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Team Ireland u20s: Q&A with Anton Nulty
One day to go to the big game! We spoke with QB Anton Nulty on his 2nd cap for TI u20s and his time at the Cowboys so far.
Team Ireland u20s: Q&A with David McMichael
With only two days to go before Team Ireland u20s face off against USA AFW Elite, we caught up with DB David McMichael to find out more about his football journey so far and how he is feeling about Saturday.
Reigning In The Rain
Junior Match Report - 18/09/2016 @ Mullingar Rugby Club
The reigning IAFA junior champs travelled to a rainy Mullingar this past Sunday where the weather played a huge part in the performance of just about everyone involved.
The Cowboys lined up against strong opposition in the form of the South Kildare Soldiers and a slow start saw them fall behind quickly. From here on in the young ‘Boys were fighting an uphill battle. Despite a couple of disappointing drives to start the game, the ‘Boys showed signs of title winning form which they were so well known for last year. Rolston and Nulty spurred a drive into opposition territory late in the first half only to be denied a score when a crucial 4th down pass fell short allowing the Soldiers to retain their lead and run down the clock to the half. A much more spirited and determined Cowboy’s team showed up for the second half and although failing to score there were flashes of brilliance across the team. However, this would prove to be of no avail as the Soldiers capped the game off in the second half and walked away with a 22-0 win.
Game 2 saw the travelling ‘Boys take on a new challenge in the form of the hosts, the Westmeath Minotaur’s and this time round they were much better. The Cowboys began operating more like a team and were moving the ball much better than they were earlier in the day. Balance between the ground game and passing attack saw the Cowboys very much in this game with Ruben Larmour hauling in a 40 TD pass from QB. Unfortunately though with little over 2 minutes remaining in the game one of the Cowboys key players, James Rolston sustained a neck injury forcing him out of the game and ultimately killing off any momentum the ‘Boys had going for them. Nonetheless, a fighting, passionate and determined Cowboys team played out the final 2 minutes with pride and dignity despite coming out the lesser in this fixture.
An 0-2 start to the season is by far the last thing the ‘boys would’ve wanted from this weekend but with plenty of football still to play there will be plenty of opportunities to pull back that winning form.
By Michael Lavery
Cowboys 2016 Award Winners
On Saturday 27th August, the Cowboys held the annual Awards Night at Laurelvale Cricket Club, with RichGrill providing top quality BBQ food! We would like to thank all the awards sponsors and congratulate all the winners – well done guys!
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C Spire Introduces All New LG V30® Smartphone on its 4G LTE Network
Flagship device features vibrant 6-inch screen, capable camera functions and high-quality audio via Hi-Fi Quad DAC
Ridgeland, Miss. (Nov. 9, 2017) – C Spire has introduced the all new LG V30® smartphone, impeccably designed and crafted for a unique and immersive video and entertainment experience, on the company’s “Customer Inspired” 4G LTE network.
Consumers can purchase LG’s new V30 smartphone online at www.cspire.com or via phone at 1.855.CSPIRE4 for home delivery or pick up at any retail store. Pricing for the V30 starts at $37.17 per month for 24 months on C Spire’s Device Payment Plan, $419.99 for a two year contract or $819.99 without an agreement or payment plan.
The sleek and slim LG V30 features a 6-inch FullVision™ HDR QHD+OLED display for vibrant color and incredible clarity paired with a Hi-Fi Quad Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) for premium sound from music and movies.
The V30’s main camera features an F1.6 aperture and a Crystal Glass lens for improved light transmittance and a second, 13MP wide angle lens is perfect for capturing scenic landscapes. Sixteen unique Cine Effects allow users to adjust the overall tone of their videos, allowing them to tell their story in all new ways.
In addition, the device features LG’s Second Year Promise, which offers limited warranty coverage in months 13 through 24 of ownership at no additional cost. Users can enable Fingerprint ID, facial recognition or knock code to open the phone, and built-in LG Gate security helps keep data safe. Google Assistant and a 3,300 mAh battery with wireless charging round out the main features and IP68 water and dust resistance rating offers additional peace of mind. The LG V30 is available in platinum with 64 GB of on-board storage.
“The LG V30 offers one of the best entertainment platform for recording videos, watching your favorite shows, movies and sports or listening to a wide range of music genres. With a two-year limited guarantee, this device deserves to be used on a network customers can count on and that’s exactly what we deliver,” said Suzy Hays, senior vice president of Consumer Markets for C Spire.
To purchase the new LG V30 or for more information on C Spire products and services, please visit www.cspire.com.
C Spire is a leading technology company committed to transforming Mississippi through the C Spire Tech Movement, which includes the massive deployment of broadband internet to homes and small businesses, a state-of-the-art digital experience for its customers and team members, technology innovation leadership and the creation and retention of a 21st century technology workforce in its region. The company provides world-class, customer-inspired wireless communications, 1 Gigabit consumer Internet access as well as a full suite of dedicated Internet, wireless, IP Voice, data and cloud services for businesses. This news release and other announcements are available at www.cspire.com/news. For more information about C Spire, visit www.cspire.com or follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/cspire or Twitter at www.twitter.com/cspire.
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Some hyperactive kids may have sleep apnea, not ADHD
Ryan Flanagan, CTVNews.ca Producer
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Published Monday, December 10, 2018 10:48AM EST
When Kian Yazdani was in Grade 1, it was clear something was wrong. He was often upset in the morning, and his teachers reported that he had angry outbursts at school.
Doctors suggested ADHD as the culprit, but Melody Yazdani wasn’t so sure. Noting that her son had dark circles under his eyes, she started doing her own research.
Eventually she read an article about sleep apnea, and noticed that the signs and symptoms it described seemed familiar.
“Word for word, I saw that it was Kian,” Yazdani told CTV’s Your Morning Monday from her home in Vienna, Va.
Although ADHD and sleep apnea may not be commonly thought of as similar conditions, they can be mistaken for each other. Dr. Indra Narang, the director of sleep medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, says sleep apnea can cause children to appear distracted and excitable.
A 2012 study by Finnish researchers found that approximately 10 per cent of European children between the ages of six and eight have sleep apnea.
“We do know that sleep apnea’s quite prevalent in otherwise healthy children,” she said in an interview with CTV’s Your Morning.
“Your body wakes up and your brain wakes up feeling tired in the morning. It results in what we may call hyperactivity during the day.”
Sleep apnea occurs in people who have trouble breathing while asleep. When that happens, the brain may awaken in an attempt to correct the breathing issues.
“If that happens lots of times a night, that’s associated with a lot of sleep fragmentation and sleep deprivation,” Narang said.
In Kian Yazdani’s case, a sleep apnea diagnosis led to surgery to remove his tonsils and adenoids.
“He came out of that surgery breathing through his nose for the first time in months,” Melody Yazdani said.
“His behaviour improved drastically. He no longer had tantrums in the morning. He’s keeping his hands to himself.”
Yazdani said parents concerned their children might be suffering from sleep apnea should watch out for common symptoms such as mouth-breathing.
“Walk into your child’s bedroom at night (and) see if they’re breathing through their mouth, because if they are, they need to see a specialist,” she said.
Other potential symptoms to watch for, according to Narang, include snoring at night and general hyperactivity during the day.
“Definitely check in with your pediatrician if you’re worried about your child’s breathing during sleep,” Narang said.
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Kian Yazdani was believed to have ADHD but was actually dealing with sleep apnea and required surgery to remove his tonsils and adenoids, his mother says.
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PBS' ‘Finding Your Roots’ Suspended Due to Ben Affleck Slave-Master Drama
The geneology show's production has been halted after leaked Sony e-mails revealed that producers complied with Ben Affleck's request to hide his slave-owning relative.
Kenrya Rankin Jun 25, 2015 3:04PM EDT
Ben Affleck asked show host Henry Louis Gates Jr. not to reveal that his ancestor owned slaves. Colorlines screenshot of Today Show video.
Fans waiting for new episodes of PBS’ “Finding Your Roots” have Ben Affleck and host Henry Louis Gates Jr. to blame for the show’s suspension. In April, it was revealed that the show—which traces celebrity family trees—uncovered that one of Affleck’s relatives owned slaves. “Embarrassed,” the actor asked producers to leave that information out of his October 2014 episode. Leaked e-mails showed that they complied.
After an internal review, PBS found that Gates and his production team “violated PBS standards by failing to shield the creative and editorial process from improper influence, and by failing to inform PBS or WNET [the member station involved in production] of Mr. Affleck’s efforts to affect program content.”
Production of the third season of “Finding Your Roots” has officially been suspended, pending required updates that will give PBS and season-three producing station WETA more oversight, including the addition of another staff researcher and an independent genealogist to review all episodes for factual accuracy. Affleck’s episode has also been recalled and season four is up in the air until the team can prove its ability to meet editorial standards.
Gates issued an apology on Wednesday saying, “I sincerely regret not discussing my editing rationale with our partners at PBS and WNET and I apologize for putting PBS and its member stations in the position of having to defend the integrity of their programming.”
Permalink Submitted by Cal3bg on Sat, 07/04/2015 - 23:08
Gates is notorious for trying to present the narrative more favorable to the establishment. This is the same man who tried to blame Africans for the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Black people for remnants of anti-Semitism.
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S&P downgrades Target to 'A' following 4Q results
NEW YORK (AP) - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services is lowering its rating on Target Corp. following weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter results that were dragged down by a massive data breach and a disappointing foray into Canada.
NEW YORK (AP) � Standard & Poor's Ratings Services is lowering its rating on Target Corp. following weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter results that were dragged down by a massive data breach and a disappointing foray into Canada.
The rating agency said Friday that it lowered its ratings one notch down to "A'' from "A+." The rating is still four grades above speculative or junk status. S&P says the outlook is still "Stable," implying further changes are not imminent.
The move comes a month after the nation's second-largest discounter reported its fourth-quarter profit fell 46 percent on a revenue decline of 5.3 percent.
Target's shares were unchanged at $59.98 in after-hours trading Friday after rising 24 cents in regular trading.
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Home Entertainment Cartoons STEVEN UNIVERSE: THE MOVIE poster reveals a shadowy threat looming over Beach...
STEVEN UNIVERSE: THE MOVIE poster reveals a shadowy threat looming over Beach City
A shadowy threat looms over Beach City — and Steven looks older!
Samantha Puc
There’s a new threat hanging over Steven and his friends in the upcoming Steven Universe: The Movie, and a new poster for the film reveals our first look at the villain. It was previously announced that the movie will be a musical, co-produced by Chance the Rapper, show creator Rebecca Sugar, and Cartoon Network Studios. A brief teaser trailer showed an upside-down heart crystal gem and a cackling, shadowy figure with mouse-like ears.
In the poster, we get a fuller look at this new villain as they hover over Steven, Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl. Entertainment Weekly shared the exclusive first look on Tuesday. From the looks of things, a time jump may factor into the movie, which premieres this fall. Steven looks older in the poster, for one, and the beach house boasts some new updates. Plus, the Crystal Gems are even more fashionable than usual.
Steven Universe: The Movie hits Cartoon Network later this year before heading to DVD. The movie’s official soundtrack, featuring songs by Chance the Rapper, Patti Lupone and more, will get both a physical and digital release. In the meantime, check out the poster below and cross your fingers that a full trailer will be revealed at San Diego Comic-Con International next week; that seems like the likeliest premiere time and place.
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Over 2 lakh children to be fed vitamin-A in C’nawabganj
C’NAWABGANJ: A total of 2,05,578 children would be administered vitamin-A plus capsules in Chapainawabganj district as part of the National vitamin A plus campaign on June 22, reports BSS.
This was revealed by Civil Surgeon of Chapainawabganj district hospital Dr. Md. Saiful Ferdous Khairul Ataturk in a press briefing on Sunday. A simple function was arranged on the occasion at the conference room of the civil surgeon. Physicians, healthcare providers and officials, among others, were present at the function.
Sultana, Jamalpur district nutrition coordinator and representative of UNICEF Zakir Hossain and Chapainawabganj district superintendent of Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) Amirul Islam Jibon also attended the function.
At the press conference, it was revealed that a total of 24,624 children from 6 to 11 months and 1,80,954 children from 12 to 59 months would be immunized in 1,201 vaccination points in the district.
The first group of children would be given blue coloured capsules and the second group of children would be given red coloured capsules.
It was further disclosed that 190 health assistants, 237 family welfare assistants and 2,402 volunteers will be engaged in the campaign.
Heath experts said that blindness problem was significantly reduced in the country through launching vitamin A plus campaign, they said less than one percent children now suffers from blindness problem while the percentage of blindness for vitamin-A deficiency was 3.74 in 1974.
“We are feeding vitamin-A plus capsules two times. Besides, guardians should feed their children natural food including vegetables and fish to avoid vitamin-A deficiency,” Dr Saiful added.
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Twitter introduces public and private lists
October 30, 2009 By Andy Merrett Leave a Comment
If you’re a Twitter fan and still use the web interface a lot, you may be interested in the new “lists” feature that’s being rolled out across accounts.
The concept is very similar to the sort of contact management you’ll find in many third-party Twitter applications, except with the added feature that you can make lists public, so other people can follow those people all in one go.
For the uninitiated, lists are useful when you have a lot of contacts but would like to separate them into more manageable sets.
Say you follow family members, work colleagues, celebrities, some bloggers, and then others you’ve had some kind of conversation with online. Instead of having to wade through a single feed with everyone’s tweets on, you can select to view just the tweets of a particular group, by putting all of those people in a list.
Lists can be made private, if you don’t want others to see them, or public.
I still think for power Twitter users, using a desktop client for reading and tweeting is the best option, but for keen Twitter users who like the web interface, lists can add just a little bit of clarity to an otherwise cluttered tweet space.
What do you think of Twitter lists?
Filed Under: Web 2.0 Tagged With: lists, Twitter
Amazon Rolls Out PayPhrase Online Shopping Tool
October 29, 2009 By Arnold Zafra Leave a Comment
In a bid to make our online shopping chores easier Amazon has rolled out PayPhrase, a easy-to-remember shortcut to shipping and payment information for our Amazon account. Amazon PayPhrase can be used for Amazon’s Express Checkout system as well as across various online stores which are Amazon’s merchant partners.[Read More]
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Google partners with MySpace, links to music from search
Music is a hugely popular search topic, with two of the top 10 queries in the US being about music, which is probably why Google has partnered with MySpace to make it easier for those searches to link to actual music.
Entering the name of a song, album or artist into a Google search will now include links to audio previews on MySpace (via iLike) or Lala. Naturally there are links to purchase the music too.
As Google’s expertise is in search, simply entering a portion of the lyrics will also bring up relevant music tracks.
In addition, Google has partnered with Pandora, imam and Rhapsody to provide more ways of discovering related music.
As per usual with Google’s new rollouts, it’s US only at present, but hopefully this will be pushed out to other countries in due course.
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Pandora Opens Sharing Feature with Twitter and Facebook
Pandora, an online music/radio streaming service that lets you personalize the Internet radio stations you listen to has just added a sharing toolbar to its service. And yes, you guess it right, this toolbar lets you share what music you are currently listening to with your Twitter and Facebook contacts and friends.[Read More]
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Google launches “Similar Images” search
October 28, 2009 By Andy Merrett 1 Comment
For some time, Google Labs has been testing search algorithms designed to find similar images, and yesterday announced that the feature is now a permanent fixture on Google Image Search.
As you’d expect, it’s a great way to narrow down images after searching for a broad topic, in much the same way as you’d do with text-based searches. It also helps when a word can have multiple meanings, such as “jaguar” or “keyboard”.
Unfortunately, I’ve only got Google’s word on this at present as I’m not seeing any “find similar images” links, even on the examples Google provided, but it certainly sounds like a really useful addition.
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'As long as I am living, I'll carry you with me': Great grandmother of bullied Akubra teen who committed suicide moves mourners to tears with her poem at memorial service
The great-grandmother of Dolly Everett penned an original poem for the teen
It was read out by friends and family at a memorial service held in Towoomba
Hundreds of well-wishers attended and dressed in Dolly's favourite colour blue
Dolly's family are now dedicated to fighting bullying through 'Dolly's Dream'
By Yael Brender For Daily Mail Australia
The great-grandmother of Amy 'Dolly' Everett has moved family and well-wishers to tears with her emotional reading of an original poem at the teen's memorial service.
Held in Toowoomba, the service was originally planned as a small gathering to honour the life of the young girl and support her great-grandmother Vieda.
But hoards of well-wishers packed the Our Lady of Lourdes church - dressed in Dolly's favourite colour blue - to support Vieda and celebrate Dolly's short life.
Veida, the great-grandmother of Amy 'Dolly' Everett has penned a moving poem for the teen
Dolly Everett, took her own life after becoming overwhelmed by the vile taunts of online bullies
Friends and family members read Vieda's sweet poem out loud at a memorial service for Dolly
Veida penned an original poem honouring her 14-year-old great-granddaughter, which was read out by friends and family
'You'll never be forgotten, that simply I will be. As long as I am living, I'll carry you with me,' the poem reads.
7NEWS reported that both friends and strangers in the rural are came together to 'reflect on Dolly and her battle that has touched the nation's heart'.
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'Promise to live better each day for having known this beautiful child,' family friend Jackie Price read during the memorial.
Father John Quinlan also weighed in on the overwhelming support shown to the Everett family, saying: 'No one would believe that one say out occasion like this would touch the hearts of so many people.'
Family friend Hayley Maudsley also shared a verse, reading aloud, 'I'm a cowgirl in heaven, with my horse by my side. If anything happens, we're ready to ride.'
'Promise to live better each day for having known this beautiful child,' Veida wrote in the poem
Dolly will be remembered as a 'caring, beautiful soul' who loved her animals, especially hoses
Dolly was known as an 'animal whisperer' from a young age - here she is with a newborn foal
Aged just 14, Dolly died on January 3 after prolonged and cruel online bullying, harassment and torment drove her take her own life.
At her funeral service on Friday, her family remembered their girl as a 'beautiful little china doll', calling her 'kindest, (most) caring, beautiful soul'.
After the memorial, Mr Everett said the clan would remember Dolly as 'kind, gentle and loving', adding that she 'loved her animals and cared so deeply for other people less fortunate than her.'
Dolly's family and friends including great-grandmother Veida held a memorial in Towoomba
Dolly's story captured Australia's heart after her father invited her tormentors to the funeral
Before her tragic death, Dolly wrote 'Speak even if our voice shakes' which has become rallying cry against bullying. Dolly's father Tick is dedicated to stopping cruel cyberbullying
In the wake of her death, there have been calls for renewed effort to stop bullying, including from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
'Dolly, you are loved and you will never be forgotten,' he said in a Facebook post.
Meanwhile, the family have established a trust called 'Dolly's Dream' dedicated to raising awareness around bullying, anxiety, depression and youth suicide.
They said they did not want anyone else to experience such 'sadness and tragedy' and have encouraged the use of the hashtag #stopbullyingnow.
Many of the mourners in attendance were already rallying around the trust - slapping bumper stickers on the car which read '#doitfordolly'.
'Together we can keep Dolly's dream for a better world alive,' the Dolly's Dream page reads
Hundreds gather to support Dolly Everett's grandmother
Great grandmother of Dolly Everett pens sweet tribute poem
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Husband and wife die on the same day just 12 hours apart after 71 years of marriage
Area 51 raid will be livestreamed across the web after 1.3million UFO conspiracy theorists join Facebook event to 'storm' classified military base in Nevada to 'see them aliens'
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What a chemical attack in Australia will look like: Officers in hazmat suits storm a compound and treat a 'victim' in counter-terror exercise
Emergency crews are taking part in an international counter terrorism exercise
The six-day exercise is called Tropical Exposure and is being held in Brisbane
Members are from Australia, the United States, United Kingdom and Canada
It's held every two years to test their responsiveness to terrorism situations
By Lauren Ferri For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 22:59 EDT, 11 October 2018 | Updated: 04:35 EDT, 12 October 2018
Emergency crews are taking part in an international six-day counter terrorism exercise called Tropical Exposure.
Chemical, biological and radiological specialists from around the world have suited up in Brisbane, testing their response to possible terrorism scenarios.
Involving specialists from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and across Australia, Tropical Exposure lasts six days.
Emergency crews are taking part in an international six-day counter terrorism exercise called Tropical Exposure
Chemical, biological and radiological specialists from around the world have suited up in Brisbane, testing their response to possible terrorism scenarios
The exercise is held every two years to test emergency crews' capabilities and responsiveness to terrorism situations.
Tropical Exposure is being hosted by the Queensland Police Service and Queensland Fire and Emergency Services at the Whyte Island training facility in Brisbane.
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Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton visited the facility on Friday, commending the participants for their involvement.
'While the kind of threats being simulated at Tropical Exposure are unlikely, we need to be prepared for all possibilities,' Mr Dutton said.
The exercise is held every two years to test emergency crews' capabilities and responsiveness to terrorism situations
Tropical Exposure is being hosted by the Queensland Police Service and Queensland Fire and Emergency Services at the Whyte Island training facility in Brisbane
'The response to CBR threats requires highly specialised capabilities that are regularly rehearsed, and this exercise provides a valuable opportunity to do just that, alongside experts from the US, the UK, and Canada.'
More than 150 Australians are involved, bringing together military, law enforcement personnel, explosive technicians, forensic experts, fire and ambulance services and scientists.
'Our financial support for this exercise complements our broader investment in counter-terrorism exercises, which are critical to optimising our efforts to prevent, respond to, and recover from terrorism,' Mr Dutton said.
'While the kind of threats being simulated at Tropical Exposure are unlikely, we need to be prepared for all possibilities,' Mr Dutton said
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Hunt unleashes his 'secret weapon': Tory leadership hopeful's Chinese wife and 'perfect partner' Lucia is front and centre to hear her husband's pitch to become next Prime Minister
Lucia Hunt, 41, has carved out a strong personal profile to help Jeremy Hunt in his bid to get into Number 10
The couple met through Hunt's education publishing business Hotcourses, which he later sold for £14million
The Foreign Secretary and his wife, 11 years his junior, then married in 2009 and have three children together
Hunt has described his Chinese wife as his 'secret weapon' as he launches his pitch to be next Prime Minister
By Milly Vincent For Mailonline
Jeremy Hunt's 'secret weapon', his Chinese wife and 'perfect partner' Lucia, was front and centre yesterday as her husband launched his bid to become Prime Minister.
Mrs Hunt, born Lucia Guo in Xian, central China, was seen embracing supporters including Amber Rudd before taking her position right in front of her partner as he gave slick presentation at the event in Westminster.
But Foreign Office Minister Mark Field, who is backing Mr Hunt, raised eyebrows by greeting her with an enthusiastic kiss on the lips.
Last month Mr Hunt described his Chinese-born wife as his 'secret weapon' and the 'perfect Foreign Secretary's wife' after she joined him on a seven-day, five country tour of Africa.
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Previously referred to as 'Jeremy Hunt's secret weapon' Lucia Hunt (pictured with Amber Rudd) watched on, all smiles today, as her husband, Britain's Foreign secretary launched his bid to become the leader of the conservative party
Britain's Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt's wife Lucia attends his launching bid to become the leader of the Conservative Party
Foreign Office Minister Mark Field, who is backing Mr Hunt, raised eyebrows by greeting Mrs Hunt with an enthusiastic kiss on the lips
Speaking to a room full of conservative party members, including surprise supporter Penny Mordaunt, the Defence Secretary, Mr Hunt outlined his plans for a 'tough negotiation' over Brexit.
In a dig at Mr Johnson's divisive status, Jeremy Hunt said the Tories must 'broaden our appeal' to Remainers and women. But he also risked inflaming party tensions by refusing to give a firm timeline for when Brexit will be complete.
Prominent Brexiteer Penny Mordaunt said she was supporting Mr Hunt as the right candidate to deal with 'challenging times', because he had the 'experience the values and a plan'.
Mr Hunt's leadership launch came as former foreign secretary William Hague issued a stark warning that the next Conservative leader can only survive if they have a clear plan to end the deadlock over Brexit.
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Lord Hague expressed concern that not all the leading candidates in the contest are ready for what will 'hit them' if they succeed in the race to succeed Theresa May.
The remaining contenders face the first official hustings of Tory MPs, starting today.
Ten candidates will go into the first round of voting on Thursday after pro-Remain former minister Sam Gyimah pulled out admitting he had been unable to build sufficient support.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Lord Hague said that without a proper plan for dealing with Brexit, the next prime minister would head a 'sandcastle administration' which would quickly crumble.
It came as Rory Stewart hit out at rival candidates, accusing them of racking up a series of 'reckless' tax and spending pledges they would be unable to keep in office.
Mrs Hunt, 41, born Lucia Guo in Xian, met the ambitious politician - 11 years her senior -through his education publishing business Hotcourses, which he later sold for £14million
Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt's wife Lucia Hunt reacts during the launch of her husband's campaign for the Conservative Party leadership
Lucia Hunt, wife of Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is kissed by her husband during his Conservative party leadership campaign
Who is Lucia Hunt?
Lucia Hunt, 41, formerly Lucia Guo, was born in 1978 in Xian, China - an ancient city in Northern China where her parents still live. She is now a British Citizen having moved to England to pursue her career.
Mrs Hunt was working as a student recruiter at the university of Warwick up to 2008. Little is known about her career prior to this.
Mrs Hunt is now believed to be a full time home maker, however being a politician's wife can be considered a job in itself.
The proceeds of the sale of Hotcourses - £14million - are kept in her name and she is listed as the director of the property portfolio company bought with those profits, reports The Daily Telegraph.
Mrs Hunt met the ambitious politician - 11 years her senior - in 2008 through his education publishing business Hotcourses, which he later sold for £14million. She had been working at the University of Warwick, helping to recruit Chinese students to attend university when he decided to give her his email.
It is believed Mr Hunt proposed on a walk near his parent's house in Shere, Surrey.
They married in Xian in 2009 after Jeremy asked Lucia's father for permission to wed his daughter and the couple married in a traditional Chinese ceremony. Jeremy and Lucia have three children: Jack, Anna and Eleanor.
Finances and scandal
Wife to Theresa May's richest Cabinet minister Jeremy Hunt, with a personal fortune of £14million - the couple's investments have not come without scrutiny.
In April last year a scandal arose after Lucia and Jeremy Hunt set up a company to buy seven luxury flats without registering the firm with Companies House within the allotted time.
The former Health Secretary was accused of 'illegal activity' by Labour for failing to disclose his stake in the firm to the authorities.
Mr Hunt met Lucia - 11 years his junior - at an event in Warwick in 2008 when she was working at the University of Warwick, helping to recruit Chinese students to attend the institution.
He revealed that they 'allowed work and pleasure to mix for a moment' and he asked for her email address. A year later, he proposed to her when they were taking a walk near his parents' home in Shere, in Surrey.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph last month, Mr Hunt described his wife as the 'perfect partner' for himself as a Foreign secretary and said her 'toughness' was good to have along side in a negotiation.
He said she had helped him build relationships with 'foreigners, and she is herself foreign.'
They married in Xian after Jeremy asked Lucia's father for permission to wed his daughter and the couple married in a traditional Chinese ceremony.
They now have three children: Jack, Anna and Eleanor, and have homes in the leafy upmarket Surrey village of Hambledon and London.
Mrs Hunt joined her Foreign Secretary husband on an official tour through Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Kenya last month.
During the six-day visit to five African nations last month Mrs Hunt was photographed stroking a tortoise at the British Ambassador's residence in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Mr Hunt has previously expressed his concerns about his 'half-Chinese' children facing hostility, during a call-in radio show in 2014.
The former Health Secretary said he feared mounting anger against migrants would mean his Chinese wife and their children would face hostility for using the NHS.
He said: 'I'd like to make one general point about immigration. My wife is Chinese and she obviously lives with me in London.
'My children are half Chinese and I do not want them to grow up in a country where people look at immigrants and say it's difficult for me to access NHS services because of people like you.'
After this appearance on radio, Labour MP Helen Goodman tweeted: 'If China is so great, why did Jeremy Hunt's wife come to England?'
This tweet resulted in widespread support for Lucia and the rest of the Hunt family and Goodman was forced to apologise after taking down the tweet.
Lucia and Jeremy later formed a real estate business together called Mare Pond Properties Limited.
The purpose of creating the business was to buy up seven luxury properties in the Ocean Village development in Southampton, but the Tory MP garnered backlash for not reporting the business, as was required by British law.
In a gaffe last year Mr Hunt called his wife Japanese on a trade trip to China, despite his wife being very definitely Chinese, this was soon after replacing the error-prone Boris Johnson as the UK's top diplomat.
Jeremy and Lucia pictured above at the Lord Mayor's Easter Banquet at Mansion House, Central London on May 13 this year
Jeremy Hunt has previously said his wife Lucia had helped him build relationships with 'foreigners, and she is herself foreign'
Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt speaks as he launches his bid to become the leader of the Conservative Party today
Lucia Hunt, wife of Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt sits in the audience as he launches his leadership campaign for the Conservative Party in London today
Britain's Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Amber Rudd and Lucia Hunt react during the launch of Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt's campaign
Lucia Hunt looks to be enjoying herself as she attends the launch of her husband, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt's, bid for the leadership of the Conservative Party
The couple are frequently seen out in public together such as at the Conservative Party Summer Ball in 2011 (left) as well as the 2018 Buckingham Palace garden party in 2018
Jeremy Hunt's wife Lucia is all smiles as he pitches to become PM
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Friday's editorial cartoon was harsh irresponsible
I am a registered Republican and I have no idea who I am going to vote for.
But it saddens me the level to which you stooped in the editorial cartoon Sept. 5.
While I think the point of the cartoon is to say that Gov. (Sarah) Palin isn't as good of a choice for vice president as originally thought that point gets lost.
The impression that lasts is that both (Sen. John) McCain and Palin are cartoonish ugly and even goofy characters. While the DTH might hold that opinion it is irresponsible to voice that opinion in a cartoon.
Also it is interesting to me that the Democrats are seen as the party of inclusion. The Democrats are seen as welcoming to all points of view and backgrounds.
And the Democrats are the party who says that physical attributes do not matter.
It is interesting to me that members of the Democratic Party who made history by having a black man and white woman run for the nomination are the same people who are quick to publish an ugly cartoon.
So much for the Democratic party being the party of inclusion.
True acceptance means living your beliefs instead of taking cheap shots for political points.
Adam Tucker
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Rally Fades as Banks Lead Stocks Lower
NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. stocks are opening slightly lower Wednesday morning as bank stocks return some of the huge gains they've made since the presidential election last week. The price of oil slipped after a big rise the day before. Target is rising after a strong report and home improvement retailer Lowe's is falling after a weak store traffic hurt its results.
KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average slid 59 points, or 0.3 percent, to 18,863 as of 10 a.m. Eastern. The Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 6 points, or 0.3 percent, to 2,174. The Nasdaq composite fell 7 points, or 0.1 percent, to 5,268. The Dow has risen for seven days in a row through Tuesday and is up 5.8 percent over that time. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq have also made large gains.
BANKS SLIDE: Banks took the biggest losses in early trading. JPMorgan Chase fell $1.58, or 2 percent, to $77.78 and Morgan Stanley lost $1, or 2.5 percent, to$39 while Zions Bancorp gave up $1.42, or 3.7 percent, to $37.34. The S&P 500's financial stock index has jumped 11 percent since the presidential election.
STAY ON TARGET: Retailer Target raised its profit forecast and its sales projections for the third quarter with the holiday season approaching. That came as the retailer gave a strong third-quarter report, as it put more emphasis on low prices after it stumbled in the second quarter. The stock gained $6.09, or 8.5 percent, to $77.53.
LOWE'S LOWER: Home improvement retailer Lowe's fell 54 cents to $68.51. The company said traffic in stores was low during the third quarter, and Lowe's reported a smaller third-quarter profit because of big charges connected to the end of its Hydrox joint venture, write-downs of canceled projects, and goodwill and impairment charges. Its rival Home Depot traded lower Tuesday after its quarterly report.
CURRENCIES: The dollar continued to rise and reached its highest mark in 13 years compared to a basket of other currencies. Compared to the yen, the dollar slipped to 109.24 yen from 109.32 yen Tuesday. The euro slid to $1.0702 from $1.0718.
OIL: Oil prices slipped. Benchmark U.S. crude fell 39 cents to $45.42 per barrel in New York. Brent crude, which is used to price international oils, lost 37 cents to $46.58 a barrel in London. The price of U.S. crude oil soared 5.7 percent on Tuesday as investors hoped the oil-producing OPEC countries will agree to a production cut that would boost prices. Tuesday's move was the biggest gain for oil in seven months.
BONDS: Bond prices fell, sending yields higher. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.24 percent from 2.22 percent. Bond yields, which are used to set interest rates on many kinds of loans including mortgages, have risen to their highest levels since the beginning of the year because investors expect the infrastructure spending and tax-cut plans of President-elect Donald Trump could lead to higher inflation.
MARKETS OVERSEAS: Britain's FTSE 100 slid 0.7 percent. In Germany the DAX lost 0.9 percent while France's CAC 40 was off 1 percent. Asian markets finished mostly higher. Japan's Nikkei jumped 1.1 percent and the Kospi in Seoul, South Korea gained 0.6 percent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index closed 0.2 percent lower
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Iraq Hospital Full of Mosul Casualties
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- The main hospital treating trauma victims from the battle for Mosul is overflowing with civilian and military casualties, according to a doctor there.
Dr. Marwan Ghafuri of the West Irbil Hospital, the main triage center for trauma cases from the Mosul battle, said his facility is admitting up to 150 new patients per day
"The problem here is we have not enough beds in the emergency (room)," he said. "We have a lack of medications and the operating rooms are full. We cannot operate immediately on all the patients."
Ghafuri said he expects the influx of wounded to continue at the same level for the next three months as the Mosul operation continues.
The offensive to free Mosul of Islamic State militants is now in its second month, and progress has slowed as troops try to avoid mass civilian casualties. The military officially bans reporting on its numbers of killed and injured, although field medics have noted at least dozens of soldiers have died.
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MDOT: Over-sized bridge, potholes prompt I-75 work
The project is scheduled to begin Feb. 4 with southbound lanes closing from Springwells to Northline, officials said
MDOT: Over-sized bridge, potholes prompt I-75 work The project is scheduled to begin Feb. 4 with southbound lanes closing from Springwells to Northline, officials said Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/2itnWwo
Holly Fournier, The Detroit News Published 10:48 p.m. ET Jan. 13, 2017 | Updated 11:42 a.m. ET Jan. 16, 2017
Diane Cross, communications representative for MDOT, talks about the road project on downriver I-75 over the Goddard road bridge. Clarence Tabb Jr., The Detroit News
“Goddard Road has very large bridges and we’re spending a lot of money maintaining them,” said state official Dan Grupido.(Photo: Clarence Tabb Jr. / The Detroit News)Buy Photo
The long-abandoned railroad in Allen Park is covered with weeds, its tracks half-buried in mud. Overhead, twin 2,000-foot-long bridges carry north- and southbound Interstate 75 traffic over the spot where trains once traveled.
But the trains are gone and the giant Goddard Road bridges remain, demanding expensive maintenance. Now their days are numbered, thanks to a planned $165 million overhaul of Interstate 75 between Detroit and Downriver.
The project, dubbed I-75 Rouge: Detroit Downriver Connection, is scheduled to begin Feb. 4 with southbound lanes closing along an eight-mile stretch from Springwells to Northline, according to the Michigan Department of Transportation. It will be funded by a mix of federal and state funds, officials said.
The Detroit News joined MDOT Friday to tour the areas targeted for construction. The ride-along began at the Goddard Road bridges, which officials said have been around for about 50 years.
“Goddard Road has very large bridges and we’re spending a lot of money maintaining them,” said Dan Grupido, MDOT engineer in charge of construction at Goddard.
Crews plan to tear down and replace these two bridges over Goddard Road with four smaller structures. (Photo: Clarence Tabb Jr, Detroit News)
The bridges go over the Sexton and Kilfoil Drain in the north, the abandoned tracks in the middle, and finally Goddard Road in the south.
Crews plan to tear down the bridges and replace them with four smaller structures that will be cheaper to maintain. Two will traverse the drain and another two will go over Goddard Road.
The old railroad tracks in the middle will be demolished and replaced by surface-level freeway, Grupido said.
The Goddard Road bridges stand as one pillar of the project, situated toward the southern end of the closures. Farther north, the Rouge River bridge is the second pillar.
MDOT engineers were working Friday under the Rouge River bridge, where scribbles of orange spray paint marked areas in need of repair. Up top, crews plan to remove and replace the entire surface of the battered roadway, using enough new concrete to cover roughly 20 football fields.
“We’re going to do some repairs (on the piers) down below but the main thrust of the work is absolutely to replace that bridge deck that causes us so much headache,” Grupido said. “The deck is just in such poor shape, it has to go.”
Damage to one of the giant Goddard Road bridges. (Photo: Clarence Tabb Jr, Detroit News)
Motorists on the bridge have reported falling concrete and gaping potholes. In some spots, the damage has bored completely through the deck.
“You see all the patches,” Grupido said as The News traveled with him over the bumpy bridge. “We’re out here all the time.”
MDOT looked at the possibility of replacing the Rouge River bridge, with initial construction costs estimated between $271 million and $315 million. That figure later ballooned to more than $400 million.
And the piers — some of which are 100 feet tall — are considered to be in good condition because of regularmaintenance.
“Because we do (maintenance) all the time, we don’t have to rebuild the whole thing,” Grupido said.
The planned repair is expected to last 50 years, according to MDOT.
In between the Rouge River and Goddard bridges, officials will focus on road patching, signage and new lighting, Grupido said.
“We’re not going to rebuild the road between the bridges, we’re just going to do some repair work,” he said. “(We’re going to) try and get something out there that will last a little while: address the issues that are out there now and get it in good condition.”
Crews will replace signs that have deteriorating reflective paint, Grupido said. The new signs will be more visible at night and during inclement weather.
The work will require significant road closures and detours, MDOT officials have said.
Beginning Feb. 4, southbound I-75 traffic will be detoured while northbound traffic will be maintained throughout the project’s duration, on northbound lanes in 2017 and on southbound lanes in 2018.
One southbound detour — primarily meant for truckers — will involve taking westbound Interstate 96 to southbound Interstate 275, and back to southbound I-75. Local traffic will be encouraged to detour along traditional southbound streets running parallel to I-75, including Fort and Jefferson.
Approximately 100,000 motorists travel the I-75 stretch per day, MDOT spokeswoman Diane Cross said. That includes trucks headed to and from the Canadian border.
“We wouldn’t want to detour (the trucks) through a neighborhood,” Cross said, explaining the dual detours. “We are trying to accommodate everyone.”
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Stories from Wednesday, October 18, 2017
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Each fall, from September through December, bird-of-prey enthusiasts gather at hawk watches around the state to observe and count eagles, hawks, falcons and other raptors as they migrate south. Using thermals and up-drafts along major river valleys, thousands of these fascinating creatures follow Iowa’s “hawk highways” as they make their way south from northern nesting grounds...
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ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN (High School Sports ~ 10/18/17)
Spirit Lake officially knocked out of postseason with loss to fifth-ranked Sergeant Bluff-Luton
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Over Half a Million ‘Disney Dreams!’ Come True on Our YouTube Channel
Disneyland Paris Updates & News • First published Thursday, 21st March 2013
Thank you! In less than a year, our first HD video of Disney Dreams! at Disneyland Paris has been viewed over half a million times. The current tally on our YouTube Channel stands at a simply astonishing 510,879 views. Purely testament to the sheer quality of this stunning show.
So now, as we prepare to welcome a brand new version of the nighttime spectacular for the extended 20th Anniversary this weekend, with new scenes for “Brave” and “The Lion King”, plus other surprises, let’s enjoy the original show all over again with a different video.
This one, from the very first public performance on 1st April 2012, has all the atmosphere of the energised crowd and a closer “front row” view of all the fountains and effects.
Watch in larger format here
Watch more Disneyland Paris HD videos:
Explore our dedicated Video pages
Join us over on DLRPToday.com and @DLRPToday this weekend for live news and photos from the 20th Anniversary Extended launch — plus brand new HD videos to follow!
First published on Thursday, 21st March 2013 at 21:14 by
Dennis.b93 says:
Thursday, 21st March 2013 at 21:25
Congratulations, you deserved it!
Can’t wait until the “fresh” show. Probably visiting the park
on 26th of April, so unfortunately I won’t be watching the video of the new version. Really want to see it first with my own eyes, did that the first time and I’m still really glad I waited with watching the videos.
Bonnes anniversaires!
Julia Müller says:
This show is absolutely fantastic!!! Watching this gives me goosebumps constantly!!! Can’t wait to see it again this summer!!!
I’m looking forward to the new scenes although it didn’t need a change in my opinion.
Gemma2806 says:
Friday, 22nd March 2013 at 09:00
This is an amazing show! We saw it 3 times on our last visit and my 3 yr old son loved it so much we now have to watch your YouTube video every night before he goes to sleep!!
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Fix Her Up: A Novel
Read by Charlotte North
Tessa Bailey 9780062872838
$12.99 With Membership: Learn More
A brand new romantic comedy from New York Times bestseller Tessa Bailey! Georgette Castle’s family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven’t taken her seriously since. Frankly, she’s over it. Georgie loves planning children’s birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She’s determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World... whatever that means. Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?) Phase two: a gut-reno on her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.) Phase three: updates to her exterior (do people still wax?) Phase four: put herself on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!) Living her best life means facing the truth: Georgie hasn’t been on a date since, well, ever. Nobody’s asking the town clown out for a night of hot sex, that’s for sure. Maybe if people think she’s having a steamy love affair, they’ll acknowledge she’s not just the “little sister” who paints faces for a living. And who better to help demolish that image than the resident sports star and tabloid favorite. Travis Ford was major league baseball’s hottest rookie when an injury ended his career. Now he’s flipping houses to keep busy and trying to forget his glory days. But he can’t even cross the street without someone recapping his greatest hits. Or making a joke about his… bat. And then there's Georgie, his best friend’s sister, who is not a kid anymore. When she proposes a wild scheme—that they pretend to date, to shock her family and help him land a new job—he agrees. What’s the harm? It’s not like it’s real. But the girl Travis used to tease is now a funny, full-of-life woman and there’s nothing fake about how much he wants her...
A June 2019 LibraryReads Pick
A brand new romantic comedy from New York Times bestseller Tessa Bailey!
Georgette Castle’s family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven’t taken her seriously since. Frankly, she’s over it. Georgie loves planning children’s birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She’s determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World... whatever that means.
Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?)
Phase two: a gut-reno on her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.)
Phase three: updates to her exterior (do people still wax?)
Phase four: put herself on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!)
Living her best life means facing the truth: Georgie hasn’t been on a date since, well, ever. Nobody’s asking the town clown out for a night of hot sex, that’s for sure. Maybe if people think she’s having a steamy love affair, they’ll acknowledge she’s not just the “little sister” who paints faces for a living. And who better to help demolish that image than the resident sports star and tabloid favorite.
Travis Ford was major league baseball’s hottest rookie when an injury ended his career. Now he’s flipping houses to keep busy and trying to forget his glory days. But he can’t even cross the street without someone recapping his greatest hits. Or making a joke about his… bat. And then there's Georgie, his best friend’s sister, who is not a kid anymore. When she proposes a wild scheme—that they pretend to date, to shock her family and help him land a new job—he agrees. What’s the harm? It’s not like it’s real. But the girl Travis used to tease is now a funny, full-of-life woman and there’s nothing fake about how much he wants her...
“Delightfully intense and creative sex scenes and potent emotions will reward both fans and new readers alike.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The story moves fluidly from one situation to the next, with lots of hot sex in between, and Bailey will keep readers on their toes as the ‘couple’ starts to realize this might be the real thing. Perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Helena Hunting.” —Booklist
“The sexual relationship between Travis and Georgie is sizzling, but the emotional journey from fake relationship to true love is just as compelling…This romance is as steamy as it is self-empowering.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Tessa Bailey’s books completely, utterly, totally wreck me.” —Sophie Jordan, New York Times bestselling author, praise for the author
Author Bio: Tessa Bailey
Tessa Bailey is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author originally from Carlsbad, California. Her most valuable life experiences were learned while waitressing at K-Dees, a Manhattan pub owned by her uncle. Inside those four walls, she met her husband, best friend, and discovered the magic of classic rock, managing to put herself through Kingsborough Community College and the English program at Pace University at the same time. Several stunted attempts to enter the work force as a journalist followed, but romance writing continued to demand her attention.
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iWatch – Apple’s first wearable device
Apple has finally made the Apple Watch official. The long-rumoured wearable, originally expected to be called the iWatch, was revealed on stage during the company’s iPhone 6 launch event in Cupertino, signalling Apple’s move into wearable technology for the first time.
Build quality is what you’d expect from Apple: light but strong, and slim, too.The Apple Watch is not nearly as slim as the iPhone 6, and it’s flat, so in form factor it’s not radically different from the other smartwatches on the market. But Apple has been careful to keep it from looking bulky, and even the larger version didn’t look out of place on a dainty female wrist. The dial – sorry, Digital Crown – looks less obtrusive in real life than it does in Apple’s promo shots. It’s smaller than the dials on most men’s watches, but it’s also very easy to access.The Apple Watch gets around this with the Digital Crown, which turns rotary movements into digital actions onscreen. Turning the crown when looking at maps will zoom in and out, but when you’re reading a list you’ll scroll up and down instead. It also doubles as a home button, sending you back to the home screen with a press.On the underside, four IR and LED sensors protected by more sapphire glass can detect the wearer’s pulse, then feed the data back into the Health app on iOS 8. You can also share your heartbeat with other iWatch owners, although we aren’t yet convinced many people will find a use for this niche feature. The button below Crown, which shows friends to contact, seems much more useful.The back of the watch is made from tough zircon, but doubles as a charging plate.
The screen is bright and crisp, and looked at from the kind of glancing angles you’d expect to look at a watch screen from – edge-on while riding a bike or balancing in a crowded train – words and pictures remained nicely readable.While some of the watch faces look fantastic, this watch will never be able to ape posh fashion watches in the same way as the Moto 360. Well, not circular posh fashion watches, anyway.The screen uses a flexible retina display, laminated to sapphire glass to protect it from scratches and scrapes. It can sense force for the first time in an Apple device, detecting the difference between a tap and a press, but Apple says controlling a wearable by touchscreen alone isn’t exactly ideal as you’re covering the tiny display. Little is known about screen resolution yet, as Apple hasn’t made anything official.
The Click-wheel Returns
Unlike every other smartphone design we’ve seen so far, the Watch doesn’t just rely on a tiny touchscreen. It relies on a physical moving part, a dial called the digital crown that acts a lot like a click-wheel: You turn it to zoom, to scroll, to move through the space of the Watch. To use it like your home button, just push it—it takes you back to the home screen.It’s a charmingly simple solution to a complex interface design problem—namely, that of edges. As smartphone manufacturers have moved towards flatter, thinner screens, they’ve struggled to solve one of the simple problems. As anyone who remembers trying to type on a click-wheel -or hell, trying to type out a show to watch on your AppleTV remote—knows, the click-wheel is a great navigation device but a less great way to actually input any kind of information. So Apple has given us a series of systems to both add information and and extract it.
Tapping, Clicking, and Talking
To save us from living in a hell of scrolling through a keyboard, character by character, we get three systems to communicate with the Watch: First, a sapphire glass-encased touchscreen that’s familiar to us all. Second, Siri, another familiar feature that can take down notations and messages.And most intriguingly, third, a kind of screen never before seen in Apple products: One lined with tiny electrodes that adds a new kinetic layer of interaction—and can tell not only where your finger is, but how hard it’s pressing. Where a touchscreen can read two dimensions, a kinetic screen can read three. It’s an exponential difference in terms of the vocabulary with which users can talk to their devices. It will make all the difference.And what about how the Watch communicates information to you? Beyond the screen, of course, we get something called a linear actuator: A common mechanism across all manner of electronics but, in this case, the thing that will deliver haptic feedback to the inside of your wrist. Tim Cook compared it to being tapped on the shoulder—a tiny, soundless alert that an event is occurring. If you chose to look at it, the Watch’s accelerometer will notice, blinking on the screen and showing you what’s up. If you’re walking somewhere, it will buzz when you need to turn.
The Apple Watch has a hulking great advantage in the apps department, something that was obvious from its unveiling: where Google tends to talk about the amazing potential of Android Wear, Apple talks about big brands that are already signed up and making apps for its platform – apps to find your car, let you into your hotel room, control your smart heating or track and share your exercise, not to mention shopping with Apple Pay.
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Dynamical Systems and Microphysics
Geometry and Mechanics
Authors: Andre Avez
Published Date: 28th January 1982
Dynamical Systems and Microphysics: Geometry and Mechanics contains the proceedings of the Second International Seminar on Mathematical Theory of Dynamical Systems and Microphysics held at the International Center for Mechanical Sciences in Udine, Italy on September 1-11, 1981. Contributors explore the geometry and mechanics of dynamical systems and microphysics and cover topics ranging from Lagrangian submanifolds and optimal control theory to Hamiltonian mechanics, linear dynamical systems, and the quantum theory of measurement. This volume is organized into six sections encompassing 30 chapters and begins with an introduction to geometric structures, mechanics, and general relativity. It considers an approach to quantum mechanics through deformation of the symplectic structure, giving a striking insight into the correspondence principle. The chapters that follow focus on the gauge invariance of the Einstein field, group treatment of the space of orbits in the Kepler problem, and stable configurations in nonlinear problems arising from physics. This book is intended for researchers and graduate students in theoretical physics, mechanics, control and system theory, and mathematics. It will also be profitably read by philosophers of science and, to some extent, by persons who have a keen interest in basic questions of contemporary mechanics and physics and some background in the physical and mathematical sciences.
I. Geometric Structures, Mechanics, and General Relativity
Lagrangian Submanifolds, Statics and Dynamics of Mechanical Systems
Deformations and Quantization
Lie Group Actions on Poisson and Canonical Manifolds
Gauge Theories and Gravitation
Riemannian Geometry and Mechanics: The Kepler Problem
Confinement Problems in Mathematical Physics, Classical and Modern
II. System Theory Approaches to Mechanics
Optimality and Reachability with Feedback Control
Optimization and Controllability in Problems of Relativistic Dynamics and of Geometrical Optics
Some Relations between Optimal Control Theory and Classical Mechanics
Modeling of Dynamical Systems using External and Internal Variables with Applications to Hamiltonian Systems
III. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formulations of Mechanics
Some Reflections on Hamiltonian Formalism
On the Lagrange Representation of a System of Newton Equations
Conservation Laws and a Hamilton-Jacobi-Like Method in Nonconservative Mechanics
On the Validity Limits of Hamiltonian Mechanics and a Way of Going beyond Them
IV. Perturbations
Adiabatical Invariants in Linear Dynamical Systems Periodically Depending on Time, with an Application to the Statistical Fluctuations of Mathieu Oscillators
Adiabatical Invariants in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Periodically Depending on Time, with an Application to the Parametrical Resonance in a Physical (Nonlinear) Pendulum
A Theorem on Phase-Locking in Two Interacting Clocks (The Huyghens Effect)
Simple Closed Geodesics on Surfaces
V. Some Problems in Quantum Mechanics
Some Topics in the Quantum Theory of Measurement
Light-Cone Quantization of Gauge Theories with Periodic Boundary Conditions
VI. Contributed Papers
Solutions of Generalized Theories of Gravitation Derived from a Modified Double Duality Condition
Dynamical Systems and Microphysics: A Wish
Non-equilibrium Entropy for Kolmogorov Dynamical Systems
Bimetric Machian Gravitation: General Theory and Cosmology
Mechanics and the Notion of Observables
The Meaning of the Lagrangian
A Classical Theory of Extended Particles with the Pauli Exclusion Principle
Some Remarks on State Reversibility and Irreversibility in System Theory
Symplectic Structures, Energy-Momentum Functions, and Hamilton Equations Theories of Gravity
Stochastic Calculus of Variations, Stochastic Control, and Quantum Dynamics
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TV Rundown: June 15 - 18 | 'Tyrant' Returns, 'Pretty Little Liars' Investigates and 'Beauty & the Beast' Delivers its Best Episode
Tyrant | FX’s sensational drama returned for its sophomore season and showed every evidence of thriving on the creative inroads made in its debut season. Picking up a relatively short time after the finale, Barry’s fate hung in the balance as Jamal had to decide whether to execute his brother for his failed coup attempt, leave him in prison or set him free.
A languishing Barry wasn’t all that remorseful for his actions so Jamal was left to craft a clever solution to his conundrum, a resolution that could prove to be a severe miscalculation in mercy, down the line.
Already tying the narrative of the two seasons together is the underlying theme of what seems to always undermine each brother’s pursuit for total power, they constantly underestimate each other. Jamal is craftier, more diabolical and harder to pin down, predictability wise, than Barry gives him credit for. Meanwhile, Jamal underestimates Barry’s ruthlessness, lack of battle of fatigue and cunning use of other’s compassion and view of him as a healer. They are each other’s equals, just with differing strengths. The rivalry between them has loads of rich complexity, endowing the series with serious narrative legs.
There were quite a few stellar scenes in this episode as well, superbly acted by its cast. Ashraf Barhom and Maron Atias perfectly captured the conflicted pathos of Jamal and Leila’s conflicted emotions surrounding the predicament of Barry’s fate and after the decision was meted out, they portrayed with searing profundity the aftermath of living with it.
Providing a contrast to their moody energy was the series other power couple, Molly and Barry, who shared a touching “goodbye”. Jennifer Finnigan and Adam Rayner each brought it, in a highly charged, emotional crescendo that didn’t overstate its affecting resonance; instead settling for a subdued power that spoke volumes. One thing is clear from its opener, “Tyrant” is back and it’s firing on all cylinders.
Pretty Little Liars | “Songs of Experience” revolved around the Liars’ continued investigation into identifying Charles and dealing with the fallout from the mind games they were subjugated to in their captivity. It was incredibly pleasant to see the resource of professional counseling in the narrative. This should’ve been the first things the girls were enrolled in when they were rescued, whether they felt a compulsion to comply or not. The parenting on the show is never heavy handed, in fact it’s a little too hands off and it’s about time the parents realized their current operating procedures aren’t working sufficiently.
Also at play was Ali’s so-called redemption, as the question of if she could truly change her ways, drove a wedge between Spencer and Toby. The chief aspect that hampers this entire premise and Spencer’s seeming acceptance of it is that Ali has displayed little repentance for her past behavior. She communicates it verbally and does absolutely nothing with her actions to back it up. Remember when she first returned from the dead and claimed she had changed?
Shortly thereafter she was slapping Mona and making duplicitous allegations that attempted to destroy the former’s reputation. She has only laid down her mask when she is in an exchange with Mona (who we have yet to get an update on). The only thing that should make Spencer a believer or any of the other girls (particularly Emily) is if Mona were to be convinced.
One crucial thing to also note is that Ali is coming off of a prison term for an act, she was falsely accused of. Hence she is coming from a place of indignation, not from a place of being justly humbled. That’s not exactly a recipe for a better version of Ali. It’s a recipe for a vengeful one.
Side Note: Props to the writers for the direction taken with Toby. How he’s been written over the past two seasons has dramatically elevated his cerebral standing on the show. Next to Caleb, he’s the most level-headed and sensical paramour on the series.
Meanwhile, Spencer’s logic has been drastically paling in comparison. Speaking of the Spencer, has she even bothered to apologize for kiss-cheating on Toby with that hipster from last season? The one she vandalized property with and then tried to make Toby out to be the bad guy because he did his job and enforced the law on a eager criminal. Maybe the reason Spencer is so willing to see the best in Ali is because they’re both missing the remorse chip.
Burning Questions: Does Jason finally believe that his imaginary friend wasn’t so imaginary, after all? Anyone else feel bad for Andrew, the latest victim of the Liars’ false accusation, when he busted Aria’s chops for naming him? When will the girls ever learn to investigate further before jumping to conclusions?
Beauty & the Beast | Coming off of last week’s iffy premiere, BATB did something entirely unexpected; delivered their best episode to date. There was overall plot progression, credible romantic drama and most importantly some much needed levity. “Primal Fear” was actually pretty funny and not in a way that overdid it. Vincent especially benefitted from the lighter tone, as he managed to leave behind his entirely gruff persona for the hour. His interaction with Heather was awkwardly amusing and his ensuing spat with Catherine played with a more natural rapport than ever before.
While the Cat/Vincent relationship improved on a creative level, Tess and JT continued to steadily build on their witty romance. Theirs is a breakout relationship for the show, a welcomed reprieve from Catherine and Vincent’s plot mandated romance. It seems natural and entertainingly generated; the eccentric professor and the hard-nosed detective make for a quirky, even match. The interaction between JT and Tess' brothers was golden. Hopefully it's not the last we've seen of them.
Side Notes / Burning Questions: Poor Heather was shopping for a wedding dress last week and dumped the next. Will we ever meet her now ex-fiancé? Introducing the plot point of her of being engaged only to have it end so abruptly makes one curious to know if it will have any significance down the line. If Tess became the police captain it would ruin her and Cat's whole dynamic as partners.
Photo Credit: Tyrant/FX, Pretty Little Liars/Freeform/ABC Family
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Labels: Beauty and the Beast, Pretty Little Liars, television, TV Rundown, Tyrant
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Britt is a freelance writer, and entertainment enthusiast with an "eclectic" taste in "pop" culture. As a freelancer, she is currently a Contributing TV News Writer at CinemaBlend. You can learn more about her by clicking her name.
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Interface Computer College - Davao (ICC), formerly known as Interface Computer Learning Center, is a private educational institution established in 1982. It is located at ANDA-RIZAL CENTER BLDG. Rizal Street corner Anda Street, Davao City. Aside from having a Davao branch, ICC has campuses in Manila, Caloocan and Iloilo.
The institution offers bachelor degrees in the fields of computer science, office administration, computer engineering, business administration and of course, IT. It also has a junior high school program that includes ICT and Japanese in its curriculum.Its senior high school (SHS) program, on the other hand, features the technical-vocational-livelihood (TVL) track and academic track strands such as Accountancy, Business, and Management (ABM), General Academic Strand (GAS) and Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS). Aside from college and high school programs, Interface Computer College also offers Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) courses such as Food and Beverage Services (NC II), Travel Services (NC II), Programming (NC III) and Visual Graphics Design (NC III), ideal to individuals who want to learn a specific skill.
Since 1982, Interface Computer College has always been committed to providing quality education to students nationwide, making it more accessible as well. The school also continues to produce competent graduates that truly showcase the skills and knowledge of Filipinos in the field of IT.
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Dylans at The Kings Arms
Dylans re-opens The Kings Arms in St Albans after its closure more than 15 years ago. We are an independent Free House serving Craft Beer, Real Ales, Fine Wines & Good Food run by Andrew Knight and Sean Hughes.
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Rosenblatt Securities reiterated their neutral rating on shares of Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) in a report issued on Wednesday, AnalystRatings.com reports. They currently have a $370.00 target price on the Internet television network’s stock, up from their prior target price of $350.00.
“We increase our price target to $370 driven by a higher implied target multiple and slightly higher international estimates. Pivoting to churn reduction content strategy as domestic scale reached and content competition intensifies. The primary driver of gross adds to SVOD services is first run, high quality original series. NFLX has been successful in this category, most recently by reporting 41M HH watching Stranger Things season 3 in the first five days of launch. However, binge watching drives the need to create even more content. In order to fill the time between original series NFLX has increasingly focused on individual originals like comedy specials, documentaries and movies.”,” the firm’s analyst commented.
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A number of other equities research analysts have also recently commented on NFLX. Imperial Capital reaffirmed an outperform rating and issued a $78.00 target price (down from $83.00) on shares of Spirit Airlines in a report on Friday, April 26th. BidaskClub cut shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance from a sell rating to a strong sell rating in a report on Monday, June 24th. Wedbush upped their target price on shares of Netflix from $165.00 to $183.00 and gave the company an underperform rating in a report on Wednesday, April 17th. UBS Group cut shares of Ecolab from a buy rating to a neutral rating and upped their target price for the company from $180.00 to $186.00 in a report on Thursday, April 18th. Finally, ValuEngine cut shares of Zuora from a buy rating to a hold rating in a report on Saturday, June 1st. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, ten have issued a hold rating, thirty have assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Netflix currently has an average rating of Buy and an average target price of $393.24.
Shares of NFLX opened at $373.25 on Wednesday. Netflix has a 1-year low of $231.23 and a 1-year high of $410.00. The stock has a market capitalization of $165.92 billion, a PE ratio of 139.27, a PEG ratio of 3.78 and a beta of 1.26. The company has a current ratio of 0.61, a quick ratio of 0.61 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.81. The company has a fifty day moving average of $361.38.
Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April 16th. The Internet television network reported $0.76 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.57 by $0.19. Netflix had a net margin of 7.61% and a return on equity of 24.75%. The firm had revenue of $4.52 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $4.50 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $0.64 earnings per share. Netflix’s quarterly revenue was up 22.2% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, analysts anticipate that Netflix will post 3.35 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
In other Netflix news, CEO Reed Hastings sold 56,966 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, April 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $370.74, for a total transaction of $21,119,574.84. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 56,966 shares in the company, valued at $21,119,574.84. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Also, Director Ann Mather sold 1,208 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Monday, July 1st. The stock was sold at an average price of $375.00, for a total transaction of $453,000.00. Following the transaction, the director now owns 357 shares in the company, valued at $133,875. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last quarter, insiders have sold 167,486 shares of company stock worth $60,955,416. Company insiders own 4.29% of the company’s stock.
A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of NFLX. Clarfeld Financial Advisors LLC acquired a new position in Netflix during the fourth quarter worth about $27,000. TCG Advisors LP acquired a new position in Netflix during the first quarter worth about $36,000. Joseph P. Lucia & Associates LLC acquired a new position in Netflix during the first quarter worth about $44,000. Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC grew its position in Netflix by 182.0% during the first quarter. Thompson Siegel & Walmsley LLC now owns 141 shares of the Internet television network’s stock worth $50,000 after buying an additional 91 shares during the period. Finally, Aspire Private Capital LLC acquired a new position in Netflix during the fourth quarter worth about $52,000. Institutional investors own 77.02% of the company’s stock.
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Publication of the Wates Principles: A new era for the corporate governance of private companies
13.02.2019 10 min read
Listed companies have long been used to reporting against a corporate governance code. Since the publication of the Cadbury Report in 1992, listed companies have had to “comply or explain” against an evolving code of best practice. This sort of compliance is now accepted as the norm, where companies accept that they should comply with (rather than explain against) the current version of the UK Corporate Governance Code, except in exceptional circumstances.
Large private companies will now be expected to do the same. Companies over a certain size will be required to "apply and explain" a code of corporate governance for the first time – although the new rules do not specify which code. The Wates Corporate Governance Principles for Large Private Companies (the Wates Principles) published in December 2018 will therefore be welcomed by private companies subject to the new regime. It provides a principles-based code which is flexible enough to be adopted by a wide range of private businesses. We therefore expect that a large proportion of the c.1,700 companies which will be subject to the reporting requirement for the first time will adopt the Wates Principles.
What is less clear is whether we will see the market-practice of compliance with corporate governance codes develop among private businesses in the way that listed companies stepped into line after being forced to comply or explain. Private businesses are not accountable to public investors in the way listed companies are, nor are they under the same regulatory scrutiny. Without the same threat of embarrassing public rejection at AGMs, fall in share price or regulatory action, will the new rules change the governance of private businesses?
A new regime for private companies
All large qualifying companies will be required to include a statement of their corporate governance arrangements when reporting on their financial years starting on or after 1 January 2019.
Which companies qualify?
If a company satisfies either or both of the following requirements in a year, it will qualify under the new rules:
• if it has more than 2,000 employees;
• if it has:
- a turnover of more than £200 million; and
- a balance sheet total of more than £2 billion.
There are exemptions for companies which are already reporting their corporate governance statement and for charitable companies.
What is the reporting requirement for qualifying companies?
The directors’ report must include a statement (a “statement of corporate governance arrangements”) which states:
• which corporate governance code, if any, the company applied in the financial year;
• how the company applied such corporate governance code; and
• if the company departed from such corporate governance code, the respects in which it did so, and its reasons for so departing.
If the company has not applied any corporate governance code for the financial year, it must explain the reasons for that decision and explain what arrangements for corporate governance were applied for that year.
The Wates Principles
The Wates Principles were prepared at the request of the Government by a coalition of partners, chaired by James Wates CBE and with secretariat support from the Financial Reporting Council. They introduce six principles of good corporate governance that the coalition believes offer “sufficient flexibility for a diverse range of companies to explain the application and relevance of their corporate governance arrangements, without being unduly prescriptive”.
The principles focus on the following six categories:
1. Purpose and leadership: An effective board develops and promotes the purpose of a company, and ensures that its values, strategy and culture align with that purpose.
2. Board composition: Effective board composition requires an effective chair and a balance of skills, backgrounds, experience and knowledge.
3. Director responsibilities: The board and individual directors should have a clear understanding of their accountability and responsibilities.
4. Opportunity and risk: A board should promote the long-term sustainable success of the company, and establish oversight for the identification and mitigation of risks.
5. Remuneration: A board should promote executive remuneration structures aligned to the long-term sustainable success of a company.
6. Stakeholder relationships and engagement: Directors should foster effective stakeholder relationships aligned to the company’s purpose.
Guidance supports the above principles, although it is not prescriptive as to how to apply the principles.
Business as usual or new challenges?
Given the non-prescriptive approach taken, do the Wates Principles offer anything new to the many successful companies that have long understood the value creation of good governance? We think so. The Wates Principles offer a thoughtful approach to corporate governance, rather than presenting a “box-ticking” exercise. They therefore encourage the qualifying companies – including those that already run their businesses in a way that aligns the Wates Principles – to reflect on which aspects of governance works well for them and which they could work on. For these companies, the manner of reporting their approach to corporate governance will be the new challenge, and companies will be looking to early reporters to see how best to tackle this.
The more pertinent question is whether this flexible approach will change the behaviours of, or hold to account, companies (and their directors and shareholders) which have operated without regard to principles of good governance – often at the expense on their wider stakeholders. It is not yet clear who will hold the companies to account under this new regime. For listed companies, there is investor pressure to keep them in line. The same cannot be said for private companies, especially where there is a single or small group of shareholders who may have their own interests alone at heart. However, even those companies will find it difficult to resist change:
• Companies will have to report their approach publicly. The coalition is also considering a “name and fame” approach to praise good governance. It will therefore be visible to stakeholders if companies are not taking corporate governance seriously. This could have a negative impact on relationships with stakeholders which could in turn go to value (e.g. a less productive workforce, loss of customers). Even if there is no regulatory sanction for poor corporate governance, stakeholder pressure could lead to behavioural change.
• By being forced to report on how they have adopted a code, the board will be forced to reflect on their approach to governance. Even if no immediate changes are adopted, this process may encourage boards to challenge and question the status quo.
• The Wates Principles will encourage boards to reflect on the systems and controls they have in place. Although this will not prevent corporate failures and scandals, it may help companies to put in place processes to alert early warning signals.
Time will tell if large private companies will embrace the challenges of greater accountability to stakeholders that legislation has placed on them. However, companies will ignore their responsibilities at their peril. The governance of large companies has been high on the political agenda for Government. A more rigorous approach could be legislated for if companies are not seen to be taking their responsibilities seriously.
Smaller private companies
Smaller private companies are also likely to benefit from adopting some or all of the Wates Principles.
• The flexible approach allows the principles to be applied to a wide range of companies, without stifling smaller and more entrepreneurial businesses.
• Directors of all companies have a duty to promote the success of the company, having regard to a wide range of stakeholders and the impact of its operations on the community and environment. The Wates Principles provide a useful framework to allow directors to ask themselves whether they are satisfying this duty.
• The Wates Principles are about ensuring long term and sustainable value creation – something that may particularly resonate with family-owned businesses which look to preserve value through generations.
• Good governance puts in place processes and frameworks to protect a business. In this fast-paced world full of risks (from cyber-attacks to time-critical reputational matters) and enhanced regulations, clear lines of authority and risk management are critical to protect a business.
Good corporate governance does not alone create a successful and profitable business, nor does it prevent corporate failures. We see listed companies with good corporate governance track records fail. But good governance puts in place systems and frameworks for companies to react quickly to opportunities and crises. It protects your business, your directors and your stakeholders. Done well, good governance will set you apart from your competitors. Can you afford not to take it seriously?
If you require further information about anything covered in this briefing note, please contact Marie Bates, or your usual contact at the firm on +44 (0)20 3375 7000.
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The Real Reason Women Are Leaving STEM Jobs
A new report finds that women believe their companies’ practices are unfair, and that they don’t value their contributions.
[Photo: Flickr user Myfuture.com; App Photo: Flickr user Kristaps Bergfelds]
By Lydia Dishman 3 minute Read
A recent report revealed a surprising gender gap: women job hop more than men and it’s getting more pronounced. While the analysts at LinkedIn who did the study said that further research was needed to determine why (it’s not about balancing family and work, as most of the job hoppers weren’t parents yet) the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) may have a clue.
In the first gender-based study of its kind conducted in the STEM space in the U.S., the data revealed women leaving jobs was the result of multiple factors beyond sexual harassment that the survey “Elephant in the Valley” found rampant among established working women at tech companies in Silicon Valley.
SWE’s Corporate Partnership Council’s study found that there are gender differences in workplace priorities, particularly as companies that are meeting female hiring goals are unable to retain them–especially five to eight years after they started.
The SWE culture study surveyed 3,200 men and women in various roles from four multinational STEM organizations. Participants had to pick from groups of words that best described their thoughts on three areas:
Personal values: who they are and who they hope to become
Current culture values: how their department currently operates
Desired culture values: what they need to be in order for their department to reach its highest potential
Overall, the men and the women surveyed weren’t all that different. What did emerge was that women reported more negative descriptors and less confidence in the company’s direction, especially among female leaders–who another study found, were more than 50% likely to stick with a company once they reached the C-suite than their male counterparts.
What’s causing the disconnect?
Female leaders said that while their companies focused on short-term items such as cost reduction, hierarchy, and resource constraints, they were missing the boat on some key elements of engagement:
Women reported accountability as their number one personal and professional value. The fact that they are leaving in greater numbers than men shows that they have less tolerance for unfair practices that inhibit their ability to achieve excellence. We know this sense of dissatisfaction is running rampant among younger female workers, too. Half of millennial women felt they were being overlooked, according to a report by Deloitte.
The attendant frustrations around a lack of accountability made the women surveyed report that they felt their careers were being undermined. The survey illuminated three other factors in which women felt like they were not being treated fairly:
While men compartmentalize and work “head-down,” women reported taking issues and challenges in broader context.
Persistent gender stereotypes inhibit growth. “An example reaffirmed repeatedly over the past 20 years is judgment women face: If they’re likeable, they’re not considered leadership material; if they’re competent, they are judged to be inadequate women.”
Women pull more of the workload at home and come to work already stretched.
The impact of diversity, or lack thereof, is missing from the conversation at work.
On the last point, diversity and inclusion were chosen by either gender as a value in any of the three measures. The researchers call this second generation bias.
“Many generations may not recognize that gender is an issue as it relates to diversity, and some just deny gender is a factor–they don’t want gender discussed lest they be pigeonholed,” Karen Horting, executive director and CEO of SWE, said in a statement. “With gender impact absent from corporate consciousness and resisted as a workplace reality, men and women have no foundational understandings from which to recognize consequences and to build solutions to gender-based disparities.”
Horting added, “It’s not news that there is a gender gap within leadership roles and that female leaders are leaving engineering. If we can get to the root cause of their dissatisfaction, maybe we can inspire real change.”
Lydia Dishman is a reporter writing about the intersection of tech, leadership, and innovation. She is a regular contributor to Fast Company and has written for CBS Moneywatch, Fortune, The Guardian, Popular Science, and the New York Times, among others.
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Everleap News
DiscountASP.NET announces Everleap, a next-generation cloud hosting solution powered by Windows Azure Pack
DiscountASP.NET, a leader in Windows hosting, announces the launch of Everleap, a cloud hosting platform for websites built on top of Microsoft Windows Azure Pack, the same technology used by Microsoft Azure. Everleap is a fault tolerant, elastic, fully-managed cloud hosting platform that bridges the existing gap between traditional web hosting and the big cloud service providers.
“With Everleap we wanted to combine the power of the cloud with the familiarity of traditional web hosting. It’s truly a next-generation hosting platform that is unlike anything else available today,” said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development. “A lot of people are staying away from the big cloud providers due to the unpredictable pricing; the by-the-minute metering of services and the charging of additional fees for many things essential to running a site. So one of our goals with Everleap was to give people access to a true cloud platform but with simple, predictable pricing. Every one of our plans includes essential services like SQL, MySQL, SSL, email, DNS and tech support, at no additional cost.”
Unlike traditional hosting where websites are served from a single physical server, Everleap utilizes independent file servers, load balancers and large clusters of web servers. If a web server goes down or needs maintenance, traffic is rerouted and the site is served from another available web server. The infrastructure eliminates all of the common causes of downtime in traditional web hosting.
“This isn't simply a 'skin' on top of Windows Azure Pack," said Frank Cheung, CTO at DiscountASP.NET, "We have been working with the technology for a considerable amount of time now, and we've created a unique offering with Everleap. We built our own unique Control Panel, which allows us to add new services and technology very quickly. What we've got here is not only a more reliable hosting platform, but an environment that allows us to do things that just aren't possible in traditional shared hosting. For example, every site on Everleap can be served from two or more load-balanced web servers simultaneously, providing a boost in performance when a site sees increased activity. In addition to instantly adding or removing web servers, users can also seamlessly scale up to reserved cloud servers without redeploying their applications.”
Frank Cheung will be participating in a Google Hangout On Air scheduled for Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 2 p.m. Pacific Time. The Hangout will include discussion on how the Everleap cloud system works, demos, and live Q&A. Details are available at: https://google.com/+EverleapHosting
“The Everleap cloud supports the latest Microsoft web stack so it’s a natural playground for ASP.NET developers, but it also supports PHP, so it provides PHP developers with a cloud hosting platform that is generally unavailable, even with LAMP hosts,” added Takeshi Eto, “and the Everleap cloud is fully managed, so there are none of the maintenance headaches that you inevitably run in to with traditional VPS, dedicated or VM hosting solutions.”
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State pension UK: How much is the state pension in 2019? The full amount for basic and new
STATE PENSION payments are something many people may rely on during their later years. How much is the state pension amount in 2019?
The type of state pension a person gets will depend on when they were born. Men with a date of birth before April 6 1951, and women born before April 6 1953, can claim the basic state pension. Those born after this date will follow the new rules - which means their state pension will be different in a number of ways. This includes the maximum amount that is available.
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The current full basic state pension is £129.20 per week.
Some people may be able to increase their state pension, such as by deferring their state pension payments.
There are other ways to increase the basic state pension, such as by making Voluntary National Insurance contributions should an individual have gaps in their record.
The gov.uk website advises readers to get financial advice when planning their retirement income.
The maximum amount available on the new state pension is £168.60 per week.
However, the actual amount that may be paid to a person will depend on their National Insurance record.
State pension UK: The amount that one gets on the state pension may depend on some factors (Image: GETTY)
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It may be possible to get a greater payment by delaying the state pension, upon reaching state pension age.
It’s also possible to get more if one has over a certain amount of Additional State Pension.
The UK state pension increases each year under the triple lock guarantee - however expats living in some countries overseas may not benefit from this.
The annual increase applies to both the basic and new state pension.
The rise is whichever is the highest out of the average percentage growth in wages (in Great Britain), the percentage growth in prices in the UK as measured by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and 2.5 per cent.
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State pension UK: The amount that one gets may depend on if they get the basic or new state pension (Image: GETTY)
The state pension may only be claimed once a person reaches state pension age.
The state pension age was 65 for men and 60 for women in the past.
Changes to the state pension age have come into effect in recent years.
In November 2018, state pension age parity was reached between men and women, with the state pension age for women reaching 65.
Now, the state pension age is gradually rising to 66 for both men and women - before this increases to 67, and then 68, in the future.
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Armed, despondent man in Ellison Park surrenders to police
Sections of Blossom Road near Ellison Park were closed to traffic for four hours Sunday night as police dealt with a despondent, armed man.
Armed, despondent man in Ellison Park surrenders to police Sections of Blossom Road near Ellison Park were closed to traffic for four hours Sunday night as police dealt with a despondent, armed man. Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: https://on.rocne.ws/2Ivv8U8
David Andreatta, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Published 7:45 p.m. ET Sept. 30, 2018 | Updated 10:02 p.m. ET Sept. 30, 2018
Monroe County Sheriff's Office Lt. Dean Tuthill discusses the situation following a nearly four-hour standoff David Andreatta, @david_andreatta
Police lights.(Photo: kali9, Getty Images/iStockphoto)
A 33-year-old, armed Rochester man whom police said was threatening suicide surrendered after a lengthy incident in Ellison Park on Sunday evening.
The section of Blossom Road near Ellison Park was closed for nearly four hours as officers and deputies from several police agencies moved into place and secured the area.
Roads opened back up around 9 p.m.
"Because of the propensity of violence, and he was armed, we established a perimeter, called in our hostage recovery team folks and some SWAT members and after further negotiation with the individual, he came out of the vehicle and was taken into custody with no issues," said Lt. Dean Tuthill, of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
Tuthill said the man, whom police did not identify by name, was armed with a rifle that he legally owned and at no time threatened violence against law enforcement officials or anyone else. He was taken to Strong Memorial Hospital for evaluation.
Officers from the Sheriff's Office, as well as the State Police and Brighton and Fairport police departments, set up a staging area in the parking lot of Indian Landing Elementary School on Landing Road in Rochester.
The man, Tuthill said, was in a white Chevrolet Silverado in the park. Tuthill said the Sheriff's Office was alerted to the man's presence and condition by the Rochester Police Department, which had fielded a report of a despondent man headed toward the park.
Ellison Park is within the jurisdiction covered by the Sheriff's Office.
"In these types of situations its very delicate," Tuthill said. "We're not so quick to go in and resolve the situation right away. Time is on our side and we give it time to kind of digress and let the person think about what we're talking about."
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
DANDREATTA@Gannett.com
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100 homes could be on their way to this town - are they near you?
They would be built on a former open-cast mine site
Robin JohnsonBusiness Editor
Up to 100 new homes could be on the way to a Derbyshire town on fields that were previously an open-cast mine site.
Property firm Allsop has submitted plans to Amber Valley Borough Council to build the new homes on a 10-acre site, off Meadow Drive, at Heanor.
The land is currently laid to pasture and is bordered by two other new housing developments.
To the west, David Wilson Homes’ has built new properties, while to the east Peveril Homes is building 200 homes as part of its Smalley Manor development.
The application says the development could accommodate a mix of housing types
The plans state that the development could offer a broad mix of housing types, along with a proportion of affordable housing.
According to the application, one, two and three bedroom properties could be accommodated alongside larger four and five bedroom homes. The site could also feature buildings of up to three storeys.
The plans also state that, subject to agreement, the development could include pedestrian and cycle links through the site to the adjoining residential developments and on to the employment areas of Heanor, providing easier access to schools and other facilities to the east, as well as Shipley Country Park to the south-east.
Vehicle access to the development would be from Meadow Drive - a road created as part of the David Wilson Homes development.
The development would be accessed via Meadow Drive
In planning documents submitted by Planning Design Practice, on behalf of Allsop, it said that the development would provide “quality” housing to meet demand in the area.
It said: “Residential development is considered to be acceptable in this location as the site provides an opportunity to create an attractive development and contribute to the need for housing within the borough.
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“The site is well related to the residential development that surrounds it and is in sustainable travelling distance of local facilities at Heanor.
“The proposal would result in the economic benefits associated with new development in the short and medium to long term.
“The proposal also provides social benefits through helping to meet the need for housing across the district, broadening the choice of quality homes and contributing to the vitality of the local community through increasing and balancing its demographic.”
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Doing a Bradbury
verb: slang;
To succeed unexpectedly and against the odds.
Derives from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City when Steven Bradbury won gold in the 1000m speed skating event by skating at the back of the pack and racing past when all the other competitors crashed on the last corner.
We can confirm, with great excitement, that this year's Pasta Night Guest Speaker is none other than Aussie sporting legend Steven Bradbury! His talk will cover his years of determination and hard work leading up to the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, the broken neck and major leg injury (111 stitches) that sidelined him during training, and will include audience participation and the opportunity to hold his gold medal.
"His career as an Olympic athlete was driven by determination and most importantly a will to succeed. With the same passion he showed on the ice, Steven has continued his success as a Motivational speaker, MC/Facilitator and After Dinner Speaker at over 650 conferences and events in 12 countries.
"His warm friendly nature, down to earth manner and use of humour is sure to help ‘break the ice’. The Bradbury story is one of the true Aussie battler who overcomes much adversity to achieve the ultimate goal".
- stevenbradbury.com.au
Bookings for the Pasta Night, as well as registration for all Running Festival events, will open during March.
And you never know - someone might do a Bradbury during the Pub2Pub or Flinders5.
Nigel Marsh on Flinders
Nigel and Kate Marsh spent the weekend on Flinders doing everything they could possibly find to do. After doing the Trousers Point - Fotheringate coast track on Friday afternoon, Nigel entertained over 100 people at the pasta night. Nigel is an internationally acclaimed public speaker on life work balance. He has the most viewed TED speech available on youtube and three very entertaining books. Saturday brought the Pub2Pub challenge that they were both up for, then crayfish and roast local wallaby for dinner which gave them enough bounce to take part in the Flinders 5. Kate took the lead at the half way mark and Nigel couldn't quite catch up (that may have had something to do with me dragging the chain and the fact that Nigel felt he needed to help get me over the line). That didn't pull them up - they then went up to the north of the Island for the rest of the weekend doing some significant mileage on Killiecrankie beach and The Dock. Thank you Nigel and Kate for contributing so enthusiastically to our running festival. Hope to see you back next year. Liz
Nigel Marsh is coming to Flinders Island.
Nigel is the our motivational speaker for this years Flinders Island Running Festival. He will speak at the Pasta Night on Friday 30th August.
Nigel is the author of three very funny books about life – ‘Fat, Forty and Fired’, ‘Overworked and Underlaid’ and ‘Fit, Fifty and Fired-Up’ His first book is currently being developed into a major TV series in America by the creators of ‘Two and a Half Men’.
He is also the co-founder of Earth Hour, consults to a select group of leading CEOs and is Special Advisor to the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.
Nigel is in high demand around the world as a public speaker. He also happens to love Islands and going to interesting places so we were able convince him that Flinders Island is the place to be.
You can view one of his TED speeches on youtube at www.ted.com/talks/nigelmarsh - he is the most viewed Australian with well over a million hits. It's really worth watching for the laugh.
And the best thing is you don’t have to actually do any running to come to the pasta night (although we would love you to pull out the runners on Saturday or Sunday) but we would really love you to book ahead to help us with catering plans.
There are lots of options, use the booking form on the back of this page or visit our website www.flindersislandrunning.org to pay online, drop into Council or call Liz Grimshaw on 0428 295270.
Cost: $22 for adults, $8 for under 16’s, free for under 4’s.
Venue: Sports Club
Date: Friday 30th August 2013
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Buffalo Wings & Rings
The brand has more than 80 units across the globe.
Buffalo Wings & Rings Launches New Loyalty Program with Punchh
Punchh, a leader in digital marketing solutions for physical retailers, announced that it’s launched a new loyalty program for Buffalo Wings & Rings, an elevated sports restaurant with more than 55 locations across the country. The program, called “Buffalo Sauciety,” allows the popular franchise to engage customers through multiple channels with timely, personalized communications that drive sales and increase loyalty.
Using the Punchh Restaurant Marketing Cloud, Buffalo Wings & Rings can merge digital and in-store data for a holistic view of how its customers engage with the brand, and then use machine learning for segmentation to create a tailored experience for every guest.
“Buffalo Wings & Rings already keeps diners coming back for more by serving great food in a fun, family-friendly environment,” says Shyam Rao, CEO of Punchh. “We look forward to helping this beloved franchise further develop and nurture direct relationships with its customers at every touchpoint.”
Buffalo Wings & Rings conducted a thorough evaluation of several potential partners and ultimately decided to launch the program with Punchh based on its ability to offer a comprehensive solution with a user-friendly dashboard. It was also impressed with Punchh’s ability to collect and analyze massive amounts of data, thus allowing the brand to understand its customers on a personal level.
“Other vendors said they could do these things, but Punchh was a clear winner in having already developed the functionality that we needed,” adds Linsey Case, senior marketing manager at Buffalo Wings & Rings. “There is nothing more important to Wings & Rings than the relationships we maintain with our most loyal customers. We make every effort to personalize their experience and provide them not only with great food, but also offers and rewards that reward their loyalty. Punchh takes that real-world commitment to our customers and brings it to our online Sauciety in an extremely powerful way.”
The Buffalo Sauciety program has been well-received by diners, and rewards guests with a point for each dollar they spend (excluding alcohol, gift cards, catering and retail) with the ability to redeem every 100 points for a $10 reward. It also incentivizes members with birthday and anniversary offers as well as additional "surprise and delight" rewards based on purchase behavior and visit frequency.
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‘Really smart business’ – Danny Mills reacts as Leeds table offer for £7.5m-valued PL player
Written by: Danny Mills
Danny Mills has claimed Leeds United will seal some “really smart business” if they succeed in re-signing Jack Harrison from Manchester City for a second loan.
Speaking exclusively to Football Insider, the ex-United defender is convinced that Harrison can be more effective next season that in his first campaign on loan from the Premier League champions.
As revealed by Football Insider, Leeds have tabled a £1million-plus loan offer for the 22-year-old and are confident they will best rival English clubs in the race for his signature this window.
“I think it is really smart business if Leeds get it done,” Mills told Football Insider. “Getting him back on loan is a sensible move, good for the player and good for Leeds.
“He can improve a lot and needs to be consistent week in, week out. You only get consistency by playing. The fact is has had one decent season and is capable of having a better one.”
A permanent transfer is out of the question for Leeds, with sources from the club telling Football Insider he is valued at £7.5million by Man City.
“That’s way too big a fee for Leeds for a player who is all about potential,” added Mills. “A loan deal makes more sense at this stage.”
As reported by Football Insider, Bielsa wants at least two signings “in the building” imminently, and he is hopeful that the Harrison deal can be the first that is finalised.
For the player, it would be his third loan spell after initially joining the Premier League champions from their sister club New York City in January of last year.
He was immediately loaned out to Middlesbrough for the second half of 2017-18, before his 2018-19 spell at Leeds.
In other Leeds United news, it can be REVEALED that a northern club are plotting a sensational double Leeds swoop as exodus reaches new level.
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Pence’s office tight-lipped after VP abruptly cancels New Hampshire trip to return to White House
By Alex Pappas | Fox News
Vice President Pence called back to White House over undisclosed emergency
Pence was on his way to New Hampshire to discuss the state's opioid crisis when Air Force Two was recalled.
Vice President Pence’s abrupt decision Tuesday to abandon plans to fly to New Hampshire for an opioid event -- and instead return to the White House -- has prompted confusion and conflicting statements from members of his team, as administration officials refused to divulge the reason for the last-minute change.
Fox News has requested an explanation, but officials have not yet provided details. Still, Pence’s office has sought to downplay the change of plans.
"Something came up that required the @VP to remain in Washington, DC," Pence spokeswoman Alyssa Farah tweeted. "It’s no cause for alarm. He looks forward to rescheduling the trip to New Hampshire very soon."
The unusual sequence of events started Tuesday morning when a crowd in Salem was waiting for Pence to participate in a roundtable discussion and, later, deliver remarks on the opioid crisis and illegal drug flow in New Hampshire.
Shortly before the vice president was scheduled to arrive, an announcer at the event told the crowd that Air Force Two was no longer coming to New Hampshire because of an "emergency callback."
“We do have a situation where the vice president was called back to Washington,” Randy Gentry, a representative of Pence's office, told the crowd.
Those comments caused confusion over whether Pence was actually en route to New Hampshire or not. But Farah, Pence’s spokeswoman, later explained that the vice president never left Washington -- and said it wasn't an "emergency callback."
Pence had been scheduled to land in New Hampshire at about 11:30 a.m. EDT. At about 11:55 a.m., Pence’s vehicle pulled into the White House complex, and the vice president exited and walked into the West Wing.
Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short later told ABC News that Pence had boarded the plane, but Air Force Two had not taken off yet. Adding to the confusion, the ABC reporter tweeted that Short said the details of Tuesday’s events will be public “in a few weeks.”
Meanwhile, without giving details, a senior White House official told reporters the situation is not health-related for Pence or President Trump, and is not related to national security.
Trump is in Washington on Tuesday, but has no public events scheduled.
Fox News’ Blake Burman and Rob DiRienzo contributed to this report.
Alex Pappas is a politics reporter at FoxNews.com.
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D-backs win franchise-record 13th straight to again sweep Dodgers
AP Sep 7, 2017 at 2:51a ET
LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers were cruising along with a 21-game lead in the NL West. Now, it’s been cut in half.
What a difference a week and a half made, all at the hands of the Diamondbacks.
Pinch-hitter Adam Rosales doubled in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning and Arizona overcame a rare deficit to win 3-1 on Wednesday night for its franchise-record 13th straight win.
“We’re battling, grinding and sticking together, and those are things that make you win those close games and win 13 straight,” Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said.
“This is so special. This is exciting stuff.” — Adam Rosales, whose pinch-hit double in the 7th inn. was the game-winning hit for @Dbacks. pic.twitter.com/xsVeKjgfMV
— FOX Sports Arizona (@FOXSPORTSAZ) September 7, 2017
The D-backs’ winning streak is the second longest in the majors this season behind Cleveland’s current 14 in a row.
They swept the Dodgers for the second consecutive week for the first time since September 2005 to keep a comfortable lead in the wild-card race. Los Angeles has lost two series for the first time all year.
“They’re the best team in baseball, they’ve been for the entirety of the season and we just have to find ways to win,” catcher Chris Iannetta said.
Ketel Marte singled leading off the seventh against Luis Avilan (2-2). Rosales followed with a double to deep center, scoring the speedy Marte. David Peralta singled and J.D. Martinez was intentionally walked to load the bases.
Daniel Descalso was hit by Avilan, forcing in Rosales and extending Arizona’s lead to 3-1.
“We’re doing things at a very impressive level.” — Torey Lovullo on the @Dbacks‘ 13-game win streak, which includes 2 sweeps of #Dodgers. pic.twitter.com/whnmgsBRYH
The Dodgers have lost a season-high six in a row and 11 of 12, with six of those defeats to the second-place D-backs. Los Angeles still owns baseball’s best record at 92-47.
“There’s really nothing to say but we got to get a win,” manager Dave Roberts said.
The Dodgers briefly owned a 1-0 lead, an accomplishment in itself. The D-backs hadn’t trailed in their last 97 innings, the second-longest stretch in the majors since 1900, until Cody Bellinger’s RBI groundout to second put Los Angeles ahead in the first.
But they didn’t get a hit after the third inning.
Fernando Rodney pitched a perfect ninth to earn his 36th save.
“It’s about catching, blocking and throwing.” — Chris Iannetta, who helped Walker work through 6 innings & who threw out Puig on SB attempt pic.twitter.com/jHGJFGo54e
The D-backs tied it 1-all in the second. A.J. Pollock reached on an error by shortstop Chris Taylor, stole second and came home on pitcher Taijuan Walker’s RBI double.
Walker (9-7) allowed one run and four hits in six innings, struck out four and walked three.
Los Angeles starter Kenta Maeda gave up one unearned run and four hits in five innings. He struck out eight and walked one.
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The D-backs earned their fourth consecutive series sweep and seventh straight road win, both firsts in franchise history.
“It’s the fundamental part of the game that excites me.” — Torey Lovullo on the many different ways the @Dbacks have won 13 straight games. pic.twitter.com/yGxeZRl6vg
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Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner was ejected from the dugout between innings after arguing balls and strikes leading off the sixth. “I can’t get thrown out in a 1-1 game,” he said, “but at the same time I didn’t think I did a whole lot to warrant ejection.”
Diamondbacks 1B Paul Goldschmidt was available off the bench, although the team was being cautious because of stiffness in his right elbow.
Diamondbacks LHP Patrick Corbin (13-11, 3.83 ERA) takes the mound for the series opener Friday at home against San Diego. He is 5-5 with a 3.49 ERA in 14 career starts against the Padres, including 2-1 with a 3.38 ERA and 25 strikeouts in three starts this season.
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Partners In Arms: IFA Teams up with Job Creations Network to Defend Franchising
By: Multi-Unit Franchisee | 5,332 Reads
Franchising is fighting back.
Organized labor and activist groups have been hammering away at the franchise business way of life. But now the International Franchise Association (IFA) and Job Creations Network, an advocacy organization dedicated to educating employees about government policies that negatively impact their business, have formed a dynamic duo to help defend franchising.
The new partnership will provide IFA and its membership non-partisan education tools about how existing and prospective government policies affect their workplace, now and in the future.
"Millions of jobs and small businesses are now at risk due to the unprecedented nature of the recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling that franchisors and franchisees can be designated as joint-employers," said IFA President & CEO Steve Caldeira, CFE. "With our continued fight to defend the franchise business model, we must ensure that franchise small business owners are well informed of policies that could alter the way they do business so they are armed with the tools necessary to educate lawmakers."
"We know 70 percent of small business owners believe Washington is hostile to their efforts to create jobs," said Job Creators Network president Alfredo Ortiz. "Job Creators Network will allow the IFA to defend the franchise industry through ongoing education by engaging their workforce on public policy decisions."
IFA's partnership with the Job Creators Network will integrate into the Franchise Action Network a new strategic initiative that mobilizes franchisors, franchisees, and industry suppliers at the grassroots level.
"A coalition of the franchise owners, all promoting a single mission, is the best way to protect our industry from an increasingly hostile legislative and regulatory environment at the federal, state and municipal levels," said Caldeira.
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Childhood home of JK Rowling in Tutshill is sold
By Lia Hind
JK Rowling's childhood home in Tutshill has been sold
The former childhood home of JK Rowling in Tutshill has been sold to an unidentified buyer.
The Grade II-listed property, Church Cottage, was home to multi-millionaire Harry Potter author, J K Rowling, between the age of nine and 18. It is believed that the quirky cottage inspired much of her creativeness when devising Potter and the magical world of Quiditch - even naming one of the Quiditch teams in the novel, Tutshill.
The cottage was recently put on the market by Chepstow based Estate Agents and Solicitors, Properts, for £399,950 complete with spooky trapdoor, a cupboard under the stairs and even a secret scrawl etched by the author herself as a teenager.
Rowling, now 45, scribed her name into paintwork by her bedroom window alongside the words: "Joanne Rowling slept here circa 1982" when she was 17.
Properts were unable to disclose the figure the property sold for or who bought the property.
Jane Propert said: "People buy houses for a number of reasons, budget, location and lifestyle to name but a few. But being able to live in a home that has historical interest can appeal to many potential buyers.
"The past ownership by a famous person can not only assist in a sale but may potentially enable the property to be sold at a premium. We have experienced such interest following the marketing of Church Cottage, where J K Rowling spent part of her childhood.
"The property also lends itself to the interest emanating from its famous resident because it looks as if it came out of one of the author's books. However, the fact it has historical links and is a listed property may have also helped it to sell so quickly."
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Panalpina takes another full circle step
BASEL: In a further move to expand into the circular economy, Panalpina has formed an alliance with Hong Kong-based Spread Logistics to collect faulty consumer electronics from origin, do failure analyses and, when required, arrange for product returns to the manufacturer for repair in Mainland China.
Despite international regulations requiring any smart device produced in China to be returned to the manufacturer if under warranty, the process is difficult according to Mike Wilson, Panalpina global head of Logistics. "The faulty products need to be sorted by fault code and correctly repackaged in their original form to meet Chinese customs demands before they can be sent back to their original manufacturer."
The process is called Return Materials Authorization (RMA) and Hong Kong's Spread Logistics is one of the few companies specializing in the return of electronic consumer goods to Mainland China. As a result, a large percentage of devices re-imported to China via RMA for repair is shipped by the company says Panalpina.
"By partnering with Spread Logistics, we have enabled the circular supply chain for our technology customers. We collect and pass on the data that is needed to decide if a product can be repaired close to the consumer market or if it needs to be shipped back to China for bigger repair work or even disposal," Wilson explained.
To manage the RMA, Panalpina has set up in Dubai (right) the first of four consolidations points to act as return centers for consumer electronic goods that will conduct first-level failure analysis (screening) to determine their condition.
If Panalpina can, it will repair or refurbish the broken equipment and return the product to the supply chain for reuse. "Screening in the region means products can potentially be returned to available stock faster," said Spencer Edmonds, global head of Logistics operations at Panalpina. "This improves the cash flow of our customers."
Products that cannot be repaired regionally are forwarded to Spread Logistics in Hong Kong for second-level analysis (checking at component level) and repackaging.
Customs regulations require manufacturers' returns to be in the original box, complete with documentation and accessories. "Since many customers don't return products this way, Chinese Customs can be tricky to maneuver," added Edmonds. "Our partner is adept in dealing with reverse flows, receiving returned products and making sure they are repackaged properly to re-enter the country."
For products that cannot be repaired, Spread Logistics can also recover the high-value parts: "The production of consumer electronics – such as mobile phones or laptops – involves more suppliers than ever," said CEO Jennifer Wang. "With excellent IT systems and easy-to-use platforms, we provide a scalable solution to manage the flow of components back to their various suppliers. We can connect anything to anyone."
Panalpina says the deal with Spread Logistics gives the 3PL opportunities to expand into an increasingly circular economy: "Supply chain is about the whole life span of a product," added Wilson. "Ultimately, the real meaning behind a supply chain is a product's life cycle – from sourcing to recycling and disposal. The future therefore lies in managing the product life cycle, not the supply chain. That's where we are heading with our approach to logistics."
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Ana Sayfa Genel The Evil Within 2 review: “It’ll make the hairs on your neck prickle right up”
Yazar: adminTarih: Ekim 13, 2017 Kategori: Genel, PS4Yorum Yok
Sebastian Castellanos seems to mildly resent starring in this survival horror sequel. “Who comes up with these ridiculous names?” he grumbles after learning of a technological device with a title and function I instantly forgot. “That doesn’t make any sense!” he bluntly fires back as former ally Juli Kidman lays down some dense exposition. The Evil Within 2 doesn’t take the rich, psychologically disturbing premise and gorgeously grungy aesthetic of the first game to their full potential; if anything, it regresses in a few unfortunate ways. But despite the rough edges, this third-person thriller is still strangely enjoyable, much like the company of this curmudgeonly Castellanos.
Three years after surviving Ruvik’s twisted mindscape within Beacon Mental Hospital, Sebastian has been kicked off the force and seeks solace in the sauce. After barely mentioning her in the first game, the former detective is now wrought with guilt over the death of his daughter Lily; we know this because the opening scene graphically shows the flesh melting off her five-year-old face. Suddenly, his former partner-turned-double agent Juli Kidman appears with news: Lily didn’t die in that house fire after all, and Sebastian must rescue her by delving back into the shared consciousness of the STEM system, better thought of as The Spooky Matrix. You’ve no choice but the brave the undead dangers of Union, a virtual small town that’s twisting in on itself like a blood-soaked version of the neighborhood from Psychonaut’s Milkman Conspiracy.
It quickly becomes apparent that trying to rationalize anyone’s motivations or the logistics of some impossibly convenient plot devices is going to be tricky at best. All you really need to know is that Sebastian is back and ready to kill any and all freaky monsters and murderous egomaniacs to save his daughter. But he looks and sounds a bit… off. Both Castellanos and Kidman have new voice actors; say what you will about the original performances, but I’m personally miffed whenever a universe’s central characters experience a change in speak. That said, the line delivery is still solid, and often charmingly goofy. I always crack up at how nonplussed Sebastian is by the absolutely horrific things he’s regularly exposed to, grunting out a world-weary “Shit.” as enemies close in, or plainly responding to a living nightmare with “That was weird.”
Something of a graphical identity crisis
The character models seem to have taken on a vaguely rubbery look, struggling to emote in ways that make the dialogue hit home. In fact, the graphics make an odd departure from the first game across the board. Somehow, despite the fact that this sequel wasn’t made with PS3 and Xbox 360 versions in mind, the visual presentation has taken a stylistic step backwards. Where the original game made great use of grimy textures and dark visual filters to give the world an air of rust, intestinal slime, and decay, The Evil Within 2 feels like it’s trying to make every little thing pop. The result is a visual style that feels oddly vibrant given the overall vibe, like a Fallout 4 spin on Resident Evil. You can spot soon-to-be-reanimated zombies from a mile away by how much they contrast with the environment, as if this is an old episode of Scooby-Doo where you can clearly pinpoint what can and can’t move at any given moment. It’s by no means an ugly game, excluding the purposely hideous enemies who look great despite a lack of variety. But compared to The Evil Within‘s lavishly gory intersection of serrated metal and soft organs, the lack of a distinct, cohesive look for the sequel is a bit disappointing.
When the presentation shines, though, it really gets under your skin in all the right ways. There will be times when you’re absolutely dreading the notion of having to take a single step further down a dark hallway. Highlights include a sadistic photographer who was evidently inspired by the interior design of P.T., and glitching, reality-phasing areas that make you fearful to turn around and see what fresh hell might be standing there, a la Layers of Fear. The finely tuned audio is also full of insidious little noises that’ll make the hairs on your neck prickle right up, or coax you into a false sense of security with vaguely foreboding classical music. Usually, an atmosphere of crushing suspense or fleeting moments of pure creepiness are far more effective and exhilarating than the payoff, which is too often a telegraphed jumpscare – but that could be said about plenty of horror entertainment.
Shooting and sneaking both have their place
If you played the first game, you know what to expect from The Evil Within 2’s gameplay: a mix of ammo-conserving stealth takedowns that can eventually give way to some shoot-’em-up action once you’ve amassed enough upgrades and munitions. Some enemies are tougher or faster than others, but none are particularly smarter, so you rarely have to adjust your tactics. And I hope you don’t mind having to occasionally line up perfect stealth kill sequences or die trying – because early on, one misstep can easily result in your being spotted, swarmed, and slain in a matter of seconds. This sequel completely ditches the original’s match mechanic, where unburned corpses could potentially revive at any time – and surprisingly, I found myself missing those troublesome matches a wee bit. Yes, it was highly annoying whenever you ran out – but it also created some truly terrifying moments of panicked cremation and a looming distrust of the dead bodies you left in your wake.
Once you’ve collected and come to grips with a few firearms, you’ll quickly find that you don’t really need to conserve your resources all that much, at least on the Survival (read: Normal) difficulty. If you so choose – which I absolutely do – to play Sebastian as a loose cannon zombie killer who doesn’t afraid of anything, you can safely go guns-blazing as long as you take the time to snatch up the myriad crafting items. You’ll find them littered all around the larger, quasi-open-world districts of Union, which benefit from expanded exploration in exchange for the occasional bit of boring backtracking.
I couldn’t tell you exactly how many jars of raw gunpowder Sebastian turned into ammunition using his bare hands – but it was a lot. And with the amount of boxes I destroyed in search of spare weapon parts, you’d think this sequel’s subtitle would be The Great Crate-Breaking Caper. As with the first game, crafting is largely uninteresting: the only ‘mechanic’ to remember is that crafting on the fly uses up more resources than doing so at a designated workbench. In other words, never craft on the fly. Poking around Sebastian’s skill tree and unlocking upgrades with green vital fluids offers a nice element of customized progression, though the stealth enhancements seem essential to your long-term survival.
The Evil Within 2 doesn’t quite manage to step out of the first game’s shadow – but while it may not have the same bold, unified style, you won’t have to worry about frustrating mechanics or enraging difficulty spikes. If you’ve got a soft spot for the original game in your survival horror-loving heart, you’ll surely enjoy this sequel (and get a kick out of the many callbacks to the previous plotline). After my 16-hour-long journey alongside Sebastian, I find myself looking back fondly on The Evil Within 2, with its satisfying mix of tense scares, hard-hitting combat, and impressive hallucinatory set pieces. And above all, I’ll never forget that time Sebastian unironically told a photograph “I’m going to stab the shit out of you.”
This game was reviewed on PS4.
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When dealing with a masterpiece, only the best will do. That's why writer Daniel Abraham and illustrator Tommy Patterson were chosen to adapt George R. R. Martin's beloved fantasy classic A Game of Thrones as a graphic novel. And as anyone who has read the previous two collected volumes of the ongoing series can attest, the result has been a stunning tour de force faithful in every respect to its brilliant original. In King's Landing, Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell-the Hand of King Robert Baratheon-is surrounded by enemies. Some are openly declared, such as Ser Jaime Lannister and his sister, Queen Cersei. Others are hidden in the shadows. Still others wear the smiling mask of friends. But all are deadly, as Eddard is about to discover. Nor is the enmity between Eddard and the Lannister siblings the sole source of friction between these powerful noble families. For Tyrion Lannister, the Imp-whose stunted, twisted body houses the mind of a genius-has but lately won his freedom from Lady Catelyn Stark, Eddard's wife, who had accused him of attempting to murder her youngest son, Brandon. Now he seeks out his father, his restless thoughts bent on revenge. Far to the north, the bastard Jon Snow, newly sworn to the Night's Watch, takes the first faltering steps toward a destiny stranger than he could ever dream-a destiny that will bring him face-to-face with unspeakable horrors from beyond the edge of the world. While across the Narrow Sea, Daenerys Targaryen, wed to the great Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo, and pregnant with his child-a son prophesied to conquer the world-will see her own destiny take an unforeseen turn.
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George R. R. Martin is the author of fourteen novels, including five volumes of A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, several collections of short stories and numerous screen plays for television drama and feature films. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
'In the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best ... tense, surging, insomnia-inflicting' Time Magazine `The sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasy writers away shaking their heads ...Its ambition: to construct the Twelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous they could eat the Borgias'Guardian `Colossal, staggering ... Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in his imaginary world ... The writing is always powerful ...' SFX `Truly epic ... with its magnificent action-filled climax, it provides a banquet for fantasy lovers with large appetites.'Publishers Weekly
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Grandmother plays Wii Fit every day for over 10 years
James WoodMonday, February 25, 2019
While many of use relegated our Nintendo Wii peripherals to acting as dust collectors in the back corners of closets after the console faded from relevance, one woman’s dedication to the system’s fitness program never wavered. This sporty grandmother has been using her Wii Fit game every day for the past 10 years. That’s almost 4,000 days in a row that she has taken out the little white balance board and got down to business.
The amazing commitment to fitness, not to mention the 2006 motion controlled console, was first brought to light yesterday when the woman’s grandson took to Twitter to share proof of his grandmother’s achievement. Super Rare Games boss George Perkins posted the pic of his smiling relative in front of the Wii Fit startup screen which reports that this was its user’s 3,949th day using the game. This calculates to nearly eleven years.
My grandma has played Wii Fit every day for over 10 years. Wow!! pic.twitter.com/848PEKCKXS
— George Perkins (@SuperRareGeorge) February 24, 2019
The news is certainly the best bit of unintentional marketing the Wii console has received in quite some time, but it’s not the first Nintendo game to inspire such a dedication to gameplay. Just last month, news emerged of another elderly woman who had put over 3,000 hours into the 3DS title Animal Crossing: New Leaf. The 87-year-old has had her achievement posted to YouTube by her grandson also, showcasing a town with a nice house that is also overflowing with flowers.
Cases such as these seem to be becoming more and more frequent as members of older generations find themselves falling in love with video games. Most famously is Shirley Curry, known by her YouTube handle Grandma Curry, the 82-year-old who has more than 300 videos on her channel of her playing through Skyrim. Curry’s videos have become immensely popular, netting the grandmother over 100,000 subscribers and a dedicated fanbase.
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MLB Front Office Manager Review
An obtuse interface makes MLB Front Office Manager bewildering even to baseball-sim veterans.
By Brett Todd on February 4, 2009 at 4:41PM PST
Sports management simulations have finally hit the big time. After years of indie obscurity, at least in North America, the genre has finally been hauled into the mainstream by EA Sports and 2K Sports. But don't schedule a parade just yet. EA's NFL Head Coach series has gone through some growing pains over the past couple of years, and now 2K Sports' MLB Front Office Manager is off to a shaky start. The biggest problem with this latest attempt at taking management sims to the masses is a gamepad-oriented interface that makes even the most routine tasks about as irritating as trying to throw a curve ball while wearing oven mitts. Clunky controls and a near-total lack of feedback make it hard to feel like you're in control of anything, let alone a $150-million big-league ballclub stocked with equally extravagant egos.
Everything looks good on the surface, but good luck digging into the nitty-gritty of the player database.
The basic approach on display here, however, is time-tested. The game follows in the footsteps of independently developed baseball management sims like Out of the Park Baseball and Baseball Mogul by putting you in the shoes of a Major League general manager. You start off by naming your virtual head honcho, selecting from a few face and clothing options (are you Joe Suit or Johnny Polo Shirt?), and picking a personal background that determines your skill at specific duties. If you set yourself up as an ex-manager, for instance, teams on the field get a leadership boost. If you take the low road and choose the legal profession, you receive a helping hand when it comes to contract negotiations. As time goes by and you chalk up wins in the Majors, you gain experience points that can be spent on bulking up other skills.
There is no option to work your way up to the Show from the minors, so following this brief character creation you simply pick a Major League team and grab the reins. You have pretty much total control over your club from this point on. Budgets, lineups, pitching rotations, allocation of scouting dollars, trades, and so forth are all under your watch, although you can flip over to automatic and let the CPU take care of the more mundane jobs. The team owner sets a player budget that serves as a de facto salary cap, but beyond that you're free to do whatever you want. If you have a bad run, though, you can find yourself bounced to the curb and awaiting job offers from other clubs. Virtually all of the hardcore stuff serious baseball fans expect is present here, including the Rule 5 draft, player arbitration, and bidding on Japanese prospects.
Careers can be played as straight single-player campaigns, as a fantasy variation that employs a rotisserie-style scoring system, or in online leagues with up to 30 players. Just about nobody seems to be playing the game online, however, so finding an open league for your team is tough. It's still only the start of February, but the lack of players isn't good news considering that real pitchers and catchers are reporting to MLB training camps in just a couple of weeks. This is also the first baseball game to hit stores in 2009, so you would expect a little more online excitement around it.
One of the few things that MLB Front Office Manager has going for it is its good-looking manager screen.
At any rate, the foundation of MLB Front Office Manager is solid. It looks very good, as well. Big, bold letters and numbers splashed on the screen have a strong visual impact. This is a real plus in a genre where, at least on the PC, most of the competition comes from indie developers and looks more like spreadsheet programs for the office than something you would want to relax with at home. 2K Sports makes great use of its MLB license, loading the game up with a wealth of player photos and an attractive manager's screen where you can watch the action unfold on the diamond and make calls from the dugout.
Implementation is where everything falls apart. A good sports management sim needs to have a database at its heart. This sounds like a dreadfully dull way to present a game, but it is an absolute necessity in this genre since you need to be able to easily sift through stats and sort players by the numbers. Yet here you're working with screens almost entirely taken up by visual chrome and player photos, save for a relatively small area filled with a couple of columns of players and the barest minimum of stats. Player lists are abbreviated so that you can see only eight names on the screen at once, forcing you to tediously scroll through multiple menus. Information is presented in an almost nonsensical manner. The player negotiation screen, for instance, covers just six core stats for batters and pitchers, like AVG and W-L. So you're forced to go rummaging around elsewhere in the rosters to dig up thorough information regarding essential data, like at-bats and hits allowed.
Vital data, such as overall player ratings and potential ratings, is often tucked away in layered information screens, necessitating a ridiculous amount of searching whenever you take on even the most rudimentary task. It's tough just gathering the information needed when setting up pitching rotations. And it gets even worse when it's time to sort through the dozens of players who need the protection of a 40-man roster prior to the Rule 5 draft every winter. The menu screens aren't linked to one another either, meaning that you can't zip from one screen to another. When you're trying to re-sign a player, for instance, and he tells you he wants more years on his contract, you can't move directly from the e-mail telling you about this demand to his negotiation screen. Instead, you have to scroll down the main menu to Transactions, open its submenu list, scroll down to Payroll, open it up, and then scroll down that list to the player's name to pull up his contract offer page. It's the same deal with CPU-offered trades. They are a bit more user-friendly in that you at least have the ability to instantly go to a comparison screen where you can check out the players on the block. But leaving this screen strands you back at the main menu, and you have to access your e-mail again to accept or reject the deal (which, incidentally, cannot be altered). Even the simplest roster-management tasks require five or six steps when they should necessitate just one. You spend more time chasing your tail than making baseball decisions.
Menu navigation takes a lot longer than it should.
A lack of feedback makes MLB Front Office Manager even more confusing. Although you have Oakland A's GM Billy Beane on tap providing tips about contracts, along with memos that keep important dates on the top of the screen so you don't forget about something like the arbitration, much of what you do takes place in a vacuum. This is a particularly huge problem when it comes to handling players. While you're kept well informed about looming deadlines, offers to free agents, to pending free agents, and to other teams during trade talks are dealt with through pretty much absolute silence. There is no back and forth with player agents or rival GMs, or any chance to counter an offer from another team. All you get is a flat acceptance or denial with an occasional personal observation, such as that the money being offered is "laughable."
Signings aren't even properly noted in the e-mail screen that covers all league communications. You would think that losing Manny Ramirez to free agency would be enough of a big deal to the Dodgers to warrant more than an e-mail buried among all the other league news of the day. A successful signing never gets much press, either. If you ink somebody like K-Rod, you don't even receive so much as a cheesy "I'm looking forward to playing for you this year!" blurb. The only indications that your bid has been accepted are a one-line e-mail, maybe a follow-up note saying that the fans are excited, and notice that the player in question has been added to the Pending Transactions list and must be assigned within 10 days or released.
Most other sports sims would offer a lot more player stats for you to base your managerial decisions on.
Finally, some of the decisions made by computer GMs are beyond bizarre. Every team in the game seems to be working under the same management philosophy. Each offseason, everybody appears to go after the same big-name free agents no matter what sort of budgetary restrictions they may be operating under. So this leads to ridiculous scenarios where poorer clubs like the Kansas City Royals waste $16 million a year on a washout like Jason Giambi, or the Cincinnati Reds dish off $21 million a year on Mark Teixeira. Sometimes these single big-name signings fill up nearly a third of a team's overall payroll. Team budgets are also all over the place. The LA Dodgers start off with a budget of $111.6 million, while the cheapskate Toronto Blue Jays begin 2009 with a whopping $139.2 million. Somebody either hasn't checked the lowly value of the Canadian dollar lately or has a hate on for Dodger blue. Some trades come from the dark side of the moon. While most are nondescript affairs shuffling minor leaguers around, the game hits you with a Bizarro World blockbuster on a regular basis, like when the Red Sox trade away Jonathan Papelbon during spring training for some guy named Nate McLouth. There may be some kind of bug in the game with Papelbon though, since the Sox seem to ditch him for a lower-rated nobody in the first spring training every time you start a career.
MLB Front Office Manager needs a lot of work to be ready for the big leagues. The game offers an impressive amount of depth and great support for online leagues, especially for management-sim-deprived consolers. But playing it is such a chore that anyone seriously interested in such simulations will quickly move on to a more serious, if PC-only, effort like Out of the Park Baseball.
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MLB Front Office Manager / Xbox 360
Impressive depth for a console-centric sports management sim
Good presentation values
Absolutely abysmal interface
Complete lack of personality when dealing with player transactions
AI managers regularly make bizarre decisions
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Seattle Officials Move to Toss Misdemeanor Cannabis Convictions
TG Branfalt
Officials in Seattle, Washington have filed a motion in Seattle Municipal Court to vacate all convictions for misdemeanor cannabis possession for anyone arrested in the city – a total of 542 people. Mayor Jenny Durkan said her office made the request because “it makes little sense for so many in [Seattle] to be punished for conduct that is no longer illegal under state law.”
“Our system is supposed to be a system of justice, and this is an important step forward for justice for all residents of our City. I hope these actions we’re taking here in Seattle can lay the foundation for other cities, counties and state to act, too.” – Durkan in a press release
Durkan called the request a first step to fix the state’s criminal justice system “and address all the damage done to our communities by the war on drugs.”
“We must provide more effective alternatives to prosecution and incarceration through drug and mental health courts, restoring rights and supporting re-entry. Our actions must go far beyond the realm of criminal justice reform; it will require us to make our City more affordable, close the opportunity gap through free community college and technical training, and to continue the hard work of building trust between our community and the Seattle Police Department.” – Durkan in the statement.
Durkan first laid out the plan in a February op-ed in The Stranger. Durkan is credited with creating one of the nation’s first federal drug courts as a U.S. attorney under President Barack Obama.
TG is a journalist by trade and has been covering cannabis industry news for Ganjapreneur.com since 2014. He is also the host of the Ganjapreneur.com Podcast and currently lives in Burlington, Vermont.
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Steven Spielberg Retrospective: Part 19-Review of A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Dan Clark 07.24.2013
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There may not be two directors that are more polar opposites than Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kurbrick. Both have made films that reach the highest echelon of cinema, but their means of getting there are vastly different. Opposites do often attract, so the idea of these two powerhouses teaming up does cause my curiosity to grow. That partnership finally came to pass when Spielberg agreed to direct A.I. Artificial Intelligence after the death of Kurbrick. The production history of A.I. is long and arduous. It is quite the feat that this was ever made. Kubrick began production in the early 1970’s, but due to a number of misfortunate events he never got around to directing the film. While we will never know what his true vision was for this story, one can inference it would not be quite like this.
After Kubrick’s passing Spielberg was again approach to take over. Understanding this film’s history is important as it clues you into what makes the film work—and what makes it fail. Of all of Spielberg’s films it is the hardest one to
quantify. There are moments of pure genius that will linger with you long after the movie is over. Then there are moments that make you wonder if it would have been better off not being made. Much of the intrigue that is built up in the first two acts is ruined by an elongated finale that leaves logic at the door. The creative world design, unique concept, and the quality performances make it worth a watch. However, you cannot help but feel overwhelming disappointed by the final product.
The film takes place in a not so distant dystopian future where all the coastal cities have been destroyed due to the polar icecaps melting. The population has grown to such a staggering rate people must apply for a license to have children. An organization called Cybertronics has begun developing a breakthrough in robotic technology. This breakthrough will allow these robots or Mechas to experience true emotion, which means for the first time in history human beings can artificially create a complete representation of life.
Using Science Fiction as a tool to examine large extensional questions is a key staple in Kubrick’s work. The depth of something like 2001: A Space Odyssey is so vast you can quickly get lost in its web of philosophical discovery. Spielberg is not necessarily known for creating films that have a profound theoretical context. A.I. Artificial Intelligence is perhaps his first film that asks such weighty questions. It looks at the responsibility of creation and where true humanity begins and ends. The issue is this exploration never goes beyond surface level. It takes questions that exist in the highest levels of our cognitive domains, and responds with rudimentary analysis.
Our vehicle on this excursion is David (Haley Joel Osment), Cybertronics’s newest Mecha. David is given to a husband and wife couple who are currently dealing with an ailing son. He is stuck in stasis unit until a cure is found for his disease. Though reluctant at first, they eventually grow to love David. Monica (Frances O’Connor) begins to see David as a legitimate son. This love does come at a cost. If they were ever to wish to get rid of David they must return David to Cybertronics to be destroyed.
Metaphorical similarities between David and Pinocchio are abundant and purposely blatant. The idea of ‘being real boy’ is a key component to the character of David. Where artificiality ends and reality begins is an indefinite line that has yet to be determined. This film creates an opportunity for an exploration into making that determination. For all intents and purposes David shares every aspect of human emotion—from the pure bliss of love to the complete anguish of heartbreak. He needs, he wants, he desires, yet he does not eat nor sleep. His flaws are what make him perfect. The creation of David provides the viewer an abundant amount of intriguing observations. Part of what makes his character work so well is the performance of Haley Joel Osment.
Spielberg has a knack for evoking great child performances, and this is more evidence for that fact. Playing a robotic creation is quite a challenge, especially when you are playing the part in a serious dramatic feature. It has the prospect of over acting written all over it. Osment circumvents that challenge by giving a nuanced performance that fits the character perfectly. He maintains humanistic qualities but little touches–like never blinking–provide a reminder of his robotic core.
Problems arise for David when a cure is found for his parent’s real son. A rivalry begins between both children that leads to David being forced to leave. His mother, unable to send David to Cybertronics, sets him off to live on his own. Unable to truly understand his mother’s wishes he goes off seeking the Blue Fairy so she can make him into a real boy just like she did for Pinocchio. Thinking if he was a real boy his mother’s love would return.
The biggest issue with A.I. is the tonal debate that is constantly occurring. It can never figure out if it wants to be a sent
imental adventure of a boy’s love, or a cold cerebral analysis of mortality. This tonal rampage is a constant struggle. While a character like David is well handled, a character like Gigolo Joe is inhibited by Spielberg’s sensibilities. He is an “R” character forced into a ‘PG’ world. It feels as if Spielberg is troubled by losing his core audience so he injects moments that bog the film down. There are brilliant moments like the Flesh Flair that get to the heart of this debate. Then there are moments, like David searching for answers through a Disney esc Dr. No character that feel oddly misplaced.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence issues become amplified in an elongated final act. Its unwillingness to end causes the film to go on for far too long. The final conclusion is horrific pandering at its worst. It’s like a family with a sick dog. Even the kids can see in inevitable conclusion, but the parents–not wanting to expose to children to the tragedy of death–tell their children the dog ‘went to live on farm’. Spielberg treats us the same way. He ruins what could have been a fitting ending by telling us the dog went to a farm. Though even with its issues, A.I. is something to see. The special effects alone are an amazing site to behold. Still, one can not help but wonder if it could have been better off in its original creator’s hands.
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Conspiracy against Stalin
Those people were part of Stalin’s entourage, his old friends and associates. That group could actually depose Stalin because they had very powerful levers in their hands and their clout was limitless. Professor Simon Maskharashvili has more.
GJ – The economic policies of Stalin and his supporters as well as their attempt to blame the specialists of various fields for the failure of the Soviet economy practically ended in fiasco. Most of those people who were arrested in 1932 were
exonerated a while later.
SM – in 1932, the Soviet Union embarked on the fulfillment of the second five-year plan. In 1934 almost all apprehended persons who were indicted for ‘harming the country’ and for the ‘treason against the Soviet motherland’ were out of prisons because, with them being detained between 1932 and 1934, the economic situation in the country had not improved at all. It soon became obvious that the failure was not the fault of the specialists and the intelligentsia. The wave of discontent was quickly growing in the country. This time, Stalin decided to use the old political elite as a scapegoat, for which he needed to turn the Soviet People into his ally and reliable force. The political elite immediately understood the ruse which Stalin was thinking of – putting the entire blame for failure on their shoulders and getting rid of them as a result. In 1934, Stalin demanded the creation of such a constitution and such an electoral code, via which the powers other than communist, would be able to achieve victory and get access to management. This was the time when the all-union communist party congress took place which was supposed to elect the central committee of the communist party, and then the central committee would elect the secretary general of the party as well as the Politburo and the so called Orgburo (organizational bureau). It so happened that the congress gave more votes to Kirov than to Stalin. Sergei Kirov was the party secretary for the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) regional committee, a famous political and public figure.
GJ – Does this mean that certain new faces were becoming known on the political arena?
SM – Yes! Some new faces were appearing, and in Kirov’s case, his favorable treatment was easily explainable. The industry was developing very weakly in general, but it was still developing to a certain extent. Leningrad was the biggest industrial city at that time. And Secretary Kirov was the leader of Leningrad. In addition to that, there were more educated people in Leningrad than anywhere else in the Soviet Union, and the Leningrad workers had better skills and higher qualification than the workers in other Russian cities. Suffice it to say that even in the Tsarist period, there was a huge factory operating there. The general picture in the country, as I said, was not pretty: the countryside was devastated and was not developing at all, in most Soviet cities the industry was inching forward at a snail’s pace, and the situation in Leningrad looked a little better against this background.
GJ – So even the minor success was associated with Kirov’s personality, wasn’t it?
SM – Of course it was! He was the leader in that city and he was naturally responsible for certain processes taking place there. This fact had stymied Stalin (he was suspicious and jealous anyway by nature and would not easily spare anybody). He thought that the winners of more votes could make alliance against him and decided to preempt any unfavorable developments. On the other hand, the old party workers, being aware of Stalin’s unsparing character, had a hunch about his plans. So they created their own plan of getting rid of Stalin. As soon as Stalin demanded the introduction of the new constitution and the new electoral code, the anti-Stalinist group wanted and made an attempt to depose Stalin.
GJ – Who were the members of the anti-Stalinist grouping?
SM – The most active members were Tukhachevski of the Soviet Army – the first deputy of the defense commissar (minister), Abel Enukidze – secretary of the central executive committee who monitored the Kremlin security service and the minister of state security Yagoda. These people were not exactly ‘Trotskyites’ and ‘Zinovievites’. They were Stalin’s close associates, his old friends and fellow-fighters. This group could practically oust Stalin, but in 1934, a semi-deranged person whose wife’s lover used to be Kirov himself, assassinated Kirov. Stalin welcomed the fact latently because this got him rid of his competitor, but at the same time, he became scared and thoughtful.
GJ – Why?
SM – He had the investigation started whether Kirov was killed by the anti-Stalinist powers.
GJ – Did Stalin think that the same thing could be perpetrated against him too?
SM – Yes, he did! Stalin now had a wonderful reason for the ‘detection’ and neutralization of enemies. Kirov’s assassination was a perfect reason for starting a new wave of the party cleansing. One of the participants in the anti-Stalinist conspiracy was his brother-in-law Alexander Svanidze who used to be the head of the Soviet trade mission in Germany. In 1935, Svanidze was writing to Stalin that he was planning to oust him and apologized for the fact.
GJ – To make a long story short, he let the cat out of the bag . . .
SM – The information about the conspiracy had reached Stalin in good enough time, but his reaction to it was a little too belated. As I said, among the conspirators were Tukhachevski of the Soviet Army – the first deputy of the defense commissar (minister), Abel Enukidze – secretary of the central executive committee who monitored the Kremlin security and the minister of state security Yagoda. Even Sergo Orjonikidze himself was presumably one of them. They all had very powerful levers in their hands, and their clout was limitless. Stalin started the covert fight against that grouping in order to finally eliminate them. He deposed Enukidze from the secretarial position of the central executive committee and from the leadership of the school of the state security personnel. He was relegated to the position of the secretary of the South Caucasus executive committee. In 1936, the state security minister Yagoda was substituted by a new minister Yezhov. Soon after this, Stalin opened the court case against Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin and Rikov – his political enemies who were against the introduction of the NEP (New Economic Policy). Those people were part of the political elite who had already been elected members of the communist party central committee. The court was open to public. As it became known later, the indicted persons were promised a chance to save their lives in case they recognized their ‘crimes’ before the court.
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https://www.greenwichtime.com/local/article/In-Greenwich-and-elsewhere-teacher-demographics-11209550.php
In Greenwich, and elsewhere, teacher demographics don’t match students
By Emilie Munson
Updated 3:40 pm EDT, Saturday, June 10, 2017
Greenwich High School
28 minority teachers
Source: Greenwich Public Schools
Click through to see how many minority teachers work for Greenwich Public Schools.
Photo: Tyler Sizemore, Hearst Connecticut Media
GREENWICH — Alongside school districts nationwide, Greenwich is struggling to diversify its teaching staff, which on the whole is notably whiter than the students it educates.
Out of the 938 teachers who currently work for Greenwich Public Schools, only 93 are people of color.
While 35.6 percent of students are minorities, only one in 10 Greenwich teachers are.
“You want to hire the best teacher possible and if that teacher is a teacher of color, perfect,” said Robert Stacy, director of Human Resources for Greenwich Public Schools. “But at the same point in time, when you are setting characteristics for teachers you want to bring into the district, you want those teachers to be representative of the population you are serving.”
About a third of minority teachers are concentrated at Greenwich High School — many teaching Spanish — and the rest are scattered throughout the district. This school year, five of Greenwich’s elementary schools have two or fewer minority teachers; Parkway School currently has none.
In most school districts across the nation, teaching staffs are whiter than the students they educate — often by significant margins, according to Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, assistant professor of international education at New York University, who studies the impact of teacher race on American classrooms.
Staff diversity in Greenwich Public Schools
About one in 10 teachers are people of color
48 Hispanic/Latino
21 Asian
3 American Indian
3 Non specified
Minority Teachers by School
Eastern Middle School
Western Middle School
Cos Cob School
Glenville School
Hamilton Avenue School
International School at Dundee
Julian Curtiss School
New Lebanon School
North Mianus School
North Street School
Old Greenwich School
Parkway School
Riverside School
*One is on leave without pay
“The teachers’ race should mirror student race,” said Cherng. “Across the nation, there is no school district that comes close to that.”
In 2015-16, almost 92 percent of the public school teachers working in Connecticut were white, according to the state Department of Education. But that year only 56 percent of Connecticut students were white.
“Teachers are as white as they were, by percentage, in the 1980s,” said Cherng. “What is changing is the student population.”
Greenwich Public Schools have a higher percentage of minority educators than the state on average. Administrators here say hiring teachers of color is a priority — but a tough goal to achieve.
With online applications, the school district cannot ask a candidate’s race. At job fairs, qualified teachers of color are often swarmed by interested employers, said Stacy. Much of the issue comes down to high demand and low supply, he said.
“The state colleges have to do something different in order to enhance the diversity of the students who are getting into the education programs,” he said. “That’s our biggest problem.”
‘Role model effect’
There are myriad reasons why a racially diverse teaching staff improves education, Cherng and school officials said: Having teachers of many races gives children exposure to people of different backgrounds, promoting new viewpoints and tolerance for differences.
Teachers of color also help students break down often unconscious racist thinking, said Cherng, who is Chinese-American, citing examples from his own experience as a math teacher in a San Francisco school with few teachers of color.
“Teachers of color may have an easier time talking about race and identity,” said Cherng, adding that some “outstanding” white teachers are adept at discussing race and emphasizing the importance that all teachers try to talk about it.
Finally for students of color, “there is research that finds this role model effect,” said Cherng. Some students might visualize future opportunities more easily with a teacher of color or better understand their racial identity, he said.
In a 2016 study that he co-authored, Cherng found middle- and high-school students, regardless of their race and ethnicity, have more favorable perceptions of their black and Latino teachers than of their white teachers.
“Minority teachers may be perceived more favorably by minority students because they can serve as role models and are particularly sensitive to the cultural needs of their students,” he said. “However, in our study, we were surprised to find that minority teachers are not just viewed more highly than white teachers by minority students, but in many cases by white students as well.”
Discussing race
In the meantime, even if Greenwich is unable to make its teaching staff as diverse as it wants it to be, the district works to educate students about race and identity, according to school officials.
“No matter where you go, you are always going to see someone who looks different from you, and how are you going to learn how to be accepting of people who are different from you?” asked Carabillo, who completed a doctoral dissertation on multicultural study at Central Connecticut State University in 2005-06.
“It’s all about building that ability to communicate with one another and be respectful of one another and for you to be safe,” she said. “How are you going to be safe? By learning about others and learning what is acceptable and what isn’t acceptable. If we don’t do a good job of giving kids those opportunities, it doesn’t bode well for our future.”
Each school does different diversity and cultural activities, she said.
Parkway School has international night, Old Greenwich School hosts a field day celebrating students’ countries of origin, and Eastern Middle School holds “Stand Against Racism.” The International School at Dundee and Julian Curtiss School regularly celebrate the many cultures their students come from and the varied languages they speak.
The AVID program at Central and Western Middle Schools and Greenwich High provides mentoring and academic supports to mostly minority students seeking to be first-generation college students. Greenwich High also has a Diversity Awareness Week, in which speakers from all kinds of backgrounds — racial, religious, socioeconomic, gender, educational, professional and more — speak to students, as well as a Minority Student Network, which pairs minority students as mentors and mentees.
“The idea is to give voice to students of color,” said Garfield Charles, who oversees the program as well as Diversity Awareness Week. “It’s great. It’s giving them a voice and making sure they are getting prepared for the outside world in the 21st century.”
Charles said conversations about race periodically come up in his English classes as they discuss “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain or poetry by Langston Hughes.
”I think any issue of race makes anyone in the audience uncomfortable. But students are always willing to talk about those issues,” said Charles, who is black. “Now it is really becoming an issue to be discussed at the high school, at the college level and now at the national level.”
Frank Kovac is a white Greenwich High School history teacher who grew up in town and now advises seniors in AVID.
“We bring up race a lot, as an issue of discussion, and, for lack of a better term, to practice the discourse — how we talk about it — to be as frank as we can without being emotional,” he said. “Greenwich is actually doing a good job with their diversity because there has been an effort, and AVID does this, to encourage, promote or advocate for students who may not have others to advocate for them, who are often of color.”
Michael Galatioto, another GHS history teacher, reinforced Kovac’s positive outlook.
“In Greenwich, (diversity) is so much part of the conversation and so much part of our thought process, that it does not stand out as an issue,” said Galatioto, who is white. “When issues of race come up, they are usually handled in a very open-minded way.”
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Gloves are off in F1 free-for-all for Bottas, Hamilton
Mercedes’ Bottas celebrates winning the race with second placed Hamilton. Anton Vaganov/Reuters
Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff has confirmed that the victorious Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton are free to fight for success without the restraints of team orders, as they showed in their scrap to win the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
The pair battled wheel to wheel on the opening lap on Sunday and were fighting hard again in the closing stages when defending champion Hamilton put Bottas under pressure as they closed out an unprecedented fourth consecutive season-opening one-two triumph.
In contrast to Ferrari, where team orders have been used frequently this season, Mercedes have handed responsibility to the drivers and not felt any need to ask them to hold positions.
"We let them race," said Wolff. "They are experienced. They know that the racing must be clean. Lap one was very clean -- and this is a track where we mustn't take crazy risks because you could lose both cars.
"When we talk to them, it's always open and everyone can hear them, but then, obviously, you have the intercom too which is only an internal line.
"But I was not talking to the drivers. If I push the driver button, I know it myself -- so I am not giving myself permission to talk to them because I get emotional and then, sometimes, regret what I say."
Instead, said Wolff, his pit-wall team hold a discussion about their strategy and how the race is unfolding.
"We acknowledged that it could get a little bit racy at the end, but we didn't talk to them."
Formula One Sport
F1 in talks over second China GP, road race on cards
A second grand prix — most likely on the streets — would complement the existing one on the $450 million Shanghai International Circuit. No country currently has two Formula One races, although F1 officials are negotiating for a second grand prix in the United States.
‘Redemption’ as Hamilton wins F1’s 1,000th race
Lewis Hamilton said that he “redeemed” himself with a lightning start to win the 1,000th Formula One grand prix on Sunday in a blustery Shanghai.
Leclerc aiming for first win in China at Formula One’s thousandth race
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc is gunning for his first win this week in China after cruelly missing out in Bahrain as Formula One’s 1,000th race coincides with the emergence of a bright new star.
Bottas tops Vettel to go fastest in Chinese Grand Prix practice
Championship leader Valtteri Bottas pushed Sebastian Vettel off the top of Friday’s timesheets to end the opening day of practice for the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix with the fastest time for Mercedes.
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Travel Guide to holidays in... St Tudy, Cornwall, England
St Tudy is a town in Cornwall, England. It is located not far from St Kew, Delabole, Saint Kew, Blisland, St Teath, and Bodmin And Country and is one of 258 towns or villages in Cornwall in which Go2 has cottages or holidays lets available. The closest cities are Truro (population 20,920), Plymouth (population 243,795), and Exeter (which has a population of 106,772 according to the 2001 Census). Follow the links to find holiday cottages and lets available in this area on Go2, or view the surrounding area on the map below.
Wilder and more rugged than the south of the county, North Cornwall is a land of tall headlands, sandy beaches and empty moorland – yours to explore from one of our holiday cottages in North Cornwall. The busy resort of Newquay is a major attraction, with its glorious beaches and fantastic conditions for surfers. Nearby Perranporth also boasts some fantastic beaches, perfect for sun-lovers. You’ll find many more lovely beaches, like those at Bude for example, waiting for you on one of our North Cornwall cottage holidays. This part of Cornwall has become a bit of a mecca for food lovers too. Rick Stein has put Padstow on the map and more chefs, including Jamie Oliver, are joining him, attracted by the quality of the ingredients available locally. Then there is St. Ives, long a haunt of artists drawn here by the wonderful light and inspiring scenery. A cottage holiday in North Cornwall puts you in touch with history from ancient celtic times to the days of the smugglers. Tintagel Castle, rumoured to be the birthplace of King Arthur, sits high on a cliff and still has a strange air of mystery about it.
Wonderful scenery, a mild climate, sparkling blue seas and charming seaside villages make South Cornwall a firm favourite for cottage holidays whatever the season. And we have a fabulous choice of holiday cottages in South Cornwall from which to make the most of this lovely part of the country. The Cornish Riviera takes in some of South Cornwall’s most popular resorts and many of our holiday cottages in South Cornwall are located nearby. Picturesque Fowey is a haven for sailors, while the Roseland Peninsula is a noted beauty spot. Mevagissey, St. Mawes and St. Just are all well worth a visit. Not to be missed is the Eden Project, a fascinating recreation of different biospheres, featuring a wide variety of exotic plantlife. You should also make time for a trip to atmospheric St. Michael’s Mount and on to Land’s End, the most westerly point in England. The county town of Truro has a lovely cathedral and some excellent shopping opportunities, while Penzance is a bustling resort, famed for its warm weather and sub-tropical plants. And do make sure you sample the pasties, saffron cake and clotted cream – all local delicacies, – during your cottage holiday.
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Ferrari spent 100s of millions to catch up
Ferrari is on the cusp of a much better season in F1.
That is the claim of the Italian marque's former chief engineer Toni Cuquerella, who was at Ferrari as recently as 2016 but will now be a commentator for Spanish TV.
Winter testing has indicated Ferrari might even be ready to take on Mercedes in 2017, but Cuquerella told the Spanish newspaper El Pais that the real picture will only begin to emerge in Melbourne.
"What is clear is that they have made a significant step in quality," he said.
"Whether it is enough to compete with or beat Mercedes, I still don't know. But I do know that they will not be as far away as they were at this point last year."
Cuquerella said Ferrari's boost has been thanks to a "great investment in development".
"We are talking about an injection of hundreds of millions of euros in tools that allow the testing of most parts of the car," he revealed. "Ferrari realised this is the deficit they had to Mercedes.
"The results of the winter were strong enough for me to think that they will do well, although I dare not quantify that improvement. They may be four tenths behind or two tenths ahead, but at the very least, Ferrari is serious now," said Cuquerella.
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News - Friday, March 10, 2017
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Author, Realtor’s winding path
Gimore finds success in 2 fields
Susan Gilmore’s day begins while the rest of the world is sleeping. During the remnants of the night, before the sun touches the horizon, she’s at her computer, bringing to life characters that exist only in her mind.
As a published author with three novels to her credit and a fourth in the works, Gilmore is protective of this time. While her home and the surrounding city is quiet, she is alone with her thoughts and creative juices can flow.
Laughter, tears mark emotional memorial service
For 90 minutes on March 3, members of the Chattanooga Bar Association set aside the practice of law to commemorate the judges and attorneys who died last year.
Sixteen members of the bar passed away in 2016, making it a year of many difficult blows for the legal community in Hamilton County.
Bringing the meat to Market Street
I had never eaten ribs while avoiding the icy stare of Christopher Walken. But as I plowed through one smoky bite after another, I knew the actor was looking directly at me. The trick was not minding.
I was sitting in a booth at Moe’s Original Bar-B-Cue on Market Street working my way through a six-rib platter and enjoying the classic rock tunes playing at just the right volume in the background. John Fogerty was singing about rollin’ down a river when I cracked.
Park outsourcing win more about turf than cost savings
As Fall Creek Falls folks celebrate a state decision to postpone park privatization, the question is whether public opposition or failure to follow long-standing state protocol led to the plug-pulling.
Make no mistake, people in Van Buren and Bledsoe counties around rural Spencer are thrilled to find out Gov. Bill Haslam’s administration is stopping – some say indefinitely – the request for proposals from private vendors to handle demolition of the park’s old inn and the construction of a $22 million inn.
Walker a quandary for Lookouts and now Braves
Take a moment, if you would, to study the smiling face of Atlanta Braves rookie outfielder Adam Walker.
He is, by all accounts, what he seems to be at first glance: cheerful, bright, a good teammate, a practicing Christian – someone you wouldn’t mind having on your team or in your clubhouse. His mother, Glynis, described Adam, an only child, as “a young man with an old man’s soul.” Well, long ago a phrase entered our lexicon that a picture was worth 1,000 words.
dcBLOX Chattanooga data center seen as ‘good investment’
Atlanta-based data center services firm dcBLOX has opened a facility in downtown Chattanooga. The new facility is the second data center location for the company, which secured more than $15 million in funding in 2016.
dcBLOX selected Chattanooga because of its smart utility grid, proximity to major fiber carriers and closeness to Atlanta, company officials say.
Cox serving as interim Signal Mountain judge
Chattanooga attorney Tracy Cox has been inducted as interim municipal court judge of Signal Mountain. The appointment makes her the town’s first female judge.
Cox will finish the term vacated by Judge Mark Rothberger, who has retired. She will serve for two years until the next election to choose a judge for a full eight-year term.
CBPR to receive national recognition
For over 30 years, Coldwell Banker Pryor Realty has worked with many of the top relocation companies in its efforts to serve the real estate needs of its clients worldwide.
This month, Cartus Broker Network will be honoring Pryor Realty with its 2016 ilver Award for Excellence .
Mortgage Bankers recognizes top producers
The Chattanooga Mortgage Bankers Association has released its list of its top producers for 2016. The criteria for the production awards included Gold ($10 million), Platinum ($15 million) and Diamond ($20 million). The recipients in each category were:
Joyner joins CryeLeike Realtors
Diane Joyner of Rock Spring, Georgia, has become affiliated with CryeLeike’s Ft. Oglethorpe branch office.
As a Realtor, Joyner serves the real estate needs of buyers and sellers in and around Walker and Catoosa counties in Georgia and Hamilton County in Tennessee.
Finally, a great X-Men movie
For some people, life is over before it starts. For others, it goes on for too long. The first glimpse of the tired and broken Wolverine in “Logan” suggests he should have died many years ago.
His body wouldn’t let him, though. It stitched every wound, spit out every bullet and rebuilt the ruined parts again and again. Some would consider this to be a gift. But for Logan, it merely prolonged the battle and the slow march to death.
A little yard work could pay big dividends in curb appeal
Spring has sprung early, which means it’s time to get to work on the lawn. After all, curb appeal is king in residential real estate!
A good first impression means everything to a prospective home buyer who’s looking at both the appeal as well as how hard it may be to keep up once they’re the owners. A neglected or overgrown landscape might give the impression that it’s more work than a novice can handle.
New year, new looks for your home
Feeling inspired to rejuvenate your home? Even if you’re not ready to move walls or build an addition, you can still breathe some new life into what you have. Here are a few easy updates you can do to make your house seem instantly new to you.
Plan for health care costs during retirement
Some of your expenses might decline when you retire, but health care is not likely to be one of them.
In fact, your health care costs during retirement might well increase, so you may want to plan for these costs well before you leave the work force.
Habitat opening second Restore
Habitat for Humanity is opening a second ReStore in Ooltewah, a 21,000-square foot store at 9408 Apison Pike scheduled to open April 21.
Habitat’s ReStore operates as a retail store, accepting donations of new and gently used household, furniture, hardware and building items from individuals and businesses in the community. Goods are then sold to the public at a reduced cost, usually 50 to 70 percent of the original price.
Green|spaces to fund community energy efficiency projects
Green|spaces is partnering with the City of Chattanooga’s Department of Economic & Community Development to expand the work of its Empower Chattanooga program. Over the past two years, Empower has taught more than 1,000 renters and home owners’ low and no-cost ways to lower their utility bills.
Tri-State Home Show
The Home Builders Association of Greater Chattanooga will host its annual Tri-State Home Show March 10-12 at the Chattanooga Convention Center. Sponsored by EPB Fiber Optics, the event will feature over 500 booths offering products and services for home construction and renovation. Visitors will be able to talk with experts about their remodeling projects or home designs and register to win products.
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Ruga Settlement is a dangerous idea, Buhari was utterly wrong to moot it
July 11, 2019 - by Happi Sunday - Leave a Comment
President Muhammadu Buhari bowed to the inevitable last week. Following intense public outcry, he suspended the Rural Grazing Area, RUGA, project. But the RUGA plan is so dangerous, so provocative, that he was utterly wrong to have even mooted it.
With RUGA, Buhari risks stoking the unravelling of Nigeria’s artificially maintained façade of unity. But why? Well, RUGA is dangerous for at least three reasons. First, it would create a special category of Nigerians, Fulani herdsmen, based on their ethnicity and way of life.
Second, it would accord to those “special” citizens privileges and advantages not accorded to other Nigerians, contrary to section 42 of the Constitution. And, third, it would offend the sensibilities of the nationalities that have suffered untold injustices in the hands of the seemingly untouchable herdsmen, thus subjecting the people of those nationalities to humiliation as second-class citizens.
Yet, the government was defending the RUGA project on false pretences. President Buhari’s special assistant on social media, Lauretta Onochie, tweeted that the government was hearkening to everyone’s cry that “the killing is too much” and”government must do something”. In its press statement,the presidency said: “RUGA Settlement is to resolve the farmer/herder conflicts”.
Of course, the incessant killing of innocent farmers by criminal herdsmen is too much.
Of course, everyone wants the government to do something. But what exactly?
What about disarming the herders and stopping the killing?
What about giving justice to the victims? No, the government has done none of these. Instead, President Buhari’s idea of “resolving the conflicts” is to appease the herdsmen by settling them in the same states whose people they’ve been killing in sometimes genocidal-type attacks! In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly recognised the “Responsibility to Protect” in cases of genocide, ethnic cleansing and massive violence.
But the Buhari government has done nothing to protect communities oppressed by the herdsmen or to give victims of their appalling atrocities the justice they deserve.
Yet, the same government has reportedly set aside an initial sum of N12 billion to settle the herdsmen in exclusive cattle colonies across the country.
Every step the Buhari government has taken on the herder-farmer conflicts has been to appease the herdsmen at the expense of the traumatised farmers and communities across Nigeria.
It’s difficult to think of any enduring conflict-resolution without justice. Of course, the herders face environmental challenges, such as desertification and droughts, and, as Nigerians,they are entitled to move around to feed their cattle. But their rights to free movement cannot supersede the farmers’ rights to the peaceful enjoyment of their property, their farmlands.
Legally or morally, herders cannot enter other people’s farmlands to feed their cattle without negotiations and agreements with the farmers, and the government has a duty to protect farmers against any violation of their property rights.
What’s more, as cattle-rearing is a private business, if the herders want ranches across the country, they should, either independently or through their state governments, negotiate with other state governments to create such ranches in their states, perhaps on commercial terms.
The Federal Government should not nationalise cattle-rearing, either through RUGA or the so-called National Livestock Transformation Plan. But if, being a statist government, the Buhari administration wishes to play a role, it must negotiate with state governments and incentivise them to establish ranches.
In doing so, it must duly respect the states’ constitutional rights under the Land Use Act, and not bully them into giving up lands. Unfortunately, that spirit of negotiation has been lacking in the herder/farmer saga.
For the herdsmen, they’ve behaved like the colonialists who wanted trade routes in other countries, but, instead of negotiating with those countries, used military force not only to secure the trade routes but also to colonise the countries.
That’s exactly what the Fulani herdsmen have been doing. They invade communities, appropriate their farmlands and displace the people, colonising their lands.
That’s why many see the herdsmen as pursuing a “Fulanisation” or Islamisation expansionist agenda! Unwisely, Northern politicians, including the president himself, who is a Fulani, have fuelled this suspicion.
For instance, in 2016, it was a Northern senator, Zaynab Kure, who sponsored the grazing reserve bill, while another Northern senator, Abdullahi Adamu, threatened opponents of the bill that “government has the monopoly of violence”. Now, President Buhari wants to create not just ranches, but settlements for herders”with provision of necessary and adequate basic amenities, such as schools, hospitals, road networks, etc”.
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The RUGA settlements would be special communities within states, with the herders in those communities, which are like special economic zones, enjoying federally funded basic amenities that most citizens of the state will never enjoy. And, of course, as the herders grow in population and wealthier, thanks to government subsidies and protection, they would be emboldened to advance their ethnic expansionist agenda in the states in which the cattle colonies are established.
Is it difficult to see how, as Professor Wole Soyinka warned,Nigeria could explode because of RUGA? Sadly, the Presidency is disingenuous and ill-intentioned.
It says RUGA is voluntary, yet it’s bullying states to sign up to the scheme; it says it has suspended the plan, yet it secretly wants to pursue it. But unless President Buhari wants Nigeria’s fragile unity to be blown to smithereens on his watch, he must cancel the RUGA plan altogether. It’s too dangerous!
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A’Lelia Walker’s Dark Tower In Harlem 1885-1931 (Photographs)
Posted on 04/28/2018 by Carolyn — Leave a reply
This was A’Lelia Walker’s, back in the day from 1885-1931, it was a home and famous salon, “The Dark Tower,” which she hosted for writers, musicians, artists during the 1920s. It was named after a sonnet by queer poet Countee Cullen, which has been said to capture the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance.
A’Lelia Walker’s fortune came from her mother, Madame C.J. Walker, an enterprising woman who created a million-dollar empire from beauty salons and hair-straightening products for black women, and who died in 1919. With her inheritance, A’Lelia purchased these two Stanford White-designed town houses on West 136th Street in “Sugar Hill,” combined them into one residence with a new façade, and furnished them lavishly (below).
Here the woman dubbed “the Mahogany Millionairess” hosted cultural soirees for the Harlem and Greenwich Village “glitterati,” white and black, serving caviar and bootleg champagne and providing entertainment by queer performers Alberta Hunter and Jimmy Daniels. Langston Hughes later wrote that A’Lelia’s parties “were as crowded as the New York subway at the rush hour.” She herself was a striking figure, whom Hughes called “a gorgeous dark Amazon.”
We shall not always plant while others reap
The golden increment of bursting fruit,
Not always countenance, abject and mute,
That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap;
Not everlastingly while others sleep
Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute,
Not always bend to some more subtle brute;
We were not made to eternally weep.
The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,
White stars is no less lovely being dark,
And there are buds that cannot bloom at all
In light, but crumple, piteous, and fall;
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds,
And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
– “From the Dark Tower,” by Countee Cullen
Sadly, Walker’s historic home was demolished by the city in 1941. The Countee Cullen branch of the New York Public Library now stands on the site at Located on 108-110 West 136th Street between 6th and 7th Avenue (today’s Malcolm X and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard).
Photo credit: 1-4) Pictures from National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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Want to get published? Manitowoc author shares tips on publishing a book
Amanda Linsmeier has been self-published as well as published traditionally, and offers advice to aspiring authors.
Want to get published? Manitowoc author shares tips on publishing a book Amanda Linsmeier has been self-published as well as published traditionally, and offers advice to aspiring authors. Check out this story on htrnews.com: http://htrne.ws/2ijfkHQ
Amanda Linsmeier, For USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 6:21 a.m. CT Nov. 15, 2017
Amanda Linsmeier(Photo: Provided)
Reading and writing have always been passions of mine. As a Manitowoc Public Library employee, and a published author, I’m here to help writers navigate their way through the world of publishing. I’m self-published as well as published traditionally — a "hybrid" author.
After writing your manuscript, and polishing it with the help of critique partners or volunteer readers, you may be wondering what your options are for publication. Many writers dream of seeing their books on the shelves of Barnes & Noble, on the New York Times Bestseller List, and popular book blogs.
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Traditional (or trade) publishing with one of the “Big 5” is the hardest avenue of publication, but one where those things are more likely to happen. These publishers—Hachette, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, and Penguin Random House — and their hundreds of imprints make up the majority of trade publishing. They offer better marketing and more press. They pay generous advances, and for everything from cover art to editing. However, you’ll have less control, such as input on design, release date, or branding. Also 99.9 percent of these publishers will require you to have a literary agent, who’s basically the gatekeeper between publishing houses and writers. Agents take 12-15 percent commission, but they’ll negotiate the best possible deal for their authors.
To obtain an agent, you’ll need to pitch your manuscript through a query letter — numerous resources on queries and agents can be found online. You can keep track of your query list on querytracker.net. I’m querying agents now — I’d love to be published with one of the Big 5!
If you want another option, try boutique publishers, such as Penner Publishing, which published my novel, Ditch Flowers. Most small presses don’t require an agent, so you can submit directly to them. The advances will likely be small (if they exist at all), there won’t be as much buzz about your books in the literary community, and you’ll have to do more promotion on your own.
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Sometimes the books are Print-On-Demand, and bookstores may not accept them. Yet, you may have more creative control, and a more personal relationship with staff. As with trade publishers above, you don’t pay to be published here.
Lastly, more and more writers turn to self-publishing. It’s a great option for the independent and detail-oriented. I’m the proud independent (indie) author of three books. Self-publishing through Createspace, or Ingram (to name two) involve slightly different details, but my advice remains the same. You’re the publisher, but you don’t have to DIY everything. Hire out jobs you’re not equipped to handle. I’m not great at technical stuff, so I pay someone to format my manuscripts. Unless you’ve got a background in design or are “really” good at it, hire a cover designer.
Covers are one of the most important factors in whether someone will read your book — let alone purchase it. Pre-made covers range from about $20 to $200 on Etsy.com.
Copy editing or developmental editing can be a costly investment, but it’s worth every penny.
Publishing on your own is rewarding, but can also be stressful and expensive. Another downside? There’s a stigma concerning indie publishing from some. If you believe in your work, and it’s as strong as you can make it, well, that’s all that matters.
It’s an amazing thing to write a book, short story or poem, let alone have the courage to put it “out there” in the world. Books and stories are important. As a reader I’m grateful to the creators who’ve given me their words. As a writer, I’m grateful I get to create.
Amanda Linsmeier is a materials management page at Manitowoc Public Library.
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City of York, England
York is a walled city at the juncture of Foss and the rivers Ouse in North Yorkshire, England that was established by the antiquated Romans. Its immense thirteenth century Gothic cathedral, York Minster, has 2 functioning bell towers and medieval stained glass. The City Walls form a walkway on the two sides of the River Ouse. The region is the conventional area town of the memorable region of Yorkshire to which it gives its name. And offers an abundance of notable attractions, of which York Minster is the most conspicuous, and an assortment of social and brandishing exercises making it a prevalent tourist attractions.
St Mary’s Abbey ruins, next to Yorkshire Museum, York, England
The city has a rich legacy and has given the scenery to major political occasions in England all through a lot of its two centuries of presence. The Monk Bar door houses a presentation following the life of fifteenth century Plantagenet King Richard III.
History of York City UK
The city was established by the Romans as Eboracum in 71 AD. It turned into the capital of the Roman territory of Britannia Inferior, and later of the kingdoms of Northumbria and Jórvík. In the Middle Ages, York developed as a major wool trading centre and turned into the capital of the northern religious territory of the Church of England, a part it has retained.
The word York gets from the Latinised name for the city, differently rendered as Eboracum, Eburacum or Eburaci. The principal specify of York by this name is dated to around 95 – 104 AD as an address on a wooden stylus tablet from the Roman post of Vindolanda in Northumberland.
In the nineteenth century, York turned into a center of the railway network and sweets and chocolates manufacturing centre. In late decades, the economy of York has moved from being dominated by its railway and confectionery enterprises to one that offers services. The University of York and wellbeing administrations have turned out to be significant managers, while tourism has turned into a vital component of the neighborhood economy.
From 1996, the term ‘City of York’ depicts a nearby government region which incorporates rustic ranges past the rural areas beyond the old city boundaries.
University of York, Yorkshire
The University of York and health services have become major employers, whilst tourism has become an important element of the local economy. The city has two major further education institutions. York College is an amalgamation of York Technical College and York Sixth Form College.
The University of York’s main campus is on the southern edge of the city at Heslington. The Department of Archeology and the graduate Centers for 18th Century Studies and Medieval Studies are situated in the historic King’s Manor in the York city centre. It was York’s just institution with university status until 2006, when the all the more halfway found York St John University, in the past a self-governing school of the University of Leeds, accomplished full university status. The York city once in the past facilitated a branch of The University of Law before it moved to Leeds. The University of York likewise has a medicinal school, Hull York Medical School.
Students there study a very wide variety of scholastic and professional courses, and range from school leavers and sixth formers to student training to make career moves. Askham Bryan College offers further education courses, establishment and respects degrees, gaining practical experience in more professional subjects, for example, animal management, agriculture, horticulture, cultivation and even golf course.
York additionally has a few tuition private schools. St Peter’s School was established in 627. The researcher Alcuin, who went ahead to serve Charlemagne, taught there. In additionally is the school where Guy Fawkes attended. Two schools have Quaker starting points: The Mount School is all-girls and Bootham School is co-educational; On the edges of the city is Queen Margaret’s School. Students from The Minster School, York sing in York Minster choir.
Top-positioned places to visit in York; “Tourist Attractions”: The Shambles, National Railway Museum, York Castle Museum, York Minster.
Hotels in York, England
On York travel and desire overnight accommodation to stay in, there exists some availability of hotels from which to select. Below will assist you to pick the best shelter to your account making sure of your vacation satisfies your outlook. Our Heathrow to York taxis may easily transport you from your accommodation both to and from any London airport for your destination.
Middlethorpe Hall & Spa
Traditional-style rooms in a 17th-century manor house, with a spa, a pool and afternoon tea.
Bishopthorpe Rd, York YO23 2GB
middlethorpe.com
The Mount Royale Hotel
Elegant, 19th-century setting for uniquely furnished rooms and suites, plus a spa and a hot tub.
117-119 The Mount, York YO24 1GU
mountroyale.co.uk
The Principal York
Contemporary quarters & elegant dining in a Victorian mansion with a pool & fitness centre.
Station Rd, York YO24 1AA
phcompany.com
York Marriott Hotel
Modern rooms in an upscale property with free Wi-Fi, a spa, an indoor pool and a restaurant.
Tadcaster Rd Dringhouses, York YO24 1QQ
Hilton York
Polished option with a modern restaurant and a sports bar, plus a fitness center.
1 Tower St, York YO1 9WD
Judges Court Hotel
Plush hotel in a townhouse offering sophisticated rooms with free Wi-Fi, minibars and iPhone docks.
Coney St, York YO1 9ND
judgescourt.co.uk
The Grand Hotel & Spa, York
Chic, luxury rooms in a grand Edwardian railway hotel, plus spa and a grill with York Minster views.
Station Rise, York YO1 6GD
thegrandyork.co.uk
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Here are the top national stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/. Please submit stories below no later than 6 pm local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly.
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THANKSGIVING: Check out links to our Thanksgiving stories, and keep checking because we’ll add to this package as more stories come in.
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MORNING MINUTES: Word of the Day, Web Site of the Day and Number to Know. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/morning_minutes
LOOKING UP: Stars are never where they‚re supposed to be. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/features/x541358104/Looking-Up-Stars-are-never-where-they-re-supposed-to-be
RACHEL RAY’S TIPS: Rachel Ray offers tips for easy Thanksgiving entertaining
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/holidays_seasonal/x1720663177/
WAITING IN LINE: Etiquette experts give tips on surviving lines -
ROCKFORD – When it comes to waiting in line, the best ground rules are those taught in kindergarten: no cuts, no loud talking and no shoving. Even the most devoted cybershopper or mail-order catalog enthusiast is going to encounter at least one long, seemingly unmoving line this holiday season. Although few find them fun, there are ways to make the experience more bearable for yourself and for your line neighbors. By Sean F. Driscoll of the Rockford Register Star.
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/midwest/illinois/x776455249
HE’S NO DUMMY: Nursing students practice on patient simulator - In what could be the start of a unique partnership in health care, a new "man on campus" has arrived on the Regis College campus. He is the Sim-Man patient simulator, a $50,000 human-like robot that has vital signs, can go into cardiac arrest, be treated for pneumonia, appear to be pregnant (as a woman, of course), groan and talk. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/east/massachusetts/x541360215/Hes-no-dummy-Nursing-students-practice-on-patient-simulator
LISA NEAL GUALTIERI, Ph.D.: Internet diagnoses: Trust them or toss them? - Eighty-four percent of adult Internet users in the U.S. go online for medical information, according to a 2007 Harris poll. Some of them, like Diana C., believe the Internet saved their life. CNC, on wire now
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/health/columns/x1772957206/Lisa-Neal-Gualtieri-Ph-D-Internet-diagnoses-Trust-them-or-toss-them
LUNG TEST: Study: Lung function test might help smokers quit - ROCKFORD – A simple, doctor’s office-based test can help move smokers through the process of deciding to quit. That was the preliminary finding of a report co-authored by University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford assistant professor Dr. Robert Bales and presented this week at the North American Primary Care Research Group annual meeting in advance of Thursday’s 33rd annual observance of the Great American Smokeout. By Mike DeDoncker of the Rockford Register Star.
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ELIZABETH DAVIES: Will GPS show me the way? http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/elizabeth_davies/x541360776/Elizabeth-Davies-Will-GPS-show-me-the-way
SUDOKU PUZZLES: Latest installment is on the site.
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x466648963/Sudoku-puzzles-155-189
'TWILIGHT': Sure to be love at first bite - Most girls would happily endure a love bite from hunky Robert Pattinson as vampire Edward Cullen in the screen adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s teen-vampire romance novel, "Twilight." Ledger, Barbuto, on wire now
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE LADY: "Twilight" series author Stephenie Meyer talks about writing, her good fortune and the movie that's expected to be a huge hit. (Includes link to movie profile.) By Ed Symkus. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x1772951064/Interview-with-the-vampire-lady-Stephenie-Meyer-on-Twilight
“TWILIGHT” STARS: 'Romeo and Juliet' with bite: Popular 'Twilight' book hits the big screen. Interviews with Bella and Edward. By Ed Symkus. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/x541350753/Romeo-and-Juliet-with-bite-Popular-Twilight-book-hits-the-big-screen
BOYS LIKE GIRLS: Boys Like Girls like success
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‘A CHRISTMAS TALE’ not your usual sappy holiday fare
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‘SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE’ a socially conscious, cleverly mounted beauty
WITCHES: Biography Channel chronicles witches, past and present - Most biographies explore the life of a single individual, but recently, a television documentary delved into the collective history of witches.
Salem, Guerriero, on wire now
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/east/massachusetts/x1751724998/Biography-Channel-chronicles-witches-past-and-present
EDITORIAL: Stemming the tide of foreclosures - The national numbers are staggering: An estimated 1.5 million homeowners went through foreclosure last year, and another 1.2 million in the first six months of this year. The FDIC estimates that unless something is done, between 4 million and 5 million homes will enter foreclosure in the next two years. MetroWest, on wire now
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/east/massachusetts/x1772956584/Editorial-Stemming-the-tide-of-foreclosures
BRITT: Toon on a possible bailout of the Big Three.
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/regional_news/midwest/illinois/opinions/x1720663941
O'MAHONEY CARTOON: On a bailout for the 'Big Three' . Ledger, on wire now http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/cartoons/x1772956624/OMahoney-cartoon-On-a-bailout-for-the-Big-Three
O'MAHONEY CARTOON: On ATM fees. Ledger, on wire now
http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/cartoons/x1751724302/OMahoney-cartoon-On-ATM-fees
WOOD ON WORDS: Sit down to a meal of Turkey Day terms. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/barry_wood/x1751725531/Wood-on-Words-Sit-down-to-a-meal-of-Turkey-Day-terms
JERRY MOORE: Taxpayers getting taken during economic catastrophe - In the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, is it possible we are being fleeced by our own government out of nearly $1 trillion?
ANN LUONGO: Count your blessings, and do what you can to help others
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FOOTBALL BRIEFS: PFW news on the Giants, Panthers, Chargers and Raiders, plus the latest Fantasy Buzz. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/pro/football/fantasy_football/x1772957883/Football-briefs-Coughlin-s-message-centers-on-trying-to-keep-Giants-focused
COLLEGE FOOTBALL NATION: Mediocre has been a frequent word used to describe it. Lousy is another. But it‚s neither. It‚s the Atlantic Coast Conference, and it‚s smoldering. It‚s combustible. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/sports/college/x1720662317/College-Football-Nation-ACC-is-a-mess
HUNTING SEASON: Deer me, it’s that time of year for hunters - The car heading north on U.S. 67 toward Macomb last Saturday stopped dead in the middle of the road. The driver’s head craned in the direction of a harvested cornfield to his left. Standing tall, less than 100 yards off the highway, in the company of three does, was a nice buck. His antlers — at least a dozen points — stretched skyward. The cornfield buck could focus on his courting rituals then. But that changed Friday, when about 200,000 hunters clad in bright orange hats and vests swarmed into Illinois woods and fields for the first weekend of firearm deer-hunting season. By Chris Young of the State Journal-Register.
KIRK WESSLER: Golfer sets example all should follow - Thanks to J.P. Hayes, this has been a good week. Hayes is a pro golfer who reported himself for inadvertently violating a rule during a tournament last week in Texas. He was disqualified. By failing to place, Hayes also lost his chance to earn a PGA Tour card for the 2009 season. A tough week for Hayes' earning potential. A good week for his character. A great week for all of us to take stock of who we are and what we ought to be.
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JEFF LAMPE: Hunters eager for shotgun start - When a female bank teller chatted me up about deer season it hit me. This one still has zing. Opening weekend of the Illinois firearm deer season still gets people talking, still sends boys and men to bed dreaming. While most hunting openers fly under the radar, shotgun season looms large.
INSIDE THE LINES: Peoria Journal Star sports editor Bill Liesse takes an irreverent look at this weekend’s NFL games. Will be posted this evening.
SUNDAY QUICK SHOTS. By Matt Trowbridge of the Rockford Register Star. Will be posted this evening for use Sunday.
OBAMA’S TEAM: Who's who in Obama's White House. Attorney general added to package.
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THIS WEEK IN WEIRD: Mystery meat, deadly teddy bears and more in this week's edition. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/x466664098/This-Week-in-Weird-Nov-21
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Fundraiser for Kidderminster cancer patient's last wishes
A KIDDERMINSTER dog charity manager with terminal cancer has launched a fundraiser to help make her final wishes come true.
Julie Gawne, aged 42, of Woodbury Road, who works for Happy Staffie Rescue, wants to learn to ride a motorbike, and to own one for herself, after being diagnosed with breast cancer nearly two years ago.
Halfway through her chemotherapy, Julie was told the devastating news that the aggressive cancer, known as metastasis, had travelled around her body and attached to her bones.
Now, Julie wants to make the most of her time, supporting the dog charity she has loved for years, and by making her finals dreams a reality.
She said: "Doctors cannot offer me curative treatment so they can only keep me comfortable for as long as they can, as it is quite aggressive.
"It was suggested that I think about things I really want to do while I still can.
"My main wish is to learn to ride and own my own motorbike, and this is something I have wanted for some time.
"The other thing I would like is to have my garden done to make it easier for me to care for and somewhere nice for me to go.
"I have been struggling to make these things happen and could really do with a helping hand.
"I want to do as much for Happy Staffie while I can. It keeps me motivated and the charity is very close to me."
Julie started to have motorbike riding lessons and was aiming to complete her basic training.
But, she had to stop following a riding accident that happened shortly before she was diagnosed with cancer.
Julie wanted to ride alongside other Happy Staffie supporters in the charity's Ride For Rescue event.
A Go Fund Me page has been started to raise funds for Julie, and she is close to reaching her goal of £1,000.
Julie added: "I did not expect anyone to take any real notice to it. The level of support has been a huge shock.
"I'm very open about what I'm going through and that has been helpful.
"I honestly don't know how long I have, it could be anywhere between a year or up to ten years, we just don't know.
"I don't normally ask for help, but considering the circumstances, I know I need it."
People can donate to Julie's Go Fund Me page gofundme.com
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Andy Serkis Revives Gollum to Mock U.K.'s Brexit Negotiations
December 10, 2018 2:15am by Alex Ritman
Andy Serkis | Ethan Miller/Getty Images for CinemaCon
"Oh precious, our agreement, this is it, our deal, yessss, yesss," hisses the actor while dressed up as British leader Theresa May.
Gollum has a Brexit plan, kind of.
The U.K.'s ongoing and increasingly fraught attempts to negotiate its departure from the European Union were given some much-needed comic relief over the weekend thanks to some expert trolling by Andy Serkis.
In a video shared by the actor Sunday, titled "Leaked: Footage from Inside No. 10 Downing Street," Serkis, dressed up to resemble the U.K.'s embattled Prime Minister Theresa May in a gray wig and blue jacket, has a back-and-forth conversation with himself as The Lord of the Rings' Gollum (and his "good" alter-ego Smeagol) after being handed a Brexit withdrawal agreement by a government aide.
"Oh precious, our agreement, this is it, our deal, yessss, yesss. We takes back control, money, borders, laws, blue passportses," May's Gollum says. "No, it hurts the people — makes them poorer," her Smeagol replies.
The video landed just two days ahead of a crucial Parliamentary vote on whether to accept May's current Brexit deal or reject it (many predict it will be rejected with a large majority), and, perhaps indicating Serkis' own thoughts on the matter, was captioned: "We's in a nasty mess, my precioussss, and there's only one way out. We wants it. We neeeeds it!"
Last year, Serkis brought back Gollum to read out Donald Trump tweets on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
See the full video, which had attracted more than 370,000 views as of Monday morning, below.
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Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is an innovative university with big ideas, challenging brilliant minds to solve complex issues. It encourages students to come up with excellent concepts through creative and engaging teaching, then offers the platform to share ideas, expertise and technology. Nottingham Trent University is one of the UK’s most popular universities with a reputation for excellent teaching and world-leading research.
NTU has received a wide range of accolades from well-regarded sources in recent years. It was named the Guardian University of the Year in 2019, as well as being named Modern University of the Year 2018 by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide.
Based in the heart of a vibrant student city in the middle of the United Kingdom, NTU embraces and welcomes its large international community and seeks to make a global impact. It offers dedicated international student support, with a wide range of initiatives such as a Global Week and Global Lounges and a top-class education with an international outlook.
With close industry links and a desire to create work-ready graduates, NTU achieves high employability rates. Partnerships with leading institutions such as PepsiCo, Thomson Reuters and the NHS help give students a wide range of exciting opportunities and ultimately help ensure they can put their degree to good use.
After huge levels of investment in top class facilities over the last decade, NTU is continuing to provide a commitment to improvement and offering top-class facilities for students of all courses across its four campuses.
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Guardian University of the Year 2019
Nottingham Trent University has been named the University of the Year in the Guardian University Awards 2019.
The university won the award after climbing to 16th in the Guardian University Guide 2019, a UK league table focussed on student satisfaction, graduate employment and the quality of teaching.
The award also recognises the university’s commitment to supporting students to succeed in their studies and future career.
Guardian University Guide editor, Judy Friedberg, said: “Nottingham Trent's performance across a range of measures has been exceptional this year. The university delivers overall academic excellence while paying close attention to the success of each individual student, no matter their background.”
New Global Lounge
Nottingham Trent opened a new Global Lounge in March 2019, moving the area into a modern facility just down the road from the existing centre to host events and promote multiculturalism. International Development Office staff will also be housed in the facility, which will become a place of huge use and interest for international students.
Professor Cillian Ryan commented, “We are excited to see this fantastic building completed. We have worked closely with architects and contractors to ensure it will provide ample space for our Global Lounge to meet and host events whilst providing modern office space for colleagues working to support international recruitment. We are delighted with the result.”
Nottingham Trent University offers top-class teaching, shown by a top ‘Gold’ ranking in the government-led Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). It is one of only 59 universities across the UK to be awarded a ‘Gold’ ranking, demonstrating a commitment to and delivery of outstanding teaching standards to its students.
NTU’s systematic approach to improving the student experience and creating an engaging learning experience was highlighted to the judging panel. They pointed to investment in strategic areas, innovative learning methods, outstanding student engagement, high quality of work placements and engagements with employers.
Professor Edward Peck, Vice-Chancellor of Nottingham Trent University said, “This award of the highest accolade available for university teaching is testament to the commitment and creativity of our staff, students and partners in putting teaching quality and student satisfaction at the forefront of our approach to creating opportunity for all.”
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Nottingham Trent has various entry requirements for different subjects, with English language proficiency needing to be proved by an IELTS result. The requirements vary for each school, but for undergraduate bachelor’s degrees the requirements are generally between 6.0 to 7.0 with at least 5.5 in every component of the test. In some cases, the requirements for first year admission may be lower than the levels needed to join a course in the second year of study. Equivalent IELTS scores shown by various other language tests such as TOEFL and Pearson may also be acceptable to prove English language proficiency.
NTU also offer pre-sessional English courses, over a six to 20-week period to help potential students achieve the requirements they need. PEAP courses are specifically designed to help future students meet the language conditions of their offers and also provide an opportunity to settle into the university life.
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Talented athletes may also be able to access sports scholarships individually tailored to them, plus there are specific scholarship offerings to encourage students from specific countries. Students from Sri Lanka, Turkey, Vietnam, Egypt, Indonesia and Jordan may be eligible for these awards of GBP 4,000 per year.
There may also be opportunities for EU students to take advantage of EU funding, or Commonwealth students to access Commonwealth Scholarships. Global Study Awards to support study in the UK could also be utilised by students looking to attend NTU and international students should explore all avenues of potential funding.
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Nottingham Trent boasts impressive academic and social facilities, boosted by GBP 450 million of investment over the last ten years. The university is spread across four campuses.
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It is a brilliant place to study. There is a mix of fun and study. Tutors are always there to help and give feedback when the need arises.
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The only saving grace to my international study experience at NTU was the friends I made. Everything was a spectacular joke. The administration treat students like money bags as opposed to people who're looking to get an education. International scholarships are given out like candy to bait foreign money in (and pay
The only saving grace to my international study experience at NTU was the friends I made. Everything was a spectacular joke. The administration treat students like money bags as opposed to people who're looking to get an education. International scholarships are given out like candy to bait foreign money in (and pay thousands more for tuition.)
Priority was always given to undergraduate students in terms of space and supplies. Most of the tutors in my department were utterly useless and did not provide guidance or constructive criticism of our work. They WILL fail students without prior warning or proper explanation.
The administration is corrupt to the point where many of their actions should be considered illegal. Students are often lied to. Students have been left to fend for themselves when course leaders or tutors leave (either due to emergencies or because the instructor decides to go on holiday rather than teach.) They purposefully leave important administrative processes (such as the appeals) vague so that bureaucratic red tape leaves it impossible for students to fight back. There is virtually no accountability, save for very few members of the faculty who genuinely try to help the students.
Do not go to NTU for a postgraduate program in art and design. Save yourself the headache and attend an institution that actually gives a damn about education.
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I have always used an aggressive marketing strategy to fuel growth. When the digital age arrived, I saw even more opportunity. My automotive group did too and worked tirelessly to develop a system that moved us to the forefront of digital success. In the past, what we did was market to everyone but only two percent of the viewers or listeners were in the market. With digital, that changed. I know it makes us dealers nervous not to able to do the same old thing and hope it works. You want dealers who think this way to be your competition. While they are shouting from the rooftops, a savvy dealer with a strong digital strategy and in-house processes will eat away at their market share. Our automotive group is living proof. Though our geographical location is relatively isolated, our sales have steadily grown. Last year Preston Ford was the 52nd top selling Ford dealer in the nation.
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When Tim and Dave were kids, Dave is the one who wanted to go to law school. But he took a “temporary” job selling Fords and a few months later had to explain to his father why law school could wait. After graduating law school, Tim spent over 20 years in private practice in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley. His background included work for clients established in the automotive industry and work for start-up companies. Dave quickly asked Tim to also work for him as General Counsel for his growing automotive group, where Tim helped with a range of problems from acquisitions to contract negotiations with automotive vendors. When Dave decided to start iFrog, he knew that Tim’s passion for service and attention to detail would be a natural fit for his new company. At iFrog, Tim ensures that iFrog provides its clients with highly personalized services so that iFrog’s mission of becoming a valuable member of a dealer’s team is fully realized.
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One of iFrog’s first official acts as a new company was to steal Lisa away from the Preston Automotive Group. After selling cars at Preston for two years, Lisa was asked to coordinate the group’s internet marketing. When iFrog plucked her, she was the group’s Internet Director. Lisa has a degree from Salisbury University in Marketing and Business Administration. At iFrog, she oversees compliance, consults on lead management and CRM processes, and helps manage the company.
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Lee Stetson
Yes, we recruited a coder from a dealership. When we found Lee, he was working as a Genius at a Volvo store. He was at the end of a 2-year adventure to learn the automobile industry, in particular, the customer’s journey from lead generation, through sales, and thereafter into ownership satisfaction and brand loyalty. Lee comes to iFrog with a view that technology provides the most value when it is applied with the precision of an experienced doctor performing surgery and Lee is nothing if not precise. Lee serves as iFrog’s technical architect. He is responsible for steering and incorporating a variety of technical decisions to ensure that the solutions iFrog offers its clients beat industry standards.
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STURGES BOURNE (formerly STURGES), William (1769-1845), of Testwood, nr. Southampton, Hants.; Acton Hall, nr. Droitwich, Worcs. and 15 South Audley Street, Mdx.
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b. 7 Nov. 1769, o. s. of Rev. John Sturges, DD, preb. of Winchester, and Judith, da. of Richard Bourne of Acton Hall. educ. Winchester 1782; Christ Church, Oxf. 1786; L. Inn 1789, called 1793. m. 2 Feb. 1808, Anne, da. of Oldfield Bowles of North Aston, Oxon., 1 da. suc. uncle Francis Page† (formerly Bourne) to Acton Hall, and took additional name of Bourne by royal lic. 6 Dec. 1803; fa. 1807; uncle Richard Bourne Charlett (formerly Bourne) to Steeple Aston and Thrupp, Oxon. 1821. d. 1 Feb. 1845.
Sec. to treasury May 1804-Feb. 1806; ld. of treasury Mar. 1807-Dec. 1809; PC 10 Aug. 1814; commr. bd. of control Sept. 1814-June 1816 (unsalaried), June 1818- Feb. 1822 (salaried); sec. of state for home affairs Apr. -July 1827; commr. of woods, forests and land revenues July 1827-Feb. 1828; poor law commr. 1832-3; eccles. commr. 1832-5.
Vol. Bloomsbury corps; capt. New Forest vols. 1803-5; chairman, Hants q. sess. until 1822; warden, New Forest 1827.
Sturges Bourne’s ‘personal appearance ... was unprepossessing’, and ‘his manner in public neither dignified nor impressive’; but, as his obituarist noted, ‘being thoroughly familiar with the affairs of government, and capable of producing, as occasion required, the varied information which long official experience usually imparts, he acquired slowly but surely the favourable opinion of the House of Commons’.1 He was the close personal friend, long-standing political associate and occasional butt of George Canning*, who had saddled him with the nickname of ‘Scroggs’, and under whom he served at the board of control.2 At the general election of 1820 he came in again unopposed for Christchurch on the Rose interest. He is not known to have made a single Commons speech on Indian affairs during the remaining two years of his tenure of his place. He was, however, a pundit on the poor laws and related problems, and had had some success in legislating on them in the two preceding Parliaments. On 6 June 1820 he expressed his willingness to assist Parnell in any attempt to eradicate abuses in the treatment of vagrants forcibly returned to Ireland, though he pointed out that his own poor law amendment bill of 1819 had stipulated that they should not suffer physical punishment. He accordingly supported Parnell’s motion for leave to introduce a bill, 14 June, having ‘no objection to make the poor laws more perfect than they are at present’. At the same time, he advised Parnell that Irish paupers could obtain settlements by service or renting property, although his own efforts to extend the scope of the settlement regulations had been rejected by the House. He divided with his ministerial colleagues against economies in revenue collection, 4 July. On 6 July 1820 he was a teller for the minority against Chetwynd’s bill to end the public whipping of women. In the autumn, according to Mrs. Arbuthnot, he was the government emissary sent to Sir William Heathcote* to investigate his claims that Sir William Gell, Queen Caroline’s chamberlain, had given perjured evidence at her trial.3
When Canning, feeling compromised by the queen’s affair, resigned from the government in December 1820, he ‘persuaded’ Sturges Bourne to remain in place.4 He only paired against the opposition censure motion, 6 Feb. 1821. On 9 Feb. he echoed his colleague Lord Binning’s indignant repudiation of suggestions that Canning was still receiving his official salary. He paired in favour of Catholic relief, 28 Feb. He was named to the select committee on agricultural distress, 7 Mar. He voted against repeal of the additional malt duty, 21 Mar., 3 Apr., a revision of public salaries, 30 Mar., parliamentary reform, 9 May, and abolition of the death penalty for forgery, 23 May. He voted steadily thereafter in the ministerial majorities against the radical-inspired campaign for economy and retrenchment. As a former chairman of the poor laws committee, he concurred in the principle of Scarlett’s proposed amendment bill, 8 May, and urged him to incorporate in it provision for the encouragement of select vestries, on which he had himself legislated in 1818. On 7 June, however, he joined in attacks on the inadequacies of the measure.5 He belatedly expressed concern over the ‘latitude of examination pursued in the House’ in the John Bull breach of privilege case, 11 May. He was a teller for the minority against reducing the compensation for General Desfourneaux as low as £3,500, 28 June 1821. That month John Croker* dismissed as nonsense a story that Sturges Bourne was about to replace him as secretary to the admiralty.6
In July 1821 Sturges Bourne succeeded his uncle, Richard Bourne Charlett (the brother of his benefactor of 1803), to estates in Oxfordshire.7 This addition to his personal wealth underpinned his voluntary retirement from office, with Binning, at the turn of the year, as part of the reshuffle which brought in the Grenvillites. Binning told William Huskisson* that ‘it is well known that Sturges retires because he bona fide wishes to withdraw finally from all official situation, and I do not know that it would break his heart if he were to be out of Parliament’. Sturges Bourne himself, like Binning, was adamant that Huskisson should remain in as commissioner of woods and forests, no matter how justifiably disgruntled he felt at not being promoted; and his surprise and disappointment at Canning’s decision to take the government of India made him ‘doubly glad that I took this opportunity of getting my release’. It was clearly understood, however, that he still had a ‘strong wish to support the government’, and that his ‘retreat may be considered as unconnected with Canning’s’.8 His only known votes in the 1822 session were with government against more extensive tax reductions, 11, 21 Feb., relaxation of the salt duties, 28 Feb., and abolition of one of the joint-postmasterships, 13 Mar. He objected to the wording of Maberly’s motion for returns of public accounts as implying that they were inaccurate, 4 Mar.;9 he was named to the subsequent select committee, 18 Apr. He was also a member of the select committee on poor returns, 12 Mar. 1822. He divided with government against repeal of the assessed taxes, 18 Mar., and of the Foreign Enlistment Act, 16 Apr., and on the prosecution of the Dublin Orange rioters, 24 Mar., 22 Apr. 1823; he had a technical point to make on the latter inquiry, 23 May.10 He ‘objected decidedly’ to Grey Bennet’s bid to abolish punishment by whipping, 30 Apr. 1823, arguing that ‘in the case of a hardened offender it was often attended with most beneficial effects’. He defended government policy on the war between France and Spain, 17 Feb. 1824, and moved a successful amendment, applauding their neutral stance, against Lord Nugent’s call for further information. He voted against reform of Edinburgh’s representation, 26 Feb., and was a teller for the majority against a clause proposed to be added to the county courts bill, 24 May. He objected to a petition complaining of the conduct of George Chetwynd, Member for Stafford, as a county magistrate, 27 Feb., and to the bill to raise funds for repairs to Londonderry Cathedral, 10 May, and recommended postponement of the mariners’ apprentices settlement bill, 21 May. He favoured printing the evidence given before the South London Docks committee, 2 June 1824.11 The following month an incredulous Robert Ward* reported a story that Canning had once offered the chief justiceship of Madras to Sturges Bourne, ‘a privy councillor, a member of the control, a man of fortune, and his own most attached friend’, and that he ‘could hardly answer him with gravity’. Commenting on this unlikely tale, Charles Williams Wynn*, the president of the board of control, observed that
in the difficulties which have attended the disposal of the governor[ship] of Madras, we should have been but too happy to put forward as respectable a candidate as Scroggs; but it never entered into my mind to offer it to a man with a very easy fortune, and only one daughter in miserable health, especially after he has quitted so easy an office as the India board from wishing to have more leisure.12
In the summer of 1824 Sturges Bourne went abroad for several months.13
He was appointed to the select committee on Ireland, 17 Feb., and voted for the Irish unlawful societies bill, 25 Feb. 1825. He divided for Catholic relief, 1 Mar., 21 Apr., 10 May 1825, though he was ready in private to admit ‘the increased aversion of the people of England to any further concession’.14 He supported the bill to disfranchise Irish 40s. freeholders as a means both of purifying the electorate and removing the incentive for the subdivision of land, 12 May. He was named to the select committees on the export of machinery, 24 Feb., and the combination laws, 29 Mar. On 22 Mar. he obtained leave to introduce a bill to clarify elements of the laws of settlement; it received royal assent as 6 Geo. IV, c. 57 on 22 June 1825. He divided for the duke of Cumberland’s annuity, 6, 10 June. He seconded Littleton’s motion for the appointment of a select committee on the constitution of committees on private bills, 7 June, and was duly made a member of it. He was at pains to ensure that William Kenrick, a former Member, was given the right of reply to the charges levelled against him, 14, 21 June; and doubted whether an election committee was best suited to investigate the rights of the electors of West Looe, 20 June 1825.15 In January 1826 Peel, the home secretary, commented that had Sturges Bourne ‘been a Protestant, he would have been a good man’ for the current vacancy for Oxford University.16 On 17 Feb. he declared in the House that the case against Kenrick amounted to virtually nothing, went ‘only to investigate the moral character of an individual’ and would establish a precedent ‘full of danger’. He divided with ministers in defence of the Jamaican slave trials, 2 Mar., and against reform of Edinburgh’s representation, 13 Apr. He was named to the select committees on emigration, 14 Mar., and promissory notes, 16 Mar. Although he wanted Wilson to restrict the scope of his motion for information on tavern expenses incurred by commissioners of bankrupts, 15 Mar. 1826, he thought that those who had abused the system should be brought to book.
At the end of April 1826 Henry Goulburn* reported that Sturges Bourne had been ‘for some time laid up with a violent attack of gout. He is confined to his chair and still in great pain, but is I hope on the high road to be better. He is one of those who are in great uncertainty as to again coming into Parliament’.17 At the general election in June he made way for a member of the Rose family at Christchurch, and came in for Ashburton on the Clinton interest, presumably as a paying guest. He formally proposed the re-election of Manners Sutton as Speaker, 14 Nov. 1826, but seemed ‘embarrassed what to say’, according to the Whig Member George Agar Ellis.18 He was appointed to the select committee on Northampton corporation, 21 Feb. 1827. Still ‘gouty and indolent’, he talked incessantly at home of ‘Ireland, Catholics, corn and ministry’ at this time; and he voted for Catholic relief, 6 Mar. He was trapped for five hours a day on an election committee later that month.19 During the negotiations for the formation of Canning’s ministry in April he initially ‘refused all office’ and, though anxious that the approach to the Lansdowne Whigs should succeed, ‘hugs himself at having nothing to do with it all’, in his daughter’s words.20 On 26 Apr., however, when matters had reached a seeming impasse over Lansdowne’s reluctance, as home secretary, to be responsible for the expected appointment of a Protestant executive in Ireland, Canning pressed Sturges Bourne to save the day by taking the home seals until the end of the session. He evidently asked for time to consider, but that evening tried to wriggle off the hook:
I have endeavoured in vain since we parted to persuade myself that I might execute the duties of the home department without discredit to you as well as to myself. But I feel my first opinion to have been correct. And though I should certainly be anxious to relinquish the office almost as soon as I had learned my task, yet I cannot disguise from myself that such a speedy surrender of the post would look very like a proof of my insufficiency, when I know and feel that such an opinion would be well founded. Under these circumstances I think it may be convenient to you that I should relieve you from any suspense respecting me ... I am ... sure that any facility which my acceptance of office would give to your arrangements, would be more than counterbalanced by having such a situation inadequately filled. I sincerely hope that a better arrangement may present itself to you.
Canning would have none of it, telling Sturges Bourne that ‘my administration wholly depends upon your helping me for two months as home secretary’; and under such pressure he had no choice but to submit. His daughter wrote that ‘nobody ever lamented more what the greater part of the world would consider such a piece of good fortune’.21 Huskisson, who became a member of the administration, described Sturges Bourne as ‘a very efficient man, of excellent understanding, and much respected in the House’, whose appointment would be ‘generally approved’; while Peel wrote to the duke of Wellington that ‘I know not what better arrangement could have been made and I wish it were to be a more permanent one’.22 On the other hand, two opponents of the new ministry, of contrasting political complexions, were contemptuous: the anti-Catholic Tory Mrs. Arbuthnot dismissed Sturges Bourne as one of the ‘little click of his own personal friends’ whom Canning had put in as ‘warming pans’; and the duke of Bedford thought how ‘ridiculous’ it was to see a man, ‘who I remember a briefless barrister, brought forward by Mr. Pitt, with scarce any pretension to a subordinate office’, in such an exalted station.23
There was no difficulty about Sturges Bourne’s re-election, but the brief interval during which he was out of the House enabled him to get to grips with his official business without distractions. As soon as he took his seat, 11 May, he was mischievously asked to confirm that his appointment was ‘only provisional’: his evasive answer did not please his questioner. Despite this, his daughter described him the following day as being ‘very well and in good spirits’.24 He had agreed that Peel should proceed with his legislation to reform the criminal code, and he welcomed his bills to abolish benefit of clergy and increase the punishment for second offences, 18 May, and to facilitate the recovery of small debts, 20 June. He did not object to the introduction of the Coventry magistracy bill, 22 May, though he did not wish to have evidence relating to it heard at the bar of the House; he presented a petition in its favour, 1 June. He announced that steps were being taken to revise the rules of confinement in the Fleet prison, 22 May; but on the 25th said that he had no measure in contemplation to provide for the employment of the aged poor.25 Closing the debate on the Penryn election bill, 28 May, he argued that it was ‘contrary to every principle of justice’ to penalize the whole borough on account of the misconduct of half the voters, and he divided with Canning in the minority against Russell’s amendment for disfranchisement. On 7 June, however, he supported the third reading of the bill in deference to the expressed will of the House. He presented an Ashburton petition for repeal of the Test Acts, 1 June, acquiesced in the appointment of a commission to investigate London’s water supply, though he would have preferred a select committee, 11 June, and sanctioned Gordon’s motion for a committee on the treatment of pauper lunatics, to which he was named, 13 June.26 He stated that a measure was in preparation to deal with estreated recognizances, 14 June, suggested that the House was guilty of ‘great extravagance in sanctioning the printing of so many petitions’, 16 June, and explained why there was as yet no public access to parts of Regent’s Park, 22 June 1827.27 His handover of the home seals to Lansdowne in July was briefly put in doubt by a notion that the latter might become foreign secretary, but he resigned on the 16th, replacing Lord Carlisle as first commissioner of woods and forests and retaining his seat in the cabinet. As Binning put it, ‘Sturgeon Burgeon falls soft, and gladly, from his present eminence into the rural lap of woods and forests’.28 The Whig Sir James Mackintosh* saw it as a reward ‘for the fatigues and ridicule of three months as nominal secretary of state’.29
On Canning’s death, 8 Aug. 1827, Sturges Bourne and Lord Goderich were immediately summoned to Windsor, where the king invited Goderich to form an administration on Canning’s principles and pressed Sturges Bourne to become chancellor of the exchequer and government leader in the Commons. He shied at the prospect, and on 11 Aug. formally declined the offer, as he did the king’s subsequent suggestion that he might return to the home office. He was, however, willing to remain where he was, though his personal preference would have been for complete retirement.30 On his refusal, the exchequer was offered to the anti-Catholic Tory John Herries*, whose appointment was unacceptable to many of the Whig supporters of Canning’s administration. Goderich’s difficulties were increased by the king’s refusal to admit Lord Holland to the government. Sturges Bourne was ‘sadly tired and worried’ by all this aggravation, as his daughter reported, and pitied Goderich, who he thought had ‘not nerves nor the strength to keep together very heterogeneous materials’. Once the king had explained to him the grounds of his objections to Holland, which had ‘reference to the feelings of foreign sovereigns’, he saw them as ‘so much more reasonable and valid than any which I anticipated, that I almost regret that they could not be communicated’ to Holland himself.31 As Huskisson’s arrival from Paris was awaited, Lord Palmerston* wondered whether, if he would not take on the exchequer, Sturges Bourne ‘may be persuaded to devote himself for a session in order to save the government’; but on 29 Aug. he informed a friend that ‘Bourne says that if the fate of the government depends on his taking the exchequer, the government must prepare for dissolution, for that on no consideration will he do any such thing’.32 The following day, however, Huskisson thought at one point that he had prevailed on Sturges Bourne to take the exchequer, if only for a year, and was near to persuading Herries to settle for woods and forests and the chairmanship of the finance committee. Yet George Tierney*, the master of the mint, perceived in the early evening that Sturges Bourne was ‘perfectly wretched at the prospect’; and four hours later he wrote to Huskisson:
After I left you today, and was able to collect my thoughts, I felt that, though the case had not arisen, by Herries being satisfied, which made my decision necessary, yet that I had perhaps given more reason to expect that I would take the seal of the exchequer than I could upon a moment’s reflection confirm. I therefore hastened back to the chancellor [Lord Lyndhurst] and Knighton [the king’s secretary] to put them out of doubt upon the subject.
Lyndhurst, reporting his ‘fixed determination’, saw that it would be ‘impossible to induce him to change his resolution’; and all efforts to do so duly failed.33 Sturges Bourne, who tried unsuccessfully to persuade Huskisson to take the exchequer, explained and justified his conduct to Lansdowne, 31 Aug.:
I had at no time yesterday acquiesced in the proposal, though when so painfully pressed as I was upon the subject, it is difficult in seeking information, in order to ascertain all that belongs to the question, not to depart in some degree from the language of peremptory refusal; and I necessarily allowed the case to be put to Mr. Herries as if I had acquiesced, in order to see whether his feelings could be satisfied, which I understood was a sine qua non. And I stated more than once to the chancellor that I considered the proposal to me as premature till that was ascertained. The first moment however that I was once more left to my own reflections, the vastness of such an undertaking occurred to me so forcibly, that I determined to put an end to all doubt on the subject. But I do not consider the preliminary point as gained ... If the case had arisen, I would again have made a sacrifice of my peace and comfort in life, if that had been all that was had been required of me. But I am called upon to undertake the most arduous office in the state ... having, as I had already assured the king, a certain and entire conviction of my own incompetence to discharge its duties without disgrace to myself and discredit to the government. That opinion is informed by all the reflection which I can give the subject, and I must so far regard myself as to decline sacrificing not only my peace, comfort and health, but my reputation, such as it is, also.
He was active in the successful efforts to persuade Lansdowne and the other Whigs to accept Herries’s appointment and stay in office, though he did not expect Lansdowne, for one, to ‘remain long with us’. While he was inclined to blame Goderich for all the trouble which had occurred, he thought that it would have been avoided had Huskisson been on the spot when Canning died.34 His daughter was delighted that he had managed to ‘persuade people that it was not necessary to sacrifice himself’, and that he had returned to Testwood ‘the same Herr Wald und Forts commissioner that he went and very well’; but others took a less charitable view of his conduct. Georgiana Agar Ellis thought him ‘provoking’; Lady Granville complained that he was ‘beyond my patience’; Lord Seaford considered his refusal of the exchequer to have been ‘quite inexcusable’, and even Huskisson had ‘not forgiven him’ for his ‘desertion’ three days later.35
Sturges Bourne had an ‘uncomfortable’ time of it in November and December 1827, when cabinets on the conflict with Turkey necessitated several journeys to and stays in London; but he was back in Hampshire before Christmas, and remained there throughout the crisis which put an end to Goderich’s ministry. Williams Wynn kept him informed of developments, and he replied that ‘as I could have been of no use I am well pleased to be absent’. He was uneasy at the prospect of war in the aftermath of Navarino.36 He told Huskisson in January 1828 that even if he was not turned out by the duke Wellington, he wished to retire, partly because, having been party to the reconciliation of Lansdowne to Herries (both of whose conduct he considered to have been ‘more than irreproachable’) in September, he did not wish to make himself ‘an accomplice ... ex post facto’ to the anticipated removal of the former and retention of the latter. He also observed that the ‘enmity and malevolence towards Canning’ shown by some of Wellington and Peel’s subordinates ‘must make it painful to meet them on terms of daily and official familiarity’. He was duly replaced by Charles Arbuthnot*: his daughter construed it as ‘a great relief’, though she resented the failure of the ministers to give him ‘any private account’ of the new arrangement, which he gleaned from the newspapers, and the indecent haste with which the Arbuthnots took possession of the commissioner’s house in Whitehall.37 Williams Wynn believed that he had ‘urged Huskisson as strongly as he could to decline the junction’ with Wellington.38 He was seen as a contender for the contentious chairmanship of the finance committee, and Charles Percy, a government backbencher, preferred ‘Sturgy Burgy ... an independent and upright man’, to all others. He was offered the position, but turned it down, claiming that the state of his wife’s health, which might force them to go abroad, made it impossible for him to put himself in ‘a situation of such long confinement to London’, as well as observing that as a member of a government which had been broken up over the chairmanship, he did not wish to become involved in a possible renewed contest for it.39 On the ministerial explanations in the House, 21 Feb., Sturges Bourne queried some of Herries’s allegations and deplored his ‘tone of contempt and sarcasm’ towards Goderich. He presented petitions for repeal of the Test Acts, 20 Feb., and attended the debate on Russell’s motion, 26 Feb., but did not vote in the division.40 In the absence of Acland, Member for Devon, it fell to him on 18 Mar. to propose the insertion in the repeal bill of a declaration to be made by Dissenters appointed to office which was designed to satisfy both supporters and opponents, but it was rejected in favour of an alternative put forward by Peel. That day he extolled the beneficial effects of his Select Vestries Act, and expressed surprise that the report on London’s water supply had been so long delayed. He thought that Macqueen’s bill to deal with settlement by hiring had ‘little bearing’ on the poor laws and would merely redistribute paupers, 29 Apr. On the offences against the person bill, 5 May, he argued that attempted murder should remain a capital offence; and later that day he pressed for magistrates to be given a summary power of determining cases of assault. He voted for Catholic relief, 12 May. He defended the cost of the royal yachts and spoke of ‘the economical spirit of the admiralty’, 19 May. The same day he explained that, as last session, he had opposed the disfranchisement of Penryn, but that he was prepared to support that of East Retford and the transfer of its seats to Birmingham:
I have ever been, and ever will be, an enemy to parliamentary reform, but I think I shall be the best friend to the cause I espouse, by taking away a franchise when it is proved to be notoriously only a vehicle for corruption. The transfer ... will be of great service to ... [Birmingham] as well as take away one of the most popular arguments from those who advocate the general principle of reform.
After the resignation from the government of the former Canningites which was precipitated by Huskisson’s disagreement with his cabinet colleagues on this question, Sturges Bourne was listed as one of their parliamentary group.41
When he arrived in London for the 1829 session, his head, as his daughter reported, was ‘in a state of the greatest amusement and interest’ over the rumoured concession of Catholic relief.42 In the House, 19 Feb., he sarcastically commented that the promoters of the much vaunted Norwich anti-Catholic petition clearly ‘had better means of appreciating the condition of Ireland - and were themselves wiser - than the king’s cabinet’. He voted for emancipation, 6 Mar., and presented and endorsed a favourable petition from Southampton, 9 Mar. In committee on the relief bill, he said that a Catholic would ‘outwit himself as well as the House’ by refusing to take the oath provided for him (23 Mar.), and that only a Protestant secretary of state could authorize the disposal of church property (24 Mar). He disputed Inglis’s claim that Catholics had no cause to complain of interference with the ‘free exercise of their religion’, 26 Mar., and voted for the third reading of the bill, 30 Mar. On Hobhouse’s motion for a committee on select vestries, to which he was appointed, 28 Apr., he said that those which had been regulated by his own Acts of 1818 and 1819 should not be tarred with the same brush as the London ones: ‘nothing can be so improper as to lay down one general rule on this subject’. According to Hobhouse, in the committee, 15 May, Sturges Bourne ‘gave me a sort of lecture, under which I was not very docile’.43 He doubted whether Slaney’s labourers’ wages bill would achieve its object, 4 May, when he called for the removal of the limitation to 20 acres which had been imposed by the Lords on his own bill of 1819 facilitating parochial purchases of land for cultivation by the able bodied poor. He voted, with the other Huskissonites, for the extension of East Retford’s seats to Birmingham, 5 May, and spoke against the issue of a new writ for the borough, 7 May. He presented an Ashburton petition for repeal of the coal duties, 19 May. On Peel’s bill regulating the appointment of justices of the peace, 27 May, he opposed Hume’s proposal to extend the qualification to all freeholders, but at the same time suggested that the bill as it stood would deter many worthy men from taking seats on the bench.
An improvement in his wife’s health made it unnecessary for Sturges Bourne to go abroad in the winter of 1829, as he had at one point contemplated. Looking ahead to the next session, he commented to Huskisson that ‘the government will have a large body of steady and zealous friends, and a yet smaller body of organized and combined opponents, and in that will consist its strength, if strength it can be called’. He thought that ministers had some awkward explaining to do on their foreign policy, especially in relation to Turkey and Portugal.44 His own plans for parliamentary attendance in 1830 were disrupted by a severe attack of gout, which had him on crutches in February and, after a relapse, in bed the following month. By mid-April he was ‘very well’, and he arrived in London in time to vote with opposition for information on the Terciera incident, 28 Apr.45 He divided against Jewish emancipation, 17 May, and the abolition of the death penalty for forgery, 7 June. He was named to the committee on the labourers’ wages bill, 3 May, and the select committee on manufacturing employment, 13 May. He objected to a clause of the Scottish and Irish paupers removal bill, 26 May, and on 4 June dwelt on its inadequacies, arguing that it was desirable to give parishes entire discretion in the matter of relief, in order to deter the ‘sturdy beggar’. He was unhappy that Hamerton’s divorce bill had come to Parliament without the sanction of a verdict at law, 3 June. He again gave annoyance to Hobhouse, who described him as ‘the most egregious coxcomb I ever met’, in committee on his vestries reform bill, 14 June 1830.46 Shortly after the king’s death, his daughter warned her regular correspondent to prepare herself for a ‘final cessation’ of franks, as it seemed almost certain that he would not come in again: ‘He has many things that make politics at present not very interesting or pleasant to him, and yet I think he will feel the difference’. In the event, the 1st marquess of Anglesey, believing it to be ‘of consequence that Sturges Bourne should be in Parliament’, as he told Huskisson, offered him a seat for Milborne Port:
He very conscientiously told me that upon the subject of reform he did not go the length that many liberals did, and could not for instance go in hand with Lord John Russell. It is not very probable that S.B. and I should materially differ upon such matters, and if we do, it is very easy to separate.47
After his unopposed return ministers of course listed him as one of the ‘Huskisson party’; and in early September 1830 Huskisson met and conferred with Palmerston at Testwood before setting off on his ill-fated journey to Liverpool. There was evidently some speculation about his standing there after Huskisson’s death, but Lord Carlisle commented that he ‘would not be active enough’. Later that month Sturges Bourne toured North Wales with his wife and daughter.48 He did not vote in the division on the civil list which brought down the Wellington ministry, 15 Nov. 1830, and he was back in Hampshire a week later.49 There he received a ‘Swing’ letter ‘threatening my life’; and he joined in the steps taken under the aegis of the duke of Wellington to organize ‘persons who have anything to lose’ in order to combat disorder.50 In early January 1831 Lord Grey, seeking to accommodate Sir Richard Vivian, who was proving reluctant to vacate his seat for Windsor in favour of the Irish secretary, Edward Smith Stanley, suggested to Anglesey, now lord lieutenant of Ireland, that Sturges Bourne, to whom ‘I cannot think it can be an object of much importance to ... continue in Parliament’, might be sounded ‘as to his resignation’ by Palmerston, the foreign secretary. He evidently declined to retire, but a fortnight later Grey thought of his seat as a berth for one of the Irish lawyers, Philip Crampton* or Richard Sheil*, whom ministers were anxious to bring in. Anglesey was willing to make one Milborne Port seat available for this purpose, but the difficulty lay in deciding whether it should be Sturges Bourne’s or that of his colleague, George Byng, Anglesey’s son-in-law and a member of his vice regal household. Stanley told Anglesey at the beginning of February that
upon this there has been much discussion, and the general opinion of the cabinet seems to be that it would not be desirable that Sturges Bourne should be urged to retire. His vote, and his weight with some of the country gentlemen, are thought of great importance upon the reform question, as well as any measure which may be brought forward connected with the English poor laws.
Anglesey acknowledged the force of this argument, and in the event, it was Byng who made way for Sheil.51 On 16 Feb. 1831 Sturges Bourne warmly welcomed Briscoe’s bill to extend the scope of his own Act of 1819 for parochial land purchases, which would ‘do more to relieve parishes from the present enormous burden of the poor rates than any other measure that I can think of’. He had reservations about Lord Chandos’s bill to disfranchise Evesham, 18 Feb., because no reliable evidence of the venality of the resident voters had been adduced. He presented a Milborne Port petition for the abolition of slavery, 2 Mar. 1831. In November 1830, Lord Sandon* had named Sturges Bourne as one of the ‘sober and peaceable’ men who were ‘inclining’ to parliamentary reform; but when the ministerial scheme was unveiled he found it too extreme, and surrendered his seat to Anglesey. Grey was peeved, feeling that it was ‘now very much to be regretted that his seat was not vacated instead of Byng’s’; but Anglesey was more sympathetic, as he told the premier:
I am truly sorry ... that you will not have the support of Sturges Bourne. I regret it much, because he is a very influential man. I think he is mistaken about Canning. Had he lived in 1831, I feel confident that he would have supported the measure of reform. I have so written to Sturges Bourne, and have expressed a strong desire that he would retain his seat and support you, but I have also begged that if he cannot bring himself to do this, he will immediately resign, in favour of George Byng.
Stanley, too, was ‘sorry’ to lose Sturges Bourne, though he had been ‘afraid it might be so, and that the reform plan would be too sweeping for him to venture upon’. Sturges Bourne’s mind was made up, and he vacated his seat in the first week of March, thereby doing, as his daughter saw it
the most honourable thing between his reluctance to oppose government in a measure on which their existence, and perhaps our safety, depend, and an equal reluctance to give up the opinions of his whole life, and incur the charge of great inconsistency ... I hope nobody will say that he shirks difficulties, and they need not think either that he entirely disapproves of the bill, in which there are many good things. He was always for transferring to large towns the franchises of corrupt boroughs and thinks that had more been done in this way, we might have been saved so sweeping a measure.52
Shortly before the general election of 1831, when he cast anti-reform votes for Southampton and Winchester, Sturges Bourne, in his daughter’s words, was ‘nearly as busy and excited as if he were in Parliament, always going about to hear the latest thing and his friends coming to talk it all over and pick his brains’.53 According to Littleton, he refused in July 1831 to become a boundary commissioner, being ‘frightened out of ... [his] wits at the reform bill’; and in December he was critical of the ‘injudicious policy’ of the Tory opposition ‘during the whole of the reform debates’. In April 1833 Littleton found him still
sadly alarmed about the country’s political state. He expresses his conviction that Lord Althorp is in heart a republican, and that it is now too late to stop that downward tendency which monarchical institutions have derived from his influence on public affairs. He lamented pathetically the want of sound understanding and good sense on the part of the king ... Sturges Bourne, however, is a great alarmist by nature.54
In 1832 he was appointed to the royal commissions on the poor laws and ecclesiastical revenues; and in the former capacity he corresponded with John Fazakerley* on the knotty problem of the bastardy laws, and the ‘excess of population’, which he thought was the ‘besetting evil’ and ‘cause of all that are called the abuses of the poor laws’.55 Greville reported that Lord George Cavendish Bentinck* invited him to stand for King’s Lynn at the 1835 general election, ‘but he would not hear of it’; and soon afterwards he wrote to Peel, who had sent him some correspondence about the career of Canning’s only surviving son:
I rejoice to see young men of such character and talents attaching themselves to you, in order that your principles may long endure and actuate our councils. It was the object of Mr. Pitt ... to rally round him such persons in their early manhood. How much more important is such an object now, when those who, like myself, being past the maturity of life, feel themselves unequal to the conflict of the hustings and the more formidable labours of the House of Commons ... No person can be more anxious than I am for the success of your administration.56
Sturges Bourne, who, so Sydney Smith said in 1839, ‘makes his wife and daughter leave off wine in order to do his own gout good’,57 died at Testwood in February 1845. By his will, dated 15 June 1836, he left all his property to his wife, who survived him by five years, with remainder to his daughter.58 An anonymous obituarist wrote that he would enjoy no ‘large amount of posthumous reputation, but his career will not utterly pass away from our minds as a man or a minister’.59 Littleton commemorated him as
a very sensible, honest and excellent man ... It was difficult to say of him whether he was more a liberal Tory, or a moderate Whig. Till the period of Huskisson’s death, all his sympathies seemed to be with ... the remnant of the Canning party, but when on Lord Grey’s accession to the government, that party became parliamentary reformers, Bourne, who was a very cautious man, became alarmed, and though no longer in Parliament himself, was a very useful ally of Peel’s more immediate party, in clubs and in society. Canning had a particular regard and respect for him. With much information, and a great delight in that kind of wit, which he found in the Canning circle in its best days ... he nevertheless was totally free from the vice of humour himself. Gravity and deliberation and solidity were the ornaments of a mind eminently judicial. He was consequently a respected, and a very useful friend ... The death of such a man is a great loss.60
Author: David R. Fisher
1. Gent. Mag. (1845), i. 434.
2. Greville Mems. i. 92.
3. Arbuthnot Jnl. i. 41.
4. Harewood mss, Binning to Liverpool, 20 Dec.; TNA, Dacres Adams mss, Courtenay to Adams, 21 Dec. 1820.
5. The Times, 8 June 1821.
6. Croker Pprs. i. 188.
7. Gent. Mag. (1821), ii. 93; VCH Oxon. xi. 63; xii. 192; PROB 11/1649/595.
8. Add. 38743, ff. 65, 83; Buckingham, Mems. Geo. IV, i. 273; Hobhouse Diary, 85; NLW, Coedymaen mss 615.
9. The Times, 5 Mar. 1822.
10. Ibid. 24 May 1823.
11. Ibid. 3 June 1824.
12. Buckingham, ii. 107, 112.
13. Add. 37061, f. 44.
14. Colchester Diary, iii. 369.
15. The Times, 21, 22 June 1825.
16. Add. 40342, f. 307.
17. Surr. Hist. Cent. Goulburn mss Acc 304/67A, Goulburn to wife, 30 Apr. 1826.
18. Northants. RO, Agar Ellis diary.
19. St. Deiniol’s Lib. Glynne-Gladstone mss 276, Huskisson to J. Gladstone, 10 Dec. 1826; Hants RO, Sturges Bourne mss 9M55 F5/4, 7.
20. Sturges Bourne mss F5/8, 11, 13.
21. Ibid. F5/8; Canning’s Ministry, 250-1, 261; Hobhouse Diary, 144-5.
22. Huskisson Pprs. 224; Wellington mss WP1/887/49.
23. Arbuthnot Jnl. ii. 109; Canning’s Ministry, 290.
24. Sturges Bourne mss F5/14, 15.
25. The Times, 23, 25 May 1827.
26. Ibid. 2, 12 June 1827.
27. Ibid. 15, 18, 23 June 1827.
28. Canning’s Ministry, 336, 340, 343; HMC Bathurst, 638, 643; Add. 37305, f. 133; Hobhouse Diary, 139; Sturges Bourne mss F5/25; Bagot, Canning and Friends, ii. 407.
30. Geo. IV Letters, iii. 1377, 1381, 1386, 1400; Croker Pprs.i. 382; Palmerston-Sulivan Letters, 190; Bagot, ii. 420, 423; Huskisson Pprs. 226; Add. 38750, f. 39; TNA 30/29/9/5/51; Harrowby mss, Sturges Bourne to Harrowby, 11 Aug. 1827.
31. Sturges Bourne mss F/28; Harrowby mss, Sturges Bourne to Harrowby, 19 Aug. 1827.
32. Palmerston-Sulivan Letters, 197, 199.
33. Add. 38750, ff. 145-9, 152, 158, 162; 51586, Tierney to Lady Holland, 30, 31 Aug. [1827]; TNA 30/29/9/5/56; Southampton Univ. Lib. Broadlands mss PP/GMC/17; Coedymaen mss 200, 202; Palmerston-Sulivan Letters, 200; Greville Mems. i. 187.
34. Lansdowne mss; Add. 38750, f. 216; Harrowby mss, Sturges Bourne to Harrowby, 7 Sept. 1827.
35. Sturges Bourne mss F5/29; Howard Sisters, 91; Countess Granville Letters, i. 424; Bagot, i. 426-7; Add. 38750, f. 188.
36. Coedymaen mss 252-5.
37. Sturges Bourne mss F5/37, 39-41; F6/2-4; Add. 38754, ff. 159, 240; Wellington mss WP1/915/41.
38. Coedymaen mss 735.
39. Keele Univ. Lib. Sneyd mss SC12/85; SC17/36; Add. 40395, ff. 226, 244.
40. Sturges Bourne mss F6/8.
41. Bulwer, Palmerston, i. 278-9; Palmerston-Sulivan Letters, 205; Colchester Diary, iii. 568; Nottingham Univ. Lib. Ossington mss OsC 67a.
43. Add. 56554, ff. 11-12.
45. Sturges Bourne mss F8/7-9, 11, 13.
47. Ibid. F8/18, 19; Add. 38758, f. 198.
48. Palmerston-Sulivan Letters, 241; Sturges Bourne mss F8/25; Add. 51580, Carlisle to Lady Holland, 2 Oct. 1830.
51. PRO NI, Anglesey mss D619/ 28a-B/32, 37; 31D/13. Derby mss 920 Der (14) 119/2, Anglesey to Smith Stanley, 4 Feb. 1831.
52. Harrowby mss, Sandon to Harrowby, 12 Nov. 1830; Anglesey mss 28A-B/46; 28C, pp. 79-80; 31D/30.
53. Sturges Bourne mss F9/6,7.
54. Hatherton diary, 22 July 1831; Three Diaries, 170, 319.
55. Duke Univ. Lib. Fazakerley mss, Sturges Bourne to Fazakerley, 4 Oct. 1832.
56. Greville Mems. iii. 118; Add. 40413, ff. 261, 297.
57. Smith Letters, ii. 689.
58. Gent. Mag. (1845), i. 661; PROB 11/2013/183; IR26/1696/262.
59. Gent. Mag. (1845), i. 434.
60. Hatherton diary, 4 Feb. 1845.
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The Road to Oregon City
by Jesse Wiley
The end of the Oregon Trail is near, young pioneer—the fourth and final leg of your journey starts here. But, do you have the grit to make it to Oregon City? The wild frontier is full of risks and unpredictable surprises! This is the final installment of four books that will take you all the way to Oregon Territory—if you make the right choices.
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In the fourth and final book of this exciting choose-your-own-trail series, it's 1850 and you've traveled for more than three months on foot for fifteen miles a day with your family, covered wagon, and oxen. There are holes in the bottoms of your shoes. You've faced grizzly bears, traded with merchants, and wild bandits. Oregon City is so close—you can taste it. But you still have a ways to go on the Trail. There are still weeks of travel ahead of you—if you can survive the dangerous frontier.
Trust yourself. Which path will you choose? With twenty-two possible endings, every decision counts. Choose wisely and make it all the way to Oregon City!
You dip your hands into the warm water and splash it over your hot, sweaty face. It’s so refreshing to wash the grime off your skin after being on the dusty trail that you can’t help but smile.
The water is lapping at you like a soft, wet tongue . . . until suddenly you wake up, reach out, and feel something furry.
“Archie! Yuck!” you groan, pushing your dog away from where he’s been licking your face.
Archie just looks at you with his big brown eyes and wags his tail.
“It’s all right, boy.” You laugh, scratching him around the ears as the five-a.m. bugle sounds. It’s barely light outside your tent, but it’s time to start the morning chores, eat breakfast, pack up your wagon, and get back on the Trail.
It’s already been almost four months since you started your journey from Independence, Missouri, back in May. But every morning, it’s a little harder to get up
“Wake up, Samuel.” You nudge your little brother, fast asleep beside you. “You need to milk Daisy.”
“You do it,” Samuel moans, rolling over on his feather mat.
Hannah, your little sister, marches into your tent. She’s always been the earliest riser among you. Samuel used to be more energized in the morning, but as you’ve made your way through the difficult Rocky Mountains, he’s needed more rest. Plus, instead of traveling fifteen miles a day, your wagon train has been covering only about ten to twelve miles because of the rugged and treacherous terrain.
“Ma says to hurry up,” Hannah says, her bonnet sliding halfway over her eyes as usual. “She needs you to get fuel for the fire, and Sam to milk—”
“Daisy,” Samuel mutters, cutting her off. “I know, I know. I’m coming.”
Hannah rolls her eyes at him and goes back to help Ma prepare breakfast. You don’t blame Samuel for being grumpy as he packs up his bed and carries it out of the tent. Your body longs for more rest too. But you know you don’t have that option. The wagon train will roll out in about an hour and a half, and you need to help Ma and Pa get everything ready.
Your stomach growls as you anticipate breakfast, which will probably be flapjacks and bacon . . . again. Since you’ve left Independence with a wagon led by a team of oxen piled high with everything you own, you’ve eaten more bacon than you ever dreamed was possible. Ma has been pretty creative with the few other foods you’ve carried with you for more than 1,400 miles so far: flour, cornmeal, sugar, coffee, salt, and beans. But it’s still gotten boring. Luckily, you’ve also eaten whatever you have been able to catch along the Trail, including rabbits, squirrels, deer, and buffalo, along with fruits and berries.
“I can’t wait to get to Oregon City and eat at a tavern again,” Hannah says as if she is reading your mind.
“Me too, Hannah,” you say. “If there even are any taverns.”
Your family is traveling out West to claim the land available to anyone willing to make the trip. Other emigrants like you have already made it to Oregon City and started their lives. But you don’t really know what to expect when you get there.
You’ve covered two-thirds of your trek, through prairie, desert, and now mountains. The sights along the way have been incredible, from steep cliffs to massive waterfalls to enormous rock formations, and more. And you’ve overcome a number of challenges, including dangerous river crossings, ferocious animals, and serious illnesses.
“Good morning,” Caleb says as you walk past him with an armful of brush for the campfire. Caleb has proved to be an excellent wagon captain over the journey. His son and daughter, Joseph and Eliza, have become the best friends you’ve ever had.
“Good morning,” you reply. “What’s ahead on the Trail today?”
“We are going to have a meeting after we all fuel up on breakfast,” Caleb replies. “There’s a big decision to make.”
You feel a familiar tinge of excitement, wondering what the decision will be as you hurry back to your campsite and help Ma start a big fire. As the bacon starts sizzling in the iron skillet, you grind coffee beans and make a strong brew that everyone, even Hannah, drinks. You’ve all grown accustomed to drinking coffee on the Trail and are grateful it masks some of the bad-tasting water you are forced to use along the way.
Pa fixes you a plate of flapjacks, and you sink your teeth into a thick, buttery pancake. You wish there was some syrup but are grateful for your cow Daisy’s steady supply of cream that Ma churns into butter by hanging a bucket on the side of the wagon as it bumps along the rocky terrain.
“Pa, do you know what big decision we have to make today?” you say.
“Yes. We need to choose whether or not to cross the Snake River two more times and head toward Fort Boise,” Pa starts.
“That river again!” Hannah interrupts.
You shiver, remembering the ordeal you just went through at Three Island Crossing. You had never been more terrified than when Ma fell into the water, but luckily Pa was quick to save her.
“What’s the other choice?” Samuel asks.
“We would take the South Alternate Route,” Pa explains. “It goes south of the Snake River but runs along it, so you don’t have to cross.”
“Isn’t that better, then?” Ma asks.
“I don’t know,” Pa answers. “It would take us through the Bruneau Sand Dunes. They are hot, dry, and dusty.”
Your family sits quietly and ponders the options.
“I’m afraid to cross the river again,” Ma says.
“Me too,” adds Hannah.
“I’m worried about the dry conditions of the alternate route,” Pa says. “It might be hard on the animals.”
“And I hate being thirsty,” Samuel adds, agreeing with Pa.
Everyone looks at you.
“It looks like you have to be the one to help us decide what we tell Caleb,” Pa says. “What do you think we should do?”
You consider everything carefully. Even though the river crossings are dangerous, at least you know what to expect. You’re not sure what the dunes w...
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Kurukshetra University: Master of Business Administration (MBA) Exam Results
Published on Thu, 13 August 2015 at 13:57 IST
Last Updated: Jul 04, 2019 12:54:23
Browse the latest examination results of Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Kurukshetra University.
The Master of Business Administration (MBA or M.B.A.) is a 2-year master's degree designed to develop the skills required for careers in business and management.
IndCareer.com wishes best of luck to students waiting for their Master of Business Administration (MBA) exam results.
-- M.B.A. (5 Year Integrated Course)(Reappear) 2nd Sem. May-2019 View declared on Wednesday July 3, 2019
-- M.B.A. (5 Year Integrated Course)(Reappear) 4th Sem. May-2019 View declared on Wednesday July 3, 2019
-- M.B.A.(5 Year Integrated Course) VIIIth Sem. May-2019 View declared on Friday June 21, 2019
-- Master of Business Administration IIIrd Sem. Dec-2018 View declared on Thursday March 14, 2019
-- Master of Business Administration Ist Sem. (Dec-2018) View declared on Wednesday March 6, 2019
-- Master of Business Administration(Distance Education) IIIrd Year (Dec-2018) View declared on Monday February 25, 2019
-- Master of Business Administration(Distance Education) IInd Year (Dec-2018) View declared on Monday February 25, 2019
-- Master of Business Administration(Distance Education) Ist Year (Dec-2018) View declared on Monday February 25, 2019
-- M.B.A.(Hons)(Reappear) IIIrd Sem. (Dec-2018) View declared on Wednesday January 23, 2019
-- M.B.A.(Hospitality Management) IInd Year (Dec-2018) View declared on Monday January 21, 2019
-- M.B.A.(Hospitality Management) Ist Year (Dec-2018) View declared on Monday January 21, 2019
-- M.B.A. VIIth Sem. (5 Year Integrated Course) Dec-2018 View declared on Monday January 21, 2019
-- Master of Business Administration(SFS)(Reappear) IIIrd Sem. (Dec-2018) View declared on Saturday January 12, 2019
-- Master of Business Administration(SFS)(Reappear) Ist Sem. (Dec-2018) View declared on Saturday January 12, 2019
-- M.B.A. (5-Year Integrated Course) IXth Sem. (Dec-2018) View declared on Friday January 11, 2019
-- Master of Business Administration IInd Sem. (May-2018) View declared on Monday October 29, 2018
-- MBA HM FINAL YEAR MAY 2018 View declared on Friday October 12, 2018
-- M.B.A.(Hospitality Management) Ist Year May-2018 View declared on Friday August 31, 2018
-- M.B.A.(5 Year Integrated Course) Xth Sem. May-2018 View declared on Monday June 18, 2018
-- M.B.A.(5 Year Integrated Course) VIIIth Sem. May-2018 View declared on Monday June 18, 2018
-- Master of Business Administration(SFS)(Reappear) IInd Sem. May-2018 View declared on Thursday June 7, 2018
-- Master of Business Administration Ist Sem. Dec-2017 View declared on Monday May 28, 2018
-- Master of Business Administration(SFS) Reappear Ist Sem. Dec-2017 View declared on Tuesday May 22, 2018
-- M.B.A. IIIrd Sem. Dec-2017 View declared on Monday May 7, 2018
-- M.B.A. (CC) IInd Year Dec-2017 View declared on Monday April 9, 2018
-- M.B.A. (CC) Ist Year Dec-2017 View declared on Monday April 9, 2018
-- M.B.A. (Hons) IIIrd Sem. (Reappear) Dec-2017 View declared on Monday April 9, 2018
-- M.B.A. (SFS) IIIrd Sem. (Reappear) Dec-2017 View declared on Monday April 9, 2018
-- M.B.A. (CC) IIIrd Year Dec-2017 View declared on Monday April 9, 2018
-- M.B.A. (5 Year Integrated Course) Ist Sem. Dec-2017 View declared on Monday April 9, 2018
-- M.B.A. (5 Year Integrated Course) IIIrd Sem. Dec-2017 View declared on Monday April 9, 2018
-- M.B.A.(Hospitality Management) Ist Year Dec-2017 View declared on Friday March 9, 2018
-- M.B.A.(Hospitality Management) IInd Year Dec-2017 View declared on Friday March 9, 2018
-- M.B.A. IInd Sem. May-2017 View declared on Wednesday December 13, 2017
-- M.B.A. (Hospitality Management) IInd Year May-2017 View declared on Monday December 4, 2017
-- M.B.A. (Hospitality Management) IIIrd Year May-2017 View declared on Monday December 4, 2017
-- M.B.A. (DE) Ist Year May-2017 View declared on Monday December 4, 2017
-- M.B.A. (DE) IInd Year May-2017 View declared on Monday December 4, 2017
-- M.B.A. (DE) IIIrd Year May-2017 View declared on Monday December 4, 2017
-- M.B.A. (Hospitality Management) Ist Year May-2017 View declared on Monday December 4, 2017
-- MBA IV Semester May 2017 View declared on Monday November 13, 2017
-- M.B.A.(SFS) IInd Sem. May-2017 View declared on Monday October 23, 2017
-- M.B.A. Xth Sem. (5 Year Integrated Course) May-2017 View declared on Sunday September 3, 2017
-- M.B.A.(Hons) IInd Sem. May-2017 View declared on Monday August 21, 2017
-- M.B.A.(SFS) IVth Sem. May-2017 View declared on Monday August 21, 2017
-- MBA-I SEM DEC 2016 View declared on Friday June 30, 2017
-- MBA-III SEM DEC 2016 View declared on Monday June 19, 2017
-- Master of Business Administration(SFS) IIIrd Sem. Dec-2016 View declared on Monday May 8, 2017
-- M.B.A.(Distance Education)-IIIrd Year Dec-2016 View declared on Sunday May 7, 2017
-- M.B.A.(Distance Education)-IInd Year Dec-2016 View declared on Sunday May 7, 2017
-- M.B.A.-Hospitality Management(Distance Education)-Ist Year Dec-2016 View declared on Sunday May 7, 2017
-- M.B.A.(Distance Education)-Ist Year Dec-2016 View declared on Sunday May 7, 2017
-- M.B.A.-Hospitality Management(Distance Education)-IInd Year Dec-2016 View declared on Sunday May 7, 2017
-- Master of Business Administration(SFS) Ist Sem. Dec-2016 View declared on Monday May 1, 2017
M.B.A.(HM) IInd Year May-2016 declared on Friday December 2, 2016
M.B.A. Ist Year May-2016 declared on Friday December 2, 2016
M.B.A. IInd Year May-2016 declared on Friday December 2, 2016
M.B.A. IIIrd Year May-2016 declared on Friday December 2, 2016
M.B.A. (HM) IIIrd May-2016 declared on Friday December 2, 2016
M.B.A.(HM) Ist Year May-2016 declared on Friday December 2, 2016
M.B.A. (General)-IVth Sem. May-2016 declared on Sunday November 27, 2016
M.B.A. (SFS) -IVth Sem. May-2016 declared on Saturday November 26, 2016
MBA II SFS MAY 2016 declared on Wednesday October 5, 2016
MBA HONS II SEM MAY 2016 declared on Wednesday October 5, 2016
MBA V YEARS IV SEM MAY 2016 declared on Wednesday September 7, 2016
MBA(V YEAR) VI SEM MAY 2016 declared on Monday August 29, 2016
MBA (V YEARS) VIII SEM MAY 2016 declared on Monday August 29, 2016
M.B.A. (5 Year Integrated Course) VI Sem. May-2016 declared on Saturday August 27, 2016
M.B.A. (5 Year Integrated Course) VIII Sem. May-2016 declared on Saturday August 27, 2016
MBA III SEM DEC 2015(REAPPEAR ONLY) declared on Monday August 29, 2016
MBA I SEM DEC 2015(REAPPEAR ONLY) declared on Monday August 29, 2016
MBA I SEM DEC 2015 declared on Monday August 22, 2016
MBA III SEM DEC 2015 declared on Tuesday August 16, 2016
MBA 5 YEARS V SEM DEC 2015 declared on Friday June 24, 2016
MBA 5 YEARS III SEM DEC 2015 declared on Friday June 24, 2016
MBA 5 YEARS I SEM DEC 2015 declared on Friday June 24, 2016
Friday June 3, 2016
MBA HONS I SEM DEC 2015 declared on Friday June 3, 2016
MBA HONS III SEM DEC 2015 declared on Friday June 3, 2016
MBA SFS I SEM DEC 2015 declared on Friday June 3, 2016
MBA SFS III SEM DEC 2015 declared on Friday June 3, 2016
MBA Part II Dec 2015 declared on Thursday May 12, 2016
MBA HM Final Dec 2015 declared on Thursday May 12, 2016
MBA HM Part II Dec 2015 declared on Thursday May 12, 2016
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Declawing lions, tigers now illegal after Indiana lawsuit against vet who declawed 12 big cats
A lawsuit that has recently played out in Indiana says declawing big cats — such as lions and tigers — violates the Endangered Species Act.
Declawing lions, tigers now illegal after Indiana lawsuit against vet who declawed 12 big cats A lawsuit that has recently played out in Indiana says declawing big cats — such as lions and tigers — violates the Endangered Species Act. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/environment/2018/10/29/indiana-lawsuit-makes-illegal-across-u-s-declaw-big-cats/1771835002/
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Tim Stark, owner of Wildlife in Need Inc., holds two of his tiger cubs.(Photo: Courier-Journal 2010 file photo)
It is now illegal in the U.S. to declaw big cats such as lions and tigers after a veterinarian at a southern Indiana facility reached a settlement last week with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc.
PETA sued Dr. Rick Pelphrey in September, alleging that he surgically declawed 12 big cats at Wildlife in Need, a nonprofit in Charlestown, Indiana, near Louisville. In the settlement, approved by a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Pelphrey admits to performing the procedure and agrees to never again declaw a big cat.
But more importantly, according to PETA, the settlement sets a legal precedent: Declawing exotic cats without medical necessity is a violation of the Endangered Species Act.
"This should have been illegal under federal law before now, but unfortunately there often is lax enforcement of these things," said Brittany Peet, the director of captive animal law enforcement for PETA's Foundation. "So it falls to advocacy groups to be the ones to go in and try to make these things right in court."
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The animal rights organization claims that declawing cats can cause both physical and mental pain and distress as well as "impairing them from carrying out their natural behaviors."
The U.S. Department of Agriculture — the governing body that oversees the care of exotic animals and animal exhibitor licenses — also said in a 2006 information sheet that declawing is no longer considered acceptable under the Animal Welfare Act when performed solely for handling.
Pelphrey, who does not deny declawing the cats, said the procedures were not done without sufficient research beforehand.
That research, he said, included speaking with USDA officials who said the procedure was "frowned upon," but not illegal. He said he performs the procedure only when his clients asked, equating it to the declaw procedure frequently performed on domestic cats.
"The procedure is the same and the anatomy is the same, the only difference is the size and scale," Pelphrey told IndyStar, adding that he agreed to settle only because it was the easiest way to end the litigation.
"It may not be a medically necessary procedure, but you could turn around and ask the same question of doing circumcision on a baby boy," he continued. "I don't think declawing leads to this emotional distress and physical problems they mention."
Tim Stark, President of Wildlife in Need & Wildlife in Deed holds a black bear cub and an African Serval. His Charlestown wildife rehabilitation center had a display of animals that they care for. (Photo: CJ file photo)
Tim Stark, who owns and operates Wildlife in Need, said that some older big cats around the country have had physical problems after they were declawed by a breeder and not a licensed professional. He said he has always had a veterinarian perform the procedure.
"They don't need their claws for any reason and it doesn't hurt them to have it done when it is done right," said Stark, who says a main reason he declaws is so bigger cats are easier to handle. "They are my cats, so I can make that decision."
PETA in its suit referred to two tiger cubs that it alleges died last year from complications of "botched" declaw procedures, drawing on USDA inspection reports.
Both Pelphrey and Stark, however, dispute those allegations. Both acknowledge that the cubs had complications from the surgery, but believe they died from other causes. They also mention that as many as 20 big felines at the facility had been declawed without any complications or health problems.
Still, Peet hopes that Pelphrey's settlement and the decision that declares declawing a violation of the Endangered Species Act will be beneficial in an ongoing case the organization has against Stark and Wildlife in Need.
"PETA has a strong case and lots of strong evidence from USDA records and this definitely strengthens that," she told IndyStar. "We will continue fighting to ensure every single animal at Wildlife in Need is transferred to a reputable facility to get the care they need."
About 30 people visited Wildlife in Need in Charlestown, Ind., during a summer fundraiser event called Tiger Baby Playtime. Visitors paid $25 to pet and play with two baby tigers. (Photo: Erin Keane / WFPL)
In addition to the declawing concerns, the suit also alleges that Stark's center prematurely separates the tiger cubs from their mothers and has inadequate enclosures for the animals. Other animals in Stark's care include bears, wolves, bats, some primates and sloths, among others.
The suit draws on USDA records, in which the agency over the last six years has cited Wildlife in Need more than 50 times for failing to properly care for the animals, including a failure to provide adequate veterinary care, provide clean and sufficient shelter and handle the animals appropriately in interactions with the public.
In February, a federal judge ordered Stark to stop letting the public play with tiger cubs. Wildlife in Need still hosts its exotic animal encounter sessions, Stark said, but without the tigers.
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That said, he plans to fight both that preliminary injunction and PETA's lawsuit.
"There was no law against declawing, there is no law against using these animals for public interaction and there is no law about removing them from their mothers, so why am I in court?" Stark asked. "If I’m going to be in a lawsuit with them, I think they should have the burden of proof to show what I'm doing is illegal."
Stark acknowledges that some of the findings in the USDA inspection reports are legitimate — saying he's "not perfect" — but added that he felt the majority were exaggerations and fraudulent.
USDA officials did not respond to requests for comment.
Stark said his goal is to help conserve the animals and to help the public better understand them and be willing to protect the species themselves.
"Ever since I was a little kid, it has been my dream to own a zoo," he said. "I give my life and I live for these animals."
Stark's animal exhibition license with the USDA is up for renewal in November. The agency had previously tried to terminate his license in 2015 after a 2007 conviction for violating the Endangered Species Act. However, a USDA judicial officer determined that was not grounds for doing so.
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IndyStar's environmental reporting project is made possible through the generous support of the nonprofit Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust.
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Agagu Was Hypertensive, Son Says
by niyi
Agagu
First son of the late Dr Olusegun Agagu, a former governor of Ondo State, on Saturday said his father was hypertensive.
Agagu, who returned from United States on Thursday, reportedly slumped in Ikoyi, Lagos, where he was having a meeting with Ondo indigenes on Friday evening.
Mr Feyi Agagu said, “He just had a medical examination, which showed that he had a little cholesterol, and was hypertensive. There is diabetics in our family, but it’s nothing major; it was just something he had been dealing with for the past 10 to 15 years. So, there was no inkling that something was about to happen,” Agagu said.
According to him, his mum has lost her best friend and her husband. He confirmed that his father passed away in Lagos on his way to St. Nicholas Hospital, adding that his father had the usual illness that comes with age, “so there was no stand out cause for his passing”.
“He lived a simple but a fulfilled and happy life. He left amazing memories and fantastic legacies behind.”I will miss the friendship, I will miss the advice; he was pretty much anything any wife, son or daughter could ask for in a father.
“He was a mentor to many, a brother, a benefactor; I’m sure a lot of people will miss him,” he said. Agagu said the family had just returned for their annual two and a half weeks family vacation and during that time his father showed no sign of illness.”I guess when it’s time to go, when your maker comes to get you, when he brought you, he did not ask anybody, so he can take you when he sees fit,” he said.
He said that arrangements for the burial were yet to be made.
Speaking on the demise of the former governor, Chief Olagunsoye Oyinlola, a former Governor of Osun State, said he was “grieved”. “We met in politics and he remained a very nice senior colleague and when he came back two days ago, we talked about a meeting tonight,” Oyinlola said on Saturday.
He said that he would miss everything about his late colleague, who was the perfect gentleman, who always cared for the welfare of others. “I asked him if he would be coming to Ibadan and he answered no, he then invited me to meet on Saturday in Lagos, unfortunately that was not to be,” he said.
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Video Games to Tackle Mental Health Stigma
Three video games featuring characters with mental health conditions have been created to fight the social stigma.
Scientists, game developers and mental health advocates came together in Cardiff to tackle "prejudiced" mental health portrayal in gaming, said researcher Simon Pardinas.
Munzir Quraishy, who offered his own experience of OCD for one of the games, said it could help people empathise.
Mind Cymru said more representation would help patients deal with stigma.
The three games - Picturesque, The Interview and Get Help - took 48 hours to design at a Cardiff University gaming jam.
Munzir Quraishy, who has obsessive-compulsive Disorder (OCD), depression and an eating disorder, offered his experiences for the game Picturesque.
Mr Quraishy, who is studying medicine at Cardiff University, said the game shows OCD is not just about cleanliness, but is "the process of having an intrusive thought and trying to relieve it".
The character is tasked with photographing an extinct animal, but his OCD and intrusive thoughts make this difficult.
The 24-year-old from London said games help him to "get into the shoes" of different mental health conditions.
"Just because I have a mental health problem, doesn't mean I understand all mental health problems," he said.
"But this can help people empathise and understand some of what people are going through."
Volunteers from the National Centre for Mental Health (NCMH) set up the gaming jam last year, but the games were officially launched to the public in January.
One of the organisers of the gaming jam, Paul Gauci, said the stigma attached to conditions like depression or OCD was "often seen in video games".
The team, known as Jammind, wanted to "frame mental health in a positive light while also being fun and educational," Mr Gauci said.
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Simon Jones, of Mind Cymru, said: "While attitudes are changing, there is still a great deal of stigma for people to overcome before they feel comfortable talking about their experiences.
"The more we see mental health represented in the media, and in video games, the easier those conversations become."
The jam was hosted by the MRC Centre Neuropsychiatric and Genomics at Cardiff University, NCMH and funded by the Wellcome Trust.
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Tab To New Window Annoyance In Firefox
by Martin Brinkmann on June 29, 2009 in Firefox - Last Update: March 15, 2012 - 67 comments
Firefox 3.5 comes with an annoying problem that I'm not able to solve. The developers - for unknown reasons - have decided to make it possible to drag tabs, which in itself is an interesting feature. Tabs can be dragged into another position in the browser's tabbar, or to spawn a new browser window instead. This closes the original tab in the old Firefox instance, before it gets opened in a new instance.
The big problem is that this happens from time to time without intention on my part. One way to activate tabs is to left-click on them. If that button is pressed too long and the mouse moved downwards just a bit it will move the website in the tab to the new window.
There is apparently no way of disabling the drag and drop tabs into new window feature in Firefox at this point. It happens about once a day that a tab gets accidentally dragged too much around so that it spawns in a new window. The only solution then is to copy the url, close the new web browser window, open a new tab and load the url again in the main browser window. It is not even possible to undo closing the tab in the main browser window as its history will be completely moved to the new browser window as well.
Please leave a comment if you know of a way to disable the spawning of new Firefox windows when dragging and dropping tabs.
Update: As some readers have pointed out, it is also possible to drag and drop the tab back into the original browser window. I'm not experiencing the issue that often anymore. Not sure though if this is because I changed the way I work with tabs in the browser, or if Mozilla has changed the way the dragging and dropping of tabs works in the browser.
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hej said on June 29, 2009 at 6:33 pm
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/2082/week-in-geek-the-disable-firefox-3.5-tab-tearing-edition/
i havent tried this myself as im not using 3.0 but i hope it works
Joe said on December 14, 2010 at 2:15 am
I’m using 3.6.13 and the fix that hej said worked great.
RG said on June 29, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Probably the best you can do right now, I haven’t tried it by the way
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12276
John C said on June 29, 2009 at 6:45 pm
So far as I understand this “feature” is a copy of a similar function in Google’s Chrome – drag a tab off the main window and it is reparented in a new window. In chrome this is really annoying on a slow machine – many times I accidentally click/drag because the machine is so slow… and then it gets even slower while opening a new window to house the dragged tab :-)
However Chrome, at least, allows the tab to be dragged _back_ to the _original_ window. Did you try that with FF3.5? I can’t try it here because I haven’t (yet) plucked up the courage to download the latest RC, especially as my existing FF (3.0.x) is _much_ slower than Chrome :-)
MilesAhead said on June 29, 2009 at 6:51 pm
I agree with John C. Once you see the image of the page superimposed, just move it up so it’s level with the tab bar and let go of the mouse. I’ve been rearranging tabs on the tab bar with drag & drop but I didn’t know this feature existed to open a new window. I’ve been using Minefield for months now. I don’t know why they don’t just go to release 3.6. Minefield seems fine to me. Then again I don’t use 200 AddOns or run 64 tabs simultaneously as some may. :)
Aidanael said on June 29, 2009 at 7:15 pm
AFAIK, this extension is the only way you can get rid of that feature
And John C’s right, it is indeed possible to drag a tab back to its original window.
Martin said on June 29, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Aidanael. I actually have tried this add-on in the past and it somehow did not work then. I tried it again after I saw your comment and it is now working fine after checking the disable detach box. Thanks everyone for leaving comments, it’s really great to receive that many quick and helpful responses :)
Oz said on June 29, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Huh. I’ve been using 3.5 for a while now and I haven’t had that happen to me even once. Perhaps one of your addons is causing a problem?
Anyway, I ran a quick google search for “disable firefox 3.5 tab” and this came up as the first result:
Along with what looked like at least a few other similar articles. Took all of about five seconds. I have to ask…why didn’t you do that? A quick google search should be the first response to any computer problem that has no immediately obvious solution.
Well I did my research but I may have been using the wrong search terms. It happens from time to time but my search results did not display any viable solution. I researched that problem before and found the add-on that Aidanael mentioned but this time I could not find even that in the results.
Bluegravity said on June 29, 2009 at 7:54 pm
i think it’ll soon be fixed. I searched for this problem and i am catching alot of articles on it. I think it’ll be fixed before the official release…
HNicolai said on June 29, 2009 at 8:16 pm
In Chrome it works really good, its nice, its fast, and you can easy arrange your tabs. But in FF its terrible(!) Its looks ugly and really slow :(
Why don’t they make it the same way as chrome? Or just leave it as it was in v.3.0?
roopesh said on June 29, 2009 at 8:26 pm
have the option “always show the tab bar” enabled, and drag the tab in the new window back into the window where u want it, it works. I tried it on FF 3.5 RC3
David Dashifen Kees said on June 29, 2009 at 8:39 pm
I find it interesting how some people like/dislike certain features. Ever since I learned about tab-tearing in one of the early articles about 3.5 I’ve been chomping at the bit for it. I installed the RC for 3.5 when it was made available and I use tab-tearing probably once or twice an hour. It’s invaluable for my practice.
David yes opinions differ on this matter. I for one have no use for it at all and would love an option to disable it. Can’t be to difficulty to add an option for that. I think it would please many Firefox users. I can see its usefulness for users with multiple monitors though.
JW Waldschmidt said on June 29, 2009 at 8:46 pm
It happens to me at times, but the solution is easy. Simply grab hold of the tab in the new window, and drag it back onto the tab bar of the window in which it came from. You can easily drag & drop tabs between windows, with no loss of information (try it with an open Gmail session). It’s really handy for dealing with multiple monitors – easy to compare two things side by side. I, for one, love the new capability mirroring that of Google Chrome.
Georg said on January 17, 2012 at 10:28 am
-=Ben=- said on June 29, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Easy Fix:
Install Tab Mix Plus… I have not had Tab Tearing since!
Ben is this working when forcing compatibility with firefox 3.5?
The How-To Geek said on June 29, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I agree with you… it’s especially frustrating when you’re using the Tree Style Tab extension, where you can drag and drop tabs around to re-arrange them, cause it constantly pops them into a new window.
That little extension works great for me!
Jonathan said on June 30, 2009 at 12:21 am
I using 3.5 also, and can not duplicate the issue that the article address (and not from a lack of trying!)
Joe said on June 30, 2009 at 3:07 am
I 2nd Tab Mix Plus. I’ve been using it for year and have never even heard of this problem.
adorno said on June 30, 2009 at 4:37 am
Why are you left-clicking and holding for so long that you neglect to release the button before moving the mouse?
Seems to me you have poor relexes or response time. Try playing a fast-paced shooter to improve your mouse finger and quit blaming the developer. No one else has this problem
Martin said on June 30, 2009 at 8:37 am
First of all it is less than a second before this happens. Second I would probably whoop your ass in every shooter on this planet.
Rick said on June 30, 2009 at 6:29 pm
This feature was in Opera before Chrome existed.
Clean up your mousing, unless you’re over the age of 60.
awldae33 said on July 1, 2009 at 4:50 am
Use the Tab Mix Plus add-on and select the “Single Instance” checkbox and “Open New Windows In New Tab” option. Problem solved.
Gzzzt said on July 2, 2009 at 7:52 pm
adono:
Apparently your idiotic self-centered brain hasn’t yet realised that there are different kind of people in the world.
It seems, that Firefox hasn’t made proper usability tests, which is not surprising, because it is open source project.
tiki god said on July 3, 2009 at 4:29 am
I’ve been drag and dropping tabs as a mean to bookmark sites and add shortcuts on my desktop for the entire time that I’ve been using the internet. This new ‘tab tearing’ feature breaks a fundamental method of my browsing habits and would love to have the ability to throw it in the trash where it belongs.
How do I disable this filth?
Kirk said on July 3, 2009 at 5:36 pm
If you haven’t noticed this–I just found it by accidentally reading the right post…then interpreting what the poster meant–you can STILL drag to desktop WITHOUT patches, waiting for the “bugfix” or waiting for TabMix+ to be compatible with FF 3.5:
The site icon to the left of the address–left click and drag this instead of the tab header. Yeah, it adds extra work because now you have to switch tabs instead of just grabbing each one, but it gets it done…for now.
I’ve made a comment in the Mozilla blogs to maybe give those of us who can’t force our users to read the changelogs with a fine-toothed comb some kind of visual heads-up for features that are (essentially) silently changed.
k242 said on July 4, 2009 at 6:08 am
This feature has been around since Safari was released… it’s actually quite handy, Firefox’s implementation is much clumsier than Safari, but it works…
If you accidentally move a tab out of a window, spawning a new window, it is easy enough to drag your new window back into your tabs of the previous window in Firefox 3.5.
Just drag it between tabs in your previous window to merge it again, and if there was only one other tab, drag it between the first tab and + symbol tab.
Also, when dragging over this area inbetween tabs, you will see a large blue divider icon which indicates you can merge this new window as a tab in the previous window.
The Safari feature I would really like Firefox to implement, is actually “merge all windows”, which can merge all open windows into a single tabbed window.
That one command is missing, and is very helpful…
Looks like Duplicate Tab is an add-on that addressed merging of windows back into tabs, but it hasn’t been updated since June 4, 2008, so it may not be compatible with FF 3.5…
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/28
If anyone knows of another solution for merging all open Firefox windows into a single window as tabs, please post a solution here.
Rick said on July 4, 2009 at 2:45 pm
@k242:
I hate to be this stereotype (I try not to evangelize), but….the solution is to use Opera. In Opera there is a sidebar (usually hidden) that lists all your open windows and their tabs. You can select the whole list and drag them into one window.
Barry said on July 5, 2009 at 8:24 pm
This also seems to have the effect of outright removing the feature of dragging a tab to another Firefox instance to open the same page in the other instance. I do this to log onto sites with different credentials at the same time if needed and it seems you can no longer just drag a page from one instance to another like you used to be able to in 3.0.
It seems you CAN still drag the icon from the URL though.
Rob said on July 6, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Extremely annoying feature, and will be trying add-on listed above. Can’t believe that was intentional. If it was, they would have included an option to turn it off.
Dee said on July 13, 2009 at 5:12 am
Wow. Why did you make this without even trying it? All you have to do is drag it back in there. by clicking the tab and dragging it onto the other window, and it will close that new window and put the tab back. There should be an easier way to ctrl + ___ + z it though.
David T. said on July 15, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Dragging the tab back to the original window is not a solution if you don’t run your apps windowed. Firefox is getting as bad as Google with annoying new features you can’t turn off.
Magiciandude said on July 15, 2009 at 10:14 pm
The solution of dragging the tabs back into the original window doesn’t work for me. that refreshes the page, and I’m listening to Pandora, so whenever this happens it completely restarts the application. It’s quite annoying when I’m listening to a song I like, try to go to that tab to “thumbs up” it, and then the page comes out in a new window, refreshes, and I don’t get to hear that song again for a while.
Ryan said on July 17, 2009 at 6:58 pm
This happens to me *all the time*. Mainly happens on the meebo tab since i’m frequently switching to and from this tab at work. When the tab to window process is spawned it makes all my IM’s scroll to the top and they all get strangely resized.
I guess the only solution is to downgrade back to 3.0 but I’m not particularly sure if it’s worth the hassle of uninstalling and reinstalling (not really a hassle just dont wan’t to do it).
Lance said on July 23, 2009 at 1:25 am
I am having the same annoying problem, but I work w/ multiple tabs at work and must move around very quickly in a support environment. So I am constantly popping tabs out.
I found this site searching for a solution and will try the plugin RG linked to.
Ms Constantine said on August 4, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Thank you to the people that suggested the add on. It seems to work.
I’ve been getting so frustrated at the new windows popping up a few times a day. I work with about 10-15 tabs open at a time and I had no idea why some of them were randomly opening in new windows, I actually thought it might have been some sort of virus. Good to know it’s just a stupid feature that can’t be disabled without an add on.
Trip said on August 21, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Thank you so much for this article and the resulting helpful comments. I hadn’t found that add-on yet, and this sudden new window crap has been bothering me for some time now. I like having only one Firefox window with a billion tabs in it. Using a laptop touchpad, I find that sometimes it drags by mistake when clicking. The add-on works perfectly. =)
CHiNOAYA! said on September 12, 2009 at 4:06 pm
WTF! Firefox 3.5.3 (latest patch) is still got this f*cking problem!
I’m very bored with this new feature.
Tom said on September 16, 2009 at 8:39 pm
People! This works:
No more complaining – just use it.
Cole said on October 6, 2009 at 6:16 am
SO glad I found this. I’ve been doing this multiple times a day since it was released but, like you, wasn’t using the right search terms to turn it off. I could not think of a more useless “feature” and it’s been aggravating me for some time now. It’s funny that so many people haven’t had an issue but I am wondering if mouse sensitivity doesn’t play into this. Not only does it happen when I am NOT clicking but I’ve NEVER seen an outline to warn me it’s happening. It just does.
Anyway, I’m just so fucking happy to find your post. There’s no other way to put it!
Rae said on October 7, 2009 at 3:13 am
I understand the positives of this feature, and why it is there, but wow, it is SO sensitive!! Glad I found this add-on; hoping it works as well as people are saying (just downloaded but can’t restart FF quite yet).
I actually just wish the “trigger” was just a little LESS sensitive, because I would like to be able to use this feature occasionally….by choice! But if the option is a flat ON vs OFF, then off it goes. :(
jimmeh said on October 19, 2009 at 11:11 pm
i hate this feature. i loved being able to drag a tab into a messenger window and it copypasta’ing the url there for me :(
also i notice dragging and dropping a picture to my desktop is retarded and doesnt always save the picture correctly. this used to be awesome in the last iteration :/
Sarah said on October 21, 2009 at 3:06 pm
I am having this same problem and I really think Mozilla needs to fix it. It makes me so mad when I am at work and it starts doing that!
Andrew said on October 21, 2009 at 8:56 pm
The only solution I have so far is to drag it back to the previous window. This is what I do:
1. In the newly opened window drag the tab and hold the mouse.
2. Alt tab to the previous window and drag it up to the tabs.
3. You should see an arrow pointing where it goes.
Thats the best I can say so far.
Tom said on October 23, 2009 at 6:08 pm
@Andrew and Sarah:
USE THIS TO FIX IT.
Gruel said on December 24, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Instead of Alt + Tab to get to the previous window you can also drag the tab to the location on the taskbar of the other window and it will bring it into focus, then drag it into position in the tabbar.
JJ said on October 29, 2009 at 5:33 pm
hate it hate it hate it so annoying FF needs to fix it
Patrick said on December 16, 2009 at 8:28 am
To everyone responding about how un-annoying this is or how slow we are with our mouses: STFU. You are of no use at all. Google, on the other-hand, is apparently the most useful tool ever. I typed in “clicking firefox tab creates new window” and this post was the first search result. Simpy stunning. Thanks to anyone who provided, or at least attempted to provide, an actual solution.
I sure hope more IE, Safari, Chrome, Opera, Netscape and AOL users can come share with us FF users how they don’t experience this problem with their browsers and that we should make the switch!
EndlessGrowthDoom said on April 3, 2010 at 3:52 am
Annoying as hell…. I just started having the same problem as this article describes, today (tabs **unintentionally** open/move to new window when I only click on them to view them)… but I’ve never had this happen in the past on this pc setup (or any); even with the super sensitive touchpad on my Dinovo Edge wireless keyboard (using Setpoint software mouse speed/acceleration). It seems that firefox is now detecting tiny movements up/down/whatever with the mouse click and opening the tab in a new window.
Luckily the left click and the touch pad are operated via separate hands on this Dinovo keyboard; it doesn’t appear to do it if I remove my right thumb from the touch pad before clicking with my left thumb… for now…
It is strange though; I only downloaded firefox 3.6 (but did not install), and I also installed the video driver update 197.13 for my Nvidia GF 210 (in hp5260f slimline) last night… but I did not notice having this problem after that. Today I installed the current updates listed on the hp update page for the s5260f, except for the keyboard drivers, which curiously, would not install; and I also installed a java update… then it started doing this tab/window thing.
I was thinking it had something to do with the video update, since also; whenever I open tabs/windows the pages are zoomed in/larger… and I don’t have a vertical scroll bar on the side of my browser pages anymore (and I have no themes other than Default)… aaaannd, whenever I try to move tabs left/right, they do not follow my cursor as they use to, and instead indicate(arrow) to place them a few tabs over from my cursor, or show no move/placement-arrow at all?! whaaat? BTW, I did not really “notice” the tab problem until after the java update to 6-19.
usually love firefox said on April 13, 2010 at 3:54 pm
I wish Firefox would let me disable this without an add-on.
Really? said on May 23, 2011 at 7:12 am
Is it really that hard not to drag your tabs all over the screen? How recently did you learn to use a mouse that you can’t do a simple click without dragging. This is like complaining that when you try to select a desktop icon, you drag it somewhere else on your desktop.
And as many people have pointed out already (and you have apparently ignored them) you can just drag it right back where it was.
I really don’t get this post at all.
TheAnalyst said on June 12, 2011 at 12:10 am
Is it really that hard to understand that different people have different usability needs? “Just drag it right back” apparently causes a refresh of the page, so it’s not too effective in certain use cases (e.g., any use case that causes a data change on the server side with each POST or GET).
Just because you don’t have the problem and don’t understand the problem doesn’t mean it’s not a problem — it just means you don’t understand. You “don’t get this post at all” — and I don’t get your comment at all. Did you really think you were being helpful, or were you just stroking your ego (or something else)?
Appreciate those who actually offered solutions. Do not appreciate the superiority-complex peanut gallery, nor the inclusion of a usability-impacting feature that can’t be disabled. If an add-on is needed to disable it, then an add-on should be needed to enable it; likewise, if it’s enabled in core, disabling it should be in core.
Anonymous said on July 27, 2011 at 12:18 am
yeah, it sucks, but guess what – all you have to do is open another tab on the newly ‘spawned’ window. then you can easily grab the tab you want to move back and move it back. close the blank window and its over. i’ve gotten pretty fast with this and reduced the annoyance to <5 seconds.
Nigel said on September 13, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Can’t thank you enough! This has been driving me completely crazy for weeks now.
Scott Hermanson said on October 17, 2011 at 9:22 am
I have not looked into disabling tab tearing, but it is possible to drag the tab back to the primary window (provided ‘always show tabs’ is enabled).
Martin Brinkmann said on October 17, 2011 at 9:33 am
Scott that’s true. But I would prefer it to not happen in first place.
Mike said on October 24, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Just for the Mozilla guys:
This (IMHO) really is 100% annoying, 0% useful.
Undo this feature, please.
Average user said on November 24, 2011 at 12:15 am
I hate this problems, drives me nuts. I don’t know of a way to solve it, but rather than copy and pasting the URL and closing the window, you can simply make the window normal size then click on the tab and drag it back to the original window underneath it and drop it back in place.
stine1 said on August 26, 2012 at 12:55 pm
I am using the Nightly version and guess what? This happens, too! So annoying!!!
Brian Goodwin said on April 12, 2015 at 10:27 pm
This has been an occasional nuisance but in the past few days I’ve had it happen when I was definitely NOT dragging the tab, as it was another tab which was detached from the primary window.
It is hardly a quick, easy task to put the tab back where it belongs. It requires exit from full screen then both windows resized and positioned so that the tab can be returned .. and in my case needed the tab list scrolling to where the tab came from.
This is a problem on slow machines and especially if the monitor resolution is only 1024×600, where full-screen working is the only practical option, as is the case with many netbooks. On mine the remedial action can take ages plus it hastens the inevitable freezing and subsequent process kill or crash (seemingly due to memory leaks etc.).
I agree with the above comments which suggest that disabling this “feature” should be an option. I wonder what this is like with touch-screens?
Lem said on August 14, 2015 at 7:22 am
Ive been using PaleMoon for some time now, but have only just recently been experiencing this annoying problem.
Its good to be able to simply tear off a tab to another window, especially, as I have 4 monitors on this machine.
This is a very good feature to have… BUT the designers have stuffed up in one respect.
I continually have the problem, mainly because Im a bit of a “sloppy mouser” I accidentally move the mouse slightly downward when clicking a tab. This opens the tab in a new window on any one of the 4 screens. Its so annoying!
And its so silly to design it to function this way. If the tab is dragged downward to the same Mozilla window as it is already in , it should stay where it is. Then if a tab is dragged out of its current window, only then should it move the tab to a new window. Its very obvious that the designers have not thought this through properly.
I think that this would keep all users happy.
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For the execution of direct marketing activities � with or without profiling � referred to in points 3. and 4., �Data source and purposes of processing�, the Controller uses the contacts details that have been provided by the data subject and the means of contacts which are usually preferred by the data subject. Therefore, the contacts may be carried out through traditional (e.g.: mailing, vocal calls) and electronic communication means (e.g.: e-mail, Sms). Legal basis for the processing Depending on the purposes of processing referred to in the paragraph �Data source and purposes of processing�, the legal bases are: 1. for the purposes referred to in point 1., �Data source and purposes of processing�, the legal basis is art. 6, par. 1, letter b), GDPR, since processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract. In this case, to allow the user to register to the website and use the services reserved to registered users 2. for the purposes referred to in point 2., �Data source and purposes of processing�, the legal basis is article 6, par. 1, letter c), GDPR, since the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Controller is subject 3. for the purpose referred to in point 3., �Data source and purposes of processing�, the legal basis is the �legitimate interest� (art. 6, par. 1, letter f), GDPR, preamble 47, GDPR and Opinion 6/2014 of Working Party 29, par. III.3.1.) pursued by Giordano in keeping in touch with the user who has registered to the website, and, in doing so, the user has expressed interest in and appreciation to our business activity. This legitimate interest is pursued informing the data subject on our marketing and distance selling campaigns, advertising new products and services, presenting offers and promotions, so that the data subject can get to know these chances and decide, if wished, to place orders 4. for the purpose referred to in point 4. �Data source and purposes of processing�, the legal basis is the data subject�s consent (art. 6, par. 1, letter a), GDPR) 5. for the purpose referred to in point 5. �Data source and purposes of processing�, the legal basis is the �legitimate interest� of a third party (art. 6, par. 1, letter f), GDPR) to propose � through direct mailing � the purchase of products which may be appreciated by its market of reference 6. for the purpose referred to in point 6. �Data source and purposes of processing�, the legal basis is the data subject�s consent (art. 6, par. 1, letter a), GDPR). Data processors, persons authorised to process personal data and autonomous data controllers 1. Persons authorised to data processing are in charge of web services, contact centre, sales, marketing, information technology and data security 2. Your personal data will be processed by processors, for services referred to in points 1., 3. e 4., �Data source and purposes of processing� 3. To carry out activities necessary for web services requested by the user, personal data may be processed by third parties, autonomous controllers (e.g.: Internet Provider). As far as not here mentioned, these controllers are required to provide information pursuant to art. 13, GDPR for the processing they carry out. All processing carried out by these controllers concerns the purposes referred to in points 1. and 2., �Data source and purposes of processing�. Communication of personal data Personal data may be communicated to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, according to the user�s choices: such third parties can operate in direct marketing field, especially, in distance selling (you can ask for the complete list by contacting the Controller at the address and e-mail as referred to in the paragraph �Data subjects� rights�). Criteria used to determine the period for which data will be stored Depending on the purposes of processing, these are the criteria determined by the Controller for data storage: 1. for the purposes referred to in point 1., �Data source and purposes of processing�, all data are stored for the period necessary to perform the registration to the website: data are stored as long as the user is registered and uses the services of interest. User�s data (and profile) will be cancelled if fraud or unlawful actions are detected. In this case, the Controller has the right to inform the competent authorities and communicate user�s data to them 2. for the purposes referred to in point 2. �Data source and purposes of processing�, the period of data storage is determined by the single national and EU rules and laws governing legal obligations to which the Controller is subject 3. for the purposes referred to in point 3. �Data source and purposes of processing�, personal data are stored in our filing system for the period necessary to keep in touch with the user who has expressed interest in our business activity and to inform the user on it, so that Giordano can continue its own marketing and distance selling activities as long as the user is interested in our services and products, continuing to be registered. Of course, this period of storage is reduced if the interest to be in touch with Giordano fails: if the person loses this interest, just communicate the objection as described in the paragraph �Data subjects� rights� and Giordano will implement organisational and technical measures so as not to contact the person any more 4. for the purposes referred to in point 4., �Data source and purposes of processing�, personal data are stored in our filing system as long as the user�s profile is in line with the customised contacts created by interconnecting information at our disposal and, therefore, as long as Giordano continues its own distance selling and business activity with products, initiatives, offers, market researches and surveys which are considered interesting for the user because they meet characteristics and behaviour and are appreciated by the user. Data storage will cease, before the period here described, if the user objects to receiving such customised contacts and to being profiled for marketing purposes, exercising this right as explained in the paragraph �Data subjects� rights� and Giordano will implement organisational and technical measures so as not to contact the person any more 5. for the purposes referred to in point 5. and 6., �Data source and purposes of processing�, personal data are stored in our filing system according to data processing activities and purposes of processing carried out by Giordano as data controller and which are reported in the paragraph �Data source and purposes of processing�. Personal data will be communicated to the third parties mentioned in paragraph �Communication of personal data�. After the periods stated above, identification data are transformed in anonymous data and used only for statistical reports and analysis. Identification data will be, therefore, destroyed, unless otherwise provided by supervisory authorities, law enforcement or judiciary. Where data are processed, transfers of personal data to third Countries Even though data processing is usually carried out using the Controller�s server and/or third companies entrusted and appointed as data processors, within European Union. Personal data will be transferred to third Countries, mainly to perform customer services activities and telemarketing campaign, adopting the contractual clauses set forth in the Decision 5th February 2010 of the European Commission for the transfer of personal data to data processors, pursuant to article 46; GDPR and for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party, in compliance with art. 49, par. 1, letter b), GDPR. Data subjects� rights By writing to the Controller at the address Giordano Vini SpA via G. Cane 47bis/50 - 12055 Diano d�Alba (CN � Italy) or at e-mail privacy@giordanovini.it, you can exercise the right of access, to rectification, the right �to be forgotten� (erasure), to restriction of processing, to data portability and to object to the processing of your data on legitimate grounds and for marketing purposes � also limited to one or more contact means (e.g.: postal address, e-mail), phone) and profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. At any time, you can ask for the complete and updated list of processors and third parties to which data can be communicated. How to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority The person has the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In Italy the supervisory authority is the �Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali� � Piazza Venezia 11, 00187 Roma (Rome � RM � Italy) � www.garanteprivacy.it, and you can send your complaint at the e-mail protocollo@pec.gpdp.it, using the format which can be found at https://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/4535524&zx=e0yn0riezmmw. Data Protection Officer Data subjects may contact our Data Protection Officer with regard to all issues related to processing of their personal data by sending an e-mail at dpo@giordanovini.it. I have read the information ex art. 13, GDPR I:
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Republican Senator Uses Facebook Live to Ask Trump to Step Down
Outside Source
Excerpt from The Verge
Written by Jordan Golson
In a stunning late night Facebook Live video, Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee pleaded with Donald Trump to step aside and give up his nomination for President. The video, which Lee filmed from his home in Utah, is like many on Facebook Live — a single person, speaking to the camera, spreading a message. Trump used a similar tactic, though not as a live stream, when he apologized for comments he made about women that were published earlier on Friday.
RELATED: Senator Mike Lee Discusses Tyrants, Tattoos and the Feds Seizing Your Technology
But it is exceptional in that Lee, a 45-year old senator who took office in the Tea Party-surge of 2010, didn’t go to Fox News or CNN or MSNBC to spread his message. He went to an internet streaming service that didn’t exist a year ago.
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Ballard M, Madore A, Johnson A, et al. Concept Note: Community Health Workers. Harvard Business Publishing. 2018.Abstract
Download GHD-C11 Community Health Workers Concept Note
Community health workers (CHWs)—lay people who engage in efforts to improve the health of their communities—have been proposed as a way to fill the global health human resource gap by extending services to hard-to-reach populations in remote areas. This concept note provides a brief history of CHWs, considers issues in CHW program design, and outlines future directions for research and funding.
Visual representation of CHW density in Sub-Saharan Africa. Source: One Million CHWs Campaign, 2016.
Learning objectives: This concept note aims to further students’ and instructors’ understanding of community health workers presented in the Cases in Global Health Delivery collection.
Keywords: Human resources, primary care, disease management, monitoring and evaluation, resource allocation, global health policy, community health workers, partnerships
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Rosenberg J, ole-MoiYoi K, Morse M. Concept Note: Clinical Background on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis. Harvard Business Publishing. 2016.Abstract
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This concept note provides a clinical overview of three diseases that feature predominantly in our case study collection: HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. The concept note describes the pathology, causes, and management related to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of each of the diseases.
Learning Objectives: To further students’ and instructors’ understanding of clinical concepts presented in the Global Health Delivery (GHD) Case Collection.
Keyword: Epidemiology, pathology, disease management, monitoring and evaluation, resource allocation, global health policy, partnerships, reatment and prevention.
Sullivan E, ole-MoiYoi K, Weintraub R. Concept Note: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Harvard Business Publishing. 2012.Abstract
Download GHD-C02 Concept Note: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
This concept note explains the history, management, structure, financing, and strategy of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria-a public-private partnership and international financing institution created to attract and disburse resources to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. The note also provides some insight to its impact on grantees. Because the Global Fund plays an important role for many of the organizations featured in the Cases in Global Health Delivery Series, this note will be useful background reading for students engaging in those cases.
Global Fund–Supported Program Results. Source: Making a Difference, Global Fund 2011 Results Report. (Exhibit 3 from "Concept Note: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.")
Learning Objectives: To understand the structure, management, and role of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as an international financing institution.
Keywords: Structure, financing, tuberculosis and malaria, history, Global Fund to Fight Aids, strategy, management
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Halliburton announces 284 percent increase in war profits
By Halliburton Watch.Org
Haliburton Watch.Org 4 August 2005
In-depth Report: IRAQ REPORT
WASHINGTON, July 25 (HalliburtonWatch.org) — Halliburton announced on Friday that its KBR division, responsible for carrying out Pentagon contracts, experienced a 284 percent increase in operating profits during the second quarter of this year.
The increase in profits was primarily due to the Pentagon’s payment of “award fees” for what military officials call “good” or “very good” work done by KBR in the Middle East for America’s taxpayers and the troops.
Despite the scandals that plague KBR’s military contracts, the Pentagon awarded $70 million in “award” fees to the company, along with four ratings of “excellent” and two ratings of “very good” for the troop logistics work under the Army’s LOGCAP contract.
The Pentagon has provided preferential treatment to Halliburton on a number of occasions, including the concealment from the public of critical reports by military auditors.
Audits conducted by the Pentagon’s Defense Contract Audit Agency determined that KBR had $1 billion in “questioned” expenses (i.e. expenses which military auditors consider “unreasonable”) and $442 million in “unsupported” expenses (i.e. expenses which military auditors have determined contain no receipt or any explanation on how the expenses were disbursed).
But the top Pentagon brass ignored these audits and rewarded KBR’s work anyway.
Halliburton’s earnings announcement comes on the heels of new reports showing the Iraq and Afghan wars have already cost U.S. taxpayers $314 billion and that another ten years of war will cost $700 billion.
In another coup for Halliburton, a federal judge this month decided that whistleblowers may not sue U.S. companies for fraud if payment for services was Halliburton announces 284 perce.ems made in Iraqi, not U.S., money. Halliburton was paid over $1 billion in Iraqi oil money during the first 15 months of the occupation. The judge’s ruling means the False Claims Act cannot be used to offer large rewards to corporate insiders who reveal wrongdoing or overcharges for services. The law is considered America’s most successful deterrent against contractor fraud, but the judge’s decision will help Halliburton and other contractors avoid tough scrutiny in Iraq.
The original source of this article is Haliburton Watch.Org
Copyright © Halliburton Watch.Org, Haliburton Watch.Org, 2005
Articles by: Halliburton Watch.Org
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“Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent”
Review of Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd's book
By Leslie Thatcher
Truthout 23 June 2009
By Marjorie Cohn and Kathleen Gilberd
Poll Point Press, Sausalito , 2009.
“As you know, you go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
– Then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at a town hall meeting with US troops in Kuwait , December 8, 2004
Although regular Truthout contributor, National Lawyers Guild president and Thomas Jefferson School of Law professor Marjorie Cohn and longtime activist co-author Kathleen Gilberd conceived “Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent” as “a practical guide, not an abstract analysis” and have certainly produced a primer on the available legal and honorable means for redress of the many grievances the US military may suffer, they have also authored a deeply suggestive meditation on the military “we have” and how it may have come to be the source of so many and such varied grievances.
Their crucial insight – which runs counter to the complete anti-military bias of some in the anti-war movement – is that “Poor healthcare, poor gear, poor safety conditions, poor training, and the use of racist stereotypes and sexism are not inherent in a military – rather they are inherent in a military fighting illegal and immoral wars and ignoring basic rules of engagement …”[1] Cohn and Gilberd are on the side of US service members who didn’t check their conscience – and their sense of honor – at the door when they signed up.
“Rules of Disengagement” provides a brief history of service member challenges to illegal war based on the Nuremberg Principles and Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) which establish a duty to disobey unlawful orders. The authors determine that while US military judges have been largely unwilling to rule that US military engagements per se are unlawful, they have sometimes been open to using such arguments to mitigate sentencing of service members who resist or refuse orders on the basis of their illegality.
A chapter on conscientious objection highlights specific cases and focuses on clarifying the actual law and means for redress while debunking some of the stereotypes about conscientious objectors that prevent service members from applying for that status when it covers their situation. The authors maintain that a large number of service members who could be eligible to be conscientious objectors go AWOL, unaware that they might qualify as COs . They also helpfully point out that the chances of achieving CO status are enhanced when the belief system used as the basis for the application is religious, i.e. NOT political.
Once objection to all war or a specific war is covered, the authors move on to the law of war which requires that the US promulgate rules of engagement (ROE) for its military “that place limitations on the use of force to ensure its lawful use,” most notably that all possible measures be taken to protect civilians. They cover the Winter Soldier Investigation in 1971 and 2008, showing the devastating long-term impact on service members themselves resulting from the military’s failure to communicate and/or respect ROE in Vietnam , Iraq and Afghanistan . “Rules” also highlights the risks and rights of service members who testify publicly concerning war crimes they witnessed or participated in.
Cohn and Gilberd cover the various forms of dissent available to members of the military and “examine the military’s heavy-handed response to even the most legal forms of dissent.” And although, as they illustrate, even the most protected forms of dissent may provoke informal and illegal or extra-legal reprisals, service members’ courage, imagination and ingenuity in devising new and legal forms of dissent maintain and enlarge the space for freedom of speech and belief among active duty military, and even ultimately change the laws and rights that apply. Both authors (see interview below) feel that dissent by GIs and their families is critical to military disengagement from Iraq and Afghanistan and to preventing future wars of aggression.
“When soldiers cannot be motivated by patriotism and the belief that they are fighting for a just cause, other basic motivating concepts must be found to replace them. Sexism, racism, and homophobia are coldly and manipulatively used to get soldiers to fight.” Racism is used to objectify the enemy and make it easier for troops to kill. Sexism, including sexual assault, is part of a training process that intentionally uses sexual images and sexual brutality. These attitudes, inculcated for use against “the enemy,” backfire in the harassment of and assaults on US armed services members by US armed services members Truthout has reported on extensively. Although one might imagine that this blowback would be so damaging to troop morale and necessary camaraderie the military would revise its training and retool its culture, Cohn and Gilberd document how deeply entrenched racist and sexist attitudes are in the military, how they are used – and what recourse is available to troops who have been victimized.
Someone not following the news might also imagine the military would assure the best medical treatment available for its own: Gilberd and Cohn cover the now all-too-familiar territory of biased misdiagnoses of PTSD, the prevalence of suicide among GIs and vets and the continuing failures of the veterans’ health care system, while offering valuable advice about how service personnel and their families can push the system into more responsive – and responsible – directions.
“Rules” also covers the other types of discharge available to military personnel, as well as the roadblocks to be expected and the resources to get around or through those roadblocks, the importance of military families as advocates and the parallels in “mission and condition” between the military and society. The authors document how troops and their families become radicalized when the military fails to take care of its own and blatantly disregards its own rules. Finally, for those who read “Rules” as the primer it is designed to be, the Appendix offers a list of resources for service people and their families who find themselves in any of the situations the book describes.
While most of the many individual examples Cohn and Gilberd reference will be familiar to Truthout readers, there is great power to the overall perspective “Rules” conveys of a military that treats its own troops like the “disposable weapons” it presumably wishes they were (how else to explain all the research and development devoted to drones, predators and robots?) and the heroic refusal of so many troops to become so objectified. While the men and women the authors describe discover that the meaning, order, security and purpose they hoped to find in the military were illusory, their own idealism and persistence create higher order meaning; order, security and purpose, and refine their own characters as well as the character of the military and society itself. While sometimes dispiriting, ultimately “Rules of Disengagement” is an inspiring document that challenges each of us to act with dignity to assert the inalienable worth of every member of society, to reimagine a society from which “the military that we want” could arise.
The original source of this article is Truthout
Copyright © Leslie Thatcher, Truthout, 2009
Articles by: Leslie Thatcher
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Home > Discover > Your Strategy > The Rise of the Rainbow Flag in Corporate New Zealand: Three things we learned
The Rise of the Rainbow Flag in Corporate New Zealand: Three things we learned
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Global Women hosts quarterly diversity and inclusion (D&I) MeetUps as an opportunity for our corporate partners to get together and discuss a specific topic in the D&I space.
Our September D&I MeetUp was themed “The Rise of the Rainbow Flag in Corporate New Zealand”, and was co-hosted by our Principal partner PwC during their annual diversity week.
(L-R) Michael Stevens, Russell Windsor, Candice Collier, Toni Lea
The event was facilitated by Michael Stevens, Founder of the Rainbow Tick, and featured three panellists: Toni Lea, Group Recruitment Manager at Fletcher Building, Candice Collier, Senior Manager Customer Experience at Westpac, and Russell Windsor, Partner at PwC.
All three panellists have been instrumental in developing successful LGBTTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, tākatāpui and intersex) diversity strategies in their respective organisations—and as members of the community themselves, shared their own stories of the impact of these changing corporate approaches.
(Top, L-R) PwC offices, Meetup attendees, (Middle) Panellists in action, (Bottom L-R) PwC Senior Assurance Partner Leo Foliaki, Candice Collier and Russell Windsor.
Three things we learned
The panel discussion allowed us to see why it’s important to create an LGBTTI inclusive corporate culture, how it can be achieved, and the very real organisational benefits.
To feel as though you belong at an organisation, you need to be able to bring your whole self to work
In his opening notes, Michael made the point that for many members of the LGBTTI community it can be easy to camouflage at work—however uncomfortable. Candice cited Westpac’s research, which found that over 50% of working New Zealanders feel like they can’t be their whole selves at work, and that the Rainbow community were two times more likely to feel this.
To make space for LGBTTI employees to be their happiest and most productive at work, we need to create corporate cultures where they are valued and supported. Supportive corporate environments help employees to come out as “professionally gay”, raising the profile of the LGBTTI community in the organisation and making it safe for others to come out in turn.
This visibility is important. Candice told us the story of a senior leadership member who shared a personal anecdote that included his partner and effectively came out to his team during a presentation. This single authentic act had a hugely positive impact on Westpac’s D&I journey—and importantly, allowed younger LGBTTI staff members to see themselves reflected in their organisations leadership.
To make it safe to come out at work, organisations need to be prepared to come out in support of their LGBTTI employees, listen to what they need, and take a strong line on cultural issues like bullying.
Change needs to be championed from the top—but supported from throughout the organisation
A big question for any organisation is whether this change should be driven from the top or from grass-roots level.
Our panellists were unanimous: to achieve real change within an organisation, its leaders need to step up, own their diversity initiatives and listen. They need to be seen authentically role modelling the change—personally and professionally—and clearly signal that they value and want diversity.
Changing hearts and minds within an organisation is no easy feat. Businesses need to be clear in their message, align their D&I initiatives to their corporate values, and to commit real resources in order to maintain momentum. They may also need to engage a number of different approaches to get the full engagement of the organisation across all levels.
Our panellists agreed that it can be challenging to get nation-wide engagement in LGBTTI D&I initiatives. They agreed that the most effective way to bring regional centres along for the ride is to engage them directly and keep the messaging relevant to their individual experiences.
Organisations can also use the attitudes of external stakeholders to help engage their staff. By demonstrating the value that clients or customers see in an organisation’s LGBTTI D&I approach, it can be easier to overcome internal push back.
A commitment to LGBTTI diversity has real impact on finding and keeping staff
Making these changes isn’t about diversity for the sake of diversity. It’s about creating space for true talent.
Our panellists talked about the demonstrated benefit their Rainbow approach to diversity had in terms of improved staffing outcomes: helping them keep existing employees, as well as making their organisation more attractive to new recruits.
Candice talked about how new graduate recruits found Westpac’s Rainbow Tick a real drawcard whether they identified as LGBTTI or not, believing that it demonstrated the bank’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.
And Toni gave the example of an LGBTTI staff member who decided to stay at Fletcher Building after the introduction of the organisation’s targeted LGBTTI D&I initiative—a demonstration that their identity was valued and respected by their employer.
Be part of the conversation on Twitter @NZGlobalWomen and on Facebook at ‘NZ Global Women’.
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Lee Hecht Harrison and HumanConcepts Announce Strategic Partnership
Leaders in Managing Workforce Change and Transitions to Offer End-to-End Solution
March 16, 2011 14:00 ET | Source: HumanConcepts; LHH
WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ and SAUSALITO, CA--(Marketwire - March 16, 2011) - Lee Hecht Harrison (LHH), a leading talent management solutions company, announced today at the organization's global management meeting that they have joined forces with HumanConcepts, the leading provider of workforce decision support solutions, to offer consulting services coupled with technology in order to provide a best practice-based solution for handling outplacement, redeployment and workforce reductions. Working jointly with clients to properly prepare for and manage workforce change events, HumanConcepts and LHH will help companies adopt proven strategies in process management, compliance and reporting, as well as offer a clear path forward for affected employees.
LHH is the global talent development leader in connecting people to jobs and helping individuals improve performance, and is the global leader in career transition services. HumanConcepts offers solutions for understanding the workforce, planning for change and managing the processes around employee separations. By combining these strengths, HumanConcepts and LHH will now offer their clients an end-to-end solution for managing workforce reductions in a way that mitigates risk, meets financial objectives and provides the best possible employee outplacement experience. Under Lee Hecht Harrison's strategic guidance in conjunction with real time organizational insight provided by the HumanConcepts solutions, companies can now better manage the reduction decision process, reduce legal and compliance exposure, and manage administrative processes. This not only reduces the cost of separation, but also ensures that those individuals affected by the reduction are treated in a consistent and compliant manner. In addition, the HumanConcepts solutions will provide earlier insight into specific reductions, such as geographic locations that will be effected, so the LHH team can most effectively deploy their career transition offerings.
"The partnership with Lee Hecht Harrison is a natural complement to our solution offerings," said Martin Sacks, president and CEO of HumanConcepts. "Customers using our Transition Manager and OrgPlus Enterprise solutions will attest to the significant impact the technology has on their ability to be agile. They can now manage change events efficiently and effectively with full information access and process control. As such, they are in the best position to treat affected employees with care, and protect the company from the substantial financial risk inherent in organizational change.
Peter Alcide, President and COO of Lee Hecht Harrison, added, "Whether in growth or recessionary times, organizations will continue to experience significant change and the partnership between LHH and HumanConcepts allows us to provide enhanced capabilities to enable our clients to effectively manage the complexity of the change they are experiencing. Our clients are looking for innovative, cost-effective tools to plan, manage and report on restructuring and organizational change events. HumanConcepts' Transition Manager and OrgPlus Enterprise are exactly the types of solutions that our clients are looking for now to add to LHH's industry-leading Career Transition programs."
The combined offerings are available immediately. Please contact HumanConcepts or LHH for more information.
About HumanConcepts
HumanConcepts enables enterprises to better manage organizational change of all types, including growth, rightsizing and reorganization. Using solutions from HumanConcepts, customers can achieve organization agility, more easily understand how they are organized, plan for the future, and transition the workforce to its optimal state. Used by many of the world's largest organizations, HumanConcepts solutions provide immediate return on investment by enabling companies to reorganize faster, manage financial targets, stay in compliance, and reduce both cost and risk. The company's products are certified by leading ERP and talent vendors such as Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft and Lawson. HumanConcepts is based in Sausalito, California, with offices in the United Kingdom, Germany and Singapore. For more information, visit www.humanconcepts.com.
About Lee Hecht Harrison
With over 270 offices worldwide, Lee Hecht Harrison is the global talent development leader in connecting people to jobs and helping individuals improve performance. Lee Hecht Harrison assists organizations in supporting restructuring efforts, developing leaders at all levels, engaging and retaining critical talent, and maintaining productivity through change.
Lee Hecht Harrison is a part of Adecco Group, the world leader in workforce solutions with over 6,000 offices in over 70 countries and territories around the world. For more information, please visit www.LHH.com.
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Distal radial fractures in the elderly
Nida Mushtaq, Wasim Khan
GM, March, 2015
Fractures of the distal radius are one of the most common orthopaedic fractures within predominantly Caucasian and older populations. These fractures result from low injury trauma and increase in incidence due to the effects of post-menopausal osteoporosis in women. There are various management and treatment techniques for distal radial fractures. This includes both conservative and surgical treatment including open reduction internal fixation (ORIF), K-wires, use of pins and volar locking plates. A majority of distal radial fractures are treated with cast immobilisation however more complicated fractures require additional operative management.
Within elderly populations it becomes important to consider the anaesthetic complications which can arise as a result of these surgical treatments. A thorough preoperative assessment is required to reduce these complications and to ensure that local ansaesthisa can be used to minimise discomfort. There is not one treatment that will be effective in treatment of all types of fractures. Therefore, one has to look at the specific characteristics of each fracture.
Fractures of the distal radius are one of the most common orthopaedic fractures within predominantly Caucasian and older populations.1 Fractures of the distal radius within the older population usually result from low-energy trauma, such as a fall from a standing height. In contrast the mechanism in younger patients usually involves high energy trauma such as road traffic accidents. This pattern reflects how the bone loss from osteoporosis makes fractures of the distal radius more likely in the older population.2
It has been estimated that, at 50 years of age, a Caucasian female in the USA or Northern Europe has a 15% life-time risk of a distal radius fracture; whereas a male has a lifetime risk of just over 2%.3
A recent prospective survey of Colles’ fracture in patients aged 35 years and above, in six centres in the UK, reported the overall annual incidence of this fracture to be 9/10,000 in men and 37/10,000 in women.2 Distal radial fractures are usually treated in an outpatient setting with around 20% of patients (mainly older) requiring hospital admission.3,4 The impact of distal radial fractures on patients and healthcare resources is substantial.5 Fractures of the hand are a common injury and if inappropriately managed, may leave severe functional deficit.6 There are a number of options for stabilisation and treatment of these fractures; namely conservative or surgical. Conservative management includes cast immobilisation. There are many surgical options available such as internal fixation, external fixation, percutaneous pinning and bone substitutes.7 This review looks at the current literature related to the treatment and management of distal radius fractures.
Common distal radial fractures in the elderly
Distal radial fractures that occur in elderly patients have different characteristics to those fractures seen in younger patients.8 Colles’ fracture usually results following low energy trauma such as a patient falling on the dorsiflexed hand, breaking the radius transversely just above the wrist. This is often associated with osteoporotic patients.9 Another two fractures that are less common than the Colles’ fracture are Smith’s and Barton’s fracture. Smith’s fracture is described as a true reversed Colles’ fracture and involves a transverse fracture of the lower radius with a forward shift and tilt. This is the opposite to the Colles’ that has a dorsally displaced fragment rather than ventral. This is a rare fracture and occurs mainly in elderly women.9
The Barton’s fracture, otherwise known as fracture dislocation, is commoner. The radial fracture is oblique and it extends upwards and forwards from the wrist joint (intra-articular).10 The intra-articular nature of the fracture is what distinguishes this from a Colles’ or Smith’s fracture and is usually caused by falling on an extended and pronated wrist.
Most injuries of this sort occur due to falls on the hand. To understand the mechanism of injury further it helps to think of the distal forearm as divided into three columns: ulnar, intermediate and distal column. The proposed theory of load transmission through the wrist suggests that small loads are transmitted via the radial column which acts primarily as a stabiliser.
The intermediate column serves primarily for load transmission and axial loads from the lunate and the proximal part of the scaphoid are transmitted along this column. Finally, the ulnar column has the triangular fibrocartilage, which helps to transmit half of the axial load. When a patient’s hand strikes the ground we have variable dorsal and lateral forces, which travel through the carpal bones to the lower end of the radius, which results in distal radius fractures.11
Hyperflexion of the wrist joint has been identified as the single most common injury mechanism in distal radial fractures. This determines the compression and tension forces applied to the radiocarpal joint as a result of a fall.11 All in all, the exact position of the hand at the time of impact with the quality of the bone (osteoporosis) determines the different patterns of distal radial fractures. Many studies have established a clear correlation between an increased incidence of forearm fractures and decreased bone mineral density in postmenopausal women as a result of osteoporosis.
Classification12
The Orthopaedic Trauma Association fracture classification defines distal radius fractures (23 A–C). The classification is arranged in ascending order of severity according to the prognosis of the fracture, the morphologic complexities and also the difficulties in treatment. Type A distal radial fractures are those not involving the articular surface. Fractures which do involve the articular surface are divided into two groups; those which involve part of the articular surface (Type B) and those which involve all of the articular surface (Type C). Type B fractures are then subdivided into the following groups: group B1 fractures involve the sagittal plane; group B2, the dorsal rim (also known as Barton’s fracture); group B3, the volar rim (reverse Barton’s fracture). These are in turn further subdivided.
Compression fractures are considered as type C fractures, which are subdivided into three groups. Group C1 fractures are two-part articular fractures without metaphyseal fragmentation; group C2, two-part articular fractures in which the metaphysis is multifragmentary; group C3, fractures involving comminution of the articular surface. These are also further subdivided.
Accurate classification of complex fracture patterns may not always be possible when examining fractures using preoperative radiographs. However, the classification will prove extremely useful in trying to understand how to manage these fractures and in the evaluation of the outcome.
The distal end of the radius is the anatomical foundation of the wrist joint. The wrist joint is a synovial joint between the distal end of the radius and the articular disc overlying the distal end of the ulna, and the scaphoid, the triquetrium and the lunate. The wrist joint allows movement around two axes. In addition to the palmar and dorsal ligaments we have the radial and ulnar collateral ligaments, which reinforce the wrist joint and enable the joint to support axial load.13
The anatomic relationships of the dorsal radius, the extensor retinaculum, and the six dorsal extensor compartments are important in planning operative management and the placement of implants.14 The articular end of the radius slopes in an ulnar and palmar direction. The proximal carpal row will have a tendency to slide in an ulnar direction, resisted by the intracapsular and intraosseous carpal ligaments, because of this slope.15
The other distinct articular surface of the end of the radius is the sigmoid notch. The articulation is a trochoid joint. During rotation of the radius about the ulna in supination, the ulnar head displaces volarly in the notch, while in pronation it moves dorsally. The triangular fibrocartilage complex arises at the ulnar aspect of the distal radius and extends onto the ulnar styloid process and helps by acting as a crucial stabiliser of the distal radioulnar joint. Stability and mobility are ensured by the design of the radius and its interactions with its carpal and ulnar articulations. It becomes crucial that operative management of distal radial fractures does not result in deformity of these articulations as this can have a profound effect on the wrist joint as a unit.16
Conservative management
Ultimately, the main aim of all forms of management is to restore full function and achieve early mobilisation to reduce the risk of poor outcome. Successful fracture management aims to achieve early fracture union without significant complications. If fractures are displaced significantly they need to be reduced to a satisfactory position. This can then allow adequate stabilisation for the fracture to heal. Stabilisation can be achieved using non-operative management.17
Closed reduction and cast immobilisation is the mainstay of treatment for minimally displaced, stable fractures. The duration of cast immobilisation for distal radial fractures remains a topic of debate. Currently, the decision for the duration of immobilisation of distal radial fractures is predominantly based upon the personal preferences of the treating surgeon. The recommended time is four to six weeks, however, for up to 30%. The effect of the duration of cast immobilisation on the fracture still remains unclear.18 Conservative management is indicated particularly in unstable fractures in the elderly population who are considered too frail to undergo surgery.19 A systematic review by Handoll et al in 2003 of 37 randomised trials compared the different types of closed reduction for displaced fractures. They concluded that there is a general insufficiency of evidence to inform which form of management is best, and clinicians should use the form of reduction they are most familiar with.20
Operative management
Once a fracture has been reduced, if adequate stabilisation cannot be provided by a plaster, then some form of operative stabilisation procedure is needed. This can be with K-wires or plates. These may need additional cast immobilisation. Sometimes, external fixators are also used.
Kapandji wires
Percutaneous pinning, or Kapandji or K-wiring is a simple, minimally invasive technique to maintain reduction of the fracture and prevent re-displacement of the fragments.21,22 In the US in 1999, orthopaedic trainees treated 58% of distal radius fractures with percutaneous pinning and by 2007, only 19% of cases were treated with percutaneous pinning.23 This was mainly due to the introduction of volar plating, but also due to the many complications that have been reported after retrograde pinning for distal radial fractures, including soft tissue irritation, injury to radial sensory nerve and extensor tendons, pain, algodystrophy, pin tract infection especially when left outside the skin and loss of reduction. Percutaneous K-wiring is a simple and cost-effective technique provided that the distal radius is not severely comminuted or osteoporotic.22
K-wiring involves the wires being inserted into the medullary canal through a dorsal cortex of the radial diaphysis in the forearm.24 Results from studies showed that intra-medullary K-wire fixation is an effective technique for stabilisation and prevention of secondary displacement of distal radial fractures. However, it must be noted that care is taken when selecting patients as this technique is not suitable for fractures with marked intra-articular or metaphyseal comminution.22 The incidence of infection with regards to this technique has been seen to increase with the length of time that the K-wires are left. This brings about a common debate relating to the duration of treatment with K-wires. As a result there is a trade-off between leaving the K-wires in situ for the full six weeks to fracture union and the increasing infection rate versus removing them earlier at four weeks and completing the treatment with a cast alone for the remaining two weeks.25
Volar locking plates
In recent years, advancements in volar plating have been reflected by a rapid expansion in the popularity of such systems.23 Volar locking plate systems have been shown to be the gold standard for fixation of these fractures with good to excellent objective and functional outcomes.26 The ability of these volar plates to maintain fracture reduction has previously been seen in clinical studies, where they have been used for distal radial fractures. In unstable distal radius fractures studies have shown that volar locking plates are considerably more stable than percutaneous pins. Volar plates also carry the advantage of neither needing to bury and remove at a later date, as they can generally be left in permanently. In some practices either no cast immobilisation or less than six-week immobilisation can be prescribed, which allows for earlier mobilisation.25 Volar locking plating of distal radial fractures is a reliable form of treatment without substantial late displacement as confirmed by clinical studies,26 but is a more extensive procedure as it involves open reduction with its associated risks.
Anaesthetic considerations
Anaesthesia is used with the surgical techniques for managing distal radial radial fractures in an attempt to minimise discomfort.27 The type of anaesthesia (local or general) that is used becomes an important factor which you need to consider when trying to achieve the best possible outcome from treatment. Studies have shown that those patients who undergo open reduction internal fixation of distal radial fractures experience less pain and a better range of motion in the early post-operative stage if local anaethesia is used. The benefit of this anaesthesia appears to dissipate with time, however the positive benefits in terms of range of movement enables the patient to return to normal activities more rapidly.28
Local anaesthesia has also been seen to be preferable with the treatment of Colles fractures in elderly patients. It has been seen to be preferable because of its easy administation and it appears to be more readily available than general anaesthesia.29 With distal radial fractures we have added complications since a majority of patients will be elderly. Patients within this age bracket become particularly sensitive to stress, surgery, hospitalisation and anaesthesia. The reason why this occurs is only partly understood and since anaesthesia is deemed necessary to reduce discomfort during surgery, clinicians must ensure that a thorough preoperative assesment is carried out. This includes intraoperative management of any pre-existing disorders that the patient may have and finally a meticulous post-operative pain control regime.30
Post-operative rehabilitation27
For bone healing you should expect a six-week period to ensure that the bone has achieved maximum strength. With a cast it is advised to support the fracture for one to two weeks in a removable plastic splint.
Internal fixation
For a patient who has undergone internal fixation treatment they can begin a gentle range of movement within one to two weeks. After this time a removable splint is used to support the fracture. The plate can either be left or surgically removed in a few weeks.
External fixation
The frame and pins are removed around three to six weeks after the surgery. This is then followed by a few weeks of a removable plastic splint to support the fracture.
Treatment of osteoporosis can help prevent fractures, rather than to relieve pain or symptoms. All of the drug treatments for osteoporosis have been clinically tested and research has proven they reduce the risk of breaking bones.31 A healthy lifestyle can help to keep bones strong, but it is considered insufficient on its own to prevent fractures in people with osteoporosis who are at high risk of fracture. Complementary therapies have not been shown to reduce the risk of breaking a bone. If a patient is at high risk of a fracture it is unlikely therefore that a natural approach will be sufficient to reduce the risk of bones breaking.
Drug treatments are available and include bisphosphonates such as alendronic acid /alendronate (Fosamax), risedronate (Actonel), ibandronate (Bonviva) and zoledronic acid (Aclasta).
There are also the Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators that include raloxifene (Evista). Then there is strontium ranelate (Protelos), denosumab (Prolia) and parathyroid hormone treatment such as teriparatide (Forsteo).31 Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is sometimes recommended for women who are experiencing the menopause as it can help control symptoms.
Fractures of the distal radius are very common and there are nearly as many different options of managing this fracture as there are types of distal radial fractures. There is not one treatment that will be effective in treatment of all types of fractures. Therefore, one has to look at the specific characteristics of each fracture in order to determine the best possible treatment.
Conflict of interest: none declared
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By Neerav Bhatt on Jun 17, 2013 11:04AM
Linked gallery: Photos: Sydney's Opal smartcard in use
It's no Oyster card.
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Sydney residents were first promised a public transport smartcard in the nineties as the city readied itself for the 2000 Olympics.
More than a decade later the Opal smartcard has made its debut on trains.
Opal’s June 14 expansion to include Sydney City Circle trains and the Eastern Suburbs train line follows a trial on a small number of ferry routes which have been Opal-enabled for over 6 months.
Transport for NSW has chosen to roll out the system progressively so it can conduct thorough testing to fix any issues.
Opal is the result of a contract awarded by the NSW government in May 2010 to a consortium of Cubic Transportation Systems, Commonwealth Bank, epay, Parkeon and Downer EDi.
Consortium lead Cubic Corporation has prior experience as systems integrator in the London Oyster and Hong Kong Octopus transport smartcard projects.
The Opal project will cost more than $1 billion and take three years to roll out due to its complexity.
The contactless Opal smartcard is based on NXP’s MIFARE DESFire EV1.
Cubic said the Opal system would be “future-proofed” with readers capable of accepting emerging technologies for fare payment using contactless bank cards and mobile phones.
It was hoped that the expanded Opal trial would be zonal in nature like the paper MyMulti tickets, so users who need to catch different modes of Sydney public transport could do so without penalty.
Unfortunately, the NSW Government’s Opal pricing has controversially opted to keep the paper ticket anachronism where changing modes of public transport in a single journey results in a much higher cost.
If this remains unchanged as the system expands its coverage, a public transport user who catches a bus for one hour will be charged less than another person who rides a train for half an hour and then catches a bus for half an hour.
Frequent public transport users will no longer be able to prepay for long term tickets such as yearly, quarterly and monthly. However after 8 Opal trial journeys all further journeys will be free for that week and there will be a $15/day maximum cost from Monday to Saturday.
In an effort to reduce congestion, users are encouraged to travel off-peak with a 30 percent train discount if they tap on outside of 7am-9am & 4pm-6.30pm on weekdays and all weekend. Opal use on Sundays will incur a flat fee of $2.50, which allows unlimited travel.
No Oyster card
Transportation analyst David Caldwell said to date the Opal project has suffered from a “cargo cult” mentality.
He said those running the Opal project hoped to replicate successful international systems, but hadn’t addressed the underlying mechanics, pricing structures for users and revenue distribution for operators.
“The fundamental problem with trip-based charging is that you penalise users who interrupt their journeys, say to drop the kids at school or do shopping. It detracts from the value proposition of transit for no good reason,” Caldwell said.
He argued by this stage in the Opal project, the future revenue collection approach should be clear.
“Ultimately that is the end game - who pays how much for what. As yet there is no clarity on this end functional outcome, a little concerning for a project with a bit over $1 billion committed spend.
“The question is how does Opal help transit and transit users - does it more equitably link fares to costs, does it make journeys faster and more comfortable, does it encourage transit use in a practical way?
"The objectives that would normally underpin a project like this, like enabling seamless intermodal transfers, are absent.”
Caldwell also flagged the issue of trial pricing structures for different transport types.
“To mitigate against this there is a $15/day cap, but this is really a kludge. A flat cap does not equitably address cost inequities in multi-modal and broken-journeys.
"Even with the $15 cap and pay for four-days and the fifth is free, the prices end up being significantly higher than current multi-modal “MyZone”, and also higher than say commuter tickets in London, where there is generally more than double the level of service.”
Caldwell said the $15 cap would require a geographic limit as well as time limits.
“This is just one of several key areas in which the goal is not clear. The next stage of roll-out hopefully will be very different to the trial approach.
"London’s Oyster card, to which Sydney’s Opal is often compared, defines and caps fares based on geographic zone usage, and so far the government has only committed to eliminate Sydney’s zone system, without explaining how multi-modal fares might be equitably determined otherwise.”
Caldwell told iTnews the current Opal trial pricing structure was not commensurate with either usage or value to the user.
“This is the real challenge, and it has been solved by cities like Hamburg, Zurich, Perth and London by applying geographic zone and time-based fares, rather than trying to figure out how to define individual journeys with breakages and mode changes in the mix.”
Read on for user reviews and the verdict on the Opal smartcard.
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West Country Dorchester
Arrest made in Dorchester 'hit and run' investigation
CCTV released of car after woman killed in a hit and run
Police make plea after fatal Dorchester incident
Police investigating the death of Dorset mother Erika Prisacaru have arrested a woman on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving
Pictures of the car believed to have been involved in a hit and run that left a woman dead, have been released by Dorset Police.
Dorset Police is asking the driver of the vehicle that killed a woman in Dorchester to come forward.
Concern for missing man from Dorchester
Police are asking people to look out for 53-year-old Mark Powell who went missing from Spetisbury on Sunday. He may be riding a red bike
Louis Harris' family: drinking near deep water is lethal
The family of a teenager, whose body was recovered in Weymouth harbour after a night out, has spoken of the dangers of drinking near water.
Family backs 'Don't Drink and Drown' campaign
The family of Louis Harris who's thought to have drowned after a night out in Weymouth hope to stop others experiencing the same heartbreak
Man charged with murdering two-year-old boy in Dorset
A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of two-year-old Harry House in Broadmayne in Dorset
Hundreds protest against possible hospital cuts
Hundreds of people joined a march to protest against possible cuts to maternity and paediatric services at Dorchester's main hospital.
Dying businessman gives £3 million for cancer unit
Robert White donated £3 million to the Dorset County Hospital before he died Credit: Family
A businessman who died from cancer has left millions of pounds to pay for a new treatment centre.
The money Robert White donated will fund a new radiotherapy unit at Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester. The new centre will cut journey times for patients who currently travel from far afield.
Over a period of six months as we went through the treatment of his illness, we'd been talking about the opportunities of providing funds to the NHS. After some thought and showing him the things we could potentially do, he came to my clinic and handed me an envelope with a NatWest cheque written out for £3 million - which was quite a day.
– Mike Bayne, Consultant
Dorset County Hospital
Toddler death pair released on bail
Two-year-old Harry House's death is being treated as murder Credit: Family
The two people arrested in connection with the murder investigation of a toddler from Broadmayne have been released on bail.
On Thursday 26th May police officers were called by the ambulance service to a house in Broadmayne.
Two-year-old Harry House was seriously ill and taken to Dorset County Hospital where sadly he was pronounced dead.
A man and a woman, both aged 21 and from the Dorchester area, were arrested on suspicion of murder and have been released on bail until the end of August 2016.
Murder investigation after death of toddler
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Kidner Classic Commentaries
by Derek Kidner
Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference for 2014 (Old Testament Commentaries)
The prophet Jeremiah and King Josiah were born at the end of the longest, darkest reign in Judah's history. Human sacrifice and practice of the black arts were just two features of the wickedness that filled Jerusalem from one end to the other with innocent blood. As outspoken prophet and reforming king, these two men gave their country its finest opportunity of renewal and its last hope of surviving as the kingdom of David.
The book of Jeremiah is full of turmoil and national tragedy, the story of key people like Baruch, Gedaliah and Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, and the drama of rediscovering the forgotten book of Mosaic law. National events interweave with the lives of individuals; the rediscovered book of God's law transforms Josiah, Jeremiah and the future of the world. Derek Kidner, in this volume that was formerly part of the widely respected The Bible Speaks Today series, gives careful attention to the text and reveals its startling relevance to our own troubled time.
Publisher's preface
Author's preface
Chief abbreviations
Introduction: The life and times of Jeremiah
Prologue: The prohet's call (Jeremiah 1)
1 From Josiah to the first year of Nebuchadrezzar (Jeremiah 2-20)
2 From Josiah's successors to the captivity (Jeremiah 21-45)
3 Oracles concerning the nations (Jeremiah 46-51)
Epilogue: Jerusalem and Babylon--A historical footnote (Jeremiah 52)
A Sin, judgment, repentance, grace and salvation in the preaching of Jeremiah
B The chapters of the book in their chronological setting
C A table of dates
Jeremiah, Lamentations
The Message of Jeremiah
Commentary on Jeremiah
ABOUT Derek Kidner
Derek Kidner (1913–2008) was warden of Tyndale House, Cambridge. He wrote several volumes in the Tyndale Old Testament Commentary series, including those on Genesis, Ezra and Nehemiah, Psalms, and Proverbs.
Kidner's works are full of the marks of both professor and pastor with his evenhanded scholarship as well as his devotional insight. These qualities have made his commentaries in the Tyndale Old Testament Commentary series and The Bible Speaks Today series some of the most beloved and popular of recent decades. Kidner had a long career in both the church and the academy in England. He studied at Cambridge University and then served in the ministry for several years before becoming a senior tutor at Oak Hill Theological College. Kidner began his writing career while serving as warden of Tyndale House in Cambridge from 1964 to 1978, publishing his ninth and final book, The Message of Jeremiah, in 1987.
Ezra and Nehemiah
Psalms 73-150
The Message of Ecclesiastes
The Message of Hosea
The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes
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Ivy Coach College Admissions Blog
"Way to tell it like it is, Ivy Coach" - The Dartmouth
Low Income Ivy League Students
Not everyone at Ivy League colleges wears Vineyard Vines and it’s important to know that.
There’s a piece up on “CNN Money” by Emily Jane Fox entitled “Poor Kids, Rich Schools” that we figured we’d comment on. The piece focuses on how many students at highly selective colleges come from middle or low income families — many of whom are the first in their families to attend college — and it’s often a culture shock for these students when they enroll at universities such as Harvard and the University of Chicago, among many other highly selective institutions such as the other seven Ivy League institutions (in addition to Harvard). As one sophomore at Harvard, Ted White, puts it, as referenced in the piece: “One day, four men in a class of 12 students came in wearing Vineyard Vines button-ups and loafers,” [White] said. Vineyard Vines and Top-Siders are indeed rather ubiquitous on Ivy League college campuses. There’s no denying this. And a story such as the one that White recounts is by no means unusual.
But it’s nice to see that colleges are doing more to help put students from low and middle class backgrounds on more of a level playing field with their upper-crust classmates. As Fox writes, “In recent years, students have formed groups like UChicago’s Socioeconomic Diversity Alliance, Columbia’s First-Generation Low-Income Partnership (FLIP) and Harvard’s First Generation Student Union (FGSU) to inform other students and work with administrators to ease some of the burdens. Harvard’s FGSU, for example, successfully campaigned to keep two of the school’s dining halls open during spring break. Before, students were left to ‘either go buy expensive food in Harvard Square or starve,” sai’ Ana Barros, the group’s president.”
It’s important for low and middle income students to know that they are not outsiders at highly selective colleges. Yes, of course there are lots of students who come from Greenwich, Connecticut and Bellevue, Washington. Yes, of course there are students at these schools whose last names are on the facades of buildings. But as this article correctly points out, at Harvard “20% of parents earn less than $65,000.” So these middle and low income students need to know that they’re not alone, that not everyone at Harvard owns Top-Siders and sports Vineyard Vines. Or Patagonia for that matter.
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Tucson song fest to hit the Chicago airwaves this month
Cathalena E. Burch - Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Desert Song Festival will star in two of the five programs Chicago classical behemoth WFMT is airing next week as part of its celebration of Leonard Bernstein's 100th birthday.
And excerpts and interviews of the festival will be sprinkled in the rest of the WFMT "Exploring Music" with Bill McGlaughlin Bernstein week series Aug. 20-24.
The series kicks off with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra's performance of Bernstein's "Kaddish" Symphony at 7 p.m. Aug. 20 on 90.5 FM KUAT. That show also includes an interview with Bernstein's daughter Jamie, who narrated the "Kaddish" and was the artist in residence for the song festival's "Bernstein At 100."
Over three weeks last January through early February, nine Tucson arts groups and the prestigious Ravinia Steans Music Institute of Chicago mounted 30 programs devoted to Bernstein. Highlights included the Marana High School choir performing Bernstein's Chichester Psalms; Arizona Opera mounting "Candide"; and Grammy nominated baritone Jubilant Sykes joining True Concord Voices & Orchestra for Bernstein's Mass.
Jamie Bernstein August 10, 2018
BSO successfully re-creates Leonard Bernstein's televised Young People's Concerts
Telling Bernstein's life stories
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Neutrals Hon. Curtis E. von Kann (Ret.) Professional Liability
Hon. Curtis E. von Kann (Ret.)
Professional Liability Biography
During his 42 year career as a trial lawyer, judge, and ADR neutral, Judge von Kann has handled a wide variety of professional liability disputes, including dental, medical, legal, accounting, and broker malpractice; fee disputes; and partnership distributions. His experience with the subject matter, combined with his understanding of the sensitivities involved in these types of cases, make him particularly well suited to resolve complex professional liability disputes.
Accounting Fees. Mediation of claim by non-profit service organization that it was entitled to a reduction of fees owed to outside accountant due to accountant’s allegedly poor performance
Accounting Fraud. Arbitration of claim by large holding conglomerate against sellers of transportation company alleging that company’s accounting personnel fraudulently misrepresented the true financial condition of the company
Accounting Malpractice. Mediation of international investor’s malpractice claim against large accounting firm for alleged failure to properly report business’s income and expenses
Broker Liability. Arbitration of large investor’s claim that major Wall Street brokerage firm promised to provide investment advisory service of the highest order and then failed to do so
Dental Malpractice. Arbitration of malpractice claim against dentist for alleged negligence in the extraction of teeth and placement of implants
Law Firm Distributions. Arbitration of claim by departed partner that his former firm failed to pay him the partnership distributions to which he was entitled under firm’s Partnership Agreement
Legal Fees. Mediation of client’s claim that its law firm’s bill should be substantially reduced due to firm’s allegedly inadequate preparation for, and conduct of, trial against former employee. When parties were unable to reach agreement on amount of the reduction, they appointed Judge von Kann as arbitrator with authority to determine a reduction figure between agreed minimum and maximum amounts.
Legal Malpractice. Mediation of divorcing wife’s malpractice claim against her attorney for failure to discover substantial assets and income of ex-husband
Legal Malpractice. Mediation of international financier’s claim that a large national law firm committed malpractice when it failed to obtain complete information concerning Swiss bank accounts of financier’s embezzling former employee
Medical Malpractice. Arbitration of malpractice claim against residential care facility operated by large national company for alleged failure to properly care for elderly patient following a stroke
Medical Malpractice. Mediation of wrongful death/malpractice claim against internist, radiologist, and emergency room physician for failure to properly diagnose virulent virus which killed patient in three days
Trustee Liability. Mediation of claims by U.S. Department of Labor that trustees of union pension fund committed breaches of fiduciary duty and violations of ERISA when they invested large part of fund in purchase and costly renovation of Florida resort hotel
Distinguished Neutral, CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution
Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London
Past President, College of Commercial Arbitrators
Listed in Best Lawyers in America, 2014-2019
Former President, Harvard Law School Association of the District of Columbia and Charles Fahy American Inn of Court
Former Board Member, JAMS, National Board of Trustees of the American Inns of Court, Council for Court Excellence
Member of two Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panels, U.S. Copyright Office
First person selected to hear complaints against Members of Congress and others under the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995
Independent Counsel of the United States appointed to investigate alleged violations of law by President Clinton's campaign chief of staff
Special Master to the Deputy Attorney General appointed to resolve disputes between two divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice concerning $8 billion dollar law enforcement program
Frequently requested ADR lecturer and trainer for numerous organizations, including the World Bank, U.S. Department of Justice, National Judicial College, CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Mass Torts Institute, American Bar Association, American Law Institute, American Corporate Counsel Association, Georgetown University, George Washington University, and leading law firms
Publications (Partial List)
"Winning in Arbitration: The 10 Golden Rules," JAMS GEC Newsletter, Summer 2017
"Contemporary U.S. Commercial Arbitration Meets Ancient Chinese Curse: May you Live in Exciting Times," Canadian Arbitration and Mediation Journal (Fall/Winter 2012)
The College of Commercial Arbitrators Protocols for Expeditious, Cost-Effective Commercial Arbitration (2010) (available at www.thecca.net) (Associate Editor)
The College of Commercial Arbitrators Guide to Best Practices in Commercial Arbitration (2006) (JurisNet, LLC) (Editor-in-Chief)
"Alternative Dispute Resolution Can Avert Costly Court Battles," Potomac Tech Journal (October 14, 2002)
"Parties Should Make Arbitration Process Choices in the Contract," Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (September 2002) (co-author)
"Neutral Case Evaluation: A Valuable Addition to Your ADR Repertoire," Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (July 2002)
"A Week in the Life: Charting the Job of a Mediator in Daily Detail," Legal Times (March 25, 2002) and The Recorder (May 2002)
"Leaving the Bench for ADR," Legal Times (September 11, 1995)
"Reinventing the Jury Trial," Legal Times (January 2, 1995)
Arbitrator and Mediator, JAMS, 1997-present
Chair, ADR Department of Ross, Dixon & Masback, 1995-1997
Judge, District of Columbia Superior Court, 1985-1995
Civil Litigator, Hogan & Lovells (partner) and other law firms, 1969-1985
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1969
B.A., cum laude, Harvard College, 1964
"You kept the parties on an expeditious schedule, you made decisions about discovery and motions promptly and decisively and you were engaged during the presentation of witnesses and argument. One of my fears in arbitrations is that the arbitrator will split the baby in an effort to keep everyone somewhat happy. You did not do that, and we never really feared that you would. You made decisions throughout the case and stuck to them. But I can tell you that both our team and the client spoke before your ruling issued and concluded that you had been an exceptionally good arbitrator. I would be happy to work with you again or to recommend you to others."
- IP Partner at premier national law firm
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I am a fan from the moment I sat in it I knew it was the car for me. It was different yet familiar. The interior with the wood trim and Nougat seats with a Moonlight Blue exterior is a perfect combo, as I did not like the aluminum trim. The car has a great 2.0 turbo that reacts well in all situations it is enough to get blood flowing and really drive it. it takes corners with a breeze and is good in the snow. The tech and gadgets are by far the best in the business the Nav and Audi cockpit are great features and they are engaging. The car overall has great lines and I like it better than the RC350 which got lots looks or the Mercedes as I owned both. Overall A- score A sexy Hatchback…
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With the exception of my very first car, a used ‘67 VW Bug, I’ve exclusively purchased Japanese cars all my life. I have done so primarily because I’m a Consumer Reports kind of nerd and have always placed a high premium on reliability, practicality and affordability. But after several methodical test drives, I was absolutely wowed by and ultimately fell in love with the new A5 Sportback. Even now, after 14 months of ownership, I still get that boyish sense of exhilaration nearly every time I get behind the wheel. But, in the spirit of full disclosure, I do have a few small quibbles that I will dispense with prior to elaborating on my many likes. First, rear and side visibility leaves something to be desired, an issue that is further exacerbated by its sloped rear window design. In addition, the side view mirrors are also fairly small and the view out the rear side passenger windows is similarly compromised. Luckily, it has a well-designed blind spot monitoring system to help compensate for those deficiencies. Nevertheless, when making lane changes, I often feel like I’m executing them more on faith than on confident visibility of a clear and safe travel path. Second, upfront interior storage is nearly nonexistent. There appears to have been only a halfhearted attempt to provide in-console storage, which amounts to a tiny, shallow bin that has only a partially enclosing lid—one that doesn’t fully conceal the few articles one is able to fit in it. And unlike other cars in this class, there’s no dedicated compartment in which to store sunglasses, forcing you to be creative with where you choose to stow them. On top of all that, the cup holders are placed so close to the center dash controls that they can barely hold anything larger than a small water bottle or a medium size drink before interfering with the use of those controls. So no Big Gulps allowed in this A5’s cozy cockpit! The interior is sleek and stylish, if not a bit spartan. And while definitely upscale, it doesn’t seem to me to have quite the same luxurious feel of its Japanese or domestic rivals. Just the same, it’s easy to find a comfortable driving position and the leather seats are pleasantly supportive, if not a bit on the firm side. The moonroof has a mesh screen closure that lets filtered sunlight through, which on occasion can be both annoying and a bit uncomfortable when the sun is hovering directly overhead in the summer. Personally, I would have preferred something completely opaque. Now for the positives. I absolutely love driving it! For a 2.0 liter 4-cylinder turbo, it has plenty of pep yet gets commendable gas mileage for a car in this class. It grips the road exceptionally well, moves smoothly and effortlessly through traffic and is supremely confident in its handling. Aesthetically, this is a sublimely beautiful car, especially in the Brilliant Black exterior finish I opted for, which has subtle metallic overtones. In my opinion, the hatchback version of the A5 is one of the sharpest looking vehicles in Audi’s current “accessibly priced” lineup, save perhaps for the A7, which was unfortunately out of my personal price range. Admittedly, a lot of my interior quibbles would likely have been addressed in the A7, but that would have set me back another $25-30k! As for rear storage, this hatchback is amazing! The rear seats lay nearly complely flat (no large transitional hump, as with most other sedans) and the rear opening is cavernous, making our frequent trips to Sam’s Club, and the attendant need to stuff various jumbo-sized items in the back, a real breeze. Rear storage in the hatchback version of the A5 is truly amazing for a car this size and really helped to bridge my craving for the svelte aesthetics of a sports sedan while appeasing my desire for the practicality of an SUV. One small quibble here is that you can’t close the rear hatch from inside the cabin. A peculiar oversight to be sure, especially since such functionality is commonplace in virtually all SUVs outfitted with a power lift gate. As for the optional Bang and Olufsen sound system, I have just two words to say to you fellow audiophiles out there—GET IT! It sounds absolutely amazing! I don’t recall how much I paid for it, but I don’t really care, because whatever it cost, it was worth it. It turns my commute to and from work as well as our frequent long car trips around east Texas into truly joyful listening experiences. My only beef here, and it’s small, is that there is no midrange control for the equalizer—yet, curiously, the Audi sound engineers saw it fit to incorporate separate controls for both the bass and subwoofer. Go figure. In addition to an adjustable control to finely modulate the surround sound effect, it also has an additional sound modification feature known as “3D Effect”, which allows you to further augment the ambiance of your music and give it even more of a concert hall feel. At least I think that was its purpose. Lastly, the tech in this car, including the “virtual cockpit” option (which I highly recommend!), is fantastic! Those Audi design engineers have thoroughly thought this car through and made it one of the most forward thinking cars on the market today. One peculiar oversight, however, and for me this was more than a bit of an annoyance considering the price point of this car, is the lack of a digital readout for tire PSI. A bit disappointing for a car that seems to address nearly every conceivable technophile’s whim—and then some. For lack of time and space, I can’t do justice to all the amazing and worthwhile tech and safety features this car has incorporated into it, but trust me, it’s mind boggling! It has truly been an awe-inspiring journey of discovery. In point of fact, the tech features in this car can sometimes be so engrossing that it can be downright distracting—if you let it. Just the same, if you’re in the market for a performance-oriented sports sedan yet yearn for the greater practicality of an SUV, I would highly encourage you to test drive this car—repeatedly. It’ll take more than a casual romp or two to truly appreciate the wealth of features this exceptional vehicle has to offer. But be sure to find a knowledgeable salesperson who can properly demonstrate the myriad thoughtful design features this car has to offer. 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Picture Collections as Food for Thought. Materialisms, Realisms, Art (1900–1960)
December 07, 2016 – December 08, 2016
organized by Carolin Behrmann (Minerva Research Group "The Nomos of Images. Manifestation and Iconology of Law") and Steffen Haug (Arbeitsstelle Aby Warburg-Edition am Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
A materialistic theory of art evolved in the first half of the twentieth century, one that was informed by Karl Marx's historic criticism but also drew upon contemporary art historical methodologies and the emerging cultural sciences in order to broaden them. After earlier approaches by Eduard Fuchs, it was Max Raphael, Walter Benjamin and Frederick Antal in particular who addressed art's economic and social developmental conditions to use this as a foundation to develop a materialistic concept of art.
With the critique of the established canon, the phenomenal domain of art history also expanded: along with nameless and everyday objects of mass production, there was a sharper focus on folk art, photography and film as well as marginalized genres such as caricature, grotesque and erotica.
Since these types of objects were rarely on hand in institutional or museum inventories, there were efforts to organize the seemingly endless materials to be examined via private collections and endeavors at systemization. There were also efforts to expand the existing museum narrative with respect to the new "materialistic theory of art". This two-part workshop will address these objects and the theories and ways of thinking derived from them while also examining how these new theories and mindsets resolutely distanced themselves from the positivistic technique of accumulating knowledge in order to critically challenge aesthetic categories. Which genres, images and forms does materialistic aesthetics deal with? What epistemological interests governed this process? Put another way: How does this theory develop from and with the perception of its objects? What are the characteristics of the reasoning arising from a privately compiled collection? What in turn are the characteristics of an art history relating to museum collections and displays?
In order to enable a classification of the materialistic approaches within the methodological history of aesthetics, other disciplines will be drawn upon (anthropology, ethnology, philosophy, psychology, law) that since the nineteenth century have also made use of collections of mass-produced images with which they cultivated a specific concept of history. In addition to originals in museums and collections, scientists also had at their disposal a previously unprecedented abundance of images with the new technical replication media/procedures that followed. These included photographs and castings as well as illustrated newspapers, extensive portfolios, books on the history of art and popular graphic arts as well as film. In this process, collections are intellectually developed in a variety of ways: while many researchers became active collectors themselves, others referenced images through descriptions and annotations or thought up imaginary constellations, developing their theories alongside the contemplation of these imaginings. How significant is one’s own graphic or pictorial practice for the creation of theories, or even involvement with contemporary art?
The workshop will consider various material and pictorial collections of the twentieth century and map out how these were compiled on the basis of theoretical assumptions and how these assumptions reflected back on the collections. The selection of objects and their arrangement as a working foundation should receive just as much attention as the theories drawn from them. This will also take into account biographical, historical and political circumstances under which collections were established or even thwarted. Those techniques that came into being as alternatives due to persecution and exile as well as political marginalization will be juxtaposed with the established instruments of knowledge generation.
The workshop is conceived as a critical approach to a historical field of which the constellations, issues and problems have remained relevant in today’s debates about "new" realism, materiality and objecthood.
Program (PDF, 552.49 KB)
Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai
Via dei Servi 51
Carolin Behrmann Minerva Research Group Leader
E-Mail: carolin.behrmann@khi.fi.it
Steffen Haug
E-Mail: steffen.haug@culture.hu-berlin.de
The Nomos of Images. Manifestation and Iconology of Law
Minerva Research Group
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Overview by segment and business for fiscal 2017
Japan Integrated Beverages
Overseas Integrated Beverages
Pharmaceuticals & Bio-chemicals
Note: Figures in parentheses are comparisons with the previous fiscal year.
Kirin Brewery
Amid a sluggish beer market that declined 2.6%, Kirin Brewery reviewed its trading conditions from January onward in anticipation of the enforcement of the Standard for the Fair Trade of Alcohol accompanying the revision of the Liquor Tax Act in June. As a result, the review found that the effects of continued high retail prices over a certain period compared with competitors' products caused beer sales volume to decline 4.2%. By brand, Ichiban Shibori dropped 2.4%, in line with the overall market decline, but sales of cans were strong after conducting intensive sales promotion activities in September to upgrade the product, pushing sales volume upward (up 0.6%) for the year. On the other hand, sales volume of the Nodogoshi brand declined (down 4.9%), leaving Kirin Brewery the challenge of recovering market share in the new genre category.
RTD increased 8.4%, centering on Hyoketsu and Honshibori, and sales of non-alcohol beer-taste beverage increased 58.7% with the launch of Kirin Zero ICHI.
Although revenue declined due to decreasing sales volume of beer products, unit sales and product mix improved thanks to a review of trading conditions and a rising ratio of can sales. Moreover, cost reductions were successful and normalized operating profit increased.
Kirin Beverage
Gogo-no-Kocha increased 2%, recording its highest-ever volume of sales, and the sales volume of Nama-cha, including the effects of last year's product renewal, increased 5%. Meanwhile, Kirin Beverage's total sales volume decreased 2%, falling below the market average of ±0% due to the termination of contract manufacturing agreements, as well as declining sales volume of FIRE (down 8%). The functional beverages category was up 11% on strong performance of new products under the Supli brand.
While revenue decreased due to declining sales volume, normalized operating profit increased substantially on the rising composition ratio of Gogo-no-Kocha and Nama-cha, as well as cost reduction effects.
Products centered on domestically produced and imported wines fared well, and the sales volume of wine increased (+2%). Although revenue declined because of an increase in low-priced imported wine for daily drinking, normalized operating profit rose due to cost reductions and the rationalization of marketing expenses.
About Japan Integrated Beverages(836KB)
Lion Beer, Spirits and Wine business concluded its beer distribution agreement in Australia with Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI) in September 2016. However, the changes offer an opportunity to focus more investment behind Lion's retained portfolio of owned and licensed brands. While sales volume sharply declined (down 10.5%) due to the loss of the ABI brands, volumes of core Lion beer brands remained solid, particularly in growth categories such as contemporary, and craft. Excluding the impact of the loss of the ABI brands, revenue and normalized operating profit were largely unchanged from the previous year.
In the Lion Dairy & Drinks business, raw material costs increased due to sharply rising Australian orange prices, impacting sales volumes of juice. Despite the short-term set-backs, the underlying performance of the business was solid and normalized operating profit increased only slightly due to the loss recognized in 2016 on inventory revaluation. The turnaround program has laid the foundation to return the business to growth in FY18.
Myanmar Brewery
Taking advantage of demand for low-priced and can products, the sales volume of Andaman Gold increased sharply (up 85%), and the promotion of bottled Myanmar Beer was also successful, rising 4%, causing total sales volume to increase a substantial 17%. Although the product mix deteriorated due to a considerable increase in the economy category, revenue increased on a local currency basis on a significant jump in sales volume and the effects of a price revision carried out in the previous and current fiscal years. Raw material expenses increased due to the effects of foreign exchange rates, but efforts to reduce supply chain costs had a beneficial effect, pushing normalized operating profit up on a local currency basis.
About Overseas Integrated Beverages(516KB)
Despite a decline in sales due to the impact of generic drugs in Japan, the pharmaceuticals business saw sales and profits increase due to higher technology licensing revenue and lower SG&A expenses including R&D expenses. In R&D, global strategic product development advanced steadily.
In the bio-chemicals business, raw material sales for pharmaceuticals and health foods and online sales remained steady both in Japan and overseas, and revenue remained unchanged from the previous year. Normalized operating profit increased year on year due to a higher composition ratio of highly profitable products.
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Cowie Drive, Red Hill ACT 2603 (02) 6285 3140 info@fgc.com.au
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Federal Golf Club – Maintaining the Environment
It is the objective of Federal Golf Club to maintain its property in a manner that provides members, visitors and adjacent properties with a continuing vision of a golf course set in a bush land retreat in the heart of the national capital. The flora and fauna are amongst Federal’s most significant assets. Federal Golf Club occupies an area of 85 hectares at Red Hill. Construction of the golf course began in 1947.
Today Federal has a wide variety of native trees and shrubs in line with an ongoing program aimed at presenting a quality golf course also noted for its standard of botanic excellence. Federal Golf Club is committed to maintaining and nurturing this environment in a sustainable manner, through adoption and implementation of ethical and ecologically sound policies and work practices.
All reasonable and practical effort will be made to minimise risk or harm to the environment, members, staff, the public and surrounding properties. Federal Golf Club takes into account relevant legislation including the ACT Integrated Nature Conservation Plan, the Canberra Nature Park Management Plan, the Environment ACT’ Vertebrate Pest Management Strategy, the ACT Weeds Strategy and laws relating to water use in the ACT.
Federal relies on-site bores, irrigation ponds and potable water to supplement the shortfall during extreme weather. The club aims to become as self-sufficient as possible in water use, but as necessary will also seek access to alternative sources.
The objective is to manage a continuing program to present the course, clubhouse and surrounds in a manner compatible with the native bush land of the area and to minimise risk. Habitat trees will be protected where possible and efforts made to attract suitable native bird life. New plantings will be predominately native species. Some introduced species will from time to time be planted, mainly confined to garden beds in the proximity of the clubhouse and teeing grounds.
Fauna/Pests
Kangaroos have long been associated with Federal. Managing their numbers, particularly in dry and drought seasons is difficult without a purpose-built boundary fence. Parts of the course adjoin the Red Hill nature reserve. Kangaroos feed on new plants/shrubs and it is considered prudent to monitor numbers. Cockatoos and insects including the scarab beetle and stem-weevil present considerable problems and need to be controlled through carefully managed programs.
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Union Budget 2016: India’s fiscal metrics to remain weaker than peers, says Moody’s
New Delhi | Updated: February 23, 2016 1:16:19 PM
Union Budget 2016: Days ahead of the Union Budget, Moody's Investors Service today said India's fiscal metrics will remain weaker than its peers in the near term even if Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was to stick to fiscal consolidation roadmap.
Arun Jaitley in his Budget for 2016-17 will on Monday reveal if the credit-positive five-year trend of narrowing budget deficits – from 6.5 per cent of GDP in fiscal 2010 to 4.1 per cent in 2014-15 – will continue.
Union Budget 2016: Days ahead of the Union Budget, Moody’s Investors Service today said India’s fiscal metrics will remain weaker than its peers in the near term even if Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was to stick to fiscal consolidation roadmap.
Jaitley in his Budget for 2016-17 will on Monday reveal if the credit-positive five-year trend of narrowing budget deficits – from 6.5 per cent of GDP in fiscal 2010 to 4.1 per cent in 2014-15 – will continue.
He will also say if the government was on track to reduce deficits to 3.9 per cent and 3.5 per cent of GDP this fiscal year and the next respectively.
Moody’s said the importance of the upcoming budget lies in its message on the government’s fiscal consolidation plans. The government’s fiscal deficits have reduced over the last five years, and this has supported the stabilisation of government debt ratios.
Without fiscal consolidation going forward, India’s government finances will continue to compare poorly to peers.
“Even if budgetary consolidation continues, India’s fiscal metrics will remain weaker than rating peers in the near term, because of the relatively high level of India’s state and central government deficits and debt,” Moody’s said.
Based on the trends in revenues and expenditures over the last five years, Moody’s said the fiscal consolidation process remains vulnerable to economic shocks, such as a fall in corporate profits or consumption growth, or an increase in subsidy costs.
Although fuel subsidy reform has partially addressed this vulnerability, food subsidies still pose risks.
The fiscal weakness, it said, was partly due to structural factors. Low per-capita incomes of around $ 1,700 limit the government’s tax base and raise pressure for subsidies and development spending.
“Moreover, interest payments absorb almost a fifth of Indian government revenues” a consequence of high debt, which we estimate at 63.8 per cent of GDP in fiscal 2016, down from 83.1 per cent in fiscal 2005. This restricts the government’s fiscal flexibility,” it said.
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Vijay Mallya of money laundering case: Non-Bailable warrant issued by Special PMLA court against beleaguered tycoon
New Delhi | Published: July 5, 2017 2:06:04 PM
Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court issued a Non-Bailable Warrant against the business tycoon Vijay Mallya today.
Vijay Mallya of money laundering case: Non-Bailable warrant issued by Special PMLA court against beleaguered tycoon. (IE)
Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court issued a Non-Bailable Warrant against the business tycoon Vijay Mallya today. A report by ANI said, “Special PMLA court issues Non-Bailable Warrant against Vijay Mallya as it takes cognizance of the complaint (charge sheet) filed by ED.” A report by Indian Express on June 14 said that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had filed the first charge sheet against the liquor baron and others in the IDBI-KFA bank loan money laundering case. Earlier, in March 2016, ED had a filed a complaint under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
According to the Indian Express sources, IDBI had given a short loan of Rs 10 crore to Mallya in October 2009. The sources added that the bank then loaned Rs 750 crore to the Kingfisher Airlines for the second time. Out of this Rs 200 crore was in form of a bridge loan.
The airlines owes a massive amount of over 9,000 crore to 17 banks, including the SBI, IDBI Bank, Punjab National Bank, Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, United Bank of India, Central Bank, UCO Bank, Corporation Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Federal Bank, Punjab and Sind Bank, and Axis Bank among others.
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Home > Jobs > Tamil Nadu Agricultural University TNAU - Teaching Assistant
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Recruitment for Teaching Assistant in Coimbatore 2018
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Teaching Assistant - Job Details Date of Posting: 08-10-2018
Teaching Assistant recruitment in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
Qualification : 1. M.Tech. / Ph.D. (Agrl. Engg.) in Soil and Water Conservation Engineering/ Land and Water Management Engineering/ Environmental Engineering of
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No. of Post: 1
Remuneration : Rs. 36, 000/- P.M. With NET Rs. 32, 000/- P.M. Without NET Rs. 25, 000/- P.M.M.Tech. with NET
How To Apply For Teaching Assistant recruitment in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University2018
Walk-in-interview will be held on 10.10.2018,10.00 a.m. at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641003
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Tamil Nadu Agricultural University is a leading agrotechnology provider of India and its graduates are recognized throughout the world. Though the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) came into being on June 1, 1971, it had its genesis from establishment of an Agricultural School at Saidapet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India as early as 1868 which was later relocated at Coimbatore during 1906. The University is offering Thirteen Undergraduate Degree Programs, Forty Graduate Degree Programs and Twentysix Doctoral Programs in 11 Colleges distributed in eight campuses all over Tamil Nadu. Besides, the University has 36 Research Stations for agrotechnology development and 14 Farm Science Centers for outreach
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Utica Police Department via CNN
Treasury secretary says he doesn't find Trump's tweets racist
Trump says US was 'cocked and loaded' to strike Iran before he pulled back
Potential loss of life caused operation to stop
Jeremy Diamond, Barbara Starr, Jamie Gangel and Kate Sullivan, CNN
Updated: Jun 21, 2019 10:26 AM MST
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(CNN) - President Donald Trump said Friday that he called off the attack on Iran just as the US was "cocked & loaded" to strike because he decided there would be too many deaths for a proportionate response to the downing of a US drone earlier this week.
"We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights (sic) when I asked, how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a General," Trump tweeted. "10 minutes before the strike I stopped it."
Causing so many casualties, he added, would not have been "proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone."
Trump also said that he is in "no hurry," touted the US military as "by far the best in the world" and said he had imposed new sanctions against Iran "last night."
It was unclear what sanctions Trump was referring to.
CNN has reached out to the Treasury Department and National Security Council for comment. It's also unclear why the President only learned of the casualty estimates after he had first ordered the attack and minutes before the US strikes were to hit their targets.
In an interview with NBC on Friday Trump went into more detail about his decision and said no planes were in the air at the time it was made.
"I thought about it for a second and I said, you know what, they shot down an unmanned drone, plane, whatever you want to call it, and here we are sitting with a 150 dead people that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after I said go ahead, and I didn't like it, I didn't think, I didn't think it was proportionate," he said.
"Nothing was green lighted until the very end because things change," Trump added. "We had something ready to go subject to my approval," he added, saying planes were not in the air when he ordered the pull back, but "would have been pretty soon," Trump said.
"We had something ready to go subject to my approval," he added, saying planes were not in the air when he ordered the pull back, but "would have been pretty soon."
"Things would have happened to a point where you would not turn back, you could not turn back," Trump said.
The US has been in a standoff with Iran, with US military or diplomatic responses having the potential to provoke further escalation from Tehran. Iran's downing of the drone earlier Thursday has left the President caught between Republicans demanding a response and congressional Democrats warning that Trump -- and the Iran policy hardliners on his national security staff, who welcome the confrontation -- could lose control of the situation and lead the US into war.
The US military targets were a limited set of Iranian radars and missile batteries, said a US official with direct knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information. No US weapons had been launched when the decision was made to call off the strikes, which were first reported by The New York Times.
Military and diplomatic officials were expecting a strike as late as 7 p.m. ET on Thursday after intense debate among Trump's top national security officials and congressional leaders at the White House, multiple senior administration officials involved in or briefed on the deliberations told the Times.
The strike had been scheduled for just before dawn on Friday in Iran to minimize the risk to civilians and the Iranian military, and military officials received word shortly after then that the strike was off, at least temporarily, the Times reported.
A senior Republican source on Capitol Hill who supported the strike on Iran that Trump called off on Thursday night said "Trump is much better than Obama ... but historically we have seen what happens when the US issues red lines and then fails to enforce them. Failing to take action could be far more dangerous in the long run."
While this source told CNN they think it was a mistake not to strike Iran, they are still "hoping" there will still be some kind of response.
A senior administration source plugged into Trump's national security strategy said that while they were not aware of exactly why Trump pulled back on the strike, they were very concerned his decision makes the US look like "a paper tiger."
On Friday, Seyed Abbas Mousavi, a spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry said his country "responds to diplomacy with diplomacy, respect with respect, and to war with decisive defense."
Trump strikes different chord than top aides
Before the reports surfaced Thursday, a senior White House official told CNN that Trump and national security adviser John Bolton were engaged in an ongoing debate about how to handle Iran.
Trump had moved to ease tensions with Tehran by striking a starkly different tone from Bolton and other senior security aides. Calling the shootdown "a new wrinkle, a new fly in the ointment," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office he finds it "hard to believe it was intentional."
Earlier in the day, Trump had tweeted that "Iran made a very big mistake!" as he and his national security officials huddled to weigh possible responses. Some lawmakers called for restraint and others warned Iran should prepare for "severe pain."
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, a CNN military analyst, told CNN's Don Lemon Thursday on "CNN Tonight" that disagreement within the administration about whether to attack is not unusual for a White House.
"That's something that occurs at any strategic decision level," Hertling said, "when you're mitigating risk or you're attempting to understand what the risk might be based on the processes of war gaming and determining what your objectives are."
Iran releases purported image of drone
The US claims the drone was in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most vital shipping routes, while Iran says the drone was over its territory.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on Friday released the first images of what it says are pieces of the drone, state media outlet IRIB reported.
Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of the aerospace force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said some parts of the downed American drone were recovered from Iranian territorial waters near the Kooh Mubarak area, Iran's Tasnim news agency reports. He said the drone was issued a final warning 10 minutes before it was downed.
Earlier Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a notice that it was prohibiting US flights over the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman due to rising tensions. Airlines that operate flights in the region said Friday that they would adjust their operations.
2020ers react
Reports of the aborted attack drew swift reaction from Democrats angling to challenge Trump in 2020.
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts tweeted that "there is no justification" for escalating tensions with Iran.
"Donald Trump promised to bring our troops home. Instead he has pulled out of a deal that was working and instigated another unnecessary conflict," she wrote. "There is no justification for further escalating this crisis -- we need to step back from the brink of war."
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, an Iraq War veteran, tweeted that war with Iran is "HIGHLY likely unless Trump swallows his pride & returns to the Iran nuclear agreement he tore up," referring to the Obama-era pact.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Trump was "governing by chaos" and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said a potential war with Iran "would be a disaster."
"Congress must assert its constitutional authority and stop Trump from going to war," Sanders tweeted.
CNN's Zachary Cohen, Joshua Berlinger, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Barbara Starr, Shirzad Bozorgmehr, Frederik Pleitgen, Joe Sutton, Dave Alsup and Savannah Behrmann contributed to this report.
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This Wednesday, April 26, 2017, photo shows the Twitter app on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. Twitter says it is launching an experiment in Canada today that will allow users in this country to hide replies to tweets on the social media platform. Other users globally will be able to see the feature and its use, but won’t be able to use it themselves. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Matt Rourke
Twitter taps Canada as test market for new ‘hide’ tweet feature
The platform will indicate on a tweet any time a user decides to hide replies
Jul. 11, 2019 7:40 a.m.
Twitter says it is launching an experiment in Canada today that will allow users in this country to hide replies to tweets on the social-media platform.
The timing comes as social media platforms like Twitter have faced increasing government pressure to police their services better, particularly ahead of this fall’s federal election.
Users outside Canada will be able to see the feature and its use, but won’t be able to use it themselves.
The platform will indicate on a tweet any time a user decides to hide replies and will allow users to see what’s been hidden as away to dissuade brands or politicians from overusing the feature.
You asked for more control over your conversations, so starting next week we’re testing a new feature in Canada that will let you hide replies to your Tweets.
For transparency, viewers everywhere can see hidden replies by going to a new icon or the dropdown menu. pic.twitter.com/qM8osT7Eah
— Twitter Canada (@TwitterCanada) July 11, 2019
The company chose to test the new option in Canada before rolling it out elsewhere.
Twitter isn’t putting a timeline on when the experiment will end, but is keeping an eye on the timeline to the campaign’s kickoff.
Ferry hair, don’t care? BC Ferries offers prizes for best photos
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Hahn announces exit from BC Ferries
BC Ferries CEO David Hahn is leaving his post at the end of the year, part of a cost-cutting move that freezes salaries and reduces other executive salaries as the province's ferry service endures a slowdown in traffic.
Sep. 27, 2011 2:00 p.m.
BC Ferries CEO David Hahn
VICTORIA – BC Ferries CEO David Hahn is leaving his post at the end of the year, part of a cost-cutting plan that freezes wages and reduces other executive salaries as the province’s ferry service endures a slowdown in traffic.
Hahn’s million-dollar salary makes him the highest-paid provincial employee, and the BC Ferries board’s decision to increase his pension added to a storm of controversy that overshadowed the performance of the ferry service.
BC Ferries board chairman Donald Hayes confirmed that quitting with a year left on his contract means he will be paid no severance. Hahn said he made the decision to go early, and he also forgoes salary as well as taking a reduced pension.
Hahn has argued that a drop of three to four per cent in this year’s BC Ferries traffic is not a response to high fares, but fuel costs, the U.S. slump and a high Canadian dollar that have also reduced traffic at B.C.’s free inland ferries and airports.
The B.C. Ferries Commissioner is reviewing the government’s user-pay mandate for ferries, which has been in place for nine years and led to steeper increases on the minor routes. Until that review is complete and fares are set, Hahn said the company will cut costs by $11 million to offset an anticipated loss of $20 million this year.
Cost-cutting moves include a two-year wage and salary freeze, hiring freeze on non-essential positions, “select early retirements,” reduced use of contractors, elimination of charity and community donations and the cancellation of arena advertising for Vancouver Canucks games, BC Ferries said in a statement.
Transportation Minister Blair Lekstrom intervened in May to cap ferry rate increases at 4.15 per cent for all routes next year. A preliminary ruling by the commissioner had indicated rates for smaller and northern routes would go up eight per cent.
The Coastal Ferry Act currently requires BC Ferries to reduce the subsidy paid to keep smaller ferry routes running, and prevents BC Ferries from using revenue from its large, busy routes to support service to smaller islands and communities.
Lekstrom said the ferry rate review will focus on affordability for ferry users and the impact of rates on tourism and other business in ferry-dependent communities.
Long-time civil servant Gord Macatee took over as B.C. Ferry Commissioner this year, and his review is to make recommendations in early 2012 about changes to the legislation.
Largely in response to public anger over Hahn’s salary, in 2010 the B.C. government passed amendments linking BC Ferries executive salaries to those of other public sector executives.
Mounties set to ride into sunset, Ottawa warns B.C.
Cities grill province over municipal auditor
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Pilot charged: In the Jan. 25 California section, an article about an Alaska Airlines pilot facing alcohol charges said that federal law considers commercial airline pilots intoxicated if their blood-alcohol concentration is 0.10% or higher. That is the threshold in the U.S. code under which the pilot is being charged. The FAA has its own regulation that limits blood alcohol to 0.04%.
Oscar nominees: In the Jan. 21 Business section, an article about the reasons for a lack of diversity in this year’s Oscar nominees included a photo caption that identified “Straight Outta Compton” actor Corey Hawkins as his character, Dr. Dre.
HopSkipDrive: In the Jan. 26 Business section, an article about transportation services that specialize in driving children said that HopSkipDrive announced a $10.6-million funding round led by venture capital firm Firstmark Capital. The funding round was $10.2 million.
ShakeAlertLA app: In the July 15 California section, an article about the ShakeAlertLA app described David Eisenman as the lead scientist on the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Project.
Best burgers: In the July 11 Food section, a list of L.A.’s 21 essential burgers said the Apple Pan opened in the 1960s; the restaurant opened in 1947.
Wildlife volunteers: An article in the July 6 Saturday section about opportunities to get closer to wildlife as a volunteer misstated the number of gibbons at the Gibbon Conservation Center in Santa Clarita as 28.
Noir bars: In the June 29 Saturday section, a list accompanying a column about “noir bars” gives an incorrect address for the Tonga Hut.
Great white shark pulls fishing boat around San Francisco Bay
Every morning for 10 years, Joey Gamez has hopped on a boat to take customers of his Golden State Sportfishing business on a San Francisco Bay excursion, a hobby-turned-business for the 42-year-old.
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Leeds United transfer news
Leeds United transfer news RECAP - Midfield duo linked plus reaction to Josh Warrington's Elland Road win
Keep up to date with all of Sunday's transfer news and more as it happens
Leeds United may have just played host to one of the best boxing fights of the year, but that doesn't mean the club are slowing down their transfer plans ahead of a busy summer.
Whites fans packed into Elland Road on Saturday evening to roar on local fighter and huge Leeds fan Josh Warrington, who pulled off a stunning upset by beating Lee Selby and claiming the IBF featherweight world title to become the city's first ever world champion.
We'll have all the reaction to what was a sensational night at Elland Road, plus the rest of today's latest Leeds United news, including a number of new transfer rumours and some updates on some longer-term targets as Paul Heckingbottom and company get set to bring in some new faces.
Recap all of Sunday's latest below - and then CLICK HERE for all of Monday's news.
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Pontus on his Leeds future
Leeds defender Pontus Jansson has been talking about his Elland Road future in an interview back in his native Sweden, as he prepares to go to the World Cup.
“I’m fine even if it was a poor second half of the season in Leeds. I have an important role in the club. I have matured as a player and as a human being,” he told Sydsvenskan.
“We’ll see where everything ends after the World Cup. There could be a continuation.”
Here’s what he said in full.
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Trouble at Chelsea?
Leeds fans are never slow to revel in any pain Chelsea may be having, so a story which the Financial Times has just put up could be of interest.
They are reporting that Roman Abramovich’s visa has not been expired by the UK authorities after it expired last month.
The Russian billionaire is the 13th-richest man in Britain but is currently in Russia after his investor visa ran out. He was not at Wembley to see his team win the FA Cup last night.
One to keep an eye on.
A lot of Bartley love last night
Luke Ayling’s covert operation to get his best mate Kyle Bartley to re-sign for Leeds United will be helped by the amount of Bartley chants that were going around Elland Road last night...
Leeds United Ladies in action
It’s the final match of the season for Leeds United Ladies today, as they host Crewe at Thorp Arch.
Barring any goal difference madness, they are set to end the campaign 10th in the Northern Division 1 this season.
David Stockdale at ER last night
There has been plenty of speculation concerning Birmingham City goalkeeper David Stockdale, who has reportedly been told he can leave the Blues this summer.
The 32-year-old was born in Leeds and there has been a lot of chatter about a potential move to his hometown club.
His wages - thought to be around £40,000-a-week would likely be a massive stumbling block - but he certainly seemed happy to be there last night alongside former Leeds defender Ian Harte...
Cardiff City beef
Cardiff City winger Anthony Pilkington’s mentions column is a lively place this morning after he posted a message about Warrington and Leeds fans in general last night.
“So cute having to turn to a boxer to win something at Elland Road,” he posted.
Now I’m obviously far too professional to condone Leeds fans letting him know what they think about that, but I’ll just flag up the fact that he can be found on the @Pilkington_11 handle on Twitter.
Radebe's pre-fight message to Warrington
Lucas Radebe’s return to Elland Road was another highlight last night, as The Chief whipped the crowd up further when he joined Warrington for his ring walk.
The new world champion has revealed the words Radebe used to motivate him before the bout - and it’s no surprise he went out and won.
Leeds players react to Warrington win
Plenty of Leeds players were ringside last night to see Josh Warrington upset the odds and land the IBF world featherweight title with his split-decision win over Lee Selby.
Let’s hope the feel-good factor that was all around the Elland Road stadium can inspire them next season.
See how they all reacted here.
Leeds eye Liverpool prospect?
Another player to be linked with a move to Leeds this morning is the impressive Liverpool youngster Harry Wilson.
The 21-year-old had a spell at Hull this season, turning out 13 times and the Star claim that Leeds are one of several clubs interested in bringing him in on loan next season.
Aston Villa and Huddersfield are also mentioned, but Rangers have also joined the chase - with Steven Gerrard potentially looking to leverage his association with the Anfield side.
Leeds in for Hibs midfielder?
The Sunday papers are always good for transfer news and John McGinn has this morning been linked with a move to Elland Road.
The Sun report this morning that Leeds have joined the chase for the in-demand Hibs midfielder, who netted six goals and provided eight assists this season.
A bid of £2.5million has been banded around, but Neil Lennon’s side are said to value the Scotland international closer to £5million.
The 23-year-old only has one year left on his deal, but Leeds will face competition from the likes of Celtic and Rangers to land him.
Good morning...
Greetings Leeds fans and welcome to another day of all things Leeds United.
And I dare say a few Whites supporters might be waking up with a sore head today after almost 25,000 fans packed into Elland Road to watch the city’s first world champion crowned, when Josh Warrington pulled off a stunning upset of Lee Selby last night.
We’ll have the reaction to what was a brilliant night at the home of Leeds United plus all the latest from a footballing point of view, so whack on the kettle and we’ll get going...
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