, a film whose story does not show Blacks interacting with Whites in servitude, deference, or emotional dependence. In other words, when the fictional world within the film is exclusively under Black control and influence, as was the case with NOTHIN' BUT A MAN, many Whites snuck out during the screening, if they dared go see it at all.
The effects of such a Racial Empathy Gap may not negatively influence all Whites when they are viewing a Black film as was evidenced by those Whites who stayed through the entire screening, but it would seem to have had a strong negative influence upon a large number of Whites who had attended the event.
Now of course the Racial Empathy Gap does not directly correlate to a racist attitude or mentality, but it would seem to suggest that there is a certain comfort level experienced with one's own race that extends to the attention one gives and the pleasure one receives from watching a narrative film. As film scholar Anna Everett has mentioned Whites don't take notice when there are no minorities or Blacks in a film, but Blacks do. "Even if Whites recognize the exclusion it will have different meanings for them." (3) Conversely, Whites do seem to take notice when there are no Whites in a film and, it would seem, respond by leaving the theatre or not going to the see the film at all.
Another anecdotal example concerning Whites dislike of Black films is found in the negative comments thrown at Irish director Bill Sheridan for making GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' (2005): He says," Everybody keeps saying,' You know, you made a black movie.' And I keep saying,' No, I made a movie . . . I made the same movie if I were making it in Dublin or London or anywhere.' I didn't approach it like its special. I'm used to Belfast. It's the same."(Slave Cinema, 35) Now we can assume with a reasonable degree of certainty that the "They" being referred to were White critics and industry insiders whose comments seemed to be specifically targeted at Jim Sheridan for making one of "those" movies; Black movies that they don't really want to experience.
Before addressing the deleterious consequences of the Racial Empathy Gap on Black cinema as a whole it would be prudent to ask a question from the assertion with which we began in the opposite context.


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