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Kraft Heinz Lawsuit & Billions in Debt
Author William DingPosted on 06/27/2019
Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC), one of the largest food and beverage company in North America and in the world, is billions of dollars in debt. The Company is sitting...
Investing News Market News Technology
Google Acquires Looker for USD 2.6 Billion
Author Rory LinPosted on 06/10/2019
Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) just announced its Google Cloud division’s acquisition of an analytics and business intelligence startup, Looker. The function behind Looker is to compile...
Blackstone to Acquire U.S. Logistics Assets from GLP for USD 18.7 Billion
Author Justin LimPosted on 06/04/2019
The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) announced that it had entered into an agreement with Global Partners LP (NYSE: GLP) to acquire assets from three of GLP’s U.S. funds...
Breaking News Cannabis Buzz Market News Medical Use The Market Buzz
Breaking News: WeedMD Reports First Quarter 2019 Financial Results
WeedMD Inc. (TSX-V: WMD) (OTCQX: WDDMF) (FSE: 4WE) (“WeedMD” or the “Company”), a federally-licensed producer and distributor of medical-grade cannabis, is pleased to report its financial and operating results for the three...
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Breaking News: Canopy Growth subsidiary and Canopy Rivers portfolio company Vert Mirabel now fully licensed by Health Canada
FINAL 190,000 SQ. FT. GREENHOUSE LICENSED. TOTAL OF 700,000 SQ.FT. OF PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING INFRASTRUCTURE NOW FULLY LICENSED. Mirabel, Québec – Les Serres Vert Cannabis Inc. (“Vert Mirabel”),...
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Breaking News: TPT Global Tech Completes SpeedConnect Asset Acquisition and adds $17M Revenue $3M EBITDA (Unaudited), Positions for a 5G Rural American Deployment
TPT Global Tech, Inc. (OTCQB: TPTW) announced today it has completed its acquisition of most of the assets of SpeedConnect LLC (“SpeedConnect”) for $2 million and the assumption of...
Marriott Shares Slip after Reporting Flat Revenue
Marriott International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAR) reported its first quarter financial results before the market open on Friday. The Company beat earnings estimates, however, its flat revenue was just shy...
Occidental Petroleum Revises Bid for Anadarko
Author Bryan ShinPosted on 05/06/2019
Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) revised its original bid for Anadarko (NYSE: APC) following a bidding war between Chevron (NYSE: CVX). Occidental originally proposed a bid of USD 33 Billion...
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Waste Management to Acquire Advanced Disposal Services for USD 4.9 Billion in Cash
Author Chloe ChenPosted on 04/16/2019 04/16/2019
Waste Management Inc. (NYSE: WM) is negotiating a deal to acquire its smaller rival Advanced Disposal Services Inc. (NYSE: ADSW) for about USD 4.9 Billion in cash, according to...
Wells Fargo Shares Edge Higher on Quarterly Beat
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) reported its first quarter financials during Friday’s pre-market hours and topped analysts’ estimates. The better-than-expected quarter sent shares 2.1% higher after the opening...
Global Alcohol Wipes Market Report 2019-2023 – Increasing Use of Alcohol Wipes for Sanitizing Medical Equipment & Devices
Global Anti-Thrombin III Testing Market Outlook to 2023: Leading Players are Abbott Labs, Danaher Corp, Roche, Siemens Healthcare, and Thermo Fisher Scientific
Battery Recycling Market 2019 – Global Insights on Technology Trends, Recent Developments, Potential Application, Risk Factors, Product Scope and Business Opportunities: Orbis Research
World Vegan Cosmetics Market Forecast to 2023: Stringent Guidelines for Obtaining Vegan Certification May Hamper Growth
3D-Printed Footwear Market Set to Register a CAGR of Approx 19% During 2019-2023 – Major Players are Adidas, ECCO, New Balance, Nike, and Under Armour
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Manchester Arena terror attack: Residents step in to help survivors after Ariana Grande concert
World FP Staff May 23, 2017 10:31:33 IST
Helped poured in for the people affected by the bomb blast at Manchester Arena as city residents threw open their homes to provide overnight lodging for people who were stranded by the shutdown in some train services because of the incident.
Many Manchester residents responded early Tuesday with offers of shelter and details on locations where displaced concert-goers had been taken in, using the hashtag #roomformanchester, reported The Telegraph.
A Holiday Inn hotel near Manchester Arena had taken in "50+ children" who were unaccompanied at the gig, the daily added.
Two women wrapped in thermal blankets stand near the Manchester Arena, where U.S. singer Ariana Grande had been performing, in Manchester. Reuters
Lauding the people’s effort, city officials said the true spirit of Manchester was surfacing in the hours after the incident, reported AP.
Shortly after the blast on Monday night which killed 19 and injured around 50, Manchester’s mayor Andy Burnham took to Twitter and tweeted: "If you are stranded in the area you can... follow #RoomForManchester where hotels and local people of our great city are offering refuge."
In addition a number of Manchester taxi services say they are offering free rides to people trapped by the incident, reported AP.
The taxi companies posted messages about the free rides on Twitter after the explosion. The service could also be used by people trying to get to local hospitals to look for loved ones.
Many of those caught up in the chaos were young fans of US singer Ariana Grande, who had performed at the venue.
The 23-year-old singer is a social media phenomenon with 105 million followers on Instagram and 45.6 million followers on Twitter. Her fans, proud "Arianators", were among those who took to Twitter with prayers and tears.
Frantic loved ones of young people missing after the explosion took to social media with their photos and pleas for help, reported The Telegraph.
The blast is being treated as a terrorist attack and has reportedly left hundreds of attendees, many of them children and teenagers, stranded in the city center as train services ground to a halt.
According to TV reports, US intelligence said that they suspected a lone man behind the explosion. In fact, the US Department of Homeland Security has issued a statement saying it is "closely monitoring the situation at Manchester Arena".
Updated Date: May 23, 2017 10:31:33 IST
Tags : Blast Victims, Manchester Arena, Manchester Blast, Manchester Bomb Blast, Manchester Residents, Manchester Terrorist Attack, NewsTracker, UK Attack
Manchester Arena explosion: All you need to know about Ariana Grande, an anodyne teen favorite hit by tragedy
Manchester terror attack aftermath: British PM Theresa May to cut short her G7 summit trip to Italy
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Manchester Arena attack: British police make tenth arrest
1Manchester Arena terror attack: Residents step in to help survivors after Ariana Grande concert
2Flash floods in Pakistan leave 28 dead with toll likely to rise; over 150 houses and two mosques damaged
3Cross-border smuggling cannot be stopped completely at India-Bangladesh boundary, says Bangla border force
4UN raises concern over US travel restrictions on Iran foreign minister Javad Zarif, conveys issue to Washington
5UN chief Antonio Guterres expresses grief at loss of life, displacement due to heavy rain in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar
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Ella Fatigued | Kaaboo Del Mar
by Flaunt Intern
Are you over that annual circus in the desert that shall not be named but let’s just say is ‘ella saturated? I know I’m ‘ella annoyed with the floral crowns, Indian headdresses and the general Instagramness of it all. If you’re looking for a reset, check out Kaaboo Del Mar, a festival in its relative infancy with an impressive and eclectic roster of musicians, chefs, comedians and visual artists.
The fest features over one hundred mixed media artists, including installation artists Handiedan, Fin DAC, ONEQ, Gleo, Jade Rivera, Remi Rough, Cryptik, Vizie and David Young V. The live installation is a particularly cool feature, a communion of sorts between audience and artist. “Mural/installation work allows me to creatively engage with the audience,” says David Young V. Remi Rough echoes that sentiment. “Being able to see something on a large scale created from start to finish over the course of a few days makes people engage with it more.”
Rough will be focusing on his classic geometric abstraction. “I kind of want people to have something non-figurative to engage with.” He adds, “Sometimes having something different and possibly outside of the norm makes people see murals and public art in a whole different light.”
Cryptik has grand plans for his live installation. “I’ll be working on a 20ft tall obelisk, wrapping my letters & patterns around the entire structure.” This is part of his ongoing body of work, The Mantradala Series, an exploration of art as a tool for meditation. “The works are a combination of mantras or prayers within a mandala design.”
After being on hiatus for a while, Young V is less prescriptive and is keeping all options open. “Whenever I take long stretches of time without doing art, my work and attitude towards it changes,” he says. “I am very curious to see what comes out of me after this long break.”
The full list of visual artists is available here.
Kaaboo’s biggest draw has to be the epic music line up. Katy Perry, Halsey, Imagine Dragons, Wiz Khalifa, Gucci Mane and Post Malone sharing the stage with the O.G.s that defined what it meant to Party Like a Rockstar: Robert Plant, Slash, Blondie, Billy Idol, Foo Fighters, Better than Ezra, Everclear, Incubus and a lot more. It’s a pretty complete journey through the last forty years of music. The Pre-Post Malone, if you will.
You can find the full music line up here.
Kaaboo Del Mar runs September 14-16, 2018
Written by: Brendan Pollecutt
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Expedia CruiseShipCenters Recognized by Franchise Business Review
Expedia CruiseShipCenters, an Expedia Inc. travel business, was recently recognized by the Franchise Business Review as a top franchise system in 2013. The company was ranked as number 38 in the 2013 Top Franchise Systems list.
"We are honored to receive this award, which wouldn't have been possible without the dedication of our franchise partners," said Matthew Eichhorst, President of CruiseShipCenters. "It is important for franchise systems to survey their franchise owners to truly get a sense of their satisfaction. The feedback that we receive is essential to the continuous improvement of our system and ultimately, the growth of our company."
Franchise Business Review conducts thousands of surveys every year with some of today's top franchise brands. More than 150,000 franchisees, from over 700 different companies, took part in the 2013 survey. Franchise Business Review surveyed an array of franchisees, industries, and business sizes to vary information given. The survey revealed CruiseShipCenters as a Top 50 franchise with one of the highest overall franchisee satisfaction ratings.
Expedia CruiseShipCenters is North America's largest retail travel agency franchise and a leading seller of cruise travel. Build equity and enjoy a great lifestyle with our proven franchise model with more than 30 years of...
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Christopher Li, M.D., Ph.D.
Spotlight on Christopher Li
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Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutch
Email: cili@fredhutch.org
Mailstop: M4-C308
Dr. Christopher Li is an epidemiologist who specializes in identifying breast cancer risk factors. He has helped detect important connections between breast cancer and lifestyle factors such as obesity, physical activity, and consuming alcohol and certain medications. He also investigates the causes of disparities in cancer outcomes and is at the forefront of efforts to ensure cancer research benefits all patients, regardless of race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, education or geography. Dr. Li studies breast cancer risk in young women and led the world’s largest study of risk factors for developing and surviving triple-negative breast cancer, a rare but particularly aggressive subtype. He also combines laboratory research with big data to find patterns that predict whether a patient’s breast cancer is likely to recur. Dr. Li also seeks to identify blood-based biomarkers that signal early stages of different breast cancer subtypes to increase the chances of detecting the disease earlier. He co-leads Fred Hutch’s award-winning cancer registry, the Cancer Surveillance System database, which tracks cancer incidence and survival in 13 Washington counties. Researchers everywhere use the Hutch registry data to identify cancer trends, find causes and track outcomes.
Other Appointments & Affiliations
Research Associate Professor, Epidemiology
University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2002
M.P.H., Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2000
M.D., University of California, San Francisco, 2000
B..S., Biological Science, Stanford University, 1995
“Through collaborative science that integrates epidemiologic approaches with cutting edge molecular technology we have the potential to make major advances in preventing and treating cancer.”
—Dr. Christopher Li
learn more about dr. li
Dr. Li in the News
Teasing out the association between oral contraceptives and breast cancer risk
Science Spotlight - June 17, 2019
Fred Hutch announces 7 inaugural recipients of Dr. Eddie Méndez award
Releases - May 01, 2019
Bringing personalized oncology to cancer prediction — and prevention
Hutch News - October 01, 2018
Cancer database for Washington state and national SEER registry renewed for up to 10 years
Hutch News - May 24, 2018
It runs in the family
Science Spotlight - March 19, 2018
Fred Hutch team receives $7.5M NCI grant to improve cancer screening
Hutch News - March 01, 2018
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The Media Relations team at Fred Hutch is available to assist members of the news media who would like to arrange interviews with faculty.
Email media@fredhutch.org or call 206.667.2210
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Detroit Lions should trade Matthew Stafford to Denver Broncos | Opinion
New Denver Broncos coach Vic Fangio has called Matthew Stafford a "top" quarterback. Trading him for Von Miller could give Detroit Lions elite defense
Detroit Lions should trade Matthew Stafford to Denver Broncos | Opinion New Denver Broncos coach Vic Fangio has called Matthew Stafford a "top" quarterback. Trading him for Von Miller could give Detroit Lions elite defense Check out this story on Freep.com: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2019/01/11/detroit-lions-matthew-stafford-trade-denver-broncos/2548321002/
Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press Published 5:00 p.m. ET Jan. 11, 2019 | Updated 6:24 p.m. ET Jan. 11, 2019
Free Press sports writers Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez react to GM Bob Quinn's news conference and provide takeaways, Jan. 4, 2019. Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press
Good riddance, Vic Fangio.
The Chicago Bears lost their excellent defensive coordinator this week, when the Denver Broncos hired him as their head coach. Under Fangio this season, Chicago's defense was third overall and first in scoring. Needless to say, the Bears’ loss is the Detroit Lions’ gain.
So good riddance and good luck, Vic.
And now that you’re out of the NFC North, how about a little horse trading for a certain quarterback you’re fond of?
That’s right. Matthew Stafford.
Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford warms up before a game against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018, in Green Bay, Wis. (Photo: Dylan Buell, Getty Images)
The stars could align for a trade that works out well for both teams. The Broncos need a quarterback. The Lions need an edge rusher, and though general manger Bob Quinn believes Stafford could win a Super Bowl in Detroit, he could easily find another quarterback to fit Matt Patricia's careful, balanced, ball-control offense.
[ Matthew Stafford is Lions' QB for 2019 and beyond. Here's why ]
Denver could trade perennial Pro Bowler Von Miller, because the relationship has soured between him and general manager John Elway. And the Broncos could throw in Case Keenum to fill the Lions' void at quarterback.
How bad is Miller's relationship with the Broncos? Let’s put it this way: When someone’s mom gets involved, it’s bad. Gloria Miller wasn’t going to sit by and let Elway blame her son, so she attacked Elway at ramming speed on Instagram. She called him “the problem” and then asked the Dallas Cowboys to trade for her kid by hashtagging them and owner Jerry Jones.
If the Broncos deal Miller, he can be the transformative defensive star for the Lions that Khalil Mack was with Chicago this season. Miller, 29, could push the Lions’ defense from good to great, possibly even elite. And make no mistake. Patricia is building the Lions around his defense.
Broncos outside linebacker Von Miller. (Photo: The Associated Press)
[ The big lead: Three realistic trade possibilities for Von Miller ]
As for Fangio, what he and the Broncos need — besides group counseling — is a proven quarterback. And Stafford, whom Fangio holds in high esteem, fits the bill. Fangio faced Stafford twice a year for four seasons and in November 2017 he showered Stafford with praise.
“(Stafford) qualifies as one of the top quarterbacks in the league,” Fangio told Chicago reporters. “And I say that because there’s really no one way to play him. When you’ve become a great quarterback, it’s because there is no one way to play it. He’s good against pressure, he’s good against three-man rush, he’s good against different types of coverages. So you just have to mix it up with him.”
On Thursday, the Broncos introduced Fangio and he said all the right things without committing to anything. Especially noteworthy was the way Fangio parroted of Elway’s recent line on Keenum by calling him the starting quarterback “right now.”
Keenum struggled in his first year in Denver. He doesn’t look like the right fit with the Broncos, who fired coach Vance Joseph and offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave. Keenum isn’t tied to Fangio, and Elway didn’t come close to giving him a vote of confidence.
Fangio and Elway know they need the right quarterback, not a quarterback for “right now.” And Stafford could be the right guy.
There’s a chance the Broncos, who are flush with draft picks and have the 10th overall pick, could draft a quarterback. But this year’s class is weak.
The only sure thing the Broncos will do is attempt to address one important reality. Above everything, they have to score a lot of points to keep up the offensive juggernauts in the AFC West. The Kansas City Chiefs led the NFL with 565 points and the Los Angeles Chargers tied for sixth in the AFC with 428 points. Denver scored 329 points, 11th out of 16 AFC teams.
Is Keenum going to score all those points? Is Dwayne Haskins? Is Nick Foles?
So here’s what I propose: The Lions should trade Stafford and a third-round pick to Denver for Miller and Keenum. Stafford and Miller’s cap numbers are similar this year. The two-year, $36-million contract Keenum signed last year is trickier, though Denver would get significant cap relief by trading him and the Lions wouldn’t be tied to him long term. Because of the structure of Stafford's contract, it would behoove the Lions to make the trade after June 1, when the cap hit for dealing him becomes more amendable.
And before you send me hate mail about Keenum and how terrible he is, did you think he was terrible last season, when he threw the Minnesota Miracle pass to Stefon Diggs? Or when he led the Vikings to the NFC title game? Has he been terrible while posting a 6-3 career record against the NFC North?
Keenum’s biggest problem this season was that he didn’t have Pat Shurmur to call the offense and get the most out of him. With the Lions, that wouldn’t be a problem. The Lions could promote or keep quarterbacks coach George Godsey, who was Houston’s QB coach in 2014 when Keenum played well and led the Texans to two late-season wins.
More: Lions offensive coordinator: Hackett, Sarkisian reportedly candidates
In fact, Keenum might be exactly what the Lions need in their desire to be a ball-control offense as part of Patricia’s philosophy of complementary football. Keenum hasn’t come close to Stafford’s gaudy yardage numbers, but their statistics in meaningful categories like completion percentage, interception rate, yards per attempt and passer rating are similar.
“And teams that can run the ball, stop the run, control the game towards the end of the season are really, I think, the teams that will have the most chance to win,” Patricia said last week.
The Lions don’t need a gunslinger like Stafford to run their hum-drum offense. It’s like asking a Ferrari to tow an apple cart in first gear. Stafford needs to open the throttle. He’s a stallion that needs to run free. Maybe even a Bronco set loose in greener pastures.
Contact Carlos Monarrez at cmonarrez@freepress.com or follow him on Twitter @cmonarrez.
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Common or Commons: looking at how we look at water
What is water? A seemingly simple question but the impacts that flow from your answer shape our delicate relationship with this blue earth.
The "common" ways of looking at water are all around us. Bottled water commercials, conservation campaigns, government plans, purification technologies, recreational dreams, and scientific discoveries all talk about water as a commodity, a resource, a playground, and a chemical bond known as H2O.
For the past 500 years, a European worldview has conquered (most of) the world. Severed from its own indigenous past, Europe's most powerful set out to measure the worth of the world. The golden rule was division.
They divided humans from the earth and then further divided the earth into the useful and useless. The value of trees, animals, soils, and water were calculated for their human utility, not their beauty, intelligence, or roles in the ecosystem -- our larger home.
Looking at the state of oceans, lakes, rivers, icebergs, and aquifers on this blue home, what remains after all this division?
I work for an organization called Great Lakes Commons. We are joined by many who understand that water is worth far more than its exchange value as a resource for our energy and agricultural systems or as a service for our sanitation.
Rippling lakes are more than reservoirs. Cold rain is more than city stormwater. Vital tap water is more than a chemistry challenge. Our GLC community also understands--rationally and emotionally--that the current patchwork of water-resource management and treatment is a dead end for a living planet.
These "common" ways of knowing water turn our attention and energies into water management and water treatment. Power drains into professions and processes that exclude the public's thirst for participation and filters out broader and deeper public attention and care about our water world.
Just a few weeks ago, a federal panel approved burying nuclear waste (forever) beside Lake Huron (part of the largest freshwater ecosystem in the world). Confined to the common roles of management and treatment, the panel used logic like this to defend its approval:
"The Panel is of the view that the relative position of the proposed project within the spectrum of risks to the Great Lakes is a minor one, albeit one that demands strict attention and regulation," it said. (1)
But what kind of attention would approve this risk? Can we turn our attention to another way of seeing water?
Our organization no doubt understands water to be a commons. The real tragedy is that most of us don't know what a commons is, nor how people's ancient and modern commons customs and laws are the root for what many now call "sustainability." As a commons, water is a gift, a sacred source of life, a public trust, a right and responsibility, and an indivisible part of our identities.
As a gift, water is relational. Whether you believe it was left to us by a magnificent creator or mighty glaciers, shouldn't we be more thankful? How many generations of your ancestors cared for water so that our lives are possible? How we respect water shows what we think of the giver. Think about some of your most precious possessions. How many of them are gifts from loved ones?
These gifts also help define our identity. Where and how we belong in this world are intertwined with our connection with the water around us--water marks us and so how we leave our mark on water calls on a deeper sense of care.
With this gift comes a responsibility as we pass water on to future generations. Water is a legal public trust, not owned by any government or single generation. When our governments give permits to consume and pollute water, are they acting as short-term owners or timeless trustees? Do people leave their plastic trash at the beach because they feel it's not their responsibility, not their inheritance?
As a source of life, water flows through all of creation and cleanses our body and soul. No wonder it's considered sacred across the world. If something is sacred, its value is not through utility or "passing" grades for purity. A tombstone that's been spray painted and then scrubbed clean is not the same stone. This relationship is obvious, but is commonly wiped out from our personal choices and shared policies.
If water is the source of life, why should anyone be excluded from it? While the United Nations has agreed that access to water is a human right, more than a billion people struggle daily, including many disadvantaged people here in Canada. People in the Great Lakes and across Canada are left with not only an abundance of water, but also a reciprocal responsibility to protect it as a commons.
If your organization wants to broaden and deepen public attention and participation to water issues and campaigns, Great Lakes Commons has a few strategies and is building more. We would be honoured to work with water protectors and co-create better ways for sharing this water-commoning work.
Paul Baines is an animator for the Great Lakes Commons. His work was featured in our May 21, 2015 webinar "Fresh Ideas: Commons Connections".
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Video: ISIS Terrorists on the Run in East Aleppo
In-depth Report: SYRIA
ISIS terrorists are on the run in the eastern part of the Syrian province of Aleppo as government forces are rapidly advancing in the Maskanah countryside.
On May 24th, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) Tiger Forces liberated 5 more villages taking control of Battushiyah, Salihiyah, Jabab Musaid Kebir, Jabab Musaid Segirr, and Shummari. Tiger Forces also advanced on Mushayrifat Bani Jamil and Kherbet Ghudraf.
[On] the same day, the Syrian Defense Ministry released a statement describing the current achievements of the operation against ISIS in Aleppo. According to the ministry, the army liberated 30 villages, the Jirah Military Airbase, killed some 3,000 ISIS terrorists, destroyed 19 battle tanks, 5 BMP vehicles, and 11 VBIEDs. Concurrently, the Syrian Air Force destroyed 9 ammunition depots. To say the least, ISIS losses in man-power provided in the report seem overestimated.
Syrian troops also neutralized a number of ISIS top members during the operation, including ISIS Minister of War, Abu Mosaab al-Masri. If confirmed, this constitutes a major blow to ISIS ahead of the expected government push in the direction of Deir Ezzor and the US-backed advance on Raqqah.
The SAA 5th Assault Corps has taken control of the Arak gas field east of Palmyra as well as the Abtar mountain, the missile battalion, the Hillabat Palace area, and Tal Al-Fari south of the ancient city.
According to local sources, ISIS intends to withdraw from the entire area south of Palmyra and eastern Qalamoun. This comes amid the SAA push against ISIS in the eastern Homs countryside and the US-backed Free Syrian Army advance in the direction of Al-Bukamal.
According to local sources, the US-led coalition carried out an air landing operation in the area of Hamidiya near the city earlier this week. During the operation, US Special Forces reportedly killed 8 ISIS fighters.
Meanwhile, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have captured the villages of Hamra Balasim, Nasira, and Al-Furqun in the Raqqah countryside.
The SDF is aiming to capture the Baath dam west of Raqqah in order to cut the last ISIS logistical line in the area.
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Laguna Beach Alliance for the Arts to Honor Lee Rocker During Art Star Awards
Three Finalists for [seven-degrees] of Inspiration Grant Announced
March 08, 2011 15:09 ET | Source: Festival of Arts
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LAGUNA BEACH, CA--(Marketwire - March 8, 2011) - This year's Laguna Beach Alliance for the Arts (LBaa) Art Stars event on April 1 at [seven-degrees] will be quite the "Rockn'" event. Stray Cat, and renowned bass player, songwriter and longtime Laguna Beach resident Lee Rocker will be honored with a "Visionary Arts" award. Rocker grew up surrounded by music. His father is a Grammy-nominated principal clarinetist with New York Philharmonic and his mother teaches music at Hofstra University. Rocker, classically trained on the bass fiddle, shifted his focus to the enthusiastic rockabilly offerings of The Stray Cats in the 80's. He made his mark singing, playing, standing on spinning and rocking his giant upright bass in the legendary music group The Stray Cats. Grammy-nominated, The Stray Cats have sold nearly 10 million albums and garnered an astounding 23 gold and platinum certified records worldwide. The Stray Cats remain a radio staple, were music video pioneers at the infancy of MTV, and repeatedly brought rockabilly music to the top of the charts. Lee Rocker has just finished a stint on Broadway in the smash hit musical Million Dollar Quartet as rock and roll legend Carl Perkins' brother Jay Perkins. Rocker also regularly performs and will be playing select dates in 2011.
"I'm genuinely honored to be receiving the 2011 Laguna Beach Alliance for the Arts Award," says Rocker. "The community is my adopted home and where my wife and I raised our family. The Laguna Beach community is well known for its support of the arts and living here, I've been able to find my creative, personal and professional home base."
Also as the keynote speaker of the Art Stars event, Rocker will talk about his unique artistic journey and connection with Laguna Beach and beyond. He will touch on the importance of the arts and growing up and raising kids in an art-filled environment and community.
"Art Star Awards," custom designed by Louis Longi, will also be presented to organizations, businesses and individuals who have contributed and shaped the arts and culture of the community and the county. The categories and the nominees are:
Best New Arts Program:
Artist Open Studios (City of Laguna Beach),
Marine Mammal Studios (Laguna Outreach for Community Arts),
Musical Theatre University (No Square Theatre)
Arts Patron of the Year:
Robert Hayden III, The James Irvine Foundation, Wells Fargo Bank
Outstanding Arts Collaboration:
Festival of Arts, The PIMCO Foundation and Orange County Schools - Junior Art Exhibit and Award Ceremony,
Laguna College of Art & Design and Hurley - Action Sports Track,
Sawdust Art Festival and Laguna Beach Visitors Bureau - Studio Art Classes.
Innovation and Arts Leadership:
Bolton Colburn (Laguna Art Museum),
Dennis Power (Laguna College of Art & Design),
Karen Wood (Laguna Playhouse)
Laguna Beach Artist of the Year:
Beth Fitchet Wood, Scott Moore, Mike Tauber.
Additionally, the winner of the $5,000 [seven-degrees] inspiration grant will be announced. The three finalists are Katlin Evans (a visual arts project "Mapping family, making art; from England to Laguna Beach California and back"), Jodie Gates (a contemporary dance work with interdisciplinary research in movement therapy and behavior studies), Roark Gourley (a film/documentary showcasing underwater footage of the human form in a liquid environment). "The three finalists represent very different and unique art forms. We thank [seven-degrees] for not only hosting the event, but for funding this amazing grant opportunity," said event Chair Lisa Mansour.
To purchase tickets to attend the 5th Annual Art Star Awards, please contact: information@lagunabeacharts.com.
Lee Rocker Press Contact:
Leslie Hermeli
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212.333.7728. ex 131
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Yiadom sets sights on three points as Reading face Derby County in English Championship
Prince Narkortu Teye
The Ghanaian previews Saturday's meeting with The Rams in the English second tier
Reading FC full-back Andy Yiadom is charging his side to go all out for victory when they play away to Derby County in the English Championship on Saturday.
The Royals are eyeing a second win on the bounce at Pride Park Stadium following last week's 2-0 triumph over Nottingham Forest.
Currently 22nd on the league standings, three more points could take Jose Gomes' outfit out of the relegation zone.
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“Derby are a good side who have been playing very well," Yiadom was quoted as saying by his club's official website.
“We need to go out there with no fear and play with the same intensity that we did against Nottingham Forest.
“They [Derby] have come off the back of a good result in the week against Southampton beating them in the [FA] Cup, so they’ll come into the game with confidence as well.
“It will be a good game for sure, but we’re going to do our best to get the win because ultimately we need the points.”
Yiadom has been an important figure in Reading's set-up so far this season.
Of 27 Championship games played by The Royals so far, the Ghana international has featured in 26 - all were starting appearances.
He joined the side in the summer from Barnsley following their relegation to the English third tier.
Derby, meanwhile, sit sixth on the Championship table.
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Stars League
Kaizer Chiefs coach Giovanni Solinas remains upbeat despite early struggles
Phumzile Ngcatshe
Backpagepix
The Amakhosi manager has downplayed their poor start in their PSL campaign, but admits the club deserves better
As they continue to work on bagging their first 2018/19 Premier Soccer League (PSL) win, Kaizer Chiefs coach Giovanni Solinas admits that three draws are not enough at a big club like Amakhosi.
The Italian manager says that they will use this week to rectify their mistakes before they take on SuperSport United on Saturday in the MTN8 semi-finals.
Chiefs are yet to win a PSL match this term after drawing three of their matches and losing one so far, but Solinas says the league is a marathon and has downplayed their poor start.
The Soweto giants failed to take advantage of a 10-man Maritzburg United on Friday night at the Harry Gwala Stadium, but Solinas remains confident they will bag their first league win soon.
“I know that three draws in a big club like Kaizer Chiefs is not good enough but I’m confident because we are creating chances in each and every game - the PSL is a marathon,” he was quoted as saying by IOL.
"Football is about how you finish, it is not about how you start. This is a horse race. We judge the horse at the finish line. There’s a lot of games to be played. The league finishes in May and we still have time to fight for the title,” he continued.
It has been a hectic last few weeks for Chiefs as they have been playing games almost every three to four days.
This has previously seen Solinas lamenting the effect of fatigue on his troops.
“The break will give us time to fix our mistakes. It is going to be a good opportunity for us. The month of August has been congested,” continued the coach.
“It is a good opportunity to practice our specific finishing drills and fix our mistakes. We will exploit this time in a right manner.” he added.
“Our build-up is good. We enter the opposition box easily. We only have to improve our finishing,” said Solinas.
“We have to stay calm in the final third. We tend to rush things. The build-up is nice, we keep possession and the combinations are also good,” concluded the 50-year-old.
Amakhosi defeated Ea Lla Koto in the quarter-finals of the MTN8, but have drawn against Mamelodi Sundowns, Baroka FC and against the Team of Choice as well as a loss to Bidvest Wits in their PSL campaign so far.
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Flying Eagles’ Ikouwem Udo Utin: USA defeat was a one-off experience
Kolade Oni
Senegal U20 v Nigeria U20
Nigeria U20
Senegal U20
The Nigeria U20 captain has expressed his confidence that the Senegalese will fall on Monday in their second round fixture in Lodz
Flying Eagles’ Ikouwem Udo Utin has asserted that it will be payback time for the Junior Teranga Lions of Senegal when both teams square up in the second round of the ongoing Fifa U20 World Cup in Poland.
Nigeria were beaten 2-0 when they met the Senegalese in the final of the Wafu U20 Cup of Nations in December 2018, but Utin who is the skipper of the team opined that they would use the experience they garnered from their previous encounter to nail their fellow West African opponents on Monday.
“Senegal have shown that they are a good side in this competition,” Utin told the team’s official media office.
“We saw them at the U20 Afcon in Niger and in the Wafu U20 tournament in Togo. This is a different ball game and the mentality now against them is that we must win.
“We know it is the only result we must be on the lookout for to qualify for the next round.”
The Enyimba defender expressed delight at Flying Eagles' qualification for the second round of the competition after their slip up against the United States.
He reckoned that their positive result against Ukraine will motivate them to do well in Poland.
“I am very happy that we got the result that qualified us for the next round of the competition and we are grateful to God for it,” he added.
“I want to thank our fans and supporters that believe in us. I want to assure Nigerians that we can do it, no matter the fact that we were beaten against the United States. I believe that this game will motivate us to go all out in our next game to ensure that we move closer to our objective of winning the competition.
“We went into the game with the right mentality. We wanted to win to show all that the loss against the United States was just a one-off.
“I am happy with the way my teammates approached the game. They played with the right aggression and I must also thank the coaches too for the right tactics we adopted.”
Kanu, Aiyegbeni: Joshua is down but not out! Yobo: Our inexperienced Super Eagles won the Afcon
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Tyssedal
Published: 26.02.2013 | Author: Nils Georg Brekke, Randi Bårtvedt
PlaceIndustry, Energy and Natural ResourcesFactoriesMuseumHydro power
Tyssedal power station, built in 1908, designed by Thorvald Astrup and Victor Nordan, one of Norway’s most monumental industrial buildings, is protected as an industrial monument. (owner: Riksantikvaren (Ark nr. B 276)).
THE TYSSEDAL COMMUNITY
Today Tyssedal appears like a classical industrial community, a picture of modern Norway from the turn of the former century until today. A/S Tyssefaldene was established in 1906, and on 1 May 1908 Tyssedal power station was put into operation. The work on the first stage of the facility was completed in a short time, with a work force of 500 men. They built water tunnels, regulation reservoirs, power station, penstocks, harbour, cableways, office buildings, houses and 6 km of power lines in the wild mountains above Odda to provide the new melting plant with power.
The entrepreneur Sam Eyde, the founder of Norsk Hydro, was the first director-general of A/S Tyssefaldene. His successor, Ragnvald Blakstad, implemented complete development of the power station and Ringedalsdammen. This reservoir facility, in cut natural granite, 520 m long and 33 m high, was Norway’s largest when completed in 1918. Most of the buildings at Tyssefaldene are from the period 1912-1917, designed by well-known Norwegian architects, such as Morgenstierne & Eide, Thorvald Astrup and Victor Nordan. “The Administration Hotel” the community hall, “The Festivity”, the office block, Tveitahaugen garden city, and other housing areas date from this time.
Det Norske Nitridaktieselskap, which operated Eydehavn, built an aluminium plant in Tyssedal in 1916. This was in production up to 1981, but was pulled down to make room for the melting plant, for titaniferous ore, TTI, which extracts iron from ilmenite. The main product is titanium dioxide clinker, for the pigmentation industry. The industrial community of Tyssedal has lived through changing times. On the farms Tyssedal and Tyssedalstveit lived approximately 30 people before the power development started. The population in Tyssedal was around 1,500 at its highest, and today is roughly 800. Today Tyssedal power station has come under protection. The Administration building is the main building for Odda Industristadmuseum, which also comprises workers’ houses in Odda and a historic industrial archive.
The Tyssedal community around 1920; the workers below and the officials above. (T. Lofthus, owner: Universitetsmuseet i Bergen (Lo. 088)).
Fägerborg, E. & Raknem, A. (1988) Nitriden i Tyssedal: arbeid og liv i et lite industrisamfunn .
Kollenborg, E. (1956) Aktieselskabet Tyssefaldene 1906-1956 .
Kollenborg, E. (1962) Det Norske nitridaktieselskap: 1912-1962 . Oslo.
Røsjø, E. (1988) Krafta er vår!: kampen om Tyssedal ca. 1970-1987 .
The Urban Settlements
The Tourists, the Landscape and the Fantasy Hotels
Buardalen Valley
Dyrskard
Grytøyrelva
Kalvanes
Låtefossen
Matskorhæ
Odda - The industrial town
Odda - The tourist town
Reinsnos
Sandvin
Skjeggedal
Valldalen
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Aerosmith: Classic Recordings Finally Coming to iTunes
According to a report from The New York Post, Aerosmith's classic albums -- including Rocks, Get Your Wings and Toys in the Attic -- will now finally be made available via Apple's iTunes beginning next month.
Newer Aerosmith material is already available via iTunes, but Aerosmith and their label, Columbia, had not been able to come to a suitable agreement with Apple regarding the sale of the band's most classic material as digital singles.
Their concern, however, seems to have been more monetary in nature, rather than concern over the band wanting fans to purchase the albums as a complete musical statement -- the reason you can't purchase AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" on iTunes.
The announcement follows the major news of the Beatles' catalog finally making it onto iTunes last November.
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2014: The Year in Review, part I
The end of the year is a special time in which editors and writers around the world recycle content from the previous twelve months and repackage it as new. We at GoKunming are not above this practice.
The year was a tumultuous one with a shocking occurrence that put Kunming on the world map for all the wrong reasons. The brazen train station attack in March shook not only the entire province, but the country as a whole.
There were of course encouraging bright spots as well that reminded us, once again, why we choose to call Yunnan home. So here's our look back at the people and events that shaped 2014 in southwest China.
Not surprisingly, 2014 began with a year in review article much like this one, followed by a party for the best businesses the Spring City has to offer. A new museum dedicated to Yunnan's amazing history appeared to be in the offing but Jim Goodman's alacrity trumped the builders and taught us a thing or two about Ghengis Khan's descendants. Tragedy in the form of a conflagration struck Shangri-la in the province's northwest. Helping out kids with bad eyesight never felt so good, Beijing intentionally forgot about all of us and, in the process, made us feel bad. However, things could have been far, far worse. While Yunnan raced the other provincial economies of China, a special kind of numpty suggested the seemingly impossible, reviving something already smashed beyond repair. We did a bit of housekeeping and ended up with an entirely new perspective as well as a completely refurbished home. We hope you like it as much as we do. As per usual this time of year, nearly everything closed down as the entire country celebrated Spring Festival and welcomed the Year of Horse. We spent the holiday in one of our favorite places, the little village of Shaxi.
The Wa Hair Dance in a Dongfeng Lu restaurant
Spring Festival over, Yunnan got down with some math and figured out it was quite good at trading with its neighbors. Tragedy struck in Tengchong, when a jealous man went on a shooting rampage involving his own family. Turtles were hilariously pulled up and down mountains, the province readied its fire trucks for the inevitable and people in northeast China scrambled to buy produce grown South of the Clouds. Kunming got a new fast food peddler, and the anticipation sparked perhaps the longest and most inane conversation GoKunming has ever witnessed. More ugly monsters were pulled from the Triassic dirt of Yunnan and the province's party boss talked a really good game. We'll get back to him in part two of the Year in Review. Mikey got married and we all went along for the ride. Thanks to him and A Qin for letting us all attend their Lincang wedding. While Kunming tested out some spiffy new garbage trucks designed to protect the environment, a Tibetan woman living in Shangri-la effortlessly started running marathons at a breathless 4,000 meters. Audiences in Kunming were treated to two very different kinds of live performances, one by an English DJ specializing in cutting up electronic beats and the other by an enchanting forest creature. Ever curious what Yunnan's capital looked like in the 90s? Luckily, Jim Goodman had the pictures and some pretty fantastic stories to go along with them.
On March 1, Kunming endured one of the worst days in its long history when armed sociopaths entered the train station and left a trail of death in their wake. Showing its resiliency, the city quickly rebounded and news was not long in coming that several suspects had been arrested following a massive province-wide manhunt. A new record label tried to put our collective heart at ease and we did what most do when tragedy strikes — seek solace in food. In fits and starts, information started coming to light surrounding the Kunming Train Station attacks. As one man drove a car full of bears through Zhaotong, two GoKunming contributors headed off to Luoping and its brilliant yellow fields. Yunnan's fragile cultural heritage was in need of some tender loving care. Whether Beijing will provide it is another matter entirely. The Public Security Bureau issued some interesting regulations and the United Nations countered with incredibly dire warnings of its own. Kunming got serious about consumption, Great Britain embraced its GREATness and officials fretted about their free cars. Must be rough. A horse, a sad boy and some musicality combined to explain where the Yi three-stringed lute originated. Will man ever 'triumph over nature'? Probably not. But that didn't stop people from trying and then trying again. Will man ever triumph over himself may be the better question. Two incredibly moronic stories may provide the answer. While urban management officials could be mistaken for potted plants, the size of the hearts of many GoKunming readers was indisputable. We went happily to Puzhehei and the provincial government rather grumpily traveled to a major lake deemed to be in danger. Not done traveling, a visit to a village in the shadow of Yulong Snow Mountain rounded out a whirlwind 30 days.
The month began with a joke, but Yunnan's governor was quite serious about doing business in Bangladesh. Growing up in rural Yunnan can be incredibly difficult for some, as Tony's story showed. China celebrated the veneration of its ancestors with a bit of spring cleaning, a venerable medicine company finally admitted one of its drugs had just a wee bit of toxicity and an old town narrowly escaped disaster. Dams, dams and more dams were cluttering the province's waterways and we had the map to prove it. A quick and bucolic trip just outside of Kunming led to travel further afield for a very public group bath. Freshly clean, we got excited about the subway but a party-pooping panda only wanted to watch TV. Fire threatened portions of the Spring City and blackened the skies while people making incredibly crappy noodles got their comeuppance. The food wasn't all bad and neither were the prizes, but the air was increasingly worrisome to many. Money, or the promise of it, kept on flowing into Yunnan and tall, tall buildings were sprouting up everywhere. More impressive than construction, to people at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at least, were the province's monkeys. Well...some of them. You know, the genetically altered ones, with lasers. It was once again time to tackle 'uncivilized behavior', which this time involved not allowing anyone to eat endangered beasties, unless they wanted to go to prison.
A new subway line opened to much fanfare, but the monkeys — not the ones with lasers — had to stay at home on Baima Snow Mountain. Police were allowed to carry guns, making many wonder when the first shooting would occur. Less than a month, it turned out. Drought reared its ugly head once again, albeit much later and much less stridently than in years past. Yunnan's airspace was quite cluttered, someone proposed trains to just about everywhere but the moon and officials in Qujing took the fall for a horrible mine accident. Looking for some alone time, we visited an incredibly cool mountaintop ghost town in northwest Yunnan before coming home to check out some great new tunes. Things between China and Vietnam got very tense. A controversial drop-off point for 'unwanted babies' opened, making it the first facility of its kind in Yunnan. A local artist got busy with some trash while the city welcomed two important scientific conferences. The United Nations visited our fair province promoting education but everyone was too excited about Kunming's annual orgy of economic activity to take much notice. News broke of a dam with what might kindly be called serious structural inefficiencies so we headed far far away to Lugu Lake and then spoke with a woman who couldn't be more serious about the environment.
China went mad for boats and drums and dragons and then things got very serious. We wondered what it would be like to have a job selling fruit everyday. Turns out it's pretty hectic. Double-decker bus tours through Kunming became a reality just as police accidentally shot up a bus on Wenlin Jie. Reminding us of another reason why we live where we do, scientists identified a treasure trove of new species in the neighborhood. The city's somewhat dilapidated railroad museum got a much needed facelift, American university students were sent down to the countryside, seemingly everyone and their moms made money and local high-schoolers were given access to tuition grants for the first time. Drug dealers from south of the border were sent to Yunnan but the GoKunming community was too busy helping out a woman in need to notice. Boondoggle isn't a very commonly used word, but it fit the situation in Hekou just fine when the city managed to squander 600 million yuan. It appeared as if Zheng He, China's most famous admiral, would never sail again. Speaking of the past, we delved into some touchy World War II history with some serious translation help. Thanks, Brian. Cab drivers may be much-maligned, but, as we found out, they've got feelings too. China's point man for oil imports from the Middle East passed away. Rest in peace, Crazy Yang. The half-way mark of the year passed with dozens of Yunnan officials accused of corruption, setting the tone for the next six months of 2014 in an ominous way.
Whew, that was a busy 181 days! Check back next week when we take a look at what made the second half of 2014 special.
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Musashi-Mitake-jinja Shrine Hinode Matsuri (Sunrise Festival) 武蔵御嶽神社 日の出祭
176 Mitakesan, Ome-shi, Tokyo
2020-5-7 - 2020-5-8
The Hinode Matsuri, or Sunrise Festival, is the annual spring festival of Musashi-Mitake-jinja Shrine. The name of this important festival comes from a ceremony held by Buddhist mountain priests upon reaching the peak of the mountain. This ceremony is thought to be the origin of the festival, which used to be held at sunrise on February 8 according to Japan's old lunisolar calendar. Currently, the festival is held on May 8.
The evening events on May 7 include a solemn Shinto procession accompanied by gagaku (traditional Japanese court music) performed at twilight and illuminated by the faint light of lamps. The procession ends when it reaches the location of the sacred palanquin, into which deities are believed to descend. Visitors who stay at a pilgrims' lodging can participate in these spiritual events.
During the festival on May 8, a procession starts from the plaza in front of the cable car station on the mountain's summit and winds through Mitake Village. Focused on a mikoshi (portable shrine), this procession includes Shinto priests, men dressed in white, armored warriors, and children. The mikoshi was created in 2005, a special reproduction of the cultural treasure dedicated by the shogun (military commander) Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. After passing through the village, the procession goes up 300 stone steps to the main shrine at the summit of Mt. Mitake, which has an elevation of 929 meters. The views of Tokyo from the peak are truly spectacular.
The celebrations the evening before the main festival are a rare chance to enjoy the nighttime scenery and views from Mt. Mitake.
Mitakesan Station | 25 min on foot
Mitake Tozan Railway
May 7: Eve of the festival
May 8: Main festival
※See official website/local tourist information office.
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Gigi Hadid Turns Designer for Tommy Hilfiger
The model will design her first-ever capsule collection for the brand.
Jan 13 2016, 1:32 pm EST
Update 1/13: Gigi Hadid is already dropping clues on what to expect from her Tommy Hilfiger collaboration. The model-turned-designer took to Snapchat today to preview a series of patches from the collection with the caption, "Sneak Peek: #TommyxGigi."
The accessories don't stray far from the classic Hilfiger look, with their military and nautical motifs and patriotic color scheme. But if you look closely, Gigi's already added her personal touch.
Gigi Hadid / Snapchat
Original post, 12/17: Gigi Hadid's fashion career continues to go from strength to strength, with the model set to design her first-ever capsule collection for Tommy Hilfiger.
The 20-year-old has been announced as Tommy Hilfiger's new brand ambassador, with the partnership set to begin with her debut collection of women's sportswear, footwear and accessories, as well as a fragrance in autumn/winter 2016. She will also appear in the campaigns.
"I never thought I would be asked to design a capsule collection, so it still feels like a dream that Tommy approached me to collaborate," said Hadid. "His company is one that I genuinely love and have been a fan of for my entire life, and Tommy is the easiest, most fun person to work with. I have always looked up to his brand, campaigns and design style. I think our collection celebrates the iconic Tommy lifestyle and mixes a bit of everything: there are styles that are really hippie-chic, styles that are sporty streetwear, and styles that are tomboy but girly; everyone's is going to love a different part of it."
"I've known Gigi and her family for years, and it has been amazing to watch her grow into one of the world's top models and most-followed fashion influencers," said Hilfiger. "Gigi has walked in our runway shows and now we are thrilled to continue our collaboration with her as the new face of Tommy Hilfiger womenswear and fragrance. She is truly the definition of today's 'Tommy Girl' – her magnetic personality is bright and always optimistic, and her style is confident, effortless and cool."
Hadid joins the likes of Beyoncé, Naomi Campbell and Alexa Chung, who have all also partnered with the iconic American brand.
#TOMMYxGIGI. Fall 2016.
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This is the Future of Vintage Shopping
You never have to sift through racks of musty-smelling vintage clothes again.
By Olivia Fleming
"Those are very Vetements," noted BAZAAR.com's Fashion Director, Kerry Pieri, as I pulled out a pair of tweed cigarette pants from an overstuffed bag of vintage T-shirts, jackets and jeans.
The bag had come from TagPop, a new start-up hoping to revolutionize the way we shop for vintage by hiring stylists to do the hard work for you. The concept is simple: customers can request generalized items like a pair of light-wash kick flare jeans or a corduroy jacket, TagPop processes your request, automatically searching your Facebook "likes" and interests to get a sense of your taste, where stylists then sift through hundreds of vintage pieces to find the perfect match. What you actually receive is a lucky-dip. And if you don't like it, you can return it indefinitely until they get it right.
"We are data-matching the goods to the consumer as opposed to measuring, describing, cataloguing, and uploading every single second-hand piece there is to our website," explains CEO Topper Luciani, who, along with Henry Lihn, co-founded TagPop. "That will allow us to reach a far larger scale than we would be able to if we were cataloguing each piece."
Vintage blouse, $15 and vintage tweed pants, $50, tagpop.co; Manolo Blahnik shoes, $625, neimanmarcus.com
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TagPop's objective is to take the hassle out of vintage shopping (no more sorting through racks of musty-smelling clothes!) and in turn, reduce clothing waste by 2 million tons in the next five years. Currently, Americans only recycle or donate 15 percent of their used clothing, and the rest—about 10.5 million tons a year—goes into landfills.
"There are a lot of used goods with a lot of potential to be worn by American people for an incredible discount, as opposed to being shredded to put into a cushion factory or put into a land fill," says Luciani, who started out selling vintage neckties on eBay in the late 2000s.
"Over the past eight years I have realized what a problem the tremendous consumption of clothing is, and what happens to all of that. The consumption isn't really the bad thing, it is just what to do with it all. Millennials spend the majority of their shopping time online, and are cause driven. To make a huge dent, we just need to change behavior in how we purchase fashion and how we recirculate our clothing," explains Luciani, adding that any surplus clothing TagPop doesn't use will be matched back to charities in need: work clothes for the Bowery Mission and children's clothing for Style Save, for example.
"Millennials spend the majority of their shopping time online, and are cause driven. To make a huge dent, we need to change behavior in how we purchase fashion and how we recirculate our clothing."
TagPop's prices range from $5 to $75 for each mystery item of clothing, depending on their "tier" (premium pieces are launching on the site Nov. 1). After I requested a selection of smart-casual clothes, like stylish wool trousers, a casual fall jacket, jeans, and a more formal blazer for work, I received two pairs of Levi's jeans (one of them being a rare 517 style I specifically requested, and the other pair was actually brand new, tags still attached), one pair of tweed pants, three T-shirts, one corduroy jacket and one premium herringbone jacket for a total of $250. I only returned the latter because the style wasn't very "me".
To ensure a customer receives pieces that match their individual style sensibilities, TagPop's team of stylists (a mix of fashion students and style-conscious staff) dissect a customer's order request while an automated program scans their public profiles online. "The most important pieces of data we get from you are your actual requests on the notes of your order," explains Lucian, adding: "When it comes to your data, we have Facebook, Instagram and Google data—as much as you have released about yourself. We use that data to look at your interests; for example it could be a particular sports team you're into or the college you went to—that can pertain to the kind of cool vintage T-shirt we send you." And if you return items, the company takes note of what you don't like, learning your taste over time.
Vintage premium jacket, $75, and Levi's corduroy jeans, $50, tagopop.co; Manolo Blahnik shoes, $625, neimanmarcus.com
The customer has to pay for shipping and returns, "but we give them unlimited chances to send their product back until it's the perfect match," says Luciani. "We think that our extremely low price point makes it worth people's while."
TagPop is also in the process of working with up-and-coming designers who aren't yet big enough for Gilt or The Outnet, but who need somewhere to liquidate seasons-old products. "We're not just working with second hand clothes, we're also a channel by which young brands, who are doing something good for the environment, can liquidate their clothes," explains Luciani. "Our system has the ability to buy these products from these companies and liquidate their excess inventory and give a great deal to the consumer without tarnishing their brand, because we're not selling it as their brand. We're selling mystery items."
Ultimately, selling vintage Levi's for a quarter of the price of other, premium vintage denim brands like The Vintage Twin, is where TagPop hopes to see a large amount of its growth, second only to its premium vintage T-shirts (TagPop sells 5,000 T-shirts per month, which is estimated to grow to 20,000 per month by the end of the year and to 1 million T-shirts by 2018—this will reduce waste by 6 million pounds every month, says Lihn). However, Luciani is aware that there will always be a market for people who want to try things on.
"Buying a pair of second hand jeans in SoHo for $200, you are paying for the opportunity to try everything on. But if you want great value and the same fantastic product, then you're going to go to TagPop."
Vintage premium T-shirt, $25, and vintage Levi's, $50, tagpop.co; Valentino shoes, barneys.com
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What are the top health IT priorities in Europe? Not so different from the U.S.
New research from HIMSS Analytics finds widespread interest in patient-generated data and interoperability, along with a need for tech talent and bigger cybersecurity budgets.
By Tom Sullivan
Hospital IT executives in Europe share many of the same priorities and face many similar challenges as CIOs in other regions of the globe, including the United States, according to the HIMSS Analytics Annual European eHealth Survey 2018 released on Wednesday.
Among them: empowering patients, sharing health information, protecting sensitive data and managing the growing need for a deeper talent pool.
Healthcare entities around the globe are all facing what is essentially the same set of opportunities and challenges in digital transformation.
Whether you call it patient experience, engagement or empowerment, HIMSS Analytics found that consumers owning and managing their own data, whether in apps or wearables, is a high priority among the 571 health information and technology professionals who participated in the survey.
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"The level of achievement varies," said Jorg Studzinki, director of research and advisory services at HIMSS Analytics. "While countries like Germany and Switzerland need better and more electronic patient records, other ones, especially the Nordics and the Netherlands, can already change their focus toward more innovative ways to provide care, create networks of collaboration and let the patient actively participate in managing more aspects of self-care and prevention."
To that end, HIMSS Analytics listed EMR-maturity as a factor for advancing eHealth projects, as is the ability to share health data.
"In the second wave of digitization, healthcare has to move toward a shared care model," said Jordi Piera, chief information and R&D officer at Badalona Serveis Assistencials, member of the Global Conference Education Committee at HIMSS and secretary of the strategic IT board at the Catalonian Healthcare Department. "Patients should be able to receive all types of care in their prefered location," he added. "This will, in turn, increase the efficiency and sustainability of our organizations."
Enabling that shared care model will also require strong cybersecurity in the age of consumerism. HIMSS Analytics research found that operating with insufficient budget for infosec will continue to be a large challenge for hospitals and healthcare entities in the years ahead – and that is true even though attacks grow increasingly sophisticated.
"Public healthcare institutions are regularly attacked by hackers and often they lose valuable information," Piera said. "We need to put a greater emphasis on protecting our systems; the number of cyberattacks is on the rise and our IT infrastructures and staff are not ready for them. Furthermore the number of patient devices connected to the systems is growing and this poses even greater risks."
WHAT COMES NEXT: NEED FOR NEW TECH TALENT
Empowering patients, achieving interoperability and securing health information fueling the need for new skill sets and, as such, giving rise to emerging career roles.
"While a few years ago it was often sufficient to put digital transformation into the hands of a CIO or an IT director, this is not enough anymore," Studzinki said. "Chief digital officers and chief innovation officers appear in more organizations, especially in larger ones. And it is likely that we will see even more of this differentiation of job roles in the future."
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Heath Park Cup final beckons for Hemel for first time in four years
The latest local cricket news.
Hemel Hempstead Town will compete for the Heath Park Cup for the first time since 2015 after they defeated last year’s winners Langleybury in the semi-final last Tuesday night.
The 20-over competition has a rich history dating back to 1960, long before the current vogue of short-innings cricket.
Langleybury put Hemel in after winning the toss and the batsmen struggled to 123-8 from their 20 overs.
Lee Hodgins top scored with 54, while Tom Elborn (17) and Brett Penny (13) added what turned out to be crucial runs.
There were three run-outs on the card as Hemel’s batsmen chased runs, which were being squeezed.
But Hemel were able to keep the reining champions in check as Langleybury were held to 107-9 from their 20-over allocation.
Hodgins, with 3-17, also featured with ball-in-hand and Penny took 3-24.
Langleybury lost wickets chasing on the squeeze as Hemel booked their place in this Friday’s final.
The other semi-final on Monday night was a corker between 2017’s beaten finalists Abbots Langley and last season’s runners-up Leverstock Green.
Abbots made 115-8 in their innings, while Levy reached 115-7 in the reply to win by having lost one fewer wicket.
The last over saw four wickets, four runs – all wides – and the scores level.
The cup is again being sponsored by ADEX Interiors, of Avebury Court, Hemel, now in their 13th year of supporting the competition.
The final will be played at Hemel’s Heath Park this Friday at 5.30pm, with all supporters welcome.
A fine knock of 147 for Hodgins is still not enough to gain victory for Hemel
Batters falter as Abbots slip to their third loss of season
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Blooming Brilliant Turnout at First Ever Henley Seed Swap
11th March 2019 /0 Comments/in Allotment Assoc, Community Groups, Gardening, Henley in Transition, Home - Other Stories, News /by Amy Nicholas
Henley’s green-fingered residents were in for a treat on Saturday morning at the first ever Henley Seed Swap. Budding gardeners and seasoned veg patch enthusiasts were invited to the Town Hall where they could dig through piles of donated seed packets. The free event, organised by Henley in Bloom, Henley Allotments Association and Henley in Transition, welcomed growers of all abilities, even if they didn’t have seeds to swap.
The Town Hall Council Chambers were laid out with four tables full of seeds. From peppers, to potatoes, to pak choi, there was enough variety in fruit, vegetables and herbs to rival any supermarket aisle. A vast amount of the seeds – two whole table’s worth – were donated by Toad Hall. The seeds, past their sell by date, were unable to be sold but still good for germination, giving lucky seed swap visitors a bounty of choice.
A third table hosted a collection of six unusual seeds from the Heritage Seed Library. The rare varieties of beans and peas came complete with background information, encouraging people to add a unique new plant to their veg patches. The fourth and final table displayed the generous contributions of visitors, already full and ready to be swapped after only 15 minutes. Whilst perusing the seed packets, the gardeners could enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and a biscuit, and perhaps swap gardening tips as well!
The Seed Swap was first proposed at a Henley in Bloom committee meeting, inspired by the Eden Project seed exchange. Park Conservation Warden Kyle Dowling took the idea further, collaborating with the Town Council, Henley in Transition and the Allotment Association to establish the first Henley Seed Swap. Any money donated on Saturday has been split between these three groups. Hoping to grow the seed exchange, the organisers are already working on the next event. With an autumn workshop on how to save seeds, along with a second seed swap in spring 2020, it may well be the start of a blossoming gardeners community.
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New views of University mall
Artist renderings show the sweep and scale of the University Parkway project, expected to open in November 2010.
The partners in the University Town Center development released new views of the luxury mall coming to University Parkway and Interstate 75.
An aerial view shows the size and scope of the project. University Town Center, which has attracted Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and Macy's as anchors, is expected to be on a par with Tampa's International Plaza in terms of luxury and retail variety.
The project's partners are Benderson Development Co., the Forbes Co. and Taubman Centers Inc., the developer of International Plaza and the Mall at Millennia in Orlando.
University Town Center will be more than 900,000 square feet, surrounded by hotels, restaurants, homes and offices.
The combined project is 1.7 million square feet.
Developers plan a November 2010 opening.
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Lewis joined Hermes in February 2008 as a portfolio manager on the Global Equities team. In addition to his role as portfolio manager, Lewis is responsible for designing and implementing many of the team's systems. In particular he created Hermes' proprietary risk-modelling system, MultiFRAME, which is used across Hermes’ investment teams. He joined from Aon Consulting, where he worked as an actuarial consultant specialising in providing valuations and asset-liability modelling to a range of corporate and institutional clients. Lewis graduated from the University of Warwick in 2003 with a Master's degree in Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics and subsequently qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.
Geir Lode
Director, Head of Global Equities
Geir Lode joined Hermes in May 2007 to establish the Global Equities strategy. Prior to this he was Chairman of Bergen Yards in Bergen, Norway, where he was responsible for restructuring and focusing a holding company. Bergen Yards changed name to Bergen Group and was listed on the Oslo stock exchange in June 2007. Geir started his career in 1991 at Frank Russell, moving to Chancellor LGT and then Putnam Investments, where he was a senior vice president before returning to Norway in 2003. Geir studied Mechanical Engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology and earned an MBA at the Pacific Lutheran University, Washington. Geir has been on the board of 17 companies in four different countries.
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Propose new or innovative CubeSat payload technology/use concepts that can be demonstrated to support USSOCOM missions within 12-24 months Read Overview...
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What’s a Cubesat?
CubeSats are gaining popularity among academia, industry, and government. CubeSats are miniature satellites that are commonly used in low Earth orbit, have been used for educational purposes, and recently for applications such as remote sensing, scientific experimentation, or communications. As engineers become more familiar with the technology, CubeSats are also being considered for flights outside of Earth orbit — to locations such as the Moon, Mars, or Jupiter. Read more about Cubesats here.
The CubeSat standard was first proposed in the late 1990s by two professors: Dr. Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University and Dr. Bob Twiggs of Stanford University. They were trying to help students gain engineering experience with satellites, which are traditionally expensive to build, launch, and operate.
The basic CubeSat is a 10-centimeter (~4-inch) cube (called 1U) with a mass around 1.33 kilograms (2.93 pounds), but variations on the theme are possible. 1.5, 2, or 3 1U cubes can stack to create a 1.5U, 2U, or 3U CubeSat. 6 1U cubes can create a 10x20x30 cm (6U) CubeSat for more complicated missions.
These small satellites cost significantly less to build, launch, and operate than traditional satellites. The lower cost allows for more rapid integration of new technology and experimentation with new concepts. The small size and weight reduce launch cost and allow the CubeSat to share a rocket with a larger satellite. CubeSats adhere to a set of standards that are based on “Safety of Flight” concepts that will “Do no harm” to primary payloads, which is why they are allowed to fly with the more expensive payloads on a “space available” basis.
To give you an example of the use of such small, yet powerful technologies, the Earth observation company Planet recently launched around 100 3U CubeSats from a single rocket to build a constellation capable of imaging the entire earth every day to support everything from disaster response to climate monitoring.
Why Issue a Challenge?
Here’s where you come into play.
The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is the Unified Combatant Command charged with manning, training, and equipping the various Special Operations Component Commands of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force of the United States Armed Forces. Core Activities within the scope of Special Operations Forces (SOF) include: Direct Action, Special Reconnaissance, Unconventional Warfare, Foreign Internal Defense, Civil Affairs Operations, Counterterrorism, Military Information Support Operations, Counter-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Security Force Assistance, Counterinsurgency, Hostage Rescue and Recovery, and Foreign Humanitarian Assistance.
USSOCOM is unique in that it has service-like acquisition capabilities. USSOCOM relies on private industry to develop SOF-peculiar equipment and technology to meet mission requirements while complying with federal acquisition regulations and federal law.
One of the guiding tenets of SOF is that most special operations require non-SOF assistance. As such, USSOCOM is seeking global ideas on how to advance CubeSat capabilities. Specifically, USSOCOM is conducting this crowdsourcing challenge to solicit concepts that advance the state of current CubeSat technologies and payloads and demonstrate applications that may benefit any of the USSOCOM missions. Concepts should be viable for a prototype demonstration within 12-24 months. These concepts will advance how CubeSats can be utilized to support Special Operations Forces (SOF) missions.
What You Can Do Right Now
Click "Accept Challenge" above to compete in the challenge.
Visit the Guidelines tab to see the rules and judging scorecard.
Start working on your entry! Submissions will be accepted until Oct. 18, 2017 at 5 p.m. EDT.
Click on the "Share" button or social media icons above to share this challenge with your friends, your colleagues, or anyone you know who has a passion for space, satellites, and technology.
Leave a comment in the Forum to join the conversation, ask questions or connect with other innovators.
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USSOCOM is pursuing a development effort to determine the operational utility of using CubeSats to directly support SOF in austere and denied areas. The intent is to solicit operationally relevant and technically feasible payload concepts for USSOCOM CubeSats.
Example areas that are relevant to USSOCOM missions are (not an exhaustive list):
Next-generation CubeSat and/or sensor technologies
Advanced communications; including full orbit Command & Control and data exfiltration
Electro-Optical (EO)/Infrared (IR) sensing and imaging
Multi/Hyper spectral sensor technology
Propulsion capabilities to modify or maintain orbits
Advanced On-Orbit data processing
Multi-function payloads
Tagging, Tracking and Locating capabilities
What is needed to make a basic CubeSat? (not an exhaustive list):
Solar Cells/Panels
A Battery Pack
A Power Management System
Transceiver (FCC or equivalent license required)
Processor(s) (Microprocessors or FPGAs)
Flight Software (Satellite and payload control)
Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS, Optional)
Propulsion (Optional)
Ground Station (Separate)
The CubeSat Challenge will award a grand total of up to $35,000 in cash prizes. Up to 7 - $5,000 prizes will be awarded in the following categories:
4 - 3U Winners
1 - People’s Choice Award
The $5,000 popular choice award will be awarded based on number of votes received during the voting period. A competitor is eligible to win both a Judges' Award and the People's Choice Award.
All votes are subject to review. Any competitor using unfair methods to solicit votes will be automatically disqualified from the challenge.
Entries that are eligible for the voting stage will become viewable to the public. Make sure that if your entry moves on to the voting stage, that you're OK with anyone seeing it! Depending on the number of entries received, either all or a selected shortlist will move on to the voting stage.
Potential future challenges may ask competitors to design, develop, and implement concept submissions entered in this challenge.
How do I win?
To be eligible for an award, the solution must, at minimum meet the following specifications and standards:
Payload Volume
Range from 1.5U to 4U. Concepts will be considered that utilize up to 4U volume (to integrate onto a 6U CubeSat), but primary interest is for 1.5U payload concepts.
Payload Mass
Up to 2.7kg for a 1.5U payload. Payload mass up to 6.5kg for a 4U payload.
Conform to CubeSat Design Specification, Rev 13, Cal Poly SLO, February 20, 2014
Survive launch environments as described in Goddard Space Flight Center Std-7000, General Environmental Verification Standard (GEVS), April 2013.
Form Factors
Either:
3U: 10cm x 10cm x 30cm
Standard 3U host-side basic avionics takes up 1.5U, leaving <1.5U available for a payload.
Standard 6U host-side basic avionics takes up 2U, leaving 4U available for a payload.
Viable for a prototype demonstration within 12-24 months
Judging Scorecard
The judging panel will rank the eligible Solutions submitted using the following Judging Scorecard:
Advances the State of CubeSat Technology
Does the proposed solution advance the state of CubeSat technology?
Helps Special Operations Forces (SOF) Missions
Does the proposed solution advance SOF missions?
Novelty and Innovativeness
Is the proposed solution unique, stretches the bounds of science and engineering, and inspire a spirit of innovation?
Is the proposed solution viable for a prototype demonstration within 12-24 months?
The CubeSat Challenge is open to individuals, age 18 or older, private teams, public teams, and collegiate teams. Individual competitors and teams may originate from any country, as long as United States federal sanctions do not prohibit participation (see: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Pages/Programs.aspx).
The following restrictions apply to the Challenge: (1) Federal employees acting within the scope of their employment are not eligible to participate; (2) Federal employees acting outside the scope of their employment should consult their ethics advisor before participating in the Challenge; (3) All employees of the Government, [contractor(s)], Challenge sponsors, and other individual or entity associated with the development or administration of the Challenge, as well as their family members (i.e., spouse, children, parents, siblings, other dependents) and persons living in the same household whether or not related, are not eligible to participate; (4) Contractors receiving Government funding for the same or similar projects, along with their employees, are not eligible to participate in the Challenge.
Submissions must be made in English. All challenge-related communication will be in English.
No specific qualifications or expertise in the field of satellites is required. Prize organizers encourage outside individuals and non-expert teams to compete and propose new solutions.
To be eligible to compete, you must comply with all the terms of the challenge as defined in the Challenge-Specific Agreement, which will be made available upon registration.
Registration and Submissions:
Submissions must be made online (only), via upload to the HeroX.com website, on or before 5pm EDT on October 18, 2017. No late submissions will be accepted.
Selection of Winners:
Based on the winning criteria, prizes will be awarded per the Judging Criteria section above. In the case of a tie, the winner(s) will be selected based on the highest votes from the judges.
Judging:
The determination of the winners will be made by HeroX based on evaluation by relevant United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) reviewers. Scores and feedback from USSOCOM will not be shared.
Innovators who are awarded a prize for their submission must agree to grant USSOCOM an irrevocable, royalty free, perpetual, sublicensable, transferable, and worldwide license to use and permit others to use all or any part of the submission including, without limitation, the right to make, have made, sell, offer for sale, use, rent, lease, import, copy, prepare derivative works, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute all or any part of such submission, modifications, or combinations thereof and to sublicense (directly or indirectly through multiple tiers) or transfer any and all such rights.
By participating in the challenge, each competitor agrees to submit only their original idea. Any indication of "copying" amongst competitors is grounds for disqualification.
All applications will go through a process of due diligence; any application found to be misrepresentative, plagiarized, or sharing an idea that is not their own will be automatically disqualified.
All ineligible applicants will be automatically removed from the competition with no recourse or reimbursement.
No purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter or win the competition.
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In the decision making phases, 65% OF bad business decisions stemmed from incorrect or misinterpreted data.
Secure decisions through standards in communication, they exist and they have a name: IBCS.
International Business Communication Standard
You need correct, undistorted, recognised and comparable data. The key is a "standard" called IBCS. Increase the accuracy of your decisions with the simple rules of IBCS.
By standard we refer to a unified language, graph and presentation that makes business communication as clear as a green traffic light. How often have you asked yourself after a presentation of numbers, graphs and illustrations, "Does it make sense to me?" Actually, it should be that clear that a decision is only a matter of a formality.
One phenomenon of missing standards is that you keep asking yourself: "What is it about? What does it mean? "
If in a large enterprise four people are busy with the preparation of reports and do not use a unified standard, the result is a poor basis for decision-making.
How do I protect myself from making wrong decisions?
The best protection against wrong decisions due to incorrect data are standards in communication for the business world. They exist. And they have a name: IBCS
The Goal:
"Insights at a glance"
What has been common practice for hundreds of years in technology, architecture, production and industry, but also in music, is almost completely lacking in the business world. An electric circuit diagram can be read, understood and implemented by any electrician anywhere in the world.
Even in the world of art there are uniform standards. How is it possible for the Berliner Symphoniker to play Beethoven with a conductor who speaks only Spanish? They accomplish this through the uniform system of notes. Yes, the notes are the same all over the world, and mean the same everywhere.
Without this system, we wouldn't have classical music. How would it affect your professional career if you knew for sure and could verify that the business data presented to you was complete, accurate, transparent, summarized, clear and consistent?
Successful decisions have a system
What if your decision did not depend on the skill of the presentation or the courtesy of the graphics? It's easy to say you only make decisions based on facts. But without standardized facts, it is only an emotional decision.
Every electrician would have sleepless nights if he were constantly confronted with different planning standards.
He would first need to find out what approach the architect has taken and then think about how to implement it. Without these standards, there would be no properly functioning power lines. In contrast to industry, there are established communication standards in almost all areas, on which everyone can rely internationally.
"Imagine you are looking at a business proposition that is simple, clear and unambiguous, full of accurate and applicable data."
All data, scales, facts and forecasts on one page
You can see what it's all about at a glance. The decision as to whether the investment makes sense or not would not have to come from the gut, but would be based on compelling facts.
Even better, you could have the presented facts checked independently, and thus have double certainty.
Insist on communication standards! These communication norms can tell the difference between success and wrong decision. Success comes to those who can rely on true, correctly presented and easily understandable data.
IBCS has the following standards that make every annual report understandable at a glance. These standards are described in SUCCESS.
Use the success norms
(Convey a message)
Business communication is not marketing - people want to know what the outcome is. The image transports the message in order to make a decision.
(Apply semantic notation)
A forecast or an actual status is unmistakably recognizable in color and graphic. The presentation is simplified and you don't feel confused or overwhelmed. Things are recognizable at a glance. We are able to see the value because everything is obvious.
(Increase information density)
Information is compressed and condensed in one place so that comparisons can be made at a glance. The result: We can recognize and compare a lot of information on a single page.
(Ensure visual integrity)
The correctness is ensured at this point. The periods shown are complete and period-only. The key figures are always calculated using the same method. These values are scaled consistently and show us at a glance the state of matters, without having to rely on the interpretations and remarks of others.
(Choose proper visualization)
Only standards that are consistent in all reports, presentations, proposals and investment plans are used. They are as simple as the emergency exit sign.
(Avoid clutter)
It's totally exhausting to look at things and then have to think about their meaning. Yes, maybe you will not get a graphic price for it, but you can give your investor a sense of security because he can see how profitable it is. This is not the place for corporate design - this is where we aim for clarity.
(Organize content)
Here we make sure that we compare equal with equal. In our analyses, we are always amazed by how things that have nothing in common are related to each other.
Insist on Communication standards such as those already in use in computer technology, design technology and bridge building.
Are you interested in how IBCS is applied in practice?
Click on one of the following buttons to get an insight.
Register now for our IBCS Webinar
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Ivory Coast Warlords Close To The President Plunder Exports, UN Says
by niyi
All may not be well with Ivory Coast, a country which seemed to be attaining political stability as a report by UN experts has said that warlord military commanders in Ivory Coast are making hundreds of millions of dollars by plundering the country’s exports of cocoa and other resources.
Forces Nouvelles militia leaders who took the side of President Alassane Ouattara in his showdown with Laurent Gbagbo in 2011 are part of a “military-economic network” taking advantage of “rampant” smuggling and parallel tax networks, the report said, adding that the former rebel leaders have been integrated into the national army “without the commanders having abandoned their warlord-style predatory economic activities, which they have now extended to the entire Ivorian territory,” said the report.
Ivory Coast is the world’s leading cocoa producer, but about 153,000 tonnes out of the 1.47 million tonnes produced in the 2011-2012 season valued at about $400 million (about N64bn) was lost to smugglers, according to government figures quoted by the UN sanctions experts, and much of it went through Ghana, the experts said.
The country also ranks as the world’s second biggest producer of cashew nuts. A third of the country’s 450,000 tonnes of cashew nuts, worth about $130 million (N20.6bn), was lost to the smugglers, added the report. Ivory Coast is the world’s second biggest producer of the nuts.
It didn’t end there, the experts said, as they also raised doubts about trade in gold, diamonds, cotton, timber and other resources in the report for the UN Security Council, which renewed the mandate of the experts last week.
The experts submitted that the balance of power after the 2011 crisis and the security situation in the West African nation was “precarious.”
UN and French forces helped dislodge then-president Gbagbo when he refused to relinquish power after a presidential election won by Ouattara. Gbagbo is now at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity during the unrest.
As the Ivorian economy rapidly rebounded from the crisis in 2012, “the political and economic networks linked to former Forces Nouvelles combatants strengthened, with former zone commanders with a notorious record of violations of international humanitarian law” drafted into the national army.
The report named Martin Kouakou Fofie, who has been on a UN sanctions list since 2006, Ouattara Issiaka, Herve Toure, Kone Zakaria and Cherif Ousmane as all being in “strategic command posts” with significant amounts of weapons.
Ivory Coast is under an international arms embargo, but the report said the experts “cannot exclude the prospect that these commanders remain actively interested in acquiring weapons and related materiel.”
The experts said they had information that weapons had moved from Ivory Coast to neighbouring Mali and Niger.
Their report also said that while Forces Nouvelles dominates the military, Liberian mercenaries and Gbagbo activists in Ghana still “remain a security threat”.
The experts said they were investigating “connections between supporters of the previous regime and the financing of insurgent activity using profits from sales of diamonds and gold.”
They called on the Ivory Coast government to “take all measures necessary to curb the large-scale smuggling of cocoa, cashew nuts, cotton, timber, gold and all commodities illegally exiting or entering the country, in particular across the borders with Ghana.”`
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Everton Completes £28m Club-Record Signing of Lukaku
by Omaku Cephas
Everton announces £28m club-record signing of Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea.
The big Belgian striker has signed a five-year contract at Goodison Park and will wear the number 10 shirt.
“This signing is not just important for this season,” manager Roberto Martinez said at the Merseyside club’s press conference which started behind schedule.
“It’s a very significant day in the history of our Club. Signing Rom is every Evertonian’s wish. This is a footballing statement of what we want to do.”
Romelu Lukaku Joins Everton from Chelsea for a Club-Record Fee. Image: Everton.
The 21-year-old scored 16 goals on loan at Merseyside last season, as Everton finished fifth and reached Europe for the first time in five years. His goal tally was the highest at the club same season.
His performance for the Toffees earned him a place in coach Mark Wilmort’s World Cup squad in Brazil, where he made four appearances and scored a goal.
“Here (Everton) is a good place to develop as a young player. We have an ambitious manager,” Lukaku said after putting pen to paper.
“I have a good relationship with the players. This is the place where I belong.
“I decided quickly I wanted to come back. Here I have the trust of the staff and supporters.”
Lukaku joined Chelsea from Anderlecht in August 2011 for £18m but ended up featuring in just 10 league matches at Stamford Bridge.
He scored 17 goals in 38 games on loan at West Brom in the 2012/13 season when the club recorded their highest ever Premier League finish of eighth.
The transfer breaks the previous record of £15m for Marouane Fellaini when he joined Everton from Standard Liege in 2008.
It was earlier thought Everton would pay 23.7m for Lukaku before the club revealed the actual amount involved.
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IT Leadership // CIO Insights & Innovation
Rob Preston
Down To Business: Cisco Talks Telepresence Direction
Cisco coined the term and raised market awareness. Now it's looking to drive adoption into wholly new areas.
Cisco coined "telepresence" five years ago to describe its vision for super-high-quality videoconferencing, and as a mark of its success the term is now the industry norm. Rivals Hewlett-Packard, Polycom, LifeSize Communications, Teliris, Huawei Technologies, and even lower-end providers like Vidyo have adopted the Cisco label.
I sat down yesterday with Chuck Stucki, VP and general manager of Cisco's TelePresence Systems unit, to discuss the present and future of telepresence. Here's some of the ground we covered:
• Since Cisco launched its first telepresence product in late 2006, it has become one of the fastest-growing internally developed products in the company's storied history. Cisco counts 600 telepresence customers worldwide-50 of the Fortune 200-encompassing 3,000 installed systems (all of them paid for, Stucki adds in response to critics who claim that Cisco is giving the systems away to seed the market). The hottest verticals: telecom and banking, and more recently healthcare, government, and consumer products.
Stucki's unit, which he says is profitable, will easily exceed $1 billion in revenue with the pending acquisition of Norway's Tandberg, Counting related managed services, Stucki estimates the global telepresence market at around $3 billion and thinks it can grow to $10 billion within five to seven years. Stucki, who's moving to Oslo from California, will oversee one global team, including 400 Cisco engineers and 500 from Tandberg.
• With the Tandberg acquisition, now subject to regulatory approval, Cisco's telepresence offerings will scale from simple desktop systems to one that includes three 65-inch plasma screens, two rows of specially designed tables that seat up to 18 people, an LCD display, and integrated cameras, lights, microphones, and speakers. The highest-end system, including bandwidth, room remediation, and other related expenses, costs anywhere from $15,000 to $25,000 a month if rolled up as a lease, Stucki says. The lowest-end systems (excluding Cisco's WebEx Web conferencing products, part of a separate unit) can cost under $1,000 a month.
• The ROI, of course, is still mostly in the avoidance of travel costs. The more global a company is and the more travel its executives do for product development, sales, training, and other reasons, the quicker the potential payback, especially if suppliers and partners can be integrated over telepresence calls.
• System interoperability has been a big gotcha: It has been difficult to get Cisco and other proprietary telepresence systems to talk with one another. Cisco is trying to advance its Telepresence Interoperability Protocol license, which it offers for free, as an industry standard, though Stucki admits that Cisco has some convincing to do in the interoperability area.
• Telepresence is still a CXO or line-of-business executive sale-embraced by CEOs, CFOs, heads of sales, and other senior execs and almost always sponsored by the CIO. Those in charge of lower-end videoconferencing systems are usually cut out of that process. As for usage, companies are opening these high-end systems to most of their employees, not just the muckety mucks, Stucki says.
• As desktop telepresence gets more sophisticated, won't those systems cannibalize the high-end business? Stucki acknowledges that Cisco will go aggressively down market, mostly with its Cisco-branded Tandberg systems, but he says he's not concerned about the high end. He compares telepresence to the PC market: Though much of the device innovation of late has been in smartphones, the PC continues to evolve and remains as integral as ever for many applications. Stucki notes that with all the telepresence systems at Cisco employees' disposal, the ones used the most are the 18-person room systems. "I don't buy into the notion that we'll all end up huddled in our cubicles," he says.
• Where does the telepresence market go from here? Business to consumer is the next frontier, Stucki says. Not just telepresence in the home office, he says, but also in the living room or den "for play, for fun." Think guitar lessons or poker games over telepresence links. Stucki sees widespread B2C telepresence as at least five years out. A big challenge: Not so much system prices and bandwidth, he says, but how do businesses manage a bunch of home telepresence subscribers? Through partnerships, Cisco is already opening up telepresence to SMBs and other organizations who want to rent the service by the hour.
Rob Preston,
VP and Editor in Chief, InformationWeek
To find out more about Rob Preston, please visit his page.
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Germany rebuffs US request for ground troops in Syria
BERLIN (AP) — A government spokesman says Germany isn’t considering sending ground troops to Syria as part of its contribution to fighting the Islamic State group.
German media reported over the weekend that the U.S. envoy for Syria, James Jeffrey, asked the German government last week to contribute ground troops to the anti-IS coalition led by the United States.
Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Monday that “Germany has for years made a considerable and internationally recognized contribution” to the coalition that includes training Iraqi troops, doing aerial reconnaissance and refueling allied aircraft.
He says Germany favors continuing its existing coalition functions and “it’s known that this doesn’t include ground troops.”
Seibert says Berlin is discussing with allies the future military and civilian efforts needed to stabilize the region and how the responsibilities will be divided among participating countries.
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Sara Underwood Busts Out Of Red Crop Top And Daisy Dukes In Pride Post
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Ava Bennet
Former Playboy model Sara Underwood is no stranger to sharing steamy photos on her Instagram, but today she decided to share a photo that encompassed some of her beliefs on love.
Many celebrities have been offering posts in honor of Pride month, either through their own personal stories or by showing their support for the cause. Underwood became the latest to do so in a post that earned more than 42,000 likes from her followers in just one hour.
In the picture, Underwood was seen spilling out of a tight red crop top that showcased her toned abs and ample curves. She’s paired the top with high-waisted Daisy Duke jean shorts and added some thigh-high rainbow socks to finish the look.
And, to really drive home the point of her post, the model placed a large pride flag on the top of one of the cabins she’s helping to build in the woods. The cheeky post featured Underwood making a kissing duck face at the camera.
However, Sara’s colourful outfit doesn’t mean she is making light of the matter at hand. She accompanied the photo with a long caption that expressed all her thoughts on the LGBTQ community and how she believes everyone should be as inclusive as possible.
Even though pride month is almost over I’m sending the LGBTQ community love as an ally 365 days a year. Pride month is necessary because as a group, the LGBTQ community has been persecuted for centuries. Whether being threatened with murder, imprisonment, shame or disownment, the struggle is global and continues to this day. In the United States people in the community continue to be denied basic human rights and treated like second class citizens. Anyone who thinks waving this flag is offensive has allowed their own insecurities to obscure the truth about what it means to be a human and an American. Freedom, liberty and justice for ALL. Undoubtedly bigots and hate filled people will leave their disgusting comments but in doing so they will be outing themselves as the prejudice and closed minded people they are. The times are changing so either join us on our mission of love and inclusivity or get left in the past. #pridemonth #pride #lgbtq???? #lgbt #loveislove #lovewins
A post shared by Sara Underwood (@saraunderwood) on Jun 28, 2019 at 10:51am PDT
There were quite a few of Underwood’s fans who were upset by the post, and criticized her for being so outspoken about the cause. However, there were also a lot of her fans who were thrilled that she had used her platform to spread her beliefs.
“Sara, I can’t even find the words to say how proud and grateful I am for you to come out and share your beliefs as an ally. With such a huge following – and many of them unfortunately being far-right, narrow-minded men – it took guts to post this. And I’m glad you did. #loveislove”
Underwood has always seemed to march to the beat of her own drum. While many other models like her are living in luxury in Los Angeles, lounging pool side, she has followed her passion into the woods. With her partner by her side, she’s working on an ambitious project to create a community of cabins in a scenic location.
Her commenters are correct in that it does take a lot of bravery from celebrities to be outspoken about their beliefs. As the negative comments on the post illustrate, celebrities risk losing a large portion of their fan base if they speak out with a different opinion than their fans. However, Underwood felt it was important to share the message before June wraps up.
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Exit Only: Honor the battle
The other day, I came across a few sentences I had scrawled on an old yellow pad back in the early 1990s:
"For the last 10 years, anyone lying on his back in this bedroom has looked up at a water stain shaped like Australia. I study it now, knowing that with every fresh rainfall it may grow, extending an ever-larger coastline of destruction across the plaster."
It is strange to find a message like this from one's past; even stranger to come upon an old issue of a magazine from that same year and see a similar theme echoed there.
In one of this magazine's features, then-supermodel Lauren Hutton was asked if she would consider having a facelift.
"We must start to honor the battle," she told her interviewer. "That's what life is, and it shows on our faces. Plastic surgery is a way of saying you don't believe in experience."
This house of ours sure honors the battle. A world of facelifts couldn't keep all the experience it has seen from seeping through.
We had already been here a while when I scribbled those notes. Several years had already passed since we had first walked inside and fallen in love. It may have been the graceful curve of the banister in the second-floor hall.
Back then, we took one of its old-lady-style bedrooms and made it over for a toddler in a jungle wallpaper with cross-eyed monkeys and zebras and toucans. During the eternities of naptime, that child had slept and talked to her stuffed animals and even, as we learned years later, wormed her way under the bed to leave crooked pencilings on the wooden slats supporting the box spring.
The little room down the hall we did over in a teddy bear motif for a baby soon to arrive.
Both wallpapers were gone by the time I wrote those notes, the teddies having given way to a paper with a repeating pattern in which Wile E. Coyote parachuted sadly to earth after his last failed attempt on the life of the Road Runner, seen zooming gaily around the baseboards in a snappy roadster.
As for the jungle creatures, they had given way to a pale peach paint, jointly chosen by mother and child, that, as the years passed, was gradually covered over by a collage of photographs: of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley and Edgar Allen Poe.
But all that was just cosmetics.
Plenty else has happened here, including two falls down the stairs, the gradual loosening of that pretty banister due to too much use by small would-be ballerinas, and a sudden deluge of water through the kitchen lights when a person who shall remain nameless turned on the bath taps and wandered off to write.
We have also seen many a mice infestation and many a bat visit.
Someone's life ended in this house and someone else took a spectacular inadvertent dive backwards off the front porch and into the bushes.
We have been hit by one unforgettable bolt of lightning that in an instant took out every electronic appliance in the place.
No, you don't have to sit still long in this life for things to begin happening to you. A great deal has happened both to us and to our house in our time here, it seems.
The water stain shaped like Australia is gone now and I actually sort of miss it.
Luckily though, the kitchen ceiling has started to come slowly down in fat curling flakes - more 'experience' as Lauren Hutton would say.
I just sweep them up, and shake my head, and smile.
��Write Terry at terrymarotta@verizon.net and read more on her blog Exit Only at terrymarotta.wordpress.com.
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ICFJ Knight Fellowships - Apply Now
The International Center for Journalists offers two types of opportunities for an ICFJ Knight Fellowship: Candidates may either propose a Fellowship or apply to a Fellowship opening (listed below). ICFJ accepts applications from candidates proposing their own Fellowship on a rolling basis throughout the year, and will select candidates based on fit for the mission and program criteria, and availability of funding. Periodically, ICFJ also posts openings for specific Fellowships that are developed based on opportunities for impact identified by the program or tailored to requirements of a Fellowship funder.
All interested candidates must complete a Fellowship application, and select whether they are proposing a Fellowship or applying to a Fellowship opening. All applications require a proposal as part of the application.
Successful proposals will target news innovation in one or more of the key areas of innovation listed under Fellowship Criteria below. Proposals should outline Fellowships that include multiple, complementary projects. They should clearly state how each of the projects will help to measurable results for newsrooms, journalists and society. We will not consider proposals that simply offer training to journalists or teach students. We are not likely to consider proposals that need substantial fundraising during the Fellowship to achieve their objectives.
Before submitting an application, all candidates should read our program overview and criteria below to ensure proper understanding of the program and submission of a strong application.
Applications, CVs and resumes must be in English. Relevant work samples or supporting material for project proposals may be in the applicant’s native language. To become a Fellow, professional proficiency in English is required.
ICFJ will review applications in a timely fashion and contact a selection of candidates for interview(s) based on their fit and strength of their proposal. ICFJ may also contact potential partners regarding the fit and proposal strength. All references will be contacted for those candidates that advance.
ICFJ will offer the Fellowship in writing to the candidate deemed to have the best fit and strongest proposal. In the event that that offer is accepted, ICFJ will work with the accepting candidate to identify an appropriate start date for the Fellowship. All Fellows must sign a contract with ICFJ that details the terms of the Fellowship and agreement with ICFJ. ICFJ will lead an in-person or virtual orientation that explains the program policies and works with the Fellow to design the initial Fellowship plan.
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HyperX Cloud Revolver review: New look, new sound, higher price
Posted by Hayden Dingman
It’s funny how expectations work. When the HyperX Cloud launched two years ago, it came out of nowhere. I went in expecting a bottom-barrel headset from Kingston, and instead got a solid low-priced contender that we continue recommending to this very day.
So now when HyperX sends me headsets, I just assume they’re good. In the case of the new HyperX Cloud Revolver (which can be found on Amazon), it wasn’t an incorrect assumption—I just don’t think anyone should rush out and replace an original HyperX Cloud.
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The HyperX Cloud Revolver takes some pretty obvious design inspiration from the SteelSeries Siberia line. While the original HyperX Cloud utilizes a traditional solid headband, the Revolver borrows the suspension-band concept that SteelSeries made iconic.
The headset has a metal framework that connects the two earcups, but the only piece that rests on your head is a delicate, elasticized strap of leather that essentially allows the headset to float.
It’s damned fancy, albeit with the same main drawback as SteelSeries’s iteration—it feels fragile. In the past, I’ve had a SteelSeries Elite fail because the wiring eventually pulled itself apart, and I’m not the only one who’s encountered that issue. So I’m a bit worried about longevity with the Revolver.
There’s also an issue with reverberation. Not reverb, but reverberation: as in, “When you hit the metal headband on something, it vibrates and sends the sound right into your skull.” I learned this lesson when I accidentally hit the frame while scratching an itch and it went off like a tuning fork. You’re bound to notice every little noise—even just your fingers brushing against it when adjusting the headset.
Still, the end result is extraordinary comfort. Like, “I forgot I was wearing a headset” comfort—which is, after all, what HyperX is known for. There’s a bit more jaw-pinch than the baseline HyperX Cloud, but I experienced zero soreness on the crown of my head even after hours of use.
As for the rest of the design, it should be pretty familiar to HyperX converts. It’s the same black-and-red, gaming-centric color scheme they’ve used since day one, with oversized faux-leather earcups and a detachable microphone. The jet-engine accents on either side are a bit silly, and overall the Revolver is a lot less subtle than its predecessors, but it’s still an attractive-looking headset.
And for those of you who hate RGB-lighting and think it’s pointless, good news: HyperX still hasn’t jumped aboard that train. No LEDs here.
My one complaint is that HyperX still hasn’t figured out how to do inline controls efficiently. Once again the Revolver ships with a dual 3.5mm PC extension cable and control box, which features a mute switch and volume dial. And while these boxes keep getting more attractive, there’s still room for improvement. A complete rethinking of the approach would be nice, actually. (Personally, I’d prefer controls built into the headset.) Also notable is the absence of the Cloud II’s built-in sound card.
Dig into the specs, and you’ll find the Revolver is more than a mere Cloud reskin. It uses new 50mm drivers instead of the 53mm drivers in the original Cloud and Cloud II, and boasts of a “Studio-grade Soundstage” on the box.
In practice? It still sounds quite a bit like the original HyperX. In fact, it’s funny to see HyperX talking about improving on the Cloud’s directionality, because it’s one of the original headset’s strongest features.
The difference is noticeable, though. Ever-so-slight, but noticeable. That’s especially the case in well-mixed music, where it’s easy to pick out a certain instrument and pay attention to where it seems to be located—the Revolver has a bit more left/right play than the Cloud and Cloud II. This headset also seems to push the mids a bit more, too.
Will you notice, day-to-day? Probably not. Both the HyperX Cloud and Revolver are strong headsets, especially in the $100 tier. I’d give the Revolver the edge, but it’s also $50 more. That said, if you care about the infinitesimal difference in quality between the Cloud and Revolver, you’re probably better off buying real headphones instead of a gaming headset.
Mic quality is about the same as any other HyperX headset—or, in other words, not that great. Without a USB sound card, the Revolver lacks the Cloud II’s software-side noise cancellation, and the mic is pretty bad at filtering out plosives. It’s loud and clear enough for online gaming—all that really matters—but this is another area where Kingston desperately needs to improve.
There’s apparently a version of the Revolver coming soon with 7.1 support and (I assume) noise cancellation for the microphone—think of it like the Revolver II. If you’re interested in the Revolver, I’d recommend waiting for the updated model, if only because this headset’s mic is subpar. Since you’re already spending more on the Revolver than either the Cloud or Cloud II, you might as well get the best version possible.
The biggest problem with the HyperX Cloud line is that it hit such a high point the first time around. Great performance, cheap price—it’s hard to top that.
The HyperX Cloud Revolver isn’t a bad headset—it’s more comfortable than the original HyperX, albeit barely, and has a stunning, if borrowed, new look. There’s just not much reason to buy it over the original HyperX Cloud or Cloud II, though. The audio’s improved, sure, but probably not enough to justify paying $50 more. At that point, you’re in a whole different (and crowded) tier of headsets.
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George Lewis
Described as ‘An expert craftsman’- (Chortle.co.uk) George Lewis followed in the footsteps of of Jack Whitehall and Sarah Millican to win the Amused National New Comic Award at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe.
He has since won a bunch of other titles, placed Runner Up in the prestigious Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, reached the final of the BBC New Comedy Award, was hand-picked to perform as part of the Pleasance Reserve, supported Romesh Ranganathan on tour and played to three thousand people at the Edinburgh Playhouse as part of the Comedy Gala.
Finalist: BBC New Comedy Award 2016
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Teenager Killed By Fallen Tree At Wilderness Camp On Vancouver Island
Crews battling a brush fire near the incident said winds hit 80 km/h.
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SOOKE, B.C. — One teenager has died and another is in critical but stable condition after a tree fell on at least one of them at a camp near the Vancouver Island community of Sooke, B.C.
Officials with the Otter Point Volunteer Fire Department say they were called to Camp Barnard after receiving a report that a boy was trapped under a tree.
One person was seen being transported by ambulance while rescuers attempted CPR on another person on a nearby river bank.
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Crews battling a nearby brush fire say winds hit 80 km/h around Sooke.
An ambulance helicopter was sent to the area near a hatchery and the B.C. Coroners Service has been contacted. A spokesman for the agency confirms an investigation into the death is underway, but few other details are available.
The Greater Victoria School District says counsellors will be at Lansdowne Middle School to help students and staff deal with the teenager’s death.
Supt. Shelley Green posted a letter on the district’s website Wednesday, advising that the district has deployed its critical incident response team to the school after a student died during a field trip.
Green’s letter says the death of the unnamed youth “may raise certain emotions, concerns and questions for our entire school district, especially our students.
“At Lansdowne Middle School, we have counsellors available for any students and staff who may need and want help or any type of assistance surrounding this loss,” Green writes.
More than 600 students in Grades 6 to 8 attend the school.
The Camp Barnard website says the roughly one-square-kilometre camp at Otter Point, just west of Sooke, offers wilderness camping and other programs for youths and adults.
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Saint Nektarios the Wonderworker is connected with the date of January 15th. It is an influential date in the earthly life of the Saint.
First, on this date, the 15th of January 1847, he received in his homeland of Selybria in Eastern Thrace, the sacred Mystery of Baptism, taking the name "Anastasios", which was the name of his uncle, just three and a half months after his birth, which had taken place on 1 October 1846, in the same city.
On the same date, 15 January 1877, at the ripe age of 30, two months after his tonsure, "Lazarus D. Kephalas, Monk from Selybria Thrace" (as noted by his own hand in the Codex of the Monastery of Nea Moni in Chios) was ordained Deacon with the name Nektarios, at the Cathedral of Saints Menas, Victor and Vikentios of the city of Chios, by the local Metropolitan Gregory.
Here it is worth noting that Saint Nektarios, since for almost seven years he was a teacher in the village of Lithi in Chios, and having a strong desire for the monastic life - the monastic citizenship which is the "boast of the Church of Christ" (according to Isaac the Syrian) - he entered in the year 1873 into the above historical Monastery, where after a three-year ascetic novitiate, he was tonsured a monk in November 1876 and named Lazarus.
And, O the paradoxical wonder, on the same day, the 15th of January 1889, a Sunday, Archimandrite Nektarios Kephalas was ordained a Bishop and elected "Metropolitan of the ancient brilliant Metropolis of Pentapolis".
The ordination took place at Saint Nicholas Church in Cairo, by the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria Sophronios, and concelebrating with him were the Archbishops Anthony of Kerkyra and Porphyrios I of Sinai.
In the Great Codex of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, under number 61 on pages 394-396, written by the hand of Patriarch Sophronios himself, are both the Announcement of the Election and the Act of Ordination, with the Confession of Faith, which was made by Saint Nektarios as the elected Metropolitan shortly before he was ordained Bishop, and it is in the archives of the Monastery in Aegina.
Lastly, on the same date, 15 January 1998, under Patriarch Petros VII of Alexandria, the restoration of the Holy and God-bearing Father took place after being expelled from the Alexandrian Church, and so in the Alexandrian Patriarchal Synod on this day it was announced: "With great care the Holy and Sacred Synod, bends down with the fear of God and before the icon of the Saint found in the Synodal Hall, and we declare the restoration to canonical order and beseech forgiveness from our Holy Father Nektarios for the persecution and unjust wrath against him, by the spiteful influence of the evil one."
May we this day, then, as everyday, praise and honor him with hymns and exquisite tones, in the churches and outside, and everywhere, the Saint of our time, "who appeared in these last days", and may the intercessions of our Holy Father Nektarios, the Metropolitan of Pentapolis, the Wonderworker, give unto all of us "all sorts of cures to those who reverently call upon" his holy name.
Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
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U.S. stock markets see little action Tuesday
NEW YORK, New York - There was little to move U.S. stocks on Tuesday, and there was little action as a result, other than a modest rise in demand for tech stocks.
The situation may change in coming weeks as talks on trade deals with China and Europe are set to re-start.
The U.S. dollar remained in demand, however the only major move was against the British pound which has now been trading comfortably under the 1.2500 handle for the past 24 hours. Elsehwhere currency rates were little changed, although the Australian and New Zealand dollars continued to slip lower.
At the close of trading Tuesday, the Dow Jones industrials were down 22.65 points or 0.08% at 26,783.49.
The euro was little changed at 1.1207, while the British pound dipped to 1.2465.
The Japanese yen was unchanged at 108.88, as was the Swiss franc at 0.9937.
The Canadian dollar was a tad weaker at 1.3130. The Australian dollar fell to 0.6928, while the New Zealand dollar declined to 0.6607.
In overseas equity markets, the FTSE 100 in London lost 0.17%.
The German Dax declined 0.85%, while the Paris-based CAC 40 dropped 0.31%.
In Asian markets, Japan's Nikkei 225 rose 12.86 points or 0.06% to 21,547.21.
In Australia however, the All Ordinaries fell 15.30 points or 0.23% to 6,742.10.
China's Shanghai Composite declined 5.13 points or 0.18% to 2,928.23.
In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng slipped 215.41 points or 0.76% to 28,116.28.
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Vegan lifestyles
Emily Safian-Demers, 6 June 2019
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No longer simply a diet, veganism is growing into a fully-fledged lifestyle that informs everything vegans touch.
In the US, the number of vegans has risen by 600% in the last three years, according to a report by research company Global Data, and in the UK has quadrupled between 2014 and 2018 according to Mintel. In response to growing demand, major supermarkets like Tesco, Asda and Waitrose introduced plant-based and vegan product lines in 2018. A tidal wave of fast food behemoths are also releasing vegan options – in April 2019, Burger King announced plans to roll out the meatless Impossible Whopper nationally, following White Castle’s partnership with vegan Impossible Meats in September 2018, while Del Taco began serving Beyond Meat tacos in April 2019 and Carl’s Jr. added Beyond Meat vegan patties to their menu in January 2019.
There’s no denying it: the vegan diet is solidly entrenched in mainstream culture. Recently, the rocketing popularity of meat- and cruelty-free foods has translated into an explosion of vegan-friendly fashion, with a stream of luxury designers pledging to go fur-free, popular brands adopting innovative alternatives to leather and the first ever vegan fashion week hosted in Los Angeles in February 2019.
But now, veganism is gaining traction in farther-flung sectors like hospitality and interior design, as the movement grows into an all-encompassing lifestyle. “The products that we surround ourselves with will get to the stage where food is now,” said Don Kwaning, whose lino leather provides a vegan substitute for leather upholstery.
Buffy's vegan-friendly comforter
Vegan interior design is coming into the spotlight thanks to firms like Miami-based DiMari Designs and London-based Studio Can-Can, which both specialize in vegan, cruelty-free and ethical designs. “Vegan interior design is still in its infancy in the UK, but this is changing fast,” said Studio Can-Can’s Emily Turnbull. “For the past few years, whenever I typed in ‘vegan interior designer’ to Google, there would only be two ladies in the US and me over here in the UK. This is no longer the case.” Megan Markle and Prince Harry took a large step to ensuring this when they made headlines earlier this year by choosing a vegan paint for their son’s nursery.
Goop is also making strides to bring attention to vegan homewares. The buzzy lifestyle site has partnered with American homeware brand Buffy to sell a vegan-friendly blanket. In April 2019, Buffy released a new comforter crafted with 100% plant-based materials. The stuffing, casing and threading on the duvet are all made from natural eucalyptus wood pulp fiber, making it not only suitable for those who lead a vegan lifestyle but also fully biodegradable.
The Hilton's vegan suite. © 2019 Hilton
Hotels are taking this one step further by constructing domains that are entirely free of animal byproducts. Opening on June 15, 2019 in Scotland, Saorsa 1875 will be a fully vegan boutique hotel dedicated to “showcasing ethical luxury.” Every aspect – from the electricity to the staff uniforms – will be ethically sourced and free of animal products. The hotel’s electricity will be provided by Vegan Society-certified Ecotricity, the toiletries and cleaning products will all be eco-friendly and certified cruelty-free and the bar and restaurant will offer fully vegan menus. Saorsa 1875 co-founder and head of lifestyle Jack McLaren-Stewart said he hopes the hotel will “dispel the myth that veganism is somehow restrictive or based around abstinence.”
In February 2019 Hilton unveiled the “world’s first vegan suite” in their London Bankside location. The room, designed in partnership with multi-sensory experience design firm Bompas and Parr, is outfitted exclusively with plant-based materials. The room is entirely free of leather wood and feathers, replacing traditional materials with plant-based key cards, eco-cotton flooring, soybean-silk curtains and buckwheat pillows.
“We want to show people that veganism isn’t just a compassionate, ethical choice; it’s also an exciting, vibrant way of life,” said Saorsa 1875 co-founder and head of lifestyle Jack McLaren-Stewart.
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Organ transplant recipients Cindy Bachman, left, and Deborah Graves thank a registered nurse in the emergency room of Nanaimo Regional General Hospital on Monday. GREG SAKAKI/The News Bulletin
Organ transplant recipients express thanks and also thank new donors in advance
B.C. Transplant’s Operation Popcorn event being held this week on Vancouver Island
Greg Sakaki
Dec. 3, 2018 5:04 p.m.
A lot of people have wish lists at this time of year, but when it comes to organ donation, too many continue to wait.
B.C. Transplant’s annual Operation Popcorn is taking place on Vancouver Island this week, with organ recipients visiting hospitals including Nanaimo Regional General Hospital to deliver caramel corn to health care staff in operating rooms, intensive care units and emergency rooms.
The initiative is meant to thank hospital staff for their work supporting organ donation, and bring awareness to B.C. Transplant’s efforts.
Delivering popcorn at NRGH on Monday were transplant recipients Cindy Bachman, of Nanoose Bay, and Deborah Graves, of Nanaimo. Bachman received a kidney transplant, while Graves received two liver transplants.
Bachman, a masters soccer player who has played in international events, told health care workers about her sporting pursuits, which she said would never have been possible without the donated organ she received.
“You’re just slowly deteriorating on dialysis and you’re not able to live your life because you’re tied to a machine,” she told the News Bulletin. “The transplant just makes such a difference to people’s lives. Not only does it improve your health, it just allows you to live your life.”
Bachman received her kidney from a live donor, her sister-in-law, but before that, she had a potential organ donation fall through five days before a scheduled operation.
“So as devastating as that was, what it shows people is they will not proceed if there’s any danger to the donor. So I think that’s a really important part,” she said.
Graves’s liver disease, due to a parasite she encountered while she was travelling abroad, caused her to be sick for more than a decade and she had to wait for six years before receiving a liver. Her body rejected the transplanted organ and her liver started shutting down before she received a second liver that would save her life.
“It’s an amazing gift,” Graves said. “You don’t know just how valuable life is until you are in jeopardy.”
She said while some people might find it a gruesome idea to part with their organs after they die, she hopes more people won’t hesitate to donate.
“You’re not going to use them,” she said. “And there’s more chance, statistically, that you will be a donor recipient than them actually harvesting from you. Think about how many people have transplants.”
While Operation Popcorn was about thanking hospital workers, there are a lot of thank yous still to be expressed, because there are a lot of transplants that still need to be made.
“If I can help out in any way, just to [bring] awareness or just to give thanks, I want to be able to do that. That is such a little thing to be able to do,” Graves said.
For more information, visit http://www.transplant.bc.ca/.
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Geraldine R. "Deanie" Shanebrook
October 29, 1922 ~ August 19, 2018 (age 95)
Geraldine “Deanie” R. Shanebrook, 95, of Bonneauville, PA, entered God’s Eternal Care Sunday, August 19, 2018 at home with her loving family by her side.
Born October 29, 1922 in Hanover, PA, she was the daughter of the late Ralph and Emma (Sneeringer) Helwig. She was the loving wife of the late Leroy J. Shanebrook who died February 10, 1997.
Deanie was the oldest living member of St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, Bonneauville, PA. She was a member of the Catholic War Veterans Ladies’ Auxiliary and the Catholic Council of Women.
Deanie was a beautician and owned and operated Deanie’s Hair Salon for over fifty-eight years. In her younger days, she enjoyed sewing, crocheting, gardening, baking, and riding bikes with her grandchildren. She loved spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. As her health declined she loved reading books, playing solitaire and word search on her tablet.
Deanie is survived by her children, Barbara Dinges and husband Gary of Gettysburg, PA, Richard Shanebrook and wife Marilyn of Hatfield, PA, Pamela Clabaugh and husband Kenneth of Gettysburg, PA, Donna Smith and husband Tony of McSherrystown, PA, David “Choo-Choo” Shanebrook of Gettysburg, PA and Karen George and husband Michael of Gettysburg, PA; eleven grandchildren, Shawn Dinges and wife Julie, Tiffany Topper and husband Charles, Brandon Dinges, Jacki Shanebrook-Cohen and husband Sean, Derek Shanebrook and wife Veronica, Keith Clabaugh and his companion Amanda, and her daughters, Lilly and Maggie, Brent Clabaugh and wife Beth, Ryan Smith and wife Marie, Jerrod Smith and wife Emily, Justin George, and Brittany George; ten great-grandchildren, Calista, Maci and Tyson Dinges, Alexis and Zachary Topper, Russell Shanebrook, Brody Clabaugh, Josephine Cummings, Leland Smith, and Rowan Smith; one sister-in-law, Kathryn Helwig; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Francis, Robert and Charles Helwig.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be 12:00PM, Saturday, August 25, 2018 at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, 12 East Hanover Street, Bonneauville, PA, with Father Benny Jose as celebrant. Burial will be in St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church Cemetery. A viewing and time to share memories with the family will be held from 10:00AM-12:00PM, Saturday, August 25, 2018 at the church.
Memorial contributions in may be made in Deanie’s name to the American Cancer Society York/Adams, Attn: Memorial 924 N Colonial Avenue, York, PA 17404 or to St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, 12 East Hanover Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325.
The family has entrusted the funeral arrangements to the Kenworthy Funeral Home, Inc., 66 East Hanover Street, Gettysburg (Bonneauville), PA. Memories and condolences may be shared at www.kenworthyfh.com.
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Pistachio Wars: Killing California for a Snack Food
A groundbreaking documentary about Beverly Hills billionaires, marketing madness, water privatization, and...war with Iran.
Yasha Levine
Project We Love Los Angeles, CA Documentary
UPDATE: With four days left, we’re upping the ante and setting a new stretch goal for the campaign: $55,000. Find out what we hope to achieve with the extra $5,000. And thank you for your support!
Pistachio Wars is a documentary that takes a trip into the dark heart of California.
My name is Yasha Levine. I'm an investigative journalist and author. I have covered US politics for more than a decade.
California is on fire right now, but it's only one part of a bigger catastrophe.
For the past three years, I've been working with filmmaker Rowan Wernham on a documentary that investigates how a small group of billionaires have taken control of California's water — they have used that control to drain rivers, fuel real estate bubbles, build vast plantations in the middle of a desert, and left a trail of abuse, pollution, and environmental collapse behind them.
Pistachio Wars tells a wild and haunting story. It's not just a California story, but a story of our times.
And we need your help to bring it to the screen.
Frame grabs from Pistachio Wars
At the center of Pistachio Wars are two Beverly Hills billionaires — Stewart and Lynda Resnick.
He has old mob ties. She’s a child of Hollywood whose dad produced The Blob. They live in the biggest, flashiest mansion in Beverly Hills. They hang out with celebrities, give to charities, and have Stephen Colbert pitching their products on TV.
They’re farmers — the biggest and most powerful in California. They have a monopoly on America's booming pistachio market. They’re also water barons. They control more water than the entire population of Los Angeles uses in one year — that’s 4 million people.
For years, they’ve been bending California‘s political system to their will — privatizing water to feed the growth of their farming empire in the desert.
Their latest plan is to weaponize the panic surrounding California’s drought to grab the state’s most valuable water asset: two great rivers that feed into the San Francisco Bay. It’s a heist of epic proportions — it will put family farms out of business, and push life in the biggest river estuary on the west coast of America towards mass extinction.
Our film is a journey into their world. But the story is bigger than the Resnicks.
Pages from 'A Journey Through Oligarch Valley'
Pistachio Wars is inspired by my reporting in "A Journey Through Oligarch Valley," a long form article I wrote for NFSWCORP magazine about a little-known but powerful group of corporate farmers that dominate California politics. Our documentary takes that story and goes deeper.
The Wonderful Pistachios brand was launched via a series of Super Bowl commercials.
With your support, Pistachio Wars will:
Expose the stealth privatization of California’s water. Water is a public resource. The state’s biggest cities — Los Angeles, San Francisco and everything in between — depend on vast system of dams and aqueducts to bring water from hundreds of miles away. Although built and still funded by the government, billionaires like the Resnicks have successfully gamed the system, rewritten the rules and turned a public resource into a private commodity.
Show that California’s constant water shortages are political, not natural. News coverage of the state’s recurring water problems focus on weather and the environment — which gives people the sense that water shortages are natural and inevitable. While climate change is indeed a factor, it is not the main driver of California's water problems. The stark reality is that farms use 80% of the state's supply, an amount that trivializes savings made by residential users. Our documentary will cut through the talking points pushed by corporate lobby groups. The shortages are about allocation, not supply: much of the water is diverted to grow fringe, non-essential crops.
Tell the story of a modern Chinatown. If you watched Roman Polanski's Chinatown, you know that water heists are an integral part of California’s history. That’s how modern Los Angeles was built. But these heists are not just a part of the past. Pistachio Wars will reveal a brazen plan to leverage panic around the drought to build a massive publicly-financed aqueduct that diverts water for the benefit a small clique of wealthy elite.
Shed light on the dirty California farming practice of using toxic oil wastewater for irrigation. The state’s powerful farming interests spend big money to present themselves to the public as family farmers — responsible stewards of the land who grow natural produce in a healthy environment. That image comes crumbling down when you see major farms using oil industry waste water to irrigate their crops.
Reveal the ties between water privatization and real estate speculation. California is a semi-desert environment. Control of water is everything here — and water is a necessary part of any major real estate development. Our documentary will show how water privatization and unchecked Wall Street-funded real estate speculation — the kind that blew up the world economy less than a decade ago — are linked.
Take you on a trip to poor towns that have run out of water, while powerful farmers expand their plantations. Systemic inequality is laid bare as towns run out of water, or make do with drained polluted aquifers — all while farms owned by billionaires thrive and pump water with impunity. We filmed over the course of many months in several small towns at the heart of this struggle.
Show how snack food farmers are lobbying for war with Iran. California’s pistachio boom depends on sanctions that block the import of nuts from Iran. The film will look at how California pistachio farmers lobby for war and help drive America's aggressive, militaristic policy towards Iran — a policy that’s currently being advanced by President Donald Trump. Will pistachios help spark another war in the Middle East?
Wonderful Pistachios commercials featured high profile celebrities - Stephen Colbert, Denis Rodman, and even a Kim Jong-un impersonator.
Why this film is important
When people think of farming, they don't think of it in the terms of an extraction industry, like mining, drilling for oil, or fracking gas. But this is how today’s corporate farms operate. In an age of water scarcity, big farms aren't about feeding people or benefitting the public. They are in a vicious race to the bottom to drain as much water as possible, and convert it into whatever crop generates the highest dollar return.
Pistachio Wars is an absurdist tale of market-driven resource allocation. By market standards, the most “efficient” use of California's over-tapped and dwindling water supply is for the production of pistachio nuts — a marginal snack food whose demand was created by a mass marketing campaign.
These powerful farmers will stop at nothing in their quest for growth — whether its a massive expansion of water hungry crops at the peak of a drought, the plundering of the natural environment to the point of mass extinction, or feeding a geopolitical conflict with a risk of nuclear war.
Water privatization is the end game for these same corporate interests. Their extensive farming empires are a means to gain control of the planet's most vital resource. They see the water business as the “next big opportunity.”
Pistachio Wars will redefine how people see farming in the modern era of unchecked free market capitalism.
The story we tell is set in California, but it is ultimately a much bigger and more universal tale. The problems we highlight are can be found all over the world in areas with concentrated agricultural industries that depend on irrigation — from the American Midwest to India, Iran and Russia.
Where we're at and what we need
We’ve been shooting this film for three years. We have travelled all over California to get the story. Now that we have the footage in the can, we face the hardest and most time-consuming part of making a documentary: editing and post-production. We need to:
Hire an editor to assemble the feature length edit.
Hire a sound engineer, produce a score, and write and record a voice over.
Design and create graphics.
Do a final research push to find more archival footage and original sources.
All that these things take time and money. And we can’t do it without your help.
Rowan Wernham is a New Zealand born designer & filmmaker. Pistachio Wars will be his debut feature after a long stint in the Internet world. His 2012 animated short x.o.genesis screened at numerous festivals including Slamdance, Maryland, and Glasgow, and was a prize winner at the LA New Wave film festival.
Yasha Levine is a Russian-born American author and investigative journalist. His book, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet, was published in February 2018 by PublicAffairs. It is being released in the UK and translated into French, Dutch and Russian in early 2019. The New Yorker praised it as "forceful" and "salutary."
Levine began his journalistic career at The eXile, the legendary Moscow-based English-language newspaper. He later went on to co-found the paper’s US-based reincarnation, after The eXile was censored and shutdown by the Kremlin in 2008. Over the years, Levine has reported extensively from both the United States and the former Soviet Union. Most recently, Levine’s journalistic work has focused on California politics. His work has been featured and profiled in The Baffler, Wired, Slate, The Nation, Penthouse, Playboy, MSNBC and many others.
Max Scott: trailer score, sound design and mix.
Brendon Anderegg, Telescope Audio: trailer studio voice over recording.
Brad Jonas: Pistachio Wars poster art.
The only real risk is that it will take us longer than expected to finish post-production.
Chip in to support the project and get email newsletters with progress, at least one joke, and more!
Pistachio Curious
Get a “Pistachio Wars” sticker.
It’ll feature custom art and will look cool slapped on your MacBook or your Prius.
Pistachio Wars sticker
Pistachio Snack Pack
Get a collectable custom art postcard and a digital download of Yasha Levine’s Oligarch Valley, the original article about California’s billionaire farmers that inspired this film!
You'll also get with all the rewards from earlier levels!
Pistachio Wars custom art postcard
Digital download of Yasha Levine’s Oligarch Valley
Pistachio Road Trip
Get the entire set of custom art postcards — four in total — featuring the most infamous places in California’s Oligarch Valley.
4× Pistachio Wars custom art postcard
A limited edition illustrated poster-sized map of the “real” California featuring important places we visited on our journey: water heists, plantations, billionaires, oil pits, toxic towns, and other sights from the road.
It will look great on your wall in frame.
Custom art poster map of California
Your name in the credits of the film, along with a *signed* limited edition illustrated map of the “real” California.
Custom art poster map of California — *signed*
Get your name in the credits
Get your name in the credits of Pistachio Wars on its own standalone screen (or if you prefer, receive complete anonymity and plausible deniability of your support) — along with all the rewards from earlier levels!
Get your name in the credits on its own screen
Aspiring Oligarch
Be credited as an executive producer for the film — along with all the lower level rewards!
You'll be an executive producer
Estimated delivery Jul 2019
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Spurlock Level (aka Corrupt Us)
Kickstarter won't let us add a million dollar pledge level, but if you buy *all* 100 of these rewards you can add your brand name to the title of our film (POM Wonderful Pistachio Wars has a nice ring to it don't you think?). You will also be able to hire Yasha and Rowan to produce a commercial for you, shilling the product of your choice.
Corruption opportunity
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The Mysterious I.D. Vide in Newton's Nemesis
A math comic book mystery that teaches fractions. Why do you invert and multiply? Newton's Nemesis has the answer!
Cindy Ticknor
81 backers pledged $4,001 to help bring this project to life.
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What if a comic book could encourage kids to try harder in math?
Combining math, art and clever story-telling, this project tackles one of the most difficult math concepts to teach: fractions. Why fractions? That’s when many children begin to believe they’re “not good at math” and give up.
Fractions are also one of the most critical topics in school mathematics. If children aren't successful, then they'll struggle in all Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. Unfortunately, only 26% of US 8th grade students fully grasp fraction division.
Ms I.D. Vide in Newton's Nemesis No. 1 is a comic book that has already inspired over 100 children in low income schools to learn fractions.
If we raise $3000, vibrant color will be added to No. 1 and 500 copies will be donated to low income schools. WAIT! We reached $3000!!!
NEW STRETCH GOAL: If we reach $10,000, we'll give another 1000 comic books to low income schools.
The Impact of Color
Our heroes before color is added.
A color test on the same frame.
Theo, Quint and Ben
Whether children are students of color, athletic soccer kids, or comic book nerds who sport rainbow bracelets, they'll find characters who are real and aren't math whizzes. But like any good friends, they stick together to solve Ms. I.D. Vide's puzzles throughout the three part series.
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Theo lived in the fictitious town of Banneker, Maryland, where he got a new job puppy-sitting Newton. If only Newton didn't live next door to that strange old woman and her a creepy black cat named Pythagoras. The old witch was way too interested in Newton, and was planning something. But what? Any why was she so interested in Theo's math homework? Now that was weird! Almost as weird as his little sister. She LOVED math. He had no idea that she held the key to saving Newton from his nemesis, the mysterious old woman, Ms. I. D. Vide.
The new job. The fractions. His sister. It was giving Theo nightmares.
Ms. I. D. Vide Conjuring Fractions
My name is Cindy Ticknor and I’m a former teacher and professor of mathematics education in the southern United States, where I live with my husband (an avid comic book collector). For years, I’ve worked with students and teachers who have struggled to find engaging resources that help children truly understand fraction arithmetic. My goal is to have children discover “why” algorithms work rather than memorizing strange rules like "keep-change-flip". Math is so much more than memorizing rules!
Inspired by my husband’s comic books, I developed the mysterious character Ms. I.D. Vide to trick children into learning concepts underlying fraction division and multiplication. She’s featured in the first issue, Newton’s Nemesis, and drawn by a talented art student at my university, Mr. Nathan Long. When he first read the script he said,
“It’s like Ms. Frizzle meets Scooby-Doo!”
Our local newspaper featured us when they heard about our work.
The comic book is based on the best and most current research on learning math, including Jo Boaler and Carol Dweck’s work on growth mindset. The underlying narrative in the comic book teaches children that it’s okay to struggle with problems and that struggling doesn’t mean you’re “bad” at math.
As a researcher in math education, I knew I needed to test the comic book with children before fully investing in it. So, Nathan created a black and white version and I asked teachers in four different low income schools to review it, and if they liked it, test it in their 5th grade classrooms. All four loved it and used the comic book to introduce fraction division with over 150 children.
The Results: On a 5-point Likert scale, Newton’s Nemesis scored 5's and 4.75 on every metric! Sample quotes:
Teachers: “My students were highly engaged”; "[My students] didn’t realize that they were actually learning math. SUPERCOOL!!"
Students: “The book was awesome. The cliffhanger got me. You should definately [sp] make more"; "I really, really like this book. I can't wait for the second one."
One of the teachers told me that her students kept asking her to read the book again, even children who normally weren't engaged with math. My husband once said, "A good comic book you'll read over and over." What if a child wanted to read a math book over and over?
My primary goal is to get the book into the hands of children in low income schools to make a difference.
But first, it needs color to bring out the diversity in the characters and make them even more relatable to all student. If we reach our goal of $3000, we will pay for coloring the book, printing copies, as well as taxes and fees associated with this campaign. If we pass $3000, up to 500 copies will be donated to low income schools and the rest be invested in testing and developing Newton’s Nemesis No. 2.
Every donated book will include a letter from me to the school acknowledging your gift (your contact information will be included only with your permission). The beta version of No. 2 will be available by April 1st and Early Bird investors will also get a Sneak Peak! We hope to have it ready by the new school year.
By investing in this project, you'll be kickstarting the entire series! We hope with the success of No. 1 & No. 2, those issues will make the series self-sustaining. It's the beginning of a new and unique series of math comic books, and you'll share our title of "Math Heroes".
The Mysterious Ms. I.D. Vide in Newton’s Nemesis No. 1 is a 20 page comic book aligned to 5th grade Common Core Standards. Each book comes with an electronic supplement package (e-Supplements) that includes a 14 page Guide for Teachers & Parents that details the educational theories and mathematics hidden in the book (e.g. the town of Banneker is named for the first African-American mathematician), and printable board games, puzzles and worksheets. You can see a video preview of the e-Supplements by clicking here!
e-Supplements include black & white printable worksheets, games and a teacher's guide!
*Low income schools are schools in the US defined by federal guidelines using participation in free and reduced lunch programs. All donations will be within 8 hour driving distance of my university and will include a note acknowledging the investor, with the investor's prior consent. All investors will be notified of the schools receiving the donation.
Stretch Goal $10,000
If we exceed our goal, we'll invest the remaining funds in marketing Newton's Nemesis directly to math teachers at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) regional conferences. Over 2500 teachers who want to learn about new ideas for their classrooms attend these events.
Our stretch goal would not only give 1000 additional comic books to low income schools, but it will also provide the funds to print a larger lot (reducing printing costs) and allow us to market the extra comic books to teachers. Your $10,000 investment would make this project self-sustaining!
Based on $10,000 Goal
Nathan's ready to color the art during the month of March and I've scheduled a printer for production. So the timeline is fairly straight forward:
• Kickstarter Campaign Feb 12 – March 14 (Pi Day!!!)
• Comic Book produced in full color by March-April
• Printing & Mailing Delivered by May 2019
• Part 2 Sneak Peak Delivered by May 2019
I'll update all the e-Supplements from black & white to full color in early April and they'll be sent out to arrive with the comic books or before.
As I distribute the comic books, though the time and travel costs could be challenging, I think it's worth it!
Love the Idea of a Math Comic Book!
Donate any amount or look below to earn rewards!
Newton's Fan
We'll send you a screen saver made from the cover art as a thank you for donating one comic book to a low income school. With your permission, we'll include your name and contact information with the gift so the children can tell you "Thank you!"
Newton's Nemesis No. 1 (Donation to Low Income School)
Newton's Nemesis Screen Saver
Ms. I.D. Vide's Worksheets
For teachers or parents who wish to donate a copy to a low income school, we'll give you a copy of the e-Supplements, an electronic packet of printable worksheets and games for teaching fractions.
e-Supplement Package
1 + 1 = Comic Book Match
We'll match your reward with a donation to a low income school. Every comic book comes with an electronic set of supplements including the Guide for Parents & Teachers, worksheets and games.
Newton's Nemesis No. 1 (Full color)
Early Bird - Sneak Peak
Not only will you get a copy of the first color printing, you'll have a copy of the beta-version for Newton's Nemesis No. 2. Only 100 copies will be released.
Newton's Nemesis No. 2 (B&W)
Teacher's Package
Teachers will love using this small set of Newton's Nemesis in classroom math centers. Invest in these for yourself or as a teacher's gift and we'll match it with a set for low income children.
5× Newton's Nemesis No. 1 (Full color)
5× Newton's Nemesis No. 1 (Donation to Low Income School)
Collector's Gift
Donate a set of 5 comic books for math centers in a low income school, and we'll reward you with an autographed full color issue No. 1 for your collection.
Newton's Nemesis No. 1 (Full color - Autographed)
Classroom Hero
Donate a class set of Newton's Nemesis No. 1 to a low income school, and we'll send you a copy!
30× Newton's Nemesis No. 1 (Donation to Low Income School)
Collector & Hero
Keep an autographed, full color issue No. 1 in addition to classroom set to to a low income school.
Teacher & Hero!
If your a teacher buying a class set or a parent giving a great teacher gift, you'll also be a true hero giving a matching set to another classroom. You deserve an autographed copy!
30× Newton's Nemesis No. 1 (Full color)
Professional Development + A School Set
Purchase 100 comic books for your school in this professional development package that includes an 2.5 hour workshop conducted at your school by the author and math educator, Dr. Cindy Ticknor. Offer restricted to travel in the continental US. Contact the author if you live outside the United States to discuss travel funding options. The workshop may be conducted from April 2019-2020.
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This Bridge Is So Dangerous You Can’t Walk Across It Without A Safety Harness
Chongqing scenic overview opened a bridge across a chasm that visitors can cross at their own risk.
China has built some of the most extreme bridges in the world, but a new bridge at Aotaoji, Chongqing scenic overview is so dangerous that visitors have to wear safety harnesses just to cross.
The bridge was built off the side of a cliff in Chongqing. It sports planks with large gaps ranging from 50 centimeters to 120 centimeters that visitors hop between while strapped in a safety harness to keep them from falling into the chasm below.
The bridge was constructed with help from the Chongqing Amusement Park. The bridge is not in the amusement park itself, but at the Wansheng Mountain Scenic Area, another popular tourist attraction. While crossing the bridge, visitors can see the Yangtze River valley.
Chongqing unveiled the bridge right before the May Day holiday, next to the previous project, the world’s longest glass skywalk.
Check out photos from the bridges below!
Chongqing’s glass skywalk juts out at an impressive 80 meters.The plank bridge is directly to the left of the skywalk.
A giant step for mankind but also a terrifying one. The glass skywalk looms behind as a reminder that visitors could be even further over the valley.
The closer the planks are, the less scary it looks.
The most heart-pounding bridge to cross ever.
Source: Shanghaiist
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DAY6 Found Out They’re Charting At No. 1 And Their Reaction Was Priceless
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KUKA Xpert
Copy of Solution Robotics Airbus
Over recent years, Timo Boll and the KR AGILUS have squared up to one another in some tough contests. Today, the table tennis superstar and our robots form a perfect unit. See for yourself!
Timo Boll: brand ambassador for KUKA in China
Since 2014, Timo Boll has been the face of KUKA in China. For years now, the German table tennis player – and flag bearer at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro – has been one of the most popular German athletes in Asia. Boll’s great strengths are his speed, enormous precision and extreme mobility. As such, not only is he the personification of our robots, but above all the ideal brand ambassador for KUKA in his second home.
I’m a technology freak! KUKA robots are fascinating products: fast, agile, precise and reliable. Just like a good table tennis player. I’m certainly prepared for a hard-fought match against a KUKA robot.
Timo Boll, European table tennis champion and KUKA brand ambassador in China
Timo Boll versus the KR AGILUS: battle of the giants
Timo Boll is one of the fastest table tennis players in the world and was the German flag bearer at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The KR AGILUS is the fastest robot from KUKA. To mark the opening of the new production facility in Shanghai on March 11, 2014, KUKA presented Timo Boll as its new brand ambassador in China – and an exciting video. In a dramatic contest, the German table tennis professional and our KR AGILUS took part in a hard-fought table tennis duel over four minutes in the Timo Boll video, “The Duel”. See for yourself who comes out on top...
There can only be one: Timo Boll and the KR AGILUS intend to show who gains the upper hand in the struggle of man versus machine.
Timo Boll vs. KR AGILUS: revenge with music
Following the sporting duel in the previous year, the second Timo Boll video, entitled “The Revenge”, featured the German table tennis champion and the industrial robot engaging in a much more delicate pastime. The virtuosic playing on the musical glasses calls for manual dexterity from the adversaries above all else.
Timo Boll – who was not just an athlete at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro but also the German flag bearer during the opening ceremony – and the KR AGILUS display total commitment. Neither is found wanting in this competition either with regard to pace or mobility. Find out for yourself! And you can see who comes out on top in this Timo Boll video...
Speed and precision honed to perfection: in the second Timo Boll video, “The Revenge”, he also went head-to-head with the KR AGILUS.
Timo Boll in harmony with the robot
2016 is the year for rethinking – and the same goes for our brand ambassador, Timo Boll, who had the honor of serving as the German flag bearer at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
In the two videos, “The Duel” and “The Revenge”, Timo Boll competed against the KUKA KR AGILUS for dominance in speed and skill. First of all, the pair faced one another in a tough table tennis match, and after that tried their skills playing musical glasses.
In the new video, “The Perfect Match”, Timo Boll gets to know a new KUKA robot: with the KR titan on the KUKA omniMove mobile platform, he is practicing in perfect harmony.
Human against machine was yesterday: in 2016 Timo Boll teams up with the robot in “The Perfect Match”.
Download the KUKA and Timo Boll wallpaper
The-Perfect-Match-Wallpaper - zip, 10,68 MB
Intelligent people and machines make us unique. Learn more!
Industry 4.0 is driven by people for humans. We present special pioneers, who shape the future for KUKA and its customers
KUKA Marketing Germany
+49 821 797-50
English - 中国
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Blooming Night
China's van Goghs
Crested Ibis
Fishes, Swimmers, Boats
Hsiang Yi
KING OF PEKING
Love After Time
Mrs. Lei
Night Spinning
No Sad
Of Shadows
Papa Rainbow
Paths of the Soul
Sheep Dotting Hillsides
Smokers Die Slowly Together
The Day Before Chinese New Year
The Last Painting
The Summer at Ten
Under the Same Sky
SAM VOUTAS/US&CHINA/88MINS
A Big Wong and his young son Little Wong are part of a fading tradition: traveling film projectionists screening Hollywood movies for villagers who otherwise don’t have access to films.
But when Big Wong’s ex-wife raises the spousal support payments, Big Wong faces the possibility of losing custody. In order to stay together, the two Wongs move to the basement of an old Beijing cinema, where Big Wong works as a janitor.
When Big Wong discovers a prototype DVD recorder for sale in a junk store, he convinces Little Wong to join a new venture: a father-son bootlegging company. He names it King of Peking in honor of their surname’s meaning: king.
Business soon booms, but in the maelstrom of making money, Big Wong realizes that he might lose something more precious than custody: his son's trust. And Little Wong learns that sometimes parents make bad choices for very good reasons.
Big Wong-ZHAO JUN Little Wong-WANG NAIXUN
Lei Lin-HAN QING Liu Feng-SI CHAO
Guard Wen-GENG BOWEN
Executive Producers-LISA CHANG, JESSE VEVERKA
Associate Producers-JAN BERRIS, ILKKA MATIAS RISTIMAKI, SIMON GEROVICH, RIP MUNGER, DORIS MUNGER
Director Of Photography-SEPPE VAN GRIEKEN
Production Designer-LIU XINMIN
Costumes-LI XUAN
First assistant director-QIN YI
Art Director-SHAN CHANGBIN
Director Statement
I grew up in China, and spent a few years in the early 90s living outside of Beijing in the countryside. There were no cinemas out there. If you wanted to see a movie you needed either a VHS player (which few had) or you’d have to wait for the traveling projectionists to hit town. On weekends I’d go and sit under the stars with anyone who lived nearby, and we’d watch Hollywood movies projected on a sheet on a basketball court. With the arrival of digital video discs, which brought pirated movies into most homes in China, the traveling projectionists disappeared. I always wondered what happened to them, and how many had embraced the new technology in order to survive.
I spent most of my 20s in China with my head down, hungrily pursuing goals that were squarely for my own self-interest. A few years ago I was about to be a first time dad. Coming to terms with impending fatherhood, I realized that from now on I’d need to try and set a good example for my daughter. I needed to shift my life from “what can I get away with” to whether it’s actually a good role model for her. Sure, I might fail in my efforts, but at least I had to give it a go.
And so, with memories from my childhood in the back of my head, I started writing this story about parents and piracy. There’s a Chinese phrase, “有其父必有其子”, which means “like father, like son”. This is an exploration of how the paths we choose as adults can affect our kids, and how sometimes it’s not just the child who has to grow up.
An Australian, Sam was raised in Beijing in the 80s and 90s. He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents, the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, and the Toronto Film Festival Talent Lab. His 2010 Chinese language feature film, Red Light Revolution, was recently included on the British Film Institute’s list of “10 Great Films Set in Beijing”. That film was released theatrically in Canada, the UK, and Singapore, and won the People’s Choice Award at the 2011 Singapore International Film Festival. Sam also played the role of Durdin in Lu Chuan’s City of Life and Death (Toronto International Film Festival 2009).
Director's filmography
Bachelor Of Creative Arts, Victorian College Of The Arts (’01) Berlinale Talents (’11)
Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab (’11)
Sundance Screenwriters Lab (’12)
Professional Program In Producing, UCLA (’13)
2010 RED LIGHT REVOLUTION (Feature Film, China).
2007 DRAGON SONS, PHOENIX DAUGHTERS (TV Documentary, China).
2006 SHANGHAI BRIDE (TV Documentary, China).
Fiction Features Competition
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The 28 Best Christmas Movies on YouTube In 2019
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by Elise Moreau
Elise Moreau is a digital marketer, web content writer and copywriter. She has covered web trends for Lifewire and previously About.com, since 2011.
163 people found this article helpful
Ah, Christmas. It's that time of year when it's far too dark and cold out to do anything but curl up with some hot chocolate or eggnog and settle in to watch Christmas movies online — for free, if possible.
YouTube is a good place to look for free Christmas classics. Just plug in the title of the movie you'd like to watch and see what comes up.
Bear in mind that some of these movies could be pulled down any time due to copyright violation. People upload all sorts of stolen content to YouTube and while it's convenient for viewers, that doesn't mean that they're not breaking the rules.
In the spirit of the season, here are the YouTube links to check out.
A Christmas Carol (1984) - The full film from 1984 originally based on the book by Charles Dickens.
Ernest Saves Christmas - Every 80s and 90s kid who grew up loving this guy's comedic shows will remember this 1989 Christmas firm.
On the Second Day of Christmas - This 1997 comedy/drama starring Mark Ruffalo is a popular favorite on YouTube.
Snowglobe - This 2007 ABC Family movie will take you on a magical trip inside a snowglobe where everything is Christmas!
The Man in the Santa Claus Suit - If you're a fan of older classic movies, you'll love this 1979 holiday drama.
The Ultimate Christmas Present - If you ever wondered it would be like to experience an epic snow day, this family movie will show you!
The Santa Claus 3 - Likewise, watch this one on YouTube while it's still available!
Moonlight & Mistletoe - Another family-friendly movie featuring a town that's all decked out for Christmas, this one stars Tom Arnold and Candace Cameron Bure.
A Mom for Christmas - The picture on this one isn't great, but if you love heartwarming holiday movies from the early 90s, you'll still love it!
A Diva's Christmas Carol - How many versions of a Christmas Carol can there be? Add this one to the list!
Miracle on 34th Street (1973) - Although it's not the original, this movie is still as magical as ever!
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - This family-friendly movie features Dylan/Cole Sprouse (playing the same kid role of course) in a story about Santa trying to steal his mother and replace his father.
The Christmas Gift - How would you react if you ended up in a town where everyone believes in Santa Claus? This 1986 movie starring John Denver tells the story.
Richie Rich's Christmas Wish - Remember that Richie Rich character from the 90s? Well, here's his Christmas movie.
A Smokey Mountain Christmas - This one is a classic from 1986. Gotta love Dolly Parton.
A Town Without Christmas - The first movie of a Christmas trilogy, from 2001.
Finding John Christmas - If you liked the previous movie, then you can watch the second movie in this trilogy.
When Angels Come to Town - Lastly, here's the third movie that's part of the trilogy mentioned in the previous two movies above.
The Christmas Tree - This is a rare TV Christmas movie from 1996 with a beautiful story that could make you tear up a bit!
Karroll's Christmas - How could someone hate Christmas so much? Find out in this 2004 comedy.
Christmas Caper - Christmas tends to bring out the best of people, even when they're at their most wicked. Here's a 2007 TV comedy that does just that.
A Christmas Wedding - See what happens when the main character attends a wedding on Christmas Eve in this romantic comedy.
Christmas in the City - A mother and daughter go to the big city to make some extra money for the holidays in this romantic comedy/drama.
Christmas in Boston - A lovely little holiday story about two penpals who have been writing to each other for years.
Must Be Santa - A Santa replacement is needed in this 1999 holiday movie.
A Wish for Christmas - Another adorable Hallmark holiday flick for you.
The Christmas Card - Starring Ed Asner, this is a heartwarming story about a US soldier whose adventure starts with a Christmas card.
A Golden Christmas - This romantic comedy is the perfect family flick with lots of puppy love in it to enjoy.
Believe it or not, there are lots more Christmas movies out there on YouTube Premium and other parts of YouTube; new ones are being uploaded all the time. Some of the more popular movie titles are also available to watch (in high quality) on YouTube for a viewing fee.
For now, these free movies should keep you busy until next season. Happy Holidays!
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Deborah Sheedy
Patrick Parker
Emma BenderAge: 80 years1914–1994
Emma Bender
Emma Hildreth
Hildreth
Emma Bender Green
Bender Green (Bender, Green)
Birth April 9, 1914 38 29
Winona, Emmons, North Dakota, United States
Latitude: N46.160575 Longitude: W100.553421
Birth of a brother Fredrick “Fred” Bender
December 15, 1916 (Age 2 years)
School District 17, McIntosh, North Dakota, United States
Latitude: N46.262 Longitude: W99.108
Birth of a sister Katherine Bender
July 7, 1918 (Age 4 years)
Death of a maternal grandfather Johann Friedrich Lindemann
943 Ross St, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Census January 1, 1920 (Age 5 years) Age: 5
Birth of a sister Karoline Bender
April 9, 1920 (Age 6 years)
Birth of a brother Philip Bender
July 30, 1922 (Age 8 years)
Birth of a brother Johannes “Johnny” Bender
Census April 1, 1925 (Age 10 years) Age: 11
Birth of a sister Margaret “Marge” Bender
March 15, 1926 (Age 11 years)
Death of a paternal grandmother Catharina Nagel
June 22, 1926 – 15:30 (Age 12 years)
Kulm, LaMoure, North Dakota, United States
Latitude: N46.301944 Longitude: W98.948056
Cause: Cerebral hemorrhage
Burial of a paternal grandmother Catharina Nagel
Kulm Congregational Cemetery, LaMoure, North Dakota, United States
Latitude: N46.3116 Longitude: W98.97601
Death of a brother George Bender
Bismarck, Burleigh, North Dakota, United States
Burial of a brother George Bender
Worms Lutheran Cemetery, Winona, Emmons, North Dakota, United States
Death of a paternal grandfather Jacob “Jake” Bender
May 1, 1932 – 07:15 (Age 18 years)
Cause: Coronary disease
Burial of a paternal grandfather Jacob “Jake” Bender
May 5, 1932 (Age 18 years)
#1 John A. Hildreth
August 20, 1935 (Age 21 years)
Braddock, Emmons, North Dakota, United States
Death of a maternal grandmother Rosine Christina Knodel
March 9, 1936 (Age 21 years)
Schuler, Cypress County, Alberta, Canada
Latitude: N50.33919 Longitude: W110.0964
Burial of a maternal grandmother Rosine Christina Knodel
Matthaus Congregational Cemetery, Cypress County, Alberta, Canada
#2 Christine M. Hildreth
Death of a mother Christina Lindemann
Cause: apoplexy
Burial of a mother Christina Lindemann
Marriage Charles Raymond “Charlie” Green — View this family
November 15, 1944 (Age 30 years)
Roundup, Musselshell, Montana, United States
#3 Irene Dolores Green
December 10, 1944 (Age 30 years)
Death of a sister Katherine Bender
Ekalaka, Carter, Montana, United States
Burial of a sister Katherine Bender
estimated October 1952 (Age 38 years)
International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Ekalaka, Carter, Montana, United States
Latitude: N45.8847 Longitude: W104.5522
Death of a brother Fredrick “Fred” Bender
January 23, 1957 (Age 42 years)
General Hospital, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States
Cause: Automobile accident
Residence July 11, 1957 (Age 43 years)
Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, United States
Death of a father John Bender
September 20, 1965 (Age 51 years)
Burial of a father John Bender
Death of a daughter Irene Dolores Green
75 ft east of Prior Gap Rd and Sage Creek Rd, Big Horn, Montana, United States
Residence April 11, 1966 (Age 52 years)
Death of a husband Roy G. Hildreth
Anaconda, Deer Lodge, Montana, United States
Death of a husband Charles Raymond “Charlie” Green
The Dalles, Wasco, Oregon, United States
Residence January 16, 1971 (Age 56 years)
Burial of a husband Charles Raymond “Charlie” Green
New Miners Cemetery, Gibbtown, Musselshell, Montana, United States
Death of a brother Gottlieb Bender
Saint Alexius Hospital, Bismarck, Burleigh, North Dakota, United States
Latitude: N46.80767 Longitude: W100.77776
Death of a son John A. Hildreth
August 5, 1977 (Age 63 years)
Seattle, King, Washington, United States
Residence August 5, 1977 (Age 63 years)
Death of a brother Johannes “Johnny” Bender
October 2, 1979 (Age 65 years)
Death December 29, 1994 (Age 80 years)
Ashley, McIntosh, North Dakota, United States
Latitude: N46.035 Longitude: W99.373611
Burial December 31, 1994 (2 days after death)
Linton Cemetery, Linton, Emmons, North Dakota, United States
Christina Lindemann
Edward “Ed” Bender
Gottlieb Bender
Johanna Bender
George Bender
Fredrick “Fred” Bender
Katherine Bender
Karoline Bender
Philip Bender
Johannes “Johnny” Bender
Margaret “Marge” Bender
John Bender
Birth: January 31, 1876 24 29 — Yankton, Yankton, Dakota Territory, United States
Death: September 20, 1965 — Bismarck, Burleigh, North Dakota, United States
Birth: April 5, 1885 34 33 — Tripp, Hutchinson, Dakota Territory, United States
Death: July 26, 1940 — Winona, Emmons, North Dakota, United States
Marriage: September 9, 1907 — Linton, Emmons, North Dakota, United States
Caroline Neigum
Edwin A. Bender
Birth: October 5, 1907 31 22 — John Bender farm (first), Winona, Emmons, North Dakota, United States
Death: April 5, 2000 — Saint Alexius Hospital, Bismarck, Burleigh, North Dakota, United States
Rosalie Ann “Rose” Jaeger
Birth: December 17, 1908 32 23 — John Bender farm (first), Winona, Emmons, North Dakota, United States
Death: July 4, 1972 — Saint Alexius Hospital, Bismarck, Burleigh, North Dakota, United States
Birth: June 23, 1909 33 24 — Winona, Emmons, North Dakota, United States
Death: March 1910 — Winona, Emmons, North Dakota, United States
Birth: May 22, 1912 36 27 — Winona, Emmons, North Dakota, United States
Death: July 12, 1929 — Bismarck, Burleigh, North Dakota, United States
Roy G. Hildreth
John A. Hildreth
Christine M. Hildreth
Charles Raymond “Charlie” Green
Irene Dolores Green
Birth: April 9, 1914 38 29 — Winona, Emmons, North Dakota, United States
Death: December 29, 1994 — Ashley, McIntosh, North Dakota, United States
Lela Maye Hayes
Autry Miles Bender
Freddie Lee Bender
Birth: December 15, 1916 40 31 — School District 17, McIntosh, North Dakota, United States
Death: January 23, 1957 — General Hospital, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States
Birth: July 7, 1918 42 33 — School District 17, McIntosh, North Dakota, United States
Death: October 25, 1952 — Ekalaka, Carter, Montana, United States
Rudolph Schmierer
Byron A. Buckles
Birth: April 9, 1920 44 35 — School District 17, McIntosh, North Dakota, United States
Death: September 17, 1997 — Kennewick, Benton, Washington, United States
Linda Jean Bender
Deza Rae Bender
Birth: July 30, 1922 46 37
Death: October 10, 1999 — Roundup, Musselshell, Montana, United States
Regina Helena Ell
Birth: July 7, 1924 48 39 — Winona, Emmons, North Dakota, United States
Death: October 2, 1979 — Saint Alexius Hospital, Bismarck, Burleigh, North Dakota, United States
Homer Ransom Pulse Jr
Birth: March 15, 1926 50 40 — Winona, Emmons, North Dakota, United States
Death: January 8, 2010 — Glendive, Dawson, Montana, United States
Family with Roy G. Hildreth - View this family
Birth: December 8, 1901 — North Dakota, United States
Death: April 10, 1969 — Anaconda, Deer Lodge, Montana, United States
Birth: August 20, 1935 33 21 — Braddock, Emmons, North Dakota, United States
Death: August 5, 1977 — Seattle, King, Washington, United States
Ervin Martin Schadler
Robert Michael Silva
Emma Christine Silva
Birth: March 28, 1937 35 22 — Bismarck, Burleigh, North Dakota, United States
Death: December 17, 2003 — Mineral Community Hospital, Superior, Mineral, Montana, United States
Family with Charles Raymond “Charlie” Green - View this family
Birth: December 2, 1899 — Bevier, Macon, Missouri, United States
Death: January 16, 1971 — The Dalles, Wasco, Oregon, United States
Marriage: November 15, 1944 — Roundup, Musselshell, Montana, United States
John C. “Jack” Barnes
Birth: December 10, 1944 45 30 — Roundup, Musselshell, Montana, United States
Death: April 11, 1966 — 75 ft east of Prior Gap Rd and Sage Creek Rd, Big Horn, Montana, United States
Social Security Administration, "Social Security Death Index", database, Ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=3693&enc=1 : accessed 31 Aug 2012), entry for Emma Green, 29 Dec 1994, SSN 516-28-3245.
Name: Emma B. Green
SSN: 516-28-3245 Last Residence: 58413 Ashley, Mcintosh, North Dakota, United States of America Born: 9 Apr 1914 Died: 29 Dec 1994 State (Year) SSN issued: Montana (Before 1951)
Last change May 21, 2017 – 04:21:03
Jacob “Jake” Bender
Catharina Nagel
Johann Friedrich Lindemann
Rosine Christina Knodel
Family with Roy G. Hildreth
Family with Charles Raymond “Charlie” Green
James P. Green
Mary Myrtle Willsie
Emma Bender(1914–1994)
Charles Raymond “Charlie” Green1944
Irene Dolores Green(1944–1966)
For technical support or genealogy questions contact Philip Weiss.
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Crosby School Library
Crosby Times
Principal's Letter
NYS School Report Card
Math for Parents
Ms. Biscaras' Site
Ms. Bonse's Site
Ms. DiDonna's Site
Ms. Donovan's Site
Ms. Farrell's Site
Ms. Gaffney's Site
Mr. Hansen's Site
Ms. Hildenbrand's Site
Ms. Kelder's Site
Ms. Leirey's Site
Ms. Murphy's Site
Ms. Petersen's Site
Ms. Ring's Site
Teacher Info
Daily Assignments
Mr. Robert Hansen
Mr. Hansen has been teaching in the Kingston City School District since 1994. He began his career at the John F. Kennedy Elementary School before moving to Zena School in 2000. With its closing in 2013 he moved to the E.R. Crosby Elementary School.
When not working, his favorite thing to do is visit Disney theme parks and see some of his favorite characters like Stitch and Mickey.
Mr. Hansen's mission for his class is to: learn about the world around you, develop respect for yourself and others and...when at all possible...have fun doing it!
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Area of Research
Ultrafast Ti:S Laser/Amplifier Systems
Ultrafast Ti:S Lasers / Oscillators
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imec to install high NA EUV imaging and attosecond lab to probe lithography
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San Francisco, California, February 26, 2019 — Today, imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, and KMLabs, pioneers and world leaders in ultrafast laser and EUV technology, announce a joint development to create a real-time functional imaging and interference lithography laboratory. This lab will enable imaging in resist on 300mm wafers down to an unprecedented 8nm pitch. Additionally, it will enable time-resolved nanoscale characterization of complex materials and processes, such as photoresist radiation chemistry, two-dimensional materials, nanostructured systems and devices, emergent quantum materials.
These capabilities expand upon imec’s post process analysis capability and will allow the characterization of the molecular and quantum dynamics of materials within the attosecond to picosecond (10-18 s to 10-12 s) time regime, as well as to image lithographic feature sizes that far exceed the technology roadmap. At this week’s 2019 SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference, imec Principle Scientist John Petersen and other authors further detail the imec attolab in various papers.
The ability to pattern ever-smaller feature sizes and denser pitches is significantly challenged due to a lack of fundamental understanding of EUV sub-picosecond exposure processes. The first industrial laboratory to do so, imec’s attolab will enable the study of EUV photon absorption and subsequent ionization processes at unprecedented timescales from attoseconds to picoseconds. It is anticipated that the gain in fundamental understanding of material characteristics pave the way for the development of new lithographic materials and underlayers.
Because of the coherence of KMLabs’ high-flux source, imec’s attolab will also enable interference imaging to emulate high numerical aperture (NA) imaging at 13.5 nm. This capability is planned to jump start development of the high-NA patterning ecosystem at imec in preparation for the planned ASML-imec High-NA lab that was announced in October 2018, which will be centered around one of the first ASML EXE5500 High-NA (0.55NA) proto tools. By combining this high-NA interference capability with the current HVM-relevant EUV scanner (NXE:3400B) in imec’s cleanroom, imec and its partners will be able to explore the fundamental dynamics of photoresist imaging before the 0.55NA tools become available. The 300mm interference lithography (IL) capability will allow them to study advanced patterning films and processes using state-of-the art metrology tools, and will continue to be used to extend the knowledge of resist physics and chemistries to the very limits of material science.
While initially setting out to aid the development of next-generation EUV lithography tools, many other research areas will benefit from such a state-of-the-art facility. Beyond molecular dynamics and ionization processes of imaging materials, this lab will also provide the ability to do attosecond time-resolved electron spectroscopy and imaging of materials in an industrial setting. This is essential to accelerate the development of tomorrows logic, memory, and quantum devices, and of next-generation metrology and inspection techniques.
The new laboratory will be equipped with multiple KMLabs EUV beamlines, providing the platform for a jointly developed series of EUV end stations.
“Bringing this high-NA exposure and attosecond analytic capability to imec’s 300mm cleanroom will enable unprecedented fundamental learning, significantly speed up cycles of learning, and positively impact the semiconductor technology roadmap in many critical domains,” Greg McIntyre, director of advanced patterning at imec.
"Stochastic defectivity, resist photochemistry, and novel electronic materials development are all critical to the next generation of semiconductor enablement. KMLabs is proud to work with imec on system development, advanced metrology, and solutions in these areas.” Dr. Kevin Fahey, CEO KMLabs.
About imec
imec is a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, energy and education.
As a trusted partner for companies, start-ups and universities we bring together more than 4,000 brilliant minds from over 85 nationalities. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and has distributed R&D groups at a number of Flemish universities, in the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, China, and offices in India and Japan. In 2017, imec's revenue (P&L) totaled 546 million euro. Further information on imec can be found at www.imec-int.com.
Imec is a registered trademark for the activities of IMEC International (a legal entity set up under Belgian law as a "stichting van openbaar nut”), imec Belgium (IMEC vzw supported by the Flemish Government), imec the Netherlands (Stichting IMEC Nederland, part of Holst Centre which is supported by the Dutch Government), imec Taiwan (IMEC Taiwan Co.) and imec China (IMEC Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.) and imec India (Imec India Private Limited), imec Florida (IMEC USA nanoelectronics design center).
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KMLabs (Boulder, Colorado, U.S.) is a leading manufacturer of compact, high-performance, ultrafast advanced lasers and systems for research and industrial applications, including multi-photon imaging, spectroscopy, coherent soft X-ray and EUV femtosecond-to-attosecond pulse generation and applications in imaging and spectroscopy. It is the only commercial supplier of a coherent tabletop soft X-ray laser light source. The company’s femtosecond laser systems (Ti:sapphire and also fiber laser based) offer unprecedented power, stability, and control, opening-up new possibilities for fundamental research and industrial metrology, imaging, and materials characterization. Additional information can be found at www.kmlabs.com.
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Hennadii Zubko: Our task is to gradually transfer the housing stock of Ukraine to high energy efficiency
posted 31 August 2016 10:46
Deputy Prime Minister Economy Energy security
The establishment of an Energy Efficiency Fund will help to bring our national legislation in line with the EU norms. It concerns the standardization of energy efficiency of buildings and commercial accounting of services. This was stated by Vice Prime Minister/ Minister of Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Hennadii Zubko in an interview with the newspaper Today.
"A person who insulates his or her home should understand that economy can reach not 10-15%, but 40-50%. There are examples when the savings exceed 70%. Just due to the Fund in the future Ukrainians will be able to recoup some of the spending after the particular house will be transferred to high energy efficiency class. Our task is to gradually transfer the housing stock of Ukraine to the high class, as in Poland or the Czech Republic. By setting up the Fund we achieve two goals: provide a technical solution to people on introducing energy efficiency measures and render financial support to each family", explained Hennadii Zubko.
He also noted that it is extremely important that the Fund's model allows us to draw funding from Europe, but not only resources of the budget. "For example, Germany is ready to allocate financial resources for this purpose. The European Union also supports us", said the Vice Prime Minister.
Embassy starts the issuance of the Ukrainian visas programmed by information-telecommunication system "Visa"
Prime Minister forecasts sustainable economic development in the fall and expects the boost by the end of year
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11:03, 12 July Economy Supervision and control First Deputy Prime Minister Stepan Kubiv and Maxym Nefiodov presented launch of an online SOEs analytics portal ProZvit
18:15, 11 July Economy International activity Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ratified FTA with Israel
16:10, 11 July Economy Supervision and control Policy Finances Naftogaz is obliged to reduce gas price for the population by another UAH 650 in July
13:06, 11 July Economy Prime Minister Reforms Finances Volodymyr Groysman about the Startup Fund: We are launching another business support tool
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Leicestershire County Council
Bid for cash to boost rural jobs
The county council is funding the grants as part of its work to support the local economy
David GodsallStory Editor
BUSINESSES have until the end of October to bid a share of £100,000, to boost the rural economy and jobs.
Leicestershire County Council is inviting bids for the latest round of its rural business grants, which were unveiled earlier this year. The deadline is 5pm on October 31.
County cabinet member Pam Posnett, chairman of the Rural Partnership, said: “Small firms are the life-blood of our economy and I hope that rural businesses take advantage of these grants, to help them develop and grow.
“The first round of grants, earlier this year, supported a range of initiatives, from creating a children’s farm to finding new uses for agricultural buildings.”
Rob Morton, proprietor of the Hallaton-based Bottle Kicking Cider Company, received a grant last year.
He said: “The assistance the Leicestershire Rural Partnership has given us has been invaluable. We have been able to carry out our expansion plans with confidence, and we are now in a position to fulfil the increased demand for our cider.”
The county council is funding the grants as part of its work to support the local economy. Other initiatives include the small business loan fund.
For further information concerning the rural business grants, please download an application form and accompanying guidance notes from www.oakleaves.org.uk , email peter.mclaren@leics.gov.uk or phone Peter on 0116 305 3910 .
Pam Posnett
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Dana White Thinks Brock Lesnar Made ‘Right Decision’ Retiring From MMA
Dana White thinks Brock Lesnar made the right call retiring from mixed martial arts (MMA).
“The Beast” has opted to hang up his gloves for good and remain with WWE. The promotion was hoping to book a superfight between the WWE star and heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier. Instead, Cormier has moved on and will defend his title against Stipe Miocic in August.
Speaking on an Instagram Live chat earlier today (Tues. June 18, 2019), White admitted he thinks Lesnar made the “right decision” retiring from MMA (via MMA Fighting):
“I wasn’t pissed at all,” White said. “Brock had a good run here. It’s been fun. Listen to fight in this business you have to be 100 percent invested. You’ve got to be in. It’s not where his head was. He made the right decision.”
Lesnar initially signed with the UFC back in 2008. At on point, he found himself on a four-fight win streak, which included a heavyweight title victory. Lensar beat notable names such as Randy Couture, Frank Mir, Mark Hunt, and Shane Carwin. He also fought the likes of Cain Velasquez and Alistair Overeem.
Now, it looks like the 41-year-old’s fighting days are over, and he’ll continue to be one of the biggest stars in the professional wrestling world.
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Manchester Museum commemorates 100 years since Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
February 21, 2019 - by Editorial Team
Manchester Museum has come together with the Partition Museum in Amritsar, India, to commemorate 100 years since the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. The collaboration marks the first time in Indo-UK history …
Manchester Museum awarded multi-million pound funding
May 4, 2018 May 4, 2018 - by Editorial Team
Manchester Museum has been awarded a grant of £4,215,800 by the Heritage Lottery Fund for a major capital project. The funds will be used to develop and transform the museum …
A Rubbish Night at the Museum – Do residents in Manchester have to live surrounded by rubbish
April 17, 2018 - by Editorial Team
Manchester Museum is hosting A Rubbish Night at the Museum. But that’s no commentary on the event itself! Do residents in Manchester have to live surrounded by rubbish? Or can we …
Manchester Museums and Galleries Partnership acquires artworks by Waqaas Khan
Manchester Museums and Galleries Partnership has acquired three artworks by Lahore based artist Waqas Khan. The pieces will be used to welcome visitors in Urdu script to the Whitworth, Manchester …
Manchester Museum as never seen before
October 2, 2017 - by Editorial Team
Manchester Museum will take on a whole new life this Saturday as it becomes the scene for a colourful Saturday night in a Congolese village, the resurrection of a Mesopotamian Goddess …
Manchester to celebrate South Asian art and design
September 24, 2017 April 12, 2018 - by Editorial Team
The city of Manchester will celebrate South Asian art and design with nine shows across museums and galleries. Leading South Asian and British artists of South Asian decent will join …
Memories of Partition at Manchester Museum
August 18, 2017 August 17, 2017 - by Editorial Team
Manchester Museum is marking the 70th anniversary of independence and Partition with its new exhibition Memories of Partition. The exhibition captures the memories of those affected by the 1947 Partition …
Manchester Museum repatriates Moriori jawbone back to New Zealand
May 23, 2017 May 22, 2017 - by Editorial Team
Manchester Museum and the Museum of New Zealand Te Pap Tongarewa have announced the repatriation of a Moriori jawbone. Manchester Museum has been responsible for the ancestral remains since the …
Manchester Living / music / theatre, stage and film
Manchester After Hours to take over the city’s art and music scene
April 20, 2017 April 20, 2017 - by Editorial Team
Manchester After Hours returns on Thursday 18 May as the city’s arts and music scene comes alive in the evening. The annual event, part of the UK wide Museums at …
Raqib Shaw exhibition coming to the Whitworth
A series of Kashmir inspired paintings including new work by Raqib Shaw will be displayed at The Whitworth. The collection will include renaissance drawings, sculptures, textiles and limited-edition wallpaper. The …
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Sketch released of man wanted for questioning in UM student's killing
Vigil to be held for victim Tuesday night
By Ian Margol - Reporter, Amanda Batchelor - Senior Digital Editor
CORAL GABLES, Fla. - A sketch was released Tuesday of a man wanted for questioning in connection to the killing of a 23-year-old University of Miami student who was found dead Sunday morning by his roommate.
Miami-Dade police said the person in the sketch was seen in the early morning hours at the apartment complex at 6580 Santona St. in Coral Gables.
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Police are not calling the man a suspect at this time, but said detectives want to speak to him.
"He was the nicest kid I've honestly ever met. (He) didn't do anything wrong, held his values, straight-A student," Yasser Abualfaraj's friend, Josh Kaufman, said.
Abualfaraj was a third-year architecture student at UM and, by all accounts, he was a great student and a good friend.
According to police, his roommate found him dead inside their apartment Sunday afternoon. His body showed multiple signs of trauma, police said.
Detectives were back at the complex Tuesday, dusting for fingerprints at another unit one floor up from the victim's home. Authorities still have very little information about why Abualfaraj was killed and who killed him.
On social media, people from all around the world reacted to the news, many sending prayers and well wishes to his family in Arabic. His friends in Miami are still reeling from his death.
"He was going to be a great architect," Kaufman said. "He had a great future ahead of him, and it's sad he came to America to be a student and learn his trade and be successful."
"He's the last person on this earth that deserves it," Kaufman added.
A vigil is being held at 7 p.m. Tuesday for Abualfaraj near the architecture school on campus.
Anyone with further information is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
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Philly’s Skewed Bail System Stranding The Poor, Suit Says
Josh Glenn should have been going to high school when he turned 17, but instead he was sitting in a Philadelphia jail cell after his family was unable to afford bail. More than a decade later, he's joined the ACLU in a newly filed lawsuit challenging allegedly excessive bail practices on the part of Philadelphia judges.
Kirkland Helps Minors Shake Adult Time Over Jail Scuffles
Jaylan Banks and Sylvester Williams were nearing the end of their juvenile sentences at a youth facility in Harrisburg, Illinois in the spring of 2017 when they found themselves flung directly into multiyear sentences in the adult corrections system following altercations with guards.
Public Defenders Blast Shuffled Immigration Hearings In NY
A recent move by immigration authorities to bump up a slew of hearing dates in New York without notice has public defenders crying foul and painting the move as a not-so-subtle attack on the ability of immigrants facing deportation to have proper counsel.
Namati Founder Vivek Maru On 'Barefoot Lawyers'
In an effort to boost legal access and the rule of law across the globe, attorney Vivek Maru launched Namati in 2011. Here, Maru talks about growing a network of grassroots legal advocates and democratizing the law.
How The High Cost Of Calls In Jail Restricts Legal Access
Phone calls from local jails often cost far more than phone calls from state prisons due to commission-based contracts between service providers and jail operators. As a result, contact between defendants and their attorneys before trial can cost up to $25 per 15 minutes.
In Justice Crisis, Access Commissions' Spread Sparks Change
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San Francisco Faces Uncertain Bail System After Reform Win
Oakland resident Riana Buffin was never formally charged with a crime, but that didn’t stop her from spending 46 hours in jail because she couldn't pay bail while suspected of grand theft, or from losing her job when she didn't show up to work.
Law Barring Asylum Reviews Is Unconstitutional: 9th Circ.
Part of the Immigration and Nationality Act violates the U.S. Constitution by limiting federal district courts from reviewing whether asylum seekers apprehended near the border established a fear of persecution, the Ninth Circuit found Thursday.
Bail Reformers Gain Ground With 10th Circ. Win
Bail reform advocates got a boost last week when the Tenth Circuit backed the constitutionality of recently enacted New Mexico rules allowing courts to eschew cash bail for many defendants, experts said.
Pressure Grows In NY To Take Sex Work Out Of The Shadows
Advocates and lawmakers in New York are gearing up to make the Empire State the first in the country to decriminalize sex work, hoping for a package of changes that they say should include wiping away past criminal convictions on prostitution and related charges.
With Courthouse Arrests, Is Justice Too Risky For Immigrants?
Two recent reports from New York and Pennsylvania document the pervasive fear of courthouse immigration arrests among immigrant communities. Immigration officers defend the practice as a result of so-called sanctuary city policies, but lawyers say it scares off crime victims and witnesses.
Who Are You Without An ID?
Having a legal ID can easily be taken for granted, but more than 1 billion people across the globe don’t have a way to show who they are, which can affect everything from starting a business, to enrolling in school, to appearing in court or filing a police report.
Value Of Exonerees’ Lost Time Depends On Where They Live
A city granted a $21 million settlement to an exonerated man who spent 37 years behind bars, less than a year after the state paid just $1.95 million. The discrepancy in sums raises the question: how much is a wrongfully convicted person’s lost time really worth?
Attys Lose Access Fight Over NYC Jail Conditions For Now
A New York federal judge on Friday declined to renew an order mandating strict access to attorneys for inmates in a Brooklyn federal jail that had no heat for a frigid week in January, finding the lawyers who sued over the ordeal lack standing to bring Sixth Amendment claims.
For Prisoners, Privacy Of Attorney Emails An Open Question
Communications with your attorney are usually private, but there’s a glaring exception for people in prison. Federal prosecutors can access all emails sent over a system set up by the Bureau of Prisons, and it’s unclear how often they might be looking at emails between attorneys and their clients.
Freedom At A Cost: Fighting Court Fees On The Acquitted
In 2017, after two trials and years of legal fees that wiped out his life savings, Curtis Lovelace was acquitted of the murder of his wife, but the court ruled he still had to pay $35,000 as a "bond forfeiture fee," something Lovelace is now arguing is unconstitutional.
Texas Rebuffed On Mental Fitness Review For Death Row
A Texas court relied on outdated and stereotypical rationales to determine that a death row inmate who struggled as a teenager to grasp basic math was not intellectually disabled and should be executed, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, reinforcing that established clinical guidelines must underpin such decisions.
Justices' Answer On Excessive Fines Invites New Questions
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States Can't Impose Excessive Fines, High Court Rules
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the constitutional bar on excessive fines applies to state and local governments, unanimously siding with a convicted drug dealer in his fight to reclaim a $42,000 Land Rover the state of Indiana had seized via civil forfeiture.
Fla. Bar Foundation Gets $3.6M From Sanctions For Legal Aid
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'Emerging Leaders' Aim To Raise Profile Of Access Crisis
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Clean Slate: How Ditching A Criminal Record Is No Easy Task
An estimated 100 million Americans have criminal records that follow them for life. Some states have moved to ease the burden by passing record-sealing laws for certain offenses, but the process of clearing your name can be byzantine, expensive and futile in an age where mugshots are searchable online.
Innocence Project's DeLone Talks Fighting Wrongful Convictions
Maddy deLone, the executive director at the Innocence Project for the past 15 years, has a poster-sized photograph of a man named Warith Habib Abdal framed above her desk in lower Manhattan.
Ind. Failing Kids Through Lack Of Attys In Family Court: Suit
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Atty Access Win Marks Bigger Fight Over Prison's Conditions
Amid mounting questions about conditions in a Brooklyn federal prison that lost power and heat in January, the more than 1,600 men and women living there have earned a court victory providing access to attorneys, but the legal fight following the alleged humanitarian crisis isn't over.
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This French company strips and repaints iPhones to sell them for less than Apple
Remade says its used iPhones are better than refurbished
By Michael Simon
Staff Writer, Macworld | PT
Refubished iPhones not from Apple
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Remade takes broken iPhones, fixes them up, and resells them. They're available in colors different from Apple's palette.
The last thing I expected to see at MWC was an iPhone booth. After all, I was in the heart of Android country, with giant Samsung, Huawei, and Qualcomm banners looming over the bystanders like national flags. But as I weaved my way through the countries of Google, Xiaomi, and LG, I suddenly found myself smack dab in “enemy” territory in the Remade booth.
It was clear that Remade did not have ordinary iPhones. A Remade representative told me a little about the French company’s process. They buy busted iPhones in bulk from electronics recycling plants and proceed to disassemble them. Any broken parts are replaced, and all batteries are swapped out with new ones built to the same specifications as Apple’s. But it’s not just the inside of the iPhone that’s new—the outside of the phone looks a lot different, too.
Among the usual silver, black, and rose gold variants, I saw green, blue, raspberry, and yellow iPhone 6 and 7 models. They felt like a regular iPhone to the touch, yet they most certainly weren’t designed by Apple in Cupertino. These were manufactured by Remade and sold as refurbished. Make that “better than refurbished,” as the company’s slogan proudly declares.
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Custom for cheap
We’ve seen previous one-off iPhone customizations with solid gold and studded diamonds, but this is a different beast. Remade is something of a used car dealer, with a business built on restoring old iPhones and selling them at fair market prices.
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Remade’s iPhone X looks just like Apple’s, but the company is working on mixing up the colors.
For the iPhone 6 and 7, Remade strips the rear case down to the raw aluminum and repaints it with its own palette of colors, in addition to Apple’s space gray and silver. When I asked about glass models, the rep said that Remade was experimenting with different manufacturing processes and hopes to bring the same color customization to the iPhone 8 and X.
Otherwise, the iPhone you get from Remade is the same as one you would get from the Apple Refurbished Store, with one exception: your warranty is through Remade, not Apple. Remade couldn’t speculate on the cost of a refurb iPhone in the U.S., but the rep told me they would be 30 percent to 40 percent less than Apple’s prices. For reference, an iPhone 7 with 32GB of storage, for example, sells for 450 Euros on the Remade site. Apple sells the same model on its website for about 530 Euros.
Remade is currently limited to France, but they recently opened a plant in Miami with the hopes of expanding to the U.S. The rep told me that they are in talks with Verizon to sell Remade phones through the carrier in U.S. stores, with the hopes of beginning sales this year.
The battery insuide Remade iPhones isn’t from Apple
Whether or not Apple’s cool with Remade’s philosophy is another issue. When I asked, the rep somewhat dodged the question and said Remade hasn’t received any pushback from the company “so far.” But I wonder how happy Apple will be with refurbished iPhones being sold in the U.S. in colors it didn’t sanction.
Until the cease and desist letter arrives, Remade will continue to refurbish iPhones in inventive new ways. Although they wouldn’t turn on, the iPhones I handled were every bit as beautiful as the ones that come off of Apple’s assembly line, and it’s intriguing to dream of a line of iPhone XS colors beyond the three available from Apple.
Michael Simon covers all things mobile for PCWorld and Macworld. You can usually find him with his nose buried in a screen. The best way to yell at him is on Twitter.
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The email the Usual Gang of Idiots had been dreading plopped unceremoniously into our inboxes. It began... "What, us worry? Well..." It only got worse from there. Since that afternoon, many of the world's leading cartoonists, actors, politicians and comedians have publicly lamented the demise of the iconic MAD magazine. After a slew of dreadful management blunders over the past decade, publisher, DC Entertainment made the short-sighted decision to cease selling the magazine on newsstands and commission no new content after the next issue. This would ostensibly end the 67-year run the publication had as the most iconic and influential satire magazine in history. In the Age of Offence, the publication that prided itself on offending the rich and powerful has been put out to pasture. On a personal level, the news hit me very deeply. MAD was the reason I decided to become a cartoonist. My closest and dearest friends are all MAD cartoonists and writers. Not one month before MAD made their announcement, the New York Times made the astonishing decision to cease publication of daily editorial cartoons in both its domestic and global editions. A historic decision by the biggest journal of record that has now rattled through the newspaper industry and given other newspaper editors even more excuses to drop cartoonists from their pages. The disappearance of satire and humourous commentary is a red flag for any ailing democracy. In a disturbing, but sadly now-familiar story, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoonist Rob Rogers was recently fired after a successful 25-year career. Why? For drawing cartoons criticising Trump, of course. A decision made after the newspaper's publisher, John Robinson Block, had endorsed the President and rejected every anti-Trump cartoon submitted for publication. In a divided political climate in which comedians and satirists are being taken to task for their jokes, sometimes losing their careers and livelihoods for one misconstrued word, it is hard not to feel the overwhelming weight of this gravitational shift in the industry. I must note that I'm not referencing the #MeToo movement or comics like Louis CK. That is a separate story. What does the future hold for we endangered court jesters? It's hard to say. We all thought this tsunami of censorship would have receded by now, but it only appears to be inexorably ploughing further inland. At this point, all we can do is sling barbs as we sprint to higher ground. Jason Chatfield is the President of the National Cartoonists Society. Twitter: @jason_chatfield
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World mad as cartoonists get rubbed out
The email the Usual Gang ofIdiots had been dreading plopped unceremoniously into our inboxes. It began... "What, us worry? Well..." It only got worse from there.
Since that afternoon, many of the world's leading cartoonists, actors, politicians and comedians have publicly lamented the demise of the iconic MAD magazine. After a slew of dreadful management blunders over the past decade, publisher, DC Entertainment made the short-sighted decision to cease selling the magazine on newsstands and commission no new content after the next issue. This would ostensibly end the 67-year run the publication had as the most iconic and influential satire magazine in history. In the Age of Offence, the publication that prided itself on offending the rich and powerful has been put out to pasture.
On a personal level, the news hit me very deeply. MAD was the reason I decided to become a cartoonist. My closest and dearest friends are all MAD cartoonists and writers.
Not one month before MAD made their announcement, the New York Times made the astonishing decision to cease publication of daily editorial cartoons in both its domestic and global editions.
A historic decision by the biggest journal of record that has now rattled through the newspaper industry and given other newspaper editors even more excuses to drop cartoonists from their pages.
The disappearance of satire and humourous commentary is a red flag for any ailing democracy.
In a disturbing, but sadly now-familiar story, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoonist Rob Rogers was recently fired after a successful 25-year career. Why? For drawing cartoons criticising Trump, of course. A decision made after the newspaper's publisher, John Robinson Block, had endorsed the President and rejected every anti-Trump cartoon submitted for publication.
In a divided political climate in which comedians and satirists are being taken to task for their jokes, sometimes losing their careers and livelihoods for one misconstrued word, it is hard not to feel the overwhelming weight of this gravitational shift in the industry. I must note that I'm not referencing the #MeToo movement or comics like Louis CK. That is a separate story.
What does the future hold for we endangered court jesters? It's hard to say. We all thought this tsunami of censorship would have receded by now, but it only appears to be inexorably ploughing further inland. At this point, all we can do is sling barbs as we sprint to higher ground.
Jason Chatfield is the President of the National Cartoonists Society.
Twitter: @jason_chatfield
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Jimmy Mavromatis: Vocals
Matt Olivo: Guitar
Stamos K: Guitar
Tas Danazoglou: Bass
Jaime Gomez Arellano: Drums
Mirror is the musical brainchild of bassist and die-hard metal connoisseur Tas Danazoglou (Electric Wizard, Satan’s Wrath). A chance meeting with London-based producer and accomplished drummer Jaime Gomez Arellano led to the two embarking on a shared musical vision that encompasses classic hard-rock, proto-metal sound with tasteful songwriting and musicianship. Guitarist Stamos K. was next to join. His musical instincts and considerable production experience suited the band’s ethos perfectly. He was followed by seasoned performer, Jimmy Mavromatis who, with his operatic tenor vocals, rounded out the growing roster. The final addition to the lineup was Los Angeles-based guitarist Matt Olivo whose infamy was earned as the co-founder of grindcore pioneers Repulsion.
The recording of Mirror‘s, self-titled first, full-length release began in London at Orgone Studios (Ghost, Paradise Lost, Cathedral) in the fall of 2014 with drummer, Jaime Gomez Arellano handling production duties. The recording boasts strong melodic ideas with classic, heavy riffs inspired by the sounds of Scorpions, UFO, Iron Maiden, Deep Purple and the like.
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Alligators and snakes in area. Stay away from the water.
New signs at Disney World beach resorts
On Tuesday evening, 2-year-old Lane Graves, who was staying at Disney’s Grand Floridian Hotel with his family, was playing at the edge of the water of the Seven Seas Lagoon. Although signs saying “No swimming” were posted, they did not mention the possibility that alligators might be in the water. An alligator grabbed the boy and pulled him underwater. His body was found Wednesday afternoon.
Wildlife experts said the small boy was likely mistaken for prey at a time of night when the reptiles tend to actively feed.
“There are no words to convey the profound sorrow we feel for the family and their unimaginable loss,” George A. Kalogridis, president of Walt Disney World Resort, said in a statement. We are devastated and heartbroken by this tragic accident and are doing what we can to help them during this difficult time. On behalf of everyone at Disney, we offer them our deepest sympathy.”
BREAKING: Workers appear to be installing fence along beach where #DisneyGatorAttack occurred #News6 pic.twitter.com/ODkgJq4wGo
— Mike DeForest (@DeForestNews6) June 17, 2016
Since the child was killed, reports have been surfacing that Disney knew alligators frequented waters near the resort hotels.
TheWrap, quoting an unidentified source, reported that resort employees had been warning management for more than a year that guests were feeding the alligators. The rooms called the Bora Bora Bungalows, which opened in April 2015 at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort, gave guests direct access to wildlife, where they commonly fed the alligators that swam by, the Wrap article said. The Polynesian is adjacent to the Grand Floridian.
Inside Edition posted an undated video of a Disney employee prodding an alligator with a pole, trying to force it back into the pool next to the Splash Mountain ride at Magic Kingdom after it came up on land.
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Bhumi Pednekar jets off to Lucknow for Pati, Patni Aur Woh
Published: Jul 08, 2019, 08:32 IST | ANI
Bhumi Pednekar shared pictures of her comfy casual airport look on Instagram as she boarded the flight to Lucknow
Bhumi Pednekar/picture courtesy: Bhumi Pednekar's Instagram account
Bhumi Pednekar is working super hard these days. Just a day after wrapping up the shoot for Amar Kaushik's 'Bala', she has now jetted off to Lucknow for the shooting for her next 'Pati, Patni Aur Woh' alongside Kartik Aaryan and Ananya Panday.
Bhumi shared pictures of her comfy casual airport look on Instagram as she boarded the flight to Lucknow. Dressed in all black attire, the 29-year old accessorized her look with a pair of black sunglasses and wore a pair of white sneakers. 'Off I go', she wrote.
Off I go for #PatiPatniAurWoh â¤ï¸ . . . #newstart #sunday #love
A post shared by Bhumi Pednekar (@bhumipednekar) onJul 7, 2019 at 2:48am PDT
She is revisiting Lucknow after shooting for 'Bala' where she will be seen alongside Ayushmann Khurrana and Yami Gautam.
While the 'Dum Laga Ke Haisha' actor will be seen playing the role of a dusky small-town girl at odds with a society that is obsessed with fair skin in 'Bala', she will be portraying a character close to her real self in 'Pati, Patni Aur Woh.'
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"She is extremely confident; she has got this sensual energy about her which stays back with you. She has an impact on people. She is a young girl, she has ambition, she wants bigger things in life. So, these are characteristics about her that I really identify with," Bhumi said while discussing her role in the film.
'Pati Patni Aur Woh' is a remake of a 1978 film with the same title and is being directed by Mudassar Aziz of 'Dulha Mil Gaya', 'Happy Bhag Jayegi' and 'Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi' fame.
The 1978 drama featured Sanjeev Kumar, Vidya Sinha and Ranjeeta Kaur in the lead roles. The original film revolved around a married couple Ranjeet (Sanjeev) and Sharda (Vidya) and how things change after he gets involved with his secretary Nirmala (Ranjeeta).
The film will hit the big screens on December 6.
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Home MENA What Industry 4.0 means for your job
What Industry 4.0 means for your job
22 April 2019 6:35 AM By Contributor
Digitisation tends to cause anxiety among employees, but there are steps managers can take to ensure their company’s digital transformation is more helpful than harmful
Artificial intelligence (AI) is outperforming humans in an increasing number of tasks and is likely to replace humans in more and more jobs. In the Middle East, 50 per cent of the CEOs surveyed for the 2019 Mercer Global Talent Trends believed that more than 20 per cent of current jobs will cease to exist in the next five years.
Governments in the region have been quick to realise the power of innovation as a way to transition from their resource-based economies to knowledge-based ones.
The UAE has witnessed extraordinary digital transformation, with a strong government focus on developing the required digital infrastructure through both public spending and private investment.
The country created headlines with the appointment of the world’s first minister of state for AI in 2017, and, most recently, witnessed the largest tech sector transaction in the region with Uber Technologies’ $3.1bn acquisition of the local Careem.
The UAE has also emerged as a startup hub for the financial sector, hosting about 30 per cent of the region’s fintech firms as well as e-commerce giants such as Souq, Noon and Namshi. Together with a surge in digital banking and fintech, the country’s tech-savvy businesses are at the forefront of a regional wave of innovation.
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 agenda is equally committed to bringing innovative technologies to the kingdom. Saudi-based Elite for Construction & Development Company, for example, has purchased the Bod 2 Printer, described as the world’s largest 3D construction printer.
Wide-ranging impact
Socioeconomic concerns exist, of course, with the top three in the region being talent migration, cybersecurity and changes in business regulations. Nevertheless, as the latest World Economic Forum Mena event at the Dead Sea in Jordan made clear: the digital revolution is redefining work as we know it, impacting the workforce’s size, shape and skill sets.
While many jobs as we know them today might not exist in the near future, the World Economic Forum predicts that AI could also introduce about 58 million jobs to the landscape in a significant recalibration of the workforce.
Workforce reductions are anticipated in the technology, insurance and energy industries, but in other sectors the reverse will happen as greater demand for new products and services increases.
In the Middle East, 65 per cent of companies plan to increase their use of automation within the workplace this year alone.
At the same time, automation and new ways of working will provide opportunities for jobs to evolve. As skill sets change, companies will seek out candidates who demonstrate greater cognitive maturity and empathy. Creative thinking, learning agility and technological skills will be in demand.
Workplace transition
There will also be a shift towards flexible work places, with 79 per cent of Middle East C-suite executives believing that contingent workers will substantially replace full-time employment in their organisations in the coming years.
The greatest challenge will be sourcing the talent pool that will drive the future of work. As businesses and organisations plan for their transformation, it is imperative that they examine it through a talent lens.
If the organisation decides to re-skill existing resources, there needs to be a clear strategy that maps out the transformation, identifies new skills and training requirements, and creates partnerships with educational institutions to facilitate the transition.
Boosting morale
The future of work has traditionally relied on a strategy that requires organisations to buy resources by shopping for the best talent, build a workforce through reskilling or upskilling, and borrow talent by outsourcing functions and operations on a temporary basis.
Throughout any transformation, however, it is crucial that employees’ morale remains positive, as individuals tend to have the greatest affinity towards the company they work for – more than the profession, team, function or boss.
During the process of transformation, organisations must communicate effectively with their workforce and show their employees a vision for their future.
The questions that typically weigh on an employee’s mind are about her or his future: What’s in it for me? What will my role be in the future? How will the organisation train me so I don’t feel threatened?
To this end, organisations need to explain the changes ahead clearly and with maximum transparency. This means outlining the transformation journey and the parts of the business most vulnerable to automation and technology, and subsequently workforce changes.
Progressive companies are being honest about the scope and scale of change. The most progressive are doing this hand in hand with their employees, so their employees know how their role will change in the future and are actively preparing themselves for that future.
Nuno Gomes leads Mercer’s Talent line of business for the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey (MENAT) region
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Morgan Lewis, Skadden Cook Up $1.3 Billion Grocery Deal, Am Law Daily
Reprinted with permission from the July 22, 2013 edition of The Am Law Daily© 2013 ALM media Properties, LLC. All rights reserved. Further duplication without permission is prohibited. For information, contact 877-257-3382 or reprints@alm.com or visit www.almreprints.com.
Detroit's mega-municipal bankruptcy filing isn't the only matter out of Michigan providing work for Am Law 100 firms.
With the grocery M&A market heating up this summer, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom and a top Wolverine State firm are advising Grand Rapids-based Spartan Stores, the nation's ninth-largest wholesale and retail food distributor, on its proposed $1.3 billion acquisition of rival Nash Finch.
The all-stock deal, which was announced Monday and calls for Spartan Stores to assume roughly $380 million in Nash Finch debt, will give Spartan control of the 75 Midwest stores that Minneapolis-based Nash Finch operates under the Bag'n Save, EconoFoods, Family Fresh Markets, Family Thrift Center, and Sun Mart Foods brands.
Chicago-based Peter Krupp-one of a trio of global coheads of Skadden's corporate dealmaking practice-and partner Richard Witzel Jr. are serving as M&A counsel to the board of directors for Spartan, whose existing brands include D&W Fresh Markets, Family Fare Supermarkets, and Glen's Markets. Krupp did not immediately return a request for comment.
Charlie Goode, vice-chair of the business and corporate services practice group at Warner Norcross & Judd, is leading a team from the Grand Rapids-based firm representing longtime client Spartan. The other Warner Norcross lawyers working on the matter are corporate partners Gordon Lewis and Mark Wassink, and associates Emily Bakeman and Corinne Sprague.
Alex DeYonker, a former managing partner of Warner Norcross, serves as Spartan's general counsel. Warner Norcross is one of several firms advising clients in connection with Detroit's Chapter 9 proceedings, according to our previous reports.
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius partner David Pollak, who heads the firm's New York business and finance practice, is leading a team from the firm representing Nash Finch. Pollak and Morgan Lewis advised Nash Finch last year on its $29.9 million purchase of Omaha-based Bag'N Save. Pollak did not immediately return a request for comment on the Spartan deal.
Other Morgan Lewis lawyers providing counsel to Nash Finch on its planned sale to Spartan include business and finance partners Jonathan Morris and Patricia Brennan, employee benefits partner Gary Rothstein, antitrust partner Harry Robins, tax partner Kenneth Kail, and associates James Fang, Andrew Milano, Stephen Nesspor, Eric Sarabia, Matthew Schernecke, and Dana Smith.
Kathleen Mahoney, a former partner at Minnesota firms Oppenheimer, Wolf & Donnelly and Larson King, was hired in May 2011 as general counsel of Nash Finch. The company reportedly derives about half of its sales from food it distributes to 175 military commissaries and exchanges in the United States and abroad.
Under the terms of the deal, Nash Finch shareholders will own 42.3 percent of the combined company, whose name has yet to be determined. Spartan shareholders, meanwhile, will own 57.7 percent of the newly merged entity, which expects to earn $7.5 billion in annual sales from its 177 retail stores and 22 food distribution centers in 37 states.
The transaction, which is expected to close before year's end pending shareholder and regulatory approvals, is the latest major deal in the supermarket sector.
In recent weeks, The Am Law Daily has reported on the firms grabbing key roles on the $11.9 billion merger between The Loblaw Companies and Shoppers Drug Mart; Safeway's $5.7 billion sale of its Canadian unit to Sobeys; and The Kroger Company's $2.5 billion acquisition of Harris Teeter Supermarkets.
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Fowl Personality
Discover the uniqueness of chickens and telling signs for keeping your poultry happy.
By Gail Damerow
| December 2017
Chicks make a pleasant sound that says they feel safe and warm.
Photo courtesy Storey Publishing
A defensive and mistrustful hen puffs out her feathers, growls, and may peck.
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens by Gail Damerow.
You can purchase this book in the MOTHER EARTH NEWS store: Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens
All chicken breeds and varieties originated with ancient jungle fowl. In many ways modern chickens are still much like their ancestors, having retained some of their natural instincts, such as scratching the ground for food — something you’ll see chicks doing when they’re only a few hours old. In other ways they differ; some of today’s modern breeds no longer have the instinct to make a nest and hide their eggs and incubate them for 21 days until chicks appear. But chickens are like people — no two are exactly alike, and as soon as you make a statement about what all chickens do or don’t do, one comes along to prove you wrong.
Still, as soon as you get your chickens home, you will begin to notice certain distinctive characteristics that may surprise you.
Each chicken has a unique personality. Even if all your chickens are of a single breed and look nearly identical, you will easily be able to tell them apart by their individual personalities.
Your chickens communicate with each other, and with you, using sounds that convey specific meanings. Before long you’ll become adept at “talking chicken” yourself.
Each individual bird has a unique tone of voice — even with your eyes closed, you can tell precisely which one is making the sounds you hear. And, just like people, you’ll recognize that some chickens are more chatty than others.
Fowl Language
Chickens make a lot of different sounds, and every one of them means something. Anyone who spends much time around chickens can tell by the sounds they make when they are frightened, contented, or cautious or expressing a whole range of other emotions.
Some scientists insist that the idea of chickens communicating through the sounds they make is mere anthropomorphizing — attributing human behavior to an animal. They cling to this notion because communicating through language is supposedly a major distinction between humans and animals. A few progressive scientists — most likely those who grew up with chickens — spend their lives studying the sounds chickens make and seeking to understand what they mean.
In the 1960s, a German physician named Erich Baeumer identified 30 distinct sounds made by chickens. At about the same time, Nicholas E. Collias of the University of California at Los Angeles identified 24 calls made by red jungle fowl, from which most of our chicken breeds originated. The discrepancy may be attributed to the specific sounds each man identified as being distinct from other sounds.
To use a human example of the difficulty of identifying separate words, if you put your finger in front of your mouth and softly make the sound “shh,” you communicate a request for silence. If, on the other hand, you more forcefully hiss a short “shh!” you insist on instant silence. In both cases the sound “shh” means hush, but inflection conveys important differences in meaning. Where one person might consider them to be two distinct words with different meanings, another might consider them to be the same word uttered with different intensity.
Animal behaviorist Chris Evans of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, is another researcher devoted to studying chicken communications. He points out that the conveying of information by the sounds chickens make reveals a complex and sophisticated system paralleling human language. Evans recognizes three similarities between chicken talk and human language:
The ability to distinguish specific sounds
The use of sounds to denote environmental events, such as the discovery of food or the approach of a predator
The production of sounds for the benefit of others of the same species
Evans does not, however, imply that chickens have a language comparable to that of humans. For one thing, their vocabulary is extremely limited. For another, chickens don’t — as far as we know — discuss abstract concepts or past or future events, but limit their communications to the present.
A significant feature of human language is that it must be learned. A chick isolated from other chickens will grow up to make typical chicken sounds. On the other hand, chickens associating with other chickens have a richer repertoire, indicating that some degree of learning takes place.
To date, no one has developed a definitive list of all the sounds chickens make or determined with certainty what each sound means to the chickens. Still, plenty of words in the vocabulary of chicks, hens, and cocks are clearly recognizable by anyone taking time to listen.
A chick peeps even before it hatches from the egg, and shortly after hatching, it makes a number of different sounds by which you can tell if it is content or unhappy. The happy sounds tend to swing upward in pitch; the unhappy sounds descend in pitch.
Pleasure peep is a soft irregular sound chicks use to maintain contact with each other and their mother. Its meaning: “I’m right here.”
Pleasure trill is the soft, rapidly repeated sound chicks make when they’ve found food or are nestling under the hen, happy to have a warm, safe place to sleep. Its meaning: “Life is good.”
Distress peep is a loud, sharp, group of sounds chicks make when they’re cold or hungry. Its meaning: “I’m miserable.”
Panic peep is a loud, penetrating peep of a chick that’s scared or lost. The sound is similar to the distress peep but louder and more insistent. Its meaning: “Help!”
Fear trill is the sharp, rapidly repeated sound made by a chick that sees something strange or potentially threatening, such as a small unfamiliar object or a hand reaching toward it. Its meaning: “Don’t hurt me.”
Startled peep is the sharp, surprised cry of a chick that’s been grabbed abruptly. Its meaning: “Whoa!”
In communicating with chicks, make sounds that are low pitched, brief, soft, and repetitive to attract, calm, and comfort them. Sudden, high-pitched, long, and loud sounds (such as the noise made by active children and some machinery) frighten them.
Listen to Mama
When a chick starts peeping before it hatches from the egg, a setting hen will respond to the unhatched chick. Through this early communication, chicks learn to recognize the sound of their mother’s voice. After the chicks hatch, the hen uses three specific calls to keep them together, help them find food, and warn them of danger.
Cluck is a short, low-pitched repetitive sound made by a hen with chicks. Some setting hens start clucking well before their eggs are due to hatch, especially when off the nest briefly to eat or eliminate. Most setting hens start clucking when their chicks peep prior to or during the hatch. The frequent cluck of a mother hen, sometimes accompanied by the ruffling of her feathers, encourages her chicks to follow. Its meaning: “Stay close.”
Food call is a high-pitched sound repeated more rapidly than the cluck. Sometimes a clucking hen, upon encountering some tasty tidbit, will segue from clucking to the tuck-tuck-tuck food call that inspires chicks to come running and look for food, which the hen indicates by pecking the ground, picking up and
dropping bits, or breaking an item into smaller pieces the chicks can handle more easily. Once in a great while, a hen without chicks, or a chick itself, will make this sound. Its meaning: “I found something tasty to eat.”
Hush sound is a soft, vibrating sound, something like errrr, that warns chicks of potential danger and causes them to flatten to the ground and be quiet. When the chicks are young and staying close to the hen, they dive under her, and she spreads her wings to cover them. As they get older and begin to stray, they may flatten into the grass on hearing their mother sound the hush note, which she may repeat periodically if she perceives continuing danger. Its meaning: “Be still.”
Hen Sounds
Some hens are considerably more talkative than others. Hens that are free to roam around their premises are noisier, in my experience, than hens that are more closely confined, such as for breeding or exhibition. And some breeds are just naturally more talkative than others.
My hens have a huge and fascinating repertoire of sounds, not all of which I have succeeded in deciphering, mainly because they stop to look at me when I peek in to see what they’re doing. One hen occasionally repeats an unusual single-syllable sound I can best describe as a howl. It’s so loud it carries farther than a cock’s crow. She doesn’t seem to be doing anything particular while making the sound, and in decades of keeping chickens of many breeds, I’ve never heard any other chicken make that sound.
Laying cackle is a series of short, sharp sounds made by a hen after she lays an egg and is leaving the nest; therefore, it might more properly be called the nest-leaving cackle. Some hens don’t cackle at all, some cackle only briefly, and others carry on far too long. It’s tempting to think they’re bragging about having just laid an egg, but chances are the cackle is designed to scare away any predator that may have sneaked up while the hen was occupied in the nest, and to put other chickens on notice that she may need help should a predator in fact be there. Its meaning: “Danger may be near.”
Broody hiss is a hissing sound, something like the hiss of a snake, made by a setting hen that’s annoyed at having been disturbed on the nest to indicate she’s wary and has her guard up. Its meaning: “Stay away.”
Broody growl is a harsh sound, more serious and intense than a hiss, made by a disrupted hen on the nest. It may also be sounded by a hen with chicks in protest to a cock intent on mating; a low-ranking hen approached by a higher-ranking hen; or any hen on seeing a small, familiar animal such as a cat or rat. The sound is not particularly loud, but it indicates defensiveness and mistrustfulness. It is accompanied by feather ruffling to increase the intimidation and may be accompanied by a peck — for instance to a human hand reaching under the hen to retrieve a fresh egg. Its meaning: “Don’t mess with me.”
Singing is the sound of happy hens. The notes are usually rapidly repeated but are sometimes drawn out. The purpose of singing is likely self-amusement, akin to a human’s humming while doing dishes or singing in the shower. If I linger in the barn after feeding, I am sure to be serenaded by a chorus of cheerfully singing hens. Its meaning: “All is well.”
Excerpted from Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, © by Gail Damerow, used with permission from Storey Publishing.
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Cocaine Cowboys Director Takes on Backyard Fighting
Billy Corben's Dawg Fight offers a ringside seat to Florida's most dangerous game.
DAWG FIGHT trailer from rakontur on Vimeo.
Documentary filmmaker Billy Corben is perhaps the foremost chronicler of Miami’s considerable underbelly working today. Best known for Cocaine Cowboys, his compulsively watchable masterwork about the wild, blood-soaked heyday of Miami’s drug trade in the 1970s and early 1980s, Corben later focused on South Florida pot-smuggling with Square Grouper, and helmed a pair of standout docs for ESPN’s 30 for 30 series: The U, which detailed the flamboyant legacy of the University of Miami Hurricanes, and Broke, about free-spending NFL and NBA athletes. His latest look at Florida freakiness is Dawg Fight, available online beginning March 12 at Dawg-fight.com.It’s a ringside seat to the backyard bare-knuckle fighting game in West Perrine, Fla., a hardscrabble town that spawned YouTube sensation-turned-MMA curiosity Kimbo Slice.
Dawg Fight follows Dhafir "Dada 5000" Harris, a former Slice bodyguard running the unsanctioned matches, as well as several of his fighters desperately trying to punch their way out of poverty, a few of whom meet predictably miserable ends outside of the 12-foot backyard ring. The fights provide a few scarily brutal knockouts and plenty of bloodied, misshapen faces, courtesy of Dada allowing the brawls to go on too long (he serves as referee in addition to promoting fights and recruiting combatants). Dawg Fight itself might have benefited from being shorter—it could have worked just as well as a particularly gritty installment of 30 for 30—but it largely succeeds as a memorably unflinching document of an underground pastime rarely seen on film.
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Hotel Sector Slowing; Development Costs Rising
Michael Tucker mtucker@mba.org
After six years of occupancy growth, hotel sector performance may have reached the top of its cycle, reported HVS Global Hospitality Services, Mineola, N.Y.
"Occupancy has peaked and average daily rate increases have moderated to inflationary levels," HVS Managing Director and Senior Partner Stacey Nadolny said in the firm's U.S. Hotel Development Cost Survey 2016/2017.
Major hotel performance indicators show signs of slowing growth, HVS said. Average daily room rates increased just slightly in 2016 while occupancy remained flat.
Nadolny noted U.S. hotel room supply increased 4.7 percent between 2011 and 2016 while overall rooms sold grew by nearly 19 percent, "resulting in rising hotel occupancy and average daily rate levels that support the cost of new development," she said.
But supply growth began to surpass demand growth in 2016. "With more options than ever before, hotel developers have been capitalizing on favorable market conditions. The new supply pipeline is beginning to make up for a relatively long period of modest supply growth," Nadolny said.
Some markets, including Miami, Nashville, Tenn., New York and Seattle could see a 25-plus percent increase in hotel room supply over the next three years, with Nashville leading the way with a 30-plus percent expected supply increase.
Rising development and construction costs remain a major factor in new construction, the report said, noting many markets continue to experience double-digit hotel construction cost increases. "The primary factor in these rising costs is the shortage of skilled labor in major markets," HVS said. "The high construction volume across all market segments has caused demand for these skilled workers to surge."
The report noted a new trend in hotel development: modular construction. "Primarily used in residential housing, modular construction is making its way into the commercial sector," HVS said. "While modular construction is not necessarily a cost-saving initiative from a labor and materials standpoint, the cost savings result from the shortened project timeline."
Modular hotel projects can save two to three months in total construction time--as much as a 10 to 15 percent time savings, HVS said. "Modular construction has additional benefits, including waste, labor and theft reduction as well as the ability to serve remote areas," the report said. "These units are also reported to have higher quality construction given that the modular units need to withstand travel to the worksite...we expect this trend to increase going forward."
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Miller Canfield Named Top Firm in Michigan for Municipal Bond Financings
Miller Canfield, a global law firm headquartered in Detroit, has again been ranked first among Michigan bond counsel law firms in the annual "2018 Bond Counsel Rankings."
Miller Canfield bond attorneys opined on Michigan municipal bond issues totaling more than $2.406 billion in 2018. Firmwide, Miller Canfield ranked fifth in the Mideast Region (Michigan and Illinois) with more than $2.52 billion.
With more than 20 attorneys in Michigan and Illinois, Miller Canfield’s Public Finance Group is the largest group of dedicated municipal finance attorneys in Michigan. The firm has ranked No. 1 in Michigan nearly every year. The rankings are published by Refinitiv, formerly Thomson Reuters.
The group has experience in virtually every type of public finance transaction for capital projects and infrastructure improvements, renewable energy, economic development projects, public-private partnership projects, private equity bonds, refinancings and cash flow borrowings for all types of governmental issuers, including state and local governmental units, schools, hospitals, special purpose authorities, colleges and universities.
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The Super-Common Item IKEA Is About To Stop Selling
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June 7, 2018 — 18:33 PM
If you're on the hunt for plastic plates and cups for your next get-together, you're going to have to look somewhere other than IKEA. The homeware mecca just announced it will ban all single-use plastics from stores and restaurants in the next two years.
This means that the company's eateries will stock only reusable plates and cutlery, and everything from plastic garbage bags to straws will disappear from store shelves by 2020. This is part of IKEA's larger commitment to becoming a "climate positive company"—one that captures more greenhouse gas emissions than it emits.
"Through our size and reach we have the opportunity to inspire and enable more than one billion people to live better lives, within the limits of the planet," Torbjörn Lööf, Inter IKEA Group CEO, said at a conference called Democratic Design Days this morning.
By 2030, IKEA hopes that all of its products will be constructed of recycled materials or able to be easily broken down and completely recycled. Beyond that, IKEA reps announced plans to continue to invest in renewable energy, cut down on the carbon footprint of its stores, and help key suppliers reduce their own footprints. The Swedish brand will also roll out products that help customers save energy at home (like a new line of solar panels and battery storage) and introduce more plant-based food options in cafeterias, like a veggie hot dog launching later this summer.
This announcement comes on the heels of other sustainable commitments to ban single-use plastics everywhere from the streets of Seattle to the halls of Buckingham Palace. Here's hoping the plastic-free revolution continues to build momentum.
The ban comes just in time for tomorrow's World Oceans Day! Read about how single-use plastics are decimating our oceans here.
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Meghan Markle's BFF Jessica Mulroney lands in London to help with her final dress fitting
The countdown is on!
Apr 30, 2018 4:08pm
By Bella Brennan
She's rumoured to be one of Meghan Markle's bridesmaids and now Canadian stylist Jessica Mulroney has touched down in London to help with a very important wedding task!
According to a new report in UK publication The Sun, Jessica is in the British capital to enjoy a girls' weekend and to accompany Meg to her final, top-secret dress fitting for her upcoming wedding to Prince Harry on May 19th.
Meghan and her BFF Jessica.
The publication reports the 38-year-old, who also works as a wedding planner, was treated to another "mini hen party" with Meghan as she couldn't make it to the original bash at Soho Framhouse in March.
The besties also popped into the wedding venue, the grand Windsor Castle, to workshop ideas for the big day.
"Jessica is Meghan's BFF and has been a huge influence. Meghan's turned to her for advice on everything from the dress, the flowers, decorations in church, the wedding lunch — and even the seating plan," an insider explained to The Sun.
But the most important moment of Jessica's trip was helping the bride-to-be at her last dress fitting.
"She is the real power behind the throne in this royal wedding and has been invaluable," the source noted.
Adding: "Although Jess lives in Toronto, the two are on the phone all the time. Meg wanted Jess at the final fitting as it'll be the most famous dress of the year and she's quite nervous about it. It all went really well and they were delighted with the result."
So far, Jess is one of the only souls that has been given a sneak peek of Meghan's gown.
"The dress is the biggest secret of the wedding – not even Harry knows who's designing it," the insider confirmed.
"The dress has had to be taken in a bit as Meg has lost a bit of weight, but that's entirely normal for all brides before their big day."
In order to keep the gown under lock and key, the former Suits star has had the fittings "at a London atelier, not her home."
What's even more exciting, is that Meghan Markle is taking a leaf out of her sister-in-law to-be Duchess Catherine's book and will reportedly be changing into a second, more party-appropriate frock for the reception.
During her 2011 wedding to Prince William, Kate famously slipped into another magical Alexander McQueen number, a bespoke design for Sarah Burton which featured a fitted bodice, a full skirt, a bejewelled belt and a angora bolero cardigan.
So we can't wait to see what Meghan comes up with!
"There are two dresses - one for the church and then another glamorous outfit for the evening party," the insider confirms.
While we won't know until the wedding day, top bridal dress designers are Ralph and Russo, Erdem and Victoria Beckham.
Kate was breathtaking in both options back in 2011.
Who is Meghan Markle's best friend, Jessica Mulroney?
Jessica Mulroney, 38, is a well-connected Canadian stylist, consultant and wedding planner, who is rumoured to be Meghan Markle's bridesmaid and secret wedding planner. The mother-of-three and her presenter husband Ben Mulroney, who is the son of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, were believed to be some of the first people Meghan introduced Harry to.
Jessica and Ben Mulroney are considered one of Canada's most glamours power couples and according to a recent report in Vanity Fair, it's believed their social ties helped connect Meghan to Harry.
The pair consider Justin and Sophie Trudeau as close friends.
"The Jessica Mulroney relationship was key in that it opened up the eco-system of her world. It's what probably connected her to people like Justin [Trudeau] and to Sophie, and I think also to Markus [Anderson] and Soho House," Toronto-based reporter Shinan Govani told Vanity Fair.
Meghan and Jessica bonded over their love of yoga and travel and have enjoyed several European jaunts together.
The pair are inseparable.
Jessica was pictured with Meghan, Prince Harry and Meghan's mother Doria Ragland at the Invictus Games Closing Ceremony in Toronto last year.
You can follow Jessica Mulroney on Instagram here! She has a lot of pictures with her besite Meghan Markle.
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Knee injury a blessing in disguise for Cleary
Alicia Newton NRL.com Reporter
Mon 28 May 2018, 06:01 AM
Nathan Cleary's chances of playing State of Origin football were in doubt two months ago but now the Panthers halfback is set to take New South Wales into a new era.
As revealed by NRL.com on Sunday night, Cleary has won the race for the NSW halfback spot and will play alongside Penrith teammate James Maloney in the halves at the MCG on June 6.
It caps a remarkable turnaround for the 20-year-old, who admitted following Saturday night's win over St George Illawarra that missing seven weeks with the first major injury of his career had given him a new perspective.
"I think it's kind of been a silver lining, my injury, in a way," Cleary said.
"I was lucky with the staff I have here, I'm grateful for that. They really got me right and got me confident to feel like I was 100 per cent to play.
"It's let me look at the game from a coach perspective and see how a team works. It's developed me a lot.
"I tried to spend a lot of time around the team and watch Jimmy [Maloney] working with Peach [Tyrone Peachey] in the halves, and just watching a lot of video. It was good to be around the team so I could come back and slot straight in."
Cleary will become Maloney's fourth Holden State of Origin halves partner in the last three years.
The pair have featured in just four games at club level due to Cleary's injury, but Saturday night's big win over the Dragons couldn't have gone any better.
"It's been good, I can't credit Jimmy enough," Cleary said.
"He's really easy to play alongside and is a world class half, but not too dominant. That really helps with us getting along and our combination is building.
"There is still a lot of improvement but we are on the right track."
NSW coach Brad Fittler has reportedly been concerned with the culture of the NSW system over previous seasons under former coach Laurie Daley, with the new leader set to axe several incumbent players.
But given Fittler's larrikin nature himself, Maloney is considered an exception.
"He's actually taken it pretty easy on me, he hasn't given me too much of a hard time. He's always into Reg [Campbell-Gillard] and Trent Merrin so I'm lucky there," Cleary said.
"He's come into this team and bought a good vibe. He keeps everyone calm and everyone has a good time but when we're on the training field it's 100 per cent switched on and he's the leader of that.
"I knew him at the Warriors and Dad warned me what he was like. We have a few coffee dates where we can but it's just about spending time together and getting to know our games. The best way to build it though is to play more games, it's only a matter of time."
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Are Hackers Heroes?
September 27, 2012 Issue
DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You
by Misha Glenny
Knopf, 296 pp., $26.95
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
by Kevin Mitnick with William L. Simon
Little, Brown, 413 pp., $25.99
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
by Parmy Olson
Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power
by David E. Sanger
Crown, 476 pp., $28.00
On the last day of June of this year, a tech website called Redmond Pie posted two articles in quick succession that, on their face, had nothing to do with each other. The first, with the headline “Root Nexus 7 on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Unlock Bootloader, And Flash ClockworkMod Recovery,” was a tutorial on how to modify the software—mainly in order to gain control of the operating system—in Google’s brand-new tablet computer, the Nexus 7, a device so fresh that it hadn’t yet shipped to consumers.
Paul Grover/Rex Features/AP Images
Jake Davis, alleged to be the hacker known as Topiary and a member of the hacker collective LulzSec, leaving a court appearance in London, August 1, 2011. Davis, now nineteen, pled guilty to some of the hacking charges against him earlier this year.
The second headline was slightly more decipherable to the casual reader: “New OS X Tibet Malware Puts in an Appearance, Sends User’s Personal Information to a Remote Server.” That story, which referred to the discovery of a so-called “Trojan horse” computer virus on certain machines in Tibet, pointed out that Apple computers were no longer as impervious to malicious viruses and worms as they had been in the past and that this attack, which targeted Tibetan activists against the Chinese regime, was not random but political. When the Tibetan activists downloaded the infected file, it would secretly connect their computers to a server in China that could monitor their activities and capture the contents of their machines. (The Redmond Pie writer speculated that the reason Apple computers were targeted in this attack was that they were the preferred brand of the Dalai Lama.)
In fact, the Nexus 7 story and the Tibetan Trojan horse story were both about the same thing: hacking and hackers, although the hacking done by the Nexus 7 hackers—who contribute to an online website called Rootzwiki—was very different from that done by the crew homing in on the Tibetan activists. Hacking and hackers have become such inclusive, generic terms that their meaning, now, must almost always be derived from the context. Still, in the last few years, after the British phone-hacking scandal, after Anonymous and LulzSec, after Stuxnet, in which Americans and Israelis used a computer virus to break centrifuges and delay the Iranian nuclear project, after any number of identity thefts, that context has tended to accent the destructive side of hacking.
In February, when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg observed in his letter to potential shareholders before taking the company public that Facebook embraced a philosophy called “The Hacker Way,” he was not being provocative but, rather, trying to tip the balance in the other direction. (He was also drawing on the words of the veteran technology reporter Steven Levy, whose 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution was the first serious attempt to understand the…
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Archives|The Fraidy-Cat of Hudson Street Is Yanked to Safety
The Fraidy-Cat of Hudson Street Is Yanked to Safety
By ANTHONY RAMIREZ and TONI WHITT APRIL 15, 2006
The epic search for Molly, the black, 11-month-old fraidy-cat stuck in the wall of a Greenwich village food store for two weeks, ended in jubilation last night after rescue workers spotted her in a small opening and quickly yanked her to safety.
Molly's return came at 10:13 p.m., prompting a crowd of dozens of reporters, photographers and neighborhood residents who had gathered outside the shop, Myers of Keswick at 634 Hudson Street, to erupt in cheers. Rescue workers said they had traced Molly's plaintive meows to an area near the ceiling of the shop, drilled a small hole and spotted her crouched and pinned in a dark crawl space between that building and one next to it.
"I saw her eyes shining in the light," said Kevin Clifford, 33, the worker who pulled her out. "I was calling her, and she was meowing to me. She was scared."
Peter Myers, the owner of the shop, said he took Molly shortly after she was freed and fed her a lavish meal of lean belly pork and sardines in olive oil.
During the ordeal, the media hubbub grew apace, and cat agnostics grumbled about folderol.
For the past two weeks, Molly, a mouser of wandering disposition for the British specialty food shop, had been ensnared or spooked or disoriented somewhere between two buildings on Hudson Street, possibly in a dank, narrow 30-foot-long horizontal space at basement level.
Until last night, nothing had enticed Molly out of the darkness. Still, her faint meows could be heard.
Without food, rescue workers said, Molly might have lasted for three weeks at most. Even if she had caught an occasional mouse for food and licked the walls for moisture, they said, her situation had been urgent.
Earlier yesterday, Josh Schermer, a volunteer who had helped in the search for the last 11 days and had heard Molly's cries, said, "She sounds like she wants to get out more now."
A six-person rescue crew also began drilling additional holes in walls or widening holes they started earlier in the week. They were searching the space between 634 Hudson Street, where Molly would catch mice for Myers of Keswick, the British food shop, and 632 Hudson, which houses Hudson Bar and Books.
Feraz Mohammed, a city animal control officer, said an anonymous donor concerned about Molly's plight had pledged to cover the rescue costs, including the drilling of holes. Mr. Mohammed did not elaborate.
Last night, rescuers had put out more traps in hopes of enticing Molly.
In a drizzly rain, crowds of bystanders ebbed and flowed yesterday on this corner near Horatio Street, sometimes pressing against the yellow police caution tape.
Cat lovers, including an elderly man wearing a pin with a cat wearing a halo and wings, watched expectantly. He kept blowing a dog whistle in a fruitless attempt to coax Molly out.
Maxine Albert ("I'm a psychic, but I also do pets") stood on the sidewalk, shouting down into the basement where rescuers worked. "I feel the cat in the wall on the lower left-hand side," she shouted. "My image is she is trapped."
A second psychic, who did not identify herself to reporters, tried to take her message directly to a City Department of Buildings inspector who appeared to rebuff her. She reacted with anger.
Rescuers had tried, to no avail, a pet psychologist, drills, high-tech miniature cameras on cables, cat food and raw fish, as well as oral enticements, presumably including the smacking noises peculiar to cat owners.
Outside the shop, a half-dozen television crews, as well as radio and print reporters, milled about, as passers-by hurled drive-by derision. "You need to get out of here," said one. Another shouted, "This is the fine journalism of New York City!"
Lanie Kagan, who lives across the street and knows Molly, said, "At first I thought this was sweet, but now it's just insane." She added, "This has turned into a spectacle about a spectacle."
Molly's meow had been heard round the world.
At one point, the Internet search engine Google counted at least 359 articles about Molly posted on the Web, including dispatches in The Sun in Britain, The Independent in South Africa, Leading the Charge in Australia and La Tribune in France ("Sauvetage difficile pour la chatte Molly à New York").
Apparently, curiosity hurt the cat, according to Mr. Myers, whose store specializes in delicacies like Scotch eggs and Cumberland sausage.
Molly had last been seen on March 31 at the shop when at some point she ran away and into a media circus.
After Molly was rescued, Mr. Myers said that the cat would spend the night at his daughter's apartment, but would return to the store today.
He said he did not think Molly would repeat her disappearing act. "I'd like to think she might have learned a lesson," he said.
Colin Moynihan and Anahad O'Connor contributed reporting for this article.
A version of this article appears in print on April 15, 2006, on Page B00003 of the National edition with the headline: The Fraidy-Cat of Hudson Street Is Yanked to Safety. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Home Images and media sound Sound: remembering Faenza, Italian campaign
Sound: remembering Faenza, Italian campaign
Private Reg Minter, 620068, went to the Middle East with the Tenth Reinforcements in July 1943. He joined 24 Battalion as a signalman and went to Italy in late December 1943. His first real time in action was at Cassino in March 1944 where he was wounded. After six weeks in 2 New Zealand General Hospital, Reg rejoined the battalion and fought on up through Italy where the New Zealand Division had to take the town of Faenza, and break through the German lines on the Senio River.
'On the other side was Faenza, the town of Faenza. That, round that area got quite a bit of fighting off and on. Skirmishes and things like that. We were in a holding position for a while, while 22 Battalion did an attack around, around sort of a pincer movement round Faenza. They had quite a few casualties there. And then we got mostly round Faenza-actually, we encircled it in the finish-not only us but other battalions, I think 25 did. They encircled it.
The battalion-A Company, B Company, three of its companies-I think D was left in reserve-got as far as the railway line. Well, the railway line was on a bank about ten feet above ground level, in this particular area. And we got into a big house, just, just, just this side of the railway line. And there was a small road, country road running up towards a lot of farmhouses on the flat. It was quite flat. And we had to do an attack that night to take two or three houses, and our other companies on our left were doing the same. They had objectives to take-different houses. And we probably gained about two thousand yards, something like that.
It was a silent attack. It wasn't, we didn't go in a barrage, it was a silent attack. We were supposed to have some tanks for this. Just before I got there, the, we had to move up to this place, and one of our platoons got caught badly in mines because we were going up at night. I had to call the battalion for some ambulances which they did. However we went up, left this house, went, climbed up over the railway line and went up towards these buildings. I suppose the first lot was about a thousand yards away. We were climbing up there and there was hawthorn hedges going laterally with us. And the Germans-in our area the Germans had two fixed lines. I don't know why, but they always seemed to like to fire on fixed lines, and they used a lot of tracer. So we walked between the tracers. Mind you, it was close. I didn't feel very happy doing it but we walked between the lines of tracer. He wasn't firing all that, but now and again he'd give bursts. And the platoons in front of us were doing the same.
Anyhow, everything went quite well. The platoon got to the first house, nothing there. It went to another small house, about fifty, sixty yards ahead. Nothing. So we, the first house Major Howden made that our Company Headquarters, and about, and about another four or five hundred yards up further, a platoon took a house, took a couple of prisoners then, out of the blue, the Germans brought a tank in and our guys had to, had to get out quickly. Our tanks couldn't get through because where the road went underneath the railway line, like a small viaduct, they'd blown it and mined it, so they had to get the Engineers to clear all the mines before our tanks could get, could help us. This would be about twelve hours before that happened.
So, next thing we know ... Jack Price came back - he was the 2nd Lieutenant of 7 Platoon... he said, 'We've been driven out, sir... We've left four or five guys up there, wounded. We couldn't bring them out.' Major Howden said, 'We've got nothing here to fight the tanks, so we'd better get out.' So we had to go too.
He was mortaring us as we-actually we retreated. We had to go back to where we started from. When we got back to the railway, back to the house we came, looking a bit worse for the wear because we had to go through these hawthorn hedges. We looked like cats had been scratching at us.
Then one of our medical guys ... stayed up there with our guys... Our other medic, he said to Major Howden, "Look sir, I think I'd better go up and help the guys." Howden said, "You know you'll be POW." He said, "Oh well. I have to go and see if they're all right." So he went up too. I saw him after the war because he was taken prisoner. He got the MM for that. Evidently two or three guys were badly hurt.'
Artillery on the move into Faenza, with gun, limber and quad.
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Major Crime Unit confirms that the victims of Oak Bay’s double homicide on Christmas Day were two young children, aged four and six. (Keri Coles/Oak Bay News)
CONFIRMED: Two young children victims in Victoria double homicide
Children, aged four and six, found dead in apartment; male adult treated for injuries
The victims of the Christmas Day double homicide in Victoria were two young children, Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit confirms.
Members of the Oak Bay Police Department were called to an incident on the corner of Beach and Goodwin around 5 p.m. Monday night and found the children, aged four and six, deceased and one male injured in a ground-level apartment. The injured person was taken to hospital; their injuries are unknown at this time.
The Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit took over the investigation and investigators are expected to be at the scene for the remainder of the week.
“This is a devastating incident and we cannot begin to express our sympathy to all those touched by this tragedy,” said Cpl. Shane Rappel of the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit.
Police at this time are not seeking further suspects. There is no further information to be released.
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Nintendo eShop Releases: 15th March 2018 (North America)
This week’s Nintendo eShop releases for North America are in, delivering new demos and games for Nintendo Switch – as well as plentiful discounts across Nintendo Switch, Wii U, and Nintendo 3DS.
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Great deals this week! Check out the full list of deals available this week on Nintendo of America’s website.
Nintendo Switch Demos
Deep Ones, Sometimes You – Free (available Monday 19th March)
The main protagonist of this story suffers a crash on his submarine. The great red octopus is the reason of this, his will of destroying every traveler that he encounters may seem unbeatable, but Diver isn’t exactly as simple as he looks. He is encouraged to walk along the bottom of the ocean, plunge into the depths of the darkest corners, to rip and tear through the thick plants of seaweed and fight with the most unknown creatures of the world that is beneath, just to get his submarine back in his command.
Plantera Deluxe, Ratalaika Games – Free
In the world of Plantera you grow your own garden and breed plants and animals to earn coins with their produce. Use the coins to buy new plants and animals, and also special items and garden expansions. Watch everything grow, help planting and harvesting, buy new things, and defend your garden from sneaky magpies, rabbits, foxes, and wolves.
TorqueL -Physics Modified Edition-, Active Gaming Media – Free
The new TorqueL -Physics Modified Edition- has been released with updated physics following an update to the game engine, while still providing the same experience as the original TorqueL game. TorqueL is a curiously unique 2D rotation action game, in which you proceed by rotating or extending a box with characters inside.
Vostok Inc., Wired Productions – Free
Do you love money? You’re the newly appointed CEO of Vostok Inc. As a greedy, space-capitalist your ultimate goal is to make as much as you can. Raise some start-up capital by twin-stick blasting enemies, asteroids and anything else that gets in your way; then embrace your new-found quest for moolah as you colonise, explore and exploit over 40 planets across 6 unique solar systems. Harvest planetary resources and rescue executives to multiply your profit margin, all while you stay blissfully entertained with a whole host of captivating retro mini-games that will keep you coming back for more.
ACA NEOGEO Aero Fighters 3, Hamster Corporation – $7.99
Aero Fighters 3″ is a side-scrolling shooting game released in 1995 by Video System. Ten teams comprised of 14 humans and 2 animals have gathered from around the world and are flying on high-powered reciprocating engine planes, such as the Zero Fighter, to save the world. The game offers route selection and multiple endings.
Attack on Titan 2, Koei Tecmo – $59.99 (available Tuesday 20th March)
Experience the immense anime story alongside Eren and his companions as they fight to save humanity from the threat of the deadly human-devouring Titans. Try your hand at operating the omni-directional mobility gear, maneuvering and flying through the sky to counter the Titans, and feel the thrill and satisfaction of battling giant opponents.
Bad Dudes, FTE Games – $9.99 (available Wednesday 21st March)
“Rampant ninja related crimes these days… Whitehouse is not the exception…” As soon as that occurs, a Secret Service agent asks two street-smart brawlers, the “Bad Dudes” named Blade and Striker: “President Ronnie has been kidnapped by the ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue Ronnie?” After hearing that, the Bad Dudes pursue the Dragon Ninja through the New York City streets, a moving big rig truck, a large storm sewer, a forest, a freight train on an old Southern Pacific line, a cave and into an underground factory in order to save President Ronnie.
Bingo for Nintendo Switch, Starsign – $4.99
This game is four kinds of party games arranged Bingo: Buzzer Bingo is a game in which 4 players scramble for the number that appears; Slide Bingo is a game in which you move the rows around to align the red tiles on your card to make a row; Bingo Poker is a game in which you try to get a Bingo using both the pre-existing red tiles and the new numbers you get; and Classic Bingo is a simple game in which you take in all the numbers that appear on your card.
Clustertruck, tinyBuild Games – $14.99
Clustertruck is a new kind of platformer on top of a speeding highway! Use agility and acrobatics through insane levels in a game of “the floor is lava” on top of unpredictable, speeding trucks! The game only gets harder when dangers such as swinging hammers, lasers and flamethrowers are added!
Enchanting Mahjong Match, D3 Publisher – $4.99
Enchanting Mahjong Match is one of the connecting game classics. The main goal of this game is to connect the identical tiles with lines and remove them from the board. In Enchanting Mahjong Match, The line can change direction only twice. Or less, of course. Also known as Mahjong Solitaire, Shisen-sho, Onet, Lianliankan.
Gem Smashers, Treva Entertainment – $19.99
Long ago, the Earth was devastated by a fearsome creature: the scientist IMBU and his henchmen robbed the Earth of all its energy and trapped its peaceful inhabitants in sparkling gemstones. Miraculously, three heroes escaped: BAU, BAM and BOM. They became the Gem Smashers – with impressive leaps and quick spins, they skillfully smash the colorful crystals to free their friends.
Kirby Star Allies, Nintendo – $59.99 (available Friday 16th March)
When a new evil threatens Planet Popstar, Kirby will need a little help from his … enemies?! By making friends out of Kirby’s foes, up to three players can drop in or out of the adventure at any time. With new and expanded copy abilities, classic Kirby action is deeper than ever. Combine abilities with elements such as ice or fire to create new friend abilities.
Kona, Koch Media – $19.99
Northern Canada, 1970. A strange blizzard ravages Atamipek Lake. Step into the shoes of a detective to explore the eerie village, investigate surreal events, and battle the elements to survive. The first installment in a series of four games, Kona is a chilly interactive tale you won’t soon forget.
Last Day of June, 505 Games – $19.99 (available Friday 16th March)
Last Day of June is inspired by Steven Wilson’s haunting song “Drive Home.” Recreated as an interactive adventure, Last Day of June takes players on a profound and poignant journey. A true artistic innovation in visualizing a bittersweet story told through a welcoming, painterly world that showcases the beauty of life and love, but also the contradictions of loss.
Neonwall, JanduSoft – $9.99
Escape your way out of Neonwall by solving puzzles and overcoming a variety of challenging levels. Over the course of the game you will need a combination of skill, concentration and precision to be victorious.
Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse, WayForward – $19.99 (available Tuesday 20th March)
When she loses her magic, Shantae must team up with her nemesis, the nefarious pirate Risky Boots in order to save Sequin Land from an evil curse. As a pirate, Shantae gains new weapons to advance her quest, slay monsters, battle epic bosses…and hopefully get her magic back in the bargain! But can she really trust her deadliest enemy?
Sparkle 3 Genesis, Forever Entertainment – $4.49
Sparkle 3 Genesis is a beautiful visual experience in which you take control over the fate of a single, dreamlike organism. Immerse yourself with mesmerizing, ambient soundtrack while exploring 12 dreamlike levels. Explore the vast ocean in search of micro-elements and evolve from a tiny speck of life into a magnificent Sparkle. Choose whether your Sparkle will become a quick and relentless hunter, a peaceful plant-eater or a creature, whose features lie in between.
Swim Out, Lozange Lab – $5.99
Dive into the relaxing and refreshing atmosphere of Swim Out, a strategic, turn-based puzzle game, that will transport you into a sunny day by the swimming pool, the river or the sea. Plan each of your strokes wisely and be sure to never cross any other swimmer’s path if you want to peacefully enjoy the sea view on a cosy chaise-longue.
Tesla vs Lovecraft, 10tons – $14.99 (available Friday 16th March)
Play as the enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla! Use devastating weapons to mow down hordes of nightmarish monsters, collect mighty powerups to boost the carnage, and finally overwhelm your enemies with the immense firepower of the Tesla-Mech battle robot!
The Long Reach, Merge Games – $14.99
The Long Reach takes place in New Hampshire, in the fictional town of Baervox. The game draws its inspiration from Lone Survivor and The Cave and all the classical adventures (except that The Long Reach is set in the present day). You don’t play in a post-apocalyptic world or explore a fairy-filled fantasy world. You’re in the thick of it, just around the corner from the place where you buy your groceries.
WorldNeverland: Elnea Kingdom, althi – $29.99
The kingdom simulation game where you immigrate to an imaginary kingdom and enjoy your free life. This is the latest game of the World Never Land (Nickname is WorNeva) series. This is the imaginary kingdom that lives in the computer. You can walk wherever you wish to go. Beautiful woods, river, farms, stock farms, mines, schools, churches, and castles… And, it simulates the lives of the people who live there finely.
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That wasn’t Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s twins in that On The Run II tour video
Sam Moore Jun 7, 2018 2:45 pm BST
Jay-Z and Beyoncé Credit: Getty
Pictures of one set of visuals from last night's tour opener in Cardiff went viral after fans presumed they featured Rumi and Sir Carter
A representative for Beyoncé and Jay-Z has confirmed that the infants the couple were seen holding in one of their On The Run II tour videos were not their own children.
The superstar duo opened their latest world tour in Cardiff last night (June 6), with the two-and-a-half-hour show featuring the performance of over 40 songs from the pair’s respective back catalogues.
One interlude during last night’s gig saw a set of visuals being projected on three huge screens, depicting both Beyoncé and Jay-Z holding two babies either side of an orange-coloured screen which projected the messages ‘Love never changes’ and ‘Love is universal’.
RUMI AND SIR CARTER YALL THEY’RE SO PRECIOUS #OTRII pic.twitter.com/SRwHRFQgqy
— Jaya Hampton ♡ (@JayaHampton) June 6, 2018
😭😭😭
A post shared by Beyoncé, Solange & others (@formation.tour.2016) on Jun 6, 2018 at 12:24pm PDT
Pictures of those visuals subsequently went viral after many fans became convinced that the babies featured in the clip were the couple’s twin children, Rumi and Sir Carter. However, a rep for Beyoncé and Jay-Z told Buzzfeed overnight that the infants in the videos were not in fact the couple’s children.
The identity of the babies the pair were actually holding is still unclear.
During their 42-song set last night, Beyoncé and Jay-Z performed the songs ”03 Bonnie & Clyde’, ‘Drunk In Love’ and ‘Upgrade U’ together – you can watch fan-shot footage of their on-stage collaborations here.
The duo have apparently rehearsed over 60 songs for the tour, suggesting that the setlist will change as the tour progresses.
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A 21-year-old Tulane University student was killed Tuesday, March 5, 2019, when a tire that came off an 18-wheeler struck her at an Interstate 10 rest stop near Gautier, Miss., police said. (Google Maps)
Tulane student struck by tire, killed at I-10 rest stop in Mississippi: report
Greg LaRose, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Mar 6, 2019 - 2:55 am
A 21-year-old Tulane University student was killed Tuesday (March 5) at rest stop on Interstate 10 in Mississippi when she was struck by a tire from an 18-wheeler, WLOX-TV reports. Gautier Police said the woman and two friends were just returning to their car after going to the restroom when the tire hit the woman, their car and an SUV parked next to it.
Tulane University confirmed Tuesday night the student killed was Margaret Maurer, a senior majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology from Forest Lake, Minnesota.
Police said an 18-wheeler traveling westbound on I-10 lost two tires that rolled across the eastbound lanes and into the rest stop on the south side of the interstate. The driver of the truck turned around and stopped near the rest stop after seeing emergency responders at the accident scene, according to the report. The accident remains under investigation.
Read more from WLOX.
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National Australia Bank will open a huge call centre in Tamworth for regional and agriculture business. The connect centre will bring with it 24 new positions in rural banking and business, positioned smack bang in the middle of the city's main drag. Tamworth is one of just four regional locations chosen to host a call centre, alongside Bendigo, Bunbury and Toowoomba. The call centre will open in August with a team of specialist bankers with local knowledge, Tamworth NAB managing partner Warrick Grieve said. "Investments in customer connected hubs like this one in Tamworth will mean regional and agribusiness customers can spent more time on the job and less time worrying about other matters," he said. "Small businesses are the lifeblood of the Australian economy - any time we can save our customers is very worthwhile. "This new centre has resulted in additional employment opportunities locally, attracting new team members from other locations to Tamworth." Residents won't be able to do their banking face-to-face at the Tamworth Regional and Agribusiness Connect Centre, but for those with more complex requests, the branch down the road will remain open. It will be essential for big business like NAB to expand in the city for Tamworth Regional Council to reach its 100,000 population by 2041, mayor Col Murray said. "I think this is probably the purest form of decentralisation where business and large business choose to decentralise jobs that would normally be held in the major capital cities to places like Tamworth," he said. Read also: "I think it's a big acknowledgement of the strength of the business community that exists around us as a centre. "We won't achieve any population growth if we don't achieve job growth, so it's new jobs like these that come to the region that will play a fundamental role in that population plan." Local construction team Single Builders has won the tender for the job to build the bank's new call centre headquarters. The news comes as retailer heavyweights Target and Big W have announced closures to dozens of their regional stores. The connect centre will be located upstairs above Travel Associates and Hair Design Studio on Peel Street and has extended hours from 8am to 8pm, Monday to Friday, and 9am to 5pm on weekends. Want more local news? Subscribe to the Leader to read it here first
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NAB decentralises and brings 24 news jobs to Tamworth call centre on Peel Street
JOB GROWTH: NAB Tamworth to expand with call centre in city CBD. Photo: Gareth Gardner 170519GGD03
National Australia Bank will open a huge call centre in Tamworth for regional and agriculture business.
The connect centre will bring with it 24 new positions in rural banking and business, positioned smack bang in the middle of the city's main drag.
Tamworth is one of just four regional locations chosen to host a call centre, alongside Bendigo, Bunbury and Toowoomba.
The call centre will open in August with a team of specialist bankers with local knowledge, Tamworth NAB managing partner Warrick Grieve said.
"Investments in customer connected hubs like this one in Tamworth will mean regional and agribusiness customers can spent more time on the job and less time worrying about other matters," he said.
"Small businesses are the lifeblood of the Australian economy - any time we can save our customers is very worthwhile.
"This new centre has resulted in additional employment opportunities locally, attracting new team members from other locations to Tamworth."
Residents won't be able to do their banking face-to-face at the Tamworth Regional and Agribusiness Connect Centre, but for those with more complex requests, the branch down the road will remain open.
It will be essential for big business like NAB to expand in the city for Tamworth Regional Council to reach its 100,000 population by 2041, mayor Col Murray said.
"I think this is probably the purest form of decentralisation where business and large business choose to decentralise jobs that would normally be held in the major capital cities to places like Tamworth," he said.
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"I think it's a big acknowledgement of the strength of the business community that exists around us as a centre.
"We won't achieve any population growth if we don't achieve job growth, so it's new jobs like these that come to the region that will play a fundamental role in that population plan."
Local construction team Single Builders has won the tender for the job to build the bank's new call centre headquarters.
The news comes as retailer heavyweights Target and Big W have announced closures to dozens of their regional stores.
The connect centre will be located upstairs above Travel Associates and Hair Design Studio on Peel Street and has extended hours from 8am to 8pm, Monday to Friday, and 9am to 5pm on weekends.
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Maeve Noonan - Bookseller in Saratoga Springs
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Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller - Book Review
Submitted by mnoonan@northsh... on Mon, 06/24/2019 - 2:19pm
Travel Light, Move Fast (Hardcover)
By Alexandra Fuller
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Penguin Press - August 6th, 2019
This Is a wonderfully soulful memoir and an homage to the author’s parents, particularly her father, a man who thrived on living on the edge. Their strengths and weaknesses made for a grounded (in a most unorthodox sense) childhood. As a reader it was sometimes hard to catch my breath, whether from laughter or, occasionally, from tears of empathy. ~ Reviewed by Maeve Noonan
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The Word for Woman Is Wilderness by Abi Andrews - Book Review
Submitted by mnoonan@northsh... on Fri, 05/24/2019 - 6:22am
The Word for Woman Is Wilderness (Paperback)
By Abi Andrews
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Published: Two Dollar Radio - March 19th, 2019
This novel is "heartfelt." The heroine, Erin, is an impassioned 19-year-old feminist who is determined to confront the utter injustice of the reputation that "Women Adventurers" suffer. Deciding that she is going to set the record straight on that score and on a myriad of topics from astrophysics, philosophy to the nature of Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) and Chris McCandless of Into the Wild, Erin sets off from England to find Alaska on her own terms. This book is a whole new kind of nature/novel writing and so believable that some readers fail to note it is fiction. ~ Reviewed by Maeve Noonan
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The Plateau by Maggie Paxson - Book Review
Submitted by mnoonan@northsh... on Sun, 04/28/2019 - 7:28am
The Plateau (Hardcover)
By Maggie Paxson
Published: Riverhead Books - August 13th, 2019
Anthropologist, Maggie Paxson is haunted by war and the people who are devastated by it. Having worked all over the world she has borne witness to just about every form of brutality & heartbreaking tenderness. On the Plateau, a remote place (S.E.France) of reserved, hard lived communities, she finds a history of being a safe haven for refugees; in the distant past, during WWII and right now. Through the story Daniel Trocme (one Israel's " Righteous Among Nations" ) & his "crickets" - children from all over Europe that he fought so quietly but ferociously to protect. Maggie discovers wondrous links to today's refugees (stories of hard won survival and finds a link to her own life- and it raises many questions. This book deserves to be on the shelf next to Frankel's Man's Search for Meaning, Eger's The Choice & Wiesel's Trilogy. I could not put this book down! ~ Reviewed by Maeve Noonan
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel by Juliet Grames - Book Review
Submitted by mnoonan@northsh... on Thu, 04/04/2019 - 7:19am
The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna: A Novel (Hardcover)
By Juliet Grames
Published: Ecco - May 7th, 2019
Wry and heartbreaking, this novel follows the many incarnations of Maristella the 2nd, who inherits the name after the first child who had it dies. And what a name, Maristella Fortuna, which means many things: star and fortune, ill fortune. Grames delves into ancestral stories and the myths that we create for ourselves and our families. Biting and acerbic, this novel is an homage to women, and to families that are haunted by their past and futures. A brilliant debut. This novel took me completely by surprise and held me captive for the weekend. ~ Reviewed by Maeve Noonan
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Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up by Tom Phillips - Book Review
Submitted by mnoonan@northsh... on Fri, 03/29/2019 - 12:29pm
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up (Paperback)
Published: Hanover Square Press - May 7th, 2019
This is one of those irreverent and scary books that leaves me laughing and crying. Laughing at the total absurdness of humanity's own stew of misdeeds and just plain stupidity and crying for the same reason. It does make you think that, for all of our hubris and control issues or lack thereof, why are we still here? Phillips, as he proudly states, finally uses his degrees from Cambridge with his acute razor sharp wit in talking about everything from Lucy (the Australopithecus not the song) to the introduction of invasive species like starlings and rabbits. Riotous, ridiculous, and sobering all at once. ~ Reviewed by Maeve Noonan
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Glen Powell, Wyatt Russell, Blake Jenner, J. Quinton Johnson, and Temple Baker in Everybody Wants Some!! (Paramount Pictures)
Think about a stereotypical college or high-school comedy. Then think about its villains. You can picture them, can’t you — smug, dumb jocks, striding the football field or hanging around their frat house like lords of the earth, treating women like objects and lesser men like serfs, just begging for the comeuppance that only a serf-turned-screenwriter can give them?
But have you ever wondered what the world looks like from their point of view? Hath not a jock eyes, hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? If you prick them, do they not bleed?
This is the conceit behind Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! (yes, two exclamation points, as in the Van Halen source text), his first movie since the critically beloved Boyhood and another return to the Texas landscape that he’s painted so affectionately throughout his career. Here the setting is a Texas campus in the year of Ronald Reagan’s victory over Jimmy Carter, and our characters are a group of baseball players, just arrived on campus and settling into their autumn routine — meaning a round of practice, partying, and chasing the prettiest coeds they can find.
Everybody Wants Some!! is being billed as a kind of spiritual sequel to Linklater’s Dazed and Confused (1993), an early-career peak in which his camera followed a motley group of Texas teenagers around on the last day of high school in 1976. There are similarities: It has the same relaxed, deliberately underplotted vibe, the same rambling bull-session dialogue, the same skillful use of era-appropriate music. But Dazed was a panorama of a high school’s social world, while this is a zooming close-up of the jocks; even when they tour the wider college world, it’s all seen through their eyes. And while Dazed was spiked with angst and fear and bursts of violence, Everybody Wants Some!! is a story in which almost all the characters get something that they want.
Our way in to this sunshine semester is through a freshman pitcher, Jake Bradford (Blake Jenner), who enters the baseball house and finds a band of brothers waiting for him: the charming chatterbox Finnegan (Glen Powell), the scowling senior slugger Glenn (Tyler Hoechlin), the lively black infielder Dale (J. Quinton Johnson), the country bumpkin Billy Autrey (Will Brittain), the bearded stoner-philosopher Willoughby (Wyatt Russell), and a few more comrades. The movie then unspools over the course of a long weekend before classes begin, following the players from party to party, scene to scene, onto the baseball field and then back into the social whirl.
The through line, such as it is, consists of Jake’s pursuit of a girl named Beverly (Zoey Deutch), who flirts with him early on after rejecting his older teammates’ advances, and who turns out to be a theater major, which leads the baseball boys (who have already hit up disco, country-western, and mosh-pit scenes on their peregrinations) to a strange costume party in the movie’s final act.
But really Everybody Wants Some!! is less a story than an appreciation — of youth, athleticism (the actors can really play baseball, happily), long lazy hours, and music and the fairer sex. There are few real shadows and there is little conflict; the only intimation that this Eden is impermanent comes late in the film, when it turns out that one of the players has faked his age, that he’s a serial impostor trying to hang on to college ball and the college life. (This bit is also the clearest call-out to Dazed and Confused, whose most famous line was delivered by Matthew McConaughey’s twentysomething former high-school stud: “High-school girls: I get older, they stay the same age.”)
But even this surprise is more an amusement, ruefully accepted between games of ping-pong and attempts to bisect a slow-pitched baseball with an axe, than a real cloud across these young men’s Texas sun. Other sources of tension are entirely invisible: Race and class seem to matter not at all, the punk kids and theater geeks welcome the jocks, the girls are game and hard-drinking and nobody’s talking about “affirmative consent,” the hayseed’s fears that his girlfriend might be pregnant are waved away and proven groundless, and — as this is 1980 and not 1990 — absolutely nobody’s worried about AIDS.
Nor are they really worried about philosophical matters, the deep questions of life, which, as in Linklater’s other films, get batted around casually during the endless breeze-shooting, but not (despite what some of the movie’s critical admirers have suggested) with any memorable weight or wit or insight. But then, on the evidence of Linklater’s story, these men don’t need deep insights to get along in this phase of their life. All they need is what they have — the body’s grace and the guilelessness of campus godhood.
It’s a strange movie, all in all. Relaxed as always with Linklater, charming in its way, eminently watchable, but mostly dedicated to a proposition that every teenage dork and geek and loser knew already all too well: It’s good to be the king.
Ross Douthat — Ross Douthat is a National Review contributing editor. @DouthatNYT
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Church officials say Orthodox Council decisions will be binding
by Jonathan Luxmoore
Orthodox Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and all of Greece lights a candle as he enters St. Mena Cathedral in Heraklion, Greece, June 19. The Great and Holy Council of the Orthodox Church opened June 19. (CNS/Sean Hawkey, handout)
This article appears in the Pan-Orthodox Council feature series. View the full series.
Senior Orthodox representatives have insisted decisions by the Holy and Great Council, currently meeting in Crete, will be "representative and binding" for all churches, as two more declarations were agreed on key aspects of Orthodox life.
"We haven't come here for a conference or meeting, but for a Holy Council, which was convened by Orthodox church primates in a consensus -- so only a similar consensus by the primates could delay the Council or change its status," Archbishop Job Getcha of Telmessos, the Council spokesman, told a June 23 press briefing.
"The documents being discussed were composed by all the churches together during our pan-Orthodox consultations, and their reception will start after the closing session. It's clear to all gathered here that the Council's decisions will therefore be representative and binding."
The archbishop was responding to questions about the absence from the Council of Orthodox leaders from Russia, Bulgaria, Georgia and the Antioch Patriarchate, together representing around half of Orthodoxy's 300 million worldwide adherents.
He said the Crete Council had been preceded by more than half a century's consultations, involving all Orthodox hierarchies, and should be viewed "as a process rather than just an event."
Meanwhile, another church official said functions, rules and voting procedures for the Council had also been agreed by all Orthodox leaders, and were not affected by the decision of certain churches to stay away.
"Conciliarity isn't determined by quantity, and how many Christians are supposed to be represented here -- it was a common decision to gather and discuss these topics," said Ionut Mavrichi, spokesman for the Romanian Orthodox church.
"Ecumenical councils have been held before without the presence of some patriarchates, but this didn't make them less ecumenical or less binding. Some of our own churches didn't even exist at the time, but we still recognize them."
The week-long Council, widely believed to be the first on such a scale for more than a thousand years, is in session at Kolymbari in Crete, attended by 290 delegates, two-thirds of them bishops, from 10 of Orthodoxy's 14 main churches.
The agreed declaration on the autonomy of churches said a decision to grant self-rule to new Orthodox churches, often a cause of dispute, will be the "canonical prerogative" of its mother-church.
It also confirms that rival claims to jurisdiction over autonomous churches must be referred to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, who holds honorary first place among Orthodox primates, "so he may find a canonical solution in accordance with prevailing pan-Orthodox practice."
The second declaration, on fasting, describes the practice as a "divine commandment" and "expression of the Orthodox ascetic ideal," but says fasting also includes "the checking of anger, and separation from lust, evil-speaking, lies and false oaths."
It adds that requests to be relieved of fasting because of illness, work conditions or military service should be left to local churches, but should not "diminish the importance of the sacred institution of fasting."
"In the literal sense, fasting is abstinence from food; but food makes us neither more nor less righteous. In the spiritual sense, as life comes from food and the lack of food is a symbol of death, it is necessary we fast from worldly things," the Council document said.
"Therefore, the true fast affects the entire life in Christ of the faithful and is crowned by their participation in divine worship, particularly in the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist."
A Council source said pressure had grown among Orthodox Christians for a modification of fasting rules "given today's life and work."
However, he added that conservative Orthodox leaders had insisted on "maintaining strict standards," claiming the modification of requirements in the Catholic church had "led to a dramatic decrease of fasting among Catholics."
Two other declarations, on churches' contemporary mission and care of Orthodox diaspora communities, have also been agreed at the Council, while documents on marriage and ties with other Christian churches are still under discussion.
Job told journalists most of the texts had been agreed with only "little amendments," while Council staffers were "working like bees" to obtain final agreement on all the remainder.
He added that more Orthodox bishops were now speaking up in debates "after some initial stage-fright," and said the Council's overall aim was to be "not just to copy and paste from past councils," but to produce a message "addressed to the people of the 21st century."
The Council source said consideration was still being given to institutionalizing the Holy and Great Council as "the supreme organ of Orthodoxy," by agreeing to reconvene it regularly at intervals of five to 10 years.
He added that the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, who is hosting the Council, had included an abbot from Greece's autonomous Mount Athos monastic center in his delegation and promised to "take full account" of strident criticisms by conservative figures from the peninsula.
Speaking at the press briefing, Metropolitan Alexander of Nigeria, representing the Patriarchate of Alexandria, said Council participants were deeply concerned about "grave humanitarian issues" facing Africa and the Middle East, adding that the agreed declaration on mission would provide "a roadmap for local churches to take action" to alleviate current sufferings.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Ecumenical Patriarchate denied June 23 media reports that a dispute had erupted with the Orthodox church of Greece over jurisdiction in some areas of the eastern Aegean Sea, and said there had been intense discussion about threats to Christian communities in the historic territory of the Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople and Jerusalem Patriarchates.
"For more than a thousand years, we weren't talking, but now we are, supported by millions of Orthodox Christians -- this may not be a media soundbite, but it amounts to a very loud noise for us," said Archdeacon John Chryssavgis.
"As a theologian, I'm often critical of my church, wondering whether it's really in the 21st century as it should be. I also question my hierarchy, and my church's pastoral outreach. But I'm very pleasantly surprised by the openness being shown here to global concerns and interests."
[Jonathan Luxmoore's two-volume study of communist-era persecution, The God of the Gulag, has just been published by Gracewing in the U.K.]
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Pearl Harbor Relic Found in Home
Queuebot • Monday, December 7, 2009 at 6:19 AM
Today marks the 68th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, in which Japanese forces sent over a dozen U.S. ships to the bottom of the harbor. In the middle of that attack was Coast Guardsman Willis Partridge, a signalman on the cutter Taney. In a little over an hour, the USS Arizona was destroyed, killing over 1,000 sailors, many of whom were trapped. Partridge was able to salvage the mast pulley from the Arizona, which he then used on the Taney. After the war he reclaimed the mast pulley. Partridge passed away on Pearl Harbor Day last year, and his son Rick found the pulley among his possessions.
Right after the attack, Willis Partridge salvaged the part to raise the flag on the Taney. Years later, during an overhaul, Partridge reclaimed the part to preserve it.
"I felt that it was too important for us to keep in the family - it just really is," says his son.
This weekend, Rick is taking the pulley back to a maritime museum in Baltimore.
"It does bring chills every time I touch it or look at it," says Rick. "It kind of sends shivers down my back to think about what was going on at this moment in time in history."
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Thanks, that was confusing me when I read through it earlier today.
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Must be a mistake. I fixed it.
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FYI, the Taney is berthed at a pier in Baltimore and is open to tourists. It is the last surviving ship that was present at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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Koldunov, N., et al. Multimodel simulations of Arctic Ocean sea surface height variability in the period 1970–2009. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans 119, (2014).
Sandø, A.B., Gao, Y. & Langehaug, H.R. Poleward ocean heat transports, sea ice processes, and Arctic sea ice variability in NorESM1-M simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 119, (2014).
Yu, E., Wang, T., Gao, Y. & Xiang, W. Precipitation Pattern of the mid-Holocene simulated by a high-resolution RCM. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 31, (2014).
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OFT calls for dentistry reform
The UK's dentistry market needs to be reformed to ensure patients understand what they are entitled to on the NHS and can access the services they need, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said.
Its latest study found that hundreds of thousands of patients may be getting the wrong information about their entitlement to dental treatments on the NHS.
As a result, many patients may be paying more than necessary to have procedures done privately.
Furthermore, some patients are unable to see a hygienist or dental therapist without a referral from a dentist - something the OFT believes is reducing patient choice and harming competition.
OFT chief executive John Fingleton said: 'Our study has raised significant concerns about the UK dentistry market which need to be tackled quickly in the interest of patients.'
The regulator has called for major changes, including the provision of timely, clear and accurate information to patients and direct access to dental care professionals.
It also says that the NHS dental contract should be redesigned and the complaints process simplified to make it easier for patients and dentists to resolve problems.
Dr Nigel Carter, chief executive of the British Dental Health Foundation, said that some of the OFT's findings were 'flawed and out of date'.
He commented: 'This report should not be taken as a cure-all for the future of dentistry in the UK and if taken in isolation it does not deliver a satisfactory solution for the patients or the dental health profession.
'The findings of the OFT report need to be included and reviewed as a part of the education, research and change which needs to happen to deliver the best quality dental care.'
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Opinion: Are cable cars the answer to Auckland’s catastrophic congestion?
Emma Jolliff
Mi Teleferico, the cable car system over La Paz, Bolivia Photo credit: Emma Jolliff
OPINION: As a visitor to Auckland, there just aren't enough adjectives to describe how truly appalling the traffic is.
But on a trip last year to the Bolivian capital of La Paz, I wondered whether the highest capital city in the world might have part of the answer to the catastrophe that is Auckland commuting.
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La Paz's Austrian-built cable car system, known as Mi Teleferico, currently has five lines spanning more than 17 kilometres. The completed network is expected to have 11 lines and 39 stations covering nearly 34 kilometres.
That's just about the distance from Albany to Otara.
Mi Teleferico's sleek lines, slick engineering and punctual operation are in contrast to the chaotic, sprawling metropolis below, with its unrendered brick homes cascading into the bowl-like city.
It traverses La Paz, and connects it to the neighbouring city of El Alto, servicing a population of around 2 million people. The cable car has cut the commute time for El Alto residents from one hour to just 10 minutes.
With an initial price tag of US$280 million (NZ$383 million), the network was largely a vanity project for President Evo Morales - but the social benefits have been huge.
Cable cars soar above La Paz, Bolivia Photo credit: Emma Jolliff
Each line can transport 6000 people per hour. The 10-seater cabins leave every 12 seconds and it costs just 3 bolivianos (around NZ60c) per journey.
Plus, the electricity used to run it is partly generated by solar power.
Cut to Auckland, where the council estimates that the city's population of 1.5 million will swell by another million in the next 30 years.
Commuters spend 20 working days per year sitting in traffic. Around 800 new cars are registered in Auckland every week.
Mayor Phil Goff has tabled a regional fuel tax and wants better light rail and an "attitude change" toward transport.
Perhaps the council should forget attitude and think altitude - imagine travelling across Auckland up above the streets and houses, flying over the traffic, in a commute that had shrunk from an hour to 10 minutes.
La Paz, Bolivia Photo credit: Emma Jolliff
The views for both commuters and tourists would be amazing, too.
A spokesman for Auckland Transport told Newshub: "We have not investigated a system like this to my knowledge. We'd have to look at how it would work in Auckland, with building stations and general infrastructure."
Start building and get moving, Auckland.
Emma Jolliff is a reporter for Newshub.
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Tags: Russia | Syria | Russia | Geopolitical | Putin | Syria
Russia Is Back as Geopolitical Force
By Arnaud De Borchgrave
Tuesday, 17 September 2013 09:48 AM Current | Bio | Archive
From the hard right, we hear alternating allegations that President Barack Obama is both the Manchurian Candidate — the sinister embodiment of evil, a brainwashed puppet of the far left — or that he is Inspector Clouseau, the bumbling police detective who couldn't find his rear end with both hands.
More seriously, Ann Coulter, from the right, pontificates that "Democrats are gung-ho about deploying the U.S. military provided not only that it will harm the national security interests of the United States but vehemently oppose interventions that serve American interests."
Still feeling his way to world-class statesmanship, Obama redlined himself into a corner and then leapt over the wet paint and landed with both feet on a dry spot. Thank you, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Putin first dismissed as ridiculous the horrific story about Syrian forces inflicting a slow, excruciating death on 1,420 civilians, including 400 children, with a blast of chemical warfare.
Putin then seized the opportunity to help Obama back off his redline decision to punish Syria's President Bashar Assad with a couple of days of bombing and shelling vital installations.
In an Op-Ed he wrote for The New York Times, ex-Comrade Putin gave Obama fatuous lessons in the practice of true democracy — and a timely assist in climbing back from the limb before Congress sawed it off.
Chemical weapons stockpiles are in several secret Syrian locations, many of them suspected but not confirmed by U.S. intelligence. More damaging, however, would be U.S. bombing of Syria's command-and-control targets in the midst of its civil war.
Helping the Syrian insurgency with lethal supplies under current conditions is a painful dilemma for the United States.
Al-Qaida's Iraq-based associated terrorist movement, the al-Nusra Front, a subsidiary of AQAM (al-Qaida and its Associated Movements), is gaining ground with a wide variety of foreign volunteers.
For the rest of the world, there is little doubt that Putin won a round in Syria at the expense of Obama's national and global prestige.
For Obama, the Russian ploy catered to a national distaste in the U.S. for military action in the Middle East. The United States is still stuck in the Afghan quagmire where a leading Taliban figure was released from prison in a bid for national reconciliation following the U.S. withdrawal at the end of 2014.
Moscow lost no time in launching a major diplomatic offensive designed to show Persian Gulf Arab states that oppose Assad and those that back him, including Iran, that it holds most of the cards.
Putin is also telling the United States' Persian Gulf friends that Russia holds the keys to a settlement of the Syrian crisis. Widely perceived as having trumped Obama in the current phase of the geopolitical contest, it is by no means a slam dunk for Russia.
But Russia is back in the Middle Eastern geopolitical game — with credibility.
Russian warships from the Black Sea and northern fleets in the eastern Mediterranean, with a long-held Russian naval base in Syria's Tartus facility, were rapidly followed by five U.S. destroyers. This conveyed to the rest of the world that Russia was back in the global game of power politics.
For Obama the terrain was pockmarked with quicksand. Russia is now the power that stared down the United States and got Obama to back off military action against Syria.
The unfolding crisis gave Russia an opportunity to consolidate control of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile. Obama asked that this be done expeditiously.
In Geneva, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that he expected to reach an agreement in days, not weeks. But under the best of circumstances, execution will take several months.
Walking back from his demand for quick punitive action against Syria is seen by the rest of the world as a sign of Obama's weakness.
The Syrian civil war — in its third year with 120,000 killed and some 5 million refugees — is about to get a lot worse. AQAM is steadily gaining influence in rebel ranks.
Obama is now in geopolitical quicksand. He cannot allow the Syrian crisis to dominate the balance of his second term. It has the potential to backfire with charges of weakness.
Putin's clever Op-Ed ploy in The New York Times has put Russia back in the high-stakes game of power politics. Syria is an important ally for Russia. The two are separated by Iraq, where al-Qaida's like-minded terrorist ally is holding sway in western border areas close to Syria.
The stakes are enormous — nothing less than a continuous belt of anti-U.S. forces from Iran to Lebanon, through Iraq and Syria. And the Russian leadership is convinced Obama will do anything and everything to avoid being dragged into yet another war.
Russia is back in the global context of power politics. But rather than fight through proxies, it wants to project the image of peacemaker that negotiates solutions — in sharp contrast to the U.S. superpower that demonstrates its strength.
Noted editor and journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave is an editor at large for United Press International. He is a founding board member of Newsmax.com who now serves on Newsmax's Advisory Board. Read more reports from Arnaud de Borchgrave — Click Here Now.
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Does Your Family Business Have a Fredo?
What to do when a family member is harmful to your company
By Katie MoritzMarch 22, 2017
By Katie Moritz
Credit: Rewire.org
Part of the America’s Entrepreneurs Special Report
(This article previously appeared on Rewire.org.)
Sure, the Corleones in the Godfather books and movies are an extreme example of a “family business.” But a lot of real-life family businesses experience similar problems — for example, a family member involved in the enterprise who consistently undermines it. Maybe they’re showing up late, not doing what they say they’re going to do or even misusing company resources. You keep them around because, well, you’re kind of stuck with them.
The rub is that continuing to reward Fredos while ignoring their damaging behavior leads to more problems.
Who’s Fredo?
Fredo was the Corleone brother who just couldn’t get it right, no matter how hard he tried. He was blood, so he was included in the Mafia family’s business ventures, but he was constantly flubbing even the simplest tasks he was given. Ultimately his screw-ups lead to the family falling out of power and his own brother turning against him (not to give too much away).
A “Fredo” can appear in a family business when the head of the business is more motivated to involve family members in the firm than select them based on their skills and personality in order to maximize profits — in other words, when the head of the company is behaving more like a parent than a boss. Often, families will continue to reward their Fredos with more responsibilities even when they’re incompetent, unproductive or lazy.
Kimberly A. Eddleston of Northeastern University and the Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange, Roland E. Kidwell of Florida Atlantic University, John James Cater III of the University of Texas at Tyler and Franz W. Kellermanns of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte studied “the Fredo effect” (and coined the term) and explained how families can prevent it from happening in their business.
“We coined the term… to describe a negative force in the family firm that can emerge due to the way parents relate to and interact with their children, and the resulting damage to the firm that those children can cause despite any good intentions,” the researchers wrote. “Generous actions toward a child and unwarranted faith in the child beyond what’s justified by his or her abilities can lead to poor performance and dysfunctional behavior once the child enters the family business.”
“The rub is that continuing to reward Fredos while ignoring their damaging behavior leads to more problems: the child’s sense of entitlement increases, higher levels of relationship conflict in the family firm result, and more problems with productivity and teamwork emerge,” the research team wrote.
How Can You Nip Your Fredo in the Bud?
No family wants their business to end up like the Corleones’. So how can you deal with your own Fredo situation? There are several steps you can take before and after hiring a family member to make sure there are no weak links in your chain:
Try Not to Hire a Fredo
Set the same hiring standards for family members as you would for non-family employees.
Make sure each family member is a good fit for the business. In other words, don’t create a job for a relative just for the sake of giving them a job.
Don’t force family members into the firm if they don’t want to be there.
Don’t hire the family member if they don’t meet the guidelines you’ve set.
Once You’ve Hired a Family Member, Watch for Fredo Behavior
Hold the person to the same standards to which you hold non-family employees, including the same human resources practices.
Monitor the person to the same extent, too.
Hold the person accountable for his or her actions, just as you would an employee who’s not related to you.
Separate family goals from business goals. Job expectations should be clear.
How to Get Rid of a Fredo
Don’t worry, we don’t mean it in the Corleone way. Here’s how:
Confront the Fredo, either one-on-one or via a trained third-party adviser.
Show that the bad behavior has consequences, like suspension or demotion.
If all else fails, consider firing the Fredo or buying out his or her stock.
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Katie Moritz is the web editor at Rewire.org, a site from public television station TPT that creates smart, fresh, original, thought-provoking content that inspires individuals to make their lives better. She formerly covered politics for a newspaper in Juneau, Alaska and helped produce the public affairs show “Almanac” at Twin Cities PBS. Reach her via email at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @katecmoritz and on Instagram @yepilikeit.
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Home / Specials / Youth Inc. / Time to show off | JUL 07 , 2012
Photos courtesy: Business Standard Motoring
Youth Inc.
Time to show off
Two- and four-wheelers are not only used by the youth to get from point A to B, but also to make a style statement
Patanjali Pahwa
Most weekend evenings at Carter Road, a few blocks away from the local police station, a few men huddle together and compare merchandise. Occasionally, they have an uninvited lecher, who stops to stare at the shiny parts on show. What’s on display here are mods. The merchandise would have drawn an even bigger crowd if the mods were indeed, curvy, long-legged models. In this case, although it attracts its share of gawkers, mods stand for modified — bikes and even superbikes tweaked to give a muscled and mean look. The owners of this merchandise are a mixed bag of rich and not-so-rich kids and self-employed motorcycle enthusiasts. This motley bunch yak about air filters, internal combustion engines and air-fuel mixtures. These conversations are not restricted to Mumbai; a similar group hangs around Airport Road in Bengaluru, or near the F1 circuit in Greater Noida and even at NH-17 just outside Kochi.
Keep the beefy connoisseurs out for a minute and ask what flies with the more modest Jagdish or Jyotis in the under-25 age group. “The hot favourites for guys in that age group are either a Maruti Swift or a Honda City,” says Srinivas Krishnan, editor, BS Motoring. While these cost anywhere between ₹4 lakh and ₹11 lakh, their pre-owned versions can be bought at around ₹3-5 lakh. As for the girls, they prefer the Hyundai i10, Chevrolet Spark or the Ford Fiesta. While there is such a big divide when it comes to the cars, young women have a clear favourite when it comes to two-wheelers — Honda Activa. It would not be wrong to say that Honda carried on from where Kinetic Honda left off. The gearless machine was a favourite among working women and collegians and that is the route Honda, too, has tread.
In cities other than metros, lack of reliable public transport has primarily driven the sales of four- as well as two-wheelers. When Hero Honda delivered mileage and became the market leader, Bajaj Auto had no option but to resort to styling and power to make a comeback. And its Pulsar thereafter has pretty much set the trend for the new generation of Indian power bikes that are now being launched. However, for young dudes preferring videshi, acquiring an imported 250cc growler priced between ₹1.5 lakh and ₹4 lakh is the first step to enter the power zone.
Macho power bikes — the real thing — however, have always been the preserve of Japanese powerhouses like Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki and Suzuki. Of course, there is Ducati and Harley, but the Indian youth having grown up on a staple of Bollywood moviesidentify more with Ninjas and Hayabusas. “Few lean toward the Yamaha R1 — its price puts it out of the range — but if anything was an aspiration, it would be that,” says Krishnan. The R1 costs upward of ₹12 lakh and boasts of a 1,000cc engine.
Japanese vroom vroom or the Dhoom effect is also responsible for the rise of Vicky Jaisingh. The Mumbai-based 38-year-old owns Performance Store, a popular bike-modification joint. Yes, that brings us back to mods. “Pipes save lives,” is Jaisingh’s favourite line. For Jaisingh, pipes mean loud exhausts that “change the way bikes sound”. It is the most common thing that his customers want installed. “When you are going at 100 kmph people can’t see you coming, but they can hear you and get out of the way,” he says nonchalantly. His store gets an average of 50-100 orders a month from various parts of the country with a ticket-size that ranges from ₹25,000 to ₹50,000. “A strong Facebook presence, motorsport forums and word-of-mouth brings callers from across the country,” explains Jaisingh. And with almost freaky coincidence, he fields a call from Gurgaon who wants air filters for his 2011 CBR250. The auto-mod market, industry players insist, has grown to ₹500 crore over the last seven years when it was almost non-existent. Performance Store, too, has shown a 15% revenue growth almost every year.
With cars, it gets bigger. The mods on cars range from cosmetic upgrades to performance and detailing. Mineel Chitroda started Mkraft Design in 2004 and has seen interest grow every year. “When we started out, we got just one car a month, now it is closer to 40 at one time,” he says. While the most popular upgrade is body kits, which starts around ₹40,000, Chitroda insists the big money is now in performance enhancement and detailing. Peter Chacko of Pete’s, the biggest mod shop in the country with over 20 franchised stores, agrees.
Pete’s raked in ₹20 crore in FY12 with a bulk of the business coming from the metros. “Our Ahmedabad and Surat outlets don’t get as much business compared with Mumbai, Bengaluru and New Delhi,” he says. Most customers want to “upgrade diesel cars”, with the most common being Swifts and Fiestas. An upgrade means installation of a performance chip that erases the lag in a diesel car and offers better pick-up. By offering warranties and excellent services, customers stay loyal and come back for more. As long as the need for speed doesn’t abate, these mod-shops will hear the sweet sound of their cash counters ringing.
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At half-past twelve the train stopped at Benares. The Brahmin legends assert that this city is built on the site of the ancient Casi, which, like Mahomet’s tomb, was once suspended between heaven and earth; though the Benares of to-day, which the Orientalists call the Athens of India, stands quite unpoetically on the solid earth, Passepartout caught glimpses of its brick houses and clay huts, giving an aspect of desolation to the place, as the train entered it.
Benares was Sir Francis Cromarty’s destination, the troops he was rejoining being encamped some miles northward of the city. He bade adieu to Phileas Fogg, wishing him all success, and expressing the hope that he would come that way again in a less original but more profitable fashion. Mr. Fogg lightly pressed him by the hand. The parting of Aouda, who did not forget what she owed to Sir Francis, betrayed more warmth; and, as for Passepartout, he received a hearty shake of the hand from the gallant general.
The railway, on leaving Benares, passed for a while along the valley of the Ganges. Through the windows of their carriage the travellers had glimpses of the diversified landscape of Behar, with its mountains clothed in verdure, its fields of barley, wheat, and corn, its jungles peopled with green alligators, its neat villages, and its still thickly-leaved forests. Elephants were bathing in the waters of the sacred river, and groups of Indians, despite the advanced season and chilly air, were performing solemnly their pious ablutions. These were fervent Brahmins, the bitterest foes of Buddhism, their deities being Vishnu, the solar god, Shiva, the divine impersonation of natural forces, and Brahma, the supreme ruler of priests and legislators. What would these divinities think of India, anglicised as it is to-day, with steamers whistling and scudding along the Ganges, frightening the gulls which float upon its surface, the turtles swarming along its banks, and the faithful dwelling upon its borders?
The panorama passed before their eyes like a flash, save when the steam concealed it fitfully from the view; the travellers could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie, twenty miles south-westward from Benares, the ancient stronghold of the rajahs of Behar; or Ghazipur and its famous rose-water factories; or the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, rising on the left bank of the Ganges; the fortified town of Buxar, or Patna, a large manufacturing and trading-place, where is held the principal opium market of India; or Monghir, a more than European town, for it is as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its iron foundries, edgetool factories, and high chimneys puffing clouds of black smoke heavenward.
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October 1, 2013 @ 3:36 pm
No sign of pursuit had developed, and yet we were sure that somewhere behind us relentless Sagoths were dogging our tracks. Ghak said they never failed to hunt down their quarry until they had captured it or themselves been turned back by a superior force.
Jack Turnip
The old man looked at him and silently began to cry. The weak tears of age rolled down his cheeks and all the feebleness of his eighty-seven years showed in his grief-stricken countenance.
Peter Fork
March 2, 2014 @ 1:25 pm
The old man sighed but did not answer, and they moved on in silence. The surf grew suddenly louder, as they emerged from the forest upon a stretch of sand dunes bordering the sea.
John Muster
A sudden commotion among the goats brought the boys to their feet. The dogs about the fire rushed to join their snarling fellow who guarded the goats, while the goats themselves stampeded in the direction of their human protectors.
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Proprietary structure
Where is OKD active?
Brief history of OKD
Majority Shareholder Exit Completed
New World Resources Plc (‘NWR Plc’ and together with its subsidiaries, the ‘NWR Group’) today announces that CERCL Mining Holdings B.V. and its
affiliates have transferred all of their shares in NWR Plc to NWR Plc for zero consideration.
On 24 February 2016, NWR Plc announced that CERCL Mining Holdings B.V. and its affiliates including Asental Property B.V. (together, ‘CERCL’) have agreed to transfer for nil consideration all of their shares in the NWR Plc to NWR Plc in order to facilitate the restructuring process by reducing the number of stakeholders involved in its negotiation and implementation. At that time the transaction was subject to satisfaction of certain conditions, which now all have been fulfilled.
This brings to a close CERCL's association with the NWR Group. Peter Kadas and Charles Harman had already resigned their non-independent non-executive
directorships in all companies in the NWR Group in anticipation of the transaction.
OKD is the only producer of hard coal in the Czech Republic; Its coal is mined in the southern part of the Upper-Silesian coal basin.
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Antonis Samaras has been appointed new prime minister of….
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Antonis Samaras has been appointed new prime minister of…. Paraguay
i think he is prime minister of Greece
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Who has been appointed the new Controller General of Accounts on July 1, 2012?
In Sept. 2011, Helle Thorning Schmidt has been elected as the prime minister of—
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HOW TO REPRESENT THE GIVEN INEQUALITIES IN INTERVAL NOTATION
About "How to represent the given inequalities in interval notation"
How to represent the given inequalities in interval notation ?
Here we are going to see how to represent the given inequalities in interval notation.
We may easily represent the given inequalities in interval notation by representing them in the number line.
To graph the given inequalities in the number line, we must know the meaning of two words "And & Or".
A compound inequality containing and is true only if both inequalities are true. Thus, the graph of a compound inequality containing and is the intersection of the graphs of the two inequalities.
In other words, the solution must be a solution of both inequalities.
The intersection can be found by graphing each inequality and then determining where the graphs overlap.
Another type of compound inequality contains the word or. A compound inequality containing or is true if one or more of the inequalities is true. The graph of a compound inequality containing or is the of the graphs of the two inequalities.
In other words, the solution of the compound inequality is a solution of either inequality, not necessarily both. The union can be found by graphing each inequality.
Representing the given inequality in interval notation - Examples
Question 1 :
Represent the following inequalities in the interval notation:
(i) x ≥ −1 and x < 4 (ii) x ≤ 5 and x ≥ −3
(iii) x < −1 or x < 3 (iv) −2x > 0 or 3x − 4 < 11.
(i) x ≥ −1 and x < 4
Let us represent each of the given linear inequalities in the number line.
In the first inequality, we have the sign ≥ (greater than or equal). So, we have to use filled circle.
In the second inequality, we have the sign < (less than). So, we have to use unfilled circle.
Now, we have to find the overlapping region.
Hence the required interval notation for the given linear inequalities is [-1, 4).
Now let us look into the next problem on "How to Represent the Given Inequalities in Interval Notation".
(ii) x ≤ 5 and x ≥ −3
Both inequalities are having the signs ≤ (less than or equal) and ≥ (greater than or equal). So, we have to use filled circle.
Hence the required interval notation for the given linear inequalities is [-3, 5].
(iii) x < −1 or x < 3
Both inequalities are having the signs < (less than). So, we have to use unfilled circle.
Sine we have "OR", the solution need not to be satisfied by both inequalities.
Hence the required interval notation for the given inequalities is (-∞, 3)
(iv) −2x > 0 or 3x − 4 < 11.
First let us solve the given inequalities
-2x > 0
x < 0
3x − 4 < 11
Add both sides by 4
3x < 11 + 4
3x < 15
Divide both sides by 3
x < 15/3
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Office 365 Education welcomes two new educational tools in its Preview program
Kareem Anderson Email @MindHead1 Jun 25th, 2015 in Latest news
As Microsoft continues to march to its ‘empowering’ drum beat, the company has been steadily overhauling its approach to how its products get distributed and implemented. In the past, Microsoft would offer blanket enterprise tools for educational purposes, and it would be up to educators to manipulate the tools to fit best their needs. For years, a contentious relationship between teachers and Microsoft grew as the company seemingly ignored the shifting nuances in education. However, it is beginning to look like a more thoughtful Microsoft, is ready to deliver resources for teachers that streamline their workflow and allow them to focus more on teaching and less on technical acrobatics.
Shanen Boettcher, the general manager for Class Dashboard and School Information Sync, is announcing the first phase of a Preview program for two new educational driven services. As of today, Microsoft is welcoming Microsoft Class Dashboard and Microsoft School Information Sync into the fold of Office 365 Education. Office 365 Education users will now have preview access to two new tools intended to help simplify connections between existing systems as well as simplify communication and collaboration amongst students and fellow teachers. As an added kicker, the new tools will come free of charge to current Office 365 Education accounts.
We wrote briefly about Microsoft Class Dashboard a few days ago. As a brief refresher, “Class Dashboard is an easy-to-use website that brings together familiar Office apps including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook in the context of the classroom. Teachers can get the most out of the tools they know and content they have, keep materials and classes organized and accessible, and engage students in new collaborative learning experiences to achieve better outcomes,” according to Shanen. Microsoft’s School Information Sync attempts to simplify the complexity of connecting school Student Information System (SIS) data with educational apps and class websites through automation. Part of its usefulness comes from its vast array of sync options. “It syncs user profiles and class rosters from a school or district SIS, provisions groups and class websites, enables single sign-on (SSO), and allows learning apps to access student data over an encrypted connection. Because security and privacy are so important, schools and districts determine which apps can access student data so that they can remain in compliance with their policies,” Shanen says.
School Information Sync also offers a single API for education vendors and district approved 3rd party solutions to access data and integrate apps while providing a more personalized learning experience. Students also benefit from SIS, by using a single sign-on with Office 365 no matter the device. With the use of cloud APIs, Shanen believes that School Information Sync will be able to deliver SIS independent applications much faster to ISVs.
Microsoft’s overhaul of educational tools is already being met with enthusiasm. “Two-thirds of U.S. school districts use our assessment and instruction programs, and we are excited about the single sign-on and data sync benefits Office 365 offers students and teachers,” said Jack Lynch, CEO of Renaissance Learning. “We are always looking for ways to make educators’ work easier, and streamlining the use of programs like ours with information systems and productivity tools is a win-win for schools and the organizations that serve them.”
Further reading: Class, Cloud, Dashboard, Education, Microsoft, Office 365, Sync
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Small Employers Less Likely to Offer Health Insurance
Abby Rosenberger
The Kaiser Family Foundation published their annual Employer Health Insurance Survey, which provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health insurance. This year’s survey covered the cost of employer sponsored health insurance, health benefits offer rates, employee coverage, eligibility and participation, and other pertinent information.
2014 Employer Health Benefits Survey Background
The Kaiser Family Foundation surveyed 2,052 non-federal public and private employers with three or more employees. Phone interviews were conducted from January to May of 2014. Out of the 2,052 interviewed, 1,587 employers completed the survey.
Employer Health Benefits Survey Key Findings
Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums have increased an average of 3 percent in 2014 for family coverage, and 2 percent for single coverage.
Only 55 percent of employers surveyed offer health benefits to at least some of their employees.
The average firm that offers health insurance offers it to 62 percent of their workforce.
Enrollees in grandfathered health plans dropped to 26 percent from 36 percent in 2013.
Annual employer-sponsored premiums for single coverage are at $6,025 in 2014.
Employees contribute an average of $1,081 toward single coverage in 2014.
Average Family Premium Has Increased 69 Percent Over the Last Ten Years
The average annual family premium in 2014 was $16,834. This is an increase of 26 percent in the last five years and 69 percent in the last ten years.
Chart: Kaiser Family Foundation
Cost Remains the Primary Reason For Not Offering Benefits
Among smaller employers (3 to 199 employees) that do not offer health benefits, 32 percent of employers cited the cost of health insurance remains the primary reason for not offering health insurance to their employees.
Almost a quarter (24 percent) of small employers cited that their “employees are generally covered under another plan.”
Nine percent of employers cited that their “employees have other options, including exchanges.”
One percent cited that their employees could get a better deal on the exchanges.
Twenty four percent of those small employees not offering health insurance shopped for coverage within the past year.
The survey reported that small employers (3-199 employees) are significantly less likely to offer health insurance to their employees than large employers:
Less than half (44 percent) of small employers with three to nine employees offer health insurance.
Over half (64 percent) of firms with 10 to 24 employees offer health insurance.
Eighty three percent of firms with 25 to 49 employees offer health insurance.
Ninety one percent of firms with 50 to 199 employees offer health insurance.
SHOP Exchange Too Expensive for Small Employers
The Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) is available to small employers with less than 50 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) employees. The survey asked smaller employers (3 to 75 employees) about the SHOP exchange.
Thirteen percent of smaller employers who do not offer health benefits reported shopping for coverage on a SHOP exchange.
Twelve percent of smaller employers that do offer health benefits looked at SHOP coverage.
Forty percent of smaller employers did not select shop coverage because they were not interested.
Twenty eight percent of smaller employers reported that it was too expensive.
Ten percent of smaller employers reported that the SHOP is too much of a hassle.
Read the full survey at Kaiser Family Foundation
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Early involvement of FMs called for in Soft Landings topic guide
Publication of its Soft Landings and Business-Focused Maintenance Topic Guide has been announced by BSRIA, designed to provide a brief overview of the subject and recommend further reading.
It looks at the design, construction and operation of buildings with the aim of allowing them to be operated at optimum performance levels.
This is essential to support the businesses involved, as well as catering for the needs of occupants and their wellbeing, says BSRIA.
It also highlights potential issues with maintenance schedules, designed to preserve physical assets through failure prevention schedules that include generic tasks and frequencies.
If these are created "without knowing which assets are critical for business continuity", consequences such as overspending, emergency repairs and business disruption can occur, says BSRIA.
Creation of customised maintenance schedules can help to avoid the issues above, it continues, recommending the use of business-focused maintenance (BFM).
These schedules are formed by first identifying critical assets and then shaping maintenance activities to support the functions involved and can be achieved through the Soft Landings approach.
BSRIA FM principal consultant and co-author of the guide Nick Blake said: "It is fundamental to involve the FMs, where known, from early on in the design stage.
"The knowledge and experience of the FMs can inform better design of systems and make BFM more readily adoptable and easier in operation."
Maintenance should be seen as adding value to a business, rather than an overhead, Mr Blake continued, with bespoke programmes established to prevent asset failures.
This will also help FMs and clients to engage with developments such as the circular economy, sustainability drives and delivering increased efficiency, said Mr Blake.
The Soft Landings and Business-Focused Maintenance Topic Guide can be downloaded free of charge here.
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PandaTree Online Language Learning for Kids.
PandaTree’s Top Tips for Acing the AP® Spanish Language and Culture Exam
Note: AP®, Advanced Placement® and College Board® are trademarks registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this website.
It’s May 7, 2019 and you’re sitting in your school’s gymnasium with desks spaced six feet apart. You’ve got a school issued laptop or iPad on your desk, with a headset and microphone, as well as a pencil, eraser, and exam booklet. At 8:00 am sharp the exam proctor announces you may open your exam booklet. Are you ready for the Advanced Placement® Spanish Language and Culture exam?
The AP® Spanish Language and Cultural exam is the most popular AP world language exam, with good reason — there are six million students studying Spanish in school in the United States. With about 50 million Spanish-speakers, the U.S. is the second largest Spanish speaking population in the world after Mexico. Speaking Spanish is great for people who love to travel – it’s the official language in 20 countries. And learning Spanish can help students understand another culture, boost career opportunities, and more.
In this post, we’ll demystify the AP Spanish Language and Culture exam, give an overview of AP exams, take a thorough look at each section of the AP Spanish exam and offer plenty of tips for how to prepare for the AP Spanish exam so you can get your best grade. Along the way, we’ll share expert advice from PandaTree tutors and advisors who have helped The College Board develop and grade AP exams in the past.
A Primer on AP Exams
What are AP exams, and why should students take them?
Advanced Placement (AP) Exams are standardized exams developed by The College Board (the educational body which also administers the SAT test). Administered in the U.S. and Canada, AP exams test a student’s knowledge of college-level curricula. High school AP courses are designed to prepared students for the AP exam towards the end of the year and the exam is a standardized way to confirm a student’s mastery of a given subject.
Why should a student take AP courses and AP exams?
High school students should consider taking AP courses and exams for two key reasons: first, admissions boards of competitive universities like to see high AP scores on student transcripts — it demonstrates that a student is prepared to succeed in college-level academic courses. Second, high scores on AP exams often count as college credit, depending on the university’s policies. In addition, 35 states now participate in the Seal of Biliteracy program and award students special recognition on their high school diploma. Criteria for qualifying for the seal differ by state, but often a high score on an AP test can qualify the students.
How are AP tests scored? Who grades them?
All AP test takers are scored on a scale from 1 to 5, with 1 meaning “no recommendation” and 5 being “extremely well qualified” — the highest score a student can earn. AP tests are scored by graders, called “readers” hired by the College Board, in order to ensure that the grades are consistently calibrated. AP readers are selected from high school AP teachers and college instructors and they attend “AP Reading Week” in June, when all AP exams are graded.
Intro to the AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam
How popular is the AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam?
The AP Spanish Language and Culture exam is the most popular AP world language exam — more than 180,000 students took the AP Spanish exam in 2018, a 33% increase from 2014. In 2018, exam-takers included 59,000 Standard Students, who self-report that they do not speak or hear Spanish at home regularly, and have not lived in a Spanish-speaking country for a month or more.
Source: The College Board
When is the AP Spanish Language and Culture test administered? How much does the exam cost?
Most AP exams are administered during a two-week stretch in May each year, after a high school student has completed two semesters of AP course study in the subject. This year, the AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam falls on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 8:00 am local time.
In 2019, AP exams cost $94 per test. Students and their families may qualify for AP exam fee reductions and federal and state assistance.
What does the AP Spanish Language and Culture exam test for? How long is it?
The AP Spanish test will test students’ proficiencies in the interpersonal, interpretive and presentational modes of communication — reading, writing, and speaking. Students have approximately 3 hours minutes to complete the AP Spanish Language and Culture exam.
How is the AP Spanish exam administered? How do test takers submit spoken responses?
The first and part of the second portion of the AP Spanish exam is administered traditionally — students answer with multiple choice selection or written responses. In the last portion however, students are asked to record spoken answers to given prompts through AP’s Digital Audio Submission (DAS) portal. The portal is accessed through school-provided computers or recording devices, and most recently, a Digital Audio Capture (DAC) app has been made available for Apple iPad tablets.
What are the components of the AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam?
The AP Spanish test consists of 4 distinct portions which cover skills in listening, reading, writing and speaking. The exam is approximately 3 hours long and includes a 95-minute multiple choice section and an 85-minute free-response section.
How Well Do Students Do on the AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam?
Each year, the AP College Board releases score distributions, displayed as the Total Group and the Standard Group. While the Total Group reflects the score distribution for all test-takers, the Standard Group does not include students who hear or speak Spanish at home, or who have lived for one month or more in a country where Spanish is the native language. Unless your student regularly hears Spanish at home, the Standard Group is the best comparison.
The data from the College Board show that amongst the Total Group 23.7% of exam takers scored a 5 in 2018. Amongst the Standard Group, 16.5% of students scored a 5.
Scoring a 5 on the exam is similar to earning an A on a college-level Spanish course or Advanced level proficiency on the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) proficiency scale.
Data Source: The College Board
The College Board also shares data on the scores for the four Free Response questions in Section 2 (but not the Multiple Choice questions in Section 1.)
The data shows that amongst the Total Group, scores were usually slightly lower for the presentational tasks versus the interpersonal tasks. In 3 out of 4 years, presentational writing (the persuasive essay) scored lower than interpersonal writing (responding to an email). In all years, presentational speaking (cultural comparison presentation) scored lower than the interpersonal speaking (conversation) – which had the highest scores of all the free response questions in each year.
For the Standard Group, which excludes students who hear or speak Spanish at home, or who have lived for one month or more in a country where Spanish is the native language – scores tended to be slightly lower than for the Total Group, and the scores for each of the four questions were similar. The exception was the 2017 Presentational Speaking question, which scored significantly lower than other questions. The question that year asked how the media affected the development of people’s personal image. Some students appear to have misinterpreted the phrase “los medios de comunicación” as modes of communication rather than the media.
Deep Dive on Each Question Type
Being ready for the AP Spanish exam includes understanding what each different section of the exam is looking for. Here we’ll go into detail about each question type, and offer tips for maximizing your score.
a. Section 1 Multiple Choice – Part A Interpretive Communication of Print Texts
Question instructions: According to the College Board: “You will read several selections. Each selection is accompanied by a number of questions. For each question, choose the response that is best according to the selection and mark your answer on your answer sheet.”
What to expect: You’ll be provided multiple authentic print texts — which could be a journalistic or literary text, announcement, public service announcement, advertisement, letter, map or table. You’ll read through the print text and then answer a total 30 questions about the print texts. Past topics have included leisure activities, demographics and population growth.
How to maximize your score: The multiple choice section is straightforward in this regard — exam-takers should read carefully, and choose whichever answer seems most appropriate to them, and move on. Don’t gets hung up on a question. Instead, move on, completing the rest of the questions, and come back to any you’re stuck on. Points are not subtracted for incorrect answers, so it is better to guess than leave a question unanswered.
b. Section 1 Multiple Choice – Interpretive Communication of Print Text and Audio Texts
Question instructions: According to the College Board: “You will listen to several audio selections. The first two audio selections are accompanied by reading selections. When there is a reading selection, you will have a designated amount of time to read it. For each audio selection, first you will have a designated amount of time to read a preview of the selection as well as to skim the questions that you will be asked. Each selection will be played twice. As you listen to each selection, you may take notes. Your notes will not be scored. After listening to each selection the first time, you will have 1 minute to begin answering the questions; after listening to each selection the second time, you will have 15 seconds per question to finish answering the questions. For each question, choose the response that is best according to the audio and/or reading selection and mark your answer on your answer sheet.”
What to expect This section is similar to the previous section except with an added listening component. Each audio selection will be played twice — take advantage of the repetition. The two parts of this section are an article and audio on the same topic followed by a chart and conversation.
How to maximize your score: It’s crucial to have practiced listening to and interpreting authentic Spanish texts and audio selections in order to do well on this section — comb through previous exams and practice, practice, practice. Remember that you will hear each audio selection twice: feel free to take notes and spend the second listening trying to hone in on elements you may have missed from the first just don’t let note taking cause you to miss the main ideas. Prepare for this by regularly listening to and reading Spanish-language newspapers, news reports, and podcasts. BBC Mundo and El País are great options.
c. Section 2, Part A, Interpersonal Writing: Email Reply
Question instructions: According to the College Board: “You will write a reply to an email message. You have 15 minutes to read the message and write your reply. Your reply should include a greeting and a closing and should respond to all the questions and requests in the message. In your reply, you should also ask for more details about something mentioned in the message. Also, you should use a formal form of address.”
What to expect: You’ll write as though you are the recipient of the email provided to you, and be asked to exchange information, opinions and ideas. understand and use a wide variety of vocabulary including idiomatic and culturally appropriate expressions on a variety of topics. Past topics have included designing an app, applying for a long-distance education, sponsoring an animal shelter, applying for a scholarship to study in a different country, and being part of an environmental group.
Providing input for the development of a mobile travel app, including why the student is interested in traveling abroad and what type of information they need to plan their itinerary. (2018)
Writing to the admissions office of a university, explaining why they were considering long-distance learning, and what challenges they might face. (2017)
Responding to an email from an animal shelter and answering why they were interested in making a donation and what animal they would like to shelter and why. (2016)
Responding to an email as a finalist for a scholarship to Peru and answering questions about what difficulties they might have living abroad and what impact it would have on their future. (2015)
How to maximize your score:
According to the College Board, answers that score a 5 demonstrate the following:
Maintains the exchange with a response that is clearly appropriate within the context of the task
Provides required information (responses to questions, request for details) with frequent elaboration
Fully understandable, with ease and clarity of expression; occasional errors do not impede comprehensibility
Varied and appropriate vocabulary and idiomatic language
Accuracy and variety in grammar, syntax, and usage, with few errors
Mostly consistent use of register appropriate for the situation; control of cultural conventions appropriate for formal correspondence (e.g., greeting, closing), despite occasional errors
Variety of simple and compound sentences, and some complex sentences
According to the Chief Reader’s reports, in the past, when students have struggled it is because:
They misunderstood the prompt. For example some students interpreted “aplicación” to mean a job application rather than an app on the 2018 exam, or interpreted “educación a distancia” to mean studying abroad instead of online courses on the 2017 exam, or thought they were being asked to work at an animal shelter rather than make a donation on the 2016 exam, or they didn’t understand that they were a finalist for a scholarship “beca” on the 2015 exam.
They had inconsistent use of the formal register (e.g. tú v. usted),
They didn’t address all the questions and requirements of the prompt.
PandaTree Tutor and AP Teacher, Elise Plaza, who has graded AP exams for the College Board for 6 years, recommends: “As students prepare to answer the email prompt, they should circle all the requirements in the prompt, and check them off as they complete them. Don’t forget that in addition to responding fully to all the parts of the questions in the email you should also include your own questions asking for additional information. In addition, include a greeting and a closing in your email, but don’t simply repeat the salutations used in the prompt.”
d. Section 2, Presentation Writing: Persuasive Essay
Question instructions: According to the College Board “You will write a persuasive essay to submit to a Spanish writing contest. The essay topic is based on three accompanying sources, which present different viewpoints on the topic and include both print and audio material. First, you will have 6 minutes to read the essay topic and the printed material. Afterward, you will hear the audio material twice; you should take notes while you listen. Then, you will have 40 minutes to prepare and write your essay. In your persuasive essay, you should present the sources’ different viewpoints on the topic and also clearly indicate your own viewpoint and defend it thoroughly. Use information from all of the sources to support your essay. As you refer to the sources, identify them appropriately. Also, organize your essay into clear paragraphs.”
What to expect: Past topics have included:
Whether traditional libraries will be relevant in the future. (2018)
Whether students should be allowed to use cellular phones in high school. (2017)
Whether the increasing popularity of digital books is good. (2016)
Whether it’s beneficial for companies to let employees work from home. (2015)
Sources have frequently been newspaper or magazine articles from the Spanish-speaking world, authentic charts, and audio interviews or news reports.
How to maximize your score: According to the College Board’s grading rubric, responses that scored a 5 demonstrated the following:
Effective treatment of topic within the context of the task
Demonstrates a high degree of comprehension of the sources’ viewpoints, with very few minor inaccuracies
Integrates content from all three sources in support of the essay
Presents and defends the student’s own viewpoint on the topic with a high degree of clarity; develops a persuasive argument with coherence and detail
Organized essay; effective use of transitional elements or cohesive devices
Develops paragraph-length discourse with a variety of simple and compound sentences, and some complex sentences
While there is not guidance on how long the student’s persuasive essay should be, responses that score a 5 are typically 2 to 2-1/2 pages of handwritten single-spaced text.
According to the Chief Reader’s report, essays that struggled often didn’t include supporting evidence from all 3 of the sources. In addition, students should be sure to integrate information from the source in support of their argument, rather than just summarize the source, and should include more than one idea from each source. Occasionally students misunderstood the prompt, for example addressing why cell phones should or should not be used in classes rather than in school overall, which was the question (2017).
According to Dimaris Barrios-Beltran, a PandaTree AP tutor who has graded AP exams for 4 years and a table leader for 2 years: “When using the sources, the most important thing is to show that the student understood each of the sources and that they are integrated and follow a logical order of discussion. The student has the option of defending the idea, refuting it or explaining the pros and cons, but it is highly important to refer to the sources to substantiate their argument with evidence.”
Students and teachers can download practice questions from PandaTree.com.
While the College Board says there is no single format that is acceptable for referring to the three sources, Ken Stewart, a PandaTree advisor, who has previously helped the College Board develop AP Spanish exams, says: “It is good practice for students to use MLA style citations, with the author’s or publisher’s name in brackets, or if that is unknown, then a shortened title after each quote or reference.” The source, in brackets, should be included before the period of the sentence.
e. Section 2, Interpersonal Speaking: Conversation
Question instructions: According to the College Board: “You will participate in a conversation. First, you will have 1 minute to read a preview of the conversation, including an outline of each turn in the conversation. Afterward, the conversation will begin, following the outline. Each time it is your turn to speak, you will have 20 seconds to record your response. You should participate in the conversation as fully and appropriately as possible.”
What to expect: You’ll be given the written outline in Spanish of a conversation. The outline describes who you are talking with, and what each speaker does each time they speak. For example, “answer in the negative and explain why.” You only have one minute to digest the outline before you’ll hear the first conversation prompt on your audio device. Someone else will speak, you’ll hear a tone, and then you’ll have 20 seconds to record your response. Expect to speak 5 or 6 times, responding to different prompts as the conversation evolves.
Past conversations have included topics such as: updating a classmate about a meeting she missed with academic advisors about universities (2018), discusssing with a classmate a school project to create a website (2017), discuss community volunteering events with a friend (2016),
How to maximize your score: According to the College Board, answers that earned a 5 have the following qualities:
Maintains the exchange with a series of responses that is clearly appropriate within the context of the task.
Provides required information (e.g., responses to questions, statement and support of opinion) with frequent elaboration.
Fully understandable, with ease and clarity of expression; occasional errors do not impede comprehensibility.
Varied and appropriate vocabulary and idiomatic language.
Accuracy and variety in grammar, syntax, and usage, with few errors.
Mostly consistent use of register appropriate for the conversation.
Pronunciation, intonation, and pacing make the response comprehensible; errors do not impede comprehensibility.
Clarification or self-correction (if present) improves comprehensibility.
According to the Chief Reader report, in some cases students did not respond to the prompt as directed in their outline. For example, in 2015 the outline asked students to respond in the negative and provide an alternative. Some students responded in the affirmative. In some cases, students only answered part of the question in the prompt. In 2016, as the final question, students were asked if they had any questions, and some students did not expect to have to come up with their own question about the topic.
Dimaris Barrios-Beltran, who has graded AP Spanish exams, recommends students practice for the conversation question with Spanish-speaking friends, family members or tutors.
According to Barrios-Beltros, “the best way to prepare for this task is to practice, practice and practice. Look for friends, teachers, family members and tutors with whom you can have conversations in Spanish. The focus should be to improve your pronunciation and to feel comfortable answering unexpected questions from a peer. You can start with a topic like: organizing a party; choosing a place to eat; or buying tickets for a concert. Then, you start asking each other different questions about the event or activity that you are planning to execute. Keep answers simple but logical and coherent – and remember to keep talking. You can use phrases like: así pues, por otro lado, sin embargo, también, entonces… but avoid using umm, emm, uhhh, etc. Lastly, don’t forget we all make mistakes so feel free to self-correct when needed.”
f. Section 2, Presentational Speaking: Cultural Comparison
Question instructions: According to the College Board, “You will make an oral presentation on a specific topic to your class. You will have 4 minutes to read the presentation topic in Spanish and prepare your presentation. Then you will have 2 minutes to record your presentation. In your presentation, compare your own community to an area of the Spanish speaking world with which you are familiar. You should demonstrate your understanding of cultural features of the Spanish-speaking world. You should also organize your presentation clearly.”
What to expect: In this section, the student is asked to plan and produce spoken presentational communications, expound on familiar topics and those requiring research, and demonstrate an understanding of features of target culture communities (e.g., geographic, historical, artistic, social, and/or political). Past topics have included:
Attitudes toward the treatment of animals in the student’s community compared to a community in the Spanish-speaking world (2018)
The importance of the media in the development of personal image in the student’s community compared to a community in the Spanish-speaking world (2017)
What type of events or activities are an expression of cultural identity in the student’s community compared to a community in the Spanish-speaking world (2016)
The impact of fast food on the student’s community compared to a community in the Spanish-speaking world. (2015)
How to maximize your score: According to the College Board’s scoring rubric, students that earned a 5 demonstrated the following:
Effective treatment of topic within the context of the task.
Clearly compares the student’s own community with the target culture, including supporting details and relevant examples.
Demonstrates understanding of the target culture, despite a few minor inaccuracies.
Organized presentation; effective use of transitional elements or cohesive devices.
Mostly consistent use of register appropriate for the presentation.
According to the Chief Reader’s report, in some years students haven’t fully addressed the prompt – for example, in 2017, describing a cultural activity, but not explaining how it reflects cultural identity. communities. Additionally, students should make “equal comparisons” e.g., compare a country to a country or a city to a city, and be clear about the communities they have chosen.
It goes without saying for questions like this it’s really important for students to practice prepping and saying their presentation under the 4 minute/2 minute time limits to become comfortable managing their time.
During their prep time, students should can use Venn-diagrams or t-charts to help them organize their thoughts. They should not attempt to write out their presentation in full – they just won’t have time.
Stewart, a PandaTree advisor recommends “from an organization point of view, it’s generally best to start with the community in the Spanish-speaking world for the first half of the presentation, and then compare it to the student’s community in the second half of the presentation, rather than trying to go back and forth between the two.”
Ken Stewart, who has previously helped the The College Board develop AP Spanish exams recommends that for the Cultural Comparison presentation “it is generally best to start with the community in the Spanish-speaking world for the first half of the presentation, and then compare it to the student’s community.”
PandaTree’s Barrios-Betran says, “in order to avoid over-generalizations or stereotypes avoid implying that everybody does a certain thing or thinks in a certain way by using phrases like often, in general, typically, etc. Focus on those communities or groups that you are familiar with and make specific comparisons.”
How to prepare for the AP Spanish Language and Culture exam
So now that you know the format of the AP Spanish Language and Culture exam, what are the best tips for preparing for it?
Take the high school AP Spanish course: This course, offered in thousands of U.S. and Canadian high schools in North America, is specifically designed to prepare a student to succeed on the AP Spanish Language and Culture test.
Practice, practice, practice: While the AP Spanish Language and Cultural test undoubtedly measures a person’s proficiency in the Spanish language, it also tests how well a student understand the test itself. When studying for the AP Spanish test, students should practice just like one would for any other standardized test (like the SAT). Complete sample exams — many are available on the College Board website. PandaTree also makes additional practice materials available for free – click here.
Practice in realistic conditions: Can you hand-write a persuasive essay in 40 minutes? Can you record a 20 second response to a conversation prompt? Getting familiar with the timing and technology is important prep.
Practice Spanish language skills with PandraTree tutors: PandaTree offers one-on-one tutoring with AP-experienced teachers, many of whom have graded AP Spanish exams for the College Board. Prior to the lesson, students can complete a practice section of the test, which their tutor will grade. During the one-on-one lesson, the tutor will provides feedback and coaching. This expert feedback allows a student to zero in on key areas for improvement and accelerates student progress.
May 7th is coming up quickly. PandaTree is here to help ensure all students are ready to bring their best when it’s time to open their AP Spanish exam booklets.
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Route of the Rueda and Toro Wine
Food & Wine - 3 nights
Discover the town of Rueda, nerve centre of winemaking activity giving rise to the Rueda Denomination of Origin.
Departure. Sunday.
Parador de Tordesillas
Although being a producer of white, rosé and red wines, the Rueda Denomination of Origin has won a place on the Spanish winemaking scene thanks to the white verdejo variety, lending its whites a powerful perfume.
Discover the town of Rueda, nerve centre of winemaking activity giving rise to the Rueda Denomination of Origin and housing the headquarters of the Regulatory Council and the Castile and Leon Wine Research Centre.
Visitors will find a lot on offer to discover at the city of Toro Vega, lying very close to Serrada and Nava del Rey - included on the list of areas covered by the Tordesillas DO - and where the document dividing the new world into two parts was signed at the Casas del Tratado. The Riberas de Castronuño-Vegas del Duero Nature Area is close by, between the municipal areas of Pollos, Castronuño and Villafranca de Duero.
Parador de Zamora
The Toro Denomination of Origin falls within the Zamora county the Duero splits to the north into the Land of Bread and to the south into the Land of Wine. The importance of the vineyards may be seen in Zamora towns such as Venialbo, El Pego, Valdefinjas and Sanzoles, amongst others, where good examples of popular bodega architecture are preserved, showing the entire area's traditional links to the industry.
This is also the case with Valladolid towns such as Pedrosa del Rey and Villafranca de Duero. Toro is the capital of these wines and where the Regulatory Council is based, with the banks along the fast-flowing river being covered with countless vines.
The town preserves part of its castle as well as La Corredora and the Arco del Reloj gates from the 18th century. In addition to all this, the countless beautiful attractions and monuments in the city of Zamora should be mentioned.
Parador de Salamanca
After a couple of days uncovering the world of wine, head to the Baroque 18th-century Plaza Mayor, open your eyes and be seduced by its harmonious beauty. The journey around the city starts from this lively spot.
Discover the many monuments such as the 15th-century Casa de las Conchas, the 13th-century Old Cathedral, the New Cathedral dating from the 16th to the 18th centuries or the 16th-century University, as well as the many churches, palaces and archives.
The city of Salamanca is a treasure trove of monuments, where the bustle of the university beats in non-stop cultural activity. The surrounding region of Armuña (Castellanos de Villiquera, Monterrubio, Gomecello, La Velles) is famous for its vegetables with the La Plata Trail towards Saragossa passing through. To the south lie Arapiles and Mozarbez. Ledesma is another historically interesting monumental town lying in the Salamanca meadowland.
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The Future For UAVs in the U.S. Air Force
When the Air Force recently mapped out a game plan to 2047, its report contained a big surprise: Fewer pilots and more robotic planes acting on their own. Will the airman-centric service accept a future with fewer cockpits? And are we ready for UAVs that can fire their weapons without human permission?
By Joe Pappalardo
Hangar 23, U.S. Forward Operating Base
MQ-Mb multirole fighter prepped for a precision strike mission
U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Fighter Squadron
POSSIBLE PAYLOAD
Air-to-ground missiles, radio surveillance gear, high-definition video cameras, communications relays, nonlethal microwave-energy beams, 2000-pound precision bombs
THE NEW AIR FORCE: PILOTS OPTIONAL
The Air Force is planning to build a fleet of unmanned warplanes that will fly and fight without human guidance. The next-generation aircraft envisioned by the Air Force, and modeled in the illustration opposite, would be able to dodge enemy radar, swap payloads for multiple kinds of missions and use sophisticated onboard sensors to prevent collisions with other UAVs and manned airplanes.
(Render by Mike Hill)
Like its waterfowl namesake, the Heron unmanned aerial vehicle has the excellent vision of a hunter. Today, the 27-foot-long Israeli UAV is making a rare flight over the United States, using a high-definition video camera to track a speedboat buzzing across the Patuxent River in Maryland. The camera shares space with an infrared thermal imager and laser rangefinder inside a 17-inch sphere mounted under the aircraft's nose. The camera and the UAV both turn automatically to track the boat below, no satellite-linked joysticks required. On the Patuxent, a Coast Guard crew in a shallow-water patrol boat uses a real-time video feed from the Heron to locate the speedboat.
Less than 5 miles away, several hundred spectators watch the camera's feed on a massive color television monitor. The crowd of defense officials, defense industry wonks and military aviation buffs--many with bumper stickers on their cars that say "My other vehicle is unmanned"--is thick here at Webster Field, an auxiliary naval airfield in Maryland. The Heron is just one of about a dozen UAVs making flight demonstrations. As each one sweeps overhead, an announcer gushes over its abilities with the over-enthusiasm of a county fair emcee describing a prize sheep.
The crowd watches on the massive screen as the two boats converge and the Coast Guard crew completes the mock interception. The image of the river scene wheels as the Heron banks away from the boats and returns to the airfield. The UAV glides into a smooth, autonomous landing and as the Heron taxis, the goofball emcee coos over the PA speakers: "Aw, isn't that just pretty?"
The day is a spectacle of flying robots. A unit of Textron shows off an aircraft that it is pitching to the Marine Corps. It has a 12-foot wingspan and a pusher propeller mounted between its fuselage and inverted V-tail; it can be launched from a moving vehicle and is recovered by flying it into a net. The U.S. Army also has a marquee UAV to demo, the MQ-8B Fire Scout. The 3150-pound unmanned helicopter, the Army's first, may soon scan battlefields for chemical weapons, minefields and radio transmissions. And the showstopper, even while remaining earthbound, is the Navy's Joint Unmanned Combat Air System, a sleek, blended-wing aircraft with the maw of an air inlet placed almost mockingly where a cockpit would go. It sits like a resting bird, its 31-foot-long wings folded up for better storage on a warship. It is scheduled to perform an autonomous takeoff and landing from an aircraft carrier deck this year.
I don't think it's an overstatement that this is a revolution of military affairs. The revolution is the conscious application of automated technology."--Col. Eric Mathewson, Unmanned Aircraft Aystems Task Force director
With all the hardware and enthusiastic attendees, it's easy to overlook a missing guest--the U.S. Air Force. Of all the advanced aircraft on the flight line, none is being developed for Air Force programs or is controlled by the service's airmen.
Unmanned aircraft are the biggest thing to happen in military aviation since stealth geometry, and the Air Force's leadership is dramatically increasing the UAV fleet this year. However, the service is still struggling over how the technology can be maximized in the future. "Today, the evolution of the machine is beginning to outpace the capability of the people we put in them," Air Force chief of staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said late last year in a speech to the Air Force Association. "We now must reconsider the relationship."
Under his direction, the Air Force is trying to become the Pentagon's leader of future UAV development. Schwartz's primary tool is the "Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Plan, 2009-2047," a comprehensive look at how the U.S. military can expand the use of UAVs over the next 38 years. The Air Force is proposing to use next-generation unmanned aircraft in a slate of new missions, including air strikes, aerial refueling, cargo transport and long-range bombing.
But how much freedom will the Air Force be willing to grant unmanned airplanes? Its airmen are only now coming to accept UAVs--they fly them every day over Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa and other hot spots--but the service has articulated a way forward that not only marginalizes pilots, it also promises to replace many UAV ground-control crews with automation. Today's highly trained airmen may not embrace this vision of the future. One Air Force officer working with unmanned aircraft would only say he supports the report "because it's a plan. And having a plan is better than not having a plan."
Col. Pete Gersten commands the 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada, the only wing dedicated to unmanned airplanes like the MQ-9 Reaper (shown). Gersten is eagerly seeking crews to operate UAVs, but isn't ready to replace them with software. (Photograph by Dan Winters)
Misfit Toys to Frontline Heroes
The Air Force squandered decades' worth of opportunities to lead U.S. military UAV development. In the 1970s, the service experimented with unmanned surveillance craft in Vietnam but dropped all funding after it decided the technology did not offer improvements over traditional airplanes. Continued advances of Soviet warplanes, such as the MiG fighter, kept a Cold War premium on air superiority won by high-performance, expertly piloted airplanes.
The idea of unmanned airplanes also runs contrary to the airman-centric ethos that has defined the Air Force since it became an independent military branch in 1947. Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine in 1973 quoted an Air Force official's disparaging verdict on remote-control warplanes: "How can you be a tiger sitting behind a console?" That attitude proved to be shortsighted. In 1982, Israel used UAVs to spoof Syrian radar in Lebanon, but the status quo in America continued for another decade. The Pentagon started UAV research in the mid-1990s, but even then the funding was tepid, in part because of Washington's bias toward large, job-generating manned airplane programs.
Guerrilla wars in Iraq and Afghanistan changed all that; the need for constant overhead video is driving a UAV spending spree. When facing insurgents who blend into a local population, good intelligence is worth more than even the smartest bomb. In 2010 the Defense Department will spend $5.4 billion on unmanned aircraft development, procurement and operations--about $2.5 billion more than the military spent on UAVs during the 1990s.
Experts Weigh In
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GUY BEN-ARI
Senior policy analyst, Center for Strategic and International Studies
"I think the Flight Plan is a serious document. It's not just discussing the technology, but the policy, the legislation, the ethical framework. The whole package needs to be developed in parallel as these technologies mature."
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P.W. SINGER
Author, Wired for War, The Brookings Institution
"The road map to 2047 will likely be good for just a few years. But that's all we need for it to make a big difference."
JIM DUNNIGAN
Author, analyst, strategypage.com
"The other services are pushing ahead with their UAV efforts without paying much attention to the Air Force. No one has any idea what the tech will be in 2017, much less 2047. In 2047 we'll have stuff as unfamiliar to us as today's tech would be to someone in the late 1940s."
This boom is causing turf wars within the Pentagon. Military branches seldom develop weapons systems together, despite the potential savings of time and money if the services shared research costs and ordered hardware in bulk. The Air Force wants to coordinate UAV development within the Pentagon and drafted its ambitious Flight Plan to describe how the service would serve as the Pentagon's chief guide to unmanned airplane development, in concert with the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. "The Flight Plan is part of an Air Force effort to lay claim over everything that flies, whether it has a pilot or not," says military analyst and author Jim Dunnigan.
The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Task Force, which drafted the plan, is headquartered in a modest office that takes up a small fraction of one floor inside a banal building in Crystal City, Va. The full-time staff here tops out at a handful, but National Guard and Air Force Reserve temps fill out the administrative positions. Dozens of moonlighting planners from the Pentagon also volunteer for the task force, forgoing their free time for a chance to work on a project with high-ranking luminaries at Air Force headquarters who advise the task force.
The day-to-day work is supervised by the task force's director, Col. Eric Mathewson. The former F-15 pilot is a compact man with a soft, smooth voice that always sounds earnest. Mathewson often places a hand on his head when he speaks, as if his ideas could burst from his temple if he weren't holding them in. "It was clear we had been reactive, reactive, reactive," Mathewson says. "It was time to develop a vision."
That vision depends on developing smarter unmanned aircraft that can make life-and-death combat decisions on their own. According to the Flight Plan, UAVs will demonstrate "sense and avoid" collision-avoidance systems by the end of this year. Unmanned aircraft will be able to refuel each other by 2030. Global strike capability, perhaps even with nuclear weapons, is projected for 2047. "As technology advances, machines will automatically perform some repairs in flight," the Flight Plan reads. "Routine ground maintenance will be conducted by machines without human touch labor." The Air Force document not only discusses once-taboo subjects, such as automatic target engagement and autonomous UAVs flying in commercial airspace, it also includes short-term recommendations and goals to one day make them feasible.
Mathewson says that by 2020 just one control crew--airborne or ground-based--will be able to control multiple UAVs at once. Ground-control crews today, even when aided by advanced autopiloting, continuously monitor a single UAV. This level of direct control and supervision is referred to as man-in-the-loop. But a robotic system that only alerts humans when a critical decision needs to be made is called man-on-the-loop. A ground-control crew can opt to redirect the UAV or assume direct control until the key choice is made. "I don't think it's an overstatement that this is a revolution of military affairs," Mathewson says. "The revolution is the conscious application of automated technology."
Robot-Assisted Air Strike
Man-on-the-loop controls could make a battlefield look like this: An F-35A Lightning II fighter cuts through the night sky. The pilot's mission is simple--destroy an enemy bunker protected by a network of radar and antiaircraft missile batteries. His three wingmen--one flying scant feet away, another 150 miles ahead and the third preparing to cause a diversion far to the east--are following a meticulous battle plan meant to defeat these defenses. Of the four aircraft in the strike group, only the F-35A has a cockpit; the rest are semiautonomous UAVs that the pilot must trust with his life.
One of the most dangerous missions in military aviation is suppression of enemy air defenses, or SEAD. The lead UAV becomes bait as it flies into radar range of antiaircraft missile batteries. An icon on the F-35 pilot's virtual head-up display, projected onto the faceplate of his helmet, alerts him that the SEAD unmanned airplane has automatically identified the emissions of an enemy radar site. This is the first time in the mission that the SEAD airplane has communicated with any human.
Miles from the danger, the F-35A pilot coolly assesses the situation displayed on one of the screens in his cockpit, confirms the target is legitimate and authorizes the lead UAV to fire. The AGM-88 high-speed antiradiation missile follows the radar waves back to their source, obliterating the dish and its crew. There is now a gap in the enemy radar screen, and the pilot directs the UAV to return to base.
Meanwhile, another UAV east of the target, navigating by using a mix of GPS and accelerometer data, is busy scrambling other enemy radar installations by flooding the skies with emissions that share the radar's frequency. The jamming pods under the UAV's wings also disrupt radio transmissions from the air-defense network, covering up the sudden loss of contact with the radar sites protecting the bunker. Otherwise, an enemy commander could discover the location of the actual raid. After a preset amount of time spreading confusion, the UAV returns to base.
The F-35A pilot is closing in on the target fast and needs to carefully aim the F-35's electro-optical targeting system to release a bomb that will hit the structure at an angle calculated to collapse it without destroying nearby civilian buildings. He triggers the laser designator and authorizes the nearby unmanned airplane to drop a pair of bombs, which use fins to steer toward the laser-designated sweet spot. The pilot watches the twin, concurrent explosions, makes a quick battle-damage assessment and, satisfied, banks the airplane and heads back to base. His robotic wingman follows his lead, flying evenly at his side.
Even as the Air Force frantically expands its fleet of MQ-9 Reapers--hoping to field more than 300 by the end of 2010--the service is seeking a tougher, faster and smarter successor. "We are going to replace them before they fail," says the wing commander in charge of the Reapers.
Skeptical Views From the Front
It can be hard to see the Flight Plan's vision of autonomous flying robots from the human-intensive work being done at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada. The desert base is in the midst of an unprecedented boom as it hosts the fast-growing 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing, the only one dedicated solely to flying unmanned aircraft. Every aircraft and satellite-linked ground-control station here is being used to fly missions in the Middle East, the Horn of Africa and points beyond. New buildings fill up with staff as soon as the construction dust settles. "Every time the fishbowl grows, the fish get too big for it," says Col. Pete Gersten, the 432nd's commander. Mathewson served at Creech as group commander before Gersten's arrival, but their jobs now are pointed in opposite directions. As Gersten wrestles with recruiting ground-control crews, Mathewson promotes ways to replace the airmen with artificial intelligence.
Every time an airman is replaced by a machine, the Air Force cuts the cost of health benefits, base upkeep and recruitment. Current unmanned systems require as many, if not more, people to fly missions than piloted airplanes do. For example, it takes a crew of three to operate a Reaper, even while it's on autopilot: one to fly, another to operate the sensor ball in its nose and a third to serve as military intelligence liaison. Another pair must deploy to the forward airfield to guide the UAV, using line-of-sight radio during takeoff and landing. By replacing these positions with automated functions, the cost of joystick operators could plummet.
But Gersten--who calls his unmanned airplanes remotely piloted vehicles to emphasize the crews operating them--does not give up human control over the aircraft unless it provides a clear war-fighting edge. For example, the Flight Plan pegs autonomous takeoff and landing for the Reaper by the end of 2010, but Gersten is not begging for that ability. In fact, when faced with a rash of accidents during landings, Gersten chose a solution to help, not replace, the joystick pilot.
Unmanned aircraft systems [UAS] will fly autonomously to an area of interest while avoiding collisions with other UAS in the swarm. These UAS will automatically process imagery requests and will `detect' threats and targets through the use of artificial intelligence." --U.S. Air Force UAS Flight Plan, 2009-2047
The landing gear would collapse when Gersten's UAVs bounced down the runway. Operators have a tough time finding the correct pitch of the nose after a UAV's wheels bounce off the runway, causing oscillations that can destroy the aircraft on the third or fourth bounce. The seemingly obvious solution: Program the machines to take over and land automatically--something the Army's Sky Warrior, which is nearly identical to a Predator, already does. But Gersten opted for a simpler fix, adding a triangular carrot icon on the flight-control screen that sets the correct pitch to prevent the oscillation cycle from starting. This change will be made to ground-control stations this year, and he says "the cost is minuscule."
Gersten's reaction to the Flight Plan is coolly receptive. (He rolls his eyes at the report's language that suggests that UAVs one day could carry nuclear weapons.) The lower ranks on the base are more frankly skeptical of autonomy. Senior Airman Jessie Grace, a sensor-operator instructor at Creech, has spent wrist-aching hours keeping a UAV's camera trained on a target vehicle or locking his tired eyes on display screens to catch subtle signs of insurgent activity. While he does say that pilots could control more than one airplane at once, Grace sees things differently when it comes to his specialty. "I can't imagine a computer doing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance better than a person," he says.
Mathewson lists battlefield demands as the biggest hindrance to the Flight Plan, but he notes inflexible attitudes as another roadblock. "You see a cultural resistance," Mathewson says. "It's the same thing with the horse cavalry during the introduction of the tank."
Programmed Killer Instincts
Until the Flight Plan, it was nearly impossible to find officials who would even discuss the possibility of unmanned airplanes firing their weapons without human permission. But the report states that by 2030, flying robots could be programmed with "automatic target engagement" abilities. A UAV would open fire only after clearing a checklist of technical details from its sensors--its preset rules of engagement. Such a system would be an heir to ones currently used in Patriot antiaircraft batteries and some antimissile weapons on Navy ships. The legacy of the Patriot is mixed. During the second Gulf War, the system downed a pair of friendly airplanes, killing one American and two British pilots, after mistaking the planes for enemy missiles. Many military officials faulted an over-reliance on automation, but think-tank analysts noted that a lack of training caused the dependence and was the root cause of the tragedies.
Mathewson says that keeping people directly involved at the end of the kill chain is optional but preferred. "There are not that many cases where you'll have free fire, where you're going to have the system completely automated," he says. "If you look at the way we employ unmanned aircraft in the current fights, the rules of engagement require that someone [in charge at the rear] has to approve it, to say, `Yes, indeed, you're cleared hot' for every single case. And that would hold true."
While Gersten normally keeps any pride in check, the former F-16 pilot can be moralistic in arguing to have a man at the helm of a system that can bring death to its targets. "Warfare should be humanistic," he says. "Human value requires a human interface." It's his way of saying that even sworn enemies deserve to have an actual person, rather than an algorithm, make the decision to kill them.
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