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AAPEXedu to Feature Mix of Classroom, Hands-on and Underhood Training
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Events/2019 AASA Vision Conference
Icahn Automotive Executive to Discuss ‘Service Revolution’ at 2019 AASA Vision Conference
Brian Kaner, president of service for Icahn Automotive, will share key insights on how Icahn Automotive is responding to changing industry dynamics, in a presentation at the upcoming 2019 Vision Conference.
Hosted by the Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers Association (AASA), the Vision Conference will take place on Wednesday, April 3, at The Henry in Dearborn, Michigan.
Icahn Automotive Group, part of billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s empire, has made its mark on the aftermarket through the pursuit of an aggressive acquisition strategy, the introduction of a mobile service format, new installation partnerships with leading online retailers and investments to bring more professionals to the skilled trades – all to meet the increased demand for service from both the individual and fleet customer.
Kaner is leading one of the largest service networks in North America, which includes more than 10,000 service bays across 2,000 company-owned and franchised Pep Boys, AAMCO and Precision Tune locations.
“Icahn Automotive has emerged as a potent competitor in the service and parts sector, poised to evolve the current business models,” said Bill Long, MEMA president and chief executive officer and AASA president and chief operating officer. “At our conference, Brian will share the company’s perspective about the future of our industry and the opportunities they see that exist as they drive their strategy.”
Kaner, who has a two-decade track record of driving growth and leading teams through business transformations, has been instrumental in Icahn Automotive’s acquisitions of more than 1,000 service locations, as well as the launch of Pep Boys Mobile Crew, a state-of-the-art mobile repair unit that provides customers convenient, on-location maintenance.
“Icahn Automotive has enhanced our service model by investing in new business initiatives, and in people, programs, training and technology to meet the expectations of our customers,” said Kaner. “We’re now better-positioned than any other company in the aftermarket to capitalize on the growing demand for automotive service and to offer technicians a broad range of career opportunities.”
Paul McCarthy, AASA executive vice president, added: “New business models are evolving almost everywhere you look. Innovation and change are the key drivers for increased profits, and we will begin to see an acceleration of creative approaches to value creation going forward. Icahn Automotive’s unique approach will be of great interest to the Vision audience.”
Regarded as the aftermarket’s premier thought-leadership event, the AASA Vision Conference is dedicated to advancing the business interests of the aftermarket industry and the association’s members.
The 2019 event opens on Tuesday, April 2, with an industry networking reception at The Henry Ford Museum. The conference convenes the morning of April 3 with industrywide sessions examining critical aftermarket business issues, such as:
“The Road to Achieving Freedom of Choice for the Aftermarket”
“The Great Tariff Debate”
“How the Aftermarket Will Unfold in 2019-2020”
“Repairing High-Tech Vehicles”
The conference will close with an AASA member-only segment, which will feature Mark Finestone, executive vice president of merchandising for AutoZone, as the “Customer Spotlight” speaker, and also will include a presentation by Adam Goetsch, director of automotive for Amazon.
More information about the AASA Vision Conference agenda, registration and hotel reservations is available at aasavision.org.
AASA Vision Conference supporters to date include premier sponsor Epicor Software Corp. and APA Search, AutoNetTV Media, Corcentric, Experian, Gold Eagle, IHS Markit, MontAd Media, N.A. Williams, OptiCat, Plante Moran, Snap36, Surys, Syndigo and Tasco Sales Reps. For more information about promotional opportunities at the event, contact Ben Brucato.
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14 Ways to Celebrate New Year's Eve Like Our Grandparents Did
As we look ahead to 2019, we're also looking back at the good old days.
By Taysha Murtaugh
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New Year's may be all about looking ahead, but there's something undeniably nostalgic about the holiday that falls at midnight on December 31. After all, the iconic tune "Auld Lang Syne" roughly translates to "old long since," or "times gone by." There are so many fun and interesting New Year's traditions that your grandparents probably practiced each and every year, from festive vintage decorations to classy cocktail party menus. Here are the ones we wish would make a comeback.
1 Make New Year's Resolutions
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It wasn't all tinsel and tipples for good old Gram. Making resolutions is perhaps the most popular New Year's tradition, but previous generations in particular practiced the art of goal-setting for the upcoming year.
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2 ...And Actually Keep Them!
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More importantly, your predecessors probably stuck to their goals. This year, we resolve to have the perseverance of our parents' parents.
3 Decorate a New Year's Tree
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Who says the fun has to end after Christmas? The tradition of the New Year's tree goes all the way back to the 1600s, and you can easily transition your tannenbaum to suit the celebrations.
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Pictured: Policeman decorate a tree for their New Year's party.
4 Look Sharp
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"When you look at old photos of our parents and grandparents, you see that everyone is dressed nicely at big holiday gatherings," Lizzie Post, cohost of the Awesome Etiquette podcast, told us of Christmas parties back in the day. The same goes for New Year's Eve celebrations. Anyway, what better occasion is there to break out a cocktail dress or suit?
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Pictured: Filmmaker and politician Richard Attenborough and with wife, actress Sheila Sim
5 Toss Tinsel Everywhere
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The sparkly streamers have lost steam in recent years, but there's just nothing like loads of the vintage holiday decor for adding glamour to your gathering.
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Pictured: Hollywood icon Mae West, New Year's 1936
6 Embrace Your Heritage
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The way your grandparents commemorated the New Year might have something to do with your roots. In Scotland, New Year's Eve, or Hogmanay, as they call the last day of the year, is a bigger deal than Christmas ("Auld Lang Syne" is a Scottish song, after all). The massive party goes on for days and incorporates age-old acts, such as first-footing: It's considered good luck to have a tall, dark man enter the home for the first time after midnight—bearing auspicious gifts of course (coal, shortbread, salt, and whiskey are common).
Germany has Bleigiessen, a "lead-pouring" custom, and the Irish apparently bang bread against the walls to beat off bad luck. You could also coordinate your undies to your hopes for the year (red for love, yellow for happiness, etc.)—a Latin American custom. Start calling your Christmas tree a New Year's tree, as they do in Russia, dive into icy waters like in Konstanz, Germany, or similarly, participate in a Canadian-inspired polar bear plunge.
Pictured: New Year's Eve Hogmanay ball, Birmingham, 1983
7 Eat New Year's Food
Yes, there are even New Year's Eve food traditions. Different cultures consider certain foods to be fortuitous for the New Year, especially when eaten right as the clock strikes 12. In Chili, it's lentils, while in Spain, it's 12 white grapes. In case you needed any excuse to indulge in donuts and pretzels, several cultures believe ring-shaped foods represent coming full circle. And on New Year's Day, the traditional Southern spread consists of black-eyed peas and collard greens (symbols for wealth—coins and green folding money, respectively), ham or pork (for prosperity), and cornbread (for gold). We love our Louisiana Hoppin' John recipe, which incorporates all three.
It's fitting that the first day of the new year would have some religious significance, even if it has nothing to do with the calendar resetting. Some Christian churches (particularly in African-American communities) host "Watch Night" services, a tradition tied to the Emancipation Proclamation. For Catholics, January 1st, or the Solemnity of Mary, is a Holy Day of Obligation, meaning they have to attend mass on New Year's Day. However, knowing that revelers will be out late the night before, many churches offer a vigil Mass option on New Year's Eve as well.
Pictured: St. Dominick's church, Sullivan Street, New York City, New Year's Day 1943
9 Toast with a Traditional Drink
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Sure, Champagne has become the drink of choice for New Year's Eve, but your grandparents might have clinked coupes filled with Wassail, a special cider-like punch with English origins, a "hot pint," the Scottish spin, or mulled wine, Holland's traditional drink, instead of the bubbly beverage.
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RELATED: Get Festive New Year's Drinks Recipes
10 Make Some Noise
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There's a longstanding tradition of starting the New Year off with a bang. Only, instead of shooting guns, as was common in the American colonies, Grandma and Grandpa blew noise horns, rang bells (a nod to church bells), and set off fireworks (a Chinese New Year custom).
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11 Give a Gift
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In the past, the gift-giving season didn't stop at Christmas! Handing out gilded coins or nuts was an old Roman ritual, reports The Old Farmer's Almanac, but you could also give eggs for fertility, a Persian practice. Just as in their first-footing tradition, the Scottish apparently also traded shortbread, coal, and silverware, while Egyptians' specialty was earthenware flasks.
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12 Countdown and Kiss at Midnight
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Okay, so people still do this, but the reasoning behind it bears repeating: "Kiss the person you hope to keep kissing," as the saying goes.
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Pictured: Actors and married couple Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward kiss at midnight on New Year's
13 Sing "Auld Lang Syne"
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Join in on a joyous rendition of the traditional New Year's song, just like in all the old movies.
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Pictured: Band leader Phil Moore (right, seated) plays "Auld Lang Syne" at Cafe Society Downtown in New York City as proprietor Barney Josephson (left) buys the last drink at 3:58 A.M.
14 Send Thank-You Notes
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Grandma and Grandpa knew how to party, but they also knew their manners. Before you ring in the new year, close out the current one expressing gratitude for those who've made an impact in your last 12 months. Then, on New Year's Day, don't forget to send a quick handwritten thank-you note to the party host. Talk about getting things off to a good start!
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Taysha Murtaugh Lifestyle Editor Taysha Murtaugh is the Lifestyle Editor at CountryLiving.com, where she covers everything from home decor and crafts to country music and HGTV.
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CWK Show #146: Star Wars Resistance Initial Reactions and Solo Blu-ray Review (239)
October 12th, 2018056 Join Dan Z and Tom Gross as they give their initial reactions to Star Wars Resistance. Then, Tom shares more news on The Mandalorian and a porg virtual reality experience. In the Coffee Chat, Dan Z reviews the Solo: A Star Wars Story Blu-ray. This is the podcast you’re looking for! Music: Classical Guitar: "Star Wars: A Guitar...
'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Comes Home! Blu-ray/Digital Review *UPDATED*
September 25th, 20180122 This post has been updated to add info about the Target bonus exclusive. Solo: A Star Wars Story finally comes home on Blu-ray today. It was a long wait! Of course, the digital release came earlier on September 14. Were you able to hold out for the physical copy? The temptation was real! Either way, this release of Solo not only...
'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Bonus Video and Concept Art: Lando Calrissian and L3-37
September 17th, 20180135 Solo: A Star Wars Story is now available to own on Digital HD, with the Blu-ray 4K, Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand releases coming September 25. In advance of those releases, we have a bonus clip and concept art featuring Lando Calrissian and his co-pilot, L3-37. Check out the video and the gallery of images...
"Solo: A Star Wars Story" Bonus Content Trailer
September 4th, 20180141 The official Star Wars Movies Facebook page has posted a bonus trailer for the upcoming home release of Solo: A Star Wars Story. The video features highlights of bonus content such as deleted scenes, making of featurettes, and a roundtable discussion with director Ron Howard and the cast. Check it out below: Experience the...
Syfy Wire Previews "Solo: A Star Wars Story" Blu-ray Bonus Featurette "Team Chewie"
September 4th, 2018078 Syfy Wire has a look at the process behind creating the sounds for Chewbacca in Solo: A Star Wars Story with a preview of the bonus content to be found on the Blu-ray release September 25. In the clip below, we see how "Team Chewie" worked at expanding Chewbacca's vocabulary for his more fleshed-out role in Solo. From Syfy...
'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Makes the Jump Home This September
July 18th, 2018290 EXPERIENCE THE FUN-FILLED GALACTIC HEIST “SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY” SEPT. 14 ON DIGITAL, AND ON BLU-RAY SEPT. 25 Extensive extras invite fans aboard the Millennium Falcon with Han, Chewie and Lando, and behind the scenes with the stellar cast and crew BURBANK, Calif. (July 18, 2018) — Lucasfilm’s “Solo: A Star Wars...
Star Wars Rebels: The Complete Fourth Season Coming to DVD/Blu-ray July 31
June 28th, 2018071 Join the Ghost crew as they embark on their most important mission in Star Wars Rebels: The Complete Fourth Season, available on Blu-ray™ and DVD July 31st BURBANK, California, June 28, 2018 –– Star Wars Rebels: The Complete Fourth Season delivers all 15 action-packed episodes of the hit CG animated series’ final...
CWK Show #116: The Last Jedi Blu-ray Analysis & Review
March 29th, 20180171 Dan Z is joined by Jeff McGee as they explore the Blu-ray of The Last Jedi, including all of the extras, deleted scenes, documentaries, and Rian Johnson’s commentary track. Plus, Tom brings us the latest Star Wars news. This the podcast you’re looking for! Show Notes: Music: Classical Guitar: "Star Wars: A Guitar...
The Star Wars Show | Why An Old Door Hangs on the Wall at Lucasfilm, Star Wars Pinball: The Last Jedi Revealed
March 28th, 2018088 Wednesday has rolled around, and there's a new episode of The Star Wars Show to enjoy! In this installment of The Star Wars Show, we show some of the greatest movie artifacts in the offices of Lucasfilm in San Francisco, get a first look at Star Wars Pinball: The Last Jedi, speak with toy photographer Johnny Wu (a.k.a. @SgtBananas)...
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Housing Executive staff raise £2k for Alzheimer’s Society
Back (L-R): Mark Alexander (Housing Executive),Selina Simpson (Triangle Housing), Joanne Liken (Triangle Housing), Trisha Cupples (Triangle Housing), Tracey Russell (PSNI),Laura Ramage (Triangle Housing), James Mullan (PSNI), John O'Connor (PSNI). Front (L-R): Anne-Marie Isherwood (Triangle Housing), Ursula McCullough (Triangle Housing), Lucy Campfield (Triangle Housing)
Housing Executive staff and colleagues from partner organisations had a healthy afternoon in Portrush recently, with over 100 people taking part in a 5k run/walk for Alzheimer’s Society.
The stunning East Strand Beach was the venue for the event, and there was no rain and a low tide, giving everyone a firmer footing to run or walk on.
Of the field of around 50 runners, the first winners coming in at a very respectable 20 minutes for the run, and allthe walkers were finished in around 50 minutes, including several four-legged entrants!
Organisers were delighted to have partner organisations along to support this worthy cause, including Triangle Housing, First Housing, the local Policing and Community Safety Partnership, Supporting Communities and the Department for Communities.
Race Director and Housing Executive Causeway Area Manager, Mark Alexander, said: “The afternoon was about raising money for Alzheimer’s Society and encouraging people to lead a healthier lifestyle. With £2,000 raised so far for Alzheimer’s Society, this was a really successful event in all respects.
“We appreciate the local support from our partner organisations, and thanks to everyone who took part.”
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Saquon has won yet another award.
The former Penn State running back was awarded an ESPY for best breakthrough athlete.
The New York Giants running back had an impressive rookie season and was crowned NFL rookie of the year.
Barkley also earned a trip to the Pro Bowl, was a first-team All-Pro selection and the FedEx Ground Player of the Year.
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The Mix, Pollock Commons’ go-to convenience store, is undergoing renovations for fall 2019. Although the grill for The Mix is closed, the convenience store remains open until Sunday, April 7, at 10 p.m.
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Dwyane Wade Wants to Make a ‘Love Movie’ With Gabrielle Union
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Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade said in a West Hollywood encounter with TMZ that he's trying to break into the movie business and is absolutely ready to star in a romantic film, potentially alongside wife Gabrielle Union. Of course, Wade could’ve just been toying with paparazzi and telling them what they wanted to hear.
When asked if he had any plans of joining the business, Wade replied with a cryptic statement that seemed half-serious, half-cheeky: “I’m trying to get [a movie], but she won’t put me on.”
While Wade’s comment that his wife was keeping him from the silver screen makes it seem like he’s just trolling, he did seem pretty genuine in his follow-up answer. “I’m trying to do a love movie," he said, "like something romantic.”
Naturally, the first potential comparison was the basketball-themed drama Love & Basketball, to which Wade had a pretty firm response.
“No, not Love & Basketball,” he said.
Regarding basketball movies, we’ve already got the Kyrie Irving and Shaquille O’Neal-starring Uncle Drew on the way. The project began as a series of Pepsi advertisements and is now a big-budget Hollywood project. Who’s to say executives won’t be eager to cast real-life couple Wade and Union in a romantic comedy after hearing this latest news?
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iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending June 14
Think of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference this week as a giant tea cup, drained to the dregs of loose leaf tea and the entire iOSphere leaning-in to read the soggy remains and figure out what the heck is happening with iPhone 6.
John Cox (Network World) 14 June, 2013 22:00
In the WWDC aftermath, it's clear that CEO Tim Cook has been successful in his pledge to "double down on secrecy." The iOSphere is reading the WWDC tea leaves for the future iPhone plans. But no one seems to know any more about them today than we knew following the announcement of iPhone 5 in October 2012.
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This week: iOS 7 gives clues and cues about the Next iPhones, though the details are actually kind of hazy. Quite hazy, actually. Also there is no iPhone 5S. Just accept that. And the Next iPhone will have ginormous screens. Unless that's a fabrication or a typo.
You read it here second.
"I can't help but think that Cook, Ive, and the rest of the Apple team won't be able to resist matching the biggest change in iOS since its launch, with a big iPhone hardware change too."
~ Vincent Nguyen, Slashgear, explaining his reasoning on why the Next iPhone will be a Big Change.
iPhone 6 features revealed or at least hinted at in iOS 7...kind of
Since there were no iPhone announcements at WWDC, the iOSphere "analyzed" iOS 7 to discover clues, cues, hints, indications, intimations, suggestions or traces that point to the next iPhones.
It was a mixed bag.
Slashgear started off promisingly, with the headline "iOS 7 and the rebirth of iPhone," a post by Vincent Nguyen. "[A]lready I'm confident that iOS 7 will bring me back over from Android, not to mention open the door to some hardware surprises later in the year," he writes.
What might those surprises be, and how might they be the rebirth of the iPhone? Oddly, Nguyen never actually says.
"What I'm left expecting, though, is something equally pivotal to run it on," he writes. "The current thinking is that Apple's next smartphone will be the iPhone 5S, a more subtle update to the existing phone, with a significant refresh [considered to be iPhone 6] waiting until 2014. I can't help but think that Cook, Ive, and the rest of the Apple team won't be able to resist matching the biggest change in iOS since its launch, with a big iPhone hardware change too."
What could this big iPhone hardware change be? Probably not a bigger screen, Nguyen says, surprisingly. "The display is still likely to be a 4-inch Retina panel, since that satisfies that all-important one-handed use issue...."
His best guess? The phone will, somehow, be inspired by the new Mac Pro. "I'd guess at a form-factor that borrows cues from the other eye-catching part of the WWDC keynote, the new Mac Pro," Nguyen reasons. "That, with its crisply minimalistic polished aluminum enclosure, is the new pinnacle of Apple's design ethos, and would be a great starting point to build the new iPhone from."
We're not exactly sure what he means by this. The iPhone 5 already has a pretty crisply minimalistic aluminum enclosure. And the photo with his post shows only the interior of the Mac Pro, with its vaguely steampunkish aesthetic, rather than the smooth, polished aluminum shell that covers it.
"Which phone works most effectively for me; which implements its features in ways that look and operate the most successfully," Nguyen wonders. "Already, I'm seeing a whole lot to iOS 7 that signals it will deliver on that." But, again, he never really explains what the "whole lot" is that he's seeing.
GottaBeMobile's Josh Smith seems convinced that iOS 7 shows or at least "hints" that the Next Big Thing in the Next iPhone is precisely what Nguyen discounts: a bigger screen. He makes his case in his post, "iPhone 6 Hints From iOS 7" but especially in his companion 3:47-minute YouTube video, which neatly shows some of the new features in the iOS 7 beta installed on his iPhone 5.
Here's his main assumption: iOS 7 lets you swipe, from wider areas onscreen, to do more tasks "and the swipes are not limited to small touch points." Therefore, as he says, "All of these small changes make it easier to use a larger display iPhone 6 with one hand because there is not a need to reach to a corner or hit small touch points."
He also argues that the "improved landscape support" in iOS 7, meaning when you hold the phone horizontally, is "a small step towards better support for landscape on the [future, bigger-screened] iPhone. The iPad and iPad mini offer landscape support throughout and it is a big part of how many use those devices."
"Why are we talking about an iPhone 6 with a larger display already?" he asks. Good question. The not-very-good answer: "Well, rumors point to an iPhone 6 in 2014 that includes a larger display."
This seems kind of like the "if all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail" idea. The problem with the iPhone, according to one group of critics, is that increasing the screen to 4.0 inches means it's still small compared to 5.0 or 5.5 or 6.0 or even 4.8. So Apple must release a larger-screen phone; and therefore the UI changes in iOS 7 have been made for that purpose.
iPhone 5S doesn't exist so plan on the iPhone 6
The irrepressible Will Stabley, founder of StableyTimes, was one of the very very few in the iOSphere who could discern what WWDC truly revealed about the Next iPhone.
His post, "iPhone 6: six things Apple, Tim Cook, and iOS 7 just told us about it," is a model of decisiveness: "There is no iPhone 5S."
One of the six things is "What it looks like." Stabley: "During the iOS 7 demos Apple included the image to the left, which looks unlike any current or past iPhone. Either it's the iPhone 6 or Apple has now taken to using meaningless stub graphics of imaginary Apple devices in its keynote presentations. There is no iPhone 5S: Apple didn't completely redesign iOS just to have it run on the same old hardware, so look for the iPhone 6 to directly follow the iPhone 5."
You didn't realize that the "S" in 5S stood for "same old hardware."
He also discovered "When the iPhone 6 is arriving." His reasoning goes like this: "Apple says iOS 7 is arriving in the fall, which according to the 2013 calendar means anywhere from September 22nd to December 20th. That's right, the technical definition of fall is a bit skewed from what most people commonly consider it to be. But Apple has never launched a new iPhone later than mid October. [Apple has announced exactly two of six iPhones in the fall, Oct. 2011, Sept. 2012.] In other words, look for the iPhone 6 in September. Unless "fall" was a worst case scenario estimate in case iOS 7 beta testing progresses slowly, in which case an August release may not be out of the question. But what Apple really told us is that it doesn't precisely know when it'll launch the iPhone 6."
Not only do we not know when the iPhone 6 is arriving, but no one at Apple does either.
iPhone 6 will have bigger screen(s)
A very carefully worded Reuters story is, despite that care, already being widely misinterpreted as saying that Apple is set to announce two new iPhones, one with a 4.7-inch screen and one with a 5.7-inch screen.
The Reuters headline is strikingly odd: "Apple looking at bigger iPhone screens, multiple colors – sources." It's odd because most headlines don't feature "sources." It's as if Reuters is assuring readers "we got more than one person talking to us about this! It's not a rumor! Trust us!"
There are four sources, in fact: "people with knowledge of the matter" who shared that knowledge with Reuters reporters Clare Jim, Reiji Murai and Poornima Gupta.
Here's the opening: "Apple Inc is exploring launching iPhones with bigger screens, as well as cheaper models in a range of colors, over the next year, said four people with knowledge of the matter, as it takes a cue from rival Samsung Electronics."
A bit later, it adds this: "Apple is looking at introducing at least two bigger iPhones next year - one with a 4.7-inch screen and one with a 5.7-inch screen - said the sources, including those in the supply chain in Asia. They said suppliers have been approached with plans for the larger screens, but noted it is still unclear whether Apple will actually launch its flagship product in the larger sizes."
[In the first of two posts on this story, with no links to it or even mentioning Reuters, Will Stabley of the eponymous StableyTimes ("a new kind of news"), claims this is pure rumor mongering: "So when this morning's rumor dropped that the iPhone 6 will be an ungodly five and three quarter inches large, instead of recognizing it for the fabrication of typo [apparently intended as "fabrication or typo"] that it is, the industry is attempting to match up the ‘5.7 inch iPhone 6' claim with their imaginary multi-billion dollar phablet market." In March Samsung announced the ungodly 6.3-inch Galaxy Mega.]
The key words in the two Reuters paragraphs above are "exploring" and "looking at." It's almost a certainty that Apple has been exploring and looking at different screen sizes for the iPhone (and iPad) for years, because it takes years for complex electronics products to be designed, tested, redesigned, finalized, and manufactured, marketed, distributed and sold at scale.
At bottom, the Reuters story describes not the next iPhone or even next year's iPhone, but the process through which Apple develops the iPhone, by working with an intricate network of suppliers and other partners. The story itself alludes to this: "'They [Apple] constantly change product specifications almost to the final moment, so you're not really sure whether this is the final prototype,' said one person with direct knowledge of the matter."
As the Reuters story notes, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked during an interview at May's AllThingsD conference "why Apple hasn't launched different sized iPhones." His reply: "We haven't so far. That doesn't shut off the future."
Of course it doesn't. That reply actually says far more than it first seems to. Asymco's Horace Dediu offered his interpretation of Cook's full set of remarks on this subject.
One of Dediu's points is this:
"The [extended] iPhone portfolio may still arrive. It hasn't so far because the cost/benefit is not there for Apple. On one hand it would take a great deal more sourcing effort and risk while dealing with constraints in production. On the other it would not offer meaningful additions to the customer base. At least so far. The economics and the demand may change (or have changed) and the time will come for a broader portfolio."
A cost/benefit analysis is a moving target, because the economics involved and demand are constantly changing. Apple is paying attention to these changes, and to its markets. It's clear that so far – up to the release of the iPhone 5 – Apple's analysis of the cost/benefit is dramatically different from that of much of the iOSphere.
How might that portfolio extension be made? As Dediu interprets Cook, "changing screen size is one dimension but it has to be balanced by performance gains that don't detract from other dimensions. Engineering is all about compromise and consumers pay Apple to make these compromises in an intelligent way. Apple does not come to an answer to the question of balance by launching many products and seeing what works. It cannot afford to dilute its brand with a long list of failures. Other brands may not be affected by trial-and-error approaches to the market but they are discounted by the customer accordingly."
John Cox covers wireless networking and mobile computing for Network World.
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Why Amazon is the new Microsoft
The Amazon Alexa platform dominated CES this year. The virtual assistant is shaping up to be the most important new operating system.
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Mike Elgan (Computerworld (US)) 13 January, 2018 21:00
A few years ago, chatbots were supposed to take over as a leading way to interact with the internet. They would live on our phones and in our messaging apps. Whenever we needed anything, all we had to do was type out a question.
Things are turning out ... differently.
Chatbots, bots, virtual assistants and agents are all about the conversational UI — about interacting with a computer through natural-language words and sentences.
The conventional wisdom used to be that the chatbot revolution would be driven by pre-emption, interjection and agency, as exemplified by Facebook M and Google Now.
Instead, the killer features are hands-free voice interaction and ubiquity — the main strengths of the Amazon Alexa platform.
Here’s what happened and why it matters.
Facebook M is dead
Facebook plans to close it’s M chatbot service on Jan. 19.
Facebook M, which launched in August 2015, was experimental, available to only 10,000 people in Silicon Valley.
When M first emerged, it was widely assumed to represent the future of how chatbots should and would work.
M was a chatbot-based virtual assistant with agency, meaning it could buy things on your behalf, send gifts and book reservations.
While initially shrouded in mystery and confusion, the purpose of M has now become clear. Facebook wanted to see how people might naturally use a somewhat open-ended virtual assistant chatbot. Facebook would try to serve those requests using a staff of humans, who would also train the A.I. so that over time the machines could take over from the people, resulting eventually in an automated service.
Facebook now knows what it didn’t know at the outset, which is that the state of A.I. is not ready to learn to become an all-purpose chatbot agent capable of going out into the world and doing things for a large number of people.
(Note that the confusingly named M Suggestions, which is a feature of Facebook Messenger, is not affected by the termination of M.)
It’s not a surprise that the same day this week that we learned of the demise of Facebook M, we also learned that Facebook is reportedly coming out with an Amazon Echo Show-like device for consumers called the Facebook Portal, according to a publication called Cheddar.
The company plans a May introduction of the device (at Facebook’s developer conference), with a rollout at $499 in the second half of the year, according to the report.
The Portal device is said to have a camera, and it will authenticate users based on face-recognition technology.
Google Now is dead, too — sort of
A few years ago, the conventional wisdom in tech circles was that Google Now was the most sophisticated virtual assistant.
Google Now was introduced in Android in the summer of 2012.
The best thing about Google Now was pre-emption: Display cards would pop up to alert you to things (rather than waiting for you to ask). Google Now used your location, calendar and, above all, Gmail messages to figure out what kind of help you needed, and it would try to give you that help with suggestion cards. One of its best tricks was to see on your calendar where you were going, check your current location, check the traffic between those locations, and give you advice about when to leave.
The Google Now feature still exists in the Google mobile app and elsewhere. But the “Google Now” branding does not. Those features are now considered a subset of Google Search, while Google focuses on its Assistant chatbot.
Meanwhile, the coolest feature of Google Assistant is interjection, which means it will pay attention to conversations in Allo and make suggestions based on the conversation.
Unfortunately, hardly anyone uses Allo, and so the amazing interjection powers of the Google Assistant are largely unknown and generally unused by the larger public.
That means Google’s two greatest and differentiating chatbot strengths — preemption and interjection — remain underutilized, underappreciated and underwhelming.
Just as Facebook killed M and is launching an Amazon Echo-like device, Google is putting most of its energy in Assistant as the intelligence behind its own Amazon Echo-like Home devices.
The common denominator is the Amazon Echo and its Alexa virtual assistant.
The Alexa factor
A couple of years ago, Amazon Alexa was considered to be the weakest and least sophisticated chatbot or virtual assistant on the market. (Oddly, MS-DOS and, later, Microsoft Windows initially had similar reputations.)
While agency, including the ability to buy things, was once assumed to be an important feature of a virtual assistant, it’s clear even for Alexa that buying things is secondary.
According to an Experian study last year, fewer than one-third of surveyed Echo owners have ever bought something through Alexa.
The vast majority of tasks involve setting a timer, playing a song, reading the news, checking the time — really, the most basic functions of a smartphone made convenient by voice interaction.
And yet Amazon is clearly dominating the space. This week’s CES showed that the industry is following Amazon’s lead.
Alexa appeared at the show inside projectors, ceiling lights, cars, glasses, showers, washing machines, earbuds, speakers — and even Windows 10 PCs.
The only company that’s even close to keeping up is Google with its Assistant, and that’s because Google is following the Alexa formula. (Plus, Google spent a small fortune at CES to advertise Google Assistant.)
Here’s the Alexa formula for dominating the virtual assistants category:
Forget written text; focus entirely on spoken-word interaction
Sell a wide range of hardware devices usable by everyday consumers
Strongly encourage and incentivize third-party integrations via the Alexa Skills Kit
Strongly encourage third-party hardware integration through its Development Kits for the Alexa Voice Service
Strongly encourage enterprise adoption by way of the Alexa for Business program
The Alexa formula implies that it’s not necessary that a virtual assistant or chatbot does everything, or that it beats competitors on a technical level. What’s important is that it is available instantly everywhere.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos this week became the world’s richest person, according to the Forbes list. Over the past few decades, that spot was normally occupied by former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates.
The symbolism is timely; it was at CES this week that Amazon became the new Microsoft.
Microsoft rose to dominance by controlling the operating system that the majority of people and businesses used.
Amazon is now doing something similar with Alexa. While Alexa isn’t even close to becoming as important as Windows, it is becoming the operating system of the post-PC, post-smartphone future.
The reason is very simple, and perfectly described by Sam Dolnick, who oversees digital initiatives at The New York Times. He said: “We are living in a world where the mobile phone is dominant, and audio, which doesn’t require your eyes or your hands, is the ultimate mobile medium.”
Dolnick was referring to audio podcasting, but the same truth applies to virtual assistants.
While today we do our work on laptops and smartphones, in the future we’ll do much more work via virtual assistants (and augmented reality).
By the time that happens, Amazon will already own the operating system.
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The Grand Chapiteau seats over 2,600 spectators per performance. The Grand Chapiteau is a temporary structure which is supported by four masts. All seats are cushioned with backs.
Cirque du Soleil takes great concern in Public Safety and Security and therefore kindly request your cooperation. We suggest our customers to plan their arrival with time enough to undergo the Access Security Measures when entering the premises. Please be advised of the following:
Every individual entering the premises will be subject to a security control that could include (but may not be limited to) metal detection, personal search (possibly including pat-down), emptying the contents of pockets or purse, handbag inspections, etc.
Any luggage piece, briefcase, purse or bag of any size larger than a handbag will not be accepted into the premises. Also, no alcohol, hot food, glass recipients, weapons, sticks, fireworks, cutlery, scissors and animals (but for Service Dogs)
Failure to comply with these or any other security measures deemed by CdS or the local Authorities will produce an immediate call to the police as well as denial of access to the non-compliant individual. In this case, CdS does not acknowledge any sort of compensation or reimburse to the customer.
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The Entrance Tent and concessions open 45 minutes prior to show time. The Grand Chapiteau opens 30 minutes before show time.
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The show starts on time and latecomers are admitted only during a suitable break in the performance. Late-coming wheelchair-users can only be admitted at the intermission.
Open: 90 minutes prior to show
Close: 30 minutes after start of performance*
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Prices are displayed on the first steps of the booking process, according to your performance and seat selections. Start by choosing the tickets of your choice.
Book as early as you can to secure the best choice of seats at the best possible prices. Prices are subject to change without notice.
The children's discount applies to children 2 (3 in Japan) to 12 years old. Children under 2 years old (3 in Japan) are permitted to attend for free, but must remain seated on a parent's lap at all times.
Children are not permitted to be left unattended on the site of Cirque du Soleil. Tickets purchased for children must have an adult seated beside.
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The student discount applies to individuals 13 years old and over with a valid student I.D. (includes College and University student I.D.). The senior discount applies to individuals 65 years old and up. The Military discount applies to those who have valid Military I.D. Student , senior and military discounts are available for non-peak performances only. Offer may vary per market.
2 hours 10 minutes, including a 25-minute intermission.
Many exciting merchandise items ranging from, but not limited to, souvenir programs, apparel, accessories and home goods are available for purchase.
Arrays of alcoholic and non-alcoholic refreshments as well as snacks are available for purchase.
The following show contains flashing lights which may cause difficulties for peoples with photosensitive epilepsy.
The temperature inside the Grand Chapiteau is controlled.
There is no cloakroom.
Smoking is not permitted in the Grand Chapiteau.
Mobile phones must be turned off during the show.
For the safety of our artists and the comfort of our guests, flash photography, video recording and live video are not permitted during the show.
Animals are not allowed, except for guide and service dogs (or according to local laws).
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At Cirque du Soleil we make every effort to ensure that every one of our shows offers accommodations to our patrons with special needs. That is why an area in each Grand Chapiteau (big top) has been made wheelchair-accessible. Below you will find all necessary information regarding booking space or seats in this area. Enjoy the show!
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Patrons with reduced mobility should specifically ask for wheelchair accessible seats.
Please note that these reservations can be made by phone through Customer Service.
Additional accompanying people may have to sit in the regular seating area due to a limited number of reduced mobility seats. We cannot guarantee the availability of seats near to the designated wheelchair users' area.
Once you arrive on the site of the show, ushers will guide you towards the appropriate door, section and seats.
Cirque du Soleil does not provide wheelchairs to its patrons.
In order to ensure that our patrons who have reserved space or seats in the reduced mobility area are comfortably seated, we ask that they arrive 30 minutes before the performance is scheduled to begin
Wheelchair users and patrons with reduced mobility who arrive late will be seated at appropriate time. Our ushers will escort you to the appropriate seating area within the tent.
Handicapped parking spaces are always located as close as possible to the main entrance. If necessary, patrons with reduced mobility may be dropped off at the entrance before parking. Regular parking fees apply.
At every Cirque du Soleil site, wheelchair-accessible washrooms are made available for the exclusive use of our patrons with special needs.
If you need assistance at any time, our ushers will be more than happy to assist you. We hope you have a wonderful Cirque du Soleil experience.
For more information contact us: 00-800-1-548-0000 or contact@cirquedusoleil.com. (Europe only)
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Did you get the 'Baby Shark' song out of your head? Here comes the TV show and concert tour
Published Mon, Jun 17 2019 3:10 PM EDT
Jessica Golden@JGolden5
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Pinkfong is the South Korean company behind the viral hit "Baby Shark."
The company is turning "Baby Shark" into a brand that will extend beyond the catchy song to an animated TV series, a concert tour and products of all kinds.
Pinkfong is working with Nickelodeon and Round Room Live on these plans.
Baby Shark kicks off a live tour this fall
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The irritatingly catchy song "Baby Shark" is entering new waters as its creators capitalize on the brand's rapid success.
Pinkfong, the South Korean company behind the hit, has big plans to build a brand and will prepare several new releases. Among them, is a partnership with Viacom's Nickelodeon to create a spinoff animated television series.
"We felt there was a fantastic opportunity to expand the Baby Shark universe and develop stories that will connect with fans," said Pam Kaufman, president of Viacom Nickelodeon consumer products. "The property is just getting started from a consumer products perspective, and we plan to make Baby Shark a global brand at retail."
For those unaware of the viral song-and-dance video. It has infiltrated preschool culture and inspired more than 700,000 cover videos and amassed nearly 3 billion views on YouTube. Ear-sore parents might have hoped the craze would have jumped the shark, but it clearly hasn't.
The new partnership means Baby Shark products across multiple product categories and retail aisles as the company hopes to attract a new audience to the franchise.
The merchandise will create a revenue stream at a new concert-like live performance too. Pinkfong has partnered with the production company Round Room Live to bring the song to life with a 100-date North American tour.
Baby Shark has generated nearly 3 billion hits on YouTube.
Courtesy: Pinkfong
"These shows truly have have multiple streams of revenue, multiple access points and touch points to children and this is just another example. Baby Shark: it's in music; it's in digital. It's in consumer products and animated TV broadcasting and now again, a live tour," said Stephen Shaw, co-president of the Round Room Live.
Pinkfong says the growth of Baby Shark has helped grow its revenue by 47% in the last year, boosted in part by 35 merchandising deals covering toys, apparel, home, health and beauty, accessories, food and publishing. Some of their key licensees include WowWe, Hasbro and Harper Collins.
"We've had a great year of sales so far," said Emily Chacra, brand manager for Pinkfong Baby Shark at WowWee. "The product has done incredibly well."
Baby Shark products sold out in two days on Amazon. WowWee is launching a new collection this August.
Courtesy: WowWee
WowWee sold out in two days on Amazon with its Babyshark products at Christmas time. Chacra said she has similar expectations for the company's next release in August, with a fresh round of products ranging from plush items to walkers and bath toys and interactive Baby Shark Fingerlings.
"We have really high expectations coming off the past few months of sales," she said.
With a 20-week streak on the Billboard Hot 100, Baby Shark's "stickiness" has helped it stay relevant. Experts say its trendy beats, fun rhythms and repetitive hooks are to blame. The song went viral in Asia in 2017. In August 2018, it moved its way to North America and Europe, making appearances on "The Ellen Show" and "The Late Late Show with James Corden." Add some pop culture icons like Drake, Cardi B and Will Smith, Kylie Jenner and John Legend, and it became a viral sensation.
Now, the song is sometimes played by wedding bands to the delight (or horror) of grown-up guests, who bop along with wild arm motions.
"Once it's gone beyond the experience for young children, it has a longer life span," said Maura Regan, president of Licensing International. "It definitely has the opportunity to live on and on."
The upcoming series lends itself well to toys, Regan said. "I think the sky is the limit."
As PinkFong continues to invest in this franchise, the company says it's not worried that it's a fad.
"Baby Shark is no longer just a song or video – it's evolving into a brand," said the company.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. As soon as you hear the familiar scream of the headless kamikaze enemies from the Serious Sam universe you know what comes next - kaboom. This staple enemy has been a thorn in Sam's side throughout the series and now we have our first glimpse at its third iteration in Serious Sam 3: BFE.
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6 patients, 6 donors prepare for rare kidney swap chain
Updated: March 5, 2015, 11:32 a.m.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a rare series of interlinked operations, six patients are getting kidney transplants from six donors at a San Francisco hospital.
Dr. William Bry, a surgeon at California Pacific Medical Center, said the "kidney paired donations" are occurring thanks to a woman who started a chain of donations and a computer program that matches donors to recipients, KGO-TV reported Wednesday (http://abc7ne.ws/1B5bshp ).
People in the chain are not compatible with relatives or friends to whom they are willing to give kidneys. So, they donate to strangers they do match.
Zully Broussard of Sacramento agreed to give a kidney to a man with such a relative. That relative, in turn, will donate a kidney to a patient who also has a family member or friend unable to donate because of compatibility issues. This kind of pairing continues down the line four more times until all six kidney patients get transplants, the San Francisco station reported.
The paired kidney exchange happened through computer software developed by David Jacobs, who is a kidney recipient. Its algorithmic program uses a person's genetic profile and finds potential matches.
Once the matches are confirmed, doctors, nurses and case managers work on the logistics of making it a reality.
Broussard said her son died of cancer 13 years ago and her husband passed away 14 months ago, also from cancer.
"I know what it feels like to want an extra day," she said when asked why she volunteered to donate a kidney to a stranger.
Three transplants are planned for Thursday and the remaining three on Friday. Most of those involved are from the San Francisco Bay Area.
"I thought I was going to help this one person who I don't know, but the fact that so many people can have a life extension, that's pretty big," Broussard said.
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James Cameron says he will shoot 3 'Avatar' sequels in New Zealand
In this undated file film publicity image originally released by 20th Century Fox, the character Neytiri, voiced by Zoe Saldana, right, and the character Jake, voiced by Sam Worthington are shown in a scene from "Avatar." (AP/20th Century Fox)
Published Sunday, December 15, 2013 9:38PM EST
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Director James Cameron says he plans to make three sequels to his 2009 sci-fi blockbuster movie "Avatar" in New Zealand.
Cameron made the announcement Monday with producer Jon Landau and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key. The films will be made by Lightstorm Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox.
"Avatar" won three Academy Awards and is the highest-grossing film in history.
Cameron says he plans to complete principal shooting on the three movies at one time, perhaps over a period of about nine months.
New Zealand's government has agreed to a 25 per cent financial rebate. Cameron didn't disclose an exact budget although he says he expects economies of scale will help the three movies together cost less than $1 billion.
He expects the first sequel to be released in 2016.
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Cambridge Research Biochemicals adds QuickAllAssay™ Lanthanide labelling reagents to its product range
Cleveland, UK: Cambridge Research Biochemicals (CRB) has signed an exclusive deal with Bio-Nobile (BN) Products and Services (Finland) to promote and sell QuickAllAssay™ labelling reagents in the UK. The ready-to-use reagents are used for labelling of proteins, antibodies and small molecules with a Europium chelate and are unique in that only one kit is required for labelling all assay formats including TR FRET (Time-Resolved Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer) and QRET (Quenched Resonance Energy Transfer assays) and for separation based enhanced time-resolved fluorescence assays.
The QuickAllAssay™ kit offers researchers looking to quantify biochemical markers a number of significant advantages over traditional assay technology. Separation based TRF assays, also known as Dissociation-Enhanced Lanthanide Fluorescent Immunoassays (DELFIA) are popular for research, as they offer a superior alternative to traditional ELISA technology as they are significantly more sensitive, have a broader dynamic range and are more robust than enzyme-based assays.
The QuickAllAssay™ kit can offer dual and triple label separation based (coated plate) assays which are now routinely being used by screening laboratories. Lanthanides are now the perfect choice of label with which to build such assays as they offer the unique possibility of building multi-label measurements within the same well.
“We are delighted to now be able to offer QuickAllAssay™ to our UK customers,” comments Emily Humphrys, Commercial Director from CRB. “We believe having a unique kit for both homogeneous and separation assays which is significantly more sensitive and has a broader dynamic range in one easy-to-use kit will be of significant benefit to researchers. We are also able to offer custom Europium labelling of peptides, proteins and antibodies, which further broadens our labelled product offering.”
CRB is a leading manufacturer and supplier of specialist custom peptides and antibodies and works with some of the largest pharmaceutical companies and research organisations in the world. The company is renowned for its high-level of customer support, help and advice and is able to identify in advance products that they would like to have made available to them such as theQuickAllAssay™ kit.
Ilkka Hemmilä, Chief Scientific Officer from Bio-Nobile (BN) Products and Services of Finland, the original inventor of the DELFIA and LANCE assay technologies declared, “I am pleased to be partnering with Cambridge Research Biochemicals, which has a well-established peptide chemistry, labelling and antibody reputation and believe this collaboration will lead to future novel technologies and applications to benefit the screening market.”
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Digital Systems and Applications
Vojin G. Oklobdzija
Reference - 992 Pages - 707 B/W Illustrations
ISBN 9780849386190 - CAT# 6195
Series: Computer Engineering Series
December 19, 2017 by CRC Press
New design architectures in computer systems have surpassed industry expectations. Limits, which were once thought of as fundamental, have now been broken. Digital Systems and Applications details these innovations in systems design as well as cutting-edge applications that are emerging to take advantage of the fields increasingly sophisticated capabilities. This book features new chapters on parallelizing iterative heuristics, stream and wireless processors, and lightweight embedded systems.
This fundamental text—
Provides a clear focus on computer systems, architecture, and applications
Takes a top-level view of system organization before moving on to architectural and organizational concepts such as superscalar and vector processor, VLIW architecture, as well as new trends in multithreading and multiprocessing. includes an entire section dedicated to embedded systems and their applications
Discusses topics such as digital signal processing applications, circuit implementation aspects, parallel I/O algorithms, and operating systems
Concludes with a look at new and future directions in computing
Features articles that describe diverse aspects of computer usage and potentials for use
Details implementation and performance-enhancing techniques such as branch prediction, register renaming, and virtual memory
Includes a section on new directions in computing and their penetration into many new fields and aspects of our daily lives
Computer Systems and Architecture. Embedded Applications. Signal Processing. Communications and Networks. Input/Output. Operating System. New Directions in Computing.
"Many researchers will appreciate the well-developed indexes. Summing Up: Recommended."
– J. Beidler, University of Scranton, in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, July 2008, Vol. 45, No. 11
Sequential Logic: Analysis and Synthesis
Verilog HDL: Digital Design and Modeling
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Encryption & Key Management , Governance , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development
Cybercrime Battle: Next Steps
Europol Adviser Brian Honan Talks Privacy, Crime, Policing and Crypto Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 18, 2017
Brian Honan, president, BH Consulting
After every major terror attack, some government figure will inevitably announce that privacy rights - and using strong crypto to keep people secure - must be sacrificed in the name of security. Many security experts, meanwhile, will continue to remind policymakers that we need strong privacy and crypto now, more than ever.
"We need to remind ourselves that privacy is an absolute right for every individual in the world, it's a human right, enshrined in many constitutions," says Brian Honan, who heads Dublin-based information security firm BH Consulting.
"We have a right to privacy; that should not be surrendered ... simply because it makes life more convenient for the security services to do their job," adds Honan, who also advises the EU's law enforcement intelligence agency, Europol.
Honan says that's not meant to slight law enforcement agencies, but rather a reference to a bigger problem: Many governments have significantly underinvested in the resources required to fight cybercrime and support their cybercrime-fighting law enforcement personnel.
In a video interview at the recent Infosecurity Europe conference in London, Honan also discusses:
The rise of - and benefits to be gleaned from - police-led intelligence;
The need for more governments to work together;
The security versus privacy debate.
Honan is president of Dublin-based cybersecurity firm BH Consulting and the founder of Ireland's first computer emergency response team, IRISS-CERT. He's also a cybersecurity adviser to the EU's law enforcement intelligence agency, Europol.
Encryption & Key Management
Infosecurity Europe Conference
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Mathew J. Schwartz
Executive Editor, DataBreachToday & Europe
Schwartz is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and electronic media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the executive editor, DataBreachToday and for European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, among other publications. He lives in Scotland.
https://www.databreachtoday.eu/cybercrime-battle-next-steps-a-10117
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Hasegawa 1/32 Kawanishi N1K2-J Shiden-Kai (George) Kit First Look
N1K2-J Shiden-Kai (George)
Easy build, nice details
Nothing serious noted
The Kawanishi N1K was designed as a robust floatplane fighter that was more capable than the A6M2-N Rufe (Zero floatplane) and could provide the Japanese Navy with front-line fighter support where runways are not yet available. Designated as the N1K1 Kyofu (Rex), the aircraft started service entry in 1943, but by that time, Japan's forward momentum had been blunted and was being pushed back. Even as the N1K1 was in production, the Kawanishi engineers foresaw the potential of this powerful aircraft if it could be separated from its heavy floats and a land-based variant was developed with conventional landing gear.
Designated N1K1-J Shiden (George), the aircraft had serious potential but also exhibited some latent issues based upon its floatplane heritage. A redesign was begun almost immediately to move the wings from mid-fuselage to low-wing, the fuselage was lengthened for greater stability, and it was designed with roughly 1/3 the parts of the N1K1-J. This new aircraft was the N1K2-J Shiden-Kai and with this aircraft, Japanese Navy pilots had a formidable fighter that could match the F6F Hellcat and the P-51 Mustang. While the aircraft was very successful, it couldn't be produced fast enough to change the outcome of the Pacific air war.
Last year, Hasegawa released an all-new-tool kit of the N1K2-J in 1/32 scale representing the early version of the Shiden-Kai. Here is the follow-up release changing the tail and a few other details to render the late-production version. Molded in light gray styrene, this kit is presented on seven parts trees plus one tree oc clear parts. This kit is easily the best kit of the Shiden-Kai in any scale and Hasegawa holds the title for best N1K2-J in 1/72 and 1/48 scales as well.
If you haven't built one of these new-tooled 1/32 kits in a while, you'll note that Hasegawa uses a modular approach to the kit design to facilitate difference versions with smaller parts changes. In this case for example, the tail section plugs into the rear of the fuselage allowing for a taller tail of the early version or the shorter tail of this late production version. Likewise underwing panel inserts also allow the differences in the underwing details to be represented without tooling an entire lower wing section. If you're skeptical of the fit, don't be. I've built their modular 1/32 P-40 series using plug-in tails and inserts and the fit was nearly perfect.
Among the other features and options in this kit:
Beautifully detailed cockpit
Optional pilot figure
Positionable canopy
Detailed Homare engine
Positionable cowl flaps
Positionable wing flaps
Positionable landing gear
Optional centerline drop tank
Markings are provided for two aircraft:
N1K2-J, 343-45, 701 Fighter Sqn/343 Naval Air Group, Matsuyama AB, 1945
The model is designed to be handled as it has three fuselage bulkheads designed to keep the fuselage from flexing plus the integral bulkhead in the tail insert. Likewise the wings have a mainspar that will help keep the wings from flexing as well. Even the interlocking horizontal stabilizers will help make this model nearly bulletproof so you won't hear that fleeting 'snap' of a seamline while showing off the model or transporting it to a model contest.
As I said above, this is easily the best kit of the George in any scale with Hasegawa holding the best in 1/72 and 1/48 as well. Platz has the best in scale for their 1/144 kit and Bandai remains unopposed in 1/24 scale.
My sincere thanks to Hasegawa USA for this review sample!
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Leeds trolleybus comes under fire from cycling campaigners
£250million trolleybus scheme does 'little to improve situation for cycling and walking' says Leeds Cycling Campaign
Chris Marshall-Bell September 26, 2014 10:30 am
Campaigners in Leeds say that the proposed “glorified bus lane” trolleybus service in the city ignores sustainable travel such as cycling.
The £250million Leeds New Generation Transport (NGT) trolleybus system, a joint venture by Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Combined Authority, will connect the north and the south of the city with congestion greatly reduced because of the segregated lanes and junction and traffic priorities.
Those behind the scheme claim it will be an “energy efficient transport system… that offers a real and attractive alternative to car travel.”
But Lizzie Reather, chair of the Leeds Cycling Campaign, spoke at this week’s public inquiry and said that the “NGT scheme does little to improve the situation for cycling and walking, particularly as the scheme would travel along the most-cycled route in Leeds.”
The points expressed were from the campaign’s reports which said that cycling does not benefit greatly because of the scheme – this despite promises to improve cycling in the city and surrounding towns by local authorities.
The report added: “While the promoters assure us that NGT is ‘slightly positive’ for cycling, this appears to have been partly as an unintentional by-product of designing what is effectively a glorified bus lane, and partly through our continued pressure – my members investing of huge amounts of their own time and effort to influence the design.
“A firm commitment to the most sustainable and efficient ways of travelling – walking and cycling – is not evident.
“Before plans for NGT were drawn up, all transport options should have been considered and the relative costs to society of over-reliance on car use and undervaluing of active modes should been taken into account.
“A solution favourable to walking and cycling could have been devised, which would have generated an overwhelmingly positive cost benefit appraisal.
“Instead the promoters chose to focus on minimising negative impact on private vehicle capacity and were therefore unable to design a scheme that significantly benefits cycling.”
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Primary schools ban Muslim pupils from fasting during Ramadan with one saying it is a health risk for young children
Barclay Primary School in Leyton, east London, issued the letter yesterday
It said it would not allow pupils fasting to attend school during Ramadan
Acting head said pupils would not be able to fast without meeting him first
Muslim Association of Britain slammed 'blanket enforcement' of rule
By Jennifer Smith for MailOnline
A primary school trust has banned Muslim pupils from fasting during Ramadan, claiming the tradition can be harmful to the health of young children.
Barclay Primary School in Leyton, east London, issued a letter to parents informing them that it would not allow children attending school to fast in order to 'safeguard the health and education of the child'.
In the letter, the acting head said children would not be able to fast without meeting with him first.
The move has been slammed by members of the Muslim community who said schools should seek to support parents instead of 'blanket enforce' their own rules when it comes to religion.
In a letter sent out on June 10, Barclay Primary School in Leyton, east London, has banned pupils from attending school if they are fasting for Ramadan
The letter, above, said that fasting has a 'significant impact on younger children' and should be done at weekends
In the letter, the acting head went on to say that children would not be 'considered to be able to fast' without meeting with him first
In the letter issued yesterday, the school claimed to have 'sought guidance' before implementing the ban.
'We are reliably informed that in Islamic Law, children are not required to fast during Ramadan, only being required to do so when they become adults,' it said.
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It continued to describe how children 'fainted' and 'became ill' during last year's festival after going without food or water for '18 hours, a significant amount of time for a child.'
Alongside Barclay Primary School the ban will be implemented across three other schools which belong to the trust. They are Sybourn Primary School and Thomas Gamuel Primary School in Waltham Forest and Brook House Primary School in Haringey.
The letter, posted on 5pillars, a British Muslim publication, was today criticised by members of the Muslim community which said deciding whether a child should fast or not is the prerogative of their parent.
The school (above) said it had seen pupils faint and fall ill in previous years as a result of not eating all day
Sybourn Primary School in Waltham Forest, which also belongs to Lion Academy Trust, will abide by the same rule
The Muslim Association of Britain said there were enough rules in place to protect the vulnerable from fasting without school's interference.
'We believe that there are sufficient and stringent rules within Islam which allow those who are unable to fast, to break fast,' a spokesman told Mail Online.
'These rules include those who are medically ill or compromised; or too young or too old to fast.
'However, we believe that this determination should be decided by parents with their children; who can together reach a collective decision whether or not the child can fast.
'MAB ascertains that the final choice of whether or not to fast should be the right of the parents, who should in turn encourage their children to fast without forcing them to do so.'
Dr Omer El-Hamdoon, the President of MAB added parents ought to have the ultimate say in whether their child participates in the fast.
'Schools should play a supporting role to parents; and issues like this should be discussed, not blanket enforced,' he said.
Neither Barclay Primary School nor the Lion Academy Trust responded to Mail Online's requests for comment this afternoon.
Pupils at Thomas Gamuel Primary School (above) in Waltham Forest will also not be allowed to attend if fasting
An earlier version of this article stated that Barclay Primary School had banned all pupils from fasting during Ramadan. We are happy to clarify that some pupils will be allowed to fast but only with express permission from the acting headmaster after a meeting with their parents.
London primary school bans fasting during Ramadan
Barclay Primary School bans Muslim pupils from Ramadan fasting in Leyton
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Olympic swim coach, 54, who is namesake of Michael Phelps' son Boomer ADMITS to sending 'disturbing' sexually graphic texts to a former female swimmer
Bob Bowman, 54, publicly apologized this week for sending former Olympic swimmer Caroline Burckle inappropriate text messages in 2011
Bowman is best known for being the longtime coach of Michael Phelps
Details only publicly surfaced last week when Burckle revealed in an interview that she had been sent the inappropriate messages and a voicemail
Bowman, who is the current head swim coach at Arizona State University, admitted his involvement when the school initiated a review
Burckle said Bowman did apologize at the time after she complained and forwarded the messages to USA Swimming
The national team director who handled the complaint recommended Bowman for his current job at ASU
By Emily Crane For Dailymail.com
Bob Bowman who is Michael Phelps' longtime swim coach and namesake of his son has admitted to sending sexually graphic text messages to a former Olympic female swimmer.
The 54-year-old Olympic swim coach publicly apologized this week after former swimmer Caroline Burckle revealed that she had been sent the inappropriate messages and a voicemail back in 2011.
Bowman is best known for being the longtime coach of America's most decorated Olympian. Phelps even named his two-year-old son, Boomer Robert Phelps, after his coach.
He has been a strong father-figure in the 28-time Olympic medalist's life and his social media pages are filled with photos of Phelps' two children, including references to him being their 'grandpa'.
Bob Bowman, who is Michael Phelps' longtime swim coach and namesake of his son Boomer, publicly apologized this week for sending inappropriate messages to a former Olympic female swimmer in 2011
Bowman and Sean Hutchison, who were national team coaches at the time, were both accused of sending the 'aggressive' messages to Burckle from Bowman's phone soon after she retired from competitive swimming.
Details of the messages only publicly surfaced when Burckle, who won bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, confirmed the exchange in an interview with the Orange County Register last week.
Caroline Burckle, who won bronze at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, revealed last week that she had been sent the inappropriate messages and a voicemail Bowman and another coach Sean Hutchison in 2011
Bowman, who is the current head swim coach at Arizona State University, admitted his involvement when the school initiated a review after the interview was published.
'I regret the exercise of poor judgment in being involved one evening seven years ago with inappropriate communications,' Bowman said in a statement.
'I promptly apologized to the person to whom the communications were sent and my apology was accepted. I have nothing further to say at this time.'
Burckle, now 32, confirmed that Bowman had apologized to her but claims she never received an apology from the other coach.
She complained to USA Swimming at the time and forwarded on the messages.
'I was disgusted,' Burckle said in her recent interview. 'I felt violated, felt sad too. This was a sport that I had just left and loved and so I felt very sad.'
USA Swimming national team director Frank Busch subsequently sent a letter to Bowman - which he said would be placed in the coach's file - noting the seriousness of the claims.
He also wrote that if the messages had been sent to a current team member 'the behavior would be considered a potential violation of USA Swimming code of conduct'.
Bowman is best known for being the longtime coach of Michael Phelps and he has been a strong father-figure in the 28-time Olympic medalist's life
Bowman's his social media pages are filled with photos of Phelps' son Boomer, including references to him being his 'grandpa'
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Bowman apologized to the swimmer in front of Busch.
The team director who handled the complaint was among those to recommend Bowman for his current ASU swim coach job.
ASU said they only learned about the messages when Burckle's interview was published and were not aware of the complaint when Bowman was hired by the school in 2015.
'In fact, in discussions with USA Swimming about the possibility of hiring Mr Bowman, then USA Swimming National Team Director Frank Busch highly recommended Mr Bowman to ASU,' a statement read.
ASU said it initiated a review and found that it had not received any allegations of misconduct from students, faculty or staff, or any non-ASU affiliated individuals about Bowman.
Burkle said she felt guilty for years for not coming forward publicly at the time to try and stamp out harassment.
She started a mentoring program for young athletes back in 2015 and said her decision to speak out now was to act as an example for them.
Former Olympian says Team USA swimming coaches Sean Hutchison and Bob Bowman sent her inappropriate texts – Orange County Register
Michael Phelps' coach apologizes for sending sexually graphic texts to female swimmer
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Manchester United keen to tie down Marcus Rashford in hope of avoiding another Paul Pogba situation
Manchester United continuing talks with Marcus Rashford and his agent
The 18-year-old only signed a new four-year contract with the club in May
United are keen to avoid another situation similar to that of Paul Pogba
The Red Devils lost Pogba in 2012 for free - before resigning him for £89m
By Rob Draper for The Mail on Sunday
Manchester United are making plans to tie down Marcus Rashford to another deal even though the 18-year-old striker only signed a new four-year contract — understood to be worth more than £1 million a year — in May.
United are staying in constant contact with Rashford and his agent to keep him out of the clutches of potential suitors from abroad.
He is tied to the club until 2020 and United are desperate to agree a new deal and avoid a situation where his contract is allowed to run into its final 18 months.
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Rashford has played for England since penning his current deal and although his contract makes provision for pay rises if he hits certain targets, United will still have to upgrade his terms at appropriate times.
United lost Paul Pogba to Juventus for a nominal fee in 2012 when the club failed to agree a new deal with the midfielder who felt he should have had more first-team chances. They had to pay a world record £89m to re-sign him.
There is no danger of Rashford agitating to move but United are acutely aware that the teenage marksman needs enough first-team football over the next few years to develop.
The Red Devils are keen to avoid another situation similar to that of record signing Paul Pogba
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L.A. City Section boys, girls basketball…
L.A. City Section boys, girls basketball championship schedule
Granada Hills #1 Hayley Berfield drives around Sierra Canyon #25 Ashley Chevalier in a Girls basketball showdown on January 5, 2019. (Photo by John McCoy, Contributing Photographer)
By Tarek Fattal | tfattal@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: February 19, 2019 at 1:18 pm | UPDATED: February 19, 2019 at 1:20 pm
Full schedule for boys and girls L.A. City Section basketball finals from Wednesday through Saturday.
Local schools included: Arleta, Granada Hills Charter, Kennedy, Sun Valley Poly, San Fernando and Van Nuys.
Wednesday at Birmingham Charter HS
Girls’ Division IV: No. 2 Locke vs. No. 1 Animo Watts, 5 p.m.
Boys’ Division IV: No. 2 San Fernando vs. No. 1 Arleta, 7 p.m.
Wednesday at Palisades Charter HS
Girls’ Division V: No. 2 Maywood vs. No. 1 Math/Science, 5 p.m.
Boys’ Division V: No. 8 Rivera vs. No. 2 Math/Science, 7 p.m.
Thursday at Granada Hills Charter HS
Girls’ Division III: No. 7 Sotomayor vs. No. 5 Bell, 6 p.m.
Boys’ Division III: No. 4 Roybal vs. No. 2 Poly, 8 p.m.
Friday at Birmingham Charter HS
Girls’ Division II: No. 3 Dorsey vs. No. 1 Van Nuys, 6 p.m.
Boys’ Division II: No. 2 Kennedy vs. No. 1 Eagle Rock, 8 p.m.
Saturday at Los Angeles Southwest College
Girls’ Division I: No. 2 Carson vs. No. 1 Palisades, 1 p.m.
Boys’ Division I: No. 3 University vs. No. 1 Granada Hills, 3 p.m.
Girls’ Open Division: No. 2 Westchester vs. No. 1 Granada Hills, 5 p.m.
Boys’ Open Division: No. 2 Westchester vs. No. 1 Fairfax, 7:30 p.m.
Ticket and media info
The boys Open Division final will be live on KDOC Saturday night.
KDOC-TV Los Angeles is an independent full power television station reaching the entire
Los Angeles market of more than 5.3 million homes. The station also airs Seinfeld, Family Guy,
The Goldbergs, Mom, Last Man Standing and Dateline. Atlantic Coast Conference college
basketball is also featured on Saturday mornings.
Tickets may purchased online at GoFan.com for all games.
Tarek Fattal
Tarek Fattal has been covering sports for the Southern California News Group since 2015, primarily focusing on high school sports coverage for the LA Daily News.
Follow Tarek Fattal @Tarek_Fattal
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Shocking new photos show Brown/Rihanna crime scene
A U.S. TV news show has the damning evidence that could send troubled R&B star CHRIS BROWN to jail - pictures of his bloodstained rented Lamborghini.
Published 5th March 2009
The singer will be arraigned on Thursday (05Mar09) after allegedly beating his girlfriend Rihanna during a row on 8 February (09) - and experts claim new photos from the crime scene could be enough to put Brown behind bars.
News show Extra has obtained the photographs, which show the inside of Brown's rented vehicle after his fight with Rihanna.
The shots clearly show multiple blood stains and smears, scuff marks and a missing cigarette lighter.
Forensics expert Mary Pierson, who has examined the photos for Extra, says, "The stitching is saturated in blood.
"Rihanna's face was bruised and the corners of her mouth did show bleeding. So yes, there could have been blood from the mouth on the console (from) hitting or some kind of low impact blow."
And former District Attorney and County Court Judge Jeanine Pirro also reviewed these new pieces of evidence for Extra. She adds, "The photos identify the crime scene. If indeed it is her blood, and I suspect it is... they (photos) have to corroborate everything that she says."
And Pirro insists the bloody photos will be enough to convict Brown on battery charges: "You've got it all there. You've got this case beyond a reasonable doubt. Prosecute it!"
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GST superintendent plunges to death from WTC tower in Mumbai
By Jay Jackson, Dallas Sun
51-year old Harendra Kapadia reportedly jumped from the tower at around 6:30pm on Monday night
An investigation has been opened by police to establish the exact circumstances of the man's death
The World Trade Centre was inaugurated in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay in 1978
<p>MUMBAI, India - A Goods and Service Tax (GST) superintendent has died in an apparent suicide after jumping from the 30th floor of the World Trade Centre in Mumbai.</p><p>The 51-year old man, Harendra Kapadia reportedly jumped from the tower at around 6:30pm on Monday night.</p><p>It is understood he died on impact.</p><p>"Kapadia was fed-up with his illness. Around 8 to ten months ago he had stopped coming to work because of a brain stroke. After that he had gone through brain surgery at Kokilaben hospital," a police officer said Tuesday.</p><p>"Three months ago, he resumed work, but he had memory dementia. Initial investigation revealed that he was fed-up with his illness and hence took the drastic step," the officer said.</p><p>An investigation has been opened by police to establish the exact circumstances surrounding the national government officer's death.</p><p>The <a href="http://wtcmumbai.org">World Trade Centre</a> was inaugurated in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay in 1978.</p>
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In Defense of Anti-Semitism
Arch Stanton August 4, 2016 Other Writers
Is Arch Stanton guilty of anti-Semitic “hate speech”? If not, he comes perilously close to it in this outstandingly eloquent diatribe against the Chosen.
If the masses knew what I know about Jews, there wouldn’t be one left on the planet by the end of the week.
Their horrible monstrousness knows no bounds. Language fails to adequately define the Jew whose deadly cancer worms through history like a malevolent, parasitical creature whose tentacle’s touch is absolutely fatal.
If there were no Jews, there would be no Bible, no Koran, no Talmud, no Jesus, no Christianity, no Mohammad, no Islam, no Moses, no Abraham, no Judaism.
There would be no communists, no Stalin, no purges, no mass starvations, no gulag death camps, no Hitler, no “Nazis”, no Hallowedhoax.
Without Jewish mentors, there would be no need for them.
There would be no slavery, save perhaps among the most primitive cultures. There would be no internecine conflicts like civil wars, and there would be no Lincolns or Cromwells to administer them.
There would be no assassinations, no Garfields, no Ferdinands, no vom Raths, no JFKs. There would be no Wilsons, no Roosevelts, no Nixons, no Bushes, no Clintons, no Reagans, no Trumps; no Spanish American wars, no Korean police actions, no Panamas, no “Nams”, no “Desert Storms”.
There would be no political correctness, no pornography, no racial or cultural suicides. In fact, present history would not exist in any manner related to what is now not only recognized, but accepted as the norm.
There would be no Mafia or “organized” crime, the very concept which was created by Jews millennia ago to be aped by others.
Most of all, there would be no Israel — no country serving as a university offering degrees in advanced criminality.
There would be no world wars, no revolutions, no nuclear weapons, no “genocides” — even the word wouldn’t exist — no false flags like the trade towers, and little if any perversions, racial hatred and animosity between brethren cultures. There would be little, if any, corruption tolerated among those chosen for leadership positions and it would most certainly not be funded.
The Jews’ hateful, malevolent influence is in fact so pervasive, it literally twists and perverts every aspect of the world in which we live. The list is long. So long that a world without Jews would be unrecognizable, if not unthinkable, to its present inhabitants.
Yes, if the masses knew what I know about the Jews,
the Jews would almost certainly not exist!
56 thoughts to “In Defense of Anti-Semitism”
thenewnationalist says:
Very bad development: Israeli Security Model Being Rolled out for Europe, US
http://www.newnationalist.net/2016/08/04/israeli-security-model-being-rolled-out-for-europe-us/
….and they are 1 in 50 in the USA, and 1 in 220 in Britain
It’s more like 1 in 22 in Britain (3m?) Britain is riddled with Crypto Jews especially in Lincoln which once was the stalking ground of the Jewish financier Aaron of Lincoln who is said to have been the richest man in 12th century Norman England and who financed the building of the cathedral.
A couple of years ago I did a search on the charity commission website and used the word Jew. The results were staggering and when I divided the result into the official number of jews it worked out at 1 jewish biased charity per 99 jews!
Good for Aaron of Lincoln, where the cathedral is beautiful. I’m not sure the christians who paid for it were happy about the deal.
I got the figures from the jewish Virtual Library website. In fact it is now 1 in 224 for Britain, and 1 in 61 for the USA.
When you consider the number of Jews in the media, finance, politics, academia etc it beggars belief that they are not a self-preservation society, at the expense of the gentiles. A Jewish friend said I could never join the best club in the country, the synagogue; not without being circumcised…ouch!
Well done… Arch.. As usual..!!
I was going to post this under your comment before. Glad it is an article.
As a convinced “anti-Semite” myself, I must say that Arch Stanton’s idea is vastly exaggerated. Without Jews there still would be crime, violence, wars, genocides, corruption and degeneration. It is exactly because there are so many non-Jewish criminals in the world that the Jews are able to exert a negative influence on the world, vastly beyond their own small number. They simply co-opt the already existing criminals for their own schemes.
We are responsible for our own moral corruption. Because we are corrupt, the Jews can make us more corrupt. In this way we could say that humanity “deserves” its Jews. Getting rid of the Jews would require getting rid of our own weaknesses first, and that is a Herculean task!
You make very valid points. That said, I would add we don’t stand a chance of “getting rid of our own weaknesses” as long as they are being gouged by the united grand masters of deception. Ethics (optimum survival) is not understood because practical application requires experience – fresh, at that. We seem to learn the hard way, and that has overtaken us. Were we as well networked as the Chosen we might pass on what we know as a tribe, but would we have the creations (sourced by individuals with self-awareness) were that the case?
If you want to argue that we see by contrast, and that the Chosen add the dark element (like a blackboard) for that purpose, I think you might be onto something.
The universe is full of dead planets though.
p.s. I would like to add “magnificent” before “creations (sources by individuals with self-awareness)” to clarify that I’m referring to the great creative masters of the West from every field, the ones Susan Sontag claimed didn’t make up for the evils of the white race. The Chosen lack self-awareness, therefore empathy. That’s what the tribe has sacrificed to receive “all the riches of the world”. Individual self-awareness is the last thing the Chosen can afford.
Again, I cannot abide by the “willing accomplice” concept. Western culture was quite unwilling to be perverted to the Jew’s corrupt cultural machinations; witness the number of times throughout history Jews have been run out of town. The English managed to keep them out for three hundred years!
It took Jews generations to mesmerize the white man into accepting the cultural perversions now endemic throughout western civilization. How can the white man be expected to begin work on himself as long as the Jews’ deleterious influence is present, overriding his best efforts? Note, it only took Hitler a few years to rid Germany of the Jew’s perversions and restore the healthy German culture, but first he had to rid Germany of its Jews!
As with any mesmerized individual, once under the spell of the mesmerizer, they are helpless to deflect his suggestions. An interesting point is one cannot be mesmerized against their will. If one refuses to be mesmerized, or has a natural inhibition to the effect, then the mesmerizer has no ability to work his craft.
But this applies to the guy swinging the watch. Jews own and control Talmudvision and I am amazed at how many people have the programmatube on twenty four hours a day. A friend of mine who works in a nursing home has commented how she too is amazed at how many inmates ~ er ~ patients, never turn it off.
Another friend of mine, the same age as myself, has his programmatube on all the time when I visit. It is interesting that he does not actively watch it, but leaves it constantly droning in the background. While highly intelligent, he marches lockstep to the Talmudic tunes constantly irradiating his psyche.
My friend believes the official government version of every story, never entertaining the slightest notion that he might be watching lies and propaganda. When I introduced him to Denierbud’s video on the Hallowedhoax, after a few minutes he refused to watch anymore, exclaiming adamantly: “He’s talking down to me! I will not tolerate anyone talking down to me!” As he fancies himself a rebellious nonconformist, I would be hard pressed to consider the notion he has not been programmed against his will.
When I visit, I find the inane cartoons, sitcoms or whatever playing in the background distracting to the point where I cannot stand to be in the room. At every visit, I have to ask him to turn the damned thing off. After a few request of this nature, he will turn the sound off, but leaves the video on. At which point I situate my chair to face away from the tube. Like any true addict, he cannot live without his constant video “fix”. Needless to say I seldom visit him anymore. Yet he wonders why all his friends have quietly dropped away.
I have related the story of my awakening to the effect of the mesmertube by just having one strobing in the same room while I was facing the opposite direction; how I became inexplicably angry until I stopped to analyze from whence my emotions emanated. That was the last time I owned the devil’s work box.
This is the ultimate effect of the Jew’s automatic lying machine. People say the white man needs his own media. Perhaps, but I say the first step is to rid white culture of the Jews’ media for only then will a white media be possible.
Nobody in their right mind willingly allows a parasite to infect their body, so why should whites take responsibility for being infected by a parasite? Can the infected be held responsible for the resulting illness because his flesh is vulnerable to the parasite? Should the infected be held responsible for the parasite’s actions after they burrow deep into his body and begin their deleterious effect that eventually leads to the grave?
One might say, “Well one should not walk through a parasitically infected environment, but with Jews how is that accomplished when the environment is completely overrun with the infectious agent?
Let us first relieve ourselves of the Jew’s presence before assessing the work required to rid western culture of its remaining ills.
“It took Jews generations to mesmerize the white man into accepting the cultural perversions..”
….. by using scriptures in the bible….. which initiated the inventing and repeating the idea of the “Chosen.”
Those who believe that are really hard-core and stubborn. They shout down anyone in disagreement. They say, “No, no, boy…!!! You got ALL wrong..!! Get outta here..!!”
I’ve just seen a 47 minute video about Juri Lina’s latest documentary Labyrinth Of Illusions: Uniform Diversity. It’s about brainwashing. Lina fled his native Estonia in the late 70’s to escape communism. He moved to Sweden, only to realize by the passing of time how much alike his new homeland has become the former Soviet Union. His movies are banned in Sweden. He has to show them underground and only by invitation. It is quite frightening. It is just a question of time until the jews patience will be over. The day Lina get whacked I fear it won’t be long until they start slaughtering all of us on an industrial scale. Just like they did in Soviet in the 20’s and 30’s.
Sam J. says:
“…“willing accomplice” concept…”
I agree. It’s not that we don’t have bad people in our communities it’s that they are not promoted and there is a balance towards controlling them. The Jews purposely push forward those that are corrupt or evil so they can be controlled to do their bidding. After Jews have been in an area for long period of time the Jew boosted evil ones plus the evil ones that the original evil ones promoted start to become a majority of all officials.
peter o says:
Well said you,I think you are 100% spot on.
Bjorn says:
Do not overindulge in this type of writing!
I will accept the jews as pushing and manipulating things, but not controlling them! You are giving them too much power in your mind if you do.
They are heavily represented in the destruction of nations, as any parasite would do to its host.
But just consider them a destructive element that needs to be removed, and spread the notion that they should never EVER be trusted. The day the white man wakes up to his own worth, removing these amoral elements will actually be easier than we think.
There is a counter-jihad blog I hang out on, these days mostly for fun. For a half year or so an ammoying little zionist shill has been around as well, spewing zionist propaganda to the gullible CJ goyim. I haven’t engaged but only observed. Not being sure if he was just a (((guy))) or some shill. It’s not like the blog is big as Geller, Spencer, BNI or Gates of Vienna. Then a few days ago there was this thread about dhingies transporting rapefugees from North Africa to Europe. Notice how triggered he gets once I mention the name Rothschild.
http://screenshot.co/#!/d37e7e23dc
http://screenshot.co/#!/cb71a38876
http://screenshot.co/#!/4473795187
After that the (((dude))) fell silent. maybe his handler told him not to engage because I was jew wise contrary to the other poor sods on the blog? What do you people make out of him? He claims from Georgia, the country, not the US state. I figure he is pretty young, early to mid 20’s. Perhaps even late teens even if I think they would be foolish to recruit people that young. he probably sits in a cubicle somewhere. Probably in Tel Aviv or NYC. That is my guess.
Yesterday I tried another engagement but he didn’t take the bait. 🙁
http://screenshot.co/#!/4d3373125f
Jew.
When he tries to steer discussion to Opus Dei in order to deflect it off Soros and the Rothschilds , it is like he is wearing the Yellow Star of David on his sleeve (“no fair always going after Jew when it is actually the Catholics behind all the evil machinations“)
Georgia is where the Khazaria once was, archeological digs funded by jews going on to come up with evidence.
toto says:
Good job. I especially love the calm you expressed yourself with, while delivering heavy redpilling (which only got heavier when he tickled you, i loved that too.) I don’t know what to make of him but yeah, being so defensive of the Rothschild and claiming they did you nothing wrong points strongly to Israel, the Rothschild’s state.
I especially loved deliver him the link from Vigilant Citizen of his beloved Freak Show of a family. Could be that was the thing that did shut him up? Nobody who has ever seen those photos can deny that they are insane in the membrane. Just like the Spectre video, I think that might be stuff never meant to hit the goyim mainstream at all. (((They))) ar getting sloppy.
I don’t know if Arch Stanton is guilty of hate speech or not, and to tell you honestly I don’t really have the time nor the patience to give it much thought, I don’t really give a shit : There! I said IT! I’m TOO preoccupied asking myself if I’m “guilty” of being “TOO Jew-Wise”, ’cause the more Jew Wise I get the more shut-out of your “alternative” media I get. And not only here at Darkmoon but at every “Jew Wise” website in your “Jew-Wise” “alternative” media, the more Jew Wise I get the more I’m treated like garbage for being TOO Jew-Wise and thrown out with the trash so to speak and just because I’m TOO Jew Wise. Funny that, “ha ha ha”.
The fact is the masses would be no where near as tolerant of Jews as myself. The proof can be seen by the mounting anger and intolerance of the Jews’ policies. Were the masses to suddenly become aware of who and what is behind those policies, had the masses even a smattering of my knowledge on the subject, they would go ballistic and track them down like those horrible Nhaaadzees, but this time there really would be a “genocidal holocaust” directed against them. Jews know this and that is why they live in fear of discovery. This is why the idea of anti-Semitism exists and why I made the opening statement.
I never said there would be no crime, I said there would be no organized crime, especially on the scale seen today. I never said there would be no wars, I said there would be no global wars. I also said that corruption and degeneracy would be minimal, not non-existent.
While I do not deny the culpability created by the natural human condition, I simply point out Jews are so far beyond that condition, they would be intolerable to others were their true nature openly known. This is why Jews constantly hide behind false names and secret societies. This is why they work diligently to mislead the goyim in the opposite direction with smarmy words like “diversity” and “tolerance”.
After more than twenty five years of studying the Jews, their culture, their history and their ancient religion. After writing more than seven hundred pages about Jesus and his interaction with the totally corrupt “second” Temple, the scales have fallen from my eyes. I now see the unimaginable, the unthinkable, horror and ugliness of the Jews, as has everyone who has ever taken time to study these subjects.
If one wants to witness a perfect portrayal of Jews at their finest, they can do no better than watching Mel Gibson’s “The Passion”. Watch his scourging and see if you can feel Jesus’ pain as the Sanhedrin sits smugly by to watch their proxy agents whip him to a bloody pulp. See if you can feel the nails driven through his flesh and think, all this because of Jews.
Had there been no Jews, there would have been no Temple. Had there been no Temple, there would have been no Jesus. Had there been no Jesus there would have been no Christianity. Had there been no Christianity . . . Is it hateful or even unreasonable to demand Jews accept responsibility for creating their own grief instead of blaming it on the chimera of “anti-Semitism”?
As another commentator named “Toby” once pointed out:
“Remember John Strugnell and The Dead Sea Scrolls And What They Revealed About Jews.
“Strugnell said of Judaism: “It’s a horrible religion. It’s Christian heresy, and we deal with our heretics in different ways. You are a phenomenon that we haven’t managed to convert – and we should have managed.” Mr. Strugnell was a professor at Harvard, when after studying the Dead Sea Scrolls and learning the horrible-vile truth about the Satanic death cult of jews, was declared insane and a depressed drunk by jew controlled jew infiltrated Harvard. He was asked to submit his resignation. This is a classic jew trick: Anyone who speaks out against them is suddenly discredited and denounced as mentally imbalanced, crazy, a wacko, a drunk, etc. and they suddenly find themselves out of commission. The same thing happened to the writer Ezra Pound when he began researching and writing about the jews and their little evil vile criminal network, the jews locked him up in a mental hospital.”
As for “hate”, does one “hate” a faceless terminal disease? That is what Jews are – a nameless, faceless, terminal disease for mankind. However the masses have been well taught by Jews to hate for Jews are the people of hate. They hate communists, they hate liberals, they hate conservatives, they hate Trump, they hate Hillary, they hate Nhaadzees, they hate Muslims, they hate Christians, they hate whitey, they hate Negroes and all the while the Jew stands apart, piously pleading the need for “diversity”, “multiculturalism,” “tolerance” and understanding. As Mr. Linder said “Jews set ’em up and Jews knock ’em down.” Thanks to Jews hate is everywhere and it is driving once civil societies towards yet more dissension, more dissolution, more violence, more bloodshed, and yes, more war.
That is what hate is all about and that is what Jews are all about, hating everyone, even their own kind. Their holy books point this out in uncompromising terms. After all what kind of hate does it take to torture a little child to death in vengeance for what one of their own did to them thousands of years ago? How can such hate even be measured? Therefore, if one wants to see unvarnished hate that lies beyond what other cultures are capable of, simply look to the Jew.
I do not see the glass as half full, nor half empty. I do not see a glass, for it is Jews that create the glass and define its illusory properties. There is no glass, there is only the illusion of a glass.
Your comment was rescued from our spam folder. No idea why it went in there.
It should not have been posted as it was unfinished
Arch –
“The fact is the masses would be no where near as tolerant of Jews as myself.”
I’m not so certain about that one.
They know this….. and who did it… he was all over TV:
Affordable Health Care, mainly pushed by JUST one man, who lied to the people, has cost many businesses and many, many more jobs…. and increased health costs…. and yet…. NO mobs are surrounding his government housing…. his living quarters… the White House…!!
I agree with your view except for this:
“Had there been no Temple, there would have been no Jesus. Had there been no Jesus there would have been no Christianity.”
I believe the Jews were the circumstance, not the cause that made Jesus and Christianity possible. I like to believe that humanity in another place at another in time wold have still been able to reach the heights of spirituality that produced Christian ethics, the most humane and universal ethical system that lifts human inter-realtionships to unconditional love for one’s fellow human beings. I prefer to believe that Jesus was inevitable rather than the bestial mass destruction of entire peoples and of the planet itself. At least on my good days I do …
Phenomenal article Arch.
I can’t really argue anything on there, other than of course slavery. Before the Jews ‘took’ the trade over, Romans, Germanic, Norse, Celtic, Persian, Arabian, Asian, East Asian, North American, Central American, South American and of course African……the list goes on and on of cultures who took the defeated as a spoil of war. That stated, though, Jews most certainly dominated slavery from certainly the 7th century onward, right through to the 20th century. There’s no doubt about it, that the ‘most persecuted’ certainly ‘persecuted’ the most.
The posting above was unfinished, here is my finished thought on the subject. I am unsure why it posted.
The fact is the masses would be no where near as tolerant of Jews as myself. The proof can be seen by the mounting anger and intolerance of the Jews’ policies. Were the masses to suddenly become aware of who and what is behind those policies, had the masses even a smattering of my knowledge on the subject, they would go ballistic and track them down like those horrible Nhaaadzees did, but this time there really would be a “genocidal holocaust” directed against them. Jews know this, that is why they live in fear of discovery. This is why the idea of anti-Semitism exists and why I made the opening statement.
While I do not deny the culpability created by the natural human condition, I simply point out Jews are so far beyond that condition, they would be intolerable to others, were their true nature openly known. This is why Jews constantly hide behind false names and secret societies. This is why they work diligently to mislead the goyim in the opposite direction with smarmy words like “diversity” and “tolerance”.
After more than twenty five years of studying the Jews, their culture, their history and their ancient religion. After writing more than seven hundred pages about Jesus and his interaction with the bloody, corrupt “second” Temple, the scales have fallen from my eyes. I now see clearly the unimaginable, the unthinkable, horror and ugliness of the Jews, as has everyone who has ever taken time to study these subjects.
If one wants to witness a perfect portrayal of Jews at their finest – or worst – they can do no better than watching Mel Gibson’s movie “The Passion”. Watch his scourging and see if you can feel Jesus’ pain as the Sanhedrin sits smugly by to watch their proxy agents whip him to a bloody pulp. See if you can feel the nails driven through his flesh and think, all this because of Jews.
As for “hate”, how does one “hate” a faceless, invisible, terminal disease? That is what Jews are – a faceless, invisible, terminal disease for mankind. However, the masses have been well programmed to hate, for Jews are the people of hate. The masses have been programmed to hate communists, they hate liberals, they hate conservatives, they hate Trump, they hate Hillary, they hate Nhaadzees, they hate Muslims, they hate Christians, they hate whitey, they hate Negroes and all the while the Jew stands apart, piously pleading the need for “diversity”, “multiculturalism,” “tolerance” and understanding. As Mr. Linder once opined, “Jews set ’em up and Jews knock ’em down.” Thanks to Jews, hate is everywhere it is endemic in the host cultures and it is driving once civil societies towards yet more dissension, more dissolution, more violence, more bloodshed, and yes, more war. It is Jew fed hatred that drives violent Negros to corner and cow innocent white victims while yelling angry invectives like “you filthy, white, racist, pieces of shit!”
That is what hate is all about and that is what Jews are all about, hating everyone, even their own kind. Their holy books point this out in uncompromising terms. After all, what kind of hate does it take to torture a little child to death in vengeance for what one of their own did to them thousands of years ago? How can such hate be measured? Therefore, if one wants to see unvarnished hate that lies beyond what other cultures are capable of, simply look to the Jew. Imagine the result were this hate to be suddenly returned and focused solely upon Jews. This is what Jews fear. They know what would happen, as do I.
Lest you think I exaggerate, look at the following examples.
Brave man who stood up to Munich shooter now facing prosecution for ‘INSULTING killer’
Moroccan Islamist named Mohammad attacked a priest in Spain and threatened to kill him. Mohammad came at the priest with a broken bottle and told the priest, “You son of a bitch! I’m going to kill you!”
Jews are the people of hate and they have programmed everyone around them to hate.
Yes you do exaggerate and in a most ridiculous way.
The first case is an example of political correctness run mad. The second case is an example of Muslim pathology. I don’t see how you can possibly blame the Jews for that.
Kyle Flanagan says:
All I had was a beer bottle to throw at him, but if I had a gun I would have shot him in the head – Thomas Salbey
I would have aimed at his nuts if I had a high-powered telescopic rifle. Make him suffer until his lights went off.
Franklin,
The second case is an example of Muslim pathology. I don’t see how you can possibly blame the Jews for that.
Spain kicked out Jews over 500 years ago after reconquista from the Muslims.
Muslims did live in Spain ever after and such an even never happened in 500 years.
Nevermind, it has never even happened worldwide in 1,500 years.
All of a sudden, after Barbara Lerner Spectre opened the door at the behest of the Satanic Hive Mind, stuff like this is happening every day.
Don’t blame the Jews, they have nothing to do with ISIS either, just an example of Muslim pathology.
Arch is 100% right on this matter, which leaves 0% for you, sorry to say.
You are an OK guy, Franklin but Wikipedia has a way of tenderizing the brain matter.
Fundamentalist Muslim with a broken bottle?!?
What was it, Jack Daniels?
Joe Sigur says:
In the protocols, the Jews call what they do “temporary evil. They acknowledge that monarchs (still an issue at the time for Jews) need well-fed populations to thrive while Jews need a starving one, an unhappy one a hate filled one…
However, read the whole protocols and you understand this is a strategy to gain total domination over the culture. The last ten of the 24 protocols tells you how they would rule in full power and it is much different than how they need to rule as a hidden power.
Also, goy, be very aware that through Jewish evil, technology has boomed and this was enabled through cash monopoly and a need to create “things” for mass diversion and an ability to direct resources.
Consider many things you take for granted in this world, never to have come about without Jews
Jews are behind colonialism. Doubt me? Look at where the Jewish financial power centers were and where colonialism led the way:
Spain-Portugal 1450-1600
Amsterdam 1600-1680
England 1650-1915
You really think slavery would have come to South America or North America without the Jewish obsession to make money on the cheap?
Also look at typical nation expansion in Europe before Jewish colonialism moved in. They expanded their borders. It is Jews and only Jews that are and were an international clique as Hitler liked to say and only Jews that would prioritize dominating cultures on the other side of the world.
But since Jews think they own the world and every specific place is a colony…. just take it from there
Look at the reformation that got many willing goyim to come to America so as not to be persecuted by evil Catholics and all of Europe slaughtering and bickering. There was no need to populate America, and kill Indians so the white man could live free! Colonialism is part of the JWO
Jews collude and yes, they are behind not only the NAACP but most white organizations, something the white ego might have problems admitting. Recall whites were a mostly primitive society and conquered by Christian Jew-slaves and taught to heel.
Like the English revolution that is rarely recognised to have happened, white enslavement to Abraham was just as devastating as what happened to Indians in America and all the other “less advanced” cultures in the Jew’s wake
The answer? Quit focussing on goy on goy issues and take it to the Jew leak. It is impossible to sort out goy on goy issues accurately till the Jewish power structure is removed which will take an international goyim effort by all non-Jews aware of the problem.
It’s never been about race. That’s what the Jew wants you to believe. That’s a simple ruse to distract with. It’s always been about Jew lies and goyim ignorance of those lies
It’s about awareness that is not limited to one race
remember, almost every news item that we see is censored by a Jew and often the event is false flagged or misexplained by one. When this is acknowledged, one can’t take anything at face value and must be skeptical. To take it at face value basically seeds with no attempt to remove the Jew glasses described in protocol 12-5
Fine article from Mr. Stanton and fine point from Mr. Ryckaert – regarding the never ending vigilance and necessary response to crime (as well as foreign aggression – personified by Israel and corrupted proxies in our time). One point I would like to mention – in College, before transferring to University, I had two roomates, one Freshman year, one Sophmore year. Both were jewish. The first was from a working class background, was a really nice fellow, and as American as I am. He withdrew from studies because he felt he was not receiving a useful education and became a photographer. The second was a childhood prodigy, popular with virtually everyone because he was invariably fair, unselfish, had a brilliant sense of humor and of course was intellectually gifted, recognized by peers and teachers alike in this respect; he designed and taught a course his senior year (my sophmore year, when we shared the cost of a two bdrm. apartment off campus). Notably, when another jewish- American student was making the rounds collecting funds for Israel, he refused to contribute and when she protested “but you’re jewish” he devastated her, though his intent was more to present his identity, no personal attack. His identity was first, second, and last as an American – he didn’t share her jew-tribe mentality and with his brilliant intellect destroyed her arguments on a RATIONAL basis, and she eventually simply couldn’t handle it, she was way out of her depth. I would say that individuals like these are far more hated by organized zionist jewry than any possible “Hate Speech” practitioners, a loaded term foisted on the gullible by organized zionry. Loaded because it’s exclusive; Whites, Christians, and others need not apply for redress in the EU or in The USA, for there is no room at “the back of the bus” or “the back of the line” as Mr. Obama recently threatened Britain before Brexit.
5 dancing shlomos says:
truly a tale worth retelling over campfire
to make youngsters feel warm inside
deserves several smiley faces
if only i knew how
To make a smiley face is easy. Just do this:
COLON [ : ] followed immediately by a CLOSING BRACKET [ ) ]
This sign : followed by this sign )
he knows, Toby, you must learn how to read and appreciate 5ds’ meanings.
if you take him literally, you do him disservice, better not even to read.
Good post. Unfortunately, not enough people will see it and know it to be true.
“If” is a super big word to be so little. “If” really doesn’t matter since they, the jews, are here and have been here for a very long time. The jews have been adequately controlled in the past, but most do not even know about it.
Below is a quote from Eustace Mullins from “New History of the Jews” containing a quote from Ezra Pound.
“In all of recorded history, there was only one civilization which the Jews could not destroy. Because of this, they have given it the silent treatment. Few American college graduates with a Ph.D. degree could tell you what the Byzantine Empire was.
It was the Empire of East Rome, set up by Roman leaders after the Jews had destroyed Rome. This empire functioned in Constantinople for twelve hundred years, the longest duration of any empire in the history of the world.
Throughout the history of Byzantium, as it was known, by imperial edict, no Jew was allowed to hold any post in the Empire, nor was he allowed to educate the young. The Byzantine Empire finally fell to the Turks after twelve centuries of prosperity, and the Jews have attempted to wipe out all traces of its history.
Yet its edicts against the Jews were not cruel; in fact, the Jews lived unmolested and prosperously in the empire throughout its history, but here alone the vicious cycle of host and parasite did not take place.
It was a Christian civilization, and the Jews were not able to exercise any influence. Nor did the Orthodox priests bewilder their congregations with any vicious lies about Christ being a Jew.
No wonder the Jews want to eradicate the memory of such a culture.
It was Ezra Pound who launched upon a study of Byzantine civilization, and who reminded the world of this happily non-Jewish land.
From the Byzantines, Pound derived his no-violent formula for controlling the Jews.
‘The answer to the Jewish problem is simple,’ he said.
‘Keep them out of banking, out of education, out of government.’
And this is how simple it is.
There is no need to kill the Jews. In fact, every pogrom in history has played into their hands, and has in many instances been cleverly instigated by them.
Get the Jews out of banking and they cannot control the economic life of the community.
Get the Jews out of education and they can not pervert the minds of the young to their subversive doctrines.
Get the Jews out of government and they cannot betray the nation.”
That may sound plausible, but keep in mind that the Jews are not only masters of infiltration but also of manipulation. You could keep them out of finance, politics, media and education by decree, but then they will simply use proxies, i.e. Gentiles who secretly work for them. It would be impossible to check all non-Jewish persons active in public life if they are not secretly implementing a Jewish agenda.
No, the best thing to do is to expel them all, not to another Gentile country, but to a country of their own. That country should be semi-boycotted, i.e. its citizens should not be allowed to settle in other countries or buy property or businesses there.
Jews have to be mongrelized out oif existence to end the problem. The Jewish secret society, dismantled and their heritage forgotten or the Jew will continue to be a Jew and sneak in where he isn’t wanted. The Talmud is all about Jewish domination. Jews hate the idea of only living with Jews at this point
I agree with Joe that they have to be bred out. Preferably with “schwartzes” as they themselves calls them. That would effectivelly lower their IQ’s in a couple of generations to not be such a threat to us anymore. Well, what can I say more? It will be a huge transformation for them to make and us eveeel naaahdzees will be resented for it. But without it they cannot survive.
@ Franklin Ryckaert
What the Mullins quote did not say is that in the Byzantine Empire usury was punishable by death so there were no repeat jewish or jewish stooge offenders. Also, there could be no new synagogues built.
It would not be really that difficult to dismantle jewish dominance, but it would take a person with considerable conviction to do so. All it would take is for the military to show up with enough troops (not many required) in Jew York City to arrest everyone on Wall Street, put them in a FEMA camp for later trial, nationalize all banks, shutdown the stock markets, cancel all debts, and revive the Articles of Confederation to replace the jewish Constitution. The jews and their stooges not captured in Jew York City and other parts of the country would be exiting the country in short order especially if the death penalty was assigned to the practice of usury. Taking away the jews’ ability to practice usury leaves them powerless. It is this risk that motivates the jews to control who gets into the office of President. They do not want a repeat of the Byzantine Empire.
Exporting all jews would not completely solve the problem. The jewish monetary system of usury must be eliminated or the jews and their stooges will return.
I spoke with Mullins about many solutions over the years. He said the same as you posted. That’s the reason he wrote and spoke so much about the Federal Reserve and debt and banking. That was priority number one.
As you stated:
The answer is “simple”…. although physically doing it is a monumental task.
It would require a huge PHYSICAL battle to remove them from our systems OR our lands.
Wishing and hoping and praying has not worked.
banking has to be publicly defined as Jewish. In fact all Jewish problems have to be defined as Jewish problems and our task is to see those problems in full
agreed, and the fall of Constantinople was the beginning of this second Jewish dark ages and the 2nd Jewish golden age
yogida says:
here is little story as told to children. An ‘occult’ explanation as to the origins of evil in this creation taken from the Indian tradition.
When the supreme divine Consciousness, the personal and impersonal Absolute imagined the possibility of a creation diametrically oppposite of what HE represented – It took place, it happened. HE sent out four mighty Beings to take charge of the material universe.
They were: The Lord of Love and Light
The Lord of LIFE
The Lord of Consciousness
The Lord of Truth
Unfortunately these four original Gods – called the Asuras in Indian Mythology – were given full freedom to operate.
Eventually they became each so taken in by their powers that they thought themselves even greater than their origin – the Supreme.
And so it happened over endless spaces of time:
The Lord of Love and Light became the Lord of Hate and Darkness.
The Lord of LIFE became the Lord of DEATH
The Lord of Concsiousness became the Lord of Unconsciousness.
The Lord of Truth became the Lord of Falsehood.
As a result all creation on Earth suffered and appealed to the Divine.
The Divine sent as an answer a second batch of Gods – the ones worshipped in various religions by mankind. Brahma – Siva – Vishnu etc. with their dynamic ‘female’ consorts. All found in the Indian scriptures, Greek mysteries etc.
Additionally all earth creatures were given a divine spark within the deepest recesses of their being, always available as a reference point when needed. In the evolutionary nature of earth development this spark would develop over countless incarnations into a fully developed soul, as found in human beings.
But the older Gods, the Asuras didn’t take too kindly to it.
The War between the asuricTitans and the younger Gods started.
In Indian tradition the war of Kukshetra. See the Bajhagavat Gita.
The elder Gods, the Asuras hold the greatest power over the earth nature with their three main drives: might and power over other creatures, money and sex. The human ego is equally attracted to these three pre-occupations.
Over Time two of the great Asuras consented to be transformed or
dissolved into their origin.
The Lord of Hate and Darkness and the Lord of Unconsciousness.
The Lord of Death is still holding out – He finds it presently to restrictive to embody in a human life for his transformation to accomplish.
The Lord of Falsehood flatly refuses, since He is having a great time on Earth with the human playthings. He said if he is forced to abdicate he will take as many humans along as he can.
This Lord of Falsehood controls most politicians, latest as soon as they can be useful to his games of cruelty, perversion of truth, wars and the like.
He is the real troublemaker in this world. His antidivine consort is the
Mother of Evil, always on the lookout for the slightest weakness in human nature. Their gameplan: DIVIDE – DISTRACT – DECEIVE
> here come in the Jews & the Germans & the Americans
The Lord of Falsehood, the Great Adversary, the Lucifer of our Time
always picks the most capable instruments for his intrigues.
As individuals or as nations. A pre-condition is a certain self-forgetfulness of one’s soul coupled with a surpassing capacity in the
various activities of human endeavors.
The Jews were the first of his instruments in our time.
Their god Yehova is the human replica of the Lord of Falsehood.
So are their scriptures – they consider themselves the elected.
The Germans were also used, again and again. For nothing is more fun to the Adversary than watching strong gladiator tribes battling it out.
The Lord of Falsehood always says to the Divine: show me your power on earth and I will show you mine. Though in his depths He knows that the Game will eventually turn against Him.
Human nature as it is much more readily responds to this Lord of Falsehood who also likes to call himself the Lord of Nations.
With the money power under his control he can control most of humanity. Add a little sex and greed and most of us are taken in.
The way out of this predicament: Truth and Sincerity.
Each one of us has a chance of taking up contact with one’s inmost soul – mind you, not our fake desire-oriented-soul of our surface ego-nature. This psychic being within eventually will turn out to be our inner daemon – the true inner voice and inclination. That’s all we can do. It will guide every moment in Life.
On the mental and vital levels of existence the great Adversary has far too many tricks up his sleeve to deceive us. He appears as the shiny friend building trust with his gifts & ‘fortunes’ until we are completely hooked. So beware of any outer intermediaries,whether
Gurus or Religions or else –
The Truth – your Way – your Dharma is in Yourself.
thanks, will read again, more carefully but at the first pass i may have spotted a typo (imagine! me, a dyslexic unread and clueless about so many of these philosophies and myths, correcting an adept).
In Indian tradition the war of Kukshetra (sic)
20 years ago, on a train from Kalka in the north to delhi, it stopped at a town called Kurukshetra – i am pretty sure that was its name.
How could i remember it? it sounded like a cool name and i just put it in one of the front drawers of my mind.
It would have been the last day of the summer school recess (about this time of year) and middle class families were heading back from the hill stations like … ooh, help me, i don’t wanna look it up, a mini-train up the mountain thru 8,000 tunnels in Himchal Pradesh, not Shiksa, not Shangrila … I give up.
And i couldn’t score a 1st class ticket like pukka sahib so was consigned to the steerage class and it was excellent.
+40°C weather, hanging out on the running board with guys for a smoke and it was a steam engine too.
(i am a train aficionado)
Defending anti-Semitism is akin to defending a sneeze or the gag reflex.
Natural law, and this is what it is, (aka) DNA/Karma/Dharma/Etc. needs no defending.
A person can even honestly say, straight faced, that it’s indefensible.
Efforts big and small at even tempering such a thing are uber-exhausting, and at best, hardly worth the effort.
Truth be known, it really is un-tamable.
Rousso says:
The post is far from being intelligent and is in fact just nothing but Judaic logic reversed.
The real solution to all of the mentioned problems is going back to the roots, that is to the Indo-European culture, that predates Afro-Asiatic influence of the Bible and Quran. Once a person accepts something like Buddhism or Vedanta, all the Oriental bullcrap becomes garbage in his view. And, he becomes invincible. At least, in his mind and heart.
Trump does not defend Anti-Semitism.
Trump stated…. “We’re going to protect Israel 100%..!! I’m a big fan of Israel…. Netanyahu is a winner…. respected by all…”
Trump is not the ‘savior’ as some have wished, hoped and prayed for.
See him say so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_K8fljn9is
Another Trump hater is jewish actor Joel Kinnaman. He must be oblivious to Trump’s devotion to Israhell. Before this he has also labelled the Sweden Democrats as a fascist party. Again oblivious that they are a sionist controlled opposition. Not all jews are in the know loop. Or maybe he is just doing what jews does best, simply lying?
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/08/joel-kinnaman-suicide-squad-trump
ORIGIN OF SIN: MONEY – NOT KNOWLEDGE!!!
Matthew 6:24 “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
SLAVERY IN THE OT:
Genesis 17:13 “Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.”
JESUS ON THE JEW (ONE OF MANY MANY MANY OTHERS…)
John 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. “
THE MURDERERS OF JESUS
Matthew 26:59 “ Now the chief priests, and the elders and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death.”
FORCE OTHERS TO DO THEIR DIRTY DEEDS…
Acts 13:28 “And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.”
The great shame is….young people will not read this…it would be too much for them.
I don’t want to rain on anybody’s parade, but the Jews had nothing to do with the Kennedy assassination.
http://www.cwporter.com/letter41.htm
You can’t expect absolutely everything to fit some doctrinaire abstract pattern. Other than that, I agree with Stanton just about 100%. Get rid of the Jews and your other problems solve themselves.
There was animosity between JFK and Israel. He did not want them to get nukes, but it is now clear the Jewish owners of NUMEC smuggled weapons-grade uranium to Israel in the 1950s. This was extreme treason and JFK knew about it, and would have acted against the perpetrators.
If Mossad didn’t have anything to do with the assassination they must have been delighted that somebody else did the dirty work for them.
Ron Chapman says:
G’day Pilgrims,
The viewpoint in this article is misdirected because this is a free will world and each of us is responsible for our own mental and moral evolvement. That requires us to live with and eventually overcome our ignorance, mental weakness, moral failures and resultant corruption. Humans on this planet are ignorant which, when allied to inexperience, especially in young souls, tend to result in serious mental and moral failures. Hence most of us are easily mislead and corrupted. Lucifer and his followers have greatly exacerbated our ignorance and mental and moral weakness and in recent millenia they have used Pharisees and neo-Pharisees ie Jews, to further those purposes. If the Pharisees and neo-Pharisees had not manifested, some other group would no doubt have been suborned by the Luciferians to further their purposes.
The primary cause of our corruption appears to have been Lucifer and his celestial minions with the Jews being the manifestation of their malevolence. But even if Luciferian influences had not appeared on this planet, we would still have been susceptible to mental and moral failures, violence and corruption. Those hazards are a necessary part of being free will spiritual beings having a physical experience. In fact making mistakes (“sins”) are a normal and necessary part of learning about life, the universe and everything.
Teachers like Esu Immanuel (aka Jesus the Christ), Mohammad, Moses and Abraham et al, incarnated here with a mission to teach the truth which the Luciferians and their agents had distorted and corrupted. Unfortunately the Luciferians and their agents, notably the Jews, have effectively distorted and corrupted the teachings and example provided by Celestials and others who incarnated to rectify the damage done by the Luciferians.
Ultimately we are responsible for our own evolvement and we cannot legitimately blame others for our failures. To grow and move on in our eternal journey we must come to understand ourselves and our role in life, the universe and everything.
In my view humans who incarnated into this planet without knowing of the presence and machinations of Luciferians, didn’t deserve the difficulties created by the Luciferians and their agents, but having had the learning experience involved in facing those difficulties can be a huge impetus towards mental and moral growth. So be it.
Abram? The extortionist who used god as his muscle? Moses? The cultural inverter that took every sacred observance of Egyptian society and turned it on its head to become anathema to the Israelites? Jesus? The guy who came to fulfill the law and thus end Moshe’s legal, literal death-grip upon Temple followers?
But don’t take my word for it, read about Abram’s seester act* in your Bible, where it is clearly described how he extorts money from Pharaoh and Abimelech using the half-truth that his wife Sari, “because she was fair to look upon”, is actually his seester. (Abram actually did marry his seester, but what’s incest among Jews? I suppose like the magical restorative powers of a three year old girl’s virginity, it’z nothing!) The extortion scam proved so successful, Abram’s son Issac uses the very same seester act once again on the very same king!
Apparently Abram “incarnated” to perfect the act of extortion, as obsessive subservience to criminality is the only thing he demonstrated. When God argues that “because their sin is very grievous” (according to God’s definition) everyone in Sodom must be destroyed, instead of giving god the finger and walking away, Abram responds weakly with a “what if” question. Yet he never attempts to find a single “righteous” individual among the Sodomites.
So it’s perfectly understandable that an entire people are destroyed to satisfy the lord’s invocation of his nebulous moral imperative. But wait! Wasn’t this the very same nebulous moral imperative that proved effective for justifying the Zionist American government’s war with Iraq? (Ever been in a desert storm? First thing one notices is the blinding, smothering effect of the blowing sand.)
As for Moses the Egyptian, don’t take my word for it, instead read the book by the noted Egyptologist Dr. Jan Assmann who elaborates at length how Moshe inverted the Egyptian culture to alienate “his” people from their Egyptian roots, an anti-assimilation tactic used by Jews ever since the sea closed upon Pharaohs army. Moses must have “incarnated” to keep Jews separate from the rest of humanity as rabid xenophobia is the only thing he taught the Jews. And what about Jews’ “borrowing” Egyptian gold as they left town, did Moshe teach them that technique as well? If not, it certainly is one of the lessons taught in the Exodus.
Mohammad? His time is closer to the space station, then it is to the other OT biblical characters mentioned above.
*The seester act first became apparent during my visits to Tijuana where young boys would approach me with a shy, underage girl in tow, saying “Hey meester, this is my seester, she is a virgin! You like?” The very idea was so bizarre, so alien to my upbringing, that it took me a few times to fully comprehend the sexual overtones of the boy’s offer. Unlike Abram, I simply could not imagine taking such liberties with my sister. But this was just the beginning of a vast world of unknown realities to which the Marine Corps would introduce me.
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WHO backs Global Plan for Dementia renewing calls for funded National Dementia Strategy
The push for a National Dementia Strategy received renewed urgency today after the World Health Organisation (WHO) adopted a Global Plan of Action on Dementia.
Alzheimer’s Australia CEO Maree McCabe said a fully-funded National Dementia Strategy with measurable outcomes would be a positive step for Australia toward matching the international commitments set out by The Global Plan of Action on the Public Health Response to Dementia 2017-2025, adopted by the WHO today.
“We are thrilled the WHO has adopted the Global Plan of Action on Dementia, which demonstrates just how committed the global community is to improving dementia outcomes and reducing the prevalence of dementia,” Ms McCabe said.
“Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), which is the international federation of Alzheimer’s associations around the world, and of which Alzheimer’s Australia is a part, has been actively seeking ratification of a Global Plan for more than a decade, so its adoption today is a significant step in taking worldwide action to elevate the priority of dementia.”
The Global Plan on Dementia aims to improve the lives of people living with dementia, their families and carers, while decreasing the impact of dementia by setting out seven global action areas, with measurable targets.
The seven action areas include:
Dementia as a public health priority
Dementia awareness and friendliness
Dementia risk reduction
Dementia diagnosis, treatment, care and support
Support for dementia carers
Information systems for dementia
Dementia research and innovation
“A fully-funded National Dementia Strategy would build-on and enhance the National Framework for Action on Dementia 2015-2019, which Australia has already adopted and see the development of measurable outcomes to improve treatment and care options for people who are living with dementia as well as reducing the number of Australians likely to develop dementia in the future,” Ms McCabe said.
“There is estimated to be more than 413,0001 people living with dementia and it is already the second leading cause of death in Australia.2 Without a significant medical breakthrough, that number will soar to be more than 1.1 million by 2056.1 There is no time to waste. We need action now.”
Key features of a funded National Dementia Strategy for Australia should include:
Increased awareness to reduce stigma and social isolation associated with dementia;
Risk reduction strategies which look to partner with other health promotion campaigns sharing common risk factors;
Timely diagnosis to connect people with dementia to the support and services they need sooner;
A coordinated approach to post-diagnosis care and support;
Initiatives to improve the quality of care for people with dementia;
End-of-life care to support the choices of people with end-stage dementia; and
Investment in dementia research and support for consumer involvement in dementia research.
“A plan which achieves these outcomes would go a long way toward contributing to the global targets set out in the Global Plan of Action and ensure that people living with dementia are treated with respect and dignity,” Ms McCabe said.
Ms McCabe said consultation with a broad base of stakeholders was necessary, including government, people living with dementia, their families and carers, healthcare professionals, care providers, policy makers and others, in order to establish a clear plan on dementia that:
Is based on evidence with clearly defined targets, roles and responsibilities for implementation;
Includes a system for effective monitoring and evaluation, and
Is supported by committed funds and leadership at the national level.
“Dementia is expected to cost Australia $14.6 billion this year alone and increase to more than $36.8 billion by 2056.1 While the risk of dementia does increase with age, dementia is not an inevitable part of ageing. There are things you can do to reduce the risk of dementia. A five per cent reduction in the incidence of dementia could save more than $120 billion by 20561,” Ms McCabe said.
“Action on dementia is the responsibility of us all.”
Trevor Crosby was diagnosed with Lewy Body dementia three years ago and since his diagnosis the 67-year-old has become a champion for living well with dementia.
“I have a busy lifestyle and have added to it in recent times,” he said.
Trevor has just completed the University of Sydney and University of NSW’s Promoting Independence in Lewy Body Dementia Through Exercise (PRIDE) trial and is a consumer reviewer for the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
He attended both the 2016 Ministerial Dementia Forum hosted by then Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon Ken Wyatt, and the Dementia Roundtable held by Senator Helen Polley, Shadow Assistant Minister for Ageing, where he delivered the ‘big picture’ – three key priority areas for people living with a diagnosis of dementia:
Funding for cure;
Care and quality of life; and
Trevor said governments needed to plan and take action now and not wait for the economic and human costs of dementia to rise.
“What’s needed is for governments to say what they’re doing about the dementia disaster,” he said.
“It’s not looming, it’s here.”
1 The National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling NATSEM (2016) Economic Cost of Dementia in Australia 2016-2056
2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (2015) Causes of Death, Australia, 2015 (cat. no. 3303.0)
Sonia Byrnes
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Dementia Daily > News > The facts: The Australian Anavex 2-73 Alzheimer’s clinical trial
" The good news is the results do indicate a cognitive benefit associated with taking Anavex 2-73. "
The facts: The Australian Anavex 2-73 Alzheimer’s clinical trial
In January of last year, AnavexTM announced that it would be undertaking a world first Phase 2 clinical trial looking at the efficacy of one of its drugs called Anavex 2-73. This was exciting news, particularly as the trials were being undertaken in Australia. Well, the first lot of results are in and Dementia Daily has the wrap-up for you.
What is Anavex 2-73?
Anavex 2-73 is known as a sigma-1 receptor agonist or in other words has an ability to reduce oxidative stress, protein misfolding, mitochondrial dysfunction and inflammation – commonly noted in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. Animal studies have shown that this treatment is able to reverse memory loss and provide neuroprotection in mice with Alzheimer’s disease.
Director of Aged Psychiatry at Caulfield Hospital and Australian trial lead, Associate Professor Steve Macfarlane said Anavex 2-73 is designed to both relieve symptoms and slow the disease’s progression.
The details of the Australian clinical trials
The Phase 2 clinical trial involved 32 Australians who had been diagnosed with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. The goal of this particular trial was to determine the maximum tolerated dose of the drug, while also assessing participant’s resulting cognitive skill, blood results, and brain scans.
The trial was split into two parts, Part A and Part B. Part A was 5 weeks of on-off-on dosing of Anavex 2-73 via both oral delivery and intravenous injection. Part B of the trial began shortly after, which involved participants taking an oral dose of the treatment daily for 52 weeks.
Preliminary results are in
Due to the relatively low number of participants, the researchers are being cautious with how they are interpreting the results, however the good news is the results do indicate a cognitive benefit associated with taking Anavex 2-73.
After participants underwent a variety of cognitive tests (i.e. Cogstate, MMSE, EEG/ERP), the researchers noted that participants had improvement in psychomotor function (i.e. detection), attention and working memory. Just as importantly, there was no evidence to suggest any major side effects however some participants did have dizzy spells and headaches.
“In addition to the measured cognitive and functional benefits witnessed so far, an overall improvement in mood and decrease in agitation has been anecdotally reported,” Associate Professor MacFarlane said.
At the time of these announcements, Australian media focused on two of the participants who regained ‘lost’ skills. One of whom was able to play the piano again and another who rediscovered her art skills. While this is great news Associate Professor MacFarlane did urge some caution stating “we believe that extending the study will lead us to an increased understanding of the long-term effects of Anavex 2-73.”
An Australian ethics committee has approved an extension of this trial designed to allow participants who completed Part B to roll-over into a new trial and continue taking Anavex 2-73 for an additional 104 weeks (or two years), providing an opportunity to gather extended safety and efficacy data.
This trial extension is independent of Anavex’s planned larger Phase 2/3 double-blinded, placebo-controlled study of Anavex 2-73 in Alzheimer’s disease, which is suggested to involve thousands of participants.
Unfortunately, no Australian sites are currently recruiting for Anavex trials and Associate Professor MacFarlane said that “such a study [phase 3 trial] is in the planning phase, and is hoped to commence in 2017.”
Dementia Now will provide updates as soon as they come to hand. In the meantime, you can find out more about Anavex trials at www.anavex.com.
Posted: April 29th, 2016
Danny J Brunskill said:
I would love to get our sisterinlaw onto the program, my brother inlaw is having a lot of grief trying to get his wife to take part in any outings my wife and I have noticed a lot of detereation in her memory loss over the past couple of years
Josef Erharter said:
Hi there, my wife is 68 years old and has vascular dementia since 2 years. Her daily giddiness is shocking, she spends a lot of time in bed because of it and it causes her to fall often. We had her ayes and inner ear tested by doctors but that is not the case.can you give me some advice?
graham answerth said:
Am I eligible for the trial. I have a good memory now at 76, but search for words when I type. But really, that's all as I make every decision focussing solely on the task. I live near Healesville 3777 Vic.
Sally Xie said:
I wish I can apply for a trial for my mum who is 70 years old in China. She even can't know my dad. How I wish her memory can come back.
I wish I can apply for a trial for my mum in China. She even can't know my dad. How I wish her memory can come back.
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JIMMY DEMETRIOU said:
i would luv to do this for my father please ,,,,he has dementia,,,and in nursing home he is 93 this August15,,,it would be a nice birthday present if he could be helped ,,,even if its just a trial...his name is Euripides,,,
Edward Hulley said:
How can I determine whether I am on my way to having dementia? I am a 76 y.o. male who sometimes experiences occasional memory loss.
Anne said:
My mum 82 has been recently diagnosed with vascular dementia. Symptoms became apparent when her beloved son in law died in April. She repeats things constantly, says she's spoken to people the other day when these people have died years ago. She gets muddled with names. She ran her own 12 hour day business up to 76 years old and to see this now is gut wrenching in particular with dad whom she gets annoyed with easily when he tries correcting her. Geriatric specialist says there's no meds to give her to make it better or stable. I do not believe him quite frankly. She's taking organic coconut oil daily as I've read that triglycerides are helpful for the past month. I've also read that cannabis is fabulous but unfortunately it's illegal here. Today on the news they say there was a breakthrough in reversing dementia with type 2 diabetes meds. It will be available shortly. Shortly to them is 2 years! In 2 years so many people will suffer more!! Is there a trial my mum get into? Or is it a case of illegally alive or legally dead as per cancer patients that won't be prescribed cannabis oil to kill cancer cells in a lot of cases or at lease ease others pain? People will go to extreme lengths to help their loved ones as you'd know be it legally or illegally.
Leanne said:
Hi Warren Please know you are not alone. If ever you need any information, advice or support on dementia, we have dementia advisors who can assist you on our free National Dementia Helpline on 1800 100 500 Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm. All the best Leanne - The Dementia Daily team
Warren said:
I took Mum in for a trial a while ago but she just missed by a point or two on the cognitive scale and therefore missed out. I am encouraged by the feedback I hear but fear it will be too late for her. I know this all takes time but I fear that she will be lost to us before these trials finish. All of us in my family would grab on to any chance to even stabilize her condition, let alone improve it. Surely there is merit in seeing the results of the drug for people with advanced conditions.
Leanne Torres said:
Hi Connie Thank you for contacting us. Know that you are not alone - we have a team of wonderful counsellors on the free National Dementia Helpline who are here to help you on 1800 100 500. They are available from 9am-5pm Monday-Friday. You can also contact them via webchat via this link https://www.fightdementia.org.au/helpline/webchat. Kind regards Leanne – The Dementia Daily Team
Connie said:
It is so painful to sit and do nothing, just watching and waiting until he is all gone. The Anavex 2-73 trials sound so promising. But the clock is ticking. He looked at a dinner menu the other day and asked me what pasta is. He has degrees from two private universities, a wordsmith, and is known for his command of the language. Pasta: "A dish originally from Italy consisting of dough made from durum wheat and water, extruded or stamped into various shapes and cooked in boiling water."
Dementia Daily Team said:
Hi Leon, I'm not sure, I'm sorry. Might be worth contacting the company conducting the drug trial about that. You can also call our advisors on the National Dementia Helpline on 1800 100 500 for information, support and advice. Thanks, The Dementia Daily Team
Leon said:
Should all go well with the Anavex 2-73 trials,how long would it be before people suffering with Alzheimers could have access to this drug.My mum has a moderate Alzheimer condition for 2.5 years now and would she be in time to be saved.Thank you.
Hi Jen, I understand this is just being trialled in relation to Alzheimer's disease. I don't know if this will help with people with Parkinson's disease. If you would like to know more, perhaps you could go to their website www.anavex.com. Good luck, The Dementia Daily Team
Will this be able to help Parkinson's patients too? Both cognition and mobility?
Hi Robyn, The email we've been given by the clinical trial team is adclinicaltrials@cgmc.org.au. Hopefully this works? Let us know if it doesn't. The team at the National Dementia Helpline is also available to talk to you, if you would like. You can call them on 800 100 500, Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm. Good luck, The Dementia Daily Team
Robyn said:
Could you please check the email address if Avanex Drug Trial. My husband has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and at present taking Aricept with good results. I tried to email the researchers o. The email address but it came back as a bad destination. I have only just found your website and I am finding the information very helpful. Thank-you Robyn
Barry said:
Those with advanced Alzheimer's or Dementia, aren't being considered for trials ..why not ? I cant speak with certainty for mum, but believe she would whole heartedly grab any opportunity no matter how small to potentially improve her prospects, and others who are yet to experience this disease She'd probably say she has nothing to loose (the disease having already significantly diminished her health, emotionally & importantly the quality of her life ..not to mention the impact on family & friends) and would accept any chance this can be improved ..and we the family would advocate for this opportunity for her ! So bring on some 'last chance trials'
Hi Graeme. I'm not sure we can answer that one for you, sorry. Kind regards, The Dementia Daily Team
graeme said:
Be interesting to know if would be beneficial to those diagnosed with Autonomic Dysfunction?
Hi Rhonda. Thanks for your comment. I am sorry to hear about your husband - that must be very distressing. As you would be aware, euthanasia is not legal in Australia. However, Alzheimer's Australia does advocate for people to receive the very best end of life care possible, to reduce pain and alleviate the symptoms associated with end of life and dying. Please do know that you can call our dementia advisors on the National Dementia Helpline on 1800 100 500 for support and guidance on advanced dementia. All the best. The Dementia Daily Team
Hi Mahdi, The best option is to email them. That's the preferred point of contact we've been given to give out to anyone who is interested in the trial. Here it is adclinicaltrials@cgmc.org.au. You can also call our dementia advisors on the National Dementia Helpline. They can let you know about other supports or services that may be of help to you and your family. Good luck. The Dementia Daily Team
Hi my husband was diagnosed 8 yrs ago with dementia. I know and understand that he is well and truly past the post of no return. I just want to say that it grieves my heart more to watch him waste away...sitting doing nothing. I hope and pray that this new drug will help to cure or slow down the process. I believe that also there should be a moment when a decision should and be able to be made to end life. My sons and i suffer enough seeing our father/husband this way, he is in a virtual vegetated state and only 60.
Mahdi said:
my father has alzheimer's disease symptoms and he lives in overseas . is it any other option to communicate with trial team or just send an email? i live in Melbourne can i meet them in Monash University or any clinic ?
Hi Wendy, The Australian Clinical Trials website is a good place to start. Here's the link https://www.australianclinicaltrials.gov.au/how-be-part-clinical-trial You can also call our Helpline to discuss it further with a dementia advisor on 1800 100 500. Good luck. The Dementia Daily Team.
Wendy said:
How does someone become apart of a trial ?
My mother in law has been treated with Alzheimer's for five years . Although she is getting much shorter memory she is still able to cook run a house and look after her own personal daily living activities. Her mobility and balance is better than mine . It would just be nice for her to remember west she asked two minutes before She is in Sydney
Hi Wendy. It does look like it is targeted to people with Alzheimer's disease, however, it would be best to contact the National Dementia Helpline and talk to one of our dementia advisors about this. They would be able to point you in the right direction. You can contact them on 1800 100 500. Good luck.
Hi, my mum has FTD Dementia, is this something that might help her? We would really like to be able to give it a try
Tom P said:
Like you MJ I have someone close to me (my mother) with dementia and wish there was something to give my mother that would make her better or stop the decline. I hope the people in the current Anavex study continue to have relatively stable levels of cognition for a long time and that Anavex continues to extend the trial for these people. If the company thinks they have the dose right or has say 2 doses to try out then I (as a layman) think that the planned random controlled trial with placebos and a large enough treatment group is the way to go in order to get the drug approved to benefit the largest number of people. So for now all we can do is hope that such a trial starts soon and is available in multiple countries including our countries. I am in Canada and I assume you are in the US. Of course that would mean that our loved ones if they successfully enrol in the trials would only have a 50% chance of getting the treatment, but after some trials all patients are allowed to take the real drug, For your grandfather I have noticed that there is a trial of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in New Jersey. According to the description “TMS leads to increased secretion of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a protein in the brain and spinal cord that promotes nerve-cell survival and growth. TMS is a non-invasive treatment with no significant side effects.” The website for the trial is at https://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/clinical-trials/transcranial-magnetic-stimulation-treat-alzheimers. At the top of the webpage it says “No longer recruiting” although that conflicts with the status later on the page. The TMS technique is not something that I have researched in depth; I am just mentioning it as an option for your grandfather that is low risk. There is contact information at the URL I gave. There is also another website http://www.brainsway.com/alzheimers-disease for a company using TMS that is located in New Jersey. Being in New Jersey, there would probably be other clinical trials using techniques other than TMS available for your grandfather.
MJ said:
Silly question, for patients like my grandfather who literally have such short term memory they don't even remember that they took anything and that they have the condition, do you really need the control group. If I could have my grandfather back for even a short period of time i would take that chance. You bring that drug to NJ any time your ready. xo God Bless
Hi Prof Nimal. I am sorry to hear about your wife. If you live in Australia, you can call the National Dementia Helpline for free on 1800 100 500 for information, assistance and advice. If you live in Sri Lanka, perhaps the local Alzheimer's Association could be of assistance? Thank you, The Dementia Daily Team
Prof. Nimal said:
Very helpful. My wife has dementia. I have been trying many options available in Sri Lanka but with little progress. I would appreciate it very much if you could help my wife.
Hi Sarita. Do you live in Australia? I would suggest calling the National Dementia Helpline on 1800 100 500 as a good first step. You can also contact them via email on helpline.nat@alzheimers.org.au. Good luck/ The Dementia Daily Team
Sarita said:
My sister has Alzheimer for the past 3 years. She understands everything to talk to her. She knows who she has to talk in english and she talks to me in spanish. I've been trying to find something that can help her get better. Do you think that you can help us please.
Hi Jenny. Best to go straight to the people that are conducting the clinical trials if you'd like to find out more. You can contact them via this email: adclinicaltrials@cgmc.org.au. Thanks, The Dementia Daily Team
Jenny said:
I would like to apply for the trail for my dad in China, I can't go back to china to look after him but I wish I can do something for him, my grandmother died of AD.
Francine said:
Given the predicted numbers of people expected to develop Alzheimers in the future, surely our government needs to support this trial in order fast track the results. My sister was diagnosed with Alzheimers a year ago and has relatively minor cognitive impairment which seems to have stabilised. I believe this is due to the inclusion of specific fats and oils, and extra protein into her diet. I WILL not sit back and watch my sister deteriorate and believe we ALL need to make this an election issue.
Colin said:
These results are encouraging but must be treated with great caution. A study with no control group and very small numbers means there is a significant possibility the results could simply reflect the psychological benefits of being in a drug trial and the extra attention and greater interest in life that produces.
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City officials in northwest Iowa are considering banning people from carrying some forms of "toy" firearms, which police say are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from real guns.
Sioux City advances ordinance banning toy firearms City officials in northwest Iowa are considering banning people from carrying some forms of "toy" firearms, which police say are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from real guns. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2018/11/06/sioux-city-ia-adopts-ordinance-banning-toy-firearms-northwest-iowa/1905487002/
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SIOUX CITY, Ia. — City officials in northwest Iowa are considering banning people from carrying some forms of "toy" firearms, which police say are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from real guns.
The Sioux City Council tentatively approved an ordinance on Monday that would ban pellet and BB guns. The proposal wouldn't ban Nerf or squirt guns, or guns that shoot suction-cup darts.
The city attorney's office says more readings and votes are required at future council meetings for the ordinance to be adopted.
Sioux City Police Capt. Mark Kirkpatrick says officers have had multiple encounters with replica weapons and faced the question of whether to use deadly force. No one in Sioux City has died from a police encounter while carrying a toy firearm, but there have been more than 50 such deaths nationwide each year.
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Despite admitting that losing Steve Hipwell’s services is a ‘big blow’, Diss RFC head coach Dave Smith has challenged other players to step up to fill the void.
DEPARTED: Steve Hipwell has left Diss
Powerful number eight Hipwell was the driving force behind Diss’ promotion campaign of 2016/17 and their subsequent survival last term.
However, he has now been persuaded to rejoin Cambridge – the club he helped move up to National League Division One in 2016.
Smith said: “It is a big blow to lose somebody like Steve but he has made his decision and we wish him nothing but the best.
“He is a very good player, everybody knows that, so it is no surprise a side at a higher level was keen to sign him.
“This sort of thing happens all the time in rugby so we have to move on, and we will.
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Commenting on the arrival of Eka’s Digital CM Platform Architecture, leading portal on commodity markets technologies CTRM Center said, “We were also provided a demo of the Digital CM Platform and it’s clear to us as a result that Eka has indeed created something quite different – a solution set that leverages the now familiar concept of ’apps‘ to provide a number of discreet and high-value functional capabilities across multiple commodities and industries.”
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RAMAT GAN, Israel – January 23, 2019 – EarlySense, the market leader in contact-free continuous monitoring solutions across the care continuum, announced today that its 10,000 installed systems have surpassed one million patients monitored. With growth stemming from within the company itself, and via partners such as Philips and the world’s leading hospital bed manufacturer, Hill-Rom, EarlySense expects to monitor an additional estimated three million patients in the next three years.
EarlySense’s continuous monitoring sensors are projected to help global medical institutions collectively save more than $3 billion over the next five years, with per bed savings of over $10,000 per year. These savings are realized due to EarlySense assisting health clinicians:
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Over the past year, EarlySense helped clinicians save more than 180,000 patient hospital days, assisted in the prevention of over 14,000 pressure ulcers, and also helped hospitals save over three thousand lives.
“Every day, one thousand patients die unnecessarily in hospitals across the United States. Tools like our advanced sensing and data analytics solutions increase the number of patients continuously monitored, assisting clinicians to drastically reduce that difficult statistic,” said Avner Halperin, Co-founder and CEO of EarlySense. “Surpassing one million patients is a tremendous milestone for EarlySense and for healthcare systems worldwide, proving that continuous monitoring is becoming the new standard of care in the healthcare industry. As a result of our partnership with Hill-Rom, we expect this number to grow exponentially, empowering clinicians to save thousands of lives and significantly reducing costs for healthcare systems across the globe.”
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Beyonce shares intimate family snaps from her Mum's wedding
Beyonce shares intimate family snaps from her Mum’s wedding
Singing superstar Beyonce has shared personal family photos from her mother’s April 12 wedding on her website – and they’re fabulous.
Bey’s mum, Tina Knowles, and her new hubby, Richard Lawson, wed on a yacht in California in front of their closest friends and family – and all guests were asked to wear white – just like the bride and groom.
“It was important to me to have a wedding and walk in white, because sometimes we feel that at a certain age you should act a certain way,” Tina told People. “You can find love at any age. You just have to go for it.”
Present was Beyonce, her husband Jay Z and their gorgeous daughter, Blue Ivy, who stole the show as flower girl.
While Beyonce released a host of formal photographs, it’s the informal ones that show just how much of a family occasion Tina’s wedding was, one filled with fun, laughter, cake and, of course, some serious moves on the dance floor!
“To walk down the aisle and see all my friends and family and to see my handsome man standin’ there, and to know that at 61 you can still find love and have a magical day like that … it was really beautiful,” the bride, who wore a stunning Romona Keveza wedding gown, told People.
Other guests included Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, both of Destiny’s Child; Lawson’s children, Bianca and Richard II, as well as family friend, actor Samuel L. Jackson.
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EADS Development offers its business expertise to EPTICA, a MATRanet spin off
EADS Development offers its business expertise to EPTICA, a MATRanet spin off 15 jobs are created
Boulogne-Billancourt, France. As part of its industrial seeding strategy and efforts in promoting the entrepreneurial spirit within the EADS group, EADS development offers its expertise to the newly founded company EPTICA, a MATRAnet spin off.
DETAILS REGARDING THE SPIN OFF
The newly established company EPTICA has not only benefited from the transfer, under preferential conditions, of MATRAnet's web call center solution, M>WebTouch, it has also inherited an existing client base rich of 20 or so references and an international presence in 10 countries throughout Europe and the world thanks to a network of international partners and VARs.
Amongst its list of clients, EPTICA boasts several large bleu-chip companies such as DealTime (USA), Peace Systems Integration (Taiwan), Mundoviaje.com (Spain) and Assurdiscount.com (France).
EPTICA has 15 team members, 5 of which come from MATRAnet. 9 other jobs creations have been planned over the next 3 years.
EPTICA an overview:
Eptica is a leading provider of e-CRM software solutions enabling e-business orientated companies or companies who want to take full advantage of their web site, to create, develop and manage in real-time their relationships with clients, suppliers or partners via the Internet.
Eptica Enterprise Suite M>WebTouch can be delivered through 3 modules:
E-Mail Management: efficiently manage a large number of incoming e-mails and provide your clients with fast, accurate, and personalized responses
Live Interaction: Interact with your customers via the Web using chat, Web page pushing, co-browsing or form-sharing
Profiling & Customer Behavior Analysis: Fully understand your customers, their needs and their expectations thanks to the module's tracking and profiling features
Key data:
A team of 15 people: 6 in France and 9 worldwide
The capital distribution is as follows:
Eptica principle founders and ex-MATRAnet employees (81,5%) Independent investors (18,5%)
Principle founders and Directors:
Olivier Njamfa: President
Thierry Gandilhon: Vice-President
Philippe Boisse: Sales Director
Eptica has signed a development agreement with EADS Development allowing it to benefit from advice and support regarding business and logistics issues in conjunction with the incubator IFSI (Ile de France Sud Incubation), an organization co-founded with the CEA (Commissariat for Atomic Energy), the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) and the University PARIS XI.
In addition to this, Eptica has been offered financial support: a loan, to help it create new jobs, and EADS Development's backing, to facilitate its current dealings regarding First Round Financing.
A REASSURING MECHANISM
The triptych composed by EADS Development, MATRAnet (the EADS subsidiary that initiated the spin off) and the newly established EPTICA, bring together a group of people who understand each other as they all come from the same background: the EADS group.
For Pierre LANGER, President of MATRAnet: « to know that ex-colleagues are now being backed by a team of professionals with a proven track record is a guarantee for both EPTICA and us. It will enable us to objectively appreciate the company's development, its triumphs as well as its possible difficulties ».
WHO IS EADS DEVELOPMENT?
It is a shareholder-owned company with a capital of 20 MF (3 M €) backed by a network of 12 Délégués Régionaux (Regional Delegates).
EADS Development is not only dedicated to promoting and helping companies within the group to develop new seedlings, it also offers its advice and support to innovative projects (of companies that are not part of the group) within a wide range of sectors, as long they present a credible Business Plan that will generate new jobs.
EADS Development masters a wide range of skills, that all put together form a new industrial trade that has huge perspectives: Developing Employment.
Hence, working in tight collaboration with the various HR Departments within the Group, EADS Development offers their employees a wide range of outside career opportunities.
EADS Development is directed by Gérard HUSSON.
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Nehemiah Sent to Judah
2 In the month of Nisan, win the twentieth year of King xArtaxerxes, when wine was before him, yI took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence. 2 And the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but zsadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid. 3 I said to the king, a“Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, bwhen the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?” 4 Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” So I prayed cto the God of heaven. 5 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' graves, that I may rebuild it.” 6 And the king said to me (dthe queen sitting beside him), “How long will you be gone, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me ewhen I had given him a time. 7 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me fto the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah, 8 and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of gthe fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, hfor the good hand of my God was upon me.
Nehemiah Inspects Jerusalem's Walls
9 Then I came to ithe governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen. 10 But when jSanballat the Horonite and kTobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.
11 lSo I went to Jerusalem and was there three days. 12 Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode. 13 I went out by night by mthe Valley Gate to the Dragon Spring and to nthe Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem othat were broken down pand its gates that had been destroyed by fire. 14 Then I went on to qthe Fountain Gate and to rthe King's Pool, but there was no room for the animal that was under me to pass. 15 Then I went up in the night sby the valley and inspected the wall, and I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned. 16 And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, and I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, and the rest who were to do the work.
17 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, thow Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer usuffer derision.” 18 And I told them vof the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.” wSo they strengthened their hands for the good work. 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and xGeshem the Arab heard of it, ythey jeered at us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? zAre you rebelling against the king?” 20 Then I replied to them, a“The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim1 in Jerusalem.”
Rebuilding the Wall
3 Then bEliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built cthe Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and dset its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the eTower of Hananel. 2 And next to him fthe men of Jericho built. And next to them1 Zaccur the son of Imri built.
3 The sons of Hassenaah built gthe Fish Gate. hThey laid its beams and dset its doors, its bolts, and its bars. 4 And next to them iMeremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired. And next to them jMeshullam the son of Berechiah, son of Meshezabel repaired. And next to them Zadok the son of Baana repaired. 5 And next to them kthe Tekoites repaired, but their nobles would not stoop to serve their Lord.2
6 Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah lrepaired the Gate of Yeshanah.3 hThey laid its beams and dset its doors, its bolts, and its bars. 7 And next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, the seat of mthe governor of the province Beyond the River. 8 Next to them Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, repaired. Next to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, repaired, and they restored Jerusalem as far as nthe Broad Wall. 9 Next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, oruler of half the district of4 Jerusalem, repaired. 10 Next to them Jedaiah the son of Harumaph repaired opposite his house. And next to him Hattush the son of Hashabneiah repaired. 11 Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab repaired another section and pthe Tower of the Ovens. 12 Next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, qruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters.
13 Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired rthe Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and sset its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and repaired a thousand cubits5 of the wall, as far as tthe Dung Gate.
14 Malchijah the son of Rechab, ruler of the district of uBeth-haccherem, repaired tthe Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and sset its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
15 And Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired vthe Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and sset its doors, its bolts, and its bars. And he built the wall of wthe Pool of Shelah of xthe king's garden, as far as ythe stairs that go down from the city of David. 16 After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired to a point opposite zthe tombs of David, as far as athe artificial pool, and as far as the house of the mighty men. 17 After him the Levites repaired: Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him Hashabiah, ruler of half the district of Keilah, repaired for his district. 18 After him their brothers repaired: Bavvai the son of Henadad, ruler of half the district of Keilah. 19 Next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section opposite the ascent to the armory at bthe buttress.6 20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai repaired7 another section from the buttress to the door of the house of cEliashib the high priest. 21 After him dMeremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired another section from the door of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house of Eliashib. 22 After him the priests, the men of ethe surrounding area, repaired. 23 After them Benjamin and Hasshub repaired opposite their house. After them Azariah the son of Maaseiah, son of Ananiah repaired beside his own house. 24 After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah to the buttress and to fthe corner. 25 Palal the son of Uzai repaired opposite the buttress and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king at gthe court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh 26 hand the temple servants living on iOphel repaired to a point opposite jthe Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower. 27 After him kthe Tekoites repaired another section opposite the great projecting tower as far as the wall of Ophel.
28 Above lthe Horse Gate the priests repaired, each one opposite his own house. 29 After them Zadok the son of Immer repaired opposite his own house. After him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, repaired. 30 After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. After him mMeshullam the son of Berechiah repaired opposite nhis chamber. 31 After him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, opposite the Muster Gate,8 and to the upper chamber of the corner. 32 And between the upper chamber of the corner and othe Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and the merchants repaired.
Opposition to the Work
4 1 Now when qSanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews. 2 And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of rSamaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves?2 Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?” 3 qTobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—sif a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!” 4 tHear, O our God, for we are despised. uTurn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives. 5 vDo not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.
6 So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
7 3 But when qSanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. 8 wAnd they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it. 9 And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.
10 In Judah it was said,4 “The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.” 11 And our enemies said, “They will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work.” 12 At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and said to us ten times, “You must return to us.”5 13 So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows. 14 And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, x“Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, ywho is great and awesome, zand fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”
The Work Resumes
15 When our enemies heard that it was known to us aand that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work. 16 From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and bcoats of mail. And the leaders stood behind the whole house of Judah, 17 who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the other. 18 And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me. 19 And I said to cthe nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another. 20 In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. dOur God will fight for us.”
21 So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out. 22 I also said to the people at that time, “Let every man and his servant pass the night within Jerusalem, that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day.” 23 So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; eeach kept his weapon at his right hand.6
Nehemiah Stops Oppression of the Poor
5 Now there arose fa great outcry of the people and of their wives gagainst their Jewish brothers. 2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” 4 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for hthe king's tax on our fields and our vineyards. 5 Now iour flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet jwe are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
6 I was very angry when I heard ftheir outcry and these words. 7 I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, k“You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them 8 and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, lhave bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say. 9 So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk min the fear of our God nto prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies? 10 Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest. 11 Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.” 12 Then they said, “We will restore these and orequire nothing from them. We will do as you say.” And I called the priests and pmade them swear qto do as they had promised. 13 rI also shook out the fold1 of my garment and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied.” sAnd all the assembly said “Amen” and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.
Nehemiah's Generosity
14 Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from tthe twentieth year to uthe thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, vneither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor. 15 The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration2 forty shekels3 of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, wbecause of the fear of God. 16 I also persevered in the work on this wall, and we acquired no land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work. 17 Moreover, there were xat my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us. 18 yNow what was prepared at my expense4 for each day was one ox and six choice sheep and birds, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet for all this vI did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the service was too heavy on this people. 19 zRemember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.
Conspiracy Against Nehemiah
6 Now when aSanballat and Tobiah and bGeshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (calthough up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates), 2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come and let us meet together at Hakkephirim in the plain of dOno.” But they intended to do me harm. 3 And I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?” 4 And they sent to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same manner. 5 In the same way Sanballat for the fifth time sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand. 6 In it was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Geshem1 also says it, that you and ethe Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king. 7 And you have also set up prophets to proclaim concerning you in Jerusalem, ‘There is a king in Judah.’ And now the king will hear of these reports. So now come and let us take counsel together.” 8 Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.” 9 For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God,2 strengthen my hands.
10 Now when I went into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was fconfined to his home, he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple. Let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. They are coming to kill you by night.” 11 But I said, “Should such a man as I run away? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live?3 I will not go in.” 12 And I understood and saw that God had not sent him, gbut he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. 13 For this purpose he was hired, that I should be afraid and act in this way and sin, and so they could give me a bad name in order to taunt me. 14 hRemember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also ithe prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.
15 So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days. 16 And jwhen all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, kfor they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God. 17 Moreover, in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah's letters came to them. 18 For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of lArah: and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of mMeshullam the son of Berechiah as his wife. 19 Also they spoke of his good deeds in my presence and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to make me afraid.
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McDermott and Chiyoda Introduce Feed Gas to Train 1 at Cameron LNG
édité le 16/04/2019 - Plus de news de "McDermott" - Voir la fiche entreprise de "McDermott"
McDermott International, Inc. and its joint venture partner, Chiyoda International Corporation, a U.S.-based wholly-owned subsidiary of Chiyoda Corporation, Japan, announced that Train 1 of the Cameron LNG project in Hackberry, La., has reached the final commissioning stage. This includes the introduction of pipeline feed gas into Train 1 of the liquefaction export facility, the precursor for the production of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
"We are extremely proud of the Cameron LNG project team for this achievement and their remarkable safety performance," said Mark Coscio, McDermott's Senior Vice President for North, Central and South America. "Their accomplishment is more than just a project milestone; it is an impressive feat of engineering and construction. Once Train 1 is fully operational, it will have the capacity to produce 4 million tonnes of LNG per year."
Since the initial award in 2014, McDermott and Chiyoda have provided the engineering, procurement and construction for the Cameron LNG project. The project includes three liquefaction trains with a projected export of 12 million tonnes per annum of LNG, or approximately 1.7 billion cubic feet per day.
Cameron LNG is jointly owned by affiliates of Sempra LNG LLC, Total, Mitsui & Co. Ltd. and Japan LNG Investment, LLC, a company jointly owned by Mitsubishi Corporation and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK).
About McDermott
McDermott (NYSE: MDR) is a premier, fully integrated provider of technology, engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. For more than a century, customers have trusted McDermott to design and build end-to-end infrastructure and technology solutions to transport and transform oil and gas into the products the world needs today. Our proprietary technologies, integrated expertise and comprehensive solutions deliver certainty, innovation and added value to energy projects around the world. Customers rely on McDermott to deliver certainty to the most complex projects, from concept to commissioning. It is called the "One McDermott Way." Operating in over 54 countries, McDermott's locally focused and globally-integrated resources include approximately 32,000 employees, a diversified fleet of specialty marine construction vessels and fabrication facilities around the world.
About Chiyoda
Chiyoda Corporation (TSE:6366; ISIN:JP3528600004), is a world-leading, fully integrated international engineering company and EPC contractor. Since its founding in 1948, Chiyoda has provided engineering, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance services in a wide range of business fields including oil & gas, chemicals and petrochemicals in over 60 countries around the world.
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16/10/2018 - McDermott Awarded EPC Contract for Delayed Coker Unit for LUKOIL Refinery
15/10/2018 - McDermott Awarded EPC Contract for CB&I Storage Tanks in South Texas
11/10/2018 - McDermott Awarded PDH (propane dehydrogenation) Technology Contract in Europe by INEOS
03/10/2018 - BHGE, McDermott, L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Win Largest Indian Subsea Project for ONGC’s Prestigious 98/2 Block
04/09/2018 - McDermott Completes Pipeline Installation for Greater Western Flank Phase 2 Project in Australia
07/08/2018 - McDermott Awarded Subsea Umbilical and Flowline Installation Contract by Shell for the Silvertip Field
01/08/2018 - McDermott Awarded EPCI Subsea Tieback Contract from PEMEX for Ayatsil Pipelines
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Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS)
Morphological Borrowing
Documentation of N!aqriaxe with a focus on contact influence
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→→Linguistics→Past Research & Resources→Language Contact→Language Areality in Ancient Eurasia
Thomas Goldammer
The research provided a linguistic overview over the known languages spoken in that time, and the determination of areal patterns within this group of languages. This included testing of the present areal patterns, such as Balkan, Europe, South Asia, South East Asia, and other areals, but also typological enclaves in the Caucasus and Himalayas. Additionally, the project included a search for other areals that were not longer found in the present languages. The findings of the ancient patterns was then compared with the present-day patterns. The explanations for the changes in areal patterns that occurred within the past three millenia gave us an insight into the history of areality and certainly provided us with possibilities to go deeper into the history of human languages.
The methods used to test for areal patterns were statistical methods invented in the past 15 years for this purpose. Dealing with ancient languages was different from dealing with living languages, since nobody could provide us with more information than we could find from the ancient texts. For this reason the methods had to be adapted to be as much as possible able to compute the often poor data from the ancient languages.
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New Tory leader will be announced on July 23
The Tory contest to decide on the next occupant of Number 10 continues (PA)
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt face a series of hurdles in the race to Number 10 over the coming weeks.
Here are some of the key events:
– June 26
A “digital hustings” hosted by journalist Hannah Vaughan Jones has been organised by Conservative Campaign Headquarters (CCHQ), allowing members of the public to submit questions to the two men competing to be the next prime minister.
The second hustings for Tory members will take place in southern England. The first event, in Birmingham on Saturday, saw activists jeer host Iain Dale as he asked Mr Johnson about the row with girlfriend Carrie Symonds that saw police called to their home.
(PA Graphics)
Another chance for Tory members to see their next leader and prime minister in action, with a hustings in south-west England.
Two hustings – in the Lakes and Borders region and north-west England.
– July 1
Date offered by Sky News for a head-to-head debate after Mr Johnson refused to participate in one scheduled for June 25.
#BattleForNo10 #Toryleadershipdebate pic.twitter.com/FrF4PmFCSC
— Kay Burley (@KayBurley) June 24, 2019
Hustings in the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Two hustings, in north-east England and Scotland.
Two hustings, in the East Midlands and Wales.
– July 6-8
The estimated 160,000 Conservative members who will decide the next prime minister should receive their postal ballots.
The last candidates standing: Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson (Yui Mok/PA)
Mr Hunt and Mr Johnson will go head-to-head in an ITV debate hosted by Julie Etchingham.
Count me in! Really looking forward to a debate of ideas with my colleague @Jeremy_Hunt on @ITV https://t.co/F1TqYHoVKQ
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) June 20, 2019
– July 11
Hustings in south-east England.
Hustings in Gloucestershire.
Two hustings, in Cambridgeshire and Essex.
– Week beginning July 15
The two leadership contenders are expected to take part in a debate organised by The Sun.
The final hustings will take place in London.
The ballot closes at 5pm, with the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee’s Dame Cheryl Gillan and Charles Walker acting as returning officers.
The announcement of the new Tory leader will be made – although the victor does not automatically become prime minister at that point.
Theresa May is expected to take her last session of Prime Minister’s Questions before heading to Buckingham Palace to offer her resignation to the Queen.
The new leader will then head to the palace to formally become the new prime minister – the 14th of the Queen’s reign.
But the timing of the changeover is a matter for Buckingham Palace to decide.
The last day the Commons is due to sit before the summer recess, it could provide an opportunity for Labour to table a motion of no confidence in the new premier.
More than 1,000 people sign up for Aberdeen garden waste charge on first day
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Everyday Health Heart Health
Daily Dose of Aspirin May Up Risk for Bleeds
New discovery also raises risks of the preventative heart disease measure,
By Kristina Fiore, MedPage Today
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TUESDAY, June 5, 2012 (MedPage Today) — For years, doctors have been advising patients to take small regular doses of aspirin for heart health. But now it turns out that what's good for your heart may not be good for your gut.
Taking a daily low-dose aspirin to prevent heart disease may actually increase the risk of major gastrointestinal (GI) or cerebral bleeding, Italian researchers found.
In a large population study, daily prescribed aspirin was associated with a 55 percent relative increase in the risk of major bleeding — an excess of two bleeding cases per 1,000 patients treated each year, Antonio Nicolucci, MD, of Consorzio Mario Negri Sud in Maria Imbaro, Italy, and colleagues reported in the June 6 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
That's of the same magnitude as the "number of major cardiovascular events avoided in the primary prevention setting for individuals with a 10-year risk of between 10 percent and 20 percent," the researchers wrote.
"Weighing the benefits of aspirin therapy against the potential harms is of particular relevance in the primary prevention setting, in which benefits seem to be lower than expected based on results in high-risk patients," they wrote.
They also found that diabetic patients had a high rate of major bleeding, regardless of aspirin use.
"Diabetes might represent a different population in terms of both expected benefits and risks associated with antiplatelet therapy," they added. Some research has shown that diabetes itself carries an increased risk of hemorrhage.
Aspirin has long been proven in secondary prevention for patients with moderate to high risk of cardiovascular events, but its benefit in primary prevention of heart disease has been controversial.
So to clarify these issues, Nicolucci and colleagues looked at data from patients in 12 local health authorities in Puglia, Italy, who had new prescriptions for low-dose aspirin (less than 300 mg) between Jan. 1, 2003 and Dec. 31, 2008.
They matched the 186,425 patients treated with aspirin with patients who didn't take the drug during that time.
Over a median follow-up of 5.7 years, the researchers found that the overall incidence rate of hemorrhagic events was 5.58 per 1,000 person-years for aspirin users, compared with 3.60 per 1,000 person-years for those who didn't use aspirin, which translated to a 55 percent higher risk of bleeding in those on aspirin.
The researchers observed an excess risk of both gastrointestinal and brain, or intracranial, bleeding.
In addition to aspirin use, the risk of bleeding increased with age and was higher in men; individuals treated with high blood pressure drugs; patients taking prescription nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs); and patients taking other antiplatelet and antithrombotic agents.
However, diabetes was independently associated with an increased risk for major bleeding regardless of aspirin use, a finding that "deserves additional consideration," the researchers wrote.
"Our study shows ... that aspirin therapy only marginally increases the risk of bleeding in individuals with diabetes," they wrote, which suggests that the aspirin therapy isn't as effective in patients with diabetes.
That may have something to do with the accelerated platelet turnover seen with diabetes, the researchers said.
They also noted that the use of statins was associated with a significant reduction in both GI and intracranial bleeding, which could be due to simultaneous use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) in this population.
In an accompanying editorial, Jolanta Siller-Matula, MD, PhD, of the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, wrote that the study "underscores that the potential risk of bleeding should be carefully considered in decision making."
"There is only a thin line between efficacy and safety, and the reduction in ischemic events comes at the cost of increased major bleedings," she wrote, adding that future studies assessing individual risk-versus-benefits will be "mandatory to help physicians appropriately make recommendations about aspirin use for primary prevention."
The study was limited because it wasn't possible to consider variables that aren't routinely captured in claims databases, including lifestyle factors such as obesity, smoking, alcohol consumption, or the use of over-the-counter NSAIDS or over-the-counter aspirin.
Suzanne Steinbaum, MD, of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, who was not involved in the study, said it "remains clear that aspirin should be used in intermediate- and high-risk patients." She noted that it's important to know an individual patient's risk factors before prescribing aspirin, "as [aspirin] may be more dangerous than it is protective."
Co-authors reported relationships with Bristol-Myers Squibb and Bayer.
Siller-Matula reported relationships with Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca.
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CARP Town Hall: Morneau Fields Questions on RRIFs, Pension Reform and National Drug Plan
Peter Muggeridge | April 25th, 2019
Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau answers questions from host Libby Znaimer at the CARP Town Hall, held at the Zoomerplex in Toronto on April 25, 2019. Photo: Richard Lumsden
Federal finance minister Bill Morneau visited the Zoomerplex in Toronto today to take part in a special CARP Town Hall to discuss his government’s efforts to better support older Canadians and to listen to suggestions from CARP members and stakeholders on how he could improve policy.
Morneau used the event, which was broadcast live online, to speak directly to older adults, who comprise Canada’s largest voting bloc. Not only did he highlight the government’s record on seniors issues going into this fall’s federal election, but he took advantage of the opportunity to repair the bruising damage suffered by the Liberal brand in the wake of the SNC-Lavalin scandal. The latest Nanos federal ballot tracking polls show the Conservatives (with 35.5 percent) have passed the Liberals (33 per cent).
“In October, CARP launched its first national seniors platform (FACES) to make very clear to all elected officials what the key issues that older adults are advocating for across this country,” said CARP’s Chief Public Policy Officer, Laura Tamblyn Watts, in welcoming Minister Morneau. “We’ve been working hard with federal and provincial officials to make those asks happen. The goal, of course, is to make Canada the very best place to age.”
Morneau defended the government’s record on seniors issues and shed light on policy direction for the Liberal’s next election platform. (Photo: Richard Lumsden)
Before quizzing Morneau on seniors issues, host Libby Znaimer said that the Town Hall meeting was called because we’re all living longer. And not only do we have to change our attitudes and preconceived notions about aging, but we also have to rethink “the ways we allocate money to fund our longer lives.”
Belying his buttoned-down Bay Street look, Morneau adopted a friendly, approachable tone with the audience, and seemed well informed on all the issues. And to his credit, Morneau actually provided some concrete answers to difficult questions [a rarity for politicians at his level], refusing to shy away from responses that might not register well with the audience.
Libby congratulated the Finance Minister on a number of senior friendly measures put in place in the last federal budget including changes to GIS that allow older low-income Canadians to earn more money before the benefit is clawed back, $50 million for a new dementia strategy, additional funding for New Horizons program (seniors programs), and the implementation of a system that identifies Canadians who qualify for the CPP but have not applied for it. Znaimer also asked the Minister to respond to why several key issues were omitted from the budget, policies that CARP feels would immediately improve the lives of older Canadians. These included:
Issue #1: A CARP poll found that 64 per cent of Canadians are concerned about having enough money to last through retirement. Right now, tax policy forces Canadians to withdraw from their savings (RRIFs) each year after the age of 71, even if they don’t need the money. Because this policy forces retirees to unnecessarily deplete their capital which decreases future returns, CARP is calling for the removal of mandatory RRIF withdrawals.
Minister’s Response: It’s on the radar but don’t expect policy changes soon
“Issues like this I will never write off. But I will tell you that we’re attacking issues on a stepwise basis. The challenge when crafting a budget is finding where you’re going to have the biggest possible impact on people who are in the most difficult situations.”
After the Town Hall, Morneau met with Laura Tamblyn Watts, CARP’s Chief Public Policy Officer (left) and stakeholders with an interest in seniors issues. (Photo: Richard Lumsden)
Issue #2: In the wake of the Sears pension debacle, the government passed measures to increase protection for pensioners when the company sponsor goes bankrupt. CARP feels these measures don’t go far enough.
Minister’s Response: It’s a balancing act
“Fewer and fewer Canadians have Defined Benefit pension plans. There’s been a decline in the number of organizations that sponsor these plans. We always want to be careful that we don’t take actions that actually continue that decline. If we create more onerous regulations, then it might actually decrease the likelihood that these plans continue to exist.”
Issue #3: With over eight million Canadians caring for a family member or loved one, CARP is calling for increased financial and respite Support for Informal Caregivers
Minister’s Response: Sizeable investments in homecare have been made
“We renegotiated the agreement between the federal government and the provinces around health care. Imbedded in that agreement was that we put $6 billion into homecare. We’re constantly looking at the tax code to make sure it addresses the challenges that are facing people. We’ll continue to look at issues like this in the context of our upcoming [Liberal federal election] platform.”
Issue #4: With many older Canadians not covered by either provincial or private health plans, CARP says the government must move quickly on a national drug plan for those not covered by government or private plans.
Minister’s Response: It’s a highly complicated problem but we’re moving on it
“It’s a really big challenge. The first issue is that pharmaceuticals in Canada are too expensive (third in the world behind Switzerland and the U.S. and). If it’s too expensive, that’s problematic. The second issue is access. The Canada Drug Agency [announced in the recent budget] was founded to use the negotiating power of the entire country to negotiate effectively on the price of drugs. And [we have to come up with] a common formulary [a universal listing of drugs that everyone needs.] There’s no simple ‘turn-the-switch’ solution. But we’re committed to getting to where every Canadian has access to the pharmaceutical coverage they need.”
Issue #5: With more than one in 10 older Canadians reporting that they’re victims of physical or financial abuse, CARP is calling for a National Elder Abuse Awareness Campaign and a 1-800 number to report and track it.
Morneau and Tamblyn Watts after the CARP Town Hall. (Photo: Richard Lumsden)
Minister’s Response: A 1-800 line sounds good
“This is an important issue. What I can say with absolute certainty is that I’ll take this issue back and make sure that I’m talking to [Seniors Minister] Filomena Tassi about it. I always have an important role in these issues because they come to me for funding. [Setting up] a 1-800 line is most certainly not a huge funding issue. What I can commit to is taking this issue away and making sure we look at it.”
Issue #6: The Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI) has, in many cases, been replaced by ADRBO, a for-profit company that resolves consumer disputes for banks. CARP feels that OBSI does a better job protecting older Canadians in resolving their disputes with banks.
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“We share the goal to make sure that the banking system has the services people expect and the protection they deserve. I’m agnostic on whether it should be delivered one way or another. I’m not agnostic about ensuring that people have the protections. If there’s evidence that there’s some problem, we need to react and appropriately deal with that. But I’m always going to try to make sure that we don’t regulate things when there’s not a reason to regulate them. If it’s working, then we can allow the market system to work.
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EA Agrees to Remove FIFA Loot Boxes in Belgium
By Ryan Whitwam on January 31, 2019 at 10:52 am
Electronic Arts opened a can of worms when it added heavy-handed microtransactions and loot crates to Star Wars Battlefront II. Regulators all over the world took note of the kerfuffle and started wondering if the loot box mechanics were akin to gambling. Belgium even decided to make loot boxes illegal, but EA spent months ignoring the law. Now, it’s backing down and will remove the feature from FIFA Ultimate Team and future FIFA titles.
The backlash started in late 2017 when EA started beta testing the new Battlefront with extremely harsh loot box mechanics. At the time, it would take hour upon hour of grinding to unlock heroes and powerful Star Cards. Or you could just pay EA more money for crystals and buy some loot crates. EA eventually removed most of the more offensive aspects of this system, but the damage was done.
Several countries have started investigating the use of loot crates in games to see if they constitute gambling under the law. There is some research that backs this up — people are encouraged to spend real money on randomized items, some of which are extremely valuable. This triggers the same parts of the brain as gambling. There’s even some concern in the UK that an increase in gambling addiction among young people could be tied to loot boxes.
EA has been adamant that loot boxes aren’t gambling. CEO Andrew Wilson claimed it was different because you always get something in a loot crate, and you can’t cash out (at least officially). FIFA Ultimate Team has been one of the biggest loot box offenders of the past year, encouraging players to pump in cash to unlock rare player cards.
Belgian authorities have been threatening legal action against EA for months, but the company has decided to avoid taking the case to court. It will stop accepting real money for points at the end of the month.
Belgian players of FIFA will have until January 31st to buy additional points, and they will still work for purchasing premium content. However, point purchases stop after that, the only way to earn loot boxes is by playing the game. EA isn’t changing the mechanics of the game, which is going to mean endless grinding to get anything done.
Losing Belgian loot boxes won’t make a big dent in EA’s bottom line, but more significant changes could be coming as other countries continue to study the problem.
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You can now send Gillette your old razors to have them recycled
A new program from the shaving company will help make disposable razors less environmentally damaging.
[Photo: Crisco/Wiki Commons]
By Adele Peters 1 minute Read
If you use disposable razors, you might throw out as many as 20 each year. Gillette now wants to keep them out of the trash: In a new program, the company is inviting anyone in the U.S. to send in old razors, blades, and even packaging–from any brand–for recycling.
To recycle the razors, people can sign up through Terracycle, a company known for recycling hard-to-recycle materials, and when they have a shipment ready, download a shipping label and send it in so the materials can be sterilized, shredded, and recycled into products like bike racks, park benches, and pet food bowls. The program also offers bins to gyms and other businesses that want to serve as drop-off points in neighborhoods, collecting old razors and packaging until the bins are full and can be returned to Terracycle via UPS (for this option, Gillette covers the cost of shipping). Customers who use Gillette’s subscription service can also now return old razors through their subscription box.
[Photo: Gillette]
Right now, most cities don’t accept razors in municipal recycling bins. “It really all comes down to economics,” says Stephanie Moses, senior account manager of brand partnerships at Terracycle. “Essentially, when it’s more expensive to recycle materials–so the cost of logistics and processing is more than the value of the material–it’s considered nonrecyclable. It just doesn’t make sense from an economic standpoint.” As the company does with other “nonrecyclable” materials, Terracycle will wait until it has aggregated a large volume of old razors to make the process most economical. Gillette is also helping cover the cost of recycling.
It’s one step in dealing with the problem of waste, though not a final solution. “Terracycle’s recycling programs and our partnership with Gillette are really solutions to the way that consumer products [are] right now, which is highly disposable,” says Moses. Both Terracycle and Procter & Gamble, which owns the Gillette brand, are also working on a more radical experiment called Loop that explores how packaging–from deodorant and mouthwash containers to ice cream cartons–can be reused rather than recycled. In that project, which will pilot this spring, Gillette is testing a reusable travel case in place of traditional packaging.
The disposable razor itself could also be redesigned. If some customers don’t want to use electric razors or old-school safety razors, there still might be another solution that’s less wasteful than the current plastic version.
Adele Peters is a staff writer at Fast Company who focuses on solutions to some of the world's largest problems, from climate change to homelessness. Previously, she worked with GOOD, BioLite, and the Sustainable Products and Solutions program at UC Berkeley.
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How These Successful Female Celebs Handled Turning 30
Take all the things that you love about yourself, your life, your career, and see how you can take them with you moving forward.
by Kris Flojo | Apr 4, 2017
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There’s something about going into your 30s that feels really significant. It’s a chunk of your life where you fully enter adulthood, and it is both scary and exciting. But just in case you need a bit more encouragement, here are some words from some of our favorite ladies about how they handled entering their 30s:
"It made me want to look at myself and see what behavior I want to bring into my 30s...and what I want to leave in my 20s." Now that’s a woman with a plan! Take all the things that you love about yourself, your life, your career, and see how you can take them with you moving forward. In the same respect, look clearly about what needs improvement, and take measures into how you can make things better in the coming decade.
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"I keep being asked about it like I’m meant to be having a nervous breakdown, and I didn’t realize I was meant to be having a nervous breakdown. I’ve got a lot of friends in their 30s and they all seem alright, so I’m sure I’ll be fine!" Take it from a tough gal like Ms. Knightley. Age is just a number, and you’re more than equipped to handle whatever your 30s will bring your way.
"Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on, 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've found that the only thing that breaks that for me is being able to spend time alone, going to the movies by myself or going to art museums alone. I do that a lot. I've discovered the importance of even 15 or 30 minutes a day where it is just me." One of the best things that comes with being in your 30s? Getting really comfortable with who you are. The older you get, the more you know about what you like and what you don’t like, and you become sure of it.
"I think as a woman, you get older, you feel more confident in your sexuality. You're not as intimidated by it, not as embarrassed by it. Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin. I feel better—so much better now than I ever did in my 20s. I am calmer; I know who I am. And as a result, I feel much sexier.... There's always going to be somebody younger or sexier. That's why I like to say, and it's become my famous line, 'Funny doesn't sag.'" Of course we wouldn’t skip out on the good stuff! They say that you reach amazing peaks in your sex life in your 30s, and it sure looks like our girl Reese is confirming that claim. Definitely something to look forward to about your 30s!
"Don't freak out about all the brilliant people who accomplished more than you by 30...what you achieve is far less important than what kind of human being you are." It's easy to freak out when you look around you and it seems like everyone else has got it together. It's easy to feel envious of other people's lives, especially in today's world of curated content and social media. But everyone has their own time, groove, and measures of success. Focus on your own thing and on self-improvement. And every time you feel tempted to wallow in self-pity or jealous ambition, remember this saying: comparison is the thief of joy.
Read Olivia Wilde's entire essay here.
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The Year of Spectacular Men (2018)
**½/****
starring Madelyn Deutch, Avian Jogia, Nicholas Braun, Zoey Deutch
written by Madelyn Deutch
directed by Lea Thompson
by Alice Stoehr Movie star Sabrina Klein sits in a bathtub, distraught. She bawls at her companion: "Can you try to be my big sister for one second of your life, please?" Her big sister Izzy is a wannabe actress who relies on Sabrina for housing and cushy work as an assistant; emotional maturity is not her métier. Nonetheless, she tries. "We should do a song," she says, so they call up their mom and sing her "Give My Regards to Broadway." They both perform with such gusto that this must be a tradition for them, a holdover from their shared childhood. These may be women in their mid-twenties, yet as they dance around the bathroom they seem momentarily like a couple of kids.
Madelyn Deutch stars as Izzy and wrote The Year of Spectacular Men. This scene comes near the end of the film, by which point each sister's had her share of romantic blunders. Zoey Deutch, who's three years younger than Madelyn and far more famous, plays Sabrina. Lea Thompson is their mom, plays their mom, and directed the movie. (Dad Howard Deutch, who once upon a time helmed Pretty in Pink, co-produced.) It's a true family endeavour. The story centres on Izzy as she bounces from New York to Los Angeles. Per the title, her misadventures span twelve months and several men, though the word "spectacular" is purely sarcastic. Aaron (Jesse Bradford), for example, is the hot-tempered boyfriend who dumps her mere minutes into the movie; Ross (Cameron Monaghan) is the acting-class scene partner who doesn't return her affections; Logan (Brandon T. Jackson) is the drummer who leaves her for his ex; Mikey (Zach Roerig) is a bland skiing instructor; and Charlie (Nicholas Braun) is the film director who orgasms before he even gets his pants off. Not a keeper in the bunch. Throughout Izzy's hapless love life, Sabrina's there by her side, a fount of quips like, "Save a little face while you still have some."
Her relationships serve as fodder for the film's physical comedy. The last time she has sex with Aaron, they lean against a table crowded with ceramics, which shatter on the floor as the table rocks back and forth. Her first time with Logan goes about as well, with his sweat dripping into her makeup and the two of them rolling onto the floor, a guitar pick stuck to her back when she climbs on top. The humiliations of sexual intimacy only compound Izzy's clumsiness. The jokes in The Year of Spectacular Men turn out much weaker, however, when they stray from the subject of hetero courtship. Thompson's mom character is dating a woman named Amythyst Stone (Melissa Bolona), and the two of them behave like stereotypes of New Age lesbians. They talk about yoga, crystals, and quinoa. When Izzy calls them girlfriends, they correct her--they're "soul walkers." It's not a hateful depiction; just tiresome. The same is true of the film's Hollywood satire, which involves Izzy auditioning for the real-world horror movie Zombeavers and paparazzi camping out on Sabrina's lawn. That material seems especially tepid given the Deutch family's collective decades in the film industry. Madelyn's writing is verbose, cartoonish, but hardly trenchant. Although the actress herself is funny, zipping around with her big eyes and messy blonde hair, that still doesn't make lousy punchlines anything but lousy punchlines.
What does help is how boldly Thompson and cinematographer Bryan Koss stage and shoot the comedy. A tracking shot curls around a drugstore as Izzy--on the hunt for a yeast-infection remedy--banters with her sister. A two-shot catches her poolside meet-cute with Logan, their lines overlapping as they fumble to introduce themselves. Then there's the shot of her kissing Charlie on a film set while Sabrina, out of focus in the background, closes her trailer door. In each of these examples, the frame acts as a storytelling tool. Thompson directs deftly in her feature debut, and her daughters' rapport is tangible, especially when they're serenading her in that bathroom. But the screenplay is just too good-natured, too reliant on montage and quick catharsis, for its own themes of loneliness and loss. The very worst of Izzy's depression entails guzzling orange pop and marathoning "The X Files". It's writing with kid gloves on: a facsimile of pain without the sting. If The Year of Spectacular Men were a little tighter and a little meaner, it could be a wonderful movie about sisterhood.
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Marine fish catch falls 9% in 2018
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Published: July 13, 2019 12:50:31 AM
The total marine fish production in 2018 was recorded at 3.49 million tonne, which is lower by 3.47 lakh tonne (9%) as compared to the previous year, mainly due to reduced catch in West Bengal, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
The catch of sardine dropped to 1.55 lakh tonne all over India from 3.37 lakh tonne in 2017, a CMFRI source said. (Representational image)
Marine fish catch in India during 2018 dropped 9% due to a sharp decline in oil sardine catch, state-run Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) announced on Friday. The annual fish landing data released by the institute reveals that the catch of oil sardine from Indian coasts suffered a decline of 54% as the fish fell down to 9th position from the first spot among the catch.
The catch of sardine dropped to 1.55 lakh tonne all over India from 3.37 lakh tonne in 2017, a CMFRI source said.
The data shows that Indian mackerel (2.84 lakh tonne) was the most landed marine fish in the country during the year, followed by cephalopods (2.21 lakh tonne), non-penaeid prawns (1.94 lakh tonne), ribbon fish (1.94 lakh tonne) and penaeid prawns (1.84 lakh tonne).
Among the nine maritime states, Gujarat remained in the first position in the landings with 7.80 lakh tonne, followed by Tamil Nadu (7.02 lakh tonne) and Kerala (6.43 lakh tonne). Unusually huge catch of red-toothed trigger fish — about 72,000 tonne — was another highlight of the estimates, with Karnataka recording high landings of this species,” sources added. In Kerala, the oil sardine catch fell to 77,093 tonne from 1.27 lakh tonne in 2017 with a decline of 39%. However, the state registered a 10% increase with 6.42 lakh tonne in total landings as compared to the previous year with all other major resources except oil sardine recording increased catch.
The estimate of the value of marine fish landings based on price at landing centres across the country during 2018 was Rs 52,632 crore, with 0.4% increase over 2017. The average price per kg of fish at landing centre rate was Rs 152, which shows an increase of 11.1% over the previous year.
At retail level, the estimated value of marine fish was `80,320 crore, an increase of 2.4%. The unit price at the retail market level recorded an increase of 13.4% to Rs 232.
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Kitchen United Bolsters Leadership Ahead of Expansion
March 07, 2019 | Industry News
Kitchen United, the GV-backed start-up creating a new way for restaurant brands to expand via off-premises optimized kitchen centers, announced several senior appointments to its operations team to support its national rollout and expansion plans. As Kitchen United embarks on its plans to open 15 kitchen centers by the end of 2019, the Company is pleased to welcome the following new team members who will help facilitate this growth:
Carl Orsbourn has been appointed Vice President of Operations and is responsible for P&L accountability for each of the kitchen centers, the smooth operation of facilities, the development, management and success of a large staff and the successful opening of new facilities. He and his team have direct responsibility of ensuring excellent service, communication and support to delivery service drivers, KU’s restaurant members and front of house retail consumers. Mr. Orsbourn previously was the convenience retail director at BP (ampm) where he was responsible for product marketing, supply chain, proprietary product & offer development activity for a chain of 1,000 convenience store locations. He holds an MBA from London School of Business, and a BA in Management from University of Lincoln.
Robbye Schroeder Kirkpatrick has been named Vice President of National Field Development, where she is responsible for aligning the Company’s real estate objectives with its overall business goals. Prior to her role with Kitchen United, Ms. Kirkpatrick was a Director for Newmark Grubb Knight Frank in Houston. She started her real estate career at Trammel Crow Company as a Commercial Tenant Representative in Dallas and Los Angeles. Robbye received her BBA in Marketing from Texas Tech University and her MED from Loyola Marymount University.
Jimmy Penson has joined as Executive Director of National Rollout and is responsible for all phases of construction and project delivery. Prior to his role with Kitchen United, Mr. Penson was a Senior Managing Director at Newmark Knight Frank. He holds a BS in building construction from Georgia Institute of Technology and has over 25 years of experience in construction, real estate development and program management.
“As we continue to aggressively expand our national footprint in 2019, it is vital to have a strong operations team to ensure the strategic selection and overall success of every location,” says Jim Collins, CEO of Kitchen United. “Carl, Robbye, and Jimmy each have unique experiences that collectively contribute meaningfully in fulfilling our mission, which is to fuel the growth of leading restaurant brands’ off-premise business. We are thrilled to welcome these leaders to the Kitchen United family.”
Kitchen United offers restaurant operators a unique opportunity to boost delivery operations or enter a new market without the high cost and resources needed for a new build, as consumers increasingly look to delivery and pick-up as convenient ways to get their next meal. The Company’s kitchen centers each house 10 to 20 restaurant partners, helping restaurant operators streamline off-premise pickup and delivery without disrupting dine-in customers. Kitchen United also provides its restaurant partners with consumer and operational insights in order to customize their business to best meet local demand, improve productivity and drive increased revenue.
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The Joy Of Working
By Dan Ariely
The following is adapted from The Upside of Irrationaity: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely, HarperCollins (2010).
"Contrafreeloading," a term coined by the animal psychologist Glen Jensen, refers to the finding that many animals prefer to earn food rather than simply eating identical, but freely accessible, food found in a dish nearby.
To better understand the joy of working for food, let's go back to the 1960s, when Jensen first took adult male albino rats and tested their appetite for labor. Imagine that you are a rat participating in Jensen's study. You and your little rodent friends start out living an average life in an average cluster of cages, and every day, for ten days, a nice man in a white lab coats gives you 10 grams of finely ground Purina lab crackers precisely at noon (you don't know it's noon, but you eventually pick up on the general time). After a few days of this pattern, you learn to expect food at noon every day, and your rat tummy begins rumbling right before the nice man shows up -- exactly the state Jensen wants you in.
Once your body is conditioned to eating crackers at noon, things suddenly change. Instead of feeding you at the time of your maximal hunger, you have to wait another hour, and at one o'clock, the man picks you up and puts you in a well-lit "Skinner box." You are ravenous. Named after its original designer, the influential psychologist B.F. Skinner, this box is a regular cage (similar to the one you are used to), but has two features that are new to you. The first is an automated food dispenser that releases food pellets every thirty seconds. Yum! The second is a bar that for some reason is covered with a tin shield.
At first, the bar isn't very interesting, but the food dispenser is, and that is where you spend your time. The food dispenser releases food pellets every so often for twenty-five minutes, until you have eaten fifty food pellets. At that point you are taken back to your cage and given the rest of your food for the day.
The next day, your lunch hour passes by again without food, and at 1:00 P.M. you are placed back into the Skinner box. You're ravenous, but unhappy because this time the food dispenser doesn't release any pellets. What to do? You wander around the cage, and, passing the bar, you realize that the tin shield is missing. You accidentally press the bar, and immediately a pellet of food is released. Wonderful! You press the bar again. Oh joy! -- another pellet comes out. You press again and again, eating happily, but then the light goes off, and at the same time, the bar stops releasing food pellets. You soon learn that when the light is off, no matter how much you press the bar, you don't get any food.
Just then the man in the lab coat opens the top of the cage and places a tin cup in a corner of the cage. (You don't know it, but the cup is full of pellets.) You don't pay attention to the cup; you just want the bar to start producing food again. You press and press, but nothing happens. As long as the light is off, pressing the bar does no good. You wander around the cage, cursing under your rat breath, and go over to the tin cup. "Oh my!" you say to yourself. "It's full of pellets! Free food!" You begin chomping away, and then suddenly the light comes on again. Now you realize that you have two possible food sources. You can keep on eating the free food from the tin cup, or you can go back to the bar and press it for food pellets. If you were this rat, what would you do?
Assuming you were like all but one of the two hundred rats in Jensen's study, you would decide not to feast entirely from the tin cup. Sooner or later, you would return to the bar and press it for food. And if you were like 44 percent of the rats, you would press the bar quite often -- enough to feed you more than half your pellets. What's more, once you started pressing the bar, you would not return so easily to the cup with the abundant free food.
Jensen discovered (and many subsequent experiments confirmed) that many animals -- including fish, birds, gerbils, rats, mice, monkeys, and chimpanzees -- tend to prefer a longer, more indirect route to food than a shorter, more direct one. (In fact, among all the animals tested so far the only species that prefers the lazy route is -- you guessed it -- the cat.) That is, as long as fish birds, gerbils, rats, mice, monkeys don't have to work too hard, they frequently prefer to earn their food.
The general idea of contrafreeloading contradicts the simple economic view that organisms will always choose to maximize their reward while minimizing their effort (the only commendably rational animal seems to be the cat). According to this standard economic view, spending anything, including energy, is considered a cost, and it makes no sense that an organism would voluntarily do so. Why work when they can get the same food -- maybe even more food -- for free?
When I described contrafreeloading to one of my rational economist friends (yes, I still have some of these), he immediately explained to me how Jensen's results do not, in fact, contradict standard economic reasoning. He patiently told me why this research was irrelevant to questions of economics. "You see," he said, as one would to a child, "economic theory is about the behavior of people, not rats or parrots. Rats have very small brains and almost nonexistent neocortexes, so it is no wonder that these animals don't realize they can get food for free. They are just confused."
"Anyway," he continued, "I am sure that if you were to repeat Jensen's experiment with normal people, you would not find this contrafreeloading effect. And I am a hundred percent positive that if you had used economists as your subjects, you would not see anyone working unnecessarily!"
He had a valid point. And though I felt that it is possible to generalize about the way we relate to work from those animal studies, it was also clear to me that some experiments on adult human contrafreeloading were in the cards. (It was also clear that I could not do the experiment on economists. After all, it would be difficult to generalize from economists to noneconomists.)
What do you think? Do humans, in general, exhibit contrafreeloading, or are they more rational? What about you?
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Fortnite Season 5: Couldn't Care Less, Watching 'Friends'
Curtis Silver Senior Contributor
Writing on Consumer Tech & Social Media with a satirical, cynical edge
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Fortnite season five launched today and while it's the biggest patch ever for the game, I stopped playing the game right around the point everyone started losing their collective minds over a meteor in the sky. Then there was a rocket launch but before that, an Avengers tie-in and something about a playground recently and now its an esport — it is exhausting trying to keep up. But now you can drive golf carts now, so, game on?
Not so fast. Since I haven't been playing Fortnite I've been re-watching Friends on Netflix, because getting merc'ed a dozen or so times on a near nightly basis was starting to wear on my nerves. I needed some comfort food for the brain. Sure, there are relaxing games, like Trials: Fusion, but to truly step away from the frustration of being terrible at Fortnite, I had to silence the Xbox One. Like season five of Fortnite, season five of Friends was one of the biggest of the show's history.
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The biggest change you'll notice on the Fortnite season five map is a bright, sandy spot occupying a large chunk of the map where the swamp used to be. That'll be a desert with a new location, Paradise Palms. No doubt a trendy resort community full of elderly retirees. In season five of Friends, some of the biggest surprises came in the final episode, which took place in the middle of the desert as well. The finale, taking place in Vegas, appears to show Ross and Rachel getting married (they do not) while Chandler and Monica ponder doing the same. Of course, like you when you finish in 3rd place in Battle Royale, the group is unable to express their emotions in a healthy manner and nothing is resolved.
Just like the one where Ross, Joey and Chandler go on a ride-along with Phoebe's cop boyfriend Gary, you can now go on a ride-along with your friends in Fortnite thanks to the addition of All Terrain Kart (ATK). Unlike the cop car, the roof of the cart is a bounce pad. This is a great addition to the game, if you play with a squad. Since I had generally been playing solo, losing solo and getting angry solo, this isn't a big enough change to drag me back into the battle. Like when Joey found out about Monica and Chandler, I'm still a little blown away by the scope of what this game has become.
Fortnite has become a behemoth. When it finally landed on the Nintendo Switch, it was pretty clear that Fortnite would be dominating the gaming conversation for a long time. While some folk are concentrating hard on solving those season five challenges or hunting treasure, I'm happy watching the "The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS", another episode that highlights the bumbling emotional instability of the oft-poorly dressed Ross.
I haven't completely given up on the game, but considering I'll be purchasing a Sony PS4 later this year, the lack of cross-progression with Sony is a detriment to really continuing with the seasons. I'm not the only one leaving behind past progressions, as whatever rewards I've earned mean little if I can't take them with me.
There are two updates that mean a lot to some people, one of which I never noticed because my dexterity was never as good as the teenagers wasting me game after game. That would be the update to the shotgun dynamics, with consistent spread patterns and the removal of the ability to be able to fire one shotgun, quickly switch to another and fire almost immediately. Now there is a delay, but I was never quick enough to make that move anyway. Like when Ross said Rachel's name at the altar instead of Emily's. My brain just doesn't work that quick in-game.
Like Ross being essentially homeless throughout part of the season, the storm circle in Fortnite now moves around a bit as it closes in. It was hard enough trying to get to that circle with players at my back just playing for kills, now it can shift while it shrinks. The center of storm circles 7, 8 and 9 will move around randomly while it shrinks. While this might serve to even the field a little bit, it's still not enough for me to give up the warm and fuzzy 90s nostalgia I get from watching 'Friends'.
Yet, like "The One with All the Resolutions" I feel like I'm making promises I can't keep. These updates to Fortnite (full list here) are pretty comprehensive and might be enough to eventually get me back into the battle. While I'm hoping Sony comes around on the cross-progression, Epic Games is moving forward quickly with enhancing and optimizing Fortnite, creating something that even us casual gamers just can't ignore. Plus, I've always wanted to die in the desert.
Curtis Silver
Author Bio: Writing about consumer technology, social media, the porn industry as it relates to both and the deep layers of psychological torture endured by all of it. T...
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PAX East Report: Nintendo-a-go-go!
April 5, 2019 by Kristen Halbert
I meant to stay only an hour or two at the Nintendo booth, but kept finding myself gravitating back to one of the world’s most beloved video game companies. Splitting into two booths this year, Nintendo brought nearly a dozen titles, once again showing off their innovative “Nindies” next to platform exclusives. The adage of “everything old is new again” also ruled the offerings with side-scrollers and retro throwbacks dominating the floor. Here are a few samples of what Nintendo has in store this year.
Already out as of March 29, Yoshi’s Crafted World is a 3D side-scrolling adventure that follows our favorite egg-swallowing dinosaur as he tries to save the Sundream Stone in a land straight out of Michael’s discount aisle. Bright and friendly cardboard and yarn layouts let you move not just left and right but front to back, and the “flip side” mode lets you play through the back of each level. By Saturday afternoon, there were over 30 stages unlocked with several more worlds to go. There are echoes of Yoshi’s Island (most notably the trail of eggs waiting for you to shoot at enemies or targets in both the foreground and background) but the play is challenging enough with the variety to offer an easy 10+ hours of gametime.
Some may already be familiar with Cuphead from Xbox, PC, and Steam, but the port to Nintendo Switch is a welcome addition as it was originally considered a platform exclusive. A traditional run and gun game, what sets the title apart is its gorgeous 1930’s style animation. To have something look like it was hand-drawn frame by frame while also being a seriously tough game to play even in 2 player mode (be prepared to learn some lessons by losing a few lives with every boss battle) is no small feat. I played several times with a different partner each go, and we barely made it through the demo level after 4 or 5 tries. A player that was observing mentioned that it had taken him the better part of the year to beat it on Xbox and he could not wait to put his money down for the ability to take the game on the road with him.
Staying with the retro theme, Nintendo takes a trip to the Upside Down with Bonus XP’s Stranger Things 3 The Game, which will launch at the same time as the Netflix series on the 4th of July. The 2 player co-op mode let me play as Hopper while my partner had Joyce. There will be 12 playable characters, each with special abilities and moves relating to their streaming storylines. The game unfolds alongside the 3rd season, but thankfully all spoilers were cut out of the demo. 80s fans will enjoy the puzzles and straightforward play whether they follow the show or not.
I’ll end on one of the more violent but elegantly stylized titles on the floor, Askiisoft’s highly addictive but equally maddening Katana Zero. It’s a neo noir side-scrolling action game that will have you throwing joy cons across the room. As an assassin with amnesia, players go through each scene trying to work backwards to figure out what happened. One of the most interesting aspects is that the real-time conversations can be interrupted or ended at any time, making a choose-your-own adventure game that would vary wildly depending on whether or not the player felt like slogging through dialogue. The no health bar instant kill can be infuriating when first getting the hang of the game, but a fast reload and frequent checkpoints help out greatly.
Nintendo once again brought a little something for everyone, and proved that the older they are, the more times developers will figure out new ways to make them fun to play again.
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Don't Let Mortgage Servicer Give You Runaround
By Polyana da Costa Published April 03, 2014 Home MortgageBankrate.com
Homeowners struggle to resolve problems with the companies that collect their mortgage payments every month, despite new regulations to protect consumers.
But homeowners who know their rights tend to get their lenders' attention. They get their mortgage problems resolved quicker -- even if that takes filing a complaint.
Whether you are trying to get a loan modification or working to solve payment or insurance issues with your mortgage servicer, speak up to avoid the runaround from your servicer.
What borrowers complain about
Borrowers filed almost 94,000 mortgage-related complaints with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from December 2011 through February 2014.
Types of mortgage complaints to CFPB
More than half the complaints concerned loan modifications, foreclosures and collection of past-due debts. The next biggest type of complaint concerned loan servicing, payments and problems with escrow payments of insurance, taxes and other costs.
Servicers must act quickly
Servicers are required to address a borrower's concerns within 30 days after the borrower contacts the lender, says Rebecca Walzak, president and CEO of rjbWalzak Consulting. She specializes in loan quality assurance and risk management.
"Within 30 days of talking to them, there should be some kind of resolution (or response) to the problem," Walzak says. "If there isn't, they have violated federal law and you should report that to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau."
CFPB complaints get noticed
When you file a complaint with the CFPB, the agency reviews the file and sends it to the mortgage servicer through an electronic portal. The servicer has to reply to the complaint through the portal by a deadline. The CFPB monitors the servicer's answer and if you are not satisfied with the resolution, you can respond and the servicer knows that the CFPB will have access to that answer.
This doesn't guarantee your problem will be solved in 30 days, but it will definitely get the lender to pay some special attention to your case.
"Closed" but disputed complaints
Not everyone is satisfied
Consumers disputed about one-quarter of the mortgage-related CFPB complaints that the servicers deemed "closed."
Don't give up if single point of contact fails
The CFPB requires servicers to provide borrowers with a "single point of contact," ideally, a representative who will be assigned to the borrower's file and will have access to the information throughout the process.
That doesn't necessarily mean you end up talking to the same person every time you call, Walzak says.
Regardless, the representative you will speak to generally is there to collect information and doesn't necessarily have the authority to make decisions, says Howard Ullman, an attorney and owner at Family Counseling Law Firm in Deerfield Beach, Fla.
Sometimes your single-point-of-contact representative is in a call center in India where representatives read from a script, says Ullman, who often represents clients trying to get loan modifications.
"While the representatives in India are extremely polite and courteous, there is a departure from our idioms and language and the minute some issue comes up that is off of their script, they are lost."
-- Attorney Howard Ullman
Get to the person in charge
One way to cut to the chase when you feel your servicer isn't doing its job right is to escalate your problem. To do so:
Ask for a manager.
If the manager doesn't get the job done, ask for the manager's manager.
And so on, all the way up to company director, if possible. "Sometimes you have to find out the corporate structure and keep pursuing it until you get answers," Ullman says.
Keep scaling to new heights
Ullman says he recently wrote an email to all the board of directors of the servicing company in charge of his client's loan. The battle with the servicer revolved around a short sale dispute.
A buyer had signed a contract to buy the house in a short sale. At the same time, the servicer had hired an auction company. Then that auction company asked the homeowner to sign a contract to sell the house for $206,000 less than the purchase contract he had in hand.
"I refused to allow my client to sign the contract that the auction company presented, as that could ultimately affect my client," he says.
More ways to complain
Amy Cordwell, a homeownership adviser in New Hampshire, says she also has escalated cases for the homeowners she represents and found it effective.
If your mortgage servicer is a bank, filing a complaint with your state's banking commission or the attorney general's office can also work. "We have used our banking commission here quite a bit," Cordwell says.
And if your frustration with your mortgage servicer gets to a point where you don't know what else to do, maybe it's time to let your senator or state representative know.
Walzak says at the height of the foreclosure crisis she used to help a congressman work through some of the mortgage issues for many of the people who called his office to complain.
Get a free HUD counselor
Often, your representative will forward your case to a counselor approved by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Work with a HUD-approved counseling agency as early as possible if you face foreclosure or need a loan modification, Cordwell says. The service is free, and it saves time and energy.
"We seem to have a little more pull there," she says.
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Did Kinder Morgan Inc. Just Put Enterprise Products Partners' Latest Growth Project on Ice?
Published October 11, 2017 MarketsMotley Fool
The Permian Basin in western Texas and southwest New Mexico holds a treasure trove of oil. However, along with that crude, producers are finding the basin to be a prolific source of natural gas. In fact, according to an estimate from IHS Markit, gas output from the Permian will jump from an average of 6 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) last year up to more than 14 Bcf/d by 2026. That surge in output represents a massive opportunity for pipeline companies, which are racing to be the first to build a new line out of the region.
Three have already proposed new gas pipeline projects, including Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD), Kinder Morgan (NYSE: KMI), and NAmerico Partners, which is a private equity-backed company. However, Kinder Morgan appears to be the front-runner to build the next pipeline after announcing a joint venture with leading Permian processing companies Targa Resources (NYSE: TRGP) and DCP Midstream (NYSE: DCP). As a result, it seems increasingly less likely that Enterprise Products Partners will move forward with its proposed project anytime soon.
Restocking the backlog
Enterprise has been busily building out its pipeline of growth projects now that energy markets seem to have stabilized. The company started the year with a $5.4 billion backlog of projects, which it has since increased up to $9 billion after adding several new expansions. One of the largest recently added projects is the Shin Oak pipeline, which would move natural gas liquids (NGLs) from the Permian to its NGL hub in Mont Belvieu, Texas.
Furthermore, the company said it had more to come, including a proposed natural gas pipeline from the red-hot Permian Basin to Texas' Gulf Coast. More specifically, it would ship gas from the Waha Hub in the Permian to another hub in Agua Dulce.
However, that project appears to be third in line behind Kinder Morgan and NAmerico Partners. Kinder Morgan seemed to move out front when it recently signed a letter of intent with Targa Resources and DCP Midstream to form a joint venture that would construct the Gulf Coast Express, which is a 1.9 Bcf/d pipeline that would move gas from Waha to the Agua Dulce. DCP Midstream was the first to sign on to the project, which was an essential initial step given its premier footprint in the Permian. Meanwhile, the recent addition of Targa as a partner took things up another notch. That's because Targa is not only one of the largest gas processors in the basin, but it brings leading driller Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD) with it. Pioneer is one of the fastest growing producers in the Basin and recently revealed that its output has become gassier than expected due to the makeup of its wells. That means Pioneer will produce a lot of gas in the coming years that will need market access.
In the meantime, the proposed Pecos Trail Pipeline from NAmerico would ship up to 1.85 BCF/d of gas if built. According to the company, it's already in advanced stage discussions with shippers for capacity, and given the initial conversations, it's confident it can secure enough producers to proceed with the project. This pipeline would also head in a similar direction, though its destination would be closer to the coastal petrochemical hub of Corpus Christi, which also puts it near an upcoming natural gas export facility.
Given that these projects are in later stages of development, which puts both on pace to enter service in late 2019, there doesn't appear to be room for Enterprise's proposed project right now. It seems increasingly likely therefore that Enterprise will need to table its plan for the time being.
Plenty to keep it busy for now
While another significant expansion to its backlog would have been a nice addition, Enterprise Products Partners has plenty of growth coming down the pipeline through 2019. This steady stream of projects should enable the company to continue increasing its distribution to investors as it has for the past 52 straight quarters. It also has the time to secure projects to drive growth beyond 2019, which could still include building a new gas pipeline in the Permian that starts up at a much later date. So, while it appears that Kinder Morgan will win this race, Enterprise investors have no reason to worry.
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COMIC CON Day one round-up
SFX's impressions of the first full day at the San Diego Comic-Con 2009, including Avatar and Stan Lee
If Comic-Con has a recuring theme it's queuing. Hordes of Twilight Saga fans effectively closed the main presentation hall early on by queuing round the block since yesterday. They seemed to have erected some kind of unofficial shanty town near the entrance where they all camped over night.
Above: huge crowds gather outside the convention hall.
Can't get into the main hall? Why not queue for a coffee before joining the queue for the freebie pin badges on the DC stand, and then head upstairs to queue for the Stan Lee and Disney panels? SFX discovered early on that once you're in a room, it's worth waiting there for the next thing you're interested in even if it means sitting through a panel about collectable card games or something - if you leave you might never get back in.
Highlights of the day included the Middleman session and the Tron screening. Apparently the latter only finished shooting on Monday. Disney showed loads of concept art , not much new but darned impressive. The official title is Tron: Legacy and it takes the original Tron as canon, setting the story 20 years in the future with the son of Flynn looking for his father who disappeared years ago. A scene was shown with Sam Flynn going to Flynn's arcade - it's all dusty, but the sofa and the jukebox are still there. Bruce Boxleitner is still there in the form of a cameo voiceover.
Above: Stan Lee and Natasha Henstridge discuss Time Jumper.
Other announcements included the fact burst that there's a Warcraft movie in the offing with Sam Raimi at the helm. We also saw the legendary Stan Lee on stage announcing his motion comic Time Jumper in conjunction with Disney. He was a total gent, chivalrously welcoming Natasha Henstridge to the stage as they announced the new series she's voice acting in (available via iTunes) - a story in which Lee plays boss Lee Excelsior. After outlining what motion comics are all about, Lee said, "I just explained it so beautifully, I hope somebody recorded it!" We did, Stan. We did. The first episode is on iTunes this Friday .
Above: checking out the packed exhibition hall.
Then this afternoon SFX went en masse to see the Avatar panel. You can read more about this in a future issue of SFX, but basically we sat with James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana as they talked about making this amazing new 3D sci-fi movie. The big announcement was that around the world 21 August is the big day when it's going to be revealed in cinemas in the form of trailers and 3D footage - look out for the update then.
Above: James Cameron chats about Avatar.
After dark the SFX team was to be found atop the Solamar hotel where Stargate: Universe launched. A couple of pints and a firm handshake from Robert "Begibe" Carlyle" made our evening complete.
Above: the Stargate: Universe party gets under way.
Hopes for tomorrow include news on District 9 and The Prisoner, but mostly our fingers are crossed a giant ship on the bay won't wake everybody up in the early hours with its fog horn like on Thursday. Be seeing you.
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SC Department On Aging Drama
Rejected director still on the job …
South Carolina governor Henry McMaster was overwhelmingly rebuked by the S.C. Senate this week – with his choice to lead the state’s superfluous Department on Aging (SCDA) getting decisively rejected by lawmakers of his own party.
The Republican-controlled chamber voted 41-2 against the GOP governor’s nomination of Steven Morris to lead this agency, which was recently elevated to cabinet status.
Previously, the “Office on Aging” (as it was known until this year) was under the auspices of the lieutenant governor of South Carolina.
Why was Morris’ nomination shot down? Senators expressed concern that he was unqualified for the post – while liberal S.C. senator Darrell Jackson claimed Morris was a racist.
Morris – a former Richland County councilman and one of the governor’s closest friends – categorically denied the racism allegations, and no evidence was ever offered up to support them. Meanwhile, McMaster’s office slammed senators for engaging in “Washington D.C.-style smear tactics, character assassinations, and unsubstantiated rumors” related to the botched confirmation, according to a statement provided to reporter Avery Wilks of The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper.
While Morris’ nomination was defeated, he has not left his post. In fact, sources within the agency tell us the interim director is not only still on the job – but is lobbying for a pay raise.
According to our sources, Morris wants the $125,000-a-year (not counting benefits) salary received by the agency’s previous director instead of the $109,000-a-year (again, not counting benefits) salary he is getting as interim director.
“We don’t know how long he will be here and employees are afraid he is going to retaliate because he wasn’t confirmed,” one source at the agency told us earlier this week. “He has been targeting several employees for months.”
Those fears may be well-founded, too …
Sources at the agency tell us the 71-year-old interim director has been consulting with attorneys about “terminating an employee” – but that he “didn’t want it to look like it was a result of him not getting nominated.”
This news outlet was provided with the name of the employee Morris is allegedly seeking to terminate, however we are declining to publish it at this time.
We will see if he makes good on the threat … and how lawmakers may respond.
So … how long will Morris remain at his post after being rejected by the Senate? Good question. The legislative session ends on May 9, and it seems highly unlikely any action will be taken on a possible replacement between now and then.
That could lead to him staying on in an extended holdover status.
“We could be stuck with him for months,” one frustrated employee told us.
(Via: Travis Bell Photography)
It has been a brutal few days for McMaster (above). As reporter Jamie Lovegrove of The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier pointed out earlier today, the aging fiscal liberal has seen three of his favorites for leadership posts in state government rejected just this week.
Three strikes …
These defeats have “exposed increasing tension between McMaster and the state Senate on the issue of gubernatorial appointments,” according to Lovegrove.
McMaster spoke directly with Lovegrove, telling him that “in executing the laws passed by the legislature, the governor must have his team or her team, and it is very important that he or she is allowed to pick the people that he or she can work with and understands to be the best qualified to do the job that he wants them to do.”
“It is not the legislature’s job to pick cabinet members,” McMaster added.
While w do not agree with McMaster often, in this case he is absolutely correct. Last fall, in fact, we noted that South Carolina “desperately needs an empowered executive branch” in which legislative meddling is limited.
“Whatever we think of McMaster – or his appointees – we believe in the authority of governors to appoint positions within the executive branch of government,” we wrote at the time.
The problem? McMaster is just a terrible governor. In addition to the constitutional impotence of his office, and he has proven utterly ineffective at using the one tool at his disposal – the power of the bully pulpit.
Seriously, McMaster looks like he needs to be receiving services from the Office on … err, Department on Aging … not leading it.
Same with Morris …
The SCDA is scheduled to receive $52.1 million in the current version of the Palmetto State’s $30 billion budget. It employs roughly fifty people.
Stay tuned … we will keep an eye on this drama as Morris is supposed to pull the trigger on his first termination as early as next week.
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Georgetown Students Are Voting To Create A Reparations Fund For Descendants Of Slaves Sold By The School
Alan Jude Ryland
Georgetown University could become the first university in the nation to have a reparations policy, mandating a fee to benefit descendants of slaves sold by the university nearly 200 years ago.
Georgetown undergraduates will vote Thursday on a referendum to increase tuition by $27.20 a semester to benefit the descendants of slaves the university sold 272 years ago to pay off the Georgetown Jesuits' debt.
The move has been widely credited with keeping the school financially solvent.
In a statement on behalf of the university, Georgetown's media relations manager Matt Hill told ABC News:
"Student referendums help to express important student perspectives but do not create university policy and are not binding on the university. The university will carefully review the results of the referendum, and regardless of the outcome, will remain committed to engaging with students, Descendants, and the broader Georgetown community and addressing its historical relationship to slavery."
The discussion came about after a group known as the GU272 Advocacy Team presented to student government a bill that would go to a reconciliation fund to be overseen by a board made up of students and descendants of the 272 slaves born in 1838.
According to the bill, the fund would generate more than $400,000 a year and would "be allocated for charitable purposes directly benefiting the descendants of the GU272 and other persons once enslaved by the Maryland Jesuits."
"We believe that financial restitution funded toward conscious, descendant advocacy-based policy is the best way that we as an institution can support these individuals," said Nile Blass, a Georgetown freshman who is part of the GU272 Advocacy Team.
Sophomore Eliza Dunni Phillips, also a member of the advocacy team, told CNN she interviewed several descendants of the sold slaves while on a field trip for the student paper to Maringouin, Louisiana:
"The vestiges of slavery are still so evident, and so many of the African Americans whose ancestors were enslaved are still so disenfranchised. It's not enough to say sorry. Georgetown has to put their money where their mouth is and invest into the descendant community."
The initiative comes at a time when the nation is grappling with the subject of reparations; indeed several prospective presidential candidates have been asked to weigh in on the issue. Several Georgetown students, like senior Hunter Estes, have objected to the referendum and expressed reservations about transparency:
"Morally, I'm opposed to mandating an entire student population to pay a compulsory fee. You can't attach a financial number for the problem of slavery. You can't say that this will account for it. There's little description as to how the money would be allocated."
The issue has also divided observers; while some support the advocacy measure, others have suggested that Georgetown, not its student body, should have to foot the bill.
Even if the bill doesn't pass, Nile Blass, the GU272 Advocacy Team member, says the discussion of reparations has caused people to reflect on not just Georgetown's historical sins, but also the turbulent history of race relations.
"We're getting dialogue and conversation that I think is invaluable ... to the greater conversation that's happening about reparations," Blass said.
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MAIN QUESTION NOT ANSWERED YET
Now time works in Zurab Zhvania’s favor
On 9 December, former Premier Zurab Zhvania would be fifty years old. This is the first birthday celebration after his death in which authorities will participate. The political situation is different. Nino Kadagidze, the former Prime Minister’s wife, spoke about the reinvestigation of Zhvania’s death, still clothed in secrecy.
N.K. – After the heavy 9-year period, the time has come when I am calm. I’m quiet and have overcome fear. I like it
when everybody can speak freely about everything that he or she doesn’t like and nobody is punished, persecuted or arrested for this…This conference is dedicated to Euro-integration, the evaluation of the Vilnius Summit, and Parliament’s initiative that they will remember Zura as one of the initiators of these processes.
Q. – Has the change of the Chief Prosecutor influenced the investigation of Zhvania’s case?
A. – Staff change always results in time-wasting. But there is no basis for panic, the investigation continues.
Q. – We know that after exhumation another expert examination was to be carried out in Switzerland. Why did you choose the Swiss lab?
A. – Because reliable, high-level professionals work there.
Q. – Will the examination establish whether the death was caused by gas or not?
A. – I don’t want to discuss details. The political context may affect some other country’s interests.
Q. – What do you mean?
A. – I can’t be categorical. I’m just trying to follow logic. Western politicians say that they won’t put up with Saakashvili’s political persecution; we may even face political problems with such issues as, say, NATO integration. But if this man is an offender, mustn’t he be held accountable? Davit Kezerashvili is accused of illegal arms trading. This is the gravest international offence. If this is proven, it couldn’t have been done without the President’s involvement!
Q. – Mikheil Machavariani declared that after Zhvania’s birthday celebration passed, he’d say everything he knew about the former Prime Minister’s death.
A. – Yes, I even called Misha and asked whether he was going to say something that I didn’t know, and why he decided to declare it a week before Zura’s birthday. ‘You are right’ he said after a little pause… 9 December is a painful day for me. Those who gather at Zura’s grave have a different attitude, not only with regard to the previous authorities, but to Zura’s death as well.
Q. – Machavariani earlier said that he wondered why Gogla Zhvania, who knew the truth, asked questions.
A. – They have no other choice but to make such declarations. By this they are defending themselves. But they forget one thing – nobody is afraid of blackmailing. Now time works in Zurab Zhvania’s favor.
New details of Zurab Zhvania’s case reinvestigation:
Former Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili declared that a new account of Zhvania’s death is being completed. As stated by Gogla Zhvania, this new account proves that the Prime Minister wasn’t a victim of an accident. He spoke of a small portion of the FBI’s complete findings, according to which the gas heater was off, and it couldn’t be the cause of Zurab Zhvania’s and Raul Usupov’s deaths. The gas heater was brand new, and had not been in use earlier - this means that it was brought to the “place of accident” later. “Saakashvili, Adeishvili, Merabishvili, and Baramidze met there and discussed what things to bring to the flat and where to put them,” declared Gogla Zhvania. When reinvestigating the case, the Prosecutor’s Office established how materials concerning Zhvania’s death were forged by the previous authorities. Witness Natela Modebadze has been interrogated. She says that on 2 February 2005, at night, she saw with her own eyes that several men brought a corpse to Saburtalo Street. As for the main question of whether Zurab Zhvania was asphyxiated by natural gas or it was an accident, it is still unanswered.
Author: Eka Asatiani
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How Beamer helps Luxo Living’s eCommerce turn first-time visitors into repeat customers
Lars Friis Hansenguest
At Luxo Living, we want to position our website as the leading home and interior webshop that offers the latest in trends and product news. Our goal is to to get customer to see Luxo Living as the place to shop for new trending products. We want to differentiate ourselves by focusing on providing customer with the latest in trends and style rather than constantly pushing deals and special offers like many of our competitors. We’re focused on creating an immersive and inspiring experience for customers, not an ad page. We have made our focus new trends and products rather than deals and special offers like many of our competitors. This is very important to our team and we’re taking every opportunity in our user experience to show case this.
It’s important for us that the webshop has something new to offer every single day, which is why we add 10-30 new products on a daily basis. We want customers to feel that they will find something new and interesting every time they visit Luxo Living. We’re consistent on our other pages as well. We also post 2-3 product news on Instagram everyday, and send out a weekly newsletter with the most exciting news on trends and products to make sure we are engaging with customers where they want and with what they want.
However, every single day there are many there are plenty of new visitors, who have not signed up to our newsletter and who don’t follow us on Social media (yet). These potential customers mostly find us through Google searches and land directly on groups of specific products after entering our website. They don’t necessarily land on an engaging landing page. These new visitors accounts for 60% of our total traffic, and can be hard to convert into buyers because we don’t have have the ability to communicate or engage with them once they leave luxoliving.dk.
We believe the key to converting these new visitors is to make sure they see how dynamic and consistent we are in bringing the latest in trends and they know about our focus on trending products. We want to create the feeling that they’ve come to the right place for design trends. To support our goals, we were looking for a new way to engage users effectively. We wanted to find a way to engage users on the site for the first time who came in from anywhere.
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Our Beamer feed opens up when a user clicks “Latest News” which is in our main navigation. Our feed is updated with small updates about new products and brands 2-3 times per week.
The Beamer feed opens up when a customer clicks “Latest News” in a discreet sidebar. The Beamer newsfeed can be opened from any page on our site, no matter when they come in from. They can scroll through and explore latest trends and products like a social feed. From any page, users get the sense that our Luxo Living is dynamic and consistent in updates.
Do our customers use our Beamer feed?
The definite short answer is yes! Looking at the heatmap of our top-menu, it’s clear to see that “Latest news” one of the most popular menu options.
Based on our Google analytics results, we also know that 10% of all visitors open up the “Latest news” sidebar and that the sidebar has a 9% CTR from updates to the new products. We are quite satisfied with the performance as that means almost 10% of all traffic, new and returning, gets to our products with this simple tool. That is a bit lower than open rates and CTR on an average newsletter, but since it is based on all site visitors, including new customers, we are quite satisfied with the performance.
Customers who interact with “Latest News” vs non-users:.
The most exciting thing about Beamer is how big the difference is between customers who interact with “Latest News” compared to those who don’t. Take a look at thes stats:
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Average session duration: +500%
What’s incredible is that the Beamer users are 50% new visitors. With Beamer we have reached our goal of engaging new users. With Beamer we are able to communicate our value and get them exploring Luxo Living no matter what page they come in on.
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Nobody wants to take responsibility for foreigners working on construction sites
Kristjan Mitt, board member of the building firm Mitt & Perlebach, admits honestly: « I do not even know the laws regulating the registration of foreign labor». Yet Ukrainians and Georgians are working on the construction site of his firm as Postimees reported last week.
The same Georgians, who built apartment houses in Harku since the end of April and claim to have been cheated out of their salary, left Estonia early this week and began a bus ride back home. The travel money was allegedly received from the local Georgian community.
But the problem does not leave with the Georgians – a number of foreigners may still be working on construction sites and no one wants to take responsibility for them.
«We have no construction workers, I have never encountered it. I know only what the newspapers write about it that foreign labor must be registered. But how it is done – I do not know, I have never done it,» said Kristjan Mitt, who had no opinion about whether the main contractor should check whether the foreigners working on his building are allowed to work in Estonia in the first place.
«The registration should be done by the one who they work for, who pays their salary,» Mitt said and added that their subcontracts have been concluded with other Estonian enterprises. «We are responsible for all people we pay for, but we do not hire a single construction worker. This is how all main contractors do in Estonia today,» he said.
Thus the Georgians built houses for Mitt & Perlebach according to a complicated scheme involving no less than three subcontractors. The construction firm has a contract with the Estonian firm Seltronic Ltd for general construction work, which in turn has a contract for general construction with a Polish-registered firm Buffo Ehitus z.o.o. The latter uses the labor of yet another Polish company TVI Inc, which included the Georgians described an earlier article.
«I have a subcontract with the Polish firm and all the work is paid for,» assured Tauno Aru, board member of Seltronic Ltd. «My subcontractor's business is all right as well, but it has another subcontractor. I cannot check whether they have transferred salaries to workers or not,» Aru said.
No one can take responsibility
Who is responsible for registering the workers in Estonia and paying them fair and lawful salary if the subcontractor's subcontractor is located in Poland? «But it meets the Polish law! It is the Polish state which must be responsible, not Estonia,» said Aru, who claimed to know nothing about his subcontractor's contracts. «Why should I know it? I have done my work, paid all the taxes and everything is clear,» he said, adding that the cooperation agreement with the subcontractor stipulates that the Polish enterprise is responsible for the registration of labor.
Aru later mailed a legal text of analogous content as further explanation. «The legislation of the Republic of Estonia regulates who is responsible and to what extent if the employer has failed to pay salaries to posted workers. According to the regulation of the law, the employer (i.e. enterprise registered in a foreign country) is responsible for the salary of posted workers and its payment,» Aru's written response read.
The head of the Polish-registered Buffo Ehitus is Deniss Borodin, who is operating as entrepreneur in Estonia. «I have a contract with a Polish firm, where these Georgians work. Accordingly I transfer money every month, which the firm pays to its workers,» Borodin explained Postimees last week. Whether or not the Georgians had been registered to work in Estonia Borodin did not know, because «the Georgians were not actually his workers». He was no longer able to make contact with the Polish firm TVI Inc.
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Mitt said that the main contractor is unable to check the personnel of all subcontractors. «We are building 20 houses right now, we have a couple of hundred subcontractors. Other subcontractors have foreign labor as well. Are we checking them? No, we do not register workers,» Mitt said and pointed out that construction sites all over Estonia are using many foreign workers.
«We expect them to be registered. The increasing number of foreign labor in construction sites in Estonia is a recent tendency. They mainly build the structures,» Mitt said and admitted that the construction sector has a lot more vacancies than available labor.
If the law should require in the future that the main contractor must check the subcontractors' foreign workers, it shall be done, Mitt admitted. «It has not been done so far. The construction sector does not like a gray area. This is a new subject and a solution will come, since the pressure on labor is great. It was only a matter of time before somebody writes an article,» Mitt said.
Jaano Vink, board chairman of the construction firm Nordecon AS, also said that matters concerning foreign labor tend to touch the main contractors more remotely than subcontractors, since the former usually do not hire a large number of workers. Vink said that Nordecon does not check with the police the record of every worker on its construction sites. He thought that it would be the task of government institutions.
«But contracts with subcontractors stipulate specifically and unequivocally the requirements of legality of their activities. If there is well-founded suspicion of violation, we can respond to a specific incident, which we have done. Besides unlicensed workers this concerns observing all other legal requirements,» Vink said.
Raivo Rand, supervisory board member of the building firm Rand ja Tuulberg, said that they as the main contractor are trying to check the background of foreign labor, although he said that their sites do not employ many aliens.
«There have not been very many foreign workers, although I know that their number is increasing,» said Kaupo Kolsar, head of Astlanda Ehitus. «We have long-term partners and they do not include many firms with high-turnover labor. But not every firm has steady partners and long-established relations,» Kolsar said and added that the construction market is varied.
The law permits
Jana Laane, adviser of the Ministry of the Interior department of citizenship and migration, said that in principle an entrepreneur operating in one EU member country is allowed to use citizens hired from third countries for work in another EU country, but in that case they should be registered as labor in Estonia. Posted workers must be registered at the Labor Inspectorate starting from the end of 2016 and that must be done by the employer or the firm subject to tax in the foreign country.
If the enterprise itself hires a foreigner for a short period, he must be registered at the Police and Border Guard Board and that can be done only by an employer registered in Estonia. Laane said that some employers evade that obligation.
«The employer must register short-term work of an alien legally residing in the country and he is obliged to observe the requirements of the Labor Act and the Aliens Act,» Laane said, agreeing that discovering the abuse or violation of the system and responding is a matter of state supervision.
The police organize raids to discover violations. A total of 18 joint raids with the Labor Inspectorate and the Tax and Customs Board have been carried out this year; the police participated in 350 raids last year.
«During targeted inspections the Labor Inspectorate identified 18 allegedly posted workers (aliens with Polish visa) regarding whom the procedure was continued. That means the Labor Inspectorate had not been informed about their posting or the procedure had to be handed over to the police due to suspicion of illegal residence,» Meeli Miidla-Vanatalu, deputy director of the inspectorate, commented the discoveries made this year.
As of the end of June the police have registered 180 violations related to the working conditions of foreign citizens.
Postimees wrote last week how Georgian citizens built apartment houses in Harku for several months, but nobody admitted being their employer. As they did not receive the promised salary, Denis Borodin said that their salary should be paid by the Polish enterprise TVI Inc which he was no longer able to contact. Although Borodin did not consider himself responsible for the Georgians, he promised to pay them the salary owed to the men.
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In 1646 Sir Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia refuted the common errors of his day. Today, our insatiable appetite for facts fuels an entire entertainment industry.
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David Barnes, (b. Sussex 1979), is an academic and writer. He read English at the University of Oxford and completed a PhD at Queen Mary, University of London. He is currently Teaching Fellow in English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He writes essays, poems, reviews and short stories and lives in Stoke Newington, London.
Eddie Farrell, (b. Blackburn, Lancashire 1963), is a painter who currently lives in Berlin. He studied for a BA in Fine Art from Grays School of Art, Aberdeen in the ’80s, and an MA at the Slade School of Fine Art in the ’00s. A Punk apprenticeship had put him on a trajectory of over 20 years experience as an artist involving countless collaborations, including ‘Shytstem’. Eddie doesn’t really produce pieces of art and would encourage others to do the same.
James Wilkes is a poet and writer, (b. Poole, Dorset 1980). Poetry publications include ‘Reviews’ (Burner Veer, 2009) and ‘Weather A System’ (Penned in the Margins, 2009). In 2008-9 he wrote and produced ‘Interior Traces’, a live radio drama exploring the effects of brain imaging on society, (Wellcome Trust), performed at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre, the Wellcome Collection, and Cheltenham Science Festival. Wilkes studied psychology and philosophy, and is completing a PhD in Humanities and Cultural Studies at the London Consortium, researching the landscape of the Isle of Purbeck Dorset.
Julie Rafalski, a Polish-American artist, relishes uncovering the narratives concealed behind, and imposed upon, the imagery we use. She lives and works in London. She achieved a BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003 and an MFA from Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2006. She has exhibited her video, photography and print work in London (inc. Christie’s ‘Multiplied’, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition), Canterbury, Liverpool, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Berlin, Chicago, Pärnu (Estonia), Brisbane and Tel Aviv.
David Henningham, (b. London, 1981) lives and works in Dalston, London. He writes poetry and essays that are completed through fine art printmaking, bookbinding and performance. He obtained his BA at Chelsea College of Art, 2004, and MA at Slade School of Fine Art, 2006. He met his wife Ping at St Martins School of Art when they were 18. They formed the Henningham Family Press in 2006 to make art together. Collections that have acquired their work include: Victoria & Albert Museum, the Tate, Poetry Library (Royal Festival Hall), UCL, Chelsea College of Art and UCLA. They have exhibited/performed at Christie’s (Multiplied), Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the British Library, BBC Radio Theatre (The Verb), London Word Festival, Berlin, Ghent, Oslo, Bergen, Indiana and Virginia.
That men weigh heavier dead than alive.
“Who’s paying for all this?”
A good question from one so young; at the time my niece was about six. She was helping herself to the sausage rolls, crisps, sandwiches, fruit cake and chocolate biscuits laid out in the function suite of a small Kirkcaldy hotel. The room was half full with relatives and family friends, smartly dressed and looking a little stiff and awkward. Her question was probably due to the absence of her Granddad, the person all this party food had been laid on for. He was now lying underground a few miles along the coast in East Weymes.
The cemetery sits up from the shoreline on the Fife side of the Firth of Forth. It is overlooked by the ruins of Mcduff castle, built from the same red sandstone of the Weymes caves on the beach below. Although it was early January the weather was not too cruel to the small group of us gathered at the graveside, a damp spray and a flag flapping of skirts and trouser legs but no downpour or brutally cold wind off the sea. A few words were said, tears were shed, the Priest did his bit and then we slowly made our way to Kirkcaldy relieved that we had finally done the most practical thing that needs to be done following a death.
The last time I saw my Father alive was late on Christmas Eve. He had been lapsing in and out of consciousness for a few days and during the final 24 hours he’d started suddenly thrusting himself noisily forward off the pillow to a bolt upright position, his beautiful steel blue eyes staring unblinkingly ahead. He didn’t seem aware of us being in the room as we gently eased him back down onto the pillow. I was working a vigil with my two sisters, sitting at his bedside in the little side room occasionally cooling his head and wetting his parched lips and mouth with a small, square, grey sponge on a pink plastic stick. He had been moved out the ward a couple of days earlier, the first clear sign to us that this time, he really was dying. The staff seemed to tell you things, but they never really did, right to the end it appeared easier for them to say, we are stopping all medical treatment and we have stopped feeding him rather than, and now your Father will die.
My sisters were coming in at midnight to do the late shift so as it was possibly the last time I would see him alive, I’d been aware since 9pm of a need to say something, but what? I had never been in the presence of someone dying before, it seemed unreal and although I was sitting there with my dear old Dad, he was gradually disappearing in front of me. I placed a hand to the heat of his tough weather-beaten bald head and moved close to his ear. I began to tell him how I would have to leave soon and that I hoped I would get the chance to see him tomorrow, at this point I remember hesitating, how could I say the next bit without mentioning the dead word? So just in case I don’t get the chance to see you tomorrow, the words were producing no response so I pushed my mouth hard to the top of his hot leather skull determined to force the following I love you through inside. With stinging wet eyes and my mouth slavering over his head I clung onto him. We stayed like that for a while, for ages. Muffled out through his nose and mouth, as though forced from deep within, came three consecutive grunts.
The phone call the following morning told how, with his two daughters at his side and without regaining consciousness, he had died at 7 .50am.
That day and the following couple of weeks were a numb blob of time and tears. On the periphery were the main events of Christmas and New Year which we all dealt with in our own way. Children ripped the wrapping paper from presents with the same disregard as any other year the adults, however, froze at the task, looking apologetic and confused as though they were slowly tearing petals one by one from very rare flowers. During the big dinner I felt the collection of colourful paper crowns that were flopped on our heads had taken on a fitting tribute of mourning. Sherry, wine and whisky flowed while we flicked through a selection of veneered and solid wood coffins in the catalogue the undertaker had left with us. The question of cake or trifle was doubled with the decision on handles and fittings then shadowed with a tricky digestive choice of whether to attach a crucifix to the coffin lid. Council offices opened momentarily, allowing the death to be registered but how and where do you find a plot of land to bury someone when everywhere is closed or closing for Hogmanay? The festive illuminations faded out gradually to reveal a gaping hole in our family and a number of suspiciously unopened parcels still sitting under the Christmas tree.
A few days after the death I saw the body in the Chapel of Rest at the undertaker’s Bruntsfield offices in Edinburgh. Snow and ice were lying on the streets but inside the chapel felt much colder. There was a strange chemical whiff in there which I presumed to be a mixture of formaldehyde and the other vinegars used to preserve a corpse before burial. My sister and I were gently ushered through. It was the first time I’d seen a dead body, I can’t remember if that was the same for my sister. On seeing our dead Father lying there, alone and tiny in the big open box, we began to cry. I was struck by how young he looked, actually I’d not seen him looking so well in ages. Whatever happens to us after death obviously involves losing lots of fluid because the skin on his face had stretched tight around his skull making him look how he’d looked in the few photos I’d seen of him before I’d existed. The buckets of drugs that had been pushed through his system over many years of ill health had been a balancing act, giving him enough strength to carry on while attempting to keep his fluid retention down. Some days he’d blow up to popping proportions like a character in a Roald Dahl story, and only after experimenting with yet another cocktail of capsules and pills would the doctor finally get him back to his normal size. His wardrobe reflected this fluctuation, trousers, shirts and jackets of all shapes and sizes. He was to be buried in his new dark blue suit the one he would have worn at Christmas. This had been bought to accommodate his mid-to-large size so in his final rested state it dwarfed him a little. It was a nice touch to put his braces on, though.
I cautiously bent forward from the top of the coffin and remembering Christmas Eve put my lips to the top of his head. I once touched the forehead of Bernini’s marble carving of the Archbishop of Pisa in The Scottish National Gallery; it felt exactly the same. On that occasion I was reprimanded by one of the guards but here, with my lips touching what felt like freezing cold stone, no one said or did anything. I very quickly realised my dad was no longer about and what I was now attempting to kiss was just the empty shell he’d used for the past 78 years. Nevertheless the peace and quiet in there offered time and space to reflect, away from all the Christmas madness going on outside. After saying what we thought would be our last goodbyes we left him in the room where we were quietly greeted by the assistant again. We were informed, that due to the time of year our loved one had been taken from us it would probably be sometime before all the burial arrangements were sorted out so in the meantime we could visit our loved one in the Chapel of Rest whenever we wished.
From McDuff cemetery looking out to the left into the Firth of Forth you can see the Isle of May. The island is owned by Scottish Natural Heritage and is the home and breeding ground to a wide variety of seabirds; Kittiwakes, Puffins, Eider Ducks etc, and in the winter months, hordes of grey seal pups. No humans live on the island anymore but In the middle ages there was a priory and following a number of archeological digs some years ago the remains of a 14th century pilgrim were discovered. He was buried near the altar with a scallop shell in his mouth, signifying that he had previously made the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. This sleuthing of the past has made me think from time to time what future detectives would glean about late 20th century man if they accidently turned over my dad’s plot?
Our previous goodbyes had been a bit premature; it would take the best part of two weeks to lay him under the Fife soil. In that time there were a number of visits to the Chapel of Rest which saw a considerable bulking out of the box before the lid was screwed down for the last time. The coffin began to fill up from the second visit. Until then the only occasion I had crossed the border into the white satin depths holding the body was for the single frozen kiss. I began by slipping a couple notes of sympathy into the inside pocket of his jacket, it seemed a fitting thing to do even though they had been handed to me, they were really for him and the memory of him. I straightened the lapel of his jacket again and left the cold room feeling somehow lighter. That evening I mentioned what I had done to a couple of friends and the following day I received a small bundle of notes and drawings to be passed over on my next visit.
By then things had really kicked off in the box. In an inspired move from my sisters they had taken all his unopened presents from underneath the Christmas tree and placed them inside the coffin. This not only brought a bit of light to his final resting room but also stopped my sister’s Christmas tree looking like a scene from a post-Christmas Dickensian tragedy. Meanwhile, I continued to fill his pockets with bits of paper and then straighten his suit jacket which was becoming a much better fit with each visit. As we passed into the new year more problematic Christmas presents, small tokens, newly scribed notes and a couple of brightly coloured paintings by his granddaughters had been rounded up and taken to the Bruntsfield building.
In the early hours of 1996 I took another bottle of beer from the fridge and in doing so revealed two cans of McEwan’s export beer sitting at the back of the shelf. I had bought them for my dad sometime before Christmas in the hope that he may make a recovery and get out of the hospital. Suddenly seeing their unmistakable bright red colour inside the fridge produced an overpowering, feeling of heartache, almost too painful to bear. Although his body was not quite under the earth, this was the first New Year without my friend; a poignant milestone of time and ageing. Both the timing and the site of these beers underlined the raw, rotten and unfair truth that comes with the death of someone we love; we will never see them again.
Although no one else I know likes the taste of McEwan’s export beer, my dad loved it. I remember him in the 1970s, coming home from the roads or the building site at the end of a day’s labouring, when he would take his dirty boots off at the back door and go immediately to the fridge. We would be back from school and in front of the telly but could hear the psssssst of the ring pull being opened. He would then tip his head back and take the biggest slug from it, about half the tin. A few seconds later there would be an almighty buuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrpp, then, “Ah that’s better!” Many years later, when he was in the Clermiston Nursing Home and whenever I would take him out for a beer I would always try and make sure the bar had his favourite beer and when going out to pubs became too much for him we would have a beer at home and that is why his two beers were sitting in my fridge.
A few days before the funeral I was back in the Chapel of Rest, by now I had got used to seeing my dead dad in his brightly stuffed surroundings. There was a comfort seeing his body surrounded by all the things made for and belonging to him. I wasn’t too sure what the undertaker’s ruling on taking alcohol into the cold room was so I’d brought the red tins with me hidden in a plastic bag. Leaning over the coffin I stuck one can into his left side pocket and the other into his right, making the line of his suit bulge a bit and touch the sides of the box. I then straightened up his heavily padded suit as best I could and said goodbye for the last time.
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Solange's Latest Release Is a Design for Kiehl's
Every purchase of the limited-edition packaging supports three charities, including one chosen by the buyer.
By Sarah Rufca Nielsen 10/2/2015 at 1:45pm
Image: Instagram/SaintRecords
Beyoncé might be all over the world of flash tattoos, but we've got to give kid sister Solange credit. Her collaborations are always cool and empowering, whether it's her sneaker collections for Puma or her latest project with skincare brand Kiehl's.
This week Kiehl's released its popular Vitamin C Line-Reducing Concentrate with a special limited-edition packaging designed by the singer. Customers who purchase the serum will get beautiful skin (obviously) as well as a $25 gift card to DonorsChoose.org, allowing them to go online and redeem it to help provide classroom supplies and other benefits for the school of their choice. For every purchase Kiehl's will also make a donation up to $25,000 to two of Solange's favorite charities. The 14 Plus Foundation is a New York-based operation that develops, builds and operates schools and orphanages in Zambia, and Son of a Saint offers mentorship, counseling, education and enrichment to fatherless young men in New Orleans.
"This partnership has been a dream come true, and I'm so excited to continue to do great work with such incredibly generous and good hearted folk," Solange wrote on Instagram when the project was announced this summer.
The Solange Knowles Limited-Edition Powerful-Strength Line-Reducing Concentrate is available now at Kiehl's and kiehls.com for $102.
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Florida Man Arrested After 'Instant Karma' Road Rage Video Goes Viral
It seems the world wasn't quite done delivering just deserts to the man primarily responsible for the road rage internet video du jour, 'Instant Karma.'
A woman filmed a man apparently tailgating her on a road in Tampa, Fla. last week.
Shortly after he's seen flipping her off (in video above) he loses control of his truck, spins across a median and through oncoming traffic. He comes to a rest only after taking out a light pole.
"That's what you get," the woman says, laughing loudly. "All on video, buddy."
The YouTube video has garnered millions of views since it was posted March 26 and now, WTSP reports, the man in the video, who police said is 33-year-old Jeffrey White, was arrested.
Cops said they used footage to get White's license plate number. He was charged with reckless driving, leaving the scene, and failure to wear a seatbelt.
Authorities didn't reprimand her for filming the incident instead of keeping all her attention on the road. Instead, she said to WTSP, they were thankful that the footage helped them collar the culprit.
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[HanCinema's Drama Preview] "Last"
By Vasia Orion on 2015/07/18 at 22:23 PST
2015/07/18 | 1363 views | Permalink
After romantic melodrama 'My Love Eun-dong', jTBC has something quite different coming up. "Last" is not looking like the kind of show which drama audiences are used to, but its cast, approach and the fact that it is based on a popular webtoon might deliver something substantial or at least entertaining. On the other hand, it might be shallow and messy, but one can hope.
"Last" is an action noir drama about the pecking order of Seoul's underground. Jang Tae-ho (Yoon Kye-sang) becomes homeless overnight, after a failed stock project. He discovers that Seoul's underground is run by a man called Kwak Heung-sam (Lee Beom-soo), who profits at the expense of the poor. Tae-ho begins rising through the ranks and fights to survive.
The Worrying
Writer Han Ji-hoon
The latest three works by the writer, 'Road No. 1', 'Dr. JIN' and "Temptation" have generated reactions ranging from lukewarm to furious and this does not sound promising for "Last". Given the drama seems to be placing a lot on its cast and the concept of machismo in action, it could easily turn out very shallow and very messy with its plot. Writer Han has been part of some less dividing works, but still has a lot to prove.
Unappealing Premise
In a medium mostly appealing with the use of romance and popular younger stars, having a cast with so many men past their "oppa" age and a premise which is all about the fights between them might not draw a big audience. A smaller audience is good and can perhaps help it maintain a good quality, but bad ratings for cable can be catastrophic. JTBC has cut dramas short before for that very reason.
The Reassuring
Impressive Cast
Assuming the audience for the series is the kind which is familiar with and also appreciative of the cast, there are some impressive film and drama names here. Yoon Kye-sang and Lee Beom-soo have over a decade's and over two decades' worth of experience respectively. Park Won-sang, Park Ye-jin, Lee Chul-min and even guest appearances such as Park Hyuk-kwon and Yoon Je-moon are all stars who have long and trustworthy careers.
Exciting Promotional Material
Atmosphere is important for a more stylish and noir approach to action and the promotional stills and videos out do sell the concept well. There are a lot of fights, the underbelly of Seoul seems to have a prominent place in the show, the cast of characters looks interesting and entertaining. The conflict between the two leads could have been a bigger focus, but world building is just as important.
It is difficult to ignore the creators in favor of the sleek presentation. PD Jo Nam-gook has some impressive works in his past, most famously 'THE CHASER - Drama'. Writer Han is a big worry, however. At the same time, this is cable television and if one stands half a chance to do something creatively solid, it is definitely here. Hopefully, the creative team will use that advantage well and audiences will respond accordingly.
"Last" begins its run on July 24th and will air every Friday and Saturday at 20:30, on jTBC.
Written by: Orion from 'Orion's Ramblings'
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My Love Eun-dong
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See the Exact Moment George Clooney Found Out About Angelina and Brad's Divorce
"I didn't know that. Wow."
Sep 21 2016, 10:10 am EDT
While the rest of the world was having a major freakout yesterday over Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's divorce, their pal George Clooney was busy doing work at the United Nations. But when he finally learned the news, he was just as shocked as the rest of us.
Yesterday, when asked by CNN on his thoughts about the Brangelina news, a confused Clooney asked, "What happened?"
When he was told they were divorcing, the actor looked shocked. "I didn't know that. Wow," he said.
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"I feel very sorry then. That's a sad story and unfortunate for a family," he continued. "It's an unfortunate story about a family. I feel very sorry to hear that. That's the first I've heard of it."
Clooney and Pitt are longtime friends and have starred in several movies together including the Ocean's Eleven trilogy and Burn After Reading; but their friendship—which includes motorcycle rides and visits to his house in Como—he and Brad don't actually spend that much time together, he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2012. Maybe that's why he was so surprised to learn the news.
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This Is What Happens When You Invite Melisandre to a Baby Shower
The Game of Thrones character wreaked havoc at Seth Meyers' party
Courtesy Late Night with Seth Meyers
Melisandre is great at a lot of things: seeing the future, setting people on fire, and manipulating men of power. One thing she's not so great with? Kids. (Must we remind you of Shireen Baratheon?)
That didn't stop Seth Meyers and his wife Alexi, who's pregnant with their first child, from inviting her to their baby shower. In a gathering with pastel decor, smiling guests and mimosas, the Red Woman didn't quite fit in.
For starters, they kicked off the party with quotes about motherhood, and while the other attendees picked inspirational and light sayings, Melisandre went for something more her style: "Clutch your child close to your breast, woman, for the night is dark and full of terrors." How sweet.
But after a few pep talks with Meyers—who, by the way, invited the priestess because they went to college together at North Westeros—Melisandre did attempt to be more civil. She shared stories about giving birth for the first time (to a demon shadow child who murdered Renly Baratheon), and having a possible fling with Jon Snow (though she's "pretty sure he's dead"). She even gave Meyers' baby a rattle (in the shape of a sword).
Watch the sketch below.
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XDR-TB survivor Phumeza Tisile. Credit: Marcus Rose/ The Union
Two women vs ‘big pharma’ to fight TB
One hails from Mumbai and the other from Khayelitsha but the pair has teamed up after surviving the planet’s deadliest infectious disease; tuberculosis (TB). Toxic treatment robbed both women of their hearing and a newer, safer, drug is unaffordable leaving many people with the choice between deafness or death.
Despite the many health crises plaguing the country, South Africa is probably the best place to live if diagnosed with drug-resistant TB (DR-TB). The reason? Nowhere else can one receive the life-saving drug bedaquiline, which comes with a hefty price-tag, provided by the government for free.
Why then would South African activist and TB-survivor Phumeza Tisile be involved in the current challenge to a patent application for this drug all the way in India?
Known informally as the ‘pharmacy of the world’, India’s decision on whether or not to grant the discoverer of bedaquiline, pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J), the additional patent will have ramifications beyond its own borders and will influence the entry of generic competitors to the market. The drug’s existing patent is valid for the next four years.
For Tisile, the success of bedaquiline in South Africa should be celebrated, but it is unacceptable that access to the drug remains almost non-existent beyond our borders.
‘Deaf or dead’
After surviving the most deadly form of the disease, and losing her ability to hear as a result, Tisile said she will continue fight for “patients over patents” – no-matter the geographic location.
No-one deserves to be given the option presented to her; become “deaf or die”, she told Health-e News after launching the patent opposition earlier this month.
“In 2010 – I wasn’t given a choice. It was either I die or go deaf,” she said.
A little-known but devastating side-effect of standard medicines to treat DR-TB is hearing loss. One in three patients suffer partial to complete deafness from this treatment and only half of those who manage to complete the two-year-long course of toxic drugs can expect to be cured.
After years of illness, Tisile was lucky to be declared DR-TB-free but from 2010 to 2015 she could not hear and struggled with the social pressures of being deaf in her early 20s.
“I lost out on five years of my life. I lost out on school and only seven years later I was able to start afresh at university,” said Tisile whose hearing has returned after sourcing funds for cochlear implant surgery.
Blockbuster drug: Bedaquiline
“There’s a drug that could prevent all of this but, for some reason, they’ve made accessing it impossible for those who need it most,” she said.
The drug in question, called bedaquiline, is the first anti-TB drug developed in almost half a century but costs up to $30 000 (about R410 000) for a six-month course of treatment in some countries.
The importance of this drug cannot be over-stated. It not only replaces the deafness-causing injectable drugs in the DR-TB regimen but it also saves lives; cure-rates for patients taking bedaquiline have been reported at over 80 percent.
Last week Tisile and another TB-survivor from Mumbai, Nandita Venkatesan, filed a patent challenge in India to prevent J&J from extending its exclusive monopoly on the life-saving medicine.`
J&J’s current patent expires in 2023 but if this application is successful their monopoly on bedaquiline, which prevents generic competitors from entering the market, will be extended until 2027.
India and SA health activism
“The Patents Act, 1970 in India allows ‘any person’ to challenge an application for patent. Hence, a TB-activist like Phumeza who is not a national of India could file an opposition,” said Priyam Lizmary from the Indian organisation, Lawyers Collective, which is spearheading the challenge.
“Indian and South African civil society have linkages more than two decades old when they fought together for access to HIV medicines at the height of the AIDS epidemic. This collaboration bolsters that continued mutual support,” she told Health-e News.
Last year South Africa became the first country in the world to offer bedaquilline to all DR-TB patients as a matter of policy, and has been praised for this move which even preceded the World Health Organisation recommendation to the same effect.
A small number of countries, including South Africa, have negotiated a greatly reduced price of $400 (R5 500) from J&J but activists have said this remains out of reach for most low and middle-income countries. To date, only 25 000 people around the world have received bedaquiline and two thirds of these patients have been in South Africa.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has condemned J&J’s request to extend its patent in India and noted the application, for the salt form of bedaquiline, does not deserve further intellectual property protection because it does not meet the standards for novelty and inventiveness.
According to MSF this “strategy of ‘patent evergreening’ through filing of additional, often unmerited patents, is commonly used by corporations to extend monopolies on their drugs beyond the standard of 20 years”.
Generic competition
“Preventing this patent barrier [in India] is expected to encourage TB drug manufacturers from India to enter the market with generics and supply bedaquiline at lower prices to national TB programmes and TB care providers globally,” it said in a statement released in support of the two women activists.
J&J has defended its patent application and prices for bedaquiline arguing that they are necessary to recoup the investment they made in developing the drug and bringing it to market.
“Ongoing suggestions that we generate a profit from the sale of bedaquiline are incorrect and have the potential to only further damage an already fragile environment for TB research and development,” said J&J in a statement in reaction to an MSF-lead protest against the price of the drug late last year.
Activists have told Health-e News that this is tantamount to a threat and is particularly concerning because investment in TB research and development is pitiful. This is despite the fact that the disease kills more people around the world every year than any other infectious agent.
“Most of the large pharmaceutical companies have stopped researching new TB medicines. Of total global investment in TB research and development in 2017, only 11 percent was from the private sector,” said Marcus Low, editor of the health publication Spotlight.
The true cost of bedaquiline?
While J&J has repeatedly refused to provide information about the detailed costs of developing bedaquiline, research from the University of Liverpool estimated the drug could be produced and sold at a profit at a dramatically reduced cost of between $50 and $100 (R700 and R1 400) per course.
The issue is made even more complex as the development of bedaquiline is not J&J’s success alone and multiple other organisations and governments made substantial financial investments especially in relation to clinical trials.
While the outcome of this patent challenge in India won’t directly affect South Africa, indirectly the impact for many countries is significant.
“Since generic competition in India will likely lead to dramatically lower prices and, even if we can’t access those prices, it could create some downward pressure by illustrating how cheap the drug really should be,” explained Low.
After nine years of development, the Department of Trade and Industry’s Intellectual Property Policy – which makes provisions for public health needs – was approved by Cabinet last year.
Yet, there has been very little action since then regarding the necessary legislative amendments needed to implement the policy.
IP reform: Slow progress in SA
The very patent Tisile is opposing in India has already been granted in South Africa.
Currently, patents are granted “far too easily” in South Africa as applications aren’t rigorously assessed. The country also lacks a mechanism like the one currently being used by Tisile in India to oppose a patent before it has been granted.
“Instead challenging a patent in South Africa typically requires expensive court proceedings – thus making it much harder for the public or other third parties to challenge poor quality patents,” said Low.
He urged the government to prioritise intellectual property reform, not only for access to TB treatment but for many other diseases including cancer and diabetes that require treatment with costly, yet life-saving, medicines.
Said Low: “Too many people are still dying, suffering, or going bankrupt unnecessarily because the medicines they need are excessively priced – and needlessly so.” – Health-e News
An edited version of this story was published by Health24.com and IOL.co.za
* After the publication of this story on 13 February Johnson & Johnson sent Health-e News the following statement in response to the bedaquiline patent challenge in India.
Bedaquiline: The J&J perspective
Johnson & Johnson is committed to ensuring that bedaquiline reaches as many patients as possible, and we are a committed partner in India’s efforts to combat TB.
The patent application in question – for the formulation of bedaquiline – was filed in 2007, and became publicly available in 2008, as part of standard procedures when developing new medicines.
The application was first considered by the Indian Patent Office in 2012 and remains under review. If granted, a formulation patent would not prevent generic manufacturers from developing the active pharmaceutical ingredient in their own formulations after July 2023, when the API patent expires in India.
However, we stress – and will continue to stress – the importance of appropriate stewardship to protect the effectiveness of bedaquiline. That is why we have carefully selected our manufacturing partners in India and Russia – to which we have transferred the manufacturing know-how for bedaquiline – and maintain a strong focus on providing quality-assured product and implementing strong stewardship programs to prevent resistance to the medicine from developing.
Since the introduction of bedaquiline in India, Johnson & Johnson has donated more than 10,000 courses of the medicine to support the government’s efforts to scale up access. Beyond providing access to bedaquiline, we have also supported efforts to improve diagnostic capacity, train health workers on the clinical management of TB, and raise awareness about TB at the community level.
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August Weather Averages for Amsterdam, Netherlands
What's the Weather like in Amsterdam in August
Weather in August can be fickle with warm, sunny days or periods of clouds and rain. The good news is that summer in Amsterdam is never scorching and remains pleasant even during the hottest months of the year.
The hottest temperature ever recorded in Amsterdam happened one August and was 33°C (93°F), but numbers like this are very rare. Temperatures in the afternoon normally average 21°C...
Low Temperature 13°C 55°F
Rainfall days 11 days
Sea Temperature 18°C 65°F
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The hottest temperature ever recorded in Amsterdam happened one August and was 33°C (93°F), but numbers like this are very rare. Temperatures in the afternoon normally average 21°C (70° F) with overnight lows dipping to an average of 12.5°C (55° F), compared to September, which has average high and low temperatures of 18°C and 11°C respectively.
Some years will even see a cool August dominated by cloudy and cool westerly winds. However, if winds blow off of continental Europe, then temperatures can soar to between 25-30°C.
Visitors may be able to count on some rainfall to help cool them off. Rainfall is fairly typical in August with an average of 54mm across 11 days.
Average Sunshine Hours
Sunlight drops lower than July with an average of eight hours per day.
Average Sea Temperature
The sea temperature rises to its highest of the year at 18°C so a trip to the beach to enjoy the summer months is still a possibility.
With a wild variation in temperature possible, it is advisable to pay close attention to live forecasts to determine what clothing to bring along to an August vacation.
Amsterdam Hotels in August
Those looking for upscale hotels might want to concentrate their search around Dam Square. Located a quick walk from Central Station, Dam Square is a very touristy area with plenty of high-priced restaurants and bars.
A number of museums are also located in the region including the National War Memorial and the Royal Palace. In the square itself are a number of high-end hotels with some slightly less expensive hotels just a short walk from the square.
Swisshotel Amsterdam
Four-star boutique, Swissotel Amsterdam is situated very conveniently in Dam Square, the heart of Amsterdam's historic city centre and only a 20 minute drive from Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport. There are 111 luxurious, sound-proofed guest rooms and sophisticated style suites.
Free access to WiFi, TechnoGym and the business centre is included in your stay. ROYAL98 is the hotel's outsourced restaurant, bakery and deli. The fresh bread, thin crust wood oven pizza and Italian pasta's are definitely something to try. There is also an option to have the hotel breakfast buffet from 7-10am and slightly later on weekends.
Another area with numerous mid to upper range hotels is Rembrandtplein. One of the main nightlife areas of Amsterdam, the region is also home to numerous restaurants and cafes.
Royal Amsterdam Hotel
The Royal Amsterdam Hotel is recommended as it's located right in the city centre, just 100 metres from Rembrandtplein. The beautiful view to the gardens make it an wonderful area to stay in.
The terrace and bar are popular, although, there are many cafes, bars and restaurants in close proximity of the hotel. There are 23 rooms with free wi-fi, bathrooms with hair dryers and amenities, smart TVs and phones. Treat yourself to a delicious meal at the hotel restaurant, tasteful dishes are made by the chef and can be tailored to your dietary preferences.
Hampshire Hotel
For a luxury stay, visit Hampshire Hotel and have everything you need at your doorstep. You can easily access the Van Gogh Museum and Rijksmuseum from here. The hotel has meeting rooms, a laundry service, parking, a family room, bar, restaurant, ai con, bicycle rental, luggage storage and is wheel chair friendly. Choose from a standard room, executive room, junior suite or standard single room.
Amsterdam Beaches in August
Zandvoort is one of the best-known beaches around Amsterdam and with the summer season drawing to a close, August is one the last times to take advantage of the sun, surf and beach. The sea and dunes at Zandvoort combine to create a nature reserve where visitors can relax or participate in a wide array of water sports. The beach is located outside of the city, but is a mere 20 minutes by train from the Central Station.
Bloemendaal is another spot that sunbathers shouldn't miss. This beach can be very crowded during the weekends, so for a little more privacy, go further north to the beach pavilion and nude sunbathing area.
Wijk aan Zee Beach
The widest beach in the Netherlands is located along Ijmuiden aan Zee and Wijk aan Zee. While this stretch of sand can be windy, it is a popular place to participate in activities such as windsurfing and kite flying. This area of beach is typically laid back and very family friendly with events for all ages.
The Netherlands eats more than four pounds of licorice each year, so it is no surprise that you can find drop, or licorice, in shops throughout Amsterdam. There is a flavor of drop for every taste bud and it comes in densities from hard to soft.
Restaurant Greetje
If visitors want to continue sampling traditional Dutch food through dinner, then Restaurant Greetje makes an excellent choice. Visitors can eat their way through the Netherlands in this restaurant that serves traditional dishes such as roasted fillet of Limburg pork with mashed potatoes, smoked Ijsselmeer eel and Breemster stew of hare and red cabbage.
Café Brecht
For a quieter evening with an affordable drink, Café Brecht attracts students and academics who take advantage of the café's wide selection of German beers on tap as well as other specialties. Vintage furnishings decorate this Berlin-style living-room cafe that serve German beers and light bites.
The Happy Bull
The Happy Bull is the perfect restaurant for anyone craving a burger and milkshake. It's located in South Amsterdam, near Vondel park. The quality burger steak and Italian ice cream used in the shakes make for a delicious experience. Also recommended are the fries, chili con carne, nachos and salads. There are gluten free and vegetarian meals on offer too.
Breakfast at Sticky Fingers can be a health option as the coffee is refreshing and strong. The spacious cafe is great for anyone working from a laptop. Spoil your senses and tickle your tastebuds, take away or stay all day. The Moyee Coffee is organic and definitely a must try for tourists, although locals love it too.
Things to do in Amsterdam in August
August is a great time to visit, due to the activities taking place across the city of Amsterdam and there is something for everyone.
De Parade
One of the biggest and most highly anticipated events is the 17-day tradition of De Parade that takes over Martin Luther Kingpark. The festival is a traveling show meets Renaissance fair with performances beginning each day in midafternoon and going until after the midnight hour. With numerous languages being spoken, tourists and children are welcome, especially during the daylight hours.
August is also the time for Amsterdam gay pride weekend and canal parade. This is an annual event that is widely considered to be the best pride event throughout all of Europe.
Traditionally taking place on the first weekend of August, the event brings approximately 80 boats floating along the Prinsengracht in front of thousands of visitors. The weekend also brings numerous street parties and club events in the city.
Most events take place in areas where there are already numerous gay bars and clubs, so those who are not interested in participating can explore the rest of the city.
Zuid-Kennemerland National Park
If you're looking to go for a walk, Zuid-Kennemerland National Park is a great space to take in the natural beauty of the landscape. Visitors can walk or bike through the dunes, relax in the sun or visit area hotels.
Harboue Festival IJmuiden
For something different, the Harbour Festival IJmuiden takes place on one weekend in August each year at the fishing harbour at IJmuiden and features demonstrations of boats and ships and also musical events.
If you're looking for somewhere to chill out, close by is the attractive Central Library (Openbare Bibliotheek) which contains a cafe with stunning views on the top floor and a wide range of books.
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Car hire in Ireland
Hiring a car in Ireland
From unspoiled natural landscapes to the buzz of vibrant cities, Ireland has it all and everything in between. Visitors easily can flit between trendy bars and restaurants to exploring thousands of years of enchanting history and culture.
The country has many arrows in its quiver, boasting a rich tapestry of arts and culture, an impressive pedigree of literary giants and a passion music that is palpable. There are castles to see, miles and miles of coastline to enjoy and culinary mastery to savour.
Hiring a car will mean you can make the most of your trip to Ireland and will allow you to experience some of the best scenic drives in the world, including the Sally Gap in County Wicklow and the Sheep’s Head Peninsula in Cork.
When it comes to hiring a car in Ireland, you will be spoilt for choice. There are many quality companies - such as Hertz, Alamo, Avis and Budget - that can provide you with the right vehicle, and there are plenty of places you can choose to pick up your hire car.
You can choose to arrange your hire car once you reach Ireland or you can book in advance to get a better deal. Our booking tool can make things very simple for you by allowing you to input your travel dates and select the type of car you’re after.
There are no nasty surprises, like hidden fees or credit card charges, and we offer a free cancellation policy. There will always be someone on hand in case you run into any issues, as we have a 24/7 customer service line.
Where to pick up your car
There are four international airports in the Republic of Ireland - including Dublin Airport (DUB), Cork Airport (ORK), Shannon Airport (SNN), Knock Airport (NOC) - and five smaller domestic ones. You should have no problems picking your car up from the larger hubs, particularly if you’ve booked in advance. If you’re flying to one of the smaller airports, such as Kerry Airport (KIR) or Sligo (SXL), you may not have as much choice but will still be able to find a suitable car via our booking tool. The car rental desks are often in the arrivals hall and if not, they should be clearly signposted.
You also have the option of collecting your hire car from a train station if that is more convenient for you. Hire car companies offer services in several stations, including Dublin-Heuston, Killarney and Kilkenny. A representative meets you at the station or you take a short ride on a free shuttle bus, depending on the firm you choose.
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Where you go once you arrive will largely depend on what type of holiday you’re after. If you’re looking for a city break, head to Dublin where you’ll find lively bars, delicious food, museums and galleries to peruse at your leisure. You can even tour the Guinness Storehouse and the Old Jameson Distillery and find out how the famoust stout is made.
If you’re looking to escape into the countryside and take in the spectacular views Ireland is littered with, why not drive to the Cliffs of Moher? This is one of the country’s most iconic sights, and when you’re standing on them looking out over the Atlantic Ocean, it’ll become clear why.
Want to relax? Head to one of the country's many beautiful beaches, like Mullaghmore Beach in Sligo or Dog’s Bay in Connemara. You can soak up the sun, swim in the sea or build sandcastles with the kids.
Whatever you choose to do during your stay in Ireland, hiring a car means you are free to make your trip your own.
Driving in Ireland
The speed limit is 50 kilometres per hour in built-up areas, 80 kilometres per hour on regional and local roads, 100 kilometres per hour on national roads, and 120 kilometers per hour on motorways. If you’re using satnav that shows you where any fixed speed cameras are you must deactivate this function, as using it is against the law.
Keep some change in your purse or wallet, as you have to pay a toll on some motorways and most do not accept credit or debit card.
Children under 12 years old, or less than 1.5 metres tall, must be in a suitable baby or booster seat.
Longer drives
Ireland is the perfect setting for long scenic drives on coastal roads, over lush green hills and alongside spectacular mountains. If you’re staying in Galway, you could make the journey through Clifden to Westport, which would take you through the rugged Connemara region. On your way, you’ll be treated to panoramic views of the coast and the stunning Doolough Valley.
The Inishowen 100 - named after the number of miles you’ll cover - takes you around the coast of Ireland’s most northern point. Starting in Muff in County Donegal, you follow the coast to Moville before heading further north to the Malin Head. From here, you loop back down and finish your drive in the quaint village of Burnfoot. Your drive will be against a stunning backdrop and there are plenty of places you can stop at on the way for a bit to eat or to take photos.
Looking for something longer? The 179 kilometre Ring of Kerry might be the drive you’re looking for. You’ll pass a spectacular landscape that is steeped in local history and awash with beauty. There are several notable stops you can make along the way, like the historic Muckross House and gardens or Kenmare town, where you learn about traditional lace making.
Ireland is an enchanting mix of legend, folklore and the buzz of urban life. It is brimming with things to see and do - hiring a car will mean you’re free to see everything that piques your interest.
The Dingle Peninsula
The Dingle Peninsula is full of perfect sandy beaches and crystal clear stretches of ocean. The village itself is full of charm and friendly welcomes. You can make your way down the winding streets, past a jumble of colourful shops and cafes, before hitting a local restaurant to tuck into the catch of the day.
RMS Titanic - built in Belfast in 1911 - stopped in Cobh before setting off to New York. The town has helped keep the history of the doomed ship alive by offering guided tours that reveal locations and incidents connected to the liner. The tour marries together the history of sailing ships, departing emigrants and military fleets, leaving a lasting impression on the visitors.
Crag Cave
Crag Cave, which is one of the longest cave systems in Ireland, covers around 3.8 kilometres and is a wonderland of stalagmites and stalactites. Visitors can follow a path deep underground, passing cavernous chambers, as well as tiny caves. You will learn about the origins of the cave and the story of its discovery, before coming to the Kingdom Falconry. Here you can get up close and personal with a variety of birds of prey, including hawks, falcons and owls.
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Saboteur (1942)
PG | 1h 49min | Thriller, War | 24 April 1942 (USA)
An aircraft factory worker goes on the run after being wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.
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A young woman discovers her visiting uncle may not be the man he seems to be.
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Stars: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
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The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and everyone seems to have a different idea of what should be done with his body.
Stars: John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn
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An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.
Stars: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova
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On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
Stars: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
Suspicion (1941)
A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke
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An American physician and his wife take matters into their own hands after assassins planning to execute a foreign Prime Minister kidnap their son.
Stars: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie
Topaz (1969)
A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
Stars: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon
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A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
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A priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.
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In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
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Sabotage (1936)
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A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.
Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester
Priscilla Lane ... Patricia (Pat) Martin
Robert Cummings ... Barry Kane
Otto Kruger ... Charles Tobin
Alan Baxter ... Freeman
Clem Bevans ... Neilson
Norman Lloyd ... Frank Fry
Alma Kruger ... Mrs. Henrietta Sutton
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Los Angeles aircraft worker Barry Kane evades arrest after he is unjustly accused of sabotage. Following leads, he travels across the country to New York City trying to clear his name by exposing a gang of fascist-supporting saboteurs led by apparently respectable Charles Tobin. Along the way, he involves Pat Martin, eventually preventing another major act of sabotage. They finally catch up with Frank Frye, the man who actually committed the act of sabotage at the aircraft factory. Written by alfiehitchie
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For the factory sabotage, Sir Alfred Hitchcock simply used a shot of the front of the building with black smoke slowly billowing into the frame. Robert Boyle said Hitchcock made a drawing "in which he drew just the big doors and then he did a big scribble. He said, 'There will be an explosion.' And I thought that scribble more illuminating than the finest drawing you could make." See more »
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Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur is not one of his best-regarded films; made between two vastly more popular and critically praised pictures, Suspicion and Shadow Of a Doubt, it's generally regarded as a lesser effort. I agree that the later film is groundbreaking, drawing Hitchcock wholly into the American mainstream for the first time, but Saboteur is in its way at least as lively as Suspicion; its chief flaw being its less than charismatic star players, Bob Cummings and Priscilla Lane.
In Saboteur we find Hitchcock feeling his way around America, literally, as its lead character travels from California to New York in search of an arsonist for whose crime he was accused. Cummings is very youthful here, and quite engaging. His boyishness (but not immaturity) perfectly suits the character he is portraying, and seems appropriate, as the director, though middle-aged, was in the process of reinventing himself, and an older, more established star might have thrown things off. Priscilla Lane's spunky heroine, which not a typical type for the director, was very much a common type in American films at the time; and she and Cummings provide an openness and a youth the director needed both in his life and work at this time. I cannot imagine older, more solid types,--Cooper and Stanwyck for instance--doing any better, as they would have, between them, carried, well, too much baggage.
As is the norm in Hitchcock's films, nothing is as it appears. Where Saboteur differs from his better known films is that the audience is let in on the game early. Though Cummings is an accused arsonist, we know that he is innocent. The villains become apparent fairly soon; and the movie hinges more on its plot than its ironies. What pleasures there are are incidental, and here the Master does not disappoint. There is an interesting, Tod Browningish interlude with some circus freaks, who help Cummings elude capture. In another scene, reminiscent of James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein, Cummings spends some time in the cottage of a blind man, who, as it turns out, is Lane's uncle. Was the director perhaps studying key American films of the previous decade? Whatever the case, these and other offbeat and discursive aspects of the movie give it a playfulness and variety, which, when one adds the factor of quite youthful leads, makes the picture seem like the work of a younger man, still learning his craft.
The film's later scenes, in New York, are more suspenseful and typical of the director, as the picture gradually becomes more Hitchockian as it moves along. In the end I find it a satisfying work; and as neither Cummings nor Lane has a dark side as an actor, neither does the movie have one. It is deliberately lightweight, and I suspect semi-experimental; an attempt by Hitchcock to see if he could pull off, in an American setting, the sort of story he had done so well in England. He succeeded admirably. The next logical step: Shadow Of a Doubt, a film in which the main character travels east to west, and with a wholly different set of values and plans.
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Using geothermal to cool your home
Geothermal energy can be used to sustainably keep a house cool in notoriously hot parts of the world, thanks to the design of a new cooling system by researchers in Italy and Turkey. Writing in the International Journal of Exergy, the team explains how their vapour absorption chiller (VAC) was designed to meet the cooling demands of a 140 square metre, detached family home in Izmir, Turkey.
Hot geothermal fluid from deep beneath the house is transported to the VAC in which water and ammonia are used as an absorbent and a refrigerant, respectively. The system runs at temperatures of 30, 90, and 2 degrees Celsius at the condenser, boiler, and evaporator. The system runs at an equivalent of about 4.5 kilowatts based on cooling load calculations.
Under optimal conditions, the team estimates that costs would be offset by electricity saved running a conventional air-conditioning unit within six and a half years. This takes into account an up-front estimated cost of US$3500. Moreover, the use of sustainable energy to drive the system means a greatly reduced carbon footprint.
It is critical as we face rising global average temperatures and sharply rising local temperatures because of anthropogenic climate change, that we find alternative, sustainable ways to keep people cool in their homes without simply burning more fossil fuels to generate electricity to do so.
Ozcan, B., Aykurt, I.E., Akpak, M., Tacer, T., Yildirim, N., Hepbasli, A. and Ozcan, H.G. (2019) 'Thermodynamic analysis and assessment of a geothermal cooling system for a house', Int. J. Exergy, Vol. 29, Nos. 2/3/4, pp.350-369.
DOI: 10.1504/IJEX.2019.100370
Medical drones for accident and emergency
Remote or computer-controlled aircraft, commonly referred to as "drones" could revolutionize the way in which emergency medical supplies, such as bags of blood plasma, are delivered to areas hit by disaster, accidents or other life-threatening situations. Of course, drones are costly and require skilled operators. Writing in the International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management, a team from the USA has undertaken a cost analysis of using drones for this purpose.
The team hoped to show that the delivery of emergency supplies using drones is economically viable in the context of road-traffic accidents. By looking at a range of scenarios where drones might be used the team's cost analysis supports their hopes, especially as the timely use of drones rather than ground vehicles could ultimately be a matter of life and death. Their particular focus could readily be generalized to other emergency situations given adequate additional data and the construction of appropriate scenarios for other types of emergency.
The team's analysis focused on two locations in Florida, one near Tampa, the other near Orlando. Both areas have at least one fatality every week due to a road traffic accident and so an improvement in the medical response in those areas could have a significant impact on total lives lost each year in the state. Of course, a road traffic accident will inevitably increase the level of congestion on already congested road networks and make it more difficult for paramedics and ambulances to reach the accident quickly. The use of drones could allow equipment and supplies to get to a site where paramedics may well have arrived on a motorbike, for instance.
Poudel, S.R., Chowdhury, S., Marufuzzaman, M., Bian, L., Mudbari, M. and Pradhan, G. (2019) 'Drone transportation cost analysis for emergency medical products', Int. J. Business Continuity and Risk Management, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp.251-282.
DOI: 10.1504/IJBCRM.2019.100416
Machine learning about glaucoma
Untreated glaucoma is a major cause of sight loss. There are several forms and they are all essentially caused by damage to the optic nerve due to increased pressure within the eye. A collaboration between scientists in Algeria and Belgium has led to a new "intelligent system" for glaucoma detection that promises to help diagnose the condition sooner rather than later and allow patients to be treated in a timely manner and their sight saved.
Mohammed El Amine Lazouni and Amel Feroui of the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, at Abou Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen University in Tlemcen, Algeria and Saïd Mahmoudi of the Computer Science Department at the University of Mons, in Belgium discuss their approach in detail in the International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology.
Technically, glaucoma originates from an increase in the intraocular pressure (IOP). In the healthy eye, the aqueous humour behind the cornea is maintained in equilibrium with and equal quantity of liquid being discharged by the eye and this region refilled with fluid continuously. However, in glaucoma the rate of flow of liquid out of this cavity is slower than the flow into the space and the pressure within rise, putting damaging pressure on the optic nerve. Open-angle glaucoma is the most common form but another condition called normal tension glaucoma can be just as debilitating. Closed-angle glaucoma is considered a medical emergency. The most common form causes no pain, but gradually leads to damage of one's peripheral vision and ultimately the whole field of vision, causing complete blindness.
The team's approach involves one of the standard tests for the early stages of glaucoma measuring the ratio of cup to disc measurements of the retina. Machine learning built on a database of these ratios allows an early diagnosis for a new patient to be made very quickly and accurately, almost 9%%. Such accuracy would allow the ophthalmologist to make a much more precise estimate of glaucoma risk for their patient.
Lazouni, M.E.A., Feroui, A. and Mahmoudi, S. (2019) 'A new intelligent system for glaucoma disease detection', Int. J. Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, Vol. 11, Nos. 4/5, pp.613-633.
DOI: 10.1504/IJCAET.2019.100457
Text messaging to Whatsapp - Early adopters and inertia
Text messaging remains an important means of electronic communication for many people requiring only the simplest connection to the cell phone network. Nevertheless, other more sophisticated tools such as Whatsapp are increasingly prevalent given their multimedia capabilities and the near ubiquity of smartphones and almost universal wireless broadband connectivity in major towns and cities and beyond. Julian Bühler and Markus Bick Chair of Business Information Systems at the ESCP Europe Business School Berlin, Germany, ask what influences how quickly such technologies are adopted in different parts of the world and how the novel displaces the old.
Writing in the International Journal of Mobile Communications, the team has looked at the use of text messaging and Whatsapp and how these have a cultural impact on mobile commerce in two countries: the United Kingdom and Russia. Fundamentally, the team found, the expectations of users in the UK are higher than those in Russia when interacting with mobile commerce sites. This is particularly true of user expectations for hedonic services. It seems, however, that social surroundings actually play a minor role in the user decision-making process. UK users are often early adopters especially in the hedonic sphere seeking out new technology whereas Russian users maintain inertia with the initial services and systems and stay with them in the long term. When Russian users do change they are eager and keen to try out all the new functionality of a service.
The team suggests that their findings have implications for how companies hoping to introduce new technology and services might assess the putative market. They should introduce the service in the UK first as a testing ground for early adoption and move to the Russian market if the UK proves enthusiastic.
Bühler, J. and Bick, M. (2019) 'From text messages to WhatsApp: cultural effects on m-commerce service adoption in the UK and Russia', Int. J. Mobile Communications, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp.441-464.
DOI: 10.1504/IJMC.2019.100506
Corporate Social Responsibility in times of commercial volatility
There is a significant negative correlation between environmental uncertainty and corporate social responsibility, according to a study published in the International Journal of Business and Systems Research. The conclusion drawn from 23 years of data associated with more than 3000 companies in the USA suggests that an ethics view should be taken when it comes to corporate social responsibility rather than allowing a changing environment to determine whether or not a company makes a positive ethical decision or not.
Brian Chabowski and Li Sun of the Collins College of Business at the University of Tulsa, in Oklahoma and Sharon Xuerong of the Huang Miller College of Business at Ball State University, in Muncie, Indiana, explain that their insights could offer policymakers solid guidance on taking an ethical stance rather than allowing the business environment to steer policy. A new ethical stance could provide clearer and more positive approaches to employee lay-offs, union relations, health & safety, retirement benefits, as well as recycling, pollution limitation and clean energy, and even in some instances human rights, whether those of indigenous people in the company's own country.
"To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study that performs a direct empirical test on the relationship between environmental uncertainty and corporate social responsibility (CSR)," the team writes. "Overall, our study shows that managers engage in less CSR activities when in an uncertain environment," they add. This is perhaps to be expected after all CSR might be costly and when markets are not in favour of a particular company then cuts have to be made. However, the team suggests that there are practical implications that would preclude the need for a company to abandon its ethical stance and instead simply temper its CSR to some degree when the firm is faced with a volatile environment.
Chabowski, B., Huang, S.X. and Sun, L. (2019) 'Environmental uncertainty and corporate social responsibility', Int. J. Business and Systems Research, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp.364-389.
DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2019.100378
Shoring up coastal defences
Throughout civilisation, coastal defences have been an issue for those people who live by the sea. Now, climate change and its implications for rising sea levels make the issue increasingly pressing for more and more people. Research published in the International Journal of Lifecycle Performance Engineering, discusses the issue of over-topping of sea defences in the face of a changing environment.
Mehrdad Bahari Mehrabani of the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Greenwich, in Chatham, Kent, UK and Hua-Peng Chen of East China Jiaotong University, Jiangxi, China, have looked at how our changing climate makes it all the more urgent to find ways of assessing coastal defences and ensuring that they are maintained not only on a critical schedule but can be re-engineered on an ad hoc basis when time and tide require it.
Earth sea dykes of the kind that edge lowland coasts and protect towns and cities and the people that live and work on land reclaimed from the sea or vulnerable former marshland, are widespread. Higher than normal tides, storm conditions, and rising sea levels all conspire to breach such sea dykes. The team has demonstrated that it might be possible to predict the demise of a given sea dyke given particular conditions and so offer the possibility of shoring up and improving such coastal defences before problems arise.
Mehrabani, M.B. and Chen, H-P. (2019) 'Lifetime wave overtopping assessment of coastal defences under changing environments', Int. J. Lifecycle Performance Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp.93-110.
DOI: 10.1504/IJLCPE.2019.100334
Validating medical information on social media
Medical information and healthcare advice abound on the internet, both genuine, science-based information as well as spurious and fake. Research published in the International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, looks to using a crowd-sourcing approach to the validation of medication information on one particular niche of the internet – the well-known microblogging platform known as Twitter.
Scott Duberstein, Daniel Adomako Asamoah, Derek Doran, and Shu Schiller of Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, point out that social media, of which Twitter can be said to be one of the popular, can be a very useful place to gather information. However, it remains challenging for the lay person to know whether the information they glean from such a system is valid or whether, in the parlance of the modern political vernacular, it is "fake news". This might not matter so much when the information pertains to celebrity gossip, but it is important in the political realm, and very often a matter of life and death when the subject is medicine.
The team has attempted to develop a system that might automate the validation of information on the internet and specifically Twitter. It utilises the Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) crowdsourcing platform and focused, as a proof of principle, on information about major depressive disorder, an important medical condition that is frequently discussed on social media. "The core of our approach entailed the design of a custom survey and the use of a crowdsourcing mechanism to generate a collective understanding and validation of the information collected," the team writes.
The team has demonstrated that it is possible to use crowdsourcing to successfully extract and validate information about a specific medical topic from a platform like Twitter. They suggest that the same approach might be extended to other medical topics, and perhaps beyond and to other platforms that carry a large body of unvalidated information that might be tested and validated or otherwise. Automation of some aspects of the processing would remove the risk of human error at various stages. It might even be possible for the algorithms employed to differentiate between valid statements and ironic ones that might, with earlier approaches, be confused.
Duberstein, S.J., Asamoah, D.A., Doran, D. and Schiller, S.Z. (2019) 'Finding and validating medical information shared on Twitter: experiences using a crowdsourcing approach', Int. J. Web Engineering and Technology, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp.80-98.
DOI: 10.1504/IJWET.2019.100344
Is Bitcoin the new gold standard or another fiat?
A statistical analysis of volatility in cryptocurrencies has been carried out using a news impact curve. The analysis provides empirical evidence that could help economists decide whether these modern digital currencies are trust-based but intrinsically worthless like the "fiat" paper money system of familiar currencies we use or the new "gold standard". The research team offers details of their analysis and their conclusions in the International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance.
Anwar Hasan Abdullah Othman, Syed Musa Alhabshi, and Razali Haron of the IIUM Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance at the International Islamic University Malaysia, in Kuala Lumpur, explain that trading in Bitcoin, perhaps the most well known of the cryptocurrencies is more on a par with trading in precious metals, specifically gold, as opposed to trading in hard currency. The analysis shows that the volatility and response to economic shockwaves are similar for Bitcoin and gold but that hard currency, such as the US dollar, responds differently in terms of how value changes with the ups and downs of trading and the wider economic conditions.
The team adds that their analysis supports the notion that Bitcoin and gold represent safe-haven assets and could be exploited in hedging against market risk especially during ebullient economic times. "Evidence suggests that cryptocurrency is a potential alternative to the current fiat money system," the team writes, "offering benefits to policymakers and a good investment option for positional investors in terms of hedging, portfolio diversification strategy, and risk management."
The next step with this research will be to extend a similar analytical processing to other cryptocurrencies to determine whether or not these conclusions might be generalized beyond Bitcoin.
Othman, A.H.A., Alhabshi, S.M. and Haron, R. (2019) 'Cryptocurrencies, Fiat money or gold standard: empirical evidence from volatility structure analysis using news impact curve', Int. J. Monetary Economics and Finance, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp.75-97.
DOI: 10.1504/IJMEF.2019.10019878
Criminal cybersquatters
Cybersquatting was rife in the early days of the World Web of the 1990s. An individual would register a domain name that was perhaps associated with an organisation or company and even a trademarked term. The cybersquatter might then use the domain for their own purposes whatever they might be or endeavour to sell the domain to the organisation. At first, it was unclear whether cybersquatting was illegal. Laws were tightened, domain registrars would take a dim view of such activity and commonly the domain would be handed over to what would appear to be the more legitimate owner. However, there are blurred lines when it comes to generic terms rather than company names or trademarks.
Some pundits perceive cybersquatting as unethical. It still goes on. Others suggest that it is beyond unethical it is criminal. Writing in the International Journal of Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems, a team from India suggests that cybersquatting, rather than being an artefact of an immature Web of a quarter of a century ago, is still rife and exploitative. The team offers many examples of cybersquatting and highlights how the activity is detrimental to the growth of the internet and society as a whole.
There may well be instances where cybersquatting was intentional. This author can point to a US government website that has essentially hijacked the name of a well-known personal and commercial website for its own use by using the domain with the .gov suffix where the .com already existed!
The team points out that there are no useful methods to prevent cybersquatting and in India and elsewhere it is increasing on a daily basis as new companies emerge only to find that the most pertinent domain for the website has been taken by a third party. There is a need to increase awareness of the problem before algorithms could be implemented at the registrar level to help preclude this unethical and often criminal activity on the internet.
Chandra, R. and Bhatnagar, V. (2019) 'Cyber-squatting: a cyber crime more than an unethical act', Int. J. Social Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.146-150.
DOI: 10.1504/IJSCCPS.2019.10021909
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Gaming technology can assist with physical therapy and rehabilitation, according to a team from Brazil. Writing in the International Journal of Auditing Technology, the team discusses the potential for the Microsoft Xbox games console and its motion sensor system, Kinect. The team has reviewed the use of this technology in the rehabilitation arena and concludes from their analysis, that the system has a positive role to play.
Ivo Pedro Gonzalez Junior, Fábio Madureira Garcia, Karla Souza Caggy Costa da Silva, Fernanda Xavier Ferreira, Jaqueline Ribeiro da Silva and Wylena Monteiro das Chagas of the Faculdade Adventista da Bahia, Brazil, point out that there have been many advances in the techniques, methods, resources, and instruments used to enable improvements in patient treatment and to reduce the time taken for an individual to return to "normal" life following injury, accident, surgery, or acute medical condition, such as non-lethal cerebral or spinal stroke.
The team points out that the games available promote movement, particular of the upper limbs and upper body, but perhaps more importantly than that "games tend to make patients momentarily forget their limitations and move motivated by the fun and immersive factor." This is a crucial insight into the development and further implementation of gaming technology for physiotherapy in a wide range of conditions. Moreover, where conventional physiotherapy may be perceived as a boring necessity and see many patients skip sessions through lack of motivation, the gaming approach could, for many, avoid the sinking into apathy and provide its own motivation for engaging with the therapy and improving patient outcomes.
Gonzalez Jr., I.P., Garcia, F.M., da Silva, K.S.C.C., Ferreira, F.X., da Silva, J.R. and das Chagas, W.M. (2018) 'A review of the use of new technologies in physical therapy rehabilitation: possibilities and challenges with Xbox and kinect', Int. J. Auditing Technology, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp.1-15.
DOI: 10.1504/IJAUDIT.2018.10021899
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Regulators Reveal More Cybersecurity Initiatives Tracy Kitten (FraudBlogger) • March 19, 2015
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council plans to take several additional steps to help banking institutions enhance their cybersecurity risk preparedness.
On March 17, the FFIEC revealed plans to update and supplement various booklets in its Information Technology Examination Handbook "to reflect rapidly evolving cyberthreats and vulnerabilities, with a focus on risk management and oversight; threat intelligence and collaboration; cybersecurity controls; external dependency management; and incident management and resilience." It did not indicate when the new policies designed to help institutions address cybersecurity would be issued.
The council also revealed six other key steps:
Cybersecurity Self-Assessment Tool: The FFIEC plans to issue a self-assessment tool this year to assist institutions in evaluating their inherent cybersecurity risk and their risk management capabilities.
Incident Analysis: FFIEC members will enhance their processes for gathering, analyzing and sharing information with each other during cyber-incidents.
Crisis Management: The FFIEC will align, update and test emergency protocols to respond to systemwide cyber-incidents in coordination with public-private partnerships.
Training: The council will develop training programs for the staff of its members on evolving cyberthreats and vulnerabilities.
Technology Service Provider Strategy: The FFIEC's members will expand their focus on technology service providers' ability to respond to growing cyberthreats and vulnerabilities.
Collaboration with Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies: The council will build upon existing relationships with law enforcement and intelligence agencies to share information on the growing cybersecurity threats and response techniques.
These announcements come just one month after the FFIEC issued new business continuity guidelines related to cyber-resilience. The FFIEC's actions are designed to address risks identified during last summer's pilot program for cybersecurity risk assessments (see FFIEC Issues Cyber-Resilience Guidance).
Amy McHugh, an attorney and former FDIC IT examination analyst who now works as a banking consultant for CliftonLarsonAllen, says the FFIEC's announcements were anticipated, considering regulators' recent emphasis on cyberthreat resilience.
Earlier this month, McHugh said many of her bank and credit union clients began contacting her about questions regulators were asking during their cyber-exams.
"One client emailed me today stating the FDIC recommended they develop a cybersecurity policy and program," McHugh told Information Security Media Group on March 12. "In another exam, an FDIC examiner met with two board members separately and asked them about the bank's cybersecurity program, how the board was providing oversight of the program, and the risks they identified for their bank. The examiner seemed to emphasize board oversight."
Cyberthreats 'Significant'
On the heels of the FFIEC's just-released cyber-resilience guidance, which came as an appendix to the FFIEC's Business Continuity Planning Booklet within the IT Examination Handbook, Deputy Comptroller of the Currency Beth Dugan foreshadowed the issuance of more cybersecurity-related policies (see FFIEC Issues Cyber-Resilience Guidance).
"I can tell you without hesitation that the risks to banks from cyberthreats and vulnerabilities are significant," Dugan said. "The severity of cyberthreats is escalating rapidly, and attackers are exhibiting an increasing ability to exploit vulnerabilities in commonly used infrastructure. While the impact on financial service firms has been relatively limited so far, as we see from experience in other industry sectors, there is a growing possibility for materially severe attacks on banks or the infrastructure on which they depend" (see Regulator Hints at New Cyber Guidance).
Increasing concerns about the risks cyber-attacks pose to financial services and the critical infrastructure are being voiced by numerous banking leaders and regulators. This week, Doug Johnson, senior vice president of payments and cybersecurity policy, testified before a U.S. House subcommittee about the need for more aggressive cybersecurity action.
"Attackers of every variety are also becoming increasingly adept at defeating security practices, increasing the velocity with which companies must move to ensure they understand how cyber-risks are changing and what mitigating measures are most effective against these risks," Johnson said. "It is indeed an arms race. Another increasing challenge for financial institutions and the private sector, generally, is the need to digest an increasingly larger volume of cyberthreat data.
"Determining the relevance of a particular piece of threat data, analyzing the magnitude of the threat, evaluating which systems might be impacted, and devising the appropriate course to take to mitigate the threat if necessary has become increasingly difficult."
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At his March 11 Senate confirmation hearing, Navy Vice Adm. Michael Rogers, chosen by President Obama to be the next director of the National Security Agency, declined to characterize NSA leaker Edward Snowden as a traitor.
Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee to be considered for the post of commander of the military's cyber command, Rogers heard several senators call Snowden a traitor.
"It's amazing to me - and I don't see this in West Virginia at all - they're trying to lift Snowden up to [be] any type of hero," said Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. "He's basically a traitor in our eyes [for] what he's done to our country. ... Basically, he just went down the sabotage route. ... So you would look at him as a traitor."
Rogers responded, "I don't know I would use the word traitor, but I certainly do not consider him to be a hero." Still, Rogers said he agreed with assessments by several senators that Snowden's leaks caused significant damage to national security (see NSA Moves to Prevent Snowden-Like Leaks).
The NSA director, an appointed official, also serves as the military cyber commander, which requires Senate confirmation. If confirmed, Rogers would replace Army Gen. Keith Alexander, who's retiring.
During the hearing, Rogers promised the NSA would be more transparent about its e-spying operations under his leadership.
"We have to ensure strict accountability on the part of the National Security Agency," said Rogers, who now heads the Navy's cyber command. "We have to make sure that we do, in fact, follow those processes appropriately, and when we make a mistake, if we fail to meet those requirements, that we're very up front about how and the why."
Speaking in Broad Terms
Rogers differentiated between exposing how NSA spying methods function - they mostly should remain secret - and explaining why the NSA takes certain approaches to information collection.
"One of my challenges is I have to be able to speak in broad terms in a way that most people can understand," he said. "And I look forward to that challenge."
Rogers said he supports the continuation of the bulk metadata collection program under section 215 of the U.S. Patriot Act, and worries that an Obama administration plan to transfer the storage of the records to an independent body could complicate the operation and prove costly (see Obama Hints of Changes in Surveillance Program). "We need to maintain an ability to make queries of phone records in a way that is agile and provides results in a timely fashion," he said. "Being able to quickly review phone connections associated with terrorists to assess whether a network exists is critical."
The nominee said he knows he'll need to make tough decisions regarding balancing security and privacy, noting the great threats emanating from adversaries and enemies in cyberspace who would do the nation harm. "In the end, this fundamentally boils down to an assessment of risk, both in terms of our security as a nation as well as our rights as individuals," he said. "We value both, and we've got to come up with a way to enable us to make sure that both sides of that risk formula are addressed."
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Cry Baby! 5 Times Billionaire Kidnapper, Evans Has Broken Down In Tears Since His Arrest
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If there was an award for the most popular alleged criminal in Nigeria, the inglorious crown would sit perfectly on the head of Chukwudubem Onuamadike, better known as Evans, whose reign in the kingdom of kidnappers came to an end on Saturday June 10, 2017 when he was arrested by the police intelligence response team led by Abba Kyari, an Assistant Commissioner of Police.
Before his arrest, the notorious kidnapper had been a pain in the neck of security officials and wealthy Nigerians who were his prey. Evans played his devilish game so well that most of his gang members did not know his true identity until he was arrested.
Kyari had revealed that Evans was arrested at his residence in Magodo Estate, where he lived with his wife and children. However, they were not at home when his illegal journey came to an end.
“IRT headquarters in Abuja is celebrating the arrest of the most wanted brilliant and notorious high profile kidnapper in Nigeria,” he said back then.
“He has collected several billions of naira as ransom in the last seven years as the kingpin of kidnappers. Evans was said to have masterminded kidnapping operations in Anambra, Edo and Lagos, with Lagos placing a N30million bounty on him.
“He was arrested at about 1pm on Saturday, June 10, at his residence in Magodo Estate, Lagos.”
However, since his arrest, the name Evans has not ceased to appear in the press and social media —surprisingly for his penchant for crying at every given opportunity.
1. First cry — Arrest day
According to a family source, Evans was warned by a prophet about an “impending danger”, but he turned a deaf ear.
“I saw him at the ASPAMDA market, Trade Fair market, Lagos. I was telling him about the rumours making the rounds that he was a kidnapper, but he denied it, telling me that the allegation was a lie,” said the relative.
“Well, as we were talking, a prominent prophet walked in and warned him about impending danger. Evans still denied that he was doing something dubious.”
Evans, whose victims suffered various degrees of inhumane treatment, cried profusely on the day of his arrest, blaming his herbalist for his woes.
“My juju man said that I was like the wind that can never be seen,” he said in tears. “I trusted him, but see how I was picked like a common criminal. If I have my way, the juju man will pay for his sins.”
2. Second cry — media interview
A few days after his arrest, while still regretting his action, Evans spoke with a journalist whom he told that he was ready to die.
“I want to die. I can’t stand this humiliation. What am I living for? When I saw the policeman dash towards me I ran inside. I was not running to escape. I ran to see if I could end it before they could take me. But time was short. They followed me into the room. I have seen it all, I want to die and have some rest,” he said in tears.
“The only thing I want now is for the government to take care of my children, educate them and don’t allow them to become criminals. I have begged Abba Kyari, to do this for me and he assured me that the Lagos State government would take them to an orphanage home where they would grow to become better persons in the society. I have been diagnosed with Colon cancer and I wish I could die.”
3. Third cry — Prison
As the police continued with its interrogation, Evans, who started out as an armed robber, continued crying in cell. “He has been weeping uncontrollably because he is in a cell with common poor criminals despite all the wealth and mansions he owned,” a police source confirmed.
4. Fourth cry — Ikeja High Court
While standing trial before Justice Hakeem Oshodi on Friday, November 17, 2017, Evans broke down in tears as he complained to the court about the feeding and care for inmates at the prison.
He claimed that prison authorities deprived him of change of clothes, food, and water.
“This is unfair, I have not been given food and change of clothes,” he said in tears. “I was not given the opportunity to bathe since Wednesday. I am seriously hungry now. They locked us in one place, no food and no water to bathe. The last we were fed was when a wife of one of us brought food.”
Evans’ lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, asked the court to grant the accused permission to have access to food, saying: “Apart from being starved, my lord, they are locked up in solitary confinement with no access to anybody. If this continues, they may not be in the right frame of mind to continue the trial.”
5. Fifth cry — Ikeja High Court
On Monday, at the Lagos State High court, where he was arraigned on two fresh charges of kidnapping, Evans signalled to the judge that he wanted to say something.
“I have an explanation to make,” he said in handcuffs “Since I have been in the maximum prison, they have been maltreating me; no visit, they don’t feed me well, I have eye problem and I cannot see afar.”
Refuting his claim, one of the prison officials said: “We have been treating him very well; he is well-fed and people have been visiting him.
“A doctor has been checking him; the doctor came to check him yesterday (Sunday) and even this morning before coming to court… because he was saying he can’t be in court, that he is not feeling fine.
“But when the doctor checked him yesterday (Sunday) and this morning, the doctor said he was healthy and that he saw no reason why he shouldn’t be in court.”
Immediately the Judge left the courtroom, Evans began to cry, saying: “What have I done to you people? They have been beating me; no good food; I have been locked up in one place since August 30 last year; why are they taking my case personally? Let me face my trial alive, why do you people want to kill me.”
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Great temptation
Written by Safitri Widagdo
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They say every man has his price, but is one billion rupiah worth getting one’s hands dirty for? According to Noni, one of the characters in Richard Oh’s 2006 film, Koper (The Lost Suitcase), it doesn’t buy much. Nevertheless, the mere thought of having such an amount seems enough to derail an honest man’s life. Yahya (Anjasmara), the protagonist of Koper, is a civil servant who feels alienated and invisible in his workplace. He fares no better on the streets of Jakarta, where the film is set. Yahya lives with his wife in Kampung Melayu, a dense, maze-like urban community. Money is tight, but he refuses to abandon his principles for material prosperity. When Yahya stumbles upon a suitcase one night, he discovers the next day that some people – including his wife – have assumed it contains the proceeds of a recent one billion rupiah bank heist. Yahya refuses to open the case on the grounds that it is not his property, but its imagined contents nonetheless begin to affect his life and the way the people relate to him.
Yahya’s guardianship of the suitcase leads others to notice that he exists: neighbours want him to use the money they believe it contains to support the community; marketing agents queue to bring him project proposals; and the office’s night security guard stops carelessly locking him inside after work each day.
These expectations become too much for Yahya, but he finds a kindred soul in Noni (Djenar Maesa Ayu), a waitress at Cafe Betawi, a bar he frequents. Like him, Noni has no interest in what the suitcase contains. Also like him, she finds comfort in ‘hiding’ from the world. They develop a friendship over deep, introspective discussions and a shared affection for old-fashioned P. Ramlee records. However, the suitcase continues to take over Yahya’s existence.
Yahya attempts to return the case to its owner, Mr Tides, but he denies ownership. When Yahya goes to the police, he does not mention that the case possibly contains stolen money and the police refuse to take it from him. It isn’t clear whether the omission stems from Yahya’s refusal to speculate about the case or from his view that it is somehow a responsibility he must bear. What is certain is that he does not want the power and influence he has acquired since he became associated with the case.
At the end of the film, Yahya finds himself alone with the suitcase. His wife has left him and the office boy is having greater success in his job than Yahya himself could ever achieve. The suitcase becomes damaged and falls open in the course of his flirtation with suicide. The moment of clarity that comes when its contents are revealed brings Yahya great joy. However as he rushes off full of excitement about his discovery, he ironically meets his death at the hands of Mr Tides, who runs into him with his car. Mr Tides leaves both Yahya and the suitcase lying on the road, and sometime later a woman, apparently Noni, wanders onto the scene, lost in her own preoccupations. She carelessly kicks the case aside before continuing on her way.
After poor box office takings in Indonesia, Koper began travelling the world cinema festival circuit. In a wave of growing interest throughout 2007, it was shown at festivals in Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, the UK and France. The film’s take on petty crime and corrupt government institutions in Indonesia seems to have been a talking point at festival screenings. When it comes to soft targets such as the police and the civil bureaucracy, the darkly wry humour of Koper comfortably hits its mark. It also does well when commenting on the Indonesian film industry. The crowd at Cafe Betawi sit enjoying strategically-placed bottles of Bir Bintang and Pop Mie instant cup noodles. Everyone is feeling pinched by rising living costs, but one man states that there are more important things in life than money, such as ‘love, art and dignity’. ‘Try thinking of those things when you’re poor,’ another replies. And try making art without money from corporate sponsors, the film seems to say. Turning the comment toward itself, Koper deftly alludes to the realities of filmmaking in Indonesia.
Uneven performances
Anjasmara, as Yahya, comes alive in the film’s comedic moments, but often loses his footing elsewhere. He is inanimate when the scene calls for aloofness and baffled when he should look conflicted. If not for Oh’s inspired depiction of tropical Jakarta’s leafier neighbourhoods, one might find it difficult to understand that Yahya’s despair when he tells Noni that it is stifling hot and he cannot breathe is partly existential.
As the screen partner to Anjasmara’s Yahya, Djenar Maesa Ayu’s Noni is intriguing. Ayu is a well-known contemporary writer, and although her performance may be wooden at times, she brings to the role the potential for slippage between the character of Noni and her own public persona. With Noni’s admission that she writes and Yahya’s suggestion that perhaps she works at the bar to obtain material for her work as a writer, it seems possible that Ayu the actress is playing Noni the waitress who in turn masquerades as Ayu the writer. The possibilities created by Noni/Ayu are of the sort that art house cinema audiences enjoy chewing over.
Noni and the suitcase’s supposed former owner are the only prominent characters other than Yahya who express a lack of interest in its contents. The now-retired Mr Tides lives in a luxurious retreat and Noni‘s home is filled with top-end furnishings which are explained away by the mention of an affluent flatmate. Their apparently comfortable lifestyle is relevant to the narrative’s driving theme of living an honest life in a chronically dishonest world. In contrast to the great interest shown by Yahya’s neighbours in the suitcase, the reactions of both Mr Tides and Noni reflect the nonchalance of those who can afford to dismiss its potential worth. The dilemma of the film’s hero thus appears to be the burden of a poor man’s conscience. One billion rupiah is not temptation enough, it seems, to the lucky few whose honesty remains unquestioned.
Safitri Widagdo (safitri@soas.ac.uk) is a postgraduate student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where she does research in anthropology, film and literature.
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Vic govt concerned with "breadth" of facial recognition laws
By Justin Hendry on Apr 20, 2018 12:56PM
Cracks emerge in intergovernmental agreement.
The Victorian government has called out the federal government’s new facial biometrics matching legislation for going “beyond the scope” of the agreement signed with the states and territories last year.
Special Minister of State Gavin Jennings raised the state government's concerns to the parliamentary committee reviewing the government’s Identity-matching Services Bill and the Australian Passports Amendment (Identity Matching Services) Bill.
The bills, which were introduced to federal parliament in February, will formalise an agreement signed between federal, state and territory leaders last October to establish a capability for law enforcement agencies to share and access identity information in real time.
Despite broadly supporting the use of the scheme, Jennings questioned the “breadth of consent, use and disclosure of identification information” in the IMS bill, which he said wasn't covered in the original agreement.
“The IMS bill goes beyond the scope of the IGA [Intergovernmental Agreement on Identity Matching Services] in several respects”, he said in a submission on behalf of Premier Daniel Andrews.
“It provides for the minister to prescribe new types of identification information, new identity-matching services and an authority that may request the provision of facial identification services, thus providing significant scope for going beyond what was agreed in the IGA.
“It is possible that, because of this, a situation may arise where the Commonwealth is authorised to collect information as part of the IMS that Victoria is not authorised to disclose under its legislation or otherwise.”
He said this was particularly a problem with the definition of identification information, which the IMS bill stipulates includes “other types of licenses and photo identification cards held by states and territories, such as proof of ages, firearms licenses and marine licences”.
“At this time, Victoria has no plans to provide other identification information data sets to the Commonwealth beyond driver’s licence information, such as marine and junior firearms licence information which may be issued to persons as young as 12 years of age,” he said.
Jennings also raised concerns with the “broad powers” granted to the Department of Home Affairs “to use and disclose identification information”, recommending this power “be limited”, and the lack of misuse of data provisions.
The Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner last month raised similar concerns with the potential for scope creep.
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Neutrals Deborah A. David, Esq. Business/Commercial
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Deborah A. David, Esq. has been a JAMS neutral since 2000 and has acted as lead mediator in hundreds of matters including a variety of cross-border and business disputes. Prior to joining JAMS, Ms. David served as a litigator for 25 years representing both defendants and plaintiffs. In late 2002, she moved to London, England and continued her career mediating matters, including business, and teaching conflict resolution in the US, UK, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. In late 2016, she returned to live and work in Southern California.
Experience gained throughout her career enables Ms. David to quickly recognize major issues key to resolution of a matter. She believes that a patient mediator, willing to work however long it takes to get the job done, is essential to successful resolution.
Multi-party industrial dispute involving members at all levels in the supply, manufacturing, distribution and marketing chains of a major industry concerning 11 years of complex commercial transactions
Breach of contract dispute between a technology services provider and IT consultants
Dispute between financial products and services provider and health care partnership brokers regarding the sourcing and provision of group health insurance to employees of a large hotel chain
Suit for wrongful termination against a large UK energy trader involving complex issues of control between affiliated off-shore entities
Supply contract dispute between U.K. based pharmaceutical wholesaler and Asian manufacturer
Dispute between an electronic component distribution company, a hardware/software supplier and an international finance company regarding an agreement for the sale, purchase, installation and financing of an IT system
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Breach of contract for provision of IT services to a UK water company
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Fielies shocked by Bafana call-up
May 4, 2018 - 07:55 am By Seraj Jones
READ: Baxter names provisional COSAFA squad
The 25-year former Ajax Cape Town player has been a pillar of strength for the Citizens since returning to the PSL after spending three seasons with Milano United in the National First Division.
ALSO READ: COSAFA Cup in numbers
'Tarra', as Fielies is affectionately known, says his inclusion in the national team was a welcome shock.
"Wow! I was totally shocked and pleasantly surprised when my team manager broke the news to me," Fielies tells KickOff.com.
"It still feels very surreal and I'm still flooded with emotions as this call-up means a lot to me. This season has been a good experience with City back in the topflight.
"I also need to take this opportunity to thank my Cape Town City club, the chairman, my coach and all my teammates - this is down to your hard work as well."
The announcement of the final squad of 20 players that will participate in the regional tournament will be made on May 17, and those players must be registered with COSAFA by May 20.
Bafana will assemble on May 26, a day before tournament kicks off in Polokwane. It runs until June 9.
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Kwagga Smith named Super Rugby 'Player of the Week'
Super Rugby / 31 July 2018, 4:00pm /
The Super Rugby Player of the Week, Kwagga Smith (right), is a force to be reckoned with. Photo: Samuel Shivambu/BackpagePix
SYDNEY – The Super Rugby Team of the Week is an interesting mix from the semifinals with the Crusaders leading the way with six players.
However, the dynamic Lions' flanker Kwagga Smith is the 'Player of the Week'.
In an action-packed display, the backrower scored two tries in his teams' win over the Waratahs. He won three turnovers, carried 11 times for 109 metres and beat 10 defenders.
Malcolm Marx, the Lions hooker, is the only other South African player to make the team.
Lions hooker Malcolm Marx also made the Super Rugby Team of the Week. Photo: Christiaan Kotze/BackpagePix
The Super Rugby Team of the Week is:
15 Israel Folau (Waratahs): Beat eight defenders, the most of any outside back, made 11 carries, and crossed for a try.
14 George Bridge (Crusaders): Made two clean breaks from 10 carries, made 6/7 tackles, and scored a try.
13 Jack Goodhue (Crusaders): Made a round-high three offloads, beat four defenders, and made 12/13 tackles winning two turnovers in the process.
12 Kurtley Beale (Waratahs): Gained 52m from seven carries, made two clean breaks, and made 8/10 tackles.
11 Ben Lam (Hurricanes): Claimed a Super Rugby record by scoring his 16th try of the season.
10 Richie Mo'unga (Crusaders): Scored more points (15) than any other player, contributed a try assist, and beat a round-high 11 defenders.
9 TJ Perenara (Hurricanes): Made eight carries, the most of any scrumhalf, beat two defenders, and made an offload.
8 Kieran Read (Crusaders): Made 16 carries, more than any other player, as well as making 16/16 tackle attempts.
7 Matt Todd (Crusaders): Made a round-high 21 tackles without missing a single attempt.
6 Kwagga Smith (Lions): Gained a round-high 109m, the most of any flanker since July 2017. He also won the most turnovers (3) and scored two tries.
5 Franco Mostert (Lions): Won a round-high seven lineouts, including one lineout steal, made 13/15 tackles, and 10 carries.
4 Scott Barrett (Crusaders): Made 14 carries, the third most of any player, beat a defender, and made 5/5 tackles.
3 Jeff Toomaga-Allen (Hurricanes): Made 14 tackles, the most of any prop forward, won a lineout, and made three carries.
2 Malcolm Marx (Lions): Made nine successful lineout throws, won two turnovers and scored two tries in his side's win over the Waratahs.
1 Tom Robertson (Waratahs): Gained 17m from eight carries, beat two defenders, made 6/6 tackles, and crossed for a try.
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Borussia Dortmund sign Belgium star Axel Witsel from Tianjin Quanjian
Bundesliga / 6 August 2018, 3:41pm /
Belgium's Axel Witsel has joined Borussia Dortmund. Photo: REUTERS/Sergio Perez
BAD RAGAZ, Switzerland - Borussia Dortmund are on the brink of signing Belgian midfielder Axel Witsel from Tianjin Quanjian, the Bundesliga club said Monday.
Witsel, 29, arrived at the team training camp in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland, having informed his Chinese club on Sunday he would leave using a clause in his contract.
Dortmund have agreed a deal with Witsel to 2022 and expect global governing body FIFA to confirm the transfer, worth a reported 20 million euros (23.1 million dollars), in the coming days.
"After the World Cup it was my goal to move from China back to Europe," Witsel told the team homepage. "I am totally happy and also proud to be able to play for Dortmund. After our first conversation, I did not have to think twice, because for me Borussia Dortmund is one of the best clubs on the continent. Honestly, I can not wait to run around in front of 81,000 people. "
Defensive midfielder Witsel played with third-placed Belgium at the World Cup in Russia and had been with Tianjin since January 2017, moving from Russia outfit Zenit St Petersburg.
"We have been strongly interested in signing Axel Witsel for months and are very happy he has decided on Borussia Dortmund," club sport director Michael Zorc said". "Axel is a player with a great deal of international experience who has all the skills to shape the central BVB midfield: tactical understanding, tackling power, speed, creativity and mentality.
Dortmund, under the leadership of new coach Lucien Favre, begin the Bundesliga at home to RB Leipzig on August 26.
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Home News & Views News Briefs Haredi Rabbi Warns Lapid Is a Target for Assassination
Haredi Rabbi Warns Lapid Is a Target for Assassination
Incitement is not taken lightly in Israel since the murder of Rabin, and even warning of a murder can be dangerous.
Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu
27 Adar I 5774 – February 26, 2014
Photo Credit: Puder PR
Yair Lapid is the Haredi community's Public Enemy No. 1.
A rabbi-lawyer warned on radio that an “important’ Torah scholar told him that Yair Lapid is in line to be the first politician to be assassinated since the murder of Yitzchak Rabin 18 years ago.
The host of the radio show in the national religious Galei Israel radio station immediately half-joked that the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) was on the way to arrest the guest, Dan Halberthal.
The program, by coincidence or not, is called “Don’t Gag the Mouth.” Since the assassination of Rabin, police from time to time have arrested people for suggesting that someone should be shot, although officials have conveniently ignored outright incitement from Arab and even one or two Jewish Knesset Members.
Halberthal defended his statement and said he feels an obligation to make a public warning as a matter of prevention. For the record, The Jewish Press, like Halberthal, is reporting what was said. Nothing more and nothing less.
The background to the rage in the Haredi community is the work of the “Shaked Committee” that has drawn up legislation for a universal draft that would put draft dodgers in jail if they don’t report for military duty.
The sounds of voices of extremism and for violence are becoming more commonly heard in the Haredi community, according to Halberthal.
“A guest of mine on Shabbat, who is an important figure in the world of yeshivas, told me – and I think there is a lot of truth to it – that “there is going to be a new Rabin assassination. Lapid is going to be killed by a Haredi.”
Shrugging off warnings about the Shin Bet, Halberthal, who also lectures on Jewish judicial law, continued, “When someone tells me something that I think is true, I listen.”
In a subsequent interview with Channel 2, Halberthal said, “Since the murder of Rabin, there has not been such a situation… as with Lapid. He is a marked man in the Haredi community.
“It is not exceptional to hear comparisons between Lapid, Amalek, Haman and Auschwitz when his name is mentioned. On Purim, there definitely will be costumes of Lapid as the modern Haman.
Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that some crazy nut will get up one day and decide to carry out the act [of assassination].” The Haredi street is entirely emotional now, and I feel I must issue a warning.”
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The Fourth Way? Harnessing Aggressive Tendencies in the Thymus
Troy A. Baldwin, Kristin A. Hogquist and Stephen C. Jameson
J Immunol December 1, 2004, 173 (11) 6515-6520; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.173.11.6515
Troy A. Baldwin
Center for Immunology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Kristin A. Hogquist
Stephen C. Jameson
During late stages of thymic development, T cells must chose between different fates, dictated by their TCR specificity. Typically, this is thought of as a choice between three alternatives (being positive selection for useful T cells vs negative selection or neglect for harmful or useless T cells). However, there is growing evidence for a fourth alternative, in which T cells are positively selected by agonist ligands, which would normally be expected to induce T cell deletion. In this review, we will discuss where and when agonist selection is induced and whether this should be considered as a novel form of thymic selection or as an alternative differentiation state for Ag-exposed T cells.
Developing T cells face a series of checkpoints designed to determine their fitness for the lineage. The final selection step, however, does not simply test whether the right proteins are expressed at the right time, it monitors the “suitability” of the T cell for survival and utility in that particular individual. This scrutiny, which occurs as cells expressing an αβTCR reach the CD4+CD8+ double-positive (DP)3 stage, is usually discussed in the context of three potential fates: A DP thymocyte can undergo positive selection and become a mature T cell, undergo negative selection in which it is actively instructed to die, or suffer neglect, being the default passive cell death pathway. Which path a T cell follows depends on its Ag receptor specificity. The standard model is that T cells expressing no TCR, or a TCR with negligible affinity for self-MHC molecules, are doomed to die via neglect. A “medium” affinity interaction with self-MHC identifies T cells that may be useful, having a receptor that can work with the particular MHC alleles expressed by that individual, but not be overtly autoaggressive. T cells bearing a TCR with high affinity for self-peptide/MHC ligands (sufficient to activate a mature T cell, and hence classed as an agonist ligand) are thought to be eliminated through negative selection. Any T cell fortunate enough to survive this process via positive selection would then be induced to commit to a lineage, becoming either CD8 or CD4 single positive (SP).
Negative selection itself is typically pictured to occur via clonal deletion at the DP stage. However, this appealingly simply story has long been insufficient to explain all the data. Thus, some models for negative selection argue that deletion occurs at the DP stage, while others suggest deletion happens at the SP stage. Other models show that autoreactive DP thymocytes may not be eliminated immediately, but have an opportunity to edit their TCRs to avoid the death signal. Clonal anergy rather than deletion has also been proposed as a product of negative selection.
In all of these models, the autoreactive population is not imagined to undergo positive selection, rather it is dealt with through alternative negative selection mechanisms. Also, self-reactive T cells in these models are functionally impaired, either because they have lost their autoreactive TCR (editing), have become unable to respond (anergy), or are dead (being the ultimate inactivation).
There has been growing evidence, however, for positive selection of T cells by agonist ligand, in which cells with overtly self-reactive TCRs are directed into a mature T cell lineage. For simplicity and consistency, this type of agonist-mediated positive selection will be referred to as “agonist selection” for the remainder of this review. These cells display unusual phenotypic and functional properties, which appear to allow them to regulate the immune response. Several TCRαβ T cell populations have been proposed to be generated via agonist selection; including NK-T cells, the CD8αα subset of intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes (IEL), and CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells (Treg) (Fig. 1⇓). These individual cell populations have been the topic of recent excellent reviews, to which we would refer the reader (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). In addition, certain TCRγδ T cells may also be selected by agonist interactions, and recent data suggest this may occur in the thymus (6). However, the focus of this review will be on how agonist selected TCRαβ T cells are generated, with a special focus on whether agonist selection represents a distinct developmental lineage chosen during T cell maturation (the “fourth way” of the title), or whether these cells represent a differentiation state that can be reached by both developing and mature T cells at multiple stages (Fig. 2⇓).
Types of agonist-selected TCRαβ T cells. Three different TCRαβ-expressing subsets have been suggested to arise due to agonist selection in the thymus including NK-T cells, CD25+CD4+ Treg, and CD8αα IEL cells. Each of these cell types require different selecting ligands that are expressed by different tissues within the thymus.
Models of agonist selection. Appearance of agonist selected cells might occur by two different mechanisms. In the “developmental lineage” model, agonist-selected cells develop in the thymus in response to agonist signals exclusively at the DP stage of T cell ontogeny, resulting in a distinct lineage of self-reactive (“Self-R”) T cells. Alternatively, in the “differentiation state” model, cells at various stages of development (ranging from DN thymic subsets to fully mature peripheral T cells) can become agonist-selected cells. In this model, these cells represent a T cell differentiation state rather than a developmental lineage. The models are not necessarily mutually exclusive and might apply to different agonist-selected subsets.
Where are agonist selected T cells produced?
This question has been one of the most contentious in the field. Starting with the dogma that a DP thymocytes encounter with agonist self-peptides results in clonal deletion has led to the prediction that agonist-selected cells must be produced extrathymically, and some reports appeared to support this model. However, in more recent years there is increasing evidence that agonist-selected cells can, and perhaps typically do, arise in the thymus.
Compared with the other agonist-selected populations, the site for NK-T development has long been proposed to involve the thymus. Even here, however, the developmental steps are quite distinct from mainstream T cells. When speaking of NK-T cells, we will mostly refer to CD1d-restricted NK-T population bearing the invariant Vα14 rearrangement (also called iVα14 NK-T cells). The first surprise in NK-T development is their absolute requirement to encounter CD1d on bone marrow-derived cells in the thymus, most likely the immature thymocytes themselves (2). While recent articles have shown that CD1d is expressed on cortical epithelial cells, this is not sufficient for selection of NK-T cells, even when overexpressed (7, 8). It is believed that CD1d is associated with (undefined) endogenous glycolipid(s) that constitute the agonist ligand driving agonist selection. The first population of T cells expressing receptors specific for the CD1d/α-GalCer (used to identify iVα14) cells appears in the thymus as CD8− (either CD4+8− or CD4−8−) mature T cells. These cells initially lack CD44 and NK1.1, but acquire both markers further in development (9, 10). The thymus is required for NK-T development, and this population appears to derive from conventional DP precursors, as shown by transfer experiments (10). Although deriving from DP thymocytes, the selected population of NK-T cells (at least in mice) lacks expression of CD8 (being either CD4+8− or CD4−8−), and forced expression of CD8 appears to abort NK-T maturation (11). This fits with a model in which agonist selection on CD1d crosses the line into negative selection with persistent CD8 expression.
The CD8αα T cells that are present in the gut represent another agonist-selected population. This population expresses forbidden TCR Vβs in strains of mice where endogenous superantigens led to deletion of conventional T cells (12), but these cells have been more extensively studied using TCR transgenic models for agonist selection. CD8αα IEL are especially intriguing because, unlike NK-T cells, they are suggested to be an alternative fate for “conventional” T cells (1). Thus, in several TCR transgenic model systems, where exposure to agonist self-ligand led to deletion of conventional T cells, CD8αα T cells in the gut were expanded (13, 14, 15, 16, 17). Accumulating data suggests that CD8αα T cells arise in the thymus, rather than in an extrathymic pathway as was previously proposed (16, 18, 19). In fact, CD8αα T cells arise in fetal thymic organ cultures when a high-affinity agonist is present (20, 21, 22, 23). It is not currently clear where the agonist ligand needs to be expressed to drive thymic CD8αα IEL selection, although cortical epithelium is evidently not sufficient (24). However, it is still unclear whether CD8αα T cells derive from double-negative (DN) or DP progenitors. On the side of the DN is data from models where CD8αα IEL develop in animals that have very few DP progenitors (e.g., in the H-Y TCR transgenic male mouse). Using the same model, it was found that expression of CD8β, which is required for positive selection of most class I-restricted T cells, is dispensable for agonist-selected IEL (16). Also, CD8αα IEL express the FcεR1γ chain in place of (or in addition to) the TCRζ chain in the CD3 complex, a feature in common with DN thymocytes (1, 25). Finally, the gene expression profile of CD8αα IEL is similar to γδ IEL, which develop from DN progenitors, and is quite distinct from the CD8αβ IEL (26). In contrast, Eberl and Littman recently showed that CD8αα IEL express a reporter gene that is activated only after β selection, suggesting that this population derives from at least a stage IV DN progenitor (19). In addition, CD8αα and DN T cells can be generated directly from TCR transgenic DP progenitors by interaction with agonist-bearing stromal cells, at least in reaggregate cultures (27, 28). As these cells develop, they lose their expression of CD4 and CD8β (regardless of the class specificity of the TCR) and, in some systems, commit to expression of CD8αα (28). H-Y TCR transgenic T cells driven in this way express receptors typically found on NK cells and acquire rapid functional reactivity, suggesting that their role might be like “innate immune cells” (28). However, because normal T cells also express these molecules and properties after antigenic stimulation (29, 30, 31, 32), it is not clear that this is necessarily a developmental program per se (see below). Lastly, it should be noted that the CD8αα T cells generated in TCR transgenic models may not be the most appropriate method to study CD8αα IEL, given that TCRαβ transgenes are often expressed at the DN stage rather than the typical DP stage. Indeed, preliminary data using transgenic mice that express the H-Y-specific TCR at the DP stage (rather than at the DN stage, which is characteristic of conventional TCR transgenic mice) shows that exposure to agonist ligands (in the form of male Ag) fails to produce a CD8αα IEL population (T.A.B. and K.A.H., unpublished observations). Using such models may allow a better definition of when the window for agonist selection is open during T cell maturation. Additional studies on the repertoire and function of the CD8αα IEL that exist in normal mice is also needed, and in the future it may be useful to create transgenic models using the specific TCR that are normally expressed in this population to understand their developmental and functional properties.
CD25+CD4+ T cells (Treg) are another population selected for by high-affinity agonist self-ligands. Recent data from the Rudensky laboratory showed that retroviral expression of TCR cloned from CD25+CD4 Treg cells, but not from CD25−CD4 naive T cells, led to rapid expansion in lymphopenic hosts, directly demonstrating the “self-reactivity” of normal Treg (33). As for CD8αα IEL, conventional TCR transgenics, particularly the influenza-reactive 6.5 (also called TS1) strain, has been the predominant tool used to study thymic development of Treg cells. Treg can clearly be generated either during thymic development (34, 35, 36), or through certain forms of Ag encounter in the periphery (37, 38). For CD4+CD25+ Treg populations selected in the thymus, Ag expressed on radio-resistant cells including thymic epithelium appears to be most efficient (34, 36, 39), and although Treg selection on bone marrow-derived cells is observed, this seems to give rise preferentially to CD4+CD25− cells (34). This raises an important point that there are different classes of Treg cells, characterized by different phenotypes (CD4+CD25+, CD4+CD25−, and CD8 populations) and functional mechanisms. While we are focusing on CD4+CD25+ Treg populations here, the selection of other regulatory T cell pools may have distinct developmental requirements.
In addition to development in the thymus, CD4+CD25+ Treg cells can be generated from mature naive CD4 T cells, both in vitro and in vivo (37, 38, 40). These cells appear indistinguishable from thymically selected Treg populations, including their gene expression profile (H. von Boehmer, personal communication), with the important implication that commitment to the Treg pool is not necessarily a developmental lineage, but can represent a differentiation state (Fig. 2⇑). Interestingly, the repertoire of TCR specificities expressed by CD25+CD4 T reg in normal mice was largely different from that of the naive CD25−CD4+ T cells, but did show some overlap, suggesting that both modes of development (developmental and differentiative) could operate in vivo (33).
Can “conventional” T cells be selected with agonists?
The capacity of normal CD4 or CD8αβ T cells to undergo positive selection on agonist ligands has been addressed by many groups. In some model systems, agonist ligands delivered at low doses appeared to induce positive selection of CD8 T cells, supporting an avidity model of thymic selection (in which the same ligand could drive positive and negative selection depending on dose or density) (41, 42). However, like the populations described above, these cells appeared to be altered in their development. With increasing agonist strength used for selection, there appeared to be decreased expression of CD8 overall, and CD8β in particular. Ultimately, these agonist-selected class I-restricted cells start resembling CD8αα populations (20, 21, 28). Perhaps more important, agonist-selected cells showed functional impairment, in that they could not respond to the original ligand (20, 21, 22, 43, 44, 45, 46). Hence, these studies fit well with the studies discussed above that imply that T cells selected in the presence of agonists are pushed into a phenotypically and functionally altered state.
However, there are some reports arguing that conventional T cells can be selected by agonist ligands. Mintern and colleagues used peptide/class I MHC tetramers expressing agonist ligands to drive thymic selection in fetal thymic organ culture (47). Their data suggested that conventional T cells, with normal CD8αβ expression and functional reactivity, could be produced in this manner. Germain and colleagues used two-step reaggregate cultures, the first step of which involved DP thymocytes cultured with agonist-bearing dendritic cells, and observed selection of CD4 T cells that appeared to be functional (48). In these cases, the exposure to agonist ligand was artificial (not presented by a cell) or interrupted, and hence it is unclear if this type of selection would occur in nature. Nevertheless, such data leave open the possibility that agonist-selected populations might sometimes appear within the conventional T cell pool.
Is agonist selection a form of negative selection, positive selection, or Ag reactivity?
While the appearance of all these populations in the thymus is correlated to their exposure to agonist ligands, there is an unresolved question as to whether these cells are instructed to develop by MHC/self-Ag recognition at a particular stage of development (which would be a form of positive selection), or whether they arise as a mechanism of avoiding or compensating from agonist stimulation (this would be a form of negative selection).
Situations in which conventional positive selection is impeded can still allow for selection of CD8αα IEL populations. For example, development of HY TCR transgenic cells in a female mouse requires expression of CD8β, yet selection of CD8αα IEL in the male does not (16). This has been proposed as an argument against agonist selection following positive selection. However, interpretation of these experiments is complicated by the fact that the selecting ligand is very different in the two environments, and hence “agonist positive selection” may not require normal CD8 engagement. Indeed, data discussed above in which T cells were selected with agonist ligands presented by peptide/MHC tetramers argued that CD8 engagement of the ligand was not needed (47). Furthermore, CD8α-deficient T cells can be positively selected into the CD8 lineage with weak agonist ligands (49, 50). Development of NK-T cells has also been shown to have unusual signaling requirements, compared with conventional T cells, in that NK-T development is highly dependent on Fyn, NIK, RelB, Ets-1, and Ikaros, while it does not require normal activity of the Erk pathway (2, 51, 52, 53). In contrast, NK-T development (like CD8αα IEL development (16)) seems to require the α-CPM motif of the TCRα-chain, which is characteristically required for positive but not negative selection (54). As in other aspects of agonist-selected cells then, the signaling requirements for development of these cells show features of both negative and positive selection.
A related issue regarding agonist-selected cells is whether their unusual phenotype allows them to survive agonist encounter, or whether agonist encounter drives their phenotype. In particular, these two alternatives speak to the issue of total signal strength dictated by the phenotype of the progenitor vs TCR affinity in the development of agonist-selected cells. One model would be that a small subset of developing T cells stochastically begins differentiating into an “agonist-selected” lineage, and these cells selectively survive when the agonist is expressed. For example, this subset of cells might be partially impaired in the quality or quantity of the signal they receive from an agonist ligand, allowing them to evade negative selection. This argument has been applied to the expression of CD8αα rather than CD8αβ on agonist-selected IEL populations, because CD8αα is a “weaker” coreceptor than CD8αβ. However, recent data showing a remarkably efficient production of agonist-selected CD8αα T cells (beginning with nonselected DP thymocytes) makes this less likely and suggests active instruction of T cells to adopt the phenotype(s) of such agonist-selected cells (28). Likewise, the expression of CD44 and NK1.1 on NK-T cells appears following their selective enrichment in the thymus upon agonist ligand engagement (9, 10). Nevertheless, while TCR affinity might initially dictate the developmental program of the T cell, changes in T cell expression of coreceptors, costimulators, or signaling molecules may still be key for emergence of the agonist-selected population.
A distinct question, though, is whether agonist selected cells are actually representative of a form of differentiated effector/memory cell. In this model (Fig. 2⇑), the T cells may have begun (or even completed) maturation before they begin responding to the agonist ligand. If agonist is expressed throughout the thymus, there may be a minimal amount of time in which T cells can mature before they begin an overt response to the same Ag. Hence, there may not be a clear preactivated intermediate detectable in the thymus. This model is not mutually exclusive with the idea of agonist selection as a developmental program—it may be that cells begin development under agonist instruction and then participate in a (limited and atypical) response against the agonist ligand. Again, the acquisition of NK1.1 on α-GalCer/CD1d-reactive NK-T cells is detected well after they initially appear as a selected population (9, 10). Hence the phenotype and function of agonist-selected cells may be dependent on repeated encounters with Ag. Rather than a developmental switch then, agonist selection may be more analogous to a chronic (albeit unusual) immune response.
In what state are agonist-selected T cells maintained?
The data discussed above argue that agonist-selected cells are phenotypically and functionally different from naive “normal” T cells, but distinct from each other: Treg cells express CD25 and are CD45RBlow; NK-T cells are NK1.1+ and CD44high, and CD8αα IEL T cells are also elevated for several NK lineage markers including CD94 (although typically not NK1.1). However, in these respects they exhibit markers that overlap with activated conventional T cells. Up-regulation of CD25 and CD44 and loss of CD45RB is typical of effector/memory cells, while NK1.1, CD94 and CD8αα have all been observed on stimulated T cells (31, 32, 55). This again raises the question of whether agonist-selected cells are actually representative of a distinct, committed lineage or are cells undergoing a form of chronic stimulation. This difference is relevant, because the “developmental lineage” model predicts that the DP thymocyte is able to interpret TCR signals in four separate ways.
Are agonist-selected cells maintained by chronic stimulation? Analysis of mice expressing β2-microglobulin (β2m) in the thymus alone suggested that CD8αα IEL populations did not persist if the Ag was not present in the gut. However, the interpretation of these data are complicated by the proposal that CD8αα IEL require engagement of both their TCR and CD8αα (with thymic leukemia Ag molecules expressed on gut epithelium) to develop and survive (1, 56). Because thymic leukemia Ag expression is also dependent on β2m, the role of sustained TCR engagement has not been fully addressed in this case. The capacity of NK-T cells to persist in the absence of their ligand, CD1d, has been shown in lymphopenic settings (57), but not in normal hosts. For Treg populations, initial data from in vitro assays indicated these cells were anergic. This idea must be revised in light of data suggesting CD4+CD25+ Treg cells proliferate vigorously to cognate peptide/MHC ligands in vivo (58). It appears a subset of Treg cells are nondividing and can be maintained long term in the absence of specific agonist, while maintaining expression of activation markers (59, 60). Such data argue against an absolute need for chronic agonist stimulation in Treg maintenance. Indeed, recently activated Treg populations may have a shorter life span (60). Hence it appears that continuous Ag may not be required for maintenance of the Treg phenotype, but might influence survival of these cells.
In summary, several subsets of TCRαβ T cells can be induced by agonist ligands during their development. However, current studies are still unclear about whether selection of these cells is confined to a particular stage in thymic development or whether agonist selection is better visualized as a differentiation state that can be reached by cells starting at various different points in their ontogeny. At present, production of NK-T cell development fits well in the developmental lineage model, but the situation is less clear for CD8αα IEL. Treg cells can clearly be induced by both thymic and extrathymic pathways, although it is not clear at which stage(s) of thymic development they can become committed.
Although studies using TCR transgenic models have greatly facilitated the analysis of agonist-selected subsets, interpretation of these may be complicated due to various nonphysiological aspects of such mice (including precocious TCRα-chain expression and vastly biased frequencies of specific cells). Refinement of these models and examination of polyclonal populations may help define the normal stages at which agonist selection or direction can operate. In particular, analysis of CD8αα IEL and Treg populations will be greatly helped by characterizing the TCRs expressed by polyclonal T cells that develop into these pools to determine the nature of their self reactivity and selection. However, although NK-T, CD8αα IEL, and Treg populations can all be induced through agonist interactions, it is not at all clear that they share a common developmental pathway. Just as functional and phenotypic properties distinguish these subsets, their differentiation might also follow distinct rules. With further study on the developmental requirements of these cells, and analysis of the gene expression profiles that agonist selection induces, it will be interesting to see whether common features emerge in these subsets. Or whether there are as many ways for T cells to deal with agonists as there are to skin a cat.
↵1 This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health Grants AI39560 (to K.A.H.) and AI38903 (to S.C.J.).
↵2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Stephen C. Jameson, Center for Immunology, Mayo Mail Code 334, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. E-mail address: james024{at}umn.edu
↵3 Abbreviations used in this paper: DP, double positive; SP, single positive; IEL, intraepithelial lymphocyte; DN, double negative; Treg, regulatory T cell; β2m, β2-microglobulin.
Received July 30, 2004.
Accepted September 30, 2004.
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[Music clip: From Haydn's Derbyshire Marches, organ version]
01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Good day, ladies and gentlemen, from your ambitiously genial host John Derbyshire.
In this week's podcast I shall attempt some bloviational acrobatics, yoking together the problems of distant regions, formulating bold hypotheses, and peering into the misty veils of the future.
Let's see how it goes.
02 — Helsinki's Angels. I was just reading this MailOnline article about Finland. Headline — and it's a long headline; here you go: Nazi daggers, SS hats and a hangman's noose: On night patrol with the "Soldiers of Odin," neo-Nazi led vigilantes vowing to "keep Europe's women safe from migrant sex attacks". That's the headline. They don't stint on headlines over there at the Mail.
The story concerns that group mentioned in the headline, the Soldiers of Odin. It's a vigilante group that's come up in response to Finland taking in 32,000 illegal immigrants last year, most from Iraq.
I'll just pause to note how many that is: 32,000 in a country whose entire population is less than 5½ million. That would be like the U.S.A. taking in two million in one year.
And that understates the case. Finland has been far more homogeneous, racially and culturally, than the U.S.A. ever was. In the country profile at the CIA World Factbook, on figures dated from 2006, the ethnic breakdown in Finland was: Finns 93.4 percent, Swedes 5.6 percent, all others one percent — mostly Russians. Imagine that: your only significant minority group is Swedes!
The Finnish politicians, like their clueless counterparts elsewhere in Europe, hung out the welcome sign to illegal immigrants. In fact in September last year the Prime Minister of Finland did so well-nigh literally, offering to open his own country house to the illegals.
Reality seems to have taken a grip, though. Last Sunday the Prime Minister withdrew that offer, quote, "because of security concerns." Wednesday this week the President of Finland — that's a different guy, and in fact from a different political party — told the country's parliament that too many illegals were claiming asylum and most were just economic migrants. Now the Finnish government is talking about deporting two-thirds of the 32,000.
Anyway, back to that original story about vigilantes. Not surprisingly — unless you're as stupid as a European politician — this flood of tens of thousands of Middle Eastern Muslims, mostly obstreperous young men, into Finland's exceptionally homogeneous society, has generated a reaction. These Soldiers of Odin are part of that reaction.
A hardened cynic like your correspondent here naturally rolls his eyes at words like "neo-Nazi," mention of the SS, and so on. The threshold for being called a neo-Nazi is just too low nowadays. The Southern Poverty Law Center will call you a neo-Nazi if you disapprove of affirmative action. I must say, though — and even taking the MailOnline story with a pinch of salt: it's a tabloid newspaper, after all — the Soldiers of Odin look like an unsavory bunch. Boocoo tattoos, criminal records, and yes, Nazi memorabilia.
What really caught my eye in the story, however, was this line, quote: "Fewer than 8,000 police officers are employed in the country, making it one of the smallest forces per capita in Europe," end quote.
That took me off on a tangent, wondering how policed different countries are.
With 8,000 cops for 5½ million people, Finland has 143 officers per hundred thousand, against a world median of around 300. So yes, Finland's is a low number. The U.S.A. has 256, eighty percent more than Finland, though still below the median. Russia has 546, nearly four times as many as Finland.
Those are numbers I got from Google queries; goodness knows whether the counting methodologies match up. Scanning comparison tables, in fact, you don't see much correlation between how policed a country is and one's general impression of its lawlessness. Places like El Salvador and Colombia have sensational homicide rates, but policing densities not much above the world median. The lowest number I see there is for Mali, 48 per hundred thousand. I wouldn't say that Mali is my notion of an exceptionally law-abiding country; but what do I know? I've never been to Mali.
I guess there are several variables in play there. The meanness of cops, for example. Really mean, corrupt cops, in a country that allows them to be mean and corrupt, has to have more deterrent value than a friendly, unarmed bobby on a bicycle. And then there's how urbanized a country is; and how much crime citizens are used to, or willing to put up with; and whether citizens are armed … Many variables.
But all right, Third World aside, by European standards — First World standards — Finns don't need much policing, or didn't, before they laid out the welcome mat. Now they've got thirty thousand leering, groping Muslims and skinheads with whole-body tattoos and rottweilers out on patrol.
Way to mess up a quiet, sleepy, homogeneous little Scandinavian country, guys.
03 — Corruption? Who cares? Here's a different story, but I'm going to try and make a connection. Be patient, please.
OK, different story. If you drive along Interstate 90 into Albany, the capital of New York State, you will see a big bright-yellow billboard saying: REPORT CORRUPTION: New York Public Corruption Task Force, with a phone number and a website URL. The actual website URL is: tips.fbi.gov.
There's a lot of corruption in New York State. No, let me rephrase that: New York State government is so crooked, no self-respecting corkscrew would shake hands with it.
Just last year, both the majority leader of the state Senate, a Republican, and the Speaker of the state Assembly, a Democrat, were convicted on federal corruption and extortion charges — within two weeks of each other, in fact, although the particular charges were unrelated.
These convictions surprised no-one. The Assembly Speaker in particular had been quite blatant about enriching himself via favors to property developers and the trial lawyers. I've been grumbling about it over the breakfast table for years.
Notice the word "federal" there. Then notice that the website URL on that REPORT CORRUPTION billboard belongs to the FBI.
Why is it the feds prosecuting the crooks in our state government? Why is it the feds asking us to report corruption? New York's pretty big: 20 million people, nearly four times as many as Finland. The state can't deal with its own crooked pols?
Well, no. Sure, there's a state Ethics Commission; but the people who run it are appointed by politicians — people like, you know, the majority leader of the state Senate and the Speaker of the state Assembly. And the Governor, of course, who for five years has watched the shenanegins from up close without doing a darn thing about any of it.
Veteran New York reporter Bob McManus, writing in the New York Post on Tuesday, explained it all. Money quote:
Monday, the upstate Siena College Research Institute reported that nearly 90 percent of New Yorkers believe the state is fundamentally corrupt — but only 18 percent think doing something about it should be a top priority in the … 2016 legislative session.
End quote. Bob goes on to mention some of the goodies being promised to voters this session: a minimum wage hike, more paid family leave, more earned-income tax credits, and so on. Can the state afford these goodies? Of course not, but that's some future politician's problem.
OK, now let me try to work up a connection between Finland's problems and New York's. Next segment.
04 — Waiting for the barbarians. So, what's the connection? In a phrase: the sinking-down to Third World standards. In a word: decline.
Finland then: A quiet, homogeneous nation of industrious, well-behaved people that didn't need much policing.
Finland now, or soon: Another doomed experiment in multiculturalism, with unassimilable Muslims demanding privileges, angry disaffected underclass natives breaking windows, and decent people staying away from public spaces.
New York State then: a busy, industrious place full of farms and factories, entrepreneurs getting rich building better mousetraps, or financing the mousetrap sector.
New York now: a sluggish, overtaxed dump with a net outflow of people, run by crooks who buy votes with goodies bought on borrowed money.
First let me pre-empt some quibbles. Come on, Derb, some listeners are muttering. New York State? Corruption isn't exactly a new thing. What about Boss Tweed?
I never said corruption was a new thing. The new thing is the one Bob McManus put his finger on: Nobody gives a damn. About Boss Tweed, New Yorkers did give a damn. They got rid of him by themselves, with very little federal help.
All right, says my listener, but the feds today are cleaning up New York. So there's recourse there; the federal government's still clean.
Is it? Sure, the favor-trading is less blatant in DC, but nobody leaves office poor any more, as they used to. From We Are Doomed, Chapter 12, quote:
When Harry Truman left office in 1953, he had no income but his army pension of $112.56 a month. He had to take out a bank loan while negotiating a deal to write his memoirs. That was the way of things all over the Anglosphere. It was part of the tradition of modest Anglo-Saxon government. When Bob Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, left office in 1966 after 18 years in power, having given up a lucrative legal career for politics, he could not afford to buy a house in Melbourne. (Some wealthy supporters eventually put up funds for a house in a respectable suburb.) As late as 1980, I am told, the Prime Minister of New Zealand had his domestic telephone number listed in the phone book. Farmers used to call him up and grumble about the price of sheep dip.
It all seems like a long time ago.
End quote. It sure does.
Thinking about these things, it's hard not to fall back on speculations about mass psychology. You have a pleasant, orderly nation or state, supported by responsible people who work hard, managed and legislated for by public-spirited citizens who mostly don't take advantage of their positions and often leave office broke. Your state is pretty homogeneous ethnically and culturally, so there aren't too many internal strains, citizen against citizen.
But after a generation or two you forget how remarkable that is. You take it for granted, and decide to try some big social experiments — mass immigration of millions of aliens, perhaps. So the U.S.A. got the 1965 Immigration Act, and Europe got the current flash mob from Africa and the Middle East.
Then your speculations wander off into darker regions of the collective psyche. Perhaps social stability, clean government, and a long peace just make us bored. Anything for a change!
The end point of that line of thought is a poem, well-known to all cultural pessimists, written 120 years ago by the Greek-Alexandrian poet Constantine Cavafy. The poem is titled "Waiting for the Barbarians." It describes a city, presumably Alexandria, expecting to be sacked by advancing barbarians. Quote:
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?
The barbarians are due here today.
Why isn't anything happening in the senate?
Why do the senators sit there without legislating?
Because the barbarians are coming today.
What laws can the senators make now?
Once the barbarians are here, they'll do the legislating …
End quote. The poem goes on like that for a while. By nightfall, though, the barbarians still haven't arrived. The reaction of the citizens is … disappointment! Quote:
… some who have just returned from the border say
there are no barbarians any longer.
And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians?
They were, those people, a kind of solution.
End quote.
Cavafy of course leaves you wondering: If barbarians are the solution, what was the problem?
05 — Another civilizational clash? Since I got the Greeks and the Finns together in one segment there — not easy to do, let's hear it for bloviational virtuosity [applause] — here's an even wilder civilizational speculation.
First, the news from Greece. Numbers of illegals arriving across the Aegean from Turkey are way up. This year so far, to February 4th, the number is nearly 69,000. For the whole of January and February last year the number was less than 4,000.
Sixty-nine thousand in five weeks; Put it arithmetically, if the inflow continues at that rate, it will double Greece's present population in fifteen years.
Greek policy is of course to wave the illegals through to the wealthier nations of northern Europe, which is also what the illegals want. The European Union, the EU — which I think is pronounced in Greek as "eeuiw!" — is not cool with this. They are now threatening Greece that if the Greeks don't get a grip on the numbers, there'll be more sealing of Europe's internal borders, and the Greeks will be stuck with, at the current rate, a million illegal immigrants every sixteen months.
Meanwhile of course Greece is still roiled by economic woes. There's a general strike going on right now, and protests and riots, against the latest bailout package. The illegals pouring into Germany and Sweden are at least entering fairly well-ordered and prosperous nations; the ones coming in to Greece are entering a corrupt, penniless political slum.
To Germany and Sweden there you could of course add Finland. I got curious about how the illegals make it to Finland. Other than a few hundred miles up in the far Arctic north where Finland meets Norway and Sweden, Finland's only land border is with Russia.
Some small but fast-growing proportion of Finland's illegals actually come across that border. As with our own illegals, people-smuggling is big business, a major operation by international crime syndicates. Post-Soviet Russia hasn't amounted to much economically, other than by sucking stuff out of the ground and selling it, but in international crime, Russia's a major playah.
I'm looking at a report here from Reuters, February 1st, quote:
According to the Finnish border guard, about 500 asylum seekers have come from Russia to Finland this year, compared with about 700 in the whole of 2015.
End quote. Pro rata that's an increase of nearly eight hundred percent. There have been some naughty suggestions that this is Russia's way of getting back at Europe for the sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis. The EU prolonged those sanctions at the end of last year. With those sanctions and the collapse in oil prices, Russia's almost as much an economic basket case as Greece.
Well, possibly. Seems to me, though, that if Putin and his pals wanted to retaliate aganist the EU, the retaliation would have more smoke and broken glass to it.
Remember Samuel Huntington's book from back in the nineties, The Clash of Civilizations? Huntington divided the world up into a handful of big cultural zones: a Western zone, an Islamic zone, a Hindu zone, and so on. He predicted that in the post-Cold War era, which of course had then just begun, conflict would mainly happen at or near the borders between zones.
So perhaps at a civilizational level, Finland's issues with illegals from Russia, and northern Europe's ditto with illegals from Greece, are both part of the clash of civilizations Professor Huntington foretold: in this case, a clash between the corrupt and dysfunctional Orthodox zone — Russia, Greece, Bulgaria, the Balkans — and the tidier, more law-abiding Western zone.
Hey, let's collapse two problems into one: Encourage the Muslims to take over the Orthodox zone!
Never let it be said that Radio Derb is short on constructive solutions.
06 — Race, the movie. For black Americans, and the fast-dwindling numbers of nonblack Americans who still enjoy wallowing in racial guilt, there's a new movie out titled just Race. General release is scheduled for February 19th. Yeah, I know, you can't wait to rush out and buy tickets. right? I know my audience.
From the blurb for the movie at IMDb, quote:
Jesse Owens' quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
End quote. I must say, I'm surprised it's taken Hollywood this long to do a Jesse Owens movie. There was a TV biopic of Owens 30 years ago — it won an Emmy — but I don't know of any full-dress movies. Oh, I see there's another one in development, for release in 2019. Sell Nelson Mandela, buy Jesse Owens!
As I said, I'm surprised it's taken the movie world this long. A black hero and a disgruntled Adolf Hitler: You can't get much more Narrative-compliant than that! For a hit movie you need a good guy to cheer for and a bad guy to hiss. Goodness-wise, nothing can trump a well-behaved black guy; badness-wise, nobody in the history of the world was badder than Hitler. So again: What took them so long?
Hearing about this movie, I was sufficiently stirred to hike down to the library and borrow William Baker's 1986 biography of Owens. Owens does indeed seem to have been a very decent and likeable guy, and of course a great athlete, although deeply unreliable on points of fact — not maliciously, I think, but just tending to make up colorful stories and then contradict himself. Hey, there are worse faults to have.
I had heard that the story about Hitler snubbing Owens was an invention of the American press, and Baker confirms that. Hitler may have snubbed high jumper Cornelius Johnson, or he may just have wanted to get out of the rain, it's not clear, but he did not snub Jesse Owens.
Owens himself denied the snub story, at least to begin with. Quote from Baker, quote:
Jesse denied it to interviewers at Berlin and to reporters on his return home. He would soon find, however, that the constant denial was too much of a bother and that to claim the "snub" for his own would work to his advantage. "And then," as [movie director] Bud Greenspan says it simply, "Jesse kept on using the story."
End quote. Hitler of course thought blacks were an inferior race, but then so did a lot of white people at that time, probably a majority. He told Baldur von Schirach that the U.S.A. disgraced itself by allowing blacks to represent them in an international competition; but again, probably a lot of Americans agreed.
Hitler was a wicked man who did some dreadful things: invading France, co-invading Poland (along with Stalin, let it not be forgotten), massacring Jews, … we all know the charge sheet. In looking down on blacks, though, he was just a man of his time, not very remarkable. I have, or had, English relatives who hated Hitler, who suffered and fought to defeat Hitler, but whose opinion of blacks was the same as Hitler's.
The Narrative must be upheld, though. If you want an evil hate figure, there's old Adolf, waiting to be brought down from the shelf once again.
Couldn't Hollywood at least ring the changes a little? How about some more movies with Stalin as the villain? Or one — I can't recall ever seeing one — with Mao Tse-tung as the embodiment of evil? Both men killed far more people than Hitler.
A footnote here, from that Jesse Owens biography. I didn't know until I read it that Owens was a pack-a-day cigarette smoker, and died at last from lung cancer, aged 66. We forget how near-universal cigarette smoking was, even among athletes.
Owens' biographer has a nice quote from swimmer Eleanor Holm Jarrett, who held world records for the backstroke at all distances, and who traveled over to Europe for the 1936 Olympics with Owens and the rest of the American team. Mrs Jarrett trained, she said, quote, "on champagne and cigarettes." Ah, those were the days.
07 — Edging our way back to Segregation Lite. I'm going to bundle up three stories here, and hypothesize that perhaps they represent a trend.
First story. Last week I mentioned the excellent website campusreform.org, which does great work exposing the absurdities of political correctness in our colleges. Here's another one from them, dated January 30th. Headline: Segregated dorms for males "who identify as Black" coming to UConn.
UConn is the University of Connecticut, out in the sticks 20 miles east of Hartford. And yes, they are building a new residence hall just for blacks, in fact just for black men, in fact just for 43 black men. Why? Explanation from Dr Erik Hines, faculty director for the project, who is himself black. Quote:
African American males graduate at a lower rate than their peers … It is a space for African American men to, one, come together and validate their experiences that they may have on campus. Number two, it's also a space where they can have conversation and also talk with individuals who come from the same background who share the same experience.
End quote. Boy, I'm confused. Isn't the whole rationale for Diversity and affirmative action that it's enriching to be around people from different backgrounds with different experiences? Doesn't Dr Hines want these 43 black guys to get their enrichment experience?
It's true that the graduation rate for black men at UConn is only 54 percent, against a campus average of 82 percent. The parsimonious explanation for that is that when colleges admit any black person with a pulse just to fulfill their affirmative action quotas, they end up with a lot of people who can't handle college-level work.
Probably athletic scholarships have something to do with it, too. That's been the case since at least 1933, when Jesse Owens came up short on his high school transcript but was admitted to Ohio State anyway on the strength of, quote from William Baker's biography, "special tests."
Second story. A couple of weeks ago I suggested, jocularly of course, that the fuss about there not being enough blacks in the nominations for this year's Oscars could be settled by just having a separate Black Oscars.
Well, I was behind the curve on this one. Los Angeles Times, February 3rd, headline: There's talk about bringing back the Black Oscars.
The reporter here is a black person named Tre'vell Anderson. That's Tre-apostrophe-vell, but I don't know how to pronounce the apostrophe. Is it a glottal stop, like in Arabic? Tre-'-vell? I don't know.
Anyway, Mr or Ms Anderson — from the photograph it could be either — let's say Mx Anderson, tells us that from 1981 to 2007 there was an annual ceremony named the Tree of Life Awards, held at a swank hotel in Los Angeles right before the Academy Awards. It honored black people who had achieved something notable in the movie industry, and was informally known as the Black Oscars. Quote: "Winners received black and bronze carved statuettes."
Following this year's fuss, there's now talk of reviving these Black Oscars. So either the ones talking are fans of Radio Derb, or I am gifted with clairvoyance, or for once I managed to grab a corner of the zeitgeist's cloak as he, she, or it flew past me the other day.
Third story. This Monday, February 8th, is New Year's Day on the traditional Chinese calendar. It's the first day of the Year of the Monkey.
So last Monday, February 1st, the marketing people for the basketball team Sacramento Kings decided to distribute T-shirts with a monkey logo as a freebie for fans attending that night's home game. February 1st was, please note, the first day of Black History Month.
[Klaxon sound.] Basketball … black people … Black History Month … monkeys … One of the players, DeMarcus Cousins, objected to the T-shirts as racist. He raised the alarm, and before you could say "microaggression" the shirts had all disappeared.
Quote from Chris Granger, the team's business President, who is of course a white guy, quote: "We all need a lesson in sensitivity," end quote. Of course we do: and then another, and another, and another. The lessons in sensitivity must never end! Beatings will continue until morale improves!
OK, those are my three stories; here's my hypothesis.
My hypothesis is, that American society is edging its way back, slowly and hesitantly, towards segregation. Not legally enforced segregation, but a sort of segregation lite, where we all get our own "spaces," like those 43 students at the University of Connecticut.
This has already happened a lot, but always with the understanding that everyone but whites can have their own spaces and full access to everyone else's. You can live in a black residential dorm or in a dorm that's majority white. You can go to the Black Oscars and to the regular Oscars.
Whites haven't had the corresponding … what's the word I want here? … the corresponding … privilege, that's it. We can go to the regular Oscars, but there's no White Oscars just for us. We can live in a white-majority residential dorm, but we can't have an all-white dorm just for us.
Eventually, surely, white people are going to look at that black dorm and say: "OK, we're fine with it, and absolutely no offense to anyone; but can we now please have a white dorm? If not, why not?"
As time goes on the sort of convoluted sociobabble answers you get to questions like that will sound less and less convincing, and sooner or later the white guilt will all run out. A generation from now there'll be white dorms, White Oscars, and possibly white basketball teams.
When that new arrangement has arrived, we shall need a name for it. I suggest: "Freedom of Association.".
Imprimis: Just a couple of queries here about those Finnish vigilantes, the Sons of Odin.
First query: Odin was a Norse god, a god of the Germanic people. The Finns aren't Germanic. Their language is not even Indo-European. The hero god of the Finns is actually a chap named Vainamoinen, conceived in Ilmatar, Goddess of the Air, by the East Wind.
I think what we have here is a case of cultural appropriation.
Second question: It's commendably thorough of them to have had those T-shirts made up with the words DEFEND FINLAND printed on the front; and those windbreaker jackets with the words SOLDIERS OF ODIN printed on the back, and the caps printed with S.O.O. for "Soldiers of Odin," but … why are all those things printed in English?
If Google Translate can be depended on, "Defend Finland" translates into Finnish as Puolustaa Suomi. "Soldiers of Odin" would be Sotilaat Odin; although as I just pointed out, Sotilaat Vainamoinen would be more ethnically authentic.
So for a group claiming to defend their people and culture, I must say, I think the Sons of Odin are putting on a pretty poor show.
If they want to get some properly authentic T-shirts and jackets printed up, I know a firm in Sacramento that could use the business.
Item: I'm way too late to say anything that hasn't already been said about the Iowa primary. I'm just going to express dismay, as my colleagues have done, that Marco Rubio did so well.
I'm not totally a single-issue voter, but I could never vote for Rubio, just because of the help and support he gave to Chuck Schumer and John McCain on the 2008 amnesty bill. Rubio is the donorist candidate, and he's very happy to be it. When he moves around you can, as the saying goes, see the strings.
Next up, the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday. I'm rooting for The Donald, of course, and the indications are he'll do well.
I'm also rooting for Bernie Sanders, just on the principle that any enemy of Mrs Clinton is a friend of the Republic, but also because my wife is close friends with Bernie's cousin, and a night in the Lincoln Bedroom would be fun — a nice consolation prize for not having the opportunity to be Trump's Press Secretary.
Item: Finally, old sci-fi fans will remember that 1953 Pohl & Kornbluth novel The Space Merchants, which is about an over-populated world of the future. One feature of that world is a huge hangar-like building with, inside it, an enormous lump of chicken meat thirty feet high.
They've figured out how to make chicken meat without having to raise actual chickens, see. The colossal lump slowly regenerates itself from the inside. Workers harvest it by strolling round it with power saws, shaving off huge slices so it doesn't get too big. This thing is known as, of course … Chicken Little.
Well, we're getting there. A firm named Memphis Meats, which, I'm going to hazard a guess, is based in Tennessee, has announced the first laboratory-grown meatball. They say they've figured out how to grow meat from animal cells, without any animals being involved.
Quote from the CEO, quote:
This is absolutely the future of meat. We plan to do to the meat industry what the car did to the horse and buggy. Cultured meat will completely replace the status quo and make raising animals to eat them simply unthinkable.
End quote. I hope so. I have a hobby-level interest in neuroscience and the study of consciousness. I am currently, for example, listening to Professor Joordens' lectures on memory from the Great Courses company.
The more you learn about this stuff, the more certain you become that all those mental phenomena that Descartes believed to be uniquely human — self-awareness, the emotions, memories — are present in some lesser form in the higher animals, including the ones we kill for food.
I intend to go on eating those animals, and paying people to kill them for me, and occasionally killing them myself, because social norms allow it and I love the taste; but yes, one day it will all seem unthinkable.
That day is not here quite yet. Quote from the news story: "As of right now, it costs about $18,000 to produce one pound of Memphis Meats' ground beef, compared to the $4 a pound in most U.S. grocery stores," end quote.
That's a lot to pay for beef. Perhaps they should try chicken?
09 — Signoff. There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for listening; and those of you who live in the Granite State, Radio Derb urges you to do your citizenly duty next Tuesday.
As a spur to your doing so, I offer this: [Bugle call: the charge.] That's the old British cavalry bugle call to charge. There was a bugle call for everything, though people nowadays have only heard of Reveille and Taps. Here's the call for the rally, i.e. pull back and regroup: [Bugle call: the rally.]
And here is a song about it all, from the late great Peter Dawson.
[Music clip: Peter Dawson, "The Trumpeter."]
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This year Kinsale Community School agreed to be a VEX Robotics partner. Ms Niamh Hay who started VEX in Kinsale Community School felt that after winning the Community Award last year in the Kentucky World Championships, that this was the next step to progress robot education in Kinsale. This meant that we would host VEX primary and secondary school competitions. On Thursday 21st March we hosted our first secondary school competition at Sáile Sports Centre with the added complication that we had two teams also competing. The night before the competition the team assembled three robot arenas and set up the pits for the 18 teams who were competing from schools across Cork.
On the day of the competition, TY students were given a variety of roles to ensure the smooth running of the event. Many thanks to Toto Pizza who agreed to cater for the event and donate part of their takings to fund the KCS team who will be travelling to Kentucky to represent Ireland at the World Championships in April. The school also ran a shop on the day to help raise funds, many thanks to Ms Tracey Fleming.
The day started with robot inspections where the robots are rigorously checked to ensure that they met size and parts requirements. There were 23 qualifying matches where alliances and opponents were randomly chosen. This resulted in a team ranking with the highest team choosing their alliance for the finals. Kinsale were at the top of the ranking so this meant that the two KCS robot teams formed an alliance for the final. Kinsale also scored highest in the driving skills and coding skills competitions. The finals were nail-bitingly exciting and there were times when Ms Hay worried that she had put all her teams in one egg basket! There is always a risk that a robot will malfunction in a match, so this would have meant that both teams could have been knocked out in any one of the finals. Naomh Eltin primary school students came over to support the team as the KCS robotics team mentored them this year for building their robot for the VEX IQ competition.
The risk paid off as KCS came away with the tournament win. They also won the Coding and Driving Award and the Excellence Award. The entire competition was set up, played and dismantled in 24 hours with the help of the entire TY year group in conjunction with DELL EMC. This was a massive effort and displayed the KCS student/teacher teamwork and cooperation. Congratulations especially to Ms Claire Sheehan (Deputy Principal), Mr Eddie Farren and Mr John Corcoran for being MCs on the day and to Mr Tony Cierans for being the best gofer ever!! A special mention to Mr George Hayes for coming out of retirement to assist with the competition.
Both teams are now through to the Irish National Final which will be held in CIT in April. Fundraising is ongoing for sending the KCS Robot teams to Kentucky to represent Ireland in the World Championships during Easter. KCS are actively seeking sponsorship for the World Championships. If you would like to donate please contact the school.
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At Nome Banquet, Fans Cheer Iditarod Finishers — And a Few Who Exited the 2019 Race
By Davis Hovey | March 18, 2019 | 1
39 finishers from Iditarod 2019 were celebrated Sunday night at the awards banquet in Nome. In the spotlight was Bethel musher Pete Kaiser, the first Yup’ik person to win the race.
The nods at the finishers’ banquet, however, extended beyond just the finishers. Nicolas Petit, who scratched along the Norton Sound coast, received several trail awards. Golovin, a community on the trail that is not an official checkpoint, received strong praise from 4th-place finisher Aliy Zirkle. And cheers even went to former top rookie of the year Richie Beattie, not from the Iditarod Trail Committee — which withdrew Beattie from the race on Saturday after the death of one of his sled dogs — but rather from fellow mushers and race fans.
KNOM’s Davis Hovey reports:
The ITC says one of Richie Beattie’s dogs, Oshi, was exhibiting signs of pneumonia during post-race checkups on Thursday evening following Beattie’s finish in Nome. The five-year old female dog was transported to an animal hospital in Anchorage on Friday afternoon and passed away around 6:30pm the following day.
Iditarod’s Rule 42, which was updated and adopted this year, dictates that if any dog death occurs during the race, then “the musher shall scratch or be withdrawn from the race, except in the case of an unpreventable hazard.”
The ITC states that a withdrawal does not imply any deliberate misconduct or violation, as set forth in Rule 51. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) issued a statement calling the incident a case of a musher pushing a dog to its limit which led to the dog’s death. PETA is openly opposed to the Iditarod and says “animals are not ours to use for entertainment.”
Ed Hopkins, who finished an hour behind Beattie, in 22nd place, received the Rookie of the Year Award during Sunday night’s banquet, but has pledged the winnings will go to Beattie instead.
“I feel pretty uncomfortable being up here right now. I hate gaining on somebody else’s misfortune. I always thought through hard work and perseverance you pretty much get your just reward. So, in saying that, I accept this on Richie Beattie’s behalf, and it will go to Richie Beattie. Thanks.”
[audience applauds]
Other notable mentions from the festivities at the Nome Recreation Center included the Most Inspirational Musher award, which was selected by the Iditarod Official Finishers Club (IOFC). Wade Marrs is IOFC president:
“The most inspirational musher this year, I think, was a pretty easy one to figure out. This guy has went through it all. He’s an amazing musher and an amazing man. This year, we had an awesome four-time champ in the middle of the pack, pushing everyone down the trail, teaching them secrets and stuff that he knows, and Lance Mackey’s ‘comeback kennel’ has come back.”
Marrs also won an award of his own, for having the fastest time from Safety to Nome, completing the stretch in two hours and 38 minutes. That award has gone repeatedly to Nic Petit, who was the fastest from Safety to Nome the past three years, but Petit scratched from this year’s race before reaching Koyuk.
Download a full list of special award winners from the 2019 Nome banquet.
Despite his 2019 scratch, Nicolas Petit received three awards at the Nome finishers’ banquet last night, a reflection of his first-position status for several days during the middle section of the race. Petit won the Alaska Air Transit Spirit of Alaska Award for being first to McGrath; the Lakefront Anchorage First Musher to the Yukon Award for being first to Anvik; and the Ryan Air Gold Coast Award for being first to Unalakleet. (See below for more details on the events that preceded Petit’s decision to scratch, as well as his immediate plans for the future.)
2nd-, 3rd-, and 4th-place trophies at the Iditarod Finishers’ Banquet in Nome on Sunday night, March 17, 2019. Photo: David Dodman, KNOM.
The Norton Sound coastal portion of the Iditarod features many Western Alaska communities, some of which are not official checkpoints. Aliy Zirkle said last night she received first class service when she chose to stop along the trail in Golovin, between the Elim and White Mountain checkpoints.
“I got the best Golovin drive through meal ever. [audience laughs] I’m standing there, and this fantastic woman walks up to me, and she says, ‘Do you like caribou stew? Would you like six homemade cookies? And I’ve got this cup of hot coffee. So could I just put it in your sled?”
Zirkle thanked Golovin and all of the residents in each community that make the Iditarod trail “endurable.”
Aliy Zirkle, claiming her 3rd-place trophy at #Iditarod finishers’ banquet, praises Golovin, Norton Sound coast trail community (but not checkpoint). “I got the best Golovin drive-through meal ever,” Zirkle says: caribou stew, cookies, hot coffee. #Iditarod2019
— KNOM News (@KNOMnews) March 18, 2019
And this year, one musher was able to give back to multiple communities along the trail. Blair Braverman a rookie who finished in 36th place, has generated a large following of fans on social media, who have taken on the moniker “Ugly Dogs.”
“I found out at one point on the trail, a teacher started hugging me, and I didn’t know why, and I found out that while I was out there, the Ugly Dogs had started in increments of eleven (which is my bib number) donating to projects for schools in villages along the trail, and it took off. Over the course of the race, as I was going from village to village, they donated $60,000 to the schools.”
Braverman described being hugged by teachers on the trail and hearing about how grateful they were for receiving this money as one of the most special experiences during her race.
As of early Monday afternoon, all mushers in the 2019 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race have arrived in Nome. Rookie musher Victoria Hardwick pulled under the Burled Arch on Front Street at 1:51pm with 9 dogs, finishing the 1,000-mile race in last place in 14 days, 22 hours, 51 minutes, and 49 seconds. With rookie Richie Beattie withdrawn and Cindy Gallea scratched, 39 mushers make up the final roster of finishers in Iditarod 2019.
Image at top: At Sunday night’s banquet, a standing ovation for Pete Kaiser, 2019 Iditarod champion. Photo: David Dodman, KNOM.
More Moments from the Nome Banquet (via Twitter)
“I’m excited to get back to Bethel and share that positive energy (of rural supporters along the #Iditarod trail),” says champ Pete Kaiser at finishers’ banquet. Western #Alaska has been very supportive, Kaiser says. Standing ovation for #Iditarod2019 winner. @KaiserRacingAK pic.twitter.com/jQH1IQEdc6
“God and my dogs”: why Jessie Royer says she’s able to stand here in Nome for the #Iditarod finishers’ banquet. The 3rd-place finisher says she started training her team only on November 10. Comaraderie on the trail makes each race a “family reunion,” she says. #Iditarod2019
At #Iditarod finishers’ banquet, Nome musher Aaron Burmeister, 10th place, says competing in the 2019 race was like “running in a wet swimsuit” due to frequent temperatures above 30°. #Iditarod2019
Jeff Deeter, at finishers’ banquet, says he and Jeff King accidentally switched boots along the trail. “It was an honor to run to Nome in your boots,” Deeter says. #Iditarod #Iditarod2019
“I’ll remember this forever,” says Norwegian/Inupiaq musher Martin Apayauq Reitan of Kaktovik about his rookie #Iditarod run. He begins by thanking his parents for helping him; his mother sewed his parka, he says.
Sarah Stokey, at #Iditarod finishers’ banquet, on run from Safety to Nome: “my lead dogs decided they didn’t want to be lead dogs anymore. It was one of the most frustrating moments of my mushing career. It was a 10-mile walk to Safety or a 12-mile walk to Nome.”
Nicolas Petit, shortly after arriving in Unalakleet. Photo: Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media.
Petit Looks Back on His Decision to Scratch
In a post-race interview, Nicolas Petit told Iditarod Insider that his team will return to Unalakleet and continue mushing from there to White Mountain to enjoy the trail and show his dogs that it’s not a scary place. Even if there is not a formal race taking place after the Iditarod, Petit says his team will take their time completing that section of the trail.
According to Petit, during an interview with Iditarod Insider, his dogs did not want to run between Shaktoolik and Koyuk. Petit squashed the notion that his team got in a fight, but instead he described one dog “bullying” another dog on his team by pouncing on him, so Petit told him to knock it off.
After sorting things out and seeing a shelter cabin nearby, Petit tried to get his team running again, but to no avail. He says he switched out leaders by going through all of his dogs, but none of them were able to get the team moving forward again. As he put it, there was “nothing constructive from me going forward…”
When asked why he believed his team stopped running, Petit asserted his dogs were not tired and didn’t look it when passing through Shaktoolik. But instead, he described the trail from Shaktoolik to Koyuk as “worst run of their lives last year,” which was also tough on him. He was emotional as he continued to describe what he saw as his inability to keep his team on the right path last year when he got lost off the trail during a winter storm. Ultimately, he says he decided to call for help and end his race rather than put his team through that experience this year.
David Dodman also contributed to this story.
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Trail’s End: More Tales from the 2019 Iditarod – KNOM Radio Mission on March 22, 2019 at 3:38 pm
[…] was pointed out at this year’s banquet in Nome, the finishes of Iditarod 2019 ended as they began: with a musher from Bethel (where both Hardwick […]
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Józef Czapski: A Soldier and Artist Fights for Liberty
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Held as a POW by the Soviets in 1940, Czapski later worked to bring to light their murder of 22,000 of his fellow Polish officers in the Katyn Forest.
Germany, Temporal and Eternal
by William Anthony Hay
Then as now, where people stood on history and how they understood their place in the flow of time shaped their actions.
The Other Reason to Study “Nixon in ’72”: Its Youth Outreach
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Many in the Sixties Generation voted for Nixon; a surprising number weren’t demanding a presidential candidate who was “one of them.”
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Cochrane offers a profound reminder that politics cannot regenerate the world.
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What is Podium Training in Gymnastics?
Famous Gymnasts
This practice helps gymnasts get used to the new environment
Shawn Johnson (USA) on bars at podium training for the 2008 Olympics. Jamie Squire / Getty Images
by Amy Van Deusen
Amy Van Deusen is a professional gymnast, coach, and writer who has contributed articles about the sport for espnW and other major channels.
Podium training is an official practice session before the start of a gymnastics competition. During this practice, gymnasts get a chance to do their routines on the competition equipment and in the competition arena.
Podium training gives gymnasts the chance to get used to the equipment that they will be competing on because gymnastics equipment can vary slightly depending on the manufacturer. For example, the uneven bars could feel slightly bouncier and have more give than the ones a gymnast normally uses, or the floor could be harder or softer. Landing mats may vary in softness.
Since visual cues are also an important part of gymnastics, podium training also provides the athletes a chance to try their skills in the competition venue and get used to the surroundings and the setup.
What Happens During Podium Training?
In podium training, gymnasts are given a set amount of time to practice each event, and they can choose what they would like to do during that time. Some athletes complete entire routines, while others just do individual skills.
Most gymnasts also have a standard warm-up that they do before each competition.
Where Did the Name Come From?
Podium training has nothing to do with gymnasts on the awards podium, practicing receiving their medals.
Podium training actually got its name when the decision was made to elevate the equipment onto a platform, or podium, about three feet off the ground to help the audience see better.
When equipment is on a podium, it also feels slightly different than if it was on a normal floor, even if the apparatus is exactly the same. It can feel less stable. So it became important for gymnasts to test the equipment out on the raised podium before the competition. Podium training is an important safety measure for the athletes.
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Home » Wakefield News » Home invasion arrest made
Home invasion arrest made
Sep 30, 2016 by Keith Curtis
Published in the September 30, 2016 edition.
WAKEFIELD — A 19-year-old from Malden was arrested yesterday in connection with Tuesday morning’s violent home invasion on Crescent Street.
Igor Souza Cruz, 548 Salem St., apartment 1, was charged with armed home invasion, armed robbery, armed burglary and assault, armed kidnapping with serious bodily injury and armed assault to rob.
Local police detectives learned that Cruz might have been one of those who broke into a Crescent Street home sometime between 2 and 4 a.m. Tuesday, allegedly beat up a 51-year-old who lives there and stole an iPhone, a laptop computer and about $400 in cash.
Detectives staked out Cruz’ home yesterday and spoke with him about the Wakefield incident around 3:30 p.m. Cruz said he was in Wakefield Tuesday at a girlfriend’s house, who was having a problem with her boyfriend. A confrontation ensued when the alleged victim came home, Cruz said. Those involved reportedly left him handcuffed on the front steps of his residence.
The victim had facial injuries and was taken to the hospital.
The police investigation continues.
A 24-year-old Butternut Road man was charged with his second drunk driving offense early this morning.
Police were watching traffic on Water Street around 1:30 a.m. when they say a vehicle went by them at a speed higher than allowed.
The vehicle was pulled over and an officer made certain observations before having the driver perform field sobriety tests, which police said he failed.
As a result, Shane L. O’Donnell, 34 Butternut Rd., was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol (second offense) and speeding.
A woman who last used her credit card at Cumberland Farms on Lowell Street told police at 10:27 a.m. yesterday that unauthorized charges totaling $720 were made at MarketStreet in Lynnfield, a Target in Salem, a Walmart in Salem and at a business in Lynn.
She had already de-activated her card and needed to file a report with police.
Police were told that a man who is suspected of having taken photographs of children in the Square was parked in a vehicle near the Beebe Library. Police said the vehicle was not occupied but a man did come out of the library without having any interaction with anyone.
The call was logged just before noon yesterday.
A woman reportedly yelling at customers inside the downtown Dollar Tree store was sent on her way around 1:50 p.m.
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Westchester warned to brace for ICE raids threatened by Trump
Pushback against the Trump administration's planned ICE raids brews in Westchester.
Westchester warned to brace for ICE raids threatened by Trump Pushback against the Trump administration's planned ICE raids brews in Westchester. Check out this story on lohud.com: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2019/07/09/ice-raids-trump-threat-ny-westchester-braces/1674505001/
Mark Lungariello, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Published 12:46 p.m. ET July 9, 2019 | Updated 12:52 p.m. ET July 9, 2019
Local lawmakers and activists attend a rally for the Immigrant Protection Act at the legislative chambers in White Plains March 12, 2018. County lawmakers will vote Monday on a bill that would give protections to undocumented immigrants in Westchester. (Photo: Carucha L. Meuse/The Journal New)
A civil rights advocacy group wants Westchester County to take steps to oppose the Trump administration’s plan for large-scale immigration raids across the country.
Shannon Wong, director of the Lower Hudson Valley chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, sent a letter to County Executive George Latimer last week urging the county to observe its own laws to make sure county law enforcement resources aren’t used to assist in any local raids.
“Pursuant to Westchester County law, county law enforcement officers must not accommodate any requests by ICE to provide back-up for planned enforcement actions, block off streets or sidewalks to facilitate a home raid, or provide immigration authorities with individuals’ personal information for the purpose of carrying out raids,” Wong wrote.
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The county has a pro-undocumented immigrant law on the books called the Immigrant Protection Act, which limits information the county shares with federal immigration authorities and bars county employees from asking about a person’s citizenship in most circumstances.
The NYCLU highlighted the law in its letter, asking that county resources “are not improperly used to aid in ICE enforcement actions.” The letter came after President Donald Trump said that the nationwide raids could take place sometime after the July Fourth holiday.
The raids were expected in 10 major cities including New York, with plans to deport 1 million people, according to various media reports. The raids were expected in June but Trump announced they'd been delayed and said he’d give Congress two weeks to work on asylum laws and migrants entering the U.S. through its southern border.
Congress was in recess during the week of Independence Day.
Trump said during a news conference after the G-20 summit in Japan he planned to stick to the plan.
“We will be removing large numbers of people,” Trump said, according to USA TODAY.
News of the planned raids drew defiant stances from some elected officials across the country, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The Trump Administration is gearing up to send ICE agents into our cities with plans to deport 1 million people.
NY will continue to stand with all immigrants to ensure they have the full protections afforded under the law.
For free legal assistance, call 1-800-566-7636 pic.twitter.com/7QP6LeAVoW
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) July 8, 2019
“NY will continue to stand with all immigrants to ensure they have the full protections afforded under the law,” Cuomo tweeted on Monday, offering a toll free number for legal assistance.
County Legislator Mary Jane Shimsky, a Hastings-on-Hudson Democrat, said she believed that Westchester’s law offered adequate protections and that county employees should be aware of what the law requires them to do.
“But beyond that we really don’t play an active role in jumping in front of ICE and saying, ‘No you shall not do this,’” she said.
Shimsky has been highly critical of ICE and cited reports the agency may have held legal citizens mistakenly.
“As an individual, I think what they’re doing is really horrendous,” she said. “I mean we talk about people being quote-unquote illegals but when you look at some of the criminality that’s going on in the Trump administration right now, please tell me who the illegals are.”
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FRIDA KAHLO Word Essay
Submitted By carolinadiaaz
Carolina Salgado
Mrs. K Stewart
English 3, Period 6
Frida Kahlo Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyocoàn, Mexico. Frida Kahlo begin painting after she's got in a bus accident. Kahlo grew up in the Casa Azul. Her father, Guillermo Kahlo, was a German photographer who sailed where he met Frida's mother Matilde Calderon. Frida had three sisters, Matilde, Adriana, and Christina. At the age six, Frida was struck with pollo impact the use of her right leg. Guillermo highly encouraged her to do sports such as soccer, swim, wrestle, boxed, and bicycle to help aid her recovery of her right leg. In 1922, Frida would go back and forth to Mexico City to begin classes at the National Preparatory school. She is one of the only 35 girls to attend the renowned school with the desire of becoming a doctor. Frida become amorously involved with Alejandro Gómez Arias. Alejandro had to go to Europe for a tour. Frida and Alejandro converse by letter. Frida turns her full attention towards Diego Rivera. In 1929, Kahlo becomes Rivera's third wife. Frida becomes pregnant yet has to abort the pregnancy after three months. Frida experience an abortion because the fetus is not in the right positioned due to her fractured pelvis. On July 4th, Frida second pregnancy ended in a miscarriage with at Henry Ford Hospital. She spend 13 days in the hospital to recover. In March, Rivera and Frida return to New York where Rivera agreed to paint a mural in the Rockefeller Center. A year later the Rockefeller Center mural is destroyed. Kahlo and Rivera decided to stay in separate homes. Frida was unhappy "Pain, pleasure, and death are no more than a process for existence..." by Rivera infidelities, which include an affair with Frida's sister Cristina (The Dairy of Frida Kahlo). People thought she was a surrealist, but she wasn't, "I…
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Frida Kahlo In a horrendous bus accident, Frida Kahlo should have died 30 years earlier, but her pierced wrecked body held together long enough for her to create a legend and a collection of her work which reemerged 30 years after she had passed away. Frida turned one of the most tragic incidents in her life into something beautiful. She transformed her life by painting herself. Frida was the extraordinary beauty of the truth. In this essay you will learn about the major influences Frida had…
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Wisconsin loves beer so much that even the smallest towns have breweries
Wisconsin loves beer so much that communities with populations under 5,000 have their own breweries.
Wisconsin loves beer so much that even the smallest towns have breweries Wisconsin loves beer so much that communities with populations under 5,000 have their own breweries. Check out this story on marshfieldnewsherald.com: https://www.jsonline.com/story/travel/wisconsin/2019/06/12/6-small-town-breweries-visit-wisconsin/3490179002/
Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 8:00 a.m. CT June 12, 2019 | Updated 8:27 p.m. CT June 17, 2019
A look at small-town Wisconsin breweries
Driftless Brewing Company was built in a former grocery store in Soldiers Grove. It recently got a bigger brewhouse and a taproom. It's among many small-town Wisconsin breweries that are thriving. See story Matthew Janzen
Dave's BrewFarm is an energy sustainable brewing operation open two weekends a month in Wilson Journal Sentinel files
Dave Anderson, owner, waits for customers to arrive at Dave's Brew Farm in Wilson. He is shown in 2013. Gary Porter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Dave's BrewFarm in Wilson is open some weekends for beer and picnics. Journal Sentinel files
Dave's Brew Farm customers can enjoy sitting outside in the fresh country air. Dave's Brew Farm is an energy sustainable brewing operation in Wilson in northwestern Wisconsin. The group is shown in 2013 Gary Porter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Dave's Brew Farm, shown in 2013, is an energy sustainable brewing operation in Wilson in northwestern Wisconsin. Gary Porter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Cercis Brewing in Columbus is in an old automobile and farm equipment dealership. submitted photo
Cercis Brewing in Columbus has high ceilings and antique windows - and plenty of entertainment. submitted photo
Hubbleton Brewing Co. brews and has a small tap room in a converted shed on the Schey familiy property northeast of Waterloo in Dodge County. Chelsey Lewis/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Hubbleton Brewing Co. near Waterloo remains a lively place as evening closes in. Kathy Flanigan / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Mike Schey fills a sample of one of Hubbleton Brewing Co.'s beers inside the small tap room on the family property northeast of Waterloo. Chelsey Lewis/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Hubbleton Brewing is a small brewery on a farm near Waterloo. Kathy Flanigan / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Dan Schey and his wife opened Hubbleton Brewing Co. Kathy Flanigan / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Rocky Reef Brewing Co. in Woodruff serves a variety of beers, from fruit sours to rich stouts. Chelsey Lewis/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Rocky Reef Brewing Co. opened in Woodruff in 2015. Chelsey Lewis/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Omega Brewing Experience, 115 E. Main St. in Omro, features flights where customers can sample different beers. Lydia Slattery
Breweries have become the social center for Wisconsin small towns. Turns out, size doesn't matter when it comes to a community's appreciation of fresh beer.
Two of the state's best known breweries were started in small towns: New Glarus Brewing is at 2400 State Highway 69 in New Glarus, which boasts a population of 1,363; and Central Waters Brewing, 351 Allen St., makes its barrel-aged beauties in Amherst, population 1,039.
If you're traveling Wisconsin this summer, here are six breweries in small towns (populations under 5,000) that are worth a stop.
Driftless Brewing Co., Soldiers Grove
Driftless Brewing Company hosts an after-party for the annual Driftless Area Art Festival in September at their brewery, built in a former grocery store in Soldiers Grove. (Photo: Matthew Janzen)
Driftless Brewing has been selling its beer for years, but it was hit and miss on visiting the brewery. Now it has a bigger brewhouse, more beer and a taproom that welcomes patrons to sit down and take a sip. Local is the key word for Driftless beers. For example, the Local Buzz Blonde Ale is made with Wisconsin-grown hops and Kickapoo honey.
More info: Find it at U.S. 61, 102 Sunbeam Blvd. W. It's open 3 to 9 p.m. Friday and 1 to 9 p.m. Saturday.
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Dave's Brewfarm, Wilson
If you're meandering toward Minneapolis, Dave's Brewfarm is worth the side trip. The farm is the place where Dave Anderson, who trained at the Siebel Institute of Technology in Chicago, creates beer magic using unique flavors like sour orange and basil. Grab a glass in the taproom then head out to the picnic tables in the field outside the door. Don't forget a picnic lunch.
More info: Find it at 2470 Wilson St. It's open from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday every other weekend, but check the website (davesbrewfarm.blogspot.com) before heading in that direction.
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Cercis Brewing, Columbus
Imagine what you can do with an old automobile and farm equipment dealership. The four owners of Cercis created a brewpub with high ceilings and antique windows. Come for the food and beer. Stay for the live music or the Brewers games on television.
More info: Cercis is at 140 N. Dickason Blvd. It's open 4 to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and noon to 7 p.m. Sunday.
Hubbleton Brewing, Waterloo
Hubbleton Brewing Co. near Waterloo remains a lively place as evening closes in. (Photo: Kathy Flanigan / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Lori and Dan Schey and son Mike opened as a three-barrel brewery in 2017 in the garage just across from the couple's tidy home in unincorporated Hubbleton. The brewery and tiny taproom is in front of a corrugated shed they used to harvest hops on the farm, but the brewery has taken over the hops farm. The Scheys have added on to the brewery inside and out since they opened. There's more brewing and taproom space, and this year they constructed a covered beer garden on the grounds.
More info: Find it at W10445 Hubbleton Road. The taproom is open 4 to 9 p.m. Friday, 1 to 9 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Rocky Reef Brewing, Woodruff
Rocky Reef Brewing Co. in Woodruff serves a variety of beers, from fruit sours to rich stouts. (Photo: Chelsey Lewis/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Nothing beats a beer after a day in the Northwoods. And if that's the case, you're in the right place. Rocky Reef doesn't dole out your grandfather's beer — it's fresh craft brew all the way. Fruited blackberry lemon kettle sour, anyone?
More info: Rocky Reef is at 1101 1st Ave. It's open from 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, noon to 10 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Omega Brewing Experience, Omro
You can't miss Omega. It's the only small batch craft brewery and tasting room in downtown Omro. This, friends, is what you can do with a former butcher shop. Note the butcher block bar top, built as an homage. Order Smokin' Stout, a maple-bacon breakfast milk stout, or the house Pilsner.
More info: Omega is at 115 E. Main St. It's a family business and is open from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
For an interactive list of Wisconsin breweries, visit jsonline.com/beernear.
Contact Kathy at (414) 224-2974 or kathy.flanigan@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram at @katflanigan.
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Natick preservationist pushes for slate for the steeple at St. Patrick's Church
Henry Schwan hschwan@wickedlocal.com @henrycojo
Damage to the steeple at St. Patrick's Church has a preservationist saying it's time to consider a change to the historic structure.
NATICK – If Steve Evers had his way, one of the town's most recognizable landmarks would get a partial makeover.
Evers has served on the town’s Historical Commission for 43 years, and he thinks it’s time for St. Patrick’s Church to consider replacing the copper panels on its steeple with slate.
“Copper is not conducive to the original architecture (of the steeple),” Evers said.
A big chunk of copper dangled from the steeple Feb. 25 during a powerful wind storm, reinforcing Evers’ belief.
Evers' argument is based on historic preservation. He points out that slate, not copper, was on the church's original steeple.
Evers has not presented his case to the Rev. Michael MacEwen at St. Patrick's Church.
Calls to MacEwen for comment were not returned by the print deadline for this story.
The irony is the commission discussed the steeple shortly before the wind storm, Evers said, in the larger context of maintaining Natick’s historic character.
High winds knock down trees, wires, KO electric service
Evers is concerned about several "endangered" properties, but did not classify the St. Patrick's steeple as endangered.
They include the 1696 Sawin House, the concert hall on the top floor of the Clark Building, and the former Sacred Heart Church.
He worries about the 1725 Pratt-Winch House on Bacon Street.
“It’s so overgrown with brush,” Evers said. “It’s so neglected, so abused.”
Other properties made Evers’ endangered list – headstones in South Natick Cemetery; the 1917 Gables Mansion on Pleasant Street; and, the former St. Patrick’s Church school building.
Local zoning laws can slow down redevelopment and impede restoration efforts, especially downtown, Evers said.
“I respect Steve, and don’t necessarily disagree with him, per se,” Community and Economic Development Director Jamie Errickson said.
A balance exists, Errickson said, between those who want to move things along and others who prefer to carefully deliberate on restoration projects.
In the end, Errickson said, it comes down to the will of voters at Town Meeting who decide zoning matters.
The St. Patrick’s steeple isn’t the only one that loses material to the elements, Evers said.
A few blocks west on East Central Street, the First Congregational Church, where Evers has been a congregant for 39 years, loses slate off its steeple.
“We make routine repairs (to the steeple) almost every year," he said.
Follow Henry Schwan on Twitter @henrymetrowest. He can be reached at hschwan@wickedlocal.com or 508-626-3964.
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