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Back in the old neighborhood in North West London after a long absence, I went past the local primary school and noticed a change. Many of my oldest friends were once students here, and recently—when a family illness returned us to England for a year—I enrolled my daughter. It’s a very pretty redbrick Victorian building, and was for a long time in “special measures,” a judgment of the school inspection authority called Ofsted, and the lowest grade a state school can receive. Many parents, upon reading such a judgment, will naturally panic and place their children elsewhere; others, seeing with their own eyes what Ofsted—because it runs primarily on data—cannot humanly see, will doubt the wisdom of Ofsted and stay put. Still others may not read well in English, or are not online in their homes, or have never heard of Ofsted, much less ever considered obsessively checking its website.
In my case I had the advantage of local history: for years my brother taught here, in an after-school club for migrant children, and I knew perfectly well how good the school is, has always been, and how welcoming to its diverse population, many of whom are recently arrived in the country. Now, a year later, Ofsted has judged it officially “Good,” and if I know the neighborhood, this will mean that more middle-class, usually white, parents will take what they consider to be a risk, move into the environs of the school, and send their kids here.
If this process moves anything like it does in New York, the white middle-class population will increase, keeping pace with the general gentrification of the neighborhood, and the boundaries of the “catchment area” for the school will shrink, until it becomes, over a number of years, almost entirely homogeneous, with dashes of diversity, at which point the regulatory body will award its highest rating at last. But none of this has happened in the old neighborhood yet and perhaps will never happen—given its lengthy and proud history of every conceivable form of diversity—and this was anyway not the change I noticed when I passed by.
At the time my particular brand of liberal paranoia was focused elsewhere: I noticed the fence. For this Victorian school, which, for a hundred years, has found cast-iron railings sufficient to mark its periphery, had now added what looked like tall bamboo slats between the bars, as well as six feet of plant life climbing these slats, blocking the view of the playground from the street and therefore of the children as they played. I went home and sent an intemperate e-mail to a couple of parent governors:
I walked past the school for the first time since I came home (yesterday) and noticed the wooden veil—for lack of a better word—that has gone up around the school. It made me so sad. I’ve lived in this area 40 years. I saw a wall go up outside the Jewish school ten years ago and then a few years ago at the Muslim school. But I never thought I’d see one up outside __________. I’m very curious as to how it came about, who asked for it, how it was decided, and whether the parents are happy with it, and what—officially—is its purpose? “Security”? “Privacy”? Or something else?
An intemperate e-mail, filled with liberal paranoia. By contrast the reply I received was sane and polite. “Privacy and pollution” were the given reasons, pollution in particular being “a huge thing at the moment” that the school had been asked to address by the local council. Plus the playground has a lot of concrete, the vegetation softened the look of the area, and in truth it hadn’t occurred to the parent governors that the new arrangement might look in any way defensive or strange to passersby. I reread my e-mail and felt ashamed to have sent it. What state of mind had led me to interpret a simple cosmetic change so negatively?
I’m used to change: around here change is the rule. The old grammar school up the hill became one of the largest Muslim schools in Europe; the old synagogue became a mosque; the old church is now a private apartment building. Waves of immigration and gentrification pass through these streets like buses. But I suppose this local school, in my mind, was a kind of symbol. And if we’ve found one thing to be true in Britain recently it’s that we, the British, can find ourselves behaving strangely when we allow material realities to turn into symbols.
I valued this little school especially, symbolically, as a mixed institution in which the children of the relatively rich and the poor, the children of Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Protestants, Catholics, atheists, Marxists, and the kind of people who are religious about Pilates, are all educated together in the same rooms, play together in the same playground, speak about their faiths—or lack of them—to each other, while I walk by and often look in, and thus receive a vital symbolic reassurance that the world of my own childhood has not yet completely disappeared. These days the Jewish school looks like Fort Knox. The Muslim school is not far behind it. Was our little local school also to become a place behind a fence, separated, private, paranoid, preoccupied with security, its face turned from the wider community?
Two days later the British voted for Brexit. I was in Northern Ireland, staying with my in-laws, two kindly, moderately conservative Northern Irish Protestants with whom I found myself, for the first time in our history, on the same side of a political issue. The shock I’d felt at the school gates I now felt in front of their enormous telly, as together we watched England fence itself off from the rest of Europe, with hardly a thought about what this meant for its Scottish and Irish cousins in the north and the west.
Much has been written since about the shockingly irresponsible behavior of both David Cameron and Boris Johnson, but I don’t think I would have been so entirely focused upon Boris and Dave if I had woken up in my own bed, in London. No, then my first thoughts would have been essentially hermeneutic. What does this vote mean? What was it really about? Immigration? Inequality? Historic xenophobia? Sovereignty? EU bureaucracy? Anti-neoliberal revolution? Class war?
But in Northern Ireland it was clear that one thing it certainly wasn’t about, not even slightly, was Northern Ireland, and this focused the mind on what an extraordinary act of solipsism has allowed this long-brutalized little country to become the collateral damage of an internal rift within the Conservative Party. And Scotland! It’s hard to credit. That two supposedly well-educated men, who have presumably read their British history, could with such utter recklessness throw into hazard a hard-won union of three hundred years’ standing—in order to satisfy their own professional ambitions—appeared that morning a larger crime, to me, than the severing of the decades-long European pact that actually prompted it all.
“Conservative” is not the right term for either of them anymore: that word has at least an implication of care and the preservation of legacy. “Arsonist” feels like the more accurate term. Michael Gove and Nigel Farage meanwhile are the true right-wing ideologues, with clear agendas toward which they have been working for many years. The first had his sights on the Trojan horse of “sovereignty,” from inside of which empty symbol an unfettered deregulated financial sector was supposed to leap. The second, who resigned on July 4, seemed to be in the grip of a genuine racial obsession, combined with a determination to fence off Britain from the European mainstream not only on the question of freedom of movement but on a range of issues from climate change to gun control to repatriation of immigrants.1
A referendum magnifies the worst aspects of an already imperfect system—democracy—channeling a dazzlingly wide variety of issues through a very narrow gate. It has the appearance of intensification—Ultimate democracy! Thumbs up or thumbs down!—but in practice delivers a dangerously misleading reduction. Even many who voted Leave ended up feeling that their vote did not accurately express their feelings. They had a wide variety of motives for their vote, and much of the Remain camp was similarly splintered.
Some of the reasoning was almost comically removed from the binary question posed. A friend whose mother still lives in the neighborhood describes a conversation over the garden fence, between her mother and a fellow North London leftist, who explained to my friend’s mother that she herself had voted Leave in order “to get rid of that bloody health secretary!” Ah, like so many people across this great nation I also long to be free of the almost perfectly named Jeremy Hunt, but a referendum turns out to be a very ineffective hammer for a thousand crooked nails.
The first instinct of many Remain voters on the left was that this was only about immigration. When the numbers came in and the class and age breakdown became known, a working-class populist revolution came more clearly into view, although of the kind that always perplexes middle-class liberals who tend to be both politically naive and sentimental about the working classes. Throughout the day I phoned home and e-mailed and tried to process, along with much of London—or at least the London I know—our enormous sense of shock. “What have they done?” we said to each other, sometimes meaning the leaders, who we felt must have known what they were doing, and sometimes meaning the people, who, we implied, didn’t.
Now I’m tempted to think it was the other way around. Doing something, anything, was in some inchoate way the aim: the notable feature of neoliberalism is that it feels like you can do nothing to change it, but this vote offered up the rare prize of causing a chaotic rupture in a system that more usually steamrolls all in its path. But even this most optimistic leftist interpretation—that this was a violent, more or less considered reaction to austerity and the neoliberal economic meltdown that preceded it—cannot deny the casual racism that seems to have been unleashed alongside it, both by the campaign and by the vote itself.
To the many anecdotal accounts I will add two reported by my Jamaican-born mother. A week before the vote a skinhead ran up to her in Willesden and shouted “Über Alles Deutschland!” in her face, like a memory of the late 1970s. The day after the vote, a lady shopping for linens and towels on the Kilburn High Road stood near my mother and the half-dozen other people originally from other places and announced to no one in particular: “Well, you’ll all have to go home now!”
What have you done, Boris? What have you done, Dave? Yet within this tale of our solipsistic leaders, thoughtlessly lighting a fuse, there is contained a less pleasing story of our own Londoncentric solipsism, which seems to me equally real, and has formed a different kind of veil, perhaps just as hard to see through as the blinding personal ambition of a man like Boris. The profound shock I felt at the result—and which so many other Londoners seem to have experienced—suggests at the very least that we must have been living behind a kind of veil, unable to see our own country for what it has become.
The night before I left for Northern Ireland, I had dinner with old friends, North London intellectuals, in fact exactly the kind of people the Labour MP Andy Burnham made symbolic reference to when he claimed that the Labour Party had lost ground to UKIP because it was “too much Hampstead and not enough Hull,” although of course, in reality, we were all long ago priced out of Hampstead by the bankers and the Russian oligarchs. We were considering Brexit. Probably every dinner table in North London was doing the same. But it turned out we couldn’t have been considering it very well because not one of us, not for a moment, believed it could possibly happen. It was so obviously wrong, and we were so obviously right—how could it?
After settling this question, we all moved on to bemoaning the strange tendency of the younger lefty generation to censor or silence speech or opinions they consider in some way wrong: no-platforming, safe spaces, and the rest of it. We were all right about that, too. But then, from the corner, on a sofa, the cleverest among us, who was at that moment feeding a new baby, waited till we’d all stopped bloviating and added: “Well, they got that habit from us. We always wanted to be seen to be right. To be on the right side of an issue. More so even than doing anything. Being right was always the most important thing.”
In the days following the result I thought about this insight a lot. I kept reading pieces by proud Londoners speaking proudly of their multicultural, outward-looking city, so different from these narrow xenophobic places up north. It sounded right, and I wanted it to be true, but the evidence of my own eyes offered a counternarrative. For the people who truly live a multicultural life in this city are those whose children are educated in mixed environments, or who live in genuinely mixed environments, in public housing or in a handful of historically mixed neighborhoods, and there are no longer as many of those as we like to believe.
For many people in London right now the supposedly multicultural and cross-class aspects of their lives are actually represented by their staff—nannies, cleaners—by the people who pour their coffees and drive their cabs, or else the handful of ubiquitous Nigerian princes you meet in the private schools. The painful truth is that fences are being raised everywhere in London. Around school districts, around neighborhoods, around lives. One useful consequence of Brexit is to finally and openly reveal a deep fracture in British society that has been thirty years in the making. The gaps between north and south, between the social classes, between Londoners and everyone else, between rich Londoners and poor Londoners, and between white and brown and black are real and need to be confronted by all of us, not only those who voted Leave.
Amid all the hysterical characterization of those Leavers in the immediate aftermath—not least my own—I paused and thought of a young woman I had noticed in the playground the year my daughter spent in that school in special measures. She was a mother, like the rest of us, but at least fifteen years younger. After walking behind her up the hill to my house a few times I figured out she lived in the same housing project in which I myself grew up. The reason I noticed her at all was because my daughter happened to be deeply enamored of her son. A playdate was the natural next step.
But I never took that next step and neither did she. I didn’t know how to penetrate what I felt was the fear and loathing she seemed to have for me, not because I was black—I saw her speaking happily with the other black mothers—but because I was middle class. She had seen me open the shiny black door to the house opposite her housing project, just as I had seen her enter the project’s stairwell each day. I remembered these fraught episodes from childhood, when things were the other way around. Could I ask the girl in the big fine house on the park into our cramped council flat? And later, when we moved up to a perfectly nice flat on the right side of Willesden, could I then visit my friend in a rough one on the wrong side of Kilburn?
The answer was, usually, yes. Not without tension, not without occasional mortifying moments of social comedy or glimpses of domestic situations bordering on tragedy—but still it was yes. Back then, we were all still willing to take the “risk,” if risk is the right word to describe entering into the lives of others, not merely in symbol but in reality. But in this new England it felt, to me at least, impossible. To her, too, I think. The gap between us has become too large.
The tall, narrow Victorian house I bought fifteen years ago, though it is exactly the same kind of house my middle-class friends owned when I was growing up, is now worth an obscene amount of money, and I worried that she might think I had actually paid that obscene amount of money to own it. The distance between her flat and my house—though it is, in reality, only two hundred yards—is, in symbol, further than it has ever been. Our prospective playdate lay somewhere over this chasm, and never happened, as I never dared ask for it.
Extreme inequality fractures communities, and after a while the cracks gape so wide the whole edifice comes tumbling down. In this process everybody has been losing for some time, but perhaps no one quite as much as the white working classes who really have nothing, not even the perceived moral elevation that comes with acknowledged trauma or recognized victimhood. The left is thoroughly ashamed of them. The right sees them only as a useful tool for its own personal ambitions. This inconvenient working-class revolution we are now witnessing has been accused of stupidity—I cursed it myself the day it happened—but the longer you look at it, you realize that in another sense it has the touch of genius, for it intuited the weaknesses of its enemies and effectively exploited them. The middle-class left so delights in being right! And so much of the disenfranchised working class has chosen to be flagrantly, shamelessly wrong.
We have a history of ridiculing the poor, in Britain, for “shafting themselves,” for “voting against their interests.” But no less has the neoliberal middle and upper-middle class shafted itself, living in its gilded London prisons. If you think that’s an exaggeration, go up to Notting Hill and watch the private security vehicles, paid for by private residents, slowly patrolling up and down the streets, in front of all those £20 million residences, nervous perhaps of the council house residents still clinging on, the other side of the Portobello Road. Or go up to the Savoy and have a gander at the vintage cocktail list on which the cheapest drink on offer goes for £100 (the most pricey is something called the Sazerac—which claims to be the most expensive cocktail in the world—coming in at £5,000). Strange times.
Of course that cocktail list is only another stupid symbol, but it is of its time and place. There has been a kind of money madness in London for some time and for the rest of us looking on it’s hard to find in such symbols any sign of a beautiful, harmonious, or even happy life (what kind of happy person needs to be seen ordering a £5,000 cocktail?), though at least when you are this rich you can comfortably fool yourself that you are happy, utilizing what the old North London Marxists used to call your “false consciousness.” That crusty standby won’t work anymore for describing the economically and socially disenfranchised of this nation: they are struggling, deeply unhappy, and they know it.
I do believe that, putting aside the true ideological believers on the right, and the high-minded leftists who object to the EU as a tool of global capitalism, the majority of those who voted Leave did so out of anger and hurt and disappointment, helped along by years of calculated political and press manipulation of certain low feelings and base instincts. As painful as it is to write it, when Google records large numbers of Britons Googling “What is the EU?” in the hours after the vote, it becomes very difficult to deny that a significant proportion of our people were shamefully negligent in their democratic duty on June 23.
However people vote, we have to listen to them, but ignorance at the ballot box shouldn’t be celebrated or disingenuously defended. And beyond ignorance, it is simply wrong to take a serious action without seriously considering its consequences for others, in this case, for entire sovereign nations to the north and west of you, never mind the rest of Europe. But I don’t find the people who voted Leave to be in any way exceptional in having low motives.
While we loudly and rightly condemn the misguided racial attitudes that led to millions asking “them” to leave “us,” to get out of our jobs and public housing and hospitals and schools and country, we might also take a look at the last thirty years and ask ourselves what kind of attitudes have allowed a different class of people to discreetly maneuver, behind the scenes, to ensure that “them” and “us” never actually meet anywhere but in symbol. Wealthy London, whether red or blue, has always been able to pick and choose the nature of its multicultural and cross-class relations, to lecture the rest of the country on its narrow-mindedness while simultaneously fencing off its own discreet advantages. We may walk past “them” very often in the street and get into their cabs and eat their food in their ethnic restaurants, but the truth is that more often than not they are not in our schools, or in our social circles, and they very rarely enter our houses—unless they’ve come to work on our endlessly remodeled kitchens.
Elsewhere in Britain people really do live cheek-by-jowl with the recently migrated, and experience the undercutting of their wages by newcomers. They really do have to fight for resources under an austerity government that makes it all too easy to blame your unavailable hospital bed on the migrant family next door, or on an oblique bureaucracy across the Channel, which the nitwit demagogues on the TV keep telling you is the reason there’s not enough money in the NHS. In this atmosphere of hypocrisy and outright deceit, should the working-class poor have shown themselves to be the “better man” when all around them is corruption and venality? When everyone’s building a fence, isn’t it a true fool who lives out in the open?
Right now the news cycle is moving so fast that it feels the wheels might come off, and there is much talk of a second referendum, which would of course reinforce the fundamental suspicions of many of the disenfranchised that it is only we, the well-to-do Remainers with the right views, whose decisions truly count. No: here is our bed, and it appears that we must lie in it. But to say we have all played our part is not to obscure those who have played the central role of conductor at this shameful last night at the proms. Cameron and Johnson have already fallen and/or been pushed onto their swords, and Gove has followed, but fatally ineffectual Jeremy Corbyn—despite dozens of knives in the back—refuses to budge. If it is indeed true that he was not just ineffective in the Remain campaign but engaged in “deliberate sabotage” of it—as has been claimed by Phil Wilson, an MP and the parliamentary chair of “Labour in for Britain”—then Corbyn has profoundly betrayed the youth vote that so recently swept him into power.2 He must go.
When we put a school in special measures in England some of the more optimistic middle-class mums—in which group I include myself—will murmur over morning coffee: “Well, special measures is a good thing really, because now they’ll have to do something about it.” Britain is now in special measures—the crisis that was always there has been revealed—and rather than pull another veil over the mess we might as well start trying to build from where we are. The first item on the agenda being replacing the “head”—as any failing school knows—and then preparing what’s left of the left for a fight. The rights and protections provided for the British people, however imperfectly, by Europe, must not now be replaced by this nonsensical Faragian vision of British sovereignty, in which a maimed Saint George, with two of his limbs lopped off, picks up his sword and hobbles off to battle the EU dragon to renegotiate, from a far weaker position, all the terms we spent these last decades putting in place.
As I began this essay Farage was spotted triumphant in a pair of Union Jack shoes, at a private garden party, with Rupert Murdoch and Alexander Lebedev, whose son owns the Evening Standard and The Independent, and Liam Fox—then running for Conservative leader—discussing public matters behind closed doors. By the time I was finishing it, Farage had resigned, saying “I want my life back.” In Britain Nigels come and go, but Ruperts are forever. My life and the lives of my fellow Britons are at all times at least partially governed by a permanent, unelected billionaire class, who own the newspapers and much of the TV, and through which absurd figures like Farage are easily puffed up, thus swinging elections and shaping policy. Another very useful lesson: the postwar British compact between government and people is not guaranteed, and it can be collectively unraveled, or trampled over by a few malign actors. Therefore the civilizing liberal arguments that established a universal health care system, state education, and public housing out of the ruins of war now need a party willing to make those arguments afresh in a new age of global capitalism, though whether that party will still even bear the name “Labour” remains to be seen.
The recently migrated have come to this country precisely because of this patrimony—for the housing, the education, and the health care—and some have come merely to exploit it, no doubt. But the great majority have come to participate: they enroll their kids in our state schools, they pay their British taxes, they try to make their way. It is certainly not a crime or a sin to seek a better life abroad, or to flee from countries riven by wars, many of which we ourselves had a hand in. Whether we still know, in Britain, what a better life is, what its necessary conditions are and how to achieve them, is what’s now in doubt.
A few days after the vote I came to France, to teach my NYU students in their Paris summer program, something that I suppose will not be so easy to do very soon. Straight off the train, I headed to dinner and sat down in a restaurant opposite one of my colleagues, the Bosnian-born writer Aleksandar Hemon, ordered a drink, and pronounced Brexit, melodramatically, “a total disaster.” Novelists are prone to melodrama. Hemon sighed, smiled sadly, and said: “No: just ‘a disaster.’ War is the total disaster.” Living through Yugoslavia’s bloody sovereignty implosion gives a man a sense of proportion. A European war on that scale is something Britain has avoided intimately experiencing for more than half a century now, and in defense against which the EU was in part formed. Whether we go any further down the road marked “disaster” is up to us.
Farage believes that the arctic sea ice cap is growing back and that reports of its disappearance are deliberate overstatement, forged in conspiracy by Green activists in cahoots, naturally, with “EU federalists.” He thinks that the strict gun laws put in place after the massacre at Dunblane should be repealed, and he feels that the “basic principle” of Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech—in which he said the proposed immigration and antidiscrimination legislation would lead to violence—was correct. ↩
Jonathan Freedland, “The Young Put Jeremy Corbyn In, But He Betrayed Them Over Brexit,” The Guardian, June 27, 2016. ↩

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KUCHING, Jan 1 — Nine people, believed to be from a family, were drowned in a tragic New Year’s incident after a four-wheel-drive vehicle they were in rolled off a ferry at Triso wharf in Beladin, Betong Divison, this afternoon.
A spokesman of the State Fire and Rescue Department said the bodies of the victims, including two children, have been brought by the police to the Beladin clinic for identification and confirmation of their death.
“We received an emergency call about 3.15pm on the incident,” the spokesman said in a statement.
A video taken by a witness was shared by the Bomba, showing the victims taken out by members of the public from the vehicle in an unconscious state.
The victims have been identified as Siti Aisha Abdullah, 36, Mohd Ahmad Bin Mohd Hamdan, four months old, Muhd Mustaqim Bin Mohd. Hamdan, five, Mohd Aiman Bin Mohd Hamdan, seven, female driver Ronany Ting, 33, Wallace Phang, seven, Alvin Phang, 12, Khairunnisa Binti Muhamad, 14, and Nor Shuhada Binti Mohamad, 16.
All the victims were identified at the Beladin Clinic at around 7pm by a medical officer.
A Bomba spokesman said the police are now investigating the cause of the incident.
He added that the vehicle was believed to travelling from Sibu to Kuching when the mishap occurred.
Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr James Masing, who is also the state Minister of Infrastructure and Port Development, said he, Assistant Minister of Infrastructure and Port Development Datuk Julaihi Narawi and Sarawak Rivers Board and state Public Works Department officers will be visiting Triso tomorrow morning to find out the causes of the tragic accident.
He said his ministry may reintroduce the standard operating procedure (SOP) of asking all the passengers to alight from the vehicles entering the ferry and only to board the vehicle after it has reached the land.
He said this SOP used to be enforced for passengers boarding the Baram ferry before.
On behalf of the state government, Masing extended his deepest condolences to the families of the victims.

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Fatal Crash on KY 1214/KY 3155 in Grayson County
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(Elizabethtown, KY) - Gary T. Logsdon, was driving a 1986 Chevrolet passenger car, and was traveling westbound on KY 1214. Robert P. Stiles was driving a 2005 Ford Pickup, and was traveling northbound on KY 3155. Mr. Logsdon failed to stop at stop sign. Mr. Stiles' vehicle struck Mr. Logsdon's vehicle in the driver's side and Mr. Logsdon's vehicle spun and came to final rest in a grass ditch. Mr. Stiles' vehilce came to final rest on KY 3155. Mr. Logsdon's passenger (David R. Thompson), was pronounced dead At Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center. Mr. Logsdon was transported to University Hospital by Lifenet. Mr. Stiles was admitted to Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center with serious injuries.


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To the extent that it is run by anyone, the Tea Party movement is--like all great social movements--largely run by women.
Many of the movement’s most important political figures, like former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Minnesota GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann, are women. Many of its important writers, bloggers, and commentators--like S.E. Cupp, Dana Loesch, Kathleen McKinley, and Michelle Moore--are women. And you are more likely than not going to see a woman like Jenny Beth Martin of the Tea Party Patriots, Amy Kremer of the Tea Party Express, or FreedomWorks’s Tabitha Hale out front leading rallies, organizing activists, and driving the point home that the American people are fed up with the government in Washington. [See who contributes to Bachmann.]
In point of fact, the number of women holding visible, important, leading roles in the Tea Party movement are too numerous to list here or anywhere. But they are all part of an important social movement, one that filmmakers David Bossie and Stephen K. Bannon examine closely in their sure-to-be-controversial documentary Fire From the Heartland: The Awakening of the Conservative Woman.
Drawing a line from the pioneer women who settled the frontier straight to the modern era, Bossie and Bannon respectfully--one hesitates to use any of the warm words like “lovingly” here--show how they and their contemporaries are changing America, by working to restore that which has been lost and preserve what is still best about America, particularly its grounding in the idea of liberty.
Alexis de Tocqueville, says columnist Ann Coulter in the film, “always noticed how strong America’s women are.” Mobilized, as they are in the Tea Party, they have become a potent force.
For students of history, this is not new. Women have typically been at the forefront of the social movements like the push toward prohibition that truly changed America. But they have not, as the film ably documents, always marched in lockstep with what would today be identified as “the progressives”--which may be why the dominant political and media class is so angry, so threatened by their achievements.
These women, they would surely tell you, don’t need the paternalistic help of a compassionate government in order to achieve their goals. They just need it to get out of their way. This may be why some people, especially the left-liberals whose politics are grounded in the idea of group rights, are so threatened by them and so glibly describe it as being extreme, out-of-step, even dangerous.
Extreme compared to whom? Out-of-step with what? Dangerous how? To the nation, or to the left-liberal political, economic, and cultural values that have dominated this country since the 1960s? If the Tea Party succeeds the liberals so well represented by President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will lose political power. Perhaps even for a generation or two. The stakes are that high.
Fire From the Heartland is an important film, deserving of a wide audience. Even if you do not agree with its conclusions it will make you think. And that is worth the price of a ticket any day.


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The standoff between Congress and the White House has apparently started to slowly subside, as members in both houses assuage themselves by drafting new legislation to broaden Congressional oversight on the agency's actions. Meanwhile, a key Democrat admits that the program's reality did not match the hyperbole spouted by its opponents after a White House briefing yesterday:
Responding to congressional pressure from both parties, the White House agreed yesterday to give lawmakers more information about its domestic surveillance program, although the briefings remain highly classified and limited in scope.
Despite the administration's overture, several prominent Republicans said they will pursue legislation enabling Congress to conduct more aggressive oversight of the National Security Agency's warrantless monitoring of Americans' phone calls and e-mails. Recent disclosure of the four-year-old program has alarmed civil libertarians and divided the GOP, with many Republicans defending the operation and others calling for more information and regulation.
Yesterday, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and former NSA director Michael V. Hayden briefed the House intelligence committee, behind closed doors, for nearly four hours. The panel "was given some additional procedural information to provide a fuller understanding of how carefully tailored and monitored this program is," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.
The Democrats, of course, initially wanted to hanh Bush from a yardarm over this program, but quickly ran into a problem: the White House had kept key Democratic leaders abreast of the program since its 2001 inception. They then wanted to get the public irate over what they kept calling "domestic spying," but eventually realized that the public thought it reasonable to check on international calls from suspected al-Qaeda terrorists during a war against them. Now they have settled for the most reasonable position yet -- that Congress should have some method of weighing the risk/benefit ratio of warrantless wiretaps, even in a time of war. It may still not meet the terms of the Constitution, but politically it's the most resonant message that Democrats can make.
The White House knows this, which is why they changed their position and decided to fully brief both Intelligence Committees in full, rather than just the leadership as they have done throughout the program. It has already paid dividends, although this hasn't received much attention from the media so far. The AP reported that the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Oversight Committee has publicly stated that the program doesn't represent the Big Brother nightmare that its critics have painted it:
At least one Democrat left saying he had a better understanding of legal and operational aspects of the anti-terrorist surveillance program. But he said he still had a number of questions.
"It's a different program than I was beginning to let myself believe," said Alabama Rep. Bud Cramer, the senior Democrat on the Intelligence Committee's oversight subcommittee.
Expect Congress to pass legislation, either through FISA or a new structure, that deals with the collection of intelligence in wartime. As long as impeachment talk stays off the table and Democrats continue exercising a more reasonable tone on the subject, then the White House may play along as long as possible without actually signing it. My prediction will be that in two months, people will have to dig through the archives to even recall why intelligence collection during wartime caused such a stink in the first place.Sphere It View blog reactions
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Barcelona have received a blow in their efforts to keep Lionel Messi at the club beyond this season.
Barcelona play their all-important Copa Del Rey semi-final second leg against Sevilla tonight. The Copa Del Rey is a title Barcelona have a realistic chance of winning, but they will need to stage an incredible Camp Nou comeback tonight to advance to the final after losing the first leg 2-0.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at the main stories involving Barcelona from March 3, 2021.
Joan Laporta urges fans to vote for him if they want Messi to stay
Barcelona’s presidential election will take place on March 7. Joan Laporta, Victor Font and Tony Freixa are the three candidates. Laporta, who was in office during Barcelona’s dominant period from 2003 to 2010, issued a sort of ultimatum to fans regarding Lionel Messi’s future.
He urged fans to vote for him as his assumption of the presidency is the only scenario in which Lionel Messi will choose to stay at Camp Nou. Joan Laporta said RAC1:
“I have a great relationship with Leo and he will consider any proposal I make. If I don’t win I’m sure Leo won’t stay at Barcelona.
“Messi will evaluate the offer we make to him. I am convinced that if the other candidates win, Messi will not stay at Barcelona. He was not happy during Freixa’s time on the board.”
Real Betis interested in Barcelona youngster Oscar Mingueza
Young Barcelona player Oscar Mingueza has entered the final months of his current contract. His agreement will expire on June 30. However, Barcelona have the option of unilaterally extending their contract by one year and as such an extension is likely to occur.
The youngster impressed in his debut season with the Barcelona senior team. He was effective both in the center rear and in the right rear. According to Sports world, Real Betis are interested in signing Mingueza and have already contacted Barcelona to probe the possibility of a deal.
Mingueza has also caught the attention of several English teams, according to the report. A decision on its future will be made once the new president is elected.
Lionel Messi looking for houses in Paris
It was one of the worst seasons in Barcelona history. There has been too much drama in and around the club. Amid all the political turmoil, they also face the possibility of their star man Lionel Messi leaving the club.
After informing the club of his desire to leave last summer, Messi had to stay put as no club could afford to sign him. However, he will become a free agent in the summer and Manchester city and Paris Saint Germain circled his signature.
According to reports in Spain via (Express), Lionel Messi started planning his life away from Barcelona. They say he is looking for houses in Paris. Paris Saint-Germain have a lot of familiar faces when it comes to Lionel Messi.
Manager Mauricio Pochettino is his compatriot as are Mauro Icardi, Angel Di Maria and Leandro Paredes. Paris Saint-Germain also have a strong project that Messi would like to be a part of.


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NEW BERN, CRAVEN COUNTY - Traffic into downtown New Bern is moving again after a train clipped a truck Monday morning.
According to Colleen Roberts, the public information officer with the City of New Bern, the collision happened Monday morning on the 200 block of Hancock Street.
Officials said people were moving furniture from a house into a Penske truck. But the vehicle was parked a little too far out and was clipped by a train. The collision caused the roll-up door frame of the truck to bend and damaged the handrail of the locomotive.
Traffic into downtown was blocked from the west, but is now moving again, Roberts said.
North Carolina railroad investigators will be handling this incident, said Roberts. The City of New Bern was providing some mutual aid to contain the scene and detour drivers.


The article being critically reviewed in this short paper is “The Ed Sullivan Show and the (Censored) Sounds of the Sixties” written by Ian Inglis in 2006 that was published in The Journal of Popular Culture. Preliminary understanding from the title suggests the article is…
Bob Dylan’s song ‘Talkin’ John Birch Society Blues’ was viewed as potentially controversial and unacceptable song to the John Birch Society therefore it was pulled out by CBS Television. Dylan’s motivations to appear on the show could be seen as political and playing this song was considered to mock the extreme right wing that was viewed as anti-Communist organization and its policies were compared to those of Hitler.
Mike Jagger’s insistence that he said “mmmmm” instead of “time” in his song that was subject to censorship in Ed Sullivan’s show suggests that performers surely felt subdued to the pressures of censorship but at the same time they wanted to maintain a status quo amongst their followers who appreciated and accepted their songs.
Despite of CBS’s attempt to censor some of the lyrics of The Door’s the band went on including them in their song assisted them in affirming the provoking nature of their music and their band. This helped the band build reputation of being a notorious band who later achieved greater success.
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By calling controversial groups to perform in the show, Sullivan considered controversies as a motivation to make his show successful. Rolling stones and other popular groups greatly marked their mixed impressions on public and therefore audiences wanted to know every update of such groups. This was an ultimate motivation or Ed Sullivan show for allowing ...
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Government has ordered 231 tons of medical equipment from China. Two Air Mauritius flights have been chartered to take delivery of a minimum of 40 tons of those supplies this Friday 10 April 2020, the first in a series of flights over the next ten days to help fight the coronavirus.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade, Mr Nandcoomar Bodha, made this announcement, today, at the daily press briefing of the National Communication Committee on the Covid-19, held at the New Treasury Building, in Port Louis.
o offer appropriate treatment to the Covid-19 patients and thus avoid further propagation of the disease. He lauded the courage of the healthcare workers who are at the forefront to provide the best health services possible in this battle to contain the epidemic.
The Minister highlighted that in the wake of this unprecedented situation, there is inflation in the price of medical equipment as countries are fighting to acquire adequate medical equipment. Hence, the Government, jointly with the Mauritius Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is taking the necessary measures to avoid any shortage of medical equipment. The medical supplies being flown down from China comprise amongst others, hand sanitizers, protective masks and thermometers, for the Health personnel, the Police Force, as well as for the population.
In addition, Minister Bodha pointed out, that Government is doing its utmost best, despite constraints created by the lockdown in several countries, to provide the necessary support to those Mauritians who are currently stranded abroad since the outbreak of the Covid-19. The authorities have so far been successful in expatriating Mauritians from China, France, Istanbul, and Dubai, he recalled.
As for the Director of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Wellness, Dr Vasantrao Gujadhur shared the latest figures with regards to the number of Covid-19 positive cases detected in Mauritius. These are 227 positive cases, that is, 142 men and 85 women and contact tracing, he emphasised, is ongoing, with a total number of 1 617 contact tracing effected to-date. As at now, 4 057 tests have been carried out and, presently, 1 689 people are in the 27 quarantine centres across the island, he added.
For his part, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Mr Krishna Jhugroo, noted that most citizens are respecting social distancing and are adhering to the conditions imposed. He attributed this positive change mainly to the various sensitisation campaigns being carried out.
In addition, the DCP indicated that 87 people as well as five bakery owners were fined yesterday for several offences. He also pointed out that so far, 17 policemen have been tested positive for Covid-19, while some others are under quarantine. The Police Force, he reassured, will, as from tomorrow, receive additional equipment such as masks and hand sanitizers.

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The visit comes days after Army Chief General MM Narawane after taking over from Gen Bipin Rawat said India is hopeful of a permanent settlement on border disputes with China.
Updated : January 8, 2020, 7:44 pm
Major airlines canceled Iran and Iraq flights on Wednesday and re-routed others away from both countries' airspace, following an Iranian missile strike on United States-led forces in Iraq.
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China will be a defining factor in the decade ahead and India must reorient itself to confront the geopolitical challenges of a new world order.
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In Gen. Rawat, the armed forces now have a serving officer heading a government department with the power to swiftly move proposals.
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While technology will play an increasingly dominant role in conflicts, strategists need to factor in the human, social and political dimensions as well.
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Army chief Gen. MM Naravane was asked in a recent interview about the feasibility of military operations in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in the context of comments made by top government officials about reclaiming the territory. Here's what he said.
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Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Bipin Rawat spoke about his vision for tri-service synergy today. Here's what he said.
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Gen. Manoj Mukund Naravane is India's 28th Army chief. He took charge on December 31, 2019. Here's what he told reporters in New Delhi this morning.
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The world celebrated the New Year with fireworks displays from Sydney to London, although celebrations were clouded by deadly wildfires in Australia, protests in Hong Kong and India and new nuclear tensions with North Korea.
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The strike by India's warplanes on a Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist training camp in Pakistan on February 26 to avenge the killing of 40 paramilitary personnel in Kashmir and the Pakistani Air Force's subsequent retaliation the next day triggering fears of a war between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
Updated : December 31, 2019, 5:49 pm
Before taking over as Chief of Army Staff, General Mukund Naravane was appointed as Vice-Chief of Army Staff on September 1. He is a recipient of the 'Vishisht Seva Medal' for his services as the Inspector General Assam Rifles (North) in Nagaland.
Updated : December 31, 2019, 1:57 pm
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recently established the post of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).
Updated : December 31, 2019, 9:31 am
Tsai said she would preserve Taiwan's freedoms and way of life, but would make no changes to the constitution or the island's official name, the Republic of China, which moved its seat of government to Taipei, the island's capital, following the Communist Party's seizure of power on mainland China in 1949.
Updated : December 29, 2019, 6:47 pm
India and China agreed that it is important to maintain peace and tranquillity in the border areas.
Updated : December 21, 2019, 8:26 pm
A joint military exercise between Indian and Chinese troops concluded on Friday at the Umroi Military Station in Meghalaya.
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Mass. DPH virus update: No new deaths in Berkshire County, three new COVID-19 cases; 110 dead in state
There were no new Berkshire deaths from the coronavirus, and three new COVID-19 cases in the county, according to data released by the state Friday.
Statewide, 110 new deaths were reported by the state Department of Public Health, for a total of 5,592 since the pandemic began. The county death toll remains at 37.
The number of COVID-19 cases in the Berkshires is now at 491, up three from Thursday.
In all, 1,239 new cases were reported in Massachusetts, bringing the statewide total to 83,421.
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All good! Tim McGraw, 50, is seen for first time since COLLAPSING on Dublin stage from 'dehydration' as he flashes a thumb's up with wife Faith Hill by his side
Tim McGraw has been seen for the first time since collapsing onstage Sunday night during a performance in Dublin, Ireland.
The 50-year-old country music icon flashed a thumb's up and appeared to be in good health as he left a building in London on Monday morning.
By his side was wife of 22 years, Faith Hill, who was seen smiling.
A-OK: Tim McGraw has been seen for the first time since collapsing onstage Sunday night during a performance in Dublin, Ireland
Happy to be all right: The country music icon flashed a thumb's up and appeared to be in good health as he left a building in London on Monday morning
Top support system: By his side was wife of 22 years, Faith Hill, who was seen smiling
The hitmaker wore a blue shiny jacket and torn jeans with black sneakers.
He looked to be in fine health as he wore stubble on his face and covered his head with a grey knit beanie.
In front of him was wife Hill who was put together with a black raincoat over a black turtleneck and faded blue jeans. She too had on a hat - hers a baseball cap - as she wore her blonde locks in a ponytail.
His look: The hitmaker wore a blue shiny jacket and torn jeans with black sneakers. He looked to be in fine health as he wore stubble on his face and covered his head with a grey beanie
Her look: In front of him was wife Hill who was put together with a black raincoat over a black turtleneck and jeans. She too had on a hat as she wore her blonde locks in a ponytail
Hill addressed the crowd to inform them about her husband's condition.
'He's been super dehydrated. I apologize, but I made the decision that he cannot come back out onstage,' she said as she told the crowd he would not be performing for the rest of the show.
Tanned and trim: McGraw has been slender for several years now after getting into intense workout sessions
McGraw was performing in Dublin after appearing at the Country to Country festival in the UK.
'Tim McGraw was suffering from dehydration in Dublin this evening at the C2C show.
'He was attended to by local medical staff on-site and will be fine. He and Faith thank everyone for their love and support and look forward to seeing their Irish fans again soon,' a rep said in a statement to fans.
Tim McGraw collapsed onstage Sunday night during a performance in Dublin according to his wife Faith Hill. McGraw reportedly suffered from dehydration while singing his Humble & Kind
Tim McGraw's wife, Faith Hill, addressed the crowd to inform them that her husband would not be coming back on stage
According to Rolling Stone McGraw had performed Friday night in London as part of C2C, a three-day, three-city country-music festival.
The country music superstars were the headliners on the opening night of Country To Country music festival at London's O2 arena.
McGraw kissed Hill's hand as they walked out on stage for the first performance of their Soul2Soul tour outside the US and later introduced her to the crowd as 'my wife, Mrs McGraw'.
McGraw's performance was a part of a three-day, three-city country-music festival
His next scheduled concert is May 31 in Richmond, Virginia, as part of the Soul2Soul Tour with Hill.
Recently, McGraw made headlines as being one of the few mainstream country artists to speak up in support of gun control.
On March 3, he tweeted praise for the decision by sporting-goods chain Dick's to raise the minimum age for a firearm purchase to 21.
Five days later Tim looked slender as he was seen with Hill leaving the BBC Radio Two Studios in London.
Covered up: On March 8, Tim was wearing designer duds as Hill lead him out of the BBC Radio Two Studios in London
Too much stress? They looked a bit confused as they looked for their car
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Houston – CenterPoint Energy announced that its second team of 70 employees has returned to Houston following three weeks of work to help the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) restore power following the devastation of Hurricane Maria. In all, CenterPoint Energy sent two teams of 140 skilled linemen and employees to work alongside the more than 1,500 crews from other U.S. utilities over the past six weeks.
“CenterPoint Energy is proud to have been part of the mutual assistance crews restoring power to the residents of Puerto Rico,” said Ed Scott, director of operations for CenterPoint Energy. “Since our arrival in mid-January, we were able to restore power to more than 5,100 residents in the Arecibo region.”
Extensive portions of Puerto Rico’s electric grid are located in rugged, mountainous terrain that has little or no road access due to Hurricane Maria’s impact. Some customers were not able to receive power to their homes or businesses because of their location and damage from the storm.
“Because of the logistical and geographical challenges, this mission was unique. Crews often worked all day to restore service to only a handful of residents. But our highly skilled and dedicated employees replaced a total of 276 poles and 2,674 spans of wire,” said Scott. “We will never forget the great memories and experiences of our time in Puerto Rico. We would like to express our deep appreciation to the residents of this beautiful island for their heartfelt warmth and hospitality.”
Scott added, “Now it’s important for us to prepare for the upcoming spring storm and hurricane season.”
In late October, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and the American Public Power Association (APPA) received a request from PREPA to support power restoration efforts on the island. In early November, PREPA expanded its aid request to include the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA).
As a result, a team of electric company storm response experts has been on the ground coordinating closely with local officials, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The team has been focused on assessing damages and formalizing a structure for supporting logistics, equipment needs and supply chain issues, as well as ensuring ongoing restoration efforts are completed safely, effectively and efficiently.
CenterPoint Energy is part of electric utility mutual assistance programs that provide access to thousands of linemen and tree trimmers from around the country to lend a hand during widespread power outage emergencies. Coming to the aid of other utilities is nothing new to CenterPoint Energy employees. Over the years, crews have responded and restored power to hundreds of thousands of customers throughout the country who have been left in the dark following hurricanes, ice storms, tornadoes and severe thunderstorms.


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Former Newcastle United hero Peter Beardsley has given a team talk to youngsters to help them achieve their goal.
He visited Lord Lawson of Beamish School, in Birtley, Gateshead, to meet Year 11 pupils about to start study leave for their GCSE exams.
The former England star told the pupils about his career and some of his greatest goals before he presented them with their records of achievement.
Deputy headteacher Hedley Hayward said: "He likened exam stress to having pre-match nerves.
"He said the build-up to exams was like waiting for a crucial game, and said that nerves should never get the better of them."
Mr Hayward added: "He concluded by talking to the youngsters about the importance of perseverance and completing a task. He said even if students did not think they could complete a task they should still stick at it."


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CBRE Group, Inc. has been selected by David’s Bridal, Inc. to provide transaction management and brokerage services for the retailer’s U.S. retail portfolio.
CBRE will identify, evaluate and secure retail premises, facilitate lease renewals and provide market analytics for David’s Bridal across the U.S. Steven Gartner, an executive vice president in CBRE’s Philadelphia office, will lead the delivery of services for David’s Bridal.
David’s Bridal is the only national bridal retailer, and has more than 300 stores across the U.S.
“Our clients count on our understanding of complex commercial real estate options and ability to provide customized, creative solutions that address specific challenges and help create exceptional business outcomes,” said Brandon Famous, head of retailer representation for the Americas, CBRE.
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text: Timothy Ross Armstrong (born November 25, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known as the singer/guitarist for the punk rock band Rancid and hip hop/punk rock supergroup Transplants. Prior to forming Rancid, Armstrong was in the influential ska punk band Operation Ivy. In 1997, along with Brett Gurewitz of the band Bad Religion and owner of Epitaph Records, Armstrong founded Hellcat Records. In 2012, through his website, Armstrong started releasing music that influenced him, along with stripped-down cover songs of his own work under the name Tim Timebomb. He has released at least one song per week since late 2012. Armstrong is also a songwriter for other artists. Armstrong won a Grammy Award for his work with Jimmy Cliff and Pink, and has also worked with Joe Walsh.


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Congress Says ‘Yes’ to Fast Track FDA Approvals
Posted in News on 12.9.2016
Last week Congress passed legislation addressing questions of healthcare regulation and public health funding. The 21st Century Cures Bill was able to gain easy approval in both the House and Senate because it contains provisions that appeal to both sides of the aisle and to various industry and public interest groups.
One of the most salient features of the bill is its loosening up of current FDA standards for approving drugs and medical devices, naturally drawing ire from critics who are concerned that relying on less rigorous standards of evaluation (using types of studies other than the gold standard of clinical trials and using fewer studies to make a determination) will result in ineffective or unsafe products on the market. Advocates of the bill, including representatives from industry, say the new standards will streamline what is currently a bureaucracy-laden approval process and bring beneficial or potentially life-saving treatments to patients more quickly.
Despite lack of consensus around parts of the bill pertaining to FDA deregulation, other features written into the bill, including increased funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and $1 billion earmarked for prevention and treatment of opioid addiction, helped it to gain widespread support. Read the full article here to see what Alosa Health founder Dr. Jerry Avorn has to say.
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Main Subject Drums Jazz & Pop 2
Number of course weeks
One 50-minute lesson per week
Total contact hours
Form / content / level
Admitted to the ArtEZ Jazz & Pop Drums main subject year 2.
Further developing the technical aspects of the students' musicianship in the broadest sense of the word, as well as stimulating their musical awareness and personal taste in music. Students will be able to play the pieces described under Content or similar material (self-chosen pieces, other genres) with a band and to improvise over the pieces, demonstrating their ability to incorporate more complex structures with respect to harmony, melody, rhythm and musical form. For more detailed descriptions and examples, see Content.
Relation to other modules
The contents of the main subject lessons correspond to the contents of the chosen band and theory lessons such as analysis.
Playing 'time' with sticks.
Coordinating various cymbal and hi-hat patterns.
Linear techniques for accompaniment.
Further development of basic patterns.
Rudiments as applied to brush playing.
Études; self-designed or self-chosen materials.
Advanced snare drum techniques, also applied to various shuffles.
Application to the drum set.
Building snare drum repertoire.
Coordination of hands and feet, both independent and simultaneous.
Further development of time feel, from the perspective of the combination between bass and snare drum.
Developing crash cymbal en ghost-note technique.
Introduction to odd time signatures as subdivisions.
Further development of directional movement on the drum set.
Sight-reading rock/fusion drum charts and drum études.
Further development of drum solo concepts and style emulation.
Developing tempo control, laid-back and forward grooves.
Playing to a click track.
Playing fifteen technically distinct rock/fusion drum charts (with tape).
Analysis by the student of a drummer of their choice.
Mode(s) of instruction
Individual lessons and four 3-hour group lessons with third year students.
Material & Tools
Real Books, recordings of the pieces to be played.
Charley Wilcoxon: Modern Rudimental Swing Solos for the Advanced Drummer
William Schinstine: Adventures in Solo Drumming
Sanford A. Moeller: The Art of Snare Drumming
Ted Reed: Syncopation for the Modern Drummer
George Lawrence Stone: Stick Control: for the Snare Drummer
Gary Chaffee: Patterns series
Organizing a performance (band, repertoire, rehearsals) as part of the annual Jazz & Pop ensemble week; independently organizing a performance (five pieces) as part of the transition exam audition. Students are required to present their drummer analysis to the other second year drummers in December. A public final presentation will take place in April.
Examination and assessment
Mode(s) of assessment
Assessment by the main subject instructor at the end of each semester, which includes an assessment of the band playing at the annual Jazz & Pop student concert.
The student should have mastered the elements described under Aims. Specific criteria are: creativity, expression, improvisation, technique, sound, intonation, timing, reading skills, repertoire knowledge, progress, self-reflection, session participation, attitude and lesson preparation.
The student has completed this module if he is awarded a minimum grade of 5.5 at the end of the second semester.
At the end of both semesters the instructor fills out an assessment form designed specifically for this module. Assessment is comprised of a verbal evaluation and a concluding grade. The instructor reviews this assessment with the student during the first subsequent lesson. Assessment at the end of the autumn semester is formative and expressed in terms of satisfactory/unsatisfactory. It indicates a student's progress in this module. No ECs are awarded and there is no resit. Modules can only be absolved, and ECs awarded, after the end of the spring semester.
This module is intended to prepare students through weekly lessons, plus four group lessons, for the audition exam at the end of the second year, with particular attention for the development of the student's personal sound, interpretation and musical taste. In addition, students work on their understanding and use of increasingly complex musical structures.

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COLLINSVILLE – The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) has approved Ameren Illinois electric vehicle charging plan.
The tariff is designed to support the introduction of electric vehicles and the installation of charging stations in central and southern Illinois, and accelerate progress on the state’s green energy goals.
The tariff, submitted in August 2020, enables Ameren Illinois to help build a charging infrastructure network and implement special time-based delivery service tariffs and other incentives to encourage greater adoption of electric vehicles.
Richard Mark, chairman and president of Ameren Illinois, said there are fewer than 60 public charging points in Ameren Illinois’ 44,000 square mile service area.
“A common barrier that people identify when considering electric vehicle ownership is fear of range, worry that a charging station will not be available during long road trips,” he said. “This tariff will help address this problem by offering tariff incentives and additional line extension allowances that improve access to charging infrastructure at home and on the go.
“The plan also provides additional additional charges for extending lines for charging station installations serving customers in low-income areas to support electric transportation for those customers,” he said.
The Ameren Illinois EV charging program consists of six components:
• Charging for single family homes. Includes a special delivery service tariff to encourage home recharging during off-peak hours.
• Multi-family store. Designed to encourage electric vehicle ownership among residents of apartment buildings while also giving those residents the ability to charge at home. Also offers a special delivery service tariff and additional line extension fee for property owners installing charging facilities in their properties, with additional permissions for installations in low income areas.
• Educational Fees. Offers special delivery service tariffs and incentives for electric school bus operators. Will support clean transportation for school children in the Ameren Illinois area.
• Fees for transit facilities. Offers special delivery service tariffs and incentives for customers who operate public electric buses. Will support Ameren Illinois low to middle income customer base by giving those who do not own a vehicle the opportunity to participate in the electrification of the transportation sector.
• Corridor charging. Incentive for property owners and third parties to install publicly accessible fast charging stations in specified areas along traffic corridors.
• Fast DC charging without a corridor. Assess incentives to encourage the installation of public fast charging systems across the area
Customers can register for the new tariff options from autumn. For more information on electric vehicles, visit AmerenIllinois.com/EV.

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A new analysis looking at risk factors for cardiovascular disease related deaths has found that vitamin K2 deficiency is equivalent to smoking and high blood pressure.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of premature death yet risk factors remain poorly understood. The role of dietary cholesterol, various medications and the optimal diet for risk-reduction remain hotly debated. A relatively new factor that might help explain risk is vitamin K deficiency.
Vitamin K, once thought to simply play a role in blood clotting, is now known to play a much wider role in your health . One particularly important area is heart health, with several studies linking higher vitamin K intakes to lower calcification or stiffening of arteries and blood vessels and reduced risk for cardiovascular disease and related deaths .
To examine the contribution of low vitamin K to heart disease risk a research group looked at data from 169-countries, looking for associations between early death from cardiovascular disease and estimated vitamin K intakes as well as other risk factors including insufficient physical activity, tobacco, and gender .
“Vitamin K2 was inversely correlated with early cardiovascular death to the same degree that tobacco use was positively correlated,” they found. Attributable risk for low vitamin K2 (6.95%) was similar to tobacco (6.87%), and close to high blood pressure (9.01%), air pollution (9.15%), poverty (7.66%), and male gender (6.13%). This finding adds to evidence that vitamin K2 plays an important role in preventing death from cardiovascular disease.
The recommended intake for vitamin K has been proposed to be 90 µg per day for women and 120 µg per day for men, but this is based on average dietary intakes and may be inadequate . An optimal level is not yet known. Vitamin K1 is found in green vegetables and oils such as olive oil, while K2 is found in fermented foods with small amounts in animal foods.
“Because of these findings, health regulatory agencies of countries should more inclusively measure vitamin K2 levels in foods and should designate levels for adequate intakes for vitamin K2,” commented the study investigators. ‘”In wealthy countries, given the health concerns with excessive meat, dairy, and eggs (e.g. obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cancer), vitamin K2 should be optimally boosted from fermented plants containing long chain menaquinones rather than from animal products. Likewise, for people in poor countries, increasing the intake of fermented foods such as sauerkraut, miso, and natto would be the most cost-effective and healthful way to boost vitamin K2 to adequate levels.”
- Booth SL. Roles for vitamin K beyond coagulation. Annu Rev Nutr. 2009;29:89-110.
- DiNicolantonio JJ, Bhutani J, O'Keefe JH. The health benefits of vitamin K. Open Heart. 2015 Oct 6;2(1):e000300.
- Cundiff DK, Agutter PS. Cardiovascular Disease Death Before Age 65 in 168 Countries Correlated Statistically with Biometrics, Socioeconomic Status, Tobacco, Gender, Exercise, Macronutrients, and Vitamin K. Cureus. 2016 Aug 24;8(8):e748.
- Shearer MJ, Fu X, Booth SL. Vitamin K nutrition, metabolism, and requirements: current concepts and future research. Adv Nutr. 2012 Mar 1;3(2):182-95.


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While championship titles go a long way to revealing the best fighters at any given moment, the argument of the outright pound-for-pound best in the world is one that will always rage on. Who is truly the best of the best regardless of weight division or promotion?
The 2010s saw the continued rise of MMA into arguably its greatest period of success, both from a business and talent perspective. Not only did UFC sell for an eye-watering $4 billion, but promotions like Bellator and One Championship have risen to new heights as they push upwards as a genuine alternative.
With promotions making big business all over the world, the talent pool has never been stronger, nor had more depth, leading to a heightened era of mixed martial artist and what the great fighters of their time can truly achieve.
While those towards the pointy end of the list were obvious choices, there were certainly some very tough omissions who were unlucky to miss the cut. Big names like Conor McGregor, legends like Georges St-Pierre who - while still having a handy record during the time period at question - really made their biggest mark in the previous decade. There were also those UFC fans might not know as well like Bellator's Douglas Lima and three-time One Flyweight Champion Adriano Moraes.
This is based off a fighter's record solely within the ten year period, for any promotion, although it is still understandably UFC-heavy.
10. Stipe Miocic
Decade Record: 19-3
The towering Ohioan somehow flew under the radar in the early part of the decade, kicking off his mixed martial arts career in his native Cleveland before signing with the UFC.
Despite amassing five wins and just one loss across his first two-and-a-half years over established names like Joey Beltran, Roy Nelson and Gabriel Gonzaga, it wasn't really until his post-2014 run that people started to sit up and take notice of the incredible talent at hand.
Miocic went on an absolute tear, winning six fights in a row, something nearly unheard of in the heavyweight division, including a string of five consecutive KO and TKO finishes over a who's who of the division at the time.
In order, he ploughed through knockout artist Mark Hunt, former champion Andrei Arlovski, Fabricio Werdum to win the title, Dutch powerhouse Alistair Overeem, another former champion Junior Dos Santos and heavy-hitter Francis Ngannou. Those last three all being a new record of three title defences in a single reign.
Although he finally lost the belt to Daniel Cormier, he bounced right back to regain the championship a year later. He was criminally overlooked early in his career, but Stipe Miocic has re-written the record books and changed what it is to be a great heavyweight.

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You want that perfectly white smile. Concerns like discoloration, staining, misaligned or overcrowded teeth can make you conscious about the way you interact with others. There are several ways to fix these issues, and dental veneers are one of them. When you visit a family dental care in Oak Lawn, IL, the dentist will explain all the relevant options. If you are getting veneers, here are some things to know.
The basics of dental veneers
Veneers look like thin shells that are made of porcelain. Porcelain is the preferred material for a lot of dental products, primarily because it resembles natural tooth enamel and is not prone to staining. Dental veneers are customized for each patient and made in a professional dental laboratory. Your dentist will fix the shells to the frontal surface of the teeth to create a beautiful smile.
When should you consider porcelain veneers?
You should consider porcelain veneers when you want a uniform and whiter smile, and for many patients, cosmetic enhancement is often the only reason to get the treatment. Dentists may also recommend porcelain veneers if you have misshaped and extremely discolored teeth. If you have teeth that are too large or small in size or when there are uneven spaces, you may benefit from the treatment.
Are porcelain veneers permanent?
The short answer is no. Like most dental appliances made of porcelain, veneers also need replacement at some point. However, the process of fixing the shells to the teeth is permanent.
What is the procedure all about?
After the initial consultation, your dentist will explain why you may benefit from porcelain veneers. They will also consider all relevant concerns, such as existing restorations and symptoms like sensitivity. During the first appointment, your dentist may use little to no anesthesia as they prep the teeth. The process requires removing a part of the tooth enamel, which is the permanent step. Next, the dentist will take impressions of your teeth and create molds, which will be sent to the lab to make veneers. They will also discuss color and other details. Ensure you have a realistic idea of what your veneers will look like. In the final appointment, the teeth will be cleaned with special liquids, and the porcelain veneers will be fixed in place using bonding cement and a special light.
Getting porcelain veneers doesn’t have to be painful, and your dentist will take steps to address any additional concerns you may have.


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Daisy's travels this month include the DC Metro Cooking Show in Washington this weekend, Nov. 7-9, where Kim will be signing her new cookbook, Share A Slice of Love. Go by and see her, she will be demonstrating her delicious Sweet Potato Pie too.
Then, November 14-16, it is on to Cleveland , Ohio for the Fabulous Food Show for another book signing and cake tasting! Stop by if you are in the area and say Hello!
Don't forget to order your cakes early for the holidays! last day to ship for Thanksgiving is November 19 and for Christmas, December 17.

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