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Art & CultureMusic
Nigerian Pop Star Davido to Perform at the 2017 Bay Area Afrobeats Concert Series
- July 10, 2017 July 14, 2018
Mid-summer, adding excitement to highly anticipated summer shows, staged on Friday, August 11, at the Craneway Pavilion, afrobeats star David Adede’i Adeleke, better known as Davido is officially confirmed as the first African performer at the Bay Area Afrobeats Concert Series.
African music has a long history of influencing genres worldwide, and in recent years, the undeniable upsurge of young African artists hailing from the continent, in high demand to work the big and main global stages confirms African music’s enduring popular position in the music world.
Currently, the reverberation of sounds from Africa and the evolving style of music attest to the numerous brilliant innovative mix of melodic kasongo, hip hop, folk, reggae, bongo flava, Congolese rumba, kizomba, kidandali to African pop style of music, influenced by traditional melodies and local scenes. In addition, scores of collaborations from East to South to Central and West Africa are emerging, marking the future music direction of Africa. Young African talents seem set to take over the world’s pop charts.
Also, with the support of the internet and social media, taking advantage of platforms like YouTube to break new stars, in addition to a rising young African consumer population (Africa has the world‘s youngest population) and a growing number of Africans living in the diaspora eager and nostalgic for everything homeland, little known yet opulently talented artists are getting popularized.
Among the upward trending young and creative Africa, the West African nation is arguably named ”the fulcrum of African pop”. In the upsurge of Nigerian rhythms and melodies of afrobeats, highlife and dance music, acclaimed artists like Davido are featured as pivotal talents in the expanding sound of Naija beats (high-energy dance music) and the allure afrobeats (a term popularized in the UK. and not be confused with Fela Kuti’s afrobeat) has been able to conjure across the continent and beyond.
Davido is an American-born Lagos based Nigerian recording artist, performer and producer, born to a Nigerian tycoon. At 23, Davido is not only one of Nigeria’s afrobeats stars with an impressive top charting singles, but he’s also, together with his brother, owner of HKN Music record label as well as a prominent producer. He’s produced songs for Naeto C, Skales, Tiwa Savage and Sauce Kid.
It was soon after his return to Lagos, in 2011 while he was still in school that Davido produced and released his first musical recording “Back When”. A few months after, his second release ’Dami Duro’ featuring his ”halfway talking and halfway rapping” signature style vocals over a mix of silky synths and dance music became an immediate hit resonating with a diverse audience. The hit song making the airwaves spurred Davido’s popular style — mellow sound punctuated with auto-tuned vocals and beats. Since, his hits include ‘Skelewu’, ’Aye’ and ’Tchelete (Goodlife)’, and a new single ’If’ reviewed by critics as reminiscent of Nigerian artist Techno -— the producer of the single.
Afrobeats Concert Series is a fresh concept focused on introducing and promoting Afrobeats artists to the Bay Area. The series is created and organized by Utake Ent. Group, an entertainment company in collaboration with local Bay Area festival organizers with the objective to bridge cultures through a concert series — by way of music.
The organizers have promised that the first of the series, Davido, will be one of the biggest shows: “This will be a coming out party of all African in the Bay Area to celebrate together and share with other what Afrobeats is all about.”
Buy Davido tickets HERE.
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Increased scrutiny leads corporations to cut ties to ALEC
The American Legislative Exchange Council, better known as ALEC, has had the kind of week that gives public relations professionals nightmares. The shadowy organization, which is funded by major corporations, prefers to promote its agenda in the background, working with corporations and conservative organizations to write "model bills" that are introduced in legislatures around the country.
In recent days, however, some of its major corporate funders, including Coca-Cola, Intuit, Kraft, McDonald's and Pepsi, as well as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have announced they are cutting ties with ALEC. Also, Reed Elsevier joined that group last week. While lesser known, Reed Elsevier is one of the largest academic publishing companies in the world; it owns prestigious scientific journals like Cell and The Lancet and LexisNexis. The Professional Staff Congress, the AFT's affiliate that represents instructional staff at the City University of New York, recently published a detailed account about Reed Elsevier and ALEC in its Clarion newspaper.
While ALEC has been around for decades, it has remained relatively unknown until the last year or so. The group's model bills promote corporate and conservative interests, including proposals to privatize schools, prisons and other public services; to make it harder to vote; and to take away workers' and immigrants' rights. One reason for the increased scrutiny of ALEC has been the efforts of Common Cause, People for the American Way, Progress Now, the Color of Change and the Center for Media and Democracy, whose ALEC Exposed website has published hundreds of the model bills as well as background provided by a whistleblower. (See earlier story.)
Most legislators are careful to hide their ties to ALEC, but public records obtained from one Florida state representative showed that some copies of his draft bill that would have restricted unions' ability to collect money for political activities said "Copyright, ALEC" on every page, despite his denial that ALEC had provided him any materials.
The current backlash against ALEC is coming in large part as a reaction against "Stand Your Ground" laws in Florida and two dozen other states that have been in the spotlight since the killing of Trayvon Martin. ALEC and the National Rifle Association (a longtime member) have aggressively pushed such laws, despite the objections of law enforcement groups. (While it looks to be more of a PR ploy than a substantive change, ALEC announced on April 17 that it was eliminating its "public safety and elections" task force and focusing more on economic issues.)
As the New York Times noted in an April 16 editorial titled "Embarrassed by Bad Laws," ALEC has criticized its opponents and claimed it is only interested in job creation, government accountability and pro-business policies. "It makes no mention of its role in pushing a law that police departments believe is increasing gun violence and deaths," the Times writes. "That's probably because big business is beginning to realize the Stand Your Ground laws are indefensible." [Dan Gursky, the Professional Staff Congress, the New York Times]
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Qaddafi Meaning in Hindi
Qaddafi Definitions and Meaning in English
1. Libyan leader who seized power in a military coup d'etat in 1969; deposed the Libyan monarchy and imposed socialism and Islamic orthodoxy on the country (born in 1942)
muammar el-qaddafi
muammar al-qaddafi
khadafy
Qaddafi Sentences from Popular Quotes and Books
1. "In addition, the Zionist apparatchiks dominating the Neo-lib Obama administration had long personally detested Qaddafi because of his strident and uncompromising support for the Palestinians against Israel. There was a strong element of typical Zionist vindictiveness put into operation by the Obama administration and the U.S. news media in their gleeful vendetta against Qaddafi and his family, though the Palestinians had nothing to do with the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews. Psychiatrists call this phenomenon transference. Zionism is a mental illness–evident among some more than others."
- Francis A. Boyle, Destroying Libya and World Order: The Three-Decade U.S. Campaign to Terminate the Qaddafi Revolution
2. "Just before Obama’s nationally televised campaign kickoff rally last Feb. 10, the candidate disinvited Wright from giving the public invocation. Wright explained: ‘When [Obama's] enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli’ to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, ‘a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.’ According to Wright, Obama then told him, ‘You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.’ But privately, Obama and his family prayed with Wright just before the presidential announcement."
- Quote by Ronald Kessler
3. "In Libya in 2011, fourteen NATO members and four partner countries prevented Muammar Qaddafi from carrying out a promise to slaughter tens of thousands of his own people—and then they removed him from power. France, Britain, Italy, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and others struck 90 percent of all NATO targets. Spain, the Netherlands, Turkey, Greece, and Romania enforced an arms embargo at sea. Sweden, not a NATO member, contributed naval and air force personnel and equipment. The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, and Morocco also contributed.18 There was not a single U.S. casualty.19 The point is not that Washington should persuade others to do all the heavy lifting. NATO jets were able to hit their targets only because U.S. cruise missiles had already wiped out Libya’s air defenses. When Europeans ran short on precision-guided missiles, Washington sent them more.20 Without the United States, there would have been no mission. Critics carp that while NATO rid the world of a"
- Ian Bremmer, Superpower: Three Choices for America's Role in the World
4. "Thus all civilian officials and military officers in the United States government who either knew or should have known that the Reagan administration intended to assassinate Qaddafi and participated in the bombing operation are war criminals according to the U.S. government’s own official definition of that term. The American people should not have permitted any aspect of their foreign affairs and defense policies to be conducted by acknowledged war criminals. They should have insisted upon the impeachment, dismissal, resignation, and prosecution of all U.S. government officials guilty of such war crimes. Nevertheless, U.S. public opinion had been so effectively brutalized by five years of Reaganism that over three-quarters of the American people rallied to the support of their demented leadership over the destruction, injuries, and death it had inflicted upon hundreds of innocent civilians in Tripoli and Benghazi."
Qaddafi meaning in Hindi, Meaning of Qaddafi in English Hindi Dictionary. Pioneer by www.aamboli.com, helpful tool of English Hindi Dictionary.
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muammar el-qaddafi, gaddafi, qadhafi, muammar al-qaddafi, khadafy,
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4 bodies found after vehicle goes off cliff
Patrick Orr
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A 40-year-old Boise woman and her three children died after an SUV plunged Thursday morning about 70 feet off a cliff and into Lucky Peak Reservoir, authorities said.
Divers recovered the bodies of two girls, ages 12 and 6, and the body of a 10-year-old boy from the vehicle, which was about 40 feet below the surface Thursday morning, according to the Ada County Sheriff's Office. Authorities said they weren't able to recover the woman's body until the vehicle was pulled from the reservoir late Thursday afternoon.
Deputies responded about 7 a.m. after receiving an initial report of a vehicle going off High Bridge on State Highway 21. Deputies said they found the vehicle instead went off a cliff near the north end of the bridge.
A witness saw the SUV accelerate from the side of the road to go over the cliff, the sheriff's office said. Deputies said they found no skid or brake marks where the vehicle went over the edge.
Investigators said they'll study the wreckage to determine if the vehicle had any mechanical problems.
The sheriff's office said an autopsy will be done on the woman's body on Friday. The Ada County Coroner's Office is expected to release the names of those who died in the next few days.
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Researchers use Google trends to predict chicken pox outbreaks
New research from a team, including the University of Aberdeen, has used Google trends data to predict when certain parts of the world will experience a chicken pox epidemic.
Vaccine preventable childhood diseases, such as chicken pox, are prevalent throughout the world, however disease incidence is often unknown due to underreporting. A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that Google data trends are particularly effective in countries that lack reporting of disease incidence.
The research group, including Dr Tyler Stevenson from the University of Aberdeen, discovered that people Google chicken pox frequently during chicken pox epidemics, which allowed the team, made up of academics from the Universities of Glasgow, Michigan, and Princeton University, to pinpoint when epidemics occur and anticipate future epidemics. Importantly, the researchers also found that in countries with mandated chicken pox vaccination, like the United States of America, the seasonal epidemics of chicken pox have been lost.
The study demonstrated that Google searches for chicken pox showed seasonal cycles that tracked the annual occurrence of chicken pox in children. By examining data from 36 countries, they found that chicken pox epidemics happen at different times of year in the Northern versus Southern hemisphere. Northern hemisphere countries had epidemics that peaked in the spring (Feb-June), while Southern hemisphere countries had a 6 month shift, with higher chicken pox Google query rates during their spring season (Aug-Dec). Using data from the few countries that report clinical cases of chicken pox, the researchers confirmed that Google query behavior accurately reflected the distribution of varicella zoster (the virus that causes chicken pox) in the population. These analyses highlight that online datasets are a valuable tool for tracking illnesses in countries with access to online resources.
Since Google trends were an accurate indicator of chicken pox infections, the authors sought to forecast future chicken pox cases using the Google data.
This research provides a powerful and novel method to examine the global seasonality of chicken pox, and provides initial evidence of similar patterns for other childhood infectious diseases." Dr Tyler Stevenson
Dr Kevin Bakker, from University of Michigan said: “Being able to forecast disease incidence is at the forefront of disease prevention and public health efforts. Using Google data, we built a statistical model that could forecast when chicken pox epidemics were going to occur, as well as the relative size of the epidemic. This type of model could be used by public health officials to predict when a severe outbreak may occur.”
The study also highlighted a clear reduction of Google queries for chicken pox in countries with government mandated vaccination programs. For example, the United States has been vaccinating children for chicken pox since the mid-90s and there was no seasonal “epidemic” in chicken pox Google queries, indicating that the vaccination program is effective at keeping chicken pox infections at bay. In contrast, countries lacking vaccination, such as the United Kingdom, had seasonal “epidemics” in chicken pox Google queries.
Dr Tyler Stevenson said: “This research provides a powerful and novel method to examine the global seasonality of chicken pox, and provides initial evidence of similar patterns for other childhood infectious diseases.
“What we have identified here are clear seasonal cycles in illnesses that can cause significant morbidity to children. We still have a relatively poor understanding of the environmental and internal mechanisms that influence seasonal disease dynamics. Clearly vaccinations are effective.
“In the absence of adequate medical reports and vaccination programs, large-scale data repositories such as Google trends, can be extremely useful for Public Health officials and Epidemiologists to forecast disease incidence in countries that lack vaccination programs.”
Dr Tyler Stevenson
Directorate of External Relations, University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen
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Published on August 2nd, 2016 | by Nerhys
Infographic: Musicians Killed by Gun Violence Since the 1950s
For anyone who even passively follows the news, it’s obvious that the United States has a problem with gun violence. It has for a long time. Among the numbers killed by guns in the United States are a fair few musicians. Cuepoint’s Mike “DJ” Pizzo wanted to make an infographic about how many musicians have been killed by gun violence.
“The endless cycle of gun violence in American society got me thinking about how our typically peaceful sanctuary of music has been shattered by guns. I ended up on Wikipedia, two pages in particular: “List of Deaths in Rock & Roll” and “List of Deceased Hip-Hop Artists”. These two lists date back to 1956 and 1987, respectively, covering just about every way to die possible. Focusing on guns — suicides included — I found that over 100 rock stars, rappers and other musicians have lost their lives due to firearms”.
Pizzo narrowed the list down to 79, as many of the deceased hip hop artists on the lists were obscure and without their own Wikipedia pages. He also debated whether or not to include suicides on the list, however after seeing the name of a high school friend, Tommy Marth who played with the Killers, on the list, he decided to include them. He writes:
“I felt that suicides should not be overlooked. These artists are people’s friends, fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters, and for whatever the reason, access to a gun led to their untimely death”.
Once all the data was pulled together, some interesting things came to light. For example, just the number of musician gun deaths has increased exponentially since the 1950s. Out of the 79 total deaths on the infographic, 54 were murders, 20 were suicides, and five were accidents.
Pizzo concludes his write-up with this genuine statement:
“As you scroll past the faces on this chart, please consider that a gun abruptly silenced each individual, killing not just the artist but the art they were destined to create—output that never had the chance to see the light of day”.
Take a look at the infographic:
Tags: Deaths, Gun Violence, Guns, Infographic, Musicians
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News Dr. Elly Park Awarded ABJHI Postdoctoral Fellowship to Develop Best Practices for Managing Osteoarthritis in Patients with Obesity
Dr. Elly Park Awarded ABJHI Postdoctoral Fellowship to Develop Best Practices for Managing Osteoarthritis in Patients with Obesity
Dr. Elly Park
Elly Park has been awarded a two-year postdoctoral position with Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute to develop best practices for managing osteoarthritis (OA) in individuals with obesity.
Dr. Park will develop innovative practices based on personalized medicine, a growing field in which treatment is tailored to the patient’s unique physical characteristics, personal health goals and desired quality of life. She will be under the supervision of Dr. Mary Forhan and Dr. Allyson Jones in the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta.
“Our work with Alberta’s Bone and Joint Health Strategic Clinical Network has revealed growing interest in developing evidence-based methods of delivering care more effectively to osteoarthritis patients who have obesity,” Martin Ferguson-Pell, ABJHI Executive Director, said. “Through Dr. Park’s fully funded postdoctoral work, ABJHI will support the BJH SCN’s growing focus on improving public health care for this important and increasing patient group.”
An estimated one in eight adults in Alberta has OA. Individuals living with obesity are up to four times more likely to develop OA in the hips and knees, which are major load-bearing joints. Obesity and OA together present complex health challenges, including associated chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease as well as elevated risk of infection and subsequent surgery to repair problems with a hip or knee joint implant.
Dr. Park’s position is the third research fellowship funded by ABJHI using Music in Motion proceeds matched by Mitacs Accelerate. ABJHI has established postdoctoral positions to evaluate a new model of care for rheumatoid arthritis sufferers and to study the impact of obesity on care for patients with OA in the hips and knees.
Dr. Park holds a PhD in Rehabilitation Science and has clinical, research and academic experience. She has worked as an occupational therapist, conducted research in the areas of aging and dementia, autism, and learning disabilities, and has taught musculoskeletal function, assessment and intervention in the University of Alberta’s Occupational Therapy Program.
“I am looking forward to doing ground-breaking research that will build our understanding of the association between OA and obesity,” Dr. Park said. “This work has the potential to both improve outcomes for patients and reduce health care costs by enabling clinicians to identify and deliver treatment that is customized to the unique needs, characteristics and wishes of each individual patient.”
Dr. Park will develop methods of assessing individual patients’ ability to move around in their everyday environment, their strength and endurance, and the combination of genetic and environmental factors that influence their participation in everyday activities. “We will use this information to develop treatment strategies that will help patients achieve their personal goals for health and quality of life,” Dr. Park said.
ABJHI will lever the information in its large bone and joint data repository to advance the postdoctoral work. The secure repository has been built by ABJHI in partnership with physicians and Alberta Health Services and holds longitudinal data on more than 117,000 bone and joint patients in Alberta and 130,000 hip and knee replacement surgeries. It is the only bone and joint data repository in Canada that collects information along the patient journey from referral to treatment and long-term follow-up, giving researchers a valuable end-to-end picture of patient experience and outcomes.
“This new position signals further expansion of ABJHI’s role in research using the rich data repository and our expertise in analytics and knowledge transfer,” Dr. Ferguson-Pell said.
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Rebels killed in Sri Lanka naval clash
The Sri Lankan navy has claimed the destruction of two Tamil Tiger naval boats, killing six rebels in another sign the country is drifting towards full-scale war amid increasing violence.
Rebels said troops shelled a school used as a refugee camp
A navy spokesman said on Friday that a patrol detected the rebel boats around 6am in the outer harbour of the northeastern port of Trincomalee.
Commander DKP Dassanayake said: "The boats were mingling with dozens of boats of fishermen who normally return with their catch early in the morning.
"We destroyed the two boats of the terrorists which were laden with explosives as there were huge sounds," Dassanayake said, adding that each rebel suicide boat was carrying three people.
"All on board the boats were killed."
The incident followed a sea clash on Thursday in the northern waters, where the rebels said they killed at least 26 Sri Lankan sailors. Five rebels were also killed, the insurgents said.
Gunboats sunk
Tamil Tiger rebels also said they had sunk two naval gunboats and captured four sailors in the fierce sea battle.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said on Thursday that they sank two gunboats and damaged a third in close-quarter fighting off the island's northern peninsula of Jaffna and estimated navy losses at 25 killed.
"We did not use any suicide boats," said Rasiah Ilanthiriyan, the LTTE spokesman, denying defence ministry reports that a Tiger boat loaded with explosives rammed a gunboat and sank it and destroyed another.
The separatist violence has killed
over 65,000 people
Meanwhile, Mahinda Rajapakse, the Sri Lankan president, has ordered an investigation into Wednesday's military attack that led to the killings of a large number of civilians in the island's east.
"President Rajapakse expresses his deep sorrow and regret at the senseless loss of life of innocent civilians at Vakarai and condemns the LTTE's tactics of directing long range artillery fire using human shield that led to this tragedy," the government said in a statement.
It said the authorities had been ordered to pay compensation to the affected families and security force commanders were directed to investigate.
Separately, on Thursday, the military said that the Tamil Tigers detonated a roadside bomb, killing two soldiers in northern Jaffna peninsula.
School shelled
Meanwhile, a human rights group has denounced the shelling of a school by the military on Wednesday which killed at least 23 people and injured scores more. The government said it regretted the attack.
"While we regret this whole episode, we say that national security is utmost," Keheliya Ramukwella, chief government spokesman, told a news conference.
"While we regret this whole episode, we say that national security is utmost"
Keheliya Ramukwella, government spokesman
Scores of civilians had taken refuge in the school in Kithiraveli - a rebel-controlled eastern Sri Lankan village - from fighting between the army and Tamil Tigers when it was hit, a senior Tiger official told The Associated Press.
He said at least 60 civilians were killed and 150 wounded in the attack.
Helen Olafsdottir, a spokeswoman for the European ceasefire monitoring mission, said monitors had counted 23 bodies, mostly of women, children and older people, and were still investigating. Another 137 people were admitted to hospitals, she said.
"Our monitors have visited the impact site and they have been told that as many as 40 rounds of artillery fire had hit the area," she said. She said the monitors did not find any sign of a rebel military installation in the impact area.
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Thermoluminescence
Schulman, James H. Formerly, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.
Glow curves
The emission of light when certain solids are warmed, generally to a temperature lower than that needed to provoke visible incandescence. Two characteristics of thermoluminescence distinguish it from incandescence. First, the intensity of thermoluminescent emission does not remain constant at constant temperature, but decreases with time and eventually ceases altogether. Second, the spectrum of the thermoluminescence is highly dependent on the composition of the material and is only slightly affected by the temperature of heating. If a thermoluminescent material emits both thermoluminescence and incandescent light at some temperature of observation, the transient light emission is the thermoluminescence and the remaining steady-state emission is the incandescence. The transient nature of the thermoluminescent emission suggests that heating merely triggers the release of stored energy previously imparted to the material. Supporting this interpretation is the fact that after the thermoluminescence has been reduced to zero by heating, the sample can be made thermoluminescent again by exposure to one of a number of energy sources: x-rays and gamma rays, electron beams, nuclear particles, ultraviolet light, and, in some cases, even short-wave visible light (violet and blue). A thermoluminescent material, therefore, has a memory of its earlier exposure to an energizing source, and this memory is utilized in a number of applications. Many natural minerals are thermoluminescent, but the most efficient materials of this type are specially formulated synthetic solids (phosphors). See also: Luminescence
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Adam Michael McGee
Voodoo & Vodou
"Marasa Elou: Marasa, twins and uncanny children in Haitian Vodou" in Gemini and the Sacred: Twins and Twinship in Religion and Myth, ed. Kimberley Patton (London: I.B. Taurus, forthcoming).
Abstract: During the first half of the twentieth century, the Marasa were the subject of considerable scholarly attention. Bearing obvious connections to African twin cults, devotion to the Marasa was seen as strong evidence for the survival of African practices in the Americas. In subsequent decades, as scholarly interests shifted, the Marasa received less academic attention. Nonetheless, the Marasa remain a central component of the religious lives of Vodouisants, particularly for those who are twins, triplets, or for people in families with multiple or unusual births. Marasa is an entire family of spirits—parents, siblings, ancestors, spirits of unbaptized children, and allied unusual people—that in its complexity has often confused outsiders. Careful examination of the Marasa, their mirror-like qualities and merging of many existential states—living, dead, one, many—provides insight into the ways that Vodouisants believe that the spiritual world interacts with the physical world. The Marasa are renowned for their power as healers. However, their strength as healers is equaled by their power to afflict misery, a source of anxiety and crisis for parents saddled with the task of raising powerful and cantankerous twins. Only through regular ritual action and the careful observance of taboos can this existentially perilous condition be managed with success. But to those who enjoy their favor, the Marasa bestow good fortune, economic prosperity, spiritual power, and insight into the secret workings of the world of the spirits.
"Dreaming in Haitian Vodou: Vouchsafe, guide, and source of liturgical novelty” in Dreaming: Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams 22:2 (2012), 83-100.
Abstract: Dreams are vital sources of liturgical novelty in Haitian Vodou –and this novelty is, itself, an underdescribed and understudied quality that the religion possesses. Classic scholarly descriptions have tended to portray Vodou as a living artifact, tradition-bound and slave to formality. On the contrary, Vodou is constantly responding to unique lived scenarios with novelty –a generative capacity reminiscent of Hannah Arendt’s natality. Dreaming plays a key role as provocateur and shaper of this natality. Additionally, it serves as a vouchsafe for belief; as a transformative force; as a form of divination; and as a source for theological and liturgical information. This article focuses, in particular, on why dreaming in Vodou has received so little scholarly atten- tion. Additionally, it examines how Vodou priests and priestesses utilize dreaming in their work with clients, as well as the role that dreaming plays in the enactment of spiritual marriages, and in recent responses to the 2010 earthquake.
McGee—Dreaming in Haitian Vodou.pdf
"Haitian Vodou and voodoo: Imagined religion and popular culture” in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 41:2 (2012), 231-56.
Abstract: Vodou is frequently invoked as a cause of Haiti’s continued impoverishment. While scholarly arguments have been advanced for why this is untrue, Vodou is persistently plagued by a poor reputation. This is buttressed, in part, by the frequent appearance in popular culture of the imagined religion of ‘‘voodoo.’’ Vodou and voodoo have entwined destinies, and Vodou will continue to suffer from ill repute as long as voodoo remains an outlet for the expression of racist anxieties. The enduring appeal of voodoo is analyzed through its uses in touristic culture, film, television, and literature. Particular attention is given to the genre of horror movies, in which voodoo’s connections with violence against whites and hypersexuality are exploited to produce both terror and arousal.
McGee—Haitian Vodou and Voodoo, Imagined Religion and Popular Culture.pdf
"Constructing Africa: Authenticity and Gine in Haitian Vodou” in Journal of Haitian Studies 14:2 (2009), 30-51.
Abstract: Gine, a word which means “Africa,” has been an important site of contested meaning in Haitian Vodou. As a continent, it is a lost homeland. As heaven, it is a source of longing and a hoped-for eschaton. As an aesthetic category, Gine has served as a form of religious capital through which various competing social forces have attempted to create and maintain orthodoxy. With the rise of the priesthood, Gine increasingly became a resource only the clergy could summon and control. Yet, the clergy’s innovation of ritual acts to summon Gine into any space made it possible for Vodou to survive in the form we know today. Scholars and artists—many of whom were “outsiders”—also played a substantial role in identifying which traditions would come to be seen as the most “authentic” expressions of Vodou.
mcgee-authenticity_and_gine_in_haitian_vodou.pdf
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‘Pen & Sword: Five Novelists As Soldiers’
qed History, Literature Algora Publishing, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Leo Tolstoy, Miguel Cervantes, Pen and Sword, Raymond Chandler Leave a comment
I sometimes have to remind folks, some of whom seem a tad skeptical about my claim to be a professional writer, that I don’t content myself with just dashing off the occasional magazine article on jazz or whatever.
For the past couple of years, I’ve been working on my second book, titled Pen & Sword: Five Novelists As Soldiers, for which I’ve signed a contract with Algora Publishing , a serious-minded NYC publishing house (check out its Web site). I’m grateful for this opportunity to continue my writing career at a challenging level, and I look forward to presenting this little-known intersection of military history and literary biography.
An outgrowth of articles published in Military History magazine and elsewhere, this book is about five famed novelists who experienced military combat as actual soldiers, versus ambulance drivers (Ernest Hemingway), nurses (Walt Whitman), or journalists (Stephen Crane):
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), who lost the use of his left arm as a young Spanish soldier fighting the Turks in the famed Battle of Lepanto. Afterward, while returning to Spain he was captured by North African pirates and held captive in Algiers for five years. Both episodes appear in his famed Don Quixote, which he wrote years later.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), who served four years as a gunnery officer in the Russian Army and saw fighting both against Muslim insurgents in Chechnya and in the Crimean War, including the Battle of Sevastopol. This was why he able to imagine Napoleon’s invasion of Russia so convincingly in War and Peace.
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), who enlisted with the Canadian Army during WWI and was seriously concussed by German shelling, echoes of which can be found not only in his hard-boiled detective novels featuring Philip Marlowe, but in the Hollywood screenplays he wrote, including The Blue Dahlia and Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train.
George Orwell (1903-50), who (along with many Americans) fought against the Fascists during the Spanish Civil War and caught a bullet in the throat before fleeing back into France one step ahead of Stalin’s death squads. Most people who’ve read Animal Farm don’t know that this, not the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, is the real historical backdrop to that novel.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), who was a POW for a year and half after being captured in WWII’s Battle of the Bulge, during which time he barely survived the firebombing of Dresden, which is mentioned in several of his novels, especially Slaughterhouse-Five.
This book reflects my academic background in literature and history, and is neither traditional military history nor personal biography, but rather an interdisciplinary genre perhaps best described as “literary nonfiction.”
Others, who know about this project, have asked me “What’s taking you so long?” Well … this isn’t some short work of fiction or a personal memoir I’m just dashing off the top of my head here! This is serious history, which takes years to write and requires a LOT of research.
In this particular case, I not only have to read the biographies (emphasis on the plural) of each of these fellows, as well as the histories (again, plural) of the war in which each fought, I ALSO have to read the books they wrote in which elements of their combat experiences are found, albeit sometimes in disguised form. This means (re)reading stuff like War and Peace and Don Quixote — not exactly light or quick reading.
I just thought I’d put this out there to clarify things a bit.
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Can An Indian Spring Be Far Behind?
Friday 1 April 2016, by Harsh Mander
The past winter months in India were grimly overcast, with gathering dark clouds. A deeply divisive manufactured binary sought to pit youthful idealism and dissent against love for the country. In this darkness, light and warmth defiantly cast by both the pain and words of three extraordinary young men marked the arrival of spring.
One of them, tragically, is no longer with us, his ambition to become a science writer like Carl Sagan unrealised. Mourning Rohith Vemula’s death and lost promise, astronomer Sagan’s wife Ann Druyan wrote: “To read his suicide note and to learn the details of his predicament is to get a vivid inkling of the actual cost of bias to our civilisation”. The second, Umar Khalid, is still in prison at the time of writing, charged with sedition, along with several university mates. The third, Kanhaiya Kumar, was released from prison again on charges of sedition, on interim bail by a judge who severely admonished him to “not participate actively or passively in any activity which may be termed as anti-national”.
From these three young men, there are many lessons that people of our country can learn. When those of us whose hair has greyed or fallen begin learning from the young, there is then hope for the future of our country.
We learn from the actions and words of these three young men the imperative of speaking truth to power, of courage of convictions, of equality — social and economic — and justice. But probably the most worthy lesson we learn from them in a country that is today more divided than ever in its independent history is of the paramount value of solidarity.
The immediate battles that all three young people fought that led to their labelling as “anti-national” were battles not connected with their immediate identity, but rather those that reflected their broader solidarity with peoples living with injustice. Rohith agitated against the violent blocking by ABVP students of a film that documented the suffering and injustice endured by Muslim survivors of targeted hate violence in Muzaffarnagar since 2013. Both he and Kanhaiya organised student meetings to debate the justice of the death penalty to two men convicted for terror crimes, Yakub Memon and Afzal Guru, respectively. And Umar’s passion was to study and fight injustice not against Muslims — that some may presume natural because he was born into a Muslim family — but against Adivasis, the most historically deprived peoples of India today. In so doing, they lived the words of Nelson Mandela, “Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me”.
In his first and last letter to the world, Rohith spoke of every human being as “a glorious thing made up of stardust. In every field, in studies, in streets, in politics, and in dying and living.” His solidarity knew no bounds. Karthik Bittu, the first transgender teacher in the University of Hyderabad, recalls that Rohith was the first to reach out to her in precious support and camaraderie, as he tried hard to understand the humiliations and exclusions of the lives of sexual minorities. He worked hardest to prepare for the May Day rally in support of workers’ rights. She wrote that despite his pain, he “still loved the world, the universe… You were pricked by every injustice, and this is what I want people to know.”
Umar’s teacher Sangeeta Dasgupta writes, ‘Umar Khalid, My Student’ (The Indian Express, February 26) affectionately of his passionate engagement with Adivasi history and politics. She recalls that he tried to understand conflicts and struggles of the Adivasis in the past in order to help him understand the injustice of Adivasi societies today. The country’s political and security establishment, as well as mainstream media, saw him only as a Muslim and could not comprehend his wider solidarities. That he was an atheist and communist committed to Adivasi justice was irrelevant to them. He was reduced, as Rohith said, to his “immediate identity”, to the “accident of his birth”. When he was accused of being a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist, his family and friends joked sadly that he would first have to be a follower of Mohammed before he could be a follower of the Jaish-e-Mohammed.
The evening Kanhaiya was released from jail, my daughter and I decided to join the JNU students in their victory rally and hear Kanhaiya’s speech. We found a place on the ground quite far from where Kanhaiya spoke. I could not see him much of the time, and the battery mike was often muted. But I was entranced to watch the rapt, shining faces of thousands of the assembled students who hung on to his every word, cheering, laughing, raising resounding slogans to socialism and freedom.
Like the students, I found Kanhaiya’s speech deeply stirring. I enjoyed his polemics against Hindu nationalism, his feisty challenges to the politics and policies of the country’s prime minister and the Sangh. I was moved when he reminded us that a country is not an abstract idea, it is its people, especially its oppressed people; and for them he declared that he sought azadi not from India but in India.
But the most endearing moments of his speech were when he recalled his conversations with his jail guards, who he discovered were “just like me. Think, who takes up a police job inside a jail — someone whose father is either a farmer or a labourer, someone whose father is from a disadvantaged community… I too come from a poor family, a farmer’s family.” The jail guards and he discuss many things — revolution, hunger, corruption. And the Ram temple. A guard agreed that if god is everywhere, it is the height of foolishness to try to create something for god. Kanhaiya railed also against the false binary being erected between soldiers and others. My father is a farmer, my brother a soldier, and I a student in a public university.
Kanhaiya says he does not want to make a career in politics. I wish he would: I cannot think of a single national leader from any party who can match his love for his country, its oppressed people and its Constitution. But I am delighted that he wishes to be a teacher.
He says he longs for normalcy, for the chance to watch the flowers of Delhi’s spring. As I sit in my office and see a tree laden with flaming orange palash flowers, I think of Kanhaiya. I think of solidarity. And I encounter hope.
Mander is a human rights worker and writer.
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White House kitchen garden is ‘safe under Trump’
The White House kitchen garden has won a stay of execution – after first lady Melania Trump hinted at a love of gardening.
Donald Trump. Credit: Wikimedia
TAGS: Kitchen gardening
It had been feared that President Trump, a keen golfer who owns many golf courses, would order the veg garden, created by Michelle Obama, to be ripped out (AG, 24-31 December 2016).
During the US election campaign last year, President Obama said: “I guarantee you he’ll dig-up Michelle’s garden. You think I am joking?”
But in a statement to CNN, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, senior adviser to the First Lady, said: “The First Lady has a deep personal commitment to her role as caretaker and nurturer, beginning with her family.
“Mrs Trump is committed to the preservation and continuation of the White House gardens, specifically the First Lady’s kitchen garden and rose garden.”
The comments came after Mrs Trump accompanied Akie Abe, the wife of Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, around the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens.
In a statement, Melania Trump said: “Both our countries’ history and cultures are steeped in the nurture and nature of gardening.”
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DACA - Update as of March 5, 20018
By Alexander Carl of Bolour Immigration Group posted in Immigration on Monday, March 5, 2018.
Immigration DACA's Status: Its Current Condition and Uncertain Future
Vana Karalian
On September 5, 2017, the Trump administration rescinded DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals - an immigration program created by President Obama,) and gave Congress until March 5, 2018 to come up with a legislative solution for Dreamers. The University of California then immediately filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to restart DACA.
On January 9, 2018, William Alsup, a federal judge, ordered the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to continue the DACA program by issuing an injunction. As a result, on January 13, 2018, USCIS announced that it would continue accepting DACA renewal applications. The administration then claimed it was going to take the federal court order before the Court of Appeals.
On February 13, 2018, Nicholas Garaufis, another federal judge, also issued an injunction blocking the administration's efforts to end DACA. Shortly after this order, the administration asked the Supreme Court to review the case by skipping the Court of Appeals. Skipping over the second level of the federal court process is fairly unusual. In the past, skipping an interim court process was only allowed in matters involving a serious national issue, like with President Nixon's White House tapes, or with the Iranian hostage crisis.
On February 26, 2018, the Supreme Court declined to review the case, preferring that the case first go before the Court of Appeals. This decision says nothing about the merits of the DACA program. Rather, it is a message from the courts to the administration to respect the traditional process.
Today marks the deadline for Congress to come up with a solution for Dreamers. Unfortunately, Congress did not come up with a remedy. However, the two court injunctions and the Supreme Court decision render this deadline moot for now.
Thus, until further notice, if you have previously received DACA and it expired on or after September 5, 2016, you may file a renewal request. This means that you must fill out the latest versions of Forms I-821D (Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), I-765 (Application for Employment Authorization), and I-765 Worksheet. Along with the forms, you must include the appropriate fee or approved fee exemption request. In addition, in the Form I-821D, you must indicate the date your DACA ended.
If you have previously received DACA but your DACA expired before September 5, 2016, or was simply terminated by DHS, you cannot request DACA as a renewal. Instead, you must file a new initial DACA request, which you can do by filling out the latest versions of Forms I-821D, I-765, and I-765 Worksheet, along with the appropriate fee or approved fee exemption request. Like with the renewal, use Form I-821D to indicate the date your DACA ended.
If you are eligible to apply for DACA but have not applied for it in the past, you may not submit an application now because under the federal court order, USCIS is not accepting requests from individuals who have never been granted DACA.
In addition, USCIS is not issuing an Advance Parole Document. The Advance Parole Document is a form of temporary travel authorization that allows a foreigner to reenter the United States after traveling abroad. This is important to note because as a DACA recipient, you will automatically lose your DACA if you travel outside the United States without first receiving your Advance Parole Document. Please note that an Advance Parole Document does not automatically guarantee that you will be allowed to reenter the United States. Even with a valid Advance Parole Document, at the airport or border, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer will ask questions and make the final determination about whether you may reenter the United States. Thus, consult with an experienced immigration attorney before you travel abroad.
DACA is a temporary form of relief that may be terminated at any time. In fact, with the current administration constantly challenging DACA's future, the faith of DACA is more uncertain than ever. In fact, if the administration decides to appeal the federal court order before the Court of Appeals, the Court of Appeals may lift the injunction at any time. This means the renewal option may be available indefinitely or may be stopped by another court order, depending how the case proceeds.
You may be qualified for another type of status, such as U Nonimmigrant Status (U-visa), T Nonimmigrant Status (T-visa), or Special immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), so, as mentioned earlier, always consult with an experienced immigration attorney to explore your options. Members of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) report that up to 30% of people screened for DACA were eligible for "something better and more permanent."
In addition, consult with an immigration attorney to asses your eligibility for DACA before submitting any application to USCIS. Individuals in violation of immigration laws or relatively minor offenses may be placed in removal proceeding.
Avoid unauthorized immigration consultants or notarios. They are not lawyers, do not have the legal qualifications to represent you, and are not authorized by law to give you immigration related legal advice. Only licensed lawyers and accredited representatives are qualified to help you legally. Thus, speak to a qualified and experienced immigration attorney. Our team is here to help, so call us today to schedule a free consultation.
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The quiet fever of Peggy Lee
February 24, 2015 by Terry Teachout
My Commentary essay for March, which has been posted a few days early, is about Peggy Lee. Here’s an excerpt.
Few things in the world of popular art are more dismaying than the spectacle of a beloved performer who goes on too long. The singer Peggy Lee was such a performer, and her decline was all the more pitiable for being so protracted. She made her last noteworthy recordings in 1975, when she was just 55 years old, and her one remaining venture of any consequence, an autobiographical Broadway show called Peg, was a shambles that closed in 1983 after only five performances. By then she had long since become a drug-dazed caricature of her younger self, and when she finally stopped singing 12 agonizing years later, her remaining fans heaved a collective sigh of relief.
Lee lost her footing at the same moment other middle-aged pop singers such as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett were successfully reinventing themselves as nostalgia acts, turning their backs on a now-alien contemporary music scene and interpreting the songs of their youth with undiminished artistic integrity. Her personal problems kept her from doing as they did, and Capitol, the label for which she had made most of her best albums, let them go out of print in the ’70s. As a result, a generation of music lovers grew up knowing only the obese, grotesquely costumed woman parodied as “Miss Piggy” on The Muppet Show. Small wonder that she spent her later years begging friends to “please don’t let people forget me.”
None of the baby boomers who watched Lee serve up limply pandering cover versions of pop-rock songs on TV in the late ’60s and early ’70s could have known that she was once an artist of the highest caliber, a peer of Sinatra who in certain ways surpassed him. A balladeer of hushed sensitivity, she was also at home in the hard-swinging world of jazz, and though her coolly glamorous, carefully sculpted public persona had much to do with her success, no one in or out of the music business ever doubted her profound musicality or perfect taste.
Why, then, did she lose her way? James Gavin has done much to answer that question in Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee, a mostly sympathetic but nonetheless very frank biography whose subtitle is indicative of its tone and approach. Gavin’s book is more concerned with Lee’s private life and public image than her music, and the tale that he tells is a sad one, the story of an unhappy woman whose neurotic insecurities grew so extreme that they eventually made it impossible for her to fully exploit her unique talents….
Read the whole thing here.
Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra sing a duet version of “Nice Work if You Can Get It” on The Frank Sinatra Show in 1957:
Lookback: a visit to Arlington National Cemetery
From 2005:
It’s no place for the flippant–Arlington has a way of making the overheard remarks of ironically inclined visitors sound shameful–but it has much to offer the aesthete, even the soul-deadened kind to whom patriotism is no more than gold-braided bigotry. The simple marble headstones
that mark most of the graves are at once ruthlessly functional and timelessly handsome, both individually and en masse, just as the changing of the guard
at the Tomb of the Unknowns is all but balletic in its poised, precise clarity. Next to such pure classicism, the bronze plaque that honors the astronauts who died in the Challenger explosion seems almost sentimental, as much a symbol of its times as the marble tablets are of theirs….
Almanac: Joseph Bottum on tastefulness
“Tastefulness is small-mindedness pretending to be art.”
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Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]
About “About Last Night”
This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]
About My Plays and Opera Libretti
Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, ran earlier this season at New Orleans’ Le Petit Theatre. It previously closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, … [Read More...]
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Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]
My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]
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Angkor North Gate
Angkor Thom was the last and most enduring capital city of the Khmer empire.
It covers an area of 9 km², within which are located several monuments from earlier eras as well as those established by Jayavarman and his successors.
At the centre of the city is Jayavarman's state temple, the Bayon, with the other major sites clustered around the Victory Square immediately to the north.
Angkor Thom was established as the capital of Jayavarman VII's empire, and was the centre of his massive building programme.
One inscription found in the city refers to Jayavarman as the groom and the city as his bride. Yasodharapura, dating from three centuries earlier, was centred slightly further northwest, and Angkor Thom overlapped parts of it. The most notable earlier temples within the city are the former state temple of Baphuon, and Phimeanakas, which was incorporated into the Royal Palace. The name of Angkor Thom 'great city' was in use from the 16th century.
Thereafter the existing structures continued to be modified from time to time, but any new creations were in perishable materials and have not survived.
In the following centuries Angkor Thom remained the capital of a kingdom in decline until it was abandoned some time prior to 1609, when an early western visitor wrote of an uninhabited city, 'as fantastic as the Atlantis of Plato' which some thought to have been built by the Roman emperor Trajan.
The city lies on the right bank of the Siem Reap River, a tributary of Tonle Sap, about a quarter of a mile from the river. The south gate of Angkor Thom is 7.2 km north of Siem Reap, and 1.7 km north of the entrance to Angkor Wat. The walls, 8 m high and flanked by a moat, are each 3 km long, enclosing an area of 9 km². The walls are of laterite buttressed by earth, with a parapet on the top.
There are gates at each of the cardinal points, from which roads lead to the Bayon at the centre of the city. As the Bayon itself has no wall or moat of its own, those of the city are interpreted by archaeologists as representing the mountains and oceans surrounding the Bayon's Mount Meru. Another gate the Victory Gate is 500 m north of the east gate; the Victory Way runs parallel to the east road to the Victory Square and the Royal Palace north of the Bayon. The faces on the 23 m towers at the city gates (which are later additions to the main structure) take after those of the Bayon, and pose the same problems of interpretation. A causeway spans the moat in front of each tower: these have a row of devas on the left and asuras on the right, each row holding a naga in the attitude of a tug-of-war.
The temple-mountain of the Bayon, or perhaps the gate itself, would then be the pivot around which the churning takes place.
The nagas may also represent the transition from the world of men to the world of the gods (the Bayon), or be guardian figures.
The south gate is now by far the most often visited, as it is the main entrance to the city for tourists.
At each corner of the city is a Prasat Chrung corner shrine built of sandstone and dedicated to Avalokiteshvara.
The bulk of the land enclosed by the walls would have been occupied by the secular buildings of the city, of which nothing remains. Most of the great Angkor ruins have vast displays of bas-relief depicting the various gods, goddesses, and other-worldly beings from the mythological stories and epic poems of ancient Hinduism (modified by centuries of Buddhism). There are no mythological figures among the roundels, so one can reasonably conclude that these figures depict the animals that were commonly seen by the ancient Khmer people in the twelfth century.
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Teachers, tantrums, and telephone games
February 18, 2019 February 18, 2019 Admin journalism, politics, society
This is exactly the kind of nothing-burger journalism I disavow, but I poked a few links on a Twitter feed and wound up reading on out of curiosity so now I have these thoughts in my head I need to get out, not least because I haven’t seen any adult-sounding commentary on this episode, at least not in the chain of commentary I followed.
First, the story is about an 11 year-old black kid in Florida who didn’t want to say the Pledge of Allegiance because he thinks America is racist. (Whoopee!) The Cuban immigrant substitute teacher there at the time got in a dumb argument with him, which escalated until the kid was storming out of the classroom declaring the school to also be racist (c’mon, he’s only 11; when I was 11 I thought I was going to grow up to be a tiger), and somehow it ended with a “resource” at the school — not an administrator — (not sure what a “resource” is, but it’s the term used in the article) recommending the police be called and the kid arrested, which he was. Then later his mom complained, and the ACLU got involved. Here’s the original trash fire some call “the news”, to which I will refer for the rest of this stupid ol’ blog post.
I now play the role of adult, doling out judgments and saying what any reasonable person would say:
1. The substitute teacher was wrong to get into a political argument with a 6th-grader. She should have said “OK, that’s your 11 year-old opinion” and let the kid sit out the Pledge quietly. If she really wanted the kid to open his eyes a bit she could have found a more teacherly way to do it, one where the end result would be him actually learning something new. (I would have just said something like “A lot of smart people agree with you, but there’s also a lot of smart people who don’t. You should find out what they’re saying.”) My blind guess is she was young, inexperienced, and maybe a bit of a hot-head. Also: K-12 teachers shouldn’t feel comfortable voicing their own political opinions online, in public, or in the classroom, at least not without cover of anonymity; a teacher is sort of a public figure and ought to maintain an apolitical image.
2. The ACLU was wrong to immediately assume race was a significant factor. There’s no evidence the school resource called the cops because the kid was black. From the report it sounds like he said and did things that were either violent or threatening of violence, and unfortunately we live in a time when schools need to take that kind of stuff seriously — the race or age of the student has nothing to do with it.
3. I’m guessing the resource (again, not an administrator — but what is a “resource”??) was following protocol more than making a judgment call. But that protocol sucks. I think it’s ridiculous to call the cops on an 11 year-old with no history of criminal behavior or violence, who was obviously just very upset and throwing a tantrum. The article doesn’t say explicitly that the kid had no record, but the mom says this was the first time something like this had happened to her son, so that’s evidence he was probably not a gang member or something. I agree with the mom that the best course of action would have been for the school itself to pursue their own disciplinary action and leave the cops out of it. But again, they probably aren’t allowed to.
4. The mom has no way of knowing what exactly her son did or didn’t say since she wasn’t there, so I’m inclined to trust what’s in the affidavit over her. And it says the kid threatened to beat the teacher, which could be fairly serious. Some 11 year-old black kids are pretty big, and some Cuban immigrant substitute teachers are pretty small. Even if it’s really just something he yelled in the midst of a silly temper tantrum, I can understand that potentially being perceived as a viable threat.
5. I don’t see anywhere that the substitute teacher “forced” the kid to say the Pledge, only that she argued with him about his reasoning to not say it. Plus it doesn’t sound like he ever actually said it! Therefore I’m having trouble understanding how his rights were violated. (His right to not have the teacher argue with him about politics?) If she had actually forced him in some way to say the Pledge, or even pursued disciplinary action specifically because he refused to say it, that seems important enough to include in the article. But it wasn’t, so…
6. Twitter turned this into a really pathetic game of telephone, and this whole affair helps validate my decision not to sign up for Twitter. First, the ACLU twittered about the WaPo story by implying the kid had had his rights violated, and that his being arrested had something to do with his being black. (Again: no clear evidence of either.) Then the National Coalition Against Censorship retwittered what the ACLU said, describing what happened as “responding to a student expressing an opinion in a classroom setting by enlisting the criminal justice system”. (That obviously is not what happened. The response was to his threats of violence.)
And then the person whose feed I was originally reading retwittered the NCAC’s retwittering by asserting that kids shouldn’t be asked, even politely, to recite the Pledge at all, because they “do not owe allegiance to anyone or anything,” and that “the idea that they do has no place in schools”.
Addressing this last bit: I don’t see any problem with teaching our kids to celebrate and uphold the country they live in, and it seems perfectly reasonable that public schools (and maybe private schools too) should play a role in teaching it. Reciting a Pledge is an unimaginative and relatively ineffective way to do that, but having all the kids stand up and mutter a few sentences at the start of the day is at least something you can get them to do regularly when you don’t have a lot of time to take away from other more important subjects. Most of the kids will then on their own time backfill reasons why the Pledge is appropriate and true, and a few will backfill reasons why it isn’t. Good enough. Then they’ll all grow up and form receive their opinions by other means anyway.
Kids absolutely do owe their allegiance to certain people and things, though. First of all, to their parents and siblings, except in rare and extreme circumstances such as when there is serious abuse.
Second of all, to their country. Kids, perhaps more than anyone else, are being protected against foreign enemies, not just by their country’s military but also by some of the nationalistic bits of their country’s culture (call this the “social contract” or something similar if you like). Of course, their country also provides public services that protect children from all kinds of other harm such as exploitation, crime, etc. At the end of the day this means there are adults who are willing to risk their own comfort and safety at least in part for the sake of children they’ve never met, all because those children live in the same country as them.
Also, not millions but billions of people all over the world say they would move to the US if they could, so it is almost objectively true that anyone who lives here is incredibly lucky and ought to be grateful. Allegiance is a basic but perfectly fine way to express gratitude.
There might be an argument that allegiance need not be taught either way; that the mere experience of living here will tend to imbue Americans with a sense of allegiance to their country. I don’t think this has been demonstrated, and I think it’s actually rather dangerous to assume it will happen because if it doesn’t then it’s hard to see how this country — a country so rich in opportunity, so high in living standards even among the poor, and so exemplary in stable functioning that half the world’s population wants to move here — it’s hard to see how this country can continue to be those things if people have no particular interest in conserving and maintaining the collection of systems that bound and protect it.
Countries really are a social construct. Fundamentally they are ideas. To persist over time they require people who are committed to those ideas. The kind of peace and prosperity that is possible inside the imaginary walls of a country cannot be had when no such walls exist, because then there is too much turbulence and not enough order. You can’t build a skyscraper on a raft that’s being tossed around on the ocean, or even on a rough patch of terrain — heck, you can’t build a sturdy shed there! You have to first do a bunch of ordering to that site, clear away obstructions, install a solid manmade foundation, etc. Yes, that can be seen as a destructive process and I suppose a lot of people do see it that way (even I am inclined to in certain contexts), but it’s very naive to declare that destruction and violence and brainwashing kids through rote repetition of Pledges is the beginning and end — the essence — of what’s going on. This is a country, and we’re trying to still have this country when we’re too old and decrepit to fight for it ourselves!
But that’s why a grown-up like me had to pipe in and say something. 😀
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Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station: Statuary and Sculptures
By David D. Morrison, Foreword by Lorraine Diehl
Opened in 1913, Grand Central Terminal is a world-famous landmark building with a magnificent 48-foot-high, 1,500-ton statuary group on top of the main facade. Designed by sculptor Jules-Felix Coutan, a 13-foot-wide Tiffany clock serves as the centerpiece. The figure above the clock is Mercury, with Hercules to the left and Minerva to the right. In the late 1990s, a historic restoration was performed on the terminal after which two cast-iron eagle statues were placed over entrances at Lexington Avenue and Forty-Second Street/Vanderbilt Avenue. These eagles were from the 1898 Grand Central Station building that was demolished in 1910 to make room for the construction of the new Grand Central Terminal structure. Penn Station, which opened in 1910, covered two full city blocks and had statuary groups, designed by sculptor Adolph Weinman, on all four sides of the building. After Penn Station was demolished in the mid-1960s, the statuary was dispersed throughout various locations, mainly in the Northeast.
Images of Rail
David D. Morrison is a retired Long Island Rail Road branch line manager and railroad historian. Author of six books in Arcadia Publishing’s Images of Rail series, he has researched the statuary and sculptures of Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station over the past 30 years. He was the catalyst for the placement of two cast-iron eagles that are at Grand Central Terminal today, and his research resulted in the Smithsonian Institution modifying a plaque at the National Zoo.
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Home Sport Alves: "It's a mark of respect"
Alves: "It's a mark of respect"
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One year after his last selection with Brazil, because of his knee injury, Dani Alves was therefore recalled by Titus for the next matches of the Seleçao against Panama and the Czech Republic (March 23 and 26).
A commented return on RMC Sport by the Brazilian, still motivated by the yellow jersey that he has already worn 107 times since October 2006: "It's one of those special days in my life, this selection is a reward, I take it as a mark of respect for my job, my professional life, but it's obvious that I have to do a lot more, and I'm going to focus on my football. I'm going to give back the confidence that has been put in me ".
In press conference, the Brazilian coach Titus explained the reasons for his return: "I want to have him close, he has played thirteen of PSG's last fourteen matches, I want to talk to him and use him as a right-back, he's a very important leader, and there's no need to go back on his career. speak for herself.
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New Routine Helps Touki Toussaint Shine
By Bill Ballew
Outfielder Drew Waters, a 2017 second-rounder out of the Atlanta area, has displayed his five-tool ability at a more polished level than the Braves expected at this point in his young career.
Serving as leadoff hitter for low Class A Rome, Waters is developing into a prototypical center fielder with pop. Aggressive in all phases of the game, he has displayed impressive range as well as a strong, accurate arm.
Waters' bat has above-average power with room to grow. Named a starter in the South Atlantic League all-star game, the switch-hitter hit .292/.340/.517 with eight home runs through 65 games to go with a league-leading 23 doubles.
"Drew Waters is going to be a very special player,” field coordinator Dave Trembley said. "He can run, throw, defend. He can hit for power and he can hit from both sides of the plate to all fields. He’s young, and he’s really made a lot of progress with his approach to professional baseball.”
The biggest contributor at Double-A Mississippi has been Southern League all-star and 22-year-old righthander Touki Toussaint.
Heralded as a potential star since the D-backs made him the 16th overall pick out of high school in 2014, Toussaint has blossomed after beginning the season as the seventh-youngest player in the SL. The Braves acquired him in 2015 in a cost-cutting trade made by Arizona.
He is mixing his power arsenal with improved control, which he used to lead the circuit with 107 strikeouts before he was promoted to Triple-A Gwinnett. He finished his SL time with a 2.93 ERA, .208 opponent average and an improved walk rate of 3.8 per nine inning.
"There’s been a real maturation process with Touki,” Trembley said. "We’ve always liked his physical abilities. What’s really helped elevate his game is the mental side. He’s established a definite routine before he pitches. I think he’s really taken to a game plan.
"We all like the stuff he has. He has an electric arm and he’s a great athlete with a real good finish on all of his pitches. His improvement has been noted each time he goes out there.”
** Shortstop Riley Delgado has been an unheralded piece to Rome’s success, which includes the first half crown in the SAL’s Southern Division. The Middle Tennessee State product’s contributions go beyond his league-leading 94 hits, second-ranked .332 average and fourth-ranked .378 on-base percentage. "He’s just a steady, steady baseball player,” Trembley said. "He doesn’t say a whole lot, but he has a presence on that young team.”
** Lefthander Bruce Zimmerman went 7-3, 2.76 in 14 starts at Rome before receiving a two-step bump to Mississippi. In his first Double-A start, he allowed one earned run, six hits and three walks while striking out 10 batters in 6.1 innings versus Pensacola.
Ranking baseball's 20 hottest prospects from last week, led by a Braves outfielder who is one of Double-A's most productive hitters.
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Labour conference: MMR benefit link 'interesting' but not policy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24210843
Image caption Experts have warned that a generation of children have not been vaccinated against measles
Taking child benefit away from parents whose children are not given the MMR vaccine is an "interesting idea", Labour's policy chief has said, while stressing it is not being considered.
Media reports suggesting the party was exploring making the universal benefit dependent on the jab have been denied.
Jon Cruddas, the MP drawing up plans for its 2015 manifesto, said he had no idea where the idea had come from.
"There are loads of ideas mentioned but it's not part of our policy," he said.
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has dismissed the idea out of hand, saying that making state assistance dependent on parental choice on vaccinations would be "punitive".
'Punishing parents'
Experts believe there are more than one million schoolchildren in England not protected against measles after research a decade ago linking the MMR (mumps, measles and rubella) vaccine with autism caused vaccination rates to plummet.
The research has since been discredited.
We would never say child benefit is conditional on taking a jab.
Ed Balls, Shadow chancellor
Earlier this year, the government launched a £20m campaign to encourage parents to get their children inoculated following a measles epidemic in Swansea, which saw more than 1,000 people infected.
Several newspapers suggested that Labour was considering making MMR take-up a condition of receiving child benefit as a way of asserting a clear link between welfare and behavioural choices.
But speaking at the party's conference in Brighton, Mr Cruddas - who has been heading the party's policy review since 2012 - said it was not part of Labour's thinking.
"There are loads of ideas that are mentioned. It was put to me and I said, 'Well, that's quite an interesting idea,' but it is not part of our policy.
"My job is the policy review in the party and this isn't part of it so I can't say anything more."
Asked about the issue, Mr Balls said he had had his children injected because he believed it was "the best way to keep them safe" but talk of any link between the vaccine and child benefit was untrue.
"There is no question of a Labour government ever taking child benefit away or punishing parents for choices they make on vaccinations.
"We would never say child benefit is conditional on taking a jab."
In Australia, payments of certain family benefits have been conditional on up-to-date immunisations for the past year although people were able to opt out as "conscientious objectors".
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Private Equity Firms Investing in International Hospital Chains
- Tuesday, April 22nd, 2014 Print | Email
TPG, a private equity firm with many U.S. healthcare investments, and a pharmaceutical group have agreed to acquire Chindex International for about $461 million.
Chindex is an American healthcare company, but it operates and manages several hospitals and ambulatory clinics throughout China. TPG manages $59 billion of assets and is no stranger to hospital chains: It is the primary funder of Franklin, Tenn.-based IASIS Healthcare.
Private equity firms have become mainstays among U.S.-based hospital operators, including Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America, Franklin, Tenn.-based Capella Healthcare and others. But the firms have also made a bigger push into international hospitals during the past several years.
For example, Sequoia Capital and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts have both invested in Apollo Hospitals, a major hospital chain based in India. Turkey's largest hospital company, Medical Park, has also exchanged hands with several private equity firms.
According to KPMG, global healthcare private equity deals have doubled from 2010 to 2011, and interest has been growing most in India, China, Brazil and Eastern European countries.
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'My children are not a number': Rocky mum turns lives around
CHANGED FUTURES: Bailee Stjernqvist, Penny Martin, Kazzi Doyle and Nathan Baira. Penny has taken in several teenagers who have turned their lives around with her help and support. Michelle Gately ROK180917martin1
by michellegately
Michelle Gately
20th Sep 2017 6:00 AM | Updated: 6:59 AM
WHEN Penny Martin came home to find two strangers hanging out with her teenage son, she was ready to tell them to get out.
By the end of her discussion with the boys she had taken in two new children.
One of the boys was homeless, had no identification or bank cards and needed to see a doctor.
The other had been expelled from a South Rockhampton school after racking up more than 60 days absent and lived with his mother near the airport with no means of transport to hang out with his friends.
Soon more teenagers joined Penny's brood, including people whose only other housing options were living on the riverbank or with siblings who had just been released from jail.
In the space of a year, she has taken in six teenagers between 16 and 19, adding to her three own "blood babies".
All of Penny's new "babies" were on the fast track to getting caught up in the justice system and growing up without an education.
Now, they have all started to turn their lives around.
You only have to spend an hour with Penny to see how deeply she cares for all her children. You only have to hear her choking up and see the tears welling in her eyes to understand just how proud she is of the progress they've all made.
They might not be winning school awards, but one of the teens who had been expelled is now in a new school and passing most subjects and has logged only 14 days absent this year.
Others have still struggled with the school system, a failing which Penny says is down to the way society looks at students or those struggling as individuals.
She believes more effort needs to be made to understand the reasons why individuals may lash out at school, or why they might end up in the juvenile justice system for flipping bottles and causing public nuisance in a shopping centre when it's the only place they have to go all day.
Penny said the cycle wouldn't be broken without systematic change to suit all individuals.
But even when Penny's boys have struggled, with her guidance and understanding they have found traineeships or work.
While Penny wouldn't change the outcome, "adopting'' so many extra children as a single parent with a small business has been a struggle.
Penny has worked with the State Government system to become a carer for one teenager, but it was a slow and laborious process.
"I don't have time for these boys if I wait for the system to fill in all their paperwork," she said.
"I need someone of importance to see what's inside my children and look at the individual.
"My children are not a number.
"People don't see them for who they are, they see them for what they are on the outside.
"If I can change six kids' pathways in one year on my own, with a little bit of support, if the government looked at it they could change a lot.
"They're not looking at it right. They haven't looked at ground zero, they haven't looked at what they kids are asking. They haven't asked the kids."
Penny said she was lucky to have grown up with a caring family and to have had the financial and educational backing she hopes to provide for her new children.
While it's a complicated system to change, Penny does have a small suggestion for how her children and everyone like them in Rockhampton could benefit.
She said improved funding for the PCYC could see teens in a safe and productive environment, rather than just hanging around shopping centres or fast food outlets.
"All our youths would be there, breaking the cycle way," Penny said.
"Make it look inviting and friendly to all youths, brown or white.
"They have connections for the individual, I can tell them the boys cannot read or write, have no self-esteem, but shops and fast food can only guide them to children's court.
"The staff at PCYC have helped me no end, but they can only do what they can in the hours they have.
"So when the kids are hungry, they steal. They're all over Rocky, trying to find a way to survive.
"I'd say police are crazy busy trying to keep control.
"If PCYC had better funding more staff, maybe the youths would use it.
"I am so proud of my family for being able to give up a few simple pleasures to be able to add their brothers from another mother to our home.
"We are not just numbers.
"We are our country's, state's, town's future."
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Report: Spammers Tied To JPMorgan Chase Hack
Feds Detail Pump-and-Dump, Plus Bitcoin Exchange Busts Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 22, 2015
The Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office has charged three men with running a pump-and-dump stock scheme that blasted out millions of spam emails per day to artificially "pump" up the price of penny stocks they owned, before the defendants allegedly "dumped" their stocks, making at least $2.8 million in profits. The scheme was reportedly also tied to hack attacks against financial services heavyweights JPMorgan Chase, Fidelity Investments and E*Trade Financial.
Separately, authorities also announced that two men have been arrested in Florida on charges that they ran an unlicensed online Bitcoin exchange that was used in part by cybercriminals based in the United States, Russia and beyond.
In the pump-and-dump case, an 11-count indictment unsealed by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney July 21 charges Gery Shalon, 31, Joshua Samuel Aaron, 31, and Ziv Orenstein, 40, with running and financing the spam email campaigns, which included "false and fraudulent statements" designed to create demand for U.S. publicly traded microcap stocks - "penny stocks" - that they owned in substantial quantities. In what's known as a pump-and-dump scheme, the men allegedly waited for the price of the stock to artificially inflate before they allegedly began selling - or dumping - their shares, to cash in on the rise of the stocks' value. The scheme allegedly ran from sometime in 2011 until May 2015.
The men face a number of wire fraud, document fraud and securities fraud charges, and Aaron and Shalon have also been charged with aggravated identity theft and money laundering.
But the suspects have reportedly also been tied to a 2014 hack attack against JP Morgan Chase that resulted in the theft of millions of customers' names and email addresses, which bank authorities initially blamed on the Russian government. Although none of the documents unsealed July 21 mention this alleged connection, according to an unnamed person that is familiar with the FBI's related investigation, the men are suspected of being tied to the hack of JPMorgan - and using stolen email addresses in their spam campaigns; they're also suspected of being tied to intrusions involving Fidelity Investments Ltd. and E*Trade Financial Corp., Bloomberg reports.
A spokesman for the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office didn't immediately respond to a related request for comment.
U.S. Suspect Remains At Large
Shalon and Orenstein were arrested by local police on July 21 at their respective residences in Israel, and U.S. authorities say they will seek the extradition of both men, who are Israeli citizens. But Aaron - a U.S. citizen who authorities say resides in the United States, as well as in Moscow and Tel Aviv - remains at large.
"As alleged, the defendants manipulated trading in U.S. securities from overseas, using fake identities to funnel millions of dollars in unlawful proceeds through a web of international shell companies," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara says. "Using false and misleading spam emails sent to millions of people, these defendants allegedly directed their pump-and-dump scheme from their computers halfway around the world."
The indictment accuses the suspects of using a variety of false identities to open bank and brokerage accounts in the United States, and operating a network of shell companies registered in the United Kingdom, British Virgin Islands and Cyprus. "Aaron acted as the scheme's 'front-man,' communicating with U.S.-based co-conspirators and others at the direction of Gery Shalon," according to the indictment. It says those co-conspirators, who were not named in the indictment, were based in New Jersey and Florida.
Separately, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has filed civil charges against Shalon, Aaron and Orenstein.
If convicted of all the charges contained in the Justice Department's indictment, Shalon and Aaron face up to 192 years in prison, while Orenstein faces up to 90 years. But investigators may have missed their chance to arrest Aaron, who was in St. Petersburg, Russia, with his wife as recently as July 19, based on her social media posts, Bloomberg reports. Russia has no extradition treaty with the United States (see FBI Hacker Hunt Goes 'Wild West').
Alleged Illegal Bitcoin Exchange
The U.S. Department of Justice has also announced charges against Anthony R. Murgio, 31, and Yuri Lebedev, 37, related to running an "unlicensed money transmitting business" called Coin.mx, and for using front companies named "Collectables Club" and "Currency Enthusiasts" to disguise their activities (see Tougher to Use Bitcoin for Crime?). "They sought to trick the major financial institutions through which they operated into believing that their unlawful Bitcoin exchange business was simply a members-only association of individuals who discussed, bought and sold collectable items, such as sports memorabilia," according to the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office.
The men allegedly funneled profits from the exchange to bank accounts in Cyprus, Hong Kong and Eastern Europe, and received hundreds of thousands of dollars from bank accounts in Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands. "In total, between approximately October 2013 and January 2015, Coin.mx exchanged at least $1.8 million for bitcoins on behalf of tens of thousands of customers," U.S. Secret Service special agent Tate Jarrow writes in a complaint against Lebedev, which was unsealed July 21.
Alleged Ransomware Payment Processing
Murgio, in another complaint unsealed the same day, has also been charged with money laundering and failing to file required "suspicious activity" reports related to ransomware victims claiming that they had used the exchange to pay off cybercriminals in an attempt to regain control of their PCs (see FBI Alert: $18 Million in Ransomware Losses).
Anyone who exchanges bitcoins or other virtual currencies can be subject to U.S. Treasury anti-money-laundering regulations - based on the amount of money they exchange - and those regulations also require the organization to register with the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, known as FinCEN, as well as develop and administer an effective anti-money-laundering program, and file regular, related reports.
But authorities say the business was never registered with FinCEN, or filed mandatory reports documenting any and all suspicious transactions.
"Murgio failed to file any Suspicious Activity Report as required by federal law and regulation with respect to numerous Bitcoin purchases conducted through Coin.mx by individuals who claimed they were being forced to make such purchases by cybercriminals who had gained remote control of their computers and were demanding 'ransom' payments in Bitcoins to relinquish control of those computers," FBI special agent Joel Decapua writes in Murgio's complaint.
The FBI complaint also alleges that Murgio installed Lebedev and others - including the exchange's alleged developer, who authorities have not named - on the board of directors of a credit union that Coin.mx used to process customer transactions. Authorities say that the related payment processing activities were discovered by the National Credit Union Administration, which forced the credit union to cease such processing, after which the suspects found overseas payment processing channels.
According to the FBI complaint, Coin.mx appeared to be working with one or more Russia-based payment processors in what authorities allege was an attempt to cultivate a customer base of Russia-based crooks who wanted to launder their criminal proceeds.
If convicted of all the charges filed against them, Lebedev faces a maximum of 10 years in prison, while Murgio faces up to 35 years in prison.
Do Cases, Suspects Overlap?
Pictured: Joshua Aaron (left), Anthony Murgio (center) and Joshua's wife Alona Aaron in Moscow in July 2015. Source: Instagram
But in a further twist to the case, Bloomberg reports that the hack attack against JPMorgan and the other financial firms may tie not just to the alleged pump-and-dump stock gang, but also the alleged Coin.mx masterminds. That's because Aaron and Murgio are reportedly friends from their time as Florida State University undergraduates more than a decade ago. In fact, just two weeks ago the two men were reportedly pictured together in Moscow in an Instagram photo, posted by Aaron's wife.
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New look Centenary Square opens to the public
Published: Wednesday, 3rd July 2019
One of Birmingham’s flagship public spaces was officially opened to reveal its new design in a special ceremony today (3 July).
Centenary Square’s new look was unveiled nearly five years after Birmingham City Council launched a competition to redesign one of the city’s biggest squares, which attracted 185 entries from more than 30 countries.
The winning entry, designed by Edinburgh-based firm Graeme Massie Architects, includes a mix of trees, small plants alongside a new reflection pool and integrated seating.
Cllr Brigid Jones, Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council, was joined by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Cllr Mohammed Azim and the Lady Mayoress, Bushra Bi, to open the square by switching on the pool’s 28 water jets.
The project was launched with a competition in October 2014, after the new Library of Birmingham had opened, to help regenerate the square and the Westside area of the city.
Cllr Brigid Jones said: “This is the next important stage in the re-imagining of Centenary Square: it is no longer just a space to pass through – it is now a world-class public space where people can stop, relax and socialise and take in the incredible things around them.”
Regeneration works were majority-funded by the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership, who awarded a £10.55m Enterprise Zone grant, with additional funds secured through Section 106 planning infrastructure levy (£1.2m) and city council funding (£3.8m).
Tim Pile, Chair of the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership, said: “We’re very excited to witness the opening of this world class space, reinforcing Birmingham’s status as a global city. This high quality public realm can be enjoyed by those living, working and visiting the city, and is the perfect centrepiece for the surrounding landmark buildings and developments.
“It will provide a key focal point for the broad range of public and private sector investments currently taking place adjacent to Centenary Square at Paradise, Arena Central, Symphony Hall and West Midlands Metro, and hopefully help to attract even more.”
Graeme Massie, architect who won the design competition, said: “We are delighted with the completion of our competition-winning proposals for Centenary Square, and now look forward to seeing it evolve into a key gathering place for the people of Birmingham and visitors to the city.”
Today’s event coincided with the opening day of Music for Youth’s National Festival, which is held at various venues across Birmingham from 3 to 6 July, featuring young musicians from all over the UK – including pupils from Oasis Academy Woodview, in Edgbaston, who performed djembe and steel pan pieces during the opening ceremony.
Judith Webster, Chief Executive of Music for Youth, said: “The National Festival is a real highlight of Music for Youth’s annual music programme. This is our 15th year hosting it in Birmingham and we’re always delighted to see performances from local talent as well as those who’ve travelled in from across the UK. Music plays such an important role in young people’s lives – it allows them to express themselves creatively and can have a really positive impact on their mental health – that’s why we keep coming back to Birmingham to celebrate and support the next generation of musicians!”
Margaret Willis, CEO of Unity Bank Trust, which is sponsoring the outdoor stages taking place in Centenary Square and across Birmingham, added: “At Unity, our goal is to lend responsibly to firms and organisations that share our vision to help create a better society. By providing a platform for young musicians across the country to perform and develop, Music for Youth is making a real difference to young peoples’ lives while demonstrating that they share our values.”
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The Al Habtoor Group owns and operates hotels throughout the Middle East through its subsidiary Habtoor Hospitality. Established more than 25 years ago the group is recognised as the most experienced Dubai-based international hotel company and is determined to retain this position. The hotel buildings reflect the modernity and importance of Dubai and Beirut as commercial and leisure hubs, but with its roots firmly based in the Middle East the company has used this heritage to ensure that the service levels at all its properties reflect the full hospitality traditions of the area. The company has developed three brands and each reflects a different market position: Habtoor Grand Hotels & Resorts are five-star plus properties, which reflect 'A Touch of Arabia'. The Metropolitan Palaces are five-star and promise 'An Oasis of Opulence', whilst the Metropolitans are first-class international hotels that offer a 'Smile of Arabia'. Recently the company opened Lebanon's first, fully fledged theme park - Habtoorland - a Phoenician realm of fantasy, adventure and excitement that travels back into history and legendary heroes. Altogether the park offers 27 thrill rides and attractions, four themed restaurants, a fast-food court, cafes, retail shops and a 1400-seat amphitheatre. Finally, looking to the future, the company is entering a period of rapid expansion: Habtoor Grand Hotel Convention Center & Spa opened in June 2005, Habtoor Grand Resort & Spa Jumeirah Beach opening 1st September 2005 and the Habtoor Grand Resort The Palm will open in 2007.
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‘Birdly,’ a Virtual Reality Flight Simulator, Is Coming to Cambridge
The installation will be set up at Le Laboratoire Cambridge for three days only.
By Olga Khvan· 11/12/2015, 2:18 p.m.
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From Daedalus and Icarus to Leonardo da Vinci to modern-day skydivers, humans have always wanted to fly.
Powered by a motion platform and virtual reality technology, an upcoming installation in Cambridge will offer people a full-body, multi-sensory experience of flying like a bird.
The flight simulator, called “Birdly,” was developed as a design research project at the Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland, headed by media artist Max Rheiner. Earlier this year, it made stops in New York City, San Francisco, and the Sundance Film Festival.
Now, Swiss consulate swissnex Boston is bringing “Birdly” to Le Laboratoire Cambridge, the gallery portion of the experimental space in Kendall Square that also encompasses Café ArtScience.
The installation will be set up at Le Lab for three days, from December 2 through December 5, inviting visitors to don a pair of Oculus Rift 3D goggles, strap themselves in on the platform, and flap their arms as if they’re wings as they fly through a virtual New York City setting. To complete the experience, a fan set up in front of the platform will blow air into the user’s face, with level of force dependent on flight speed.
“Everyone at some point has dreamed of flying, and ‘Birdly’ provides a vivid, immersive experience that simulates that one-of-a-kind sensation,” said Rheiner, who will give a lecture at the opening reception, in a press release. “‘Birdly’ will make you feel like a kid again.”
Visitors will be able to try out “Birdly” for free, but will have to show up at Le Lab to schedule same-day appointments. Open hours will be held from noon to 9 p.m. on December 2, 3, and 4, and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on December 5.
For more information, visit lelaboratoirecambridge.com.
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Suffolk Family Carers launches Young Adult ID Card at West Suffolk Hospital to mark Carers Week
By Rhoda Morrison
rhoda.morrison@iliffepublishing.co.uk
Published: 07:00, 16 June 2019
Young carers find themselves up against challenges on a daily basis.
But a new scheme launched at West Suffolk Hospital this week will help to take some of the weight of their shoulders.
In partnership with West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Suffolk Family Carers has created a new Young Adult Carers Identification Card which will enable those aged 16 to 24 to be recognised as care providers and have access to medical information.
Launch of the Suffolk Family Carers Young Adult Carers NHS ID card at West Suffolk Hospital.....PICTURE: Mecha Morton... (12093786)
Emily Meadows, young people’s service manager at Suffolk Family Carers, said: “This ID card is really important as young adult carers often go unnoticed when healthcare professionals are dealing with their patients.
“This card will enable them to identify themselves so that they can be involved in decision making and discharge planning, and will help to increase awareness of young carers and young adult carers among healthcare professionals.”
Chloe Hunter-King, who is a student at Thurston Sixth Form, is one of thousands in the county who could benefit from the scheme.
The 17-year-old cares for her 13-year-old brother Johnathon who has cerebral palsy, with her duties including getting him up and ready for school as well as general caring for him and entertaining him.
She has also cared for her older brother and grandmother in the past.
Launch of the Suffolk Family Carers Young Adult Carers NHS ID card at West Suffolk Hospital..Pictured: Chloe...PICTURE: Mecha Morton... (12093790)
“I’m lucky because caring for Johnathon doesn’t usually mean that I have to come to hospital very often but it’s great to know that if you should ever have to, that you will be noticed and taken seriously,” she said.
“I know other young carers who are in and out of hospital with their family members all the time and this will make the world of difference to them.
“It’s all about recognition for what we do. A lot of people think it’s just a family duty to look after someone but it’s hard work and it takes its toll on the carer as well.
“So it’s important to recognise carers and make their job a little easier which I think this will definitely do.”
Another young adult carer called Sophie said: “The Young Adult Carers ID Card is such a good idea as it means that we won’t be overlooked by healthcare professionals just because of our age.
“Professionals can assume that they are protecting us by not including us in conversations but we are already caring for our loved ones and have a good understanding of their needs.
“Having a card will make it easier to talk to healthcare professionals and will give me the confidence to speak up if I’m not being involved.”
Dr Stephen Dunn, chief executive at the hospital, which has been named a carer friendly hospital, said: “We really appreciate the vital health and wellbeing support family carers provide to our patients, and ensuring our young adult carers are identifiable and included in some really important conversations about the care needs of their loved ones is vital.
“We hope this initiative reaps positive benefits for our patients, carers and our healthcare professionals, and that together we can improve the health outcomes of those in our care.”
The system was launched on Monday, coinciding with the start of National Carers Week, which aims to celebrate and provide support to the 6.5 million carers across the UK who often sacrifice their own health and wellbeing to carry out their caring duties.
Research conducted by Carers UK found that almost three quarters of carers in the UK said they had suffered mental ill health as a result of caring for others, while more than 60 per cent said their physical health had worsened.
And with Suffolk Family Carers providing support to children as young as five, Emily said that identifying those who need support and helping them to cope is as important as ever.
“Some 88,000 children and adults across Suffolk provide care, unpaid, for a disabled, older or ill family member or friend,” said Emily.
“Whilst caring can be rewarding, without the right support it can also take a serious toll on a carer’s health, relationships and finances.
“That’s why this Carer’s Week, we are asking individuals and communities across Suffolk to do what they can to make life that little bit easier for carers.”
She added: “Carers Week just gives everyone a chance to really think about what these people young and old have sitting on their shoulders which means they can help us to help them as best as possible.”
This week has seen the Suffolk Family Carers bus tour the county, visiting supermarkets and leisure centres to provide information and advice.
The team also pays visits to schools, hospitals and GP surgeries to ensure that any carers who may be suffering in silence are identified and given the appropriate support.
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5 Pros and Cons of Facebook Advertising for Small Businesses
Perhaps not so long ago you could survive without online advertising. That’s no longer true today, however. Consumers now automatically turn to the internet when looking for a service or product, even if they mean to go to the shop afterwards to actually pick it up.
For most people – especially the younger generation – the simple rule of thumb now is, ‘if you’re not online, then you don’t exist.’ And if that younger generation is the future for your business, then that isn’t an acceptable situation. Therefore, the question really shouldn’t be, ‘do I advertise online?’ but rather, ‘where do I advertise online?’
Facebook is one option. But should you choose it over its rivals and other forms of advertising? Let’s look at the pros and cons.
PRO It’s the biggest
More than 70 percent of internet users have an account on Facebook, with over half using the site regularly. Twitter is at only half that. What’s more, Facebook is still growing, while Twitter growth numbers have been flat for over a year. In other words, Facebook is the biggest and it’s going to stay that way for some time. What that means is that Facebook has far deeper penetration than most other social networks. You can reach everybody from young to old, from technophobe to even most technophobes. No other network has that – or will, to judge by the numbers.
CON It’s not quite so cool anymore
That said, the network isn’t the coolest kid on the block – how can it be when even grandma has a site? For that title you’ve now got to look at Pinterest, Essay Republic, Snapchat and Instagram. That is also where you’ll disproportionately find the Millennials (who are often the most sensitive to what’s hot and what’s not), so if you want to target a younger audience, Facebook might not be the places to go.
PRO It is advertising platform is mature
Facebook has been working on advertising for a while. That means that most of the kinks have already been worked out and it is incredibly easy for a business to target those people they want to, as well as explore the statistics of their audience. This allows business owners to easily tweak their message and who they’re targeting without needing a deep understanding of how to analyze or make sense of the numbers.
CON It is a social network, not a business network
That said, most people use Facebook for social reasons and aren’t all that interested in the businesses that are on the site. This means that unless you’re good at creating engaging content that is quite different from what everybody else is doing, your rate of engagement will be low.
PRO You do not need another site
As almost everybody is on Facebook when you launch a campaign somewhere else on the internet to drive viewers to your site, you don’t need to use several social platforms. With other platforms you don’t have this luxury. You’ll need several just to make certain that you’ve got most people covered. That can both be confusing for your customers and add extra work for you and your business.
CON There are a lot of fake profiles
At 83 million, the number of fake profiles on the website is significant. And though Facebook works hard to get rid of these accounts, it would seem it’s not a problem that will go away. Fake accounts mean fake clicks and fake likes. These eat up the money you’ve invested in marketing, without actually generating any returns. What’s more, some businesses actually go under as their content doesn’t reach their intended audience. That is obviously not a situation anybody would like to be in.
PRO Like buttons are everywhere
And where there are like buttons, there is Facebook – measuring, weighing and gathering statistics on who is doing what. In fact, the only other company who can say they know as much about their customers as Facebook is Google. And obviously you’re already advertising there, right? When you’re advertising on Facebook you’ve got access to that knowhow to target exactly those customers you’re after.
CON It takes a lot of time
To manage your business Facebook account you should log in on a daily basis, so as to respond to comments, show activity and engage. That’s a big burden for many people who are trying to run a business. Of course, some of us are good at making friends and at engaging socially – in fact the right personality type can feel recharged by doing this. For others, however, it’s just another task to add to that massive heap of things that need doing.
PRO Your content can snowball and even go viral
This has to be the biggest one of them all. Through social media it is possible for your content to reach far beyond its initial audience and reach thousands, perhaps millions if it happens to go viral. Now obviously this is not an easy thing to accomplish. Making things go viral takes luck, science and a lot of sweat and hard work. But the fact that it is possible (and easier) on Facebook makes advertising there immensely valuable.
CON The conversion rate is low
The click through from ads is low, running between 0.18% to 0.36% globally. In other words, somewhere between one in 250 and one in 500 people that see your ad is likely to click through to what you’re trying to sell. And from there how many will actually buy your product? That means that particularly if you’re advertising based on per view, you’re not getting a great deal of bang for your buck.
To me it seems pretty straightforward. You have to have a Facebook presence. There are just too many people on the network for you not to be there. The real question is, do you push only on Facebook or do you also push on other social sites? There the question is harder to answer. It depends on who you’re trying to reach and how much time you’ve got. You’ll have to weigh the pros and the cons. That doesn’t change the verdict, however. You need a Facebook presence – even if it only serves to point people through to your actual site
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Judge presiding over Mike Flynn's case has been recused
Sarah Lynch, Nathan Layne,
Dec. 8, 2017, 12:40 AM
Michael Flynn.
AP Photo/Susan Walsh
The judge presiding over the criminal case for the former national security adviser Michael Flynn has been recused.
Flynn last week pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia.
Flynn's sentencing will be overseen by another US District Court judge.
The US District Court for the District of Columbia judge presiding over the criminal case for President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn has been recused from handling the case, a court spokeswoman said on Thursday.
According to a court filing, Judge Rudolph Contreras, who presided over a December 1 hearing where Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia, will no longer handle the case.
The spokeswoman, Lisa Klem, did not say why Contreras was recused and added that the case was randomly reassigned.
Reuters could not immediately learn the reason for the recusal or reach Contreras.
An attorney for Flynn declined to comment.
Flynn's sentencing will now be overseen by US District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan. Sullivan is an appointee of President Bill Clinton.
Flynn was the first member of the Trump administration to plead guilty to a crime uncovered by the special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing, wide-ranging investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 US presidential election and whether any Trump campaign aides colluded with Moscow. Russia has denied meddling in the election, and Trump has dismissed any suggestion of collusion.
Flynn has agreed to cooperate with Mueller's investigation.
A sentencing date has not yet been set, but the parties are due to return to court on February 1 for a status report hearing.
Contreras was appointed to the bench in 2012 by President Barack Obama.
He was also appointed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in May 2016 for a term lasting through 2023. That court issues warrants that allow Justice Department officials to wiretap individuals, a process that has been thrown into the spotlight amid the Russia investigation.
The most recent controversy related to so-called FISA warrants involves Peter Strzok, a senior FBI agent who was removed from the Russia investigation for having exchanged text messages with a colleague that could be perceived as anti-Trump.
At a hearing on Thursday at the House Judiciary Committee, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan pressed FBI Director Christopher Wray on whether Strzok used a former British spy's dossier of allegations of links between Russia and Trump's campaign and associates to obtain a FISA warrant to surveil Trump's transition team.
Sullivan previously served on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals under appointments by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, respectively.
(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch and Nathan Layne; editing by Sandra Maler, Toni Reinhold)
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October 7, 2010: 2010, Issue 40
October 7, 2010 / News / Bronx Times Reporter
Bank on Crosby has community focus
Max Mitchell
Sandwiched between a neighborhood pastry shop and half a dozen pubs and bodegas along Crosby Avenue, a small-business oriented community bank has opened its doors.
The Queens-based Alma Bank had its grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, September 22, at the new branch at 1705 Crosby Avenue.
The facility is a full-service bank, with two 24-hour ATMs, a drive-through teller, and a parking space in the back.
This is the eighth branch the bank has opened since the company began in 2008. It is the first Bronx location.
“A business and family-oriented bank is absolutely needed here,” Bronx Chamber of Commerce executive director, Lenny Caro, said. “It is another plus for the borough of the Bronx.”
Since starting the business two years ago, the bank has opened four locations in Queens and three in Brooklyn.
According to the company planning and development director, Renos Kourtides, the bank strives to satisfy the local needs of each community in which they have a branch.
“We are very active in lending. We do a lot with family-owned businesses. Seldom do we loan to large corporations,” he said.
“A lot of banks today don’t have the appetite for smaller loans. We like to concentrate on meeting the needs of multicultural neighborhoods like this.”
Kourtides said the company loaned about $250 million to businesses in the past year. He said starting the company after the country’s economic meltdown helped it avoid the debts and bad loans that brought down many other banks in the past few years.
The company began leasing the Crosby Avenue property several months ago, but had to completely renovate the facility, which was formerly a $99-cent store. The branch had a soft opening about a month ago to test the software and technology at the new location.
Everything went smoothly, Kourtides said.
“We are happy to be here,” he said. “We have a lot of customers already that came to us for their business.”
For Assemblyman Michael Benedetto, the bank is a good omen for Pelham Bay.
“It’s a wonderful addition to our neighborhood and you have really displayed your confidence in our community here,” he told Kourtides.
Senator Ruth Hassell-Thompson was so impressed with the facility during the Wednesday grand opening that she asked bank representatives if they would consider opening a branch in Mount Vernon, an area she represents.
“I love banks,” she said. “The Bronx is growing and this is a sign of prosperity.”
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Strain gauge
Strain gauge, device for measuring the changes in distances between points in solid bodies that occur when the body is deformed. Strain gauges are used either to obtain information from which stresses (internal forces) in bodies can be calculated or to act as indicating elements on devices for measuring such quantities as force, pressure, and acceleration.
Until the 1930s most strain gauges used either compound mechanical lever systems or mirrors and optical levers. Magnifications as high as 1,200 to 1 were common, and deformations as small as about 1 micron (0.00005 inch) were measured. The gauge lengths on these instruments were from 1/2 to 1 in. (1 1/4 to 2 1/2 cm), and their comparatively large size and weight made them incapable of responding faithfully to the fluctuating strains resulting from dynamic loading.
The resistance strain gauge is a valuable tool in the field of experimental stress analysis. It operates on the principle, discovered by the British physicist William Thompson (later Lord Kelvin) in 1856, that the electrical resistance of a copper or iron wire changes when the wire is either stretched or compressed.
The gauge shown in the figure consists of a length of very fine wire looped into a grid pattern and cemented between two sheets of very thin paper. It is firmly glued (bonded) to the surface on which the strain is to be measured and is energized by an electric current. When the part is deformed, the gauge follows any stretching or contracting of the surface, and its resistance changes accordingly. This resistance change is amplified and converted into strain, after proper calibration.
The wire-type grids were the first commercial form of the resistance gauge; they are now produced as flat foils by printed-circuit techniques, in the form of a grid on a plastic backing.
Resistance gauges are made in a variety of shapes, sizes, and types, mostly about the size of a postage stamp; gauge lengths as short as 0.015 in. (0.038 cm) are available, and strains as small as 0.000001 inch per inch can be detected. These gauges can be used on the surface of almost any solid material or imbedded in the interior of concrete; being light, they are particularly suitable for measuring rapidly varying strains and the strains in rotating shafts.
Resistance gauges can be classified as transducers, i.e., devices for converting a mechanical displacement into an electrical signal.
Two other methods of measuring the strain on an object are photoelasticity and stress-analysis holography. Photoelasticity provides a visual method of observing the strain on an object by viewing the effects of polarized light on a bi-refringent (double-refracting) material bonded to the object. As the test object is stressed, fringe patterns in the bi-refringent material represent the regions of strain within the object. Stress holography also allows direct visual observation of the strain on an object. The hologram of an object is superimposed over the object. As long as the original object and the hologram match, nothing is observed. If the object is stressed, however, fringe patterns form from which the strain on the object can be determined.
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…mechanical transducer-sensing device is a strain gauge based on the change in electrical resistance of a wire or a semiconductor material under strain. Another externally energized transducer, called the variable-reluctance type, is one in which the magnetic circuit is broken by an air gap. The mechanical movement to be measured…
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Photoelasticity, the property of some transparent materials, such as glass or plastic, while under stress, to become doubly refracting (i.e., a ray of light will split into two rays at entry). When photoelastic materials are subjected to pressure, internal strains develop that can be observed in polarized light; i.e., light…
Strain, in physical sciences and engineering, number that describes relative deformation or change in shape and size of elastic, plastic, and fluid materials under applied forces. The deformation, expressed by strain, arises throughout the material as the particles (molecules, atoms, ions) of which…
Machine, device, having a unique purpose, that augments or replaces human or animal effort for the accomplishment of physical tasks. This broad category encompasses such simple devices as the inclined plane, lever, wedge, wheel and axle, pulley, and screw (the so-called simple machines) as well as…
Measurement, the process of associating numbers with physical quantities and phenomena. Measurement is fundamental to the sciences; to engineering, construction, and other technical fields; and to almost all everyday activities. For that reason the elements, conditions, limitations, and theoretical…
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Don’t Buy the Index, Buy Stocks
By Elliott H. Gue, on Apr. 14, 2014
Jan. 29, 1993 was an important day for the US market.
It’s not that the broader market saw a big move: The S&P 500 rose an insignificant 0.12 points and the Nasdaq managed to eke out a gain of a little over 2 points.
Nor did interest rates move much – the yield on the 10-year government bond fell from 6.39 to 6.36 in a quiet session.
And commodity markets were also uneventful, with oil down about 1 percent to just $20.26/bbl and gold up $3 to $332.5 an ounce.
However, that late January day 21 years ago was the launch pad for one of the most popular financial tools in market history. Today this asset class holds over $1.67 trillion in net investor assets.
Expectations at the time weren’t high. An official for the American Stock Exchange, where this product was listed for trading, was quoted saying that the exchange would be happy if the new listing managed over 100,000 shares traded on its first day and they hoped it would catch on with individual investors over time.
As it turns out, the new product traded on volume of a little over 1 million after its initial offering, about 10 times what the exchanged had hoped. But that was only a shadow of what was to come – today this product averages volume of well over 100 million per day and routinely sees 300 million or more units change hands.
In the month of December 2008, volumes approached 27.6 billion shares.
Of course, I’m talking about what’s now known as the SPDR S&P 500 exchange-traded fund (ETF) trading under the symbol “SPY.”
Spider Senses
Launched in early 1993, this was the first ETF listed on the US exchanges and was designed to track the performance of the S&P 500 Index, the most widely used benchmark of US stock market performance.
According to the Investment Company Institute (ICI) there are now nearly 1,200 ETFs traded in the US alone tracking everything from stock indexes to commodities and the bond market. As I noted earlier, total assets invested in US ETFs have soared to nearly $1.7 trillion.
Aiding the growth in this asset class has been heavy marketing spending on the part of financial institutions that issue these ETFs and earn fees for managing funds.
And given that popularity and the attention ETFs garner through marketing, it’s hardly a surprise that I’m often asked if there’s a way to track our strategies and recommendations solely using ETFs.
It’s not that I have an issue or objection to ETFs in general. I’ve personally owned and traded ETFs and options based on ETFs on many occasions. And the product makes a lot of sense: by purchasing an index of stocks through an ETF, investors can get instant diversification, all for a single commission. Management fees are usually modest in comparison to fees charged by mutual funds.
Moreover, some ETFs allow retail investors to access investments and asset classes they could not otherwise participate in. Examples include ETFs tracking the performance of tough-to-trade emerging or frontier markets like India or Vietnam. Another example would be ETFs tracking foreign bond markets and currencies.
In short, ETFs are a useful tool for investors.
That said, these exchange-traded products also have some significant shortcomings; in virtually all cases, I believe investors can earn superior returns by investing in individual stocks rather than a fund or ETF.
A classic example is the Master Limited Partnership (MLPs), a high income group we cover in Capitalist Times Premium’s sister publication, Energy & Income Advisor.
Why I Love MLPs
MLPs offer two major advantages for investors: high yields and tax deferral advantages. The average MLP yields around 6 percent and a large portion of your annual distributions are not taxed until you sell the MLP, allowing investors to defer most of their tax liabilities for years and, in some cases, indefinitely.
In Energy & Income Advisor we publish two model MLP portfolios, one aimed at conservative investors and one aimed at more aggressive investors willing to put up with more volatility to earn a higher average yield.
We also cover every single publicly traded MLP in our coverage universe, offering buy and sell advice for subscribers looking for advice on MLPs not currently part of our model portfolios.
The Alerian MLP Index is a widely watched benchmark of the industry’s performance and includes 50 of the largest publicly traded MLPs.
The Alerian has performed spectacularly well over the past five years, generating gains of about 275 percent or over 27 percent annualized. Over the past year, the Alerian has returned a solid 13.7 percent, though that’s significantly worse than the S&P 500’s 20 percent gain over the same time frame.
Nevertheless, many ask me if the JP Morgan Alerian MLP ETF (NYSE: AMJ) – an ETF tracking the performance of the Alerian – is a reasonable alternative to buying the individual MLPs we recommend.
The problem with the JP Morgan Alerian product, is a flaw shared by most publicly traded ETFs: The fund is weighted by market capitalization. That means that the largest MLPs account for a disproportionate share of the ETF’s performance and assets. In this case, the 7 largest MLPs account for almost 52 percent of assets in the ETF.
Sadly, some of our favorite MLPs are smaller names that account for only a minuscule share of the Alerian ETF or, in many cases, are too small to be included in the index.
An example includes Hi-Crush Partners LP (NYSE: HCLP), an MLP we recently sold from our Model Portfolio to book a more than 60 percent gain since our recommendation in September 2013.
The publicly traded partnership operates silica sand mines in Wisconsin that produce proppant, a critical component in hydraulic fracturing. This crush-resistant sand ensures that the cracks created during the fracturing process remain propped open, facilitating the flow of hydrocarbons into the well.
In recent quarters, several producers have indicated that upping the amount of proppant in their fracturing fluid has improved recovery rates–great news for Hi-Crush Partners, which enjoys the industry’s lowest supply costs.
At the time of recommendation, Hi-Crush Partners yielded 7.7 percent, about 1.5 percent more than the average MLP and the stock has outpaced the Alerian MLP Index by nearly 53 percent since our recommendation.
However, Hi-Crush is a small MLP that’s relatively obscure and not as widely followed as large-cap names like Enterprise Products Partners LP (NYSE: EPD). It’s not even a component of the Alerian Index so purchasing the Alerian ETF would have given you no exposure to the strong gains in this stock.
Smaller, under-the-radar MLPs are the main reason the MLPs in our model portfolios are handily outpacing the Alerian Index over an equivalent holding period. You won’t find these names in the ETF.
If you’re interested in learning more about our favorite high-yield MLPs, now is a great time to try a risk-free trial to Energy & Income Advisor. There’s still time to join this month’s exclusive, subscriber-only chat where Roger and I will answer all of your questions about stocks, commodities, the economy or any other topic you’d like to address.
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Choosing a Career
The 10 Coolest Careers in Food
Michi Ancheta
Having a food related career sounds like a dream job, you get to experiment with the finest ingredients, discover new flavours that you wouldn’t have known and unlike most 9-to-5 jobs, every day brings new surprises and challenges.
And while becoming a chef is the most popular choice for people interested in the culinary industry, unfortunately, not everyone is born to be the next Gordon Ramsay or Nigella Lawson. But that doesn’t mean you can’t utilize your passion somewhere else.
The catering industry is bustling with numerous opportunities available for those seeking to find their niche. So, if you’re looking to have a career in the culinary arts, here are some awesome jobs that are worth considering!
1. Food Stylist
Have you ever seen an ice cream advert and asked yourself, ‘hey, how does that ice cream never melt?’ That’s because they’re actually potatoes (mind-blowing, right?!). These and other techniques are what food stylists use to make their goods looks appetizing whether on print or on TV.
While they’re not necessarily culinary experts, food stylists are essential to the industry because they help to promote and sell their products. They also work closely with a lot of influential people in the industry including chefs, editors and restaurateurs.
Average Salary: $62,334 (£47,167) per year
2. Research and Development Chefs
If you’ve ever wondered how companies come up with flavours like Jalapeno Ice Cream or Buffalo Wing Soda (yes, it’s a real thing), then you can thank the good people of the research and development (R&D) team. Their key duties include creating new products and discovering new flavours for the industry, be it for a small restaurant or an established conglomerate.
Most R&D chefs have a culinary and scientific background since knowledge in both studies are necessary for their profession. Apart from creating unique ideas, they’re also tasked to attend trade shows, create client presentations and come up with recipes that can easily be replicated by a member of their team. If you love experimenting with food and flavours, this job is definitely for you.
3. Food Photographer
Unlike people, food doesn’t have the ability to follow or take orders. Which is why when it comes to shooting them, no ordinary photographer will do.
Food photographers often experiment with products to find out how to make them appear more appealing on screen. They take photos from different angles, use special lenses and spend a lot of time on their lighting to get the perfect shot. Much like stylists, these kind of photographers are also highly in-demand because of their unique skills.
Becoming a sommelier is an intense and laborious process but the people who pass are rewarded with a lucrative career. Contrary to popular belief, there’s more to the job than sniffing and tasting an endless supply of wine.
Sommeliers are highly-educated in the wine industry and have to undergo several exams before they’re certified. But if living the high life and enjoying the vineyard suits your taste, then this could be a good fit for you.
Average Salary: $47,788 (£36,181)
5. Food Critic
Perhaps one of the most coveted culinary jobs is to become a food critic, largely because the profession (literally) requires eating for a living. But critics have their fair share of challenges, which include refusing briberies, avoiding threats and sometimes, choosing a life of anonymity to keep their opinions unbiased. Apart from having a great palate, food critics must also be talented writers.
Average Salary: $45000 (£34,183)
6. Restaurant Publicist
As the title suggests, restaurant publicists are responsible for ensuring that restaurants get the publicity or attention they need to thrive. They create press releases, communicate with different media outlets and maintain relationships with critics to ensure the restaurant’s good standing. They also work with marketing to come up with effective social media strategies.
Of course, the best way to sell a restaurant is to be familiar with what it has to offer. Oftentimes, publicists will get to taste new items on the menu before it even hits the market, so they can properly promote it. But it’s not all fun and games as they also have the unfortunate task of putting out fires when a restaurant or its chef gets into a scandal.
7. Cake Decorator
Unlike bakers and pastry chefs, cake decorators have a responsibility to make baked goods that are visually appealing and equally delicious. Theirs is a technical skill that requires a lot of trial and error. Cake decorators are especially in-demand during holidays and wedding seasons, where a cake’s main function is to dazzle and wow the guests.
8. Appliances and Technology Tester
Every once in a while, when you’re strolling aimlessly between grocery aisles or switching channels because of insomnia, you stumble upon a kitchen product and think, ‘huh. I wonder who tests banana guards for a living.’ Because someone does, and that someone holds the position of Appliances and Technology (A&T) Tester.
If you’ve always loved playing with kitchen gadgets as a child, then this is definitely your dream job. A&T testers are in charge of reviewing and rating a product either before or as soon as they hit the shelves.
Average Salary: $26,427(£20,000) per year
9. Food Forager
Foragers explore forests, climb mountainsides and visit estuaries to find and collect a chef’s most sought-after ingredients. They must have an intimate knowledge of various flora and fauna and where to find them. A relatively new profession that’s quickly gaining ground, it’s a good fit for those who love food and adventure, presenting many perks for those who don’t want a 9 to 5 job.
However, being a forager isn’t for the faint-hearted. On the job, you’ll be exposed to a lot of dangerous elements like unpredictable climate changes and unfamiliar terrains. Apart from that, your source of income is also very unstable since it will largely depend on demand and weather conditions.
Since foraging is still a new profession, there’s no concrete data on potential earnings, however, according to the Independent, foragers usually earn £50 ($66) a week.
10. Food Entrepreneur
Unlike restaurateurs, food entrepreneurs focus on specific culinary items and perfect the recipe to make sure that they’re commercially viable. They also don’t put in as much capital and would normally create their products on a per order basis.
Whether it’s bottling up your family’s perfect barbecue sauce or selling your very own batch of red velvet cookies, becoming a food entrepreneur is a great career option, especially since previously hard to reach markets, are now easily accessible through the help of social media.
Since most food entrepreneurs are self-employed, there’s no standard rate for salaries. But, if you’ve got a good product, you can earn up to £1,000 ($1,300) a week, like 11-year-old Henry Patterson who set up a booming sweet business.
As the industry grows, more and more career options open up for those who are massive foodies but don’t necessarily fit the more typical professions. From food blogging to becoming a master chocolatier, the choices for food jobs are endless. But as with any career, the key to succeeding is to persevere despite hardships and to keep looking until you find the right fit.
Salary information is based on data compiled and published by PayScale and Glassdoor. Currency conversions are based on rates supplied by XE.com on 12 July 2018.
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Google Lunar X Prize competition ends without a…
Google Lunar X Prize competition ends without a winner
PUBLISHED: January 24, 2018 at 12:55 pm | UPDATED: May 30, 2018 at 10:25 pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Millions of dollars offered in the Google Lunar X Prize competition will go unclaimed despite a decade of work.
X Prize Foundation officials said Tuesday that none of the five finalist teams will be able to make a launch attempt to reach the moon by the March 31 deadline.
The competition announced by the foundation and Google on Sept. 13, 2007, sought to spur private development of lunar missions.
The winner would have had to land a craft on the moon, move it at least 547 yards (500 meters) across the lunar surface and transmit specific images and data back to Earth.
The grand prize was $20 million, with millions more for achieving specific mission milestones. More than $5 million was already awarded for progress in mission preparations.
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How Product Placement Went Wrong For Transformers 4
By Dirk Libbey
Product placement is a tried and true method for building a brand’s awareness among an audience. The movie makes money to help offset the costs of filming, long before any box office dollars come in, and the brand in question gets noticed by millions of people, and most of the time it’s not ridiculously blatant, so it doesn’t have a great impact on the audience's enjoyment of the movie. It’s a win-win for everybody involved. Unfortunately, the most recent Transformers film did not have a perfectly smooth experience regarding its product placement. It appears they forgot to put some into the film and now they’re being sued for $27.7 million.
While the lawsuit was filed back in 2014, it is only being heard in the Chinese court system now. According to the complaint, Wulong Karst Tourism, a state-owned tourism company in China paid Paramount Pictures $750,000 to have their logo, the Chinese characters "China Wulong" featured in the final cut of Transformers: Age of Extinction. According to The Hollywood Reporter, part of the film was shot on resort property and the company wanted Chinese audiences to know this by seeing the logo. This did not happen. Now Paramount and the film’s Chinese producers, China Movie Channel, are being sued.
For their part, Paramount and China Movie Channel have apparently admitted that the logo was left out. However, they took steps to try and give Wulong Karst Tourism their money’s worth in other ways. Transformers: Age of Extinction director Michael Bay recorded and advertisement for the resort, and the production team left the props and sets that were used at Wulong Karst National Park intact, so that they could be used to attract tourists. It appears this was not viewed as sufficient reparations.
It’s not clear why the agreed upon product placement was omitted from the final film. It’s possible that the scene that originally included the logo ended up being cut from the film and it wasn’t replaced elsewhere. It’s also possible, though unlikely, that it was simply an oversight. Although, to be fair, the sheer volume of product placement in Transformers: Age of Extinction is such that maybe it just got lost in the shuffle.
Either way, this is turning into an expensive omission. Even if the court finds that the steps the producers took are acceptable and the verdict doesn’t cost them any more money, it’s still very likely that the legal fees of fighting it will make the money they made on the deal fade away.
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Update: Demonstrating Comprehensive Sickness Insurance for EEA Nationals
In order to qualify for a document certifying permanent residence under EU law, EEA nationals who have been students and/or self-sufficient during their qualifying period for permanent residence must have held Comprehensive Sickness Insurance (CSI) during that time. This is not a requirement under the UK’s EU Settlement Scheme and further information on that scheme can be found here.
For those making an application under EU law, the published Guidance sets out the specified documents the Home Office will accept as evidence that this requirement is met.
The ability to lawfully use the National Health Service (NHS) is not regarded as a form of CSI, a position that is questionable at best, and the European Commission is currently investigating the UK for a potential breach of EU law.
Unfortunately, some EEA nationals are still unaware of the requirement to hold CSI until an application for a document certifying permanent residence is refused, whilst others struggle to provide the documents the Home Office specifies.
There is however some good news for EEA nationals making such applications. The renowned EU Rights Clinic that members of our team work with has produced information confirming that further documents, not included in the Home Office Guidance, should demonstrate that the individual has held CSI. When a social security body of a Member State makes an enquiry to a social security body of another Member State about an individual’s period of insurance, the Structured Electronic Document S041 (SED S041) is issued as a reply. This document sets out whether, for the period specified, the individual was covered by the healthcare insurance system of the issuing institution.
The SED S041 is currently only issued by the Bulgarian and Czech Republic social security institutions. However, other Member States may issue formal letters confirming the EEA national has previously held insurance. Both documents should be accepted as evidence of holding CSI.
This is helpful for those making permanent resident applications as the SED S041, or a formal letter, may be easier to obtain compared to other documents that can be used as evidence and allows cover from another Member State while the EEA national resides in the UK. If the Home Office reject applicants who use such documents, there is a right to challenge this decision by way of Judicial Review.
A document certifying permanent residence is required if the holder wishes to apply to naturalise as a British citizen as it demonstrates that the EEA national is entitled to stay in the UK indefinitely. However, according to the latest UK position regarding Brexit, those holding a document certifying permanent residence will be required in any event to make an application for the new UK settled status. EEA Nationals who wish to apply for the new settled status, are not required to hold CSI in any case.
You can stay up to date on any Brexit developments via our Brexit analysis page which also explains the new settled status in more detail.
If you are concerned about your status and would like to speak to a member of our team, please contact us.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Diocese of Phoenix
This re-enactment of the apparitions of Mary to Juan Diego in 1531 by parishioners at St. Matthew was one of many throughout the Diocese of Phoenix and the Americas in the days leading up to the Dec. 12 feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Ambria Hammel/CATHOLIC SUN)
Catholics across the Diocese of Phoenix have spent the last several days honoring Mary under her title, Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the diocese. It began Dec. 7 at Immaculate Heart of Mary with a procession ending more than half a mile away at the Diocesan Pastoral Center where Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted celebrated Mass.
Processions, prayers, singing and matachines dancing continued at the parish level Dec. 11-12 to mark the official anniversary of the Blessed Mother’s 1531 appearance to St. Juan Diego at Tepeyac Hill in Mexico.
“These are traditional dances that give her honor, and it’s really a way for both the indigenous and non-indigenous to be united under the mantle of Mary,” said Ignacio Rodriguez, associate director of the Office of Ethnic Ministries.
Celebrations mirrored those in Mexico which feature thousands of pilgrims who flock to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe every year in the week leading up to her feast day.
Parishioners at Our Lady of Guadalupe in Queen Creek was one of two local parishes with extra reason to celebrate. The 7-year-old parish which draws roughly 2,000 families to one of seven liturgies every weekend is named in honor of the Blessed Virgin.
Our Lady of Guadalupe parishioners marked the feast with a four-day event processing each afternoon at 4 p.m. from one parishioner’s home to another. It will conclude today when parishioners will process roughly three miles to the church for a Mass in English and another in Spanish sandwiching a play of the apparitions. Join in. Dinner follows.
St. Matthew Parish near 19th Avenue and Van Buren Street held among the first Phoenix-area Masses honoring the feast of la virgen on her feast day. Catholics filled the church at midnight. A simple procession, matachines dancers by the school’s first graders and a re-enactment of the Virgin Mary’s appearance to Juan Diego preceded it several hours earlier.
Catholics at St. Jerome Parish near 35th and Peoria avenues gathered at 4:30 a.m. this morning for a presentation of Our Lady’s apparitions. It will be repeated with Mass, a procession and matachines beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Local youth presented the annual Miracle of the Roses pageant in front of the Old Adobe Mission in Old Town Scottsdale Dec. 7. Young dancers and musicians from Ballet Folklorico also performed.
“When the image of the Virgin appeared on the tilma of Juan Diego, it was the prophecy of an embrace: Mary’s embrace of all the peoples of the vast expanses of America,” Pope Francis said in his General Audience Dec. 10.
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He described America as a land that welcomes all and is generous with its resources. That is the message of Our Lady of Guadalupe and of the Church, he said.
“I ask all the people of the Americas to open wide their arms, like the Virgin, with love and tenderness,” Pope Francis said.
Students at several Catholic schools honored Mary under her title, Our Lady of Guadalupe, by placing roses at the feet of her image or statue.
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HBAA Annual Brexit Survey
Half of UK venues and agents have not prepared for ‘no-deal’
The influence of Brexit on business and recruitment has increased substantially
HBAA annual Brexit survey findings
Half (50.0 per cent) of hospitality and event venues and agencies have made little or no preparation for a ‘no-deal’ Brexit, 15.6 per cent have done ‘something’ while 34.4 per cent have ’done as much as they can,’ according the 2019 HBAA Brexit survey.
Similarly, 29.0 per cent have prepared ‘as far as they can’ for a Customs Agreement or for Single Market membership, 16.2 per cent have completed ‘some’ preparation for this and 54.8 per cent have again ‘done little or nothing’.
Meanwhile, the HBAA’s third annual Brexit survey of its members also reports that the influence of Brexit on business and recruitment in the industry is increasing substantially.
‘The uncertainty has been difficult,’ is a confidential comment which typifies the views of many respondents on their approach both to preparing for potential outcomes and on how Brexit has impacted on their businesses.
Impact on business
When asked whether Brexit has had a noticeable impact on their business as a whole, only 15.6 per cent this year say it has had none. This is in marked contrast to a year ago when 57.7 per cent reported no impact and that had risen from 47.7 per cent in 2017. While the proportion saying that it has had a significant impact changed very little (6.2 per cent this year, 5.8 per cent last year), the other major change is that the group of those who have noticed a slight impact has grown substantially in the last 12 months from 36.5 per cent to 78.1 per cent.
While many are now noticing some effect, the results are a mixture of both positive and negative. Soon after the vote, some saw a benefit to business from the drop in the value of sterling. Now, there are also reports that the uncertainty has actually had a positive impact for some UK based venues as more businesses have opted to keep their events within the UK instead of going overseas. At the same time many noted that, because of the uncertainty, business was slow or went down in the months before 29 March, the original leaving date.
Major impact on recruitment
The growing impact on recruitment has been striking. 18.7 per cent now report that Brexit has had a major impact whereas 12 months ago that figure was just 9.6 per cent and in 2017, only 2.3 per cent of respondents held that view. Those saying that it has had no effect on recruitment have decreased to 62.5 per cent from 67.3 per cent a year ago and from 80.2 per cent in 2017.
Correspondingly, 19.3 per cent of members have now changed their recruitment policies since the decision to leave the EU, up from 13.7 per cent a year ago. 25 per cent expect to change their policy in the next two years, an increase from 19.2 per cent in 2018.
Angie Mason, HBAA Chair says; “Most organisations are trying to focus on ‘business as usual’ as it is virtually impossible to prepare for every eventuality while the uncertainty continues. But it is proving difficult.
“Whatever the outcome, the need for immediate and long-term action to address recruitment issues is clear. A key element of the solution is the Next Generation, encouraging them to join the industry and helping them to build satisfying careers in it. The HBAA’s current campaign to support the Next Generation is an important step in helping to resolve the impact that Brexit is having on staffing.”
Source: HBAA
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Abri Blanchard Calendar: The Sun
Image: Alexander Marshack © Peabody Museum: Annotation: Lynn Fawcett
The diagram above illustrates the path of the Sun; the calendar for the year. We again begin at lìchūn. Notice how the planet Saturn (the Chinese Earth Star) is positioned at solar longitude 315° and adjacent to the yīn symbol (two dots) for 3 February. The position of the sun is recorded every 12 days, using the 30 ‘sunset dots’, which gives us a total of 360 days for the year. The five planets are then used to represent five extra days to give a total of 365 days.
Image: Edward Tarbuck et al.
If you look up analemma for the sun on the Web, you will see that the shape resembles the image above. The dimensions for the diagram on the pocket almanac are only around 55 mm by 25 mm. In order to give the largest possible scale in a small area, the analemma has been divided into two at the Equinox. You turn the bone one way to get the southern portion of the analemma, and the other way to get the northern portion.
Images: Alexander Marshack © Peabody Museum: Annotation: Lynn Fawcett
Interestingly, we can tell from the position of the months in the diagram that it depicts what would be seen using a sundial. February on the right records the position of the Sun’s shadow in that month¹.
Some of the ‘sunset dots’ have been placed at important points in the calendar, for example the ‘turning points’ for the Summer and Winter are 27 June and 12 December. These two dates mark the latest and earliest points in the year, at latitude 45 degrees, when astronomical twilight ends.
If we compare the graph of the analemma with the bone, we can see that the first retrograde arc on the bone is dated to 18 November. This would be the first point in the range when an observer would notice that the path of the sun was beginning to turn as it approached the Tropic of Capricorn.
The calendar starts with a ‘modern’ festival date. Note also, how there is a dot on 4 April. We have encountered that date before at Grotte de Bayol where it may represent a festival that coincided with Qīngmíng. There are ‘sunset dots’ on 24 December for Christmas Eve and 5 January for Twelfth Night, the 12 days of Christmas. At one time these dates would have been associated with the European festival of Yule. Of course, we can’t say with certainty that the more modern festivals have 35,000 year old roots, but it is nice to think that they might.
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Schematic rendition of the engraved marks on the bone from the Abri Blanchard as determined by microscopic analysis, indicating the differences in the engraving points and the strokes structuring the serpentine form: Alexander Marshack, 1972: The Roots of Civilization: The Cognitive Beginnings of Man’s First Art, Symbol and Notation, p.48, Fig. 9: Weidenfeld and Nicholson: © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology: Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology: Peabody ID Number: 2005.16.1.318.57: Schematic Rendition of the Incised Design on a Carved Bone Fragment: https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/
The Analemma, a graph illustrating the latitude of the overhead (vertical) noon sun throughout the year: TARBUCK, EDWARD J.; LUTGENS, FREDERICK K.; TASA, DENNIS G.; PINZKE, KENNETH G., APPLICATIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS IN EARTH SCIENCE, 7th Edition, © 2012: Exercise Twelve/Earth-Sun Relations, p.177, Figure 12.6: Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ.
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Unsettling questions surround death of Timothy Atlookan in Thunder Bay
Donna Atlookan thinks her son Timothy's death was made to look like a suicide. He was found dead in a park across from the Thunder Bay courthouse in October and his death is still under investigation by police.
Was Timothy Atlookan's death made to look like a suicide? His mother wants answers
Jorge Barrera · CBC News · Posted: Dec 20, 2018 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 20, 2018
Donna Atlookan, right, mother of Timothy Atlookan, weeps in the arms of her friend Jacob Mekanak, in December by the tree where her son was found dead on Oct. 29. (Jorge Barrera/CBC)
Donna Atlookan weeps in the arms of a friend by the tree in the park across from the Thunder Bay courthouse where she said her son was found dead by hanging in October.
The Thunder Bay police continue to investigate the Oct. 29 death of Timothy Atlookan, 25, that may not be what it appeared to be at first.
Donna Atlookan said the coroner told her during a phone conversation that her son was found with a sweater or a jacket tied to his neck by the tree in Patterson Park.
She doesn't know exactly how he was found, whether he was already on the ground or still hanging. Her memory comes back in fragments from the fog and haze of pain in the days after the death.
She said the coroner suggested it was suicide.
Timothy Atlookan, 25, was found dead in a Thunder Bay park on Oct. 29. (Submitted by Donna Atlookan)
"It sounded like he was found hanging, that he died of asphyxiation," said Donna Atlookan.
Atlookan said there was no mention of a suicide note.
Thunder Bay police said this week in a statement that the file is still open and the death is still under investigation.
"We continue to support and communicate with Donna Atlookan while respecting the time the family needs to grieve," said the emailed statement.
The coroner's office would not comment on the case.
Thunder Bay police investigations under scrutiny
Atlookan said she has received little communication from Thunder Bay police since her son's death. She said two officers visited her in mid-November. They told her they were there because a reporter had called asking about the case.
"They don't communicate with me," she said.
The investigation into the death of Timothy Atlookan comes at a time of heightened scrutiny of the Thunder Bay police and the regional coroner's handling of death investigations involving Indigenous people.
Ontario's police watchdog, the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD), released a report last week that found systemic racism in the Thunder Bay police's handling of death cases involving Indigenous people.
'Racist attitudes' contributed to poor Indigenous death investigations by Thunder Bay police, report says
The OIPRD called for nine death cases to be reopened. It also called for a multidisciplinary team to reinvestigate the cases and for certain death investigations be peer-reviewed by a police investigator from a separate police force over the next three years.
Indigenous families struggle to trust Thunder Bay police as they face reopening of cases
Thunder Bay police Chief Sylvie Hauth released a statement on Tuesday saying that she would be "consulting" on the OIPRD's recommendations and provide an initial report on progress in January.
The Thunder Bay police said in the statement that they were not yet prepared to "to speak to specific recommendations."
Questions surfaced on the street about death
Donna Atlookan does not believe suicide took her son, who was buried next to his grandfather in his home community of Eabametoong First Nation, 350 km northeast of Thunder Bay.
Atlookan said she had a close relationship with her son, but he never mentioned any thoughts of taking his own life.
Shortly after Timothy Atlookan was found, word began to surface on the street that the death was not what it appeared. There was talk that it was a murder and his body was left in a public area as a message over drug debts.
Thunder Bay police would not confirm or deny whether this was one of their investigative avenues.
Donna Atlookan by the tree where roses and a bag of cigarette butts — tobacco —were left in the memory of her son Timothy Atlookan. (Jorge Barrera/CBC)
It's no secret street-level gangsters from Toronto and Ottawa have moved into Thunder Bay's drug trade, bringing with them a wave of violence.
In early October, Thunder Bay police arrested and charged three Ottawa residents — known to be part of a group called the "Ottawa Crew"— in the death of another associate, an Ottawa man named Justin "Milky" Duncan, 23.
Ottawa men accused in Thunder Bay murder due back in court later in October
Thunder Bay police news releases over the past two years have also mentioned charges against several gang-connected men from the Greater Toronto Area.
'It felt like a wind'
Timothy Atlookan was born Jan. 2, 1993, the first baby of the year to be born in Sioux Lookout, Ont. He started school in Eabametoong First Nation and he moved with his mother to Thunder Bay when he was in elementary school.
When his mother went to see him at the Jenkins Funeral Home in Thunder Bay he had just returned from the postmortem examination.
Donna Atlookan was told not to remove the tuque or the blanket that covered his body and the tattoos used by police to identify him.
"I looked at my son, held my son, and put my head down on his chest," she said.
"I felt something going through me; it felt like a wind. I felt like he was talking to me and I told him, 'Talk to me.'"
Timothy Atlookan had two sons, aged seven and five, and a girl, aged two.
A vigil was held in memory of Timothy Atlookan by the tree where he was found, shortly after his death. The Thunder Bay courthouse is visible in the upper right hand corner. (Alexandria Marie Adams/Facebook)
Donna Atlookan said her son was open about his involvement in the street drug world — selling and using. She said he once told her he had begun using needles, but that he didn't like it and stopped.
"I had told him, stay out of that, when he told me what he was doing," she said.
"When you hear of of that world ... I know what it does and I know where it goes, but I am thinking he may have been really stuck in it."
Atlookan said she last saw her son about three days before his death. He came to her house at about 6 a.m. and fell asleep on her couch.
At about noon, she bought him a coffee and some breakfast and he spoke about how he was starting to mend the relationship with his children's mother and how he had taken two of his boys to McDonald's.
"One of the things he was telling me was, 'Oh mom, I went to church.' I said, 'Good, keep going.' That is not the first time he told me that," she said.
A knock on the door
On Oct. 29, there was a loud knock on the door she tried to ignore. There was more knocking and finally a loud male voice saying "It's the police."
She looked out the window and saw the police cruiser and wondered whether it was about a parking violation.
They were in her home, standing by her stove when the officer told her the news.
"He says, 'I'm sorry, I am here to inform you that your son was found deceased," she said.
She asked him to repeat it.
The rest was a blur, informing her daughter, aunts, the grandmother and other family members while hoping she could beat the Facebook rumour mill.
"I was in a daze, I felt like a zombie," said Atlookan. "I was feeling, 'What if I am lying to everybody and it's a mistake?' That is all I was waiting for, all evening, all night — for them to come and tell me it was a mistake."
No knock came.
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Jorge Barrera is a Caracas-born, award-winning journalist who has worked across the country and internationally. He works for CBC's Indigenous unit based out of Ottawa. Follow him on Twitter @JorgeBarrera or email him jorge.barrera@cbc.ca.
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News: The video site is set to push content posted by video stars who gained popularity on the site.
YouTube is planning to launch a subscription service to offer exclusive content to people who sign up for it.
The Google-owned video-site is readying its programming line-up for the service, reports news website Re/code.
Some of that programming will be revealed by the firm at an event at its studio/event space in Los Angeles on 21 October.
The new service is anticipated as the outcome of an initiative that was launched last year by the website in order to ‘fund new content’ from some of its top creators. The planned subscription service is likely to be devoid of advertisements.
Further details about the pricing or the release date however have not been disclosed by the company.
The service, which was set to start from this October, has been delayed and is likely to be launched from 2016.
The premium subscribers will also have access to the ad-supported and free version of the site.
This initiative is a part of the website’s funded content push strategy, the first attempt for which was made in 2011.
YouTube had invested over $100m during that time to fund content from performers, including Jay Z and Ashton Kutcher, which had turned out to be a disappointment.
The new approach sees the website focus on supporting ‘endemic’ video stars which are the people who turned famous on the basis of their YouTube content only.
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Jaime Pressly Net Worth 2019
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Jaime Elizabeth Pressly was born on July 30, 1977 in Kinston city in North Carolina, United States. Her father James Liston Pressly worked as a cars salesman and her mother Brenda Sue Pressly worked as a dance instructor for most of her career. Jaime Pressly had a Bulimia nervosa when she was a teenager.
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“He was the most controversial man within Time magazine, immensely influential, perhaps the most influential conservative of his generation in journalism, but outside the magazine almost no one knew his name,” Halberstam wrote.
In 1952, Fuerbringer wrote a critical cover article on Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson that was seen as crucial to the victory of Republican Dwight Eisenhower.
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After voicing strong initial support for the war in Vietnam, Fuerbringer slowly changed his mind and, in 1968, wrote that the war could not be won.
In 1965, Fuerbringer had planned to name the Beatles as Time's iconic “Men of the Year” until he was dissuaded by lower-level editors. The magazine instead named Gen. William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, its man of the year.
Fuerbringer's son said his father always regretted the decision.
“He was very open to the cultural trends of the time and making sure Time magazine wrote about them,” Jonathan Fuerbringer, a retired New York Times reporter, said by telephone.
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Just ended: CNN's Jake Tapper and Dana Bash just moderated three CNN town halls from Austin, Texas, featuring three Democratic candidates for president.
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Buttigieg: I'm married because of "the grace of a single vote on the US Supreme Court"
From CNN's Eric Bradner
Pete Buttigieg said gaining the legal ability to marry his husband gave him a personal view of the importance of policy decisions by politicians “who had power over me and millions of others.”
“That intimate thing in our lives exists by the grace of a single vote on the US Supreme Court,” the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said at a CNN town hall Sunday.
Buttigieg, who came out as gay during his 2015 re-election campaign, said he entered politics “in Mike Pence’s Indiana” at a time that “you could either be out, or you could be in office, but you couldn’t do both.”
He called for a federal equality law to extend non-discrimination protections to LGBT people and said, “We’ve got to end the war on transgender Americans.”
“Let’s be under no illusion: There are attacks on transgender Americans from the Oval Office. Picking on troops, people willing to lay down their lives for this country, not to mention teenagers in high schools,” Buttigieg said.
Buttigieg talks about losing his father this year, and hopes he is making his dad proud
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South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg remembered the life of his late father on Sunday, telling an audience here in Austin that before he announced, he told his intubated father that he hoped he would make him proud and his father mouthed, “You will.”
Joseph Buttigieg, a professor emeritus of English and retired director of the Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program at Notre Dame, passed away in January to cancer, shortly after Buttigieg announced his presidential exploratory committee.
“He was excited. He came to this country from a tiny nation. A place where Buttigieg is a common name,” Buttigieg said to laughs.
“He came here for the educational opportunities that this country offered he became an American citizen after that. He believed in education. He believed in this country, but he also was very passionate about all the ways it was falling short.”
He added:
“So I don’t think he ever guessed I would be doing this. We didn’t either until about a year ago. But when I was getting ready to make the announcement, he was already in pretty rough shape. And I wasn’t sure I should go, but I knew he wanted it to happen. I said, 'I hope I make you proud.' And he said, 'you will.' I think we are. I’d like to think we are.”
Buttigieg wants to make Medicare for all available for those who want it
Pete Buttigieg is not opposed to Medicare for all, but he said it should be an option.
"The best way to do that is a medicare for all who want it. We take some flavor of Medicare, you make it available on the exchange as a public option. And you invite people to buy into it," he said.
But Buttigieg said putting it on the exchange isn't the only solution. He said work is needed to improve the system.
"We have to do that unfashionable technical work to make the system more efficient. We have also just got to broaden assets until everyone has health care," he said. "I refuse to accept that when citizens of just about every developed nation in the world enjoy this, that we should settle for less," he said.
Buttigieg, 37: "I have more years of government experience under my belt" than Trump
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said Sunday that experience was what qualified him to run for president -- despite the fact that he is only 37-years-old and represents a city of roughly 100,000 people.
And in doing so, Buttigieg took a shot at both President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
“I have more years of government experience under my belt than the President. That’s low bar. I know that. I also have had more years of executive government experience than the vice president,” he said.
He added that he had "more military experience than anybody to walk into that office on day one since George H.W. Bush."
“I get I’m the young guy in the conversation, but experience is what qualifies me to have a seat at this table.”
Buttigieg said the question was “fair” and that he “shouldn’t be running if I weren’t prepared to answer it.”
The mayor’s age often comes up on the campaign trail, in part because Buttigieg looks even younger than his 37 years, a fact he often notes.
“I understand the audacity of running for president at my age especially because sometimes downstairs I’ll still get carded when I order a beer,” he recently said.
She wants to know what they plan to do about the opioid crisis and LGBT rights
Outside the town hall earlier, Toni Schach told CNN she wanted to know where the candidates stand on two issues especially important to her, LGBT rights and the opioid crisis.
Schach struggled with addiction in the past and has been sober for more than a year.
"It's something that means a lot to me," she said. "I think that there is just not enough resources out there. I think that the criminalization of drugs was a really bad idea. The war on drugs obviously isn't working, when the crisis is getting worse and worse, so I think somebody needs to take it on in a different way."
Schach said she also interested in learning more about Pete Buttigieg and — more importantly, how to pronounce his name.
"When you read about it, it's like boot-edge, boot-edge-edge. It's like a million ways, so I am excited to hear how he pronounces his last name," she said.
Schach said she also wants to learn more about his policy ideas on LGBT issues and how he "plans to work with the other side."
NOW: Pete Buttigieg is answering questions
Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, has taken the stage and is answering questions.
He joked a bit with CNN's Jake Tapper about the pronunciation of his last name, which has baffled some people.
"Back home they just call me Mayor Pete," he said, reiterating what he has told reporters.
So how do you pronounce Pete Buttigieg's name anyway?
From CNN's Veronica Stracqualursi
If you're wondering how to pronounce Pete Buttigieg's name, you are not alone.
Last year, his husband, Chasten, tweeted a list of possible pronunciations: "boot-edge-edge," "buddha-judge," "boot-a-judge" and "boo-tuh-judge."
Are you still at a loss? No worries, Buttigieg was recently asked that question and here's what he said:
Fun fact: Buttigieg's name is Maltese and roughly translates to "lord of the poultry."
But if Buttigieg is too tricky to pronounce, he has an easy work-around.
"Around South Bend, they just call me 'Mayor Pete,' and that's fine with me," he told reporters.
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What Did He Say? is the second solo album released by bassist Victor Wooten.
Victor Lemonte Wooten (born September 11, 1964) is an American bass player, composer, author, producer, and recipient of five Grammy Awards.[1]
Wooten has won the “Bass Player of the Year” award from Bass Player magazine three times in a row, and was the first person to win the award more than once. In 2011, he was named #10 in the “Top 10 Bassists of All Time” by Rolling Stone. In addition to a solo career and collaborations with various artists, Wooten has been the bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since the group’s formation in 1988.
In 2008, Wooten joined Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller to record an album. The trio of bassists, under the name SMV, released Thunder in August 2008 and began a supporting tour the same month.
Wooten has also written a novel titled “The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music”. On his website he has stated that he is currently writing a sequel and intends to release at least three more books.
Wooten also operates his own record label, Vix Records, on which he releases his own music.
Born to Dorothy and Elijah Wooten, Victor is the youngest of the five Wooten Brothers; Regi, Roy, Rudy and Joseph Wooten, all of whom are musicians. Regi began to teach Victor to play bass when he was two, and by the age of six, Victor was performing with his brothers in their family band, The Wooten Brothers Band. As an United States Air Force family, they moved around a lot when Victor was very young, finally settling in the Warwick Lawns neighborhood of Newport News, Virginia in 1972. He graduated from Denbigh High School in 1982. While in high school, Victor and his brothers played in the country music revue at Busch Gardens theme park in Williamsburg, Virginia. In 1987, he traveled to Nashville, Tennessee to visit friends that he made at the theme park, one of whom was a studio engineer that introduced him to Béla Fleck, with whom he still collaborates musically.
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European Regulator Renews Restrictions on Crypto-Based Derivatives
September 29, 2018 Blockchain, CFDs, derivatives, ESMA, EU, Financial Markets, Investors, Markets, N-Economy, Regulation, Regulations, regulatory body, renewal, restrictions, Securities coins 0
Europe’s securities watchdog, ESMA, has decided to extend the restrictions applied to a number of financial derivatives, including contracts-for-differences (CFDs) based on cryptocurrencies. The limits that were introduced in August of this year will now remain in place until the end of January 2019.
Also read: French Regulator Blacklists More Fraudulent Crypto Businesses
ESMA Concerned About CFDs Offered to Retail Clients
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has taken steps to renew the restrictive measures imposed on the marketing, distribution, and sale of contracts-for-differences (CFDs) to retail customers. The restrictions were enforced on August 1 and according to the regulator’s latest decision, will be extended for another three-month period, starting from November 1.
In a press release, ESMA says it has “carefully considered the need to extend the intervention measure currently in effect.” The Paris-headquartered agency believes that “a significant investor protection concern related to the offer of CFDs to retail clients continues to exist.” That’s why a renewal of the limitations has been agreed by its Board of Supervisors on Wednesday, September 26, the regulatory body said in the announcement posted on its website this Friday.
The restrictions include the obligation to maintain leverage limits on the opening of a position by a retail client. These vary depending on the volatility of the underlying assets: 30:1 for major currency pairs; 20:1 for non-major currency pairs, gold, and major indices; 10:1 for commodities other than gold and non-major equity indices, and 5:1 for individual equities and other reference values. For cryptocurrency-based products, the leverage is limited at 2:1. These restrictions will be valid until January of next year.
Other Applicable Limits Remain in Place
ESMA’s decision to limit the leverage offered on cryptocurrency CFDs to no more than 2:1 was agreed in March of this year, as news.Bitcoin.com reported. In its announcement back then, the EU institution referred to the restrictions as “temporary product intervention measures on the provision of CFDs and binary options to retail investors.” The ratio means that traders are obliged to provide an initial margin of “50% of the notional value of the CFD when the underlying asset is a cryptocurrency, which is more than the initial margin required of any other CFD.
The authority motivated its ruling with the relatively immature status of the asset class which, in its opinion, poses a major risk for investors. ESMA was worried about the integrity of the price formation process in the underlying cryptocurrency markets which “makes it inherently difficult for retail clients to value these products.” The regulatory body stated that financial instruments providing exposure to cryptocurrencies, CFDs in the case, needed to be closely monitored. It also promised to assess if stricter measures were required.
In its latest decision on the matter, the agency confirms the renewal of other relevant restrictions, including a negative balance protection on a per account basis, a measure providing a guaranteed limit on retail client losses. Other safety mechanisms that have been confirmed envisage the preserving of restrictions on the incentives offered to trade CFDs as well as the issuing of a standardized risk warning that is supposed to include the percentage of losses on a CFD provider’s retail investor accounts.
In its press release, ESMA notes that the renewed measures have to be published in the official languages of the EU and also in the Official Journal of the Union before they begin to apply on November 1, 2018.
What is your opinion on the EU restrictions imposed on crypto-based CFDs? Share your thoughts on the subject in the comments section below.
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Chance The Rapper Golden Globes
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Singer Yemi Alade Makes YouTube History
Oyindamola Olubajo
Yemi Alade Source: Instagram.
Nigerian Afropop singer Yemi Alade has made a record by being the first female African artiste to hit one million subscribers on video streaming platform YouTube.
The singer announced this on her Instagram handle, while reflecting on her six-year journey through the music world.
She wrote, “God is the GREATEST, started this journey six years ago. Thanks to everyone streaming / watching my videos and music. Godbless us all.”
With the feat, Alade joins the league of entertainers with over one million subscribers, including the defunct P-Square (1.2 million), Davido (1.5 million) and Diamond Platnumz (2.1 million).
Concise news understands that this feat is coming months after she became the second Nigerian artist to hit hundred million views on YouTube for the song, ‘Johnny’.
The 30-year-old singer came to limelight after winning the Peak Talent Show in 2009, and is best known for her hit single “Johnny”.
Her debut studio album ‘King of Queens’ was released on October 2, 2014, by Effyzzie Music Group.
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Home > Theatre > Interactive theatre gives audiences the chance to govern a nation
Interactive theatre gives audiences the chance to govern a nation
By Caroline King - March 19, 2015 Posted in : Theatre
Early Days (of a better nation) – Photo: Ryoko Uyama
When: 21st April – 14th May 2015
Where: Across the UK (see below)
£: Ticket prices vary depending on the venue
One of the UK’s most enigmatic theatre companies will be touring Scotland, England and Northern Ireland, around the time of the General Election, with a performance where the audience has the chance to govern their own nation. Early Days (of a better nation), which runs from 21st April to 14th May, promises to be a fully interactive, playful and passionate performance.
Coney‘s Early Days (of a better nation) will allow audiences across the UK take the role of the last surviving members of a society ravaged by war. Staged as we make our real-life decisions on a new government this year, the performance is inspired by the 2011 UK riots, the Arab spring, Iceland’s crowd-sourced constitution and the rise (and fall) of Occupy. With the rules of a new society in their hands, the audience must decide how they will run their new nation and how to avoid the mistakes of the past, exploring the possibilities of nationhood and democracy.
At the heart of Early Days (of a better nation) are two major questions. If people could start again from scratch, what sort of nation would they build? And can a piece of immersive theatre change people’s minds about politics?
As the UK’s political parties take to the campaign trail, so too will Coney; to inspire, encourage and gather reaction from across the country as they blur the line between performance and our real-life choices. Early Days has been developed through testing and research into game mechanics, economic systems and narrative. The process has been supported by a host of both academic institutes and arts organisations, with partners including Birkbeck University, the Cultural Institute at Kings College London, National Theatre Wales, BAC, and Warwick Arts Centre.
Coney are interactive theatre-makers, who weave together theatre and game design to create dynamic shows and experiences in a wide variety of settings; theatres, schools, museums, on the streets and online. Guided by principles of curiosity, adventure and loveliness, the company places audiences at the heart of their work; co-creating performances within the stories and worlds designed by the company.
The audience decide in Early Days (of a better nation).
Early Days (of a better nation) will tour the following places:
21st – 25th April at Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, London SW11 5TN. Tickets cost £12 and £9 for concessions (Please note: Due to a fire at BAC, a venue is tbc).
28th – 29th April at The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow G2 8DL. Tickets cost £14 and £10 for concessions.
1st – 2nd May at MAC, 10 Exchange Street West, Belfast BT1 2NJ. Tickets cost £12.
5th – 6th May at The Point, Leigh Road, Eastleigh, Hampshire S050 9DE. Tickets cost £12.
8th May at the Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, Liverpool L1 9BG. Tickets cost £12 and £10 for concessions.
12th – 14th May at Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL. Tickets cost £11, £9 for concessions, under 26 £8, and Warwick students £5.50.
More info: coneyhq.org and www.facebook.com/coneyhq
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Firm Claims It’s Getting Burned By Georgia Tobacco Regs
April 17, 2018 KAYLA GOGGIN
Georgia, Tobacco
ATLANTA (CN) —S&M Brands, a Virginia-based tobacco firm, was the 11th Circuit to revive a lawsuit in which the company claims Georgia’s tobacco regulations are an unconstitutional restraint of trade.
S&M Brands, maker of the Tahoe, Bailey’s and Riverside brand of cigarettes, claimed in its lawsuit that Georgia’s revised Model Escrow Agreement unconstitutionally impairs the company’s contract with its bank, unfairly restricts escrow investments and violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
S&M sought declaratory and injunctive relief on its claims.
But on May 30, 2017, a federal judge threw out the lawsuit stating he lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the matter.
The MSA was created after state Attorneys General for 46 states sued the four largest U.S. tobacco manufacturers on claims that the companies misled the public about the health effects of smoking.
The agreement requires tobacco companies to pay into escrow accounts and imposes restrictions on the sale and marketing of cigarettes. States use the funds in the escrow accounts to resolve Medicaid claims and other lawsuits against the tobacco industry.
State legislatures around the country adopted Model Escrow Agreements to require tobacco manufacturers who did not participate in the settlement to make quarterly escrow deposits.
In 2016, the Georgia state legislature altered the escrow agreement to require tobacco manufacturers to maintain a compulsory principal balance.
The state legislature also changed the rules surrounding the permissible investment tools tobacco companies could use to place funds in escrow, eliminating 30-year bonds as an option and mandating that only 20-year bonds can be used.
S&M, a non-participating member in the original settlement, argued before a three-judge 11th Circuit panel Tuesday that the restrictions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution by placing an undue burden on the company.
Representing S&M, attorney Chris Browning Jr. asserted that S&M has the right to have escrow invested in 30-year bonds.
Browning was quickly interrupted by U.S. Circuit Judge Ursula Ungaro, who asked, “What is the damage to S&M with that change?”
“The objective is to keep a level playing field between the participating members [in the settlement] and the non-participating members, right?” U.S. Circuit Judge Gerald Tjoflat asked.
“The participating members [in the settlement] gave up their First Amendment rights and now we’re being punished for exercising ours,” Browning responded.
“What First Amendment right? What speech have you been precluded from exercising?” U.S. Circuit Judge Robin Rosenbaum asked.
Browning responded that S&M’s commercial speech was being infringed upon by the state, referencing the allegedly inflated financial stress the state’s new regulations impose on the company and citing a reduced ability to produce ads and broker sponsorships.
“The only way to keep that level playing field is to impose on our free speech by ratcheting up our costs,” Browning said.
Browning alleged that Georgia’s new regulations have added significantly to S&M’s manufacturing costs per cigarette.
Browning refused to give further information about specific damages and costs incurred by the company.
Seemingly unconvinced, Tjoflat asked Browning how the company knows that it has been injured.
“We can no longer invest in 20-year bonds,” Browning argued. “It has impacted the profitability of the company.”
But Forrest Pearce, an attorney representing the state, argued that the regulations are not only fair, they’re necessary.
“The money in the escrow account ensures that there is money to pay claims arising from the health risks the tobacco companies create,” Pearce said.
Under questioning from Tjoflat, Pearce admitted that the state has never brought any claims against S&M.
“So we have an industry that may cause injury so you want them to pay a deposit to the state to pay claims which may arise?” Tjoflat asked.
“That’s unique,” he said, “Asking a company to provide a nest egg to do business in a state in case they cause damages.”
Although Pearce pointed out that 52 jurisdictions across the country have similar requirements, Tjoflat remained incredulous.
“This is an exercise in police power,” he said. “If a company causes injury to the state, that’s why the money is put up. And the legislature gets to determine if there’s enough money in the pot … It’s not about level playing fields … They must have a crystal ball to know how much money they need and they need a pot of gold.”
Browning agreed with Tjoflat in his rebuttal to the state’s arguments.
“This is about getting as much money into the hands of the state as possible and trampling on our constitutional rights. We want the decision reversed,” Browning said.
A representative for Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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MoMA to return Nazi-looted painting to heirs of German-Jewish art collector
(JTA) — The Museum of Modern Art in New York will return a painting to the heirs of a German-Jewish art collector.
“Sand Hills,” a German Expressionist painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, will be returned to the heirs of Max Fischer, the museum announced Monday.
Fischer had inherited the painting, known at the museum as “Sand Hills in Engadine” (1917-18), from his parents, Ludwig and Rosy Fischer, in 1926, according to the museum’s study of the painting’s provenance. He and his brother, Ernst, each inherited about 250 works of German modern art from their parents.
Max Fischer fled Germany in 1935, a month after the institution of the anti-Semitic Nuremberg laws, leaving behind his significant collection of modern German paintings.
MoMA acquired the artwork in a group of five paintings from the Weyhe Gallery in New York in 1949. The painting had been consigned to the gallery from the estate of Berlin Expressionist collector Kurt Feldhausser, who had acquired the painting in 1938, when it likely was sold by Fischer’s companion, Charlotte Wanzke, who had remained in Berlin.
“The heirs of Max Fischer are grateful to the MoMA for their return of this important artwork,” attorney David Rowland said in a statement.
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FeaturesJoel S January 19, 2018 Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts III, The Last of Us, The Last of Us 2, The Last of Us Part II, Darksiders, Darksiders 3, Travis Strikes Again, No More Heroes, Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, Metro, Metro Exodus
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Jonathan’s Top 5 Games of 2012
2012 has been a fantastic year for games. The Witcher 2 (which would by on my list had it not been at the top of my list last year) was successfully ported to the 360. A new console and a handheld launched. Downloadable games reached a new benchmark. As did storytelling. Despite the rocky spots (from the Mass Effect 3 ending craziness to the issues plaguing THQ to an assortment of other things ) I think a lot of great strides have been made this year in the growth of game as an art, not just a medium of entertainment.
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How Amazon delivers packages so fast
Portman expects Amazon to create ‘several hundred’ jobs in Wilmington
Thomas Gnau, Staff Writer
An Ohio senator toured the Wilmington Air Park Monday, coming away from the visit saying he expects Amazon to create “several hundred” new jobs at a new package-sorting operation the online giant said recently it will build in Wilmington.
“I think it’s going to be a growing opportunity for Wilmington,” Sen. Rob Portman said. “I think they’re going to start with several hundred jobs. And they’ll see how it goes. I think they’re going to have a very positive experience.”
Neither Amazon nor JobsOhio, the state’s private development corporation, have said how many new jobs will be created at the new package-sorting facility in Clinton County, located about 40 minutes southeast of Dayton.
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Portman emphasized that “several hundred” jobs is his expectation, based on his understanding of the work Amazon plans to place in the air park. He said he could not characterize the expected number of jobs any more precisely.
“It’s a significant commitment,” the senator said. “I think it has a good possibility of growing — because the infrastructure is there.”
The Republican senator also expects about 250 to 350 temporary construction jobs to be associated with the project. Old equipment once used for a former DHL hub at the park is being removed to make way for Amazon.
“I knew it back in the old days with DHL,” Portman said of the operation’s planned location, which will be fitted into an existing building at the airport. “I also knew it when it was an empty building.”
DHL had a major hub at Wilmington Air Park, until the company closed that operation in 2008, killing some 8,000 jobs in and around Wilmington.
He expects Amazon to begin hiring for the new full-time, permanent jobs in the first quarter or early second quarter of 2019.
“As you know, Amazon pays $15 an hour minimum,” Portman said. “But they’ll also have a lot of software engineers and maintenance people, technicians, who are making a lot more than that. These will be welcome jobs in the community.”
Amazon said earlier this month that the operation in Wilmington will be an “air gateway.” The e-retailer leases space at airports for the loading and unloading of customer packages to and from aircraft, from trucks that drop off and pick up packages, and an on-site area for sorting packages based on their next destination. The company calls those operations “air gateways.”
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15October 2015
TextDominique Sisley
via @amaliaulman
The Instagram artist taking on North Korea
Amalia Ulman went to the famously secretive Pyongyang for her latest art project – and this time it’s genuine
Amalia Ulman in North Korea10
North Korea isn't exactly known for being a country of bold artistic expression. It's probably down to that whole “tyrannical regime” thing. In fact, nowadays, it's more about human rights violations and eerie silence – a mysterious land that probably won't ever make it onto your top ten list of prospective holiday spots.
Conceptual artist Amalia Ulman wasn't going to let that put her off though. In a feature published on The Guardian today, she revealed the details of her latest project – and somehow, it involved a trip to the country's famously secretive capital, Pyongyang.
“I had found out about tourism in the DPRK by watching a documentary on Spanish TV,” she told The Guardian. “As soon as I knew that (going there) was a possibility, I couldn’t get it out of my mind. I planned the trip for half a year, and there was not one day when I wouldn’t look at Korean content or read books about life in Pyongyang.”
The Central Saint Martins' graduate put together photographs, sounds and videos of her trip for new project, “The Annals of Private History”, which is being shown at London's Arcadia Missa gallery this week.
“I’m interested in façades and propaganda, and Pyongyang is the best and most simplified example of that,” she added.“I just wanted to see it with my own eyes.”
Ulman, who famously duped the internet with her “Excellences and Perfections” project, initially had her Instagram followers skeptical over the authenticity of the trip – though it's now been officially confirmed. However, she's quick to point out the difference between her Instagram shots and the project itself. “Korea was in the back of my mind but definitely not the main focus,” she adds. “It definitely connects to the regime in the DPRK but also to any sort of propaganda machine, totalitarian regime or abusive relationship.”
You can see more of Amalia's Pyongnyang trip on her Instagram here, or you can catch “The Annals of Private History” at London's Frieze Live festival this week.
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Tigers closer Greene excited about All-Star experience
Shane Greene's 1.09 ERA is best among all major-league pitchers with 20 innings or more. In April, he became the first pitcher in major-league history to make seven saves in the first 10 games of a season.
Tigers closer Greene excited about All-Star experience Shane Greene's 1.09 ERA is best among all major-league pitchers with 20 innings or more. In April, he became the first pitcher in major-league history to make seven saves in the first 10 games of a season. Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2019/07/08/detroit-tigers-closer-shane-greene-excited-all-star-experience/1672512001/
Nolan Bianchi, The Detroit News Published 10:05 p.m. ET July 8, 2019
Tigers closer Shane Greene, making his first All-Star appearance, has saved 22 of the 28 victories the Tigers have this season. (Photo: Robin Buckson, Detroit News)
Detroit – Here’s the thing about baseball: It doesn’t always make a lot of sense.
The Tigers, for instance, entered the All-Star break as the second-worst team in the league. Their representative at said All-Star game? Closer Shane Greene, whose main job is to preserve ninth-inning leads.
But here’s the other thing about baseball: It might be weird, but that’s also what makes it a heck of a lot of fun — it is a game, after all — and this week’s All-Star Game festivities are generally the MLB’s best effort to market that year in and year out.
Come tonight, countless smiles will frame the Midsummer Classic at Progressive Field in Cleveland. While he’d probably never say it so directly, for the 30-year-old Greene, withdrawing from the doldrums of a spiraling 28-57 clubhouse to spend a few days around MLB’s brightest and best would be a welcome escape for anyone in the midst of a career year.
His 1.09 ERA is best among all major-league pitchers with 20 innings or more. In April, he became the first pitcher in major-league history to make seven saves in the first 10 games of a season. He’s posted or matched career numbers in WHIP, as well as hits, home runs, and walks per nine innings. He has 22 saves on the season.
All of that has earned him the temporary right to be a kid again at a time where he’s continually counted on be the adult in the room.
“It’s going to be exciting to watch those guys go out there and do their thing,” Greene said about Monday’s Home Run Derby. “Grew up watching the Home Run Derby, obviously with Ken Griffey (Jr.) with the backwards hat and all that, so it’s going to be fun.”
Shane Greene is one of few veterans on the Tigers who could be dealt before or at the July 31st trade deadline. (Photo: Robin Buckson, Detroit News)
With Christian Yelich, whose 31 home runs lead the majors, withdrawing from the field of eight because of a back issue, this year’s derby didn’t feature quite as many big names as the ones from when Greene was in little league. It was to feature a name that has potential to come close, though.
“I’m excited to watch Vlad (Guerror Jr.),” Greene said. “Haven’t seen him play yet. He’s got a lot of hype to his name, and we’ll see if he lives up to it.”
Typically, players will use the four-day All-Star break, their only summer vacation of the year, as the chance to withdraw from the game with friends and family. Greene will still get to do that, too — he’ll just have to hit the turnpike first.
“My parents, my sister, all my best friends that I grew up with,” Greene said, counting the 17 tickets he reserved for Tuesday’s game. “Some of their parents, family, friends. A lot of people. It works out well. I can take my dog with me.”
With the July 31 trade deadline quickly approaching, Greene’s life isn’t going to settle down any time soon. He’ll be a hot item for contending teams looking to add that final bullpen piece, and the Tigers are the definition of a seller’s market.
Until at least Wednesday morning, though, he’ll be in Cleveland, remembering everything that made him fall in love with this weird and crazy game in the first place.
Nolan Bianchi is a freelance writer.
Decade of stars
Tigers All-Stars the last 10 years:
Shane Greene, RP
Joe Jimenez, RP
Michael Fulmer, SP
Justin Upton, OF
Miguel Cabrera, 1B
Jose Iglesias, SS
J.D. Martinez, OF
David Price, SP
Ian Kinsler, 2B
Victor Martinez, DH
Max Scherzer, SP
Prince Fielder, 1B
Torii Hunter, OF
Jhonny Peralta, SS
Justin Verlander, SP
Alex Avila, C
Jose Valverde, RP
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Arvydas Adomavicius
Office Infrastructure Manager
Arvydas came to Devbridge after finishing his career as a university professor, and he loves the dynamic and creative atmosphere he now finds himself in. Arvydas had a unique introduction to computing and the internet. He was a first-year PhD student when he was enlisted in the Soviet army to serve as an officer, and theoretical studies of the Fortran programming language saved him from boredom during army service. Later, email and chatting programs initiated a “golden age” of communications with his older son after he emigrated from Lithuania. Today, in his daily life Arvydas depends on Microsoft Excel for numbers and planning, Microsoft Visio for creating furniture, and Facebook to stay in touch with friends and former students.
Aside from technology, Arvydas is a proud father who adores science fiction and fantasy, especially the Witcher series and Harry Potter. He collects books from these genres, and feels like they’re his old friends. His favorite foods are shrimp, barbeque and spicy Asian food.
What you do today you won’t need to do tomorrow!
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TWIRLYWOOS NESTS IN WITH THE RSPB
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Halifax, NS – 6 April 2017 – Twirlywoos, a DHX Media and Ragdoll Productions Ltd co-production, has teamed up with the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) to help support the launch of their Wild Challenge this Easter.
The RSPB Wild Challenge is a new, free online awards scheme that encourages children, families and schools to go out and get closer to nature. By completing fun activities, participants can discover the wildlife in their own back garden. Each activity can be translated into bronze, silver or gold award.
DHX Media commissioned research of 2,000 UK adults and discovered that many British parents are struggling to identify the nation’s birds for their children, whilst nine in 10 said that they want their children to learn more about birds and British wildlife in general.
Twirlywoos follows the adventures of four bird-like creatures who love to explore the world around them, providing a perfect fit with the Wild Challenge. The collaboration will be supported by Twirlywoos activity sheets, quizzes and information, which will sit on the Twirlywoos website and serve as a useful resource for parents.
Debbie Walker, Twirlywoos Brand Manager at DHX Media, said: “The UK has around 250 different species of bird, so it is understandable that people struggle when it comes to their bird knowledge. However, you don’t need to know everything about birds in order to appreciate all that’s great about them. The UK has some great locations for seeing amazing birds and other wildlife, too, so it’s well worth spending some time together as a family to see what’s out there.”
RSPB spokesperson James Harding-Morris, said: “Wildlife has always fascinated people, whether it’s the thrill of seeing your first robin at a garden feeder or a red kite in the wild. This survey shows that parents want their children to learn more about birds and be able to identify the wildlife on their doorstep. We hope this collaboration will give families the confidence to get outside and enjoy nature with their improved wildlife knowledge. The opportunity to connect with nature should be a part of every child’s life and the RSPB’s new Wild Challenge is here to help every family go on their own wild adventure.”
Anne Wood, Founder and Creative Director of Ragdoll Productions Ltd, the co-producers of Twirlywoos, said: “I am particularly delighted to endorse this campaign as I have been a member of the RSPB for many years.
“I am fortunate that I have a large garden with shrubs and trees that attract birds of all kinds. Last year when I was gardening, I was thrilled to spot a tree creeper which I had never seen before. Listening and looking for birds when I am gardening is a constant pleasure and I am sure the Twirlywoos would agree with me.”
To start your wild adventure, go to: www.rspb.org.uk/wildchallenge. For helpful activities and information on RSPB’s Wild Challenge, visit: www.twirlywoos.com.
The Twirlywoos are four, fruit tea-loving, birdlike characters who have sailed from far away to visit our world. Comical, colourful and curious, the Twirlywoos seek adventure and fun wherever they go. Whether in the real world or on their boat, they love to hide, imitate and be surprised as they discover new things.
Produced by DHX Media and Ragdoll Productions Ltd, Twirlywoos airs at 9:25 a.m. and 13:25 p.m. GMT every weekday on CBeebies.
Trade Media: Aimee Norman at DDA Blueprint PR
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DHX Media Ltd. (www.dhxmedia.com) is the world’s leading independent, pure-play children’s content company. Owner of the world’s largest independent library of children’s content, at more than 12,500 half-hours, the Company is recognized globally for such brands as Teletubbies, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Caillou, In the Night Garden, Inspector Gadget, Make It Pop, Slugterra and the multiple award-winning Degrassi franchise. As a content producer and owner of intellectual property, DHX Media delivers shows that children love, licensing its content to major broadcasters and streaming services worldwide. Through its subsidiary, WildBrain, DHX Media also operates one of the largest networks of children’s content on YouTube. The company’s robust consumer products program generates royalties from merchandise based on its much-loved children’s brands. Headquartered in Canada, DHX Media has offices in 15 cities globally, and is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (DHX.A and DHX.B) and the NASDAQ Global Select Market (DHXM).
About RSPB
The RSPB is the UK’s largest nature conservation charity, inspiring everyone to give nature a home. Together with our partners, we protect threatened birds and wildlife so our towns, coast and countryside will teem with life once again. We play a leading role in BirdLife International, a worldwide partnership of nature conservation organisations.
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National standard BMX track opens at Crewe
A REBUILT and redesigned BMX track equipped for training ahead of the 2012 Olympics has been formally opened at Tipkinder Park in Victoria Avenue at Crewe.
It has been built at a cost of more than £200,000 and is one of the first floodlit BMX tracks of its standard in the country.
The track offers a training facility for riders such as Crewe’s Shanaze Reade, a three-time BMX world champion.
She said: “I am delighted that the Crewe track, where my career started, has been redesigned and updated and I am looking forward to training again in my home town.
“BMX racing has taken me all over the world and I am confident I will be competing in this year’s Beijing Olympic Games. I hope to encourage and welcome more people to BMX racing along wit the Cheshire Ghostriders BMX club at Crewe.”
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Abolishing the Letter-Box Monopoly
J. Gregory Sidak
The U.S. Postal Service has various statutory monopolies over the delivery of mail in the United States. In addition to selling its reserved products, the Postal Service competes with private firms in the provision of nonreserved products, such as parcels and overnight mail. These statutory monopolies over mail delivery are called the Private Express Statutes, the first elements of which Congress enacted in 1792 and did not fundamentally change in its most recent round of major postal legislation, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) of 2006.
However, in addition to benefiting from the protection of the Private Express Statutes, the Postal Service has a separate monopoly over the use of the customer’s letter box. Although a letter box is the customer’s own private property, section 1725 of the U.S. Criminal Code prohibits the deposit of unstamped “mailable matter” in the letter box. The letter-box monopoly raises the cost of delivery for the Postal Service’s rivals in the markets for nonreserved delivery products that fit in the customer’s letter box. United Parcel Service (UPS) or FedEx, for example, may not leave their express letters in the letter box if the recipient is not home. Unless the sender designates that the urgent letter may be left at the door if the recipient is not available, the private carrier will need to attempt another delivery—at obvious cost. The letter-box monopoly also deters vertical integration into the delivery of parcels by high-volume shippers (such as Amazon or eBay) that have large numbers of routine mailings, thereby denying competitors the opportunity to achieve potential efficiency gains and denying consumers the opportunity to share in the benefits from such efficiency gains.
Pursuant to its own regulations, codified in the Domestic Mail Manual, the Postal Service allows private firms to place items in the letter box under one condition: that the items bear the (voided) stamps that the sender would need to include to send the item through the U.S. mail. In other words, the Postal Service sets the price for access to the mailing network at the last stage of the supply chain—the customer’s letter box—at the full price of door-to-door mailing. Because the Postal Service’s competitors would need to bear the full cost of postage in addition to their own cost of delivery to gain access to the letter box, the Postal Service’s access price effectively excludes even efficient competitors from using the letter box.
The letter-box monopoly is unlawful on both antitrust and constitutional grounds. It reduces consumer welfare by increasing the price and decreasing the quantity of letter-box-sized parcels and extremely urgent mail shipped. The monopoly also raises the customer’s costs of receiving mail from the Postal Service’s competitors. Moreover, the letter-box monopoly violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment for at least two reasons. First, the Postal Service’s authority to regulate its competitors’ access to the customer’s letter box violates those competitors’ rights to due process. Second, the criminal statute that defines the letter-box monopoly fails by virtue of its vagueness to provide fair notice of the conduct prohibited or sufficiently specific guidelines for its enforcement. In addition, the letter-box monopoly is a per se taking of private property without just compensation by the Postal Service, because the Postal Service physically occupies the letter box with its deliveries to the exclusion of deliveries by other carriers to whom the customer might wish to permit access to the customer’s own private property. That exclusion imposes costs on the customer as well as the private carrier, as the customer who was not at home when the first delivery was attempted will need to wait for the private carrier to attempt another delivery of the parcel or urgent letter—or otherwise bear the risk that the parcel or urgent letter might be stolen if left at the customer’s door.
Abolishing the Letter-Box Monopoly | Criterion Economics
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Bad week in social media gets worse; Twitter hammered
Barbara Ortutay, The Associated Press
Published Friday, July 27, 2018 8:58AM EDT
Last Updated Friday, July 27, 2018 2:13PM EDT
NEW YORK -- Cracking down on hate, abuse and online trolls is also hurting Twitter's standing with investors.
The company's stock plunged Friday morning after it reported a decline in its monthly users and warned that the number could fall further in the coming months. The more than 17 per cent drop in share value at the opening bell comes one day after Facebook lost 19 per cent of its value -- its worst trading day since Facebook went public in 2012.
Twitter says it's putting the long-term stability of its platform above user growth. That leaves investors seemingly unable to value what the biggest companies in the sector, which rely on their potential user reach, are worth.
Twitter had 335 million monthly users in the quarter, below the 339 million Wall Street was expecting, and down slightly from 336 million in the first quarter. That overshadowed a strong monthly user growth of 3 per cent compared with the previous year.
The company said its monthly user number could continue to fall in the "mid-single-digit millions" in the third quarter.
Long criticized for allowing bad behaviour to run rampant on its platform, Twitter has begun to crack down, banning accounts that violate its terms and making others less visible.
Twitter is now attempting to rein in the worst offenders after years as one of the Wild West corners of the internet.
At the same time, it must convince people it's the go-to platform in social media, even though it is dwarfed right now by Facebook.
Facebook has more than 2.23 billion users while its apps WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger each have over 1 billion.
Twitter on Friday reiterated its efforts to "to invest in improving the health of the public conversation" on its platform, making the "long-term health" of its service a priority over short-term metrics such as user numbers.
As part of these efforts, Twitter said that as of May, its systems identified and challenged more than 9 million accounts per week that are potentially spam or automated, up from 6.4 million in December 2017. The company has previously disclosed these numbers.
A Washington Post report put the total number of suspended accounts in May and June at 70 million. The Associated Press also found that Twitter suspended 56 million such accounts in the last quarter of 2017. While Twitter maintains that most of these accounts were dormant and thus not counted in the monthly user figure, the company also warned that its cleanup efforts could affect its counted user base without giving specific numbers.
"We want people to feel safe freely expressing themselves and have launched new tools to address problem behaviours that distort and distract from the public conversation," CEO Jack Dorsey said in a prepared statement.
Twitter's second-quarter net income hit $100.1 million, after a loss last year during the same period. It's the company's third profit in a row, the third it has ever posted.
Per-share, the San Francisco company's net income was 13 cents, or 17 cents adjusted, in line with expectations, according to a poll by Zacks Investment Research.
Revenue of $710.5 million, up 24 per cent and edging out expectations of $696 million.
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A Boy Named Courage
I wasn’t expected to survive.
Born two months premature, so tiny I could fit in the palms of my father’s hands, I was nestled into a shoe box lined with cotton while my parents kept vigil, occasionally dipping their fingers in brandy and letting me suck the warm liquid from them. That I lived and eventually started to grow apparently came as a bit of a shock, and my mother always said it was because of the brandy. The other Indian ladies who came to visit when I was young would cluck and coo whenever they saw me, each time reminding me about the cotton-filled shoe box and how little and fragile I had been. “Eat,” they always urged me, for I was such a scrawny kid that they were probably still half-convinced that I’d wither and collapse at any moment.
By the time of my early arrival in Cape Town, South Africa, on May 22, 1942, my parents already had three other sons. Amrit, named after a mythological Indian nectar that bestows immortality, was eight years my senior and the only one who had been born in India. Next was Bhanudey, known simply as Bhanu, a Hindi word for “sun,” who was more than three years older than me. After that came Dhiraj—his name means “calm” or “patience”—who was born a little more than a year before me.
I have no idea why my parents decided to name me Himmet. Perhaps it was a hopeful gesture, given that they weren’t sure I’d live beyond my first month. Even when I did begin to thrive, I was plagued throughout my youth with the curse of low expectations. I don’t know if my family and our friends in the Indian community thought I was slow-witted, exactly, but they certainly didn’t think I’d ever amount to much, a point that was made abundantly clear to me on a daily basis. I was the runt of the family, the unremarkable kid who was so skinny and insubstantial that others took to taunting me with the insulting nickname “Slangetjie,” which in Afrikaans means “snake.”
I tried to ignore such slights, and in my darkest moments, I would remind myself that my real name carried far more significance and, I hoped, was a harbinger of the future I began to envision for myself. Himmet, in my parents’ native Gujarati language, means “courage.”
I was a lowly Indian boy, the fourth and largely discounted son of an immigrant family, and a nonwhite living among a ruling class that considered my kind worse than the dirt beneath its shoes.
But I was the boy named Courage, and I never forgot it.
My parents were probably no older than five or six when they became engaged.
My father, Govind Dajee, was born in 1913 to a low-caste family of cobblers in the tiny village of Tejlav in the Surat district of Gujarat, a rural state in western India that was also the birthplace of the great leader Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi. Our people weren’t the lowest of the low, but their work with the finished hides of cows, which are considered sacred among Hindus, put my ancestors fairly near the bottom of the strict social hierarchy in India. My dad, like his father, and his father before him, had traveled to and from South Africa, part of the diaspora of native Indians, who were then under British control, that reached to the far ends of the Empire in search of economic betterment. My mother, Eicha Dajee—Kanta to her family and friends—was born in 1915 and was promised to my father in the traditional way when they were both young children. Neither of my parents ever received a formal education.
When he was thirteen, my father was sent off to South Africa to work in the family’s shoe repair shop in Cape Town, returning to India seven years later to wed. My brother Amrit was born in Tejlav in 1934, after which my father moved his small family back to Cape Town to run the shoe business there.
There was nothing unusual about their story. Indians had been in South Africa since the earliest days of European settlement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when European colonists and traders brought them there first as slaves and later as indentured servants. After those practices ended, the steady stream of Indians emigrating from the mother country to South Africa continued. Indeed, Gandhi began his activism in South Africa in the early twentieth century as an immigrant lawyer who led a campaign of civil disobedience against laws that discriminated against Indians.
Despite its discriminatory policies, South Africa was still a place where low-caste, uneducated Indians like my parents could make a decent living as small merchants. The little Indian community in and around Cape Town in which I was raised was made up of a few hundred families just like our own—modest shoe merchants with roots in Gujarat, members of the lowly Mochi caste who stuck together and clung to the old, traditional ways even as the world around them underwent cataclysmic change.
When I was born in Cape Town in 1942, the world was at war, and the conflict could be felt even in a place as remote as the southern tip of the African continent. South Africa, a British territory for two hundred years, was officially on the side of the Allies and even sent some troops to fight against the Germans. But the country was deeply divided, for the Afrikaners, the descendants of Dutch and German settlers, loathed the British and sympathized with the Nazis. During the war, my father and all our friends and relatives lived in constant fear that German aircraft would swoop in and bomb the city. At night, they would close their curtains and dim their lights to reduce their chances of being targeted. Rumors circulated of German submarines off the coast of nearby Namibia, which was friendly to the Axis powers.
In 1947, two years after World War II ended, the Indian Independence Bill was passed, ending Britain’s long reign and carving out the separate, independent nations of India and Pakistan. My father decided that it was time for us to make the trek back to India for a two-year stay. It was common practice among our friends and relatives to return to India to visit family members who were still there and to stay for many months, even years, as the trip was long and arduous. My dad left his shop in the care of friends and took his growing family—my sister Padma had been born in 1945—on a journey. We slept on the deck of a ship with other Indian families as we traveled up the east coast of Africa and across the Indian Ocean to Bombay. There we stayed for a short time in a relative’s apartment, from which we could look out a window to the crowded, filthy street teeming with rats the size of small rabbits.
From Bombay, we traveled by train to Surat and then on to Tejlav. I have no clear memories of the trip, just the vague impressions and mental snapshots on which a young child tends to focus: ducks swimming in the river, the smoky aroma of dried salted fish, vendors selling tea and jackfruit. Our little village had no paved roads. We stayed in a modest, one-story house where my father’s parents and two sisters lived, bookended by the houses of two uncles. Nearby were corn and rice fields, sugarcane plantations, and a mango orchard where we’d use long poles with hooks to pick the fruit. We took water from a communal well, where my brother Dhiraj got smacked once for touching the water jugs before the higher-caste people had filled theirs.
Certain scents and images have stayed with me over the years—the distinctive minty fragrance of eucalyptus trees, the brilliant blue and purple jacaranda blooms, and the sight of women hunched over open fires as they prepared our meals. When the monsoon rains came, it was quite the event. It wasn’t cold, so we children would run outside and revel in the mud, paying no mind to the swarms of stinging red ants. We were warned to stay away from snakes, some of which were poisonous, and we were properly terrified, so much so that when a cricket ball got stuck in a tree, no one had the guts to climb up to retrieve it for fear of being bitten.
During the colorful Holi holiday, we painted our faces, dressed in costumes, and danced, and all the stomping feet destroyed our porch made of dung and clay. But there was plenty of clay to be found for repairs. Amrit would collect the reddish stuff from around a nearby dam and use it to sculpt little cow and buffalo figures.
My father, despite his traditional ways, was considered a bit of a progressive in our backwater. He would brag about his physical prowess and challenge the other men to wrestling matches and swimming races in the river, which he always won. When he bought a horse and carriage, it was the talk of the village, and he also purchased a used car so he could travel around the country. Though he had no formal education himself, he insisted that we all attend school, and he bought a radio so he and all the other villagers could gather around and listen to music and the news of the day.
He revered Gandhi. He talked about him constantly, quoting him, lecturing on and on about Gandhi’s philosophy of passive resistance, telling us that he was a symbol of nonviolence and change in India and South Africa and, indeed, all the world. When we grew up, he told us, we must strive to live as Gandhi did and always be compassionate and understanding.
We were in Tejlav in January 1948 when the news came of Gandhi’s assassination. People from the village gathered in front of our house to hear the reports on my father’s radio. I remember the shock and anger, and the disbelief that it had been a Hindu man who had killed the Mahatma, the “great-souled one” of our people. A few weeks later, my father, distraught with grief, took my mother and Amrit to Delhi to visit Gandhi’s cremation site to pay their respects. My other siblings and I were told we were too young to go with them, so we stayed behind with relatives, understanding little of the forces that were shaping the world in which we lived.
During our long stay in India, our family grew again with the birth of my youngest sister, Hansa, in 1948. The following year, we embarked on the long voyage back to South Africa. Shortly after our return, we got the news that my grandfather had died back in India. The Cape Town business was now in the sole hands of my father.
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St. Louis Community Statement on Stephen Bannon and the Rise in Hate Crimes Post Election
Immediate release 11/16/2016
We, the undersigned individuals and communities of faith from across the St. Louis region, strongly denounce the appointment of Stephen K. Bannon as Chief Strategist and Senior Consultant to the president-elect. As the editor of the Breitbart website and as a strategist in the Trump campaign, Mr. Bannon promoted the advancement of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and anti-Semitism. These ideologies are antithetical to the values of pluralism, respect, and equality that our country strives to embrace. We call on President-elect Trump to appoint and nominate a leadership team that reflects his aspirations of being a president for all the American people.
Moreover, we condemn in the strongest possible terms the rise in hate crimes and hate speech in our region and across the country. We are united in our work to combat bigotry in all its forms. We stand together for the rights of people of all faiths, ethnicities, cultures, languages, races, and political leanings. We will not tolerate the incitement of fear or violence against our neighbors.
The Jewish Community Relations Council of St. Louis
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There are 42 congregations in the Diocese (30 are parishes and 12 are organized missions), campus ministry (Rockwell House), and an intentional community (Deaconess Anne House). A parish is financially self-supporting. Typically the lead cleric at a parish is a Rector, and at a mission is a Vicar.
Our bishop and ecclesiastical leader is the Rt. Rev. George Wayne Smith who is the tenth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri.
According to parochial reports in 2015, there are 11,500 active members in this diocese. The 21 churches in metropolitan St. Louis have about 76% of members. The Tables of Statistics for all dioceses in The Episcopal Church, including the Diocese of Missouri, are maintained online.
The 2014 Diocesan Operating Budget as passed by the 175th Diocesan Convention projected expenditures totaling $2,204,025.00.
In 2015 there were 124 ordained men (73) and women (51) canonically resident in the diocese, of whom 54 (40 men, 14 women) are retired, with an additional 22 licensed to officiate in this diocese. There are 19 persons in the ordination process.
The Bishop and Diocesan Council plan policy and recommend a budget for the program of the Diocese, which is approved each year at the annual Diocesan Convention.
There are six Convocation (districts) in the Diocese. The Members of Convention meet from time to time during the recess of Convention in district assemblies called Convocations. They are charged with: familiarize Convention delegates with proposed resolutions and diocesan goals and budget; to provide communication between delegates and Diocesan Council; to facilitate communication between Diocesan Council and Vestries/Bishop's Committees; to elect Diocesan Council members and to propose nominees for Standing Committee, Diocesan Council Members At Large, Cathedral Chapter and General Convention Deputies; and to promote Christian fellowship. Convocations determine their own structure and elect officers as needed.
The Diocese has had a companion relationship with the Diocese of Lui in southern Sudan since April 2006. The Diocese previously had a companion relationship with the Anglican dioceses of northern Nigeria and with the Diocese of Puerto Rico.
The Mission of the Diocese of Missouri is the mission of all baptized Christians: to teach and to spread the Gospel and its knowledge of salvation to all people; and to make the love of Christ known in the world through our own actions as individuals, as congregations, and as the Diocese, by feeding the hungry, welcoming the stranger, clothing the naked, housing the homeless, caring for the sick, visiting the prisoner, and comforting those in times of trouble.Adopted at the 154th Convention, February 1994.
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What You Need to Know About Hemophilia & Why Bruising Easily Could Be a Red Flag
A guide to learning about hemophilia.
By Michael Bohl
Have you ever had a nosebleed that just wouldn’t stop? Or a cut that needed one more bandage to heal? While odds are those things were not cause for concern, in some cases, not being able to stop bleeding can signify a more serious health issue. Bleeding disorders, such as hemophilia, are generally very rare, but they can happen. Find out what you need to know about hemophilia right here.
Hemophilia is a type of bleeding disorder that occurs when blood doesn't clot properly. Clotting is necessary to control the amount of blood loss after a wound. When you have hemophilia, clotting is disrupted, which can lead to spontaneous bleeding or excessive bleeding after surgery or other injuries. Surgery can already be intimidating enough, but when you add the factor of bleeding too much and not healing properly, anxieties can go through the roof. According to the Mayo Clinic, this bleeding disorder is rare and therefore not generally a cause for worry. However, if you have a family history of hemophilia or find that you have unusual bleeding symptoms you might want to talk to your doctor and get checked.
What is the difference between hemophilia A and hemophilia B?
Normal blood clotting is mediated by several small proteins known as clotting factors. People with hemophilia have low levels of some of these factors. If you have hemophilia A, you are deficient in clotting factor VIII. Hemophilia A is sometimes called Classic Hemophilia. If you have hemophilia B, you are deficient in clotting factor IX. Hemophilia B is sometimes called Christmas Disease. A less common and more mild form of hemophilia is hemophilia C, where the body is deficient in clotting factor XI. Hemophilia C predominantly occurs in people of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.
How do you get hemophilia?
Hemophilia is a genetic disease, meaning it is inherited. The gene for hemophilia is carried on the X chromosome. Males have one X chromosome while females have two X chromosomes. Hemophilia mostly affects men.
Although less likely, it is also possible to develop hemophilia from a random genetic mutation, which cannot be predicted.
How common is hemophilia?
Approximately 1 in 5,000 males are born with hemophilia. Hemophilia A is more prevalent than hemophilia B.
What are the symptoms of hemophilia?
The most common symptom of hemophilia is bleeding, which can happen spontaneously or after injury. This includes:
Bleeding in the joints (knees, elbows, ankles, etc.) which can cause swelling and pain
Bleeding in the skin, causing large bruising
Bruising easily or more frequently, due to lack of clotting proteins
Bleeding from the gums
Bleeding after any sort of procedure, such as an incision or vaccination
Blood in the urine or stool
Nosebleeds that are difficult to stop
Bleeding into the brain after an injury, which is rare but can be serious
How is hemophilia diagnosed?
Hemophilia is diagnosed by blood tests. A doctor may check for hemophilia if a patient has a known family history of hemophilia or if the patient has unusual bleeding episodes suspicious for the disease.
How is hemophilia treated?
Treatment for hemophilia includes replacing the missing clotting factors. This is done by injecting concentrations of the clotting factors into the veins. People with hemophilia need treatment delivered on a schedule and must stay regularly connected to the healthcare system. Various other treatments also exist that are geared towards stimulating the body to create more clotting factors, promoting clotting, and decreasing clot breakdown.
What are the complications of living with hemophilia?
The prognosis for those living with hemophilia depends on the severity of the disease (which is related to how much clotting factor is present). With treatment, people with hemophilia can lead active lives. However, life-threatening risks include bleeding inside the skull.
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Trump's Fla. Estate Stirs Protests
2/11/2017 | 9:09 AM CST
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump's South Florida estate is no longer just the place where he goes to escape.
He has described the sprawling Mar-a-Lago property as the Winter White House and has spent two weekends there this month. But it's also become a magnet for anti-Trump protesters and the subject of an ethics debate over his invitation to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to join him this weekend — with Trump pledging to pay for the accommodations.
Demonstrators plan to assemble Sunday near the estate to protest Trump's decision on the Dakota Access oil pipeline. The North Dakota project, opposed by a Native American tribe fearful of water contamination from potential oil leaks, had stalled in Democrat Barack Obama's administration. Trump's executive order cleared the way for the developer to start building the final stretch of pipeline.
During Trump's other weekend in Florida, several thousand people marched near the property to protest his temporary ban on travel to the United states by refugees as well as residents of seven mostly Muslim countries. A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's decision that temporarily blocks the ban's enforcement.
Trump's election is also putting charitable organizations, such as the American Red Cross, in an awkward position for choosing Mar-a-Lago for events booked months in advance. The Red Cross held its annual fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, as it has done for many years, on Feb. 4, about a week after Trump enacted the travel ban. Trump and his wife, Melania, attended.
"What an honor, what a great honor it is. And let's go to Florida," Trump told Abe on Friday at a White House news conference shortly before they boarded Air Force One for the trip. They intended to spend the weekend holding more talks and playing golf, likely at another Trump club across the Intracoastal Waterway in nearby West Palm Beach.
World leaders typically exchange gifts, and Trump and Abe did so when Abe rushed to New York City in November to become the first foreign leader to meet with Trump after the election. Abe gave Trump a pricey, gold-colored Honma golf driver; Trump reciprocated with a golf shirt and other golf accessories.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Abe's free-of-charge stay at Mar-a-Lago is Trump's gift to Abe this time around. But the gesture wasn't sitting well with government watchdog groups.
Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, said Trump and Abe don't need to meet at Trump's commercial property, where the membership fee recently was doubled to $200,000.
"Hosting a foreign leader at the president's business resort creates impossible sets of conflicts," Weissman said. "If the president hadn't offered to pay, the U.S. government would be paying Donald Trump's business for the purpose of hosting the Japanese leader." Typically, the U.S. government would pick up the costs associated with such a visit.
Weissman said Camp David, the U.S. government-owned retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, which presidents use for personal getaways as well as to conduct the people's business, would do fine.
"Why should you go to a resort in Florida?" Weissman asked. "Fine, you want to go to a resort in Florida? Don't go to one Trump's family owns."
But Trump has shown that he isn't too concerned about possible conflicts of interest involving him and his family. This past week, Trump used his official government Twitter account to criticize Nordstrom after the retailer said it had dropped a line of clothing and accessories sold by his daughter Ivanka.
Trump offered a possible explanation for inviting Abe to Mar-a-Lago, saying a "great friendship" had developed from their New York meeting.
The president is expected to continue bringing world leaders to the estate, helping to fulfill the vision of the property's owner, Marjorie Merriweather Post. The late cereal heiress willed Mar-a-Lago to the U.S. government after her death in 1973, intending for it to become a retreat for U.S. presidents and visiting dignitaries.
Trump bought Mar-a-Lago in the 1980s and retains a financial interest in the club.
Presidents through the years often escaped the majesty and protocol of the White House by choosing less formal settings for bilateral talks.
"It's difficult, in effect, to get away inside the White House with the press corps in the same building," said Bruce Buchanan, politics professor at the University of Texas at Austin. "In fact, it's very desirable for presidents to have multiple venues within which to build and create relationships with other world leaders."
President George W. Bush took advantage of his dusty ranch in Crawford, Texas, and regularly invited foreign counterparts there for talks.
Obama opted for Sunnylands, an estate in the California desert formerly owned by Walter and Leonore Annenberg. The late philanthropists built Sunnylands and long hoped the property they used as a winter home would become the "Camp David of the West."
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Nickelback Singer Chad Kroeger Charged with Drunk Driving
Chad Kroeger, the lead singer and guitarist for Canadian rock band Nickelback, has been formally charged with drunk driving. The Driving Under the Influence (DUI) charge stems from an investigation initiated after Kroeger was stopped for drag racing in Surrey, British Columbia on June 22, 2006.
According to spokesperson Corporal Roger Morrow of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Kroeger was stopped last June at about 2 a.m because of “excessive speed and erratic driving.” Officers in two police cars stopped Kroeger without incident and a drunk driving investigation was initiated.
Stan Lowe, who is spokesman for Crown counsel in British Columbia, indicated that Chad Kroeger (31) is free on a "promise to appear before a judge in Surrey Provincial Court on August 25. Kroeger, whose real name is Chad Robert Turton, is charged with impaired driving and driving with a blood alcohol level over .08."
The pending court appearance may impact Nickelback’s current North American tour. The rock band is scheduled to be in Texas during late August, with performances in Wichita Falls on August 24 and Houston the following night.
Nickelback became one of the most popular rock groups in North America after its 2001 ‘Silver Side Up’ album debuted at No. 1 in Canada and No. 2 in the US. The band started in Alberta, Canada, but has been based in British Columbia since 1996.
Vancouver lawyer Jonathan Simkin, who is partner with Kroeger in the music label 604 Records and the entertainment lawyer for the band, said "Chad’s a great friend and a great business partner. It’s an unfortunate incident." He added that Surrey lawyer Marvin Stern will represent Kroeger on the drunk driving charge.
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South America Flights to Chile Travel to Chile Local time: 16 July 2019 -
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Chile is one long strip of land which lines the Pacific Ocean for over two and a half miles. Chile shares borders with Peru in the North and with Bolivia and Argentina to the east and the south. A country of contrasts, its extremities are rich with diversity in its climate, landscape, traditions and peoples. Patagonia in the south and the Atacama Desert in the north are separated by the dramatic Andes. Chile however doesn't stop here Easter Island also forms part of the country; the small island attracts visitors' curiosity from all four corners of the world but very few tourists actually visit its 2000 mile coastline. Like its South American neighbours, Chile plays host to hundreds of annual festivals celebrated by locals and tourists alike. Music and dance form a large part of these celebrations - which the local people are very proud of.
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Stunning scenery
To the east of Santiago, you can cross the Andes via the border post of Puente del Inca at the foot of the Aconcagua. At 6,959m, it is the highest mountain in the Americas. It is a truly breathtaking landscape of a thousand colours. For those coming from the south, La Serena and Arica (which is a little more to the north), are very pleasant little seaside towns that are great for ending your trip.
Desertastic
In the north of the country, the village of San Pedro de Atacama is worth a stay of several days. It is a departure point for short stays in the Atacama Desert, the Tatio geysers, the Valley of the Moon (unforgettable at sunset), and the expedition to the Uyuni salt desert in Bolivia.
Novel that comes to life
To discover one of the more unknown parts of Chile, visit Isla Robinson Cruscoe - a small island 13 miles long and 4 miles wide - which hosts plants and animal species native to the island, including the Juan Fernandez fur seal. The island was made a National Park in 1935 and today visitors can explore either alone or with a guide to discover the wealth of endemic flora species. Booking return flights from Santiago to Isla Robinson will usually set you back around 300 dollars but the fact that the island is still relatively unknown to travellers means you really will experience tranquility hard to find elsewhere in Chile.
Horse lovers paradise
Finally, last but not least Patagonia, the land of explorers, filled with wonder and intrigue. There's the chance to visit a plethora of national parks including Laguna San Rafael, Katalalixar, Bernardo O'Higgins and the most famous, Torres del Paine, which takes you to the most southern point of the globe, Cap Horn. Here, avid equestrians will not miss the opportunity to do some horse-riding, as it is the ideal place for it.
Land of the Rapa Nui
Far away from there, in fact 3,680 km from the coast but still belonging to Chile, is the mysterious Easter Island. Renowned for the moais, stone statues erected on both sides, this island is 166km squared and has more than 3000 habitants. A lot of people go there just to see what the fuss is all about.
Our Editorial team's advice
This huge territory is around 2,600 miles long, and even more than 3,700 miles if you also include the Antarctic areas claimed by Chile. On the other hand, it is only 110 miles wide between the Andes Cordillera and the Pacific Ocean. Diverse and unique, if you travel to Chile you'll be sure to create some real memories!
A trip to Chile requires a well packed suitcase. The difference in climate between the North and South means that swimming costume, ski attire, flip flops, snow boots and a woolly hat are all essential. If you're thinking of hiking through the Andes, Atacama or Patagonia a comfortable pair of shoes are also a must have!
Watch out for the volcanoes in Chile as seismic activity is high since the country is located on the Nazca plate. Many towns are often susceptible to minor tremors. If an earthquake does occur whilst you are there it's advised to stay away from the windows, hide under a table, a bed or stay standing under a door frame. If you're outside, you must try to find an open space. If you're in a car, stop on the side of the road, stay inside and wait for the tremors to finish.
Drinking water is available pretty much anywhere in Chile but those of you with sensitive stomachs should stick to bottled or tap water that has been boiled.
You can try to bargain in the markets, however, it is not usual in the shops.
Around 5.00 - 6.00pm it is the time for the "once", a type of savoury snack that often replaces dinner, in a café or at home. At this time you can eat sandwiches, guacamole, scrambled eggs or cheese. Chileans are also big tea drinkers.
Although the siesta has largely disappeared from big cities, more traditional towns and villages have kept this practice.
Chilean people are very well mannered so be sure to use an official title such as Señor/Señora when addressing someone you don't know well. In the south of the country, the locals tend to be quite reserved but still very welcoming.
Chilean rodeo is a tradition and a national sport. It puts horse riders to the test as they try to capture horses in an area called the medialuna. The most popular Chilean tradition takes place on the 18th to the 19th of September. The Fiestas Patrias commemorate the first government in 1810. There's a huge party atmosphere with kites, horse races and traditional dances running through the city for two days.
One of the most important pilmigrages in Chile is the Yumbel, in the Bio Bio region, a small town which welcomes more than 300,000 pilgrims, all dressed in red and yellow every year on the 20th January. During the first two weeks of February, there is a festival on Easter island which commemorates the ancestral traditions of the Rapa Nui. Everyone immerses themselves in ancestral customs with dances, music and traditional food.
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Chilean cuisine is as varied as the country is vast. You will not be able to avoid 'cazuela de ave', a soup based on corn and chicken mixed with various vegetables. It is very copious. Empanadas are rich pastries with meat, vegetable or cheese filling that are sold everywhere and can be eaten at any time; during meals, with the family or in the street.
Humita is a corn purée prepared with milk and onions. Chilean wine, made from very high quality grape varieties originally from Europe, are grown on the Pacific coast. The Santa Carolina wines (Cabernet, Sauvignon, Chardonnay) and 'pisco', with a muscat base, are 'must' wines.
Chile offers a super cuisine with a huge range of delicacies and the climate is perfect for a large production of fruit and vegetables. You are able to find seafood, meat and wine all of excellent quality. Chile's most famous specialty, before wine, is Pisco Sour. Originally from Peru, this cocktail has an alcoholic base (pisco), lemon (pica), liquid sugar, goma and white egg; it's a real delicacy which can turn out to be slightly dangerous.
All over Santiago, you bump into vendors offering 'mote con huesillo', which is essentially peach juice with wheat seeds. Other specialities include barbecued lamb and giant crab from Patagonia, seafood and meat empanadas, sopapillas (fried pumpkin bread) , cola de Mono which translates as monkeys tail, which is a milky coffee based cocktail and agua ardiente (white rum).
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Scientists discover potential new improved way to kill cancer cells
Scientists at the University of Glasgow have discovered a process to trigger the death of cancer cells that could be more effective than current methods.
The new method of killing cancer cells – called Caspase Independent Cell Death (CICD), and published today in Nature Cell Biology, led to the complete eradication of tumours in experimental models.
Currently most anti-cancer therapies (chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy) work by killing cancer cells through a process called apoptosis, which activates proteins called caspases, leading to cell death.
But in apoptosis, therapies often fail to kill all cancer cells, leading to disease recurrence, and can also have unwanted side effects that may even promote cancer.
The scientists wanted to develop a way to improve therapy that induces cancer cell killing while also mitigating unwanted toxicity.
Dr Stephen Tait, Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, Institute of Cancer Sciences, said: “Our research found that triggering Caspase-Independent Cell Death (CICD), but not apoptosis, often led to complete tumour regression.
“Especially under conditions of partial therapeutic response, as our experiments mimic, our data suggests that triggering tumour-specific CICD, rather than apoptosis, may be a more effective way to treat cancer.”
Unlike apoptosis, which is a silent form of cell death, when cancer cells die through CICD, they alert the immune system through the release of inflammatory proteins.
The immune system can then attack the remaining tumour cells that evaded initial therapy-induced death.
The researchers used lab-grown colorectal cancer cells to show the advantage of killing cancer cells via CICD, however, these benefits may be applicable to a wide-range of cancer types.
He added: “In essence, this mechanism has the potential to dramatically improve the effectiveness of anti–cancer therapy and reduce unwanted toxicity. Taking into consideration our findings, we propose that engaging CICD as a means of anti-cancer therapy warrants further investigation.”
Dr Justine Alford, Cancer Research UK’s senior science information officer, said: “Although many cancer treatments work by triggering apoptosis, that method sometimes fails to finish the job and instead may lead to the tumour becoming harder to treat.
“This new research suggests there could be a better way to kill cancer cells which, as an added bonus, also activates the immune system. Now scientists need to investigate this idea further and, if further studies confirm it is effective, develop ways to trigger this particular route of cell death in humans.”
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The paper, ‘Mitochondrial permeabilization engages NF-kB-dependent anti-tumour activity under caspase deficiency,’ is published in Nature Cell Biology.
The paper was majority funded by Cancer Research UK.
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May 24, 2019—(BRONX, NY)—Albert Einstein College of Medicine conferred 156 M.D. and 31 Ph.D. degrees as it celebrated its 61st commencement yesterday at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. In addition, 16 graduates of Einstein’s Medical Scientist Training Program received both an M.D. and Ph.D. degree. This year’s ceremony was the first in which graduates received diplomas with the Einstein seal, after the College of Medicine was awarded independent degree-granting authority earlier this year.
Dr. Gupta advises graduating Einstein students to “do the impossible,” citing the successful 27-hour surgical separation of the conjoined McDonald twins at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in 2016.
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Commencement speaker Sanjay Gupta, M.D., chief medical correspondent for CNN and a practicing neurosurgeon, was introduced by Steven M. Safyer, M.D., president and CEO of Montefiore Medicine. Einstein conferred an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters on Dr. Gupta.
Gordon F. Tomaselli, M.D., the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean at Einstein and executive vice president and chief academic officer at Montefiore Medicine, addressed the graduates, and Dr. Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University, addressed the graduates and their families.
During the commencement event, six individuals were honored with awards from Einstein’s Alumni Association:
Dominick P. Purpura Distinguished Alumnus Award: Gerald B. Appel, M.D., ’72, professor of medicine and director, Glomerular Kidney Disease Center, Columbia Medical Center of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Distinguished Ph.D. Alumna Award: Kathryn E. Stein, Ph.D., ’76, principal, Kathryn Stein Consulting, LLC, and former director, division of monoclonal antibodies, FDA.
Distinguished Alumnus/Clinical Practitioner Award: David M. Hirsh, M.D., ’63, professor of orthopaedic surgery, Einstein and director emeritus, Center for Joint Replacement Surgery, Montefiore
Lifetime Service Award: Elizabeth Stoner, M.D.,’77, M.S., executive partner at MPM Capital, former president, Einstein Alumni Board
Lifetime Achievement Award: Harriette Rosen Mogul, M.D.,’65, M.P.H., associate professor and director of research, division of endocrinology, New York Medical College
Honorary Alumnus Award: Harry Shamoon, M.D., professor of medicine and senior associate dean for clinical and translational research at Einstein, and director, Block Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Einstein and Montefiore
Ph.D. Graduates
The graduation ceremony also honored several Einstein faculty members for teaching or research excellence:
Samuel M. Rosen Award for Outstanding Teaching (Clinical): Howard L. Forman, M.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Einstein, forensic psychiatrist at Montefiore
Samuel M. Rosen Award for Outstanding Teaching (Pre-Clerkship): Mark A. Erlich, M.D., adjunct instructor of anatomy & structural biology at Einstein
Harry Eagle Award for Outstanding Pre-Clerkship Teaching: Sherry A. Downie, Ph.D., professor of anatomy & structural biology at Einstein
Harry H. Gordon Award for Outstanding Clinical Teaching: Erika Banks, M.D., professor of obstetrics & gynecology and of women’s health at Einstein, and vice chair, education, and residency program director at Montefiore
Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching: Paul R. Marantz, M.D., M.P.H., professor of epidemiology & population health and of medicine, and associate dean for clinical research education at Einstein
LaDonne H. Schulman Award for Excellence in Teaching: Pablo E. Castillo, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neuroscience and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and the Harold and Muriel Block Chair in Neuroscience at Einstein
Saul R. Korey Award in Translational Science and Medicine: Chaim Putterman, M.D.,professor of medicine and of microbiology & immunology at Einstein, and chief of the division of rheumatology at Einstein and Montefiore.
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Home Trance Ferry Corsten Teams With Paul Oakenfold On ‘A Slice Of Heaven’
Ferry Corsten Teams With Paul Oakenfold On ‘A Slice Of Heaven’
Ferry Corsten has long been aware of the power of music and its ability to bring people closer together, and with the launch of UNITY Ferry’s vision is brought to life, bringing together electronic music’s biggest names to collaborate on music for a purpose bigger than itself. The first of these partnerships come in the form of ‘A Slice Of Heaven’, as Ferry teams up with pioneering electronic artist and 3 x Grammy-nominated producer Paul Oakenfold for their debut collaboration, to kick-start the concept and unite the dance music community in order to help those starting out on their journey in music.
‘A Slice Of Heaven’ displays the unmistakable strengths of both producers, as both worlds combine to create a euphoric anthem that fuses uplifting trance harmonies with progressive elements to launch UNITY in style. Ferry and his associated music project UNITY have partnered with VH1’s Save The Music Foundation to add support to the organization’s Music Tech Grant programme, which to date has donated $53 million worth of new musical instruments and equipment to over 2,000 public schools in 257 school districts across the USA, impacting millions of public school students. Founded in 1997, VH1 Save The Music was the first organization in existence dedicated to restoring music programs.
Speaking on the concept of UNITY, Ferry Corsten said “Music has always been a release for me and dance music, especially trance, has always had a sense of community attached to it. Through UNITY, my aim is to bring together all these people I have worked alongside through the years to create a project that reinforces that sense of being united and give young people the chance to make their own way in music.”
On being invited to kick-start the project, Paul Oakenfold had this to say: “Myself and Ferry have long spoken about getting together to work on music, and with the benefits of providing children with more opportunities to be educated through music it was a no-brainer to finally make it happen.”
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Former Education Secretary Duncan: Parkland teens are 'moving this country'
School leaders also discussed innovative professional learning on the ASU+GSV Summit's final day
Linda Jacobson
Not changing gun laws following the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, was a failure of former President Barack Obama’s administration, his Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Wednesday at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego.
“Our generation absolutely failed. Our administration absolutely failed,” Duncan said in a chat with Jessie Woolley-Wilson, the chair, CEO and president of DreamBox Learning.
The superintendent of Chicago Public Schools for over seven years, Duncan said, “We lost a student every two weeks” to gun violence in their communities. Following the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL, Duncan helped organize a meeting between some Chicago high school students working to end gun violence in their own neighborhoods and the student survivors and activists from Parkland who were also involved in organizing the March for Our Lives.
“They are moving this country in ways I’ve never seen,” Duncan said.
Arne Duncan discusses efforts to end gun violence in Chicago.
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The former secretary also discussed the work he is now doing to recruit incarcerated and formerly incarcerated 17- to 24-year-old young men into a job program intended to transition them from “an illegal economy to a legal economy.” He developed the project as part of his work as managing partner of Emerson Collective, a philanthropy created by Laurene Powell Jobs.
“I go to Cook County jail every month to recruit guys into the program,” he said. He now has seven cohorts of about 20 young men in the program.
While the business community has been more open to hiring the participants than Duncan anticipated, he still has to educate business leaders about how to work with a “different talent pool,” he said. “This can’t be charity.”
Professional learning: "An ongoing practice, not the Olympics"
Taking a design-thinking approach, paying teachers a stipend for earning microcredentials, and creating online teacher communities are a few of the ways both large and small districts are redesigning their professional learning systems.
“People dread bad professional learning,” said Frederick Brown, the deputy executive director of Learning Forward and the moderator of the morning session. He added that his organization has been working to spread the idea that teachers should be “actively engaged partners” in their learning. But at the same time, he said, there are growing demands from funders and policymakers to see evidence that professional learning improves outcomes for students.
In the Gwinnett County (GA) Public Schools, about 75 teachers from four schools are working with The Teachers Guild, part of IDEO, to test out and integrate teachers’ ideas into school and classroom practice.
“Students are going to be the problem solvers of tomorrow,” Babak Mostaghimi, the district’s executive director of Innovation and Program Learning, said during a morning session. That means, he added, that “teachers need to be able to design that learning experience.”
Some ideas, he added, don’t always work. And for a large district with a reputation for being well-managed and efficient, “talk about failing is kind of counter-cultural,” he said, but noted that he is trying to “push the district on how to integrate teachers’ ideas.”
In the small eastern Utah district of Juab Public Schools, over half of teachers have completed microcredentials through Digital Promise, which Krystle Bassett, the district’s innovation specialist, said gives them a network of other teachers who have either completed the same skill or are working toward it. “There is a reason it’s called a badge of pride,” said the former Girl Scout. Paying a stipend when teachers earn the badge has been written into the district’s policies, and teachers can follow a teacher leader pathway through the program.
But professional learning and collaboration in small or rural districts can be challenging when you have a “department of one,” said Rachel Langenhorst, a technology integrationist with the Rock Valley Community School District, near Sioux City, IA. She said the district really had to customize professional learning for individual teachers and is working with edWeb to give teachers access to an online community of peers. Working with community partners, the district also created Rockland University, an "in-house conference" in which district personnel and experts from the local hospital, for example, lead sessions on topics related to the population of students in the district.
In Chicago, Jessica Kertz is an administrator at Talcott Fine Arts and Museum Academy, which is working with LEAP Innovations to involve teachers in piloting new digital resources and sharing the learning with colleagues. “As a teacher I would not have learned about all the strategies that my teachers have,” she said.
The participants are more open about trying those strategies and often invite her to the classroom to see if a lesson will go well, she said, emphasizing that teaching is “an ongoing practice.”
“It’s not the Olympics,” she said. “It’s not one event.”
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Read John Mayer's Fanboy Letter to D'Angelo
"I'm writing to ask you to put out a follow-up to one of the few records to change my life forever..."
By John Hendrickson
Inexplicable pregnancies broke out worldwide Monday morning following the release of D'Angelo's new album, Black Messiah. It's the R&B star's first album in nearly 15 years, which seems almost impossible to believe. In 2005, John Mayer penned a letter to D'Angelo in the pages of Esquire begging him to put out a new record. Here it is below, reprinted in full. You can stream Black Messiah via Spotify at the bottom of this post.
DEAR D'ANGELO,
My name is John Mayer. You might know me from that "Your Body Is a Wonderland" song, or perhaps our mutual friend, Roots drummer Questlove, mentioned me to you. I'm writing to ask you to put out a follow-up to one of the few records to change my life forever, Voodoo.
When Voodoo came out in 2000, I stood in line at Tower Records in Atlanta at midnight to get it. Turns out, it set the gold standard for modern "neo" soul music. It's 2004, and I'm no less excited by it today than I was when I played it full blast in my mother's Plymouth Voyager on the way to my bullshit job. I drive a nicer car now, but I still listen to Voodoo and wonder what my albums would sound like if I took a bite off your style and what R&B would be like if you came back.
In contrast to the present age of gunmetal-gray hip-hop, with perfectly aligned beats and blips, Voodoo throbs. It's skin in the place of plastic. Questlove's drums serve as an atomic clock, while Pino Palladino's bass playing taunts the drums by showing the bar line just how late it can wake up and still arrive to work on time. I'm not even going to detail your impeccable vocal layering. You know what you did.
Yes, Voodoo isn't laced with perfect pop hooks, but then again it's so devoid of them that I never assumed you were worried about appeasing radio anyway. Its beauty is simplicity, a Japanese rock garden of hip-hop and R&B, and it's because of the negative space that I can still listen to it. There's nothing frivolous to get stuck in your head, so there's nothing to want out.
If you haven't recently committed any of yourself to tape, I'm begging you to put your suit and cape back on. Your contemporaries aren't going to ask you to come back; they're scared of having to be perched next to you. Only a lanky white boy like me can call you out of hiding. And if you need any help with those tunes, you know who to call. Questlove's got my number.
John Hendrickson Deputy Editor John Hendrickson is the Deputy Editor of Esquire.com, where he oversees the site's 24/7 news operation as well as all politics coverage.
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Home F1 McLaren Refute Rumours of Fernando Alonso Returning to F1
McLaren Refute Rumours of Fernando Alonso Returning to F1
Dhruv George
Credits: Sky Sports
McLaren are on the road to recovery and rumours were abound that their former driver, Fernando Alonso could come back. However, McLaren CEO Zak Brown responded to the rumours. Brown joked that if Fernando Alonso wanted to return, they would need to field a third car. This is because he is currently satisfied with the performances of Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris.
Following his retirement, Alonso dropped hints that this may not the last that F1 sees of him. However, Brown has other ideas about seat availability seat at McLaren.
He said, “Fortunately, Fernando has not yet called. There are currently no cockpits available. Our current drivers have done super well so far. They have achieved Q3 in fifty per cent of the races and given us good feedback.”
The McLaren boss was also happy about the rapport between the two drivers. He feels that their relationship is part of the reason that they hold P4 in the constructors’ championship.
“Moreover, they get along well, so I don’t have to worry about fear when they fight each other.”
After a strong start to year, McLaren finds itself fourth in the championship, a position it could only have dreamed of towards the end of the 2019 season.
Brown says that an increase in focus over the winter break has ensured that the team runs more smoothly this season, which along with an improved car, is seeing it perform well.
“I told our team manager that I want to see better pit stops this year, that we’re on schedule, that we’re the first car on track in the tests,” Brown said. “We now have a clear, somewhat more traditional Formula 1 structure in the team.
“We have improved our pit stop equipment. Everyone knows what they have to do, everyone has improved. Over the past few years, a mentality has crept in based on the motto: ‘The car isn’t the best, why do we have to be the best?’
“I referred to Williams. They didn’t have the best car in recent years either, but they were always among the teams with the best pit stops. It’s the attitude that counts and it has to be: Every little thing counts. If the car should ever be able to win, all other disciplines have to work.”
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Top 10 Destinations You'll Regret Not Visiting on Your Deathbed
Top 10 Destinations You’ll Regret Not Visiting on Your Deathbed
Our world is full of wonders. The stunning nature, magnificent feats of human ingenuity, diverse cultures – there are many mind-blowing things for you to explore. It’s virtually impossible for a single person to comprehend or experience all the natural wonders, peoples, cultures, ancient relics, and modern architectural wonders that exist in this world.
Given the plethora of stunning places, choosing one to visit can be a difficult proposition. Typically, there are factors you’ll have to consider when making your decision. Some of them include the financial cost of visiting the destination, the duration of your stay, the distance to the destination from your current location, the level of socio-political stability in the region, etc..
If you’re looking to get away from the stress of work or academic life (e.g. lectures, tests, exams, and numerous assignments some of which require you to look for an apa citation generator), there are places you just can’t ignore. Below, we present a list of ten such destinations.
1. London
London, the capital city of England, is an iconic city known for so many things. With a history dating back to the Roman era, this diverse and multicultural megapolis has a lot of world-famous physical attractions, such as the London Eye, Big Ben, London Bridge, Buckingham Palace, Museum of London, Madame Tussauds, and Trafalgar Square.
Known as the financial capital of Europe, London is home to numerous banking and financial institutions located in a district called the City of London ( or “The City” for short). Unsurprisingly, the cost of living in London is high, so you should have enough money to go there. Alternatively, you may arrange for more affordable accommodation in a satellite town around London.
2. Las Vegas
‘What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas’. You have probably heard that saying before. Las Vegas, the largest city Nevada is the place that saying refers to. It’s a major resort city with a massive hospitality industry featuring shopping malls, and amusement parks. It’s most famous for its luxurious hotels and mega-casinos that provide their visitors with an opportunity to indulge in legal gambling and related activities. The majority of the said entertainment centers are located along the Las Vegas strip.
With its bustling nightlife, it’s not hard to see why the city is a major tourist destination which attracted 42 million visitors in 2018.
Dubai, the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, is a sprawling megapolis that grew out of a small fishing village.
The city is known for its impressive modern architecture, such as the Burj Khalifa, Burj Al Arab Jumeirah hotel, Dubai Mall, other grand city projects like the Palm Jumeirah (a palm tree-shaped waterfront land area reclaimed from the sea) and World Islands. It also holds numerous world records you may want to see for yourself.
Located in northeastern Africa, Egypt is a country known for its rich and ancient history. The ancient Egyptian civilization was one of the most advanced and prosperous ever known to mankind. Some of its world-famous tourist attractions include the pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx, Luxor’s Karnak Temple and the Valley of the Kings, Alexandria, Cairo’s Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, and Abydos’ Temple of Osiris.
The capital city of France, Paris is fondly known as the ‘City of Love’ for being a romantic destination for lovers and newlywed couples. Some of its most popular landmarks and tourist attractions include the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Louvre Museum, and Pompidou Centre. Sadly, owing to its forbiddingly high cost of living, Paris is also notorious for consistently being among the top 3 most expensive cities to live in.
6. Thailand
This southeastern Asian country is known for being an affordable vacation destination for holidaymakers from around the world. Its major attractions include tropical beaches, nightlife, and lively streets, ancient ruins, and religious temples associated with Buddhism. Thailand’s most popular tourist cities include Bangkok (the capital city), Pattaya, and Phuket.
7. Kenya
Located in East Africa, Kenya is a major tourist destination in sub-Saharan Africa. The country is known for one of its main local tribes, the Masai, and the Masai Mara, a massive wildlife reserve. Nairobi, its capital, and Mombasa are the country’s two largest cities. The Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi is the country’s main airport.
8. Rome
Rome, the capital of Italy, is a metropolitan city known for its architecture, art, culture and a history spanning nearly 3,000 years. Ancient Rome was famous for its economic and military dominance. Popular attractions to see in Rome include the Colosseum, Vatican City, Piazza Navona, and Castel Sant’Angelo. The city is also known for being a major fashion hub. It hosts the headquarters of such high-end fashion brands as Valentino, Fendi, and Bulgari.
9. Tanzania
Thanks to its vast wilderness ‘the Serengeti’, this southern African country is a popular destination for tourists looking to see the Victoria Falls and experience wildlife in their natural environment. Safari tours are a major part of the country’s tourism industry.
10. India
Located in South Asia, India is the seventh largest country in the world by geographical size. Having a population of more than 1.2 billion people, it’s the second most populous country on Earth after China. It is also the world’s largest democracy.
India has a rich history which is largely shaped by millennia-old traditional religious beliefs. Some of the major religions practiced there include Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islam, and Christianity. But why is it such a great place to visit? The country is well known for its colorful religious holidays and festivals, traditional garments like the Sari, and its film-making industry known as Bollywood.
The country has a large number of tourist attractions and historical landmarks, such as the Taj Mahal, Ganges River, Red Fort, and Brihadishwara Temple. Also, it is an affordable place to visit thanks to the low cost of living. Even in big cities, you can find relatively cheap accommodation, transportation and other necessities of life.
To sum up, you may have other places in mind that you think should make the top 10 list. You might even have been to one or more destinations listed above. However, like most other thrill-seeking travelers, you’re excited to see how much more fun and eye-opening experiences you can get by visiting a few other places. Hopefully, the above list proves helpful in identifying your next destination.
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Movie Review – Independence Day
January 10, 2009 March 15, 2018 Rodney Twelftree
Director : Roland Emmerich
Principal Cast : Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia, Randy Quaid, Margaret Colin, James Rebhorn, Harvey Fierstein, Adam Baldwin, Brent Spiner, James Duval, Vivica A Fox, Lisa Jakub, Ross Bagley, Mae Whitman, Bill Smitrovich, Harry Connick Jr.
Approx Running Time : 145 Minutes
Synopsis: Aliens invade the Earth, devastating cities and obliterating mankind. As the survivors begin to regroup, a way to defeat the newcomers must be found before it’s too late.
What we think : Gargantuan destruction flick offers thrills, fun and adventure, as we watch Earth being targeted for destruction. Amazing effects (for the time) and a terrific cast giving it their all, plus a rousing “America, F@CK yeah!” tone set the benchmark for summer popcorn films ever since. ID4 is a winner.
Dazzling, bombastic, utterly cheeseball sci-fi blockbuster that reinvented the disaster film for the 90’s and the new millennium, and catapulted the burgeoning career of one Will Smith firmly into the A-List status he’s enjoyed ever since.
Featuring some goofy characters, some state-of-the-art effects and action sequences, a witty (if slightly idiotic) script and some great performances by what can only be described as an eclectic cast, Independence Day is one of those rare films where the lapses on logic and common sense are bludgeoned into nothingness by the sheer exuberance of it all. Featuring star turns by Bill Pullman as the US President (one of the good ones, like Harrison Ford in Air Force One), Vivica Fox, Mary MacDonnell, Harry Connick Jr, Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum and Randy Quaid, ID4 is an epic, full scale Hollywood blockbuster in almost every sense.
One bright day, in the middle of the night, alien ships descend from outer space into our atmosphere, hovering over our major population centers like enormous, city sized saucers, much to our dismay. They do not want to communicate with us, they simply want to annihilate us, as they quickly show us when we send a team of soldiers to try and make contact. Using a strange electronic signal to coordinate their attacks, at a predetermined hour each ship opens up like some bizarre interstellar flower, and unleashes seven shades of hell upon the earth, with the aliens’ destructive beams of energy laying waste to everything in sight. Buildings collapse, both famous and not-so-famous, cities are levelled and people obliterated in the maelstrom that accompanies the alien ship’s arrival.
Day 1, They Arrive. And simply cannot find a decent parking spot.
All this takes place on July 2, a couple of days before the American holiday of Independence Day (well, duh!), leaving a day or so for “us” to gather our forces and strike back. It makes sense that if aliens come down and try screwing with us, we’ll give it our best shot to see them off the porch in short order, right? That’s exactly what we do, at least, try to do, the following day. The remnants of the armed forces not taken out by the alien ships gather in hidden bunkers and deserted areas outside major population centers, trying to find a way to defeat the almost indestructible alien beings. Their ships, both large and small, are surrounded by an impenetrable forcefield, which not even our most powerful nuclear devices can penetrate.
Hidden deep within a bunker in Area 51, the US President (Pullman), a TV technician (Goldblum) and the technician’s father (Judd Hirsh) find a way to defeat the aliens using a kind of War Of The Worlds esque-virus to implant into the aliens computers, to disable the forcefields and make them vulnerable. So, in traditional Hollywood style, a last ditch effort arises (against incredible odds) to use a stolen alien fighter to fly up to the mothership (hovering just inside Earth’s orbit) and deposit a nuclear device within it, thus disabling the alien fleet and sending them scurrying back to their proverbial holes.
That was the last time he tossed a cigarette out the window.
Will Smith gets the bulk of the laughs as a gung-ho fighter pilot for the military, who not only captures an alien alive, but trundles across miles of burning desert to Area 51 to allow scientists to study it. In the process of this “study”, it is revealed that the aliens will never reason with us, never try and compromise on anything: they simply want us eradicated. It’s at this moment, when we find out what the aliens want, that the film puffs out it’s chest, gets all square-jawed and patriotic, and let’s fly with a salvo of “you will not prevail” cheese that almost threatens to overturn all the good work the film had done up until that point. Bill Pullman, himself more square-jawed than almost the entirety of the rest of the cast combined, delivers a flag-waving speech of monumental import, all with the rising musical score pounding us into patriotic submission along the way.
Independence Day gets most of it’s favour and cheeky impact from the genuine sense of fun leeching from every frame of this film. Director Dean Devlin savours every nuance of terror and madness as the alien crafts descend at first, then lovingly ladles upon the extravagant destruction, savouring every moment of building collapse and explosion with a glee that’s apparent to all; something which would be awkwardly reminiscent of the events of 9/11 a few years later. However, ID4, as a pre-9/11 film, will elicit the most hopeful and inspiring feelings from the audience. And with humanity stepping up, coming together as one, and having a last-gasp effort against the enemy, you’ll be proud as punch you all live in the United States.
No cameras! No cameras!!!
Oh, but you don’t? Sorry then, because this film paints in such broad strokes that it has little time for anything outside of the US. Occasional mentions of British and Middle Eastern forces are inserted through the film, although all appear subservient to the interests of our mighty United States. According to ID4, only the US can save the world.
As far as being a serious work of art, ID4 is as far from that as the Pope is from becoming a hooker. There’s no hidden subtext to this film, no message within the scripting or action that would seek to elevate your thinking to a higher plane. Nope, it’s simply all about the explosions, the whizz-bang effects, the cheesey screenplay and the gung-ho acting. And, as long as you don’t expect more than that, you’ll thoroughly enjoy it. A film without pretence, is a film to savour. ID4 became the catalyst for the new wave of disaster films during the 90’s, which proliferated due to a desire to see whose effects could outdo the others. And as the scale of the disaster became larger, conversely, the scale of human drama became smaller, with less emphasis on the script and more on just how cool the film could look.
Geez Louise, would you check out the size of that thing?
Admittedly, too much of a good thing can spoil the experience, so it’s good to know that ID4 never outstays it’s welcome: the original cut of the film is better than the available Directors Version, in which a few minutes of extra footage is woven into the narrative. However, the extra footage does nothing for the film over all except extend it a little in running time, and hardly seems worth it in the end. Still, ID4 is a genuinely entertaining piece of sci-fi extravagance.
For a blockbuster film, in the truest sense of the phrase, ID4 is a triumph of movie-making. Superb.
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Cannes 2009 Review: Heitor Dhalia's Adrift
I think I stumbled across a big Cannes sleeper hit. From the beaches of Brazil comes Adrift, known as À Deriva in Portuguese, the third film from Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia. I'm going to say right up front - following in the footsteps of City of God director Fernando Meirelles, Dhalia is the next great Brazilian filmmaker on the verge of breaking out. Adrift is his calling card, a gorgeous family drama about a beautiful young girl (seen above) and her parents. It's not a masterpiece, but it is definitely one of the better films I've seen here that offers so much to fall in love with, whether it be the actors, cinematography, or story.
French actor Vincent Cassel stars as Mathias, the loving father of a family of three kids, husband of Clarice (Débora Bloch), and struggling author in desperate need of money. Set in the 1980's on the stunning beaches of Brazil, the story follows the breakdown between married couple Mathias and Clarice as seen through the eyes of their eldest teenage daughter Filipa (newcomer Laura Neiva). While undergoing her own sexual awakening, she discovers that her father is having an affair with an American women (Camilla Belle) living not too far away. Dhalia takes an unconventional approach in telling the story though her eyes.
First and foremost, Adrift looks absolutely amazing, with a slightly muted color palette that captures the beautiful hues of Brazil in ways you've never seen before. It's a love letter to the country, unquestionably, and Dahlia and his cinematographer Ricardo Della Rosa shoot it in such a way that I couldn't help but fall in love with the look of it. Beyond that, the score by Antonio Pinto (who also scored City of God) also carried me so much deeper into the story. This is exactly why I mention that Dhalia is on the verge of breaking out - he's just waiting to unleash his cinematic brilliance upon the world and this film is his precursor.
Where Adrift struggles the most is that it's not anything new, it's not a story we haven't already seen before. And unfortunately it never hits on the emotional level that I was hoping it eventually would. Thanks to all the aforementioned technical aspects, it's still wonderful and occasionally heartwrenching to watch it play out, but it never reaches the kind of brilliance that would make it one of my absolute Cannes favorites. That said, Vincent Cassel again impresses me with an extraordinary performance, as does newcomer Laura Neiva, who could very well be the most talented actor of this entire cast, even if it is only her first major role.
I can't suggest enough that true cinephiles should seek out Adrift. You will fall in love it just as I did, I'm almost certain of that. And although the story may not be the most impressive part, there will be so much more you'll adore, that it'll be hard not to see past some of its minor flaws. It's not exactly a sleeper hit yet, but with some more time and more critical attention (which it's likely to receive), it'll be on its way.
Cannes Rating: 8.5 out of 10
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Is always good to see Vincent Cassel on screen. Hey, Alex, you´ve been giving positive reviews to everything at Cannes, is it really that good, or are you only reviewing the ones you find worthy? In any case, thanks for the constant updates. Greetings.
Mario on May 22, 2009
isnt it first and foremost?
Trademark on May 22, 2009
as a fellow brazilian, I must say that Mr. Dhalia just made me proud for being reviewed with very good things about it, on one of my favourite international movie sites. well done, well done.
felipe on May 22, 2009
Basically, you have a hard-on for the above chick.
Berry on May 23, 2009
#1 - I don't review everything from Cannes. There are some big stinkers (Kinatay, Vengeance) but I don't care to review them really, no energy of effort to do so... #4 - I have a "hard-on" for the cinematography more than anything... 😉
Alex Billington on May 23, 2009
Heh, Spoken like a true film nerd Alex...
peloquin on May 23, 2009
I have not seen this movie yet. But as I love the panache of Vincent Cassel as well as the extraordinarily beautiful beaches of Brazil, these are two great reasons to check this one out.
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10 Neon Places that Are Already a Futuristic Dystopia
Karen Gardiner | October 6, 2017
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There are some places where you might believe we are already living in the world of Blade Runner.
The much-anticipated sequel to Blade Runner will arrive in movie theaters on October 6 this year, which means there is no better time to renew your acquaintance with this classic 1982 neo-noir movie.
While our world of 2017 is still a long way from the Los Angeles of 2019 depicted in the movie—think flying cars, synthetic humans named replicants, and off-world colonies—there are a few places around the world where the movie’s futuristic vision doesn’t seem quite so far-fetched. Visit the following places to get the sense that we may already be living in Blade Runner’s world.
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Kabukicho
WHERE: Tokyo
The wall-to-wall neon lights and atmospheric, crowded little alleyways of Tokyo’s Shinjuku municipality are enough to put a Blade Runner fan in mind of any number of the movie’s scenes. It is Shinjuku’s Kabukicho district, however, that is said to have specifically inspired much of Blade Runner’s set design. This notorious red light district burns brightly with colorful neon signs beckoning the curious into its dozens of nightclubs, hostess bars, massage parlors, and the kinds of clubs at which the ill-fated replicant/exotic dancer Zhora worked.
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WHERE: Hong Kong
In Blade Runner’s opening scene, four characters talk to one another in Japanese, English, and Korean, while one character, Gaff, moves between French, Hungarian, and German in a single sentence. In the original release, Deckard explains in a voiceover that such “gibberish” was known as “city-speak, guttertalk.” Languages similarly collide—to a lesser extent—in the kaleidoscopic, neon-washed melting pot of Hong Kok’s Mong Kok district, where, among Cantonese and English, you might hear snippets of a unique dialect created by the area’s underground subcultures. That’s not the movie’s only connection to Hong Kong. In an interview with the New York Times, Ridley Scott said: “I wanted to film Blade Runner in Hong Kong, but couldn’t afford to.”
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WHERE: New York City
The skies of Blade Runner are lit up with corporate slogans and flashing billboards. Not entirely unlike Times Square, where, depending upon your personal tastes and tolerance levels, the crush of advertising can create an oppressive atmosphere quite like that of the movie. In 2014, Times Square switched on the world’s largest digital billboard—at eight stories high, not quite as imposing as the movie’s iconic sky scraping image of a geisha swallowing a pill, but close. Nevertheless, potential advertisers may want to consider the cautionary tale of the curse of Blade Runner, a theory speculating that the movie was a curse to the companies, including Pan Am and Atari, whose logos were prominently featured in some scenes.
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Elsewhere in Manhattan, the steamed-up restaurant windows, neon advertisements, and densely packed buildings of New York City’s Chinatown district would fit quite nicely into Blade Runner, especially the early food market scene. The fashion designer Raf Simons seems to agree: he recently put on a Blade Runner-themed show there, at the base of the Manhattan Bridge, complete with models carrying plastic umbrellas as a nod to that very scene, which was set in the torrential downpour that soaks much of the movie.
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Heukseok Market
WHERE: Seoul
If you are hunting for the quintessential Blade Runner-esque noodle bar in which to relive that pivotal early scene, you could do worse than to visit Seoul’s off-the-beaten track Heukseok Market. There, amongst the crowded vendors’ stalls, you’ll easily find a matjip, or “delicious place,” from where to order, like Rick Deckard, four of something with noodles on the side. Unlike in the movie, the proprietor is unlikely to tell you that you can only eat two.
Nanjing Road
WHERE: Shanghai
Really, any neon-saturated district can provide a convincing stand in for many of the movie’s sets, but the pedestrianized shopping district of Shanghai’s Nanjing Road is one of the most convincing. Wall-to-wall neon runs much of the 3.4-mile length of Shanghai’s main shopping street, one of the busiest in the world. Hundreds of shops are crowded onto the road and, in true future dystopian fashion, slightly unnerving electronic voices ring out from many.
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WHERE: Singapore
If it’s simply a glimpse into the future you are looking for, Marina Bay Sands wouldn’t look out of place in the dystopian world conjured up by Blade Runner. The complex’ three structures tower over the city, like a malevolent android, housing a mall and casino and topped by a three-acre SkyPark containing gardens and the world’s largest rooftop infinity pool. This is the peak of futuristic decadence.
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Bradbury Building
WHERE: Los Angeles
Blade Runner unambiguously tips its hat to the classic LA noir films of the 1940s, so we’d be remiss to leave the City of Angels off the list. The dark, smoky, torrential rain-drenched Los Angeles of the movie is a far cry from its sunny contemporary reality, but there are some filming locations that are open to the public. The Bradbury Building —a National Historic Landmark—served as J.F Sebastian’s apartment and, most memorably, was the setting of the climatic rooftop scene.
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Ennis House
Find Deckard’s home in the rolling hills of Los Angeles’ Los Feliz neighborhood. Frank Lloyd Wright based his design for Ennis House on ancient Mayan temples and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Despite its historic and pop cultural significance, the house suffered structural damage from an earthquake and heavy rains over the years. Recent renovations have stabilized the building, though, and the conditions of its private sale in 2011 mean that it is open to the public 12 days a year.
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Bourdain Market
You’ll have to wait until 2019 at the earliest to dine at Anthony Bourdain’s much-anticipated, though long-delayed, food market at NYC’s Pier 57. Word has it that Bourdain Market will be inspired by the street hawker markets of Singapore and filled with Bourdain’s personal favorite vendors from around the world. The chef and TV personality also seems to be a Blade Runner fan, having told the New Yorker that he wants the market to evoke the movie, describing it as “high-end retail as grungy, polyglot dystopia.”
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SHAW, ARTIE
Both Feet in the Groove
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Born in New York City in 1910 and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, Artie Shaw worked for several years as a saxophonist and clarinetist in name bands, and as a freelance studio musician in Manhattan radio and recording work, before his career as a bandleader began, almost by accident, in 1935. In the spring of 1937 Artie started a new band with the regular saxes-brass-rhythm instrumentation. This was the band that catapulted him to fame a year later when he recorded "Begin the Beguine." Some of the numbers on this 1956 album go back to that era; in fact one tune, "Comin' On," was recorded on the same day at the same session as the historic "Beguine" -- July 24, 1938. This Shaw panorama should convince you that, in truth, Artie Shaw at all times has had both feet in the groove.
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Why the GDPR is a good idea
It's easy to forget the Internet was built to share information across a global network, not keep it private. Sharing has become an essential part of life and that's not going to change any time soon. Whenever we have something to share, in any format, there are a multitude of ways, tools, and modes to do that. Even stuff there was no intention of ever sharing somehow ends up out there. So, there's pros and cons to all of this sharing.
Meanwhile, data brokers, regular old companies, slick startups, and criminals continue to refine ways of exploiting our data for profit. Up until now, there's been no limit to what companies can do, outside of their own, internal moral compass, which often enough doesn't exist at all. Regulation like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an effort to advocate for the protection of our rights as individuals to privacy and security of our data.
This is a good thing for a couple of important reasons. Primarily because here, in the United States, there is less going on in the context of government regulation and/or any kind of accountability for companies who collect and use individuals' personal information as part of their business model. The GDPR is a pioneering effort to create an equitable balance between business and the individual that will no doubt shape how the rest of the world operates in these contexts. Second, we need some sort of regulation, especially in light of even just some of the high-profile events that we've experienced so far just this year alone that compromise these rights of individuals to security and privacy:
Google shuts down G+ after choosing not to disclose a privacy breach (updated 10.8.18)
Apollo, the data aggregator and analytics service, just exposed more than 212M records
Facebook first exposed 87M users through Cambridge Analytica who were working hard to manipulate people's minds, and then another 90M via the View As breach just a week or so ago
Under Armour exposed 150M users' personal information via MyFitnessPal
Panera accidentally made 37M customer records publicly available on the Internet
Ticketfly exposed 27M people's names and personal contact info
Sacramento Bee exposed almost 20M California voters' records
PumpUp exposed personal interactions and biological information of their 6M users
Also, dozens of breaches of small and mid-sized healthcare companies that have put Personal Health Information (PHI) at risk
And plenty of cases of individual employees selling company info to make some money on the side.
These things happen every day to companies that aren't prepared to respond to such unplanned events. Whether you like it or not, regulation like the GDPR brings privacy and security to the forefront of many conversations that have otherwise ignored them. Privacy and security are team sports and require business and consumers, alike, all of us to participate in order for the game to be successful. There is no "other world" because we all share the same fate when it comes to sharing, respecting, and protecting our personal information.
Policy seems to be the only way to enforce accountability to ensure that these values take hold and are sustainable by commerce and also the law, which is why GDPR is specific about what kinds of data is worth protecting:
Biographical information or current living situation, date of birth, SSN, phone number(s), and email address(es)
Looks, appearance and behavior, including eye color, weight, and character traits
Workplace data and information about education, including salary, tax information, and student number
Private and subjective data, including religion, political opinions, and geo-tracking data
Health, sickness and genetics, including medical history, genetic data, and information about sick leave
With that in mind, we owe it to ourselves to have some basic fluency here. Here's a friendly outline of key tenets everyone should get familiar with:
Consent – We have the right to be informed in “clear and plain language" about how our information is collected. We can withdraw our consent at any time.
Correction – We now have the right to ensure the information being collected about us is at least accurate.
Portability – We have the right to transfer our personal data from one electronic processing system to another. This gives us some power to choose which companies we trust with our data and to move it as those perceptions and preferences change. They will change.
Erasure – We have the right to withdraw our consent and ask for our personal data to be deleted. Full stop.
Access – We have the right to know what information about us is being collected and how it’s being used.
These sound wonderful, however, like many individuals, there are a lot of companies that are still illiterate about all of this. They need education, too.
Goals for the Second Year
Companies need to begin to build a better understanding of where this data exists within their infrastructure for everyone, not only people who live in the EU. They need to know where that data lives, who has access to it, how it's processed, who else it might be transmitted to, how to give it to you when you request it, and how to delete it when you request that it be deleted.
How can they do this? One of the most friendly ways to do this is by building diagrams. This exercise is useful to help visualize how data flows into an organization, where it ends up, how it's used, who knows it's there, and where it is most vulnerable. This helps organizations accomplish other important things, too, like designing disaster recovery tactics, incident response plans, and overall resilience. Efforts involved in building a better understanding of how an organization works and how it is most vulnerable pays for itself in a crisis when unplanned events will compromise productivity, reputations, and bottom lines.
GDPR has varying levels of complexity, also, depending on the type of business it is and the context for collecting information. Regulated industries always have more complexity because there's more at stake, while smaller, more niche businesses are subject to a different level of scrutiny.
Whatever level of complexity your organization is responsible for, it's worth making sure that the processes for managing data is designed with thoughtful intention. These processes need to make sense and be friendly enough to ensure that people will honor and do them. Make sure keeping data safe isn't too difficult or complex. Help your team understand the value of these processes through including them in their design. Get their input while designing training. Ask them to help train others at least a couple time a year. Review these processes, training materials, and related, internal policies at least annually to make sure they're still relevant and valuable to the collective.
Protecting our information is a team sport. We all share the same fate.
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Renault take the wraps off R.S.18 F1 car
Car upgrades
After climbing the F1 pecking order in 2017, Renault have revealed the car which they hope will bring them even closer to the leading pack this season: the R.S.18.
Renault Sport F1 R.S.18 © Renault Sport F1 Team
Carlos Sainz and Nico Hulkenberg © Renault Sport F1 Team
From left to right, Jack Aitken, Carlos Sainz, Nico Hulkenberg, Artem Markelov © Renault Sport F1 Team
The French manufacturer, who revealed their new machine in an online presentation, finished sixth in the constructors’ standings last term – three places higher than in 2016.
Drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Carlos Sainz are hoping for further progress this year, though they’re expected to face tough competition from Renault’s customer teams Red Bull and McLaren, who will use the same specification power unit as the works team.
Progression and refinement
Developed jointly between Enstone, UK (chassis) and Viry-Chatillon, France (power unit), the R.S.18 is Renault's third chassis since its return to Formula 1 as a full works’ entry in 2016. According to the team the car is a progression and refinement of the concepts developed during the 2017 season, including an improved suspension concept and greater aerodynamic downforce.
As well as a dynamic new paintjob, the R.S.18 also features the mandatory new-for-2018 halo cockpit protection and re-profiled engine cover to comply with the 2018 technical regulations.
Speaking after images of the new car were revealed, Renault Sport Racing President Jérôme Stoll said: “Renault Sport Formula One Team’s ambition is clearly to uphold the outstanding record of the past and the 2017 season has confirmed we are on the right track. We are a team on the rise. We have two very talented drivers who are hungry for results. Enstone is regenerated and the workforce has already increased by more than 35%. Our investment has so far been successfully translated to the track as we rose from ninth to sixth in the Constructors’ Championship in 2017 and ended the year with the fourth fastest car."
“The success of the programme in just two years is testament to the resilient plan laid down early in the creation of the team and the strong job done by Cyril and the entire Renault Sport Racing teams. I am convinced year three will take us one step closer to the long-term aim: winning races and challenging for championships.”
"We have everything to be positive"
Stoll's words were echoed by Cyril Abiteboul, Renault Sport Racing's managing director: “Last year was successful in many ways. It was the second year in our rebuilding and a further step towards our long-term plans and aims.
"2016 was all about recruiting, investing, bringing in new sponsors, new talents and building our brand. Over the past year I’ve seen progression in many areas: ninth to sixth in the standings – in many races we were often the fourth fastest team on the grid. This is a testament to our drive, commitment and adherence to a very ambitious plan. It was a quantified progression towards what we want to become and challenging the top teams.
“We have everything to be positive about this year. We have two very talented and ambitious drivers. Last year Nico gave us exactly what we needed with his experience, knowledge and ability to lead both on and off track. Carlos joined us at the end of the season and he brought something fresh, and he scored points to help us in the Constructors’ battle. Without that we wouldn’t have finished where we finished.
“Our headline target is to show continued progression through results. We want to be able to showcase our progression in every regard; power unit, chassis, operations, drivers. Everything must improve and we must continue to grow. We want to demonstrate this in many different ways, from the teams we will be directly racing against, to the gap to the leaders, including also our fan base and the respect that our team will inspire in our way we behave on and off track.”
Drivers keen to get going
The R.S.18 will be given its track debut when pre-season testing gets underway in Barcelona next week, with both Hulkenberg and Sainz keen to see if it can take the team to the next level.
“When I have visited Enstone and seen everything going on with the development of the R.S.18 I’m very enthused about the season ahead,” said Hulkenberg. “Add that to the news from Viry about the development of the power unit and everything looks and sounds good; it’s all positive and there are exciting times ahead. I’m feeling positive and optimistic in myself.
"We’re in a good position. For this year we want to build on the good platform of last season. 2017 was about bedding in, now I want to get ready to go. I get a good feeling, we have put the work in over the winter and hard work usually pays off. I’m eager to get out there. Put me in the car.”
“The general approach is to work harder every day to continue on a positive trend," added Sainz. "For sure the main target is to take a step forward, both me as a driver and the whole team. It’s difficult to predict how big that step will be, however, I’m confident as I have been pushing hard during the winter and I know everyone at the factory is giving their very best. I´m convinced this is going to be an exciting season.”
Joining Hulkenberg and Sainz in a revised four-man roster are F2 racers Jack Aitken and Artem Markelov, who will act third and reserve driver and test and development driver respectively. Both are expected to receive testing opportunities over the course of the season.
Ricciardo happy to ‘put smiles back on faces’ as Renault get both cars into Q3
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Carrots, Sticks and Lower Premiums
STEVE LOHR
A fledgling industry is offering financial incentives for workers to adopt healthier habits in diet and exercise.
FOR all the debate lately, one basic fact about America’s health care crisis is rarely mentioned. Namely, the one thing that could really reform health care is you, collectively speaking: People living healthier lives.
The statistical evidence has been clear for years, but it bears repeating. Studies show that 50 percent to 70 percent of the nation’s health care costs are preventable. Much of that expense goes to treat a few chronic conditions that are closely linked to behavior, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer. Bad genes and bad luck matter, of course. But behavior — exercise and choice of diet — matters most.
So why not pay people to live healthier lives? In fact, a fledgling “pay for prevention” industry is beginning to emerge, offering employers ways to reward workers with cash or reduced insurance premiums for exercising more and eating wisely. Among the industry’s early entries are RedBrick Health, Tangerine Wellness and Virgin HealthMiles.
And some big companies, like Safeway and General Electric, are experimenting on their own with financial incentives to prod employees to adopt healthy habits or to drop bad ones. (At G.E., smokers pay an extra $625 a year.)
While just under way, the drive to align financial incentives with healthy behavior seems promising, experts say. “If this were the Olympics, it would be a demonstration sport — not there yet, but clearly coming,” said Dr. David J. Brailer, chairman of Health Evolution Partners, a private equity fund, which has not invested in a health-incentive management company to date.
And some early research in behavioral economics suggests that financial incentives can be used to essentially kick-start healthy habits that then become self-sustaining, according to Gary B. Charness, an economist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
That certainly seems to be how things worked out for Mona Ellender, 55, a database administrator who lives in Metairie, La. At the end of 2008, her employer, Ochsner Health System, which operates seven hospitals and 35 clinics in southeastern Louisiana, adopted a health incentive program designed and managed by Virgin HealthMiles, part of the Virgin Group.
The Virgin formula focuses mainly on promoting physical activity, which can be measured using pedometers, accelerometers or heart-rate monitors. Online tools are important. Personal activity data is uploaded from the activity-tracking devices into an individual’s account on the Web. A general Web site includes health and dietary tips. Contests and online chat are part of the mix.
Yet what first got her attention, Ms. Ellender concedes, was the money. Under the program, her premium payments for health insurance for her and her husband drop by more than $100 a month if she attains her activity goals.
But soon, Ms. Ellender says, the main appeal became the improvements she was observing in her energy, appearance and weight. She says she walks a lot more than she used to, including 30 minutes during her lunch break and often after work. She attends an aerobics class most every day, she says. And she tracks her progress online daily. In 15 months, Ms. Ellender’s cholesterol level has fallen sharply. She has lost 40 pounds and intends to lose 14 more.
“It’s made a big difference in my life,” she says.
Her employer is pleased as well. After rising steadily for years, health insurance claims fell 5 percent last year for Ochsner, says Susan Piglia, director of corporate programs.
It is the long-term trends — not a year or two — that matter most in health. But the health-incentive management companies do seem to be off to a good start. The employee participation rates in their programs — all are voluntary — are typically in the 50 to 80 percent range, far higher than for traditional wellness programs, which do not include financial incentives.
Virgin HealthMiles, RedBrick Health and Tangerine Wellness use somewhat different approaches. Still, there are some common lessons from their few years of experience.
In modifying health behavior, they say, rewards trump punishment. A person who does poorly in a program, for example, loses a chance to save money, but there are no penalty payments, only encouragement to convert to healthy habits. “The carrot definitely works better than the stick,” says Aaron Day, chief executive of Tangerine Wellness.
(Some companies are offering cash carrots to smokers. Edelman, a big public relations firm, pays more than $500 to smokers who quit.)
Markets thrive on good information and good incentives. The market for personal health, it seems, lacks both. RedBrick Health was founded in 2006, with an eye toward having incentives focused on health instead of just cost savings.
Kyle Rolfing, the chief executive, was previously a founder of Definity Health, a pioneer in developing consumer-driven spending plans like health reimbursement accounts and health spending accounts, known as H.R.A.’s and H.S.A.’s. (Definity was sold to UnitedHealth in 2004.) The rationale behind the high-deductible plans has been that if people spend more of their own money, they will be more price-conscious consumers of health care.
The problem with H.R.A.’s and H.S.A.’s alone, Mr. Rolfing says, is that people do opt for less costly care but not better health. “The real goal is to get accountability about health and wellness at the individual level,” he says. “So the incentive — the return on investment — should be at the individual level as well.”
PERSONAL health decisions also suffer from an information gap. The gratification for eating rich desserts is immediate, while the health consequences, if any, are well into the future. But online tracking and affordable digital devices, like pedometers, to collect timely data are beginning to close the information gap. At the least, users can constantly check measures of activity and calorie counts that are clearly linked to health.
“We’re trying to create the good-driver discount for health,” explains Sean Forbes, president of Virgin HealthMiles. “One reason that’s been so difficult is there’s never been a way to really measure things before, but that is changing because of technology.”
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Foundry Daily News
USA - Foundry fire under investigation
Firefighters are investigating the cause of Friday night's fire. No one was injured as crews battled flames at WIRCO, Foundry Division, in the 1700-block of West Washington Street. The fire started just before 9 pm.
"It looked like it was really foggy and then the closer you got, you could smell it," says Kamey Evans.
Neighbors reported seeing smoke, but it quickly turned into a 3-alarm fire. Crews from Champaign, Urbana and Savoy responded.
They battled flames for about five-and-a-half hours, and were able to put it out just after 2 am, Saturday. They stayed throughout the morning, putting out hot spots and cleaning up.
Crews say the fire was concentrated in one building. They were able to stop it from spreading to the rest. When they got the worst of it out from on top, ground crews went inside.
"They cut into the building and they cut into one of these steel garages and then you could see when they opened the garage you could see the flames in the building," says Chris Jones.
Neighbors were able to stay in their homes during the incident. They did have to find alternative ways to get there since firefighters shut down Mattis Avenue during portions of the evening.
Dozens of people watched the scene unfold, knowing what they saw wasn't good, but hoping for the best.
"It's terrible to see that, all the hard work that you put into make sure people have their products and everything," says Moody Willis, a former WIRCO employee.
"WIRCO has been a good neighbor as of late, and I hate to see something like that happen to them. It is a little bit frightening, a fire like that. I'm glad it didn't get me bigger. I just hope they're able to rebuild, maintain those jobs and go on about their lives. I hope everything works out for them," says neighbor Ed Wachala.
Fire officials don't know what started the fire yet. A WIRCO owner says he's not sure how much damage there is, but is expecting to meet with the insurance company Monday. He says they'll be back open for business.
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Leaders demand better overtime rules for Michigan workers
By: FOX 47 News
LANSING, Mich. — Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich and House Democratic Leader Christine Greig issued the following statements today in response to a new scaled-back overtime rule proposed by the Trump Administration. The beginning of a 60-day public comment period for the proposed rule was announced March 22 by the U.S. Department of Labor. [dol.gov]
“Workers who earn $35,000 a year are not highly paid executives who don’t need overtime pay, but you wouldn’t know that from the Trump Administration’s Department of Labor’s weak new overtime pay proposal. It shortchanges thousands of workers in our state who would have received overtime pay under the 2016 rule. Working folks in Michigan deserve a raise and we’ll keep up the fight to make it happen,” said Sen. Jim Ananich, who has previously introduced legislation to expand eligibility for overtime pay for salaried Michigan workers.
The Trump Administration’s scaled-back overtime rule would increase the threshold for which salaried employees qualify for overtime from $23,660 to only $35,308, a fraction of the modest $47,476 a year proposed by the Obama Administration in 2016. The 2016 overtime rule was blocked by a lawsuit from Attorneys General from multiple states, including then Attorney General Bill Schuette. Under the new proposal, more than 192,000 salaried Michigan workers who would have benefitted from the 2016 rule will be left behind. [epi.org]
“Everyday Michiganders deserve more than just a job, they deserve a job with a strong paycheck and the benefits they need to fully support their families,” said House Democratic Leader Christine Greig (D-Farmington Hills). “With so many in our state struggling to get by, the focus should be on ensuring that all families have the resources they need to keep food on the table and afford the basics that build opportunity for future generations. Our state’s hardworking men and women deserve nothing less than fair compensation for every hour worked.”
The Trump Administration’s scaled-back overtime rule comes at a time when only 7 percent of salaried workers are guaranteed overtime pay when they work over 40 hours in a week. [epi.org] Michigan voters also overwhelmingly support expanding overtime pay eligibility for workers according to a 2018 EPIC/MRA Poll.
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CUP: Court Refuses To Revive Mayfield's Suit
By | Speed
A federal appeals court in Virginia has refused to revive a lawsuit by former racecar driver Jeremy Mayfield's against NASCAR over his suspension for failing a random drug test.
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled Monday that U.S. District Judge Graham Mullen in Charlotte, N.C., did not abuse his discretion in dismissing Mayfield's complaint.
After his 2009 suspension, Mayfield sued NASCAR; its owner, Brian Zachary France; and a drug testing company for defamation, unfair and deceptive trade practices, breach of contract and negligence. Mullen tossed out the suit because Mayfield had, as a driver and an owner, signed documents waiving his right to sue.
Mayfield has argued that over-the-counter and prescription medications led to the positive test at Richmond International Raceway.
“NASCAR is pleased that today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the U.S. District Court’s original decision in May 2010 in Jeremy Mayfield v. NASCAR," said Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR Senior Vice President, Racing Operations, in a statement issued Monday afternoon.
"This case was never about anything more than NASCAR’s ability to keep the sport clean and our competitors safe.”
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UEFA finalizes schedule for Euro 2012
MINSK, Belarus – European soccer's governing body finalized the schedule for the 2012 European Championship on Monday, seemingly relieving fears that all eight venue cities would not be ready to host games.
The Ukrainian capita of Kiev was confirmed as the venue of the final by the Union of European Football Associations. It also will host a quarterfinal and three first-round matches.
Warsaw and Donetsk also will host five matches: three first-round matches, a quarterfinals and a semifinal — after the schedule was approved at a UEFA executive committee meeting in Minsk.
Gdansk will hold four matches, including a quarterfinal. The remaining four cities — Wroclaw, Poznan, Kharkiv and Lviv — are scheduled to host three games each.
Ukraine will host 16 of the 31 matches in the tournament, which opens on June 8, 2012.
Ukraine's preparations for Euro 2012 have been hindered by delays in the building of stadiums, roads and hotels, although UEFA said in August after a two-day inspection visit that authorities were on track to meet deadlines.
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Gold treasure recovered from 1857 shipwreck to make debut
By AMANDA LEE MYERS | Associated Press
Gold treasure recovered from 1857 shipwreck to go on display
More than $50 million worth of gold bars and coins recovered from the wreckage of the S.S. Central America steamship set to go on display at the Long Beach Convention Center in California.
SANTA ANA, Calif. – More than $50 million worth of gold bars, coins and dust that's been described as the greatest lost treasure in U.S. history is about to make its public debut in California after sitting at the bottom of the ocean for more than 150 years.
The 3,100 gold coins, 45 gold bars and more than 80 pounds (36 kilograms) of gold dust recovered from the wreckage of the S.S. Central America steamship are now sitting in a makeshift laboratory just south of Los Angeles.
Bob Evans, the chief scientist on the original voyage that discovered the shipwreck and its treasure in 1988, is now painstakingly cleaning each piece of gold by hand, soaking it in a solution and brushing off rust and grime that accumulated as the treasure sat 7,000 feet (2,134 meters) below sea level.
"This is a whole new season of discovery," Evans told The Associated Press this week from the laboratory in Santa Ana. "We are now peering beneath the grime and the rust that is on the coins, removing those objects and those substances and getting to look at the treasure as it was in 1857."
The Central America was laden with booty from the California Gold Rush when it sank in a hurricane off the coast of South Carolina in 1857. Four hundred and twenty-five people drowned and thousands of pounds of California gold were lost, contributing to an economic panic.
Using sable paintbrushes and a cleaning solution, Evans has been restoring the gold —some of which is completely caked over in black gunk — to its original luster for the past two weeks. He will continue that work through February, when the treasure will go on public display at the Long Beach Convention Center, just south of Los Angeles.
The gold is all for sale. Just one tiny coin alone could go for $1 million because of its combination of rarity and the history behind it, said Dwight Manley, managing partner of the California Gold Marketing Group, which is displaying and selling the gold.
"This is something that in hundreds of years people will still be talking about, reading about, looking back on and collecting things from," Manley said. "There's no other ships that sank that haven't been recovered that rival this or are similar to this, so it's really a once-in-a-lifetime situation."
Meanwhile the deep-sea treasure hunter responsible for finding the gold in the first place continues to sit in an Ohio jail over his handling of the original treasure recovered from the Central America.
Treasure hunter and Ohio native Tommy Thompson found the ship in 1988 after convincing 161 local investors to fund the voyage for nearly $13 million.
A lengthy battle ensued over who owned the gold, with Thompson and his investors eventually emerging as the victors over a group of insurance companies. Thompson's company sold 532 gold bars and thousands of coins to the California Gold Marketing Group for about $50 million in 2000.
Investors never saw any of those proceeds. In 2005, they sued Thompson, who then went into seclusion in Florida and later became a fugitive after an Ohio judge issued a warrant for his arrest in 2012.
Authorities tracked Thompson to a Florida hotel room in 2015. A judge has held Thompson in contempt since December 2015 for violating terms of a plea deal by refusing to answer questions about the location of 500 missing gold coins. He's been jailed ever since.
Thompson has previously said the coins were turned over to a trust in Belize. He has also said that the $50 million from the sale of the gold mostly went toward legal fees and bank loans.
Recovered in 2014, the gold going on display in California next month is only the second round of treasure brought up from the Central America.
Manley, of the California Gold Marketing Group, bought the gold from investors this month. It was the first time investors saw returns since their initial investment in the 1980s, though some of them died waiting to see such a day.
The gold will be on display Feb. 22-24 at the Long Beach Convention Center.
Follow Amanda Lee Myers on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AmandaLeeAP
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Ivory Coast returns bodies from New Year's stampede to families, gives funds for funerals
A young relative weeps during a memorial service for the 64 people killed in a New Year's stampede, as family members came to claim the bodies of their loved ones at Treichville's University Hospital Center morgue, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Officials said Saturday that the New Year's stampede was caused by a combination of several factors including unofficial tree trunk barricades, the narrowing of a major thoroughfare, bad lighting and a shortage of police officers.(AP Photo/Emanuel Ekra) (The Associated Press)
Family members of victims of a New Year's stampede walk amongst coffins at Treichville's University Hospital Center morgue, where relatives were coming to claim the bodies of the 64 killed, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Officials said Saturday that the New Year's stampede was caused by a combination of several factors including unofficial tree trunk barricades, the narrowing of a major thoroughfare, bad lighting and a shortage of police officers.(AP Photo/Emanuel Ekra) (The Associated Press)
Family members tend to the body of a relative killed in a New Year's stampede, as the families of the 64 victims claimed the bodies of their loved ones at the University Hospital Center morgue in the Treichville neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Officials said Saturday that the New Year's stampede was caused by a combination of several factors including unofficial tree trunk barricades, the narrowing of a major thoroughfare, bad lighting and a shortage of police officers.(AP Photo/Emanuel Ekra) (The Associated Press)
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – An Ivory Coast official says the government has begun handing over the bodies of those killed in a New Year's stampede to their families.
Serges Kanon, communications chief for the Ministry of Solidarity, said Wednesday the first set of families retrieved their dead and were also given roughly $2,000 per family to help with funeral costs. The ceremony was presided over by Solidarity Minister Anne Desiree Ouloto.
He said such ceremonies would continue until all the bodies are returned to their families.
The stampede killed 64 people who were trampled after a New Year's fireworks display in the commercial capital of Abidjan.
A government probe has blamed the tragedy on an array of factors including darkness, unofficial tree trunk barricades and a shortage of police officers.
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RaceCast
Ford IMSA
AUTO RACING: Auto Racing Glance
AP Jul 3, 2019 at 9:47a ET
COKE ZERO SUGAR 400
Site: Daytona Beach, Florida.
Schedule: Thursday, practice, 2:05 & 4:05 p.m. (NBCSN); Friday, qualifying, 5:05 p.m. (NBCSN); Saturday, race, 7:30 p.m., NBC.
Track: Daytona International Speedway (oval, 2.5 miles).
Race distance: 400 miles, 160 laps.
Last year: Erik Jones roared back from 29th to take first at Daytona’s second race of 2018.
Last race: Alex Bowman won in Chicago after qualifying eighth.
Fast facts: It was the first win in 134 starts for the 26-year-old Bowman. He is in his fifth season as a Cup driver. …NASCAR added 10 laps to each of the first two stages for Saturday’s race. Stage 1 will end after 50 laps and the second stage will be complete after 100. The sanctioning body hopes the change will ensure that fuel mileage won’t dictate the results. …The series will run at Daytona without restrictor plates this weekend for the first time since 1987.
Next race: Quaker State 400, July 13, Kentucky Speedway, Sparta, Kentucky.
Online: http://www.nascar.com
CIRCLE K FIRECRACKER 250
Site: Daytona Beach.
Schedule: Thursday, practice, 1:05 & 3:05 p.m. (NBCSN); Friday, qualifying, 3:35 p.m. (NBCSN), race, 7:30 p.m., NBCSN.
Track: Daytona International Speedway.
Last year: Kyle Larson capped off a stretch of back-to-back wins at Daytona.
Last race: Cole Custer won Chicago from the front row.
Fast facts: Custer has four wins so far this season. He had collected just a pair of victories in his first three seasons in the series. …Christopher Bell’s No. 20 car was disqualified last weekend for failing a post-race inspection. Bell, whose Joe Gibbs Racing machine was found to be too low in the front and too high in the back, had finished third. …Bell is still tied for the series lead with four victories, and he also has a series-high 28 playoff points.
Next race: Alsco 300, July 12, Kentucky Speedway.
TRUCK SERIES
Last race: Brett Moffitt won for the second time in three starts in Chicago.
Next race: Buckle Up In Your Truck 225, July 11, Kentucky Speedway.
Last race: Max Verstappen, 21, won his sixth career race in Austria.
Next race: British Grand Prix, July 14, Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, England.
Online: http://www.formula1.com
REV GROUP GRAND PRIX
Last race: Alexander Rossi dominated Road America for his seventh career win.
Next race: Honda Indy Toronto, July 14, Streets of Toronto, Toronto.
Online: http://www.indycar.com
NHRA DRAG RACING
Site: Epping, New Hampshire.
Schedule: Friday, qualifying, 4 & 6 p.m.; Saturday, qualifying, 2 & 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, finals, 3:45 p.m., FS1.
Track: New England Dragway.
Last year: Steve Torrence took first in New Hampshire.
Last race: Torrence continued his hot streak with a Top Fuel win in Norwalk.
Fast facts: Bob Tasca has won back-to-back Funny Car races for the first time in his career. …Matt Hagan (Funny Car) also won at Epping in 2018. …Sixteen-time world champion John Force will head to New Hampshire in search of his 150th win. …The Mountain Motor Pro Stock class will make the last of four appearances in 2019 this weekend.
Next race: Mile High Nationals, July 19-21, Bandimere Speedway, Morrison, Colorado.
Online: http://www.nhra.com
Friday-Saturday; FVP Platinum Battery Showdown, Cedar Lake Speedway, New Richmond, Wisconsin.
Online: http://worldofoutlaws.com/sprintcars
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
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Washington dance bands
Dance Bands /
Looking for a band that will get your guests up and on their feet? GigMasters has a wide selection of Dance Bands that you can book for live performances at weddings, birthdays, clubs, and more. Bust a move and see who’s available for shows in Washington.
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Top Dance Bands Near Washington
COPASTETIC
Dance Band from Seattle, WA
We would love to come and perform for you! We def keep the party going and your floor dancing all night! We specialize in Dance Music and keeping the party going All Night!!! If you want an exciting band and your guest to have one of the most Greatest time of there life book Copastetic!!!We can also do any special announcements you'll need done throughout the night while on or off stage. Let us know if you'll have any other questions! Thank You and we look forward to your event! COPASTETIC... (more)
Flashback Nation
Dance Band from Issaquah, WA
Flashback Nation is your premier, Seattle-area partner for live dance and rock entertainment. The band promises polished, high energy favorites from the last five decades. FBN has delighted guests at weddings, corporate events, community events, and private parties all over western Washington including: the Seahawks; Boeing; Key Bank, the Cities of Sammamish, Auburn, and Redmond; yacht clubs; golf clubs; and many more. We would love to learn how we can help make your event a huge... (more)
Triple Treat Band
Triple Treat is a band that plays a wide variety of Fun, Party, Dance type Old School, and some new, R&B music, with some of the motown flavor. A seven piece multi talented group with 3 female's that have been deemed as some of the Finest Vocalist around that can really SING, DANCE and ENTERTAIN. The ladies as well as the musicians put on a very good show and love to get the crowd involved, so when you leave you feel like you have really been entertained and had a great positive nite out.... (more)
The Chancellors
The Chancellors are a 7-piece funk machine fronted by some of Seattle's best vocalists. Armed with horns and a tight rhythm section, the band performs a wide selection of Funk, R&B, Motown, Soul and Pop, driving the music to keep any dance floor on fire. The Royal Room's in-house funk band, The Chancellors, are a driving force of funkadelia and dance music ranging from Smokey Robinson to Michael Jackson, Sly Stone to Stevie Wonder, Tower of Power to Chaka Khan. With three horns, a... (more)
Global Artists Collective
Global Artists Collective specializes in providing dance bands and entertainment for weddings, corporate events, and private parties of all kinds. We provide professional, fun bands to meet your vision and budget, such as the following internationally recognized groups: *** Global Heat = R&B/Soul/Funk dance band with repertoire from 'old-school' to contemporary *** Maya Soleil = Afro-World Fusion, Traditional and Contemporary African/Caribbean (music & dance) *** TRIBE-olution =... (more)
The Mix Party Band
Playing only the most fun, popular & entertaining party music, The Mix is the best of a live band and a professional DJ: Nonstop song mixes, seamless transitions, unique mashups of current hits with old-school classics, and a full, polished sound make their show something special. The Mix performs at casinos, weddings, corporate events, festivals & clubs. With a high-energy performance and a variety of "dance-able" songs, they make it fun and entertaining for every crowd. (more)
The Profits
Dance Band from Gig Harbor, WA
The Profits are the most serious cover band ever. Sure, they don't seem to have a genre – they play everyone from Johnny Cash to the Violent Femmes, Billy Idol to Tammy Wynette, and both Elvises (Elvi?) OK, so they tend to wander from song to song without warning – a Stevie Wonder/Queen/Styx medley, for example. And yes, they're very sexy. Still, make no mistake – this is a serious band. They even wear ties – serious ties. If you like your dance floor packed, your... (more)
The Emerald City Sound Machine
The Emerald City Sound Machine is one of the Northwests premier Dance/Party bands,playing the top dance music from the 80's - 90's and some of Today's Top Hit's. Michael Jackson, Backstreet Boys, Howard Jones, The Fixx, Peter Gabriel, Wang Chung, Huey Lewis & The News, Hall & Oates, Color Me Badd, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, Orgy, Smashing Pumpkins, Simply Red, Jonas Brothers, Ed Sheeran and more of your favorite 80's & 90's & today's dance hits will bring the audience to the dance... (more)
The Fuller Sea
She is from Fullerton, CA and he's from Seattle, WA. The Fuller Sea is an extraordinarily versatile band specializing in weddings, corporate events, club gigs, casinos and any party in general. They are able to facilitate events with 2 members (for mellow background music, wedding ceremonies, etc.) all the way up to 6 musicians for raging dance parties. This band can do it all - whether your party calls for playing quietly, dancing all night, or both, they've got you covered! The Fuller... (more)
Candy Shoppe
Dance Band from Tacoma, WA
Candy Shoppe dishes up hit after hit and will keep your party thumping! Our totally live 7 piece band plays dance hits from the 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond! Whether it's Disco, R&B, Motown, The Blues or your favorite 80s songs, your party goers will have a blast! Our bright and colorful band appeals to a wide group of ages too because we have members as young as 21 and musicians in their 40s. We are professionals who arrive on time, prepared and ready to create a memorable event! We have 2... (more)
Vixxin ~ 'Viciously Good Entertainment'
Dance Band from Longview, WA
Pacific Northwest's Premier Dance Band. Vixxin has a repertoire which is unmatched in terms of versatility and polish. We play hits from the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's, Classic Rock, Top 40, R&B, and Motown. Plus awesome renditions of Swing, Standards, Bossa Nova's, Latin and Ballads We are a dynamic group of seasoned professionals with one goal in mind: "To Provide The Highest Quality Entertainment Available" We are a totally live band, utilizing our ability to read and... (more)
Half-Pack Live!!!
Swing Band from Seattle, WA
FUN, FUN, FUN!!! If you want more than just fantastic musicianship, all your favorite songs and exceptional versatility for your event entertainment, Half Pack LIVE!!! is your answer. They're well known for their outstanding swing shows, but what most people don't know is all the "other" stuff they do: Journey, Stevie Wonder, Maroon 5, Cee Lo Green, Michael Buble--1960's through today! If you want wedding or event entertainment that covers a broad spectrum of music, Half Pack LIVE!!! is... (more)
Roemen and The Whereabouts
Soul Band from Seattle, WA
Roemen and The Whereabouts. Motown. Retro Soul. Four Guys, a band and some tambourines. The group, based out of Seattle, WA, brings some serious love and fun to the stage and their music. Since the coming together in 2012 they have played clubs, casinos, private parties, resorts, a Seahawks game, weddings, birthday parties, corporate parties, back yard parties, summer festivals, and the list goes on! Between Mark, Tyler, Wayne and Chris, there are thousands of shows (no exaggeration),... (more)
Los Flacos
Latin Band from Seattle, WA
With deep roots in traditions spanning Latin America, Los Flacos seamlessly employs countless instruments including harp, violin, a spectrum of Andean flutes, many forms of percussion and regional stringed instruments to create an ever-changing sound. In performances, Los Flacos present their favorite Latin American regional folk styles from southern Mexico and the Caribbean to South America with careful attention to the intricacies of each style. Still, Los Flacos are not strict... (more)
The Kareem Kandi Band
Jazz Band from Tacoma, WA
A native of the Pacific Northwest, saxophonist Kareem Kandi is a performer, composer, and educator, in high demand for his talents both on and off the stage. Kareem is a versatile musician with strong roots in the traditions of Jazz, Blues, and Funk, and has been performing on the scene for years, gaining attention from critics and audiences alike. While staying true to musical styles of the past, he also keeps an eye towards the future by composing original music as well as new... (more)
Free Rain
Cover Band from Issaquah, WA
ARE YOU READY TO PARTY????!!!! Look no further than the #1 COVER BAND in the NORTHWEST. GIGMASTERS BEST OF since 2013! Free Rain is a very experienced, (5 star rated by gigmasters), rockin' dance band! We play music for people who like to dance and have a GREAT time! All of the band members are experienced professional musicians who enjoy interacting and having FUN with our audience. At most of our gigs, by the end of the night, audience members can be seen celebrating on stage with us! ... (more)
Patrick & the LVB
Cover Band from Seattle, WA
Patrick & the LVB - Seattle Cover Band / Top 40 Band / Party Band Patrick Sieben has quickly become one of Las Vegas' top performers. He currently holds a 4 night per week residency at Aria Resort and Casino located at the heart of the Las Vegas strip, performing a young and energetic mix of modern pop tunes, classic hits and originals. While maintaining his residency in Vegas, Patrick and his band travel across the country performing. Patrick opened for TOTO and YES on multiple dates... (more)
Soul Siren
Cover Band from Poulsbo, WA
Soul Siren is the Northwest's Premier Party Band. We have a vast repetoire that makes us a great fit for any event and age group. Soul Siren is a hit at clubs, casinos, festivals, private parties, and weddings. Every client would not hesitate to recommend us or have us back again. Soul Siren explodes with energy from the start of the first song. DANCE, DANCE, DANCE ALL NIGHT LONG. Whether you like Adele, Black Eyed Peas, LMFAO, Cameo, Wild Cherry, Brian Setzer, Lady Gaga, The Commodors,... (more)
The TROPICS
The TROPICS, now in our 20th year, perform at Weddings, Corporate Events and Private Parties. We play for more Yacht Club events than any band in Washington. OUR SOUND and SERVICES The TROPICS produce a sound beyond the ability of larger groups, offering an incredible variety of music from "last century" to today's hits including Classic Rock, R&B, Edgy-pop, Swing and! We can provide "MC services", and are happy to perform ceremony music and special dances. Please visit our... (more)
FuzeBoxx
Cover Band from Tacoma, WA
FuzeBoxx is an OUTSTANDING, 4-piece CLASSIC ROCK AND ROLL, all LIVE Cover Band. The FuzeBoxx sweet spot is from the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's. And, they perform these tunes like NO OTHER band in the Pacific Northwest…With GREAT attention to the original arrangement and HARMONIES. Hear them one time and you WILL agree. WANT TO DANCE? FuzeBoxx has pulled together some of the BEST if not THE BEST DANCE TUNES from the enormous list of classic rock tunes. They will provide you with great... (more)
Good Co
We take pride in our name, Good Co is just that! We play swing, hot jazz, and Electro Swing to turn any night into a dance party but are equally at home performing standards to create the perfect atmosphere for any event. Our band is made up of some of the finest professional musicians in Seattle and we are able to be flexible to accommodate special requests. Good Co has performed all over the US, Canada, and Europe for music festivals, conventions, burlesque performances, and anywhere... (more)
If you want the absolutely best music and performance and a high energy party or event like no other look no further! We are High Voltage Seattle: Faithfully performing the best and most irresistibly dance-able rock music with contagious and kinetic High Voltage energy! Classic Rock, 80's pop and Hair Metal, 90's Rock & more! This four piece band consists of music and entertainment veterans with multiple vocalists and instrumentation to cover wide range of genres!We play weddings,... (more)
Hot Club Sandwich
For more than ten years, Hot Club Sandwich has cultivated its fresh approach to the Parisian Hot Club style of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. Featuring guitars, violin, mandolin, and upright bass with vocal arrangements and shout choruses, the Hot Club Sandwich sound blends reverence for tradition with vibrant improvisation and acoustic interplay. In addition to performing unique treatments of the classic 1930s and 1940s repertoire, Hot Club Sandwich expands its scope to other... (more)
Correo Aereo
The award-winning Latin/world music group, Correo Aereo (translating to 'Air Mail' and pronounced 'cor-ray-o eye-air-e-o'), play traditional folk music from Latin America, with a focus on music from Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba and Afro-Peru. Correo Aereo has won acclaim for their unique sound, layering multi-instrumental string and percussive instrumentals over silky rich vocals. Awarded 'Best Traditional Latin Group' by the Austin Music Awards, this Seattle-based touring group began... (more)
The MacDaddy Band
Cover Band from Bothell, WA
The MacDaddy party band. 4 decades of the best party tunes, 50s thru 80s. We can do a 50s Sock Hop, 60s or 70s party or 4 decades of dance rock that includes 80s. Rock harmonica and 5 lead vocalists really sets us apart allowing us a wider variety of party tunes. We are a 6 person band, making audience participation, sing alongs & dance our main priority. Hired by: Seahawks for 2014 & 2015, Nordstrom, Charles Schwab, a regular at Tulalip and Swinomish Casino's, in case you... (more)
Strawberry Fields is the Northwest's best 60s party band. Our 6 person band has played many high profile events including 2 times at Century Link for the Seahawks, Nordstrom, Charles Schwab and the Museum of Flight. We are also a regular band at the Tulalip and Swinomish Casino's. In addition to playing all your favorite tunes from the 60's we also dress the part! We even have a Beatle's Yellow Submarine for your photographs and/or lasers if desired as well as a colorful sixties... (more)
Outta Control
Performing high energy rock and pop covers, Outta Control brings the party to you with the greatest hits of the past four decades! The band consists of veteran music industry professionals featuring both female and male lead vocals, allowing for a wide variety of genres and a whole lotta fun! All the music you hear is played live with no backing tracks, and we play at levels appropriate for each venue or setting. We keep the party moving' all day & night, and always maintain a high level of... (more)
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Wenger and Wilson praise Szczesny
by Nick Howson
Former Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson says Wojciech Szczesny's role in the Gunners first-team is as important as top scorer Robin Van Persie.
With 13 Barclays Premier League goals this season, Van Persie has already proven himself to be a move than able match-winner for Arsene Wenger's side.
However, while the Dutchman was misfiring at the start of the season, Szczesny was helping to add some respectability to an otherwise woeful start to the season for the north Londoners.
"He becomes as valuable in a way as Robin van Persie, and in some ways more valuable," said Wilson, a double winner with the club in 1970/71.
"Because any side that's going to win things needs a solid spine. And it's fair to say that any side that wins the title, you will generally say their goalkeeper has been the most consistent keeper in that season."
Szczesny's crowning moment of the season came in the UEFA Champions League qualifier, when his penalty save from Udinese's Antonio Di Natale swung the tie back in Arsenal's favour.
The Pole also turned out a fine display against Tottenham Hotspur, saving brilliantly from former Gunner Emmanuel Adebayor, and his manager Wenger believes he has all the attributes to make a classy stopper.
"Wojciech is a quiet boy usually, you know," he said. "But he has something that is difficult to explain. Some keepers have that, some do not. That's what you call presence, charisma, confidence. It must be a mixture of all that.
"He is focused every day, you never think he is a comedian when you watch him practice. But you have to be careful as well because people want a quick image of you and it's sometimes a superficial one.
"He is a deep thinker, you do not play at this level and make the decisions he makes if you do not think about the game."
Wojciech Szczesny
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The first class of the start up incubator takes stock
Excellent Results: The First Class in the Start-up Incubator
The first class of the Gläserne Manufaktur start-up Incubator can look back on a successful time in Dresden. Follow-on projects are in place for almost all of the six founders. And some of them wish to stay on in Dresden.
The “Future Mobility Incubator” at the Gläserne Manufaktur has proven to be something of a small job-creation engine for Dresden. Scarcely had the first class successfully concluded its program at the end of February when some of the founders declared: “We would definitely like to stay in Dresden”.
Two such founders are Sebastian Schramm (30) and Tarek Mian (31) from the start-up LoyalGo, which was originally founded in Dortmund. “The 200 days in the Volkswagen Incubator really helped us immensely. Now we want to stay in Dresden,” says Sebastian, whose company equips charging stations for electric cars with display advertising. In addition to the charging stations on the Gläserne Manufaktur grounds, LoyalGo has also refitted one at Dresden’s Kunsthofpassage art center. “We have quite simply noticed that Dresden provides the best conditions for our undertaking. At the moment, we’re looking for new offices,” says Tarek. The space shouldn’t be too small – the company has already increased from two to six.
So far, we’ve digitalized 70 parking spaces on the Manufaktur grounds and 300 in Dresden. Thorge Harms, Smart City Systems
Good connections to business development
Thorge Harms (24) of Smart City Systems tells a similar success story. “We regard our time in the Incubator very positively. Together with our mentors from Volkswagen, we developed our business model. It was also helpful to be in contact with the Dresden business development department, as this enabled us to try out our insights immediately in the city,” says Thorge. Smart City Systems developed a sensor system that enables better utilization of parking spaces. The sensors are adhered to the ground and are weather-resistant enough to stay in place for up to five years. Using a parking app, data is evaluated and enables an overview of free parking spaces. “So far, we’ve digitalized 70 parking spaces on the Manufaktur grounds and 300 in Dresden,” says Thorge, who brought his company to Dresden from Nuremberg and who now, not least due to the proximity of the Volkswagen Incubator, wishes to establish an additional place of business in the Saxon capital.
Follow-on projects after the time in the Incubator
For Richard Vetter (30) and Gregor Wendt (30) of “Carl und Carla”, there’s no need to move. As a Dresden-based company, they had the home-field advantage from day one. Nevertheless, moving the company offices to the Incubator was something of a quantum leap for the firm. “Although we’d already had the idea of corporate car-sharing, it was only here that we were able to implement it and move forward effectively,” emphasizes Richard. Gregor adds: “Contact with the Volkswagen commercial vehicle department has been particularly helpful for us. Even after our time in the Incubator, we will have a follow-on project.” Carl und Carla makes it possible to rent commercial vehicles while they are already being rented. Times in which the vehicle would currently sit unused can therefore be put to more effective use. As the control unit used to coordinate the car-hire customers has to be retrofitted on existing vehicles, it would make sense to integrate it from the outset in new vehicles. “Together with the commercial vehicles unit of Volkswagen, we are implementing that now,” says Gregor.
Volkswagen also wants to pick up the idea from Geospin. “We’ve looked into when start-stop automation in vehicles makes sense and when it doesn’t. The background is that until now, it has also kicked in at places like roundabouts, where it is not necessary,” explains founder Sebastian Wagner (30). As part of the Incubator program, he contacted the Data:Lab in Munich and was granted access to data from a fleet of 200 vehicles in Germany and abroad. “Through the collaboration with Volkswagen engineers, we succeeded in evaluating the data and improving the automated start-stop function,” says Sebastian with pride.
Crash tests for app development
Immanuel Rebarczyk (33) and Thomas Kuwatsch (41) of the Leipzig-based start-up Ekoio had a somewhat more dramatic starting point. Their project, after all, is a matter of life and death. “If I drive into a ditch and no one sees it, then no one comes to help. For this reason, the so-called eCall law will come into effect from April, which requires all new cars to have an emergency call system. Because not every car has one, however, we have developed an app-based retrofit solution.” The solution has various escalation stages. “First the emergency call goes to family and friends. If no one picks up there, emergency rescue services are notified,” explains Immanuel. What sounds simple at first is by no means easy to implement. On the contrary. “We carried out numerous crash tests at the University of Applied Sciences and spoke with staff from the Volkswagen Connect department,” says Thomas. Wherever they turned, they were met with open ears. “There really was a great atmosphere in the Incubator. The people in charge really took great care of the start-ups,” concludes the founder.
The symbiosis of the old economy and the new economy was enriching for all of us. Lars Dittert, site manager of the Gläserne Manufaktur
Old economy meets new economy
“Many thanks for the wonderful time,” says Beres Seelback, too, of the Tretbox company. Over the 200 days in the Incubator, the prototype for their so-called Cargobike concept really came together. It effectively combines the bicycle and the car and could be used for tasks such as delivering packages. Next year the founders aim to begin series production of the pedalec-like electric vehicle and are optimistic that the project will be a success. With so much innovative verve assembled in one place, it’s no wonder the site manager of the Gläserne Manufaktur, Lars Dittert, also looked back on the inaugural class with pleasure. “There are only winners. And we also experienced a cultural transformation here. The symbiosis of the old economy and the new economy was enriching for all of us,” says the Manufaktur head with pride.
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U.S. Senior OpenJune 30, 2019
Steve Stricker wins the U.S. Senior Open by six strokes, his second senior major of the year
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Stacy Revere SOUTH BEND, INDIANA - JUNE 30: Steve Stricker waves to the crowd following a birdie on the first hole during the final round of the U.S. Senior Open Championship at the Warren Golf Course on June 30, 2019 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
A year that already is among the most memorable of Steve Stricker’s career added another chapter on Sunday when he won the U.S. Senior Open in dominant fashion at Warren Golf Course at Notre Dame.
Stricker, who began the final round with a six-stroke lead, completed a wire-to-wire victory with a one-under-par 69 for a 72-hole score of 19-under-par 261, six better than Jerry Kelly and defending champion David Toms. The victory was the fifth of Stricker’s PGA Tour Champions career.
In each of the first three rounds, Stricker equaled the best round of the day, providing him the cushion that allowed for an easy triumph. With his wife, Nikki, on his bag once again (she's looped for him for several of his career wins), Stricker birdied the first hole on Sunday and his lead never got below five. It was a methodical victory lap that included only a single bogey, just the second he made in 72 holes.
“It was a challenge, especially today,” Stricker said. “When you come out with a six-shot lead, you have everything to lose and really nothing to gain. And I played that way today. I played very cautiously trying not to make mistakes. This game is hard to play that way.”
Kelly, his friend and fellow Madison, Wis., resident, shot a one-under 69 on Sunday and finished second for the second straight year in the U.S. Senior Open. Toms closed with a two-under 68.
In January, Stricker was named the U.S. captain for the 2020 Ryder Cup, the first player so honored without having a major championship victory on his resume.
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FILE - This May 11, 2006 file photo shows the Freedom of the Seas cruise ship docked in Bayonne, N.J. Police in Puerto Rico say that on Sunday, July 7, 2019, a toddler apparently slipped from her grandfather's hands and fell to her death on this cruise ship, Freedom of the Seas, while docked in Puerto Rico.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities investigating an 18-month-old Indiana girl's fatal fall from an open window on a cruise ship in Puerto Rico said Thursday they are considering many options, including the culpability of the cruise line.
As Chloe Wiegand's family accompanied the toddler's body home to Indiana, Puerto Rico's Public Security Secretary Elmer Román said "multiple angles" are being looked at in her death, including possible negligence by Royal Caribbean Cruises.
"That is part of the investigation. Once the result is determined, we will report," Román said, adding that exploring numerous possibilities is "part of the process" in such investigations.
Attorney Michael Winkleman has challenged a Puerto Rico police report that Chloe apparently slipped from her grandfather's hands Sunday as he held her out of an 11th-story window on the Freedom of the Seas. He has said she fell from a window that was inexplicably left open in a children's play area.
Winkleman said Chloe's family flew Thursday morning from the U.S. island territory to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and boarded a flight to Chicago with the toddler's body. He didn't say which of the girl's relatives were on the flights. Chloe had been on the cruise with her parents, two siblings and her two sets of grandparents.
A hearse with a police escort took them to their home in Granger, Indiana. Chloe's father is police officer in nearby South Bend.
"The family is relieved to be heading home so that they can grieve as a family and begin funeral preparations," Winkleman said in a statement. "The boundless positive thoughts and prayers they've received have been a ray of hope in this difficult time."
Román said he didn't know if the child's parents had been interviewed as part of the investigation, but said they were free to leave Puerto Rico. He said prosecutors have interviewed the grandparents.
The Associated Press left a message Thursday seeking comment from the cruise line.
Winkleman has said the window should have been closed securely and that he sees grounds for the family to file a civil lawsuit against Royal Caribbean Cruises.
The cruise line said Wednesday that it is assisting San Juan authorities in their investigation. The company called the girl's death a tragic incident in a statement Monday and said it was helping the family.
John Rice in Mexico City contributed to this report.
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35 Incredible Images of Earth’s Mountains and Volcanoes From Space
By Stephanie Valera 12.02.2018 :: 6:24PM EDT 12.02.2018
Astronaut photograph of Mount Fuji in Japan taken on February 8, 2016 by a member of the Expedition 46 crew. (Photo Credit: NASA)
Mountains and volcanoes are some of the most fascinating geological formations on Earth — and scientists and adventurers alike can’t get enough of them. Not a lot of us will get a first-hand look at what the planet’s tallest peaks and ranges look like from their summits, but thanks to the photos taken by NASA satellites in orbit and camera-wielding astronauts in space, they are visible as they never would be to the naked eye — hundreds of miles above the Earth.
Click through the slideshow to see stunning images of the Earth’s mountains and volcanoes — from Mount Everest and the Himalayas to the volcanoes of Hawaii and the snow-covered peaks of the Rocky Mountains — captured from space.
1. Capulin Volcano National Monument, New Mexico
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Nestled in the northeast corner of New Mexico, Capulin protrudes from the flat expanse, an anthill of giant proportions. A bowl-shaped crater tops the steep, conical hill. From its perch at the eastern edge of the Great Plains, it commands a clear view of New Mexico, Colorado, and Oklahoma. This satellite photo taken on April 4, 2016, by the Landsat 8 satellite, shows a road tracing a vortex from the volcano’s base to a parking lot at its peak.
2. Brandberg Massif, Namibia
Over 120 million years ago, a single mass of granite punched through the Earth’s crust and intruded into the heart of the Namib Desert in what is now northern Namibia. Today the mountain of rock called the Brandberg Massif towers over the arid desert. A ring of dark, steep-sided rocks forced upward during the mountain’s arrival encircles the granite intruder.
This image was acquired by Landsat 7’s Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor.
3. Mount Egmont Volcano, New Zealand
One of the Expedition 41 crew members onboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of 226 nautical miles, exposed this image of Mount Egmont Volcano, New Zealand, on Sept. 30, 2014. Sometimes referred to as Mount Taranaki, the land feature is a young stratovolcano that began to form 70,000 years ago, according to volcanists. Located in southwest North Island, New Zealand, Mount Egmont, at 8,261 feet (2,518 meters) is the second tallest volcanic mountain in New Zealand.
4. Volcanic Plateaus in Argentina
The Patagonian Andes are a continental landmark easily visible from space. This image was acquired on August 20, 2018, with the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8.
5. Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala
Pacaya Volcano, about 25 kilometers (16 miles) from the center of Guatemala City, Guatemala, erupted on March 2, 2014. This natural-color satellite image was collected on the morning of the eruption by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra satellite.
6. Mount Shasta, California
The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite captured this view of California’s Mount Shasta on November 1, 2013.
7. Mount Hood, Oregon
Mount Hood is located within the Cascade Range of the western United States, and it is the highest peak in Oregon (3,426 meters, or 11,240 feet. In this astronaut photo from August 5, 2009, bright white glaciers cap the summit, while gray volcanic deposits line the rivers that drain the mountain, and green forests cover the lower slopes.
8. Nanga Parbat, Pakistan
Nanga Parbat is the ninth tallest mountain in the world, but it is one of the most alluring for both mountain climbers and scientists. Located in northern Pakistan, Nanga Parbat is the westernmost of the eight-thousanders. NASA Earth Observatory image was acquired on March 3, 2013.
9. Mount Jefferson, Oregon
Towering over the surrounding mountains, Oregon’s second-tallest peak poses a challenge for climbers and satellites. Mount Jefferson was one of five volcanic peaks that the Lewis and Clark expedition observed rising over the Cascade Range during their voyage down the Columbia River, and the only one they named. At 3,199 meters (10,495 feet) in elevation, Mount Jefferson ranks as the second highest peak in Oregon. This view of the volcano came from the Operational Land Imager on the Landsat 8 satellite on August 13, 2013.
10. The Alps, Europe
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this nearly cloud-free image of the Alps on March 19, 2016. The mountain range stretches 1200 kilometers (750 miles) across eight countries, and it is the longest mountain chain situated entirely within Europe. The Alps include more than a hundred peaks higher than 4000 meters (13,000 feet).
11. Navajo Mountain, Utah
The Colorado Plateau of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah is made of mostly flat-lying layers of sedimentary rock that record paleoclimate extremes ranging from oceans to widespread deserts over the last 1.8 billion years. Navajo Mountain in southeastern Utah is a dome-shaped chunk of igneous rock that intruded into the sedimentary layers and lifted up the overlying layer. Navajo Mountain is one of several of these rock formations, called laccoliths by geologists, in southeastern Utah’s portion of the Plateau. This astronaut photograph was acquired October 14, 2005.
12. Bolivian Andes
More than 7,000 kilometers (4,400 miles) long and more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) wide in places, the Andes Mountains encompass a wide range of climates and habitats, from snow-capped mountain peaks to rainforests to high deserts. This picture, acquired by NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite, shows a dramatic change in landscape about 250 kilometers southeast of la Paz, the capital of Bolivia.
13. Mount Shasta, California
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured this images of Mount Shasta while orbiting over northern California on August 21, 2017.
14. Sierra Nevada, Spain
The Sierra Nevada, part of the Betic Cordillera of southern Spain, were formed during the Alpine Orogeny, a mountain-building event that also formed the European Alps to the east and the Atlas Mountains of northern Africa across the Mediterranean Sea to the south. This astronaut photograph, acquired December 11, 2005, depicts the Veleta Peak region of the range and illustrates the sharp contrast between the snow-capped mountains, adjacent dry lowlands to the west and north, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south.
15. Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Mauna Kea (“White Mountain”) is the the highest volcano on the island of Hawaii, and is an ideal location for astronomical observatories. It is the only volcano on the island of Hawaii that has evidence of glaciation. This astronaut photograph was acquired on November 1, 2015.
16. Mt. Redoubt Volcano, Alaska
The glacier-covered Redoubt Volcano is one of many that line Alaska’s southern shores. Located 177 kilometers (110 miles) southwest of Anchorage, Redoubt is one of the peaks in the scenic Chigmit Mountain Range that frames the western side of Cook Inlet in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. This image was taken by the Landsat satellite on August 16, 2000.
17. Mount Ararat, Turkey
Mount Ararat (16,940 feet, 5165 m) is the largest volcano in Turkey. Although not currently active, its most recent eruption has probably been within the last 10,000 years. This image was taken from the Space Shuttle on March 18, 2001.
18. Mount Kazbek, Caucasus, Russia
This photograph of Mt. Kazbek was taken from the International Space Station on August 13, 2002. The astronauts and cosmonauts took the photograph at the request of the Russian URAGAN project, which is studying changes in the world’s glaciers in response to global climate change.
19. Mount Etna, Sicily
One of the most consistently active volcanoes in the world, Sicily’s Mount Etna has a historical record of eruptions dating back to 1500 BC. This astronaut photograph was acquired August 2, 2006.
20. Tien Shan Mountains, China
The Tien Shan mountain range is one of the largest continuous mountain ranges in the world, extending approximately 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) roughly east-west across Central Asia. This image taken by the Expedition 27 crew aboard the International Space Station provides a view of the central Tien Shan, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of where the borders of China, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan meet.
21. Mount Olympus, Greece
Mount Olympus is the highest peak in Greece. The 2,917-meter (9,570-foot) summit is the tallest in a mountain chain that runs north into Bulgaria and south into Turkey, via the Cyclades Islands. In this winter view, Olympus is the only peak with a dusting of snow — perhaps the reason its name in classical Greek means “the luminous one.” This astronaut photograph was acquired November 22, 2004.
22. Mont Blanc, Italy and France
Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in Western Europe. This image was acquired by Landsat 7’s Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor on July 30, 2001.
23. Mount Damavand, Iran
Mount Damavand is the highest peak in Iran and the highest volcano in the Middle East. The mountain and its surrounding areas are popular hiking, climbing, and skiing destinations. While no historic eruptions of the volcano are recorded, hot springs on the flanks of the volcano and fumaroles (steam vents) in the summit crater suggest that a hot or cooling magma body is still present beneath the volcano. This astronaut photograph was acquired January 15, 2005.
24. Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco
These are the Anti-Atlas Mountains, part of the Atlas Mountain range in southern Morocco, Africa. The region contains some of the world’s largest and most diverse mineral resources, most of which are still untouched. This image was acquired by the Landsat 7 satellite on June 22, 2001.
25. Mount Everest, Nepal and China
Fourteen mountain peaks on Earth stand taller than 8,000 meters (26,247 feet). The tallest of these “eight-thousanders” is Mount Everest, the standard to which all other mountains are compared. The Nepalese name for the mountain is Sagarmatha: “mother of the universe.” This images was acquired on October 25, 2011.
26. Mount Fuji, Japan
Mount Fuji is one of Japan’s most striking symbols, and tourism in the area is highly developed. As the highest peak in Japan (3776 meters or 12,389 feet), it is visible from great distances with a brilliant snow cap for many months of the year. This image was acquired on February 8, 2015.
27. Barberton Mountains, South Africa
The mountains around the town of Barberton, South Africa, are rich in both history and prehistory. Referred to as the Barberton Greenstone, these mountains derive their name from their greenish hue, and they comprise what may be the world’s best-known greenstone belt. The Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus sensor on NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite acquired this natural-color image of the Barberton Mountains on May 30, 2001.
28. Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico
The Luquillo Mountains are located in the northeastern portion of Puerto Rico, and they rise to elevations of 1,075 meters (about 3,527 feet). Higher elevations receive more rainfall than lower elevations, leading to subtropical forest types in the lowlands and high-mountain forest types near the summits. This astronaut photograph, acquired on December 23, 2007, was taken during the rainy season and illustrates the rich vegetation on the mountains.
29. Semien Mountains, Ethiopia
The Semien Mountains are the highest parts of the Ethiopian Plateau (more than 2,000 meters; or 6,560 feet). They are surrounded by a steep, ragged escarpment (step), with dramatic vertical cliffs, pinnacles, and rock spires. This astronaut photograph was acquired on November 16, 2007, taken by the Expedition 16 crew.
30. Heart Mountain, Wyoming
Heart Mountain is a dramatic, 8,123-foot (2,476-meter) peak just north of Cody, Wyoming, on the floor of the Bighorn Basin. This true-color image of Heart Mountain and the surrounding area was acquired on July 24, 2000, by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus aboard NASA’s Landsat Satellite.
31. Ulinta Mountains, Utah
This image of the Uinta Mountains in northeast Utah, taken by the Landsat 5 satellite on July 15, 2011, shows snowpack on the range well into summer.
32. Appalachian Mountains, North America
This regional view shows the striking visual effect of the valley-and-ridge topography of the Appalachian Mountains as viewed from the International Space Station on November 17, 2012. The Appalachian Mountains appear striped because the ridges are forested, providing a dense and dark canopy cover, while the valleys are farmed with crops that generally appear as lighter-toned areas.
Summit of Mt. Shasta is show in a photo taken in April 1, 2018 by astronauts of the International Space Station.
34. Carpathian Mountains, Romania
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite observed fall color along the Carpathian Mountains on October 5, 2018. It is the second largest mountain range in Europe, spanning five countries; more than half of the range is located in Romania.
35. Augustine Volcano, Alaska
On December 12, 2005, a plume of volcanic gas and steam billowed from Augustine Volcano in the Gulf of Alaska and spread approximately 80 kilometers (50 miles) toward the southeast. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying onboard the Aqua satellite captured this image the same day. In this image, the volcanic plume streams from the tiny, snow-capped volcanic island and dissipates over the ocean.
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