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Scarlett Johansson talks Brie Larson on set of Avengers 4
In recent interview for Vanity Fair’s new cover celebrating Marvel Cinematic Universe 10th Anniversary, Scarlett Johansson talked about what’s to come in Avengers 4 from the set of the movie and confirmed that Captain Marvel will be sharing scenes with both Black Widow and The Incredible Hulk.
“We have Brie Larson on this film. She’s here before shooting the stand-alone Captain Marvel movie so we get to watch her get her feet wet for real. She’s so great, but a really cute thing happened the other day where Hulk is standing next to her and Joe Russo told her to put her hand in front of Mark [Ruffalo]’s face to stop him, and she’s like, “In front of his face?” And they explained, “that’s where his chest is,” and she looks up and yells, “I’m new! I’m new!” I’m like, “damn, girl.” It’s very surreal for me to watch these new cast members come in and get their feet wet and breath new life into these characters who are so iconic. I feel a lot of joy for the next generation. It’s a bittersweet feeling but overall it’s a positive one. I feel good about the work we’ve done and the work I’ve done.”
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Minneapolis-based 'Captain Phillips' star nabs Screen Actors Guild nomination
Minneapolis actor Barkhad Abdi took a big step toward an Oscar nomination Wednesday with a major nomination from the Screen Actors Guild, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
Abdi was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for playing Somali pirate leader Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse in the true-life high seas thriller "Captain Phillips." The film chronicles the 2009 hijacking of Captain Richard Phillips' freighter, the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama.
"We just started screaming. We had to calm down so we wouldn't wake the neighbors," the first-time actor said in a statement to Variety about his nomination. "I was up all night waiting for this, and it's just amazing. It's surreal, honestly. I did not expect to be nominated."
Tom Hanks, who stars in the title role, was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Lead Role.
Hanks and Abdi were featured in a THR cover story this fall.
Abdi will face off against Daniel Bruhl ("Rush"), Michael Fassbender ("12 Years a Slave"), Jared Leto ("Dallas Buyers Club") and the late James Gandolfini ("Enough Said") for the SAG award.
Abdi has been the recipient of high praise from critics and Oscar buzz from industry analysts, even before the film was released in theaters in October.
The SAG Awards are considered an accurate barometer for who may be nominated for the Academy Awards, since many SAG voters also vote on the Oscars.
Deadline Hollywood said "Captain Phillips" studio Columbia Pictures plans to re-release the film in 1,000 theaters on Jan. 15, the day before Oscar nominations are announced.
Also faring well in the SAG nominations were actors from "12 Years a Slave," a historical drama co-produced by Minnesota filmmaker Bill Pohlad.
In addition to Fassbender, "12 Years a Slave" received nominations for Chiwetel Ejiofor (Outstanding Male Lead), Lupiota Nyong'o (Outstanding Female Supporting) and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
The 20th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be handed out in Los Angeles Jan. 18.
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Our Look At The Making of Disney Pixar Short Bao!
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As you all know, Disney Pixar films always have an amazing short that comes before the feature film. We got to check out the details of the new Pixar short Bao in addition to the press conference for The Incredibles 2. The creator (Domee Shi) and producer (Becky Neiman) of the accompanying Pixar Short Bao came out to provide insight into the making of this touching and adorable piece.
The creator herself, Domee Shi, came out to first explain why Bao was the perfect title for the short:
“So bao has two meanings in Chinese. Said one way, bao, it means steam bun. But said another way, Bao, it means treasure or something precious.”
Domee began as a story artist at Pixar with the first film she worked on being Inside Out in 2014. She showed us a sample of her work from Inside Out comparing her story board to the final product.
Working late one night she decided that she wanted to make something on her own. Something that was personal to her.
“What was it going to be about? At the time my number one obsession in life: food.”
“I also loved food fairy tales as well, because they’re so cute and strange, like the gingerbread man. And I wanted to do a Chinese version of that with a little dumpling instead of a cookie. And I also wanted to do a story about family. And I thought it was a perfect fit because in Chinese culture, food and family just go hand in hand. Especially dumplings.”
“So the first ingredient for Bao came from tapping into what I loved which is food. And the second ingredient was taping into what I knew; which was my own personal experience growing up as an only child. This photo is of me and mom in China. And I feel like ever since I was little she always treated me like I was her precious little dumpling. Always watching over me. Making sure I was safe. Making sure I never wandered away too far.”
Much like the dumpling in Bao, Domee and her mother did everything together. And also like in Bao, there came a point where Domee wanted to pull away and become her own person. Domee even mentioned where a key scene in the short came from:
“(My mother would) often hold me close and say ‘I wish I could put you back in my stomach so I knew exactly where you were at all times.’”
Which Domee of course responded to her mother saying:
“Aw that’s sweet but creepy.”
Domee’s mother was a real inspiration for the short. So much so that she even flew her mother in to give the effects and animator crew classes on how to make dumplings. This was clearly taken to heart as when you watch Bao, the dumpling making scenes are illustrated to look both realistic and beautiful.
Domee continued:
“And the third ingredient for this short was China Town. Torronto China Town. I wanted to honor the equally vibrant residents of China Town: The China Town Grannies. I wanted to celebrate their bold color choices. Their keen eye for the freshest produce. Their determination to get the best deal and to mow down anybody in their way. And so Bao originally started out as a personal side project I was doing outside of work. But on a whim I pitched it to Pete Docter, the director of Inside Out, of Monsters, Inc., and my mentor at the time sort of. Just to get his advice on it. And he just love it so much that he encouraged me to pitch it out to the studio when there was an open call for short pitches. And so I pitched Bao and a couple other ideas, not knowing if Pixar would ever go for a story this off kilter. But they did and in fact that’s what they loved about the short. That it was so weird and unique and so surprising.”
Getting into the actual story, Domee explained:
“I always knew I wanted to create the story about a lonely empty nester mom who goes through a crazy dumpling fantasy in order to process her real son moving away.”
Domee then flashed for us her beat boards, essentially story boards, which showed the outline of the story.
She then showed us some inspirations that lead to the style used in the short saying this:
“Style-wise, me and Rhona (the production designer) were looking at a lot of classic Chinese folk art and folk figurines. We were drawn to these really simple and graphic characters. We loved how the design emitted details and joints and necks and made the characters look really round and cute. And they already really looked like dumplings which I thought was really cool.”
Getting into the physics of the character of dumpling, Domee continued:
“(Dumpling) was a fun challenge as well. We really wanted to take advantage of the fact he’s made of dough. That he’s really squishy, he’s not going to grow really big or small. His arms and legs can stretch out. He’s a got a little bounce to his step. He’s a squishy, doughy steam bun and we really wanted to honor his material in every shot that he is in. And so as a test, the animators did this really fun little test of dumpling.”
While showing us the test footage, Domee explained:
“We can treat his head like a doughy sock that forms around anything you stuff it with.”
Taking on audience questions, it was asked if Pixar is looking for more diversity like Coco and now Bao. Becky answered:
“It’s hopefully the start of a really great trend. And like Domee said people tell the best story when it’s something they know really well or something personal. So to find stories like this, you go to find people. It’s about finding diverse story tellers.”
Then when asked, if she had any plans to do a feature length production Domee responded:
“Maybe. Yeah. That’s the plan.”
At which point Becky quickly stated:
“She’s in development now.”
Which means Domee Shi is now someone to be on the lookout for in the next few years as her feature is sure to be something unique and memorable, just like Bao. Finally, Domee’s mother was able to come down from the audience and take photos with her daughter and Becky.
It was so fun to learn how this amazing short came to be. Be sure to check it out before the INCREDIBLES 2 June 15th!
Visit the official INCREDIBLES 2 website here: http://disney.com/incredibles2
Jesse Delia
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Indiana father, son arrested for drug dealing
Posted 11:17 pm, February 26, 2016, by Lindsey Eaton
WINCHESTER, Ind. (Feb. 26, 2016)- A Winchester father and son are facing drug charges.
Court papers reveal 48-year-old Kevin Mallory and 18-year-old Austin Mallory admitted to dealing drugs.
“It’s very sad and very disappointing. It’s really sad that the dad wanted to get his son involved in it or vice versa,” said Beverly Oliver, a neighbor.
On Wednesday, detectives showed up to a home on S. Western Avenue to arrest Kevin Mallory on warrants. Investigators found heroin, $717 in cash, a marijuana plant, baggies, digital scales, syringes, and more than 500 capsules used to distribute heroin.
Investigators also found a notebook in a bedroom with a listing of names and dollar amounts.
“To have that sort of thing around a young individual is just unbelievable,” said Shon Byrum, Winchester Mayor.
According to court documents, Austin told investigators that he’s been selling for a couple months and that his father would "hand him capsules of heroin and tell him to go sell them for money."
“I think we’ve had enough, we’ve simply had enough. If you’re going to do drugs and you want to sell drugs you better go somewhere else,” said Byrum.
Mayor Byrum told CBS4 authorities busted a different house on Friday morning and found a meth lab.
“It feels good that we are cleaning this up and doing this because it’s been very scary around Winchester and Randolph County for a long time,” says Byrum.
Court papers show, Kevin Mallory told investigators he was buying heroin from a dealer. He would sell half of it to make a profit and then keep the rest to support his habit.
Investigators say Kevin was on probation for a 2012 drug conviction. He allegedly wasn’t showing up to appointments and required drug testing, so investigators were originally arresting him for a probation violation.
Both Kevin and Austin Mallory are facing a list of drug charges including dealing, possession, and maintaining a common nuisance.
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President Trump, Community Colleges are Much More Than Vocational Schools
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Submitted by cclc@ccleague.org on Wed, 04/18/2018 - 13:15
By Larry Galizio
President & CEO, Community College League of California
Last month in a speech to workers at a training facility in Ohio, President Trump professed ignorance about what community colleges do: “I don’t know what that means, a community college.” The president continued, “Call it vocational and technical. People know what that means. They don’t know what a community college means.”
Historically, vocational schools in the U.S., to which the president refers nostalgically, were educational alternatives to traditional colleges and postsecondary schools. Although vocational education of the early and mid-20th century offered a viable alternative for many, it also pushed working class and recent immigrant students into narrow job training programs for individuals perceived as intellectually inferior.
While community college leaders share the president’s desire to strengthen workforce development and prepare individuals for the increasingly technical and complex workplace of the 21st century, such dismissive language of the sector that educates the majority of our nurses, firefighters, police officers and many other skilled professionals is especially frustrating for those working within California’s community colleges — the largest provider of workforce development in the nation.
The majority of the nation’s 1,100 public community colleges offer both career and technical programs in manufacturing, healthcare, computer science, engineering and a host of other applied educational programs leading to careers that have historically been considered vocational in nature. In addition, a primary component of community colleges is offering transfer education for students wishing to complete the first two years of general education prior to transferring to a 4-year college or university.
However, what is perhaps most fundamental to the mission of public community colleges is that they are deeply rooted in their communities and are recognized as public goods. Community colleges are typically very comprehensive, which is why the term “community” fits these popular institutions. Even more significantly, community colleges are governed by and focused on serving their local constituencies. Whereas state colleges and universities typically seek to serve students statewide, the focus and primary constituencies of community colleges are the individuals living and working within its district boundaries.
Community colleges do provide valuable career and technical education courses — historically referred to as vocational classes — to millions of students in California and across the nation, but they do far more than that. From adult education and English language courses to veteran services and parenting classes, California’s community colleges offer a wide range of programs. Our colleges help to address housing and food insecurity needs, while providing students with opportunities to participate in performing arts, athletics and a variety of academic and interest-based clubs. Off campus many of our colleges are viewed as community hubs, hosting ethnic and cultural events open to the public and housing healthcare clinics, political forums and town halls all available to local residents.
As president of the Community College League of California, I work closely with the 441 locally elected trustees and 137 chancellors and presidents who govern and serve California’s community colleges. These schools are as diverse as the communities they serve, and their primary aim is to offer a quality public education for all Californians. These educational and community leaders would be excellent sources of information for President Trump in understanding the mission, purpose and comprehensiveness of our community colleges.
It would be tempting to dismiss President Trump’s recent remarks about community colleges as simply demonstrating his lack of knowledge about a prominent sector of higher education in the U.S. But they reflect a core tenet of this administration, which is to assail and denigrate public institutions, with the goal of privatizing them.
The stock prices of for-profit education companies surged following the election of President Trump, and the nation’s public community colleges represent their strongest competitors. By devaluing community colleges and pretending not to understand their purpose, the president is in effect promoting the private for-profit colleges and entities that brought us Corinthian and ITT, both closing their doors after the U.S. Department of Education cut off their access to federal student aid upon finding out they had misrepresented graduation and job placement rates. Trump’s remarks are consistent with his administration’s push to undo or delay the Obama administration’s controls on for-profit colleges.
The nation’s community colleges play a critical role in meeting the economic, educational – and yes, vocational, demands of the 21st century. And equally important, our community colleges have developed into public spaces that help meet the diverse social and cultural needs of our communities.
CREDIT: This blog post was originally published as an op-ed piece in Ed Source on April 11, 2018.
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Development of recombinant vaccinia virus vectored African swine fever vaccines
Kansas State University PI: Wenjun Ma
Kansas State University Co-I: Zhilong Yang
African swine fever (ASF) is an infectious and economically important disease of domestic pigs caused by the African swine fever virus (ASFV) that belongs to the family of Asfarviridae. Although ASF is endemic in Africa, disease outbreaks have also occurred in Europe, South America and the Caribbean showing the potential for rapid international spread. Currently, there is no vaccine for ASF. Previous studies have shown that the use of individual recombinant ASFV proteins as immunogens only provides partial protection, and cellular immunity is necessary to provide protection by attenuated ASFV in pigs. This indicates that complete protection may require responses to multiple viral proteins and also involve cellular immunity.
Poxvirus such as vaccinia virus stain Copenhagen (VACV-COP) has been demonstrated to be an efficient and safe expression vector for development of human and veterinary vaccines and is able to induce specific humoral and cellular immune responses against expressed foreign antigens in vaccinated species, resulting in efficient protection. In this proposed proposal, we will use the VACV-COP to express ASFV proteins p17, p30, p54 and p72, all of which have been shown to induce neutralizing antibodies. The resultant recombinant viruses VACV-COP-p30+p45 and VACV-COP-p17+p72 will be characterized in vitro and used as ASF vaccine candidates. Their safety, immunogenicity (including specific serologic responses and cellular immunity) and efficacy will be evaluated in pigs. The long-term goal of the project will be the development of efficacious cross protective vaccinia-based vectored vaccines for ASF.
Construct and Test Recombinant Adenoviruses Vectoring African Swine Fever Virus Genes in Inducing Immune Protection in Pigs
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African swine fever (ASF) is a foreign swine viral disease caused by African swine fever virus (ASFV). Despite of extensive research, there are currently no vaccines available to control this disease due to the biological complexity involved. We have used functional genomics and computational biology approaches to understand why it is difficult to develop ASF vaccines. Based on our results together with published research, we designed an innovative blueprint of adenovirus-vectored ASF vaccine candidate, aiming to induce the immune response that can be translated into immune protection against ASFV. The objective of the proposed research is to conduct a proof of principle study by constructing and testing this vectored ASF vaccine candidates. The success of this proposed research can eventually lead to develop an effective and safe ASF vaccine for U.S. pork industry to control ASF in case of the outbreak.
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On behalf of the Board of the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA), I am pleased to announce that the College’s official journal Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal (AENJ) is undergoing a transformation and will soon be re-launched with a new name and extended scope as Australasian Emergency Care (AUEC). This decision and the ensuing body of work being done by the Editor-in-Chief, Professor Ramon Shaban and the journal’s Senior Editors, Professor Julie Considine and Professor Margaret Fry, has focussed on the contemporary needs of the expanding emergency community and the interests of the journal into the future.
The new journal will continue to publish quality work from its emergency nursing base, but will also welcome submissions and readership from other health professions involved in the delivery of emergency care. CENA members will continue to receive complimentary copies of the AUEC quarterly, and I strongly encourage members to submit research papers to the Australasian Emergency Care journal.
I enthusiastically support this work and look forward to the imminent publication of the first issue of Australasian Emergency Care.
Dr. Julia Morphet (FCENA)
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Australasian Emergency Care (formerly the Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal) is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to supporting emergency nurses, physicians, paramedics and other professionals in advancing the science and practice of emergency care, wherever it is delivered.
As the official journal of the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA), Australasian Emergency Care is a conduit for clinical, applied, and theoretical research and knowledge that advances the science and practice of emergency care in original, innovative and challenging ways. The journal serves as a leading voice for the emergency care community, reflecting its inter-professional diversity, and the importance of collaboration and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient outcomes. It is strongly focused on advancing the patient experience and quality of care across the emergency care continuum, spanning the pre-hospital, hospital and post-hospital settings within Australasia and beyond.
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Foerster H. von & Poerksen B. (2002) The Metaphysics of Ethics: A Conversation. Cybernetics & Human Knowing 9(3–4): 149–157. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/3218
Ethics Is Not A Theory B. P. The two books that you have published within the last decade are called Wissen und Gewissen [Knowledge and Conscience] and KybernEthik [CybernEthics]. Even the titles allude to a context that has been present in all of your work: This topic is the indissoluble connection between epistemology and ethics. How can this connection be described? Or to put it more precisely, what epistemological position has what ethical consequence? This dialog is an excerpt from the recently published book: Understanding Systems. Conversations on Epistemology and Ethics by Heinz von Foerster and Bernhard Poerksen. Translation by Karen Leube. Heidelberg/New York: Carl-Auer-Systeme Verlag/Kluwer Academic Publication/Plenum Publishers. ISBN: 3–89670–234–3.
Foerster H. von & Poerksen B. (2004) At each and every moment, I can decide who I am: Heinz von Foerster on the observer, dialogic life, and a constructivist philosophy of distinctions. In: Poerksen B. (ed.) The certainty of uncertainty: Dialogues introducing constructivism. Imprint Academic, Exeter: 1–23.
Excerpt: In 1957, Heinz von Foerster founded the Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) at the University of Illinois. At this institution, he brought together avant garde artists and original minds from all over the world. In the inspiring climate of the BCL, philosophers and electrical engineers, biologists (e.g. Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela), anthropologists and mathematicians, artists and logicians debated epistemological questions from interdisciplinary perspectives deriving from both the sciences and the arts. They dealt with the rules of computation in humans and machines and analysed the logical and methodological problems involved in the understanding of understanding and the observation of the observer. It is von Foerster’s outstanding achievement to have brought into focus the inescapable prejudices and blind spots of the human observer approaching his apparently independent object of inquiry. His ethical stance demands constant awareness of one’s blind spots, to accept, in a serious way, that one’s apparently final pronouncements are one’s own productions, and to cast doubt on certainties of all kinds and forms, while at the same time continually searching for other and new possibilities of thought.
Glasersfeld E. von & Poerksen B. (2004) We can never know what goes on in somebody else’s head: Ernst von Glasersfeld on truth and viability, language and knowledge, and the premises of constructivist education. In: Poerksen B. (ed.) The certainty of uncertainty: Dialogues introducing constructivism. Imprint Academic, Exeter: 25–45. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/5690
Excerpt: Three principal research interests have made [Ernst von Glasersfeld] one of the well-known founders of constructivism. He systematically scoured the history of European philosophy for varieties of epistemological scepticism and set up an ancestral gallery reaching back to the insights of the ancient sceptics of the 4th century B. C. He replaced the classical realist concept of truth by the idea of viability: theories need not and do not correspond with what is real, he says, but they must be practi-||cable and useful, they must be viable. Finally, he introduced the work of the Swiss developmental psychologist, Jean Piaget, into the constructivist debate.
Maturana H. R. & Poerksen B. (2004) From being to doing: The origins of the biology of cognition. Translated by Wolfram K. Köck and Annemarie R. Köck. Carl-Auer, Heidelberg.
English translation of Maturana H. R. & Pörksen B. (2002) Vom Sein zum Tun: Die Ursprünge der Biologie des Erkennens. Excerpts published as separate articles: Maturana H. R. & Poerksen B. (2004) Varieties of objectivity, Maturana H. R. & Poerksen B. (2004) On the autonomy of systems: A conversation – The limits of external determination, Maturana H. R. & Poerksen B. (2006) The paradox of education: A conversation
Maturana H. R. & Poerksen B. (2004) On the autonomy of systems: A conversation – The limits of external determination. Revue Européenne de Systémique (Res-Systematica) 4(2). Fulltext at https://cepa.info/696
Excerpt from Maturana H. R. & Poerksen B. (2004) From being to doing: The origins of the biology of cognition. Translated by Wolfram K. Köck and Annemarie R. Köck
Maturana H. R. & Poerksen B. (2004) The knowledge of knowledge entails responsibility: Humberto R. Maturana on truth and oppression, structure determinism and dictatorship, and the autopoiesis of living. In: Poerksen B. (ed.) The certainty of uncertainty: Dialogues introducing constructivism. Imprint Academic, Exeter: 47–83. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/5691
Excerpt: [Maturana] is particularly well known for his theory of autopoiesis (self-creation) that he began to develop in the late 1960s. This theory provides a novel feature of living beings going beyond the traditional criteria of biology reproduction, mobility, etc. According to Maturana, a circular, autopoietic form of organisation distinguishes living beings, from the amoeba to humans. Living systems form a network of internal and circularly enmeshed processes of production that make them bounded unities by constantly producing and thus maintaining themselves. Autopoietic systems are autonomous. Whatever may happen inside them, whatever may penetrate and stimulate, perturb or destroy them, is essentially determined by their own circular organisation.
Maturana H. R. & Poerksen B. (2004) Varieties of objectivity. Cybernetics & Human Knowing 11(4): 63–71.
Maturana H. R. & Poerksen B. (2004) Without the observer, there is nothing. Constructivism in the Human Sciences 9: 9–18.
Maturana H. R. & Poerksen B. (2006) The paradox of education: A conversation. Journal of Aesthetic Education 40(1): 25–33. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/710
Excerpt from Maturana H. R. & Poerksen B. (2004) From being to doing: The origins of the biology of cognition. Translated by Wolfram K. Köck and Annemarie R. Köck: 127–137.
Maturana H. R. & Poerksen B. (2007) Autopoiesis and social theory: A conversation. Journal of Sociocybernetics 5(1–2): 68–73. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/716
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Rise & Shine: ‘We have to get this right’: With Sharon Griffin out, achievement district seeks consistency
By Caroline Bauman - June 19, 2019
Welcome to Wednesday.
With yet another superintendent leaving Tennessee’s turnaround district, parents, school leaders, and community members are asking for a leader who will stay the course. In today's lead story, we chronicle their thoughts and questions on the latest leadership change in the Achievement School District, as well as detail who will take charge in the interim as Sharon Griffin exits.
In other news, we asked our readers last week to tell us to share their thoughts and reactions to Brandon Webber’s death and the protests in Memphis that followed. Webber, a former student leader at Central High School, was killed Wednesday, following an alleged altercation with federal law enforcement.
Memphis students and teacher had many powerful things to say. Read here.
-Caroline Bauman, community editor
DAY AFTER The day after news broke of Griffin’s exit from the Achievement School District, state officials say the interim leaders were chosen to communicate “stability.” Chalkbeat
IN YOUR WORDS Memphis students say they feel “scared” and “powerless” after Brandon Webber’s shooting death. Chalkbeat
SPOTLIGHT Deanna McClendon, one of the top three candidates for the Monroe County Director of Schools position, is currently under investigation by her former Memphis school district. WBIR
PUSHING BACK Knowledge Academies charter school is suing Metro Nashville Public Schools, alleging the school board violated open meetings laws last week when it began the process to shut down the embattled school. The Tennessean
CAMP TIME As summer gets going in the Mid-South, Shelby County Schools is providing a program that gives young students a place to spend their time. WREG
Kingsport students and school leaders hope a summer coding camp inspires more girls to enter the field. Kingsport Times-News
BOARD MEMBER REPRIMANDED The Madison County Commission votes 14-6 to censure school board member Morris Merriweather for violating the county ethics policy. The Jackson Sun
MENTAL HEALTH Cumberland County’s Safe Schools counselors speak on their work to help schools in times of crisis. Crossville Chronicle
SUMMER SLIDE Summer literacy programs at three Spring Hill elementary schools use fun to fight “summer slide.” Spring Hill Home Page
NEW BUILDING Cleveland city officials tour a new elementary school. Cleveland Daily Banner
NATIONAL LOOK Documents obtained by ProPublica show that the Walton Family Foundation, a staunch supporter of school choice and Teach For America’s largest private funder, was paying $4,000 for every teacher placed in a traditional public school — and $6,000 for every one placed in a charter school. The two-year grant was directed at nine cities, including Memphis. ProPublica
OPINION “Like many rich Americans, I used to think educational investment could heal the country’s ills—but I was wrong. Fighting inequality must come first,” says the founder of the public-policy incubator Civic Ventures. The Atlantic
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What to do when your name’s domain name is taken
By Caelan Huntress| 2016-12-20T07:37:04+12:00 January 26th, 2015|Blog, Business, Hacks, How To, Pura Vida MultiMedia, Web Design|
Yourname.com is owned by somebody else. Does that mean you are exiled from the internet? Of course not! This is an opportunity to get clever about how to shoehorn your name into a website URL. Here are three options: Option one - Check the other TLDs. Around the world, .com is seen as the most 'reputable' [...]
How To Change All Your Passwords After Heartbleed
By Caelan Huntress| 2016-12-20T07:37:06+12:00 April 9th, 2014|Blog, Hacks, How To, Productivity, Pura Vida MultiMedia|
You need passwords. For your banking, email, and social media profiles, you need passwords for every account. And Heartbleed has made every password you've ever had very, very vulnerable. What Is Heartbleed? Heartbleed is a security flaw in OpenSSL, the open-source security certificate that encrypts sensitive data. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a protocol that [...]
Apostrophe and Backslash error in WordPress – it’s Magic Quotes
By Caelan Huntress| 2016-12-20T07:37:22+12:00 January 28th, 2013|Blog, Hacks, How To, Pura Vida MultiMedia, Web Design|
On a high quality self-marketing blog that I manage, when someone would add a comment that included an apostrophe, the apostrophe would populate on the page with a backslash behind it. From ' to /' every time. I could manually edit these in the Wordpress backend, or even use a search and replace plugin on [...]
The Amazing Life Formula
By Caelan Huntress| 2016-12-20T07:37:29+12:00 February 20th, 2012|Blog, Content Marketing, Entrepreneur, Hacks, Pura Vida MultiMedia|
A pet project that was years in the making, The Amazing Life Formula is an ambitious information product that combines content marketing, interactive PDF downloads, and personal development. It's no accident that my life transformed, and I run my dream business from my laptop in tropical paradise. I made this happen. By studying the masters of [...]
How to send mail AS another email address in Gmail
By Caelan Huntress| 2016-12-20T07:37:30+12:00 December 30th, 2011|Articles, Blog, Content Marketing, Hacks, How To, Pura Vida MultiMedia|
This tutorial describes how to use Gmail to manage multiple email addresses. If you are signing in and out of every email account you own, now you don't have to! In this short, 4 minute video, I can show you how to forward all of your emails to one inbox - and then send mail [...]
Permanent Phone Number – only $20 with Google Voice
By Caelan Huntress| 2016-12-10T16:12:10+12:00 June 6th, 2011|Blog, Entrepreneur, Hacks, Portland, Pura Vida MultiMedia|
You don't have to give up your phone number when you end your cell phone contract, or move from where your landline is located. Google Voice can save you. Sign up for a free Google Voice account at www.google.com/voice. You will need to sign in with your Gmail / Google account. Select 'I want to [...]
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Lachlan, M. D.
The Vikings are laying siege to Paris. As the houses on the banks of the Seine burn a debate rages in the Cathedral on the walled island of the city proper. The situation is hopeless. The Vikings want the Count's sister, in return they will spare the rest of the city. Can the Count really have ambitions to be Emperor of the Franks if he doesn't do everything he can to save his people? Can he call himself a man if he doesn't do everything he can to save his sister?
His conscience demands one thing, the demands of state another. The Count and the church are relying on the living saint, the blind and crippled Jehan of St Germain, to enlist the aid of God and resolve the situation for them.
But the Vikings have their own gods. And outside their camp a terrifying brother and sister, priests of Odin, have their own agenda. An agenda of darkness and madness. And in the shadows a wolfman lurks.
M.D. Lachlan's stunning epic of mad Gods, Vikings and the myth of Fenrir, the wolf destined to kill Odin at Ragnarok, powers forward into new territories of bloody horror, unlikely heroism, dangerous religion and breathtaking action.
Publisher: London : Gollancz, c2011.
Branch Call Number: SCIENCE FICTION LAC
Characteristics: 532 p. ; 24 cm.
Read more reviews of Fenrir at iDreamBooks.com
unbalancedbutfair Mar 22, 2013
The sequel to "wolf's angel" this installment is equally excellent. The author's writing has improved. He has wonderfully crafted phrases and few are unclear. The magic is dark, 'other' and compelling. And the twist the author introduces-while not as paradigm shifting as the twist on werewolves he already introduced in the first book- is brilliant. The history and cultures are vibrant. The tension and action are engrossing. A unique blend of history, mythology, fantasy, action and horror sprinkled with moments of humor. It's not an easy read, but it is a good one.
Vikings — Fiction.
Werewolves — Fiction.
Prophecies — Fiction.
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PRISCILLA SOLIS – Licensed Massage Therapist
A native Texan, Priscilla left the majority of her family to pursue her dreams of completing school and owning a business in Colorado. In 2012 she moved to Longmont and graduated from Front Range Community College with an Associate’s Degree.
Priscilla comes from a lineage of helpers and healers. As a child, she rode alongside her mother on food delivery routes to the homeless and volunteer shifts at the local food pantry. When she was sick, her grandmother would recite prayers in spanish while applying gentle strokes from head to toes. Her aunts and uncles are Registered Nurses. Massage therapy was a trade she always had in the back of her mind but never pursued a license so finally when she unlocked the power within by learning the value of massage and the immediate relief a client felt, she knew it was something she wanted to do.
Priscilla had the opportunity to participate in the first of its kind Cannabis Massage 101 with Jordan in May 2017 before completing the Professional Massage Therapy Program at the Denver School of Massage Therapy in Aurora in October 2017.
Priscilla’s favorite part about massage is that it’s a universal tool to facilitate healing. Any massage modality she knows to date can make a significant difference for the client.
Priscilla lives in Denver with her husband Casey and their cat Houdini. When she’s not massaging, she works at a medical marijuana evaluation clinic and Indo Expo where she enjoys making a lasting impression in the cannabis community for marijuana consumers.
Sherry Felix – Licensed Massage Therapist
Sherry Felix, was born in El Paso, TX. and was 3 when her family moved to Colorado. She spent her summers in Texas till age 13. She graduated from Heritage College in May of 2003 with an Associate Degree of Occupational Studies in Therapeutic Massage. She has been practicing massage for 16 years. Being a massage therapist has brought her so much joy being able to help people rehabilitate and feel better. She enjoys all the wonderful people she come to know being a massage therapist. As a go with the flow type of person she enjoys spending her time off hanging out with her daughter, family and friends.
JORDAN HELENE PERSON- Founder, LMT, LPN
Jordan went to school for nursing and massage in Florida and trained in Kauai, Hawaii to become certified in Hot Stone Massage and Lomi Lomi. Jordan came to Colorado in 2010 as a medical marijuana refugee. As a Nurse of 17 years and a Massage Therapist for 12 years she saw the overwhelming health benefits of cannabis first hand and wanted to help educate the world on what she learned. She decided to dive head first into the cannabis industry and began working for a medical marijuana dispensary putting her healing career on temporary hold.
After healing herself and realizing she could no longer without being a healer, she found a way to combine her years in the medical field with her years spent working with medical marijuana and Cannabis Infused Massage Therapy was born. She now makes all the topicals that Primal Therapeutics uses. She created the recipe with her patients in mind and uses all organic ingredients in her creations. She has been teaching Cannabis Massage and Topicals Making 101 since January 2017 and is almost finished with the curriculum for 102.
The former executive director of Denver NORML, Jordan is an advocate and an activist for the plant. She is passionate about plant medicine and herbal solutions for health and wellness. She uses her intuitive energy gifts along with continued education in the therapeutic fields she loves to provide the best care possible to all of her patients.
After suffering a major break to her clavicle she is no longer performing bodywork. Currently Jordan is busy working on Primal Healing, our topicals line and providing education via speaking engagements and as a Medical Expert for CannabisMD.
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A national study released by the U.S. Department of Energy reports that a full one percent of the U.S. electric grid is now dedicated to growing cannabis.
Dave Carpenter
Indoor-grown marijuana is an energy-hungry leviathan. Equivalent to the energy output of 1.7 million American homes (and counting) the emerging industry is putting a significant strain on the national power grid and is the country’s most energy-intensive crop at a cost of nearly $6 billion annually.
For decades, the traditional indoor grow light of choice has been high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps. The same sodium lamps that illuminate a majority of world’s city streets have for years been lighting grow rooms from San Diego to Syracuse. Meant to mimic the intense rays of the sun, flowering rooms equipped with HIDs — typically outfitted with multiple lamps burning for 12 hours at a time — require continuous air conditioning and dehumidification. And all that usage translates to excessive power waste. LED lighting, on the other hand, consumes less power and emits far less heat, which means a greater return to the grower’s bottom line.
Because common cultivator wisdom follows the philosophy of ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,’ there’s a pervasive reticence to switch to new tech and invite the high cost of re-outfitting a grow room. But with the ever-expanding evidence around global warming, and subsequent soaring cost of electricity, LEDs are in the limelight as a more sustainable approach to indoor cultivation.
Head grower Kevin Biernacki at The Grove Nevada’s 50,000-sqft. cultivation facility was interested in LED and looking for low-heat, cost-saving lights during the manufacture of their vertical-grow site in Las Vegas. “We really needed a multi-tiered system that wouldn’t cook the roots above,” he says.
Stacking grow racks in tiers means the Grove can double or triple their square footage — and vastly increase profits at the same time. Biernacki says he went through a host of LED companies, putting each to the test with side-by-side independent lamp tests. He explains why, after an exhaustive search, they ended up purchasing 650 LED grow lights from the company Heliospectra.
“It really came down to grams per watt,” he says. “Also, we liked that Heliospectra [LED] lights allow you to customize light recipes, which other people simply don’t have.”
The Grove is now able to design light combinations that mimic sunrise, mid-day and sunset, combined with a “far red push” during the last few weeks of flowering. “The last three weeks of harvest we are able to push the light spectrum a little differently,” says Biernacki. “At the very end, we are getting that far red and we are able to speed up the product to harvest.”
Affecting harvest times by as much as one full week shaved from a 10-week flowering period, the dollars saved speak for themselves. Biernacki says it was also important to the Grove to consult other commercial cultivators who use Heliospectra’s LED lights, like Pink House in Colorado and found that the growers were “continually expanding their number of Heliospectra lights. We obviously looked at that as very positive,” he says.
“It was a little daunting at first to learn how to manipulate lighting,” says Biernacki, “but we soon learned that with the click of a button we could change the light recipes.” He adds that the Grove’s first harvest with LEDs yielded a strain with a whopping 10 percent myrcene cannabinoid level and another boasting a powerhouse 31.4 percent of THC.
The unprecedented level of control over grow rooms that LED lights give cultivators is a giant leap forward for cannabis tech. Rapid return on investment, cutting down on wasteful energy bills and increased control over cannabinoid levels could very well change the entire cannabis growing paradigm as we know it.
Would you switch from HID to LED lights in your grow room?
This article is sponsored by Heliospectra.
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This article is 100 percent bullshit ! It is a paid advertisement. HPS blows ALL LEDS away for product quality.
Brett Roper
Unfortunately the source information quoted is erroneous as it is outdated and based upon Dr. Mills study of 2011 and earlier basement grows in Canada. Even multiplying legal sales by 5 ( of FY 2015 legal sales) to get a total US marketplace of $30B, $6B of that value in cost of energy? Efficient indoor and greenhouse grows generally consume no more than 5% of the retail value of the industry in power … While I am excited about lamp technology improvements, I will take our current production of 800 grams PSF of flower canopy per year and pay the modest power delta cost, assuming there really is one.
Charlotte and Joe Keller
We are starting with a 4×6 room right now.
We are planning a home extension.What would be appropriate for such a small space and what would be the cost??
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Armored Cadillac Escalade Will Keep You Alive For $350,000
by Jay Traugott Armored Car
For when you have known and unknown enemies...
You could just buy a new Cadillac Escalade and call it a day. Despite new competition from Lincoln, the Escalade remains a seriously luxurious large SUV that can easily handle off-road excursions. But now a Wyoming-based company offers owners the chance to take their Escalades to a whole new level of crazy. AddArmor, for a starting price of $350,000, will build you what it calls the "Executive Protection Package Escalade,” a blacked-out Escalade featuring state-of-the-art security and completely customized, private jet style interior.
Buyers will receive European B6 Level armor, meaning the vehicle can withstand velocity hits from 30-06, 7.62, and .556 munitions. The glass even features a multi-layered combination of polycarbonate and leaded glass that also acts as transparent armor and is able to withstand 9 mm and 0.44 Magnum rounds.
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This ballistic glass can also handle physical attacks from blunt objects like bats and cinder blocks. In addition, there's an optional Full Protection Package that upgrades the ballistic windshields with anti-fog/de-icing elements, embedded antennas for GPS and radio frequencies, and solar-control coatings. In the past, vehicles with this level of armored protection were slowed down because of the thick steel body plating.
Clearly, that’s not good when the driver is trying to make a fast getaway, but AddArmor claims its carbon composite panels are not only 10 times stronger than ballistic steel but also weigh 60 percent less. The SUV is also equipped with a heavier-duty suspension and larger brakes for improved stopping power.
Then there's the interior, which is more than luxurious. The photos shown here represent just one example of what the company’s coachbuilding team can do. There’s a 32-inch high-definition smart TV integrated into the retractable divider, while a 360-degree camera system and iPad obscure the gun ports. Of course, there’d be gun ports. Passengers can also enjoy onboard WiFi, DirecTV, Apple TV, and HBO.
An anti-jamming satellite communications system, night vision, counter-attack sound cannon, active mine/explosion detection, and a global "911” phone and data system are also possible. Interested but can’t afford the $350 grand? AddArmor says its security packages start from as low as $28,000. Protection on the move doesn't come cheap.
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Despite Increased Focus on Security, Dropbox Still Lacking
Ipswitch Blog| September 17 2015
Earlier this year we warned of fake Dropbox emails that urge users to click on emails labeled as “urgent and highly confidential” documents. Those that followed these instructions were quickly added to the list of victims of a highly-effective phishing scheme as the redirect was to a false log-in page designed to capture user credentials. As our own Alessandro Pooro said at the time, “Dropbox is vulnerable to these common attacks as it was not originally designed with enterprise security in mind.”
It’s no secret that phishing campaigns against Dropbox users have spiked recently as cyber-criminals have identified this as a weak link in the security chain. Sensitive corporate and personal data is often contained throughout these accounts but are not subject to the same protections and level of vigilance as data on the corporate network.
In an effort to combat this, Dropbox has announced that they are turning to USB-based security keys to improve log-in security and better protect users from phishing attempts. Physical security keys are viewed as stronger than smartphone-based two-factor authentication solutions as the latter still exposes the user to the risk of being directed toward a fake Dropbox site designed to phish their password and verification code. However, using this type of file sharing service to share sensitive information is still wrought with risk and uncertainty.
Because information on Dropbox is stored rather than moved, it represents a “soft” target for hackers long after the information has been shared and forgotten about. Instead, users should consider a managed file transfer (MFT) solution that protects sensitive files before, during, and after transfer with guaranteed delivery. With the highest levels of encryption and a range of customization options, MFT is the safest and easiest way to exchange sensitive information.
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When the Savior State Becomes the Enemy of the People
People want the Savior State to pay for their healthcare, retirement, education, housing, etc., even as they fear the unlimited power and funding they have granted their government. You can't have it both ways.
Correspondent Mark A. sent in this report on the over-reach of government and the potential for abuse of power.
Caught your stories recently about extortionate fines and so on. Last night I ran into this story Police crush sex offender's car; warn of moreabout a Denver ordinance that permits the city to sue and confiscate property used in the commission of various crimes (modelled after heinous drug laws affirmed by the Supreme Court).
It struck me as outrageous on multiple levels, not least the entrapment aspect and sex-crime hysteria (others may disagree). Yourself and Jim Kunstler have pondered the devolution of society as money becomes scarcer, foreseeing a breakdown of enforcement ability.
Me, I think we underestimate the potential for the development of an increasingly rigid authoritarian (if nominally "democratic") regime as the government increases its relative share of resources and aims to preserve "order" as well as income as people become more stressed. Certainly all the instruments are in place - legal, technological, etc. Usurping revenue is one aspect of this progression, but arrogating authority is another more frightening one. Never trust the State (isn't that what the Founders advised?) Just a thought.
Here is an excerpt from the story:
The unit was created by an ordinance in 1994 and targets things described as: "Any parcel of real property, personal property, or motor vehicle on or in which any of the following illegal activity occurs, or which is used to commit, conduct, promote, facilitate, or aid the commission of or flight from any of the following activities."
Those activities include 22 offenses, which range from drug or weapons possession, to repeat traffic offenders and sex offenders. (CHS: you guys with mutilple traffic tickets: you are dangerous beyond belief! We're targeting you for complete destruction of your assets!)
Anyone charged with those crimes could have their cars crushed or property seized, as part of the law.
Sometimes the seized property is a building or a business.
The danger of political activities being lumped in with criminal activity is higher than most complacent Americans believe. Nobody will defend a sex offender's rights, of course--but how about when tax resistance becomes a "crime"? (It already is, of course.) It's also a "crime" to resist an illegal war, too.
It's easy to be naive about the essentially unlimited powers of the State. Most people believe that only "bad people" get caught by the government trawler, but it isn't quite that simple. If you or those who agree with you threaten the State's Imperial ambitions, tax collection or Power-Elite supported agenda, then you may be targeted. I can say that it "can happen here" because it's already happened here.
I was with a friend when the FBI swooped in to arrest him for political crimes against the State, i.e. refusing to support an illegal (undeclared) war. At the time, the FBI has some 10,000 agents tasked with suppressing or disrupting the antiwar movement by whatever means were deemed necessary. Meanwhile, the agency's anti-Mob (organized crime) unit was reduced to minimal staffing. When the State feels its Imperial agenda threatened, then run-of-the-mill criminality gets ignored and the full resources of the State are turned on political threats to the status quo.
Having been called into the FBI office myself for grilling (after being threatened along the "we know where you live" line), I can say from experience that the boundaries which are supposed to protect our rights only exist if you can afford high-powered legal representation and if you are powerful enough to raise a stink in the "right circles."
Citizens with nothing to lose and no stake in maintaining the status quo are dangerous to the State (and thus to the Power Elite which has captured the State's lawmaking and enforcement arms), and so the State's first line of defense is to become a Savior State which showers entitlements as a way of providing voters with a stake in the system.
The second line of defense is to become a repressive Police State with an active secret intelligence program against domestic protest (as occurred in the late 1960s-early 1970s with domestic C.I.A. spying and COINTELPRO, the FBI's secret campaign to infiltrate, undermine, marginalize and/or subvert the antiwar movement).
These programs employed illegal entry ("black bag jobs") and surveillance, extralegal force and violence (creating and funding extremist front groups to commit the violence at arms distance from the Federal government), and psychological warfare ("dirty tricks," harassment, misinformation, setting up pseudo-movements run by government agents, threaten activists' parents landlords, employers, etc.)
The 1976 Church Committee formed to investigate the domestic intelligence campaigns concluded:
"Many of the techniques used would be intolerable in a democratic society even if all of the targets had been involved in violent activity, but COINTELPRO went far beyond that...the Bureau conducted a sophisticated vigilante operation aimed squarely at preventing the exercise of First Amendment rights of speech and association."
Anyone who doesn't believe their government is capable of Police State repression and subversion of First Amendment rights should research COINTELPRO more fully. While you might have disagreed with the groups subverted in 1969, the line between "those hippie radicals" in 1969 and "us Tea Party tax protesters" in 2009 is thin to vanishing.
Nothing will be more threatening to the State and status quo than tax resistance/rebellion and former insiders (those whose belief in the system has faded) turning into whistleblowers on the web.
Here is one source text: War at Home: Covert action against U.S. activists and what we can do about it.
Put simply: the State holds all the hammers, and you know what happens to raised nails.
Few seem to grasp the connection between an all-powerful Savior State and an all-powerful repressive State. In granting the power to become a Savior State then you also grant it the power to be a repressive regime or corrupt kleptocracy which openly serves an Elite and is accessible only via bribes/political donations (take your pick).
Correspondent Doug K. drew the line connecting the Savior State and control very succinctly:
It has become glaringly evident that local "law enforcement" targets those forced to endure visible embarrassment of hardship. Our repeated "contributions to the public good", made to atone for such grievous offenses as economic misfortune, only serves to perpetuate this relationship.
Yet, even more outrageous (to me) than such abuses of authority, is the quiet public acceptance. The pervasive public attitude being; "As long as they hassle you they'll leave me alone", or " As long as you have to pay I get to keep my money". If such self absorption isn't proof of successful public psychological manipulation through propaganda (did you watch "Century of the Self"?), then what is? Deeply entrenched disregard, occasionally including open displays of contempt, for those forced to endure hardship, sure seems far more manufactured than natural.
Beyond the "social proof" type of encouragement to disregard the less fortunate, the propaganda pushes happy pills. No less than a third of the people in this area have been willingly chemically lobotomized, in part because that has become a de-facto prerequisite for acceptance into the "social safety net". An overlapping fourth of the neighbors frequently "advertise" they're well equipped with high powered automatic weapons.
Both groups "get a pass" from local law enforcement on any misdemeanor, unless it's related to "prosecutorial money making" (war on drugs), or something that excites the prosecutor's prurient interests (seriously!). Having endured multiple instances of vandalism and animal mutilation for the amusement of the happy pill crowd, this is quite dispiriting.
Speaking of the social safety net: What a sham! I've seen plenty of people who admittedly(!) cause most of their own problems showered with assistance while those who recognize the causeof their hardship is no fault of their own don't ever qualify for anywhere near the same level of help, if any at all.
I don't know how the social safety net truly operates in other places (each county is this state has their own semi autonomous office), but most of the rural areas in this state function/ practice the same way as the local office. Anybody in this area not stressed out enough to demand a prescription for chemical lobotomy isn't stressed enough to need assistance. Money (need) has nothing to do with it.
The people I know who have "given in" to the demands of "safety net" inclusion appear to be doing better than they were when gainfully employed. A significant fraction seem to have more time and more money to burn now that their obligations are being taken care of. One person I know has leveraged their officially sanctioned "misfortune" into what appeared to be a legalized fraud, then bought an RV and is now out touring the country!
Taken together, all this (4 preceding paragraphs) appears to be evidence of a deliberate intentional effort to make sure that if (when?) the villagers ever do pick up torches and pitchforks they'll turn on each other instead of marching toward the castle.
Local PTB aren't just extracting funds from the peons. It was recently revealed that the bread and butter of one local "economic success story" (as reported in a number of local and regional publications) was profits from illegal drugs (pot growing operation). I've heard from several members of law enforcement --after they turn off their pocket recorders-- that several other well-to-do "pillars of the community" are involved in worse (meth).
The only difference being that the pot grower didn't share his good fortune with the right people, while the other names always show up on published lists of contributors to the local elected officials. If you're doing well in this community, and you're not making some sort of "contributions to the public good", local authorities will be scrutinizing your every move.
What is required to qualify as "economic success" appears to be entirely dependant on at least one of two things, either dumb luck (opportunity) or some sort of "crookedness". I clearly don't have the former and the "right people" aren't in any way obligated to permit the latter. Money really is like rain, and for a lot of people this is a severe drought. Doesn't matter what kind of rain dance you do, let alone how hard or long you keep dancing. All you can really do is keep your buckets handy. Unfortunately there hasn't been a cloud in the sky for several years.
Correspondent J.P.B. submitted this comment on the use of surveillance for, um, "upholding the law"--or is it just another violation of our rights for the purposes of extortion? Welcome to a State kleptocracy armed with high-tech gadgetry:
RE: "Upholding the Law" or Simply Theft by Other Means?:
I have been warning folks to be on the lookout for this for the past two years. Now I find out that the Franklin county Sheriffs have been testing, for 2 years, cameras that read license plates as they drive by. They then run a search on the plate to see if there are any outstanding warrants, etc. Funny how they rolled this out and did not really publicize it. I find it creepy.
I wondered how I got pulled over for an expired registration (I had the new one on my seat as I was heading to the store to get new screws for the license plate. I received no ticket) It puzzled me for the past two years how an officer parked on the side of the road was able to see my plate sticker as I drove past at 45 - 50 mph. Now I know how! Sneaky. They are desperate and will stop at nothing. Nothing! Rules, rule of law, pfffft. I have been saying that for the past few years also. They keep changing the rules as they go along to suit themsleves and their oligarchs.
You can't grant the Central State powers to be a Savior State without also granting it the power to become a repressive regime that is nominally "democratic" even as the levers of actual power are operated by various Power Elites.
I would rather jettison the Savior State and be poor rather than live in a kleptocracy run for the benefit of the State and Power Elites partnership.
Since the Savior State is doomed to insolvency, other arrangements will have to be made in any event.
Thank you, Mark A., Doug K. and J.P.B. for your commentaries.
Notes: Yesterday's entry Crazymaker: Journal of American Media and Lifestyle(October 29, 2009) was a spoof--sorry I did not make that clear.
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amanuel2
Does anyone here understand why he set the Velocity of Center Mass = 0 here? He keeps setting the Velocity of center mass , and acceleration of center mass(on other questions) to zero which i dont comprehend why?
PM 2Ring
@amanuel2 Initially, the astronaut & 2 wrenches are at rest, relative to each other. It makes the algebra simpler if we can work in a frame where the momenta sum to zero.
dmckee
@amanuel2 Two questions. (A) What is the velocity of the CoM before anything happens? (B) What, if any, external forces act on the system that might change $v_{cm}$?
Yeah i understood thanks a lot!
I kinda need help understanding this question tho (#3)
I set it up as MaV1 + MwV2 / (Ma+Mw) = 0
Ma being mass of astro, and Mw being mass of wrench. Is it the right setup?
@dmckee @PM2Ring
Sir Cumference
This spec rel?
Im starting to think this is conservation of momentum problem for #3-5? If so were suppose to learn that next lecture.
Throw a Lorentz transform at it
@amanuel2 Yes, this is a conservation of momentum question. The initial momentum is zero, and since there are no external forces, after she throws the 1st wrench the sum of her momentum plus the momentum of the thrown wrench is zero, and the centre of mass is still at the origin.
PranshuKhandal
plz look at my edited question physics.stackexchange.com/questions/466776/…
now it is more, understandable
all upvotes are accepted
@PranshuKhandal Please don't periodically advertise your questions here and ask for upvotes.
Edits bump the question on the front page, so you can be sure that people see it.
Q: Physics breaking down - is it logically consistent?
I was just reading a sci-fi novel where physics "breaks down". While of course fiction is fiction and I don't expect this to happen in real life, when I tired to contemplate the concept I find that I cannot even imagine what it would mean for physics to break down. Is my imagination too limited o...
soft-question foundations
I guess when an observable phenomenon cannot be explained by any deductive reasoning, then it is a sign that physics breaks down
This is actually a pretty strict condition, since logic is basically deductive systems such that each rule is given semantic meaning
@Secret So magic?
Probably, but I think sufficiently complicated social dynamics mixed with a few dose of serendipity can also work
complex systems have enough phase transitions to give very surprising phenomenon that cannot be predicted beforehand
because those emergent phenomenon is inherently collective in nature, thus cannot be easily captured by knowing the theory that describes its parts or subsets of them
Eh just wait until the day computing power can explain all everyday phenomena
Maybe in a few centuries
Well, it will be interesting if that is true, cause we have no reason that the universe can be fully explained by deductive reasoning (we just have hints that maths work so well), so crossing fingers
@DanielSank It's not just behave like i, it IS i in matrix representation
yesterday, by DanielSank
$$ \frac{d}{dt} \left( \begin{array}{c} x \\ p \end{array} \right) = \left( \begin{array}{cc} 0 & 1 \\ -1 & 0 \end{array} \right) \nabla H(x,p) \, .$$
Rewriting $\mathbf{p} = \binom{x}{p}$, $\mathbf{i}= \begin{pmatrix}0 & 1 \\ -1 & 0\end{pmatrix}$, we have:
$$\frac{d \mathbf{p}}{dt} = \mathbf{i} \nabla H(\mathbf{p})$$
Compare this with Schroedinger equation:
@Chair sorry, for that, but I have been waiting too long for some answer.. so i thought of putting it here..
$$\frac{d \psi}{dt} = -\frac{i}{\hbar} \hat{H} \psi$$
Thus $\psi$, the wavefunction, is the quantum version of phase space
As for why in the classical version we have only grad(H) while in the quantum version we have Lap(H), I have no idea
Meanwhile, I think the two equations reads:
Hamilton's equation: The velocity of a point in phase space is given by the gradient of its total energy (taking account of its symplectic structure by i)
Schroedinger equation: The rate of evolution of a wave function is given by its total energy in units of $\hbar$
Phase-space formulation
The phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics places the position and momentum variables on equal footing, in phase space. In contrast, the Schrödinger picture uses the position or momentum representations (see also position and momentum space). The two key features of the phase-space formulation are that the quantum state is described by a quasiprobability distribution (instead of a wave function, state vector, or density matrix) and operator multiplication is replaced by a star product. The theory was fully developed by Hilbrand Groenewold in 1946 in his PhD thesis, and independently by Joe...
not exactly identical however
Also typo: Wavefunction does not really have an energy, it is the quantum state that has a spectrum of energy eigenvalues
DanielSank
@Secret You're confusing two different things. $\nabla^2$ only shows up when writing the Schrodinger equation in a particular basis, namely the position basis.
Schrodinger's equation is still just $i\hbar (d/dt)\psi = H \psi$.
I want to post a question on main that says:
Since Hamilton's equation of motion in classical physics is $$\frac{d}{dt} \begin{pmatrix} x \\ p \end{pmatrix} = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1 \\ -1 & 0 \end{pmatrix} \nabla H(x,p) \, ,$$ why does everyone make a big deal about Schrodinger's equation, which is $$\frac{d}{dt} \begin{pmatrix} \text{Re}\Psi \\ \text{Im}\Psi \end{pmatrix} = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1 \\ -1 & 0 \end{pmatrix} \hat H \begin{pmatrix} \text{Re}\Psi \\ \text{Im}\Psi \end{pmatrix} \, ?$$
Oh by the way, the Hamiltonian is a stupid quantity. We should always work with $H / \hbar$, which has dimensions of frequency.
Slereah
Most people don't learn Hamiltonian mechanics
Also it's made of Hilbert rays which is entirely different :V
@DanielSank I think you should post that question. I don't recall many looked at the two Hamilton equations together in this matrix form before, which really highlight the similarities between them (even though technically speaking the schroedinger equation is based on quantising Hamiltonian mechanics)
and yes you are correct about the $\nabla^2$ thing. I got too used to the position basis
bolbteppa
$i \frac{d}{dt} (x,p) = \hat{\nabla} H$ is really different to $i \frac{d}{dt} \psi = \hat{H} \psi$
Mithrandir24601
@DanielSank Or be a theorist about it and set $\hbar = 1$, essentially doing the same thing :P
I don't know what the fuss about the Schrödinger equation is either but then again why QM is taught in the way/order it's taught is something I find a mystery
As with a lot of physics, it is usually taught in historical order
which is a choice
dunno if it's the best but such it is
ACuriousMind
@DanielSank The big deal is not the equation itself, but the meaning of the variables. The form of the equation itself just says "the Hamiltonian is the generator of time translation", but surely you'll agree that classical position and momentum evolving in time are a rather different notion than the wavefunction of QM evolving in time.
If you want to make the similarity really obvious, just write the evolution equations for the observables. The classical equation is literally Heisenberg's evolution equation with the Poisson bracket instead of the commutator, no pesky additional $\nabla$ or what not
The big deal many introductory quantum texts make about the Schrödinger equation is due to the fact that their target audience are usually people who are not expected to be trained in classical Hamiltonian mechanics.
Emilio Pisanty
@DanielSank sorry if it came across as snark.
the point is that the gradient is a covariant vector
@EmilioPisanty gradients aren't vectors :V
so if $\begin{pmatrix}x\\p \end{pmatrix}$ transforms to $M\begin{pmatrix}x\\p \end{pmatrix}$, then $\nabla H$ transforms to $(M^{-1})^T \nabla H$
(or something like that)
so you end up requiring that $MJM^T = J$, or whatever the precise requirement for symplecticity looks like
@Slereah I know they're not. That's why I said they're something different =P
"It is remarkable that Schwarzschild derived this solution while fighting in World War I (literally, in the trenches: in fact, he even got ill there and died shortly after the end of WWI)."
Can you stop with the mortars I'm trying to think!
MartianCactus
When will dyson sphere be built
a guess?
No time remotely soon, as far as things seem. Just the amount of material required for an undertaking like that would be exceptional. It doesn't even seem like we're remotely near the advancement required to take advantage of such a project, let alone organize one.
I'd be honestly skeptical of humans ever reaching that point. It's cool to think about, but so much would have to change that trying to estimate it would be pointless currently
well lets see :)
@MartianCactus Where do you propose obtaining the material to build a Dyson sphere?
Avnish Kabaj
Yeah, ok. That could work.
is the best candidate
close to sun, and we could get robots to work there
theres a whole kurzgesagt video on it
I guess if you have the technology to dismantle planets the heat near Mercury is only a minor bother.
And Mercury (probably) has a huge iron-nickel core, which is rather nice.
(lol) talk about raping the planet(s)... re dyson sphere, solar energy is a simplified version right? which is advancing. what about orbiting solar energy harvesting? maybe not as far away. kurzgesagt also has a video on a space elevator, its very hard but expect that to be built decades earlier, and if it doesnt show up, maybe no hope for a dyson sphere... o_O
man the first paper on the conformal group of Minkowski space is from 1908
en.wikisource.org/wiki/…
You can tell it's old because he mentions LORD KELVIN
@EmilioPisanty It didn't come across as ssnark. I do appreciate the reminder that the gradient is covariant.
Hah, got on the HNQ list for a physics oriented post in World Building.
@DanielSank =P
I got on HNQ for saying that a thesis is a publication on academia.
(well, it was already on HNQ. but the answer did rise to second place.)
@DanielSank =)
is ssnark what ssnakes do?
BTW @DanielSank Do you know where I can go to wash off my karma? I just wrote a rather negative (though well-deserved, and as thorough and impartial as I could make it) referee report. And I'd rather it not come back to bite me on my next go-round as an author o.o
John Rennie
@EmilioPisanty oh no, you'll be reincarnated as an employee of Elsevier!
@EmilioPisanty Did you already submit the report?
@EmilioPisanty Yes, exactly.
@DanielSank yes
For what it's worth, I got this a few hours after sending it in
@EmilioPisanty Very good.
@Slereah man what's going on in that conformal paper
@bolbteppa it is a bit unorthodox
Trying to make sense of the intro, why he does what he does with the $l = x - i y$ stuff and the $l \lambda + m \mu + n \nu = 0$ thing
it is pretty confusing
It seems to be some reference to some existing method in optics
I'm guessing that was popular back then
$0 = x^2 + y^2 + z^2 + w^2 - x^2 - y^2 - z^2 - w^2 = (x + i y)(x - iy) + (z + i w)(z - i w) - (x^2 + y^2 + z^2 + w^2) = l \lambda + m \mu + n \nu$
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Christopher Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Sixty-Four Addresses. Sixty-Four Stories.
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Live on Stage: 2015/2016
12) 1990. Thursday Island QLD 4875
September 24, 2014 September 24, 2014 / Christopher
(This story comes with a Trigger Warning for kids getting touched inappropriately. If it helps, the kid in question is me and I’m AOK.)
It felt like 1989 took an agonisingly long time to end, but finally it did and 1990 began. At first, it was equally interminable, but then something happened: my poor sister developed terrible impetigo and had to go into hospital.
Poor little leopard-girl. But check it: her legs match her pretty dress (lucky the dress wasn’t paisley).
Masig didn’t have a hospital; only a nurse’s station, and my grandmother (who was a nurse at the time) had quietly posted us so many medical supplies we were better stocked than they were (most of the supplies used to stitch up my chin after I split it open came from our own stash). With no choice but to leave Masig, we were finally able to plan an escape. We would go to Thursday Island and check Lauren into hospital: as soon as she was able to leave again we would make a dash for the mainland. It had taken months, but we were finally leaving.
Dale found out. News travels fast on an island less than 800 metres across, I guess. Or maybe he was just extraordinarily suspicious. At any rate, he bullied and manipulated his way into our escape plans: he couldn’t get on the plane to Thursday Island, so he navigated a dinghy across the majority of the actual Torres Strait, from Masig to Thursday Island, so he could meet us there. Not that it mattered by that point, the most important thing is that were leaving THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING OCEAN. Him accompanying us was better than him trying to stop us.
I can’t remember what meagre possessions we owned by this stage (my sister’s stuffed toy monkey from the above photo, whose name was Manta, is the only belonging of ours I can remember), but whatever they were, they were bundled up into that tiny, rickety old lawn mower with wings that passed for an aeroplane and flown down to Thursday Island.
#ThrowBackThursday Island
As it turns out, we kind of needed Dale, at least in principle: by the time we got to Thursday Island mum had to join my sister in hospital, as mum had been hit with a double bill of dengue fever and pregnancy. Neither she nor Lauren were in a state to travel, so if it weren’t for Dale, whose family/friends/whoever they were on Thursday Island once again provided somewhere for me to stay while they languished in hospital, I don’t know what would have happened to us.
Then again, if it weren’t for Dale, we wouldn’t have ended up in a house with the man who would molest me (spoiler alert).
With mum and Lauren both in hospital, I was stranded in a house with people I barely knew, alone. This, obviously, was mum’s worst nightmare, but she was stuck in a hospital bed; her body busy making exciting new fluids to leak internally while her organs considered shutting down and her uterus wondered if everyone could keep the noise down as it was trying to make a person.
I guess technically Dale should have been around to look after me, but he never was. I don’t know exactly where he would go, and by now that should not be any kind of a surprise.
So the family’s eldest teenage son, whose name I honestly cannot remember, let’s call him “Pete”, ended up looking after me most of the time. I have no idea if it was for days, or weeks, or even only one day. My memory of that time is hazy. But I can remember, quite clearly, the afternoon we were in his room watching the movie Porky’s II.
Yeah, I got molested to the backdrop of a shitty 1980s teen sex comedy’s even shittier sequel.
He sat on the floor at the foot of his bed, facing the television. I sat on the floor directly in front of him, between his legs. His hands were around my stomach in a loose, inattentive bear hug. This didn’t feel at all out of the ordinary to me. If anything, it was such a relief to have the first person in weeks (my own mum and sister aside) be nice to me. Everyone else either yelled at me or ignored me (and I had only very recently been completely blanked by Santa). So it was really an aching relief to feel safe and comfortable for once. Not to mention being in proximity to a toilet with plumbing. I was more than happy to sit in a lap and be held.
It is with a particularly tangy irony that I note that this was the safest I’d felt in weeks.
At an unremarkable point, while sitting there on the floor, Pete’s hands stiffened. The inattentive hug became more of a focused clasping, as if we were both acrobats and he was about to toss me into the air. He stayed like this for a moment or two, and then one hand moved quickly inside my pants and he grabbed my penis.
I jumped up with a startled yelp. “It’s okay,” Pete whispered. “It’s okay. It doesn’t matter. Sit back down. Let me do it, it’s okay.”
I sat back down. Partly because he was an authority figure who’d given an instruction. Partly because where else was I going to go? And partly because this, still, felt safer than any of the time spent on Masig. I’d recently had a run-in with a tiger shark and had smashed my chin open on the side of a boat and had regularly had to shit in a bucket; a horny teenager’s hand was nothing.
He put his hand back down my pants and spent a not insignificant amount of time…well I guess he was jerking me off. But I was nine, so nothing was happening, so I’m not sure if that’s still an accurate description. His other hand wandered all about the place, squeezing and poking and caressing, while I just tried to keep as still as possible.
Eventually he stopped. His hands went back to his own lap, and I sat there, not sure of what was going to happen next. He was fidgeting a lot behind me, though, and it was uncomfortable. I kept getting nudged in the back. I shuffled the smallest distance away from him, to see if he would stop me again. He didn’t. So I stood up.
His hands were down his own pants now (that would explain the shuffling and nudging), and as I stood up and took a step back he leered at me and pulled down his pants.
What I saw horrified me. I had never seen a grown man’s erection before, so as far as I could tell he was horribly disfigured. His penis seemed frighteningly large. And swollen. And kind of shiny. Was he sick? Had a bee stung him? Was he holding it too tightly? Did he have an allergy? Why was it that colour? Mine was at best a very very pale pink. Pete’s skin was darker than mine, sure, but that didn’t explain the weird reddish purple hue; a colour I’d never seen outside of a bruise. Had he bruised it? Was it like a black eye, only much worse? Did he need to go to the hospital too? Maybe they could deflate it for him?
Clearly the thoughts of horror that were racing through my mind also registered on my face, because when he saw how I was reacting to what looked like the world’s worst balloon animal, his eyes widened and he glanced away. Very quietly, but very curtly, he told me to get out. He never spoke to me again. In fact, I never saw him again.
I didn’t comprehend the full scope of what happened to me until many years later. It was fucking awful, but it could have been much, much worse. I wasn’t physically hurt. Mum and Lauren and the little clump of cells that would eventually become my brother all came out of hospital. We went home.
That I even had a concept of what “home” was meant to be by this point is a surprise, actually.
Cape York/Torres Strait
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2 thoughts on “12) 1990. Thursday Island QLD 4875”
Tracie Thompson
I am really enjoying your story Christopher and looking forward to the next instalment. Thanks Tracie
Thanks Tracie! That reminds me, I really should edit tomorrow’s instalment! 😀
The Other Stories
64) 2017-Present. West 148th St, Hamilton Heights NY 10031
63) 2017. West 136th St, Hamilton Heights NY 10031
62) 2017. Pearl River, New York 10965
61) December 2016-January 2017. Algester, QLD 4115
Christopher Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: The Stories
60) 2014-2016. High Street, Thornbury VIC 3071
59) 2013-2014. Smith Street, Thornbury VIC 3071
58) 2012-2013. Barkly Street, Carlton VIC 3053
57) 2010-2012. Pottery Court, Brunswick VIC 3056
56) 2010. Brunswick Road, Brunswick East VIC 3057
55) 2008-2010. Onkaparinga Crescent [REDUX], Kaleen ACT 2617
54) July 1, 2008-July 11, 2008. Yuroka Close, Gosford NSW 2250
53) 2006-2010 (I KNOW, RIGHT?). Onkaparinga Crescent, Kaleen ACT 2617
52) 2005-2006. Barwon Street, Kaleen ACT 2617
51) 2005. Challis Street, Dickson ACT 2602
50) 2004. Guildford Road, Kelvin Grove (Brisbane) QLD 4059
49) 2004. Upper Lancaster Road, Ascot (Brisbane) QLD 4007
48) 2003-2004. Simpsons Road, Bardon (Brisbane) QLD 4065
47) 2003. Ironwood Street, Aspley (Brisbane) QLD 4034
46) 2002-2003. Chalfont Street, Salisbury (Brisbane) QLD 4107
45) 2001-2002. Amelia Street, Nundah (Brisbane) QLD 4012
44) 2001. Handford Road, Taigum (Brisbane) [REDUX] QLD 4018
43) 2000-2001. Petrie Terrace, Petrie Terrace (Brisbane) QLD 4003
42) 2000. Handford Road, Taigum (Brisbane) QLD 4018
41) 2000. Liaw Close, Boondall (Brisbane) QLD 4034
40) 1999-2000. Upper Lancaster Road, Ascot (Brisbane) QLD 4007
39) 1999. Milsom Street, Coorparoo (Brisbane) QLD 4151
38) 1999. Buxton Street, Ascot (Brisbane) QLD 4007
37) 1998-1999. Ainsworth Street, Salisbury (Brisbane) QLD 4107
36) 1998. Weldon Street, Birkdale (Brisbane) QLD 4159
35) 1997-1998. Canberra Street, Toowoomba QLD 4350
34) 1997. Cavell Street, Toowoomba QLD 4350
33) 1995-1996. Turner Road, Rockhampton QLD 4700
32) 1995. Smith Street, Rockhampton QLD 4700
31) 1995. Pennycuick Street, Rockhampton QLD 4700
30) 1995. William Street, Crows Nest QLD 4355
29) 1995. Post Office Road, Ravensbourne QLD 4352
28) 1995. Belyando Avenue (AGAIN) Moranbah QLD 4744
27) 1994. Grout Street, Moranbah QLD 4744
26) 1994. Belyando Avenue, Moranbah QLD 4744
25) 1994. Casuarina Drive, then Aralia Street, Nightcliff (Darwin) NT 0810
24) 1994. 6 Short Street, Crows Nest QLD 4355
23) 1994. Proston-Boondooma Road, Proston (Outskirts) QLD 4613
22) 1994. Leitch Street, Murgon QLD 4605
21) 1993. 14 Hibiscus Street, Nightcliff (Darwin) NT 0810
20) 1993. Hart Court, Coconut Grove (Darwin) NT 0810
18) 1991-1993. 10 Osborne Court, Tin Can Bay (outskirts) QLD 4580
17) 1991. GROPER Street, Tin Can Bay QLD 4580
16) 1991. Marlin Way, Tin Can Bay QLD 4580
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How to train like a professional tennis player
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Increase your court speed, gain incredible power and improve your footwork.
Despite its genteel history, tennis is a decidedly brutal sport for the athletes who choose to make it a career.
It’s easy to see why when you look at the unique strength and conditioning challenges that the game throws up for coaches and athletes. Firstly, there's no set time – you could be on the court for anywhere from an hour to more than five.
(For those wondering, the longest match ever played was an 11-hour slog-fest between American John Isner and Frenchman Nicholas Mahut at Wimbledon in 2010.)
Secondly, in professional tennis there's no real off-season. Players travel the world from tournament to tournament all year round, managing their recovery as best as they can in airport lounges, hotel rooms and stadium gyms.
Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, since tennis is primarily a strategic game, the only way to become truly excellent on the court is to play a lot of tennis – and we mean a lot of tennis.
Jarrod Egan, former strength and conditioning coach at Lawn Tennis Association in Britain and owner of KettleFit, says most professionals play on average four hours of tennis a day.
"Generally most players spend four hours a day playing tennis in training. This is split up into a two-hour block in the morning and a two-hour block in the afternoon – meaning if they want additional strength or conditioning work they have to squeeze it in-between blocks," Egan tells ninemsn Coach.
"You can see how hard it is for them to dedicate time to pure strength and conditioning. This means much of their work is injury prevention, recovery and maintenance."
How you train depends on the surface you play
In professional tennis, there are three main surfaces – grass courts, clay courts and hard courts. Each has its own characteristics, and each favours a particular style of play.
Clay courts that you would find at the French Open tend to favour powerful, baseline players, while the grass courts at Wimbledon favour players who are agile and quick. Hard courts, like the ones at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, tend to offer the best of both worlds.
"How you train depends on what surface you play. On a grass court, the ball moves a lot quicker off the bounce and the average point might only be five to 10 seconds," says Egan.
"On clay, it’s much slower, and you're more likely to see long, grinding points which really test the player's endurance. Hard courts, like we have for the Australian Open, are a really reactive, bouncy surface, so you have to be on your toes."
Egan recommends structuring your training sessions exactly like you would play in a game, which means paying careful attention to your rest periods.
"A great way to improve your court speed is to train short, hard repeated sprints with a change in direction," recommends Egan.
"Try to keep your rest times similar to what they would be in a game – traditionally there's 20 seconds between points and 90 seconds between games. That's a good way to establish your work-to-rest ratio."
It might help to improve your grip with heavy deadlifts and farmers walks, because how you hold the racquet is the secret to controlling the ball.
"Funnily enough, a quirky statistic you'll find is that grip strength is often the number one performance indicator of high-ranked players," says Egan.
Your sessions should be short, intense, and have an agility component
Despite the potentially immense length of a tennis match, you shouldn’t be training for endurance as if you were running a marathon, slogging it out with long runs and endless sit-ups.
Egan recommends instead focusing your efforts on repeated, explosive movements that help you cover the court more effectively.
"Even though a tennis match can stretch on for five hours, it's really an anaerobic sport thanks to the short point times and rest intervals," says Egan.
"Tennis is a high-intensity power sport, full of repeated, explosive movements. To prevent injury and increase your court speed, you'll need to do plenty of agility and footwork drills."
It’s this agility that allows the better players to "cover their angles", which in tennis equates to winning more games.
"You'll see in major tournaments that the better players have incredible speed when changing direction, and they cover the court better. Great examples of this are Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic," says Egan.
Injury-proof yourself in the gym
Compared to the intense, muscle-building routines of rugby buffs, tennis players rarely see the inside of a gym – but that doesn’t mean you should cut lifting out altogether.
"In the gym, tennis players do a lot of hamstring, wrist and shoulder protective work," says Egan.
"Most injuries in tennis come from overuse – simply because they play so much – so most of their time with the weights is about protecting ligaments and tissues rather than trying to build them."
Egan says that it's also important to strengthen your body using whole-body exercises, because it’s easy to fall into a trap of being left or right side dominant.
"Remember that tennis is quite a one-sided sport – other than a double handed backhand, you're using your dominant hand a lot and this can lead to overuse," says Egan.
"That means your time in the gym is well spent balancing out your body with compound, full body movements like kettlebell work – in particular the snatch."
Egan recommends kettlebells as an ideal way to train for most racquet sports, because you can develop power through a swinging arc, as opposed to pushing or pulling a barbell.
"We've got tennis players here at KettleFit who have improved the speed of their serve by strengthening their body with kettlebell swings and snatches," says Egan.
Egan's five things that every tennis strength and conditioning program should have
1. You should be playing a lot of tennis, but not so much that you're struggling to recover fully
2. Short, hard repeated sprints with a change of direction
3. Agility drills
4. Kettlebell work for strengthening and injury-proofing heavily used ligaments
5. Flexibility work to maintain balance between your forehand and backhand sides of the body
To learn more about using kettlebells to strengthen your prowess on the tennis court, keep in touch with KettleFit on Instagram and Facebook.
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Gunman Opens Fire on GOP Congressmen
This is breaking. No idea yet as to the what or why of this, only that one confirmed Congressman is shot (Steve Scalise), and others “are injured”.
Police claim to have a suspect in custody. No information as to motive at this point.
The Democrat-Republican Baseball game is a fun, family oriented annual event in Washington, DC – usually held at Nat’s Stadium. President Obama usually took time out to see the game.
Gunman fires on Alexandria park during GOP baseball practice; lawmaker Scalise among wounded
A gunman opened fire Wednesday morning on a baseball practice at a park in Alexandria involving Republican members of Congress, possibly injuring several including at least one lawmaker, Steve Scalise, the majority whip, according to police and a congressman.
Alexandria police would only confirm that a shooting had occurred and that one person was in custody.
Rep. Peter Kane (R-N.Y.), in an interview with The Washington Post, confirmed early details. King said Capitol Police confirmed the account to him.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told The Post that Capitol Police officers walked into the congressional gym around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday and told members about the shooting and said Scalise had been shot.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer tweeted: “Both @POTUS & @VP are aware of the developing situation in Virginia. Our thoughts and prayers are with all affected.”
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) Tweeted that “Shooter attacked a GOP baseball practice. Rifle. 50+ shots fired. 5 hit including Steve Scalise. I am not shot.”
The 7:30 a.m. practice in the park in the 400 block of East Monroe Street was the finally before Thursday night’s scheduled game between Republicans and Democrats at Nationals Park.
Brooks told CNN that he heard a loud “bam” behind third base.
“I see a rifle, and I see a little bit of a body and then I hear another bam and I realize there’s still an active shooter. At the same time I hear Steve Scalise over at 2nd base scream — he was shot,” he said.
Brooks said he ran to the first base side and hit behind a batting cage as gunfire continued. He estimated 50 to 100 shots were fired.
He said Scalise crawled out of the outfield leaving a trail of blood, and that he was given liquids and put pressure on a chest wound.
Posted by btx3 on June 14, 2017 in Domestic terrorism, You Know It's Bad When...
Tags: Alexandria, breaking, Congressmen, Gunfire, mass shooting, multiple injured, Republican, Scalise, shooting, shot, Washington DC
Republican Congressmen “Running and Hiding, Shucking and Jiving!”
Long term loudmouth Republican Congressman Darrel Issa had to run to the roof of his office in his district to escape protesters…
Endangered GOP lawmaker Darrell Issa hides out on roof while avoiding angry constituents
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) was spotted on the roof of his district office building on Tuesday looking out at a crowd of angry constituents that he had avoided on his way into the building.
A photo of Issa on the roof was posted by Mike Levin, a California Democrat who is running to unseat the nine-term congressman in 2018. In the photo, Issa appears to be holding a phone and filming all the hundreds of protesters who lined up across the street from the building.
“Yes, this is really Darrell Issa on the roof of his district office building,” Levin wrote. “Too afraid to come speak with assembled constituents below.”
Speaker Paul Ryan found out how pissed even the younguns are…
Posted by btx3 on May 30, 2017 in Chumph Butt Kicking, Second American Revolution, Stupid Republican Tricks, Stupid Tea Bagger Tricks
Tags: Congressmen, demonstrations, disparaging, disrespect, opposition, pissed, politics, public, Republican, Resist
Ted Cruz Leads Racist Attack in Congress Against Ellison and Carson
Islamophobic and racist in charge Republican Ted Cruz entertained a bigot to speak before Congress, and attack the only two Muslim members. I think Cruz should be investigated for his ties to domestic terrorism.
Reps. Keith Ellison and Andre Carson, the two Muslim members of Congress, were accused by a witness at a Senate hearing of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Witness At Ted Cruz Hearing Accuses Congress’ Two Muslim Members Of Muslim Brotherhood Ties
In explosive testimony Tuesday, a witness before a Senate panel about Islamic terrorism accused the two Muslim members of Congress of having attended an event organized by the Muslim Brotherhood.
The charge was leveled by Chris Gaubatz, a “national security consultant” who has moonlighted as an undercover agitator of Muslim groups that he accuses of being terrorist outfits, and it was directed at Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and André Carson (D-Ind.). At the heart of his accusation is the attendance by those two members at a 2008 convention hosted by the Islamic Society of North America — a Muslim umbrella group, which Gaubatz claims is a front for the Muslim Brotherhood.
“I attended a convention in Columbus, Ohio, in 2008, organized by Muslim Brotherhood group, ISNA, and both the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons had recruitment and outreach booths,” Gaubatz said in his testimony. “Both Congressman Keith Ellison, MN, and Andre Carson, IN, spoke at the Muslim Brotherhood event.”
Allegations that Ellison and Carson are secret Muslim agents with extremist leanings are usually found among fringe groups online, often discussed in dire tones on poorly designed websites. Rarely, if ever, do such sentiments get read into congressional testimony, with the imprimatur that offers.
Responsibility for this rare instance lies with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who oversaw the hearing as chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts and whose staff likely saw the testimonies of the witnesses.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) later addressed Tuesday’s hearing and defended Ellison.
“He is my congressman. He is a man of great patriotism,” she said, adding that he has advocated for additional funding for efforts to detect what attracts young people to join terrorist groups.
An aide to Ellison confirmed that he did attend the 2008 ISNA convention. He’s gone to a few of the group’s conventions, in fact. Carson’s office didn’t return a request for comment. But news reports show that both he and Carson led a discussion at the 2008 convention on how to mobilize Muslims politically. President Barack Obama has addressed the group as well, though only via a video recording.
Critics of ISNA have insisted that these politicians have either turned a blind eye to — or explicitly embraced — the group’s affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood, an affiliation that is based on ties some of the founding ISNA members have allegedly had to the hard-line religious organization. ISNA has long insisted that no such connection has ever existed.
“I can definitely tell you we are not Muslim Brotherhood. We are not affiliated with them at all and never were,” said Faryal Khatri, an official with ISNA. “That much I can reassure you.”
ISNA is not the only group targeted by Gaubatz. In 2009, he told Talking Points Memo that he obtained an internship with the Council on American-Islamic Relations as part of an effort to secretly collect evidence against the group to be used in a book written by his father. The book, “Muslim Mafia,” alleged that CAIR, a Muslim advocacy group that works to combat Islamophobia, was a front for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Cruz’s office did not respond to a request for comment on Gaubatz’s allegations against Ellison and Carson or whether it had given either member a chance to respond. But the senator has displayed a tolerance for these kinds of conspiracy theories in the past.
Before he suspended his presidential campaign, Cruz appointed known Islamophobe Frank Gaffney to his team of national security advisers. Gaffney, now head of the Center for Security Policy, has objected to Ellison and Carson serving on the House Intelligence Committee because he believes their Muslim faith could compel them to leak information to the Muslim Brotherhood. He has also accused Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and conservative heavyweights Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan of being closeted Muslim Brotherhood members.
When asked about his controversial selection, Cruz defended Gaffney as a “serious thinker” focused on “fighting jihadism across the globe.”
Posted by btx3 on June 28, 2016 in The Definition of Racism, The New Jim Crow
Tags: Andre Carson, congress, Congressmen, Domestic terrorism, hate, Islamophobic, keith ellison, Racism, racist, religion, Republican, Ted Cruz
Really Bad week for Congressmen in DC
First we have the Tea Party Republican from Florida buying cocaine…
Federal law enforcement officials released new details this morning of U.S. Rep. Trey Radel’s arrest on charges of buying cocaine in Washington, D.C. earlier this fall.
In a press release put out just moments ago, agents indicate that the FBI and DEA had been watching Radel because they had learned he “would purchase cocaine for his personal use and sometimes share it with others.”
Radel, R-Fort Myers, entered a guilty plea this morning in court.
U.S. Rep. Trey Radel was sentenced to a year of probation after pleading guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor cocaine possession — a charge that authorities say came after he bought a small amount of cocaine in a sting in the nation’s capital last month.
Radel, a 37-year-old first-term Republican from Florida, said at his sentencing in D.C. Superior Court that he plans to enter an inpatient drug treatment program in Naples, Florida. It wasn’t immediately clear how long he would be in treatment.
The plea and sentence were part of a deal that Radel’s attorney struck with federal prosecutors. He could have received a maximum sentence of 180 days imprisonment or a $1,000 fine, or both. Instead, he was placed on one year probation, and if it is “successfully completed,” his guilty plea will be cleared from his record.
Then the brutal case of Congresswoman Grace Meng who was mugged last night on the way home –
Rep. Grace Meng attacked, robbed
Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.), a freshman lawmaker from the New York City area, was attacked and robbed Tuesday evening in the Eastern Market area.
Meng said she had just said goodnight to a friend she had dinner with in the neighborhood about 8:30 p.m. when she was attacked from behind.
Responding police officers found Meng disoriented at 2nd St. and Independence Avenue SE with bruising and swelling to the back of the left side of her head, and injuries to her left knee, hand and face. Meng was not able to remember where she was robbed or describe her assailant or assailants, according to a D.C. police report.
All Meng could tell police was t hat she had dinner on 8th Street SE and her black Gucci tote bag was stolen during the attack. Medics evaluated her at the scene then took Meng to George Washington University hospital. The report described her injuries as abrasion, swelling, bruises and unconsciousness.
No arrests have been made in the case, but an “active, open investigation” is underway, according to U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman Lt. Kimberly Schneider.
By Wednesday, she was back on Capitol Hill for a series of procedural votes in the afternoon. She missed the first two votes of the day in the 1 p.m. hour, but arrived in time to cast votes all afternoon. As she left the House Chamber Wednesday evening, she told reporters she was “just taking it a little slower today.”
“I’m from New York City and I have not been mugged like that. But the Capitol Police were great, the D.C. Police Department was very helpful,” she said.
Posted by btx3 on November 20, 2013 in News
Tags: congress, Congressmen, crime, drugs, punishment, robbery
Tea Bagger Feud Over Use of N-Word
During the run-up to the Health Care vote, Congressman John Lewis and several other black lawmakers were verbally assaulted by Tea Bagger protesters as they walked from one of the Office Buildings to the Capital Building. 4 Congressmen, including a white Congressman reported hearing chants of the N-word hurled at the lawmakers by Tea Baggers.
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Within a day or so of the incident being reported in the MSM, a video posted by Andrew Breitbart. Brietbart was central in “breaking” the James O’Keefe white-boy pimp ACORN sting, and providing the videos to Faux News. Brietbart, and others within the Tea Party movement are claiming that the incident reported by the Congressmen never happened, based on a video purportedly shot during the time the Congressmen claim they were assaulted. They are claiming that the Congressmen are lying in order to portray the Tea Baggers in a racist light.
Now it turns out that the video presented by Brietbart and other Tea Baggers of evidence that the assault never happened, was shot at a totally different time than the period in which the Congressmen claim they were assaulted.
Now – this could have been a mistake, but when you consider the same sources are the origin of the now thoroughly discredited ACORN tapes which resulted in the destruction of ACORN…
Then the DOJ needs to start looking at this as a criminal enterprise, and needs to look at possibly charging Mr. Breitbart and his accomplices with several crimes, including potentially violations under the Civil Rights Act, Wire Fraud, and Mail Fraud.
Wrong Video of Health Protest Spurs N-Word Feud
Three Democratic congressmen — all black — say they heard racial slurs as they walked through thousands of angry protesters outside the U.S. Capitol. A white lawmaker says he heard the epithets too. Conservative activists say the lawmakers are lying.
What does the video show? Not much. Indeed, new interviews show that a much-viewed YouTube recording cited as evidence by conservatives was actually shot well after the time in question.
It was March 20, near the end of the bitter health care debate, when Reps. John Lewis, Andre Carson and Emanuel Cleaver say that some demonstrators, many of them tea party activists, yelled the “N-word” as the congressmen walked from House office buildings to the Capitol. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by btx3 on April 13, 2010 in Stupid Tea Bagger Tricks
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Instead Of Running, Man Drives Through California Fires To Save Hospital Patients
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The California fires have burned down everything in their path, but the one thing that they couldn’t destroy was the bravery of a nurse named Allyn Pierce. As everything was turning to ash around him, Allyn Pierce decided to risk it all and drive back to the hospital where he was working at in order to pick up as many patients as he could because he knew that the firemen had their hands full. The most amazing thing about this is how Toyota who is the manufacturer of his car decided to reward Allyn Pierce for his bravery.
20. California Fires
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The California fires started this month and they burned down everything in their path. Many people have lost their homes in the flames but that’s not all. The flames have also taken the lives of 47 people and injured hundreds.
19. No Rain
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California has always had problems with fire because the temperature is dry and California doesn’t get that much rain. This is why firefighters have such a hard time putting out wildfires.
18. Tragic Accidents
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Unfortunately, many die in the fires and if not, they lose everything they have ever worked for such as their homes. This is why firemen always advise California residents to evacuate their homes and leave it all behind instead of trying to cling on to their belongings.
17. Terrific Situation
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Allyn Pierce is the protagonist of our story and he found himself in a terrific situation. The man was stuck in the middle of the wildfire and he had nowhere to go. The car was getting hotter and hotter, but Allyn Pierce was not ready to give up just yet.
16. No Way Out
Allyn Pierce realized that there’s no way out of the fire and he recorded a “Goodbye” video for his family and friends. Can you believe this? The man was ready to die…
15. Firefighter Bulldozer
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As the man was saying his goodbyes on video, a giant bulldozer from the firefighter department started clearing out the way so that Allyn Pierce can drive to safety. The man couldn’t believe how lucky he is.
14. Lucky Man
At that moment, Allyn Pierce realized that other people didn’t get lucky like him and that they need saving. This is when he decided to put it all on the line in order to save as many people as he could.
13. Drive Back
Even though Allyn Pierce could drive to safety, he put his trusty Toyota car in reverse and made a U-Turn. Allyn Pierce wanted to drive back to the hospital where he worked in order to pick up the patients who can’t walk on their own. Can you believe this?
12. To The Hospital
Allyn Pierce knew that he might be embarking on a suicide mission and his car was starting to get super hot, but he knew that the hospital patients don’t have any way to make it on their own. Isn’t Allyn Pierce amazing?
11. Racing Through The Flames
As Allyn Pierce was racing through the flames, he realized that his Toyota Tundra was more reliable than he ever thought it would be. Nonetheless, check out the next picture to see what Allyn Pierce did when he arrived at the hospital.
10. The Firemen Are Amazed
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The firemen were amazed to see that Allyn Pierce drove back into the heart of the fire instead of going to safety. However, they were thankful that he came back because they didn’t have any way to take the patients out.
9. Back In The Fire
The car was getting hotter and hotter, but this didn’t stop Allyn Pierce from rushing back into the fire. The man had a mission and he was ready to risk his life to save the patients.
8. He Risked His Life!
We think it’s safe to say that Allyn Pierce is a brave man. Would you ever risk your life and drive through flames in order to save the lives of strangers?
7. Hot Wheel
Allyn Pierce says that he could barely hold his hands on the wheel because it was getting hot. However, he knew that the lives of the hospital patients depended on him and he made sure to drive back to safety.
6. Back To Safety
It didn’t take long for Allyn Pierce to arrive back to safety and the hospital patients were safe. Everyone who saw what Allyn Pierce did was shocked by his bravery. Check out the next picture to see how the man’s car looks after this incredible adventure.
5. The Toyota Is Scorched
As you can clearly see in the picture featured above, the reliable Toyota Tundra got scorched in the fire. This picture went viral and the people who work at Toyota saw it. You will never believe what Toyota did to repay Allyn Pierce for his brave actions.
4. Toyota Calls
Toyota saw the picture of the scorched car and they called Allyn Pierce and told him that he shouldn’t worry about getting a new car. What do you think this means?
3. Brand-New Car
Toyota wanted to repay the man for his brave actions and they gave him a free Toyota Tundra. Isn’t this amazing?
2. Donations
The new car is not the only thing that Allyn Pierce got as a reward for his actions. People have started a GoFund Me page for him and they raised 25,000 dollars. We think it’s safe to say that Allyn Pierce earned all that money.
1. Life Saver
If there’s something that we can be sure about, then it has to be the fact that Allyn Pierce is a life saver. Don’t you think so?
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Broken Clock Brewing Collective Operations Manager Jeremy Mathison (second from left) with Sarah, Tom and Megan at Broken Clock’s new tap room. Photo by Brian Lambert
Updated: November 1, 2018 - 4:39 pm
No kids, we have not yet reached “peak beer.” The golden age of suds brewing and imbibing is not cresting yet.
The boom is still going strong enough that the 600-plus-member Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative up on California Street in Northeast’s arts district has opened its own taproom, with an official grand opening scheduled for Nov. 9.
After a year-and-a-half in the brewing and wholesale business, team Broken Clock has taken over a warehouse lease and expanded with a 6,000-square-foot taproom located at 3134 California St. NE, the better to serve fans of its — count ’em — 20 beers (at least).
Standard brews include Community Kolsch, a clean, crisp, delicately balanced beer with very subtle fruit and hop character, inspired by Will Hubbard, member no. 3; and Lavender Uprising, an intensely hoppy, fairly strong India pale ale infused with dried organic lavender flowers, inspired by Jeremy Mathison, member no. 1.
Seasonal brews include Constitution Cream Ale (light, crisp and mildly malty with a smooth mouthfeel and very low bitterness), Nordic Night (chocolate and spice aroma with strong dark chocolate and toffee flavors intermingled with spices, including nutmeg, allspice, ginger and cinnamon; and Red Coats, a New England-style IPA (hazy and juicy with the aroma of a hopped-up IPA but without the harshness, it’s loaded with hops featuring citrus and tropical fruit flavors, and a blood orange infusion lends a tart, citrusy bite).
The above-mentioned Mathison, also the brewery’s co-creator and operations manager — voted into the job of doing all the really fun bookwork — seems to like making a point of Broken Clock’s bona fide 308A tax standing as a 100 percent owned-by-members operation, with each member having an equal vote.
(So, you may wonder, do a couple beers help the group agreement process?)
“A 308B can have to 85 percent equity partners with only 15 percent members. But we are a 308A, which means everyone involved is member. One-hundred percent,” he said. “And that means people from Rochester to Duluth, as well as the Twin Cities.”
Broken Clock, which moved its operations into the old 56 Brewing plant, is the second cooperative brewery in Northeast after Fair State Brewing. And yes, you too can become a member with full voting privileges and other perks. Contact Mathison or drop in to find out how.
The new taproom, designed in part by members also tied into the area’s arts community and largely renovated by member labor — after hiring out the code-precision stuff like electrical — was a team effort.
“I’d say members did 75 percent of the work on the room,” Mathison said.
The taproom phenomenon is familiar to pretty much everyone who has ever hoisted a cold one, and Broken Clock is honoring the basic traditions, some of which are of course controlled by city statutes. There will be regular music and, as you might expect, constant food truck service.
“Some of the members own trucks, so they’ll be around quite a bit,” Mathison said.
Expect to see Little G’s Mobile Pizzeria out front quite frequently, serving wood-fired 10-inch pizzas, baked pasta and more. They’ll be joined by a rotating cast of vendors connected via the Broken Clock network.
As with other popular taprooms, Mathison and crew are planning a steady flow of events to keep the crowds coming in and entertained. The co-op plans to tap member labor again next spring to add a 3,000-square-foot outdoor deck and beer garden on the north side of the taproom.
“We really want this whole space to be family friendly,” Mathison said.
The design includes a dedicated kids space. Solo, unattached hipsters alone do not sustain a large taproom, no matter how robust the beer culture.
So, “the beer thing” still has a way to go before it peaks?
“We sure think so,” said Mathison. “I read that the Twin Cities is something like 10th nationally in terms of beer consumption, but only 16th for capacity. What that says to us is there’s still a pretty big range between demand and supply. We think we’ll be fine.”
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Is distracted driving to blame for high crash statistics in Illinois?
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By Kaitlyn Schwers
Filed under State
In less than four months, five people have died in crashes on Illinois 158 between Belleville and Columbia.
Jody Graff, a 48-year-old from Columbia, died after her minivan struck the rear of a dump truck on Illinois 158 near Roenicke Road on Oct. 18.
Less than two months later, a wreck on Illinois 158 near Belleville between a sport-utility vehicle and a truck killed three people, including one driver, Alejandro Salen, and two passengers, Jerilyn Hess and Christopher Craig.
Most recently, in the early morning hours of Dec. 19, 68-year-old Marlene A. Horn was pronounced dead after the driver of a blue Toyota RAV4 crossed the center line and struck her black Acura sedan head-on on Illinois 158 near Roachtown Road.
Is Illinois 158 a dangerous road?
State Police and local firefighters say it can be – only if a driver isn’t paying close attention.
Trooper Calvin Dye Jr., a spokesman for Illinois State Police in Collinsville, says rural sections of state highways can be “extremely dangerous.” It varies how often accidents happen on certain state highways, but Dye said it’s not uncommon for troopers to respond to Illinois 158 as well as state routes 177, 161, 4, 13 and 15 for crashes. Dye said State Police also rely on counties and local police agencies to patrol state routes.
Speeding is one factor on state highways. Drunken driving is another. But troopers believe distracted driving is a major reason the number of fatal crashes went up in 2016 across the state. The cause of two fatal crashes that happened on Illinois 158 in December are still under investigation, but in a separate crash in October police suspected a minivan driver, Graff, was distracted when her vehicle ran into the back of the dump truck.
“Usually on two-lane highways, when cars are going through town or city, there aren’t many accidents until they get to the rural parts of the two-lane highways,” Dye said. “When it becomes rural and there are cornfields on each side of the driver, they tend to begin to speed excessively. A lot of people start daydreaming. They just clearly don’t pay attention to the roadway. They become distracted with the cell phone, with the radios. We see our worst crashes here in District 11 on the rural parts of state highways.”
State Police say they’ve seen crashes where people have been distracted by cell phones, their vehicle radios as well as eating fast food. Last May, a 24-year-old man from Arkansas was cited after rear-ending an Illinois State Police car while apparently eating a meal from Jack in the Box.
Chester Borkowski Jr., fire chief of the Northwest Fire Protection District, said he could think of at least six times this past year when firefighters responded to serious crashes on Illinois 158. The fire department says it typically goes out to that roadway when serious injuries are involved or when people are trapped in their vehicle as a result of a crash.
“We’re seeing more and more of them, whether it’s from distracted driving or people looking at their personal data devices,” Borkowski said. “Put down the cell phones, put down the iPads and don’t worry about your GPS. Be aware of your surroundings, know where you’re going and use common sense because I’m sure these are a big factors police are looking at.”
The fire chief said his department spent more than four hours on the state highway Dec. 9 when a Ford Escape collided with a Chevrolet truck head-on. They called on Swansea Fire Department for help. Millstadt firefighters arrived, too, to assist with the aftermath of the deadly crash. Three people died, and one person was taken to a St. Louis hospital. A toxicology report for the Ford Escape driver, Salen, is expected to be made available sometime in January. Salen, in 2014, had been cited for driving under the influence. Police said the Escape driven by Salen had crossed the center line.
Millstadt’s fire chief, Kurt Pellmann, says he doesn’t know the answer to it, but firefighters there in just the last two months have worked several accidents along 158. In 2016 alone, Millstadt firefighters have been to 22 vehicle accidents on Illinois 158, almost half of the 48 crashes they responded to during the year. According to the fire department’s log, most of the crashes recorded on that road resulted in injuries.
“People need to slow down, pay attention to what they’re doing. A lot of it is speed and a lot of them may be on their phones,” Pellmann said. “It’s dangerous road, for one reason or another.”
Fatalities, deadly crashes up in Illinois
The five deaths that have been reported on Illinois 158 are among 41 fatalities that have been documented in St. Clair County in 2016, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Statewide, numbers show that fatal crashes are up as well as fatalities, the number of people who have died from vehicle crashes. Fatalities are broken down by drivers, passengers, pedestrians, bicyclists and others who died as occupants of non-motor vehicles. IDOT said there were 999 deadly crashes that happened in the state in 2016, an increase from 914 in 2015. Crash fatalities were at a nine-year high by the end of 2016 with 1,081 deaths — an increase from 998 deaths in 2015.
Dye said that while the state’s fatal crash data is alarming, it’s also preventable.
“From a law enforcement standpoint, everyone thinks it can’t happen to them. A lot of times on the tail-end of these crashes, usually the innocent person ends up being seriously injured or decreased, so that really hurts us and makes us want to remove distracted drivers off the roadway, drunken drivers off the roadway,” Dye said. “People have to hold themselves accountable.”
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The Future of Energy Storage
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Hashtag: #ACEnergy
Introduced by:
Deputy Director, Climate and Advanced Energy, Global Energy Center
Atlantic Council
A conversation with:
Mitalee Gupta
Energy Storage Analyst
Wood Mackenzie
Venkat Viswanathan
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Akshat Rathi
Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center; Senior Reporter
Atlantic Council; Quartz
Please join the Atlantic Council for a fully-charged discussion on the future of energy storage and battery technologies on Thursday, May 16, 2019, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Lunch will be served.
Batteries are disrupting trillion-dollar incumbent industries. Analysts now expect the total cost of owning battery-powered cars to be less than owning gas-powered cars as soon as 2022. At the same time, combining solar or wind power with batteries is becoming a viable replacement for natural-gas peaker power plants. The future holds other exciting opportunities: plugged-in electric cars that serve as stores of electricity for the grid, battery-backed mini-grids that replace the need for extending the main grid to remote places, and perhaps even battery-powered flights. Could all this be achieved within the few decades left to reach net-zero emissions and hit climate goals? Do we have the technologies or the metals to make it a reality? Are we ready with the changes our systems need to accommodate batteries?
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Valerie Harper’s Family Turns To Crowdfunding To Pay For Her Cancer Treatments
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Tiger Aspect
Endemol Shine-owned UK producer Tiger Aspect has hired former BBC comedy exec and Wrong Mans producer Myfanwy Moore to bolster its laughing business.
The move is the first major hire for the company, which makes series including Jack Whitehall’s Bounty Hunters for Sky, since it appointed former BBC Three chief Damian Kavanagh as boss, taking up his position in the new year.
Her first project is Hitmen for Sky, which stars former Great British Bake Off hosts Mel & Sue.
Most recently, Moore was BBC’s Controller of Comedy Production, where she worked across series including the James Corden-fronted comedy, Tracey Ullman’s Show, Upstart Crow, W1A, Mrs. Brown’s Boys, Inside No 9 and the development of This Country and Good Omens.
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She will oversee all comedy production for the indie, which is set to close its spin-off comedy label Cave Bear, the comedy label set up by ex-Tiger chief Ben Cavey, following his departure to Netflix. That division will be folded into the wider business and will now be an enlarged team including Creative Director Pippa Brown, Director of Development Arnold Widdowson, and Development Producers Amy Annette, Katie Churchill and David Simpson reporting to Moore.
Richard Johnston, CEO Endemol Shine UK, said, “Think of your favourite comedy show of the past decade and chances are Myf will have had a hand in it. She is so well respected in her field, by talent and broadcasters alike, and her list of credits read like a Who’s Who of British comedy. We are thrilled to have her running Tiger’s new comedy unit, and working alongside Damian, I’m really excited about the next generation of Tiger comedy.”
Moore added, “I’m thrilled to be part of Tiger Aspect and to be working with such a talented team. The company has made many of my favourite comedy shows over the years and I’m looking forward to making some favourites for the future.”
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Arenas Are Important And Football Stadiums Are Not
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Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here. Buy his book here.
Jerry Richardson just horndogged his way out of owning the Panthers, and whatever crooked old fart the NFL chooses to replace him will likely be paying north of $2 billion for one of the NFL’s more tenuous stadium situations. The Panthers’ home stadium was built right before the luxury stadium boom and thus, along with other contemporary shitholes like the Skins’ stadium, does not include the requisite luxury condos and aquaparks and Tesla dealerships needed to satisfy an NFL owner’s hunger for a robust profit margin.
Despite Richardson squeezing the city of Charlotte (among other things) in order to get publicly funded upgrades, and despite speculation that he won’t sell to someone who would dare move the team, the current terms of the Panthers lease allow them to leave as soon as 2019 with only a small penalty fee attached. Presumably, new ownership will first shoot for a stadium like JerryWorld or the Falcons’ new digs, and they’ll roll out a very thick binder explaining how such a luxe edifice could “stimulate” the local economy by attracting football fans and Star Trek conventions. LOOGIT THE FANCY ESCALATORS!
You already know that these economics are bunk. But if you want a real sense of how large of an albatross a new football stadium is to a city, just look at all the free time on the schedule over at the Vikings’ new stadium. After the Vikings playoff run is over and Minnesota hosts its second (and last) Super Bowl, their bird genocide chamber will spend the first half of 2018 hosting a home and remodeling show, an RV show, a monster truck jam, and a Kenny Chesney concert. That’s about it. In general, we’re talking about a facility that will house roughly two public events a month at most. In between those is a great yawning void.
And despite also being home to the Atlanta United FC, the Falcons new stadium isn’t much busier once bowl season is over. There simply aren’t a lot of everyday uses for a place that has 70,000 seats. These buildings will be empty on far more days than they are full, reliant on football and the occasional big-ticket neutral-site sporting event that passes through about as often as a comet. In fact, it probably benefits NFL owners to have their places used less frequently because the overhead and labor needed to stage any ancillary event is overwhelming. Their uselessness is profound, especially compared to a more vital, much more affordable civic structure: the arena.
That’s the new arena in Vegas, which cost $375 million and was funded entirely by private developers. That venue landed Vegas an NHL team and already has over three dozen events on the schedule for the first quarter of 2018 alone. Because arenas are a much more manageable size, they’re able to operate on a near-nightly basis. Take it from someone who took their kid to a gymnastics expo at the Wizards’ home joint: On any given night, there is something happening at your city’s arena. Plunk one in the center of a town and it really does give off electric vibes.
And I am all for happenings, even when they are relentlessly dumb. I’m drawn to a happening like Sleeping Beauty to the spinning wheel. There is an inherent joy in the forming of a crowd, of people gathering mass numbers to enjoy something together. That’s what NFL teams sell cities when they whip out a rendering of people surfing outside a stadium. They are selling you a hub of communal activity and business. But the reality is that football stadiums are dormant for the bulk of their existence. They create dead zones in the landscape. Arenas are the real gathering place, and they cost a fraction of what NFL owners demand.
In fact, that low cost often helps eliminate demands for public funding altogether. Earlier this month the city of Seattle approved a $660 million plan to renovate Key Arena, which will almost certainly net the city an NHL team and, messy politics pending, perhaps a reborn Seattle Supersonics NBA team in the distant future. Now, there are some murky tax credits yet to be fleshed out in that plan, but the bulk of that $660 million would appear (famous last words) to be privately sourced, and is three times greater than the original $220 million that the state of Washington refused to gift then-Sonics owner and colossal shitbag Clay Bennett when he wanted to renovate the same building. By spurning Bennett and letting the Sonics walk, Seattle may end up in a much better spot than they ever would have if they had caved on that initial $220 million demand, and they’ll have a fancy building to show for it—one that may truly, actually spur business in the surrounding areas, as NFL teams falsely promise time and again.
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I’m well aware that arenas remain prone to rich guy chicanery. Outside of Vegas, the NHL has been particularly nasty when it comes to strong-arming cities for them. Gary Bettman failed to get the city of Calgary to pony up a whopping $1 billion for a new arena for the Flames, and he has not been shy about openly threatening the city as a result. The Ottawa Senators have started making similar complaints (FUN FACT: Owner Eugene Melnyk may move the team despite being getting a donated liver FROM a Senators fan), and the New York Islanders are fleeing a new arena in Brooklyn to go play in a new place near Belmont Park. But if a city is gonna let itself get ripped off, the value is clear:
1. Arena
2. Ballpark
3. Football stadium
We are entering an age of horrific corruption, and so I have accepted the fact that living in a fraud-free America is a hilarious pipe dream. All I can do is hope for the least of all corruptions, and pray that a bare scrap of public good accidentally comes out of it. If you are some ambitious dickbag city councilman looking to make his name for himself, an arena should be your priority when it comes to getting worked over. Arenas are good. Stadiums are crap. And the city of Charlotte should steel itself for a new conman arriving and arguing otherwise.
All games in the Jamboroo are evaluated for sheer watchability on a scale of 1 to 5 Throwgasms.
Five Throwgasms
Falcons at Saints: Mike Francesa left WFAN last week and the Internet has a bizarre soft spot for him, given what a vainglorious, arrogant asshole Mike Francesa is:
I grew up with Francesa too, you know. The signal from 660 reached all the way to my folks’ house 150 miles away, and I would tune in during the summer commuting back and forth from my job running tables and setting up wedding banquets. Francesa was an asshole then, and he’s an even bigger asshole now. That cute New Yorker story about him and the Mad Dog watching The Horse Whisperer together doesn’t exactly make up for all the times Francesa bragged about not caring about gay players, or stuck his nose up Bill Parcells’s ass, or hung up on callers who dared to point out his mistakes.
Like Rush Limbaugh, Francesa is a talented and occasionally engaging broadcaster who has virtually NO other redeeming qualities as a human being. Yet somehow, he found a way to con people into thinking his worst traits were somehow endearing. The reality is he’s a doddering old fool and no amount of EPIC Mets rants are gonna gloss that over. Fuck him and his big dumb veneers. I hope he gets nail fungus.
Four Throwgasms
Bills at Patriots: Hey, are you aware that Bobby Kraft’s favorite band is gonna get inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this spring?
Listen man, I already know that the Rock Hall is complete fucking joke whose honorees are determined mostly by whether or not they’ve shared a villa in Mustique with Jann Wenner, but it’s still a hilarious outrage that Bon Jovi somehow lobbied their way in. I say this as someone who unabashedly enjoyed some of their ‘80s work. That was all cheesy good fun, but have you HEARD latter day Bon Jovi? Bon Jovi has spent the past two decades making music to play over the loudspeakers at A.C. Moore.
In other Patriots news, I am one of the last people on Earth to realize Tom Brady is bald. I guess I should have realized it the first time I saw him on the sideline with his helmet off and the top of his head looked like a drain clog.
Rams at Titans
Three Throwgasms
Jaguars at Niners: Blake Bortles only became a punchline after a mediocre 2016 season and a rocky patch this offseason. But before that, he was easily one of the most promising passers in football, and now his numbers are back up to where they were in 2015. Why, it’s almost as if he was always capable, but something happened during that bad stretch that clearly affected his on-field play and no one is saying what!
Seahawks at Cowboys: It’s Christmas special season and if you have Netflix or Amazon Prime you know that there are a LOT of off-brand Christmas specials lingering the bowels of every studio’s archives. For example, did you know there’s a SECOND Frosty the Snowman special? And it isn’t narrated by Jimmy Durante (HA CHA CHA-CHA!), but by Burt Reynolds?
This is so fucking weird. I do not like knowing this exists.
Two Throwgasms
Steelers at Texans: I hate the current catch rule as much as you do (and have offered an easy solution to it because I am nothing if not PROACTIVE), but I will also say that the NFL desperately needed a game as weird as Pats-Steelers to go down. It wasn’t that long ago that I could count on at least one NFL game a week ending with some sort of inexplicable ruling or massive coaching boner. Those games are a blast to bitch about. Like, the Fail Mary game sucked. But Fail Mary Twitter was HEAVEN. It was fantastic Twitter. I am at the point with the NFL where a tainted outcome is the BEST outcome I can hope for as a viewer. I already know I’m probably not getting a masterpiece, so I’ll gladly take any game ending on a ref missing a call because he was busy farting instead. My standards are EXTREMELY low right now.
By the way, super triple ultra fuck Big Ben. Even with half these teams quarterbacked by one-armed lepers, I will be elated when he’s finally out of the league. He’s a shitty teammate and an even shittier person and WHY THE FUCK DID YOU THROW THAT BALL YOU BIG STUPID MORON?! Big Ben needs to leave my consciousness forever and go spend his retirement tripping over cow patties.
Raiders at Eagles: I don’t really understand how anyone could be angry at Gene Steratore for whipping out an index card to check a measurement. That’s damn resourceful of him and I salute his ingenuity when it comes to fussing over the nose of a football. I hope he pulls out a jeweler’s eyepiece for his next little stunt.
Vikings at Packers: I know that Harrison Smith will almost certainly make the Pro Bowl as an alternate once half the league drops out, but there is still the barest ember of childish fanboy in me that feels true OUTRAGE whenever one of my favorite players is snubbed for the Pro Bowl or Hall of Fame. I spend all year being like, “Pfft, the Pro Bowl sucks,” and then the rosters come out and I’m like NO HARRISON SMITH? WHOSE FACE DO I NEED TO SMASH? BEST SAFETY IN THE FUCKING GAME!
Chargers at Jets
Dolphins at Chiefs
Bucs at Panthers
One Throwgasm
Colts at Ravens: Baseball writer Tim Kurkjian had a book come out last year and I’m sure it’s very good and that Tim is, by all accounts, a super guy. But look at this cover:
This is not an anomaly. I feel like virtually every sports book cover ever designed was designed in 1988. If you have ever dished out an anthology of your hottest, most provincial sports takes, there is vomit of horrific fonts and awkward photography awaiting you. Like this Tony Kornheiser book. And this one. And this one from Whitlock. And this one from Bill Conlin, who turned out to be a monster. I am fascinated by all these terrible sports book covers. It’s like they were all specifically designed to be used as props in a Will Ferrell comedy. Good thing all my sports book covers are GOLD.
Lions at Bengals: Our own Diana Moskovitz used to work at NFL Network and this week she wrote about her time there. The whole thing is well worth reading but I just wanna point out this passage:
When Goodell and his entire group left, a group of us converged on the big conference room in which they had been served a catered lunch. We found it piled high with uneaten food and grabbed it, like scavengers.
HOLY SHIT HE DID IT AGAIN! What on Earth is it with Roger Goodell and depriving people of food?! Does he HATE food? Did some stern housemadam force-feed him castor oil as a sour child? Did he resolve to never let anyone enjoy food again after that? Because that’s my theory and I’ll gladly stick to it in the face of contradictory evidence. This man is a food monster. He’d starve your grandma, he would!
Browns at Bears: PROGRAMMING NOTE: I’m out next week. Your Jamboroo guest host is, as always, site founder Will Leitch. Leitch, seen here showering, will be around to break down all the games and cram in needless St Louis Cardinals takes where he sees fit. I am more or less powerless to stop him when it comes to the latter, since he does this job for free every year. He also usually skips the poop story, so if you’re jonesing for funny poop stories next week, you will probably have to shit your pants. It’s the only way.
Broncos at Skins
Giants at Cardinals
Pregame Song That Makes Me Want To Run Through A Goddamn Brick Wall
“Safari Song,” by Greta Van Fleet! Submitted by Jeremy:
Once you get over or succumb to the Led Zeppelin pastiche they’ve got going on it’s easy to get carried away by this song. Just wait for the breakdown towards the end. Also, these guys are all like 19.
Not bad! I could see myself getting into these guys for about as long as I got into Wolfmother, so roughly 10 minutes.
Gregg Easterbrook Memorial Haughty Dipshit Of The Week
If it’s the end of the year, that means it’s time for Pitchfork’s 50 best albums of the year, which almost always consist of 49 artists I’ve never heard of, plus Kendrick Lamar. Is the copy so insanely pretentious and ANGULAR that you can’t even fathom someone writing with a straight face?
Yaeji contains multitudes.
Why, yes. Yes, my friends.
(Sandy) Alex G
On Rocket, the singer-songwriter formerly known as Alex G employs lovingly recorded violin and piano on tender, country-leaning jaunts.
Okay, why did he add the “(Sandy)” to his name? Was there another artisanal fiddler named Alex G who was there first? If you’ll excuse me, I have decided to change my pen name to [Horny] Drew Mmmmm.
Dust is Laurel Halo’s loosest offering yet, orbiting out from its oddball-pop epicenters to the point of near-chaos.
STOP THIS ODDBALL POP I WANNA GET OFF BEFORE IT EXPLODES!
The producer’s music has always been exploratory, knitting together synth-pop, Detroit techno, and jazz with a singular, continuous voice, and that process feels particularly gleeful here.
Finally, someone knit together synth-pop, Detroit techno, and jazz, and they were NOT a downer about it.
Throughout the glassy, gossamer soul of Moses Sumney’s debut album, the 26-year-old finds new ways to talk about loneliness, romance at a distance, the ability to “behold and not be held.”
He sounds like a real blast at parties. Would it kill Pitchfork to listen to some Metallica once in a while?
Rex Ryan’s Lock Of The Week: Raiders +9
[storms into locker room in Santa suit]
“Gentlemen… all I want for Christmas… IS A GODDAMN WIN. You hear me?! I don’t want toys because toys are for pant-shittin’ babies! I don’t want video games because video games are for pimply nerds! The only gift I ever want is for you to go out there and MURDER the other team! Everything else I need I can buy myself: steak, ribs, footrubs, big fucking trucks, pantyhose to wear on my head when I’m feeling frisky… I DON’T CHRISTMAS FOR ANY OF THAT SHIT! I want DEATH! I dyed this suit with reindeer blood!”
Ryan 2017 record: 10-5
CANNIBAL CORPSE SONG FOR THE HOLIDAYS!
“Heads Shoveled Off,” by Cannibal Corpse! Yes, if it’s Christmastime, that means it’s time to check in with Buffalo’s foremost purveyors of snuff porn metal. Let’s take a gander at the lyrics!
As they see the shovel
Coming at them slowly
Blood spurts through the air
Head detaches from the body
The eyes can still see but
The brain starts to die rapidly
Back in Nam he killed a man
Many more would die
Shovels used to cut their heads off
Now forever changed lust to decapitate
Chop at the neck to keep the skull intact
Warms my heart just reading it. Folks, this is the band that Christmas NEEDS in 2017. By the way, this song comes from a new album that Cannibal Corpse released just this year. How is it different from the other Cannibal Corpse albums? Only Lucifer himself can parse such mysteries. I wonder if they could toss a Baptist hymn into one of these records without anyone noticing.
Fantasy Player Who Deserves To Die A Slow, Painful Death
Amari Cooper, who should really have this section permanently named after him after the year he’s had. I know he didn’t play against Kansas City, but no one would have noticed if he suited up anyway because Cooper has had five games this season where he caught two balls or less and amassed fewer than 10 goddamn yards receiving. I don’t care if he’s had lingering injuries. If you’re gonna drag yourself out onto that field with half a lung, I still expect you to PRODUCE. No excuses. If I’m hard on Amari it’s because I CARE so damn much. NOW STEP IT THE FUCK UP.
Fire This Asshole!
Is there anything more exciting than a coach losing his job? All year long, we’ll keep track of which coaches will almost certainly get fired at year’s end or sooner. And now, your potential 2017 chopping block:
Ben McAdoo-FIRED!!!
Marvin Lewis-PURSUING OTHER OPPORTUNITIES!
Jerry Richardson-FORCED OUT!
Chuck Pagano***
John Fox
Hue Jackson
Jay Gruden
Jim Caldwell
Todd Bowles
Vance Joseph
Mike McCarthy
Bruce Arians
Bill O’Brien
Jack Del Rio
Dirk Koetter
(*-potential midseason firing)
I know he’s probably gonna survive because he made a coordinator walk the plank, but there is really no excuse for the Raiders to be this fucking bad under Jack Del Rio. You might think they’re struggling because Derek Carr is having an off year, but no. No, turns out his numbers aren’t that far off from his promising work in 2015 and 2016, even with Cooper falling off a cliff. Three of their O-linemen made the Pro Bowl (not necessarily deserved but still). Khalil Mack still exists. And yet, they suck ass. That’s on Eddie Money. Why, it’s almost as if packing up for Vegas has exerted a psychological toll on this franchise that they don’t care to acknowledge.
Great Moments In Poop History
Reader David sends in this story I call APOOPALYPTO:
About 10 years ago I was on a trip to Peru, which included a visit to Machu Picchu. To get there my group hiked through the Andes on the Inca Trail, which takes about four days. I had been having some major intestinal issues earlier in the trip, so I was extremely worried how this would turn out. After taking a major dose of Peruvian antibiotics I had procured at a pharmacy where I couldn’t really understand them (don’t ever do this), I was able to make it through the first 3 days unscathed thanks to antibiotic-induced constipation. On the 4th day we left camp before dawn for an hour hike with 50 other people that ended at the site. I was congratulating myself for having made it, when about 20 minutes in Montezuma’s revenge returned, the likes of which I had never experienced. The problem was that the trail was basically a sheer wall to the left and a cliff to the right, so there was absolutely nowhere to go.
I immediately began to panic, and a few minutes later I was in agony and a full-on sweat. I was almost in tears as I started to decide whether I was just going to unload in my pants or go in the middle of the trail as 40 people passed me in disgust while I quietly sobbed. Miraculously I was able to summon the strength of 10 men and vice grip my butt cheeks for the final 40 minutes of the hike. The trail ends on a mountainside landing a couple hundred feet above Machu Picchu called the Sun Gate, where everyone watches the sun rise over the Andes. It’s supposed to be extremely majestic and a highlight of the trip. As the 50 people all stood at the edge looking in awe as the sun began to rise, I absolutely could not take it anymore. I ran behind a tiny tree about 20 feet from the group (as far as I could go) and released 4 days of pent up Peruvian food in the most satisfying moment of my life. Despite my proximity to 50 other people, I don’t think anyone turned around to witness the carnage. I completely missed the sunrise, but whatever, those are a dime a dozen.
International poop stories and military poop stories remain undefeated, gang.
Gametime Snack Of The Week
Salt and pepper chips! I should not be blown away by the flavor of salt and pepper snacks like these chips and salt and pepper pistachios. And yet, whenever I have them I’m like MY GOD THIS REALLY DOES TASTE LIKE SALT AND PEPPER! UNCANNY! I think I am under-peppering the rest of my food. Tell me something has “Cracked” pepper in it and I got hog wild even though all pepper is cracked.
Gametime Cheap Beer Of The Week
Bohlinger’s Lager! Move over, National Bohemian, there’s another terrible Boh on the block! From Chris:
When I was in Zimbabwe I was able to imbibe Bohlinger’s Lager, a beverage so fine it has exactly the type of aftertaste you’d expect from a country with one of the world’s longest reigning dictators. A 24-ounce bottle set me back a dollar or so, and it wasn’t as bad as some of that country’s other beer options.
I’m sold by the label. “Naturally dry”? Count me in. I’m sick of all these artificially dry beers. I MUST HAVE IT.
Jim Tomsula’s Lifehack Of The Week!
“Aliens? Okay, that’s old news. You got some wire and foil, you’re gonna hear from some aliens, okay? Tuscaloosa Jim once slipped into a power station and slipped a burrito wrapper around one of the transformers and he heard all kinds of crazy blips and beeps comin’ from the saucers and what not, okay? He burned to death six seconds later but before that, we heard ‘em. You think those little fellas don’t know when you get an x-ray? They’re everywhere. There’s little ones in your milk, too. They know uh, the frequencies and what not. You spend a week in a landfill and nothing surprises you, not in this world or any other.”
Sunday Afternoon Movie Of The Week For Browns Fans
Blade Runner 2049, a fascination examination of both reality and identity and what it means to WHOA HOLY SHIT LOOGIT THE FLYING CARS! Honestly, this movie could have been in Aramaic and I wouldn’t have given a shit because it looks so fantastic. The only bad parts of this movie come when Jared Leto parachutes in from a different, worse movie… one where he was apparently allowed to write his own dialogue. It’s a very special moment when an actor lives up to every last joke made at his expense.
Gratuitous Simpsons Quote
“The circumference of the well is 34 inches, so, unfortunately, not one member of our city’s police force is slender enough to rescue the boy.”
Enjoy the games, everyone. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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DemDaily: The Battle and Embattled
This week wraps up with a win for Republicans following the confirmation this morning of Neil Gorsuch as Associate Justice to the Supreme Court.
DemDaily: Hear Our Vote!
One positive that came from the 2016 election was the Women’s March on Washington and the organization born from the five million people worldwide who marched in solidarity January 21st.
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Asian-Americans & Pacific Islanders for Ralph Northam invite you to a public rally for increased civic engagement and voter participation across minority communities in Virginia.
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While the country endures the daily rollercoaster of the Trump Administration, the Democratic Party committees are focused on the business of campaigns and targeting 2018 races in an attempt to...
DemDaily: Next Steps for Gorsuch
This afternoon, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-9 along party lines to advance Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the full Senate.
DemDaily: The Confirmation Count
Confirmations have slowed down during the past few weeks in Congress as focus shifted to the GOP’s failed Obamacare “repeal and replace” legislation, and the ongoing...
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Hillary Clinton jumped back into the public political arena yesterday, calling out Republicans on yet another series of disrespectful comments against women, including one from the White House...
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President Trump’s American Health Care Act (AHCA) is just hours away from a vote in the House of Representatives — and we need you to Act Now to shut it down.
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Scrutiny & Overview Committee
Tuesday, 5th March, 2019 6.30 pm
Scrutiny & Overview Committee - 5 March 2019 : Presentations PDF 3 MB
Venue: Council Chamber, Town Hall, Katharine Street, Croydon CR0 1NX. View directions
Contact: Simon Trevaskis
0208 7266000 Email: simon.trevaskis@croydon.gov.uk
To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 11 February 2019 as an accurate record.
The minutes of the meeting held on 11 February 2019 were agreed as an accurate record.
There were none.
There were no items of urgent business.
Safer Croydon Partnership PDF 248 KB
To receive a presentation on the Safer Croydon Partnership.
The Committee is asked to consider whether it wishes to make any recommendations following the discussion of this item.
The Committee received a presentation from the Cabinet Member for Safer Croydon and Communities, Councillor Hamida Ali, on the performance of the Safer Croydon Partnership over the past twelve months.
In addition to the Cabinet Member, the Chair also welcomed the following attendees who were present at the meeting for this item:-
- Andy Brown: Chief Executive of the Croydon BME Forum
- Colin Carswell: Partnership Superintendent, Metropolitan Police
- Elaine Clancy: Director of Quality & Governance, Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
- Rachel Flowers: Director of Public Health, London Borough of Croydon
- Gavin Handford: Head of Policy & Communities, London Borough of Croydon
- Anthony Lewis: Head of Community Safety, London Borough of Croydon
- Lucien Spencer: Area Manager, London Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC)
- Dave Stringer: South Area Commander, Metropolitan Police
- Jonathan Toy: Programme Director – Community Safety, London Borough of Croydon
- Councillor David Wood: Deputy Cabinet Member for Safer Croydon & Communities
During the introductory presentation delivered by the Cabinet Member, the following information was noted:-
· Crime and safety were two of the key priorities set out in the Labour Manifesto which was produced in the run up to the local elections in May 2018.
· The Safer Croydon Partnership (SCP) was a statutory partnership that originally came into force in 1998 with the Crime and Disorder Act, but had evolve since then towards its present format.
· Statutory partners in the SCP included the Council, the Clinical Commissioning Group, the Community Rehabilitation Centre, the Fire Service and the Police.
· Voluntary partners included Croydon Voluntary Action, the Croydon BME Forum and CAYSH
· A recent Assessment of Statutory Compliance, had indicated that SCP was achieving compliance in all areas except Information Sharing, which was an issue effecting many Community Safety Partnerships and not just in Croydon.
· There was a requirement for the Partnership to have a Community Safety Strategy, which was reviewed in 2017 and 2018 to ensure it continued to be aligned with priorities.
· The current priorities were:
o To reduce the overall crime rate in the borough; with a focus on violent crime and domestic abuse
o To improve the safety of children and young people
o To tackle anti-social behaviour and environmental crime
o To improve public confidence and community engagement
o To improve support and reduce vulnerability for all victims of crime; with a focus on hate crime.
· Working below the main Partnership were five programme boards whose work streams were each aligned with one of these five priorities.
· The strengths of the SCP included partners having a clear line of sight over the area, the involvement of the voluntary organisations was important particularly in regard to tackling knife crime and the DRIVE pilot for London which focussed on domestic abuse.
· Potential areas of weakness for the Partnership included the challenge arising from the different working practices of partners, not all partners contributing equally, the challenge of coordinating the voluntary sector organisations and evaluating performance of the Partnership.
· Forthcoming opportunities for the Partnership included the move ... view the full minutes text for item 18/19
Question Time: Cabinet Member for Safer Croydon and Communities PDF 317 KB
Question time with the Cabinet Member for Safer Croydon and Communities, Councillor Hamida Ali.
Question Time: Cabinet Member for Safer Croydon & Communities , item 19/19 PDF 2 MB
The Committee received a report set out on pages 17 to 38 of the agenda along with an accompanying presentation on the Portfolio of the Cabinet Member for Safer Croydon and Communities, Councillor Hamida Ali. During the introductory presentation to this item the following was noted
i. Although the Portfolio did not have as large a budget as some of the others, a wide range of areas were covered including community safety work streams and working with the voluntary & community sector.
ii. The strengths within the Portfolio included the breath of activity arising from partnership work, Croydon Trading Standards playing a role nationally in test purchasing the online acquisition of knives, the Drive project aimed at disrupting domestic and sexual violence, funding had been received from National FGM Centre for a social worker for two years, the Voluntary & Community Sector Strategy and the Council had received recognition for its equalities and diversity work from both Stonewall & the Employers Network for Equalities & Inclusion.
iii. Weaknesses included the lack of available funding undermining the ambitions of the Council and the lack of available, affordable community space (although provision was being created in the former SLaM premises on Tamworth Road).
iv. Future opportunities included the expansion of the Credit Union, CCTV investment for smart city applications, the Best Bar None competition planned for 2019/20 and the second phase of Community Empowerment and Devolution also planned for 2019/20.
v. Potential threats included the impact from the restructure of the Police Basic Command Unit, the large volume of activity across multiple funding streams outside of the Safer Croydon Partnership structure and data protection issues that restricted the sharing of data.
Following the presentation from the Cabinet Member, the Committee was given the opportunity to ask questions about her Portfolio. The first question concerned the potential impact of the Police restructure to a tri-borough arrangement with Sutton and Bromley. The South Area Commander for the Metropolitan Police advised that the purpose of the restructure was to ensure that there was more officers available on the ground and in moving to a tri-borough arrangement it delivered savings from having less senior management to deliver this. It had also presented the opportunity to equalise the work of senior commanders, so there should not be a noticeable difference on a local level.
It was questioned whether all the various partnerships and boards could lead to a risk of duplication, affecting the outcomes. It was advised that the Boards under the Safer Croydon Partnership were arranged to reflect the priorities of the Partnership. The arrangement had recently been reviewed and it was concluded that the partnership was working well, but it would be reviewed again in 2020. Within the Cabinet Member’s own Portfolio, there were regular meetings with the three Executive Directors to ensure that there was cohesion across the Portfolio.
The provision of funding for a social worker to work specifically on cases of FGM was welcomed by the Committee, with it questioned when this role would be in ... view the full minutes text for item 19/19
Developing a Public Health Approach to Violence Reduction PDF 772 KB
To receive a presentation on developing a Public Health Approach to violence reduction.
The Committee received a presentation from the Cabinet Member for Safer Croydon and Communities, Councillor Hamida Ali, on the Safer Croydon Partnership’s move towards implementing a public health model for violence reduction in the borough.
During the presentation from Councillor Ali the following points were noted:-
- Serious youth violence in the borough had fallen by 22.9% over the past twelve months, with 368 crimes reported against 477 in the previous twelve months. This reduction compared favourably with the rest of London which had a 5.8% reduction.
- Knife crime in the borough had also reduced in the past year with 531 crimes compared to 637 in the previous twelve month. This represented a reduction of 16.6% against a London wide reduction of 0.4%.
- The reduction in knife crime involving injury had decreased by 27.3% over the past twelve months, with 80 reported crimes compared to 110 in the previous year. The London wide reduction was 13.6%.
- The data demonstrated that Croydon was seeing a greater reduction in knife crime, youth crime and violence with injury than the London average. Croydon actually had a lower level of knife crime offences compared to the London average for the first time since 2015.
- The Safer Croydon Partnership was now developing a public health approach to violence reduction which aimed to deliver long term, sustained reductions in violent crime.
- The public health approach was data driven and focussed on preventing violence before it occurred using community based support, targeted interventions and enforcement.
- The Public Health Approach would be used to look at all forms of violence including domestic abuse and sexual violence against women.
- The priorities for the new approach would be to ensure that all partners understood their roles in helping to reduce violence in the borough, taking opportunities to intervene at an early stage were appropriate, reducing school exclusions and developing community support networks.
- The next steps for the project would be a number of listening event in March and April before the framework and delivery model was finalised by the Safer Croydon Partnership Board in April. The Cabinet would give the project its final sign off in June 2019.
Following the presentation the Committee was given the opportunity to ask questions about the new Public Health Approach for violence reduction. The move towards a data driven approach was welcomed, but reassurance was sought that the approach would be led by data and not overruled by political priorities. Reassurance was given that future work would be driven by evidence as this was a vitally important part of employing a public health approach.
It was questioned what the Council could do to ensure the better use of digital data. It was advised that it was essential to ensure that the data was constantly being refined and developed. Evidence demonstrated that early trauma in the life of a young person was a common factor in many instances of those committing knife crime and as such it ... view the full minutes text for item 20/19
This motion was not required.
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Trump Security Strategy Will “Compete” With Every Instrument of National Power
Posted by East Texas Review | Dec 20, 2017 | Featured, Global, Opinion | 0 |
By Austin Bay
The national security strategy President Donald Trump outlined in a December 18 speech has drawn searing criticism from China. That’s a good indication Trump is on the right track.
In his speech, the president declared that America will utilize all elements of national power (in appropriate combinations to defend its national interests.) The elements of power are diplomatic, information, military and economic power, which is what Trump meant by the phrase “we must compete with every instrument of our national power.”
Moreover, his administration will defend American interests by recognizing and engaging a 21st century geo-political reality that prior administrations either sought to finesse or attempted to ignore: great power rivalries that intensify current armed conflicts and seed future wars.
To successfully engage rival powers, America must rebuild and expand its military and economic powers and restore American confidence. I think assuring that the U.S. remains the world’s premier military and economic power is part of what Trump means when he says his guiding policy is “America First.”
China’s Communist leaders understand great power rivalry and they know it is a 21st century fact. In Beijing they play the combined instruments of national power game with vigor and long-term vision. The Boys in Beijing also put China First.
Which is why it’s a bit of a chuckle and an indication that Trump is on the track when Beijing’s official Xinhua news agency criticizes him for labeling China a rival power.
If the U.S.-China clash in the South China Sea isn’t a blatant example of a certain type of geo-political rivalry, what is it? China’s outrageous South China Sea maritime territorial claims directly challenge a major American economic and security interest: freedom of navigation. Beijing’s claims impede and potentially deny freedom of navigation in a sea space where each year, passing ships carry trade goods worth somewhere between four and five trillion dollars.
That’s a chunk of global GDP and no chuckling matter for a president dedicated to expanding the American economy. Trump views China’s sea grab as a long-term threat to America’s economy. And it is. He said America “is in the game and we’re going to win.”
China’s man-made islands are concrete (literally) manifestations of its expansionist power ambitions.
In the last 20 years, Chinese construction teams have turned ocean reefs into islands topped with runways for combat aircraft. The “create-an-island” program is also a slow invasion of maritime territory belonging to Southeast Asian nations, including U.S. allies like the Philippines. No wonder Xinhua bewailed a pledge Trump made in his speech: America will “re-energize” its alliances in Southeast Asia. Yes, diplomacy, and with traditional allies.
To the surprise of many, Trump’s “America First” national security program (again, as sketched) has a lot in common with national security strategic statements made by previous Republican administrations. Ronald Reagan’s comes to mind. I can see some Dwight Eisenhower. Trump’s insistence on economic vitality echoes elements of Ike’s October 1953 national security strategy as stated in NSC 162/2.
Trump’s “principled realism” (his name for this strategic approach) embraces “balance of power,” but not in a Cold War context. Rather, it seeks dynamic balance in a multi-polar and economically interdependent world. Interdependence means, everyone — friends, rivals, great powers, minor powers — must make economic and diplomatic deals (“opportunities for cooperation” he said). Trump, however, insists America will be the 21st century’s greatest great power, in all dimensions.
Based on this speech, Trump does not seek American domination of the planet — he rejects the role of global policemen. He does want to ensure America has maximum dealmaking (negotiating) leverage, whatever the issue, but particularly in the national security sphere.
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Tag victimshaming
May 18, 2016 June 17, 2016 Dr. Krabby 1 Comment
Is Silence but an Insidious Form of Victim Shaming?
I have come to be more interested in the concept of victim shaming in the last year, because of an abusive relationship I was part of, and more specifically in the aftermath of it. I was always quite acutely aware of the concept of victim shaming and actively tried to avoid perpetrating it, but some reflection led me to consider, on the one hand, victim-shaming as a very blurry concept, and on the other, as all the more important to reflect upon and avoid. In fact, the aftermath of trauma can be even more traumatic than the trauma itself, if only because of the permanent stigma that one must bear as a victim.
Having opened up to a few friends about the events surrounding my relationship, I’ve come across a surprisingly wide variety of reactions, though I am sure not a single one of my friend would consider himself or herself a victim shamer. Would I agree? I don’t know, hence this discussion. Can one person both support and ostracize you for being a victim? This is in my experience not only possible, but frequent.
It has been about a year since the end of this relationship, and I have lamented the reaction of many of our common friends to our abusive relationship. Let us be clear: domestic violence is a crime in legal terms, which makes my ex a criminal, and which makes me a victim. There is no room for discussion here. Many would feel bad, sorry for me, and then act normally with my ex.
Another instance of possible victim shaming happened to a friend of mine who works in the same department at the same university as I. Let us call her Justine. A tenured professor, let us call her Professor Y (because Professor X is amazing and I wouldn’t wanna soil his name) sent an email to all graduate students asking for their input on things to improve, flaws of the department, and such. Said professor collected the answers, and sent out an email to all students and faculty containing responses to the supposedly confidential survey, as well as adding denigrating comments of her own – “the grad students are saying stupidities again, those lazy bums.” In fact, as we learned later, she used the wrong email list, she meant to send this only to other faculty members. And so, Justine took matter into her own hands, called Professor Y, told her off. Professor Y hung up on her. Justine went to her office, told her off again. A few days later, Professor Y had flowers and chocolate sent to Justine’s apartment, along with an apology. Long story short, Justine is clearly the victim here, even Prof Y admits it. The issue is, where does victim shaming begin? All students and faculty know of Justine’s reaction. Do they think she’s justified? Probably. Do they support her? In silence, at best.
In fact, many students have come up to Justine personally to thank her, though none have spoken up publicly. No faculty members have said anything in favour or not. Let us remember that the only reason why this professor got caught is because she used the wrong email list. Is it in the culture of this department to look down on graduate students? Do they insult us amongst each other? It might be an isolated event, but chances are it is not, logically. But that remains ebtirely hypothetical, I do have too much respect for many faculty members to generalize. But I’m digressing.
The point is, Justine has confided being worried about the opinion the department has of her now. It is not well received when someone files in a complaint about a colleague, no matter how objectively right they are. And academia, much like any business, is a world in which word gets around, and she fears for her future not only as a PhD student, but as an eventual job-seeking alumni. Though most of her peers respect and support her actions, none of them dares do anything more than tell her so privately for their own sake.
I can draw too many links here with my own situation as a victim of domestic abuse. Everyone who talked to me in private were supportive at best, dismissive or pitiful at worst. But in public, not one of them spoke up, even when the abuse took place in front of their eyes. Months later, I am now the one who has been indirectly ostracized from this group of friends as a result for having been the victim of a criminal act by one of its members. The contexts are largely different, and drawing parallels between all situations of abuse is always shaky at best, though the common denominator in these cases is that silence appears to me as a way of victim shaming, largely speaking. It might not be outright or explicit, but the effect is the same : the victim is isolated, shamed, and stigmatized.
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Hillary Camp Terrified: Government Admits Hillary Wrote more than 100 Classified Emails on Private Server, Judge says FBI Preparing Indictment!
by eaglerising
Hillary Clinton must feel as though the noose is tightening around her neck, her career and her legacy. Even as her campaign continues to limp along forced to compete for the Democrat presidential nomination with an aged and unaccomplished socialist, her legal troubles continue to mount. Over the last week the government has finally admitted that not only was there classified information on Clinton’s private server – she literally authored more than 100 classified documents herself! Along with the revelations came the news that one of her key aides had just made a deal with the FBI, promising himself immunity as long as he would testify as a witness in the Clinton server case.
It does beg the question — if the Clinton team had nothing to worry about, why would a key member of their team need immunity?
Now Judge Andrew Napolitano says that Hillary Clinton should be “terrified” about the latest twist in the FBI’s case against her.
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
As Judge Napolitano explains, the only way that Clinton staffer, Bryan Pagliano, could secure “immunity” is if the FBI and Department of Justice prosecutors were already working together and had convinced a federal judge that the information he held was important enough that he should be promised immunity from prosecution. Judge Napolitano also explains that there are particular issues stemming from Pagliano’s testimony that seem to indicate that Clinton could be prosecuted for espionage because of how ineptly she handled our nation’s most important secrets!
Along with the news that Pagliano had been granted immunity came the realization that Clinton herself had been responsible for leaking classified information on her unsecure servers.
Hillary Clinton wrote 104 emails that she sent using her private server while secretary of state that the government has since said contain classified information, according to a new Washington Post analysis of Clinton’s publicly released correspondence.
The finding is the first accounting of the Democratic presidential front-runner’s personal role in placing information now considered sensitive into insecure email during her State Department tenure. Clinton’s authorship of dozens of emails now considered classified could complicate her efforts to argue that she never put government secrets at risk.
In roughly three-quarters of those cases, officials have determined that material Clinton herself wrote in the body of email messages is classified. Clinton sometimes initiated the conversations but more often replied to aides or other officials with brief reactions to ongoing discussions.
I’m not sure how any Democrat voter could even consider casting a vote for Hillary Clinton at this juncture, and I’m completely incredulous that the DNC hasn’t forced her to withdraw already. Apparently she’s a Hill upon which the Democrat Party is willing to die.
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out of vs from - one out of many, one from many
Is there a subtle difference between one out of many and one from many?
Would you prefer one to the other?
Is this the only case where out of and from are exchangeable?
Could one say: this is made from one piece and this is made out of one piece?
And what about this is made out of wood and this is made from wood?
I guess I could drop the out in the first one, couldn't I?
And this building is built out of stone vs this building is built from stone?
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Please stick to one question per question, or at most a couple of closely related ones. – David Richerby Dec 31 '14 at 6:27
All questions are about the meaning of out of and from. – fill Dec 31 '14 at 14:13
Yes, they're quite closely related. But there are a lot more than a couple of them. – David Richerby Dec 31 '14 at 14:19
@DavidRicherby: ok – fill Dec 31 '14 at 14:52
"One out of many" implies "One randomly chosen out of many similar ones."
"Choose one from many" has a similar meaning.
"Out of many, one" means that "Many were combined, to make one." (It is a translation of the Latin phrase e pluribus unum, which is the motto of the United States of America. Under the doctrine of dual sovereignty, the many continued to exist in parallel with the new federal government.)
"One from many" is ambiguous. It could mean "One chosen from many", or "Out of many, one."
The original poster's fourth through seventh questions can be answered affirmatively.
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The reverse transcription signature of N-1-methyladenosine in RNA-Seq is sequence dependent
Ralf Hauenschild, Lyudmil Tserovski, Katharina Schmid, Kathrin Thüring, Marie-Luise Winz, Sunny Sharma, Karl-Dieter Entian, Ludivine Wacheul, Denis L. J. Lafontaine, James Anderson, Juan Alfonzo, Andreas Hildebrandt, Andres Jäschke, Yuri Motorin, Mark Helm
Nucleic Acids Res. 2015, DOI:10.1093/nar/gkv895
Bei der reversen Transkription hinterlässt 1-Methyladenosin Spuren in der cDNA
Extraordinary thermal stability of an oligodeoxynucleotide octamer constructed from alternating 7-deaza-7-iodo guanine and 5-iodocytosine base pairs – DNA duplex stabilization by halogen bonds?
Natalya Ramzaeva, Henning Eickmeier, Helmut Rosemeyer
A reinvestigation of the published X-ray crystal-structure analyses of 7-halogenated (Br, I) 8-aza-7-deaza-2’-deoxyguanosines Br7c7z8Gd; 1a and I7c7z8Gd, 1b, as well as of the structurally related 7-deaza-7-iodo-2’-deoxy-ß-D-ribofuranosyladenine (ß-I7c7Ad; 2-6e in Table 1) and its α-D-anomer (α -I7c7Ad; 3) clearly revealed the existence of halogen bonds between corresponding halogen substituents and the adjacent N(3)-atoms of neighboring nucleoside molecules within the single crystals. These halogen bonds can be rationalized by the presence of a region of positive electrostatic potential, the σ-hole, on the outermost portion the halogen’s surface, while the three unshared pairs of electrons produce a belt of negative electrostatic potential around the central part of the halogen substituent. The N(3) atoms of the halogenated nucleosides carry a partial negative charge. This novel type of bonding between nucleosides was tentatively used to explain the extraordinary high stability of oligodeoxynucleotides constructed from halogenated nucleotide building blocks.
‘Yeast Mail’: A novel saccharomyces application (NSA) to encrypt messages
Helmut Rosemeyer, Achim Paululat, Jürgen J. Heinisch
The universal genetic code is used by all life forms to encode biological information. It can also be used to encrypt semantic messages and convey them within organisms without anyone but the sender and recipient knowing, i.e, as a means of steganography. Several theoretical, but comparatively few experimental, approaches have been dedicated to this subject, so far. Here, we describe an experimental system to stably integrate encrypted messages within the yeast genome using a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based, one-step homologous recombination system. Thus, DNA sequences encoding alphabetical and/or numerical information will be inherited by yeast propagation and can be sent in the form of dried yeast. Moreover, due to the availability of triple shuttle vectors, Saccharomyces cerevisiae can also be used as an intermediate construction device for transfer of information to either Drosophila or mammalian cells as steganographic containers. Besides its classical use in alcoholic fermentation and its modern use for heterologous gene expression, we here show that baker’s yeast can thus be employed in a novel Saccharomyces application (NSA) as a simple steganographic container to hide and convey messages.
RNA interference controlled by light of variable wavelength
Andreas Meyer, Andriy Mokhir
Known “caged“ siRNAs are activated by UV light, which can be toxic to cells. An siRNAs that can be activated by red light under mild conditions is reported. The uncaging is mediated by 1O2 photo-generated by a photosensitizer, which is attached to the 3’-terminus of the lagging strand. The 5’-terminus of the guide strand is alkylated with a 9-anthracenyl residue.
Endless: A purine-binding RNA motif that can be expressed in cells
Christoph Kröner, Martin Thunemann, Sven Vollmer, Manuela Kinzer, Robert Feil, Clemens Richert
A de novo designed RNA motif binds cGMP with low micromolar affinity and, when inducibly expressed in cells, acts as sink for this second messenger.
Influence of the absolute configuration of NPE-caged cytosine on DNA single base pair stability
H. S. Steinert, F. Schäfer, H. R. A. Jonker, A. Heckel, H. Schwalbe
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Exercise "Mălina 14"
Over 1,000 troops and some 220 vehicles and equipment of the 282nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade participate with four IAR-99 Şoim aircraft and four IAR-330 Puma Socat helicopters of the 95th Air Base, in exercise "Mălina 14" taking place at Smârdan firing range, Galaţi County, over 16 to 21 June.
The troops deployed for the exercise come from Focşani, Brăila, Galaţi and Bacău garrisons. Exercise "Mălina 14" is attended by a platoon from the Republic of Moldova as well.
The scenario revolves around the idea of the defence combat of a force consisting of Mechanized Infantry, Tanks and Artillery units with Air Force support.
Journalists interested in watching the exercise should arrive at the entrance of Smârdan firing range (Cişmele, Galaţi County) starting 16.00 hrs., on Wednesday, 18 June.
POC: LTC Marcel Aramă, GSM: 0760.68.90.23.
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Emerson Mnangagwa
The big hoax called change
It only means, changes decided elsewhere and offered for people to endorse, end up replacing one despot with another or with a new cartel
Freedom and public space provide no meaning to life in a society that provides no answers and solutions to most urgent and devastating problems
That black money is mostly pumped into real estate, into the media industry, and through fictitious business companies into bank accounts as ‘Panama Papers’ revealed
That was what part of the black money earned, was laundered for. Eventually totally controlled by the black money
In Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe (RM) was ousted from power after 37 years of despotic rule. In Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa (MR) was ousted from power after nine years, also on similar accusations and allegations.
In Zimbabwe, RM “walked in” as the PM of independent Zimbabwe, respected and revered as their liberator. In Sri Lanka, MR “walked out”, still honoured as the “Sinhala hero”, having won a 30-year-war against Tamil “separatism”. But the two were ousted from power in two different ways.
The ouster of RM was cheered on the streets of Harare as Zimbabwe’s “second independence”.
The ouster of MR was applauded in Colombo and was accepted as a “Rainbow Revolution”. In Harare, after the military coup, the newly installed President Emerson Mnangagwa on his way to the President promised his supporters, “The people have spoken. The voice of the people is the voice of God…..Today we are witnessing the beginning of a new and unfolding democracy.”
In Colombo after the new President-elect Maithripala Sirisena was sworn in he promised the nation, “… all steps will be taken to eradicate the major problems of misappropriation, bribery, fraud, and corruption from this country. Our Government will work towards establishing a disciplined, ethical and a morally strong society.”
In Harare, “time” awaits them to be tested if they would honour their promises. In Colombo, “time” though not very long, has proven they have backtracked on all promises made at the Presidential Election. All indications are, Zimbabwe’s “second independence” will go the same way the “Rainbow Revolution” in Sri Lanka did. Reasons are quite plain and the fundamentals are the same.
The norm in free market economies are the incorrigibly corrupt elite, the vested interests in politics plan and scheme the “change” in closed-door conspiracies with no people’s participation. Once the compromises and conditions are agreed upon between them for their benefit, people are called upon to vote (in Sri Lanka) or to the streets (in Zimbabwe) to endorse that “change” they decided and offered. That is called “democracy” and there the “democracy” ends.
Thereafter it is the turn of the ‘schemers’ to usurp power in the name of the people, ruling as “legitimate” leaders of the people. Why do these “changes” always go the same route?
Over the past decades, the free market economy created a new rich clan, as they do in many countries. They are different to the old businessmen in how they invest, what they invest for and where. These investments and productions for export do not come within a socio-economic programme for national development. They only help a new rich urban business clan to be established. Some growing with new technology, have opened up new areas of economic activities, where “capital investment” is virtual “IT activism”. The best and the common example is the “Uber” cab service that owns no vehicles.
Their only asset is the specialised internet service that links the ‘cab’ and the ‘customer’. Most other businesses too now depend on modern technology in this global economy and very much on State patronage that is indispensable in an open economy.
This new business culture bears the cost of installing Governments of their choice. They need Governments to have State facilitated channels for the accumulation of unaccounted for money that can be transferred across geographical borders.
That black money is mostly pumped into real estate, into the media industry, and through fictitious business companies into bank accounts as ‘Panama Papers’ revealed. Most if not all “deals” signed as contracts for solicited or unsolicited projects obtained by big-time businesses are State funded or State approved, with big foreign investments coming as aid or loans.
Very much different to the common perception, it is those who have grown rich, who want to be richer. It is, therefore, necessary for them to have direct access to and control over political power as security for their accumulated wealth and assets.
This led to political parties being financed by these ever growing new rich. Picking potential leaders, grooming the next head of Government, guaranteeing continual publicity for their chosen political prodigies, became their responsibility, while taking care of the ones in power. That was what part of the black money earned, was laundered for. Eventually, the major mainstream political parties have come to be totally controlled by these businessmen, quite openly. It is for them the political leaders ultimately hold themselves responsible to.
They have all turned the political relationship between the voter and the politician inside out and transformed the politician into a ‘service contractor’ and the voter into a “customer” who has to pay with his allegiance for all “services” obtained. In the process, politicians have been turned into an urban power bloc whether in Government or in Opposition. Theirs and also of their families culture, social values, and the whole lifestyle have turned very cosy and expensive. They cannot maintain that life unless this free market is allowed to provide more and more benefits for the urban rich and the new business clan that has encroached the formal sector of the economy.
This is also true for all professions including the media. In urban life, the free market provides unaccounted for opportunities to grow rich for all professions. Most can now earn more than their market value with the right ‘connections’ and by serving the right individual. With that comes a new lifestyle for the urban professionals that need more money to maintain. Where we have thus come to, has not left any State Agency free from corruption and free from political interference.
It has also blurred the traditional difference between the State and the Government, with the State now behaving politically, no Independent Commission can reverse. It is these complexities that have evolved that make promises for “changes” at elections irrelevant in a post-election society.
Thus self-appointed urban representatives of an unknown “civil society”, have lost even their personal credibility promising people a decent government after ousting MR.
Devalued themselves, still defending and appealing to the Government to deliver on promises made. While these “civil society” representatives go about pleading for 2015 January election pledges to be implemented, they have all been betrayed, already.
The “change” now spoken of is reduced to the single factor of “ousting Rajapaksa”. All promises for clean and efficient governance strengthened democratic institutions and ‘corrupt free’ ethical and morally strong society have been forfeited to the ouster of Rajapaksa.
That it is said to have created more “freedom”, more public space now. Freedom and public space provide no meaning to life in a society that provides no answers and solutions to most urgent and devastating problems.
This proudly announced freedom and public space means nothing to women, mothers and daughters in the North-East, who protested demanding answers for their “missing family members” during CHOGM in 2013and still continue agitating almost three years after they voted out Rajapaksa. Freedom and public space have no relevance when agitations against SAITM go without a stable permanent answer for over 20 months and the agitations demanding answers are brutally beaten and repressed, resorting to even judicial rulings.
Freedom and public space have no purpose when that can be used without obstruction by extremist racist elements and violently too.
And it meant nothing when even LG elections were kept postponed for over two years and the PC elections are postponed indefinitely. What is therefore left with this “change” is the remote possibility of bringing to book the smaller fry in a wholly corrupt society where the big fish can still scheme and manipulate politics. That is openly exhibited with the decision to arrest Gotabhaya Rajapaksa on allegations of misappropriation of public funds. Worst is when MR’s Sinhala image still hold sway over political decisions of this Yahapalana Government and without a doubt in State Agencies as well.
Thus the “change” that the Colombo “civil society” was proud of as a “Rainbow Revolution” is proved a “change” meant for the urban Sinhala South and not for the whole country that counts the rural voter and minorities who voted for the ouster of MR.
These “changes” promised were cosmetic and only meant to exploit social frustrations and its incapability in pushing for an alternate programme for socio-economic development with required far-reaching reforms.
The “change” was what the corrupt urban elite and vested political interests schemed and manipulated. They were decided on the personal rivalry, self-interest and to steam off public protests against the total system.
Such only end up with compromises the people don’t need and are not for social benefit and advantage. That is what the Zimbabwean ouster of RM would mean and that is also what the ouster of MR now means in Sri Lanka.
Ziyambi Ziyambi, a ZANU-PF MP and former minister, is quoted in The Guardian on 22 November as having said:
“There has been an agreement. They are elder statesmen [sic] and will be respected and given their dues. He was our President and he agreed to resign so he will enjoy the benefits of being an ex-president and his wife too. He is our icon.” The unwritten and unspoken compromise between the “defeated corrupt” and the “elected corrupt” here in Colombo is what Ziyambi Ziyambi said publicly in Harare.
In the absence of alternate political leadership with an alternate programme for democracy and development backed by people, both the Zimbabwean “second” independence and the Sri Lankan “Rainbow Revolution” brings no “change” to people.
In effect it only means, changes decided elsewhere and offered for people to endorse, end up replacing one despot with another or with a new cartel.
(dailymirror.lk)
(Except for the headline, this story, originally published by dailymirror.lk has not been edited by SLM staff)
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Enrollment gains pave way for growth in budget
Total operations of $3.55 billion for 2015-16 approved by regents
By Jay Dedrick
CU Boulder, UCCS, CU Denver, CU Anschutz Medical Campus, CU System, Faculty, Staff
The CU Board of Regents on Tuesday passed an operating budget of $3.55 billion for 2015-16, reflecting expected gains in enrollment and increases in health services revenue and state funding.
The board voted 8-0 (Regent Stephen Ludwig was ill) following a presentation from Todd Saliman, vice president for budget and finance, during the meeting at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. The budget reflects an increase of $195 million, or 5.8 percent, over the current revised budget.
Saliman said the growth is enabled by key revenue increases, including an expected enrollment increase of 1,500 students across the system, which in turn fuels increases in tuition revenue from residents (up $13.2 million) and nonresidents (up $39.4 million). Also up are health services revenue (up $47.3 million) and increased direct state funding (up $17 million).
“What’s driving the tuition revenue increases for us, thank goodness, is enrollment increases,” Saliman said. “We’re expecting increases at our campuses, and that’s not the case at all institutions in the state.”
Saliman called CU’s tuition increases, which range roughly from 1.6 percent to 3.5 percent for most undergraduate students, “some of the lowest tuition and fee increases in the state, so that’s good news for our students.”
The 2015-16 budget breakdown by campus and system:
Board of Regents, budget, tuition
Regents approve $4.8 billion budget
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Home Sector Buildings Kenya signs US $39.7m deal to construct 1,200 affordable homes in Kiambu
Kenya signs US $39.7m deal to construct 1,200 affordable homes in Kiambu
Dorcas Kang'ereha
Tatu City Managers Rendeavour have signed a deal with Real Estate developer Unity Homes for the construction of 1,200 affordable homes at Tatu City in Kiambu County Kenya, worth US $39.7m.
The project will address the shortage of affordable homes in the country and provide opportunities for local employment in the area. The houses are set to be priced between US $29,806 and US $49,677 featuring approximately 600 ft² of floor space, two bedrooms, parking, modern kitchen, spacious stone worktops, stainless steel oven-hood and dining room/lounge.
The project is located adjacent to a 50-acre woodland park in close proximity to Tatu City’s Business District, as well as the nearby Tatu Industrial Park.The Unity Homes at Tatu City will occupy 23 acres and will have a fitness centre, 5-aside football pitch, swimming pool, restaurant and shops.
Affordable housing pillar
“Our goal is to build a flourishing community of decent, affordable homes that supports the housing pillar of the Kenyan government’s Big Four agenda: Universal Healthcare, Manufacturing, Affordable Housing and Food Security,” said Jason Horsey, Director of Unity Homes.
The signing ceremony between Unity Homes and Rendeavour took place at the Big Four Summit in Nairobi, where deals worth US $99.4m were signed between US and Kenyan entities.
The signing of multi-billion deals, witnessed by President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and U.S. Under Secretary of State of Commerce Gilbert Kaplan, include a US $19.9m deal between the Kenyan government and American firm Medtronic for a medical dialysis centre whose scope will cover strengthening specialized medical services in the country.Victoria Commercial Bank also signed a US $10m credit line from World Business Capital a global small and medium enterprise financier.
USAID Power Africa and the Kenyan Government also signed a projects and investments financing arrangement designed to enable Kenya to achieve its objective of ensuring universal electrification by 2022.
The USAID Power Africa-Kenyan pact framework will enable Kenyan power sector utility and infrastructure institutions covering Kenya Electricity Transmission Company (KETRACO), Kenya Power and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to access financing for their projects.
Also read: International firms to help Kenya meet affordable housing deadline
Agreement signing
President Kenyatta also witnessed the signing of an agreement between the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) with the Kenya Tea and Development Agency (KTDA) to undertake a feasibility study for a solar and battery storage project.
The solar and battery storage project, when developed, will provide KTDA, which a is a leading global exporter of black tea, with approximately 30 MW of reliable electricity, while also reducing operating costs at its tea factories.
Further, the President oversaw the signing of an agreement by leading US Energy Company for supply and commissioning of East Africa’s largest off-grid solar and battery systemThe 1260 kWh battery system will be installed at the Serena Safari Lodge in the Amboseli National Park.
Real Estate developer Unity Homes
Tatu City
Tatu Industrial Park
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Five-Year Credit Agreement - The Walt Disney Co., Citicorp USA, Bank One NA and HSBC Bank USA and Suntrust Bank
FIVE-YEAR CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of March 8, 2000
as Borrower
THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS NAMED HEREIN
as Lenders
CITICORP USA, INC.
as Administrative Agent
BANK ONE, NA
as Syndication Agent
HSBC BANK USA and SUNTRUST BANK
as Co-Documentation Agents
SECTION 1.02. Computation of Time Periods.............................................. 11
SECTION 1.03. Accounting Terms......................................................... 11
SECTION 2.01. The Advances............................................................. 11
SECTION 2.02. Making the Advances...................................................... 11
SECTION 2.03. Fees..................................................................... 13
SECTION 2.04. Reduction of the Commitments............................................. 13
SECTION 2.05. Repayment of Advances.................................................... 13
SECTION 2.06. Interest on Advances..................................................... 13
SECTION 2.07. Additional Interest on Eurocurrency Rate Advances........................ 14
SECTION 2.08. Interest Rate Determination.............................................. 14
SECTION 2.09. Optional Conversion of Advances.......................................... 15
SECTION 2.10. Prepayments of Advances.................................................. 16
SECTION 2.11. Increased Costs.......................................................... 17
SECTION 2.12. Illegality............................................................... 18
SECTION 2.13. Payments and Computations................................................ 18
SECTION 2.14. Taxes.................................................................... 19
SECTION 2.15. Sharing of Payments, Etc................................................. 21
SECTION 2.16. Mandatory Assignment by a Lender; Mitigation............................. 22
SECTION 2.17. Evidence of Debt......................................................... 22
SECTION 2.18. Use of Proceeds.......................................................... 23
SECTION 2.19. Increase in the Aggregate Commitments.................................... 23
SECTION 2.20. Extension of Termination Date............................................ 24
SECTION 3.01. Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness of Section 2.01.................... 26
SECTION 3.02. Conditions Precedent to Each Borrowing................................... 27
SECTION 3.03. Determinations Under Section 3.01........................................ 27
SECTION 4.01. Representations and Warranties of the Borrower........................... 27
SECTION 4.02. Additional Representations and Warranties of the Borrower as of Each
Increase Date and Each Extension Date............................... 28
SECTION 5.01. Affirmative Covenants.................................................... 29
SECTION 5.02. Negative Covenant........................................................ 31
SECTION 6.01. Events of Default........................................................ 32
SECTION 7.01. Authorization and Action................................................. 33
SECTION 7.02. Administrative Agent's Reliance, Etc..................................... 33
SECTION 7.03. CUSA and Affiliates...................................................... 34
SECTION 7.04. Lender Credit Decision................................................... 34
SECTION 7.05. Indemnification.......................................................... 34
SECTION 7.06. Successor Administrative Agent........................................... 34
SECTION 7.07. Sub-Agent................................................................ 35
SECTION 8.01. Amendments, Etc.......................................................... 35
SECTION 8.02. Notices, Etc............................................................. 35
SECTION 8.03. No Waiver; Remedies...................................................... 36
SECTION 8.04. Costs and Expenses....................................................... 37
SECTION 8.05. Right of Set-off......................................................... 37
SECTION 8.06. Binding Effect........................................................... 37
SECTION 8.07. Assignments and Participations........................................... 37
SECTION 8.09. Confidentiality.......................................................... 40
SECTION 8.10. Judgment................................................................. 41
SECTION 8.11. Consent to Jurisdiction and Service of Process........................... 42
SECTION 8.12. Substitution of Currency................................................. 42
SECTION 8.13. Governing Law............................................................ 42
SECTION 8.14. Execution in Counterparts................................................ 42
SECTION 8.15. Severability............................................................. 42
Schedule I - List of Applicable Lending Offices
Exhibit A - Form of Notice of Borrowing
Exhibit B - Form of Assignment and Acceptance
Exhibit C - Form of Opinion of Assistant General Counsel of the Borrower
Exhibit D-1 - Form of Foreign Lender Certificate
THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY, a Delaware corporation (the "Borrower"), the
banks, financial institutions and other institutional lenders (the "Initial
Lenders") listed on the signature pages hereof under the heading "The Initial
Lenders", CITICORP USA, INC., a Delaware corporation ("CUSA"), as administrative
agent (together with any successor administrative agent appointed pursuant to
Article VII, the "Administrative Agent") for the Lenders (as hereinafter
defined) hereunder, BANK ONE, NA, a national banking corporation ("Bank One"),
as syndication agent (the "Syndication Agent"), and HSBC BANK USA, a New York
State banking corporation ("HSBC"), and SUNTRUST BANK, a Georgia corporation
("SunTrust"), as co-documentation agents (the "Co-Documentation Agents") for the
Lenders hereunder, hereby agree as follows:
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
SECTION 1.01. Certain Defined Terms.
As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the
following meanings (such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular
and plural forms of the terms defined):
"ABC" means ABC, Inc., a New York corporation and a wholly owned
subsidiary of the Borrower, or any successor thereto.
"Administrative Agent" has the meaning specified in the recital of
parties to this Agreement.
"Administrative Agent's Account" means (a) in the case of Advances
denominated in Dollars, the account of the Administrative Agent maintained
by the Administrative Agent at the office of Citibank at 399 Park Avenue,
New York, New York 10043, (b) in the case of Advances denominated in any
Committed Currency, the account of the Sub-Agent, as the Administrative
Agent shall notify in writing the Borrower and the Lenders from time to
time, and (c) in any such case, such other account of the Administrative
Agent or the Sub-Agent, as the case may be, as the Administrative Agent or
the Sub-Agent shall notify in writing the Borrower and the Lenders from
time to time.
"Advance" means an advance by a Lender to the Borrower as part of a
Borrowing and refers to a Base Rate Advance or a Eurocurrency Rate Advance,
each of which shall be a "Type" of Advance.
"Affiliate" means, as to any Person, any other Person that, directly
or indirectly, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with
such Person or is a director or officer of such Person.
"Agreement" means this Five-Year Credit Agreement, as it may be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance
with Section 8.01.
"Anniversary Date" means March 8, 2001 and March 8 in each succeeding
calendar year occurring during the term of this Agreement.
"Applicable Lending Office" means, with respect to each Lender, such
Lender's Domestic Lending Office in the case of a Base Rate Advance and
such Lender's Eurocurrency Lending Office in the case of a Eurocurrency
Rate Advance.
"Assignment and Acceptance" means an assignment and acceptance entered
into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee, and accepted by the
Administrative Agent and the Borrower, in substantially the form of Exhibit
B hereto.
"Assuming Lender" has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(d).
"Assumption Agreement" has the meaning specified in Section
2.19(d)(ii).
"Bank One" has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
"Base Rate" means, for each day in any period, a fluctuating interest
rate per annum as shall be in effect from time to time, which rate per
annum shall at all times for such day during such period be equal to the
highest of:
(a) the rate of interest announced publicly by Citibank in New
York, New York, from time to time, as Citibank's base rate in effect
for such day;
(b) the sum (adjusted to the nearest 1/4 of one percent or, if
there is no nearest 1/4 of one percent, to the next higher 1/4 of one
percent) of (i) 0.50%, (ii) the rate obtained by dividing (A) the
latest three-week moving average of secondary market morning offering
rates in the United States for three-month certificates of deposit of
major United States money market banks, such three-week moving average
(adjusted on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may
be) being determined weekly on each Monday (or, if any such day is not
a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day) for the three-
week period ending on the previous Friday by Citibank on the basis of
such rates reported by certificate of deposit dealers to, and
published by, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or, if such
publication shall be suspended or terminated, on the basis of
quotations for such rates received by Citibank from three New York
certificate of deposit dealers of recognized standing selected by
Citibank, by (B) a percentage equal to 100% minus the average of the
daily percentages specified during such three-week period by the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor thereto)
for determining the maximum reserve requirement (including, but not
limited to, any emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve
requirement) for Citibank in respect of liabilities consisting of or
including (among other liabilities) three-month U.S. dollar
nonpersonal time deposits in the United States, and (iii) the average
during such three-week period of the annual assessment rates estimated
by Citibank for determining the then current annual assessment payable
by Citibank to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (or any
successor thereto) for insuring U.S. dollar deposits of Citibank in
the United States; and
(c) 0.50% per annum above the Federal Funds Rate for such day.
"Base Rate Advance" means an Advance which bears interest as provided
in Section 2.06(a)(i).
"Borrowing" means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Advances of
the same Type made by each of the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01.
"Business Day" means a day of the year on which banks are not required
or authorized to close in Los Angeles, California, or New York City, New
York, or San Francisco, California, or, if the applicable Business Day
relates to any Eurocurrency Rate Advances, on which dealings are carried on
in the London interbank market.
"Citibank" means Citibank, N.A., a national banking association.
"Co-Documentation Agents" has the meaning specified in the recital of
"Commitment" has the meaning specified in Section 2.01.
"Commitment Date" has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(b).
"Commitment Increase" has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(a).
"Committed Currencies" means lawful currency of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, lawful currency of Japan and lawful
currency of the European Economic and Monetary Union.
"Consolidated EBITDA" means, for any period, (a) net income or net
loss, as the case may be, of the Borrower and its subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis for such period, as determined in accordance with GAAP
for such period, plus (b) the sum of all amounts which, in the
determination of such consolidated net income or net loss, as the case may
be, for such period, have been deducted for (i) Consolidated Interest
Expense, (ii) consolidated income tax expense, (iii) consolidated
depreciation expense, and (iv) consolidated amortization expense, in each
case determined in accordance with GAAP for such period.
"Consolidated Interest Expense" means, for any period, total interest
expense of the Borrower and its subsidiaries with respect to all
outstanding Debt of the Borrower and its subsidiaries during such period,
all as determined on a consolidated basis for such period and in accordance
with GAAP for such period.
"Convert", "Conversion" and "Converted" each refers to a conversion of
Advances of one Type into Advances of another Type pursuant to Section 2.08
or 2.09.
"CUSA" has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
"Debt" means, with respect to any Person: (a) indebtedness for
borrowed money, (b) obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or
other similar instruments, (c) obligations to pay the deferred purchase
price of property or services (other than trade payables incurred in the
ordinary course of business), (d) obligations as lessee under leases which
shall have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capital
leases and (e) obligations under direct or indirect guaranties in respect
of, and obligations (contingent or otherwise) to purchase or otherwise
acquire, or otherwise to assure a creditor against loss in respect of,
indebtedness or obligations of any other Person of the kinds referred to in
clauses (a) through (d) above.
"Declining Lender" has the meaning specified in Section 2.20(b).
"Disney" means Disney Enterprises, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a
wholly owned subsidiary of the Borrower, or any successor thereto.
"Dollars" and the "$" sign each means lawful currency of the United
States.
"Domestic Lending Office" means, with respect to any Lender, the
office of such Lender specified as its "Domestic Lending Office" opposite
its name on Schedule I hereto or in the Assumption Agreement or the
Assignment and Acceptance, as the case may be, pursuant to which it became
a Lender, or such other office of such Lender as such Lender may from time
to time specify to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent for such
"Effective Date" has the meaning specified in Section 3.01.
"Eligible Assignee" means (a) a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender or
(b) any bank or other financial institution, or any other Person, which has
been approved in writing by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent as an
Eligible Assignee for purposes of this Agreement; provided, however, that
neither the Borrower's approval nor the Administrative Agent's approval
shall be unreasonably withheld; and provided further, however, that the
Borrower may withhold its approval if the Borrower reasonably believes that
an assignment to such Eligible Assignee pursuant to Section 8.07 will
result in the incurrence of increased costs payable by the Borrower
pursuant to Section 2.11 or 2.14.
"Environmental Claim" means any administrative, regulatory or judicial
action, suit, demand, claim, lien, notice or proceeding relating to any
Environmental Law or any Environmental Permit.
"Environmental Law" means any federal, state or local statute, law,
rule, regulation, ordinance, code or duly promulgated policy or rule of
common law, now or hereafter in effect, and in each case as amended, and
any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof, including any order,
consent decree or judgment, relating to the environment, health, safety or
any Hazardous Material.
"Environmental Permit" means any permit, approval, identification
number, license or other authorization required under any applicable
Environmental Law.
"Equivalent"in Dollars of any Committed Currency on any date means the
equivalent in Dollars of such Committed Currency determined by using the
quoted spot rate at which the Sub-Agent's principal office in London offers
to exchange Dollars for such Committed Currency in London at or about 4:00
P.M. (London time) (unless otherwise indicated by the terms of this
Agreement) on such date as is required pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement, and the "Equivalent" in any Committed Currency of Dollars means
the equivalent in such Committed Currency of Dollars determined by using
the quoted spot rate at which the Sub-Agent's principal office in London
offers to exchange such Committed Currency for Dollars in London at or
about 4:00 P.M. (London time) (unless otherwise indicated by the terms of
this Agreement) on such date as is required pursuant to the terms of this
"ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and the rulings
issued thereunder.
"ERISA Affiliate" means any Person that for purposes of Title IV of
ERISA is a member of the Borrower's controlled group, or under common
control with the Borrower, within the meaning of Section 414 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
"ERISA Event" means: (a) (i) the occurrence with respect to a Plan of
a reportable event, within the meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA, unless the
30-day notice requirement with respect thereto has been waived by the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or (ii) the provisions of paragraph
(1) of Section 4043(b) of ERISA (without regard to paragraph (2) of such
Section) are applicable with respect to a contributing sponsor, as defined
in Section 4001(a)(13) of ERISA, of a Plan, and an event described in
paragraph (9), (10), (11), (12) or (13) of Section 4043(c) of ERISA could
reasonably be expected to occur with respect to such Plan within the
following 30 days; (b) the provision by the administrator of any Plan of a
notice of intent to terminate such Plan, pursuant to Section 4041(a)(2) of
ERISA (including any such notice with respect to a plan amendment referred
to in Section 4041(e) of ERISA); (c) the cessation of operations by the
Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate at a facility in the circumstances
described in Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (d) the withdrawal by the Borrower
or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiple Employer Plan during a plan year for
which it was a substantial employer, as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of
ERISA; (e) the failure by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate to make a
payment to a Plan described in Section 302(f)(1)(A) of ERISA; (f) the
adoption of an amendment to a Plan requiring the provision of security to
such Plan, pursuant to Section 307 of ERISA; or (g) the institution by the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation of proceedings to terminate a Plan,
pursuant to Section 4042 of ERISA, or the occurrence of any event or
condition which is reasonably likely to constitute grounds under Section
4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to
administer, a Plan.
"Eurocurrency Liabilities" has the meaning assigned to that term in
Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in
effect from time to time.
"Eurocurrency Lending Office" means, with respect to any Lender, the
office of such Lender specified as its "Eurocurrency Lending Office"
opposite its name on Schedule I hereto or in the Assumption Agreement or
the Assignment and Acceptance, as the case may be, pursuant to which it
became a Lender (or, if no such office is specified, its Domestic Lending
Office), or such other office of such Lender as such Lender may from time
"Eurocurrency Rate" means, for any Interest Period for each
Eurocurrency Rate Advance comprising part of the same Borrowing, an
interest rate per annum equal to the average (rounded upward to the nearest
whole multiple of 1/16 of 1% per annum, if such average is not such a
multiple) of the rate per annum at which deposits in Dollars or the
applicable Committed Currency, as the case may be, are offered by the
principal office of each of the Reference Banks in London, England to prime
banks in the London interbank market at 11:00 A.M. (London time) two
Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period for a period
equal to such Interest Period and in an amount substantially equal to such
Reference Bank's (or, in the case of Citibank, CUSA's) Eurocurrency Rate
Advance comprising part of such Borrowing. The Eurocurrency Rate for any
Interest Period for each Eurocurrency Rate Advance comprising part of the
same Borrowing shall be determined by the Administrative Agent on the basis
of applicable rates furnished to and received by the Administrative Agent
from the Reference Banks two Business Days before the first day of such
Interest Period, subject, however, to the provisions of Section 2.08.
"Eurocurrency Rate Advance" means an Advance denominated in Dollars or
a Committed Currency which bears interest as provided in Section
2.06(a)(ii).
"Eurocurrency Rate Margin" means, as of any date, a percentage per
annum determined by reference to the Public Debt Rating in effect on such
date as set forth below:
Public Debt Rating
S&P/Moody's Applicable Margin
AA-/Aa3 or above 0.115%
Lower than AA-/Aa3 but 0.130%
at least A/A2
Lower than A/A2 but 0.140%
at least A-/A3
Lower than A-/A3 but 0.165%
at least BBB+/Baa1
Lower than BBB+/Baal or no 0.300%
Public Debt Rating in effect
"Eurocurrency Rate Reserve Percentage" means, with respect to any
Lender for any Interest Period for any Eurocurrency Rate Advance, the
reserve percentage applicable during such Interest Period (or, if more than
one such percentage shall be so applicable, the daily average of such
percentages for those days in such Interest Period during which any such
percentage shall be so applicable) under regulations issued from time to
time by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any
successor thereto) for determining the maximum reserve requirement
(including, without limitation, any emergency, supplemental or other
marginal reserve requirement) for such Lender with respect to liabilities
or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency Liabilities (or with
respect to any other category of liabilities that includes deposits by
reference to which the interest rate on Eurocurrency Rate Advances is
determined) having a term equal to such Interest Period.
"Events of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 6.01.
"Existing Credit Agreement" means the Five-Year Credit Agreement dated
as of October 30, 1996 among the Borrower, the financial institutions party
thereto, CUSA, as administrative agent thereunder, and Credit Suisse, a
Swiss banking corporation, and Bank of America National Trust & Savings
Association, a national banking corporation, as co-administrative agents
thereunder, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified to (but not
including) the Effective Date.
"Extension Date" has the meaning specified in Section 2.20(b).
"Extending Lender" has the meaning specified in Section 2.20(b).
"Facility Fee Percentage" means, as of any date, a percentage per
S&P/Moody's Percentage
Lower than BBB+/Baa1 or 0.150%
no Public Debt Rating in effect
"Federal Funds Rate" means, for any period, a fluctuating interest
rate per annum equal for each day during such period to the weighted
average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members
of the Federal Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers, as
published for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the
immediately preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day which is a Business
Day, the average of the quotations for such day on such transactions
received by the Administrative Agent from three federal funds brokers of
recognized standing selected by the Administrative Agent.
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles consistent with
those applied in the preparation of the audited financial statements
referred to in Section 4.01(c) dated September 30, 1999, subject, however,
to the provisions of Section 1.03.
"Hazardous Material" means (a) any petroleum or petroleum product,
natural or synthetic gas, asbestos in any form that is or could become
friable, urea formaldehyde foam insulation, or radon gas, (b) any substance
defined as or included in the definition of "hazardous substances",
hazardous wastes", hazardous materials", "toxic substances", "contaminants"
or "pollutants", or words of similar import, under any applicable
Environmental Law or (c) any other substance exposure to which is regulated
by any governmental or regulatory authority.
"HSBC" has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
"Increase Date" has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(a).
"Increasing Lender" has the meaning specified in Section 2.19(b).
"Indemnified Matters" has the meaning specified in Section 8.08.
"Indemnified Party" has the meaning specified in Section 8.08.
"Informed Parties" has the meaning specified in Section 8.09.
"Initial Lender" has the meaning specified in the recital of parties
"Interest Period" means, for each Eurocurrency Rate Advance comprising
part of the same Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such
Eurocurrency Rate Advance or on the date of the Conversion of any Base Rate
Advance into such Eurocurrency Rate Advance and ending on the last day of
the period selected by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions below and,
thereafter, each subsequent period commencing on the last day of the
immediately preceding Interest Period and ending on the last day of the
period selected by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions below. The
duration of each such Interest Period shall be one, two, three, six or, if
generally available to all of the Lenders, twelve months as the Borrower
may, upon notice received by the Administrative Agent not later than (x)
11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to the
first day of such Interest Period for each Eurocurrency Rate Advance
denominated in any Committed Currency, or (y) 1:00 P.M. (New York City
time) on the third Business Day prior to the first day of such Interest
Period for each Eurocurrency Rate Advance denominated in Dollars, select;
provided, however, that:
(i) Interest Periods commencing on the same date for
Eurocurrency Rate Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing shall
be of the same duration;
(ii) whenever the last day of any Interest Period would
otherwise occur on a day other than a Business Day, the last day of
such Interest Period shall be extended to occur on the next succeeding
Business Day, provided, however, that if such extension would cause
the last day of such Interest Period to occur in the next succeeding
calendar month, the last day of such Interest Period shall occur on
the immediately preceding Business Day;
(iii) whenever the first day of any Interest Period occurs on a
day of an initial calendar month for which there is no numerically
corresponding day in the calendar month that succeeds such initial
calendar month by the number of months equal to the number of months
in such Interest Period, such Interest Period shall end on the last
Business Day of such succeeding calendar month; and
(iv) the Borrower may not select for any Advance any Interest
Period which ends after the scheduled Termination Date then in effect.
"IRS" has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(e).
"Lenders" means, collectively, each Initial Lender, each Assuming
Lender that shall become a party hereto pursuant to Section 2.19 or 2.20
and each Eligible Assignee that shall become a party hereto pursuant to
Section 8.07; provided, however, that for purposes of any determination to
be made under Section 2.07, 2.11, 2.12 or 8.04(b) with respect to CUSA, in
its capacity as a Lender, the term "Lenders" shall be deemed to include
Citibank.
"Lien" means any lien, security interest or other charge or
encumbrance of any kind, or any other type of preferential arrangement
which has the same effect as a lien or security interest.
"Majority Lenders" means, at any time, Lenders owed at least a
majority in interest of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the
Advances owing to the Lenders at such time, or, if no such principal amount
is outstanding at such time, Lenders having at least a majority in interest
of the Commitments at such time; provided, however, that neither the
Borrower nor any of its Affiliates, if a Lender, shall be included in the
determination of the Majority Lenders at any time.
"Material Subsidiary" means, at any date of determination, a
subsidiary of the Borrower that, either individually or together with its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole, has total assets exceeding $100,000,000 on
such date.
"Measurement Period" means, at any date of determination, the most
recently completed four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower on or
immediately prior to such date.
"Moody's" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc. or any successor
thereto.
"Multiemployer Plan" means a multiemployer plan, as defined in Section
4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is making
or accruing an obligation to make contributions, or has within any of the
preceding five plan years made or accrued an obligation to make
contributions.
"Multiple Employer Plan" means a single employer plan, as defined in
Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA, that (i) is maintained for employees of the
Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate and at least one Person other than the
Borrower and the ERISA Affiliates or (ii) was so maintained and in respect
of which the Borrower or an ERISA Affiliate could have liability under
Section 4064 or 4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be
terminated.
"Note" has the meaning specified in Section 2.17.
"Notice of Borrowing" has the meaning specified in Section 2.02(a).
"Other Taxes" has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(b).
"Payment Office" means, for any Committed Currency, such office of
Citibank as shall be from time to time selected by the Administrative Agent
and notified by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower and the Lenders.
"Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation (including a
business trust), joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association,
joint venture or other entity, or a government or any political subdivision
or agency thereof.
"Plan" means a Single Employer Plan or a Multiple Employer Plan.
"Public Debt Rating" means, as of any date of determination, the
higher rating that has been most recently announced by either S&P or
Moody's, as the case may be, for any class of non-credit enhanced long-term
senior unsecured public debt issued by the Borrower. For purposes of the
foregoing, (a) if only one of S&P and Moody's shall have in effect a Public
Debt Rating, the Eurocurrency Rate Margin and the Facility Fee Percentage
shall be determined by reference to the available rating; (b) if neither
S&P nor Moody's shall have in effect a Public Debt Rating, the Eurocurrency
Rate Margin and the Facility Fee Percentage will be set in accordance with
Level 5 under the definition of "Eurocurrency Rate Margin" or "Facility Fee
Percentage", as the case may be; (c) if the ratings established by S&P and
Moody's shall fall within different levels, the Eurocurrency Rate Margin
and the Facility Fee Percentage shall be based upon the higher rating; (d)
if any rating established by S&P or Moody's shall be changed, such change
shall be effective as of the date on which such change is first announced
publicly by the rating agency making such change; and (e) if S&P or Moody's
shall change the basis on which ratings are established, each reference to
the Public Debt Rating announced by S&P or
Moody's, as the case may be, shall refer to the then equivalent rating by
S&P or Moody's, as the case may be.
"Reference Banks" means Citibank, Bank One and HSBC or, in the event
that less than two of such banks remain Lenders hereunder at any time, any
other commercial bank designated by the Borrower and approved by the
Majority Lenders as constituting a "Reference Bank" hereunder.
"Register" has the meaning specified in Section 8.07(c).
"S&P" means Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill
Companies, Inc., or any successor thereto.
"SEC" has the meaning specified in Section 5.01(e)(i).
"Significant Subsidiary" means any subsidiary of the Borrower or any
of its subsidiaries that constitutes a "significant subsidiary" under Rule
405 promulgated by the SEC under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"Single Employer Plan" means a single employer plan, as defined in
Borrower or an ERISA Affiliate and no Person other than the Borrower and
the ERISA Affiliates or (ii) was so maintained and in respect of which the
Borrower or an ERISA Affiliate could have liability under Section 4069 of
ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be terminated.
"Sub-Agent" means Citibank International plc.
"Taxes" has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).
"Termination Date" means the earlier of (a) March 7, 2005, subject to
the extension thereof pursuant to Section 2.20, and (b) the date of
termination in whole of the aggregate Commitments pursuant to Section 2.04
or 6.01; provided, however, that the Termination Date of any Lender that is
a Declining Lender in connection with any requested extension pursuant to
Section 2.20 shall be the Termination Date in effect immediately prior to
the applicable Extension Date for all purposes of this Agreement.
"364-Day Credit Agreement" means the 364-Day Credit Agreement dated as
of March 1, 2000 among the Borrower, the banks, financial institutions and
other institutional lenders party thereto, CUSA, as administrative agent
thereunder, Bank of America, N.A., a national banking corporation, as
syndication agent, and The Chase Manhattan Bank, a national banking
corporation, and Credit Suisse First Boston, a Swiss banking corporation,
as co-documentation agents thereunder, as such agreement may be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified hereafter from time to time.
"Type" has the meaning specified in the definition of "Advance".
"United States" and "U.S." each means the United States of America.
"Utilization Fee" has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b).
SECTION 1.02. Computation of Time Periods. In this Agreement in the
computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date,
the word "from" means "from and including" and the words "to" and "until" each
means "to but excluding".
SECTION 1.03. Accounting Terms. All accounting terms not
specifically defined herein shall be construed in accordance with GAAP;
provided, however, that if any changes in accounting principles from those used
in the preparation of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.01(c)
dated September 30, 1999 hereafter occur by reason of the promulgation of rules,
regulations, pronouncements, opinions or other requirements of the Financial
Accounting Standards Board or the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants (or successors thereto or agencies with similar functions) and
result in a change in the method of calculation of financial covenants or the
terms related thereto contained in this Agreement, the Borrower shall, at its
option, (i) furnish to the Administrative Agent, together with each delivery of
the consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its subsidiaries
required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(e), a written reconciliation
setting forth the differences that would have resulted if such financial
statements had been prepared utilizing accounting principles and policies in
conformity with those used to prepare the financial statements referred to in
Section 4.01(c) dated September 30, 1999 or (ii) enter into negotiations with
the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to amend such financial covenants or
terms equitably to reflect such changes so that the criteria for evaluating the
financial condition of the Borrower and its subsidiaries shall be the same after
such changes as if such changes had not been made; provided, however, that at
all times in the case of clause (i) above, and in the case of clause (ii) above
until the amendment referred to in such clause (ii) becomes effective, all
covenants and related calculations under this Agreement shall be performed,
observed and determined as though no such changes in accounting principles had
been made.
AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE ADVANCES
SECTION 2.01. The Advances. Each Lender severally agrees, on the
terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to make Advances to the Borrower
from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Effective Date
until the Termination Date in an aggregate amount (based in respect of any
Advances denominated in a Committed Currency on the Equivalent in Dollars
determined on the date of delivery of the applicable Notice of Borrowing) not to
exceed at any time outstanding the Dollar amount set forth opposite such
Lender's name on the signature pages hereof or, if such Lender has become a
Lender hereunder pursuant to an Assumption Agreement, the Dollar amount set
forth as the Commitment of such Lender in such Assumption Agreement or, if such
Lender has entered into an Assignment and Acceptance, the Dollar amount set
forth for such Lender in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent
pursuant to Section 8.07(c), as such amount may be reduced pursuant to Section
2.04 or increased pursuant to Section 2.19 (such Lender's "Commitment"). Each
Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount of $5,000,000 or an integral multiple
of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (or the Equivalent thereof in any Committed
Currency determined on the date of delivery of the applicable Notice of
Borrowing) and shall consist of Advances of the same Type made on the same day
by the Lenders ratably according to their respective Commitments. Within the
limits of each Lender's Commitment, the Borrower from time to time may borrow
under this Section 2.01, prepay pursuant to Section 2.10 and reborrow under this
Section 2.01.
SECTION 2.02. Making the Advances. (a) Each Borrowing shall be made
on notice, given not later than (x) 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the same
Business Day as the date of a proposed Borrowing comprised of Base Rate
Advances, (y) 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to
the date of a proposed Borrowing comprised of Eurocurrency Rate Advances
denominated in any Committed Currency, or (z) 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on
the third Business Day prior to the date of a proposed Borrowing comprised of
Eurocurrency Rate Advances denominated in
Dollars, by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of a
Borrowing consisting in Eurocurrency Rate Advances denominated in any Committed
Currency, simultaneously to the Sub-Agent), which shall give to each Lender
prompt notice thereof by telecopier or telex. Each such notice of a Borrowing (a
"Notice of Borrowing") shall be by telecopier or telex, or by telephone,
confirmed immediately by telecopier or telex, in substantially the form of
Exhibit A hereto, specifying therein the requested (i) date of such Borrowing
(which shall be a Business Day), (ii) Type of Advances comprising such
Borrowing, (iii) aggregate amount of such Borrowing, and (iv) in the case of a
Borrowing comprised of Eurocurrency Rate Advances, initial Interest Period and
currency for each such Advance. Each Lender shall, before (A) 11:00 A.M. (New
York City time) on the date of such Borrowing consisting of Advances denominated
in Dollars or (B) 11:00 A.M. (London time) on the date of such Borrowing
consisting of Advances denominated in any Committed Currency, make available for
the account of its Applicable Lending Office to the Administrative Agent at the
Administrative Agent's (or the Sub-Agent's, as the case may be) Account, in same
day funds, such Lender's ratable portion of such Borrowing. After the
Administrative Agent's receipt of such funds and upon fulfillment of the
applicable conditions set forth in Article III, the Administrative Agent will
make such funds available to the Borrower at the office where the Administrative
Agent's (or Sub-Agent's, as the case may be) Account is maintained.
(b) Anything in subsection (a) above or Section 2.01 to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Borrower may not select Eurocurrency Rate Advances for any
Borrowing if the aggregate amount of such Borrowing is less than $20,000,000 (or
the Equivalent thereof in any Committed Currency determined on the date of
delivery of the applicable Notice of Borrowing) or if the obligation of the
Lenders to make Eurocurrency Rate Advances shall be suspended at such time
pursuant to Section 2.08.
(c) Each Notice of Borrowing shall be irrevocable and binding on the
Borrower. In the case of any Borrowing which the related Notice of Borrowing
specifies as to be comprised of Eurocurrency Rate Advances, the Borrower shall
indemnify each Lender against any loss, cost or expense incurred by such Lender
as a result of any failure to fulfill on or before the date specified in such
Notice of Borrowing for such Borrowing the applicable conditions set forth in
Article III, including, without limitation, any loss, cost or expense incurred
by reason of the liquidation or redeployment of deposits or other funds acquired
by such Lender to fund the Advance to be made by such Lender as part of such
Borrowing when such Advance, as a result of such failure, is not made on such
(d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a
Lender prior to the date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make
available to the Administrative Agent such Lender's ratable portion of such
Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such
portion available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing in
accordance with subsection (a) of this Section 2.02 and the Administrative Agent
may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower on such
date a corresponding amount. If and to the extent that any Lender shall not
have so made such ratable portion available to the Administrative Agent, such
Lender agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such
corresponding amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date
such amount is made available to the Borrower until the date such amount is paid
to the Administrative Agent, at (A) the Federal Funds Rate in the case of
Advances denominated in Dollars or (B) the cost of funds incurred by the
Administrative Agent in respect of such amount in the case of Advances
denominated in Committed Currencies; provided, however, that (i) within two
Business Days after any Lender shall fail to make such ratable portion available
to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower
of such failure and (ii) if such Lender shall not have paid such corresponding
amount to the Administrative Agent within two Business Days after such demand is
made of such Lender by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower agrees to repay to
the Administrative Agent forthwith, upon demand by the Administrative Agent to
the Borrower, such corresponding amount together with interest thereon, for each
day from the date such
amount is made available to the Borrower until the date such amount is repaid to
the Administrative Agent, at the interest rate applicable at the time to
Advances comprising such Borrowing. If and to the extent such corresponding
amount shall be paid by such Lender to the Administrative Agent in accordance
with this Section 2.02(d), such amount so paid shall constitute such Lender's
Advance as part of such Borrowing for all purposes of this Agreement.
(e) The failure of any Lender to make the Advance to be made by it as
part of any Borrowing shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if
any, hereunder to make its Advance on the date of such Borrowing, but no Lender
shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Advance to
be made by such other Lender on the date of any Borrowing.
SECTION 2.03. Fees. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay to each Lender a
facility fee on the average daily amount (whether used or unused) of such
Lender's Commitment from the Effective Date, in the case of each Initial Lender,
and from the later of (a) the Effective Date and (b) the effective date
specified in the Assumption Agreement or the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant
to which it became a Lender, in the case of each other Lender, until, in each
case, the Termination Date, payable quarterly in arrears on the first Business
Day of each January, April, July and October during the term of such Lender's
Commitment, commencing April 3, 2000, and on the Termination Date, at the rate
per annum equal to the Facility Fee Percentage in effect from time to time.
(b) Utilization Fee. With respect to every day on which the sum of
all outstanding Advances is equal to or greater than 50% of the aggregate amount
of all Commitments, the Borrower agrees to pay to the Agent for the account of
each Lender a utilization fee based on the daily aggregate amount of such
Lender's Commitment, calculated on a daily basis and payable quarterly in
arrears at a rate per annum (the "Utilization Fee Rate") equal at all times to
.05%.
SECTION 2.04. Reduction of the Commitments. The Borrower shall have
the right, upon at least three Business Days' notice to the Administrative
Agent, to terminate in whole or reduce ratably in part the unused portions of
the respective Commitments of the Lenders, provided that each partial reduction
shall be in the aggregate amount of $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of
$1,000,000 in excess thereof. Once terminated, such Commitments may not be
reinstated.
SECTION 2.05. Repayment of Advances. The Borrower shall repay to
each Lender on the Termination Date the aggregate principal amount of the
Advances owing to such Lender on such date.
SECTION 2.06. Interest on Advances. (a) Scheduled Interest. The
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Borrower shall pay to each Lender interest on the unpaid principal amount of
each Advance owing to such Lender from the date of such Advance until such
principal amount shall be paid in full, at the following rates per annum:
(i) Base Rate Advances. During such periods as such Advance is a Base
Rate Advance, a rate per annum equal at all times to the remainder of (A)
the Base Rate in effect from time to time minus (B) the Facility Fee
Percentage in effect from time to time minus (C) the Utilization Fee Rate,
to the extent that any Utilization Fee is payable pursuant to Section
2.03(b) during such period, payable quarterly in arrears on the first
Business Day of each January, April, July and October and during such
periods and on the date such Base Rate Advance shall be Converted or paid
in full.
(ii) Eurocurrency Rate Advances. During such periods as such Advance
is a Eurocurrency Rate Advance, a rate per annum equal at all times during
each Interest Period for such Advance to the sum of (A) the Eurocurrency
Rate for such Interest Period for such Advance and (B) the Eurocurrency
Rate Margin in effect from time to time, payable in arrears on the last
day of such Interest Period and, if such Interest Period has a duration of
more than three months, on the date which occurs three months and, if
applicable, six months, nine months and twelve months after the first day
of such Interest Period and on the date such Eurocurrency Rate Advance
shall be Converted or paid in full.
(b) Default Interest. The Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid
principal amount of each Advance that is not paid when due and on the unpaid
amount of all interest, fees and other amounts payable hereunder that is not
paid when due, payable on demand, at a rate per annum equal at all times to (i)
in the case of any amount of principal, the greater of (x) 2% per annum above
the rate per annum required to be paid on such Advance immediately prior to the
date on which such amount became due and (y) 2% per annum above the Base Rate in
effect from time to time and (ii) to the fullest extent permitted by law, in the
case of all other amounts, 2% per annum above the Base Rate in effect from time
to time.
SECTION 2.07. Additional Interest on Eurocurrency Rate Advances. The
Borrower shall pay to each Lender, so long as such Lender shall be required
under regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to
maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or
including Eurocurrency Liabilities, additional interest on the unpaid principal
amount of each Eurocurrency Rate Advance of such Lender, from the date of such
Advance until such principal amount is paid in full, at an interest rate per
annum equal at all times to the remainder obtained by subtracting (i) the
Eurocurrency Rate for the applicable Interest Period for such Advance from (ii)
the rate obtained by dividing such Eurocurrency Rate by a percentage equal to
100% minus the Eurocurrency Rate Reserve Percentage of such Lender for such
Interest Period, payable on each date on which interest is payable on such
Advance. Such additional interest shall be determined by such Lender and
notified in reasonable detail to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 2.08. Interest Rate Determination. (a) Each Reference Bank
agrees to furnish to the Administrative Agent timely information for the purpose
of determining each Eurocurrency Rate. If any one or more of the Reference
Banks shall not furnish such timely information to the Administrative Agent for
the purpose of determining such interest rate, the Administrative Agent shall
determine such interest rate on the basis of timely information furnished by the
remaining Reference Banks.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to the Borrower
and the Lenders of the applicable interest rate determined by the Administrative
Agent for purposes of Section 2.06(a)(i) or (a)(ii), and the rate, if any,
furnished by each Reference Bank for the purpose of determining the applicable
interest rate under Section 2.06(a)(ii).
(c) If fewer than two Reference Banks furnish timely information to
the Administrative Agent for purposes of determining the Eurocurrency Rate for
any Eurocurrency Rate Advances, (i) the Administrative Agent shall forthwith
notify the Borrower and the Lenders that the interest rate cannot be determined
for such Eurocurrency Rate Advances, (ii) each such Advance will automatically,
on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a
Base Rate Advance (or, if such Advance is then a Base Rate Advance, will
continue as a Base Rate Advance), and (iii) the obligation of the Lenders to
make, or to Convert Advances into, Eurocurrency Rate Advances shall be suspended
until the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders that
the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist.
(d) If, with respect to any Eurocurrency Rate Advances, the Majority
Lenders notify the Administrative Agent that (i) they are unable to obtain
matching deposits in the London inter-bank market at or about 11:00 A.M. (London
time) on the second Business Day before the making of a
Borrowing in sufficient amounts to fund their respective Eurocurrency Rate
Advances as a part of such Borrowing during its Interest Period or (ii) the
Eurocurrency Rate for any Interest Period for such Advances will not adequately
reflect the cost to such Majority Lenders (which cost each such Majority Lender
reasonably determines in good faith is material) of making, funding or
maintaining their respective Eurocurrency Rate Advances for such Interest
Period, the Administrative Agent shall forthwith so notify the Borrower and the
Lenders, whereupon, unless the Eurocurrency Rate Margin shall be increased to
reflect such costs as determined by such Majority Lenders and as agreed by the
Borrower, (A) the obligation of the Lenders to make, or to Convert Base Rate
Advances into, Eurocurrency Rate Advances shall be suspended until the
Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders that the
circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist, and (B) the Borrower
will, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, (1) if such
Eurocurrency Rate Advances are denominated in Dollars, either (x) prepay such
Advances or (y) Convert such Advances into Base Rate Advances and (2) if such
Eurocurrency Rate Advances are denominated in any Committed Currency, either (x)
prepay such Advances or (y) redenominate such Advances into an Equivalent amount
of Dollars and Convert such Advances into Base Rate Advances. The Administrative
Agent shall use reasonable efforts to determine from time to time whether the
circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist and, promptly after the
Administrative Agent knows that the circumstances causing such suspension no
longer exist, the Administrative Agent shall so notify the Borrower and the
Lenders.
(e) If the Borrower shall fail to select the duration of any Interest
Period for any Eurocurrency Rate Advances in accordance with the provisions
contained in the definition of "Interest Period" in Section 1.01, the
Administrative Agent will forthwith so notify the Borrower and the Lenders and
such Advances will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest
Period therefor, (i) if such Eurocurrency Rate Advances are denominated in
Dollars, be Converted into Base Rate Advances and (ii) if such Eurocurrency Rate
Advances are denominated in a Committed Currency, be redenominated into an
Equivalent amount of Dollars and be Converted into Base Rate Advances.
(f) On the date on which the aggregate unpaid principal amount of
Eurocurrency Rate Advances comprising any Borrowing shall be reduced, by payment
or prepayment or otherwise, to less than $20,000,000, such Eurocurrency Rate
Advances shall automatically Convert into Base Rate Advances and, on and after
such date, the right of the Borrower to Convert such Advances into Eurocurrency
Rate Advances shall terminate; provided, however, that if and so long as each
such Eurocurrency Rate Advance shall have the same Interest Period as
Eurocurrency Rate Advances comprising another Borrowing or Borrowings, and the
aggregate unpaid principal amount of all such Eurocurrency Rate Advances shall
equal or exceed $20,000,000, the Borrower shall have the right to continue all
such Eurocurrency Rate Advances as, or to Convert all such Advances into,
Eurocurrency Rate Advances having such Interest Period.
(g) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of
Default under Section 6.01(a), (i) each Eurocurrency Rate Advance will
automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor,
(A) if such Eurocurrency Rate Advances are denominated in Dollars, be Converted
into Base Rate Advances and (B) if such Eurocurrency Rate Advances are
denominated in any Committed Currency, be redenominated into an Equivalent
amount of Dollars and be Converted into Base Rate Advances and (ii) the
obligation of the Lenders to make, or to Convert Advances into, Eurocurrency
Rate Advances shall be suspended.
SECTION 2.09. Optional Conversion of Advances. The Borrower may on
any Business Day, upon notice given to the Administrative Agent not later than
(i) 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the same Business Day as the date of the
proposed Conversion in the case of a Conversion of Eurocurrency Rate Advances
into Base Rate Advances, and (ii) 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the third
Business Day prior to the date of the proposed Conversion in the case of a
Conversion of Base Rate
Advances into Eurocurrency Rate Advances or Eurocurrency Rate Advances of one
Interest Period into Eurocurrency Rate Advances of another Interest Period, as
the case may be, and subject to the provisions of Sections 2.08, 2.09 and 2.12,
Convert all Advances denominated in Dollars of one Type comprising the same
Borrowing into Advances denominated in Dollars of the other Type; provided,
however, that any Conversion of any Eurocurrency Rate Advances into Base Rate
Advances or into Eurocurrency Rate Advances of another Interest Period shall be
made on, and only on, the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurocurrency
Rate Advances. Promptly upon receipt from the Borrower of a notice of a proposed
Conversion hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall give notice of such
proposed Conversion to each Lender. Each such notice of a Conversion shall,
within the restrictions set forth above, specify (x) the date of such Conversion
(which shall be a Business Day), (y) the Advances to be Converted, and (z) if
such Conversion is into Eurocurrency Rate Advances, the duration of the initial
Interest Period for each such Advance. The Borrower may Convert all Eurocurrency
Rate Advances of any one Lender into Base Rate Advances of such Lender in
accordance with the provisions of Section 2.12 by complying with the procedures
set forth therein and in this Section 2.09 as though each reference in this
Section 2.09 to Advances denominated in Dollars of any Type was to such Advances
of such Lender. Each such notice of Conversion shall, subject to the provisions
of Sections 2.08 and 2.12, be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower.
SECTION 2.10. Prepayments of Advances. (a) Optional. The Borrower
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may, upon not less than (i) the same Business Day's notice to the Administrative
Agent received not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) in the case of
Borrowings consisting of Base Rate Advances, (ii) three Business Days' notice to
the Administrative Agent received not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time)
in the case of Borrowings consisting of Eurocurrency Rate Advances denominated
in any Committed Currency, or (iii) three Business Days' notice to the
Administrative Agent received not later than 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) in
the case of Borrowings consisting of Eurocurrency Rate Advances denominated in
Dollars, stating the proposed date and aggregate principal amount of the
prepayment, and if such notice is given the Borrower shall, prepay the
outstanding principal amounts of the Advances constituting part of the same
Borrowings in whole or ratably in part, together with accrued interest to the
date of such prepayment on the principal amount prepaid; provided, however, that
(x) each partial prepayment shall be in an aggregate principal amount of
$1,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (or the
Equivalent thereof in a Committed Currency determined on the date notice of
prepayment is given), and (y) in the case of any such prepayment of Eurocurrency
Rate Advances, the Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse the Lenders in
respect thereof pursuant to Section 8.04(b).
(b) Mandatory. (i) If, the Administrative Agent notifies the
Borrower in writing that, on any date, the sum of (A) the aggregate principal
amount of all Advances denominated in Dollars then outstanding and (B) the
Equivalent in Dollars (determined on the third Business Day prior to such date)
of the aggregate principal amount of all Advances denominated in Committed
Currencies then outstanding exceeds 102% of the aggregate Commitments of the
Lenders on such date, the Borrower shall, within two Business Days after receipt
of such notice, prepay the outstanding principal amount of any Advances owing by
the Borrower in an aggregate amount sufficient to reduce such sum to an amount
not to exceed 100% of the aggregate Commitments of the Lenders on such date as
set forth in written notice from the Administrative Agent to the Borrower
pursuant to the terms hereof.
(ii) Each prepayment made pursuant to this Section 2.10(b) shall be
made together with any interest accrued to the date of such prepayment on the
principal amounts prepaid and, in the case of any prepayment of a Eurocurrency
Rate Advance on a date other than the last day of an Interest Period, with any
additional amounts which the Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse to the
Lenders in respect thereof pursuant to Section 8.04(b). The Administrative
Agent shall give prompt notice of any prepayment required under this Section
2.10(b) to the Borrower and the Lenders.
SECTION 2.11. Increased Costs. (a) If after the date hereof, due to
either (i) the introduction of or any change (other than any change by way of
imposition or increase of reserve requirements included in the Eurocurrency Rate
Reserve Percentage) in or in the interpretation of any law or regulation or (ii)
the compliance with any hereafter promulgated guideline or request from any
central bank or other governmental authority, including, without limitation, any
agency of the European Union or similar monetary or multinational authority
(whether or not having the force of law), there shall be any increase in the
cost (excluding any allocation of corporate overhead) to any Lender (which cost
such Lender reasonably determines in good faith is material) of agreeing to make
or making, funding or maintaining Eurocurrency Rate Advances, then such Lender
shall so notify the Borrower promptly after such Lender knows of such increased
cost and determines that such cost is material and the Borrower shall from time
to time, upon demand by such Lender (with a copy of such demand to the
Administrative Agent), pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such
Lender additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender for such
increased cost. A certificate of such Lender as to the amount of such increased
cost in reasonable detail and stating the basis upon which such amount has been
calculated and certifying that such Lender's method of allocating such costs is
fair and reasonable and that such Lender's demand for payment of such costs
hereunder is not inconsistent with its treatment of other borrowers which, as a
credit matter, are substantially similar to the Borrower and which are subject
to similar provisions, submitted to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent by
such Lender, shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest
(b) If, after the date hereof, either (i) the introduction of or
change in or in the interpretation of any law or regulation or (ii) the
compliance by any Lender with any hereafter promulgated guideline or request
from any central bank or other governmental authority, including, without
limitation, any agency of the European Union or similar monetary or
multinational authority (whether or not having the force of law), affects or
would affect the amount of capital required or expected to be maintained by such
Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender and the amount of such capital
is materially increased by or based upon the existence of such Lender's
commitment to lend hereunder and other commitments of this type, then such
Lender shall so notify the Borrower promptly after such Lender makes such
determination and, upon demand by such Lender (with a copy of such demand to the
Administrative Agent), the Borrower shall pay to such Lender within five days
from the date of such demand, from time to time as specified by such Lender,
additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender or such corporation in
the light of such circumstances, to the extent that such Lender reasonably
determines such increase in capital to be allocable to the existence of such
Lender's commitment to lend hereunder. A certificate of such Lender as to such
amount in reasonable detail and stating the basis upon which such amount has
been calculated and certifying that such Lender's method of allocating such
increase of capital is fair and reasonable and that such Lender's demand for
payment of such increase of capital hereunder is not inconsistent with its
treatment of other borrowers which, as a credit matter, are substantially
similar to the Borrower and which are subject to similar provisions, submitted
to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent by such Lender, shall be conclusive
and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
(c) The Borrower shall not be obligated to pay under this Section 2.11
any amounts which relate to costs or increases of capital incurred prior to the
12 months immediately preceding the date of demand for payment of such amounts,
unless the applicable law, regulation, guideline or request resulting in such
costs or increases of capital is imposed retroactively. In the case of any law,
regulation, guideline or request which is imposed retroactively, the Lender
making demand for payment of any amount under this Section 2.11 shall notify the
Borrower not later than 12 months from the date that such Lender should
reasonably have known of such law, regulation, guideline or request and the
Borrower's obligation to compensate such Lender for such amount is contingent
upon such Lender's so notifying the Borrower; provided, however, that any
failure by such Lender to provide such notice shall not affect the Borrower's
obligations under this Section 2.11 with respect to amounts resulting from costs
or increases
of capital incurred after the date which occurs 12 months immediately preceding
the date on which such Lender notified the Borrower of such law, regulation,
guideline or request.
(d) If any Lender shall subsequently recoup any costs (other than from
the Borrower) for which such Lender has theretofore been compensated by the
Borrower under this Section 2.11, such Lender shall remit to the Borrower an
amount equal to the amount of such recoupment. Amounts required to be paid by
the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.11 shall be paid in addition to, and
without duplication of, any amounts required to be paid pursuant to Section
SECTION 2.12. Illegality. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Agreement, if any Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent that the
introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation of any law or
regulation after the date hereof makes it unlawful, or any central bank or other
governmental authority asserts that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its
Eurocurrency Lending Office to perform its obligations hereunder to make
Eurocurrency Rate Advances in Dollars or any Committed Currency or to fund or
maintain Eurocurrency Rate Advances in Dollars or any Committed Currency, (a)
the obligation of such Lender to make, or to Convert Base Rate Advances into,
Eurocurrency Rate Advances shall be suspended until such Lender shall notify the
Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and
the other Lenders (which notice shall be given promptly after the Administrative
Agent knows that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist) that
the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist, and (b) the Borrower
shall forthwith prepay in full all Eurocurrency Rate Advances of such Lender
then outstanding, together with interest accrued thereon, unless the Borrower,
within five Business Days of notice from the Administrative Agent or, if
permitted by law, on and as of the last day of the then existing Interest Period
for such Eurocurrency Rate Advances, (i) if such Eurocurrency Rate Advance is
denominated in Dollars, Converts it into a Base Rate Advance or an Advance that
bears interest at the rate set forth in Section 2.06(a)(i), and (ii) if such
Eurocurrency Rate Advance is denominated in any Committed Currency,
redenominates it into an Equivalent amount of Dollars and Converts it into a
Base Rate Advance or an Advance that bears interest at the rate set forth in
Section 2.06(a)(i).
SECTION 2.13. Payments and Computations. (a) The Borrower shall
make each payment hereunder (and under the Notes, if any), except with respect
to principal of, interest on, and other amounts relating to, Advances
denominated in a Committed Currency, not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City
time) on the day when due, in Dollars to the Administrative Agent at the
Administrative Agent's (or Sub-Agent's) Account in same day funds. The Borrower
shall make each payment hereunder with respect to principal of, interest on, and
other amounts relating to, Advances denominated in a Committed Currency, not
later than 11:00 A.M. (at the Payment Office for such Committed Currency) on the
day when due, in such Committed Currency to the Administrative Agent, by deposit
of such funds to the Administrative Agent's (or Sub-Agent's) Account in same day
funds. The Administrative Agent will promptly thereafter cause to be
distributed like funds relating to the payment of principal or interest or fees
ratably (other than amounts payable pursuant to Sections 2.07, 2.11, 2.14, 8.04
and 8.08) to the Lenders for the account of their respective Applicable Lending
Offices, and like funds relating to the payment of any other amount payable to
any Lender to such Lender for the account of its Applicable Lending Office, in
each case to be applied in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Upon
any Assuming Lender becoming a Lender hereunder as a result of a Commitment
Increase pursuant to Section 2.19 or an extension of the Termination Date
pursuant to Section 2.20, and upon the Administrative Agent's receipt of such
Lender's Assumption Agreement and recording of the information contained therein
in the Register, from and after the applicable Increase Date or Extension Date,
as the case may be, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments hereunder
and under any Notes issued in connection therewith in respect of the interest
assumed thereby to the Assuming Lender. Upon its acceptance of an Assignment
and Acceptance and recording of the information contained therein in the
Register pursuant to Section 8.07(d), from and after the effective date
specified in such Assignment and Acceptance, the
Administrative Agent shall make all payments hereunder and under the Notes, if
any, issued in connection therewith in respect of the interest assigned thereby
to the Lender assignee thereunder, and the parties to such Assignment and
Acceptance shall make all appropriate adjustments in such payments for periods
prior to such effective date directly between themselves.
(b) All computations of interest based on clause (a) or (b) of the
definition of "Base Rate" shall be made by the Administrative Agent on the basis
of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and all computations of
interest based on the Eurocurrency Rate or the Federal Funds Rate and of fees
shall be made by the Administrative Agent, and all computations of additional
interest pursuant to Section 2.07 shall be made by a Lender, on the basis of a
year of 360 days (or, in each case of Advances denominated in Committed
Currencies where market practice differs, in accordance with such market
practice after notification of the Borrower), in each case for the actual number
of days (including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the
period for which such interest or fees are payable. Each determination by the
Administrative Agent (or, in the case of Section 2.07, by a Lender) of an
interest rate hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent
manifest error.
(c) Whenever any payment hereunder or under the Notes, if any, shall
be stated to be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be
made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in
such case be included in the computation of payment of interest or fees, as the
case may be; provided, however, that if such extension would cause payment of
interest on or principal of Eurocurrency Rate Advances to be made in the next
following calendar month, such payment shall be made on the immediately
preceding Business Day.
(d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from
the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Lenders
hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment in full, the
Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment in full
to the Administrative Agent on such date and the Administrative Agent may, in
reliance upon such assumption, cause to be distributed to each Lender on such
due date an amount equal to the amount then due such Lender. If and to the
extent that the Borrower shall not have so made such payment in full to the
Administrative Agent, each Lender shall repay to the Administrative Agent
forthwith on demand such amount distributed to such Lender together with
interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is distributed to such
Lender until the date such Lender repays such amount to the Administrative
Agent, at (i) the Federal Funds Rate in the case of Advances denominated in
Dollars or (ii) the cost of funds incurred by the Administrative Agent in
respect of such amount in the case of Advances denominated in Committed
Currencies.
SECTION 2.14. Taxes. (a) Any and all payments by the Borrower
hereunder or under the Notes, if any, shall be made, in accordance with Section
2.13, free and clear of and without deduction for any and all present or future
taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and all liabilities
with respect thereto, excluding, in the case of each Lender and the
Administrative Agent, taxes imposed on its income, and franchise taxes imposed
on it, by the jurisdiction under the laws of which such Lender or the
Administrative Agent (as the case may be) is organized or any political
subdivision thereof and, in the case of each Lender, taxes imposed on its
income, and franchise taxes imposed on it, by the jurisdiction of such Lender's
Applicable Lending Office or any political subdivision thereof or by any other
jurisdiction in which such Lender or the Administrative Agent is doing business
that is unrelated to this Agreement (all such non-excluded taxes, levies,
imposts, deductions, charges, withholdings and liabilities being hereinafter
referred to as "Taxes"). If the Borrower shall be required by law to deduct any
Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable hereunder to any Lender or the
Administrative Agent, (i) the sum payable shall be increased as may be necessary
so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to
additional sums payable under this Section 2.14) such Lender or the
Administrative Agent (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it
would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower shall
make such deductions and (iii) the Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted
to the relevant taxation authority or other authority in accordance with
(b) In addition, the Borrower agrees to pay any present or future
stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or
similar levies which arise from any payment made hereunder or under the Notes,
if any, or from the execution, delivery or registration of, or otherwise with
respect to, this Agreement or the Notes, if any (hereinafter referred to as
"Other Taxes").
(c) The Borrower will indemnify each Lender and the Administrative
Agent for the full amount of Taxes or Other Taxes (including, without
limitation, any Taxes or Other Taxes imposed by any jurisdiction on amounts
payable under this Section 2.14) paid by such Lender or the Administrative Agent
(as the case may be) and any liability (including penalties to the extent not
imposed as a result of such Lender's or the Administrative Agent's (as the case
may be) gross negligence or willful misconduct, interest and expenses) arising
therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes or Other Taxes were
correctly or legally asserted. This indemnification shall be made within 30
days from the date such Lender or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be)
makes written demand therefor.
(d) Within 30 days after the date of any payment of Taxes, the
Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent, at its address referred to in
Section 8.02, the original or a certified copy of a receipt evidencing payment
(e) Each Lender that is not created or organized under the laws of the
United States or a political subdivision thereof shall deliver to the Borrower
and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date of its execution and
delivery of this Agreement, and each such Lender that is not a party hereto on
the date hereof shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or
prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender pursuant to Section
2.19, 2.20 or 8.07 (as the case may be), a true and accurate certificate
executed in duplicate by a duly authorized officer of such Lender in
substantially the form set out in Exhibit D-1 or D-2 hereto, as applicable, to
the effect that such Lender is eligible under the provisions of an applicable
tax treaty concluded by the United States (in which case the certificate shall
be accompanied by two executed copies of IRS Form 1001 or W-8BEN (or any
successor or substitute form or forms) of the Internal Revenue Service of the
United States (the "IRS"), or under Section 1441(c) or 1442 of the Internal
Revenue Code (in which case the certificate shall be accompanied by two copies
of IRS Form 4224 or W-8ECI (or any successor or substitute form or forms) of the
IRS, to receive, as of the date hereof or as of the date such party becomes a
Lender hereto pursuant to Section 2.19, 2.20 or 8.07 (as the case may be), as
appropriate, payments hereunder without deduction or withholding of United
States federal income tax. In addition, (1) each such Lender that provided a
Form 1001 or Form 4224 in accordance with the preceding sentence shall deliver
to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent a Form W-8BEN or Form W-8ECI,
respectively, on or before December 31, 2000 to replace such Form 1001 or Form
4224 and (2) each such Lender that becomes a Lender hereunder after December 31,
2000 shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent a Form W-8BEN or
Form W-8ECI, as applicable. Each such Lender further agrees to deliver to the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent from time to time, as reasonably requested
by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, and in any case before or promptly
upon the occurrence of any events requiring a change in the most recent
certificate previously delivered pursuant to this Section 2.14(e), a true and
accurate certificate executed in duplicate by a duly authorized officer of such
Lender in substantially the form set out in Exhibit D-1 or D-2 hereto, as
applicable. Further, each Lender that delivers a certificate in the form set
out in Exhibit D-1 hereto agrees, to the extent permitted by law, to deliver to
the Borrower and the Administrative Agent within 15 days prior to every third
anniversary of the date of delivery of the initial IRS Form 1001 or W-8BEN by
such Lender (or more often if required by law) on which this Agreement is still
in effect, two accurate and complete original signed copies of IRS Form W-8BEN
(or any
successor or substitute form or forms required under the Internal Revenue Code
or the applicable regulations promulgated thereunder) and a certificate in the
form set out in such Exhibit D-1, and each Lender that delivers a certificate in
the form set out in Exhibit D-2 hereto agrees to deliver to the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent, to the extent permitted by law, within 15 days prior to
every third anniversary of the date of delivery of the initial IRS Form 4224 or
W-8ECI by such Lender (or more often if required by law) on which this Agreement
is still in effect, two accurate and complete original signed copies of IRS Form
W-ECI (or any successor or substitute form or forms required under the Internal
Revenue Code or the applicable regulations promulgated thereunder) and a
certificate in the form of such Exhibit D-2. Each such certificate shall certify
as to one of the following:
(i) that such Lender is eligible to receive payments hereunder
without deduction or withholding of United States federal income tax;
(ii) that such Lender is not eligible to receive payments hereunder
without deduction or withholding of United States federal income tax as
specified therein but does not require additional payments therefor
pursuant to Section 2.14(a) or (c) because it is eligible and able to
recover the full amount of any such deduction or withholding from a source
other than the Borrower; or
(iii) that such Lender is not eligible to receive payments hereunder
specified therein and that it is not eligible and able to recover the full
amount of the same from a source other than the Borrower.
If any form or document referred to in this subsection (e) requires the
disclosure of information, other than information necessary to compute the tax
payable and information required on the date hereof by IRS Form 1001(or W-8BEN)
or 4224 (or W-8ECI), that any Lender reasonably considers to be confidential,
such Lender promptly shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent and shall not be obligated to include in such form or
document such confidential information; provided that such Lender certifies to
the Borrower that the failure to disclose such confidential information does not
increase the obligations of the Borrower under this Section 2.14.
(f) Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of the
Borrower hereunder, the agreements and obligations of the Borrower contained in
this Section 2.14 shall survive the payment in full of principal and interest on
all Advances and the termination of this Agreement until such date as all
applicable statutes of limitations (including any extensions thereof) have
expired with respect to such agreements and obligations of the Borrower
contained in this Section 2.14.
SECTION 2.15. Sharing of Payments, Etc. If any Lender shall obtain
any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right
of set-off, or otherwise) on account of the Advances made by it (other than
pursuant to Section 2.07, 2.11, 2.14, 8.04 or 8.08) in excess of its ratable
share of payments on account of the Advances obtained by all the Lenders, such
Lender shall forthwith purchase from the other Lenders such participations in
the Advances made by them as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender
to share the excess payment ratably with each of them, provided, however, that
if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from such
purchasing Lender, such purchase from each Lender shall be rescinded and such
Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price to the extent of
such recovery, together with an amount equal to such Lender's ratable share
(according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Lender's required
repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the purchasing Lender) of
any interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender in respect
of the total amount so recovered. The Borrower agrees that any Lender so
purchasing a participation from another Lender pursuant to this
Section 2.15 may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its
rights of payment (including the right of set-off) with respect to such
participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the
Borrower in the amount of such participation.
SECTION 2.16. Mandatory Assignment by a Lender; Mitigation. If any
Lender requests from the Borrower either payment of additional interest on
Eurocurrency Rate Advances pursuant to Section 2.07, or reimbursement for
increased costs pursuant to Section 2.11, or payment of or reimbursement for
Taxes pursuant to Section 2.14, or if any Lender notifies the Administrative
Agent that it is unlawful for such Lender or its Eurocurrency Lending Office to
perform its obligations hereunder pursuant to Section 2.12, (i) such Lender
will, upon three Business Days' notice by the Borrower to such Lender and the
Administrative Agent, to the extent not inconsistent with such Lender's internal
policies and applicable legal and regulatory restrictions, use reasonable
efforts to make, fund or maintain its Eurocurrency Rate Advances through another
Eurocurrency Lending Office of such Lender if (A) as a result thereof the
additional amounts required to be paid pursuant to Section 2.07, 2.11 or 2.14,
as applicable, in respect of such Eurocurrency Rate Advances would be materially
reduced or the provisions of Section 2.12 would not apply to such Lender, as
applicable, and (B) as determined by such Lender in good faith but in its sole
discretion, the making or maintaining of such Eurocurrency Rate Advances through
such other Eurocurrency Lending Office would not otherwise materially and
adversely affect such Eurocurrency Rate Advances or such Lender and (ii) unless
such Lender has theretofore taken steps to remove or cure, and has removed or
cured, the conditions creating such obligation to pay such additional amounts or
the circumstances described in Section 2.12, the Borrower may designate an
Eligible Assignee to purchase for cash (pursuant to an Assignment and
Acceptance) all, but not less than all, of the Advances then owing to such
Lender and all, but not less than all, of such Lender's rights and obligations
hereunder, without recourse to or warranty by, or expense to, such Lender, for a
purchase price equal to the outstanding principal amount of each such Advance
then owing to such Lender plus any accrued but unpaid interest thereon and any
accrued but unpaid fees owing thereto and, in addition, (A) all additional cost
reimbursements, expense reimbursements and indemnities, if any, owing in respect
of such Lender's Commitment hereunder, and all other accrued and unpaid amounts
owing to such Lender hereunder, at such time shall be paid to such Lender and
(B) if such Eligible Assignee is not otherwise a Lender at such time, the
applicable processing and recordation fee under Section 8.07(a) for such
assignment shall have been paid.
SECTION 2.17. Evidence of Debt. (a) Each Lender shall maintain in
accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the
indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Advance owing to
such Lender from time to time, including the amounts of principal and interest
payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder. The Borrower
agrees that upon notice by any Lender to the Borrower (with a copy of such
notice to the Administrative Agent) to the effect that a promissory note or
other evidence of indebtedness is required or appropriate in order for such
Lender to evidence (whether for purposes of pledge, enforcement or otherwise)
the Advances owing to, or to be made by, such Lender, the Borrower shall
promptly execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note or other evidence
of indebtedness, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower
and such Lender (each a "Note"), payable to the order of such Lender in a
principal amount equal to the Commitment of such Lender; provided, however, that
the execution and delivery of such promissory note or other evidence of
indebtedness shall not be a condition precedent to the making of any Advance
(b) The Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to
Section 8.07(c) shall include a control account, and a subsidiary account for
each Lender, in which accounts (taken together) shall be recorded (i) the date
and amount of each Borrowing made hereunder, the Type of Advances and currencies
comprising such Borrowing and, if appropriate, the Interest Period applicable
thereto, (ii) the terms of each Assumption Agreement and each Assignment and
Acceptance delivered to
and accepted by it, (iii) the amount of any principal or interest due and
payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder,
and (iv) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent from the
Borrower hereunder and each Lender's share thereof.
(c) Entries made in good faith by the Administrative Agent in the
Register pursuant to subsection (b) above, and by each Lender in its account or
accounts pursuant to subsection (a) above, shall be prima facie evidence of the
amount of principal and interest due and payable or to become due and payable
from the Borrower to, in the case of the Register, each Lender and, in the case
of such account or accounts, such Lender, under this Agreement, absent manifest
error; provided, however, that the failure of the Administrative Agent or such
Lender to make an entry, or any finding that an entry is incorrect, in the
Register or such account or accounts shall not limit or otherwise affect the
obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement.
SECTION 2.18. Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Advances shall be
available (and the Borrower agrees that it shall use such proceeds) to support
the obligations of the Borrower in respect of commercial paper issued by the
Borrower and/or for other general corporate purposes of the Borrower and its
subsidiaries.
SECTION 2.19. Increase in the Aggregate Commitments. (a) The
Borrower may, at any time but in any event not more than once in any calendar
year prior to the Termination Date, by notice to the Administrative Agent,
request that the aggregate amount of the Commitments be increased by an amount
of $100,000,000 or an integral multiple of $5,000,000 in excess thereof (each a
"Commitment Increase") to be effective as of a date that is at least 90 days
prior to the scheduled Termination Date then in effect (the "Increase Date") as
specified in the related notice to the Administrative Agent; provided, however,
that (i) in no event shall the aggregate amount of the Commitments at any time
exceed $5,000,000,000, (ii) on the date of any request by the Borrower for a
Commitment Increase and at all times thereafter to and including the related
Increase Date, the Public Debt Rating shall be at least A- by S&P and at least
A3 by Moody's and (iii) no Event of Default, or event that with the giving of
notice or passage of time or both would constitute an Event of Default, shall
have occurred and be continuing as of the date of such request or as of the
applicable Increase Date, or shall occur as a result thereof.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders of a
request by the Borrower for a Commitment Increase, which notice shall include
(i) the proposed amount of such requested Commitment Increase, (ii) the proposed
Increase Date and (iii) the date by which Lenders wishing to participate in the
Commitment Increase must commit to an increase in the amount of their respective
Commitments (the "Commitment Date"). Each Lender that is willing to participate
in such requested Commitment Increase (each an "Increasing Lender") shall give
written notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the Commitment Date of
the amount by which it is willing to increase its Commitment. If the Lenders
notify the Administrative Agent that they are willing to increase the amount of
their respective Commitments by an aggregate amount that exceeds the amount of
the requested Commitment Increase, the requested Commitment Increase shall be
allocated among the Lenders willing to participate therein in such amounts as
are agreed between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
(c) Promptly following each Commitment Date, the Administrative Agent
shall notify the Borrower as to the amount, if any, by which the Lenders are
willing to participate in the requested Commitment Increase. If the aggregate
amount by which the Lenders are willing to participate in any requested
Commitment Increase on any such Commitment Date is less than the requested
Commitment Increase, then the Borrower may extend offers to one or more Eligible
Assignees to participate in any portion of the requested Commitment Increase
that has not been committed to by the
Lenders as of the applicable Commitment Date; provided, however, that the
Commitment of each such Eligible Assignee shall be in an amount of $25,000,000
or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof.
(d) On each Increase Date, each Eligible Assignee that accepts an
offer to participate in a requested Commitment Increase in accordance with
Section 2.19(c) (each such Eligible Assignee and each Eligible Assignee that
agrees to an extension of the Termination Date in accordance with Section
2.20(c), an "Assuming Lender") shall become a Lender party to this Agreement as
of such Increase Date and the Commitment of each Increasing Lender for such
requested Commitment Increase shall be so increased by such amount (or by the
amount allocated to such Lender pursuant to the last sentence of Section
2.19(b)) as of such Increase Date; provided, however, that the Administrative
Agent shall have received on or before such Increase Date the following, each
dated such date:
(i) (A) certified copies of resolutions of the Board of Directors of
the Borrower or the Executive Committee of such Board approving the
Commitment Increase and the corresponding modifications to this Agreement
and (B) an opinion of counsel for the Borrower (which may be in-house
counsel), in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto;
(ii) an assumption agreement from each Assuming Lender, if any, in
form and substance satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent (each an "Assumption Agreement"), duly executed by such Eligible
Assignee, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower; and
(iii) confirmation from each Increasing Lender of the increase in
the amount of its Commitment in a writing satisfactory to the Borrower and
the Administrative Agent.
On each Increase Date, upon fulfillment of the conditions set forth in the
immediately preceding sentence of this Section 2.19(d), the Administrative Agent
shall notify the Lenders (including, without limitation, each Assuming Lender)
and the Borrower, on or before 1:00 P.M. (New York City time), by telecopier or
telex, of the occurrence of the Commitment Increase to be effected on such
Increase Date and shall record in the Register the relevant information with
respect to each Increasing Lender and each Assuming Lender on such date.
SECTION 2.20. Extension of Termination Date. (a) At least 45 days
but not more than 75 days prior to the next Anniversary Date, the Borrower, by
written notice to the Administrative Agent, may request an extension of the
Termination Date in effect at such time by one calendar year from its then
scheduled expiration; provided, however, that, if the Borrower does not request
an extension of the Termination Date in a timely manner prior to any Anniversary
Date it may, but shall not be obligated to, request that the Termination Date be
extended for two consecutive calendar years from its then scheduled expiration
by making a request therefor in a timely manner prior to the next succeeding
Anniversary Date. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of
such request, and each Lender shall in turn, in its sole discretion, not later
than 30 days prior to such next Anniversary Date, notify the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent in writing as to whether such Lender will consent to such
extension. If any Lender shall fail to notify the Administrative Agent and the
Borrower in writing of its consent to any such request for extension of the
Termination Date at least 30 days prior to the next Anniversary Date, such
Lender shall be deemed to be a Declining Lender with respect to such request.
The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower not later than 25 days prior
to such next Anniversary Date of the decision of the Lenders regarding the
Borrower's request for an extension of the Termination Date.
(b) If all of the Lenders consent in writing to any such request in
accordance with subsection (a) of this Section 2.20, the Termination Date in
effect at such time shall, effective as at such
next Anniversary Date (the "Extension Date"), be extended for one calendar year
or two calendar years, as properly requested; provided that on each Extension
Date, no Event of Default, or event that with the giving of notice or passage of
time or both would constitute an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be
continuing, or shall occur as a consequence thereof. If less than all of the
Lenders consent in writing to any such request in accordance with subsection (a)
of this Section 2.20, the Termination Date in effect at such time shall,
effective as at the applicable Extension Date, be extended as to those Lenders
that so consented (each an "Extending Lender") but shall not be extended as to
any other Lender (each a "Declining Lender"). To the extent that the Termination
Date is not extended as to any Lender pursuant to this Section 2.20 and the
Commitment of such Lender is not assumed in accordance with subsection (c) of
this Section 2.20 on or prior to the applicable Extension Date, the Commitment
of such Declining Lender shall automatically terminate in whole on such
unextended Termination Date without any further notice or other action by the
Borrower, such Lender or any other Person; provided that such Declining Lender's
rights under Sections 2.11, 2.14, 8.04 and 8.08, and its obligations under
Section 7.05, shall survive the Termination Date for such Lender as to matters
occurring prior to such date. It is understood and agreed that no Lender shall
have any obligation whatsoever to agree to any request made by the Borrower for
any requested extension of the Termination Date.
(c) If less than all of the Lenders consent to any such request
pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section 2.20, the Borrower may arrange for
one or more Extending Lenders or other Eligible Assignees as Assuming Lenders to
assume, effective as of the Extension Date, any Declining Lender's Commitment
and all of the obligations of such Declining Lender under this Agreement
thereafter arising, without recourse to or warranty by, or expense to, such
Declining Lender; provided, however, that the amount of the Commitment of any
such Assuming Lender as a result of such substitution shall in no event be less
than $25,000,000 unless the amount of the Commitment of such Declining Lender is
less than $25,000,000, in which case such Assuming Lender shall assume all of
such lesser amount; and provided further that:
(i) any such Extending Lender or Assuming Lender shall have paid to
such Declining Lender (A) the aggregate principal amount of, and any
interest accrued and unpaid to the effective date of the assignment on, the
outstanding Advances, if any, of such Declining Lender plus (B) any accrued
but unpaid fees owing to such Declining Lender as of the effective date of
such assignment;
(ii) all additional costs reimbursements, expense reimbursements and
indemnities payable to such Declining Lender, and all other accrued and
unpaid amounts owing to such Declining Lender hereunder, as of the
effective date of such assignment shall have been paid to such Declining
Lender; and
(iii) with respect to any such Assuming Lender, the applicable
processing and recordation fee required under Section 8.07(a) for such
assignment shall have been paid;
provided further that such Declining Lender's rights under Sections 2.11, 2.14,
8.04 and 8.08, and its obligations under Section 7.05, shall survive such
substitution as to matters occurring prior to the date of substitution. At
least three Business Days prior to any Extension Date, (A) each such Assuming
Lender, if any, shall have delivered to the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent an Assumption Agreement, duly executed by such Assuming Lender, such
Declining Lender, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, (B) any such
Extending Lender shall have delivered confirmation in writing satisfactory to
the Borrower and the Administrative Agent as to the increase in the amount of
its Commitment and (C) each Declining Lender being replaced pursuant to this
Section 2.20 shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent any Note or Notes
held by such Declining Lender. Upon the payment or prepayment of all amounts
referred to in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of the immediately preceding
sentence, each such
Extending Lender or Assuming Lender, as of the Extension Date, will be
substituted for such Declining Lender under this Agreement and shall be a Lender
for all purposes of this Agreement, without any further acknowledgment by or the
consent of the other Lenders, and the obligations of each such Declining Lender
hereunder shall, by the provisions hereof, be released and discharged.
(d) If all of the Extending and Assuming Lenders (after giving effect
to any assignments and assumptions pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section
2.20) consent in writing to a requested extension (whether by written consent
pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section 2.20, by execution and delivery of an
Assumption Agreement or otherwise) not later than one Business Day prior to such
Extension Date, the Administrative Agent shall so notify the Borrower, and, so
long as no Event of Default, or event that with the giving of notice or passage
of time or both would constitute an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be
continuing as of such Extension Date, or shall occur as a consequence thereof,
the Termination Date then in effect shall be extended for the additional one-
year period or two-year period, as the case may be, as described in subsection
(a) of this Section 2.20, and all references in this Agreement, and in the
Notes, if any, to the "Termination Date" shall, with respect to each Extending
Lender and each Assuming Lender for such Extension Date, refer to the
Termination Date as so extended. Promptly following each Extension Date, the
Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders (including, without limitation,
each Assuming Lender) of the extension of the scheduled Termination Date in
effect immediately prior thereto and shall thereupon record in the Register the
relevant information with respect to each such Extending Lender and each such
Assuming Lender.
CONDITIONS OF EFFECTIVENESS AND LENDING
SECTION 3.01. Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness of Section 2.01.
Section 2.01 of this Agreement shall become effective on and as of the first
date (the "Effective Date") on which all of the following conditions precedent
have been satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 8.01:
(a) the Administrative Agent shall have received on or before the
Effective Date the following, each dated the Effective Date, in form and
substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent: (i) certified copies
of the resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Borrower or the
Executive Committee of such Board authorizing the execution and delivery of
this Agreement, and approving all documents evidencing other necessary
corporate action and governmental approvals, if any, with respect to this
Agreement; (ii) a certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of
the Borrower certifying the name and true signature of the officer of the
Borrower executing this Agreement on its behalf; (iii) an opinion of David
K. Thompson, Esq., Senior Vice President-Assistant General Counsel of the
Borrower, in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto; and (iv) an
opinion of Shearman & Sterling, counsel for the Administrative Agent.
(b) all consents and approvals of any governmental or regulatory
authority and any other third party necessary in connection with this
Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby shall
have been obtained and shall remain in effect.
(c) there shall have occurred no material adverse change in the
business, financial condition or operations of the Borrower and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole, since September 30, 1999, except as
disclosed in reports filed by the Borrower and its subsidiaries, if any,
during the period from September 30, 1999 to the date of this Agreement
pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
copies of which have been furnished to the Initial Lenders prior to the
date of this Agreement.
(d) the Borrower shall have paid or prepaid all amounts owing under
the Existing Credit Agreement, and all commitments of the lenders
thereunder shall have been terminated.
(e) the Borrower shall have notified each Lender and the
Administrative Agent in writing as to the proposed Effective Date at least
three Business Days prior to the occurrence thereof.
(f) all of the representations and warranties contained in Section
4.01 shall be correct in all material respects on and as of the Effective
Date, before and after giving effect to such date, as though made on and as
of the Effective Date (except to the extent that such representations and
warranties relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations
and warranties shall have been correct in all material respects on and as
of such earlier date).
(g) no event shall have occurred and be continuing, or shall result
from the occurrence of the Effective Date, that constitutes an Event of
Default or would constitute an Event of Default but for the requirement
that notice be given or time elapse or both.
SECTION 3.02. Conditions Precedent to Each Borrowing. The obligation
of each Lender to make an Advance on the occasion of each Borrowing (including
the initial Borrowing) shall be subject to the further conditions precedent that
the Effective Date shall have occurred and on the date of such Borrowing the
following statements shall be true (and each of the giving of the applicable
Notice of Borrowing and the acceptance by the Borrower of the proceeds of such
Borrowing shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower that on
the date of such Borrowing such statements are true):
(a) the representations and warranties contained in Section 4.01 are
true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such
Borrowing, before and after giving effect to such Borrowing and to the
application of the proceeds therefrom, as though made on and as of such
date (except to the extent that such representations and warranties relate
to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall
have been correct in all material respects on and as of such earlier date);
(b) no event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from such
Borrowing or from the application of the proceeds therefrom, which
constitutes an Event of Default or would constitute an Event of Default but
for the requirement that notice be given or time elapse or both.
SECTION 3.03. Determinations Under Section 3.01. For purposes of
determining compliance with the conditions specified in Section 3.01, each
Lender shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be
satisfied with each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented
to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to the Lenders unless an officer
of the Administrative Agent responsible for the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the date
that the Borrower, by notice to the Lenders, designates as the proposed
Effective Date, specifying its objection thereto. The Administrative Agent
shall promptly notify the Lenders of the occurrence of the Effective Date.
SECTION 4.01. Representations and Warranties of the Borrower. The
Borrower represents and warrants as of the Effective Date and from time to time
thereafter as required under this Agreement as follows:
(a) The Borrower is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and
in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. The Borrower and
each of the Significant Subsidiaries are duly qualified and in good
standing as foreign corporations authorized to do business in each
jurisdiction (other than the respective jurisdictions of their
incorporation) in which the nature of their respective activities or the
character of the properties they own or lease make such qualification
necessary and in which the failure so to qualify would have a material
adverse effect on the financial condition or operations of the Borrower and
its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(b) The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this
Agreement and each of the Notes, if any, delivered hereunder are within the
Borrower's corporate powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate action, and do not contravene (i) the Borrower's charter or by-
laws or (ii) any law, rule, regulation, order, writ, judgment, injunction,
decree, determination or award or any material contractual restriction
binding on or affecting the Borrower, Disney or ABC; no authorization or
approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any
governmental authority or regulatory body is required for the due
execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement or
the Notes, if any; and this Agreement is and each of the Notes, when
delivered hereunder, will be the legal, valid and binding obligation of the
Borrower, enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with their
respective terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization,
insolvency, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors' rights
generally and general principles of equity.
(c) The Borrower's most recent annual report on Form 10-K containing
the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its subsidiaries, and
the related consolidated statements of income and of cash flows of the
Borrower and its subsidiaries, copies of which have been furnished to each
Lender pursuant to Section 5.01(e)(ii), fairly present the consolidated
financial condition of the Borrower and its subsidiaries as at the date of
such balance sheet and the consolidated results of operations of the
Borrower and its subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended on such date, all
in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles consistently
(d) There is no pending or, to the Borrower's knowledge, threatened
claim, action or proceeding affecting the Borrower or any of its
subsidiaries which could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the
financial condition or operations of the Borrower and its subsidiaries,
taken as a whole, or which could reasonably be expected to affect the
legality, validity or enforceability of this Agreement; and to the
Borrower's knowledge, the Borrower and each of its subsidiaries have
complied, and are in compliance, with all applicable laws, rules,
regulations, permits, orders, consent decrees and judgments, except for any
such matters which have not had, and would not reasonably be expected to
have, a material adverse effect on the financial condition or operations of
the Borrower and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(e) The Borrower and the ERISA Affiliates have not incurred and are
not reasonably expected to incur any material liability in connection with
their Single Employer Plans or Multiple Employer Plans, other than ordinary
liabilities for benefits; neither the Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has
incurred or is reasonably expected to incur any material withdrawal
liability (as defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA) to any
Multiemployer Plan; and no Multiemployer Plan of the Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate is reasonably expected to be in reorganization or to be
terminated, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA.
SECTION 4.02. Additional Representations and Warranties of the
Borrower as of Each Increase Date and Each Extension Date. The Borrower
represents and warrants on each Increase Date
and each Extension Date (and at no other time) that, as of each such date, the
following statements shall be true:
(a) there has been no material adverse change in the business,
taken as a whole, since the date of the audited financial statements of the
Borrower and its subsidiaries most recently delivered to the Lenders
pursuant to Section 5.01(e)(ii) prior to the applicable Increase Date or
Extension Date, as the case may be (except as disclosed in periodic or
other reports filed by the Borrower and its subsidiaries pursuant to
Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, during the
period from the date of the most recently delivered audited financial
statements of the Borrower and its subsidiaries pursuant to Section
5.01(e)(ii) to the date of the request for an increase in the aggregate
Commitments related to such Increase Date or for an extension of the
Termination Date then in effect related to such Extension Date, as the case
may be); and
(b) the representations and warranties contained in Section 4.01 are
correct in all material respects on and as of such date, as though made on
and as of such date (except to the extent that such representations and
COVENANTS OF THE BORROWER
SECTION 5.01. Affirmative Covenants. So long as any Advance shall
remain unpaid or any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, the Borrower
will, unless the Majority Lenders shall otherwise consent in writing:
(a) Compliance with Laws, Etc. Comply, and cause each of its
subsidiaries to comply, in all material respects with all applicable laws,
rules, regulations, permits, orders, consent decrees and judgments binding
on the Borrower and its subsidiaries the failure with which to comply would
have a material adverse effect on the financial condition or operations of
(b) Payment of Taxes, Etc. Pay and discharge, and cause each of its
subsidiaries to pay and discharge, before the same shall become delinquent,
if the failure to so pay and discharge would have a material adverse effect
on the financial condition or operations of the Borrower and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (i) all taxes, assessments and governmental
charges or levies imposed upon it or upon its property, and (ii) all lawful
claims which, if unpaid, will by law become a Lien upon its property;
provided, however, that neither the Borrower nor any of its subsidiaries
shall be required to pay or discharge any such tax, assessment, charge,
levy or claim which is being contested in good faith and by proper
proceedings and as to which appropriate reserves are being maintained in
accordance with GAAP.
(c) Preservation of Corporate Existence, Etc. Subject to Section
5.02(a), preserve and maintain, and cause each of Disney and ABC to
preserve and maintain, its corporate existence, rights (charter and
statutory) and franchises; provided, however, that none of the Borrower,
Disney or ABC shall be required to preserve any right or franchise if the
loss thereof would not have a material adverse effect on the business,
taken as a whole; and provided further, however, that neither Disney nor
ABC shall be required to preserve its corporate existence if the loss
thereof would not
have a material adverse effect on the business, financial condition or
operations of the Borrower and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
(d) Maintenance of Interest Coverage Ratio. Maintain as of the last
day of each fiscal quarter of the Borrower, commencing with the first
fiscal quarter of the Borrower following the Effective Date, a ratio of (i)
Consolidated EBITDA for the Measurement Period ending on such day to (ii)
Consolidated Interest Expense for the Measurement Period ending on such
day, of not less than 3 to 1.
(e) Reporting Requirements. Furnish to the Administrative Agent, on
behalf of the Lenders:
(i) as soon as available and in any event within 50 days after
the end of each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year of the
Borrower, a copy of the Borrower's quarterly report to shareholders on
Form 10-Q as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"SEC"), in each case containing a consolidated balance sheet of the
Borrower and its subsidiaries as of the end of such quarter and
consolidated statements of income and of cash flows of the Borrower
and its subsidiaries for the period commencing at the end of the
previous fiscal year and ending with the end of such quarter, and a
certificate of any of the Borrower's Chairman of the Board of
Directors, President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Assistant
Treasurer or Controller (A) stating that no Event of Default, or event
that with the giving of notice or passage of time or both would
constitute an Event of Default, has occurred and is continuing and (B)
containing a schedule which shall set forth the computations used by
the Borrower in determining compliance with the covenant contained in
Section 5.01(d);
(ii) as soon as soon as available and in any event within 100
days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a copy of the
Borrower's annual report to shareholders on Form 10-K as filed with
the SEC, in each case containing consolidated financial statements of
the Borrower and its subsidiaries for such year and a certificate of
any of the Borrower's Chairman of the Board of Directors, President,
Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer or Controller
(A) stating that no Event of Default, or event that with the giving of
notice or passage of time or both would constitute an Event of
Default, has occurred and is continuing and (B) containing a schedule
which shall set forth the computations used by the Borrower in
determining compliance with the covenant contained in Section 5.01(d);
(iii) promptly after the Borrower obtains actual knowledge of
the occurrence of each Event of Default, and each event that with the
giving of notice or passage of time or both would constitute an Event
of Default, a statement of any of the Borrower's Chairman of the Board
of Directors, President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Assistant
Treasurer or Controller setting forth details of such Event of Default
or event continuing on the date of such statement, and the action
which the Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect
thereto;
(iv) promptly after the commencement thereof, notice of any
actions, suits and proceedings before any court or governmental
department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality,
domestic or foreign, affecting the Borrower or any of its subsidiaries
of the type described in Section 4.01(d);
(v) promptly after the Borrower obtains actual knowledge
thereof, written notice of any pending or threatened Environmental
Claim against the Borrower or any of its subsidiaries or any of their
respective properties which could reasonably be expected to materially
and adversely affect the financial condition or operations of the
Borrower and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(vi) promptly after the Borrower obtains actual knowledge of
the occurrence of any ERISA Event which could reasonably be expected
to materially and adversely affect the financial condition or
operations of the Borrower and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, a
statement of any of the Borrower's Chairman of the Board of Directors,
President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer or
Controller describing such ERISA Event and the action, if any, which
the Borrower has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto;
(vii) promptly after receipt thereof by the Borrower or any
ERISA Affiliate from the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan, a copy of
each notice received by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate concerning
(A) the imposition of withdrawal liability (as defined in Part I of
Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA) by a Multiemployer Plan, which
withdrawal liability could reasonably be expected to materially and
adversely affect the financial condition or operations of the Borrower
and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (B) the reorganization or
termination, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, of any
Multiemployer Plan, which reorganization or termination could
reasonably be expected to materially adversely affect the financial
condition or operations of the Borrower and its subsidiaries, taken as
a whole, or (C) the amount of liability incurred, or which may be
incurred, by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate in connection with
any event described in subclause (vii)(A) or (vii)(B) above; and
(viii) such other material information reasonably related to
any Lender's credit analysis of the Borrower or any of its
subsidiaries as any Lender through the Administrative Agent may from
time to time reasonably request.
SECTION 5.02. Negative Covenant. So long as any Advance shall remain
unpaid or any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, the Borrower will not,
without the written consent of the Majority Lenders:
(a) Mergers, Etc. Merge or consolidate with or into, or convey,
transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a
series of transactions) all or substantially all of the assets of the
Borrower and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole (whether now owned or
hereafter acquired), to, any Person, or permit any of its subsidiaries to
do so, unless (i) immediately after giving effect to such proposed
transaction, no Event of Default or event which, with the giving of notice
or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default would exist
and (ii) in the case of any such merger to which the Borrower is a party,
the Borrower is the surviving corporation or the Person into which the
Borrower shall be merged or formed by any such consolidation shall be a
corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States or
any State thereof and shall assume the Borrower's obligations hereunder and
under the Notes, if any, in an agreement or instrument reasonably
satisfactory in form and substance to the Majority Lenders.
SECTION 6.01. Events of Default. If any of the following events
("Events of Default") shall occur and be continuing:
(a) The Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Advance when
the same becomes due and payable; or the Borrower shall fail to pay any
interest on any Advance or any fee or other amount payable under this
Agreement, in each case within three Business Days after such interest, fee
or other amount becomes due and payable; or
(b) Any representation or warranty made by the Borrower herein or by
the Borrower (or any of its officers) delivered in writing and identified
as delivered in connection with this Agreement shall prove to have been
incorrect in any material respect when made; or
(c) The Borrower shall fail to perform or observe any covenant
contained in Section 5.01(d), Section 5.01(e)(iii) or Section 5.02; or
(d) The Borrower shall fail to perform or observe any other term,
covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement on its part to be
performed or observed if the failure to perform or observe such other term,
covenant or agreement shall remain unremedied for 30 days after written
notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by the Administrative
Agent or any Lender; or
(e) The Borrower or any of its subsidiaries shall fail to pay any
principal of or premium or interest on any Debt which is outstanding in a
principal amount of at least $250,000,000 in the aggregate (but excluding
Debt arising hereunder) of the Borrower or such subsidiary (as the case may
be), when the same becomes due and payable (whether by scheduled maturity,
required prepayment, acceleration, demand or otherwise), and such failure
(i) shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in
the agreement or instrument relating to such Debt and (ii) shall not have
been cured or waived; or any other event shall occur or condition shall
exist under any agreement or instrument relating to any such Debt and shall
continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in such
agreement or instrument, if the effect of such event or condition is to
accelerate, or to permit the acceleration of, the maturity of such Debt; or
any such Debt shall be declared to be due and payable, or required to be
prepaid (other than by a regularly scheduled required prepayment),
redeemed, purchased or defeased, or an offer to prepay, redeem, purchase or
defease such Debt shall be required to be made, in each case prior to the
stated maturity thereof; or
(f) The Borrower or any Material Subsidiary shall generally not pay
its debts as such debts become due, or shall admit in writing its inability
to pay its debts generally, or shall make a general assignment for the
benefit of creditors; or any proceeding shall be instituted by or against
the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt
or insolvent, or seeking liquidation, winding up, reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment, protection, relief, or composition of it or its
debts under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or
relief of debtors, or seeking the entry of an order for relief or the
appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official for
it or for substantially all of its property and, in the case of any such
proceeding instituted against it (but not instituted by it), either such
proceeding shall remain undismissed or unstayed for a period of 60 days or
any of the actions sought in such proceeding (including, without
limitation, the entry of an order for relief against, or the appointment of
a receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official for, it or for any
substantial part of its property) shall occur; or the Borrower or any
Material Subsidiary shall take any corporate action to authorize any of the
actions set forth above in this subsection (f); or
(g) Any money judgment, writ or warrant of attachment or similar
process against the Borrower, any Material Subsidiary or any of their
respective assets involving in any case an amount in excess of $100,000,000
is entered and shall remain undischarged, unvacated, unbonded or unstayed
for a period of 30 days or, in any case, within five days of any pending
sale or disposition of any asset pursuant to any such process;
then, and in any such event, the Administrative Agent (i) shall at the request,
or may with the consent, of the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Borrower,
declare the obligation of each Lender to make Advances to be terminated,
whereupon the same shall forthwith terminate, and (ii) shall at the request, or
may with the consent, of the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Borrower,
declare the Advances, all interest thereon and all other amounts payable under
this Agreement to be forthwith due and payable, whereupon the Advances, all such
interest and all such amounts shall become and be forthwith due and payable,
without presentment, demand, protest or further notice of any kind, all of which
are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower; provided, however, that in the
event of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to the
Borrower under the Federal Bankruptcy Code, (A) the obligation of each Lender to
make Advances shall automatically be terminated and (B) the Advances, all such
interest and all such amounts shall automatically become and be due and payable,
without presentment, demand, protest or notice of any kind, all of which are
hereby expressly waived by the Borrower.
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
SECTION 7.01. Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender hereby
appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on
its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement as are delegated to
the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such powers as are
reasonably incidental thereto. As to any matters not expressly provided for by
this Agreement (including, without limitation, enforcement of this Agreement or
collection of the Advances), the Administrative Agent shall not be required to
exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to
refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining
from acting) upon the instructions of the Majority Lenders, and such
instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders and all holders of Notes;
provided, however, that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take
any action which exposes the Administrative Agent to personal liability or which
is contrary to this Agreement or applicable law. The Administrative Agent
agrees to give to each Lender prompt notice of each notice given to it by the
Borrower pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.
(b) The Co-Documentation Agents shall have no duties under this
Agreement other than those afforded to them in their capacities as Lenders, and
each Lender hereby acknowledges that the Co-Documentation Agents have no
liability under this Agreement other than those assumed by them in their
capacities as Lenders.
SECTION 7.02. Administrative Agent's Reliance, Etc. Neither the
Administrative Agent nor any of its directors, officers, agents or employees
shall be liable to any Lender for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it
or them under or in connection with this Agreement, except for its or their own
gross negligence or willful misconduct. Without limitation of the generality of
the foregoing, the Administrative Agent: (i) may treat the Lender which made
any Advance as the holder of the Debt resulting therefrom until the
Administrative Agent receives and accepts an Assumption Agreement entered into
by an Assuming Lender as provided in Section 2.19 or 2.20, as the case may be,
or an Assignment and Acceptance entered into by such Lender, as assignor, and an
Eligible Assignee, as assignee, as provided in Section 8.07; (ii) may consult
with legal counsel (including counsel for the Borrower), independent public
accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any
action taken or omitted to be taken in good faith by it in accordance with the
advice of such counsel,
accountants or experts; (iii) makes no warranty or representation to any Lender
and shall not be responsible to any Lender for any statements, warranties or
representations (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with this
Agreement; (iv) shall not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the
performance or observance of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of this
Agreement on the part of the Borrower or to inspect the property (including the
books and records) of the Borrower; (v) shall not be responsible to any Lender
for the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness,
sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any instrument or document furnished
pursuant hereto; and (vi) shall incur no liability under or in respect of this
Agreement by acting upon any notice, consent, certificate or other instrument or
writing (which may be by telecopier, telegram or telex) believed by it to be
genuine and signed or sent by the proper party or parties.
SECTION 7.03. CUSA and Affiliates. With respect to its Commitment
and the Advances made by it and any Note or Notes issued to it, CUSA shall have
the same rights and powers under this Agreement as any other Lender and may
exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent; and the term
"Lender" or "Lenders" shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated, include CUSA
in its individual capacity. CUSA and its respective Affiliates may accept
deposits from, lend money to, act as trustee under indentures of, accept
investment banking engagements from, and generally engage in any kind of
business with, the Borrower, any of its subsidiaries and any Person who may do
business with or own securities of the Borrower or any such subsidiary, all as
if CUSA was not the Administrative Agent and without any duty to account
therefor to the Lenders.
SECTION 7.04. Lender Credit Decision. Each Lender acknowledges that
it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any
other Lender and based on the financial statements referred to in Section
4.01(c) and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate,
made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each
Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon
the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and
information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own
credit decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement.
SECTION 7.05. Indemnification. The Lenders agree to indemnify the
Administrative Agent (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower), ratably
according to the respective principal amounts of Advances then owing to each of
them (or, if no Advances are at the time outstanding or if any Advances are then
owing to Persons which are not Lenders, ratably according to the respective
amounts of their Commitments), from and against any and all liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,
expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be imposed
on, incurred by, or asserted against the Administrative Agent in any way
relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any action taken or omitted by
the Administrative Agent under this Agreement; provided that no Lender shall be
liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages,
penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting
from the Administrative Agent's gross negligence or willful misconduct. Without
limitation of the foregoing, each Lender agrees to reimburse the Administrative
Agent promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any out-of-pocket expenses
(including reasonable counsel fees) incurred by the Administrative Agent in
connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration,
modification, amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal or
bankruptcy proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of rights or
responsibilities under, this Agreement, to the extent that the Administrative
Agent is not reimbursed for such expenses by the Borrower.
SECTION 7.06. Successor Administrative Agent. The Administrative
Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Lenders and
the Borrower and such resignation shall be effective upon the appointment of a
successor Administrative Agent as provided herein. Upon any such resignation,
the Majority Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Administrative
Agent. If no successor Administrative Agent shall have been so appointed by the
Majority Lenders, and shall have accepted such appointment, within 30 days after
the retiring Administrative Agent's giving of notice of resignation, then the
retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor
Administrative Agent. Any successor Administrative Agent appointed hereunder
shall be a commercial bank organized or licensed under the laws of the United
States or of any State thereof, or an Affiliate of any such commercial bank,
having a combined capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000. Upon the
acceptance of any appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor
Administrative Agent, such successor Administrative Agent shall thereupon
succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, discretion, privileges
and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative
Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement.
After any retiring Administrative Agent's resignation hereunder as
Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Article VII shall inure to its
benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was
Administrative Agent under this Agreement.
SECTION 7.07. Sub-Agent. The Borrower and the Lenders hereby
acknowledge that the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, delegate
any of its obligations hereunder to the Sub-Agent, provided that it has
obtained prior consent to such delegation from the Sub-Agent. The Borrower and
the Lenders further agree that the Sub-Agent shall be entitled to exercise each
of the rights and to enjoy each of the benefits of the Administrative Agent
under this Agreement as related to the performance of its obligations hereunder.
SECTION 8.01. Amendments, Etc. No amendment or waiver of any
provision of this Agreement, nor consent to any departure by the Borrower
therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing
and signed by the Majority Lenders, and then such waiver or consent shall be
effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which
given; provided, however, that no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in
writing and signed by all the Lenders (other than the Borrower or any of its
Affiliates, if a Lender, at the time of any such amendment, waiver or consent),
do any of the following: (a) waive any of the conditions specified in Section
3.01 or 3.02, (b) increase the Commitments of the Lenders (other than as
provided in Section 2.19) or subject the Lenders to any additional obligations,
(c) reduce the principal of, or interest on, the Advances or the fees payable
hereunder, (d) postpone any date fixed for any payment of principal of, or
interest on, the Advances (other than as provided in Section 2.20), (e) change
the percentage of the Commitments or of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of
Advances, or the number of Lenders, which shall be required for the Lenders or
any of them to take any action hereunder or (f) amend this Section 8.01; and
provided further that no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing
and signed by the Administrative Agent in addition to the Lenders required above
to take such action, affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent
under this Agreement or any Note.
SECTION 8.02. Notices, Etc. (a) All notices and other
communications provided for hereunder shall, except as
otherwise expressly provided for herein, be in writing
(including telecopier, telegraphic or telex communication)
and mailed, telecopied, telegraphed, telexed or delivered,
if to the Borrower, at its address at:
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, California 91521
Attention: Jeff Speed and Steve Flynn
Telecopier Number: (818) 563-1682;
Attention: Corporate Legal Department
if to any Initial Lender, at its Domestic Lending Office specified opposite its
name on Schedule I hereto; if to any other Lender, at its Domestic Lending
Office specified in the Assumption Agreement or the Assignment and Acceptance
pursuant to which it became a Lender, as the case may be; and if to the
Administrative Agent, at its address at:
Two Penns Way, Second Floor
Attention: Pamela Cole
Telecopy Number: (302) 894-6120;
787 West Fifth Street, 29th Floor
Los Angeles, California 90071
Attention: Deborah Ironson
Telecopier Number: (213) 623-3592;
or, as to each party, at such other address as shall be designated by such party
in a written notice to the other parties. All such notices and communications
shall, when mailed, telecopied, telegraphed or telexed, be effective when
deposited in the mails, telecopied, delivered to the telegraph company or
confirmed by telex answerback, respectively, except that notices and
communications to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Article II or VII shall
not be effective until received by the Administrative Agent. Delivery by
telecopier of an executed counterpart of any amendment or waiver of any
provision of this Agreement or of any Exhibit hereto to be executed and
delivered hereunder shall be effective as delivery of an original executed
counterpart thereof.
(b) If any notice required under this Agreement is permitted to be
made, and is made, by telephone, actions taken or omitted to be taken in
reliance thereon by the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall be binding upon
the Borrower notwithstanding any inconsistency between the notice provided by
telephone and any subsequent writing in confirmation thereof provided to the
Administrative Agent or such Lender; provided that any such action taken or
omitted to be taken by the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall have been
in good faith and in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
SECTION 8.03. No Waiver; Remedies. No failure on the part of any
Lender or the Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any
right hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or
partial exercise of any such right preclude any other or further
exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right. The remedies herein
provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any remedies provided by law.
SECTION 8.04. Costs and Expenses. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay,
within five Business Days of demand, all actual and reasonable costs and
expenses, if any (including, without limitation, actual and reasonable counsel
fees and expenses), of the Administrative Agent and each Lender in connection
with the enforcement (whether through legal proceedings or otherwise) of this
Agreement and the other instruments and documents to be delivered hereunder,
including, without limitation, reasonable counsel fees and expenses in
connection with the enforcement of rights under this Section 8.04(a).
(b) If any payment of principal of, or Conversion of, any Eurocurrency
Rate Advance is made other than on the last day of the Interest Period for such
Advance, as a result of a payment or Conversion pursuant to Section 2.08(f) or
2.10 or acceleration of the maturity of the Advances pursuant to Section 6.01 or
for any other reason (other than by reason of a payment pursuant to Section
2.12), the Borrower shall, within five Business Days of demand by any Lender
(with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to such Lender any
amounts required to compensate such Lender for any additional losses, costs or
expenses which it may reasonably incur as a result of such payment or
Conversion, including, without limitation, any loss, cost or expense incurred by
reason of the liquidation or redeployment of deposits or other funds acquired by
such Lender to fund or maintain such Advance.
SECTION 8.05. Right of Set-off. Upon (i) the occurrence and during
the continuance of any Event of Default and (ii) the making of the request or
the granting of the consent specified by Section 6.01 to authorize the
Administrative Agent to declare the Advances due and payable pursuant to the
provisions of Section 6.01, each Lender (and, in the case of CUSA, Citibank) is
hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special,
time or demand, provisional or final, but excluding trust accounts) at any time
held and other indebtedness at any time owing by such Lender (and, in the case
of CUSA, Citibank) to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against
any and all of the obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter existing under
this Agreement, whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under this
Agreement. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify the Borrower after any such
set-off and application made by such Lender (and, in the case of CUSA,
Citibank); provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the
validity of such set-off and application. The rights of each Lender (and, in
the case of CUSA, Citibank) under this Section are in addition to other rights
and remedies (including, without limitation, other rights of set-off) which such
Lender may have.
SECTION 8.06. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall become effective
(other than Section 2.01, which shall only become effective upon satisfaction of
the conditions precedent set forth in Section 3.01) when it shall have been
executed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each Co-Documentation
Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have been notified by each Initial
Lender that such Initial Lender has executed it and, thereafter, shall be
binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent,
each Co-Documentation Agent and each Lender and their respective successors and
permitted assigns, except that the Borrower shall not have the right to assign
its rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of
the Lenders.
SECTION 8.07. Assignments and Participations. (a) Each Lender may
and, if requested by the Borrower upon notice by the Borrower delivered to such
Lender and the Administrative Agent pursuant to clause (ii) of Section 2.16,
will, assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights
and obligations under this Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a
portion of its Commitment, the Advances owing to it and any Note or Notes held
by it); provided, however, that
(i) each such assignment shall be of a constant, and not a varying, percentage
of all rights and obligations under this Agreement, (ii) the sum of (A) the
amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender being assigned pursuant to each
such assignment and (B) the amount of the commitment being contemporaneously
assigned under the 364-Day Credit Agreement by the Person that is such assigning
Lender (in both cases determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance
or similar agreement with respect to such assignments) shall not be less than
$25,000,000 in the aggregate (unless such lesser amount is previously agreed
among such assigning Lender, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower) or an
integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, provided, however, that if
the aggregate amount of the Commitment of such assigning Lender hereunder and
its commitment under the 364-Day Credit Agreement is less than $25,000,000 on
the date of such proposed assignments, such assigning Lender may assign all, but
not less than all, of its remaining rights and obligations under this Agreement
and the 364-Day Credit Agreement (unless an assignment of a portion of such
assigning Lender's obligations hereunder and thereunder is otherwise previously
agreed among such assigning Lender, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower),
(iii) each such assignment shall be to an Eligible Assignee, and (iv) the
parties to each such assignment (other than the Borrower) shall execute and
deliver to the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the
Register, an Assignment and Acceptance, together with a processing and
recordation fee of $3,000. Upon such execution, delivery, acceptance and
recording, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and
Acceptance, (x) the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the
extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant
to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender
hereunder and (y) the Lender assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that
rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned by it pursuant to such
Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights (other than any rights such
Lender assignor may have under Sections 2.11, 2.14 and 8.08) and be released
from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and
Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights
and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party
hereto).
(b) By executing and delivering an Assignment and Acceptance, the
Lender assignor thereunder and the assignee thereunder confirm to and agree with
each other and the other parties hereto as follows: (i) other than as provided
in such Assignment and Acceptance, such assigning Lender makes no representation
or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to any statements,
warranties or representations made in or in connection with this Agreement or
the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or
value of this Agreement or any instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto;
(ii) such assigning Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no
responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower or any of
its subsidiaries or the performance or observance by the Borrower of any of its
obligations under this Agreement or any instrument or document furnished
pursuant hereto; (iii) such assignee confirms that it has received a copy of
this Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements referred to in
Section 4.01(c) and such other documents and information as it has deemed
appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into such
Assignment and Acceptance; (iv) such assignee will, independently and without
reliance upon the Administrative Agent, such assigning Lender or any other
Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate
at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking
action under this Agreement; (v) such assignee confirms that it is an Eligible
Assignee; (vi) such assignee appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to
take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this
Agreement as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof,
together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto; and (vii) such
assignee agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the
obligations which by the terms of this Agreement are required to be performed by
it as a Lender.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to
in Section 8.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance and each Assumption
Agreement delivered to and accepted
by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the
Lenders and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Advances owing to,
each Lender from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register
shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the
Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose
name is recorded in the Register as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this
Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any
Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior
(d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an
assigning Lender and an assignee representing that it is an Eligible Assignee
and, if applicable, the Borrower, together with any Note subject to such
assignment, the Administrative Agent shall, if such Assignment and Acceptance
has been completed and is in substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto, (i)
accept such Assignment and Acceptance, (ii) record the information contained
therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower.
(e) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more banks or other
entities in or to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this
Agreement (including, without limitation, all or a portion of its Commitment and
the Advances owing to it and any Note issued to it hereunder); provided,
however, that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement (including,
without limitation, its Commitment hereunder) shall remain unchanged, (ii) such
Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the
performance of such obligations, (iii) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent
and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such
Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under this
Agreement, and (iv) such Lender shall not agree in any participation agreement
with any participant or proposed participant to obtain the consent of such
participant before agreeing to the amendment, modification or waiver of any of
the terms of this Agreement or any Note, before consenting to any action or
failure to act by the Borrower or any other party hereunder or under any Note,
or before exercising any rights it may have in respect thereof, unless such
amendment, modification, waiver, consent or exercise would (A) increase the
amount of such participant's portion of such Lender's Commitment, (B) reduce the
principal amount of or rate of interest on the Advances or any fee or other
amounts payable hereunder to which such participant would be entitled to receive
a share under such participation agreement, or (C) postpone any date fixed for
any payment of principal of or interest on the Advances or any fee or other
a share under such participation agreement.
(f) Any Lender may, in connection with any assignment or participation
or proposed assignment or participation pursuant to this Section 8.07, disclose
to the assignee or participant or proposed assignee or participant any
information relating to the Borrower furnished to such Lender by or on behalf of
the Borrower in writing and directly related to the transactions contemplated
hereunder; provided that, prior to any such disclosure, the assignee or
participant or proposed assignee or participant shall agree to preserve the
confidentiality of any confidential information relating to the Borrower
received by it from such Lender in accordance with the terms of Section 8.09.
(g) No participation or assignment hereunder shall be made in
violation of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time, or any
applicable state securities laws, and each Lender hereby represents that it will
make any Advance for its own account in the ordinary course of its business and
not with a view to the public distribution or sale thereof.
(h) Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, any
Lender may at any time create a security interest in all or any portion of its
rights under this Agreement (including, without limitation, the Advances owing
to it and any Note issued to it hereunder) in favor of any Federal
Reserve Bank in accordance with Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System (or any successor regulation thereto) and the applicable
operating circular of such Federal Reserve Bank.
SECTION 8.08. Indemnification. The Borrower agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Administrative Agent, each Co-Documentation Agent and each
Lender and each of their Affiliates and their respective officers, directors,
employees, agents and advisors (each an "Indemnified Party") from and against
any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses (including,
without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) that may be
incurred by or asserted against any Indemnified Party, in each case arising out
of or in connection with or by reason of, or in connection with the preparation
for a defense of, any investigation, litigation or proceeding (whether or not an
Indemnified Party is a party thereto) arising out of, related to or in
connection with the Commitments hereunder or the Advances made pursuant hereto
or any transactions done in connection herewith, including, without limitation,
any transaction in which any proceeds of the Advances are, or are proposed, to
be applied (collectively, the "Indemnified Matters"); provided that the Borrower
shall have no obligation to any Indemnified Party under this Section 8.08 with
respect to (i) matters for which such Indemnified Party has been reimbursed by
or on behalf of the Borrower pursuant to any other provision of this Agreement,
but only to the extent of such reimbursement, or (ii) Indemnified Matters found
by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the willful
misconduct or gross negligence of such Indemnified Party. If any action is
brought against any Indemnified Party, such Indemnified Party shall promptly
notify the Borrower in writing of the institution of such action and the
Borrower shall thereupon have the right, at its option, to elect to assume the
defense of such action; provided, however, that the Borrower shall not, in
assuming the defense of any Indemnified Party in any Indemnified Matter, agree
to any dismissal or settlement of such Indemnified Matter without the prior
written consent of such Indemnified Party, which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld, if such dismissal or settlement (A) would require any
admission or acknowledgment of culpability or wrongdoing by such Indemnified
Party or (B) would provide for any nonmonetary relief to any Person to be
performed by such Indemnified Party. If the Borrower so elects, it shall
promptly assume the defense of such action, including the employment of counsel
(reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Party) and payment of expenses.
Such Indemnified Party shall have the right to employ its or their own counsel
in any such case, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the
expense of such Indemnified Party unless (1) the employment of such counsel
shall have been authorized in writing by the Borrower in connection with the
defense of such action or (2) the Borrower shall not have properly employed
counsel reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Party to have charge of the
defense of such action, in which case such fees and expenses shall be paid by
the Borrower. If an Indemnified Party shall have reasonably concluded (based
upon the advice of counsel) that the representation by one counsel of such
Indemnified Party and the Borrower creates a conflict of interest for such
counsel, the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel shall be borne by the
Borrower and the Borrower shall not have the right to direct the defense of such
action on behalf of such Indemnified Party (but shall retain the right to direct
the defense of such action on behalf of the Borrower). Anything in this Section
8.08 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Borrower shall not be liable for the
fees and expenses of more than one counsel for any Indemnified Party in any
jurisdiction as to any Indemnified Matter or for any settlement of any
Indemnified Matter effected without its written consent. All obligations of the
Borrower under this Section 8.08 shall survive the making and repayment of the
Advances and the termination of this Agreement.
SECTION 8.09. Confidentiality. Subject to the provisions of Section
8.07(f), each Lender shall, and shall instruct its Affiliates, successors,
assigns, advisors, officers, employees, directors, agents, legal counsel and
other professional advisors (the "Informed Parties") to, hold all nonpublic
information obtained pursuant to this Agreement in accordance with its customary
procedures for handling confidential information of this nature and in
accordance with safe and sound banking practices and in any event may make
disclosure reasonably required by a bona fide transferee or participant in
connection with the contemplated transfer or participation or to another Lender
or an Informed Party
agreeing to hold such nonpublic information as confidential or as required or
requested by law or to any governmental authority or representative thereof or
pursuant to legal process; provided that unless specifically prohibited by
applicable law or court order, each Lender shall notify the Borrower of any
request by any governmental authority or representative thereof (other than any
such request in connection with an examination of the financial condition of
such Lender by such governmental authority) for disclosure of any such nonpublic
information prior to disclosure of such information; and provided further that
in no event shall any Lender be obligated or required to return any materials
furnished by the Borrower.
SECTION 8.10. Judgment. (a) If for the purposes of obtaining
judgment in any court it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder in Dollars
into another currency, the parties hereto agree, to the fullest extent that they
may effectively do so, that the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in
accordance with normal banking procedures the Administrative Agent could
purchase Dollars with such other currency at Citibank's principal office in
London at 11:00 A.M. (London time) on the Business Day preceding that on which
final judgment is given.
(b) If for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court it is
necessary to convert a sum due hereunder in a Committed Currency into Dollars,
the parties agree to the fullest extent that they may effectively do so, that
the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal
banking procedures the Administrative Agent could purchase such Committed
Currency with Dollars at Citibank's principal office in London at 11:00 A.M.
(London time) on the Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is
(c) The obligation of the Borrower in respect of any sum due from it
in any currency (the "Primary Currency") to any Lender or the Administrative
Agent hereunder shall, notwithstanding any judgment in any other currency, be
discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by such
Lender or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be), of any sum adjudged to
be so due in such other currency, such Lender or the Administrative Agent (as
the case may be) may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the
applicable Primary Currency with such other currency; if the amount of the
applicable Primary Currency so purchased is less than such sum due to such
Lender or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) in the applicable
Primary Currency, the Borrower agrees, as a separate obligation and
notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify such Lender or the
Administrative Agent (as the case may be) against such loss, and if the amount
of the applicable Primary Currency so purchased exceeds such sum due to any
Primary Currency, such Lender or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be)
agrees to remit to the Borrower such excess.
SECTION 8.11. Consent to Jurisdiction and Service of Process. All
judicial proceedings brought against the Borrower with respect to this Agreement
or any instrument or other documents delivered hereunder may be brought in any
state or federal court in the Borough of Manhattan in the State of New York, and
by execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Borrower accepts, for itself
and in connection with its properties, generally and unconditionally, the
nonexclusive jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts, and irrevocably agrees to be
bound by any final judgment rendered thereby in connection with this Agreement
or any instrument or other document delivered hereunder from which no appeal has
been taken or is available. The Borrower agrees to receive service of process
in any such proceeding in any such court at its office at 500 Park Avenue, New
York, New York 10022, Attention: Kenneth E. Newman (or at such other address in
the Borough of Manhattan in the State of New York as the Borrower shall notify
the Administrative Agent from time to time) and, if the Borrower ever ceases to
maintain such office in the Borough of Manhattan, irrevocably designates and
appoints CT Corporation System, 1633 Broadway, New York, New York 10019, or any
other address in the State of New York communicated by CT Corporation System to
the Administrative Agent, as its agent to receive on its
behalf service of all process in any such proceeding in any such court, such
service being hereby acknowledged by the Borrower to be effective and binding
service in every respect.
SECTION 8.12. Substitution of Currency. If a change in any Committed
Currency occurs pursuant to any applicable law, rule or regulation of any
governmental, monetary or multi-national authority, this Agreement (including,
without limitation, the definition of Eurocurrency Rate) will be amended to the
extent determined by the Administrative Agent (acting reasonably, in
consultation with the Borrower and in accordance with the terms of Section 8.01
hereof) to be necessary to reflect the change in currency and to put the Lenders
and the Borrower in the same position, so far as possible, that they would have
been in if no change in such Committed Currency had occurred.
SECTION 8.13. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by,
and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
SECTION 8.14. Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be
executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in
separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an
original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same
agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this
Agreement by telecopier shall be effective as delivery of an original executed
counterpart of this Agreement. A full set of executed counterparts of this
Agreement shall be lodged with the Administrative Agent and the Borrower.
SECTION 8.15. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is
prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction,
be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without
invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceablity in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable
such provision in any other jurisdiction.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized,
as of the date first above written.
THE BORROWER
CITICORP USA, INC.,
THE SYNDICATION AGENT
THE CO-DOCUMENTATION AGENTS
HSBC BANK USA,
as Co-Documentation Agent
SUNTRUST BANK,
INITIAL LENDERS
$187,500,000.00 CITICORP USA, INC.
$137,500,000.00 BANK ONE, NA
$137,500,000.00 HSBC BANK USA
$137,500,000.00 SUNTRUST BANK
$137,500,000.00 BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
$137,500,000.00 CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON
$137,500,000.00 THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK
$92,500,000.00 BANCA COMMERCIALE ITALIANA,
LOS ANGELES FOREIGN BRANCH
$92,500,000.00 BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS
$92,500,000.00 BARCLAYS BANK PLC
$92,500,000.00 DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK
AND/OR CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCHES
$92,500,000.00 STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
$75,000,000.00 BANK OF MONTREAL
$75,000,000.00 THE BANK OF NEW YORK
$75,000,000.00 FLEET NATIONAL BANK
$62,500,000.00 BANCA DI ROMA - SAN FRANCISCO
$62,500,000.00 THE FUJI BANK, LIMITED
$62,500,000.00 THE SANWA BANK, LIMITED
$62,500,000.00 WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
$37,500,000.00 FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK
$37,500,000.00 ING BANK N.V.
$37,500,000.00 LEHMAN COMMERCIAL PAPER, INC.
$37,500,000.00 MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY
OF NEW YORK
$37,500,000.00 NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED
$37,500,000.00 THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY
$37,500,000.00 UNION BANK OF CALIFORNIA, N.A.
$37,500,000.00 WACHOVIA BANK, N.A.
$2,250,000,000.00 TOTAL COMMITMENTS
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U.S.A. License Agreement - Ricky Lauren, Mark N. Kaplan and Cosmair Inc.
RESTATED U.S.A. LICENSE AGREEMENT
Dated as of January 1, 1985
-between-
RICKY LAUREN AND MARK N. KAPLAN,
as Licensor
COSMAIR, INC.,
as Licensee
SECTION: Page
Recitals...............................................................1
1. Definitions......................................................2
2. License..........................................................5
3. Term of License.................................................11
4. Royalty.........................................................11
5. Records and Reports.............................................15
6. Representations and Warranties..................................18
7. Additional Covenants............................................20
8. Relationship of Parties.........................................30
9. Termination.....................................................30
10. Assignment......................................................36
11. Arbitration, Equitable Remedies and Damages.....................36
12. Licensor's Right of Approval....................................37
13. Further Assurances..............................................38
14. Notices.........................................................38
15. Binding Effect..................................................39
16. Governing Law...................................................39
17. Entire Agreement................................................40
18. Severability....................................................40
19. Counterparts....................................................40
RESTATED
U.S.A. LICENSE AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT dated as of January 1, 1985 by and between RICKY
LAUREN and MARK N. KAPLAN as trustees under an agreement dated
September 21, 1976 (hereinafter referred to as the "Licensor"), with
a principal place of business at 1107 Fifth Avenue, New York, New
York 10028 and COSMAIR, INC. (the "Licensee"), with a place of
business at 530 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10036.
A. Ralph Lauren ("Lauren") is a leading designer of men's, women's
and children's apparel and related accessories:
B. Licensor owns, among others, the registered trademark in the
class of use and using the names "Polo" and "Ralph Lauren" shown an Schedule A-1
hereto, and Polo Fashions, Inc. ("PFI"), a New York corporation owned and
controlled by Lauren, owns, among others, the registered trademarks in the class
of use and using the names "Ralph Lauren", "Polo" and "Chaps" shown on Schedule
A-2 hereto.
C. Licensor and Warner/Lauren Ltd. entered into an agreement (the
"U.S.A. License Agreement") dated as of November 22, 1976 (executed on June 30,
1978) relating to the manufacture, distribution and sale in the United States of
America of fragrances, cosmetics and related products under certain trade names,
trademarks and/or product names owned and used by Licensor and its affiliates.
Pursuant to a stock purchase agreement dated January 13, 1984 and a subsequent
series of corporate targets and restructurings, Licensee has assured all the
rights, duties and obligations of Warner/Lauren Ltd. under the U.S.A. License
and other related agreements, as evidenced by a certain Assumption Agreement
dated September 13, 1984.
D. It is the desire and intention of the parties to this Agreement
to amend and restate the provisions of the U.S.A. License Agreement, which
previously has been formally amended on three occasions, and to set forth in one
document the respective rights, duties and obligations of Licensor and Licensee
from this date forth, in connection with the grant to Licensee of the sole and
exclusive rights to use certain Names (as hereinafter defined) as trade names,
trademarks and/or product names in the manufacture, use and sale of men's and
women's fragrances, scents, cosmetic preparations, personal hygiene products and
toiletries, including, without limitation, those described in Schedule B annexed
hereto and made a part hereof (the "Licensed Products") in the Territory (as
hereinafter defined).
IN CONSIDERATION of the foregoing premises and of the mutual
covenants herein contained, the parties agree as follows:
1. Definitions.
Certain words and terms as used in this Agreement shall have the
meanings given to them by the definitions and descriptions in this paragraph,
and such definitions shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural
forms of any of the words and terms herein defined.
"Affiliates" shall mean all persons or business entities, whether
corporations, partnerships, joint ventures or otherwise, which now or hereafter
own, or are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly by Licensee.
"Chaps Royalty" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in
paragraph 4.4 of this Agreement.
"Chaps Royalty Products" shall mean those Royalty Products which are
not Cosmetic Royalty Products and which are marketed as part of the line which
bears the Chaps name.
"Cosmetic Royalty Products" shall mean those Royalty Products which
are cosmetic preparations, including specifically the ones described under the
caption Cosmetic Preparations in Schedule B annexed hereto.
"Cosmetics Royalty" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in
"Current Names" shall mean "Ralph Lauren", "Lauren", "Monogram",
"Tuxedo", "Chaps" and "Polo" and all combinations and forms of such names.
"Design Agreement" shall mean the U.S.A. Design and Consulting
Agreement dated the date hereof between Ralph Lauren, individually and d/b/a
Ralph Lauren Design Studio and Licensee.
"Full Priced Royalty Products" shall have the meaning assigned to
that term in paragraph 4.6(c) of this Agreement.
"Launch Line" shall mean the first collection of products to bear a
newly developed Special Name.
"Lauren" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in recital A
"License" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in paragraph
2.2 of this Agreement.
"Licensed Products" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in
recital D to this Agreement.
"Licensee" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in the
preamble to this Agreement.
"Licensor" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in the
"Names" shall mean the Current Names and all trade names and
trademarks currently or hereafter used by Licensor or Lauren, or by any business
entity owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by any of them, including,
without limitation, PFI, for or in connection with any line of clothing designed
by or for Lauren or under his supervision or control.
"Net Sales" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in
paragraph 4.6(b) of this Agreement.
"PFI" shall mean Polo Fashions, Inc., a New York corporation
controlled by Lauren.
"Promotion Products" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in
paragraph 4.6(d) of this Agreement.
"Regular Royalty" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in
"Royalty" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in paragraph
"Royalty Products" shall mean Licensed Products sold or marketed by
Licensee or its Affiliates under trade names, trademarks or product names
licensed under this Agreement.
"Royalty Statement" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in
"Semi-Annual Accounting Period" shall have the meaning assigned to
that term in paragraph 4.6(a) of this Agreement.
"Special Name" shall have the meaning assigned to that term in
paragraph 2.5(a)(ii) of this Agreement.
"Territory" shall mean the United States of America, its territories
and possessions (including, without limitation Puerto Rico) and any military
bases and duty free shops situated therein.
2.1 The U.S.A. License Agreement is hereby superseded, and the
rights, duties and obligations of the parties from this date forth shall be
governed by this Agreement; provided that Licensee's obligations prior to this
date shall continue to be governed by the U.S.A. License Agreement and Licensee
shall remit royalties with respect to sales of Licensed Products made prior to
this date (including accrued royalties) as required under the U.S.A. License
2.2 The Licensor grants to the Licensee the exclusive right,
license and privilege (the "License") to use the Names in any form or forms and
any and all crests, symbols, logos and identifying marks (including, without
limitation, the likeness of Ralph Lauren) associated with the Names, and all
other names and marks which the Licensor, Lauren, PFI or any business entity
which is now or hereafter owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by them
may hereafter develop or own (except such other names and marks as are not used
in connection with any fashion related product), as trade names and/or
trademarks and/or product names, whether or not registered or registrable with
any government authority, in connection with the manufacture, sale, marketing,
use, and other commercial exploitation of the Licensed Products in the
Territory. The License shall be exclusive even as to the Licensor. Except as
otherwise specifically provided herein, it is understood and agreed that the
License applies solely to the use of the Names in connection with Licensed
Products and that no use of the Names on any other products or outside of the
Territory is authorized or permitted.
2.3 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in
paragraph 2.2 hereof or elsewhere in this Agreement:
(a) Licensee shall not, without the prior written
consent of Licensor, use a Name as a trade name, trademark or product name
for any of the following products or any similar product: false
fingernails, mouthwash/breath freshener/throat lozenges, therapeutic
(excluding over-the-counter cosmetics), feminine hygiene deodorant,
douches, eye drops, appliances and devices; and
(b) If any of the Names or any combinations or forms of
words using any of the Names are used by any of Licensee's Affiliates as a
corporate name, such Affiliate (using such name) shall first execute a
letter agreement in the form set forth on Schedule C annexed hereto.
2.4 The Licensee shall have the right to assign or transfer
the License only as provided in paragraph 10.2 hereof.
paragraph 2.2 or elsewhere in this Agreement:
(a) If after the date hereof Licensor or Lauren or any
business entity owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by either of
them, proposes to use a Special Name (as hereinafter defined) as a trade
name or trademark for or in connection with any line of clothing or line
of other fashion related product, the following provisions will apply:
(i) Licensor will (x) notify Licensee promptly
after a decision has been made to use such a Special Name as
aforesaid, which notice shall set forth the Special Name proposed to
be used and shall describe, to the extent then practicable, the line
of clothing or other fashion related product with respect to which
such Special Name is proposed to be used and the proposed retail and
wholesale price range, quality and method of marketing such line of
clothing or other fashion
related product and (y) notify Licensee promptly after the Launch
Line of such clothing or Launch Line of such other fashion related
product has been initially shipped to retailers and other major
customers, which notice will provide such other and additional
information as is then available with respect to the proposed retail
and wholesale price range of such product and the quality and method
of distribution of the same and will include a full and complete
description of all orders received and merchandise shipped with
respect to each item in the Launch Line;
(ii) Licensee shall have a period of ninety (90) days
from the date of its receipt of the notice referred to in clause (y)
of subparagraph 2.5(a)(i) (and no fewer than one hundred eighty
(180) days from the date of its receipt of the notice referred to in
clause (x) of said subparagraph 2.5(a)(i) to give notice (the
"Licensee's Notice") to Licensor that Licensee intends to use the
Special Name as a trade name or trademark for a line of Licensed
Products to be marketed by Licensee and/or its Affiliates. If
Licensee timely gives Licensor the Licensee's Notice, Licensee shall
have a period of two (2) years from the date on which Licensee's
Notice is so given to commence shipment to retailers or other
customers in the Territory of a Launch Line of Licensed Products
marketed under the Special Name (as a trademark or trade name).
Licensor will cooperate in all reasonable manners and respects to
enable Licensee to so commence to distribute such a line of
Licensed Products within the aforesaid two (2) year period. Such
line of Licensed Products shall, when so marketed, constitute
Royalty Products and all of the provisions contained in this
Agreement with respect to Royalty Products, including the provisions
of paragraph 7.2(a) hereof, shall apply with respect thereto;
(iii) If Licensee has duly received each of the notices
referred to in subparagraph 2.5(a)(i) and if Licensee has failed to
timely give Licensor Licensee's Notice or, having timely given
Licensee's Notice, Licensee has failed within the two (2) year
period provided for in subparagraph 2.5(a)(ii) to commence shipment
to retailers or other customers of the Launch Line of Licensed
Products, as aforesaid (provided that Licensor and Lauren shall have
cooperated in all reasonable manners and respects to enable Licensee
to so commence to distribute such Launch Line of Licensed Products
within the said two (2) year period) then, and in such event, (x)
Licensee shall not thereafter have the right, license and privilege
to use such Special Name as a trade name, trademark or product name
for or in connection with the manufacture, sale, marketing or other
exploitation of Licensed Products, and (y) the Special Name shall
not after such failure to give notice or the expiration of such two
(2) year period be covered by the provisions of this Agreement, but
this Agreement shall not otherwise be
affected thereby and shall for all other purposes remain in full
force and effect and binding upon the parties hereto.
The term "Special Name" shall mean a Name and all crests, symbols,
logos and identifying marks associated with the Name except (x) any Current Name
and any crest, symbol, logo and identifying mark (including, without limitation,
the likeness of Ralph Lauren) associated with a Current Name and any name,
crest, symbol, logo and identifying mark which would be confusingly similar
thereto, (y) any Name and any crest, symbol, logo and identifying mark
associated therewith hereafter, at any time, used by Licensee, its Affiliates or
sub-licensees as a trade name, trademark or product name for a Royalty Product
and any name, crest, symbol, logo and identifying mark which would be
confusingly similar thereto, and (z) any Name if Lauren is or is to be referred
to or described in any packaging, advertisement or other promotion of any
Licensed Product marketed under such Name (as a trade name, trademark or product
name) as the creator, designer or developer of such Licensed Product, or if
Lauren or PFI are or are to be referred to in any such packaging, advertisement
or other promotion as the owner, manufacturer or distributor of the same;
(b) Licensee may propose to Licensor new trademarks,
tradenames or product names for use in connection with products Licensee
wishes to commercialize in conjunction with the name or likeness of Ralph
Lauren. Licensee shall not commence use of any such trademarks, tradenames
or product names unless Licensor shall have prior thereto expressly
the same in writing, in its sole discretion, in which event Licensee shall
file to register or have registered, in the name of Licensor and at
Licensee's expense, such trademarks, trade name or product names in
accordance with paragraph 7.1 of this Agreement.
3. Term of License.
The term of the License and this Agreement shall continue in
perpetuity, unless and until terminated in accordance with article 9 hereof.
4. Royalty.
4.1 In consideration of the License, the Licensee shall pay to
the Licensor sums equal to the following: the "Regular Royalty", the "Cosmetics
Royalty" and the "Chaps Royalty", all of which shall collectively be referred to
as the "Royalty".
4.2 The Regular Royalty shall be equal to [***] percent [***]
of the Licensee's Net Sales excluding that portion of Net Sales attributable to
(i) Cosmetic Royalty Products and (ii) Chaps Royalty Products.
4.3 The Cosmetics Royalty shall be equal to the following
percentages of Licensee's Net Sales of Cosmetic Royalty Products for the
calendar years indicated:
Calendar Year Royalty Percentage
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1985 [***]
1986 and 1987 [***]
1989 and thereafter [***]
4.4 The Chaps Royalty shall be equal to [***] percent [***] of
Licensee's Net Sales of Chaps Royalty Products for calendar year 1985 and to
[***] percent [***] of Licensee's Net Sales of Chaps Royalty Products for
calendar year 1986 and each year thereafter.
4.5 The Regular Royalty, the Cosmetics Royalty and the Chaps
Royalty shall be paid as follows: With respect to each Semi-Annual Accounting
Period, the entire Regular Royalty, Cosmetics Royalty and Chaps Royalty for such
Semi-Annual Accounting Period shall be paid on or before the last day of the
month next following the end of such Semi-Annual Accounting Period.
4.6 The following terms, as used in this Agreement, shall have
the meanings hereinafter set forth:
(a) The term "Semi-Annual Accounting Period" as used
herein shall mean each 6-month period ending June 30 and December 31 of
each year during the term of this Agreement, except that the first
Semi-Annual Accounting Period hereunder shall be the period from the date
hereof through June 30, 1985.
(b) The term "Net Sales" as used herein shall have the
gross sales made by or through Licensee and its Affiliates to retailers or
to ultimate consumers (as in the case of accommodation sales to their
respective employees and to others) of Full-Priced Royalty Products,
excluding amounts received for shipping charges and sales, excise or other
taxes which are collected by them, and less all allowances, discounts,
returns and bad debts. The term "bad debts" as used in this subparagraph
shall mean accounts receivable of Licensee and its Affiliates arising from
the aforesaid sales of Full-Priced Royalty Products which have not been
paid within 120 days after the due date; provided, however, that if any
bad debt is subsequently collected, then, and in such event, the amount
thereafter collected on account of such bad debt shall, upon collection,
be included in Licensee's Net Sales for the period collected. Sales of
Licensed Products between Licensee and its Affiliates (or persons, firms,
corporations or businesses with rights to use the Names on Licensed
Products outside the Territory), or between said Affiliates, shall not be
included in the calculation of the Company's Net Sales, provided such
sales are made solely for the purpose of further re-sale.
(c) The term, "Full-Priced Royalty Products" as used
herein shall mean all Royalty Products except (i) display materials,
samples and dummies and (ii) Promotion Products.
(d) The term "Promotion Products" shall mean Royalty
Products which are sold to retailers (x) at a price yielding less than the
mark-up or profit margin generally realized by the Licensee or its
Affiliates upon the sale by them to retailers of Royalty Products (y) to
enable such retailers to re-sell such products to ultimate consumers in
conjunction with the sale by such retailers to ultimate consumers of other
Royalty Products (which are not Promotion Products), and (z) for the
purpose of promoting the sale of such other Royalty Products; provided,
however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Cost of Goods (as
hereinafter defined) to Licensee or its Affiliates (as the case may be) of
a Royalty Product is not greater than [***] percent [***] of the price at
which such product is sold by them to retailers, then, and in such event,
such Royalty Product shall not be deemed a Promotion Product. The Cost of
Goods of a Royalty Product shall include and consist of (i) the variable
costs of materials (including packaging, components, chemicals) and all
other manufacturing costs directly traceable to the production of units of
the Royalty Product, (ii) all direct labor costs, and (iii) an appropriate
allocation of all fixed costs consisting of all manufacturing costs and
overhead not traceable to specific units of production (such as rent,
heat, plant manager, etc.), all in conformity with normal industry
practice. Licensee shall sell or give away products which are not Royalty
Products in conjunction with Royalty Products only with Licensor's prior
approval (or with Lauren's approval given pursuant to paragraphs 2(h) and
4(f) of the Design Agreement), to be exercised in Licensor's sole
discretion. Sales of such products shall nevertheless be subject to
royalty payments pursuant to this
paragraph 4 unless otherwise agreed by Licensor and Licensee or unless
such products are purchased from licensees of PFI and Lauren or their
Affiliates in transactions from which PFI and Lauren or their Affiliates
will derive their full royalty and compensation (as the case may be) fees
or unless the Cost of Goods of such products to Licensee or its Affiliates
(as the case may be) is greater than [***] percent [***] of the price at
which such products are sold by them to retailers. Upon Licensor's
request, Licensor and Licensee shall review periodically Licensee's
promotional practices hereunder, and should said review reveal that
Licensee is deriving excess profits or sales of said non-Royalty
Products, Licensor and Licensee shall negotiate in good faith an
appropriate royalty to be paid in connection with said sales.
5. Records and Reports.
5.1 With each payment of a Royalty made pursuant to article 4
hereof, Licensee shall furnish to Licensor a statement (the "Royalty Statement")
which shall show for the relevant period, separately with respect to each range
of Royalty Products and each kind of Promotion Product, the aggregate amount of
Licensee's gross sales and Licensee's Net Sales of the same and the aggregate
amount of Licensee's returns of and allowances for such product. Each Royalty
Statement shall contain a separate certificate by an officer of Licensee to the
effect that Promotion Products referred to therein as sold by Licensee comprised
"Promotion Products" as defined in this Agreement. Licensor shall have a period
of one (1) year after receipt of each Royalty Statement to object thereto by
delivering to Licensee a
written statement ("Notice of Disagreement") setting forth in detail the item or
items objected to and the Licensor's reasons therefor, except that Licensor
shall have a period of two (2) years after receipt of a Royalty Statement to
assert a claim (by a Notice of Disagreement) that Promotion Products referred to
in the Royalty Statement were in fact Full Priced Royalty Products. If Licensor
does not timely object to items set forth in a Royalty Statement by delivering a
Notice of Disagreement within the time allowed, such items contained in the
Royalty Statement as to which timely objection was not made shall be deemed to
be conclusive and binding upon Licensor and Licensee.
In addition to the above information, each Royalty Statement shall
set forth (i) with respect to each account receivable of the Licensee
constituting a bad debt (as hereinabove defined) the following information: the
name and address of the account receivable debtor, the amount of the account
receivable of such debtor constituting a bad debt and the date of the invoice or
bill which remains unpaid in whole or in part (thereby creating the bad debt)
and (ii) with respect to each bad debt from a prior accounting period which was
collected during the accounting period covered by a Royalty Statement, the
following information: the name and address of the account receivable debtor,
the amount of the bad debt from a prior accounting period which was collected
during the accounting period covered by the Royalty Statement and the date of
the earlier Royalty Statement on which the bad debt had been charged against
Licensee's Net Sales.
5.2 During the term of this Agreement, Licensee shall keep at
its office complete and accurate books and records pertaining to Licensee's
obligations hereunder. Such books and records shall show, by kind, quantity and
name of customer, (i) the dollar volume of all sales of Royalty Products and
Promotion Products made by Licensee and its Affiliates within the Territory,
(ii) the Cost of Goods of Promotion Products and (iii) the accounts receivable
and bad debts of Licensee.
Licensor shall have and is hereby granted the right, to be exercised
no more frequently than once in any Semi-Annual Accounting Period, to have
Licensee's said books and records examined by a certified public accountant or
other representative selected by Licensor for the purpose of verifying the
Royalty Statements. Licensee shall permit access to its books and records for
the purpose of such examination during the normal hours of business upon receipt
of notice from Licensor not less than five (5) business days in advance of the
requested date of examination. Such examination requested by Licensor shall be
made at Licensor's sole cost and expense, except that if upon any such
examination Licensor shall determine and demonstrate that the amount of
Licensee's Net Sales as set forth in a Royalty Statement has been understated by
no more than three percent (3%) then, and in such event, Licensee shall
reimburse Licensor for the fair and reasonable cost of Licensor of its
examination of Licensee's books and records for the period covered by such
understated Royalty Statement.
6. Representations and Warranties.
6.1 Licensor hereby makes the following representations and
warranties to Licensee:
(a) As of November 22, 1976 Licensor was the sole owner
of the trademark "Polo by Ralph Lauren," United States Patent Office
Registration No. 1,021,368 covering certain products in U.S. Class 51 (as
more fully set forth on Schedule A-1 hereto).
As of November 22, 1976, PFI was the registered owner of, and
Lauren had consented to the use of his name in connection with the registration
of, the trademarks (i) "Polo (with design) by Ralph Lauren," United States
Patent Office Registration No. 978,166 covering certain products in U.S. Class
39, (ii) "Ralph Lauren" (and Polo Player Design), United States Patent Office
Registration No. 984,005 covering certain products in U.S. Class 39, (iii)
"Chaps by Ralph Lauren," United States Patent Office Registration No. 1,016,955
covering certain products in U.S. Class 39, and (iv) "Polo by Ralph Lauren"
covering certain products in Class 26. PFI and Lauren, by written instrument
duly and fully executed by them, have consented to, and have agreed to interpose
no objection to, the registration, use and licensing of the foregoing
trademarks, the Names and all other names and marks which either or both (or any
business entity which is now or hereafter owned or controlled, directly or
indirectly, by either or both of them), may hereafter develop or own (except
such other names and marks as are not used in connection with any fashion
related product) in connection with the manufacture
and/or distribution and sale of Licensed Products by Licensee and its
Affiliates, as contemplated by this Agreement;
(b) Licensor has the full right, power and authority to
execute and deliver, and perform the terms of, this Agreement and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not
violate any agreement to which Licensor is a party or by which it may be
bound;
(c) Without limiting the generality of the last
preceding subparagraph, Licensor has the full right to grant the License.
Licensor is not a party to or bound by any agreement in conflict herewith
or with any provision hereof. Licensor has not granted to any other
person, firm, corporation or business any right, license or privilege to
use in the Territory the Names or associated crests, symbols, logos or
identifying marks or any name, crest, symbol, logo or identifying mark
which would be confusingly similar thereto in connection with any Licensed
Product, or which would have the effect of infringing upon the exclusivity
of the License granted to Licensee hereunder;
(d) Schedules A-1 and A-2 annexed hereto contain a full
and complete list of all registrations existing as of November 22, 1976
covering the Current Names and associated crests, symbols, logos and
identifying marks in the class of use owned by or registered in the name
of Licensor, Lauren and/or PFI in any part of the world; and
(e) To the best of Licensor's knowledge as of November
22, 1976 (without any representation of an investigation having been made
as of such date) no persons other than Licensor, Lauren or PFI had as of
November 22, 1976 any trade name, trademark or similar right or interest
in or to the "Ralph Lauren," "Polo" and "Chaps" Names as applied to
Licensed Products in the Territory.
6.2 Licensee hereby makes the following representations and
warranties to Licensor:
(a) Licensee has the full power and authority to enter
into this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated hereunder will not violate
any agreement to which Licensee is a party or by which it may be bound;
(b) This Agreement constitutes a valid and binding
obligation of Licensee, enforceable in accordance with its terms.
7. Additional Covenants.
7.1 Licensor covenants and agrees as follows:
(a) Except as expressly provided in paragraph 2.5 of
this Agreement and only on the terms and conditions set forth therein,
Licensor will not, and will not permit any business entity owned or
controlled by it to, grant any persons, firm, corporation or business
(other than Licensee) any right, license or privilege to use in the
Territory the Names or associated crests, symbols, logos or identifying
marks or any name, crest, symbol, logo
or identifying mark which would be confusingly similar thereto in
connection with any Licensed Product, or which would have the effect of
infringing upon the exclusivity of the License granted to Licensee
hereunder;
(b) (i) For the purpose of this paragraph, the term
"First Trademarks" shall mean and refer to, collectively, the
trademarks "POLO," "RALPH LAUREN" and the representation of a polo
player on a horse as exemplified by the showing in Registration Nos.
1,050,722 and 1,053,873. Licensor shall have the right, to be
exercised in its sole discretion, to control the prosecution of each
application to register the First Trademarks in the United States
Patent and Trademark Office, including the right to seek either
appellate or de novo review of any final administrative
determination by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
(ii) If Licensee suffers or incurs any losses, damages,
liabilities or expenses which would not have been suffered or
incurred if PFI (rather than Licensor) had owned the Names and had
applied for registration of the First Trademarks, Licensor hereby
indemnifies and holds Licensee harmless from any and all such
losses, damages, liabilities and expenses (including, without
limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees and disbursements) paid or
incurred, provided, however, that any such loss, damage, liability
or expense is paid or incurred by Licensee before PFI has filed
applications in its
own name for registration of the First Trademarks. In the event any
claim is made or accrued (to Licensee's knowledge) against Licensee
which comes within the indemnity set forth in this subparagraph,
Licensee will promptly notify Licensor of such claim. Thereafter,
Licensor shall have the right, at its own expense and with counsel
of its own choice, subject to the approval of Licensee, which
approval will not be unreasonably withheld, to assume the defense of
any such claim. Licensee agrees to cooperate fully in the defense of
any such claim and may, at its own expense and with counsel of its
own choice, participate in the defense of any such claim.
(c) During the term of this Agreement, Licensee shall
have and is hereby granted the right, without cost or expense to Licensor,
to file for registration of the Names as applied to the Licensed Products
in the Territory (it being understood that such registrations shall be
obtained in the names of Licensor or PFI or Lauren, if appropriate
pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 7.1(b) hereof) and, accordingly,
Licensor (or PFI or Lauren, as the case may be) shall have the right,
title and interest in any trade names or trademarks so registered subject
to the exclusive License of Licensee granted hereby). Licensee shall have
the right, to the extent permitted by law, to make application to register
Licensee as a permitted user or registered user of such trade names or
trademarks in the Territory and Licensor shall appoint Licensee as its
attorney-in-fact to apply for and register, in the name of
Licensor (or PFI or Lauren, if appropriate pursuant to the provisions of
paragraph 7.1(b) hereof), in the Territory all trade names and trademarks
which make use of the Names or are associated therewith as applied to
Licensed Products. Licensee shall provide Licensor with copies of all
applications filed and registrations obtained and shall include Licensor
on its or its trademark counsel's trademark watch and distribution list so
as to keep Licensor apprised of any applications, registrations,
oppositions and proceedings relating to the trade names and trademarks
which make use of the Names or are associated therewith. Licensor will
cooperate with Licensee in all manners and respects, but at Licensee's
expense, to enable Licensee to obtain the aforesaid registrations, and
Licensor will execute any further agreements, documents and instruments as
may be necessary to effect the same. Nothing herein shall (x) subject only
to the provisions of paragraph 2.5 of this Agreement, preclude Licensee
from using a Name for a Licensed Product in the Territory for the purposes
set forth in this Agreement without registration of the same [provided,
however, that Licensee will not use a name in the Territory without
registration of the same (except as may be necessary to establish use in
interstate commerce) if there is substantial risk, in Licensee's sole
judgment, that the use of such name by Licensee will infringe on the
rights of third persons who are unaffiliated with Licensor, Lauren or PFI
and whose rights or claimed rights to such name do not arise after the
date of this Agreement or by reason of a grant or claimed grant from
Licensor,
Lauren, PFI or an entity owned or controlled by any of them], or (y)
preclude Licensor from filing, at Licensor's own cost and expense, for
registration of any of the Names in the Territory. Nothing contained in
this subparagraph 7.1(c) shall be construed to limit the obligations of
Licensor under subparagraph 7.1(b) of this Agreement; if any Name is
registered in the Territory, at Licensee's request Licensor will promptly
execute and return to Licensee a letter confirming that such trade name or
trademark is covered by this Agreement.
(d) Licensor will not, during the term of this Agreement
or at any time thereafter, disclose to any person, firm, corporation or
business (other than a person, firm, corporation or business with rights
to use the Names on Licensed Products outside the Territory, if required
in connection with a program for Licensed Products outside the Territory)
any confidential information (including, without limitation, customer
lists) concerning the conduct of the business and affairs of Licensee or
of any Affiliate of Licensee which Licensor may have acquired during the
course of this Agreement except as may be required pursuant to law and
then only upon advance notice to Licensee;
(e) Licensor shall protect, indemnify and save harmless
Licensee and each of Licensee's officers, directors, employees and agents
against any and all liabilities, claims, damages, penalties, causes of
action, costs and expense, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising
the breach or material inaccuracy of any of the representations,
warranties, covenants and agreements of Licensor contained in this
Agreement. Licensee shall have the right in its discretion, and with
counsel of its own choosing, to take any action, legal or otherwise, in
its own name and/or in the name of Licensor, at Licensee's discretion, to
protect any trade name or trademark covered by the License from
infringement, counterfeiting or passing off. Prior to taking any such
action, Licensee shall advise Licensor of its intention to commence the
proposed action and thereafter at Licensor's request, shall promptly
furnish Licensor with copies of relevant documents and keep Licensor
advised of developments relating to the action. Licensor shall cooperate
with Licensee and, if requested, shall join as a plaintiff in any such
action with counsel designated by Licensee. Any legal expenses incurred in
the prosecution of such action shall be borne by, and any money recoveries
received as a result of such action shall belong to, Licensee; provided,
however, that the net amount of any such recovery upon a final,
non-appealable judgment, after deducting the aggregate amount of all and
every cost and expense of such an action (including attorney's fees, court
costs, printing fees, witness fees, etc.), shall be included in Licensee's
Net Sales for the purpose of calculating the Royalty;
(f) Licensor acknowledges that the Current Names have
established prestige and good will in the field of fashion apparel and
that it is of major importance to Licensee that the high standards and
reputation of
the Current Names be maintained. Licensor will not take any action which
would be likely to injure or damage the reputation for high quality which
has come to be associated with the Current Names. Licensee shall not be
entitled to damages by reason of Licensor's breach or default of its
obligations under this paragraph 7.1(f) and Licensee's sole remedy shall
be to terminate this Agreement pursuant to paragraph 9.1(b) hereof;
(g) If Licensor hereafter registers any new Name in any
part of the world, Licensor will promptly thereafter advise Licensee; and
(h) At the request of Licensee, Licensor will from time
to time, at no cost or expense to Licensee, deliver promptly to Licensee
(i) instruments executed by Licensor granting to Licensee the exclusive
license in and to each trade name or trademark (for the classes of use
contemplated by this Agreement) used by Licensee hereunder for a Royalty
Product and/or instruments evidencing such grant, which instruments shall
be in form and substance, satisfactory to Licensee's trademark counsel in
such counsel's reasonable judgment, (ii) short form agreements of this
Agreement (for records and other reasonable purposes), provided that the
same shall be in all respects consistent with the rights and obligations
hereunder, of, respectively, Licensor and Licensee, and (iii) such other
and additional documents and instruments as may reasonably be requested by
Licensee in furtherance of and to implement the purposes and provisions of
this Agreement and the transactions provided for herein.
7.2 Licensee covenants and agrees as follows:
(a) Licensee will diligently promote the sale of the
Royalty Products and will use its best efforts in this regard;
(b) It is understood that Licensor assumes no liability
to Licensee or third parties with respect to the performance
characteristics of the Royalty Products, and Licensee will protect,
defend, indemnify and save harmless Licensor, its employees and agents,
against any and all liabilities, claims, damages, penalties, cause of
action, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, for
product liability claims of third persons arising out of the use of such
products by such third persons. Licensee will carry product liability
insurance policies in such amount as Licensee, in its sole judgment and
discretion deem adequate and will cause Licensor and Lauren to be included
as additional named insureds under such policies and will provide Licensor
with copies of insurance certificates evidencing same;
(c) Licensee will not, during the term of this Agreement
or at any time thereafter, disclose to any person, firm, corporation, or
to use the Names on Licensed Products outside the Territory) any
confidential information concerning the conduct of the business and
affairs of Licensor which Licensee may have acquired during the course of
this Agreement except as may be required pursuant to law and then only
upon advance notice to Licensor;
(d) The Royalty Products shall be of high quality and
workmanship. For the purposes of ascertaining Licensee's compliance with
the last preceding sentence, Licensee will permit duly authorized
representatives of Licensor to inspect the Royalty Products and Licensee
shall upon request of Licensor submit to Licensor samples of all such
(e) Licensee acknowledges that the Current Names have
that it is of major importance to Licensor that in the manufacture,
advertising, distribution, promotion and sale of Royalty Products, the
high standards and reputation of the Current Names be maintained. Licensee
will not take any action which would be likely to injure or damage the
reputation for high quality which has come to be associated with the
Current Names. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Licensee
shall maintain the high prestige and good will of the Current Names in all
manufacturing, advertising, distribution, promotion and sale of the
Royalty Products. Licensor's remedies for breach or default by Licensee
under this paragraph 7.2(e) shall be limited to termination of this
Agreement pursuant to paragraph 9.1(a) hereof and/or injunctive relief;
(f) Licensee acknowledges that, except as set forth in
paragraph 6.1 hereof, Licensor has not represented to Licensee that
Licensor, Lauren or PFI have any trademarks, trade names or other rights
or interests in or to the Names or that persons other than Licensor,
Lauren or PFI have no
such trademarks, trade names or other rights or interests. If Licensee
uses any Name as a trademark, trade name or product name for a Royalty
Product without registration of the same (except as may be necessary to
establish its use in commerce) Licensee will protect, defend, and save
harmless Licensor, PFI and Lauren from and against any claims of third
persons for infringement, counterfeiting or passing off against them
arising out of the use of such unregistered Name provided that (x) in
connection therewith neither Licensor, Lauren nor PFI shall have
misrepresented to Licensee their rights or interests in or to such Name
whether in this Agreement or in any other instrument, and (y) such claim
shall not arise by reason of any action taken or not taken (as
contemplated by paragraph 7.1(b) of this Agreement) by Licensor, Lauren or
PFI in breach of any obligation they may have to Licensee whether arising
under this Agreement or under any other instrument; and
(g) Licensee shall protect, indemnify and save harmless
Licensor, Lauren and PFI and each of their employees and agents against
any and all liabilities, claims, damages, penalties, causes of action,
costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees and
disbursements, arising out of the breach or material inaccuracy of any of
the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of Licensee
contained in this Agreement.
8. Relationship of Parties.
This Agreement shall not create nor be considered to create the
relationship of master and servant, principal and agent, partnership or joint
venture between the parties hereto, and neither party shall be liable for any
obligation, liability, representation, negligent act or omission to act an the
part of the other except as expressly set forth herein.
9. Termination.
9.1 This Agreement and License shall continue in full force
and effect until terminated in one of the following ways, but in any event shall
terminate upon termination of the Design Agreement being executed simultaneously
herewith:
(a) By Licensor, in the event that (i) any royalty is
not paid by Licensee when due and such failure to pay is not cured within
ten (10) days following notice to the Licensee of such failure (unless
such payment is disputed by Licensee in good faith, in which event the
time to cure a failure to make payment shall begin after the rendition of
an unappealable final judgment by an arbitration panel or court of
competent jurisdiction), (ii) the Design Agreement being executed
simultaneously herewith is terminated pursuant to the provisions of
paragraph 8(a) thereof, (iii) in each of any two (2) consecutive fiscal
years of the Licensee commencing after December 31, 1986, the aggregate
sum of Licensee's Net Sales under this Agreement shall average less than
[***] dollars per year, (iv) Licensee fails
or refuses to maintain high standards of quality for Royalty Products as
provided by subparagraph 7.2(d) hereof, unless such failure or refusal is
cured within one hundred and twenty (120) days after notice of the same
has been given by Licensor (with respect to Products sold after the end of
such period), (v) Licensee makes an assignment for the benefit of
creditors or is adjudged in any legal proceeding to be a voluntary or
involuntary bankrupt, (vi) the representations of Licensee herein are not
true and correct in any material respect, or (vii) there shall be a
substantial breach by Licensee of any other material provision of this
Agreement which breach shall not have been cured within ninety (90) days
after Licensor shall have given Licensee notice of the same;
(b) By Licensee, in the event that (i) Licensee is
temporarily or permanently enjoined or restrained with respect to a
Royalty Product from using in any part of the United States any Current
Name or associated crest, symbol, logo or identifying mark as contemplated
by this Agreement and such injunction or restraint remains in effect for a
period of not less than thirty (30) days, (ii) the Design Agreement being
executed simultaneously herewith is terminated pursuant to the provisions
of paragraph 8(b) thereof, (iii) Licensor, Lauren or PFI makes an
assignment for the benefit of creditors or is adjudged in any legal
proceeding to be voluntarily or involuntarily bankrupt, (iv) the
representations of Licensor herein are not true and correct in any
material respect, or (v) there shall be a substantial
breach by Licensor of any other material provision of this Agreement,
which breach shall not have been cured within ninety (90) days after
Licensee shall have given Licensor notice of the same; and
(c) For the purposes of subparagraphs (a) and (b) of
this paragraph 9.1, a breach of this Agreement shall be deemed to be cured
if the course of conduct or omission comprising or causing such breach is
timely brought to an end whether or not the effects of such prior conduct
or omission continue thereafter.
9.2 The exercise by either party hereto of any of the
foregoing rights of termination shall not constitute a waiver of other rights
and remedies available to such terminating party, including, unless otherwise
specifically provided herein, any right to damages. The failure by either party
to insist upon the strict performance of any provision hereof shall not
constitute a waiver by such party of its right to strict performance of such
provision in the future nor shall a waiver of any right hereunder on any
occasion constitute a waiver of such right on any other occasion.
9.3 During the "Post Termination Period" referred to in
paragraph 9.4 hereof, Licensee may continue to sell Royalty Products which were
in inventory, in process, or for which written orders had been received from
customers, as of the date of termination of this Agreement. Upon the conclusion
of the Post-Termination Period (i) the License shall terminate and Licensee
shall be prohibited from making any further use of the Names or associated
crests, symbols, logos and
identifying marks, and (ii) all rights and interests in and to the Names shall
belong to and be the property of Licensor, and Licensee shall have no further or
continuing right or interest therein (subject only to the rights of Licensee
under paragraph 9.4 hereof).
9.4 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary elsewhere herein
contained, Licensor will not authorize or license anyone else to, and will not
permit any business entity owned or controlled by it to, (i) use any "Restricted
Name" (as hereinafter defined) for or in connection with a Licensed Product
marketed during the "Post-Termination Period" (as hereinafter defined), (ii)
grant any person, firm, corporation or business any right, license or privilege
to use during the Post-Termination Period any Restricted Name for or in
connection with a Licensed Product, (iii) use any "Restricted Package Design"
(as hereinafter defined) for a Licensed Product marketed during the
Post-Termination Period, or (iv) grant any person, firm, corporation or business
any right, license or privilege to use any Restricted Name for or in connection
with a Licensed Product unless such person, firm, corporation or business
agrees, for the benefit of Licensee, that it will not use a Restricted Package
Design during the Post-Termination Period. For the purposes of this paragraph
9.4, the term (x) "Restricted Name" shall mean each and any Name and associated
crest, symbol, logo or identifying mark used by Licensee as a trade name,
trademark or product name for or in connection with a Royalty Product prior to
the termination of this Agreement, (y) "Post Termination Period" shall mean the
period of one hundred and eighty (180) days after the date of termination of
Agreement if this Agreement is terminated by Licensor under the provisions of
subparagraph 9.1(a) hereof or the period of three hundred sixty-five (365) days
after the date of termination of this Agreement if this Agreement is terminated
by Licensee under the provisions of subparagraph 9.1(b) hereof, and (z)
"Restricted Package Design" shall mean the design of any cap, bottle and/or
carton used by Licensee for any Royalty Product prior to the termination of this
Agreement and any design for a cap, bottle and/or carton which would be
confusingly similar thereto. For the purposes of this paragraph 9.4 a product
shall be deemed to be marketed as of and on the date when a shipment is first
made to a retailer or other wholesale customer.
9.5 Within thirty (30) days following the date of termination
of this Agreement if this Agreement is terminated by Licensor under the
provisions of subparagraph 9.1(a) hereof and within one hundred eighty (180)
days after the date of termination of this Agreement if this Agreement is
terminated by Licensee under the provisions of subparagraph 9.1(b) hereof,
Licensee shall furnish to Licensor a certificate of Licensee listing its
inventories (and those of its Affiliates) of Royalty Products (which defined
term for purposes of this paragraph shall include all packaging which is used in
the manufacture and marketing of Royalty Products) on hand or in process
wherever situated. Licensor or Licensor's designee shall have the option (but
not the obligation) to purchase from Licensee and its Affiliates all of their
(and that of its Affiliates) then existing inventory of Royalty Products upon
the following terms and conditions:
(i) Licensor shall notify Licensee of its or its designee's
intention to exercise the foregoing option within 30 days of delivery of
the certificate referred to above.
(ii) The price for Royalty Products manufactured by Licensee
or its Affiliates on hand or in process shall be the Cost of Goods (as
defined in paragraph 4.6(d)) for each such Royalty Product. The price for
all other Royalty Products which are not manufactured by Licensee or its
Affiliates shall be the landed costs therefor. Landed costs for the
purposes hereof means the F.O.B. price of the Royalty Products together
with customs, duties, and brokerage, freight and insurance.
(iii) Within fifteen (15) days of receipt of the notice
referred to in clause (i) above, Licensee shall deliver or cause to be
delivered the Royalty Products purchased at a place to be signed by
Licensor. Payment of the purchase price for the Royalty Products so
purchased by Licensor or its designee shall be payable upon delivery
thereof, provided that Licensor shall be entitled to deduct from such
purchase price any amounts owed to it by Licensee. Notwithstanding
anything else to the contrary elsewhere herein contained, once Licensee
shall have received the notice referred to in clause (i) above, the
provisions contained in paragraph 9.4 hereof and in the first sentence of
paragraph 9.3 hereof shall no longer be applicable.
10. Assignment.
10.1 Licensor may assign its rights to royalties under this
Agreement, but such assignment shall not have the effect of releasing or
discharging Licensor from its obligations hereunder unless Licensee shall
expressly so agree in writing.
10.2 Licensee may assign its rights and obligations under this
Agreement only (i) to a transferee of substantially all of its business or
assets and upon the express assumption of all of Licensee's obligations
hereunder by such transferee or to a successor to Licensee's business by way of
merger, consolidation or other business combination or (ii) to an Affiliate, in
which case Licensee shall remain liable hereunder.
11. Arbitration, Equitable Remedies and Damages.
11.1 Any controversy, claim or dispute arising out of or
relating to this Agreement or breach thereof, except with respect to an
application pursuant to paragraph 11.2 hereof, shall be settled by binding
arbitration in accordance with the rules of the International Chamber of
Commerce, by three arbitrators selected in accordance with such rules, and
judgment upon any award so rendered may be entered in any court having
jurisdiction thereof. The arbitration shall be held in New York, New York.
Notice of arbitration shall be sufficient if made or given in accordance with
the provisions of article 14 hereof.
11.2 In the event of a breach or threatened breach of this
Agreement, any party hereto shall have the right, without the necessity of
proving any
actual damages, to obtain mandatory or permanent injunctive or mandatory relief
in a court of competent jurisdiction, it being the intention of the parties that
this Agreement be specifically enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law.
11.3 If the representations of Licensor contained herein are
not true and correct in any material respect or if there shall be a substantial
breach by Licensor of any covenant contained herein, which breach shall not have
been cured within ninety (90) days after Licensee shall have given Licensor
notice of the same then, and in such event, Licensee shall have the right, in
addition to any and all other rights and remedies the Licensee has against
Licensor by reason of the same, to set off any and all damages, costs, expenses,
losses and other injuries sustained by Licensee by reason of such
misrepresentation or breach against any sums payable by Licensee to Licensor
11.4 Neither Ricky Lauren nor Mark N. Kaplan, nor any prior or
successor trustee or trustees, shall assume any personal liability under this
Agreement, except for material misrepresentations herein contained, and the
Licensee is limited in any recovery to the assets of the Licensor.
12. Licensor's Right of Approval.
Licensor has been given the right of approval in this Agreement with
respect to various actions and classes of actions which may be taken or are
proposed to be taken by Licensee during the term hereof. In all instances where
Licensor has such a right of approval under this Agreement, such right may be
exercised by either Ricky Lauren or Mark N. Kaplan, acting alone (or by any
successor of either of them
as Trustee under an Agreement dated September 21, 1976, also acting alone). If
Licensor fails or is unable to exercise such right within thirty (30) days (by
informing Licensee whether Licensor grants or withholds its said approval)
Licensor shall be deemed to have given its approval to Licensee with respect to
the matter as to which its approval was sought.
13. Further Assurances.
Each of the parties hereto forthwith upon request from the other
shall execute and deliver such documents and take such action as may be
reasonably requested in order fully to carry out the intent and accomplish the
purposes of this Agreement.
14. Notices.
All notices, approvals or other communications required under or
contemplated by this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed given
when transmitted by telex (with confirmed answerback) or delivered in person or
sent, postage prepaid, by registered or certified mail, return receipt
requested, as follows:
(a) If to Licensor, addressed as follows:
Ricky Lauren
Mark N. Kaplan, Esq.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Telex: 645899
(b) If to Licensee, addressed as follows:
Cosmair, Inc.
Attention: President
Telex: 421973 COS UI
John F. Flaherty, Esq.
Gibney Anthony & Flaherty
Any party to this Agreement may change the address to which notices or other
communications are to be sent to it hereunder by notice similarly given.
15. Binding Effect.
This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of
successors and permitted assigns of the parties hereto.
16. Governing Law.
This Agreement shall be construed and governed in accordance with
the internal laws of the State of New York without regard to choice of law
provisions.
17. Entire Agreement.
This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties
hereto with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby and may not be
changed or terminated orally. No modification or waiver of any provisions hereof
shall be valid unless signed by the party to be charged therewith.
18. Severability.
The provisions of this Agreement are severable, and if any provision
shall be held invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part in any jurisdiction,
then such invalidity or unenforceability shall affect only such provision, or
part thereof, in such jurisdiction and shall not in any manner affect such
provision in any other jurisdiction, or any other provision in this Agreement in
any jurisdiction.
19. Counterparts.
This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which together shall
constitute one and the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement,
or caused the same to be executed by a duly authorized person as of the 1st day
of January, 1985.
Date: October 8, 1985 By: /s/ Jacques H. Correze
Date: October 8, 1985 /s/ Ricky Lauren
Ricky Lauren, as Trustee
under an Agreement dated
Date: October 8, 1985 /s/ Mark N. Kaplan
Mark N. Kaplan, as Trustee
SCHEDULE A-1
LICENSOR'S TRADEMARK
(as of November 22, 1976)
Polo by Ralph Lauren 1,021,368 Class 51 (Int. Cl. 3) After-shave lotion
and toilet water.
PFI'S TRADEMARKS
Trademarks No. Class Products
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Polo Class 39 Men's suits,
By Ralph Lauren 978,166 (Int. Cl. 25) slacks, ties,
sweaters, shoes,
shirts, hats, belts,
socks; and ladies'
blouses, skirts,
suits and dresses.
Polo Class 26 Frames for
By Ralph Lauren prescription and
lenses and
Ralph (Polo Player 984,005 Class 39 For suits,
Design) Lauren (Int. Cl. 25) overcoasts,
sweaters, ties,
shirts and pants.
CHAPS 1,016,955 Class 39 Jackets, pants,
BY RALPH (Int. Cl. 25) suits and slacks.
Fragrances and Scents
Toilet Water
Aftershave Lotion
Cosmetic Preparations
Eyebrow Coloring
Eye Highlighter
Eyeshadow or Contour
Lip undercoat
Cheek Color - Blushers, Gels, Rouges
Make-up foundation/Base/Lightner
False fingernails
Nail hardener Nail polish
Cuticle remover/Softener
Nail polish undercoat/Base coat
Leg and Body Make-up
Masks and Peelers/Firmers
Formulated special facial preparations
Wrinkle, Line, Stretch mark, and Cellulite preparations
Mouthwash/Breath freshener/Throat lozenges
Underarm deodorant/Antiperspirant
Talcum/Bath powder/Spray
Blemishes/Pores/Acne preparations
Therapeutic preparations
Eyedrops (non-prescription)
Feminine hygiene deodorant
Douches Foot powder/spray
Bubble bath/oil/capsule
Hand or body lotion/oil/cream
Soap, plain/deodorant
Suntan preparations/sun screen/bronzing agents
Hair shampoo Shave cream/Gel/Soap
Pre-shave/beard softner
Astringents, Fresheners, Toners
Hand, Face and Body cleansers
Moisturizers/Protectors
Lubricants/Night preparations
Body preparations
Appliances/Devices
Nail clippers and files
Cuticle tools
Hair spray/lacquer
Hair color/Dye/Lightner
Hair dressing
Hair Setting/Waving gel/Solution
Home permanent
Hair straightener/relaxer
Hair cream rinse/conditioner
Ms. Ricky Lauren
Mr. Ralph Lauren
New York, New York 10028
Mr. Mark N. Kaplan
Reference is made to the restated fragrance and cosmetics trademark
license agreement, dated as of January 1, 1985 (the "License Agreement"),
between Ricky Lauren and Mark N. Kaplan ("Licensor") and Cosmair, Inc.
("Cosmair"), a corporation organized under the laws of Delaware. Cosmair wishes
to create a corporation under the name _______________ ("Subsidiary"), pursuant
to which it shall conduct operations relating to ________________ pursuant to
the License Agreement. You are hereby requested to acknowledge below your
consent to the use of the name "Ralph Lauren" as part of the foregoing corporate
name of Subsidiary, subject to the provisions hereinafter set forth.
1. Cosmair agrees to promptly execute, deliver and/or file and to
cause Subsidiary to promptly execute, deliver and/or file (i) any documents
necessary to effect the change of Subsidiary's corporate name, so as to delete
therefrom, the name "Ralph Lauren," or any reference, direct or indirect,
thereto, as promptly as practicable after, but in no event later than the
earlier of (x) sixty (60) days after its receipt of a written communication from
Licensor or Ralph Lauren requesting that Subsidiary terminate its use of such
name or reference or (y) fifteen (15) days following the termination of the
License Agreement and (ii) any consents or similar instruments requested by
Licensor, Ralph Lauren or Polo Fashions, Inc. in connection with the use of the
name "Ralph Lauren" as part of a corporate name or tradename by any third party
or third parties. In conjunction with any change of name required hereunder,
Cosmair shall cause Subsidiary to cease to use in any manner the name "Ralph
Lauren" unless otherwise agreed. Licensor shall not unreasonably make a request
pursuant to the foregoing clause (i) for Subsidiary to terminate its use of the
aforementioned name.
2. Cosmair agrees that for so long as the name "Ralph Lauren"
comprises a part of Subsidiary's corporate name, Subsidiary shall not engage or
be involved, directly or indirectly, in any business other than the sale of
products manufactured by or under license from Licensor, such business to be
conducted only in accordance with the License Agreement.
3. Cosmair recognizes that the name "Ralph Lauren" is associated
with, and forms a part of, numerous registered trademarks and service marks
presently being used in connection with, among other things, various articles of
wearing apparel and free standing stores (the "Marks"). Cosmair further
acknowledges that the Marks have acquired valuable secondary meanings and
goodwill with the public and that products and stores bearing the Marks have
acquired a reputation of high quality and style. To the extent any rights in and
to any of the Marks are deemed to accrue to Cosmair or Subsidiary by virtue of
the adoption of the name "Ralph Lauren" by Subsidiary as part of its corporate
name, this letter agreement or otherwise, Cosmair shall cause any and all such
rights, at such time as they may be deemed to accrue, to be assigned to
Licensor. Cosmair and subsidiary will execute any instruments requested by
Licensor which Licensor deems necessary, proper or appropriate to accomplish or
confirm the foregoing. Any such assignment, transfer or conveyance shall be
without consideration other than the mutual agreements contained herein.
4. Cosmair agrees to cause Subsidiary, upon Subsidiary's formation,
to execute an agreement by which Subsidiary will agree to be bound by the terms
of this letter agreement.
Without in any manner limiting any of the rights granted to Cosmair
pursuant to the License Agreement, Cosmair hereby acknowledges and agrees that,
except as specifically provided herein, nothing contained in this letter
agreement shall be construed to grant Cosmair or Subsidiary the right or
authority to (i) use any of the Marks for any purpose whatsoever or (ii) use the
name "Ralph Lauren."
AGREED AND CONSENTED TO:
Mark N. Kaplan
Conformed Copy
As of January 1, 1985
Polo Fashions, Inc.
Reference is made (i) to a restated U.S.A. license agreement (the
"License Agreement") dated as of January 1, 1985 between Cosmair, Inc., a
Delaware corporation (the "Licensee"), and Ricky Lauren and Mark N. Kaplan as
trustees under an Agreement dated September 21, 1976 (the "Licensor"), which
License Agreement is being executed simultaneously herewith, and (ii) to a
U.S.A. design and consulting agreement (the "Design Agreement") dated as of
January 1, 1985 between Ralph Lauren ("Lauren") individually and doing business
under the name Ralph Lauren Design Studio, and Licensee, which Design Agreement
is being executed simultaneously herewith. The License Agreement and the Design
Agreement are hereinafter, at times, referred to collectively as the Agreements.
In order to induce the Licensee to enter into the Agreements and to
perform the obligations imposed on the Licensee thereunder, the Licensor has
requested Lauren and Polo Fashions, Inc., a New York corporation ("PFI"), to
confirm to the Licensee certain representations, warranties, covenants and
acknowledgments, which representations, warranties, covenants and
acknowledgments have previously been made to the Licensor by Lauren and PFI.
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1. Lauren and PFI, jointly and severally, hereby make the following
representations and warranties to the Licensee, which are confirmatory of
the rights received by the Licensor under various agreements (the "Transfer
Agreements") among the Licensor, The Polo/Lauren Company ("PLC"), Lauren and PFI
each of which shall be deemed to be independently material and relied upon by
the Licensee, regardless of any investigation made or information obtained by
the Licensee:
(a) By operation of the assignments and conveyances in the
Transfer Agreements, as of November 22, 1976 the Licensor became the sole owner
Registration No. 1,021,368 covering certain products in U.S. Class 51 (as more
fully set forth on Schedule A-1 to the License Agreements).
As of November 22, 1976, PFI was the registered owner of, and Lauren
had consented to the use of his name in connection with the registration of, the
trademarks (i) "Polo (with design) by Ralph Lauren," United States Patent Office
Registration No. 978,166 covering certain products in U.S. Class 39, (ii) "Ralph
Lauren" (and Polo Player Design), United States Patent Office Registration No.
984,005 covering certain products in U.S. Class 39, (iii) "Chaps by Ralph
Lauren," United States Patent Office Registration No. 1,016,955 covering certain
products in U.S. Class 39 and (iv) "Polo by Ralph Lauren" covering certain
products in U.S. Class 26. PFI and Lauren, by written statement duly executed by
them in favor of Licensors, have given their consent and agreement to interpose
no objection to the registration, use and licensing of the foregoing trademarks,
the Names and all other names and marks, which either or both (or any business
entity which is now or hereafter owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by
either or both of them), may hereafter develop or own (except such other names
and marks as are not used in connection with any fashion related product) in
connection with the manufacture and/or distribution and sale of Licensed
Products, as contemplated by the License Agreement;
execute and deliver, and perform the terms of, the License Agreement and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by the License Agreement will not
violate any agreement to which Licensor, Lauren or PFI is a party or by which
they, it or he may be bound;
(c) Without limiting the generality of the last preceding
subparagraph, Licensor has the full right to grant the License and neither
Licensor, Lauren nor PFI is a party to or bound by any agreement in conflict
with the License Agreement or with any provision thereof. Except as may be
provided in the Agreements, neither Licensor, Lauren nor PFI has granted to any
other person, firm, corporation or business any right, license or privilege to
use the Names or associated crests, symbols, logos or identifying marks, or any
crest, symbol, logo or identifying marks which would be confusingly similar
thereto in connection with any Licensed
Product, or which would have the effect of infringing upon the exclusivity of
the License granted to Licensee under the License Agreement;
(d) Schedules A-1 and A-2 to the License Agreement contain a
full and complete list of all registrations existing as of November 22, 1976
covering the Current Names and associated crests, symbols, logos and identifying
marks in the class of use owned by or registered in the name of Licensor, Lauren
and/or PFI in any part of the world; and
(e) To the best of Lauren's and PFI's knowledge as of November
22, 1976 (without any representation of an investigation having been made) no
person other than Licensor, Lauren of PFI had as of November 22, 1976 any trade
name, trademark or similar right or interest in or to the "Ralph Lauren," "Polo"
and "Chaps" Names as applied to Licensed Products in the Territory.
2. In further confirmation of their prior transfer of rights to
Licensor, Lauren and PFI, jointly and severally, covenant and agree with
Licensee as follows:
(a) Lauren and PFI will not, and will not permit any business
entity owned or controlled by them to, grant any person, firm, corporation or
business (other than Licensee) any right, license or privilege to use in the
Territory the Names or associated crests, symbols, logos or identifying marks or
any name, crest, symbol, logo or identifying mark which would be confusingly
similar thereto in connection with any Licensed Product, or which would have the
effect of infringing upon the exclusivity of the License granted to Licensee
under the License Agreement;
(b) Lauren and PFI hereby confirm Licensor's authority to
appoint Licensee as its attorney-in-fact to apply for and register, in
accordance with the provisions of the Agreements, in the name of Licensor, in
the Territory all trade names and trademarks which make use of the Names or are
associated therewith as applied to Licensed Products. Lauren and PFI will
cooperate with Licensee in all manners and respects, but at Licensee's expense,
to enable Licensee to obtain the aforesaid registrations, and Lauren and PFI
will execute any further agreements, documents and instruments as may be
necessary to effect the same;
(c) Lauren and PFI will not at any time disclose to any
person, firm, corporation or business (other than to a person, firm, corporation
or business with rights to use the Names on Licensed Products outside the
Territory, if required in connection with a program for the Licensed Products
outside the Territory) any confidential information (including, without
limitation, customer lists) concerning the conduct of the business and affairs
of Licensee or of any subsidiary or affiliate of Licensee which they may acquire
except as may be required pursuant to law and then only upon advance notice to
Licensee;
(d) Lauren and PFI shall protect, indemnify and save harmless
against any and all liabilities, claims, damages, penalties, causes of action,
costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of the
breach or material inaccuracy of any of the representations, warranties,
covenants and agreements of (x) Licensor contained in the License Agreement or
(y) Lauren or PFI, contained in this letter. Licensee shall have the right in
its discretion, and with counsel of its own choosing, to take any action, legal
or otherwise, in its own name and/or in the name of Lauren or PFI, at Licensee's
discretion to protect any trade name or trademark covered by the License from
infringement, counterfeiting or passing off. Prior to taking any such action,
Licensee shall advise Licensor of its intention to commence the proposed action
and thereafter, at Lauren or PFI's request, shall promptly furnish Lauren and/or
PFI with copies of relevant documents and Lauren and PFI advised of developments
relating to the action. Lauren and PFI shall cooperate with Licensee, and if
requested shall join in as a plaintiff in any such action with counsel
designated by Licensee. Any legal expenses incurred in the prosecution of such
action shall be borne by, and any money recoveries received in such action,
shall belong to, Licensee (subject only to the rights, if any, of Licensor to a
royalty on any such recovery as expressly provided in the License Agreement);
(e) Lauren and PFI acknowledge that the Current Names have
established prestige and good will in the field of fashion apparel and that it
is of major importance to Licensee that the high standards and reputation of the
Current Names be maintained. Neither Lauren nor PFI will take action which will
be likely to injure or damage the reputation for high quality which has come to
be associated with the Current Names. Licensee shall not be entitled to damages
by reason of Lauren's or PFI's breach or default of their obligations under this
subparagraph (e) and Licensee's sole remedy under the Agreements shall be to
terminate the Agreements pursuant to the provisions thereof.
(f) Lauren and PFI believe and intend that they have
transferred and assigned to Licensor all rights required by Licensor to enable
Licensor to fully perform its obligations under the License Agreement.
Nevertheless, in confirmation thereof, if Lauren or PFI or any entity owned or
controlled by them now has or may hereafter acquire any right or interest in or
to any of the Names and if such right or interest is required to or should
properly be owned by Licensor under the License Agreement or to otherwise fully
perform Licensor's obligations thereunder, then, and in such event, the
following provisions shall apply:
(i) Lauren and PFI shall promptly transfer and assign
such right and interest to Licensor, without cost or expense to Licensee,
and (ii) for the purpose of the License Agreement and Licensee's rights
thereunder, such rights and interests shall be deemed to be the property
of Licensor (whether or not they are actually assigned or transferred to
Licensor as provided in clause (i) above);
(g) If Lauren or PFI hereafter registers any new Name in any
part of the world, they will promptly thereafter advise Licensee of the same;
(h) Lauren will not permit his name to be used by any
Unaffiliated Third Person as the designer or creator of a line of clothing or
any other line of fashion related products owned, manufactured or distributed by
such Unaffiliated Third Person, unless such Unaffiliated Third Person agrees,
for the benefit of Licensee, that neither Ralph Lauren's name nor the name of
Ralph Lauren as part of a trade name or trademark used for or in connection with
such line of clothing or other line of fashion related products will be used in
the Territory by such Unaffiliated Third Person (or by any person licensed or
authorized by him) for a line of Licensed Products or in connection with the
sale, distribution or promotion thereof. The term "Unaffiliated Third Person"
shall mean every person and business entity except Licensor, Lauren, PFI, PLC
and each business entity owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by them;
(i) In further confirmation of their prior transfer of rights
to Licensor, (i) Lauren and PFI do hereby join in each of the covenants and
agreements of Licensor contained in the License Agreements (including, without
limitation, the covenants and agreements of the Licensor set forth in paragraphs
2.2, 7, 9.4 and 13 of the License Agreement and (ii) Lauren and PFI expressly
consent to all of the other terms and conditions of the License Agreement and
will deliver such documents and take such action as may be reasonably requested
in order to enable Licensor to fully carry out the intent and accomplish the
purposes of the License Agreement.
3. Lauren and PFI hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless
Licensee from and against any and all losses it may suffer and any and all
damages, liabilities, claims, costs or expenses (including, without limitation,
reasonable attorneys' fees and disbursements) paid or incurred, as the case may
be, which it would not have suffered or incurred if PFI (rather than Licensor)
had owned the Names and had applied for registration of the First Trademarks,
provided, however that any such loss, damage, liability, claim, cost or expense
is paid or incurred by Domestic Licensee before PFI has filed applications in
its own name for registration of the First Trademarks. The parties acknowledge
that the aforesaid indemnification provided by Lauren and PFI under this
paragraph 3 shall be the same as that provided to Licensee by the License
pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 7.1(b) of the License Agreement. In the
event any claim is made or accrued (to Licensees' knowledge) against Licensee
which comes within the indemnity set forth in this paragraph, Licensee will
promptly notify Lauren and PFI of such claim. Thereafter, Licensor shall have
the right, at its own expense and with counsel of its own choice, subject to the
approval of Licensee, which approval will not be unreasonably withheld, to
assume the defense of any such claim. Licensee agrees to cooperate fully in the
defense of any such claim and may, at its own expense and with counsel of its
4. Licensee acknowledges that, except as set forth in paragraph 1
hereof, Lauren and PFI have not represented to Licensee that Licensor, Lauren or
PFI have any trademarks, trade names or other rights or interests in or to the
Names or that persons other than Licensor, Lauren or PFI have no such
trademarks, trade names or other rights or interests. If Licensee uses any Name
as a trademark, trade name or product name for a Royalty Product without
registration of the same (except as may be necessary to establish its use in
commerce) Licensee will protect, defend and save harmless Lauren and PFI from
and against any claims of third persons for infringement, counterfeiting or
passing off against Lauren or PFI arising out of the use of such unregistered
Name provided that (x) neither Lauren, PFI nor Licensor shall have
misrepresented to Licensee their rights or interests in or to such Name whether
in this letter, in the License Agreement or any other instrument, and (y) such
claim shall not arise by reason of any action taken by Lauren, PFI or Licensor
in breach of any obligation they may have to Licensee whether arising under this
letter, the License Agreement or any other instrument.
5. In the event of a breach or threatened breach of any of the
covenants of Lauren or PFI contained in this letter, Licensee shall have the
right, without the necessity of proving any actual damages, to obtain temporary
or permanent injunctive or mandatory relief in a court of competent
jurisdiction, it being the intention of the parties to this Agreement that the
covenants and agreements of Lauren and PFI hereunder be specifically enforced to
the maximum extent permitted by law.
If the representations of Lauren herein contained are not true and
correct in any material respect or if there shall be a substantial breach by
Lauren of any of its covenants hereunder, which breach shall not have been cured
within ninety (90) days after Licensee shall have given Lauren notice of same,
such misrepresentation or breach shall be deemed and shall constitute a breach
of the Design Agreement, and Licensee shall have the right, in addition to any
and all rights and remedies that Licensee has against Lauren by reason of the
same, to (i) terminate the Design Agreement and/or (ii) set off any and all
damages, costs, expenses, losses, and other injuries sustained by Licensee by
reason of such misrepresentation or breach against any sums payable by Licensee
under the Design Agreement, except as otherwise provided in this letter or under
the Design Agreement.
6. In all instances where Lauren has a right of approval herein,
such right may be exercised personally by Lauren or by the Ralph Lauren Design
Studio. If Lauren or the Ralph Lauren Design Studio fails or is unable to
exercise such right within thirty (30) days (by informing Licensee whether
Lauren grants or withholds his said approval) Lauren shall be deemed to have
given his approval to Licensee with respect to the matter as to which his
approval was sought.
7. Licensee covenants and agrees with Lauren and PFI, as follows:
(a) Licensee will not disclose to any person, firm,
corporation, or business any confidential information concerning the conduct of
the business and affairs of Lauren or PFI which Licensee may acquire; and
(b) It is understood that Licensor, Lauren and PFI assume no
liability to Licensee or third parties with respect to the performance
characteristics of the Royalty Products, and Licensee will protect, defend,
indemnify and save harmless, Licensor, Lauren and PFI, their officers, employees
and agents, against any and all liabilities, claims, damages, penalties, causes
of action, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees and
disbursements, for product liability or breach of warranty claims of third
persons arising out of the use of such Products by such third persons.
8. All notices, approvals or other communications required under or
contemplated by this Letter shall be in writing and (x) if given to Licensee,
Licensor or Lauren shall be delivered in the manner provided in the Agreements,
and (y) if given to PFI shall be transmitted by telex (with confirmed
answerback) or delivered in person or sent, postage paid, by registered or
certified mail, return receipt requested, as follows:
Telex: 420747 POLOFAS
Telex: 645899
9. All terms used in this Letter Agreement shall be defined or the
purposes hereof as provided in the Agreements unless otherwise expressly defined
herein.
10. This Letter Agreement supersedes a prior letter agreement made
and dated November 22, 1976 (executed on June 30, 1978) among Licensee (as
successor to the rights of Warner/Lauren Ltd.) and Lauren and PFI and the
governed by this Letter Agreement.
By: /s/Jacques H. Correze
READ AND AGREED TO:
/s/Ralph Lauren
By: /s/Peter Strom
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Agreement and Plan of Reorganization - Novell Inc. and WordPerfect Corp.
AMENDMENT TO
AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF REORGANIZATION
THIS AMENDMENT (the "Amendment") to that certain Agreement and Plan of
Reorganization, dated as of March 21, 1994 (the "Agreement"), by and among
Novell, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("Novell"), Novell Acquisition Corp., a
Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Novell ("Sub"), and
WordPerfect Corporation, a Utah corporation ("WordPerfect"), and for purposes of
Section 5.3 of the Agreement only, Alan C. Ashton ("Ashton"), Bruce W. Bastian
("Mr. Bastian") and Melanie L. Bastian ("Ms. Bastian"), is entered into as of
the 31st day of May, 1994 by the parties to the Agreement. All capitalized terms
used in this Amendment shall have the same meanings set forth for them in the
Agreement, unless otherwise defined in this Amendment.
WHEREAS, Novell, Sub, WordPerfect, Ashton, Mr. Bastian and Ms. Bastian
entered into the Agreement providing for the combination of Novell and
WordPerfect (together, the "Combined Company") by means of the merger of Sub
with and into WordPerfect, pursuant to which WordPerfect would become a wholly
owned subsidiary of Novell; and
WHEREAS, the parties have determined that it is in their best interests
that the combination of Novell and WordPerfect be effected by a merger of
WordPerfect directly into Novell;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, the parties hereto agree
as follows:
1. Merger Agreement. The Agreement is hereby amended as set forth below:
(a) All references in the Agreement to "Novell and Sub" shall be deemed to
be references to "Novell"; all references to "each of Novell and Sub" shall be
deemed references to "Novell" only; all references to "Novell or Sub" shall be
deemed to be references to "Novell" only; and all other references to Sub shall
be deemed deleted. Furthermore, all language indicating the separate existence
of Novell and Sub, such as "as the case may be," or attribution to two separate
entities, such as "respectively," shall be similarly deemed deleted along with
any punctuation with respect thereto.
(b) The first paragraph of Section 1.1 of the Agreement is amended to read
in its entirety as follows:
1.1 Merger; Effective Time. Subject to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement and of the Articles of Merger attached as Exhibit 1.1 (the
"Articles of Merger"), WordPerfect will be merged with and into Novell (the
"Merger") in accordance with the Utah Revised Business Corporation Act (the
"URBCA"). The Articles of Merger provide, among other things, the mode of
effecting the Merger and the manner and basis of converting each issued and
outstanding share of capital stock of WordPerfect into shares of Common
Stock of Novell ("Novell Common Stock").
(c) Section 1.3 of the Agreement is amended to read in its entirety as
1.3 Effects of the Merger. At the Effective Time, (i) the separate
existence of WordPerfect shall cease and WordPerfect shall be merged with
and into Novell (WordPerfect and Novell are sometimes referred to as the
"Constituent Corporations" and Novell after the Merger is sometimes
referred to as the "Surviving Corporation"), (ii) the Articles of
Incorporation of Novell shall be the Articles of Incorporation of the
Surviving Corporation, (iii) the Bylaws of Novell shall be the Bylaws of
the Surviving Corporation and (iv) the directors of Novell shall be the
directors of the Surviving Corporation, (v) the officers of Novell shall be
the officers of the Surviving Corporation, and (vi) the Merger shall, from
and after the Effective Time, have all the effects provided by applicable
law, this Agreement and the Articles of Merger.
(d) Section 2.1(a) of the Agreement is deleted in its entirety.
(e) Section 2.2(a) of the Agreement is amended to read in its entirety as
(a) Exchange Agent. Novell shall act as exchange agent (the "Exchange
Agent") in the Merger.
(f) Sections 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 of the Agreement are amended to read in their
entirety as follows:
4.1 Organization; Standing and Power. Novell is a corporation validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of its state of incorporation
and has all requisite corporate power and authority to own, lease and
operate its properties and to carry on its businesses as now being
conducted. Novell has delivered to WordPerfect complete and correct copies
of the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws of Novell as amended to the
date hereof.
4.2 Capital Structure. As of the date hereof the authorized capital
stock of Novell consists of 400,000,000 shares of Novell Common Stock, $.10
par value and 500,000 shares of Novell Preferred Stock, $.10 par value. At
the close of business on January 29, 1994, 309,021,297 shares of Novell
Common Stock were outstanding, 27,978,621 shares of Novell Common Stock
were reserved for issuance upon the exercise of outstanding stock options
("Novell Options"), no shares of Novell Common Stock were held by Novell in
its treasury, and no shares of Novell Preferred Stock were outstanding. All
the outstanding shares of Novell Common Stock are validly issued, fully
paid, nonassessable and free of preemptive rights except pursuant to rights
issued under Novell's Stockholder Rights Plan. The shares of Novell Common
Stock issuable in connection with the Merger are duly authorized and
reserved for issuance and, when issued in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement and the Articles of Merger, will be validly issued, fully paid,
nonassessable and free of preemptive rights (other than any rights which
may be issued pursuant to Novell's Stockholder Rights Plan). Except for the
shares listed above issuable pursuant to Novell Options, there are not any
options, warrants, calls, conversion rights, commitments or agreements of
any character to which Novell or any Subsidiary of Novell is a party or by
which any of them may be bound obligating Novell or any Subsidiary of
Novell to issue, deliver or sell, or cause to be issued, delivered or sold,
additional shares of the capital stock of Novell or of any Subsidiary of
Novell or obligating Novell or any Subsidiary of Novell to grant, extend or
enter into any such option, warrant, call, conversion right, commitment or
4.3 Authority. Novell has all requisite corporate power and authority
to enter into this Agreement and the Articles of Merger, subject to any
required stockholder approval, to consummate the transactions contemplated
hereby and by the Articles of Merger. The execution and delivery by Novell
of this Agreement and the Articles of Merger and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by
all necessary corporate action on the part of Novell. This Agreement and
the Articles of Merger have been duly executed and delivered by Novell and
constitute valid and binding obligations of Novell enforceable in
accordance with their terms, except as enforcement may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors' rights generally and except that the availability of equitable
remedies is subject to the discretion of the court before which any
proceeding therefor may be brought. Subject to satisfaction of the
conditions set forth in Article VI, the execution and delivery of this
Agreement and the Articles of Merger and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will not conflict with or
result in any violation of any material statute, law, rule, regulation,
judgment, order, decree or ordinance applicable to Novell or any Subsidiary
of Novell or their respective properties or assets, or conflict with or
result in any breach or default (with or without notice or lapse of time,
or both) under, or give rise to a right of termination, cancellation or
acceleration of any obligation or to loss of a material benefit, under (i)
any provision of the Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws of Novell or
any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) any material agreement, contract, note,
mortgage, indenture, lease, instrument, permit, concession, franchise or
license to which Novell or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which
Novell or any of its Subsidiaries or their respective properties or assets
may be bound or affected. No consent, approval, order or authorization of,
or registration, declaration or filing with, any Governmental Entity is
required by or with respect to Novell in connection with the execution and
delivery of this Agreement and the Articles of Merger or the consummation
by Novell of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, except for
(i) the filing of a premerger notification report by Novell under the HSR
Act, (ii) the filing of the S-4
and such other documents with, and the obtaining of such orders from,
the SEC and various state securities or "blue sky" authorities, and the
making of such reports under the Exchange Act, as are required in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (iii)
the filing of the Articles of Merger with the Utah Division of
Corporations and Commercial Code and the Secretary of State of the
State of Delaware and appropriate documents with the relevant
authorities of other states in which Novell is qualified to do
business, (iv) such consents, approvals, orders, authorizations,
registrations, declarations and filings as may be required under the
laws of any foreign country which if not obtained or made would not
have a Material Adverse Effect and (v) such other consents,
authorizations, filings, approvals and registrations which if not
obtained or made would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(g) Section 5.14 of the Agreement is amended to read in its entirety as
5.14 Indemnification. From and after the Effective Time, Novell shall
(to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law) indemnify, defend and
hold harmless each person who is now, or has been at any time prior to the
date hereof or who becomes prior to the Effective Time, an officer or
director of WordPerfect or any of its Subsidiaries (the "Indemnified
Parties") against any and all losses, damages, costs, expenses, liabilities
or judgments, or amounts that are paid in settlement of, or in connection
with, any claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation based on or
arising out of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of
WordPerfect or any Subsidiary of WordPerfect, whether pertaining to any
matter existing or occurring at or prior to the Effective Time
("Indemnified Liabilities"). Without limiting the foregoing, in the event
any such claim, action, suit, proceeding or investigation is brought
against any Indemnified Party (whether arising before or after the
Effective Time), (i) any counsel retained by the Indemnified Parties for
any period after the Effective Time shall be reasonably satisfactory to
Novell (ii) after the Effective Time, Novell shall pay all reasonable fees
and expenses of counsel for the Indemnified Parties promptly as statements
therefor are received; and (iii) after the Effective Time, Novell shall use
all reasonable efforts to assist in the defense of any such matter,
provided that Novell shall not be liable for any settlement of any claim
effected without its written consent, which consent, however, shall not be
unreasonably withheld. Any Indemnified Party wishing to claim
indemnification under this Section upon learning of any such claim, action,
suit, proceeding or investigation, shall notify Novell (but the failure so
to notify Novell shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have
under this Section except to the extent such failure materially prejudices
Novell). The Indemnified Parties as a group may retain only one law firm to
represent them with respect to each such matter unless there is, under
applicable standards of professional conduct, a potential conflict on any
issue between the positions of any two or more Indemnified Parties.
(h) Section 6.2(i) of the Agreement is deleted in its entirety.
2. Mutual Covenant. The parties hereto shall take all steps necessary to
effectuate the intent of this Amendment, and shall use all reasonable efforts to
effect such steps, including but not limited to the assignment of contracts,
that may be necessary or desirable to effect the intent of this Amendment prior
to the Closing.
3. Sub No Longer a Party to the Agreement. After the date hereof, the
parties acknowledge and agree that Sub is no longer a party to the Agreement,
and all rights and obligations with respect to Sub contained in the Agreement
shall be extinguished without in any way affecting the rights and obligations of
the other parties thereto. All of the terms of the Agreement shall remain
unchanged and in full force and effect. In the event of any inconsistency
between the Agreement and this Amendment, this Amendment shall govern.
4. Effectiveness. This Amendment in its entirety shall be effective upon
its execution by Novell, WordPerfect, Sub, Ashton, Mr. Bastian and Ms. Bastian.
5. Miscellaneous.
(a) Governing Law. This Amendment shall be governed in all respects by the
internal laws of the State of Delaware (without giving effect to is choice of
law principles).
(b) Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in one or more
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which,
together, shall constitute one and the same instrument.
(c) Successors and Assigns. Except as otherwise provided herein, the
provisions hereof shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the
successors, assigns, heirs, executors and administrators of the parties hereto.
(d) Entire Agreement. The Agreement, as amended hereby, constitutes the
full and entire understanding and agreement among the parties with full regard
to the subjects hereof.
(e) Titles and Subtitles. The titles and subtitles used in this Amendment
are for convenience only and are not to be considered in construing or
interpreting this Amendment.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Novell, Sub and WordPerfect have caused this Amendment
to be signed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, and Ashton,
Mr. Bastian and Ms. Bastian have signed this Agreement, all as of the date first
written above.
NOVELL, INC.
James R. Tolonen, Chief Financial
WORDPERFECT CORPORATION
R. Duff Thompson, Executive
NOVELL ACQUISITION CORP.
James R. Tolonen, President
Alan C. Ashton
Bruce W. Bastian
Melanie L. Bastian
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Archive for the CSM Category
CSM 5 Results :: My Reactions
Posted in CSM on May 26, 2010 by Easley Thames
I predicted both Mynxee and Ankh would win this year and – with mixed feelings – I have been proven correct on both accounts. I also posted on the the IT forum that I thought these two were the front-runners for the chairmanship, which was by no means a bold prediction for anyone following the race, and I seem to have hit the mark again on that point as Mynxee was the overall winner with over 4000 votes.
These two candidates reached out to the most people and had the best “Name ID” as we call it in real-life political elections. In an election where most voters don’t know the candidates well, simply being a known name is the best possible asset. In the case of Ankhesentapemkah, the massive negative out-pour on her forum thread only fueled her notoriety and her campaign spam in Jita helped her corner the market on fellow high-sec hikikomori.
I really dislike Ankhesentapemkah (as a candidate) and I’m glad Mynxee edged her out for chairman. Ankh is a care-bear soloist who – by her own admission – plays eve like a single player game with little care for the dynamic player interactions that (in my opinion) make Eve as special as it is. Her top agenda items all relate to preventing other players from ever impacting her game-play without explicit permissions. She wants outlaws to literally serve jail time, with their characters locked up, and takes a firm stance against the game even allowing you to fire upon other ships in high-sec (presumably with the exclusion of war-decs but I suspect she doesn’t like that mechanic either).
With 9 lifetime kills (only one of which was generated in 2010) and 141 losses, Ankh lacks the experience to comment on PvP interactions with any authority whatsoever. I suspect the majority of active combat pilots who did actually cast a vote for her were fellow CVA members.
By comparison, Mynxee is someone I can live with on the CSM. She has experience as a former member of a notorious pirate corporation, a mercenary & sov holder (with Noir Mercenary Group) and I even see some wormhole kills with her name on them. She not only has the experience to work for improvements in low-sec but to the 0.0 combat scene as well. I don’t agree with Mynxee on several issues, but at least we share similar values regarding the overall design of the game and I believe she will work to make the “pew pew” abundant and enjoyable.
Avicenna Sarfaraz, beloved CEO of -MVN- and hero to all followers of his cult-like religious organization “Church of the Golden Jesus Penis” was not among the winners or top 4 alternates. When the final list is released, we will see exactly where he ended up.
Though Avi had supporters from many alliances across New Eden, he made very little effort to campaign for himself. The many sound-boards featuring him, if combined with a special campaign video, would have been excellent content on a campaign website. While he did appear at an alliance panel at fan fest and has many contacts across the cluster, he simply didn’t reach out beyond those he knew.
Avi also needed to clarify his position on issues and create some interest on his candidacy-announcement forum thread, but his entry was only a first attempt and I know we will all work harder next year on his behalf. Maybe next year boss.
My Online Gaming Past
Posted in CSM, User Interface on May 4, 2010 by Easley Thames
I have been a fan of Massively Multiplayer Online Games ever since the release of Everquest. While I also enjoy RTS and FPS games, they have little relevance to Eve, and I have found that – over the years – MMOG’s have completely eclipsed my interest in other gaming genres.
Sand Giants Always Dropped Gold!
Before playing Everquest, I had also played a number of 2-d online RPGs such as The Realm (pictured below) and a handful of MUDs that never held my interest (primarily because I was rather young at the time). Though I would probably have loved it, I missed the boat on Ultima Online completely.
A Random Screenshot I Found Online
Although badly developed, the game that I found most fascinating (before finding Eve) was Anarchy Online, a game that imported the now-standard fantasy MMORPG user interface of Everquest into a dystopian, futuristic landscape featuring territorial PvP, mining towers and player-constructed cities.
AO's "Omni Corp" Reminds Me of the Caldari State
NPCs Guard A Frontier Outpost
If this sounds anything like Eve Online, that’s because in many ways it was similar. Certainly the gameplay itself was very different, but I have met several Eve Online players who say that “AO” was everything they wish Ambulation in Eve Online could (but won’t) be. I happen to share that view.
I must confess that I have also spent many hours of my life playing World of Warcraft, where I regularly raided and played on PvP Arena teams with my mage and priest as part of a “we have no life” style gaming guild. I was even the “Guild Master” for a couple years, a job that drained the fun out of every day I played as it increasingly resembled a job in the Human Resources department of a small business.
The Joy of Farming for Potions
My WoW account is currently inactive and I have no desire to re-activate it, despite the fact that many of my real-life friends still play.
What initially attracted me to Eve Online was a non-fiction fan-written story detailing one of the Guiding Hand Social Club’s greatest heists. The idea that such a in-depth level of player-to-player interaction could exist in an MMO was extremely attractive to me.
I then encountered Stahlregen’s amazing videos and that was another major factor in convincing me to download the game and setup a trial account. It is pretty ironic that a Goon was heavily involved in drawing me into the game, yet I have been involved in warfare against “The Coalition” since October 2008 when my corp joined an alliance that was part of the “Greater BoB Community.”
What online games do I have an interest exploring down the road? Currently, I do not see anything on the market that appeals to me. However, I will look with great interest at the “next-gen MMO” Blizzard has planned for several years down the road. Available information suggests that this game will not be based in one of their existing worlds (so no World of Starcraft or Diablo will be coming out).
While I love the fact that Eve has evolved over time instead of merely “replacing” itself with a sequel, I do feel that there are deep problems with the game. Aside from lag, my largest complaint is that I cannot “mod” my user interface. Even aesthetic changes are prohibited, to say nothing of the hundreds of useful ways that in-game information could be better organized.
In my experience as an avid MMO gamer, every online game that has embraced modding has benefitted enormously from it, and I have yet to find one example of a game where these mods caused major issues for the developers.
WoW Offers A Highly-Customizable UI
Because of my tremendous support for an improved user interface, I would encourage everyone to vote in the upcoming CSM election for my corporation CEO, Avicenna Sarfaraz, whose platform includes a strong focus on the game’s dated and rather clumsy user-interface.
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University of California Water Resources Center
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Technical Completion Reports
Evaluation of the effects of surface water and groundwater interactions on regional climate and local water resources
Author(s): Liang, Xu
Knowledge on the state of soil moisture is essential for improving predictability of the global energy and water balances on seasonal to inter-annual time scales. The exchanges of moisture and energy between soil, vegetation, and snowpack and the overlying atmospheric boundary layer impacts the near surface atmospheric moisture and temperature. Thus, reasonable estimates of soil moisture could significantly improve the accuracy of simulating precipitation and surface temperature globally and regionally. If the soil moisture estimation (or parameterization) is not reliable, a fully coupled climate and land surface model may simulate an erroneous climatic state that the forecasted precipitation and temperature deviate significantly from the observed values, especially in numerical forecasting of the extreme events. In this project, the impact of surface and groundwater interactions on soil moisture, evapotranspiration, runoff, and recharge are investigated. Through the two year project (extended for the third year without cost), a new parameterization to represent surface and groundwater interaction dynamics for land surface models is developed and implemented into a the VIC-3L (Three-layer Variable Infiltration Capacity) model, which is a hydrologically based land surface scheme. The new version of VIC (called VIC-ground) is applied to a watershed in Pennsylvania over multiple years. Results show that VIC can properly simulate the movement of the daily groundwater table over multiple years at the study site. Preliminary comparisons of VIC simulations with and without considering the dynamics of surface and groundwater interactions show important impact of such interactions on partitioning of water budget components. Results also show that it takes 3 to 4 years to have the effects of the initializations of groundwater tables disappear when the groundwater table is initialized to be deeper than the observed level, while it takes much less time (e.g., about 1.5 years) if the groundwater table is initialized to be shallower than the observed level. In addition, preliminary sensitivity studies at the site show that there is a more significant persistent signature of the impact of the precipitation (ppt) when its amount is halved (i.e., 0.5ppt) than that when its amount is doubled (i.e., 2ppt).
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Eurovision 2019 artists release new albums and songs
Some of the Eurovision 2019 representatives have released new albums and EP's while they are in Tel Aviv preparing for this week's events. Take a listen here
By Steven Spiteri 13 May 2019
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It's Eurovision week and all 41 artists are gearing up to those 3 minutes to give the performance of their life!
In the run up to their live performance, a number of representatives released additional music to their entry to showcase further their music ability. This is what Bilal Hassani, PÆNDA, John Lundvik and Serhat done during their Eurovision journey.
While we all await for their live performances, here-under you can have a listen to their new releases:
Bilal Hassani - Kingdom (Album)
PÆNDA - Evolution II (Album)
John Lundvik - My Turn (EP)
Serhat - That's How I Feel (Album)
The 64th Eurovision Song Contest takes place on 14, 16 and 18 May 2019. The contest is hosted by Tel Aviv, Israel, and produced by the Israeli broadcaster KAN.
Location: Expo Tel Aviv, Israel
Semi-final 1: 14 May 2019 – 17 participants: The 10 best songs qualify to the Grand Final
Grand Final: 18 May 2019. 26 participants: Israel (host), Big-5 (Germany, Spain, France, Italy and United Kingdom), 10 best from Semi-Final 1, 10 best from Semi-Final 2
About the author: Steven Spiteri (Malta)
Steven has been a huge Eurovision fan since 1995. He follows all the national finals and Eurovision Song Contests every year while his all time favorite entry is the 2016 Italian entry "Nessun grado di separazione".
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The first Eurovision that was broadcast in color, was the 1968 contest at the Royal Albert Hall
Eurovision Semi-finals were introduced in 2004
Israel is the only winning country that didn't participate the following year – They won in 1979 but didn't participate in 1980 due to Israeli Memorial Day, Yom Hazikaron
Among the contestants who have had successful careers are ABBA (1974), Céline Dion, Cliff Richard and Julio Iglesias. Dion won for Switzerland in 1988 with the song Ne partez pas sans moi
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Home Gossip Like father like son? Donald Trump Jr. had an affair with singer...
Like father like son? Donald Trump Jr. had an affair with singer Aubrey O’Day while married to Vanessa.
“Like father like son,” people are saying after it emerged that US First Son, Donald Trump Jr had an affair with singer Aubrey O’Day while married to Vanessa. This revelation was made public after Vanessa filed for divorce from Trump Jr after 13 years of marriage and 5 kids.
The affair between the contestant from “The Celebrity Apprentice” and Trump Jr occurred when his wife Vanessa was pregnant with their third child. At the time, Donald Trump Jr was a so-called “adviser” on the NBC show and he fell for busty Aubrey O’Day while filming “Celebrity Apprentice” in 2011. Sources say that the pair would meet up in various cities during their fling and wrote each other love notes. Sources say that a pregnant Vanessa was devastated when Donald Trump Jr. told her around that time that he planned to leave her for O’Day.
“Don Jr “pursued [Aubrey]. It was him who chased her,” said a source familiar with the situation. “He told her that his marriage was already in the process of dissolving.” A second source said that Donald Trump Sr. stepped in when he heard about the relationship with O’Day and told Donald Jr. to “knock it off.” The first source said that his family “pressured [Don Jr.] to stay in his marriage.” O’Day hinted at this on election night in 2016 when she tweeted: “my story I didn’t tell is worth millions now.”
Meanwhile, there are speculations that Aubrey O’Day’s son titled “DJT” is about Donald Trump Jr. The sultry track features a phone call between O’Day and an unnamed man with the initials DJT (believed to be Donald Jr Trump) in which the man breaks the news that he’s leaving her to return to his former life.
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Quite simply, Expo ’76 is unforgettable! Assembled from the eclectic ranks of Poi Dog Pondering, Tomorrow The Moon, The New Duncan Imperials, Mucca Pazza, and The Renaldo Domino Experience, this cast of characters covers tunes in name and style like no other. Plan on spending the night excitedly wondering, “What could possible happen next?!?”
Their ever-expanding set list careens wildly through decades and genres as the band follows its own muse. Whether they're storming through a rockabilly chestnut, a show tune, a top 40 hit from their (or your) childhood, brassy, jazzy hits and more, you'll feel the unbridled joy of some of Chicago's busiest and most respected musicians doing what they were born to do. Indeed...Quite simply, they're unforgettable.
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Can We Just Let One Season End Before Predicting The Next?
Politics Podcast: Eric Swalwell's Exit Interview
Jun. 24, 2019 , at 11:47 AM
By Neil Paine
Filed under NBA
LeBron James and the Lakers became the betting favorites to win in 2020 after trading for Anthony Davis.
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In the last couple of weeks, the Tampa Bay Lightning and Milwaukee Bucks both earned themselves a dubious honor. Each was crowned a champion … of next season’s betting odds. (Congrats! That and $2.45 will get you a large1 coffee at Starbucks.) According to data provided to FiveThirtyEight by the betting sites SportsBetting.ag and BetOnline.ag, Tampa Bay was installed as 8-to-1 favorites to win the 2020 Stanley Cup within hours of the St. Louis Blues winning the 2019 Stanley Cup, while the Bucks were made 9-to-2 favorites for next year’s NBA title before the confetti even settled on the Toronto Raptors’ 2019 victory.
It’s all part of a movement toward increased focus on next year’s potential winners, practically before the current champs can even be entered into the record books. “The day-after, next-year title odds have certainly become a big deal in our industry,” said Scott Cooley, a spokesman for the two oddsmakers above. “We started doing them with the online books maybe six to seven years ago, and Vegas has caught on over the last couple of years.”
The media has hopped on the trend as well in recent years. ESPN reported on the 2020 NBA favorite picks in the betting markets roughly 17 hours after the Raptors’ Game 6 win over the Golden State Warriors ended,2 and often the reports will come even sooner after the championship than that. Speculation about the next champ can practically bump the current champ out of the news cycle.
Those two kinds of teams — current champs and speculative future champs — overlap surprisingly infrequently, depending on the sport. In the data we analyzed, which covers the four major men’s pro leagues going back to either 2009 (for the NBA, MLB and NFL) or 2010 (NHL), the just-crowned champion was installed as the following season’s favorite 17 times in 45 chances (38 percent). Six of the 12 defending NBA champs since 2009 were in that category, which makes sense for a sport in which previous postseason success plays a disproportionate role in the championship hunt. By comparison, the defending Super Bowl winner was instantly named the next NFL favorite just three times in 11 chances over the same span, a number that includes the current Patriots, who are fresh off a win in Super Bowl LIII.
The Pats are perennial next-day picks, gaining that distinction seven times in the 11 NFL seasons we looked at, including 2019. (That’s sort of what happens when you maintain the top dynasty in the history of football, if not all of pro sports.) But even the Patriots have failed to convert those next-day titles into real ones with some regularity: They won as favorites in 2016 and 2018, but lost in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2017. That’s not too surprising — if we look at the history of next-day favorites, they lose far more often than they win (because even the favorite is typically an underdog against the field):
How often have next-day favorites won?
Eventual championship status for teams named next-day favorites according to the betting markets
Won?
2020 Lightning ? Bucks ?
2019 Lightning ✘ Warriors ✘
2018 Penguins ✘ Warriors ✔
2017 Penguins ✔ Warriors ✔
2016 Blackhawks ✘ Cavaliers ✔
2015 Blackhawks ✔ Heat ✘
2014 Penguins ✘ Heat ✘
2013 Penguins ✘ Heat ✔
2012 Canucks ✘ Heat ✔
2011 Blackhawks ✘ Heat ✘
2010 Red Wings ✘ Lakers ✔
2009 — — Celtics ✘
2020 — — — —
2019 Patriots ? Astros, Red Sox ?
2018 Patriots ✔ Astros ✘
2017 Patriots ✘ Cubs ✘
2016 Panthers, Patriots*, Seahawks ✔ Cubs ✔
2015 Seahawks ✘ Dodgers, Nationals ✘
2014 Seahawks ✘ Dodgers ✘
2013 49ers, Broncos ✘ Tigers ✘
2012 Patriots ✘ Phillies ✘
2010 Colts ✘ Yankees ✘
2009 Patriots ✘ Yankees ✔
* The Patriots were NFL co-favorites in 2016 and won the Super Bowl.
Sources: SPORTSBETTING.AG, BETONLINE.AG
A new champion doesn’t always get very much respect from the oddsmakers in the immediate wake of its victory. The Raptors, for instance, opened the 2020 championship betting at fourth in the NBA (8-to-1 odds), while the Blues started 2020 in a tie for fifth in the NHL (12-to-1 odds) right after hoisting the Cup. Most of the time, however, the champs stay pretty close to the top of the sport. Only five of the 45 new champs we looked at fell out of the top five for their league when looking ahead to the following season: The 2008 Philadelphia Phillies (sixth looking ahead to 2009), the 2015 Denver Broncos (seventh for 2016), the 2018 Washington Capitals (eighth for 2019), the 2011 New York Giants (eighth for 2012) and the 2012 Baltimore Ravens (13th for 2013).
Number of champions in the NBA, MLB, NFL and NHL with a certain ranking in the next-day betting odds for the following season, since 2009
2nd 12
10th 0
This summer was actually an unusual moment in that regard, between the NBA and NHL. It was the first time in our data where both leagues’ champions opened in fourth place or worse in the next season’s odds at the same time. This is perhaps because both the Raptors and Blues were first-time champions in their respective sports, and each was a relative surprise champion as well (the Blues began the season as the 19th-ranked betting choice, 40-to-1 to win it all, while the Raptors were ninth with 60-to-1 title odds).
This isn’t the first time the books have shown an affinity for a team — like, say, the Lightning — whose previous season didn’t end in glorious fashion. But that doesn’t happen very often. Granting that some sports’ playoff structures don’t feature rounds of equivalent size before their playoff quarterfinals,3 Tampa Bay joined the 2012 Pittsburgh Penguins and 2010 Miami Heat as the only teams in our sample to exit in the first round of the NBA or NHL playoffs and then immediately become championship favorites the day after the playoffs ended. (And that Heat team comes with a special disclaimer we’ll talk about later.)
Number of next-day betting odds favorites in the NBA, MLB, NFL and NHL that finished the previous playoffs a given number of rounds from the championship, since 2009
Rounds From Championship
More than half of the freshly minted next-day favorites in our sample had either just won (35 percent) or lost (26 percent) in their sport’s championship round. So it’s pretty unusual to see a team such as the Lightning flame out in the playoffs and then immediately be named favorites for the following season. Then again, Tampa Bay had been named next-day favorites going into the 2018-19 season as well (after losing a tough seven-game conference final to the eventual-champ Capitals), then proceeded to rattle off one of the most dominant regular seasons in hockey history before falling flat in one of the game’s most epic playoff disappointments. The 2019 NHL playoffs were a chaotic mess anyway — the eventual champs fired their coach midseason and were playoff longshots for most of the regular season — so it might have been the perfect mix of factors to elevate a team back to favorite status despite a postseason flop.
These next-day odds can change pretty quickly anyway. Although the Bucks were technically 2020 favorites in the moments after Toronto won it all, the Los Angeles Lakers usurped that distinction just a day later, being installed as 7-to-2 favorites after trading for former Pelicans superstar Anthony Davis. It was a pretty remarkable leap to the top of the heap, given that LeBron James and LA didn’t even make the playoffs the previous season. (None of the next-day favorites we’ve been looking at in this data set could say that.)
But that’s nothing compared with the summer of 2010, when the oddsmakers avoided officially releasing the next-day NBA odds altogether. We included their first batch of odds in the calculation above — hence the Heat’s jump to No. 1 for 2011 — but those numbers were actually released after free agency had begun. Although the 2010 season ended on June 17, odds for 2011 weren’t posted until July 9 because of the uncertainty around LeBron’s free-agency “Decision.” Considering that this summer may rival 2010 in terms of the amount of NBA talent on the move, it’s not impossible that the 2020 favorite in the NBA betting markets will shift again in the next few weeks.
The era of immediate speculation does nothing to help temper the expectations placed on teams who are “supposed” to win. For example, the Los Angeles Dodgers — who haven’t won a World Series since 1988 — have been named next-day favorites twice in the past six seasons (in 2014 and 2015) and have never ranked lower than third place in the next-day odds over that span. With each passing instance of an on-paper championship (and no real one), a team’s disappointment comes even more into focus.
But the trend of impatiently looking ahead to next season doesn’t seem like it will let up anytime soon. As the lines begin to blur between one season’s end and the next one’s beginning — particularly given the way fans consume sports now and how the media covers it — there’s too much interest in far-off futures odds for anyone to ignore them. So that means we’re in store for plenty more speculative champions being crowned, even if the actual ones aren’t finished celebrating yet.
Sorry, venti.
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Both the NBA and NHL feature a round of 16 before their quarterfinals, while MLB and the NFL each have a round of 12.
Neil Paine is a senior sportswriter for FiveThirtyEight. @Neil_Paine
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The Tomb of Noosheerwân
Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental January 8, 2015
The caliph Hâroon-oor-Rasheed went to visit the tomb of the celebrated Noosheerwân, the most famous of all the monarchs who ever governed Persia. Before the tomb was a curtain of gold cloth, which, when Hâroon touched it, fell to pieces. The walls of the tomb were covered with gold and jewels, whose splendour illumined its darkness. The body was placed in a sitting posture on a throne enchased with jewels, and had so much the appearance of life that, on the first impulse, the Commander of the Faithful bent to the ground, and saluted the remains of the just Noosheerwân.
Though the face of the departed monarch was like that of a living man, and the whole of the body in a state of preservation, which showed the admirable skill of those who embalmed it, yet when the caliph touched the garments they mouldered into dust. Hâroon upon this took his own rich robes and threw them over the corpse; he also hung up a new curtain richer than that he had destroyed, and perfumed the whole tomb with camphor, and other sweet scents.
It was remarked that no change was perceptible in the body of Noosheerwân, except that the ears had become white. The whole scene affected the caliph greatly; he burst into tears, and repeated from the Koran—“What I have seen is a warning to those who have eyes.” He observed some writing upon the throne, which he ordered the Moobids (priests), who were learned in the Pehlevee language, to read and explain. They did so: it was as follows:—
“This world remains not; the man who thinks least of it is the wisest.
“Enjoy this world before thou becomest its prey.
“Bestow the same favour on those below thee as thou desirest to receive from those above thee.
“If thou shouldst conquer the whole world, death will at last conquer thee.
“Be careful that thou art not the dupe of thine own fortune.
“Thou shalt be paid exactly for what thou hast done; no more, no less.”
The caliph observed a dark ruby-ring on the finger of Noosheerwân, on which was written—
“Avoid cruelty, study good, and never be precipitate in action.
“If thou shouldst live for a hundred years, never for one moment forget death.
“Value above all things the society of the wise.”
Around the right arm of Noosheerwân was a clasp of gold, on which was engraved—
“On a certain year, on the 10th day of the month Erdebehisht, a caliph of the race of Adean, professing the faith of Mahomed, accompanied by four good men, and one bad, shall visit my tomb.”
Below this sentence were the names of the forefathers of the caliph. Another prophecy was added concerning Hâroon’s pilgrimage to Noosheerwân’s tomb.
“This prince will honour me, and do good unto me, though I have no claim upon him; and he will clothe me in a new vest, and besprinkle my tomb with sweet-scented essences, and then depart unto his home. But the bad man who accompanies him shall act treacherously towards me. I pray that God may send one of my race to repay the great favours of the caliph, and to take vengeance on his unworthy companion. There is, under my throne, an inscription which the caliph must read and contemplate. Its contents will remind him of me, and make him pardon my inability to give him more.”
The caliph, on hearing this, put his hand under the throne, and found the inscription, which consisted of some lines, inscribed on a ruby as large as the palm of the hand. The Moobids read this also. It contained information where would be found concealed a treasure of gold and arms, with some caskets of rich jewels; under this was written—
“These I give to the caliph in return for the good he has done me; let him take them and be happy.”
When Hâroon-oor-Rasheed was about to leave the tomb, Hoosein-ben-Sâhil, his vizier, said to him: “O Lord of the Faithful, what is the use of all these precious gems which ornament the abode of the dead, and are of no benefit to the living? Allow me to take some of them.” The caliph replied with indignation, “Such a wish is more worthy of a thief than of a great or wise man.” Hoosein was ashamed of his speech, and said to the servant who had been placed at the entrance of the tomb, “Go thou, and worship the holy shrine within.” The man went into the tomb; he was above a hundred years old, but he had never seen such a blaze of wealth. He felt inclined to plunder some of it, but was at first afraid; at last, summoning all his courage, he took a ring from the finger of Noosheerwân, and came away.
Hâroon saw this man come out, and observing him alarmed, he at once conjectured what he had been doing. Addressing those around him, he said, “Do not you now see the extent of the knowledge of Noosheerwân? He prophesied that there should be one unworthy man with me. It is this fellow. What have you taken?” said he, in an angry tone. “Nothing,” said the man. “Search him,” said the caliph. It was done, and the ring of Noosheerwân was found. This the caliph immediately took, and, entering the tomb, replaced it on the cold finger of the deceased monarch. When he returned, a terrible sound like that of loud thunder was heard.
Hâroon came down from the mountain on which the tomb stood, and ordered the road to be made inaccessible to future curiosity. He searched for, and found, in the place described, the gold, the arms, and the jewels bequeathed to him by Noosheerwân, and sent them to Bagdad.
Among the rich articles found was a golden crown, which had five sides, and was richly ornamented with precious stones. On every side a number of admirable lessons were written. The most remarkable were as follows:—
First side.
“Give my regards to those who know themselves.
“Consider the end before you begin, and before you advance provide a retreat.
“Give not unnecessary pain to any man, but study the happiness of all.
“Ground not your dignity upon your power to hurt others.”
Second side.
“Take counsel before you commence any measure, and never trust its execution to the inexperienced.
“Sacrifice your property for your life, and your life for your religion.
“Spend your time in establishing a good name; and if you desire fortune, learn contentment.”
Third side.
“Grieve not for that which is broken, stolen, burnt, or lost.
“Never give orders in another man’s house; and accustom yourself to eat your bread at your own table.
“Make not yourself the captive of women.”
Fourth side.
“Take not a wife from a bad family, and seat not thyself with those who have no shame.
“Keep thyself at a distance from those who are incorrigible in bad habits, and hold no intercourse with that man who is insensible to kindness.
“Covet not the goods of others.
“Be guarded with monarchs, for they are like fire which blazeth but destroyeth.
“Be sensible to your own value; estimate justly the worth of others; and war not with those who are far above thee in fortune.”
Fifth side.
“Fear kings, women, and poets.
“Be envious of no man, and habituate not thyself to search after the faults of others.
“Make it a habit to be happy, and avoid being out of temper, or thy life will pass in misery.
“Respect and protect the females of thy family.
“Be not the slave of anger; and in thy contests always leave open the door of conciliation.
“Never let your expenses exceed your income.
“Plant a young tree, or you cannot expect to cut down an old one.
“Stretch your legs no further than the size of your carpet.”
The caliph Hâroon-oor-Rasheed was more pleased with the admirable maxims inscribed on this crown than with all the treasures he had found. “Write these precepts,” he exclaimed, “in a book, that the faithful may eat of the fruit of wisdom.” When he returned to Bagdad, he related to his favourite vizier, Jaffier Bermekee, and his other chief officers, all that had passed; and the shade of Noosheerwân was propitiated by the disgrace of Hoosein-ben-Sâhil (who had recommended despoiling his tomb), and the exemplary punishment of the servant who had committed the sacrilegious act of taking the ring from the finger of the departed monarch.
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Well here we are..... The Stanley Cup playoffs finals are set. The toughest title to win in pro sports kicks off this weekend.
The St. Louis Blues and the Boston Bruins.
For the record I had both these teams out. The Blues in the second round against the Preds and the Bruins not finding a way by the Leafs...
Its surely is painful for Leaf fans as the Leafs had the Bruins on the mat but didn't choke the life out them in game 6. Then we got to watch the Bruins take care of the Blue Jackets and Hurricanes with really no problems and slide not the Cup finals.Next year.
The Blues.. riding the hottest goaltender in the playoffs got by the Jets who are also doing some soul searching this off season, then took care of Nashville and a really good Sharks team.
I am cheering for the Blues... They have an incredibly loyal fan base in a city that loves its baseball and hockey above all else... even the NBA and the NFL.
Jordan Binnington wins the Conn Smythe and the Cup for a city that has been waiting for it since 1968.
Go Blues Go.
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Mon Jun 3rd, 2019, 09:15 AM
I didn't even know there was a thread for this.
The Blues have no counterpart to the leadership of Chara (best Captain in hockey) Bergeron, Marchand, Krejci and Pasta. Their youngD is highly under rated. Plus, Bruins are deep into Binnington's head and Rask is unflappable.
I like the Blues (and the Blue Jackets), they play Bruin's hockey. But they're Bruins-lite
Mon Jun 3rd, 2019, 07:39 PM
Yes it is possible to follow and cheer for teams in multiple sports.
Big game tonight.....With their season and the cup on the line if they go down 3-1 I think the Blues win and they go back to Boston tied. Look for a pretty physical game tonight.
That Chara is still playing in the show at 42 Is awesome. Just unbelievable he can still play. Pretty sure Z doesn’t buy too many restaurant meals in Boston for the rest of his life if he decides to live their post hockey.
Wed Jun 12th, 2019, 01:46 PM
Game 7 of the Stanley Cup playoffs goes tonight.
The best road team in the playoffs the St. Louis Blues travels to Boston.
Both have great goaltending (whodathunkthat eh?)
Both have solid bluelines.
There is a storyline.....42 year old Zedeno Chara is playing with a broken jaw.... remember the pitcher for the Jays who had to sit down with "forearm tightness" and couldn't understand the mocking laughter he got ?
St. Louis is the the more physically imposing team and can and will use that after the Bataan Death march that is the Stanley Cup Playoffs. It matters. Boston can finish better than the Blues.
Flip a coin...
Heart over head.... The St. Louis Blues skate back to Mizzou with Lord Stanley...
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Thu Jun 13th, 2019, 11:09 AM
Thank the gods. I can't stand anymore Boston championships. Good for St. Louis. What a great story.
Mon Jul 1st, 2019, 10:46 PM
Gosh, love the job Dubas has done this spring/summer. Finally got his pick moving RHD. Cleared cap long term by dumping Zaitsev and might even be able to keep Barrie after this year. Totally pick neutral with the two deals too.
Ceci is no good, but he can play the right side and might be OK in his own zone in the right circumstances, can at least kill penalties, and if he's on the third pair it will be fine. Still curious who the other top 4 guy ends up being. Might be Ceci, which is a bit of a risk, might end up Dermott when he's back, or he might get to helm his own pair.
Really like the forward depth they've added too, even shedding Kadri and Brown and Ennis, with Spezza and Kerfoot and Shore and Agostino...
Throw in locking down Kappy and Johnson for multiple years at reasonable cap hits and all that's really left is getting Marner's signature on a deal.
Wed Jul 3rd, 2019, 10:34 PM
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Really like the forward depth they've added too, even shedding Kadri and Brown and Ennis, with Spezza and Kerfoot and Shore and Agostino...
Throw in locking down Kappy and Johnson for multiple years at reasonable cap hits and all that's really left is getting Marner's signature on a deal.
For sure after this off season this is now Dubas's team.
They are comprised of skill and speed up front and on the back end they have a ton of puck moving defenseman who can all skate.
Dubas also got out of cap hell but it cost him. Such is the price of a hard cap. Gone are a still serviceable Patrick Marleau and 1st rounder to move 6M in cap. Gone is favourite whipping boy Jake Gardiner and his 50 points and his 4.5M$ cap hit from the blueline for .. nada. The sole semblance of snarl up front .. Naz Khadri is off to Coors country. Back comes a solid young guy in Kerfoot to man the 3rd C slot who isn't as good as Naz but can play and will see 2nd unit PP time. The big piece of the trade coming to Toronto and to me a big upgrade on the blue line over Zaitsev isTyson Barrie. Barrie is real get but he is a UFA in a year. Ouch when Naz was under team control for 3 more years. Cap problems will be back next year as well. Damn I despise a hard cap so they can have hockey in Phoenix.
Overall I think the team is way more balanced as the defense now sports Reilly, Muzzin.Ceci, Barrie and Dermott. Who is the number 6 could be any one of Marincin or Lilofgren or the other guy they got from Ottawa Ben Harpur who has size. Its going to be better than last years crew.
Dubas has a team that is smaller but supremely skilled. That works great in the regular season but the last two Cup teams had both skill and size and snarl.. St. Louis and Boston were the last guys standing this year and they were both in the biggest and most physical teams in the league category.The year before it was the Capitals with the biggest team in the league who won.... but before that Pittsburg won two in a row on skill..... with not as much snarl...
This was a conscious decision to build the team this way... Lets see how things go next April.
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I'm intrigued by the thinking I've seen that the Leafs might try to get out from under Ceci's deal (either by going to arbitration and walking if it comes in high enough, or by signing him to a one year deal with a massive signing bonus and flipping him to a cap floor team for nothing), and using the extra cash to bring back Gardiner for a year to bridge the gap to when Liljegren and Sandin will be ready to step in. That assumes Gardiner doesn't have the market he would like to have and would take a one year deal to try to boost his value and get a bigger payday next summer.
That would give the Leafs their best defensive lineup probably ever, while still rocking two powerhouse lines up front. Rielly-Gardiner, Muzzin-Barrie, Dermott-whoever (not Harpur, he's bad).
And the cap will definitely be tight again next summer, but tight is fine. Tight can be managed.
Thu Jul 4th, 2019, 09:27 AM
I like Gardiner... Its not just anyone that can put up 50 points from the blueline....
But the fan base has soured on him. For his own good he has to move on. No matter what he won't do anything right. Its tough to play in that fishbowl.
He is the lighting rod that Kessel was ...before Phil it was Larry Murphy.. and before him it was Mike Pelyk and before him it was the Big M...
When the Toronto crowd sours on you.. its not pretty... its not logical but it is what it is.
I hope he winds up in a good situation...
Philly has room and so does Columbus and the LA Kings....The Rangers are making a serious move right now.. he could help them.
Just don't think he stays here.
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I would have bet on him not coming back heading into the offseason. But it's weird he doesn't have a deal yet. Might mean the money he wants is not out there, maybe teams are scared of the back injury and don't want to hand out term.
He will land...
This is why you hate the hard cap...
He is worth 6M ... but he might not get it....
I hope he lands with one of .. Detroit... LA Kings... Philly.... Rangers....Columbus... maybe Montreal...
He helps them all...
If he's worth 6M, it's not the hard cap why he won't get it. Soft or hard cap there is only so much money to go around.
I'm rooting for him to get his pay day. Just saying, if it's not out there, Leafs would likely love to give him a one year deal to prove his health.
Superjudge
Sat Jul 6th, 2019, 07:58 AM
I agree with you 100%.
Not a lot you can do if you want to hold on to the guys they have up front. It's a bit precarious depending upon a few young guys in Liljegren and Sandin to step up and be top shelf defenders, but its what ya have. Toronto has to really just hope their scouting and development are top priority as they will have to rely on young/AHL level gems to bolster a top heavy lineup.
Good problem to have if we look back a few years at how bad Toronto has been.
Sat Jul 13th, 2019, 01:33 PM
As the real summer arrives....One question that comes up for the leafs is "Just how stubborn is Mitch Marners camp " ?
To me... Dubas fucked up by not grinding Nylander and his camp into dust... It was over a million bucks. 7M for 6 years vs 6M for 6 years.That money would have come in handy this year....I don't think he makes the same mistake this time through with Marner. .
In the NHL the team has all the leverage unless its a true UFA situation... I think Dubas is prepared to use that leverage for optics as much as anything else as he gets to closure on Marners deal....which I think comes in at 5 years @10M$ a year. The Leafs get him at the price they need and Mitch gets a clear path to UFA at the age of 27. .
What happens between now and 27 will determine who made the right bet.
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10M for 5 years is a clear win for Marner and anyone thinking it's a compromise means his agent team has been incredibly successful.
I don't think Dubas will have the stomach for another Nylander situation, although the Nylander contract was actually a very good job by the Leafs. Got term at a pretty low number. But they definitely won't want to hurt another season of Tavares' waiting out a contract dispute.
The good news is Marner has gone hunting for an offer sheet and it sounds like every other team is telling him the same thing as the Leafs - you want that 10M+ contract, you'd better be OK with full length term. If he wants a 5 year deal or shorter, it will likely have to be more in the 9M range.
That said, I'm surprised anyone would think that the extra million would make a difference for the Leafs. If they had the extra million they would still not want to pay Marner way above market. And it's not like they can't fit any contract for Marner (given the offers that can actually be expected) in with Nylander there. They've actually set themselves up beautifully for this summer to match (and also to walk away if they have the opportunity to take 4 firsts and a pile of cap room for their trouble) pretty much anything. The negotiations now are about next summer, when they'll want to be able to keep some of the defensive upgrades they acquired over the past 6 months.
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Manchester United reluctant to sell Juventus target
Date: 9th July 2019 at 10:20pm
Written by: Tom Probert
Juventus target Paul Pogba’s desire to leave Manchester United this summer may be in vein with reports suggesting that both the club and manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer are reluctant to part with the midfielder.
The Frenchman has already said he would like to depart Old Trafford this summer and his agent, Mino Raiola, came out and reiterated this stance, but United and Solskjaer are said to be hoping to keep the World Cup winner and build the team around him.
According to the Evening Standard, Solskjaer’s preference is for the club to retain the services of Frenchman this summer and United themselves are adamant he is not for sale at any price.
Pogba returned to Man United in 2016 for a then world-record fee of €105 million but has faced an uncertain and often strained relationship with the club and it’s supporters.
Although United state Pogba is not for sale at any price, some papers have reported they would be tempted by a fee in and around the €150m mark.
Last season, Pogba played 35 times in the league for United, who eventually finished sixth, scoring 13 goals and registering nine assists.
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Music: Fractured is my Lunatic Soul’s Prog Rock Album of the Year 2017
There are several traits which help you make a music album, the best of the year. The first listening has an immediate pull; at some point you start tapping your foot; then slowly you pay attention to the lyrics; then Google for the exact lyrics; now you concentrate on the melody; next you relate or recall any past incident or loved one; at some point your eyes moist, shed a tear; commit to listening the next track, and the next. Next day you hear the complete album again. And again. And wish the album had more tracks.
The solo project
Except in Lunatic Soul’s case you will need to Google about the band too. Or is it a band? Wikipedia has just one line mentioned about this supremely talented bunch into their fifth album. The line goes thus “Lunatic Soul is a progressive rock solo-project fronted by Riverside vocalist and bass guitarist Mariusz Duda in 2008″. All the more reason why every band needs that breakthrough album which cements their place in music history forever. Fractured isn’t a progressive rock album that needs multiple listenings to get hooked to, you like it on the first play. Love it thereafter. Last year The Pineapple Thief & Katatonia broke through with pathbreaking albums which significantly upped their game and got them touring more. Fractured will repair the Lunatic Soul forever.
Taken from their website, “Fractured” by Lunatic Soul is not an album to be listened to in the evening. It’s not meant to be savoured with a glass of wine, lights out or eyes closed. When you’re broken, when your world has shattered and…” True to every word. This is classic Lunatic Soul stuff with strong influences from Radiohead, Depeche Mode and a lot of Riverside. Which probably explains the gamut of emotions this album is likely to drown you into.
Mairusz Duda explains: “The main theme of Fractured is coming back to life after a personal tragedy… It’s inspired by what happened in my life in 2016 and by everything that’s happening around us and what’s making us turn away from one another and divide into groups, for better and for worse”
Ranking of Fractured – Lunatic Soul Tracks
Here’s my ranking of the tracks. Although in modern days of listening on internet or Spotify, the tracks come random (shuffle) and that has taken away the essence of song placement and why it was placed where it was. So a ranking makes perfect sense.
1. Moving on – It’s a 5/5 song from the first drum beat, one that you will get hooked to instantly. It’s a song about ‘moving on’ in life hence inspirational enough. The louder you listen to this song more you want the volume up. Classic Depeche Mode touch. However the video is a low budget product and could have been made better visually.
2. Crumbling teeth and the owl eyes – One of the masterpieces and signature Lunatic Soul stuff. Lyrics bound to touch one and all – about a man feeling insecure his partner could leave and that would shut the light out of his life.
3. Anymore – A song representing feelings of a person who wants to tell a lot to his / her separated partner. The lyrics and feel of this song and fact that it’s so relatable to life, stays in the mind. Fact that its also an extremely hummable number – which is something you don’t often say of a Radioheadesque album.
4. A Thousand Shards of Heaven – This is a track which catches you by surprise. The first four minutes are standard commercial sentimental stuff but it’s from here the song just goes to another level. At 4.30 mins you are shaking your head and suddenly it seems so much Lunatic Soul signature stuff. The clarinet/saxophone sounds come in between and it’s a 4.5/5 track now and keeps getting better and better. At the end, it forces you to listen again – from the fourth minute to the twelfth.
5. Blood on a Tightrope – Technically savvy track with and something possibly the band experimented with. It’s neither Radiohead nor Riverside sound. It’s somewhere in between and one which doesn’t walk the commercial line… quite contrary to the lyrics… .”Every day we night we walk the line .. trying not to fall … not lose control”.
6. Red Light Escape – This song gets better as it progresses, has a brilliant chorus and sounds a lot like slow Riverside (mentor band) number.
7. Fractured – The title track sounds a lot like how a high on drums Radiohead number would be like. Low on lyrics, high on randomness, the song ends leaving you shaking your heads to the beats. I would rate this the weakest track and yet give it a 3.5/5 – which is a true representation of the quality of the album.
A must listen and I hope it makes to major awards nomination listings!
October 27, 2017 October 31, 2017 Avijit Das PatnaikAlbum of the Year, Depeche Mode, Katatonia, Lunatic Soul, Mariusz Duda, Progressive Rock, Radiohead, Riverside, The Pineapple Thief
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Xenobiology | Article about Xenobiology by The Free Dictionary
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search for extraterrestrial life within the solar system and throughout the universe. Philosophical speculation that there might be other worlds similar to ours dates back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks.
the scientific discipline devoted to the study of life in the universe in all its forms. Astrobiology is based on scientific achievement in the areas of astronomy, biology, and biochemistry. In solving certain problems, astrobiology is intimately connected with space biology and space medicine, disciplines which arose along with man’s active penetration of cosmic space.
An important problem in astrobiology is the study of the circumstances of the origin and development of life on earth as a cosmic body under primordial terrestrial conditions in the presence of a basic atmosphere. In such an atmosphere fairly complicated organic compounds, which might have served as the basis for the development of life, could have formed in the presence of external irradiation or electrical discharges. Gradually this life could have formed an extensive biosphere, whose cosmic role has been indicated by V. I. Vernadskii. As a result of the photosynthesis carried on by plants, the earth’s atmosphere gradually became oxidized; thus, the presence of oxygen in the composition of the atmosphere of any planet is a sufficient (though not an obligatory) indication of the presence of life on that planet.
Scientific information about the physical nature of the various planets obtained up to the middle of the 20th century testifies to the fact that life is not possible on every body in the solar system. In particular, it has been established that life is practically impossible on the moon, on Mercury, and on Venus. On Mars, in spite of its extremely rarefied atmosphere (absolute pressure of the order of 1 kilonewton/m2, that is, 10 millibars), the negligible quantity of water vapor in the absence of liquid water, and the low temperature (-55° C on the average), certain terrestrial forms of life could still exist, as has been demonstrated in laboratory experiments. However, a definitive solution of the problem of the existence of life on other planets can be reached only by the direct inspection of these planets by the appropriate space vehicles. The flights of the American Apollo spaceships confirmed the conclusions of astrobiology about the absence of life on the moon. Advances in astronautics permit one to hope that the solution of this problem with regard to the other bodies in the solar system is also near. Projects for experiments devised to discover life on other bodies with the help of automatic apparatus are based on the assumption that life on these planets has the same hydrocarbon basis as on earth. Life organized on another basis (ammonia, silicon) is not very likely. The major argument in favor of the universality of life on a hydrocarbon basis is that, as is shown by the detailed study of the primordial meteoritic matter (carbonaceous chondrites), the formation of extremely complex hydrocarbon compounds (anthracene, phenanthrene, and even the basic elements of deoxyribonucleic acid—the purine bases adenine and guanine) could have taken place in the preplanetary stage in the primordial gas-dust nebula; later this organic material became part of the planets as they formed, and under favorable conditions it determined the development of life on these planets.
A special problem of astrobiology concerns the search for life outside of the solar system. A significant number of stars in our galaxy could have planets with the appropriate circular orbits, sufficient masses, and constant irradiation suitable for the existence of life and even of civilizations. The number of such civilizations with a higher level than that on earth is estimated on the basis of various (sometimes considerably arbitrary) assumptions to be from about 1,000 to hundreds of millions. However, even in the latter case, only one such star out of many hundreds would be located at a distance of the order of 10 or even 100 parsecs (1 parsec = 30.86 x 1012 km) from the earth. Therefore, it is completely unrealistic, for the present, to think of sending any kind of spaceship into galactic space to establish direct contact with extraterrestrial civilizations. The establishment of contact with other civilizations with the aid of radio signals is more realistic. Such attempts to establish contact with possible civilizations near the stars τ Ceti and ∊ Eridani (distance of 3.9 and 3.5 parsecs), which could be presumed to have planetary systems, were begun by F. Drake (USA) in 1960 at the Green Bank Radio Observatory; positive results have not been obtained. In order to establish such contact, it is necessary to choose correctly the direction of signal emission, the length of the radio waves, the content of the broadcast, and the code. These problems are being studied in many scientific institutions in the USSR, the USA, and other countries.
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Shklovskii, I. S. Vselenndia, zhizn’, razum, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1965.
Mezhzvezdnaia sviaz’. [A collection of articles, edited by G. W. Cameron.] Moscow, 1965. (Translated from English.)
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An approach to the scientific study of the living universe which seeks to understand the origin and evolution of life on earth, to determine if life exists elsewhere in the universe, and to predict the future of life on earth and in the rest of the universe.
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ICE Calculator Case Study: EPB Chattanooga Distribution Automation
In 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) awarded a grant to the EPB Chattanooga as part of the Smart Grid Investment Grant program. This funding award enabled EPB to expedite its original smart grid implementation schedule from an estimated 10-12 years to 2.5 years.
EPB installed 1,200 automated circuit switches and sensors on 171 circuits, improving reliability across its entire service territory of about 174,000 homes and businesses at a total cost of about $48.4 million. EPB’s initial analysis estimated that this improvement would result in a 40% decrease in total customer outage minutes. Comparison of actual reliability metrics under normal operations from before and after the automation did indeed show a substantial improvement, including reducing SAIDI4 by 45% (from 112 to 61.8 minutes/year) and reducing SAIFI5 by 51% (from 1.42 to 0.69 interruptions/year). This substantial reliability improvement saves customers about $26.8 million annually in the form of avoided customer interruption costs, as estimated using Version 1.0 of the DOE Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator, which is a publicly-available online tool for estimating customer interruption costs. he ICE Calculator has since been updated (Version 2.0) with survey data from more recent studies.
In addition to the avoided customer interruption costs under normal operations, distribution automation can significantly improve reliability and the speed of re-establishing service during severe storms, as demonstrated by a severe weather event in Chattanooga in July 2012. The ICE Calculator was again used to estimate and compare customer outage costs both with and without distribution automation. Customers who experienced automatic power restoration as a result of automation (e.g., outage durations below 5 minutes) would have had to wait an average of 16.8 hours without automation, resulting in an avoided customer interruption cost of $23 million during the severe July 2012 storm.
EPB’s $48.4 million ($5.6 million annualized) distribution automation investment was quickly offset by the combined benefit of avoided customer outage costs for reliability improvements under normal conditions ($26.8 million annually) and under a severe weather event ($23 million). This investment will continue to yield outage cost savings for EPB customers throughout the expected 20-year lifetime of the investment.
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Migration program gives priority to those with skills most needed
Featured, Visas / December 18, 2008 December 18, 2008
An interesting and useful revision for those applying under one of the skilled Migration programs.
The Rudd Government will revise the migration program for the second half of 2008-09 so that skilled migrants who have a confirmed job, or have skills in critical need will be given priority for a permanent visa to come to Australia.
In a statement tabled in Parliament today, the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, said the changes, effective from 1 January, will ensure that the Skilled Migration program is driven by the requirements of industry and targets skills in critical need across a number of sectors.
‘This will ensure our migration program is more responsive to the needs of the economy and assists industries still experiencing skills shortages,’ Senator Evans said.
‘In light of the changing economic circumstances, the Rudd Government has reviewed the Skilled Migration program and consulted business and industry along with state and territory governments Australia-wide about their skills needs.
‘The overwhelming message is that we need to maintain a Skilled Migration program but one that is more targeted.
‘There were concerns that the permanent Skilled Migration program was not delivering the right skills to the right areas and there was an increasing use of the temporary skilled migration program (Subclass 457 visa) by employers to meet their needs.
‘The existing 133 500 planning target will remain as a ceiling, with the actual number of visas granted to be kept under review for the remainder of 2008-09.
‘To meet immediate skills needs, the government will fast-track the processing of sponsored permanent migration visas, where skilled migrants are nominated by employers for jobs that cannot be filled locally.
‘This could see employer sponsored visas occupying an increasing share of the skilled program, with 36 000 visas likely in the current year,’ the minister said.
Senator Evans said about 80 per cent of employer-sponsored visas are granted to people who were already living and working in Australia on temporary visas. Fast-tracking the grant of these visas will provide greater certainty to employers and increase the number of visas granted onshore.
Where a person has applied to migrate to Australia without an employer sponsor, they will be given priority if they have an occupation on a list of skills in critical shortage.
The list of skills in critical shortage will focus on medical and key IT professionals, engineers and construction trades. The occupations on the critical skills list are the ones most frequently sought by employers through sponsorship.
Under the previous arrangements, more than 10 000 applications from engineers, medical professionals and other skilled migrants were sitting in the queue and may have had to wait more than a year before being considered.
‘Fast-tracking professionals on the critical skills list will ensure that the economy gets the skills it needs now, not just those applicants who applied first,’ Senator Evans said.
The government has also given state and territory governments’ greater scope to address the critical skill needs in their jurisdiction. This reflects the different economies that have developed across the country.
As a result of these measures, the 2008-09 skilled migration program will be more targeted in delivering the skills needed in the economy, while increasing the number of visas granted to those already in Australia and currently in jobs. While the existing planning target remains in place as a ceiling, the government retains the ability to cap the program below that figure if necessary.
The skilled migration program was significantly increased in the May Budget from 102 500 to 133 500 places to ease nationwide skills shortages.
Senator Evans said a report released earlier in the year by respected economic analyst Access Economics shows that new migrants to Australia deliver hundreds of millions of dollars to the Commonwealth budget and the broader economy every year.
In its Migrant Fiscal Impact Model: 2008 Update, Access Economics found that the fiscal benefits from taxation and visa charges far outweighed the costs that migrants impose on health, education, welfare, employment and settlement services.
‘The bottom line is that our migration program is vital to keep the economy growing as well as helping Australian businesses overcome skills shortages,’ Senator Evans said.
‘It must also be remembered that Australia is facing a demographic shift that will see more people retire than join the workforce, so the permanent skilled migration program provides a stable, effective and targeted source of skilled workers for the future.’
Discuss these changes in This Thread
More info here: Changes to the 2008 – 2009 Skilled Migration program (Opens in new window)
Australian Occupation and Skills in Demand List to be overhauled
Australian Visas – Processing could be delayed to 2011
Important changes to Australian skilled-sponsored visas for ACT and NT
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Clinton.com: What Would Putin Do?
Ask's Tom Cotton: What if Russian's Foreign Minister Conducted Official Business on an Unsecured Private Server?
The latter question is a shocking one, because it makes you realize that it is inconceivable that a Russian or Iranian or Chinese foreign minister would be as stupid or as careless as Hillary Clinton. Can you imagine if Russia’s Foreign Minister ran official business from an unsecured server in his home, and, confronted by Putin, explained that it was OK because his house had a security guard? Honestly, I doubt that guy would live to see the dawn.
This is one of several reasons why Hillary is not a serious contender for the presidency. But let’s not forget: Barack Obama may be in the process of selling Hillary down the river, but she was his Secretary of State. It is hard to imagine that he was unaware of her lax security practices, and, in any event, he is responsible for the people he chooses for his cabinet. Hillary’s massive security breach is a scandal of the first order that ultimately lies at the feet of President Obama.
The good stuff starts just before 4:00.
FBI confident Clinton emails being recovered
An intelligence source close to the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s server told Fox News that the FBI maintains “the highest degree of confidence” emails are being recovered, adding that “shadows and ghosts” were on the server after messages were deleted.
The source added the FBI was also seeking to recover malicious code or any other evidence the server had been breached by a foreign government, or foreign government-backed entity.
Speaking to the Des Moines Register editorial board Tuesday, Clinton publicly stated for the first time that her server had not been compromised by a foreign entity, and that her private IT company assured her this was the case.
“There is no evidence that mine ever was,”Clinton told the editorial board. Asked if the assessment was done by the State Department, Clinton said, “No, the technical people who ran it. Who managed it...that was a private company (in Denver).”
In the past, there were multiple reports of the server being off line, or providing slow service.
The intelligence source said, "I would be greatly concerned that the repeated technical problem with the computer were results of someone, (including the possibility of a foreign country), forcing unauthorized access to the server. From what I was told, this is sometimes a symptom of a system that has been compromised."
More Hillary Clinton Email News, More Hillary Clinton Falsehoods
. . . I have no idea what, if anything, investigators will find on Clinton’s server, but the fact that she refused for months to turn it over to investigators suggests that there’s something on it she’d rather not be made public.
But as I have argued before, what matters in this story, at least so far, isn’t the content of the emails; it’s how Clinton has behaved and responded as the story has unfolded.
Instead of being direct and forthcoming, she has responded with arrogance and inaccuracies, repeatedly making claims that simply don’t hold up when examined. The email story, in other words, has shown us how Clinton responds to the sort of basic questioning and scrutiny that she would receive every minute of every day as President of the United States—and that response is revealing, and damning, enough.
Emails to hound Clinton for months
For Team Clinton, it’s become the equivalent of a courtroom quagmire.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is finding it difficult to move past the controversy over her email setup while she was serving as the nation’s top diplomat, in part because of the nearly three-dozen legal challenges related to it.
There are 35 separate, active public records lawsuits against the State Department that deal with the emails of Clinton or her top aides.
The courtroom drama will likely drag on for months, keeping the email issue in the headlines even as Clinton seeks to go on the attack against her 2016 rivals.
The State Department requested to have 32 of the cases consolidated earlier this month, so that the 17 different judges responsible for them would coordinate their demands and refrain from issuing “a hodgepodge of orders.”
As brought to my attention by Wombat-socho's "In The Mailbox: 09.24.15": FBI Arrests Chinese Millionaire Tied to Past Clinton Scandals
Don’t know about you, but we’re really psyched for another decade of Clinton scandals.
The FBI has arrested a politically prominent Chinese millionaire, the alleged secret source of foreign money in a campaign finance scandal during the Clinton administration, on charges he lied about why he brought more than $4.5 million in cash into the United States over the last two years.
Ng Lap Seng was arrested in New York last weekend by FBI agents working with federal prosecutors assigned to the public corruption squad in the Southern District of New York, according to federal authorities.
His arrest came on the same day the Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Seattle for a state visit to the United States.
In addition to his role as a prominent real estate developer on the gambling center island ofMacau, Ng has close ties to the Chinese government and is listed as a member of a senior advisory group, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
A criminal complaint against Ng, filed in federal court, described a series of trips Ng made to the U.S., often by private jet, carrying large amounts of cash.
And we’re just positive none of that money ever found its way to the Clintons. They’ll swear to it themselves.
Of course, none of this proves the money was headed for the Clinton.com campaign coffers, but as the fortune cookie might say "Prospects are good."
It turns out that after denying any role in it, SecState Clinton signed off on gal pal Huma Abedin's double dipping federal and private jobs.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton greenlighted paperwork that changed her top aide Huma Abedin’s job status to “special government employee” — a classification that allowed Abedin to work for an outside consulting firm and the Clinton Foundation at the same time she was advising Clinton at State.
According to documents obtained by conservative group Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, Clinton was the immediate supervisor who approved the title change that came with the new post on March 23, 2012, permitting her then-deputy chief of staff to work several jobs at once.
It sure is good to have friends in high places.
Labels: Clinton, Clinton.com, email scandal, Hillary, Huma Abedin, presidential election, State Dept.
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What will business technology look like tomorrow?
Subject: A new way to work
Two experts from MIT analyse the business implications of our digital future
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing our Digital Future. By Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson. W.W. Norton; 402 pages; $28.95 and £22.99.
IN 2014 Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published “The Second Machine Age”. The book was a balanced portrait of how new digital technologies were poised to improve society, even as they increased unemployment and depressed wages. In their latest work, “Machine, Platform, Crowd”, the authors seek to explain the business implications behind these developments.
Mr McAfee and Mr Brynjolfsson believe that the latest phase of computers and the internet have created three shifts in how work happens. The first is artificial intelligence (AI): a move from man to machine. In the past people worked with computers and, at the same time, were augmented by them: what the authors call the “standard partnership”. But that model is breaking down as computers improve and take more control.
You need only look at self-driving cars, online language translation and Amazon’s prototype cashierless shops to see that something big is happening. Digital technologies used to be applied to information—first numbers and text, and, later, music and video. Now, the digital technologies are invading the physical world.
For instance, designing a “heat exchanger”, a part in appliances like refrigerators, means balancing many different specifications and constraints. Humans settle for one that works well enough because to find the optimal one is too hard. But new “generative design” means AI-infused software can run zillions of tiny permutations to find the best possible design—one that a human might not come up with. And with 3D printing, those designs might be shared, modified and manufactured anywhere. Read the rest of this entry »
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Why the Economic Payoff From Technology Is So Elusive
6. June 2016
Your smartphone allows you to get almost instantaneous answers to the most obscure questions. It also allows you to waste hours scrolling through Facebook or looking for the latest deals on Amazon.
More powerful computing systems can predict the weather better than any meteorologist or beat human champions in complex board games like chess.
But for several years, economists have asked why all that technical wizardry seems to be having so little impact on the economy. The issue surfaced again recently, when the government reported disappointingly slow growth and continuing stagnation in productivity. The rate of productivity growth from 2011 to 2015 was the slowest since the five-year period ending in 1982.
One place to look at this disconnect is in the doctor’s office. Dr. Peter Sutherland, a family physician in Tennessee, made the shift to computerized patient records from paper in the last few years. There are benefits to using electronic health records, Dr. Sutherland says, but grappling with the software and new reporting requirements has slowed him down. He sees fewer patients, and his income has slipped.
“I’m working harder and getting a little less,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Where Computers Defeat Humans, and Where They Can’t
By ANDREW McAFEE (right) and ERIK BRYNJOLFSSON (left)
ALPHAGO, the artificial intelligence system built by the Google subsidiary DeepMind, has just defeated the human champion, Lee Se-dol, four games to one in the tournament of the strategy game of Go.
Why does this matter? After all, computers surpassed humans in chess in 1997, when IBM’s Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov. So why is AlphaGo’s victory significant?
Like chess, Go is a hugely complex strategy game in which chance and luck play no role. Two players take turns placing white or black stones on a 19-by-19 grid; when stones are surrounded on all four sides by those of the other color they are removed from the board, and the player with more stones remaining at the game’s end wins. Read the rest of this entry »
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Hiring in the Age of Big Data
Wasabi Waiter looks a lot like hundreds of other simple online games. Players acting as sushi servers track the moods of their customers, deliver them dishes that correspond to those emotions, and clear plates while tending to incoming patrons. Unlike most games, though, Wasabi Waiter analyzes every millisecond of player behavior, measuring conscientiousness, emotion recognition, and other attributes that academic studies show correlate with job performance. The game, designed by startup Knack.it, then scores each player’s likelihood of becoming an outstanding employee.
Knack is one of a handful of startups adapting big data metrics to hiring. The companies are pitching online games and questionnaires to corporate recruiters frustrated by the disconnect between a good interview and an ideal employee. Based on records of how star workers responded to the same tests, these services predict whether a candidate will be suited for a particular job. Clients use the tool to help winnow piles of applications. “People are our biggest resource, and right now a lot of them are mismatched,” says Erik Brynjolfsson, an adviser to Knack and director of the Center for Digital Business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. Read the rest of this entry »
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The age of smart machines
Brain work may be going the way of manual work
IN HIS first novel, “Player Piano” (1952), Kurt Vonnegut foresaw that industry might one day resemble a “stupendous Rube Goldberg machine” (or as Brits would say, a Heath Robinson contraption). His story describes a dystopia in which machines have taken over brain work as well as manual work, and a giant computer, EPICAC XIV, makes all the decisions. A few managers and engineers are still employed to tend their new masters. But most people live in homesteads where they spend their time doing make-work jobs, watching television and “breeding like rabbits”.
It is impossible to read “Player Piano” today without wondering whether Vonnegut’s stupendous machine is being assembled before our eyes. Google has designed self-driving cars. America’s military-security complex has pioneered self-flying killing machines. Educational entrepreneurs are putting enlightenment online. Are we increasingly living in Vonnegut’s dystopia? Or are the techno-enthusiasts right to argue that life is about to get a lot better?
Two things are clear. The first is that smart machines are evolving at breakneck speed. Moore’s law—that the computing power available for a given price doubles about every 18 months—continues to apply. This power is leaping from desktops into people’s pockets. More than 1.1 billion people own smartphones and tablets. Manufacturers are putting smart sensors into all sorts of products. The second is that intelligent machines have reached a new social frontier: knowledge workers are now in the eye of the storm, much as stocking-weavers were in the days of Ned Ludd, the original Luddite. Bank clerks and travel agents have already been consigned to the dustbin by the thousand; teachers, researchers and writers are next. The question is whether the creation will be worth the destruction. Read the rest of this entry »
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Amazon's Grand Tour Most Pirated TV Show In History
Discussion in 'HardForum Tech News' started by HardOCP News, Dec 12, 2016.
Dec 12, 2016 #1
HardOCP News [H] News
Not only is Amazon's new show Grand Tour (Top Gear 2.0) popular with Amazon Prime members, pirates seem to like it an awful lot too.
But figures from Muso, data analysts of the piracy market, suggest unprecedented numbers of people are avoiding paying £79 a year to sign up for Amazon’s online streaming service, Amazon Prime, and instead downloading the show illegally. The data, shared with the Mail on Sunday, suggests the first episode was downloaded illegally 7.9m times, the second 6.4m times and the third 4.6m times. British viewers made up the largest percentage (13.7%) of the total number of illegal downloads.
HardOCP News, Dec 12, 2016
BlueFireIce [H]ardness Supreme
Sadly those numbers are about the same as my interest level as the show has gone on. Lots of jokes and games are carried on to long, if not for the whole show and it feels like a goofy guy show with some random cars thrown in and less of a car show with some goofy antics thrown in. The more it goes on, big time with the CoD EP, it didn't even feel like it had ANYTHING to do with cars at all.
BlueFireIce, Dec 12, 2016
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SilverSliver Beat It To Deformation
Sadly, the show is shit. Every joke goes from funny to uncomfortable as they drag it on too long. Obviously Jeremy and crew has full control over the product, and as a result, editing is limited and hurting the show badly.
SilverSliver, Dec 12, 2016
Exyia Limp Gawd
BlueFireIce said: ↑
I haven't watched 3 yet, but watched episodes 1,2, and 4
I'm cringing SO much that they're STILL doing the whole "celebrity is coming on the show, oh wait they died....does that mean they're not coming on then?"
Exyia, Dec 12, 2016
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Gweenz [H]ard|Gawd
Good show so far. It's more Top Gear with less celebrity junk (there's a running celebrity joke where the celebs get killed before they make it on stage).
It does need to be more about cars, agreed. However, the draw of the show is as it has always been, the chemistry between the 3 hosts. The old show started getting old with the halo car tests that always just devolved into Clarkson yelling "MORE POWER".
Gweenz, Dec 12, 2016
rgMekanic [H]ard|News Staff Member
Steve said: ↑
I have a 500GB external that has nothing but Top Gear on it. New series and old, all the DVD's (legally ripped), the 20/20 episode, Top Ground Gear Force, the lot.
I don't order enough shit to justify $100 a year. Sorry Amazon. Charge me $20 to use the video service and we'll talk.
rgMekanic, Dec 12, 2016
The Lurker [H]ardForum Junkie
Instead of 20 a year, ill watch with commercials.
The Lurker, Dec 12, 2016
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SilverSliver said: ↑
Indeed, things are drawn on for far to long and seemed forced, while on top gear it seemed like natural banter from the 3.
Exyia said: ↑
Indeed. It is not topgear, so if you are not going to have the celeb section, just don't do it, it does not even need mention, as this is a whole new show. It just seems like a rerun section tossed in to fill time.
Gweenz said: ↑
More Top Gear? No....Less.
Top Gear dealt more with cars and features etc etc with some odd jokes and challenges thrown in, but it always revolved around the cars. This does not. The killing off celebs is actually as stated above already, one of the most cringe worthy parts of the show, why even have it? It is exactly the same thing every EP, it feels like a rerun slapped in the middle of the show every time it comes up, it also feels longer than some of the actual celeb interviews! And at least in those sections in TG, they talked and asked them about cars they owned or crazy things they did with their cars.
In TG Clarkson was one of the directors/writers. However they seem to have full control now and do not have another guiding hand to say "ok, thats enough". The chemistry of the three is less on the new show than the old, everything seems scripted and forced, which is why it gets carried for far to long, and now you don't even have car things to keep it going past those sections. Hell, even the "NASCAR" driver is a joke that has been carried on for far to long already. A single EP with it? Ok, but every EP of the driver cracking the same jokes about import cars? Pass.
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fadedlogic Limp Gawd
Episode 2..seriously who thought that was remotely entertaining. The other 3 episodes to date have been ok. The celebrity death joke, was kinda funny the first time; now it is just sad filler. I have found the bumpers for Conversation Street segment remotely amusing given the easter eggs; Clarkson's silhouette sporting a rather tall stiletto heel. The cinematography continues to be amazing! I'm hoping they were rusty and are just trying to find a groove.
Also, check out Jame May's the Reassembler on youtube; if you like to see how things are made; very cool!
fadedlogic, Dec 12, 2016
Dec 12, 2016 #10
Dwango Gawd
I can see the first episode being downloaded a lot because it's a new show with popular hosts and people want to see what the show is like. It's been dropping pretty rapidly in downloads since then. The show is at its best when it's doing Top Gear style running around in cars no one can afford type stuff. Sadly the Grand Tour hasn't done a whole lot of that in the first four episodes. They've got a shitty track with a doorstop for the new Stig and the "challenges" have been pretty stupid thus far. The entire second episode was a dumpster fire. I'm unimpressed but I'm sure it's getting enough viewers to justify the three year commitment Amazon has given it. And I'm equally sure it will have run its course by then.
Dwango, Dec 12, 2016
CaptNumbNutz Bulls[H]it Master
I'm liking it so far, but people are spot on about how they let the jokes drag on too much.
It is getting better and episode 3 felt like old Top Gear. I suspect it might take most of the first season to really get in the groove. I'm still hopeful.
CaptNumbNutz, Dec 12, 2016
sirmonkey1985 [H]ard|DCer of the Month - July 2010
i mean i'm an amazon prime member and have been for a few years and i still download them but that's because amazon's media player sucks balls and most of the time i can't full screen the video because the player controls are stuck in the middle of the screen.
CaptNumbNutz said: ↑
yeah agree some of the jokes have gone on to long hopefully they stop in the next couple episodes. i think they've poked at BBC and top gear producers enough at this point.
the celeb killing is a two part poke at BBC and top gear. 1. they never really liked the celeb in a reasonably price car crap and 2. they're not allowed to do it because it's to much of a likeness to what top gear does.
the american driver is a poke at the stig and because they're not allowed to actually play music or dumb shit while he's driving because it's to much of a likeness to what top gear does.(could also be a poke at revealing that the current stig is an american driver but who knows)
the driver thing doesn't bother me but the celeb thing needs to just stop. was funny the first 3 episodes but yeah time to move on. they do a lot of subtle and non subtle pokes at top gear and the producers there as a giant eff you.. but it's time to move on.
sirmonkey1985, Dec 12, 2016
spugnor [H]ardForum Junkie
I miss the "star is a reasonably priced car" segment. That was awesome, and it showed a non-professional driver in a basic car, trying to go fast. That's what the average person is going to do, not every one can own an expensive sports car (never mind a supercar or hypercar). But we can own a hot hatch or a decent sports coupe. So while i always liked watching the 1million+ cars reviewed, it was the more basic stuff that appealed to me. The sub $40K cars.
Because while i do bang 10's, and make a million bucks a year, i aint parking an Aston Martin in my neighborhood.
spugnor, Dec 12, 2016
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I don't like the new test track. And they can do better for a driver I think.
Deleted member 93354, Dec 12, 2016
socK 2[H]4U
The show is waaayyy too scripted.
Episode 2 was so overdone. The rest have been okay so far but never great.
westrock2000 [H]ardForum Junkie
There was a website called Final Gear or something that hosted nothing by torrent links of Top Gear (and Fifth Gear). And it still got ripped more?
westrock2000, Dec 12, 2016
RogueTadhg [H]ard|Gawd
Don't like:
1. The "track"
2. The Track Driver. No offended by it. It's just not funny. I'd rather have a mute-blind driver that couldn't speak with random songs in the driver seat.
3. Celebrity-skit and James saying: "Does this mean s/he is not coming on?" I was hoping that was a episode 1-only thing. But I was wrong.
RogueTadhg, Dec 12, 2016
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hardboner Limp Gawd
i've pirated all 4 episodes, and i fast forward through that shit. it's mediocre.
hardboner, Dec 12, 2016
haste. [H]ard|Gawd
spugnor said: ↑
i aint parking an Aston Martin in my neighborhood.
Parked a stall down from a brand spanking new Rapide S (still had temps on it) sandwiched between two hoopties today. Plus we just had a winter storm and the roads were absolute crap this morning. I guess if you have the money for it... Sweet car though.
I'll have to catch up on this version. I casually read about it a few months ago and loved the old Top Gear, but reading the comments here makes me feel like I'm wasting my time!
haste., Dec 12, 2016
nightfly 2[H]4U
westrock2000 said: ↑
Yeah, and I was pretty pissed off when it closed. It was just so convenient to go there a couple hours after the show was broadcast, and download it in HD.
I have amazon prime, and watch via verizon. No problems at all viewing, no pauses, no buffering. This is in southeastern bergen co, NJ.
nightfly, Dec 12, 2016
bds1904 Gawd
If they offered Amazon video at a decent price per month mabie people wouldn't pirate the shows. Amazon prime with access to video is $99/yr, that's free 2 day shipping and access to video for 8.25. Video access only is is $10.99 per month? Stupid.
I never order from Amazon because their prices even with free shipping are more expensive than other places, including ones that charge for shipping. Why should I pay $10.99 per month for a service when prime with video is $99/yr.
If Amazon charged $3.99/Mo for video only access I bet the pirating problem would be much smaller.
bds1904, Dec 12, 2016
Cobalt35 [H]ard|Gawd
I would love to pay Amazon to watch not. Not available here in New Zealand though.
Cobalt35, Dec 12, 2016
watch it*
collegeboy69us [H]ardness Supreme
Grand Tour is the first major streaming only show that I actually legally get, I didn't pay specifically for it, Prime has other main uses I like.
That being said -- I'm still tempted to download it in 1080p from a torrent site just because their streaming player sucks ass. All the extra tidbits on the side, the fact it always has the controls popping up if you even think about touching the mouse.
That's the point we are at, even when I can get it legally and free... it's STILL easier to pirate it and enjoy it exactly how I want to, in a VLC player window.
collegeboy69us, Dec 13, 2016
Unexploded Limp Gawd
Glad to here it's not just me. I haven't entirely given up on it yet, but currently it's not great.
If I hadn't enjoyed years of their previous work, I'd have probably bailed by now.
Unexploded, Dec 13, 2016
RanceJustice [H]ardness Supreme
I have zero interest in this show, but it did encourage me to look into Amazon's Prime Originals. The one that really hooked me is coming back soon - "The Man In The High Castle". However, in the meantime I just happened upon at time of reading this thread "Doctor Thorne" a new period piece by Julian Fellowes (of Downton Abbey fame)! So yeah... if you have Prime, look into their original series. There's likely something there that might interest you. I only wish they had a proper HD streaming app for Android like Netflix does. I wonder if Amazon will now support HTML5 1080P or better play on Firefox. For awhile, they fell back to crappy Silverlight (or was it Flash?), though they supported Chrome and Edge for god's sake!
RanceJustice, Dec 13, 2016
86 5.0L [H]ardness Supreme
collegeboy69us said: ↑
Download the 5GB file, direct from amazon.
86 5.0L, Dec 13, 2016
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NeoNemesis 2[H]4U
I'm an Amazon prime member but they sold all the rights to their shows in Canada. Honestly have no idea who owns the rights to this particular show, I only know that I'm not paying them for it.
NeoNemesis, Dec 13, 2016
Xaeos said: ↑
Check out Bosch; based on the Michael Connelly Detective series about an LA Homicide detective. I enjoyed it.
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zomby Limp Gawd
I didn't even knew amazon made shows!?!? oh that's right, Im from Canada.
zomby, Dec 13, 2016
whateverer Gawd
I'm weird, but I hate the fact that they placed a huge deck window right in the dead-center of the camera's field-of-view. So we end up with over-exposed camera like it's the 1970s, and my sensitive eyes can't watch more than 10 minutes.
It's like I'm staring at a studio light head-on for a half of each episode, and I don't think I want to do it anymore. It's a stupid gimmick to prove they're "on the road."
whateverer, Dec 13, 2016
ml_paladin888 Gawd
whateverer said: ↑
are they really windows? I kind of assumed that they were like large monitors/screens, sort of like the ones local network news sets have (at least like the ones NY metro area local network channels have)
ml_paladin888, Dec 13, 2016
atom Gawd
While I think you guys are being a little harsh, that segment of them doing a military raid dragged on and on. I actually did fall asleep, no lie. Also, who doesn't have Amazon Prime? I wonder how many people download these episodes for the convenience of putting it in their PLEX Library?
atom, Dec 14, 2016
krotch [H]ardness Supreme
atom said: ↑
The only reason I got Amazon Prime was for The Grand Tour. I don't make use of it for anything else. I also download the episodes, cause I don't feel like streaming it all the time.
krotch, Dec 14, 2016
M76 [H]ardForum Junkie
That's what you get when you reboot the world's most popular car show, on a service that is available only on a few select countries.
M76, Dec 14, 2016
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exactly, i friggin hate the controls in the middle of the screen. i wish they'd just learn from netflix and switch to a simplified media player, there's no reason to have all that other stupid crap on the screen.
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they're windows although i never noticed the over exposure issue that the other person was talking about, seems fine to me.
That's not really relevant. as it only happened now.
I imagine some people at amazon banging their heads at the wall how they fucked this up this badly and lost out on such a potential payday. And now out of nowhere when they realized how stupid they were, haphazardly started to offer prime in other countries. And I mean haphazardly because in my country ok it's avaialable now. But I'd get .01 of the content avaialable in the us. 6, yes six of the amazon originals with the latest season not included, none of the pilots, And about 8 other non-amazon series. And about two of these have been localized. OK, that's irrelevant to me, but not to 90% of my countrymen. So if they want to watch localized their only option still remains pirating the content regardless. As you can't put an srt on the service.
Sorry to say it, but it's too little too late.
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I'm not judging, I'd probably do the same if I had the option, but isn't that still considered pirating by them, even trough you're paying at the same time?
Uhh...No. It was announced before The Grand Tour was. Lots of shows are not carried on streaming services, all of them, it's called region restriction, stupid sure, but not Amazon or Netflix fault, same goes for shows in other countries that are never shown and cant even be bought in the USA. However all of that is moot to your point, which was that The Grand Tour was only available in a handful of countries, which is not the case.
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Great cars for keen drivers needn't cost the earth – here are 10 cars that will put a smile on your face every time you get behind the wheel, and all for under £2000.
01 Mazda MX5
You can take your pick of Mk2 MX5's at under £2000, but we'd seek out a Mk1. The lighter, purer, original Miata has a perfectly balanced rear–drive chassis, which ensures it's a hoot to drive. However, they're getting on a bit now – but you can rest assured that any restoration work you do will be recouped as values rise.
02 BMW 328i coupe (E36)
In a world of M3 adoration, the BMW 3-series' top–line non-M-Sport versions have slipped under the radar. And none more than the E36 328i coupe, which can be picked up for a smidge under £2k – if you can find one. The venerable mass-produced straight six is arguably in peak form here in M52 designation before emissions regs tamed it in future incarnations, and BMW's rear-drive chassis is a peach.
03 Porsche Boxster (Cat C)
We're cheating a bit here but if you're patient and don't mind a repaired category C write-off, Boxsters sneak in under our self-imposed two grand barrier. If the dice come up in your favour, you'll be rewarded with a fabulous sports car, although problems can be costly to fix, particularly in the engine bay, and though values will possibly rise you may never recoup your repair outlay.
04 Toyota MR2 Mk3
It seems hard to believe that Toyota's light, nimble Boxster rival could be over 10 years old – it still looks fresh, drives superbly and has a zingy VVT engine shared with the Lotus Elise. Best of all, Toyota's legendary reliability should ensure trouble-free driving for years to come, if it's been looked after.
05 Ford Puma
Ford's chassis engineers are about the best in the business and the Puma was a showcase of exactly how much fun a front-wheel drive car really can be. The eager VVT 1.7 engine is perfectly suited to the twitchy, Fiesta-based coupe, and hairdresser remarks are way off target – it's a great drivers' car.
06 Mini Cooper (R56)
BMW, famed for its rear–drive chassis, made a decent fist of the Mini's forward–driven wheels. The cramped cabin was testimony to the Mini's focus – putting a smile on the driver's face. Our budget will get you your pick of first-generation Cooper S models, but we'd put our money on a second-gen Cooper for its vastly improved chassis, build and space.
07 MG TF
MG may be a badge stuck on Chinese hatchbacks now, but the last 'proper' MG was a belter – a mid-engined sports car with beautiful balance and poise. Available for buttons now, the TF can be hustled down English B-roads indecently quickly – and anywhere else, for that matter.
08 Honda Civic Type–R
The EK9 Civic Type-R was the first officially available in the UK, and there are plenty around at this price range, and even more if you don't mind an import. The star here is the wild, high-revving engine, which brings near-superbike thrills to Honda's well-sorted hot hatch, and the stiff, track-biased chassis is playful yet forgiving.
09 Suzuki Swift Sport
Old-school '80s–style hot hatch fun with 21st century Japanese reliability? Form an orderly queue. The second–generation (ZC31S) Swift Sport is a low-key hero and the reason it's in our drivers' car list can be summed up in one word – chuckability. It's a delight to drive down narrow B-roads that would fear bigger, wider sports cars, and proves that you don't need 200bhp-plus to have fun.
10 Subaru Impreza WRX (GG)
Yes, you can buy a second–generation Subaru Impreza WRX for under £2000. But before you reach for your wallet, it will be the unloved bug-eye version, and it will be the (very practical) hatch rather than the rally legend saloon, pictured. But once you're behind the wheel you won't care, as you'll be too busy living out your Colin McRae fantasies, enjoying the glorious turbo flat–four powering all four wheels.
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The Troubling Morality Of Flash Season Two
Let’s be honest, Arrow’s ethical choices are starting to rub off on the Flash.
The first season of Flash was one of the most unexpected and fantastic surprises of the past year. It was an amazing show with action, intrigue, fun characters, a fantastic story arc, and an overall optimistic worldview that was lacking in other superhero movies or TV shows. It was so good I waived my typical rule of not letting my boys watch a primetime superhero show (Arrow, SHIELD) and allowed them to watch Flash–they loved it as well and we still watch some of the older episodes. The first season finale is one of the best episodes of superhero TV ever.
But now the second season is two episodes in and while the storyline continues to build there are a couple of troubling morality implications. I’m not condemning them…yet…but I am concerned. Head after the break to find out what has me troubled.
[SPOILER ALERT: THIS POST CONTAINS FLASH SEASON TWO SPOILERS FROM THE FIRST TWO EPISODES]
There are two main moral problems I have with the Flash right now, all based in the first two episodes.
1. What’s with all the killing?
In 1980, Queen famously sang
Flash! A-ah! He’ll save every one of us!
Granted, they were singing about some other Flash guy, but they could have been singing about the TV show 34 years in the future. Because they’re Queen, that’s why.
In season one, Flash and the Scooby gang went up against a number of metahumans. But in almost all cases, those metahumans were captured and put into a special prison designed by Dr. Wells. Granted, it turns out he had a special motivation for not just straight-up killing bad guys–he was a bad guy as well and maybe it helped having some that he could use in the future–but the whole not killing thing set a nice tone for the show and also allowed some bad guys to be revisited in what was otherwise a villain-of-the-week format.
We’re now two episodes into season two of The Flash and we’ve seen two metahuman villains. Both of them were intentionally killed by The Flash. Atom Smasher was lured into a radiation chamber in order to overload his absorption power and kill him. Sand Demon was blasted with lightning in order to fuse his cells together like glass so that he could be shattered. These were not incidents that happened in the heat of battle. These were the anticipated, planned, and intended results of the Flash’s action.
I mean, when a bad guy from the future–a guy who is so cruel he tried to go back in time to kill his rival while that rival was a small child and, when he couldn’t do that, decided to kill his rival’s mom out of spite–has a more humane method of dealing with criminals than our hero, what does that say about our hero’s sense of justice?
In the first season, when the hero was under the sway of a bad guy and only incarcerating metahumans, there actually came a point when the district attorney found out and had a problem with what was going on. The Flash and team was acting as their own judicial system, putting bad guys in prison without a trial. That was a welcome moment of reality in an unreal situation.
If that same moment of reality were to happen in season two it would be to arrest the Flash for multiple counts of first degree murder.
2. Caitlin Snow ignores her reality, starting to stray from marriage
This is a strange one. Caitlin is super smart, we know this from every episode ever. In the first season she was also super sad because the accelerator accident blew up her fiance. We’ve all been there. Totally understandable. And she didn’t get over that pain in the nine months since the accident and the start of the first episode (that’s how long Barry was in a coma).
A few more months passed in the first season and Caitlin was faced with the growing knowledge that the love of her life might not be dead. Turns out he was back as Firestorm. She was happy that Ronnie was alive, but then sad when he had to leave to figure out how to control his powers. Because…reasons. Not like STAR Labs is actually the best place to figure out how to control metahuman powers. Whatever.
In the first season finale, Caitlin was beyond thrilled that Ronnie returned to help stop the Reverse Flash. And, like most romances in a season finale, they decided to get married. Because they didn’t want to be apart anymore especially since Ronnie had figured out his powers. They got married, then Ronnie goes and separates inside a singularity and he’s missing in action. This is what happens when you don’t plan the honeymoon, people.
Now in season two it is six months later and while Caitlin has moved on to a new job, she’s also apparently moved on from Ronnie. Let’s be clear: a singularity opened in the sky and evidence not only mounts that the singularity leads to a new world–by the end of the second episode this is explicity stated. You don’t have to live in a comic book universe to put these things together–RONNIE ISN’T DEAD! His body was never found because he was in a portal to another world that happened to close.
You don’t have to list in a comic book universe to come to this conclusion, but Caitlin is living in one and she’s super smart. And yet, faced with all this information she isn’t searching for Ronnie or wondering how she can find him. Nope. Instead, she’s making googly eyes at Earth-2’s Flash because when he takes his shirt off he’s got big…brains as a free lance chemist/physicist (what the hell is that job, anyway?).
Maybe the show is trying to set up a deeper emotional arc that will lead Caitlin to become a metahuman/villain Killer Frost as hinted in the season one finale, but it sure feels artificial and, when put into her context, of questionable moral value. She married Ronnie and knows her universe is a bit weird, but apparently she’s over that whole wedding vow stuff.
C’mon now.
I still thoroughly enjoy the Flash but I’m hoping they rediscover their moral high ground before murdering and cheating become the new norms.
Ryan Garcia
Father of two boys, husband, attorney for Dell (Social Media, Retail, Gaming), Broadway geek, comic book geek, science fiction geek, gadget geek. View all posts by Ryan Garcia
Posted on October 16, 2015 October 16, 2015 Author Ryan GarciaCategories Movies & TV, The Flash, TVTags Arrow, atom smasher, caitlin snow, Earth-2, ethics, finale, Firestorm, Flash, killer frost, killing, metahumans, morals, Reverse Flash, ronnie, sand demon, season 1, season 2, season one, season two, wells, zoom
2 thoughts on “The Troubling Morality Of Flash Season Two”
tomk74 says:
You’re right about Caitlin forgetting Ronnie awfully fast, especially considering how long she thought he was dead before, but I’ve also read enough comics to know that turning the guy made of sand into glass and shattering him doesn’t always mean he’s dead.
Ryan Garcia says:
That’s true. But intent matters here. The intent was to kill, not incarcerate. Dramatically different from season one.
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SKULL & BONES will launch in fall 2018
At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Ubisoft® announced that gamers will take command of their own warship to live the ultimate pirate experience alongside their friends and become a legend of the open-ocean in SKULL & BONESTM. SKULL & BONES will launch in fall 2018 for the Xbox One family of devices including Xbox One, Xbox One S and Xbox One X, PlayStation®4 Pro computer entertainment system, PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, and Windows PC.
With development led by Ubisoft Singapore,* SKULL & BONES will take gamers to the Golden Age of Piracy where they will create their own unique pirate captains and sail through the beautiful yet treacherous Indian Ocean filled with rich merchant trade routes to loot. Whether it is on their own or as part of a pirate gang, gamers will take the helm of their powerful warship and lead their crew into the endless battle to rule the seas and become the deadliest pirate kingpin.
SKULL & BONES is an online naval game that will take players across a dynamic, shared open-ocean that reacts to their actions and evolves to continuously challenge them. Building upon the studio’s naval gameplay expertise, SKULL & BONES introduces an innovative wind system that gives gamers tactical opportunities to navigate more quickly, shoot further, hit harder, escape deadly blows, and position themselves to decimate their victims. Gamers will also be able to build their own fleet of ships, which can specialize in different battle conditions using the game’s extensive customization options.
“SKULL & BONES is the game that our team has dreamed of building ever since we first set sail singing along to sea shanties and we are excited to finally share our vision here at E3,” said Justin Farren, creative director. “Thanks to our systemic living world, our gameplay innovations, a strong fantasy and the team’s commitment to support the game in the long term, we believe that SKULL & BONES will bring players a unique experience allowing them to live the intriguing and thrilling life of pirates.”
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Archive | September, 2018
Panic Attack: Countering the UN’s Anxious Moments, Dr. Robert Zuber
Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. Corrie Ten Boom
The more the panic grows, the more uplifting the image of the one who refuses to bow to the terror. Ernst Junger
Anxiety is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far. Jodi Picoult
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. Søren Kierkegaard
The UN’s annual high-level week is over, and it is frankly difficult to capture the energy of UN Headquarters with so many global leaders – political, economic and moral – gathering to share their visions for the world while navigating what many millions hope is a path to greater peace and understanding.
Wandering the halls this week, it was clear that few issues of global consequence have escaped the attention of this leadership. From pandemics to migrants and from climate change to nuclear disarmament, it would be difficult to conclude that the UN and its member states are ducking key responsibilities, nor are diplomats willfully placing the well-being of future generations in jeopardy through abject incompetence or benign negligence. The week’s opening gambit, a celebration of the life of Nelson Mandela complete with state commitments to a “political declaration” which his life inspired, was followed by other (albeit largely voluntary) commitments from national leaders, including on the reform of peacekeeping operations, the political integration and empowerment of youth, on Global Compacts for Migrants and Refugees, and (facilitated by Kazakhstan) the adoption of a Code of Conduct for the complete elimination of terrorism by the year 2045.
It would be easy to pick apart most if not all of these commitment events as more show than substance, more defending pre-existing positions than a serious exploration of their limitations, more signatures on the paper than serious commitments to up our urgency and amend our working methods. But what could be interpreted as the limitations of this week would better be understood as a herculean struggle by states to overcome the anxiety – even panic – of these times, anxiety defined by so many policy “loose ends”, so many unfulfilled promises, threats to the global order to which some leaders have become overly complacent while many others find sleep elusive on most nights.
We did not need the High Level week to remind us of the roots of some of our current, pervasive anxiety – the climate threats that seem to have exceeded our collective capacity to respond; the weapons of more and less mass destruction that continue to flood conflict zones despite our high-minded resolutions and treaties; the equity gaps that this generation of policymakers has yet to address; the holes yet to be plugged in our 2030 Development Agenda responsibilities – anxieties that could exhaust even the most hopeful and energized of persons.
At the UN on Tuesday, It was apparently easy to join in the laughter at the outlandish claims made repeatedly by the US president. And yet it is likely that much of that laughter was nervous more than mocking. As the US president made the simultaneous case for the US’s own “hard sovereignty” coupled with the right to take unilateral action against the sovereign rights of others, there was a clear sense in the room of yet another dagger plunged into what remains of our “rules based order,” what remains of respect for a rule of law that even its erstwhile state guarantors in the Security Council too-often disregard with impunity. As French president Macron noted in an address that seemed designed to counter what president Trump had been expected to say, we must do more to preserve the rules-based foundations needed to counter the struggles that lie before us. But part of that requires self-assessment, to recognize that states and their peoples have threatened withdrawal from this “order” because it has too-often failed to fulfill its promises. We must acknowledge the self-interested application of this order’s privileges that have increased what Macron referred to as the “humiliating inequalities” we have repeatedly pledged to reduce. As more than one speaker this week noted, in many key aspects we have brought this current situation on ourselves. Too often, we have been insufficiently vigilant and attentive stewards of the global commons entrusted to us.
Some of the rules-based anxiety this week was filtered through the various human rights events that dotted this week’s UN calendar, repeating what many have long recognized – that the commitment to human rights in many corners of the world is under serious assault. Speaker after event speaker lamented the violence, intimidation and impunity for abuses that characterizes so much of our current landscape. Often using terrorism and “illegal” migration as foils, states are increasingly justifying attacks on journalists, civil society organizations and others challenging the chillingly-punitive narratives emanating from more and more national capitals. Calls to “maintain our commitment to cooperation” as articulated by our current High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, and to better ensure respect for the rights that are “inconsistent with human misery,” as noted by Senegal’s Foreign Minister, represent important messages that seem more and more to pass through our ears without pausing in our brains.
In fairness, the High Level event this week marking the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was brimming with insight, much of it courtesy of the Secretary-General and an extraordinary, young female advocate from Somalia. But even more wisdom came from a group of three elderly women, Louise Arbour, Mary Robinson and the aforementioned Michelle Bachelet, all of whom have occupied the High Commissioner’s seat, and all of whom were willing to speak truth about the “urgency and anger” that must energize our collective commitments to address rights-related threats – including on climate and migration – which we must get right if we are to avoid the “scorn of future generations.”
Mary and Louise, especially, are part of a quite small group of leaders in my long tenure at the UN whose respect from our office has never once wavered. They have well-earned authority to name the present anxiety without “bowing to the terror” of these difficult times: this while also acknowledging the limitations of the system of which they have been an integral part – the doors to peace not opened, the unfair and self-serving application of our erstwhile “universal values,” our overly tepid defenses of human dignity, our increasing acquiescence (as also noted by the Republic of Korea’s Foreign Minister) to narratives that deliberately skew the truth about government intent, that allow leaders (as noted by France’s MFA) to get away with claiming they are “managing” journalists and civil society when such actors are actually being “muscled.”
These women and their podium colleagues grasp the times we are living through. In an age of high anxiety, temptations multiply to pull back, to cash in our trust in others, to micro-manage our own brand, to see threats around every corner, to preoccupy ourselves with those who are allegedly trying to “get us,” or hurt us, or “offend” us. In an age of high anxiety, it is always someone else’s fault. There is always someone or something trying to take advantage of us, prey on our vulnerability, or “ruin” what we have come to believe is our entitlement. From our hyper-personal and increasingly isolated fortresses, we shine the mirror of anxiety and mistrust in every direction where it suits our psychic interests – everywhere it seems but towards ourselves.
The 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration, noted Mary Robinson, is not nearly as happy an event as it could have been. Our “dignity deficit” remains intact, and we have allowed anxiety-driven isolation and polarization to spread like a virus, localizing trust and substituting small-screen grievances for bigger-picture human concerns. If the UN is to make good on its recent promises, if the frenetic activity of this past week is to result in policies that benefit more than the people who crafted them, then we must all pledge to assess and refine as needed the caliber of our stewardship of the norms, rules and structures entrusted to us. Only then can we credibly challenge the modern tendencies, as described by Mexico’s outgoing president Nieto this week, of states and people who would either “sow discord or sit on the sidelines.”
Tags: anxiety, Global Governance, human rights
River Monsters: The UN Seeks Higher Ground on Peace, Dr. Robert Zuber
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. Arundhati Roy
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Michael Cunningham
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems? Bill Watterson
You have peace, the old woman said, when you make it with yourself. Mitch Albom
Every person needs to take one day away, a day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Maya Angelou
This past Friday at the UN was the annual commemoration of the International Day of Peace. The day was marked, as has been the case in past years, with a brief ceremony at the Peace Bell which included hopeful remarks from SG Antonio Guterres and newly-minted General Assembly President, Ecuador’s María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés. The day was also dedicated to a system-wide memorial to honor the late Kofi Annan and an unscheduled (and mostly dismal) Security Council meeting on the still-deteriorating humanitarian situation in Yemen, a situation invoking (as happens too-frequently in this chamber) little truth-telling about the broken politics and massive weapons sales that now leave millions on the brink of famine and despair.
To say the least, the mood of these Friday UN events could not have been more different. The Peace Bell ceremony happily called to mind Ms. Espinosa Garcés stirring first remarks to the General Assembly as president, remarks punctuated by commitments to ocean health, to persons discriminated against based on gender or disability, to preserving and enhancing the cultural and “knowledge” diversity of the United Nations, to expanding the role of youth in conflict prevention, to adaptation to the climate change we should have done more to prevent, and to strengthening the role of the General Assembly as “codifier of the most salient aspects of international law.”
“Life is better,” she rightly noted, “when all can live on an equal footing.” In this, the importance of the UN – in principle if not always in practice — was directly affirmed. Ms. Espinosa Garcés reminded delegates that, whether we wish to see it or not, “we are making history in this place” and must learn better to do so in a “responsible and caring manner.” As such, she insisted that what goes on inside this UN bubble must become “more relevant for everyone,” more of a factor in terms of improving daily life for all whom we presume to serve in this place.
It was to our mind a helpful blueprint of sorts towards a more peaceful world; a blend of elements some of which are about our norms and policies, some of which are about ourselves — how much we actually care about the fate of others and the planet as a whole, how attentive we are to the implications of our decisions (and especially our non-decisions) on the people whose lives our decisions impact, for better and for worse.
We have been in the business of suggesting, proposing and prodding on peace for many years now. And what we have come to learn is that this “peace business” is a truly breathtaking, multi-dimensional task. It is surely, as we and others have warned over many years, in part about disengaging from our longstanding infatuation with weapons: the misery they threaten and permit, the needless diversion of funds (which we need to fix the world) to unsustainable arms production and modernization, the mindset that coercive solutions to conflict and breaches of international law should remain a default response no matter how often we proclaim allegiance to preventive diplomacy and negotiated settlement.
But peace is thankfully moving to higher ground, requiring us to lay down more than our weapons. We are now tasked with putting aside our narrow-mindedness masquerading as “focus,” our propensity to discriminate outside our self-appointed “tribe,” our lifestyle choices that require greater and greater amounts of self-indulgence, our propensity to punish and humiliate as a substitute for reconciliation and healing, our lack of courage to face challenges rather than inundate consciousness with distraction.
These other dimensions of “laying down” represent an essential but heavy burden for those of us who have (by personal choice or professional duty) acclimated to the values that now drive so much of our social and political life. Stay cool. Get yours. Keep your distance. Live in your head, not your heart. Focus with envy on those who have more, not with compassion on those many more who have less. Justify and defend all decisions, regardless of their embedded absurdity. Contextualize reliability and promise keeping. Hide from threats to truth and safety rather than hold a compassionate, creative and determined ground.
If peace is to stay safe and dry above the murky floodwaters of our current, collective dysfunction, we need now to learn how to navigate those waters more skillfully and mindfully. We must, as my friend Marta Benavides puts it, stop our frenetic “doggie paddling” and remind ourselves how to swim. And this reorientation of our current policy panic surely requires, as suggested by Maya Angelou, periods of reflection to ensure that we can stay above the floodplain and make the most of our peacemaking activity; to take occasional leave of those people and processes that ostensibly “can’t live without us,” so that we can “consciously separate the past from the future,” separate in such a manner that the ties that once bound our aspirations and actions are restored and energized more by what is coming than what has been.
May it then be as suggested by Arundhati Roy, that “another world is coming” despite our space weaponry and other collective foolishness; despite our self-serving “opinions” and policy-options; despite our failures of nerve when confronted with almost unimaginable inequalities of power and income, marine life “feasting” on our plastic waste, and refugees searching for safe and dry ground for their often-traumatized children.
She can sometimes hear the breathing, she claims, breathing that signals the prospect of a more peaceful and abundant life for our planet at the back end of our current madness. We must make time to hear and share that sound as well. And remember how to swim.
Tags: peace
Weather Vane: Gauging Directions of Multilateral Threat, Dr. Robert Zuber
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. Benjamin Franklin
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice; we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others. Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
When culture is based on a dominator model, not only will it be violent but it will frame all relationships as power struggles. bell hooks
This has been a tough week for many. As storms in the Atlantic and Pacific lined up like aircraft at an international airport, two of them created a special havoc – one in the Carolinas and another in the Philippines, two of the seemingly growing number of places in the world frequented by storms that, over and over, undermine lives and livelihoods.
Though my own inconveniences are minimal, I like others have friends and family in these stormy places. I have also done work in those places and helped others do their own. In many of these communities, a lifetime of struggle to raise families and improve living conditions has been drowned and battered yet again by forces that humanity as a whole has done plenty to unleash but to which these residents, themselves, have contributed little. For them, displacement might become their storm-driven outcome.
The uneven misery from these climate events was underscored by a local reporter covering what is now only the first wave of Florence’s impacts on the Carolinas.
In most disasters, the poor suffer disproportionately, and it is no different here. The neighborhoods struggling to rebuild after Matthew are the same neighborhoods most at risk to flood again. Haggins was barely getting by back then, crashing with friends. After the water receded, she tried to go collect the little she owned from her friends’ houses, but they’d all flooded and everything she had in the world was gone.
Most of us — even those of us who should know better — have a hard time grasping the concept of “everything gone,” indeed often have a hard time grasping the degree to which those bearing the brunt of horrific storms this week were barely “making it” while the sun was still shining and the breezes were gentle. There is little justice where climate shocks are concerned, no court to hold the likes of Florence and Mangkhut accountable. There is mostly just a bevy of folks trying to save what’s left amidst the sobering outlook of more storms revving up their deadly engines and blowing away any reasonable prospects for recovery.
But while we can’t hold these storms and their climate incubators responsible, there are mechanisms of justice (however imperfect they might be at present) that promise some hope for persons victimized by neighbors, insurgents and governments — humans whose collective predation seems recently to have exceeded in intensity and intentionality anything that we have yet witnessed elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Inside the UN, there has been a steady recognition that impunity for the most serious crimes represents a stain on our collective system of justice; that the failure to hold individuals and states accountable for their crimes – committed against many of the same people victimized by climate shocks – is a glaring mark against the rule of law that undermines what remains of our robust multilateral system of governance.
To its credit, the UN recognizes the danger and is doing its part to build or restore competent, impartial justice systems and create special criminal tribunals from Haiti to Central African Republic, partially in keeping with the general belief that such justice competence is essential for building a world consistent with the our 2030 Development Agenda aspiratons. The UN has also pushed for accountability on chemical weapons use in Syria through the General Assembly; has created a “residual mechanism” to handle pending cases from the criminal tribunals established for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia; and has (largely through the Security Council) worked to ensure that the use of coercive sanctions is more carefully targeted to punish perpetrators without endangering civilians. The UN and many member states have also continued to vocally support the International Criminal Court despite challenges (including some testy moments with the ICC Prosecutor) from some permanent members of a Security Council which issues ICC referrals and (ostensibly) ensures that states cooperate with the Court’s investigations and warrants.
Unfortunately, we are now in danger of turning our current political “climate” of ethno-centrism, border defensiveness and general suspicion into an art form, leading to a host of double standards – including at the UN – regarding divergent levels of accountability for actions undertaken by powerful states relative to “lesser” countries that simply find it hard to protect themselves from large-state whims. As evidenced by this week’s tirade by John Bolton, the US is fully committed to joining the ranks of prominent states seemingly “doubling down” on advocacy for an international “justice system” predicated less on the rule of law and more on narrow perceptions of national interest.
Efforts by the International Criminal Court to level the accountability playing field has incurred the wrath of some of the more powerful governments seeking to justify and preserve that age-old entitlement utilized in a somewhat different form by parents content to push their children into a lifetime of therapy – “we do what we want, you do what we say.”
Through dedicated efforts from states (including current and soon-to-be Council members) and civil society organizations, the ICC has in fact improved its investigative and prosecutorial procedures while expanding its focus into the realms of conflict-based sexual violence and, most recently, the crime of aggression. It has successfully prosecuted criminals such as in the recent (albeit controversial and expensive) case of the DRC’s Bemba Gombo, and has recently accepted jurisdiction on matters related to the forced deportation of Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh. It’s Trust Fund for Victims has reinforced on the international agenda (despite current funding limitations) the need to ensure reparations and psycho-social support for those victimized by the atrocity crimes that are still much too pervasive in our world.
The ICC’s limitations and growth edges are widely known, and include the aforementioned limitations of state and Security Council cooperation and the Court’s inability to gain traction on crimes committed by the world’s major powers. That said, it must be noted that the ICC is intended to be a “court of last resort,” to be invoked only in situations where domestic courts are unable or unwilling to prosecute war criminals and other purveyors of mass atrocities. If John Bolton, for instance, were more interested in ensuring that the conduct of US military operations was in accordance with international humanitarian and human rights law, the alleged jurisdictional threats and related “power struggles” involving the ICC would be quite less alarming.
Nevertheless, these attacks on the ICC remain dangerous at multiple levels. They undermine confidence in international law, especially on the part of victims whose avenues for redress are already far-too-limited. They undermine confidence in international peace and security still the province of largely unaccountable state powers. And they undermine confidence in the international system that now seeks to build commitments to action on a wide range of fronts – and specifically to address the climate threats which have this week turned fertile areas of the Carolinas and the Philippines into unusable swaths of water and mud, motivating many to consider abandoning communities that had nurtured their families for many years.
It has been a theme of this space for some time, but it bears repeating here. We are responsible not only for what we propose, but for what our proposals enable for others, the consequences that ensue when others “take up our cues” and apply them in other contexts. This week’s ICC-focused “cue” from Bolton is one that the causes of international justice and multilateral effectiveness on climate and other global threats could well have done without.
Tags: climate, ICC, justice, Security Council
Sorry Day: The Security Council’s Misplaced Vision, Dr. Robert Zuber
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. George Eliot
You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past. Shannon Alder
And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment. Herman Melville
The question is not, are we sorry? The question is, what lesson have we learned? The question is what are we going to do now that we are sorry? J.M. Coetzee
Like many others, this past week pulled the UN in diverse directions. An important inter-governmental conference to protect Marine Biological Diversity and a mood-altering celebration of “staff day” was offset for us by some controversies over NGO access during a busy September and a couple of Security Council sessions which underscored divisions both political and normative.
The US has taken over the presidency of the Security Council for September and thus will be in the chair during the soon-to-open 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, a time when heads of state and their ministries fill the UN building beyond capacity. US Ambassador Haley, who has made her reputation as someone willing to speak her mind — even when that mind at times deviates from her political superiors – as well as someone who is often dismissive (and least in formal settings) of contrary points of view, is handling the presidency deftly to date.
But deft leadership is surely not sufficient in these perilous times, not for the US delegation nor for the others who, given the Council’s “provisional” acceptance of seemingly endless, largely repetitive statements in “national capacity,” fail to address the need for a larger, more reassuring narrative on peace and security. “Where is this going,” is a concern uttered by our interns at various points, young people who appreciate their access to the space where the Council muses over its puzzle pieces but who also wonder what the end game is, what the puzzle would look like if all the pieces were finally made to fit?
As many of you know, the current Monthly Programme for the Security Council was issued late due to a controversy over including Nicaragua on the agenda in accordance with US wishes. The issue here was not whether images of unrest in Nicaragua warranted the attention of the international community, but whether or not such unrest has risen to the level of a threat to international peace and security, thus demanding Council attention? On this there was serious disagreement among members, in part because there is no clear guiding definition for such a threat level, and certainly no definition that presumes to encapsulate transgressions committed by the permanent Council members themselves. Why are Kosovo, Guinea-Bissau and Liberia still matters of recent Council attention when events in Nicaragua and Cameroon struggle for recognition and Yemen needed to be shoved on to the agenda after a long and bloody wait? And why do Council members, especially the permanent ones, continue to soft-pedal their own violations of Charter provisions while (often selectively) holding other UN members to theirs? Why do they (and other states of course) continue to bend the arc of justice to suit national interests and then claim that they are simply upholding some version of the “rules-based international order?”
And in areas this week where the Council rightly recognized clear implications for international peace and security – the use of banned chemical agents as weapons and the fate of the already-displaced residents of Idlib, Syria who now anxiously watch the skies to see if they are to become the next to be sacrificed in the “war on terror” – the Council has threatened much but delivered only modestly. We still have no ironclad method for ensuring compliance regarding the use of banned weapons. We still have no method for ensuring that counter-terror measures are conducted in accordance with human rights standards. We still have no method for ensuring that the erstwhile “guarantors of the international order” also abide by its prescriptions and limitations.
Indeed, as many others have noted, we have no way to ensure that those tasked with maintaining Charter values on peace and security are actually demonstrating a commitment to their fulfillment. For all the talk by most Security Council members (and rightly so) about the importance of ending impunity for international law violations, impunity still persists among Council members themselves. For all of the diplomatic skill and at times good will around the Council oval, that body remains the most political and least-accountable space in the UN system and probably well beyond. There remains this palpable sense that the Council continues to prioritize rearranging the furniture – albeit tastefully at times — while the house continues to leak from above and rot from below.
If the Council were to hold occasional discussions focused on fulfilling the vision of the 2030 Development Agenda, surely the broadest and most hopeful vision this system now embraces, members might be compelled to examine the ways in which inaction and mis-action on peace and security jeopardize the fulfillment of that Agenda as little else. Unless we can stem the current propensities to violence in all its forms – from economic inequalities and gross rights abuses committed against civilians to out-of-control arms production and modernization – the odds are that no amount of corporate funding, big data or ocean-cleaning technology is going to rescue us. Council effectiveness is critical to what has become the UN’s most comprehensive and inspirational vision, whether it wishes to acknowledge that in formal session or not.
In a few hours New York time, Rosh Hashana will begin, a time of repentance for our Jewish sisters and brothers with much to teach the rest of us. A good bit of the commentary I have read early this morning points to the great difficulty we have enacting what should be a regular element of work and personal life. It is, indeed, hard for us to admit our wrongs, to grant those we have aggrieved the acknowledgment they deserve. But it is especially difficult to move beyond the rhetoric of repentance to the practical matters of amendment, to use our mistakes as the text for a shift in our attitudes and priorities that is more sustainable than ceremonial.
Repentance in its best and most sustainable sense is partially about shifting our vision, but even more about shifting our course, about resetting our boundaries and priorities. The person who seeks forgiveness but fails to adjust direction toward a more accountable and hopeful horizon, who fails to plot a viable “escape” from the lazy and hostile habits of the past, is more likely to find rejection than relief. This is true of our institutions as much as our families and communities of faith.
Repentance, in the end, requires a larger vision of who we are, what we are capable of, and what we can become. The 2030 Development Agenda – an agenda not imposed on states but painstakingly negotiated by them — provides evidence that the UN system understands both the momentousness of the times and our still-potent capacity to adjust our ways. The Council simply must find a way to bring its sometimes petrified mandates and politicized policymaking into conformity with that vision, at least to understand their own pivotal role in making that vision achievable.
We don’t need sack cloth and ashes. We don’t need wailing and gnashing of teeth. What we need (as noted by the SG and others) is a clear, consistent and actionable understanding of the ways in which the impediments and inconsistencies in our peace and security architecture compromise larger commitments to a healthy and prosperous planet. What is arguably still the single most important room in the world would do well to incorporate (not seek to control) the larger vision of the 2030 Development Agenda and the conflict prevention and resolution strategies that will give humanity the best chance of saving us from ourselves.
Tags: SDGs, Security Council, vision
Chain Gang: Tightening the Screws on our Global Labor Force, Dr. Robert Zuber
The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn’t do the work they do for free. Naomi Wolf
What you’ve got is a huge number of idle hands, a vast amount of work that ought to be done, and an economic system that is incapable of putting those two things together. Noam Chomsky
Labor history was pornography of a sort in those days, and even more so in these days. In public schools and in the homes of nice people it was and remains pretty much taboo to tell tales of labor’s sufferings. Kurt Vonnegut
When capital has more freedom than people, serious democratic deficits are guaranteed. Patrick Iber
This is Labor Day weekend in the US, a time when we “celebrate” workers by giving those who punch a clock for a living or provide “services” within our dangerously unbalanced economy a few hours of relief from their relative monotony and powerlessness. For the UN community in New York, this might be another occasion to contemplate the many challenges that affect global labor, including new threats to remittances, the “unwelcome mats” laid out for more and more economic migrants, the physical and emotional abuses faced by domestic workers, and the employment crunch that could gravely impact this current, largest-ever generation of young people.
We have only begun to wake up to these and related challenges. Indeed, we are living through a time of vast and logistically-complex consumer options coupled with limited consumer regard for the sometimes cruel and unjust origins of the products we use, the toll inflicted on so many of the people who have little options other than to fuel our lifestyles. Too many of us in the “developed” world have sanctified the relationship between our wallets and the objects of our desire. Too many of us have given in to the notion that we are consumers first and foremost; and we un-apologetically employ the tools of our privilege, including elite connections and educational institutions, to enhance our “competitive advantage” in the marketplace — thereby ensuring that the growing inequalities that marginalize many millions of working people worldwide won’t take a bite out of our own pre- and post-retirement options.
Like many others of my advancing age, I grew up in a family where people made a living by performing tasks such as climbing telephone poles and selling ball bearings once their military service had concluded. Our neighbors didn’t necessarily want to do those jobs themselves, but they wanted their phone lines to survive wind storms and they wanted the products they used around their homes to be functionally effective and dependable. And, for better or worse, they knew at a personal level many of the people who were making those contributions. They knew more than we generally know now about the skills and values of their neighbors, the ones they liked and the ones they didn’t. Folks knew who to call when the milk deliveries were late or the sink was clogged. There might have been a minimum of consumer “bling” in those times, but economic activity maintained a decidedly human face.
One of the reasons why the labor of my more immediate forebears maintained dimensions of dignity is the scale at which such labor was offered. As most politics is local, to cite the cliché, most economics was “municipal.” Even as large (and sometimes exploitative) corporate entities were consolidating and streamlining their authority, people could still work out their “service” problems and interests face to face. Moreover, people could still bargain to maintain and even enhance their collective interests. Most folks who I grew up with still found their corporate employers dependable and fair enough, partners more than “masters.” This was due in part to the ability of government at that time to facilitate discussions that often resulted in reasonable levels of both corporate profit and labor loyalty. Such loyalty might not result in affluence, but it generally guaranteed that children could be clothed, fed and educated and maybe, just maybe, able to find a different destiny. It wasn’t always pleasant, of course, but neither was it the relentless dead-end that characterizes so many of our modern employment options at many points on the production and consumption chain.
The municipal model had its limitations, many of which became apparent as people embraced consumerist identities that privileged standardization and predictability of the consumer experience. Such “expectations” went hand in hand with an increasing number of top-down corporate regulations that communicated to workers that their only job is to enact company policy, not enrich or critique it. And while enacting policy about which the “experiences” of workers were of less and less practical relevance, the stability and organizing power of labor was completely undercut. There was little protection to be found at local level once this assault was fully under way.
Indeed, as capital flees its corporate homelands in greater and greater amounts for new and often unregulated adventures, the ability of governments of all sizes to regulate flows and impacts, even in the largest economies, has long been compromised. And in an age when corporate money fuels so much political opportunity, there seems to be less and less state interest – all rhetoric to the contrary — in controlling and then balancing fiscal excesses.
And so we have this Labor Day which, in the US at least, takes on the character of a Columbus Day or even Memorial Day – ceremonies that few attend, reflection in short supply, a time that some can use to their advantage – for errands or leisure – largely on the backs of workers for whom even this holiday is often denied to them. We who do so little for ourselves that doesn’t involve credit cards or phone apps, we are free to dismiss and ignore the many people who must work on this day so that we have to “endure” only a minimum of material inconvenience. In cities like New York, as in much of the rest of the world, every day now is a day for labor, even if some of us have found a way to exempt ourselves from those demands.
This is no rant in support of “socialism,” a term that has lost its flavor as it has been reduced to one piece of a largely vapid argument about whether corporate board rooms or government agencies are most likely to operate in our collective best interest. Nor is this an advocacy piece for a return to a municipal economic framework that is unmindful of some of its own limitations, especially its oft-tepid embrace of cultural, religious or gendered diversity. Moreover, given how distracted and even obsessed most of us are by our personal technology and enveloping video streams, it isn’t clear any longer that we are paying that much more attention to each other in smaller communities than in mega-cities.
But what is clear is that the burdens of our recent economic inheritance are rendering more and more of us ill-equipped either to care for the material needs of our families or to participate in the large issues and decisions that affect family futures – the climate sickness that isn’t responding to our prescriptions; the out-of-control weapons production seemingly focused on the next school or hospital to bomb; the employment “opportunities” offered to most of this largest-generation-in-history that ask too little of our minds and souls, and pay even less; the rank competitiveness of the “educated classes” that seem to think that they have enough “earned” privilege to weather a gathering storm to which they mostly give furtive but uncommitted glances.
We have said this on many occasions and will say it on many more: that the growing inequalities which characterize New York and other centers of insufficiently restrained capital mobility are fueling anger and frustration, political cynicism and an increasing susceptibility to suspicion even of those in the next apartment or work cubicle. As owners continue to own more, our reaction is more fealty than fight, hoping to grab enough of the crumbs dropping from the table that we can keep our own automobiles serviced and our cable bills paid – and that if we are fortunate enough to have such.
Here is news that shouldn’t be news at all: Even if we find the money and work out the data needed for our sustainable development (SDG) commitments, we will not fulfill our promises without the skills, participation and encouragement of many millions of people at local level. Thus, we must find ways to involve more of the people whose hands are temporarily “idle” but also those who now tend our farms and green spaces, educate our children, provide our municipal services, drive our trucks and vans, and maintain our roads and bridges. These are the workers – once at least locally respected and now just mostly taken for granted – who make the lives of the rest of us possible. If the SDGs are to succeed, we must focus more than normal of our practical and policy attention on those who haul away our trash, bag our groceries or make our daily cappuccinos.
Through the UN and especially the International Labor Organization, we have made some progress on labor-related issues such as the ethics of supply chains; on codifying and ensuring the rights of economic migrants; on identifying and addressing child labor, forced labor and other “chain gang”-like abuses; and on eliminating gender imbalances in pay and appointments. But we have miles yet to travel, and the road seems to get rockier at every turn.
On this Labor Day weekend, let us please take at least a few moments to reflect on our unmet personal and policy responsibilities to the workers on whom we depend and whose plight in our overly scripted, technologically-dense, top-heavy economies is becoming more and more perilous.
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Europe’s Takeover by Islam, Part 2
This is the second part of a four-part Israeli documentary by Zvi Yehezkeli and David Deryi about the Islamization of Europe. It has been translated from the Hebrew and subtitled in English.
The filmmaker is an Arabic-speaking Israeli whose appearance and flawless Arabic accent were sufficient to allow him to mingle freely with the Muslims in several “no-go zones” in Sweden and France, and to get an inside look at the Islamic mindset within the greater European community.
Many thanks to DarLink for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Previously: Europe’s Takeover by Islam, Part 1
The other two parts of this series will be available in due course.
00:02 We say "No more democracy!"
00:05 Democracy to trash.Sharia!
00:08 In Europe nowdays the cultures are clashing.
00:12 On one side - democracy,equality and secularism
00:15 on the other - Islam and noncomromising religious conservatism,
00:18 which comes with the muslim immigrants in the last few decades.
00:25 In almost every country in Europe there is a faction claiming
00:28 that Europeans are unbelievers and have to accept Sharia law.
00:32 In this country at least they do not prevent you to invite people to islam
00:36 More and more mulims are convinced that Sharia,
00:38 rules and laws of the religion of Islam,
00:41 is the right thing not just for them
00:44 but for the whole Europe.
00:46 that... that
00:47 Mohammed... Mohammed
00:49 his slave ... his slave
00:50 and his messenger...and his messenger.
00:52 That's it. You are a Muslim now, praise the God.
00:54 Islam is the fastest growing religion in Britain today.
00:57 We are much too tolerant towards this sort of persons.
01:01 We have to kick them out.
01:02 The debate on a number of burning issues in Europe is getting fierce.
01:07 "Freedom of Islam". "Make a choice".
01:08 Even freedom of speech, a basic value in Europe,
01:11 is not evident anymore.
01:13 This newspaper was a reason for an arson and in fact a terror attack -"Charlie Hebdo"
01:18 I can insult the Catholic church but you can't do that in the moslem community.
01:23 While Islam imports into Europe the religious norms of behavior...
01:26 The way women are treated about half a billion people in the world are treated like slaves.
01:31 The first to suffer from that are women.
01:33 He brought a knife and cut me from here to here ( her chest).
01:37 Honor killings and female circumcision
01:40 are new concepts in the European debate.
01:43 Now we are very very sensitive to when women are falling down from the balcony
01:49 and they teach a lot about the radicalization that Europe is experiencing.
01:52 Where is Europe?
01:53 The Arabs conquered Europe!
01:55 You are invited to to travel to Europe's less classic destinations,
01:58 into the web of confrontation between diffrerent cultures and civilizations.
02:01 We are here today to invite you
02:04 to think of Islam as an alternative.
02:07 Europe is dealing currently with a fact that her most basic
02:10 values are under attack.
02:17 Series by Zvi Yehezkeli and David Deryi
02:22 Producer Yonit Dror
02:25 Editor Rafi Abulafia
02:29 Soundtrack Yonatan Bar Giora
02:31 Scenario and directing David Deryi
02:37 Alla Islam - following Europe's takeover by Islam
02:46 Molenbeek, Belgium
02:50 Camera Shay Fooni
02:54 In the South part of Brussels, the capital of Belgium, there is an immigrants' quarter Molenbeek.
02:58 This neighbourhood, mostly muslim, is like a separate country,
03:02 in the Middle East,
03:04 but it is just one kilometer from the Brussels' center.
03:07 Research Anat Switzki and Lior Zeevi
03:10 Sunday's market, most of the area is populated by the muslims.
03:15 Hello
03:17 In the last few years records were made and broken here
03:21 on unemployment and crime, highest the Belgium had ever known.
03:24 Do native Belgians live here? Yes
03:27 How many approximately? There are 60-70 percent Arabs.
03:31 Tell me, what is the general sentiment here of the young people?
03:34 When you live in ghetto, you feel strangled.
03:37 They are strangling us.
03:39 When the camera arrives, it makes residents uncomfortable,
03:42 since they are sure that the media is against them.
03:44 Would you like to talk to me a little?
03:46 OK, thanks.
03:48 The thing is, you cannot film here without a permit.
03:49 OK, I am sorry. Thanks
03:54 Lately the Belgium authorities
03:55 are dealing more and more with the phenomenon of religious radicalization
03:59 which creates unrest in the suburb and provokes rule of law.
04:03 We live in the land of the infidels.
04:05 One day, God let it be so, our religion will rule here properly.
04:09 I wish evereywhere were muslims,it would be perfect.
04:15 In spite of the wishes of those against it.
04:17 Imams and youth groups of Molenbeek
04:19 call for practice of Sharia.
04:22 This is of course comes at the expense of Belgian democracy laws,
04:26 the same ones which allow, among other things,
04:28 this demonstration of rage.
04:30 "There is no god but Alla and Muhammad is his messenger".
04:34 Praise! alla akbar!
04:39 I am a mayor for 20 years already, I've never experienced such a problem.
04:44 Mayor of Molenbeek distict
04:45 Neighbourhoods in my district are populated by simple people,
04:47 that's why the fabric of our society is delicate,
04:50 one cannot deny that.
04:52 High unemployment, too much unemployment.
04:54 There are young prople who despaired due to lack of employment, bad enviroment
04:58 and they are seduced by the extremists.
05:04 All this comes from outside, from the group "Sharia",
05:09 from all those small groups which try to conquer the territory.
05:14 Disperse and go home! Last warning!
05:17 Molenbeek is seething for a week now,
05:19 real riots are happening in the capital of Europe, far away from the tourists.
05:26 It all started when Belgian police tried to enforce the law
05:29 and compel a young muslim women to remove her burka,
05:32 the veil that covered her eyes.
05:34 She said she is not prepared to do that in front of everyone.
05:37 She fell to the groung and they beat her.
05:40 This is a democratic country, everyone can live the way he wants to,
05:44 including the ones who wear headcover and those who do not.
05:47 Hundreds of protesters gathered near Molenbeek's police station.
05:50 Stones, metal rods and Molotov's bottles and the demands to void the law,
05:53 which forbids to wear the veil in public.
05:59 They took her to the police station,
06:02 there was a brawl with the police.
06:04 It was like a war
06:10 "There is no god but Alla"
06:12 Democracy is corruption, poverty and pedophilia,
06:17 It is a crime!
06:20 Then something incredible happened,
06:24 those people attacked me, threatened me.
06:30 Do you really think that there is still one policemen in this country
06:33 who wants to arrest a burka women?
06:36 Phillip Dewinter, "Freedom" party, Belgium
06:37 He thinks twice before he's doing that
06:39 He says "Why should I take that risk ?"
06:41 "Maybe tomorrow they stab me in the back".
06:43 At that moment radical Islam is winning.
06:46 We are much too tolerant towards that sort of persons.
06:49 They can't say whatever they want. We have to kick them out.
06:55 We do not want it anymore, we do not want democracy,
06:58 Democracy to trash. Sharia!
07:03 Part 2 - God's laws or State's laws
07:09 Stay alert, people.
07:11 Praise. Alla Akbar!
07:13 After the demonstration we manage to meet with the youths who organized it.
07:16 Their group is called "Sharia4Belgium".
07:19 They have an ideology similar to that of Ben Laden
07:22 and fighting spirits for a continuous confrontation with Belgians.
07:27 We are not in democracy, we are in dictatorship.
07:30 This is the most extreme group you'll find in Europe.
07:33 They think that Islam calls them to wage Jihad inside Belgium.
07:36 Hello.
07:37 The "veil" law sprang them into action and they proudly tell
07:40 of their fight with the Belgians.
07:42 Brothers went to police station, knocked on the window and said:
07:46 "We came to protect the rights of our sister, why did you arrest her?"
07:49 Why did you knock her to the ground and put handcuffs on her?
07:52 Why did you cut her veil and even her clothes under the veil?
07:56 They say there's freedom of speech, freedom of religion,
07:58 Abu Fares, "Sharia for Belgium" group
07:59 and veil is a part of religion.
08:01 If so, then all basic rights of democracy,
08:05 we proved them to be just empty words with no content.
08:09 Islamists in Europe
08:11 have discovered very good, very clear very weak point in our societies:
08:17 They've realized we are finding it extremely difficult to know where to draw a line
08:24 Duglas Murray, Journalist
08:25 How to be intolerant
08:27 to those who are intolerant about our tolerance.
08:30 Tell me about the group "Sharia4Belgium"
08:32 We say; "No, we want God's laws".
08:34 We want Sharia to be applied so that the system can function properly.
08:38 Sharia is better for us than democracy.
08:41 Sharia is law of Alla, law of the creator.
08:43 Law of Alla, law of our creator.
08:48 Almost in every country there is this Salafist faction, the loud one,
08:52 claiming that Europeans are unbelievers and have to accept Sharia law.
08:58 It is true that these messages by Abu Fares are despised by most muslims,
09:02 but his voice is heard and most importantly, the young listen to them.
09:06 London, Britain
09:07 Because they are so loud.
09:09 Even in the heart of Europe the Sharia will be implemented.
09:13 Spain, Rodos, Cyprus, Greece
09:17 lived once under the Sharia.
09:20 In almost every capital city of Europe there is a group,
09:22 which demands to implement Sharia.
09:24 In London there are headquarters of this organization.
09:27 We will implement the Koran,inshalla, in Britain and in Europe
09:31 and one day, inshalla,
09:32 a group will raise and they will implement the Sharia
09:35 Anjem Choudary, sheikh "Sharia4UK"
09:37 and fly the Alla's flag from the White House.
09:39 Praise. Alla Akbar.
09:42 Anjem Choudary is a sheikh, who brought this idea to Europe.
09:45 He is a shrewd lawyer,who decided to create Sharia based courts
09:47 in the heart of London.
09:50 Hi, my friends, do you want coffee or anything? There's latte.
09:53 I thought Arabic coffee, you know.
09:57 I saw a lot of interviews of you
09:59 and you're saing that Sharia is supposed to prevail here in Britain.
10:03 So where are we supposed to imlement the Sharia, on the moon?
10:06 I've been studying Sharia, teaching, for 20 years
10:09 with my sheikh Abu Umar Al Bakry.
10:11 He was wanted? Yes
10:12 I brought some files with me to show you
10:17 This is our letter headed paper to serve Islamic services
10:19 These are marriage certificates that I have and as well divorce certificates.
10:23 and here you have some the new muslims certificates.
10:26 Whether we do marriage, divorce, embrace Islam,
10:28 we give advice,we do not charge a penny.
10:31 And everything is Sharia... everything is Sharia.
10:33 You know I saw hundreds of burkas outside.
10:35 So each guy who has a beard with burka would prefer to come to you
10:39 and not to a British court.
10:41 When we say to them, this is the way to live,
10:43 that this is the way you should behave,
10:45 that this is the way you should dress
10:46 and this is the way you should wash and cetera,
10:48 we are bringing them back to a perfect and pure way of life,
10:51 so this is very attractive.
10:52 The Sharia will come one day to Britain.
10:54 Our job is to be part of that struggle,
10:56 to show them islamic way of life.
10:59 God, guide us to a path prefered by you,
11:01 have mercy on us and keep us from evil,
11:04 let us be close to you, Amen.
11:07 Alla, release muslim prisoners, Amen.
11:13 Communism has failed,
11:14 socialism has failed,
11:16 capitalism has failed,
11:17 so Islam will fill this political vacuum, this economic vacuum
11:21 and the Sharia will be implemented.
11:24 These messages are very popular with the young.
11:27 They get them from sheikhs on TV and in mosques.
11:33 This mosque in Pennsbury in the London's center
11:35 is thought to be the stronghold of radical Islam.
11:39 From here, by the way, came two suicide bombers of the "Mike's place"
11:42 in Tel Aviv, Israel during the intifada.
11:45 As part of the activities of the mosque once a week
11:47 in the afternoon there is a meeting for non-muslims
11:52 where they get guidance on how to get closer to Islam.
11:55 Each day in Europe about a 100 people convert to Islam in these centers.
11:59 They are very suspicious of the jornalists,
12:00 they learned that each time media visits them,
12:04 it comes to find evidence to incriminate them.
12:10 Hello,
12:16 We are here today to invite you to think about Islam as an alternative.
12:21 To embrace Islam, what is in Islam,
12:24 and despite the fact that it's demonized,
12:26 more times than any ideology or religion
12:30 yet it's still the fastest growing ideology.
12:33 May God bless you. Thanks, brother. Hello, thanks.
12:37 In the framework of the workshop for the converts in this mosque,
12:40 imams and mosque activists market Islam
12:43 using modern and young language.
12:46 Any questions?
12:48 In many cases the process of converting to Islam
12:49 starts as soon as the first meeting.
12:52 Most of the converts, especially females, whom we meet in the mosque,
12:54 refuse to reveal their identities.
12:57 If you want to declare the "Shahada", I am ready.
13:00 It's the best decision you'll ever make in your life
13:02 Anyone who wants to convert to Islam in the free Europe,
13:04 can do so easily in three minutes,
13:06 with two witnesses and a form.
13:08 The convert moves into a new culture and a new reality.
13:11 You know, for us if one person is guided,
13:14 it's better than everything that the sun rises and sets above.
13:18 Now, Anna, because it's a christian name, you'll have to change it.
13:21 You can call yourself Ayisha. It's a very nice name.
13:24 Fatima is a very nice name as well, it's up to you.
13:27 And after I declared, will you give me...
13:30 I'll give you a certificate, of course.
13:32 You see this is a certificate, it says here:
13:34 "This is to certify that Anna Lof, daughter of Paul Lof,
13:38 has left the darkness of disbelief and entered to the light of Islam"
13:41 All right
13:42 So, brother Isham, can you come here, as a witness? O wow
13:45 So do you want to repeat after me?
13:47 I testify ... I testify ...
13:49 that there is no god ... that there is no god ...
13:51 but Alla ... but Alla ...
13:54 and I testify ... I testify ...
13:56 that Mohammed ... that Mohammed ...
13:58 is his slave and the messenger. is his slave and the messenger.
14:02 Allahu Akbar!
14:04 That's it.So now is a muslima, praise Alla
14:07 and I can fill in your certificate.
14:10 Can you give her the gift package as well? Sure.
14:22 The Home Office they say between 50 and 100 everyday become muslim.
14:26 And demograpically, there's 4 times as many women as men,
14:31 you know, embrace Islam, so this is...this is an incredible number.
14:37 As Koran commands, new female converts are requested
14:40 to totally change their ways of life
14:42 and to adopt a new look, dress and behavour
14:45 which are acceptable by muslim tradition.
14:48 I am sure you know, you're coming to something that is a complete way of life
14:51 You know, Islam governs all of our actions in all spheres of life so
14:55 the best thing for you would be really to accompany other muslims,
15:01 other muslim women,
15:02 you spend time with sisters who,like you said,
15:04 will... just by their example, you'll be able to learn on a daily basis.
15:09 The essential things really for you would be to learn to pray
15:12 The there is an issue of covering the face which is something...
15:14 There's a difference of opinions among the scholars on this issue.
15:20 That's the famous burka bikini.
15:23 Who is that in the picture? That's me.
15:27 On the european streets, with the vigorous encouragement of the Right,
15:30 the debate had intensified and led to laws in Belgium and France for example,
15:34 that forbid women to cover their faces in public with veil.
15:39 It is simply the issue of freedom to live, freedom of concience, freedom of religion
15:44 it is a right in Europe.
15:45 "Freedom of Islam"
15:47 "Make a choice" - Make a choice, yes.
15:49 Phillip Dewinter, the leader of popular right-wing movement in Belgium,
15:52 enlisted his daughter to a campaign against the veil.
15:55 He also purchased billboards' space in the muslim quarters.
15:58 I thought it was a good idea, this campain.
16:01 I am behind the message of this campaign,
16:05 That's why I suggested to be the model of this picture.
16:08 It's a provocation,
16:10 of course it is a provocation, but it's a statement also.
16:13 It's a very clear statement.
16:16 We don't accept the burka, we don't accept the hijab,
16:19 we don't accept the veils or headscarves on the head, that's about it.
16:26 In Belgium, the parliament eventually decided
16:29 to approve the law, which forbids wearing veil in public.
16:33 The woman says: I want to be covered in veil,
16:36 I want to cover my body.
16:38 Look at the simple example:
16:40 If I offer you a sweet and then take out two sweets out of the pocket,
16:43 one with a cover and one without,
16:45 you'll pick the one with a cover because it's clean.
16:48 It's the same about our women, they are like diamonds when covered.
16:52 We can't allow muslim women to wear the burka over here
16:55 because this is the most extereme symbol of discrimination of women,
17:02 It's a textile jail, it's a walking prison.
17:04 Not everyone agrees with this message,
17:06 but still, wearing the headscraf, whether willingly or not,
17:09 is seen as defiance and symbolizes the war of cultures in Europe.
17:13 Were you born here? We were born in Iran.
17:15 Mariam and Safa are students, they live here, in London.
17:19 Hijab is just to do with the actual scarf that people tend to wear.
17:24 It's to do with the whole personality.
17:25 Some think it's opression. A lot of people might see it that way,
17:28 but I do not think it has anything to do with religion,
17:32 it's really not religion at all
17:34 and that's just people's traditional interpretation of
17:40 what they believe to be religion.
17:43 Is there conradiction between the British law and Sharia laws?
17:48 It's a matter of logic.
17:49 In my opinion most of religion is logic anyway.
17:53 If you just follow your logic it'll turn out to be the right choice in my opinion.
17:59 Some people will embrace Islam because they like the way muslims look
18:02 some of them because they see how our women are honored.
18:04 They say you beat your women. There is nothing like this.
18:07 You can see that in this country
18:08 two women die of domestic violence every single week
18:11 and they have the gall to talk to us about women.
18:14 The British? Yes, the British.
18:16 Like many other sheikhs, Anjem too prefers not to speak
18:19 about negative sides of Islam,
18:21 Shtockholm, Sweden
18:22 religion that preserves the tribal customs of a clan in Europe.
18:27 Jihan Subhi Aref,
18:29 Her step father killed her by 47 knife ...
18:35 We have another case.
18:38 This is from England.
18:41 She was just 16 years old.
18:44 Her father killed her by knife.
18:47 Rasalla from Denmark,her brother killed her.
18:54 Dua Halil Aswad,
19:00 She was in love with a muslim boy.
19:05 They killed her by stoning.
19:09 Sara Muhamad was born in Kurdistan and immigrated to Sweden,
19:11 there she founded an organization, which supports women,
19:13 who were attacked for "dishonoring" their families.
19:20 This is in highschool, I think. Where are you? Here.
19:25 Behind her devotion to the cause lies a painful family story.
19:29 When I was 6, I was forcefully circumcized.
19:34 When I was 16, I was forced to wear a veil.
19:40 I was close to being murdered, my brother threatened me with a Kalashnikov,
19:45 he pointed the gun to my head and demanded an answer - yes or no
19:52 If I agree to marry a man whom I never met.
19:59 I said no to him, twice,
20:01 he beat me, I was lying on the floor.
20:05 He brought me up and said:
20:07 Now decide if you want to live or die.
20:12 To kill you is like to drink a glass of water.
20:16 You had no option, or die or marry? Yes
20:19 He told me the third time will determine if you live or die.
20:25 In those seconds I was considering suicide.
20:32 Next day I ran from home
20:37 and lived in a hiding place for five months.
20:42 I thought that if I survive this,
20:46 I'll devote my whole life to people in my position.
20:57 Where are we going now?
20:58 We are going to meet one of the victims
21:02 in a safe family home.
21:05 Sometimes I even take the Swedish police with me
21:07 when I help them to run away.
21:11 If her family knows that she is there, they'll come there?
21:14 Yea, absoltely,
21:16 but she can't live in the same area,
21:18 absolutely not.
21:21 She must live in other area.
21:26 Lately, Sara's phone is ringing more and more often.
21:30 Women from islamic states ask for asylum.
21:34 I want to call her first.
21:36 And women who aready in Europe,
21:38 ask to be released from the violence in their muslim homes.
21:45 Hello girlfriend,
21:46 Put something on your head, I do not know what, cover with something...
21:55 Only a dew dozens of honor killings were reported to authorities.
21:59 You are not allowed to film the baby.
22:02 But police and social sevices think that acts
22:05 of vengance against rebellious women are kept secret in the families.
22:17 My father is very strict.
22:19 He used to beat us in the presence of swedish teachers.
22:22 We never dared to complain because we were afraid of my father.
22:25 He had a honorable position, he is here 30 years already,
22:29 he has a high status here in Sweden, everyone knows him.
22:32 Nur, safe house in Shtockholm
22:33 He forced us to leave school,
22:35 and me and my sister had to wear veil.
22:37 The girls in school all tell the same story? It's normal.
22:40 It's considered normal, not something unusual.
22:42 Normal how? It's trivial. Not exceptional.
22:46 There is really nothing special about it.
22:47 When you wake up in the morning, at 6 in the morning,
22:49 the moment you open your eyes, you get a fist in your face
22:52 because you did not make breakfast or get coffee going?
22:56 Always in the morning ...
22:57 I never woke up in the morning without getting beaten.
23:03 We're trying to be aware of crimes
23:05 that can be motivated by the so called honor code.
23:09 Surely we have naive people,
23:11 and we are traditionally open society,
23:15 so we as police officers
23:17 need to be educated,
23:19 so now we are very very very sensitive to when we have for example
23:24 women falling down from a balcony in a house.
23:30 I mean, 20 years ago we might have recorded that as an accident.
23:34 Now we know we need to actively look for a honor killing.
23:39 Same day I was supposed to marry my cousin, I ran away.
23:44 My father brought a knife and cut my chest from here to here.
23:51 When I was in the hospital, after the operation,
23:54 they brought me sweets, flowers and toys, as if they didn't do that to me
23:59 and I had to play along, pretend that there is no problem.
24:03 It was really the question of life and death.
24:05 I always told myself "It's me or you".
24:10 I have no problem to be told how to do things,
24:13 I love learning from people,
24:16 bit in the end, it's me who have to decide whether I want to or not.
24:19 Are you sure that they will get you one day?
24:22 Million percent.
24:24 You know how many arabs live here.
24:26 Anywhere I go, any place I put my foot down, he'd know where I am.
24:29 he'd know where I am.
24:31 Are they armed? My brother and my uncle.
24:35 I am million precent sure I won't die a natural death.
24:39 Sweden is an enlightened and democratic country, I mean ...
24:42 Anything can be bought, no? True
24:44 Even Swedes can be bought
24:47 this is the way my father deals with them.
24:49 Actually, when I turned to the state's social services
24:52 and told them that I'm being beaten, they did not believe me.
24:55 You know we came to make a movie about Islam in Europe.
25:00 I never imagined that I'll hear stories like yours here,
25:03 we are in Europe, aren't we?
25:06 The arabs conquered Europe. I almost don't see Swedes now.
25:10 Anywhere you go, there are foreigners.
25:13 There is no Europe, I do not believe in it.
25:16 Europe is gone.
25:19 I mean, even now I sit here, I do not feel free.
25:23 I'll never feel free. Why?
25:27 After all the bravery and running away to freedom?
25:32 Freedom?
25:34 Yea, it's a great freedom, all right.
25:36 You have a living example, look at the way you live.
25:41 There's thousands of examples which had a good, positive ending, thank god.
26:18 The way women treated, half a billion people in the world are treated like slaves.
26:21 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Holland's ex-parliament member.
26:23 This is justified in the name of the Koran, I am sorry.
26:26 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, muslim from Somalia,
26:29 immigrated to Holland and became a parliament member.
26:31 She experienced the cultural change, which muslim immigrants,
26:35 who arrive to Europe, are going through.
26:38 I lived a free life.
26:40 So free, fo me it was unimaginable.
26:43 Hirsi Ali was critisized ,
26:45 for saying things against muslim leaders of Europe,
26:48 mainly about FGM, which was done to her in childhood.
26:53 It's such a useless operation.
26:55 It's bloody,
26:57 it affects your health in a horrible way,
27:02 and it does not remove the thoughts of being attracted to the opposite sex,
27:07 having sex and enjoying sex.
27:09 In 2004, she joined with film director Theo Van Gogh,
27:12 descendant of the famous painter,
27:14 to produce the provocative film "Submission",
27:17 which deals with violence against muslim women in Holland.
27:20 From movie "Submission"
27:22 Oh Alla, most high.
27:24 Life with my husband is hard to bear,
27:27 but I submit my will to you.
27:30 But my husband always finds a reason
27:33 to doubt my loyalty to him.
27:36 He starts to beat me.
27:41 The movie highlighted Koran verses,
27:44 which were carved on the naked women's flesh,
27:46 and caused unsurprisingly an uproar in the muslim communities.
27:49 If it is broadcasted, there'll plenty of reasons to shoot Ayaan.
27:53 The Koran is still considered holy and should be removed from this status.
27:59 It could happen in Holland and I do not care if I die for this.
28:02 We do not think so.
28:04 There are 1.2 billion people believing this nonsense.
28:08 The death threats were openly proclaimed with growing frequency.
28:11 Against Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Theo Van Gogh.
28:14 Three out of four of my guests
28:16 Theo Van Gogh, film director, author.
28:17 told me that Theo Van Gogh will die at most in 5 years.
28:23 It cannot happen, Theo Van Gogh will not die.
28:32 Here, in this place, the first shot was fired in the open confrontation
28:36 between muslims and natives of Holland.
28:37 In 2004, on a quiet Amsterdam's morning,
28:40 Theo Van Gogh is riding his bycicle.
28:42 A Morrocan immigrant is riding his bycicle towards him.
28:45 Just as they pass near each other,
28:47 the Morrocan immigrant shoots Theo Van Gogh,
28:50 stabs him and leaves a note, pinned with a knife to his chest:
28:54 "Islam will win"
28:58 This murder devastated Holland and all of Europe.
29:01 The freedom of speech, a basic right in Eropean democracy,
29:05 is not to be taken for granted anymore.
29:13 First he shot him from the back and Theo tried to escape walking.
29:17 He stabbed him and put a letter against Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
29:21 It was a kind of ritual killing also. Salafist kind of...
29:30 It is a documentary which we made a year after
29:34 about whether the killer could have been stopped.
29:39 Is this the body? Yea.
29:44 The tip? It's the knife.
29:50 Cannot believe
29:52 This being western quiet European country, what could happen?
29:56 You don't believe someone for ideological reasons would start murdering people.
30:04 The aggresion of the muslim minority is hugely
30:06 disproportionate to the Holland's majority.
30:10 He was also seen as a village fool.
30:14 Because we'd say "Ahh, it's Theo again".
30:16 I think there will be a lot of problems with the fanatical factions of Islam
30:22 which are going to refuse to accept the fact that western society
30:26 treats men and women equally.
30:28 I was on the other side by the way.
30:29 I also felt he was overstating it.
30:33 In the last years of his life Theo Van Gogh bacame one of the biggest critics of Islam
30:37 He published articles, books and movies,
30:41 in which he whipped with a typical for him coarseness
30:43 radical Islam, imams and Sharia supporters.
30:48 I was once on a TV show with a veiled woman.
30:51 And I told to some politicians:
30:53 "I am worried she was circumcized. It makes them quiet"
30:57 I know you seek attention but now I want to have it
31:01 In placing stigma on whole community of believers,
31:03 you do not help these women.They have to choose
31:05 whether to go with imam who abuses us in the name of Islam
31:08 or after Theo Van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali who harm our religion?
31:13 To our sorrow, they'll choose the first option.
31:15 Is the discussion of women slavery is an attack on religion?
31:19 But to say in the same breath that the prophet was a pervert,
31:24 this message hurts a lot of muslims
31:28 who believe in their prophet and in their religion.
31:31 Understand?
31:39 He killed what's his name ...Theo Van Gogh,
31:44 and since then people say a lot of bad things about us.
31:46 They say: ' Look at what the Morrocans did."
31:48 "Muslims did that"
31:51 He used to say that Islam is bad,
31:54 he cursed Allah, praise his name.
31:57 He likes to provoke so there comes a discussion.
32:01 I can insult the Catholic church,
32:03 I can insult the Jewish community,
32:05 Theodore Hollman, Publisher, friend of Theo Van Gogh
32:07 but you cann't do that in the moslem community.
32:10 In 2005 Europe was stirred up
32:11 after the publishing of cartoons of prophet Mohammad
32:14 in satirical section of the Danish newspaper and some other European ones.
32:18 Demonstrations of rage in the world 2005
32:20 The responses to the caroons included, besides threats to the newspaper employees,
32:25 burning of embassies and violent demonstrations worldwide,
32:29 which took lives of more than a thousand men.
32:36 But more than anything else, the affair ignited discussion in Europe and rest of the world
32:40 about limits on the freedom of speech.
32:46 There is a lot of political correctness
32:48 that is actually censoring me without censuring it.
32:51 I am a writer and I don't dare to write, I don't dare to say everything I'd like to say
32:58 So yes, it's a pity. That's why I am a cinic.
33:01 I can't say what I think.
33:03 Paris, France.
33:07 The issue that made us most worried and put us in danger
33:14 is radical Islam.
33:17 Since the Danish cartoons riots in Denmark
33:19 the arson of the satirical newspapers,
33:21 daring to critisize radical Islam
33:24 do not surprise the police anymore.
33:26 In Paris for example, just lately the building
33:29 which housed a satirical journal was torched.
33:33 Behind the ason is a muslim group
33:35 which promotes Sharia in France.
33:39 Welcome to the new offices of "Charlie Hebdo".
33:42 It was decided not to publish the new address.
33:46 That's what is left of our old place.
33:48 It is an enamelled sign inside our previous offices.
33:53 Why didn't you hang a new sign on the building?
33:56 We do not write a name to prevent...
33:59 We are not paranoic, but would like to prevent another arson,
34:04 or a second attack.
34:05 This is a journal which was the cause of the arson, in fact a terror attack on "Charlie Hebdo".
34:10 What is written here?
34:12 "Sharia Hebdo. A hundred lashes if you don't die laughing"
34:16 We presented a prophet with a smily face, laughing.
34:20 It is nothing like a cartoon of Mohammad,
34:23 which portrayed him with a bomb turban and a severe face.
34:26 Here we are talking about Mohammad who you'd like to go out for a drink,
34:29 if he was allowed ...
34:31 The main piece is written not by the editor, but by Mohammad.
34:36 There is also a double spread of "Soft Sharia".
34:39 Here for example is half-burka,
34:41 so that one can ajust gradually to a new religious order.
34:45 And here a 100 lashes for sodomy,
34:48 let's say the positive side of Sharia.
34:52 Since the fire
34:53 do you think twice before you publish something?
34:56 I think we do not censor ourselves,
35:00 but on the other hand we do not want to provoke needlessly.
35:05 The terrible discovery of Mohammed: "I'm a Jew"
35:17 A lot would need to happen to have a radical islamic majority here,
35:21 Sharia law and cetera and cetera.
35:23 But much more dangerous and already happening
35:26 is politicians taking that into account.
35:28 saying "Well, maybe we should diminish our freedom of speech abit
35:33 because it is not fair to the islamists and cetera"
35:37 There is no god but Alla and Mohammad is his messenger.
35:40 Democracy is two-faced and changes every two minutes.
35:43 Today you have a law, tomorrow it will be different.
35:46 Anyone entering the democratic system like a pure sheep
35:51 has two options:
35:52 or you'll be eaten, or you'll turn to a wolf in sheep's skin.
36:00 We are afraid to say
36:03 that our way of life, our culture
36:04 is superior to the moslem way of life.
36:07 Because of multiculturelism, because of political correctness.
36:11 We saw it with the cartoons in Denmark,
36:14 We saw it with the laws in Brussel,
36:18 and now we see with the burka in France.
36:21 If you look at the places like Lebanon,
36:23 it's prohibited to do dau'wa.(preach Islam)
36:24 Fellow muslims, once more we are standing here,
36:28 is purely for the sake of Alla.
36:30 So in this country at least they do not prevent you to invite people to Islam
36:35 I mean, in fact they believe in dialog, interfaith ,
36:39 while obviously it is a kafir idea.
36:40 If you cannot point your finger at anything
36:44 and say that is wrong,
36:47 then you also take part in your own cultural collapse.
36:52 Whoever carries out these acts, tries to scar the public
36:57 and to make it paranoic, but you mustn't give in to fear
37:01 because fear is the best friend
37:04 of the islamists and other religious extremists.
37:09 The non-muslims I think have a problem.
37:10 Their own race, their own people are dying out,
37:14 people are converting to Islam,
37:15 people don't want to talk about religion or politics,
37:17 people don't want to attend a church or a sinagogue
37:20 but when you look at the muslims,
37:22 In France recently they said that there are not enough mosques
37:25 because people are praying in the streets of Paris.
37:27 They say we need another thousand mosques in France
37:30 to deal with number of muslims who want to attend the prayers over there,
37:32 so we are talking about huge number of muslims.
37:35 In Belgium's demographic situation
37:38 Number of citzen that are in Belgium,
37:39 in 10 years or 20 years the majority will be muslim.
37:45 Is it because of us?
37:50 Here goes a man with a dog.
37:53 Who was that guy? I do not know. Some racist.
37:55 A racist. He's going to praise Alla with his dog.
38:01 On the top of this voulcanoe are Islam on one hand,
38:05 the extreme right on the other.
38:07 We have to be very critical towards Islam and
38:11 send back all those extremists who don't belong here.
38:14 In the middle is a silent majority, watching Europe change before their eyes.
38:33 In the next part
38:34 What we're seeing in so many european countries
38:36 is a process of radicalization.
38:39 All muslims who want to pray, the most religious ones, come here.
38:44 You could say that here are Jihadists.
38:47 Jihadists are here? Yes Salafis? Yea. Al Quaida? Yes
38:50 We promise to clean Belgium
38:53 from this system that worships other gods.
38:55 If they lock me up, I have paradise in my heart.
38:57 If they kill me I become a martyr, so help me God.
38:59 Today young people are looking for a job and cannot find it.
39:03 That's why they find a refuge in religion.
39:07 Now everyone just want to insult the muslims.
39:09 Today they have access to the internet and you can make the bomb in your mother's kitchen.
39:15 The direction is known, and the fight now is tectonic.
Posted by Baron Bodissey at 10/23/2012 10:06:00 AM
costin andries said...
Hi Baron, with the help of a friend from Israel, here is the Romanian translation of this episode.
Gates of Vienna News Feed 10/31/2012
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The Shape of Schools to Come
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“The Murderers of My Son”
Somalis? Yes! Swedes? No!
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OSCE Warsaw: HDIM 2012 Wrap-Up
The OIC’s Legal Jihad
An Enriching Experience in the Schwabing Hospital
Targeting the Fed
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The 'amaze' and 'sadden' group
These verbs indicate how a situation or question makes someone feel. This includes making them feel puzzled because they cannot understand something or do not know how to answer a question. The noun group always indicates a human being.
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You believed in something bigger: your own sense of morality. It didn't concern you whether a thing was illegal or dangerous but whether it was right.
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Voice Actor Becomes a Hero
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Jack Hunt Coin Broker Review
Jack Hunt Coin Broker (JHCB) (www.jackhunt.com) is a precious metals dealer that specializes in selling gold and silver coins and bullion. They also buy scrap metals in bulk from regional pawnshops, collectors, and jewelry stores. The business was founded in 1968 and has been operating locally in Buffalo, New York for more than 4 decades. Up until 1979 the business was primarily a wholesale provider of numismatic coins. However, in the 1980's JHCB shifted towards coin/bullion selling and scrap precious metals buying. Since then the company has bought and sold more than 35 million troy ounces of gold, silver, and platinum.
About the Management
The owner and CEO of Jack Hunt Coin Broker is none other than Mr. Jack Hunt himself. However, Scott Hunt (Jack's son) has been serving as the company's president for a few years. Scott holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Canisius College (Class of '91), and he worked for his father's company for 20 years before being promoted to President.
Jack Hunt Coin Ratings and Complaints (Last Updated July 2015)
The following are the top ratings and reviews from the internet's most popular business and website directories:
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BCA: B (Details)
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Yellow Pages: Not Rated (Details)
Yelp: (3 / 5) based on 1 review (Details)
Jack Hunt Coin Prices and Products
JackHunt.com is JHCB's wholesale site, through which it sells gold and silver coins in bulk to registered coin dealers. If you're an individual looking to purchase coins to be stored in an IRA you might not be able to purchase precious metals through Jack Hunt's wholesale division; you may have better luck at their retail website – JackHuntGoldSilver.com (JHGS). For more information on their gold products and prices, see the JHGS retail gold bullion catalog.
There are no mentions of IRAs on either of Jack Hunt's websites, and the company does not appear to offer any precious metals storage services. Therefore, if you were to purchase precious metals from JHCB or JHGS with the intention of depositing directly into an IRA, you would first have to choose a custodian that would be willing to accept delivery of the metals on your behalf.
Jack Hunt Coin Contact Details
Address: 2746 Delaware Ave, Kenmore, NY 14217
Website: www.jackhunt.com
Alternate Website (Retail): www.jackhuntgoldsilver.com
Key Pages From Jack Hunt Coin's Website
About Us Page – Page on JCHB's retail site (JHGS) that discusses the company's history.
Gold Bullion Catalog – Example listings of the gold bullion products JHCB sells to its wholesale members.
Silver Bullion Catalog – Example listings of silver bullion products that are available to JHCB's wholesale clients.
Consider All Options Before Investing in a Gold IRA
Most financial advisers recommend devoting about 5%-20% of your retirement portfolio to gold and other precious metals that protect against inflation, in order to safeguard a fraction of your wealth through retirement.
While 5%-20% may not be the majority of your holdings, in the event of a serious recession or global financial crisis, that minority could start to hold a majority in importance as the value of gold increases while the dollar and other fiat currencies plummet. Thus, choosing how to invest that seemingly small 5%-20% is one of the most critical retirement decisions you'll have to make.
The three most important factors to consider when comparing Gold IRA companies are:
Does the company have a great reputation?
Does it charge fair prices for its IRA-eligible bullion (including shipping policies, etc.)?
Is it partnered with an IRA custodian that charges a flat-rate fee, or do their custodians charge sliding scale fees?
The first two questions above should be fairly easy to answer. However the answer to the third question is usually not so apparent. Usually you can found out which IRA custodians a company is affiliated with by searching through IRA-related pages on their website. However, sometimes the company may request that their clients call for more information, so the custodian fee structures are not always transparent.
By far, the most important aspect of choosing a custodian (aside from reputation, of course) is whether they charge a low flat-rate fee that stays the same regardless of the value stored in the account. Dealing with a custodian that charges a sliding scale fee will not facilitate an ideal investment because the cost of annual storage will increase as more precious metals are deposited into the account.
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Jack Hunt Coin Broker is a precious metals dealer that specializes in selling gold and silver coins and bullion. They also buy scrap metals in bulk from regional pawnshops, collectors, and jewelry stores. The business was founded in 1968 and has been operating locally in Buffalo, New York for more than 4 decades.
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Category Archives: European Team Championship
Here is my assessment of the Individual GB&I performances at the European Men’s Amateur Team Championship.
Euan WALKER (SCO) was my star man at this week’s Championship after another superb overall performance.
Harry HALL (ENG), Ryan LUMSDEN (SCO), Mark POWER (IRE) and Gaelan TREW (WAL) impressively won all three of their Singles games in the Match Play stage.
Sweden beat ENGLAND 4.5-2.5 in the Final of the European Men’s Amateur Team Championship.
Sweden’s Men’s Team (Photo: European Golf Association)
It was Sweden’s third win and first since 1961 – they won the first two Championships that were played. Meanwhile England collected the silver medal for the third year running after losing to Spain and Finland in the two previous Finals.
Tom SLOMAN and Tom PLUMB completed a hat trick of Foursomes wins in the opening match but Alex FITZPATRICK and Matty LAMB couldn’t match them on this occasion.
As England had lost both Singles series’ in the previous two rounds the writing was perhaps on the wall entering the afternoon games. Obviously this time their opponents also had home advantage on their side too.
Sweden ended up winning the second half of the match 3.5-1.5 with only Harry HALL able to secure a full point – his third Singles win of the competition.
Sweden v. England Final Match Results (Photo: EGA / Golfbox)
SCOTLAND secured the Bronze Medal beating Denmark 4-3 on the final day.
The Scots got off to a great start winning both of the morning foursomes with some ease.
Narrow 1 hole wins for Euan WALKER and Ryan LUMSDEN ultimately saw them home.
Denmark v. Scotland 3rd Place Match Results (Photo: EGA / Golfbox)
IRELAND pipped WALES to 5th place winning their final day match 3-2.
Two matches went to extra holes and with Ireland winning both they swung the result to the green side. In the Foursomes Caolan RAFFERTY & James SUGRUE got the win on the 22nd hole and like yesterday Mark POWER came out on top in extra time in his Singles.
Ireland v. Wales 5th Place Match Results (Photo: EGA / Golfbox)
Click here to view all of the Match Play Results – Flight A
ENGLAND beat SCOTLAND 4-3 in their semi-final at the European Men’s Amateur Team Championship. They will play Sweden tomorrow in the final after the home nation overcame Denmark 6-1.
The two English foursomes pairings maintained their 100% win records with Tom SLOMAN & Tom PLUMB beating Sandy SCOTT & James WILSON 3&2 and Alex FITZPATRICK & Matty LAMB overcoming Euan MCINTOSH & Euan WALKER by 2 Holes.
The Scots fought back well in the afternoon with Sandy SCOTT, Euan WALKER and Ryan LUMSDEN all winning their Singles. However, it proved to be in vein as Tom PLUMB and Harry HALL saw England home with 3&2 and 3&1 wins respectively in the other two games.
Scotland v. England Semi-Final Results (Photo: EGA / Golfbox)
Despite being out of the medals IRELAND and WALES carry on playing – albeit in an abridged match format – to see who finishes in 5th to 8th places in the Championship.
IRELAND beat Germany 3-2, the highlights being Singles wins for Conor PURCELL and Mark POWER.
Ireland v. Germany Results (Photo: EGA / Golfbox)
WALES enjoyed the scalp of Spain on Day 4 of the Championship. Their 3.5-1.5 victory came on the back of an unbeaten Singles performance with three wins coming from Gaelen TREW, Jacob DAVIES and Jake HAPGOOD.
Spain v. Wales Results (Photo: EGA / Golfbox)
No. 1 seed’s IRELAND lost 4-3 to Denmark who had finished 34 shots behind them in the Stroke Play Qualifying.
IRELAND got off to a bad start losing both morning foursome games heavily by 5&4.
Whilst Conor PURCELL (5&3), Mark POWER (4&3) and James SUGRUE (3&2) all won their Singles narrow 1 hole losses for Caolan RAFFERTY and Tiarnan MCLARNON ultimately did for the Irish.
Ireland v. Denmark Quarter Final Results (Photo: EGA / Golfbox)
SCOTLAND beat Spain 4.5 – 2.5.
Having built a strong foundation with two foursomes wins in the morning, Singles wins for Sandy SCOTT and Ryan LUMSDEN and a half for James WILSON easily saw the Scots home.
Scotland v. Spain Quarter Final Results (Photo: EGA / Golfbox)
England narrowly beat Wales 4-3 to set up a semi-final with Scotland.
Wales can take some consolation from wining the afternoon Singles series 3-2 with their wins coming from Gaelan TREW, Archie DAVIES and Jake HAPGOOD.
England v. Wales Quarter Final Results (Photo: EGA / Golfbox)
Click here to view the Match Play Draw / Scores – Flight A
IRELAND (-19), ENGLAND (-16) and SCOTLAND (-10) finished 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Stroke Play Qualifying competition, where five of the six individual scores count towards the team total.
WALES (+12) battled well on Day 2 with a +2 total helping them to an encouraging 7th place finish.
As a result all four home nations qualified for the top 8 Flight A match play stage and as such are now competing for a Championship medal.
Stroke Play Qualifying Results (Photo: EGA / Golfbox)
Euan WALKER (SCO) earned individual medalist honours. His rounds of 67 and 65 gave him a 132 (-12) total and saw him finish 3-shots ahead of his nearest challengers.
Making a welcome return to form Conor PURCELL (IRE) -9 was 2nd and Tom SLOMAN (ENG) -8 3rd.
Caolan RAFFERTY (IRE) and Alex FITZPATRICK (ENG) were the next best in tied 4th on -5.
Sandy SCOTT (SCO), Ben JONES (ENG) and Ben CHAMBERLAIN (WAL) finished in a six man group in tied 7th on -3 in a leaderboard that was dominated by GB&I players.
Leading Stroke Play Qualifying Individual Results (Photo: EGA / Golfbox)
Click here to view the Stroke Play Qualifying Results – Individual and Team
The 36th European Men’s Amateur Team Championship will be played between Tuesday 9th and Saturday 13th July 2019 at Ljunghusen G.C. in Sweden.
Teams from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales will be competing this week.
Finland are the defending champions having won at Golf Club Bad Saarow in Germany.
Team Finland (Photo: Suomen Golfliitto / @golfliitto)
The European Ladies’, Boys’ and Girls’ Team Championships are also being played elsewhere in Europe this week.
I will provide daily updates on play in the Men’s event on this website during the week and score links to all of the Championships on Twitter.
16 national teams of 6 players contest the European Men’s Amateur Team Championship.
The teams competing in the 2019 Championship are Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Wales.
Portugal, Czech Republic and Serbia were relegated from Division 1 in 2018 whilst Switzerland, Slovenia and Wales were promoted from Division 2.
The Czech Republic have been given a reprieve whilst Belgium, who finished 4th in Division 2 last year, have also been invited to play in Sweden. This is because both Italy, who finished 12th in Division 1, and Division 2 champions Switzerland have chosen to participate in the Division 2 competition in Poland this year. I have no idea why they would want to do this.
The 2019 home nation teams are made up of the following players: –
ENGLAND – Alex FITZPATRICK, Harry HALL, Ben JONES, Matty LAMB, Tom PLUMB and Tom SLOMAN.
IRELAND – Tiarnan MCLARNAN, Ronan MULLARNEY, Mark POWER, Conor PURCELL, Caolan RAFFERTY and James SUGRUE.
SCOTLAND – Ryan LUMSDEN, Euan MCINTOSH, Sandy SCOTT, Jamie STEWART, Euan WALKER and James WILSON.
WALES – Ben CHAMBERLAIN, Archie DAVIES, Jacob DAVIES, Jake HAPGOOD, Matt ROBERTS and Gaelan TREW.
Unusually quite a few players, primarily from Scotland and Wales, played in the Men’s Team events last year. These were Caolan Rafferty, Ryan Lumsden, Euan McIntosh, Sandy Scott, Jamie Stewart, Euan Walker, Ben Chamberlain, Jake Hapgood, Matt Roberts and Gaelan Trew.
Format / Schedule
The Championship is run by the European Golf Association, this year in partnership with the Swedish Golf Federation.
Two rounds of stroke play qualifying are completed on the first two days, with the lowest five scores from each team counting.
These results determine a seeded match play draw. The top 8 qualifying teams will play in a first flight, which will determine the medalists, with the others competing in a second flight. In Fight A it is therefore 1st v. 8th, 2nd v. 7th, 3rd v. 6th and 4th v. 5th.
The teams finishing 14th to 16th in the match play stage will theoretically be relegated to the Division 2 Championship for 2020.
The teams in Flight A play 2 foursomes and 5 singles whilst those in Flight B play 1 foursome and 4 singles.
A win earns 1 point, a draw half a point and a loss no points in all of the matches.
Website Links – Draw / Scores / Information
Full Player List
Stroke Play Qualifying Leaderboard – Individual and Team
Match Play Draw / Results – Flight A and Flight B
For more event information – European Golf Association Website
Ljunghusen Golf Club, Sweden
Ljunghusen is a flat heathland links course located on the Falsterbo Peninsula, about 20 miles south of Malmö.
The Championship, which was also staged here in 2001, will be played on holes 1-18 of this 27 hole facility.
The main course plays to 6,352 metres and a par of 72. As can be seen from the aerial photo below the course is relatively tight with fairways edged with heather and some greens protected by water hazards. Ljunghusen translates as ‘house of heather’ and if the wind blows it can be penal.
Ljunghusen G.C. (Photo: GEO Foundation / sustainable.golf)
This week’s weather forecast for south west Sweden looks very good. The winds off the Baltic determine the difficulty of the course and with relatively low values expected I anticipate a low scoring competition.
Tue 9th July – Sunny Intervals. Wind 15 mph NW. Temp. Min. 12°C / Max. 19°C.
Wed 10th July – Sunny. Wind 14 mph NW. Temp. Min. 13°C / Max. 20°C.
Thur 11th July – Sunny. Wind 10 mph NW. Temp. Min. 13°C / Max. 21°C.
Fri 12th July – Sunny. Wind 8 mph NW. Temp. Min. 13°C / Max. 21°C.
Sat 13th July – Sunny. Wind 10 mph SW. Temp. Min. 12°C / Max. 20°C.
2018 European Men’s Amateur Team Championship
In something of a surprise Finland beat England 5-2 at Golf Club Bad Saarow, Brandenburg in Germany in the 2018 Final.
England, the 11-time champions, beat France (6-1) and Denmark (4-3) on their way to the Final.
Scotland, who had qualified for Flight A, lost to Denmark (4.5-2.5), France (1.5-3.5) and finally Sweden (3-2) to finish 8th.
In Flight B Ireland beat Serbia (5-0) and Iceland (3.5-1.5) but lost 2-3 to Netherlands on the final day to finish 10th.
Match Play Draw / Scores – Flight A
Match Play Draw / Scores – Flight B
In the preceding Stroke Play Qualifying competition England (-27) finished 2nd (after count back from winners Sweden), Scotland (-11) 6th and Ireland (-1) 9th. England and Scotland therefore qualified for the Flight A Match Play whilst Ireland had to settle for Flight B.
England’s Gian-Marco PETROZZI secured individual medalist honours with a -12 total. John MURPHY (-9) was Ireland’s leading player finishing 6th whilst Euan MCINTOSH (-4) was the best placed Scot in 14th place.
Stroke Play Qualifying Results – Individual and Team
History / Previous Results
The European Men’s Amateur Team Championship was first played in 1959.
It was played every second year until 2007. Since then it has been played annually save for 2012 when no Championship was held.
To date England have won 11 times, Scotland 8, Ireland 6, Spain 4, Sweden 2 and Finland, France, Italy and Wales once each.
Click here to view the full list of – European Men’s Amateur Team Championship Past Winners
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Saturday 14th July 2018 – FINAL
FLIGHT A
Finland won the 2018 European Men’s Amateur Team Championship, comfortably beating England 5-2 in today’s Final.
Finland were only promoted from Men’s Division 2 last year but with Matias HONKALA and Sami VALIMAKI in their ranks, both of whom were selected for the Continent of Europe St. Andrews Trophy Team this week, they proved to be more than a match for the English.
England will be disappointed with their performance. Having previously won the Championship 11 times and given their play so far this week they would certainly have expected to win.
Finland v. England Final Match Play Results (Photo: EGA /Golfbox)
Finland won both morning Foursomes to give themselves the platform for their victory. Whilst the five Singles were all tight at the end of the day only Gian-Marco PETROZZI was able to secure a win.
Also in Flight A Scotland lost to Sweden 3-2 and therefore finished 8th.
Ryan LUMSDEN and Jamie STEWART won their Singles games, overcoming Pontus NYHOLM (2&1) and Tim WIDING (1 Hole) respectively.
Match Play Final Draw / Scores – Flight A
FLIGHT B
Ireland lost 2-3 to Netherlands to finish 10th in the European Men’s Amateur Team Championship.
Robin DAWSON and Rowan LESTER secured Ireland’s two points with Singles wins against Vince VAN VEEN (4&2) and Dario ANTONISSE (1Hole) respectively.
Friday 13th July 2018 – MATCH PLAY SEMI-FINALS
England narrowly beat Denmark 4-3 to secure a place in tomorrow’s Men’s Final.
A dream start saw the team take a 2-0 lead after the morning Foursomes. Matthew JORDAN and Gian-Marco PETROZZI beat the in-form Hojgaard twins 4&3 while the Yorkshire pairing of David HAGUE and Nick POPPLETON critically secured another point on the first extra hole of their match.
Playing number 1 Matthew JORDAN won his Singles match against the European Amateur champion Nicolai HOJGAARD. This was Matthew’s fourth win out of four games in the match play stage.
Mitch WAITE secured the all important winning point beating Rasmus HOJGAARD on the 19th hole. Waite hasn’t been used in the Foursomes to date but has now delivered two hard fought Singles wins.
In a change to yesterday’s Quarter Final line up Nick POPPLETON came in for David HAGUE in game 5. Nick lost the first four holes against Morten TOFT HANSEN and was unable to recover any of this early deficit with the match coming to a close on the 15th green. It will be interesting to see if David HAGUE comes back into the Singles line up in the Final.
Denmark v. England Semi-Final Match Play Results (Photo: EGA /Golfbox)
England will face Finland who had a similar game against Germany to that of England’s. 2-0 up after the Foursomes before losing the afternoon Singles series 3-2. Aleksi MYLLYMAKI securing the all important point in the last game against Michael HIRMER with a 1 Hole victory.
Germany will now play Denmark in the Bronze medal match tomorrow.
Scotland lost 1.5-3.5 to France in their Flight A match. Jamie STEWART enjoyed a good 4&3 win against Adrien PENDARIES whilst Sandy SCOTT halved his match with Jeremy GANDON.
Match Play Semi-Final Draw / Scores – Flight A
Ireland beat Iceland 3.5-1.5 as they seek to regain some pride. Alex GLEESON and Caolan RAFFERTY won their Foursomes before Robin DAWSON and John MURPHY both secured 3&2 wins.
Thursday 12th July 2018 – MATCH PLAY QUARTER FINALS
England beat France 6-1 to secure their place in the European Men’s Amateur Team Championship. The score line flattered England a little as most of the games were tight affairs.
As one can see from the results below it was a good all round team effort for England with all six members battling hard and contributing positively to the final result.
England v. France Quarter Final Match Play Results (Photo: EGA /Golfbox)
Denmark, who finished 3rd in Stroke Play Qualifying, proved too strong for Scotland in their Quarter Final match.
Singles wins for Ryan LUMSDEN (3&2 over John AXELSEN) and Euan WALKER (3&1 over Andreas HILLERSBORG SORENSEN) and a half for Sandy SCOTT (with Gustav FRIMODT) gave the scoreline some respectability.
Denmark v. Scotland Quarter Final Match Play Results (Photo: EGA /Golfbox)
Match Play Quarter Final Draw / Scores – Flight A
As expected Ireland beat debutants Serbia 5-0. The highlight in a understandably one sided match was Robin DAWSON’s 8&7 victory over Mihailo DIMITRIJEVIC.
Wednesday 11th July 2018 – STROKE PLAY QUALIFYING ROUND 2
England (-27) finished 2nd and Scotland (-11) 6th to make the 8 team Flight A Match Play segment of the European Men’s Amateur Team Championship.
Gian-Marco PETROZZI secured individual medalist honours with a -12 total.
Euan MCINTOSH (-4) was the best placed Scot in 14th place.
Here are the full England and Scotland team scores: –
2nd ENGLAND (693 -27)
1st Gian-Marco PETROZZI 62 70 (-12)
5th Matthew JORDAN 69 66 (-9)
28th Nick POPPLETON 77 66 (-1)
30th David HAGUE 72 71 (-1)
45th Todd CLEMENTS 74 71 (+1)
77th Mitch WAITE 72 77 (+5)
6th SCOTLAND (709 -11)
14th Euan MCINTOSH 72 68 (-4)
20th Sandy SCOTT 69 72 (-3)
35th Stuart EASTON 72 72 (Ev)
39th Jamie STEWART 71 73 (Ev)
41st Ryan LUMSDEN 77 68 (+1)
46th Euan WALKER 73 72 (+1)
Men’s Stroke Play Qualifying Results (Photo: EGA /Golfbox)
Ireland finished 9th unable to improve on their position after Day 1. As a result they will play in the Flight B Match Play section.
As can be seen from the scores below John MURPHY once again performed admirably and given his recent form must now be a very strong candidate for a St. Andrews Trophy spot.
9th IRELAND (719 -1)
6th John MURPHY 68 67 (-9)
27th Robin DAWSON 67 75 (-2)
49th Caolan RAFFERTY 72 73 (+1)
68th Rowan LESTER 77 71 (+4)
88th Jonathan YATES 75 76 (+7)
92nd Alex GLEESON 81 74 (+11)
Tuesday 10th July 2018 – STROKE PLAY QUALIFYING ROUND 1
England (349 / -11) lead the European Men’s Amateur Team Championship Stroke Play Qualifying after Day 1.
By way of reminder each nation has 6 players with the best five scores counting towards their team score.
Gian-Marco PETROZZI shot a superb 62 (-10) to lead his team to a 2 shot lead over Sweden. Matthew JORDAN, with a 69 (-3), was the only other England player to shoot under par in Round 1.
Gian-Marco Petrozzi’s Round 1 Scorecard (Photo: EGA /Golfbox)
Scotland, led by Sandy SCOTT who posted a 69 (-3), are 7th on 357 (-3).
Ireland, who were helped by strong rounds from both Robin DAWSON 67 (-5) and John MURPHY 68 (-4), are 9th on 359 (-1).
The aim for all three of our teams will be to finish the 36 hole Stroke Play Qualifying in the Top 8 to ensure they make the Match Play Flight A. This will then give them a change to win a medal.
The 35th European Men’s Amateur Team Championship will be played between Tuesday 10th and Saturday 14th July 2018 at Golf Club Bad Saarow, Brandenburg in Germany.
Amateur teams from England, Ireland and Scotland will all be competing this week.
Spain are the defending champions having won at Diamond C.C. in Austria last year.
2017 Champions – Spain (Photo: European Golf Association)
The European Men’s Division 2, Ladies’, Boys’ and Girls’ Team Championships are also being played elsewhere in Europe this week.
I will provide daily updates on play on this website during the week and score links to all of the Championships on Twitter.
The teams competing in the 2018 Championship are Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Serbia, Spain and Sweden.
Belgium, Switzerland and Wales were relegated last year while Norway, who finished 8th, have decided not to compete this year.
Finland, Portugal, Netherlands and Serbia were the top 4 finishers in the 2017 Division 2 Championship.
ENGLAND – Todd CLEMENTS, David HAGUE, Matthew JORDAN, Gian-Marco PETROZZI, Nick POPPLETON and Mitch WAITE.
IRELAND – Robin DAWSON, Alex GLEESON, Rowan LESTER, John MURPHY, Caolan RAFFERTY and Jonathan YATES.
SCOTLAND – Stuart EASTON, Ryan LUMSDEN, Euan MCINTOSH, Sandy SCOTT, Jamie STEWART and Euan WALKER.
From our three teams just Robin Dawson, Matthew Jordan, Ryan Lumsden and Jamie Stewart played in last year’s competition in Austria.
The Championship is run by the European Golf Association, this year in partnership with the German Golf Association.
Assuming no withdrawals the leading 13 teams from last year’s Division 1 Championship are joined by the host nation (if not otherwise qualified) and 2 or 3 promoted teams from the 2016 Division 2 Championship.
Additionally the teams finishing 14th to 16th in the match play stage will be relegated to the Division 2 Championship for 2019.
Men’s Division 1 Draw / Scores Links
Stroke Play Tee Times – Round 1
Golf Club Bad Saarow – Faldo Course Berlin
The Faldo Course Berlin is generally accepted as being one of German’s best golf courses.
Located 70 km outside of Berlin the Faldo Course was opened in 1997 and is a manufactured links-style course. It has few trees, plenty of pot bunkers, a burn and some interesting contoured greens.
It plays to 7,093 yards and a standard par of 72. Both nines are similar in length and have the same make up of holes.
Golf Club Bad Saarow – Faldo Course (Photo: golf.de)
Some wet weather is forecast in Germany for each of the first three days of the Championship but things are expected to warm up later in the week. Very little wind is forecast on this inland venue.
Tue 10th July – Showers. Wind 4 mph W. Temp. Min. 13°C / Max. 19°C.
Wed 11th July – Rain. Wind 6 mph W. Temp. Min. 14°C / Max. 20°C.
Thur 12th July – Rain. Wind 9 mph NW. Temp. Min. 15°C / Max. 23°C.
Fri 13th July – Sunny. Wind 10 mph NW. Temp. Min. 15°C / Max. 28°C.
Sat 14th July – Sunny. Wind 8 mph NW. Temp. Min. 15°C / Max. 27°C.
To date England have won 11 times, Scotland 8, Ireland 6, Spain 3, Sweden 2 and Wales, Italy and France once each.
Match Play Stage
ENGLAND lost 4-3 to Spain in the Final of the 2017 European Men’s Amateur Team Championship at the Diamond C.C. in Austria.
SCOTLAND secured 5th place with a 3-2 win over France.
IRELAND finished 7th after a 3-2 win against Norway on the final day.
WALES lost their final Flight B match 3-2 to Switzerland and were sadly relegated in 16th and last place.
2017 Match Play Results – Flight A and Flight B
Stroke Play Qualifying
ENGLAND (-8) finished 1st in the 36 hole stroke play qualifying event where the 5 best scores from the 6 man team’s counted towards a national aggregate total.
IRELAND (+7) and SCOTLAND (+15) also qualified for the Flight A match play stage finishing 5th and 6th respectively.
WALES (+28) finished 10th and therefore played in the Flight B match play stage. The challenge then is always to avoid finishing 14th or lower to stay in Division 1.
2017 Stroke Play Qualifying Results – Individual and Teams
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European Men’s Amateur Team Championship – 2017 Preview, Results & Reports
ENGLAND lost 4-3 to Spain in today’s Final of the European Men’s Amateur Team Championship at the Diamond CC in Austria. Whilst I am sure they are all disappointed the Silver Medal still represents a very good achievement for the English team.
The two morning Foursomes were shared. Harry ELLIS and Alfie PLANT beat Angel Hidalgo and Javier Sainz 2&1 but Scott GREGORY and Matthew JORDAN lost on the 19th hole to Adria Arnaus and Victor Pastor.
HARRY ELLIS lost the first afternoon Singles game 2&1 to Alejandro Del Rey.
After a late afternoon 35 minute suspension in play due to the risk of lightning the remaining Singles were quickly resolved.
Scott GREGORY beat Manuel Elvira by 1 hole but Alfie PLANT, losing his first game in the match play stage, lost 2&1 to Victor Pastor. Gian-Marco PETROZZI, playing in the final Singles game, won for the second day running beating Javier Sainz 3&2.
This meant the match came down to the Matthew JORDAN and Adriá Arnaus game. Arnaus held on bravely to win by 1 hole to secure the title for the Spaniards.
The England v. Spain Final Match Results
Earlier in the day SCOTLAND secured 5th place with a 3-2 win over France. Singles wins for Robert MACINTYRE (4&2), Craig HOWIE (4&3) and Conor SYME (3&2) won the match for the defending champions.
IRELAND finished 7th after a 3-2 win against Norway on the final day. As with Scotland three Singles wins were responsible for the narrow victory. Stuart GREHAN (4&3), Conor O’ROURKE (3&2) and John Ross GALBRAITH (2&1) did the business for the Irish.
WALES lost their final Flight B match 3-2 to Switzerland and were sadly relegated in last place.
Here’s my assessment of the individual GB&I performances at the European Men’s Amateur Team Championship: –
European Team Championship Results
Men’s – Diamond CC, Austria
Stroke Play Qualifier – Individual and Teams
Match Play Knockout – Flight A and Flight B
England won the Silver Medal, losing 4-3 to Spain in the Final.
Scotland finished 5th, Ireland 7th and Wales 16th (R).
Boys’ – La Manga, Spain
Ireland finished 6th, England 8th and Scotland 13th.
Ladies’ – Mondago GR, Portugal
England beat Italy 5.5-1.5 to secure the Gold Medal.
Ireland finished 9th and Scotland 11th.
Girls’ – St. Laurence GC, Finland
England beat France 5-2 to secure the Bronze Medal.
Ireland were 10th and Scotland 14th.
ENGLAND beat Italy 6.5-0.5 in their Flight A Semi-Final today. They will play Spain in tomorrow’s Final after they overcame Sweden 4-3 in the other Semi.
England got off to a great start winning both of the morning Foursomes, perhaps helped by Italy choosing to rest their best player Luca Cianchetti. Harry ELLIS and Alfie PLANT (1 hole) paired up successfully as did Scott GREGORY and Matthew JORDAN (2&1).
Gian-Marco PETROZZI came into the Singles line up and with all of the Foursomes players sent out again Josh HILLEARD ended up sitting out the whole day. The decision was vindicated as England delivered an unbeaten Singles series. ELLIS beat Cianchetti (1 hole), GREGORY halved with Lorenzo Scalise, PLANT beat Stefano Mazzoli (2&1), JORDAN beat Philip Geerts (4&3) and PETROZZI saw off Alberto Castagnara (1 hole).
SCOTLAND beat Norway 3.5-1.5. Having lost the morning Foursomes much depended on their more experienced Singles line up. Pleasingly they all delivered. Robert MACINYTRE beat Jarle Volden by 2 holes, Liam JOHNSTON halved with Markus Braadlie, Craig HOWIE turned over Kristoffer Reitan by 2 holes and Conor SYME confirmed the unbeaten series with a 1 hole victory over Viktor Hovland. Scotland will play France, the conquerors of Ireland, tomorrow in a match to determine 4th and 5th places.
IRELAND lost to France 3-2. Colm CAMPBELL and Robin DAWSON won the Foursomes match but only Conor O’ROURKE could gain a point in the Singles series; he beat Pierre Mazier by 1 hole. Ireland will play Norway tomorrow to see who finishes 7th and 8th.
WALES were relegated to Division 2 after a disappointing 3-2 defeat to Belgium today. David BOOTE had to work hard for his 2 holes win over Cedric Van Wassenhove after a shaky start but only Tim HARRY could join him; Tim beat Alan De Bont 4&3. There was a surprising 7&5 loss for Jack DAVIDSON in the final game to Adrien Dumont De Chassart. Wales will hope to beat Switzerland tomorrow to avoid leaving Austria with the wooden spoon.
ENGLAND beat France 4-3 in their Flight A Quarter Final. Not for the first time in recent years it was Alfie PLANT who saved the day for the stroke play medalists. Having combined well with Harry ELLIS in the morning Foursomes for a 4&3 win he won the all-important deciding Singles by 1 hole. There were also good Singles wins for Scott GREGORY (3&2) and Matthew JORDAN (5&4) in the afternoon.
SCOTLAND, the defending champions, and IRELAND both lost their Quarter Finals and with them any hope of a medal.
Scotland left themselves too much to do against Sweden after losing both morning Foursomes. Robert MACINTYRE (4&3), Liam JOHNSTON (4&2) and Connor SYME (4&2) salvaged some pride in the afternoon Singles but ultimately couldn’t prevent a 4-3 defeat.
Ireland lost 4.5-2.5 to Italy. Stuart GREHAN and Paul MCBRIDE earned a useful point in the first Foursomes but only Conor O’ROURKE could win his Singles in the afternoon. Italy will now play England in the Semi-Finals.
WALES lost their Flight B match 3-2 against home nation Austria. Having lost the morning Foursomes David BOOTE (6&5) and Evan GRIFFITH (5&4) gave the Principality hope enjoying good Singles wins. However, it proved to be in vain as Jack DAVIDSON (1 hole) and Owen EDWARDS (19th) both came out on the wrong side of tight matches. Wales now need to guard against relegation in their remaining consolation fixtures.
The first stage of the European Men’s Amateur Team Championship came to a close at the Diamond Country Club in Austria today.
WALES (+28) finished 10th and will therefore play in the Flight B match play stage. They must avoid finishing 14th or lower to stay in Division 1.
The Flight A match play consists of two morning foursomes games followed by 5 singles whilst the shorter Flight B matches have one foursomes and four singles. Teams continue to play each other over the next three days to determine the exact finishing positions.
Great Britain & Ireland’s leading contributors in the stroke play event were Paul MCBRIDE (IRE), Matthew JORDAN (ENG) and Alfie PLANT (ENG) who all finished tied 2nd on -3.
Harry ELLIS (ENG) shot the best score of the qualifier; a bogey free 65 (-7) in round 2 which included an eagle and 5 birdies. This helped the 2017 Amateur Champion to a tied 8th individual result on -2.
Connor SYME (-2) also tied 8th and was Scotland’s best individual. Craig HOWIE (+2) was Scotland’s next best performer in tied 20th,
Jack DAVIDSON (Ev / tied 12th) just pipped David BOOTE (+1 / tied 16th) to the top Welsh individual title. Both will be hoping for strong match play performances over the next few days as they press their cases for inclusion in our Walker Cup team.
The 34th European Men’s Amateur Team Championship will be played between Tuesday 11th and Saturday 15th July 2017 at Diamond Country Club, Atzenbrugg, in Austria.
Amateur teams from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales will all be competing this week.
Scotland are the double defending champions having won at Halmstad Golf Club, Sweden in 2015 and Chantilly, France last year.
The Championship is run by the European Golf Association, this year in association with the Austrian Golf Association.
The leading 13 teams from last year’s Division 1 Championship are joined by the host nation (if not otherwise qualified) and 2 or 3 promoted teams from the 2016 Division 2 Championship. Wales were one of the promoted teams last year.
Click here to view tomorrow’s – European Men’s Amateur Team Championship Round 1 Stroke Play Draw.
Additionally the teams finishing 14th to 16th in the stroke play stage will be relegated to the Division 2 Championship for 2018.
The teams competing in the 2017 Championship are Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland and Wales.
Czech Republic, Iceland and Wales were all promoted to the Division 1 Championship this year.
ENGLAND – Harry ELLIS, Scott GREGORY, Josh HILLEARD, Matthew JORDAN, Gian-Marco PETROZZI, and Alfie PLANT.
IRELAND – Colm CAMPBELL, Robin DAWSON, John Ross GALBRIATH, Stuart GREHAN, Paul MCBRIDE and Conor O’ROURKE.
SCOTLAND – Craig HOWIE, Liam JOHNSTON, Ryan LUMSDEN, Robert MACINTYRE, Jamie STEWART and Connor SYME.
WALES – David BOOTE, Ben CHAMBERLAIN, Jack DAVIDSON, Owen EDWARDS, Evan GRIFFITH and Tim HARRY.
In this Walker Cup year it will be interesting to see which players qualify well, who is paired together in the foursomes and finally how some of the singles pan out in the match play stage.
Diamond Country Club
The Diamond Country Club is generally accepted as being Austria’s best golf course.
It has hosted the Lyoness Open on the European Tour for many years and has recently extended this agreement until 2020.
It hosted the European Boys’ Team Championship last year.
The Diamond Country Club’s 18-hole championship course was created by Jeremy Pern. It is a parkland layout with numerous water hazards. It plays to 7,458 yards and a standard par of 72.
Diamond Country Club (Photo: golfinfo.at)
As at Monday 10th July, 19.00pm the weather forecast generally looks good: –
Tue 11th July – Showers. Wind 10mph W. Temp. Max. 28°C / Min 21°C.
Wed 12th July – Sunny. Wind 6mph S. Temp. Max. 30°C / Min 20°C.
Thur 13th July – Sunny. Wind 14mph NW. Temp. Max. 24°C / Min 15°C.
Fri 14th July – Cloudy. Wind 7mph E. Temp. Max. 24°C / Min 17°C.
Sat 15th July – Cloudy. Wind 11mph N. Temp. Max. 23°C / Min 16°C.
2016 European Men’s Amateur Team Championship – Division 1
Scotland retained the Team Championship title at Golf de Chantilly in France with a 5-2 victory over Sweden in the final.
Scotland qualified 2nd on count back behind France with a 713 (+3) aggregate team score.
Prior to beating Sweden, Scotland despatched Spain 5.5-1.5 in their match play quarter final and Italy 5-2 in the semi finals.
The Victorious 2016 Scottish Team At Chantilly (Photo: European Golf Association)
Ireland, who qualified in 6th place on 720 (+10), lost their Flight A quarter final match 4.5-2.5 to Italy. They eventually finished 6th after beating Spain (3.5-1.5) but losing to France (4-1) in the consolation matches.
England had a disappointing tournament, initially qualifying in 10th place on 728 (+18). They then lost 3-2 to Switzerland in the Flight B match play before regaining some pride by beating Portugal (4.5-0.5) and Netherlands (3.5-1.5) to retain their Division 1 status with a 13th place finish.
Wales were promoted in the Division 2 competition led by a near perfect display by David BOOTE.
Here is my summary of the 2016 Individual performances: –
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European Men’s Amateur Team Championship – 2016 Preview & Results
Scotland retained their European Men’s Amateur Team Championship with an impressive 5-2 victory over Sweden in today’s final at Golf de Chantilly in France.
A foursomes win by Connor SYME and Craig HOWIE on the 21st hole gave the Scot’s momentum going into the singles. Scotland lost the other foursomes 3&2 to be 1-1 at lunch. Syme (4&3), Robert MACINTYRE (1 hole) and Grant FORREST (5&4) all won their singles and with Craig HOWIE and Sandy SCOTT halving their games the title was ultimately comfortably secured.
Ireland lost to France 4-1 in Flight A to end up finishing 6th. England beat Netherlands 3.5-1.5 in Flight B to secure their Division 1 status but nevertheless a 13th place finish was disappointing for them.
In the Divison 2 Championship final Wales lost to Iceland 4-3. Unfortunately Joshua DAVIES, who had qualified well, was bitten while caddying yesterday and was unable to compete today. Nevertheless promotion had already been secured and the Welsh team can leave Luxembourg with their heads held high. David BOOTE starred for Wales – he was medalist in the stroke play qualifier and won all four of his foursomes and singles match play games – a rare achievement.
Here are the match play results for all of the European Amateur Team Championship events as well as my Men’s GB&I Player Performance Analysis: –
Click the ‘Score’ box in the centre of each match to see the draw and live scores.
Men’s Division 1
– Flight A Match Play Results IRE, SCO
– Flight B Match Play Results ENG
– Flight A Match Play Results WAL
Golf Bible’s GB&I Player Performance Analysis
– Flight A Match Play Results ENG
– Flight B Match Play Results IRE, SCO
– Flight C Match Play Results WAL
England – 2016 European Ladies’ Team Champions (Photo: Zoe Allen)
– Flight A Match Play Results SCO
– Flight B Match Play Results ENG, WAL
Finally, here’s a table that summarises the team results of each country: –
Scotland will play Sweden in the final of the European Men’s Amateur Team Championship tomorrow. Scotland beat Denmark 5-2 in today’s Flight A semi-final.
Ireland beat Spain 3.5-1.5 in their Flight A match.
England beat Portugal 4.5-0.5 in their consolation match in Flight B. Another win will be required tomorrow to confirm their Division 1 status for 2017.
Wales won their first Division 2 Flight A match play game against Czech Republic thus securing promotion back to Division 1 in 2017. They will play Iceland in tomorrow’s Division 2 final.
Here is my updated GB&I Player Analysis / Ranking: –
Scotland continue to make a spirited defence of their European Men’s Amateur team title.
Today they beat Spain 5.5-1.5 in their match play quarter final. Grant FORREST and Robert MACINTYRE won their morning foursomes before going on to both win singles later in the day. Scotland were unbeaten in the match, winning the other foursomes and halving the three other singles games.
Ireland lost their quarter final 4.5-2.5 to Italy. With two tight foursomes games shared 1-1 the Irish came unstuck in the singles where only Jack HUME could secure a win.
England‘s disappointing tournament continued with a surprise 3-2 defeat to Switzerland in Flight B. Alfie PLANT and Adam CHAPMAN salvaged some pride by winning the last two singles games. England now have to beat either Portugal tomorrow, and if they don’t the Netherlands or Finland on Saturday to avoid relegation to Division 2.
Here’s a summary of the GB&I Division 1 Men’s Euro performances to date: –
In Division 2 Wales qualified second behind Iceland and will go into the match play stage confident of promotion. David BOOTE (-9) was the individual medalist in the stroke play qualifying.
At the completion of the Men’s Stroke Play Qualifier Scotland (+3) finished 2nd, Ireland (+10) 6th and England (+18) 10th.
Scotland and Ireland are therefore still in the medal shake up, playing in the First Flight Match Play event. England will have to make do with the Second Flight having failed to finish in the top 8.
Here are the live stroke play scoring links for all of this week’s European Team Championships: –
Men’s Division 1 – Stroke Play Qualifier Scores
Ladies’ – Stroke Play Qualifier Scores
Boys’ – Stroke Play Qualifier Scores
Girls’ – Stroke Play Qualifier Scores
The 33rd European Men’s Amateur Team Championship will be played between Tuesday 5th and Saturday 9th July 2016 at Golf de Chantilly in Northern France.
Amateur teams from England, Ireland and Scotland will be competing this week.
Scotland are the defending champions having won the 2015 event at Halmstad Golf Club in Sweden. England finished 4th and Ireland 5th last year. Wales were 14th and relegated to Division 2 and therefore will be playing in a different event this week.
Scotland – 2015 Champions (Photo: Kenny Smith)
16 National teams of 6 players contest the Men’s Championship.
The Championship is run by the European Golf Association who charge an entrance fee of €1,500 per team.
The top 13 teams from last year’s Division 1 Championship are joined by 3 promoted teams from the 2015 Division 2 Championship.
Two rounds of stroke play qualifying are completed on the first two days, with the best five scores from each team counting.
These results determine a seeded match play draw. Additionally the teams finishing 14th to 16th in the stroke play stage will be relegated to the Division 2 Championship for 2017.
The top 8 qualifying teams will play in a first flight with the others competing in a second flight. The leading teams play 2 foursomes and 5 singles whilst those in the lower draw play 1 foursome and 4 singles. A win earns 1 point and a draw half a point in all of the matches.
The teams competing in the 2016 Championship are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
Austria, Norway and Portugal were all promoted to Division 1 last year.
ENGLAND – Jamie BOWER, Adam CHAPMAN, Scott GREGORY, Bradley MOORE, Marco PENGE and Alfie PLANT.
IRELAND – Colm CAMPBELL, Alex GLEESON, Stuart GREHAN, Jack HUME, Paul MCBRIDE and Conor O’ROURKE.
SCOTLAND – Grant FORREST, Craig HOWIE, Robert MACINTYRE*, Jamie SAVAGE, Sandy SCOTT and Connor SYME (*replaced Ewen FERGUSON who withdrew with a hand injury last week).
This will be the final event before The R&A and Captain Craig Watson select the Great Britain & Ireland team for this month’s St. Andrews Trophy match against Europe. It is therefore the perfect time for individuals to confirm their place and for national pairings to come to the fore.
Golf de Chantilly
Established in 1908 and designed by Tom Simpson Chantilly is one of the most famous and best golf courses in Europe.
Chantilly has staged many Championships in it’s time, including the French Open 10 times. Most recently it staged the French Men’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship in May. This was won by Spain’s Ivan CANTERO, who beat England’s Marco PENGE in a play-off.
Chantilly has 2 courses the Vineuil and the Longères. This Championship is being played on the Vineuil, a par 71 which plays over 6,444 metres.
The Vineuil course record is held by Peter MCEVOY. He shot 63 in the second round of the 1983 European Men’s Amateur Championship, 5-shots better than anyone else that day, on his way to achieving individual medalist honours in the stroke play stage.
As at Sunday 3rd July, 10.00am the weather forecast for Chantilly looks very good: –
Tue 5th July – Cloudy. Wind 12 mph W. Temp. Max. 21°C / Min 11°C.
Wed 6th July – Sunny. Wind 4 mph NW. Temp. Max. 22°C / Min 12°C.
Thur 7th July – Sunny. Wind 5 mph E. Temp. Max. 25°C / Min 14°C.
Fri 8th July – Sunny. Wind 8 mph SW. Temp. Max. 24°C / Min 16°C.
Sat 9th July – Sunny. Wind 12 mph W. Temp. Max. 26°C / Min 16°C.
To date England have won 11 times, Scotland 7, Ireland 6, Spain 3, Sweden 2, Wales 1, Italy 1 and France 1.
Other 2016 European Championship Links
A number of other European team championships are being played this week. Click on the following links to learn more about them: –
Men’s Div 2 – 6-9 July 2016 at Kikuoka CC, Luxembourg
Ladies’ – 5-9 July 2016 at Oddur GC, Iceland
Boys’ – 5-9 July 2016 at Diamond CC, Austria
Girls’ – 5-9 July 2016 at Oslo GC, Norway
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Kathie Hill presents a "buffet" of her best non-seasonal songs in The Best of Kathie Hill's All-Year-Long Songs. These 14 songs include a tempting variety of styles, difficulty levels and themes that makes this collection perfect for worship leading, almost any children's activity, and for sharing the excitement of your kid's choir program "between" musicals. Kids will enjoy favorites like "The Perfect Ten," "Input Output" and "The Sign of Christ." Directors will sink their teeth into the blend of contemporary songs, hymn arrangements and worship choruses, while teachers will devour the free downloadable teaching activities for each song. And just as a good smorgasbord ends with dessert, The Best of Kathie Hill's All-Year-Long Songs concludes with three optional scripts which combine songs from the collection to create "sweet" mini-musicals on God's faithfulness, the character and names of Jesus, and the life changing power of Christ. Like The Best of Kathie Hill's Christmas, The Best of Kathie Hill's All-Year-Long Songs is a must for your music library.
Publisher: Word Music
Composer/Author: Kathie Hill
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Catalog Number: 080689656729
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Russian police detain at least 94 at Moscow journalist protest Russian police detained at least 94 people on Wednesday, including opposition politician Alexei Navalny, at a protest in Moscow calling for punishmen...
Report: Deputy shot by police feared them more than suspect LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky deputy shot and paralyzed by police during an arrest says he was more concerned about getting shot by the inexperie...
Virginia Beach shooting: Hear how police responded Excerpts from Virginia Beach police radio traffic show how authorities worked together to stop the gunman and rescue survivors. Clips cut for time. ...
Russian journalist in Moscow police custody sent to hospital MOSCOW (AP) — A prominent investigative journalist who was detained on drug-dealing charges in Russia is being taken to the hospital after complainin...
New York Police Officer Who Fought For 9/11 First Responders Dies At 53 Earlier this month, retired New York police detective Luis Alvarez delivered a heartbreaking plea to Congress to extend the September 11th Victim Com...
Police: Award-Winning Band Director Had Sex With Student HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky police say an award-winning high school band director gave an underage female student marijuana and engaged in sexu...
Kidnapped Canadian women rescued by police in Ghana Two Canadian women who were abducted one week ago by gunmen outside a popular nightspot in Ghana have been rescued, the country's minister of informa...
Hong Kong protesters end blockade of police headquarters Protesters in Hong Kong have dispersed after the overnight siege of police headquarters, disappointed that their demands for the territory’s leader t...
Watch: Llama evades police capture in Alberta Police in Alberta said they are trying to find the owner of an apparent escaped llama that gave officers the slip and remains on the loose in the are...
German police confiscate 4,200 liters of beer from neo-Nazis A court has instituted an alcohol ban at a neo-Nazi event taking place in Ostritz, a town in Saxony. A counterprotest has also been barred from demon...
London Bus Attack on Gay Women Leads Police to Arrest 4 The Metropolitan Police of London said four teenagers were arrested after two women reported being assaulted, harassed and robbed on a bus by men who...
Police called to disturbance at UK PM candidate Johnson's home British police were called on Friday to investigate concerns for the welfare of a woman after a neighbor of Boris Johnson, the favorite to be the nex...
Police identify second suspect in David Ortiz shooting The second suspect arrested in the shooting of former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz has been identified in new court documents as Oliver Moisés Mirabal...
German police confiscate 4,200 liters of beer from Nazis A court has instituted an alcohol ban at a neo-Nazi event taking place in Ostritz, a town in Saxony. A counter protest has also been barred from demo...
Man dies after setting himself on fire near White House, police say United States Park Police identified the man as Arnav Gupta, 33, of Bethesda, Maryland, who died Wednesday from his injuries. ...
International police operation captures cocaine in Atlantic LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portuguese police say they have intercepted a Brazilian trawler in the Atlantic Ocean and found on board cocaine with a stree...
Hong Kong police clash with pro-democracy protesters Activists have accused the police of using "excessive force" against protesters in Hong Kong. But the government has defended the violent escalation,...
Hong Kong police arrest six at Kowloon protest Police arrested six people during a demonstration in one of Hong Kong's most popular tourist areas on Sunday, where thousands of protesters sought to...
Police Respond to Altercation Between Boris Johnson and His Girlfriend A neighbor called the police when Johnson, who is favored to become Britain’s next prime minister, was heard shouting at his girlfriend, a newspaper ...
Los Angeles police officer treated for typhoid fever LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles police officer is being treated for typhoid fever and another employee has typhus-like symptoms. The LAPD reported the il...
The brazen robbery that spurred police to load up on guns Rolf Parkes, 27, was an officer with the Sheriff’s Office in Riverside, Calif., when, on May 9, 1980, a fellow officer transmitted an 1199 — the code...
Police Arrest Alleged “Armed and Horny” Intruder ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (WAVE 3) – Police in Hardin County arrested a man who they say entered a woman’s apartment and told her he was “...
Lexington Police Search For Hotel Robbery Suspect LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18)– Police are searching for a suspect who they say robbed the front desk of a Lexington hotel. It happened around 1 a.m. ...
Man behind David Ortiz shooting arrested: Dominican police Víctor Hugo Gómez is accused of ordering the killing of his cousin, Sixto David Fernández. Authorities say hit men confused Ortiz with Fernández duri...
Queens police officers rescue kitten from car grill Officers from Far Rockaway’s 101st Precinct had their hands full early Saturday with a particularly feisty fella who squirmed his way into a place he...
Egypt officials say police kill 8 militants in Sinai Egypt says its security forces have killed eight militants in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, two days after a deadly attack killed several pol...
Facial recognition in China 'spot on' - Met Police Federation Facial recognition in China is "absolutely correct" and "spot on", the head of the Metropolitan Police Federation has said, calling for it to be depl...
Police: 2 ex-cops among 4 rebels killed in Kashmir fighting Police say four militants have been killed in a gunbattle with government forces in Indian-controlled Kashmir, including two counterinsurgency police...
Russian police detain more than 200 at protest over journalist’s arrest MOSCOW — Russian police said they had detained more than 200 people on Wednesday, including opposition politician Alexei Navalny, at a protest in Mos...
Swiss police use tear gas on Cameroon opposition protesters BERLIN (AP) — Swiss police say officers used tear gas to disperse Cameroon opposition protesters trying to reach a Geneva hotel where the Central Afr...
Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesters Hong Kong police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to clear protesters demonstrating against China’s encroachment on the city’s legal autonomy, signa...
Police: Body of missing student found in canyon Utah police say the body of a slain college student has been recovered in a canyon 85 miles north of Salt Lake City. (July 5) ...
Portugal police monitoring hooligans during Nations League PORTO, Portugal (AP) — Authorities say they are monitoring hooligans who are in Portugal for the UEFA Nations League. Portuguese officials say some f...
Police stop far-right band performances in eastern Germany The rock bands had violated the rules set for the concert, according to police in the German state of Thuringia. About 400 counter-demonstrators prot...
Munich changes topless bathing regulations after police reprimand Munich police scolded female sunbathers for exposing their breasts along the Isar River. The incident prompted a backlash and greater regulatory clar...
Three al Shabaab fighters killed in Kenya after attack on police Security forces in Kenya killed three suspected militants from Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab after they attacked a police outpost in Garissa co...
Police were told deal was in works with Jussie Smollett CHICAGO (AP) — New documents on the Jussie Smollett case show that prosecutors told Chicago police detectives that a possible deal with the “Em...
Russia Police Detain More Than 400 At Moscow Journalist Protest Russian police detained more than 400 people, including opposition politician Alexei Navalny, at a protest in Moscow on Wednesday calling for punishm...
Police: Texas officers kill man who fired while running off AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — Police say Amarillo officers shot and killed a 22-year-old man suspected of earlier shootings after he opened fire on them. A ...
Starbucks apologizes to police for encounter in Arizona shop TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Starbucks is apologizing after an employee reportedly asked six police officers to leave or change their location in one of the c...
Police say man discussed detonating explosives in Times Square A man has been arrested after he discussed purchasing explosives with the intention of detonating them in New York's Times Square, a law enforcement ...
Why did ex-Disney Mouseketeer Dennis Day die? If police know, they aren't saying The ex-Disney Mouseketeer who enchanted as a child is dead in Oregon under still-mysterious circumstances. Why did it take 11 months to learn his fat...
Ethiopian Israeli mothers protest police violence Dozens of mothers are marching through Tel Aviv in a show of rising anger over a police officer’s fatal shooting of an Ethiopian Israeli teenager, wh...
The Latest: Police: Hawaii crash victims were 9 men, 2 women HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on a plane crash in Hawaii that killed 11 sky divers (all times local): 9:25 a.m. Some details are starting to be released...
Kareem Hunt questioned by police following ‘argument’ at Cleveland bar Cellphone video emerged Monday showing suspended running back Kareem Hunt — now a Cleveland Brown after losing his job with the Chiefs last sea...
APNewsBreak: Video shows police vehicles crashing into car CHICAGO (AP) — Surveillance video obtained exclusively by The Associated Press shows two fast-moving Chicago police vehicles with their emergency lig...
Police convicted after girl, 8, strangled and battered to death Six men, including four police officials, have been found guilty over the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in Indian-controlled Kashm...
| China warns its citizens of police harassment, crime in US China issued a pair of travel alerts to its citizens going to the United States, warning them of police harassment and crime as tensions soar between...
Police Investigate After Puppy Found Dead In Bag, 2 Others Abandoned McCRACKEN COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — Police in far western Kentucky were investigating after one puppy was found dead in a bag and two others were ...
Israelis of Ethiopian descent protest over police shooting Thousands of Israelis of Ethiopian descent and their supporters staged sit-down protests at major road junctions throughout the country on Tuesday af...
Australian police search for missing Belgian backpacker Australian police are searching for an 18-year-old Belgian backpacker who has been missing in a coastal town for 11 days, saying they are seriously c...
The Story Behind the Police Commissioner’s Handwritten Stonewall Apology The police had long refused to apologize for the violent 1969 raid that galvanized the modern gay rights movement. Commissioner James O’Neill describ...
Rio police wants Neymar testimony linked to rape accusation Rio de Janeiro's cybercrime police division wants Neymar to testify about a video he published with messages and images allegedly exchanged with the ...
Australia PM to meet national broadcaster after police raids Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he will meet with executives from the national broadcaster on Tuesday as he sought to calm tensions fol...
Police thwarted by electronic doors during Virginia shooting VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Police responding to the deadly mass shooting at a Virginia Beach municipal building last week were unable to confront the...
Off-duty traffic cop sexually assaulted on L Train: police A creep sexually assaulted an off-duty traffic cop on an L train — while she was headed to her daughter’s graduation, police said Thursda...
Chinese travellers warned of crime and police harassment in US China issues travel alert to its citizens, citing frequent ‘shootings and robberies’ in USChina has issued two travel alerts to its citizens going to...
David Ortiz gets police escort to Massachusetts hospital David Ortiz aka “Big Papi” was transferred from his native Dominican Republic to a Massachusetts hospital late Monday. The ex-Boston Red ...
This Is What Happened After 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?'s Ashley Called the Police on Jay Cops, secret videos and dramatic FaceTime calls filled the Sunday, June 30 episode of 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? on TLC. After last week's c...
Hong Kong police pepper spray protesters Police in Hong Kong use pepper spray and batons against anti-government protesters who had seized highways early Monday. ...
Man collapses, dies during Hell’s Kitchen police chase A man in the midst of a “medical episode” collapsed and died after running from police early Tuesday in Hell’s Kitchen, cops and so...
Show Low police arrest man connected to double shooting The Show Low Police Department issued a brief statement late Tuesday morning announcing that John Russell Thomas was in custody. No additional inform...
Rapper Kollegah's shisha bar raided by Dusseldorf police A shisha bar owned by German rapper Kollegah has been raided by police one day after it opened. Police said the bar was found to be in violation of t...
Hong Kong protesters condemned after being rushed by police Police in Hong Kong have gained back control of a government building by firing tear gas and charging at demonstrators after protests turned violent....
Police body-cam maker Axon says no to facial recognition, for now Facial recognition is a controversial enough topic without bringing in everyday policing and the body cameras many (but not enough) officers wear the...
Police use tear gas to quell Hong Kong protest Police carrying riot shields and firing tear gas moved in shortly after midnight to clear protesters, who hours earlier, swarmed into the legislature...
Hong Kong police retake parliament from protesters Hong Kong police have regained control of the city's parliament after hundreds of protesters ransacked the building. The city's embattled leader, Car...
Police look to Facebook, bank records in quadruple slaying Police are turning to Facebook and bank records to try to identify a motive for why four people were killed at a North Dakota business two months ago...
Police rescue man and puppy trapped in garbage truck PROVO, Utah (AP) — A puppy and its 43-year-old owner are recovering after getting trapped in a garbage truck. Provo Police Sgt. Nisha King said Tuesd...
ABC headquarters in Sydney raided by Australian federal police Broadcaster’s managing director says raid over 2017’s The Afghan Files series ‘raises legitimate concerns over freedom of the press’The Australian fe...
Lexington Police Seek Breakthrough In Double Homicide LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Lexington police are asking for help finding the person or people responsible for a double homicide two months ago. P...
Police say too much chlorine sickens dozens at Utah pool PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (AP) — Police say a “freak accident” at a northern Utah pool sickened dozens with chlorine gas Tuesday. About 50 peo...
Police: 4 found dead in waterway near US-Mexico border Four men were found dead Monday in an irrigation canal that diverts water from the Rio Grande to farmers in southern New Mexico and west Texas, accor...
Police: Teacher, son die in apparent murder-suicide at home Police say the deaths of a school teacher and his son are being investigated as an apparent murder-suicide after the pair were found shot in the burn...
Police rescue man, puppy trapped in garbage truck PROVO, Utah — A puppy and its 43-year-old owner are recovering after getting trapped in a garbage truck. Provo Police Sgt. Nisha King said Tuesday of...
The Latest: Police: Dead suspect had fired handgun at them The Latest on the police shooting of a Fort Worth aggravated assault suspect and its aftermath (all times local): 7:15 p.m. Authorities in Fort Worth...
Facebook to help French police crack down on hate speech Facebook is agreeing to help French police identify hate speech suspects, in what the French government is celebrating as a global first. ...
Texas police: Similarities among attacks of transgender women Dallas police are investigating whether there is a connection between the deaths of two transgender women and an assault on a third in the past seven...
The Latest: San Francisco parade halted by protest of police NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on parades and marches throughout the country celebrating Pride (all times local): 6:55 p.m. The San Francisco parade was ...
Police face calls to end use of facial recognition software Analysts find system often wrongly identifies people and could breach human rights lawPolice are facing calls to halt the use of facial recognition s...
Mexico migrant shelter accuses police of intimidation A Mexican migrant shelter is raising concern over what it said was an unauthorized attempt by Mexico's National Guard to enter the facility and quest...
Hong Kong Police Vow Action Over Parliament Storming Hong Kong authorities vowed Wednesday to hunt down the protesters who stormed parliament in an unprecedented challenge to the Beijing-backed governme...
Lexington police make arrest in violent robbery LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Lexington police have made and arrest in a robbery case from two weeks ago, officials said. Authorities said 23-year-...
Pakistan’s police arrest father for killing transgender son PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police have arrested a man for murdering his own transgender son, in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Officer ...
Jerusalem pride draws thousands of gay revelers and police Thousands of people are marching through the streets of Jerusalem in the city's annual gay pride parade, a festival that exposes deep divisions betwe...
Police seek man in violent rape in Jamaica, Queens Police Saturday released the name and photo of a man they say raped and brutally attacked his female acquaintance inside his Queens home this week. T...
Police: Ex-Oklahoma lawmaker died of self-inflicted gunshot NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Investigators say a former Oklahoma state senator who was found dead inside his home apparently died from a self-inflicted gunsh...
Hong Kong Police arrest 12 for July 1 protest Hong Kong police said Wednesday they have arrested 12 people in connection to Monday's protest when the Legislative Council was broken into and vanda...
Police seek help after Marshall County man found dead GILBERTSVILLE, Ky. (LEX 18) — Kentucky State Police are seeking the public’s help after a Marshall County man was found dead Saturday in ...
Northern Ireland police discover bomb under officer's car Police in Northern Ireland discovered a bomb under a police officer's car in Belfast on Saturday that they said was probably planted by militant nati...
California man jumps into river to elude homeowner, police SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Officials say a California man jumped into a river to elude a homeowner and police following a report of a burglary. The Sa...
Valedictorian says her mic was cut when she spoke the names of black victims of police The cut-off was cited as a "technical difficulty," alleges Rooha Haghar. Her principal is visible in the video making a gesture. &...
Buttigieg wants outside investigations of South Bend police shooting Democratic presidential contender addresses town hall meetingWhite officer shot black man dead earlier this monthThe Democratic presidential candidat...
Mexican police protest absorption into new National Guard Under Mexico's new National Guard, federal police officers fear they will lose pay and seniority benefits. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador crea...
Chicago police investigating ‘unauthorized’ video release CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police are investigating after video was posted online showing the shooting death of a woman who was shielding her toddler fro...
Complaint filed of police violence against Russian reporter A lawyer for a prominent Russian journalist detained on charges of drug dealing has filed a complaint with the country's top investigative body, sayi...
Police detain hundreds as Kazakhstan votes for new president The presence of long-time leader Nursultan Nazarbayev looms large over elections in Kazakhstan, as his handpicked successor admitted Nazarbayev still...
16 Shots: behind a shocking film about an unlawful police shooting The story of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald is told in a devastating new documentary from the Oscar-nominated director Rick Rowley, who speaks about its...
Police: 2 Texas children accidentally shot by cousin, 10 FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Police and family members say two children in Texas were accidentally shot by their 10-year-old cousin, who had tried to tak...
Video shows man killed after struggle with N Carolina police DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Body-camera video shows police in North Carolina struggling to handcuff a black man before eventually shooting and killing him. T...
North Macedonia police detain 50 migrants within days SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Police in North Macedonia say they apprehended 50 Europe-bound migrants who allegedly entered the country from Greece....
Police detail man’s threat behind panic at DC LGBTQ parade WASHINGTON (AP) — A man threatened another person with a BB gun during an LGBTQ pride parade in the nation’s capital and set off a panic that s...
Palestinians: Israeli forces hit rally against police abuse JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians claim Israeli forces attacked them after a peaceful rally against police brutality in east Jerusalem. An eyewitness, 49...
Three-meter python loose in Cambridge, England, police say A three-meter reticulated python is loose in the English university city of Cambridge, police said, after they received reports of sightings early at...
Australian police charge suspect after four killed in Darwin Australian police charged a 45-year-old man with four counts of murder on Thursday after a gunman killed four people in the northern city of Darwin t...
Texas police officer charged with murdering motorist A Texas police officer turned himself in to authorities after being charged with murder for shooting and killing a driver of a suspected stolen vehic...
Chicago police: 52 shot, 10 fatally in weekend violence CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police say 52 people were shot, 10 of them fatally, in gun violence over the weekend. Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie John...
Protesters shot, killed as Sudan police try to disperse sit-in Security forces have used live rounds in an operation to disperse peaceful protesters in Khartoum. Demonstrators are demanding civilian rule, after a...
Democrats demand action on Republican who threatened police SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Democratic senators at the Oregon statehouse are delaying the start of the last day of legislative session once again throwing the...
Serbia police detain 1 migrant in stabbing death of another BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police have detained a 17-year-old migrant from Afghanistan suspected of stabbing to death another Afghan national in...
Istanbul police use tear gas to disperse gay pride march Police have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of people at a banned gay pride march in Istanbul. Activists had gathered to promote rights for gay an...
Fire at migrant center in Bosnia injures 29: police Twenty-nine migrants were injured in a fire that broke out early on Saturday at a center in the northwestern Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa, police s...
10 Kenyan police officers killed in blast near Somalia NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan officials say at least 10 police officers are dead after their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device near the So...
Police defend social media deal with fugitive Police in Connecticut say a fugitive has so far failed to honor an agreement to surrender once enough people responded positively to his wanted poste...
Met police launch investigation into leaked Darroch cables Scotland Yard say its counter-terrorism command is leading the investigationPolice have opened an investigation into the alleged leaking of diplomati...
Police in Nebraska investigate attack as possible hate crime LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Police in Lincoln, Nebraska, are investigating an assault on a Muslim woman as a possible hate crime. Police tell the Lincoln Jo...
Bail denied for former police officer charged in killing OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Bail has been denied for a former Mississippi police officer charged in the killing of a woman with whom he was romantically inv...
Iranian police arrest 30 people during yoga class Authorities in Iran arrested 30 people as they took part in a private yoga class in Gorgan, a city in the north of the country, according to an offic...
Alaska police dashcam films uncertain beaver Why didn't the beaver cross the road? We will probably never know, but it was caught on camera recently by police in Anchorage, Alaska. (May 24)...
Dozens of Venezuelan prisoners killed in clashes with police Authorities say incident in Portuguesa state was a failed escape attempt, but activists call it a massacreTwenty-nine detainees were killed and 19 po...
Platini: "It hurts," soccer star says of police questioning After a day of police questioning centering on his former role as a top decision-maker in soccer, Michel Platini was released from custody without ch...
Deadly police car chase sparks anger in Argentina Protesters rallied against police brutality in Buenos Aires after three teenagers and one adult died during a police car chase. Police officers had a...
These Ontario police officers are using ayahuasca to treat their PTSD Even though ayahuasca is illegal in Canada, police officers are seeking out the substance as a last resort to treat their post-traumatic stress disor...
Driver intentionally hit, killed pregnant mom and toddler, police say Police in Jefferson City, Tennessee, said the driver, William David Phillips, 33, killed the victims at random. ...
Prosecutor to decide if police who shot kids can be charged HUGO, Oklahoma (AP) — A prosecutor is reviewing an investigative report to determine if two police officers who shot into a truck injuring three chil...
Dog jumps from stolen campervan during police chase – video Woman in stolen campervan leads Los Angeles police on chase in which she smashes into cars and curbs before crashing to a stop against a palm tree wi...
Police ID pedestrian struck, killed near Oracle, Ft. Lowell TUCSON – Police identified the victim from Thursday’s fatal pedestrian collision. According to Tucson Police Department, Jerry Penalver, 45, was stru...
46 Police Dogs, Their Handlers Transferred In Madhya Pradesh The Congress government in Madhya Pradesh has ordered the transfer of 46 police dogs and their handlers. In an order issued on Friday by the commanda...
Police: Pregnant mother, son killed in vehicular rampage JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — Police arrested a driver accused of intentionally running over pedestrians in Tennessee, killing a pregnant mother and h...
Cop Who Shot Unarmed Man Rehired By Police So He Can Collect Pension An Arizona police officer who was fired and charged with murder for killing an unarmed man in a hotel hallway was rehired temporarily so he could col...
Police searching for man in connection to fatal hit-and-run that left two dead TUCSON – The Tucson Police Department have identified the suspect in a hit-and-run that killed two people. Authorities said 32-year-old Justin ...
$10M claim says Phoenix police violated family's rights A $10 million legal claim was filed against the city of Phoenix that says police officers committed civil rights violations by pointing guns and prof...
Utah will investigate case of police drawing gun on child An attorney for a Utah police department where a white officer drew his gun on a 10-year-old black child says Utah law enforcement will investigate t...
Lexington Police Investigating Rash Of Vandalism In Meadowthorpe LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) – Lexington police have released a surveillance video of a vehicle they believe may be behind a rash of property damag...
French police hunt for man who left bomb in Lyon Police hunted on Saturday for a man who left a bomb in a pedestrian shopping street in the central French city of Lyon on Friday that wounded 13 peop...
Police: Driver Dragged Kentucky Officer Through Kroger Lot Photo of Thursday’s scene. Courtesy: WAVE 3 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP/WAVE 3) — A man is accused of trapping a Kentucky trooper’s arm in his ...
Police say black man killed in Memphis was sought in shooting A young black man slain by federal agents as they tried to arrest him in Memphis, touching off violent protests, was wanted in the shooting of a man ...
German court fines 7 men who claimed to be “Sharia police” BERLIN (AP) — A German court has found seven men who formed a self-styled “Sharia police” guilty of violating rules on wearing uniforms. ...
2 off-duty police officers in Wisconsin are killed within 24 hours Two off-duty Wisconsin police died within 24 hours, one after his car was struck by a driver with a history of drunken driving, and the other as he c...
4 police killed, 9 wounded in Mexico gang attack Four police officers were killed and seven others wounded in gang attacks in western Mexico, according to local officials, and two bystanders were be...
Armed man in custody after ramming police cruiser during chase LIVE LOOK: Pima County Sheriff's Department said the man was last seen armed with a long gun at Ina Road and Featherstone Loop near Picture Rock...
Alleged Andrea Pirlo impersonator investigated by police Former Italy footballer made aware of a fake who used his identity to fleece goodsTurin police are investigating a man who allegedly posed as the Ita...
Thousands in Haiti renew protests, clash with police Thousands of protesters in Haiti demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse have clashed with police as some tried to storm barriers at the...
Serbian troops placed on alert after Kosovo police arrests BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia has ordered its troops to full alert after reports that Kosovo police entered Serb-populated regions of the former Ser...
| Nine civilians killed in Somalia revenge attack: police Nine civilians were executed by a local militia in war-torn Somalia after the killing of a policeman by the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, polic...
French police arrest three over Lyon bomb blast French police have arrested three people, including a 24-year-old computer science student of Algerian nationality, in connection with last week's bo...
Police: SC woman stopped for driving drunk on toy truck WALHALLA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina woman who police say was driving drunk will not be cited with a DUI because her vehicle of choice was a toy tr...
Woman shot by police in Queens, cops say she had a knife Police shot and injured a woman who was armed with a knife in Queens Friday night, law enforcement sources said. The shooting happened just after 10 ...
Big crowds, extra police expected at Blues’ celebration ST. LOUIS (AP) — Organizers of the celebration to honor the Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues expect a massive crowd, and security will be tight. ...
The Latest: Wrong-way crash in Arizona kills 5, police say KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — The Latest on a deadly wrong-way crash in Arizona (all times local): ___ 2:35 p.m. Arizona authorities say a fifth person has d...
Young Afghan General Tries to Reform Police With American Way of War Coming up through elite U.S. and British training, he is a favorite of Western commanders. But his police forces are under siege, and corruption is s...
After video, Phoenix police chief promises change Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams promised change after being booed during a community meeting Tuesday night. The meeting follows the national outcr...
Platini: 'It hurts,' soccer star says of police questioning After a day of police questioning centering on his former role as a top decision-maker in soccer, Michel Platini was released from custody without ch...
Four killed, seven injured in three explosions in Nepali capital: police Four people were killed and seven others injured on Sunday in three separate explosions in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, and police said they suspec...
Albanian opposition supporters scuffle with police before elections Albanian opposition supporters scuffled with police outside vote-counting centres on Wednesday and burned voting equipment at three locations in a di...
Man taken into custody in connection with London double homicide: police Detectives investigating the double homicide of a pregnant woman and her baby arrested a 25-year old male on suspicion of murder, Britain's Metropoli...
German 'Shariah Police' retrial starts in Wuppertal Seven men accused of forming a "Shariah Police" brigade in western Germany have gone on trial. The group allegedly patrolled the streets of Wuppertal...
Australian police 'baffled' by Belgian teen's disappearance An 18-year-old Belgian backpacker has gone missing from the coastal holiday town of Byron Bay in Australia. Police said his disappearance is "out of ...
Japan arrests man for stabbing police officer, taking gun Japanese police on Monday arrested a man on charges of stabbing a police officer and grabbing a loaded handgun in a western city near Osaka, which ho...
Buttigieg returns to South Bend after man killed by police SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Authorities say a man has died after a shooting involving a police officer in South Bend, the Indiana city where Democratic p...
Protesters clash with Indonesian police after election loss Supporters of an unsuccessful presidential candidate clashed with security forces and set fire to a police dormitory in the Indonesian capital after ...
Phoenix police chief apologizes to family over incident PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix’s police chief has publicly apologized to members of a family at whom police officers pointed guns and yelled profanitie...
Protesters, police clash in Indonesian capital after election The protesters tried to force their way into the downtown offices of the election supervisory agency late Tuesday and clashes have continued since th...
Man Who Posted Against Tripura Chief Minister Sent To Police Custody A man who had been arrested for allegedly posting "fake news" on Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb's personal life was Sunday remanded in police custod...
Irate New Jersey mom bites cop outside child’s school: police A New Jersey mom attacked two police officers – and bit one of them three times — in front of her child’s school after she refused to comply wi...
The Latest: Police chief says 6 reported dead in Indonesia Indonesian police say based on reports from hospitals six people have died in rioting in Jakarta a day after the presidential election results were a...
Freelance reporter wants police to return seized property A San Francisco reporter is demanding his property be returned after police raided his home to find the source of a leaked report into the death of t...
Police defend arrest of 12-year-old in western Michigan Police in western Michigan are defending their actions in the arrest of a 12-year-old black boy following online criticism about the officers' respon...
Police: 3 passengers shot on Chicago city bus after argument CHICAGO (AP) — Police say an argument aboard a Chicago city bus led to a shooting that injured three passengers, two of them teenagers. Authorities s...
He was killed after attacking a cop, police say. His cousin says he was a 'gentle giant' The cousin of a man shot and killed by an off-duty police officer in a California Costco has questions about what happened because the shooting victi...
The Latest: Police: 4 Shot At Raptors Rally In Toronto TORONTO (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at a rally for the NBA champion Raptors in Toronto (all times local): 6:25 p.m. Toronto police now say four p...
Charges Of Rape, Cheating Against Kerala CPM Leader's Son: Police A case has been registered against Kerala CPM leader's son on charges of rape and cheating following a complaint filed by a woman in Mumbai, the poli...
Arizona family in police confrontation gets backing from Jay-Z group A philanthropy affiliated with Jay-Z's Roc Nation, said it is offering support an Arizona family after a confrontation with police in Phoenix last mo...
DNA database opts a million people out from police searches GEDMatch, a site which has helped solve around 25 cold criminal cases, has changed its terms and conditions to opt its users out from searches by law...
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Kuwait scraps ‘expat-friendly’ plan to increase private sector leave
The decision, which received initial approval, would have increased annual leave for private sector workers from 30 to 35 days
Kuwait’s parliament has scrapped plans to increase the number of holidays for private sector workers from 30 to 35 days.
The National Assembly decided to rescind its earlier approval for the move, local daily Kuwait Times reported.
The amendment had been approved by the health and labour committee about two months ago and was passed by the National Assembly in the first reading in March, the report said.
The assembly was due to pass the amendment – considered the first ‘pro-expat’ legislation in nine years – in the second and final reading weeks ago, but the vote was delayed by the government.
Read: Kuwait plans to pass first ‘pro-expat’ law in nine years – report
“The government clearly told the panel that the amendment harms the interests of Kuwaiti businessmen against a minor benefit to a small number of Kuwaitis employed in the private sector,” the report stated.
The main beneficiaries of the move would have been the 1.7 million expats who work in the private sector.
The Kuwait chamber of commerce and industry and the banking association also stepped up pressure to block the amendment, the report said.
MP Hamoud Al-Khudhair, head of the health and labour committee, said the decision had been reversed back to the original provision of 30 days of annual leave.
The number will not include Fridays and public holidays, he added.
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Kuwait’s parliament approves expansion of leave allowance for workers
Kuwait’s private sector faces new call to hire citizens
New Saudi expat fees to impact private sector – official
Unemployed Kuwaitis unwilling to join private sector
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Today: SFPD to discuss increased presence in UN Plaza with neighborhood businesses
SFPD's mobile unit behind Off the Grid on a weekday in UN Plaza. | Photos: Carrie Sisto/Hoodline
Mon. October 15, 2018, 8:32am
by Carrie Sisto
@carries1981
Civic Center, Mid-Market, Tenderloin
A.C.T.'s Strand Theater & Cafe, 1127 Market Street
The SFPD has launched a targeted attempt to clean up UN Plaza in collaboration with other city agencies, and will meet with local businesses this morning to discuss its ongoing efforts.
As some readers have noticed, a mobile SFPD unit was deployed in UN Plaza on September 11th, and there has been an increased number of officers on foot and motorcycle patrol in the area.
A tipster recently alerted us that a local business coalition meeting has been planned for 9:30 a.m. today, Monday, October 15th, at the Strand Theater, just across Market Street from UN Plaza, to discuss the SFPD’s ongoing efforts and other plans for cleaning up the neighborhood.
Local businesses are invited to meet with SFPD to discuss increased patrol efforts at 9:30 a.m. today at the Strand Theater.
The officers assigned to the UN Plaza efforts are largely from the Tenderloin station, with support from officers from the Special Operations Bureau’s Honda motorcycle unit, media relations officer Michael Andraychak told us.
Tenderloin Police Station’s commanding officer, Captain Carl Fabbri, will attend the neighborhood coalition meeting this morning, Andraychak said.
While there have been some targeted efforts to clean up UN Plaza and the surrounding streets over the past year, the command van was placed in UN Plaza to help coordinate enforcement and serve as a hub for increased foot and motorcycle patrols, Andraychak said. The increased police presence aims to build on the positive results the unit has seen in the area during previous enforcement efforts.
The mobile unit serves as a headquarters for increased patrols in UN Plaza and the surrounding streets.
While there have been some reports of increased encampments in nearby neighborhoods, Andraychak said the SFPD is working with the city’s Healthy Streets Operations Center to provide services to those in need that are being displaced by the clean-up efforts.
There is currently no end date planned for the increased police presence in the area, he added.
One police officer on site told us the increased patrols were ordered by Mayor London Breed's office, in part to ensure the security of contractors and construction employees working to close the nearby BART station entrance at Market and 8th streets, in front of the Hotel Whitcomb. Breed's office has not responded to multiple requests for comment on the clean-up efforts.
The former BART entrance in front of Burger King on Market, across from Hotel Whitcomb, was closed late last year.
That entrance closure is part of an ongoing BART construction plan to add a new substation within the Civic Center station as part of a project to provide more power to the system to improve the frequency of BART trains. A total of 28 substations will be replaced system-wide through the $1.225 billion project, which currently has $41.9 million in Measure RR funding to replace two substations at the Civic Center and Montgomery stations.
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US/president/election/2012/Jim Turner
< US | president | election | 2012
2.1 Prediction, 2012-11-04 21:40
2.2 Update, 2012-11-06
On or about 2012-11-02, it was widely alleged that a Chapel Hill voter named Jim Turner had posted on Facebook that he had voted five times (which would have constituted voter fraud) for Barack Obama. The only evidence presented for this act, however, was a closely-cropped screenshot of his alleged post on Facebook and another composite shot of the post along with parts of Turner's Facebook profile page. There are at this time no known images showing the message in its original context.
Prediction, 2012-11-04 21:40
It seems very unlikely that this incident is as initially presented. However, there is one clear piece of evidence which should easily be uncovered by the investigation: was Jim Turner registered to vote in all of the locations he named, and do the voter records show that he voted there in this election?
It also seems very likely that the incident has to some extent been magnified, distorted, or perhaps wholly fabricated as a way of supporting popular belief in the need to combat voter fraud -- a popular US Republican cause -- and to make Democrats and Obama supporters look dishonest and stupid.
Update, 2012-11-06
It turns out that Turner did not in fact vote illegally. He thought he was making a joke (or perhaps a sympathetic fib) in a private section of Facebook, where the humorous intent of the comment would be understood, but unknowingly was commenting in a very public area. (This is, if nothing else, an indictment of Facebook's sloppy user interface.)
A preliminary reconstruction of the sequence of events:
The Barracuda Brigade seems to have first posted about this story on 11/2. It was then picked up by examiner.com on 11/3 and subsequently spread to a number of other blogs ([1])
Examiner.com later (no timestamp) issued an update saying that "In a telephone call with Alicia Fix Luke of Barracuda Brigade, Turner's wife confirmed that he posted the message but claimed that he really didn't vote multiple times. According to Luke, she was "really rude" and hung up on her."
On 11/4, examiner.com stated that Turner was under investigation for voter fraud.
Turner was later cleared; he had posted the claim in what he believed was a private space on Facebook, where he believed its hyperbolic intent would have been correctly understood.
Some further research into the incident is collected in this Google Document.
Jim Turner's Facebook profile
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All-Weather Finals 2015: Primrose Valley set to secure another milestone in 3yo sprint
By Simon Jackson. Primrose Valley bids to secure another milestone in an already notable career when she contests the £150,000 Unibet Three-Year-Old Sprint on All-Weather Championships Finals Day, at Lingfield Park on Good Friday. The Ed Vaughan-trained daughter of Pastoral Pursuits has won all four of her starts during this season’s championships; the most recent…
April 1, 2015 in All-Weather Championships.
ARC reiterate their commitment to the all-weather after successful start to racing on Tapeta
By Simon Jackson. Arena Racing Company’s (ARC) racing director Jim Allen reiterated their commitment to the all-weather after the successful start to racing on Tapeta at Wolverhampton. The race meeting on Monday attracted 2,000 spectators to Dunstall Park to witness racing on the new synthetic Tapeta track, which was being used for the first time…
August 13, 2014 in Horse Talk.
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Tips Firsttimejapan Shinkansen Train Transportation
Experiencing Japanese Trains, Train Kinds and How to Buy Tickets
Japan has an efficient public transportation network, especially within metropolitan areas and between the large cities. Japanese public transportation is characterized by its punctuality, its superb service, and the large crowds of people using it.
Rail travel in Japan is daunting. Sometimes, the stations become hectic places with multiple rail lines converging, meaning not only do you have to decipher the signs you also have to wade through the crowds. But train travel in Japan is simply a pleasure and its really wonderful. Nowhere on earth are trains as accurate, down to the second usually, and the staff is knowledgable and friendly. The most important thing that is to mention is, TRAINS IN JAPAN ARE THERE ON TIME.
The subways and rail lines in Japan use a color matching system. So even if you can’t read the characters as you rush through a station you can always match the colors. Second, most station names and information use the Western (i.e. English) alphabet, known as ‘romajii’ in Japanese. (Some small, rural stations might not have much information in English, but if you’re adventurous enough to hit the countryside this is a small obstacle!) Finally, there are abundant resources to help you get around, from Web sites to mobile apps that detail the rail systems, and the staff in the stations are very helpful.
Station signs in Tokyo contains names in alphabet
Train categories
All types of Japanese trains, from local to shinkansen, are typically classified into the following categories:
Local (kakueki-teisha or futsu-densha)
Local trains stop at every station.
A typical Local train. From Wikipedia
Rapid (kaisoku)
Rapid trains skip some stations. There is no difference in the ticket price between local and rapid trains.
A rapid train. From Wikipedia
Express (kyuko)
Express trains stop at even fewer stations than rapid trains.
Limited Express (tokkyu)
Limited express trains stop only at major stations. A limited express fee usually has to be paid in addition to the base fare. It is typically between 500 and 4,000 yen, depending on the distance. JR railway companies always charge this fee, but some other private railway companies do not.
Limited Express train
Super Express (Shinkansen)
Shinkansen are only operated by JR. Shinkansen connects between major cities such as Tokyo to Kyoto, Tokyo to Osaka, Tokyo to Sendai. Shinkansen run along separate tracks and platforms. A limited express fee has to be paid in addition to the base fare. It is typically between 800 and 8,000 yen depending on the distance.
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Seat categories
JR offers the choice between two classes, ordinary and green (first class), on shinkansen, limited express trains and a small number of slower trains. Most local trains carry only ordinary cars. Green cars are less crowded and offer more spacious seats, but are typically 30% to 50% more expensive than ordinary cars.
Most shinkansen and limited express trains carry non-reserved (jiyu-seki) and reserved (shitei-seki) seats, while a few carry reserved seats only. Seats in green cars are often all reserved. On most local, rapid and express trains all seats are non-reserved. Seat reservations cost roughly 300 to 700 yen, but are free with the Japan Rail Pass.
Reserved sheets of Narita Express
Smoking cars or smoking rooms are provided on only a small number of long distance trains. On all other trains, smoking is not permitted.
Buying a ticket
Tickets for short distance trips are best purchased at vending machines, while tickets and seat reservations for long distance trips can be purchased at ticket counters in train stations.
Purchase a ticket at a vending machine
Find your destination and the corresponding fare on the map above the vending machine. The map shows the train lines and stations of the region. Ticket prices are shown beside each station.
Insert the money into the vending machine. Most machines accept coins of 10, 50, 100 and 500 yen and bills of 1,000 yen, 5,000 yen. Many machines also accept larger bills.
Select the number of tickets that you wish to buy. The default is one, so if you are traveling alone, you can skip this step.
Press the button that shows the amount for your ticket.
Collect the ticket(s) and change.
Some machines contain feature to change the user interface to English language, so it will not be too much difficult to use the machines.
Ticket machine of JR
Sometimes the station names on the maps are written only in Japanese. If you are unable to find your destination and the corresponding fare, you can purchase a ticket for the lowest possible price, and pay the difference at a fare adjustment machine at the destination station.
Purchase a ticket at a ticket counter
In order to purchase a ticket, you need to provide the following information:
Date of travel
Destination Station
Ordinary or green car
Preference of reserved or non-reserved seat
If you wish to reserve a seat, you need to provide the following additional information:
Train name and number OR departure time
Preference of smoking or non-smoking seat
If you do not speak Japanese and there is a lineup, it is recommended that you write the data on a piece of paper and present it to the salesperson in order to make the purchasing process smoother. Special forms for that purpose (some in English) are actually provided at some stations, but are rarely used by customers.
Entering the paid fare zone
After buying the ticket, you can proceed through the ticket gate. At automatic ticket gates, which are found at busy stations, insert the ticket into the slot, walk through the gate and pick up the ticket on the other side. If you insert an invalid ticket, the gate will close and an alarm will sound.
There are also IC card, which is rechargeable and called Suica or PASMO in Tokyo area. If you have got the IC card, just touch the IC card to the blue area.
Ticket gate
If you have a Japan Rail Pass, you cannot use automatic gates, but must pass through a manned gate, showing your pass to the station staff.
In order to access shinkansen platforms, you need to pass through a second or separate set of ticket gates. They are usually well marked.
Find your platform by looking for your train line and direction. Most important signs are written in Japanese and English, and increasingly also in Chinese and Korean.
Platform signs are usually clearly written in Japanese and English
On many platforms, marks on the floor indicate where the doors of the arriving train will be located. Waiting passengers will line up behind those marks. Train drivers are trained to stop within centimeters.
Passengers waiting in lines on the platform
In case of long distance trains, additional marks will indicate car numbers and whether the car is an ordinary or green car, and whether it carries reserved or non-reserved, and smoking or non-smoking seats.
Note that some platforms are served by trains of different train categories (e.g. local and rapid trains). Displays indicate the next arriving train’s category and, at some stations, the set of upcoming stations served by it.
Riding the train
Wait for passengers to exit before entering the train. Be careful not to block the door at stations, especially if the train is crowded. Put backpacks on the floor or onto the baggage shelves.
Most passengers on Japanese trains are either reading, sleeping or using their mobile phones for sending messages, browsing the web or playing games. Talking on mobile phones inside trains, however, is forbidden, except in the entrance sections of shinkansen and limited express trains.
Upcoming stations and connecting lines are announced in Japanese. On shinkansen and some other lines frequently used by foreign visitors, the announcements are also made in English. Shinkansen and other newer trains have electronic signs in each car that display the upcoming station.
At the destination station
The station names on platforms are written in kanji, hiragana, and English. The previous and upcoming station names are also written.
Station signs are usually written in Japanese and English
At your destination, leave the paid fare zone through the ticket gates in the same way as you entered. When paying with a single ticket, the ticket is retained in the machine upon exiting.
If you did not pay the correct fare for your destination station, you have to pay the difference at a “Fare Adjustment” machine before leaving through the gates. If there are no such machines, you can pay the difference at the manned gate.
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Radioactive Meat Circulates Japanese Markets (CNN)
July 13, 2011 July 13, 2011 by Infinite
– Radioactive Fukushima Beef Already Sold in 5 Prefectures!!!
– Fukushima Beef Cattle Fed Radioactive Hay At 75,000 Becquerels Per Kg Cesium, Safety Limit Is 300 Becquerels Per Kg!!!
– Fukushima Cow Meat Update: Hay At 75,000 Becquerels/Kg Radioactive Cesium!!!#
– Burned NORMAL HOUSEHOLD TRASH In Kashiwa City In Chiba Prefecture: 70,800 Becquerels Per Kg Radioactive Cesium!!!!!
Radiation is good for you:
Let the politicians (and their children) eat the radioactive food and move the government (and their families) to Fukushima City (60 km from the nuke plant) and the Japanese people will see their government change its policies in no time!!!
– Radioactive meat circulating on Japanese market (CNN, July 13, 2011):
Tokyo (CNN) — A Japanese health official downplayed the dangers Tuesday after cesium contaminated meat from six Fukushima cows was delivered to Japanese markets and probably ingested.
Goshi Hosono, state minister in charge of consumer affairs and food-safety, said he hoped to head off any overreactions.
“If we were to eat the meat everyday, then it would probably be dangerous,” Hosono said at a news conference Tuesday. “But if it is consumed only in small portions, I don’t think it would have any long-lasting effects on the human body.”
The meat, delivered late last month, has made its way to consumers and most likely has been ingested, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said Monday evening. This was preceded by another recent discovery of radiation in the meat of 11 cows delivered to Tokyo from the same farm.
The discovery was made when Tokyo’s office of health and welfare investigated six deliveries made at the end of June from a Fukushima farm. So far, radiation has been confirmed from three out of the six cows. In one case, radiation reached 3400 Becquerels, which is about seven times the limit set by the government.
When the Fukushima Prefectural Government, on Monday, investigated the farm from which the meat was delivered, cesium was found in cattle feed such as hay, with radiation levels as much as 57 times higher than the ceiling set by the Japanese government.
Up until now, cattle in Fukushima were only subject to a screening test, to inspect for radioactive particles adhering to the skin, and farmers were ordered to self-report how it the cattle feed was being stocked.
Yutaka Kashimura, Fukushima Prefecture’s officer in charge of the livestock division, told CNN that the farmer may have given the cows hay that had been exposed to soil containing high levels of radiation. The farm is situated at about 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant.
The Fukushima Prefectural government announced that it will check on all the farms in the prefecture to determine if the stored cattle feed is being protected from radiation. More than 500 farms will be inspected before the end of the week and nearly 2,800 by the end of the month.
On Saturday, the health and welfare office at Tokyo Metropolitan government found that meat from 11 cows from a Fukushima farm, which was about to be delivered, contained high levels of radiation. As a precaution, the office was ordered to trace meat from six cows from the same farm and realized that the meat is now circulating not only in Tokyo, but all over Japan.
No health problems linked to the incident been reported, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government told CNN.
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Cloud Enabled Disaster Recovery
The Contra Costa Community College District is comprised of 3 community colleges serving over 50,000 students. Located in Contra Costa County, in the beautiful and diverse San Francisco East Bay area, the District serves the 1 million residents of the County through education, business partnerships and service in the community. The District first opened its doors in 1949 and is the second oldest and eighth largest multi-college community college district in California. The District consists of three colleges and two centers; Contra Costa College in San Pablo; Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill; Los Medanos College in Pittsburg; and the centers in Brentwood and San Ramon. Current annual enrollment is just over 50,000 students.
The CCCCD technology department wanted to enhance its disaster recovery plan, in the event of a disaster, so that it could provide uninterrupted service for the 3 college campuses and over 50,000 students it serves. Prior to working with Infiniti and implementing a new strategy, CCCCD used a tape back-up system that was stored at their Diablo Valley campus while the backup software sent backup replicas to an offsite location in Nevada. Even though this strategy was secure, it would have been difficult for CCCCD to quickly and efficiently recover in the event of a serious outage or disaster.
Infiniti conducted a DR assessment for CCCCD and determined that the legacy offsite tape back-up strategy for all CCCCD’s data could be dramatically improved by shifting the back-up and restore strategy to the AWS cloud. In order to facilitate this strategy, Infiniti recommended replacement of the on-premises backup software with Commvault that would allow CCCCD to back-up and restore its data to the cloud and/or back to the CCCCD data center. The Infiniti team worked in partnership with the CCCCD team to design the new AWS architecture, implement the Commvault software, test the new system and seamlessly migrate this new process to the AWS cloud. The cloud architecture design and back-up and restore strategy includes the following elements:
Development of new AWS cloud architecture for CCCCD
Assist with replacement and implementation of the Commvault software.
Test and deployment of the new back-up and restore service
Prior to implementing the new solution it would have taken CCCCD days and possibly weeks to back-up and restore its data center and applications and it would have cost them 100’s of person hours to complete the effort. With the new AWS/Commvault back-up and restore solution CCCCD can quickly and easily restore its entire data center in a relatively short amount of time and staff effort.
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Another pink dolphin death reported due to illegal fishing in Bolivia
05/19/2016 clip La Región
Pictures shared on social networks show a dead dolphin, which had presumably become entangled in a net for illegal fishing in the Ibare River, near the city of Trinidad.
Alarming growth areas of deforestation in the Amazon
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Researchers study mercury index in fish and breast milk in Brazil
Samples were collected in the basin of the Madeira River in Rondonia State, the Tocantins river in the states of Goiás and Maranhão, and the Negro river in the Amazonas State.
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Guy?? Ritchie’s??? Aladdin???? Might Star Will Smith????? As the Genie????????
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Image of Will Smith rethinking things, via Getty
Will Smith is reportedly being considered for the role of the Genie in Guy Ritchie’s live-action Aladdin musical. Come with me, Will. Let us pray.
Disney is naturally banking on this film to be good in the way that Beauty and the Beast was surprisingly entertaining and also profitable. They like the sound of: “Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin starring Will Smith.”
Deadline tries to reason:
Like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin will be a live-action musical and that would fit well with Smith who is not only an actor but was known to the world for his musical prowess as The Fresh Prince rapper before he hit the little or big screen.
Fresh Prince or Fresh Bad Idea? We must take into consideration that this Aladdin role would come after a series of awful Will Smith projects that reveal an underlying disease known as bad decision-making; this includes Concussion, which was terrible in the first three seconds (I never got past 20 minutes), and Collateral Beauty, Smith’s worst opening ever and a movie that wasn’t as terrible as expected but had us wondering if Scientology made him do it. He was reportedly also on the list for Tim Burton’s Dumbo.
This would probably be a bad decision. If you’re thinking about doing this movie, Will, reconsider and think about doing a different movie. It’s hard to imagine anyone topping Robin Williams’ turn as the Genie in 1992's Aladdin and, also, Will runs the risk of being the second coming of Shaq in Kazaam.
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Hong Kong exchange delists securities tokens
Gatecoin, a Hong Kong cryptocurrency exchange, is to delist tokens with security properties
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Gatecoin, a Hong Kong cryptocurrency exchange, has announced the plans to delist all tokens that double as securities.
Thus, according to the company, the exchange is "currently awaiting the results of a regulatory compliance review by the legal advisors on the legal status of specific tokens" that the company have listed on the exchange. "The review will determine whether a token that we have listed fits the category of a security under the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Ordinance, and if so whether the token founders have taken steps to structure their token in accordance with the SFC’s framework", - Gatecoin team details.
As reported, the tokens categorized as securities will be delisted from Gatecoin. Once the company has confirmed which of these tokens are to be delisted, clients will have one week to trade their tokens for Bitcoin (BTC) or Ether (ETH). After this period, both trading and deposits of that token will no longer be available through Gatecoin exchange.
Yet, Gatecoin will still be able to store the delisted tokens in the wallets on behalf of clients that maintain balances after trading and deposits have been disabled. Clients continuing to hold balances in these delisted tokens will be provided with a one-month period to withdraw these funds from their Gatecoin accounts.
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GRAM May be Traded at Liquid at Triple ICO Price
Bloomberg says that Telegram tokens, that may appear at Liquid will be sold by Gram Asia at $4 per token, but there's no official info from Telegram
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Even before the official public release of the cryptocurrency of the messenger, Telegram can increase in price by 200% relative to its value during the initial offer of coins. It is reported by Bloomberg.
As previously reported, Telegram tokens may appear on the Liquid Bitcoin Exchange already on July 10. The distributor is Gram Asia, which calls itself the largest holder of GRAM tokens in Asia. It intends to put up for sale rights to cryptocurrency at $ 4 per unit.
At the same time, one of the investors said to the publication that at the time of purchase the price of 1 Gram was $ 1.33.
It is worth noting, however, that after the announcement of the public sale of Telegram tokens to Liquid, the media reported that this intention had nothing to do with the official plans of Telegram.
Then one of Telegram's investors stated that no one has the right to sell tokens before their official launch in accordance with the signed agreement. Moreover, representatives of the popular messenger noted that they first heard about Gram Asia.
Later, CEO Liquid Mike Kayamora admitted that Telegram has no relation to the placement on Liquid: the deal was concluded exclusively between the exchange and Gram Asia, which allegedly is an incubator for the TON project.
The Block's leading analyst Larry Chermak on several tweets expressed skepticism about the announced Telegram tokenale based on the Liquid stock exchange, saying that he would “think twice before making a decision to invest.”
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Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
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At the Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, we are developing the next-generation of software tools, experimental technologies, and animal models to deepen our understanding of the role of microbiota in human health.
The microbes that live in and on our bodies––known as our microbiota––affect our health in many ways. Our microbiota mostly influence our intestines, where they are so abundant that they create one of the densest ecosystems on the planet. Our intestines harbor a few hundred species of bacteria. These species remain stably colonized in our intestines for much of our adult lives.
Our goal is to set the stage for a new type of medicine that looks at both our human genomes and the genomes of our microbes. Just as chemotherapy is more effective when it is targeted to a patient's unique cancer, future treatments will be tailored to our personal microbiome––meaning, the right microbes (i.e., next-generation probiotics) can be added or removed from their microbial communities.
Our scientists are particularly interested in how our gut microbes affect inflammatory bowel disease, allergies, and cancer. We are working closely with the Immunology Institute, the Division of Gastroenterology, and other research institutes within the Health System, to create novel therapies and diagnostics that can target our microbes.
We have many resources at our disposal, including the Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology (QIIME) software pipeline––a leading software tool for analyzing high-throughput microbiome data. We are continually making improvements to QIIME, which are available through the Minerva computing cluster. We have developed anaerobic robotics capabilities to isolate and identify microbes of patients in an automated manner. We also have a germ-free facility that houses microbe-free mice in sterile "bubbles." By colonizing germ-free animals with different microbes, we will be able to investigate how particular bacterial strains can cause disease––or be used as a treatment.
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Featured below is some of the work published by our microbiome experts, José Clemente, PhD; Jeremiah Faith, PhD; Gang Fang, PhD.
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TDOA for LPWANs: Challenges, improvements and testing
Kipp Jones Profile: Kipp Jones
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Location technology
This is the second in a three-part series on IoT, location and TDOA. To read part one, click here.
Time difference of arrival (TDOA) in low-power wide area networks (LPWANs) has some common, as well as unique, challenges with respect to accurate localization of devices in the real world. These include:
Variable density and spatial diversity of network gateways/base stations;
Urban morphology that can limit the hearability of devices causing potential erroneous measurements;
Multipath signal detection;
Need for smoothing and debouncing;
Precise timing drift/inaccuracies; and
Precise knowledge of gateway locations.
Each of these variables can contribute to performance degradation in accuracy of localization of your devices. Network-based location computed from timing measurements can be a very low-power path for providing localization, but you need to be aware that performance will vary by network and network provider in addition to the above technical challenges.
Ensure you perform or are presented with enough evidence that a given system will meet your real-world needs. Coverage and deployment numbers are not always sufficient to indicate what level of accuracy a given area of coverage will provide.
Take urban morphology, which describes the landscape, building structures, terrain and so forth that may affect signal propagation, reflection and occlusion. The performance of all localization technologies is impacted by these features to some degree. For example, GNSS suffers from “urban canyons” in which dense forests of tall buildings present visibility and multipath signal reflections that can decrease GNSS accuracy in these areas.
LPWANs are no exception to this rule. In order to determine accuracy and availability of a given location technology, we always look at varying our test cases to measure different performance capabilities as in the below example test site selections.
If you are doing your own testing, ensure you choose test locations in diverse set of urban morphologies as in the figure below.
There are additional techniques that are available for improving the overall performance of TDOA:
Hybridize timing measurements with power-based measurements and signal-to-noise measurements to enhance accuracy in gateway diversity challenged environments; and
Stationary detection and convergence techniques.
For example, we have employed these techniques to successfully reduce error to ~150 meters at the 67th percentile using single location attempts while in an extremely challenging deployment environment. In addition, we have demonstrated the value of convergence in a smoothing algorithm for higher accuracy of static devices — achieving 50-meter accuracy for these devices using the same set of single location attempts.
Let’s take a bit of a deeper dive to show how some of these techniques can be applied in real-world situations.
The test area was chosen to test localization performance in a particularly challenging environment. In this scenario, the challenge was primarily due to the physical deployment of the gateways in which they were deployed in a straight-line, “string of pearls” configuration. This configuration is challenging in that the TDOA solver can only solve in one dimension — along the line of gateways. The lack of the gateways in the second dimension limits the overall accuracy that can be achieved when using TDOA. Fortunately, a power-based method allows it to resolve location in the second dimension.
The figure below shows the following:
Gateways in blue;
Fixes derived based on TDOA only measurements (yellow pins) for two test points; and
Fixes derived based on power-based measurements only (pink for point 1 and white pins for point 2).
The resultant hybrid TDOA location is shown in the following diagram for the two static test locations:
As mentioned, by taking advantage of multiple packets over time, we have shown we can reduce this error to ~50 meters for static devices.
An example of the convergence process in action is shown in the figure below. The figure shows series of single-shot locations for five devices (each device is a different color) and the estimated error after smoothing at any given moment all fixes for a given device. For example, the plot shows that the orange curve (device) has an initially large error of almost 450 meters, but very quickly converges to 50 meters by smoothing the initial outlier/poor fix. As mentioned, TDOA measurements are very sensitive to multipath error, requiring that erroneous measurements to be weight and aggregated with caution in a location solver.
As the convergence algorithm receives more information, it begins to converge on the true position as shown below.
For the full animation, click here.
All IoT Agenda network contributors are responsible for the content and accuracy of their posts. Opinions are of the writers and do not necessarily convey the thoughts of IoT Agenda.
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Knights host successful blood drive – August 2016
Categories: Church Activities,Health Activities,News & Announcements
It’s time again for a tip of the hat for Pat.
That would be Patrick Stepniewski, who has been organizing our council blood drives for years. Even before that, when Holy Spirit had a men’s club instead of a KC entity.
The drive that was held in the community center dining room on Aug. 21 accommodated about 60 donations. That exceeded the 50 at the winter drive that we were quite pleased with. Patrick did an excellent job of getting the word out weeks in advance with multiple notices in the parish bulletin, making use of the big marquee sign by Danieldale Road beginning the weekend before the drive and overseeing pre-signups in the narthex for weeks.
Patrick was assisted by Andy Goza, Art Senato, James Smith and Dan Keough. Thanks, gentlemen, for helping donors sign in, leading them to the check-in area and making sure they were well taken care of in the canteen area after donating.
The donors included James Smith (when he wasn’t assisting), Deacon Al Evans, Tony Gonzalez, Bob Motta, Albert Torreblanca, Carlos Favela, council newcomers Jeff Traub and Sanka Jayasinghe and John Espree’s wife Bonnie.
Patrick is the chairman of the council’s health committee. His interest in the blood drive extends back beyond his 30-plus years doing it at Holy Spirit. He first got involved when he was a college freshman at St. Norbert College in his native Wisconsin.
Let’s aim for 70 next February!
Grand Knights of Council 8157
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Vehemently heterosexual dating site eHarmony never intended to let gay couples use its profile matching algorithms to find love, but New Jersey's attorney general made the decision for them: Either launch a gay-friendly site or face an anti-discrimination suit. And so the site, founded in 2000 by shrink Neil Clark Warren (yes, the guy in all the eHarmony ads) and proud sponsor of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's very gay unions, today launches its same-sex off-shoot: Compatible Partners. If the new site's name sounds sterile, well, you're right. Slugged "Serious relationships for the gay and lesbian community," Compatible Partners will never be confused with a Manhunt or adam4adam. And while the site's name makes no mention of gays, the drop-down list where you select your own gender and the gender you're hoping to meet sends the message home: Compatible Partners only allows men to look for other men, and women for women.Since the criticism for being straight-only began, eHarmony rationalized its decision to exclude gays by insisting the technology behind the site — where applicants are asked dozens of questions and then matched based on a personality profile, which means some folks are told they are unmatchable — wasn't geared for same-sex pairing. CONTINUE READING...
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• Pauliina Pollanen (fine art)
• Sveinung Rudjord Unneland (fine art)
• Tijs Ham (music)
• Natalya Pasichnyk (music)
• Anette Thorsheim (music)
• Siv Lier (design)
• Ingrid Rundberg (design)
• Siren Elise Wilhelmsen (design)
Short about the projects:
Søren Thilo Funder: “THE HORROR OF THE DROP - Contemporary horror fiction as counter-narrative in political art practice or surviving the night in the haunted mansion of absolute capitalism.” THE HORROR OF THE DROP is a research project about the alienating effects of absolute capitalism and the possibilities of artistic research and visual experimentation to adapt and utilize contemporary horror fiction - as the very format of alienation - to counter this effect.
Pauliina Pollanen: The aim of the research is to interpret the role of skill in the context of artistic practice, and to explore and explain its cultural and social meanings through the methods of deskilling and reskilling, and at the same time to produce critical content and conceptual aspects.
In the arts the concept of skill has been especially related to material based artistic practices and craft diciplines. In the contemporary fine art field skill has become more and more absent in every genre. The aim is to bridge the gap between fine art and material based art by examining skill and labour through an artistic practice.
Sveinung Rudjord Unneland: “Urgent affairs, strange empathy. Abstraction and receptivity in art.” In the ambiguous area where the personal interest of the artist and the public realm of art meet and merge, Unneland tries to evolve questions around spectatorship and the exhibition specially focusing on the exhibition as a critical form and artistic medium. This approach has roots to Robert Smithson complex staging of experiences between art and spectator. But from his legendary contest of modernist dogmas until today, the scene have evolved rapidly. What used to be strategies of resistance is now fully embraced by a culture-industry that reduces critique through absorption in the urge to transform experience into capital. In this situation, how do we engage critically with art-production and exhibition-making? Is it possible to keep critical art alive, intact and relevant? These are some of the underlying questions that inform Unnelands practice in general and that he finds significant to tackle in order to create a meaningful investigation into the criticality of the exhibition as an artistic form-, strategy and medium.
Tijs Ham: “Tipping Points”. How can the exploration of tipping points in chaotic processes, inform the development of new electronic music instruments, compositional strategies and performances, enhancing sonic expression?' During the research Ham will develop three new instruments, each based on chaotic processes, allowing him to explore the fragile and explosive sonic artifacts that occur on the boundaries between predictable and unpredictable behavior. How resonances either disintegrate or change through unforeseen collapsing modulations.
Natalya Pasichnyk: “Rethinking WTC - a new interpretation through the prism of the theory of Boleslav Javorsky.” Pasichnyk intends to explore how the ideas of the musicologist Boleslav Javorsky and others will work with her own understanding of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. How can metaphors, images and semantic understandings inspire and inform my performance? Broadening the performer’s role to a more co-creating one, she will experiment with the inter-weaving of the quotations of Protestant chorales with Bach’s harmonically and polyphonically complex piano part.
Anette Thorsheim: “Scope and space – about the relationship between rules and leeway in traditional music.” Development in the playing of the melodeon with the transferring of tunes from the Hardanger fiddle / fiddle. The artistic examination in Thorsheims project is about the relationship between rules and leeway in traditional music. She has drawn the two terms from professor in cultural philosophy Mikkel B. Tin and the book Rules and leeway: the aesthetics of tradition. Rules indicate a framework to act within and ensure that one recognizes the aesthetics. Leeway refers to the individual freedom which secures the life of the artistic expression. Thorsheim will explore rules and leeway in interplay with dancers and other musicians within the genre.
Siv Lier: "Human objects" The project is about the close relationship between man and the manmade, and is based on the fact that we are constantly recreated by what we create. As the senses play a major role in how we experience our surroundings, Lier will explore situations where we physically interact with objects and look at how we are affected. This may be training situations or other situations where body meets objects. Lier uses design as a method of social investigation, asks questions and reflects on aspects of being human.
Ingrid Rundberg: «Things that may be true». In this project, Rundberg will use design to investigate what happens when we create our personal political opinions and how this creation of meaning takes place. Participating design is one of the foundations of the project, and to involve others from the start, parts of the initial survey will take place at Bergen Public Library. Through a series of open lectures during 2019 the theme will be highlighted from many different perspectives.
Siren Elise Wilhelmsen: «THE SETTLERS / DOMESTIC EXOTICS”. This artistic research project is approaching new materials and applications based on innovative and creative use of invasive plant species from the Norwegian Black List. Invasive alien species are a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystems around the world. Yet, rather than a burden with high expenses, could the surplus of these plants truly represent a portal into new insight and valuable sources of material, medicine or food? What origins, stories and qualities do they carry and how can we use this to build a bridge between environmental engagement and creative development within aesthetics and production? THE SETTLERS/ DOMESTIC EXOTICS stands as an opportunity to reflect upon the designers role and explore alternative paths, in which design can play an important role beyond the traditional context. It is an attempt to use design as a driving force for increased local commitment, through an experimental, hands-on process.
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Posted on January 15, 2013 by Levi D. Smith
I thought I would implement something relatively simple tonight, so I decided to work on audio. I already have two songs that play for the title screen and level screen, but the logic is built into my main game class which isn’t ideal.
For this game, I decided to take a new approach with the music. Instead of manually starting and stopping songs when needed, I decided to assign a Song to each Screen class. When the current Screen is changed, then the music is changed to match that screen. I may have to make some exceptions, for instance in the case of a boss battle. The player would still be on the GameScreen instance, but the music would need to change.
To implement this, I added a new Jukebox class to my ResistorKit library. This will hold the references to all songs and sound effects. Songs and sound effects are still loaded in the LoadContent method of the main game class, but after each has loaded it is added to the Jukebox object using the addSong and AddSoundEffect methods that I created. The one drawback is that each Screen needs a reference to the Jukebox. I can set the Jukebox in the current screen on each call to Update, but I will need to double check in the Screen to ensure that the Jukebox reference is not null before calling any methods on it. I also created an instance variable in the Jukebox class to keep track of the currently playing Song. The Song is only changed if the current song instance variable is changed, since there may be multiple screens with the same Song. Overall, I like this method much better because it keeps the references to all audio objects in one class. The beauty of this is that a Song identifier only has to be set for a Screen once, and then the music for that screen is automatically played whenever that screen becomes active.
In my main game class, I created an enum called GameSongs which holds identifiers for all of the Songs. This is much cleaner than all of the int constants that I have been using. I will want to go back and convert my Texture2D constant int identifiers to enums as well. The only problem is that my Jukebox class in ResistorKit is not aware of the enum in my game. I’d rather not put the enum or a reference to it in my library, because that would prevent other projects with different song identifiers from using the library. I was able to solve this problem by casting the enum identifier to an int when calling the addSong method on the Jukebox object.
After adding the Jukebox to the game and making the necessary updates, I was able to use it to play the sound files. One issue that I noticed was that since the Attract screen is displayed first, the setCurrentScreen method never gets called since it does not transition from another screen state, so the music wasn’t playing. As a quick fix, I set the next screen state to the Attract screen in the constructor of the Attract screen, just so that the setCurrentScreen method gets called when it is first displayed. This change made the music play correctly. Since the Title Screen has the same Song, the music continued to play without breaking during the transition from the Attract screen to the Title screen which is what I wanted.
Finally, I pulled one of the sound effects from Resistor to use for the gun. I just needed a temporary sound effect to use to see if the play method for sound effects in Jukebox is working. I have to say, the Windows Media Player for Windows 8 is really horrible, because it is full screen with no way to change the size. The Windows 8 music interface forces you to look at a bunch of advertisements from musicians I’ve never heard of and musicians that I really don’t like. Fortunately, installing Audacity is a really fast and simple process.
One thing that is easy to forget is to set the Jukebox object in the Screen class to protected, so that the objects that subclass the Screen class can use the Jukebox object. Fortunately, this only has to be set in the library, so the Jukebox will automatically be accessible to any implemented subclass. Also, it is necessary to set the enum in the main game class to public so that any implemented Screen subclass can reference the sound effect identifiers. However, the enum does not need to be set to static or constant.
After making these changes, the gun sound effect plays correctly when pressing the fire button. However, the sound effect would play even if the player does not have a gun equipped and a projectile is not shot. I would rather not put the sound effect playing code into the model. I noticed that I already had a LifeTime variable defined in the projectile class, which keeps track of how many frames the projectile has lived. Therefore, I just added a getter method for that variable, and I play the sound effect if the LifeTime variable is one (first frame). I moved the code to play the sound from the button press method to the loop that draws the projectiles, and now it only plays the sound if a projectile is shot. Having the sound play on the first projectile frame will give me the ability to play different sounds based on the projectile type (fire, ice, et cetera), since the projectile is already instantiated.
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#47 April 3, 2019
Tekton, with Kim Lewandowski
Hosts: Craig Box, Adam Glick
Tekton brings Kubernetes-style resources for declaring CI/CD-style pipelines. Kim Lewandowski is the Google Cloud product manager who recently announced it. She talks to Adam about the project while Craig sneaks in some vacation at the cafes of New Zealand.
Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know:
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Chatter of the week
Register for the Kubernetes Podcast from Google Cloud Live session!
Craig has a lovely afternoon at the Cable Bay Cafe
Auckland Kubernetes Meetup - thanks everyone!
Adam reads Origin by Dan Brown
Renowned Author Dan Brown, one of Craig’s favourite newspaper columns of all time
Minikube releases v1.0.0
Episode 39, with Dan Lorenc
Running Kubernetes locally on Linux with Minikube by Ihor Dvoretski
Uber open-sources Peloton
Square build a service mesh with Envoy and gRPC
AWS App Mesh is GA
Tetrate Q
Star Trek Q
The Service Mesh Era: Istio’s role in hybrid and multi-cloud by Megan O’Keefe
Merging OpenTracing and OpenCensus
kubectl cp vulnerability and CSI portmap vulnerability
Brigade 1.0 from Deis & Microsoft
Debugging an intermittent connection reset in kube-proxy by Yongkun Gui
Register for the Kubernetes 1.14 webinar
Meet the Ambassador: Paris Pittman
Four key tips on how to do massive scale with Kubernetes by Reda Benzair
Links from the interview
Open Source Leadership Summit
A tektōn is a Greek artisan or craftsman
Formerly known as Knative Pipeline
Triggermesh Aktion
In Defense of YAML
Continuous Delivery Foundation
Contributing to Tekton
Kim Lewandowski on Twitter
ADAM GLICK: Hi, and welcome to the Kubernetes Podcast from Google. I'm Adam Glick.
CRAIG BOX: And I'm Craig Box.
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Last week, I said that there's a beautiful cafe in every small town in New Zealand. And the small town of question this week is Cable Bay, which is just north of Nelson, and we had a very lovely lunch at the Cable Bay Cafe. We'll probably put a couple of pictures in the show notes for those who are interested. You have the very New Zealand rural aspect of a bull just hanging out in the paddock over the road and an honesty box for honey. If you wanted honey, I'm sorry, it's probably hard for me to bring back to America in my luggage, but it would have been a nice thought.
ADAM GLICK: Been to any great meet-ups recently?
CRAIG BOX: I was the invited guest at the Kubernetes Auckland meet-up last week. I invited myself because I was speaking at the DevOps Talks Conference earlier that week, and I came along and said, I had a great chat here last year, I'd love to come and talk to you about Knative. And I chatted with the audience there. I must say, I did a very risky thing. I'm pretty sure you told me not to do this. But I asked the audience, how many of you listen to the podcast, and I was very pleasantly surprised by the number of hands that went up. So there were a number of stickers given away.
Thank you very much to everyone who came. I'd like to think that everyone there who didn't put their hand up is now a subscriber, and we'll see you all next time.
ADAM GLICK: That sounds great. I've not gotten a chance to get out as much, but had a chance to actually start enjoying a read this week. I am most of the way through at this point-- a Dan Brown novel following in the footsteps of "The Da Vinci Code," which I also enjoyed, a more recent book called "Origins." And true to form, it sucked my interest.
CRAIG BOX: How is renowned author Dan Brown these days?
ADAM GLICK: Well, I can't speak for him personally, but his writing certainly is engaging.
CRAIG BOX: Yes, I remember buying "The Da Vinci Code" in an airport, and I think that's where he fits in my literary filing system. He's definitely an airport kind of guy.
ADAM GLICK: Yeah. If you've got something you need to pass some time, it's a catchy story. He writes it well.
CRAIG BOX: We're getting ready for our live show at Google Cloud Next with our special guest, Professor Eric Brewer. It's now only one week away. For our listeners, we'll have a regular episode next Tuesday. The live show will be recorded on Wednesday, and you'll get to hear it the regular time the week afterwards. If you are lucky enough to be going to Next in person, there's a link in the show notes to register for the live show. Please make sure to sign up to make sure you get a space. You'll be able to walk up on the day if the room isn't full, but with a wonderful speaker and fantastic hosts, we wouldn't want anyone to be disappointed.
ADAM GLICK: Last week, we announced we had a small number of Next tickets to give away. We had such a great response and so many of you had written back that we went back to the Next team and managed to get another 10 codes. Congratulations to our lucky winners. You'll get an email from us in the next day or so. We'll also be recording a bunch of interviews at Next. So if you're going to be there and you work on something you think might be interesting to our listeners, please email us at KubernetesPodcast@Google.com to let us know.
CRAIG BOX: Let's get to the news.
After almost three years and 35 releases, Minikube, the VM service for running Kubernetes locally or in CI environments, has hit 1.0. The project has been stable for some time and decided to rev the version number after dependencies CRI-O and kubeadm were similarly stable. If you want to learn more about Minikube, listen to our interview with maintainer emeritus, Dan Lorenc in Episode 39. To celebrate this release, Ihor Dvoretskyi, developer advocate for the CNCF and guest on show 21, has started a series of articles on deployment options for Kubernetes on Linux, with Minikube as his first suggestion.
ADAM GLICK: Uber have open-sourced Peloton, the cluster management system they announced in November. Peloton is currently used in production at Uber for many kinds of batch workloads, and they're planning to migrate stateless services to it as well. The Uber team has been teasing Kubernetes integration and say they are working with the project on what integration would look like.
CRAIG BOX: The first service mesh day was held by Tetrate in San Francisco last week. So we bring you plenty of service mesh news.
Payments company Square wrote a blog post this week outlining the journey to adopting Envoy. They started down a Google-like route, building their own gRPC, a like framework called Sake, before gRPC was released. Looking to how they could move logic out of this framework and into a sidecar model, the gRPC support and Envoy bought them an option and a reason to migrate. And they built a control plane based on the Zookeeper service discovery system.
The migration will continue through 2019 and the story is worth reading if you have an interest in how service mesh technology works. Do be careful, though, because at service mesh day, they said that they gave app developers the ability to manage traffic flow, and one of them accidentally took down their internal SSO portal.
ADAM GLICK: AWS App Mesh, their proprietary Envoy-based service mesh, went GA last week. No new features were announced, though, an API change was made earlier this month to simplify the virtual router and listening model. Support for the Istio Mixer is now listed as upcoming.
CRAIG BOX: Tetrate, host of service mesh day, announced Tetrate Q, a new take on access control for modern infrastructure. It's based on the next generation access control model and encompasses the global state of a system, services, data, and users. Q draws information from the service registry and existing identity management systems to tell a service mesh whether a particular user should have access to a particular object at a particular time. All that said, there's not yet enough information to really narrow down what it does or where it plugs in. So we'll let you know as we learn more. No word on if John de Lancie will be making an appearance.
ADAM GLICK: Google Cloud continues its Istio blog series with a fifth article, this one written by developer programs engineer, Megan O'Keefe. In this posting, Megan talks about building a hybrid service mesh across two clusters in the same environment-- think dev test in production-- or two measures across two clusters in different environments-- think hybrid from on-prem to the cloud. She also covers adding VMs to the service mesh. The series is supported with code demos as well to help you build a similar environment or just to test it out, helping bring everyone closer to the hybrid deployments of the future.
CRAIG BOX: Speaking of hybrids, the OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects this week announced their intention to merge. The two projects are very similar in that they aim to unify app instrumentation and make observability a built in feature in every modern application, OpenTracing through distributed tracing and OpenCensus through metrics. A team formed of members of both projects has been looking at the technical viability of a merger for some time, and the change will be done in a fashion that is not disruptive to people using either project. It does mean that the number of CNCF projects will take a rare downward turn and the combined project is already looking for a new Greek name.
ADAM GLICK: We now return to your regularly scheduled Kubernetes security announcement. Two vulnerabilities this week, a directory traversal in the cube control CP command rated as high and in the port map plug-in for the container network interface rated medium. Look to upgrade if you use either feature, or make sure that your vendor is keeping you secure.
CRAIG BOX: The Deis acquisition continues to be the open source innovation hub for Microsoft, with Azure announcing Brigade 1.0 from that team. A CNCF sandbox project that is described as a tool for running scriptable automated tasks in the cloud as part of your Kubernetes cluster, Brigade gives you a way to use JavaScript to string together multiple steps in a similar fashion to AWS Step Functions, but running in Kubernetes and open source.
ADAM GLICK: Yongkun Gui from Google posted a blog this week on debugging kube-proxy. He recently dug into kube-proxy after seeing some intermittent connection resets, and his blog dives into what he learned. It explains one particular problem, but this post really shines in helping you understand how kube-proxy works generally.
CRAIG BOX: Interested to know more about the 1.14 Kubernetes released from last week? Members of the 1.14 release team are running a webinar on April the 23rd, 10:00 AM Pacific time to talk about the major new features. You can find the registration link in the show notes.
ADAM GLICK: Curious to know more about being a community ambassador? Couldn't get your fill of Paris Pittman from show number one? You're in luck. The CNCF has published an interview with Paris, along with an accompanying video. You can hear more about how Paris got involved in Kubernetes and her thoughts on where the community is going.
CRAIG BOX: Finally, are you looking to scale to a Kubernetes deployment and want to learn from those who have done it at a massive scale? Reda Benazir, CNCF ambassador and VP of engineering at Streamroot, has posted a blog with key tips on how to do massive scale with Kubernetes. He offers four main tips for being successful with your scaling, and these could help you be prepared for the future.
ADAM GLICK: And that's the news.
Kim Lewandowski is a product manager for Google Cloud, working on the Tekton project. Welcome to the show, Kim.
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: Thank you, Adam.
ADAM GLICK: Congratulations on the recent release. For those that are listening, can you help them understand, what is Tekton?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: Tekton is a new open source project from Google that we recently announced at Open Source Leadership Summit a few weeks ago. So the name Tekton was inspired by a Greek word, tekton-- I'm not quite sure how to pronounce it-- which means artisan or craftsman, or so I'm told. So we also, of course, like the name because there's a K in it, and everything Kubernetes related needs a K, including my name.
ADAM GLICK: Mm-hm.
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: So going back to what it is. So Tekton is a set of building blocks for building continuous integration and continuous delivery systems. You commonly hear the acronym CI/CD for this space. So Tekton itself runs on Kubernetes, but it will deploy code anywhere, whether that is Kubernetes itself, bare metal, IoT devices, mobile, et cetera.
ADAM GLICK: Is it an application?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: It's really a platform. The idea being it's a lower level platform in which more applications and layers will be built on top of it.
ADAM GLICK: Gotcha. I've heard people talk about a relationship between Tekton and the Knative project. Can you talk about how those two are related?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: Tekton really started out in a Knative repo. It was originally called Knative Pipelines. It will continue to support the Knative ecosystem as a first class target. And Tekton Pipelines will deploy to Knative environments. We decided to split this out from the Knative repo to make it clear to users that this was always intended to be independently useful from the rest of Knative, and not the only way to deploy to Knative. So like I said, we have a lot of other deployment targets that we're looking to support and not just Knative itself, and not just Kubernetes itself. There's a lot of people still running on legacy systems and still talking to bare metal and still need to solve the CI/CD problem, no matter where they're running.
ADAM GLICK: So is this a forked set of code out of the Knative project? Or are you shifting the code from the Knative project into Tekton, and then Knative will build on top of it?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: Yeah, so we shifted the code right out. It's in a new repo on GitHub/TektonCD. The build concept still exists in Knative, and that's always been a part of it. And that still remains in Knative today.
ADAM GLICK: Why was Tekton created? Why did this need to be a separate project?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: We've spent a lot of time talking to customers and developers about how they practice CI/CD of their organizations and how they're modernizing their current infrastructure. And what we constantly heard is that they're struggling to modernize and make tooling decisions for their CI/CD workflows, and there's just so many to choose from. But the goal with all these tools is always the same, help us get our source code from source code to production as fast and securely as possible. So for Tekton, we took a step back and really asked ourselves if we could do the same thing that Kubernetes did with containers to CI/CD.
So that is, could we collaborate with industry leaders in the open to define a course of building blocks in which CI/CD systems could then be built on top of and existing ones could be refactored onto? And so this is how Tekton project was born.
ADAM GLICK: Gotcha. So when you think about the CI/CD pipeline ecosystem, what particular problems within that does Tekton solve?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: Its goal is really to establish agreed upon specifications and guidelines common to these CI/CD systems, and really provide these building blocks which developers can plug and play which components and tool they want to use. So it really gives them the benefits of having portable workflows that can run faster and are declarative and reproducible, and it allows interoperability between a lot of the different systems that you see out there today.
ADAM GLICK: So it sounds a little bit like-- I'd almost think of this as a network specification or interface specification of how things can work together. Is that a correct way to think about it?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: Yeah, kind of. If we can all agree on what the nouns are and what those components are, like a pipeline versus what's a task in a pipeline, what are the results that a pipeline spits out, the artifacts that they produce. And so once we agree on those specifications, then all these toolings that become Tekton conformant, they can all talk to each other. So as an end customer developer, I could, if I'm using a system over here-- maybe it's Jenkins, and then I hear about something new, I can plug and play all these different components to get the solution that I need by still maintaining that portability feature and having things that are reproducible as well.
ADAM GLICK: So it's like a framework and a specification.
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: Yes.
ADAM GLICK: Gotcha. I'll see if I can throw some more buzzwords out there.
So what technologies does Tekton work with? You mentioned that it's this underlying specification. So what tools can or do already build on top of this?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: So Tekton's a fairly new project, but we do have a few different projects that have already started to integrate with it. So the folks at CloudBees have a demo of Jenkins X, and even legacy Jenkins, using Tekton pipelines underneath. And there's another team-- another company called TriggerMesh, who have just recently demoed a project that they're calling TriggerMesh Aktions, actions with a K--
ADAM GLICK: Of course.
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: Which can take a GitHub action and convert it into a Tekton workflow, which then can be run on your own Kubernetes cluster, if you choose.
ADAM GLICK: So if this is an underlying framework for these pieces, is there a reason not to just go use those tools themselves? Is this something for us end developers to go and build off of? Or is this something that people who are making the CI/CD tools to build on top of and will be transparent to those of us who are just building our own code pipelines?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: Yeah, exactly. It's the latter of that. So Tekton is really the abstraction layer beneath the CI/CD tools that most will interact with. So we envision most customers will be using these tools that are a layer above. And that's the beauty of it all, is that when these tools are Tekton conformant, that we can mix and match different ones and different plugins and have them all work together.
ADAM GLICK: Cool. Why is there no single best practice on how to deploy apps to Kubernetes?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: [LAUGHS]
I think some of us wish there was. But in honesty, it's not really a one size fits all space. There are sets of best practices that apply to different customers and different scenarios. So startups iterating on an NVP do not need or even want the same kind of rigor that a bank or a large insurance company might need.
ADAM GLICK: What would be some of the examples of different ways that people are doing that today that you need to think about as you're building a framework that sits underneath these tools?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: So for startups, it's common that they just push on master. So everything-- every code commit, they just roll it out to production, and there you have it. But large enterprises, they have such strong security rules in their pipelines and everything and want to make sure that-- they want to know who built what code, how did it get built, what versions is the software running, how do I trace back what's running in production all the way back to the source code from it with versioning. So yeah, a lot more rigor around their processes.
ADAM GLICK: And Tekton is not opinionated about how people construct those pieces, correct?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: Correct. I think when we see these projects and tools build on top of Tekton, we'll all see a bit of opinionation above to really help end users, guide them along what they think is the best practice for getting the job done that they're doing.
ADAM GLICK: Do you think over the long term, eventually, there will become a standard that people will lock to you for that? Or do you think it will always be a heterogeneous environment?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: We're going towards-- our vision is to have a common set of guidelines that people can follow. That's the goal and that's the vision. I think it'll be a long time before we can get everything along those lines. I think we'll always see unique snowflakes out there that need to do something their own way with lots and lots of bash scripting. But hopefully, we can all move in the same direction and not keep reinventing the wheel every week.
ADAM GLICK: Recently there was a blog post that people were looking at that was called "In Defense of YAML." It was saying that it doesn't matter the sense to define pipeline steps in YAML, that YAML is a language for structured configuration and pipeline steps are basically programming. What's your opinion on that?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: OK. Yeah, I think I know which article you're talking about. So I think it made a lot of great points that YAML, like anything else in software, can be overused or used in places where it just doesn't make sense. Still, though, it does serve an important need as a universal data language. So it's accessible from all programming languages. And this is how we see Tekton's YAML being used. So pipeline steps do represent simple programs, but we've explicitly designed it not to be Turing complete.
So we don't support handling things like self-mutating pipelines, loops, recursions, et cetera. We think this makes pipelines predictable, understandable, and maintainable, and that's the boundary that helps make the YAML more palatable.
ADAM GLICK: And is that a goal that you have? Are those pillars of your design that you will never do those things? Or could you make a more Turing complete language part of the code that you're doing later on?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: I think this will be the design we stick with. But again, I'm not the engineer. So--
ADAM GLICK: Learning never to say never.
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: Right.
ADAM GLICK: It feels like a good call in technology. So Tekton was announced and the repo is available right now. What's next for Tekton?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: Like I hinted at before, a lot of our work right now is on our Tekton pipelines. So we've been working with folks, like from CloudBees, Pivotal, IBM. We have a bunch of new features in the works. We hold weekly meetings on Tuesday mornings where we discuss features and design, and so we're working through a lot of that. And we started designing more of the Tekton core components as well, such as source code access and artifact storage. And we're also really excited to start exploring more of helping the security problems that I had touched on earlier.
So a lot of large customers, they're just coming and looking for best practices, looking for ways that they can make sure that their software supply chains are secure and they are meeting audit requirements and everything. So this is one area that we're particularly excited about and excited to start getting working on soon.
ADAM GLICK: You've mentioned a number of partners who are working with you on the Tekton project and helping to build on top of that. Which partners would you love to have join you in this?
All of them. There's a lot. There's a lot of people in the CI/CD space. So we would love the large cloud providers to join us. A lot of the things that we're trying to do, I think we can only do it when everyone's working towards the same goals and visions. So we're welcoming everyone.
ADAM GLICK: Speaking of those who might be interested, if listeners want to get more involved with Tekton, where can they go to learn more and where can they go to contribute to the project?
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: So glad you asked. So Tekton is now actually owned by a new Linux Foundation called The Continuous Delivery Foundation. The Continuous Delivery Foundation is like a sister foundation to the CNCF, if you're familiar with that foundation. So there are a few different ways you can get involved. So if you're interested in continuous delivery and just want to follow along with everything that's happening in this space, I encourage you to check out the new CDF Foundation. There's a website, it's CD.Foundation, which I thought was pretty cool that we were able to secure that domain.
So there's a membership process similar to the CNCF, where you can simply sign up for the mailing list and just be an end user and follow along. And then for Tekton specifically, the best way to get involved is really to check out our community and contributing page. And so we have a GitHub repo-- probably the easiest way to find the GitHub repo link is go to Tekton.dev, which will redirect you there, and you'll find more information there about our working group meetings, Slack channel, things like that. If you're around at GCP Next, a bunch of us will be floating around the conference as well.
ADAM GLICK: Thank you. This is great information. I appreciate you coming on the show today, Kim.
KIM LEWANDOWSKI: Sure. Thank you, Adam.
ADAM GLICK: You can find Kim Lewandowski on Twitter @kimsterv, K-I-M-S-T-E-R V.
Thanks for listening. As always, if you enjoyed the show, please help us spread the word and tell a friend. If you have any feedback for us, you can find us on Twitter @KubernetesPod, or reach us by email at kubernetespodcast@Google.com.
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Reports: Canes, Penguins inquire about Stevens
Jon Rosen June 18, 2014 100 Comments
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Reports have circulated that Los Angeles Kings assistant coach John Stevens has drawn interest from the Pittsburgh Penguins and Carolina Hurricanes, two teams with vacant head coaching positions.
Carolina and Pittsburgh have asked the LA Kings for permission to interview John Stevens.
— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) June 17, 2014
It is also possible that the Vancouver Canucks have inquired about Stevens – keep in mind that they did so within a week of the Kings’ season ending last year before hiring John Tortorella – but at this point there is no firm link. Mike Johnston, general manager and head coach of the WHL’s Portland Winterhawks and a former Los Angeles assistant, has already interviewed in Vancouver.
Willie Desjardins, who coached Linden Vey in Medicine Hat before becoming an associate head coach in Dallas, and, for the last two seasons, the Texas Stars head coach, is also a candidate to become a head coach. Texas won the Calder Cup on Patrik Nemeth’s Game 5 overtime game-winner against St. John’s last night.
New York Rangers assistant coach Ulf Samuelsson is also a candidate for the vacant positions in Pittsburgh and Carolina.
The Florida Panthers are also looking to hire a coach in advance of next week’s NHL Draft. Dan Bylsma, Gerard Gallant and former Kings coach Marc Crawford are “being seriously considered,” as reported by George Richards of the Miami Herald.
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Singing In Vietnam Talking Blues lyrics
Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash's America
Johnny Cash's America
Singing In Vietnam Talking Blues
One mornin' at breakfast, I said to my wife,
We been everywhere once and some places twice,
As I had another helping of country ham,
She said “We ain’t never been to Vietnam,
“And there’s a bunch of our boys over there.”
So we went to the Orient: Saigon.
Well we got a big welcome when we drove in,
Through the gates of a place that they call Long Vinh.
We checked in and everything got kinda quiet,
But a soldier boy said: “Just wait 'til tonight,
“Things get noisy. Things start happenin'.
“Big bad firecrackers.”
Well that night we did about four shows for the boys,
And they were livin' it up with a whole lot of noise.
We did our last song for the night,
And we crawled into bed for some peace and quiet,
But things weren’t peaceful. And things weren’t quiet.
Things were scary.
Well for a few minutes June never said one word,
And I thought at first that she hadn’t heard.
Then a shell exploded not two miles away,
She sat up in bed and I heard her say: “What was that?”
I said: “That was a shell, or a bomb.”
She said: “I’m scared.” I said “Me too.”
Well all night long that noise kept on,
And the sound would chill you right to the bone.
The bullets and the bombs, and the mortar shells,
Shook our bed every time one fell,
And it never let up; it was gonna get worse,
Before it got any better.
Well when the sun came up, the noise died down,
We got a few minutes sleep, an' we were sleepin' sound,
When a soldier knocked on our door and said:
“Last night they brought in seven dead, and 14 wounded.”
And would we come down to the base hospital, and see the boys.
So we went to the hospital ward by day,
And every night we were singin' away.
Then the shells and the bombs was goin' again.
And the helicopters brought in the wounded men.
Night after night; day after day.
Comin' and a goin'.
So we sadly sang for them our last song,
And reluctantly we said: “So long.”
We did our best to let 'em know that we care,
For every last one of 'em that’s over there.
Whether we belong over there or not.
Somebody over here love’s 'em, and needs 'em
Well now that’s about all that there is to tell,
About that little trip into livin' hell.
And if I ever go back over there any more,
I hope there’s none of our boys there for me to sing for;
I hope that war is over with,
And they all come back home,
To stay.
In peace.
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Jump in the rowing boat and let's go for a relaxing boat ride in and take in the beautiful green landscape featured in this fun and challenging jigsaw puzzle.
House By The Lighthouse
Join us in a beautiful, green landscape and put the old house by the red and white lighthouse back together a relaxing puzzle solving time. Once widely used, lighthouses mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, and safe entries to harbors, and assist in maritime and aerial navigation. As lighthouses became less essential to navigation, many of their historic structures faced demolition or neglect. That's why in many countries legal steps where taken to preserve these impressive structures In the U.S. the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act was adopted in 2000, in Canada the Heritage Lighthouse Protection Act has saved many such buildings and many other countries that have a long naval history and built and operated such towering structures are restoring and preserving this unique pieces of architecture and history.
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Barr cites 'spying' on 2016 Trump campaign
Credit: Reuters Studio
U.S. Attorney General William Barr sparred with lawmakers on Wednesday over whether "spying" occurred on President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, a day after saying that a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the election will be out "within a week." Nathan Frandino reports.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR, SAYING: "I think spying did occur." In a stunning statement to senators Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr said he was looking into whether U.S. intelligence agencies crossed the line when they conducted surveillance on the presidential campaign of Donald Trump in 2016.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR, SAYING: "I think spying did occur.
But the question is whether it was adequately predicated and I am not suggesting that it wasn't adequately predicated.
But I need to explore that." The remarks came on his second day of budget hearings on Capitol Hill, after Barr on Tuesday said he would release a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia probe "within a week." Barr has been forced to defend issuing a 4-page summary of the report, which Barr said did not find Trump or his campaign had conspired with Russia.
Barr also decided not to pursue obstruction charges against Trump.
Democrats have demanded to see the full unredacted report.
Earlier on Wednesday, Trump again called for the Mueller probe's origins to be examined in strident terms, calling it "an attempted coup" that failed.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING: "And this was a, an attempted coup.
This was an attempted takedown of a president." Trump said he not seen or read the report, but that it did not matter.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING: "As far as I'm concerned I don't care about the Mueller report.
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Definition of Face
Face n. means: Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases.
What is the meaning/definition of Face ?
Meaning of Face
Face (n.) means: Mode of regard, whether favorable or unfavorable; favor or anger; mostly in Scriptural phrases.
More meanings / definitions of Face or words, sentences containing Face?
Vis-a-vis (n.): A carriage in which two persons sit face to face. Also, a form of sofa with seats for two persons, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides.
Face (n.): Presence; sight; front; as in the phrases, before the face of, in the immediate presence of; in the face of, before, in, or against the front of; as, to fly in the face of danger; to the face of, directly to; from the face of, from the presence of.
Feature (n.): The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.
Affront (v. t.): To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.
Face (v. i.): To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left.
Confront (v. t.): To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.
Confront (v. t.): To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.
Face (v. t.): To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress.
Visage (n.): The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face.
Contradance (n.): A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.
Graille (n.): A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers.
Front (n.): The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
Combattant (a.): In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.
Face (v. t.): To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
Type (n.): The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; esp., the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
Confrontment (n.): The act of confronting; the state of being face to face.
Before (prep.): In presence or sight of; face to face with; facing.
Harpy (n.): A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three.
Encounter (v. i.): To meet face to face; to have a meeting; to meet, esp. as enemies; to engage in combat; to fight; as, three armies encountered at Waterloo.
Muffle (v. t.): To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up.
Coak (n.): A kind of tenon connecting the face of a scarfed timber with the face of another timber, or a dowel or pin of hard wood or iron uniting timbers.
Profile (n.): A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face.
Afront (adv.): In front; face to face.
Face (v. i.): To present a face or front.
Vis-a-vis (n.): One who, or that which, is face to face with another; esp., one who faces another in dancing.
Face (v. t.): To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle.
Laugh (v. i.): To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
Encounter (v. t.): A meeting face to face; a running against; a sudden or incidental meeting; an interview.
Front (v. t.): To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner.
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Words, slangs, sentences and phrases similar to Face
Meaning of crater face
crater face means: Noun. A face with pock marked skin or the person with such a face.
Meaning of have a face like...
have a face like... means: Vrb phrs. There a numerous pejorative expressions beginning with 'have a face like.., see 'face like a...'
Meaning of face like a leper licking piss off a thistle
face like a leper licking piss off a thistle means: Equivalent of saying someone "has a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp". Refers to someone pulling an ugly face, or indeed can be referring to an ugly girl.
Meaning of Smock-face
Smock-face means: A white face, a face without any hair.
Meaning of BAG ONE'S FACE
BAG ONE'S FACE means: Bag one's face is American slang for hide one's face.
Meaning of butter face
butter face means: Girl with a gorgeous body and ugly face. used as in "She's got a nice body - but'er face..."
Meaning of FROST FACE
FROST FACE means: Frost face was th century British slang for a face pitted with smallpox.
Meaning of baw-face
baw-face means: Used to describe a person with a large round head. e.g. "He has a big baw face". This is a Scots pronunciation of BALL + HEAD, BALL + FACE.
FACE means: Face is slang for an outstanding person. Face is slang for effrontery.
Meaning of 'In Your Face!' (or simply, 'Face!')
'In Your Face!' (or simply, 'Face!') means: I have succeeded in embarrassing or up-staging you (usually as through an exceptional play in basketball).
Meaning of face-fungus
face-fungus means: Noun. Facial hair, such as moustache or beard. Cf. 'face pubes'.
Meaning of auger
auger means: v. to involuntarily take samples of the local geology, usually with one's face, during a crash. See face plant.
Meaning of put one's face on
put one's face on means: Vrb phrs. To apply cosmetic make up. E.g."I can't put my face on until I've found my new lipstick."
Meaning of face time
face time means: A chance to meet people. Tonight I am going to drink face.
Meaning of CAT'S FACE
CAT'S FACE means: Cat's face is London Cockney rhyming slang for an ace playing card.
Meaning of B****y resting face
B****y resting face means: the state of a face while not emoting in which the individual looks hostile or judgmental
Meaning of face like a bulldog chewing a wasp
face like a bulldog chewing a wasp means: Description of a citizen with a face that should be kept off the streets during daylight hours - i.e. pug-ugly.
Meaning of face pubes
face pubes means: Noun. Facial hair. Cf. 'face fungus'.
Meaning of Face like a Smacked Toad
Face like a Smacked Toad means: Having a sour, dismal expression on the face.
Meaning of OFF ONE'S FACE
OFF ONE'S FACE means: Off one's face is Australian slang for intoxicated, under the influence of drugs.
Meaning of Vis-a-vis
Vis-a-vis means: A carriage in which two persons sit face to face. Also, a form of sofa with seats for two persons, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides.
Face means: Presence; sight; front; as in the phrases, before the face of, in the immediate presence of; in the face of, before, in, or against the front of; as, to fly in the face of danger; to the face of, directly to; from the face of, from the presence of.
Meaning of Feature
Feature means: The make, cast, or appearance of the human face, and especially of any single part of the face; a lineament. (pl.) The face, the countenance.
Meaning of Affront
Affront means: To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.
Face means: To turn the face; as, to face to the right or left.
Meaning of Confront
Confront means: To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.
Confront means: To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.
Face means: To line near the edge, esp. with a different material; as, to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress.
Meaning of Visage
Visage means: The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face.
Meaning of Contradance
Contradance means: A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.
Meaning of Graille
Graille means: A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers.
Meaning of Front
Front means: The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
Meaning of Combattant
Combattant means: In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant.
Face means: To cause to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
Meaning of Type
Type means: The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; esp., the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
Words starting with face
Words ending with face
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Meaning of Feed
Feed means: To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire.
Meaning of Loculament
Loculament means: The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
Meaning of Misery
Misery means: Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
Meaning of Proximal
Proximal means: Toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate.
Meaning of Stilettos
Stilettos means: of Stiletto
Meaning of KNAP
KNAP means: Knap is Dorset slang for a small hill.
Meaning of COCKTAIL
COCKTAIL means: cigarette laced with cocaine or crack
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“Metaglyphic” Press Release
The Elena Ab Gallery, 185 Church Street, is pleased to present “Metaglyphic”, an exhibition curated by Michael Carter, featuring the art of Elena Ab, Holly Anderson, Scot Borofsky, Linus Coraggio, Ford Crull, Peggy Cyphers, Brian Gormley, Ken Hiratsuka, Anatoly Kaplan, Gloria McLean and Samo©, as well as the 39 etchings comprising “On Bolus Head”, a collaborative print project of Michael Carter’s and Brian Gormley’s, created at Cill Rialaig in County Kerry, Ireland (2010-2012). The exhibition will be open to the public from June 26-Aug 17, 2014, with an opening reception Thursday, June 26, 7-9 pm.
Metaglyphic: These artists employ visual tropes as elements of their pictorial language, idiosyncratic and personal, to create compelling works within the realms of painting (Ab, Borofsky, Crull, Cyphers, Gormley and Samo), sculpture (Coraggio, Hiratsuka), printmaking (Carter, Gormley, Kaplan), visual poetry (Anderson, Carter), and movement (McLean) that look back to the glyphic origins of language (megalithic monuments, cave painting, hieroglyphics, etc), at the same time exploring the persistence, transformation and relevance of such symbolic forms of art in the contemporary cyber era.
Megaglyphic: Hiratsuka’s carved oneline sculptures and stories in stone, though innovatively abstract and referencing recent and personal events, most directly echo megalithic rock art and hieroglyphic writing, while the “On Bolus Head” poems and print series also reference megalithic symbols and Celtic Ogham alphabet.
Metaglyphic: Tropic forms in Borofsky’s transcendental oils, composed of his own peculiar symbolic vocabulary itself derived from a variety of multiethnic ancient sources, coagulate and entangle to become subject matter emerging from colorful, deftly painted grounds. Likewise, in Crull’s elegant oil paintings, glyphic forms, symbols and vestiges of imagery emerge and recede from articulated negative space, recalling alchemical symbols as well as the more contemporary painterly scrawls of Twombly and Basquiat. Gormley’s evolution of Basquiat’s paint-out techniques and the creation of his own, multi-layered, semi-linguistic, vocabulary derived from silkscreened doodles and other abstract markings combine to form hyperglyphic, striking abstractions, combined with the painterly flourish of Franz Kline and DeKooning.
Samo©: in this work, attributed to the late (or rather early) Basquiat, fragments of poetic wordplay meet the artist’s handprint, a gesture to some of the earliest cave art, paramount in the origins of art and human-consciousness. Renowned choreographer and dancer McLeans’ contribution(s), on paper and video, are sketchy remnants of human movement, personal marks left by the artists’ own body in performance.
Metamorphic: Perhaps more metamorphic than metaglyphic, Cyphers’ paintings from her recent Geo-Icon series, evoke the supernatural aura of powerful natural forces, in this case underwater aquifers, wherein the thick, swirling brushstrokes themselves attain a glyphic dimension, conveying visualized energy through highly abstracted forms.
Metalglyphic: Scrap-art master Coraggio creates symbolic structures in steel and other debris, where welded elements (tools, utensils and other welded artifacts) also form a personal language and function as compelling visual tropes within the larger forms; sometimes these symbols are obvious, such as the hammer in the “Soviet chair” sculpture, and other times more obliquely evocative as in the welded screens with concentric loops that echo Hiratsuka’s spirals and megalithic rock art.
Mythoglyphic: Anderson’s visual poems and digital collage comprise mythopoetic explorations of word and/as art. Whether cleverly reimagining ancient Greek mythology or insidiously embedding poetic tropes in NSA-proof code, Anderson nixes the boundaries of visual and verbal art with humor and aplomb. Ab, in her expressionistic figure paintings explores female sensuality and allure, interpolated with collaged ancient Hebraic text, such as The Song of Solomon, while Kaplan’s prints, interspersed with old Cyrillic text, humorously and defiantly record the folkloric past of Yiddish Russia. The “On Bolus Head” print suite, based on Carter’s poems that inspired Gormley’s corresponding etched images, tap into and update the mythopoetic legacy of County Kerry, Ireland, while adding a few more recent glyphs to the tradition. The limited-edition printed book version of “On Bolus Head” will also be available for purchase.
For more information, contact Elena Ab, elena@elenaab.com, 917-691-5647
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Sands Morris Chewning
Christian County, KY Attorney
(270) 886-4422 603 S. Main Street
Hopkinsville, KY 42241
Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Insurance Claims and Nursing Home
Nancy E.S. Calloway
Todd County, KY Lawyer with 38 years experience
Elkton, KY 42220
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense and Divorce
Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University
I represent individuals in automobile accidents, Social Security Disability appeals, domestic problems or adoptions, criminal cases (including DUI charges) and general practice. I am licensed in Kentucky and Tennessee. I reside in Elkton, KY and My office is in Russellville, Kentucky. I travel over the areas of Southern Kentucky and Middle Tennessee to meet with my clients or appear for them in their local court.
Jeffrey Brent Traughber
Todd County, KY Attorney
(270) 265-5651 207 E. McReynolds Drive
Travis Leon Holtrey
Mclean County, KY Attorney with 22 years experience
Calhoun , KY 42327
Free ConsultationBusiness, Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
When a person suffers an injury, it commonly causes problems extending far beyond the pain associated with the injury itself. It affects relationships, financial security, employment opportunity and mental health. So, when someone suffers an injury, they look to their attorney to be a problem solver. I genuinely enjoy having the opportunity to solve people's problems. I am challenged and honored to be entrusted with the task of helping people when they are facing trying circumstances and feel helpless.
My family instilled in me a strong work ethic and dedication to achievement. I competed in academic debate while attending Western Kentucky...
Jeremy T. Pruitt
Calloway County, KY Lawyer
Murray, KY 42071
Free ConsultationBusiness, Criminal Defense, Family and Personal Injury
Jeremy Pruitt was born and raised in Murray, Calloway County, Kentucky. Jeremy attended and graduated from Calloway County High School. Jeremy is excited to return to his hometown of Murray and bring his big city firm experience and resources back to Murray to serve the people of Murray and Western Kentucky. Jeremy’s practice areas are broad, but he concentrates his practice in three (3) primary areas: litigation (including civil, family, and criminal), personal injury, and business law.
Jeremy’s legal experience began immediately upon graduating high school and throughout college when he worked part-time as a law clerk for a small firm...
Mitchell T. Ryan
Calloway County, KY Lawyer with 10 years experience
(270) 761-6880 304 north 4th street
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Personal Injury
Where professional meets personal. DUI, Criminal, Personal Injury/Car Wrecks, Free Initial Consultation and Appointments available outside of regular busines hours. If you have a legal question or issue just ask!!
Maurice Reeves Little
Hopkins County, KY Attorney
(270) 821-0110 44 Union Street
Madisonville, KY 42431
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville
Mark Little is an experienced Madisonville bankruptcy lawyer who is dedicated to providing clients with the attentive and caring representation needed to help them effectively handle their debt. Attorney Little graduated from Vanderbilt University before earning his Juris Doctor from the University of Louisville Law School. He proudly served as a Major in JAG during Desert Storm with the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division. During his service he was awarded with the Air Assault Certification, the Meritorious Service Medal, and three Army Commendation Medals. Attorney Little has more than 30 years of experience in representing clients and guiding them through...
Albert Bradley McQueen Jr
Hopkins County, KY Lawyer with 38 years experience
(270) 821-1670 297 S. Main St.
Medical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Products Liability
University of Kentucky College of Law
As a Kentucky native, Albert Bradley McQueen Jr. is proud to help his neighbors in finding justice. He has spent his legal career focusing on the area of litigation, involving claims for personal injury, automobile injuries, medical malpractice, products liability, nursing home litigation, and defective drugs & medical devices. In addition to being active in his work, McQueen also is an active runner, having completed many half and full marathons. McQueen is happily married to his wife, Janie, of over 30 years.
Timothy Jay Wilson
Hopkins County, KY Attorney with 37 years experience
Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Products Liability and Workers' Comp
With over 31 years of practicing exclusively in the field of workers' compensation and actively being involved with the system, Timothy Wilson proves to be passionate about the area. His firm, Wilson & McQueen, which he started in 1987, is now recognized as a Tier 1 “Best Law Firm” by US News and World Report. Wilson has also been recognized year after year for his work and dedication towards the field of workers' compensation.
Chris Hendricks
Calloway County, KY Attorney with 5 years experience
(270) 293-5944 301 Maple Street, Suite C
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Family and Traffic Tickets
Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
Chris is a native of Murray, Kentucky and graduate of Calloway County High School. He received a Bachelor's degree in criminal justice and minor in Spanish from Murray State University. During college and after, Chris worked for the Calloway County Sheriff's Office as a deputy and dispatcher. After he left the Sheriff's Office, Chris spent six years as a Probation and Parole Officer with the Kentucky Department of Corrections, where he supervised adult felony offenders in the community. Chris left the Department of Corrections in pursuit of a law degree at the...
George Eric Long
Marshall County, KY Attorney with 11 years experience
(270) 527-5500 908 Poplar St
Arbitration & Mediation, Business, Estate Planning and Insurance Defense
I take great pride in, and truly enjoy, serving the legal needs of the people and businesses of Western Kentucky. Go to our website for more info: www.longlawky.com This is an advertisement.
Ms. Lisa A. DeRenard
Marshall County, KY Lawyer with 26 years experience
(270) 527-5855 1765 Mayfield Highway Suite B
Over 25 years experience practicing law in Kentucky.
Matthew Edward Schalk
Caldwell County, KY Attorney with 13 years experience
(270) 365-6288 111 West Court Square
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Medical Malpractice and Social Security Disability
I have been practicing law in Western Kentucky for over 12 years, primarily in the areas of Criminal Defense, Personal Injury (car wrecks, slip and falls, medical malpractice, etc.) and Social Security Disability Appeals.
Barclay Walden Banister
Caldwell County, KY Lawyer with 24 years experience
(270) 365-0014 112 E Main St
Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Divorce and Family
Mississippi College School of Law
Jeff G. Rousseau
Caldwell County, KY Lawyer
(270) 365-2763 100 East Court Square
Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Personal Injury and Real Estate
Matthew S. Hatfield Esq.
Calloway County, KY Attorney
(270) 759-3954 309 N. 4th Street
Free ConsultationInsurance Claims, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Jessica Fox Flinn
Calloway County, KY Attorney with 11 years experience
Free ConsultationCriminal Defense, Divorce, Domestic Violence and Family
Jeffery Allen Roberts
(270) 753-0053 509 Main St
Free ConsultationNursing Home, Personal Injury, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
Jeff Roberts limits his private practice to representing individuals and families who have been injured or disabled. He has more than 23 years of experience. Jeff’s reputation as a workers’ compensation, Social Security, and trial attorney has gained him a reputation that extends far outside of Western Kentucky. Jeff receives calls from attorneys from all over the state of Kentucky and even from attorneys outside of Kentucky asking him to represent their family, friends, and clients. Jeff is so well thought of that he is frequently asked to speak at Continuing Legal Education Seminars, training other attorneys...
Mr. Lindell Choat
Lyon County, KY Attorney
(270) 388-7717 Post Office Box 890
Eddyville, KY 42038-0890
Bankruptcy, Criminal Defense, Landlord Tenant and Nursing Home
Established in 1984, I have maintained my office on Main Street the entire time, therefore, I am doing something right. Finally, I am user friendly as I come from a modest background!
Roy Massey IV
Crittenden County, KY Lawyer
Marion, KY 42064
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Collections, Family and Personal Injury
Dianna Lynne Riddick
Marshall County, KY Attorney
(270) 354-8714 4689 Egners Ferry Road
Divorce, Domestic Violence, Elder and Family
William Cox Jr
Business, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Municipal
Daryl T Dixon
Mccracken County, KY Lawyer with 19 years experience
Paducah , KY 42001
Free ConsultationAsbestos, Insurance Claims, Maritime and Personal Injury
Daryl Thomas Dixon started practicing Kentucky Personal Injury Law in 2000. Daryl has been on the front lines of Serious Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Law battling for these injured victims and their families for over eleven years. Daryl focuses his practice to those Injured and Wrongful Death Cases from: Auto, Semi-Truck and Motorcycle Accidents Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Asbestos and Mesothelioma Litigation Railroad, River, and Boating Accidents Plane Crashes Daryl T. Dixon is a member of the Florida and Kentucky Bar Associations with a license to practice law in both Jurisdictions as well as the United...
Bryan Robert Reynolds
Daviess County, KY Lawyer with 27 years experience
(270) 926-4000 100 St Ann St
Owensboro, KY 42303
Administrative, Energy, Environmental and Real Estate
BS in Geology from Indiana University, 1983. Worked as Geologist for Reynolds Resources, Inc., an independent oil and gas exploration and development company from 1984-1988. Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Chase College of Law, 1991 Environmental Department of Greenebaum Doll & McDonald, Lexington, KY from 1991 to 1997. My current practice is concentrated in Oil and Gas, Real Estate, Environmental Law and Governmental/Municipal and Administrative Law. I work in almost all areas of Oil and Gas law, including governmental and regulatory, title examination, mergers and acquisitions and due diligence, and litigation. I've been on the board of...
Robert (Bob) Young
Warren County, KY Attorney with 29 years experience
(270) 781-6500 1101 College St
For most of his 27-year career, Bob Young has practiced extensively in the area of medical malpractice, pharmaceutical and medical device litigation. Because of his work in the field, he has at his disposal a growing database of top-notch national medical experts, often who are uniquely qualified to consult with the firm and sometimes provide expert testimony in a case. Bob also has handled other personal injury cases, including representing individuals who have been injured due to negligence or malpractice. Among the cases he’s handled was the firm’s complicated class-action lawsuits against pharmaceutical giant Merck for damages due to its...
Lajuana Wilcher
Warren County, KY Lawyer with 38 years experience
(270) 781-6500 1101 College Ave.
Appeals and Environmental
LaJuana Wilcher is a Partner at English Lucas Priest & Owsley LLP (ELPO). She began working with NACWA (then AMSA) in 1989, when she was nominated by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as EPA's Assistant Administrator for Water. In that position, she was responsible for national water policy, and promulgated stormwater, biosolids, and TMDL regulations, among others. She also convened and worked closely with the FACA group that developed the 1994 CSO Policy.
LaJuana worked on environmental law issues in Washington, D.C., for almost 20 years. She was a Partner in the DC offices of...
Sarah Jarboe
Warren County, KY Lawyer with 8 years experience
Sarah Jarboe primarily practices environmental law and civil litigation. She grew up in rural Kentucky near Owensboro, and the outdoors formed the fabric of her childhood. Sarah’s enthusiasm for nature is reflected in her legal practice. For her undergraduate education, Sarah attended the University of Louisville where she double majored in psychology and philosophy and minored in history. The analytical reasoning that intertwined Sarah’s college courses led to her general interest in the legal field.
During Sarah’s challenging studies at Vanderbilt Law School, it became clear that finding an area of law that was meaningful to her was vital to academic,...
Flora Stuart
(888) 782-9090 607 E 10th St
We’re local with over 40 years of experience and we’ve collected millions for our injured clients! Call us 24/7 for your free case evaluation.
A nationally recognized attorney, Flora Templeton Stuart was the first female attorney to litigate cases in Southcentral Kentucky. She was appointed Public Advocate of Warren County with extensive trial experience including national recognition on Good Morning America and Time Magazine.
Unique to a major law firm, Ms. Stuart personally oversees her cases, which include automobile accidents, semi-truck accidents, and personal injuries. She has been recognized as a Top 10 Trucking Trial Lawyer, Top 100 National Trial...
Marcus Hayes Herbert
(866) 702-8933 416 S 5th St
Free ConsultationAppeals, Bankruptcy and Estate Planning
For the past 25 years, my practice has focused on helping individuals, families, and small businesses to overcome financial setbacks and obtain a Fresh Start. Sometimes this means fighting foreclosures or defending against credit card suits. Very often, it involves filing bankruptcy to eliminate multiple debts or to consolidate several debts into one smaller monthly payment that my clients can actually afford. I treat my clients with dignity and respect and am proud to have served more than 10,000 people in Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois.
Matthew C. Hardin
(270) 282-0110 2501 Crossings Blvd
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home and Personal Injury
University of Tennessee College of Law and University of Tennessee College of Law
Ben Crocker
(800) 599-8888 520 East Main Street
Free ConsultationMedical Malpractice, Nursing Home, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Attorney Ben Crocker is a founding partner of Crocker Law Firm, along with his wife, Cyndi Crocker. Ben is a trial attorney with more than 25 years of litigation experience.
Ben earned his law degree at the University of Kentucky in 1992. He earned his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas, where he graduated with honors in 1987.
Ben Crocker grew up in Franklin, Kentucky. He was the 1984 valedictorian of Franklin-Simpson High School, and spent his summers working at the Franklin pool. Ben’s father, Ken Crocker, was a veterinarian in Simpson County. His mother, Helen...
Kurt Maier
Kurt Maier is an experienced and accomplished personal injury attorney who is licensed to practice law in Kentucky, Tennessee and in federal courts. For the past five years, he has been chosen for inclusion in Super Lawyers, a highly selective publication that recognizes the most respected attorneys within a state. Kurt was involved in ELPO’s large settlement with Merck over the drug Vioxx, which was pulled from the market in 2004.
Kurt’s work concentrates on representing people who have been seriously injured as a result of catastrophic truck and auto accidents, defective products, defective pharmaceutical products, defective medical devices, construction accidents,...
Jessica R. Shoulders
Jessica Surber is a partner at ELPO who works primarily on products liability and personal injury cases, with most of her practice focusing on defective medical products and pharmaceuticals.
In the medical device field, Jessica has handled many cases against the manufacturers of metal-on-metal hip replacements, which have become widely criticized for poor design. Other cases Jessica is handling include lawsuits against the makers of IVC (inferior vena cava) filters, which are used to prevent blood clots from traveling through the body and causing a pulmonary embolism. The IVC filters are sometimes left in the body for too long, and can...
John Caldwell Rogers
Barren County, KY Lawyer with 29 years experience
(888) 651-9353 111 W Wayne St
Glasgow, KY 42141
We are a consumer bankruptcy law firm helping persons and businesses with their financial situation. If you believe we can be of assistance to you, please contact us today at johnrogers@glasgow-ky.com or toll-free at 1-888-651-9353 and put our experience to work for you. We offer a free initial consultation and we are available to accommodate your schedule and meet with you on weekends or during the evening. We are located in Glasgow, Kentucky at 111 West Wayne Street, one block off of the Square in Glasgow. Glasgow is conveniently located on the Louie B....
Cynthia Crocker
Ryan Clifford Reed
(270) 745-1933 941 Lehman Ave
Divorce, Domestic Violence, Family and Personal Injury
What’s holding you back? For Reed Law Group’s clients in South Central Kentucky, it’s usually a broken marriage or an unmanageable co-parent, or sometimes a crash-related injury or a recent DUI arrest. But it’s never their lawyer. At Reed Law Group, we are sharply focused on Moving People Forward in times of family or personal crisis. We deliver caring and experienced counsel to clients in Bowling Green, Kentucky on a wide range of family law matters, and to carefully selected clients with claims for personal injuries and those seeking defense of DUI charges. We’ll remove the obstacle...
Jeffery P. Alford
Mccracken County, KY Attorney with 19 years experience
(855) 534-3434 222 Kentucky Ave., Suite 7
Collections, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Divorce
Jeffery "Jeff" Alford is a solo practitioner covering Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois. The Alford Law Office handles a wide variety of matters focusing on family law, criminal defense, mediation, and collection work.
Gregory T Taylor
Free ConsultationBusiness, Estate Planning, Probate and Real Estate
A Calloway County native, Greg Taylor is an attorney licensed in Kentucky and Tennessee. He’s been practicing law in his hometown since graduating from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 2003. He earned his bachelor of arts from Murray State University in 2000 and graduated from Christian Fellowship High School in Marshall County in 1996. Greg practices law in the areas of real estate, corporate law, asset protection, estate planning and probate, adoptions, foreclosure & foreclosure defense, collections law, and collection of certificates of delinquency. When he’s not working, Greg is active in the Murray and Calloway...
Julie Ann Tennyson
(270) 534-5135 PO Box 9551
Free ConsultationBankruptcy, Business, Estate Planning and Foreclosure Defense
University of Tennessee and The University of Georgia School of Law
Curt Hamilton
Henderson County, KY Attorney with 23 years experience
(855) 231-2878 110 North Main Street
Henderson, KY 42420
Free ConsultationNursing Home and Personal Injury
I represent people, not companies. If you have been hurt in a car accident, semi truck wreck, or motorcycle collision, we will get you the justice you deserve. I have represented clients in Henderson, Evansville, Union County, Webster County, Daviess County, Crittenden County, Vanderburgh County, Newburgh, Warrick County, Princeton, Gibson County, and throughout the rest of Kentucky and Indiana. Call the HurtCallCURT team at 270-844-8205, or visit our web site at www.hurtcallcurt.com for more information.
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Admiral Sir William O’Brien provides Legasee with a wonderful interview about his distinguished Naval career during the Second World War.
Adre Jeziorski
Although aware of the seriousness of the situation unfolding around him. Adre remembers his escape from Poland as an adventure.
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Alan Guy
Alan Guy served with the Royal Army Medical Corps and his responsibility was to look after the general health of the soldiers...
Alan Hewett
Alan Hewett was an Aircraft engineer based at RAF Luffenham. Servicing many of the planes used on the Berlin Airlift it was a hub of activity...
Alan Johnson
Alan Johnson worked alongside the Russians in the Airlift Air Centre in the heart of Berlin. He shares some very candid memories of his time in Berlin
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Alan Johnson provides Legasee with an in-depth and often times, entertaining interview about his time in the Royal Navy.
Alan King served with the East Riding Yeomanry as a Radio Operator. He recalls scenes of chaos.
Alan Lloyd
Alan Lloyd served as a Radio Electrical Artificer for 24 years on a number of ships including the Navy's Flagship, HMS Ark Royal.
Alan Tizzard
As a boy Alan was mad about motor cars. Little could he imagine that at 18 he would be commanding a 32,000 horsepower tank on the Russian borders
Albert Figg
Albert Figg was well respected for his work in focusing attention to the devastating battle of Hill 112.
Albert Gibson
Drafted into the Catering Corps Albert Gibson wonders if he’ll ever see any action. But posted to Korea he discovers he is still a soldier first
Albert Kingham
Albert Kingham gives a humorous account of his life as a young man in the ATC. Stationed at RAF Oakingtonhe was involved in the Berlin Airlift
Albert Malin
From loading LCTs on the build up to D Day, to being adrift in the Barents Sea, Albert Malin provides a detailed account of his Naval service...
Albert Owing
Albert Owing was a Merchant Seaman who sailed on many Atlantic convoys on RFA British Diligence, SS Fairwater and the Highland Brigade.
Alec 'Ernest' Kellaway
Alec Kellaway began his career in the Royal Navy aboard the ill-fated HMS Hood.
Alec Chambers
Alec Chambers gives an interesting account of life as a Flight Refueller on the Berlin Airlift.
Alec Penstone
This is the first of 8 films about Alec Penstone's incredible life as a WWII submarine detector.
Alec Pulfer
A character who served on HMS Woolwich in the Mediterranean during the second world war.
Alex Owens
Alex Owens provides a classic story of life at sea for a young man who wanted to do his bit. Like the tens of thousands of others like him
Alf Burton
In May 1941 Alf Burton was onboard HMS Rodney in the North Atlantic. From his vantage pint in the funnel, he witnessed the Bismarck sinking.
Alf Duncan
Alf Duncan joined the Navy at the age of 16 and prior to D-day was on Russian Convoys. For him sweeping the English Channel for mines was enjoyable
Alfred Fowler
Alfred ‘Chick’ Fowler gives a very detailed account of his time spent as a Stoker on HMS Sheffield.
Allan Orpin
Allan orpine provides a good account of his time with the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment.
Andree Dumon
Whether it was delivering false newspapers or concealing English soldiers, when the Germans invaded Belgium
Ann Bonsor
Ann Bonsor was a Wireless operator at SOE's 'Massingham' base in Algeria. Her job was to communicate with agents working behind the lines
Anthony Cooper
Anthony Cooper suffered life threatening injuries when he was blown up by an IED in Afghanistan.
Antoinette Porter
Antoinette Porter was just 17 when she tried to enlist. Keen on adventure, little could she have imagined that she would end up in Folkestone
Sergeant Arthur Brown originally joined the Royal Artillery in 1943. He soon found that it wasn't really exciting enough...
Arthur Cant
As a member of the military police Arthur Cant was there during the D-Day landings to take enemy prisoners.
Arthur Staggs
Arthur Staggs was a Wireless operator of F Section ‘Farmer’ circuit in SOE. He was captured, tortured and released.
Austin Byrne
Austin talks about life in Bradford during the early years of the war before he joins the Navy to do his bit as a DEMS gunner on-board SS Induna.
Baden Singleton
Baden Singleton provides an honest [very honest] account of his time in the Royal Naval Patrol Service.
Barbara O'Connell
After failing to be persuaded to join the WAAF, Barbara O’Connell volunteered to join the FANY.
Basil Chambers
Basil Chambers was sent to Berlin, Germany with the Royal Norfolk Regiment. He’s in the country when the Russians blockade the city
Bella Bailey
Bella Bailey gives a fascinating perspective of life as a WAAF whilst stationed at Lubeck during the Berlin Airlift.
Bernard Barker
Bernard Barker served in Korea with the 1st Royal Tank Regiment. Ground conditions were tough on tanks
Bernard Clarke
Bernard Clarke was a Corporal in the Royal Norfolk Regiment. As an Infantryman he took part in numerous foot patrols. It was a far cry from his...
Bernard Cohen went to Korea with the Royal Navy. His role, working in the fly-deck party which supported the ship’s airborne crew.
Bernard Howell
Bernard Howell was only 16 when he joined the Navy. After experiencing the waters off the coasts of Russia, Italy and Egypt,and Normandy
Bernard Lynham
Bernard served with 46 Commando, Royal Marines part of the 9th Infantry Battalion. He was only in Normandy a short while when disaster struck.
Bernard Parke
Bernard offers an amusing and insightful take on conscription in the fifties. He secured himself a place in the RAF in air craft movements
Bert Crane
Bert Crane served with the The 43rd (Wessex) Reconnaissance Regiment (The Gloucestershire Regiment).
Bert Haddrall
Bert Haddrell was a Company Runner with A Company 4th Battalion Dorset Regiment. After an attack on Hill 112 he was lucky to be alive. 70 years later
Bert Williams
Bert Williams was one of 90 sergeants that Montgomery took to Germany. He served with the Royal Army Service Corp.
Betty Dobson
Betty Dobson provides a great interview detailing her life as a Second World War Wren.
Betty Hutton
Betty was just 18 when she joined the WAAF. When she leaves 5 years later, she receives a mention in the Kings despatches.
Betty Norton
During the war, Betty Norton was sent to England by her stepmother. On her way, she was scouted by two American SOE’s, which lead to her becoming a me
Bill Bennett
Merchant Navy pipeline specialist Bill Bennett was selected for D-Day action because of his wireless operator skills.
Bill Blount
In one of the toughest war roles, Royal Marine Bill Blount gives a compelling account of his experience as a landing craft gunner.
Bill Cameron provides an amusing and detailed account of his time in the Royal Artillery in the Far East. Whilst he fought the Japanese at Kohima
Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell was a 19 year old Load Master on the Berlin Airlift. He served with the 1st Battalion the Black Watch.
Bill Churchill
Bill Churchill provides a detailed account of his life aboard the HMS Malcolm and HMS Ajax.
Bill Davidson
Bill Davidson was an Intelligence Officer with the Gordon Highlanders and was in the Battle of Kohima.
Bill Edwardes
‘You go because you know you’ve got to. Somebody is relying on you and that’s what you’re trained for….’ As a Stretcher Bearer.
Bill Evans gives a great interview about his time on the Berlin Airlift. His is a story like many National Serviceman. At the time it was just a job.
Bill Fellingham
Bill Fellingham provides a detailed account of his service in the Merchant Navy. PQ 17 was famously told to scatter.
Bill Fox
Desperate for adventure Bill Fox volunteered to go to Korea with the Gloucestershire Regiment. He experienced some of the worst fighting of the war
Bill Hurst
Like most young men of his generation Bill Hurst joined the army as a National Serviceman. Badged 1st Kings Liverpool Regiment he was sent to Korea
Bill Price
On D-Day, Bill Price sailed on one of the "Corn cobs”. These were block ships that crossed the channel and were scuttled
Bill was in the Kings Own Scottish Borders. He landed on Sword Beach and recalls in vivid detail many incredible moments from his shortened campaign..
Bob Barrett
Bob Barrett provides an honest, amusing and candid interview of his early life in the armed forces. He was a Life Guard and to say he was a proud man.
Bob Brand had a remarkable career in aviation. Starting out in the RAF he finds himself on Sunderland Flying Boats and on the Berlin Airlift...
Bob Conway
When he was seventeen Bob Conway joined the Royal Army Service Corps. During Operation Overlord he drove American Mack trucks and the Studebakers.
Bob Foster
A conversation with Bob Foster - Battle of Britain fighter pilot.
Bob Frost
Bob Frost was an RAF evader who used the Comète Line to escape when his Wellington bomber was shot down over occupied Belgium...
Bob Gale
Life manning Landing Craft Assaults, was both exciting and frightening for Bob Gale as he faced rough seas, mortar attack and abandonment on beaches.
Bob Gill
Bob Gill served in the Manchester Regiment in 1947/48 and following demobilisation was recalled for service in Korea in August 1950.
Bob Moloubier
In this revealing interview, the world renowned saboteur and weapons trainer, Bob Maloubier shares detail about his life in SOE and Force 136
Bob Montgomery
Captain Bob Montgomery was awarded the Military Cross for his part in Operation Chariot. Better known as the Assault on the St Nazaire docks
Bob Stewart became better known as 'Bosnia Bob' when he found himself as the military's media man informing the world about Balkan Politics.
Bob Sullivan
Being a junior NCO with the paratroopers was exhilarating for Bob and despite being injured, he enjoyed every minute with a great bunch of lads.
Brian Bird
One of the few surviving WWII pilots to have flown both the Hurricane and the Spitfire.
Brian Daley
Brian Daley was called up in 1951. He went to the Far East but ended up as an MP patrolling the docks in Kure, Japan.
Brian Hamblet
Brian Hamblet served in the Gloucestershire Regiment in the Korean War. He had a remarkable view of the Battle of the Imjin
Brian Hargreaves
Brian Hargreaves joined the Royal Signals on the 14th of July 1947 and served until September 1949. Most of this time was spent on the Berlin airlift
Brian Hough
Brian Hough was a National Serviceman who fought in Korea with the Kings Regiment. He gives an outstanding account of his life in the line
Bryan 'Tab' Hunter
"Tab" was conscripted into the Paras in 1956. He talks engrossingly about the training and some of the scrapes he was involved in
Bryan Rudland
Bryan Rudland provides an interesting account of his life in Korea as an MT lorry driver.
Going against his father's wishes, Buster joins the Navy. He confesses to being terrified at the possibility of going down the mines
Catherine Avent
Catherine had romantic ideas of life as a WREN and she delivers a thoroughly captivating account of her life during the war.
Charles Bull
Charles Bull provides an interesting account of his time onboard HMS Kenya. He worked in Payroll.
Charles Chirgwin
RMS Queen Elizabeth was one of the very first Merchant ships to be fitted with the then highly secretive RADAR [Queen Mary was also fitted].
Charles Eagles
Charles Eagles was in 'S' Company of the 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry and landed at Gold Beach. His specialism was mine clearance,
Charles Jeffries
Charles Jeffries served in the Highland Light Infantry. Prior to the D-Day landings, he’d spent time in the desert and was battle hardened.
Chatham Memorial
100 years to the day that three Chatham Port Division Cruisers were sunk, the people of Kent gather to remember them.
Christian Lamb
Christian Lamb provides a humorous and detailed account of her life as a 3rd Officer WREN.
Clarence Obi
Clarence Obi served with the Royal Pioneer Corps in 1973.
Cliff Dalton
Cliff Dalton served with the RASC and on D-Day landed on Sword Beach. When his vehicle became stuck, he also found himself in a sticky situation...
Clifford Herridge
Clifford Herridge was conscripted to the The King's Regiment (Liverpool). He became a cook which afforded him some privilege
Clifford Thomas
Clifford Thomas served as a clerk with the RAF and was stationed at several airfields throughout Germany during the Berlin Airlift.
Clive Hewitt
Clive Hewitt was 19 when he went to Korea. He served with the Royal Engineers and provides a wry account of his time there.
Colette Cook
Colette Cook gives an entertaining account of her time as a Wren. She had a few scrapes and went on to become a Bombe operator...
Colin Cottle
On the Berlin Airlift Colin Cottle was part of Air Formation Signals who were a branch of the army that supported the airforce
Colin Parker
Colin used to love watching the trooping of the colour but had assumed a life on the docks was his lot. That all changed when he went into the army
Cornelius Snelling
Cornelius Snelling served on the Black Swan-class sloop HMS Wildgoose.
Cyril Blackman
Cyril Blackman’s interview is one of a number we have recorded with surviving 41 Commandos.
Cyril Simms
Cyril Simms was a Royal Marine and during the Normandy Landings his LCG patrolled the Trout Line keeping an eye out for midget submarines.
Cyril Standiford
As a gunner in the Navy, Cyril Standiford was part of Operation Neptune, and experienced a terrifying attack of his ship
Cyril Tasker
Cyril Tasker served with 716 Company Airborne light, workshop Platoon. They operated as a support unit for the 6th Airborne Division.
D-Day school film
A unique opportunity for pupils from King Richards school in Portsmouth to meet a D-day veteran. In the morning at the museum, in the afternoon they..
Dan Hall
On the Berlin Airlift, Dan Hall worked on GCA, a Ground Control Approach radar system.
Daniel Bottomley
Daniel Bottomley joined the Royal Marines because to him, it was the elite regiment and he was never going to settle for anything less.
Daniel Lyons
Daniel Lyons served with the Royal Signals as a Wireless Operator and was attached to A Squadron 6th Airbourne Division during the Normandy Landings.
Daphne Brookes
After leaving school in 1940, Daphne Brookes-Young worked with the St Johns Ambulance Brigade up before she decided to enrol in the war effort.
Daphne Park
Daphne Margaret Sybil Désirée Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) in 1943.
Darren Swift
Darren Swift joined the Royal Green Jackets in 1982. Ten years later his career is ended when he is blown up in Northern Ireland.
Dave Buck
Dave Buck had a couple of stints in the armed forces. Whilst he enjoyed most of what he did there are scars...
David Baines
Brigadier David Baines MBE served as the final President of the Normandy Veterans Association. In WWII he was a gunner in the Royal Artillery.
David Blissett
David Blissett provides a brutally honest account of his life, post-service, with PTSD. He was formerly a lance corporal in the Kings Regiment
David Craig
David Craig was a Radio Operator in the Merchant Navy during WWII when the Dover Hill was damaged he ended up staying in Russia for 10 months during w
David Edwards
When the the Russians blockaded Berlin in 1948, one astute man calculated that supplies could be air-lifted in to the city.
David Greig
The Normandy invasion may have been frightening, but David Greig’s experiences in the fire service during the Blitz had prepared him well.
David Jefferies
Affectionately known as ‘Bunts’ to his friends, after the Naval Bunting, David was a signalman on an LCT
David Wilkins was interviewed for a project Legasee conducted with Stoll who are a Veterans' charity and Housing Association.
Dennis Bowen
Dennis Bowen provides a very detailed account of his Normandy Campaign in the East Yorkshire Regiment.
Dennis Dymond
Dennis Dymond demobbed from the armed forces in 1956 in the rank of Lieutenant. His last appointment was with 27 Infantry Brigade
Dennis Grogan
Dennis Grogan was an aircraft engineer with 1903 Air Observation Flight.
Dennis Whitehead
Dennis Whitehead served on the C-Class Destroyer, HMS Cassandra. It’s hard to determine if it was good or bad luck that was in play on December 10th
Dick Arscott
Group Captain Dick Arscott gives a detailed and lucid account of his memoirs as a pilot with 48 squadron on the Berlin Airlift.
Dick West
Dick West gives a brilliant account of his life as an Engine Room Artificer on HMS Sheffield.
Don Hunter served as a Radio Officer in the Merchant Navy. He was involved in the D-Day landings onboard the MT Empire Pickwick.
Don Maclean
In 1995, Don Maclean joined the Royal Marines as a reservist. He served with 45 Commando and on a routine patrol in Helmand Province
Don Mantell
In WWII, Don Mantell was a tank, Troop Commander with A Squadron, The East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry.
Don McArthur
Don McArthur was one of the 9th Airborne Para's who dropped into Normandy to take the Merville Battery out of action on D-Day. But things didn't go...
Don Turrell
‘I took the King’s shilling...If I could do it again I would’. Despite the painful injuries Don Turrell sustained
Donald Fentum
Donald served as a regular in Korea. He has great sympathy for the National Servicemen who served in Korea with the newly formed 61st Mortar Regiment
Donald Walton
Don Walton was interviewed for a project Legasee conducted with Stoll who are a Veterans' charity and Housing Association. He served with the RAF.
Donna Rowe-Green
Donna Rowe Green has been a horticulturist all her life and she knows the benefit of spending time outdoors.
Doreen Galvin
Doreen Galvin lives in Canada but returned to England briefly in 2015. During the war she worked at RAF Tempsford from June 1943 to October 1944.
Doreen Page
In 1944, Doreen Page was studying German at London university. When her call up papers came through, language skills were in high demand
Dorothy Brewer
Dorothy Brewer was an Aircraft Fitter with the Fleet Air Arm. Despite a huge loss early in her life she is a stoic lady with a great deal of character
Dorothy Runnicles
Dorothy Runnicles provides a fabulously opinionated account of her service with the WRNS. She was an evacuee would go on to become a pacifist.
Doug Arthur
Doug Arthur shares a fascinating and detailed account of his Second World service with the 106 Royal Horse Artillery, Lancashire Yeomanry. He was..
Doug Joyce
Doug Joyce served on the heavy cruiser, HMS London. In July 1942 the ship was providing distant cover to the PQ17 convoy on it’s way to Russia.
Doug Lakey
Whilst in Normandy, Doug Lakey served as an Observation Point Sergeant. It was fierce but also fun…
Doug Shelley
Doug is a proud Chatham Rating who experiences the best and worst of the Port division. Drafted to the M-Class destroyer HMS Milne, he spends nine...
Douglas Hassall
Another Chelsea pensioner and a very different experience of the war to George Bayliss. We pick up the story en route to Singapore.
Douglas Turtle
Douglas Turtle, 91, gives a spirited yet modest overview of his impressive Royal Navy career.
Dr Joyce Hargrave-Wright
Joyce was a naive 20 year old when she was sent to Bad Eilsen in Germany to work at the Berlin Air Traffic Control centre.
Ed Meddings
Ed Meddings saw action in WWII and then flew on the Berlin Airlift. A modest man he gives a detailed account of his experiences as a pilot
Eddie Curd
Eddie Curd gives a sterling account of his time in the Royal Marines. He served with 41 {independent] Commando
Edgar Green
Edgard Green served with the Middlesex regiment in Korea. He was a Batman and although not on the frontline, he had the ear of the CO so knew what was
Edward Fish
Edward Fish joined the Royal Army Service Corp as a driver. On one convoy through Normandy he is very fortunate to survive an explosion.
Edward Redmond
Paddy Redmond gives a frank account of his time in Korea with the Middlesex Regiment. As a former Commando, he was happy to be called upon to do a job
Edward Rogers
Ted Rogers sailed was an apprentice boy when he set sail with the Merchant navy. On his first voyage a U-boat attack changes the course of this life.
Edward Wells
Ted Wells provides a fascinating account of his lengthy spell at sea on numerous ships during WWII. Torpedoed and bombed on numerous occasions he's...
Eileen Simpson
Eileen Simpson provides a fascinating interview about her time as an SOE Fany at Norgeby House in London.
Elizabeth Wadner
Elisabeth Wadner talks about her late husband Sergeant John Wadner. He served with the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers
Elizabeth Ward
Elizabeth Ward talks about her journey to become a member of the FANY, including details of her previous career and her training in tele printing.
Elvira Burbeck
Elvira Burbeck gives an enlightening interview about her service as a FANY. She operated out of Massingham and Italy
Emma Couper
Captain Emma Couper did two tours of Afghanistan including a deployment with 3 Para on the inaugural Helmand Tour in 2007.
Eric Conway
Eric Conway provides a fantastic interview detailing his service as a Second World war Submariner. It’s a no-holds barred account full of emotion...
Eric Coombes
Eric Coombes was a private in the Royal Norfolk Regiment. Like most men serving in Korea he had a few lucky escapes and witnessed dreadful weather
Eric Downing
Eric Downing provides a rare and often times emotional insight into the role of a Gunner on a Flail tank during the Second World War.
Eric Gower
As part of an armoured regiment Eric Gower found his progression slow going during those initial days of the Normandy invasion.
Eric Miles
As a member of the Royal Navy, Eric’s work in clearing key coastal areas of mines was extremely dangerous, and important.
Eric Peters
Eric Peters was amongst the first British soldiers to arrive in Korea. As the front line continually moved forward and then back.
Ernest Edwards
Ernest Edwards gives an interesting account of his time in the Naffi. He served on HMS Orion a ship he has great memories of.
Ernie Brewer
In four short films, Ernie Brewer of the Royal Artillery gives an extraordinary account of the D-Day Landings.
Fanny Hugill
Fanny Hugill recounts a remarkable service as a Third Officer Wren. She worked closely with Admiral Ramsay on the planning for D-Day.
Flixton Fieldtrip
This is a short film I made that covers the day when pupils from Bungay High school met three surviving Veterans from the Berlin Airlift.
Frances McLaren
Frances has an amazing story to share. She worked for the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment which famously developed the bouncing bomb
Francis Dobbie
Frank Dobbie was a tank trooper in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guard. He was interviewed as part of a project we did with the Stoll housing association.
Franck Allanson
From the vantage point of his merchant ship, Franck witnessed the extraordinary invasion of Omaha beach during the Normandy landings.
Frank Bewley
In the Korean war, Frank Bewley served onboard HMS Glory as an Aircraft Engineer with 821 Squadron.
Frank Corbett
Frank Corbett’s extensive war story is captured in 12 fascinating films
Frank Coulton
Frank joined the REME and served with The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
Frank Garbutt
Frank Garbutt was the Quartermaster on the aircraft carrier HMS Activity. You might imagine he’d have an amazing view of what was going on around.
Frank Gill
Frank Gill provides a fascinating account of his Second World War service with the Royal Engineers, 580th Army Troop Company.
Frank Jones
Frank Jones was a Leading Seaman who gives a great account of his service on HMS Bermuda. She was involved in more than her fair share of action
Frank Rosier
Frank Rosier served as an infantryman with the 2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. On D-Day, he was in the second wave on Gold Beach landings.
Frank Wilson was an Able Seaman on the escort carrier, HMS Activity. She had the biggest flight deck of any escort carrier in the Fleet.
Fred Bailey
Fred Bailey was a Wireless Operator for Jedburgh team, ‘Citroen’. He was parachuted into occupied France soon after D-Day and shares his story
Fred Croft
Aged 17, Fred Croft joined the Royal Marines and following D-Day, is sent to serve on the Colossus-class aircraft carrier, HMS Venerable
Fred Danckwardt
During World War II, Fred Danckwardt survived 45 Operations with Bomber Command. He then returned to help on the Berlin Airlift.
Fred Estall
Fred Estall gives a good account of his life as a Gunner onboard a Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships [DEMS].
Fred Gardiner
Fred Gardiner’s Lancaster bomber was shot down over occupied Belgium and surviving the drop he evades capture with the help of a local resistance
Fred Glover
Fred Glover was part of the 9th Parachute Battalion who were tasked to take out the menace that was the Merville Battery.
Fred’s mother was unhappy when he volunteered to join the Royal Navy in 1943 - she already had three sons in service.
Fred Millward
Fred Millward was in the famed 9th Battalion, the Parachute Regiment and took part in the Assault of the Merville Battery.
Fred Perkins
The massive logistical operation of the war is sometimes forgotten. But Fred Perkins played a crucial role in helping keep the supplies rolling
Fred Roberts
In Korea, Fred Roberts served with 41 [Independent] Commando. Unlike many of his comrades, he was fortunate to make it home alive.
Freddie Hunn
Freddie Hunn gives one of the best accounts of the Second World war that Legasee have been fortunate enough to record. In at the start, he talks...
Freddie Montgomery
After her military service with the Women's Royal Auxiliary Service, Freddie Montgomery served as a Minister.
Garry Garretts
Squadron Leader Garry Garretts flew on the Berlin Airlift as part of a 30 year RAF career. Check his photos. He later received an MBE for his service.
Gen Sir Mike Jackson
General Sir Mike gives an overview of his 45 year military career and what a career!
Geoff Grimley
Geoff was a wireless and line operator with the Royal Corps of Signals. He provides an enthusiastic interview which was unfortunately cut short when..
Geoff Holland
Going to Korea lost Geoff Holland his fiancé but embedded behind the line with the Royal Artillery he played an important role providing cover.
Geoff King
After his Marine corps were ordered home, Geoff King should never have been on the ground in Korea, but he was sent as a punishment
Geoff Pattinson
Geoff was a paratrooper; and his first attempt at getting to Normandy in a glider was over quite quickly.
Geoff Prater
Geoff Prater provides a detailed and often times, very amusing account of his time as a ‘Tankie’ in the Second World War.
Geoff Shelton
Geoff was an Able Seaman aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Vindex. From start to finish, he provides an excellent and detailed account of his service.
Geoff Smith is the current Chairman of the British Berlin Airlift Association and is a font of knowledge on all things Operation Plainfare.
Geoff was RAF ground crew during the Second World War and worked on Spitfires in North Africa.
Geoffrey Pidgeon
Geoffrey Pidgeon provides a remarkable interview of his account as a teenage ‘Techie’ for MI6.
Geoffrey Steer
Geoff joined the army because he wanted to avoid the coalmines at all costs. Fate played him a cruel card.
Geoffrey Wellum
Geoffrey Wellum shares his story about his trip to Malta with no bullets.
George Barnes
George Barnes had spent his child hood playing around on the harbours and beaches of his native Cornwall. In 1950 he was conscripted and sent to Korea
George Batts
George Batts talks candidly about his life as a Corporal with the Royal Engineers. By his own admission he was daft to ‘volunteer’
George Bayliss
A lovely old gentleman who survived [by the skin of his teeth] his time in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire regiments in Italy during WWII
George Bell
In this film George gives an overview of his incredible career in the Navy and recalls his training on the HMS Ganges.
George Clements
George Clements was a Rifleman with the 6th Battalion Light Infantry. It wasn’t an easy job.
George Duffee
George Duffee was a Captain pilot in the RAF. Returning from a bombing raid, his plane is shot up over Holland and he bails out.
George Floyd
George Floyd was a [LSA ] Leading Stores Assistant on the frigate HMS Loring.
George Foggo
George Foggo worked in Bomb Disposal for the Royal Engineers. His expertise came in useful when he helped to destroy the Fortress of Mimoyecques.
George French
George French served with the 2nd Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps.
George Higgins
George Higgins was a career soldier who served in Hong Kong, Korea and Cyprus. One of the first British troops in Korea
George Parsons
George Parsons served with the Royal Fusiliers and was a founder member of No 2 Commando.
George Payne provides an interesting account of his time as an Aircraft handler
George Revell
George Revell served as an RAF Airframe Fitter. But however you travelled to Normandy you were always at risk.
George Reynolds
George Reynolds was captured during the fall of Singapore and sent to work in the copper mines at Kinkaseki in Taiwan.
George Seal
‘When we landed, we knew we weren’t alone’. George Seal describes feeling safer because of the number of Allied troops at Normandy when he arrived.
George Stagg
George Stagg was a Royal Engineer with 49th Infantry Division. In this film he recalls a plane and a parachute…
George Talbot
George Talbot provides one of the great personal battle accounts of the Second World War.
Gerald White
Gerald White was the Technical Adjutant at RAF Gatow on the Berlin Airlift.
Gerry Farmer
Gerry Farmer provides a great interview detailing his time as a Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) in the Korean War.
Gill Lewis
Despite coming from a Naval background, Gill was mad about cars and as soon as she was able she passed her test and joined the FANY.
Gladys Yates
We met Gladys when she visited the Luton primary school as part of the education we’re creating around the significance of the Second World War convoy
Godfrey Tetley
A career officer, Godfrey Tetley was desperate to get to the Korean War. He dramatically recalls the battle for the Maryand San
Gordon Ainscough
When Gordon Ainscough was called for National Service he had no idea what he'd be doing. Gordon did the Berlin Airlift
Gordon Dance
Gordon Dance served as a Stoker Mechanic in the Royal Navy. On D-Day, he was two months short of his eighteenth birthday.
Gordon Dixon
Gordon Dixon provides a fascinating account of his National Service on the Berlin Airlift. As an 18 year old he was posted to HQ Bückeburg
Gordon Hooton
Gordon ran away from home and the Navy and the opportunity to travel was a natural calling for him.
Gordon Jones
Gordon flew in Bomber Command. He was one of the lucky ones.
Gordon Mellor
Gordon Mellor was an RAF Evader. Shot down over Belgium and, aided by members of the Comète Line, he eventually reached the Pyrénées
Gordon Newton
Gordon Newton served with the 9th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment.
Gordon Payne
Gordon Payne’s interview is one of a number we have recorded with surviving 41 [Independent] Royal Marines Commando.
Gordon Smith
Gordon Smith gives an emotional account of his military experiences during WWII starting with memories of the Blitz.
Gordon Westwell
Gordon Westwell an Aircraft Engineer on the Berlin Airlift recalls the only fatal crash at Wunstorf which, effected the way he did his job afterwards
Graeme Golightly
Graeme Golightly was an eighteen year old Royal marine Commando when the Falklands Conflict started.
Gus Goldenberg
Gus Goldenberg was an army signaller who played an important part in the Normandy invasion. As a Jew, the war also had something of a personal aspect
Guy Eddy
Having witnessed nuclear testing on Christmas Island it’s remarkable that at the age of 92
Gwyn Hughes
Gwyn Hughes was a Flight Engineer with 77 Squadron Bomber Command. After the war he found himself in transport command
Hannah Campbell
Corporal Hannah Campbell was in the Adjutant General's Corps. In 2007, whilst serving in Iraq, the building she was in was caught in mortar fire...
Harold Addie
Harold Addie gives an emotional account of his time as a Wireman on LCT501. Early on D-Day, they were responsible for landing the Canadians onto Juno
Harriet Wright gives a great account of her time as a Siganller in the Wrens. Stationed in Ilfracombe she would receive signals from North Africa...
Harry Allen
Harry Allen was a boy sailor when he joined HMS Jamaica. He sailed on the Russian Convoys and recalls the battle with the Scharnhorst.
Harry Bailey
Harry Bailey worked on constructing the Mulberry Harbour prior to D-Day. For him, things seemed quite calm when he arrived at Normandy.
Harry Card
Harry was a look out on HMS Swift. From his vantage point he witnessed some of the most incredible scenes of WWII.
Harry Eddy
Harry spent his time in the Navy aboard a Tank landing craft. He was one of the first onto Sword beach and survived the landings at Westkapelle.
Harry Hawkesworth
Harry is one of the Glosters that was captured at the Battle of the Imjin. Despite his charming demeanour, 65 years later, the memories still cause...
Harry Hopkins
Pinned down by German fire, rescued by the French resistance and being wounded: the war was violent and sometimes frightening for Harry.
Harry Marrington
Harry Marrington was a Seaman and Gunner with the Royal Navy Patrol Service.
Harry Rawlins
Harry felt it was a great honour to fight for King and country. Although he found much was different between the stories he heard of previous conflict
Harry Verlander
Harry Verlander as a Wireless operator for Jedburgh team 'Harold'. After D-Day he parachuted into France as the radio operator of one of SOE teams...
Henri Diacono
Henri Diacono was of Maltese parentage but born in Algiers. After SOE training at Thame Park (near Oxford) as a wireless operator,
Henry Draper
During the Normandy landings Henry Draper arrived at Juno Beach
Howard Tomlinson
Howard joined the army to get away from a difficult family life when he was just 17. It was a huge change of life and just what he needed.
Hugh Verity
Hugh Verity flew the Westfield Lysander aircraft on numerous covert operations into Europe.
Ian Belcher
Ian Belcher served in the Kings Own Royal Border Regiment. He provides some interesting detail about his time in the army.
Ian Hammerton
A very interesting interview highlighting some of the difficult tasks Allied troops faced on the D Day landings. Ian was the commander of a squadron
Irene Bellamy
Irene Bellamy provides an entertaining and detailed account of her service in the WRENS. Before D-Day had even taken place, she was typing up...
J-L Cremieux
Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac joined the Free French Forces in London and became liaison officer between the Free French, SOE and the BBC.
Jack Charlton
Jack Charlton gives a great account of his time in the Malayan jungle. No sooner has he arrived when he's on the ultimate, bush tucker trial.
Jack Lyon
Jack Lyon was captured and taken POW when his Whitley bomber crashed over Germany. He was taken to Stalag Luft III
Jack Madders
Jack Madders provides a fabulously detailed account of his Royal Naval service. He was a Portsmouth Rating
Jack Shelley
Jack Shelley is remarkably candid about his military service. Having survived the horrors of Dunkirk
Jack Thomas
Jack Thomas provides a brilliant account of his service as a Fleet Air Arm pilot with 836 Squadron. He survived numerous crashes and a terrifying loss
‘For an unlucky man, I’ve had an awful lot of good luck’ - Jack Webb tells us how he escaped the war unscathed’
James Bisiker
Jimmy Bisiker was a Royal Marine with 40 Commando. He recalls extraordinarily tough training and the handover of Palestine to Israel in May 48.
As a young man in the Reconnaissance Corps, James Cooper witnessed some sad things during the Normandy invasion. But his faith kept him going.
James Pitts
James Pitts provides a fascinating and detailed account of his life as an Fleet Air Arm Air Gunner with 856 Squadron. He survived numerous crashes...
Jean Argles
Jean Argles worked as a Cipher Operator in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY). In this fascinating and detailed interview she reflects on her work
Jean Cleminson
The outbreak of war provided her with opportunities to showcase her skills and she went on to serve in the WAAF at a meteorological site.
Jean Eastham
Jean Eastham was lucky to survive the Birmingham Blitz. In this fascinating interview she recalls how she felt to be on the Berlin Airlift.
Jean Watson
Jean Watson gives a good account of her time in the Women’s Royal naval Service [WRNS]. She worked in Supply at Naval bases in Scotland and Ireland.
Jennifer Jones was a Captain in the 4th Regiment The Royal Artillery where she served in Germany, Lebanon and Afghanistan. Her time spent at FOB Rob
Jim Dimond
Jim Dimond joined the Royal Navy in 1942. He had an eventful career which included a torpedo sinking, life aboard a CAM ship and a stint in the Shetla
Jim Grundy
Prior to heading to Korea, Jim Grundy was an undertaker. He joined the Army Catering Corps but his specialist skills were in high demand.
Jim Holmes
Jim Holmes served in 246 Field Company, Royal Engineers. He had an eventful time in Normandy and gives a good account of himself.
Jim Leaver
In the Second World War, Jim Leaver served as a Troop Commander in the 61st Reconnaissance Regiment. He was in the thick of the action on D-Day.
Jim Radford
Britain’s youngest D-Day veteran, Jim Radford, was just 15 years old when he joined the war effort as a galley boy on a deep sea rescue tug.
Jim Stephens
Jim Stephens served in 56th Devonshire Regiment, 86th Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery. He was a lucky soldier.
Jimmy Reynolds
As a tank driver Jim Reynolds is injured in an attack during D-Day which has a lasting repercussion.
Jimmy Taylor
Fantastic interview with Spitfire photo reconnaissance pilot who survives an engine failure over Holland.
Joan Blease
Once a Wren always a Wren. Although she only served for a short period before she was invalided out.
Joan Endersby
Joan gives an interview that's full of laughter. It was brilliant meeting her and, like so many of her type, she is terribly modest about her expert..
Joan Field
Joan Field was a WREN stationed at a very remote signal station overlooking the Firth of Lorne in Scotland. Her job was to ensure that every passing..
Joan Manuel
Joan Manuel provides an entertaining account of her service as a Writer for the Women’s Royal Navy Service [WRNS]. She joined in 1943
Joan Mitchell was interviewed when Legasee visited the RNBT’s Pembroke House in Gillingham. She provides a fascinating interview about her life
Joan Nicholls
Joan Nicolls gives a thoroughly interesting account of her time in the ATS where she was recruited into the Y-service.
Joan Taylor
Joan Taylor [nee Tapp] was an WTS FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) with the SOE. She worked as a wireless operator...
Joe Hoadley
Joe's gives an amazingly detailed account of his life in the srevices. Starting with stories about life in the Home Guard in Kent, trying to join up
Joe Pitcher
Joe Pitcher was a DEMS gunner on many Merchant ships. That he survived was more down to luck than judgement
John Aitken
John Aitken was with Air Dispatch on the Berlin Airlift. He gives a modest account of his service
John Booth
John Booth joined the Royal Signals as a Wireless Operator/ line… and served in Korea.
John Bower
In the close quarters of his tank regiment, John felt an affinity with the other men as they faced enemy fire together.
John Bowler
John Bowler was awarded a Military Cross for his bravery in Korea. In his interview [1hr 53] he recounts his experiences in graphic detail.
John Bowman arrived in Korea just as the ceasefire was declared. On paper it would seem to have been perfect timing but no-one believed it would last…
John Boyd
John Boyd provides a detailed and at times, humorous account of his service in Korea.
John Clarke
John Clarke gives a brutal and compelling account of his experiences as an infantryman with The Black Watch during the Second World War.
John Collier
In 1948 John Collier found himself driving lorries on an airbase in Germany called Wunstorf.
John Cumming
John Cumming served with the RAF in Korea. Initially he was involved in aircraft movement.
John Curtis
Like many men on the Berlin Airlift, Sir John Curtiss had bombed Germany during WWII.
John Debenham-Taylor
John Debenham-Taylor was one of the earliest instructor agents recruited by the SOE. He spent the early part of the war in Finland aiding the locals
John Duke
‘You didn’t realise the training because it came automatic[ally]...The things you had to do, you did it’.
John Eddy
John Eddy was an RAF Pilot on the Berlin Airlift. On one flight into Lubeck he misjudges his approach and clips the trees.
John Edward Lee
John Lee watched the Battle of Britain from the ground and knew he wanted to join the RAF. He becomes a Navigator of a Lancaster bomber in 76 Squadron
John Edwards gives a great account of his 5 years as an apprentice in the merchant navy. Witnessing ships sinking all around him
John Harrison was an ordinance officer on A Turret, HMS Belfast. He shares his incredible story of survival.
John Howard gives a great account of his time in Korea as a National Service conscript. This is after he's spent 5 years fighting throughout WWII.
As a sergeant in the army, John Jenkins experienced some of the best and the worst of humanity while in Germany during the war.
John Juby
John Juby provides an emotional account of his time in Korea. He served with the Royal Norfolk regiment.
John Lincoln
John Lincoln was working in his father’s funeral parlour when he was called to do his national service.
John Meall
John Meall served in the Merchant Navy and delivered much needed supplies to the troops in Korea…
John Mitchell provides a detailed interview of his life in the Royal Signals. On D-Day he landed on Juno beach
If you’ve seen the film ‘The Longest Day’, you’ll know about the German fighters that strafe the two Dispatch Riders. John Morgan was a Dispatch Rider
John Page
John Page was a Linesman in the 20th Field Regiment. In Korea, his job was to repair damaged lines and ensure there was minimal disruption
John Parsler
John Parslar’s interview is one of a number we have recorded with surviving 41 Commandos. John was orphaned during the war.
On the Berlin Airlift John Perkins worked in security at the Gatow Airfield. He was then sent to Fassberg where he was attached to the Americans.
John Pound
John Pound served in the Royal Navy on a C-Class Destroyer – HMS Charity. The ships primary role was to patrol the west coast. It was a busy time...
John Roche served on HMS Renown throughout most of the war. He gives a fabulous account of himself and provides a fascinating insight to life onboard.
John Seares
John Seares talks in detail about his service onboard the Royal Navy light cruiser, HMS Belfast.
John Sharp
The son of a Scotland Yard Detective, John Sharp originally joined the Royal Armoured Corps.
John Skene
John Skene served with the Gloucester’s during World War II. During his time he prepared invasion defences along the Yorkshire coast
John Sleep
John Sleep gives an emotional account of his Second World War service. He served with the Royal Berkshires, the Parachute Regiment and in Normandy
John Sturgis
John Sturgis was a Troop Commander in the Royal Marines, 41 Commando… here he recalls how he travelled around France after the war had moved on to...
John Tyson served in the British Armed Forces with the 1st Battalion The Royal Suffolk Regiment.
During the Korean War, John Underwood was captured and held POW by the Chinese in the notorious Battle for the Chosin Reservoir.
John Whitlock
John Whitlock gives an engaging interview about his time as a Wireless mechanic on the Berlin Airlift. Listen out for his story about a drunk captain.
John Winder
John Winder served as a Captain in the Royal Corp of Signals. He was attached to the 90th City of London Field Regiment. Despite all his training....
John Woodward worked on a Minesweeper during WWII. Operating out of the Thames estuary his skipper was a wily fellow who used all sorts of tactics...
Jonathan Kempster
Jonathan Kempster was interviewed as part of joint project legasee did with Stoll housing association.
Jonni Berfield
Jonni Berfield was a coder for the Royal Navy. She was working in Plymouth when the Scharnhorst was sunk and recalls the final signals received.
Joy Aylard
Joy Aylard provides a detailed and fascinating account of her time working at a Bletchley Apark outpost called Eastcote in North London. Her role was
Joy Lofthouse
Joy Lofthouse flew Spitfires with the ATA during WWII. In her interview she shares details about her training, her ambitions in life
Kay Stadden
Kay Stadden provides an excellent interview about her time as a young ATS officer in the Y-Service. Intercepting German Enigma wireless signals
Kay Wingate
Kay Wingate served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. She trained at a Y Station on the Isle of Man listening to German Enigma transmissions.
Keith Nutter
The extremely modest Keith Nutter served in the Royal Norfolk Regiment in Korea. He was mentioned in dispatches..
Keith Watson
Keith Watson provides a detailed account of his time as a National Serviceman with the Royal Norfolk Regiment in Korea.
Ken Brasher
Ken Brasher served with the Royal Army Service Corp, 3 GHQ Company. Prior to his service in Italy, he recalls Dunkirk.
Ken Cook
As a telegraphist, Kenneth experienced Allied resolve and determination when his ship gets bomber but it’s business as usual for the men.
Ken Dixon
Ken Dixon joined the Kings Liverpool Regiment. In his interview he recalls his service in Korea as a Driver for senior American staff.
Ken French
Ken is one of those increasingly rare birds, a Bomber Command Navigator. What makes his story all the more remarkable is that he survived 38 sorties
Ken Harman
Ken Harman was a Number 3 on a 6 inch gun onboard HMS Alaunia. On one occasion and fearing for his life, he left his post and was charged
Ken Hone
Ken Hone provides a detailed account of his time as a Flight Engineer with 185 Fighter Squadron. Predominantly working on Spitfires and Hurricanes
Ken Howes
Ken Howes was in the Royal Navy with 519 Flotilla LCAs. He found transporting the Americans to Omaha Beach a traumatic experience.
Ken Jones provides a detailed, and at times amusing, account of his time in Korea as an Artisan Sergeant
Ken Plowman
Ken Plowman provides a detailed account of his time as an airman. He set out to be a fighter pilot but his timing was wrong so he settled for gliders.
Ken Turner
For Ken, the war was something of an adventure. Escaping an unhappy childhood, he joined the Royal Tank regiment.
Ken Watson
Ken Watson’s wife talks about her late husband.
Ken Watts
Ken served with The 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment and was part of the first wave onto Gold Beach .
Ken Weaden
On the Berlin Airlift, Ken Weaden flew 290 return trips to Gatow based on a shift system which could have started any time of day.
Ken Wilkinson
Battle of Britain Pilot shares memories of life in the RAF.
Kenneth Hay
Captured by the Germans and forced to march for miles in terrible conditions, Kenneth Hay has still retained his sense of humour.
During the Falkland’s War, Kevin Fenton served with the Royal Army Medical Corp. On the 8th of June, 1982 he was aboard RFA Sir Galahad
Kittie Perry
Kittie Perry provides a comprehensive account of her time in the WRNS. She was a Air Mechanic - Engines who loved her work on the Spitfire.
Kriss Akabusi
Fascinating interview with a British Olympic athlete who reached the pinnacle of his sport through the support of the British Army.
Lamin Maneh
Lamin Maneh was born in Gambia and moved to the UK to join the Irish Guards.
Air Vice Marshal Larry Lamb gives a superb account of his 36 year RAF career. Watch out for stories on the Berlin Airlift
Laurence Kennedy
On the Berlin Airlift, Lawrence Kennedy was a Navigator with 18 Squadron, Transport Command.
Laurie Weedon
Laurie Weedon gives a brilliant account of his RAF service. as a Glider Pilot.
Lawrence Youd
Lawrence headed to Normandy on D+10 where he was part of reinforcements for The 5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment.
Len Hurst
Len Hurst was working with Southend Airways when the Berlin Airlift started. He gives an interesting perspective on the largest humanitarian airlift
Len Mann
Len Mann served with D Company 12th Battalion Devonshire Regiment.
Len Manning
On his 3rd mission, Len was shot down over France on their way to the target. Coned by searchlights, the pilot put the Lancaster into a dive
Leo Hatcher
Leo gives a superb, detailed account of his time as a rigger on Sunderland Flying boats on the Berlin Airlift. Flying with 235 Squadron
Leon Gautier
Léon Gautier was one of the Commandos who served under Philippe Kieffer of the Free French Forces
Leonard Haldenby
Leonard Haldenby served in the Anti-Tank Platoon of the 2 Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment.
Leonard Ratcliff
Wing Commander Leonard Ratcliffe joined the RAF at the outbreak of the Second World War. He flew 60+ missions with RAF 161 ‘special duties’ Squadron.
In Korea, Lesley Simpson served as a Radio Mechanic with the Royal Signals. The fighting was tough enough without the effects of the weather.
Les Stonell
Les Stonell served as a Telegraphist Coder with the Royal Navy NP 1732. His work was to provide ‘Shore to Ship’ Intelligence.
Les Sutton
Les Sutton served as a Dispatch rider with the RAF Regiment 2713 (Rifle) Squadron.
Les Temple
Working as an ABC operator in Lancaster Bombers, Les Temple had an important job preventing the German pilots communicating over their radios.
Leslie Fernandez
Leslie Fernandez was a fit man when he was young. He loved sports and was good at them. Exactly the sort of chap that would catch the eye of SOE
Lewis Trinder
Joining the Navy on his 18th birthday, Lewis Trinder experienced so much of the war, from navigating the swells of the Atlantic to DDay
Lise de Baissac
Lise Villameur (née de Baissac), was one of the first two female agents to be parachuted into France by SOE in the Second World War.
Lord Alan West
In this film Lord West gives us an overview of his long, illustrious and active career. He has an impressive C.V.
Luton School
A short film that captures the day when two Naval Veterans visited the Luton School in Chatham. It was a chance to share memories, ask questions and..
Lyle Thomson
Lyle recounts his distinguished career in the RAF from the fifties through to the Falklands. His focus is on his time in the Falklands
Malby Goodman
Malby Goodman was a pacifist so joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. In 1944, whilst working in Cairo, he is discreetly asked if he'd like to join...
Marcel Singer
Marcel Jaurent Singer was a Wireless operator and resistance organiser in occupied France.
Margaret Dickinson
Margaret Dickinson trained as a nurse in 1939 before joining the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service.
Margaret Jackson
Margaret Jackson was PA to Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins who, prior to becoming SOE’s Director of Operations and eventually Head of SOE,
Margaret Moorcraft
Margaret Moorcraft gives a detailed and engaging account of her service in the WRNS as an Armourer. Thanks to Celia Saywell for putting us in touch.
Margaret Pawley
Margaret Pawley worked in SOE bases in Cairo and Italy.
Marge Arbury
Marge Arbury was a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) and recruited into Y Service for interception of Enigma wireless signals
Margery Draper
Margery gives an outstanding account of her wartime memories. She was incredibly fortunate to survive the Devonport blitz
Marian Jones
When she was evacuated as a child she ended up meeting a FANY and was impressed with what she heard. When she was able to join up, she joined
Marjorie Inkster
Marjorie Inkster was 19 years old when she joined the FANY. She would go on to train as a radar mechanic
Marsie Taylor
Marsie Taylor worked as a Wren Writer initially at Norfolk House in central London and then at Southwark in Portsmouth.
Mary Overill
Mary Overill gives a wonderful interview about her life with the WAAF. As a Devonian, country girl, the war provided opportunities and experiences.
Maurice Morby
Maurice Morby was a Driver in the 28th Field Regiment, Stores troop, Royal Engineers. He drove the Leyland Hippo - at the time the largest lorry in...
Maurice Sheldrake
Maurice Sheldrake was a Petty Officer, Aircraft Fitter in the Fleet Air Arm. He served on HMS Ocean from 1951 to 1953.
Mavis Batey
Mavis Batey was a Bletchley Park codebreaker whose Enigma breakthrough proved crucial to the success of D-Day.
Megan Moir
Megan Moir was a Wren Writer onboard the exercise training ship HMS Philante. Originally the millionaire Sir Tommy Sopwith’s private yacht.
Mervyn Kersh
In June 1943, Mervyn Kersh joined the army at the age of 18 ½. Following some tough training in Scotland with the Black Watch
Mervyn Salter
Mervyn Salter gives a great account of his life at sea on HMS Saumerz. Operating in both the Arctic and the Pacific he witnesses more than his fair...
Michael Foot
Michael Foot was a world authority on SOE and wrote several books about their organisation and operations.
Michael Gibbons
Despite the unrelenting nature and importance of the work he did, Michael Gibbons stills wonders how he managed to survive
Michael Griffin served in Korea as a Lance Corporal with the Royal Norfolk Regiment. He was based in the Samichon valley.
Michael Manny
Manny Michael served with the Royal Army Service Corps. After D-Day he was posted to Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF)
Michael Meller
At just fifteen years of age, Michael Meller worked as a laboratory technician hoping on the trials of the HF/DF (Huff-Duff) system.
Michael Wainwright
Michael Wainwright is one of the Battle of Britain fighter pilots we filmed with the help of the Roger De Haan trust and Group Captain Patrick Tootal.
Michel Bourbon-Parme
Prince Michel de Bourbon-Parme grew up in France, the family fled to the United States. He joined Operation Jedburgh...
Mick Jennings
Mick Jennings gives a spirited account of his time as a wireman on Landing craft LCT 795.
Mike Brennan
Mike joined the 1st Battalion The Dorsetshire Regiment in 1943 and at 7.25 on the 6th of June he was one the first British infantrymen to land
Mike Mogridge
Mike Mogridge gives a detailed and lucid account of his time on the Hook with the Royal Fusiliers [London Regiment]. He witnessed a great deal of...
Mildred Schutz
Mildred Schutz was in a reserved occupation when she joined the FANY in 1941. Initially she served as a secretary at SOE HQ on Baker Street.
Moyra Smiley
Moyra Smiley grew up in Kenya and was educated in Europe. In these films she talks about her life in the FANY
Mrs Ray Blythe
Mrs Blythe talks about her late husband Ray who served in the 6th Airbourne Parachute Regiment during world war II.
Muriel Joy
Muriel Joy was one of a number of Naval Veterans we interviewed at the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust’s, Pembroke House
Neil Rostron
Neil Rostron served with the 1st Battalion The Queen Lancashire Regiment and provides some good detail about his work in Northern Ireland.
Neville Williams
Neville Williams provides a detailed account of his time as an Assault Pioneer in The Welch Regiment.
Nick Carter gives an account of his time as a Royal Navy Coxswain on board HMS Ardrossan, mine-sweeping in the Channel and North Sea
Nick Rumble
Nick Rumble was aboard a Merchant Navy Ship during the invasion and could see all the Allied traffic on the beach
Nigel Caldicott
Nigel Caldicott gives an excellent account of his time as a ‘Tankie’ with the Royal Engineers in the 1970’s. He’s involved in ‘Operation Motorman’
Noreen Riols
Norren found herself working as an SOE 'honey trap'. In her interview she provides some fascinating detail about how she carried out her work...
Norman Chadwick
Norman Chadwick was interviewed as part of a project Legasee partnered with Stoll who are a Veterans' charity and Housing Association.
Normandy service
The final act of service by the Normandy Veterans Association. The laying up of their standard was an emotional day for many of the veterans who....
Operation Freedom
A short film featuring Veteran Spitfire pilot Brian Bird who went to a school in the East end of London to be re-united with an old flame.
Paddy Sproule
Paddy Sproule provides an excellent interview about her time the FANY. It was time well spent, in September 1943.
Pam & Marj
Marjorie Lilley and Pamela Elliot sit together to reminisce about their service with the Auxiliary Territorial service.
Pam Harding
Pam Harding was a Special Duties Linguist. Her job was to intercept, copy and pass on German Naval radio transmissions.
Pam Torrens
Pam Torrens was a special duties linguist based at Abott's Cliff and Ventnor. She also went onto Germany. The interview is full of detail and humour..
Pat Jarvis
When war broke out there was only ever going to be one service for Pat Jarvis.
Pat Massett
Patricia Massett was a Morse Operator who was stationed at Cowes on the Isle of Wight. Her task was to identify individual ships that were passing...
Pat Thurlow
Pat Thurlow was a young conscript who did what all military men know you’re not supposed to do, he volunteered.
Patricia Davies
Patricia Davies provides a great interview detailing her work as a Special Duties linguist in the WRNS.
Patricia Davies.
Patricia Davies was part of the team behind ‘Operation Mincemeat’, the subterfuge which allowed the Allies to invade Sicily.
Patricia Parker
Patricia Parker was a WREN based at HMS Ceres in Wetherby during WWII.
Patrick Hollins
Coastal Command was originally formed to protect convoys and Allied supply ships from attack from the enemy.
Paul Farnes
Paul Farnes is one of the surviving pilots from the Battle of Britain. He was awarded 8 kills and a DFM.
Paul Harrison
Paul De La Motte-Harrison served in the RN from 1942 to 1946. He started out as a Wireman and left as a Lieutenant in command of his own Landing Craft
Paul Lewis was one of the first British military casualties of the Iraq War. He’s still struggling to cope with both the physical and mental injuries
Pauline Payne
Pauline Payne worked at a number of SOE radio stations in Britain. Her job was to keep in touch with agents working behind the lines in Europe
Pegeen Hill
Pageen Hill had a remarkable young life working in the Red Cross. She travelled to some seriously inhospitable places
Percy Lewis
Percy Lewis experienced so much during the war, from the cold of the Scottish shores to injury to capture by the Germans.
Pete Dunning
Pete Dunning was a Royal Marine. He provides a fascinating detailed account of his training, service and life after he sustains severe injury
Peter Byers
Peter Byers served in the Royal Corps of Signals for 30 years… During this time, he served in Korea with the 20th Field Regiment Royal Artillery.
Peter Creed
Peter Creed was a Rifleman with the Gloucestershire Regiment and the 1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment.
Peter Cullen was a Royal Artillery officer in the combined Operations Bombardment unit during the Normandy Landings.
Peter Dunstan
Peter Dunstan's life as a Royal Marine in WWII. It is an extraordinary account of service on-board the HMS Prince of Wales
Peter Ford
Peter Ford served in Korea as a Driver in the Royal Army Service Corp. He has good memories of the armistice Olympics..
Peter Haughton
‘You were a fighting unit and you knew your job and you knew what you had to do’. Being part of a tank crew, the camaraderie was important
Peter Hornett
Peter gives an excellent account of his post-war Naval service onboard HMS Liverpool. He’s a natural storyteller and there’s stories aplenty.
Peter Lawrence volunteered for the role of driver when he arrived in Korea, that was following a revealing stint as medical orderly.
Peter Lee provides a fascinating insight into his work in SOE. He originally transferred from the Intelligence Corps to become a security officer.
Peter Matthews served with the Queens Royal Regiment and found himself on Operation Plainfare [the Berlin Airlift].
Peter Noad
Peter was inspired to become a soldier when his Uncle used to let him play with grenades as a boy!
Peter Thompson joined the Royal Navy in 1942 and was a Leading Seaman aboard a landing ship tank LST 304.
Peter Waddington
Peter Waddington was initially conscripted into the South Lancashire Regiment but when the opportunity to volunteer for the 1st Kings Regiment.
Philip Govett
Philip Govett served with the 117 Pioneer Company. He went through France, Belgium and Holland looking after the various supply depots
Rachel Webster
Rachel Webster gives a frank account of her time in the army. She had a long and fulfilling career that provided her with a lot of laughs, excitement
Ralph Tyrell
Ralph Tyrell gives an amazing account of life as a 20 year old bomb aimer. '..it was my job to go and lay on my stomach, open the bomb doors
Ray Lord
Ray Lord joined the 2nd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment as a Wireless Operator. It was a job that would save his life.
Reg Charles
Reg Charles provides an outstanding account of his time in the 1st Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
Reg Neile
Reg Neile gives an account of his time on HMS Gazelle as part of the Fortieth Minesweeping Flotilla…
Rex Sheppard
I went to Korea a boy and came back a man". Watch Rex talk about his experiences in some of the worst fighting conditions since the Great War.
Richard Davey
Richard Davey provides a detailed account of his time as a Gunner / Radio Op in Korea where for a while he was working in an American Unit.
Richard Donovan
Richard Donovan gives an detailed account of his military service with the Royal Welch Regiment in the 1950’s.
Richard Fitzwilliam
Richard Witzwilliam served with the Green Howards. On D-Day he was part of the first wave who landed on Gold Beach in King Sector.
Robert Watts
Robert was on Landing craft at D Day. One thing that still lives with him trying to rescue Canadian troops from drowning
Rodney Newnham
Rodney Newham lives in the RNBT’s Pembroke House in Gillingham. In the war he worked as a boiler maker in the Chatham dockyard
Ron Andrews
Ron Andrews was delighted to join the RAF until he found out that he would end up doing extra service because of the Berlin Airlift.
Ron Davies (1926)
ROYAL NAVY WORKHORSE Ron Davies, 88, gives an account of his time as a Royal Navy able seaman on board HMS Southdown.
Ron Davis provides a detailed account of his service in the RASC in India and the Far East.
Ron Smith
Ron Smith was a Wireman on LCT 947. Despite being quite poorly when we met he provides a fascinating insight to his life onboard.
Ron Smith.
As a Royal Marine Commando Ron Smith was in Korea at the very start of the Korean conflict. Undertaking dangerous night raids on the Korean coast
Ron Stephens
Ron Stephens joined the army in 1939 and trained as a Vehicle Mechanic in the REME. On the Normandy Beaches, removing vehicles from the sand
Ron Stephens.
Ron Stephens was a crew member of HMS Tarana, a special duties ship operating between Gibraltar and the South of France.
Ron Yardley
Ron Yardley gives a great account of his life onboard HMS Belfast while she served in the Korean War.
Ronald Arnold
Ron Arnold was a dispatch rider during WWII. Prior to DDay he recalls riding around the eerily quiet towns of England's South Coast.
Ronald Pickersgill
Ronald Pickersgill was a National Serviceman stationed in Wunstorf Germany when the Russians blockaded the city of Berlin.
Roy Clarke
To this day, as he gets ready to go to bed, Roy Clarke is thankful he is not sleeping under a tank.
Roy Dixon
Roy Dixon was nineteen when he joined the 5th Royal Tank Regiment, 7th Armoured Division as a Troop Leader. Unbelievably young...
Roy Painter
Roy Painter provides a detailed account of his time as a National Serviceman in the Korean War. He was a Signalman.
Ruby Marchant
Ruby Marchant worked in the main house at Bletchely Park. Remarkably she only told her son about her secretive wartime work when she was 90 years old.
Rusty Firmin
This is the first of 8 films about Rusty. It's the start of a career that will lead him to a 13 year stint in B Squadron of the 22nd SAS
Sam Pover
Sam Pover was a civilian Navigator on the Berlin Airlift. He'd already seen similar action during the partition of the British Indian Empire.
Shelley Cooper
Shelley Cooper is the mother of Kingsman Anthony Cooper who also features in our archive and was recorded as part of Chorley Council’s project
Sid and Jim
Sid Parsonage and Jim Weston first met each other on the Berlin Airlift in 1948. 65 years later they reminisce about their experiences.
Sid Ellis
Sid Ellis served as a nursing orderly with the Royal medical Corp. He recalls in detail the relentless number of casualties in Normandy
Sidney Mitchell
Sidney is a real character and despite his age still holds some very vivid memories of his time in the Signals including his call up.
Sir Peter Downward
Major General Sir Peter Downward spent almost 58 years in uniform. From the Rhine Crossing to the Berlin Airlift, Korea and Aden
Sister Veronica
Sister Veronica provides a fabulous interview full of fun and detail. She served with the Women’s Royal Naval Service as an Air Mechanic – ‘Engines’
St Edmunds School
Lovely film of the day when Brian Bird went back to his old school to share some of his experiences as an RAF Spitfire pilot. It seemed appropriate...
Stamper Metcalf
Stamper signs up for Bomber Command.
Stan Bowyer
During World War Two, Stan Bowyer served with the 49th Infantry Division, also known as the Polar Bears.
Stan Hoare
Stan Hoare was one of a series of Veterans we interviewed when we visited the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust’s Care Home, Pembroke House in Gillingham.
Stan Hope
Stan Hope was an RAF evader on the Comète Line. After travelling through Belgium [with help] he eventually reached the Pyrenees before being captured
Stan Overend
Stan Overend always believed he had salt in his veins so he was gutted when he was unable to join the Navy and had to settle for the RAF.
Stan Shore
Stan Shore served as a Trooper in HQ Squadron with the 43rd Reconnaissance Regiment.
Stan White
Stan White served in the Fleet Air Arm. In this interview he talks predominantly about his time in Korea onboard the carrier HMS Unicorn.
Stan Wood
Stan Wood provides a gripping and emotional account of his time at the Copper mines of Taiwan including the notorious Kinkaseki camp.
Stanley Bond
Stanley Bond was a Lance Corporal with the Royal Engineers and was with 105 Corp Field Park Company during the Normandy Campaign.
Stanley David
Stanley David completed over 50 operations in the RAF as an Air Gunner between January and November 1944, and encountered a few scary situations.
Stanley George Little
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Stephen Murtagh
Stephen Murtagh was serving as a dog handler in 5 Rifles when he lost his leg to an IED in Afghanistan. He was just 20 years of age.
Stoll sheltered housing
This is a snapshot of some of the remarkable veterans we interiewed at Stoll. The project, funded by the Armed Forces Community Covenant enabled....
Susie King
Susie King is a Captain in the Royal Signals. She provides a detailed account on her service as an instructor at a women’s military training school
Sydney Adlam
Sydney Adlam was a member of the Auxiliary Unit. They were a secret resistance network of highly trained volunteers.
The war was pretty grim for Ted Baker and he saw some difficult things during his time as a telegraphist and cypher officer in the Royal Navy.
Ted Bootle
As part of the Royal Army Service Corp Ted Bootle was involved in the movement of key Allied goods including food, ammunition and medical supplies.
Ted Dixon
In the Royal Signals Ted Dixon had a busy time during the war. Here he tells us about the secrecy surrounding the cypher men he worked with.
Ted Hoskins
Ted Hoskins served in the Royal Navy as a Sick Berth Attendant. Whilst the risk of injury to himself was relatively low, it did not protect him
Ted Hunt
At 91 Ted amazed us all with his encyclopaedic memory of his time as 2nd in command of 15 Rhino LST landing crafts on D Day.
In WWII, Ted Turner was a Royal Marine and was trained specifically for landing craft mechanised operations. He served on LCM 1162.
Ted Verbiest
Ted is the first to admit he had a lovely war. He was one of the first in line when the recruiting office opened he found himself shipped to Cape Town
Terence Crowley
Terry Crowley gives a great account of his time as an RAF Engine Fitter on the Berlin Airlift.
Terence Kane
Terence Kane gives an amazing account of his short Fighter career in the RAF. Short because he was on shot down over the English Channel
Terry Carroll
When Terry opted to join the Dragoons over the RAF and the Navy he hadn't expected to find himself in Flail Tank creating a safe path off Juno beach.
Theodore Dalgleish
Thodore Dalgleish provides an interesting account of his time with the Scots Own Borders. In Normandy, he transferred to Intelligence.
Tiger Moth Reunion
Former Spitfire Pilot Brian Bird heads back to the aerodrome where it all started.
Tim Elkington
Wing Commander Tim Elkington admits to an uneventful childhood. He's also equally modest about a very eventful life as a World War II fighter pilot
Tom Cromie
Tom Cromie served as a dispatch rider for the Royal Artillery during the D-Day landings… he was lucky to survive the landing because...
Tom Finegan
Tom Finegan joined the Royal Engineers at the remarkably tender age of 14.
Tom Henshaw
Tom Henshaw gives a frank and detailed interview about his military service on the Berlin Airlift. He was a National Serviceman and based at Wunstorf.
Tom Holland gives an outstanding account of his life as a pilot in the RAF. He has a long and varied career but it’s his stint on the Berlin Airlift
Tom Howard
Tom Howard provides an epic interview detailing his time in the army.
Tom was just 19 when he piloted his Hurricane in the Battle of Britain. He then went onto Malta where conditions were far worse for him.
Tom Renouf
In the Second World War Tom Renouf served with the Black Watch. As a front line infantry man who was involved in intense fighting in Normandy
Tommy Clough
Tommy Clough gives a fabulously detailed account of his time with the Glosters in Korea. 13 films in total so sit down with a cup of tea and enjoy…
Tommy Thomas
Flying Officer J.A. ‘Tommy’ Thomas initially trained in 1941/2 as a winch operator on Fairy Battles and Lysanders.
Tony Gibbons
Tony Gibbons joined the Royal Marines in 1942. He provides som excellent detail about the role of his Landing Craft during the Normandy campaign.
Tony Iveson
Tony Iveson gives an amazing account of his distinguished career in the RAF. He was one of the few pilots to fly in both fighter and bomber command
Whether is was protecting Britain’s important targets from German bombers or creating crash strips for damaged planes.
Tony Pickering
Tony was a pilot in 501 Squadron. He was 19 when he flew his first sortie in the Battle of Britain and this was after just a few practice flights.
Tony White provides a very interesting account of his time as a National Serviceman with the Royal Ulster Rifles.
Trevor Edwards
Trevor Edwards joined the armed forces in 1948 and served with the 14th Field Regiment, The Royal Artillery. He provides a detailed and at times...
Vera Morgan
Vera Morgan worked in an ammunition factory and as it was a reserved occupation, she almost never made it to the WAAF.
Vernon House
Vernon House served as a Deck Boy in the Merchant Navy on SS Coalville. During the Normandy Landings, the ship was responsible for supplying the Amer
Vernon Jones
Vernon Jones served with the 1st Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
Vic Bignall
Vic Bignall joined Royal Navy during World War II and found himself on LCT 2453 for the D-Day landings.
Vic Blake
Vic Blake served with the B Squadron in the 43rd Wessex Reconnaissance Regiment. Despite being injured, he considers himself a lucky soldier.
Vic Mackenzie
Viv Mackenzie was a driver in the Royal Army Service Corps [RASC] Hi job was to transport ammunition and keep in close support of the tanks and...
Vic Ould
Vic Ould gives a fascinating account of his life aboard Destroyer HMS Carron. She was involved in ensuring safe passage of the Troop ship 'Monsters'.
Vic Walker
Vic Walker joined the Royal Navy at the tender age of 17. He served as an Boatswain’s Mate onboard the Admiralty V-class destroyer, HMS Versatile.
Wally Beall
Wally Beall joined the Royal Navy in 1943 and served as a Wireman/Electrician on LCT836.
Wally Fuller
On D-Day, Wally Fuller was a Gunner with the 4th Royal Tank Regiment. On the 8th June, 1944 he landed on Gold Beach.
Walter Irish
Walter Irish served with 41 Independent Commando during the Korean War. As well as coastal raiding to to stem the supply routes of the North Koreans
Walter Marshall was a submarine intelligence officer who, prior to D-Day, spent time on the Normandy beaches carrying out intelligence.
Walter Soper
Walter Soper provides a great interview, full of wit and honesty about his service with numerous Regiments during the second World War.
Who Do You Think They Were?
A very rare interview recording of three surviving Veterans of the Great War.
William Ball
William Ball gives a great account of his life as an Aircraft Fitter with 77 Squadron on the Berlin Airlift.
William Jenkins
William Jenkins gives a true sailors account of his service at sea. Rude, with plenty of humour and bad language it's both hilarious and brutal...
William Seldon
Bill Sheldon was one of a number of Naval Veterans we interviewed at the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust’s, Pembroke House.
William Sheppard
William Sheppard provides a detailed and interesting account of his time as a Gunner on the mine sweeper HMS Onyx.
William Walker
William Walker flew in the Battle of Britain.
Yvonne Baseden
Yvonne was a WAAF and a FANY. She had Anglo-French parentage and was bi-lingual which was great attraction to SOE.
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