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Press Release: 2018 a Year of Dangerous Attacks on Health Workers, Facilities
Press release: New report out now! In 2018 there were at least 973 attacks on health workers, health facilities, health transports, and patients in 23 countries in conflict around the world. At least 167 health workers died, and at least 710 were injured as a result of these attacks.
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Urgent Action Needed to Avert Humanitarian and Health Catastrophe in Yemen
Three and a half years of conflict in Yemen have led to the near total collapse of the country’s health system. More than half of health facilities are no longer functional and 16.4 million people do not have access to adequate health services. This advocacy brief by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition highlights how attacks on health workers, facilities, and infrastructure—at least 40 this year—have contributed to the cholera outbreak and famine-like conditions and provides recommendations for the parties to conflict, the UN Security Council, and others to avert humanitarian and health catastrophe.
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How Do Attacks on Health Care Affect Women?
When hospitals or clinics are attacked, women often become targets. But what do we know about the real impact on their health and well-being?
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Impunity Reigns as Medical Personnel and Facilities across 23 Conflict-Torn Countries Remain Under Attack
New report from the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition shows alarming pattern of deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on health care.
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Health Workers and Facilities in 23 Conflict-Ridden Countries Attacked with Impunity in 2016
New report from the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition shows the extent and intensity of violence against health workers globally remains alarmingly high and calls on the UN Security Council and countries to take concrete steps toward preventing attacks and ending impunity.
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HRC33 Side Event Summary: “Doctors under Attack: Systematic Violations of Medical Impartiality in Yemen, Syria, and Egypt”
Coalition member Defenders for Medical Impartiality organized a panel event in September, “Doctors under Attack: Systematic Violations of Medical Impartiality in Yemen, Syria, and Egypt,” held in parallel to the 33rd Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC).
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Doctors under Attack: Systematic Violations of Medical Impartiality in Yemen, Syria, and Egypt
This event organized by Defenders for Medical Impartiality and cosponsored by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition will take place on Tuesday, 27 September, from 10-11 am in Room XXIV of Palais des Nations in Geneva.
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The UN Security Council Should Take Immediate Action to Protect Health Workers and Health Care in Conflict Around the World
The coalition urges the United Nations Security Council in its upcoming briefing to take three immediate steps to implement Resolution 2286 and protect health workers and services in conflict.
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The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition Welcomes Passage of UN Resolution Condemning Attacks on Health
Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition welcomes a new resolution by the UN Security Council condemning attacks on health workers and facilities. The value of the resolution will be determined by whether states adhere to international norms, develop strategies to prevent attacks, and bring perpetrators of attacks to justice.
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Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition Urges the Government of Turkey to Stop Denying Civilians Access to Medical Services
Curfews and other restrictions on civilian movement imposed by the Government of Turkey have blocked ambulance transport and prevented wounded and sick civilians from obtaining emergency health and rescue services. As a result, people in need of urgent medical attention have sometimes been trapped in buildings, and many have died.
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“8-Ball in the corner pocket,” Vernon said.
He took a nice, easy shot and won another five dollars from me.
“I’m here on time for a change,” Linsford said, when he walked in. “Where’s Mario and Juan?”
Juan finally showed up and Mario came in soon after, which meant that all of the members of the Nosénada Club were ready for our Wednesday Night 8-Ball tournament. The club is made up of Mario, me, Juan, Vernon and Linsford, when his wife lets him out of the house.
Mario named our club because when a wife calls to ask about her husband, each member has to answer, “No sé nada,” or, in English, “I don’t know anything.”
“Mario, why you so late tonight?” Vernon asked. “You usually the first one here.”
“We had a special dinner for my nephew, Ricky, who’s visiting from the U.S.”
“He’s the one supposed to be a genius or something, isn’t he?” Juan asked.
“Yeah. He’s the one supposed to make the family rich with one of his great inventions. He came up with a new video camera but it was just when everybody quit using them and got phones with video cameras.”
“Didn’t he invent diet water?” Vernon asked.
“Yes, but that didn’t go over very big. This thing he just invented won’t make any money, either. It’s the world’s most powerful solvent. He made a rust remover that won’t dissolve just rust—it dissolves anything.”
“Wow!” I said. “That sounds like a very handy thing to have. Why won’t it make money?”
“Because he can’t figure out anything to keep it in.”
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Super Bowl 50: Game kicks off with Lady Gaga in…
Super Bowl 50: Game kicks off with Lady Gaga in shadeless, hot stadium
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SANTA CLARA — Super Bowl 50 kicked off under crisp, blues and a blazing, winter sun over Levi”s Stadium with a rousing rendition of the national anthem sung by pop diva Lady Gaga. Then the players and coaches began one of the most memorable days of their lives.
El Nio didn”t have a ticket.
The day the Bay Area has been awaiting for several years began at about 3:40 p.m. when the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers squared off to determine the 50th champion of the Super Bowl era.
As celebrities from the worlds of sport, Hollywood and pop music settled into their plush suites, some fans in the shadeless part of the stadium found themselves in the hot seats.
One tweeted, “Sitting on that side right now. Might as well be the surface of the sun. People running for shade.” With all the preparation, one element that may not have been fully anticipated was the warm weather. Many fans apparently were bracing for a storm-battered big game given its timing in the middle of a historic El Nio season.
A Panthers jersey with Curry”s No. 30 got a spot in the Carolina locker room, according to multiple media reports. Curry, the Golden State Warriors superstar and reigning NBA MVP, will serve as the drummer for the team”s Keep Pounding motto, which emerged as a tribute to late Panther linebackers coach Sam Mills.
Curry wasn”t the only basketball star in the house. Oklahoma City Thunder Kevin Durant, whose team lost to the Warriors on Saturday night, was seen in a Super Bowl suite, and pop star Usher made his way through the crowd before the contest.
Actors Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman and pop star Usher also were among the rich and famous photographed as they headed for the stadium or partied inside.
Everyone seemed to acknowledge that security was as tight as they expected.
Craig Ross of Littleton, Colorado said there was noticeably more security than prior Super Bowls he attended.
“It was great,” he said. “I definitely feel safe.” Paul O”Sullivan of San Ramon said the two-plus years of security preparation showed.
“It looked like they were prepared,” O”Sullivan said. “I saw the snipers on the roof.” The deterrent effect was clear to his friend David Tucker.
“If anybody tries something,” Tucker said, “they better think twice.” A security perimeter that at some points extended a mile from Levi”s Stadium featured a highly visible law enforcement presence, with local police SUVs, patrol cruisers and motorcycles staffing checkpoints and assorted locations along the Caltrain and VTA light-rail lines in the area.
Armored troop transports have been almost as ubiquitous as the police vehicles in the area. Military-supplied Blackhawk helicopters were also in the air to protect the airspace above the venue.
And that was just what was visible. Federal authorities including the FBI said last week that much of the security detail was meant to remain unseen by most of the public on the stadium grounds. Several thousand law-enforcement officers on the local and federal levels, along with private security personnel, were part of the broader security operation.
Jeff Fitch, a federal agent working as a public information officer at the Joint Information Center in Sunnyvale, said that as of 2 p.m., there have been no major incidents involving the collective law-enforcement contingent securing the event and its surroundings.
While most fans had tickets for the game, some made the long trip just to soak in the Super Bowl atmosphere.
Barry and Margaret Vanhook of Greensboro, North Carolina, are Panthers season ticket holders and made the trip to the Bay Area to support their team. The couple did not have Super Bowl tickets and plan on watching the game at a restaurant or bar.
“We wanted to be here,” Margaret Vanhook said.
The walk from the Santa Clara Marriott Hotel, which is about a mile south of Levi”s, was a constant procession Sunday morning of Broncos and Panthers fans, broken up by platoons of local police, California Highway Patrol officers, and federal agents flanked by armored transports and toting assault rifles. Trains from San Jose ran smoothly to the stadium.
An extensive security detail with Santa Clara police, the CHP and the FBI secured and escorted the team buses, leading one onlooker to quip that “this might be the most protection (Broncos quarterback) Peyton Manning gets today.” The Super Bowl also attracted protesters to its “Free Speech Zone,” including some from the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas who held signs against gay marriage. One Broncos fan ripped a sign from one of those protesters and broke it in half.
Navigating the area around Levi”s Stadium did not cause nearly as many hard feelings, but the uniforms worn by volunteers didn”t help, either. Long before anyone knew the Broncos and Panthers would face each other, organizers of the event selected orange and teal as the colors for the uniforms. The Broncos and Panthers wear the same colors.
Thus, uniforms meant to stand out to fans needing assistance blended in with the swarms of orange Broncos fans and teal Panthers fans.
Concern about the weather for Super Bowl 50 emerged in January after the effects of the warmest El Nio in memory brought the most rain in the year”s first month since 2011. But long-range forecasts two weeks ago predicted a high-pressure system that would keep the rain away, and Garcia said that bubble of high pressure would remain sturdy at least through Monday.
The NWS recorded temperatures of 71 degrees just before 1 p.m., and the forecasted high was 75 degrees. Winds also were expected to be light, he said, a situation that could make for uncomfortable heat inside the stadium. Excessive heat on particularly warm, windless days have hit Levi”s Stadium on more than one occasion during the stadium”s 19-month history. Garcia said there may not be much cloud cover.
Public transit systems were taking fans to the Super Bowl, as well.
Caltrain offered a Super Bowl baby bullet train to the Mountain View Valley Transportation Authority”s light-rail stop for fans traveling from San Francisco, and witnesses said the transfers went smoothly. Many police officers with rifles and police dogs wandered the Mountain View Caltrain station, and girl scouts set up shop and sold cookies.
Caltrain ran eight trains from its AT&T Park station for fans in San Francisco, but fans wanting to be at Levi”s Stadium for the kickoff needed to be on a train by noon, said Pat Wong, a Super Bowl 50 volunteer.
Express buses out of San Francisco were full by 10:45 a.m.
The game came after a week of hype and activity were marred on the final day by a crash that killed three people less than a mile from Super Bowl City.
On Saturday night, a vehicle trying to flee a CHP officer in San Francisco crashed into a cab and exploded into flames. All three people in the speeding car died.
Two victims inside the vehicle were badly burned and a third was ejected from the car. All were pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities did not identify them immediately Sunday morning.
Friends of the victims told a KGO-TV reporter at the scene that the victims were at the Moscone Center for the NFL Experience and were on their way home. CHP spokesman Officer Vu Williams said a CHP patrol car tried to pull over a vehicle only to watch it speed off, then pursued the car for 10-15 seconds before stopping after watching the vehicle go through several red lights.
The cabdriver suffered minor injuries to his head and was hospitalized. A passenger inside the cab fled the scene on foot, Williams said.
Check back for updates.
Staff writers Matthias Gafni, Robert Salonga, Peter Hegarty and Tracy Seipel contributed to this story.
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Rod St. Aubyn: Maybe We Need A Poll Of The Polls
October 20, 2014 | by Rod St. Aubyn
Not to rain on Rob’s parade with his partnered poll to be released throughout this week, but I personally am not a big fan of polls. Cynically I would suggest with all the polls that have been released, should someone commission a poll to determine which poll is best as polled by the electorate? I used to religiously monitor polls and put great confidence in a few of them. But that has all changed. For example, if we were to take the November 5, 2012, final Gallup Poll of the presidential election, it looked like Romney was narrowly going to be the next president with their final allocated estimate of 50% for Romney and 49% for Obama. In reality it wasn’t even close with Obama winning the popular vote 50.6% to Romney’s 47.8% and with Obama taking 332 Electoral votes and Romney winning 206. I was a great believer in the Rasmussen polling until final results were significantly different than their polling reflected in several polls.
In my opinion the polls are at times self-serving and less than objective. How often do we really trust poll results that are voluntarily released by a candidate? George Sinner, the Democratic candidate for the US House, semi-privately released his poll showing positive results presumably to garner more financial contributions from the DC area. Candidates from both parties do this as well to convince the public that they are ahead in terms of public support.
Political parties run what are called “push polls” which try to get support for their candidate from those who original indicated a preference for the other opponent. The use of these types of polls assists the party so they can announce that their candidate is ahead in the poll.
One must keep in mind exactly what a poll really is. It is simply a snapshot of public opinion taken at a specific time. The release of the Forum poll conducted by the Bureau of Governmental Affairs at UND has raised more than one eyebrow with its results. They printed a long Op-Ed in Sunday’s Forum justifying the results of their poll. They went into great detail with some of the mechanics of polling that I had originally written for this article. I personally didn’t believe their poll either, but who knows because it was a snapshot of people’s preferences AT THE TIME IT WAS TAKEN.
What makes up a poll and also how and when it is taken can have a HUGE impact on the results.
For example, a poll taken before a significant negative news event about a candidate can result in significant polling differences than a poll taken after the event. Does that mean that the first poll was inaccurate? Does that mean that the second poll was wrong? No, not necessarily, in both cases. They just reflect voter opinion at the time the poll was taken.
Sample sizes in relationship to the population size also impact sample results. It makes a difference if the poll was truly random or voluntary. Whether the polling was done telephonically versus online polls can result in differences. Demographics can also make a difference in polling data. Political preferences from those polled can also skew polling results. For example, if a poll relies heavily on a very conservative part of a region when that region is typically not reflective of an entire state, polling data is very skeptical. This has been criticized by many people in the country regarding some previous national presidential poll results.
With all of these variables, why even poll? Polls do have some positive features for candidates in analyzing their campaign. It may show weaknesses in certain demographic areas. For example, the poll may show that the candidate is not relating well with women, senior citizens, or minorities. A good poll will help the candidate direct their resources and messages in their political advertising.
One concern I have always had is the effect that public polls may have on electorate voting. Though the effect may be negligible, I still am concerned that it may impact a fair election. For example, the Forum poll showed a significant lead for Kevin Cramer. Does the release of that poll impact others in the Cramer camp to think that they don’t have to vote because he has it in the bag? Conversely, do George Sinner’s supporters become disheartened and decide not to vote because it appears according to the poll that he has no chance at all.
If I were King of the US, though Obama would have to relinquish that title temporarily, I would ban the public distribution of polls. I do think polling serves a useful purpose in analyzing the electorate, though I worry about politicians governing by polls rather than by principles. Former President Clinton was often criticized for his administration’s heavy reliance to polling. Public access to polls should be used for entertainment purposes and office water cooler discussions only.
So which poll is most accurate? – The one taken by all voters on Election Day. Time will tell which ND poll was most accurate with the final election results. Or will it? After all, a poll is just a reflection at the time the poll was taken. If it helps you win a political debate and have bragging rights, then fine. But in the end, who really wins? – The polling company doing the poll. After all, they got paid.
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A Drug to Boost Cardiac Arrest Survival
Submitted by SCAFoundation on Thu, 06/06/2019 - 12:00am
A new four-year, $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, together with colleagues from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Texas at Houston, to evaluate the efficacy of two drugs that have the potential to vastly improve survival and cognitive outcomes in people who experience sudden cardiac arrest.
The two drugs, called TAT-PHLPP9c and TAT-PIF, mimic the effects of rapid cooling on the body, which is known to help prevent cardiac damage and mitigate the neurological effects of a heart attack. But cooling the body during and immediately after sudden cardiac arrest is difficult because the vests used to bring down the body’s core temperature are not available in all ambulances or hospitals.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation and Citizen CPR Foundation Launch Video Contest to Raise Awareness About the Simple Things Anyone Can Do to Help Save a Life
Submitted by SCAFoundation on Tue, 06/04/2019 - 10:32am
In recognition of National CPR-AED Awareness Week June 1-7, the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation and the Citizen CPR Foundation today announce they are jointly conducting the Cardiac Arrest Survival
Bystander CPR Highlighted During National CPR and AED Awareness Week
Submitted by SCAFoundation on Fri, 05/31/2019 - 4:03pm
American Heart Association urges the public to learn CPR and act in cardiac emergencies to help save lives
DALLAS, TX--Do you know the two simple steps of Hands-Only CPR? Performing CPR can double or even triple a cardiac arrest victim’s chance of survival. Higher bystander CPR rates have been linked to greater survival rates after a cardiac arrest but currently, bystanders only perform CPR 37% of the time.
Call-Push-Shock Video Recognized as One of Top 10 Resources for CPR-AED Awareness Week
Submitted by SCAFoundation on Fri, 05/31/2019 - 12:00am
The American Heart Association, the American Red Cross, and the National Safety Council combined efforts to focus this year’s CPR and AED awareness week (June 1-7) on not only CPR skills, but on bystander willingness to act. Laerdal Medical Corporation recognized their efforts, along with those of other partners, stating "To support their efforts, we are sharing with you some of our favorite content, some ours, some from our partners and public resources. We hope that you use it as you create a community of bystanders who will act in the event of witnessing a cardiac arrest."
Multiple Organizations Unite for National CPR-AED Awareness Week, June 1-7, Urging the Public to 'Call-Push-Shock'
In recognition of National CPR-AED Awareness Week, June 1-7, Parent Heart Watch and the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation, along with multiple partners, are urging the public to learn hands-only CPR and how to use an automated external defibrillator. Their campaign, Call-Push-Shock, is a growing national movement that aims to curb the public health crisis of sudden cardiac arrest, which kills nearly 1,000 people every day in the United States.
Energy Drinks May Increase Risk of Heart Function Abnormalities and Blood Pressure Changes
Submitted by SCAFoundation on Wed, 05/29/2019 - 11:43am
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Notre Dame Students Create Drone Defibrillator for Fast Response to Cardiac Arrest Victims
Students at the University of Notre Dame are thinking of a new way to save lives.
The students, Nathaniel Hanson and Zachary Kousens, Class of 2019, came up with a drone defibrillator.
“The idea is when someone has sudden cardiac arrest and a bystander calls 911 and an EMT responds, help typically takes 10 minutes to get to the scene,” Hanson said. “We can get an automatic defibrillator there within two minutes using a drone,” dispatched by the 911 operator who finds a landing site using Google maps. This, says Kousens and Hanson, should boost the survival chance of those in cardiac arrest from 10 percent to 40 percent.
The drone defibrillator -- or Delive -- is now being reviewed by the FAA. The students hope to commercialize it by next year.
Researchers Spot Tell-Tale Signs of Potentially Fatal Cardiac Arrest in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young people (such as the unexpected near fatal cardiac arrest suffered by the-then 23 year old footballer Fabrice Muamba), but the microscopic heart muscle abnormalities behind these tragic events can only be picked up in a post-mortem.
Now, in a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, a team of RDM researchers have borrowed a brain imaging technique to spot the tell-tale disarray in heart muscle fibres that could set off a potentially fatal heart rhythm in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
This is the first time that these tell-tale signs can be spotted in living patients.
Resuscitation Quality Improvement Programs Offer a Comprehensive Solution to Help Improve Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes in Communities
The American Heart Association, Laerdal Medical and the Resuscitation Academy Foundation introduce programs for prehospital and public safety responders to help increase out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival.
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Here’s what’s unusual about Hurricane Michael
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The late-season Gulf of Mexico storm rapidly intensified to a category 4 before making landfall
FUELED-UP FURY Hurricane Michael, shown here just hours before it made landfall along the Florida panhandle, gathered strength from unusually warm Gulf of Mexico waters before slamming the coast as a Category 4 storm.
Call it an October surprise: Hurricane Michael strengthened unusually quickly before slamming into the Florida panhandle on October 10 and remained abnormally strong as it swept into Georgia. The storm made landfall with sustained winds of about 250 kilometers per hour, just shy of a category 5 storm, making it the strongest storm ever to hit the region, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Hurricane Center, or NHC.
Warm ocean waters are known to fuel hurricanes’ fury by adding heat and moisture; the drier air over land masses, by contrast, can help strip storms of strength. So hurricanes nearing the Florida panhandle, a curving landmass surrounding the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, tend to weaken as they pull in drier air from land. But waters in the Gulf that were about 1 degree to 2 degrees Celsius warmer than average for this time of year, as well as abundant moisture in the air over the eastern United States, helped to supercharge Michael. Despite some wind conditions that scientists expected to weaken the storm, it strengthened steadily until it made landfall, which the NHC noted “defies traditional logic.” The fast-moving storm weakened only slightly, to a category 3, before hurtling into Georgia.
Although it is not possible to attribute the generation of any one storm to climate change, scientists have long predicted that warming ocean waters would lead to more intense tropical cyclones in the future. More recent attribution studies have borne out that prediction, suggesting that very warm waters in the tropical Atlantic helped to fuel 2017’s powerful storm season, which spawned hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Hurricane Harvey, fueled by unusually warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico in August 2017, also underwent a rapid intensification, strengthening from a tropical storm to a category 4 hurricane within about 30 hours. And this year, scientists reported that Hurricane Florence, which slammed into the Carolinas in September, was probably warmer and wetter due to warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Genetics,, Science & Society
By Tina Hesman Saey 3:00pm, August 20, 2018
Genetically engineering animals is OK with Americans if it improves human health, a new poll reveals.
By Lisa Grossman 8:16am, August 12, 2018
The Parker Solar Probe just took off to become the first spacecraft to visit the sun.
Health,, Animals,, Microbes
By Leah Rosenbaum 9:00am, August 3, 2018
A disease caused by a parasite endemic to Asia sickened at least 12 people in eight states in the continental United States from 2011 to 2017.
By Leah Rosenbaum 5:42pm, July 27, 2018
A sixth species of Ebola has been found, but we don’t know if it can cause disease in humans.
Health,, Neuroscience
By Leah Rosenbaum 11:00am, July 16, 2018
Many media outlets reporting on President Trump’s cognitive assessment test could make it harder for doctors to use the exam to spot dementia.
By Emily DeMarco 3:18pm, July 5, 2018
About 80 percent of U.S. adults say that federal spending on scientific and medical research provides value in the long run, a new survey finds.
Genetics,, Anthropology,, Animals
By Bruce Bower 2:12pm, July 5, 2018
North America’s first dogs have few descendants alive today, a study of ancient DNA suggests.
Astronomy,, Planetary Science,, Technology
By Maria Temming 2:58pm, June 27, 2018
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft says “hello” to near-Earth asteroid Ryugu.
By Emily Conover 1:00pm, June 27, 2018
The solar system’s first known interstellar visitor doesn’t appear to be the asteroid that scientists thought it was.
Neuroscience,, Animals
By Tina Hesman Saey 3:00pm, June 25, 2018
The fear centers of the brain were altered as humans tamed rabbits.
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Early Cancer Detection Behaviors among Black Males
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The Differential Impact of High-Intensity Swimming Exercise and Inflammatory Bowel Disease on IL-1β, TNF-α, and COX-2 Gene Expression in the Small Intestine and Colon in Mice
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RMJ. 2009; 34(1): 7-10
Titanium miniplates use: a simple and effective method of preventing bone graft dislodgment in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
Inayatullah khan, Muhammad Burhan.
To study the efficacy of miniplates fixation to nonplating in regards to prevention of anterior bone graft dislodgment, fusion rate and clinical outcome in patients undergoing one-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) with autograft.
We retrospectively reviewed 163 patients who underwent ACDF with titanium miniplates, between 2003 to 2008. Patient's data was collected from operation room's record and radiology. Complications were recorded from patient's notes. Fusion and Position of bone graft was assessed on immediate post operative and 3 months later repeat radiographs in follow up clinic. Minimum follow up was for 3 months. Clinical outcome was assessed on follow up based on Odom's criteria.
Out of 163 patients, 78 patients were females and 85 males. Mean age was 52 years (range 22-83). The increase in operation time for holding the bone graft with anterior cervical miniplates, ranged from 5 to 8 minutes. There was only 1 case of bone graft dislodgment (0.61%) due to technical error in positioning of plate.
In ACDF, to prevent bone graft dislodgment and ensure effective fusion, the routine use of miniplates is economical and rewarding for the patients. (Rawal Med J 2009; 34: 7-10).
Key words: Key Words: Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, iliac crest bone autograft, titanium miniplates.
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Xiaomi Mi Notebook Youth Edition Launched; Mi Smart Alarm Clock With Xiao AI Assistant Debuts Too
September 22, 2018 - by Rakesh Sashmal
Xiaomi has expanded its range of notebooks by launching the Mi Notebook Youth Edition. The new model comes as a toned-down version of the new Mi Notebook that was launched last month with up to eighth-generation Intel Core i7 processors and 8GB of RAM. Being a part of the existing Mi Notebook family, the Mi Notebook Youth Edition features a 15.6-inch full-HD display and is powered by an eighth-generation Intel Core i5 processor. The notebook also has 128GB of SSD alongside 1TB of a mechanical hard drive. Aside from the Mi Notebook Youth Edition, the Chinese company has launched the Mi Smart Alarm Clock that is backed by Xiao AI voice assistant. The Mi Smart Alarm Clock supports voice controls to let users snooze the annoying alarm using their voice. It is also capable of setting up to 30 different alarms using voice commands. Xiaomi has additionally offered the ability to add up to 80 reminders and deliver stock updates, news headlines, or listen to the preset radio stations.
The Xiaomi Mi Notebook Youth Edition features a 15.6-inch full-HD display and is powered by an eighth-generation Intel Core i5 processor, coupled with Nvidia GeForce MX110 graphics along with 2GB discrete memory and 8GB of RAM. There is 128GB of SSD that is accompanied by 1TB of hard drive.
Aside from the basics, the Mi Notebook Youth Edition has a dual-fan cooling system that uses a dual-fan technology along with a twin air outlet with 2+2 heat pipe layout. The notebook has a USB 2.0, Gigabit Ethernet port, HDMI interface, 3.5mm headphone jack, and two USB 3.0 ports. There is also a three-in-one card reader.
Xiaomi has offered dual 3W speakers as well as a chiclet-style keyboard along with an independent keypad. Furthermore, the Mi Notebook Youth Edition comes with 19.9mm of thickness.
As reported by GizChina, the Mi Notebook Youth Edition will go on sale in China with a price tag of CNY 4,599 (roughly Rs. 48,500). Details about its availability are yet to be announced.
Coming to the Mi Smart Alarm Clock, it has a digital display that adjusts the brightness automatically. There is an option to use your voice to set up to 30 alarms or as many as 80 reminders. Xiaomi has provided its in-house Xiao AI voice assistant that also enables the Mi Smart Alarm Clock to push latest stock updates, weather alerts, and news headlines. Similarly, the clock has the option to control more than 100 connected devices using your voice commands. It can also stream over 2,000 Internet radio stations. Moreover, you can ask the clock your general questions.
The Xiaomi Mi Smart Alarm Clock is powered by an SoC that has a 1.3GHz quad-core Cortex-A35 CPU. In terms of connectivity, there are Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0 (LE) connectivity options. The clock also works with devices running at least Android 4.1 Jelly Bean or iOS 9.0. There is a dedicated button to mute the microphone in case if you don’t want to use the Xiao AI integration. Besides, it measures 126.2x27x60.8mm and weighs 170 grams.
The new Mi Smart Alarm Clock is currently available for pre-orders in China through Xiaomi’s YouPin with a price tag of CNY 149 (roughly Rs. 1,600). Details about its availability and price in other markets including India are yet to be revealed.
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Gimmicky or pure genius, these inventions are ripe for the giving
Have a bread machine or pasta maker stashed away deep inside a hard-to-reach kitchen cabinet? The novelty of these wonder gadgets of the 1990s may have waned. But every year, more gadgets are invented — and many stand the test of time and make great gift ideas.
Have a bread machine or pasta maker stashed away deep inside a hard-to-reach kitchen cabinet?
The novelty of these wonder gadgets of the 1990s may have waned. But every year, more gadgets are invented — and many stand the test of time and make great gift ideas.
Remember the Ronco Veg-O-Matic food processor? “It slices! It dices!” First introduced in 1960s television infomercials by American inventor Ron Popeil, the slicer-dicer is still selling at www.Ronco.com as the new-and-improved Dial-o-Matic Food Slicer.
The George Forman “Lean, Mean, Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine,” promoted by the legendary boxer since 1994, has morphed into many new models and remains a popular option for indoor, electric-powered, low-fat grilling.
And it’s hard to imagine Apple’s iPod digital music player ever stashed inside some drawer. The iPod has inspired hundreds of companion gadgets — some truly useful, others just kitschy — such as the iBoogie stick-figure speaker and dance machine available from the Home Shopping Network (hsn.com) and the iPod Shower Speaker (Rushgideon.com).
Here we offer a few gadgets for the home that just may be that perfect something for someone on your holiday gift list.
1. The Original Magic Bullet Express Blender/Mixer System
$57.97, Walmart.com and at Wal-Mart stores. Also promoted at www.AsSeenonTV.com, this compact blender can mix, grate, grind and blend. The system comes with blades, cups, mugs, lids and a recipe book.
2. Monogrammed Steak Brand
$39.95, Williams-Sonoma.com. You don’t need a ranch to stake claim to your steaks and chops. Show your grilling bravado with a personalized steak-branding iron “hand-forged in Texas” that accommodates up to three initials. They’ll always know who’s grilling the meat with this gadget.
3. Sun and Moon Jars
$29.99, Thinkgeek.com. It’s perfect for those who want to go “green.” Place these colorful lamps outside in direct sun to fuel the solar cell that charges the battery. This powers the low-energy LED lamps for several hours. Use it on a patio or as a child’s nightlight.
4. Roomba Intelligent Sweeper Vacuum
$179.95, Hammacher.com. This one seems too good to be true: a robot that cleans your home for you! Built-in sensors detect furniture and walls and can clean up four rooms per charge. It’s also available at Target.
Online reviews and reports from users in Springfield say Roomba robotic vacuums work. First sold in 2004 by developer iRobot, the newest model (iRobot Roomba 610 Professional Series) starts at $549.99 at http://store.iRobot.com. But less costly models are available, such as the one sold by Hammacher-Schlemmer. Reports say it works best on hardwood floors and medium-pile carpets.
5. American Red Cross FR150 Microlink Emergency Crank Radio
$30, www.etoncorp.com/American_Red_Cross. Never get caught powerless and unconnected in a central Illinois ice storm again — this crank radio by Eton comes with American Red Cross disaster preparedness tips. The AM/FM radio features a built-in hand crank power generator that recharges the radio’s battery and your cell phone battery. The built-in LED light source can be powered by solar energy, the rechargeable battery or a USB port connected to your computer.
Similar radios are available by calling the Illinois Capital Area Chapter of the American Red Cross at 787-7602.
6. The 40 Foot Marshmallow Blaster
$39.95, Hammacher.com. Admittedly, this does not fall in the handy category. But it could be lots of family fun on a cold winter night paired with some hot cocoa. The “pump-action pneumatic gun” can shoot large marshmallows or handfuls of miniature marshmallows up to 40 feet. Recommended for ages 12 and older.
7. Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ
$159.80, Ronco.com. The Web site for consummate home gadget inventor and salesman Ron “Ronco” Popeil claims this gadget will allow you to “spend less time cooking and have more time for your active lifestyle.” The oven features a three-hour automatic timer and comes with a recipe book and gloves.
8. Grill Daddy Pro
$14.95, www.asseenontv.com. You’ll find thousands of gadgety products at AsSeenonTV.com, but this barbecue cleaning tool is inexpensive and ideal for the “grill daddy” in your house who prefers cooking to cleaning up.
9. Digital Photo Frame Mania
Brookstone.com. Brookstone.com promotes many digital photo gift options for this holiday season, including a 4,000-photo album small enough to fit in your pocket ($99.95), a 60-picture digital watch ($99.95), a 100-photo digital key chain ($39.95) and a 55-photo leather wallet ($19.99). So you can still show people those photos of the kids or grandkids anytime. For a holiday flair, you can get a Christmas Tree Digital Ornament at Target, 3445 Freedom Drive.
10. Oil Mister
$15, Williams-sonoma.com. This is a great stocking stuffer for someone who doesn’t like aerosol, non-stick cooking products. The Oil Mister can spray food or pans with a non-aerosol mist of low-fat, low-cholesterol olive oil.
11. Monster MMC AVL300-S Home Theater and Lighting Controller
$399.95, Home-Technology-Store.com. Get rid of your many remotes and use the Monster, a universal remote that will read a DVD player even if it’s inside a cabinet. It controls lighting systems and home theater systems all in one.
12. Bose SoundDock for iPod
$299, Bose.com, or at Target. Many people rave about their Bose sound systems. The company was started in the mid-1960s by an engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a quest to create a better-sounding stereo speaker. Lots of research and technology later led to this popular gadget companion for the iPod and iPhone.
13. Citrus Peeler
75 cents, www.pamperedchef.com. Kitchen gadgets are synonymous with the Pampered Chef, and this one often is a freebie at in-home shows. It’s tiny and orange and really works. No more sour bites or messy digging in to get things started.
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Home / News & Events / Giles Bell's Team of the Week is back!
Giles Bell's Team of the Week is back!
Giles Bell - teacher of Philosophy and Theology, Admissions Tutor, Housemaster of School House for 14 years, football and cricket coach, Brighton FC fan and general sports enthusiast - has picked up his pen and camera again. This week he turns his spotlight and wit on Fives.
I hope you all had a very Happy Christmas and that you have had a good start to the year. I know you will now want to know if I have too. The answer is a resounding yes. My family and I went to Lapland to see Father Christmas and learn how to ski and drive snowmobiles, husky- and reindeer-sleds. We spent a week inside the Arctic Circle in Finland and apparently it was warm for the time of year as it was only minus 12°C. Ironically, we nearly got snowed into the UK and were lucky that Manchester Airport was unaffected by the snow that submerged Shropshire.
Being a true professional, one of the reasons I was keen to spend a week in sub-zero temperatures (apart from when I was in the sauna) was to condition my body for the hours I will be spending over the next few weeks watching Lent Term sports. I am now able to watch Fives in my jacket and no overcoat for up to 15 minutes.
Sadly some of my colleagues have not been quite so far-sighted. Mr Andrew Barnard took the 1st XI cricket team to Perth in Australia and found the weather to be quite warm. “It was quite hot in Australia,” he told me as he shivered in his smart red Shrewsbury School player layer coat. “It is quite cold here in Shrewsbury,” he observed with his usual incisive powers of perception. Mr Barnard is a geography teacher and they love talking about the weather. “I love talking about the weather,” Mr Barnard said as he glanced down at the weather app on his phone. I was just about to ask him how he thought the girls he coaches would do this term when his phone rang and he went off to talk to Mr Fox about whether the cold front would mean that he would need de-icer for his car in the morning.
I caught up with Georgie Nicholas and Adelaide Sillar, who told me they are the number 1 pair for the Under-15 girls’ team. I was unable to corroborate my findings as their coach was looking at the long-term forecast for June and thinking about whether he would need spinners or fast bowlers for the fixtures on Speech Day.
Adelaide and Georgie both did very well last year when playing with experienced campaigners such as Ella Windle and Izzy Wong. This year they are hoping to become a formidable pair and destroy all who dare to step on the court with them. I enquired as to whether they really liked Fives and they said they enjoyed the banter with the coaches Mr Barnard and Gwen Davies. Georgie asked me not to make too much of her success as her dad Dan is still coming to terms with never making it into a Fives team when he was at Shrewsbury and is still valiantly hoping to catch Mr Cooley’s eye. “He practised every day of the holidays and I have tried to gently suggest that he takes up Crown Green bowls, but he is still determined to make it as a Fives player. Why else do you think he returned to teach at Shrewsbury?”
I gently asked Mr Nicholas about his Fives playing ambition. His eyes clouded over and with faraway look he told me; “I just want to stand on a court with a Shrewsbury School shirt on and play the best game of Fives I am capable of. Is that too much to ask?” Mr Cooley told me that it was.
The Under-14 and Under-15 girls’ teams are full of promise. “I promise to try really hard,” said Ashleigh Pegge. “I have promised Father Christmas to be really good this year,” said Hetta Harris. I did not have the heart to point out to her that Mr Barnard, despite his red coat and smart little beard, is not infact Father Christmas. But then again, maybe he is... He was strangely absent just before Christmas...
Eibhilin Moore is finding Fives to be a real joy and Charlotte Waterhouse thinks she might enjoy taking out her aggression on the court. Charlotte Russell and Kim Barnett were keen to start playing what Kim described as “the rare sport” and Imogen Morgan enjoys Fives because it is fun. They are all very keen to purchase some new navy-blue leggings so that they look the part. “Navy-blue is my favourite colour,” Kim told me.
The Under-15 boys’ squad under the watchful eye of Dr Morgan were warming up for what promises to be another good season. “There is a lot of promise here,” said Dr Morgan.
In another court, French number 1 Antoine Legais was training with Giles Mcloughlin, James Hinwood and Joe Kynaston. Antoine is considered to be the finest French player on the courts at the moment, though Mr Cooley was having trouble thinking of any other great French Fives players.
The Under-14s have a squad of 39 players, which suggests that their coach Mr Barrett will have his hands full. “I think I will have my hands full,” said Mr Barrett as he held on to three balls, a hat, a scarf and five training tops.
Joe Archer and Harry Cooke were playing one of their first games of Fives and enjoying doing something new. “It is great to be learning a new sport,” they told me. “I bet you can’t do this at many schools. What a rich and varied sporting diet we are lucky enough to have here at Shrewsbury,” they both said at once. It certainly seems that the choice of sporting options at Shrewsbury is indeed like a smorgåsbord of delights.
Tom ‘smorgåsbord’ Bromley-Davenport was part of a group of senior players who were training with World Champion Fives player and Master in Charge of Fives Seb Cooley. Tom reminded me of a Team of the Week I wrote about the Under-14 football team when he was in the Third Form and I apparently gave them all nicknames. I promised that would never happen again.
Tom is hoping to be in the School first pair. He takes his Fives very seriously and chose not to improve his cricket in case he had to go to Australia with the first team squad. “That would have seriously affected my cold-climate conditioning. I have seen Mr Barnard and the lads who went to Perth struggling to adapt back to the perfect Fives conditions we have here at present. I am delighted I just had a quiet Christmas concentrating on my courting.”
‘Genial’ George Garratt agreed that although he had tried to protect himself from the sun, it had been difficult not to catch a few rays when he was out in Perth. “Most of their batsman were called Ray,” he explained.
Other players keen to make into the first pair include Peter Clark, Karist Ng, Gen Songthanmakul, Arthur Garratt and Archie Free. Actually Archie was keen to state that he played Fives for fun and that he did not intend to make a career out of it, unlike Mr Cooley (rumoured to be the ‘Neymar’ of the Fives world).
Finally I must mention Will (not Peter) Sissons. Will has come to Shrewsbury on a September transfer from Rydal Penrhos. He was very modest about the transfer fee but as he was National Under-13 Champion, rumours are circulating that it was considerable. When asked, Mr Cooley merely stated, ‘I wanted him and the Chairman obliged!’ Without putting Will under too much pressure, all I will say is that he is a Welsh Champion Fives player and cricketer and he is promising a lot!
So it would seem that there is a lot of promise being displayed on the very busy and popular Shrewsbury Fives courts. I look forward to popping out of my warm office and watching the odd point from time to time! Good luck to all the handy players I met and the ones I didn’t too!
GJFB
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Staten Island's South Beach section submits paperwork for state to buy out Sandy-socked homeowners; 132 sign up
Updated Dec 23, 2013 ; Posted Dec 23, 2013
By Judy L. Randall | randall@siadvance.com
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Joe McAllister, at right, president of the South Beach Civic Association, announces in November that residents of the community are seeking buyouts for homes and neighborhoods along Capodanno Boulevard. He's joined by, from left, Jeff Fuchs, Iqbal Mughal, Kathy Toth, Ronald Panzica, Christine Angelides, Daniel La Hale, Robert Santangolo, and Rose Ann McCallister.
(Staten Island Advance/Bill Lyons)
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- First Oakwood Beach got the green light for state-sponsored Hurricane Sandy buyouts.
Then Ocean Breeze.
Could South Beach be next?
South Beach Civic Association president Joe McAllister said 132 homeowners in that community, whose homes were shattered or heavily-damaged by Sandy, have submitted the necessary paperwork seeking a pre-superstorm buyout from the state.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo inaugurated the program here earlier this year, saying certain sections of Staten Island's shoreline should to be returned to Mother Nature.
McAllister said that homeowners from Father Capodanno and Olympia boulevards, Sand Lane, Doty and Mallory avenues and the Sunnymeade Village section are among those seeking to be bought out.
"Hopefully they (the state) will get moving on it," said McAllister, whose own home in South Beach was not heavily impacted by the deadly October 2012 storm. "We want the wetlands restored to the natural environment on the southside of Sand Lane, something we've been fighting for since 2001. On the northside, we'd like them to build a park with trees and benches. In Sunnymeade, it's below sea level and that should be bought out."
Last month, McAllister and other South Beach residents
rallied to bring attention to the need for buyouts of portions of their community
One, Grace Johnston, whose "beach house" on Capodanno Boulevard had been hit innumerable times by hurricanes and nor'easters in the nearly three decades she has owned it, said it's time to go.
"Buy me out!" Ms. Johnston said at the time.
Councilman James Oddo (R-Mid-Island), the borough president-elect, said this week that while he hadn't been told the specifics of what was submitted by South Beach residents, "Sunnymeade Village strikes me as a location where the tactical use of buyouts makes a lot of sense."
McAllister said he presented the buyout paperwork to the governor's Staten Island representative, Paul Duffy, Saturday and that it was formally filed with Cuomo's office Monday.
Barbara Brancaccio, spokeswoman for the Governor's Office of Storm Recovery, said: "We look forward to reviewing the South Beach proposal and will work with homeowners to acquire eligible properties at their pre-storm market value."
tear downs in Oakwood Beach
began last month. Homeowners participating in the buyout program there said they were pleased with the pre-Sandy market value they received from the state, which is averaged $400,000.
Meanwhile, residents of Great Kills and Eltingville expect to meet Sunday, Jan. 5, in the Oakwood Heights Community Church, from noon to 1:30 p.m., to discuss possible buyouts there, said Alexander Dubrovsky of the Crescent Beach Buyout Committee.
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“What they may turn out to be I cannot say, but should like the liberty of choice when the time comes…”
MARK HOPKINS. Autograph Letter Signed, as President of Williams College, [perhaps to Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian], November 13, 1851. 1 p., 5 x 6 ¼ in.
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Mark Hopkins (1802-1887) graduated from Williams College in 1824, and from the Berkshire Medical College in 1829. He returned to Williams College as professor of Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric, and was licensed to preach by the Congregationalists in 1833. He became president of the college in 1836, serving until 1872. President James Garfield, who attended Williams College in the 1850s, said in 1871 that his idea of an ideal college would be Mark Hopkins and a student together in a log cabin. Hopkins delivered three lectures at the Smithsonian on the evenings of January 5, 7, and 9, 1852, on “Method,” “Method applied to investigation,” and “Subject concluded, viz: Method.”
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Williams College Nov 13th 1851
I am just now writing some lectures for the Smithsonian Institute. What they may turn out to be I cannot say, but should like the liberty of choice when the time comes to give you one of them or another, and as I presume the announcement of the subject cannot be of much importance, I will, if you please leave it indefinite for the present.
Very Respectfully yours,
M. Hopkins
Historic Background
With a bequest from the nephew of British scientist James Smithson, the Smithsonian Institution was established in 1846. The Smithsonian not only collected artifacts and specimens, but was also generally committed to the “increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” To accomplish this mandate, the institution published books and pamphlets and hosted lectures on a variety of subjects.
Earlier in 1851, Senator Stephen A. Douglas had criticized the Smithsonian Institution for wasting its funds on theoretical research such as studying the moon. In June 1852, Douglas renewed his attack on research with “no practical bearing,” such as studies of “sea weeds and such trash.” Joseph Henry, who served from 1846 to 1878 as the Smithsonian’s first Secretary, reportedly responded angrily, declaring that “All knowledge was practical, how abstruse so ever it might to the uninitiated appear, and in good time would always vindicate itself in subserving the practical wants and necessities of mankind.” Henry and Douglas later apologized, and in 1854 Douglas became a Smithsonian Regent.
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Salesforce Transit Center To Reopen July 1 After Repairs To Cracked Beams
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Published 12:41 pm PDT, Tuesday, June 11, 2019
FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2018, file photo, people stop to look at the closed Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco. Officials say the $2 billion transit terminal in San Francisco that shut down six weeks after opening last year is on track to be repaired by June, 2019, but there is no firm re-opening date. The Transbay Joint Powers Authority operates the Salesforce Transit Center, which opened Aug. 12, 2018 to great fanfare. They closed it the following month after finding two cracked beams. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) less
FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2018, file photo, people stop to look at the closed Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco. Officials say the $2 billion transit terminal in San Francisco that shut down six weeks ... more
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The Salesforce Transit Center and public rooftop park in San Francisco is reopening on July 1 after repairs finished on two cracked steel beams discovered at the newly opened building, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority announced Tuesday.
The $2.2 billion four-story transit center and park opened last August, but weeks later had to close after the discovery of the cracked beams on the third-level bus deck at Fremont Street.
The TJPA, which owns and operates the site, said in May that repairs had been completed, and a Metropolitan Transportation Commission panel has conducted an independent review that concluded the center may now reopen.
San Francisco Municipal Railway and Golden Gate Transit will now resume bus service from the street-level bus plaza in early July, according to the TJPA. Alameda-Contra Costa Transit, Greyhound and WestCAT Lynx will also resume bus service later this summer.
The 5.4-acre rooftop Salesforce Park, the Grand Hall, food trucks and public art installations will also open at the site July 1.
Transbay transit center is safe to reopen, engineering experts conclude
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SiTF Pays Homage to Singapore's Journey in Technology
From left: Shirley Wong, Immediate Past Chairman, SiTF; Guest-Of-Honour Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, Singapore Minister for Communications & Information; Saw Ken Wye, Chairman, SiTF; Michael Yap, SiTF Executive Committee Member, at the launch of Intelligent Island: The Untold Story of Singapore’s Tech Journey, which includes a foreword by Dr Yaacob.
The Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) has launched their latest book, Intelligent Island: The Untold Story of Singapore’s Tech Journey. The book seeks to uncover the philosophy and ideas that shaped Singapore’s development in the digital forefront and the defining moments that led to the Singapore of today, with its drive to become a Smart Nation. The book was curated by industry veterans spanning the private and government sectors and features several contributors who bring to the table their intimate knowledge and reflections of the ICT industry.
Alex Lin, CEO, SG Innovate talks about getting help from the community.
Commissioned some 18 months ago, Intelligent Island: The Untold Story of Singapore’s Tech Journey unravels what was in the minds behind the growth and success of Singapore’s infocomm and communication technology (ICT) industry.
For half a century, Singapore has made remarkable progress in technology since the early years when the first mainframe was installed in the Central Provident Fund (CPF) back in 1965 to automate the Board’s manual ledger accounting system. The Committee on National Computerisation was first set up in 1980, with the aim of training and educating the population to use computers and grow Singapore’s IT manpower pool. This constant emphasis on IT adoption and innovation has become a national narrative through the years.
Intelligent Island: The Untold Story of Singapore’s Tech Journey celebrates the unsung heroes – policy makers, entrepreneurs and top executives – who have driven and architected Singapore’s ICT industry in its formative years. In the first chapter, President Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam discusses his take on Singapore’s need to push the envelope of IT and reflects on how he helped kickstart Singapore’s IT journey as the chairman of the Committee on National Computerisation.
Other visionaries and change makers featured in the book include founding National Computer Board chairman Philip Yeo, IT pioneer Tan Chin Nam, who has helmed many leading government agencies in his career, and former CEO of the then-Info-communications Development Authority of Singapore (IDA, which has since been restructured into two entities) and founder of Computer System Advisers (CSA) Johnny Moo.
The book also offers an inside look into the last 45 years of Singapore’s tech journey in several areas: development and impact of several national IT projects like TradeNet and LawNet; businesses set up by Singapore entrepreneurs; profiles of businessmen and made-in-Singapore products and services; information highway development in the early years from Singapore One to fibre broadband; Internet, dotcom wave 1 and Web 2.0 companies, investors and public sector funders; and the buildup of talent and manpower.
"This is the book that any tech professional who wants to be in the industry must read, because you can really glean the rich experience and knowledge that our pioneers have put forth that has contributed to where we are today," said Shirley Wong, Immediate Past Chairman, SiTF. Wong was Chairman when SiTF commissioned the book.
Intelligent Island: The Untold Story of Singapore’s Tech Journey is the second book published by SiTF. Its first book, Singapore Tech, A Living Chronicle, launched in 2015 as part of Singapore's 50th anniversary of independence (SG50) celebrations in 2015. Intelligent Island: The Untold Story of Singapore’s Tech Journey was conceptualised after stakeholders in the first book realised that there were still many stories left untold after the publication of Singapore Tech, A Living Chronicle.
"We wanted to put across the thinking behind, the back stories, the untold ones, and there are some juicy bits as well," said Michael Yap, Executive Committee Member, SiTF.
Alex Lin, head of SGInnovate, said the IT scene in Singapore developed as a result from community cooperation. "'Hunt in a pack' is a very good concept," he said of advice he had been given on how to penetrate the China market. "The strength of the wolf in the pack and the strength of the pack is in the wolf."
Liu talks about his experiences in past decades.
The CEO of Streamglobal, Bill Liu, also shared some of the lessons he had learned since 1972, when he started his career in IT. "If you don't try and you don't dare to do, you will never know if you can succeed," he said, "Keep learning and keep upgrading yourself because knowledge is expanding so fast. Try and learn how to deal with people from the top to the bottom and from all backgrounds and never overrate yourself; you can "BS" as much as you like but don't believe in your own BS."
The book is available for purchase through the SiTF website at S$50.
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Saw and Dr Yaacob with the signed digital copy of Intelligent Island.
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"Lego Movie 2" Opens 1st In Box Office But Below Expectations
Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019
This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows the characters Emmet, left, and Rex Dangervest, center, both voiced by Chris Pratt, in a scene from "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)
This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows the character Lucy/Wyldstyle, voiced by Elizabeth Banks, in a scene from "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)
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"The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part" was easily the top ticket-seller in theaters over the weekend, but the film's $35 million opening failed to stack up to its expected haul, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The animated sequel had been forecast to draw around $50 million. Instead, it debuted with half the $69 million the 2014 original did, despite good reviews and an A-minus CinemaScore.
With about a $100 million budget, Warner Bros.' "The Lego Movie 2" had been pegged as a dependable, star-studded franchise release sure to kick-start a moribund box office. But after record ticket sales last year, Hollywood's 2019 has gotten off to such a bad beginning that the movie's tagline of "Everything is not awesome" is looking more like accurate industry analysis.
"The expectations were certainly much higher for 'The Lego Movie 2' considering the success of the first installment," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore. "We were all hoping that this would be the weekend that got the momentum of the box office going in the right direction. We're still waiting."
Every weekend this year has been down from the same weekend a year ago. That's a streak sure to continue. Next weekend, the new releases include "Happy Death Day 2U" and "Alita: Battle Angel." What opened the same weekend last year? "Black Panther."
"Momentum is everything at the box office," Dergarabedian said. "And we've sort of lost that."
Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Will Ferrell and others reprise their voice roles in "The Lego Movie 2," while Tiffany Haddish and Maya Rudolph join the cast. Mike Mitchell directs the movie written by original writer-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller.
Oversaturation could be to blame. Since the 2014 original, which grossed $469 million worldwide, Warner Bros. released two spinoffs: "The Lego Batman Movie" in 2017 and "The Lego Ninjago Movie" later the same year.
Distribution executives for Warner Bros. declined to comment on the weekend's results.
Until now, 2019's sluggish box office was partly blamed on lack of quality releases, with only a handful of highly promoted films from major studios. This weekend saw a relatively robust slate of releases, including Taraji P. Henson's "What Men Want" and the Liam Neeson thriller "Cold Pursuit." Both did solid if not spectacular business.
Paramount's "What Men Want," a loose remake of the 2000 Mel Gibson comedy, debuted with $19 million. Henson plays a sports agent with the ability to hear men's thoughts in Adam Shankman's film, a kind of gender flip from the original. The film got poor reviews (47 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), but audiences gave it an A-minus CinemaScore.
Lionsgate's "Cold Pursuit" debuted with $10.8 million, a result in line with expectations despite the controversy that surrounded its star in the week leading up to release. Neeson drew heavy criticism after he acknowledged in an interview published last Monday that he wanted to kill a random black person when a close friend told him she had been raped by a black man.
Neeson later appeared on "Good Morning America" to say he's not a racist. Organizers for the New York premiere of "Cold Pursuit" canceled the film's red carpet.
Orion Pictures' horror thriller "The Prodigy" also debuted, with $6 million.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part," $35 million ($18.1 million international).
2. "What Men Want," $19 million.
3. "Cold Pursuit," $10.8 million.
4. "The Upside," $7.2 million.
5. "Glass," $6.4 million.
6. "The Prodigy," $6 million.
7. "Green Book," $3.6 million.
8. "Aquaman," $3.3 million.
9. "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," $3 million.
10. "Miss Bala," $2.7 million.
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U.S. to use all economic, political tools to hold Maduro accountable: Pompeo
BOGOTA (Reuters) – The United States will use all economic and political tools at its disposal to hold Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accountable for his country’s crisis and will make clear to Cuba and Russia they will pay a price for supporting him, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at a warehouse where international humanitarian aid for Venezuela is being stored, near La Unidad cross-border bridge between Colombia and Venezuela in Cucuta, Colombia April 14, 2019. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez
Pompeo made the comments in the Colombian border city of Cucuta, the final stop of a three-day trip to Chile, Paraguay and Peru, a clutch of fast-growing countries in a region where Washington’s concerns are focused on the Venezuelan crisis and China’s growing presence.
Maduro blames U.S. sanctions for the country’s economic problems and dismisses opposition leader Juan Guaido – who in January invoked the constitution to assume an interim presidency, arguing the socialist leader’s 2018 re-election was illegitimate – as a U.S. puppet.
More than 3 million Venezuelans have fled hyperinflation, food and medicine shortages and political crisis.
“The United States will continue to utilize every economic and political means at our disposal to help the Venezuelan people,” Pompeo said after visiting with migrants at a Cucuta shelter and touring border bridges and a warehouse storing humanitarian aid.
“Using sanctions, visa revocations and other means, we pledge to hold the regime and those propping it up accountable for their corruption and their repression of democracy.”
Cucuta receives a significant portion of Venezuelan migrants arriving in Colombia, many of whom come with only what they can carry.
Although most Western nations, including the United States, have recognized Guaido as interim head of state, Russia, China and Cuba have stood by Maduro.
“You watch the political and diplomatic noose tighten around Maduro’s neck,” Pompeo told reporters accompanying him on the trip before taking off for the United States.
“Cubans must understand too that there will be cost associated with continued support of Nicolas Maduro,” he said. “And we’re going to have that same conversation with the Russians as well.”
Washington has imposed a raft of sanctions against Maduro’s government in an attempt to dislodge him from power, but he retains the backing of the country’s military. On Friday, the U.S. Treasury Department added four firms and nine ships to its blacklist, some of which it said carried oil to Cuba.
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President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, said on Friday he would deliver a speech in Miami to Cuban exiles on Wednesday about actions the White House is taking on Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, countries he has called a “troika of tyranny.”
While no final decision has been made on punitive measures Bolton is expected to announce, the Trump administration has been considering a range of options, including new targeted sanctions and further tightening of business restrictions on the Communist-ruled island that had been eased by former President Barack Obama, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Critics have warned that heavy sanctions on Venezuela could hurt ordinary Venezuelans.
Pompeo urged Maduro to leave his post and Venezuela so the country can return to normalcy.
“I hope that you will care now, when you see the horror, when you see the tragedy, to change your ways and to leave your country,” Pompeo said.
During his trip, Pompeo echoed previous U.S. criticism of China’s growing presence in Latin America, warning of “predatory” lending practices and “malign or nefarious” actions.
China, whose booming economy over the past two decades has driven up demand for raw materials, is already the top trade partner for nations from tiny Uruguay to Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy and the world’s top soybean exporter.
Reporting by Julia Symmes Cobb; Additional reporting by Matt Spetalnick in Washington; Editing by Chris Reese and Peter Cooney
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Is Space Tourism the New Space Race?
By Clara Moskowitz 2011-04-11T11:40:32Z News
Virgin Galactic's first SpaceShipTwo passenger spacecraft leaves contrails in its wake during a Jan. 13, 2011, glide test, the fourth in a series of demonstration flights.
(Image: © Michael Fuchs)
Fifty years after the Soviet Union beat the United States to send the first human to space, a new space race is heating up.
This time, the players are not nations — rather, they're commercial companies that aim to send the first paying passengers to space on private spaceships.
"It's an exciting time for the industry," said George Whitesides, president of suborbital spaceship company Virgin Galactic. "I really believe that we're at the edge of an extraordinary period of innovation which will radically change our world."
If Virgin and other companies succeed, space could soon become one more conquered frontier, with rocket rides to space becoming as accessible as plane rides across the Atlantic.
"We're just about to the point where low-Earth orbit really ought to be considered part of our normal regime," said Roger Launius, a space history curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. [Infographic: Spaceships of the World]
But while we may be nearing a tipping point where access to space expands widely beyond the select few who've left Earth to date, Launius and others caution that it's not a done deal yet.
Virgin Galactic's private SpaceShipTwo spacecraft and its mothership WhiteKnightTwo flies over the Golden Gate Bridge with the Virgin America plane "My Other Ride is a Spaceship" on April 6, 2011 en route to open Terminal 2 at San Francisco International Airport.
(Image credit: Mark Greenberg/Virgin America)
Suborbital joyrides
The first person to reach space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, made his flight almost 50 years ago, on April 12, 1961.
Since then, the rest of us have been waiting our turn. Now the day when we can all take a space vacation is closer than ever, with a handful of commercial firms planning to offer quick suborbital joyrides in the next few years.
Suborbital spaceships would take passengers up to space at an altitude of about 62 miles (100 kilometers), but wouldn't complete a full orbit before returning to Earth. Instead, riders would see the globe of our planet and the blackness of space while experiencing about five minutes of weightlessness, and then land back down just hours after they took off. [First Person: How I Trained For Suborbital Spaceflight]
One of the most prominent suborbital space companies is Virgin Galactic, founded by British billionaire Sir Richard Branson. Virgin Galactic's suborbital spaceplane is called SpaceShipTwo. It's designed to be carried to midair by a giant mothership, named WhiteKnightTwo, and then to drop and fire its own rocket engine for the last climb to space.
SpaceShipTwo has made a few successful test glide flights, with the first powered flights — in which the space plane's rocket engines will fire — set to occur sometime this year.
Branson and his family are slated to be the spacecraft's first passengers, with regular tourist flights beginning in 2012, Virgin Galactic officials have said.
"I think the whole world will be watching those flights," Whitesides told SPACE.com. "To a certain extent, it will really kick off the second space age. The idea that space is truly opening to the rest of us will become real in a very concrete way with those."
Blue Origin's Goddard demonstration vehicle in mid-flight above its West Texas launch pad during a test launch on Nov. 13, 2006.
(Image credit: Blue Origin.)
Other contenders
Virgin Galactic is not alone. A handful of other companies are also racing to build suborbital vehicles to meet the perceived demand from tourists, as well as scientists who'd like to conduct short experiments in microgravity.
The secretive Blue Origins company, bankrolled by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is developing the suborbital Goddard vehicle under the firm's New Shepard program.
Armadillo Aerospace, a Texas-based company founded by computer game entrepreneur John Carmack, is another contender with a vertically launched rocket ship in development.
Masten Space Systems, and XCOR Aerospace, both of Mojave, Calif., are also building suborbital spaceships called Xaero and Lynx, respectively.
However, even when suborbital passenger flights do begin to take off, they won't come cheap.
Tickets on SpaceShipTwo are priced at $200,000 per seat to start, which doesn't exactly make such trips accessible to everyday folks. Nonetheless, more than 380 customers have already put down deposits for their flights, with many more on the waiting list.
At $102,000 a pop, Armadillo Aerospace's flights will be a relative bargain. And as more suborbital flights take place in the future, the prices for all of them will come down, officials from numerous companies have said.
XCOR Aerospace's Lynx spacecraft is shown launching into space with a science payload on its dorsal side in this artist's illustration.
(Image credit: XCOR Aerospace)
Orbital trips
Another frontier for the new space race is orbital spaceflight. These trips, which would require a rocket to go high and fast enough to reach Earth orbit, are significantly tougher than suborbital trips, but could potentially offer more payoffs, such as extended stays at the International Space Station or maybe even the space hotel being developed by Las Vegas-based firm Bigelow Aerospace.
A number of commercial space companies are vying to provide such a service to paying passengers, as well as to NASA, which will be in the market for new transportation to low-Earth orbit after its three space shuttles retire this year. [10 Private Spaceships Headed for Reality]
A leader here is Hawthorne, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), which in October 2010 became the first private company to launch a space capsule to orbit and then recover it after landing.
"SpaceX achieved a very remarkable success," said former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman, who quit the space agency in March to join SpaceX as a senior engineer. "The booster performed very well and the spacecraft performed great. It orbited twice and splashed down within a mile of the designated target on the first try."
SpaceX has so far conducted only that one test flight of its Dragon vehicle, which flies atop the company's Falcon 9 rocket. But the test went off without a hitch, and the company hopes soon to convert the Dragon, currently outfitted to carry cargo, into a man-rated capsule capable of ferrying humans.
Others vying in the orbital space race include Sparks, Nev.-based Sierra Nevada, with the Dream Chaser spaceship, Orbital Sciences of Dulles, Va., with its Cygnus spacecraft, Chicago-based PlanetSpace, Inc., with its Silver Dart space plane, and Excalibur Almaz Limited, based in the Isle of Man, which is retrofitting old Soviet spaceships for new flights.
While we may be closer than ever to a new commercial space age, enthusiasm should be tempered with caution, Launius said, warning that this isn't the first time private companies have aimed to take over space.
"We've had these kinds of cycles in the past," Launius said. "In the 1990s, there was a whole series of these entrepreneurial firms that emerged that were going to try to do all these kinds of things. But they were never able to satisfy what they intended to satisfy."
Launius pointed to firms such as Rocketplane Kistler, which aimed to build a reusable orbital spacecraft to service the International Space Station, but went bankrupt in 2010, and Space Services, Inc., which developed the Conestoga rocket, but gave up on the vehicle after a Conestoga 1620 rocket exploded after liftoff in 1995. Many other failed rockets have taken similar paths over the years.
Time will tell if this time it works.
You can follow SPACE.com senior writer Clara Moskowitz on Twitter @ClaraMoskowitz. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
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Book of Magic
A Manual of Mysterious Magics!
By the Shining Sigil of Sirron! The Book of Magic is the complete Mutants & Masterminds sourcebook on the Arts Arcane, all that is magical and mysterious. It is a guide to comic book magic, providing everything players and Gamemasters need to run games based on magical comics ranging from light-hearted to dark post-modern and everything in-between.
The focus is on magical characters and settings, but with an eye towards integrating these characters and elements into a more general superhero series. In the pages of the Book of Magic you'll find:
* Six new hero archetypes and seven new villain archetypes, along with numerous supporting cast, minion, and creature archetypes, all ready for use; a complete cast of characters!
* Eleven styles of magic and dozens of spells and magical items for mystic heroes and villains, from the All-Revealing Light of Abbridon to Yig's Inexorable Transformation, from the Abyssal Trident to the Wishing Ring.
* The mystic secrets of the Freedom City setting, including cosmology, history, heroes, villains, creatures, magical items, and more! Plus eight mystic series frameworks to give you starting points for your own magical M&M game!
Plus a history of magic in comics, mystical dimensions, character creation, adventure creation, series advice, and more! Learn the secrets of superheroic sorcery from the Book of Magic and...
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Sharks open Western Conference Final with win; Couture, Meier each collect three points; Hurricanes look to pull even
THREE HARD LAPS: QUICK HITS FROM SATURDAY
* The Sharks opened the Western Conference Final in winning fashion and took a 1-0 series lead for the third time this postseason.
* Sharks forwards Logan Couture and Timo Meier each collected three points, while defensemen Brent Burns and Erik Karlsson both found the score sheet to join rare company.
* The Hurricanes look to pull even in the Eastern Conference Final when they take on the Bruins in Game 2 this afternoon.
COUTURE, MEIER HELP SHARKS TAKE 1-0 LEAD IN WESTERN CONFERENCE FINAL
Logan Couture and Timo Meier each collected 2-1—3 to help the Sharks open the Western Conference Final with a win. San Jose improved to 7-2 at SAP Center in the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs and moved within one home win of matching its franchise record for most in a postseason (8-4 in 2016).
* Couture scored his League-leading 10th and 11th goals of the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs (11-6—17 in 15 GP) and leapfrogged Bruins forward Brad Marchand (5-10—15 in 14 GP) for the most points among all players this postseason. Couture led the 2016 playoffs with 10-20—30 in 24 games, helping San Jose reach the Stanley Cup Final for the first time.
* Couture’s 11 goals are the second-most ever by a Sharks player in a playoff year, one more than he scored in 2016 and three shy of the franchise record set by captain Joe Pavelski in 2016 (14-9—23 in 24 GP). Couture became the sixth active NHL player to reach the 10-goal mark in multiple postseasons.
* Meier recorded his first career multi-goal game in the Stanley Cup Playoffs – scoring the winner in highlight-reel fashion – and posted his second three-point outing of the postseason. Meier led the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies to a QMJHL championship in 2015-16 before being named to the Memorial Cup All-Star Team. One of 13 Swiss players to skate in 2018-19, Meier helped his country win a silver medal at the 2018 IIHF World Championship.
VETERANS PAVELSKI, THORNTON CLIMB ALL-TIME LISTS
* Joe Pavelski (1-1—2) scored his 48th career goal in the Stanley Cup Playoffs to pass Chris Drury (47) for sole possession of sixth place on the NHL’s all-time list among players of U.S. nationality.
* Pavelski, who had two points in his return to the Sharks lineup in Game 7 of the Second Round, moved within one point of becoming the 97th player in NHL history to record 100 points in the Stanley Cup Playoffs (48-51—99 in 130 GP). Logan Couture, meanwhile, sits two points back of the benchmark (45-53—98 in 111 GP) while Bruins teammates David Krejci (36-62—98 in 122 GP) and Patrice Bergeron (37-58—95 in 126 GP) also are within striking distance.
* Joe Thornton (0-1—1) recorded the 1,608th point of his NHL career (regular season and playoffs combined) and tied Bryan Trottier for the 16th-highest such total in League history.
SHARKS TANDEM OF BURNS, KARLSSON CONTINUE TO FIND SCORE SHEET
Sharks teammates and former James Norris Memorial Trophy winners Brent Burns (5-10—15) and Erik Karlsson (0-13—13) each collected an assist on Saturday and have combined for 28 points through 15 games this postseason.
* Burns and Karlsson became the first defensive tandem to combine for 28 or more points through the first 15 team games in a postseason since 1995 when Detroit’s Paul Coffey (5-12—17 in 15 GP) and Nicklas Lidstrom (4-11—15 in 15 GP) did so. Coffey and Lidstrom finished that postseason with a combined 34 points as the Red Wings reached the Stanley Cup Final.
* Burns has 15 points through 15 playoff games for the second time in his career (also 2016). Only four other blueliners have done so in last 20 years: Dustin Byfuglien (5-10—15 in 2018), Kris Letang (3-13—16 in 2013), Lidstrom (4-13—17 in 2007) and Chris Pronger (4-11—15 in 2006).
* Burns became the seventh different defenseman in NHL history to record 15 or more points in a postseason at age 34 or older. He is the second to do so with the Sharks, following Dan Boyle in 2011 (4-12—16 in 18 GP). Burns set a franchise playoff record for points by a defenseman in 2016 (7-17—24 in 24 GP).
* After becoming the third defenseman in NHL history to lead his team in points for three consecutive campaigns (16-67—83 in 2018-19), Burns now sits at 98 points this season including the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs (21-77—98 in 97 GP). He can become the 10th different defenseman in NHL history to record 100 combined points in a season and first since 1993-94, when three blueliners did so: Brian Leetch (34-79—113 in 107 GP), Sergei Zubov (17-91—108 in 100 GP) and Ray Bourque (22-79—101 in 85 GP).
* Karlsson recorded his 50th career point in the Stanley Cup Playoffs (6-44—50 in 63 GP). He became the 16th defenseman in NHL history to record 50 points in 63 or fewer playoff games and first since Zubov in 1998 (59 GP).
* Did You Know? Burns and Karlsson were the ninth pair of defensemen to skate as teammates after winning the James Norris Memorial Trophy. Burns and Karlsson can become the fifth different set of Norris Trophy-winning teammates to capture at least one Stanley Cup; they would join Chris Chelios and Nicklas Lidstrom in 2002 and 2008 (w/ DET), Doug Harvey and Tom Johnson in 1960 (w/ MTL), Rob Blake and Ray Bourque in 2001 (w/ COL) as well as Scott Niedermayer and Chris Pronger in 2007 (w/ ANA).
HURRICANES EYE SPLIT IN BOSTON AS EASTERN CONFERENCE FINAL RESUMES
The Hurricanes and Bruins are set to square off in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final at TD Garden Sunday, after Boston stormed back in the third period to claim the series opener Thursday.
* There have been 71 instances in NHL history of a best-of-seven Conference Finals/Semifinals being tied 1-1, with the winner of Game 3 owning an all-time series record of 54-17 (76.1%).
* Carolina’s Sebastian Aho (5-5—10 in 12 GP) has a goal in each of his last three contests (3-2—5). Only two players in Hurricanes/Whalers franchise history have posted a longer goal streak in the playoffs: Bates Battaglia (2002: 4-4—8 in 4 GP) and Ray Sheppard (1999: 5-1—6 in 4 GP).
* The three forwards who won a Cup with Boston in 2011 – David Krejci, Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand – each found the score sheet in Game 1 to boost their career totals in the Conference Finals.
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COPS / Metro Alliance Highlights Impact of Anti-Immigrant Laws in Wake of US Supreme Court Hearings
"The archdiocesan Office of Life, Justice and Peace in partnership with Sacred Heart Church, Catholic Relief Services, Mexican American Catholic College and COPS / Metro, celebrated a Mass for Justice on April 25 renewing their commitment in raising awareness of the impact of Arizona immigration law SB1070....
After mass, Sacred Heart Parish sponsored an assembly on immigration to highlight the impact of anti-immigrant laws on families that create fear, vulnerable citizens and concerns of violations of human rights."
Archdiocese Joins in Nationwide Prayer for Justice at Sacred Heart, Today's Catholic
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Eyeing automotive machining applications in Taiwan
Source: Taiwantrade | Updated: 01 April 2019
It is impossible to write a comprehensive article that thoroughly covers all the new technology presented at a manufacturing trade show. Take, for example, the Taiwan International Machine Tool Show (TMTS) I attended last November in Taichung. TMTS is presented by the Taiwan Machine Tool and Accessory Builders’ Association (TMBA), and its location at the Taichung International Exhibition Center is close to many of the country’s machine tool builders.
Last year’s show drew more than 86,000 visitors, featured more than 4,000 booths, and took up more than 414,000 square feet of floor space. It included a range of new machine tool, cutting tool, workholding, software, automation and other manufacturing equipment offerings. Technology supporting Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) concepts was conspicuous there, too, demonstrating how disparate manufacturing elements can be connected to enable data sharing, collection and analysis so more informed decisions can be made on the shop floor. In fact, some of this I learned about during another recent Taichung trip to see machine builders YCM, Cosen, Goodway, Quaser, Tongtai and Fair Friend Group.
Knowing I had set up a side trip to visit to HOTA Industrial, a leading Taiwanese manufacturer of transmission gears and shafts for automobiles, trucks, motorcycles and agricultural equipment, I decided to focus on technology at TMTS that supports the automotive industry. In particular, that still will be required when production of conventional internal combustion engine vehicles gives way to electric vehicles (EV), such as shaft grinding, wheel manufacturing and gear machining. HOTA manufactures components for various EV OEMs and Tier One suppliers.
Machining Technology for EVs
According to the tracking website Inside EVs, an estimated 361,307 plug-in electric vehicles were sold in the United States in 2018, which is 81 percent higher than its estimated 2017 sales. This trend is likely to continue especially as governments continue pushing for their adoption. So, what does that mean for automotive suppliers? While components such as pistons, rods, crankshafts will eventually go away, production of other traditional vehicle components will still be required. Here are a few examples seen at TMTS that are well-suited for manufacturing these components.
Gear Machining
Tom Chen, HOFA director, says gear specifications for accuracy and surface finish quality for EV applications are tighter than louder internal combustion engine vehicles. This precision is required because gears for EV applications typically reach higher rotational speeds and must operate more quietly than conventional internal combustion engine vehicles, Mr. Chen notes. HOTA hobs its gears for EV applications and then heat treats, grinds and polishes them. The company achieves +/-4 microns tolerance on the gear profiles, he says. All of these processes are performed in-house, and the company uses high-speed Reishauer machines for grinding operations.
In addition to producing gears, HOTA also manufactures and sells the Hartech brand of CNC gear hobbing, shaving and deburring machines. The company had developed these machines for its gear-production business, but established its Hartech machinery division in 2005 to offer that equipment to other gear manufacturers. The six-axis Hartech HGH 80 high-speed gear hobbing machine displayed at TMTS accommodates workpieces with diameters ranging to 80 mm and hob tools as long as 130 mm. The machine also includes sensors to compensate for any thermal growth of its structural components and is available in larger 150- and 250-mm models. The HGH 80 at the show featured a gantry loader and in-feed and out-feed parts conveyors. In fact, every HGH machine in HOTA’s main production facility is similarly automated.
Wheel Manufacturing
The photo in the gallery above shows an interesting application of wheel machining on a Pinnacle BX700T five-axis machine seen at TMTS. This machine features an integral C-axis rotary table that is flush with the main table. Combined with a B-axis milling head, the rotary table enables full five-axis machining for applications such as wheel production. The rotary table can be indexed so its T-slots align with the T-slots in the main table to enable large parts to be fixtured on the machine.
In addition, Femco displayed an automated aluminum wheel machining cell that includes two CNC milling machines, a horizontal turning center, workpiece cleaning, laser marking for traceability, and a real-time vision system for statistical process control and machining optimization. Finish machining in this cell is performed using diamond cutting tools from Ceratizit.
Shaft Grinding
In-process measurement is becoming more common in shaft grinding operations for process control. For example, the Goodway GRA-2060 angular cylindrical grinding machine at TMTS had a touch probe to measure ground features and adjust machine parameters accordingly. In addition, its grinding wheel spindle features a hydrostatic bearing, which is said to help ensure operational stability while minimizing thermal growth. The machine’s X axis is hand scraped and features a V-shape design. Both the X- and – and Z-axis ways feature hydrostatic lubrication for smooth motion.
Similarly, the Equiptop ECG-3540 cylindrical grinding machine from Fair Friend Group features Marposs touch-probe and P3SE acoustic monitoring technology for process monitoring and control. The PS3E system uses acoustic emission sensors installed on the machine that detect ultrasonic sound waves emitted when the grinding wheel contacts a part or the dressing wheel, and send that information to the control unit. Monitoring the sound waves and comparing them with reference values enables operators to better control the grinding and dressing processes. During dressing, a varying acoustic response when the dresser touches the wheel signifies irregularities on the wheel surface. (The P3SE system can detect variations of less 0.5 micron on a wheel’s surface.) After the dressing is completed, a steady acoustic signature signifies that the wheel is uniform and ready to grind. By quantifying the grinding machine’s characteristics, it becomes simpler to evaluate changes such as different grinding wheel materials or operating parameters, the company says.
(Blog post by Derek Korn, Executive Editor, Modern Machine Shop)
Source: TWMT
Nina Lin (ninalin@taitra.org.tw)
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OIC warns of rising hate speech in Sri Lanka
OIC warns of rising hate speech in Sri Lanka | Tamil Guardian
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) warned that it had been “monitoring closely the situation of Muslims in Sri Lanka” and that it was concerned over “the rise in incidents of intimidation, anti-Muslim rhetoric and hate speech” on the island.
“The OIC reiterates the call on the authorities in Sri Lanka to counter firmly the spread of rhetoric of hatred and intolerance, while ensuring the security and safety of the Muslim community in that country,” it said in a statement released on Wednesday.
The OIC, which consists of 57 member states, acknowledged that Sri Lanka’s president and prime minister had met with ambassadors in Colombo and said it “appreciates the recent efforts” but warned that there must be “proactive measures to promote dialogue, peace and harmony among all communities”.
“Muslims represent an important and active community, which contributes positively to the cultural and economic life of Sri Lanka as a whole,” it added.
See more from the OIC here.
The statement from the organisation comes amidst rising anti-Muslim incidents on the island, with reports of violence, harassment and intimidation. This week, Human Rights Watch warned that Muslims faced the threats of attacks and further violence, and Muslims stores remained shut in Kandy this weekend as Sinhala Buddhist monks from the extremist Bodu Bala Sean group gathered to meet in the town.
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Presidential Commission chair dismisses CPA criticism
Presidential Commission chair dismisses CPA criticism | Tamil Guardian
The chair of the Presidential Commission into missing persons, Maxwell Parakrama Paranagama, has dismissed criticism by the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) of translators used, as "not matters to make such a big issue about".
“My translator is a retired parliament translator and the other person is from the Legal Aid Commission, and both of them were translating. Of course they might have missed certain words but I don’t think that would make such a huge impact. These translators work from morning till evening and even if there are a few errors, these could be corrected and these are not matters to make such a big issue about. We are so transparent and as these parties cannot find any other mistake or shortcoming, they now have brought up the minor issues in the translators,” Paranagama told the Sunday Leader.
“Although the CPA had made these allegations, so far no one has complained to us that they were intimidated or threatened by the security forces in any way," he said, adding that the CPA "just want to find fault with everything that is done and undermine the government’s efforts."
On Thursday, the CPA expressed concern over the credibility of the Commission, arguing that its translations of witness statements were inaccurate and many of the questions were misleading. See here for more.
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Morrisons to cut prices on more than 1,000 items as supermarket war intensifies
Big four supermarket Morrisons is to cut prices on more than 1,000 items, as it looks to win back customers in the heated supermarket price war.
The supermarket giant is to cut the price of 1,072 items with many of the reductions on fresh food, such as fruit and vegetable.
David Potts, chief executive of Morrisons, said: “We are cutting the prices of products that customers will welcome being cheaper at Morrisons and we are cutting every penny we can.
“We continue to listen carefully to customers and they have told us they want lower prices, particularly on fresh food and everyday essentials. As we improve our customers’ shopping trip we are becoming more competitive with our own distinct set of prices.”
The price cuts will be accompanied by a marketing campaign called “Price Crunch” which will communicate the lower prices to customers through external and in-store advertising.
Price Crunch will be a rolling programme of lower prices, typically lasting a minimum of three months.
The grocer said on average it cut prices by 19 per cent on fruit and veg last week.
Morrisons said it will be using its extensive food manufacturing business to keep prices down.
Over the past few years the big four supermarkets - Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons - have struggled against the rise of German discounters Aldi and Lidl.
The German discounters are thrashing their British counterparts with sales growth of 18.5 per cent and 13.3 per cent respectively, with their combined market share up from 8.3per cent last year to 9.7 per cent.
Dalton Philips was sacked as chief executive of Morrisons in February 2015 and replaced by former Tesco boss Mr Potts, as disgruntled shoppers headed for Aldi and Lidl.
But there have been signs of recovery at Morrisons under the leadership of Mr Potts, despite being relegated from the FTSE 100 in December.
Earlier in January Morrisons cheered investors with a surprise rise in sales over the festive period, ending three years of decline.
Like-for-like sales rose 0.5 per cent in the six weeks to January 3, a far better performance than last year’s 3.1 percent decline
Mr Potts said: “We are on a long journey to lead the revival of this great company. We are the small guy in the squeezed middle. We are the British underdog.”
Roger Owen, former property director at Morrisons, said: “I’ve likened Morrisons to a supertanker heading for an iceberg and before you turn anything like that around you’ve got to stop it. David Potts is doing a good job of just that.”
He praised Potts for putting more resources into the stores.
But the former property director added: “Personally, I think he needs to put a bit more in because product availability on the shelves in the stores is still not as good as it ought to be, but it’s a lot better than it was when that ‘wrecking ball’ called Dalton Phillips was in charge.
“He needs to put more people into the stores to get them filled up, keep them filled up and keep the customers happy.”
Morrisons has already shut 21 unprofitable stores and sold its 140-strong M Local convenience estate.
“This is the end of the programme of store closures. We are drawing a line under that phase of recovery,” said Mr Potts.
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PSG insist Madrid target Mbappe is staying put after his comments about future
The France star raised eyebrows by saying he could seek greater responsibility ‘elsewhere’.
By The42 Team Monday 20 May 2019, 8:42 PM
May 20th 2019, 8:42 PM 3,216 Views 3 Comments
'That same story will continue next season.'
PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN HAVE issued a response to Kylian Mbappe’s comments about his future by assuring he will remain with the club next season.
Mbappe raised eyebrows after accepting the awards for Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year and Player of the Year when he told reporters he had reached a “turning point” in his career.
The 20-year-old forward claimed to want greater responsibility in the future, but admitted it could come at PSG or “elsewhere for a new project.”
However, PSG have reacted strongly to the attacker’s comments and declared Mbappe will remain with the club next season in order to potentially make the club’s 50th anniversary a campaign to remember.
“Strong links have united PSG and Kylian Mbappe for two years and that same story will continue next season,” PSG wrote in a statement published on social media.
“With a shared ambition to mark history in European football, after 50 years since PSG was founded, we have a chance to write a big page in history together and each major player will have to play his part, always working for the team.”
Source: PSG Twitter.
Mbappe emerged as one of Europe’s brightest talents during Monaco’s surprising run to the Ligue 1 title and Champions League semi-finals in 2016-17.
But his star has only grown brighter in the two seasons since, as he starred for both club and country.
After a reported €180 million (£158m/$201m) move to PSG, Mbappe scored 13 goals in Ligue 1 in 2017-18 to help the club back to the domestic title though they again suffered disappointment in Europe with a defeat to Real Madrid in the Champions League.
During the summer, Mbappe was an integral part of France’s squad as they won their second World Cup, with the youngster taking home the tournament’s award for best young player.
Mbappe carried his brilliant form in Russia over to league play this year, exploding for 32 goals in Ligue 1, finishing as the top scorer by 10 goals over second-placed Nicolas Pepe.
In the process, Mbappe earned himself the inaugural Kopa Trophy for best player age 21 or younger as well as impressive fourth-placed finish in the 2018 Ballon d’Or.
His success as seen him reportedly draw the interest of many of Europe’s other top sides, with Real Madrid, coached by France legend Zinedine Zidane, as a often-discussed landing spot.
Such speculation only has grown more fervent with his comments on Sunday, after PSG again suffered disappointment in Europe this year, falling to Manchester United in the Champions League last-16, despite an Mbappe brace at Old Trafford.
The club also suffered domestically as well, as while they were able to retain their Ligue 1 crown, they met defeat in both the Coupe de la Ligue and the Coupe de France.
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Miss Jean Batten
By Phil Ormsby
With Alex Ormsby
A Flaxworks Theatre production
Kavanagh Auditorium
THE POWERFUL TALE OF AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN PURSUING HER AMBITION AGAINST THE ODDS
Tempestuous, inspirational, exploitative and utterly fearless – Pioneer aviator Jean Batten was the very model of a strong New Zealand woman.
The legend that is Jean Batten is fascinating and powerful. Cool, glamorous and utterly fearless, the flight of the great aviatrix from England to New Zealand in a single engine plane made of wood and fabric, navigating with just a compass and a watch, and setting a world record that stood for 44 years, is one of the extraordinary feats of the last century.
Miss Jean Batten is set in the VIP Suite of the Hotel Australia, Sydney, on the eve of the last leg of her historic flight to New Zealand. Fatigued and anxious to keep going, she is juggling numerous distractions, while last minute attempts are being made to prevent her from flying at all. New Zealand actor Alex Ellis embodies Jean Batten in this solo performance.
Fri 21 Sep 7:30 pm Kavanagh Auditorium Dunedin
Sat 22 Sep 7:30 pm Kavanagh Auditorium Dunedin
“a star performance, one that the legendary JEAN BATTEN more than deserves.”
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PH offers 8-year euro-denominated global bonds
THE Philippines successfully returned to the international capital markets with its offering of euro 750 million of eight-year global bonds.
The bonds are expected to be rated Baa2 by Moody’s, BBB+ by Standard & Poor’s, and BBB by Fitch, the Department of Finance said in a statement. The notes are expected to settle on May 17, 2019.
The issuance marks the Philippines’ return to the European capital markets after more than a decade.
By geographical allocation, 24 percent of the bonds were allocated to Germany, 15 percent to Italy, 10 percent to the UK, 26 percent to the rest of Europe, nine percent to the US, six percent to the Philippines, five percent to the rest of Asia, and the remaining five percent to other countries.
In terms of investor type, 59 percent went to fund managers, 24 percent went to banks and corporates, 11 percent went to insurance, pension funds, and official institutions, and the remaining six percent went to other types of investors.
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said: “This successful transaction is a testament to the international investor community’s vote of confidence in the country’s strong macroeconomic fundamentals and sustained high growth prospects despite global financial headwinds.”
Dominguez pointed out that following its successful float of bonds in China and Japan, the government has now issued global bonds in Europe as part of its efforts to diversify funding sources for its aggressive investments in infrastructure and human capital development.
Proceeds of the issuance will be used for the country’s general government purposes, including budgetary support.
National Treasurer Rosalia de Leon said: “The Philippines garnered outstanding support from high quality accounts with a large orderbook allowing us to increase our base offering size from euro 500 million to euro 750 million. The successful transaction allowed us to diversify our funding program to support productive spending for infrastructure and social services.”
Deutsche Bank and UBS acted as joint global coordinators, while BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse and Standard Chartered Bank acted as joint bookrunners for the transaction. (PR)
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People sit along the Stanley Park seawall as others fish in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday, August 25, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Vancouver Park Board considers motion to identify, recognize First Nation names
The name of Vancouver’s Stanley Park may be up for debate as the city’s park board confronts its colonial past and pursues reconciliation.
Sep. 13, 2018 11:20 a.m.
A motion before the Vancouver Park Board could mark the next step toward reconciliation with three Vancouver-area First Nations.
Commissioners are scheduled to vote Monday on a proposal that would recognize and acknowledge traditional places and names within Vancouver park boundaries.
The commissioner behind the motion, Stuart Mackinnon, says it asks the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh to identify traditional names of places, such as those along Burrard Inlet or within Stanley Park.
He says the board would then recognize the names and locations and work towards reflecting them in the city’s public spaces.
Mackinnon says the motion is not about renaming locations such as Vancouver’s Stanley Park, instead it celebrates the rich language and culture of the region’s original inhabitants and offers the chance to share place names from their oral and written history.
A motion for a colonial audit, examining how colonialism was entrenched in park board operations, passed unanimously earlier this year and Mackinnon says he’s hoping the latest proposal will see the same outcome.
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Posted on February 7, 2019 by JOSHUA BROWN
Tipp keeps its cool vs. Troy
Red Devils finish sweep of Trojans, 46-32
Lee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Tippecanoe’s Kendall Clodfelter is fouled by Troy’s Tia Bass while going to the basket Wednesday at Tippecanoe High School.
Lee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Troy’s Lauren McGraw drives around Tippecanoe’s Rachel Wildermuth Wednesday.
Lee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Tippecanoe’s Ashleigh Mader lines up a 3-pointer Wednesday against Troy.
Lee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Troy’s Macie Taylor hits a 3-pointer Wednesday against Tippecanoe.
Lee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Tippecanoe’s Brooke Aselage scores in front of Troy’s Laura Borchers Wednesday.
Lee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Troy’s Morgan Kaiser controls the basketball Wednesday against Tippecanoe.
Lee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Tippecanoe’s Mackenzie Smith drives around Troy’s Lauren McGraw Wednesday.
Lee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Troy’s MaKenna Taylor drives to the basket Wednesday against Tippecanoe.
Lee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Troy’s Tia Bass scores in the paint as Tippecanoe’s Katie Salyer defends Wednesday.
Lee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Tippecanoe’s Kendall Clodfelter scores on a fast break Wednesday against Troy.
TIPP CITY — While being capable of playing at a fast pace, the Tippecanoe girls basketball team knows how to keep its cool and slow things down when need be.
Troy, another young team, is still learning that lesson.
Tippecanoe — which had already clinched its third straight Greater Western Ohio Conference American North Division title — looked polished and composed during a rivalry matchup against Troy, forcing the Trojans to play in a hurry and make mistakes then capitalizing on those miscues in a 46-32 victory Wednesday night at Tippecanoe High School, the Red Devils’ fifth straight.
And even though the stakes were low — Tippecanoe’s 39-game division winning streak had already come to an end at the hands of Trotwood on Jan. 24, but the Devils (16-5, 13-1 GWOC American North) still wrapped up the outright title last week before the sectional tournament draw, which is also already set in stone — the play was no less fierce than the first meeting between the teams this year, a hard-fought 45-43 win by Tippecanoe on Dec. 15, 2018 at Troy.
This time, though, the Devils’ maturity and skill on defense after 21 games made the difference.
“We knew they had two good guards and a good post, and at this point in the season, you’ve got to be able to take things away from people,” Tippecanoe coach Andy Holderman said. “The first time we played them, we just let them do their thing. Tonight with trying to get the ball out of their hands with the double-team and denying it back, I think we did a pretty good job on them defensively tonight.”
And offensively, the Devils showed they’d learned their lesson from that 37-35 loss to Trotwood — which is also a potential tournament matchup for fourth-seeded Tippecanoe in the second round of the tournament after its first-round bye.
“Obviously, teams are going to try to speed you up, and you’ve want to keep from going 100 miles per hour,” Holderman said. “You may have to speed up a little bit, but you also have to slow yourself down. Teams like Trotwood try to get you sped up and get you to take hurried shots and get you to do things you’re not comfortable doing. As we mature, I think we’re starting to now realize that we need to play our game, back it back out, take our time and do our thing and we’ll get a good look.”
It’s a lesson that Troy (13-7, 9-5 GWOC American North) learned the hard way Wednesday night.
“We are just in a big rush. We played at 100 miles per hour, and we needed to play at about 35,” Troy coach Aaron Johnson said. “It’s not from a lack of wanting to do well, either. It’s just a little bit of composure, definitely a lack of experience and understanding that desire to make plays can still be done at 35 miles per hour. We made an average of two to three passes per possession, if that, while Tipp made 12 and ended with layups.
“That experience that Tipp has and the maturity of that team, we’re not at that point yet. We have moments, but we just don’t have that consistency.”
A lot of that had to do with the Devils’ defense, though, which forced 14 turnovers and twice as many of those fast, ill-advised shots that came too early in possessions.
“Again, I want to give credit to Tipp. It’s not like we beat ourselves — they beat us,” Johnson said. “Their ball pressure (sped us up) all night. Defensively, they were able to totally get us out of rhythm and out of sync, and we got frustrated with that. We talked before the game about time of possession, about how our best defense was going to be our offense, but if you charted time of possession tonight, we probably had seven minutes and they probably had 25. That’s one of the things we’re trying to do a better job of, playing possession basketball. And we’re just not there yet.”
Troy actually held a 7-5 lead late in the first after a Tia Bass putback, but Ashleigh Mader hit her second 3 of the opening quarter to give the lead back to the Devils and kick off what ended up being a 13-0 run that put Tippecanoe up 18-7 midway through the second. Macie Taylor hit a pair of 3s, though, including a half-court buzzer beater to get Troy back to within 25-16 at halftime.
Troy got as close as seven points at 27-20, but Kendall Clodfelter stole the ball and dished to Katie Salyer for a fast-break finish, then Clodfelter set up another 3 by Mader after a lengthy possession to make it a 12-point game, and the Devils led 35-24 after three — and 12 was as close as Troy got from there.
“That’s something we’re focusing on against zones, taking our time with it and passing the ball. That’s how you beat zones — get the ball moving,” Holderman said. “We always tell the girls that if you’re open and in rhythm and on balance when you catch the ball, you need to shoot it. We had a couple different people step up tonight, and we got some inside buckets, too. If you can score from inside-out, life’s good for you. And we took care of business on the defensive end tonight, too. The last two games, I think we’ve played our best defensively, and hopefully we can continue to do that.”
Mader led all scorers with 16 points for the Devils, hitting four 3s, while Clodfelter added 14 points and seven assists. Brooke Aselage added six points and eight rebounds, helping Tippecanoe outrebound Troy 30-24 on the night, Salyer added four points and four rebounds, Rachel Wildermuth had four points and Jillian Brown had two points and four rebounds.
Macie Taylor had 12 points and five rebounds and Bass added 10 points and eight rebounds to lead the way for Troy. Morgan Kaiser scored four points, Laura Borchers and Lauren McGraw each had two points and four rebounds and MaKenna Taylor had two points.
“I think we can play with anybody, but we’re not going to win games in spurts,” Johnson said. “We have to put together all four quarters. And against a team the quality of Tipp, we definitely have to play 32 minutes of solid, quality basketball. I think we were just trying too hard. We’ve got to watch this tape, see the difference between the two teams, see the pace at which they played and watch how we were a little too fast and sometimes a little too erratic.”
Troy returns home Saturday to face rival Piqua before traveling to Covington Monday to finish the regular season. Tippecanoe, meanwhile, closes out the regular season at home against Butler Saturday.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2019/02/web1_020619lw_tipp_clodfelter_troy_bass.jpgLee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Tippecanoe’s Kendall Clodfelter is fouled by Troy’s Tia Bass while going to the basket Wednesday at Tippecanoe High School.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2019/02/web1_020619lw_troy_mcgraw_tipp_wildermuth.jpgLee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Troy’s Lauren McGraw drives around Tippecanoe’s Rachel Wildermuth Wednesday.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2019/02/web1_020619lw_tipp_ashleighmader.jpgLee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Tippecanoe’s Ashleigh Mader lines up a 3-pointer Wednesday against Troy.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2019/02/web1_020619lw_troy_macietaylor.jpgLee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Troy’s Macie Taylor hits a 3-pointer Wednesday against Tippecanoe.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2019/02/web1_020619lw_tipp_aselage_troy_borchers.jpgLee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Tippecanoe’s Brooke Aselage scores in front of Troy’s Laura Borchers Wednesday.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2019/02/web1_020619lw_troy_morgankaiser.jpgLee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Troy’s Morgan Kaiser controls the basketball Wednesday against Tippecanoe.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2019/02/web1_020619lw_tipp_smith_troy_mcgraw.jpgLee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Tippecanoe’s Mackenzie Smith drives around Troy’s Lauren McGraw Wednesday.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2019/02/web1_020619lw_troy_makennataylor.jpgLee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Troy’s MaKenna Taylor drives to the basket Wednesday against Tippecanoe.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2019/02/web1_020619lw_troy_bass_tipp_salyer.jpgLee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Troy’s Tia Bass scores in the paint as Tippecanoe’s Katie Salyer defends Wednesday.
https://www.tdn-net.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2019/02/web1_020619lw_tipp_clodfelter_troy_borchers.jpgLee Woolery|Miami Valley Today Tippecanoe’s Kendall Clodfelter scores on a fast break Wednesday against Troy.
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BlackBerry KEYone, the ‘Last Smartphone Designed by BlackBerry’, Launched at MWC 2017 for $549
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Ahead of the official commencement of MWC 2017, the BlackBerry KEYone – the “last phone designed and engineered in-house by BlackBerry” – was launched by the Canadian company. The new BlackBerry KEYone sports the physical keyboard that once made the company an icon, albeit with several major upgrades. BlackBerry’s latest smartphone becomes available beginning April 2017 and will be priced at $549 (roughly Rs. 38,600) in the US, GBP 499 (roughly Rs. 41,400) in the UK, and EUR 599 (roughly Rs. 42,100) in Europe.
The Canadian company in September announced its decision to end smartphone design and production, and instead license the brand to partners such as TCL.
BlackBerry KEYone Keyboard
BlackBerry is touting KEYone’s Smart Keyboard, which has a fingerprint sensor on the spacebar as well as capacitive touch on the entire keyboard for scrolling. You can ‘Flick’ predictions using the BlackBerry KEYone keyboard, and also assign shortcuts to keys (such as press B for browser) for use with a press or a long-press.
BlackBerry KEYone Software Features
The new BlackBerry KEYone runs Android 7.1 Nougat software with the company’s numerous productivity and security optimisations on top, such as the BlackBerry Hub and DTEK security monitoring app.
BlackBerry KEYone Hardware Specifications
Coming to BlackBerry KEYone specifications, the smartphone sports a 4.5-inch full-HD (1620×1080 pixels) IPS display with a pixel density of 433ppi and Corning Gorilla Glass 4. The phone gets additional durability with its aluminium frame. The all-new BlackBerry KEYone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 octa-core SoC clocked at 2GHz, coupled with 3GB of RAM and an Adreno 506 GPU.
As for the camera, BlackBerry KEYone bears a 12-megapixel rear camera with a Sony IMX378 sensor – the same acclaimed sensor as the one on the Google Pixel – that has 1.55-micron pixels. For imaging, this smartphone also bears an 8-megapixel front facing camera with a wide-angle lens and a flash module.
BlackBerry KEYone offers 32GB of inbuilt storage that is expandable via microSD card (up to 2TB). The new KEYone comes with standard set of connectivity options, including 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth v4.2, NFC, 3.5mm headphone jack, and a USB Type-C port. It runs on a 3505mAh battery that’s said to give all-day battery life and support QuickCharge 3.0 with a ‘Boost’ charging feature that gives 50 percent charge in “roughly 36 minutes.”
Announcing the KEYone, BlackBerry on its blog said, “KEYone pairs the best of BlackBerry software and security with TCL’s commitment to delivering high-quality, reliable smartphones to markets around the world. And we are very enthusiastic about how our long-term partnerships with TCL and our other partners, BB Merah Putih in Indonesia and Optiemus for the Indian sub-continent, will ensure availability of BlackBerry-branded smartphones to every corner of the world.”
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Svitolina, Zverev shocked in Rome as Serena withdraws
Rome - Two-time women's holder Elina Svitolina crashed out of the WTA and ATP Italian Open on Tuesday along with Germany's Alexander Zverev as Serena Williams's return to the courts was short lived with her knee injury flaring up to force the American star out of the final warm-up before the French Open in two weeks times.
Svitolina - who had a first round bye as fifth seed - held a match point at 5-2 in the third set before slumping 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 to Belarusian Victoria Azarenka in a 2hr 14min battle at the Foro Italico which was twice interrupted because of rain.
Serena earlier announced she was withdrawing having just returned after two months out injured, before she was due to play her older sister Venus for the first time in 21 years in Rome.
The 37-year-old had eased past Sweden's Rebecca Peterson in her first round match on Monday, but a day later could not continue "due to pain in my left knee".
"I'll be concentrating on rehab and look forward to seeing you all at the French Open and next year in Rome," Serena said in a statement.
Her withdrawal sends Venus, the 1999 winner, through to a third round meeting with either Britain's Johanna Konta or US seventh seed Sloane Stephens.
There are now doubts whether Serena can target a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title in Paris, having played just nine matches this year, and one on clay.
Her last Grand Slam singles title was won at the Australian Open in 2017, where she was pregnant, breaking a tie with Steffi Graf for the most, and she is just one short of Margaret Court.
The three-time French Open winner revealed getting back to fitness has been tougher than she had expected.
"I haven't been able to train or practice a lot, I was out much longer than I expected," she explained.
"I feel like I'm taking it one day at a time."
Nevertheless, last year she arrived at Roland Garros without any clay-court warm-up and still reached the last 16 before retiring before her match against Maria Sharapova, also because of injury.
Svitolina and Azarenka battled late into the night at the Foro Italico before former two-time Australian Open winner Azarenka won through.
Svitolina came back after the rain break to drop the second set but rolled off the first three games in the third, before being broken when serving for the match at 5-2 in the third set.
Azarenka saved match point and took the next game for love, rolling off five in a row to set up a meeting former French Open winner Garbine Muguruza or Danielle Collins for a place in the third round.
Collins advanced past former world number one Caroline Wozniacki who retired with a lower leg injury, after losing the first set 7-6 (7/5).
Czech fourth seed Karolina Pliskova eased through to the third round along with Australian Ashleigh Barty, the eighth seed.
In the men's competition, world number five Zverev, the 2017 winner and runner-up to Novak Djokovic last year in Rome, extended his terrible clay-court run, falling 7-5, 7-5 to Italian wild card Matteo Berrettini in the second round.
"The match that I played was horrendous," said Zverev, who has won just four matches on clay this season, including a run to the quarter-final of the Madrid Open where he was the defending champion.
"I've lost my voice screaming, I'm overjoyed. This is a victory that charges me," said 33rd-ranked Berrettini.
Belgian David Goffin rallied from a set down to beat former French Open champion Stan Wawrinka 4-6, 6-0, 6-2 to set up a meeting with Argentine seventh seed Juan Martin Del Potro for a place in the third round.
Ninth seed Marin Cilic beat Italian wild card Andrea Basso 6-1, 7-5 as Australian Nick Kyrgios struck 15 aces and 41 winners to get past Russian 12th seed Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.
"I knew it was going to be tough today because I haven't played much on clay," said Kyrios, who next plays Norwegian qualifier Casper Ruud.
Portugal's Joao Sousa saved four match points in the deciding set to battle past American Frances Tiafoe 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 7-6 (7/4).
Sousa, who also trailed 1/4 in the deciding set tie-break, will play third seed Roger Federer in the second round.
Eight-time Rome winner Rafael Nadal will start his tournament against Jeremy Chardy on Wednesday, after the Frenchman beat compatriot Richard Gasquet 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 in a match suspended overnight on Monday.
Results from the ATP and WTA Italian Open tournaments in Rome on Tuesday (x denotes seeding):
Mihaela Buzarnescu (ROM) bt Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) 6-2, 5-4 retired
Julia Goerges (GER x16) bt Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) 6-3, 6-4
Alize Cornet (FRA) bt Aryna Sabalenka (BLR x9) 6-1, 6-4
Carla Suarez (ESP) bt Dayana Yastremska (UKR) 6-4, 1-6, 6-3
Marketa Vondrousova (CZE) bt Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/4)
Darya Kasatkina (RUS) bt Irina Begu (ROM) 6-2, 7-6 (7/5)
Danielle Collins (USA) bt Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x11) 7-6 (7/5), 0-0 retired
Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) bt Caroline Garcia (FRA) 6-1, 6-2
Belinda Bencic (SUI) bt Anastasija Sevastova (LAT x12) 2-6, 6-3, 6-2
Maria Sakkari (GRE) bt Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 6-1, 7-5
Victoria Azarenka (BLR) bt Elina Svitolina (UKR x5) 4-6, 6-1, 7-5
Karolina Pliskova (CZE x4) bt Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) 6-3, 6-3
Ashleigh Barty (AUS x8) bt Viktoria Kuzmova (SVK) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
Nick Kyrgios (AUS) bt Daniil Medvedev (RUS x12) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
David Goffin (BEL) bt Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI) 4-6, 6-0, 6-2
Diego Schwartzman (ARG) bt Yoshihito Nishioka (JPN) 6-1, 6-4
Marin Cilic (CRO x9) bt Andrea Basso (ITA) 6-1, 7-5
Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) bt Grigor Dimitrov (BUL) 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 6-3
Taylor Fritz (USA) bt Guido Pella (ARG) 6-3, 6-4
Radu Albot (MDA) bt Benoit Paire (FRA) 6-3, 6-2
Joao Sousa (POR) bt Frances Tiafoe (USA) 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 7-6 (7/4)
Jeremy Chardy (FRA) bt Richard Gasquet (FRA) 6-1, 4-6, 6-3
Matteo Berrettini (ITA) bt Alexander Zverev (GER x4) 7-5, 7-5
Borna Coric (CRO x13) bt Cameron Norrie (GBR) 6-2, 6-2
Karen Khachanov (RUS x11) bt Roberto Bautista (ESP) 5-7, 6-4, 6-2
Nikoloz Basilashvili (GEO x14) bt Laslo Djere (SRB) 7-5, 6-4
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What Would a Business Robot Do?
July 23, 2010 /1 Comment/in Practices for Professionals /by Michael Neill+
There is an old joke about a man who goes to his neighbor’s house to borrow a lawnmower. On the way, he thinks about all the reasons his neighbor might say no to his request, and gets angrier and angrier as he listens to the imaginary argument in his head. When he finally gets to his neighbor’s house, he rings the doorbell, waits for the neighbor to answer, and shouts, “Keep your [email protected]#n lawnmower you ungrateful @#$%^&*!”
Most of us become aware, at some point in our lives, of the price we pay for cutting ourselves off from our feelings. Like a river flowing against a dam, the more we resist feeling what we feel, the stronger those feelings can get. But what many people also fail to notice is how these repressed feelings and emotions get in the way of making sound business decisions.
Emma was struggling to keep her home-based business alive after about a year of very hard work and very limited profits. When she hired me to help her turn things around (or help her make peace with letting the business go), the first thing I did was introduce her to a thinking tool I use with many of my clients:
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The Ladder of Commitment
May 24, 2010 /0 Comments/in Management & Leadership /by Michael Neill+
Are you going to achieve your most important targets for the coming year?
Your answer to that question can reveal a lot about where you are on what I call “the Ladder of Commitment “, and is generally highly predictive of how far you’ll go in your pursuit of success.
Here’s a quick look at that ladder from the bottom up, along with what may be a surprising conclusion about what it really takes to reach your targets, in business and in life…
1. Helplessness
Years ago, scientists did an experiment on lab rats that involved dividing a metal cage into four sections and placing electrical current underneath each section. When a section of the cage was filled with live current, the rat would receive a small shock if stepping into that part of the cage. Quickly, the rat would learn to avoid that section.
Over time, each section of the cage was electrified in turn, leaving only one quadrant of the cage as a ‘safe haven’ for our experimental rat.
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Duff Drops Restraining Order Against Alleged Stalker
12/19/2006 3:35 PM PT
Former couple Hilary Duff and Joel Madden have decided to drop their temporary restraining orders against one of two of their alleged stalkers.
TMZ obtained documents filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court by the star duo's lawyers, which requests a dismissal of the restraining orders against celebrity photographer David Joseph Klein.
In October, Duff and Madden filed temporary restraining orders against Klein and his roommate Maksim Miakovsky, an 18-year-old Russian emigre. The former couple feared for their safety and requested that a judge order the alleged stalkers to stay at least 100 yards away from Duff, her sister Haylie, Madden and his twin brother Benji.
In November, Miakovsky was arrested and booked on charges of making criminal threats and stalking Duff. He remains behind bars.
Since their breakup last month, Madden has been linked with Nicole Richie. It is believed that Nicole was at his home on the night of her drugged-up wrong-way freeway adventure.
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Mazda revamps the MX-5
The first-generation MX-5 single-handedly revived the joy of open-top motoring as the car harked back to the small British roadsters of the 1960s.
by Patrick Everett Tadeo | Jul 5, 2009
The first-generation MX-5 single-handedly revived the joy of open-top motoring as the car harked back to the small British roadsters of the 1960s. These days, and the MX-5 is still going strong, albeit in an all-new platform with an even more powerful engine.
Launched in 2006, the look of the third-generation MX-5 is refreshed to keep it up-to-date with Mazda's current design theme.
"The New Mazda MX-5 Retractable Hard Top (RHT) is the epitome of Mazda's stylish, innovative brand essence and the realization of Zoom-Zoom spirit Mazda is known for," Mazda Philippines brand manager Prudz Castillo said.
Up front, a larger five-point grille and a bigger Mazda badge give the MX-5 a more aggressive look, true to its sporting nature. To emphasize this further, Mazda gave the MX-5 sharper-looking headlamps with just as edgy fog lamps and side markers.
Take a peek at the MX-5's rear end and it will be hard to miss the new combination lamps with new U-shaped reflectors, red surrounding lens and red brake lamp lens that give the MX-5 a wider, sportier look.
Wrapping up the MX-5's new look are the clear, high-mount stop lamp lens, the wider front tire deflectors, and the new 17-inch, 10-spoke alloy wheels.
The same 2.0L MZR engine powers a six-speed manual transmission MX-5, offering 166hp and 190Nm of torque on tap.
Drawing inspiration from the classic roadsters, the Mazda MX-5 also sports a meter cluster that incorporates five meters with individual lenses. To stay true to the times, the MX-5 also comes with an auxiliary jack to hook up your digital audio player to the car's premium Bose sound system equipped with seven speakers and 6-channel digital amplifiers.
For those who get a kick out of an engine's sportier sound, the Mazda MX-5 has developed the Induction Sound Enhancer (ISE). According to Mazda, the ISE "amplifies the pulses that occur when an accelerator input opens the throttle valve to increase air low into the engine, thereby delivering a more exciting sound to the cockpit." With the resulting intake sound created by the ISE, "the driver enjoys a crisp, thrilling engine sound even when using the accelerator pedal gently to adjust the revs for a downshift."
The refreshed Mazda MX-5 is available at P2.199 million in four different colors: Sunflower Yellow, True Red, Brilliant Black and Aluminum Metallic.
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Reading: Via Architecture: Post-Conflict Infrastructure and its Discursive Curve
Special Collection: The Challenges of Post-war Development in Asia and Africa
Via Architecture: Post-Conflict Infrastructure and its Discursive Curve
Harshavardhan Bhat
Independent Researcher, IN
About Harshavardhan
Harshavardhan Bhat is a Bangalore based Researcher currently Lead at the criticality.is project. Previously he was a Research Fellow with CALACS (Africa Studies Cluster Lead) at the Jindal School of International Affairs and a KN Raj Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies – Trivandrum. He is currently interested in the study of violence, habitats, political systems and strategic policy. He is a Graduate of the London School of Economics and has previously worked on private external advisory projects serving Government of Rwanda’s communications agendas.
Post-conflict economy, rapid urbanization and the ever influential impact of global flows often drive very particular systems of post-conflict infrastructure, ignoring nuances of culture, politics and community. While a large number of analysts today contend that this is a growing symptom of the post-conflict economy, there has arguably always been a fundamental relationship between political articulation and architectural futures. The purpose of this paper is not to provide another planning parallax but to provoke the reader to reconsider habitat intervention within reconciliatory platforms and political developments today. Using the case of Kigali, Rwanda this paper seeks to pose both analytical and ethical questions. Firstly, can international development mediate with politics to engage with post-conflict habitats, considering complex backgrounds? Secondly, how does this challenge conventional thinking in planning and organization schemes that have largely driven habitat response and development in post-conflict spaces?
How to Cite: Bhat, H., 2015. Via Architecture: Post-Conflict Infrastructure and its Discursive Curve. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 4(1), p.Art. 25. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/sta.fr
The rational relationship between ideology and architecture is not a new concept within the framework of intellectual histories of violence. Yet, arguably, the contemporary situation of post-modernity – of global flows, of capital led infrastructures, of falsely perceived post-political spaces – caters to a contemporary ignorance and thereby, a contemporary history of what architecture means and how architecture should be thought about within projects of post-failure environments. It is this new politic that this paper intends to theorize further as a ‘scripture’ to be acknowledged and strategically used in the intervention and production of human habitats that have experienced violence and extreme conflict. In addition, the paper uses the case of Rwanda to further elaborate the presence of this so-called ‘scripture,’ based on experience and connected research literature. It contends that international conflict situates itself within the drama of ‘the urban’ and that the tangible deconstruction/destruction of steel and concrete offers not just an opportunity for ‘forensic investigation,’ as researchers like Eyal Weizman discusses, but also for an epistemological rethinking of post-experience: questions such as, what happens after? How can reconciliation encompass a tangible, material, infrastructural component by retaining its democratic source? Can we design blueprints or conceptual response systems for development agendas that embody democratic design?
On Straight Lines and Architectural Subversion
In his 1957 essay on ‘Urban Planning and Democracy,’ Lucius Burckhardt made a rather striking observation where he said, ‘For dictatorship lurks behind any uniform plan: the seamless master plan is the outcome of a single will. It can never come into being while real democracy is still at work’ (Fezer and Schmitz 2012). In its rather subtle irony, similar to his observation on how ‘the apartment meant to suit everyone actually suits no one,’ Burckhardt’s text expresses an interesting dichotomy (Fezer and Schmitz 2012). Firstly, that contemporary architecture’s obsession with straight lines, order and intolerance towards incident and/or eventuality creates an imposition of unwanted friction, often observed even within conventional planning methods. Decolonizing planning is yet another monolithic discourse, but the primary problem discussed is ‘informality,’ and that human spaces do take on human regenerations on how a space is used, negotiated, furnished, felt and politicized. Therefore, the first step towards solutions, as some recognize, is to redact the definitional opportunity of calling ‘informality’ a problem and taking it for what it is – a cognitive reality of essentially any human space. This is very much true of most visual experiences within the urban global south – elements involving images of markets, public spaces, vernacularity (constantly contested), a jugaad of utility and most importantly, a certain aesthetic conceptual above all of the commons.1 On a metaphorical note, perhaps one of the failures of grand Soviet design was its lack of open frugality, its inability to be open for participation, metaphorically speaking – ‘that the grand conclave edges of structure were indifferent to the humanitarian needs for wooden flooring.’
What makes post-conflict infrastructure a controversial parallax is its subjugated confusion as a modern discipline in placing itself either as a practice of the ‘expert’ versus a community and/or place-led practice. Who rebuilds? What determines a rebuild? And whose politics articulate the rebuild of a destroyed space? What the development industry has arguably done over the past several decades is influence the development of infrastructure as per a perceived epistemology of science, of method, structure and implementation that largely does not cater to plural and/or indigenous roots. Like ‘floating parliaments’ in the Sloterdijkian sense, these benevolent models of intervention (/implementation) may not exactly shower upon the intervened (/host) ‘the intended consequence.’ The great canvas of models, anticipating political ‘monkey see – monkey do’ systems, hence is finally corrupted and speculation bound thanks to the complexity of diverse human societies and the inability of the agency of power in these cases to listen carefully and understand.2 The politics of architecture here is nested within the blueprint of post-conflict strategy. The nature of global neoliberal capitalism today has preempted two fundamental cognitive viewpoints. The first is that in post-conflict scenarios most governments and international agencies find themselves under considerable pressure (internally and externally) to participate in the global flows of the economy. The second is essentially that the reconciliatory process and the project of collective healing is often disconnected from economic growth, capital flows and structural investment agendas that, although impact the community in certain respects (ex: employment, industry), are unable to transform into emancipators of the post-conflict experience largely conquered by strategic/alternate/vernacular design. This dichotomy stands out as a unique case in political analysis as the parallax it suggests is not an obvious point of engagement. To further expand, certain governments, for example, have taken up the neoliberal project from a strong representative direction, enabling investment in façade creation and infrastructure systems based on western models. This therefore emerges as the aspired attempt in integrating capital impact with the project of reconciliation/healing or at least as design rhetoric claims so otherwise. The impact this has had on ‘space’ has been two-fold. Firstly, while this manages to produce small, isolated cases of infrastructure and glass aesthetic structures, it forgets the rest – the characters of the masses, the agrarian sector, etc., that dominate everyday life and livelihood. Secondly, it enables an opportunity of speculative forgetting or in some cases, political erasure. To expand this with a Derridian description, the ‘wolf’ takes on the subversive form of creating an environment in which the ‘reconciliatory’ process is frozen as an excuse to the agenda of neoliberal growth – the silent nature in which it happens enjoys a ‘status-quo’ benefit of the so called ‘global consensus.’3 While it arguably increases economic inequality, the political economy project of architectural design and development empowers a ‘particular’ grand façade: For whose pleasure? For whose benefit? For whose emancipation? For whose utility?
On Transitions, Impatience and Ideology
When discussing wartime experiences in Germany in his book, On the natural history of destruction, W.G. Sebald comments:
… as Heinrich Boll acknowledged, with “what we found when we came home,” proves on closer inspection to be an instrument already tuned to individual and collective amnesia, and probably influenced by preconscious self-censorship – a means of obscuring a world that could no longer be presented in comprehensible terms. There was a tacit agreement, equally binding on everyone, that the true state of material and moral ruin in which the country found itself was not to be described. The darkest aspects of the final act of destruction, as experienced by the great majority of the German population remained under a kind of taboo like a shameful family secret, a secret that perhaps could not even be privately acknowledged (Sebald 2004).
What comes from much of Sebald’s texts on this matter is the behavioral mystery of post-war, recycled spatial production. ‘Recycled’ in the sense that space appears to feel and look like the way it was before the war, even after it is reconstructed after the war. Even through the several conscious changes that the rebuilding process took into consideration, the grand product of this re-construction was an intricate practice that was able to develop something in correlation with the collective forgetting, amnesia, aspiration and mood of the people reflecting not just of what society wanted to become (and get over) but also keep quietly nested, the quaint aesthetic of what they had come to know as their city. To contest if this was a project of memory or a project of forgetting would be an unfair price for debate, as what people manufacture after destruction is often arguably facilitated by a complex concoction, an ironical mixture of what makes us human. Most importantly, though, – what directs this politics, who directs this politics and what, therefore, determines a visually tangible result can be disastrously different from each other – acknowledging the violence, chaos, silence, energy and cohesion in its reproductive nature.
In a very interesting study on Turbo Urbanism in post-conflict Prishtina (Kosovo), Kai Vöckler is in conversation with Visar Geci where he asks, ‘…Can you briefly describe who works with whom and how a piece of land is developed? Is there a plan?’ and in his response on ‘plans’ he notes:
Frequently, the decisions are made by the subcontractors, since they have the most experience. I call this “LAST-MINUTE-INSPIRATION planning.” The roof is built when the money runs out. But envy also plays a big role… my neighbor has a building with seven floors, so I’ll build one with nine, and I’ll have more than he does! I don’t understand that… Psychologists should do a study in order to understand what’s going on here in Prishtina. As far as quality is concerned. . . . . . .well, there’s no need to wonder, since there are no rules and no state regulation. Everyone tries spending as little money as possible… (Vöckler 2009).
Visar here captures an important point of how chaos from the level of the individual to the level of the governance system relies on fragile dynamic fluidity – it is clearly never constant, the result of which is a confused post-transitional experience. The ‘Turbo Urbanism’ Vöckler (in association with Archis Interventions) is studying considers a combination of factors such as rapid migration, expat capital, lack of legal and policy frameworks, multiple layover stakeholders, inbuilt corruption, sovereign-like autonomous agencies with temporal authority, capital behavior, etc., and thereby turbo architecture and turbo urbanism. This example of architectural behavior displays a chaotic, yet arguably stable, phase of which will predictably generate some temporal order in the future, the processes of which still stand unfamiliar. Unlike Sebald’s description of the post-war German experience, we observe a fundamentally different way by which capital perceptibly operates in ‘space.’ The image of cohesive reconstruction led by the collective and the image of turbo capital-led post-conflict urbanism are strikingly different. The reason this juxtaposition is as a critical moment in the development of a theory is because, beyond the factual consideration of whether it is a democratic project or not, it visually turns out as a direct reference of the relationship between power, capital and space, variables that, when combined with capital phenomena and social behavior/culture, produce two different spatial results with one similar theoretical answer: ideology produces architecture.
While the link between ideology and architecture is not a fresh philosophical concoction, the transformative apparatus that ideology re-articulates in the mechanism of post-conflict experience deserves a renewed lens. The reason I argue so is because the capital conditions, the nature of conflict, the conceptual dilemmas in the infrastructural-social parallax are fast changing and relatively new, and thereby have little to compare themselves to, especially in this particular context, with the past. Consider the constant flux of violent design embodied in political architecture where the condition of conflict is neither past nor future, but a fluid ever-changing present – the presence of which indicates the ‘flux,’ a period of time that never seems to end. This is often the case with protracted conflict, intractable disputes, wars that expand and retract, destruction that is transposed and shuttled – where the degree and category of the ‘post’ is never apt for definition. As ‘contested lands’ these spaces experience constant contestation in the form of violence, decay, migration, attrition, destruction, re-categorization, expressive restriction and most importantly, an unsettled spatial context that extends human suffering to a wider degree of both time and consequential inability/pain. As in ‘Hollow Land,’ Weizman talks about how ‘the crime was undertaken by architects and planners in the way they drafted their lines in development plans. The proof was in the drawings’ (Weizman 2007). Weizman’s work talks about the role of architecture in political repression and how architecture becomes both a tool of strategy and testimony at the same time. Is not architecture therefore, as Weizman’s work extends upon, an opportunity to find out what really happened? This poses a range of new questions for post-conflict infrastructural research. What is the role of architectural evidence, its produced testimony, memory in the facilitation of reconciliation? Can there ever be one and should there ever be one? How can we think of reverse engineering or deconstructing architectural production from a post-development perspective in order to trigger democratic spatial production? Or do we have to rely on the visionaries of state and capital to show the way forward in this regard? While Weizman’s work is based on the Israel/Palestine issue, I think the recognition of architecture as a tool of the political master both in a pre-conflict and in-conflict perspective premise is critical in building toward credible concepts of what happens after. To theorize this further, one will have to clarify that while infrastructure can embody an architectural agenda, ‘infrastructure’ can remain exclusively away from an architectural politic. This is why rethinking an architectural epistemology is critical in order to avoid the thoughtless sanitization of infrastructural directives.
Can We Imagine Alternatives?
The neoliberal seduction, its disruptive force in the imagination, as markers of ‘development’ is not an easy force to talk about in its disruptive sense. To consider neoliberal architecture as an emancipator of post-experience is to consider a cognitive attachment with contemporary capitalism itself. The use of indigenous practice, local material, humility aesthetics, ecology friendly, low cost, dignity oriented planning does not have to be a bad idea. In the 2013 Annual Symposiyum on Architectural Research in Finland, I argued that we need to (re)locate architecture to its humble placement – design that is ‘low cost, equitable and comprehends with the locality with a pleasing aesthetic’ (Bhat 2013). Laurie Baker’s work has largely been a phenomenal reflection of what I mean by a ‘humble placement’ in this context. Baker recognized that architecture is never permanent. He recognized the possibility of designing dignified spaces using local, indigenous practice and material open to innovations, such as strategic bricklaying methods that allow for cooling (in tropical conditions) and other tweaks in design that don’t necessarily cost a lot of money but empower the consumer of that space with an experience that uplifts (Bhat 2013). Baker built thousands of homes and buildings in India including some of finest ‘slum’ rehabilitation projects India has ever seen. The other element of Baker’s production process, the reason of which I brought his example here, is the ability to recycle and reproduce these designs as openly democratic possibilities – processes that don’t need an ‘expert.’ The typology of most mainstream humble low income architectural landscapes today calls for such ideological and practice centric emancipators that help communities re-designate the condition and living aesthetic of their urban realities. So perhaps a valuable line of inquiry in the habitats discipline is to think of ‘via architecture’ in terms of design specific emancipators that are most importantly local and sustainable. The variable of what is local and sustainable will differ from context to context but the democratic rationale, access to knowledge and ability to practice are utilities, I argue, that the government, community and partners in development cannot ignore.
So what kind of phenomena are we in favor of? I think the primary intention really is to counter hegemony in architectural production after a post destruction form crisis. While Western phases of modernism, post-modernism, etc., displayed via architecture are symbolic of economic, social and cultural experiences restricted to certain geographies and ideas, ideally, global development should not generate an obvious sanction of the ‘copy-paste’ reproductive process immune to thought, cultural participation and political commons acceptability, elsewhere. While one can argue that this does not take place democratically all the time, does the responsibility here also rests with the one in power? Is it with the state? The architect? The development partner? Who else? That another knowledge can be put into action and that ‘another knowledge’ is possible. The trouble in exploring these ‘other knowledges’ of spatial production in the context of a post-conflict experience is, however, based on who controls power – and how that power sanctions or articulates the spatial expressive nature of its imagination and/or its disconnect with the same. On the other hand, the trouble is based on what kind of conflict the space has just experienced. It could even be transitional. From visualizing post-genocide futures, post-displacement migrations, post-bombing stability and post-violence in all its multiplicities could produce a very diverse basket of realities that will challenge and call for epistemological re-thinking, not just because we need to understand disasters and our responses better but also because we need to design a world beyond the conventional humanitarian parallax. To do so entertains open, humane, dignified and equity centric approaches in post-rupture thinking: what happens after the disaster? Life goes on but can architecture bring back some lost dignity?
Contemplating Kigali
Is there such a thing called an ‘African Architecture?’ Beyond the categorization of imaginations that situate themselves within the geography of the continent, I think the general description of an ‘African Architecture’ cannot offer reasonable ideas of what these categories can consist of. I am, however, willing to have a categorical view of restricted spaces, the one explored here being East African architecture, and to filter down further more; experiences within the Rwandan State and other possible humanitarian dynamisms in issues related to temporary habitats. Interestingly, this is a helpful ignorance that I think is actually required to progress ahead in epistemological thinking related to the ‘African cause.’ Why? Because the colonial experience by and large has been the defining force of state formation in Sub-Saharan Africa. In many cases, the project of an African Architecture has therefore found itself in one of two categories: 1) the museum, where symbols and images of the traditional household and village are placed for historical record, and 2) the state or a private actor of influence stepping on to take symbolic political empowerments via statements of architecture. Everything else is space yet to be theorized.
The Rwandan State has been praised by the international community for its achievements in reconciliation and stability and its open business environment since the 1994 genocide. Research has consistently indicated the robust and effective nature of Rwandan state capacity (Jones 2012). The Gacaca process in Rwanda has been widely recognized as a success and holds possible lessons for international law in reference to reconciliation (Clark 2011). Rwanda has offered an unparalleled example as a possible model for post-conflict experiences, especially considering the deep and lasting trauma the genocide created. So the inquiry of an architectural question seems an ingenious one: why consider the material relevance of physical urban strategy in Rwanda when the post-genocide agenda has largely been the primary focus of political effort? The reason I think Rwanda makes a great example of architectural utility both as source and function in ideological and reconciliatory directives is because of what the leadership has structurally undertaken in its affairs with issues of land, space and habitat in its process of building new imaginations of the future. The judgment of a critique or of an appreciation is a project this paper does not primarily undertake. However, the intention of using the Rwandan example is to expand our understanding of how political futures impact material/civic/habitat design and acknowledge pathways of thinking of reconstruction connected with the nuances of ideology and the subversive interpretative lingua of ‘development’ after a conflict – in this case genocide. The notion also observes that the cause for the future often displaces and redacts history both by terming it in causation and by baselining the experience as a permanently avoidable circumstance. In the case of Rwanda, the vision takes on the lead for this perceived future, making it the emancipatory monarch of spatial outcomes.
To start with land, the previous phases of ethnic violence in the 1960s and 70s had displaced and exiled a large number of Rwandans, resulting in shifted land ownership. When the Rwanda Patriotic Front took Rwanda back into control, the government had to develop large scale policy action in the area of restructuring land ownership models, systems and social perspectives. Land issues have always been issues of contention and conflict within East African political systemization. As primary baggage of colonialism, political instability, ethnic division, resource clashes, etc., land issues have always called on for status quo reversals, negotiations and ways to rethink how land can be made a meaningful tool in reconciliatory processes. The Imidugudu programme led by the Government of Rwanda was intended to cater to the thousands of refugees and exiled Rwandans returning back home. Catharine Newbury argues that the Imidugudu was an assignment in ‘high modernism,’ equipped to launch the state’s interest in socially engineering a ‘certain’ kind of society as a result (Newbury 2011). The kind of ‘villagization,’ or cluster-centric development, that Imidugudu saw, however, was not unique to Rwanda in any way. Julius Nyerere’s Ujamaa policy in Tanzania was also designed with similar processes of villagization in mind, inspired by the ‘collectives’ model, based out of central structures designed to effectively improve economic production (which however, did fail later on). To a certain degree, the Imidugudu process were also seen as land concessions taking into account a certain planned karmic reciprocity for loss that the exiled had experienced. The Imidugudu policy was certainly controversial in many circles, but to a great degree, supporters of the state viewed the process as a requirement in social reconfiguration in order to take initial steps of developing new imaginations of the country that the state favored. On the issue of land disputes in the Eastern province, Chris Huggins comments, ‘land sharing – essentially a form of uncompensated expropriation - was implemented from 1996 on when Tutsi refugees returned to the country. The land was simply divided equally between the two households (usually the Hutu secondary occupant and the returning Tutsi original owner)’ (Huggins 2011). Overall, the nature of land re-development and habitat structuring has been critiqued as a strategic project. As Des Forges’s said, ‘the policy and laws appear to offer more security for the prosperous and powerful, eagerly solicited for their capacity to invest, than for the majority of Rwandans who make a bare living from their plots’ (Huggins 2011). But on the other side, some have questioned the validity of specific western ‘rights based’ angles as inadequate in analyzing these processes within a plural nature. Early systems of ownership of ubukonde and ikigingi involving the passing of land via lineage and royal distribution, respectively, essentially involved community and power centered relations of land affiliation and distribution (RISD 2013). While scholars do acknowledge the various changes these processes undertook both during and after the colonial experience – which, to a certain extent also manipulated these relations by altering power structures and by reconfiguring agricultural practice directed at the growing of crops such as coffee – it is undisputed that land was always nevertheless a complex issue that was often at the center of conflict. Therefore, the process of dispossession that took place during these often-contentious power reconfigurations ‘augmented social cleavages within Rwanda that would later contribute to mass violence’ (RISD 2013). Therefore, is not the logic of social engineering within the perspective of land structuring policies actually a positive strategic necessity? At the most recent stage of a series of land reforms, the parliament passed the Organic Act of 2013, which clarifies the contemporary modality of land transfers, regulations and extra territory issues, including Special Economic Zones.
Going through processes such as enabling land regularization, land titling, etc., Rwanda also recently implemented street names and signs in 2012 (Buchana 2012). Although a seemingly minor development, I think it is quite a symbolic and rather epistemic leap reflective in certain terms, the material politic of spatial change and representation that has taken place in Rwanda in recent years. In the year 2000, the Government of Rwanda adopted ‘Vision 2020’ gearing to make Rwanda a middle-income country. The Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategies (EPDRS 1/2) were put in place, backing the five pillars of the vision: 1) good governance and a capable state, 2) human resource development and a knowledge based economy, 3) a private sector-led economy, 4) infrastructure development, productive and market oriented agriculture and 5) regional and international economic integration (GoR 2000). Rwanda embarked on a design mission of configuring its ministerial agendas on achieving some of these broader objectives.
As the vocabulary of ‘economic growth’ found itself adopted within the ministerial frame, a series of reforms emerged. One of them, for example, was the multilayer integration of almost half a dozen ministerial agendas into one service-providing arm called the Rwanda Development Board. Within the interest of improving investment, developing businesses and realizing strategic obstacles, such as distance to port and large-scale industry, the leadership decided to take the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) agenda seriously. Having realized a leading American engineering university to set up campus in Kigali, a special economic zone for IT, liberalized the telecommunications sector, installed the country’s first fiber optic broadband network etc., generated a series of consequence of a far reaching aesthetic production. With the 2010 Surbana masterplan of 132sq km of Kigali, Kagame’s imagination of visualizing an ‘African Singapore’ went one step ahead.4 Any review of the new Kigali plan would appreciate the forensic nature of detail and foresight the plan indicates. The plan is an ambitious one and calls for an extensive overhaul of resources towards infrastructure and other urban elements, apparently designed for an imagined socio-economic result. The nature of the project visually and aesthetically is unquestionably neoliberal – ‘capitalism with Asian values’ as Zizek would perhaps call it, though of-course adapted to the Rwandan context here. The completed phase of the Gacuriro Vision 2020 Estates, seemingly zonal, modular, reproductive as spatial products, replicate a ‘European’ aesthetic of a typical house: replicas of each other scattered mathematically over a hill.5 Other extensions nearby have been built by Chinese contractors and Chinese workers. The Kigali masterplan zonal implementation, having already begun, has led to a process of resettlement for a large population living in the center of the city to other pre-built government provided households in the peripheries.
It is indeed uncertain what the final outcome of the masterplan will be. The manager of one of Kigali’s supermarkets once joked, ‘We essentially are all serving the exact same number of customers, even though we have a new Nakumatt in town now. The group that shops at supermarket A on Monday, comes down to B on Wednesday and C on Saturday – there is a new supermarket in town but we don’t have new customers.’6 This remark, although potentially biased, may not necessarily be completely off mark. While urbanization is inevitably happening, the question remains - how will the majority access the benefits or be empowered in time to be a part of this infrastructural progress? It requires a robust ecosystem of elements to generate, say an ICT economy. Rwanda still has generations to shift into the higher education paradigm, not to mention its connectivity with global innovation and economy.
Let me for a moment, take a metaphorical leeway: Immanuel the farmer comes to town. Immanuel basks in the glory of Kigali tower, he even smiles at the visual leap Kigali has made – he is, however, unable to access any of the benefits of the products and services that glare all around him. After all, like the majority of Rwandans, he lives on merely a few thousand francs every month. The two realities: on the one hand, a political vision of the future and on the other, a ground reality of the human condition, perhaps don’t match. This brings us back to our primary fundamental endeavor in thinking about post-conflict architecture - what does it sing, and to whom does it sing?
While Rwanda has had to take tough decisions in the name of post-genocide national stability and has made arguably loud and courageous articulations for the future, how real are they within an inclusive reality? Even acknowledging the systemic nature of inequality, how can two parallel developments meet in the middle when the gap between them is so wide? I would argue that the Rwandan experience stands as a bi-polar parallax in theorizing post-conflict decision making from an architectural perspective. With a large segment of Kigali’s houses – temporary in nature, roofed with corrugated iron sheets, cardboard sheeting, local tiles and gravel paths to walk on – how far is the cognitive distance to a space that is built of steel, glass, concrete, marble, tarred and pebbled pathways, that is in terms with, ‘Singaporean,’ ideas of space? What is the political economy connection going to look like? There is a need to think of epistemology in post-conflict design that is far more connected to the socio-economic and cultural reality of a place.
To conclude, the intention of framing these episodes of description and analysis is to most importantly put into writing the many contrasts, conflicts and comic speculations that often counterintuitively find themselves amongst each other as subjective elements. How does one theorize this complexity? It is perhaps only in Badiou’s definition of philosophy that this enactment can truly open entry. For Badiou, a ‘philosophical situation is an encounter. It is an encounter between essentially foreign terms,’ or arguably seemingly foreign terms (Badiou 2006). Politics and Architecture here are those seemingly foreign terms and it is in entertaining these complex yet necessary connections that meaning is often made. While this paper poses a range of critical questions, it also poses into limited validation the aspect of ‘performance’ that is often ignored as a category in the study of politics. The encounter in this context is therefore a meeting of politics and infrastructure that in several contemporary economic systems claim two separate sources. The claim of this piece is therefore to say that it is not true to disclaim politics and infrastructure as separate commodities within the operation of development. The ‘discursive curve’ is in some ways representative of the volatility of infrastructural intents. Architecture is part of the performance of politics and in Kigali, it is being used, to describe a different kind of proclaimed imagination – one that is both a consequence of global capital and is also an effort in developing new histories.
1The term jugaad is a Hindi-Urdu term similar to the word ‘hack’ in English referring to ‘fixing up’ problems quickly and innovatively.
2The ‘floating parliament’ is a political philosophy joke based out of Sloterdijk’s work in his texts on ‘Bubbles.’ The joke entails a ‘pneumatic parliament’ to be floated over post-conflict spaces that apparently installs ‘democratic’ systems.
3The notion of the ‘wolf’ is a complex philosophical concept often extracted from Derrida’s work, however most prominently visible in his posthumous collections under Seminar 1 under Volume 1 of the Beast and the Sovereign published in November 2011 by University of Chicago Press.
4Detailed information of the Kigali masterplan is available from Surbana, the Kigali City Council and the Government of Rwanda.
5Note that the Kigali plans can be accessed from the Kigali City Council (kigalicity.
6From the personal experience of the author. Note that ‘Nakumatt’ is an East African chain of retail supermarkets.
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Should Chelsea offer Cesc Fabregas a new contract amid interest?
Cesc Fabregas’ future at Stamford Bridge is hanging in the balance right now, but Chelsea should tie down the Spaniard’s future and offer him a new deal with the club.
According to the Daily Mirror, Atletico Madrid and AC Milan are two of the clubs eyeing up the 31-year-old, as he is in the final year of his contract in West London.
But the two-time Premier League title winner still has plenty more in the tank and the Blues should offer him the chance to commit his future to them.
Fabregas may not be an ever-present in the starting XI right now, but he’s still looked tidy during his four appearances so far this campaign and is ideal for the possession-based style of manager Maurizio Sarri.
The World Cup winner would become a pivotal part of the side if Jorginho picked up an injury setback and Chelsea are extremely fortunate to have somebody of his talent in reserve.
He would surely have the talent to walk into most teams across Europe still and is certainly not at the end of his career.
Fabregas’ spell with Chelsea so far is often overlooked, but the deep-lying playmaker has managed 55 assists in 186 appearances and won numerous amounts of silverware.
(Photo by Charlotte Wilson/Offside/Getty Images)
The central midfielder would tear it up in La Liga if he moved to Atletico, which would give him the chance to rekindle an old Chelsea partnership with Diego Costa.
But he’s still a Blues player for now and hopefully Sarri wants him to stick around for the long-term.
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New waterless urinals can save washrooms 87,000 litres of water per unit a year
Armitage Shanks has launched a new range of energy- and cost-efficient waterless urinals, which are easy to install and maintain.
This line of urinals is accompanied by a new collection of circular stainless steel water troughs, ideal for busy washrooms where there is a need to increase throughput.
The new waterless urinal range, Aquanil, is an entirely new cartridge system that can be used on conventional open rim urinals without the need for water; a revolutionary feature when the average urinal water consumption of 87,000 litres of water is taken into account.
Aquanil does not use a liquid to provide a seal; instead it uses a non-return rubber valve that allows liquids to pass through and then automatically reseals itself. The system's cartridges last for approximately 7,000 uses before having to be replaced, reducing the amount of maintenance activity required.
Installation is also made simple via the new system, which can be retrofitted to most urinals. Aquanil works because it is situated within a special adaptor, fitted within the urinal, which replaces the standard waste. A conventional trap is instead replaced with a cartridge containing a rubber valve for urine to pass through.
This rubber valve, which automatically reseals itself, needs to be replaced after around 7,000 uses to ensure optimum performance. The distinctive green fragrance block that becomes paler during its life, acts as a visual reminder to operators that the cartridge may need replacing, although this is only an indicator.
It is possible to install Aquanil alongside a traditional tank fed system, should operators wish for the urinal to have some water cleaning.
The new range of circular stainless steel wash troughs has been launched alongside the Aquanil urinals. These troughs are perfect for busy washrooms where operators need to increase throughputs and are available in four, six and eight person options. Each trough can be purchased featuring non-concussive or electronic tap options and is available with or without soap dispensers.
The new line of troughs has been designed to increase space optimisation and to provide a complete integral washing solution. The designs include one wal- mounted trough and two circular - each made out of stainless steel to guarantee that it is ultra-durable.
Tony Rheinberg, head of commercial marketing at the company, says: "Armitage Shanks' new range of waterless urinals and wash troughs has been launched with ease of operator installation and maintenance in mind. This is especially true of Aquanil, thanks to its easy-to-retrofit design and use of distinctive colour changing fragrance blocks, which makes monitoring for maintenance needs super simple.
"What's more, the durability of both items - and the cost and energy saving potential of Aquanil's waterless system - mean that those making purchasing decisions have peace of mind that they have made a sensible investment when upgrading their facilities."
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Opinion Why flying isn’t as safe as we’re told
Why flying isn’t as safe as we’re told
Ashley Nunes
Contributed to The Globe and Mail
Includes clarification
Published January 17, 2018 Updated January 18, 2018
Ashley Nunes studies transportation safety and regulatory policy at MIT's Center for Transportation & Logistics.
Last year was the safest ever for commercial aviation. That's according to a recent study of air accident statistics. The study's authors found that while there were some crashes during the year, those crashes mostly involved small propeller and cargo airplanes. The number of large passenger-ferrying jets that were lost? Zero.
Who deserves the credit has been a source of some speculation. Some point to technology. Others credit training. And Donald Trump recently credited himself. In a widely reported tweet, America's 45th President claimed that air safety had improved because he's been "very strict on commercial aviation."
The number of air accidents has dropped in recent years. The last fatal crash involving a North American-registered commercial passenger aircraft occurred in 2009. Canada experienced its last major commercial accident in 1998 when Swissair Flight 111 crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia. The last Canadian fatal commercial accident before that was in 1989.
Accidents today are clearly few and far between. But do fewer crashes mean air travel is safer than before? Is flying really as risk-free as we are told?
In 2001, an Air Transat jet made an emergency landing in the Azores in part because the pilot failed to realize the airplane was leaking fuel. A decade later, an Air Canada pilot mistook the planet Venus for another aircraft on a collision course. To prevent the imaginary accident, the pilot forced his airplane into a 400-feet dive over the Atlantic.
Years after that, a fatigued WestJet pilot admitted to nodding off at the controls. He was purportedly one of many. And most recently, a Sunwing pilot was found slumped over in the cockpit prior to a flight. The reason? A bottle of vodka the pilot had consumed before reporting for duty. He eventually pleaded guilty to being intoxicated on the job.
These incidents share one commonality: There were no fatalities. But can they really be considered safe? Current air accident statistics seemingly suggest so. A pilot can have judgment lapses, fall asleep at the controls or fly whilst intoxicated. But as long as the airplanes don't crash, industry execs can tout a perfect safety record. So can their government counterparts who often draw public ire following a crash.
The problem is both clear and concerning. Limiting our perception of safety to fatal crashes alone narrows our appraisal of risk. As security expert Frederic Lemieux notes, aviation from this perspective appears to be very safe. The reality, however, is very different.
Human errors that can jeopardize air safety continue to occur throughout the industry. For example, a recent survey found that more than 95 per cent of pilots admit to landing their airplane when conditions dictate they shouldn't. The survey – completed by 2,340 pilots worldwide – paints a worrying picture about the current and future state of air safety. Violating the rules has clearly become ingrained in airline culture because crashes are rare. At the same time, new recruits are watching their mentors flout those rules, emboldening them to eventually follow suit.
Addressing this issue means rethinking how air safety is measured. The International Air Transport Association, which represents nearly 300 airlines, agrees. IATA recently noted that "future safety gains will come increasingly from analyzing data from the more than 38 million flights that operate safely every year, rather than just the handful of flights where something goes wrong."
Doing so won't be easy however. Shifting focus away from accident statistics means digging up and analyzing personal work-force data. How often are cellphones used in the cockpit? How much of pilot fatigue is because of pilot commuting – the practice of living in one site and flying to another to start work? And how often do pilots abuse alcohol?
These questions are timely. But they are also sensitive. No organization wants its dirty laundry aired publicly, let alone major airlines worth billions. Yet this approach is what is needed to raise the air-safety bar. And that's what the travelling public should demand.
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this column did not specify that the Swissair Flight 111 crash was specifically the last commercial accident in Canada. (There was a more recent accident that was a charter flight.) This version has been updated to reflect the commercial specification.
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A Honeybee Heart has Five Openings and Buzz review – the wonders of bee life
Science and nature books
A memoir of a life put back on track by beekeeping, and a hopeful study of bees in the wild
Fri 20 Jul 2018 04.00 EDT
Books, like hives, are ways of capturing something … a honeybee. Photograph: Collin Andrew/AP
Early on in Helen Jukes’s A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings she ponders the increasing popularity of urban beekeeping, referring to the idea that “one possible psychological response to the apprehension of a threat is to begin producing idealised versions of the thing we perceive of as being at risk”. That’s also a good explanation for the current crop of bee books: not just A Honeybee Heart and Thor Hanson’s Buzz, but Kate Bradbury’s wonderful The Bumblebee Flies Anyway and Maja Lunde’s The History of Bees, among others. Books, like hives, are ways of capturing something and holding on to it: either helping to preserve it, or looking at it closely before it’s gone.
A Honeybee Heart is in the tradition of H Is for Hawk and other recent works that combine natural history with memoir. Some have felt rather stale and derivative, or have overplayed the author’s emotional link with the creature in question. Happily, Jukes avoids this: she’s interested in bees because, well, bees are interesting, and if anything the personal side is played down, particularly at the start of the book.
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Having had some experience helping a beekeeper in London, she decides to get a hive not long after moving to Oxford. Bored in her job, restless and lacking stable attachments, Jukes discovers that keeping bees helps to anchor her, and she explores the way in which they change her, just as her efforts alter the behaviour of the bees. There’s some satisfying (if at times slightly pat) mirroring as the personal and apine sides of the book progress in tandem, but she wears her considerable research lightly. I only wish I could have envisaged her hive better: it’s a “top bar” type rather than the more familiar Langstroth, and her descriptions of what the bees were building each time she opened it seemed fascinating, but went clean over my head. It is not unreasonable to ask how many more nature memoirs the market can support; the answer, I think, is only the best. Finely written and insightful, A Honeybee Heart is surely one of them.
Like Jukes, Hanson is aware of his own subjectivity and writes himself (and bee-loving son Noah) into the narrative; gone are the days when natural history writing was dry and high-handed, a style born from a presumption of objectivity when decisions about what is and isn’t studied, and how knowledge is transmitted, are anything but. He is a US conservation biologist, and has previously published books about gorillas, feathers and seeds. His latest, Buzz, focuses mainly on wild bees rather than Apis mellifera, describing their evolution, interaction with plants, relationship with humans and the challenges facing them now. It’s popular science at its most accessible: fun, fascinating and full of engaging pen portraits of the scientists and bee enthusiasts he meets in the course of his research.
‘Roughly 40% of all bee species are in decline or threatened with extinction.’
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
After a rather flat start discussing sphecid wasps, proto-bees and evolution, Hanson travels to Arizona to learn about taxonomy and physiology at something called the Bee Course. A visit to a retired mason bee supplier prompts an explanation of solitary bee behaviour; pollination is examined in relation to Beth Norden, co-discoverer of a key species in the quest to understand how flowers and bees grew to depend on one another. Each chapter is loosely structured around a place, a person and/or a type of bee, providing the opportunity for wider discussion both of bees and of our relationship with them. Only a trip to a McDonald’s to remove everything bee-dependent from a Big Mac feels gimmicky; fortunately, he quickly moves on to a California date plantation where he discovers the arduous nature of hand-pollination (and the reason dates cost so much).
Roughly 40% of all bee species are in decline or threatened with extinction, and by the final section of this book Hanson’s sense of wonder has rubbed off on us so that his meeting with an entomologist who recorded the extinction of a bumblebee really hits home. The discussion addresses the complex forces contributing to bee decline and lays bare human involvement. Catastrophic factors include a globalised trade in fruit, vegetables and bees themselves; the consequent spread of natural pests and pathogens; the interaction in bees’ bodies of a range of agrichemicals never tested in combination; intensification of land use with a resulting loss of biodiversity and the creation of crop monocultures.
But Hanson leaves us with hope: a visit to an almond orchard that is bringing bees back to a landscape from which they have long been absent – commercial hives trucked in for three weeks to pollinate, but the groves kept insect-free the rest of the year. Hanson rightly credits the turnaround to relationships built between individuals: growers, researchers, investors, heads of multinational conglomerates and conservationists at NGOs. There is something about bees, it seems, that can really bring people together; let’s hope it isn’t too late.
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Local Content Law Implementation: A Call For Retaining Oil Swap And Subsidy Removal
Wale Adebayo
Both legal and oil experts have advised that the Nigerian independent oil operators should be considered first in the award of Oil and Gas contracts. Nigerian service companies should also be considered for contracts and services in line with the local content law just as they called for subsidy removal.
A legal expert Bar. Ayo Samuel noted that the “Local content Law specifies that Nigerian independent operators be given “first consideration” in the award of Oil and Gas focused contracts and Nigerian service companies be given “exclusive consideration” for contracts and services.
This is the dilemma that the government is facing. Experts say that an agreeable compromise will be a scenario where Nigerian Companies are allowed to participate, along International Oil Majors”.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s cash strapped government may have to do away with fuel subsidies in order to channel scarce resources to capital project development in Nigeria. This is in line with the views of Industry experts and Global Investment banks who agreed that a solid structured and transparent swap arrangement will ensure product availability even as NNPC refineries are operating below their plate capacity.
“Subsidies are expensive, accounting for an average of 2.5 percent of the gross domestic product from 2006-2012, according to the IMF. The government set aside N914 billion ($4.6 billion) for it in 2014. Nigeria’s national oil company the NNPC currently receives about 450,000 barrels per day for its refineries to process for domestic crude consumption.
However Nigeria is almost wholly reliant on imports for the 40 million litres per day of gasoline it consumes, as most of the NNPCs four refineries produce at less than 20-60 percent of their name plate capacity. The NNPC has often had to engage in crude for oil (swap) and offshore processing contracts and direct importation of products to bridge about 50 percent of the supply gap.
The Managing Director and Head – Africa Macro Global Research at Standard Chartered, Razia Khan said: “Having contracts directly with the oil majors for refined product would be a big win, said Razia Khan, adding, “Ultimately, the healthiest development would be to sell the refined product to end-users at cost-reflective prices.
“Any savings from a fuel subsidy could increase the amount that Nigeria spends on social safety nets – so that the poorest, most vulnerable Nigerians benefit directly,” Khan said.
This view was corroborated by members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN); they stated in recent news report that the Oil Swaps is a better option for Government to end scarcity and keep off subsidy payment. The association further made a case to government for IPMAN members to partake in the Crude Oil Swap Arrangement.
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While many Nigerians may believe that the Crude Swap/ OPAs was a recent arrangement under the immediate past administration, our source within the NNPC stated that Crude Swap/ Offshore Processing Arrangements have been a Federal Government initiative since 1977 in partnership with International Oil companies (IOCs).
The anonymous source reiterated that “Nigerians must know that the supposed interim policy of the NNPC to bridge the gap between petroleum products demand and supply was initiated over three decades ago between 1977 and 1986 when Nigeria needed heavy crude from Venezuela to feed the Kaduna refinery. We as a nation swapped Venezuela heavy crude for Nigeria’s light crude”.
He further stated that: “the scope of crude swap was later broadened specifically because our refineries began to produce below their stipulated name plate capacity. In addition, NNPC/PPMC from late 1990s-2010, imported Petroleum Products on an Open Account backed by a PPMC Payment undertaking stating that payment will be made 45 days after imported vessels arrive, this payment timeline was never met with payment delays running to 400 days late in backlogs.
Our research findings indicated that NNPC has an outstanding debt to Importers and Bankers of close to USD 2 Billion currently standing at 7 Years late payment. Consequently, for any NNPC/PPMC import project to receive a nod, the financing bank will need to see and verify a “Solid Bankable Security or Guarantee” in order to finance such project.
NNPC/PPMC usually rely on refineries un-utilised Crude oil barrels to fund these open account Payment Batches. However, the foregoing challenge posed a problem to 50% of fuel supply into Nigeria around 2009 and 2010. In order to close the supply gap and avert scarcity crisis, NNPC/PPMC advertised in 2009 inviting for proposals for Offshore Processing Arrangement and other proposals to guarantee fuel supply to Nigeria.
Thus crude Swap/ OPAs concept widened to include crude for refined products, which had been in practice with Oil Majors more than two decades; at the time, British Petroleum and SIR refinery of Ivory Coast were engaged to swap crude for refined products under very shadowy terms. Yet no one complained, this begs the question: why the outrage when Nigerian companies were engaged to deliver same service to the NNPC/PPMC?
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Perhaps it is easier to become outraged when the government of Nigeria, partners with indigenous oil and gas companies towards promoting local content laws than be dismayed by the many years of International Oil Companies (IOCs) under cutting Nigerians in disguise of service to a people.
Nonetheless, the industry is witnessing increased participation of Nigerian oil and gas companies and expressed concerns on the direction the new administration may take while being optimistic that our government will deepen the gains in the oil and gas sector as a result of promoting local content development.
According to verifiable data, Nigerian companies now control over 35% of upstream business activities in Nigeria. This significant bump from less than 10% in 2010 is as a result of passing the local content act into law; driven by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB).
Sadly, these local companies are faced with herculean task of dealing with various challenges associated with doing business in Nigeria. This has been recently demonstrated when perceived ANTI-LOCAL CONTENT AGENTS conspiring with International News and Reporting Policy analyst, unleashed a media onslaught against indigenous companies participating in the Crude for Products Exchange Agreement, that is aimed to provide petroleum products to the everyday Nigerian.
It is very curious to see all of these negative reports and also the exclusion of the names of Foreign and International Companies that have for many years taking part in these SWAP and Offshore Processing Contracts absent from all of these negative reportage. These Foreign companies create wealth and employment for their Countries, why can’t Nigeria do the same with its own people and companies?
Our findings indicates that the Crude Swap/OPAs arrangement entails the allocation of crude oil by NNPC for processing in a refinery, depending on the crude type and yield pattern resultant refined petroleum products mainly Gasoline and Kerosene are delivered by the contract operators into the country. The by-products not required are paid in cash to NNPC. A refining fee is paid for this refining.
The Contract Operator places a “Bank Stand by Letter of Credit” before it is allowed to lift the crude, as a form of security. The SWAP is a very straight forward arrangement, which simply means you load the Crude Oil and you deliver refined petroleum products on a value to value based contract.
Approximately, for a standard Nigerian cargo of 950,000+/- 5% Barrels (950kb) of Crude Oil loaded, the resultant volume for refined products (PMS and DPK which formed the subject matter of this Agreement) is 3 cargoes of 30,000mts +/- 10%.
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The SWAP Agreement stipulates that a revolving Standby Letter of Credit (SBLC) is established in favour of PPMC, before the Supplier’s vessel is cleared to load any volume of the crude oil nominated and programmed for this purpose. This in effect guarantees that there is no exposure to PPMC for the Crude Oil lifted at any point in time during the Agreement, as this SBLC can be encashed, in the event of default.
Curiously, verifiable facts indicated that the terms on which the Federal government engaged local players where far more strenuous than the terms of engagement with the International Companies that partnered with the Federal Government. This in itself was a paradox…
It is on record tha when foreigners were handling crude swap and delivering Petroleum Products on Open Account for Nigeria, our government was buying refined products at PLATTS plus $136-180/metric from these multinationals. Government was equally required to pay interest to the multinationals on delayed receivables. Government incurred the cost of logistics and handling.
Unlike the arrangement where we have local players participating, only the principle of exchanging crude for refined product remained the same. Local companies sell at PLATTS plus $82/metric Ton. Government does not pay interest on delayed receivables. Yet, the local players remained steadfast towards supporting the Federal Government of Nigeria on making sure that finished products are available and accessible by Nigerians without hassle.
Unfortunately, instead of applauding the doggedness of local entrepreneurs, some unscrupulous elements in Nigeria are making frantic efforts to hound and frustrate growth driven by local companies in the sector. This is our quagmire as a people. Accordingly, the implementation of the Local Content Law is one that must be encouraged. Certainly without doubt, the above well documented procedure ensures compliance and discredits the unguided and unfounded opinion of those calling a dog a bad name in order to kill it.
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A great night for Millers - Evans
Steve Evans post Oxford United
Rotherham United manager Steve Evans beamed with delight at full-time after his Millers side swept aside Oxford 4-0 at the Kassam Stadium.
All the goals came in the first-half with David Noble, Kari Arnason, Johnny Mullins and Ben Pringle all getting on the scoresheet, to send Evans’ side tantalising close to the automatic promotion positions with games in hand.
“It’s a great night,” said the Millers boss. “It’s a difficult games, and that doesn’t change just because you come here and win 4-0. Goals change games, and I don’t think there was much in the game in the first 15 minutes but we’ve identified their system, and we made changes by putting two players right out wide and taking advantage.”
After a quite first half-hour the Millers really kicked into life, and the final quarter of an hour of the first-half saw all the Millers goals come in clinical fashion. Arnason headed home from a corner, Mullins finished a fine passing move and Pringle poked home after a counter-attack but all after Noble's strike from distance was deflected beyond Oxford 'keeper McCormick.
“They (Oxford) are unfortunate with the first goal as it takes a deflection but I was more pleased with how we stretched the game after that for the other three. They had three at the back and we went wide on the right and wide on the left which left Alex Revell one-on-one with Duberry through the middle. During the second-half we spoke about keeping our shape and all they’ve managed I think is one cross into the box really.”
Hear the full interview with Steve on Millers Player by clicking here.
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The National Byway® in Cycling Weekly ‘20 things to do in 2015’
Cycling Weekly’s Chris Sidwells has comes up with 20 things you might want to do in your 2015 cycling year, and The National Byway®, wades in at number 19!
We quote from the article:
19. Ride the National Byway
The National Byway is a 3,300-mile signposted route through Britain. It was mapped out and every inch of it ridden by the super-experienced cyclist, Mike Breckon. Breckon is old school, I’m sure he won’t mind me saying that. He started cycling in 1950s Yorkshire, exploring the roads less travelled of his native Dales. He was a good racer, a British Best All-Rounder team champion, but it’s his club run roots and an uncanny knack for finding lovely quiet roads is the DNA of the National Byway.
To even be considered Breckon’s roads had to have a maximum two percent of the national average traffic flow. The rest is down to his eye for landscape, his knowledge of maps, and his innate feel for what makes a perfect cycling road. The National Byway is a national cycling treasure. Visit the website www.thenationalbyway.org and start exploring it in 2015.
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Community Roundup: Main Street announces new board members, officers
Community Roundup: At the annual dinner on April 18, Main Street Port Clinton recognized as the 2019-2020 Board of Directors.
Community Roundup: Main Street announces new board members, officers Community Roundup: At the annual dinner on April 18, Main Street Port Clinton recognized as the 2019-2020 Board of Directors. Check out this story on thenews-messenger.com: https://www.thenews-messenger.com/story/news/2019/05/02/community-roundup-main-street-announces-new-board-members-officers/3638810002/
Submitted Published 1:11 p.m. ET May 2, 2019
Main Street Board President, Tyler Brown is with Past President Dana Bacak-Lynd. (Photo: Submitted)
Main Street announces new board members, officers
PORT CLINTON - At the annual dinner on April 18, Main Street Port Clinton recognized as the 2019-2020 Board of Directors — Tyler Brown with Barnes Nursery; Mike Roder with Catawba Island Brewery; Gary Macko with First National Bank; Casey Madison with Croghan Colonial Bank; Lisa Black with Ala Carte Café; Jan Gluth with Port Clinton City Schools; and Lori Madison with Frederick Insurance.
Ex-officio board members included City of Port Clinton Mayor Mike Snider, Port Clinton Councilman Beth Gillman, and Duane Myers with Lake Erie Shores & Islands.
Dana Bacak Lynd of Civilian Marksmanship Program was thanked for her commitment to Main Street Port Clinton for the past six years.
At the March Board meeting of Main Street Port Clinton, officers elected with terms beginning on April 1 were Tyler Brown with Barnes Nursery, president; Mike Roder with Catawba Island Brewing Company, vice president; Lori Madison with The Frederick Agency, secretary; and Casey Madison with Croghan Colonial Bank, treasurer.
Winners of the 4th Annual Shufflemania tournament received gold and silver buscuits. (Photo: Submitted)
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OTTAWA COUNTY - The 4th annual Shufflemania Tournament benefiting the TNT Mentoring Program raised more than $10,000. The winners of the Golden Biscuit were Chuck and Erin Popovich and the Silver biscuits went to Pam and Shawna Bechtel.
Amanda M. Hise, a 2004 graduate of Gibsonburg, graduated the United States Army Warrant Officer Candidate School at Fort Rucker, Alabama on April 10. WO1 Hise is pictured with her mother, Karen and father, Doug. She is assigned to the 259th Military Intelligence Brigade in Tumwater, Washington. (Photo: Submitted)
Hise graduates US Warrant Officer school
GIBSONBURG - Amanda M. Hise, a 2004 graduate of Gibsonburg, graduated the United States Army Warrant Officer Candidate School at Fort Rucker, Alabama on April 10 2019. She is assigned to the 259th Military Intelligence Brigade in Tumwater, Washington.
Terra State announces Student Recognition Awards
FREMONT - On April 23, Terra State Community College announced winners of the Student Recognition Awards at the annual banquet held at the Ronald L. Neeley Conference and Hospitality Center. Categories and winners are:
Fremont Rotary Student of the Year – Megan Steffens is a Health Information Technology (HIT) student who plans to work for medical facilities and, eventually, insurance companies to apply her knowledge in medical billing and records. She serves as an activity coordinator for the Kids’ Club/Big Club after school program at Trinity United Methodist Church in Lindsey, leads food drives and donation collections for various event that help the needy.
Student Employee of the Year – Sherri Wott is an Executive Office Administration major who is works at the front desk in the Admissions office and became a member of the International Honor Society Phi Theta Kappa.
Leadership Award – Stephanie Homler is a nursing students who is a part of the Student Nurses’ Association and mentors first-year nursing students. She has been very involved at the college, participating and volunteering at Exploration Day, Micah’s House, Triumph Youth Ministry, Fostering Hope, trash pick-up, KidsCollege, Pinning Ceremony, Community Health Fair, Spooktakular and more.
Perseverance Award
• Sumer Seeger is a welding student, who was born with an extremely rare birth defect affecting the development of her brain. During her first semester in Terra’s welding program, Seegar earned a 4.0 GPA and made the Dean’s list.
• Frieda Fought is a Hospitality Management major who raised 10 children and 17 grandchildren and came to Terra State at the age of 62. One week before classes were to start, she lost her son in a tragic accident. Despite her loss, she was inducted into Phi Theta Kappa and will be graduating in May.
• Kayla Perry is a Business Management major who, throughout her time attending Terra State, almost lost her life during childbirth, mourned the loss of her father, uncle and grandmother and gave birth to a second child. She was still able to earn good grades and will be graduating in May.
2018-2019 Student Commencement Speaker – Heather Ross is a nursing student and serves as President of the Student Nurses’ Association. She has helped organize multiple community service events and has volunteered at numerous locations within the community. During new students’ nursing orientation, she tells them and their significant others about the program, what to expect, how to organize and provides words of encouragement. She also oversees the mentorship program.
Student Organization of the Year – Terra State’s Student Nurses’ Association (SNA) has impacted its members and community this past year. Some of its causes include Heartbeat Hope Medical, Micah House and National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).
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State to drivers: Pay attention in work zones
MDOT promoting National Work Zone Awareness Week; spokeswoman said state has already seen 'several work zone-related incidents'
State to drivers: Pay attention in work zones MDOT promoting National Work Zone Awareness Week; spokeswoman said state has already seen 'several work zone-related incidents' Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: https://bwne.ws/2qf0c1u
Jackie Smith, Times Herald Published 4:07 p.m. ET April 8, 2018 | Updated 7:00 p.m. ET April 8, 2018
Construction is scheduled to begin Monday on the intersection of Pine Grove, 10th, and Scott avenues.(Photo: Brian M. Wells/Times Herald)Buy Photo
As temperatures rise each spring, so do the number of orange construction cones along local roadways.
And the state is sharing one message with motorists: Don’t drive like a jerk.
“I can tell you that in Bay Region alone, we have already had several work zone-related incidents while our maintenance crews have been out patching and doing sign and guardrail replacements (typical work required following a handful of snowy days, the guardrails take a decent hit),” Jocelyn Hall, regional spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Transportation said via email.
MDOT has been promoting National Work Zone Awareness Week, which kicks off Monday with public events in Troy.
Officials with MDOT, Michigan State Police, American Traffic Safety Services Association, union groups, and other agencies are speaking about work zone and roadway issues, as well as innovations in transportation.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, fatal work zone fatalities may be down across the country.
Still, it’s something Hall said can be shared at the local level.
“While we are fortunate there have been no serious injuries or fatalities in our own region, a close call is still too close,” she said, “and we will only be able to reduce these incidents by working together.”
In 2015 and 2016, there were 765 and 712 drivers and passengers killed and 125 and 113 pedestrians and bicyclists.
Of the 683 fatal crashes in 2016, 259 were on interstates and 339 on arterial highways. Fatal crashes overall were down from the year prior.
According to the state, National Work Zone Awareness Week became a national event in 2000 as part of a nationwide “Toward Zero Deaths” safety campaign.
The Federal Highway Administration’s list of tips for drivers includes:
Checking traffic information before departure
Wearing your seat belt and keeping electronic devices, such as phones, put away
Paying attention to other drivers, particularly in work zones, where there is less ability to maneuver
Do not speed or tailgate, keeping a distance from the vehicle in front of you
Obey road crews and signs, and remain calm
For more information from the state, visit https://bit.ly/2H6nS2p.
Contact Jackie Smith at (810) 989-6270 or jssmith@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter @Jackie20Smith.
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The Bush Twins Are Getting Real About What it Was Like Growing Up in the White House
Including what it was like dating with the Secret Service as a third wheel.
By Kate Storey
It's impossible to imagine what it's like to grow up in the White House with the world watching your every move. But Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush are going to give a peek into that life in a new memoir.
With one of my favorite women, my sissy! So appropriate to announce our book #sistersfirst today on International Women's Day! Here's to strong women, everywhere like my sister. http://sistersfirst.com
A post shared by Jenna Bush Hager (@jennabhager) on Mar 8, 2017 at 9:10am PST
The twins, who lived on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. while their dad, George W. Bush, served as president from 2001-2009, announced their new project, Sisters First, on Wednesday.
Can you believe this fine lady is 70? Happiest birthday my darling mama!
A post shared by Jenna Bush Hager (@jennabhager) on Nov 4, 2016 at 4:16am PDT
A new site reveals details about the book:
As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years later they stood by their father's side when he took the same oath. They spent their college years being trailed by the Secret Service and chased by the paparazzi, with every teenage mistake making national headlines. But the tabloids didn't tell the whole story of these two young women forging their own identities under extraordinary circumstances.
The sisters have been open about the fact that they haven't always been thrilled to have the bright spotlight on them. Before their dad ran for office, Jenna begged him to reconsider. She admitted to Newsweek that she told him in 2000: "Oh, I just wish you wouldn't run. It's going to change our life." But, of course, he ran and won with the twins were 19 years old. The teenagers famously made headlines during their dad's tenure when they were caught using fake IDs: A moment Jenna rehashed with her father just a couple of weeks ago on the Today show:
WATCH: George W. Bush dishes on if he watches @jennabushhager in the mornings and that one time he passed out from choking on a pretzel… pic.twitter.com/29cpVa9G6j
— TODAY with Hoda & Jenna (@HodaAndJenna) February 27, 2017
Jenna has a regular gig as a Today correspondent but Barbara has largely remained out of the spotlight, spending her time working with the nonprofit Global Health Corps.
Sisters First comes out October 24.
Kate Storey Senior Staff Writer Kate is a writer for Esquire covering culture, politics, style, and lifestyle.
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For one thing I remember when “Pride Day” commemorated the Stonewall Uprising.
Back in those days it was political.
I didn’t go to the Christopher Street West Gay Liberation Marches until 1974. The prior years I was dealing with more pressing issues including surgery dates.
I went to my first Christopher Street West March and Rally in Hollywood, 1974.
It wasn’t a huge event. But there were a lot of TS/TG women there, Hollywood was our turf, home to the few bars and restaurants that would serve us.
[pullquote]From where I stand the suits of Gay Inc or perhaps more accurately LGBT Inc seem pretty much isolated from the depredations of poverty.[/pullquote]A couple of bars had floats, as did a couple of bath houses. MCC was represented and the Christo-Fascists stood off to the side at the corner of Hollywood and Vine with their signs of condemnation and hell fire.
The Parade/March started at Hollywood and Argyle and made its way west to Las Palmas. There it turned south down Las Palmas, past the Gold Cup and the Church on Selma Avenue where the male hustlers displayed their merchandise.
The rally was held in De Longpre Park, south of Sunset Blvd and had speakers, not well known celebrity entertainers.
Morris Kight and Jim Kepner introduced the speakers. To their credit they remembered me from conferences.
The Founders of the Modern Gay Liberation Movement made an effort to reach out, recognize the diversity of a community that was already fragmenting into various identities.
I was there to enjoy the day and photograph the event. I didn’t have a prepared speech, but I got up and spoke anyway.
I spoke about how beautiful it was to see gay men, lesbians transsexuals and queens all together on this one day and how sad it was that the rest of the year we lived in our own ghettos with others excluded from our bars.
By 1976 the festival had started featuring entertainment as well as speeches. Booths selling beer, food and trinkets now occupied the park which had been the site of a political rally just two years prior.
By the 1980s the connection to the Stonewall uprising had become tenuous at best. The AIDS crisis dominated the LGBT scene as did the militant politics of Larry Kramer and ACT-UP.
Then in the 1990s as the AIDS crisis lessened it seemed as though LGBT people became a demographic to the point where community isn’t defined by relationships, affection or love, nor even by politics, but rather by patterns of consumption.
I’m a product of the 1960s, an unrepentant hippie anti-establishment sort. Many years ago marriage was the last thing on my mind, but old age and awareness of my own mortality as well as that of my life partner have made the legal ties and rights purchased with marriage into something desirable. But the marriage parasites shouldn’t start salivating over the thought of getting a bunch of money from us when we marry. We already had the ceremony performed by our peers a year and a half ago. We just want the paper and the rights. I sure don’t need an expensive dress or ceremony.
Once upon a time being LGBT was like being a hippie in many ways. Our lives served as an example of an alternative to the consumerist, the patriarchal institutions of the straights.
With our lives we questioned their assumptions.
Now it seems as though we want to be just like them.
Join the military, wage imperialistic wars of conquest to fatten the wallets of the rich.
Get the useless education in being an efficient corporate tool, destroying the planet and walking on the backs of the working class so you too can afford to attend the MWMF/Dinah Shore/Black Party/White Party with a winter share in Aspen and a summer share in the Hamptons.
There are a lot of pissed off TS/TG folks who feel forgotten. Too queer to be a part of the A-List LGBT club. From the floors of the Big Box Stores to the street corners and squats they still see the personal as the political.
Maybe it is time for working class folks, both White and People of Color who are LGBT to realize many of our issues are class related and not simply LGBT related.
I held my tongue over all the Gays in the Military hoopla. Because there are LGBT people who are in the military and who need the benefits they earned. But somehow serving as part of the imperialistic corporate war machine always seemed like a pretty dubious right.
Particularly given the history of the US and its support of brutal dictatorships along with the over throwing of elected democratic [pullquote align=”right”]Perhaps we need to reclaim the concept of liberation. Freedom isn’t choosing between the latest iPhone and the latest Samsung Galaxy. Freedom is about having equality and dignity.[/pullquote]governments.
I have to ask, “Who all are you protecting, the people of the US or the profits of the ultra rich corporate overlords?”
This brings me to the latest act of craven cowardliness on the part of the A-List LGBT folks who run the movement: Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced
It seems that some of the A-list corporate suck-ups were afraid of the controversy surrounding Bradley Manning. Perhaps they were afraid people might be reminded of the gentle, angry, loving people who marched in the 1960s and 1970s when standing for something was more important than buying the next expensive toy, the next exotic and exclusive gay/lesbian cruise.
Maybe as an old post-transsexual lesbian and left wing hippie I hold the A-List LGBT folks values in contempt.
Maybe I have more in common with the LGBT folks who go to the same concerts at the same funky venues as old straights with hippie roots.
Funny thing is I still feel pretty damned comfortable at demonstration where folks are holding Teachers, Nurses, Communication Workers and Teamster Union signs protesting cuts to Social Security and the war against working people.
More comfortable than at LGBT events featuring A-List members of LGBT Inc.
Speaking of which… While a lot of gay men died during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s a lot of lesbians didn’t and a lot of us working class LGBT folks are facing pretty desolate lives of loneliness and poverty as we age. Social Security is another inconvenient issue.
From where I stand the suits of Gay Inc or perhaps more accurately LGBT Inc seem pretty much isolated from the depredations of poverty.
But I can pretty much guarantee you this issue will not be raised at the Corporate Sponsored Pride Day Celebrations across the nation. Mustn’t let corporate selling opportunities be tainted with politics or anything that would cause LGBT consumer to think they are living in a dystopia instead of a virtual paradise.
Maybe it is time for a counter-cultural LGBT revolution, one that throws off the chains of identity politics and forges bonds based on common cause with workers, older people, environmentalists, the lumpen folks who are homeless or working the street, the anti-war folks.
Perhaps we need to reclaim the concept of liberation. Freedom isn’t choosing between the latest iPhone and the latest Samsung Galaxy. Freedom is about having equality and dignity. Not having to go to bed hungry, having a roof over your head, not having to do sex work.
Maybe we need a New Deal 2.0
I’m pretty sure we don’t need a whole lot of what the corporate sponsors of LGBT Inc are selling.
Free Bradley Manning
Free Leonard Peltier
Free Lynn Stewart
Free Cece McDonald
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
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ASTA Is 'Disappointed' But Carnival Plans Cuba Expansion
by Richard D’Ambrosio / June 19, 2017
The Kempinski Hotel in Havana recently opened, demonstrating the interest in more leisure travel to Cuba.
The American Association of Travel Agents (ASTA) said it is “disappointed” with the Trump Administration’s decision to tighten up travel regulations for individual Americans visiting Cuba, the country’s leading advocate for retail travel professionals said in a statement Friday.
“ASTA is disappointed with the Trump Administration’s announcement that it plans to turn back the clock on expanded travel and trade between the U.S. and Cuba,” said Zane Kerby, ASTA president & CEO. He cited the increase in travel that has benefitted agents and other ASTA members since the Obama administration loosened rules in 2016.
“For our members, much will depend on the details of new Treasury and Commerce Department regulations coming in the next few months, and ASTA plans to fully participate in that process. While challenges remain in terms of Cuba’s readiness for large volumes of American travelers, the past few years have seen a growth in business for U.S. travel agencies, tour operators, airlines, cruise lines, hotel and other travel companies. That progress is now at risk,” Kerby said.
Prior to the announcement, the industry was estimating 400,000 Americans would visit Cuba this year. The Trump Administration's new proposed rules will eliminate “people-to-people” travel, which allows American travelers to book individual trips; U.S. citizens will now have to look to group tours to visit Cuba. Additionally, individuals may have a harder time proving their visit falls under one of 12 authorized categories such as a religious, journalistic or artistic activity.
“ASTA continues to believe that the American people are the best ambassadors of U.S. values abroad, and should be allowed to freely travel to any destination they wish without restriction from their own government. Rather than shutting the door to this market 90 miles off our shores, we call on policymakers to enact legislation to do away with the statutory Cuba travel ban once and for all. While today is a setback, we will continue to advocate toward Cuba travel freedom and look forward to the day it becomes reality,” it said.
Carnival Corporation, meanwhile, said it is “pleased” that the policy changes “will allow our ships to continue to sail to Cuba" and plans to expand its offerings.
"We will review the extent of the tightening of the travel rules, but our guests have already been traveling under the 12 approved forms of travel to Cuba since we undertook our historic first cruise to Cuba more than a year ago," it said. Its experience in Cuba this past year "has been extremely positive. We look forward to the new cruises being planned for Cuba with Carnival Cruise Line and Holland America Line. We also have requested approval for our other brands to travel to Cuba. Travel brings people and cultures together, so we are excited about the upcoming cruises to Cuba for our guests.”
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Royal Caribbean Cancels Three Oasis of the Seas Sailings After Crane Accident
by Jessica Montevago / April 03, 2019
Oasis of the Seas was undergoing a bow-to-stern transformation, as part of the “Royal Amplified” fleet renovation project.
After a crane damaged Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas, the cruise line said it has canceled the ship’s April 7, 14, and 21 sailings out of Port Canaveral in order to complete the interrupted dry dock.
Oasis of the Seas suffered damages to the Aqua Theatre and some suites when a construction crane fell onto the ship in Grand Bahama shipyard on Monday. The 5,400-passenger vessel was undergoing a bow-to-stern transformation, as part of the “Royal Amplified” fleet renovation project.
Guests on the three sailings will receive full refunds, as well as full credit toward a future cruise, Royal Caribbean told Travel Market Report.
In a message to passengers, the cruise line also said passengers will be reimbursed for non-refundable airline change fees, up to $200 per guest for domestic flights and up to $400 per guest for international flights. All pre-paid amenities, packages, and shore excursions will be refunded as well.
Oasis of the Seas will head from the shipyard in Freeport, Bahamas to be serviced at facilities in Cadiz, Spain. It will then resume her scheduled itineraries, beginning with the May 5 sailing from Barcelona.
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TSSA victory on Cross Country managers' holiday pay shows why all managers should join the union
TSSA has won an extension of new backdated holiday pay claim for all manager grades at Cross Country rail company not just those covered by our union's collective bargaining package.
Every manager will now have their legal right to holiday pay entitlement respected on the same basis as the company's other staff. This means that many managers will shortly receive a substantial additional payment.
This agreement comes after many months of urging the company to treat the managers fairly and has echoes of the dispute a year ago over the 2017 annual pay increase when Cross Country tried to pay managers less than other staff and only backed down when the managers voted to take strike action.
TSSA General Secretary Manuel Cortes is now urging all Cross Country managers to join the union.
Cortes said: "This shows why being in our union makes good sense. Cross Country only agreed to do the right thing on holiday pay last week when TSSA threatened another dispute. The latest concession wrung out of Cross Country shows that a united workforce that is prepared to stand up for themselves can win in the workplace regardless of whether or not their union is recognised.
"It is regrettable that Cross Country continues to refuse to recognise TSSA for most managers. The result is that we lurch from one dispute to the next.
“It would be far better if the company treated the managers with the respect they deserve and allow them to have a collective voice through their union - that means formally recognising TSSA. We can then start to build a mutually beneficial relationship that avoids these disputes.
"To those members of our TSSA family at Cross Country who will soon be feeling the financial benefit of membership, I say - speak to your colleagues that are not in TSSA and invite them to join our union.
“The more managers there are in membership, the more the company will respect them, and they will be able to exert more influence when it comes to the company's decisions. And the easier it will be for TSSA to persuade Cross Country to formally recognise the union."
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Katie Warburton (Rowson)
Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing
Brook Building, BB337
KWarburton2@uclan.ac.uk
Subject Areas: Health
Katie is a Senior Lecturer in Children’s Nursing mainly teaching on the BSc (hons) Pre-Registration Nursing Degree. Katie maintains clinical practice links working as a Clinical Research Nurse and has an honorary contract with a local children’s hospice.
Katie’s Children’s Nursing experience includes 7½ years as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology working in the hospital and community setting. Prior to this Katie has experience working in General Paediatrics, Paediatric Oncology & Haematology and Children’s Hospice settings.
Diploma in Nursing, Salford University, 2003
BSc (hons) Acute Child Care, Salford University, 2006
Non-Medical Nurse Independent Prescriber, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2010
MSc Integrated Children and Young People’s Practice, Edge Hill University, 2016
Associate Fellow of The Higher Education Academy
Membership of professional and learned bodies
Judd, A., Le Prevost, M., Melvin, D., Arenas-Pinto, A., Parrott, F., Winston, A., Foster, C., Sturgeon, K., Rowson, K., Gibb, D.M, for the Adolescents and Adults Living With Perinatal HIV (AALPHI) Steering Committee Cognitive function in young persons with and without perinatal HIV in the AALPHI cohort in England: Role of non-HIV-related factors. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2016; 63:1380-1387-1380-1387
Marthe Le Prevost, Alejandro Arenas-Pinto, Diane Melvin, Francesca Parrott, Caroline Foster, Deborah Ford, Michael Evangeli, Alan Winston, Kate Sturgeon, Katie Rowson, Diana M. Gibb, Ali Judd & on behalf of the Adolescents and Adults Living with Perinatal HIV (AALPHI) Steering Committee (2018) Anxiety and depression symptoms in young people with perinatally acquired HIV and HIV affected young people in England, AIDS Care, DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2018.1441972
Rowson, K. Tan, A. Donaghy, S. Doerholt, K. Heath, P. & Riordan, A. (2015)Measles Reimmunization May Not Be Effective in Protecting HIV-Infected Children The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal Vol 34, No 5, pp. 552
Rowson, K. (2012) Responding to the needs of Children with HIV and Learning Difficulties in School British Journal of School Nursing Vol7 No 8 pp: 383-386
Dwyer, E. Prime, K. Foster, C. Jungmann, E. Gilbey-Cross, R. Adikari, S. Rowson, K. Cheserem, E. Sherlock, E. Herbert, S. Stergiopoulou, E. & Rocco, T. (2013) Mental Health diagnoses in HIV-infected young people: HIV Young Person’s Network Audit HIV Medicine 14 (Suppl.2) 1-10 (poster)
Slee, H. Hardman, J. Scott, K. Rowson, K. Nixon, I. & Tan, A. (2013) Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV: Paediatric Audit Cycles between 2004 and 2010 HIV Medicine 14 (Suppl.2) 1-10 (poster)
External Affiliations and Roles
Executive Committee Member – Children’s HIV Association (CHIVA)
HIV Nursing Journal – Advisory Board
CHIVA Africa Volunteer
Destination Florida – Volunteer Lead Nurse
Conference Presentations at:
CHIVA Conferences, NHIVNA Conference, North West Paediatric and Perinatal HIV Network Conferences, Royal Society of Medicine Conference, National Children’s Bureau Conference
Research Nurse on AALPHI Study – MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London
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David Flores has made a steady rise into the upper echelon of North American riders, and last year finished sixth on the earnings list after his mounts won 208 races and earned $11,938,125. Flores began riding as a 16-year-old in his native Mexico back in 1984, and came to the United States five years later to ride at Del Mar. Flores won the 1997 Santa Anita Handicap with Siphon (Brz) and has a pair of Hollywood Gold Cups triumphs. His most notable accomplishments have also included an amazing string of successes on the California fair circuit, particularly at Fairplex, where he scored a record 48 victories in 1991.
In 1997 he was in the saddle when Isitingood clocked a then-world record mile of 1:32.05 at Santa Anita, and Flores also finished third in the Kentucky Derby that season, aboard Free House.
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New York - Imam Planning Mosque Near Ground Zero Rips Critics, Tea Party's 'Worship A Monkey-God' Comment
Published on: May 21, 2010 09:50 AM
By: NY Daily News
New York - The Imam planning an Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero says his critics are bigots and the project will stamp out terrorism - not fan the flames.
“We condemn terrorists. We recognize it exists in our faith, but we are committed to eradicate it,” said Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is leading the charge to build the Cordoba House.
“We want to rebuild this community,” he said. “This is about moderate Muslims who intend to be and want to be part of the solution.”
Rauf appeared with city leaders Thursday at 45 Park Place, the future home of the Cordoba House less than three blocks from Ground Zero.
The meeting came one day after Tea Party Express chairman Mark Williams called the project a monument to 9/11 attackers “for the worship of the terrorists’ monkey-god.”
Williams later issued a ham-handed apology to the “millions of Hindus who worship Lord Hanuman, an actual Monkey God.”
Asked about Williams’ comment, Rauf said he was “surprised by the lies, by the bigotry.”
The 13-story Cordoba House will include a mosque, fitness center, pool, classrooms, kitchens and a theater for lectures and performances, developers say.
They say the Cordoba House was modeled after the 92nd St. Y, with the benefits of a community center with prayer space.
Another mosque - much smaller than the Cordoba plan - has existed downtown on Warren St. since 1970 and has been operating out of 20 Warren St. since 2008.
Although there have been critics, including some relatives of 9/11 victims, the Cordoba project has the support of virtually every lower Manhattan politician and Community Board 1.
“There’s been a tremendous amount of bigotry associated with this,” said CB1 president Julie Menin. “If we’ve learned any lesson from 9/11, it’s to respect people’s religious freedoms.”
“Our city’s open to anybody, no matter what your religion is,” Mayor Bloomberg said.
Still, some are voicing outrage at the idea of a mosque near the hallowed ground where Islamic terrorists waged war on America.
“By no means am I saying the folks trying to build this place are responsible for 9/11, but you still have to take a hard look at it and say how will it look to have this in your face?” said Patrick Bahnken, head of the union that represents paramedics.
“It is like salt in the wound - a constant reminder of what they did to us on 9/11.
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May 21, 2010 at 10:15 AM Anonymous Says:
"If we've learned any lesson from 9/11" it's to keep Islamic terrorists out of New York City!
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“ "If we've learned any lesson from 9/11" it's to keep Islamic terrorists out of New York City! ”
How does he have funding for a 13 story building in the most expensive area if not from the terorist? I would issue a investigation where the money to fund this project comes from?
May 21, 2010 at 10:52 AM FVNMS Says:
Vehuyisu meshigu mimarai ainneichu... how is it that we still tolerate this cancer?
May 21, 2010 at 11:06 AM Milhouse Says:
If someone wanted to build a German cultural center next door to Auschwitz, I wonder what we would hear from the same people who are defending this.
May 21, 2010 at 11:08 AM US citizen Says:
What a SHAME that our country would even consider allowing the Terrorists, their supporters and religion to capitalize at the expense of our devastation.
Of course, this country's choice of the president who is committed to destroy our country is synonymous.
May 21, 2010 at 11:10 AM hear nur Says:
Are those who approve of this project so dumb as to think this Imam will rant violence at this point?There were numerous instances where the Imams said what they knew people wanted to hear and then turned around and started spewing hate.Whatever Rauf is saying now, will not have a bearing on the true purpose of why they are building a mosque davka in this area.
Seems to me, a generation who worships dumb celebrities, watch dumb TV shows and movies and is steeped in immoral culture cannot think rationally.History does not happen from one day to the next.Seemingly minor events build up over the years and culminates into a time ripe for a revolution.To me it seems that some Americans, a lot of them in postitions of power, are unknowingly and slowly granting the Muslims a chance to do their hearts desire.After 9/11 we get a president with the name Hussein and a mosque near ground zero.
Yidden wake up!We're hated by the Muslims and soon we'll be hated by the rightists who will blame the Jews for these liberal policies and owning the liberal press. I hope the writing I see on the wall is telling of the coming of Moshiach.Otherwise, we are in gehakte tzaros. Take out tehilems now!
what is wrong with the building of a mosque?! there are over a billion muslims in the world, they are not all evil.
If he is so commited to stamping out terror then let him show what he has actually done since 9/11 to denounce terror and violence and what sermons has he held denouncing terrorism then we can see how serious he is
Interesting that they plan on opening it on Sept. 11, 2011!! I guess, having a mosque across from Ground Zero is kind of insurance against another attack. They wouldn't risk damaging a mosque in another attack.
May 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM pupa rebbe Says:
People need to learn to build the moderate muslims if you want to defeat wahabee bigoted islam
A building like this is for the sake of the modern world so young muslims don't fall in the hand of the bigoted preachers
May 21, 2010 at 12:36 PM Charlie Hall Says:
Why should they not be able to build if they purchased the land legally and have the right permits? We scream anti-Semitism at the top of our lungs whenever we have trouble getting approval for a shul or yeshiva!
May 21, 2010 at 01:19 PM hear nur Says:
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Charlie Hall Says:
“ Why should they not be able to build if they purchased the land legally and have the right permits? We scream anti-Semitism at the top of our lungs whenever we have trouble getting approval for a shul or yeshiva! ”
How many shul members or yeshivs students committed terrorist acts? How many Rabbis talk about the need for murder, killing and wiping out the infidels?
Charlie Hall, how about for once leaving out the legal part and applying some common sense?
May 21, 2010 at 02:36 PM Yonasonw Says:
Shameful, really shameful - I mean, religious tolerance is only for us Yidden - we don't have to be tolerant of them.
Have you people no understanding of the principles of tolerance and inclusivity that are the very reasons we thrive in this medina? Have you learned nothing about why we owe Hakoras Hatov to this country? And many of you would be the first to yell antisemite at anyone who even looked askance at an erev project or the like.
May 21, 2010 at 02:38 PM Shlomo Says:
hear nur Says:
“ How many shul members or yeshivs students committed terrorist acts? How many Rabbis talk about the need for murder, killing and wiping out the infidels?
Because this is a nation of laws.
"Common sense" about one group (in this case Moslems) becomes common sense about another groups...say Jews. It's "common knowledge" that Jews run the banks, media, Hollywood, etc., etc. It's only one step from "common sense" dictating that Jews be singled out for causing the banking crisis, preventing the media from running certain stories, and ruining our morals with the stuff from Hollywood.
Only a generation ago we had "restrictive covenants," quotas on hiring Jews, etc.
May 21, 2010 at 03:24 PM Anonymous Says:
“ what is wrong with the building of a mosque?! there are over a billion muslims in the world, they are not all evil. ”
if those billions of muslims wouldve forcefully stood up and vehmently demostraded against what muslims did and do all over hthe world then we could say what you say, until then we have a few meek little voices and always with a with a ',......BUT' added
this charlie guy still has the nerve to ignore and say his leftists line
Alot! I've heard many charedi rabbunim talk about how if we had the power, we would kill the gays, the reform, the apikorsim, and anyone who drives on shabbos.
The Chazon Ish writes that if we had the power in Beis Din (not senhedrin at all, just makkin v'oinshin sheloi min ha'din), we would kill any woman wearing pants!
There are countless charedim in yerushalayim that throw rocks, hold people down for mass beating and burn things....hey, they even threw acid into the face of a 14 year old girl who was not dressed appropriately!!!
Yonasonw Says:
“ Shameful, really shameful - I mean, religious tolerance is only for us Yidden - we don't have to be tolerant of them.
I have no problem with tolerance of peaceful people, but I am not tolerant of those who want to destroy our ability to be tolerant. Unfortunately most of you commenting here have no idea what being a religious Muslim means. There are very few moderate religious Muslims and a lot of "moderate" Muslims turned out to be supportive of terror.
It's very naive to compare an erev project, which will do others no harm, to a mosque that is a place of preaching of Islam which is to this day and age a religion that glorifies terror. For example those that kill themselves in the process of killing infidels go to heaven and get seven maidens as well.
That's why you rarely hear religious Muslims and especially their leaders denouncing terror. Religious Muslims who denounce terror are very, very rare.
Rauf himself, while commendably denouncing terrorism also admits that it exists in the Islamic faith. I quote him from the article "We condemn terrorists. We recognize it exists in our faith, but we are committed to eradicate it," said Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who is leading the charge to build the Cordoba House.
He cannot eradicate what is part and parcel of his faith.
Shlomo Says:
“ Because this is a nation of laws.
First of all while Jews may own banks and the media it's patently false that it's all owned by Jews. In any case, were Jews to own ALL of the banks and media nobody is forcing non-Jews not to open their own banks and from aquiring their own news outlets as well. Nobody is forcing anybody to use Jewish services.
On the other hand, most terrorist acts are carried out by Muslims. And their acts are forced upon innocent people.
You're confusing anti-Semitism - that's blaming the Jews for the world's evils with common sense - seeing evil as it truly is.
If past American history were to repeat itself, the Tea Party movement would turn towards anti-semitism. However Paul has found an even more convenient target.
Wake up America. Both branches of Muslims are on a Nationwide mosque building campaign. Saudi Arabia funds their mosques of madness. Iran funds their mosques of madness. They are building mosques in every US College town close to campuses. They are building a nucleus for foreign muslim students to build Muslim American communities. They have a track record of anti-Israel campus efforts. Their leaders are virtually all terror supporters and funders. They even have a political leadership whose job is Public Relations to spread the lie of Muslim "PEACE" and "HARMONY" which we all know is propaganda. We must make sure that these Mosques and their leaders are held to account for double talking and support for terrorism.
May 21, 2010 at 05:53 PM Liberalism is a Disease!!! Says:
Charlie, every time I see your far left leaning posts, I always remind myself why there are no Jewish Liberals only Liberal Jews. The reason is because a liberal is a liberal FIRST and a Jew second! The religion you follow is LIBERALISM and not Judaism, and that is a major problem.
It's just mind-boggling to see jews here defending these animals. Reminds me of Lenin's quip that the capitalists would see their own executioners (i.e. the communists) the rope with which to hang them!
May 21, 2010 at 07:10 PM Milhouse Says:
“ If past American history were to repeat itself, the Tea Party movement would turn towards anti-semitism. However Paul has found an even more convenient target. ”
Why would you even think to associate the tea party movement with antisemitism, or racism of any kind? You have a sick mind.
And would you say the same for a German center across from Auschwitz? Yes or no? Whether there is a legal way to stop it is one question; but whether every decent person should oppose it is another.
So we show hakoras hatov to the USA by supporting its enemies?!
Except that it IS common knowledge that we are at war, and that Moslem terrorism is a serious problem. This isn't some fantasy, it's a FACT, and you know it very well, however much you dishonestly pretend not to.
May 21, 2010 at 09:31 PM dprosenthal Says:
“ Interesting that they plan on opening it on Sept. 11, 2011!! I guess, having a mosque across from Ground Zero is kind of insurance against another attack. They wouldn't risk damaging a mosque in another attack. ”
Are you serious? These people still live by a tribal mentality and are constantly killing those in different sects and destroying mosques. One can only hope that this particular Imam and his followers have some really serious enemies on the other side of town.
May 22, 2010 at 10:01 PM reba Says:
Many Poskim from the Meir of Rothenberg up until the Brisker Rav have ruled that Muslims are Gerei Toshav. Even if your Rav does not hold that Muslims are Gerei Toshav, there is no question since the Rambam that Muslims are monotheists.
Please elaborate upon what is the Torah basis to object to or interfere with either Monotheists or Gerei Toshav (depending upon how your Rav holds) worshipping and praising the One and True G-d.
I learned from my Rav who is a world respected Dayyan, one of the few whose Gerim and Gitten are universally accepted in EY, that there is no Torah basis NOT to encourage Gentiles to turn to Islam rather than Christianity or any other faith.
“ Alot! I've heard many charedi rabbunim talk about how if we had the power, we would kill the gays, the reform, the apikorsim, and anyone who drives on shabbos.
First of all, either you need a hearing aid or have comprehension problems. While gays, apikorsim, murderers and Jews who are mechallel Shabbos are al pi Torah given the death sentence, there needs two be two witnesses who clearly saw the sin being done and these two witnesses are taken in for separate questioning. Therefore, in times of the Sanhedrin where the sages had the power to carry out these sentences, they were in fact rarely carried out. In fact, a bais din who carried out more than one death sentence per seventy years was considered a very harsh bais din. The threat of death penalty in the Torah is there for deterence and for people to know how harsh these sins were. This is different than glorifying murderer and brainwashing others to kill innocent people.
Whatever the Chazon Ish wrote, it is not in the context that you being it down.
Mass beatings is a figment of your imagination, and mesheguim throwing rocks is not condoned by any Rabbi or frum normal Jew. Are you comparing a few Jewish crazies to the outright religious Jihad of the Muslims who condone and glorify the killing of infidels?
May 22, 2010 at 10:56 PM Rabbi Pinchos Woolstone Says:
Please someone place in context the words of the Chazon Ish with regards to women who wear pants and his attitude to Jews who are not Shomer Shabbos in general.
May 22, 2010 at 11:51 PM mendy in midwest Says:
I said (not on Line but to my friends) at the time of the tragic 9/11 that we should rebuild the sky scrapers as they were
and now i see that i was right if we would has than their 13 story ... would not even be noticed!!
No such thing as a moderate Muslim ;geert wilders
Milhouse Says:
“ Why would you even think to associate the tea party movement with antisemitism, or racism of any kind? You have a sick mind. ”
Pretty reasonable concern. The Henry Fords and Pat Bachanans of the world are usually as anti-Semitic as they are anti-everyone else.
Xenophobia and Anti-Semitism often go hand in hand.
“ Pretty reasonable concern. The Henry Fords and Pat Bachanans of the world are usually as anti-Semitic as they are anti-everyone else.
Reasonable concern?! What have either Henry Ford or Pat Buchanan got to do with the tea party movement? You are a sick person engaged in a deliberate slander campaign against the tea party movement, trying to associate it with racism and violence. You will not succeed.
“ Reasonable concern?! What have either Henry Ford or Pat Buchanan got to do with the tea party movement? You are a sick person engaged in a deliberate slander campaign against the tea party movement, trying to associate it with racism and violence. You will not succeed. ”
He's not a sick person. While I myself identify with the tea party movement and I hope they succeed (I highly doubt they will in the long run America and its media is already too infested with liberals) I do think anti-Semitism in the tea party movement is a concern. There this reason for concern that down the road some anti-Semitic right wingers can hijack the movement.
“ He's not a sick person. While I myself identify with the tea party movement and I hope they succeed (I highly doubt they will in the long run America and its media is already too infested with liberals) I do think anti-Semitism in the tea party movement is a concern. There this reason for concern that down the road some anti-Semitic right wingers can hijack the movement. ”
Any movement can get hijacked in the future. But why would you worry specifically about this one? Right-wing antisemites are a spent and marginal force; they are no real threat to anyone. The place where antisemitism openly flourishes is on the left. As of now there has been no hint or whisper of violence, racism, or antisemitism about the tea party movement; it has been squeaky clean, or as clean as any genuine grassroots movement with no leadership can be. And there is a specific deliberate campaign on the part of Obama and the Soros stable to smear it with those traits. At such a time, any speculation about what MIGHT happen in the future is playing with the enemy.
“ Any movement can get hijacked in the future. But why would you worry specifically about this one? Right-wing antisemites are a spent and marginal force; they are no real threat to anyone. The place where antisemitism openly flourishes is on the left. As of now there has been no hint or whisper of violence, racism, or antisemitism about the tea party movement; it has been squeaky clean, or as clean as any genuine grassroots movement with no leadership can be. And there is a specific deliberate campaign on the part of Obama and the Soros stable to smear it with those traits. At such a time, any speculation about what MIGHT happen in the future is playing with the enemy. ”
Chochom ainav berosho.
Havai zohir bareshus she'ain mekarvin li le'odom eleh letzorach atzmom......
“ Chochom ainav berosho.
The tea party movement is the very opposite of "rashus". It's a real grassroots movement, with no leadership at all. It's an insurgency, not an authority. And it's the very "rashus" of which you note we should be wary, that is actively smearing the movement. Commenter #20 and #35 (probably the same person) is an active and knowing part of that smear campaign; so why do you object to my calling him on his lies? He is a sick person, a worshiper of the "rashus" and the "rish'us".
No difference. They just want our votes to increase their own power.
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The Magnificent Simon Keenlyside
Simon Keenlyside, baritone; Malcolm Martineau, piano; Songs by Mahler, Strauss, Debussy, Duparc and Butterworth - Chan Centre, October 25, 2011
SImon Keenlyside, baritone
There are few singers in the world right now that captivate devotees of opera and art song more than British lyric baritone Simon Keenlyside. His beautifully burnished and expressive tone colour, his strong and clean articulation, and his vocal flexibility offer the obvious reasons why. But the truly special ingredient is this singer’s ability to get right inside anything he is performing and convey the complexity and intensity of the feeling involved. On the opera stage, this leads to wonderfully subtle and detailed portrayals of his assumed roles; his strong acting abilities allow their vivid presentation. In song, it is his ability to dissect the variety in each text (poem) so lucidly and convey even small emotional changes with precision and insight.
For the newcomer to lieder (‘art song’), the first thing that would have impressed about this recital is how well Simon Keelyside can convey everything in a song from a vulnerable whisper to a quiet, disembodied loneliness, to the most noble and commanding outpouring of sound. He can be innocent and vulnerable at one moment, defiant and purposive at the next, yet never shies away from feelings of romantic love. In addition to his wonderfully fulsome middle and lower register, he often uses a quiet ‘white’ tone (falsetto-like) to bring out contrasts in feelings, being able to switch almost instantaneously between this tone and his full voice. In all of this, one must highlight the singer’s ‘silent’ partner, Malcolm Martineau, unobtrusive yet infinitely sensitive to every nuance in interpretation.
This programme concentrated on songs written around the beginning of the 20th C. but offered considerable variety. Keelyside was able to capture the innocence and fragrance of Gustav Mahler’s settings of Ruckert’s poems -- opening out most strikingly in Liebst du um Schoenheit (‘If you love for beauty’) -- while bringing out both the wit and strength of the more varied pieces from Das Knaben Wunderhorn (‘Youth’s Magic Horn’). In the richer Strauss songs, we saw further evidence of his pristine detailing and magnificent tonal variety and strength; his account of Befreit (‘Freed’) was particularly subtle; Das Rosenband (‘The Rose Garland’) was strong and very beautiful. If anything, the French songs were even finer. The sculpted long lines of Duparc’s Phidyle were exquisitely judged, as was the shimmering melancholy of Debussy’s Nuit d’etoiles (‘Starry Night’).
Did I ever feel that there was a less than perfect marriage between mind and soul in this singing; that the singer’s quest for detail and expression were so intense that he did not fully relax into the natural flow of the music? Instances of this were very few indeed, perhaps a trace more in the German songs than in the French. And of absolutely no concern in the additional settings of Housman’s ‘A Shropshire Lad’ by George Butterworth (1911), which he sang in a manner born. I simply cannot visualize these touching English expressions being better or more naturally performed, capturing everything from their strong, heroic lines to their deep sadness and pain. Especially moving was the last song, ‘Is my team ploughing?’ in the way that Keenlyside alternated his chilling ‘white’ tone with his full voice over its eight stanzas.
All told, this was probably the finest vocal recital we have seen in Vancouver in a good many years. Truly a remarkable artist; for a captivating recital on CD, find WH Live 0031.
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The first of three cruise ships will be arriving in Port Alberni’s harbour on May 25, 2019. NEWS FILE PHOTO
Port Alberni prepares for first of three cruise ship visits
Each of those days will be a day-long Harbour Quay event
Elena Rardon
May. 13, 2019 6:00 a.m.
Port Alberni is preparing for a day of entertainment on Saturday, May 25 as the first cruise ship of the summer arrives in the Alberni Inlet.
Three Holland America Line cruise ships will be docking in Port Alberni on May 25, June 15 and July 6.
“Each of those days will be a day-long Harbour Quay event,” explained Alberni Valley Chamber of Commerce president Bill Collette. “Right now we’re focused on one visit at a time.”
Saturday, May 25 will kick off with a Cruise Ship Festival at Harbour Quay from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The main event is a craft and farmers’ market that will run throughout Harbour Quay with more than 45 different vendors. Traffic will be blocked to the Quay starting at Port Boat House.
When the ships arrive, the Tseshaht Canoe Family escort will lead them into the harbour. Other First Nations have been invited to participate, as well.
Entertainment is scheduled to take place at four different locations: Harbour Quay, Spirit Square, the Maritime Heritage Centre and the Thunderbird Building. Musical performances will run throughout the day, and there will be songs and welcomes from Tseshaht, Hupacasath, Uchucklesaht, Tlaoquiaht and Huu-ay-aht First Nations.
Various businesses throughout Harbour Quay will be open, and the Industrial Heritage Society will have their classic trucks on display. The city-owned “Esso Beach,” located between the Harbour Quay Marina and Harbour Quay, is currently undergoing a makeover that will shape the area into something more pedestrian-friendly.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we have more local people than cruise passengers down there,” Collette said.
A committee of about 20 people has been working on and planning to welcome cruise ship passengers for the past year, and the committee has seen “a tonne of interest” from Port Alberni residents, said Collette. The chamber of commerce is still looking for volunteers for May 25. Those who are interested can call 250-724-6535 or visit the chamber in person.
The ships will be docked from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., which will give people plenty of time to explore, said Collette.
The last time the city hosted a cruise ship was in 2013—also a Holland America vessel. These new cruises are part of Holland America Line’s market test, aimed at a younger demographic capable of outdoor recreation.
READ: Port Alberni prepares for younger cruise ship passengers
Holland America is offering six on-board tours, which will take visitors to nearby icons such as Cathedral Grove and Stamp Falls. Another tour package will offer a “Taste of Port Alberni,” with trips to Emerald Coast Vineyards, Twin City Brewing and Coleman Meadows Farm. A “City Highlights” package will take tourists to the Alberni Valley Museum (featuring an exhibit on the Franklin Expedition), Victoria Quay and Coombs Country Candy.
But not everyone on the ships will be taking these tours.
“Some will come off the ship and just want to enjoy the community, maybe partake in a local tour,” said Collette.
Although there are only three stops planned for 2019, Collette and the City of Port Alberni are hoping the ships will be returning next year and beyond.
“That’s a prime objective in all of this,” said Collette. “We need to impress Holland America and we want to remain on their radar for future stops.”
The Holland America Line cruises are 21-day trips, and Port Alberni is the second-to-last stop.
“We see that as a good thing,” said Collette. “It gives us an opportunity to be a lasting impression.”
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While in London Tuesday night for his Purpose Tour, Justin Bieber started an audience tête–à–tête by asking, “Who thinks I should get my Instagram back?” (For the unlikely few who haven’t kept track, it's been three months, two weeks, and about a day and a half since the singer first deleted his account following a dustup with former girlfriend Selena Gomez.)
After some brief cheering in the affirmative from the crowd, he offered his perspective on the social-media platform. Read in print, Bieber’s words look like the rantings of a slightly unhinged bad boy of pop, as if his religious loyalties curdled into devil-themed conspiracy theories recorded somewhere in the depths of YouTube.
“Nah, I don’t want to get my Instagram back,” Bieber said. “Instagram is for the devil. I think hell is Instagram. I’m 90 percent sure. We get sent to hell, we get like locked in the Instagram server—like I’m stuck in the D.M.s and trying to, like, jump my way out.”
Pretty scary stuff here, and not just because somebody somewhere in Hollywood just green-lit this script, probably! Watch the video in full, with all it’s intonations and expertly timed pauses, however, and it’s clear what he’s doing: workshopping his first five minutes of jokes for a new life as a stand-up comic. He’s seeing how the “Instagram is the Devil” routine plays to a crowd of already screaming fans before leaving the world of music to transition into Dane Cook 2.0. Maybe he’s been tightening those first five with his favorite comedian, Chris D'Elia, a sort of payback for that time the comic gently roasted Bieber on Comedy Central.
Maybe D’Elia was even the one who showed him how to incorporate physical comedy into the mix. He pretended to take photos and teased that he’ll never upload them to Instagram. “I’ll be like, ‘Oh they would love this one,’ ” while miming a selfie. The crowd went wild, all “wooooos” and laughter.
And why couldn’t Justin Bieber try his hand at comedy? He travels the globe and sees all walks of life. There must be material to mine there! He’s comfortable onstage and could pack any arena. He recently gave an impromptu piano performance at a regular bar in Canada; why not a set at the Comedy Cellar or the Laugh Factory? It’s about time for his quarter-life crisis anyway, and stand-up feels more true to the Bieber we’ve come to know than an attempt at acting or retiring to a farm with Kylie Jenner.
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In between baby-pool choreography sequences in his “Beauty and the Beat” music video, Bieber gyrates stone-faced behind Nicki Minaj as she delivers the line “Buns out, weiner, but I gotta keep an eye out for Selener.”
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Corbyn: Labour will vote down May’s “blindfold Brexit” deal
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has branded Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit withdrawal agreement a “blindfold Brexit” and reaffirmed that Labour will vote against it in the House of Commons.
Speaking at the annual conference for the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), a UK business organisation that represents the interests of 190,000 UK businesses, Corbyn described May’s deal as a “botched, worst of all worlds deal” that would leave the country in an “indefinite halfway house without a real say”.
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Responding to the events of last week, in which a string of Conservative MPs resigned and others submitted letters of no confidence, he said that “many businesses will be confused and very, very anxious”.
Corbyn went on to reiterate that Labour respects the result of the referendum, despite several high-profile Labour MPs openly voicing their support for a second vote.
Labour will, however, vote against May’s draft withdrawal agreement. And if the deal does not get through Parliament, Labour will demand a general election.
If they can’t secure a general election, Labour will consider other options, including a “public vote of some form”.
What’s a “blindfold Brexit”?
Corbyn decided to adopt a term used yesterday by SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon – a “blindfold Brexit”.
“After all the speculation about which adjective to use before the word Brexit – hard, soft, clean, red, white, blue – the Prime Minister has taken us into a new one: a blindfold Brexit,” said Corbyn.
“A deal designed to get her through the next stage of the process without anyone being able to see where we’re heading as a country, which is what we all need to know.”
He added that it risks “seriously damaging British industry” and the “wider economy”.
Labour’s position
Labour had previously made it clear that the party would oppose a deal that did not meet its six Brexit tests.
One of these was worker and consumer rights, which Corbyn described as having “minimal” protection in May’s deal.
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While Labour “will not countenance a no-deal Brexit”, he said failing to negotiate a better deal would lock Britain into a “backstop from which it cannot leave without the agreement of the European Union, with no time limit or endpoint”.
He went on to outline Labour’s alternative plan that he claimed would create a “new, comprehensive, permanent customs union with a British say that would ensure no hard border”.
When pressed on why this would be any easier to negotiate than May’s deal, Corbyn responded that “they would not approach negations with threats to the EU” or turn the UK into a Singapore on the shores of Europe.
Corbyn’s speech follows May’s earlier today, in which she doubled down on her draft agreement and insisted that it provides businesses with certainty.
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Warwick welcomes Giggling Squid restaurant
The launch of the Giggling Squid in Warwick. Photo by Rebecca Fennell.
Published: 08:00 Saturday 19 November 2016
A basement business that transformed into a restaurant chain has set up shop in Warwick.
On Thursday the Giggling Squid, which specialises in Thai cuisine, opened on the town’s High Street.
Pranee Laurillard, who is Thai-born, founded the Giggling Squid with her husband Andrew in the basement of a small fisherman’s cottage in Brighton in 2002.
The couple named the restaurant the Giggling Squid, which is now a chain, after the nickname of one of their children.
Mr and Mrs Laurillard soon established a loyal following and now have 18 premises across the UK with another two set to open.
Warwick’s own branch of the chain is able to accommodate up to 120 guests and opens for lunch and dinner serving fresh dishes prepared on-site by a team of Thai chefs.
Mrs Laurillard, said: “The welcome we’ve received from Warwick has been overwhelming. I think lots of people have witnessed the building work we’ve done over the past year, and are intrigued to see what we’ve spent all this time doing! We are thrilled with the results and can’t wait to share our lovely Giggling Squid with the locals. Please come and say hello.”
The Giggling Squid is located at 3 High Street and opens Monday to Thursday from midday until 10pm, Friday and Saturday from midday until 10.30pm and Sunday from midday until 9.30pm.
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Trucker who dumped sand on roadway facing charges after deadly ATV accident
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UPDATE: The sheriff's office says the truck driver has been identified as Roy McWillie Jones, who works for a Mississippi trucking company.
Lt. Ken Albarez tells WBRZ that Jones admitted to dumping the sand, saying he'd done so in the past knowing it was a rarely-used private road.
The sheriff's office says he'll be cited with criminal mischief and having an unsecured load. Jones must return to West Baton Rouge to receive those citations by noon Wednesday, or a warrant will be issued for his arrest.
WEST BATON ROUGE- Sheriff’s deputies are looking for a person who potentially played a role in an ATV accident that killed a 61-year-old man over the weekend.
The crash happened around 3 p.m. Saturday near the McDonald’s and Cash’s Truck Stop on a road off LA 415. Authorities say the driver identified as James D. Major Jr. was riding a three-wheeler down a private road he used regularly.
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Deputies believe Major hit a pile of sand that caused his ATV to flip, killing him. Authorities say the sand looked as if it was left by a truck.
Video released by the sheriff's office Monday shows a semi truck driver coming to a brief stop before seemingly dumping piles of sand on the roadway and driving off again. Lt. Ken Albarez, a traffic official with WBRSO, says the man seen in the video is currently a person of interest in the deadly accident.
The wreck remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact the sheriff's office at (225) 343-9234.
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Your tour in Uruguay starts here.
Its excellent geographic location has led Uruguay to become consolidated as a privileged producer of wines with international standards of quality, not only in the region but also in the world, in the last few years.
Its vineyards lie between the 30th and 35th parallels south, just like in Argentina, Chile, Australia and New Zealand, whose grapes and labels are known worldwide. Both the littoral and the central areas lodge countless wineries whose number increases year after year. They are located mainly in the Departments of Colonia, Carmelo, Canelones, Rivera and Montevideo.
Considered as a country of temperate climate due to its clayey soil, sunshine year round, average rainfalls and temperatures, in Uruguay, vineyards rest on rocky terrains or across the plains featuring soft undulations many times resembling the French sceneries that gave origin to each of the grapes that reached these lands.
In addition to the extraordinary knowledge and human quality of those who make Uruguayan wine, the climate and the soil have managed a perfect combination for real treasures like Merlot, Cavernet sauvignon, Malbec and Tannat grapes to be granted international awards in the latest contests and encounters on this specialty. There is no doubt that the mixture of these factors turn Uruguay into an ideal destination for lovers of good wine, as they may include the real possibility of touring around several wineries during their vacations and leisure time as they taste these ever improving Uruguayan wines.
Lately, various associations have been created to communicate winemakers and wine lovers and thus satisfy the increasing interest felt by both Uruguayan people and foreigners concerning the wines made in this fine-looking country. Thus, the wineries encouraging the so-called Caminos del vino (Wine Roads) have worked hard to enhance their facilities and raise or refurbish their buildings with new rooms for tasting sessions, wine museums, restaurants and boutiques selling exclusive products that give evidence that wine has come to Uruguay to stay.
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Uruguay is well-known for its hot spring resorts, which combine the healing properties of their waters, spa and esthetic treatments, as well as aquatic parks. Thus, visitors of all ages will choose the best alternative. This section presents the hot spring resorts in the country and their characteristics.
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Nature and tranquillity – but with the benefits of a big city thrown in! Hannover - one of Germany's greenest cities - offers the best of both worlds with its city forests, parks and attractive recreation areas.
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Lake Maschsee and Lake Steinhude are popular destinations for swimmers, sailors and wind surfers, and give Hannover a certain seaside charm. And the city's climate protection plan and mobility concepts ensure that building/housing projects and transport systems are managed in a way that is energy efficient and saves resources.
Hannover offers visitors the buzz of a vibrant, major city as well as plenty of green spaces, both in the centre and the suburbs. Eilenriede Forest, for example (Hannover's 'green lung') covers an area of 642 hectares, making it almost twice the size of New York's Central Park. This urban woodland area is just one of the many places where people can stroll, relax, jog, enjoy nature or picnic. Hannover's 'green ensemble' at the Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen includes a number of period gardens and fountains.
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Right in the city centre, the 'Operndreieck', a triangular park bordered on one side by the Hannover Opera House, is a great place to catch a moment of quiet at lunchtime, or after a spot of shopping. Visitors to Hannover Congress Centre can also enjoy its listed municipal gardens, which were the location for Germany's first Federal Horticultural Show. Around 8,000 more trees than 20 years ago now line the streets of the metropolitan area as a whole. And to add to all this greenery, there are more than 20,000 allotments, a host of small urban woodlands, and the südliche Leineaue nature area.
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Lakeside charm and any number of water sports – another winning combination offered by Hannover. Centrally located Lake Maschsee is a paradise for walkers, cyclists, joggers and inline skaters, as well as for water sports. Lake Steinhude, some 30 kilometres outside Hannover, is considerably larger: covering an area of 32 square kilometres, it is the biggest lake in north-west Germany and a popular destination for days out. With family boat trips, sailing, rowing boats, pedalos and motor boats, plus swimming, cycling, and nature walks through the dunes and moors, pretty much everyone can pursue their favourite pastime here.
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Hannover's climate protection programme is unparalleled in Germany and hugely ambitious. By 2020 Climate Alliance Hannover aims to have reduced carbon emissions from electricity and heat generation by 40 per cent compared with the 1990 level. An excellent example of the programme in action is the innovative zero:park in Wettbergen, the largest zero-emission housing scheme in Europe.
The 300 or so houses planned for this development will be constructed as passive houses, in which the residents consume approximately 80 per cent less energy than the legally prescribed level for new buildings. Additional measures such as the enercity proKlima subsidy programme and the HannoverMobilCard – which combines a conventional season ticket for local public transport with other mobility services such as car sharing, a Deutsche Bahn railcard and a wide range of services for cyclists – show Hannover's commitment to an environmentally friendly future.
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North Devon Locations Abroad
North Devon is known for its coastal towns and picturesque villages. They play a huge part in the charm of a seaside holiday and have become household names for UK getaways. But how do they compare to their siblings across the pond?
Bideford vs Biddeford, Maine
Based in York County, Biddeford is a city on the eastern side of the United States. Much like our own Bideford, it relies heavily on its proximity to the water. With rivers running through the centre of both, they’ve been top destinations for thousands of holidaymakers over the years. Although the weather may be a little warmer over there, we still think that our much loved UK hotspot tops the charts, because who can turn down ice cream on the quay?
Instow vs Instow, Canada
With its small beaches and sandy dunes, Instow is the chosen destination for tourists looking for a pleasant beach walk and delicious food too. Home to Johns of Instow and The Instow Arms, tourists flock to the small and picturesque village as they pass through North Devon. Unlike our own village, its Canadian sibling isn’t quite as bustling, as the small farming community in Canada only has a population of one. Interestingly, the small town was named after Instow, England by its founder C. Herbert, who was actually born in Devon.
Clovelly vs Clovelly, Australia
Clovelly is one the busiest tourist attractions in North Devon. This small village on the edge of Bideford is unlike any other, with its houses dotted around the steep cobbled streets. It is not uncommon to overhear people say “I thought Clovelly was in Australia”, and they are actually correct. Australia have their own Clovelly, although slightly different to our own. A small seaside suburb just down the coast from Sydney, it plays host to thousands of toe dippers as they enjoy their summer holidays. Still not a patch on our royal and historic gem though.
Barnstaple VS Barnstable, Massachusetts
Barnstable takes it name from Barnstaple, Devon and is a town in the US state of Massachusetts. Known for its agriculture, fishing and salt works it now has a population of just over 45,000, almost double the size of our own. Sat on the edge of the coast, its population get to enjoy vast expanses of sun, sea and sand, making the towns similar in these ways (maybe with a bit less sun here in Devon).
Appledore and Appledore Island, Maine
The home of Celia Thaxter and originally the artist’s salon, Appledore Island lies just off the coast of Maine and is a picture-postcard setting. Today, the island is home to the Shoals Marine Laboratory and unlike the seaside village of Appledore, Devon, it has no residing habitants. With less seclusion than Appledore Island, the stunning views and popular events like Appledore Book Festival make the North Devon village a hotspot for tourists all year round.
Ilfracombe vs Ilfracombe, Australia
In terms of landscapes, Ilfracombe, Australia is a world away from the famous seaside town of Ilfracombe in Devon, the home of Damien Hirst's Verity. Think of a typical western cowboy film and you’re pretty much there. Calling itself the ‘Hub of the West’, it is commonly known for its production of wool. We’d much rather dip our toes in the cool Devon sea any day!
After exploring our common towns and villages across the globe, we can safely say that we still think North Devon gives you everything you need for the perfect coastal getaway. If you have visited any of the twin towns we have mentioned, then make sure you let us know on our Facebook page - we’d love to know how you thought they compared.
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Michel Roux's definitive guide to sauces
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30 May 2019 by Quadrille Publishing Ltd
By Roux, Michel, OBE
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Sauces have always played an important role in cooking. They complement and enhance so many foods, adding nuances of flavour and taking dishes to new heights. With his wealth of culinary knowledge, Michel Roux is recognised as a master at the art of sauce-making. This comprehensive collection of over 200 sauces has attained classic status as the essential guide in every good cook's kitchen. The techniques and methods of sauce making are explained simply and clearly, many illustrated with step-by-step instructions and photographs. A comprehensive directory which recommends the best sauces for key dishes and ingredients is also included.
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Michel Roux is a legendary chef and one of the world's greatest experts on French cuisine. At his renowned restaurant, The Waterside Inn at Bray, he has held three Michelin stars for over three decades. His career has been hugely successful ever since he opened his first restaurant, the acclaimed Le Gavroche in London, with his brother Albert in 1967. He holds countless other culinary and personal honours and he was awarded an OBE in 2002 and the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 2004. His previous titles include Pastry (2007), Sauces (2009), Desserts (2011), The Essence of French Cooking (2014) and Cheese (2017), published by Quadrille. Michel has appeared in several popular television series including, from time to time, Saturday Kitchen. In The Roux Legacy, televised in 2012, leading food critics and top chefs described the Roux family as the most important culinary influence ever in Britain. This is further underlined by Michel's founding in 1983 and patronage of the Roux Scholarship, the most acclaimed and influential chef competition in the UK.
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The East of England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. It was created in 1994 and was adopted for statistics from 1999. It includes the ceremonial counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Essex has the highest population in the region.
Its population at the 2011 census was 5,847,000.[1] Bedford, Luton, Basildon, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea, Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester, Chelmsford and Cambridge are the region's most populous towns. The southern part of the region lies in the London commuter belt.
The region has the lowest elevation range in the UK. North Cambridgeshire and the Essex Coast have most of the around 5% of the region which is below 10 metres above sea level. The Fens are partly in North Cambridgeshire which is notable for the lowest point in the country in the land of the village of Holme 2.75 metres (9.0 ft) below mean sea level which was once Whittlesey Mere. The highest point is at Clipper Down at 817 ft (249 m), in the far south-western corner of the region in the Ivinghoe Hills.
Basildon and Harlow (Essex), with Stevenage and Hemel Hempstead (Hertfordshire), were main New Towns in the 1950s and 1960s, with much industry located there; three of these are on motorways, and fairly equidistant from London. In the late 1960s, the Roskill Commission considered Thurleigh in Bedfordshire, Nuthampstead in Hertfordshire and Foulness in Essex as a possible third airport for London.
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Frysk: Easten fan Ingelân
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Rigni - Village
Madhya Pradesh Sheopur Sheopur Rigni
State - Madhya Pradesh District - Sheopur Block - Sheopur Local Language - Hindi, Hadoti
About Rigni village
Rigni is a village placed in Sheopur Block of Sheopur district in Madhya Pradesh. Located in rural part of Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh, it is one among the 241 villages of Sheopur Block of Sheopur district. As per the administration records, the village code of Rigni is 451714. The village has 65 families.
Population of Rigni village
According to Census 2011, Rigni's population is 351. Out of this, 190 are males whereas the females count 161 here. This village has 45 kids in the age bracket of 0-6 years. Among them 25 are boys and 20 are girls.
Literacy rate of Rigni village
Literacy ratio in Rigni village is 54%. 190 out of total 351 population is educated here. Among males the literacy rate is 63% as 120 males out of total 190 are literate while female literacy rate is 43% as 70 out of total 161 females are educated in this Village.
The dark portion is that illiteracy rate of Rigni village is 45%. Here 161 out of total 351 persons are illiterate. Male illiteracy rate here is 36% as 70 males out of total 190 are uneducated. Among the females the illiteracy ratio is 56% and 91 out of total 161 females are illiterate in this village.
Agricultural status of Rigni village
The count of employed individual of Rigni village is 121 however 230 are non-working. And out of 121 occupied individual 60 peoples are totally reliant on agriculture.
Rigni's Members & Followers
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CIA Says Global-Warming Intelligence Is 'Classified'
Author: David KravetsDavid Kravets
Two years ago, the Central Intelligence Agency announced it was creating a center to analyze the geopolitical ramifications of "phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts and heightened competition for natural resources."
But whatever work the Center on Climate Change and National Security has done remains secret.
In response to National Security Archive scholar Jeffrey Richelson's Freedom of Information Act request, the CIA said all of its work is "classified."
"We completed a thorough search for records responsive to your request and located material that we determined is currently and properly classified and must be denied in its entirety," (.pdf) Susan Viscuso, the agency's information and privacy coordinator, wrote Richelson.
Richelson, in a Thursday telephone interview from Los Angeles, said the CIA has not released anything about its climate change research, other than its initial press release announcing the center's founding.
"As far as I know, they have not released any of their products or anything else," Richelson said. "There was a statement announcing its creation and that has been pretty much it."
Steven Aftergood, who directs the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, blasted the CIA's response to Richelson.
The CIA's position, he said, means all "the center's work is classified and there is not even a single study, or a single passage in a single study, that could be released without damage to national security. That's a familiar song, and it became tiresome long ago."
When the center was announced, the CIA said it would become "a powerful asset recognized throughout our government, and beyond, for its knowledge and insight."
President Barack Obama also promised a transparent administration, which he might not be living up to. For instance, in 2009, the Obama administration played the national security card to hide details of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that is still being negotiated across the globe.
What's more, consider the 33-page report the White House issued Friday, "The Obama Administration's Commitment to Open Government." (pdf)
Aftergood said the report "downplays or overlooks many of the administration's principal achievements in reducing inappropriate secrecy. At the same time, it fails to acknowledge the major defects of the openness program to date. And so it presents a muddled picture of the state of open government, while providing a poor guide to future policy."
In any case, the Center for Climate Change and National Security might not continue much longer "because of pressure for intelligence budget cuts and resistance from conservative lawmakers."
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Tropical Storm Barry gains some strength
Tropical Storm Barry may not become a hurricane. Only minimal impacts are forecast across Tampa Bay.
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Published: 4:37 AM EDT July 10, 2019
Updated: 11:33 PM EDT July 11, 2019
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Tropical Storm Barry Highlights (11 p.m. ET Thursday)
Tropical Storm Barry gained some strength. Dangerous storm surge, heavy rains and strong winds are expected across the north-central Gulf coast.
At 11 p.m. Thursday, it was located about 85 miles south-southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Maximum sustained winds are being clocked at 50 mph. The storm is moving west at 3 mph.
Additional strengthening is expected, but Barry is likely to stay just below hurricane strength. However, anything is possible -- and a hurricane warning is still in effect.
A tornado or two is possible Friday across parts of Louisiana and Mississippi.
For Tampa Bay: Expect minimal impacts, with breezy conditions, slightly higher tides along the coast and periods of heavy rain. We'll be in the clear late Friday.
Tropical Storm Barry Advisories (11 p.m. ET Thursday):
A hurricane warning has been issued for the coast of Louisiana from Intracoastal City to Grand Isle.
A tropical storm warning is in effect from the mouth of the Pearl River to Grand Isle, from Intracoastal City to Cameron and for Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas -- including metropolitan New Orleans.
A storm surge warning is in effect from the mouth of the Atchafalaya River to Shell Beach.
A storm surge watch has been issued for Shell Beach to the Mississippi/Alabama border, from the mouth of the Atchafalaya River to Intracoastal City and for Lake Pontchartrain.
A hurricane watch is in effect from the mouth of the Mississippi River to Grand Isle and from Intracoastal City to Cameron, Louisiana.
A tropical storm watch has been issued from just east of the mouth of the Pearl River to the Mississippi/Alabama border.
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Tropical Storm Barry has formed in the northern Gulf of Mexico. As of 11 p.m. ET Thursday, it was located about 85 miles south-southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River or about 165 miles southeast of Morgan City, Louisiana.
Barry is moving west at 3 mph. And, it's expected to continue moving that direction during the day on Thursday.
The tropical weather system is forecast to turn slowly toward the west-northwest through Friday, take a turn toward the northwest Friday night and head north on Saturday. The center of Tropical Storm Barry is expected to be near or over the central or southeastern coast of Louisiana by Friday night or Saturday. From there, meteorologists expect it to move inland into the Lower Mississippi Valley on Sunday.
Aircraft reports from the Air Force Reserve and NOAA Hurricane Hunters suggest maximum sustained winds are around 50 mph, with higher gusts. More strengthening is expected. And, Barry could become a hurricane late Friday or early Saturday when the center gets near the Louisiana coast. But, our latest forecasts suggest it will be just shy of hurricane strength.
Earlier in the day on Thursday, an oil rig east of the Mississippi River's mouth reported sustained winds at 40 mph and a wind gust of 52 mph.
Meteorologists say tropical storm-force winds are extending up to 140 miles outward from the storm, mainly south of Barry's center.
The storm is expected to weaken as it moves inland.
Tropical Storm Barry warnings and watches:
A hurricane warning is now in effect for the Louisiana coastline. And, that's not nearly the only advisory issued so far. People living from the upper Texas Gulf Coast to the Florida Panhandle should monitor weather forecasts because more advisories could be coming soon.
Hurricane Advisories
A hurricane watch is in effect for the mouth of the Mississippi River to Grand Isle and Intracoastal City to Cameron.
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What do Tropical Storm Barry warnings and watches mean:
A hurricane watch means hurricane conditions are possible in the next 48 hours. A hurricane warning means hurricane conditions are expected within the next 36 hours.
A storm surge warning means rising water may move inland from the coastline and pose life-threatening conditions in the next 36 hours. People living in those areas should take immediate action to protect their lives and property from rising water. If local officials tell you to evacuate, get out.
A storm surge watch means rising water may move inland and pose life-threatening conditions in the next 48 hours.
A tropical storm watch means tropical storm conditions are possible within the next 48 hours.
Tropical Storm Barry Potential Impacts:
Rainfall has already exceeded 6-9 inches in parts of New Orleans, causing flooding. Forecasters are warning of potential 3-5 foot storm surge across parts of the Gulf coast.
According to the National Hurricane Center, Tropical Storm Barry is expected to produce total rainfall accumulations of 10 to 20 inches near and inland of the central Gulf Coast through early next week, with isolated maximum rainfall amounts of 25 inches across portions of eastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi.
A tornado or two is possible Friday and Friday night across the southern parts of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.
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The combination of dangerous storm surge and tides will likely cause normally drier areas along the coast to be flooded. If peak storm surge happens at the time of high tide, you could see water at the following heights:
Mouth of the Atchafalaya River to Shell Beach: 3 to 6 feet
Shell Beach to the Mississippi/Alabama border: 2 to 4 feet
Intracoastal City to the mouth of the Atchafalaya River: 3 to 5 feet
Lake Pontchartrain: 2 to 4 feet
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As the system develops, it will track west away from the Florida Peninsula. However, some indirect impacts will still be possible.
As Barry strengthens, the winds will begin to increase, especially along the coast. Wind speeds are likely to range between 10-15 mph with occasional gusts as high as 30-35 mph.
This persistent wind out of the south and southwest, potentially into Friday, might result in higher than normal tides; and some minor coastal flooding could be possible.
In addition to breezy conditions and the threat for minor coastal flooding, the developing system will draw up abundant tropical moisture. Any showers and storms that develop will have the potential to produce locally heavy rain and possibly result in flooding. Generally speaking, flooding as a result of heavy rain is not a major concern for Tampa Bay, but some localized flooding may be seen.
Forecast models are in fairly good agreement of the track of the storm through Thursday morning, but after that, there is a fair amount of divergence in thinking. The spread of the greatest impact stretches from Alabama to Texas with Louisiana and Mississippi right in the middle.
The European Model, historically one of the more reliable forecast models, strengthens the storm as it approaches the Louisiana Coast Friday into Saturday.
Regardless of development, this system has the potential to produce heavy rainfall along portions of the northern and eastern U.S. Gulf Coast later this week and into the weekend. Some forecasts suggest that rainfall totals could be greater than 1 foot along the central Gulf coast.
While the focus with a tropical system is often with the wind speeds, flooding rains are often the deadliest hazard. The threat for inland flooding needs to be monitored closely all along the central and eastern Gulf coast.
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Hundreds of students and graduates aspiring to a career in the legal sector have packed out the University of Wolverhampton’s first law fair.
More than 250 people visited the University’s Law Careers Fair to find out more about careers in the legal sector.
The event, organised by the University’s law department, The Workplace, was held at the University’s Harrison Learning Centre, at the city centre campus, on Wednesday, November 27.
The fair was also an opportunity for employers to network with students and graduates and build relationships with the University.
On the day, there were appearances from a number of employers from across the legal sector, including local, national and international firms of solicitors, leading barristers’ chambers, the Crown Prosecution Service, Citizen’s Advice Bureau and the British Transport Police.
There was also the opportunity to find out about post-graduate study options at the University of Wolverhampton, both academic and vocational.
Employers in attendance included: Eversheds LLP, DWF LLP, Mills & Reeve LLP, Irwin Mitchell LLP, George Green LLP, FBC Manby Bowdler LLP, Higgs & Sons, The Wilkes Partnership LLP, Regulatory Legal LLP, Lanyon Bowdler LLP, Wolverhampton City Council, Citizens Advice Bureau, The Crown Prosecution Service, British Transport Police and St Philips Chambers.
Dr Paul Sparrow, Associate Dean of the School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications, said: “We were delighted to see so many of our students and graduates turn out for this event. The Fair attracted some of the leading employers from the legal sector, so this was a unique opportunity for students to engage with these professionals and an ideal chance for the University to show the level of talent and enthusiasm of our students”
For information about the University’s careers and employment services, visit www.wlv.ac.uk/careers.
For more information please contact Chris Jones in the Media Relations Office on 01902 322736
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Posted on September 7, 2018 by Wilmington News Journal
Week 3: Clinton-Massie 21 Fenwick 18
Massie defense has pair of Pick-6s to hold off Fenwick
By Mark Huber - mhuber@wnewsj.com
vs Miami Trace @CM
7 p.m. kickoff
FRANKLIN – In a down and dirty, hard fought battle, Clinton-Massie scored on a pair of interceptions and defeated Fenwick 14-12 Friday night in non-league football action.
The Falcons bounced back after a 31-28 loss last week to Coldwater. Clinton-Massie has not lost back-to-back in the same season since weeks 2 and 3 of the 2011 season.
Despite playing without lineman Spencer Voss, who was in street clothes on the CM sidelines, the Falcons were still able to run the ball behind their offensive line led by Matt Phillips.
Fenwick scored first on a 53-yard touchdown pass from Sully Janeck to Thomas Vogelsang with 2:29 to play in the opening period.
With neither offense in high gear, Clinton-Massie tried a fake punt early in the second quarter but was unsuccessful.
Midway through the second period, Massie erased the 0 on the scoreboard when quarterback Corey Stulz busted through the line and rambled 54 yards for the score. Grant Avey’s extra point kick was blocked and the teams were tied at 6-6.
On the next Fenwick drive, Massie’s Thomas Myers grabbed an errant pass and went 39 yards for the score. Stulz ran home the two-point conversion and with 6:10 to go til halftime, Massie was on top 14-6.
The homestanding Fenwick Falcons answered on the next drive when Colt Bradshaw galloped 44 yards down the right sideline and the difference was 14-12 with 3:59 to play in the second quarter.
Neither team was able to score again until the fourth quarter. Myers recoverd a Fenwick fumble but Clinton-Massie was unable to do anything with the turnover gift.
After a Massie drive stalled, Fenwick looked to get back on top but Griffin Laake made it a pair of Pick-6s on the night for the Massie defense when he grabbed a Janeck pass and went 19 yards to paydirt.
Fenwick wasn’t going away quietly, though. A touchdown run with 2:53 on the clock made it a one-score game at 21-18. Massie recovered the ensuing onside kick but was forced to punt with 2:27 remaining in the fourth quarter.
The Clinton-Massie defense was up to the challenge, forcing four straight incomplete passes to seal the victory.
@Fenwick High School
Clinton-Massie 21 Fenwick 18
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CM 00.14.00.07…..21
F-Vogelsang 53 yard pass from Janeck (Run failed) 2:29
Second quarter
CM-Stulz 54 yard run (PAT blocked) 7:13
CM-Myers 39 yard interception return (Stulz run) 6:10
F-Bradshaw 44 yard run (Run fails) 3:59
CM-Laake 19 yard interception return (Avey PAT) 5:04
F-Miller 2 yard run (Run failed) 2:53
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Seattle Reign FC to Host FC Kansas City in Rematch of NWSL Championship This Sunday
Home Seattle Reign FC to Host FC Kansas City in Rematch of NWSL Championship This Sunday
WSU, April 30, 2016 April 30, 2016 , News, NWSL, 0
Returning home from its 3-0 win over the Boston Breakers last Sunday, Seattle Reign FC (1-1-0, 3 pts) will face off against FC Kansas City (0-1-1, 1 pt) this Sunday, May 1 at Memorial Stadium at 4 p.m. PT.
LIVE STREAM: SEATTLE REIGN V KANSAS CITY
Goals came early and often against the Breakers, starting in the 9th minute when forward Manon Melis scored her first NWSL goal off an assist from midfielder Kim Little. In the 40th minute, Little connected with her Scottish national team teammate Rachel Corsie on a corner which the defender headed into the net to put Reign FC up 2-0 before the half. Little’s impressive performance reached its crescendo in the 79th minute when she dribbled off a pass from forward Beverly Yanez down to the left corner of the box, fired a strike across the goal, and into the right corner of the frame, raising Seattle’s lead to 3-0.
“We’ve come away wanting to be better and to work hard,” said Reign FC Head Coach Laura Harvey of the victory. “We are really happy with the win and the clean sheet, but still in the mindset that things need to be better and we have a lot of work to do.”
Last week’s victory came at a cost: midfielder Jess Fishlock broke her left tibia in the 29th minute of the match. Fishlock will miss this Sunday’s match against FC Kansas City and is expected to be on the sidelines for 4-6 weeks.
FC Kansas City, Seattle’s opponent in the 2014 and 2015 NWSL championship finals, grabbed its first point of the season last Saturday in a 1-1 draw against Portland Thorns FC at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Mo. A diving header from midfielder Shea Groom off a cross from midfielder Heather O’Reilly in the 30th minute put FCKC up 1-0. In the 47th minute, Groom’s second caution of the match saw her ejected from play. Down to 10 players for the remainder of the game, FCKC gave up the equalizer in the 78th minute when Portland midfielder Lindsay Horan headed in a corner from midfielder Tobin Heath.
As per NWSL misconduct rules, Groom’s one-game suspension will keep her out of the lineup in Seattle this Sunday.
“So far their record hasn’t shown their potential. You always have to go into the game expecting their best and I think they’re going to be a great team,” said rookie Reign FC defender Carson Pickett. “I know we’re expecting them to be at their top level, to come here wanting to win.”
FC Kansas City endured significant personnel changes in the offseason, including the retirement of defenders Leigh Ann Brown and Amy LePeilbet, as well as midfielder Lauren Holiday.
FCKC added to their squad by acquiring defenders Brittany Taylor and Amanda Frisbie in a trade with the Western New York Flash. The Blues also acquired USWNT forward Sydney Leroux in a three-team deal that also brought forward Tiffany McCarty to Kansas City. Despite the additions, KC’s roster took a major hit when Leroux and fellow USWNT forward Amy Rodriguez both announced they were pregnant, and as a result, both are expected to miss the entire 2016 NWSL season.
“We know a lot about each other, we’ve played a lot over the years. They’ve come off a tough result with Portland – losing a player so early. But I think everyone’s been unfairly writing Kansas off,” said Harvey. “They showed last weekend that Vlatko and the staff at Kansas never really get it wrong. They’ll be a force to be reckoned with again this season, I have no doubt. They have a squad that will compete in this league.”
Reign FC holds a 2-7-2 all-time record against FCKC, including post-season play. The clubs last met on October 1, 2015 for their second NWSL championship match-up, with Reign FC falling 0-1 to the Blues.
“We like playing them because they’re so much like us,” said forward Kiersten Dallstream. “It’s always a good game and it’s a way to test what level we’re at. We’re always trying to redeem ourselves a little bit against them.”
The two-time championship foes have ignited a league rivalry that inevitably brings up memories from the past two finals, but Harvey prefers to focus on what lies ahead.
“It’s a good rivalry. There’s good respect between both of the teams. There’s a desire to make sure that both teams turn up and perform. But we need to make sure that it’s not about the final – it’s about this season and what we can do now,” said Harvey. “It’s really important that we give the fans a reaction from the Sky Blue game – even though we went on the road and played well – I think it’s important that we come home and give a reaction to that.”
Tickets to Sunday’s match start at $18 and are available at reignfc.com/fckc or by calling (855) REIGN-FC.
Next week, Reign FC will travel to Orlando, Fla. to face the Orlando Pride on May 8 at Camping World Stadium, formally known as the Orlando Citrus Bowl. The match will be live-streamed at youtube.com/nwsl at 2 p.m. PT.
Seattle Reign FC press release.
Melbourne Victory lead the Westfield W-League 27th January 2019
Asa, January 27, 2019 January 27, 2019 , News, Westfield, 0
Melbourne Victory lead the Westfield W-League 27th January 2019 Western Sydney Wanderers 1 – 5 Perth Glory Goals...
Mumias Town kicks off second leg of Kenyan Women’s Premier League
Ellen Busolo, November 13, 2014 December 7, 2014 , Blogs, KWPL, News, 2
Mumias Town kicks off second leg of Kenyan Women’s Premier League Most teams were headed to Mumias in Western...
UMF Stjarnan Lead Iceland Úrvalsdeild 26th June 2016
Asa, June 26, 2016 June 26, 2016 , News, 0
UMF Stjarnan Lead Iceland Úrvalsdeild 26th June 2016 ÍBV 2 – 0 ÍA Goals From: Natasha Anasi 42′...
England’s Squad for the UEFA Women’s U-17 Championship Elite Round
Asa, March 17, 2017 March 17, 2017 , Fixtures, News, Under-17s, 0
England’s Squad for the UEFA Women’s U-17 Championship Elite Round England will play Poland first on Saturday 25th March,...
Málaga lose their battle against the drop! Latest blog by Chelsea Ashurst
Chelsea Ashurst, May 11, 2019 May 11, 2019 , News, Spanish Liga Iberdrola, 0
Málaga lose their battle against the drop! Latest blog by Chelsea Ashurst Hey everyone – great to be back...
Wins for Duisburg, Hamburger, FFC Frankfurt, Bayern Munich Germany DFB Pokal Women 4th December
Asa, December 4, 2011 January 6, 2014 , News, 0
Germany DFB Pokal Women Hamburger SV 3 – 2 Lokomotive Leipzig Goals From: Marie-Louise Bagehorn 7’ 81’ (Hamburger...
Jodie Taylor grabbed hat-trick as England destroyed Scotland in the ‘Battle of Britain’
WSU, July 20, 2017 July 20, 2017 , EURO 2017, Euro2017, News, 0
Jodie Taylor grabbed hat-trick as England destroyed Scotland in the ‘Battle of Britain’ Jodie Taylor grabbed a hat-trick as...
Cyprus Women’s Cup 2018 | Current Group Standings
WSU, March 1, 2018 March 5, 2018 , Cyprus Cup, News, 0
Cyprus Women’s Cup 2018 | Current Group Standings Keep up to date on the 2018 Cyprus Women’s Cup group...
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We’ve really lowered the bar for today’s Wonder of the Day!
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Applying a Genetic Neuro-Model Reference Adaptive Controller in drilling optimization
Motivated by rising drilling operation costs, the oil industry has shown a trend toward real-time measurements and control. In this scenario, drilling control becomes a challenging problem for the industry, especially due to the difficulty associated with parameters modeling. One of the drillbit performance evaluators, the Rate Of Penetration (ROP), has been used as a drilling control parameter. However, relationships between operational variables affecting the ROP are complex and not easily modeled. This work presents a neuro-genetic adaptive controller to treat this problem. It is based on an “auto-regressive with extra input signals,” or ARX model and on a Genetic Algorithm (GA) to control the ROP. INTRODUCTION Operational costs associated with petroleum offshore drilling have risen significantly in the past few years. Deepwater reservoirs, whose exploration had been previously considered economically unfeasible, have become the target of the oil industry, pushing drilling rigs to increasing water depths.
Drilling induced vibration causes production riser wear
Drilling Induced Vibration (DIV) is a relatively new field observed phenomenon. It is most likely to occur in narrow annulus drilling such as casing drilling or re-completion through a top-tensioned production riser. Most research was done by testing. An analytical procedure using a Multi-Tube riser modeling scheme was developed to assess quantitatively the DIV amplitude, bending moment and associated fatigue damage. The results coincide with field observations and tests. Field operations to avoid DIV are suggested. No published literature addressing the DIV issue was found. Most research was done by experiment and those test results are confidential and proprietary. The general consensus from researchers in the field is that: 1. DIV seems to occur only in tight-annulus risers, e.g., casing drilling or workover in the production riser. 2. DIV seems to occur only during drilling in hard formations, i.e., at very slow penetration rates.
Large hole RSS used for shallow kick-off, directional control in soft sediment
Rotary Steerable Systems (RSS) have revolutionized the way that oilfield operators drill wells. The advantages of drilling with this technology are documented and have been proven in a wide variety of drilling applications. Utilizing a rotary steerable system allows E&P companies to push the drilling envelope by providing access to more complex plays. The efficiency and reliability of the system also contributes to an overall reduction in lifting costs.1 The advantages of using RSS are highlighted in Fig. 1. The need to access deeper reservoirs, high step-out targets and large-bore well construction requirements for HPHT and high-flowrate deepwater wells demanded that the advantages that RSS technology brought to smaller hole sizes be delivered to large hole sizes.
Rotating while packed off may cause unexpected heat-induced drill pipe tensile failures
The amount of tensile pull that can be applied to free a stuck drillstring is usually restricted by the drillstring’s minimum Margin Of Overpull (MOP).1 To free a stuck string, the drillstring is often rotated and pulled simultaneously. When this is done, the maximum permitted pull is reduced, depending on the amount of torque applied. Application of pull, either based on MOP or the decreased tensile rating given the applied torque, has resulted in instances of overload failures of drill pipe. These failures have occurred at loads significantly lower than the drillstrings rated capacity. As the material gets locally heated, the material hardness decreases. The actual load capacity of the drillstring depends on the temperatures reached downhole. This paper discusses the factors that contribute to these failures and provides test data to support the findings.
Solving a major drilling challenge for a Latin America operator
The industry is well aware of the need for abundant, accurate and timely information and the intelligent drillstring is the conceptual extension to the operator’s surface network. The information transfer rate of such a drillstring at 57,000 bits per second (bps) well exceeds the 30 bps possible through a mud column. This drillstring system permits real-time evaluation of reservoir quality, assuring that the well path tracks in the reservoir’s sweet spot. Additionally, intelligent drillstrings can be used in wells drilled with foam or air. DRILLING WITH FOAM AND LOSSES A recent experience in Latin America illustrates the value of this technology. A state-owned oil company, Pemex, recently finished drilling a difficult well using an interface between LWD, MWD, and Rotary Steerable System (RSS) tools from Sperry Drilling Services and a telemetry drill pipe system from partner IntelliServ Inc.
Are wireless seismic systems the wave of the future? Or are they a niche system?
There’s been a not-so-quiet “revolution” going on in land-based seismic acquisition equipment over the past few years. It’s wireless acquisition. Actually, it’s been ongoing for about a decade in various ways. Fairfield’s “The Box” was one of the first to have some wireless aspects. Its primary use is for transition zones and it is still in use today. The term “wireless” can mean many things. As it implies, of course it means a reduction in wires. But power-supply methods and requirements, and data-transfer methods, speeds and protocols all vary considerably across the various technologies. A typical wireless unit has a battery pack, which may be of several types (e.g., alkaline, lithium ion, metal hydride), a non-volatile flash memory, a micro-processor, a GPS unit and a radio. A short wire connects the geophone sensor to the unit. Data transmission can occur at radio frequencies but often remains in storage within the field unit...
Characterizing fracture and matrix heterogeneities in tight gas fields
Well performance is extremely variable in the stacked sequence of tight Devonian and Mississippian carbonates in the northern part of the Waterton complex of Alberta, Canada, despite an extensive fracture system present in all the wells. To determine why some wells penetrated more permeable fractures than others, a full reinterpretation of the geophysical, structural, stress, matrix and dynamic data sets was carried out at West Carbondale field in the complex. Flow simulations at sector scales using discrete fracture network models and full-field continuum modeling were used to test a range of geological and dynamic scenarios. For this field, the best-fit dynamic models consist of a major fracture zone, corresponding to either a seismic scale lineament or zone of enhanced curvature, trending through the area of most prolific wells. Outside this zone, the vast majority of the fracture system makes little contribution to flow in the wells.
Information-driven life-cycle reservoir management
While overall increased drilling activities and challenging drilling applications are capturing the headlines, there is a quieter, but potentially more significant movement within the oil and gas industry. This new direction emphasizes using information to manage the reservoir for optimal reserves recovery over the full life cycle. Today, despite the many advances in reservoir characterization technologies and techniques, the recovery factor for oil reservoirs still averages less than 40%. It is estimated that in the US there are in excess of 374 billion bbl of stranded oil with almost 100 billion bbl recoverable. Extrapolated on a global basis, bypassed oil constitutes perhaps the final frontier for the industry, with well over 1 trillion bbl in play. With crude prices high, and new exploration involving significant expense and risk, there is a great deal more emphasis on optimizing the recovery rate from existing and new reservoirs.
Major Chinese field evaluated using combined seismic and well logging methods
In Lunnan field, an Ordovician carbonate buildup in the Tarim basin of western China, the reservoir was identified and characterized using a combination of seismic techniques and well logging methods. The seismic techniques included 3D seismic visualization and seismic attribute analyses such as coherence and root-mean-square amplitude. Well logging methods used were Formation Micro-Imaging (FMI), Electric Micro-Imaging (EMI) and Dipole Sonic Imaging (DSI). The research indicated that the Lunnan Ordovician buried hill is an oil-producing reservoir that developed under the unconformity, with a thickness of 0-150 m. The slope of the buried hill was determined to be the best location for development of the reservoir. Using the above methods, the exploration success rate was increased by 117%, and crude oil production increased to over 300 times its pre-characterization rate. The reservoir characterization also enabled a major upward re-evaluation of Lunnan field’s in situ resources.
Porosity partitioning and permeability quantification in vuggy carbonates
A pilot study of 13 wells in Means oil field of the Permian basin, West Texas, established porosity-permeability relationships for the Permian Queen, Grayburg and San Andres formations. The optimized workflow used borehole image and conventional log processing with calibration to core data. This approach allowed the quantification of porosity and permeability heterogeneity in vuggy carbonate facies in the field. INTRODUCTION Means field was discovered in northeast Andrews County, West Texas, in 1934 with the Humble R. M. Means No. 1 well, Fig. 1. Oil production is from Permian strata, mainly the Guadalupian San Andres, Grayburg and Queen formations, with supporting production from Wolfcampian and Leonardian strata. These formations are predominantly dolomitized marine carbonate platform successions, with the exception of the lower Grayburg, which is a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic reservoir facies. Typical completion strategies are to fracture-stimulate the tighter Grayburg reservoirs and to perforate and acidize the better San Andres reservoirs.
Profitable year so far, but cost and demand challenges confront suppliers
Many base load gas liquefaction projects currently in planning are being hit by high upstream cost inflation, which has increased at unprecedented rates in the past two decades. Projects in Australia (e.g. Gorgon), Nigeria (e.g. OK LNG), Angola and Algeria (e.g. Gassi Touil) are all considering reconfigurations to deal with escalating budgets. They do not want to repeat the massive cost overrun experiences of Shell and partners at Sakhalin in Russia and Statoil and partners at Snohvit in Norway. Shell has also announced substantial cost escalation to its Qatargas 4 project, increasing its budget to $8 billion and its Pearl GTL project also in Qatar, increasing its budget above $14 billion. Equatorial Guinea LNG, onstream in May 2007, delivering its first cargo some six months ahead of schedule, is a rare exception. The completion of this $1.5 billion project is a great boost to Marathon, the operator and 60% equity holder...
Rig building continues while fleet utilization declines
Healthy industry conditions over the past few years have prompted additional owners and rigs to enter the drilling market. The rapid expansion of the rig fleet, especially due to newbuilds, continues to be noteworthy. This year however, as fleet capacity accelerates, utilization has fallen in many areas due to market softening and fleet expansion, according to the 54th annual ReedHycalog Rig Census. ReedHycalog continues to work closely with RigData, Nickle’s Rig Locator and ODS-Petrodata to summarize the US, Canadian and global offshore mobile rig fleets. The international land rig fleet has also been examined for the third consecutive year, as we compile an overall picture of the dynamic global rig market.
Vertical-tube evaporator system provides SAGD-quality feed water
Water treatment and steam generation methods for heavy oil recovery processes have evolved rapidly. Traditionally, Once-Through Steam Generators (OTSGs), driven by natural gas, have been used to produce about 80% quality steam (80% vapor, 20% liquid) for injection into the well to fluidize the heavy oil, especially for cyclic steam operations. However, the more recent Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) method requires 100% quality steam for injection. The use of OTSG for SAGD applications requires a series of vapor-liquid separators to produce the requisite steam quality. For both SAGD and non-SAGD applications, pre-treatment of the OTSG feed water has consisted of silica reduction in a hot or warm lime softener, filtration and hardness removal by Weak Acid Cation (WAC) ion exchange. In most cases, the OTSG blowdown is disposed by deep well injection. As the use of SAGD increased, the traditional produced water treatment and steam generation methods were re-evaluated...
Impression blocks, a.k.a. “confusion” blocks, have been around since people first started running any tool in a well. This simple device is designed to reveal the identity, size and shape of the top of a “fish,” any piece of equipment left in a hole that should be removed. These fish can range from pieces of broken pipe, to tools that have been dropped, to sand or scale fill in the bottom of the hole. The impression block has long been used to identify what the fish is and what needs to be done to remove it from the hole. Impression blocks are simple devices. A piece of a soft metal, usually lead, about ⅜-in. (10-mm) thick, is mounted on a steel carrier block. The lead or babbitt is generally melted, poured into a mold that includes the block and filed or polished until it is circular with the same OD as the block with a flat face.
There are more false, misleading, bogus, but well-sounding arguments that apply to the energy industry than to any other endeavor. Most of these specious arguments serve to preserve the status quo. I’ve attended conferences in our industry where “alternative energy” meant natural gas from shale instead of sandstone, or heavy oil instead of light oil. Real alternatives to oil and gas often become the object of ridicule and bogus scientific reasoning. Here are some of the techniques of energy propaganda. First, always use older data for comparison. With emerging technologies, the situation “on the ground” is changing so rapidly that data becomes old rather quickly. Of course, that’s the way it should be, but this rapid change also allows the use of outdated data. For example, wind resource assessment was estimated surprisingly low throughout the 1980s and ’90s, relative to what is known today.
Exploration discoveries
Apache Corporation discovered gas with its Brunello-1 well in the Carnarvon basin on the Northwest Shelf of Australia. The well flowed 72.5 MMcfd of gas and 1,230 bopd of condensate from 121 ft of pay in the Triassic Mungaroo formation. Brunello-1 was drilled to a 12,027-ft depth in 508 ft of water, 99 mi from shore. Apache estimates recoverable resources in the range of 300 Bcf. BHP Billiton discovered gas in its Thebe-1 exploration well in Block WA-346-P, offshore Western Australia in the Exmouth Plateau of the Carnarvon basin. The well, 186 mi off the northwestern coast in water depths of 3,848 ft, found a 240-ft gas column. Teikoku Oil made an oil and gas discovery onshore on Japan’s Honshu Island about 150 mi northwest of Tokyo. The Minami Kuwayama TT-1 well flowed 500 bopd and 250 Mcfd of natural gas from the Shiiya Formation.
TEven if the North Sea is a mature petroleum province, with a declining output of crude oil, it’s gotten a boost from the recent oil price spike. Natural gas output could be most positively affected, and development will affect not only the European market, but also potential supplies to the US, as well as demand for Russian gas. Total North Sea gas output is flattening as UK levels are declining and only Norway’s output is still growing. According to Barclay’s Oil Data Review of Sept. 19, 2007, the combined oil production of Denmark, Norway and the United Kingdom is set to decline from 4.73 million bpd in 2006 to 3.99 million bpd in 2008, a loss of almost 16% over two years, further reducing Europe’s self-sufficiency in oil. Higher prices and eventually more lenient fiscal conditions might slow the decline of North Sea oil output, but hardly reverse the trend..
What's new in exploration
I expected strong reader response to my August column, “The Fayetteville Shale: An early evaluation,” and I got it. Most reactions were positive, but the negative comments are more interesting and revealing. Critics make some well-reasoned points and legitimate criticism of my analysis. Their comments also illustrate how the industry is divided in its opinion about the Fayetteville and Barnett Shale plays. Several important points emerged: Recently completed Fayetteville Shale wells that used slick-water fracture stimulation should be profitable. Apparently, most of the horizontal wells that I evaluated were completed using less effective stimulation techniques. The application of hyperbolic decline models to preliminary Fayetteville Shale production results in higher economic reserves and longer-lived production than I used in my analysis. Economic models used by some Fayetteville operators incorporate lower lease operating costs than I presented, and some companies do not charge certain overhead costs against production sales as I did.
A group of petroleum-producing and oilfield service companies have banded together with the University of Texas at Austin in a joint research venture to create and develop new oilfield nanotechnology. The Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC) plans to develop subsurface nanosensors that can be injected into oil and gas wells. These sensors would be forced through the existing pore space and into the surrounding rock formation. There, they would collect the reservoir’s physical characteristics. Exactly how this would be achieved is the focus of the consortium. This data could then be used for production optimization studies. Consortium members include BP America, ConocoPhillips, Marathon Oil, Occidental, Shell, Schlumberger Technology and Halliburton Energy Services. Project management will be provided by the University of Texas at Austin (UTA). Industry members will each contribute $1 million research funding per year for the first three years to underwrite the project.
Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping (OHM) has completed the acquisition of the Houston-based Rock Solid Images (RSI). RSI integrates fundamental rock physics with well data and surface seismic to interpret geophysical signatures in terms of reservoir properties such as lithology, porosity and saturation, providing geologic insight and reservoir understanding at all stages of the oilfield life cycle. OHM provides controlled-source electromagnetic imaging (CSEM), an offshore geophysical technique to detect the presence and extent of hydrocarbon accumulations below the seabed. The two companies have been collaborating for over a year on initiatives to integrate CSEM data into RSI’s geologic models. This acquisition follows a strategic alliance with CGGVeritas to jointly develop the global market for CSEM. CGGVeritas has acquired 15% of the shares of OHM.
During its Sept. 11 meeting, OPEC agreed to a new production ceiling of 27.2 million bpd, this includes 500,000 barrels a day of fresh oil on the market, the first increase in over two years. OPEC’s decision reverses output cuts agreed to late last year that cumulatively removed about 1 million bpd off the global markets. The decision came about amid concerns about record high oil prices, which have reached yet another record level in September. World oil supply fell by 430,000 barrels a day to 84.6 million bpd in August and demand has been slightly revised down to 85.9 million bpd in 2007 and 88.0 million bpd in 2008. Downward revisions to the second half of 2007 reflect weaker-than anticipated data in June and July. OPEC crude production fell by 40,000 barrels per day in August; however, 10 members bound by production agreements boosted output by 80,000 barrels per day.
Remote inspection tool Integrity, inspection and corrosion specialist iicorr Ltd has launched its Magnetic Crawler tool, designed for inspecting inaccessible or difficult-to-access areas. Magnets enable the robot to attach itself, and it uses integrated video and UT capabilities to examine areas at risk of corrosion. The Magnetic Crawler evolved from the company’s Trac-scan Crawler system, and is designed to assure jacket leg, riser and caisson integrity. Although initially designed for inspection on large-bore jacket legs and areas underneath external clamps, it can also remotely inspect large tanks, pipe work and subsea structures. The system has real-time viewing as well as data recording functions, and can be run remotely up to 200 m from the access point. It is rated for use in up to 200 m of water, and can fit through access points as small as 200 mm x 150 mm.
Oil and gas design company Red Spider Technology has appointed Mike Salter as chairman. He has over 30 years of experience in the industry, for the last 12 years as COO of Aberdeen-based Abbot Group plc. Becky Byrd has been named VP, Corporate Marketing, for National Oilwell Varco. She joined National Oilwell in 2002 as marketing coordinator, and served most recently as director of corporate marketing following the Varco merger in 2005. Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. has named London partner David J. Howell as co-head of the firm’s International Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group. Also, Chris Warren-Smith, an international disputes lawyer, has joined the law firm as head the International Financial Services Disputes practice. Fulbright partner Randel Young, with over 25 years of experience in emerging markets, energy projects and transactional work, has relocated to Dubai. Another energy transaction lawyer, Richard Devine, recently joined Fulbright from Denton Wilde Sapte ...
World of Oil
Saudis form oilfield guard Saudi Arabia recently began devel-oping a specialized security force of 35,000 to protect its oil infrastructure from potential attacks. Recruitment began a few months ago and the force already has more than 5,000 personnel. The troops are being trained in the use of new surveillance equipment, crisis management and countermeasures in a program being managed by US defense firm Lockheed Martin, according to the Nicosia-based Middle East Economic Survey. Denmark plans meeting of arctic nations Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller and Greenland’s Premier Hans Enoksen have invited foreign ministers from Canada, Norway, Russia and the United States to Greenland next May to discuss how borders in the region should be set. The invitation is the result of increasing interest in the region’s natural resources, resulting from receding ice cap which offers the potential for exploiting oil and other resources in previously unreachable locations.
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Fraochy Bay
25-05-2018 Fraochy Bay
Watch the episode of Fraochy Bay broadcasted on 25-05-2018, via Youriplayer.co.uk.
Fraochy Bay is a surreal programme set in the fictional town of the same name. It is a Scottish Gaelic Cartoon produced for BBC Alba. The town itself is located off West Scotland in the programme and contains slightly odd characters that are explored in each 3 – 5 minute episode.
Characters in the first series of Fraochy Bay include Troopers Cooper and Hooper, Sergeant Spanner and Captain Hammer who are special forces elite, and cafe owner Luigi Maclennan who dies his own hair and moustache and speaks Gaelic with an Italian mix to his accent.
If you like quirky questions such as do sheep have something against the police? Or can an aeroplane really land on a runway like that? then you could always give this series a try via Youriplayer.co.uk
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As at 31 December 2013 Swisscom’s market capitalisation totalled CHF 24.4 billion (prior year: CHF 20.4 billion), with the number of shares outstanding at 51.8 million. Par value per registered share is CHF 1. Each share entitles the holder to one vote. Voting rights can only be exercised if the shareholder is entered in the share register of Swisscom Ltd with voting rights. The Board of Directors may refuse to enter a shareholder with voting rights if such voting rights exceed 5% of the company’s share capital. Ownership structure ...
Undiluted earnings per share are calculated by dividing net income attributable to shareholders of Swisscom Ltd by the weighted average number of shares outstanding. Treasury shares are not counted in the number of outstanding shares. In CHF million, except where indicated 2013 2012restated Share of net income attributable to equity holders of Swisscom Ltd 1,685 1,808 Weighted...
2 Capital structure
2.1 Capital At 31 December 2013, the share capital of Swisscom Ltd amounted to CHF 51,801,943, divided into registered shares with a par value of CHF 1 per share. The shares are fully paid-up. 2.2 Authorised and conditional capital There is no authorised or conditional share capital. 2.3 Changes in capital The share capital was unchanged in the years 2011 to 2013. During this period, changes in shareholders’ equity of Swisscom Ltd in the stand-alone financial statements under commercial law were as follows: In CHF mi...
1 General information The financial statements of Swisscom Ltd, the parent company of the Swisscom Group, comply with Swiss law. 2 Contingent liabilities At 31 December 2013, guarantees in favour of third parties for the account of Group companies amount to CHF 142 million (prior year: CHF 308 million). 3 Fire insurance values of property, plant and equipment The fire insurance values of property, plant and equipment correspond generally to their replacement value or fair value. 4 Amounts payable to pension funds As in the prior year, ther...
Income statement In CHF million, except where indicated 2013 2012 Change Swisscom Switzerland 8,389 8,407 –0.2% Fastweb 2,013 2,040 –1.3% Other operating segments 1,032 936 ...
6 Shareholders’ participation rights
6.1 Voting rights and representation restrictions Each registered share entitles the holder to one vote. Voting rights can only be exercised if the shareholder is entered in the share register of Swisscom Ltd with voting rights. The Board of Directors may refuse to recognise an acquirer of shares as a shareholder or beneficial holder with voting rights if the latter’s total holding, when the new shares are added to any voting shares already registered in its name, would then exceed the limit of 5% of all registered shares entered in the commercial ...
3 Summary of significant accounting policies 3.1 Consolidation Subsidiaries Subsidiaries are all companies over which Swisscom Ltd has the effective ability of controlling their financial and business policies. Control is generally presumed where Swisscom Ltd directly or indirectly holds the majority of the voting rights or potential voting rights of the company. Subsidiaries are included in consolidation from the date on which they are acquired and deconsolidated from the date they are disposed of. Intercompany balances and transactions, income an...
In CHF million, except for per share amounts Note 2013 2012restated Net revenue 6, 7 11,434 11,384 Goods and services purchased 8 (2,338) &n...
Swisscom Group five-year review
In CHF million, except where indicated 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Net revenue and results ...
Business combinations
Business combinations in 2013 Payments totalling CHF 60 million were made in 2013 for the acquisition of Group companies. Of this amount, CHF 3 million relates to deferred consideration for business combinations in prior years and CHF 57 million for businesses acquired in 2013. The newly acquired companies in 2013 are viewed individually as non-significant business combinations and are thus reported on an aggregate basis. In February 2013, Hospitality Services acquired the operating business of Deuromedia. Deuromedia provides IP-based infotainment ...
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R. D. Laing 2015 Symposium
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2013 R.D. Laing Symposium
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF THE WORKSHOP
We believe that Esalen is the perfect setting for the next R. D. Laing Symposium and Workshop. Esalen’s relationship with Laing is of historic importance due to Laing’s visits there from the mid-1960s toward the end of the 1980s. In 1968 Richard Price and Michael Murphy convened a summer-long series of symposia under the title, The Value of Psychotic Experience, that was designed to explore the meaning of sanity and madness, altered states of consciousness, and humane alternatives to conventional psychiatric treatment of those suffering from extreme states. Participants included Laing, Aldous Huxley, Gregory Bateson, Abraham Maslow, Fritz Perls, John Perry, Stan Grof, Julian Silverman, Alan Watts and many others who shared their respective experiences and thoughts about psychotic states and altered states of consciousness. It was on this occasion that Laing first shared his ground-breaking work at Kingsley Hall in London. Laing’s experiences at Kingsley Hall helped inspire Julian Silverman to initiate the Agnews Project in San Jose, out of which evolved Loren Mosher’s project at Soteria House that was explicitly modeled on Kingsley Hall. A few years later John Perry and Howard Levine initiated a similar project, Diabasis, in San Francisco. Esalen’s role in bringing all of these extraordinary thinkers together for the first time was instrumental in creating opportunities for alternative treatment modalities to flourish all over America for a period of some twenty years before the backlash against the counterculture sadly brought these experiments to an end.
The theme for our Laing Esalen Symposium Workshop was one of Laing’s favorite subjects: “What is Sanity? What is Madness?” We see this workshop as an opportunity to revisit the 1968 Esalen summer-long symposium in order to assess the current state of alternatives to psychiatric practices and to further explore amongst ourselves who is sane, if anyone, and who is crazy, if anyone, and what do these distinctions really mean outside of a medicalized psychodiagnostic context?
We want to explore and debate a series of relevant questions, including:
1) If we encounter someone who appears to be crazy and suffering beyond his or her ability to cope, how can we help that person become less crazed, but in a manner that doesn’t violate one’s fundamental right of possession of one’s body and mind?
2) Are each of us, perhaps, a bit crazy, and to the degree that we are, how have we managed to contain or channel our craziness into acceptable, perhaps productive, even creative endeavors?
3) How can we work together to create places of sanctuary, like Kingsley Hall, Soteria House, or Diabasis, for those in society who are no longer able to hold it together, and who need the time and the help to pull it together?
4) How might revisioning conventional notions about sanity and madness help our society to better grasp this ongoing tragedy and inspire more support, both private and public, to alleviate this problem?
Like the Wagner College symposium, our week-long Esalen Symposium Workshop will feature teachers who worked personally with Laing and who are currently involved with furthering his legacy. Invited speakers include some who presented at the Wagner College Symposium, such as Fritjof Capra, Andrew Pickering, Steven Gans, Peter Mezan, Edie Irwin, Douglas Kirsner, Michael Guy Thompson, and new speakers, including Nita Gage, Matthew Morrissey, Stephen Ticktin, Thomas Bartlett, Douglas Gill, William Stranger, Rita Gayford, Haya Oakley, Alma Menn, and others, all of whom worked personally with Laing or were profoundly influenced by his work. We will also feature a number of speakers who never met Laing but share similar interests and goals and are actively involved in the Alternative to Psychiatry movement that has been proliferating all over America in recent years, including Robert Whitaker, Will Hall, Michael Cornwall, Daniel Mackler, Yana Jacobs, and others. Our principal mission is to provide a forum where we are able to come together and share our views about what it means to be sane, and how to best facilitate its presence in our lives without encroaching on ourselves or each other.
Kingsley Hall, Soteria House, and Diabasis were famous for providing alternatives to medicating and incarcerating those who were diagnosed as schizophrenic or psychotic. Today, there is no facility in the United States that features such a simple, common sense alternative. We want to determine why this is so, despite the obvious need for such places. Some of us are actively exploring setting up such places on the East Coast and in the Bay Area, and we see this workshop as a gathering place for those who support this endeavor and wish to join forces with us. We hope to bring the fruit of Laing’s work forward at a time when many are looking for alternatives to treating mental illness by conventional, oftentimes cruel, methods.
Join us in this groundbreaking event and share your experiences with us.
We plan to accommodate fifty or more participants in this week-long event.
Esalen will offer CEUs to all eligible participants.
2015 Annual Symposium
What is Sanity?
What is Madness?
A Five-Day Symposium
& Workshop at
Esalen Institute
Big Sur, California
Symposium Workshop Registration
Now Closed.
The Laing Esalen Symposium Workshop
is a production of Free Association, Inc.,
San Francisco, California.
Beatrice Birch
Susan Budnick
Fritjof Capra, Ph.D.
Michael Cornwall, Ph.D.
Nita Gage
Steven Gans, Ph.D.
Will Hall
Edie Irwin
Yana Jacobs, LMFT
Douglas Kirsner, Ph.D.
Chuck Knapp
Daniel Mackler, LCSW
Matthew Morrissey
Steve Sorkin, Ph.D.
William Stranger
Michael Guy Thompson, Ph.D.
Stephen Ticktin, M.D.
Scott Von, M.D.
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TUTORIAL: How to do a 360 live stream on Twitter and Periscope with Periscope 360
I just finished my first 360 live stream on Twitter and Periscope and it went better than I expected! Here’s how to use Periscope360 (aka Periscope Live 360), and my impressions.
Live streaming is one of the major trends this year for the 360 camera industry, with the pieces of the puzzle coming together to enable easy live streaming for the average consumer. Last July, we saw the release of the Insta360 Nano (reviewed here), the first fully spherical 360 camera for consumers that had wireless livestreaming capability. At that time, the only consumer platform for 360 live streaming was YouTube. Hats off to Google for being the first to support 360 live streaming but YouTube wasn’t designed for wireless 360 live streaming. At that time, using YouTube for streaming on the Nano required someone to be at a desktop to start the stream.
Fortunately, 360 live streaming is now going to be much easier:
– At the end of November, Insta360 Air ($119; hands-on and first impressions here) became available for preorder. It’s the most affordable 360 camera with live streaming capability.
– In December, Facebook and Twitter / Periscope announced that they would be launching 360 live streaming (see Facebook announcement here and Twitter / Periscope announcement here). They will use a much simpler process for streaming compared to traditional live streaming.
– Insta360 Nano ($199; reviewed here) became the first 360 camera to be supported for 360 live streaming on Twitter and Periscope
– Also in December, Giroptic iO preorders were launched ($249). One of its key features is live streaming, and Giroptic was able to simplify the streaming process.
– Insta360 will be releasing an update to the Nano app that will enable one-button livestreaming to YouTube.
As you can see, within the span of just a couple of months, 360 live streaming became very affordable and very easy for consumers.
The first of these to actually reach consumers is Twitter / Periscope. Periscope360 was released to beta testers. I had the opportunity to try it out with the Insta360 Nano. Here’s a tutorial:
HOW TO USE PERISCOPE 360
Here is a video tutorial on how to use Periscope 360:
You can view the video larger here.
– Here is how to get on the waitlist for the beta version of Periscope 360.
– Although the Nano can be used separately from a phone, it needs to be attached to an iPhone for live streaming.
– To clarify, Giroptic iO is only for iOS (iPhones and iPads).
– When you start the stream on Periscope, it automatically creates a post on Twitter that shows the live stream.
– It appears the stream is not recorded to the camera’s Micro SD card.
Here is a sample 360 live stream, but please note it looks much better (and loads much faster) on the Periscope or Twitter phone app than on desktop.
https://t.co/33qQ4XQNUK
— 360Rumors (@360rumorsblog) January 28, 2017
For reference, here’s a screenshot of how it looks on my phone:
To see this stream and the other streams on Periscope or Twitter on your phone instead, look for my Twitter and Periscope username, which is @360rumorsblog.
Periscope 360 works very well, much better than I expected. It’s incredibly easy to use, even for someone fairly new to live streaming like myself.
There were some minor issues:
– When typing the description, I had to rotate the phone with the Nano upside down. I also noticed the app seemed slow when typing the description.
– If you choose the option to share the broadcast to Twitter, it will create a post, but the phone will again be rotated with the Nano upside down. It will also slow down the phone tremendously and at one point, it crashed my app.
– The stream drains the phone and camera batteries rapidly. I anticipated this and I had with me a Chromebook and an Anker portable USB charger, which I used to charge the Nano and my iPhone during one of the intermissions. The Chromebook in particular was very powerful at charging the Nano and the iPhone (with the cover closed), although it seemed it could charge only one of them at a time.
– If the connection is too poor, it won’t allow you to Go Live.
As for the image quality, of course it is highly dependent on your connection speed. Surprisingly, even with a pretty slow connection, I was able to get a decent live stream (in my opinion). As connection speeds improve with 5G etc., 360 livestreaming quality will look even better. But connection speed and reliability are the biggest bottlenecks at this time.
I think one way to improve the image quality especially with limited connection speed is to use a tripod. I used the Benro MK-10 selfie stick tripod (reviewed here).
Thank you to everyone who watched the live stream! I’ll see if I can do another one next time.
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Insta360 Air audio quality test
On my way to test Periscope 360 livestreaming
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Home » Global Fund Observer » GFO Newsletter » Back Issues
Issue 237 17 February 2014
1. NEWS
Volatile South Sudan presents challenges to Global Fund assistance
Conflict, prevailing insecurity and wholesale destitution of a vulnerable population in the world’s youngest country could provide instrumental lessons for the Global Fund’s future response and work in fragile states.
South Sudan’s malaria program sees challenges – and not just due to conflict
In South Sudan, challenges to program implementation are legion, and only compounded by conflict.
Integration of TB and HIV programs in high burden countries both necessary and beneficial, experts say
Integrating TB and HIV programs in countries with high rates of TB-HIV co-infection is necessary and will produce benefits, but there will be some challenges in making it happen, experts say.
Malawi’s CCM adds new TB voices ahead of integrated concept note development
The requirement that Malawi submit an integrated concept note for HIV and TB under the new funding model should boost the southern African country’s ability to bring the disease under control.
HIV spreading in Asia, including among Global Fund High Impact countries
A new UNAIDS report warns that progress in curbing HIV infections in Asia is at risk of stalling without better targeting of prevention programs to key populations.
For its HIV grant, El Salvador chooses sub-recipients representing key populations
New funding model early-applicant El Salvador has chosen sub-recipients representing key populations for its $23.1 million HIV grant.
Niger close to procurement plan for malaria response ahead of June rains
Niger is in its final stages of procuring nets and first-line malaria treatment under an $18.1 million transitional funding request, in time for the rainy season beginning in June.
Anti-gay bill in Uganda could have disastrous public health implications
Public health actors in Uganda are warning about catastrophic consequences for HIV infection rates should President Yoweri Museveni sign into law a sweeping anti-homosexuality bill.
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El Salvador is an early applicant under the NFM
El Salvador has announced the selection of six sub-recipients (SR) for its $23.1 million HIV grant, marking another step forward on its path towards completing the Global Fund’s processes under the new funding model (NFM).
Six non-governmental organizations were selected by the principal recipient (PR), Plan International, to implement a series of HIV response activities designed to target the most at-risk populations in the Central American country.
According to a 2012 UNAIDS report, HIV prevalence is at 0.6% in El Salvador, but significantly higher among certain key groups, including men who have sex with men, transgender people and commercial sex workers.
According to a sentinel surveillance study conducted in 2012, sero-prevalence for men who have sex with men is at 10.7%; commercial sex workers, both male and female, have a sero-prevalence rate of 3.14%.
More complete data is expected in 2016, as an integrated bio-behavior (IBBS) study is scheduled to take place in 2015.
The six groups were chosen after an open call for bids by the PR, from 22 applicants. Civil society groups said that the timing of the bid, occurring just 15 days after the open call, may have been too tight for a number of groups to participate and suggested in remarks to Aidspan that the next tender have a longer turn-around time.
Other civil society organizations that work at the grass-roots level have complained that the technical requirements to become eligible to even be considered as a Global Fund SR are too onerous and beyond their technical and managerial capacity.
A technical evaluation committee from the PR shortlisted 10 groups based on an established eligibility criteria and with the technical help of US-based contractor GMS, narrowed the shortlist to the six chosen groups.
The six organizations chosen are:
Entre Amigos Association, which works with MSM
Alejandría Association, which represents transgender people
Aspidh Association, which represents transgender people
Orquídeas del Mar, a union of commercial sex workers
FUNDASIDA, a national HIV outreach NGO
Population Services International’s local arm, PASMO
There has been no announcement about the allocation of the funding for each of the sub-recipients, nor any elaboration of the nature of the activities each organization will be carrying out.
Read this article in Spanish. Lea el articulo en espagnol.
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SAY YEH Trains Pupils on Health in Sports
14,Mar 2019
By Mohamed Lamin Banya
The Sport for African Youth Health Education and Youth Development (SAY HEY) has commenced a-four-day training on water safety, youth in disability issues, sexual and reproductive health and substance use at the Murray Town Municipal School in Freetown. The program is aimed at teaching and capacitating pupils on leadership and their personalities.
The organization which was formed in 2017 focuses on using sports to pass on health messages to youth and pupils. The organization is creating collaboration between sporting disciplines to bring recognition to the country through healthy young sports men and women.
The program featured a skit depicting what they learned and a volley ball match played between pupils of various schools.
Professor at Indiana University USA, Dr. Sarah Young they are teaching the pupils how they should be conscious about sexual relations which oftentimes results in teenage pregnancy and child abuse.
She maintained that the reaction of the pupils was appreciative, adding that from the examples they saw, they could tell that the pupils are now implementing the information back in their schools.
Presenting a paper on Water Safety, Kelvin Espirito disclosed that 40 people die from swimming every hour around the world, adding that Vietnam and Sierra Leone are amongst the countries that suffer from drowning in the world.
Mr. Kelvin Espirito urged the pupils to keep their heads up in the water should they be at risk of drowning.
Mr. Kelvin Espirito called on the pupils not to hasten when attempting to save someone from drowning if they are not trained to do so. He said they should rather use objects like crepe, plastic container, stick and other floatable things to rescue others.
Sharing her experience, Jofee Jimmy Sankaituah, a pupil of the Murray Town Municipal School said she normally uses sports as a means of sharing her ideas on drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, early marriage and how to set her goals for a brighter future.
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NATCOM tends to reduce internet cost
ACC, Correctional Service Discuss PNB Campaign
President Bio Honours Dame Ann Gloag
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251 « ship he may have been - skilled and .... obseryant - but his most beautiful figure )0 ous creation. But there is an intriguing It Z drawings are at the same time electrified W with desire. No one was more eloquent ::i! ::!! them, as he wrote in his diary of 1952: the line immediately becomes strong and Finally, his diaries. When eventually contradiction . Detached in draughtsman- o imbl,,,d the quality of his drawing of () fit'd, and the means of expressing the forms ar .... ' contours effortlessly exact and simple This is simply be<ause it is a greater pleasure to Cc".y some people than others, and the grapplin ~ with shapes and lines, and limitations and dlCnplines imposed by the medium ... are so sl'f.merged ... that the whole laborious proCt , becomes subconscious, and the drawing li~'5 up with a soft inexplicable bri lliance. Fe· Australian artists have given a more sim r " yet revealing statement about the joy ' drawing the figure . than Donald in writing about how his aUrartion to certain physical types Donald Friend's diaries are published, albeit with sensitive editing, they will astonish with their breadth and truthfulness to their author. The soul-searching, the sweet, the sour, and the often very funny writings of Donald Friend over some Sixty years of diaries, from the ebullient arrogance of the fourteen-year-old to the last tragic years following a major stroke when he attempted, but eventually abandoned, writing with his other hand, have no real equivalent in Australian art. Indeed we may have to look further afield for even a remote comparison : perhaps they are the Antipodean parallel to the journals of Delacroix and Gauguin. Major official recognition of Donald Friend in a retrospective exhibition is imminent. It is sad that he did not live to see it. But it is perhaps only a kind of beginning. We will go on discovering his achievement for a long time to come, and hopefully there will be an ever-broadening publiC appreciation of his splendid draughts manship, his gift for decoration, his tru ly great talent for illustration, his lucid writing and, not least of all , his humour. Indeed, if we ever deem to call him genius, we may allow ourselves to be admonished by the quote written in the flyleaf of one of his d iaries: like all young men I setout to be a genius, but laughter mercifully intervened. The Donald Friend Retrospe<::tive will be at the Art Galiery 01 New South Wales9 February -2S March 1990 and laler at the National Gallery 01 Victoria. Transcript of the eulogy delivered by Barry Pearce at the funeral service for Donald Friend 21 August, 1989, Portia Bennett F ort ia Bennett, a much loved and respected painter, died at her home in Nedlands, Western Aust- ralia on 1 May at the age of ninety-one. Portia, who was born at 6almain in 1898 and trained in Sydney under Horace Moore-Jones, May Marsden, Datillo Rubbo and Julian Ashton, arrived in Western Australia in 1932, together with her husband Harry JameS-Wallace and two of thei r children. She continued to live and work in that State for almost 60 years. Watercolou r always held a strong fasci- nation for Portia, a medium she handled extremely well and in which she recorded everyday scenes of life around her, be it Circular Quay with gay bunting for the Visit of the Prince of Wales, St George's Terrace with trolley buses and cars, or yachts gently moving in the breeze on the Swan River. As Portia did not have a studio until fairly late in Hfe, she painted out of doors, not the expected landscapes or bush scenes, but cityscapes, using any vantage point she could find , because she enjoyed the play of light on buildings and had a love of architecture, a profession she would have chosen had she been given the opportunity_ Her marvellously detailed paintings of Perth street scenes are much admired not only for their aesthetic qualities, but also for their historical significance, as the wrecker's hammer has destroyed many of the city's landmarks she recorded so faithfully and so well. Portia was an extremely modest PORTIA BENNm, Hotel AMlphi, 1948, University of Western Austr.1i~ Collection woman, wh'o always maintained her painting was merely a 'hobby'. She was very critical and at times dismissive of her own work. She was, however, a sensitive artist whose contribution to the visual arts in Western Australia was quite significant_ She will be sadly missed by her many admirers in the artistic community. Rie Heytndns
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By: JudyB (offline) on Tuesday, April 01 2014 @ 09:19 PM EDT
Hi Little Kopit - great to see you back for the new nesting season!
To answer your questions -
No, we're not insane. We (Hancock WIldlife, WildEarth and me personally) are also not wealthy.
Unlike some other cam sites, the ads here do not blast rock music while you're trying to listen to peeps inside an egg. There is a 15-30 second ad that plays when you open a cam and click its play button. It has sound - and also has a box in the upper left corner that you can click to mute it. It does not play again unless you need to refresh/reload the page - which you may need to do occasionally if we're having issues with a cam, but it should be the exception rather than the rule. So far that's the only ad I've seen on the new pages - but I expect that once everything is in place, there will sometimes be silent banner ads in the lower 1/4 of the screen, the same as those of us who don't use an ad-blocker have been seeing all along; those ads do not make noise and have a close box, though it's not always easy to see. The people controlling the cams know that there may be ads at the bottom of the screen, so try to keep the action in the upper 3/4 - though the eagles don't always cooperate.
The advantage is that it costs a lot of money to stream cams. I honestly have no clue what it costs WildEarth for each camera they stream - but I did do a bit of research into alternate ways to stream our cams - and this is what I found:
Looking at UStream's website (https://www.ustream.tv/platform/plans), I see that it's $500 a month for 2000 ad-free viewer hours. For simplicity in math, if we were to stream one cam for 10 hours a day, that would be 300 hours a month - and if 7 people watched that one cam every day for the full 10 hours, that would be 2100 viewer hours.
That's one cam, running only during daylight hours, with no more than 7 people on average watching for $500/month. We currently have 10 cams streaming 24 hours a day, with two more seasonal cams in one of the salmon rivers in the fall. It's just getting light in BC, and we have 5 people watching one of the Harrison Mills cams and 6 watching the other, even though the nest is empty.
I'm sure that WildEarth's cost per viewer-hour is less than that charged by UStream - there have to be some economies of scale - but it has to be costing thousands of dollars per month to stream our 10 cams around the clock. The only way we can afford to do this is to have ads.
WildEarth has done everything they can to make them as non-intrusive as possible - the only ad with sound is the initial ad when you open a cam, which is no more than 30 seconds and which has a box in the corner to mute the sound (with the new streaming software); after that, there may sometimes be silent ads taking up no more than the bottom 1/4 of the stream - and our zoomers are careful to keep the action above the place the ads appear. Not surprisingly, advertisers who are paying thousands of dollars want to know that their ads are being seen - so the new software doesn't permit the use of ad-blockers.
I hope this helps - and if you have any suggestions as to how we can stream our cams without ads, I'll be happy to hear them.
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Does it work with the older pages that are down towards the bottom on the White Rock cams page? I
Don't know if anyone got back to you or not Judy - yes, the sound does work on the older cam but not on the new one.
Thanks gemini - Mom's on the nest at Harrison Mills and I'm not good at multi-tasking - but I will try to check into this once I know if she's planning to lay an egg.
By: Little Kopit (offline) on Tuesday, April 01 2014 @ 09:48 PM EDT
Little Kopit
Other sites with other software: Pittsburg eagle cam
- Wildlife Center of Virginia (has option of camera sponsorship of $30.00 pd.) Their financial picture is different from many..
- Cornell University run several cams.
http://www.beleefdelente.nl/vogel/ooievaar
Several other EU located stork nests, but they're not up yet.
Don 't know what cam system is on Loch of Ewes Osprey. But it's Scottish Highland Trust.
http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/falcon/
Berry College
Sturt University, Orange, NSW, AU, Peregrines
White Bellied Eagles of Sydney, NSW, AU
AlCOA Peregrines, AU
I have others bookmarked, but many are not yet open because of season/weather.
Nova Scotia Museum used to have one with their Hydro. It's the birds who went elsewhere.
Pretty well going from memory.
Thanks, Little Kopit. I know other sites have other software. Some also have corporate or institutional sponsorship - which is great if you can find it. We don't have that option.
It's getting late here, and I was up very early, so I'm going to say good night for now, and will look at your list again in the morning. Thanks.
By: Marg (offline) on Tuesday, April 01 2014 @ 11:13 PM EDT
I haven't had a problem with the new cams except while watching the HM nests I got this arrow - it happened twice has anyone else had this happen?
I cannot get in to the cams at HM now.......
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By: JudyB (offline) on Wednesday, April 02 2014 @ 09:59 AM EDT
Thanks, Marg. I have gotten that occasionally - and sometimes the cams will start up again if I click the button in the center - and sometimes I've needed to reload the page to get the cams to come back up. The Harrison Mills embedded cams did go offline for a while overnight and are happily streaming again now (with an eagle on the nest!)
By: jkr (offline) on Wednesday, April 02 2014 @ 12:09 PM EDT
Just a quick note:
Apple came out with a Safari update this morning to version 7.0.3
The cams are still working fine, but did take a bit longer to load.
By: ducky121 (offline) on Wednesday, April 02 2014 @ 05:06 PM EDT
ducky121
hi judyb
I have ad blocker 0.6.7 fx.xpl on ff and it does not look like what you posted. do you know how to just disable for hwf cams? I hope I can do that with what I have.
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EC must clear doubts about EVM-VVPAT system: ex-CEC S Y Quraishi
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On the opposition demand to go back to the ballot paper voting system, Quraishi said rather than doing away with the EVMs, one should look at improving these machines.
Former Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi Saturday said there was no possibility of manipulating the EVM-VVPAT system, but the Election Commission should explain to the opposition and the people by clearing doubts about it. In the recent Lok Sabha polls, the opposition had alleged that Electronic Voting Machines and VVPAT (Voter Verified Paper Trail Machines) were being manipulated.
The EC had refuted the allegations. Asked to comment about the allegations, Quraishi said “There is no possibility of manipululation or tampering of EVM or VVPAT system. Machine cannot show different figures.
Every time you press the button, it will have the same figure. I don’t even understand the allegations. However, the EC should convince the Opposition and people that the system is foolproof. We have to take people along,” he said.
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Welfare reforms: Cameron defeated in the Lords…again. What a surprise!
The defeats came after Labour teamed up with Crossbench peers and a small number of Liberal Democrats to outnumber the Government
I wonder if David Cameron is starting to get the message yet? If not, let me spell it out.
His much-vaunted Welfare Reforms are proving to be something of a turkey. In the first instance, his disability proposals were rejected by almost 100 per cent of people involved in a public consultation – although his Government chose not to include that information when presenting the proposals to the Lords.
In other words our Coalition paid, handsomely no doubt, to solicit opinion on the intended changes and when they didn’t like the answers that came back, they discarded them. Oh well, we’ve got plenty of money to spare, haven’t we?
In the end it didn’t matter, anyway, because the Coalition’s first round of planned cuts proved too extreme even for the gentrified and cosseted Peers in the House of Lords and were rejected out of hand.
In a series of humiliating and crushing blows, the Lords voted against all three of his new – and more cruelly improved – attacks on disability support.
Instead, the Lords’ chose to include a number of more responsible amendments to the proposals.
To the delight of campaigners, this included automatic eligibility to support for young disabled people unable to work. In addition, the 12 month period for re-assessment would be extended to two years.
Sensible suggestions that will not make life an utter misery for the disabled and will not lead to unnecessary, and very costly, bureaucratic paperwork.
The third and final proposal that the Government were anxious to have rubber-stamped by the Lords – and they were represented in this act of no-mercy by Lord Freud and a willing number of Lib-Dem peers – was to subject cancer patients to testing time limits that failed to factor in human issues like progression and regression of the cancer.
That, too, received a firm ‘No’ as the Lords and Ladies voted, quite rightly, to make Cancer patients exempt from the time constraints.
Cameron is defeated on this occasion, but his aims for the disabled should not be underestimated. His Government have sent out a clear, and unequivocal, message to our disabled population.
Debate: Peers voted through an amendment that will allow young people unable to work because of disability to receive ESA, even if they have substantial means
It is this: in the eyes of the Coalition, they barely count. And there was me thinking that David Cameron and his toadies saved their opprobrium for the elderly and the poor.
For commentators and keen observers, alike, Dave’s reform pounding heralds an extraordinary start to the welfare reform bill voting season. Over the next few weeks more votes will take place on other controversial issues to do with disability benefit and how much support we, as a nation, are prepared to give our disabled.
Problem is, this Coalition – under the clear direction of David Cameron – haven’t played fair on this one at all. Notwithstanding their rejection of the public consultation, they also sought to manipulate the outcome by not adhering to the required time frames for the proposals.
The Lords’ found out about these dirty tricks and were clearly unimpressed.
This, it has to be said, was in no small part thanks to an incredible independent, and verifiable, study ‘Responsible Reform – The Spartacus Report’ which was released this week and received some three million tweets about it on the first day alone.
The Spartacus Report is a labour of love as well as desperation. Funded and compiled by a group of disabled people, several of them seriously ill, it has been driven by a phenomenally impressive on-line campaign that has been thorough and efficient.
See, there you go, disabled people do like to work, too, unlike the tabloid caricature who, according to recent Government spin, ‘would prefer to lose benefits rather than get out of bed’.
Contrary to popular myth, there are actually very few people claiming benefits who are work shirkers.
Reform: Over the next few weeks more votes will take place on related issues regarding how much benefit and support we are prepared to give our disabled
As the Daily Mail reported on Tuesday, the overall fraud rate for Disability Living Allowance is less than 0.5 per cent. Given that, you have to wonder why Dave is being so punishing with the disabled?
Most people are surprised to learn that disability fraud doesn’t even register as a full percentage, the way some people go on you would think that everyone in receipt of disability benefit is at it. Not so, Mr. Cameron.
And that, quite clearly, is where he is completely alienating the British public.
I believe that the British are essentially decent people. Of course we have our share of thieves and thugs – and many of them are in Whitehall and The City – but, for the most part, we are happy to distribute the wealth to those less fortunate than ourselves.
The problem for David Cameron is that his Welfare Reform policies show him up to be anything but those marvellous characteristics that the vast majority of us cherish, and his detached approach is meeting rejection and will continue to do so at increasingly rapid speed.
Partly, because it lacks fair play. One of the essential components of our national characteristic.
Given the levels of propaganda that this Coalition has put out to attempt to get people on-side with their punishing welfare cuts, you have to wonder are they completely devoid of morals as they continue to wage their war against our most vulnerable?
Steely: Ambitious Boris Johnson has realised that it may not be best to align himself too closely with the Prime Minister
Interestingly, too, his old Oxford Bullingdon Club mucker, Boris Johnson – the flamboyant mayor of London – realised that he would need to reject them outright, which he did, else he be tarnished by them.
The thing about Boris Johnson – or BJ as he’s known in our house – is that his foppish, silly boy charm belies a steele ambition and it has become increasingly obvious that it’s best not to align too closely with the PM. Certainly not when you have your eye on usurping that PM, anyway.
Personally, I am thankful it is not me claiming disability benefit. It’s no fun to be subjected to numerous and punishing assessments and appeals, and then appeals of the appeals.
It always seems like the benefit system is designed to make the life of disabled people as miserable as humanly possible. And that as a model for a so-called civilised society is entirely wrong. It reflects badly on us all.
To be clear, in my 47 years I have been fortunate to enjoy that one thing that if you don’t have it you are constantly reminded that it’s missing: my good health.
I’ve only been in hospital a handful of times – and one of those was to give birth – and I still left on the same day our daughter arrived.
I have seen illness and death up close as a genetic kidney disorder has taken my mother, grandmother and aunt and my brother has had a kidney transplant – but I have enjoyed good health and I try not to take it for granted.
I’m of the opinion that people get in where they fit in. For my part, I earn an income and I am more than happy to contribute to a society that takes care of our most vulnerable. That seems the right thing to do.
My big problem with Cameron (sub clause: right now) is the clear disparity in the way people are treated by his Coalition.
Let’s name the elephant in this room. We all know this Coalition puts business before people. The evidence is all there, doesn’t even take much digging to substantiate that claim.
Let’s see now. The bankers, through their incompetence and risk-taking, lost billions, we bailed them out and they still take bonuses despite their poor – and for some people, life destroying – performances.
The rest of us suffer the rising cost of living as a consequence of poor national and international money management and no action is taken. That’s not right.
Then we have large corporations and multi-national companies who receive ‘sweetheart deals’ which allow them, shall we say, ‘fortunate tax conditions’ and billions, literally, of tax goes unpaid as a consequence. That’s not right, either.
So who does the Coalition not favour then? Well that would be our most needy and dependable members of society.
I would love not to have to write these words, there are a million other injustices taking place in the world and my sights are set on all of them but the systematic humiliation and bullying of our disabled is one injustice in my own backyard that I can’t ignore.
I don’t see that there’s a choice there. If we don’t highlight the very real wrongs taking place, what hope have we of getting them right? The thing is, David Cameron isn’t the man to do it. The problem for him is he’s starting to realise that, too.
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BROKEN BRITAIN UNDER TORIES –BORN PRIVILEGED
We as a Human Race are all born and die the same there is a beginning and an end .Those born of Privilege and being educated at Eton or another of the University’s should know better than anyone of their past .Privilege was granted through rape ,pillage ,murder and unfavourable alliances .
We the General Public accepted privileged people and allowed them to continue to lead their lives as such .
Born with more money than the average person and better educated ,we would expect you to behave in a rational and moral way when in positions of power ,instead we are treated with contempt .It is we the working public that have helped line your pockets even more .We are deemed scroungers by people whom feel they are our betters .But the truth of the matter is that Parasites like Smith and Grayling and other cohorts have attached themselves to the Privileged circle and do your dirty work .The position of an MP is to represent the Public and its concerns – to aim for a more cohesive society .The vast majority of us have respected your positions but your ever increasing LIES ,PUBLIC PURSE THEFTS and ARROGANCE has now gone beyond the pale .
It is you that have decimated our society and you have the audacity to look down upon us – you a bunch of thieves liars and cheats .Your greed is beyond comprehension .Sleep well PARASITES .
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Stairway to Heaven TV Series
Stairway to Heaven TV Series (2003)
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Starring: Kwon Sang-Woo, Choi Ji-Woo, Kim Tae-Hee
Director: Lee Jang-Su
Distribution: SBS
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Broadcast: December 3, 2003 ~ February 5, 2004
Starring Shin Hyun-joon, Choi Ji-woo, Kwon Sang-woo and Kim Tae-hee, "Stairway to heaven" stirred up fever and spurred thousands of viewers to flock to chat rooms and discussion forums to share their views and comments on the drama. Jung-seo's (Choi Ji-woo) step-brother Tae-hwa (Shin Hyun-joon) loves Jung-seo wholeheartedly, but she unfortunately lost her memory in a car accident and was sheltered by Tae-hwa. Jung-seo was recognized by her wealthy fiance (Kwon Sang-woo) in the party celebrating his engagement with another girl...
The first episode of Stairway to Heaven aired on February 5, 2004. A total of 20 episodes aired every Wednesday and Thursday night at 10 pm on SBS. This drama quickly became known as one that could bring on laughter and tears, pulling at viewer's heartstrings every time they watched. This TV miniseries was extremely well-received by audiences. Lead actress, Choi Ji-woo's immense popularity with young female audiences, along with a wonderful storyline has kept people talking long after the final episode aired.
Stairway to Heaven captured viewer's attention with passionate performances combined with movie-like qualities. Many viewers would be surprised to learn that the scenes of Han Tae-hwa as a child are actually played by Han yu-ri's real-life young brother.
Synopsis Song-ju (played by Kwon Sang-woo) and Jeong-seo (played by Choi Ji-woo) grew up together as close friends. Their parents close relationship gave them the feeling of being brother and sister as youngsters. As the only son of a wealthy executive of Global Group, Song-ju went abroad to study management. Before leaving, the two childhood friends exchanged necklaces.
After suddenly losing his wife to illness, Jeong-seo's father remarries Tae Mi-ra. For no reason Mi-ra's daughter Yu-ri seems to dislike Jeong-seo from the very beginning and is often cruel to her. During this time of cruel treatment, Jeong-seo is in a serious car accident, resulting in memory loss.
She remembers nothing of her childhood friend, Song-ju and is unexpectedly reunited with him. The four young main characters Cha Song-ju, Han Jeong-seo, Han Tae-hwa, and Han Yu-ri all have different ways of expressing love, making each character unique. The show incorporates the beauty and sadness of love set in beautiful filming locations with sweet, mellow tunes on the soundtrack.
"Stairway to Heaven" redefines Korean Dramas with a touching plot, vivid characters, a sublime soundtrack, and its own undeniably unique innovations. Many American fans have cited this drama as the single reason they became addicted to Korean Dramas in the first place!
For as long as they can remember, Han Jung-Suh (Choi Ji-Woo of Winter Sonata) and Cha Song-Joo (Kwon Sang-Woo of Love So Divine and My Tutor Friend) have always been meant for one another. But when Jung-Suh receives a new family, everything changes. Stepmother Tae Mi-Ra cruelly manipulates Jung-Suh, and when envious stepsister Yoo-Ri (Kim Tae-Hee) commits an unspeakable act, Jung-Suh is literally left helpless, and loses her memory.
At the crucial moment, Jung-Suh's lonely and affectionate stepbrother Tae-Hwa (Shin Hyun-Joon of Guns and Talks) seizes the opportunity to escape his cruel family - and takes Jung-Suh with him. Song-Joo is left behind, and as the years go by, his heart remains irreparably broken. But one day Song-Joo sees a girl who bears a remarkable resemblance to Jung-Suh, and he becomes convinced that this girl is really his long-lost love...
Topping viewship charts in South Korea, SBS's blockbuster TV-series "Stairway to heaven" is now steamrollering to all K-TV fans, starring Shin Hyun-joon, Choi Ji-woo, Kwon Sang-woo and Kim Tae-hee, "Stairway to heaven" stirred up fever and spurred thousands of viewers to flock to chat rooms and discussion forums to share their views and comments on the drama.
Jung-seo's (Choi Ji-woo) step-brother Tae-hwa (Shin Hyun-joon) loves Jung-seo wholeheartedly, but she unfortunately lost her memory in a car accident and was sheltered by Tae-hwa. Jung-seo was recognized by her wealthy fiance (Kwon Sang-woo) in the party celebrating his engagement with another girl...
So many tears! noahandgabrielsmum (December 29, 2009)
I have just watched this series, translated with english subtitles that were a bit poor in places but the basic story and acting had me in tears on every episode and the music is out of this world.
Total class, recommend to every one.!!!!!!!!
noahandgabrielsmum
Best of the best!! sandywoo (September 10, 2006)
this is the first film i ever seen in my life which makes me feel sympathy when i first saw it were i cannot control my tears. the film was very interested and well organised and i hope to get someday to korea and finds out more on this film which is the best film to me. Kwon and Choi are my best actor and actress and i cheer them up!! Hopefully to know them more
sandywoo
Worst English Subtitles Ever yumac321 (July 13, 2006)
The series was fine but the English translation was wretched! The poor subtitles degraded the drama. Other dramas have minor problems with subtitles but this one was of such poor quality I would not recommend purchasing this series.
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Tears...tears...and more tears! margaretlim (October 03, 2005)
I couldn't wait to see what happened in the end so I went ahead and bought the VCDs. I've never cried so much in my life! Kwon Sang-Woo blew me away with his tears. Especially the final scene when he cradles his wife in his arms...Anyone who wants a good cry movie, Stairways To Heaven has got to be it!
margaretlim
Awww...so sad and romantic... kAnDy_69 (July 14, 2005)
"SNIFF" "SNIFF" this is the best sad love story. Especially when Kwon Sang Woo is in there. He is the best actor i have seen, he is also so cute too. I love Kwon Sang Woo. The way he act in the movie is the way i want my future boyfriend to act toward me...i want a lover like him...he knows how to love. In the movie he is a true lover..he waits for her no matter how long. This movie is the best that anyone ever see. I reccommend for others to see it if they haven't, they will love it too. I cried so much on this movie. Always the best.
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that so romantic maria_143 (April 06, 2005)
Im so in love with these tv series. (Kwong Sang Woo) Jung So is so madly and truly inlove with Han jang Su. I cried and laugh evry episode i have watched. Kwong Sang Woo is so cute and lovable. I wish they both will have another tV series. though the ending is tragedy. Hope next time you make them together they will have a good and romantic ending.
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this is the best romantic love serie ever!! katie (March 16, 2005)
this is the best serie ever. if you want to watch a romantic serie that involves love and tears, this is ONE. kwon sang-woo is so hot. he's so cute. this is the saddess serie ever. it made me cried and i never cry in series, but i did in this one. it's so sad at the end, okay i'm not gonna ruin the serie. Oh gosh kwon sang-woo is so cute and hot.
Wassup... shidat (March 15, 2005)
i love this drama so much....
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sadness.. heysun1291 (March 14, 2005)
i dontlike how the drama ends... too sad... i was about to die crying the whole night.. i actually thought it would be a happoy ending but after it ended i was like WTF! and wen i woke up my face was all red and fat..
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stairway to heaven trisha27 (February 23, 2005)
its really awesome and touching!!! i loved it
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kc kcsogoofy (January 22, 2005)
made me cry a lot!!! Songjoo is super hot. Good actors especially yuri and her mom they pissed me off so bad! I LOVE THIS DRAMA!!!
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Absolutely GRIPPING! BuezaWebDev (January 16, 2005)
Beautifully weaved storyline--skilled actors--This series will leave you in tears, yet you'll get the feeling of happiness.
Watch this series, it's absolutely gripping.
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Rocked My Boat lindaphan88 (January 01, 2005)
Perhaps I'm a sucker for love stories, but this is by far one of the greatest love story I have seen. This movie got me and my friends to look into other korean love stories, comedies, etc. I love how their started out together and the obstacles they went through for each other. However, the one problem I had with this series was that they dragged on the story just a bit much and the series probably should've ended at episode 15 or maybe even 10 lol. But this series was great. x) I couldn't stop crying and I can't wait for the American verson to come out. =D
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sup Kong (October 02, 2004)
This movie got me wiping my tears. It really showed me how to respect everything that goes on in a relationship. This is a very, highly love Tv series. The actors are straight up good as hell. Such an emotional tv series.
The Best Korean TV Series curious (July 06, 2004)
This is one of the best Korean TV Series I have ever seen. Kwan Sang-Woo acts great! The way that he loves ChoiJi-Woo touches my heart. The story is great & I love it.
Most Touching Love Story Ever.. summerscent (June 17, 2004)
This is the best korean drama love story. Definetely moved you to tears. A must to see!Kwon Sang Woo is so cool!
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krazy krazy movie.... krnboy849 (March 18, 2004)
In the Beggining....there isnt much feelings to the drama....but in the tradgic ending.....touched a lot of viewers heart:
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Jeong Su- a wealthy girl who lost her mother, becomes to have feelings for song ju- another wealthy boy, who lost his father. sharing the same backgrounds they instantly becomes friends, and later plans to go to america. When Jung Seo's father decides to get married to tae mira the selfish actress Jung Seo's life is satisfactory, of seeing her father being so happy. But as Tae Mi Ra's abandoned children all of a sudden shows up, Jung Seo's life is in Turmoil. Uri- step sister, is a selfish brat is jealous of Jung Seo's life. Tae Mi Ra wishing for Uri, more than Jung Seo to live better, abuses Jung Seo, and later shoves her in the closet, where she meets Tae Wha her step brother. In the outside jung seo dosent show her pain. she seems allways bright and happy. Later her plans to go to the Americas with Song Ju is parished when her step mother convinced her father to diagree with sending her to America. While Song Ju is in America, Tae Wha falls in love with her, after her kindness and sincirity on his birthday. few years later...Jung Seo gets a call the day when Song Ju arives back to Korea, and goes to meet up with him. Jealous of their love Uri crashes into Jung Seo, and asks her father to keep the *dead* body. Jung Seo looses all memories after the crash.....and is sheltered by Tae Wha for 5 years. Later, she meets Song Ju who thought she was dead, and he trips out. trying to get her memory back. But for the 5 years....Uri bitched up to song ju, and they are going to get married. Jung Seo later after regaining her memory by the help of Uri.....Stupid bitch. But in the end goes blind because of eye cancer. Tae Wha later gives his eyes, for the two to be happy, but she dies by cancer in the end.
Such crazy acting. especially by Kwan Sang Woo, and Choi Ji Whoo, and Kim Tae Hee, and cant forget about Shin Hyun Jun.
the girl as Young Jeong Seo was good too. awsome stars right for their character. The best drama ive seen in a while.....except for like damo and shit....
um sad story......especially when TaeWha dies.....
well see ya
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Lagos the Original Southern Lady of Means. 4th Festival Colloquium for Lagos at 50
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Before crude oil became cool, that is, before it became the chief revenue source for the Nigerian government, there was Lagos. Circa 1905, when the ‘geographical expression’ now called Nigeria was administered in three separate regions—Southern Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, and Colony of Lagos—it was Lagos which had the wherewithal.
This viewpoint that Lagos is the original southern lady of means is the theme of the 4th Festival Colloquium, to mark the celebration of Lagos at 50. The colloquium is to be delivered by Solomon Asemota (Senior Advocate of Nigeria) on 17 Saturday September 2016 at Kongi Art Gallery Freedom Park Lagos.
Solomon Asemota (SAN
Solomon Asemota (SAN) was educated at the University of Lagos between 1964-1969, where he earned a Bachelor of Law (Honours) degree, and later the Nigerian Law School (1969-1970). He has had an illustrious career as a police officer. A career which began when he attended the Cadet Sub-Inspectors’ Course at the Southern Police College, Ikeja Lagos (1959-1960) and culminated as a superintendent in 1969, when he was officer-in charge of the Detective Training School, Ikoyi Lagos. Upon which he resigned to practice law. He has had an equally successful career both in the public positions held (e.g. Presidential Advisory Committee on National Dialogue/Conference 2013) and in private practice as a lawyer (e.g. Secretary, Finance Committee, Sixth Commonwealth Law Conference -1980).
Solomon Asemota’s metaphor on Lagos being the original well-off southern lady is taken from a speech by Lord Harcourt, in the book Lugard and the Amalgamation of Nigeria (p.30). Lord Harcourt, then Secretary of State for the colonies, gave the speech at a colonial service dinner in 1913, he said:
“We have released Northern Nigeria from the leading strings of the Treasury. The promising and well-conducted youth is now on an allowance “on his own” and is about to effect an alliance with a Southern lady of means. I have issued the special license and Sir Frederick Lugard will perform the ceremony. May the union be fruitful and the couple constant! The Nigerias are not designed to be a great “Trust” but a great “Federation”.
Mr. Asemota holds that Lagos which in 1906 was first merged with Southern Nigeria, in preparation for the amalgamation of Nigeria in 1914, is the original lady of means. That it was Lagos which provided the funds for the allowance Lord Harcourt jokingly alluded to. That the source of funds for Southern Nigeria was import duties through Lagos Port mainly Gin. In 1939, Southern Nigeria was split into two Eastern and Western Nigeria and the well conducted youth became polygamous with two wives – East and West. According to Asemota, this is how Nigeria perfected ‘harem politics’—the playing of one wife (Yoruba) against the other (Ndigbo). This “politics”, he says, has continued till date.
Also, Asemota sees Lagos as the ‘original Nigeria’, because prior to the amalgamation Lagos was arguably the only region which could boast of being a melting pot of the diverse ethnic nationalities in Nigeria. He says three Yoruba of Lagos extraction, Shitta Bey, Chief H. O. Davies QC, and his mentor Mobolaji Johnson, were ‘‘examples of Lagosians who believed and understood then and now that Lagos is built on diversity, Yorubas, Benin, Saro, Brazil, Igbo, Niger Delta (Warri people), Hausa and others and for ideological reasons it almost lost its role as the “original Nigeria” and the “original lady of means”.
Mr. Asemota recommends ‘‘that Nigeria must congratulate and rejoice with Lagos as an oil producing state, I have outlined a brief history of ownership of land and mineral and also discussed the Yoruba sense of justice. Now that Lagos is an oil producing state, they must join others to demand for justice’’, and that ‘‘the preponderance of non-indigenes should form as the basis for increased federal grants. It will also help to promote accurate census and tourism. Nigerians must first become the local tourists before it can attract foreigners’’.
Other features to be expected at the colloquium includes: cultural displays, speaker’s corner, lectures, and performances.
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Extortion, Destruction and Lethal IoT Failures Make 2016 a Year to Watch
It’s been a pretty hectic 12 months, but for UK CISOs the bad news is that 2016 is unlikely to bring with it any respite. Over the past year we’ve seen a never-ending avalanche of data breaches, nation state espionage attacks and hacktivist campaigns; sophisticated new malware; and a return of some old attack techniques. And all of this against an ever more volatile regulatory compliance backdrop that threatens to turn up the pressure even more next year.
We’ll be doing our bit by continuing to protect our customers from the latest threats with innovative new products, and working with law enforcement to hit the bad guys where it hurts. But security bosses should also start planning now to overcome the key challenges Trend Micro predicts for 2016.
A year in security
Organisations on both sides of the Atlantic showed they are still ill-equipped to cope with targeted attacks and continue to make basic security errors allowing hackers to strike. Whether it was the apparently insider-related attack on infidelity site Ashley Madison or the more traditional targeted intrusions at major US healthcare firms Anthem and Premera and the massive OPM federal breach, it was no real surprise that the data breaches kept on coming in 2015. The UK had its fair share of incidents too, many of which were punished by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The TalkTalk breach turned out to be less serious than at first thought but shows that some British firms are no better at securing customer data than their global counterparts.
At a nation state level our tracking of the Pawn Storm crew’s attacks on NATO members and the White House proved it’s not just China and the US with cyber espionage capabilities. And a devastating strike which took out several TV5Monde TV channels reminded us of the real world damage that cyber attacks can inflict. It was disappointing to see the results of a new Quocirca study sponsored by Trend Micro which found that although complacency about breaches has dropped this year, 12% of the firms that said they’d been targeted didn’t know whether data had been taken or not. Some didn’t even know how much data they’d lost.
Another study we released, this time with the Ponemon Institute, warned of the threat to privacy and security from nascent IoT technologies.
We’ve done our best to help our customers stem the rising tide of attacks this past year, beyond providing industry leading products which received accolades from the likes of NSS Labs (Deep Discovery), Gartner, the V3 Awards (Deep Security) and the IAIR Awards (cloud security company of the year). Deep Security’s virtual patching capabilities have helped countless businesses continue to run Windows Server 2003 beyond the deadline for end of support earlier this year. And a landmark MoU agreement with the NCA has seen our threat researchers working hand-in-hand with the crime agency on cases – already resulting in the arrest of two suspects in the UK. Those same researchers have also lifted the lid on the shadowy Deep Web cybercrime markets of Japan, China, Germany and beyond in some fantastic reports this year.
We’ve also been awarded the “EICAR trusted IT security” seal of quality for Deep Security, Deep Discovery and OfficeScan – independent proof that none of these products have been tampered with by nation states.
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But unfortunately the hard work never stops. Already lined up for next year are major changes to the regulatory environment, with the European General Data Protection Regulation and Network and Information Security Directive set to be finalised. And there’s a new Safe Harbour agreement to be thrashed out with US negotiators. Organisations desperately need their own Data Protection Officers (DPOs) to handle these coming compliance requirements and co-ordinate an effective response to data security threats. Yet we predict that fewer than 50% of organisations will have one installed by the end of next year.
Our other predictions for 2016 include the following:
Threats will increasingly focus on extortion
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Mobile malware will hit 20 million, driven by China
Destructive cyber attacks will increase
Ad blocking will kill malvertising
Cybercrime prevention efforts will get more successful
Check out our latest report, The Fine Line: 2016 Security Predictions, for more. And we wish you all a very happy Christmas and prosperous New Year.
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An Historic Exaggeration in the New Yorker
May 24th, 2015 Comments off
Twenty-two years ago today, the New Yorker published a remarkably exaggerated and unsupported claim. It was in the second part of “Remembering Satan,” Lawrence Wright’s article about the Paul Ingram case. (Some of Wright’s claims about this case have since been debunked by Karen Olio and William Cornell’s peer-reviewed article, “The Facade of Scientific Documentation: A Case Study of Richard Ofshe’s Analysis of the Paul Ingram Case.”) Beyond the Ingram case, however, Wright asserted that what happened to the Ingrams was “actually happening to thousands of other people around the country who have been accused on the basis of recovered-memory testimony. Perhaps some of the memories are real; certainly many are false” (Wright, Remembering Satan–Part II, New Yorker, May 24, 1993, p.76).
What evidence did Wright provide in support of his claim that there were “thousands” of cases? On what basis was he “certain” that “many” of those were false? None whatsoever. The “thousands” claim is pure fiction. There were thousands of phone calls to the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, which were often mischaracterized by the Foundation as “cases.” But Wright did not investigate any cases beyond Paul Ingram’s, so his certainty that hundreds, maybe thousands, of other cases were “false” is a measure of his prejudice, not a product of his reporting. Wright is an accomplished and award-winning author; but in this important instance, he got it wrong.
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Remembering Results that You Didn’t Find
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There was a piece in the New Yorker in March called “Remembering a Crime that You Didn’t Commit.” It begins with a brief description of the McMartin Preschool case that omits virtually all of the evidence of guilt, while exaggerating the extent of satanic claims in the case. (See this post for more detail.)
The author then pivots to a description of Elizabeth Loftus’ Lost-in-the-Mall study, claiming that the experiment caused “six of the twenty-four test subjects [to] internalize the story, weaving in sensory and emotional details of their own.” But the vaunted fact checkers at the New Yorker were wrong about more than the McMartin case. They apparently failed to consult the original Lost-in-the-Mall study which makes it clear that the 25% figure includes those who “remembered” the event “either fully or partially,” and partially includes “remembering parts of the event and speculations about how and when it might have happened” (p.722). Speculations, of course, are not memories. And remembering, say, the “part” about being lost is hardly remarkable, since everyone has been lost at one time or another. In short, the original article never claimed that 25% of subjects internalized the false story. A much smaller number did.
Memory experts are quick to point out that memory is constructed and it changes over time. Curiously, those who cover memory researchers rarely, if ever, pause to ask whether professors describing their own research might reconstruct their “findings” over time, remembering results they didn’t actually find. That seems to be the real, but unrecognized, legacy of the Lost in the Mall study. To many, the study stands for much more than it ever actually found.
UPDATE (6/21/17): subsequent research has cast serious doubt on the other study, by Porter and Shaw, described in this article. Brewin and Andrews’ 2016 meta-study demonstrates that it is an extreme outlier. Pezdek and Blandon-Gitlin’s 2016 analysis concluded that the study was incoherent, employing “an unorthodox rating system” that rendered it “impossible to know what the high prevalence rate actually refers to.”
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The poster for the Denver Comic Con beer Snape-ricot release party. (Provided by Breckenridge Brewing)
The 2016 Denver Comic Con beer will have a magical name.
Breckenridge Brewery announced on Facebook on Sunday the beer will be named “Snape-ricot,” a ode to the Harry Potter character Severus Snape, played by the late Alan Rickman in the movie franchise. The name was chosen from more than 500 entries.
The beer is an American pale lager brewed with fresh apricot puree. From the DCC: “It’s a delightfully crisp beer with a fullness that hints at grains and earth. It has just enough bittering hops to leave a pleasant, dry finish, inviting the next sip. The beers’ sweetness pairs perfectly with fresh apricot aroma and flavor.”
Snape-ricot will debut at the beer’s release party at 7:30 p.m. May 20 at Stoney’s Bar and Grill on 1111 Lincoln St. The first 200 people to order the beer will receive a limited edition pint glass, designed by artist Frankie Serna. Admission is free.
Previous names for the DCC beer have been The Fantastic Pour (2012), The Caped Brewsader (2013), Brews Wayne (2014) and Hulk’s Mash (2015).
During the Denver Comic Con, the beer will be made available at venues throughout downtown Denver, which will be announced at a later date.
The Denver Comic Con takes place June 17-19 at the Colorado Convention Center. For more information, go to denvercomiccon.com.
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2016 Denver Comic Con beer-naming contest begins
Officials from the Denver Comic Con pose as they help with Breckenridge Brewery’s annual DCC beer on April 10, 2015 at Breckenridge Brewery in Denver. This year’s beer is called “Hulk’s Mash.” (Provided by Breckenridge Brewery)
The Denver Comic Con beer-naming contest, a tradition that’s been around as long as the con itself, kicked off its fifth year Monday. The DCC and Breckenridge Brewery are teaming up for their annual contest, inviting fans to come up with names for the alcoholic beverage.
Names suggestions can be submitted on the Denver Comic Con’s Facebook page until 5 p.m. Wednesday. The top handful of names will be selected by a committee and then voting opens from March 3-7.
The winner of the competition will receive a prize package from Breckenridge, which includes free beer for a year and a Denver Comic Con beer.
There will be a launch party for the beer, but the date and location of the event will be announced at a future date.
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Where to find Breckenridge’s 2015 Denver Comic Con beer “Hulk’s Mash”
With the Denver Comic Con right around the corner — one of the event’s most popular traditions, Breckenridge Brewery‘s Denver Comic Con beer — will be made widely available all weekend.
This year’s beer, “Hulk’s Mash,” will be sold at 16 different locations near the Colorado Convention Center. Most of these locations will have a giveaway of the specially designed pint glasses.
The beer has a 6.0% ABV and is pale ale brewed with mozaic hops and mango puree.
Here is a list of the locations in which “Hulk’s Mash” can be found this weekend, along with when glassware giveaways will take place:
Denver Comic Con — 700 14th St.
All Bar Locations Inside The Convention Center
Hyatt Regency — 650 15th St.
Glassware giveaway Saturday, May 23 at 4 p.m.
Pizza Republica — 890 14th St
Glassware Giveaway May 23-25 at 5:30 p.m. / Tap Takeover
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2015 Denver Comic Con beer “Hulk’s Mash” debuts May 1
Just in time for the premiere of “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the Breckenridge Brewery’s 2015 Denver Comic Con beer gets its name. And it is smashing.
“Hulk’s Mash” — a play on Marvel’s not-so-jolly green giant’s catchphrase and the term to steep grains in the beer-making process — was chosen from about 700 different entries in the annual contest to name the DCC beer, according to Breckenridge brand manager Ryan Workman. From the 700, five names were chosen by a small committee and put out to a vote by the general public.
A poster of the Hulk’s Mash release party, which includes the design for the commemorative pint glass. (Provided by Breckenridge Brewery)
“We had a hard time choosing … we had probably 50 (names) that we were in love with,” Denver Comic Con convention director Christina Angel said. “It was a tough choice even to narrow it down to five.”
The beer is expected to have a 6.0% ABV and is pale ale brewed with mozaic hops and mango puree.
“There’s tropical fruit on the nose of mosaic hops,” Workman said, “… so why not pump that up?”
As with years past, there will be limited edition commemorative pint glasses depicting Hulk’s Mash. Instead of enlisting the help of a popular comic book artist, this year’s design was a contest Breckenridge held with the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. Trevor Plaza, a student at RMCAD, created the winning design.
The beer will debut at the official beer release party at 7:30 p.m. May 1 at 1up Colfax, 717 E. Colfax Ave. Admission is free and pint glasses will be given to the first 200 people who order a Hulk’s Mash.
Hulk’s Mash will be available at both 1up locations starting May 1, and can be found at a variety of different locations around downtown Denver during the Denver Comic Con, including Hard Rock Cafe, Tilted Kilt and World of Beer. A full list will be released.
Previous names for the DCC beer have been The Fantastic Pour (2012), The Caped Brewsader (2013) and Brews Wayne (2014).
2014 Denver Comic Con beer “Brews Wayne” debuts May 30
The art for the 2014 Denver Comic Con/Breckenridge Brewery beer “Brews Wayne.” (Provided by Denver Comic Con)
Last year “The Caped Brewsader” made its debut. Now its Batman-esque counterpart, “Brews Wayne” is making an appearance.
Continuing its annual tradition, the Denver Comic Con once again teamed up with Breckenridge Brewery to create a craft beer for the three-day convention, which runs June 13-15 at the Colorado Convention Center.
The beer’s launch party will take place at 8 p.m. May 30 at The 1up — Colfax at 717 E. Colfax Ave. The first 200 attendees will receive a limited edition pint glass.
About the beer (From Denver Comic Con):
The limited release Brews Wayne is a hoppy amber ale, a hybrid-style with two distinctly different, yet complimenting flavors. This full body amber ale has an herbal and floral punch of aroma with woody undertones. With a hearty malt base and lively hop character, Brews Wayne is the perfect beer for the playboy by day and superhero by night.
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Denver Comic Con beer The Caped Brewsader debuts May 9
Artist Ben Templesmith’s art for The Caped Brewsader, the official 2013 Denver Comic Con beer.
After a two-month wait, The Caped Brewsader rises.
The launch party for the official 2013 Denver Comic Con beer will take place at 7 p.m. May 9 at Punch Bowl Social, 65 Broadway, Denver. Breckenridge Brewery produced 100 barrels of the Buddha’s hand fruit-infused Belgium Witbier; it will be served at a variety of bars around Denver during the Comic Con, which runs May 31 to June 2.
The first 200 guests to the party will get a commemorative pint glass featuring a label designed by Australian comic book artist Ben Templesmith, who is best known for his work on “Fell” and “30 Days of Night.”
Breckenridge created Buddha’s Hand Witbier in 2010 as part of its 20th anniversary, but this version is made with freshly cut pieces of the fruit rather than the dry version in that initial batch. About 40 pounds of the fruit was added to this batch.
Check out the beer’s vital stats and places to get a pint below.
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2013 Denver Comic Con beer named The Caped Brewsader
Comic Book Classroom co-founder Charlie La Greca smells the Buddha’s hand fruit used in this year’s Denver Comic Con beer on Feb. 28 at Breckenridge Brewery in Denver. (Joe Nguyen, The Denver Post)
Now that the dust has settled, “The Caped Brewsader” stands alone atop the hundreds of entries entered into this year’s Denver Comic Con beer-naming contest.
The beer, a Belgium-style witbier infused with Buddha’s hand fruit, was created by Breckenridge Brewery. Last year, the brewery teamed up with Denver Comic Con to produce the “Fantastic Pour.”
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Managing the Master Notes
Mr Raj Narayan, Managing Director, Radel Electronics Pvt Ltd, with his colleague and HR head Mr Mahesh Desphande
With the fortnight drawing to a close, at hand was a pleasant morning with the students gathered in the amphitheater at Welingkar Bangalore. And the experts for the day were Mr. Raj Narayan, Managing Director, Radel Electronics Pvt Ltd. and his colleague and HR head Mr. Mahesh Desphande. In the offing was a wondrous combination of music and management. Narayan is a passionate flutist, and an ardent music lover.
Music, like any other art-form knows no boundaries. It bonds people across the world. Playing on the stage was a fusion. And the players- Narayan and his friend Deshpande.
Narayan remniscing about the roots of his passion for music which dated back 40 years, to his childhood, said, he came from a family that had deep interest in music. He also developed affinity for flute . But then it was difficult to practice along with other musicians while in service.
Leveraging on his work experience at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd and where he had served in the Design Bureau of Avionics, Instruments and Electrical System, he decided to to start his own enterprise – Radel Electronics Pvt Ltd. And then followed the decison to put in his papers in 1970.
The audience enjoying the fusion
Of the two streams of Indian classical music, Hindustani Classical has a huge fan following in north whereas Carnatic music has captured hearts in south of India. He spoke of Shruti’ which is the sound interval between recognized notes or swara. It is a significant element of music. So are Tal and Alaap. The former being a predisposed arrangement of beats, in a certain tempo and the latter refers to free flow of the Raga, in which there are no words and no fixed rhythm. Also briefly, he touched upon the role of Khayal (imagination).
The audience was impressed with his profound knowledge of the finer traits of classical music. Apparently music and management seems to be at the two opposite ends of in the spectrum of talent. Not so. Narayan demystified the connect between the two which seemingly are very different dimensions. There were management lessons to be learnt from music, according to Narayan.
When he decided to get into business of music turning his passion into full time engagement his prior experience in the corporate, business prowess and knowledge of management and marketing worked to his advantage. His company invented electronic musical instruments like tambura, sruthibox, tabala primarily for Indian classical musicians and at institutions such as radio stations, schools, music colleges, universities etc.
Also in his business of music he met and interacted with renowned classical singers of the country: Ravi Shankar, Bhimsen Joshi who also shared their requirements or features regarding the musical instruments etc.
The cherry on the cake was the piece he played on flute. It was a bhajan by Meera accompanied by electronic tabla. The atmosphere in the amphitheater was filled with divinity amidst the morning sun and chirping of birds.
Students performing on the last day of Neev 2016
On the last day of Neev 2016, in a session titled- Students Expression the new batch got the opportunity to share the dais and show their talent. So far they had been playing audience, soaking up like sponge what the experts shared.
Characterized by high energy levels, the teams had to prepare a script on a given theme by the mentor faculty and then shoot the same. The energy level and enthusiasm displayed were appreciated by all. It was a light entertaining session that gave their creativity a huge canvas. Also it was an opportunity for students to interact with future mentors and build rapport with new classmates. In the process they displayed excellent team work. Each in the team working on a different aspect of the final package. Scripting, acting, directing, editing and much more. All in a limited time frame.
It was fun watching the works of the young creatives. There were poignant themes too. One of the works showcased the story of a poor boy who struggled for making ends meet. It centre-staged his longing for an ice-cream and how the same was met . Another one was on values given by parents and how youngsters tend to ignore the same when they move away from home. In another piece the core concept was about the dilemma of a youngster who was forced into MBA though he had set his heart set on being a chef.Seems the young audience had absorbed well the sessions before.
Show of talent
The fortnight brought the young audience face to face with so many leading luminaries. It gave them a chance to learn from their journey of life. Some of these were holders of highest accolades from the Government of India. Today the guest speaker was Padma Vibhushan – Dr. VK Aatre, Former DRDO and RA to SM who addressed the young professionals in the valedictory session.
Dr VK Aatre, Former DRDO and RA to SM with Prof Mohan Chandra
Aatre was delighted to be with them, as the enthusiasm associated with the young was contagious and known to rub off on everyone around. In the initial years of his career, Aatre was in quandary deciding about his higher education. The options were limited and few. Engineering and Medical Sciences were the two predominantly followed options. Management education was not in vogue. He had long career outside India with brief teaching assignments in engineering colleges. Later he joined DRDO in India with a team of 200 scientists in his team. Talking of his passion for reading he told the audience how he was mighty impressed by Dale Carnegie ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’ and Tom Peters book -In Search of Excellence’.
He advised the students to have ‘large ears’ in the sense to listen and absorb more form their surroundings. Also they should be open to new ideas.
Among the challenges he faced was that of unions in government institutions. One has to be really diplomatic in dealing with them. Another thing that disquieted him was lack of punctuality and discipline in most of the government employees and the youngsters. Aatre had laid down the sharp 9:00 am rule and the latecomers could drop a chit in an earmarked box. He himself adhered to that rule.
While reminiscing his days as Chief Controller at DRDO, he touched upon the issue of multitasking and team building. While working in team it is important to cater to take along all. Also equally important was to keep their motivation levels high. Listing further concerns he pointed out that succession planning and mentoring were still areas of concern. Aatre was known for handpicking 20 -30 mid level scientists in his lab and would work with them for five years.
Dr Anil Rao, Dr. VK Aatre, Prof Mohan Chandra and Dr Githa Heggde ( l-r)
Talking of his association with Agastya International Foundation, which he has been supporting since his retirement, he said he cherished and enjoyed working with it. The mission was to “spark curiosity, nurture creativity and instill confidence” in economically disadvantaged children and government school-teachers by bringing innovative hands-on science education and peer-to-peer learning to government schools and villages across India. It uses mobile science vans which take science education to villages.
The country stands at cross roads today. Global powers are looking at us. However, if we really need to establish ourselves as a world power we need to work more on science and technology. We are blessed with young talent. The Silicon Valley is replete with instances of Indian talent leading the show. Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai are a few to name. Both happen to be technocrats. Aatre shared his disappointment over the fact that the country had not given any single globally known product to the world. While speaking on ‘financial crisis’ he said India would survive it all.
He asked the students to have their idealism and values in place. They should be very clear about how they could contribute to the nation. They should have purpose, passion and perseverance in their efforts. ‘Money’ was not everything in life. He told the audience that India needs mavericks to question the rules. In his closing remarks he commented that socially our country has not changed much since independence and issues which existed way back in 1960′s are acting up even now.
And then came the much awaited address by the head of the institution- Dean and Director Dr Anil Rao. In his address he implored the new batch to make the best of the opportunities that life has offered them. Living in the best of times with technology that connects them with the best across the world and opens before them a sea of opportunities, they should give themselves over to their pursuits and goals in life.
Dr Anil Rao Dean & Director Welingkar , Bengaluru
Also he in his address asked them to be mindful of their contribution towards nation building, society and specially those who are not as privileged. Life is not all about profits. It is what difference you make to the world you live in. How many hearts you can warm and how many lives you can light up. It is about holding hands.
Businesses in the days would see more challenges than ever before and their skill lie in navigating these effectively. The world would need a genre of professionals who are creative, prescient and entrepreneurial with the capability to leverage technology and drive innovation.
“It is your time now.” said the Dean, wishing them all a very bright future.
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5 Quick Questions About High Rise with Gil Hova
Posted on March 13, 2019 March 13, 2019 by E.R. Burgess
Editor’s Note: As an avowed content geek, I try new formats. People seem to love our interviewette for tabletop designers that is a quick read. We promise no TL;DR. Let’s see how Gil Hova, clever designer of games like The Networks, Wordsy, and Bad Medicine, plus the Kickstarted and shiny new High Rise, does, shall we?
BGB: Attention is money, my friend. What is the elevator pitch for High Rise?
Gil Hova: I have two. The first is that High Rise is a strategy game of construction and corruption for 1-4 players, where you build tall skyscrapers around a one-way time track trying to supercharge your actions on a board that will change for each game.
Photo Credit: Michael Keller
The second is that it has elevators.
BGB: Making games is hard work, so you best have a great reason for making this thing. What inspired this game?
Gil Hova: I built the game around an auction mechanism that I’ve never been able to work into a game. Spoiler: this is not an auction game, as I wasn’t able to work it into this one either!
Once I removed the auction mechanism, the game sung. I think it’s the best game I’ve made so far.
(ed.note: Faulkner said “Kill your darlings!” as advice for fiction writers. Also good for game designers.)
BGB: There are too many games out there. What hole in my game collection does this fill?
Gil Hova: This is a one-way time track game that gives strong incentives to make big jumps. Lots of similar games incentivize small jumps, which makes them a bit easier to play, for better or worse. Like, I’m a big fan of Tokaido (ed. note: same here), and I think part of its appeal is that its decisions aren’t terribly difficult; most of the time, you want to make the small jump. But in this game, the big jump is very tempting, and the game is full of really hard and meaningful decisions.
High Rise on the table!
BGB: This is Boardgame Babylon, so out with your dirty secrets. What DON’T you want to tell me about this game?
Gil Hova: There’s a difference between time tracks, one-way tracks, and rondels. A time track game has the action happen off the time track. You’ll choose some action, it’ll tell you how much time it costs, and you’ll mark it on the time track. The defining feature of the time track is that player order is determined by the player furthest behind on the track. Thebes, Patchwork, and Tinners’ Trail are games with time tracks, with Thebes and Neuland being the first time track games (that I can tell).
A one-way track puts the actions on the track. So you’ll move your pawn directly to the space on the track that shows the action. You can’t go backwards, or to an occupied space. Like a time track, the player furthest behind will go next. Glen More, Tokaido, and yes, High Rise are all one-way track games. I believe Knizia’s Tutankhamen was the first one-way track game.
A rondel is a circular structure on a game board that your pawn will traverse. Each space will trigger a different action, like a one-way track. But your movement on the track is restricted; you’ll often have to pay resources to go further than 3 spaces or so. Player order is not determined by position, so it plays totally different than a one-way or time track. Imperial and Navegador are both rondel games. I’m not sure what the first rondel game was. It might be Antike, but only if you don’t consider roll-and-move games to be rondels!
I don’t want to tell you about this stuff because I find it gets pedantic and boring after a while! (ed. note: Gil is a great guy, but here, he’s just wrong…) Lines that define games are most useful when using them to figure out how to cross them and blend genres. Like, you could argue that Mancala is a rondel game, but I have no idea what that would accomplish.
BGB: Thanks for telling us a bit about High Rise. Let’s wrap up with the key specifics (play time, number of players, and the link to the game) and also, since I think you can tell a lot about a person by understanding their sense of humor, what’s a good joke to close this interviewette?
Gil Hova: High Rise is for 1-4 players, playing in 100-150 minutes, depending on if you’re playing the intro, standard, or full game. Link here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gilhova/high-rise-0?ref=61r5jc
JOKE COMMENCES
A grandmother takes her baby grandson to the beach. She’s lounging on a towel with her kid cooing and gurgling next to her. Suddenly, a huge wave appears and drenches the beach. When the grandmother regains her wits, she realizes she’s okay, but her grandson is gone.
She looks up, shakes her fist at the sky, and shouts: “You call yourself a merciful God? This child had his whole life ahead of him, and you take him away from us? How could you be so cruel? How could you be so vicious?”
Another wave suddenly appears and drenches the beach. When the grandmother opens her eyes, her grandson is right back on the towel, grinning and giggling.
She looks up, shakes her fist at the sky, and shouts: “He had a hat!”
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Life with Bipolar Disorder through the Eyes of Dr. Mark Vonnegut
“The reason creativity and craziness go together is that if you’re just plain crazy without being able to sing or dance or write good poems, no one is going to want to have babies with you. Your genes will fall by the wayside. Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?”
Author Mark Vonnegut poses this question in the first chapter of his book, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So. In this intimate and sometimes comic memoir, Vonnegut goes one-on-one with his past and present struggles with bipolar disorder, his family history, and his qualms with the medical field. His medical background and first-hand experiences provide readers with an eye-opening portrayal of life with mental illness.
In order to understand his own disorder, Vonnegut looks at his family’s history as far back as his paternal great-grandfather. He ventures into his childhood, endearingly poking fun at his not-yet-famous father’s eccentricities and struggles as “the world’s worst car salesman who couldn’t get a job teaching English at Cape Cod Community College.” He also provides honest depictions of his mother’s bouts of depression and paranoia.
“My mother, who was radiant, young, and beautiful even as she lay dying, heard voices and saw visions,” he says, “but she always managed to make friends with them and was much too charming to hospitalize even at her craziest.”
In his twenties, Vonnegut was a self-proclaimed hippie, experimenting with illegal drugs and eventually suffering three psychotic episodes leading to hospitalization. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia, later with bipolar disorder. He found stability in adulthood, graduating from Harvard Medical School, and was eventually named Boston Magazine’s “number one pediatrician.” He was shocked when the voices came back years later, causing his fourth break and ironically leaving him strapped to a bed at the hospital where he works.
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“None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrevocably sick,” he says. “At my best I have islands of being sick entirely. At my worst I had islands of being well…. You either have or don’t have a reluctance to give up on yourself. It helps a lot if others don't give up on you.”
Vonnegut watched his father use writing as tool to deal with posttraumatic stress disorder following his experiences in World War II. He believes that art and creativity are excellent outlets for those suffering from bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses. When asked about this in an interview with Sliver of Stone magazine last year, he concluded by saying, “Art is a lifeline and a form of insanity.”
Editor’s note: This week, PAR is pleased to welcome guest blogger Grace Gardner. A recent graduate of the University of South Florida with a B.A. in Mass Communication, Grace is working as an editorial assistant this summer in the production department at PAR.
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Ford Researchers Advancing Crash Avoidance Capability With Wireless Technology
Ford researchers are advancing vehicle safety with the development of new crash avoidance systems that use wireless vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications to detect and respond to imminent collisions
Ford’s research into wireless “active safety” applications includes its vehicle-to-infrastructure Smart Intersection project
Ford is conducting cooperative vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure research with industry and government partners to increase road safety and traffic efficiency
Globally harmonized standards are needed to enable global deployment of reliable and cost- effective vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure technology
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., Aug. 2, 2010 – Ford Motor Company’s researchers are developing advanced crash avoidance systems that use wireless and GPS technologies to help vehicles communicate with each other in traffic and help drivers avoid or mitigate accidents.
Ford’s Automatic Braking Intersection Collision Avoidance System (ABICAS), which is under development, uses radio-based wireless sensors, GPS and navigation information to detect the relative location of other radio-equipped test vehicles. The system is being designed to warn drivers of imminent side-impact collisions and automatically activate the brakes if necessary to avoid or minimize the damage caused by such collisions.
ABICAS is enabled by wireless vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and works in conjunction with radar- and camera-based driver assist features, such as adaptive cruise control and collision warning with brake support, which are available on many Ford vehicles.
While radar and camera sensors can detect other vehicles ahead and behind a vehicle, radio-based wireless sensors give vehicles a 360-degree “view.” Information from these various sensors is combined with engineering algorithms to ensure the validity of an imminent collision before automatically activating the vehicle’s brakes – all of which happens in a split second.
When a vehicle is equipped with a dedicated short-range wireless radio, it can communicate with similarly equipped vehicles, and use the shared information in concert with its safety systems.
“By leveraging wireless technology, Ford is developing tomorrow’s crash avoidance systems today,” said Jim Vondale, director, Ford Automotive Safety Office. “Thanks to research projects like ABICAS, tomorrow’s vehicles will one day be able to talk to each other to avoid accidents.”
The smart way to cross intersections
Ford’s vehicle-to-vehicle research builds on knowledge gained from its Smart Intersection project, focused on wireless communications between vehicles and intersection infrastructure. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 40 percent of all traffic accidents occur in intersections where side-impact collisions are most common.
The Smart Intersection project communicates with test vehicles to warn drivers of potential collisions, such as when a vehicle is about to run through a red light. The intersection is outfitted with technology that monitors traffic signal status, GPS data and digital maps to assess potential hazards, and then transmits warning information to other specially equipped vehicles.
Once the information is received by the vehicle, its collision avoidance system can be designed to determine whether the car can safely cross the intersection or if it needs to stop before entering the intersection. If the system determines the need to stop and senses that the driver is not decelerating quickly enough, it issues visual and audible warnings to the driver.
“For vehicle-to-vehicle communications to be effective, common standards will need to be established for all automakers to follow,” said Mike Shulman, technical leader, Ford Active Safety Research and Advanced Engineering. “Our research is helping to identify the types of warnings that drivers find to be effective and easier to understand.”
Going wireless in Europe
In Germany, Ford is collaborating on a wireless research project with other automakers and the government in an effort to address congestion-related traffic safety issues. The Safe and Intelligent Mobility—Test Field Germany research project, which runs through 2012, is a 400-vehicle field-test to evaluate feasibility and scalability of wireless systems in the real world.
For the project, 100 drivers actively collect data by completing driving tasks and 300 drivers passively collect data by driving wherever they would normally go. This project is taking into consideration hazard and collision warnings, the delivery of real-time traffic information such as congestions, construction areas, detour routes, and Internet-enabled location-based services.
“Deployment of reliable and effective wireless systems can enhance vehicle safety, reduce traffic accidents and ease congestion,” said Christian Ress, Ford connectivity technical expert, Telematics Research and Advanced Engineering Europe. “We will bring these systems to market when they have been fully assessed for feasibility, robustness and practicality.”
Global harmonization
Ford is working closely with governments, standards organizations and other global automakers to develop harmonized global standards to support and accelerate the deployment of this technology. Ford and other global vehicle manufacturers need harmonized standards in order to support their global vehicle platforms and to develop reliable, cost-effective wireless systems.
“We must develop these standards now while the technology is being researched and developed or we will end up with a variety of standards and vehicles that cannot talk to each other from region to region,” Vondale said. “Failure to develop standards would delay deployment, decrease reliability and unnecessarily increase costs.”
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