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First Congress Took Sex Workers’ Websites. Now It's Coming For Their Bank Accounts.
Lawmakers' latest attempt to fight human trafficking could end up hurting voluntary sex workers.
By Jenavieve Hatch
A new law that shuttered websites used by voluntary sex workers to screen clients has already forced some to risk their lives by returning to the streets to find business.
But the broad bipartisan alliance that passed that legislation last month isn’t done. Now, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who both voted for the first bill, are pushing a proposal in the Senate that would impose similar restrictions on sex workers’ bank accounts — a move that sex workers say could further endanger their income, safety and lives.
Just like last month’s Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, Warren and Rubio’s End Banking for Human Traffickers Act is intended to crack down on human trafficking. The bill, which passed the House in overwhelming fashion last month, would increase pressure on banks to shut down the accounts of anyone suspected of engaging in trafficking. Besides Warren, five other Senate Democrats are co-sponsoring the bill; a Senate vote is not yet scheduled.
“Human trafficking generates $150 billion a year in illegal profits,” a representative for Warren told HuffPost. “Our bill would connect federal regulators, law enforcement, and the banking industry to help strengthen existing anti-money-laundering efforts that combat traffickers — Congress should pass it.”
The bill doesn’t put the same restrictions on the banking industry that last month’s bill applied to websites. But by increasing the federal government’s focus on sex trafficking ― including by adding the Secretary of the Treasury to an existing task force on the subject ― it could, some sex workers fear, cause already jittery financial institutions to crack down harder on a vulnerable population’s access to financial services.
Given the frequency with which sex trafficking and voluntary, consensual sex work are conflated, sex workers including webcam performers, adult film actors and business owners, strippers and escorts fear these efforts will hit them too.
“What a lot of organizers are worried about is how these broad anti-trafficking initiatives are often applied in a targeted manner that hurts more vulnerable people rather than helps them,” Liara Roux, a sex worker and producer of independent adult media, told HuffPost. “If this bill is passed in a climate where sex work is so stigmatized that no distinction is made between a trafficked individual and someone who is just trying to survive, you’re just as likely to see vulnerable people’s bank accounts closed as actual traffickers caught.”
HECTOR RETAMAL via Getty Images
One sex worker told HuffPost that Bank of America closed her account for "suspicious activity" — specifically her line of work.
Sex workers already have trouble finding financial institutions that will accept their money. Banks are often reluctant to discuss their decisions to close accounts and aren’t legally required to explain them. In 2014, JPMorgan Chase closed the bank accounts of several adult film actors without telling them why. And between 2013 and 2017, some sex workers also got caught up in Operation Choke Point — a 2013 initiative by President Barack Obama to discourage banks from working with payday lenders and gun retailers. As part of the initiative, which the Trump administration scrapped last August, industries like pornography and dating services were listed as “high risk” — a designation that pushed banks to shut down accounts tied to those industries.
Roux said her bank stonewalled her just a couple years ago, despite her good standing. “It just doesn’t matter how well-behaved you are to a banking institution when they consider your account a risk,” she said.
But Warren and Rubio’s bill will cause banks to shut down voluntary sex workers’ accounts more frequently and indiscriminately, sex workers worry. The new banking bill could help push voluntary sex work further underground, warned Lola Davina, a former sex worker who is now a writer and activist.
“A criminal enterprise hardened enough to traffic sex will have no compunction driving their business practices even further underground, moving money and advertising to the dark web, while leaving voluntary workers with no legal protections to conduct their affairs,” she said.
A representative for Warren declined to comment when asked directly about the effects the banking proposal would have on voluntary sex workers. Rubio did not respond to requests for comment.
It’s hard to see the benefit of updating labor and trafficking-related policy without consulting with the affected members of those industries and communities, said Victoria Bateman, professor of economics at Cambridge University.
“If the regulation of any other sector of the economy was under the lens in an effort to improve the lives of those involved, wouldn’t workers be the first to be consulted?” Bateman said by email. “And, if we were trying to tackle human trafficking in any other sector of the economy (e.g. in agriculture or home help), would we really enact measures that threatened the lives of those who voluntarily work in agriculture or as cleaners in other people’s homes — and without speaking to them first?”
Despite potentially drastic consequences, the banking bill has inspired far less public opposition than did last month’s bill on online platforms.
That’s partly because the legislation that affected Craigslist and Backpage drew opposition from sex workers and internet freedom activists alike. Groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation ran several campaigns opposing it. Given that this new legislation isn’t related to online free speech, it’s less alarming for people outside of the sex work community.
This time around, sex workers are using Twitter to warn each other about which banks they should avoid.
Even without the bill becoming law, some banks continue to make it hard for sex workers to access their money. One sex worker, Bianca Baker, told HuffPost that her account with Bank of America was shut down earlier this month. When she tried to use her debit card for a purchase, it was declined despite the thousands of dollars she had in her account. After several phone calls and in-person visits to her bank, she was told that her account was shut down for “suspicious activity” and, eventually, that it was because she was a sex worker.
“I had 13,000 dollars frozen for 48 hours,” Baker, who’s married and has a child, told HuffPost via chat. “It was so stressful. I love my job; I work so hard to provide for my family and this is what I get.”
Bank of America declined to comment.
“This should not have happened to me,” Baker added. With the help of a sex worker-friendly lawyer, she was eventually able to recover her money. She even found a sex worker-friendly bank. But if Rubio and Warren’s bill passes, she worries, she might have to take her money out of the banking system entirely.
“Do not be afraid to get a lawyer and ask for legal advice,” she warns her colleagues. “I encourage all sex workers to stay safe. It’s very scary right now.”
This article has been updated to highlight that the bill wouldn’t put the same restrictions on the banking industry that FOSTA applied to online platforms. However, sex workers have expressed fear that it may pressure financial institutions to limit access for them.
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Help Net Security March 6, 2014
New technique targets C code to spot malware attacks
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new tool to detect and contain malware that attempts root exploits in Android devices. The tool improves on previous techniques by targeting code written in the C programming language – which is often used to create root exploit malware, whereas the bulk of Android applications are written in Java.
Root exploits take over the system administration functions of an operating system, such as Android. A successful Android root exploit effectively gives hackers unfettered control of a user’s smartphone.
The new security tool is called Practical Root Exploit Containment (PREC). It refines an existing technique called anomaly detection, which compares the behavior of a downloaded smartphone application (or app), such as Angry Birds, with a database of how the application should be expected to behave.
When deviations from normal behavior are detected, PREC analyzes them to determine if they are malware or harmless “false positives.” If PREC determines that an app is attempting root exploit, it effectively contains the malicious code and prevents it from being executed.
“Anomaly detection isn’t new, and it has a problematic history of reporting a lot of false positives,” says Dr. Will Enck, an assistant professor of computer science at NC State and co-author of a paper on the work. “What sets our approach apart is that we are focusing solely on C code, which is what most – if not all – Android root exploits are written in.”
“Taking this approach has significantly driven down the number of false positives,” says Dr. Helen Gu, an associate professor of computer science at NC State and co-author of the paper. “This reduces disturbances for users and makes anomaly detection more practical.”
The researchers are hoping to work with app vendors, such as Google Play, to establish a database of normal app behavior.
Most app vendors screen their products for malware, but malware programmers have developed techniques for avoiding detection – hiding the malware until users have downloaded the app and run it on their smartphones.
The NC State research team wants to take advantage of established vendor screening efforts to create a database of each app’s normal behavior. This could be done by having vendors incorporate PREC software into their app assessment processes. The software would take the app behavior data and create an external database, but would not otherwise affect the screening process.
“We have already implemented the PREC system and tested it on real Android devices,” Gu says. “We are now looking for industry partners to deploy PREC, so that we can protect Android users from root exploits.”
Cybersecurity concerns becoming a boardroom issue
The password is dead: Next generation access management strategies
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Place of Endless Plains
By Andrew Siebörger - 29 June 2019
Reader Andrew Siebörger discovers the attractions of Africa’s vast Serengeti on a recent tour to Tanzania and beyond
Thompson’s gazelle and thousands of lesser flamingos on Lake Magadi, in the Ngorongoro Crater
God’s grandeur is revealed in the Serengeti where the overwhelming sense of vastness has the power to surpass all other experiences.
That vastness reveals itself in the rituals of its animals and birds, the timeless yet surprisingly diverse landscape and one’s own limitless sense of this unique place on earth.
The word Serengeti is derived from the Maasai language – “Serengit” roughly translated means “Endless Plains”.
Yes, the flights there are tiring and you might have a few hiccups on the way back to SA, as we did, but those are minor hassles.
All the lodges we stayed at during our recent Seregenti tour hosted by Linde van Niekerk, owner of Jeffreys Bay-based Seagull Tours, were superb and our driver/guide was excellent too.
The Serengeti is in northern Tanzania and spans about 30,000km².
It hosts the second-largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world, and is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa and one of the 10 natural travel wonders of the world.
After flying into Kilimanjaro Airport in Tanzania we stopped at Arusha, a large town, and from there drove across the African Rift Valley.
Our group, six in all, commandeered a Land Cruiser; two by two, as Noah ordered.
That night we stayed in a lodge high on the escarpment edge of the western plateau.
The view was beautiful as we looked out over fertile plains, forests and Lake Manyara.
The first lodge set the tone for the four to come in terms of excellent accommodation, service and food.
The first “vastness” we were to experience was lots of mysterious white blobs on the trees, onto which we looked down from our lofty perch.
After breakfast we drove down into the rift valley in four safari vehicles. Salim had been specially selected as our driver and guide because he had an incredible knowledge of birds – most of our group were avid birdwatchers – all the fauna and flora, the country, the inhabitants of the area, its geology and ecology.
He was very patient and gentle with the ignoramuses in his bus. “STOP! There’s a bird there. What is that one?” With a cursory glance Salim would say: “That’s a long-toed lapwing”. We knew that, didn’t we? We were indeed blessed to have a masterful driver who soon became a valued member of our group.
As we approached Lake Manyara National Park, the white blobs on the high trees came into magnificent focus.
They were large birds – storks and pelicans – probably at least a thousand of them.
Lion cubs in the Serengeti, carefully camouflaged in long grass
This park, interestingly, is known as the “Home of Tree Climbing Lions”. No, we did not see any lions, but in the smallish park we saw hundreds of wildlife species, majestic trees and colourful birds, some of which we could not identify.
In the afternoon we set out for the Ngorongoro Crater and that’s where some began to cry.
From the lip of the extinct volcano the vista is breathtaking: vast plains, forests, lakes and multitudinous dots of animals on the crater floor. For most of our group this was the high point – literally as well – of the entire trip. The view is indescribable.
Back on the plateau we began to appreciate the trees and plains of the Serengeti – “the place where the land goes on forever”.
In the late afternoon we started to see the migration of the wildebeest, sparse at first, then in torrents from horizon to horizon.
At sunset – and we had no idea where we were, because there were no roads at all – we came upon a huge herd at a shallow lake. That’s where we learned about the density of these snorting beasts. We were surrounded.
At Ndutu, the south-eastern corner of Serengeti, we were ensconced in tents. It was glamping at its best with indoor and outdoor showers, his-and-hers basins and a four-poster bed with mosquito net.
North to the centre of the Serengeti National Park, plain after plain, we started to run out of herbivores.
Seronera is the centre of the park where four types of topography converge: the short grass plains and the tall grasslands; the forests; the hills and the koppies. Stopping for two nights we were enthroned on a high hill.
Once more we had a marvellous sunset view resplendent with trees, plains, lakes and animals. At the lodge we had to have three chaperones to our cute beehive-looking suites at night: a human and two buffaloes. The previous night we also needed a guard; I’m not sure whether the lions or the tourists had more to fear.
Zebras follow the annual wildebeest migration across the Serengeti
Again we witnessed the majesty of the plains. There were hordes of zebras – we hadn’t realised they migrated in conjunction with the wildebeests. We also saw vultures circling above, a good 70 or so.
There were lots of lions in the area, all sleek and fat. The four drivers communicated by radio. “Cats!” they called in Swahili and so we zoomed down on the kill.
On arrival, sure enough, there were the tawny or the spotted varieties, most somnolent, with bleary eyes. We only saw one leopard and a cub in the cracks of a koppie. Surrounding her were 11 Land Cruisers. The pop-up roof of our vehicle was fantastic as it offered an unhindered panoramic view: Our group had a self-ordained animal-cum-bird-spotter-and-photographer.
In the Serengeti we saw a good few small herds of elephants. In SA we have our Springboks but they have hundreds and thousands of other gazelles – Thompson’s and Grant’s.
Leaving from our favourite lodge we headed south, then east. In the afternoon we began to ascend the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater.
Maasai women at their cultural village in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
We stopped at a Maasai village for a taste of the local culture. Wearing their bright, tartan-like gowns the men carried sticks and the women wore beaded neck collars.
The men danced in their traditional jumping competition while the women sang. We entered their tiny huts and school; they taught us how to make fire Survivor-style and told us about their polygamy – the “Happy Boys” and their subservient possessions, the “wives”.
On the crater rim we settled into another amazing lodge built of volcanic rock. The next day, before a chilly sunrise, we jumped into our trusty vehicles to visit the crater floor. Again we were flabbergasted by the beauty before us. We even saw rhinos in the distance and could finally tick off the Big 5. Probably most spectacular were the huge flocks of flamingos. On our final night we stayed at the splendid Arusha Coffee Lodge.
Our last dinner was very special and here we paid tribute to our seasoned tour leader Linde.
Back home in Jeffreys Bay there are no big beasts, just cows. The only small creatures are geckos and our big birds are gulls and hadedas. At least we have thousands of photographs and marvelous memories of Tanzania.
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer optimistic as Manchester United plot another comeback
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer attempted to tone down the significance of the 1999 Champions League final but the Manchester United manager feels the fixture proved anything is possible in football.
Solskjaer claimed a special place in the hearts of United supporters 20 years ago when his last-gasp strike against Bayern Munich at the Nou Camp sealed an unforgettable Treble.
Now the club’s manager, the Norwegian returned to the ground on Monday as his side bid to overturn a 1-0 deficit in the return leg of their Champions League quarter-final in Barcelona.
Yet Solskjaer refused to dwell too much on the past and is fully focused on the task at hand, urging his side to believe they can prevail against the Spanish champions on Tuesday night.
He said: “Of course it’s a fantastic memory for me. It’s the only time I’ve been on the pitch, but I don’t really look back on that night too often.
“My job now is to make us play better than in the first game.
“I was a player back then. In football anything can happen at any time and we know that we can still be in this tie.
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“It’s about the quality though. We need to defend well but going forward we need to score. If we keep a clean sheet, we can still be in the tie in the 93rd minute.”
Solskjaer thinks his players should be emboldened by their fightback against Paris St Germain in the last 16.
Following a 2-0 loss at Old Trafford, United responded in spectacular fashion with a 3-1 victory at the Parc des Princes to progress on away goals last month.
Manchester United pulled off a dramatic comeback in Paris (John Walton/PA)
Solskjaer recognises the abilities of a Barcelona side who have won four European Cups since 2006 but remains in a bullish mood.
He said: “That memory from PSG will help the players, will help us as a team. We know we can turn things round.
“Of course Barcelona here at the Nou Camp is a difficult prospect but the memory from that night will live with the players.
“It’s not that long ago and we’re one goal better off.”
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Alexis Sanchez was among United’s 22-man travelling contingent and is in contention to make a return against his former club after six weeks on the sidelines because of a knee injury.
The Chilean, who scored 47 times in 141 appearances during three seasons with Barca between 2011 and 2014, has endured a largely miserable time at United as a haul of five goals in 41 games would suggest.
Solskjaer said: “For Alexis it’s a big night and when he’s on the pitch I’m sure he wants to prove a point.
“He wants to prove a point for us as well. He’s been injured, he’s not had a fantastic season so far and let’s hope he can end the season great for us.
“We are in the business end of the season, we’re playing games that Man United are used to playing.
Alexis Sanchez has a point to prove, according to his manager (Mike Egerton/PA)
“Let’s hope Alexis can be happy with his performance when he is on the pitch.”
Solskjaer reaffirmed his belief that Paul Pogba will remain at United beyond the end of the season after the Spanish media questioned speculation linking the Frenchman with a summer move to Real Madrid.
Solskjaer added: “Paul’s focus is on Man United and performing here.
“He has been fantastic since I’ve come here and I’ve no doubt that he will perform for Man United as he has done lately.
“I don’t think they (the fans) should worry too much.”
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Boron tribromide
Substance Data
Boron tribromide, BBr3, is a colorless, fuming liquid compound containing boron and bromine. It is decomposed by water and alcohols. Wikipedia
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This entry is signed with plus (+). The plus (+) sign fixes the proper shipping name, hazard class and packing group for that entry without regard to whether the material meets the definition of that class, packing group or any other hazard class definition. When the plus sign is assigned, it means that the material is known to pose a risk to humans. When a plus sign is assigned to mixtures or solutions containing a material where the hazard to humans is significantly different from that of the pure material or where no hazard to humans is posed, the material may be described using an alternative shipping name that represents the hazards posed by the material. An appropriate alternate proper shipping name and hazard class may be authorized by the Associate Administrator.
This material is poisonous by inhalation (see §171.8 of this subchapter) in Hazard Zone B (see §173.116(a) or §173.133(a) of this subchapter), and must be described as an inhalation hazard under the provisions of this subchapter.
Browse special provision 2
Bottom outlets are not authorized.
Browse special provision B9
Each bulk packaging, except a tank car or a multi-unit-tank car tank, must be insulated with an insulating material so that the overall thermal conductance at 15.5 °C (60 °F) is no more than 1.5333 kilojoules per hour per square meter per degree Celsius (0.075 Btu per hour per square foot per degree Fahrenheit) temperature differential. Insulating materials must not promote corrosion to steel when wet.
Browse special provision B14
MC 312, MC 330, MC 331, DOT 412 cargo tanks and DOT 51 portable tanks must be made of stainless steel, except that steel other than stainless steel may be used in accordance with the provisions of §173.24b(b) of this subchapter. Thickness of stainless steel for tank shell and heads for cargo tanks and portable tanks must be the greater of 6.35 mm (0.250 inch) or the thickness required for a tank with a design pressure at least equal to 1.3 times the vapor pressure of the lading at 46 °C (115 °F). In addition, MC 312 and DOT 412 cargo tank motor vehicles must:
a. Be ASME Code (U) stamped for 100% radiography of all pressure-retaining welds;
b. Have accident damage protection which conforms with §178.345-8 of this subchapter;
c. Have a MAWP or design pressure of at least 87 psig; and
d. Have a bolted manway cover.
Aluminum construction materials are not authorized for any part of a packaging which is normally in contact with the hazardous material.
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see 49 CFR §172.102
a. The maximum degree of filling must not exceed the degree of filling determined by the following:
tr is the maximum mean bulk temperature during transport,
tf is the temperature in degrees celsius of the liquid during filling, and α is the mean coefficient of cubical expansion of the liquid between the mean temperature of the liquid during filling (tf) and the maximum mean bulk temperature during transportation (tr) both in degrees celsius.
b. For liquids transported under ambient conditions α may be calculated using the formula:
d15 and d50 are the densities (in units of mass per unit volume) of the liquid at 15 °C (59 °F) and 50 °C (122 °F), respectively.
Browse special provision TP2
Self-contained breathing apparatus must be provided when this hazardous material is transported by sea.
Browse special provision TP13
Each portable tank must be insulated with an insulating material so that the overall thermal conductance at 15.5 °C (60 °F) is no more than 1.5333 kilojoules per hour per square meter per degree Celsius (0.075 Btu per hour per square foot per degree Fahrenheit) temperature differential. Insulating materials may not promote corrosion to steel when wet.
Each portable tank must be made of stainless steel, except that steel other than stainless steel may be used in accordance with the provisions of 173.24b(b) of this subchapter. Thickness of stainless steel for portable tank shells and heads must be the greater of 6.35 mm (0.250 inch) or the thickness required for a portable tank with a design pressure at least equal to 1.3 times the vapor pressure of the hazardous material at 46 °C (115 °F).
Stowage category “C” means the material must be stowed “on deck only” on a cargo vessel or on a passenger vessel.
12 Keep as cool as reasonably practicable.
25 Protected from sources of heat
UN 1716 Acetyl bromide 8
UN 2580 Aluminum bromide, solution 8
UN 1555 Arsenic bromide 6.1
UN 1889 Cyanogen bromide 6.1
Diethylgold bromide Forbidden
UN 1770 Diphenylmethyl bromide 8
UN 1891 Ethyl bromide 6.1
UN 1605 Ethylene dibromide 6.1
Hydrobromic acid, anhydrous, see Hydrogen bromide, anhydrous
UN 1048 Hydrogen bromide, anhydrous 2.3
UN 1647 Methyl bromide and ethylene dibromide mixtures, liquid 6.1
UN 1928 Methyl magnesium bromide, in ethyl ether 4.3
n-Butyl bromide, see 1-Bromobutane
UN 1939 Phosphorus oxybromide 8
UN 2576 Phosphorus oxybromide, molten 8
UN 2691 Phosphorus pentabromide 8
UN 1085 Vinyl bromide, stabilized 2.1
UN 3417 Xylyl bromide, solid 6.1
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Dr Shefali Rajpopat
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Dr Shefali Rajpopat qualified from Guys, Kings and St Thomas Medical School in 1999 with Honors and was proxime accessit to the University of London Gold Medal. She trained in Dermatology at Barts and The London and The Royal Free NHS Trusts and at St Johns Institute of Dermatology. In 2010 she was appointed Honorary Consultant in Dermatology at Whipps Cross University Hospital and Clinical Senior Lecturer at Barts and The London Medical School.
Dr Rajpopat spent 2 years doing postgraduate research in harlequin ichthyosis and genetic skin diseases. She has an ongoing academic interest in medical education and is course Director for the International Diploma in Clinical Dermatology at Queen Mary University of London.
Dr Rajpopat is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of England, The British Association of Dermatology and the American Academy of Dermatology.
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Emergency Alerts to Transit Riders, Schools and County 911 Systems Delivered by Email as MIS Sciences Corporation Teams Up with ISIPP SuretyMail
March 20, 2009, ISIPP News
eAlert® Emergency and Public Safety Service Ensures Inbox Delivery with Top Shelf Email Accreditation Provider
BOULDER, CO & BURBANK, CA — December 22, 2008 –The Institute for Social Intern et Public Policy (ISIPP), providers of the SuretyMail Email Deliverability and A ccreditation solution, and MIS Sciences Corporation, providers of the eAlert® eemergency public safety alerts system, have teamed up to provide an assured end-to-end delivery of emergency and safety email alerts to public transit users, schools, and users of county 911 networks.
MIS Science’s eAlert service offers a solution for the transit industry to provide their riders with instant notifications of service interruptions to email acc ounts, pagers, cellular phones, PDA’s, and other types of electronic devices. Th e transit industry also uses eAlert to alert their riders to emergency situation s, such as the recent threat alert to the New York City subway system. Schools a lso use the eAlert service to provide a similar means of communications with their students and staff. The service is currently used by, among others, the New York, San Francisco, Massachusetts and Washington transit authorities; JFK, La Guardia and Newark airports; the Rockford, Illinois and Garland, Texas school districts; and several county-wide 911 emergency services systems.
BOULDER, CO & BURBANK, CA — December 22, 2008 –The Institute for Social Internet Public Policy (ISIPP), providers of the SuretyMail Email Deliverability and Accreditation solution, and MIS Sciences Corporation, providers of the eAlert® emergency public safety alerts system, have teamed up to provide an assured end-to-end delivery of emergency and safety email alerts to public transit users, schools, and users of county 911 networks.
MIS Science’s eAlert service offers a solution for the transit industry to provide their riders with instant notifications of service interruptions to email accounts, pagers, cellular phones, PDA’s, and other types of electronic devices. The transit industry also uses eAlert to alert their riders to emergency situations, such as the recent threat alert to the New York City subway system. Schools also use the eAlert service to provide a similar means of communications with their students and staff. The service is currently used by, among others, the New York, San Francisco, Massachusetts and Washington transit authorities; JFK, La Guardia and Newark airports; the Rockford, Illinois and Garland, Texas school districts; and several county-wide 911 emergency services systems.
“Ensuring maximum email deliverability for our eAlert emergency and public safety email notifications was of paramount importance to us, for obvious reasons,” explains Lauren Ross, CEO of MIS Sciences. “If our email is mistakenly tagged as spam, or sent to the junk folder, then it isn’t getting to transit riders, students or other users who need to see the alert. After much research, we selected ISIPP’s SuretyMail email deliverability solution to help ensure that we have the best email deliverability possible.”
“We’re honored to have been chosen by MIS Sciences Corporation and their customers to help maximize email delivery to the inbox for this very important email service,” said Anne P. Mitchell, CEO of ISIPP. “In fact, we’ve created a new classification in our email accreditation system for MIS Sciences and other email senders who send out emergency alerts, just so that ISPs and spam filters can instantly understand the nature of the email, and to help provide an extra layer of assurance that these alerts will make it to the inbox.”
ISIPP’s widely acclaimed email accreditation service, SuretyMail, works directly on behalf of their email sending customers with all of the major ISPs and spam filters to help ensure that legitimate email gets delivered directly to the inbox, and not the junk folder, as well to assist email senders when they have delivery issues. ISIPP SuretyMail also provides Feedback Loop monitoring and reports, help with setting up email authentication such as SPF and Yahoo’s DKIM, and assistance in assuring CAN-SPAM compliance. ISIPP CEO Mitchell, who sits on the California Bar’s Committee on Cyberspace Law, helped author part of CAN-SPAM.
“The New York Metropolitan Transit Authority has responsibility for 8.5 million riders, and 900,000 bridge and tunnel crossings, every day. And that’s just one of the dozens of transportation authorities and schools who use our eAlert service,” said Jeff Willis, Vice President of MIS Sciences. “The safety of millions of transit riders, students, and others, relies on our eAlert having optimum delivery to the inbox, and that’s why we chose ISIPP and their SuretyMail service. They are the best choice of all of the email deliverability, accreditation and reputation services out there.”
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Tagged: 2 Truths and a Lie
2 Truths and a Lie with Jolera CEO Alex Shan
Alex Radu
@alextradu
Published: April 26th, 2018
2 Truths and a Lie with Schneider Electric’s David O’Reilly
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At the helm of Symantec Canada, Ajay K. Sood has been responsible for pulling Symantec Canada out of the depths...
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After four years at the helm of Red Hat Canada and a long career in the tech industry, Luc Villeneuve...
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Expats Guide to Investing In UK Property
Investment, Expat, Investor
From simply renting out your existing UK property to investing in the rapidly growing multi-investor project marketplace, expats have a diverse range of property investment options available to them. While the taxation changes that take effect in April of this year (2019) need to be considered, UK property continues to provide a very worthwhile return on investment for those living outside the country.
Making the most of your UK property investment through due diligence
Online resources such as the official UK government website provide detailed tax information for expats along with many other useful sources. It is always prudent to take expert advice concerning any investment you are considering as there could be tax implications even if you are no longer residing within the UK.
Being aware of some recent taxation rules changes
Following proposals announced it the UK budget of 2017, there are certain changes in the tax rules governing individuals and companies that invest in UK property. These changes will become “live” from April of 2019 and a further change that effects “property rich” non-UK companies will also come into effect in April of 2020.
So what does it mean for expats who are considering UK property investment?
According to Global accounting experts KPMG, the main area of change is that after the new rules come into effect in April 2019, non UK residents will no longer enjoy the previous benefits of capital gains exemption. The reality of this will be that profits realised on the sale of UK property will attract capital gains tax at its current rate at the time of a sale. This is, therefore, a crucial factor for expat investors to consider when planning any exit strategies concerning their property portfolios.
The benefits of a UK company in property ownership
By becoming an investor with or a shareholder in one of the non UK companies, many expat investors have been able to avoid corporate taxation of their rental profits in the past. From 2020, however, this loophole will also be closed and overseas investors are urged to review their tax planning and maybe their exit strategies too.
The importance of planning ahead
Through discussing your requirements with an expert team that unites developers, expat property investors, and lending sources, you will be better placed to plan your UK investment strategy. From the optimum exit window to the time span of your investment, they can all work together for a most favourable outcome whether you reside within the UK or further afield.
Part of a continuing market trend
The UK real estate market continues to perform well, so much, in fact, that the official government website has considered it necessary to provide detailed information on foreign investment in UK property. The statistics on the site speak for themselves and offer an encouraging picture of exactly how attractive UK residential construction projects are to global speculators.
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Elena Isinbaeva in the womens Pole Vault at the IAAFWorld Championships Moscow 2013 (Getty Images) © Copyright
13 AUG 2013 Report
Isinbayeva runs the show – Day 4 wrap, Moscow 2013
There were distance finals, sprint finals, throws finals, and even a race walk, but Tuesday was the day Yelena Isinbayeva wrote, stage managed, and played the starring role at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow.
Isinbayeva did not have the best start, with misses at her opening height of 4.65m and 4.82m, but her first-attempt clearance at 4.89m – a height neither silver medallist Jenn Suhr nor bronze medallist Yarisley Silva could clear – sealed victory and a third World Championships gold for the Russian heroine.
The Pole Vault was going to be a highlight from the beginning, with a bigger crowd in the stadium than attended Sunday night for the men’s 100m final, mostly packed at the first bend to watch the Pole Vault. It started early, and Isinbayeva’s habitual passing to late heights, early misses, and eventual theatrics made it a thrilling ride for those looking for it.
She asked, discreetly, for more noise when on the runway, and for less when other events were on the track, and for the most part she got what she asked for.
In return, she delivered drama, victory, three attempts at a would-be World record of 5.07m, and finally exuberant celebration, including a jumping hug with the mascot and multiple cartwheels on her lap of honour.
Harting goes for three
Robert Harting went one better than Isinbayeva by stripping his shirt off in his now-traditional celebration after winning his third consecutive Discus title.
The German went into the lead in the first round, and in subsequent rounds improved his mark to the winning distance of 69.11m. With victory assured, he flung another out to 69.08m in the sixth round before beginning his exuberant celebration on the back bend.
Silver went to Piotr Malachowski with a fifth-round 68.36m; Gerd Kanter took bronze with his 65.19m.
Down to the seventh in the Heptathlon
The wide-open Heptathlon delivered on its promise, shuffling its order slightly after the Long Jump, greatly in the Javelin, and finally once more in the closing 800m.
Ukrainian Hanna Melnychenko held the lead throughout the day, but behind her Brianne Theisen Eaton, Claudia Rath, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Dafne Schippers all took turns in the second and third positions.
For silver and bronze, all three had a shot going in to the 800m. Theisen Eaton had the strongest position and made the most of it, securing her silver, but a mad dash by Schippers passed Rath and Johnson-Thompson to put the 2010 World junior champion into senior bronze.
Two laps of firsts
The men’s 800m final delivered its own share of thrills. Duane Solomon, fourth in London, led the early going, but coming in to the homestretch it was his team-mate Nick Symmonds who was shoulder to shoulder with Mohammed Aman.
Aman was the stronger, winning Ethiopia’s first medal at a distance shorter than 1500m. Symmonds’ silver was the USA’s best finish in the history of the championships and their first since 1997. In bronze was Ayanleh Souleiman, winning Djibouti’s first-ever medal on the track in any event.
Merritt returns to the top
LaShawn Merritt reclaimed his own World crown in the 400m, dominating the race to win with a personal best of 43.74 while his team-mate Tony McQuay swept up for silver in 44.40, also a PB. Luguelin Santos took bronze as defending champion Kirani James faded badly in the homestretch, finishing seventh in 44.99.
Milcah Chemos followed through with the women’s 3000m Steeplechase victory she’d been foreshadowing for years, clocking a world-leading 9:11.65.
Chemos was present near the front throughout the race, and though she looked vulnerable in the closing straight, pulled clear for the win ahead of teammate Lydia Chepkurui (9:12.55) and Ethiopia’s Sofia Assefa, who fell on the penultimate lap.
Another title for Lashmanova
The first final of the day was actually the women’s 20km Race Walk, which was a triumph for the hosts as Russians took the first two spots, and almost swept the medals.
After a conservative start, Elena Lashmanova and Anisya Kirdyapkina moved to the front and pulled away from the rest of the pack. The pair were set to divide the first medals amongst each other, and Lashmanova won the draw, entering the stadium several seconds ahead of Kirdyapkina, though she almost lost all that margin by twice misunderstanding where the finish line was.
Team-mate Vera Sokolova tore through the pack in the last 5km and entered the stadium third, only to be disqualified with just over 400m to walk. Bronze went to China’s Liu Hong instead.
Parker Morse for IAAF
Moscow 2013 spectator attendance figures
AM 15,674 spectators (31,674 total)**
PM 32,431 spectators (48,431 total)**
Moscow 2013 stadium configuration:
Tue Aug 13 – 50,000 capacity (34,000 spectators + 16,000 accredited guests – VIPS, media, athletes etc).
Spectator attendance figures are based upon scan of tickets upon entry at stadium gate (multiple entry/exit via same ticket counts once).
13 AUG 2013 Feature Sparkling Yelena flies through the Moscow sky
13 AUG 2013 Report Report: Women’s 3000m Steeplechase final – Moscow 2013
Womens Heptathlon Medal Ceremony at the IAAFWorld Championships Moscow 2013 (Getty Images) © Copyright
Mens Discus Throw Medal Ceremony at the IAAFWorld Championships Moscow 2013 (Getty Images) © Copyright
LaShawn Merritt in the mens 400m Final at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Moscow 2013 (Getty Images) © Copyright
Mohammed Aman and Nick Symmonds in the mens 800m Final at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Moscow 2013 (Getty Images) © Copyright
Elena Lashmanova in the women's 20km Race Walk at the IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013 (Getty Images) © Copyright
Milcah Chemos in the womens 3000m SC at the IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013 (Getty Images) © Copyright
Elena Isinbaeva
Robert Harting
Hanna Kasyanova
Yelena Lashmanova
Mohammed Aman
Milcah Chemos Cheywa
20 Kilometres Race Walk
3000 Metres Steeplechase
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Stock Market Today: JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon Not Worried About Tech Stocks On Decline
By Andrew N. White
Despite continued reports of low market numbers from several major companies in the technology sector, JP Morgan's CEO Jamie Dimon has made it clear that he’s not concerned about the stock decline and even called the economy "strong."
Even with the tech sector lagging and most recently Facebook seeing its biggest one-day loss in Wall Street history Thursday, Dimon suggested that the system isn't leveraged the way it was in 2007 and that the problems tech giants are reporting are "company specific.”
"The economy looks quite strong. Consumers are in good shape, their balance sheets are in good shape, there are no potholes out there, lending has been pristine, capital expenditures are going up, more people are going back to work, unemployment may hit a post-war low at one point this year ... those are all positives," Dimon told CNBC's Wilfred Frost in an interview Monday.
"And we don't have the leverage in the system we had in 2007. There's always going to be some sort of problem but that is not the problem today."
One of the world's leading bank executives, Dimon has long been an outspoken figure of the tech sector. He regularly takes trips to the West to meet with tech executives and venture capitalists in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
Dimon has also embraced new technologies while at the helm of JP Morgan. According to CNBC, about $3 billion, or almost one-third, of the company’s investment in 2017 went to "new initiatives," with $600 million on financial tech projects.
Two years ago, he made headlines in his shareholder letter for warning investors that "Silicon Valley is coming."
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.57 percent on Monday, while the Nasdaq posted a 1.39 percent drop — its biggest 3-day loss since March.
Two high-performing tech stocks, Facebook (FB) and Netflix (NFLX), missed analysts' second-quarter targets. Shares of Facebook dropped 2.19 percent Monday, while Netflix fell 5.7 percent.
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Warren Buffett Says This 1 Simple Habit Separates Successful People From Everyone Else
The 87-year-old chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway once gave us a breakthrough principle of taking charge of one's life. Let's revisit it.
By Marcel SchwantesFounder and Chief Human Officer, Leadership From the Core@MarcelSchwantes
Warren Buffett.
Billionaire Warren Buffett, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is 87 years old and still capturing the world's attention as the second richest person on the planet (as of this writing).
So, how has he done it? Actually, it's not so much about what he has done as it is what he hasn't done. With all the demands on him every day, Buffett learned a long time ago that the greatest commodity of all is time. He simply mastered the art and practice of setting boundaries for himself.
That's why this Buffett quote remains a powerful life lesson. The mega-mogul said:
"The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything."
The powerful meaning behind Buffett's statement
Whether he meant saying no in the investment sense is not so important; what is important is that his advice, in whatever context, can apply to anyone arriving at the crossroads of daily decision-making.
For most ambitious people, we want to accomplish things. We are driven for results, doing more, learning things, getting promoted, and starting new ventures. But we also have our personal lives we can't ignore for optimum balance and happiness. Ambition in this sense can mean taking care of family priorities, expanding our social circles, and pursuing hobbies and other interests.
That's when Buffett's advice is a bull's-eye to our conscience. We have to know what to shoot for to simplify our lives. It means saying no over and over again to the unimportant things flying in our direction every day and remaining focused on saying yes to the few things that truly matter.
Steve Jobs agreed. It's about focus
Jobs prophetically supported this notion of saying no at an Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in 1997. Here's what he said:
"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things."
Like Jobs and Buffett, it's hushing that loud voice in your head when it tempts you with yet another sexy proposition that might steer you off course. You say a resounding NO! when it asks, "Should I take this opportunity? It may never come around again." Sometimes, the best course of action is not taking any action.
Seven things successful people say no to every day
Jim Collins, famous author of the mega-bestseller Good to Great, once suggested that instead of to-do lists, we should make "stop-doing" lists. Because in obsessing over to-do lists full of things that don't really matter, we spend less time saying yes to the things that do.
Here are seven things the most successful people say no to on a regular basis. Perhaps you should too?
1. They say no to opportunities and things that don't excite them, speak to their values, or further their mission in life.
2. They say no to superficial networking events in which people swap business cards and never hear from one another. Why? Because successful people don't network. They build relationships.
3. They say no to spending time with uninspiring, critical, or negative people who drag them down. Time is precious -- choose a small circle of people who will energize you and challenge you to be better.
4. They say no to overworking. While it's true some successful people and many entrepreneurs put in 60 to 80 hours per week, very successful people aren't workaholics who neglect self-care and family. They recognize that if they can't take care of themselves, everything else suffers.
5. They say no to doing all the work. This comes down to one word:
D-E-L-E-G-A-T-I-O-N.
6. They say no to giving the steering wheel of life to anyone else. Another Buffett quote affirms this: "You've gotta keep control of your time and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life."
7. They say no to people-pleasing. Successful people don't neglect their deepest wishes and desires to accommodate and yield to others' wishes and desires.
Buffett's three-step rule of focus for success
To set you on the right course, take a coaching lesson from Buffett himself. He once walked his personal pilot through a life-changing exercise in goal-setting that's since become popular in productivity and career circles. It's a simple, three-step process to set boundaries, say no to distractions, and home in on success. It goes like this:
1. Write down a list of your top 25 career goals.
2. Circle the five most important goals that truly speak to you. These are your most urgent goals.
Now here's the real kicker.
3. Completely eliminate the other 20 goals you have listed. Just cross them off, despite if they hold weight or some level of importance.
Buffett says those 20 goals are lower and not urgent priorities, therefore, any effort invested in them steals away dedicated focus and energy from your five highest-priority goals.
The point is to say no to everything on that list except for what you have declared, in your heart-of-hearts, to be the five most important things. These are what you should put all your effort and focus into achieving. The rest are merely distractions that will get in the way of your reaching your ultimate success.
Published on: Jan 18, 2018
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Local Notes
Walkway plan wins vital backing
'Minority cannot be allowed block amenity'
Great Southern Trail supporters outside the Lartigue Museum in Listowel.
Donal Nolan
May 15 2013 5:36 AM
SUPPORTERS of a contentious walking route over old railway lines from Kilmorna to Listowel have succeeded in winning the backing of Listowel Town Council for the venture in what they see as a major success in their campaign.
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/walkway-plan-wins-vital-backing-29268519.html
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Over 1,700 people in Listowel have signed a petition supporting the development of a walking and cycling route over the disused railway line and up to 200 people took part in a walk from Listowel to Kilmorna on Sunday in support of the plan to establish the route.
The Great Southern Trail (GST) organisation, which is spearheading the plan, has already opened up a walking route over disused track from Rathkeale to Kilmorna on the Limerick/Kerry border. However, the extension of the route into Kerry is being blocked by a number of local landowners who have raised issues over the ownership of the old railway line.
The matter came before Listowel Town Council on Monday in a joint proposal by councillors Jimmy Moloney (FF) and Tim O'Leary (FG) calling on the authority to support the route for the tourist potential it would represent and to urge Kerry County Council to back it.
The county authority has come under criticism from the GST for failing to apply for funding for the route. The Kerryman understands, however, that county council heads cannot move on securing grant-aid while a legal question hangs over the whole area. CIE has clearly stated that it owns the old line and is supportive of the 'greenway' plans, but landowners in the North Kerry Abandoned Railway Line Action Group (NKARLAG) contest this.
They are considering a legal action against CIE on the grounds of adverse possession, The Kerryman understands. Chief among NKARLAG's members is Listowel Town Councillor Denis Stack (FG), who lives and farms in an area that would be affected by the plans.
However, speaking at the Listowel Town Council meeting on Monday night party colleague Cllr Tim O'Leary supported the route. "A minority cannot be allowed to prevent this amenity for Listowel and North Kerry. Everyone I have spoken to is 100 per cent for it. Yesterday we had 200 people turn out in inclement weather in support of this," he said.
Cllr Moloney pointed out that a similar trail on an old railway line in Mayo resulted in a spend of €7.2 million in the county in 2011 alone. "Why can't we do that here?" he asked.
He called on landowners to engage with a specially-appointed independent mediator in the matter.
Mayor Tom Barry said that he too was supportive of the route, but acknowledged: "I do recognise that landowners have what are, for them, very real concerns."
Cllr Denis Stack did not speak on the issue, but called for a vote to be held when it appeared the motions were to be adopted. He was informed that as no councillor had spoken against it and as no one seconded a counter-proposal he made, the motions were deemed adopted. The authority will now call on Kerry County Council to support the plans.
This is seen as a crucial step in the campaign by the GST as the county council is the main authority that would consider any plans.
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Kerry County Council has insisted that no money is owing it from Irish Water for road repairs after projects carried out by the State agency.
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Published on January 29th, 2013 | by Kennedy Ray
BlackHawk Downtown: Military Drill Scares Citizens In Miami And Houston
It was like a scene from an action movie. Military drills scared citizens in Miami and Houston. The sight of a Blackhawk downtown Miami, and in a Houston neighborhood on Monday with sounds of gunfire scared citizens, who had no idea what was going on.
With the current assault weapon ban campaign, the list of banned weapons that has been released by Sen. Feinstein and new information that was leaked by a high military official who stated that the new military litmus test is asking to fire on Americans, are they also preparing to make war on the American people?
The Miami Herald did warn about an upcoming army drill one week prior, but most of the citizens in Miami were unaware of the drill and quite shocked when they saw Blackhawks stalking the sky downtown Miami.
“Miami-Dade police sent out a warning Monday that multiple police agencies would be providing support for a joint military training exercise somewhere over Miami and elsewhere in the county. The exercise will include the use of military helicopters. When and where will this happen? Police didn’t say.”
ABC reported of an army drill in Houston, Texas. ABC released RAW footage of the drill, their news team helicopter was over the south side where at first look, it appeared there was a massive SWAT scene happening.
RAW VIDEO: Aerials of Army training drill
A concerned citizen said:
“When you see this, you think the worst. When you hear this, you think the worst,”
“She told me ‘don’t come home it sounds like we’re in a war zone. Guns, shooting, helicopters flying around the house,'” Isaac Robertson Jr. said.
First Miami, now Houston…
The Military conducted raids with their Blackhawks, firing blank rounds in populated areas calling it a drill. ABC received a ton of phones calls, Tweets and Facebook posts from worried neighbors, wondering what was going on. It was so frightening that a nearby Elementary school was in lock down for a short time, until everyone realized it was a drill.
The U.S. Army along with other agencies took over the old Carnegie Vanguard High School near Scott and Airport. There were armed men, SWAT teams, plenty of weapons and what many thought were real live rounds.
“This is routine training conducted by military personnel designed to ensure the military’s ability to operate in urban environments, prepare forces for upcoming overseas deployments, and meet mandatory training certification requirement,”
While it may have been just a regular army drill, many people believe that it might has something to do with preparation for the anticipated revolt that will take place if the government is violating the second amendment and planned martial law is officially declared.
“The fact that the DHS buying hollow point rounds instead of rubber bullets is a huge clue! It means they will be shooting to kill, not wound.”
Upcoming drill in Los Angeles, warning posted by CBS local.
LAPD: Joint Military Drills In Downtown LA
Joint military training exercises will be held evenings through Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The training, which a department official said would involve helicopters, has been coordinated with local authorities and owners of the training sites, police said. The exercises are designed to ensure the military’s ability to operate in urban environments, prepare forces for upcoming overseas deployments, and meet mandatory training certification requirements, police said.
An article from September 2012 reads: The Department of Homeland Security has purchased 1.4 billion rounds of ammunition- that is not a typo — during the last six months. This includes 450 million rounds of .40 hollow point, 200 million rounds of .223 rifle ammunition, and 176,000 rounds of .308 168-grain hollow point boat tail (HPBT) that is used almost exclusively as ammo for sniper rifles.
From Beforeitsnews: Is the Department of Homeland security to protect us from foreign terrorists, or to protect the central government from the American people? Oddly enough ALL the bullets they bought were hollow-points, which have been banned in international warfare since 1899, but somehow our civil authorities find it appropriate?
Hollow-point rounds, which expand in human tissue after impact, causing unnecessary suffering, according to widely accepted international treaties signed following the Hague peace conventions held in the Netherlands in 1899 and 1907.
“We need to be very clear in drawing this distinction: A hollow-point round, which is not permitted!
The Department of Homeland Security bought even more hollow point rounds as stated by the Examiner in September 2012.
Just last Monday, a shocking claim was revealed by 2009 Nobel peace price nominee Dr. Jim Garrow, who was informed by a former senior military leader that Obama is using a new “litmus test” in determining who will stay and who must go in his military leaders.
“The new litmus test of leadership in the military is if they will fire on US citizens or not.”
This was followed by his interview on Infowars, see it here. The man who told him is, “one of America’s foremost military heroes,” whose goal in divulging the information was to “sound the alarm.”
It was also reported that General James Mattis, who is head of the United States Central Command, is being told to vacate his office several months earlier than planned.”
“I am told that General Mattis was travelling and in a meeting when an aide passed him a note telling him that the Pentagon had announced his replacement as head of Central Command. It was news to him — he hadn’t received a phone call or a heads-up from anyone at the Pentagon or the White House,” – Thomas Rick reports
CIVIL-MILITARY SIGNALS: The message the Obama Administration is sending, intentionally or not, is that it doesn’t like tough, smart, skeptical generals who speak candidly to their civilian superiors. In fact, that is exactly what it (and every administration) should want. Had we had more back in 2003, we might not have made the colossal mistake of invading Iraq.
The AmericanThinker writes: General James Mattis is being fired for insisting on complete contingency planning, according to Pentagon reporter Tom Ricks. Truth-telling isn’t welcome in this administration, and that means big trouble ahead.
General Mattis and the military understand that. The general insisted on full planning for all predictable outcomes. Obama is a gambler, and he doesn’t want to think about what might happen if his wild gambles don’t pay off. He is amazingly overconfident. General Mattis is a thinker. He is a responsible combat leader.- The differences are huge.
What are your thoughts and comments regarding the latest military drills? Do you believe they are preparing for a war against the American people? We would love to hear them below..
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Bureau of Legal Affairs sheds light on confusing similarity
Intellectual Property Philippines
San Miguel Brewery Inc and Iconic Beverages Inc, both subsidiaries of San Miguel Corporation, filed an opposition against a trademark application by Fraser and Neave Ltd for the mark ICE MOUNTAIN for non-alcoholic beverages in Class 32. It was alleged that Iconic Beverages was the registered owner of the BLUE ICE device mark covered by a certificate of registration under Class 32 and that San Miguel Brewery held the licence to manufacture and distribute products bearing this trademark. The beer products sold under the BLUE ICE device mark have been commercially distributed within the Philippines for many years.
It was further argued by San Miguel and Iconic Beverages that Fraser and Neave's ICE MOUNTAIN mark resembled its BLUE ICE device mark. The alleged similarities included:
the word 'ice', which was the dominant feature of both marks because of its large font size; and
the representation of a mountain on top of both marks.
San Miguel and Iconic Beverages contended that consumers would likely be confused because the goods covered by the marks were closely related, moved within the same trade channels and were distributed, marketed, displayed and sold in similar locations. Further, the goods were similarly classified as beverages. The applied mark, if allowed, would allegedly prevent use of the BLUE ICE device mark for goods within their normal range of expansion.
Fraser and Neave replied that the marks were not similar. It explained that the dominant feature of the mark registered by San Miguel and Iconic Beverages was the word 'ice', while the dominant feature of the Fraser and Neave mark was the mountain ridges above the words 'ice mountain'. It was also pointed out that the lettering and fonts were presented differently.
The Bureau of Legal Affairs saw no cogent reason to deny the trademark application because the competing marks were not confusingly similar. In San Miguel's and Iconic Beverages's registered mark, the word 'blue' was prominently positioned in between the word 'ice' and the mountain figure. These elements were absent in Fraser and Neave's mark. Further, in the applied mark, the word 'mountain' was present as well as the depiction of the mountain figure. The bureau ruled that the possibility of confusion was remote, even in respect of aural and conceptual projection. This applied in particular since the registrations for BLUE ICE were used only on beers, not non-alcoholic beverages.
The hearing officer noted that the word 'ice' is a common English word used widely for beverages. In fact, it was pointed out that there are numerous other registered marks using the same word, as well as marks depicting mountains in their logos.
The hearing officer also noted that:
"The function of a trademark is to point out distinctly the origin or ownership of the goods to which it is affixed; to secure to him who has been instrumental in bringing into the mark a superior article of merchandise, the fruit of his industry and skill; to assure the public that they are procuring the genuine article; to prevent fraud and imposition; and to protect the manufacturer against substitution and sale of an inferior and different article as his product. In this case [Fraser and Neave]'s mark sufficiently met this function."
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J Immunol March 1, 2011, 186 (5) 2689-2690; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1190001
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SAP Sops Up DNA
The development of DNA vaccines has been hindered by inadequate immune responses observed in clinical trials. Wang et al. (p. 2860) identified a potential cause of these poor responses by characterizing human serum amyloid P (hSAP) as a negative regulator of human responses to DNA vaccines. hSAP and murine SAP (mSAP) have been previously identified as plasma proteins that bind to genomic DNA in a species-specific manner, but mSAP typically binds more weakly to DNA. The relevance of these binding differences was tested in the present study with a humanized mouse model engineered to express hSAP. Vaccination of hSAP transgenic mice with a DNA vaccine resulted in significantly lower Ab and CTL responses compared with those in wild-type mice. In vitro, a monocyte-derived macrophage cell line had diminished innate immune responses upon treatment with hSAP-complexed DNA compared with DNA alone or mSAP-complexed DNA. Further analysis revealed that formation of hSAP–DNA complexes competitively inhibited the binding of DNA to the DNA sensing molecules high mobility group B protein 1 and LL37, and hSAP-complexed DNA underwent endocytosis and degradation. A chemical SAP inhibitor partially restored innate immune responses to DNA in hSAP-treated macrophages in vitro and in vaccinated hSAP transgenic mice. Thus, hSAP appears to be a suppressor of innate responses to DNA, and hSAP suppression may have the potential to optimize human DNA vaccination.
Tackling Tuberculosis with IgA
The development of passive Ab therapies against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is being sought as a potential treatment for immunocompromised individuals and those infected with multi-drug–resistant strains. Earlier studies in mice showed that passive intranasal immunization with a murine IgA specific for the M. tuberculosis α-crystallin (Acr) Ag reduced pulmonary infection. In this issue, Balu et al. (p. 3113) characterized a human IgA1 mAb (2E9IgA1) against Acr that was generated from a single-chain variable fragment selected by Ag panning. In vitro, 2E9IgA1 bound to Acr and the human FcαR1 (CD89) with high affinity. Transgenic mice expressing human CD89 were used to test the immunotherapeutic properties of 2E9IgA1. Intranasal inoculation of 2E9IgA1 together with murine IFN-γ significantly reduced the bacterial load in the lungs of CD89 transgenic mice infected with M. tuberculosis strain H37Rv, compared with littermate controls. Moreover, 2E9IgA1 was able to inhibit H37Rv infection in some whole blood and monocyte samples from human volunteers. Taken together, these results indicate that 2E9IgA1 could be a prospective therapeutic mAb, which may be due to the effects of interactions with CD89.
Dialing Down T Cell Responses
Negative regulation of T cell activation is initiated in part through engagement of programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) on the surface of T cells with its cognate ligand, PD ligand-1. Terawaki et al. (p. 2772) carried out extensive PD-1 promoter analysis to clarify the transcription elements involved in PD-1 expression. Analysis of the 5′ region of PD-1 in the 2B4.11 T cell line revealed that a well-conserved cis-regulatory IFN-stimulated response element (ISRE) was required for PD-1 expression in activated T cells. ISRE-mediated gene expression is usually boosted by type I IFN signaling, and PD-1 expression was significantly increased in TCR-stimulated T cells exposed to IFN-α in vitro or in vivo. A chromatin immunoprecipitation assay indicated that IFN-α treatment of activated T cells induced binding of IFN responsive factor-9, a component of the IFN-stimulated gene factor 3 complex, to the PD-1 ISRE. IFN-α treatment alone was insufficient to induce PD-1 expression, which required TCR stimulation. In addition, treatment of mice carrying tumors with both IFN-α and an anti–PD-1 Ab elicited significant antitumor activity compared with IFN-α treatment alone. These results reveal that IFN-α signaling influences PD-1 expression, and antitumor therapy with type I IFN may be enhanced by PD-1 blockade.
Sticky Natural Killers
Natural killer (NK) cells adhere to target cells using an array of activating and inhibitory receptors that are expressed on the NK cell surface, but the biophysical nature of this adhesion is not well understood. Hoffmann et al. (p. 2757) analyzed the biophysical force between NK cells and tumor cells at the single-cell level using single-cell force spectroscopy (SCFS) to measure adhesion forces generated by attachment of the NK cell receptor 2B4 to its ligand CD48. The SCFS technique permits measurement of the forces generated when two cells adhere to and detach from each other. Cells from the 2B4-expressing human NK cell line NK92-C1 rapidly adhered to HeLa cells expressing CD48, and a significant increase in force was required to detach the cells from each other as early as 120 s to 300 s after attachment. This rapid adhesion event also involved NK cell-expressed surface LFA-1 and an intact actin cytoskeleton, and is consistent with rapid inside-out signaling events triggered by 2B4 engagement. Overall, these findings reveal the rapid rate at which NK cells adhere to tumor target cells, which is critical to their function as innate cytotoxic cells.
Complement's Solutions to Sepsis
Three different complement pathways can be activated in response to infection, but the influence of each of these pathways during sepsis is not well understood. Dahlke et al. (p. 3066) examined the role of the classical and alternative complement pathways in mice in response to sepsis induced by cecal ligation/puncture (CLP). Survival was significantly reduced, compared with that in wild-type mice, following CLP in C1q−/− or factor D (fD)−/− mice, which have defects in the classical and alternative pathways, respectively. Both C1q−/− and fD−/− mice exhibited a significant decrease in C3 activation, but C1q−/− mice also had significantly higher bacterial loads in the blood, liver, and lung, compared with those in wild-type and fD−/− mice 6 h post-CLP. Monocytes and granulocytes from C1q−/− and fD−/− mice collected 6 h post-CLP were less effective at phagocytosing opsonized Escherichia coli in vitro than were the same cells from wild-type mice. In spite of this defect, fD−/− mice were able to clear bacteria, but these mice also had a significant increase in neutrophil recruitment in the blood and lungs and a dramatic rise in inflammatory cytokine production 24 h post-CLP. These results suggest that the ability of fD−/− mice to control bacterial loads during sepsis comes at the cost of a destructive, uncontrolled inflammatory response and provide evidence that the alternative and classical complement pathways generate distinct responses to sepsis.
Inflammatory Instigator
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a devastating lung disease caused by a mutation in the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), and is associated with chronic neutrophil-mediated pulmonary inflammation due to recurrent bacterial infections. The T cell Ig and mucin-domain–containing molecules (TIMs) are immunomodulatory molecules that have been linked to asthma and other pulmonary inflammatory conditions. Vega-Carrascal et al. (p. 2897) examined the role of TIM-3 in the inflammatory responses associated with CF. TIM-3 and its ligand, galectin-9, were expressed at a constitutively higher level in CF bronchial epithelial (CFBE) cells compared with normal human bronchial epithelial (HBE) cells. In addition, treatment of HBE cells with a CFTR inhibitor induced a significant increase in TIM-3 and galectin-9 expression. TIM-3 localized to the plasma membrane in CFBE cells, and galectin-9 was able to activate TIM-3 signaling and induce secretion of the neutrophil chemoattractant IL-8, which confirmed that CFBE-expressed TIM-3 was functional. Interestingly, TIM-3 and galectin-9 were shown to be degraded in the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from CF patients via serine proteases, including neutrophil elastase. These observations provide a new insight into a potential role for TIM-3/galectin-9 in the pathology associated with CF.
Long Live IL-21
CD8+ T cell responses are fundamental to controlling acute viral infections, but the signals essential to effector CD8+ T cell survival and memory CD8+ T cell formation are not completely known. Previous studies have repeatedly demonstrated that CD4+ T cell help supports CD8+ T cell survival, and this present study by Novy et al. (p. 2729) demonstrates that IL-21 produced by activated CD4+ T cells significantly enhances CD8+ T cell survival in vitro. IL-21 signaling was also required in vivo for mice to generate effective virus-specific CD8+ T cell responses upon vaccinia virus infection. Whereas effector CD8+ T cell activation, proliferation, and differentiation did not require IL-21, survival of these activated cells and memory CD8+ T cell formation were dependent on intrinsic IL-21 signaling. Additional studies in vivo confirmed that CD4+ T cell help supported CD8+ T cell survival through IL-21–driven activation of STAT1 and STAT3 and increased expression of Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL transcripts. These observations elucidate the importance of IL-21 signaling in CD8+ T cells for the development of effective antiviral responses, which supports further exploration into the use of IL-21 to augment vaccine and cancer immunotherapy strategies.
Oxidizing Fungal Hyphae
Neutrophils can curb pulmonary Aspergillus fumigatus infection by phagocytosis of fungal conidia and reactive oxygen species (ROS)-mediated killing of fungal hyphae. Boyle et al. (p. 2978) dissected the signaling mechanisms essential to NADPH oxidase production of ROS by hyphae-exposed neutrophils. Treatment of murine bone marrow neutrophils (BMNs) with a variety of PI3K inhibitors upon exposure to A. fumigatus hyphae revealed that NADPH oxidase activity required the class IA PI3Ks, PI3Kβ and PI3Kδ. These kinases also supported neutrophil spreading on the hyphal surface, and the accumulation of class I PI3K lipid products was observed in the region of the neutrophil plasma membrane in contact with the hyphal interface. ROS activity was significantly lower in BMNs from mice lacking the β2-integrin subunit CD18 in response to A. fumigatus hyphae, compared with wild-type BMNs. Further analysis revealed that the tyrosine kinase Syk and the Vav family of Rac guanine nucleotide exchange factors were required for activation of neutrophil ROS responses. These findings better define the signaling events required for ROS production in response to A. fumigatus hyphae, but further studies are needed to understand the relationship between these different signaling components.
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Lagom is a lifestyle magazine connecting a global community of like-minded creatives who care about thoughtful design, independent travel, and a balanced approach to life.
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University of Missouri Will Decide on Graduate Program Closures by May 16
By Beatriz Costa Lima • Mar 8, 2018
University of Missouri faculty and staff now have a specific timeline for decisions on whether to close more than a dozen graduate programs.
In an email Wednesday, Chancellor Alexander Cartwright said final decisions on the closures and consolidations will be made by May 16.
A report released February 15 recommended the closing, consolidation or review of several graduate programs in response to budget and enrollment challenges. It cited reasons such as low numbers of graduates and research productivity.
But several faculty members present at a meeting Monday said the report’ results focused on quantity instead of quality.
Charles Presberg is an MU Spanish professor. The Romance Languages doctoral program is one of the recommended closures. He says he is glad the chancellor is open to talking directly with faculty about the decisions.
“The task force report is something like an aerial view from 6,000 feet of the university,” Presberg said. “Well now it’s time to speak in real conversations, substantive dialogue, with people on the ground.”
MU English professor Andrew Hoberek said that most faculty understand that tough decisions will have to be made, but he also wants some accountability with them.
“To the best of the administration’s ability to provide this information,” Hoberek said, “we’d like to know how the changes that they make will actually help with the budget crisis.”
Additional data and updates will be made public as they become available, according to the email. Cartwright will continue to work with members of the university community, and faculty can provide input until April 9.
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During the summer of 2008, crews demolished 15 buildings — one by one — in downtown Lexington for the proposed CentrePointe hotel, retail and condo project. This video from the Herald-Leader archives chronicled the demolition — and the controversy
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The latest rendering of the CentrePointe project was unveiled by developer Dudley Webb. The project is scheduled to be largely completed by spring 2018. Provided by Webb Cos.
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Covington bishop’s rebuke could seriously harm the faith of these pro-life teens. Pray it doesn’t
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Urge Covington bishop to apologize for condemning pro-life teens. Sign the petition here.
January 22, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — As a father of teenage boys, I have to say I was very proud of Nick Sandmann and equally incensed at the condemnation he received by his bishop, and the former US Bishops head Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, and his Catholic high school. Even after the mainstream media backed off their fake news smear of this pro-life young man and his school mates, the school and diocese have yet to issue a public apology.
We’ve been yearning to hear the bishops speak up in a timely fashion on the moral issues of our day, but they never seem to, often because it’s politically incorrect. But in this case, with the mainstream media on a feeding frenzy heaping calumny on Nick, the bishops piled on without any clear understanding of the matter, throwing the Catholic young people under the bus. God forbid that this condemnation from the bishops and Catholic school harms the faith of these young people, may it rather strengthen their faith as they suffer unjustly as did Our Lord.
Be sure to sign and share the petition asking the bishops and media to recant and apologize. My full commentary on this disturbing matter is in the video below.
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When the City Dawns
Trisha Mandal March 11, 2016
“Kis Lamhe ne thami, ungli meri
Fuslake mujhko le chala,
Nange paao daudi, aakhein meri
Khwabon ke saare bastiya…”
As the song blended with the entire atmosphere surrounding that elaborate Open Air Theater, I closed my eyes and swayed– mind you, not really in that I-am-in-a-concert-so-I-must-groove kind of dramatic undulation, but more because the whole aspiration of soaking up the spirit of this whirlwind of a city was finally translating into an experience.
Kolkata. The cliched City of Joy. I, however, like to think of this metropolitan as the City with a Soul. About six months I’ve been here, but sadly that Soul hadn’t spoken to me as I had hoped it would—at the first sight. Kolkata’s charm had not worked on me in the way I was sure it would.
It’s funny how the days that you think will be moderately enjoyable, turn out to be what we teenyboppers like to all-knowingly describe as “epic”. To put it in short, the day after a fortnight of the beginning of the last month in the year 2015, was Just. That.
So there we were, the five of us (the names of whom I will spare), in the midst of the Kaleidoscope, both literally and metaphorically. The cheering and hooting (and making sure that we would all have a sore throat by the end of the night) was incessant from the very beginning of the performance, the moment of sweet introspection and quiet enjoyment dawned suddenly. Anupam Roy, a person who needs no introduction to us Bongs (whether it be the “ki cute dekhte Anupam” teenage girls or the “er theke ami beshi bhalo ami gaite parbo” babas), was up on stage—and therefore there was an over-excited crowd present as well, craning there necks to watch the star perform.
It was in this crowd, in front of this stage, with the five of us standing arm-in-arm ecstatic, and Roy’s seamless songs playing in the foreground that “Kolkata” happened to me.
We don’t really get to choose how we make our best memories, neither do we have a say in who gets to live them with us; all we have in our hands is the chance to make every experience count, with perhaps that same old group of friends or with complete strangers, and when the City that you decided to fall in love with finally opens up its arms to you, those experiences suddenly turn into the memories that you longed for since you first set step into the City’s existence.
মুম্বাইয়ের স্লাম এলাকা থেকে ইসরোর সায়েন্টিস্ট হলেন প্রথমেশ!
গিন্নি ভার্সেস মাছ, মিষ্টি এন্ড মোর
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কোহলি ফিরলেন নিজস্ব চেনা ছন্দে
বিরাট বিপর্যয় !
আবির আবারও সোনা দা রূপে
বলিউড ও আলিয়া ভাট
Remembering Chinmoy Roy
Coldplay and SRK exchange love over twiiter!
Trisha Mandal
An English Honours student, Trisha is a bibliophile with a knack of jotting down stories about "a little of this, and a little of that". Dreams of publishing her own work someday and leaving a mark in the world. Finally, a Potterhead and a FRIENDS fanatic!
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তুমি আসবে বলে, তাই…
The Moments
বুদ্ধিমান কাকে বলবো আমরা?
“নাই বা মনে রাখলে…”
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The Criminal Procedure (Simplification) project was a joint project between the Ministry of Justice and the Law Commission. It had two objectives: to reduce unnecessary court delays through legislative and operational change, and to create a...
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This project urgently reviews the law on dishonestly procuring valuable benefits. The Court of Appeal decision in R v Wilkinson (13 October 1998, CA 122/98) demonstrates that certain dishonest actions which constitute the offence of theft or...
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Season Review
Posted on May 29, 2015 by PressOfficer
Alizeh, Chloe, Danni, Emily, Emma, Isabelle, Jashika, Jaskirat, Louise, Lucy, Maya, Megan, Munashe, Priyanka, Rebecca.
As the season approached it was very doubtful whether we would have a team to play in the Leicester City & County Girls Football League.
When we were scheduled to play our first League game we had eight registered players. After a lot of hard work from some of the fantastic volunteers within LCLFC we were able to bring in seven new players who we had to get registered by the end of September or withdraw from the League an ultimatum issued by the League.
So the Under 15’s played the first League game at the end of September instead of the planned opening fixture at the end of August.
Having had to postpone the fixtures for September, despite being given that time to get a team together by the League, we were fined for postponing two of those games, this also left us facing a fine if we postponed any further games throughout the season (more on that later).
So on the 28th September the League season began with a home game against Oadby Owls. After a bright start to the game the girls took the lead but by the end were well beaten by a very strong Oadby Owls team.
After getting that first League game played it was to be another two weeks before the girls played again against the eventual League champions Oadby & Wigston Rovers, where the girls suffered their heaviest defeat of the season.
It was to be another three weeks before the girls played again, in the League against Leicester City Ladies Diamonds in what was one of the teams best performances of the season but ended in defeat by the odd goal. A week later and the girls picked up their first point of the season away to Asfordby where it was felt by the two coaches that it should have been the teams first win.
With games planned for most Sundays throughout November and December it was hoped the team would keep up this level of performance but three postponements on the trot meant only one game was played between mid November and Christmas.
With 13 League games to be played from January to April plus League cup fixtures, this caused issues on a number of occasions with the availability of players, the team played twice 10 v 11 and in one game played 9 v 11.
In what was a very tough season this group of girls showed in certain games what they are capable of playing some good football.With so many new players joining the group it was always going to be difficult to find that consistency, coming up against players and teams who have been playing for 3, 4 or 5 years.
The team eventually finished 9th in the League.
Semi finalists in the League Cup.
Quarter Finalists in the County Cup.
A special mention to Lucy, Louise, Chloe, Emily, Megan and Rebecca who stuck with this team, along with Isabelle and Danni helped the 7 new girls to the game, settle in to competitive football.
As manager the most pleasing thing this season was the development shown by all of the girls and especially the four who took their first steps into senior football, well done to Lucy,Emily,Chloe and Rebecca for playing for the LCLFC development team.
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Rogue Online Pharmacies and the Japanese Market
By Abuse Team on August 19, 2011
Internet Pharmacy Stuff
Recently, LegitScript has begun taking a look at the Japanese Internet pharmacy market. (We already monitor the Internet pharmacy market in multiple countries including the US, Canada, Australia, multiple EU nations, Russia, and elsewhere.) It should come as no surprise that Internet pharmacies, including illicit ones, would target Japan: the country has the second largest pharmaceutical market in the world, valued at $96 billion in 2010.
So how big of a problem are rogue Internet pharmacies in Japan? Are there legitimate ones? And what does it mean for an Internet pharmacy targeting Japan (that is, selling to Japanese residents) to be “legitimate”?
Today’s blog post focuses on the last question –– what it means for a Japanese Internet pharmacy to be legitimate. As we recently tweeted, we’ve been adding some Japanese Internet pharmacies to our database, and will be stepping up our monitoring of the Japanese search space to help Japanese residents who choose to fill a prescription online make informed decisions to protect their safety and health. We’ll also be working with Registrars and ISPs to help them identify violations of their Terms and Conditions.
What makes an Internet pharmacy legitimate (or, alternatively, “rogue”) in Japan is surprisingly similar to standards in other countries. Here are a few highlights.
Want prescription drugs? Better have a prescription
Japanese law states that it’s illegal to sell prescription drugs without a valid prescription. (Article 49, Pharmaceutical Affairs Law.) Like most places, a physician must examine the patient before issuing a prescription. (Article 20, Medical Practitioners Law.) Consequently, Japanese online consultation Internet pharmacies –– websites that allow you to fill out an online form without ever seeing a doctor –– will be classified as rogue Internet pharmacies in LegitScript’s database.
Want to sell prescription drugs? Better be licensed in the Japanese prefecture
As in nearly every other country, if you want to sell prescription drugs to Japanese residents, you have to be licensed and physically located in a Japanese prefecture. (A “prefecture” is like a US state or Canadian province.) (Article 4 and 24, Pharmaceutical Affairs Law.) So, entities selling prescription drugs to Japanese residents will be classified as rogue if they don’t have the legally required licenses.
Selling Prescription Drugs from outside of Japan? Almost always illegal
Like many countries, Japanese law allows for some flexibility on the physical importation of prescription drugs. But as in the US, Canada and elsewhere, this flexibility was written to apply to situations where a person is physically entering the country –– for example, flying into Narita Airport near Tokyo –– and has their foreign medication with them, physically on their person. (See the Japanese government’s guidance on this, which clearly applies to physically entering the country with a month’s worth of medication on you for your own personal use –– not ordering over the Internet.) The faux “Canadian” Internet pharmacies and their defenders, which have a financial interest in convincing customers that Internet importation is legal and safe, incorrectly argue that wholesale importation over the Internet is either legal or ignored by authorities. The same dynamics can be observed regarding foreign rogue Internet pharmacies targeting Japan, who incorrectly argue that they are operating legally under Japanese law.
Japanese authorities have warned about importing prescription drugs via the Internet into Japan. Moreover, Japan’s Customs Law contains requirements about obtaining certification for most prescription drugs, including showing a valid prescription. (Article 70-1, Customs Law.) And, even if theoretically a month’s importation were allowed, that doesn’t change the requirement that pharmacies dispensing to Japanese residents be physically located in a Japanese prefecture and require valid prescriptions. (Article 4 and 24, Pharmaceutical Affairs Law.) Consequently, LegitScript will classify as rogue or unapproved websites whose business model focuses on dispensing prescription drugs into Japan from foreign locations.
So who are the biggest offenders in this space? We see the multi-national (not really defunct) criminal network RxCash.biz as operating numerous Japanese rogue Internet pharmacies such as i-kusuri.jp. Smaller criminal network eDrugNet has made a play into the market with individual websites like edrugnet.jp. And some networks, such as Hampstead Corporation / Oz International (using websites like idrugstore.com, which hides its domain name registration information…never a good sign), actually have a corporate presence in the United States but ship prescription drugs from unapproved locations into Japan.
There are, unfortunately for Japanese residents, plenty more rogue Internet pharmacies targeting Japan. Over the coming months, we look forward to notifying Registrars, ISPs and the .JP registry about these illicit websites that put the health and safety of Japanese residents at risk.
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SAT grants interim stay on Sebi's order against Infotech Financial, NSE official
1 min read . Updated: 08 May 2019, 11:28 PM IST PTI
The NSE in 2009 had engaged Shah and Infotech Financial Services for a research project
Sebi's order barring the entities from the market shall remain stayed till further orders, the tribunal said
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NEW DELHI: The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) has granted interim stay on Sebi's order against Ajay Shah, Infotech Financial Services, its two company directors as well as NSE's senior official Suprabhat Lala in the co-location case.
The NSE in 2009 had engaged Shah and Infotech Financial Services for a research project. However, the entities allegedly developed an algorithm (algo) trading software by misusing confidential data from the NSE, according to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).
In separate orders while granting interim relief to Infotech and others, the SAT said more than 10 years have elapsed and the entities were associated with the market during this period and no complaint on any other score has been found against them.
Besides, "the data which is alleged to have been used by the appellants (Infotech and others) for preparation of Algo trading software was explained by NSE to be in the public domain in related proceedings made against NSE," the tribunal said in the orders dated 7 May.
Meanwhile, Sebi's order barring the entities from the market shall remain stayed till further orders, the tribunal said, and listed the matter for further hearing on 22 July.
The tribunal has directed Sebi to file its reply within six weeks.
Earlier, Sebi had barred leading academic Ajay Shah, Infotech Financial Services and its two directors -- Sunita Thomas and Krishna Dagli -- as well as NSE's Assitant Vice President Suprabhat Lala from the markets for two years for misusing NSE data for their commercial gains by developing algo trading products for sale in the securities market.
This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text.
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Twitter, Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) making progress but an awful lot of success is still priced into Twitter stock
By HEFFX Australia on February 18, 2019 Comments Off on Twitter, Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) making progress but an awful lot of success is still priced into Twitter stock
I’ve been skeptical about Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) stock for some time now. Admittedly, even though TWTR stock has been range-bound since late July, I’ve been too skeptical towards it, as Twitter stock has rallied over the last two years, roughly doubling during that period.
As I wrote in December, the gains of Twitter stock have been deserved, at least to some extent. The company’s total user base (as represented by MAUs, or monthly active users) hasn’t grown much. But its engagement is up, as shown by increases in its DAUs (daily active users). And Twitter has become a better, more valuable partner for advertisers.
Yet that success hasn’t done much for TWTR stock of late. Its Q3 earnings, which were reported in October, sent Twitter stock soaring. Yet a 10% decline after the Q4 release earlier this month wiped out most of those gains. Twitter stock now actually is down 7.4% over the past twelve months.
There’s one big reason why: valuation. TWTR looked hugely expensive at $45 in June, but even at $31, where it currently trades, it’s not exactly cheap. And with Twitter’s earnings growth likely to be muted in 2019, it’s tough to see how concerns about its valuation will ease any time soon.
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In this course, Dr. Craig Evans explores various ancient sources that refer to Christ. He focuses on the evidence from extrabiblical sources, and looks at what they reveal about the life of Christ and how Jesus was perceived by early non-Christian witnesses. He examines references to Jesus in Roman, Jewish, and other writings, and looks at where Jesus’ name was invoked in both Christian and pagan charms and incantations.
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Describe how the early references to Jesus by non-Christian sources relate to the portrayal of Jesus in the Gospels
Explain how these early references shed light on the origins of Christianity
Introducing the Speaker and the Course
Unit 1: The Witness of Roman Writers
Tacitus and Suetonius
Celsus and Lucian
Using Clippings to Document Ancient Non-Christian Witnesses to Christ
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Unit 2: The Witness of Jewish Writers
Josephus’ Jewish Antiquities
Using Timelines in Logos to Find Events in Jesus’ Life
Translations of Josephus and Rabbinic Literature
The Qur’an and Other Writings
Building and Searching a Collection of Ancient Non-Christian Witnesses to Christ
Unit 3: Invocations of the Name of Jesus
The Greek Magical Papyrus
Silver Phylactery from Beirut
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Curse Tablets and Lamellae
The “Jesus Cup”
Relevance of These Witnesses
Title: NT313 Jesus and the Witness of the Outsiders
Instructor: Craig A. Evans
Publisher: Lexham Press
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Evans taught at Trinity Western University in British Columbia for 21 years, where he directed the graduate program in biblical studies and founded the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute. He has recently served on the advisory board for the Gospel of Judas for National Geographic Society and has appeared frequently as an expert commentator on network television programs.
Evans has written and edited extensively on the historical Jesus and the Jewish background of the New Testament era. His published works include From Prophecy to Testament, Jesus and the Ossuaries, Jesus: The Final Days, and Dictionary of New Testament Background.
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Up to 30 per cent supporting dissidents
Published: 10:47 Updated: 10:48 Wednesday 13 October 2010
THE level of sympathy for the reasons for ongoing republican violence could be as high as 30 per cent amongst card-carrying nationalists, according to a new survey by the University of Liverpool.
Research by Liverpool University published last week revealed 14 per cent of nationalists had sympathy for the reasons behind ongoing violence by IRA splinter groups such as glaigh na hireann, the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA.
But the 14 per cent figure was a conservative estimate classifying participants of the ESRC Northern Ireland 2010 Westminster Election as nationalist based only upon the demographics of the area in which they were surveyed.
Of 1,002 people taking part in the survey, just 240 classed themselves as nationalists, whilst 341 classed themselves as unionist. 421 said they were neither.
Professor Jon Tonge of the Department of Politics, University of Liverpool, agreed that amongst those people who openly described themselves as nationalist the level of sympathy for the reasons behind ongoing republican violence as well as the Provo campaign of the 70's and 80's would likely be closer to 30 per cent.
For example, 82 participants of the ESRC survey said they either had a "lot of sympathy" or "a little sympathy" for the rationale motivating OnH, RIRA and CIRA today.
Based on the assumption these 82 participants all self-classified as nationalists, 34 per cent of that group would have been sympathetic to the reasons behind ongoing republican violence.
Whilst the results do not give that breakdown Dr Tonge agreed sympathy amongst this group would be higher than the 14 per cent based on community of origin.
He told the Sentinel: "We used the community of origin to label as nationalist rather than self-ascribed label as nationalist hence our smaller percentage."
On the same basis 91 participants who said they were sympathetic to the rationale behind republican campaigns during the Troubles would account for 37 per cent of the 240 self-classified nationalists if it were assumed they all classed themselves as such.
Elsewhere, the survey also revealed a high level of support for the reasons behind loyalist violence during the Troubles even amongst those classified as unionist based only on where they lived (community of origin.)
Dr Tonge advised the Sentinel that over 30 per cent of unionist participants were sympathetic to the reasons motivating violence issuing from groups such as the UDA, UFF, UVF Red Hand Commando and LVF during the Troubles. 15.5 per cent of unionist had a lot of sympathy, whilst 15.9 per cent had a little sympathy.
And though just 341 of the 1002 survey participants openly described themselves as unionist, a considerable 161 participants claimed they had sympathy for the reasons behind loyalist violence.
Degree honour for Eamonn
Once again if those 161 had all self-classified as unionists the level of sympathy amongst that group would come out as 47 per cent.
Separate figures based on those card-carrying unionists are not available but Dr Tonge again agreed the level of sympathy would be higher than 30 per cent amongst that group.
Elsewhere, participants were marginally more sympathetic to the reasons for the Provo, Official IRA and INLA campaigns of the 70s, 80s and 90s than they were to violence by IRA splinter groups such as glaigh na hireann, the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA.
Provo, Official IRA and INLA violence during the Troubles was viewed with "no sympathy at all" by 74.6 per cent of participants in the survey in contrast to the slightly higher 75.3 per cent of participants who viewed ongoing republican violence with distaste.
Sympathy for the reasons for ongoing republican violence was just marginally lower (8.2 per cent) than was sympathy for former violence (9.1 per cent).
Add to these figures those ambivalent respondents - the don't knows and don't want to knows - and about 25 per cent of people refused to say they had "no sympathy at all" for Provo or splinter IRA violence.
The survey also revealed a majority of participants (56.7 per cent) wanted Northern Ireland to remain within the United Kingdom whilst just 21.1 per cent wanted to reunify with the rest of Ireland.
A minority of one wanted to "Unite with Scotland," another to "Unite with Europe," and a third "Independence for Northern Ireland."
A majority of participants were in favour of the consent principle enshrined in the Good Friday Agreement with 54.3 per cent supporting the guarantee that Northern Ireland remain part of the UK for as long as a majority of people here want it to do so.
Just 5.3 per cent of people said they were opposed to this concept with a further 30.4 per cent neither for nor against.
A majority of those who took part in the survey either thought the Assembly had tax-raising powers (32.7 per cent) or didn't know whether it had or not (35.9 per cent). Twenty-eight per cent realised it doesn't.
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Langkawi National Art Gallery set to be tourist attraction, says minister
Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Datuk Mohamaddin Ketapi said the art community in Langkawi could work together in planning and organising programmes to benefit from the art gallery. — Picture by Miera Zulyana
LANGKAWI, March 30 — The Langkawi National Art Gallery or [email protected] is set to be an attraction which will draw more visitors to the duty-free island, said Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister Datuk Mohamaddin Ketapi.
The establishment of the National Art Gallery branch in Langkawi would encourage those interested in visual arts to seek for more art exhibitions on the island resort and other parts of the country, he added.
“According to data provided by the Langkawi Development Authority (LADA) and Langkawi Tourism, 3.6 million domestic and international tourists visited the island last year.
“We hope the continued surge in tourists flow will contribute to the country’s economic growth,” he said in his speech at the opening of [email protected], here.
Elaborating Mohamaddin said the art community in Langkawi could work together in planning and organising programmes to benefit from the art gallery.
[email protected] located at Dayang Commercial Square, Kuah began operation on March 25. — Bernama
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US to sell 34 surveillance drones to Malaysia and other allies in South China Sea region
US ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are displayed at a hangar before a transfer from the US to the Philippine Air Force at the Villamor Air Base in Pasay city. — Reuters pic
WASHINGTON, June 4 — The Trump administration has moved ahead with a surveillance drone sale to four US allies in the South China Sea region as acting Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Washington will no longer “tiptoe” around Chinese behaviour in Asia.
The drones would afford greater intelligence gathering capabilities potentially curbing Chinese activity in the region.
Shanahan did not directly name China when making accusations of “actors” destabilising the region in a speech at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday but went on to say the United States would not ignore Chinese behaviour.
The Pentagon announced on Friday it would sell 34 ScanEagle drones, made by Boeing Co to the governments of Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam for a total of US$47 million (RM196.5 million).
China claims almost all of the strategic South China Sea and frequently lambastes the United States and its allies over naval operations near Chinese-occupied islands. Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam have competing claims.
The Pentagon said Friday’s sales included spare and repair parts, support equipment, tools, training and technical services and work on the equipment was expected to be completed by March 2022.
As many as 12 unarmed drones and equipment would go to Malaysia for about US$19 million. Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country would buy eight drones, the Philippines eight, and Vietnam six.
In 2018, US President Donald Trump’s administration rolled out a long-awaited overhaul of US arms export policy aimed at expanding sales to allies, saying it would bolster the American defence industry and create jobs at home.
That initiative eased rules for exporting some types of lethal as well as non-lethal US-made drones to potentially dozens more allies and partners.
There is no armed version of the ScanEagle, but Insitu, the division of Boeing that makes the drone, also makes the RQ-21A Blackjack which is an optionally armed drone used by US Navy and Marine Corps. — Reuters
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'I couldn't look away from Netflix's Mudbound, even though I desperately wanted to.'
Amy Clark
Senior Lifestyle Writer
Video by Netflix
For 152 minutes, I laid in bed. I scrolled through my phone, tossed around trying to get comfortable, and thought about what I’d be doing at work the next day.
And I watched a movie.
Then, at the 153rd minute, my jaw dropped. My mouth hung open in the kind of way that only happens when you see or hear something that truly shocks you. I put down my phone. I sat upright. I couldn’t look away, even though I wanted to.
I wanted to hit pause. My mind wanted me to. You don’t want to see this, it pleaded. But I kept watching, because those minutes, 1:53:00 – 1:57:00, might be for what Mudbound wins its Oscar.
Listen: The period drama Mudbound has been a surprise success for Netflix with a tonne of Oscar nominations. Here’s why it’s one to watch (post continues after audio…)
This month, Mudbound made history. The gritty American period drama helped Netflix become the first streaming service to land eight nominations in this year’s Academy Awards.
It almost didn’t make it – after the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last year, many in Hollywood passed on the film. They said it was too long. The subject matter too dense.
Both are true. But something about the story of two men – one white, one black – returning home from World War II to work on a muddy farm in America’s south cut through. And it has everything to do with the long, dense moments that gave those four gripping minutes the space to explain why it was so important this film be seen.
Mudbound isn’t a story about one man. It’s about two. Two men from two families, living in two different types of world dependant on the colours of their skin.
Jamie and Ronsel strike up an (in those times) unlikely friendship as they deal with racism, PTSD and adjusting to life after war. Image: Netflix.
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When Henry McAllen tells his wife, Laura (Cary Mulligan), they'll be moving to their very own patch of land in rural Mississippi with Henry's racist, abusive 'Pappy', it's the start of life she never wanted for herself. A life where a man like Henry's handsome younger brother, Jamie (Garrett Hedlund), would take her to smokey jazz lounges and twirl her around the dance floor.
Life on the farm is harsh. And muddy. Not at all the kind of place Laura imagined herself raising two girls.
For the Jacksons, that farm is their home. It has been for generations. Hap's father, and his father, and his father before him tended to that land with their bare hands, but always for someone else. So Hap (Rob Morgan) and his wife, Florence (played by the Oscar nominated, Mary J. Blige) sow the cotton fields with their eldest son, Ronsel (Jason Mitchell). It is the South after all, where in 1941, black people couldn't own land, ride at the front of the bus or enter the grocery shop through the front door.
Then Ronsel and Jamie are sent off to serve their country in the war - Jamie, a fighter pilot Captain, and Ronsel a Sergeant. There is no 'black' or 'white', just men, husbands, fathers, and sons.
They return years later to find that while the rest of the world has changed, Mississippi hasn't. People like the McAllens still own land and decide the fates of others, and those like the Jacksons still have to use the 'coloured' bathroom.
From there, Ronsel and Jaime strike up an (in those times) unlikely friendship as they deal with racism, PTSD and adjusting to life after war.
Yes, it's a long movie. And it'll make you work. The way the story is told, through the eyes of Henry, Laura and Jaime, and Hap, Florence and Ronsel, feels disjointed at times. You might need to take a break or duck out to the loo, which you can do because unlike new releases, you have the option to hit pause.
Mudbound is accessible in a way we've not known Oscar movies to be before. It's almost the anti-Oscar film, there's no prestige or pretentious front, and you don't need to leave the house to experience it. It's sitting unassumingly in your Netflix library right next to The Crown and a Bring It On sequel.
But if your attention wanes, hang in there. Because all of that context, characterisation, and detail that could seem unnecessary is what helps you begin to comprehend how two families could live metres away from one another, yet experience humanity so differently.
And, in that 153rd minute, when Jamie is forced to make a painstaking decision, and to watch something inexplicably horrific, don't look away. Even if, like me, you want to. Because those four minutes of Mudbound, and their consequences will stay with you long after they're gone.
You can watch Mudbound on Netflix now. For more on Mudbound and everything I, Tonya, get the latest full episode of The Binge in your ears below...
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What happens to Sofia Vergara's frozen fertilised embryos now her ex's lawsuit was thrown out?
Belinda Jepsen
Senior Features Writer
Video via ABC
In a storage facility in Beverly Hills sit two frozen female embryos, two microscopic organisms at the centre of a now two-year legal battle between the couple that created them in 2013; actress Sofia Vergara and her former fiancé, Nick Loeb.
On Friday, a federal judge in the US state of Louisiana threw out a suit spearheaded by the entrepreneur in which it was argued that the eggs have been “effectively abandoned” by the 45-year-old Modern Family star and deserve the right to be born.
But that’s just the latest step in this bitter and bizarre legal saga.
It all began in 2015 when Loeb sued Vergara in a Californian court for custody of the fertilised eggs, which the pair created roughly a year before their relationship ended.
Loeb was seeking – and still is – to have the embryos implanted in a surrogate, and to raise them as a solo parent. However, the actress’ lawyer told E News she “is content to leave the embryos frozen indefinitely as she has no desire to have children with her ex”.
In an op-ed on the issue in The New York Times, Loeb argued that keeping the fertilised eggs frozen forever is “tantamount to killing them”.
“A woman is entitled to bring a pregnancy to term even if the man objects,” he wrote. “Shouldn’t a man who is willing to take on all parental responsibilities be similarly entitled to bring his embryos to term even if the woman objects?”
Loeb and Vergara at the Golden Globe Awards in 2014. Image: Getty.
Loeb eventually withdrew his Californian lawsuit in December 2016. He attributed the decision to his refusal to identify two ex girlfriends who had undergone abortions - a step the court deemed necessary to establish his pro-life position. However, Vergara's legal team pegged the withdrawal as a stalling tactic that would allow Loeb to file again at a later date.
That same month, the Louisiana suit was lodged.
Why Louisiana?
Loeb claimed he and Vergara had dated in the south-eastern US state in 2014 while the actress was shooting a movie and even planned a life together there. But it's also worth noting - as the Louisiana federal judge reportedly did - that it's the only state to consider embryos 'juridical persons', which essentially means they have the same legal rights as people.
This had allowed Loeb to take a different tack: this time, the suit was filed against Vergara not by him, but on behalf of the two fertilised eggs.
According to court papers obtained by Page Six, the suit reportedly listed the embryos as plaintiffs named “Emma” and “Isabella”, and claimed that by not being born they were being denied inheritance set aside for them in a trust fund established by Loeb.
But in dismissing the suit on Friday, the judge reportedly found the court had no jurisdiction over the case as the embryos are "citizens" of California and neither Loeb nor Vergara has permanent ties to Louisiana, TMZ reported.
Sofia Vergara and Hollywood stereotyping. (Post continues below).
Well, theoretically Loeb could refile a suit in California.
Although in February this year, Vergara (who is now married to Magic Mike actor Joe Manganiello) lodged her own suit in the state seeking an injunction that would permanently block Loeb from being able to use the embryos without her written consent, as per the agreement they signed at the ART Reproductive Center in Beverly Hills back in 2013.
That case appears to be ongoing.
While Loeb has been vocal throughout the whole process, Vergara has said little; other than to Good Morning America in 2015:
"I don’t want to allow this person to take more advantage of my career and try to promote himself and get press for this... He shouldn’t be creating something so ugly out of nothing.”
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'Would you mind not looking at me?' - The best quotes of Philip Green's BHS hearing
The businessman faced the music (and some feisty MPs) over his role in the retailer's sorry state.
by Rebecca Smith
Considering thousands of BHS employees could be out of jobs in the coming weeks, it’s not surprising a fair few of them are baying for blood. Fingers have been pointing in all directions. Only last week the retailer's former owner Philip Green called for the resignation of Frank Field, chairman of the work and pensions committee, saying he was biased. Green had (much like Mike Ashley ahead of his highly publicised select committee appearance) initially refused to give evidence, but here we are.
The hearing was highly anticipated – not least because Green has a notorious short fuse. Would MPs be able to get his back up? The short answer to that was yes (notably Conservative MP Richard Graham). Despite stonewalling on many of the big issues, Green said there has been contact with the regulator over Project Thor (Arcadia’s proposal to restructure the BHS pension scheme, suspended in 2014).
‘We want to find a solution for the 20,000 pensioners’, he declared and implied his contribution to fixing the deficit could be outweigh the £275m cost of paying PPF-level benefits. Deloitte’s working on the plan and details will apparently be revealed shortly. We’ll all wait with bated breath...
Until then, have a look over some of Green’s choice quotes from his appearance before MPs:
The most memorable moments from Philip Green's appearance
‘I spent nearly a third of my working career with BHS and probably the problem that got me into trouble was having too strong of an emotional tie to the people and the business.’
‘It didn’t need to be like this – I just want to apologise to all of the BHS people involved in this.’
‘Respectfully...’ and ‘With respect...’ – when opening many responses to questions he wasn’t best happy with.
‘I think it’s known – it’s not a secret. When I went there, I had no idea I was ever going to do any more business, I didn’t go there with a plan’ – on being asked when he found out Monaco had tax advantages.
'30-40% of the FTSE is owned by non-UK corporations. If we go around the high street there are dozens of non-UK investors – do you want to say every non-UK holder is a tax avoider? – interrupting a question about ‘legitimate tax avoidance’.
‘Would you mind not looking at me like that all the time? It’s really disturbing’ – when he found Conservative MP Richard Fuller’s eyes a little too piercing.
‘If we’re allowed to use hindsight 2002 would’ve been a good time to sell the business.’
‘Your lady here...’ – directed to chair Frank Field, when referencing female MPs.
‘Please, you can’t run 3,000 stores with one person. I have never moved one penny from our bank account and I wouldn’t know where to phone to get any money’ – when it was claimed every witness thus far had presented the image Green was the one ultimately calling the shots.
‘Maybe, without meaning to be rude, you should try retail in your next career.’
‘If I wanted to park the blame I think I could spend the next 20 minutes blaming other people. I think there are people who have questions to answer.’
‘There has to be some accountability on behalf of the trustees and there have been some stupid, idiotic mistakes made.’
‘That’s not very fair. We put back £750m, everyone wants to ignore that’ – when MPs suggest he hasn’t been particularly concerned about the BHS pension fund (it had a £43m surplus in 2000 before he started taking dividends out).
‘I plead to you, can we go to the pension scheme, instead of this man beating me up which is unnecessary’ – after some detailed questions from Richard Graham.
‘I could be a murderer the way they’re writing about me. I haven’t got any guns’ – on his stormy relationship with the media (a dig at Dominic Chappell thrown into the mix?).
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Sockeye salmon returning to the Fraser River face a double whammy of hot marine and freshwater conditions. Although nearly seven million sockeye are expected
Warmed ocean to hit salmon returns for years
Hot marine, Fraser River conditions will reduce survival rate of returning sockeye: scientists
Jeff Nagel
Jul. 14, 2015 7:00 p.m.
Record hot Pacific Ocean temperatures that have degraded the marine food supply since the fall of 2013 are likely to hurt B.C. salmon returns not just this summer but for the next one to three years.
That’s the prediction of Ian Perry, an ocean scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
He said the effects may be relatively minor this summer – with returning sockeye salmon that are only slightly thinner or smaller than usual – but worse over the next few years.
That’s because the sockeye now returning experienced relatively normal temperatures when they first headed out to sea as juveniles in early 2013.
Unusual weather patterns that year meant there wasn’t the normal deep mixing of ocean layers in the northeast Pacific and the surface temperatures got steadily warmer.
The water in the Gulf of Alaska was three degrees above normal by January 2014 and there were record hot temperatures last summer.
The runs that will return from 2016 to 2018 will likely have faced longer exposure to hot ocean temperatures, which result in poor, less nutritious plankton for salmon to feed on, and can also bring more predator fish north to devour salmon.
“The juvenile salmon coming out of the river this spring in 2015 are coming into an environment that is very different from what they’ve normally evolved to,” Perry said.
“We anticipate this is going to affect their growth and their survival. And we expect there will be fewer numbers of them coming back in the next one to three years.”
The sockeye that survive the ocean to make their spawning run this year will face the danger of hot river temperatures and low flows.
Federal habitat research biologist David Patterson said record high water temperatures are being measured throughout the Fraser River system.
He said the water is 4.5 degrees hotter than normal at Hope – an “exceptional deviation from the norm.”
Hot rivers make it harder for salmon to migrate upstream, reproduce and recover from fishery capture, and make them more susceptible to disease.
Patterson said the biggest problem is often that low flows and hot water force salmon to hole up in unsuitable areas, and if they wait too long, water levels may drop further in their eventual spawning grounds, reducing the available habitat.
Although nearly seven million Fraser River sockeye are projected, large numbers could die before they spawn.
El Nino conditions are expected to last at least through fall, meaning continued dry, hot weather is likely in B.C., with no short-term relief for salmon.
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DFO has extended a ban on sport fishing for chinook salmon for an extra two weeks due to low levels of early Stuart sockeye and adverse conditions, said Jeff Grout, regional salmon resource manager. That ban is in effect everywhere downstream of Mission until July 31.
“We’re taking a cautious management approach to how we manage our fisheries,” Grout said.
He said that may mean fishing restrictions or bans later in the season even as more abundant pink salmon arrive in order to avoid a bycatch of weaker stocks, such as Interior coho.
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Try Not to Cry Watching Prince Harry Glowing With Pride Over His New Son
I'm not crying, you're crying.
By Ineye Komonibo
Have you heard? Have you heard?? Baby Sussex is here! *excited screaming ensues.* The world has been waiting with bated breath for the arrival of Baby Sussex, knowing that the little one was due to be born in the first few days of the month. Because Prince Harry and Meghan are somewhat of a nontraditional royal couple who really value their privacy, details about the baby's birth were purposely few and far between until the big day.
Well, the big day is finally here. An announcement from the @SussexRoyal Instagram shared that the newest addition to the Royal Family was born early this morning. Meghan gave birth to her son in the comfort of her home in Frogmore Cottage, with her husband and her mother standing by to support her through the delivery.
We are pleased to announce that Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed their firstborn child in the early morning on May 6th, 2019. Their Royal Highnesses’ son weighs 7lbs. 3oz. The Duchess and baby are both healthy and well, and the couple thank members of the public for their shared excitement and support during this very special time in their lives. More details will be shared in the forthcoming days.
A post shared by The Duke and Duchess of Sussex (@sussexroyal) on May 6, 2019 at 6:37am PDT
No doubt wanting to spend as much quality time with her son, new mom Meghan is opting out of the traditional post-birth photocall. However, Harry did step out to speak to the press following the delivery of the baby, positively flush with excitement:
Proud new father Prince Harry is BURSTING
pic.twitter.com/7Wn2ExZR0L
— Hannah Furness (@Hannah_Furness) May 6, 2019
He said: "It was amazing, absolutely incredible, and, as I said, I'm so incredibly proud of my wife. As every father and parent will ever say, you know, your baby is absolutely amazing, but this little thing is absolutely to die for, so I'm just over the moon. It's been the most amazing experience I could ever have possibly imagined. How any woman does what they do is beyond comprehension."
The first-time father is literally glowing with happiness, and honestly, same! Congratulations to Harry and Meghan in this special, special time!
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I Tried an Open Relationship—and It Was a Disaster
Three ways I'm better at being monogamous now.
By Sophie Saint Thomas
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I was wanted on set, but I wasn't ready to leave the bathroom. It was 2013, I was 25, and working as an associate producer on a short-lived late-night talk show.
At that moment my boyfriend, Jack, was on a date with another woman. But he wasn't being sneaky—this was not an affair.
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Jack was polyamorous. And because I was in love with him, I wanted to go with the flow and make it work. I tried for three years to do things his way—I'd sometimes sleep with other people while he sometimes went on dates with potential new partners.
Back in the cold bathroom with the harsh yellow light, I heard a bottle of Ativan rattling around in my purse. I was trying to avoid eating them like candy. I had to think through this rationally: In theory, I was fine with polyamory. After all, I had done my homework (required reading: The Ethical Slut), and had intellectualized the benefits of such a relationship structure. There's more love, there's more sex, there's more freedom. I repeated this to myself a lot.
"Jack was polyamorous. And because I was in love with him, I wanted to go with the flow and make it work."
Although nothing ended up happening between them that night, I visualized my boyfriend getting a blowjob from another woman—but it wasn't the visual that was bothering me. If we're being brutally honest, I'm actually one of those people who finds the idea of my partner fucking someone else is kind of hot. No: It was the date. It was the hypothetical emotional intimacy that made me feel panicked in my chest—and pharmaceuticals wouldn't make it go away.
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But in polyamory, you learn to make room for other people. Love, you're meant to discover, is not a finite resource.
I struggled with this. Which is why, three years later, I wasn't at poly cocktails—I was furniture shopping with my new boyfriend Howard.
Interestingly though, my attempted polyamorous phase made me better at our totally traditional monogamous relationship. Take the topic of ex-girlfriends. I'm a textbook Scorpio: I get jealous should I perceive a threat. But I wasn't threatened by them. Polyamory had taught me the skill of opening up and allowing love for others. You can never erase or replace the memories from another lover, so there's only one choice: to allow those memories to live.
Today, despite my Scorpio tendencies, should Howard want to catch up with an ex, I'll always agree. Their histories are what helped make him the man he is today.
"I visualized my boyfriend getting a blowjob from another woman—but it wasn't the visual that was bothering me."
Like a lot of courtships, the initial months of our relationship were marked by sex marathons. But they were also punctuated by a trip to Planned Parenthood and a fuck ton of condoms—because stringent safe sex practice is another skill I developed during my days of having multiple partners. Once everything came back clean, we settled on two things: monogamy and always using protection.
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Then there's open and near constant communication about sex. Once you've been through listening to your partner lament his disappointment that he didn't in fact score with the cute girl he was camping with over the weekend, conversations like "Hey Howard, will you tie me up this weekend?" suddenly become not so scary. I know I can ask for virtually anything sexually and, at the very least, my partner will listen to me.
After Jack and I broke up, I witnessed how much we each flourished apart: I found a monogamous relationship that satisfies me and he's happily poly with people who are also happily poly.
I wouldn't have known for sure if I hadn't tried other types of relationships first, but now I'm convinced: glorious, boring monogamy is best for me.
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By Janet Whitman
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Brian Roberts, chief executive of Comcast Corp. (CMCSA, CMCSK), has taken the next step to fulfill his grand ambition of creating a media powerhouse by offering $66 billion to buy entertainment giant Walt Disney Co. (DIS).
Based on the track record of past megamergers in the media world, Roberts has his work cut out for him.
Consider America Online's botched plan to transform the media landscape by acquiring "old media" company Time Warner Inc. (TWX). Vivendi Universal SA's (V) attempt to marry content and distribution through an acquisition binge met with a similar fate.
But a combination of Comcast, the largest cable operator in the U.S., and Disney, owner of animation studios, theme parks and broadcast network ABC, stands a better chance of success than those bold, transformational deals, media bankers said.
Unlike AOL and Time Warner, for example, Disney and Comcast have a lot in common. Both have diversified media and entertainment assets.
Another important advantage, also unlike the AOL-Time Warner merger, is that the deal is a takeover, not a merger of equals, bankers said. That puts Roberts squarely in charge.
"This deal is very different from AOL Time Warner," said Ken Marlin, founder and managing partner of Marlin & Associates, a media investment banking boutique. "For the AOL deal to work, the concept was that they were going to take a large, stodgy print media company and somehow turn it into a fast-moving, Internet, high-growth play. It was a strategy that was probably flawed from the beginning, from a cultural standpoint and a logistics standpoint."
Comcast, on the other hand, wouldn't be looking to impose a new culture on Disney, because their cultures have a lot in common, he added.
"This is not a case of an upstart with a high-flying stock price using that stock to take over an old-line company," Marlin said, referring to AOL's blockbuster bid for Time Warner at the height of the stock-market boom. "It's a question of a very serious management team and a serious company attempting a very large takeover."
Fewer Synergies Than AT&T Cable Acquisition
But by no means will the deal, if accepted by Disney shareholders, be a slam-dunk.
It has been likened to News Corp.'s (NWS) recent acquisition of satellite TV operator DirecTV, a deal that combines News Corp.'s content with DirecTV's distribution platform.
But News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch already had a strong track record of melding content and distribution in Europe and Asia.
Comcast's Roberts has yet to prove himself there, said Jonathan Knee, media banker at boutique advisory firm Evercore Partners.
"Comcast has demonstrated an extraordinary ability to run cable systems efficiently, but they do not have a track record of managing businesses in the industries that most of Disney's assets are in," said Knee, who also is a media-merger professor in Columbia University's business school.
Compared to Comcast's acquisition of AT&T Corp.'s (T) cable assets, an acquisition of Disney would pose much greater integration challenges because they have far fewer overlapping assets.
The relative lack of synergies is reflected in the slim 10% premium Comcast offered Disney, said Knee.
"The strategic case for the combination is not overwhelming," he said. "They will need to do a much better job not only articulating the strategic rationale, but also then executing it."
Still, having one person running the show will a big advantage in that regard. "With AOL, there was ambiguity about who was in charge, but if Comcast buys Disney there will be no question: Roberts will be in charge."
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Georgia Man Charged with E-mail Spoofing Scheme that Cost County $566K
01 February 2017 by David Bisson
Information Security , Learning , Training , Web News , Policy management , User Awareness , Email Policy , Cyber Security
Federal law enforcement has arrested a Georgia man and charged him with having perpetrated an e-mail spoofing scheme that cost a county 566,000 USD.
The United States Attorney's Office in the District of Kansas announced one charge of wire fraud against George S. James, 48, of Brookhaven, Georgia following a criminal investigation into an e-mail spoofing scheme involving Sedgwick County.
On 23 September 2016, the county received an email from what looked like the CEO of Cornejo & Sons, LLC. Cornejo is a Kansas-based construction company that had completed some work on a road project for Sedgwick County, so county officials were expecting to hear from them. The email came with a form that requested the county make an electronic payment to a Wells Fargo Bank in Georgia.
Sedgwick County processed the payment on 7 October 2016. But it soon learned Cornejo never received the funds. Instead James had fraudulently received the money through an account for "Rapid Repairs and Consultants" he owned at the Georgia Bank.
A statement released by the Department of Justice provides more information about this scheme:
"The criminal complaint alleges the scheme involved providing false information over the Internet to the county’s Automated Clearing House. The fraudulent email caused the county to change the information it kept on file for the Cornejo company’s financial institution and bank account. The email request was sent from r.cornejo@cornejocorp.net to AP_invoices@sedgwick.org."
Cornejo's actual domain is cornejocorp.com, not cornejocorp.net.
Sedgwick County soon after filed a complaint with police, who launched an investigation into the incident. Officials followed the electronic trail to James, who now faces 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of 25,000 USD if convicted.
Had it inquired about the new payment details directly with Cornejo via phone, county officials would have realized someone was scamming them. With this in mind, it's important for entities like Sedgwick County to create security policies that protect them against payment fraud. They should then make sure they educate their employees about these policies via the help of a third-party policy management software.
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Joyce Williams, beloved wife of the late James B. Williams of Calgary, passed away on Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at the age of 93 years.
Joyce was born in Saskatoon, SK in 1916. She also lived in Edmonton until she was five years and then Calgary thereafter. She received her education at St. Hilda’s School and at Strathcona Lodge School, Vancouver Island. On June 29 of 1938, she married her husband Jim. In the early 1960’s, she served as a Member of the Executive including president of the United Appeal, prior to the amalgamation of the Residential and Corporate campaigns into the United Way. Joyce was a member of the Calgary Golf and Country Club, the Calgary Polo Club and was also a lifetime honorary member of the Samaritan Club. Her best vacations were to England from 1934-1935 and many winters spent in Maui.
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Meet the new creative entrepreneurs
Tolani Shoneye, Milena Sanchez and Audrey Indome of ‘The Receipts Podcast’
Remember the days when being creative meant you were someone who couldn’t cut it in the world of real jobs? Now artistry and enterprise go hand in hand, says Emma Love
Photography by Kate Peter
A LUX x ROSEWOOD COLLABORATION
What do you get if you cross eBay with Instagram? The youth-targeted, app-based selling platform Depop where vendors post images of the items that they want to sell, that’s billed as the ‘creative community’s mobile marketplace’. Depop can be as basic as a teenager posting pictures of unwanted jewellery they are selling from their bedroom, and as sophisticated as a highly stylised vintage fashion shoot – quite possibly also created by a school kid from their bedroom.
For many millennials, these apps are a neat way to make extra money on the side; the most entrepreneurial have turned selling via Depop and marketing themselves on social media into full-blown businesses. Jade Douse fits into the latter category. After realising how much money she could make by selling clothes on Depop, she teamed up with friend Symone Mills to set up street-style-inspired label Oh Hey Girl on Big Cartel in 2016. “It was a slow burner until we started putting sponsored ads on Facebook and Instagram,” recalls Douse. “We literally went from making £8,000 to £35,000 in a month.”
Two years on, with fans including models Bella Hadid and Jourdan Dunn, Instagram is still integral to their business. “It’s our biggest network,” says Douse. “And sponsored ads are cheap. There really is nothing to hold anyone back from giving it a try.” Alongside the brand’s strong visual identity and magazine-worthy styling, its success lies in its simple shopping process: click on a pair of high-waisted, belted jeans or a puff-sleeved shirt on @ohheygirlstore and you are redirected to its website to pay. It’s a shopping solution for design conscious, iPhone-wielding buyers, and easy to manage for iPhone-wielding vendors. No wonder it works.
Jade Douse (above) and Symone Mills (here) set up Oh Hey Girl in 2016, selling exclusively online
“Social media is increasingly becoming [the place] where we discover new products,” says Petah Marian, senior editor at WGSN Insight, the industry analyst. “For many people, it feels like an intimate place to spend your time. When you see new things on these platforms, you get the sense that it’s a friend suggesting an item,even when it’s a professional influencer.”
The biggest challenge for Oh Hey Girl? Being able to react quickly in a fast-paced industry.“We’re always looking at how other brands market themselves, so we can find similar strategies that work for us,” explains Douse, who says she wouldn’t dream of doing anything else.
Retail isn’t the only industry where advances in technology have spawned out-of-the-box thinkers creative enough to carve out a unique niche. Research from Nesta and the Creative Industries Council shows that the creative industries are driving economic growth across the UK, with one million new jobs expected to be created between 2013 and 2030. “There are many jobs in the creative industries that didn’t exist 20 years ago,” explains Eliza Easton, principal policy researcher on creative economies at Nesta. “In terms of new sectors, the impact of digital can be seen across the board,especially in areas such as augmented and virtual reality, where we found 1,000 specialist companies making £660million in sales.”
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Deborah Dickinson, associate professor in creative practice at City University London, agrees, citing UK Government statistics that show the creative industries were estimated to be worth £87.4billion in 2015, up 34 percent from 2010. “One of the most fascinating aspects of my job teaching creative industries to undergraduates for the past decade has been the complete change in the type of creative enterprises students move into. Probably the biggest area of job growth and employment opportunities is around digital technologies.”
One place where the impact of the digital revolution is most evident is on online platforms such as Sedition, where you can buy, rent and trade limited-edition digital artworks which are viewed on any connected device or screen.“When we first started Sedition it was an entirely new concept,” recalls director Rory Blain. “Before the digital advent many artists were working on the fringes, waiting for the technology to catch up with the vision they had. For us, it was the big advancement in screen resolution and bandwidth that meant artists were then happy to present their work on a screen.”
Take artist Gordon Cheung, whose New Order series of paintings, derived from the Dutch Golden Age and modified using an algorithm, sell on the website. For Cheung, who creates a deliberate ‘glitch’ in the code to distort the image, it’s been a learning curve. “The first time I used the code it took five minutes to make one glitch; I calculated that if I wanted to do 2,000 glitches it would take far too long,” he says. His solution to speed up the process was to ask a friend to create a user-friendly interface. Experimental artist duo Overlap, AKA Michael Denton and Anna McCrickard, also use software programmes to deliberately disrupt their music and moving-image-based artworks, including Lands, an audiovisual series of 40 iterations of the same multilayered electronic landscape (also available on Sedition).
Michael Denton and Anna McCrickard use Sedition as a platform for their audiovisual art
“The values that are attributed to digital artworks are exciting and frustrating at the same time; a lot of people are still nonplussed by time-based painting,” says Denton, who started out VJing for big-name music acts nearly 20 years ago. “The other side of the coin is that people are getting used to listening and reading things in different ways.” He is also excited at how the creative industries are moving forwards, and what the future holds. “In terms of where it’s going next, I think more people will become specialists in more obscure things. Technology throws up so many creative possibilities and so few of those have been explored. For instance, in visual-editing software, there isn’t a facility to move images around in relation to bars of music. If there was, I would be using it all the time, but areas like this haven’t advanced at all.”
This year, Nesta studied 41 million job adverts to identify the digital skills required for a ‘future-proof’ job, and it seems the most secure involve creativity. “What’s going to be needed is cognitive thinking and communication, so creative jobs are most likely to grow as they require those skills,” says Easton, citing a boom in entrepreneurship as another current industry trend. “In the creative world, a third of people are freelance. It’s a sector run by entrepreneurs who are willing to take risks on their own ideas.”
Instagram bristles with micro-entrepreneurs selling their own artistic creations. A LUX editor recently bought a triptych of postcard-sized oil paintings from an up-and-coming artist still studying at Oxford – a creative vendor and a purchaser connected via an algorithm.
Derin Adetosoye at work on her YouTube channel
But nowhere can the new creatives be seen more dramatically than on YouTube. While a certain group of young stars are making a name for themselves with channels that focus on lifestyle and beauty, there are more interesting talents beneath the superfice, including under-the-radar vloggers putting a fun spin on everyday topics. There’s photographer George Muncey whose Negative Feedback channel offers practical advice on editing photos and shooting film at night for instance, and London College of Fashion student Derin Adetosoye whose videos tackle helpful subjects such as exam tips and what university life is really like.
London College of Fashion student Derin Adetosoye has 30,000 YouTube subscribers
“YouTube is such an interesting platform because it allows you to have the best engagement with your audience,” explains Adetosoye, whose videos have led to her cohosting the Exam Essentials web series for BBC Bitesize as well as catching the attention of BBC 1Xtra. “You can articulate things better than you would be able to via a written blog and your audience can really see your personality. It’s also immediate so you can understand how a subject is resonating with viewers.”
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The biggest obstacles she has had to overcome include shyness at filming in public and finding ways to make her subjects more amusing. “When vlogs first started it was all about showing every single thing that happened in your day. Now, they tend to be shorter, better planned and more entertaining. It’s a good thing because it means that the viewer is getting the best content.” Although Adetosoye has no plans to make a full-time career from vlogging, she doesn’t see herself stopping anytime soon either. “When people tell me they’ve aced a test or chosen to take a particular degree because they were inspired by my videos, it’s heart warming.” And as Easton concludes: “YouTube and Netflix are platforms, but without content they are nothing. It’s the content that defines how we want to use these new platforms.”
Another flourishing platform is the podcast. Once often just the best bits of radio shows, podcasts now are producing some of the most thrilling new content (and popularity is rising: figures released in 2018 by Radio Joint Audience Research, the official body measuring UK radio audiences, revealed that six million adults in the UK listen to a podcast weekly). From comedies such as My Dad Wrote a Porno (which has been turned into a live stage show and is set to be a HBO special too), to singer-songwriter Jessie Ware’s Table Manners about ‘food, family and the art of having a chat’, it is the current medium of choice for opinionated, personal broadcasts.
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“Podcasts allow more voices to be heard,” agrees journalist Tolani Shoneye, one third of the trio that hosts The Receipts Podcast, which delivers straight-talking conversations about all kinds of subjects from relationships to music. “In the past if you wanted to get something made you’d have to go through the proper channels. Now there’s more freedom; anyone can make a podcast and have a voice.”
And that’s the irony. In an era when the human race is fearing redundancy, or worse, due to AI developments, creative disciplines, aided by technology, are booming as never before. Millions are taking the opportunity to be both creative and entrepreneurial, something AI is ill-suited to do. Even as machines poise to take over, creativity has never had it so good.
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Mac Gems
By Michael Simon, Staff Writer, Macworld | PT
Gestimer review: Mac menu bar timer like you've never used before
Martin Nguyen Gestimer
The best solutions are often the simplest. Time after time, Apple has unveiled revolutionary new input methods that seem obvious in retrospect but are ingenious in their simplicity; things like the mouse, the click wheel, and multitouch are so deceptively simple they have instantly changed the way we approach the respective interfaces they control, bringing faster and more efficient interactions with the various elements on the screen.
That’s precisely why menu bar apps are my favorite kind of utility. Over the years I’ve probably used hundreds of them, and as you can see in the screenshots below, there are no less than a dozen of them at the top of my screen at any given time (not counting the ones Apple lets me put there). Their beauty lies in their innate simplicity, putting important bits of information and controls in my line of sight and cutting down on the time I need to spend navigating complex interfaces.
Gestimer (Mac App Store link) took the very presumptions I had about menu bar apps and turned them on their head. With the soul of an iOS app and the heart of an applet, the basic timer utility doesn’t just boil down a series of steps into a single click; it extracts the very essence of simplicity in such a way that will change the way you approach your Mac’s menu bar.
When you click the Gestimer icon for the first time, nothing about it prepares you for how remarkable it is. A small screen will tell you that there are no reminders set and you’ll see a settings icon and a plus symbol that lets you to start a new timer. But selecting it won’t open a dial or a slider to adjust the duration; instead you’ll see an animated tutorial of how to properly use Gestimer. And that’s when your mind will be blown.
To set a timer, you drag the icon like you would a pullstring to raise a window shade. The longer you drag it the more time you’ll get for your reminder, and letting go at the desired interval starts the countdown. You can set as many concurrent timers as you’d like (and trust me, you’ll use any excuse to do so), each of them can be named to easily differentiate between them.
And that’s pretty much all it does. You can’t edit a timer after it’s been created or pause it once it starts, and the menu bar icon doesn’t differentiate between a running timer and an idle one. And while it saves an archive of completed timers, you can’t restart one or make it recurring.
But Gestimer’s simple sophistication is more than enough to make up for its utter lack of features. I’ve never used a menu bar app that let me interact with it in such a direct way, but it feels like one those simple solutions that seems so obvious I can’t believe no one’s ever thought of it before.
Gestimer isn’t the most powerful or feature-rich timer you can find in the App Store, but its ingenious interface puts it in a class by itself.
Michael Simon covers all things mobile for PCWorld and Macworld. You can usually find him with his nose buried in a screen. The best way to yell at him is on Twitter.
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Invisible Bus: On Board the Cherokee Bend 50
Carolyn Drake rides the Birmingham ‘Maids’ Bus’ that has taken African-American women to work for over 50 years
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Elnora Shearer (70, right) talks to a fellow passenger on the Cherokee Bend 50 bus from downtown Birmingham to Mountain Brook. Elnora says: 'Its kind of like there has been a shrinkage. Over the pa (...)
st couple of years, we're becoming less and less. We're retiring, and younger people don't want to do this. They don't want to work in Mountain Brook.' Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
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Every day the Cherokee Bend 50 – colloquially known as the Maids’ Bus – makes one trip from downtown Birmingham, Alabama, which is over 70% African American, to the municipality of Mountain Brook, a wealthy and predominantly white neighbourhood.
For over 50 years, the same people have boarded the bus daily. These passengers are the senior African-American women who work as the housekeepers to the wealthy.
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Elnora Shearer (70) walks down the steps of her home in Birmingham, Alabama. She works as a domestic help in the affluent Mountain Brook neighbourhood of Birmingham.'Its kind of like there has b (...)
een a shrinkage. Over the past couple of years, we're becoming less and less. We're retiring, and younger people don't want to do this. They don't want to work in Mountain Brook.' Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Elnora Shearer (70) stands by the side of the road near her home in Birmingham, Alabama. She works as a domestic help in the affluent Mountain Brook neighbourhood of Birmingham.'Its kind of like (...)
there has been a shrinkage. Over the past couple of years, we're becoming less and less. We're retiring, and younger people don't want to do this. They don't want to work in Mountain Brook.' Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Ellamae Carlisle (81) and Ive Gresham (66) walk to their respective jobs after getting off the Cherokee Bend 50 bus in Mountain Brook, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus A bus stop along the route of the Cherokee Bend 50 bus in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
One of the passengers, Ellamae Carlisle (81), describes how her life’s work began: “I started working when I was 9 years old. My aunt would carry me to work with her. That’s how I learned how to iron. She would show me how to do the clothes and things, so I come up working.”
One by one, the women are dropped off on the side of the road, and trek up the long driveways of Mountain Brook houses to their jobs as domestic help.
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Ruby O. Fox (81) riding on the Cherokee Bend 50 bus.
'It's been so long, I got too old now. We have been coming over this mountain a long time. Like half our life.' Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus A view of downtown Birmingham through the window of the Cherokee Bend 50 bus en route to Mountain Brook.
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Carolyn Drake was invited by a radio journalist friend, Ashley Cleek, who had been recording the voices of the women, to ride the bus with her: “There is a lot of talk among the women on the bus. It’s a place where information and stories are shared and spread. I was very much an outsider among insiders and some of the women did not like having a camera put in front of them so it took a lot of time to build a rapport with people.”
Now in their 70s and 80s, these women came of age during the Civil Rights movement. They have been riding the bus to clean the houses of wealth families ever since.
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus The arm and hand of a passenger on the Cherokee Bend 50 bus in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus A woman talks on the phone aboard the Cherokee Bend 50 bus. Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Drake continues, “There is a lot that has not changed since the Civil Rights movement, but also a lot that has: bus service has declined drastically, for one, so it’s a lot harder and more time consuming for these women to get around, get to work. Some of their children and grandchildren have never set foot on a public bus.”
A fellow passenger, Elnora Shearer, says: “It’s kind of like there has been a shrinkage. Over the past couple of years, we’re becoming less and less. We’re retiring and younger people don’t want to do this. They don’t want to work in Mountain Brook.”
When making this series, Drake tried to “look straight at what [she] felt was important in this country.” Having lived and worked outside of the US for many years, this series felt like a starting point for a wider project about coming home. “I moved back wishing to see this place with fresh eyes, and with affection, but having a hard time doing it.”
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus A woman gets off the bus along the Cherokee Bend 50 bus route. Mountain Brook, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Mildred Bryant (73) enters the house where she works as a domestic help through the back entrance after riding the Cherokee Bend 50 bus from downtown Birmingham to Mountain Brook. Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Ruby O. Fox (81) walks up the long driveway to the house where she works as a domestic help after riding the Cherokee Bend 50 bus from downtown Birmingham to Mountain Brook. "It's been so long, I g (...)
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How to see Comet Catalina as it speeds past Earth and leaves our solar system forever
Stunning blue comet will be visible in the night sky as its sets off on a long journey into deep space
Jasper Hamill
Interstellar: Comet Catalina is beginning an incredible journey
Comet Catalina will be visible in the sky tonight as it makes it last orbit around the sun before permanently disappearing from our solar system.
The beautiful blue comet will zoom past Earth on an astonishing journey which will see it swoop past Earth and then travel out into the universe.
Its journey could then continue for millions or possibly billions of years, as its ceaseless motion will only be stopped when it smashes into another object way out in space.
"If you want to see this comet, you’d better take the chance over the next month or so. Once it’s gone, it’s gone ," wrote astronomer Phil Plait .
Catalina probably came from the Oort Cloud, a cloud of tiny, icy comets, asteroids and proto-planets which is thought to surround our solar system.
It has two tails, one made of gas and the other made from dust.
The gas is emitted as the comet warms up as it zooms around the sun.
"Something gave it a kick - perhaps a star that passed a couple of light years away a million years ago, or the tides from the galaxy itself - and dropped it toward the Sun," Plait added.
"This kick also gave it just enough added speed that it has enough energy to escape from the Sun on its way out of the solar system forever."
Lawrence Harris, an astronomer and writer for the Eastern Daily Press, said Catalina's journey past Earth was a "one off" .
“People just need to look for the brightest star in the sky, Sirius A, and they will see the comet pass by," he wrote.
“It is very unusual to have such a bright comet in the northern hemisphere.”
At about midnight tonight, Catalina will be visible as a blue line in the sky.
The best place to view it is in the countryside, in areas which are well away from the light pollution of cities.
You might want to pack a telescope or binoculars, as it's not yet entirely clear whether Catalina will be visible with the naked eye.
Catalina will be visible across Britain and the Northern Hemisphere for several weeks starting from 1 January 2016.
The video below shows NASA's future plans for exploring and possibly mining comets
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Treasury Department Awards Monster Government Solutions Award for Talent Acquisition Software and Services
MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Monster Government Solutions (MGS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Monster Worldwide, today announced a five year Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) valued up to $51.4 Million to provide talent acquisition technology and services to the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The award, made by Treasury's Chief Information Office, Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS), continues Monster Government Solutions' 14-year relationship as a designated provider of software and services in support of Treasury's CareerConnector Shared Service Center.
With the award of the BPA, Monster will continue to support over twenty of Treasury's federal government customers who utilize Monster Hiring Management Enterprise for their talent acquisition. Monster Hiring Management software is a secure, comprehensive applicant tracking system, purpose-built to automate and accelerate the federal hiring process. Fully integrated with USAJOBS, HR Connect services, Government HRIS systems and assessments, the system provides applicants and hiring managers a simpler, easier, and faster way to navigate the federal government's hiring process.
The CareerConnector Product Suite is offered as an Office of Personnel Management (OPM) officially designated Human Resources Line of Business (HRLOB), Shared Service Center (SSC). OPM's designation enables Treasury to offer interoperable, portable and scalable HR/payroll solutions across the federal space.
Under the BPA, Monster will deliver talent acquisition functionality under a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. With Monster Hiring Management Enterprise, federal agencies will be able to: produce job announcements; seamlessly integrate with HR Connect and non-Treasury services and other sites and back end systems; allow applicants to apply online; leverage a variety of integrated assessments; rate and rank applicants; apply Federal applicant eligibilities and preferences; allow applicants to self-schedule for recruitment or assessment events; send electronic status and task notifications to applicants, HR users and hiring managers; and produce a wide variety of reports to meet federal regulatory reporting requirements and track metrics on recruiting activities.
Agencies can also subscribe to Monster's Position Classification system, which enables them to move from a static Position Description library to a standardized online classification solution. Monster's easy-to-use PD builder wizard helps both expert and novice users build high-quality, federally compliant classification documents. The system automatically recommends the right series and grade, based on the duties and factor levels selected. The Position Classification system fosters collaboration between classifiers, HR, and hiring managers, with dashboards, notifications, an audit log, and the ability to compare and track changes.
In addition to its technology suite, Monster Government Solutions will continue to provide customer support and training services.
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Blame It On Ovulation: Women More Likely To Go On Shopping Spree During Most Fertile Days
Feb 20, 2015 01:57 PM By Lizette Borreli @lizcelineb l.borreli@medicaldaily.com
This red-hot time of the month may lead to a surge in dating partners and shopping for women. Photo courtesy ofShutterstock
Ladies, the next time you helplessly indulge in a shopping spree, blame it on your ovulation cycle. Impulsive buys are not due to a lack of willpower or sales, they’re actually driven by your hormones wreaking havoc. According to a recent study to be published in the Journal of Consumer Research, women naturally seek more options in dating partners and a greater variety of products and services when they are most fertile.
Ovulation, or “the other time of the month” occurs in the third phase of a woman’s monthly cycle, which takes about 28 days. During the ovulatory phase (about day 14), one egg or follicle in the ovary emerges as the dominant one as it’s ready to drop. This causes a surge and peak in estrogen, which leads to an increase in sex drive, says the American Pregnancy Association.
The surge of hormones, in turn, increases the desire for new options in men. The rise in estrogen around ovulation can specifically influence a woman’s attitudes, preferences, and behaviors.
In an effort to explore the link between choices in women’s personal relationships and the marketplace, Kristina M. Durante, lead author of the study and University of Texas at San Antonio marketing assistant professor, and her colleagues conducted a series of four experiments. They recruited over 500 women between the ages 18 and 40, either single or married, who were not pregnant or taking hormonal contraceptives.
The findings revealed women’s desire for new options in men sparked a desire for greater variety in consumer products. Durante compares ovulating women to fishermen when it comes to giving yourself options.
"Just like a fisherman casting a wide net, ovulating women seek to cast a wide net into the dating pool and expand the number of potential suitors they have to choose from," she said in the press release. Durante added: "And, this desire for variety in men at ovulation triggers a variety-seeking mindset that carries over into desire for variety in products."
However, when researchers asked women to imagine themselves "in a loving relationship with a desirable partner," or when married subjects were asked to put on their wedding rings, these women no longer wanted greater variety when ovulating. Feeling loyalty to a romantic partner can mitigate the desire for product variety. This suggests loyalty in romantic relationships can translate to brand loyalty in the marketplace.
A similar 2010 study published in the Journal Consumer Research found when ovulating women do shop, they unconsciously buy sexier clothes. Unconsciously they dress to impress, but ironically, it’s not to impress men but to outdo rival women during their ovulation phase. The belief behind it is if you look more desirable than your competition, you are more likely to stand out to a desirable mate.
These findings have practical implications for marketers because a woman’s ovulation cycle can have a significant effect on her consumer behavior. A company could use marketing messages related to variety and novelty to allure fertile women to shop during their other time of the month. This warrants further research, however, into whether the social value, cost, or rewarding nature of the product influences ovulation’s effect on greater variety.
In the meantime, ladies, next time you break the bank at the mall, blame it on the ovulation cycle.
Sources: Arsena AR. and Durante KM. Playing the Field: The Effect of Fertility on Women’s Desire for Variety. Journal of Consumer Research. 2014.
Ambady N. Rosen KS, Rule NO, Slepian ML. Mating Interest Improves Women's Accuracy in Judging Male Sexual Orientation. Psychological Science. 2011.
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FILE – About two dozen protesters gathered outside the office of Minister of Public Services and Procurement Delta MP Carla Qualtrough on May 4 to call on her to speak out against the planned expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. (Black Press Media files)
Environmental groups challenge Trans Mountain, citing killer whale concerns
Ottawa approved the pipeline on June 18
Katya Slepian
Jul. 8, 2019 11:55 a.m.
Three Canadian environmental groups have filed a motion with the federal appeals court in hopes of quashing the Trans Mountain pipeline.
On Monday, Ecojustice announced it had filed a motion on behalf of itself, the Living Oceans Society and the Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
The groups claim the Trudeau government’s June 18 approval of the pipeline expansion project did not take into account its duty to protect endangered southern resident killer whales.
In an application of more than 1,000 pages, Ecojustice said the data cabinet used to approve the pipeline “failed to comply with the legal duties set out in the Species at Risk Act.”
“The Governor in Council also failed to comply with [the act’s] duties, and instead unlawfully decided that the significant adverse environmental effects of project-related marine shipping on the Southern Residents could be justified,” court documents read.
The Crown corporation building the Trans Mountain pipeline has said shovels could be in the ground by September.
– with files from The Canadian Press
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DionyMed Brands Inc. Provides 1st Quarter 2019 Business Update
TORONTO, May 1, 2019–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DionyMed Brands Inc. (“DionyMed”, “DYME” or “Company”) (CSE: DYME) (OTC: DYMEF), a multi-state cannabis brands, distribution and direct-to-consumer delivery platform, announced today the following financial and operational update for its first fiscal quarter of 2019.
Record setting preliminary gross revenue of US$14.2 million, representing 155% growth over the fourth quarter of 2018, from distribution and direct-to-consumer sales of house and third-party brands.
Gross margins expanded to 45%, or approximately US$6.4 million, from 36%, or approximately US$2.0 million, representing 25% growth from gross margins realized in the fourth quarter of 2018, due to an increase in the share of house brand products sold and direct-to-consumer delivery.
The Company continues to improve its gross margins and platform efficiency to reduce costs and improve its EBITDA.
An additional US$5.0 million wholesale value of product was delivered through the Company’s wholesale logistics business for third-party brands. The wholesale logistics business recognizes net revenue rather than the full wholesale value of product distributed by the Company. Total combined gross sales of product from the Company were US$19.2 million.
Expansion of DYME’s Award Winning Cannabis Brands Portfolio
DYME house brand “Winberry Farms” exceeded US$1.0 million of wholesale revenue during the month of March.
DYME house brand “Gardener’s” was launched in Oregon, expanding house brand sales outside of California.
Launched twelve CBD-focused products under DYME’s award-winning brand, Winberry Farms.
DYME house brands represented more than 50% of wholesale distribution revenue in March accelerating product sales margin expansion.
Expansion of “Chill”, DYME’s Direct-To-Consumer Delivery Platform
DYME expanded the “Chill” Bay Area delivery territory to include San Francisco, Hayward, Fremont and Cupertino in response to favorable changes in California’s direct-to-consumer regulations.
Enhanced the Chill product offering adding more than 150 SKUs, including products from award winning brands, like Winberry Farms, Gardener’s, Dosist, Kiva, Canndescent, Plus Products and PAX.
Relaunched the Chill online user experience driving new user adoption, revenue growth and margin expansion.
Expansion into New Markets
Announced a strategic product manufacturing and distribution partnership with Acres Cannabis, which, was recently acquired by Curaleaf. As a result, DYME brands are now available in select cannabis retail dispensaries in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Signed a binding term sheet to acquire a 1.83 acre Los Angeles cannabis campus with 80,000 sq ft that includes 80,000 sq ft of retail dispensary storefront, distribution, manufacturing space and direct-to-consumer fulfillment. The transaction is scheduled to close on May 31, 2018 with a combination of equity and real estate financing, as previously disclosed.
Signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pioneer Valley Extracts, LLC, a licensed product manufacturer in Massachusetts. The transaction was done with equity and nominal cash, as previously disclosed.
We are pleased to report our progress in the first quarter of 2019, demonstrating the success of our wholesale distribution and direct-to-consumer platform strategy.
Edward Fields, CEO of DionyMed
DYME’s award winning house brands have become one of the industry’s fastest growing cannabis product portfolios driving increased sales and accelerating margin expansion. Chill, DYME’s direct-to-consumer delivery offering, is experiencing explosive growth following the relaunch of the online ecommerce website with a record setting performance during 4/20 and thousands of new customers.
Fields concluded, “Moving forward in 2019, we will continue to scale our business through focused execution, accretive inorganic growth and the infrastructure buildout required by our market leading scale. As favorable direct-to-consumer regulations in California and across the U.S. expand, we look forward to bringing our award-winning brands, market leading ecommerce technology and logistics to consumers throughout California and beyond.”
Effective December 5, 2018, when the Company announced the exercise of its option to acquire all the shares of Hometown Heart (the “Hometown Shares”) and the subsequent completion of the acquisition on December 13, 2018, the Company transferred all of the Hometown Shares to a single individual who was a former owner of shares of Hometown in consideration for the grant of an irrevocable option (the “Option”) to re-acquire the Hometown Shares for a nominal amount following the receipt of all required regulatory approvals. In connection with the foregoing, the Company’s subsidiary Herban Industries, Inc. (“Herban”) and Hometown Heart entered into a Master Services Agreement pursuant to which Herban exercises control over Hometown Heart and provides Hometown Heart with management, labor administration, marketing, branding, professional, banking, record-keeping, intellectual property, governance, and other support services. The Company has consolidated the accounts of Hometown Heart in its consolidated financial accounts since December 13, 2018 as a result of the Master Services Agreement and the Option.
All financial disclosures in this press release are preliminary and subject to change upon the financial statements for the quarter ended March 31, 2019 being finalized and filed. Annual revenue run-rates assume that revenues being annualized are representative and will be achieved in future periods.
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About DionyMed
Founded in 2017, DionyMed is a multi-state cannabis brands platform, supporting cultivators, manufacturers and award-winning brands in the medical and adult-use cannabis markets. DionyMed sells branded products in every category from flower to vape cartridges, concentrates and edibles. DionyMed serves cannabis consumers through retail dispensary distribution and direct-to-consumer fulfillment with its growing portfolio of award-winning brands. Learn more at dionymed.com and follow @DYME_Inc on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Salmonella can hijack immune cells to spread around the body
Life 9 April 2019
Salmonella bacteria can cause food poisoning if ingested
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By Yvaine Ye
Salmonella can hijack immune cells and use them to spread around the body. Experiments in mouse cells suggest that the bacteria causing the infection do this by disrupting electrical signals in the gut.
Our intestines have small electric fields, caused by charged ions, such as potassium and chloride, flowing in and out of intestinal cells. Salmonella infections, which can feature food poisoning, disrupt these electric fields because they damage the cells, which alerts the body’s immune cells to come and clean up the mess.
Usually, the immune system is good at limiting the infection to the gut. But sometimes the bacteria that cause salmonella escape by riding inside macrophages, a type of immune cell that doesn’t normally leave the gut, to other organs like the liver and spleen.
Read more: Tumour bacteria sabotage chemotherapy by destroying cancer drugs
To investigate the process, Yaohui Sun at the University of California, Davis, and his colleagues placed gut membrane cells from mice in an electric field to mimic an infected gut.
The team found that without the presence of the bacteria, nearly all macrophages moved towards the positively charged end of the field, corresponding to the interior of the intestines.
However, after engulfing Salmonella enteritidis, the most common species associated with food poisoning, about 41 per cent of macrophages reversed direction, moving towards the negatively charged end, corresponding to leaving of the gut.
We knew that the Salmonella bacteria have proteins that help them survive within macrophages, but it is unclear how they flip the electric charge the macrophages are attracted to, says Sun. It is possible that bacteria release enzymes that damage the charge-sensing sugar structures on the macrophages’ surface, he says.
The finding can help develop treatments for diseases, says Sarah Fankhauser at Emory University in Oxford, Georgia. This mechanism may be more common than just salmonella. For example, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis also spreads using macrophages, and thus may use a similar strategy, she says.
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Jack Dorsey gets his Steve Jobs moment in return as Twitter CEO
By BLOOMBERG NEWS June 12, 2015 1:37 PM
Jack Dorsey is following in the footsteps of his Silicon Valley idol Steve Jobs.
Named Twitter's interim chief executive on Thursday, Dorsey returns to a job he had until being pushed out in 2008 from the firm he helped create. Similarly, Jobs returned to Apple as interim CEO in 1997 after being forced out in 1985, and guided the company to create the iMac, iPhone and iPad.
Dorsey, 38, demurred when asked during an interview whether he's interested in becoming Twitter's permanent CEO. "It's really up to the search committee and they're going to look at internal and external candidates," he said.
His return signals that Twitter is looking for a leader who can inspire confidence in the company's product vision, after a slew of leadership changes in the past five years, slower growth than anticipated and advertising efforts that have failed to gain traction.
Dorsey's passion for Twitter, the social-media company which he helped start in 2006 with Evan Williams and Biz Stone, has been evident. Even while running Square Inc., a digital-payments company he co-founded in 2009, Dorsey has stayed active as Twitter's chairman, serving as adviser to outgoing CEO Dick Costolo, who took the top post in October 2010. The pair meet over dinners most weeks on Tuesdays at Zuni CafA near the company's San Francisco headquarters.
Dorsey recommended that Twitter acquire Vine, the short- video sharing application, to complement Twitter's 140-character messages and helped oversee product development in 2011-2012 before leaving to focus on Square.
"I have a lot of context for what the company's doing around the product and the service, and I don't anticipate any changes in strategy or direction," Dorsey said in the interview.
Dorsey tends to lead in terms of big ideas and grand visions. In operational meetings, he leans toward discussing philosophical positions on a product's purpose, as opposed to going through a checklist of action items.
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Dorsey's emulation of Jobs was highlighted in the book "Hatching Twitter" by Nick Bilton about the company's beginnings.
"Dorsey began casting himself in the image of Steve Jobs, calling himself an 'editor,' as Jobs referred to himself, and adopting a singular uniform: a white buttoned-up Dior shirt, blue jeans and a black blazer," Bilton wrote, according to a 2013 excerpt in the New York Times.
Much of the story of Twitter's early days involves conflict among the founders. Dorsey's relationship with Williams grew so strained that Williams pushed him out of the CEO role. Dorsey kept his chairman title, but it was seen as ceremonial.
"After Dorsey lost his position as CEO, he felt that he had something to prove," according to a 2013 profile in the New Yorker magazine. "As some Silicon Valley skeptics saw it, Dorsey had lucked into one good idea, programmed some simple code, bumbled along as the company surged to success, then claimed more credit than was his due."
Dorsey and Jim McKelvey set about to develop a portable credit-card reader. They created Square in 2009 and it quickly grew, with a funding round late last year valuing the company at $6 billion. Square now has more than 1,000 employees, Aaron Zamost, a spokesman for the company, said in an e-mail.
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Square said in December that one in four active U.S. credit or debit cards paid with Square last year and its businesses get more than 1 billion customer visits.
Despite the fast growth, Square has struggled. Doubts linger about its growth prospects as similar devices flood the market and larger rival PayPal spins off from parent EBay Inc. to become a stand-alone payments company.
"Square is running out of runway which may be part of the reason Mr. Dorsey will have more time to spend at Twitter," Gil Luria, an analyst at Wedbush Securities Inc., said in an e-mail.
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Peter Morici: Keystone Pipeline Delays 'Silly'
Monday, 21 April 2014 05:07 PM
The Keystone XL Pipeline project, delayed once again by the Obama administration for further environmental study, will in no way damage the nation's ecology, a Newsmax panel concludes.
"There's nothing left to study. It won't have a negative effect on the environment,'' economist and University of Maryland professor Peter Morici told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
"I don't know why environmentalists are against this other than that they're against everything . . . This is starting to be silly," he said Monday.
Morici said the argument that the project will not create employment is wrong.
"To say that the pipeline isn't going to create jobs is not merely ignorant . . . There's ignorance, there's willful ignorance and there's willful and destructive ignorance — this is an example of willful and destructive ignorance," he said.
"Not only won't this thing hurt the environment, but we're going to lose jobs . . . The last I heard, refinery jobs pay real good. There's only one problem, it's really hard to find a guy with an Obama button working on an oil rig, that's the problem here."
Seton Motley, founder of Less Government, agreed that the nation's environment is safe.
"There's so many pipelines crisscrossing in the United States, it's like being at a Grateful Dead concert, so I don't see how this one additional pipeline is going to be at all damaging to the environment," he said.
"This is almost exclusively an opportunity for vulnerable Democrats in energy-productive states, and frankly, any Democrat running for office, [because] it gives them an opportunity to bash the president.
"They need to distance themselves from him on Obamacare so they can yell about something else and show some room between themselves and the president on something else."
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December 26, 2007 Opinion » Street Talk
When you wish upon an elf
I had the strangest thing happen to me early Christmas morning. I woke up from an eggnogged slumber to the sound of bells and clunks, so I grabbed my 3-iron, stumbled into the den, and, seeing a bunch of folks in tights ransacking the place, started swinging. The guy in red was fast for a fat guy and he was gone before I knew what for, but I managed to connect with an elvish guy in green. Now that I've had to time to think about it, it may have been SLO City Mayor Dave Romero, but I can't be sure. Anyway, I only dazed him, but it was enough for me to get him in a chicken wing and make him cry uncle. He said he'd grant me wishes if I'd let him go. Might not have been the mayor after all.
Anyway, here's what I wished for, for some of the folks who've been in the news, or in this column, for 2008.
To SLO City Councilman Paul Brown, who in 2007 got way more of the public spotlight than even he wanted, I wish self-knowledge. From what I heard about the restraining order issued against him, he and his estranged wife had troubles that weren't one side's making alone. There were nasty arguments and a few times they turned violent. In court, Brown cast the battles--in one case his wife ended up in the emergency room--in the best possible light. But here's the thing: No light makes it all okay. You don't get to touch or shake or grab or restrain your wife in anger, no matter what she says or does. Ever. That's my take, anyway. Here's to a more peaceful new year--and less of a spotlight--for everyone involved.
To the medical marijuana crowd, buyers and sellers alike, I wish restraint. Yes, state voters decided that marijuana can be legally prescribed as a medicine. But those votes were earned with stories of helping cancer patients and maintaining people wasting away from AIDS. I don't think folks would have voted the same way if they knew it would launch a money train for doctors and pot shops who cater to people who got their marijuana scrips for carpal tunnel syndrome. I got mine after telling the doctor I had uncontrollable munchies.
To Sheriff Pat Hedges, facing multiple investigations over eavesdropping, I wish honesty. Come clean. Your explanations of why you eavesdropped on your chief deputy ring false. It doesn't sound like there was a criminal investigation going on, and if there was, why the hell would you be the one who was leading it? Eavesdropping on a fellow cop is not the worst thing an officer, or an elected official, has ever done around these parts. Own up to it, take the rap, so to speak, and move on. Your voters and your employees will respect you more for it.
To Flossie, the doomed floss silk tree that has grown too close to the mission, I wish absolution. Assuming Flossie's not content with the idea of being chopped down, even if some cuttings are taken and her clones continue around the city, here's my advice: See what you can do about generating an apparition of Mary. Let 'em try and cut you down once your trunk is bleeding her tears.
To the leaders of Atascadero, I wish transparency. Even with a reformed City Council this year, the entrenched power there seems to rely on the tools of obfuscation, obstruction, and public humiliation to get their way. Look what they did to Kelly Gearhart, one of the big-time developers up there, dragging his name through the front pages with allegations that he wasn't paying his bills for permits. Only it turns out he was paying, and they just hadn't done the paperwork. And that's how they treat guys like Kelly, who they should like.
To Ernie Dalidio, who won the right to build his shopping mall but lost so much momentum that planned stores have found other homes, I wish successful vengeance. There are a lot of folks around SLO's downtown who are plenty nervous about the lawsuit he's filed that could reveal the names of those who secretly funded the cowardly covert campaigns against him.
To the county bureaucrats who are hounding Dan De Vaul, I urge patience. I'm sure he's a banana in the ass to deal with, both a throwback and a grump, but he's also caring for a couple dozen people who might well otherwise be in our jails or hospitals or killing themselves through their addictions in the creek ravines. And he's doing it with his own peculiar brand of integrity. Plus, it looks to me like he's been making progress with all the cars and stuff on his land. Honestly, all his junk doesn't offend me half as much as those fake-Tuscan-style homes squatting on the hillsides on the other side of Los Osos Valley Road. Do you really think that $500-a-day for selling Christmas trees is the fair way to go after Dan De Vaul?
Finally, here are some more wishes:
To New Times, bravery.
To The Tribune, prosperity.
To the Blues, longevity.
To Aragorn, swiftness.
To the rest of my loyal readers, I wish the comfort of regular bowel movements. Happy New Year.
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Hard Rock Rising – Review
NME Blog Jul 18, 2012 4:10 pm BST
Hard Rock Calling might feature three headline acts with decades of experience amongst them, but it was a different story at the Hard Rock Rising tent, tucked away in the corner of Hyde Park. Friday’s lineup, which largely featured unsigned acts from around the world, was curated by the E Street Band’s Steven Van Zandt.
Van Zandt, who also fronts his own US radio show, Little Steven’s Underground Garage, has listened to his fair share of new music over the past 12 months, having been on the panel of judges for the global battle of the bands run by Hard Rock.
One of the first bands chosen to play on Friday were Indonesian rock outfit called F.O.S., who proved that coming from Jakarta doesn’t exclude you from the influence of Aerosmith. Coming to London via the final heats of the Hard Rock Rising new band competition, they looked right at home.
Also playing on the stage were Oslo-based act Koo Koo Kitchen, who came to Van Zandt’s attention when frontwomen Eva and Marianne personally sent him some demo CDs.
California-based duo Deap Vally (one of NME’s recent Radar picks) later took to the stage, showing off just why they’ve drawn comparisons to The White Stripes. Singing guitarist Lindsey Troy casually knocked blues rock riffs out of her guitar whilst drummer Julie Edwards smashed out time on the drums.
Saturday saw Fyfe Dangerfield of Guillemots bring a deliberate change of direction to the sound.
First up were an eight-piece folk group from Lisbon who, again, had won a slot via Hard Rock’s global band play-off. Brass Wires Orchestra had more than a touch of Mumford & Sons about them, and when they came off stage they serenaded Fyfe with one of his own songs. Flattery may get them everywhere.
Multi-instrumentalist Tanya Auclair then brought her looped vocals to the Hard Rock Rising stage before Anglo-Ghanaian group Konkomo bought the highlife sound from their recent self-title release.
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Supply chain academic joins national ‘Business Fellows’ network
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A University of Northampton academic has been included in a new national Business Fellows network, which aims to drive closer links between the transport industry and academic research.
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The Business Fellows is a network of experts funded by the TSC and based in academic institutions with strong records in transport research and innovation.
The network has been created to act as a bridge between academia and business, with TSC being central to fostering research that creates robust business models and change in the logistics and transport sector.
Liam said: “There is a gap between Government strategy, business and academic engagement and delivery of large and small infrastructure projects, with no one currently taking a national view to assist in bridging the void between them.
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“There are exciting opportunities to develop educational programs which are aligned to research outputs and innovation in logistics and transportation, making the University the place to learn about logistics and transportation themed issues.”
Beata Szoboszlai, Head of Academic Engagement at the TSC, said: “The role of the Business Fellow is to act as the TSC’s intermediary within the host university, feeding back relevant research activities, events, calls and funding successes, on a regular basis.
“The Business Fellows we have chosen are active in the knowledge exchange arena, they are already working for a UK university, have a strong understanding of the industry and university interface, current research outputs and track record of successful Central Research and Development and/or enterprise.”
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Nutritional Needs in Hot Environments: Applications for Military Personnel in Field Operations (1993)
Chapter: 10. Effects of Heat on Appetite
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Effects of Heat on Appetite
C. Peter Herman1
Hot environments induce efforts to stay cool. This chapter addresses the issue of how one's food intake is adjusted to compensate for environmental heat. Common knowledge suggests that people eat less when it is hot, and that they eat ''lighter'' and "cooler" foods. (This impression is reinforced by a casual survey of newspaper and magazine suggestions for summer meal planning.) As with most impressions derived from common knowledge, systematic evidence is needed to support these assertions. What does the scientific literature have to say about the effects of heat on food intake and food selection? What follows is a review of the available scientific literature on the effects of heat on appetite. This literature has been supplemented by a survey designed specifically for this chapter (consumer survey, University of Toronto, unpublished data, 1991). Because of the anticipation that the scientific literature, especially on humans, might be skimpy, a questionnaire was sent to a number of restaurant and grocery chains in the metropolitan Toronto area asking about shifts in customer purchasing behavior as a function of environmental heat. This survey is by no means scientific, but it reflects the accumulated experience of merchants whose livelihood depends to some extent on accurately assessing how people's food purchases vary with the heat.
C. Peter Herman, The Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A5
Before examining the available data on the effects of heat on appetite, some preliminary considerations require attention, including a definition of terms. Heat can be defined in number of ways. Environmental temperature varies seasonally in the moderate climates in which most of the research is done, so one may ask whether appetite differs in summer and winter. Even within the seasons, of course, there may be considerable variability in temperature; does appetite suffer during a summer heat wave as compared to normal summer weather? Even more acute variations in temperature are available for examination, owing to the prevalence of air-conditioning. If, during a summer heat wave, one eats in an air-conditioned dining room, is appetite controlled by the outdoor or indoor temperature? Aside from temperature changes in the normal environment, one might also want to look at changes of environment. A winter trip to the tropics probably represents a greater short-term shift in temperature than might be encountered if one stayed put; how does it affect appetite?
To further complicate matters, how hot one feels is not simply a matter of the environment; one's own activity may generate heat, so that being active may be functionally equivalent to raising the environmental temperature. Indeed, eating itself has thermogenic effects, so that not only does heat affect appetite, but appetite may affect heat.
The meaning of appetite should also be clarified. There is tremendous variability in what scientists mean when they use the term (Herman and Vaccarino, 1992). Ordinarily, to achieve some clarity, one must distinguish among three terms that are often used interchangeably and confusingly. Appetite refers to the subjective desire to eat, whereas hunger usually refers to a more objective deprivation state. These terms are not unrelated, but it is preferable to think of hunger as a true need that often produces a felt desire (appetite). Distinguishing between hunger and appetite becomes useful when considering the possibility that one may desire to eat something even in the absence of a need for it. Conceivably, one might also be hungry without recognizing it or feeling a desire to eat, as is allegedly the case with some anorexia nervosa patients.
The third appetite-related term requiring attention is intake. In the scientific literature, food intake is often taken to be an operationalization of appetite, especially in nonhuman species where the animal's desires must be inferred from its behavior. In humans, it is quite possible to distinguish between what the person wants (appetite) or needs (hunger), on the one hand, and what the person eats (intake), on the other. People sometimes eat when they experience neither hunger nor appetite. Conversely, people sometimes refrain from eating despite experiencing hunger or appetite or both. For instance, Rolls et al. (1990) found, in a study related to temperature that is reviewed below, almost no relationship between how hungry or sated people claimed to be, on the one hand, and how much they subsequently ate, on the
other. In this chapter, owing to the fact that the literature largely ignores the distinctions just suggested, the effect of heat on appetite, hunger, and intake is considered collectively, with the awareness that heat may affect one of these without affecting the others. Use of the term appetite in a general or unqualified sense should be understood to refer to all three constructs.
One final preliminary caution. The mandate here was to examine the effect of heat on appetite in humans. For perhaps understandable reasons, a high proportion of the scientific research on appetite and on heat effects has been conducted on nonhumans. In what follows, preference will be given to human studies. Caution is urged in extrapolating from rats and other species to humans, but the paucity of human data requires reference to animal studies for clues as to how human appetite is affected by heat.
ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE, EATING, AND THERMOREGULATION
Any discussion of the effects of heat on eating must begin with a recognition that eating represents the basic means of securing energy for humans. Most analyses of heat and eating go one step further and point out that a major physiological concern of humans is thermoregulation—the maintenance of an appropriate body temperature—and that eating provides a major contribution to maintaining body heat (Brobeck, 1948). Indeed, it may be that "the important factor in regulation of food intake is not its energy value, but rather the amount of extra heat released in its assimilation" (Strominger and Brobeck, 1953). Thus, this "thermostatic hypothesis" of feeding argues that the total energy content of the food is not the determining factor in regulation. Energy that becomes stored as fat does not control feeding; rather, it is the direct heating effect of food intake that is monitored and that provides a regulatory mechanism.
According to this view, if the environment is cold, the resultant heat loss demands compensatory strategies, including notably increased food intake for its thermic effect. By extension, if the ambient temperature is warm, and heat loss is not an issue, there ought to be a reduced caloric demand. And should the environment become significantly hot—which changes the concern from how to obtain energy to how to dissipate it—a suppression of caloric intake should be expected. "At a high temperature where loss of heat is difficult, food intake should be low, lest by eating and assimilating food the body acquire more heat than it can dispose of" (Brobeck, 1948). This temperature-dependent variation in energy needs should, in principle, be reflected in appetite. Brobeck (1948) claims that "everyone knows ... that appetite fails in hot weather."
The inverse relation of appetite to environmental temperature may be examined in a number of different ways. Clearly, one might manipulate (or
exploit naturally occurring variations in) ambient temperature and examine indices of appetite. One might manipulate (or exploit naturally occurring variations in) body temperature independent of environmental temperature—as in fever—and determine whether this form of hyperthermia suppresses appetite. Alternatively, one might manipulate the need to acquire or dissipate energy more indirectly, through exercise; exercise, by providing a short-term boost in internal heat, ought to reduce the need for further energy—in short, appetite should be suppressed. In the long-term, by depleting short-term energy stores, exercise should increase the cumulative demand for energy repletion.
A final research strategy involves examining the influence of eating itself. Food intake itself creates heat, in addition to providing stored energy for future use. The heat attendant on eating and digestion (the thermic effect of food) as well as the heat produced through the processes of postprandial thermogenesis, which is experienced when humans perspire or become flushed after overeating, ought to reduce appetite acutely. Eating-induced thermogenesis presumably combines with environmental heat, so that appetite will be more suppressed after a given mean in a hot environment than in a cold environment, all things being equal.
An inferential caution: Considerable research has been devoted to the effects of cold environments on physiology and behavior, including appetite. If cold exposure increases appetite compared to appetite under normal conditions, one might be tempted to conclude that heat exposure above normal levels should have the opposite effect. For example, if people eat more than normal when the ambient temperature drops from 70° to 55°F, one might be inclined to infer that appetite would be reduced below normal if the temperature were raised to 85°F. This temptation might be justified by the data, but in the absence of specific research on heat exposure, one should be cautious about extrapolating from research on cold exposure. Does unusual heat have the opposite effect from unusual cold? That is an empirical question.
Another inferential caution: The immediately foregoing analysis assumes that body temperature is regulated and that the heat generated by eating represents a major element in the regulatory equation. But temperature may not be the only important regulated variable. It is now widely believed that body weight or body fat or some associated variable is also regulated (for a review see Mrosovsky, 1990). Moreover, there is reason to believe that the level at which body weight/fat (hereafter BW) is regulated may shift in response to various inputs, perhaps including environmental temperature. What if the set-point for BW drops in the heat? (This would be a reasonable adaptive strategy physiologically, because humans require less insulation when the environmental temperature is high in order to maintain a comfortable body temperature. Note that the supposition of a BW set-point
is not an alternative to the supposition of thermoregulation, but rather a complementary assumption.) If it is assumed that BW set-point drops in the summer or in response to elevated temperature in general, then the explanation for the finding that humans eat less in the heat becomes slightly more complicated. The more complicated interpretation is that heat lowers BW set-point and that appetite subsides because the animal's current weight is now excessive relative to set-point. Hyperthermia following excessive eating may contribute to the decline in intake, but increased heat dissipation and decreased intake may both be understood as mechanisms in the service of attaining a lowered level of BW, which in turn may be a mechanism in the service of more efficient thermoregulation in the heat. These regulatory adaptations, then, would seem to operate in concert. Mapping these causes and effects in a simple linear way is difficult at best and may not do justice to the mutual accommodations of physiological and behavioral systems.
The elegance and apparent prevalence of such regulatory adaptations in nature should not lead to the assumption without question that any change observed is necessarily perfectly functional. It is eminently possible that adaptation to one sort of challenge may prove to be contra-adaptive in some other sense (see Mrosovsky [1990], for numerous examples of regulatory conflict). In the present example, it is certainly possible that a decline in appetite in response to heat—should it occur—will not be mediated by a lowering of BW set-point; rather, the set-point may remain where it began, and lowered BW may represent a departure from the regulated value. The consequence would be that people who eat less and lose weight or fat in a hot climate will become underweight relative to set-point. This relative underweight may apply even to obese individuals, whose BW set-point and/ or thermoregulatory set-point may be inordinately high (Wilson and Sinha, 1985). The consequences may be stressful, both physiologically and psychologically. Animals and people who maintain a BW below set-point show aberrant eating patterns, hyperemotionality (including irritability), distractibility, and a reduced sex drive (Nisbett, 1972). If heat does indeed drive appetite and BW downward, it would be important to know whether it does so in conjunction with a shift in BW set-point or in defiance of a stable set-point. It has been argued (Pénicaud et al., 1986) that temperature control has primacy over food intake control, albeit perhaps only in the short term. As long as such primacy is evident, it should not be surprising to discover disorder in the feeding system and perhaps further disorders at the psychological (emotional) and behavioral (performance) level.
Because analyzing the effects of heat on appetite presupposes an appreciation of the effects of appetite on thermoregulation, the latter question will be addressed first. Having gained a sense of the effects of appetite on heat, readers may then be in a better position to comprehend the effects of heat on appetite.
EFFECTS OF EATING ON THERMOREGULATION
Owing to the thermic effect of eating and metabolism, eating should be expected to provide warmth. This is certainly the case. "Food has a marked effect on body temperature; the temperature difference between a fed animal and an unfed one in the same cage, in the same room, at the same time can vary as much as one full degree F. This difference is due to the specific dynamic action of food" (Beller, 1977). This effect extends fully to humans; for example, Dallosso and James (1984) found that a 50 percent increase in caloric intake by the addition of fat to the diet produced a 47 percent increase in the thermic effects of eating. Eating ground beefsteak and stewed tomatoes to satiety raised skin temperature an average of 2°C about 1 hour after the meal (Booth and Strang, 1936).
Experimental demonstrations of increased metabolic rate, oxygen consumption, and thermogenesis are now so well established that research focuses mainly on subtleties of the response. For instance, LeBlanc and Cabanac (1989) recently demonstrated that the postprandial thermogenic effect has both a cephalic and a gastrointestinal phase; remarkably, the cephalic effect—which was evident in subjects who did not even swallow the food but who merely chewed and spit it out—was even stronger than was the subsequent gastrointestinal effect in subjects who consumed the food. In dogs, a large thermic effect was obtained when the animals were exposed only to the sight and smell of food for 3 minutes (LeBlanc and Diamond, 1986). Thus, eating produces heat, as was known all along; and even sensory exposure to food may produce conditioned or anticipatory thermogenesis or both. One possibly remote implication of this research is that in order to prevent thermogenetic increases in body heat, one may be required to avoid not only eating but all the sensory trappings of food.
Hypothalamic disturbances that produce substantial weight gain may do so at least partially by suppressing the heat dissipation by brown adipose tissue (BAT) that normally follows a meal (Hogan et al., 1986), although medially lesioned rats continue to show BAT activation during cold exposure (Hogan et al., 1982). This finding suggests that the lesioned rat, in defending an artificially higher BW set-point, will store whatever additional calories it can but not if its thermoregulation is threatened. Numerous studies (for example, Booth and Strang, 1936; Segal et al., 1987) have found a blunted thermogenic response to eating in obese humans.
If the suppression of appetite observed during heat exposure drives BW levels below set-point, this heat-induced appetite suppression might be expected to be accompanied by greater metabolic efficiency. A reduced intake, accordingly, should not be cause for concern. And if heat-induced appetite suppression is accompanied or caused by a lowering of the BW set-point, then there is all the more reason to avoid forced feeding, because such
hyperphagia would probably lead to hyperthermia. (At 40°C, rats will stop feeding altogether, and if force fed by intubation, they suffer heat stress and occasionally die [Hamilton, 1967].) Either way, reduced intake in the heat would seem to be adaptive. The only issue concerns activity, which, if intensified, ought to place extra demands on energy stores. The prudent recommendation for heat exposure would seem to be to allow for reduced intake but to avoid, as much as possible, strenuous activity, which not only requires more energy but also generates more undesirable heat, and which also puts fluid balance in jeopardy. Reduced activity is a natural response to heat exposure. If bursts of activity are unavoidable, care should be taken to allow, as much as possible, for longer than normal metabolic recovery periods.
Although eating causes thermogenesis, it does not follow automatically that all thermogenesis will feed back as a regulator of eating. Glick et al. (1989) abolished the thermogenic response of brown adipose tissue during and after feeding in rats but found no indication that meal size was augmented, as would be expected under, say, Brobeck's (1948) theory, if heat provided a satiety signal. It remains true that "increases in body and brain temperature do not coincide exactly with the cessation of feeding" (Balagura, 1973). Of course, the apparent unimportance of BAT thermogenesis in the control of appetite does not mean that endogenous heat in general is irrelevant to the regulatory control of appetite. Rampone and Reynolds (1991) have recently outlined a proposal—a "fine-tuning" of Brobeck's (1948) proposal—in which diet-induced thermogenesis feeds back to activate temperature-sensitive neurons in the rostral hypothalamus, which in turn activate the ventromedial hypothalamus to induce satiety. They explain hyperphagia and weight gain as the result of inadequate diet-induced thermogenesis and consequent inadequate satiety, with the result that the animal takes in more energy than it expends. Consistent with this notion is the finding that animals with rostral lesions both overeat and become hyperthermic (Hamilton and Brobeck, 1964).
It should be noted that even if the abolition of all thermogenesis failed to affect satiety or the duration and/or size of a meal, it would not follow logically that thermogenesis is unimportant in the control of appetite. Conceivably, feeding might be responsive to the lack of energy/heat in the "system." Meal-induced thermogenesis might not act as a satiety signal, but still serve to delay the onset of a drop in heat below some threshold that serves as a hunger signal. In other words, the focus in this chapter on heat as a satiety signal fails to address the initiation of eating. Perhaps energy depletions as hunger signals ought to be considered, in which case heat might well remain an important determinant of feeding but more at the onset end than at the offset end. The unwarranted but prevalent assumption that the same types of signals control both meal termination and meal initiation—as in Rampone and Reynolds' (1991) hypothesis that heat induces
satiety and cold induces hunger—adds to the confusion in this area. In general, more attention should be paid to whether the effect of heat on appetite suppression is expressed in terms of smaller meals (presumptive satiety effects) or less frequent meals (presumptive hunger effects); of course, these alternatives are not perfectly independent of one another. The frustratingly speculative nature of the foregoing discussion, in fact, is a reflection of the fact that "in most cases the measurement of postprandial heat [has been] undertaken with a totally different objective than that of assessing its effects on food intake" (Rampone and Reynolds, 1991). Thus, the call for more research may be extended to all aspects of endogenous heat production as a moderator of appetite.
Lack of adequate food induces cold. Keys et al. (1950) found that their semistarved volunteers complained of the cold even in warm summer weather. One might be tempted to suggest underfeeding troops in hot climates in order to minimize their problems with heat. Although a somewhat reduced intake is probably desirable and inevitable, given the various regulatory pressures that are activated automatically, deliberate food restriction below what the troops naturally desire would probably not be desirable, owing to all the negative effects of maintaining a suboptimal body weight. Metabolism is, if anything, speeded up in the heat and intake is reduced; the net effect is likely to be significant weight loss, and if that weight loss occurs in the absence of a resetting of the BW set-point, the result is likely to be a substantial energy deficit.
Most humans are not built to operate optimally in extremes of temperature. If faced with severe heat, people may reduce their intake and rely on metabolic processes to dissipate as much heat as possible, but this ultimately represents a loss of energy that might well interfere with other demands placed on them (for example, demands for intense activity). The solution, it would seem, is to avoid severe heat and function in a climate where thermoregulation is not a difficult challenge. Hot environments by definition provide such a challenge, but the best solution may be to find ways to keep cool, or at least thermoneutral, other than—or in addition to—reducing intake.
Climatic Adaptation
The ability to dissipate heat depends on various factors, not the least of which is physique. Bergmann's rule states that a bulkier shape minimizes heat loss, because the bulkier animal has a relatively smaller ratio of skin surface to metabolically active bulk, and skin surface determines heat dissipation (Beller, 1977). Allen's corollary to Bergmann's rule gives a heat-
dissipating advantage to those with longer appendages. Accordingly, people with rounded physiques (endomorphs) should have more difficulty with heat dissipation than will those with linear physiques (ectomorphs). Presumably, a given meal will produce greater thermic overload for the endomorph, who ought to learn, eventually, to eat less in the interests of thermoregulatory comfort.
There is substantial evidence that people adapt to a hot climate. Of course, eating less may be construed as an adaptation par excellence; but other related adaptations have been proposed. It is suggested above that heat can drive one's set-point for BW downward. Physical anthropologists (see Beller, 1977 for a fascinating review) have long noted a correspondence between physique and climate (Bergmann's rule, noted above). That linear physiques generally do better in the heat may be seen as an evolutionary selection principle, with races adapting to hot environments by altering their physique in an ectomorphic direction. One strong implication of this adaptational point of view is that certain people will do better in a hot environment than will others. Presumably, an individual who is genetically preadapted to a hot climate will have less trouble adapting to such a climate; such a displacement ought to disrupt his or her eating patterns less.
More pertinent to this discussion, perhaps, is the question of individual rather than evolutionary adaptation. Does, or can, an individual's set-point shift in response to heat exposure? If so, then the individual should feel uncomfortably overweight on initial exposure and cut back on eating; with a reduced set-point, the individual would eventually maintain a lower BW, and show a continued suppression of appetite appropriate for his or her more svelte physique.
Adaptation to Heat or Cold?
Interestingly, the endomorphy of a population is not correlated with mean annual temperature so much as with mean January temperature in northern latitudes (Beller, 1977). This finding has a number of implications, foremost among which is that normative BW depends more on extremes of cold than on heat. As an adaptation, this makes sense, because in these northern or temperate latitudes—and even in some tropical latitudes where the temperature occasionally plummets—the risk of insufficient fat/energy is greater than the risk of an excess of fat/energy. When one focuses on adaptation to hot climates, the implications are confusing. The main threat facing an individual in the hot climate would seem to be a failure of thermoregulation: heat dissipation is the main concern. Yet if the nighttime temperature drops precipitously, as may happen in the desert, then heat adaptation during the day may be more than cancelled out by cold adaptation at night. Conceivably, cold desert nights could lead to a continuing
high BW set-point, with dire implications for heat dissipation during the day. Even excessive use of air-conditioning might make heat adaptation and successful thermoregulation difficult.
It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity
We think of high humidity as impairing our ability to perspire; humidity ought to impair heat dissipation and render the "functional temperature" even higher (for an overview see Burse, 1979). Heat combined with humidity should have a greater suppressive effect on appetite than dry heat. The anthropological evidence is confusing on this point. In Africa, humidity tends to be associated with a shorter, fatter physique in the native people, whereas in more northern climates (for example, Scandinavia), the wetter west coast breeds taller, thinner people than does the drier interior (Beller, 1977).
There is reason to believe that men may be less heat tolerant than women. Beller (1977) notes that men have more, and a higher proportion of, metabolically active tissue than do women, who have a higher proportion of fat, and suggests that women's relative metabolic inactivity buffers them from heat stress. Beller goes even further and argues that women's extra fat tissue literally buffers them, by insulating them, from the external heat. It makes sense that a layer of fat might insulate one's internal core temperature from external heat sources; but such insulation should also make it more difficult to dissipate whatever heat is generated internally, through metabolism. Beller's conclusion is disputed, although not cited, by Burse (1979), who enumerates the physiological disadvantages of women working in the heat and urges that extreme caution be taken to prevent heat exhaustion in unacclimatized women.
Under acute stress, body temperature may rise. For example, boxers before a bout have a higher body temperature than they do before a routine practice. Mrosovsky (1990) refers to this temperature shift as psychogenic hyperthermia and attributes to it an enhancement of muscular activity. "The psychogenic contribution to such warming up may be to shift the thermoregulatory set-point" upward (Mrosovsky, 1990). To the extent that stress elevates the thermoregulatory set-point—or simply adds metabolic heat even without raising the thermoregulatory set-point—it should exacerbate what-
ever heat dissipation threats are encountered in hot climates. On balance, stress should further suppress appetite. Previous research concurs with this expectation, in that normal eaters in both laboratory and field settings have responded to stress by decreasing their food intake (Herman and Vaccarino, 1992). The major exception to this rule is provided by dieters, who often overeat in response to distress; presumably most military personnel would not fall into this category. Military personnel, however, are quite likely to experience stress independent of heat, and the suppressive effect on appetite must be taken into account. Such stress may have debilitating effects on its own, to which may be added whatever stress stems from long-term hunger, such as may occur if stress suppresses appetite without a corresponding suppression of BW set-point.
One effective short-term technique for achieving thermoregulation is activity, because strenuous activity has a thermogenic effect (Bellward and Dauncey, 1988). Animals who are energy-deficient (either cold or hungry) become more likely to move around; such activity both provides endogenous heat directly and makes it more likely that exogenous energy sources may be encountered. Eventually, this strategy may backfire, if the extra expenditure of energy is not repleted; but in the short-term, the animal will be closer to a thermal optimum. Lassitude in the heat, conversely, probably serves a useful physiological purpose and should not be countermanded as assiduously as it might be in a temperate climate.
Food Temperature
If food contains energy, and its thermic effect depends on the amount of that energy pius the assimilative cost of consuming and digesting it, then it should follow that adding energy to the food by heating it ought to have a relatively straightforward additive effect on the food's thermic value. Conversely, cold food ought to minimize the thermic effect of eating. Indeed, one gets the impression that if the food is served at a temperature significantly below body temperature it will have a cooling effect; this cooling effect should be more reinforcing for people who are hyperthermic.
Eating tends to add energy in the form of heat to the body; if the heat-exposed individual must eat, he or she should presumably prefer a cool version of a food to a hot version, on thermic grounds. But the hot version may in general be perceived as more palatable, insofar as warming brings out the presumably pleasant flavor of the food (Trant and Pangborn, 1983). Cabanac (1971) might argue that the enhanced palatability of warmed food
might be a conditional preference, based on the thermic effect of the food. Negative alliesthesia effects (that is, decreased acceptability) might be expected for warm food as the internal environment heats up. In other words, warm food may not be intrinsically more palatable; rather, its palatability may depend directly on the state of the organism (in this case, whether the organism is hypo-or hyperthermic). For Cabanac, it is not that the hot food is rejected by the heat-exposed individual despite its greater palatability but because heat exposure detracts from the food's palatability.
That heat exposure might shift one's preferences away from hot food and toward cool food is understandable. But another question arises: Should heat exposure increase one's attraction to cool foods rather than to no food at all? Cooling food produces a peculiar condition: the food still contains latent calories and is likely on those grounds to raise body temperature; but the cool physical state of the food is likely to have an immediately cooling effect in the mouth and perhaps even further down the alimentary canal. From a thermoregulatory point of view, is the hyperthermic individual better off consuming a cool food or none at all?
Type of Food
It is widely accepted that ''the amount of ... added heat, of course, varies with the type ... of food consumed'' (Rampone and Reynolds, 1991). Yet there appears to be only a small variation in the thermic effect of food depending on the type of food ingested. "Eating proteins, which are somewhat more complicated to break down inside the body than carbohydrates or fats are, tends to raise body temperature very slightly more than these other two basic food components do" (Beller, 1977). Beller goes on to note (pages 157 to 158) that "this difference has probably received more attention than it deserves in the popular literature about nutrition," an allusion to the allegedly weight-reducing properties of a high-protein diet. Balagura (1973), in discussing this issue, notes that in general, animals prefer carbohydrate diets and especially prefer fat diets over protein diets, so the fact that eating terminates sooner on protein diets may be more a function of the diets' limited palatability than of their greater thermic effect. Of course, in nonhumans, palatability is often difficult to disentangle from eating itself; but in humans, the expressed preference for fats and sweets is well known (Drewnowski et al., 1989), so that if less of a high protein diet is consumed, it may well be due to taste and texture factors rather than to thermal satiety feedback. Whether in making diet prescriptions we ought to consider the thermic effect of macronutrients—or confine ourselves to a consideration of basic nutritional balance—is difficult to assess at present.
Effects of Environmental Temperature Variations on Amount Eaten
Acute Variations
One of the earliest systematic reports of the effect of heat on appetite was Johnson and Kark's (1947) summary of ad lib intakes by soldiers in various geographic areas ranging from the mobile force "Musk Ox," stationed in the Canadian Arctic, to infantry troops on Luzon in the Philippines. Troops stationed in the tropics ate on average 3100 calories, whereas arctic troops ate 4900 calories; in both cases, troops were allegedly offered as much food as they wanted, although the skeptical reader might be able to imagine some interpretive confoundings in these results. Whether the size of the heat effect on appetite is as profound as suggested by Johnson and Kark is debatable, but the direction of the effect has not been disputed. Edholm et al. (1964) confirmed this pattern, observing a 25 percent decrease in food intake by soldiers in Aden compared to the United Kingdom (see also Collins and Weiner, 1968). More parochially, one Toronto restaurateur (unpublished data from consumer survey, 1991) conceded that "sales plunge during a heat wave .... People do not have the appetite for a large heavy meal when it is hot." Beller (1977) neatly summarized the effect of heat on appetite, explaining it on the basis of the thermic effect of food:
The ability to raise body temperature through feeding is one that is shared by all warm-blooded animals. Cattle, swine, rats, goats, and U.S. Army men all eat more when the temperature is low than when it is high, and the reverse is equally true: at environmental temperatures of 90°F feeding begins to slow down in all these animals, and by the time rectal temperatures reach 104° (which is not an unheard-of reading, incidentally, for a man doing strenuous exercise for more than a few minutes at a time) virtually all species stop feeding entirely. This state of affairs is true not only for man and other homeotherms but for such disparate creatures as toads, single-celled paramecia, and honeybees (although the critical temperature maximum for a honeybee may not be quite the same as it is for a toad—or, of course, a man).
Logue (1986) makes the same point more colloquially: "An easy way to quell appetites at a summer dinner party is to turn off the air-conditioning." These generalizations suggest that acute temperature variations have a strong effect on appetite: specifically, heat impairs appetite. (And note that the implication of the turned-off air-conditioning scenario is that had the air-conditioning stayed on, appetite would have remained unquelled, despite it being summer. This suggests that acute temperature variations
may have a significant effect over and above seasonal variations. The consumer survey (unpublished, 1991) yielded a strong consensus about the effect of air-conditioning on customer behavior. In the summer, "air-conditioning attracts customers and after sitting in the restaurant, many order 'normally'.... If we have an air-conditioning breakdown, sales drop dramatically." The summer peak in ice cream sales is much more noticeable in street outlets than in mall outlets, although it is unclear whether this is because the malls are air-conditioned in the summer or because they are heated in the winter. One ice cream chain blamed the increasing prevalence of air-conditioning for its slower gain in sales in recent years. It is worth noting here that there is some lingering confusion about whether the effect of air-conditioning on appetite (countering heat-induced appetite changes) depends on acute effects (that is, air-conditioning at the eating site) or more chronic effects (that is, exposure to air-conditioning through much of the day). Presumably the answer to this question depends on whether chronic exposure to air-conditioning counteracts a heat-induced drop in BW set-point.
It is not clear what happens in an environment that is naturally hot much of the time but which cools off dramatically at other times. Such dramatic cooling may occur naturally at nighttime, or even during the day, with the advent of air-conditioning. How responsive is appetite to abrupt shifts in environmental temperature? Does one's appetite pick up when leaving the broiling heat to enter an air-conditioned dining room? Or does the pressure to dissipate heat carry over even in the air-conditioned environment? The same questions can be asked when substituting "cool nights" for "air-conditioning." One study, albeit on rats, speaks at least indirectly to this question. Refinetti (1988) examined feeding in rats that were housed in normal (29°C) or cold (19°C) conditions and fed in a separate chamber that was either normal temperature or cold. Both housing and feeding environment temperatures additively affected appetite; thus, the temperature that obtains when eating occurs does affect eating, but there is also some carryover from the external environment. One possibly significant finding in this study is that animals who went to a cold environment to feed gained much more weight than did animals who remained in a warm environment to feed. The finding suggests that if one spends most of one's time in the heat but eats in an artificially cooled environment, one might end up eating more than needed, with potential problems for heat dissipation when one returns to the hot environment.
Nonhumans
Research on the effects of variations in environmental temperature on feeding was stimulated by Brobeck's (1948) hypothesis. He found that rats' food intake dropped precipitously as the environmental temperature rose from 18° to 36°C; these rats, acclimated to a temperature
of 28° to 29°C, began to lose weight when the environmental temperature during feeding rose above 32°C. Numerous other investigators have found equivalent results with rats (Fletcher, 1986; Hamilton and Brobeck, 1964; Jakubczak, 1976; Leon and Woodside, 1983) and with other species, such as goats (Appleman and Delouche, 1959) that eat less and hoard less (Fantino and Cabanac, 1984) and frequently lose weight in hotter ambient temperatures. Kraly and Blass (1976) found that rats will work harder for food and consume more unpalatable food in the cold. Mice eat 43 percent less in an ambient temperature of 33°C than at 17°C (Thurlby, 1979; see also Donhoffer and Vonotzky, 1947), and pigs that were maintained at 32° to 35°C ate only half as much as pigs maintained at 10° to 12°C (Heath, 1980; Macari et al., 1986). Note that Swiergiel and Ingram (1986) found that piglets maintained at 35°C gained more weight than did piglets maintained at 10°C, but the intake levels appeared to have been controlled in this study; the higher BW of the 35°C piglets may have represented their attempt to store energy rather than bum it. Cafeteria-fed rats maintained at 29°C ate less, but if anything gained more weight than did those maintained at 24°C, presumably because in the hotter environment the rats became much more energy efficient, storing their excess calories rather than burning them and risking hyperthermia (Rothwell and Stock, 1986). Presumably in severe heat, thermogenic disposal of calories would pose enough of a threat so that the animal would quickly learn to cut back on its intake.
More proximal heating (that is, in the preoptic and anterior hypothalamic regions) serves to inhibit feeding in much the same way as does distal heating (that is, in the external environment) (Andersson and Larsson, 1961). This simply indicates that the effects of environmental heat must be registered somewhere in the central nervous system if they are to affect feeding; the hypothalamic tracts remain the prime candidates for the coordination of heat-and-feeding regulation. Other loci, such as the liver (DiBella et al., 1981) and even the skin (Booth and Strang, 1936), have also been nominated as crucial in producing regulatory thermal feedback in the control of eating.
In general, "reduced intake in warm environments [has] been shown in several endothermic animals" (Refinetti, 1988). One exception to the rule that animals eat less when it is hot is contained in a study by Bellward and Dauncey (1988); in this study, mice ate more at above-normal temperatures than at below-normal temperatures. The explanation for this contrary effect supports the general approach here: mice had to choose between heat (exposure to a heat lamp) and food. When it was cold, they tended to choose heat, at the expense of food. Presumably if they had been allowed access to food but not the heat lamp, they would have eaten less as the temperature rose.
One mechanism possibly contributing to increased intake in animals
exposed to the cold is faster gastric emptying (Logue, 1986). Logue notes that rats exposed to the cold initiate more meals but do not eat more at a given meal. Presumably, gastric emptying rate does not affect the initial repletion rate of the stomach, and consequently the size of the meal, but does affect the length of time until the stomach again "demands" repletion, and consequently the frequency of meals. The faster the stomach empties, the sooner the next meal must begin. To extrapolate to the presumably reduced gastric emptying rate in animals exposed to the heat, one might speculate that the slowing of the digestive process is a means of muting the thermic effect of food.
Seasonal Effects
Casual inquiry yields a broad consensus that BW declines in the summer and rises in the winter. This seasonal variation is sometimes thought to be accompanied by a corresponding variation in appetite, although interestingly, people appear to be less cognizant of how much they eat than of how much they weigh. The thermoregulatory viewpoint considered above would seem to predict a decline in appetite in the summer heat as a means of ensuring that endogenous heat does not threaten one's thermoregulatory capacity. What remains uncertain—even if the appetitive shift occurs—is whether the shift in body weight is regulated or not. That is, does BW set-point shift downward in the hot months, dragging appetite with it? Or does appetite decline on its own, as a thermoregulatory tactic, while BW set-point remains high?
The need for less internal heat in the summer seems to be an adequate physiological rationale for lowered summer appetite. Other reasons may be suggested, however—notably, that people wear less clothing in the summer for thermoregulatory reasons and therefore become more concerned with their physical appearance. A bathing suit demands a slim physique, and perusal of popular magazines suggests that much of the springtime is devoted to shaping up for summer.
Among those who are exposed to summer heat involuntarily, reduced appetite would be expected. Solid evidence in support of this expectation is not abundant, if only because it has not been systematically collected. We know that the farmed polecat reduces its intake and weight during the summer months (Korhonen and Harri, 1986).
The most salient outcome of this literature search—other than consensual agreement with the general proposition that heat impairs appetite—is the dearth of actual experimental research on human consummatory response to variations in heat. It is somewhat reassuring, then, to note that retailers corroborate the consensual impression, often with hard data (sales
figures). A number of restaurant chains in the Toronto area report decreased sales during the summer—not only fewer customers, as might be expected because of vacations, but also a decline in the average purchase per customer (range of decrease: 2 to 20 percent). The only exceptions to this rule were a chain of restaurants specializing in salads and two chains specializing in ice cream desserts.
Fever, of course, is not an exogenous source of heat, but it may be considered as a means of inducing heat in the internal environment. Fever is usually associated with decreased appetite, which follows from most analyses of feeding in which thermoregulation is a consideration. Raising the internal temperature ought to trigger compensatory decreases in feeding if feeding threatens to raise the internal temperature even further. This conclusion is premised on the notion that fever represents a state of hyperthermia relative to some internal optimum. Note that it does not follow that if hyperthermia suppresses voluntary appetite, then voluntary appetite suppression necessarily indicates hyperthermia. Appetite suppression and indications of hypothermia coexist, for instance, in anorexia nervosa (Garfinkel and Gamer, 1982).
The possibility remains, of course, that fever might not represent true hyperthermia but rather a resetting of the thermoregulatory set-point at a higher level (Mrosovsky, 1990); in this case, the body might "want" to maintain a higher temperature, and a decline in feeding would not be expected. Intraperitoneal injection of interleukin-1, normally released in the presence of pathogens, raises body temperature and ordinarily is associated with appetite suppression; but when injected intracerebroventricularly, interleukin-1 raises body temperature in rats without affecting intake (McCarthy et al., 1986). This suggests that fever-induced anorexia may not be mediated by thermic mechanisms. Conversely, injecting endotoxin substantially lowers intake even when temperature elevation is prevented by administration of sodium salicylate (Baile et al., 1981; McCarthy et al., 1984), although the suppression may be less than when fever is not prevented (Baile et al., 1981). Another study, in which rats' body weights were lowered before the administration of interleukin-1, found that despite elevated body temperature, the animals were initially hyperphagic in defense of an albeit subnormal body weight (Mrosovsky et al., 1989); in other words, it may be that pathogens—or the interleukin-1 stimulated by them—produce a lowered BW set-point, pulling appetite down, independent of heat compensation (see also O'Reilly et al., 1989). There are plausible adaptive reasons why maintaining a lowered BW might help to fight or "starve" pathogens (Murray and Murray, 1977).
One consensual belief, at least among nonscientists, is that hot foods have a greater thermogenic effect. Accordingly, people seek hot foods when they are cold, and cold foods, if any, when they are hot. Turning this prescription around, the conclusion emerges that hot foods ought to have a greater suppressive effect on appetite than cold foods.
Because warming a food tends to enhance its flavor and aroma (Trant and Pangborn, 1983), one might expect that hotter, more palatable food will generate increased intake initially, with perhaps a subsequent caloric compensation—or perhaps not, depending on the strength of compensatory pressures. Actually, one should be careful about assuming that accentuating the flavor will make the food more palatable; some things—notably beverages such as water—are more palatable when cool (Szlyk et al., 1989). And if the food is unpalatable to begin with, warming it may make it taste worse! Holding intake constant, one might expect hot food to suppress appetite by suppressing gastric emptying rate, just as exposure to cold environments speeds gastric emptying, as shown above. Or hot food might suppress appetite by raising body temperature and inducing satiety.
No significant effect on subsequent intake of cheese sandwiches or on sensations of hunger or fullness was observed when experimental subjects were given a fixed portion of V8 juice served at 1°C or 60° to 62°C (Rolls et al., 1990). The cold juice, while not affecting intake, did reduce reported desire to eat, in male subjects only, and reduced thirst as well. No clear explanation is available for the ambiguously suppressive effect of a cold beverage on mens' appetites.
Notwithstanding these sparse and nondefinitive data, there is a strong consensus among retailers and their customers that cold foods are preferred when the ambient temperature is high (unpublished data from consumer survey, 1991). The summer sales peak for ice cream would seem to depend more on the "ice" than on the "cream." In the words of one restaurateur, ''cold menu items make them [the customers] feel even cooler.'' Soup and bakery item sales are slow in the summer.
The effect of food temperature on eating in humans may be powerful, if as yet undemonstrated; in other species, it appears to be negligible. Rats who were served cold (12°C), normal (29°C), or hot (48°C) pellets showed only a weak and insignificant tendency to eat more of the hotter food. As with humans, one is entitled to wonder whether hotter food might smell or taste better, enhancing appetite, while also providing more energy and suppressing appetite. Intriguing studies in ruminants (Bhattacharya and Warner, 1968; Gengler et al., 1970) indicate that if the rumen is heated by the addition of warm water or by heating coils, intake may decline by as
much as 45 percent. One is tempted to imagine studies in humans where the effect of heating on flavor is separated from its direct thermic effect. Heating a basically unpalatable food would presumably suppress intake substantially if it brought out the aversive flavor as well as added unwanted heat to the system. Presumably a study in which the animal or person was offered a choice between hot and cold versions of the same food might help to disambiguate these results.
Effects of Light on Appetite
Although there is obviously not an invariant connection between environmental heat and environmental light, some of the hottest environments, especially desert areas, are notable for the intensity of the light. This fact becomes relevant, perhaps, in conjunction with recent work on seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a variant of clinical depression that is seasonal in nature and, more specifically, responsive to "light therapy" (for example, exposure for a period of hours to a bright [2500 lux] full-spectrum fluorescent light). The connection between SAD and appetitive disorders has been remarked on repeatedly (for example, Rosenthal et al., 1986; Wurtman, 1988). Specifically, the depressive phase is associated with overeating, carbohydrate craving, and weight gain. Periodic exposure to bright light produced weight loss in SAD patients, although this effect was accompanied by a decrease in their surprisingly high resting metabolic rate (Gaist et al., 1990). It is tantalizing to imagine that bright sunlight might contribute to the appetite suppression observed in hot environments; however, there is essentially no evidence that normal control subjects' appetites are affected by light exposure. Rats show a transient decline in appetite when exposed to constant light (Dark et al., 1980); but rats are nocturnal feeders, so the extended presence of light would be expected to disrupt feeding briefly, independent of profound physiological changes. The relevance to humans of studies of rats' reactions to extra light is probably negligible.
Effects of Environmental Temperature on Food Preferences
The discussion above regarding thermic effects of different macronutrients suggests that, in the heat, there should be a relative suppression of the already relatively suppressed (Drewnowski et al., 1989) protein preference/intake. Johnson and Kark (1947), in their survey of wartime military nutrition, found that "regardless of environment, the percentage of proteins voluntarily chosen from the rations was practically constant." Edholm et al. (1964) concur. In mice exposed to hot and cold environments, the only
substantial variation was in carbohydrate (starch) intake, which was strongly elevated by cold and suppressed by heat, but not below the level for casein-and lard-supplemented diets (Donhoffer and Vonotzky, 1947). Two restaurant chains reported a decided shift away from sandwiches toward salads in the summer (unpublished data from consumer survey, 1991). Ice cream consumption, which peaks in the summer (unpublished data from consumer survey, 1991), seems to be an exception to the rule of heat-suppressed carbohydrate consumption; however, most observers regard the summer appeal of ice cream to reside in its coldness more than its sweetness. In fact, one ice cream chain reported that while ice cream sales tended to rise with increases in environmental temperature from 72° to 82°F, above 82°F customers switch to more thirst-quenching products (for example, ices and "light" ice creams).
Rothwell and Stock's (1986) casual observations suggested that food selection of rats offered a cafeteria diet was unaffected by variations (from 24° to 29°C) in environmental temperature. As already shown, however, the ability of protein to differentially suppress appetite has probably been overstated; accordingly, it should not be surprising if heat has little observable effect on macronutrient preferences. Ashworth and Harrower (1967) reported that proportional nitrogen loss from sweating is lower than normal in acclimatized tropical workers, again suggesting no need for supplemental protein in the diet, a conclusion seconded by Collins et al. (1971) and Weiner et al. (1972). Still, it would seem a reasonable precaution to maintain protein intake at or slightly above a nutritionally desirable minimum in hot environments, especially before full acclimatization has been achieved.
Donhoffer and Vonotzky (1947) cite well-known seasonal changes in thyroid activity as a possible mediator of the heat-induced differential suppression of carbohydrate intake. How thyroid activity might control qualitative aspects of appetite and whether humans are susceptible to such seasonal variations remain obscure.
The consumer survey yielded fairly strong data regarding shifts in food preference in the summer. As noted above, the restaurant chain specializing in salads had its sales peak during the summer. Not surprisingly, so did the ice cream parlors. Seasonal shifts in consumer preferences, however, may not be driven entirely by physiology. A number of retailers indicated that intense promotional activity of different types of foods occurs on a seasonal basis; conceivably, some of the seasonal shift in preferences actually represents conformity with expectations or financial and social pressures. One hamburger chain claimed that "consumption patterns are marketing driven";
that is, people eat what they are told by advertisers or induced by incentives to eat.
Research Recommendations
Almost any systematic research on the effects of heat on appetite would be welcome. Beyond the general and vague conclusion that heat suppresses appetite—and possibly renders cooler foods more palatable—researchers are forced to surmise where they would prefer to know. Studies of the following sort would be most desirable, although the list is somewhat arbitrary and certainly not exhaustive:
Straightforward studies that examine food intake in environments in which the temperature has been artificially elevated, in comparison with food intake in normal or cooled environments. Such studies should examine (a) quantity consumed, (b) preference shifts among macronutrients and/or basic food groups, and (c) preference shifts for heated versus cooled versions of the same foods.
Similar studies conducted in thermoneutral, heated, and cooled environments during summer versus winter. Whether living in an air-conditioned environment mitigates the effects of environmental heat should be investigated.
Variations on the foregoing studies in which adaptation periods are varied: (a) short-term adaptations over the course of minutes or hours (as when one acclimates to an air-conditioned room) and (b) long-term adaptation (for example, at the beginning of a heat wave versus after a week or two of a heat wave).
Studies on the effects on appetite of humidity manipulations in conjunction with heat manipulations.
Studies of the effects of heat on appetite in situations where the subjects' ad lib consumption is monitored with a specific view to determining whether appetite suppression occurs because meal size decreases and meal frequency remains constant, or because meal frequency decreases and meal size stays constant. These studies should address whether heat enhances satiety or impairs hunger.
Studies of the thermic effect of different diets. Do different macronutrients have different thermic effects? Enough to bother about?
Studies of the thermic effects of food at different temperatures.
Studies of the palatability of foods at different temperatures while manipulating environmental temperature and, if possible, body temperature.
Alliesthesia studies like that of Cabanac (1971) to determine whether
heat suppression of appetite occurs in conjunction with a lowered BW set-point—in which case preference for sweets following a glucose load should decline—or whether heat suppression of appetite occurs in defiance of an unchanged BW set-point—in which case preference for sweet after a glucose load should remain high.
Practical Recommendations for Working in Hot Environments
In general, work in a hot environment demands close attention to factors that might threaten either thermoregulation or BW regulation. In the absence of knowledge about whether these regulatory mechanisms act in conflict or in concert in hot environments, it is probably safest to focus on thermoregulation, which poses the most immediate physiological challenge.
Allow for reduced intake. Unless BW falls to dangerously low levels, if heat suppresses appetite, it should be recognized that this as an adaptive strategy in the best interest of the individual's thermoregulatory well-being.
Allow for some shifts in food preferences, to be determined empirically. There may be a shift in the preferred macronutrient balance; more likely, there will be a shift in the preferred temperature, toward cooler foods and, especially, beverages.
Ensure that protein intake is maintained at a healthy level. This is not likely to require much if any intervention.
Encourage adaptation to the heat through regular, graded exposure to the hot environment. During the first few days in a hot environment, exposure should be gradually increased, with care taken to provide opportunities to cool off between exposures. Excessive cooling is not advised, because it will probably interfere with heat adaptation and may conceivably interfere with the adaptive resetting of regulatory set-points.
Minimize activity, especially during the first few days of heat exposure. Strenuous exercise provides an additional heat challenge and may disrupt appetite in such a way as to interfere with normal regulatory adaptations. As with heat exposure, exercise may be increased gradually.
Women may have more difficulty than men adapting to heat, so the foregoing recommendations should be observed especially closely for women.
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DR. NESHEIM: Any questions?
PARTICIPANT: Mike Sawka mentioned yesterday that discomfort is closely related to skin temperature. I wonder if you think that a feeling of discomfort in the heat would also affect appetite, and if that might be part of the appetite suppression mechanism—as opposed to solely internal body temperature?
DR. HERMAN: Certainly. I know that if you manipulate skin temperature directly, at least in nonhuman animals, that you will get a suppression of appetite. Of course we don't have subjective discomfort ratings in that situation, but I can't help but think heat discomfort would be very much a factor.
PARTICIPANT: Do you know of any studies that have tried to pinpoint whether it was blood temperature, skin temperature, a certain anatomical section, or physiological section that might be impacting on that sensation of heat discomfort?
DR. HERMAN: No, the manipulation was too crude and the measurement was just done at the skin surface. We also don't know whether there were cascading effects to the internal environment.
We know that heating deep core organs like the hypothalamus in animals will have the same effect. So my guess would be that almost anywhere along the chain that you apply heat, it is likely to have a suppressive effect on appetite.
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9. Heat as a Factor in the Perception of Taste, Smell, and Oral Sensation 173–186
10. Effects of Heat on Appetite 187–214
11. Situational Influences on Food Intake 215–244
Part III: U.S. Army Presentations: A Reevaluation of Sodium Requirements for Work in the Heat 245–246
12. Responses of Soldiers to 4-gram and 8-gram NaCl Diets During 10 Days of Heat Acclimation 247–258
13. Endocrinological Responses to Dietary Salt Restriction During Heat Acclimation 259–276
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To encourage and support research regarding school nursing and health of school aged children.
To advance and fund quality school nursing practice and school-affiliated delivery of healthcare.
NASN has a history of supporting and encouraging school nursing research which began with several generous donors who provided research funds to honor the earliest school nursing leaders. Early research grants included:
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Police are searching for several men who stole an entire ATM machine from a gas station in La Mesa and are investigating ties to a similar robbery last week.
The group of at least four men backed a silver Ford F-250 truck into the AMPM convenience store on Massachusetts Avenue and Waite Drive north of state Route 94 at about 3 a.m. Sunday, the La Mesa Police Department said.
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Until some time ago, people of Indian origin or visitors from India would complain that the so-called 'Indian' food available in Britain is not the real thing -- it is customised to the British taste, and is not tingling enough to satisfy the 'desi' palate.
The situation cannot be more different now, with several well-known Indian restaurant chains opening branches in various towns, and recent immigrants opening outlets offering authentic fare from their respective culinary regions in India.
As Indian investment grows in Britain across various sectors -- from steel to luxury cars to IT to finance -- Indian restaurant chains are also expanding.
Branches of well known restaurant chains such as Chennai Dosa and Sarvana Bhavan offering south Indian fare at modest prices can now be seen doing brisk business in various towns.
Chennai Dosa, considered the fastest growing chain in Britain, opened its first restaurant in East London in 2003, and has now opened its 11th branch in Trafford, Manchester.
Sarvana Bhavan has five branches in London, Leicester, Essex and harrow.
Since 1810, when Sake Dean Mohamed from Patna opened the first Indian restaurant in Britain, the 'Hindoostanee Coffee House' in George Street, central London, the Indian food industry has grown exponentially as Britain's love affair with spicy Indian food continued over the years.
Today, there are over 12,000 Indian restaurants across Britain and the industry is estimated to be worth 4.2 billion pounds annually, including the revenue from the large volumes of packed Indian food sold in supermarkets.
Chennai Dosa claims that after opening the first branch in 2003, "within a year we became the largest dosa maker in Europe. We brought about a radical change in the way South Indian food was defined in Europe".
Many 'Indian' restaurants in UK are owned by immigrants from Bangladesh, with fare often customised to the British palate.
For example, the popular 'chicken tikka masala' dish is a British invention, while some insist that the 'balti' cuisine also originated in Birmingham.
As Indian restaurant chains expand to Britain, many long-established 'Indian' restaurants here are struggling in difficult economic conditions and tight visa rules that prevent recruiting staff from the Indian sub-continent.
Many family owned restaurants have closed as children of owners prefer other professions, while some are innovating to remain in business.
Expanding Indian restaurant chains transfer staff from India, while some entrepreneurs have opened region-specific restaurants that are doing brisk business.
Notable among these is the Shri Krishna Vada Pav, opened in Hounslow by entrepreneurs from Mumbai, offering 'vada pav' for 1 pound, and other Maharashtrian fare such as 'pav bhaji', 'misal pav' and 'bhel puri'. Its customers include many Britons.
The Trafford branch of Chennai Dosa is spread over two floors in the busy shopping centre of Stretford Mall.
General Manager and chef, Suresh Bhaskar, said: "We looked at venues all over Manchester, including the city centre, but we felt the Stretford Mall had the right location for us...We are already a very well established brand and people know and love our food".
Colin McCrory, Stretford Mall manager, said the opening of Chennai Dosa was a very exciting new development: "Chennai Dosa is going to offer another very good reason to come to the Stretford Mall and offer the community a chance to sample some wonderful cultural cookery".
He added: "It will create a substantial amount of new jobs for the area to add to more than 750 jobs which the mall and its retailers already provide. I think it will be a tremendous draw for new and existing customers and reflects the positive developments which are happening at Stretford Mall all as we move into 2012".
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Indian-American Student Wins National Geographic Bee Contest
Pranay Varada, the 14-year-old Indian-American student, has won the prestigious USD 50,000 National Geographic Bee competition.
Education | Press Trust of India | Updated: May 18, 2017 14:00 IST
New Delhi: Pranay Varada, the 14-year-old Indian-American student, has won the prestigious USD 50,000 National Geographic Bee competition, maintaining the dominance of the community in the contest. "I was absolutely sure I could win that challenge," Varada said soon after bagging the coveted competition, which for the past one decade has been dominated by Indian- Americans. "Having done this for such a long time and winning it now, it's just a feeling of satisfaction," Varada, an eighth grader from Texas, said.
A runner up last year, Varada this time did not want to give any chance. He was declared the winner as he won the first tie breaker question when he correctly identified the Kunlun Mountains as the 1,200 mile range that separates the Taklimakan Desert from the Tibetan Plateau.
As a result, he gets USD 50,000 in scholarship and other prizes.
Veda Bhattaram another Indian-American from New Jersey finished third at the finals held here last night, while Thomas Wright from Wisconsin was declared the runner up. Wright received USD 25,000 and Bhattaram got USD 10,000 in scholarships.
This year, six of the 10 finalists were Indian-Americans.
Indian-Americans have won the National Geographic Bee competition for the last six consecutive. Last year, Rishi Nair, a sixth grader from Florida, had won the contest.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Canadian Serial Killer Who Killed 8 Men To Be Sentenced On Friday
Bruce McArthur, 67, was arrested in January 2018 in connection with a police investigation of missing men in Toronto's Gay Village neighborhood, and was charged with the murders of five men in a case that shook Toronto's gay community.
World | Reuters | Updated: February 06, 2019 00:28 IST
Bruce McArthur pleaded guilty to killing the eight men (Reuters)
The sentencing of Bruce McArthur, a Canadian man who pleaded guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder, has been moved to Friday, Justice John McMahon told a Toronto court during a hearing on Tuesday.
McArthur, 67, was arrested in January 2018 in connection with a police investigation of missing men in Toronto's Gay Village neighborhood, and was charged with the murders of five men in a case that shook Toronto's gay community.
Last week, McArthur pleaded to killing eight men: Selim Esen, Andrew Kinsman, Majeed Kayhan, Soroush Mahmudi, Dean Lisowick, Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, Skandaraj Navaratnam and Abdulbasir Faizi.
A sentencing hearing that began on Monday revealed graphic details of the killings, including how Kinsman's blood was found in McArthur's van, and pictures from McArthur's computer containing photos of Esen, Kinsman, Mahmudi and Lisowick.
Craig Harper, a Crown attorney, said the Crown was seeking consecutive sentences for the six murders that McArthur was eligible to be charged for. Harper also said he wanted McArthur's parole set at 50 years.
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Chinese Rights Lawyer Gets Over 4 Years In Jail For "Subversion"
Charged in January 2016 with alleged state subversion, Wang Quanzhang had been the last of more than 200 lawyers and activists arrested in the 709 crackdown to be tried or released.
World | Agence France-Presse | Updated: January 28, 2019 08:44 IST
Li Wenzu holds a box with a family picture and the detention notice for her husband Wang Quanzhang.
Beijing:
Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was sentenced on Monday to four and a half years in prison for state subversion, a northern Chinese court said.
Wang, 42, who defended political activists and victims of land seizures, disappeared in a 2015 sweep -- known as the "709" crackdown -- aimed at courtroom critics of Communist authorities.
Charged in January 2016 with alleged state subversion, Wang had been the last of more than 200 lawyers and activists arrested in the 709 crackdown to be tried or released.
Wang was "found guilty of subverting state power, sentenced to four years and six months in prison, and deprived of political rights for five years," the Tianjin Second Intermediate People's Court said in a statement.
After more than two years of being in legal limbo -- detained without a trial date -- Wang's court hearing took place behind closed doors in Tianjin on December 26.
At the time, the court said the trial was closed to the public "due to the state secrets involved".
Wang's wife Li Wenzu was placed under de facto house arrest the day before her husband's trial to prevent her from attending.
Li has actively protested her husband's detention. Last April, she attempted to march 100 kilometres to the detention facility in Tianjin where her husband had been held.
In December, before Wang's court date was announced, Li and three supporters shaved their heads and tried to submit a petition to a Beijing court protesting Wang's detention.
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Eagles' Super Bowl dreams are over after Carson Wentz suffers season-ending ACL tear
By Manish Mehta
Deep down, the scarred souls in this self-proclaimed city of familial adoration knew what had just happened.
When their superstar quarterback soared into the Southern California air and across the goal line for a touchdown that ultimately didn't count, something didn't feel right.
When the charismatic wunderkind resembled a statue in the pocket four plays later before somehow throwing his franchise-record 33rd touchdown pass, something didn't look right.
When the best thing to happen to this organization in God-knows-how-long left the Los Angeles Coliseum on Sunday wrapped in a left knee brace sitting in the back of a cart, the same three words crossed everyone's lips:We're so screwed.
Carson Wentz's season, the Philadelphia Eagles' Super Bowl hopes and a city's belief that maybe this time things would be different is over after the dynamic young signal caller suffered a season-ending ACL injury.
"To the fans, you can't lose faith," Eagles head coach Doug Pederson said Monday after making the announcement. "This has been a resilient football team all year. There's still a lot to play for."
Philly's 43-35 win over the Rams that clinched its first NFC East title in four years was tempered by the reality that their hopes to land the ultimate prize all but vanished.
Wentz was giving the Evil Empire's 40-year-old cyborg quarterback a run for his money for NFL MVP honors with one month left in the regular season. Wentz. Tom Brady. Take your pick. Both were deserving candidates before the Eagles second-year quarterback took one too many chances with his feet late in the third quarter.
Carson Wentz left the Eagles’ win in the third quarter with a knee injury. (Jeff Gross/Getty Images)
Wentz's fearlessness had bordered on recklessness, but the 6-5, 237-pound tank had gotten away with it for nearly two seasons with minimal damage.
Then, Sunday happened. A scramble, a leap and a blow to one invaluable knee that changed everything for a team, franchise and fanbase that frankly deserved better.
The flashbacks were varied for a hardened Philly faithful conditioned to expect the worst.
Maybe Bryce Paup's season-ending blow to Randall Cunningham in the 1991 season opener flashed across their eyes. Maybe the Chicago fog from '88 rolled back into their minds. Maybe Joe Jurevicius was running free again on that final day at The Vet. Maybe they saw Rod Martin or Jim Plunkett. Maybe it was Rodney Harrison flapping his arms after a team of (alleged) cheaters foiled them to grab the Lombardi Trophy.
Every image stung.
Haven't these people suffered enough?
The City of Brotherly Love had transformed into Wentzylvania. Eagles fans damn near had to pinch themselves every Sunday to make sure that all of this was real. They actually had a franchise quarterback? No way. Couldn't be. Things like this weren't supposed to happen to these people. A 24-year-old game-changer at the most important position in team sports?
It was Xanadu.
The Wentz Wagon was packed. He became the savior for a franchise recovering from a fast-talking, power-hungry egomaniac coach, who nearly burned the place to the ground with a litany of bone-headed moves.
Carson Wentz is a favorite to win MVP. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea/USA TODAY Sports)
Wentz was the only quarterback to throw a touchdown pass in every game this season. He threw a cool four more to help his team wipe away the memory of their primetime loss in Seattle last week.
Although the Eagles reclaimed the NFC's top playoff seed from the Vikings, home-field throughout the postseason isn't a lock, especially with Nick Foles under center. Philly can clinch the No. 1 seed with a win at the Giants and a Vikings loss to the Bengals next week. Even if that happens, can the Eagles realistically make it to Super Bowl LII without their biggest difference maker?
Do they stand any chance without Wentz?
"We will pray for him," tight end Brent Celek said.
Philly fans don't B.S. anyone or each other. It's their most endearing quality.
They know the deal: Their Eagles are screwed.
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Book alleges dirty National Party politics; Key 'not fit to be PM'
Nicky Hager's book looks at links between blogger Cameron Slater (top left) and the Prime Minister's office. Photo / NZ Herald
By: Adam Bennett, Claire Trevett, David Fisher, Dene Mackenzie of the Otago Daily Times
Nicky Hager's book Dirty Politics which claims Prime Minister John Key had a hand in releasing an SIS document to blogger Cameron Slater shows Mr Key is "not fit to be Prime Minister", former Labour Leader Phil Goff says.
But Mr Key was this afternoon distancing himself and his colleagues from the allegations made in Mr Hager's book.
The book claims Mr Key's Government uses blogs including Mr Slater's Whaleoil to disseminate smears and scandals it does not want to be associated with.
Amongst its allegations, Mr Hager claims Mr Slater was tipped off to ask the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) for a confidential document about a briefing Mr Goff had with the spy agency in 2011.
The release of the document was embarrassing to Mr Goff at the time because it contradicted comments the Opposition Leader had made publically about the briefing. Mr Hager yesterday said his book showed the incident had been "orchestrated each step of the way from the Prime Minister's office for something that when it came out, we were all told was a spontaneous act of right wing blogger".
"It's a classic example of how in that case the Government had control of SIS information and using its Government position to figure out an attack on the Opposition.
"They would have known it was very grubby to do it themselves to use their inside information so they've farmed it out to a blogger to do it."
Mr Goff said today: "That is exactly what happened between the SIS and Key's office."
"There's only one person that could have leaked that information and that was John Key, either directly to Slater or through (his senior adviser) Jason Ede."
That was "totally contrary to the very strong convention about the confidentiality of security intelligence information".
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"For the minister in charge of the SIS to misuse information for political purposes means that he's actually not fit to be Prime Minister. That is unprecedented, I know of no other example of any minister going back probably as far as the end of the Muldoon administration that has deliberately misused information in that way."
The Green Party has said it intends to lay complaints with police, Parliamentary Service, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security and the Privacy Commissioner following revelations made the book.
Labour says it is taking legal advice over allegations made in the book about Mr Key's staffer Mr Ede working with Mr Slater to gain unauthorised access to Labour Party membership records via a website vulnerability.
Mr Ede is now working on National's re-election campaign. Campaign manager Steven Joyce told the Herald this afternoon Mr Ede - who has so far not responded to requests for comment - had denied accessing the Labour membership records.
Meanwhile former Act Leader Rodney Hide this afternoon denied he had been blackmailed by Mr Slater and National Party activist Simon Lusk into stepping down as Act Leader in 2011.
In an interview on RadioLive, Mr Hide criticised Mr Hager for failing to contact him about the allegations.
PM distances himself from book's claims
Mr Key said today he will be happy for any investigation to be undertaken by any agency into the allegations contained in Mr Hager's book released last night.
Answering questions in Dunedin, Mr Key distanced himself and colleagues from the allegations contained in Dirty Politics: How attack politics is poisoning New Zealand's political environment.
He again accused Nick Hager of being a left-wing conspiracy theorist and said any actions undertaken by Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater were undertaken solely by Mr Slater and not under direction of the National Party.
Some of the damning emails published by Mr Hager alleged conspiracy between National Party staff member Jason Ede and Mr Slater. He claimed Mr Key gave a tacit approval if Mr Ede had undertaken trawling through Labour's website after Mr Slater alerted the site was open to public scrutiny.
Mr Key denied to the Otago Daily Times he had any involvement in any of the allegations contained in the book and was particularly annoyed he was said to have made offensive remarks about a West Coast resident.
"That type of speech is not me." Under persistent questioning, Mr Key said he would not read the book until after the election, it was unlikely he would ask Justice Minister Judith Collins whether she had shifted a prisoner on Mr Slater's behalf and whether Ms Collins had leaked information to Mr Slater.
Ms Collins retained his support.
Mr Key said he talked to Mr Slater three or four times a year, sometimes sent a text message about a story he did not understand and last spoke to the blogger three or four months ago.
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Blogger to complain
Earlier today, Mr Slater said he will complain to police about the hacking of his Whaleoil website and will name entrepreneur Kim Dotcom as someone detectives should speak to.
He said he would also complain to the Privacy Commission, relying on a recent High Court ruling to force from author Nicky Hager his source material for the book.
The Green Party has also said this morning it intends to lay complaints with police, Parliamentary Service, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security and the Privacy Commissioner following revelations made the book.
Slater has come out swinging this morning after publication of the book Dirty Politics which aimed to paint a picture of a National Party obsessed with dirty tricks.
Drawing on emails obtained by a hacker, the book claims Slater is the lead "attack blog" driving negative coverage of political opponents using information from a staff member of the Prime Minister and a senior Cabinet minister.
Slater said it was a clear criminal offence to hack his computer and take his emails.
"There was an illegal obtaining of my emails. There was no legitimate way they could access it. It had to be a hack. I believe it's a criminal offence and there will be a complaint to police." He said he had an "implied admission from Kim Dotcom to one of my sources that he was behind it" so would name him when speaking to police. He said the case would be clear for police to prosecute.
Mr Slater said a source of his had received the texts from Mr Dotcom and forwarded it to Mr Slater. He said the first text said: "See I told you Cam would go down."
A second text soon after said "Gee, I wonder who hacked those emails" and had a smiley face at the end of it.
He intended to release the texts after he had removed the source identifiers.
Mr Slater spoke to the Herald from South Korea on his way to Israel. He said he would gather his evidence and go to Police over the hacking of his emails and would definitely lay a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner.
He said sources of his from Dotcom's mansion had told him Mr Hagar was a frequent visitor to the mansion.
"Now I've got the implied acknowledgement that Dotcom did the hack. The guy's got a history of hacking, he's got convictions for hacking. No surprises there."
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Insiders in Anonymous - a hacking group - had told him others in the group were gloating about how the hack was done "at Dotcom's behest".
Slater said a recent decision by the High Court which stripped Privacy Act protection from book authors meant he would be able to force Hager to divulge source information.
Slater said the book was a selective use of emails which were taken from his website during the Denial of Service attack in January.
The "selective" nature of the communications used showed "he's playing judge and jury with other people's communications".
Slater said the information was taken during a 15-minute window during the attack, which was designed to take over his website's defences.
Slater said there was another 10-minute window beyond that during which his social media accounts were exposed.
Slater said suspected information had been taken from him during the Denial of Service attack.
"I kept that quiet to see where it turned up. I had no idea what they had got. I knew an attempt to get in had occurred but not that they had taken anything although one must assume they have." He said he did not warn anyone their communications had been taken because he had "no idea as to the extent of it".
Listen to Newtalk ZB's interview of Cameron Slater:
Slater said he had 80GB of email data which meant the 8GB that Hager claimed to have was only a fraction of the content he had.
"It's still a massive breach of privacy. Nicky has clearly breached my privacy."
Slater said it contrasted with Hager's revelations about surveillance systems. "The guy is a sanctimonious hypocrite."
He questioned the authenticity of emails communications between himself and Justice minister Judith Collins. The book claims there were hundreds of emails exchanged but Slater said Mrs Collins rarely emailed him.
"I would think there would be very few emails from her. It's certainly not embarrassing for me and I don't think it's embarrassing from her perspective."
Slater also rejected claims he was paid to place articles on his website for the alcohol and tobacco lobby. "I run a business and I offer PR and social media advice and I charge for that privilege."
He said he was not paid to post material. "I get paid for advice."
Asked if the "advice" resulted in posts on the blog, he said: "It may have."
He said mainstream media companies were also forming commercial relationships which influenced their editorial content. When compared to what he did, he said there was no difference.
Mr Hager said this morning that Mr Slater's claims about Mr Dotcom were a "total diversion".
"Did Dotcom have anything vaguely to do with my book or the source of my book? No, no, that is just a diversion."
The author said that if he had been offered the information by Mr Dotcom, he would not have accepted it: "I don't believe in taking information from political people."
Mr Hager said he understood that a number of people in the hacker community were involved with obtaining the correspondence.
He spoke to one of them, and "questioned him carefully about his motives". He did not think the person was part of the international hacker community known as Anonymous, saying it was "nothing as dramatic as that".
Mr Hager confirmed that he had met with Mr Dotcom on two occasions because of their shared interest in spying and intelligence matters.
On one of these occasions he was invited to Mr Dotcom's mansion by the entrepreneur's lawyer Willie Akel to discuss how the GCSB worked.
On the other occasion, he ran into him at a Town Hall meeting.
Mr Hager said: "I don't know the man. I've got nothing to do with him... I have never spoken to him or had any contact via another person with him ever apart from those things."
Green Party to lay complaints
The Green Party says it will make complaints to police, Parliamentary Service, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security and the Privacy Commissioner following revelations made in Nicky Hager's book Dirty Politics.
Complaints will be lodged with:
* Parliamentary Service over allegations that John Key's senior adviser Jason Ede was involved in inappropriately supplying confidential information to blogger Cameron Slater.
* Police over the alleged possibility that officials working for Mr Key corruptly used or disclosed any information, acquired by him or her in his or her official capacity, to obtain, advantage.
* Police over allegations of blackmail involving former ACT leader Rodney Hide.
* Police over allegations of unauthorised access to a computer system under Sections 249 and 252 of the Crimes Act.
* The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security over allegations that sensitive documents were declassified in order to be used as political smears.
* The Privacy Commissioner over allegations that Minister Judith Collins leaked private information.
Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei said Prime Minister John Key had "degraded our democracy".
"The New Zealand public cannot have any confidence in our democracy until these claims are investigated and offenders held to account.
"We need the police, Parliamentary Service, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security and the Privacy Commissioner to investigate immediately."
Kiwiblog's David Farrar: Nothing new
Kiwiblog blogger David Farrar told Radio New Zealand this morning Hager's book didn't reveal anything that he hadn't already made public himself.
Farrar has a right-wing blog and is open about the fact he is a National Party member.
"It will be no surprise to anyone that people in National sometimes pass information on to people they think will be a bit sympathetic," he said.
Farrar said any suggestion that he and Slater discussed blog posts didn't mean they were colluding.
"We email each other of course... this is Nicky's great act, is calling people talking to each other collusion."
Hager: Book shows "unseen side" of National's politics
Listen to Newtalk ZB's interview of Nicky Hager:
The book is claimed to be based on thousands of emails obtained by a hacker from computers operated by Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater.
In Hager's view it also highlights what he believes to be the close relationship between Justice Minister Judith Collins and Mr Slater.
Hager said Mr Key had "cultivated a very respectable image of being friendly and relaxed" but in his view there was an unseen side to his politics the public needed to see before voting.
He said links to bloggers by staff and ministers who answered to Mr Key meant he should be "accountable for ... using such an ugly tool as part of his political management".
PM, Collins react to Hager's claims
The book was dismissed by the Prime Minister last night. A spokeswoman said: "This is a cynically timed attack book from a well-known left-wing conspiracy theorist. It makes all sorts of unfounded allegations and voters will see it for what it is."
Ms Collins, whose emails to Slater are claimed to be quoted throughout the book, said: "I don't care what he's alleging. Quite frankly, I can't be bothered with the man. I agree with [Mr Key] - he's a left-wing conspiracy theorist."
Slater, who was on a pre-arranged visit to Israel last night, also dismissed the book as a "conspiracy story". On his blog, he wrote: "It is of course likely to be a very single-sided affair, and a direct attack on the Government to hurt it at election time. What is being framed here is only one side of politics in New Zealand."
A hacker was said to have taken the information from Slater after the blogger in January described the victim of a West Coast car crash as "feral". The material was then sent to Hager.
Hager said he believed the emails he had obtained showed how Slater was supplied information from contacts deep in Mr Key's administration, including Ms Collins and Mr Key's press secretary Jason Ede.
It charts Slater's growing links with the National Party from the 2008 election through to last month.
The National Party had previously denied having any knowledge or involvement in scandals driven by the Whale Oil blog.
Allegation Labour Party website accessed
But in at least one case, Hager aimed to show the Beehive was directly linked to blog attacks where it had previously denied knowledge.
In 2011, Slater was alerted to a hole in the Labour Party website which allowed him to access huge amounts of personal information about members.
Hager believed that Slater and Mr Ede worked on the issue together, with the Beehive staffer later discussing how he obscured his identity through email accounts that could not be traced to him, and Facebook accounts in false names.
The book also claimed Slater had been fed inside information from the Beehive allowing him to ask precise questions through the Official Information Act. An example saw former Opposition Leader Phil Goff contradicted over public comments after Slater was specifically directed to data he could obtain from the SIS.
The trove of emails included hundreds between Slater and Ms Collins, including one in which she told the blogger: "If you can't be loved, then best to be feared." She urged him to pay back "double" any injury suffered, to which he replied: "I learned the rule from you."
The book also claimed an email directly from Ms Collins was used almost word-for-word on the website, claiming it came from "the tipline".
According to Hager, Ms Collins provided increasing amounts of material for the Whale Oil blog, including an attack on a ministerial staff member that prompted death threats against the man.
Mr Ede declined to be interviewed by the Herald.
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Guide Talk: You Wish You Had His Life
Meet Eric Riley, OARS’ Wyoming Regional Manager
I caught Eric Riley, OARS’ Wyoming Regional Manager, on the phone from his home in Jackson Hole. But as I quickly found out, this longtime guide and whitewater kayaker is rarely there. He does what the rest of us wish we could do for “work”—travels the world and has incredible adventures.
But he’s no slacker if that’s what you’re thinking. Besides running sea kayaking and rafting trips for OARS in the Tetons, Riley is also a wilderness medicine instructor and runs his own company called Swiftwater Safety Institute that takes him everywhere from Alaska to Asia to train other whitewater guides. And when he’s not working—which he seems to do just to support his next big trip—he’s traveling to some great surfing destination, paragliding spot, or river you’ve never heard of. You wish you had his life. Or, at least I do. Meet OARS Guide Eric Riley…
You’ve been with OARS for more than a decade. What led you down this path?
I grew up in the Boise area and I started boating in the Payette drainage. Up in Idaho that’s what you do. That’s how I got my start.
How did you get into whitewater kayaking?
A friend of mine, Jesse Sears, another longtime OARS guide, got me into the pool for a roll session. That was probably the winter of 2001. We didn’t work on any mechanics. We didn’t work on a damn thing that was appropriate. He just showed me how to roll really quickly using kind of bad technique as I would later find out in life. Then, the next time I was in a kayak was the following summer on the Payette. And right at the put-in, I rolled. I was really good at that but didn’t have any other skill. I didn’t know how to paddle. I didn’t know how to brace. I didn’t have any other technique so it was really quite humbling. The first rapid you come to is called, “Whitewater 101.” And yup, I swam. I think I was probably cussing out Jesse the whole time for not really teaching me what I needed to know—how to brace, paddle, how to stay up right, you know.
Yikes! What other kinds of gnarly wilderness situations have you gotten yourself into?
We were just up in Alaska to do this real cool packraft adventure. Just a day trip. We were doing about 33-miles combined—river miles and hiking—and we blew the take-out. We had to stay the night out there, and this is dense grizzly bear country. It was a little scary. You should have seen some of these grizzly tracks. They were absolutely huge. Yeah, sketchy. We built this shelter out of driftwood, had to sleep in our dry suits, got a little fire going…and we survived. We had bear spray and a really big hand gun, so at least we had that stuff, but you feel kind of silly when it’s happening. But good stories around the bar, you know?
You clearly live for whitewater, but I know you’ve guided a lot of sea kayaking trips. What do like about sea kayaking compared to whitewater?
You get to think about whatever you want to think about and let your mind wander. On a nice early morning, when the sun is just rising and you’re on glassy water, it’s just paddle stroke after paddle stroke and you reach these super, incredible spots. When you’re whitewater rafting, you’re always thinking about your next move. Looking around for your buddies, making sure everything is good. You don’t get to take in these huge canyons or wherever you might be. And that’s what I really like about sea kayaking, especially being in the Tetons. You get these views—you can’t even describe them, they’re amazing. It reminds me of a place in Switzerland I’ve visited before with the mountains and the lake. It’s just super sweet.
Tell me about some of the other cool places you’ve visited?
Alaska kind of holds my heart. The rivers up there, and the wildness and remoteness, it’s hard to find that in other places. And I was on the OARS Bhutan trip and got to row a gear boat through some of the toughest whitewater I’ve ever been on in a raft.
What’s something you can’t leave home without?
My shark taser. It’s not really a real thing, but in my head it is. Growing up in Idaho, not even going into the ocean until I was like 15, and watching jaws WAY too much—I hate sharks. And I love to surf, but it takes me like two weeks to get comfortable in the ocean every time I go back. I always go surfing with Bram Role [another OARS guide]. He’s always giving me a hard time and saying like, “Hey man, got your shark taser today?” And I need one. I’m freaked out.
Do you have a best-trip-ever story?
Panama. The Rio Cangandi. It was a 4-day packraft trip where we had horse support. We traveled over the continental divide, encountered salt water crocs, poisonous arrows, native Kuna Yala tribes and were welcomed as guests at a ceremonial dinner. Our terminus was the Carribbean Sea. Coolest river trip in the history of river trips!
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Irvine Cybersecurity Company Raises $20M
By Jane Yu
Irvine-based cybersecurity software company Cylance Inc. raised $20 million from Blackstone Group LP in New York, Khosla Ventures and Fairhaven Capital, along with other private investors.
Menlo Park-based Khosla and Fairhaven are returning investors; they provided $15 million for Cylance’s Series A round last year.
Cylance is headed by Chief Executive Stuart McClure, former global chief technology officer at McAfee Inc. McClure cofounded the company in 2012.
The startup uses mathematical and algorithmic models to detect and prevent security threats.
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Alert 2001-2
Subject: Unauthorized Banking
Description: British Bank of Commerce
Unauthorized Banking: British Bank of Commerce
To: Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks; All State Banking Authorities; Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Deputy Comptrollers (Districts); Assistant Deputy Comptrollers; District Counsel and Examining Personnel
Information has been received that the subject entity may be operating a banking business in the United States without authorization. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has not granted a national bank charter to this entity and the state of New York has not granted permission for it to operate a banking business.
Any information which you may have concerning this matter should be brought to the attention of:
Mail: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Enforcement & Compliance Division,
250 E Street, SW,
Internet: http://www.occ.treas.gov
E-mail: alertresponses@occ.treas.gov
Mail: New York State Banking Department
2 Rector Street
Brian C. McCormally
Enforcement & Compliance Division
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90's Grunge On The Screen
THE QUICK SELL
This coming-of-age drama blasts open the world of grunge-era teenagers in the early 90s.
William Dickerson
Conor Proft, Harry Hamlin, Michaela Cavazos, William Dickerson
This is a coming-of-age movie and a homage to almost every teenager growing up in the grunge-era of the early nineties. More than that though it’s a deeply personal story written and directed by William Dickerson who also wrote the 2012 novel upon which the film is based.
Michaela Cavazos is wonderful as the disturbed Bridget Harrison, her character is well observed (although possibly a little cliched) but she’s believable even in her darkest moments. There are one or two thoroughly cringy moments, though others might call these brilliant – her first performance as Bri Da B (her gangster persona she develops as a total rejection of her brothers punk-rock) being one.
Conor Proft (Thomas Harrison) and Michaela have an interesting chemistry as siblings that’s fraught with silent misunderstanding but again feels very true to life.
Without spoiling the plot, towards the end the film does take a sudden turn which seems to be making a point rather than following the rhythm of the movie.
Whilst the final scene rounds off the film well enough though, I did find it more than a little awkward though that may well have been the point.
There’s some great background music in the movie although probably not suited to everyone’s tastes. Personally I would liked to have heard even more and spent a good while trying track down Latterday Saints – Turbulence (to no avail).
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Pondok Ambung Research...
Borneo's biodiversity; the Orangutan Foundation Research site
The new face to the Pangkalan Bun Indonesian office is Pak Arie. As our new manager for Pondok Ambung - Station for Tropical Research. The research site has been vital for many studies since 2005, including proboscis monkeys, fish, butterflies, the false gharial, orangutans and the stunning variety of bird life. Please do share on this post with your friends and family! Check out our facebook account and twitter account to keep in touch with us!
Pak Arie has already been a good addition to the team, keen to develop Pondok Ambung – new posters have been sent out to Indonesian universities about the research grants available – and you in the UK can apply too! Pak Arie recently re-surveyed the site, telling us more about two less studied species…
We think of tarantulas as primarily South American, but Borneo also have their own species - the Sweet Brown Tarantula (Aphonopelma Sp.).
Our team regularly see these nests in the day time, but would have to wait till dark to observe these arachnids nocturnal behaviour.
We are proud of the work we are doing on the ground, but there what about species living on the ground?! The Ling Zhi mushroom (Ganoderma sp.) was recently highlighted as an important species growing at Pondok Ambung.
Within tropical areas, there is a high species diversity of macroscopic fungi, mostly unstudied within remote Indonesian forests. Data and literature on macroscopic fungi generally details those in subtropical regions that have different qualities than those in the tropics. Fungi perform essential role in maintaining the balance and composition of the soil, acting as a decomposer, which in turn helps fertilization. Fungi also can be used as drugs for their multiple medicinal uses. For example, Ling Jhi are fungi that have been cultivated in many countries such as Japan and China. Since 1999 these fungi have been used by an Indonesian company as herbal ingredients.
Swimming peacefully through the rivers near Pondok Ambung, the black rayed softshell turtle (Amyda cartilaginea/ Trionyx cartilaginous or Labi-labi in Indonesian) might pass you by.
Turtles can be studied around the pier of Pondok Ambung. These are stunning creatures when you look at their shells, but with odd faces! They are active either day or night, usually requiring a muddy area to lay and hatch their eggs activities. Listed as vulnerable by IUCN, it’s always welcome news when we hear about sightings from the field. Pictured here, the team are measuring the turtle for our research records.
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First Look: Felt AR2
Aerodynamics and comfort don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
Aaron Gulley
Out of the box, the 2014 Felt AR2 looks as sleek and aggressive as a stealth bomber. And the likeness held up after a few months of riding, with almost every tester who’s tried it impressed by this aero bike’s speed.
Every company has its concepts about aerodynamics—all of which are tested in a wind tunnel. Although many bikes have turned to air-foil shapes in recent years, Felt maintains that its ovalized tubes are faster.
While it would be prohibitively expensive to put all the bikes in a wind tunnel to test that claim, we will say that on a timed course with the same wheels, the Felt was just as fast as any other aero bike we tested this year. And for the record, Felt says the AR2 is 30 percent faster than a standard round-tube bike, which essentially equals free watts.
Wind-cheating aside, this bike is also very comfortable. Normally because of the shaping on aero bikes, the tubes must be reinforced for stiffness, which can both add weight and make for a jarring ride. The AR2’s frame, however, weighs just 900 grams (claimed weight), and the ride is as supple as some endurance bikes we’ve tried.
If that sounds hard to believe, well, we were incredulous ourselves. But apparently Felt has done its homework with the carbon layups because the bike smooths out bumpy chip-coat and wide heat seams. At first we approached rough patches with caution, expecting a jolt to the tailbone and spine, but soon we realized that the AR2 tracks effortlessly over them.
Our tester is equipped with Ultegra Di2 components, which are as quick and durable as Dura Ace Di2 with just a small weight penalty. The cables are all routed internally, contributing to the bike’s aerodynamics and slick look. The sprinter’s shifters—which allow for gear changes from the drops and even additional shift options from the hoods—are included. Some people complain about the added complication and cost of electronic shifting, but these supplemental shifters (as well as the climber’s shifter, which isn’t included) add benefits that can’t be matched by mechanical drivetrains.
The AR2 is completed with 3T Accelero 40 wheels, which have an aluminum structure (including the brake track) covered by a carbon fairing for aerodynamics. So far, they’re our least favorite component on the bike due to their stiffness. The unorthodox seat clamp design that tightens from either side helps cut through the wind, but it’s a bit tricky to set up. On the other hand, the remainder of the components, including lots of 3T carbon bits and piece, are solid and excellent.
The AR2 is not inexpensive ($6,200), and there are two higher-end models with lighter carbon layups that are being sold as frame sets only. Felt also offers three more affordable versions of the bike: the AR3 R with SRAM Red for $5,150, the AR4 with Shimano Ultegra mechanical for $3,500, and the AR5 with Shimano 105 for $2,500.
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Perth Glory star Travis Dodd has spent two days in Alice Springs on the 2012 FIFA Indigenous Grassroots Coaching Course
Perth Glory star Travis Dodd has spent two days in Alice Springs on the 2012 FIFA Indigenous Grassroots Coaching Course.
Dodd, the first Indigenous player to score for the Socceroos said the chance to help develop grassroots football, within Indigenous communities was extremely important.
“These programs are essential to create an awareness and ‘passion- for the game, especially for grassroots football participants, their families and surrounding communities,” Dodd said.
“We also need to link local players to club football.
“The course was a great success and I look forward to making a positive contribution on a regular basis.
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As Growth Stalls, Unauthorized Immigrant Population Becomes More Settled
By Jeffrey S. Passel, D’Vera Cohn, Jens Manuel Krogstad and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera
Hoefer, Michael, Nancy Rytina and Bryan Baker. 2012. “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2011.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics, March.
Lopez, Mark Hugo, Paul Taylor, Cary Funk and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera. 2013. “On Immigration Policy, Deportation Relief Seen as More Important Than Citizenship.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center. December.
Los Angeles Times. “Immigration Activists Push Reform Despite Possible White House Delay.” Aug. 29, 2014.
New York Times. “Deportation Policy Shift is Signaled by Obama.” March 14, 2014.
Passel, Jeffrey S., Rebecca L. Clark, and Michael Fix. 1997. “Naturalization and Other Current Issues in U.S. Immigration: Intersections of Data and Policy.” Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association: 1997. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
Passel, Jeffrey. 2007. “Unauthorized Migrants in the United States: Estimates, Methods, and Characteristics.” OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 57. Paris: OECD Working Party on Migration, September.
Passel, Jeffrey S. and D’Vera Cohn. 2010. “U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows Are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, September.
Passel, Jeffrey S. and D’Vera Cohn. 2008. “Trends in Unauthorized Immigration: Undocumented Inflow Now Trails Legal Inflow.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, October.
Passel, Jeffrey S., D’Vera Cohn, and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera. 2013. “Population Decline of Unauthorized Immigrants Stalls, May Have Reversed.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, September.
Passel, Jeffrey S., D’Vera Cohn, and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera. 2012. “Net Migration from Mexico Falls to Zero—and Perhaps Less.” Washington, DC: Pew Research Center, April.
Pew Research Center. 2014a. “Public Divided Over Increased Deportation of Unauthorized Immigrants.” Washington, D.C.: February.
Pew Research Center. 2014b. “Surge of Central American Children Roils U.S. Immigration Debate.” Washington, D.C.: July.
Pew Research Center. 2014c. “More Prioritize Border Security in Immigration Debate.” Washington, D.C.: September.
Ruggles, Steven, J. Trent Alexander, Katie Genadek, Ronald Goeken, Matthew B. Schroeder and Matthew Sobek. 2010. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: Version 5.0 [Machine-readable database]. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota.
Taylor, Paul, Mark Hugo Lopez, Jeffrey S. Passel and Seth Motel. 2011. “Unauthorized Immigrants: Length of Residency, Patterns of Parenthood.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center. December.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. 2014. “Southwest Border Unaccompanied Alien Children.” Washington, D.C., accessed Sept. 3, 2014.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security. 2014. “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Process (Through Fiscal Year 2014, 3rd Qtr).” Washington, D.C.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security. 2012. Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2012. Washington, D.C.
Warren, Robert and John Robert Warren. 2013. “Unauthorized Immigration to the United States: Annual Estimates and Components of Change, by State, 1990 to 2010.” International Migration Review 47 (2, June): 296-329.
Washington Post. “How Far Can Obama Go on Deportations?” Aug. 6, 2014.
White House. 2014. Statement by the President. Washington, D.C.: August. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/28/statement-president
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World of Darkness: a new vampire MMO from the creators of EVE Online
Eve Online creators CCP have revealed more about their sinister MMO, World of Darkness. It's all about being a vampire. It's based on the World of Darkness pen and paper RPG system developed by White Wolf, who CCP merged with back in '06. The same system behind Troika's flawed by brilliant RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade.
Massively have some fresh news from the White Wolf Grand Masquerade event that took place this weekend. Like Eve Online, the whole game will take place at night on a single server. You'll start out as a mortal, and will have to make the choice whether or not to become a vampire for the duration of your existence. Ironically, In a game about achieving immortality as a monster of the night, you will be able to die permanently.
The MMO hopes to stay true to the nature of White Wolf's world. Expect gore, nudity and madness to feature prominently. Massively also say that there will be a heavy emphasis on live action roleplaying (LARPing), with plot lines that will bleed out into real world ARG events. "Player politics" will be a big part of the experience, something CCP have excellent experience with in Eve Online, the most politically fraught and MMO in the world.
Gamespot have some wobble-cam footage of the introductory teaser trailer shown at last year's Grand Masquerade event, which you can see below. It's hard to imagine how the dual mortal life/vampire system, the LARPing and permadeath will work, logistically, but an MMO set in the World of Darkness universe is fascinating prospect. Who wants to be a vampire?
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Angry Birds fly on RIM PlayBook
The game not yet available on BlackBerry smartphones
John Ribeiro (IDG News Service) on 22 December, 2011 19:33
Research In Motion said Wednesday that the popular game Angry Birds is available on the PlayBook, though not yet on BlackBerry phones which run a different operating system.
RIM's PlayBook, like its smartphones, is generally perceived as business-focused with less support from vendors of consumer apps. The availability of Rovio Entertainment's Angry Birds and its sequels Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Season on BlackBerry AppWorld may help change that image.
The game is already available on devices including the iPhone and iPad from Apple, Nokia phones, and devices running the Android operating system. Rovio said in November that downloads of the game had topped 500 million across all platforms.
On Blackberry AppWorld, the three games cost US$5 each, more than on other operating systems.
RIM said earlier this month that it was recording a pre-tax provision of $485 million in the third quarter of its fiscal year 2012, relating to its inventory valuation of PlayBook tablets.
The company said it had a high inventory of the product and needed to increase promotional activity because of the changed competitive landscape and its delay in releasing the second version of the device's OS, which will now be available in February. Retailers have been discounting the device.
John Ribeiro covers outsourcing and general technology breaking news from India for The IDG News Service. Follow John on Twitter at @Johnribeiro. John's e-mail address is john_ribeiro@idg.com
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The five coolest tech products that should have ar...
The five coolest tech products that should have arrived in 2018 but didn't
Waiting is the hardest part.
Michael Simon (PC World (US online)) on 24 December, 2018 22:00
Credit: IDG
The last 12 months were filled with ground-breaking products. We saw in-display fingerprint sensors break into the mainstream, the world’s first foldable displays in action, and crazy leaps in cameras and computational photography, all on devices small enough to fit in a bag (or a pocket). But among all the great things we got, there were a few things that didn’t make it—products and features that were promised in 2018 but won’t be arriving until 2019 (if at all):
Apple AirPower
At this point AirPower is the stuff of legend. Announced alongside the iPhone X in 2017, it was supposed to be the first pad capable of charging three devices at once (namely an iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods). Except it never arrived. Then Apple scrubbed all mention of it from its site and didn’t mention it at all during the September iPhone event. In fact, the only indication that Apple is even working on it was an accidental mention in the quick start guide inside the iPhone box this year. So what we’re trying to say is, your guess is as good as ours.
Samsung Galaxy Home
Michael Simon/IDG
Samsung had a surprise up its sleeve at its summer Unpacked event and it wasn’t the Galaxy Note 9’s price tag: It was the Galaxy Home, a smart speaker powered by Bixby. Packed with Spotify integration, far-field voice recognition, and natural sound processing and optimization, the Galaxy Home is Samsung’s answer to both the Amazon Echo and Apple HomePod. At its unveiling, Samsung promised more information “soon,” and said it would be sharing “a lot more” about Galaxy Home at the Samsung Developer Conference in November. Neither of those things happened. So, we wait.
Google Maps AR directions
At its I/O Conference in May, Google shared a ton of great features that made Photos, News, and Android better than ever. But one of the coolest things Google showed off was a new feature in Maps: AR walking directions. Instead of spinning and turning your phone to figure out which way you’re supposed to go, a cute cartoon fox bounds into and out of the screen to lead you in the right direction. Here’s hoping we get to follow it on a stroll in 2019.
Google Assistant on Sonos speakers
Michael Brown / IDG
The Sonos One was supposed to be the ultimate smart speaker, with Alexa and Google Assistant integration as well as AirPlay 2 support. While we got Alexa out of the gate and AirPlay 2 a little later in the year, Sonos recently announced that Assistant won’t be arriving until next year. There is a private beta that users can join, assuming they can commit to at least 14 hours of listening per week, 10 voice commands daily, and mandatory survey response within 72 hours. For the rest of us, we’ll be wait until 2019 to say “Hey Google” to our Sonos speakers.
Intel’s ultra-fast 10nm CPUs
Gordon Mah Ung
2018 (again) was supposed to be the year Intel finally delivered a breakthrough 10nm processor with expanded memory, souped-up speeds, and powerful performance. Instead, we got small quantities of the low-end 10nm Cannon Lake for laptops in Asia only, along with admissions that further 10nm products remained delayed. In December, Intel vowed that its 10nm processors would be arriving in the form of Sunny Cove cores sometime in 2019. After so many empty promises, we’ll believe it when we see it.
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2017 Hyundai Santa Fe vs. 2016 Mazda CX-5
Fantastic performance, spacious amenities, and comprehensive safety technology make choosing the 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe a very easy decision! It's an SUV meant to take charge on the road and in all weather, yet do so in a stylish and smooth manner. When compared to the 2016 Mazda CX-5, drivers will immediately see why Hyundai is clearly the leader in design and comfortability. To be sure, let's compare these two cars a little closer.
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The 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe has incredible force packed into its compact frame. A 290-hp 3.3L V6 engine with 252 lb. ft. torque, combined with FWD or AWD six-speed automatic SHIFTRONIC® transmission, makes it a formidable presence in every situation. Hill start and downhill brake assists, and a towing capacity of 5,000 lbs. are additional reasons to love this vehicle.
The 2016 Mazda CX-5, however, doesn't have the same oomph. Whether powered by a 155-hp 2.0L engine with 150 lb. ft. torque, or a 184-hp 2.5L engine with 185 lb. ft. torque, it's a disappointment. Six-speed automatic or manual transmission, and only a 2,000 lbs. towing capacity aren't impressive, and neither is the un-enhanced driving dynamics.
Spacious Features
More room and nicer details make the 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe a much better choice than the 2016 CX-5:
2017 Hyundai Santa Fe: Everyone will appreciate the ample space in the 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe, which has front 56.7" hip, 59.4" shoulder, and 41.3" leg room, and rear 55.4" hip, 58.3" shoulder, and 40.4" leg room. Cargo volume is also generous at 40.9-80. cu. ft. Eight-way power adjustable driver's seating and four-way power adjustable passenger seating, four 12V outlets, cargo underfloor storage, and a third row that increases passenger seating to six or seven strongly heighten the appeal.
2016 Mazda CX-5: There's not as much comfortability in the 2016 Mazda CX-5, due to front 55.2" hip, 57.5" shoulder, and 41" leg room, and rear 53.7" hip, 55.5" shoulder, and 39.3" leg room. Less space is also available for luggage, necessities, and groceries, since the cargo volume range is only 34.1-64.8 cu. ft. The manual driver and passenger seating has lower options, there's not as many 12Vs and additional storage, and the five-passenger room puts a sharper limit on your party size.
Strong Safety
Lane change assist, blind spot monitoring, and rear cross-traffic alert are amongst the highlights of the 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe's driver assistance measures. A fantastic Dynamic Bending Light system, 360° camera, and automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection are some of the additional options that emphasize this SUV's strong attention to peace of mind. There aren't as many of these features available for all of the CX-5's trims, further decreasing its appeal and value.
Take Your 2017 Santa Fe Home from Hilton Head Hyundai
Set up a test drive at Hilton Head Hyundai, to experience the 2017 Santa Fe up close and personal! Our 51 Auto Mall Blvd., Hardeeville, SC. showroom is open Monday through Saturday, from 9 a.m to 8 p.m., and on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Experience how the Santa Fe is better suited than the Mazda CX-5 for your busy life on the road!
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Why German rides are better than yours - RD Sussman
There are a few things German's are famous for ... Beer, their inexplicable love for all things David Hasselhoff and of course, the making of amazing coasters and amusement park rides.
It's this last one that RD is taking a look at today and why Zee Germans have such a cult following, some would even say religious fanaticism. Enjoy!!
Opinion ... Written by RD Sussman
As many of my readers & most people on Earth know, I have a certain, well, 'fondness' for German built & designed rides. OK, more than a 'fondness' - more of an absolute devotion to them - more so than any other ride builder. The Germans get it right - first time. They make insane, intense, thirlling rides, and do so with gusto. They push the boundaries of technology, they think outside the box, and they push the envelope further along with each stride forward. German rides WORK - and work hard.
So what its it about these fine products from Deutschland that makes them better than what you have at your local park? I like to think of it this way: If your local park has a German in it, you're lucky. Two in a park? You're blessed. Three in a park? You're actually standing IN GERMANY, most likely at Hansa Park or Europa Park. A few parks in the USA have realized this - some of which have some real whoppers of attractions.
Let's take a look at a few of the major designers that have created absolute German Perfection:
Gerstlauer Amusement Rides GMBH
Dare Devil Dive - Six Flags Over Georgia
Even Dolly knows German Perfection...after all, she's got TWO BIG GERMANS!
For the past 25 years, Gerstlauer has been creating new ideas in rides based upon their rich history and legacy as a base for pushing forward. Until the late 90s, they were primarily a shop producing ride electronics for Zierer, Schwarzkopf & other builders, but it was 1998 that brought forth their first coasters - in the form of a new-generation Wild Mouse concept called the Bobsled (or Bobs for short.) 2003 saw them re-think the idea of the compact coaster, and the Eurofighter was born.
Combining a vertical lift, beyond vertical drops & insane geometry & inversions, this concept proved to be a hit - and then led to many offshoots and custom built coasters. The ability to put $10.00 worth of thrills on $2.00 worth of land became a calling card for Gerstlauer, along with superior quality, reliability & efficiency. In 2013, they took the Eurofighter concept one step further, with the Infinity Class - and turned the world upside down again. 14 times. Smiler opened, people arrived, and the world was thrilled.
And now, Gerstlauer takes another leap forward with Karnan - a 218 foot tall monster that pushes the Infinity class to Hypercoaster levels - and beyond. With four Infinity Class coasters built to date, they have made their claim - and taken their stake - as a design house & builder NOT to be missed.
Zierer
Verbolten - Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Timber Twister - Gilroy Gardens
Possibly the most prolific of the German builders, Zierer's roots started out in carnival rides & small carousels, and evolved into their popular (and NUMEROUS) Tivoli coasters. Inexpensive, durable & great for small parks, Zierer's Tivoli coasters became a calling card for a good family ride. Customizable models allowed almost any length, height & speed available, and a monster capacity made them great people-eaters in parks.
Evolution of the Tivoli brought us the Force series of family coasters, which have been thrilling the masses for the past 12 years. 2006 brought their biggest step forward in the coaster market, with the addition of the ESC (Extended Seating Coaster) to the market, and introducing a whole new generation of full-sized coaster to the market. It is this technology combined with LSM power that has fired them to the forefront of family coasting with Verbolten, as well as to their next generation of rides in their Tower Coaster collection. The future is shining bright for Zierer, and with an arsenal ranging from mild to wild, they are here to stay.
MACK GMBH
Coast Rider - Knott's Berry Farm
Manta - Sea World San Diego
By far the oldest ride builder on Earth, MACK has been in the amusement business for 230 years. With such strong roots, it is surprising that their first coaster models did not appear until 1960, with their Meteor family coaster. 1976 brought their most popular model to date, the Blauer Enzian powered coaster series to light, a model that proved a stalwart of many parks around the world. Still popular to this day, the most recent model opened up in Hong Kong at Ocean Park in 2012.
But it was the leap forward with two models that makes them stand out: 1985's Bobsled coaster, and 1996's Wild Mouse designs. The Bobsled was not a sales success - with only 10 opened over the past 30 years, but it was a show-stopper of a ride: A ride that allowed you to experience controlled bobsledding - but without the frigid temps required to do so. An excellent family coaster, these rides still stand in a handful of parks, with one at Kings Dominion operating as it has since 1988. The other big development of the era was the Wild Mouse coaster, which premiered at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in 1988. These compact coasters allowed parks the flexibility of an E ticket ride, in very little space. Customizable, creative & fun, these coasters have sprung up all over the world, and continue to prove that bigger is not always better.
Their latest leap in technology launches them to the top of the list for parks wanting a quality ride: The Blue Fire series. These top-shelf coasters feature unpredictable direction changes, high-speed launches, multiple inversions, amazing layouts & very high capacity in a ride package that packs a punch. MACK isn't just building rides - they're building tomorrow's rides today.
Schwarzkopf- (You REALLY didn't think I'd leave out Schwarzkopf, did you???)
Olympia Looping
Mindbender - Six Flags Over Georgia
When we look at coaster technology, it all started with Anton. While Bacon, Morgan & Gurr started the tubular steel era, it was Anton who took it to the next level - and WELL beyond. It was a creative vision that gave us the roots from which every single modern coaster comes from, it was Anton's fussiness & obsessive passion for perfection that gave us modern track geometry & design.
Schwarzkopf's initial Wildcat series of coasters gave way to the JetStar series, then later the Jumbo Jet series, and onto the SpeedRacer series of coasters. It was the SpeedRacer that was taken one step further starting in 1972, into a world we could not have imagined at the time. Working with Reinhold Spieldiener, Schwarzkopf threw the world for a loop - a modern, successful loop - starting in 1976. The LoopingRacer gave birth to the HeartlineLooping/Doppellooping series, as well as the LaunchingRacer shuttle loop. Building compact rides that pleased the masses and drew crowds became a hallmark of Schwarzkopf's rides. As the Master worked through the 80s, His designs evolved, and Thriller & OlympiaLooping both made their way onto the world's fairground circuit. Constantly refining & reprofiling designs, Anton blessed us with some of the most intense, insane & thrilling coasters on Earth, ones that to this day draw crowds more than their more recent siblings. Anton's designs stand the test of time. A park with a Schwarzkopf knows they have a reliable, durable & time-tested creation which is a calling card of true German Perfection & quality, and many parks cherish their Schwarzkopf coasters as what they are: A shining diamond in a world of duplicated gems.
Even though Schwarzkopf exited the stage of the theme park world in the early 90s, MACK, Gerstlauer & Zierer have picked up where Anton left off. Gerstlauer itself can be called the Son of Anton, having taken the factory & the patents for Schwarzkopf's technology to create their own new world of amazing rides. MACK is creating insane new rides around their Blue Fire technology, as well as re-thinking the ideas behind compact coasters. Zierer is going forward with family coasters which are standing out as the future. It is this future-forward thought of design combined with German precision, efficiency & durability that makes a German coaster so much better. While other builders have created amazing rides, it is the Germans who have led the world in bringing them to the public more often than anybody else.
Technic Coaster - Legoland California
Joker - Six Flags Mexico
And thus, I say with great gusto: "JA! DEUTSCHLAND! JA!"
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Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Joan Cusack
Directed by: Josh Cooley
Miles Morales is juggling his life between being a high school student and being a spider-man. When Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk uses a super collider, others from across the Spider-Verse are transported to this dimension.
Starring: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry
Directed by: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
Coco (2017)
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.
Starring: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Renée Victor
Directed by: Lee Unkrich
A young lion cub named Simba can't wait to be king. But his uncle craves the title for himself and will stop at nothing to get it.
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Moira Kelly
Directed by: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley's main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
Starring: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind, Bill Hader, Lewis Black
Directed by: Pete Docter
Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally left at a nefarious day care center. The toys must band together to escape and return home to Andy.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Ned Beatty, Joan Cusack, Michael Keaton
Up (2009)
Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.
Starring: Ed Asner, Jordan Nagai, Christopher Plummer, Bob Peterson, Delroy Lindo
WALL·E (2008)
WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When a ship arrives with a sleek new type of robot, WALL·E thinks he's finally found a friend and stows away on the ship when it leaves.
Starring: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, MacInTalk
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Finding Nemo (2003)
Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.
Starring: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett
Zootopia (2016)
Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Shakira, Idris Elba, Octavia Spencer
Directed by: Byron Howard, Rich Moore
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell
Directed by: Brad Bird
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
James Sullivan and Mike Wazowski are monsters, they earn their living scaring children and are the best in the business... even though they're more afraid of the children than they are of them. When a child accidentally enters their world, James and Mike suddenly find that kids are not to be afraid of and they uncover a conspiracy that could threaten all children across the world.
Starring: John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn, Jennifer Tilly
Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the duo eventually learns to put aside their differences.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn
Directed by: John Lasseter
As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill
Directed by: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Big Hero 6 (2014)
The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
Starring: Scott Adsit, Ryan Potter, Daniel Henney, T.J. Miller, Jamie Chung
Directed by: Don Hall, Chris Williams
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely - and certainly unwanted - visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy's passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.
Starring: Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, Brian Dennehy, Peter Sohn
The Incredibles (2004)
Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Spencer Fox, Jason Lee
Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery man Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and snowman Olaf. On an adventure where she will find out what friendship, courage, family, and true love really means.
Starring: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana
Directed by: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
When the kingdom's most wanted-and most charming-bandit Flynn Rider hides out in a mysterious tower, he's taken hostage by Rapunzel, a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with 70 feet of magical, golden hair. Flynn's curious captor, who's looking for her ticket out of the tower where she's been locked away for years, strikes a deal with the handsome thief and the unlikely duo sets off on an action-packed escapade, complete with a super-cop horse, an over-protective chameleon and a gruff gang of pub thugs.
Starring: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Delaney Rose Stein, Brad Garrett
Directed by: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
Paperman (2012)
An urban office worker finds that paper airplanes are instrumental in meeting a girl in ways he never expected.
Starring: John Kahrs, Kari Wahlgren, Jeff Turley, Jack Goldenberg
Directed by: John Kahrs
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Future of Choice is an advocacy, education, and fundraising committee focused on engaging and activating people who are passionate about reproductive rights. The Future of Choice is affiliated with Planned Parenthood Illinois Action (PPIA).
Our advocacy activities include: calling elected officials about issues impacting the Planned Parenthood community and organizing actions with coalition partners
We raise money to support pro women's health candidates in Illinois.
Election matter. Getting out the vote and educating voters about PPIA endorsed candidates is an important part of our work.
We are a group of young leaders who are dedicated to Planned Parenthood Illinois Action's mission and to having fun! You could find us canvassing one weekend and getting Korean BBQ the next.
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With Future of Choice, there’s the opportunity to be a committee leader or run for an executive board position. You can launch your advocacy ideas with resources and support from Planned Parenthood Illinois Action. You can socialize with PPIA leadership, learn about public policy from our Springfield sponsor (whoo Rianne!), and rub elbows with elected officials. You also have the opportunity to socialize with and learn from a network of folks who pay attention to what’s going on in the world.
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TVPlayer Shortlisted for Broadcast Digital Award
17th May 2016 /in Client News /by Platform Team
Tuesday 17th May, 2016 (London): TVPlayer, one of the UK’s most popular consumer TV streaming platforms, with over 600,000 unique viewers each week, has been shortlisted for the “Best Digital Video Platform or Services” for the upcoming Broadcast Digital Awards 2016 that celebrates the most creative and innovative digital content in the UK.
The nomination recognises the market impact of TVPlayer as an outstanding digital video platform. As one of the fastest growing TV platforms in the UK, TVPlayer offers consumers free access to more than 60 free-to-air channels, anytime on any connected device, through a single app. Offered as both a live-and catch-up TV service across web, iOS and android apps, as well as Amazon Fire and Apple TV, TVPlayer addresses the increasing demand for an aggregated TV offering, delivered with greater flexibility for the consumer and an improved user experience, than the more traditional linear TV services.
TVPlayer Plus was recently launched as a low-cost monthly subscription service with an additional 24 pay-TV channels made available via the existing app. TVPlayer is also now being offered as a white label service, highlighting the commercial demand for TVEverywhere services, as the popularity of streaming video increases.
CEO and Founder of TVPlayer, Adam Smith commented: “We are thrilled to be shortlisted among a group of such exceptional innovators and to be recognised as a leader in shaping the future of digital content in the UK. We launched TVPlayer with the mission of capturing the best of both new and traditional media landscapes and offering this to consumers in the most seamless and accessible way. Our platform enables premium channels and content providers to extend their engagement with new generations of TV consumers, as well as retaining the loyalty of their traditional customer bases. We are very proud to receive this recognition during an exciting period of development for the business.”
TVPlayer was designed and developed by Simplestream using its unique Media Hub technology. The technology can deliver hundreds of channels, through live streaming, automated live-to-VOD and catch-up content across broadcast and OTT platforms within a single workflow. Media Hub also supports TVPlayer in the collection of in-depth analytics from its expansive database of users, providing significant insight into the viewing behaviour of consumers in the UK.
The Broadcast Digital Awards will take place at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, on 29 June 2016.
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TVPlayer is a free OTT platform available in the UK, which streams live TV across multiple devices from some of the UK’s favourite free-to-air broadcasters. Launched in December 2013, TVPlayer is one of the fastest growing platforms in the UK, with over 60 channels spanning Entertainment, Kids, News, Music, Desi and Lifestyle. TVPlayer is owned and operated by Simplestream, a leading provider of live streaming and Live-2-VOD solutions to broadcast and media companies. The TVPlayer platform is available on a white-label basis both in the UK and internationally.
About TVPlayer Plus:
TVPlayer Plus is an award winning, low cost pay TV subscription service offering top channels including UKTV, Discovery Networks, A+E Networks UK, Turner Broadcasting, National Geographic Channel Europe & Sony Pictures Television Networks from only £4.99 per month.
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Frank Ocean Teases SZA, Kendrick Lamar, & André 3000 Collaboration
Frank Ocean fans may be getting some new music soon.
Taking to his Tumblr page on Tuesday morning (Feb. 5), the reclusive crooner posted a cryptic teaser for something dropping month. “MARCH 1ST ..SOLANA + KL + ANDRE,” he wrote. “HERE FOR THE BEANS.”
While it’s unclear exactly what he’s teasing, it appears that he may have a collaboration with SZA, Kendrick Lamar, and André 3000 dropping on March 1, which falls on the traditional Friday release schedule.
New updates via Frank’s Tumblr! pic.twitter.com/VfsAtjOZem
— Frank Ocean Info (@FRANKOCEANinfo) February 5, 2019
He followed it up with another post, which was quickly deleted: “IF YOU DIDN’T LIKE 2018, YOU WILL DEFINITELY LIKE 2019.” This is not the first time Ocean has trolled fans. In January 2018, he posted an image of a man wearing a hat that read, “If you liked 2017, you’ll love…2018.”
Post and delete pic.twitter.com/waT0YsvBrr
Additionally, he shared a blurred out screenshot that appears to say “Moon River (feat.),” hinting that he may re-release his 2018 cover of Audrey Hepburn’s “Moon River” with a featured guest. The post has since been removed.
Frank updates Tumblr (https://t.co/rnibTXI2Rs) pic.twitter.com/zIRnxNcIjz
Ocean has not released a full body of work since 2016’s Blonde. Last month, he teased a cover of SZA’s “The Weekend” on Instagram Stories.
It was recently reported that his 45-minute visual Endless would be releasing to streaming services in a track-by-track album format. However, Ocean denied the report on Instagram, writing, “Fake news.”
UPDATE: False alarm. It appears that Ocean’s Tumblr page was hacked. Fans were made aware of this after the hacker tried to sell unreleased Ocean songs and asked for likes in exchange for the collaboration.
This guy hacked Frank Oceans Tumblr pic.twitter.com/gMQ7NrrsAy
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Glenwood Springs Community Concert Association hosts singer Leon Williams for third show of season
News | February 7, 2019
What: Glenwood Springs Community Concert Association presents Leon Williams
When: 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 12
Where: Mountain View Church, 2195 County Road 154, Glenwood Springs
Baritone soloist Leon Williams is slated to bring his performance to the Mountain View Church in Glenwood Springs, for a 7 p.m. concert on Feb. 12.
Classically trained at the Juilliard School, the Brooklyn native currently lives in Honolulu, where he assists in leading worship at the First Presbyterian Church of Honolulu.
“Williams will bring his charismatic personality, blending spirituals, Broadway, opera and songs from the ‘Great American Songbook,’” according to a Glenwood Springs Community Concert Association press release.
Before Williams takes the stage Tuesday night he will take part in an outreach program that afternoon, working with choir students at Glenwood Springs High School.
“Williams will bring his charismatic personality, blending spirituals, Broadway, opera and songs from the ‘Great American Songbook.’”—Glenwood Springs Community Concert Association press release
The concert is part of the concert association’s annual season. The association has been entertaining the Roaring Fork Valley with music for the last seven decades. Dating back to 1947, it began when community members decided they wanted to bring more culture to the rural areas through classical music.
Evolving over the years, the organization now offers five concerts for its paid member group starting in the fall and running through the spring every year.
Admission to the concert is by membership ticket only. Once members have been seated, the association will accept $20 donations from non-members who wish to attend, if there are seats available.
The concert series continues March 2, with rock/opera mash-up sensation the Jersey Tenors; and will conclude with America’s Got Talent finalists Sons of Serendip on May 4.
Next year’s membership drive will begin at the end of April 2019 and go through June.
The membership fee is $40. For more information, contact Darrell Mount at 303-646-7634.
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What’s hot! Lenten loopholes: Dodging sacrifice with integrity
By Tim Grobaty | tgrobaty@scng.com | Press-Telegram
PUBLISHED: March 10, 2014 at 7:22 pm | UPDATED: September 1, 2017 at 3:27 am
We have said repeatedly that there is a need for attorneys for those who, because they’ve stumbled upon such fate-changers as magical fish and genies in a bottle, are granted three wishes.
These specialists would counsel you about matters ranging from the perils of singing the old Oscar Mayer Weiner commercial jingle to the considerable downsides of having “all the money in the world.”
Another law speciality, it dawns on us now, is Lenten loopholes. Ever since Wednesday, when we gave up four things for 40 days, we have been looking for escape clauses while keeping our considerable spiritual integrity intact.
First: Chocolate. We’re not having a big problem giving up chocolate, but we do confess to purchasing a bag of Hostess chocolate doughnuts for our co-workers, and, sure, OK, us, too. Our Lenten lawyers have actually told us we can eat Hostess chocolate doughnuts because, not surprisingly, Hostess chocolate doughnuts are refreshingly chocolate-free. In fact, there is more beef in Hostess chocolate doughnuts than chocolate, though we can see where the company’s marketing department would prefer to call them chocolate doughnuts rather than beef doughnuts. They do have traces of cocoa, but we never said anything about going without cocoa for 40 days. Even though we could, presumably, eat Hostess chocolate doughnuts during Lent and sleep like a baby, a lengthy study of the product’s disturbingly extensive list of ingredients has made us want to forgo them all the way till Christmas.
Second: Gin. Tough one to get around, especially the way spirits-makers play fast and loose with the term “gin.” We’ve scoured the WikiBar looking for loopholes, but all we get are things like sloe gin, which is basically a prom drink. Our team is currently looking into St. George Spirits’ Dry Rye Gin, which the company touts as “a gin for whiskey-lovers.” So that’s a possibility, but we’d feel better if they didn’t call it gin. Then, there’s also the matter of why drink a gin for whiskey-lovers when you can just drink whiskey?
Third: Abstaining from not walking very much. Our smart-mouthed attorneys tell us that we can meet the more-walking resolution by merely parking 14 feet farther up the block when we get home. Instead, we’ve embraced this increase in exercise with the enthusiasm of a convert, racking up marathonlike figures of 1.65 miles three nights in a row, including the first night in our house slippers. This week, we’re going for the mythical 2-mile walk. If you want, hang around the northeast end of Los Coyotes Diagonal, where we hit the 1-mile wall and throw cups of water at us for encouragement.
Fourth: Profanity. Our dictionary of record blathers on at too great a length, casting a huge umbrella over the term, leaving us tongue-tied and our Lenten lawyers hogtied. How does one skirt around a definition of profanity as “bad language, strong language, foul language, vulgar, swearing, cursing, cussing, or using expletives?” That leaves our lush lexicon of filth virtually empty and finds us hitching up our britches and saying things like “What in the Sam Hill is going on around here?”
So far, we haven’t availed ourself of any loopholes, but Lent is young yet, and our attorneys remain on retainer.
Contact Tim Grobaty at 562-714-2116, tim.grobaty@presstelegram.com, @grobaty on Twitter.
Tim Grobaty began his career at the Press-Telegram in 1976 as a copy boy and has held several positions at the paper including feature writer, music critic, TV critic, copy editor and, since 1991, daily columnist. He is the author of four books, most recently a memoir/collection I'm Dyin' Here. He lives in Long Beach.
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We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history of mankind can afford it. That's how big it's gotten.
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We are seeing a surge in wireless network infrastructure in places where it is not convenient and would be very expensive to run a wired network.
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We believe that these treatments are not sufficient and are also too expensive to be applied to many people in the developing world.
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What this information shows, I think, is this was the most expensive natural disaster in American history.
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We wrote last November that Sony's design choices for the PS3 had resulted in an expensive and difficult-to-manufacture product, and we think that we're seeing the consequences of those choices play out now.
Access Quotes
Universities and corporations lose hours of valuable information each day because it is too big a hassle and too expensive to capture that knowledge as it is exchanged. These large organizations are now realizing how the secure sharing of online presentations can help boost expertise, reduce travel and other costs, and recapture lost productivity. With EX Server software, that information is just a click away. Our enterprise customers tell us they are realizing a competitive advantage as they capture, process and access their most important asset -- organizational knowledge. EX Server software further improves their communication across division, campus or geographical boundaries for these distributed, sometimes global, organizations.
Rimas Buinevicius
Bars Quotes
Using yield management, you don't have to raise fares to raise revenues, you just make people buy the more expensive fare class. Now we'd have a better chance of playing with the gold bars at Fort Knox than finding out if or how Delta is doing this. ... It's hard in this case to say whether Delta is doing this or raising fares outright.
Terry Trippler
Agency Quotes
We fail to see why Congress, having expressly endorsed an expensive surveillance role for EPA, ... would then implicitly preclude the agency from verifying substantive compliance.
Ruth Ginsburg
Aircraft Quotes
We feel that we're in a good position, that this will make us a stronger airline, ... We'll be able to clean up our financial status with regard to balance sheets and aircraft that are too expensive to fly, and emerge as a stronger, more viable competitor on the East Coast, where most of our flights are operating.
Chris Chiames
Calls Quotes
When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance phone companies like MCI, which were difficult to navigate and expensive to make calls through.
Jan Koum
Night Quotes
Why is Wi-Fi free at cheap hotels but $14 a night at expensive ones.
Biggest Quotes
Worldwide, the two most expensive sights are the green sight or the blue sight; blue meaning sea, water or ocean and green meaning parks, mountains or golf courses, ... And that's the biggest difference. We have strategically placed the homes onto the premises to maximize the view.
David Chu
Earnings Quotes
We're still running with oil stocks. They still are being supported. They haven't become much more expensive because earnings are going up with them.
Lucy Macdonald
New York is dead. It's too expensive.
Intention Quotes
We have no other intention right now for the property other than to operate it not only as the world's largest gentlemen's club, but as the world's most expensive gentlemen's club.
Peter Feinstein
Asked Quotes
When you're upgrading a technology that involves an organization's payroll, there's a great deal of parallel testing that needs to be done. The dirty little secret in the EIM market is that on-premise solutions have been and continue to be very expensive to purchase and implement. That's because of the complexities that surround sales compensation plans. These tools are being asked to operate in extremely complex environments.
Bob Conlin
We want MCHA to remain the insurance of last resort. It shouldn't be less expensive to go to MCHA than to stay with my current plan through COBRA.
Maturity Quotes
Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.
Bill Johnson
Mistress Quotes
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute.
Economic Quotes
We acknowledge it's a valuable graphic enhancement. Unfortunately, in this economic climate, we've been forced to tighten our belt, and it's an expensive enhancement.
Lou D'Ermilio
Indispensable Quotes
Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.
Please Quotes
Those things please more, which are more expensive.
Bit Quotes
This will probably be a little bit more expensive in the early years, but over the lifetime, probably quite competitive.
Jim Lea
This was not a cost-effective decision. It was a very expensive decision.
Company Quotes
The only problem they have is the high valuation, ... This company has had a lot successes, they have a great pipeline, and I think they'll have many successes over the next few years. But it's an expensive stock.
Decided Quotes
We decided it was less expensive to rebuild Sutter Memorial over on the Sutter General campus.
Nancy Turner
Cut Quotes
We didn't want to cut picnic areas, cut suites, cut lobby, or cut seating, so we had to go on and decide we would have a more expensive park.
Bill Valentine
Ahead Quotes
We have probably moved ahead of ourselves. The market is not expensive but it has moved quite forcibly upwards.
Mike Lenhoff
Automatic Quotes
We've seen quite a bit of that 'richening,' even with low (priced) cars. If you look at vehicles now, it's not unusual for small cars to have stackable CD changers or satellite. It's quite a change from old beer-can-on-wheels day when the least expensive cars had no options -- no air, not even an automatic transmission.
Paul Ballew
We've seen quite a bit of that 'richening,' even with low (priced) cars, ... If you look at vehicles now, it's not unusual for small cars to have stackable CD changers or satellite. It's quite a change from old beer-can-on-wheels day when the least expensive cars had no options -- no air, not even an automatic transmission.
Becomes Quotes
The real estate becomes so horrendously expensive that, from an economic standpoint, it doesn't make sense to farm it anymore. We're still losing over a farm a day, but the remaining farms are getting larger.
Bill Bruins
Boy Quotes
When I was 11 or 12 - a young boy in Japan - one of my older brothers took me to a sushi restaurant. I had never been to one, and it was very memorable. Back then, sushi was expensive and hard to come by, not like today, when there's a sushi restaurant on every street corner and you can buy it in supermarkets.
Nobu Matsuhisa
Anywhere Quotes
We used to use the money made from Kinfolk Days, but that has gotten more expensive each year. It costs MAMA anywhere from $15,000 - $20,000 to pay for everything, including the entertainment and fireworks.
Looks Quotes
Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
Culinary Quotes
I love fruit, when it is expensive.
Arthur Wing Pinero
Bad Quotes
There are two stories to the origin. The first one involves a bunch of guys who got together for a horse race in England during the 1800s. The weather was bad and they did not want to risk hurting their expensive horses, so they ran the race themselves. The second was a (horse) race where there was so much fog no one could see. They ran from church steeple to church steeple in each town. Supposedly that's how it got its name. Either way, the event came from people running from town-to-town and jumping over fences, creeks and whatever else was in the way.
Robert Gary
Adding Quotes
When you're adding those extra 5,000 seats, you have to build more ramps, more bathrooms, more plumbing, and it gets very expensive to build those extra seats. The number of times you sell the last 4,000 to 5,000 seats and the fact that they're going to be the less expensive seats, does not offset the cost of operating a larger facility.
Marc Ganis
Face Quotes
The principal problem that universities face is money, ... This is expensive technology to deploy.
Paul Morris
Added Quotes
The price was expensive and the decision to raise it 23 percent came as a surprise. The sale took place when most investors had already added sufficient banking stocks to their portfolios so they don't have strong reasons for buying.
Hideaki Kurimoto
Bid Quotes
The price that I think you'd have to pay for St. Jude would be even more expensive than what Guidant is being bid for today.
Thomas Gunderson
Bigger Quotes
When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
Companies Quotes
There are lots of questions whether this (pension overhaul effort) will help shore up funding in pension plans, or if some of the reforms are so expensive they'll drive companies out of the system.
Karen Friedman
Vintage Quotes
I love vintage, but it's so expensive now.
Fence Quotes
Make not a fence more expensive or more important than the thing that is fenced
Hebrew Proverb
Making a new car is so expensive that the risk factor is what takes the unique ideas and keeps reanalyzing them until they become very similar.
Charles Pelly
Air Quotes
Making air travel more expensive is certainly not the way to help the third world.
Anthony Concil
Desktop Quotes
Mac OS X isn't a free platform, and it runs on expensive hardware. It is not a plausible Windows alternative for our desktop customers, who are mainly large government organizations displacing Windows desktops and big enterprise corporations replacing Solaris workstations.
Nat Friedman
Side Quotes
Making it more expensive on the west side just exacerbates the problem.
Frank Moro
Far Quotes
making it by far the most expensive stock in our universe.
Stacy Pak
Act Quotes
Let there be no disguising the perilous state of earth, or pretending that conservation is too expensive when we know that the cost of failure to act is far greater,
Adult Quotes
Many of the residents of adult housing sold their houses that they've lived in for so many years because they find it exhausting and expensive to maintain a large and empty household.
Aware Quotes
Many of them don't seem to be aware that these can be expensive products or services that they're using. . .and that's a problem,
Susan Murray
Many shares appear to be a bit expensive after recent strong gains and investors are starting to cash out.
Ding Chaoyu
Assets Quotes
Selling assets to reinvest in expensive companies is not normally a sound strategy.
Adrian Darley
So in this situation, selling bonds to complete the project is the best and least expensive option for the taxpayers.
Louis Mahern
Additional Quotes
So if this is about energy, we've got a very good proposal for that. This would really meet their capacity needs. We don't see any reason to go and develop additional capacity, especially through such very difficult and extremely expensive projects as nuclear energy.
Last Quotes
Signs and postcards -- a mail-out that went out the first of last week -- that's probably been the most expensive thing we've done so far.
Mark Nicholas
Appearance Quotes
Since employees start over at step one when they are promoted, going from firefighter to lieutenant results in a loss of about $1.50 per hour, and lieutenant to captain results in a loss of about 50 cents per hour. But other departments have the same problem, specifically in the Police Department and the Water and the Community Appearance departments. In the Water and Sewer Board, you have many different levels of work, which makes it more likely that you will have promotion problems. That?s why it gets very expensive to fix all of the departments of the city at the same time. The cost depends on the size of the department.
Thomas Christie
Along Quotes
Shamrock came along at a great time for the Miami Dolphins. I was looking for another option for our players that was nicer than your typical extended stay, but not as expensive as a corporate apartment. Shamrock proved to be the best of both worlds.
Jamie Allen
Al Quotes
Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epic flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts, ... By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.
Burt Rutan
Humans Quotes
Most people don't know that humans kill 100 million sharks every year, mostly for a really expensive soup in Asia.
Backup Quotes
Mission-critical data that goes missing could result in legal liabilities and regulatory compliance violations -- an intolerable situation. One would expect that security-conscious organizations would include tape encryption as a standard security defense. Unfortunately, this hypothesis simply isn't true. In a survey of 388 storage professionals, ESG found that only 7 percent of users reported that they always encrypt their backup data while 60 percent said that they never do. There will likely be many more instances of lost tapes, which may lead to embarrassing public disclosures and expensive notification efforts.
Jon Oltsik
Thorough Quotes
much more traditional, longer, expensive and thorough development route.
Geoff Cooper
Motorists should enjoy it while they can. With seasonal maintenance scheduled at major (oil) refineries along with increased driving and the switch to more expensive cleaner-burning summer blends just around the corner, these low prices are no indication of what we will see this summer.
David Parsons
Almost Quotes
Meet Joe Black' is a gamble, ... It's a very, very expensive movie. It is trading almost entirely on the appeal of Brad Pitt. It's obviously going for an audience of women 25 and older, and hoping to get a lot of men and couples in there, too.
Mark Harris
Basically Quotes
Medicare is expensive because we spend a lot on healthcare. We spend a lot on healthcare basically just because we want to, and doing so has been very good to a lot of people who work in healthcare fields.
Of course, the engine's the most expensive part,
Coaches Quotes
Of course, it is very expensive too. You have to pay the coaches and for the fields and the lights. You have to pay for equipment.
Thomas Dooley
Billions Quotes
No one's building a light water reactor. These are rather expensive things, I mean we're talking talking billions of dollars. So that's not happening,
Hire Quotes
No one knows your product the way that you do, ... I really think small-business owners should think twice before they hire expensive consultants.
Greg Ryan
Canon Quotes
Museums covet his works. They're hard to find. They're expensive when they do find them. And they're often an embarrassing gap in the canon for museums that don't have them.
P. J. Harvey
Magnet Quotes
Money spent on expensive and unproved magnet therapy might be better spent on evidence-based medicine.
Bruce Flamm
Cell Quotes
My hope is that in-flight cell service is either so patchy or so expensive as to give me an excuse not to deal,
Jason Green
My favorite is a square-toe black shoe, but for a dressier look, I'll wear gators. The bigger the shoes, the more expensive they get. Unfortunately, I'm a size 17.
Dragging Quotes
Negative thinking is always expensive -- dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically -- hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.
Peter McWilliams
Canada Quotes
Never has Canada been so wet as it's been here this year, and particularly the summer. It was also the most expensive summer from an insurance point of view.
Approaches Quotes
Policymakers would be wise to reconsider the wisdom of current sentencing and drug policies, both to avoid expensive incarceration costs and to invest in more productive prevention and treatment approaches to crime,
Marc Mauer
Beef Quotes
Nobody loves the Boston Marathon as much as the people who make fun of it year after year. This was the race that previously offered as a prize a not particularly expensive medal, a laurel wreath, and a bowl of beef stew. This was the race that, on one memorable occasion, nobody knew who actually won.
Auto Quotes
Nearly a decade ago, the government offered subsidies to their domestic auto suppliers to build hybrid batteries, which are one of the most expensive components of today's hybrid vehicles. That gave them a head-start.
Bill Ford
Aesthetic Quotes
On the other hand, landowners need to be realistic when it comes to their expectations of what resources and how long it takes to reach their objectives, whether it's a crop of trees or an aesthetic view, ... Unreasonable expectation by the landowner can also result in expensive lessons.
Doctor Quotes
One of the problems is finding a doctor to work for a non-profit and to come work in such an expensive area. We've lost some doctors because of how expensive it is here.
Charise McHugh
Cultural Quotes
I would put little credibility in it. It would be expensive and the cultural differences are pretty big.
Daniel Renouard
Cap Quotes
I wish we could have kept some of the players that we ended up losing to other teams, but we're still one of the teams closest to the cap right now, so we will have one of the most expensive teams in the league.
Jeremy Jacobs
Buy Quotes
I wish we could buy farmland, but it doesn't seem like there are very many people looking to sell property. It's so outrageously expensive now.
Joanne Davis
Draft Quotes
If we get out of the draft without an offensive lineman, I'll be very disappointed. Frankly, I like putting an offensive lineman in the mix every year because of how expensive it is to get them in free agency.
Choice Quotes
If we're growing and we're not producing the talented workers we need in the schools, and it's too expensive to move in, companies are not going to have any choice but to move their work elsewhere.
Lenny Mendonca
Cities Quotes
If these standards are tightened, there will be more cities around the country that will be using this more expensive reformulated gasoline. Also, it may require the reformulation of diesel also,
Avoid Quotes
If they can come forward with their ideas at a town hall meeting, it could avoid an expensive election.
If they get into a bad situation, there are only two possible outcomes: the individuals will either die or they will have to pay for a very expensive rescue.
Matt Mathes
Bring Quotes
If this is successful, this could lead to a quick, non-invasive and inexpensive test that could be widely dispersed over the counter to bring breast cancer screening even to people who don't have expensive health plans.
Joerg Lahann
Buying Quotes
I don't go crazy buying expensive technology. I'd probably say my laptops and TVs are the most expensive things I've bought.
Joel David Moore
Care Quotes
I don't ever want to go back to the southeast. We're going to come to California, I don't care how expensive it is, and live here for the rest of our lives.
Michele Aurella
Anxious Quotes
I don't believe that private delivery systems will be anxious to take on some of the high-cost services, such as expensive cancer treatments or transplant surgeries. They're more likely to look at what is profitable.
Iris Evans
Average Quotes
I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.
John Caudwell
IBM Â ( IBM : Research , Estimates ) is another company which I think is one of great Internet plays in the next three or four years, and one of the differences between IBM and others is they're earning billions of dollars. So I think IBM can be bought. I don't think it's expensive here.
Jon Burnham
Blew Quotes
I blew about pounds 70,000 on stupid things - a very expensive car which got written off, and nightclubs. I'd always pick up the bill. It's very easy to spend a lot of money in a short space of time, going out.
Mark Lester
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Software developers, computer programmers, iOS engineers ... whatever title they go by at work, it's safe to say "coders" are today's rock stars. So much so you probably know many of them by name: Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Marisa Mayer (Yahoo), Chris Bosh (The Miami Heat).
But while the programming industry has become sexy and mainstream, with plenty of lucrative job opportunities, it still lacks one thing: skilled employees.
In this video, the team at Hour of Code sat down with the magic makers to find out what programming is and why anyone can do it.
This video was produced by Hour of Code, a nationwide initiative by Computer Science Education Week and Code.org to introduce millions of students to computer science and computer programming.
What is programming?
Just like we use instructions to play a board game, computer programs and mobile apps rely on instructions to operate. These instructions are known as source code. Source code is written by programmers in languages such as C++, Java, and Objective-C.
Writing a computer program is both creative and logical. Much like designing a tree house, or choreographing a dance, when a programmer writes a new computer program they must break down the project into a sequence of steps. Some call programming a form of engineering, while others argue it is art.
"The stuff that computer programs are made out of is ideas and imagination,” explains George Driscoll, head of the programming department at North Lake College. “And there is no limit to your imagination.”
How are programs used?
Today computer programs help us tackle everyday responsibilities — from corresponding and sending mail, to shopping, banking, travel, and even job searching. Computer programs solve problems while also allowing users to complete tasks more efficiently.
To write a computer program, students must first learn a new language. Every college is unique in choosing which computer language to teach students first, but the most popular choices among educational institutions are Python, Java, MATLAB, C, C++, and Scheme. Among job boards, that hierarchy changes, with job postings asking for skills in various flavors of C (including C++ and C#) and Java.
Among mobile app companies, employers may look for device-specific languages on your resume, such as Swift (a language created by Apple to create mobile apps).
Is programming for me?
It’s been said that a program will always do what you tell it to do, and sometimes what you want to do. The trick then, says Driscoll, is to learn how to tell it to do what you want it to do.
"Programming is not for everyone,” Professor Driscoll explains, “But you have to try it first to see if it’s a fit for you. You will never know until you try.”
So where can interested students try out programming? Driscoll recommends the hands-on class “Programming, Logic, and Design,” also known as “ITSE 1429.” It is offered at all seven colleges of DCCCD. This foundational course teaches students to write a program for a computer in C++. Once they have mastered the fundamentals of programming, students are asked to apply their knowledge to control a robot’s movement through a series of challenges. The course also prepares students for object-oriented programming, a type of programming paradigm often used in modern programming languages.
Do you want to build cool stuff? Influence tech? Change the world?
Learn to code!
The colleges of DCCCD offer classes, certificates and degrees that can help you build your coding skills (also known as "programming skills"). You can learn to create, design, write and update computer programs or software using programming languages such as C, Objective-C, C++, C#, Java and Visual Basic.NET.
You can build your programming skills by taking a few classes (credit or non-credit), earning a certificate or finishing your associate degree. From there you can move straight into the workforce, or transfer to a four-year college or university to major in Computer Science. Many students choose to transfer and continue their studies. This advanced problem-solving allows graduates to become fluent in additional programming languages before seeking employment.
What’s the industry outlook?
There is currently a shortage of skilled programmers. The U..S Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that between 2012 and 2022 there will be 1.4 million job openings in computer science, but only 400,000 graduates will qualify for those jobs. Job prospects are best for programmers who have knowledge of a variety of programming languages.
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Train – California 37 (2012) – Review
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Well, who would have thought that? After breaking out from obscurity to some better, more lighted shores with their last album, Train managed to land another great record with their 6th studio album California 37.
I was very, VERY worried, when I heard that they started on a new album way back then. ‘Cause Murphy sez that there is a great risk for the follow on productions to fall into the hands of the Lord of Darkness and never return.
But here, I feel the sunny warmth of California on my skin – a very pleasant surprise. Even if Pat Monahan is actually not from California, he is from Erie, Pennsylvania (the provincial town sitting right on the lake of the same name) and officially resides in the beautiful state of Washington.
Surfing on the sunny side of music, Train created another great, light and airy rock album with California 37 that really gets to you real quick.
This is no heavy fare, and is not meant to be that neither. You do feel this new #yolo attitude of the band and the positive energy they put into creating the record. Whilst they were not able to replicate their smasher Hey, Soul Sister from Save me, San Francisco, they nevertheless managed to catapult another one of their tracks to single stardom status and into the charts.
Well, who would have thought that!
And again the band plays to their strength to transform personal emotions into good tunes. And they do so without rendering all that jazz too overwhelming. Train again managed to keep the cheese at a bearable level, whereas songs like Bruises– featuring Ashley Monroe – cruise very closely to doom in that respect.
The album steps right into the groove with their first track This’ll be My Year. Some sort of life story of someone – I reckon it is Pat’s – singing to his love.
Then Drive By happens.
Another friggin’ hit, which ended up in the top 10 of quite a few countries around the globe. And went triple platinum in North America, and double platinum in Australia. I really love that track, this is pure Train at their best.
The quiet and dark, dark humor of 50 Ways to Say Goodbye really knocked me off my chair laughing. But beware, there is a large portion of teenage style wits in there. I am not sure if this really fits a serious rock band, and it is clearly not everybody’s cup of tea. But funk that! This one speaks to my dark soul.
Then emerges Mermaid, a track with a different theme with a girl met on the beach. Apparently ’tis Pat’s friend – but the tune still oozes that dark mirth bubbling up through their song. And again, the song is very well constructed.
On the emotional side, the slow ballad When the Fog Rolls In will please. Were it not for the typical Gregg Wattenberg cheesiness that crept into that one, we’d give it a prize. But the track is nevertheless still good. It even features (some sort of) a guitar solo. Well, yeah!
Some fillers crept into California 37 nonetheless and this is a pity. We Were Made for This and To be Loved just don’t really cut it. These tracks actually appear on the ‘not bad’ scale. But do they pass the smell test? Nope. Neither here nor there as they say. And that is bad news on a full length with a very limited number of tracks.
They also overdid it somewhat with their urge to issue nice, kind of whitewashed
tracks. A tendency that will haunt them going forward. Yet then again, the album boasts some very black, but kind of adolescent humor that crept onto some of their tracks. So, is California 37 a record without a morsel of grouch? Quite.
But then perhaps this is great – feel good music after all, right? Needless to say that this record is light-years away from albums like Drops of Jupiter and the likes.
Some of the reviewers suggest that this will be their downfall. As they may have veered away from their more rocky path to stray into pop territory a bit too far. Maybe inciting the wrath of the pop gods that dwell in the semidarkness of rosy sweetness and dripping, colored smoothies.
But fear not, what applies to later records of Train will have no place with California 37.
The band created a catchy, kind of groovy friggin’ record that keeps you breathless for a while. And it clearly is one step up from their last album that was already surprisingly good. I could love it from beginning to end. If only there weren’t any fillers and they did not go over board with cheeky song writing somewhat.
And a word of caution: Producing two hit albums in a row leaves me wondering how the next is going to look like. Do we dare hoping? Or perhaps I should start putting the crash helmet and body armor on for what is coming next. Who knows – if things seem too good to be true they usually are, normally. And for the life of me, I do not see them succeeding with another album of the same kind.
Find out if RockmusicRaider’s prediction in his role as world-renowned music psychic came true for Train‘s follow-on records Bulletproof Picasso and A Girl A Bottle A Boat.
Record Rating: 8/10 | Label: Columbia Records | Web: Official Site
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Island of Lost Soul: The Stone Roses at Spike Island
Live Review by John Robb, Sounds, 1990
Sun, sea water and cement factories. Not your idea of Ibiza perhaps, but according to our resident mad Manc John Robb, this is the start ...
Stone Roses' Mani (2004)
Interview by Simon Morrison, Rock's Backpages Audio, November 2004
Mr. Mountfield on all things Madchester: the Haçienda, the Stone Roses, and the impact of dance music on the scene. Hilarious!
File format: mp3; file size: 9.9mb, interview length: 10' 47" sound quality: ****
The Stone Roses: International, Manchester
Live Review by John Robb, Sounds, 11 July 1987
KING ROCK is still flailing his sweaty head around the world. And Stone Roses are four hip dudes close to his heart, guitars slung low, ...
The Stone Roses: Trunk Call — Romancing The Stone
Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 23 January 1988
Are THE STONE ROSES the likeliest lads in Manchester to step into the huge void left by the implosion of The Smiths? JOHN ROBB reports ...
The Stone Roses: Bad Loon Rising
Interview by Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 8 April 1989
CHARTING A SIMILAR COURSE TO HOUSE OF LOVE, SINGER IAN BROWN NOW RECKONS HIS MANCHESTER-BASED BAND'S FORTHCOMING ALBUM WILL PROVE HIS BAND ARE THE BEST ...
Stone Roses: Stone Roses (Silvertone)
Review by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 29 April 1989
THIS IS Rain Parade at ease after the storm. This is Dream Syndicate going through a recurring nightmare. This is an aural Big Mac laced ...
The Stone Roses: Shooting From The Lip
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 3 June 1989
THE STONE ROSES are the latest instalment in the resurrection insurrection. ...
The Stone Roses: Welcome To The Stoned Age
Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 15 July 1989
After four years of Manchester obscurity, the Stone Roses suddenly hit critical and public acclaim with their debut LP. Roy Wilkinson talks to them about ...
The Stone Roses: Bonfire of the Inanities
Interview by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 9 December 1989
When The Maker put Ian Brown and his reluctant heroes on the cover six months ago, they were regarded as just another bunch of hopefuls. ...
The Stone Roses and The Happy Mondays
Report and Interview by Nick Kent, Face, The, January 1990
AFTER A YEAR of underground success, Stone Roses and Happy Mondays crowd into a Top Of The Pops dressing room to celebrate their entry into ...
Summer 1990: The Madness
Report and Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 14 April 1990
With The Stone Roses at Spike Island, the Mondays at Glastonbury and numerous other raves, the summer of 1990 should be one to remember. John ...
The Stone Roses: Where Angels Play
Report by Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 26 May 1990
It may not seem it to non-believers, but it's been a mighty long time since the Stone Roses last played a gig. That was at ...
The Stone Roses at Spike Island
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 9 June 1990
When The Stone Roses announced their plans for a gig at Spike Island the concert was eagerly heralded as the event of the year. Everett ...
The Stone Roses: Another Early Night
Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, July 1990
Stockholm, 4 am: the amateurs are going to bed. Not so the Stone Roses, who are limbering up to go out and dance...like fish. Having ...
Flaring Up: The Stone Roses at Spike Island
Report and Interview by Jon Savage, Observer, The, 8 July 1990
YOU CAN see them all over the North-West, drifting through Manchesters arcades, doing the swim-dance in the high-tech Hacienda, travelling en masse to tribal events ...
The Stone Roses: Fools' Gaoled (almost!)
Report by Terry Staunton, New Musical Express, 13 October 1990
THE STONE ROSES may face a £3 million libel suit from their former record company, unless they pay for the damage they caused to the ...
The Stone Roses: Stone Free
Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, August 1991
After nine months of strenuous legal wrangling, The Stone Roses have extricated themselves from an "oppressive", "one-sided and unfair" contract. Report by Phil Sutcliffe. ...
Diary of an LP: the Stone Roses' Second Coming, Part One
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 14 January 1995
After years of rumour and speculation, THE STONE ROSES Second Coming album has finally made it into the shops. TOM DOYLE travelled to Rockfield studios ...
Diary of an LP: the Stone Roses' Second Coming, Part Two
Following last week's look at life with THE STONE ROSES during the making of Second Coming, producer SIMON DAWSON takes TOM DOYLE track by track ...
The Stone Roses: Second Coming
Review by Ben Thompson, MOJO, February 1995
IF THE BYRDS HAD BEEN WELSH; IF Lenny Kravitz shopped at Kwik Save; if the Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin or Wishbone Ash or Eddie ...
The Stone Roses: Second Coming (Geffen)
Review by Gavin Martin, Vox, February 1995
TIMING CAN count for a lot in the fickle world of pop. When they released their eponymous first album in 1989, just in time to ...
Who The Hell Do The Stone Roses Think They Are?
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, March 1995
Their second album took longer to record than the equivalent World War took to wage. Meanwhile, Geffen kept them in golf clubs and "heroin". Last ...
The Stone Roses: The Morning After
Retrospective and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Spin, May 1995
"I guess you had to be there – probably Manchester, definitely England – to understand how the Stone Roses came to matter so much in ...
John Leckie: A Desk Job
Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 3 June 1995
Fifteen years of experience has carried producer JOHN LECKIE from a-song-a-day sessions with John Lennon, to hours spent pouring over the endless noodlings of The ...
"Coming" In The Eire: The Stone Roses: Féile '95, Cork
Live Review by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 19 August 1995
OH YEAH; some other people played as well. Damon hung around all weekend so he could see Elastica play (aww, sweet); Terence Trent D'Arby insists ...
War of the Roses
Interview by Lisa Verrico, Observer, The, 3 December 1995
John Squire of The Stone Roses talks exclusively to Lisa Verrico about why the band that almost broke up is back. ...
The Stone Roses – At Last!
Retrospective and Interview by John Robb, RAW, 6 December 1995
For a band who have avoided the limelight for most of the decade The Stone Roses are still very big news. This month they tour ...
That's Another Fine Messiah You've Got Me Into
Comment by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 6 April 1996
John Lennon thought The Beatles were bigger than IT, some people think Elvis is/was IT and Michael Jackson seems to think he is IT. So ...
The Rise and Fall of the Roses Empire
Retrospective by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 6 April 1996
They were the greatest band of a generation and seemed invincible. At the height of their powers, their downfall seemed an impossibility. But now that ...
The Stone Roses: The Long Goodbye
Memoir by Dave Simpson, Melody Maker, 9 November 1996
After their disastrous performance at this year's Reading Festival, the general consensus was that THE STONE ROSES should do the decent thing and split up. ...
Pig's Ear for the Roses — It's All Gone Baggy
Report and Interview by Tom Doyle, Q, January 1997
Farewell, then, the Stone Roses. ...
He was a Stone Rose. Now he's a Seahorse (and Noel loves him)
Interview by Barbara Ellen, Observer, The, 25 May 1997
"JOHN'S GOT a really good band there. A year from now, we're going to be talking about one of the biggest bands in Britain, without ...
Brit Pop: The Boys Club
Essay by Jon Savage, Guardian, The, 4 July 1997
Pop music is booming, right? British bands are taking over the world, right? Wrong. The yobbish lads of Brit rock are about to hit the ...
You're Ian Brown... Do Something!
Interview by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, 26 January 1998
The singer of the Stone Roses did not die with the group: his single is in the Top 5, and an album is on the ...
The Rise And Fall Of The Stone Roses
Retrospective and Interview by Dave Simpson, Uncut, February 1998
In his first major interview since The Stone Roses split, Ian Brown looks back on the career of a band who could have had it ...
The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays: What The World Is Still Waiting For?
Retrospective and Interview by Jack Barron, Melody Maker, 13 March 1999
It was the scene that produced some of the best bands the world had ever seen. Now, with the Happy Mondays reforming end The Stone ...
Retrospective and Interview by John McCready, MOJO, May 2002
ON FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1987, the greatest rock'n'roll band of the decade are playing to no more than 30 people at Planet X, a dark ...
Primal Scream: An interview with Mani
Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, May 2006
LEGENDARY HEDONIST and bassman Gary 'Mani' Mounfield talks about Primal Scream, Roses reunion rumours and the "Mexican stand-off" between his former bandmates... ...
The Resurrection of the Stone Roses: Ian's Story
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, June 2006
MARCH 2006, and King Monkey is swinging from the ceiling of his record label offices, grinning as he tapes over the smoke alarm for an ...
Second Comings: The Klaxons and the Struggle to Follow Up a Hit Debut Album
Comment by Pete Paphides, Times, The, 27 March 2009
IT TAKES SOME doing to instigate a backlash from your fans without actually releasing a record. Yet this month, by revealing that their record company, ...
The Stone Roses at 20
Retrospective and Interview by Stephen Dalton, National, The, September 2009
TWENTY YEARS AGO, the Stone Roses felt like an unstoppable force of nature. These four baggy-trousered young moptops from Manchester were adored all over Britain, ...
The Stone Roses' reunion: What's the worst that can happen?
Comment by Dorian Lynskey, Guardian, The, 22 October 2011
The Stone Roses are the latest in a long line of bands to get back together. Shameless profiteering? Or the chance to heal old rifts ...
The Stone Roses: Hultsfred festival, Sweden
Live Review by Jude Rogers, Guardian, The, 15 June 2012
SO THIS is the Third Coming. Their first was at the much-mythologised tail-end of the 80s, when indie and dance music swaggered together, and the ...
The Stones Roses' Made Of Stone is a great document of a reunion on the edge
Film/DVD/TV Review by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 3 December 2013
IT WASN'T EASY to be a US fan of the Stone Roses back in their early days. The band were a truly English phenomenon and ...
The Stone Roses: Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, June 2017
TO WEMBLEY STADIUM for the sell-out Stone Roses show, my first visit to the "new" Wembley, which towers up far higher than the old one ...
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Each year, about 300,000 undocumented Central Americans cross Mexico as an attempt to reach the United States. This trip, about 4,000 kilometers, is traveled mostly by way of the back of freight trains known as "The Beast." Kidnappings, murders, rapes and amputations caused by the train wheels are an everyday occurrence on this trip and has led to the humanitarian crisis portrayed below.
(This project culminated in the book On the Road and Migrants Who Do Not Matter and the documentary Mary in No Man's Land).
by - Toni Arnau - Edu Ponces
"This is the most difficult place to pass."
These are the third-class migrants, those who don't matter, those traveling in train, those who cross Mexico without a 'coyote.'
Jessica left Honduras in the middle of 2008 while pregnant. She gave birth to her daughter while crossing Mexico.
"Whore, Whore, you are going to learn, you are a lousy central american and here you are worth nothing!"
"We would have to extend the net to the sea if we wanted to hang a cross for every dead person in this desert."
"Those people only look for work, a better life, but I cannot let them go through."
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Deep, Long, and Dark: The Unrequited Loves of Vladislav Surkov
Call me crazy if you want, but I feel sorry for Vladislav Surkov.
No, REALLY. I do.
Moreover, I understand the mind of the co-architect of Russia's information war in the West, a loyal member of Russia's Uranian "Hipster" culture.
What a terrible pity it is, maybe full-fledged Greek tragedy even, that Mr. Surkov, in a fit of irony, felt compelled to bloviate about American hypocrisy this past week.
In fact, Surkov's article betrays his guiltiest Western pleasures, the iconic Western influences he jealously defends. The louder his defense of Putinism and the Russian way of life over Western Democracy, the hollower his words.
It was just a few short years ago that Surkov, much like a jilted lover, responded to Obama-era White House sanctions by proclaiming "The only things that interest me in the U.S. are Tupac Shakur, Allen Ginsberg, and Jackson Pollock. I don't need a visa to access their work. I lose nothing." The bitterness of Surkov's rebuttal is like a Rorschach drawing of epic level Russian projection.
Of course, there are deeper implications here, lacking little irony.
Ginsberg, a stalwart opponent of sexual oppression whose own homosexuality is well known, would not have been treated well in Surkov's Russia, where anchorpeople for state media such as Russia's Channel One can barely contain their disgust over the Russian legal system's lack of protections for (at least in writing) vigilantism against gay people.
Moreover, the incumbent freedoms of American society allowed Jackson Pollack to live his life openly gay. In Russia, his lifestyle would certainly have warranted suspicion and, in all likelihood, would have led to an onslaught of dangerous harassment or worse.
In fact, the sexual ambiguity (much like Russian Hipster culture) of Pollack's work has even inspired literary works.
Truth be known, masculinity and sexual ambiguity in Russia occupy the same domain, in a society that affords very few outlets for gay people. Indeed, a cursory Google search reveals that "Russian military men" is its own pornography topic.
While there's little doubt that the topic portends an inclination by the Russian government to collect blackmail material on those who frequent such sites, it's a matter of educated speculation to wonder just how many IP addresses viewing the material are originating from within Russia.
I have actually written about Tupac Shakur in the past which, if you're interested, segues beautifully with Surkov's fascination (as an outsider) with American culture.
In his article, Surkov claims that "Russia is playing with the West’s minds." In fact, Russia's actual influence in the West is largest in Surkov's own mind. Clearly, it is the influence of the West that occupies Surkov's mind. And it is Surkov's bitter realization of this fact that tempers his ability to live his life as a Westerner might.
As a free American citizen who lives his life as he chooses, speaks his mind and embraces others' freedom to speak theirs, I pity Vladislav Surkov. He tries so very hard to be relevant and significant in the West, so the embarrassment of his failure to do so relegates him to the status of "historical footnote".
Instead, what we see is a man who must live vicariously through the lives of others, whose contributions to the American experience he views as tools of Russian influence.
For Mr. Surkov's larger demons, I fear that only a qualified psychotherapist can help.
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Federal Reserve Ag Credit Surveys-2018 Third Quarter Farm Economy Conditions
Last week, the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Minneapolis released updates regarding farm income, farmland values and agricultural credit conditions from the third quarter of 2018. Today’s update highlights core findings from Thursday’s reports.
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
David Oppedahl, a Senior Business Economist at the Chicago Fed, explained in The AgLetter that, “In the third quarter of 2018, farmland values for the Seventh Federal Reserve District were up 1 percent from a year ago. However, according to the 188 agricultural bankers who responded to the October 1 survey, District farmland values were 1 percent lower in the third quarter of 2018 than in the second quarter. This was the first quarterly decline for District agricultural land values since the fourth quarter of 2016 (nearly two years ago).”
Graph from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, AgLetter (November 2018).
The Ag Letter noted that, “Agricultural land values would have experienced more downward pressure in the absence of exceptional crop yields. In 2018, District-wide corn and soybean yields jumped to all-time highs (198 bushels per acre for corn and 59 bushels per acre for soybeans).”
In addition, Thursday’s update pointed out that,
Once more agricultural credit conditions for the District seemed worse relative to a year ago. The availability of funds for lending by agricultural banks was lower than a year earlier for the fifth quarter in a row.
“For the July through September period of 2018, repayment rates on non-real-estate farm loans were yet again lower than a year ago.”
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The Chicago Fed update added, “For the sixth year in a row, crop net cash earnings were expected to contract over the fall and winter from their levels of a year earlier, based on the predictions of survey respondents…[and]…An Iowa respondent emphasized the ‘concern from row crop farmers regarding interest rate increases next year and low commodity prices.’ This concern was echoed by livestock operators. So, there was a decidedly downcast outlook for agriculture based on the latest survey responses.”
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
The Agricultural Finance Monitor stated on Thursday, “For the nineteenth consecutive quarter, a majority of agricultural bankers in the Eighth Federal Reserve District reported that farm income had declined compared with a year earlier. Bankers also reported that farm household spending and capital expenditures remained below year-earlier levels in the third quarter.”
Graph from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Agricultural Finance Monitor (November 2018).
With respect to land values and cash rental rates, The Monitor noted that,
Quality farmland values rose 2.5 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, after falling by a little more than 3 percent in the second quarter…[and]…Cash rents for quality farmland rose 2 percent in the third quarter.
The St. Louis Fed also indicated that, “U.S. soybean prices have fallen sharply since the Chinese government imposed tariffs on imports of U.S. soybeans in late July. Some industry analysts have since speculated that U.S. soybean producers would delay the marketing (selling) of all or part of their crop in the hope of a rebound in prices. Thus, the third special question asked bankers to assess the validity of this speculation. A little more than half of respondents (54.5 percent) reported that soybean producers in their area plan to delay selling all or part of this year’s or next year’s crops, while a little less than half of bankers (40.9 percent) believe that there will be no change in farmers’ marketing plans for this year’s crop.”
Table from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Agricultural Finance Monitor (November 2018).
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Cortney Cowley and Ty Kreitman, writing in Thursday’s Ag Credit Survey from the Kansas City Fed, noted that, “The decline in farm income accelerated slightly in the third quarter. Heading into the fall harvest, prices for most major commodities remained lower than a year ago amid elevated supply expectations and ongoing trade disruptions. Throughout the Tenth District, more than half of bankers reported lower farm income compared to a year ago, while less than 5 percent reported higher income. The drop was sharpest in states with higher concentrations in corn and soybeans.”
Graph from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Ag Credit Survey (November 2018).
The Survey pointed out that,
U.S. soybean exports to China were down 91 percent in the third quarter, elevating concerns that fourth-quarter exports also could decline significantly.
“More than 70 percent of respondents anticipated lower income in the next three months in Missouri and Nebraska, states where soybeans comprise 27 and 15 percent of farm revenues, respectively.”
The Fed update explained that, “Despite prolonged weaknesses in the farm economy and recent declines in farm income, cash rents have decreased only modestly and have appeared to stabilize in recent quarters.”
The KC Fed also pointed out that, “The prolonged period of depressed farm income has placed more pressure on borrower balance sheets. According to bankers across the District, a majority of crop producers in 2018 had a modest deterioration in working capital.”
And with respect to farmland values, Thursday’s report stated that, “Alongside lower farm income and declining liquidity, a majority of bankers expected farmland values to decrease in the next quarter, but at a slower pace than in previous years. Similar to expectations for farm income, bankers in Nebraska, Kansas and western Missouri were also most pessimistic about the outlook for farmland values. Despite predicted declines, further deterioration of farm finances and rising interest rates, nonirrigated farmland values across the District decreased only 2 percent from a year ago.”
The Fed update also noted that, “Farmland values remained stable and continued to support agricultural credit conditions. However, lower farm income and reduced liquidity could weigh on farmland values in future quarters.”
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Also last week, the Minneapolis Fed indicated in its Third-Quarter 2018 Agricultural Credit Conditions Survey that, “But low crop prices and trade woes dealt a financial blow to farmers from July through September 2018, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis’ third-quarter (October) agricultural credit conditions survey.
“Land values were stable on average across district states, and interest rates on loans rose modestly from the previous quarter. The outlook for the fourth quarter is similar, with lenders in the district generally expecting farm incomes to decrease further.”
The report stated that, “Reflecting tighter budgets for farm households, the rate of repayment on agricultural loans fell on average, while renewals increased slightly.”
While addressing land values and cash rents, the Minneapolis Fed noted that, “The average value for nonirrigated cropland in the district actually increased by slightly less than 1 percent from a year earlier, according to survey respondents. Irrigated land values increased slightly less, while ranch- and pastureland increased a little less than 3 percent on average.
“In contrast, the district average cash rent for nonirrigated land dropped 1.5 percent, reflecting continued low crop prices. Rents for irrigated land decreased about 1 percent, while ranchland rents increased 2 percent.”
Looking ahead, the report added, “The outlook for the fourth quarter of 2018 was downbeat. Across the district, 61 percent of lenders expected farm income to decrease, while only 4 percent expected increases.”
Source: Keith Good, Farm Policy News
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HomenewsTerm paper writingThe secularization phenomena in Islam Term Paper
The secularization phenomena in Islam Term Paper
Secularization is a process of religion’s role decline in the life of a society; transition from society, regulated mainly by religious tradition, to the secular model of social structure based on rational norms. Secularization is accompanied by the separation of religion from state, by the acknowledgement of right to liberty of conscience. The term was first used in the 18th century and meant the transmission of landed estates from clerical to secular control.
Presently, the term ��secularization’ is used in two meanings. Often secularization is understood as decrease of population’s religiousness, expressed in the decline of religious structures attendance, in breakaway from religious ceremonies’ strict following, in outspread of atheism. However, sociologists use ��secularization’, meaning the transition from religious regulation of public and state institutes to rationalistic ground of their activity. Then, the growth of individual religiousness doesn’t contradict secularization (until religion remains the free choice, and state bodies don’t ground their decisions with religious norms) (Stark 36).
Conservative character of orthodox Islam, for many centuries saving the identity principle of religious, cultural and political institutes, reflected the stagnation Muslim medieval societies based on natural and seminatural economy, on the one hand, and contributed to considerable economic and cultural weakness of Muslim East, preventing integral secularization, on the other hand. At same time, it saved the great influence of Islam in the social life and made the division of secular and religious spheres problematic (Warraq).
At the end of 18th and especially in the 19th century, there were undertaken certain attempts to transform Islam, which were the consequence of the growth of social, religious, national contradictions; of bourgeois relations origin, and of multidimensional influence of European culture. The idea was either to reject all accumulated distortions and innovations and fully return Islam’s ideal form (which it had on early stages of the evolution), or, vice verse, to bring it in maximal correspondence to the basic tendencies of new capitalist epoch.
Such Muslim modernists of the beginning of the 20th century, as Abdo, Rashid Rida, Ikbal, aimed at the revival of Islam’s political and intellectual grandeur in the spirit of scientific and technical progress of that period. They suggested a thesis concerning the possibility to learn the real world and the grandeur of human mind; and conceded the combination of mind’s free development with faith in God.
Modernists required considerable expansion of the circle of persons, having a right to free interpretation of Koran �in a spirit time��; and also ritualism simplifications; softening of sacral orders and norms; improvement of female position in the society; polygamy liquidation; and introduction of Europeanized educational and legal systems (Watt 43).
But all the aspirations of these ideologists were directed on including new elements into the traditional structure without sharp contradictions with the established principles, on adaptation of Islam to contemporaneity by renewing only its most archaic components.
Appeal to Islam as to eternal symbol of uniqueness, and requirement of absolute dependence of Muslims from the �supernational ummah�� restrained the process of the comprehensive secularization of Islam societies. As a result, more or less radical religious reformism of that time didn’t have success on Muslim East (Najjar).
Nowadays secularizing tendencies, set in the 19th – the beginning of 20th century and directed on separation of social ideology and religion, are strengthening; and in this process religion is only one of the instruments of national policy. Now the Muslim world is exposed to secularization, because it has opened itself to the external world. While in past Europeans perceived Muslims as alien, unclear and even backward, in the 20th century the important process of dialogue, interpenetration and mutual understanding of two cultures began (Yahya).
So, on the one hand, Islam and Muslims started to be treated more tolerantly, and, on the other hand, ideas and style of life of the modern Western society penetrate into Muslim environment. Strong influences from outside brought into Muslim society the same problems, which Christian denominations collide with.
Reason of religious regress in Muslim community is a loss of veritable knowledge; loss of well-educated and experienced leaders, being in step with the times; and breakaway from the laws of Islam. Having no retentive and consolidating factors, Muslim community appeared under the influence of a number of negative factors (Warraq).
Principles of Islam stop being main vital principles. Islam starts being perceived rather the cult, more likely than the way of life. Religion loses the role of moral imperative in life of people and in human relations. The substitution of values happened, and this process has global character. People are orienting in their action rather on media heroes, than on moral imperative of Koran (Najjar).
A rule, in accordance with which a family plays a role of religious community, does not work anymore. If family is not a projection of truly Muslim society, the society will hardly educate a real Muslim. This process is caused by two reasons: religiously mixed families, and irreligiousness of family members. Many Muslims adhere not to ethics, but etiquette of Islam, i.e. internal processes which result from Islam ethics don’t take place.
There’s also a tendency to �high-quality degradation�� of imams and other religious leaders, which do not understand their own religion properly, not to mention other religions and different sciences in general. Islam is considered as one of possible religious traditions. Losing knowledge about superiority of their dogma and history, Muslims leveled Islam to other confessions. And now they choose the religion, they find comfortable (Watt 54).
The problem of development of democracy is one of the most actual today for almost all Islamic political leaders, political organizations and many theologians-legists. Those, who recently have been talking about democracy and hostility of Islam, move to the background. The basic tendency is perception of democracy (in own interpretation) in the context of basics of Islam political doctrine. At the same time, ideologist of �Muslim Brotherhood�� Fehmi Huveydi marks that acknowledgement of democratic values by Islam (pluralism, equality, participation) does not mean the necessity to borrow specific models and institutes realizing these values in Western countries (Taylor 25).
Human rights have also appeared in the center of Islam intellectuals’ political discussion, theologians and statesmen. Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights and Cairo Declaration on Human Rights were accepted almost 25 years ago, but their practical realization in the Islamic world is far from ideal. Since the middle of 1990s Islamic political organizations has been actively demanding their introduction, turning frequently into human rights movement in the union with the Left and Liberals. In addition, they often appeal to the generally accepted concept of human rights; for example, leaders of Palestinian Hamas, stand for giving equal rights to all citizens, referring to the revision of the earlier approach to the conception of the «sheltered» (Zimmi). Woman question became one of the central ones for Islamic political movement. Even a term �Islamic feminism�� has appeared which in many cases expresses the demands to observe and provide rights for women according to norms of Islam, which enables women to protect and extend their rights in patriarchal society, contrasting Shariat and ethnic customs, frequently coming from in pre-Islamic leftovers (Hoodfar 18).
The supporters of Islamic political doctrine, not taking into account small number of radicals, change their attitude toward the West, which is no more associated with the source of all evil, of social illnesses and vices. Many leaders of Islamic political organizations call to learn from the West, acknowledging its unprecedented achievements in socio-economic, political, scientific and technical spheres. Moreover, Islamic leaders and activists start realizing that basic guilt for the regress of Muslim countries is carried not by the West, but by Muslims, who haven’t managed to react adequately to the challenges of modernity (Watt 38).
In this connection, today the problem of revival of caliphate, being always actual for Islam, becomes a second-rate issue. Such authoritative figures, as one of leaders of Western Europe Muslims Tariq Ramadan or the leader of Islamic political movement in Tunis Rashid Ganushi, call coreligionists to concentrate all forces on integration in the society, they live in, in order to influence on it from inside. Only a number of radical groups (Hizb ut-Tahrir, etc), busy fighting against political regimes, support the positions of caliphatism and the idea of �golden Islamic dinar�� introduction. However, the topic of regional integration in the spirit European Union or G8 is discussed more actively (Stark 365).
The majority of Islamic leaders talk about the importance of consolidation of Muslims in the modern world, about overcoming and purging from the archaic forms of consciousness, vestiges, prejudices, etc. In spite of Islam’s centuries-long domination in the area of its traditional spread, the perceptions, based on the folk forms of religiousness and ethnic customs, and frequently contradicting with the Muslim dogma, are very strong. It remains one of the basic problems for the revival of the Islamic world and of that spirit of cognition and progress, which was inherent to it in the 18-19th centuries (Warraq).
Contacting secular ideologies, comprehension of the society and western experience of secularization from positions of Islam began.
Ideologists of Islamic political doctrine insist that it is impossible to apply to Islam the secularization practices, characteristic for the Western countries of 19th-20th centuries, because initially this religion has no division into secular and spiritual, as Islam covers all spheres of life. By the Council of Islamic academy of jurisprudence (fiqh) at the Islamic Conference organization a special fatwah concerning secularization is issued. The idea of religion’s separation from any sphere of vital activity is acknowledged as hostile (Stark 402).
At the same time, Islamic thinkers are developing the forms of participation of Muslim world outlook in the development of the modern world, where secular paradigm dominates. Possibly, a positive solution will be found in projecting the principles of Medina agreement to the international relations. Different projects of Islam reformation aim at purifying religion from all the factors restraining modern neoliberal values and preventing integration; they reject extreme measures and support evolutional Islamisation. Transformism principle of violence unacceptability and support of gradual reformation through Islamisation of individual consciousness and social institutes becomes firmly established (Yahya).
This strategy is grounded on the necessity of sober estimation of modern realities and possibilities of Islamic movement. For example, such conception as �vasatizm�� (meaning �centrism��, �moderation��, and �constructivity��) is based on main positions of Islam. Its basic thesis is the necessity of constructive participation of Muslims in world affairs, reject of extremes, support of dialogue and moderation. Flexibility of political activity and reject of excessive sacralization become prevailing ideas. Besides, the approach, according to which problems of modernization, providing high life level, fight against a corruption, authoritarianism, becomes firmly established in the Islamic political environment. In the Islamic world the idea of the cooperation became actual again. Two basic directions were set in this connection: rapprochement with Christians and with alter-globalists. Each of these projects could easily unite more than half of humanity, and present a serious call for neoliberal globalization (Taylor 27)
Thus, radical isolationism moods, formed once in traditional Islam, lose their influence. The crisis of extreme movements, speaking under Islamic slogans, is obvious. This process is strengthened by serious discussions in the Islamic world, which marginalize extreme moods, allowing to produce the acceptable from point of Islamic political doctrine forms of political consciousness and participation, which will help the Muslim world to take the appropriate place on the world arena.
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Lucky New Year’s Eve Foods
Published in: News 16/12/2018
"Chi mangia uva a Capodanno conta i quattrini tutto l’anno" (Italian proverb)
(Those who eat grapes on New Year’s Eve, spend the year counting their money)
Discover which foods bring luck when eaten on New Year's Eve and learn how to pronounce them.
Learn how to say Happy New Year in all languages
In Italy, eating grapes during New Year's Eve Dinner brings prosperity and good luck. In Spain and Mexico, though, just eating grapes does not do the job: you need to pop exactly a grape for each stroke of midnight, for a total of 12 grapes, which symbolizes the 12 months. For each grape a wish must be expressed. Only then, wealth, good fortune, and success will be guaranteed. Buon anno (Happy New Year in Italian) and Feliz año nuevo (Happy New Year in Spanish).
Eating leafy greens is always a good habit, but eaten on New Year's Eve, in US and UK, it’s even better: they bring money, to be precise, banknotes. This American and British tradition must find its origins in the resemblance of dark leafy greens to paper money. Happy New Year!
Having dried fruits on New Year's Eve, bring good luck in France. Be careful, though, to make sure that the consumption will really work, you have to eat 13 different kinds of dried fruit. In Italy, it’s easier: just 7 kinds of dry fruits will do the trick. Bonne année (Happy New Year in French).
Resembling small round beans, these low in fat and high in protein legumes are a must in Italy and Brazil, during New Year's Eve dinner. In Italy, lenticchie, as lentils are called, become a side dish to Cotechino, a sort of pork sausage. Together, lentils and pork, will bring wealth in the oncoming year. Feliz ano novo (Happy New Year in Brazilian).
In Asian countries, rice, barley, quinoa and all that grows in grains, assure good luck if consumed during the celebration of the new year. In China, eating noodles is particularly recommended during New Year's Eve dinner. Be careful, though, they need to be eaten avoiding to break them… the only way possible is slurping them right from the bowl. Xīnnián kuàilè (Happy New Year in Chinese).
Along with all the foods which bring luck if consumed during New Year's Eve, we cannot miss pomegranates. This delicious and juicy fruit symbolize altogether passion, health, and money. In Greece is not about eating it but smashing it outside your front door. The purpose is to break it and spread it on the floor: the more seeds are scattered, the more money is coming. Eutychismenos o kainourgios chronos (Happy New Year in Greek).
Fish are believed to bring good luck when eaten during New Year's Eve, especially if roasted whole. The scales, with their silver colour, symbolize money and wealth. In the Czech Republic, the traditional fish to celebrate the oncoming year is the carp, a freshwater fish. According to tradition, a carp scale must be kept for good luck. Šťastný Nový Rok (Happy New Year in Czech).
In Germany, Poland, and Scandinavia, the ultimate New Year's Eve lucky food is herring. When eaten at midnight on December 31st, this particularly pungent fish brings good luck and helps to overcome hangover. Ein gutes neues Jahr (Happy New Year in German); Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku (Happy New Year in Polish); Godt Nyttår (Happy New Year in Norwegian); Gott Nytt År (Happy New Year in Swedish).
Romanians are more careful about foods that bring bad luck, than about those which bring good luck. In Romania, chicken, turkey, and any bird with wings must not be eaten during New Year's Eve dinner. All the animals with wings will make the fortune fly away. La mulţi ani (Happy New Year in Romanian).
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Rated PG Our Rating: V-3 ; L- 1; S/N- 2. Length: 1 hour 36 min.
and you will know the truth, and the truth will
make you free.
Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one’s nearest kin.
Bolt and his person Penny.
2008 Buena Vista Pictures
When we first see super canine hero Bolt ( voiced by John Travolta), he and his human Penny (voiced by Miley Cyrus) are battling the forces of evil. Just when it looks like the bad guys will win, Bolt uses his super powers to save the day in a spectacular way. And then we learn that all of the action and thrills are taking place in a massive film studio. At the end of the adventure, Bolt retires to his trailer home, and Penny leaves. She knows what Bolt does not, that everything was staged, Bolt’s seemingly super powers the result of studio special effects. Thus the film begins as a canine Truman Show.
However, we do not have to wait until the end of the show for the hero to discover his situation. Through a chain of incidents started by two cats out to tease him Bolt leaves his trailer and the studio and ventures into the outside world, encountering along the way some friendly pigeons, a cat named Mittens (voiced by Susie Essman), and many others. We laugh as Bolt tries to use his supposed super powers to no avail, and even more so when Mittens has to teach him to behave like a real dog.
The latter process begins when Bolt feels hunger pangs for the first time, his food needs having hitherto always been met on a rigid schedule by studio staff. He and Mittens are on the road where food is not so easily available. After explaining hunger, the cat tells Bolt to go to the nearby trailer park and “use the dog face.” Bolt is puzzled, so Mittens explains that this means begging. Bolt is still confused, so Mittens directs the dog through a series of poses. “There yah go! Tilt up! Erm… down! Now a little smile! Nehh… lose the smile. Drop your left ear. Your other left. Okay, the other way was better. Now drop ‘em both! Hold it. Right there. And ever so slightly look up.” Bolt complies, looking up with his ears down. Pleased at last, Mitten exclaims, “Soup is on, baby!”
Perhaps one of the most touching scenes is when they are traveling in a car and Bolt has to be coaxed into doing his “dog thing.” This consists of sticking his head out the window and feeling the delight of the wind rushing by him. Bolt is discovering a new world, one of freedom, in sharp contrast to the old controlled world of the studio. But freedom comes with a price, as Mitten says to Bolt, “The real world hurts, doesn’t it? For the first time in your life you’re hungry, you’re bleeding.” But the hurt of the real world is ameliorated by the presence of friends, Bolt discovers, his friendship circle expanding beyond Mittens to a rhino, a hamster in a clear plastic ball, and some pigeons. It is they, despite their cynicism about humans, who help Bolt in his long journey to re-unite with his person Penny.
This is another animated film that adults can enjoy with children, maybe not equal to the Pixar films, but nonetheless filled with funny and insightful moments.
1. What illusions does Bolt live with at the beginning of the film? How is this similar to The Truman Story in that it is a story of liberation from an old life of bondage. What illusions have you been freed from? How were those illusions comforting as well as enslaving?
2. Compare this to other road shows. What about always happens to the characters in this genre?
3. There is a delightful scene about seeing, or not seeing the obvious: Pigeon 1: [after seeing Bolt and Penny go out to play] Does that dog look familiar?
Pigeon 2: Nope. Never seen him before in my life.
What is on the huge billboard facing them? How have you at times missed the obvious or what is in front of you?
4. What can the following scene teach a child about friendship? Bolt and friends go to the animal shelter to rescue Mittens, and the cat says, “Bolt? Wh… Wha, what are you doing here?” Bolt, “I’m busting you out.” Mittens, “You – You came all the way back here… for me?” Why is Mittens so surprised that Bolt has come for her? Do you think she has had a real friend before? What does Proverbs 18:4 say about friendship?
5. The rescue scene brings up the topic of grace, in terms of unexpected or undeserved acts on behalf of another. Where else do you see grace in the film? What about Mitten’s words near the end when Bolt is leaving the sound stage?
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The virus that could end cancer misery
For anyone with advanced forms of cancer such as lung, bowel and ovarian cancer, the future often looks bleak, but now a revolutionary treatment could be the answer to their prayers.
By Tabitha Stapely
Scientists from the University of Ottawa have carried out the worlds first viral cancer therapy which involved directly injecting an engineered virus into the bloodstream.
The virus, called JX-594, is modified from one that was once used to develop the smallpox vaccine, and works because it selectively infects cancer cells; once inside it replicates and produces proteins that in turn kill tumours.
The breakthrough research, published in the journal Nature could, according to the scientists involved truly transform therapies.
Professor John Bell, who led the Canadian study, said: "We are very excited because this is the first time in medical history that a viral therapy has been shown to consistently and selectively replicate in cancer tissue after intravenous infusion in humans.
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the transparent society
“Transparent” Monoculture
The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (1999) by David Brin
I made some notes on a March 20, 1997 draft of The Transparent Society by David Brin and posted them on the Extropian mailing list on March 19, 1998. Mr. Brin kindly acknowledged my, admittedly rather tart, comments in his final edition.
There have been several recent references on the E-list to David Brin’s utopian call for the end of privacy through social engineering a “Transparent Society.” Such an idea works very well within a common moral consensual polity, indeed the idea is ancient. It is at base a renaming of “Holy Watchfulness” as practiced in monasteries around the world and in early Puritan villages in colonial America. It is a monkish ideal.
There are no visible surface problems with it in this monkish context, the benefits within the polity are substantial. However, there are serious, even intractable problems with it when it is proposed to be extended across polities that have conflicting ideals and worldviews at their core. In particular, you cannot extend “Holy Watchfulness” across the boundary between extropic and entropic worldviews, i.e., between the culture of life and the culture of death.
John Stuart Mills wrote in On Liberty (1859):
Society can and does issue its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
The Transparent Society certainly penetrates deeply into “the details of life,” and can easily be seen as a “social tyranny” worse than “political oppression.” When democratic society imposes the wrong mandates of the culture of death (taxpayer-supported murder of unborn children and the sick and elderly) on those who are opposed to it, how does it escape “enslaving the soul” by coercively making us party to such brutality? If your neighbors want to strengthen the culture of death, then they must be stopped by political action, action which must begin with secret plotting. With transparency, you wouldn’t be able to meet and plot about political agendas in any sphere of institutional life, your enemies would see your opening moves in advance, a recipe for tyranny. The advantage goes to those who see the formulation of the first move prior to implementation, not to those who see the responses.
As I have written in Extropy, “irreducible first-person subjectivity, with its private inner life and moral autonomy, is central to the concept of an individual.” The fundamental mechanism in nature is to close off the flow of information outward. We must reach out on our own terms. The Transparent Society would have us surrender this private subjectivity to complete visibility and the potential scientifically-sanctioned manipulation of our conceptual environment.
Not only must we have control of what information flows outward, but growing up and maturing is learning to select which patterns our attention should be focused on by progressively blocking out more and more of our environment. The Transparent Society sends us back to infancy, a cacophony of environmental input. As you mature, you want your door locked, you want isolation, you want time and space to formulate and test unique thoughts, then control of which thoughts are released into the open. The Transparent Society is immature. It appears as though it could develop into something akin to the unreflective oral society, all surface and immediacy, the stagnant ‘soaking up existence’ of primitivism, not deep and long-term thought characteristic of the literate, ascending society. Private thought itself, i.e., the idea of thinking privately, as opposed to rhetorical discourse in the public square, developed in monasteries protected from being transparent to the outside world as they preserved literate culture, and in private libraries after Gutenberg’s invention. It is difficult to see how private thought, which leads to cultural diversity, is fostered when we’re never alone and never protected from our enemies within the culture of death.
The Transparent Society can only foster a monoculture as it spreads across the world. Isaiah Berlin, in The Crooked Timber of Humanity (1990), writes of the intractable conflict between one world universalism of rational tolerance, and the promotion of true individual liberty, true freedom which can only arise from within a “culture” or moral consensual polity:
If free creation, spontaneous development along one’s own native lines, not inhibited or suppressed by the dogmatic pronouncements of an élite of self-appointed arbiters, insensitive to history, is to be accorded supreme value; if authenticity and variety are not to be sacrificed to authority, organization, centralization, which inexorably tend to uniformity and the destruction of what men hold dearest - their language, their institutions, their habits, their form of life, all that has made them what they are - then the establishment of one world, organized on universally accepted rational principles - the ideal society - is not acceptable.
This one world ideal is opposed by the formulation of freedom by Johann Gottfried Herder:
‘the will to live one’s own regional, local life, to develop one’s own eigentümlich values, to sing one’s own songs, to be governed by one’s own laws in one’s own home, not to be assimilated to a form of life that belongs to all and therefore to no one.’ Freedom, Hegel once observed, is bey sich selbst seyn - to be at home, not to be impinged upon by what is not one’s own, by alien obstacles to self-realization whether on the part of individuals or civilizations.
This formulation of freedom within a consensual moral polity would work wonderfully in the Transparent Society, but not at all between different polities. This difficulty is insoluble short of establishing a worldwide monoculture. The culture of life is inherently polycentric, the culture of death is the default monoculture.
Samuel Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) has written:
At the end of the twentieth century the concept of a universal civilization helps justify Western cultural dominance of other societies and the need for those societies to ape Western practices and institutions. The non-Wests see as Western what the West sees as universal. What Westerners herald as benign global integration, such as the proliferation of worldwide media, non-Westerners denounce as nefarious Western imperialism. To the extent that non-Westerners see the world as one, they see it as a threat. In 1913… international trade was at record highs and in the next few years nations slaughtered each other in unprecedented numbers. If international commerce at that level could not prevent war, when can it? The evidence simply does not support the liberal, internationalist assumption that commerce promotes peace.... In Muslim eyes Western secularism, irreligiosity, and hence immorality are worse evils than the Western Christianity that produced them. Why Americans believe that conflict is good within their own society and yet bad between societies is a fascinating question which, to the best of my knowledge, no one has seriously studied.
Non-Western civilizations do not want to be transparent to the West in any way, shape or form. Criticism of sacred Islamic or Hindu texts which give meaning and direction to life is destructive. Those cultures properly recognize it as such and resist it strenuously. Efforts to persuade them to open themselves to the Transparent Society will result in world conflict.
The argument for extending “Holy Watchfulness” across disparate moral polities is actually no argument at all, but rather a simple displacement of whatever used to be on the altar, in favor of “criticism” which will lead us all to the mystical end of “accountability.”
Why should accountability be the end of this utopian social engineering? Barbara Tuchman in The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam (1984) wrote: “Persistence in error is the problem. Practitioners of government continue down the wrong road as if in thrall to some Merlin with magic power to direct their steps. Yet to recognize error, to cut losses, to alter course, is the most repugnant option in government.” Her answer to this fact of history was not the end of the Transparent Society, accountability, rather the moral society: “Aware of the controlling power of ambition, corruption and emotion, it may be that in the search for wiser government we should look for the test of character first. And the test should be moral courage.” The moral society is, in fact, the only possible answer, for where does the will to hold accountable come from?
The moral society must aim at peace, not accountability, if it is to secure liberty. Santayana wrote in Dominations and Powers (1951):
Liberty requires peace. War would impose the most terrible slavery, and you would never be free if you were always compelled to fight for your freedom. This circumstance is ominous: by it the whole sky of liberty is at once clouded over. We are drawn away violently from irresponsible play to a painful study of facts and to the endless labor of coping with probable enemies.
So peace is the fundamental ingredient on which liberty thrives, not accountability. And how will the Transparent Society protect us from our very real and menacing external probable enemies, when they can peer into our private lives with unbelievable levels of detail? This is a gaping hole in utopia, that international agreements, global trade and creeping world governance will do nothing to help. Accountability never is a permanent guarantee of minority rights nor is it a protection against “frog-in-a-pot” style tyranny. Individual freedom, that is, guaranteed minority rights and protection from tyranny, depends on the right to secede from polities gone bad, that have sunk into the culture of death.
The end of the Transparent Society is bogus and so is the means to that end, criticism to reduce error. Criticism erodes the will, lowers risk taking, leads to conformity. Criticism to reduce error is a small subset compared to criticism to change direction, to break down cultural worldviews. Certainty of direction in a leader is infectious to the whole society, it overrides the utility of criticism. The critical society is not vital absent certainty of leadership. Also, the passion of abolition, which is never absent amongst a large enough population, is criticism for destruction’s sake. Criticism blunts intimacy and trust. Self-selected criticism is all the rage, shallow credentialism begets smugness begets a high-walled ego.
People who think they can take criticism generally are ignoring it, the will is sapped if it reaches the heart. It’s not blunders, but direction that counts. It’s the difference between efficiency and effectiveness. Criticism doesn’t breed affection, it destroys friendship. From an evolutionarily adaptive standpoint, asking for criticism is simply finding out who your friends are. Scientific criticism these days has devolved to swiping dwindling grant money and fleeting fame from each other.
There is another fatal flaw in the ability to make a transition to the Transparent Society. The flaw involves the idea that the masters of the world will altruistically roll over and play dead for the benefit of the masses.
James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg offer this master-rich scenario in The Sovereign Individual (1997):
The good news about individual liberation and autonomy will seem to be bad news to many who are not among the cognitive elite.... Many of the assurances of equality that Western people have grown to take for granted in the twentieth century are destined to die with it.... Markets always place the greatest pressures on the weakest holders. Indeed, that is part of their virtue. They promote efficiency by removing assets from weak hands.... Increasing amounts of wealth will find their way into the hands of the ablest entrepreneurs and venture capitalists worldwide. Globalization, along with other characteristics of the information economy, will tend to increase the income earned by the most talented individuals in each field. The Sovereign Individuals of the information economy will not be warlords but masters of specialized skills, including entrepreneurship and investment. Yet the feudal hundred-to-one ratio [of peasants to knights] seems set to return.... Business relations will gravitate toward reliance upon ‘circles of trust.’ Due to encryption, which gives individuals an ability to steal undetected, honesty will be a more highly valued characteristic of business associates.
Protection will become increasingly technological rather than juridical. The lower classes will be walled out. The move to gated communities is all but inevitable. Walling out troublemakers is an effective as well as traditional way of minimizing criminal violence in times of weak central authority.... New survival strategies for persons of lower intelligence will evolve, involving greater concentration on development of leisure skills, sports abilities, and crime, as well as service to the growing numbers of Sovereign Individuals as income inequality within jurisdictions rises.... We expect increasing numbers of low-income persons in Western countries who previously would have depended upon transfer payments from the state to affiliate with wealthy households as retainers.... In the next century we shall witness the creation of a world superclass, perhaps of 500 million very rich people, with 100 million being rich enough to emerge as Sovereign Individuals [out of 7 billion - 70 to 1 ratio of servants to masters].
Such a scenario, based almost entirely on the acknowledged need for strong encryption of financial transactions, makes one question the possible acquiescence of the master-rich to the proposed Transparent Society, which would allow their servant-poor to observe them in total detail. Such a prospect seems ludicrous on the face of it.
Thomas Aquinas wrote: “For those among them who excel by their intellect naturally dominate the others; as to those who do not shine by their intellect, but whose body is robust, they seem to be destined by nature to servitude.” This is an eternal verity, and cannot be changed by the Transparent Society or any form of organization whatsoever. In our technologically oriented society, the highest intellects able to manipulate matter to whatever ends they desire will dominate all, no matter what. It is foolish, self-delusional and dangerously destructive to presume otherwise. The utopian nature of the Transparent Society is clearly on display here.
Lastly, the greatest flaw in any lasting achievements the Transparent Society might produce if it were possible to be successfully installed worldwide, has to do with human nature, with the destructiveness of self-love. The flaw is not a visible surface flaw but a deep flaw, not easily seen.
In The New Criterion (June 1996), an article by Joseph Epstein about La Rochefoucauld takes the position that only a true gentleman can live in the Transparent Society:
“This être vrai, or true being or genuine person, is someone who attains as much lucidity about his own motives and those of people he deals with as possible - no easy achievement when everything in society encourages the perpetuation of falsehoods, the exchange of lies, and the proliferation of illusions. L’être vrai combines in La Rochefoucauld with l’honnête homme, the true gentlemen, who lives without pretension. Such a man has no need of pretension. ‘It is a sign of true goodness to be willing to live always in the sight of good’ - just as ‘the truly honest man is without conceit’ and ‘lives in public as he does in private.’”
But, and this is crucial to the success of the Transparent Society:
Still, make no mistake, to live with such lucidity and in such harmony is all but impossible. What with the maelstrom of self-love and self-interest in which we live, the added force of the passions that addle our minds, the banging about that the winds of fortune subject us to... nothing is more difficult, in La Rochefoucauld’s view, than correct judgment.
This self-love, or amour-propre, which torpedoes correct judgment, is the Transparent Society’s greatest difficulty, even given a common moral polity.
'Amour-propre,’ as La Rochefoucauld notes, is like ‘the eye that can see everything but itself.’ In the first of his supplementary maxims, La Rochefoucauld describes it, in part, thus: ‘Amour-propre is the love of oneself and of all other things for one’s own sake; it makes men idolize themselves and would cause them to tyrannize over their neighbors had they the opportunity.... Nothing equals the impetuosity of its desires, the depths of its schemes, or the ingenuity of its methods.... It is impossible to fathom the depths or pierce the gloom the abyss in which it dwells.... There it conceives, breeds, and rears, unknowingly, a vast number of appetites and dislikes - some of so monstrous a shape that it fails to recognize them when exposed to the light of day, or cannot bring itself to own them. Out of the night that covers it are born the absurd ideas it entertains of itself; thence come its errors, its ignorance, its clumsiness, and its fatuous beliefs about itself - its notion that its feelings are dead when they are but asleep, that it has lost its activity when once it is at rest, and that it has got rid of the appetites it has for the moment appeased.’ To be human is to have amour-propre; to have amour-propre is to be imprisoned by it; yet to understand that one is in fact imprisoned does not ever quite set one free.
Even in the Transparent Society, as on the E-list, we will fail to see our monstrous appetites and desires, or fail to own them. Our Puritan villages and monasteries with their “Holy Watchfulness” will break up and give way to privacy once again. It is human nature that individuals do not bear scrutiny. The Transparent Society, like all utopias, is an immature revolt against nature.
Reilly Jones © 2001
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China Company Registered Capital Reform and its Implications on Your China Business
China Corporate Laws, Foreign Investment in China
It has been more than two years since China launched its reform on corporate registered capital (also termed as legal capital) regime with a view to reviving and boosting investment by the grassroots people. Apparently, it has been a successful reform so far. But in the meantime, this reform has its far-reaching bearing on the way companies are funded and on the way businesses in China are conducted.
I. Contents of the Reform in Respect of Registered Capital
Basically, the reform concerning registered capital is in the following aspects:
removing the minimum amount of registered capital requirements for setting up either a limited liability company or a company limited by share (or stock company). Before the reform, a limited liability company must have a minimum registered capital of RMB 30,000 and a stock company limited by shares RMB 5 million.
removing requirement on the time limits on contributing registered capital, leaving this to the discretion of corporate shareholders to be decided in the articles of association of the company. Before the reform, 20% of the registered capital of a company shall be contributed upon incorporation with the remainder to be paid up in full within two years, except for investment companies whose registered capital is allowed to be paid over five years.
removing the paid-in capital verification formality. Before this reform, whenever a part of registered capital is contributed by shareholders, this contribution must be verified by an accounting firm to make sure the contribution is correct and in accordance with laws and articles of associations. After this removal, the company shall disclose on the national company credit online system the contribution of registered capital when it is paid in by shareholders.
There are some other concrete reforms auxiliary to and supporting the registered capital reform.
II. Legal Implications on Business Formation and Conducting
There are many legal implications flowing out of the reforms which can be said to be fundamental in corporate practice in China.
(1) Business Formation
As you may have noticed, after the lifting of requirement on time limits on contributing company’s registered capital, over night, there have been so many new companies set up. A conspicuous phenomenon is that the amounts of registered capital are very big. One of my personal friends set up a small trade company and put the registered capital at RMB 5 million, though he didn’t really need such a big registered capital.
There are two reasons why people choose to have a big registered capital for their companies. (1) with this reform, China company registry authority no longer requires shareholders to lay out a clear time table for contributing the registered capital. Instead, in Shanghai so far as I know, many newly set up companies stipulate in their articles of association to the effect that the registered capital will be paid up over the whole life of the company which is often more than 20 years. So shareholders feel no pressure in paying up the capital any time soon. (2) the second reason is that many Chinese businessmen have the mistaken perception that companies with a great registered capital are often more credible than those companies with small ones, which is definitely wrong.
(2) Business Conducting
As a result of rampage of artificially inflated registered capital in the market, when you are entering into any business contract with a Chinese company, you have got to be careful of not gauging your Chinese counterpart’s credibility only based on its registered capital, but more on its assets and cash flow.
The difficulty in practice is that you have no reliable way to know whether or how much of the registered capital is paid by the shareholders. Even though it is required by law that companies shall report its contribution of registered capital to the public, it remains to be seen how this can be enforced and how credible the information disclosed by companies.
Maybe it is worthwhile to ask your Chinese contract counterpart to make representation and/or undertaking in regard of its registered capital contribution, making sure its business is reasonably capitalized.
III. Implications on Judicial Practice Concerning Corporate Liability
So what if you are caught in a legal proceeding against your Chinese business partner company in China? For example, you sue the Chinese company to collect owed debts or you sue it for other pecuniary claims?
Though in real world, businessmen don’t rely much on a company’s registered capital but its asset and cash flow to assess the company’s financial credibility, the concept of registered capital, as a basic element of corporate law, is still meaningful and important as it is nonetheless the first basis for any third party dealing with the company to gauge the company’s financial credibility. So once set and published in corporate certificate, it is binding on the shareholders and the company. In certain circumstances, corporate creditors may benefit from artificially inflated big registered capital of their debtors.
(1) add the shareholders as co-defendants. According to Article 13 of the third judicial interpretation by China Supreme Court of China Company Law, if shareholders (or any of them) fail to contribute registered capital in part or in whole, the company’s creditors shall have the right to demand the said shareholders to pay off the part of debts that the company is unable to pay, to the extent of the registered capital (and interests thereon) that is not paid. In the meantime, as per the third paragraph quoted below, the company’s creditors can also demand other corporate promoters to assume the joint and several liability with the shareholders who have not paid up their subscribed registered capital. Further, corporate directors and other high-ranking officers (such as CEO or general managers) may also be called to account for their respective liability if they are found to be delinquent in their duties prescribed in article of 147 of China Company Law.
第十三条 股东未履行或者未全面履行出资义务，公司或者其他股东请求其向公司依法全面履行出资义务的，人民法院应予支持。
公司债权人请求未履行或者未全面履行出资义务的股东在未出资本息范围内对公司债务不能清偿的部分承担补充赔偿责任的，人民法院应予支持；未履行或者未全面履行出资义务的股东已经承担上述责任，其他债权人提出相同请求的，人民法院不予支持。
股东在公司设立时未履行或者未全面履行出资义务，依照本条第一款或者第二款提起诉讼的原告，请求公司的发起人与被告股东承担连带责任的，人民法院应予支持；公司的发起人承担责任后，可以向被告股东追偿。
股东在公司增资时未履行或者未全面履行出资义务，依照本条第一款或者第二款提起诉讼的原告，请求未尽公司法第一百四十七条第一款规定的义务而使出资未缴足的董事、高级管理人员承担相应责任的，人民法院应予支持；董事、高级管理人员承担责任后，可以向被告股东追偿。
(2) the reform may have some obvious impact on the application of veil-piercing doctrine in China judicial practice. Piercing corporate veil is still kind of new but complicated cases in China. China Company Law embraces this cause of action with a very sketchy, rough and abstract provision, namely, Article 20:
Shareholders of a company shall abide by the laws, administrative regulations and the articles of association of the company and exercise shareholders’ rights according to law. Shareholders shall not abuse their rights as shareholders to impair the interests of the company or other shareholders, or abuse the independent legal person status of the company or the limited liability of shareholders to impair the interests of creditors of the company.
Where the shareholders of a company abuse their rights as shareholders and cause losses to the other shareholders, the shareholders shall be liable to compensate such losses according to law.
Where the shareholders of a company abuse the independent legal person status of the company or the limited liability status of shareholders, evade debts and seriously impair the interests of the creditors of the company, the shareholders shall bear joint and several liability for the debts of the company.
So far, China Supreme Court has not issued any guidance or interpretation to guide local courts to apply this provision in practice. Some local high courts at provincial levels have attempted to test the ground by issuing their own guidance to their respective lower courts. For example, Shanghai High People’s Court has stepped up its opinions on how to apply the veil-piercing doctrine in its jurisdiction. In the Shanghai High People’s Court’s Opinions, it says in its Article 7:
第七条（资本显著不足的认定） 股东未缴纳或缴足出资，或股东在公司设立后抽逃出资，致使公司资本低于该类公司法定资本最低限额的，人民法院应当认定公司资本显著不足。
Article 7 (obvious undercapitalization) where shareholders fail to contribute its share of registered capital, or covertly withdraw their capital contribution following formation of the company, resulting in the company’s capital being lower than the statutory thresholds, the People’s courts shall find obvious undercapitalization on the part of the company.
As is clear in the quoted provision, the old statutory minimum thresholds set for different kinds of limited liability companies serve as benchmarks for piercing corporate veils, which is highly called into question as to its practical efficacy on redressing justice in corporate practice.
Now with the removal of those statutory minimum thresholds in this reform, courts will be lost and find it more elusive and difficult in applying the veil-piercing doctrine in real cases.
The reforms on corporate registered capital have far-reaching impacts on China’s corporate law practice which will roll out over time and is worthwhile to be observed closely.
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Jason Tian, senior partner, specializes in foreign-related legal services ranging from foreign investment in China, banking and capital, real estate, M&A, corporate, international trade, estate planning, inheritance and divorce at his blog: https://www.sinoblawg.com.
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