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Biden announces Indo-Pacific alliance with UK, Australia

Published: Sep. 15, 2021 at 10:19 AM AKDT|Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 at 4:30 PM AKDT
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that the United States is forming a new Indo-Pacific security alliance with Britain and Australia that will allow for greater sharing of defense capabilities — including helping equip Australia with nuclear-powered submarines. It’s a move that could deepen a growing chasm in U.S.-China relations.

Biden made the announcement alongside British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who joined him by video to unveil the new alliance, which will be called AUKUS (pronounced AWK-us). The three announced they would quickly turn their attention to developing nuclear-powered submarines for Australia.

“We all recognize the imperative of ensuring peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific over the long term,” said Biden, who said the new alliance reflects a broader trend of key European partners playing a role in the Indo-Pacific. “We need to be able to address both the current strategic environment in the region and how it may evolve.”

None of the leaders mentioned China in their remarks. But the new security alliance is likely to be seen as a provocative move by Beijing, which has repeatedly lashed out at Biden as he’s sought to refocus U.S. foreign policy on the Pacific in the early going of his presidency.

Before the announcement, a senior administration official sought to play down the idea that the alliance was meant to serve as a deterrent against China in the region. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the announcement, said the alliance’s creation was not aimed at any one country, and is about a larger effort to sustain engagement and deterrence in the Indo-Pacific by the three nations.

Johnson said the alliance would allow the three English-speaking maritime democracies to strengthen their bonds and sharpen their focus on an increasingly complicated part of the world.

“We will have a new opportunity to reinforce Britain’s place at the leading edge of science and technology, strengthening our national expertise, and perhaps most significant, the U.K., Australia and the U.S. will be joined even more closely together, " Johnson said.

The three countries have agreed to share information in areas including artificial intelligence, cyber and underwater defense capabilities.

But plans to support Australia acquiring nuclear-powered submarines are certain to catch Beijing’s attention. To date, the only country that the United States has shared nuclear propulsion technology with is Britain. Morrison said Australia is not seeking to develop a nuclear weapons program and information sharing would be limited to helping it develop a submarine fleet.

The Australian prime minister said plans for the nuclear-powered submarines would be developed over the next 18 months and the vessels would be built in Adelaide, Australia.

Australia had announced in 2016 that French company DCNS had beat out bidders from Japan and Germany to build the next generation of submarines in Australia’s largest-ever defense contract.

Top French officials made clear they were unhappy with the deal, which undercuts the DCNS deal.

“The American choice to exclude a European ally and partner such as France from a structuring partnership with Australia, at a time when we are facing unprecedented challenges in the Indo-Pacific region, whether in terms of our values or in terms of respect for multilateralism based on the rule of law, shows a lack of coherence that France can only note and regret,” French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and defense minister Florence Parly said in a joint statement.

Morrison said the three countries had “always seen through a similar lens,” but, as the world becomes more complex, “to meet these new challenges, to help deliver the security and stability our region needs, we must now take our partnership to a new level.”

Matt Pottinger, who served as deputy national security adviser in the Trump administration, said that equipping Australia with nuclear-powered submarines was a significant step that would help the U.S. and its allies on the military and diplomatic fronts.

Underwater warfare capabilities have been Beijing’s “Achilles’ heel,” Pottinger said. A nuclear-powered submarine fleet would allow Australia to conduct longer patrols, giving the new alliance a stronger presence in the region.

“When you have a strong military, it provides a backdrop of deterrence that gives countries the confidence to resist bullying,” said Pottinger, who is now a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. “Part of the problem right now is that Beijing has gotten rather arrogant and it’s been less willing to engage productively in diplomacy.”

The announcement of the new security alliance comes as the U.S.-China relationship has deteriorated. Beijing has taken exception to Biden administration officials repeatedly calling out China over human rights abuses in Xianjing province, the crackdown on democracy activists in Hong Kong, and cybersecurity breaches originating from China, as well as Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and what the White House has labeled as “coercive and unfair” trade practices.

Even as White House officials have repeatedly spoken out about China, administration officials say they want to work with Beijing on areas of common interest, including curbing the pandemic and climate change.

Biden spoke by phone with China’s President Xi Jinping last week amid growing frustration on the American side that high-level engagement between the two leaders’ top advisers has been largely unfruitful.

After the 90-minute phone call, official Xinhua News Agency reported that Xi expressed concerns that U.S. government policy toward China has caused “serious difficulties” in relations.

Asked Tuesday about media reports that Xi had declined to commit to meet with him in person, the U.S. president said it was “untrue.” Biden did not speak in “specific terms” about the new AUKUS alliance during last week’s call with the Chinese leader, according to the senior administration official.

The U.S. and Australia, along with India and Japan, are members of a strategic dialogue known as “the Quad.” Biden is set to host fellow Quad leaders at the White House next week.

Biden has sought to rally allies to speak with a more unified voice on China and has tried to send the message that he would take a radically different approach to China than former President Donald Trump, who placed trade and economic issues above all else in the U.S.-China relationship.

In June, at Biden’s urging, Group of Seven nations called on China to respect human rights in Hong Kong and Xinjiang province and to permit a full probe into the origins of COVID-19. While the allies broadly agreed to work toward competing against China, there was less unity on how adversarial a public position the group should take.

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Ex-House speaker settles child sexual abuse payments suit

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FILE - This March 5, 2008 file photo shows former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert on the Illinois House of Representatives floor at the state capitol in Springfield, Ill.(Source: AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
Published: Sep. 15, 2021 at 1:04 PM AKDT|Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 at 3:28 PM AKDT
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YORKVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and a man who accused him of child sexual abuse reached a tentative out-of-court settlement Wednesday over Hastert’s refusal to pay the man $1.8 million — the outstanding balance in hush money that the Illinois Republican agreed to pay the man in 2010.

Lawyers would not release details of the settlement, arrived at just days before a civil trial in the case that was set to start. It would have focused on a novel legal issue about whether Hastert’s verbal agreement to pay $3.5 million to buy the silence of a man he abused as a teenager amounted to a legally binding contract.

The man has been referred to only as James Doe in court papers since the breach of contract lawsuit was filed in 2016 in Illinois court in Yorkville, Hastert’s hometown just west of Chicago.

The hush-money deal would eventually lead to a federal criminal case against Hastert five years later and to public disgrace for the a GOP stalwart who, for eight years as House speaker, was second in the line of succession to the presidency. In the federal case, prosecutors said Hastert sexually abused at least four male students between the ages of 14 and 17 throughout his years at Yorkville High School. Hastert was in his 20s and 30s.

Federal prosecutors said during criminal proceedings that the hush-money deal was voluntarily entered into and that the victim never sought to blackmail Hastert that he’d go public about the abuse. The abuse happened when the victim was a high school wrestler and the now 79-year-old Hastert was his coach.

Hastert paid $1.7 million over four years but stopped the payments after the FBI questioned him in 2014 about illegally concealing huge cash withdraws from his bank. After Hastert pleaded guilty to a banking charge and was sentenced to over a year in prion in 2016. He couldn’t be charged with sexual abuse because the statute of limitations had long since run out.

After Hastert’s sentencing, the victim sued for breach of contract to force Hastert to pay the outstanding $1.8 million.

A Kendall County judge, Robert Pilmer, announced that the trial was off on Wednesday afternoon during a hearing scheduled earlier to discuss logistics of jury selection — which was supposed to begin Monday.

After the hearing, attorneys for both the plaintiff and Hastert declined to provide any settlement details, including whether Hastert agreed to pay the man and, if so, how much.

Asked if the resolution of the civil case was a coda on a long, arduous journey for her client, plaintiff attorney Kristi Browne told reporters outside court: “It’s never over for a victim of childhood sexual abuse. ...It impacts them for the rest of their lives.”

The sides planned to hammer out a written agreement over the next several days and notify the judge by Sept. 24 that it is completed, Browne said.

“Frankly, I was looking forward to the trial,” Browne said. “I would have loved to try this case. I think it was a good case. ...But this is a resolution my client is comfortable with.”

Browne declined to say whether the judge’s recent decision to make her client’s name public at trial entered into his decision to settle now.

A trial would likely have been emotionally draining for both Hastert and the man he abused, both of whom could have been called to testify.

Questions were raised during the over four years since the suit was filed about whether Hastert’s legal team might try to suggest Doe was trying to extort the ex-Speaker.

Browne said Judge Pilmer ruled earlier that Hastert’s lawyers could not attempt to make that claim.

“We weren’t expecting that term to be used in court. We weren’t expecting that to be raised as a defense,” she said.

At his 2016 sentencing, U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin repeatedly rebuked Hastert before issuing a 15-month sentence, telling him that his abuse devastated the lives of victims.

“Nothing is more stunning than to have the words ‘serial child molester’ and ‘speaker of the House’ in the same sentence,” Durkin told Hastert.

The judge also noted how Hastert had told investigators that “Individual A” — how the man in the civil case was referred to in the federal criminal case — was making a bogus claim of sex abuse to extort him for money.

“Accusing Individual A of extortion was unconscionable,” Durkin said. “He was a victim (of abuse) decades ago and you tried to make him a victim again.”

Federal prosecutors said it was Hastert who asked that lawyers not be brought in to put the $3.5 million deal in writing. They portrayed it as a legitimate deal between an abuser and the abused.

Hastert admitted in his criminal case that he abused the man and other athletes, though in some filings in the civil case he sometimes appeared to be backing away from that admission.

“I think he has said different things at different times,” Browne told reporters. “But I can’t speak to what his intent was or his motivations were.”

Asked by a reporter outside court Wednesday if Hastert was, in fact, reneging on that admission, Hastert’s attorney, John Ellis, declined any comment.

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High Electron Mobility Transistors (HEMTs)

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Indian scientists have developed a highly reliable HEMT from gallium nitride (GaN).

This is the first-ever indigenous HEMT device and is useful in electric cars, locomotives, power transmission and other areas requiring high voltage and high-frequency switching.

This would reduce the cost of importing such stable and efficient transistors required in power electronics.

It will also make India self-reliant in power transistor technology.

What are HEMTs?

High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) is a normally OFF device and can switch currents up to 4A and operates at 600 V.

HEMTs are used in integrated circuits as digital on-off switches.

HEMT transistors are able to operate at higher frequencies than ordinary transistors, up to millimeter wave frequencies, and are used in high-frequency products such as cell phones, satellite television receivers, voltage converters, and radar equipment.

They are widely used in satellite receivers, in low power amplifiers and in the defense industry.

Digital Green Certificate

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The European commission has unveiled a “digital green certificate” that could allow EU citizens who have been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from Covid-19 to travel more freely within the bloc.

What is it?

The digital document will contain a QR code and can be carried on a mobile phone.

It has deliberately not been called a “vaccine passport” because some member states felt that would discriminate against those who had not yet been offered a shot.

All EU citizens or third-country nationals who are legally staying in the EU will be able to use these digital certificates and thereby will be exempted from free movement restrictions.

Who will issue these certificates?

The certificate can be issued by authorities, including hospitals, testing centres and health authorities.

What is the need for such a document?

In the EU and across the world, the tourism industry has been severely impacted due to the spread of the disease.

Many countries have, therefore, been contemplating digital certificates or passports that will be proof that a person has been vaccinated or has recovered from COVID-19.

In February, Israel became the first country to issue certificates called “vaccine passports” that will allow vaccinated individuals to use some facilities and attend events.

Supplementary demand for grants

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The Lok Sabha has passed the supplementary demand for grants (second batch for 2020-21).

What are Supplementary Demands for Grants?

The supplementary demand for grants is needed for government expenditure over and above the amount for which Parliamentary approval was already obtained during the Budget session.

Constitutional provisions:

Supplementary, additional or excess grants and Votes on account, votes of credit and exceptional grants are mentioned in the Constitution of India 1949.

Article 115: Supplementary, additional or excess grants.

Article 116: Votes on account, votes of credit and exceptional grants.

Procedure to be followed:

When grants, authorised by the Parliament, fall short of the required expenditure, an estimate is presented before the Parliament for Supplementary or Additional grants.

These grants are presented and passed by the Parliament before the end of the financial year.

When actual expenditure incurred exceeds the approved grants of the Parliament, the Ministry of Finance presents a Demand for Excess Grant.

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India bring such excesses to the notice of the Parliament.

The Public Accounts Committee examines these excesses and gives recommendations to the Parliament.

The Demand for Excess Grants is made after the actual expenditure is incurred and is presented to the Parliament after the end of the financial year in which the expenses were made.

Other grants:

Additional Grant: It is granted when a need has arisen during the current financial year for supplementary or additional expenditure upon some new service not contemplated in the Budget for that year.

Excess Grant: It is granted when money has been spent on any service during a financial year in excess of the amount granted for that year. The demands for excess grants are made after the expenditure has actually been incurred and after the financial year to which it relates, has expired.

Exceptional Grants: It is granted for an exceptional purpose which forms no part of the current service of any financial year.

Token Grant: It is granted when funds to meet proposed expenditure on a new service can be made available by re-appropriation, a demand for the grant of a token sum may be submitted to the vote of the House and, if the House assents to the demand, funds may be so made available.

SC stays HC decision barring aided school teachers from contesting polls

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The Supreme Court has stayed a Kerala High Court decision barring aided school teachers and non-teaching staff from contesting Assembly elections or engaging in political activities.

What’s the issue?

The High Court had declared Section 2 (IV) of the Legislative Assembly (Removal of Disqualifications) Act of 1951, which allowed aided school teachers to become legislators, as unconstitutional.

Petitioners in the High Court had challenged the 1951 law, saying their participation in politics would affect the quality of education.

They had argued in the High Court that since Kerala Government Servants Conduct Rules prohibits government school teachers from taking part in political activities, the rule should extend to aided school teachers also.

What the government says?

The government had contended in the High Court that as per a government order issued in 1967, the teachers of aided schools had political rights.

There were no Rules or Act prohibiting them from not participating in political activities or contesting the elections. Besides, special leave without pay could be granted to aided teachers elected to local bodies and Assembly.

Insurance Amendment Bill, 2021

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The bill was recently passed by Rajya Sabha.

Key features of the Bill:

The Bill amends the Insurance Act, 1938 to increase the maximum foreign investment allowed in an Indian insurance company.

The Bill increases the limit on foreign investment in an Indian insurance company from 49% to 74%, and removes restrictions on ownership and control.

While control will go to foreign companies, the majority of directors and key management persons will be resident Indians who will be covered by law of the land.

Insurance companies are facing liquidity pressure and the higher limit would help meet the growing capital requirement.

Foreign investment in the insurance sector was first permitted in the year 2000 up to 26%.

Subsequently, vide an Amendment Act of 2015, this limit was raised to 49% of the paid-up equity capital of such company, which is Indian owned and controlled.


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Your requirements could focus around specific features that you are looking to have, for example, the ability for customers to purchase your products/services online. Be prepared to discuss your requirements with us as we can help you to understand what is and isn’t possible.

Having scheduled, clear goals, allows for easy communication during a website project. Do you want a sales funnel, drive traffic to your blog or subscription list, explain your services and get people to book? We’ll map those goals out clearly to the content makes sense on the page.

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WordPress is open source content management software and currently powers around 34% of all websites on the Internet. The project is contributed to by tens of thousands of developers all over the world and is growing from strength to strength.

WordPress allows me to develop flexible and customisable websites to modern standards and observes web development best practices.

Furthermore the community of web developers that use WordPress reaches far and wide and allows me to tap in to this collective intelligence and bring that wealth of experience to your project.

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Then imagine this awesomeness is backed by a team who are constantly looking for new ways to bring in features which make you look even better?

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With these two tools your options are beautifully diverse, responsive, pretty darn cute and dare I say… FUN to use. If you want creative WordPress website marketing services for your small business, contact A Lined Design.

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Well, that really depends on what you need. We build you the website you need based on our consultations and deep questioning. We’ll determine the number of pages, how your information flows and what functionalities you need, combine that with your shopping list of requirements and make sure you can get where you need to go. In style.

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I previously saw Christian Howes at the Dakota, about three years ago. He played violin. I don't recall that he also played guitar and bass. In looking back at my photos from that night, he came with a quartet (keyboard, drums, guitar). And had he confined his playing to just violin last week (October 27th) at the Artists Quarter, it would have been a good evening of eclectic, even eccentric music ranging from bop and blues to down-home electronica.

But Howes also played guitar and bass, sometimes all three instruments in quick succession, and sometimes adding loops to create a simultaneous string section. Drummer Cedric Easton and keyboardist Hamilton Hardin filled out the “orchestra," but even with some fiery solo exploits, particularly from Easton, Howes's three-pronged array could have sufficed as a one-man/multi-instrumental showcase. His recent release, Out of the Blue, features guitarist Robben Ford, but here, Howes supplanted Ford with his own six strings (or, rather, his own 14-string arsenal), his loops allowing him to pick up the bass or violin while continuing the guitar vamp.

The first set of music included original compositions from the new album—the title tune and “Bobby's Bad" (in honor of Bobby Floyd), and from an earlier release, “When She's Like Water" (based on a Cat Stevens tune). “Out of the Blue" was the most compelling, Howes not only moving back and forth seamlessly from one ax to another but both Easton and Hardin taking their own spins, the music running the gamut from whiffs of “Amazing Grace" to sensations of an electrified Stravinsky, and particularly on violin, Howes conjuring the intensity of John Coltrane's soprano.

Many musicians are “multi-instrumentalists" and it is not unusual to see a saxophonist move across two reeds in a given composition. More unusual is an artist who can move through three instruments (four counting the loops) in a matter of a few bars, particularly when one involves alternating arco and pizzicato technique. And rather than a novelty act, make it all seem perfectly logical.

Out of the Blue is an intriguing and highly enjoyable recording, featuring not only Robben Ford but also pianist Tamir Hendelman, organist Bobby Floyd, bassist Kevin Axt and more. But I suspect it could have been just as successful had Christian Howes gone “solo."

Photos: (Top to bottom) The many musical faces of Christian Howes, on violin, guitar, bass... and an unusual hand position on violin. (All photos by Andrea Canter at the Artists Quarter on October 27, 2010)

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Car leasing consumers more likely to go electric as EV demand accelerates

Interest in leasing electric and alternatively fuelled vehicles (AFVs) has increased dramatically over the last 12 months and is outperforming demand seen in the overall consumer new car market, new data from shows.

During September 2019, there were 40,917 overall registrations of battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, hybrids and mild hybrids, up 54.8% from September 2018, according to the latest figures from the SMMT.

However, when it comes to personal leasing, enquiries on all these vehicles were up 209% year on year in September 2019. A recent survey also found that 40% of drivers planning to lease a car in the next five years would choose an electric vehicle*.

The Tesla Model 3, Volkswagen e-Golf and Jaguar I-Pace were the most in-demand all-electric models in the crucial plate-change month of September.

Paul Harrison, Head of Strategic Partnerships at, said: “As more emphasis is put on moving to low-emission drivetrains, leasing offers personal customers the perfect way to transition into ever-cleaner models without the large, long-term commitment of buying.

“Interest in alternatively fuelled vehicles on has outstripped national levels so far in 2019 and accounted for 7% of all enquiries in the first half of the year. Average CO2 emissions across personal lease enquiries on have fallen for three consecutive years, and our data shows we’re on course for a reduction in emissions this year too.”

Harrison added: “As more fully electric and hybrid models hit the market over the coming year, we expect to see an even stronger rate of adoption via leasing.”

Overall in September, the Mercedes-Benz A-Class was the most popular personal lease car, followed by the Range Rover Evoque. The electric Tesla Model 3 continues to attract leasing consumers and was the fifth most-enquired vehicle.

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Utah always blows my mind — the red rocks, the canyons, the rivers, the mountains and ... the love of industry, the dirtier the better.

The first stop on our Hitting Home tour was Moab, Utah — a town surrounded by the gorgeous Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Fisher Towers, Dead Horse State Park, and tons of “undesignated” wildlands of astounding beauty.

In town we also saw a tailings pile of uranium mining waste; talked with local residents concerned about impacts from a new plan to fly helicopter tours over the area; we trekked up into the  Book Cliffs outside of Moab and saw a test mine for what may be the first U.S. tar sands mine; we saw oil pumpers adjacent to national parks and gas being flared from towers along breathtaking ridges; and we met people who were fighting to protect their land, and the local watershed, from encroaching drilling operations.

In Nearby Dutch Flats, a company is accepting wastewater from fracking operations across the Colorado border, and neighboring Green River has plans for a nuclear power plant and perhaps also a refinery that could process the tar sands coming down from the Book Cliffs.

Utah has always been friendly to energy development — and it has also always been a haven for those who enjoy wild places and wildlife. It’s unclear how long those two value sets can coexist as energy development grows and natural resources like water and clean air grow scarcer.

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The history of Columbus State University is closely intertwined with that of Columbus. The idea for a junior college was first proposed by the Columbus Chamber of Commerce in 1949. Efforts by local citizens kept the idea alive by raising money to purchase the college's current site and developing plans for its administration. In 1958, when the law provided for the establishment of junior colleges in Georgia, Columbus State University opened at the renovated Shannon Hosiery Mill. Now, Columbus State is rapidly growing and bigger than ever with over 8,000 enrolled.

University of Georgia

Known to be the oldest college in the state of Georgia, this university was established in 1801 when a committee of the board of trustees selected a land site. John Milledge, later governor of the state, purchased and gave to the board of trustees the chosen tract of 633 acres on the banks of the Oconee River in Northeast Georgia. The main campus has 379 buildings on 615 acres, while the total acreage in 30 Georgia counties is 42,010. The University of Georgia has around 37,000 current students, along with approximately 253,000 living alumni.

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Opened in 1831, the University of Alabama was the state's first university. U of A's campus is comprised of brick buildings and tree-lined promenades spread over nearly 1,000 acres in Tuscaloosa. Offering over 200 undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs, the University of Alabama is especially well known for its schools of Business, Communications, and Law. The school also has one of the most well known athletic programs in the nation.

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Founded in 1856 as a private liberal arts school before converting to a public institution, Auburn University has grown to become one of the largest universities in the South. Located just 50 miles East of Montgomery in the town of Auburn, the university contains 12 schools and colleges within its 1,800-acre campus. Auburn University also operates a separate branch on a 500-acre campus located in Montgomery, AL.

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Originally a state teacher's college, Troy has developed into a state university system with campuses in Troy, Dothan, Phenix City, and Montgomery. The main campus of Troy University (the school dropped the "State" from their name in 2005) offers five main colleges: Arts and Sciences, Business, Communication & Fine Arts, Education, and Health & Human Services.

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Viewed as one of the nation's most historically and socially significant educational institutions, Tuskegee University was established by state legislature in 1880 as a school for the African American population. In the years since, Tuskegee has earned a reputation not only as an outstanding academic university, but also as a highly influential force on the race as a whole. While the primary focus is the development of the African American community, the university is open to all and supports a student body that is racially, ethnically, and religiously diverse. Located in the city of Tuskegee, the university offers 49 degrees from 5 colleges.

University of Mobile

Founded in 1961, the University of Mobile is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. An impressive 14:1 student to faculty ratio translates to a unique degree of personal attention for every undergraduate and graduate. The charming 800-acre campus is located just 10 minutes from Downtown Mobile, and about one hour from the beaches of the Gulf Coast.

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Alabama A&M is a combined professional, vocational, and liberal arts education institution. This university provides undergraduate and graduate degrees to those interested in developing technical, professional, or scholastic skills. Also, the university is divided into six main schools: Agriculture & Environmental Sciences, Arts & Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering & Technology, and Graduate Studies. The Alabama A&M campus is located in Normal, and affectionately known as "The Hill".

Chattahoochee Valley Community College

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Columbus Technical College

Columbus Technical College, founded in 1961, is another college the city of Columbus has to offer. From the beginning, meeting the needs of citizens, business, and industry has been the school's mission. Today, the school has an annual student enrollment of around 6,000 people, with a service area that includes 6 Georgia counties. Columbus Technical College has around 100 academic programs of study in three main areas: Business & General Studies, Health Sciences & Nursing, and Professional & Technical Services. With dual enrollment opportunities, online courses, and many paths of study to choose from, this makes Columbus Tech a great choice!


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Vista Outdoor to Break Ground on Utah Headquarters

Vista Outdoor Inc. will break ground on its global headquarters this summer at Station Park in Farmington City, Utah, the company has announced.

ATK's Sporting Group Becomes Vista Outdoor Inc.

The Sporting Group of Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) has become Vista Outdoor Inc. The company, which is parent to many well-known outdoor brands such as Bushnell, Savage Arms and Federal Premium Ammunition and dozens of others becomes a stand-alone, publicly traded outdoor sports and recreation company.

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Based on a successful first run of the Data Science class last summer, the Liberal Arts Collaborative for Digital Innovation (LACOL) Faculty and Administrative Advisory Councils unanimously and enthusiastically approved the course to run again in summer 2020. Notably, the summer 2020 online course opportunity is open to Amherst College students as a not for credit option. The class will take place from June 10 – August 7. There is no charge or tuition for this summer’s course.
This fully online class is designed primarily for students with no prior coding experience who have taken or are taking a first calculus course. Interested students should not have previously taken an introductory data science course (e.g., STAT231, ASTR 200). Students should ensure that have sufficient time available during the summer to complete course assignments. For more information please see https://lacol.net/critical-ds/.
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The Peer Advocates for Sexual Respect in collaboration with Amherst LEADS is hosting the It’s On Us Campaign at Amherst College. This is a national college-centered campaign whose mission engage members of these communities to pledge to end sexual violence on college campuses. To join It’s On Us, we ask students and Amherst community members to “take the pledge” and participate in our photo campaign.

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Drop by to hear about the opportunities to join the Loeb Center team as one of our 2020-21 interns or Peer Career Advisors (PCAs). We're hiring PCAs, employer engagement interns, marketing interns, finance and consulting interns and an arts and communication intern.

Professional Norms in the Workplace

How are we ‘supposed’ to conduct ourselves at work? What’s it like to have a professional relationship with a supervisor? How can we communicate respectfully while still expressing ourselves? How might we get to know a company’s culture? How might we ask for advice at work?
During this one-hour workshop, learn about expectations, best practices and strategies for understanding expected professional behaviors and etiquette in the workplace. Every organization has its own culture, leadership, mission and identity: we’ll cover the constants, the variables and the possibilities in different environments.
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5-College Program in Culture, Health and Science

Come learn more about the 5-College Program in Culture, Health and Science (CHS)! CHS is a certificate program (analogous to a minor) that allows students to explore human health, disease and healing from interdisciplinary perspectives. It links understandings of history, culture, and behavior with clinical, biological and epidemiological models of health and disease. Students design a plan of study that approaches “health” holistically from the perspective of natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. You can find out more at https://www.fivecolleges.edu/chs.
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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Five College Women's Studies Research Center, 83 College Street, South Hadley, MA

Shailja Patel, Kenyan author of Migritude and Nobel Women’s Initiative Spotlighted Global Activist, breaks down the ways in which African women are silenced, excluded and erased in current global discourse on climate crisis and shows how African feminisms are critical to the concept of climate justice.

This event is free and open to the public and co-sponsored by the Georges Lurcy Lecture Series Fund at Amherst College.

COVID-19: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable on the Coronavirus

Please come join us for an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion on the coronavirus. We’ll talk about the coronavirus and demonstrate the power of cross-disciplinary exchange.

A Five College Culture, Health and Science Certificate information session will take place beforehand from 6 to 7 p.m. in Pruyne Lecture Hall.

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Katherine Mason, medical anthropologist, Brown University, author of Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health after an Epidemic
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“Mariah Garnett Selected Video Works,” An Exhibition by Mariah Garnett

Selected Video Works presents four videos by Mariah Garnett made between 2010 and 2014. These works represent the early cornerstones of her experimental documentary practice. In all four films, the relationship between subject and filmmaker is foregrounded, calling into question the power dynamics at play in representational art practices.

“Garbage, The City, And Death” uses a Fassbinder text to reframe a real-life relationship between long-lost siblings as a romantic rivalry. It was Garnett’s first attempt to mix theatricality with a real relationship between herself and her subject.

“Picaresques” takes its inspiration from Lieutenant Nun, the autobiography of a transgender conquistador at the turn of the 17th century as its inspiration and abruptly becomes a portrait of Garnett’s own friendship with a 9-year-old tomboy from Santa Monica. It is an attempt to look to the past and future for heroes of a similar gender to the artist’s own.

“Encounters I May or May Not Have Had with Peter Berlin” moves through phases of idolization, anxiety ending in a touchdown in reality in a conversation between the artist and Berlin himself. This is the first film in which Garnett used impersonation as a strategy for representing her subject.

Finally, “Full Burn” marks a shift in Garnett’s practice away from overtly queer themes to the geopolitical. It is a portrait of four U.S. war veterans who have continued to use their own physicality to earn a living, three as stunt men and one as a massage therapist. It is a meditation on masculine duty, trauma and re-enactment.

Mariah Garnett is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Los Angeles. She holds a B.A. in American civilization and an M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts in film/video. In 2019 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Film/Video for her feature film, Trouble, which premiered at the London Film Festival and was named one of the best documentaries of the year by Sight + Sound. Her work has screened and been exhibited internationally at venues including The New Museum, The Hammer Museum, Tate Belfast, REDCAT, SFMoMA and her exhibiting gallery, Commonwealth + Council. She is a MacDowell Fellow, and her work has been featured in Bomb, Artforum and Reverse Shot.


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A Righteous Gathering

Human Rights took centre stage last week at the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) annual Gathering conference with a number of panel discussions taking a closer look at the positive potential of human rights based approaches to, well, everything from laws to attitudes.

The Gathering is the largest meeting of third-sector organisations in Scotland and talks addressed pressing issues from welfare cuts to land reform. Of particular interest to us was a presentation on Scotland’s National Action Plan for Human Rights.

Scottish Human Rights Commissioner Professor Alan Miller is charged with producing Scotland’s first National Action Plan for Human Rights, which he sees as a “roadmap” to progressively achieving internationally recognised human rights standards in Scotland. The Scottish Human Rights Commission published a report last year called Getting it Right? which assessed the current situation in Scotland. One conclusion was devolution has enabled us to do some things really well – ECHR-compliant legislation, human rights-centred legal frameworks and
policies are two examples – but the bottom line was that we must do better, especially at grass roots level.

Panellist Tressa Burke, Chief Executive of Glasgow Disability Alliance spoke of the stigma suffered by people with disabilities in poverty because they do not have the support that would enable them to contribute fully to their communities. She emphasised that human rights is not just about what happens in other countries.

Judith Robertson, Head of Oxfam Scotland, told us of Oxfam’s domestic programmes and stressed that plans for local implementation of human rights laws are key. Local and national government as well as communities must do more to engage and listen to the most vulnerable among us. Everyone needs to understand poverty is a denial of human rights. For example; people should not be afraid of claiming benefits because of a fear of being humiliated by DWP staff.

Finally, SCVO’s Chief Executive Martin Sime recognised that while the third sector does effectively enable people to access their rights, “we do not talk about it in the context of human rights.”  This needs to be addressed, as negative media coverage of human rights issues is linked to the general public’s disassociation of human rights with their own daily lives. A National Action Plan on human rights is an opportunity to “reconfigure the debate and reconnect rights to everyday life.”

Professor Miller and his team are still gathering data for the National Action Plan for Human Rights and want your input on how best to safeguard human rights in our society. Make your voice heard here. Consultation is open until 29 March.

If you would like further ideas, join the online discussion on Wednesday
6 March from 11.00am-1.30pm

All panellists agreed that the National Action Plan for Human Rights is not going to solve problems overnight but it is an important tool that we can use to hold government and ourselves to account.

I leave you with a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt that sums it up nicely:

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places; close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works.”

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Kenya: Talks about closure of Dadaab must result in concrete action to protect refugees

As the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, prepares to leave Kenya today following talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta and a visit to Dadaab refugee camp, Amnesty International is calling for concrete action to be taken to ensure continued protection for thousands of refugees at risk of forcible return to strife-torn Somalia. The Kenyan government has announced plans to close Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp, by November 2016.

Both the Kenyan government and UNHCR must ensure that:

No refugees are repatriated to Somalia against their will. All repatriations must be as a result of voluntary choice by individual refugees.

In the meantime, the Kenyan government should reopen the Department of Refugee Affairs and ensure that it offers much-needed services to all refugees.

Amnesty International continues to receive reports of arrests, detention and harassment of refugees by the police in many parts of Kenya since the government’s plan to close the camp was announced in May.

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Martha Gellhorn

On the eve of the Normandy landings in June 1944, there were over a thousand war correspondents all over Europe reporting back to the millions of British and Americans back home. A handful of these journalists and photographers were also women. Unfortunately, the government had prohibited women from going to the front lines, so while these women correspondents could cover stories from the war zone, they could not go in with the troops.

Understandably, many female war correspondents were not happy with the ban.

“It is necessary that I report on this war," wrote Martha Ellis Gellhorn in an angry letter to military authorities. “I do not feel there is any need to beg as a favour for the right to serve as the eyes for millions of people in America who are desperately in need of seeing, but cannot see for themselves.”

Martha Ellis Gellhorn was an American war correspondent for the Collier’s magazine. Some of you may know her as the third wife of Ernest Hemingway, but her accomplishments as a journalist far outshine her brief marriage to the novelist.

Gellhorn began her career as a journalist during the Great Depression, working as a Field Investigator for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) created by Franklin D. Roosevelt to report on the impact of the Depression on the country. Later, she travelled to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War in 1937. During this period she met Ernest Hemingway, who was also in Spain as a correspondent. They married in 1940, she becoming Hemingway’s third wife, and Hemingway becoming Gellhorn’s second husband.

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Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway

Gellhorn and Hemingway’s marriage was troubled from the start. Hemingway refused to let go off his second wife even when both of them were seeing each other, and Gellhorn’s long absences during her reporting assignments irritated Hemingway. When D-Day approached, their marriage was already dead in the water. To get even with Gellhorn, Hemingway got himself accredited as the correspondent for Colliers, the magazine Gellhorn worked for, blocking any chance Gellhorn might have of getting to the front lines.

But Martha Gellhorn was not ready to bow out.

On the night of June 6, 1944, before the ships departed for Normandy, Gellhorn made her way to the waterfront on the pretext of interviewing the nurses aboard a hospital ship. Once on board, she hid herself in the bathroom. Gellhorn knew that if she got caught, she would lose her accreditation and might even get deported back to America. Still, to witness the great invasion was worth the risk. Gellhorn remained in her hideout for several hours and only emerged when the ship was well on her way to France. Later that night, after the troops had landed and the massacre on the beach was finally over, Gellhorn sneaked ashore with a couple of doctors and medics as a stretcher bearer to collect the wounded. In the chaos of the war, nobody gave a damn that Gellhorn was a woman.

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“Taxis to Hell – and Back – Into the Jaws of Death,” one of the most famous photograph of the D-Day landing by Robert F. Sargent

Martha Gellhorn became the only woman to land in Normandy the same day the troops did. Other women followed, but much later. The first batch of women—members of the United States Women’s Army Corps—landed in Normandy thirty-eight days later.

Soon after Gellhorn had filed her story to Collier’s, the military police arrested her. They took away her credentials and transported her to a nurse’s training camp outside London. Gellhorn escaped from the camp by convincing a British pilot to fly her to Italy.

“I followed the war wherever I could reach it,” Gellhorn recalled.

Martha Gellhorn continued covering conflicts her country was involved in. She covered the Vietnam War and the Arab-Israel conflicts in the 1960s and 70s. She was still out at the front reporting the civil wars in Central America at the age of seventy, and incredibly, United States’ invasion of Panama in 1989 at the age of eighty-one. It was only when war came to Bosnia that she decided to quit, announcing that she was “too old” and not “nimble” enough for war anymore.

As Gellhorn entered the late eighties, her eyesight began to fail and she became almost completely blind. She was also suffering from ovarian cancer that had spread to her liver. She committed suicide in 1998, at the age of ninety, by swallowing a cyanide capsule.

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Martha Gellhorn in 1978, at the age of seventy. Photo credit: Graham Harrison/Rex/Shutterstock

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