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Fallen firefighters remembered; bravery cited
Laura Camper
SPRINGFIELD -- Firefighters gathered Thursday in Springfield to mourn the deaths of four Illinois firefighters in 2006 and celebrate the bravery of 27 others.
W/LIST OF HONOREES
By LAURA CAMPER
The Annual Firefighters Medal of Honor ceremony began at the Illinois Fallen Firefighter Memorial statue on the southwest side of the state Capitol. A solemn procession of participants followed the Associated Fire Fighters of Illinois Honor Guard to the Howlett Building next door.
Four firefighters who died in the line of duty last year were honored with the Duty Death Gold Badge.
Tina Armstrong, the widow of Atlanta volunteer firefighter Roger Armstrong, who died January 21, 2006, accepted the badge for her husband.
“This is for him,” said Tina, who serves as a volunteer emergency medical technician in Atlanta and worked with her husband on calls. “He was very proud of what he did. He did a great job, and I’m proud to take this on his behalf.”
Roger Armstrong, a volunteer firefighter for eight years and an EMT for seven, suffered a heart attack while working at a fire in Waynesville.
Ric Cheek, chief of the Atlanta fire department, described Armstrong as an excellent firefighter, always working to get better.
“He spent an enormous amount of time at our firehouse,” Cheek said. “He was a very good fireman, very dedicated.”
Cheek, who said he not only served with Armstrong, but counted him as a friend, believed Armstrong just wanted to serve the community in which he lived.
Four firefighters were awarded Medals of Honor, the highest honor given to firefighters in the state, for heroic actions beyond the call of duty.
Driver Todd Warrick of the Jacksonville Fire Department received a Medal of Honor for rescuing two women from a fire in their home.
While getting ready for work on Feb. 13, 2006, Warrick, a firefighter for 19 years, heard a call on the police radio about a fire on the same block as his house.
Afraid that his neighbors might be inside, Warrick ran to their back door and then the front, but both were locked. He kicked in the front door to search the house.
“I knew that when I went into that house, I wasn’t going to come out unless I had two other people with me,” Warrick said.
He found his neighbor and her daughter and helped them out of the house, but not before being burned by falling embers, he said. Warrick still has the scorched shirt he was wearing that day, calling it a reminder to never go into a fire without his gear.
“I kept that shirt to remind me not to do dumb things like that anymore,” Warrick said with a laugh.
Thirteen firefighters, including firefighter John Burns and engineer Jami Lusher of the Pekin Fire Department, received Firefighter Excellence Awards.
Burns and Lusher were honored for their efforts to save a man trapped in the basement of a burning house. After arriving at the house, which was enveloped in flames, Lusher said he “soaked the fire at the top of the stairs, so (Burns) could go down and come back up with the guy.”
Burns, a firefighter for more than five years, said receiving the award was overwhelming.
“It’s nothing nobody else wouldn’t have done,” he said of his actions.
Lusher, who has served for 11 years, said he was surprised by the award.
Two Chicago firefighters received the Medal of Valor for bravery in the line of duty.
Certificate of Recognition awards honored eight men.
Laura Camper can be reached at (217) 782-6882 or laura.camper@sj-r.com.
Duty Death Gold Badge:
Firefighter Roger Armstrong, Atlanta Fire Protection District
Firefighter Jeff Irwin, Eldorado Fire Department
Firefighter Dana MacCrimmon, Carbondale Fire Department
Assistant Fire Chief Harold Taylor, Central Warren Country Fire Protection District
Medal of Honor Awards:
Firefighter Thomas Garswick, Chicago Fire Department
Lt. Herbert Johnson, Chicago Fire Department
Lt. Joseph Kish, Chicago Fire Department
Driver Todd Warrick, Jacksonville Fire Department
Medal of Valor Awards:
Capt. Daniel McDermott, Chicago Fire Department
Firefighter Alejandro Mercado, Chicago Fire Department
Firefighter Excellence Awards:
Lt. Daniel Ferguson, Chicago Fire Department
Firefighter Mark Pecor, Chicago Fire Department
Firefighter Kevin Wirtz, Chicago Fire Department
Firefighter William Reiter, Edwardsville Fire Department
Probationary firefighter Matthew Sinnokrak, Edwardsville Fire Department
Firefighter/Paramedic John Hutchinson, Glenview Fire Department
Lt. Paul Klicker, Glenview Fire Department
Probationary firefighter Scott Waddle, Glenview Fire Department
Firefighter Kevin Holman, Morris Fire Protection District
Capt. Jeff Wilson, Morris Fire Protection District
Firefighter John Burns, Pekin Fire Department
Engineer Jami Lusher, Pekin Fire Department
Lt. Tom Robertson, Wilmette Fire Department
Certificate of Recognition Awards:
Engineer Glenn McAuliff, Country Club Hills Fire Department
Firefighter/Paramedic Carl Pycz, Country Club Hills Fire Department
Firefighter/Paramedic Robert Olszewski, Crystal Lake Fire Rescue
Firefighter/Paramedic Matthew Thuma, Crystal Lake Fire Rescue
Firefighter Marcos Enriques, Morris Fire Protection District
Capt. Timothy Smeltzer, Northbrook Fire Department
Firefighter/Paramedic Scott Ewen, Wilmette Fire Department
Firefighter/Paramedic Dave Grajewski, Wilmette Fire Department
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Calvin Freiburger Follow Calvin
NewsAbortion, Politics - CanadaFri Jun 22, 2018 - 1:28 pm EST
Politician calls out Justin Trudeau for funding Muslim hate group while defunding pro-life groups
anti-semitism, canada summer jobs, canada summer jobs program, candice bergen, hypocrisy, islamic humanitarian service, justin trudeau, muslim extremism, pro-abortion attestation
OTTAWA, June 22, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The Canadian Liberal government headed by Justin Trudeau is funding an anti-Semitic Muslim extremist organization while denying funds to charities that refuse to endorse abortion, according to Opposition House Leader Candice Bergen.
On Sunday, Bergen released a video showing footage of a recent Al Quds Day rally in Toronto by a Muslim group called the Islamic Humanitarian Service group, which she said was meant to “incite hatred and it was an anti-Semitic rally against Jews.”
The rally featured a Jewish Star of David made of barbed wire. “You will leave in body bags, the same body bags you have caused for the Palestinians, your army and the Israeli forces will leave from Palestine in those same body bags,” the speaker ranted. “We pray to the creator, to the almighty, a day will come when we see justice throughout the world, the eradication of the unjust powers, such as the American empire, such as the Israeli Zionists.”
The video notes that the group received more than $20,000 in taxpayer funds in 2017 through the Canadian Summer Jobs Program, and its public support was renewed this year.
The Canada Summer Jobs program provides additional funds for groups that hire students for summer positions. It’s projected to fund almost 70,000 student jobs this summer, but this year controversy has arisen because it now requires participating organizations to sign an attestation that their “core mandate” agrees with a variety of left-wing positions, including a “right” to abortion -- regardless of whether the organization is involved in political advocacy against abortion.
Bergen’s video then shows her asking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the incident during Question Period.
Trudeau readily condemned “hate-filled speech of all types” as an affront to Canada’s welcoming nature. But then Bergen challenged that his “actions speak otherwise,” revealing the group’s government funding and noting that the same program denies funds to mainstream charities that refuse to sign its attestation.
“Why is the prime minister allowing certain religious organizations to be funded to promote hatred towards Jews, but saying no to churches that want to help the homeless?” she asked.
Trudeau responded by attacking “Stephen Harper’s conservatives” for advocating funds for pro-life political groups. “We believe that public funds should never be used to actively fight against the rights of Canadians,” he said, “and we will ensure that no money from Canada’s summer jobs program is refunded to organizations that violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, that use hate against other Canadians of any type.”
“I could not believe the hypocrisy of Trudeau and the Liberals,” Bergen says in the video, “where they’ll give money to organizations that are spewing hatred, enticing hatred, doing it publicly, and they’re hiring students to do it. The Liberals will give them money, but they won’t give funding to churches or to faith organizations that are helping the homeless, that are helping people in need.”
Among the organizations to lose funds because they refused the new policy are a summer Bible camp in Alberta, a rural museum on the history of Port Hood, Nova Scotia, a small, family-owned agriculture irrigation business in Alberta, a Christian farm that provides free vacations to poor families, and the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto.
Politician calls out Justin Trudeau for funding Muslim hate group while… Politician calls out Justin Trudeau for funding Muslim hate group while defunding pro-life groups News By Calvin Freiburger
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This frostbitten black metal album was created by an artificial intelligence
Posted on December 7, 2017 by Robin Edgar
Coditany of Timeness” is a convincing lo-fi black metal album, complete with atmospheric interludes, tremolo guitar, frantic blast beats and screeching vocals. But the record, which you can listen to on Bandcamp, wasn’t created by musicians.Instead, it was generated by two musical technologists using a deep learning software that ingests a musical album, processes it, and spits out an imitation of its style.To create Coditany, the software broke “Diotima,” a 2011 album by a New York black metal band called Krallice, into small segments of audio. Then they fed each segment through a neural network — a type of artificial intelligence modeled loosely on a biological brain — and asked it to guess what the waveform of the next individual sample of audio would be. If the guess was right, the network would strengthen the paths of the neural network that led to the correct answer, similar to the way electrical connections between neurons in our brain strengthen as we learn new skills.At first the network just produced washes of textured noise. “Early in its training, the kinds of sounds it produces are very noisy and grotesque and textural,” said CJ Carr, one of the creators of the algorithm. But as it moved through guesses — as many as five million over the course of three days — the network started to sound a lot like Krallice. “As it improves its training, you start hearing elements of the original music it was trained on come through more and more.”As someone who used to listen to lo-fi black metal, I found Coditany of Timeness not only convincing — it sounds like a real human band — but even potentially enjoyable. The neural network managed to capture the genre’s penchant for long intros broken by frantic drums and distorted vocals. The software’s take on Krallice, which its creators filled out with song titles and album art that were also algorithmically generated, might not garner a glowing review on Pitchfork, but it’s strikingly effective at capturing the aesthetic. If I didn’t know it was generated by an algorithm, I’m not sure I’d be able to tell the difference.
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Memphis Grizzlies Head Coach, Players Weigh in On National Debate About On-Field Demonstrations
by: Brad Broders
Posted: Sep 25, 2017 / 10:57 PM CDT / Updated: Sep 26, 2017 / 05:07 PM CDT
A day after hundreds of National Football League players took a knee during the national anthem, the Memphis Grizzlies head coach defended those players.
The issue again came to the forefront after President Donald Trump said this weekend NFL players should be fired or suspended for such on-field demonstrations.
Coach David Fizdale said he is 100% behind his team whatever they decide to do, but whether the team is 100% unified in a position on the national anthem, that’s too early to tell.
When Local 24’s Brad Broders asked, “If your team decides to take a knee, you’ll take a knee?” Coach Fizdale responded, “Absolutely. There’s no gray area to that.”
Coach Fizdale didn’t mince his words on supporting his squad peacefully demonstrating during the national anthem.
“Our guys are closely connected to this community and it’s bigger than basketball,” Coach Fizdale said.
The second-year Grizzlies head coach took strong objection to President Donald Trump’s recent comments, when he argued any player who took a knee during the national weren’t proud of their country, their flag or their service members.
“You want to talk about disrespecting our military, go through his tweets, right?” Coach Fizdale said. “Let’s go down the line. John McCain, transgender in the military.”
Monday, Grizzlies players expressed a mixture of opinions on whether they’d support kneeling during the anthem as a team.
“My family fought for this country, I think its the best country in the world so I would hate to do anything that’s going disrespect that just because of the president,” Chandler Parsons said.
“It’s not disrespecting to our country, it’s not disrespecting to our service men and women, it’s bigger than that,” Mike Conley said.
Whatever happens, Memphian’s will find out next Monday at the Grizzlies preseason home opener.
During Grizzlies media day Monday, Coach Fizdale also discussed his continued support of removing Confederate statues in Memphis, statues currently protected by state law.
Last season, Coach Fizdale set up a Police Athletic League in Memphis and told Local 24 he plans to participate in an inmate training program and expand urban farms to low-income neighborhoods.
by Caitlin McCarthy / Jul 15, 2019
CRITTENDEN COUNTY, Ark. (localmemphis.com) - Homes and yards are prone to flooding during the summer months, so the Crittenden County Road Department is offering free sandbags to prevent flooding.
D.C. Armstrong is an employee for the road department and said there have been families who will barricade their homes with sandbags to prevent flooding.
Memphis man was a flight controller for NASA during Apollo mission to the moon
by Jeni Diprizio / Jul 15, 2019
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (localmemphis.com) - This week marks the 50th anniversary of the United States putting men on the moon. A Memphis man was a flight controller for NASA and worked on that Apollo mission.
You've seen the footage of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin taking the first steps on the moon, but Bill Weppner was in the control room on that historic day. He had worked as a propultionist on the mission.
by Rebecca Butcher / Jul 15, 2019
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (localmemphis.com) - Tennessee Governor Bill Lee faced tremendous backlash after signing a proclamation honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest.
It's required by state law. However, the governor is now saying he wants to change the law requiring governors to sign a proclamation.
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Home » Library » Library How-Tos » Check Out Ebooks
Preus Library offers access to several thousand electronic books, all found in our online library catalog. These titles are provided by a variety of ebook providers, each of which have slightly different methods for checking out or accessing their content. The sections below describe the processes for accessing ebooks from each provider.
EBSCO eBooks
Installing Adobe Digital Editions
Mobile Device Apps
Ebook Central titles appear as shown above. Luther students, faculty, and staff may login using their Norse Keys in order to save a given title to their bookshelf. The Norse Key login also provides off-campus access to Ebook Central titles, and allows downloading of titles.
For the vast majority of titles, Ebook Central allows multiple users to check out or view the same title at the same time. This means it would be possible for a class to use an Ebook Central title as a common reading. Titles with multi-user access will show the message "Your institution has unlimited access to this book." under the Ebook Central Availability field.
Downloading Ebook Central titles
From a web browser
Users with a Norsekey account may download Ebook Central titles in one of two ways:
Chapter Download
This format allows you to generate a PDF file that can be read on any PDF-capable device, including Mac and PC, Kindle, Nook, and iPad. You may select to create a file by chapter, or by indicating a page range. Each title may have a different maximum allowable page range, which is set by the publisher.
Titles are also available in Adobe Digital Editions format, which allows checkout for up to 14 days.
Users must download the Adobe Digital Editions reader (for Mac or PC), and create an account. This account does not need to match Luther’s Norse Key.
See Installing Adobe Digital Editions, below.
It is also possible to download Ebook Central titles to a variety of Adobe Digital Editions-compatible ebook readers. Use of these readers requires creation of an Adobe Digital Editions account. See below for guidance on commonly-used devices.
JSTOR ebooks appear as shown above. Online access is available directly on-campus, or with Norse Key login via the proxy server from off-campus. All titles in the JSTOR ebook collection are available to multiple users to view at the same time, and so could be used as an assigned class reading.
Downloading JSTOR titles
JSTOR ebooks may be downloaded in PDF format on a chapter-by-chapter basis, and are compatible with any desktop or mobile PDF reader.
Example of EBSCO ebook record
EBSCO titles appear as shown above. From the web-based interface, titles can be browsed without signing in. Downloaded content may be checked out for up to 7 days, and holds may be placed on materials already checked out. Most EBSCO titles are available to only 1-3 simultaneous users.
For some users, EBSCO ebooks only display the first page of a chapter/section. This is caused by PDF viewing settings on the host computer. To resolve this issue, follow the steps found here: http://support.ebsco.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=6682
Downloading EBSCO eBooks
In order to download titles, users must create a “My EBSCOhost” account, from the Luther campus network. This account works across all EBSCO databases. Users must also download and install Adobe Digital Editions software to their computer and/or compatible reader software to their mobile devices.
To create an EBSCO account:
From an on-campus computer, visit any EBSCO database and click the “Sign in” link on the upper right.
In the middle-right of the login page, click the “Create a new Account” link.
Fill in the information requested. NOTE: You are not required to use the same login information as your Norse Key, and ITS recommends at least choosing a different password for this account.
Users must also download the Adobe Digital Editions reader, and create an account. Again, this account does not need to match Luther’s Norse Key.
It is also possible to download EBSCO titles to a variety of Adobe Digital Editions-compatible ebook readers. Use of these readers requires creation of an Adobe Digital Editions account. See below for guidance on commonly-used devices.
Follow the instructions on the Adobe Digital Editions website.
iPad & Android
There are a handful of iPad & Android applications compatible with Abobe Digital Editions. One app popular in the library community is Bluefire Reader. This apps allows you to download a title directly from the mobile browser.
Dedicated ereaders (Nook, Kobo)
Visit Adobe support for more information.
NOTE: At this time, Adobe Digital Editions titles are not compatible with the Kindle.
Library maintained by Ryan Gjerde. Page last updated on 6 November 2017.
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Call in case of emergency to report an accident or if you need assistance.
Call 911 in case of emergency when the mountain not open and patrolled.
The Mad River Glen Ski Patrol is comprised of dedicated professional and volunteer patrollers. They are committed to keeping the Mad River Glen community as safe as possible. We thank them for their commitment and everything they collectively bring to our community.
Mad River Glen Ski Patrol Continues Founders Tradition
An excerpt from Mad River Glen’s history by Mary Kerr available in The General Store
Ski Patrol Director John Ayers echoed the words of the nine directors who preceded him when in April 2008 he declared, “This is the greatest group of people I have ever worked with. These special individuals, by building on a tradition of outstanding camaraderie, together create an incredible organization, an immense love of the mountain.
“No other mountains can compare. This is a ski hill; every place else is a ski resort- big difference. Mad River continues to embrace the ski hill.
“We are always open to anybody who wants to get involved. Our patrollers are self-motivated and self-educationing.
You have to want to be learning. We help one another.
“At Mad River Glen, egos are left at the door,” John proudly declares, as he identifies several highly placed professionals on his crew. “They may wield enormous sway in their professional lives. On duty as patrolmen they are just one of the team.”
As in the past the MRG unit continues to receive accolades. In 2005 the National Ski Patrol awarded a Unit Citation to MRG’s men and women in “recognition and acknowledgment of being the 2004-2005 Outstanding Large Ski Patrol for the Eastern Division. They were beaten out for the national award by Park City who had hosted the Olympics that year.
Nine members have received National Appointments. These NSP appointments are awarded to individuals who demonstrate leadership, good character, diplomacy, a positive attitude, good judgment, unusual qualities of patrolling ability, a genuine desire to serve the skiing public and extraordinary service. Another NSP member nominates the recipient.
“Not much has changed,” according to John. “Our focus, however, has extended our training to off-piste rescues to incorporate situations involving skiing in the woods.”
No longer are patrollers tied down or dependent on specific telephone stations.
The use of two-way radios by all on-duty patrol has reduced accident response time from twenty to thirty MRG Ski Patrol Continues Founder’s Tradition minutes to single digits. Except for the personnel stationed one at the top of each lift, the other twenty-three are free to ski the entire mountain on and off piste, where they are more accessible to the skiing public.
The average age of the forty-seven volunteers and ten professionals is forty-seven years, most of whom have served for many seasons. Volunteers must serve at least twenty days each season to qualify as staff.
“As our awards prove, our knowledge is deeper than it used to be. Our training has increased three fold in first aid and emergency response.
“Within three years of joining the staff, members must achieve senior level patrol status through rigorous exams in sled/toboggan handling, skiing and first aid skills plus a successful run of a complicated trauma accident.”
John credits the low incidence of accidents at MRG to the difficult terrain and limited uphill capacity. “These factors” he notes, “slow skiers down, thus preventing collisions which are the number one source of accidents throughout the industry. “Other areas reporting 1,000 or more accidents seasonally marvel at our low accident rate.”
John came to MRG in 1983 and began patrolling just three years after learning to ski at Pennsylvania’s Peak n Peak. His graduate degree in Special Education and Counseling holds him in good stead at The River, he muses.
Mad River Patrol is Particular
By Hugh Witham – An excerpt from Mad River Glen’s history by Mary Kerr available in The General Store
The Mad River Glen Ski Patrol was organized late in 1948 under the watchful eye of Howard Moody, the area Assistant Manager and a dedicated patrolman of many years experience. He set up the mainstay of the Patrol system that included a separate Patrol Room that provided privacy for those who were hurt and a place where the resident doctors could care for accident victims. It was even equipped with bunks and X-ray machine—almost unheard of in those days.
A telephone network and a series of toboggan caches were installed over the entire mountain. It was mandatory that each patrolman be a strong, steady skier who could handle any trail on the mountain under any and all conditions. But even more important than being a competent skier was an ability to bring down a toboggan from any spot on the mountain.
Moody’s dedication caught on, and even though it was a volunteer patrol, each man was determined to make it the best patrol in the East. At first it was a local group made up of people from the Mad River Valley, Montpelier, and Burlington. In 1951 the first contingent of out-of-staters took their place on the roster including Truxton Pratt, who later purchased MRG in 1972, and others who organized the Ski Clubs who would build lodges at the base.
The boys from Montclair, New Jersey were to be seen everywhere. Shortly another group from Hartford became regulars. By 1955 there were probably more out-of-staters than Vermonters. Once on the mountain,however, it made little difference where one was from. To a man there were two thoughts in mind – lots of skiing and, more important, a strictly business attitude toward accidents.
Hawley Slayton was patrol leader for our first two seasons. In 1950 Allen Clark assumed the responsibility and served until 1957. It was during this period that the MRG Patrol received the USEASA Safety Trophy.
The award was announced at the 1955-1956 Patrol Banquet. The citation is presented annually to the patrol that has made an outstanding contribution to patrol work. Since 1957 Howard Carr has ably carried on with a volunteer patrol. During this period the number of trails has more than doubled, yet full coverage has been maintained.
The protocol for managing an accident has been worked out so that each is handled with tender dispatch. The “Toboggan side” manner developed by some patrolmen rivals the bedside manner of the best doctors. The professional approach is akin to a hospital.
Supporting the patrol is a group of weekend resident doctors from the Green Mountain Clinic in Northfield. Two of these, Dr. Edgar R. Hyde and Dr. Scott Pedley, were the first to wear the emblem “Honorary Ski Patrol.” Aside from being on hand to take over the responsibility in the Patrol Room, these doctors have been available for individual or group discussion how to do the best possible job of getting a victim of an accident safely and comfortably off the mountain.
The patrol at MRG is a fraternity dedicated to skiing as a safe sport. May it ever be so.
Did you know that Mad River Glen ski patrol had an x-ray machine on the mountain in 1950?
Check out the whole story!
Check out this story of one of MRG’s earliest patrollers
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Online Dating: The 7 Worst Opening Lines To Slide Into Her DMs With
When you match with someone, don’t try these clichéd opening lines. They won’t work.
In a world where you can click a button and have anything you want arrive at your house instantaneously, people are quick to make snap decisions. The same holds true on dating apps like Tinder and Bumblr. You only get one shot to make a first impression, and if you send the wrong opening message, you could potentially send a woman running far away in the other direction.
As you probably already know, women on dating apps get a ton of messages. The good news for you is that a lot of these messages are terrible, so the bar is relatively low for you to make a good impression. “I think online dating can be great when you connect with the right people, but you have to wade through the enormous cesspool of your inbox to find them,” says Ana* (last name has been withheld to protect sources’ privacy), 26.
Because women are typically deluged by creepy or gross messages, they naturally tend to have their guard up. “We are a little nervous and touchy because a solid percentage of the messages we get are angry, critical, suspicious, or frankly, frightening,” says Liz, 45. You want to make yourself stand out from the crowd and land a date — but you don’t want to make yourself stand out too much by being rude, overly direct, or vulgar.
So what kinds of messages do women actually like getting? We spoke to a few women to get their takes on the worst opening lines they’ve ever received on dating apps and websites — and the best. By making small tweaks to the messages you send (not to mention the kinds of expectations you have about the process), you can up your online dating game and make a real connection with someone in the process.
The copy-pasted message.
Most women have received the impersonal, hastily copy-pasted message before. These messages are usually incredibly generic, with maybe one or two fast facts about the sender (ex: “Hey, TK, how are you? Quick note about me: I love Indian food and corgis.”) While you might think it’s a genius approach, we’re gonna let you in on a little secret: women can tell right away when they get this message.
“It’s very obvious when a guy sends [a copy-pasted message] because he doesn’t even bother to read what’s on my profile,” says Imani, 28. “I took the time to fill out my biography and profile page, and I would expect potential matches would do the same. The same goes for sending a message. I would like to think that a guy would send me something that at least addresses what’s on my profile. If they can’t even do that, I am not interested in conversing with them.”
Yes, it’s good to cast a wide net in the online dating pool. But while you may think that sending a standard message to a bunch of different women is upping your chances of a response, it’s more likely that it will be ignored and deleted on the spot.
“When I receive a message that’s clearly copied and pasted, I just delete it,” says Kara, 25. “It seems like the person sending the message is just playing a numbers game and doesn’t care what kind of response they get. It’s frustrating because I am trying to make a genuine connection with someone, and that kind of message is the exact opposite of what I am going for.”
9 Worst Things Guys Do On First Dates
The “you’re so pretty” message.
While you may find someone attractive, just telling them so isn’t necessarily going to get their attention. Compliments are important, but being genuine is even more so.
So instead of complimenting her physical appearance (trust me, she’s heard it before), say something that’s more specifically tailored to her personality. “When you introduce yourself, ask her about something she wrote in her profile you find interesting,” says Sarey, 37. “Compliment her sense of style or career choice or cool vacation pics. If you just say ‘Hi, you’re so pretty, let’s chat,’ you are automatically putting yourself in the basic-man meat pile.”
By taking the time to read her profile and craft an individualized message, you’re demonstrating that you want to put in the effort to potentially get to know her.
The angry message.
So you sent a message that doesn’t fall into the first or second category, and you haven’t gotten a reply back. Here’s what you shouldn’t do: send her an angry message. “Just move on,” says Sarey. “Nothing is more unattractive than a male’s broken ego.”
“Don’t insult me or comment on my age or my body,” says Emily, 37. (Yes, men: this happens way more to women than you think.)
If you don’t get a response to your message, don’t take it personally. While you may be interested in someone, it might not be mutual. And while it’s OK to feel disappointed by that, it’s never OK to take out your feelings of disappointment on someone else.
What To Say On A Date To Make Yourself More Attractive
The one-word message.
From time to time, you might be tempted to send a “Hey” or “What’s up” message to one of your matches. While you might think it’s an easy conversation starter, you also run the risk of looking lazy.
“One-word messages are the worst,” says Jenny, 30. “Sometimes, when I receive a message like that on OkCupid or Tinder, I have to just roll my eyes. How are you suppose to take anyone seriously whose first message to you is “Wassup?”
Instead of sending a one-word message, try to be creative instead. “I have a few sentences on my dating profile about how sloths are my favourite animal,” says Jenny. “I had a guy message me few months ago with some sloth facts. I thought that was very thoughtful and sort of ingenious. We ended up chatting for a while, went on a date, and we ended up going out for a few months.” Although that relationship didn’t work out, “his unique message really stood out and it’s something I still talk about with my friends.”
Unless she specifically asks for one, sending a woman an explicit message via a dating app is never, ever a good idea. It almost always makes the recipient uncomfortable, and it makes you look like a horny doofus. Even if you’re on a dating app just to hook up, other people could be looking for something different, and it’s important that you respect that. Using explicit language, slurs, or generally being rude is only going to you blocked.
Make an effort to be polite, and try to engage topics that will generate a fun and civil conversation. Sticking to PG-rated topics like music, food, travelling, and animals (see above) is always a solid approach. And if she asks you if you’re interested in exchanging more X-rated texts later on in your relationship, so much the better.
The oversharing message.
When constructing a message to a potential match, it’s important to strike a balance between sharing too few and too many personal details. Talking about your previous relationships, or how your last few dates have gone, is almost never a good idea.
“There have been several times when I’ve gotten a message from a guy off a dating site and I just cringe—they are literally telling me their life’s story in painstaking detail,” says Taryn, 28. “It’s exhausting and overwhelming to read. When I get those kinds of messages, I always wonder why they thought it was a good idea to send in the first place, and I am learning things I am not ready to know or don’t want to know.”
Tone it down, and remember that less is more. Instead of telling your match about your grief over your childhood pet dying, tell her about the last movie you saw instead. Most importantly, ask her questions, and try to keep them open-ended. That way, you can keep the lines of communication open.
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The emoji message.
Never send the emoji message. It makes you look lazy and, perhaps more importantly, childish.
“Multiple times, I have gotten messages from grown men that are just a kissing emoji, heart, a handwave etc.,” says Taryn. “I think I hate these might be the kinds of messages almost as much as the ones where the guy is telling me too much, too soon. If you’re just sending an emoji, it looks like you’re not willing to put any effort into dating.”
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Joe DiMaggio: A Hero's Life
I finished reading Joe DiMaggio: A Hero's Life by Richard Ben Cramer. I bought the book after buying What It Takes: The Way to the White House by the same author; this highly regarded political novel about the 1988 presidential campaign is still sitting on my nightstand… When I bought that book I noticed this book about Joe DiMaggio on Amazon.
I had four general observations about the book. First, I was surprised that DiMaggio was a high school drop-out. Due to his brother, he got a chance to play with the Seals in the Pacific Coast League and his career took off. In his first season at age 19, DiMaggio had a 61 game hitting streak. This streak transformed DiMaggio’s future.
Second, DiMaggio had an amazing MLB career. He was a three-time MVP winner and an All-Star in each of his 13 seasons. During his tenure with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine World Series championships. At the major league level, he hit safety in 56 games in 1941. This is a record that stands today.
Third, while I knew that he was married to Marilyn Monroe, I never appreciated the breadth of the relationship. Although he was only married to Marilyn for a less than a year, she played an important part of his life for almost ten years.
Fourth and finally, the book paints DiMaggio as extremely motivated by the dollar. Particularly after he retired, DiMaggio worked every angle.
I enjoyed the book. I just have no idea whether or not it is an accurate portrayal of Joe DiMaggio. The book tells a number of very detailed antecodes and includes a number of very specific quotes from DiMaggio. The book has been criticized for lacking any footnotes or references. A number of people have claimed that without any sources for the stories and quotes the book is more fiction than fact. As result, I am not sure that I can recommend it. I am going to have to eventually read another book about DiMiaggio.
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2006 IMBA UK Trail Survey
* Scotland was confirmed as the top UK destination, both for purpose-built trails and for open access routes.
* All Scottish regions performed well, an excellent reflection of joined-up thinking and decision making, and a very positive endorsement of the support of the Forestry Commission and the Scottish Parliament.
* Wales firmly positions itself above England, both in terms of a usable byway and bridleway network, and the popularity of the Forestry Commission and Tilhill Forestry trail centres.
* England is catching up with Welsh and Scottish trail centres, but almost in spite of any positive political encouragement from Westminster.
* It is evident that the recent Countryside Act has, as expected, produced few expectations of improvement to the byway and bridleway network in England and Wales for cyclists and equestrians.
* The two best performing regions were the East and South-East with the West Midlands providing the least positive assessment.
*Opinion was firmly divided in the East Midlands, no doubt highlighting the drawbacks of amalgamating differently performing counties for the purposes of the survey.
*Overall, Northern Ireland has a long way to go.
* With the state forestry service in Northern Ireland firmly stuck in a recreational dark ages, it is with great relief that we note the excellent initiative by Lafarge Cement to utilise a significant area of disused quarries for mtb and other recreation.
* The byway and bridleway network in virtually all National Parks were rated very highly, with six of the 11 parks assessed getting all ‘green’ scores, reassuringly reflecting the higher budgets generally available for rights of way maintenance.
* Dartmoor NP was the major exception, where mountain bikers quite rightly expressed their indignation at being regarded as criminals by the Dartmoor bylaws, although it is recognised that the National Park has made considerable efforts to provide legal opportunities to offset this rather petty piece of local legislation.
* Northumberland NP also was out of line with the general positive trend, and it is hoped that improvement will be noted in future surveys.
IMBA intends that this will become an annual event so that we can track progress across the UK, so comments and suggestions for improvements that can be considered for future surveys would be appreciated. Comments to imba@branchline.demon.co.uk
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Corvette Challenge Series DVD Box Set
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For two years in the late 1980s, Corvette racers had a league of their own. They called it the Corvette Challenge - a motor sports adventure like none other - where the top guns of road racing did battle on some of North America's best circuits for bragging rights and more than two million dollars in prize money.
Corvettes were banned from SCCA's Escort Endurance Series in 1987 after winning 19 of 19 races. Born out of desperation, the Challenge was a showcase for Corvettes in close-order combat. Only 1 of the 10 1988 Corvette Challenge races was televised, but in 1989 all 12 races were brought to the small screen. Brilliant editing, camera work, the utilization of multiple in-car cameras and the introduction of real-time, on-board data that was presented to the ESPN viewer made the Corvette Challenge television series unique, interesting and ground-breaking.
Corvette Challenge DVD Set Includes:
Disc One: 1988 Action From Mosport, The '88 Season Ending Re-cap & 1989 Races From Phoenix & Dallas
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Review: Omission - Merciless Jaws From Hell
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Merciless Jaws From Hell
Label: Xtreem Music
Review online: August 4, 2011
Reviewed by: Michel Renaud
Well, this is better. Thrash Metal is Violence wasn't bad but was a bit too messy and repetitive for its own good. Merciless Jaws From Hell is built upon the same foundation of raw, dirty and fast Thrash, but you can hear an improvement from the get-go, both in songwriting and musicianship and also production-wise. They've cleaned up their act enough that this might appeal to a slightly wider Thrash audience, while not scaring away those who liked the messy approach of the previous album.
The guitars are especially more noticeable and enjoyable on this – riffs and solos just come to life, whereas on the previous album things were a bit too bland. The vocals are still shrieky and more or less decipherable, but the vocalist seems to be more in control of his voice, and the annoying bits are nowhere to be found this time around.
Fast, raw Thrash that destroys everything in its path is the name of the game here, and while Omission do not invent anything with this form of Thrash, they do cater to a crowd that wants something less clean than what we've mostly been getting from the so-called "Thrash revival."
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Here’s what I can tell you: The NHL manages to increase revenue, sometimes by multiples. It manages to increase overall visibility in a United States that also sees a steady increase in kids playing all types of hockey. The players manage to increase salaries by similar jumps.
They can’t manage how to just keep the party going.
Also, the Private Snafu of sports leagues can’t just have a lockout after a run-of-the-mill season.
1994: The New York Rangers break a 54-year Stanley Cup drought with dramatic seven-game series wins over New Jersey (arguably the greatest NHL playoff series ever) and Vancouver. The NHL is deemed “hot,” especially in contrast with dull NBA playoffs, the first lacking Magic, Larry and Michael in a generation. The Cup and Rangers stars appear all over mainstream media during the summer. The NHL follows with lockout!
2004: Tampa Bay, the most inept sports franchise at the end of the last millennium and the start of this one, finishes its two-year turnaround by beating Calgary in a thrilling Stanley Cup Final. Despite the change in perception from 1994, two non-marquee teams and a historically low-rated start, the Cup Final is seen by far more people than 1994’s. In fact, by attendance and TV ratings, the NHL’s still rolling even with a lockout hanging over their head.
The NHL follows with lockout! Lost season!
(A Florida team wins a championship while rebuilding a fan base, then can’t really celebrate it. We know how well that works for said franchise, don’t we?)
2012: Los Angeles, a franchise in the multimedia capital of the world, scrapes into the playoffs, then steamrolls its way to the first Cup in the franchise’s 45-season history.
The NHL follows with oh, you know what.
There’s a different sense among puckheads this time. Perhaps it’s about anticipation.
You could see the 2004 lockout coming at least two years away. The owners figured out how to skirt their own safeguards and wreck the business that the 1995 CBA should’ve saved, the owners and players finish the longest pregame to a labor stoppage in sports history.
Anybody with a sense of hockey history and the cementheads on each side knew they could blow up the 2004-05 season. In February 2003, I planned my departure from the Panthers/NHL beat to coincide with that lockout.
So, though crestfallen when the NHL did to the 2004-05 season what rioters did to downtown Vancouver after the 2011 Stanley Cup Final, hockeyphiles could just shake their heads at a sport managing to meet dirt expectations. OK, fine. We’ll all take a break for a year while you get your stuff together. Been spending a little too much on tickets and hockey cards anyway.
This time, though, people thought, “They can’t be stupid enough to do it again, can they?” Surely, lessons had been learned.
Nope. The owners came out asking for fat salary rollbacks. The players, apparently forgetting they made up and lapped the 2004 salary rollbacks, got indignant.
This would be my 40th year as a hockey fan. I learned the game’s positions on an Oakland Seals-Pittsburgh Penguins table hockey game. I grew up following both the NHL and World Hockey Association. I fell asleep calling imaginary games I saw in my head. Forechecking schemes filled the margins of some school notebooks. The 11 seasons I covered the NHL day-to-day, being in the house for more than 100 games a year counting preseason, playoff and Cup Final games, ranks as the most enjoyable extended period of my career and probably always will.
This is what should worry the NHL and NHLPA: This time around, there are more people like me who’ve stopped caring if they play this year. And might not care if they’ll play in succeeding years.
It’s a great game, guys. You’re not the only ones who play it. And if you won’t play it, I’ll watch someone else who will.
Or, maybe I’ll indulge in one of the million other things that can occupy my time, money and give-a-damn.
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NO matter the result at the upcoming Women's Bowls NSW Pennant Finals, Muswellbrook has every right to feel proud of its representatives. The grade three line-up - Sandra Cowan, Norma Hollins, Kay Collins, Barbara McPhee (skip); Denise Hopwood, Jenny Hamson, Kay Noble and Eryn Brown (skip) - is venturing to the Kingscliff Beach Bowls Club, from August 14 to 18, to lock horns with the state's best. Not a bad feat for such a small organisation after prevailing at district and regional level in 2019. "I'll admit, our success at Cessnock shocked the pants off us," team manager and reserve Bettina Wilson said. "We did nicely to claim the district flag, but we headed to the regional play-offs without much expectation. "So, to then beat Lemon Tree Passage and Kurri Kurri was a big achievement. "However, the girls combined extremely well. "And, we'll need to play as a team again in the state finals in August. "It will be much harder bowls up there, no doubt about it." The Muswellbrook RSL Women's Bowling Club (RSL WBC) was first affiliated in 1965 with a membership of 65. When the RSL Club underwent building works, the players amalgamated with the Muswellbrook Bowling Club (MBC) who boasted 31 members. In 2005, following all the renovations and the completion of new greens, the organisation reverted back to the Muswellbrook RSL WBC, with a few newcomers from MBC. The only member from MBC still there is Dorothy Moore, who just celebrated 52 years of bowling. "So, the girls have done a wonderful job, considering our membership is a mere 16 affiliates these days," Wilson said. "It's a massive effort to get that far. "Full credit must go to all of them. "Even though our age is up there, so is the experience. "They are dedicated, hard-working bowlers - that's all you can ask for. "The club wishes them every success at the state finals." To help the women achieve their goal, Wilson is hoping the Muswellbrook RSL WBC can pick up some sponsorship, too. "It's an expensive trip, seven days up there," she said. "So, a bit of financial assistance would be good."
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Muswellbrook's Sandra Cowan, Norma Hollins, Kay Collins, Barbara McPhee, Denise Hopwood, Jenny Hamson, Kay Noble and Eryn Brown flying local flag at upcoming Women's Bowls NSW Pennant Finals
NO matter the result at the upcoming Women's Bowls NSW Pennant Finals, Muswellbrook has every right to feel proud of its representatives.
The grade three line-up - Sandra Cowan, Norma Hollins, Kay Collins, Barbara McPhee (skip); Denise Hopwood, Jenny Hamson, Kay Noble and Eryn Brown (skip) - is venturing to the Kingscliff Beach Bowls Club, from August 14 to 18, to lock horns with the state's best.
Not a bad feat for such a small organisation after prevailing at district and regional level in 2019.
"I'll admit, our success at Cessnock shocked the pants off us," team manager and reserve Bettina Wilson said.
"We did nicely to claim the district flag, but we headed to the regional play-offs without much expectation.
"So, to then beat Lemon Tree Passage and Kurri Kurri was a big achievement.
"However, the girls combined extremely well.
"And, we'll need to play as a team again in the state finals in August.
"It will be much harder bowls up there, no doubt about it."
The Muswellbrook RSL Women's Bowling Club (RSL WBC) was first affiliated in 1965 with a membership of 65.
When the RSL Club underwent building works, the players amalgamated with the Muswellbrook Bowling Club (MBC) who boasted 31 members.
In 2005, following all the renovations and the completion of new greens, the organisation reverted back to the Muswellbrook RSL WBC, with a few newcomers from MBC.
The only member from MBC still there is Dorothy Moore, who just celebrated 52 years of bowling.
"So, the girls have done a wonderful job, considering our membership is a mere 16 affiliates these days," Wilson said.
"It's a massive effort to get that far.
"Full credit must go to all of them.
"Even though our age is up there, so is the experience.
"They are dedicated, hard-working bowlers - that's all you can ask for.
"The club wishes them every success at the state finals."
To help the women achieve their goal, Wilson is hoping the Muswellbrook RSL WBC can pick up some sponsorship, too.
"It's an expensive trip, seven days up there," she said.
"So, a bit of financial assistance would be good."
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Caernarfon Airport plane crash: Pilot killed as light aircraft 'smashes into runway and explodes in massive fireball'
Emergency crews were dispatched to Caernarfon Airport in Wales this evening after the aircraft apparently came in "very low" and "fast"
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Updated 07:37, 7 SEP 2017
A pilot has been killed after a plane crashed at a UK airport, with one shocked witness describing a "very loud boom" and a "massive fireball".
Emergency services were dispatched to Caernarfon Airport in Wales this evening after the light aircraft apparently came in "very low" and "fast".
North Wales Police said they were called to the airport, close to Dinas Dinlle, at around 6.30pm, along with fire crews and the ambulance service.
The pilot was sadly declared dead at the scene, the force said in a statement.
One witness at a nearby caravan park said she heard a plane coming in to land at about 6.20pm - followed by an explosion, the Daily Post reports.
The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said: “A plane has come in and it came across very fast. I wondered what the hell was going on.
Emergency services were dispatched to Caernarfon Airport in Wales this evening following the plane crash
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“Then there was a very loud boom and a massive fireball.”
Another witness, who was walking his dog on a path near the airport, claimed he couldn't see any landing gear as the plane came in to land.
He said he saw the aircraft crash into the runway and explode into flames.
He told the Post: “I was walking my dog when I heard the plane coming in to land and I just thought I’d watch it land. So I ran about five metres to get up to the fence and where you can see the whole runway.
"The first thing I noticed was that the plane had no landing gear on.
“And then I realised it was going too fast.
North Wales Police said they were called to the airport, close to Dinas Dinlle, at around 6.30pm (Image: Daily Post Wales)
A council truck is seen blocking the road after the tragedy (Image: Staff)
“It came in and hit the tarmac and loads of debris came off it, it was a sort of belly flop and it bounced up.
“It had caught fire straight away. When it hit the ground again it exploded.”
Photos of the area showed plumes of smoke rising into the sky.
The airport, near Caernarfon, is home to the Wales Air Ambulance and Rescue 936 Coastguard helicopter, along with other light aircraft.
North Wales Police said in a statement: “One person has died following a light aircraft collision at Caernarfon Airport this evening.
The pilot was sadly declared dead at the scene, near Caernarfon (Image: Google Maps)
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“At 18:29 North Wales Police received a report that a light aircraft had collided on the runway and was on fire.
“The emergency services were called to the scene however sadly the pilot was pronounced dead at the scene."
Chief Inspector Sharon McCairn, North Wales Police said: “A cordon is in place around the site and we are urging the public to remain clear of the area to allow the emergency services to deal with the incident.
““Enquiries into the full circumstances are ongoing and we are in contact with the Air Accident Investigation Branch.
A file picture of the airport, which is home to the Wales Air Ambulance and Rescue 936 Coastguard helicopter, along with other light aircraft
"No further details are currently available.”
Caernarfon Airport was originally opened in 1941 and known as RAF Llandwrog, according to the airport's website.
The base was primarily used for training gunners, radio operators and navigators, Wales Online reports.
It was later the home for the RAF Mountain Rescue.
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Telenor buys rest of Pakistan’s Tameer Microfinance Bank - Mobile World Live
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Telenor buys rest of Pakistan’s Tameer Microfinance Bank
Telenor Pakistan acquired the 49 per cent of Tameer Microfinance Bank it does not already own, a sign of the two companies’ success in the country’s mobile money market.
The operator and the bank developed a service called Easypaisa, a significant player in Pakistan’s financial services sector.
“This acquisition gives us an even stronger platform to provide wide scale financial services to the unbanked population in the country. It also strengthens our leadership position in digitising financial services in Pakistan,” said Tine Wollebekk, Head of Financial Services, Telenor Group.
The bank becomes a wholly owned entity within Telenor Group.
The buyout involves personnel changes. Founder Nadeem Hussain is stepping down as president and CEO of the bank, although he is staying on as a board member. He will be replaced by Ali Chaudhry. The changes are subject to approval from State Bank of Pakistan and will be effective from the date of approval.
“Transitions like these are always a moment of mixed emotions. Naturally I am a little sad to leave Tameer as it represents a long labour of love and a decade of innovation, but I am more excited as it moves on to the next step in its evolution,” said Hussain.
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The 16 MBTI® Types
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Quiet, serious, earn success by thoroughness and dependability. Practical, matter-of-fact, realistic, and responsible. Decide logically what should be done and work toward it steadily, regardless of distractions. Take pleasure in making everything orderly and organized - their work, their home, their life. Value traditions and loyalty.
Quiet, friendly, responsible, and conscientious. Committed and steady in meeting their obligations. Thorough, painstaking, and accurate. Loyal, considerate, notice and remember specifics about people who are important to them, concerned with how others feel. Strive to create an orderly and harmonious environment at work and at home.
Seek meaning and connection in ideas, relationships, and material possessions. Want to understand what motivates people and are insightful about others. Conscientious and committed to their firm values. Develop a clear vision about how best to serve the common good. Organized and decisive in implementing their vision.
Have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. Quickly see patterns in external events and develop long-range explanatory perspectives. When committed, organize a job and carry it through. Skeptical and independent, have high standards of competence and performance - for themselves and others.
Tolerant and flexible, quiet observers until a problem appears, then act quickly to find workable solutions. Analyze what makes things work and readily get through large amounts of data to isolate the core of practical problems. Interested in cause and effect, organize facts using logical principles, value efficiency.
Quiet, friendly, sensitive, and kind. Enjoy the present moment, what's going on around them. Like to have their own space and to work within their own time frame. Loyal and committed to their values and to people who are important to them. Dislike disagreements and conflicts, do not force their opinions or values on others.
Idealistic, loyal to their values and to people who are important to them. Want an external life that is congruent with their values. Curious, quick to see possibilities, can be catalysts for implementing ideas. Seek to understand people and to help them fulfill their potential. Adaptable, flexible, and accepting unless a value is threatened.
Seek to develop logical explanations for everything that interests them. Theoretical and abstract, interested more in ideas than in social interaction. Quiet, contained, flexible, and adaptable. Have unusual ability to focus in depth to solve problems in their area of interest. Skeptical, sometimes critical, always analytical.
Flexible and tolerant, they take a pragmatic approach focused on immediate results. Theories and conceptual explanations bore them - they want to act energetically to solve the problem. Focus on the here-and-now, spontaneous, enjoy each moment that they can be active with others. Enjoy material comforts and style. Learn best through doing.
Outgoing, friendly, and accepting. Exuberant lovers of life, people, and material comforts. Enjoy working with others to make things happen. Bring common sense and a realistic approach to their work, and make work fun. Flexible and spontaneous, adapt readily to new people and environments. Learn best by trying a new skill with other people.
Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. See life as full of possibilities. Make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns they see. Want a lot of affirmation from others, and readily give appreciation and support. Spontaneous and flexible, often rely on their ability to improvise and their verbal fluency.
Quick, ingenious, stimulating, alert, and outspoken. Resourceful in solving new and challenging problems. Adept at generating conceptual possibilities and then analyzing them strategically. Good at reading other people. Bored by routine, will seldom do the same thing the same way, apt to turn to one new interest after another.
Practical, realistic, matter-of-fact. Decisive, quickly move to implement decisions. Organize projects and people to get things done, focus on getting results in the most efficient way possible. Take care of routine details. Have a clear set of logical standards, systematically follow them and want others to also. Forceful in implementing their plans.
Warmhearted, conscientious, and cooperative. Want harmony in their environment, work with determination to establish it. Like to work with others to complete tasks accurately and on time. Loyal, follow through even in small matters. Notice what others need in their day-by-day lives and try to provide it. Want to be appreciated for who they are and for what they contribute.
Warm, empathetic, responsive, and responsible. Highly attuned to the emotions, needs, and motivations of others. Find potential in everyone, want to help others fulfill their potential. May act as catalysts for individual and group growth. Loyal, responsive to praise and criticism. Sociable, facilitate others in a group, and provide inspiring leadership.
Frank, decisive, assume leadership readily. Quickly see illogical and inefficient procedures and policies, develop and implement comprehensive systems to solve organizational problems. Enjoy long-term planning and goal setting. Usually well informed, well read, enjoy expanding their knowledge and passing it on to others. Forceful in presenting their ideas.
Excerpted from Introduction to Type® by Isabel Briggs Myers published by The Myers-Briggs Company. Used with permission.
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17.06.2019 Opinion
Beware Of Politicasters Parading As Politicians!
By Daily Guide
One of my all-time favourite musicians in Ghana is Charles Kwodwo Fosu, aka Daddy Lumba. I fell in love with his voice as far back as my secondary school days when he was with Nana Acheampong in the group Lumba Brothers. The late Daasebre Gyamenah, then my junior in Benkum Secondary School, usually entertained the seniors with Lumba Brothers’ songs like ‘Yee ye aka akwantuom’ and ‘Meho Mmo Meho so’.
The multiple award-winning Daddy Lumba has more than a hundred hit songs to his credit, but my favourite is ‘Ye ne wo sere kwa’. It literally translates, “People laugh with you but are not happy deep within.’ Since its release in 2012, the song has resonated with many of my compatriots. Perhaps, it is because ours is a country with many folks infected with the ‘Pull Him Down’ (PHD) syndrome.
Personally, I’ve encountered many such persons in my more than four decades of existence on this earth. The most recent happened when I graduated with a Masters degree from the University of Ghana. A colleague teacher was among the first to congratulate me and even pretended to be sad for not receiving an invitation to grace the occasion.
But soon after he left he went to bad mouth me to another colleague, who saw me approaching. He therefore encouraged the ‘konkonsa’ guy to continue, thus making it possible for me to catch him ‘in flagrante delicto’ (right in the act). I just smiled and walked away, leaving him in a drench of shame.
Being his assistant headmaster, he expected me to capitalize on that issue to pick on him at the least provocation. But I rather did the exact opposite. I forgave him when he was caught blatantly infringing on school rules. Six moons on and he is yet to shake off that shame!
For sure, if there is any group of persons in this country that epitomizes the ‘Ye ne wo sere kwa’ trait, then it is no other than those under the eagle-headed Umbrella. It is an understatement to say they are desperate for power. But to resort to kidnappings in order to make the government look incapable of ensuring security for the citizenry is way out of line. It is very apt to describe it as a seditious act.
Please don’t ask for the source because we all heard the infamous tape from Elder Kidnapper. Yes I’ve heard the claim that the tape had been doctored, but not even my six year old son would believe that story.
The leaked tape has exposed their diabolic machinations. The voice is unmistakably his. It is so clear that the deaf could hear it. For sure, the wind has exposed the faecal matter stashed in the fowl’s anus.
While the search for the missing Takoradi girls continued, the country woke up on June 4 to be greeted by the news of two kidnapped Canadians ladies. BBC, CNN and other major international media carried the story on their networks.
Listening to those under the Umbrella on radio and television, one could easily perceive their excitement at the news of the two kidnapped Canadians. Obviously because their plan of creating the impression that the country was insecure was going accordingly.
One could, therefore, imagine their disappointment when the Canadians were rescued by the country’s security forces. Is it any wonder that they organized a press conference the day after the rescue to claim that the suspects were members of the Great Elephant?
You see, any investigator worth his salt would tell you to be wary of the one who hastily accuses others when a crime is committed. For chances are that they are the real culprit. So Zu-za’s hasty press conference on the Canadian ladies must be viewed with suspicion.
It is very refreshing to note that one of their own has come out to condemn the party for organizing the press conference. Koku Anyidoho likened their action to that of saboteurs and referred to them as ‘politicasters’. And for your information, Wikipedia defines a politicaster as ‘an unstatesmanlike practitioner of politics: a petty or contemptible politician’.
Time and again, you hear President Ogwanfunu and his ilk saying the people are living in fear under President Nana Dee. And why wouldn’t we live in fear when ‘The Incompetent One’ wants to come and cause more havoc to the state? We just cannot sleep when we know that politicasters are lurking and planning to destabilize the peace we are enjoying.
My advice to my compatriots is simple: beware of politicasters parading as politicians; and do not be deceived by their smiles and laughter. As Daddy Lumba puts it, “Ye ne wo sere kwa.”
See you next week for another interesting konkonsa, Deo volente!
Disclaimer: "The views/contents expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author(s) and do not neccessarily reflect those of Modern Ghana. Modern Ghana will not be responsible or liable for any inaccurate or incorrect statements contained in this article."
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Yajzi strikes again
By The Heritage
In what many in the ruling party will describe as another gruff talk, absentee former advisor to President Kufuor, Ms Giselle Yajzi has set June 20th this year as the day he will present evidence of Presidential wrong doing she leveled President Kufuor in the Hotel Kufuor transaction.
In the latest letter to her local collaborators, the Truth Foundation, Ghana forwarded to the Heritage, Ms. Yajzi, who had adopted great fuzziness in her earlier encounter with the Ghanaian media on the hotel transaction promised to provide all the details of the hotel transaction to both Ghanaian international media at Hotel Astoria in New York on the 20thh of June this year.
“I Giselle Yajzi invite every honest Ghanaian, journalist or not, international Transparency in Ghana, on June 20 at 5: pm, in New York Hotel Astoria, to a press conference, “her e- mail to the TFG stated.
The former presidential Economic Advisor in the e- mail to the TFG also promised that apart from making available in the evidence on the hotel in question, at the said press conference, she will also provide other documents relating to what she described as illegal acquisition of wealth by the president.
“ … I will be presenting every evidence against President John Agyekum Kufuor and his oldest son with Theresa Kufuor, on the hotel negotiation, and every document in many other acts of corruption that the President has committed”, the letter said.
Ms. Yajzi, ex- advisor to President Kufuor and now a gritty foe stormed the nation's air waves last year with breathless allegations against the President in the acquisition of the hotel property belonging to Chief Kufuor, the President's son.
According to Ms Yajzi in her earlier encounter with the Ghanaian media, the real owner of the hotel is the President himself and that he just used his son as a front.
As the debate on the hotel heated up, Ms Yajzi promised to jet down to Ghana to provide her' killer' evidence against the President to the Ghanaian media.
However, in a very dramatic fashion, she disappeared from the Ghanaian media radar following a move by the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice to investigate the matter and clear all the fog surrounding the hotel acquisition.
CHRAJ has recently released its report on the hotel issue clearing the president of acts of corruption, conflict of interest or any wrongdoing and cited paucity of evidence as a major drawback to a successive investigation.
But in a seeming change of mind or another deceptive and venal attempt to the Ghanaian media yesterday in an e- mail forwarded to the Heritage via her collaborators, Ms Yajzi promised to provide evidence to all the allegations she had earlier leveled against the President.
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The NYK Group Conducts Ship-to-Shore Connection Test of Navigation Support Tool
2018.03.23 Press Release
On March 23, 2018, MTI and NYK conducted a ship-to-shore connection test for the ship navigation support tool J-Marine NeCST,* and together with Japan Radio Co. Ltd. verified the effectiveness of the tool’s functions.
For the test, a fire was presumed to have occurred on the cruise ship Asuka II, which is operated by NYK Cruises Co. Ltd. The two J-Marine NeCST tools — one aboard Asuka II and the other at NYK’s Crisis Management Center within the NYK head office in Tokyo — were then connected via the internet.
The emergency [Fire] button on the onboard tool was activated, and an emergency checklist and fire control plan were immediately shared on synchronized screens. Prompt communication was then tested via the tool’s chat function. Each of the tool’s functions were confirmed to be effective.
During an onboard emergency, particularly one involving fire, immediate and accurate communication between ship and shore is vital. Currently, onboard crews must report on the ship’s condition by phone, fax, email, or the like while engaging the fire, which should be the crew’s utmost priority. J-Marine NeCST allows us to bridge ship and shore and thus drastically reduce the burden placed on the crew. In addition, professional advice from land allows for an understanding of the real progress of the fire extinguishing work on board.
The NYK Group will continue to combine on-site ideas with technology to create a safer work environment and address needed issues.
* J-Marine NeCST (“NeCST” is pronounced “Next”)
A ship navigation support tool jointly developed by NYK, MTI, and Japan Radio Co. Ltd. The tool allows users to easily plan routes using the handwriting function of the electronic navigational chart, in addition to managing and sharing operational data using integrated information such as meteorological and hydrographical forecasts.
News(May 17, 2017): New Navigation Support Tool Allows Handwritten Inputs and Overlapping Weather Information on Electronic Charts
News(January 23, 2018): Test Operations of J-Marine NeCST, a Ship-Navigation Support Tool, Begin at the On-Land Office
News(January 25, 2018): J-Marine NeCST Has Been Installed on Asuka II
Link to the news release of NYK
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Bollywood appreciates folk artists: All girl band from Nagaland
By Debaprio D. Choudhury
New Delhi: Bollywood may be stereotypical and commercialized with its formula content but offers a “great platform” for folk artistes to display creativity on a large scale and gain popularity, feels an all-girl band from Nagaland – the Tetseo Sisters.
The band, which performs traditional folk music of Nagaland’s Chakhesang tribe and along with folk fusion, consists of four Tetseo siblings – Azi, Mercy, Kuvelu and Alune – as its members.
Founded in 1994, the band is credited with being able to bring Naga folk music to a larger audience.
“We love a lot of things about Bollywood, while certain things make us cringe too. Indie music and folk have more recently found a place in Bollywood and that is good news,” Mercy of the Delhi-based band was quoted by a media outlet.
“For all its commercialism and stereotypical formula treatment, Bollywood is a great platform for artistes to gain popularity and make it good financially. It also gives great opportunity for creativity on a large scale,” she said and added that they get inspired by life.
The folk quartet said their songs were about daily life existence, beauty, nature, family, love, friendship, death, pain and happiness. They sing “Li” (folk songs) in Nagaland’s Chokri dialect.
The band members, dressed up in their miniature versions of the traditional Chakhesang costumes, play instruments like Tati (one stringed instrument), Khro-khro (shakers), drums and Bamhum.
On their songs and music, Kuvelu said: “We sing some traditional (Naga) lyrics as well as some that we have written. ‘O Rhosi’, ‘Apulio Lizo’ (prayer song), ‘Ohe!’ and ‘Hiyo! Hiyo!’ are some of our well-appreciated songs. We also perform western contemporary music.”
“Our songs celebrate life and certain virtues and values. They talk about identity and describe a beautiful way of life close to nature,” added Kuvelu who is part of the quartet that has featured in many cultural events across India and abroad.
The band members said they were always open to varied experiences and opportunities to make new and different kinds of music.
The Tetseo Sisters said they were now on a mission to create awareness about the need for environment protection, gender equality and racial discrimination.
“We are not activists of any kind. But we want to highlight the need for environment protection, recycling, gender equality, racial discrimination and safety for women across the country,” said Alune, a key member of the band that has jammed with folk musicians from India and abroad.
Asked about their future plan, Azi told a media outlet: “Our dream is to go on a worldwide tour. Slowly but surely, we are pretty close to getting there.”
On the growing trend of all-girl bands in the northeast region, she said: “…it is probably because of the love of music inherent in people of the hills and the more socially egalitarian tribal culture that lets girls be more individualistic and free to pursue their interests.”
“However, there are many famous female vocals fronting many top bands from the rest of the country; so it’s not like there is a dearth of female musical talent around the country barring the northeast states. To us, it doesn’t really matter if a group is all male or female so long as they make great music,” she said.
Asked whether the band faced any problem in connecting with audiences in other parts of India, Mercy said good music does not need a language.
“We have been playing in Delhi for a while. Yes, we sing in a dialect spoken by very few people and that’s the beauty of it. Some things can’t be translated but thankfully with music, you just need to hit the right notes for the melody to capture your listener’s soul and do its job.
“We have had a variety of audiences and they have never faced any problems getting the intent of the songs, and we also try to share a gist of each song that we sing. Good music does not need a language. It speaks to the soul,” said Alune as the band’s popularity continues to grow in other parts of India.
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Pittsboro does not have a tree protection ordinance, said Town Planning Director Jeff Jones. The only trees currently protected are within state-regulated buffer areas, he said.
Development underway
Chatham Park is a megadevelopment on the northeast side of Pittsboro. It is expected to increase the town’s population by more than 60,000 residents during the next 30 years, nearly a 12-fold increase over the current 5,000 who live there.
Some minor commercial development has already occurred in Chatham Park with the opening of businesses in Penguin Place and several UNC Healthcare offices. Grading for the Mosaic, a large mixed-use development across the street is imminent, according to Kirk Bradley of the Eco Group.
The developers of Chatham Park offered an amended tree-protection plan at Monday’s Town Board meeting they say will protect more than enough trees while the property is developed during the next 30 years. It is one of many negotiations happening between town leaders and Chatham Park developers.
Chatham Park’s plan allows for latitude in deciding tree density based on whether the trees are in a residential or commercial area. The developers have said they’ve done an inventory of large trees and will do as much as they can to protect “specimen” or “champion” trees.
David Brown, a landscape architect with WithersRavenel, presented the Chatham Park plan. He said there is a difference between tree coverage and tree canopy that gets confused. Tree coverage refers to the trees in the ground and the area they covers, he said. The canopy area is the leafy part of the trees.
“Tree coverage and tree canopy are different,” he said. “But they tend to be intermingled.”
Tree coverage is the standard Chatham Park is using in its plan.
The Haw River Assembly says the plan does not go far enough.
The Chatham Park plan now only protects 10 percent of existing trees by tree coverage area. That figure does not include what trees may be subsequently planted by homeowners when people start moving in, Brown said.
Chapel Hill’s tree protection ordinance uses canopy coverage for its standard and requires 30 percent to 40 percent canopy coverage for most new development. Charlotte is proposing 50 percent tree canopy coverage by 2050.
Land near Chatham Park in Pittsboro was recently sold to Maryland-based real-estate developer Halle Companies. Robert Willett rwillett@newsobserver.com
Much of the land for Chatham Park is still covered by forest. Google Earth
By T. Keung Hui
The North Carolina House has a bill to reduce student testing and tried to merge its plan with a Senate bill. But the Senate rejected the changes. They say students have too many tests to take.
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From the moment British student Meredith Kercher’s brutalized body is found, Knox seems to take little interest in or even notice of the tragedy. It’s an inconvenience to her fun agenda.
We see the Italian police carrying the body bag out of the house. News cameras start flashing, and an official shouts to the media: ”As a courtesy, please stop! Have some dignity!”
Then we see a blank-faced Knox standing nearby, smooching ostentatiously with her boyfriend.
At the police station, Knox throws the F-word around at authorities. In an exhibitionist display, she does cartwheels and stretching.
Italians thought she was crazy, evil or both. Crashing insensitivity is somewhat foreign to them.
“In Seattle, I was cute,” Knox tells the filmmakers. “In Italy, I was the beautiful blonde American girl.” Italians, it turned out, were not quite so awed as she thought.
During the recent Rio Olympics, Americans swelled with pride at the performance of their athletes. But then a handful of their champion swimmers deflated the good feeling with their disgraceful behavior in the host country.
The details: Ryan Lochte had drunkenly vandalized a gas station bathroom as he and friends were returning from a party. They could have just apologized, having already paid to fix the damage, but no. Lochte and his three teammates cooked up phony stories about being held up at gunpoint. Lochte said the robbers wore police badges.
To beat the rap on their own minor criminality, the Americans were willing to exploit Brazil’s painful reputation for violent crime. Brazilians were enraged.
The last example involves no crime, just an obnoxious presumption of American superiority. Jonathon Dunne, a Coloradan, has been badgering London subway riders to talk to one another. Chatting up strangers is not the local custom in the Underground. Londoners generally regard their time in the Tube as “sacred space,” a British etiquette expert explained to media.
Nonetheless, Dunne stands outside subway stations handing out badges with the words “Tube chat?” Far worse, he’s at Covent Garden with a bullhorn barking, “It is time to make London the friendliest city in the world.”
Dunne acknowledges that many of the people he confronts with his pushy camaraderie are not amused. But, he told The Wall Street Journal, “I’m expecting to change the culture of London.”
Those are high expectations for … exactly who is this guy? What would happen if a foreigner stood in Dunne’s hometown of Durango and harangued passers-by not to talk so loudly? I’d hate to think.
What’s going on here? Rampant narcissism? Immaturity? Arrogance? There may be some or all of that. Let’s just say it’s doubtful that these individuals would have tried the same stunts back home in America. And if that’s the case, their behavior is not naive innocence but plain ugly.
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In this Aug. 9, photo, United States’ swimmer Ryan Lochte prepares before a men's 4x200-meter freestyle heat at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro. Michael Sohn AP
A handout picture released on September 30, 2016 shows badges encouraging conversation on the London underground in London. When Jonathan Dunne began handing out badges encouraging conversation on the London Underground, the American had no idea of the controversy he would unleash. JONATHAN DUNNE AFP/Getty Images
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226684741 Hardback Dec 1986 Out of Print #5377
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Sewall Wright (1889-1988) had an extraordinarily scientific career that spanned more than seventy-five years. Documenting Wright's legacy in genetics and evolutionary theory, this biography is based on extensive interviews with Wright himself and others who knew him and on the entire correspondence between Wright and such figures as R.A. Fisher, Theodosius Dobzhansky, E.B. Ford, Motoo Kimura, Arthur Cain, and James F. Crow.
"Provine's thorough and thoroughly admirable examination of Wright's life and influence, which is accompanied by a very useful collection of Wright's papers on evolution, is the best we have for any recent figure in evolutionary biology."
– Joe Felsenstein, Nature
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NIACC splits with DMACC
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NIACC's Michael Oh delivers a pitch in Sunday's first game.
2B: Anthony Catalano
2B: Austin Murr; Evan Salmon
HR: Carter Troncin; Evan Salmon
2B: Anthony Catalano; Ben Fitzgerald; Kyle Pike; Jacob Hansen
3B: Ben Fitzgerald
HR: Gabe Denton
2B: Austin Murr
HR: Carter Troncin
BOONE - The NIACC baseball team split a ICCAC doubleheader with DMACC on Sunday.
NIACC won the first game 13-4 and dropped the second game 9-8.
In the first game, Michael Oh (3-2) gained the win for the Trojans. He pitched six innings allowing four runs on four hits with four strikeouts and three walks.
The Trojans received a home run from Gabe Denton, the first of his career. The Trojans also received three hits from Ben Fitzgerald and two hits apiece from Denton and Fox Leum.
In the second game, DMACC led 8-4 after six innings. NIACC pushed across two runs in the seventh inning, allowed a single run in the bottom of seventh and scored two runs in the eighth inning to trim the deficit to 9-8 going to the ninth inning.
NIACC (10-11 overall, 3-3 in the ICCAC) had runners on second and third with two outs in its half of the ninth inning but could not score the tying run.
NIACC's Caden Kratz, who took the loss, relieved starter Evan Reifert in the second inning. Kratz struck out a career-best nine in 4 2/3 innings of work.
The two teams wrap up the four-game series on Monday. The first game is slated to start at 1 p.m.
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Raila Odinga asks DCI to speed up probe into Sharon Otieno murder
Thursday September 6 2018
Ms Otieno's body was found in K'odera forest in Oyugis, Homa bay county, on Wednesday.
Mr Odinga asked the Director of Criminal Investigation to quickly unravel the murder and identify her killers.
Rongo MP Paul Abuor also said the probe should be fast-tracked "and those behind the act prosecuted regardless of who they are and the positions they hold".
By VIVERE NANDIEMO
Opposition leader Raila Odinga wants the criminal investigations agency to speedily investigate the brutal murder of pregnant university student Sharon Otieno.
'HEINOUS ACT'
The second year student of Rongo University had been kidnapped alongside the Nation's reporter Barrack Oduor on Monday.
Mr Oduor narrowly escaped death by jumping out of a speeding vehicle in which the two of them were.
Speaking during a funds drive for Migori senator aspirant Ochillo Ayacko's campaigns on Wednesday evening, Mr Odinga asked the Director of Criminal Investigations to quickly unravel the murder and identify Ms Otieno's killers.
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"I condemn in the strongest terms the brutal murder [Ms Otieno]. I call upon the DCI to investigate the matter with speed and bring to book the perpetrators of this heinous act," he said.
"It is very unfortunate that a young girl, who was pregnant, was murdered. My condolences to her family."
At the same event, Rongo MP Paul Abuor also said the probe should be fast-tracked "and those behind the act prosecuted regardless of who they are and the positions they hold in the society".
Government spokesperson Eric Kiraithe has assured the country that the incident will be investigated expeditiously.
"I take this opportunity to assure the public and media fraternity in particular that this matter will be expeditiously investigated and that perpetrators of this heinous crime will face the full force of the law," Mr Kiraithe said in a statement.
DCI George Kinoti has dispatched a team of detectives to Migori and Homa Bay counties to get to the bottom of the murder.
Mr Kinoti has promised to zero in on the perpetrators of the crime in a record three days.
Meanwhile, the office of Migori Governor Okoth Obado has denied that he was linked to the abduction of Mr Oduor and Ms Otieno.
County communications boss Nicholas Anyuor claimed the allegations are meant to ruin Mr Obado's reputation.
"The reports linking [Ms Otieno] to Governor Obado are malicious and unsubstantiated. The media should stop using the name of the Governor in reporting the incident," he said.
Mr Obado's personal assistant, Mr Michael Oyamo, was arrested on Tuesday after he was linked to the abduction of the two.
Rongo University students took to the streets on Wednesday, demanding an explanation from the Migori government. They said they will demonstrate until Mr Obado addresses the matter.
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The Willow Orchid Maze
Deborah Hunter-Knight Walled Garden Project Officer
The willow orchid, designed and created by volunteers Tony Blackett
While you can still come and see the willow orchid maze in the walled garden, it has been put to bed for the winter.
Designed by gardening volunteer Charmian Marshall, the maze has been created as part of the Heritage Lottery Funded Project: 3 Rs, as a way of enhancing the garden space.
Made with living willow, once inside, there is a central ‘eye in the sky’ feature which is made out of non-living hazel and willow and encourages you to look up and focus on the sky. The living willow domes reflect the shape of the palladian chapel dome - found just outside the walled garden itself.
Charmian designed the willow labrynth taking influence from an orchid
Charmian Marshall
The team, which includes myself, weaver Ruth Thompson, National Trust volunteers and metal worker John Fairley, used both living and dry willow on the structure, and continued to weave-in new shoots while cutting the structure into shape.
Why use an orchid for the design?
Well, we were amazed to discover that during Georgian times pineapples were being cultivated right here at Gibside, and now it’s apparent that orchids were too.
There was certainly a peach-house, built for Mary Eleanor in 1777, as well as vineries and pineapple pits. Sadly, by 1834, they were in a state of disrepair.
At this point, the estate was occupied by the Dowager Lady Strathmore, widow of the 10th Earl, and her second husband, Sir William Hutt, both were keen gardeners.
" My flowers have been behaving very well in my absence. The Zygopetalum Intermedium (quite old stock) is in great beauty, and some of the new orchids have thrown up flower stalks contrary to expectation."
- Sir William Hutt to Dent, 20th Dec 1847
Lo and behold, letters between Sir William Hutt and his stepson, John Bowes, refer to pineapple growing pits and an Orchid, so we wanted to celebrate this in some way and when Charmian suggested having the design as an orchid, it felt like a perfect way to do that.
Fryer’s 1803 estate plan shows that there were structures along the entire length of the south side of the north wall: these are presumed to have been glazed buildings, some of them heated.
" I thank you for your letter, the contents of which interested me much I was afraid that the wheat had suffered by the long succession of cold and wet weather. I hear now in addition of the potato taint & the small pox as it is called among the sheep. There are serious things at all times, but are much more so in the present state of the country… You will find Orchids in bloom at Gibside."
- Sir William Hutt to Dent, Gibside 20 July 1848
Discover more at Gibside
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FDA Steps Up Warnings for Testosterone, Other Steroids
Vials of testosterone medicationFrank Rumpenhorst / dpa/AP file
Oct. 25, 2016, 9:19 PM UTC / Updated Oct. 25, 2016, 9:19 PM UTC
By Maggie Fox
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it’s stepping up warnings about testosterone and other steroid drugs.
Not only can the drugs cause heart attacks, personality changes and infertility, but people can easily abuse them, the FDA said.
Weighing risks, benefits of testosterone therapy
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“The new warning will alert prescribers to the abuse potential of testosterone and the serious adverse outcomes, especially those related to heart and mental health that have been reported in association with testosterone/anabolic androgenic steroidabuse,” the FDA said in a statement.
Related: Steroids Carry Addiction Risk
“Reported serious adverse outcomes include heart attack, heart failure, stroke, depression, hostility, aggression, liver toxicity and male infertility. Individuals abusing high doses of testosterone have also reported withdrawal symptoms, such as depression, fatigue, irritability, loss of appetite, decreased libido and insomnia,” it added.
It said testosterone labeling will also be revised.
The FDA has previously warned against over-promotion and overuse of testosterone replacement products, saying they can raise the risk of heart disease. They are approved to treat men will medically diagnosed low levels of testosterone.
Related: Testosterone Replacement Can Raise Blood Clot Risk
The FDA does not approve the use of testosterone to treat the effects of aging. But it's already a $2 billion industry, with millions of men buying gel, pills or getting injections.
Anabolic steroids are synthetic variations of testosterone. They are legally prescribed to treat conditions such as delayed puberty and diseases that cause muscle loss, such as cancer or AIDS.
“But some athletes and bodybuilders abuse these drugs to boost performance or improve their physical appearance,” the National Institute on Drug Abuse says.
Related: Testosterone Gives Some Men back Their Pep
“Long-term steroid abuse can act on some of the same brain pathways and chemicals — including dopamine, serotonin and opioid systems — that are affected by other drugs. This may result in a significant effect on mood and behavior.”
Long-term abuse of anabolic steroids can cause a range of health effects, including shrinking testicles, kidney failure and baldness.
Maggie Fox
Maggie Fox is a senior writer for NBC News and TODAY, covering health policy, science, medical treatments and disease.
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SEC Athletics | October 13, 2016
College football: LSU-Florida rescheduled
The rematch will be played in LSU's Tiger Stadium
Birmingham, Ala. - The LSU vs. Florida football game, postponed last Saturday due to Hurricane Matthew, has been rescheduled for Saturday, November 19, at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge under the terms of an agreement announced by SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey.
In addition, the Presidents and Chancellors have established the expectation for existing Conference policy to be revised to better define the process for completing postponed or interrupted contests and to grant authority to the Commissioner to determine the date and location of future games that may need to be rescheduled if the two involved institutions cannot mutually identify a date.
"It was important for us to come to a resolution. Each university had its own set of concerns throughout this process, however existing SEC regulations did not provide an avenue to resolve conflicting issues in a more timely manner," SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said. "As I have repeatedly said, this game needed to be played. In the end, I want to give credit to the University of Florida for making concessions to move this year's game to Baton Rouge."
LSU has also agreed to play the 2017 game in Gainesville, which was originally scheduled to be played in Baton Rouge. LSU will return to Gainesville in 2018 as the normal schedule rotation resumes.
The SEC Commissioner's Regulations requires each football team play all eight Conference games in a season in order to be eligible to compete for a divisional title and play in the SEC Championship Game. Had the game not been rescheduled, Florida and LSU would have been ineligible to compete for the SEC title this season.
LSU was originally scheduled to play South Alabama on November 19 in Baton Rouge and Florida was slated to host Presbyterian on the same day in Gainesville. LSU and Florida will exercise cancellation clauses for those respective games.
"Lastly, I send thanks to Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Karl Benson and his membership which worked in collaboration and a great spirit of cooperation in presenting options as we worked through this process," Sankey said. "I also thank Presbyterian for its understanding of this situation."
LSU head coach took the podium Monday evening at SEC media days to discuss the upcoming college football season for the Tigers. We have the full transcript of everything he said below.
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Journalist Rachel Giese wins $25,000 Writers’ Trust of Canada award for book on masculinity
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Giese's book Boys: What It Means to Become a Man investigates how toxic perceptions of masculinity can negatively affect boys growing up
Published on: May 16, 2019 | Last Updated: May 16, 2019 12:32 AM EDT
Rachel Giese is a regular contributor to CBC Radio and The Globe and Mail, and is currently the director of editorial at Xtra Matthew Usherwood
Toronto journalist Rachel Giese has won the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and the $25,000 prize that comes with it.
The Writers’ Trust of Canada, a charity organization that supports Canadian writers through awards, fellowships and grants, announced Giese’s win on May 15 at their annual Politics and the Pen gala in Ottawa.
Giese, Daily Xtra’s director of editorial, received the prize for her book Boys: What It Means to Become a Man, an examination of how negative perceptions of masculinity — like aggression, lack of emotion and competitiveness — can affect how young boys grow up and emotionally develop.
In their citation justifying their pick, the jury — health columnist André Picard, journalist Angela Sterritt and author Chris Turner — praised Giese’s extensive reporting.
“With a skillful mix of original reporting, scholarly research, and personal anecdotes, Rachel Giese presents a deeply felt examination of the forces that shape how boys see themselves and how we see them,” they said.
Journalist Tanya Talaga won the prize last year for her book Seven Fallen Feathers, on the deaths of seven Indigenous students in Thunder Bay.
Four other finalists for the award — Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Sarah Cox, Jacques Poitras and Harley Rustad — received prizes of $2,500 each.
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Dante777 rated it
Status: c600
This is a crappy continuation that should have never been written. The domineering, ruthless and determined Ling Feng has been neutered and he became an indecisive bitch creating his own problems. He has people trying to kill him and he just let's them go when he would not have hesitated to kill them in book 1. The author wants to try and make it seem like Lin Feng has grown but, all he has done is become a pu**y who lets enemies live and they always come back to cause... more>> trouble.
The author eventually gets with the program and gets back to the usual Lin Feng for a bit but, he has a bad case of making too many of his enemies like cockroaches that always seem to find a way to survive. It's like the author has no other written ability other then to reuse the same sh*t over and over
At one point he simply let's one of his enemies live for no apparent reason when he could easily have had him killed by the Blood Emperor watching his back.
They sent a group to kidnap 2 of his wives and their newborns and setup an ambush to kill him. After killing most of them the son of the Heavenly Emperor arrives to kill him but, the Blood Emperor comes out to kill them instead however LF just let's them leave.
It makes zero sense other then to drag the story out and even the Blood Emperor doesn't agree. There was no threat from the Heavenly Emperor because at that point in the story the Blood Emperor was at peak strength which was equal or greater then the Heavenly Emperor who was severely injured from an earlier battle. Everyone knows this but, LF the cockroach creator just let's him leave instead of killing him.
Then once again that same son tries to kill Lin Feng when he's trying to secure the Chu family to his side. What does Ling Feng do? His opponent uses his so called sure kill move and after Lin Feng undergoes a breakthrough, instead of killing him in retaliation he simply lets him leave like a bitch.
Later one of the cockroaches kidnaps his Grandson with the help of someone who was using the situation because he wanted to form an alliance with Ling Feng. He did not get involved with helping the cockroach and allowed Ling Feng and him to settle things on their own. So what does Ling Feng do? He abandons him and lets him live.
Over and over he has seen that there is always a way for someone to come back from being killed or abandoned and yet the idiot decided once again to leave his enemy alive.
After being resurrected you would think that he learned his lesson from the previous cockroach who orchestrated his death but, this author just ends up destroying a good character for a lame fan fiction. Over and over his past enemies come back to cause trouble and the idiot just keep and repeating the same mistakes.
This author ends up ruining part of the ending of book 1 for Huo Shi Yun and Mu Yun.
Book 1 ending for Huo Shi Yun:
"A thousand years, you're so silly." Lin Feng walked up to her and took her in his arms. Huo Shi Yun shivered. She had never felt so happy in her life. How painful, a thousand years of pain! At that moment, she finally felt happy, and she couldn't stop crying uncontrollably.
At the end of book 1 after searching for Lin Feng for 1000 years they are finally reunited But, apparently that meant nothing to LF as we never hear anything in book 2 about her.
Book 1 ending for Mu Yun:
"Mu Yun finished healing people and she sat down next to a tree. She looked nostalgic.
At that moment, someone brought a chair over to her and sat down next to Mu Yun. She turned her head and looked at him.
She didn't want to stay away from him, ever again.
Mu Yun had been in the tribe for a thousand years, she had never left even for one day. On that day, she finally left with a young man. Nobody blamed her. They just hoped she'd have a happy life."
Unfortunately, she doesn't get to be happy. This ending implies that she will finally be with LF however, after he takes her with him he apparently never accepts her.
We see her again when he returns to back to his home world were now she runs her own sect of healers. He is unconscious at the time but, she helps heal him and then asks for them not to tell him she helped.
So we're to believe he showed up to take her away after she waited 1000 years and after that he ditches her? C'mon now! That is not something LF would have done but, because that's how the new author wrote it, LF comes off looking like a d*ck. If he was not going to accept her then he never would have taken her away.
This novel even makes Lin Feng into a real d*ck. Over and over we have seen him come to the defense of female friends and/or loved ones whenever they are being forced into a relationship with someone they do not love and yet, here in Book 2 he basically manipulates/forces a girl to have to accept his friend as a potential partner because he doesn't want her chasing him.
This girl is the last Inheritor of an Ancient Dragon Sect and she originally chose LF as her future husband to help revitalize her sect. She does not try to pressure him because she knows he is trying to keep his distance so as to not get her hopes up as he already has many wives.
First he offers her help by introducing her to Some Dragon's he knows to help her with Recreating The Sect she is an inheritor for.
He tells her that she can have an alliance with his city so her Sect will have it's own region like all the Ancient sects that are coming out of hiding.
However, when his friend tells him he likes the girl and would like to pursue her LF ends up basically putting her in a position where she is forced to accept the feelings of his friend even though the one she cares about is LF.
When the time comes for her to Setup her Sect he tells her he will not form an alliance with her unless she can form another alliance with another Powerful Sect or City. He does this knowing that the only option for her is his friend who with LF's help, setup this little scheme to put pressure on the girl to accept his offer for an alliance. She does not want to accept because she knows this guy has feelings for her and she has feeling for LF but, LF knows that her creating her Sect is very important to her so He puts her in a situation where she has no choice but, to accept the alliance thus giving LF's friend the impression that she may accept him.
She ends up getting hurt by LF and tries to convince herself to move on but, at the end of the day LF comes off looking like an asshole for manipulating her.
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Strongest Abandoned Son
This book's author makes it very hard to remain interested in his book. Overall I like the world he built but, he makes repeated stupid plot choices that make it hard to even keep reading. After this review I have decided to put this one hold and read something else and maybe my frustration with the authors horrible writing habits will go down enough to finish the book.
Someone hitting on or trying to steal one of the MC's wives, female family members or other female friends happens about every 20-30... more>> chapters (not an exaggeration). This same plot progression is regurgitated over and over and over (x500).
He writes the MC's wives into idiots. The MC tells them that he is leaving to go look for resources and he may even be gone years in the process and tells them to wait for him at the City they just spent hundreds of chapters working to build. This place was meant to be their home for their family to live in peace. So when the MC vanishes for 10 years what do the idiots do? The leave to look for the MC. Because the idiots left, after just 2 years the City they worked so hard on starts to be corrupted and slow taken over by their enemies. But, where were the MC's most trusted and powerful people who he left behind to protect the city? They went looking for the MC going through an array leading to a small world where many Hidden Sects are located.
What makes this all the more stupid is that at the exact moment he returns from the Small word the group of idiots entered the array leading them in just as he went out. Oh and had the MC not returned at that exact moment the idiots would have all been killed because it was the MC returning that allowed them to survive the trip through the array.
But, the stupidity continues later when the MC finally decides to go look for the idiots (his wives) and of course at just the moment he enters the array another random array pops up in the Small world and of course the idiots decide to go through to return to their Husband but, of course that would be to simple and the array ends up sending them to an even higher plane despite the fact that they supposedly already confirmed the array would lead them back home.
The best part of this book is the fact that it in-cooperates Modern Tech with the Cultivation world but, the author seems to have become bored with that and has now starting writing your average Cultivation LN. Tossing out the unique aspects of the book now that you got your readers on the line is simply bad writing.
After reading the spoiler below its good to see someone else felt where I was coming from.
This novel is very similar to another "modern setting" novel by the same author. In fact, a lot of the plot were borrowed, but less polished.
After "tricking" his users into liking this novel and get it on the shelves (where the author would be paid) the author changed the theme.
The MC will go to other plaines and the story will be changed into your average cultivation harem story. IE: there will be a lot of recycled plots in this order:
MC finds the entrance to another area/plain. Leaves everything behind and goes there. Finds himself extremely weak compared to the others in that area.
Strong opponent appears who is interested in MC's treasures and/or girls.
MC escapes is constantly in hiding and escaping.
He finds some treasures (usually in some auction) and resources, trains, levels up.
Immediately there will be some anonymous opponents which will be offed by MC.
MC defeats all his previous opponents. Opens up a store/city/clan and becomes the strongest.
*repeat.
A lot of text will be wasted on introducing new fantasy material and equipment.
Whereas the first few 100 chapters in modern setting there were some female leads who had some character (albleit annoyingly), they will be reduced to a few mentions. Newer female characters are introduced, but have flat personalities but will eventually be just another addition to the harem never to be evolved anymore.
There will be a lot of buildup, where new characters are on an adventure with the MC, but the author will soon abandon their roles in the story.
The author tries to fill up gaps by having the MC going back to the lower plains but the explanation rarely is satisfying and rather forced. Thumbsup for the attempts though.
The final third of the novel has some annoying time skips, where the MC will be injured/training/meditating/captive/on the run/creating stuff for decades and even centuries. I think the record is 1000 years, where he gets freed from an injury. The rest of the world just happens to remain the same for 1000 years. Nothing happens. All this enemies will just wait for 1000 years before they get into fight with MC's friends in order for the MC to come and save the day.
It becomes ridicilous when in the end he visits the lower plains where the author remention forgotten characters and attempts to explain the MC's past (and implicitly explains the novel's title). With al the timeskips, MC would have left earth for thousands of years. But when he goes back to earth, he'd still be able to go back to his own city...
The ending is rushed as the author apparently had some problems with the publisher.
Conclusion: nice try, try again harder next time.
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God and Devil World
Great potential flushed down the drain!
This went from an amazing apocalyptic Litrpg novel and devolved into your basic cookie cutter Xianxia novel in the last 3rd of the book.
All the fun in the book went away when the author completely dropped the God and Devil system and the Litrpg elements. At this point it's obvious the author got stuck and decided to stop writing an apocalyptic litrpg book and switched over to a cultivation novel.
This completely wasted everything written up to that point a it felt like I was reading... more>> a different book. If he wanted to write another genre he should have started a new book instead of destroying an already successfully established story.
We spent so much of the book building up to some great final battle on Earth and in the end all the MC did was disappear from Earth for the last 3rd of the book to go on his cultivation journey then he suddenly returns to Bust out a Thanos snap that kills all his enemies and then the book just ends. This was a horribly lazy finish!
What's worse is that the author wants to continue this crap when it no longer has anything to do with with it's original premise.
P.S. Why is it that all LN authors seem to mysteriously contract health issues when they decide to go on a hiatus or when they try to make excuses for a badly received ending? <<less
Super God Gene
Status: c1450
I serious hate this MC and author. The author can't stop using the same damn sh*tty plot points by having him hide his identity over and over and over and then some? I have never seen an author play out the same bullsh*t over and over to the level this crappy author has. It was useful and amusing the first handful of times but, this is just getting f*****g ridiculous. Every 50 chapters is like the same crap over and over with him hiding things he has no reason to... more>> hide. They can get away with it early because the MC does not have the strength or influence so he has to be a little careful. However, it gets to the point where his power and influence are far beyond others and he still keeps hiding like a *****.
He runs into Beast and Spirits and he acts like a passive *****. Like before it was OK early but, it simply becomes annoying when the same crap happens over 100+ times late on in the book. On most occasions later on when he acts like a little pu**y there is simply no reason too but, the author is so used to writing him as such a coward that he just sticks to his guns.
Its so bad that even at the current point of the book the hiding identity troupe is so overplayed that it becomes annoying even when it actually makes sense for him to be cautious. To top it off it only gets worse later on when he even takes on the identity of some Prince who he killed and absorbed. It's so stupid to think he could just pretend to be the prince and everyone would just go along with it even after he starts showing power and strength he never showed before. Great world building but, the author writes to MC into a pu**y to often to enjoy this. If he would stop using the same crappy plot point over and over then maybe the book would be more readable. At this point I just roll my eyes and skip over any crap having to do with him hiding his identity because that plot point has already been used to death even after 2200+ chapters. <<less
MMORPG: Martial Gamer
This might have the biggest idiot MC I have seen in any Novel. Do yourselves a favor and read something else. MC makes so many stupid decisions that it makes it hard to read. This book is utter crap! The author seems to think that making the NPC's screw over the MC repeatedly is somehow funny but, in reality it's just stupid because there is no way in hell anyone would ever play this game with how stupid it is. This author has done a horrible job of building a... more>> world that is believable and fun. He should give up writing and work as a janitor for the rest of his life so we can avoid this utter crap! Do Not fall for the rating. The rating has been padded with numerous 5 star reviews all from the same person <<less
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What It Looks Like When The Russian Fighter Jet You’re Firing At Comes After You
This video was shot by either ISIS militants or Syrian rebels who were attempting to engage the fast-flying Russian fighter jet today on the battlefield in Syria. As you...
by Geoffrey Grider October 19, 2015
The launcher was destroyed during one of 33 combat missions that Russia conducted in Syria over the day. A total of 32 targets in the provinces Idlib, Hama, Damascus, Aleppo and Deir ez-Zor were hit, Konashenkov said.
This video was shot by either ISIS militants or Syrian rebels who were attempting to engage the fast-flying Russian fighter jet today on the battlefield in Syria. As you will see in the video, it’s all fun and games until the jet turns around and comes after you.
Russian warplanes have destroyed a surface-to-air missile launcher that the Islamic State terrorist group previously captured from the Syrian Army, the Russian Defense Ministry reports. The bombing campaign in Syria is forcing the jihadists to flee.
The 9K33 Osa short-range air defense launcher was destroyed by a Sukhoi Su-34 bomber in Eastern Douma near Damascus, ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told the media in his Thursday daily briefing.
The Su-34 dropped a precision anti-fortification bomb KAB-500 at a concrete shelter, where the launcher was hidden, destroying both the weapon and the building, he added.
Osa, which is called Gecko by NATO, is a highly-mobile launcher equipped with six short-range surface-to-air missiles meant to provide tactical cover from enemy aircraft to ground troops.
The general added that terrorist forces appear to be abandoning their positions and are pulling back.
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The first full look at Picnic At Hanging Rock is here!
The chilling story is set to be retold by an A-list cast.
By TV Week team
The highly-anticipated release of Australian drama Picnic At Hanging Rock is so close we can taste it.
And to tide us over until its May 6 premiere date is the latest chilling sneak peek at what to expect.
In the gripping trailer (above) Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer brings to life terrifying English headmistress Mrs Hester Appleyard (originally played by British actress Rachel Roberts).
"To play Hester Appleyard is a joy," Natalie said.
"This re-imagining of the iconic story will no doubt grab a contemporary audience with its mystery, emotion and wide range of complex, smart female characters."
The cast includes (from left) Samara Weaving, Madeleine Madden, Natalie Dormer and Miranda Reid.
In the original promotional image released by Foxtel, Natalie poses alongside Aussie Samara Weaving as Irma Leopold, Madeleine Madden as Marion Quade and Lily Sullivan as Miranda Reid.
Australian actress Yael Stone (Orange Is The New Black) is also set to star in the six-part series based on the disappearance of three students and a teacher during a school excursion on Valentine's Day 1900.
Yael will portray Miss Dora Lumley, mistress of Deportment and Bible Studies. The rest of the teaching staff will be played by French actress Lola Bessis (Cassandra, Swim Little Fish Swim), Anna McGahan (The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Anzac Girls) and Sibylla Budd (Tomorrow When The War Began, Winners & Losers).
Yael Stone as Miss Dora Lumley.
Other characters both inside and beyond the college walls will be played by Don Hany, Harrison Gilbertson, James Hoare, Marcus Graham, Mark Coles Smith, Jonny Pasvolsky and Philip Quast.
Emily Gruhl, John Flaus, Ros Gentle, Julie Nihill, Kaarin Fairfax, Randall Berger, Mayah Fredes, Alyssa Tuddenham, Kate Bradford, Bethany Whitmore, Markella Kavenagh, Felix Johnson, Ines English, Huw Higginson, Rob Jacobson and Kim Gyngell also join.
Even Mrs Appleyard can't get her head around the ending!
Viewers and critics were left divided over the iconic original film directed by Peter Weir (who later produced Gallipoli and Dead Poets Society), with many left unsatisfied with the vague and mysterious ending and lack of resolution.
The ambiguous ending was famously resolved in the late-80s when the original final chapter of the novel was released. It suggested the missing girls disappeared into a time warp found in a crack in the rock.
There's no inkling as to which ending the new series will follow, but it won't be long until all is revealed.
The first episode of the six-part Picnic At Hanging Rock miniseries premieres on Sunday, May 6 at 8.30pm on showcase.
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Bulldogs attack suffering 'mental issues' as Foran concerns grow
Dan Walsh NRL.com Reporter
Sun 27 May 2018, 08:58 PM
Dean Pay has described Canterbury's attacking woes as a "mental issue" amid growing concern around the fitness of marquee half Kieran Foran and increasing contract speculation at the club.
The Bulldogs were once again listless with the ball in hand as they went down 14-10 to Wests Tigers on Sunday, slumping to their ninth loss of the year.
Despite some initial promising signs under the new Pay regime earlier in the season, Canterbury have since fallen into the same red zone attacking patterns that plagued the final years of the Des Hasler era.
"I think it's just a mental issue," Pay said.
"I just think we got down the other end there, we got a little bit of ball and just threw nothing at them.
"We've got to be better than that. We just can't hit the ball up and hit the ball up and expect to score a try."
That description will be painfully familiar to Bulldogs fans, who are also entitled to question the signing of Foran on a lucrative three-year deal last year despite his long injury history.
The Kiwi halfback remained in doubt for the Tigers clash right up until kick-off after gingerly nursing a back injury through the warm-up, and has often looked to be struggling for full movement, particularly in lateral defence, since arriving at Canterbury last year.
Foran finished with just three runs for nine metres against the Tigers, light years behind the 11 runs for 108 metres from opposite number Luke Brooks.
Pay admitted his halves had to wear some responsibility for the Bulldogs' ailing attack, which at 15.25 points per game ranks better than only last-placed Parramatta.
"It does come back to our halves and everybody else out there too," he said.
"I'm not just blaming our halves we need to be better as a team. Because we're all looking around for someone to take control of the game and we can't find that person. That's been happening week after week."
The going doesn't get much easier for the Bulldogs in their next match on June 11 following a much-needed round 13 bye.
There they will face a Dragons outfit including former captain James Graham sure to be smarting from a heavy loss to Penrith at the weekend.
While Canterbury are still paying a significant amount of Graham's Red V wage, stars Moses Mbye and Aaron Woods are the latest big names in the firing line as the club looks to ease salary cap pressure created by heavily back-ended deals.
However, Pay was bullish when it was suggested that the ongoing speculation was taking its toll on the paddock.
"Our job is to make sure we prepare each week," Pay said.
"Our job's to play a game of footy on the weekend. That's our sole focus during the week.
''All the speculation and everything that's swirling around the club, that's what it is for us. We turn up to training and we train. We get on with it."
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Bow Valley Chorus presents Requiem for the Living
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Requiem for the Living will showcase Dan Forrest’s gift for composition this May. Forest’s composition has been described as “superb writing full of spine-tingling moments” and “magnificent, very cleverly constructed sound sculpture.”
“His music has sold millions of copies and is well established in the repertoire of choirs in the United States and around the world. A Requiem, at its core, is a prayer for rest, traditionally for the deceased,” explained John Goulart, Music Director with the Bow Valley Chorus.
This powerful five-movement work promises to project a wide range of meaningful expression.
“Spring into spring and give this delicious gift of music to yourself, your friends and family. Join Bow Valley Chorus in what promises to be yet another extraordinary event. It is full of beauty, peace and hope; one of the movements, “Sanctus”, offers sonic allusions to glimpses of the “heavens and earth” inspired by images of space from the Hubble Telescope and International Space Station,” said Goulart.
Goulart, a Con Spirito Award winner, will conduct Bow Valley Chorus, orchestra, and soloist Ainsley Soutiere soprano.
The event will take place on May 18 at the Banff Springs Hotel, Alhambra Room at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale now for $30.00 and $10.00 children 12 and under. Available for purchase at Café Books, Canmore.
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Media|Comcast Lashes Out at Rivals Opposed to Merger Plan
Comcast Lashes Out at Rivals Opposed to Merger Plan
The deal for Time Warner Cable is worth $45 billion.CreditCreditSpencer Platt/Getty Images
By Emily Steel
Comcast has declared war in media land.
The company on Wednesday accused its business partners and rivals of “extortion,” lashing out against opposition to Comcast’s proposed $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable.
If approved by regulators, the deal is poised to reshape the country’s video and broadband markets, giving Comcast control of 35 percent of broadband Internet service coverage and a major presence in 16 of the top 20 cable markets.
In nearly 1,000 pages of documents submitted late Tuesday to the Federal Communications Commission, Comcast said many of the media and tech companies that have urged regulators to block or add conditions to the deal were doing so out of their own business interests.
“Motive can and often does inform credibility,” said David L. Cohen, an executive vice president at Comcast.
Among the prominent companies to oppose Comcast’s acquisition of Time Warner Cable are Netflix, the television group Discovery Communications, and Dish, the satellite television provider. The companies have said that a greatly enlarged Comcast would have anticompetitive leverage to push around Internet companies and TV networks.
“It is like ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,’ and Comcast has become like Snow White,” said Amy Yong, a media analyst with Macquarie Securities. “Comcast has just become so powerful in media and distribution that it is somewhat scary and intimidating for other companies.”
She added that the media companies that have not denounced the Comcast-Time Warner Cable combination were most likely keeping quiet because they are exploring their own consolidation deals. Also awaiting regulatory approval is AT&T’s $48.5 billion bid for DirecTV.
Comcast said in its filing that accusations from its rivals and business partners were spurious, typically coming after Comcast refused to “grant various self-interested requests” made after the deal was announced.
Among those demands were requests for free access to faster Internet connections as well as the renegotiation of distribution agreements with television programmers. Comcast said the programming cost requests alone would have totaled more than $5 billion above estimates in the coming years, adding more than $4 a month to customers’ bills by 2019.
“The significance of this extortion lies in not just the sheer audacity of some of the demands, but also the fact that each of the entities making the ‘ask’ has all but conceded that if its individual business interests are met, then it has no concern whatsoever about the state of the industry, supposed market power going forward, or harm to consumers, competitors or new entrants,” Comcast said in the filing.
Comcast argued that acquiring Time Warner Cable would improve video and broadband services for millions of additional customers and also give it added scale to upgrade its networks, improve its technology and better compete against a lineup of global media and technology companies.
Some analysts said that Comcast’s accusations of extortion were not likely to sway regulators’ assessment of the deal.
“Regulators are a sophisticated audience,” said Craig Moffett, a media analyst with MoffettNathanson Research. “They can assess the merits of the various arguments without having to be coached on what incentives might be behind why someone did or didn’t say what they did.”
Despite the strong language from Comcast, most media and technology companies that previously have spoken out against the deal did not pull their punches.
Comcast had accused Netflix of trying to shift its own costs to other companies. Netflix said on Wednesday that the merger was “clearly not ‘great’ for consumers” because of Comcast’s increased control over the market for high-speed residential Internet access. The company noted that it had “grudgingly” paid Comcast for better performance, a “precedent that remains damaging for consumers (who ultimately pay higher costs) and for other innovative businesses (that can be held over the barrel by Comcast to do the same).”
“It is not extortion to demand that Comcast provide its own customers the broadband speeds they’ve paid for so they can enjoy Netflix,” Jonathan Friedland, a Netflix spokesman, said in a statement. “It is extortion when Comcast fails to provide its own customers the broadband speed they’ve paid for unless Netflix also pays a ransom.”
Comcast had accused Discovery Communications, the home of the Discovery, TLC and Animal Planet networks, of trying to use the proceedings to renegotiate the fees Comcast pays to carry its networks at higher rates long before the current deal had expired.
Discovery said that it stood by its concerns that Comcast could use its enhanced leverage from the proposed merger “to impose onerous terms that jeopardize the ability of independent programmers like Discovery to continue investing in a diverse portfolio of content and brands.”
“Comcast’s silence on the details of key issues like program discounts, and instead, its continued strategy of intimidating voices that are not fully supportive of its position, is troubling,” David Leavy, a spokesman for Discovery, said in a statement.
One company spared from Comcast’s barbs is Univision, the Hispanic media group. Randy Falco, the chief executive of Univision, said this year that the deal was “truly a cause for concern” because after the merger Comcast would serve 91 percent of Hispanic households in the United States. At the time, Comcast was the only major cable distributor that did not carry Univision’s popular sports network.
This month, Comcast announced that it had struck a deal to distribute the Univision Deportes network.
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Fiscal Transparency and Open Budget (SL0015)
Action Plan: Sierra Leone National Action Plan 2016-2018
Lead Institution: Ministry of Finance and Economic Development
Support Institution(s): Ministry of Finance and Economic Development National Revenue Authority Anti-Corruption Commission International Budget Partnership; Transparency International, Citizen Budget Watch, Budget Advocacy Network
E-Government, Fiscal Transparency, Open Data, Public Participation
IRM Report: Sierra Leone Mid-Term Report 2016-2018
Starred: No
Verifiable: Yes
Relevant to OGP Values: Access to Information
Potential Impact:
Status quo or problem/ issue to be addressed
If you want to fight poverty, you need to care about budgets. They are the government’s most powerful tool to meet the needs and priorities of a country and its people. Public budgets are the blueprints on how the government will raise and spend the public funds needed for the policies and programs that will translate its priorities into action. There is no feedback mechanism from the budget discussion process to know the extent to which citizen inputs are incorporated or not in the budget, and improvements must be made in communicating the budget statements and other related information through accessible media.
Tax exemption granted by the government are a major reason for Sierra Leone’s low tax revenues. Some of the tax exemptions granted are not utilized for the purpose they are granted and as such the country loses twice. Information around tax exemption is not published which would have helped citizens to monitor the use of these exemptions.
Main objective
To make budget data (Pre-budget statement and Mid-year report), Parliament audit committee reports and tax exemptions publicly available and increase citizen participation in the budget process.
Brief Description of Commitment (140 character limit)
This commitment is geared towards the government publishing the pre-budget and mid review budget and also publish all tax exemptions in an open data format. In addition it will provide feedback mechanism to citizens on their inputs into the budget.
IRM Midterm Status Summary
4. Fiscal Transparency and Open Budget
Commitment Text:
This commitment is geared towards the government publishing the pre-budget and mid review budget and also publish all tax exemptions in an open data format. In addition, it will provide feedback mechanism to citizens on their inputs into the budget.
Milestones: Publish, in a timely manner, the budget reports each budget year: the MTEF and a mid-year review as these two reports are still not yet published by the Government of Sierra Leone. ( Pre- budget for 2017 and 2018 and mid-year review budget for 2016, 2017 and 2018); In line with the Public Financial Management Act 2016, publish all tax exemptions, on a half yearly basis starting 2016 in government website; Publish Budget data (a pre-budget statement; the executive’s budget proposal; the enacted budget; a citizens budget; in-year reports on revenues collected, expenditures made and debt incurred; a mid-year review; year-end report; and audit reports) online, in machine-readable formats; Provide and publish the detailed feedback on how public perceptions have been captured and taken into account on the budget discussion process during the formation stage.
Responsible institution: Ministry of Finance and Economic Development
Supporting institution(s): National Revenue Authority, Anti-Corruption Commission, International Budget Partnership, Transparency International, Citizen Budget Watch, Budget Advocacy Network
Start date: July 2016 End date: June 2018
Context and Objectives
In 2014, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development published a three-year public financial management strategy to support a stable economic infrastructure.[Note78: Sierra Leone PFM Reform Strategy 2014-2017 https://psru.gov.sl/sites/default/files/Sierra%20Leone%20PFM%20Reform%20Strategy%202014-2017_0.pdf] It outlined specific efforts such as enhancing the regulatory framework, improving accounting and promoting public transparency for all budgets. Civil society stakeholders say that the lack of regular information on budget implementation makes it difficult for citizens to demand accountability for cost-over-runs, under-funding, or expenditure not budgeted for.[Note79: Contributions by the representatives of Citizens Budget Watch and Campaign for Good Governance at the stakeholder meeting of 20 October 2017; and IRM researcher’s interview of the Executive Director of Open Budget Initiative, 28 November 2017.] A particular area of concern for the public has been transparency around tax exemptions. The significant number of tax exemptions given by the government to attract foreign investment has led to some international criticism, claiming that this negatively impacts funding for government services.[Note80: Losing Out, http://curtisresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/Losing-Out.-Final-report.-April-2014.pdf] Two key international reports between 2011 and 2014 highlighted the massive revenue loss that resulted from the system of discretionary tax waivers that have been granted without Parliament’s formal approval.[Note81: 'Sierra Leone’s Massive Revenue Loss from tax incentives', curtisresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/LosingOut-Final-report-April-2014; and 'Not Sharing the Loot, https://resourcegovernance.org/sites/default/files/Not_Sharing_the_Loot.pdf] In 2015, the Open Budget Survey reported that specific areas of improvement around the budget include publishing a pre-budget statement and mid-year review report, which are currently limited to internal use only. Currently there is an end-of-year budget report that is made available to the public, but is not accessible online.[Note82: Open Budget Survey 2015, https://www.internationalbudget.org/wp-content/uploads/OBS2015-CS-Sierra-Leone-English.pdf]
This commitment promotes further budget transparency by identifying activities in line with the Public Financial Management Act of 2016, which outlined specific institutional responsibility to provide fiscal transparency.[Note83: The Public Financial Management Act, http://www.parliament.gov.sl/dnn5/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=CcK9MzbLTOY%3D&tabid=79&mid=650, page 25. ] This commitment goes beyond the existing year end and audit reports to expand access to information further through pre-budget and mid-term reports. It also includes the publishing of government tax exemptions as well as sharing public feedback. The activity related to tax exemptions would be transformative given the fact that the government has never published this data before and it would provide transparency on an issue that has been controversial. When implemented fully, the overall commitment would have a transformative impact as it would disclose important budget information, ideally leading to better allocation of public monies.
There has been limited progress made on this commitment. The pre-budget statement has not been published online. The researcher’s investigations show that government practice regarding disclosure of the pre-budget statement, and mid-year budget review has not changed with the exception of the citizens’ budget. In the course of the period under review, the government did produce and distribute the 2016 Citizens’ Budget.[Note84: http://opendatasl.gov.sl/sites/default/files/2016_Citizens_Budget.pdf] According to the OGP Coordinator, the Ministry still plans to publish the pre-budget statement and mid-year budget review online.[Note85: IRM researcher’s interview of the OGP Coordinator, 11 December 2017.]
There has been no information published about tax exemptions.[Note86: Budget Speech, point 76 (iii) at mofed.gov.sl/media/attachments/2017/11/09/2018-budget-speech.pdf] Civil society experts working on budget issues note that they have never seen any report from government showing tax waivers granted by government.[Note87: IRM researcher’s interview of the Executive Director of Open Budget Initiative, 28 November 2017; and participants’ comments at the stakeholder meeting of 20 October 2017.] There has also not been any movement on publishing information on how citizens’ feedback is incorporated into the national budget. As confirmed by civil society organisations involved with budget issues, it has been a yearly practice by the Ministry of Finance to hold public sessions to consult with the public as part of the budget formulation process.[Note88: Participants’ comments at the stakeholder meeting of 20 October, and IRM researcher’s interview of the Executive Director of Open Budget Initiative, 28 November 2017.] Civil society organisations participated in the 2017-2019 medium term expenditure framework budgeting process, but the Ministry of Finance did not publish any information on how they incorporated citizens’ feedback. Stakeholders interviewed, including the OGP coordinator, could not confirm whether there were still plans to publish citizen feedback.
Given the importance of this commitment, the IRM researcher recommends to carry it over to the next action plan, if foreseen activities are not implemented by the end of the current action plan cycle.
Given the large issues relating to tax exemptions, the government may consider pursuing this as a separate and independent commitment.
Sierra Leone's Commitments
Gender SL0012 2016 Sierra Leone Capacity Building
Foriegn Aid Transparency SL0013 2016 Sierra Leone Aid
Waste Management SL0014 2016 Sierra Leone Capacity Building
Fiscal Transparency and Open Budget SL0015 2016 Sierra Leone E-Government
Audit Report SL0016 2016 Sierra Leone Audits and Controls
Climate Change SL0017 2016 Sierra Leone Capacity Building
Elections SL0018 2016 Sierra Leone E-Government
Record Archive Management SL0019 2016 Sierra Leone E-Government
Access to Justice SL0020 2016 Sierra Leone Capacity Building
Open Public Procurement Contracting SL0021 2016 Sierra Leone Anti-Corruption Institutions
Publish and Revise 70% of Mining and Agricultural Lease Agreements and Contracts SL0009 2014 Sierra Leone E-Government
Starred Right to Access Information Law SL0010 2014 Sierra Leone Capacity Building
Open Data Portal for Transparency in Fiscal and Extractive Transactions SL0011 2014 Sierra Leone E-Government
Public Integrity Pact with 5 Ministries, Departments, and Agencies SL0001 2014 Sierra Leone Conflicts of Interest
Archives and Records Management Act SL0002 2014 Sierra Leone E-Government
Scale Up Performance Management and Service Delivery Directorate SL0003 2014 Sierra Leone Public Participation
Compliance with Audit Measures SL0004 2014 Sierra Leone Audits and Controls
Starred Single Treasure Account SL0005 2014 Sierra Leone Extractive Industries
Extractive Industry Revenue Act SL0006 2014 Sierra Leone Extractive Industries
Scaling Up Extractive Industry Transparency Initiatives SL0007 2014 Sierra Leone Extractive Industries
Local Content Policy (LCP) Linkages with MDAs SL0008 2014 Sierra Leone Capacity Building
SL0012, 2016, Capacity Building
Foriegn Aid Transparency
SL0013, 2016, Aid
Fiscal Transparency and Open Budget
SL0015, 2016, E-Government
SL0016, 2016, Audits and Controls
Record Archive Management
Open Public Procurement Contracting
SL0021, 2016, Anti-Corruption Institutions
Publish and Revise 70% of Mining and Agricultural Lease Agreements and Contracts
Starred Right to Access Information Law
Open Data Portal for Transparency in Fiscal and Extractive Transactions
Public Integrity Pact with 5 Ministries, Departments, and Agencies
SL0001, 2014, Conflicts of Interest
Archives and Records Management Act
Scale Up Performance Management and Service Delivery Directorate
SL0003, 2014, Public Participation
Compliance with Audit Measures
Starred Single Treasure Account
SL0005, 2014, Extractive Industries
Extractive Industry Revenue Act
Scaling Up Extractive Industry Transparency Initiatives
Local Content Policy (LCP) Linkages with MDAs
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The Man Who Risked His Partner
by Stephen Donaldson
The second novel in this terrific crime series from the No. 1 bestselling author.
Mick ‘Brew’ Axbrewder lost his licence as a private investigator after he accidentally shot his brother, and so now works in partnership with a tough P.I., Ginny Fistoulari. His on-off relationship with Ginny used to involve her trying to keep him sober enough to help her solve cases, but since she lost her hand in an explosion, which Brew blames himself for, Ginny has changed and Brew doesn’t know how to help her. Fortunately for both of them, a call from Reg Haskell gives them something new to focus on.
Haskell is chief accountant at a bank which disguises itself as an ice-cream parlour. A cheat and a womaniser, he’s got himself involved in some very nasty business, with some very nasty people. And he needs Brew and Ginny to protect him. But once they start wading through the countless lies and bodies, they begin to realise how messy things can get…
Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Crime & Mystery
On Sale: 25th November 2010
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Neko Case - Orpheum Theater - 9/12/2013
Amy Young | September 13, 2013 | 10:15am
Had she not mentioned it, you probably never would have known that Neko Case was suffering from an annoying head cold at her nearly sold-out show last night at Phoenix's lovely Orpheum Theater. Her sickness showed no intentions of betrayal to her glorious voice as she owned the room beginning to end, delivering nearly 20 songs with the haunting perfection that has garnered a devoted, often rabid, following.
When Neko and her band launched the night with "Where Did I Leave That Fire" from her new release, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, it was hard to keep the tingles at bay as she offered those universal lyrics reflective of that personal pain that inspires the desire to, in some or any way, just fucking disappear: "A chill ran through me / And I grabbed on tight / That was when I left my body for good / And I shook off all the strength I'd earned / I wanted so badly not to be me."
As she closed the first tune, Neko greeted the audience with a friendly and earnest thanks and went into another new one, "Bracing for Sunday," letting some the saxophonist weave a little extra magic into the song. With Case and her band, it's the sincerity that drives the whole live experience home.
You've got her angelic voice that tells tales that revolve around life's mixed bag of hope and desperation, a team of ridiculously talented musicians, and a real refreshing air of honesty and truth. She referred to the whole team, a couple of times, as a family, and that is exactly what it felt like. Fun, feisty, even corny at times; all the familiarity and comfort that exists in real families, however they are defined.
Case's relationship with her background vocalist Kelly Hogan is, itself, a treat. The two bantering like sisters generated a few good laughs and Case was definitely comfortable with letting Hogan shine both via her vocals and her great, spirited nature. Their voices fit together like pieces in some ethereal puzzle, at times lilting, other times twang-tinged; always righteous, with a power only magnified by their union.
The band, including steel guitar and banjo master Jon Rauhouse from Tempe, was a combined force of skills and soul. You could see and feel each member's innate love of the art of playing and the music at hand.
The set featured a nice blend of new stuff and older material; of the latter, "Deep Red Bells" was a highlight with its choir-y, hymn-like sensibilities -- completely provocative and intoxicating. "Maybe Sparrow" was another old one that inspired a cheer from the audience as it began.
They closed the night with the tough and driving "Man" before coming back out for two encores. The first go around, Case did the a cappella "Nearly Midnight, Honolulu," a heart-destroying song about a mother's brutal, harsh words to a child, followed by "Set Out Running" and "Red Tide."
It didn't seem like anyone was ready to go home and those yelps and claps were honored with a second encore of "I Wish I Was the Moon" from Blacklisted, a mesmerizing, stays-under-your-skin type of song that was more than fitting to close down the night.
If that was too intense a note to leave on, audience members had a few laughs to take home, too, like Case's admittance after a song that she swallowed some snot: "I ate a booger for you, Phoenix." Now, that's sweet devotion.
More pictures and the set list after the break
Set List: Where Did I Leave that Fire? Bracing for Sunday Lion's Jaws Deep Red Bells That Teenage Feeling Ragtime People Got a Lotta Nerve Local Girl Maybe Sparrow City Swans Wild Creatures Calling Cards Hold On, Hold On Night Still Comes Man Encores: Nearly Midnight, Honolulu Set Out Running Red Tide I Wish I Was the Moon
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Bahrain: Political Prisoners:Written question - HL12965
Asked by Lord Scriven
Asked on: 18 January 2019
Bahrain: Political Prisoners
HL12965
To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations they have made to the government of Bahrain about reports of (1) the suspension of access to phone calls, and (2) other punitive measures in place to deter inmates from interacting with female political prisoners Hajer Mansoor, Medina Ali and Najah Yusuf at Isa Town Prison in Bahrain.
Answered by: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Answered on: 31 January 2019
Our Embassy in Bahrain and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office continue to monitor the cases of Hajer Mansoor, Najah Ahmed Yusuf and Medina Ali. The UK has raised the cases at a senior level with the Government of Bahrain. We continue to encourage those with concerns about treatment in detention to report these to the relevant human rights oversight bodies. We also continue to encourage these bodies to carry out swift and thorough investigations into any such allegations. We understand that the National Institution for Human Rights and the Ministry of Interior Ombudsman are aware of these cases and have been in contact with the three individuals in question.
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Midday Political Briefing: None of This Is OK
By Dustin Rowles | Politics | May 14, 2018 |
— Fifty-two Palestinian have been killed today, so far, in protests along the Israeli border. Over 2200 have been injured, almost half by live ammunition. Medical services have been stretched beyond the breaking point. Patients are being relocated to Egypt for medical services.
Meanwhile, Jared and Ivanka are celebrating the relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
Pretty much pic.twitter.com/W4brLo8R4I
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) May 14, 2018
Trump is tweeting.
Big day for Israel. Congratulations!
In a speech commemorating the opening of the embassy in Jerusalem, Kushner called the protestors “part of the problem,” while people in Israel are preparing for rocket attacks from Hamas.
None of this is how peace is created in the Middle East, and the way that the Trump administration is handling this is tragically tone deaf.
None of this is OK.
“Shocking killing of dozens, injury of hundreds by Israeli live fire in #Gaza must stop now. The right to life must be respected. Those responsible for outrageous human rights violations must be held to account. The int'l community needs to ensure justice for victims” - #Zeid. pic.twitter.com/hBb7825Sp8
— UN Human Rights (@UNHumanRights) May 14, 2018
Haaretz is keeping up with the developments, and they’re updating frequently right now.
— Last week, a White House aide said something incredibly insensitive about John McCain (“he’s dying anyway”), and in another meeting afterward, Sarah Huckabee condemned the statement but not nearly as forcefully as she condemned the leak. The leak led to another days-long discussion on White House leaks and what provokes them. According to sources over at Axios, the leaks are primarily motivated by 1) personal vendettas, and 2) a desire to ensure “there’s an accurate record of what’s really going on in the White House.”
“You have to realize that working here is kind of like being in a never-ending ‘Mexican Standoff.’ Everyone has guns (leaks) pointed at each other and it’s only a matter of time before someone shoots. There’s rarely a peaceful conclusion so you might as well shoot first.”
The leaks are so bad in this White House that one White House aide tried to spy on his co-workers by collecting phone and email data to see who was actually loyal to the President.
— FYI: 79,000 civil servants have retired or resigned since Donald Trump took office. That is an insane number.
— Olivia Nuzzi has an insightful profile up today on the relationship between Sean Hannity and Donald Trump. There isn’t anything you probably didn’t already know, except for the insights into Hannity’s drinking habits: “He drinks White Russians or Coors Lite or vodka with Sprite Zero or, if he’s at Del Frisco’s, a frozen concoction of vodka and pineapple juice that they describe as a martini (it is not).” Hannity is also described as a world-class ass kisser.
— John Oliver has the complete rundown of Michael Cohen’s pay-to-play schemes. There’s not much new here, but the jokes are great.
Meanwhile, as Splinter points out, Sarah Huckabee Sanders more or less acknowledged that Trump at least knew about Cohen’s pay-to-play schemes.
— Once again, Chief of Staff John Kelly has given an interview, and once again, Kelly — the “adult” in the room — is being forced to retract some statements, specifically that Trump was “embarrassed” by the Mueller investigation. “The White House staff has no confidence that he can handle any media,” one former White House aide said. “They can’t figure out how to get him to do any interview without screwing up. They have zero confidence in Kelly’s ability to conduct an interview without stepping in it.”
Dustin is the founder and co-owner of Pajiba. You may email him here or follow him on Twitter.
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Cultural Studies In English
WORCESTER – Roman Catholic Bishop Robert McManus told a Catholic health care conference here this week that transgenderism.
unveil a sculpture of a group of Chinese revolutionaries in the China Cultural Center in Paris, France, March 23, 2019. A ceremony and a series of events were held here to mark the centennial of the.
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Palgrave Studies in Islamic Banking, Finance, and Economics
A Socially Responsible Islamic Finance
Character and the Common Good
Authors: Moghul, Umar
Applies Islamic principles to a variety of major human concerns
Includes interdisciplinary applications for Islamic ethics, law, and spirituality
Moghul’s practical experience in Islamic banking informs his arguments
This book explores how, through spirituality and the development of character, Islamic financial institutions and Muslim communities can integrate their businesses with contemporary social responsibility initiatives to produce positive social and environmental impact. From the looming environmental crisis to the divide between mainstream and extremist interpretations of Islam, the book addresses significant questions facing Muslim communities – and humanity – and demonstrates why Islam should sit ‘at the table’ with other faiths and ethical traditions discussing humanity’s great obstacles. Unlike existing literature, this work explores the intersections between classical Islamic ethics and spirituality, contemporary Islamic finance and economic markets, and select sustainability and impact initiatives (such as the Equator Principles and UN Principles of Responsible Investment) designed to make the worlds of business and finance responsible for the environments in which they operate and the communities that support them. Drawing on his years of experience in Islamic banking, Moghul addresses these applications in light of real-world practices and dilemmas, demonstrating how Islamic organizations and Muslim communities should embrace the broad range of stakeholders countenanced by the Shari’ah in conversations that affect them. By situating his exploration of Islamic finance in the light of the much larger critical issues of balance, justice, and moderation in Islamic praxis, Moghul creates an interdisciplinary book that will appeal to academics and researchers in economics, finance, business, government and policy, and law.
Umar F. Moghul is a corporate and finance lawyer. For nearly fifteen years, he has assisted financial institutions, asset managers, and investors seeking to bring their businesses into compliance with Islamic law. He has designed a number of cutting edge Islamic investment vehicles and financial products in private equity and real estate. He presently teaches Islamic Law and Islamic Finance at University of Connecticut School of Law, USA; Islamic Business Ethics at Hartford Seminary, USA; and Halal Food Laws at Michigan State University College of Law, USA.
“Moghul’s book is critical reading, for he shows us it is possible to have peace within oneself and social prosperity. Moghul is never saccharine nor simplistic in his assessments and recommendations, some of which relate to complex financial systems which he explains with great clarity. At the heart of the book is the demonstration that true spirituality is not about shunning the world. Rather, it is about bringing the best part of ourselves to all our relationships, including our financial relationships.” (Ingrid Mattson, Huron University College, Canada)
“This book’s uniqueness is its identification of intersections among classical Islamic ethics and spirituality, contemporary Islamic finance, and global responsibility initiatives. Using an authentic Shari’ah-based argument, Moghul convincingly posits that by developing individual and organizational values, Islamic finance and Muslim communities can participate in producing positive impact through business, reach the objectives of the Shari’ah, and offer its principles to others. This is, and must be, the future direction of Islamic institutions and economies.” (Shaykh Yusuf T. DeLorenzo, Dow Jones Islamic Markets Indexes)
“Umar F. Moghul has superbly integrated the ideas of spirituality, morality and Islamic finance in this must-read book on Islamic finance. As long as Islamic finance encourages individual and collective character development consistent with Shari’ah, it can present a great opportunity to grace the world with the Islamic values of equitable and stable economic growth, inclusive and trustworthy social institutions, and responsible stewardship of the environment.” (Professor M. Kabir Hassan, University of New Orleans, USA)
Islamic Spirituality: An Impetus to Responsibility and Impact
Moghul, Umar F.
Congruence and Convergence: Contemporary Islamic Finance and Social Responsibility
Sketching Consciousness: Natural and Built Environments
Fatwas as Feedback Loops: Authenticity, Education, and Dialogue
Designing Mindful Contracts
Structuring Philanthropic Partnerships, Mission Lock, and Impact Investments
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Study: Monroe County-area rail service a priority
A state rail transportation plan identifies a long-delayed local commuter rail project among seven passenger service funding priorities over the next 25 years.
Among priority passenger corridors is "Scranton-New York," including Monroe County, which has long been promoted for commuter rail. The plan calls it a "near term" priority.
"Some of the highest population growth rates in the state are found in this corridor as housing prices in the New York City market have pushed residents to peripheral areas in Monroe County and the Stroudsburg area," according to the Pennsylvania Transportation Department study.
The project, though, has been more long-term than "near term" — more than two decades in the making, with limited progress.
New Jersey Transit is rebuilding seven miles of track along an existing corridor in central New Jersey and working with Pennsylvania and federal officials to re-establish another 21 miles of line in western New Jersey.
The Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority owns the line in Monroe and Lackawanna counties currently used for freight, which officials say can be developed for passenger trains with minor modifications.
A service plan developed by New Jersey and Pennsylvania calls for nine round trips per day between Scranton and Hoboken, N.J., with connections to Manhattan.
The local application to the federal government calls for building passenger stations in Delaware Water Gap, East Stroudsburg, Analomink, just outside Mount Pocono, Tobyhanna and Scranton.
Larry Malski, chief operating officer of the regional rail authority, said the state study improves the likelihood local commuter service will eventually be completed. State matching funds will be needed for any federal awards, and the state study keeps the local commuter project on government radar screens.
"It's documents like that we need from the state that are also helpful on the federal level," Malski said.
A milestone was last year's federal approval of an environmental impact statement to build the line from central New Jersey, through the Poconos, to Scranton. This cleared the way for seeking federal construction funding.
Yet the proposal came up empty early this year when competing for $8 billion in federal passenger rail funds. Those funds were awarded to inter-city, high-speed passenger projects, rather than traditional Poconos commuter trains.
The study acknowledges "severe funding constraints" will make it nearly impossible to fund all seven state passenger projects during the next 25 years. This includes improvements between New York and Philadelphia, and Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh.
The state has established nine criteria for evaluating the corridors for state funding. This includes population and job density trends, overall transportation patterns and land use impact.
Malski also praised the state for funding local freight improvements. State money helped enable additional track to be laid to serve Monadnock Plastics in Mount Pocono via rail, he said.
To see the report go to: www.dot.state.pa.us and click on "Aviation and Rail Freight," then click "PA Rail Plan 2035."
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The Other Side of This Life (Part 1) Summary
Series Title : Greys Anatomy
Episode Aired : 3rd May 2007
Watched by 14185 People
Network : ABC
S03E22 The Other Side of This Life (Part 1) Summary
Meredith works on her relationship with Susan and Thatcher. Cristina has to deal with her mother and Burke's. Alex continues to tend to Jane Doe/Ava. Meredith and Derek's relationship has a problem that needs resolution quick. Addison sees her god-daughter which leads to a job offer outside of Seattle. Derek has to perform surgery. Burke has a reservation about marrying Cristina. Many new people guest star in the course of Addison's road trip to California. Addison considers moving to be closer to her old med school friends until she discovers that drama she wishes to leave behind isn't exclusive to Seattle. Her friends who she thought had it all, are divorced. A pregnant woman must discover who the father of her child is.
Greys Anatomy Season 3 Episodes...
s03e01 - Time Has Come Today
s03e02 - I Am a Tree
s03e03 - Sometimes a Fantasy
s03e04 - What I Am
s03e05 - Oh, The Guilt
s03e06 - Let The Angels Commit
s03e07 - Where the Boys Are
s03e08 - Staring at the Sun
s03e09 - From A Whisper to a Scream
s03e10 - Don't Stand So Close to Me
s03e11 - Six Days (1)
s03e13 - Great Expectations
s03e14 - Wishin' and Hopin'
s03e15 - Walk On Water
s03e16 - Drowning on Dry Land
s03e17 - Some Kind of Miracle
s03e18 - Scars and Souvenirs
s03e19 - My Favorite Mistake
s03e20 - Time After Time
s03e21 - Desire
s03e22 - The Other Side of This Life (Part 1)
s03e24 - Testing 1-2-3
s03e25 - Didn't We Almost Have It All?
Greys Anatomy Show Summary
Meet Meredith Grey. She's a woman trying to lead a real life while doing a job that makes having a real life impossible.
Meredith is a first year surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital, the toughest surgical residency program west of Harvard. She and fellow first-year interns Cristina Yang, Izzie Stevens, George O'Malley and Alex Karev were students yesterday. Today they're doctors and, in a world where on the job training can be a matter of life and death, they're all juggling the ups and downs of their own personal lives.
The five interns struggle to form friendships in this most stressful and competitive atmosphere. Meredith's medical ambition is overshadowed by a troubling secret: Her mother, a noted pioneering surgeon, is struggling with a tragic and devastating illness. Cristina is highly competitive and driven, but lacks tact when it comes to bedside manner. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens is the small-town girl who grew up dirt poor and, in spite of paying for her medical career by modeling. Sometimes she cares a little too deeply about her patients. George O'Malley is the warm but insecure boy next door who always manages to do or say the wrong thing at the wrong time. In spite of his attraction to women, he's treated as "just one of the girls". And Alex Karev, the intern the other interns love to have, masks his working class roots with arrogance and ambition.
The interns are guided by an established team of doctors who are determined to shape them into skilled surgeons or break them: Miranda Bailey, a senior resident responsible for training them, is so tough that she's nicknamed "The Nazi". Derek Shepherd is the flirtatious but very capable surgeon who shares a forbidden but undeniable sexual attraction with Meredith. Preston Burke's arrogance is second only to his skill with a scalpel. Overseeing them all is Dr. Richard Webber, Seattle Grace's paternal, but no-nonsense chief of surgery.
Grey's Anatomy focuses on young people struggling to be doctors and doctors struggling to stay human. It's the drama and intensity of medical training mixed with the funny, sexy, painful lives of interns who are about to discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white. Real life only comes in shades of grey.
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Maimane refers Zille to Federal Legal Commission for investigation – DA
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Party leader says colonialism, like Apartheid, was wrong and cannot be justified
Colonialism, like Apartheid, was wrong and cannot be justified
DA Leader Mmusi Maimane has referred Ms Helen Zille to the Federal Legal Commission for investigation, following a series of tweets this morning, which may have violated the DA’s social media policy for public representatives. Ms Zille has already issued an unreserved apology for her tweet.
Colonialism, like Apartheid, was wrong. It oppressed millions of people and violated human rights in a cruel and inhumane way.
Colonialism, like Apartheid, is in every single way against our cherished values of Freedom, Fairness and Opportunity for all.
The DA is party that is committed to redressing the wrongs of the past. We want to build a united South Africa – one nation, with one future.
We are a party that stands up for the Constitution, and everything it represents. We want to build a Fair Society where every single South African – no matter the circumstances of their birth – can live a life they truly value.
We will continue to do so, tirelessly, because we want South Africa to succeed for all.
Issued by Phumzile Van Damme, DA National Spokesperson, 16 March 2017
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11th Annual WebAwards, the Premier Internet Award Competition, Deadline for Entry Extended
Web Marketing Association's 11th Annual Web Site Awards to Recognize Outstanding Internet Achievement in 96 Industry Categories has been extended.
Best Healthcare Provider Web Site...
Best Technology Web Site of 2007 to...
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Hartford, Connecticut (PRWEB) June 1, 2007
http://www.webaward.org -- The Web Marketing Association has announced that the deadline for entering its 11th annual WebAward Competition (http://www.07webaward.org) has been extended until June 15th to allow final entries to be submitted and existing entries to be edited if needed.
The WebAwards are the premier Internet award competition that judges website development against an ever increasing Internet standard of excellence and against peer sites within an industry.
A complete list of past winners and the entry form for companies who wish to compete for 2007 honors can be found at http://www.07webaward.org.
Each WebAward entry is judged against other entries in its industry category and then against an overall standard of excellence. Web sites are judged on design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, navigation and ease of use.
A Best of Industry WebAward, a handsome plaque with the image of the winning site embossed, will be given in each of the 96 industry categories, including financial services, blog, medical, small business, travel, advertising, transportation, and government.
The competition's highest honor, the 2007 WebAward Best of Show, will be given to the one site that the judges believe represents the pinnacle of outstanding achievement in Web development.
Last year's Best of Show winner was Big Spaceship for their outstanding work on TBS: Department of Humor Analysis at http://www.tbshumorstudy.com.
The Web Marketing Association will also recognize the interactive agency winning the most awards in the competition with the Top Interactive Agency WebAward. The 2006 Top Agency award was presented R/GA, which also was recognized for winning more WebAwards in the past decade than any other organization.
Judging for the 2007 WebAwards will take place in June through August, with winners announced in September. Judges will consist of a select group of Internet marketing professionals who have direct experience designing and managing Web sites with an in-depth understanding of the current state-of-the-art in Web site development and technology. Past judges have included top executives from leading organizations such as Organic, Inc., Ogilvy Interactive, Saatchi & Saatchi, Blattner Brunner, Comedy Central, Sun Microsystems, Refinery, Euro RSCG, EPB Interactive, New York Post Interactive, The Cincinnati Enquirer, J. Walter Thompson, Xerox, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Modem Media, and Answerthink just to name a few.
The 2007 WebAwards are sponsored by the following leading organizations: Burst Media, PRWeb, Misukanis & Odden, Small Army, SimpleFeed, ExactTarget, ad:tech conferences, NewsUSA, eComXpo, MediaPost's OMMA conference, TopRank Online Marketing, Creative Chocolate Printing Company, OTOlabs, Internet World UK, Search Engine Strategies, Webmaster Radio, Rovion's InPerson AllBusiness.com and eMarketer.
About the WebAwards
Now in its 11th year, the annual international WebAwards competition sets the standard of excellence in 96 industry categories by evaluating Web sites and defining benchmarks based on the seven essential criteria of successful Web site development. The goal of the Web Marketing Association, sponsor of the WebAwards, is to provide a forum to recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing some of the most effective Web sites on the Internet today. Entrants benefit from a Web site assessment by a professional judging panel and the marketing opportunities presented to an award-winning Web site. For more information, visit http://www.07webaward.org.
WILLIAM RICE
WebAward
07 WebAward ExtensionThe Web Marketing Association has announced that the deadline for entering its 11th annual WebAward Competition (www.07webaward.org) has been extended until June 15th to allow final entries to be submitted and existing entries to be edited if needed
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Zabbia Insurance Agency Launches Charity Effort to Benefit Long Island Veterans and their Families
An insurance provider serving residents in the Long Island area is announcing a charity drive to benefit the families of local veterans
We’ve supported Shootout for Soldiers in the past and we are fond of the way they connect local veterans with civilians in our community through lacrosse so we are committed to raising $500 for them this summer
MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (PRWEB) June 17, 2018
Robert Zabbia, CEO and principal agent of the Zabbia Insurance Agency on Long Island, is releasing information on a charity drive the firm is undertaking to help provide community engagement and integration for local veterans via an organized Lacrosse event. Funds raised during the charity effort will be provided to regional nonprofit Shootout for Soldiers.
“We’ve supported Shootout for Soldiers in the past and we are fond of the way they connect local veterans with civilians in our community through lacrosse so we are committed to raising $500 for them this summer,” said Zabbia. Zabbia has been named Man of the Year by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society thanks to his previous charitable work.
To help generate donations, Zabbia and his team have implemented an invitation system. Those referred into Zabbia Insurance will generate a $10 donation to the Shootout event, made in the name of the referring individual and paid directly by the Zabbia team.
More details on the event, and a form that allows readers to suggest new charities for the Zabbia team to support, can be accessed here: http://zabbiaagency.com/rewards/.
About Zabbia Insurance Agency
As a Personal Insurance Representative in Nassau County for nearly 20 years, agency owner Robert Zabbia knows many local families. His knowledge and understanding of the people in his community ensures that clients of Zabbia Insurance Agency are provided with an outstanding level of service. Robert and his team look forward to helping families protect the things that are most important - family, home, car and more. Zabbia Insurance also offers clients a preparation strategy for achieving their financial goals. To contact an expert at Zabbia Insurance Agency, visit http://www.zabbiaagency.com/ or call (516) 799-6900.
Stephanie Hynds
The Zabbia Insurance Agency
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Corey duBrowa: Power List 2014
July 01, 2014 by Torod Neptune, Verizon Wireless
SVP, global comms & international public affairs, Starbucks
By Torod Neptune, VP, corporate communications, Verizon Wireless
Corey is a passionate advocate for the role of integrated communications in driving organizational change and a model of the quintessential adviser and counselor to the CEO. He is highly regarded by his peers and teammates alike for shepherding one of the world’s largest and most respected brands toward even greater influence and respect around the globe since joining Starbucks in 2010.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, often credited with devising the grandest of visions in first founding, then returning to, and revitalizing Starbucks, said: "The currency of leadership is truth and transparency." I worked with Corey at Waggener Edstrom and can confirm he is a great model of this truism: transparency has been demonstrated in his leadership tenure within agency and corporate environments, from Ketchum to Nike to WE, and now Starbucks.
He is a champion of the power of storytelling as a strategic comms weapon, having played quarterback for Starbucks’ efforts to ensure it carves out a place among the world’s great brands by leading with its values and focusing tirelessly on using its scale for good. More recently, he has shepherded Starbucks through the debate around whether companies, and their CEOs, should espouse a values-laden rationale for their existence, which Starbucks has continued to do to great brand reputation success.
Corey revels in the constantly evolving 24/7 news environment and its impact on the role of strategic communications, making each day energizing and affording PR professionals the opportunity to have a more meaningful impact by engaging the "public just as much as, if not more than, the media" aspects of our jobs.
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Newsmaker: Corey duBrowa, Starbucks
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Airbus to hire for UK financial brief
May 27, 2005 by Tom Williams
TOULOUSE: Airbus, the maker of the 555-passenger A380 'superjumbo', is on the hunt for a UK corporate and financial PR adviser.
Airbus regional press manager David Velupillai said the company's review was confined to a UK financial and corporate brief but declined to comment further.
It ended its relationship with the previous incumbent Financial Dynamics at the end of last year. The Maitland Consultancy is since understood to have provided the firm with PR advice (PRWeek, 21 January), although Airbus denied this was the case.
The review comes at a pivotal time for Airbus. The European Aeronautic Defence and Space agency (EADS), which owns 80 per cent of the company, has set a 1 June deadline for Airbus to appoint a new CEO.
Airbus's outgoing president and CEO Noel Forgeard and EADS defence and security chief Thomas Enders will make the decision. The pair are to become joint CEOs of EADS. Airbus is unlikely to hire a UK agency until the new CEO arrives.
The appointment is politically sensitive because a non-French executive running the Toulouse-based company could upset the power balance at EADS.
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Van Jones on standing ovation for fallen SEAL's widow: Trump 'became president of the United States in that moment'
Van Jones was left in awe by one moment during President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress: when he honored the widow of William "Ryan" Owens.
Carryn Owens with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner on Tuesday.
CNN political commentator Van Jones on Tuesday was left in awe by one moment during President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress: when he honored the widow of William "Ryan" Owens, the Navy SEAL who was killed during a raid in Yemen.
"He became president of the United States in that moment, period," Jones said on CNN. "That was one of the most extraordinary moments you have ever seen in American politics. Period."
During his address, Trump acknowledged Carryn Owens, who was sitting next to his daughter, Ivanka. Trump said he had spoken with Defense Secretary James Mattis, who he said told him that Owens was "part of a highly successful raid" that had yielded significant intelligence, contrary to reports that emerged over the previous 24 hours.
"Ryan's legacy is etched into eternity," Trump said, triggering a second, lengthy standing ovation for Carryn Owens, who became overcome with emotion.
"He did something extraordinary," Jones said. "For people who have been hoping that he would become unifying, hoping that he might find some way to become presidential, they should be happy with that moment. For people who have been hoping that maybe he would remain a divisive cartoon, which he often finds a way to do, they should begin to become a little bit worried tonight.
"Because that thing you just saw him do, if he finds a way to do that over and over again, he's going to be there for eight years," Jones continued.
The aftermath of the Yemen raid, one of the first missions signed off on as commander in chief, has proved controversial. Owens' father, Bill, criticized Trump in an interview last weekend, saying he should not "hide" behind Ryan's death and provide answers about what went wrong in the raid, which also left an 8-year-old girl and almost 30 civilians dead.
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Global forces
Responding to, and capitalising on, change is crucial to the long term success of the Qantas Group. Changes in technology and resources. In what our customers want. In economic cycles and geopolitical shifts.
Throughout our history, we’ve adapted to change with innovation. Qantas was an early adopter of jet aircraft. We invented Business Class. Created our own low cost carrier, Jetstar. Took Qantas Loyalty into new areas like insurance and financial services. And opened up new routes, like the first direct link between Australia and Europe in 2018 with our Perth-London service.
Dealing with change requires an ability to look ahead, plot a course and make adjustments.
We’ve identified the four global forces that are likely to have the biggest impact on what we do, both positively and negatively over the short and long-term. And we have mapped several different scenarios for the aviation industry in light of these forces.
We use these global forces as part of scenario planning to stress test our strategy delivered through six pillars, to ensure the future success of the Qantas Group.
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MSNBC’s Mika shames Lindsey Graham for ruining his reputation to become a Trump flunky: ‘As bad as Rudy’
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski mocked President Donald Trump and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for their reactions to the first Democratic presidential debate.
The president insisted he wouldn’t watch Wednesday’s debate, but later declared it “BORING!” and criticized MSNBC for a technical issue during the broadcast.
“As usual, the president could not help himself from watching,” Brzezinski said. “This is like his ‘Morning Joe’ thing — he can’t help himself.”
The “Morning Joe” co-hosts then turned their attention to Graham, who has turned from a strong Trump critic during the 2016 GOP primaries to joking about Trump serving an unconstitutional third term.
After tonight’s #DemocraticDebate…….that whole Trump 3rd term thing is looking better and better.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) June 27, 2019
“Wow, that guy,” Brzezinski said. “Lindsey, save yourself. Oh, my god.”
The co-hosts agreed Graham was burning his reputation faster than former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.
“A man who said that Donald Trump was unfit to be president of the United States and would destroy the Republican Party if they nominated him,” Scarborough said, “they would deserve to be destroyed.”
“As bad as Rudy,” Brzezinski said.
Stephen Colbert returned to "The Late Show" on Monday after a two-week summer vacation and wasted no time updating his viewers on the latest from "Racist-in-Chief" Donald Trump.
"There were some big stories while we were gone. The sun rose in the East, a bear relieved itself in the woods, Donald Trump was racist," Colbert said.
"And this wasn't just any run-of-the-mill, this was a humdinger. A new personal best at being the worst," he explained.
"Yesterday the president pinched out a steaming pile of tweets against freshman Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Oman of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachuttes and Rashida Tlaib on Michigan -- known in DC as 'The Squad,'" Colbert said, while the audience clapped loudly at the mention of "The Squad."
After a long vacation, late-night shows returned to bring some levity to the difficulty of the news cycle. Such was the case when "Late Night" host Seth Meyers ridiculed President Donald Trump for not knowing The Constitution that well.
"Number one: there's no crime. And how do you obstruct when there's no crime?" Trump asked during a brief statement Friday. Martha Stewart would take issue with that statement.
"Also take a look at one other thing. It's a thing called Article II. Nobody ever mentions Article II. It give me all these rights at a level nobody has ever seen before. We don't even talk about Article II," Trump said.
Matthew Chapman
On Monday night, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow unpacked a number of critically important news stories that have been largely lost in the shuffle amid outrage over President Donald Trump's racist attacks on Democratic congresswomen — stories that could be critically important in coming weeks, and problematic for the president, but that he doubtless was grateful didn't dominate the cycle.
First, Maddow noted, there was "what they announced in terms of changes to asylum law ... maybe this president's most radical effort to change laws along racial lines since the Muslim ban that he tried to implement as soon as he got into office. It's part of a larger mosaic in terms of how the president is running and using race to get himself reelected." The law would ban any migrants from receiving asylum if they failed to apply for asylum in any country they passed through, which would be impractical or ineffective for many of them.
Gold Star father blasts Trump for failure to govern while refusing to ‘defend and protect’ America
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From expansive cottages to apartment living, Tel Hai Retirement Community offers a vast array of living accommodations. For Bitsy and Art Schravesande—who joined the community in April—Tel Hai fit their needs and has enhanced their lifestyle.
A Life Plan Community like Tel Hai Retirement Community affords residents the opportunity to experience life to the fullest, all under one roof. With the opening of 105 StoneCroft apartments in 2015, residents, family, friends and future residents are already exploring the advantages to life at Tel Hai.
Brownstone—Tel Hai’s latest expansion effort—is the final wing of accommodations adjoining StoneCroft. The fourstory structure will include 45 apartment homes; parking under the building for 28 vehicles; and expansive common spaces featuring additional amenities, as well as ample room for hobbies and resident functions.
Ranging in size from 954 to 2,182 sq. ft., Brownstone offers nine spacious floor plans, four of which are new to Tel Hai’s dynamic offerings. With absolutely stunning views, the new residences are sure to impress. Pricing and floor plan details are now available.
Construction is expected to begin in September 2016, and the community anticipates welcoming new residents in the fall of 2017. Brownstone will encompass more than 103,500 sq. ft. and is connected to StoneCroft Commons, which includes spaces like the Center for Worship & Performing Arts, Aquatics Center and Clark Gallery. The Commons has already become a hub for enriching interactions, engaging programming and social activities.
For new residents like Bitsy and Art Schravesande, Tel Hai offers a unique combination of accommodations and amenities that is hard to find. Planners by nature, the couple conducted exhaustive research before finally deciding to follow their instincts and move to Tel Hai.
“We visited and explored more than eight communities during our research phase,” Art said. “We joined the future resident list in 2010, and we just always came back to comparing other communities to Tel Hai’s standards.”
While they continued to research retirement communities, the Schravesandes began to realize that waiting too long to move could be detrimental. Art recalled, “As Meals on Wheels volunteers, we saw too many of our neighbors and friends remain in their homes too long. We wanted to move when it wasn’t overwhelming, and we had the energy to do it.”
Once they decided that it was time to make a move, Art and Bitsy knew just where to turn. It was the place they kept returning to: Tel Hai. Even before moving, they knew the campus would be a perfect fit.
“It was time to join a retirement community where we could share our songs and memories with our neighbors,” Bitsy noted. “It’s a beautiful campus in a rural setting that has a religious basis, great living options, meets our needs, and is also affordable.”
Prospective residents can learn more about the Tel Hai lifestyle and meet residents like Art and Bitsy who will share the details about “Life on the Hill” by attending a “Taste of Tel Hai” event. Events are held throughout the year. During the event, Tracy Weaver, Retirement Counselor, will review residential living options like the Brownstone and provide an informative overview on Tel Hai’s history, benefits and services.
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Section 216C.435
216C.43 216C.436
Bonds (public debt)
2019 Subd. 3a Amended 2019 c 7 art 11 s 7
2018 Subd. 3a Amended 2018 c 155 s 9
2018 Subd. 3b New 2018 c 155 s 10
2018 Subd. 3c New 2018 c 155 s 11
2018 Subd. 3d New 2018 c 155 s 12
2018 Subd. 5 Repealed 2018 c 155 s 38
2018 Subd. 5a New 2018 c 155 s 13
2018 Subd. 10a New 2018 c 155 s 18
2018 Subd. 10b New 2018 c 155 s 19
2018 Subd. 10c New 2018 c 155 s 20
2018 Subd. 10d New 2018 c 155 s 21
2018 Subd. 10e New 2018 c 155 s 22
2018 Subd. 10f New 2018 c 155 s 23
2018 Subd. 13 New 2018 c 155 s 24
2017 Subd. 7a New 2017 c 94 art 10 s 23
2013 Subd. 3a New 2013 c 85 art 8 s 1
2013 Subd. 8 Amended 2013 c 85 art 8 s 2
2010 216C.435 New 2010 c 216 s 3
2010 Subd. 3a New 2010 c 389 art 7 s 11
2010 Subd. 3b New 2010 c 389 art 7 s 12
216C.435 DEFINITIONS.
Subdivision 1.Scope.
For the purposes of this section and section 216C.436, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them.
Subd. 2.Authority.
"Authority" means a housing and redevelopment authority or economic development authority created pursuant to section 469.003, 469.004, or 469.091, a port authority pursuant to section 469.049, 469.1082, or special law, or another entity authorized by law to exercise the powers of an authority created pursuant to one of those sections.
Subd. 3.City.
"City" means a home rule charter or statutory city.
Subd. 3a.Cost-effective energy improvements.
"Cost-effective energy improvements" mean energy improvements that have been identified in an energy audit or renewable energy system feasibility study as repaying their purchase and installation costs in 20 years or less, based on the amount of future energy saved and estimated future energy prices.
Subd. 4.Energy audit.
"Energy audit" means a formal evaluation of the energy consumption of a building by a certified energy auditor, whose certification is approved by the commissioner, for the purpose of identifying appropriate energy improvements that could be made to the building and including an estimate of the length of time a specific energy improvement will take to repay its purchase and installation costs, based on the amount of energy saved and estimated future energy prices.
Subd. 5.Energy improvement.
"Energy improvement" means:
(1) any renovation or retrofitting of a building to improve energy efficiency that is permanently affixed to the property and that results in a net reduction in energy consumption without altering the principal source of energy;
(2) permanent installation of new or upgraded electrical circuits and related equipment to enable electrical vehicle charging; or
(3) a renewable energy system attached to, installed within, or proximate to a building that generates electrical or thermal energy from a renewable energy source.
Subd. 6.Implementing entity.
"Implementing entity" means the local government or an authority designated by the local government by resolution to implement and administer programs described in section 216C.436.
Subd. 7.Local government.
"Local government" means a city, county, or town.
Subd. 8.Qualifying real property.
"Qualifying real property" means a single-family or multifamily residential dwelling, or a commercial or industrial building, that the implementing entity has determined, after review of an energy audit or renewable energy system feasibility study, can be benefited by installation of cost-effective energy improvements.
Subd. 9.Renewable energy.
"Renewable energy" means energy produced by means of solar thermal, solar photovoltaic, wind, or geothermal resources.
Subd. 10.Renewable energy system feasibility study.
"Renewable energy system feasibility study" means a written study, conducted by a contractor trained to perform that analysis, for the purpose of determining the feasibility of installing a renewable energy system in a building, including an estimate of the length of time a specific renewable energy system will take to repay its purchase and installation costs, based on the amount of energy saved and estimated future energy prices. For a geothermal energy improvement, the feasibility study must calculate net savings in terms of nongeothermal energy and costs.
Subd. 11.Solar photovoltaic.
"Solar photovoltaic" has the meaning given in section 216C.06, subdivision 16, and must meet the requirements of section 216C.25.
Subd. 12.Solar thermal.
"Solar thermal" has the meaning given to "qualifying solar thermal project" in section 216B.2411, subdivision 2, paragraph (e).
2010 c 216 s 3; 2010 c 389 art 7 s 11-13; 2013 c 85 art 8 s 1,2
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iPhone 4 Reviews Verdict: The Best Smartphone on the Market!
By M Asad | June 23rd, 2010
First of iPhone 4 reviews are now popping up on the Internet. From Wall Street Journal, to USA Today, to New York Times, to Engadget, all have great things to say about this new product. One thing which most of them have agreed upon is the fact that this is the smartphone to beat !!
Image via Engadget
Here is the summary what they all think about the new Apple iPhone 4.
Now, the iPhone is no longer the undisputed king of app phones. In particular, the technically inclined may find greater flexibility and choice among its Android rivals, like the HTC Incredible and Evo. They’re more complicated, and their app store not as good, but they’re loaded with droolworthy features like turn-by-turn GPS instructions, speech recognition that saves you typing, removable batteries and a choice of cell networks.
If what you care about, however, is size and shape, beauty and battery life, polish and pleasure, then the iPhone 4 is calling your name.
But you probably didn’t need a review to tell you that.
Pogue – NYTimes
the iPhone 4 is the best smartphone on the market right now. The combination of gorgeous new hardware, that amazing display, upgraded cameras, and major improvements to the operating system make this an extremely formidable package. Yes, there are still pain points that we want to see Apple fix, and yes, there are some amazing alternatives to the iPhone 4 out there. But when it comes to the total package — fit and finish in both software and hardware, performance, app selection, and all of the little details that make a device like this what it is — we think it’s the cream of the current crop. We won’t argue that a lot of this is a matter of taste — some people will just prefer the way Android or Symbian works to the iPhone, and others will be on the lookout for a hardware keyboard or a particular asset that the iPhone 4 lacks — but in terms of the total picture, it’s tough to deny that Apple has moved one step past the competition with this phone. Of course, in the hyper-accelerated smartphone market where the Next Big Thing seems to always be just around the corner, it’s anyone’s guess how long they keep that edge.
Joshua Topolsky – Engadget
Just as with its predecessors, I can’t recommend this new iPhone for voice calling for people who experience poor AT&T reception, unless they are willing to carry a second phone on a network that works better for them.
For everyone else, however, I’d say that Apple has built a beautiful smartphone that works well, adds impressive new features and is still, overall, the best device in its class.
Mossberg – The Wall Street Journal
As with previous iPhones, the latest model breaks new ground. FaceTime video calling on the iPhone 4 is one of those cool "seeing is believing" features, and it arrives on top of several across-the-board enhancements. And iOS 4 is a mostly terrific software upgrade.
Cutting through the hype, Apple has given longtime diehards, and first-time iPhone owners, plenty to cheer about.
Edward Baig – USA Today
After reading these reviews, I now want iPhone 4 more than ever! Unfortunately, mine wont ship before July. We’ll for sure have a review of it, along with some hands-on videos once its here. Stay tuned!
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BBC’s 'Question Time' tackles Paris events at Regent’s
Regent’s University London hosted the latest edition of Question Time, the BBC's flagship political debate programme, at its main campus on Thursday 19 November 2015.
Chaired by the BBC’s David Dimbleby, a panel of experts analysed and debated the recent terror attacks in Paris.
The discussion featured former Le Monde editor Natalie Nougayrede, Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev, Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham, Business Secretary Anna Soubry, former Daily Telegraph editor Sir Max Hastings, and Al Jazeera presenter Mehdi Hasan.
This was the second Question Time that has been broadcast from the University, the first being in 2012.
Professor Aldwyn Cooper, Vice Chancellor of Regent’s University London, commented:
'We were pleased to once again welcome Question Time. Universities have an important role in promoting and facilitating debate, dialogue and understanding around important national and international issues.'
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Stephanie Winkler
Digital Strategist, VICE
Steph's career in the digital space has spanned 7 years, and has seen her develop from an ‘on-the-tools’ digital marketer, to a creative and commercial Digital Strategist. In a nutshell, she runs research on Australian youth, and uses the data to tell stories, predict trends, and deliver one-of-a-kind marketing insights to commercial partners. Her work ensures that VICE’s content is at the forefront of the industry, and speaks to the fundamental human truths that affect our audience in their everyday lives. She ran the last two VICE's last two audience surveys and is looking forward to sharing the results - the good, the bad, the weird and the wonderful.
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Raquel Granados is from a community of about 20 houses in La Teja, Honduras. From an early age she was involved in her community as a leader at church. She studied Environmental Technology at Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) on a SEED (Scholarship for Educational and Economic Development) scholarship sponsored by US-AID and Georgetown University. She is the first young woman from La Teja to study abroad; Raquel has strong influence and impact in La Teja. She returned home on June 2014 and implemented her project which is Sanitary: Solution Composting Toilets and the goal is to reduce water pollution from human waste by building 22 composting toilets in her community. She believes, this project is just the beginning of La Teja development. Raquel already implemented her project and 13 families have access to a composting toilet. Currently she is working with World Vision and thanks to Resolution and her experience, now she is working as a project coordinator and a rural area where she is practicing her project manager skills. She is planning to continue study project manager on October 2016 since she wants to continue developing her community and country.
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Make Music Day
Global celebration of making music!
Make Music Day is a free celebration of music around the world on June 21st. Launched in 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, it is now held on the same day in more than 1,000 cities in 120 countries. The Museum joins the global Make Music Day celebration by offering FREE admission and musical activities all day long.
Explore the world of instrument making through a variety of stations where kids and their families can “Make ‘n Play” their own musical instruments. Jump on stage and play your new instruments along with ukuleles, drums and percussion instruments provided by the Museum. Discover the relationship between science and music at the Vibration Station where kids can play a water xylophone and conduct other cool musical experiments.
Ready to play in front of an audience? Hop up on to our open mic stage and give it a try! Artists are encouraged to sign up in advance by visiting www.museumofmakingmusic.org. Registration opens June 1.
All Day Spontaneous Jams
Looking for something a little less formal? Bring your instrument and pick your own spot to jam! To learn about other Make Music Day activities going on in San Diego visit www.makemusicday.org/sandiego
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Museum of Making Music
5790 Armada Drive
San Diego Restaurant Week
Sep 22 - Sep 29, 2019
The 15th Annual San Diego Restaurant Week returns Sunday, September 22 through Sunday, September 29 for a delicious dining experience! With over 180 participating restaurants offering prix-fixe menu options throughout San Diego County, you’re sure to find the perfect place to satisfy any craving.
Open Cockpit Days at the Flying Leatherneck Museum
Come sit in a plane!
Cockpits of several aircraft will be open for visitors to experience U.S. Marine Corps aviation from a pilot’s perspective.
Kids and adults can strap into an ejection seat, try on a helmet and complete an "I Spy" activity. See 31 historical aircraft from World War II to present day, up close. Indoors there are 8 indoor galleries of exhibits displaying hundreds of artifacts from the earliest days of aviation to the present.
Free admission and parking.
The Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum is aboard Marine Corps Air Station-Miramar. The sentry-free museum entrance is on Miramar Rd., 3.9 miles east of I-805 and 1.3 miles west of I-15. (Look for the Marine Corps and American flags at the entrance.) Open Tues-Sun, 9:00 am to 3:30 pm. www.flyingleathernecks.org. 858-693-1723.
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Aurora Lighting Stockist
The Aurora Group was founded in 1999 as an East-West collaboration specialising in lighting solutions, and was named after the Latin word meaning ?dawn?: Aurora. The name also appears in the Aurora Borealis, or northern dawn, Earth's most spectacular natural light show. The Aurora Group works closely on smart lighting strategies with Gooee, a company established by one of Aurora's co-founders, which has an international reputation for innovations in the smart building environment.
From early days as a standard lighting specialist, the Aurora Group has grown into an international LED light organisation, with a global network covering over 70 countries. Their ten international facilities host more than 440,000 sq. ft. of premises dedicated to the research and development of creative product designs, with innovative engineering solutions, rigorous testing, and ground-breaking technological developments in the field of IoT communications and sensing.
Aurora Lighting Products
At Rowse we stock a wide range of core Aurora products for all your lighting needs.
Aurora offers a great variety of solutions for spot lighting, including downlights, gimbals and tracked. The Eddi? family of Aurora spotlights, for example, offers three track and four recessed LED designs, which are made to order. Customers can choose between reflectors or lenses, with interchangeable beam width optics. One, two and three-way mounting options are available for gimbal spots, and downlights can be tilted, adjustable or low glare.
We stock a variety of high-powered LED Aurora Flood Lights, in a wide range of wattage and sizes suitable for domestic and commercial use. Options are available with PIR sensors for optimum motion detection, or ultra-slim and driverless for minimal visual impact.
Originally designed as durable fixtures in ships, streamlined bulkhead lighting is a rugged and efficient solution for industrial and commercial environments. Made in impact-resistant polycarbonate, Aurora Bulkhead Lighting can also be used with PIR sensors to offer a safety option.
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California couple sue over 'living hell' IVF mix-up
Updated / Thursday, 11 Jul 2019 12:18
A California couple has filed a lawsuit over what has been described as one of the worst IVF mix-ups, that led to another woman giving birth to their son.
Anni and Ashot Manukyan, of the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, said their life was upended after their embryos as well as those of two other couples were mishandled by CHA Fertility Center.
As a result, they said a complete stranger in New York gave birth to their child in March after two embryos - theirs and one belonging to another unidentified couple - were mistakenly implanted into the woman's uterus.
The New York woman, who is of Korean-American descent, was expecting to give birth to twin girls but ended up with two boys.
The Manukyans told reporters yesterday that they were unaware they had a son until the clinic, located in the Los Angeles area, contacted them out of the blue to obtain their DNA so that it could determine whether the child born to the New York couple was theirs.
Adding insult to injury, Ms Manukyan later learned that she had been implanted with an embryo - which failed to result in a pregnancy - belonging to another couple who were also clients of the fertility clinic.
The Manukyans said that following a protracted legal battle they finally gained custody of their son in May, when he was six weeks old.
"CHA put three families through a living hell, and our lives will never be the same," Ashot Manukyan told reporters.
"We fought to get our boy back, and now we will fight to make sure this never happens again."
His wife appeared emotional at the press conference, saying the ordeal has been traumatic.
"Who wants to meet their child in the lobby of a hotel?" Anni Manukyan said. "It was just heartbreaking. It was terrible."
Adam Wolf, an attorney representing the couple, told AFP that the mix-up was "one of the worst fertility centre tragedies I have ever seen."
A woman who answered the phone at the clinic yesterday afternoon said the facility had shut down early for the day and no representatives were available for comment.
The New York couple involved in the mix-up have also filed a suit in federal court in Brooklyn, seeking compensation after suffering what they say are "significant and permanent emotional injuries from which they will not recover."
The pair, who are only identified by their initials in the court documents, began in-vitro fertilisation treatment at the CHA Fertility Center in January 2018.
Eight embryos were created on their behalf.
A first implantation in July 2018 was unsuccessful, but a second effort the following month worked, and the woman became pregnant with what she believed to be twin girls.
But doubts arose after the first sonograms, which showed the foetuses were boys. The couple were confused, as only one of the eight embryos was male.
Doctors at the clinic "assured them they were girls and that there was nothing wrong," according to the court complaint.
In March this year, the woman gave birth via caesarean section to two boys, "neither of which was of Asian descent," as the parents are.
Genetic testing confirmed that neither the man nor the woman "was genetically related to the babies... and that the two male babies were not genetically related to each other," the complaint says.
The plaintiffs still do not know what became of their embryos.
"Defendants are concealing the whereabouts of the plaintiffs' two embryos ... They believe they were never thawed and/or lost or destroyed by defendants," the complaint says.
The couple is suing the clinic and two of their doctors, Joshua Berger and Simon Hong, alleging professional error, negligence, breach of contract and false advertising.
They are asking to be reimbursed the more than $100,000 they paid for treatment, their future medical expenses, lost wages and punitive damages.
After the babies were born, the clinic tracked down the Manukyans and the parents of the other baby who have also taken custody of their child.
Mr Wolf said his clients still have no idea whose embryos CHA inserted into Ms Manukyans's uterus.
"They have been unwilling to tell us how this happened," he said.
Source: AFP
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My Turn: Immigration crackdown hits home
Opinion | July 15, 2008
Kellea Miller
Last week, a friend and former coworker nearly died crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. For 15 years, he worked two full-time jobs to support his wife and child. He paid taxes, made friends and built a life at Tahoe.
In 108-degree heat, dehydration forced him onto the main road where immigration officers picked him up and deported him.
Did he truly deserve being treated like a stranger to this country and community?
Recently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) came to Tahoe. Rumors are flying. Some say that gang fights sparked the sweep. Others say this is par for the course; it happens every summer.
Whatever the impetus, ICE is knocking on doors, walking into businesses and setting up checkpoints to search for people without legal status. Several restaurants have lost employees. Other businesses were tipped off and secured their employee entrances. (ICE requires permission or a warrant to enter any building.)
The crackdown hits many Latinos at Lake Tahoe. A mother without papers was taken from her home ” and from her children. At Chevron, a woman confronted ICE officers who were interrogating a man. They replied, “This is none of your business.”
Some might agree. However, I write because I believe that if more people knew, they would question national policies and local practices that have their neighbors behind closed doors this week.
We are not talking about strangers. We are talking about classmates, teammates, co-workers, friends and family. We are talking about people who have lived at Tahoe for years, raising children and working jobs that help keep the economy afloat.
When will national policies reflect reality rather than ideology? Some 12 million people live without legal status in the U.S. ” 4 percent of the total population. In 2007, undocumented workers added roughly $9 billion to Social Security coffers. (An estimated 75 percent of undocumented immigrants pay Social Security tax.)
The system is not flawless. Without adequate health care, poor people of all ethnicities and nationalities burden hospitals when they use emergency rooms for simple doctor visits. Workers falsify documents to secure jobs and access services. People with family in the States cross illegally rather than wait the five to 22 years for visa approval.
Still, as a nation of immigrants, most citizens’ ancestors came to America seeking a better life. I wonder how many of us would commit a misdemeanor to do the same today. Would we watch our children starve or go uneducated simply on principle? Or would we cross a border without permission and work as hard as we could so our children might have a brighter future?
What can we do? Aside from voting for sensible immigration policies, a few local ideas include: Have translators in schools; celebrate International Workers’ Day; watch “A Day Without A Mexican”; Learn our basic rights. More than anything we can show compassion. We can stand with our neighbors, share our stories and build a community based on respect, hard work and friendship.
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Ireland powers up for geothermal energy
23 Sep 2010465 Views
GT Energy, a geothermal energy company exploring the potential for a geothermal energy plant in Newcastle, south Co Dublin, has lodged a planning application with South Dublin County Council in the hopes of constructing Ireland’s first geothermal electricity facility.
GT Energy says the proposed facility at Newcastle could provide up to 4 megawatts of electricity – powering up to 8,000 homes – which would be fed directly into the grid.
If the project applications are successful, GT says the drilling of the wells will commence early next year, with the plant scheduled to be operational in 2012.
GT Energy commenced its investigation into the potential for geothermal resources in Ireland in 2006 and a year later began a three-phase drilling and data collection plan.
The development’s estimated cost is around €30m and the energy company says it is receiving technical assistance from ESB International.
Energy Development Bill
There is no legislation regulating geothermal energy at present and earlier this month Minister for Natural Resources Conor Lenihan TD confirmed the Government is drafting a Geothermal Energy Development Bill, expected to be tabled in October.
“This bill will continue the process of moving Ireland towards a sustainable energy environment. Geothermal energy is natural renewable heat that can be used as an alternative to fossil fuels to heat our homes and businesses … It is also an important step towards reaching the challenging target set by the EU of delivering 16pc of our energy from renewable sources by 2020,” said Lenihan.
If passed, the law will create a regulatory framework for the sector and deal with matters such as resource ownership, licensing of exploration and development rights and third-party protection.
GT Energy has operations in both the UK and Iceland and the energy source is the “cleanest, most stable, probably cheapest source of renewable energy in Europe,” according to Icelandic foreign minister Össur Skarphéðins.
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The Rhino in Right Field
By Stacy DeKeyser
Trade Paperback Hardcover
Apple's iBookstore
“Laugh-out-loud fun…A winner in every way.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Funny and good-hearted.” —Publishers Weekly
A boy who loves baseball must get past his hard-working immigrant parents—and the rhino in the outfield—to become a batboy in this laugh-out-loud middle grade novel in the tradition of The Sandlot.
Nick wants to change his life. For twelve years, he’s done what his hard-working, immigrant parents want him to do. Now he’s looking for his own American dream and he thinks he’s found it. The local baseball team is having a batboy contest, and Nick wants to win.
But the contest is on a Saturday—the day Nick has to work in his father’s shop. There’s one other tiny—well, not so tiny—problem. A 2,000-pound rhinoceros named Tank. Nick and his friends play ball in the city zoo—and Tank lives just beyond the right field fence. Nick’s experience getting the ball out of Tank’s pen has left him frozen with fear whenever a fly ball comes his way. How’s a lousy fielder going to win the contest?
Nick practices every day with his best friend, Ace, and a new girl who has an impressive throwing arm! But that’s not enough—to get to the contest, Nick has to lie to his parents and blackmail his uncle. All while dodging the school bully, who’s determined to win even by playing dirty. Nick will need to keep his eye on the ball in this fast, funny story about a game that can throw you some curveballs—just like life!
Photograph by Michaela Ristaino
Stacy DeKeyser
Stacy DeKeyser is the author of The Brixen Witch, which received two starred reviews and was a Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Pick, and its sequel, One Witch at a Time, as well as the young adult novel Jump the Cracks and two nonfiction books for young readers. She lives in Connecticut with her family. To learn more, visit her online at StacyDeKeyser.com.
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (July 2018)
Lexile ® 630L
Lexile ® 591 - 690
Children's Fiction > Animals > Zoos
Children's Fiction > Sports & Recreation > Baseball
Children's Fiction > Historical > United States > 20th Century
"Laugh-out-loud fun with a wonderful cast of characters. A winner in every way."
– Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"DeKeyser skillfully melds historical details of 1948 Milwaukee with fast-paced action and humor...A recommended purchase for large middle grade collections."
"Funny and good-hearted."
“Accessible, detailed, and charmingly genuine…a solid home run.”
– Booklist Online
"[A] warm, wonderful novel."
– Shelf Awareness for Readers
Book Cover Image (jpg): The Rhino in Right Field
Author Photo (jpg): Stacy DeKeyser
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/ Networks Case Studies
Region: Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America
Written on 04 Feb 2014
Telco & Enterprise
KVH is at the forefront of the growing demand for broadband in the global maritime industry with its mini-VSAT broadband service for high-speed data connections and voice calls.
Commercial fleet operators face growing regulatory and competitive requirements as well as the need to provide connectivity for crew morale, training and retention.
KVH needs to cover all coasts and major shipping routes around the world.
KVH sees a significant cost advantage from the SES Ku-band satellite fleet, which covers the coasts and shipping lanes more efficiently than L-band. This is helping to drive growth in the fixed satellite services market, which is set to double over the next ten years as a result of these innovative new services.
“We rely on the SES fleet to provide seamless coverage in critical regions of our global spread spectrum network,” said Chris Watson, Director of Marketing for KVH. “As a result, we are able to offer mariners the smallest marine VSAT antennas available along with airtime service at one-tenth the cost of competing services.”
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I had a classmate in college who quipped that she wanted to bring about positive change and to do good for society--that's why she had narrowed her career choices to either real estate or advertising. The joke still brings a smile to my face but thankfully there's some truth to her tongue-in-cheek...
The title of this installment of spot.com.mentary is a prevalent theme throughout this Directors Series issue as filmmakers ranging from emerging to established continue to be sparked by their passions, yielding notable work. On the established director front, consider the POV below this column in...
There's a debate over how much California's economy benefits from its Film & Television Tax Credit program. A report issued last summer by the L.A. County Economic Development Corp . and financed by the Motion Picture Association of America pegged an impact of $1.13 for every dollar the state...
Congress and politicians in general have all-time low public approval ratings in what's become an age of polarization, divisiveness and dysfunctional government. Yet before you think this is a contemporary phenomenon, consider some wit and wisdom from yesteryear. Mark Twain observed, "It could...
Our "Agency of the Year" coverage in this issue features the observations of several key players at TBWA\Chiat\Day and TBWA\Media Arts Lab, none more key than Lee Clow, global director, Media Arts TBWA Worldwide, and chairman of TBWA\Media Arts Lab . An icon in his own right, Clow offered...
This week, the second installment of our ongoing "The Road to Oscar" series appears, and these first two previews share an inspiring common ground that's a departure from the red carpet, glitz and glamour norm typically associated with the Academy Awards. Consider the feedback from directors Chris...
The passing of Steve Jobs has elicited numerous testimonials to his genius, his innovation, his historical impact on society, and in our corner of the world his prowess as a master marketer and his lofty standing as the client whom every agency dreams of having. His innovations made his competitors...
Looking back on our coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their impact on different facets of our industry, I recall nurturing a budding hope 10 years ago that certain positive media developments might come out of the tragedy. For one, I thought 9/11 could serve as a wake-up call for mass...
A recent report from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. (LAEDC) concludes that California's Film and Television Tax Credit is paying off handsomely for the Golden State. The LAEDC study estimated that the first 77 productions approved for the initial tax credit allocation of $198.8...
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Marlins 3B Prado expected to miss opener with bad hamstring
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) Miami Marlins third baseman Martin Prado is expected to miss the start of the regular season after straining his right hamstring at the World Baseball Classic.
Marlins manager Don Mattingly already has ruled out Prado playing in any exhibition games.
''Obviously it's never good, but I'm encouraged it's a Grade 1,'' Mattingly said. ''From there we just kind of wait until he's ready, honestly. We hope that he misses as little as possible, but we're going to definitely err on the side of caution.''
A Grade I strain is considered the least severe.
''As we get to the end of camp we'll have a, probably, really good feel how long Martin is going to miss - at least a pretty good estimate,'' Mattingly said.
Playing for Team Venezuela, Prado injured his hamstring running out a ground ball in the sixth inning of Wednesday's loss to Team USA.
He left the game immediately, returning to South Florida to undergo an MRI exam on Saturday and consult with team doctors.
The Marlins are not attaching a timeline to his return to the lineup.
''We say, oh, he's only going to miss two weeks, then that two weeks comes and he's thinking, `I've got to be ready by then' and if he's not quite ready then he's just not quite ready,'' Mattingly said. ''I'd rather say we are going to get him healthy, make sure he's healthy.''
The Marlins conclude Grapefruit League play on April 1 against Detroit. Their first regular season game is April 3 at Washington.
The 33-year-old Prado is the only Marlins starter over 30, and he serves as the unofficial captain of the club. A career .293 hitter, Prado batted .305 and drove in 75 runs last season.
In Prado's absence, utility players Derek Dietrich and Miguel Rojas are will handle the bulk of third base duties. Dietrich hit .279 with seven homers in 351 at-bats last season and Rojas hit .247 in 194 at-bats.
Dietrich drew Sunday's start at third against Washington. With the Marlins sending a split squad that included everyday shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria to face the Mets, Rojas played shortstop against the Nationals.
Prado's injury is exactly the kind of setback managers fear when their players leave for the WBC.
''You're playing playoff intensity,'' Mattingly said. ''You've seen the energy that's in those buildings. Your mind says go and sometimes maybe your body is just not quite ready.''
Despite the injury to his veteran, Mattingly says he's enjoyed watching the WBC.
On Saturday, Marlins right fielder Giancarlo Stanton hit a long homer off the Western Metal Supply Building in San Diego and Christian Yelich doubled, drove in a run and scored another to lead Team USA past the Dominican Republic and into the semifinal round.
''It's good to see your guys having success,'' Mattingly said.
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Top 5 Facebook Video Statistics for 2016 [Infographic]
Jonathan Savage @BoldContentTV
Last year saw exceptional growth for video on Facebook. At the end of 2014 the site hosted approximately one billion video views per day. By the close of 2015, that figure had grown to over eight billion. While there's still some debate about what qualifies as a video view (3 sec vs. 10 sec. vs. 30 secs?), the overall trajectory of Facebook video consumption his undeniable.
Video is central to Facebook's vision for the future of the platform. In 2014 CEO Mark Zuckerberg was quoted as saying "In five years most of Facebook will be video" . Facebook will be working hard in 2016 to cement that vision, especially in the areas of live video and VR. Below are five statistics which show the importance of video on Facebook in 2016.
1. People spend 3x longer watching video which is Live compared to video which is no longer Live
One of the most interesting new technologies has been the integration of live video streaming technology into social media platforms. The start of 2015 saw Twitter release what's since become the market leader in the field, in Periscope. Facebook's since introduced it's own live-streaming option, and the ability to watch and interact in real time video has proven popular with its user base. Latest figures show that people spend 3x longer watching live video compared to a video that's pre-recorded. As a consequence, Facebook's now looking to give greater prominence to live video - as noted by Facebook Product Manager Vibhi Kant in a recent blog post:
"We're making a small update to News Feed so that Facebook Live videos are more likely to appear higher in News Feed when those videos are actually live, compared to after they are no longer live."
And in just the past week, Facebook's given yet another indication of how seriously they're taking live-streaming, announcing a change to the Facebook app to put more focus on live video.
2. Facebook users have watched more than one million hours with Samsung VR gear
Virtual Reality (VR) is another key area of focus for Facebook. Following Facebook's acquisition of VR company Oculus, Mark Zuckerberg offered a clear indication that VR would play an integral role in the the future of Facebook. Zuckerberg stated that VR would offer Facebook users the opportunity to:
"Share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures."
To help realize that vision, Facebook's set up a dedicated social media VR team. Part of that group's role is to collaborate with Oculus to integrate the technology into Facebook's platform. Already users have consumed over a million hours of VR video using the Samsung VR gear.
3. The number of videos posted per person increased by users increased by 75% in 2015
The amount of video being consumed on Facebook wasn't the only standout growth story of last year - that demand was largely matched in supply. Facebook users increased the number of videos posted per person by 75% globally in 2015. In the United States this growth was even more impressive, rising 94%. Whether the growth of video posts increases at a similar rate in 2016 remains to be seen.
4. Video posts have 135% greater organic reach than photo posts
Live is not the only type of video content getting a lot of exposure on Facebook - video posts in general reach a larger audience, on average. According to a study by Social Bakers, the average video post generates 135% greater organic reach, when compared to photo posts.
5. Facebook generates 8 billion video views on average per day
Facebook now serves a staggering 8 billion video views per day - that's double the amount the video content users were consuming in early 2015. However, that huge growth in Facebook video consumption is not without its detractors - critics point out that a view is counted after 3 seconds on Facebook compared to 30 seconds on YouTube. Also, Facebook videos autoplay, leading to views being counted where, in many cases, the viewers has necessarily indicated any interest in the content. But however you look at it, the fact is that overall video growth is on a big upswing on The Social Network, and that Zuckerberg's prediction of a Facebook dominated by video looks ever more likely in 2016.
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Tabernash locomotive fire contained
Reid Tulley
rtulley@skyhidailynews.com
Grand County, CO Colorado
Courtesy of East Grand Couny Fire Protection DistrA firefighter walks next to the locomotive that was spewing flames from its exhaust in Tabernash early Monday morning.
A Union Pacific locomotive caught fire in Tabernash around 1:20 a.m. Monday, Sept. 24.
East Grand Fire Protection District No. 4 responded to the fire, which was reported by Tabernash resident Gary Tabor.
The last locomotive on a coal freight train was spewing flames 20 to 30 feet into the air from its exhaust when Tabor reported the incident to Union Pacific, according to Tabor.
“It looked like a volcano when I saw it,” Tabor said.
The railroad company was able to stop the train before it crossed under the US Highway 40 bridge on its way out of Tabernash.
East Grand Fire as well as Grand County EMS, the Grand County Sheriff’s Office, and the Fraser-Winter Park Police Department, responded to the fire, which was extinguished in less than 10 minutes.
No water was needed to extinguish the fire, which might have resulted from a leak in the locomotive’s fuel lines.
The responders allowed the engine to cool down while Union Pacific sent a high-railer, a truck that is designed to drive on the railroad tracks, back up the tracks to check if the locomotive started any fires next to the track, said Fire Chief Todd Holzwarth of East Grand Fire Protection District No. 4.
No other fires were started by the burning engine.
No one from Union Pacific was immediately available for comment Monday morning.
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Windows 10 Universal File Explorer update hints at interesting future
JC Torres - Aug 22, 2018, 12:03 am CDT
When Microsoft launched its touch-centric Windows 8 for the desktop, it was met with a great deal of resistance to the radically different way of interacting with desktops. Microsoft has since then stepped back a bit and offered the familiar traditional Windows desktop again. It has, however, flip-flopped between touch-based and non-touch UIs. Case in point is the telling lack of a touch-based file manager on Windows 10. Things, however, seem to be changing with some surprising updates to the UWP universal File Explorer that might be setting the stage for the ever-elusive Project Andromeda foldable device.
This touch-friendly UWP-based universal File Explorer actually isn’t new. It was part of Windows 10 Mobile and eventually came to the Xbox One and even HoloLens. Last year, it sneaked into Windows 10 version 1703 but you had to use some tricks to actually use it.
In the latest build for the upcoming Windows 10 version 1809 release, the Universal File Explorer is getting its first update in a very a long while. More interestingly, it is getting features that make more sense on devices with at a mouse or stylus rather than a touch-only interface. It also brings features to the UWP app that are only found in the legacy Windows File Explorer.
The Universal File Explorer, however, is still hidden in version 1809, signifying it’s still not officially meant to be used on the desktop. Windows Central’s sources claim that the reason for the update is not Windows 10 desktop but Windows Core OS. That’s the leaner version of Windows that’s meant to be used in the Surface Hub 2, the HoloLens 2, and, of course, the Surface Phone/Andromeda. Windows Central does have a guide to enable the app, in case you prefer using Windows 10 in its tablet form.
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swisstopo - knowing where
Federal Administration
Department: DDPS
swisstopo: Federal Office of Topography
Swiss Armed Forces: Defence sector
FIS: Federal Intelligence Service
OA: Office of the Armed Forces Attorney General
armasuisse: Federal Office for Defence Procurement
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BiG: Library Am Guisanplatz
GS DDPS: General Secretariat DDPS
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Archiving of geodata
Archiving of geodata at the federal level focuses on the storage of geodata for an unlimited period of time. The archived geodata can then be made available in a future geoinformation system. Within the scope of the Ellipse project, swisstopo and the Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) developed a solution for the archiving of geodata. The project was concluded at the end of 2016 and the results are documented in the manual on the archiving of federal geodata.
swisstopo offers the following attractive apprenticeships: geomatician, business administration assistant, computer scientist.
A journey through time – aerial images
Go on a fascinating journey and travel back in time with the help of aerial images from swisstopo. Discover the history of Switzerland’s landscape as seen from the air.
A journey through time - Maps
Embark on a voyage through time with swisstopo’s topographic maps and travel through almost 175 years of Swiss cartographical history, even as far back as the time before the Swiss Confederation was founded.
What is in the ground beneath our feet? When it comes to the sustainable management of our living space, historical maps and digital 3D models are just as important bases as geological, geophysical and geotechnical datasets. The GeoCover vector dataset depicts all of Switzerland on the basis of the 1:25,000 map sheets.
Background information on the National Map
The National Maps of Switzerland that are in use today are based on the provisions of the legislation dating from 1935. The National Maps were implemented in varying scales up and subsequently replaced the Dufour and Siegfried maps and their supplements.
Background information on the Dufour Map
The 1:100 000 Topographic Map of Switzerland (Dufour Map) was the first official series of maps that encompassed the whole of Switzerland. It was published in the period from 1845 to 1865 and thus coincides with the creation of the modern Swiss Confederation.
Background information on the Siegfried Map
The original surveys for the Dufour Map were used for the publication of the 1:25 000 / 1:50 000 Topographic Atlas of Switzerland (Siegfried Map), which was produced between 1870 and 1926 as a co-operation between the federal government and the cantons, based on two Federal Acts dating from 1868.
Cultural heritage year 2018
swisstopo is participating in the Year for Cultural Heritage by exhibiting its many contributions in this field. Discover our rich program throughout 2018, from the founding document that is the Dufour map to the documenting of the long-term evolution of the landscape based on geodata of increasing variation.
Cantonal and municipal boundaries
The cantons are responsible for cantonal and municipal boundaries. swisstopo manages a data set of all of these boundaries which is updated annually and issued for free.
Cadastral system
The Swiss cadastral system comprises three pillars: the cadastral surveying, the Cadastre of public-law restrictions on landownership (PLR Cadastre) and the land register.
Cadastral Surveying
The Swiss cadastral survey safeguards landownership and is the basis for numerous other geographic information tools and applications for both professional and private use.
Colloquia - presentations
swisstopo colloquia, which always take place during the winter semester, primarily serve the internal further training of our specialists at all levels. Presentations from past colloquia are archived here.
Digital geological data
Basic geological data in digital form are primarily used for carrying out modern geological analyses and exploring the underground. They form an essential basis for the development of comprehensive geological datasets and models in the domains of natural hazards, geo-energy and raw materials, as well as for dealing with issues relating to the environment.
Reports, specialist publications, instruction manuals, product informations and presentations of the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo.
Fridolin Wicki is head of the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
Direct supervision
The cantons are responsible for the operational management of the cadastral survey. Six cantons plus the Principality of Liechtenstein have delegated this task to a federal authority, namely the Federal Directorate of Cadastral Surveying, and are therefore subject to direct supervision.
European reference systems
In addition to the conventional national reference systems, there is a European reference system called ETRS89. The connection of national reference systems to global, terrestrial reference systems by means of geodetic measuring methods results in only a limited degree of accuracy. However, modern (local) reference systems, distinguish themselves by providing a precisely defined link to global systems, thus allowing absolute positioning within a centimetre.
Exchange of data between authorities
On 6 April 2016 the Federal Council signed an agreement on the exchange of basic federal geodata between authorities, thus creating the basis for simplified use of these data.
swisstopo regularly attends public and trade fairs, and organises symposiums on various aspects of geoinformation. Here, you can search for detailed informations about our events.
Engineering surveying
In the field of engineering surveying, swisstopo provides a broad variety of services, ranging from the development of fundamental GNSS networks and the operation of permanent GNSS stations, through to the analysis of deformations, gravity calculations and gyroscopic measurements. Here the focus is on demanding surveying tasks calling for the highest possible degree of accuracy and reliability.
Fundamental point
As the fundamental point, Zimmerwald geostation is operated jointly by swisstopo and the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern. It is used both for national surveying and for research in astronomy and geodesy.
FINELTRA data viewer
You can use the FINELTRA data viewer to assess the precision of the transformation between the LV03 and LV95 global reference frames and thereby evaluate the accuracy of positioning with swipos® in the LV03 reference frame (service LV03/LN02).
Free geodata
The free geodata can be downloaded directly into the swisstopo onlineshop after acceptance of the terms of use. They are also available on opendata.swiss with further datasets.
Spatial referencing is one of the most important aspects of everyday life. It often determines our life and actions without being noticed. Verbal communication in association with topographic objects is difficult to imagine without the use of names. It is much easier to locate geographic units and elements with the aid of names than through the use of coordinates.
Geodata infrastructure
The term “geodata infrastructure” (GDI) refers to a system of political measures, institutional bodies, technologies, data and people for facilitating the exchange and efficient use of geographic data. The main duty of the Coordination, Geo-Information and Services division (COGIS) of swisstopo is to develop, expand and operate geodata infrastructure with the aim of ensuring the efficient use of official federal geographic data.
Geo.admin.ch is the geographic information platform of the federal administration for the whole of Switzerland. As a user you can directly access geographic information, data and services of the federal government free of charge.
Geoinformation and geodata
Between 60 and 80 percent of all political, economic and private decisions are spatially oriented. In everyday life, almost everyone uses geoinformation regularly, often without even realising it.
Geology in everyday life
How are rocks formed? Why is geology so important when it comes to energy production? The history of our planet is full of secrets and fascinating facts. The Swiss Geological Survey offers a range of easily comprehensible publications and free guided tours that help raise our awareness of geology.
Geological topics
Where are Switzerland’s mineral resources located? Where and how can geothermal energy be used sustainably in order to produce energy? The Swiss Geological Survey creates the basic data for the utilisation of geo-resources. It promotes an awareness and appreciation of geology in everyday life and provides answers to a variety of social questions.
Geo-resources
Where does Switzerland have resources of raw materials? Where and how can geothermal energy be used in a sustainable manner in order to produce energy? The term “geo-resources” refers to all geological resources that serve as the basis for life in modern-day society: groundwater, mineral resources, energy production and underground space for construction, storage and disposal of materials.
A geological 3D model of the Swiss Plateau
The Swiss Geological Survey’s geological maps currently form the sole nationwide dataset relating to the structure of the underground in Switzerland. They thus make a valuable contribution towards the exploration and sustainable use of the underground. Both digital datasets and 3D models of the underground can be derived from these maps.
Graduate internships at swisstopo
A graduate internship at swisstopo provides trainees with an opportunity to gain practical experience in their field of study, and is an ideal way to launch their career. It is also a good opportunity for them to begin to assume responsibility in their profession, broaden their language skills and establish valuable contacts.
You have always been fascinated by the world of maps, and often use them for travel and leisure-time activities. But do you know how much work goes into them and are you aware of the other activities of swisstopo? Take a look behind the scenes of the Federal Office of Topography!
geocat.ch is the metadata catalogue for Swiss geodata. Federal offices, cantons, communes and private enterprises record the supplementary information for their own geodata in geocat.ch. geocat.ch therefore provides the ideal starting point for your search for aerial photographs, protected sites, natural hazards, earthquakes and other, sometimes very specific, geodata.
Geodetic points (FPDS)
As part of the “Control point data service” (FPDS), swisstopo manages the control points data in a production database and is making it available online for third parties.
Gravity Field Consortium
In the field of gravity measurement, swisstopo offers a variety of services in cooperation with the Mathematical and Physical Geodesy Section of the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, including gravity and vertical height deviations, as well as a broad range of calculation and modelling services. It also provides the official geoid model of Switzerland (CHGeo2004), which is required in all precision GNSS receivers for determining heights, as well as software for calculating vertical height deviations and levelled and orthometric heights.
The Swiss Geological Survey provides access to geological data and 3D models of the underground. It coordinates geological activities in Switzerland and provides advice on geo-energy projects and subsurface construction projects.
The swisstopo map collection is a unique cultural treasure comprising all first editions and revised versions of the official Dufour Map, the Siegfried Map and the series of national maps. The collection also contains a variety of documents, including handwritten items. All editions of the maps produced in analogue form can now be obtained in digital form or conveniently viewed chronologically in swisstopo’s map viewer.
swisstopo’s image collection is a unique cultural treasure that encompasses approximately half a million aerial and terrestrial images as well as photos documenting the activities of the Federal Office. The images of the landscapes from the 1920s through to the present day are used for a wide range of purposes. Over the next few years, a special plan is to be implemented to ensure that the valuable originals are carefully preserved and easily accessible.
History of swisstopo
The Federal Office of Topography swisstopo was founded in 1838 by Guillaume-Henri Dufour in Carouge (Geneva) and was originally called “Bureau topographique fédéral”. It began publishing the first official set of national maps in 1845. Today, swisstopo is integrated into the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS), and performs tasks for both the military and the private sectors. It is the country’s competence centre for official geodata.
Are you interested in a new career challenge? In swisstopo you will find the ideal conditions for your personal and professional development. Bring us your ideas and contribute actively to the swisstopo of today and tomorrow.
KML generation
KML generation allows you to convert a file containing Swiss coordinates or a route recorded with a hand held GPS receiver into a KML file (compatible with Google Earth/Maps).
In the period from 1988 to 1995 the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo developed a national surveying system that is largely based on satellite measurement. LV95 replaces the 100-year-old national survey (LV03), based on triangulation. The fundamental point for LV95 is the geostation in Zimmerwald, near Bern.
Long-term availability of geodata
Due to the long-term availability, swisstopo is able to retain and provide both current and earlier geodata at a high level of quality, as well as to offer professional advisory services where required.
Long-term conservation
swisstopo is obligated to guarantee the availability of their official geodata by the geoinformation Act. The long-term conservation ensures that the geodata remains usable over the long term. The guarantee of availability is composed of the long-term availability and the archiving.
Landscape memory
swisstopo has been documenting Switzerland’s topographic development for around 175 years. Preserving various geodata and making them available in the form of time series has resulted in a landscape memory of Switzerland that traces all the changes and developments over a lengthy period of time.
LiDAR Data
Airborne laser scanning is one of the most effective methods for measuring territory in 3D. It provides valuable, high-quality data in terms of both detail and accuracy. As the basis for digital terrain models, these data also contribute to other products and are used by many applications. In 2017, swisstopo will be launching a new LiDAR data acquisition campaign.
Legal bases and jurisdiction
International treaties, and above all the 1815 Treaty of Vienna, form the legal bases for the specification of the national border. Treaties and agreements with neighbouring countries that concern Switzerland’s sovereign territory are archived in the official compendium of federal legislation. swisstopo is the authority responsible for the national border.
Maps for mobile devices
New technologies and users’ changing needs have led to paper no longer being the only medium for maps. With Swiss Map Mobile, swisstopo offers a convenient and cost-effective solution for using maps on mobile devices.
Map reading
Useful aids that make map reading easy. The leaflets "Map reading" and "Conventional signs" offer interesting facts for national map users and lessons.
Map production
Map production calls for a large number of individual steps. Numerous specialists are involved in the process, which ranges from surveying and the input of landscape objects based on aerial images into enormous databases, through to cartographic processing and the subsequent publication of the map on screen or on paper.
Material sales
The following special materials for marking can be obtained from swisstopo (subject to availability; prices upon request).
National border
Switzerland’s national border is formed by the external boundary of its sovereign territory. It is specified, surveyed and maintained in close cooperation with the five neighbouring countries.
New 1:50,000 Hiking Map
The up-dating of the national maps offers new possibilities for the representation of data and is an opportunity to redevelop the well-loved swisstopo hiking maps from scratch. The result is a more homogeneous and readable map, with a modern and colourful look.
New National Map for Switzerland
In order to keep pace with the requirements for their widespread use on various digital and analogue media, the set of Swiss national maps needed to be modernised. Thanks to efficient production processes it is now possible to produce maps with a higher degree of precision, as well as to update them more quickly.
Our Newsletter is available in German, French and Italian only. We currently don't offer any Newsletter in English. However you can subscribe to receive the Newsletter in another language.
Notification of an amendment
Have there been any changes in the area that still need to be adapted in our products? Have you found a mistake in our maps or geodata? Tell us your observations – while on the road via smartphone or conveniently from your home.
PLR Cadastre
The Cadastre of public-law restrictions on landownership (PLR Cadastre) is a reliable, official system providing information about the most important public law restrictions on landownership.
Annual reports, magazines, flyers, brochures and printed newsletters of the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo.
Should you need to print a digital panorama with a realistic perspective on paper or on a metallic support, the DIGIRAMA (DIGItal panoRAMA) range of products is ideal for you. Depending on customers’ needs, various representations involving different levels of automation are possible. The range of specifications for these custom products allows for everything from a simple and cost effective solution for quick panoramic overviews to high quality solutions for panoramic plaques.
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REFRAME allows you to transform coordinates in planimetry and/or altimetry.
Swiss reference systems
With national survey LV95 a global (CHTRS95) and a local (CH1903+) system were defined in Switzerland which have functioned as the official Swiss reference system since 2017. The latter replaces the old local reference system (CH1903), which formed the basis for surveying in Switzerland for more than a hundred years.
Sovereign borders
The term «sovereign borders» refers to the national borders as well as cantonal and municipal boundaries.
Swiss Geological Survey
The Swiss Geological Survey at swisstopo is the federal competence centre for the collection, analysis, storage and provision of geological data. It prepares the decision-making bases for shaping our living space and requires an appreciation for our landscape.
swisstopo: facts and figures
Find out about swisstopo, its map production, number of employees and other facts and figures relating to its wide-ranging activities.
Communication with our customers and partners is very important to us. This is why we have a social media presence, posting news, the latest photos and videos and providing fascinating insights into what we do. Find out more about swisstopo and get in touch. We want to know what you think!
SwissGeoLab is an educational laboratory that aims to give a glimpse of the world of geomatics. It is primarily intended for secondary and high school students and travels around Switzerland from one interested school to another.
swisstopo also places the specialised knowledge based on its many years of experience in the national survey at the disposal of third parties. Its services range from conception to realisation, and from the solution of specific problems through to comprehensive geodetic calculations.
Through the National Point of Contact for Satellite Images (NPOC), customers can purchase high-quality satellite images from around the world. On customer’s demand, the NPOC obtains new images or provides suitable products from existing archives. During the entire processing of the order, specialists are at the disposal of the customer to give advice.
The term “time series” refers to a chronologically arranged set of geodata. Time series exist for practically all swisstopo geodata and products that are stored and made available to users.
The digital border
Today, the administration and documentation of the national border are carried out in a geographic information system (GIS). For this purpose, the coordinates of the course of the border and the position of the border points have to be recorded and made available in digital form.
Topographic Landscape Model
The topographic landscape model is the central instrument for the production of national geodata. It contains objects that shape the landscape, e.g. buildings, roads and bodies of water. These data are recorded, processed, managed and kept up to date by swisstopo, with a high degree of accuracy and in three-dimensional form, and are subsequently placed at the disposal of the various users. The topographic landscape model forms the basis not only for the production of the national maps, but also for a broad range of spatially-related applications.
Training and further education
swisstopo is committed to providing basic vocational training as well as further education for young professionals. Its programmes include around 30 apprenticeships and 10 to 15 internships for university students. In addition, within the scope of its “swisstopoEDU” programme, the Federal Office of Topography supports masters studies in subjects of relevance to swisstopo.
Initally a hype for enthusiasts, Virtual Reality (VR) becomes an experience for everyone. By means of eight selected scenes from Switzerland, the swisstopo VR App shows the potential of the swisstopo 3D geospatial data for Virtual Reality applications.
View swisstopo maps and geodata online
You can view our maps and additional geodata free of charge at map.swisstopo.admin.ch. The geodata sets are up to date and new functions are continuously added to the Viewer.
Vector tiles open up new opportunities for displaying swisstopo geodata online. This technology creates light and quick maps. Try our “light basic map”, now in the test phase, and give us your opinion.
Zimmerwald geostation
The Zimmerwald geostation is the fundamental point and most important reference point for the Swiss geological survey. It secures the connection to the global networks.
3D geology
3D geological models depict a simplified version of the underground. The 3D geological models developed by swisstopo make a major contribution towards the regulation of conflicts relating to the utilisation of the underground.
3D printout
Vector data from the topographic landscape model are also suitable for producing models using a 3D printer. Together with an associate partner, swisstopo modelled the old town of Aarau in summer 2013 using this method.
Fly over the Alps, take a leisurely stroll down the Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich or check out the steep passages for your next hike. Thanks to the 3D mode in the Swiss federal map viewer, you can explore a free, online, three-dimensional, digital model of Switzerland. It contains every building and numerous other objects too.
3D Flights
With 3D flights, three-dimensional data can be viewed dynamically, by superimposing topographic models with satellite or aerial images, vector data or other geo-referenced data. The visualization takes place along a flight line. Each 3D flight is produced individually according to customer requirements and can therefore meet a wide variety of requirements. 3D flights are an ideal way of presenting spatial projects in a dynamic, appealing and easy-to-understand way. Their use is suited for showing infrastructure, ecological and other projects.
3D Visualisations
3D visualisations are products derived from various basic data of swisstopo. They are produced exclusively according to customer requirements and are suitable for users who cannot find a solution to their problem with their own hard- and software, or who do not have access to the necessary topographic basic data.
Online maps & data
Knowledge & facts
Consulting / Analyses
The world in 3D
Further services
Customised aerial and satellite images
Flight service
Scanning as a service
Direct supervision of Cadastral Surveying
Military geography and cartography
Supply with maps
Services for schools
Primary and lower secondary schools – pupils aged 7 to 15
Higher secondary education (high schoosl or apprenticeships)
Tertiary education (universitiy)
Switzerland in 3D
Information system for aerial photographs / LUBIS viewer
Geological maps and data online
Create your personalised map online thanks to vector tiles
Transformation and calculation services
Magnetic declination
REST web geoservices (REFRAME Web API)
Report changes to maps or geodata
Metadata catalogue - geocat.ch
Switzerland in high resolution
LiDAR data acquisition
Geodata infrastructure (GDI)
geo.admin.ch: the federal geoportal
Coordination of geographic information within the federal administration
Terrestrial images
Conservation and accessibility measures
Surveying / Geodesy
Permanent GNSS networks
Observation procedures
The Topographic Landscape Model TLM
3D printing from topographic landscape model data
Swiss geographic names
The Swiss cadastral system
The Cadastre of public-law restrictions on landownership (PLR Cadastre)
Land register
swisstopo financial report and tasks
Presentations from past colloquia
swisstopo “knowing where” photo competition
Vision and strategic focus for 2020
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swisstopoEDU - the programme for supporting Masters theses
Organisation of swisstopo
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Institute for Military Geography
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NASA Jupiter Probe Still In 'Safe Mode' After Earth Flyby Glitch
By Mike Wall 2013-10-11T12:05:15Z Spaceflight
On Oct. 9, 2013, the Juno spacecraft will fly past the Earth for a gravity-assist boost that will slingshot the probe onward to Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system.
(Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI)
A NASA Jupiter probe remains in a protective "safe mode" two days after completing a speed-boosting flyby of Earth, but mission officials have expressed confidence that the issue will be solved soon.
NASA's Juno spacecraft detected an anomalous condition and went into safe mode Wednesday afternoon (Oct. 9), just 10 minutes after making its closest approach to Earth in a slingshot maneuver designed to build momentum for the long trip to the solar system's largest planet.
The probe's handlers are still trying to figure out what exactly happened, but they suspect a minor glitch rather than a big mission-threatening problem. [Gallery: NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter]
"We have a couple of candidates," said Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. "None of them suggest a serious problem, and we haven't seen any indication that there is a serious problem."
The main goal of the flyby was achieved despite the glitch, and Juno is now on the proper trajectory to Jupiter, Bolton added.
The Juno spacecraft is in a healthy and stable state, with its tractor-trailer-size solar panels pointed toward the sun. The mission team is in communication with Juno and has seen no sign of any failures in the probe's subsystems or components, said project manager Rick Nybakken of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
So Juno's handlers plan to take their time and do a thorough investigation before attempting to bring all of the spacecraft's systems back online.
"There's nothing that’s rushing us to do this, so we might as well be very careful and do our homework, and just, say, turn everything on nice and slow," Bolton told SPACE.com. "We're not missing anything that we need right now, and we're on our way safely to Jupiter."
The Juno team is already going through the probe's engineering data, as well as the science observations and images captured during the flyby, Nybakken said. All off this information should have been received by Thursday evening (Oct. 10), barring any transmission issues, he added.
"So we're looking at that data, and we're starting to develop a plan to bring the spacecraft back into operational status," Nybakken told SPACE.com. "Developing that plan will probably take us over the weekend."
The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched in August 2011 and is slated to arrive in orbit around Jupiter in July 2016. Once there, the probe will circle the gas giant for a full Earth year, studying Jupiter's atmosphere, gravitational field and magnetic field with nine science instruments.
Juno is so heavy — about 8,000 pounds (3,267 kilograms) — that it needed a post-liftoff speed boost to get to Jupiter, so mission managers decided to get a "gravity assist" from Earth.
Wednesday's flyby, which was highlighted by a close approach that brought Juno within just 347 miles (558 kilometers) of Earth at 3:21 p.m. EDT (1921 GMT), was designed to ramp the probe up from 78,000 mph to 87,000 mph (126,000 to 140,000 km/h).
While boosting Juno's speed was the main goal, mission team members also planned to check out Juno's science instruments and take some photos of the Earth-moon system during the flyby. The glitch caused some data to be lost, but the team should end up getting the vast majority of it, Bolton said.
"I expect we'll have some cool images and a cool movie and all that to release," he said.
Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on SPACE.com.
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Ophthalmic Technologies XXIX
Saturday - Sunday 2 - 3 February 2019
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1: Angiography and Blood Flow I
2: Small Animal Imaging
3: Pascal Rol Lecture
4: OCT Technology
5: Ocular Optics and Mechanics
6: Ophthalmic Adaptive Optics
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BiOS Hot Topics
7: Angiography and Blood Flow II
8: Ophthalmic Therapy and Vision Restoration
9: Spectral Imaging
10: Ophthalmic Imaging: Technology
11: Ophthalmic Imaging: Clinical
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Fabrice Manns, Univ. of Miami (United States)
Per G. Söderberg, Uppsala Univ. (Sweden)
Arthur Ho, Brien Holden Vision Institute (Australia)
Rafat R. Ansari, NASA Glenn Research Ctr. (United States)
Michael Belkin, Tel Aviv Univ. (Israel)
Kostadinka Bizheva, Univ. of Waterloo (Canada)
David Borja, Alcon Labs., Inc. (United States)
Ralf Brinkmann, Univ. zu Lübeck (Germany)
Wolfgang Drexler, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria)
Sina Farsiu, Duke Univ. (United States)
Daniel X. Hammer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (United States)
Karen M. Joos, Vanderbilt Univ. (United States)
Kirill V. Larin, Univ. of Houston (United States)
Ezra Maguen, American Eye Institute (United States)
Program Committee continued...
Donald T. Miller, Indiana Univ. (United States)
Derek Nankivil, Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. (United States)
Daniel V. Palanker, Stanford Univ. (United States)
Jean-Marie Parel, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (United States)
Roberto Pini, Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara (Italy)
Ygal Rotenstreich, The Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr., Tel Hashomer (Israel)
Luigi Rovati, Univ. degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Marco Ruggeri, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (United States)
Georg Schuele, OptiMedica Corp. (United States)
Jerry Sebag, VMR Institute (United States)
Peter Soliz, VisionQuest Biomedical, LLC (United States)
Yuankai K. Tao, Vanderbilt Univ. (United States)
Valery V. Tuchin, Saratov State Univ. (Russian Federation), Tomsk State Univ. (Russian Federation), Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control of the RAS (Russian Federation)
Robert J. Zawadzki, Univ. of California, Davis (United States)
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Angiography and Blood Flow I
Location: Room 303 (South Level Three)
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Robert J. Zawadzki, Univ. of California, Davis (United States) ;
Quantitative artery-vein analysis in optical coherence tomography angiography of diabetic retinopathy
Paper 10858-1
Author(s): Minhaj Nur Alam, Taeyoon Son, Devrim Toslak, Jennifer I. Lim, Xincheng Yao, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago (United States)
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) and other eye diseases can affect artery and vein differently. Therefore, differential artery-vein analysis can improve disease detection and treatment assessment. This study aims to establish color fundus image analysis guided artery-vein differentiation in OCTA, and to verify that differential artery-vein analysis can improve the sensitivity of OCTA detection and classification of DR. Briefly, optical density ratio (ODR) analysis and blood vessel tracking were combined to identify artery-vein in color fundus images. The fundus artery-vein map was used to register arteries and veins in corresponding OCTA images. Based on the fundus image guided artery-vein differentiation, quantitative analysis of arteries and veins in control and NPDR OCTA images were performed. The sensitivities of traditional mean blood vessel caliber (m-BVC) and artery-vein ratio of BVC (AVR-BVC) were quantitatively compared for DR classification. One way, multi-label analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Bonferroni’s test and Student t-test was employed for evaluating classification performance. Images from 20 eyes of 18 control subjects and 48 eyes of 35 NPDR patients (18 mild, 16 moderate and 14 severe NPDR) were used for this study. Compared to m-BVC, AVR-BVC provided enhanced sensitivity in differentiating NPDR stages. AVR-BVC was able to differentiate among control and three different NPDR groups. AVR-BVC could also differentiate control from mild NPDR, promising a unique OCTA biomarker for detecting early onset of NPDR.
Cross-scanning optical coherence tomography angiography system for eye motion correction
Author(s): Hyung-Jin Kim, Byeong-Joo Song, Youngwoon Choi, Beop-Min Kim, Korea Univ. (Korea, Republic of)
We propose a cross-scanning OCT (CS-OCT) system for motion-free OCT angiography without SLO or additional devices eye tracking devices. The CS-OCT system employs dual illumination configuration with orthogonally polarized beams, with the scanning directions of the two beams being perpendicular to each other. It scans the retina from two directions and provides two cross-sectional images simultaneously. In this way, the degree of eye movement can be easily identified and the two angiography images compensate each other for motion correction. Finally, we perform a non-rigid registration of the two images to obtain the motion-corrected image.
High-resolution motion-free multi-contrast optical coherence tomography with Lissajous scanning pattern
Author(s): Shuichi Makita, Univ. of Tsukuba (Japan); Masahiro Miura, Ibaraki Medical Ctr., Tokyo Medical Univ. (Japan); Shinnosuke Azuma, Univ. of Tsukuba (Japan); Toshihiro Mino, Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Topcon Corp. (Japan); Yoshiaki Yasuno, Univ. of Tsukuba (Japan)
A high-resolution, motion-free, multi-contrast optical coherence tomography (OCT) method was developed for imaging posterior eye. The modified scan pattern from a Lissajous trajectory was applied to scan probing beam. Long imaging duration enables to acquire multiple samples with slight displacement due to eye motion. The high-dense sampling image can be obtained by re-mapping these data. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) signals are acquired using polarization-sensitive OCT system. The OCT angiography (OCT-A) signal were calculated and used to estimate eye motion. After motion correction of OCT, OCT-A, and degree-of-polarization uniformity (DOPU) images, capillary network and small abnormality were visualized without motion artifacts.
Doppler optical coherence tomography for investigation of spontaneous retinal venous pulsation (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Andreas Wartak, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria), Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital (United States); Florian Beer, Sylvia Desissaire, Bernhard Baumann, Michael Pircher, Christoph K. Hitzenberger, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria)
We demonstrate the advantages of optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging for investigation of spontaneous retinal venous pulsation (SRVP). The pulsatile changes in venous vessel caliber are analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively using conventional intensity based OCT as well as the functional extension Doppler OCT. Single-channel and double-channel line scanning protocols of our time-encoded multi-channel OCT prototype are employed to investigate venous caliber oscillations as well as venous flow pulsatility in the eyes of healthy volunteers. A comparison to recordings of scanning laser ophthalmoscopy – a standard en-face imaging modality for evaluation of SRVP – is provided, emphasizing the advantages of tomographic image acquisition.
Small Animal Imaging
Marco Ruggeri, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (United States) ;
Yuankai Kenny K. Tao, Vanderbilt Univ. (United States)
High speed volumetric fluorescein angiography in mouse retina by oblique scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (oSLO) (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Ji Yi, Weiye Song, Boston Univ. (United States); Libo Zhou, Manishi Desai, Steven Ness, Boston Medical Ctr. (United States)
Oblique scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (oSLO) is a recently developed technique that offers high speed volumetric fluorescence imaging on retina in vivo. Unique from existing ophthalmoscopy, oSLO uses oblique illumination and detection, enabling 3D imaging over a large field of view without the need for depth scanning, essentially a fluorescence version of optical coherence tomography. In this presentation, we report the application of oSLO on volumetric fluorescein angiography in vivo on mouse retina. With the 3D capability and high speed, we provides quantitative metrics to measure spatially resolved capillary hematocrit and speed.
Multi-modal sensorless adaptive optics for small animal retinal imaging of volumetric cellular features with fluorescence
Author(s): Daniel J. Wahl, Ringo Ng, Simon Fraser Univ. (Canada); Stefano Bonora, CNR-IFN Padova (Italy); Robert J. Zawadzki, Univ. of California, Davis (United States); Yifan Jian, Marinko V. Sarunic, Simon Fraser Univ. (Canada)
Adaptive Optics (AO) enables single-cell imaging in the retina of living animals. For small animal eyes, Sensorless AO can provide depth-resolved aberration correction with low system complexity. We present a multi-modal Sensorless AO retina imaging system that includes Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), OCT-Angiography, confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy (cSLO), and fluorescence detection. Our results demonstrate the system performance on wild type mice and transgenic mice with GFP labeled cells, including volumetric imaging of microglia throughout the inner retina. Dynamics of the microglia branches were clearly observed with time-lapse imaging over 1 hour.
Coffee Break 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Towards in vivo imaging of the mouse cone photoreceptors (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Pengfei Zhang, Eric B. Miller, Suman K. Manna, Ratheesh K. Meleppat, Edward N. Pugh, Robert J. Zawadzki, Univ. of California, Davis (United States)
There are two general types of photoreceptors, called rods and cones. Rods allow us to see in dim and dark light, cones allow us to perceive fine visual detail and color. The detailed structure and function of these specialized type of neurons that convert light into signals that can stimulate biological processes vary between species. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) are two main imaging technologies commonly used to study retina. Adaptive Optics (AO) is an “enabling” technology that provides high-fidelity correction of ocular aberrations in retinal imaging, resulting in improved resolution and sensitivity for both SLO and OCT systems. Here we present work integrating two recently developed technologies with our AO-OCT system to visualize mouse cone photoreceptors in vivo.
Investigation of retinal changes in SOD1 knock-out mice by multi-functional OCT
Author(s): Marco Augustin, Danielle J. Harper, Conrad W. Merkle, Christoph K. Hitzenberger, Bernhard Baumann, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria)
A multi-functional optical coherence tomography (OCT) approach, featuring polarization-sensitivity and angiography, was used to describe the retinal phenotype of a mouse model of age-related macular degeneration. Superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) knock-out mice were imaged in an age range from 159 to 368 days. Retinal thickness analysis revealed a thinner total and outer retina in the SOD1 mice compared to an age-matched control group. Hyper-reflective spots in the outer retina were found anterior to the retinal pigment epithelium in the proximity of the photoreceptors. The lesions showed a pseudodrusen-like appearance in the reflectivity and polarization contrast channels.
4D imaging of vascular leakage by contrast-enhanced OCT (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Conrad W. Merkle, Marco Augustin, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria); Vivek J. Srinivasan, Univ. of California, Davis (United States); Gerhard Garhofer, Bernhard Baumann, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria)
Currently, the only way to identify leaky vasculature, a key feature of several retinal diseases, is through fluorescence angiography, which lacks depth resolution. Here we present the first 4D tracking of leaky vasculature in a mouse model of sub-retinal neovascularization using contrast-enhanced OCT. OCT angiograms were acquired following intravenous injection of Intralipid 20%, an OCT contrast agent. Compared to healthy vessels, leaky vessels became broader over time. By fitting a model, the apparent width of the vessels was quantified as an indicator of leakage. A clear trend of increased leakage was observed in vessels that derive from retinal lesions.
Pascal Rol Lecture
Session Chair:
Per Söderberg, Uppsala Univ. (Sweden)
Need for technologies in advanced corneal research, diagnosis, and transplantation (Keynote Presentation)
Paper 10858-82
Author(s): Neil S. Lagali, Linköping University (Sweden)
The cornea is the clear outer window of the eye directly accessible using light-based approaches, providing us with a unique window into the physiology of the body. At the same time, the cornea is a model tissue from which we have acquired much knowledge about light-tissue interactions. Finally, and importantly, diseases of the cornea compromising its transparency are responsible for millions of cases of corneal blindness globally, so there is much to gain from technological advancements in the field. Here, a need for new technological solutions is presented, that is not primarily technology-driven but instead motivated by real and pressing medical needs in the research, diagnosis and treatment of corneal blindness.
Lunch/Exhibition Break 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
OCT Technology
Wolfgang Drexler, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria) ;
Volumetric imaging of in vivo human eye by full-field OCT
Author(s): Viacheslav Mazlin, Peng Xiao, Jules Scholler, Mathias Fink, Institut Langevin Ondes et Images (France); Claude Boccara, Institut Langevin Ondes et Images (France), LLTech SAS (France)
We created a time-domain full-field OCT (FFOCT)-based device, capable of volumetric imaging in in vivo human eye. Testing on a steadily moving ex vivo cornea and a randomly moving in vivo human eye we were able to consistently acquire high-SNR images from different corneal layers, which altogether formed a 3D image. This consistent acquisition became possible by implementing a real-time defocus correction in FFOCT, which used the data about the corneal position from a Spectral-domain OCT as a feedback. Possibilities of real-time and volumetric corneal viewing make FFOCT instrument a promising candidate for becoming a new tool in ophthalmological diagnostics.
Constant linear velocity spiral scanning for real time 4D OCT with visualization in virtual reality (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Jianwei D. Li, Oscar M. Carrasco-Zevallos, Duke Univ. (United States); Moseph Jackson-Atogi, Duke Univ. Medical Ctr. (United States); Mark Draelos, Christian Viehland, Brenton Keller, Duke Univ. (United States); Ryan P. McNabb, Anthony N. Kuo, Duke Univ. Medical Ctr. (United States); Joseph A. Izatt, Duke Univ. (United States)
High speed optical coherence (OCT) systems allow for 4D visualizations in applications such as intraoperative OCT. However, traditional raster scan patterns often lead to distorted scans either due to the high frequency content or nonlinearity in the input signal. They also introduce significant acquisition dead time between scans. Continuous scan patterns no longer have acquisition dead times, but suffer from non-uniform sampling across the field of view. We introduce a new processing pipeline for constant linear velocity (CLV) spiral scanning to maximize the data acquisition efficiency, demonstrated real-time visualization of mock microsurgical procedures which can be viewed in virtual reality.
First clinical application of low cost portable OCT system (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Ge Song, Sanghoon Kim, Michael Crose, Brian Cox, Evan Jelly, Duke Univ. (United States); J. Niklas Ulrich, Kittner Eye Ctr., The Univ. of North Carolina (United States); Adam Wax, Duke Univ. (United States)
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is currently recognized as the gold standard for identifying retinal structural abnormalities in ophthalmology. However, its availability is limited to large eye centers and research labs due to its high cost and lack of portability. We present a low-cost, portable OCT system with a total cost of materials under $6,000. Compared to current commercial systems, our design offers 50% size reduction and over 80% cost reduction. Image acquisition interface is incorporated and displayed onto a mounted 7-inch touchscreen. Human retinal imaging is demonstrated, and performance is compared with a commercial OCT system.
Axial motion corrected constant linear velocity spiral scan OCT with dynamic focusing for high resolution wide field corneal and anterior chamber imaging (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Ryan P. McNabb, Duke Univ. School of Medicine (United States); Yuxiao Wei, Duke Univ. (United States); Moseph Jackson-Atogi, Alice Liu, Duke Univ. School of Medicine (United States); Oscar M. Carrasco-Zevallos, Joseph A. Izatt, Duke Univ. (United States); Anthony N. Kuo, Duke Univ. School of Medicine (United States)
Imaging the entire human cornea with OCT usually requires trade-offs between resolution and depth-of-focus because of corneal curvature and the relatively deep anterior chamber. These trade-offs result in SNR variations such as decreasing intensity away from the apex. Here, we describe the development of an axial motion corrected dynamically focusing corneal OCT system coupled with constant linear velocity (CLV) spiral scanning that better maintains focus from the apex to corneal periphery during a scan. A subject was imaged with this system demonstrating increased intensity from the corneal apex to anterior chamber angle.
Ocular Optics and Mechanics
David Borja, Alcon Labs., Inc. (United States) ;
Georg Schuele, Johnson & Johnson Vision (United States)
Spherical aberration of the crystalline lens measured in-vitro using an LRT-OCT system (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Siobhan Williams, Marco Ruggeri, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (United States); Bianca Heilman, Yu-Cherng C. Chang, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (United States), Univ. of Miami (United States); Ashik Mohamed, LV Prasad Eye Institute (India), Brien Holden Vision Institute (Australia), The Univ. of New South Wales (Australia); Geetha Sravani, LV Prasad Eye Institute (India); Cornelis Rowaan, Alex Gonzalez, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (United States); Arthur Ho, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (United States), Brien Holden Vision Institute (Australia), The Univ. of New South Wales (Australia); Jean-Marie Parel, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (United States), Univ. of Miami (United States), Brien Holden Vision Institute (Australia); Fabrice Manns, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (United States), Univ. of Miami (United States)
We describe the application of the Ray-Tracing Aberrometry to the measurement of lens spherical aberration using a recently developed instrument (Ruggeri et al. 2018). Fifty-four isolated human lenses were sampled with an 880 nm SLD in a raster scan pattern. Exit ray slopes over a 6 mm pupil were used to determine Zernike wavefront coefficients. The 4th order Zernike coefficient Z[4,0] was used to measure primary spherical aberration. The results suggest that spherical aberration of the growing lens becomes more negative before adulthood and less negative after ~30 years.
Varying femtosecond laser induced crosslink density in corneal stroma to control degree of refractive error correction
Author(s): Chao Wang, Jiashuai Fan, Mikhail A. Fomovsky, Sinisa Vukelic, Columbia Univ. (United States)
Our recent work has demonstrated viability of use of femtosecond oscillators to crosslink corneal tissue in absence of photosensitizers to correct refractive errors and enhance corneal mechanical properties. In this study we have shown that adjustment of the corneal curvature can be controlled through variation of the lasing and beam delivery parameters, which may correct the refractive errors with a resolution of approximately 0.75 diopter. Meanwhile corneal inflation tests showed statistically significant increase in stiffness in contrast to controls, in which no change has been observed. Furthermore, a new system design is proposed to reduce the procedure time to clinically acceptable duration.
Assessment of corneal crosslinking variations with phase-decorrelation OCT
Author(s): Brecken J. Blackburn, Case Western Reserve Univ. (United States); Matthew R. Ford, The Cleveland Clinic (United States); Michael W. Jenkins, Case Western Reserve Univ. (United States); William J. Dupps, The Cleveland Clinic (United States); Andrew M. Rollins, Case Western Reserve Univ. (United States)
Corneal ectasias lead to impaired vision and may require corneal transplantation. Corneal crosslinking (CXL) is used to treat ectasias by photochemically crosslinking the cornea. In this work, phase-decorrelation optical coherence tomography (PhD-OCT) is used as a tool to compare CXL protocols. There is interest in accelerating the CXL protocol, but efficacy of these treatments is unclear. Using PhD-OCT, it was observed in ex vivo porcine corneas that accelerated treatment crosslinks remain superficial. Additionally, there is interest in spatially patterned CXL to reduce astigmatism. When patterned CXL was performed on ex vivo porcine corneas, PhD-OCT volumes clearly show where crosslinking occurred.
Quantifying changes in lenticular stiffness with optical coherence elastography
Author(s): Hongqiu Zhang, Chen Wu, Manmohan Singh, Salavat R. Aglyamov, Kirill V. Larin, Univ. of Houston (United States)
There has been a large amount of research focused on the biomechanical properties of the lens and the related conditions such as presbyopia. However, the relationship between eye-globe intraocular pressure (IOP) and lenticular biomechanical properties is relatively unknown. In addition, the storage medium of the lenses may affect the biomechanical evaluation during in vitro measurements, which has been demonstrated with other tissues such as the cornea. In this work, we utilized optical coherence elastography (OCE) to measure acoustic radiation force induced elastic waves in in situ porcine lenses (N=3) at various IOPs. Additional OCE measurements were performed on excised lenses (N=3) stored at various temperatures (4°C, 22°C and 37°C) in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM).
Coffee Break 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Ophthalmic Adaptive Optics
Daniel X. Hammer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (United States) ;
Classifying cone photoreceptors in the living human eye using their unique phase response to light
Author(s): Furu Zhang, Kazuhiro Kurokawa, Ayoub Lassoued, James A. Crowell, Donald T. Miller, Indiana Univ. (United States)
The three spectral types of cone photoreceptors set fundamental limits on color perception. Classifying cone type is of significant clinical interest as absence of a type causes color blindness and type-specific dysfunction is associated with aging and retinal disease. In vivo mapping of the trichromatic cone mosaic provides the most direct and quantitative means to assess the role photoreceptors play in color vision and disease, but current methods have important limitations. We present a new method for classifying cones that achieves unprecedented efficiency and accuracy by using the unique phase response of cones to flashes of light.
Method to track and measure loss of inner retinal neurons in the living human eye
Author(s): Kazuhiro Kurokawa, Indiana Univ. (United States); Furu Zhang, School of Optometry, Indiana Univ. (United States); James A. Crowell, Ayoub Lassoued, Donald T. Miller, Indiana Univ. (United States)
The ganglion cell (GC) is the primary cell type damaged by diseases of the optic nerve such as glaucoma. Assessment of individual glaucoma risk is limited by our inability to accurately measure GC degeneration and loss. Recently, adaptive optics optical coherence tomography (AO-OCT) has enabled visualization and quantification of individual GC layer somas. We assess the ability of our AO-OCT method to track individual GCL somas over a period of one year and of our post processing methods to reliably measure soma loss rates associated with normal aging and glaucomatous progression.
Optical measurements of neuron and receptor activity in the living human eye
Author(s): Clara Pfäffle, Univ. zu Lübeck (Germany); Dierck Hillmann, Thorlabs GmbH (Germany), Univ. zu Lübeck (Germany), Medizinisches Laserzentrum Lübeck GmbH (Germany); Hendrik Spahr, Lisa Kutzner, Sazan Burhan, Felix Hilge, Univ. zu Lübeck (Germany); Yoko Miura, Univ. zu Lübeck (Germany), Medizinisches Laserzentrum Lübeck GmbH (Germany); Gereon Hüttmann, Univ. zu Lübeck (Germany), Medizinisches Laserzentrum Lübeck GmbH (Germany), Airway Research Ctr. North (ARCN), Deutsches Zentrum für Lungenforschung (Germany)
Using phase-sensitive full-field swept-source optical coherence tomography we already showed that morphological changes in the photoreceptor outer segments are detectable. Those signals manifest themselves by an elongation of the optical path length. Using an improved post processing we are now able to detect those signals in the ganglion cell layer as well. The spatially resolved signals showed a characteristic time course. Combining this with the previous results we were able to generate a wiring map of the neuronal retina.
Investigation of the correspondence between photoreceptor loss and ganglion cell morphology with multimodal adaptive optics
Author(s): Zhuolin Liu, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (United States); Saeedi Osamah, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine (United States); Daniel X. Hammer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (United States)
Retinal ganglion cells (RGC) and photoreceptors play a vital role in retinal neural circuitry. Much remains unknown about the morphological correspondence between the two in living human eyes. A major bottleneck has been our inability to observe both neurons simultaneously. We present a novel method based on multimodal adaptive optics to simultaneously image both cell types. In one subject, we identified a region of photoreceptor loss that corresponded to RGC enlargement and decreased density. The method may eventually provide a useful tool to noninvasively examine signal transduction pathways along retinal neural circuitry in the living human eyes.
Photoreceptor identification and quantitative analysis for the detection of retinal disease in AO-OCT imaging
Author(s): Elaine M. Wells-Gray, Stacey S. Choi, Matthew Ohr, Colleen M. Cebulla, Nathan Doble, The Ohio State Univ. (United States)
AO-OCT enables cellular-level imaging of human retina, and offers the potential for improved disease detection. A semi-automated AO-OCT cone identification routine was developed and its performance on images from healthy retina and dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are presented here. In AMD, results indicate that cone outer segments become more deformed over drusen than inner segments. Application of this procedure and a quantitative analysis of cone outer segment tip layer variation were applied to the detection of emerging drusen too small to be visualized in clinical OCT.
Visualizing and enhancing axial resolution in nonconfocal adaptive optics ophthalmoscopy
Author(s): Pedro Mecê, Institute Langevin, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (France), PSL Research Univ. (France); Elena Gofas-Salas, ONERA (France); Kate Grieve, Institut de la Vision, Ctr. Hospitalier National d'Opthalmologie des Quinze-Vingts (France); Cyril Petit, Frédéric Cassaing, ONERA (France); José-Alain Sahel, Institut de la Vision, Ctr. Hospitalier National d'Opthalmologie des Quinze-Vingts (France), Univ. of Pittsburgh (United States); Michel Paques, Institut de la Vision, Ctr. Hospitalier National d'Opthalmologie des Quinze-Vingts (France); Serge Meimon, ONERA (France)
We propose a study to better understand the impact of dynamic ocular aberrations in the axial resolution of nonconfocal adaptive optics (AO) ophthalmoscopes via a simulation of the 3D PSF in the retina for various AO-loop rates. We then use Optical Incoherence Tomography (OIT), a method enabling the generation of tomographic retinal cross-sections in incoherent imaging systems, to evaluate the benefits of a fast AO-loop rate on axial resolution and consequently on AO-corrected retinal image quality. We used the PARIS AO flood-illumination ophthalmoscope (FIO) for this study, where retinal images from different focal planes at an AO-loop rate of 10 Hz and 50 Hz were acquired.
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Enhanced Ciliary Muscle Imaging of Accommodative Response with Swept Source-OCT
Author(s): Yu-Cherng C. Chang, Univ. of Miami Miller School of Medicine (United States), Univ. of Miami (United States); Marco Ruggeri, Univ. of Miami Miller School of Medicine (United States); Jean-Marie Parel, Univ. of Miami Miller School of Medicine (United States), Univ. of Miami (United States), Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (United States); Fabrice Manns, Univ. of Miami Miller School of Medicine (United States), Univ. of Miami (United States)
A Swept Source-Optical Coherence Tomography system was developed for imaging the ciliary muscle with faster speed and greater contrast to enable full characterization of the dynamics of accommodative behavior of the muscle. A dynamic response from a 30 year old subject at 50 Hz with incident power of 22 mW is shown as a proof-of-concept. Improved visualization of the muscle will allow future studies to determine the exact role of the ciliary muscle in the age related conditions such as presbyopia.
Enhanced visualization of tumor neovascularization through multiple-OCT volume averaging
Author(s): Suman K. Manna, Pengfei Zhang, Ratheesh K. Meleppat, Wenwu Xiao , Kit S. Lam, Edward N. Pugh , Robert J. Zawadzki, Univ. of California, Davis (United States)
Knowledge about tumor stage and grade is paramount for decision making in tumor treatment. Here we present a quantitative study of tumor growth assessed by observing the change in its micro-vascularization. To extract tumor vasculature, we have applied phase variance-based OCT Angiography (OCTA) method, an optical non-invasive imaging technique, that relies on the change in optical phase due to Red Blood Cells (RBC) flow within the vasculature of a tumor. However, the adopted technique is deteriorated due to the speckle noise, an inherent artifact of any coherence imaging technique, that influences significantly the transversal resolution of OCT. To address this problem, we present an enhanced visualization of tumor neovascularization through averaging of multiple OCT volumes. Several results comparing images obtained with number of average volumes will be presented and analyzed for improvement in image quality.
Fast tracking system (FreezEye Tracker) combined with scanning laser ophthalmoscope for on the fly eye imaging stabilization
Author(s): Maciej Nowakowski, AM2M Ltd. L.P. (Poland); Szymon Tamborski, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (Poland); Krystian Wróbel, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (Poland); Maciej M. Bartuzel, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (Poland), Wroclaw Univ. of Science and Technology (Poland); Maciej Szkulmowski, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (Poland); Anna Szkulmowska, AM2M Ltd. L.P. (Poland)
The ambitious goal of this project is to show ability of detection of ocular motions like eye drifts, saccades and microsaccades with an ultrafast optoelectronic device that provides up to 1200 images/s from the living human eye. Data registered by the FreezEye tracker may be then used for image stabilization purpose or early detection diseases related with eye movements disorders: central nervous system diseases or injures, ocular tumor, diabetes or general hypertension disease).
Lacrimal canaliculus imaging by dynamic OCT using extrinsic contrast agent
Author(s): Reiko Yoshimura, Dong-Hak Choi, Kitasato Univ. (Japan); Masahiro Fujimoto, Akihito Uji, Kyoto Univ. (Japan); Fumiko Hiwatashi, Systems Engineering Inc. (Japan); Kohji Ohbayashi, Systems Engineering Inc. (Japan), Advanced Imaging Co. Ltd. (Japan)
Recently, in vivo trans-conjunctiva optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging of the lacrimal canaliculus (LC) using a commercial eye drop as an extrinsic contrast agent was reported. The extrinsic contrast agent, including light-scattering particles that flow and undergo Brownian motion, can be used for dynamic OCT to enhance LC image, enabling unambiguous segmentation. We characterized the dynamic OCT properties of the eye drop, and then performed unambiguous segmentation of the lumen of the LC by comparing three kinds of dynamic OCT images as well as a static OCT image. Three-dimensional volumetric images of LC embedded under the conjunctiva were demonstrated.
Wide field of view retinal imaging by handheld fundus camera
Author(s): Diego Palacios, Kai Shen, Sarfaraz Baig, Univ. of Miami (United States); James H. Wang, New Span Opto-Technology Inc. (United States); Michael Wang, Univ. of Miami (United States)
We report that a large field of view (FOV) retinal image can be acquired by a low-cost smart fundus camera. This handheld system includes a Raspberry Pi board, a touch screen display, a customized optical lens group, a ring LED light, and a Li-battery. Based on the open hardware platform and Linux operating system, we have integrated the portable system with component switching and image processing functions. Wide FOV has been realized using image stitching and structure from motion algorithms. This customized low-cost handheld fundus camera provides better image quality than cellphone-based fundus imaging solutions and offers more operational features than traditional portable fundus cameras. It may benefit field portable ophthalmic diagnostic applications.
Study on the effectiveness of sunglasses standards protection for UV and BLUE light
(Canceled)
Sunglasses standards only require ultraviolet protection in the spectral range of 280- 380nm to ensure the limits for effective spectrally weighted radiant exposure. None of them take into account the World Health Organization safe limits for unweighted. Calculations of limits for 27 Brazilian state capitals show that for the 280-400 nm range the ultraviolet radiant exposure is 49 % greater than WHO’s limit for the 280- 380 nm range. The condition is similar to countries in Europe and in the US. Inclusion of safe limits in sunglasses standards for ocular health safety. Blue light limits should be included as well.
Multiscale Hessian filtering for enhancement of OCT angiography images
Author(s): Ratheesh K. Meleppat, Univ. of California, Davis (United States); Eric E. Miller, Univ. of California (United States); Suman K. Manna, Pengfei Zhang, Edward N. Pugh, Robert J. Zawadzki, Univ. of California, Davis (United States)
Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA) is a powerful tool that allows in-vivo visualization of 2D and 3D retinal microvascular networks at micrometer-level resolution. However, quality of OCTA images are often hindered by the noise and poor contrast. Hessian based enhancement filters have been reported to be a promising tool allowing enhancement of vascular structures. In this paper, a modified enhancement filter based on the ratio of multiscale Hessian eigenvalues have been demonstrated to improve OCTA images quality. The enhanced performance of the proposed filter was evaluated and compared to the reported state-of-the art filters using an OCTA images of a mouse retina.
Optical coherence tomography guided artery-vein classification in retinal OCT angiography of macular region
Author(s): Taeyoon Son, Minhaj Nur Alam, Changgeng Liu, Devrim Toslak, Xincheng Yao, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago (United States)
Differential artery-vein analysis is valuable for early detection of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and other eye diseases. As a new optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging modality, emerging OCT angiography (OCTA) provides capillary level resolution for accurate examination of retinal vasculatures. However, differential artery-vein analysis in OCTA, particularly for macular region in which blood vessels are small, is challenging. In coordination with an automatic vessel tracking algorithm, we report here the feasibility of using near infrared OCT oximetry to guide artery-vein classification in OCTA of macular region.
Improvement of glaucoma diagnosis with 3D depth measurement on stereo retinal images using novel instrumentation and algorithm for focus stacking: preliminary results on model and in vivo eyes
Modern day ophthalmologists and eye care professionals feel an urgent need for more cost effective and smarter instrumentation for the early diagnosis of Glaucoma, a leading disease in the cause of blindness worldwide. One of the methods for precise diagnosis of Glaucoma is measuring the optic disc nerve excavassion progress. In this work we have developed the instrumentation and algorithms for a cost-effective 3D retinal camera that uses the stacking technique for focus improvement of stereo. We demonstrate here that this technique improves depth computation algorithm in up to 20%.
Longitudinal optical coherence tomography angiography of hyaloid vessels in the developing mouse eye
Author(s): Tae-Hoon Kim, Taeyoon Son, Xincheng Yao, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago (United States)
The hyaloid vascular system (HVS) is a transient capillary network nourishing developing eye. Currently, there is a lack of noninvasive imaging techniques for functional investigation of the HVS with high spatial and temporal resolutions. In this study, we demonstrated the feasibility of longitudinal optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) observation of the HVS regression in C57BL/6J mice. Longitudinal 3D OCT/OCTA measurements were conducted at 2-week, 3-week, and 4-week age by using a custom-designed OCT system. Three-dimensional OCT volume was acquired over 1.2 mm x 1.2 mm x 1.05 mm, containing a part of the lens tip, vitreous chamber, and the retina. Both OCT and OCTA successfully detected the hyaloid vessels, but OCTA benefits visualizing functional preservation of the blood vessels. OCTA images at 4-week age revealed functional loss of hyaloid vessels; while the OCT images still showed vascular remnants. We anticipate that longitudinal OCT/OCTA observation will be helpful to unravel the complex mechanism of the involution of the HVS correlated with eye development.
Blue gold nanoparticles for dual photoacoustic microscopy and photodynamic therapy treatment on retinal neovascularization in a rabbit model
Author(s): Van Phuc Nguyen, Yannis M. Paulus, Univ. of Michigan-Kellogg Eye Ctr. (United States); Xueding Wang, Univ. of Michigan (United States); Wei Qian, IMRA America, Inc. (United States); Yanxiu Li, Univ. of Michigan-Kellogg Eye Ctr. (United States); Wei Zhang, Univ. of Michigan (United States)
Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) represents a powerful imaging technique for biomedical imaging and diagnosis due to non-invasive, nonionizing, high-resolution, and excellent sensitivity. Colloidal gold nanoparticles have been applied as exogenous contrast agent To boost the sensitivity, increase contrast, and allow molecular imaging and combined therapy (theranostics). However, their low photoacoustic efficiency in the tissue transparent window limits their clinical application. The current study presents biocompatible cluster blue gold nanoparticles as a novel photoabsorbing agent for dual-functional PAM and photodynamic therapy (PDT) due to its strong near-infrared absorption and high efficiency of photothermal conversion. Ultra-pure functionalized blue gold nanoparticles (GNPs) were synthesized by femtosecond laser, clustering a group of 3-4 colloidal nanoparticles, conjugated with RGD ligands, and delivered to 18 New Zealand rabbits. Retinal neovascularization was achieved through an intravitreal injection of vascular endothelial growth factor. All the rabbits were irradiated with laser light at a wavelength of 650 nm, and laser irradiance of 50, 75 and 100 mg/cm2 for 20 min. The functionalized GNPs, particle size of 60 nm, peak absorption at 650nm, were demonstrated to have excellent biocompatibility in bovine retinal endothelial cells and HeLa cells. The PA amplitudes from the retinal neovascularization (RNV) was enhanced by up to 4-fold after injection of GNPs at concentration of 1 mL/kg. In vivo PDT experiment exhibited that the RNV vessels were significantly reduced at day 2 post-treatment with a GNPs-assisted laser in comparison with rabbit treated with laser only. Blue GNPs can serve as efficient and safe multi-functional agents for visualization and treatment of neovascularization.
Relationship between visual positive afterimages and the Ocular Photosensitivity Analyzer light source distance
Author(s): Juan D. Silgado, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (United States), Univ. of Miami (United States); Jean-Marie Parel, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (United States), Univ. of Miami (United States), Vision CRC (Australia); Alex Gonzalez, Heather Durkee, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (United States), Univ. of Miami (United States); Marco Ruggeri, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (United States); Fabrice Manns, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (United States), Univ. of Miami (United States)
Afterimages are artifacts produced on the retina after an exposure to a bright light or image. The number of positive afterimages produced was determined among eight subjects based on LED array distance and monocular vs. binocular vision. It was found that significant changes in the quantity of afterimages produced was observed only when the LED array panel was opposite to the eye being exposed in a monocular test condition as opposed to when the test panel was adjacent to the eye being tested. Significant changes also occurred between distances within the binocular testing condition.
Multimodal imaging for monitoring suprachoroidal injections in porcine eyes in vivo
Author(s): Ygal Rotenstreich, Ettel Bubis, Ifat Sher, The Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr., Tel Hashomer (Israel)
Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT), infra-red and multicolor fundus imaging were used to monitor efficacy and safety of therapeutics into the suprachoroid of domestic pigs. Vital dyes and triamcinolone acetonide were injected into the suprachoroid using a novel minimally-invasive adjustable-depth blunt injector. Imaging analysis demonstrated that injected therapeutics covered over 80% of the posterior eye surface with no retinal detachment, hemorrhages or inflammation up to one month following injection. Multimodal imaging enables longitudinal monitoring of safety and efficacy of therapeutics delivery into the EVSC in pig eyes.
Optical modeling of vision in the bald eagle and domestic cat
Author(s): Samuel S. Lim, Mattew J. Schneider, Hossein Alisafaee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (United States)
Studying the optical properties of the human, bald eagle, and cat eyes allowed us to model them in Zemax OpticStudio™. Using the CAGE model, the reduced human eye is modelled through Zemax. Upon completion, we worked on modeling the bald eagle’s and cat’s eyes individually by looking for data regarding the dimensions of said eyes and putting it into our models. We analyzed these models using the ‘image simulation’ feature to compare the visual acuity and color vision between each model. The Bald Eagle has the highest visual acuity with the widest range of color vision, the cat has the lowest in both regards, and the human eye falls between the two.
Imaging the cellular structure of the human cornea with a 2.5 kHz line-filed spectral domain OCT system
Author(s): Le Han, Univ. of Waterloo (Canada)
We have developed a line-field, spectral domain optical coherence tomography (LF-OCT) system for in-vivo, non-contact imaging of the cellular structure of the human cornea. The LF-OCT offers ~ 2 µm axial and ~ 5 lateral resolution. A high speed 2D camera allowed for a line scan rate of ~2,500 B-scans/s. The systems’s SNR was ~ 90 dB close to the zero-delay line for 4.5 mW with ~ 20 dB roll-off over a scanning range of 1 mm. Images of the human cornea acquired in-vvio with the LF-OCT showed the cellular structure of the corneal epithelium.
Multifocal properties of commercial contact lenses
Purpose: To define the optical properties of 12 models of commercially available multifocal contact lenses when interacting with the higher order aberrations naturally occurring in 65 eyes by using the visual Strehl Ratio in the Frequency space (VSOTF) metric. Methods: The optical profiles of 12 models of multifocal contact lenses were measured by using the NIMO instrument (Lambda-X). Three corrections (-6 D, -3 D, and +1 D) of each model were measured. The lenses measured included: two Ultra lens models (B&L), three models of the Air Optix Aqua (Alcon), four models of the Biofinity lens (Cooper Vision), and three models of the Oasys lens (J&J). The optical profiles obtained from the NIMO contained 28 points per mm and were translated to their corresponding wavefronts by locally segmenting the pupil. Once the multifocal wavefronts were created, a standard Fourier procedure was applied to obtain the VSOTF through focus between -1 and 5 D. Two values were obtained to compare the optical properties (between optical infinity and a working distance of 20 cm) of the 13 designs: the area under the through focus VSOTF (normalized by the area obtained for the monofocal design) and the interval of acceptable quality through focus. Results: The area under the through focus VSOTF ranges from 0.80 (Oasys L) to 1.42 (Ultra H) and the range through focus varies from 0.93 D (Oasys L) to 2.73 D (Ultra H). The optical performance of the Oasys M and the Oasys L is comparable to the one produced by a monofocal lens. The contact lenses manufactured by B&L, Alcon, and Cooper Vision, shift the VSOTF towards more positive values when the myopic correction increases. Conclusions: A new method to evaluate the optical profiles of multifocal contact lenses has been presented. With this method it is possible to observe how designs for old presbyopes - Ultra H, AOA H, Oasys H - spread the VSOTF across around 2.5 D through focus. The peak performance of these designs, however, is lower than the one obtained for lenses that are used by young presbyopes – Ultra L, AOA M and L, Bio 1.50 and 1.00. Designs intended for young presbyopes do not extend the VSOTF more than 2 D but do conserve a higher peak performance that young presbyopes move through focus by using the partial accommodation they still conserve.
Distortion corrected true anatomic wide field of view (90˚) OCT and OCT angiography with enhanced imaging depth
Author(s): Michael Niederleithner, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria); Manuel Steidle, Conor Leahy, Hugang Ren, Atoosa Moghimi, Muzammil A. Arain, Brian Normand, Simon Bello, Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. (United States); Matthias Salas, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria); Rick Williams, Sophie Kubach, Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. (United States); Wolfgang Drexler, Rainer A. Leitgeb, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria); Jochen Straub, Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. (United States); Tilman Schmoll, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria)
Images from recently introduced ultra-wide field of view fundus cameras have shown that examining the peripheral regions of the retina may influence the assessment of severity of disease. In this study we increased the field of view (FOV) of swept source optical coherence tomography (SSOCT) to match that of such wide field fundus cameras. We present single shot structural and OCT angiography images of healthy and diseased eyes with a FOV of up to 90 degree without significant degradation of signal or resolution in the periphery. Aside from the diagnostic benefit of being able to detect pathological changes in the periphery, the large field of view allows to study the connection between retinal diseases, eye shape and myopia. We present a dewarping algorithm, which uses computer modeling and patient specific biometric data to estimate the true geometry of a patient’s eye.
Second harmonic generation imaging of chick corneal development
Author(s): Sheng-Lin Lee, Yang-Fang Chen, Chen-Yuan Dong, National Taiwan Univ. (Taiwan)
The corneal undergoes dramatic structural changes during the developmental process. From being fragile and opaque, it transforms into a strong and transparent structure. To be fully functional, the mature tissue must be able to transmit incident light in the visible part of spectrum. In this work, we applied second harmonic generation microscopy to image developing chick corneas. Specifically, three-dimensional images throughout the cornea lamella were obtained and analyzed by fast Fourier transform analysis. This approach may be used to characterize and analyze the development process of collagen-rich connective tissues.
Imaging human retinal pathologies with off-axis full-field time-domain OCT
Author(s): Peter Koch, Medizinisches Laserzentrum Lübeck GmbH (Germany)
We present first results imaging patients with various eye diseases with an Off-Axis Full-Field Time-Domain OCT (OA-FF-TD-OCT) setup. OA-FF-TD-OCT is a promising novel technology for a simple and robust retina imaging system. It allows the design of a handheld OCT and opens the path towards a home care OCT device for AMD patients. First measurements showed that the majority of patients can use the clinical device autonomously. Although inferior compared to FD OCT systems the image quality is sufficient to determine the relevant disease marker of wet AMD.
Non-invasive and label-free follow-up of accelerated-crosslinking using multiphoton tomography
Author(s): Ana Batista, Univ. des Saarlandes (Germany); Hans Georg Breunig, Univ. des Saarlandes (Germany), JenLab GmbH (Germany); Tobias Hager, Berthold Seitz, Univ. des Saarlandes (Germany); Karsten König, Univ. des Saarlandes (Germany), JenLab GmbH (Germany)
In clinical practice, ectatic disorders, such as keratoconus, are treated by accelerated corneal collagen crosslinking (ACXL). The treatment is based on the photodynamic reaction of riboflavin with ultraviolet A (UVA) light and increases the cornea’s mechanical stability. The clinical outcome of ACXL is usually evaluated several weeks post-treatment. An earlier evaluation could lead to a faster re-intervention in case of failure which could avoid additional discomfort and pain for the patient. We propose multiphoton tomography (MPT) to evaluate the outcome of ACXL soon after treatment. In this study, we investigate ACXL-induced changes to the cornea autofluorescence (AF) using MPT. ACXL was performed in de-epithelialized corneal donor buttons and keratoconus corneas by infusing the samples with 0.1% riboflavin solution followed by UVA irradiation using either an in-house adapted system or a commercial ACXL system. AF lifetime images of the tissue were acquired prior and after treatment using MPT. As a control, corneas without treatment were monitored at the same time points. Higher AF lifetimes were observed in the stroma of treated corneas than in control samples. The stroma AF lifetime was higher anteriorly, corresponding to the area where ACXL was most effective. First changes were observed as soon as 2 h after treatment. We demonstrate that MPT can be used to follow-up the outcome of ACXL and that ACXL-induced changes can be detected sooner than with conventional methods and non-invasively.
Performance analysis of a hyperspectral system for human iris imaging
Author(s): Luca Di Cecilia, Luigi Rovati, Univ. degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Hyperspectral images of the human iris, containing spectral and spatial information of the iris, are acquired by a custom developed instrument. We developed this instrument specifically to perform in-vivo spectral reflectance measurements of the human iris. The significance of the data cube acquired is strictly related to the acquisition system performance. This paper analyzes the qualitative and quantitative in-vivo performances of our instrument considering in-vivo repeatability tests and comparing left and right irises of normal subjects, without visually assessed heterochromia of the irises.
Retinoblastoma therapy by plasmonic nanoparticle-mediated hyperthermia
Author(s): Cécile Darviot, Michel Meunier, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada); Pierre Hardy , CHU Sainte-Justine (Canada)
Retinoblastoma is a rare form of cancer of the retina mostly occurring in the eye of young children. We successfully show that gold plasmonic nanoparticle-mediated hyperthermia is a potential efficient therapy to kill the cancerous cells. The proof of concept is demonstrated in vitro on cultured Y79 retinoblastoma cancer cells. Hyaluronan was then used to perform studies in a phantom of the vitreous, characterized by its viscosity. Several parameters such as laser fluence, concentration of NPs and hyaluronan are investigated and optimized.
Nano sensitive study and fractal analysis of segmented retinal layers in Fourier domain OCT: promises for early disease detection
Author(s): Nandan Das, Seán O'Gorman, Sergey Alexandrov, Rajib Dey, National Univ. of Ireland, Galway (Ireland); Jay Chhablani, LV Prasad Eye Institute (India); Nirmalya Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (India); Martin Leahy, National Univ. of Ireland, Galway (Ireland)
Initial study found that depth-resolved refractive index variations encoded in retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) exhibits multifractality. Interestingly, automated segmented different layers of the retina exhibited different degree of multifractality in a human eye. In an advanced study, we have adopted nano sensitive study of spectral contents of OCT signals before retinal image construction of a human eye. We have identified and constructed most contributed submicron structural spatial period OCT images. We have quantified nano structural morphological alteration in human retinal layers as deformation progress. This innovative approach promises to develop nano sensitive diagnostic tool for early disease detection in the human eye.
Fully automated corneal nerve segmentation algorithm for corneal nerves analysis from in-vivo UHR-OCT images
Author(s): Zohreh Hosseinaee, Univ. of Waterloo (Canada); Bingyao Tan, Singapore Eye Research Institute (Singapore); Olivera Kralj, Le Han, Alex Wong, Luigina Sorbara, Kostadinka Bizheva, Univ. of Waterloo (Canada)
The corneal sub-basal nerve plexus (SNP) is a network of thin, unmyelinated nerve fibers located between the basal epithelium and the Bowman’s membrane. Both corneal and systemic diseases such as keratoconus and diabetic can alter the nerve fiber density, thickness and tortuosity. Recent developments of cellular resolution OCT technology allowed for in-vivo visualization and mapping of the corneal SNP. We have developed a fully automated algorithm for segmentation of corneal nerves. The performance of the algorithm was tested on a series of enface UHR-OCT images acquired in-vivo from healthy human subjects. The proposed algorithm traces most of the sub-basal corneal nerves correctly. The achieved processing time and tracing quality are the major advantages of the proposed method. Results show the potential application of proposed method for nerve analysis and morphometric quantification of human sub-basal corneal nerves which is an important tool in corneal related diseases.
An original low-power opto-fluidic engine for presbyopia-correcting adaptive eyeglasses
Author(s): Jessica Jarosz, Norbert Molliex, Quentin Lavigne, Bruno Berge, Laclarée Vision (France)
We propose a novel concept of presbyopia-correcting adaptive eyeglasses for people who do no accept current corrective solutions. Our eyeglasses provide clear vision at all distances automatically and feature enhanced field of vision and high optical quality. The adaptive technology relies on an original fluid-filled lens whose focusing power is set by a low-power micro-fluidic pump inserted in the eyeglass temples. We present our prototype and demonstrate the viability of our technology through its characterization.
Towards high-resolution laser photocoagulation assisted by adaptive optics
Author(s): Cyril Petit, ONERA (France), PARIS' Group (France); Pedro Mecê, Antoine Chen, ONERA (France), Quantel Medical (France), PARIS' Group (France); Elena Gofas-Salas, ONERA (France), PARIS' Group (France); Laurent Mugnier, ONERA (France); Kate Grieve, Institut de la Vision, Ctr. Hospitalier National d'Opthalmologie des Quinze-Vingts (France), PARIS' Group (France); Christian Chabrier, Patrice Gayot, David Pureur, Benjamin Wassmer, Quantel Medical (France); Michel Paques, Institut de la Vision, Ctr. Hospitalier National d'Opthalmologie des Quinze-Vingts (France), PARIS' Group (France); Serge Meimon, ONERA (France), PARIS' Group (France)
Current systems of retinal laser photocoagulation suffer from a lack of control of the depth confinement of the laser and the eye constant motion, leading to reduced performance and risks of permanent damage on healthy neighboring tissues. We evaluate here how laser photocoagulation could benefit from Adaptive Optics in terms of 3D confinement and stabilization of the laser impact on the therapeutic target, in the prospect of an AO based, multimodal, compact and high performance prototype of laser photocoagulation clinical tool.
Modeling the load resistance in laser-assisted cornea transplantation
Author(s): Francesca Rossi, Paolo Ferrara, Michele Rossi, Roberto Pini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy); Alex Malandrini, Annalisa Canovetti, Luca Menabuoni, Nuovo Ospedale di Prato S. Stefano (Italy)
In femtosecond laser assisted keratoplasty different surgical wound profiles can be performed: the cut shape is chosen on the basis of patient’s needs and surgeon’s experience. This work aims to evaluate the biomechanical load resistance of the different configurations that are used in keratoplasty. A 2D and a 3D finite-element model of the human cornea was developed and different graft geometries were designed. The internal pressure was raised until the wound misaligned. The anvil profile resulted highly resistant, confirming the clinical evidences observed in previously treated patients.
Visualization of three-dimensional microcirculation of rodents’ retina for study of critical illness using optical coherence tomography angiography
Author(s): Jang Ryul Park, Yongjoo Kim, KAIST (Korea, Republic of); Kyuseok Kim, Seoul National Univ. (Korea, Republic of); Wang-Yuhl Oh, KAIST (Korea, Republic of)
Blood flow in the microcirculation plays an essential role in oxygen and nutrients delivery, and it is a prerequisite for normal perfusion and functions of cells and organs. In critical illnesses, microcirculation is often impaired, and microcirculatory dysfunction occurs. In this study, we have developed and utilized a high-speed rodent retinal OCT angiography system for investigating hemodynamic changes of retinal and choroidal blood flows in rat sepsis and hemorrhagic shock models, and evaluated feasibility of OCTA for assessing the critical illness.
Macular pigment reflectometry: development and evaluation of a novel clinical device for rapid objective assessment of the macular carotenoids
Author(s): Pinakin Davey, Angeline Ngo, Jeneatte Cross, Western Univ. of Health Sciences (United States); Dennis L. Gierhart, ZeaVision, LLC (United States)
The QuantifEye-Macular Pigment Reflectometer (MPR) is a near commercial prototype developed by ZeaVision. It objectively measures lutein optical density, zeaxanthin optical density and overall macular pigment optical density (MPOD). Here we evaluate the repeatability obtained using the MPR and compare it with the current gold-standard (MPSII). The QuantifEye-MPR shows better repeatability at MPOD measurements than the MPSII. Pupillary dilation is not necessary to obtain repeatable MPOD from the QuantifEye-MPR
Impact of retinal image quality: software aid for a low-cost device and effects on disease detection
Author(s): Peter Soliz, Gilberto Zamora, Jeremy Benson, Sheila Nemeth, John Maynard, Simon Barriga, Jeffrey C. Wigdahl, VisionQuest Biomedical LLC (United States)
The market for retinal cameras is now dominated by lower-cost, smaller foot print cameras. The performance of these cameras generally produce inferior quality images. Two cameras (Canon CR2AF and Volk’s Pictor Plus) were used to evaluate the impact of an image quality analyzer (IQA) for mitigating user-caused low-quality. 2,000 images from each camera were used to test the effect of the IQA in improving quality. At the initial introduction of each camera to the different clinics, the number of unreadable images was as high as 50 percent. After 2 months, the unreadable images dropped to around 20 percentage.
Algorithms for motion detection in fast retinal tracking system (FreezEye Tracker)
Author(s): Krystian Wróbel, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (Poland); Maciej Nowakowski, AM2M Ltd. L.P. (Poland); Szymon Tamborski, Maciej Szkulmowski, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (Poland); Maciej M. Bartuzel, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (Poland), Wroclaw Univ. of Science and Technology (Poland); Krzysztof Dalasiński, Anna Szkulmowska, AM2M Ltd. L.P. (Poland)
Eye imaging techniques involving light beam scanning are vulnerable to motion artifacts. To solve this issue we have constructed an ultrafast imaging device that we called Freeze-Eye Tracker (FET). It allows tracking eye of retinal movements at framerate of up to 1200 Hz provided proper algorithms are used. There are two main features crucial for algorithms to track retinal motion in vivo: the accuracy and the speed. Both are achieved using algorithms based of cross correlation between a number of acquired images combined with smart averaging of obtained displacements. As a result, the information on retinal trajectory can be extracted.
High-speed measurement of crystalline lens dynamics using optical coherence tomography
Author(s): Gabrielle Monterano Mesquita, Univ. of Miami School of Medicine (United States), Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL (United States); Morgan Benson , Univ. of Miami School of Medicine (United States), Department of Biomedical EngineeringEngineering, College of Engineering, University of Miami (United States); Y-Chang Chang, Univ. of Miami School of Medicine (United States), Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Miami (United States); Marco Ruggeri, Univ. of Miami School of Medicine (United States); Arthur Ho, Brien Holden Vision Institute (Australia), School of Optometry & Vision Science, University of New South Wales (Australia); Jean-Marie Parel, Univ. of Miami School of Medicine (United States), Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Miami (United States), Brien Holden Vision Institute (Australia); Fabrice Manns, Univ. of Miami School of Medicine (United States), Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Miami (United States)
We demonstrated the feasibility of capturing the dynamics of lens thickness changes during accommodation and disaccommodation at high speed using OCT. The left eye of 6 subjects (23.3 ± 5.4 years old) were imaged during accommodation and disaccommodation in response to 2D and 4D step stimuli using a spectral domain OCT. Images were recorded over the central 1mm of the lens with 40 A-lines/frame and 400 B-scans. The velocity from the linear fit of the initial phases of the response and the minimum acquisition rate were calculated. The accommodation and disaccommodation velocity can be accurately quantified using OCT imaging.
Femtosecond laser assisted corneal stromal filler injection for the correction of hyperopia
Author(s): Christian Wertheimer, Steffen Kaminsky, Katharina Brandt, Carolin Elhardt, Christiane Fuchs, Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt, Linh Pham, Rox Anderson, Reginald Birngruber, Massachusetts General Hospital (United States)
Conventional Laser surgery for hyperopia correction on the cornea pose a higher risk when compared to myopia. We pre-clinically evaluated a new technique, using a transparent filler material injected into a femtosecond laser created intrastromal pocket for corneal curvature re-shaping. In 187 rabbit eyes and 10 living rabbits we were able to show that the induced magnitude of refractive correction, was dependent on volume injected, pocket depth and individual biomechanics. A stable filler volume, a clear cornea and no adverse reactions could be shown in rabbits in-vivo and in-vitro. This first promising results suggest a new clinical application.
Refractive index measurement system for contact lens in a natural hydrated state
Author(s): Todd Szarlan, Johnson & Johnson (United States); Donald Gibson, Lumetrics Inc (United States); Travis King, Johnson & Johnson (United States); Filipp V. Ignatovich, Lumetrics Inc (United States)
We have conducted measurements of the group refractive index of hydrogel contact lenses at different wavelengths (from 530 to 670 nm), using time-domain low-coherence interferometer (LCI), based on the super-continuum light source (SCLS). Accurate refractive index of the contact lenses is one of the most important parameters needed to properly evaluate the performance of the lens. Measurements of the refractive power and other optical properties of the lenses are typically conducted in solution, and converted to in-air performance. Such approach is very sensitive to errors in the refractive indices of both the lens and the solution. Efforts to accurately measure the phase refractive index a contact lens directly have for the most part been unsuccessful due to a curved shape of the lens and lens material properties. In this paper we describe a different approach of obtaining group index dispersion curve with high accuracy of 0.003 or better, and discuss practical implications.
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Angiography and Blood Flow II
Daniel V. Palanker, Stanford Univ. (United States) ;
Quantitative analysis of choriocapillaris in non-human primates using swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (SS-OCTA) (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Bingyao Tan, Singapore Eye Research Institute (Singapore); Jacqueline Chua, Amutha Barathi Veluchamy, Singapore Eye Research Institute (Singapore), Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Singapore); Baskaran Mani, Anita Chan, Singapore Eye Research Institute (Singapore); Leopold Schmetterer, Singapore Eye Research Institute (Singapore), Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Singapore), Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore)
Here we present non-invasive, in-vivo, high-resolution images of the non-human primates choriocapillaris using OCTA. Images were acquired with a prototype swept-source OCTA (SS-OCTA) system with 100kHz A-scan/s rate, over regions of 3×3 mm2 and 12×12 mm2. The non-perfusion area, also called flow voids, were segmented with an intensity damped, illuminance-compensated algorithm. The optimized quantification of the choriocapillaris flow voids may have applications in a wide array of eye diseases including age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and visualization of choriocapillaris in animal models could aid future studies on choroid involvement in models of eye disease.
Imaging the human retina using 1060 nm akinetic swept source optical coherence tomography angiography with hardware and digital adaptive optics (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Matthias Salas, Laurin Ginner, Marco Augustin, Sylvia Desissaire, Antonia Lichtenegger, Michael Niederleithner, Lorenz Wassermann, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, Tilman Schmoll, Wolfgang Drexler, Michael Pircher, Rainer A. Leitgeb, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria)
We exploit the intrinsic phase stability of akinetic swept source optical coherence tomography to demonstrate digital defocus correction in-vivo at a center wavelength of 1060nm. The high speed of 500kHz enables digital adaptive optics (AO) correction across a field of view of 1.8x1.5deg, currently limited by the employed galvo scanners. The source operates in a previously presented dual resolution mode OCT system (wide field >40deg, AO >3deg) with hardware based adaptive optics. The latter allows to efficiently combine hardware and digital AO, and to further optimize the AO imaging results. We demonstrate the digitally assisted AO performance for both structural imaging as well as for OCT angiography imaging across the full retina down to the choriocapillaris.
Doppler-based angiography in diagnostic imaging of pediatric retinoblastoma patients under anesthesia: clinical trials with a novel 1050nm handheld optical coherence tomography system
Author(s): Oleg Nadiarnykh, Valentina Davidoiu, Vrije Univ. Amsterdam (Netherlands); Machteld I. Bosscha, Vrije Univ. Medical Ctr. (Netherlands); Maximilian G. O. Gräfe, Vrije Univ. Amsterdam (Netherlands); Frank D. Verbraak, VU Univ. Medical Ctr. Amsterdam (Netherlands); Annette C. Moll, Vrije Univ. Medical Ctr. (Netherlands); Johannes F. de Boer, Vrije Univ. Amsterdam (Netherlands)
We present Doppler angiography of retinoblastoma tumors with a novel handheld 1050nm OCT clinical system specifically developed for retinoblastoma tumors in children under anesthesia. Probing 3D morphology at OCT resolution coupled with angiography by flow detection at every pixel improves quality of diagnosis. Specifically, visualizing the precise localization and geometry of tumors and non-malignant disorders facilitates the optimal choice of treatment, as well as differential diagnosis in-vivo and in real time. The design and performance of the patient interface, and the findings of the ongoing clinical study will be discussed, including the images of early, active, and treated retinoblastoma tumors.
A novel ergonomic optical coherence tomography probe optimized for supine handheld angiography of young children and infants (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Christian Viehland, Xi Chen, Du Tran-Viet, Gar Waterman, Moseph Jackson-Atogi, Cynthia A. Toth, Joseph A. Izatt, Duke Univ. (United States)
We describe the development of a non-contact, handheld optical coherence tomography angiography (HH-OCTA) probe for imaging of young children and infants in the operating room. This probe uses a novel optical design that improves performance and has an ergonomic design to facilitate alignment and stabilization. Imaging was performed in 9 children and infants during exams under anesthesia. The probe used a 200 kHz OCT engine, has a motorized stage that provides +10 to -10 D refractive error correction, and weighs 700g. The HH-OCTA images provided visualization of the retinal microvasculature in both normal and pathological eyes.
Ophthalmic Therapy and Vision Restoration
Ezra Maguen, American Eye Institute (United States) ;
Automated transscleral laser trabeculoplasty
Author(s): Zachary Sacks, BELKIN Laser Ltd. (Israel); Mordechai Goldenfeld, Goldschleger Eye Institute (Israel), The Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr., Tel Hashomer (Israel); Sharon Blum Meirovitch, Goldschleger Eye Institute (Israel); Masha Dobkin-Bekman, Arieh Kisos, Yuval Yohai, Emil Abramov, Daniel Elkayam, Daria Lemann-Blumenthal, BELKIN Laser Ltd. (Israel); Alon Skaat, Goldschleger Eye Institute (Israel); Michael Belkin, BELKIN Laser Ltd. (Israel), Goldschleger Eye Institute, Tel Aviv Univ. (Israel), The Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr., Tel Hashomer (Israel)
Conventional Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty (SLT) is a well-established, safe, and effective glaucoma therapy involving manual beam targeting of the trabecular meshwork through a goniolens placed in physical contact with the cornea. Due to the skill level required, this procedure, although effective in lowering intra-ocular pressure (IOP), has not achieved significant penetration as a first line glaucoma treatment. We describe a very rapid automatic Direct Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty (DSLT) delivery system based on trans-scleral application of the laser to the trabecular meshwork and report on the preliminary results of our first-in-human clinical study.
Integration of fiber-optic pressure sensors in Boston keratoprosthesis for glaucoma monitoring
Author(s): Pui-Chuen Hui, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School (United States), Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School (United States); James Chodosh, Claes H. Dohlman, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School (United States); Brett E. Bouma, Wellman Ctr. for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (United States), Harvard Medical School, Harvard Univ. (United States); Eleftherios Paschalis Ilios, Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear (United States)
We demonstrate direct integration of a fiber-optic Fabry-Perot pressure sensor into an artificial cornea, named Boston Keratoprosthesis (B-KPro), to facilitate quantitative intraocular pressure monitoring and improve glaucoma managements. The sensor-integrated B-KPros are illuminated and probed with an external multimode fiber and a commercial optical correlator module for white-light interferometry. To achieve efficient optical coupling robust against saccades and tremor during clinical measurements, we implemented a novel fiber-optic self-alignment scheme by fitting NdFeB micro-magnets over the probing fibers and the sensors. We validated the device against a reference sensor which showed a coupling-induced pressure variation of ±1.4 mmHg after offset adjustment.
In vivo laser targeted gene therapy of retina ganglion cells (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Ariel Wilson, Javier Mazzaferri, Hospital Maisonneuve-Rosemont Research Ctr., Univ. of Montreal (Canada); Éric Bergeron, Sergiy Patskovsky, Paule Marcoux-Valiquette, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada); Santiago Costantino, Przemyslaw Sapieha, Hospital Maisonneuve-Rosemont Research Ctr., Univ. of Montreal (Canada); Michel Meunier, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada)
The proposed new technique addresses the current void in efficient, cell-specific, retinal drug delivery systems. Here we show that we can selectively optoporate retinal cells in vivo using a 800nm fs laser irradiation and functionalized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). The cell-surface Kv1.1 voltage-gated channel was chosen to selectively target retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in the rat retina. Following intravitreal injection and incubation, irradiation resulted in siRNA uptake by retinal cells. Importantly, neither AuNP intravitreal injection nor irradiation resulted in RGC death. This non-invasive and non-viral gene therapy tool may provide a safe, cost effective approach to selectively target retinal cells.
Photovoltaic restoration of sight in age-related macular degeneration (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Daniel V. Palanker, Thomas Flores, Elton Ho, Henri Lorach, Mohajeet Bhuckory, Theodore Kamins, Tiffany Huang, Stanford Univ. (United States); Keith Mathieson, Univ. of Strathclyde (United Kingdom)
Photovoltaic retinal prosthesis is designed to restore sight in patients who lost central vision due to age-related macular degeneration. Subretinal photovoltaic pixels convert pulsed NIR light projected from video goggles into electric current, stimulating the nearby inner retinal neurons. This wireless design greatly reduces the surgical complexity and allows scaling the number of pixels to thousands. In rats, photovoltaic arrays with 55um pixels provided grating acuity up to a pixel pitch, corresponding to about 20/200 acuity in a human eye. In patients with geographic atrophy, implants with 100um pixels elicited retinotopically correct pattern perception with resolution matching the pixel size.
Donald T. Miller, Indiana Univ. (United States) ;
Quantitative analysis of anterior chamber blood cell mixture composition using spectroscopic optical coherence tomography
Author(s): Ruobing Qian, Ryan P. McNabb, Anthony N. Kuo, Joseph A. Izatt, Duke Univ. (United States)
We developed an analytical method to quantify the composition of heterogeneous blood cell mixtures, like those presenting pathologically in the anterior chamber (AC), utilizing spectroscopic OCT. Mie theory was used to correlate the spectrum extracted from individual cells to their characteristic sizes. We estimated cell-type composition of a sample blood cell mixture by fitting the distribution of individual cell sizes with a weighted combination of reference lymphocytes and neutrophils size distributions. These results were then compared to reference methods. This proposed method can potentially characterize the AC cell profile of intraocular inflammation non-invasively and provide additional diagnostic information for treatment.
Handheld OCT-A using spectrally encoded coherence tomography and reflectometry (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Joseph D. Malone, Mohamed T. El-Haddad, Yuankai Tao, Vanderbilt Univ. (United States)
Optical coherence tomographic angiography (OCT-A) technologies have been primarily demonstrated on slit-lamp systems, which preclude imaging in infants, bedridden patients, or patients who are otherwise unable to be imaged upright. Current-generation OCT-A requires densely-sampled volumetric datasets for high vascular resolution imaging, but bulk motion artifacts, resulting from saccades or eye drifts, often distort anatomic features during long acquisitions. We demonstrate handheld OCT-A using spectrally encoded coherence tomography and reflectometry (SECTR). OCT and OCT-A images were motion-corrected using motion information from en face spectrally encoded reflectometry and cross-sectional OCT images. We believe our probe will enable point-of-care functional ophthalmic imaging.
Melanin concentration of the retinal pigment epithelium measured in vivo by hyperspectral optical coherence tomography
Author(s): Danielle J. Harper, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria); Thomas Konegger, Technische Univ. Wien (Austria); Marco Augustin, Pablo Eugui , Antonia Lichtenegger, Conrad W. Merkle, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria); Martin Glösmann, Veterinaermedizinische Univ. Wien (Austria); Christoph K. Hitzenberger, Bernhard Baumann, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria)
A white light optical coherence tomography (OCT) system was utilized to measure the absolute melanin concentration of the mouse retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) in vivo. As a calibration step, phantoms were created from small ellipsoidal melanin particles in silicone solutions (at known concentrations). Using additional post-processing of OCT images of these phantoms, a wavelength-dependent calibration map was created. This map can be used to calculate the melanin concentration of an unknown sample, given its hyperspectral signature. A first attempt was then made to measure the RPE melanin concentration in vivo in the mouse using this technique.
Non-invasive and high temporal resolution choroidal and retinal blood flow imaging using laser Doppler holography (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Leo Puyo, Institut Langevin, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (France), CNRS (France), PSL Research Univ. (France); Michel Paques, Institut de la Vision, Ctr. Hospitalier National d'Opthalmologie des Quinze-Vingts (France); Mathias Fink, Institut Langevin, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (France), CNRS (France), PSL Research Univ. (France); José-Alain Sahel, Institut de la Vision, Ctr. Hospitalier National d'Opthalmologie des Quinze-Vingts (France); Michael Atlan, Institut Langevin, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (France), CNRS (France), PSL Research Univ. (France)
We used laser Doppler holography to image qualitatively blood flow in retinal and choroidal vessels with a temporal resolution down to a few milliseconds. Ultrafast wideband measurements of the optical Doppler broadening were performed with a 75 kHz camera over a full-field thanks to digital holography. The beat frequency of the recorded holograms was analyzed with a short-time Fourier transform analysis to reveal the pulsatile flow which allowed to investigate the blood flow profile in arteries and veins. Additionally we showed that laser Doppler holography allows to reveal choroidal vasculature non-invasively in young and healthy subjects.
In vivo imaging of inner plexiform layer lamination with visible light OCT (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Tingwei Zhang, Marcel Bernucci, Shau Poh Chong, Vivek J. Srinivasan, Univ. of California, Davis (United States)
The inner plexiform layer (IPL) of the retina comprises sublaminae with connections between bipolar cells, amacrine cells, and ganglion cells. Here, we demonstrate imaging of lamination in the IPL using achromatized visible light Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). In vivo retinal images acquired from human subjects show that the IPL consists of 3 hyper-reflective bands and 2 hypo-reflective bands, which correspond well with the standard anatomical division of the IPL into 5 layers. Possible explanations for the ability of visible light OCT to visualize IPL sublaminae, based only on backscattering or backreflection contrast, and implications for glaucoma progression monitoring, are discussed.
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Ophthalmic Imaging: Technology
Device for silent substitution excitation of melanopsin for human eye
Author(s): Sergiu Agrici, Univ. degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy); Frederic Truffer, Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale (Switzerland); Chirojean Balachandran, Ecole Nationale Superieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications (France); Aki Kawasaki, Hopital Ophtalmique Jules-Gonin, Fondation Asiles des Aveugles (Switzerland); Martial Geiser, Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale (Switzerland)
Research in neurobiology has identified a new ocular photoreceptor (melanopsin or ipRGC) which mediates a variety of light-based, non-visual effects on human physiology. One way to isolate the stimulation of ipRGCs is the silent substitution technique. We have built a Maxwellian view device capable of 85% ipRGCs contrast excitation with a large FOV (52°). Four modulated LED light sources, illuminate a diffusing sphere, which exit aperture is imaged into the pupil of the eye. A camera with a 900 nm illumination capture the pupil. Without luminance changes (510±2 lm/m2 ), we increased ipRGC excitation from low to high level on three subjects. We observed a pupil constriction increasing with the ipRGC contrast. This suggests that we excite melanopsin silently. However, further experiments with electrophysiological and pupil recording needs to be done to completely validate our silent substitution device.
Fast tracking system (FreezEye Tracker) for retinal motion detection at rate up to 1.2 kHz
Author(s): Szymon Tamborski, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (Poland); Maciej Nowakowski, AM2M Ltd. L.P. (Poland); Krystian Wróbel, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (Poland); Maciej M. Bartuzel, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (Poland), Wroclaw Univ. of Science and Technology (Poland); Krzysztof Dalasiński, Anna Szkulmowska, AM2M Ltd. L.P. (Poland); Maciej Szkulmowski, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (Poland)
We propose a MEMS-based approach for retinal eye tracking (FET – FreezEye Tracker). The device allows for acquisition of small images of the retina at the rate of 1.2 kHz. We show that despite relatively low SNR the quality of the images is sufficient to serve as the input data for the inter-frames correlation algorithms for quantitative measurement of the retinal motion. The accessible high temporal resolution allows for effective and detailed analysis of the saccadic movements in the broad spectrum of frequencies. It can be used for both: medical diagnosis and providing optical stabilization of the ophthalmic imaging modalities.
A study on human subjects with transscleral optical phase imaging (TOPI) (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Timothé Laforest, Mathieu Künzi, Dino Carpentras, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland); Laura Kowalczuk, Hopital Ophtalmique Jules-Gonin, Fondation Asiles des Aveugles (Switzerland), Univ. de Lausanne (Switzerland); Francine Behar-Cohen, Univ. de Lausanne (Switzerland), INSERM, Paris Descartes Univ. (France); Christophe Moser, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Retinal diseases are the major cause of blindness in industrialized countries. While tremendous effort is made to develop novel therapeutic strategies to rescue retinal neurons and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), optimal means to diagnose the disease are still missing. We developed an imaging modality, called transscleral optical phase imaging (TOPI), which is able to resolve the individual human RPE cells in-vivo with the help of adaptive optics. The resulting 5.7°×5.7° field-of-view system allows for the visualization of the RPE cells within 2 seconds. We demonstrated the quantification of the RPE cells via TOPI modality on seven healthy subjects.
Ocular fundus imaging with transmitted light (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Timothy D. Weber, Jerome Mertz, Boston Univ. (United States)
We have developed a method to image the ocular fundus in transmission using a commercial non-mydriatic fundus camera. The method is based on deeply penetrating near-infrared light delivered transcranially near the subject’s temple. A portion of this light diffuses through bone and illuminates the posterior eye not from the front, as with conventional methods, but rather mostly from behind. As such, we image light transmitted through the fundus rather than back-reflected off multiple fundus layers. This single-pass geometry simplifies absorption pathlength considerations and provides complementary information to fundus reflectometry. The use of near-infrared light enables imaging as deep as the choroid.
Optical method to assess macular pigment density
Author(s): Dimitrios Christaras, Lab. de Óptica Univ. de Murcia (Spain); Harilaos Ginis, Athens Eye Hospital (Greece); Alexandros Pennos, Juan Mompean, Pablo Artal, Lab. de Óptica Univ. de Murcia (Spain)
Macular pigment is a yellowish pigment of dietary origin lying mainly at the fovea and it is thought to have a protective role to the retina. Recently, it has been related to Age-related Macular Degeneration. In this work we present a novel, non-midriatic, compact and fast optical system for the objective measurement of the optical density of the macular pigment. The method has been tested in a group of young, healthy subjects, and showed high repeatability and accuracy as well as high right-left eye correlation.
Ophthalmic Imaging: Clinical
Karen M. Joos, Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Ctr. (United States) ;
Roberto Pini, Istituto di Fisica Applicata "Nello Carrara" (Italy)
Retinal multimodal imaging for identification of novel biomarkers for early detection of Alzheimer's disease (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Ygal Rotenstreich, The Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr., Tel Hashomer (Israel); Inbal Sharvit-Ginon, The Joseph Sagol Neuroscience Ctr., The Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr., Tel Hashomer (Israel), Bar-Ilan Univ. (Israel); Michal Schnaider Beeri, The Joseph Sagol Neuroscience Ctr., The Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr., Tel Hashomer (Israel), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (United States); Ramit Ravona-Springer , The Joseph Sagol Neuroscience Ctr., The Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr., Tel Hashomer (Israel), Tel Aviv Univ. (Israel); Ido Fabian , The Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr., Tel Hashomer (Israel); Ofira Zloto, The Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr. Tel Hashomer (Israel); Aron Weller, Bar-Ilan Univ. (Israel); Ifat Sher, The Chaim Sheba Medical Ctr., Tel Hashomer (Israel)
MRI brain imaging, cognitive function testing, infra-red (IR) and multicolor fundus imaging and spectral domain optic coherence tomography (SD-OCT) were performed in 108 non-symptomatic offspring of AD patients (FH+) and 44 age-matched controls (FH-). In FH+ subjects, lower performance in memory was associated with thicker peri-papillary temporal-superior Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer (RNFL). In FH+ subjects, left hippocampal volume was associated with larger total thickness of macular inner layers. Taken together the thickness of macular layers and peripapilary RNFL may present a novel biomarker for very early detection of AD.
Clinical Jones-matrix OCT for diagnosis of macular disease (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Shinnosuke Azuma, Shuichi Makita, Univ. of Tsukuba (Japan); Masahiro Miura, Tokyo Medical Univ. (Japan); Toshihiro Mino, Tatsuo Yamaguchi, Topcon Corp. (Japan); Yoshiaki Yasuno, Univ. of Tsukuba (Japan)
We propose the approaches to solve hardware complexity and poorly established methods for clinical interpretation of jones matrix OCT (JM-OCT). To reduce the hardware complexity, we employ encapsulated modules to build full-function JM-OCT and simplified JM-OCT. For the clinical interpretation, we developed a pixel-wise segmentation method for retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and choroidal stroma which exploits multiple types of images obtained by the JM-OCT. In a pigment epithelial detachment subject obtained by simplified JM-OCT, thickened RPE, hyper-reflective foci, and damaged RPE are correctly detected by RPE segmentation. In addition, created melano-layer thickness map has similar patterns to infrared fundus autofluorescence.
Deep learning retinal OCT analysis reliably predicts the outcome of a real-world clinical trial
Author(s): Jessica Loo, Duke Univ. (United States); Traci E. Clemons, The Emmes Corp. (United States); Emily Y. Chew, National Eye Institute (United States); Martin Friedlander, The Scripps Research Institute (United States), The Lowy Medical Research Institute (United States); Glenn J. Jaffe, Duke Univ. Medical Ctr. (United States); Sina Farsiu, Duke Univ. (United States), Duke Univ. Medical Ctr. (United States)
We assess the impact of utilizing a deep learning-based algorithm for automatic evaluation of ellipsoid zone (EZ) defects on optical coherence tomography images in a real-world macular telangiectasia type 2 clinical trial. The changes in EZ defects areas in participants receiving different treatments over a two-year period in a phase 2 clinical trial for a novel therapeutic agent are assessed manually and with a fully-automated algorithm. We demonstrate that our fully-automatic approach is as accurate as manual segmentation by expert Readers, and that it is able to faithfully replicate the outcome of the clinical trial.
In vivo imaging of vitreous opacities with full-eye-length SS-OCT (Conference Presentation)
Author(s): Ireneusz Grulkowski, Nicolaus Copernicus Univ. (Poland); Ana Rodríguez-Aramendía, Instituto de Microcirugía Ocular (Spain), Univ. Politécnica de Cataluña (Spain); Silvestre Manzanera, Yiwei Chen, Juan Mompean, Univ. de Murcia (Spain); Fernando Díaz-Doutón, Jaume Pujol, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain); J. Sebag, VMR Institute (United States); Pablo Artal, Univ. de Murcia (Spain)
We will demonstrate a novel operational modality of long-depth-range imaging that aims at in vivo enhanced visualization of vitreous opacities using an optimized SS-OCT instrument. The platform implements focus tunable optics to account for the eye refraction and to maximize the field of view, and is able to obtain images through the entire axial length of the vitreous body (from lens to retina). We will demonstrate enhanced visualization of different types of vitreous opacities in vivo that commonly cause floaters. SS-OCT can be a useful tool in the high-resolution 3-D evaluation and surgical management of vitreous opacities.
Optic nerve head morphometry for glaucoma diagnosis, optimization of clinical measurement strategy
Author(s): Per Söderberg, Uppsala university, Ophthalmology, Dept. of Neuroscience (Sweden); Zhaohua Yu, Uppsala university (Sweden); Camilla Sandberg , Uppsala university (Sweden), Gävle regional hospital (Sweden)
TThe present study aimed to develop a strategy for evaluation of instant PIMD-2Pi measurements as a basis for clinical monitoring of glaucoma. PIMD-2Pi is a morphometric measure of the waist of the nerve fiber layer at the optic nerve head (ONH). Clinical measurements of PIMD-2Pi in patients with early to moderate stage glaucoma demonstrated a high variability among subjects. The high variability among subjects renders comparison of instant PIMD-2Pi measurements to tolerance limits for normality derived from a normative database inefficient. It is suggested to instead compare sequential measurements of PIMD-2Pi within a patient. Initially, the difference between an instant measurement and the average of previous measurements can be compared to tolerance limits for difference between measurements within subject. Once, a potential loss of PIMD-2Pi is detected, a sufficient number of measurements within a sufficiently wide time interval can be used to estimate the PIMD-2Pi loss rate with regression and the deviation of the estimated loss rate can be evaluated as a 95 % confidence interval for the loss rate. If the upper confidence limit excludes 0, a significant loss rate has been detected. The currently proposed strategy has the potential to detect glaucoma earlier than the current gold standard, computer perimetry, with less inconvenience for the patient.
Mapping of corneal layers in healthy and keratoconic eyes with polarization-sensitive OCT using a conical scan pattern
Author(s): Florian Beer, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria), Technische Univ. Wien (Austria); Andreas Wartak, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria), Harvard Medical School, Harvard Univ. (United States); Sylvia Desissaire, Niklas Pircher, Stephan Holzer, Jan Lammer, Gerald Schmidinger, Bernhard Baumann, Michael Pircher, Christoph K. Hitzenberger, Medizinische Univ. Wien (Austria)
We demonstrate the potential of polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) using a conical scan pattern for mapping the thicknesses of individual corneal layers. Combining the additional contrast provided by PS-OCT and the good signal quality from limbus to limbus achieved by conical scanning enables the segmentation and mapping of individual layer thicknesses. Compared to healthy eyes, keratoconic eyes showed a “doughnut profile” in the epithelial thickness map and substantial irregularities in Bowman’s layer thickness. Both epithelial and Bowman’s layer thicknesses showed statistically significant differences between healthy and keratoconic eyes and therefore clearly prove their benefit in the diagnosis of keratoconus.
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Fallen Officer Doug Barney to be honored at annual trail ride
This April 2016 photo shows one of the mile markers set up on the Fallen Officer Trail Ride held annually in Moab, Utah, April 9, 2016 | Photo courtesy of Utah Peace Officer's Association, St. George News / Cedar City News
CEDAR CITY – When police officers clock in to start their shift they never know if they’ll be coming back to clock out or if that one will be the last. Officer Doug Barney’s final watch ended January 17, 2016.
Unified Police officer Douglas Barney. “Doug is great officer and served his community with distinction. His service will not be forgotten,” the Unified Police Department said on its Facebook page following the Jan. 17 fatal shooting of Barney in Holladay, Utah; photo undated | Photo courtesy of Unified Police Department, St. George News
That morning just before 10 a.m., Barney responded to the scene of a car crash just like he had numerous times in the past 18 years working for the Unified Police Department in Salt Lake County.
This time though, when Barney and fellow officers arrived on scene, the incident turned into a foot pursuit after a man and a woman ran from them. During the chase, the male suspect, later identified as Corey Lee Henderson, turned and shot Barney in the head.
Barney was taken to the hospital in critical condition where doctors later pronounced him dead. The Unified Police Officer was the first law enforcement agent to die in the line of duty in 2016.
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Barney, along with 13 other Utah law enforcement officers who died while in the line of duty, will be honored Saturday during the Utah Fallen Peace Officer Trail Ride. The event, held in Moab, also helps to raise scholarship money for the officers’ surviving children and spouses.
This is the fifth year the Utah Peace Officer Association has overseen the event that includes a one-hour program prior to the ride and a 21-gun salute at the Old Spanish Trail Arena, 3641 S. U.S. Highway 191. There will also be 14 stations attended by uniformed police officers, highlighting each of the 14 fallen officers being honored.
“The theme of the ride is ‘Gone but not forgotten,’” Iron County Sheriff’s Lt. Del Schlosser said. “We want to honor those officers who have paid the ultimate sacrifice.”
Markers are set up every mile along the 14-mile trail ride, each noting a fallen Utah officer, with name, photo and short biography. The oldest honoree this year dates back to 1897: Officer Silas E. Clark from the Springville Police Department. Others range from 1900 to 2016.
“For me, the reason this ride is important is because it’s not just about the officers who paid the ultimately sacrifice last year but in the years past too, and we remember and honor those officers as well,” Schlosser, also a former president of UPOA, said.
The trail and the ride owe their presence to Utah State Parks Ranger Brody Young of Moab.
Young was shot nine times in 2010 after approaching a parked vehicle at the Poison Spider Trailhead. He was critically injured but fought heroically for his life and survived the incident.
Following the shooting, the organization Ride with Respect wanted to name a trail after Young but the officer balked, instead suggesting the Fallen Peace Officer Trail.
Additionally, UPOA will be giving the Purple Heart Award to several Utah officers who have been wounded in the past year.
Those who bring motorcycles, ATVs and UTVs are welcome to ride the trail following the morning program, which ends around 11 a.m. The trail is located in the Dalton Wells area off U.S. Highway 191 north of Moab. The ride for those in Jeeps and similar-type vehicles starts at 4 p.m.
A free trail ride for families is scheduled Friday.
Members of the fallen officers’ families are invited to the event. Hotel rooms and a catered dinner will be provided.
For more information, go to UPOA’s website.
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William H. Agler
William H. Agler. 75, of Project died Tuesday, June 1, 1999, at Marion
General Hospital. ,
He graduated from Hartem Township High School in 1942 and served as
an aerial gunner in the U.S. Army Air Force in Europe during World War 11.
He graduated from Otterbein College in 1949 and earned a graduate degree
from Miami University of Ohio. He was a lifelong educator, teaching and
coaching at Waldo High School and Wilmington High School. He was an
administrator at the Radnor, Buckeye Valley and Elgin schools, retiring in
1983. He was a member of the Prospect United Methodist Church, Prospect
Lions Club, Prospect Park Board and the Ohio High School Athletic Association
Central District Board.
He was born Dec. 13, 1923, in Delaware County to the late Jack Paul and
Rose A. Chatfield Agler and was predeceased by a brother and three sisters.
He is survived by his wife, Patricia Graham Agler whom he married Aug.
19, 1951; two sons, Brian (Robin) Agler of Chanhassen, Minn., and Brent
(Carole) Agler of Marion; a daughter, Susan (Jim) Wright of Delaware; seven
grandchildren, Wes, Whitney and Will Wright and Madeleine, Andrew,
Bryce and Taylor Agler, a sister, Eula Jean Radikin of Placerville, Calif.; and
numerous nieces and nephews.
Graveside services will be held at 31 a.m. Friday at the Prospect Cemetery.
The Rev. David L. Hoffman will officiate. Friends may call from 2 to 5 and
7 to 9 P.ITL today at the Gehm-Ballinger Funeral Home in Prospect.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Prospect United Methodist
Church memorial fund or Prospect Baseball for Youth. Cards will be available
at the funeral home.
Directions to Prospect Cemetery
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Can't Hardly Breathe by Gena Showalter ~ Pre-Order Blitz
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E-commerce Link: Generate Traffic Without Getting Run Over
By Peter Figueredo
10 Steps to Reduce Risk in Online Affiliate and Pay-for-Performance Relationships.
For the past few years, there’s been an ongoing battle over which path marketers should take when seeking to acquire customers online. In the beginning, marketing departments told CEOs that online advertising was the golden goose, citing the millions of eyeballs ready and waiting for their company’s message. That goose never laid a golden egg, and those eyeballs certainly weren’t always translating into open wallets.
In the late 1990s, a new generation of online marketing that “made sense” emerged: Direct marketers took hold of the power of the Internet, and “affiliate marketing” and “pay-for-performance” deal structures were born. How perfect: Pay only for marketing units that led to an action—a click, an order, a subscription, a lead, etc.—and share the bounty with the publisher who allowed an advertiser to market to its readers. The real golden goose! But trouble came quickly to paradise as certain risks became evident.
Often, online marketers are too focused on acquiring customers as cheaply as possible. They fail to realize this mentality leaves them open to the risk of damaging their brand as a result of the behind-the-scenes marketing improprieties of unscrupulous Web site publishers and affiliates. This is more prevalent than one would think. There are many hidden risks, obstacles and safety issues endemic in the implementation of pay-for-performance online advertising and affiliate marketing campaigns.
The top three types of risk for this marketing channel are:
• Fraudulent activity delivered to boost the performance-based income of publishers. Suppose an advertiser is looking to pay $5 per lead. Disingenuous publishers working with this advertiser can write a devious little program that automatically will fill in these lead forms to get the $5 commission. They even can go so far as to spread out volume so that no spikes occur, and mix in real leads so that not all the orders are fraudulent. Before the advertiser realizes what is going on, he may have paid out several thousand dollars ... or more.
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By B.J. Hoeptner Evans (bj.evans@usav.org) | Aug. 22, 2018, 5:30 p.m. (ET)
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 22, 2018) – The U.S. Men’s National Team, ranked No. 2 in the world, has released its preliminary roster for the 2018 FIVB World Championship on Sept. 9-30 in Italy and Bulgaria.
The roster of 22 players includes eight Olympians: opposite/outside hitter Matt Anderson, outside hitters Aaron Russell and Taylor Sander, middle blockers David Smith and Max Holt, setters Micah Christenson and Kawika Shoji and libero Erik Shoji.
Other players on the roster are outside hitters T.J. DeFalco, Brenden Sander and Jake Langlois, middle blockers Jeff Jendryk, Mitch Stahl, Dan McDonnell and Taylor Averill, setters James Shaw and Micah Ma’a, opposites Ben Patch, Carson Clark and Kyle Ensing and liberos Dustin Watten and Michael Brinkley.
The roster will be cut down to 14 before the U.S. Men leave for a pre-Worlds training session in Ljubljana, Slovenia on Sept. 3.
The U.S. Men will go into the World Championship with a 13-6 record this season after they finished third in the FIVB Volleyball Nations League earlier this year.
The U.S. Men won the World Championship in 1986 and finished third in 1994. In 2014, they finished tied for seventh.
2018 FIVB World Championship
U.S. Men’s Preliminary Roster
1. Matt Anderson (Opp, 6-9, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
2. Aaron Russell (OH, 6-9, Ellicott City, Md., Penn State)
3. Taylor Sander (OH, 6-4, Huntington Beach, Calif., BYU)
4. Jeff Jendryk (MB, 6-10, Wheaton, Ill., Loyola of Chicago)
5. James Shaw (S, 6-8, Woodside, Calif., Stanford)
6. Mitch Stahl (MB, 6-8, Chambersburg, Pa., UCLA)
7. Kawika Shoji (S, 6-3, Honolulu, Hawaii, Stanford)
8. T.J. DeFalco (OH, 6-5, Huntington Beach, Calif., Long Beach State)
9. Carson Clark (Opp, 6-6, Santa Barbara, Calif., UC Irvine)
10. Dan McDonnell (MB, 6-6, Phoenix, Ariz., UC Irvine)
11. Micah Christenson (S, 6-6, Honolulu, Southern California)
12. Max Holt (MB, 6-10, Cincinnati, Ohio, Penn State)
13. Ben Patch (Opp, 6-8, Provo, Utah, BYU)
14. Micah Ma’a (S, 6-3, Kaneohe, Hawaii, UCLA)
15. Brenden Sander (OH, 6-4, Huntington Beach, Calif., BYU)
18. Jake Langlois (OH, 6-10, San Jose, Calif., BYU)
19. Taylor Averill (MB, 6-7, San Jose, Calif., Hawaii)
20C. David Smith (MB, 6-7, Saugus, Calif., UC Irvine)
21. Dustin Watten (L, 6-0, Long Beach, Calif., Long Beach State)
22. Erik Shoji (L, 6-0, Honolulu, Hawaii, Stanford)
24. Michael Brinkley (L, 5-10, Huntington Beach, Calif., UC Irvine)
26. Kyle Ensing (Opp, 6-7, Valencia, Calif., Long Beach State)
Head Coach: John Speraw
Assistant Coaches: Rob Neilson and Brian Thornton
Team Manager: Nate Ngo
Technical Coordinator: Nate Ngo
Athletic Trainer: Aaron Brock
Team Psychologist: Andrea Becker
Team Doctors: Andrew Gregory and David Dyck
Scout Coach: Jon Parry
U.S. Men’s World Championship Pool Play Schedule
All matches will be shown on Flovolleyball.tv, which is a subscription service)
(All times PT)
Sept. 12 at 11:30 a.m.: Serbia
Sept. 13 at 8 a.m.: Australia
Sept. 15 at 11:30 a.m.: Russia
Sept. 16 at 8 a.m.: Cameroon
Sept. 18 at 8 a.m.: Tunisia
Atomic Bronze! U.S. Men Sweep Brazil for 3rd in VNL July 08, 2018
U.S. Men Run out of Rallies Against France at VNL July 07, 2018
U.S. Men Fall to Russia in VNL Final Six July 06, 2018
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TJ DeFalco
Kyle Ensing
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Mitch Stahl
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Computer Science Image Processing
Mixed Reality and Gamification for Cultural Heritage
Editors: Ioannides, Marinos, Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia, Papagiannakis, George (Eds.)
Offers an essential introduction to the theories, development and applications of enabling technologies for mixed reality and gamified interaction in the context of cultural heritage and creative industries
Follows a pedagogical model developed by the focus group of the first EU Marie S. Curie Fellowship Initial Training Network on Digital Cultural Heritage
Presents both enabling technologies and their applications to tangible and intangible cultural heritage
About this Textbook
This volume on virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) and gamification for cultural heritage offers an insightful introduction to the theories, development, recent applications and trends of the enabling technologies for mixed reality and gamified interaction in cultural heritage and creative industries in general. It has two main goals: serving as an introductory textbook to train beginning and experienced researchers in the field of interactive digital cultural heritage, and offering a novel platform for researchers in and across the culturally-related disciplines.
To this end, it is divided into two sections following a pedagogical model developed by the focus group of the first EU Marie S. Curie Fellowship Initial Training Network on Digital Cultural Heritage (ITN-DCH): Section I describes recent advances in mixed reality enabling technologies, while section II presents the latest findings on interaction with 3D tangible and intangible digital cultural heritage. The sections include selected contributions from some of the most respected scholars, researchers and professionals in the fields of VR/AR, gamification, and digital heritage.
This book is intended for all heritage professionals, researchers, lecturers and students who wish to explore the latest mixed reality and gamification technologies in the context of cultural heritage and creative industries. It pursues a pedagogic approach based on trainings, conferences, workshops and summer schools that the ITN-DCH fellows have been following in order to learn how to design next-generation virtual heritage applications, systems and services.
Marinos Ioannides is the Founder and Director of the Digital Heritage Research Lab, which is dedicated to cultural informatics research and education at the Cyprus University of Technology. His research interests are 3D real time volume reconstructions from chaotic point clouds, as well as the holistic documentation of the past. He is the coordinator of the Marie-Curie Fellowship Initial Training Network on Digital Heritage and the H2020 Virtual Museums projects. He is the recipient of the 2010 Tartessos Award on Virtual Archeology and a member of the EU member states expert group on digitization and digital preservation.
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann is the Founder and Director of the MIRALab, an interdisciplinary lab in human computer animation at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She is also Director of the Institute for Media Innovation in NTU, Singapore. Her research domains are social robots, mixed realities and medical simulation. In Singapore, she has developed the robot Nadine that is able to speak, recognize people and gestures, express mood and emotions, and remember actions. All over her career, she has received several artistic and scientific awards, among them the 2012 Humboldt Research Award. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal “The Visual Computer” (Springer-Verlag) and a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences.
George Papagiannakis is a computer scientist specialized in computer graphics and virtual-augmented reality. Since 2011 he is assistant professor at the computer science department of the University of Crete, Greece, and research fellow at the Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory in the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Heraklion, Greece. His research interests are confined in the areas of real-time computer graphics, mixed reality presence, virtual heritage, gamification and geometric algebra. In 2011 he has been awarded with a Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development from the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency.
Digital Heritage and Virtual Archaeology: An Approach Through the Framework of International Recommendations
López-Menchero Bendicho, Víctor Manuel (et al.)
Data Acquisition for the Geometric Documentation of Cultural Heritage
Georgopoulos, Andreas
Autonomous Mapping of the Priscilla Catacombs
Verbiest, Frank (et al.)
Acceleration of 3D Mass Digitization Processes: Recent Advances and Challenges
Santos, Pedro (et al.)
Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities for Cultural Preservation and Development
Alivizatou-Barakou, Marilena (et al.)
3D Digital Libraries and Their Contribution in the Documentation of the Past
Ioannides, Marinos (et al.)
Enriching and Publishing Cultural Heritage as Linked Open Data
Simou, Nikolaos (et al.)
Digital Memory and Integrated Data Capturing: Innovations for an Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe Through 3D Semantic Modelling
Maietti, Federica (et al.)
Five-Dimensional (5D) Modelling of the Holy Aedicule of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Through an Innovative and Interdisciplinary Approach
Moropoulou, Antonia (et al.)
Historic BIM for Mobile VR/AR Applications
Barazzetti, Luigi (et al.)
Data Collection for Estimation of Resilience of Cultural Heritage Assets
Zarnic, Roko (et al.)
Virtual Reconstruction of Historical Architecture as Media for Knowledge Representation
Münster, Sander (et al.)
Gamified AR/VR Character Rendering and Animation-Enabling Technologies
Papaefthymiou, Margarita (et al.)
Experiencing the Multisensory Past
Chalmers, Alan
Multimodal Serious Games Technologies for Cultural Heritage
Liarokapis, Fotis (et al.)
Modelling Life Through Time: Cultural Heritage Case Studies
Sénécal, Simon (et al.)
Preservation and Gamification of Traditional Sports
Tisserand, Yvain (et al.)
Deployment of Robotic Guides in Museum Contexts
Pateraki, Maria (et al.)
Digital Cultural Heritage Experience in Ambient Intelligence
Partarakis, Nikolaos (et al.)
Storytelling and Digital Epigraphy-Based Narratives in Linked Open Data
Liuzzo, Pietro (et al.)
AM-Based Evaluation, Reconstruction, and Improvement of Cultural Heritage Artifacts
Gebhardt, Andreas
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief: The Tangible and the Intangible of Heritage Education in E-Learning and Virtual Museums
Hazan, Susan (et al.)
Modelling of Static and Moving Objects: Digitizing Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Doulamis, Nikolaos (et al.)
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From the Episcopal Vicar for Formation: Sunday 16th July Clarification about the Liturgy
The principal patron of our Diocese is, as you know, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. In our Diocese, therefore, 16th July is a Feast. When her Feast falls on a Sunday, ordinarily the Liturgy of the Sunday is celebrated. Therefore, this coming Sunday is the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, not Our Lady of Mount Carmel as stated in the Ordo.
It would be good, however, to include an intention in the Prayer of the Faithful for the Diocese, our Bishop, priests and deacons, religious and laypeople. (A suggested intention follows). You might conclude the Prayer of the Faithful with the Collect for Our Lady of Mount Carmel from the Missal. Alternatively, you may, on this occasion, decide to use the proper prayers for the Mass of Our Lady of Mount Carmel instead of the prayers of the 15th Sunday, but the readings of the Sunday should still be used.
Suggested intention:
For our Diocese of Salford, for our Bishop John, and all who make up the Church of Salford, parishioners, religious, priests, deacons. May we, like Mary, fulfil our vocation to be joy-filled missionary disciples of the Lord.
Nostra Aetate Resources
Last week's talk on Nostra Aetate by Archbishop Fitzgerald was a great success. For those who were unable to attend you can find a sound recording of the talk here or a copy of Archbishop Fitzgeralds notes here
This months The Beacon
Please find a copy of this month's The Beacon here. If you would like more hard copies please contact Meriel on m.woodward@caritassalford.org.uk. or 0161 817 2270
Reminder: Vacancy: Site Manager
The Diocese of Salford is seeking to recruit an experienced individual to the post of Site Manager for the Cathedral Church of the John the Evangelist and the Cathedral House.
The post holder will be responsible for providing a comprehensive site management service which covers building security, cleaning and minor maintenance works. Due to the nature of this role, successful applicants will be required to undergo an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
To request an application pack, including a full job description and person specification, or for more information on this post please contact: The Director of Administration and Personnel, Department for Finance and Administration, Cathedral Centre, 3 Ford Street, Salford, M3 6DP / Telephone: 0161-817 2222 / E-mail: personnel@dioceseofsalford.org.uk
A poster can be downloaded here
Location: Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist, 250 Chapel Street, Salford, M3 5LE
Salary: £16,000 - £17,000 per annum. Full-time, fixed-term of six months.
35 hours a week to be worked on flexible basis to meet the operational needs of the Cathedral.
Closing date for applications: 12.00 noon, Thursday 27th July, 2017.
Reminder: Community Sponsorship for Refugees Roadshow
This free event will be a chance to be inspired, ask questions, network and connect with others who are keen to support refugees through community sponsorship. It will be hosted by local leaders and will involve speakers from the UK groups who have started to get involved in sponsorship.
Tuesday 18th July 2017, 5.30pm, Audacious Church, Trinity Way Salford M3 7BD
Poster can be found here
Reminder: Caritas Vacancy - Refugee Response Coordinator
Caritas would be grateful if the below advert could be advertised in your parishes.
As the Refugee Response Coordinator you will build support networks using the parish and voluntary sector including interfaith groups to welcome asylum seekers and refugees to help them access local services that offer support, information, health and well-being and English language training.
You will develop and oversee the Caritas Refugee Response work in the Diocese of Salford. Working with other agencies and organisations, to coordinate the practical responses to refugee and asylum seekers through the provision of Drop-in centres, accommodation, general support, casework and welcoming events that promote inclusion and community development, learning from best practice examples.
Fixed Point SCP24 £21,962 per annum
37 hours per week - 12 month Fixed Term Contract (extension dependant on funding)
Plus essential car allowance
Closing date: Monday, 31 July 2017 at 10am
To apply, please contact Rebecca Anderson on 0161 817 2264 or by emailr.anderson@caritassalford.org.uk to request an application pack. Or visit www.caritassalford.org.uk
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Home › News › Kevin Gambacorta Ready to Rebound From Disappointing 2018 in Stafford Speedway’s Late Models
Kevin Gambacorta Ready to Rebound From Disappointing 2018 in Stafford Speedway’s Late Models
Posted on February 21, 2019 by Scott Running Posted in News
(Stafford Springs, CT)—After recording 5 consecutive top-4 finishes in the Late Model standings at Stafford Motor Speedway, the 2018 season was disappointing for Ellington, CT native Kevin Gambacorta. The driver of the #23 Lavigne Law Dodge began last season with high hopes, but a wreck in the season opening NAPA Spring Sizzler event forced Gambacorta to miss several races as he repaired his car. Another wreck later in the season relegated Gambacorta to the sidelines for several more races. Despite missing 6 races in total, Gambacorta still managed to finish 9th in the standings on the strength of a win and 5 second place finishes. Gambacorta is heading into the 2019 season at Stafford ready to put the misery of 2018 behind him.
Kevin Gambacorta Driver Profile
“I’m looking forward to the season,” said Gambacorta. “When we were at the track last season, we ran really well. We had five second place finishes, a third place run in the 50-lapper, and a win, but we had two bad wrecks and we had to miss some races. The Sizzler was really frustrating. I’ve never had a wreck that bad before where I had to miss races. I thought we were going to be out for a long time because of what the cost to fix the car was, but I was fortunate to have a few people step up and they gave me enough help to get back pretty quickly. We finished second in our first race back and that was even more frustrating knowing we were that good. I don’t know that anyone was going to beat Tommy [Fearn] last year but I feel like we were a second place car.”
Helping Gambacorta get his #23 car back to the track so quickly was Gary Lavigne with Lavigne Law, Dr. Sean Noel from LifeCare Family Chiropractic, and Dave Miller from Auto Machine. Gambacorta will carry the same sponsorship into the 2019 season and thanks to their support, Gambacorta says he is starting a season off with extra money in his pocket for the first time.
“I have to thank my sponsors Lavigne Law, LifeCare Family Chiropractic, and Auto Machine” said Gambacorta. “Gary Lavigne with Lavigne Law, he introduced himself to me a couple years ago and gave me his card. He ended up helping us out quite a bit last year and then right around Thanksgiving we got something in the mail from him for the 2019 season. I think it’s pretty neat that someone is willing to do that for me. His help has made the off-season a lot less stressful. I also have to thank Dr. Sean Noel with LifeCare Family Chiropractic, he was a big part of helping me get the car back together last season, and Dave Miller from Auto Machine. Without his help, I’d be pushing the car around the track rather than driving it. I keep an envelope that I use to pay for racing. We take our weekly race checks and put that into the envelope throughout the season. Thanks to my sponsors, this is the first time I’ve had money in my envelope to start a season off.”
Gambacorta is a three-time Stafford track champion (DARE Stock ’04, Limited Late Model ’06, ’11). With his #23 ready to roll for another season of Late Model competition combined with being in a financially sound situation to start the year off, Gambacorta is looking to add a fourth championship to his resume.
“The plan is to run for the championship this season,” said Gambacorta. “We have more financial help this year than we have had in the past and I really want to to run for the championship. One thing that makes me a little uncomfortable is not having a backup car if something were to happen to the car again like last season. During the off-season, I bought all kinds of new parts for the car like brakes, clutches, and things like that where I normally don’t buy brand new parts. I think we can be even a little better than we were last year. We’ll need a little luck on our side and we feel like we can compete with anyone and win races.”
Although the 2018 season was a disappointment for Gambacorta having to miss races, there was a silver lining. With not having to worry about racing for points, Gambacorta used the 2018 season as a season long test, trying some different things with his chassis setup that he normally wouldn’t have tried in the thick of a championship race. Gambacorta says that he found some things that worked well and he is ready to tackle the 2019 season and try to knock Tom Fearn off of the Late Model throne.
“We used last season as kind of a test season since we missed races and weren’t contending for the championship,” said Gambacorta. “I tried a lot of different things on the car that I might not have normally tried if we were in the championship hunt and we learned a few things about the car that worked out really well. Tommy [Fearn] has been racing for a long time and he knows what he’s doing. We were able to get close to him a couple times last season but we didn’t have enough to get by him except for the night we won. As frustrating as it was to be that close to him, I guess we could feel pretty good that if he was winning all those races and we were finishing second, we must have been pretty good.”
The 2019 Late Model season will kick off at the 48th Annual NAPA Spring Sizzler® on April 26-28. Tickets for the “Greatest Race in the History of Spring” are on sale now by calling the Speedway Box Office 860-684-2783 or online at www.staffordspeedway.com.
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St Vincent's Catholic Primary School
Find out how St Vincent's Catholic Primary School rates compared to other primary schools in Cheshire East with our school ratings
St Vincent's Catholic Primary School
Here St Vincent's Catholic Primary School, Manor Park South, Knutsford, WA16 8AL, is put into focus to show its scores in relation to other schools in the area.
Manor Park South, Knutsford, WA16 8AL
The open date and status above indicate when St Vincent's Catholic Primary School opened or when it changed to its most recent incarnation, with a number of schools converting to academies in recent years. Where schools have changed type recently, data for previous years covering their previous incarnation is included below as well - so a school may have a status of New due to converting to an academy but have data for previous years prior to conversion.
What type of school is St Vincent's Catholic Primary School?
Voluntary aided school
How St Vincent's Catholic Primary School scores on each indicator.
St Vincent's Catholic Primary School has been rated as Good at its most recent Ofsted inspection.
How does St Vincent's Catholic Primary School perform on each of the areas inspected by Ofsted? As of September 2012, a score of 3 changed from indicating Satisfactory to Requires Improvement.
In 2018, 79% of pupils at St Vincent's Catholic Primary School reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.
How have pupils at St Vincent's Catholic Primary School done in assessments at the end of Key Stage 2 and how does it compare to local authority and national averages?
While pupils are generally aiming to be working at the expected level in reading, writing and maths, what proportion of children at St Vincent's Catholic Primary School had a high score in reading and maths and were working at greater depth in writing, and how does this compare to performance at local and national level?
How do children at St Vincent's Catholic Primary School with different levels of attainment at Key Stage 1 and pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds perform in terms of reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths?
How does the % of boys and girls at St Vincent's Catholic Primary School achieving the expected standard in reading, writing and maths compare to the national average?
What is the pupil:teacher ratio at St Vincent's Catholic Primary School and how does it compare to the national average?
At St Vincent's Catholic Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in maths in 2018 that was -0.8 compared to the national average of 0.
At St Vincent's Catholic Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in reading in 2018 that was 1.1 compared to the national average of 0.
At St Vincent's Catholic Primary School, pupils had an average progress score in writing in 2018 that was -1.8 compared to the national average of 0.
In 2016/17, the most recent full school year, 2.8% of half-day sessions were missed by pupils at St Vincent's Catholic Primary School. Nationally, primary school pupils missed 4% of half-day sessions.
What is the total school spend per pupil at St Vincent's Catholic Primary School compared to the local average? (school is in blue)
How much does St Vincent's Catholic Primary School spend per pupil on teachers and educational support staff and how does this compare to the average spending across Cheshire East?
What percentage of the budget at St Vincent's Catholic Primary School is spent on supply staff?
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Are Intel Ultrabooks the future?
Ultrabooks are the future, according to Intel, but if you’re more of an Apple fan you may be getting a bit of “back to the future” deja-vu with most new designs heavily modeled on the Macbook Air.
At its recent Developer Conference in San Francisco, Intel made a big deal over its Ultrabooks, telling a roomful of Mac hacks the slimmer, lighter designs were the future. The PC’s future that is, since Apple
seems to have nailed the anorexic PC design a couple of years ago now.
Of course, Intel did say that the Ultrabook would be revolutionary not in resembling the Macbook Air, but in being “affordable” at a price point of “sub $1000” – two statements which now appear to be in doubt.
According to dodgy (times) sources in Taiwan, Intel’s partners have been blowing off steam this past week at statements made by the chipmaker declaring cheap, thin computing for all, even as Intel ups its margins on the hardware.
Device makers now say it may prove impossible for them to come in at the sub $1000 mark, and with Macbook Airs already costing as little as $999, one would have to be a real die-hard PC fan to opt for an Acer copy.
It’s not as if the specs are wildly different, either. Take for instance the lowest spec Macbook air currently available at $999. It sports a core i5 processor, 11.6 inch screen, with 1366 x 768 resolution, weighing in at 2.38 pounds, boasting 64GB of flash storage and 2GB of DDR3 onboard memory.
Now let’s take a look at the rumored specs and pricing for the upcoming Acer S3. It too comes in at a reported price of $1075, sports a core i5, dumps the solid state flash drive for a 320GB HDD (or an
optional 20GB SSD), has a slightly more impressive 4GB of RAM (bumping up to 4GB on the Air costs $100, so that takes us to the same price) and has a bigger 13.3 inch screen.
See what we mean, not much in it, is there? And that’s if Acer manages to deliver the S3 at the rumored price.
Do these PCs look slimmer and sleeker than any previous iterations? Absolutely. Do they pack a performance punch while delivering stellar battery life? Purportedly. Will they offer a cheaper alternative to already available MacBook Airs?
Not bloody likely.
But for those who would never been seen dead with a Mac, perhaps that’s a pretty appealing offer.
Sylvie Barak
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Wall Watching in Iran
Jennifer Baljko, Barcelona.
2 August 2017 Art & Awareness, Bangkok to Barcelona on foot, Essay, Place & DesignArt, Graffiti, Middle EastJennifer Baljko
There is virtually no graffiti in Iran. But there are many and varied nature-themed murals, on walls and fences of schools, buildings, homes and construction sites.
We walked approximately 1,500 kilometers in Iran, and something was noticeably missing: Graffiti. Scribbled names or tags, spray painted symbols, and thought-provoking political commentary were absent in cities, towns and villages from Sarakhs on the Turkmenistan border to Astara on the Azerbaijan border to the sprawling capital of Tehran to the desert gems of Esfahan, Shiraz and Yazd.
The author’s route through Iran. Solid lines on foot; dotted lines by public bus.
Instead, nature-based murals and geometric patterns appeared on walls and fences of schools, buildings, homes and construction sites. In small communities along major roads, advertisements and phone numbers were painted on concrete walls, an ideal way to catch the eyes of those driving by.
At home in Barcelona and out traveling in the world, I keep a deliberate eye out for graffiti. While I may not understand the written messages because of language barriers, the visuals give me a small window into what’s on the minds of some locals and what issues carry weight. For me, good graffiti, those paintings with a targeted point of view, is an old-school social media tool that creates awareness in a community.
To see more in the Bangkok to Barcelona journey, click here.
Graffiti also can be a tool to express alternative ideas or offer new perspectives to mainstream thinking. Surprised about the absence of graffiti in a country of 80+ million people and undergoing noticeable political and social change after 38 years of imposed religious-based law and order, I asked about it.
Some people I spoke with informally brushed off the lack of graffiti, saying graffiti makes cities ugly. Others said graffiti was not part of their culture. And a few said, half-joking and half-seriously, that the government wouldn’t allow graffiti, and especially not anything that would have a political slant.
If you’re interested in more of this kind of thing, click here to visit The Nature of Graffiti.
While graffiti is missing from the walls, murals are popular. Many cities and individual property owners have embraced murals as a way to take a plain, boring eyesore and add color and beauty to the urban landscape. Murals, locals told me, are more closely linked to traditional Persian expressions or art; historically, murals were commonly painted in palaces and tea houses.
This historical link is evident in neighborhood strolls around the country.We saw murals of all sizes and varieties in many of the cities we passed through, and, in Tehran, we found many examples in a short stretch around Vali Asr square. Here are some of them.
Jenn Baljko
Bangkok to Barcelona on foot
All photos by Jenn Baljko.
In rural areas, walls are billboards advertising local businesses.
We first noticed the murals on the main street leaving Mashhad.
Bojnourd’s downtown area featured geometric shapes.
Along the way, we found a range of different motifs.
And in Tehran, we didn’t have to walk far to find these paintings.
Other areas had a wide range of themes and styles, from surreal and psychedelic, to cartoon and trompe l’oeil.
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Jennifer Baljko is an avid traveler, longtime walker and a lifetime learner. She’s a city dweller who recently became a tree hugger (literally, she throws her arms around trees and hugs them), but feels at home almost anywhere.
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Defining the Just City Beyond Black and White
Toni Griffin, New York City
When I think about the just city, it’s always black and white I was born in Chicago the evening before President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. Growing up on the south side of Chicago meant that on an average day, I rarely saw or...
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Karen Freeman-Wilson, Gary
I am the mayor of a legacy city, a city that rose and fell on the fluctuations of an industrial marketplace. Like Detroit, Cleveland, and dozens of other cities that have experienced continuous population and job loss since their peak, my hometown of Gary, Indiana, once provided the backbone of...
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The guidelines of the prompt were very simple. Stories had to be set in a city in the distant future (i.e. in or near the year 2099), be 1,000 words or less, and have as significant plot points both nature and people. With this framework The Nature of Cities launched a short story contest in 2018, and by the time...
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Find a family home you’ll love – and get stamp duty and your deposit free
BEDE HOMES
ONLY two stunning new-build properties remain available in a desirable new North-East housing development, located within easy driving distance of nearby Newcastle.
Situated just six miles from the city centre, in the beautiful Tyne Valley mining village of Marley Hill, the Marley View development’s 20 family homes have been drawing house-hunters from across the region.
The properties have proved so popular that 18 have already been sold from plan, leaving just two detached, four-bedroom homes still available – though developers don’t expect them to remain empty for long.
Richard Buckley, director of Bede Homes, said: “We’re delighted to present these exclusive homes in such an attractive village as Marley Hill. The properties are perfect for families looking for a quiet, modern place to call theirs, and we hope they’ll provide their new owners with many years of happiness.”
Alongside the newly-built properties, Marley View features one of the colliery village’s oldest historic buildings – the handsome former schoolhouse, which was built in 1895 and has been converted into two adjoining modern residences.
The development inhabits what was formerly the schoolhouse’s playing fields and playground, providing plenty of space, and offering spectacular views of the surrounding landscape.
Each of the properties still available boasts four bedrooms, a large kitchen, and a drive-in garage, as well as front and rear gardens.
Prices for the remaining properties start at £285,000, and Bede Homes expect growing families to be particularly interested, given the village’s prime location close to five local schools rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted.
Mr Buckley added: “We have several helpful avenues to assist people to find their perfect home. These houses are valid for the Help to Buy scheme, and we’re even offering stamp duty and 5 per cent deposit paid on one of the remaining plots!”
To arrange a viewing, contact Your Move, Whickham on 0191 4887 968, or email whickham@your-move.co.uk.
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Sports briefs: rugby, hockey, football, basketball
Observer staff
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Published on: July 8, 2019 | Last Updated: July 9, 2019 2:50 AM EDT
Two Saints on Ontario West
Matt Gouveia and Gavin Baillie of the Sarnia Saints have been named to the Ontario West under-16 boys’ rugby team.
They’ll attend training camp at the University of Guelph and play the Eagle Impact Rugby Academy before going to the Eastern Canadian championships in Kingston in August.
Winless weekend for Saints
The Sarnia Saints were swept by the Guelph Redcoats in a Niagara Rugby Union men’s doubleheader Saturday in Guelph.
The Saints lost 35-24 in the A1 league and 33-15 in the A2 league.
The women’s team lost 63-0 at London St. George’s.
All three Saints teams will be on the road again this Saturday. The men’s A1 (6-1) and A2 (5-2) teams visit the Niagara Wasps and the women’s team (1-5) visits the Stoney Creek Camels.
Legionnaires sign defenceman
The Sarnia Legionnaires have signed defenceman Bryar Dittmer of Chatham.
Dittmer, who turns 18 in September, was a junior ‘B’ rookie last season with the Brockville Tikis.
“Bryar was looking at playing closer to home this season, so we were able to pick him up from Brockville,” Legionnaires general manager Tom Norris wrote to the Observer. “He’s a great defenceman and we’re looking forward to a great season with him.”
The five-foot-eight, 157-pound Dittmer had three goals, 12 assists and 41 penalty minutes in 30 games last season.
He played for the Lambton Midget AAA Jr. Sting in 2017-18.
Imperials double Steelers
The Sarnia Imperials beat the Sault Steelers 34-17 in the Northern Football Conference on Saturday in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
The Imperials (4-2) are second in the West Division and tied for third overall in the league.
The Imperials will play their home finale this Saturday against the Tri-City Outlaws (1-5) at Norm Perry Park at 7 p.m. The winner receives the Cookie Cup named for Cookie Gilchrist, who played for the Imperials and the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen before becoming a Canadian Football League and American Football League all-star.
Rocca scores 17 in loss
Joe Rocca of Sarnia had 17 points, three rebounds and three assists in the Hamilton Honey Badgers’ 100-82 loss to the Fraser Valley Bandits in the Canadian Elite Basketball League on Saturday in Hamilton.
Rocca had four points, three rebounds and two assists in a 102-92 loss to the Edmonton Stingers on Thursday.
He’s averaging 9.7 points per game for the Honey Badgers (7-6), who have lost three in a row.
Owen Black, 6, is one $3,800 step away from elementary school Braves lose final at Lakeside senior baseball tournament
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Live Review: Join Me in the Pines at Dublin Unitarian Church – 11th April 2014
By Cheryl Demas on Tuesday, 29th April 2014 at 2:30 pm
Ireland’s favourite (indie) sons Bell X1 have always been the creative sort. Their music has ranged from pop/rock to electronic and back, with lyrics that have always been fanciful, cutting, witty and poignant. But what do they do to keep themselves busy in the lull between albums, touring, recording and writing? After all, the band have been hurtling through albums and tours apace with both studio works, ‘Chop Chop’ and a live acoustic offering ‘Field Recordings’, as well as successful tours to back them both up. Someone must need a break by now.
Clearly it’s not Dave Geraghty. The multi-instrumentalist (truly, the last Bell X1 tour had him playing drums, keyboard and guitar in turn) has energised his solo career, rebranding it with the enchanting moniker Join Me in the Pines. More often than not, I am relegated to covering shows on the East Coast of America, but in a blinding stroke of luck during my holiday in Ireland, Join Me in the Pines was giving a very special performance in a small church in Dublin. Not one to miss such a special opportunity, I hastened down to Stephen’s Green to be serenaded by Geraghty with barely 200 chosen few for this rare treat. Frankly, I was in awe to be in such a lovely setting, hearing new and old Geraghty solo works and to be doing it all in his homeland. Indeed, Geraghty himself greeted me afterwards with, “we don’t often see you on *this* side!”
The inaugural showing of the newly minted Join Me in the Pines did not disappoint me as a long-time fan of Geraghty’s solo work. Hearing older tunes like ‘Tuesday’s Feet’ and ‘Ragdoll’ mixed with a couple of Bell X1 tunes kept the set going. As a band, Geraghty has added the vocal and musical skills of both Danielle Harrison and Fiona Melady to the mix. This blend was wonderful, as their voices had the music floating through the church and filling the nave. But that wasn’t all. There were more musicians to crowd the tiny stage. Singer/songwriter Tiger Cooke joined Geraghty for ‘Wear Out Your Name’, Claire Finglass duetted with him on ‘Back Seat’ and Patrick Daly on violin and Frank Tate on mandolin popped on and off stage to round out the sound. Geraghty even did a Prince cover on ukulele. If that doesn’t show levity and versatility, then nothing ever will.
Of the new songs, ‘Joy is a Lion’ stands out, and rightly so since it is the first single. But ‘Golden Guilt’ is close behind. Despite the fact that I have seen Geraghty sing a half a dozen times with Bell X1, it’s easy to forget how lovely and delicate his voice is when his bandmate Paul Noonan is most often centre stage. I was lucky to be able to finally experience his solo show, and rumour has it that the new album should ready for release in August. There are a couple more shows scattered about Ireland the rest of the summer, so keep your eyes open.
After the cut: the set list
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PULL THE MOTHER ONE
Evil Karen Matthews keeps a ‘Best Mum’ ornament on her bedside table
Matthews, now 43, jailed for faking the abduction of daughter Shannon, told a friend that the 'award' was given to her by an official helping with her rehabilitation
By Michael Hamilton
Updated: 22 Apr 2018, 1:14
EVIL Karen Matthews keeps a Best Mum ornament on her bedside table.
Matthews, jailed for faking the abduction of daughter Shannon, then nine, has told pal it was bought for her by an official assigned to help her rehabilitation.
Evil Karen Matthews – jailed for faking the abduction of daughter Shannon, then nine – keeps a ‘Best Mum’ ornament on her bedside table
She keeps it along with a scrapbook and other knick-knacks at the state-funded home where she now lives under a new identity.
There, she watches cable TV, Facetimes family and friends on her Samsung Galaxy 8 phone and enjoys regular shopping trips.
Sources said she tops up her £120-a-fortnight benefits with money from mystery benefactors.
She has shown no remorse for her crime which saw her jailed for child neglect and perverting the course of justice in 2008.
Matthews, 43, keeps the ‘knick-knacks’ at her state-funded home in the South of England, where she was rehoused following her release in 2012Credit: Doug Seeburg - The Sun
Instead Matthews, now 43, told a friend: “It wasn’t my fault. I was set up.”
Our pics show her, with dyed black locks, extensions and hairnet, strolling in an affluent town in the South of England, where she has been rehoused following her release in 2012.
The mum of seven smoked and chatted to a pal and tapped messages into her phone.
An onlooker said: “Matthews was quite covered up and dressed all in black, so as to look inconspicuous. But there was no mistaking that it was her, as her face is so recognisable — and she’s also very well known in the town.”
Ironic... more of the knick-knacks that Matthews keeps on her bedside table
A source familiar with Matthews’ new routine, said: “She gets everything paid for and her life is sweet now.
“She lives in a garden flat in a nice town, with a bus stop nearby. She gets her bus pass paid for and doesn’t even have to pay her own phone bills.
“It’s all laid on for her. She spends her life on her new Samsung Galaxy 8 phone.
Police launched a huge manhunt when Shannon was reported missing from Matthews’ home in Dewsbury, West YorkshireCredit: PA:Press Association
“She Facetimes family and friends all the time and barely a day goes by when she doesn’t go shopping.
“It’s like she has no shame, and has blocked out what she actually did.”
Karen Matthews admits lying about Shannon's disappearance in chilling police interview
Matthews with her ex-boyfriend Craig Meehan, a convicted paedophileCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd
Police launched a huge manhunt when Shannon was reported missing from Matthews’ home in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
She was found 24 days later — bound and drugged in the base of a divan bed at a flat belonging to her boyfriend’s uncle, 47-year-old Michael Donovan. The pair had planned to split the £50,000 reward money but were both jailed for eight years.
Matthews, who works at a shop in the town, has watched TV shows about the case. They included Moorside, starring Sheridan Smith as a friend who led the hunt for Shannon.
But our source said: “She looks at footage and just says, ‘Look at my hair — it’s awful’.
TV shows about the case included Moorside, starring Sheridan Smith, above, as a friend who led the hunt for Shannon
Karen Matthews confesses to kidnapping daughter Shannon in The Moorside
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“She thinks she looks much better now and has had a make-over.”
Some locals have taken pity on her, with one elderly man popping an envelope stuffed with cash through the letterbox of her flat, where she also keeps a pet budgerigar, Bobby.
Others, however, have been less forgiving. Our source said: “One woman kept targeting her, coming into the shop. Karen was terrified of her and even considered giving her money. If someone confronts her, she crumbles”
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Labrador West Pioneer: Fay Abercrombie
Gary Shaw
Published: Nov 08, 2018 at 3:33 p.m.
Fay Abercrombie represents the pioneer spirit in Labrador West. - Gary Shaw
LABRADOR WEST, N.L.
Labrador West has without any doubt, a wonderful cross section of folks who are clearly eligible to be included in any conversation that would be recognizing our long and storied list of Pioneers.
There is no one who qualifies as a Labrador West Pioneer, a Wabush Pioneer, more than Fay Abercrombie.
She lives on her own in Wabush. Faye is in her 80th year and has a memory that would easily overshadow many folks half her age.
Fay was born in Quebec and came from a family whose Dad worked as a forestry engineer and found themselves moving on the average, every five years or so. When she was 22 years old she moved from Trenton, Ontario with three children in tow to be with her husband in Wabush, in October of 1961. Her husband Richard had come to Wabush as an exploration rock driller a few months earlier for an opportunity for steady work.
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When she arrived at the Airport with the children the only road only went from the airport to the Wabush mine site where there was 15 trailers set up for workers and their families for accommodations as the workers performed the preliminary work to determine if there was enough ore in the ground to actually push the green light on a fully operational mine. As it turned out there was, and as the old saying goes, for the Abercrombie family, the rest was history.
The 15 families had accommodation’s in their trailer on the mine site, and they picked up their groceries at the cafeteria where the rest of the workers who were staying in the bunk houses had their meals, that was at the present day site of Fitz’s store.
Slowly but surely, a working campsite was turning into a town. Streets were constructed, homes were constructed and before long Wabush became a town.
Fay was quick to say it became a great little town, a close-knit community that was full of pride. The children all went to school together, younger ones and older ones all together. When they got the Rec Centre built it was home for Sunday school for all the kids no matter the denomination. There was yet to be any churches constructed — they came later.
For the adults, they only had each other, a tight knit group of folks who worked together and socialized together. She emphasized the fact that it was a community of all the folks who were joined together and supported each other as one.
Fay spoke with pride as she described how the community grew and with the passage of a bit of time, and hard work, they had it all. Progress and the growth that came with it, saw a new Dominion Grocery Store, a pharmacy ran by Joe Dicks, a doctor’s office with Dr. McCarthy attending, and with the new streets, a taxi ran by Manuel Dove and a town policeman, Steve Arsenault. Fay not only smiled with pride but said that they had everything that anyone would need.
Fay and Richard added a fourth child to their family 10 years after their arrival in Wabush. They lived their lives working away and raising their family in Wabush for all of these years.
Fay has a collection of photographs on the walls of her home, which she has been alone in, since the passing of Richard in 1999. The photographs that she has on her walls, are her greatest pride and joy. They contain her family that includes her and Richard’s four children, nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, with number five on the way.
As always, the question comes up, any regrets in finding yourself as a true Wabush Pioneer? She only laughed.
“Not a single one, it has been a wonderful place to raise our children, only some snow and cold and some extra flies in the summer to manage, a lot better than many places in the world,” she said. “We as a family and as a community always felt safe and always had each other to count on when we needed a hand, who could ask for more. I’m not going anywhere, this is my home.”
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Social enterprise employs at-risk youth, provides furniture for families
Juanita Mercer (juanita.mercer@thetelegram.com)
Published: Apr 24 at 9:33 p.m.
Updated: Jun 03 at 4:06 p.m.
Robyn Budgell (left) and Laura Collis (right) of Enactus Memorial show off the beginning of the organization’s newest social enterprise – a simple candle holder that will do a lot, including offer meaningful employment to at-risk youth, provide furniture to families in need and help the environment. - Juanita Mercer
These small candles emit a brightness that will radiate far.
It’s a simple craft as far as carpentry goes — a saltbox-shaped piece of wood with a round hollow for a votive.
Young people at Choices for Youth are making and selling saltbox-style candleholders to fund the production of larger furniture items, beginning with tables and beds frames, which will be donated to local families through Home Again Furniture Bank.
But an entrepreneurial group of Memorial University students at the non-profit Enactus Memorial have turned the humble product into a way to help at-risk youth gain meaningful employment, while also providing furniture for families in need, and eliminating wood waste from landfills.
At-risk youth at Choices for Youth will learn carpentry skills by making the candleholders, which are now for sale online at projectreclaim.ca. Those funds will keep the project going so the four young people who are employed full time with the project will be able to make furniture — beginning with tables and beds — for Home Again Furniture Bank.
Home Again collects gently used furniture donations and distributes them to families in need, but the demand often outweighs the donations.
Last year, Home Again had 169 requests for tables, but only 69 to deliver.
Amy Tulk, the director of operations at the furniture bank, said their biggest need is tables.
“Tables are not something that people change out often. I’ve had the same dining set for over 20 years,” said Tulk.
“The possibility of Enactus and Choices for Youth being able to help us with that is huge for our clients.
“We’ve heard stories of people who are eating off a cardboard box — they set it up as a table, put a cloth over it — or they’re eating on the countertop, or they’re just sitting on their sofa and eating from their lap just because they don’t have the table.”
At Choices for Youth’s manufacturing and packaging location, The Shop, three carpenters have spent the past two to three weeks teaching the young people the skills needed to first make the candleholders, then the bed frames and tables.
Recently, a couple of young men who were making a prototype for the bed brought some Choices staff out to have a look.
“It was the pride that they displayed in having made this bed from hunks of wood on the floor to something that somebody potentially could sleep in — it was pretty neat to experience that and celebrate that with the young people,” said Choices’ director of social enterprise Chelsey MacNeil.
She said the goal is to be in full manufacturing mode — making furniture for Home Again — by summertime.
Over at Enactus Memorial, the organization’s president, Laura Collis, and one of the vice-presidents, Robyn Budgell, sit near a bucket of wood scraps.
Enactus Memorial dedicated a large group to developing the social enterprise Project Reclaim. It took them about eight months to work out the details before it was launched April 14. Everyone pictured worked on the project in some way. Pictured are (front, from left) Alex Batten, Courtney Rowsell, Nawal Fatima, Meghan Bolt, Lillian Woodford, Tyler Maddigan and Hannah Wiseman; (back, from left) Dawson Mercer, Hannah Blundon, Robyn Budgell, Katie Gillespie, Stephen Browne, Lynn Morrissey, Eddy Rumsey, Kelsey Lomond, William Forsey, Laura Collis, Brendan Skiffington, John Randell, Alex Williams and James O'Keefe-Daw.
While their main goal over the past eight months in developing Project Reclaim was to help people in need furnish homes while simultaneously providing employment for at-risk youth, they also wanted it to be an environmentally-friendly endeavor.
They learned that when wood pallets are constructed, there are little lengths of wood left over. Companies often sell those scraps for firewood, but Enactus is purchasing them to be repurposed into the candleholders.
They’ve also had plenty of donated wood that they hope to upcycle.
They said in this province alone, over 19,000 tonnes of wood ends up in landfills every year, and this project aims to divert some of that.
About 25 Memorial students with Enactus worked to fine-tune the details of the social enterprise, which officially launched on April 14.
Choices for Youth and Enactus Memorial have a long relationship, including working together on Project Sucseed, which supplied at-home hydroponic growing units, and Smart Cookie, a nutritious edible cookie dough for breakfast programs. Project Reclaim is a continuation of that relationship.
“We see a lot of opportunity for this project in particular, and we’re hoping it will run on its own in a short amount of time,” said Collis.
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business commentary
Fatal error that cost Laury her job
Patrick Hosking
The choreography of ousting an unwanted chief executive isn’t what it used to be. Having a new boss already lined up even as the old boss is ushered off the stage just isn’t possible any more, according to Andy Cosslett, chairman of Kingfisher.
He felt obliged to announce the planned departure of chief executive Véronique Laury before even picking up the phone to headhunters, he said yesterday, fearful of the market abuse regime, which requires price-sensitive decisions to be announced the moment they are made.
The downside of that nod to transparency, however, is that it leaves Ms Laury as a lame duck chief executive. She was drained of authority the moment her departure was announced. The more she does now, the more it ties…
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Ocado upbeat despite devastating fire
Deirdre Hipwell, Retail Editor
March 19 2019, 12:00pm, The Times
There were fears that the blaze had exposed shortcomings in Ocado’s systems but the company says that this is not the casePAUL ELLIS/AFP/Getty Images
Sales at Ocado have taken a hit from the giant fire at its Andover facility and could suffer further in the second quarter but the online grocer said that its draft findings following the blaze showed that there was no long-term problem with its warehouses or model.
In an update that cheered the City, the company said that revenue had jumped by 11.2 per cent to £404 million in the 13 weeks to March 3, which it said was a “resilient” response given the scale of damage to the warehouse in Hampshire.
The fire completely destroyed the facility, which accounted for 10 per cent of the online grocer’s total capacity. Ocado said that this had caused it to lose 1.2 per cent of sales in…
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DKE Toys COMPLEX CON 2016 Mega Releases
By Andy • Nov 1, 2016 • No comments
DKE Toys has started the ball rolling as they prepare for COMPLEX CON 2016 thats happening this weekend Long Beach, California November 5th and 6th. DKE again representing a host of independent art toy releases from across the world at their booth for COMPLEX CON. Is your wallet ready for all these limited artist edition figures and hilarious bootleg figures that you would never of dream seeing before.
What is it? ComplexCon is an expertly curated convention and festival that brings the world of Complex to life. This is our generation’s World Fair. The minds behind Complex have come together with a Host Committee that includes legendary artist Takashi Murakami, award-winning producer Skrillex and our Cultural Director/Executive Chair Pharrell Williams to imagine a place where creators, curators and YOU converge to celebrate and shape our culture. Watch, Listen, Shop, Taste, and Experience the future…now!
Star Weird: Boba (cas) Sette by Topztoy
Topztoy from Thailand has come up with an edition of 20 of our favorite bounty hunter encased in a cassette tape? Maybe this technology is better than a good old carbon freeze? This large hunk of hand poured resin is approx 3.75″ tall and comes carded with resealable blister. Maybe you can get it to play in your tape deck. $40 tax inc Thawan Khiowpiam is a Thailand based artist and graphic designer who has been making custom art figures under the name Topztoy (Topztoy.storenvy.com) since 2013. in 2014 he organized the “Toy-want-you” art toys exhibition in Bangkok
Anonymous by The Panik Collective
With a team of international designers, the team will debut its first ever toy to be released at ComplexCon 2016 in Long Beach this November. You’ll have your chance to get your very own hand painted and customized 3.75″ carded Anonymous protester figure. Half of Panik’s proceeds from sales will benefit The Courage Foundation. Signed and numbered edition of 50. $55 each tax included. THE PANIK COLLECTIVE is a team of credentialed painters, sculptors, musicians, mathematicians & curators dividing time among multiple exhibition projects and public actions. Their inaugural solo exhibition at the Houston Museum of Drawing was extended through the end of November, and their High Fidelity series is a featured photo essay in the latest issue of Flaunt Magazine. Culture jammers by nature, the collective is frequently aligned with social activists, and both music and technology are common tropes within their oeuvre. www.panikcollective.com facebook.com/panikcollective/ @panikcollective (twitter, instagram, ello)
Alien vs Predator by Special Ed Toys
Special Ed is back with another version of their 2015 Designer Toy Award nominated (for Toy of the Year!!!) figure set. This version made for ComplexCon 2016 is the Evil of the Thriller edition. You get two hand painted, cast and customized 3.75” scale figure on custom card backs. Signed and numbered out of 20 pieces. $120 tax included for the pair. Heee Heee!!! “They came into our lives in the 80s, “touching” us in ways we could never imagine. One from the stars and the other a big shinning star on Earth. But as quickly as they touched our childhoods, they were gone. But now they’re back…and they’re coming after your fondest childhood memories and there’s no telling who will win. Will it be the Reese’s pieces peddling Alien or the Pretty Young Predator in disguise? One thing’s for sure, no matter who wins, your childhood loses.” “From bootleg toys to terrible “art” of dubious quality, there is no type of “artistic” medium I won’t shamelessly exploit in my mission to bring a little bit of terribleness into collector’s homes far and wide!” Special Ed Toys www.specialedtoys.com Instagram: @specialedtoys
Corporate Vader by Crisp
Colombian based street artist Crisp has honored us with a customized 3.75” scale figure on a hand stenciled card back. Each card front has a 5 layered stencil with another stencil on the back. Signed and numbered edition of 50. At $75 is a steal… Crisp is an Australian street artist currently based in Bogota, Colombia. He has been participating in art shows and the vibrant urban art scene and festivals since 2009. Crisp’s work deals with the aesthetics of both the natural and socio-political world. He predominately uses the stencil technique and medium to convey his vision on the streets of the world. His use of street sculpture and masks adds another dimension and depth to his works in the street. You can find his street art in many cities across the world including Miami, Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Houston, Mexico City, Winnipeg, Sydney, London, Santa Marta, San Jose, Aruba and of course his adopted home of Bogota, Colombia. He believes street art is an important uncensored pathway to highlight important issues and current affairs in a world where mass media is sponsored and controlled by politics, corporations and profit driven elements. He enjoys juxtaposing pop culture icons with real life concepts to highlight the irony of modern society and culture. He actively participates and donates his work to numerous foundations and social projects to enrich other people’s lives through art. Art can impact people’s lives not just for individual viewers but through co-operation, education and social change. Crisp recently was a finalist for the 2016 Stencil Art prize which is currently being exhibited as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival. Being an Australian a personal highlight for Crisp in 2015 was being invited by the Australian Ambassador in Colombia, to paint a large internal mural in the new Australian Consulate Office building in Bogota. In 2015, Crisp was one of a number of specifically selected artists including Sheppard Fairy, Retina, and Mr Brainwash, that were invited to donate works for the annual Kaleidoscope Gala ball in Los Angeles, which was hosted by Goldie Hawn and Halle Berry to raise funds for a local children’s hospital. His ongoing artwork covers a variety of mediums and a range of techniques – stencils, stickers, paste-ups, masks, street sculptures, large and small murals and works on canvas. Through urban mediums he addresses relevant socio-political aspects of the world as well as purely personal aesthetic expression. Crisp counts himself lucky to be able to practice his art as well as assist others, both things about which he feels extremely passionate. www.crispstreetart.com; www.facebook.com/crispstreetart; www.instagram.com/crispstreetart
LandObama by Free Humanity
Famed street artist Free Humanity has hand customized each 3.75″ figure and added a custom sculpted, cast and painted Obama head to one of our favorite scoundrels. More importantly each card back has been hand stenciled with 4 layers!!! splattered and then signed and numbered out of 25 pieces. At $100 a Free Humanity stencil of this complexity on a canvas would be at least 10 times as much money in a gallery. These will not last long. Free Humanity Street Artist/Public Artist. Established 2009. Los Angeles. Free Humanity is an internationally recognized artist that has focused on political situations and notable figures who have had a positive impact on the world. Working his way from small street pieces to large scale murals all over the country. Free Humanity art can be seen on the streets of many cities world wide ranging from London, Paris, Mexico City, New York City, Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles with his Signature Heart Style. Instagram @FreeHumanity
STR WAS: Chewback by Mark Todd
Here is the latest edition of artist Mark Todd’s first ever toy and first ever sculpture, a take on our furry friend. His original was molded and then cast in resin and hand painted by Mark as well. The card back is comprised of 2 riso graph prints on front and back for that very indie zine feel. 3.75″ scale carded figure. Only 30 made and each is signed and numbered. $55 tax included. Instagram @mark_todd marktoddillustration.com Like many kids raised in the 70’s, Mark was influenced at an early age by Star Wars and comic books. Unlike many kids, he grew up just a few miles from the Vegas strip, it’s neon and glitz looming over the city. He graduated with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and currently lives and works in the Los Angeles area with his wife, artist Esther Pearl Watson, their daughter Lili and Mr. Pickles, a lovely French Bulldog. Some of Mark’s clients include: Cartoon Network + Houghton Mifflin Books + Getty Publications + Clearasil + Rolling Stone + Dangerbird Records + Blue Q + MTA + New York Times + Country Music Television + Entertainment Weekly + Outside Magazine + Los Angeles Times + Euro RSCG + Wieden and Kennedy + Spot Design + Coca-Cola + Fuse TV + Mtv + Travel and Leisure + Fantagraphics Books + Bark Magazine + Business Week + McSweeney’s + PC World + Texas Monthly + GQ + Nickelodeon Mark’s awards: American Illustration + Communication Arts + Society of Illustrators NY + Art Directors Club + Type Directors Club
To top it off at DKE booth you have the chance to meet the Hip Hop Trooper. He’ll be hanging out Saturday and Sunday!
WHERE: Long Beach Convention Center
WHEN: November 5-6, 2016
Further info and for tickets http://www.complexcon.com/tickets
#COMPLEXCON: Making Culture Pop in Long Beach this November.
More info head to http://dketoys.com/ ,twitter.com/sarahjo and facebook.com/DKEdkeDKE.
(Images and info lifted from DKE and COMPLEX CON)
Category: News • Resin
Tags: bootleg • COMPLEX CON 2016 • Crisp • DKE Toys • Figures • Free Humanity • hip hop trooper • Mark Todd • resin • Special Ed Toys • The Panik Collective • Topztoy
Article by: Andy
A Yellow guy with bad English who's a chef by trade but addicted to toys and art. Instagram nutter rambling food addict who likes to take photos of everything I eat (most Asians do right?) Please don't class me as a journalist or blogger, more on the lines of talent scout and always backs the little guy. Instagram ( BigToyPoo) (SushiKingUK) I am that one dickhead too.
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: Susan Burton
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Susan was a producer at our show. After she left, she created two diary-style radio stories with an Afghan teenager (shows 230 and 254) and co-wrote a book with him, Come Back to Afghanistan. Her essay in episode 175 was turned into the feature film Unaccompanied Minors.
172: 24 Hours at the Golden Apple
Act One: Day
167: Memo to the People of the Future
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What if you're remembered in ways that you don't like? What if you're remembered for something someone else did? In this act, we consider the case of Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald. In 1965 she spent three days with reporter Jean Stafford, who wrote about Mrs.
162: Moving
Act One: Sleeping In Mommy And Daddy's Room
This is a story of people wanting to change and not wanting to change at all. A Minnesota family builds the same 1970s-era suburban house three times, and moves it once, just so they don't have to live in a house that's different than the house that contains all their memories.
153: Dolls
Act One: Thank Heaven For Little Girls — Made Of Plastic
The story of a company trying an experiment at marketing dolls to little girls:A new kind of doll store near Chicago's Magnificent Mile called "American Girl Place." The company has figured out all the ways little girls love dolls and they're trying to sell to nearly every one of those desires. Susan Burton reports that it's as if they've settled into a perch inside little girl's dreams and are selling from there.
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APM Terminals discusses state of operations for customers in North America
By Milton Stuards, Dec 20, 2017 / Curious
North American ports must adapt to changes in customer demand and future industry trajectory.
Speaking at the Journal of Commerce’s annual Port Performance North America conference, APM Terminals head of Hub Terminals, Jack Craig spoke to the audience about the challenges ahead for North American ports and how they compare to other ports in the world.
“The customer landscape has changed and become much more competitive. We as an industry need to work together, adapt and respond or watch the cargo move elsewhere,” according to Mr. Craig. The vessel alliances now reshaping the industry have been a success for ocean carriers and their quest for cost savings, asset efficiency and economies of scale. “Larger alliances, larger vessels and larger port call volumes per ship are a catalyst to improve performance at ports. The newly widened Panama Canal and heightened Bayonne Bridge in the Port of New York/New Jersey create new opportunities for larger ships plying the US east coast trade - and creates new demands on port infrastructure, port operations and all the stakeholders in the supply chain.”
In Elizabeth, New Jersey – APM Terminals is one of the largest container terminals in the Port of New York & New Jersey port complex, handling over 2,100 trucks a day, 4000 terminal gate transactions and more than 500 vessel calls per year. The terminal handled 1.33 million TEUs in 2016. To respond to the changing demands of customers, the terminal has embarked on a $200 million port upgrade, adding larger cranes, upgrading the container yard, installing technologically-enhanced gates to enable truckers to enter and exit faster – as a time and cost saver for supply chain managers.
In Los Angeles, California, APM Terminals Pier 400 elevated ten of its nineteen gantry cranes by 33 feet to enable ten high, above desk container stowage operations for customers deploying larger vessels. Retrofitting of existing gantry crane equipment has enabled one gantry crane every six weeks to be heightened. This option is faster and more cost effective than waiting two years for a new crane to arrive. Equally important, crane lighting was upgraded, using Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting to improve crane operator visibility, safety and accuracy for the cranes’ Optical Character Recognition (OCR) performance.
With the lower bunker prices of recent years, terminal costs have now become the highest cost for liner operators.
“This obviously creates increased pressure on terminal margins as our customers are expecting us to find ways to help them reduce costs year over year. Given the inflationary pressures built into large portions of a terminal’s cost base, this requires different thinking to remain competitive,” cited Mr. Craig.
Mr. Craig also talked about the role of technology in the ports business in the context that every industry is using technology to improve the customer experience, create a safer working environment and improve competitiveness.
“We can do this in a responsible way with our partners to grow the business, improve productivity and reliability for our customers and ensure the port industry business model is viable short and long term.”
Business and economic cycles are moving faster every year and technology is changing, disrupting and improving the way work is performed in many industries and consumer items. Companies that stay at the forefront of technology, historically perform better and grow significantly more than those who don’t. North American container terminals need to continue to improve the level of service to the landside customers.
“The solution is some combination of better transparency between terminal and customer, better use of available gate hours and an increased use of appointment systems. The question is when will stakeholders collectively work to bring this into practice.”
In North American container terminals, land use is one of the areas where the region performs most poorly, with results for the region in 2016 being only around half the world average and only around one third of the best performing region (Asia), according to Drewry Maritime Research’s Ports and Terminals Insight 4th quarter 2017 report. The report adds
“For investors and operators, the key to success is the intensity with which expensive assets – quay line, crane and land – are used. Actual industry performance for all three assets has not changed that much over the last ten years and lags performance seen in other parts of the world.”
The historical use of ocean carriers providing truck chassis in North America - unique compared to other world regions – is now being phased out in most North American ports.
“Nowhere else do we see acres of such expensive real estate being used to store chassis. The trend of moving chassis storage away from terminals is an important step to addressing this issue,” added Mr. Craig.
Source: APM Terminals
Tags: APM Terminals, North America, Shipping, ports, container terminals
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