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Pottassium
Density: 0.862
Alkali metal
Melting point: 63.25°C
Boiling point: 760°C
Discoverer: Sir Humphrey Davy
Place: England
Potassium was discovered in 1807 by Sir Humphrey Davy in London. Potassium is a soft, silvery colored metal, which like other members of the alkali group of metals, is extremely reactive. As with other members of the group, it can be prepared by electrolysis of the fused halide. It is one of the more common alkali metals, there being 26000 ppm in the earth's crust, the main source being potassium chloride. It does not occur naturally. Potassium has limited use as the pure metal, although it can be used with sodium as a coolant in liquid metal reactors. It is more commonly used as a salt; for example potassium bromide, which is used in photography, and potassium carbonate which has applications in the areas of fluxes, pharmaceuticals and soaps. One of the most important uses of potassium salts is as fertilisers. Potassium is an essential element for all living beings and, on average, a human being contains approximately 140 gm, the majority of which is present in muscle tissue.
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Family purchases and payments
Learn how shared purchases work with Family Sharing, what the family organizer is responsible for, and how to update your payment methods.
When you set up purchase sharing, one adult in the family—the family organizer—agrees to pay for any purchases that family members make while they're part of the family group. With Ask to Buy, you can manage what your family purchases. And it's easy to change the payment method that you use with Family Sharing at any time.
Here’s how shared purchases work
Any time a family member makes a new purchase, it's billed directly to the family organizer's account. That means the family organizer pays for any iTunes, Apple Books, and App Store purchases of the other family members. This also includes content that family members can't share. For example, ongoing subscriptions—like Apple Music Individual or Student Subscriptions—are paid for by the family organizer too. Any transaction receipts are sent directly to the family organizer.
After it's paid for, a purchased item is added to the account of the family member who made the purchase. If you turn off purchase sharing, each member keeps their purchases, even though they were paid for by the family organizer.
If you don't want to pay for purchases of a specific adult family member, you can remove them from your family group or turn off purchase sharing for everyone.
Check your purchase sharing settings
Review your Family Sharing settings to make sure that you're signed in with the correct Apple ID and that purchase sharing is turned on.
On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:
Tap Settings > [your name] > Family Sharing. On iOS 10.2 or earlier, tap Settings > iCloud > Family.
Under Shared Features, tap Purchase Sharing.
Make sure that Share My Purchases is turned on, and that your account information is correct.
On your Mac:
Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click iCloud.
Click Manage Family.
Click the My Apps & Services tab.
Make sure that Share my purchases with family is selected, and that your account information is correct.
If you want to change the Apple ID that you use to share purchases with your family, you can sign in with a different account once every 90 days. You can also update your shared payment method.
Change your Family Sharing payment method
If you're the family organizer, learn how to add, change, or remove payment methods that you have on file.
Family Sharing requires a personal Apple ID signed in to iCloud and iTunes. If your family has purchase sharing turned on, music, movies, TV shows, and books can be downloaded on up to 10 devices per account, five of which can be computers. iOS 8 or later and OS X Yosemite or later are required to set up or join a Family Sharing group. But we recommend you update to the latest iOS and macOS for full functionality. Not all content is eligible to be shared. Content can be hidden by family members; hidden content is not available for download. Content downloaded from family members or acquired via redemption codes is not subject to Ask to Buy.
Learn more about how iTunes and App Store purchases are billed.
*Ages may vary by country or region.
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2014: A year of progress for SNGA
Posted on January 15, 2015 by brhodes13
Happy New Year to you and yours from Simple Needs GA (SNGA)!
Thanks to your kindness and generosity over the past year, we made good progress toward our mission of helping even more people in need in our community. We also laid the groundwork for a productive 2015.
Here are a few highlights:
EXPANDING OUR PROGRAMS
Over the past year, SNGA expanded its Comfort Kits project to add four new shelters—Family Promise of Cobb County, The Extension (men and women), the YWCA of Northwest Georgia and Zion Keepers—in addition to our longstanding relationship with MUST’s Elizabeth Inn.
Our Shoe Them Love program provided, via either $25 gift cards or through in-kind donations, enough pairs of new shoes for more than 275 very grateful kids!
We recognized even more children’s birthdays—50 in 2014—through our My Birthday Matters program. Many of these homeless or disadvantaged children would otherwise have received nothing on their birthday.
In addition to our volunteer days, over the past year SNGA also helped at least 50 families who reached out to us for assistance. These included a single mom with two kids coming out of homelessness; a single dad with three kids; families that had lost everything due to fires and floods; and a woman with five kids (two with special needs).
GROWING SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE
SNGA is still a small, locally focused organization, but our reach is growing thanks to our volunteers’ and donors’ generous support of us on social media sites. For example, our website simpleneedsga.org received 7,400 unique views in 2014. We have 614 ‘likes’ on our growing Facebook page and have just dipped our toes into the ‘Twitterverse’ waters with a new Twitter account: @simpleneedsga.
In 2014, we also created an attractive, easy-to-share brochure. It’s available in digital format at this link.
Lastly, board member Kasey Litt created our first informational program video, which you can watch here.
GROWING OUR FUNDRAISING
Late last year, we decided to apply for our first major grant in a request for $10K. We are still seeking matching funds, which will boost our odds of winning this grant significantly. All pledges due by late January. For more information, email us at info@simpleneedsga.org.
We also teamed with Kroger Community Rewards, GoodSearch and AmazonSmile to supplement our fundraising efforts. Individuals helped us as well. For example, an anonymous donor approached SNGA and offered to match the size of any donation (up to $2,500 total) during the month of March, which we dubbed “March Madness.”
On Georgia Gives Day on Nov. 13, we raised $2,780 toward our goal of $5,000, with a total of 27 donors contributing. Thank you so much!
KICKING BACK WITH FUN EVENTS
We had a nice turnout and a lot of fun at our Simply Bowling event on Sept. 28. (We’ll be holding two bowling events in 2015—stay tuned.)
On Oct. 18 of last year, we held our first Volunteer & Donor Appreciation Open House. We dined on some good food, gave tours of our space, met new friends and reminisced with old ones. Our “Gifts in Kind” award winner was Piedmont Graphics (owner of our warehouse space). “Volunteers of the Year” were Scott Denton (photography), Karen Hamilton, Sandy Dame and Darlene Andrews. Our invaluable “truckers” were Jay Schneider, Rick Perry and Yolanda Kingsberry (Yolanda recently joined our board). We also gave a special “thank you!” to Melanie Booker for being on our board since day 1.
In 2015, we plan to continue growing our programs and helping greater numbers of people in need. We would also love your help with our efforts to form specific committees in support of: My Birthday Matters, Shoe Them Love, Comfort Kits, public relations/community outreach, and special events.
GROWING OUR VOLUNTEER DAYS
Over the past year, we were thrilled at the strong attendance during our periodic volunteer days. On Hands on Atlanta Day on Oct. 18, for example, 65 volunteers—most of them from UCB and TSYS—helped out at our Marietta warehouse by assembling Comfort Kits, wrapping presents for My Birthday Matters and doing many other tasks. It was the most volunteers we have had at one time at our Marietta warehouse!
On March 15, a total of 45 people from all over metro Atlanta—including members of local high schools, MUST Ministries, Family Promise, JLL Atlanta and IBM—helped us pack 320 toiletries bags (“Comfort Kits”), assemble shelves, put together a birthday package for a homeless child, organize our My Birthday Matters room, take inventory and more. Then on March 19, approximately 100 volunteers from JLL Atlanta put together 300 duffel bags for us at JLL Atlanta’s office in Buckhead. They even drove the bags to our Marietta warehouse! As a corporation community donation, JLL Atlanta ordered and paid for $4,700 worth of supplies for SNGA’s Comfort Kits program. Largely as a result of this, we were able to expand that program and deliver full-sized toiletries to more than 300 more people living in four additional local shelters. Likewise, volunteers from Foresters, the not-for-profit fraternal benefit society, braved some seriously hot weather in August to put together nearly 150 birthday kits for My Birthday Matters at Six Flags Over Georgia.
Throughout 2014, we received donations and/or volunteer help from a wide variety of organizations, including UCB, TSYS, Wells Fargo, Foresters, EPIC Response, JLL Atlanta, Casa Montessori, First United Methodist Church in Marietta, Piedmont Graphics, IBM, Cakes by Avion, Kroger, and ushers from the Cobb Energy Center, to name just a few. TSYS chose SNGA as the beneficiary of its holiday campaign, collecting donations of items as well as many gift cards. Wells Fargo gave SNGA $1,000 through its Day of Giving program.
COLLABORATING WITH OTHER AGENCIES
At SNGA, we see our work as a collaborative, community-based effort, and so we work hard to help other agencies whenever possible. Over the past year, our donors helped us provide the Cobb/Douglas Community Services Board with all kinds of gently used household items, from bed and bath items to TVs and microwaves, for people coming out of homelessness. Our donors gave lightly used children’s books for distribution by MUST Ministries; provided pet food for a local teenager who has a mission of helping lower-income folks who own dogs and cats; and donated useful items for the Children’s Room at the YWCA of Northwest Georgia. We also collected coats and clothing for the YWCA as well as the Marietta city school district’s clothes closet.
Overall, we had a great response last year from our supporters, who generously provided in-kind donations of winter clothing, camping supplies, bicycles, household items and much more. (See this page for details on the in-kind donations we’ll be collecting in 2015.) By the way, our monthly donation drive is this Saturday, Jan 17, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Contact us for details and our address. We are currently in need of furniture (larger furniture should not be brought to our space; email us and we’ll coordinate pick up if needed and delivery).
If you’d like to get more involved, just email us at info@simpleneedsga.org. You can also reach us via our Facebook page or on Twitter through @simpleneedsga.
Finally, here are a few quotes from people and organizations we helped over the past year:
“It is difficult to describe how much it means to a person with a mental illness, especially one who has not had his or her own place to live, or who has been completely homeless, to not only be offered a place to call home, but to also be given necessary household items that had been donated by complete strangers!” — Mary Robeck, Cobb/Douglas Community Service Board.
“My daughter said she is beyond excited about her gifts. I mean she looooves her gifts, especially the blanket. Thank you for this; I am so grateful.” — mother of a 9-year-old girl who had a great birthday with help from our My Birthday Matters program.
“It’s the small things sometimes that make a difference. Love and compassion can be shown in so many ways. I want to thank you.” — shelter resident who received a duffel bag of full-size toiletries via our Comfort Kits program.
THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF PEOPLE IN NEED!
Category: NewsTags: cobb+county, Georgia, homelessness, simple+needs+GA
← Children to help SNGA’s ‘My Birthday Matters’
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Twelfth Night: Key Scenes
A helpful guide to using Teach Shakespeare.
Fact Sheet: Shakespeare
We know quite a lot about Shakespeare, but there is still much that remains a mystery.
Fact Sheet: London
Shakespeare spent most of his working life in London, the home of the first permanent playhouses.
Fact Sheet: Special Effects
Thunder, lightning, magic and more! Learn how special effects were done in Shakespeare's time.…
Fact Sheet: The First Globe
Many of Shakespeare’s plays were first performed at the Globe, which opened in 1599.
Fact Sheet: Playhouses
There were two different types of playhouse in London in Shakespeare’s time: outdoor and indoor.
Fact Sheet: Audiences
By 1600, between 10,000 and 20,000 people a week went to London theatres.
Fact Sheet: Writing Plays
Just about everyone in London went to the theatre, but what did they go and see?
Fact Sheet: Actors
The life of an actor changed dramatically during Shakespeare’s lifetime...
Fact Sheet: Costumes and Cosmetics
Stage make-up, like costumes, helped the audience to understand characters.
Midsummer: Staging It
Direct A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2 Scene 2 from your desktop or tablet.…
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The movie Cold Pursuit: trailer, clips, photos, soundtrack, news and much more!
2 Clips of Cold Pursuit
We’ve got our hands on two preview clips of Cold Pursuit, the upcoming action thriller movie directed by Hans Petter Moland and starring Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Emmy Rossum, and Tom Bateman:
Cold Pursuit – Tell me
Cold Pursuit – Things we doPlot synopsis:
“An action thriller infused with irreverent humor, stars Liam Neeson as Nels Coxman, a family man whose quiet life with his wife (Laura Dern) is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels’ search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking (Tom Bateman), a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. As one by one each of Viking’s associates ‘disappear’, Nels goes from upstanding citizen to ice-cold vigilante, letting nothing – and no one – get in his way.”
They killed his son now he’s hellbent on revenge: there’s no stopping him!
The film will be released in theaters on February 8th, 2019.
Update – A new poster:
Tags: Cold Pursuit
New character posters for Cold Pursuit
We’ve been sent three new character posters for Cold Pursuit, the upcoming drama thriller movie directed by Hans Petter Moland, take a look below:
(Click on a poster to enlarge.)
– Where did you learn how to kill a man?
– I read it in a crime novel.
Release date: February 8th, 2019 (in theaters).
Cold Pursuit Movie Poster
There’s a brand new poster for Summit Entertainment’s Cold Pursuit, the upcoming action thriller movie directed by Hans Petter Moland and starring Liam Neeson, take a look below:
Meet Nels Coxman, citizen of the year.Plot synopsis:
This man does have are a very particular set of skill!
The film will open in theaters nationwide n February 8th, 2019.
Update – New film posters:
Cold Pursuit Movie starring Liam Neeson
Take a look to the first official poster of Cold Pursuit (aka Hard Powder), the upcoming action thriller movie starring Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Emmy Rossum, and Tom Bateman:
COLD PURSUITPlot synopsis:
How did the car get stuck on that poor tree?
Here’s the movie trailer of Cold Pursuit if you haven’t seen it yet: Continue reading »
Cold Pursuit Movie Trailer
You may watch below the first official trailer of Cold Pursuit (aka Hard Powder), the upcoming action thriller movie directed by Hans Petter Moland and starring Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Emmy Rossum, and Tom Bateman:
The perfect revenge is all in the execution.Plot synopsis:
One doesn’t mess with Liam Neeson’s family! Will baddies ever learn their lesson?
The release date of the movie Cold Pursuit is set to February 8, 2019 (in theaters).
Stay tuned with us for more details.
Hard Powder Movie
Update – The film has been retitled Cold Pursuit.
Check out the official plot synopsis of Hard Powder, the upcoming drama thriller movie directed by Hans Petter Moland based on a script by Frank Baldwin and starring Liam Neeson:
“Nels (Liam Neeson), an upright snowplow driver, awarded a Citizen of the Year prize by his glitzy Colorado ski town, has his life turned upside down when his son is murdered by a powerful local drug kingpin. Fueled by an unwavering drive for vengeance and armed with heavy machinery, this unlikely hero sets out to dismantle the cartel with extreme prejudice, and he’s not stopping until he gets to the top of the food chain.”
It’s actually a remake of the Norwegian film In Order Of Disappearance, here’s the trailer:
IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE
Stay tuned with us for more details about the movie Hard Powder.
Tags: Cold Pursuit, Hard Powder
Directed by: Hans Petter Moland
Starring: Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Emmy Rossum, Tom Bateman
More Information at: Cold Pursuit Trailer
https://teaser-trailer.com/movie/cold-pursuit/
Watch the official movie trailer of Cold Pursuit below:
Tags: Action, Cold Pursuit, Emmy Rossum, February 2019, Hans Petter Moland, Laura Dern, Liam Neeson, Thriller, Tom Bateman
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Apple, Content Platforms & Editorial Discretion
by Adam Thierer on February 23, 2010 · 6 comments
I posted a rant here over the weekend about those who were engaging in what I believed was excessive whining about Apple’s moves to restrict pornographic content in the Apple Apps Store. (see: “Apple’s App Store, Porn & ‘Censorship‘”) It received a surprising number of comments and featured a back and forth between me and our old TLF blogging colleague Tim Lee. Tim has continued the discussion over on his personal blog and argued that:
[T]he key thing to focus on isn’t the abstract question of whether porn on iPhones is good or bad. The key thing to recognize is how fundamentally broken the process itself is. “Overtly sexual content” is a concept that seems clear in the abstract but gets leaky once you have to actually classify tens of thousands of applications. Apple is going to make mistakes, and when they do hapless developers are going to find their apps blocked, often with little explanation or recourse. Also, Apple is going to change its mind periodically, and when they do the affected developers are going to find their hard-earned apps rendered worthless overnight. This is no way to run a technology platform. It’s unfair to developers and it doesn’t scale. And this is precisely why it would be better for everyone if Apple could come up with an application distribution scheme that didn’t require so much central planning.
I followed up with a comment over there, but just thought I would repost it here, in which I argue that Tim is underestimating how difficult this task of defining acceptable content is and that he is also downplaying Apple’s legitimate editorial discretion to establish standards for the community platform they provide. I’m also uncomfortable with Tim’s constant use of “central planning” rhetoric to describe almost any private, proprietary model of institutional governance or platform development he doesn’t seem to agree with, but I have not elaborated on that point here. Anyway, here’s how I responded over on his blog:
So, when you say “Apple could come up with an application distribution scheme that didn’t require so much central planning,” what exactly does that mean? Apple already has Terms of Service, but there are ALWAYS going to be things in ANY terms of service that are fuzzy. “Security,” “stability,” “safety,” etc.. these are not exercises in exact science. So what would you have Apple do in this case?
How about this: “Penetration-based sexual images, videos, and applications shall not be allowed in the Apple Apps Store.” That seems like a pretty easy rule and fairly unambiguous. But everything after hard-core porn gets more and more difficult to define. What about an app that is just completely naked women pole-dancing? It’s not hard-core porn, but I bet Apple would want to keep it off their platform. Writing a rule that covers that but not a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition app might be challenging.
The point here is that (a) crafting terms of service for acceptable content/conduct on media/communications platforms is always difficult, but (b) Apple and others should have the editorial discretion to do so. If customers don’t like it, they can (and do) complain vociferously. And sometimes companies change their editorial approach in response to such complaints. Other times, however, they will be under just as much pressure from other forces to to the exact opposite.
So, when you say: “The key thing to recognize is how fundamentally broken the process itself is,” you seem to fail to appreciate how this process is pretty damn challenging for any platform developer. The only way this becomes “easy” is if the platform owner just takes any and all content people throw at them. Libertarian-minded people like the two of us probably wouldn’t mind that. But the community of interests that Apple serves is broad and diverse. They are in the same boat as a traditional newspaper editor or broadcaster who was trying to juggle a lot of interests at once and inevitably making some folks unhappy in the process. But that doesn’t mean the process is “broken”; it just means it is difficult.
Apple should be more transparent about what they do and do not allow in the Apps Store and strive for brighter line rules. But even as they do, some folks will still complain. And, luckily, there’s always another place to go for service.
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Toronto travellers bring medical supplies to 63 countries
Kevin Connor
Updated: September 4, 2017 2:57 PM EDT
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Toronto travellers can save lives on their vacations.
Not Just Tourists Toronto is a movement where people on holiday can take a suitcase with medical supplies to remote clinics and change lives.
The Toronto chapter — which started in a garage four years ago — has shipped more than 1,000 suitcases with 400,000 pounds of donated medical equipment to the poorest of clinics in 63 developing countries.
On any given Wednesday evening, there are up to 40 volunteers packing suitcases with surplus donated medical supplies from Canada’s largest hospitals, medical suppliers and patients who have died.
Michael Chomyn, the organization’s operations director, recently returned from a clinic in Camolote, Cuba, where he and his son delivered suitcases.
“It can be quite an adventure taking a suitcase to a clinic. We took an hour taxi ride past tomato plantations and through small villages. Our hospital excursion took about half a day, and for me was far better than snorkelling on a tropical reef or lying on the beach,” Chomyn said.
“It’s great experience for my son, who has been to Sick Kids a few too many times, to see the contrast of our hospitals and clinics in developing countries. Any small ill can be healed up here, but down there, they just don’t have the supplies.”
A box of 100 examination gloves costs roughly $10, but in many developing countries, gloves are washed over and over as they have no option to replace them.
Syringes, surgical masks, bandages and IV supplies are all in need.
To avoid any problems at borders, pharmaceuticals are not shipped.
It’s hard to describe how overwhelmed staff at the clinics react to receiving the supplies, said Alexa Gilmour, of Toronto, who recently delivered a suitcase of supplies to Aguilares, El Salvador.
“You should have seen the look on their faces when all the clean supplies came in. They had been using rags to stop wounds from bleeding. They were so grateful to receive supplies as their one-room building had very little in it. The nurse told me they frequently have nothing to offer their patients who arrive in desperate need,” Gilmour said.
“Sometimes they have the medication but no syringes to administer it with, sometimes no medication, just the syringes. It is very hard.”
The goal of NJT is to get medical supplies to remote clinics around the world and to create extraordinary journeys for travellers, said Avi D’Souza, founder of the Toronto chapter.
“Anyone can spend a week at a resort and forget the world around them. It takes a special person to step outside of their comfort zone and truly connect with the local community,” D’Souza said.
“Every suitcase is a personal journey. A reason for the traveller to develop meaningful connections and friendships which will last a lifetime. The suitcase is just the first step. There are also mountains of perfectly good medical supplies that get thrown out in Canada every day and this is unacceptable. Our project is as much about helping the environment as it about helping people.”
The Clinica Esperanza — on the island of Roatan, 55 km off the coast of Honduras — couldn’t operate without the 30-plus suitcases Torontonians bring each year on vacation, said registered nurse Peggy Stranges.
“There are many locals (up to 100 a day) that are poor and depend heavily on the clinic for their health care,” Stranges said.
“We have many tourists from the Toronto area that bring us donations of medical supplies. We don’t have the financial resources for purchasing many of the items the tourists bring.”
To take a suitcase or volunteer with Not Just Tourists Toronto, visit njttoronto.com.
kconnor@postmedia.com
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Björk -Aurora dcd
SKU: Cd 23e Categories: Music, None Metal music, Pop Tag: Bjork
Double album in a nice and thick digipack cover
Everybody’s favourite Icelandic pixie recorded live at Le Grand Rex in Paris, France on the 18th of August 2001. This was the first gig on her Vespertine World Tour 2001, which focused on her fifth album, Vespertine. She also performed songs from Debut, Post, Homogenic and Selmasongs. The tour band consisted of harpist Zeena Parkins, electronic duo Matmos, a Greenlandic choir and a 70-piece orchestra (local to each venue). When the lady we’d all come to see appeared it was to inevitably rapturous applause. She bubbled and skipped above a full orchestra in the pit and in front of an all-female Innuit choir, a multi-instrumentalist whose talents included harp, Matmos and a Canadian lady who vocalised reverse recording better than anyone I’ve heard save JC-001. The wonderful Cocoon from Vespertine featured one member of Matmos literally stroking the other while Bjork softly sang about the physical intimacy of love, of having her man inside of me. The single Hidden Place followed. Someone seemed to have stolen the bassline from Hidden Place and it was not as electrifying as on the album. At the end Bjork performed several crowd-pleasing oldies including dramatic single Bachelorette, from Homogenic, a new version of Possibly Maybe, from Post, featuring the choir, the wonderful Hyper-ballad from the same album which had everyone chairdancing to the modified backing from Matmos, You’ve Been Flirting Again and Isobel (both also from Post). The audience were charmed enough to receive three encores, Joga from Homogenic, Our Hands and the only offering from Debut, Human Behaviour. Nice to have you back on stage Bjork, we love you.
1. Musicbox Intro
2. All Is Full Of Love
3. Unravel
5. Generous Palmstroke
6. It’s Not Up To You
7. Undo
8. I’ve Seen It All
9. Cocoon
10. Hidden Place
11. You’ve Been Flirting Again
12. Isobel
13. Venus As A Boy
14. Pagan Poetry
15. Possibly Maybe
16. The Anchor Song
17. Hyper Ballad
18. Bachelorette / Encore (Standing Ovation)
19. Joga / Encore (Band Introduction)
20. Our Hands
21. Human Behaviour
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Home » Connections » Organizations Involved in Marine and Wind Energy and the Environment
Organizations Involved in Marine and Wind Energy and the Environment
This list compiles organizations from around the world that are involved in environmental research pertaining to marine and wind energy devices. Clicking on the organization will direct you to a page which includes additional information on the organization as well as a list of all documents in Tethys affiliated with the organization. The organizations list is not exhaustive, and will be updated as needed. If you have comments on incorrect or missing material, please email jonathan.whiting@pnnl.gov.
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NAFC Marine Centre Academic http://www.nafc.uhi.ac.uk/ United Kingdom 4
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Non-Profit https://us.whales.org/ United States of America 4
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Non-Profit http://wwf.panda.org/ International 5
Northern Arizona University Academic https://nau.edu/ United States of America 4
State University of New York Academic http://www.suny.edu/ United States of America 4
Fugro EMU Private https://www.fugro.com/ United Kingdom 4
Hidromod Private https://hidromod.com/ Portugal 4
Marine Current Turbines (MCT) Private http://www.marineturbines.com/ United Kingdom 6
AMEC Environment & Infrastructure Private http://www.amec-ukenvironment.com/ United Kingdom 4
Boise State University Academic https://www.boisestate.edu/ United States of America 4
University of Helsinki Academic https://www.helsinki.fi/en Finland 4
Shandong University Academic http://www.en.sdu.edu.cn/ China 4
Électricité de France (EDF) Government https://www.edf.fr/en/meta-home France 5
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Maryville College Academic https://www.maryvillecollege.edu/ United States of America 4
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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Government http://myfwc.com/ United States of America 4
Bonneville Power Administration Non-Profit https://www.bpa.gov/Pages/home.aspx United States of America 7
Lews Castle College Academic https://www.lews.uhi.ac.uk/ United Kingdom 4
Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme (ORJIP) Cluster http://www.orjip.org.uk/ United Kingdom 5
International Centre for Island Technology (ICIT) Academic https://www.hw.ac.uk/schools/energy-geoscience-infrastructure-society/research/i... United Kingdom 4
SMart Wind Private http://www.smartwind.co.uk/ United Kingdom 6
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English Heritage Government http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/ United Kingdom 4
ICF International Private http://www.icfi.com/ United States of America 4
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Danish Energy Agency Government https://ens.dk/en Denmark 5
Scottish Renewables Private http://www.scottishrenewables.com/ United Kingdom 4
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LGL Ltd Private https://www.lgl.com/en/ Canada 4
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SEO/BirdLife Non-Profit https://www.seo.org/ Spain 4
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University of Sheffield Academic http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ United Kingdom 4
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Academic http://www.kul.pl/21.html Poland 4
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Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Government Research http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/index-eng.htm Canada 4
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Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) Government Research https://www.iwes.fraunhofer.de/en.html Germany 4
Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) Academic https://www.niva.no/ Norway 4
Alden Research Laboratory Private https://www.aldenlab.com/ United States of America 4
Centrica Renewable Energy Ltd Private https://www.centrica.com/ United Kingdom 4
University of Missouri Academic https://missouri.edu/ United States of America 4
University of Pretoria Academic https://www.up.ac.za/ South Africa 4
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Friday 9th March 2001
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THIS WEEK IN DOCTOR WHO - March 9, 2001
Vol 4, No 10
WQED in Pittsburgh added a studio guest and a bonus feature to its pledge broadcast on March 3rd too late to make last week's column. Martin Jarvis was the guest. Martin played the Govenor in Vengeance on Varos, and also guest-starred in Invasion of the Dinosaurs and The Web Planet. The Web Planet was the bonus story that aired on WQED, beginning at 1AM late March 3rd.
While it's a bit late to see that special, WQED has John Levene as the scheduled guest for this weekend (Saturday, March 10). John Levene, of course, played Benton in the 70s U*N*I*T stories, and a couple of monsters in 60s stories. One or more stories with Mr. Levene in them (presumably as Sgt. Benton) will air that night.
Several developments at WYBE in Philadelphia, PA. They aired The King's Demons last Friday Night at 11PM to kick off their celebration of having a 24 hour schedule. On Saturday night, they aired Terminus episodes 1+2 for the second week in a row (the first week it was supposed to be Mawdryn Undead episodes 3+4). They will announce a date for the Mawdryn episodes in a while. Finally, because of the 24 hour lineup, they have added a repeat time for Doctor Who. If you miss the Saturday 11PM airings, you can now tune in Monday morning at 4AM and see the episodes.
IPTV in Iowa and KERA in Denver are airing the National Doctor Who Night this weekend for the first time. Hopefully the special will do well in those areas like it has in other areas. KERA will presumably announce the date that regular episodes will begin on their station during their Who Night broadcast.
This is a slimmed down version of the column this week. Slightly humorous story descriptions will return next week.
Additions and corrections are welcome at bfelli...@earthlink.net , bfelli...@gallifreyone.com , or bfelliott3 on AOL IM. And now, the listings:
WPBR AM1340 http://hometown.aol.com/scifiradioguy/
MP3 Archive http://www.live365.com/
Sun 11:05PM EST Interstellar Transmissions ep 12?
Expect the regular Doctor Who news at the beginning - otherwise I would take it out of the column, obviously. The main feature is an interview with the creator of Logan's Run. This episode was originally indicated to air two weeks ago.
UK Gold http://www.sceneone.co.uk/s1/tv/listings
Sun 11:05AM-1PM GMT Terror of the Zygons movie
EUROPE/AFRICA/ASIA:
BBC Prime http://www.bbcprime.com/
Late Fri 1AM*, Sat 3:30PM, Sun 11:30AM CET Arc of Infinity ep 3 of 4
Late Thu 12:30AM CET Arc of Infinity ep 4 of 4
*Not seen in all regions.
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND:
UKTV Australia http://www.varos.com/drwho/uktv/
Sun 7AM, Late Sun 1AM AEDT The Masque of Mandragora all 4 eps
Mon-Thu 11:30PM AEDT The Robots of Death eps 1 - 4 of 4
» the following edition indicated episodes three and four were reversed
Fri 11:30PM AEDT The Talons of Weng-Chiang ep 1 of 6
Prime TV New Zealand http://www.tetrap.com/drwho/nzdwfc/
http://www.primetv.co.nz/
Sun-Fri 6PM - 2 episodes in movie format daily
Sun-Mon The Hand Of Fear movie, pts 1 - 2 of 2
Last rerun in 1987.
Tue-Wed The Deadly Assassin movie, pts 1 - 2 of 2
Thu-Fri The Face of Evil movie, pts 1 - 2 of 2
BBC America http://www.bbcamerica.com/
Mon-Thu 8AM EST (5AM PST)/Tue-Fri 5AM EST (2AM PST) - 2 episodes in movie format daily
Mon/Tue The Sontaran Experiment movie
Tue-Wed/Wed-Thu Revenge of the Cybermen movie, pts 1 - 2 of 2
Thu/Fri Robot movie, pt 1 of 2
NHPTV New Hampshire 11,49,52 http://www.nhptv.org/
No episodes this week. Returns Late Thursday, March 22.
WQED/WQEX 13,16 Pittsburgh, PA http://www.wqed.org/
Sat 11:30PM EST Doctor Who Night with John Levene
One or more stories will air, with John Levene (Sgt. Benton) as the studio guest.
WYBE 35 Philadelphia, PA http://www.wybe.org/
Sat 11PM, Mon 4AM EST Terminus eps 3+4 of 4
MPT Maryland 22,28,31,36,62,67 http://www.mpt.org/
Sat 11:30PM EST Silver Nemesis movie
WUSF 16 Tampa, FL http://www.wusftv.usf.edu/
Sat 11:30PM EST Remembrance of the Daleks ep 2 of 4
WCET 48 Cincinnati, OH http://www.wcet.org/
No episodes this week. Returns Saturday, March 24.
WYIN 56 Gary, IN (Chicago, IL) http://www.wyin.org/
Sat 11PM-1AM CST The Androids of Tara all 4 eps
WILL 12 Urbana, IL http://www.will.uiuc.edu/
No episode this week. Returns March 17.
TPT 2 St. Paul, MN http://www.tpt.org/
Sat 11:30PM, Sun 5:30AM CST The Ribos Operation ep 3 of 4
Conclusion airs March 24.
IPTV Iowa 11,12,21,24,27,32,32,36 http://www.sffn.com/ http://www.iptv.org/
Fri 10:30PM-1:30AM CST National Doctor Who Night with Sylvester McCoy
PPTV North Dakota 2,3,4,6,9,13,19 http://www.pptv.org/
KERA 13 Dallas, TX http://www.kera.org/
Sat 11:30PM-1:30AM CST National Doctor Who Night with Sylvester McCoy
KBDI/K32EO 12,32 Denver/Colorado Springs, CO http://www.kbdi.org/
KUED 7 Salt Lake City, UT http://www.kued.org/
No episode this week. Returns Saturday, March 17.
KBTC/KCKA/K65BU 28,15,65 Tacoma/Centralia/Gray's River, WA
http://www.kbtc.org/
Sat 7PM, Late Sat 12:30AM PST The Sun Makers eps 3+4 of 4
KTEH 54 San Jose, CA http://www.kteh.org/
Sun 11PM PST The Romans movie (The Slave-Traders, All Roads Lead To Rome, Conspiracy, Inferno)
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Cryptic Fog: Staring Through The Veil and More
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By Brandon Corsair
It’s been some eight years since Cryptic Fog last released music, with their former (and only) other official release being a barely-distributed album entitled Path of the Withering Moon from way back in 2009. It was put on Bandcamp five years later and never received a physical release.
Now, finally, the band comes back with a masterful followup, Staring Through The Veil, to be released towards the end of October on longtime extreme metal stalwart label Blood Harvest Records.
In the long years in between their debut and the new album, the band’s original lineup dwindled away, leaving behind only the strong core of guitarist/bassist Dave Bennett and a slightly newer recruit, a prolific drummer/vocalist named Dan Klein. Dan joined on as an integral part of the band four or so years ago, and was a natural choice after his work producing the first album; as a point of interest, Dan makes a living as a producer full time at his studio, Iron Hand Audio.
Though Dave hasn’t released anything since that first Cryptic Fog album, he’s kept busy with the band and with a death/doom project that he started with Dan, with a first release coming soon. The other half of the duo has earned himself a bigger name in recent years, as Dan’s own powerful musical history has gained him a cult following cemented by his works as a producer as well as accomplished drumming on two other full length albums released this year alone (Invasion’s Destroyer of Mankind, a return after seven years from longtime Indiana death metal veterans, and the much-lauded third Fin album, Arrows Of A Dying Age) as well as on several other albums from the past decade, both with full bands and works that he recorded entirely solo.
Many bands (particularly ones as ambitious as Cryptic Fog) need a larger core of musicians to temper unreasonable or uncomfortably limited songwriting choices, but for this one, the lineup reduction has proven to be an excellent move. Dan’s scorching vocals and relentless drumming provide the perfect backdrop for Bennett’s furious riffs, breathing life into the project and tying it together. The music itself is as layered and complex as anything else to come out this year, combining a firm background in traditionally played death metal with a strangeness that comes from years of extreme metal development and the twisted minds of the band members themselves.
A lot of the consistency of the album comes from Dave’s composition, as nearly all of the music was composed by the guitar wizard of the band, while Dan’s own contributions of arranging and the rhythmic assaults of his drums and vocals guarantee a coherency to the madness that is Staring Through The Veil. The end result, despite a massive amount of seemingly disparate influences, works perfectly. At all times the album sounds purely like Cryptic Fog rather than like a derivation of their influences; for all that the band doesn’t attempt to hide the gods that they build the foundation of their music on, they never feel imitative, always shifting from idea to idea competently in a way that feels natural.
From the labyrinthine slither of Demilich to the rapid fire swirling chord changes that Trey Azagthoth perfected in the ‘80s to bouncing thrash riffs to chugging sections straight from Left Hand Path and even to the massive clean leads of Cynic, the Cryptic Fog boys make it obvious across the forty-six minute album that they’re not afraid of merging their influences or of bouncing across both sides of the Atlantic. Angular black metal influenced riffs fearlessly and effortlessly intertwine with pounding primordial death metal, and changes from blazing, high-BPM madness to bits of slower, writhing melody stay stuck your head long after the album is actually shut off; as wildly ambitious as it is successful, the new album fills a bit of a niche for everyone as it bounces seamlessly between the ferocity of Immolation to the groove of early Suffocation or the hatred of Angelcorpse, and even some of the grandiose leads and melody of Mercyful Fate. Vocals howling from an ancient abyss ground out the strangest symptoms and show a base of firm death metal traditionalism when the riffs deviate from it, completing the package.
Though most of the music is fast rather than slow, it takes leave from a breakneck pace often enough to add a sense of sinister gravitas, and varied approaches to the faster sections both rhythmically and percussively keep even the fastest parts from blending together (a problem that I have with a lot of the most swirling and chaotic albums; metal is about riffs, and if they don’t blend together, why listen?). From start to finish, the album ties together wonderfully; I don’t want to spoil anything, in particular, but there are some goddamn magical points scattered throughout the album, right up until the last minute of the final song.
As a final note, though Cryptic Fog appears to have been inactive since the last album, Staring Through The Veil actually marks the second release with this lineup; the band wrote and recorded a since-unreleased EP years prior, with a final release date yet to come. On the topic of its original shelving, I’m told that Cryptic Fog “couldn’t get any labels to bite at the time…[and] didn’t really have the funds to release it ourselves,” but Dan assures me that there are plans to destroy us with what I’m promised is a fast, brutal release, which will feature the same lineup as on the new album.
Until then, Cryptic Fog are back and stronger than ever, ready to captivate us with all-new material as they gear up to unleash themselves on the world at large, finally with the strong label support that they deserve- the new album is definitely a victory for Cryptic Fog, and another great addition to Blood Harvest’s already stellar roster. In particular, if you liked Suffering Hour’s debut from earlier this year (or wished it was a bit more rooted in Necrophobic and Deicide), don’t miss Staring Through The Veil.
Photos via Blood Harvest Records.
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127:2.1 At about this time there was considerable agitation, especially at Jerusalem and in Judea, in favor of rebellion against the payment of taxes to Rome. There was coming into existence a strong nationalist party, presently to be called the Zealots. The Zealots, unlike the Pharisees, were not willing to await the coming of the Messiah. They proposed to bring things to a head through political revolt.
127:2.2 A group of organizers from Jerusalem arrived in Galilee and were making good headway until they reached Nazareth. When they came to see Jesus, he listened carefully to them and asked many questions but refused to join the party. He declined fully to disclose his reasons for not enlisting, and his refusal had the effect of keeping out many of his youthful fellows in Nazareth.
127:2.3 Mary did her best to induce him to enlist, but she could not budge him. She went so far as to intimate that his refusal to espouse the nationalist cause at her behest was insubordination, a violation of his pledge made upon their return from Jerusalem that he would be subject to his parents; but in answer to this insinuation he only laid a kindly hand on her shoulder and, looking into her face, said: "My mother, how could you?"And Mary withdrew her statement.
127:2.4 One of Jesus' uncles (Mary's brother Simon) had already joined this group, subsequently becoming an officer in the Galilean division. And for several years there was something of an estrangement between Jesus and his uncle.
127:2.5 But trouble began to brew in Nazareth. Jesus' attitude in these matters had resulted in creating a division among the Jewish youths of the city. About half had joined the nationalist organization, and the other half began the formation of an opposing group of more moderate patriots, expecting Jesus to assume the leadership. They were amazed when he refused the honor offered him, pleading as an excuse his heavy family responsibilities, which they all allowed. But the situation was still further complicated when, presently, a wealthy Jew, Isaac, a moneylender to the gentiles, came forward agreeing to support Jesus' family if he would lay down his tools and assume leadership of these Nazareth patriots.
127:2.6 Jesus, then scarcely seventeen years of age, was confronted with one of the most delicate and difficult situations of his early life. Patriotic issues, especially when complicated by tax-gathering foreign oppressors, are always difficult for spiritual leaders to relate themselves to, and it was doubly so in this case since the Jewish religion was involved in all this agitation against Rome.
127:2.7 Jesus' position was made more difficult because his mother and uncle, and even his younger brother James, all urged him to join the nationalist cause. All the better Jews of Nazareth had enlisted, and those young men who had not joined the movement would all enlist the moment Jesus changed his mind. He had but one wise counselor in all Nazareth, his old teacher, the chazan, who counseled him about his reply to the citizens' committee of Nazareth when they came to ask for his answer to the public appeal which had been made. In all Jesus' young life this was the very first time he had consciously resorted to public strategy. Theretofore, always had he depended upon a frank statement of truth to clarify the situation, but now he could not declare the full truth. He could not intimate that he was more than a man; he could not disclose his idea of the mission which awaited his attainment of a riper manhood. Despite these limitations his religious fealty and national loyalty were directly challenged. His family was in a turmoil, his youthful friends in division, and the entire Jewish contingent of the town in a hubbub. And to think that he was to blame for it all! And how innocent he had been of all intention to make trouble of any kind, much less a disturbance of this sort.
127:2.8 Something had to be done. He must state his position, and this he did bravely and diplomatically to the satisfaction of many, but not all. He adhered to the terms of his original plea, maintaining that his first duty was to his family, that a widowed mother and eight brothers and sisters needed something more than mere money could buy—the physical necessities of life—that they were entitled to a father's watchcare and guidance, and that he could not in clear conscience release himself from the obligation which a cruel accident had thrust upon him. He paid compliment to his mother and eldest brother for being willing to release him but reiterated that loyalty to a dead father forbade his leaving the family no matter how much money was forthcoming for their material support, making his never-to-be-forgotten statement that "money cannot love." In the course of this address Jesus made several veiled references to his "life mission" but explained that, regardless of whether or not it might be inconsistent with the military idea, it, along with everything else in his life, had been given up in order that he might be able to discharge faithfully his obligation to his family. Everyone in Nazareth well knew he was a good father to his family, and this was a matter so near the heart of every noble Jew that Jesus' plea found an appreciative response in the hearts of many of his hearers; and some of those who were not thus minded were disarmed by a speech made by James, which, while not on the program, was delivered at this time. That very day the chazan had rehearsed James in his speech, but that was their secret.
127:2.9 James stated that he was sure Jesus would help to liberate his people if he (James) were only old enough to assume responsibility for the family, and that, if they would only consent to allow Jesus to remain "with us, to be our father and teacher, then you will have not just one leader from Joseph's family, but presently you will have five loyal nationalists, for are there not five of us boys to grow up and come forth from our brother-father's guidance to serve our nation?" And thus did the lad bring to a fairly happy ending a very tense and threatening situation.
127:2.10 The crisis for the time being was over, but never was this incident forgotten in Nazareth. The agitation persisted; not again was Jesus in universal favor; the division of sentiment was never fully overcome. And this, augmented by other and subsequent occurrences, was one of the chief reasons why he moved to Capernaum in later years. Henceforth Nazareth maintained a division of sentiment regarding the Son of Man.
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What it was like last night at Scientology's Los Angeles TV 'season' premiere party - 2018-10-09
What it was like last night at Scientology's Los Angeles TV 'season' premiere party October 9, 2018, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker
Once again we had a correspondent on the scene at last night's event on L. Ron Hubbard Way in Los Angeles as Scientology celebrated the premiere of its second "season" of propaganda airing at Scientology TV. Here's their report...
LRH Way is entirely blocked off, from Fountain to Sunset, for the event. It's set up the same way it was in March for the premiere of Scientology TV, and just like any other major event here — in other words, multiple rows of seats facing the big TV screen on LRH Way, food tables, kiosks, and displays behind the seating. There are two medium-sized screens spaced along on the left side of the street for people sitting nearer to the back.
The stage and projection TV are placed with their backs to Fountain Avenue, and spanning the width of the road. Pre-event food is being served, and it's hamburgers and hot dogs. They're spending a lot of money.
{{cite news | author = Tony Ortega | title = What it was like last night at Scientology's Los Angeles TV 'season' premiere party | url = https://tonyortega.org/2018/10/09/what-it-was-like-last-night-at-scientologys-los-angeles-tv-season-premiere-party/ | work = Underground Bunker | date = October 9, 2018 | accessdate = October 9, 2018 }}
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Thriller Live
VisitGayLondon October 9, 2014
Spectacular show celebrating the King of Pop – Michael Jackson
If you love your shows loud, fun and guaranteed to get you up dancing then THRILLER LIVE is your must-see show.
This high octane explosion of music and dance celebrates the extraordinary music career of King of Pop, Michael Jackson, and the Jackson 5.
Recreating some of their incredible dance routines and distinctive sound, the show has already wowed millions around the world and has been a huge hit in London since 2009.
Michael Jackson’s 40 year career saw him sell over 750 million records including his Thriller album, and this 2 hour show features all of his best songs and numbers including Can You Feel It, Beat It, Thriller, I Want You Back, Off The Wall, The Way You Make Me Feel, ABC, Smooth Criminal and Billie Jean.
The hits just keep coming in this fabulous musical.
★★★★ “By the final song of the night, it’s pretty much guaranteed that you’ll be up on you feet and shouting for more – as for what the final song is, I’ll leave it as a surprise, suffice to say that it’s a good one” Gaydar Nation
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What Will Kill You First, Cancer or Robots? Probably Robots
The Wooster
Cambridge thinkers propose more research into "extinction-level" risks to mankind.
What are you supposed to be doing right now? The washing up? I wouldn't bother, mate. We're all doomed anyway.
At least, that's what popular culture tells us. Even if the environment doesn't turn against us with fiery abandon, there's always meteors, robot uprisings, nanomachine swarms, sentient viruses, etc. The only thing left to do is take bets on which terrifying cataclysm will kill us first, and that's pretty much what a new initiative proposed by a gaggle of boffins at Cambridge University would do.
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CESR) would analyze risks to the future of mankind, particularly those we could be directly responsible for. The Centre, proposed by a philosopher, a scientist and a software engineer, would gather experts from policy, law, risk assessment and scientific fields to help investigate and grade potential threats. According to the Daily Mail, the proposal is backed by Lord Rees, who holds the rather grand-sounding post of Astronomer Royal.
Judging by comments from philosopher and co-founder, Huw Price, the potential threat of artificial intelligence seems to be pretty high on the centre's agenda.
The problem, as Price sees it, is that when an artificial general intelligence (AGI) becomes smart enough to write its own computer programs and create adorable little AGI babies (applets?), mankind could be looking at a potential competitor.
"Think how it might be to compete for resources with the dominant species," says Price. "Take gorillas for example - the reason they are going extinct is not because humans are actively hostile towards them, but because we control the environments in ways that suit us, but are detrimental to their survival."
"Nature didn't anticipate us, and we in our turn shouldn't take artificial general intelligence (AGI) for granted."
Price quoted former software engineer and Skype Founder, Jaan Tallinn, who once said he sometimes feels he's more likely to die from an AI accident than something as mundane as cancer or heart disease. Tallinn has spent the past few years campaigning for more serious discussion of the ethical and safety aspects of AI development.
"We need to take seriously the possibility that there might be a 'Pandora's box' moment with AGI that, if missed, could be disastrous," writes Price. "With so much at stake, we need to do a better job of understanding the risks of potentially catastrophic technologies."
Source: The Register
Fappy
My step dad and I were actually talking about this just last week and he believes we'll likely fully integrate with such technology before it gets to a point where it'd try to turn on us. I'd prefer a cyborg future to a human vs. robot one any day.
Hero in a half shell
So we could end up living out the last years of our lives in a human conservation zone, full of the optimum level and quantity of human stimulus made by the computers to save the endangered humans.
I'd be up for that: Being waited on hand and foot by machines, maybe not the way we expected to be, but it still counts.
Bobic
Sounds like someone's been reading this little number.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Everything-Going-Kill-Everybody-Terrifyingly/dp/0307464342/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353962061&sr=8-1
On a side note, I'm gonna go do a facebook search for John Connor and start making some new friends.
If robots could develop the ability to love, I wonder if any of them would be biocurious?
gigastar
Seems to me if that we create a superior race, organic or otherwise, that proceeds to wipe out humanity, its just natrual selection bitch slapping us for being so bloody stupid and made of feeble meat.
Scow2
Hero in a half shell:
They tried that. But some humans escaped, and tried to make life hell for everyone else enjoying the pseudoparadise instead of just plugging themselves back into the Matrix.
Vegosiux
Well, we're all doomed in a few billion years when our sun leaves the main sequence and goes red giant.
DVS BSTrD:
Bring out Proposition Infinity again!
In more seriousness though, yes, technology is something we need to be careful with in order for something not to go horribly wrong (or horribly right, that's usually even worse).
Back to jokes, does going into cardiac arrest when a game glitches on you half a second before you'd have won count as "AI accident"?
poiumty
What a bunch of stupid bullshit. Machines do not come preprogrammed with an instinct for survival out of fucking nowhere. Stop reporting things according to the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail is a pile of sensationalist rubbish.
Falterfire
This baffles me. Speaking as a programmer, I can say that programs tend to only do what you tell them to. I don't know a ton about Machine Learning but I'm reasonably certain that it would be impossible to accidentally program a humanity destroying AI.
Kwil
Falterfire:
Oh I dunno. Look at auto-correct. Apply to international diplomats. Imagine what happens when the answer to "Have you informed your guys where we are on the deal?" goes from "Got to tell new kid on the way" to "Go to hell. Nuke is on the way."
Ukomba
Where's me Turian doing Air Quotes picture when I need it?
Kwil:
There's a difference between retarded speech correction and intentionally malicious self aware AI. Autocorrect may be the cause of Armageddon, but not due to intentional malice on the part of the program.
Formica Archonis
Let's see, evidence of each one trying to kill me....
Cancer: Cancer already tried once.
Robots: A coder watched the Terminator movies.
I'm guessing cancer.
Baresark
Eh, I'm not convinced. I mean, they would have to have some understanding of how things evolve and most software engineers are far to ignorant to know this. The human brain has evolved continuously. When it evolved a system for sight, it then started evolving a system for sight on top of that system. It's the same for almost all parts of the brain. In order for a machine to eventually have the ability to wipe out humans, the original programmers would have to understand this process. But they don't. Software is always the same; "We made system X to handle task Y. We're done!" This is humanities biggest weakness in creating true AGI. It would have to be aware of itself to the extent it would need to know how to evolve itself. Also, they are assuming that an AGI would be as clueless as humans in encroaching on foreign environments (AGI and humans would have very different environment needs unlike humans and great apes who share the same environment needs), or at very least hostile towards people, which there is no reason to assume it would be.
Truth be told, someone would have to fund these guys, and that sounds like asking for government handouts. To which I would say a resounding no, personally.
thesilentman
My brain is hurting because of what the guy's suggesting. Seriously? Reproducing software? Computers writing their own software?! I can't be the only one to call it BS. Call me back when you all successfully teach computers emotions, okay?
Evil Smurf
I thought is would be the fact that Mobile phones are giving us cancer. Maybe the robots are rising up....
Strazdas
On december 21st the first sentien computer will boot up. mark my words.
well, we already have computer viruses that re-write themselves to stay undetectable. thats as much evolution as we managed to get computers to do. its scary really, as one day they may accidentally rewrite themselves to be smart, you know, pretty much like how evolution works. its just that the information amount is so small this probably never will happen. one of our body cells store more information than our largest hard drive. and rewrites itself with every generation.
well our machinery progresses fast and will continue to do so, but i think we will develop implants that speed up our processing (like a robotic eye that is superior) before we invent true AI, which will lead is to become brains in robot bodies or even ghost in the machine before AI will develop. And by then, we may as well consider AI our equal. Except that it will likely be more logical.
Halyah
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I assume they are speaking AI that'd be on our level of self awareness here with the same mental capabilities in terms of free will. So an AI may very well turn on it's creators in this case, but it ultimately comes down to what an AI's equivalent of instincts tell it or what it feels is the logical conclusion. Also comes down to what a virus could do to it.
Of course anyone who plugs up a true AI to anything that let's it take over anything before it has been rigorously tested for years would definitely be earning their darwin award...
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Beresford Milton Troy DAVIS Update Details
DAVIS, Beresford Milton Troy
17 July 1941, Brisbane, Queensland
Sydney, New South Wales, 22 October 1922
Sandgate, Brisbane, Queensland
Naval cadet
Killed in Action (flying battle), Netherlands, 24 May 1943, aged 20 years
Schoonebeek (Oud Schoonebeek) General Cemetery, Netherlands
Plot 3, Row 1, Grave 752
17 Jul 1941:
Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman, SN 405966, Brisbane, Queensland
Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, SN 405966, No. 460 Squadron (RAAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45
Help us honour Beresford Milton Troy Davis's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.
Beresford Milton Troy DAVIS was born on 22nd October, 1922 in Sydney, NSW
His parents were Harry Michael DAVIS and Jessie Venus TROY who married in 1919 in Sydney
Inscription on his headstone reads
"DEARER TO OUR MEMORY THAN WORDS CAN TELL" MOTHER
Trove - IN MEMORIAM
DAVIS - A loving tribute to the memory of my darling son, Flight Sergeant Beresford Milton Troy Davis aged 20 years, pilot of Lancaster, who lost his life an air operations from England, May 24th, 1943, joining his dear Father Harry Davis who passed away suddenly 8th May, 1942
"Sheltered in Gods love" Mother
"In the garden of memories we meet every day"
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Watch Katy Perry, Luke Bryan And Lionel Richie Wear Animal Costumes On 'Kelly And Ryan'
The "American Idol' judges also played a game of "Who's Most Likely"
'American Idol' Renewed For Season 2
It looks like Luke Bryan , Katy Perry , and Lionel Richie will return to our television screens for Season 2 of ABC's American Idol . The judging panel announced the news today (May 4) via Twitter along with the host, Ryan Seacrest . According to The Hollywood Reporter , "Promising news for the...
VOTE: Who Are You Rooting for in American Idol's Top 24?
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Luke Bryan Dishes on ‘American Idol’ Premiere
Luke Bryan appeared on Good Morning America March 6 to dish on all things American Idol.
Don't Expect to See The "Bad Auditions" on the New 'American Idol'
The showrunner for the 'American Idol' reboot revealed the show won't show too many of the infamous "bad" auditions.
WATCH: Luke Bryan Discovers What Makes Kelly Clarkson, Cole Swindell, and Others Country
Luke Bryan 's sixth studio album, What Makes You Country , is due out December 8. The country superstar wanted to ask that very question to some of his friends including Kelly Clarkson , Lionel Richie , Cole Swindell , and Lauren Alaina . There are plenty of stories to be told behind the American...
WATCH: Luke Bryan Receives Piano Lesson From Lionel Richie
The new judges of American Idol are already feeling right at home together. While on set for auditions of the singing competition reboot in Nashville, Lionel Richie gave Luke Brya n a piano lesson backstage. Richie's wise advice to Bryan... "all you need to do is find four chords." The pair has a...
WATCH: Luke Bryan Makes First Appearance as 'American Idol' Judge
Luke Bryan officially announced he will be joining American Idol as a judge alongside Lionel Richie and Katy Perry . The show is returning on ABC in 2018 and will be hosted by Ryan Seacrest . Idol's new judges made an appearance on Good Morning America October 3 to talk all about their new roles...
EXCLUSIVE: Luke Bryan on Meeting His Hero Lionel Richie
When Luke Bryan met his hero, Lionel Richie , he was everything he prayed and hoped he'd be. The country superstar told us he was blatantly honest with the music icon on how nervous he was to finally be the presence of one of his top influences. During our EXCLUSIVE interview, the " Light It Up "...
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OPINION | Barry Richard: Politics Leave Mass Schools Unsafe
Massachusetts schools are no safer today than they were when a high school in Parkland, Florida was attacked by a known madman with a gun on Valentine's Day.
For all of the debate about gun laws, the Second Amendment, arming teachers and increased security, not much has happened. And it appears not much will happen.
We can't "hey hey" and "ho ho" our way to safer schools. Student walkouts and marches in Washington, D.C. won't prevent a single student from dying the next time a madman with a gun attacks a school.
I've got some bad news for the gun haters. The Second Amendment is not going to be repealed. NRA membership has skyrocketed since student demonstrations began. And yes, there will be another school shooting. More students and staff will die unnecessarily.
Immediately following the Parkland shooting, President Trump offered sensible solutions. Rather than launching into the same old "blame the gun" tirade, Trump questioned why our schools are largely unprotected in the first place. He suggested using retired military officers to provide security for our schools, and said arming trained and qualified teachers would give our students and staff a fighting chance, should they come under attack.
Trump's ideas were attacked and dismissed by the left, which has offered nothing in the way of alternatives for making our schools safer. The leftists say armed protection would make the schools less safe. Seriously? Do armed guards make the Capitol and State House less safe?
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education voted unanimously yesterday to reject arming teachers. The vote is meaningless, as it carries no weight of authority at all. Meaningless. So, why debate it at all, if not motivated by politics? It is comforting to note that the board made no recommendations whatsoever about how to make the schools more secure.
By the way, state lawmakers who bloviate about the NRA and AR-15's have yet to allocate a single dollar for school security since Parkland.
Maybe when we're tired of marching and walking out, and CNN Town Hall discussions lose their luster, we can get down to the real debate over what it will take to make our schools safe once and for all.
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Play "Kick Obama's Ass!"
Click "jouer" and proceed. Click once to get the proper ass angle, then click again to give him the boot. The French part is a mystery. Honest. Injun.
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Thankfully, There Can Only Be One, Warren Buffett
Today I read an interesting CNN Money report about Warren Buffett. Warren was doing his usual diarrhea of the mouth routine now that he is an expert on everything. I am not sure why Buffett irritates me so...well that's not true...actually I do know.
He thinks that his money gives him the credibility to say anything he wants and that people will listen. That everything he says just has to be right. Because he says so. http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/02/09/warren-buffett-berkshire-shareholder-letter/?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29
Let me explain a weird concept I have. Perhaps you have considered it yourself.
Destiny. In any given capitalistic society, or at least one that starts out that way, there will be winners and losers. Rich people and poor people. That is destined to happen. So I don't see Warren as some special man with insightful powers. I see a guy who made some good investment decisions and made gobs of money for himself. Warren or somebody else with a different name had to happen. That's it. That's destiny. It's like winning the lottery. It's going to happen but nobody knows who it will be. But it will be somebody. The great thing about lottery winners is that at least they don't go running their mouths about how smart they are.
In fact, we all know that the winner is an idiot for buying the ticket in the first place.
The computer was going to be invented. Someone would do that. We now know who those "someones" are. That's destiny. If not them- then someone else.
Warren kind of represents the Jurassic era of investing. He just happened to be walking rare earth with the right investing model at the right time.
Let me explain this further. If Warren's brief life had started in 1990 rather than 1930- I believe that history would not even record his name. Why? Because the absolute perfect growing conditions no longer exist in that investing petri dish which Warren did so well in... Warren exists because he was born at the perfect time. That's it. An ungrateful old dinosaur who does not understand that the world created him- that he didn't create himself. Humility for Warren is simply some word mentioned in Greek mythology.
I believe in destiny. That certain things are just destined to happen. Like lottery winners. Someone is destined to win.
The Federal Reserve has single handedly rescued the stock market. It's a sick market. We haven't had any kind of consumer lead rebound or rally. There is nothing holding this market up except a bunch of banks buying equities lead by the Federal printing press Reserve who is more than willing to try every trick imaginable. It's a market that trades up not because we as a nation are fundamentally improving and on the mend- but because a bunch of politicians, corporations, and bankers are manipulating it higher. Willing to lie and spin any number- anything but the truth. That is the illusion.
We are at the end game. Warren wants to live the rest of his life believing that he alone knows what everyone else should be doing. His billions are dwarfed only by his ego. He is one of the protectors of the illusion. The illusion that you can steal money from everyone else without producing anything. Everyone can get rich by stealing the work product of others. Contributing nothing yourself. Sooner or later that game has to end. It is not mathematically possible for all of us to steal the wealth of the people who produce things. We cannot all be billionaires.
Wealth without work. Like my friend Billy Moonbat says, "We are all trying to make the maximum amount of money with the least amount of work." That is the goal- the illusion of all of us.
Guys like Warren won't go away easily. We don't have the means to accommodate many more of them. Strangely, I see that as a good thing.
Funniest Subtitle Ever
The Feral Irishman uses this on his blog. I wish I had found it first.
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression
or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not,
in fact, just surrounding yourself with Assholes” William Gibson(Coop)
Anyone Who Disagrees With Our Government Is a Terrorist
Our government, desperately trying to cling to credibility, is now labeling anyone who disagrees with them a terrorist. This is a necessary part of the endgame- the one where we finally get so fed up that we drag the guillotines to D.C.
We probably should have had them ready ten years ago.
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/ter%C2%B7ror%C2%B7ist-noun-anyone-who-disagrees-government
Our Transparent Leader
Barry Soetoro's Columbia University ID? Photoshopped? No more so than that last birth certificate he offered up...http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/02/too-good-to-check-barry-soetoros.html
So while that ID is most likely a fake, this is what is not. All of these items are missing in action. I will add girlfriends as well...
Could you help me please find these things, sir?
1. Occidental College records and transcripts -- Not released
2. Columbia University records and transcripts -- Not released
3. Columbia Thesis paper -- 'not available'
4. Harvard University records and transcripts -- Not released
5. Selective Service Registration -- Not released
6. Medical records -- Not released
7. Illinois State Senate schedule -- 'not available'
8. Law practice client list -- Not released
9. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate -- Not released
10. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth -- Not released
11. Harvard Law Review articles published -- None
12. University of Chicago scholarly articles -- None
13. Record of Baptism -- Not released or 'not available'
14. Illinois State Senate records -- 'not available'
Halftime In America Is A Dream, You Have To Be Asleep To Believe It
I love Clint Eastwood. Back in my heyday, I used to see him running in the mornings around Moonbat Valley. Those were the Sondra Locke days. Wow. She is forgettable.
I absolutely loved Gran Torino. In my neighborhood, I fantasize that I am that guy. Only I don't like Muslims and honor killers. Sorry, Mohammad worshippers.
So when my hero ran that really cool cheer leading ad during the Superbowl, I wasn't especially surprised. You get this feeling that Eastwood is just as tough as his raspy voice and he probably is.
It's a misconception perpetuated by celebrities and the hoi polloi that our economy is going to come roaring back. It is complete and utter bullshit. It is absolutely mathematically impossible. If you never read one more thing on this blog- please know this. You cannot grow an economy with a crumbling tax base, the loss of 15 million structural jobs, jobs that pay nothing, a greedy banking and corporate world, and an administration with no plan beyond what iron to hit off the tee.
I have never in my life witnessed such an abject failure of leadership. President Obama is the epitome of an ass. We could not have elected a worse person.
So just what makes Eastwood think we're going to turn this around? Clint, bless his heart, is an actor. He engages in fantasy. That's what he does for a living. In the real world, it takes people with personal courage who will be castigated for standing up.
Perhaps Clint has some secret plan that pays that 16.4 trillion debt, that pays for the 80 trillion coming due and payable in the next 20 years in medicare and social security. Some cost free way to fight two or three wars at the same time, bring back 50 dollar oil, and provide free health care for 300 million people. Some plan to get back those 15 million lost jobs, return American businesses to the United States, restructure the entire tax code against the wishes of the elite who enjoy it just the way it is, and remove Obama and that socialist Supreme Court from our midst.
Yea Clint, solve that shit. Come up with a plan. Then I will listen to the cheer leading.
We voted a cheerleader into office in 2008. We see how well that's been working. Halftime in America? Sorry Clint- halftime was nearly two quarters ago.
The Insanity of Our Judicial System
I clipped this story the other day.
I am going to break my profanity vow. Well, the abbreviated version anyway. To this story, I say
W. T. F.??
I don't like lawyers. In fact, I've learned to dislike them. As a group of individuals, and I am comfortable with this stereotype, I have never found a more arrogant and ego centered class of people. Of course there are exceptions, and I know a few, but they are rare.
At any rate... this is a story of outlandish cop behavior, followed up by outlandish lawyer behavior, and capped off with a jury award of 22 million.
Here's the deal. Some guy gets tossed into jail and forgotten. How? I have no idea. But he is forgotten for TWO YEARS???
So they have a trial. The man involved gets awarded 22 million dollars. I don't mind giving a damaged man a million or two- although some might argue that's excessive. Let me put it to you this way. Most of us would gladly sit in jail for two years for a million bucks.
The problem with not capping awards is this. Lawyers work on contingencies. They often take half the jury award for themselves plus expenses. All of that money comes from somewhere. That somewhere is generally a tax payer funded insurance system. In other words, tax payers very often line the pockets of attorneys who do nothing more than a little research and talk for a few days.
The court system is more than happy to steal taxpayer money and award it to themselves. That's why we need court reform- desperately. This out of control behavior and broken system has been allowed to continue unchecked- for decades. Almost half of the Congress are lawyers. Your President is a lawyer. The Supreme Court are all lawyers. It never changes.
This story raises far more questions than it answers. It's beyond bizarre. I may search for a more detailed version than this one- but here it is. http://news.yahoo.com/nm-man-pulled-own-tooth-jail-awarded-22m-224826036.html
Figures Never Lie, Liars Figure
I just got called in for the graveyard shift.
There was an absolute target rich environment of news stories today. Some serious bullshitting is taking place here and around the world. I get the feeling we are in the eye of the hurricane...Clint Eastwood's (my hero) big Superbowl speech not withstanding.
I stumbled onto Dave in Denver's Golden Truth blog six months ago. He wrote a piece today about the fraud our government posted on Friday- the jobs report. A government so willing to lie and manipulate our "publicly owned and generated stats" scares me- but I've come to expect it.
Nobody tells that story better than Dave. Very thorough, well done. http://truthingold.blogspot.com/2012/02/bureau-of-lying-statistics.html
Remember This Scene?
Addict-alcoholic-addict. The Clinton-Bush-Obama troika. Will Hunting had it right years earlier.
Would Anyone Listen To George Washington Today?
No, of course not. They'd label him a kook.
The Frankenstein Government Big Game Schtick*Updated
I never like it when two east coast teams get in. Being a western boy means I don't really have a lot to root for here. Here's how I analyze the big tilt.
I have always maintained that the team with the best defense has a huge edge in the Superbowl. That nod goes to the Giants.
The Giants beat New England in the regular season.
Looking at schedule strength which was very similar- I think the Patriots had a tougher schedule and played a little better. This is debatable. But I give the edge to the Pats because they did not lose to any crappy teams which the Giants did.
One could argue that the Pats shouldn't even be here albeit for a missed field goal. I could say the same thing about the Giants and those two fumbles of San Francisco's.
All my friends'... the smart money says- it's the Giants.
I think they are wrong. I'll tell you why. Tom Brady is a determined on field general. Belly check may be the best coach I have ever seen. They make their rival coach and QB look like pikers. They prepare better and they are veterans. There is also one other thing I like. Revenge. The Patriots had their perfect season snuffed out a few years ago by the Giants.
It's payback time. Take the Pats and give the 3 points. I am staying away from the over/under but I lean over 53. Who can argue with Joe Namath?
*So much for predictions. If I had bet on this game and thankfully, I would never bet because it is illegal, I would probably have lost 210 bucks or so.
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Syrian relief Fund
The Democratic Telegraph
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Sweden to get their new government after four months of elections
6 months ago The Writter
Sweden’s parliament has voted to give the Social Democrat leader, Stefan Löfven, a second term in office at the head of a new centre-left minority government, ending more than four months of deadlock following an inconclusive election.
The caretaker prime minister will take office on Monday, governing in a coalition with the Green party and with the parliamentary backing of the Centre and Liberal parties, formerly members of the four-party centre-right opposition Alliance.
The 9 September election produced a hung parliament, with the centre-right and centre-left blocs that have dominated Swedish politics for decades each securing about 40% of the vote and separated by a single seat, heralding months of complex coalition talks.Advertisement
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11 Creepy Phone Numbers That Actually Work (Halloween 2018)
October 15, 2018 by Lucia
Previously: 088-8888-888.
Fact: I hate the telephone. I have trouble talking to people when I can’t see who I’m talking to; I’d much rather either speak face-to-face or converse in a text-base medium. (I am a writer, after all.) But I’m willing to make an exception for… shall we say, special cases: I am more than willing to call creepy phone numbers that actually work. It helps, of course, that most of these creepy phone numbers don’t require that you actually speak with anyone; when you dial them, you almost always reach a voicemail box set to play a spooky recording to anyone who rings. Still, though — I will happily set aside my phone phobia in pursuit of that delightful frisson one gets from a brush with the unknown. Especially around Halloween.
Novelty hotlines are nothing new; indeed, I would argue that their heyday occurred during the ‘80s and ‘90s, at which time you could call everyone from Freddy Krueger to the Ninja Turtles. Their popularity began to wane during the 2000s — but interestingly, we’ve seen them evolve in the years since, too. Thanks to free, online tools like Google Voice, pretty much anyone with internet access can set up a weird novelty number with ease. What’s more, the draw of a novelty phone number might even be stronger than ever — possibly because we so rarely use our phones these days to actually, y’know, make calls. Distance makes the heart grow fonder and all.
Sadly, a good deal of formerly wonderful creepy phone numbers are no longer in service (RIP, Call Carrie White) — but I can attest to the fact that, as of Fall 2018, all of the numbers seen here are in working order. I know, because I called every single one of them myself. I am also, you might note, still alive and well, so it’s… shall we say, unlikely that any of these numbers is actually “cursed,” “haunted,” or otherwise dangerous to call. They are, however, all based in the United States, so you might want to be wary of long-distance charges if you’re calling from somewhere else. Phone bills can quickly become one of the most frightening things of all.
So, if you’re feeling brave this Halloween season — or any other time of year — try giving these numbers a ring.
Who knows? Maybe you’ll get lucky.
Maybe one of them will call you back.
Remember the SCP Foundation? This phone number is a fun little Easter egg pegged to the fictional organization. It’s basically a tip line: Upon calling, you’ll be greeted with a recorded message informing you that you’ve reached the Southern California, Division 19 branch of the Foundation and asking you to leave the date, time, location, and description of an “incident” you may have witnessed — an incident which you believe requires the Foundation’s… unique skill set. The number is based in Banning, Calif., which is located in Riverside County just north of the San Bernardino National Forest.
I don’t know if they call you back, though; I didn’t leave a message. The strangest thing I’ve witnessed so far today has been my cat running around the house like a maniac for about 20 minutes before engaging in a sudden and abrupt nap — which is perfectly normal behavior for her and therefore did not require SCP Foundation intervention.
A lot of rumors surround this number, the freakiest of which insists that it’s a so-called “red room number” — a number which can allegedly be used to track down the physical location of people who either call the number themselves or answer calls they receive from it, after which they are kidnapped, brought to a “red room,” and tortured, killed, or both. These alleged torture sessions/murders are said to be broadcast live over the deep web.
I can assure you, however, that 408-634-2806 is not a red room number. As far as I know, red room numbers don’t even exist; they’re just an urban legend — a legend which, notably, forms the premise of the of the video game series Welcome to the Game. Indeed, it’s not even totally clear how the number 408-634-2806 gained a reputation for being a red room number in the first place; the clearest link I’ve been able to find is still tenuous: YouTube channel MKP Studios’ video on 408-634-2806 starts out by likening it to an alleged red room number they had previously called, but fails to actually connect the two numbers in any meaningful way.
So: If 408-634-2806 is not a red room number, what the heck is it? Because it’s still really weird-sounding; when you call it, you hear a recording of demonic voices, someone saying “All’s well that ends well,” and a spooky music box. It’s got to be connected to something, right?
The answer is yes. It’s connected to the iOS game Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, which was released by Capybara Games in 2011. At the end of the game, you’re given a number that turns out to be this phone number. It may have been part of an ARG attached to the game that never quite took off, or it may not have been; I don’t know that the meaning of the message you hear when you call the number has ever been “solved.”
Then again, maybe it doesn’t have to be. Also, it’s worth noting that the message reportedly changed a few times. Just, y’know… FYI.
[NOTE: If you try this one, make sure you dial it correctly. It’s 828-756-0109. A common misdial for this one goes to a real person’s phone number. If you hear anything other than the message heard in the video here, you’ve misdialed. Don’t bug the person, and don’t be rude or obscene. But, again, ideally, check to make sure you’ve entered the number correctly BEFORE you hit the “call” button so as to avoid that whole situation in the first place.]
This number is a true mystery. I can tell you where it’s based (Marion, North Carolina, in McDowell County about 85 miles west and slightly north of Charlotte); I can tell you what you hear when you call it (some earsplitting noises and a man’s voice frantically relaying what sounds like a message coded in binary); I can even tell you what the binary says when it’s been converted into text (“death”); but I can’t tell you anything else. I have no idea who made it, what it means, or what it may or may not be connected to.
It’s super weird, though. Call it. It’ll give you chills.
If you call what is possibly my favorite find from the research process for this post, you’ll reach a clown named Wrinkles who lives in Naples, Fla. and will, according to the Washington Post, “make an appearance at your party or gathering, prank your friend, or even scare your misbehaving kid straight” for the low, low price of a few hundred bucks. Very little is known about the man behind Wrinkles; he’s in his 60s, retired, and originally from Rhode Island, but that’s all he’ll say to reporters. He’s definitely got the evil clown market cornered, though — and if you call this phone number, you’ll get his voicemail. Leave him a message and he’ll call you back.
Technically this one is a video game tie-in, but as one Metafilter use put it, “You don’t have to know anything about the game to appreciate the sheer oddity and scope of what there is to listen to on this phone number.” That game is Kentucky Route Zero, a magical realist point-and-click adventure that’s been releasing episodes periodically since 2013; episodes one through four are live now, with the fifth and final episode scheduled for release at some point in 2018. It’s delightful — as are the auxiliary experiences developers Jake Elliott and Tamas Kemenczy have been releasing between episodes.
This phone number is one of those auxiliary experiences. Called Here and There Along the Echo, the phone tree you’ll reach if you dial 207-301-5797 purports to be “a guide to the Echo River for drifters and pilgrims” provided by “the Bureau of Secret Tourism.” It’s weird and surreal, yet also wonderfully serene — and there’s plenty to explore as you dial your way through the various menus to which it gives you access. Pro tip: The first time you’re presented with some options, dial 5.
If you’re into Welcome to Night Vale or the works of David Lynch, you’ll probably dig both Kentucky Route Zero and Here and There Along the Echo. Check ‘em out.
I’ll confess that I didn’t enjoy the actual gameplay of Hotline Miami that much — I’m kind of, uh, not great at top-down shooters — but the story and storytelling are both A-plus; I’m also a sucker for interesting marketing, and, well… this phone number and the message that was placed on its answering machine in advance of the release of Hotline Miami 2 definitely tick all those boxes. Bonus points for the fact that the number is actually a Miami number.
The 786-519-3708 phone number wasn’t new for Hotline Miami 2; indeed, the Hotline Miami Twitter account has been tweeting the number since 2012, prior to the original game’s release in October of that year. But in February of 2015, the number appeared with some new context on the series’ Twitter feed: This time, it included an extension number. What’s more, when fans dialed the number, they found that a new message recorded—the message that’s still there today. When properly analyzed, the message combined with the extension number (10) provided a full title and release date for the second game in the series: Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, to be released on March 10, 2015. And that’s exactly what happened.
The voicemail message is short, but it’s still pretty freaky to listen to; give it a call if you like.
“Fishing in a mountain stream is my idea of a good time.”
“There was water in the cellar after the heavy rain.”
“Smoke poured out of every crack.”
“Those words were the cue for the actor to leave.”
These are the kinds of sentences you’ll hear if you dial 858-651-5050. They’re spoken by two people — one with a male-sounding voice and one with a female-sounding voice — who just sit there, intoning these poetic yet meaningless messages for as long as you choose to stay on the line.
However, there’s a perfectly rational explanation behind this number: It’s a phone testing tool. The sentences, known as Harvard sentences, were chosen for their phonetic balance — that is, “the frequency of sounds in these lists [match] that of natural language,” as Sarah Zhang put it at Gizmodo in 2015; they “hit all the noises a person would typically hear in a conversation.” According to Ernie Smith writing at Motherboard, calling this number allows phone companies to “ensure the signal quality is strong” — that is, it’s the “can you hear me now?” of phone tests.
It’s still weird, though. It’s the lack of context that makes what you hear when you call the number kind of unsettling.
An oldie but goodie: 630-296-7536 is the original Boothworld Industries phone number. To read the story that launched a thousand phone calls, head here.
Aaaand here’s the second Boothworld Industries phone number. We’ve covered this one in depth before — check it out here.
Like several other numbers on this list, this one is a video game tie-in — this time for the infamous Five Nights At Freddy’s series. It’s not clear whether the number is canon or whether it’s fan made; either way, though, it’s pretty unmistakably FNaf-related to those familiar with the games: The voice we hear seems to be a garbled version of Phone Guy, and about 32 seconds in, the aria “Votre toast, je peux vous le render” from the opera Carmen — colloquially known as the Toreador Song — which signifies the approach of the Freddy Fazbear animatronic in the game kicks in.
It is not, as some YouTube videos featuring the phone number have suggested, a “cursed phone number” that will make you behave erratically and/or kill you “within 24 hours of calling it.”
Whether or not you know the source material, though, it’s still pretty spooky to listen to; give it a ring if you want to see what the hubbub is all about.
Perhaps the only number on this list that’s more cryptic than the one featuring binary code that translates to “death” is this one. If you call 978-435-9163, you’ll hear a looped message of a man sobbing. He sounds like he’s maybe in a cave or a sewer; there’s a lot of echo and reverb, and it sounds kind of like something’s dripping somewhere in the background. Oh, and periodically, you’ll hear something screech — something that sounds decidedly not human.
It’s a Massachusetts number — as a Massachusetts native, I recognized that right off the bat — and it turns out it’s registered in Billerica, a town not too far away from where I grew up. But other than that, I know nothing about this number — not who owns it, not what the bigger story might be, not even exactly what’s going on in it.
And that, I think, is the creepiest thing of all.
Oh, hey — gotta run. My phone is ringing.
Even though I’m, uh… not actually expecting any calls.
It’s probably fine.
Hang tight, okay? I’ll be right back.
…I hope.
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Haunting says
I’ll probably call them, thanks for the update! Creepy as always.
Anaiah says
Guys I’m scared to death because I called the 978 number and it picked up. I heard like sobbing and stuff and like sewers dripping and I hung up I hope I don’t die…😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I cried says
Did you die ??….
Oof says
Hi says
Wow😭😭😭😭
Sjsjsk says
Are you dead??
Xenny says
Don’t worry, it’s just a voice mail. Nothing will really happen, you will probably just have nightmares
Pee says
You dead?
Kiara says
I called that one too!!! We listened to the whole thing and then a huge beep went off and we jumped off out chairs!!!
muhamed says
did u die?
Baej says
Imma call the police on you.
Lenora Parchman says
These numbers are interesting. I’ll call them. Hope I’m not cursed.
I called all of them, they’re pretty cool.
Feste says
Have you heard of Zioptis? It’s a bit of an old mystery, but their phone number is fun for the sheer oddity and variety of the messages:
Their website purports to be a hotline for haunted attractions…but nothing on their hotline has anything to do with haunted houses.
http://www.zioptis.com
I’ll have to check that one out — thanks for the recommendation!
Addison Greear says
That 313 number rang for 2 minutes. Not joking. It rang and rang and rang, nobody answered, but nobody hung up. Strange..
Trinity says
Yeah. The same thing happened to me.
Already Tracer says
Ya it did. I just did it and I am freaking out.
Damon Major says
I almost cried when the SCP Foundation answered the first number.
Amara says
Omg me too
Those phone numbers are literally super scary. You should call them!!🙊🙈
Casity says
Dude I called one and it was a really deep male voice I couldn’t make out what it was saying but I did hear see you again in the red room and now I’m freaked out.
Wen hou says
Please don’t call these numbers because is very scary and you never know what noise you will hear from call 088_0888_08888 so don’t call 666_666_6666 and so don’t 1_666_666_66666 and so don’t call 1_00000000
And so don’t call 999_999_9999 and so don’t call 666 and so don’t call 1_0888_0888_08888
Brad says
(323) 999-6616 is also very creepy. Like a secret government thing – deep state ghouls!
I went through the menu on this number and chose a class 3 violation and IT TOOK ME BACK TO THE ECHO PHONE NUMBER
Destinee says
I didn’t hear anything 😑🤔
james queen says
Do these phone numbers actually go through?
Cheyenne says
Are you Alive and ok still?
Arraya says
I’ll call ALL of the numbers! I have them written down!
Carrick Knarr says
The fnaf does not work.
It works — I just double checked it. Some of the numbers here ring for a while before the recordings they connect to play, so you might just have to stay on the line a little longer.
I know that some of this are recordings on these things it does not sound real and if it is I am creeped out but somehow I call the police because I think the police took over the number! 😐
You may have just misdialed — I wouldn’t worry too much!
Christian says
Yes it does, you have to wait
Frannie says
We’ll all I’ve got to say is that on one number a male picked up and started saying all is well but me and my cousin freaked out and we hung up real quick💯🙏💀😭😑
arina says
I always get a “user busy” message when I try calling the last one.
Works for me. Creepy.
Prankster says
A guy asked for my number and I gave him the demon number lol
John Dung says
I just cannot understand why in the love of god you have disabled copypaste on this page when people want to call these numbers for themselves.
Sorry. We’ve had a lot of issues with our content getting straight-up stolen and republished elsewhere, word for word, without permission or credit, so copy-paste has been disabled across the entire site in an effort to curb the problem somewhat.
Phone numbers that worked for me: 408-634-2806, 828-756-0109, 786-519-3708, 858-651-5050, and 978-435-0163.
I heard the 408 one say, “see you in the python”
dae says
HOLY SH*T. I called the 407 number and I thought I heard my last name. It’s scary. :”'(
Lea L says
You’re mistaking it for another word, I’m guessing, bc when I called, I didn’t hear my name or last name once.
This one freaks me out even more:
It’s like a Halloween haunted house with 100 rooms!
kayleigh says
No numbers worked for me.
They’re all still operational — I just double checked them. Not sure where you’re dialing from, but they ARE all U.S.-based, in case you’re calling from elsewhere.
Biwly says
All of them worked for me
One of these numbers somehow gets redirected to my business phone. I’ve received a few calls from people saying they got my number from this website. My number is not listed here and I called all of them and non seem to redirect to me. Every time I answer the people on the other end are freaked out which is kind of funny but I still have no idea why I am receiving calls from people on this website.
Hi! I’m so sorry about that! I just called all the numbers again to confirm that they were all accurate, and they all connected me with the various recordings they were supposed (that is, NOT to your business phone!) — maybe people are misdialing one of the numbers here?
Everyone else, here’s your reminder to check to make sure you’ve inputted the correct number before you call!
Creepykid says
We are cracking the code for 828-756-0109 right now, tell you what happens.
Creepy says
the number 828b755 0109: the binary code spells out death.
alyssa says
so I called all the numbers and the 701 went out of signal coincidence????
Krazonix says
I will be calling all these numbers live on an app called live.me! Check it out 10PM (EST), Mar. 1 2019.
I’m scared to call them because idk if it’ll actually work.
anyone have momo’s number?
Momo/the real one says
Yea it’s me
heavyn says
momo’s phone number is 801-820-0263
Fnaf fan says
I called the fnaf one! It just said something about a google subscriber!
Dakota says
Why? Like what’s the point In calling the police?
Kaydence says
I called the 978 number and it just hangs up right away.
Gotti_gurl says
I just dialed the phone number with the man sobbing and after the screech I stayed on the line and then it beeped but still kept going….weird
Brennan says
1-(646)-868-1844 can be pretty creepy. I called it last night and got totally spooked.
Dude it sent me a text. A poem. It was freaking AF.
Patricia Garcia says
did you get a message from them? cause i did it’s kinda creepy
I got a message from this one that reads (chapter too parties its letter no. Cheerful but whatever ladyship disposed yet judgement. Lasted answer oppose us months no esteem ) any one make sense of that?
Dank says
978 is creepy. I hear a guy/girl cry/laugh and I’m scared
Oscar says
All I got was: “Calls to this number are barred”
Galixykity says
They all work the red room one terrified me and I got tears in my eyes
All the numbers work
I hope I don’t die…
Noah says
Lucas says
What is the scariest one?
Jenaynay says
I called the 409 one and I’m so scared Right now!
Joline says
I called all the numbers I hope I don’t die 😭
What one was the scp foundation?
Rayne says
The all worked
It was creepy
And it was scaring me
I am not dead thankfully. But these 11 creepy numbers scared the living hell out of me. Unless you want to be horrified then call every single one these numbers. If not the DON’T call these numbers!!!!!
Will these numbers work if I’m dialing from a Canada number?
Do these numbers work in Canada?
Ksenia Dubych says
Yeah, you just need to put a 1 before the number.
Annonymous says
I looked the number 801-820-0263 up a few times the first time it said it was the warranty center then the next time the ghost hotline. I called it it said 117 then rahhhhh.
Savage Wolf says
IT FREAKING WORKS OMG I TRIED ALL OF THEM WITH MY FRIEND THEY WORK OMGGGGG 😢😢
Spencer says
My friend called the number (she called on her phone, I’m on my laptop) and when she hung up the man sobbing transferred to my laptop!
OMG!!!! It’s 1:30 AM and I just called the 4:08 number and it worked! First I heard creepy music playing, then I heard a creepy man’s voice say “all’s well that ends well” and I couldn’t understand the rest of it but it sounded like it said “see you in the python”. Now I’m scared to go to sleep!😭
Little one says
I honestly can’t wait to call these numbers because I love horror things
I called Carrie (1 207 404 2604) and I could hear someone hanging the phone up but then it just kept saying 604 338 three times and then it started beeping so I called 604 338 and it didn’t ring for like half a minute and then I could hear someone hanging up but then it didn’t work and so I called 1 604 338 and the same thing happened. I also called the rest of the numbers and for the wrinkles the clown number I gave him a fake address and told him to scare my kids to death. Then for Boothworld, I told them my name and set the day for today. Wish me luck! Also Wrinkles the clown has a twitter profile @yaboiwrinkles.
*V*I*A* says
OhMehGosh…..
Needless to say, they work. Or at least, most of them do… the last one killed me… It was fuckin creepy.
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The King’s Arms, Salford; Friday 5th July, 2019
I T ’ S A P A R T Y ! !
That’s what the bunting says. The music is on, the drinks are flowing: Bri (Like The Cheese) is throwing a massive party and we’re all invited!!
She’s got the party poppers popping, she’s got paper hats, balloons, booze – all we need to do is put our hands up like the ceiling can’t hold us!
No but hold on. Yeah ok, so she’s obviously quite gobby; not in, like, a bad way – maybe it’s just because she’s so short, maybe she thinks she needs to say more than others??? I’m not being funny or anything but she is quite short, just saying, she admitted it herself.
Don’t know.
But she definitely does talk a lot. Bri (Like The Cheese) says that because of her height she’s never been physical, instead she fights with words.
Gobby the play is an hour-long house-party mingle where the audience says a massive “Hiya!!” and Bri (Like The Cheese) then gives it some side chat – mostly about all these other get-togethers that she’s been to in, like, the last two years or something.
She says all these other parties were a bit minging, loads of cringing weirdness going on. Like being so nervous that you act surprised to see someone even though you’re at their house party. That kind of weird.
Perhaps she’s just a bit shy or something, a bit nervous maybe?
Anyway, there was that time with Some Guy who was a bit weird; then Beth did that Come Dine With Me thing at her place; oh and there was FULLY FLIRTING WITH MICK which was way too weird. Basically there were some properly weird parties.
Thankfully Gobby the play isn’t another one of those weird gatherings that you kind of just want to get out of. Yeah ok it is a bit weird, but it’s weird in a good way.
Writer and performer Jodie Irvine is the hostess of this one-woman soirée, sneakily crafting a happy, smiley knees-up vibe that hides something a little bit weird in the background.
She’s ok is the party girl Bri (Like The Cheese), she’s not like a weirdo or anything but it sounds like she has some issues in her past. It’s obviously all got something to do with Him and the way he treated her, but it feels a bit weird to ask as we don’t really know her.
But you know what, whatever it was all about, she seems to have gotten over it now. She doesn’t seem to care anymore and like she said: just feel whatever you want whenever you want it, and dance away like a clichéd millennial dick head.
I think she just wants to have a good party.
She’s allright is Bri (Like The Cheese), we could probably be mates actually. And as far as house parties go it was ok you know, I’ve definitely been to a lot worse 🙂
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Listen, the offer sheet rumours aren’t going away, so let’s talk about the recent one here
July 5, 2019, 12:18 PM | Jon Steitzer
I get it. You don’t want to hear about Mitch Marner or offer sheets or Paul Marner or Darren Dreger or frankly anything that isn’t the Leafs PR twitter account announcing a team friendly deal. All of that would be nice, but sadly it’s not the world we live in and with each new development we get a chance to restate our beliefs about how the Marner situation should be handled to any audience willing to pay attention.
I’m sure everyone in your life either real or online already knows the amount you’d be willing to sign Marner for, and when you’d let him walk for picks. They know whether you’d front load or include bonuses. They know the term you prefer and your stance on bridge contracts. We’ve all exhausted this, and are exhausted from it.
That being said, in the absence of real insiders who have retreated to their Muskoka getaways, we’ve had a flurry of information making the rounds connecting Mitch Marner to his former boss, Lou Lamoriello…
I’m hearing offer sheet coming on @Marner93
— Joey Vendetta (@RadioVendetta) July 5, 2019
No day off… new Blog after i received a text…”Killer Marner Offer Sheet Coming? 1 Year $13M” . https://t.co/nfczqpivVc pic.twitter.com/dYWhm5e3z3
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Increased chatter at least 1 team is very seriously considering presenting Mitch Marner with an offer sheet. Unclear on timing, IF it happens. Of course, Marner would have to sign, and if he does, Leafs will have a decision to make. Something to watch, as talks with TOR continue.
— David Pagnotta (@TheFourthPeriod) July 4, 2019
First, let’s consider how little actual information is leaked by the Leafs. Now let’s consider that Dubas is that way because he worked under the notoriously tight lipped Lou Lamoriello, who is apparently the other dance partner involved. While the Marner camp has been more than happy to put absolutely anything and everything out into the world for us to consume, it’s hard to imagine that Lou Lamoriello is as tolerant of this nonsense as Kyle Dubas. In short, all of this seems like a lot of nonsense that is being put out as easy content in a time when hockey content is scarce. (That’s exactly why I’m writing about this too.)
So now that we’ve acknowledged that this is highly unlikely thing to occur, let’s consider what it would take for the Marner camp to entertain this, why and how the Islanders would do this, and whether or not the Leafs would match.
Marner Camp
The Sebastian Aho offer sheet has opened the door to negotiating the deal you want with your current team through another team, and it was executed perfectly with Marc Bergevin more than happy to play the stooge in this. I can’t see Lamoriello willingly playing a stooge, so any offer he puts out there will be genuine. The Marner camp is looking for a deal that expires at the start of Marner’s unrestricted free agent eligibility. He’s going to want a bonus laden deal that pays him during the potential lockout seasons, which is something a bit harder for the Isles to offer up, and he’s going to want something resembling the money that Auston Matthews was paid, a deal that would currently put the Isles over the salary cap, as well as the Leafs, but not so impossible with the movement of some players.
The Marner camp didn’t seem to carry the same sense of urgency as the Leafs in the negotiations, but with Aho already signed to a deal much friendly than what Marner was looking for, there might be a worry that contracts from Point and Tkachuk could make the case for paying Marner much less than he’s looking for. At this point the Leafs are likely the ones who benefit from patience, with the exception of the offer sheet scenario.
Marner would be perfectly happy to play for the Leafs, so I don’t think he’s too concerned if it’s matched or not, so he’s likely free to explore anything paying him in the $11M+ ballpark he seems to be lobbying for.
The Islanders
Other than the fact that every team in the NHL can use a team like Mitch Marner, I’m not sure why there are such strong ties to Islanders. There’s the Islanders fan revenge fantasy for the Leafs signing Tavares. There’s Lou’s familiarity with Marner, but that includes Mitch’s disappointment over not getting ELC bonuses and a rumoured tense relationship between Lamoriello and Paul Marner. There’s also the very real fact that signing Marner now would present a number of challenges for getting Mat Barzal signed next summer when he is a restricted free agent.
That’s not to say that none of this can happen, and with the rest of the Metropolitan division looking stacked next season, the Islanders need to make a move to catch up, as unsustainably hot goaltending is not the best strategy, especially when you let one of those goaltenders walk. Marner would be a piece that allows the Islanders to keep pace with the Devils and Rangers who have loaded up and the Capitals who are always strong, and it would push them away from the bubble of teams like the Flyers, Hurricanes, Penguins, and Blue Jackets.
So with that the Islanders would likely soon be parting with Nick Leddy and Andrew Ladd would likely have a career ending injury, or something along those lines to make it work, but the Islanders aren’t exactly a free spending team either, and up front signing bonuses and paying players bonuses in potential lockout seasons aren’t things we’d expect to see. That’s not to say we won’t but there are some reasonable questions to ask about whether the Islanders pulling this off is plausible.
The Leafs
At this point the Leafs two motivating factors seem to be resolving this before training camp to avoid a Nylander situation, and finding a way to get Marner into the lineup without moving out players they actually want to play. For that to work, the Leafs need a cap hit of around $10.5M or less. Also the amount that is the cut off for offer sheet compensation being 2 1sts, a 2nd, and a 3rd instead of 4 1st round picks. That seems to be the solid line drawn in the sand, and frankly it’s a pretty agreeable one. No matter how good Marner is, that’s a lot of money to commit to winger.
Toronto has the easiest decision in any offer sheet situation, and I think that’s part of the reason why we won’t see one. No one is looking to do the Leafs a favour. Either you’ve handed the Leafs one of their star players back at a contract they were prepared to pay, or you’ve given them 4 1st round picks, and $10M of cap space to spend on the remaining free agents.
What if it’s not the Islanders?
Well, that’s a can of worms and while looking at the Islanders shows there’s always a possibility of an offer sheet, it’s still highly unlikely there are many teams out there looking to go this route. Most teams can afford Marner if they move out someone for futures. Futures they’d probably want to acquire after losing 4 years of firsts, but it’s still an uphill battle financially, and when it comes to the real money, especially the bonus money involved the teams that may try something shrinks significantly.
In closing, sure, why not talk about offer sheets because they certainly would be exciting. While it’s unlikely one happens, the small chance of one has the potential to hold our interest throughout a hockey-less couple of months. Frankly we wouldn’t be having these conversations if the Blue Jays were good. For now we’ll suffer through the cycle of rumour, denial, repeat, and hope that the actual negotiations are yielding something tangible.
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getrdone 2 weeks ago
What??? One year at 13million(from Eklund). Isn’t it correct that an offer sheet like that will be counted as a 5 year term and the 4 first round picks apply. At that rate if I were the Leafs I would take the picks and the cap relief.
Derian Hatcher 2 weeks ago
Let’s just wait for word from Marner fart catcher, opps, NHL insider, Darren Dreger. He’s objective and will give everyone the straight goods.
Willi P 2 weeks ago
Poor little Kyle. He created his own issue. Many GM’s have tried to screw the market up and did, none have totally devalued the discounted RFA years like Dubas.
His Auston Matthews 5 year contract has completely eliminated the RFA discount years. What an i di ot
Bob Canuck 2 weeks ago
If Dubas “completely eliminated the RFA discount”, then how do you explain Aho’s 10.37% cap hit percentage on a five-year deal given Patrick Kane’s first post-ELC deal had a 11.09% cap hit when he signed it in December 2009? At similar stages of their careers, Kane had produced more than Aho and that is reflected in his 0.72 percentage point premium over Aho.
It seems to me that the market’s UFA premium relative to RFA years remains intact.
I explain it as Auston Matthews percentage of cap being 14.63% at the time the contract was signed. UFA contract for an RFA. Panic move by a rookie and incompetent GM and there was no reason to do so (term, $$ or timing). It wrecks the market for all other RFA’s.
You avoided my question regarding Kane and Aho.
It is illogical to claim that Dubas “totally devalued the discounted RFA years” when the sequence of contracts was Kane (2009), Matthews (February 2019), and Aho (July 2019). If your claim was true, then the Kane and Aho contracts (4 RFA years; 1 UFA year) would not be so similar.
When Matthews signed his contract, Bob McKenzie reported that the AAV on an 8-year deal would have been in excess of $13.5 million. McKenzie did not say the AAV ask was in excess of $13.5 million; he said the AAV on an 8-year deal would have been in excess of $13.5 million. McKenzie has a very good reputation for reporting what he knows.
With respect to a contract that includes RFA years, mathematics dictates that the AAV rises as more UFA years are included in the term. Why? Because there is premium paid in respect of UFA years or, to use your phrase, a discount is applied for RFA years. That occurred with Matthews. The AAV on an 8-year deal was higher than it would have been on a 5-year deal. The approximately $2 million difference ($13.5 million less $11.6 million) between the 8-year AAV and the 5-year AAV is in line with the conventional AAV reduction formula of $0.5 million to $1 million per year for every year that the term is less than 8 years. If there was no RFA discount, the AAV would not have been higher on an 8-year deal than it was for a 5-year deal.
You can argue with some justification that the AAV on Matthews deal 5-year deal is too high, which many have. However, you have offered no evidence that Dubas “totally devalued the discounted RFA years”.
The UFA premium/RFA discount is alive and well.
Didn’t avoid it at all. It just proves my point. 14.63% is much greater than 11.09% and 10.37% when your are talking tens of millions.
Matthews a RFA center, $11.634M AAV 5 year contract; 3 year career stat line 111G 94A 205P
Aho’s a RFA center, $8.45M AAV 5 year contract; 3 year career stat line 83G 114A 197P
Tavares UFA center, $11M AAV, 7 year contract; 3 year stat line 112G 126A 238P
Pretty clear evidence to me. Have a nice day.
Oilers4477 2 weeks ago
What I’m wondering is why Marner is doing this for? Marner is a heck of player and it looks like the leafs are going to be a competitive team for a very long time, I understand the cap percentage they sign for and how in 5 years his contract could look like a steal and that the players are trying to get the most money possible, but he’s an Ontario boy, fan favourite, pretty much in every commercial you see now. Why doesn’t he want that 8 year contract he’s got a really good thing going in Toronto. He’s a better player then panarin but that’s what free Agency is over paying players. Marner deserves 10.5 at the most, and saying the tax is irrelevant cause star players contract are all in bonuses to avoid that. I hope he that number comes in below 10.5 for you guys but if an offer sheet comes take those four picks and run, Marner isn’t going to turn a team into a playoff team especially the islanders. I feel like you guys will be getting at least 3 top 15 picks and maybe even a top 10. You got unreal depth up front Marner won’t make or break you as you will be able to sign other players to replace his production. Good Luck!
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Forgiving Chris Brown: Re-post & Update
I am on record as being one who advocated for the forgiveness of the multi-talented, multi-platinum Chris Brown as far back as February 2009, when the most media and much of the public wanted to banish and boycott him forever. His missteps with the media in the aftermath turned the fury way up, as he looked far from remorseful—especially in contrast to Rihanna’s composed, deliberate testimony on 20/20. I understand the fury; I was furious about his assault of Rihanna on Grammy Night 2009 too.
But this rigid, visceral approach to such a layered issue is neither humane nor realistic. Endless castigation does not break the cycle of relationship violence. If we want young men, especially young men of color, to stop abusing women, we must condemn the behavior, and support the full rehabilitation of the person. Ron Artest has shown us that therapy can help anyone rise to become a champion in work and in life. Chris must seek help from psychological professionals, spiritual counselors, and anger management experts. Chris is going to be atoning and reconciling for years to come. That process is well underway.
The part we as consumers, fans, and members of the media can support him with is the revitalization of his career. Chris Brown is a gifted young performer who deserves to make a living at what he is passionate about. BET provided Chris Brown with the opportunity of a lifetime on the 2010 BET Awards: to pay homage to his mentor Michael Jackson with a powerful medley of the King of Pop’s hit songs and signature dance routines. True to form, the media looked for the worst from a heartfelt and otherwise technically flawless performance–until the part where Chris broke down emotionally in an effort to sing “Man In The Mirror”. His sincerity was questioned. His tears, snot and hoarse voice were called ‘staged’. Just another signal that the path of least resistance, further vilification of the young Black male, was being tread yet again. A brother can’t even emote!
But the audience on their feet at the Shrine and millions on couches across America knew that what he was feeling was very real: the overwhelm of Michael passing and finally being able to commemorate his idol’s life; the passage of the hardest of his own 21 years; the energy of the room singing when he could not, crying with him, releasing with him. This is what it means to be human. This collective catharsis was an important step in the healing process for everyone who empathizes with Chris and wishes him well. It’s exactly why that moment was the one everyone was talking about the morning after and well into this week.
The crime will not be forgotten, but the man needs to be forgiven.
We say we want him to take a look at himself and make a change; change is hard. Let him do it.
I’ve re-posted my essence.com commentary for reference. I look forward to your comments.
As posted by essence.com July 24, 2009
This past February, Chris Brown shocked the world. In the wee morning hours of the Grammy Awards, he brutally assaulted his then-girlfriend Rihanna. On June 22, 2009, Chris Brown pled guilty. The judge handed him his sentence, convicting Brown of felony assault, mandating him to keep his distance from Rihanna (50 yards for five years), and to serve 5 years of probation including 180 days of community labor. Brown was also ordered to enroll in a domestic violence counseling program. Brown’s face registered remorse and relief that day in court; looked like it dawned on him how close he came to prison time. But was he truly sorry?
It was hard to tell. Brown’s camp released a tepid statement: “Words cannot begin to express how sorry and saddened I am over what transpired. I am seeking the counseling of my pastor, my mother and other loved ones and I am committed, with God’s help, to emerging a better person.” Meanwhile photos of the 19-year-old partying hard in Miami contrasted those of a sorrowful Rihanna in the days that followed. His silence was as palpable as his absence from television and radio. Suddenly the freckle-faced crooner resurfaced and sent a video message to the world while bowling with rapper Bow Wow on May 26: “I’m not a monster… I got a new album droppin’.” Five months after his love quarrel-gone-awry, Brown released another video apologizing: “I take great pride in me being able to exercise self-control and what I did was inexcusable.”
Was his gesture too little too late? Not only for his victim, Rihanna, but for his fans and critics? I conducted an informal poll on Facebook and Twitter. While the media was castigating him, I blogged back in February (click hyperlinked Feruary 2009 above) that the public was too quick to dismiss him and predict his career’s end. That compassionate condemnation was in order, not excommunication.
Perhaps the apology is a hard pill to swallow because Brown seemed so cavalier after the debacle. Judging by the many responses I received, I gleaned that his silence, while understandable at the advice of counsel, allowed the negative perception of this young man to fester into the selling of T-shirts emblazoned with his image and a striking slash through his face and dubbing his namesake a slang term synonymous with a “beat down” as in “Don’t get Chris Brown-ed.”
The Twitterverse had much to say about Brown’s remorse. “Why not release the video the day after the verdict?” asked one Tweeter. Another said Brown’s apology would have been deemed more sincere and set a strong example to his young fans about facing consequences if he’d done so immediately after the final verdict. Some believe his public remorse opens the door for fans to begin liking him again with one female tweeter professing: “Chris Brown, I love you more than ever.” But it was a male respondent who expressed the optimism that forgiveness should render: “He’s young enough to change.”
Sure, the execution could have been tighter, but I challenge anyone to recall an apology that felt smooth as silk following an egregious action. Taking a slice of humble pie and expressing remorse is usually awkward and delayed, requiring time. Reconciliation takes patience and work and Brown has taken his first step. Some might argue that Brown’s timing is off, but I believe an apology has no expiration date. Brown deserves forgiveness. What if Chris Brown was your son, nephew or brother? Assuming a zero-tolerance policy on abuse is fine, but judging someone unfairly and withholding support can interfere or jeopardize the healing process and ultimately redemption. We can stand against violence by looking its perpetrators in the eye and demand that they be and do better, but remember, it’s never too late to choose forgiveness over judgment.
Thembisa S. Mshaka is a 17-year entertainment industry veteran and author of the mentorship and career guide, Put Your Dreams First: Handle Your [entertainment] Business
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Ken Ham’s Biblical Evolution? I Have a Book That Says Otherwise
February 5, 2016 by R. Joel Duff 37 Comments
Two years ago Ken Ham very publicly promoted what he believes is a biblical model of evolution to explain the diversity of life on Earth. I have a book before me that provides compelling evidence that his model of evolution is wrong. That book is the Bible. For those that follow young earth creation literature nothing that Ken Ham said in his debate with Bill Nye was surprising but I suspect that most of the national audience was surprised to hear how Ken Ham talked about the origin of species. He talked about a Biblical creation model of the earth’s origins but when it came to the origins of species he might as well have called his view biblical evolution.
To illustrate his view of biblical evolution he showed a slide (see below) and explained that on Noah’s ark there were only one pair of the felines, canines and elephants that represented their “kind.” After departing the ark those pairs of animals “diversified” (ie. evolved) into all the feline, canine and elephant species we see today including all of the fossil species that have ever been described.*
The YEC biblical evolution model. Screen capture of a slide from Ham’s presentation during the Ham/Nye debate Feb 4 2014.
I have written many times about how young earth creationists have been embracing massive species formation after the Flood. (See: Invoking Super-Speed Evolution: How to Fit 10,000 Species of Birds on the Ark; Thoughts on Baraminology; When is a Horse a Horse: The Species Definition Problem; Ken Ham’s Darwinism: on the origin of species by means of hyper-evolution after a global flood). I want to just focus on one point that Bill Nye brought up which I thought was accurate but not explained well.
Nye pointed out that if there was massive species formation (Ken Ham can call it diversification, genetic sorting or whatever he wants, it is still the creation of new species from an ancestral species) there is a rather obvious prediction of this super-speed Biblical evolution model: Species would have to have been created on a generation by generation basis. To get all the species we see today species would have to have forming at unbelievable rates in the past and even into the present.
Take the finches of which Darwin’s finches are just 10 of 1200+ species! For a pair of finches to give rise to 1200 species of finches in 4500 years would necessitate that we should be able to witness species formation right before our eyes. Or at least we should have reports of people who have witnessed brand new species being born.
Ken Ham claimed that the Bible predicts the presence of “evidence confirming after their kind”. Presumably he is suggesting that because some hybrids can be formed between some canines that this proves the Bible is correct about kinds. But how does this prove that all species evolved from pairs of kinds on the ark?
Animals mentioned in the Bible are the same species we see today!
I have a book before me that provides compelling evidence that Ken Ham’s view of Biblical evolution is wrong. That book is the Bible. Massive fast-paced evolution has not happened in the recent past. I know this because the Bible refers to or describes over 100 animals. In most cases we can be quite certain from the descriptions that these animals represent species that are still around today and look the same today as they did when the biblical authors laid eyes upon them.
The YEC model suggests that a pair of canines got off the ark and then changed into many species of foxes, wolves, coyotes, and domestic dogs. If this is the case we should find many intermediates of these living in historical times. But what do we find in the scriptures. We find that even in the earliest records, people easily distinguished between foxes, wolves and domestic dogs and probably jackals. We can also go to extra biblical sources like Egyptian writings and see images of domestic dogs which look like breeds of dogs that live in Egypt today. We even have mummies of dogs and other animals that confirm that they are no different from those we see today. It seems that there is no evidence of speciation here at all but rather fully formed species that have maintained the characteristics of species since their very first mention in scripture.
A proposed relationship tree of all living species of canines. The dates on the tree represent estimates of times of divergence (millions of years) based on fossils and genetic analyses. The other numbers are a form of confidence interval regarding the ancestry relationships. Ken Ham says that all of these species of canines really do have a common ancestor but rather than that ancestor living 15 million years ago it lived only 4500 years ago.
What about other animals groups? There are donkeys, mules, and horses in the Old Testament but YECs say none of these were on the ark. Rather, they claim only a pair of something like a generic equine was present. There are bison, buffalo, and other cattle in the OT. There are gazelles, addax, antelope, and deer (see my recent post: Are Ruminants Derived from a Common Ancestor? Ruminating on the Meaning of Noahic Kind). There are domestic cats, lions and probably a cougar. Egyptian writings clearly identify both female and male lions and they had multiple forms of domestic cats. The earliest paleolithic drawings depict lions and other types of cats. So it appears that cat species were well established during the earliest biblical times.
The book of Job, which YECs often claim is a very early book recording events right after the Flood, records many animals that are just as we know them today such as the Ostrich (Consider the Ostrich: Job 39 and God’s Commentary on Creation; Consider the Ostrich: Adapted for the Present World Part III). What about camels? Yep, they seem to be just like camels today. Ancient drawings of camels show all the familiar characteristics that are familiar to all of us.
Typical YEC view of the evolution of cats. As if a pair of cats would give rise directly to lions, tigers, cheetahs and domesticated cats. Cats species seem to be just as they are in the Bible. There is no biblical evidence for these dramatic changes during the past 4500 years.
I could go on and on but I think the point is made that the there is absolutely no evidence in the Bible that animals have been rapidly morphing from one species into another. In fact evidence derived from the Bible suggests little if no change in species boundaries over the past 4000 years.
So why are YECs claiming something for which there is NO biblical support? Because they have a more pressing problem: how to fit all those animals on the ark. By only requiring a pair of each “kind” on the ark they think they have solved that problem. Ken Ham actually mentioned this in his debate. But by making this claim he has created myriad of other problems for his creation model of evolution.
Massive genetic change required to support the biblical evolution model
Ken Ham’s slide that shows the elephant kind is probably the most instructive here. He includes mastodons and mammoths with the living elephants as members of the same kind. So there were only two elephants on the ark that evolved into these elephants but he also needs to include some as many as 150 extinct species of elephants that included many strangely tusked and trunked ones (see my article: A Trunk and Tusk-Challenged Fossil Elephant).
One of my favorite strange fossil elephants. Like many fossil species this one had two sets of tusks. One of the upper jaw and one on the lower jaw but in this case the lower jaw is greatly extended and the two lower tusks probably acted like shovels. This animal was also about 1/2 the size of today’s elephants. Image credit: Wired / Tomasz Jedrzejowski
Let’s think about the genetic challenges. Mastodons and modern elephants are thought to have diverged from one another 25 to 30 million years ago. That is based dating of the fossil record but also on the total amount of genetic divergence seen in the mastodon and modern elephant genomes. To give you some perspective, these species are more than twice as different with respect to their genomes as humans and gorillas. And yet Ham and associates are saying that these vast differences in genomes could have been created in just a few hundred years! Wow!
But how? I have seen NO genetic models from YEC scientists for how this could have happened. Certainly nothing we know about genetics right now could explain such dramatic changes in such a short period of time. Can modern genetic theories explain that much genetic change in 25 million years. I think they certainly can but that doesn’t help Ken Ham.
A good critique of the debate on Age of Rocks pointed out (Ham and Nye agree: Ken Ham’s creation model is not scientifically viable) that elephants are especially problematic for the biblical evolution model. This is because elephants have a long generation time. It takes a decade for an elephant to become sexually mature and then they only have a few offspring during their long lives. How could 100+ species of elephants each of which had doubtless millions of members have been derived from just two animals only 4500 years ago? Over 2000 tons of tusks of just one species, the mastodon, have been sold on world markets in the past 50 years. It is estimated that this represents on a tiny fraction of the estimated 140 MILLION tusks still trapped in the Siberian tundra. There are likely millions of mastodon fossils as well and we are not even considering that fact that a majority of mastodons that died would never have been fossilized. Mammoths and mastodons are recorded in very old rock art and so we know they were present long ago and as long as people have seen them they never experienced any significant changes. So how can Ken Ham claim that the Bible’s prediction of change within a kind is borne out by evidence?
A biblical evolution model that compresses massive amounts of evolution into a small amount of time is neither supported by evidence gathered from the natural world or the Bible. YECs have proposed biblical evolution as a purely ad hoc theory to help them escape other perceived problems with their flood geology model of Earth’s history.
A Creationist’ Evolution Terminology Guide. I have modified a screenshot image of PPT slide from Ken Ham’s debate with Bill Nye. You can find the original image here: https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2014/02/12/post-debate-potpourri-part-one/
*Regarding fossil species: there are many fossils of extinct cats, canines and elephants. Some might wonder if young earth creationists think that these are part of the fossils formed in a global flood. The answer is: not usually. This is because the fossils of theses mammal groups are all found in the upper portion of the fossil record which they consider to be post-flood deposits. That raises a natural question: were there no cats, dogs, elephants, whales, cows, etc.. before the flood? If there were why are there NO fossils of any of them but so many of dinosaurs?
** This article has been updated from one written soon after the Ken Ham/Bill Nye debate in February 2014.
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johnscorner says:
As always, good stuff! Thank you. NOTE: Your single-asterisk footnote ends mid-sentence. I wonder what is missing?
Natural Historian says:
Yeah, that is a good question. What was I going to say there? This was a revised version of what I said 2 years ago so I want back to the original and it is also missing the end of that sentence. So here is what I think I was thinking back then and would say today: “That raises a natural question: were there no cats, dogs, elephants, whales, cows, etc.. before the flood? If there were why are there NO fossils of any of them but so many of dinosaurs?” Put another way, if all the cats including the fossils species we have today evolved from a pair on the ark, what came before the flood? Surely the pre-flood world must have had an entirely different set of animals but in the AIG Creation Museum they portray the garden with animals that we would recognize today. They are horribly mixed up and confused and are sending mixed messages right and left. There new add for the Ark Encounter shows pairs of lions and another cat species but their literature suggests neither species existed at the time of Noah.
Paul Braterman says:
To say nothing of Leviticus 11:13 on, with very fine subdivisions among both birds (hawk,Nighthawk, owl, kite, Raven) and insects (locust, bald locust, grasshopper). So for a YEC, all this would have had to have happened between the flood and the time of Moses
Matt Fowler says:
What is your take on AIG’s explanation of how fish “kind” survived, since they usually leave them out of their calculations for room on the already impossibly packed Ark?
That is a great question. I haven’t thought about fish “kinds” much but it does highlight a problem I haven’t been able to find a good way to articulate in post. AIG believes in this super fast-paced evolution of air-breathing land animals to explain their current diversity and to make room on the Ark. So what about the other 99% of species on Earth like fish? What about whales, were they one “kind” and evolved into 88 species and 150 fossils speciesl since the creation or only after the Flood? Do insect also undergo hyperevolution? Looking at the genetics of other species on earth I see nothing that makes land animals look much different in terms of levels of diversity than other groups of organisms but only land animals were caught in the extreme bottleneck of Noah’s ark. In my mind AIG should predict that the ark was a genetic bottleneck that should have resulted in less genetic diversity in animals than plants which could have had many species survived the flood not just one pair of a kind of plant. But again, such a difference doesn’t exist and this is just another piece of evidence that doesn’t fit Ken Ham’s biblical evolutionary model.
Mary Anne Biele says:
All fish and sea organisms were obviously in the oceans during the Flood and were not on the ark.
Hi, regarding fish I addressed this a bit in my comment. As I was saying there all the other life on Earth did not have to be on the ark though I believe some have suggested that many insects and things like earthworms may have been though not in pairs and so could have been preserved that way. But yes, fish would have been in sea. The question is, did God creation one kind of Salmon and then it became many species of salmon in the same way that one pair of cats became 150 species of cats. If all other living things were created as kinds that are like “families” then was there only a single species of fruit fly on Earth at the creation which has become 4000 species of fruit flies alive today and possibly thousands that died in the Flood? The question is really one of how much diversity was there originally, how much has there been in the past and how much is there today. There are 3-10 million species living today. I think Ken Ham believes that God only created 100,000 or fewer but the fossil record contains evidence that what is alive today is only 1% of much less of the total species that have ever lived. I’m getting more off-point as I go here so I’ll stop for now:-)
datadroid says:
The problem, of course, is that no macroscopic water-dwelling animals would have survived either. Neither saltwater nor fresh water fish can tolerate significant (or even small, in many cases) changes in the salinity of their environment, and those few that can transition require a period of time to acclimate to the change (http://www.livescience.com/32167-can-saltwater-fish-live-in-fresh-water.html).
Additionally, since YECs also believe that the flood is responsible for all or most of the sedimentary deposition seen around the world, that would mean that during the flood, all or most of the matter which eventually settled into geological strata would have been suspended in the water. Given the observed volume of global strata and the proposed volume of water needed to cover the globe, the water would have been little better than thin mud, surely enough to quickly kill anything that breathed with gills or attempted to swim in it.
Furthermore, according to a strict literal reading of Gen. 6:17, wherein God promises to destroy “all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them”, Noah would have also had to make room for cetaceans, sirenians and pinnipeds (whales, manatees and seals), since they, too, breathe air.
Joshua Hedlund says:
When you posted about the ruminants recently I started thinking about those early Genesis references to the patriarch’s sheep and cattle…
IMO this is or could become a huge issue due to its direct and easy-to-understand nature (compared to more complex stuff like radioactivity that is easier to hide behind uncertainty about, etc), especially with the coming ‘ark park’ that may make these challenges harder to hide. Though my biases have changed and viewpoints widened enough over the last couple years that I can’t be sure how hardline YEC’s may continue to justify their model.
Continuing with the idea sometimes expressed here that it is hard for YEC’s to admit any faults with their model if they are more personally sure of their faith and they don’t believe any other models are Biblically viable (to which I can relate from personal experience), I wonder if the environment is ripe for an OEC to kindly but confidently present this ark-fitting problem and argue for resurrecting the old-earth, limited flood model that goes back as far as 19th century geologist-theologians like Hugh Miller and Edward Hitchcock, reminding YEC’s that this was commonly accepted by most Christians including, the most fundamentalist among us, for nearly a hundred years.
(Speaking of Hitchcock, I just finished his work The Religion of Geology, where he also refers to Egyptian “catacombs” as providing evidence that species described there have not changed in “three thousand years.” To him this was evidence against pre-Darwinian evolutionary hypotheses, but today it is more explicitly challenging to Hammian evolution…)
Wow, thanks for that awesome reference about the same species being int he catacombs as is found today. Ken Ham needs to read that especially since it was not written from a biased evolutionist. I will copy the extended quote here from page 312:
“The phenomena of hybridity furnish another ground of argument in favor of the transmutation of species, and of course in favor of the law hypothesis; for that hybrids are sometimes the result of the union of different species will not be denied. There is, however, a natural repugnance to union between different species; and in a state of nature this can very rarely be overcome. But domestication changes and almost obliterates many natural instincts, and hence hybridity is far more common among domesticated animals and plants. As a general fact, also, the hybrid offspring is incapable of propagating its own race, without union with one of the[Pg 312] original species by which it was produced; and this inability to continue this mixed race has been generally regarded among naturalists as the best characteristic of species. Some, however, attempt to show that some hybrid races do continue from generation to generation to propagate their kind. But in most cases the hybrid race ere long runs out, and there is always a strong tendency to revert to the original stock; and were it not for the influence of man, probably such a thing as hybridity would scarcely ever have been heard of. Nature seems to have established strong barriers around species, so that an identity should be preserved; and even if we admit the possibility of their coalescence in some cases, yet we have evidence that almost always they are preserved distinct from century to century; and the same is true even of the more prominent varieties, for we find not only the same species, but the same varieties of animals and plants, preserved some three thousand years in the Egyptian catacombs, that are now alive in the same country. How idle, then, to suppose that the laws of hybridity will account for such radical and entire transmutations as this hypothesis supposes! To accomplish this, it would need as strong a tendency in nature to a union of species, genera, and families, as now exists against it.”
Daniel S. says:
What I find striking about the ruminants example is just how impossible it would be to not notice these dramatic changes. Livestock were integral to the societies of the biblical authors, how is it that not a single verse of scripture, or the middens of thousands of ancient villages, don’t record any sort of “transitional” forms? If this kind of evolution really happened rapidly and frequently, it would be obvious from archaeology.
I’d have to wonder, if Noah had only the most basic “kinds,” what clean and unclean animals was he so concerned about in the narrative?
It seems as if the issue isn’t whether or not a YEC can accept evolution, but how much is allowed.
You say,” if Noah had only the most basic “kinds,” what clean and unclean animals was he so concerned about in the narrative?” Noah was not concerned at all about what clean and unclean animals were coming on the ark, since it is G-D who brought All the animals onto the ark that Noah had prepared and at G-D’s appointed time He shut the door to the Ark. G-D knew what He was doing and He gave the right dimensions to Noah because He knew how much room was needed for them all. At some point you have to decide if you are going to believe what G-D says in His Word.
@Mary Anne Biele: You say, “Noah was not concerned at all about what clean and unclean animals were coming on the ark, since it is G-D who brought All the animals onto the ark. . . .”
I have to confess that I lack the background in either the science or the biblical text to understand whether Daniel S’s question about clean and unclean animals even has merit. (If someone were to attend to the details of Mr. Ham’s proposal, would we find “mixed” “clean” and “unclean” within one baramin? If so, obviously, we would face a huge issue!)
But right here, I wanted to respond to your proposed “solution” (to a problem that may not exist).
According to Genesis 6:14-16, it was G-D who commanded Noah to build the ark, and according to Genesis 6:19, G-D commanded Noah saying, “you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. . . .”
And according to Genesis 7:1-3, G-D commanded Noah to “[g]o into the ark, you and all your household,” It was G-D who commanded Noah to “[t]ake with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.” “And,” we read in Genesis 7:5, “Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.”
So, according to what I can see of what G-D says in His Word, your proposed solution [to a problem that may not exist] doesn’t work.
@Daniel S: As I wrote, below, to Mary Anne Biele: I have to confess that I lack the background in either the science or the biblical text to understand whether [your] question about clean and unclean animals even has merit. (If someone were to attend to the details of Mr. Ham’s proposal, would we find “mixed” “clean” and “unclean” within one baramin? If so, obviously, we would face a huge issue!)
Perhaps you or others who are engaged in these conversations could reply? Are there any obvious examples of “mixed” “clean” and “unclean” animals in any of Mr. Ham’s/AiG’s proposed “baramin[s]“?
Well, it would depend on how broadly we want to define “kind.” If the proposal NH discussed in a previous post is accepted among YECs, and all ruminants are collapsed into one “kind,” then we would certainly have a mixing of clean and unclean animals! If the existence of doves and ravens on the ark is anything to go by, Ham’s vague definitions of “kinds” are too broad for what’s allowed by the biblical text. But as you said, this may not even be a serious problem, it’s a relatively minor issue that I was simply wondering about.
The real problem is the obvious ad-hoc fabrication of AiG’s “baramins,” and their super-speed evolution. There is no evidence in the biblical text, archaeological record, or the field of genetics to support what Ham and other YECs propose regarding “kinds” and post-flood evolution. It’s an idea that only exists to fix the problem of how to fit all land animals and birds on the ark, not a conclusion drawn from any sort of exegesis or scientific evidence. They’ve created more problems to solve a problem of their own making (their interpretation of Genesis).
Great article. It reminds me of something that JBS Haldane, quoted by Sam Harris, once said “… if there is a god, he has ‘an inordinate fondness for beetles.’ “
Ashley Haworth-roberts says:
If anything, the Bible teaches FIXITY of species (and that EVERY species of land animal was somehow on board the ark).
wowfunny251 says:
There really isn’t any indication that insects were aboard the ark, just mammals, birds, and MAYBE reptiles. The hebrew for “creeping thing” typically does not refer to insects, and on the rare occasion it does, it’s used together with “swarming” which is mostly used on its own to refer to bugs.
As for the fixity of species, although I think the fixity of species is (mostly) a correct principle, I don’t think the bible directly teaches it.
The bible simply says that God created all the different sorts of animals and plants on earth. As this article points out, it indicates that animals say, at the time of Abraham, are the same as they are today.
Though if by fixity of species you mean “no change can occur after supernatural creation at all, for any reason”, I have to disagree, the bible acknowledges different races, and yet claims they all come from Adam and Eve, with no indication of supernatural transformations in between. Presumably assuming races emerging through some natural process (though of course they did not know what that process was).
My point was that there is no hint of speciation in the Bible therefore the original Christian assumption was ‘fixity’. Not a direct teaching – but the ‘default position’ in so far as the Bible ‘addresses’ scientific topics such as biology.
Yeah, the whole “kind” issue exists only because YEC’s have to fit so many animals on the ark. Whereas I don’t have that problem, taking the local flood view.
I’m pretty sure that, given their timeline, and the long-lifespans of elephants, there would have to be massive changes with each generation, the mutations it would take to do that would result in rapid death due to cancer and other defects.
Their model simply doesn’t work.
@wowfunny251: One of my ongoing “problems” with the OEC models, including the local flood view, is that “their model[s] simply [don’t seem to] work,” either, upon a relatively straightforward [traditional evangelical] concordist reading of Scripture. There are a lot of rather anomalous data points in those other [traditional evangelical] concordist models as well.
And so those of us who like to think of ourselves as in the evangelical camp are faced with some serious biblical-hermeneutical-theological work to do, to respond to the reasonable (serious) biblical-hermeneutical-theological questions that our brothers and sisters feel acutely.
If those of us who like to think of ourselves as in the evangelical camp but who believe in an old earth and/or a local flood (etc., etc.) are unwilling and/or unable to respond to those biblical-hermeneutical-theological questions, then maybe the YECs have reason seriously to question our proposed old-earth, local-flood theories as being appropriately evangelical. Maybe we should, correctly, abandon our commitment to “the” evangelical faith.
It is because of these concerns, I disagree with your suggestion that the YEC model “simply” doesn’t work. So far, I haven’t found that the OEC model “simply” works, either!
And for these reasons, I find these kinds of discussions inspiring and hopeful, yet challenging and, sometimes, even painful.
. . . I guess what “inspired” my comments here was your use of the words “only” (“the whole ‘kind’ issue exists only because YEC’s have to fit so many animals on the ark”) and “simply” (“Their model simply doesn’t work”). I’m afraid there are few “simple” matters in this field of inquiry!
“It is because of these concerns [about what it is to be evangelical], I disagree with your suggestion that the YEC model “simply” doesn’t work.” But the not working referred to is logical and scientific. So you must either broaden your idea of what it is to be evangelical (as Dennis Venema does over at Biologos), or abandon the attempt to be evangelical, or retreat into a Ken Ham-like fantasy world invulnerable to logic.
I am a concordist for one. But my point was mainly that the YEC model simply doesn’t work from a scientific perspective. I wasn’t talking about a biblical perspective, though I do think there are major problems with YEC theory from scripture alone.
I don’t think being evangelical has anything to do with YEC vs. OEC vs Theistic Evolution or even concordism. Being evangelical just means being a bible-believing christian, who accepts core tenants like the resurrection, the trinity, etc.
It’s true that any position has serious questions to wrestle with, both the bible and nature are complex things that aren’t understood simply.
I think you misunderstood my original intent of the word “simply”, I wasn’t implying that OEC (as opposed to other models) is “simple” and works easily. I just meant that YEC theory just doesn’t work scientifically, and I was putting it “simply”.
As for “only”, I stand by that, YEC’s did expand their definition of “kind” solely (only) to accommodate so many animals on the ark, not for any hermeneutical purpose, or for any scientific reason.
infanttheology says:
Natural Historian,
Thanks again for exploring these issues.
“Species would have to have been created on a generation by generation basis. To get all the species we see today species would have to have forming at unbelievable rates in the past and even into the present.”
I never thought this was the case – in fact, I think I have heard other YECs state otherwise. They would say that with dog breeds, for example, we have basically exhausted the possibilities allowed from the DNA of the original dog kind. The same would hold true for the “speciation” we see with the non-man-led breeding.
+Nathan
Hi Nathan, yes, I think that would be the general position of YECs, they would see a massive burst of diversification – genetic sorting in their words – right after the flood and then species would have settled out and been rather fixed from that point. Interestingly this is not what they show in their figures such as the one I show above which is mostly derived from an AiG figure. They show constant branching of species up to the present day. In my figure of theistic models of origins I recognized this is most common YEC viewpoint by showing straight lines with no branches. https://naturalishistoria.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/theistic-models-history-life-creationism-evolution.png?w=660&h=495 All of that said, the genetic of that argument makes no sense since genetic sorting takes significant time and doesn’t happen within a generation. Their rapid diversification would require a whole set of genetic mechanisms that were apparently in operation 4500 years ago but we can’t observe today. Domestication does tend to rapidly reduce diversity and YECs often point to domesticated animals such as dogs and cats as evidence of recent rapid morphological change. But these all experience real genetic sorting and under severe directional selection like as is the case in artificial selection such sorting does occur in just a few thousand years. But “wild” species have huge amounts of genetic diversity so if there was massive sorting of limited gene pool in the pair of common ancestors on the ark YECs should predict species today should have very very reduced genetic variation but most do not and thus show little sign of having gone though severe genetic bottlenecks. I also think the fossil record of those kinds doesn’t support the rapid diversification either. Thousands of species of ungulates, felines, etc.. would have had to made it all the way to North America before the speciated and then became extinct before man got there. How they made it to North America before speciating and thus no leaving any evidence behind in the rest of the world is a mystery.
Wow, Joel! I think you have identified two significant areas for research/development/discussion:
1) “‘[W]ild’ species have huge amounts of genetic diversity so if there was massive sorting of limited gene pool in the pair of common ancestors on the ark YECs should predict species today should have very very reduced genetic variation but most do not”; and,
2) “Thousands of species of ungulates, felines, etc.. would have had to [have] made it all the way to North America before the[y] speciated and then became extinct before man got there.”
New thoughts for me. And, again, areas in which I am uneducated (which is why I am listening to you!).
Thomas Bryant says:
Let me say before hand I am no fan of Ken Ham, but his theory and this otherwise very thorough rebuttal raises the question of punctuated equilibrium, as a few non-believing evolutionists have theorized? There seems to be a similarity between the two theories, at least in the limited number of articles I’ve read on PE. I would think that the same data that refutes PE refutes Ham’s idea as well. Any additional info you might have would be welcomed reading.
michaelfugate says:
The timescales are totally different between punctuated equilibrium and Ham’s model; “fast” in geologic time is still hundreds of thousands if not millions of years not hundreds.
Gerhold Lloyd Lemke says:
New Thought for All: Hebrews 11:3 is important. Why should it be only about “creatio ex nihilo”? Look at all the words in it, inspired by God. Take 15,000 trilobite species. If alive for Adam, then not made from anything but by God’s Word. If created as fossils, then they (in their Paleozoic strata) “not from anything seen.” If they’re from living creatures immediately pre-Flood, then they ARE “what we see (today)” and so cannot be Flood-time deposits because they would have “appeared” to contemporaries of Noah. The same then for ammonites in Mesozoic. With sudden post-Flood AiG saber tooth cats (or extinct elephant forms in last 15,000,000+ years of rock) or tar pit dire wolves, you have “from what was seen” leaving the Ark – but Hebrews 11:3 especially corrects that! With the option of most Ice Age creatures gone before a 6000 BC Flood, there’s even more Ark room. You have more than the KJV on “the worlds [ages] were framed [perfecting, Eph. 4:12] ” in Hebrews 11:3. I see all space/time in all detail – the frame AND the picture. Further comment appreciated. GLL
christopher kederich says:
Blessings! I am so, so, so, soooo Thankful to find a fellow Christian who understands the process of Science! I’ve tried to find ways to explain this to friends, but unless they really, really trust me, or have their own technical training, it is almost impossible. Please keep up the good work. By the way, I’ve been a Believer since early childhood, and a scientist pretty much since. I never found a contradiction between Faith and the study of God’s creation, except in the minds of those who try to push these apart.
theologyarchaeology says:
Haven’t read the whole article yet but one mistake in it is found in the sentence “To get all the species we see today species would have to have forming at unbelievable rates in the past and even into the present.”
the first problem is the assumption that this could not happen. Since no one is alive who was there when the animals got off the ark we cannot say that genetic diversity did not take place at a great speed. remember there were only 8 humans at the time and the animals would not have been bothered for many years so they had a great window of opportunity to procreate and genetics had space to diversify.
Second, who says that the number of supposed species classified today are actually different species? We have been inundated with articles of scientists expounding upon their different species discoveries yet produce only one example of the species. Who is to say that the differences in the animals means a different species and not some alteration due to the varieties of imperfection in this world?
Third, Ken Ham’s thinking does not assume that a single solitary one celled organism contained all the genetic information needed to provide diversity of the species, like evolutionists do with their theory. Since the evolutionist cannot discover and demonstrate the idea of information generating through process this is the conclusion we are left with–evolutionists think that a single solitary one-celled organism produced all the genetic information needed to produce not only diversity in animals but other life forms as well.
The fact that the many two pairs of different kinds of animals containing the genetic information needed for diversity is much more logical, rational and plausible than the evolutionary alternative which cannot produce the source for this new information that was gathered over the generations and passed on to specific different lines of species.
Evolutionists have no source for information addition and no method of distribution of this genetic miracle they claim took place. The Bible makes more sense and provides the right answers than any form of evolutionary thought.
Actually, those claims are also utterly impossible. This article, posted not long ago, explains it in greater detail: https://thenaturalhistorian.com/2016/03/30/the-great-genetic-bottleneck-that-contradicts-ken-hams-radical-accelerated-diversification-ie-post-flood-hyper-evolution/
Roger Quill says:
What’s the toothy elephant in the post, if I may ask?
That is a Platybelodon which is usually considered a gomphothere proboscidean (elephant order) member. The latter groups were common in Asia, North and South America. The “shovel-toothed” elephants were mostly in South America. All post-flood fossils by most YECs reckoning BTW. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platybelodon
Grizzle says:
Err – where did Noah put the termites???
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Steve Tilston - An Acoustic Confusion (1971 uk, excellent acoustic folk rock, 2007 korean and 2013 extra tracks edition)
"Lovingly remastered" is a phrase in danger of becoming a clich,, but in the case this re-release of Steve Tilston's first album, made in 1971, it is particularly apposite. Scenesof are based in Maine, USA, but they obviously share the unconditional admiration of these songs that Ian A. Anderson's Village Thing label displayed in pressing the original vinyl. And make no mistake, the ten songs of "Acoustic Confusion" (plus a couple of by-now obligatory "Previously Unreleased" studio demos from 1978) add up to what was probably described at the time as an extremely enjoyable listening experience. Still is!
Ranging from voice and guitar solos to all-systems-go harmonica, string bass, violin and extra guitar 'n' vocal pieces, "An Acoustic Confusion" shows surprising maturity in all three departments of our hero's chosen profession. The songs contain true poetic insight, the singing is assured and the guitar-playing, even then, is a source of wonder. As he hints at in the typically self deprecating insert-notes (worth the price of the album alone), time has not been kind to a couple of songs. "Peel Street" and "Rock and Roll Star" contain the kind of over-indulgence that twenty-nothings the world over are famous for, but there is compensation in spades. "Simplicity" could stand comfortably with his current work, while "Normandy Day" manages to absorb influences from Bob Dylan through to Nick Drake, distil them all and produce pure essence of Tilston.
As Steve's work has progressed, it has revealed successive layers of creativity, inventiveness and integrity. There is nothing on "An Acoustic Confusion" to cause embarrassment, and a great deal to be proud of. Wouldn't it be great if Scenesof were working on the difficult second album right now?
by Alan Rose
Steve Tilston released a very nice and acclaimed s/sw album back in 1971 called "An acoustic Confusion". I especially liked the most melancholic romantism involved. I was very curious for his newer releases. Hearing this release was far above all expectations. I never expected a musician to gain so much in magic he already had, for magic is something unique which is rarely repeated or ever regained. This album not only is very exceptional, it even sound better or at least slightly matured comparing his debut album.
It has reminiscences to Nick Drake, but even more likely you can compare it (-this is : the production and the arrangements, and the colour of the voice-) with the acoustic period of John Martyn, with the additional development of a wider range of guitar styles. "Tse Tse Fly Shuffle" as a guitar instrumental, contains finger picking from the same level as Bert Jansch during his Jack Orion period or Leon Kottke during his debut album. The album ends with an essential bonus track of 22 minutes, "Rhapsody", an interesting, beautifully composed and arranged Celtic folk suite, making this album even more recommended and a must to dig out.
Psych-Folk
A letter from John Lennon to Steve Tilston in 1971, who actually received it 34 years later, inspired Hollywood screenwriters for the Danny Collins movie with Al Pacino in the main role.
1. I Really Wanted You - 3:54
2. Simplicity - 3:43
3. Time Has Shown Me Your Face - 3:44
4. It's Not My Place To Fail - 3:59
5. Train Time - 3:33
6. Sleepy Time On Peel Street - 3:44
7. Prospect Of Love - 2:24
8. Green Toothed Gardener - 3:22
9. Normandy Day - 3:06
10.Rock & Roll Star - 4:50
11.The Price Of Life - 4:10
12.Show A Little Kindness - 5:00
13.Time Is Your Gaoler - 4:04 (2013 Edition)
14.Here You Go Again - 3:20 (2013 Edition)
15.When I See Your Face Again - 2:45 (2013 Edition)
All Music and Lyrics by Steve Tilston
Bonus tracks 11-12 demo recordings from 1978
Extra tracks 13-15 Live TV Perfomances from 1979
*Steve Tilston - Guitar, Vocals
*Keith Warmington - Harmonica, Vocals
*John Turner - String Bass
*Pete Finch - Violin
*Dave Evans - Guitar, Vocals
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Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two (1969 uk /us, remarkable psych bluesy classic rock, 2005 remaster and 2010 japan SHM expanded)
Spooky Two is this British blues-rock band's pièce de résistance. All eight of the tracks compound free-styled rock and loose-fitting guitar playing, resulting in some fantastic raw music. With Gary Wright on keyboards and vocals and lead singer Mike Harrison behind the microphone, their smooth, relaxed tempos and riffs mirrored bands like Savoy Brown and, at times, even the Yardbirds.
With some emphasis on keyboards, songs like "Lost in My Dream" and the nine-minute masterpiece "Evil Woman" present a cool, nonchalant air that grooves and slides along perfectly. "I've Got Enough Heartache" whines and grieves with some sharp bass playing from Greg Ridley, while "Better by You, Better Than Me" is the catchiest of the songs, with its clinging hooks and desperate-sounding chorus.
The last song, "Hangman Hang My Shell on a Tree," is a splendid example of the bandmembers' ability to play off of one another, mixing soulful lyrics with downtrodden instrumentation to conjure up the perfect melancholia. Although Spooky Tooth lasted about seven years, their other albums never really contained the same passion or talented collaborating by each individual musician as Spooky Two.
by Mike DeGagne
1. Waitin' for the Wind (Luther Grosvenor, Mike Harrison, Gary Wright) - 3:45
2. Feelin' Bad (Mike Kellie, Gary Wright) - 3:24
3. I've Got Enough Heartache (Mike Kellie, Gary Wright) - 3:29
4. Evil Woman (Larry Weiss) - 9:07
5. Lost in My Dream (Gary Wright) - 5:06
6. That Was Only Yesterday (Gary Wright) - 3:58
7. Better by You, Better Than Me (Gary Wright) - 3:42
8. Hangman Hang My Shell on a Tree (Gary Wright) - 5:47
9. The Weight (Robbie Robertson) - 3:09
10.Do Right People (Gary Wright) - 4:45
11.That Was Only Yesterday (Gary Wright) - 3:53
12.Oh! Pretty Woman (Andrew Charles Williams Jr.) - 3:29
13.Waitin' for the Wind (Luther Grosvenor, Mike Harrison, Gary Wright) - 3:30
14.Feelin' Bad (Mike Kellie) - 3:19
15.The Weight (Robbie Robertson) - 3:14
Original Album Tracks 1-8
Bonus Tracks 9-15
Repertoire 2005 Bonus Tracks
The Spooky Tooth
*Mike Harrison - Keyboards, Vocals
*Gary Wright - Keyboards, Vocals
*Luther Grosvenor - Guitar
*Greg Ridley - Bass, Guitar
*Mike Kellie - Drums
1968 Spooky Tooth - It's All About (2005 and 2010 SHM)
1965-67 V.I.P's - The Complete V.I.P.S (2006 double disc remaster)
1966 The V.I.P's - Beat Crazy (2004 remaster extra tracks edition)
1966-68 Deep Feeling - Pretty Colours
1967 Art - Supernatural Fairy Tales (extra track issue)
1971 Mike Harrison - Mike Harrison
1971-72 Gary Wright - Extraction / Footprint
1974 Mott The Hoople - Hoople (2006 remaster and expanded)
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Boys Go to Jupiter
Danielle Evans
The bikini isn’t even Claire’s thing. Before this winter, if you had said Confederate flag, Claire would have thought of high-school beach trips: rows and rows of tacky souvenir shops along the Ocean City Boardwalk, her best friend Angela muttering they know they lost, right? while Claire tried to remember which side of the Mason-Dixon line Maryland was on. The flag stuff is Jackson’s, and she’s mostly seeing Jackson to piss off Puppy. Puppy, Claire’s almost-stepmother, is legally named Poppy; Puppy is supposedly a childhood nickname stemming from a baby sister’s mispronunciation, but Claire suspects that Puppy has made the whole thing up. Puppy deemed it wasteful to pay twice as much for a direct flight in order for Claire to avoid a layover, and her father listens to Puppy now, so for the first half of her trip, Claire had to go the wrong direction—to Florida from Vermont via Detroit.
Jackson has a drawl and a pickup truck and, in spite of his lack of farming experience, a farmer’s tan. Claire meets him at Burger Boy, the restaurant a few miles from her father’s house. Its chipping red-and-white tiles and musk of grease give it all the glamour of a truck-stop bathroom, but it’s a respite from the lemon-scented and pristine house that brought her father to St. Petersburg for retirement. At college, Claire mostly lives off of the salad bar, but here she picks up a burger and fries to go every afternoon. It is the kind of food Puppy says she can’t eat since she turned thirty, and Puppy, having no job and, from what Claire gathers, limited ambitions beyond strolling the house in expensive loungewear, is always home to miserably watch her eat it. On her fourth Burger Boy visit, Claire picks up Jackson too. They get high and make out in the pool house that afternoon, and the next and the next and the next.
At nineteen, Jackson is six months older than Claire, but still a senior in high school. They try hanging out at his house once, but Claire feels shamed by his mother’s scrutiny, assumes she wants to know what’s damaged or defective about Claire that has her screwing a high-school boy. After that, when they cannot be alone at her house because her father is home (rarely) or Puppy is unbearable (frequently), they find places to park. He gives her the bikini at the end of the first week, after she complains that her father’s move to Florida caught her off guard—she is used to winters that at least make an effort to be winter, but her father’s new life in St. Pete is relentless sunshine, sunburn weather in December. Outside, by the pool, she has resigned herself to wearing t-shirts over one of Puppy’s old suits, which is spangled with faded glitter and sags over Claire’s bee-sting breasts. Jackson presents the bathing suit wadded up in a supermarket plastic bag, the sort of awkward non-gift you give someone in an awkward non-relationship—he bought it for five dollars on a spring break trip, he says, for a girlfriend he subsequently found blowing one of his friends in their shared motel room and broke up with.
It isn’t much—three triangles and some string—but the tag is still attached and Jackson is beaming at her.
“You’d look so hot in this,” he says.
She does look pretty hot: like someone she is not, what with the stars and bars marking her tits and crotch, but a hot someone she is not.
“You look like white trash,” Puppy says to her the first time she sees the bikini.
“You would know,” Claire says back. The bathing suit becomes a habit, even after the temperature dips. Two days before she leaves town, she throws a pair of cutoffs and a T-shirt over it before she and Jackson leave the house, but when they get to the parking space—a clearing in a half-built, abandoned subdivision—she makes a show of stripping off the shorts and shirt. In the few minutes before he takes it off and fucks her in the truck’s cab, Jackson snaps a picture of Claire, radiant and smiling and leaning against the crisp foil-flash of the bumper, the bikini’s Xs making her body a tic-tac-toe board.
Danielle Evans teaches in the MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her fiction has appeared in the Paris Review and A Public Space, and her collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self was published in 2011.
When I Say Jesus Was My Boyfriend
Erin Adair-Hodges
I don’t mean that I snuck out my bedroom window,
vaulting over juniper bushes to get to his car
which he’d bought by working summers and weekends
at the Trujillos’ Broken Moon ranch,
tractoring the fields, hauling bales,
and turning a red so deep
it gives up into brown . . .
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Out of a wet sack, into chilling airs
and hands of thumping analysts you’re then
held close to the whisperings of one big fan,
your very own post-peristaltic over-supervising mom,
who first appears merely a part
of the wet world . . .
Lily Meyer
The professor who taught On Being Human was new. First semester. He’d spent the past two years conducting interviews in El Salvador. Interviews on how to be human? He didn’t say.
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Peter Bregman
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About Peter Bregman - Leadership and Personal Growth Author:
Peter Bregman is CEO of Bregman Partners, Inc., a firm which advises, coaches, and develops leaders at all levels to take powerful and ambitious actions to achieve the things that are most important to them and their organizations.
His most recent book is Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want, a New York Post top pick for your career in 2015. His previous book was the Wall Street Journal bestseller 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done, winner of the Gold medal from the Axiom Business Book awards, named the best business book of the year on NPR, and selected by Publisher’s Weekly and the New York Post as a top 10 business book. He is also the author of Point B: A Short Guide to Leading a Big Change and contributor to five other books. Featured on PBS, ABC and CNN, Peter’s articles and commentary appear frequently in Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Psychology Today, Forbes, The Financial Times, CNN, NPR, and FOX Business News.
Peter began his career teaching leadership on wilderness and mountaineering expeditions and then moved into the consulting field with the Hay Group and Accenture, before starting Bregman Partners in 1998. Peter has advised CEOs and senior leaders in many of the world’s premier organizations, including Allianz, American Express, Brunswick Group, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, FEI, GE Capital, Merck, Clear Channel, Nike, UNICEF, and many others.
Peter bases his work on the notion that everyone–no matter their job or level—has the opportunity to lead. Unfortunately, most don’t. There is a massive difference between what we know about leadership and what we do as leaders. What makes leadership hard isn’t theoretical, it’s practical. It’s not about knowing what to say or do. It’s about whether you’re willing to experience the discomfort, risk and uncertainty of saying or doing it. In other words, the critical challenge of leadership is, mostly, the challenge of emotional courage. Since 1989, Peter has trained and coached all levels of management and individuals to recognize their leadership, exhibit leadership behaviors, model and stimulate change, and foster growth of their own emotional courage as well as that of their teams and colleagues.
Peter earned his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from Columbia University.
What Peter BregmanTalks About:
Four Seconds: All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want
The basic things we all want – to do good work, be successful, get along with others, produce value as part of a team – are surprisingly straightforward to achieve. But, more often than not, our knee-jerk reactions to the people and situations we face result in the exact opposite. We’re fighting against ourselves in a clumsy disconnect between intention and impact, wasting valuable time and energy and straining our relationships in the process.
Drawing from his book published February 2015, Peter points out the often funny places where our intuitive but counterproductive knee-jerk reactions get us in trouble, and he shows us how we can replace them with counterintuitive but productive ones.
Peter shows how a few small, individual changes can transform an entire organization – moving it from a silo mentality to collective leadership, and he offers practical ideas, tools and tips to help people work together in a way that they, and their entire organization, profits.
Peter will show audiences:
How to build a foundation of strength and inoculate themselves so they don’t get triggered by the things that other people do and say
How and why we often say the wrong things, and what to do and say in-stead to build relationships and get the most important things done together
Simple ways they can inspire the commitment, motivation and collective action of the people around them
18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
We squander a tremendous amount of our potential – and organizations waste a tremendous amount of their people’s potential – by focusing on the wrong things or not following through on real priorities. It’s not that people don’t try hard enough, it’s that their efforts don’t reap the benefits they could.
Drawing from his book of the same title| Peter sets out the new, simple rules for leading in a way that brings focus to an organization and makes the best use of everyone’s talents.
Organizations succeed when people use every part of who they are to take care of their top priorities in the most efficient way possible. In this counterintuitive speech, Peter shows us how getting people to fit in or fix their weaknesses works against us. Instead, he tells leaders to help people embrace their weaknesses, assert their differences, leverage their strengths, and pursue their passions.
In this engaging, story-based and very practical talk, Peter offers ideas, practices, tips, mind hacks and gentle nudges to help leaders bring focus to their people and their organization.
An 18-minute plan to manage their day – empowering them to get the right things done
How to get traction, stick to their focus, ignore non-priorities, avoid the allure of unproductive busyness, and master their boundaries so they can resist distractions
How to build a plan that places people at the intersection of their strengths, weaknesses, differences and passions, maximizing their success and impact on the organization.
Everyone in an organization – no matter their level – has the opportunity to lead. Unfortunately, most don’t. There is a massive difference between what we know about leadership and what we do as leaders. What makes leadership hard isn’t theoretical, it’s practical. It’s not about knowing what to say or do. It’s about whether you’re willing to experience the discomfort, risk and uncertainty of saying or doing it.
In other words, the critical challenge of leadership is, mostly, the challenge of emotional courage.
Emotional courage distinguishes powerful leaders from weak ones. It means standing apart from others without separating yourself from them. It means speaking up when others are silent and remaining steadfast, grounded and measured in the face of uncertainty. It means responding productively to political opposition – maybe even bad-faith backstabbing – without getting sidetracked, distracted or losing your focus.
In this engaging and interactive talk, Peter not only shares real-life stories of emotional courage in action, he gives audiences a taste of it.
Peter shows audiences:
Why emotional courage is so important, and examples of its power
What it feels like – experientially – to have emotional courage through fun and effective exercises
How to grow emotional courage to take bolder moves in their work, their lives and the world
Point B: Change Without Resistance
Seventy percent of all major change efforts fail, mostly because of rampant fear, anxiety and resistance. Do you think of resistance as an inevitable byproduct of change? Peter, author of Point B: A Short Guide To Leading A Big Change, argues that resistance is optional, an unintended consequence of the way most leaders try to execute change.
Peter’s key insight: “People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.” Peter shows us how and why most change is executed poorly and most change management is counterproductive—creating stress in the leaders and resistance in everyone else. Done well, change isn’t something to suffer through on the way to something better (or maybe just different). Change is really an opportunity to deepen engagement and ownership; to create a workplace where everyone feels responsible for the success of the entire organization.
Peter illustrates this lively talk with a case study of a successful change involving 2|000 people globally in a large financial services firm and he shares:
Three change rules that must underlie any organization change effort
How to use the “Engagement Continuum” to diagnose and describe their own change initiatives
Seven strategies for engaging the workforce during a time of change that shift the responsibility of change from leaders to the people who must take the daily actions to make the change successful
Tom Flick
Sam Silverstein
Communication, Leadership, Organizational Culture
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Alfie Boe’s Best Ever Song: Number 7
Posted by thoughtsofjustafan on 18th August 2014
Posted in: Alfie Boe, Music. Tagged: Alfie Boe, Rosie, Royal Festival Hall, Trust.
Rosie, the Number 7 song in the Top Ten and the highest placed song from Trust, is credited on the album as a traditional American song and is co-arranged by Alfie himself. Song archivist Alan Lomax came across the song in 1947 at the Mississippi State Penitentiary’s Parchman work camp and went on to record a group of prisoners at one of the 15 work camps in existence at the time. Remarkably, youtube has a clip of this:
Chain gang music is not necessarily about the literal interpretation of the lyrics; the melody and the opportunity to release aggression are just as important. Rhythm is especially necessary to help productivity and teamwork in what must have been back breaking physical activity and makes the music of the chain gangs instantly recognisable.
Listening to Alfie’s version (the video below was shared by Annie Lloyd at the Royal Festival Hall in December 2013), the emotional intensity and the rawness of his voice are the things that first hit you. The rhythm drives the track and the meaning of the lyrics is almost not worth worrying about. Alfie Boe’s Rosie is an almost visceral song – it grabs you by the throat and forces you to listen. This is a song in which movement is very much a part of the listening experience.
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2 comments on “Alfie Boe’s Best Ever Song: Number 7”
Janet Hudson on 19th August 2014 at 9:08 pm said:
I love this song and the way Alfie introduces us to so many different types of music. Excellent research x
Roberta Kappus on 19th August 2014 at 1:28 am said:
BRAVO! I loved reading the history behind the song. I especially enjoyed listening to the chain gang sing Rosie. Great research and thank you for your write up.
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A Tale of Derring Do or (Chew)
Lam Son 719
By Bill Prichard
On that first eerie night at Vandegrift, in the ominous shadow of the infamous Rockpile, the Battalion forces were anxious and inwardly apprehensive about the final and most ambitious leg of the move toward Khe Sanh. It was onto Laos for the ARVN and our sturdy troops were ready to do the necessary in support of our allies planned encroachment into the land of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Our mission was touted by the brass as critical, and there was no doubt that the importance of our role was understood if not overestimated by each and every member of the battalion. We had been this far before, and maybe even a little farther, but never had the big "uglies" planned a brazen movement that deep nor one that rapid into Indian Country to provide the thunder and firepower that only a 175mm/8inch group of "bad medicine" heavy artillery pieces can provide.
Tales of the ambushes and enemy harassment along QL 9 coursed through the unit like wildfire and all through the night, although comforted by the presence of the dusters of the 1/44th that ringed the elephant grass- covered staging area, the murmured whispers of "what will happen tomorrow" were persistent and only mildly subdued. Each man wondered to himself if he would do his part and the natural fear that accompanies the movement into the unknown was everywhere. Will I be a hero or a coward? The question camped on each man's lips like the bad after-taste from cheap warm beer. Who would have ever guessed the scope of the heroic deeds that this the most unlikely group of troops would have performed the following day enroute KHz Sanh, the enemy , and the unknown.
My purpose here today is to focus on one such deed, or perhaps I should say succession of deeds that no doubt will be forever recorded in the annals of the unit as one of the most heroic and epic series of events ever to take place during the battalions long and honorable stay on the DMZ.
It seems that our equipment was in bad shape, not because the maintenance folks were not doing their job, but more because our issued stuff was old, worn out, shot up, broken down and just plain unfit. We were angry when we saw the spiffy ARVN battalions move past in rapid succession with all new trucks, cosmolened weapons, and even rookie green new uniforms. They looked good, but in the words of that famous ersatz movie general, Don Sutherland, could they fight? Enough foolishness.
At first light the order was given and the battalion mounted up. The snakelike formation slowly uncoiled and the convoy was underway. One of the more mundane pieces of equipment in this living sinuous beast was a ¾ ton truck bearing the battalion' s AM SSB (Single side band) long distance radio unit. As everyone knew, the common FM radios had limited capabilities due to the mountainous terrain that would separate Khe Sanh and the home base of Dong Ha. FM bounces off ridges were not uncommon but they were unreliable, particularly with the distances involved, so the AM capability was critical for the unit's coordination and control.
As the driver of this essential piece of equipment followed nose to tail click after click He noticed that the gas gauge was slipping to the left much faster than it should. Concerned, he pulled off to the side as far as he could and the problem was soon diagnosed. The gas tank had been punctured and vital fuel was pouring from the tank on to the narrow rocky road. At that point in the portage, the road was too narrow to permit the simultaneous passage of all but the smallest of vehicles and it was obvious that either the truck keep up, or be doomed to a unceremonious shove over the side of the road into the ravine below.
They may not have had great rolling stock but they did have plenty of fuel, and more importantly, plenty of C rations and Red Cross care packages. The foundering truck's occupants and all of the men in the deuce and half behind were quickly galvanized into action. Packages of chewing and bubble gum were distributed and soap collected. In the finest Army tradition each man did his part above and beyond the call of duty. Cheeks bulged like chipmunks as pack after pack of gum was masticated and then passed up. The gum, properly moistened and softened was used along with carved slivers of soap to plug the spurting hole in the gas tank and 5 gallon fuel cans were used to replenish the lost petrol every click or so all the way to Khe Sanh.
Perhaps these men did not garner the medals and accolades they deserved, but in my mind they were heroes one and all and when the radio was used to relay critical info to and fro we all smiled that inner smile and finally understood the meaning of a "Job Well Done."
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Motorcyclist dies after collision with car
by officialwmas February 16, 2017 Leave a comment
Thursday 16th February 2017 – 10.00am – Murray MacGregor.
A motorcyclist has died after a collision with a car.
The crash happened on Cannock Road in the Chase Terrace area of Burntwood at about 5.45pm on Wednesday afternoon.
Two community first responders from the Burntwood scheme were sent along with an ambulance.
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Words on Serge Benhayon in - Smear Campaign, RESPONSES TO MEDIA MISREPRESENTATION May 29, 2013 January 8, 2019 1,739 Words
A Response to False Accusations of Sexual Misconduct & Abuse by Universal Medicine & Serge Benhayon
Foreword by Rebecca Baldwin
Background: In 2012 many of us witnessed how a small group of hate-bloggers captured the attention of the local and national media with blatant lies and false reports of diet and lifestyle concerns about those who attended Universal Medicine presentations. Subsequently a spate of error-riddled and defamatory stories, were pumped through the usual and predictable channels. While there were some who were undiscerning enough to consume the junk-media, there were many more who saw right through it and in many ways it did nothing to disrupt Universal Medicine’s service offerings. Indeed, as always, due to the huge demand for its’ services, Universal Medicine continues to steadily go from strength to strength.
In effect the hate-bloggers who instigated the media attention were left unsatisfied and as their numbers dwindle, their anonymous online smear campaign has become increasingly outrageous and questionable. Their latest lie, is that Serge Benhayon’s healing techniques are sexually abusive. Anyone who knows Serge Benhayon knows how patently ridiculous that claim is – straight from the same ilk of the ‘Serge Benhayon gives Breast Massages’ lie that was made famous by an easily manipulated press who last year pimped out its pages to become a mega-phone for the hate-blogger’s lies and hate-campaigning.
Knowing the seriousness of giving airplay to false allegations of sexual abuse, especially where not a shred of evidence accompanies, the press have so far been wise enough to not touch these baseless and false accusations but unfortunately it remains on the hate-blog – a blog already once removed in its entirety by Google, because of its defamatory content. Of course the Internet being what it is, it has simply been cut and pasted to a new blogging platform and so the defamatory content remains.
And so as the hate-bloggers hit a new low, those that know the truth will steadfastly address the lies. Using false allegations of sexual abuse smacks of a very insidious brand of malice, as it attempts to play on people’s worst fears about men. In an age of Internet anonymity easily abused, this is a particularly cowardly act. In this very courageous piece by Kyla Plummer, she exposes the absurdity of the lies that continue to be perpetrated by an anonymous few.
(This article was originally published on the Truth about Serge Benhayon blog: Sexual Assault, Sexual Abuse and Creeps… Statistics and My Story)
by Kyla Plummer, Bangalow, NSW, Small Business Owner
Accusations of sexual assault are extremely serious and should never be taken lightly. The statistics that follow clearly show that sexual assault, sexual abuse and sexual violence are currently major issues in modern society.
1 in 3 women and 1 in 6 men are abused before the age of 18 (Fergusson & Mullen. 1999).
1 in 5 women and 1 in 20 men have experienced sexual violence since the age of 15 years (Australian Bureau of Statistics, Personal Safety Survey, 2005).
93% of offenders are male (National Crime and Safety Survey, 2002).
82% of recorded sexual assault victims were female (Trends in Recorded Sexual Assault, Australian Institute Of Criminology, 2005).
On a world scale, we are unfortunately familiar with sexual abuse. However, I don’t need statistics to know this abuse is widespread… I have first hand experience of being sexually assaulted, as have many of my female friends: in addition, some of the men that I know have been sexually abused in some way during their lives.
When I was 19 years old and pregnant with my first child, a registered Osteopath indecently assaulted me. He was recommended to me by a prominent, progressive and highly reputable Professor of Medicine based in Melbourne.
When I was 11 years old, I remember one of my father’s creepy friends commenting on my breast development, when my Dad wasn’t in earshot. (Creepy [Urban Slang] – commonly used term describing sexually inappropriate or perverted behaviour and/or; to derive sexual gratification through dishonorable means.)
At 21 a well-known local businessman propositioned me to prostitute myself.
At 23 I woke up with a man having sex with me when I was too intoxicated to defend myself.
Many women have experienced men initiating sex with them when they are too intoxicated to resist.
A close friend became pregnant after being raped at 16.
Another friend recently told me that she had been ‘felt up’ (or indecently assaulted) by strangers in the street too many times to count….
These experiences are not isolated; there are millions of these stories…
We all know what a creep looks like: most people know what creeps feel like or what creepy behavior entails. Most of my female friends also have a sense of when someone is using their body to get off in some way – we get it every day, even simply walking down the street, or in the workplace, or with the extra special attention of a creepy uncle or family friend.
I do not and would not engage any practitioner, doctor, massage therapist, dentist or anybody else that is going to come in close contact to my body, who feels or acts creepy. Perhaps back then I got stung or tricked more easily, when I was not as sure with my convictions and my rights. That Osteopath managed to trick me into breast massage (he was a man!) by insinuating that it was for therapeutic purposes: he also suggested internal muscle manipulation! Yes… he attempted to get me to allow him to vaginally and anally manipulate my hip muscles?!? I left and never went back. Thinking back, even before these atrocious suggestions, the way he checked the alignment of my bones whilst I was in my underwear without a robe, was creepy enough to begin with – and unnecessary to my treatment.
Yes, I should have reported him, but like many victims of sexual abuse, I was humiliated, traumatised and felt stupid, like it was somehow my fault. I did have him blacklisted by his peers with the co-operation of the Professor who had originally recommended him, but I could have done more, and so should have that Professor. Due to my circumstances, at that time I could not face the ordeal of pressing charges; however, I did not keep it to myself and sought support of those close to me as well as relating the incident to theProfessor. I would handle this differently with the strength and certainty that I now possess, and would never allow that to happen to me again: I could never be tricked in that way, belittled, made to feel inferior, prudish or immature, like I was made to feel if I did not allow the sexual advances of that man – actions he attempted to hide under the guise of Osteopathy.
I take great offence to anyone suggesting that I don’t know what sexual abuse is. Or that I am somehow too stupid or manipulated to know what sexual assault is – I KNOW, it has ACTUALLY happened to me. To suggest that 100’s, if not 1000’s of women who all have awareness about sexual abuse, and by the statistics shown above at least 1/3 may have personal experience of this abuse, are suddenly rendered unaware of what’s happening during their treatments at the Universal Medicine Clinic, is patently ridiculous and deeply offensive to these people who conduct themselves impeccably in their everyday lives.
The person or persons responsible for accusing Serge Benhayon or Universal Medicine of sexual misconduct clearly have had no experience with real abuse themselves, or they are very confused about what it means, or THEY HAVE AN AGENDA… but most likely, all of the above. The character and motives of these people require serious assessment and they should be held accountable.
Unfortunately, in a world rife with sexual abuse there are also those who attempt to ruin others’ lives and reputations by malicious accusations. They know that by doing so they will tarnish the reputation of the accused even if they can get no further with it than the initial complaint. It is a serious offence to wrongfully accuse someone of sexual assault or misconduct, and it is also a gross insult to the countless real victims of sexual abuse. That they attempt this smear by employing a social media site that is notorious for taking no responsibility for the sometimes dubious and outrageous content shared on various pages, is a definite indication that there is an agenda at play. To me these are not the actions of a genuinely abused person, but rather those of one on a mission. Furthermore, the image uploaded on this same site suggesting sexual interference with a client is laughable for its anatomic inaccuracy, betraying total ignorance of where ‘lady parts’ are located. (The image refers to ‘a young woman’ – how do they even know this?). Thousands of these treatments have been given, with no recorded complaints. EVER! Excluding this one anonymous exception.
My experiences with Serge Benhayon and practitioners of Universal Medicine are the dead opposite to these allegations. I have never felt any underlying sexual suggestiveness or behavior from him and / or them. NEVER. I was and continue to be always treated with respect as a woman. I have never been touched inappropriately. I always consented to the treatment I received from the Universal Medicine Clinic and these treatments were administered professionally, with client care of the highest standard.
In short, Serge Benhayon does not possess an ounce of the abusive energy that was described previously. So it seems to me utterly ridiculous to accuse this man of creeping… it is simply disgraceful. There are plenty of lovely and genuine men in this world who don’t find the need to objectify women, and just because some (men and women) behave this way does not mean that it needs to be normalised in any way, shape or form. As a woman, it is a true relief to be around non-creepy men – I prefer to call them real men – as I believe this is our true nature and that creepiness (amongst many other unsavoury behaviors) is a product of a civilization that is clearly out of control. I know plenty of men and women who are inspired by the way in which Serge Benhayon conducts himself professionally, personally, within the community and notably, the way he treats women with the utmost respect, equality and care. In my opinion and experience, Serge Benhayon is the epitome of a true Gentleman: what a terrible shame that a man of this quality would be accused of the very thing he is clearly not.
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721 thoughts on “A Response to False Accusations of Sexual Misconduct & Abuse by Universal Medicine & Serge Benhayon”
alisonmoir says:
What is shown from this blog, and the forward by Rebecca Asquith is that we can’t ignore or stop calling out the lies and corruption that have infiltrated every part of our society. Serge Benhayon has been singled out because he is willing to speak the truth no matter what, and expose the corruption that we have shut our eyes to, because it would expose how we have become bystanders, and allowed the deceit to continue. There is not an ounce of truth in the lies held against Serge, his own values in life, his love of humanity, his understanding of how the world works, means he is incapable of the things he is accused of, because it goes against his very reason for being, his raison d’être.
Rik Connors says:
The power-full forward here by Rebecca still stands today because, the same lies are still being printed. The only difference now is more of the corruption is now more in the open.
‘In my opinion and experience, Serge Benhayon is the epitome of a true Gentleman: what a terrible shame that a man of this quality would be accused of the very thing he is clearly not.’ I completely agree. Like many woman, and men I’m sure, I know what creepiness is, I really do. Serge Benhayon is so, so respectful and void of any of this sort of energy, no matter how subtle, that I learnt the true caring nature all men are beneath any seediness, and learnt to trust again. And this is huge as I was so messed up by sexual energy being around me that I tried to avoid looking or behaving like a woman and became very aggressive.
The legal system differentiates between legal and illegal and makes clear that what is not explicitly illegal is legal. Yet, when we accuse someone else to do something that is illegal and that never happened, you are abusing the legal system and the accused one. The legal system may recognize the abuse or may not even bother with it. That is beside the point. You are abusing the system and everyone with such a behavior.
rachelmurtagh1 says:
‘My experiences with Serge Benhayon and practitioners of Universal Medicine are the dead opposite to these allegations. I have never felt any underlying sexual suggestiveness or behavior from him and / or them. NEVER.’ I can add my voice to the many testimonies that Serge Benhayon acts with full integrity to both women and men. I can also truthfully say thank God that I have never suffered sexual abuse, but I do know what sleazy advances from men feel like. I have never experienced this from Serge, not one jot, not in any way shape of form, not ever. I have only ever experienced the highest form of regard, care and understanding consistently so over a period of 13/14yrs from the time I met him back in 2005. Quite frankly, I stand in disbelief that such outright lies are made, believed and upheld about a man who deserves no such treatment.
Sexual abuse against men and women I feel is on the increase. With the onset of the internet and pornography available 24/7 people no longer seem to have boundaries of what is acceptable and what is not. For practitioners to take advantage of their position is truly abhorrent and you have had first hand experience Kyla to know the difference when someone is being creepy and using their position to impose on another and to know that when you met Serge Benhayon there was no sexual undercurrent whatsoever. I know for myself that Serge Benhayon has the highest integrity of anyone I know, and I trust him implicitly and I have not felt or witnessed any sexual abuse of any kind, and so it is hard to come to terms with the fact that there are certain people that without any proof whatsoever have accused him of things he is not capable of doing.
simonwilliams8 says:
I am not a fan of other people in the press telling me what I should or should not be doing, thinking or feeling. I’m self aware enough to know how things feel for me, and to make decisions on that basis. Meanwhile the press are guilty of being played by other people’s agendas and take no responsibility whatsoever as to the impact that has on other people’s lives.
Christoph Schnelle says:
I find that some people seem personally offended by what Serge Benhayon teaches and they then take any action at their disposal to attack anything associated with Serge. The surprising thing is the venom and the ruthlessness of the attacks that I have observed.
Stephanie Stevenson says:
Thank you Kyla for this powerful and deeply inspiring delivery and living testimony to the true Living Way of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine practitioners. Without reservation and from personal experience, I whole-heartedly agree with your words. Serge Benhayon lives with a depth and standard of integrity, decency and respect that is rare in this world and by reflection, offers humanity a return to true brotherhood once more.
It is clearly being shown by extremes in weather patterns, mental and physical health problems and disharmony rife throughout the world that something is seriously amiss in the way we are living. Humanity is hurtling down a very slippery slope with the ever-growing lack of standards of common decency and respect. The change begins by choosing to be more aware of how we treat ourselves and being more honouring of the body – this builds a new foundation from the centre (our opening heart) like an ever-increasing ripple on a pond for our inner flame to be re-kindled to a brightly burning fire, offering humanity the reflection of a different quality to live from. We all have our part to play in this.
It’s important that we report abuse. I have been through a horrendous sexual abuse case and the best thing we could of done at the time was report it so it was out in the open and known to be what it is ABUSE!
So true what is presented by Universal Medicine has always been of the up-most integrity and Serge Benhayon understanding of True-Love has shared how words can be re-interpreted by being nudged slowing away from their true meaning to create a way of living that is not true and thus keeps us from re-connecting to our essences. And when connected to our essence Love is what is shared universally to all.
Liane Mandalis says:
To accuse another of sexual abuse when clearly there is not a trace of it existing outside the devious minds that plot and plant such a thought into the minds of others, is an act of great abuse that needs to be called out for what it is so we do not keep living in the cesspool we otherwise live in, when we do not uphold standards of decency amongst us.
“As a woman, it is a true relief to be around non-creepy men – I prefer to call them real men – as I believe this is our true nature and that creepiness (amongst many other unsavoury behaviors) is a product of a civilization that is clearly out of control.” I totally agree Rebecca with everything that you have said in the above sentence. It is absolutely beautiful to be around true men like Serge Benhayon.
Natalliya says:
A woman can feel every ounce of “creepy behaviour’. There is nothing but an unwavering respect and deep integrity of woman when in the company of Serge Benhayon.
It is beautiful to be around those who don’t impose – men, women and children.
I too have had several experiences of sexual abuse towards me. And so I am pretty aware of what it feels like. I can also say that not one Universal Medicine practitioner – male or female – has ever come across to me as creepy.
They are absolutely honouring and I feel completely comfortable in their presence. I am very aware of what it feels like to have any of this creepiness come my way – and not one bit of their energy reflects this. It is beautiful to feel the genuineness of these people.
It really does not matter whether you have studied with Universal Medicine or not, we can all feel the integrity or not of other people and situations if we choose to. Its what guides us through life and its worth developing that sensitivity as much as we can.
“1 in 3 women and 1 in 6 men are abused before the age of 18 (Fergusson & Mullen. 1999).” This statistic is appalling and shows us that as a society we are in deep trouble. Then when a man such as Serge Benhayon comes along and speaks out against sexual abuse he gets abused back by cyber trolls spreading all sorts of lies. To me this shows that we as a society are not yet ready to face the level of abuse that we inflict on each other and ourselves.
Ariana Ray says:
It does beggar belief that the one man who is standing up and living integrity for all to see is lied about so heinously. What would you do if you had this kind of abuse levied at you?
Jealousy moves in not so mysterious ways…
andrewmooney26 says:
I had a colleague once who was falsely accused of sexual misconduct. It took him 2 years to clear his name and sadly the system often assumes guilt before innocence with these things. Even though he cleared his name it still affected his career and his reputation. It is a very indecent, sneaky and low thing to do to falsely accuse someone of something that is indecent.
Doug Valentine says:
It is far too easy for anyone with a grudge to make a false complaint about someone and you are right there does seem to be a presumption of guilt rather than of innocence, which is the opposite to what we claim our law is about. The problem is that people do not seem to be held accountable for trying to wreck someone’s career, it appears when they are at great cost proven wrong they can just walk away and do it all again. Surely what they just did was a criminal action which should attract a prison sentence? By letting people do this and walk away scot free are we not as a society actually encouraging such criminal behaviour?
And that is precisely the point of this whole abusive exercise. It is not to prove someone has committed a crime they have not, it is simply to make people think they ‘could have’ committed this crime so that their name becomes stained, not in reality (for in-truth the quality of someone’s name is a direct reflection of how they live and not just a by-product of the lies that are hurled at them) but deep in the minds of those who have swallowed this bait.
Carmel Reid says:
I have never been raped but I have experienced creepy men, first as a ten year old with a man running a children’s puppet weekend, as a thirteen year old with a man exposing himself to me in the street, as a fifteen year old after a party with a boy’s hand up my skirt, in my twenties having a breast cancer check by a medical doctor, as a thirty-something year old with a work colleague propositioning me, and as a sixty year old being chatted up by a ‘nice’ man in a park who wanted to take me somewhere quieter. These may not seem major incidents and they were not consistent abuse, but I recognise the feelings of vulnerability and ‘how did I let myself get into this?’ We tend not to report these incidents because we feel stupid or don’t want to cause trouble. In the case of the doctor I see now I should have done because I’m sure he went on to abuse many more women in that way. Men in their natural essence, what you call ‘Real Men’ are so naturally tender and respectful it is a shame that so many men can act this way. And I agree, I have only ever been met with the utmost respect from Serge Benhayon and all the Universal Medicine practitioners. Their Code of Practice is more ethical than anything I have seen.
Leigh Strack says:
This article says it like it is, many of us know what sexual abuse is, simply from our own experiences in life. With this knowing I also know that there is none, absolutely no sexual abuse or imposition in any of the men that I have encountered that are choosing the teachings of Universal Medicine to be a part of their lives.
rowenakstewart says:
In the 12 years that I have known Serge Benhayon I have only ever seen him conduct himself with the utmost genuine respect towards all the women he meets. Here stands a man with outstanding integrity who, through his personal conduct, is empowering women to reclaim our authority and sacredness and consequently these women, self included, will stand and vouch for his impeccable conduct. In my opinion a person who accuses Serge Benhayon of any misconduct clearly has not spent much time in his company and driven by a desperate attempt to discredit his reputation is grasping at straws to find ways to bring him down.
Here here Rowena there are many who can vouch for the impeccable integrity that Serge Benhayon lives and works by and inspires in many others.
“Knowing the seriousness of giving airplay to false allegations of sexual abuse, especially where not a shred of evidence accompanies, the press have so far been wise enough to not touch these baseless and false accusations but unfortunately it remains on the hate-blog – a blog already once removed in its entirety by Google, because of its defamatory content. Of course the Internet being what it is, it has simply been cut and pasted to a new blogging platform and so the defamatory content remains.” – this goes to show that our current laws are needing to be up-graded, and are not as yet covering such areas of growth like the internet. And it also shows that platforms such as google and other platforms are not holding the space with true integrity and their main goal is certainly not to support and foster harmony in society and a safe space to express. This needs to change – but the demand must come from all of us as a collaborative, as they will not respond to the few who call out singly.
vanessahawthorne says:
What is upsetting is that due to the false allegations those who may feel impulsed to come to a course etc and they search the internet and maybe find the absolute vile descriptions of Universal Medicine and the implications of abuse will be put off. To think that could have been me if I hadn’t come to the work a while ago is to be honest devastating, as the internet really wasn’t a big deal then you had to go with what you felt and when my friend mentioned a workshop with this guy from Australia I was I am there. It was absolute, but with how we are today quick search on google and then if there were all these pages of abusive allegations it would make me second think about it.
“In my opinion and experience, Serge Benhayon is the epitome of a true Gentleman: what a terrible shame that a man of this quality would be accused of the very thing he is clearly not.” I could not agree more with the above statement.
gillrandall says:
These accusations about Serge Benhayon are lies, unfounded and complete lies, and 100% lies. Total slander and lies to attempt (but fail) to take Serge Benhayon out and away from his essence, but it is never going to work.
Lies, more and more lies when more and more truth is being offered thought the work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Joseph Barker says:
Interestingly in the last few months we have started to see many key figures in society exposed for their abusive behaviour. It’s clear there’s so much more corruption that we are only just beginning to see. You are certainly not alone in your experiences Kyla, the greatest thing we can do is realise this abuse is not us and bring even more light to life. To be controlled by past hurts is to let the abuse have control and win.
Spot on Joseph – corruption is being exposed more so now than ever before…and so it should be. It is better that the false foundations are seen before more of the building is constructed upon it, for the more you invest in something when the foundations are hollow, the greater the damage when it comes crashing down.
Sarah Karam says:
What can I say my fellow sisters but here, here! What an introduction and what an article, priceless, TIMELESS, POWERFUL AND HEARTFELT!
Five years later these same hate bloggers are still pursuing their hate campaign against a completely innocent person and one of the highest integrity that I have ever met. It is disgraceful that such behaviour is allowable in a civilised country just because it is online. It is surely time for Australia to put a stop to such online abuse.
In the 9 years I have studied with Universal Medicine I have never once felt anything other than a deep trust and respect for Serge Benhayon. There is not one ounce of imposition of sexual innuendo or ‘creepy or sleezy’ energy in the way he moves, speaks and the genuine warmth as he meets and greets everyone eye to eye.
“In my opinion and experience, Serge Benhayon is the epitome of a true Gentleman: what a terrible shame that a man of this quality would be accused of the very thing he is clearly not”.
History is full of stories of great men and women who were accused of all sorts of things just to silence them. The accusation of sexual impropriety against Serge Benhayon is the same thing-it is designed to cast doubt in people’s minds so that they do not get access to the truth of what he presents. Same story, different era.
It has to be really concerning for some that a group of people, who have chosen a diet and a lifestyle that in spite of not being mainstream are totally in sync with what the body feels is natural to it, are doing ‘too’ well. ‘Too’ much wellbeing is totally un-acceptable. It exposes ‘too’ much the others and their choices. So how can I make sure that this well-being dis-ease does not spread out? Although it may be hard to believe, this is how some people think and come up with creative (well not really) ways to target those that make them truly uncomfortable.
“Serge Benhayon is the epitome of a true Gentleman: what a terrible shame that a man of this quality would be accused of the very thing he is clearly not.” I have known Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine for 10 years and Serge has always made sure that everyone is treated with the upmost dignity and respect.
Despite all the slandering …”due to the huge demand for its’ services, Universal Medicine continues to steadily go from strength to strength.” – the proof is in the pudding!
There is the story of the boy who called wolf which most of us have heard about – if you are going to call the village to arms about a situation, then it best be a real situation as opposed to a fictitious one, for otherwise you are wasting people’s time and resources and no one will believe you when you really call wolf when there is one! This analogy is actually deeper yet in its damage when it comes to the accusations around Serge Benhayon – he is someone who stands with utmost integrity, and for someone to attempt to destroy his reputation, not only is this totally unacceptable with regards to the attempted damage to the individual (Serge), but there is also the greater damage to our society where money, time and resources are taken away from truly needed cases of abuse because of being distracted by a someone who presents a lie. It is time for us as a society to stand up for the Truth and ensure it is available to all.
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Trump to launch re-election campaign in battleground state of Florida
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Tuesday formally launches what may be an uphill battle to persuade voters to give him four more years in office, as he bets a strong U.S. economy will outweigh voter concerns about his unorthodox style and polarizing policies.
At an evening rally in Orlando, Florida, Trump, who has long made it known he is running for re-election, will begin making his case with gusto for a second term.
The Trump of 2020 most certainly will bear a strong resemblance to the Trump of 2016 – brash and eager to bash opponents and promote tough policies on trade and immigration.
Two-and-a-half years into his tenure, Trump sees plenty of positive factors, led by a growing economy with low unemployment.
“If the economy stays strong, he is very likely to get re-elected,” said Trump confidant Newt Gingrich, a former Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
But an investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, coupled with a presidential style marked by name-calling and eye-popping tweets, has undermined some Americans’ confidence in Trump before the November 2020 election.
He also has stirred division with his hard-line policies on immigration and unsettled business and farm groups with his use of tariffs in trade disputes with China and some allies.
Democrats cite a string of broken promises in Trump’s first term, from lowering drug prices to closing corporate tax loopholes and stopping plant closures. In a media call on Tuesday, Democratic Party officials focused on his moves to weaken the signature healthcare law of his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, without providing an alternative.
“The thing that is working to our advantage is that this president now has a record to run on,” said Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez.
POLLING CONCERNS
A Reuters/Ipsos poll on June 11 gave Trump a 40% job approval rating, compared with 57% who disapproved. Other opinion polls have shown him running consistently behind his main Democratic challengers, such as former Vice President Joe Biden, in key battleground states.
Republican strategists say the fundamentals favor Trump as he heads into his election but that he faces challenges given his bare-knuckled approach, which he refuses to temper.
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“His support with his base is as strong as it’s ever been for any Republican incumbent president. The challenge is adding to that and building the coalition he needs for re-election,” said Republican strategist Ryan Williams, a former adviser to 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
In a Twitter post before his trip, Trump said: “Republican enthusiasm is at an all time high. Look what is going on in Orlando, Florida, right now!”
The Orlando Sentinel, however, welcomed the president visit with an editorial titled: “Our endorsement for president in 2020: Not Donald Trump.”
Trump supporters with tents and sleeping bags started camping out at the rally venue on Monday and thousands had gathered by Tuesday afternoon in a torrential downpour. “It was like a big Trump party,” said Maureen Bailey, who slept in a tent with her twin sister, Laureen Vartanian.
Local Democratic Party officials planned a “Win With Love” rally a few blocks from the Trump rally.
Starting his 2020 push in Florida, which the former New York businessman considers his second home, shows how important the state is to Trump’s re-election hopes. He would like to recreate the state-by-state electoral victory map he assembled to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
That election included Trump victories in Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and he thus far faces challenges in all those states, along with North Carolina.
FLORIDA IS A KEY
Democrats vow to win back industrial states like Pennsylvania and Michigan that flipped to Trump in 2016 after decades of voting Democratic in presidential elections, and they believe his behavior and policies will generate strong turnout among Americans eager to turn him out of office.
“He carried some states last time that put him over the top that he needs to go button down this time – and he needs to keep a close eye on Florida and North Carolina,” said Republican strategist Scott Reed. “But he’s in a position of strength because he has the presidential bully pulpit.”Trump campaign advisers wave off the polls at this stage, saying Trump had trailed in most polls in 2016 and still won.
The advisers believe Trump’s chances will improve once Democrats go through their hard-fought nominating process and produce a nominee for him to face off against.
Nobody is expecting Trump to change his behavior. Aides who had urged him early in his White House tenure to tone down his style are long gone.
Some Trump advisers had urged the president to begin his campaign launch in New York with a nostalgic recreation of the scene from June 2015 when Trump and his wife, Melania, rode down an escalator at Trump Tower for his announcement speech.
On his flight to Tokyo on May 24, Trump turned down the idea, based on input from the first lady, who thought he should do something new and was adamantly against the escalator ride, said a person with direct knowledge of the conversation.
Reporting by Steve Holland; additional reporting by Doina Chiacu in Washington and Carlo Allegri in Orlando; editing by Peter Cooney and Bill Trott
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ABC's Head of Audience Data & Insights talks driving engagement with AI
The Australian Broadcasting Association (ABC) is a heritage brand, originating in 1932 as a single radio service in Melbourne to become in current day a multi-platform with four TV channels, radio stations across Australia and an array of digital assets.
The ABC has one main remit – to reach all Australians. And this is done collectively with a team of Data Scientists, Data Solutions, Data Engineers, Insights Analysts, Insights Engineers, Insights Managers and Business Managers collectively pulling together to help the organisation fulfil its objective. Alicia Olson-Keating, is the Head of Audience Data & Insights at ABC and is tasked daily with leading this ambitious team of data-driven experts.
Alicia has worked in the media for 30 years, 28 of which were spent in Canada. Alicia has strong industry experience in disciplines that span strategy, B2B marketing, qualitative and quantitative research, data, analytics and insights. She is highly skilled in using data and insights to drive better outcomes for the organisations she works with, and she has a flair for leading and developing teams who hold a high bar and inspire a results-driven culture.
At ADMA Data Day 2019, Alicia provided her expert insight into the current state of the media industry from a technology and impact on media consumption perspective. Her presentation shared four key themed case studies to demonstrate the work ABC are doing to better understand and deliver to their audiences across the nation. In particular, how the application of machine learning was utilised to drive better engagement and how insights from data are being applied to encourage future thinking across the team.
Alicia revealed the timeline of the impact of technology on changing the evolution of communication channels spanning from 1800’s, which has increased the competition of eyeballs and ears in the fragmented market place.
In one of the case studies ‘Predictions of Patterns,’ Alicia shared 10 years of linier television audience data. Given that ABC share content on both Television and iview – ABC’s video On-Demand platform, the data and insights team are required to straddle two worlds. Alicia had a depth of insight to share around the viewing patterns of TV vs Video On-Demand and which content provides better engagement on either of the mediums.
By utilising an AI TV scheduling tool Alicia explained that and her team are able to make predictions on what genre of TV show on the ABC has the ability to combat a competing Genre by another broadcaster. This TV scheduling tool provides ABC with the intelligence to schedule in a way that provides the most effective result – which in turn provides peace of mind that the government funded organisation is maximising the return on their content.
Alicia’s keynote at ADMA Data Day unpacks insight into what is happening in the media industry from ABC’s perspective.
If you missed ADMA Data Day, and would like to hear all four of Alicia’s case studies, you can access her keynote on Data Day On-Demand.
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Facebook data scandals stoke criticism that a privacy watchdog too rarely bites
Nicholas Confessore and Cecilia Kang
Updated Dec 31, 2018 — 3.27pm, first published at 12.06pm
Washington | Last spring, soon after Facebook acknowledged that the data of tens of millions of its users had improperly been obtained by the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, a top enforcement official at the Federal Trade Commission drafted a memo about the prospect of disciplining the social network.
Lawmakers, consumer advocates and even former commission officials were clamouring for tough action against Facebook, arguing it had violated an earlier FTC consent decree barring it from misleading users about their how their information was shared.
But the enforcement official, James A Kohm, took a different view. In a previously undisclosed memo in March, Kohm - echoing Facebook's own argument - cautioned that Facebook was not responsible for the consulting firm's reported abuses. The social network seemed to have taken reasonable steps to address the problem, he wrote, according to someone who read the memo, and most likely had not broken its promises to the FTC.
Lawmakers, consumer advocates and even former FTC officials have been clamouring for tough action against Facebook. Shutterstock
The Cambridge Analytica data leak set off a reckoning for Facebook and a far-reaching debate about the tech industry, which has collected more information about more people than almost any other in history. At the same time, the FTC, which is investigating Facebook, is under growing attack for what critics say is a systemic failure to police Silicon Valley's giants and their enormous appetite for personal data.
Almost alone among industrialised nations, the United States has no basic consumer privacy law. The FTC serves as the country's de facto privacy regulator, relying on more limited rules against deceptive trade practices to investigate Google, Twitter and other tech firms accused of misleading people about how their information is used.
But many in Washington view the agency as a watchdog that too rarely bites. In more than 40 interviews, former and current FTC officials, lawmakers, Capitol Hill staff members, and consumer advocates said that as evidence of abuses has piled up against tech companies, the FTC has been too cautious. Now, as the Trump administration and Congress debate whether to expand the agency and its authority over privacy violations, the Facebook inquiry looms as a referendum on the FTC's future.
"They have been asleep at the switch," said Senator Richard Blumenthal, the ranking member of the subcommittee charged with overseeing the agency. "It's a lack of will even more than paucity of resources."
Even if the agency does not penalise Facebook over the Cambridge incident - and some former FTC officials disagree with Kohm's reasoning - the commission could punish the company for other offences. Former officials say they've been told that its inquiry has expanded to include recent security and privacy breaches as well as Facebook's secretive data-sharing deals with Amazon, Netflix and other companies. Facebook declined to comment on the inquiry.
The agency - overseen by five commissioners, three of them typically from the president's party - is habitually tight-lipped. FTC Chairman Joseph Simons declined to comment on the Kohm memo.
The Federal Trade Commission ss under growing attack for what critics say is a systemic failure to police Silicon Valley's giants and their enormous appetite for personal data. ALEX BRANDON
As the federal government's main consumer protection and antitrust authority, the FTC has pursued carmakers, drug companies, illegal robo-callers and bloggers who fail to disclose corporate sponsors.
But it is hampered by its relatively small size - about 1100 employees, roughly a quarter the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission - and broad mandate. Guarding consumer privacy online, just one part of its mission, can raise complex technical issues. The agency's enforcement arm, led by Kohm, doesn't have its own tech experts, instead borrowing them from other agency units. The job of chief technologist, an adviser to the FTC chairman, has been vacant since April. And its lawyers are outnumbered by the armies of attorneys employed by tech giants.
"They have considerably less staff than they had in the 1980s, and more responsibility," said Justin Brookman, a former FTC official under the Obama administration who now works at the Consumers Union.
FTC officials said privacy and data security cases had gotten more attention than any others over the past decade.
Still, all five commissioners agreed at the November Senate hearing that the agency needed more money and greater regulatory authority to keep up with big tech.
Critics said a greater problem was cultural. The FTC is haunted, for example, by a clash with Congress in the 1980s over an attempt by the agency to ban television ads for junk food directed at children, known as "KidVid". Lawmakers pulled funding and severely weakened the FTC's power to issue new regulations.
Even today, "in just about every meeting I have at the FTC, staff mention KidVid", said Josh Golin, executive director of Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, which has filed complaints against YouTube and Facebook.
Fears that Congress could again cripple the FTC have made some career lawyers reluctant to take on politically sensitive cases, according to current and former employees, speaking about their experiences during the Trump and Obama administrations.
Proving harm
President Donald Trump's arrival in Washington kicked off a period of uncertainty at the FTC. For 16 months, three of five seats remained vacant on the commission, which was initially led by acting chairwoman Maureen K Ohlhausen, an advocate of "regulatory humility".
Ohlhausen's staff told enforcement officials to slow down on cases, so the White House would not view her as anti-business, according to a former senior official. That official and others interviewed for this article spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe conversations that were private or involved non-public FTC investigations.
In an interview, Ohlhausen denied ordering a slowdown and cited privacy actions she had brought against PayPal and Lenovo. But she acknowledged having argued against going after what she regarded as small cases, like Nomi.
With limited resources, she said, the FTC should "pursue cases where the evidence of actual or likely consumer harms is strongest".
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Home The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918
The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918
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By August 1918, the outcome of the Great War was not in doubt: the Allies would win. But what was unclear was how this defeat would play out - would the Germans hold on, prolonging the fighting deep into 1919, with the loss of hundreds of thousands more young lives, or could the war be won in 1918? In The Last Battle, Peter Hart, author of Gallipoli and The Great War, and oral historian at the Imperial War Museum, brings to life the dramatic final weeks of the war, as men fought to secure victory, with survival seemingly only days, or hours away.
Drawing on the experience of both generals and ordinary soldiers, and dwelling with equal weight on strategy, tactics and individual experience, this is a powerful and detailed account of history's greatest endgame.
By: Peter Hart
Imprint: Profile
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 28mm
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Peter Hart is the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum and has written several titles on the First World War. His latest books for Profile are Gallipoli, The Great War and Voices from the Front. Find him on Twitter @PeterHart1915
A superb account of the tactics that finally brought victory on the Western Front. The Last Battle pays just tribute to the allied military achievement of 1918, too often forgotten in our preoccupation with earlier horrors. -- Max Hastings * The Times * Thought provoking, erudite, yet eminently readable and entertaining: Peter Hart is a historian and author at the peak of his powers -- Richard van Emden A fantastic book...If you're going to read one book on 1918 for this centenary, there's no doubt that Peter's book is it. -- Paul Reed * World at War * A thoroughly readable, yet authoritative, account of one of the most dramatic periods of 20th Century history, one which deserves to be far better known. It deserves a place on the bookshelf of every serious student of the Great War and I cannot recommend it too strongly. -- Jack Sheldon, author of The Germany Army on the Somme 1914-1916 Peter Hart has a happy knack of blending a high-level of abstraction (the politics, grand strategy and operational) with the personal and minute, and making it work for the reader... The narrative is highly educational and The Last Battle certainly makes for a good read. -- Chris Baker * The Long, Long Trail * Well written, with an exceptional collection of personal narratives, this book provides a fascinating look at the last four months of World War I. -- Jerry D. Lenaburg, Senior Military Analyst This is an excellent highly readable book that should appeal to all students of military history and a worthy addition to the author's previous titles. -- Stephen McGreal, Historian A consistent writer who has the skill of a fine storyteller...Hopefully we will see more from Peter in good time, and if you are wise enough to read The Last Battle, it should lead you to his earlier work. You will not be disappointed. -- Mark Barnes * War History Online * Arguably the most significant book produced in the centenary year of the Armistice and is a masterfully written and constructed work...a book which is not only more than praiseworthy but is one which will stand as the definitive work on perhaps the most important period of the entire war. -- Andy Saunders * Britain at War * A superb account of the tactics that won the First World War on the Western Front. * Sunday Times Culture * Peter Hart, in his commendable book...offers us a first-class analysis as to why the British Army succeeded operationally...One of the best books, among the very large number that the First World War centenary has produced, at describing how soldiers actually think and feel, written by a historian who has a rare intuition for his subject. -- Barney White-Spunner * Country Life * At last we have a book that really does these events justice...Hart skilfully navigates the reader through the rival national narratives that each claim credit as architects of the final victory...Hart has delivered a well balanced, enlightening history that enables the reader to make sense of an exciting but potentially confusing chapter of the war. -- Mike Peters * Soldier Magazine, Pick of the Month * Hart is an accomplished historian displaying a sound knowledge of the war, its challenges and difficulties, and the manner in which they were overcome. Like his other books, The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front,1918 embraces the human face of war within a largely operational narrative that is balanced and fair in its commentary, and gives credit where credit is due... Once picked up, it will be hard to put down. * Brigadier Chris Roberts * A superb account of the tactics that won the First World War on the Western Front. * Sunday Times *
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Women's Lacrosse Falls on the Road to Lasell
Albertus Magnus (1-11, 0-8 GNAC) 0 1 1
Lasell (9-6, 5-3 GNAC) 14 5 19
A: Lisi Anczok - 3
Sv: Bridget Delaney - 4
GB: Cailin Flannery - 3
G: Miranda Jassil - 1
Sv: Lexie Fenn - 5
GB: 3 Players (#13, #21, #23) - 3
Newton, Mass. - The Albertus Magnus College women's lacrosse team lost on the road to Lasell, 19-1, on Tuesday afternoon in Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) action at Grellier Field. The Lasers improve to 9-6 on the year and 5-3 in the GNAC, while the Falcons drop to 1-11 overall and 0-8 in conference play.
Freshman Megan Palumbo (Southington, Conn) scored her first two collegiate goals this afternoon while fellow classmate Jordon McComb (Cumberland, R.I.) tallied two goals of her own for the hosts. Bridget Doherty (Franklin, Mass.) and Danielle Chambrelli (Cheshire, Conn) both contributed with a hat trick and an assist for the Lasers in the victory.
Senior Miranda Jassil (North Branford, Conn.) scored the lone goal for the Falcons, her 13th of the season. AMC sophomore midfielder Alex Chan (Monroe, N.Y.) won two draw controls, while three other Falcons including Jassil scooped three ground balls apiece.
Senior Ashlee Pechulis (Westfield, Mass.) opened up the scoring for the Lasers in the first half on a feed from classmate Stefanie Welch (Hancock, N.H.) just 50 seconds into the game. Doherty scored two of her three goals in the following minutes to bump Lasell's lead to 12-0 before two tallies from Chambrelli closed the out the half.
The Lasers tacked on five goals in the final 30 minutes before Jassil broke the shutout on a free-position shot.
Lasell starting goal keeper Bridget Delaney (Weymouth, Mass.) backstopped the Lasers to her third win of the season (3-2), stopping four Falcons shots. Freshman Lexi Fenn (Oakville, Conn.) took the loss (1-10) with five saves for Albertus.
The Falcons return to action on Saturday, April 30, with a home conference clash versus Mount Ida that is slated to get underway at 5:00 pm.
For the latest information on the women's lacrosse team and Albertus Magnus athletics, follow AMCAthletics on Twitter and visit AlbertusFalcons.com.
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As a genuine vanguard of electronic music composition at the forefront of the modular synthesiser revolution in the late 1960s, Suzanne Ciani’s forward-thinking approach to new music would rarely look to the past for inspiration, which makes this unheard composition from 1969 a rare exception to the collective futurist vision of Ciani and synthesiser designer Don Buchla. In choosing to adapt the controversial prose of French poet Charles Baudelaire, Suzanne would join the ranks of ongoing generations of pioneering musicians like Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Serge Gainsbourg, Etron Fou Leloublan, Celtic Frost and Marc Almond (not forgetting Star Trek’s William Shatner!), all equally inspired by the 19th century writer’s works of "modernité" (modernity), a self-coined term dedicated to capturing the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, best exemplified in his symbolic, erotic and macabre ode to Parisian industrialisation, Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers Of Evil).
In her varied career that would combine art gallery installations, major film soundtrackings and commissions for Atari, Suzanne Ciani’s earliest experiments remain some of her most challenging, beguiling and timeless... Flowers Of Evil ticks all the above boxes and flicks switches that would power-up a new uncharted universe of her own musical modernité. For the many enthusiasts that have already drawn the parallels between Baudelaire’s writings and experimental/ electronic music (a relationship rivalled only by the likes of J. G. Ballard and Aldous Huxley) some might instantly recognise an unconscious sistership between this recording and another 1969 electronic adaptation of Flowers Of Evil by celebrated female electronic composer Ruth White. An interesting distinction of White’s excellent version of Flowers Of Evil (released via Limelight records, home to the likes of Fifty Foot Hose and Paul Bley) is that its dark tone generation and vocal manipulation was created with a Moog synthesiser, the commercially triumphant rival to Suzanne and Don’s Buchla Systems (Buchla and Moog’s historic, simultaneous, neck-and-neck synth developments are well documented.) The fact that Ciani’s version was never intended for commercial release (not unlike her 1975 Buchla concerts, which could easily have taken Morton Subotnick’s Bull by the horns!) is also poetically reflective of the nature of Ciani and Buchla’s alternative perspective. The choice to present this extract from Flowers Of Evil in its intended French language further distances Ciani’s faithful reaction from some of its better-known variations. Having attempted to voice the poem herself, the multilingual Italian-American composer’s French accent did not meet her own standards, resulting in the request for a fellow unnamed French student who lived on campus at Mills College in Oakland to accurately verbalise the section of Baudelaire’s collection entitled Élévation.
Suzanne Ciani: Flowers Of Evil
Flowers Of Evil (Based On The Poem Élévation by Charles Baudelaire) Suzanne Ciani 14' 08''
Glass Houses Suzanne Ciani 4' 52''
Token Spokes, Part One Suzanne Ciani 2' 18''
Token Spokes, Part Two Suzanne Ciani 4' 11''
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» Newsroom » All news » Interest rates should remain steady, says RBA Shadow Board
Interest rates should remain steady, says RBA Shadow Board
The Australian National University's RBA Shadow Board says interest rates should remain on hold.
The call comes on the back of signs of a weakening Australian economy, including falling inflation.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will meet on Tuesday 7 May to review interest-rate settings, which have been at a record low of 1.5 per cent since August 2016.
Dr Timo Henckel said the RBA Shadow Board's conviction was the cash rate should remain on hold.
However, the RBA Shadow Board's conviction has weakened slightly.
"The perceived risks have shifted dramatically from previous months. The Board is 54 per cent confident that keeping interest rates on hold is the appropriate policy, down seven percentage points from April," Dr Henckel said.
"It now attaches a 38 per cent probability that a rate cut is appropriate, compared to 6 per cent in April.
"The RBA Shadow Board attaches only an 8 per cent probability that a rate rise is appropriate - compared to 33 per cent in April."
Significantly, Australia's inflation rate fell to 1.3 per cent in the March quarter, putting it well below the RBA's official target band of 2-3 per cent.
The unemployment rate ticked up to 5 per cent in March, while consumer and business confidence measures improved slightly.
"Signals about the state of the world economy are mixed," Dr Henckel said.
"Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell is sounding more confident about the US economy. The US yield curve, usually a good predictor of economic fortunes, is slightly upward-sloping, after having briefly inverted in March.
"A more bullish economic outlook in the US creates a bigger gap between yields in the US and Australia, and may well fuel a further depreciation of the Australian dollar."
Australia's real estate sector continues to weaken, with experts forecasting further declines in house prices.
"Coupled with a weakening macroeconomy, this will raise households' financial stress and choke aggregate demand," Dr Henckel said.
Looking ahead for the next six months, the RBA Shadow Board's estimated probability that the cash rate should remain at 1.5 per cent has jumped 11 percentage points, to 38 per cent.
The probability of an interest rate cut in the next six months has increased from 28 per cent to 38 per cent, while the probability attached to a rate hike has fallen further, to 24 per cent.
The RBA Shadow Board is a project based at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) in the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy. It brings together nine of the country's leading experts to look at the economy and make a probabilistic call on the optimal setting of interest rates ahead of monthly RBA Board meetings. It does not try to predict RBA behaviour.
Dr Henckel's full commentary is available on the CAMA RBA Shadow Board website.
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Mother of gay teen says school knew he would commit suicide
Justin Chan, AOL.com
Jun 14th 2019 12:52PM
The mother of a gay Alabama teenager who committed suicide in April has accused his school of ignoring the signs that ultimately led to his death, according to WZDX.
In a statement on Monday, Camika Shelby said administrators at Huntsville High School allegedly told her 15-year-old son Nigel, who was bullied for his sexuality, that being gay was a choice. She added that they also failed to let her know that the teenager, then in ninth grade, had difficulty coping with the treatment he received from his peers.
"People at his school knew that he planned to take his own life," she said. "I need to find out who knew and why nobody told me until after he died."
Shelby alleged that, in the hours following her son's death, a school employee told her to check his backpack for a suicide note. The mother reportedly found Nigel's body when she returned home from work on April 18. The night before, she said that he had come into her room and told her that he would do better in school.
"He was just special," she told WAFF. "He was outgoing, he was always full of joy, full of light, he was always singing, always dancing."
Following the high school freshman's death, school officials released a statement mourning Shelby's loss of her only son.
"Our sympathy, thoughts and prayers are with Nigel's family," the statement read. "Parents, please talk to your students about Nigel's death. Know and be aware of changes in your child. Talk to them about what they see, words they speak and actions they can take to make a difference. We must be better."
Condolences aside, Huntsville High did not do enough to ensure the teenager's safety, said Shelby's lawyers Benjamin Crump and Jasmine Rand, both of whom also represent the family of Trayvon Martin, the teenager who was shot dead in Florida by George Zimmerman in 2012.
"As civil rights leaders, we have a duty to ensure all of our children are safe in school and treated with equality, and that educators address and guide children struggling with gender and racial identity issues in a positive and loving way that benefits the growth of the child," they said in a statement. "We will work hard to determine the role his school contributed in his decision to take his own life and to uncovering the truth surrounding the tragic circumstances of Nigel Shelby's death for his mother."
David Johns, the executive director of National Black Justice Coalition, said that his organization, which advocates for black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, would provide additional support to Shelby and her lawyers.
"We will work with Nigel's mother and his attorneys to determine changes that can be made within his school, and other schools in the community, to support culturally competent and intercultural awareness through sex education and other inclusion and anti-bullying policies," he said.
In response to criticism from Shelby over the supposed lack of attention that was paid to her son's bullying, Huntsville High countered with its own statement earlier this week, asserting that it did all it could to make sure Nigel felt comfortable on school grounds.
"The administrators and counselors of Huntsville High School had a close relationship with Nigel during his time at the school," Huntsville High said. "They worked with Nigel to ensure that he felt at home at Huntsville High. They were absolutely devastated by Nigel’s passing and tried to do everything in their power to support Ms. Shelby during that difficult time."
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Telugu Gentleman Movie 5th Day Box Office Collection Total Earning Report
Telugu Gentleman Movie 5th Day Box Office Collection Total Earning Report : “Honorable man” is a sentimental thriller film with a decent measurements of other business components, which has been composed by Mohan Krishna Indraganti. R David Nathan has composed the story, while executive Mohan Krishna Indraganti penned screenplay for the motion picture, which has been created by Sivalanka Krishna Prasad under standard Sridevi Movies. Nani, Surubhi and Niveda Thomas-starrer Telugu motion picture “Refined man,” which was discharged in theaters on June 17, earned positive decision and rich appraisals from the film pundits.
The film accompanies extraordinary exhibitions and at last it turns out with a glad consummation that inspire the motion picture significant others. The fresh run time is a positive variable for the film and above all the main portion of the film has much extraordinary energy that hits well with the groups of onlookers. What’s more, getting more into the points of interest of the film, we additionally have that interest elements which has been kept up impeccably all through. The specialized estimations of the film are extraordinary. The cinematography of the film is flawless. The music of the film is mitigating and it speaks to everybody.
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“Man of honor” gathered around Rs 5.50 crore gross at the overall film industry on the primary day and it earned Rs 3.19 crore for its merchants, as indicated by Andhra Box Office. The film turned into the greatest opener for Nani, beating the record of “Bhale Magadivoi,” which gathered Rs 5.01 crore gross (Rs 3.15 crore) at the worldwide film industry on its opening day.
In general, Gentleman is one of Nani’s best exhibitions till date. Consistently, he is raising the stakes by doing fascinating ventures and this film falls in the same class. Good to beat all is Nivedha Thomas’ splendid execution and the anticipation component. The film will hold unequivocally particularly in the A focuses. At long last, on the off chance that you deal with the a somewhat moderate first half, Gentleman will divert you conventionally with its rushes.
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“Gentleman” is estimated to have collected approximately Rs 14+ crore at the worldwide box office in the first weekend. The movie has earned Rs 8.85 crore to Rs. 9 crore for its distributors in three days.
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For the third year in a row, we're celebrating National School Nurses Week by honoring some very special school health professionals with the Achievement in School Health Excellence (ASHE) Award. From over 200 nominations, 10 finalists were selected, and based off of the people's vote, we're pleased to announce the two ASHE Award winners and eight finalists. Without further ado, the winners of the 2014 ASHE Award are Jackie Baker, of King's Way Christian Schools, and Debra Bond, of Cheshire Academy. Both recipients will receive a $1,500 grant for their health center, and a personalized plaque. Keep reading to see the glowing nominations submitted for each of these fantastic women by their peers and colleagues.
Jackie Baker: In our unique PK-12 school setting, Jackie has the amazing ability to handle a large caseload with a student population from diverse backgrounds and a broad age range (12 months to 18 years). The dynamics of a private school can also foster many opinions from various stakeholders; nevertheless, Jackie comports herself with a wonderful balance of professionalism, courteous deference, resolved action, and gracious understanding. Her health room is frequently busy, but Jackie remains diligent and positive with each student, and, sometimes, staff member. Her professional contribution to our organization is twofold. Firstly, she maintains an autonomous department, keeps accurate records, reports to the site with high reliability, and dutifully attends to every medical need. I am particularly grateful for her responses in emergency situations. Earlier this year, she quickly and successfully administered an EpiPen in a serious case that many believed saved the student's life. Secondly, in spite of the caseload, Jackie finds time to educate our stakeholders, provide systemic resources for teachers and administrators, and serve as a frequent guest teacher in our high school health and science courses. Jackie willingly shares information with our stakeholders, empowering all of us to be more effective in our respective roles.
Debra Bond: It is no secret that nurses are some of the hardest working medical professionals in the field. Our director of Health Services, Debra Bond, is no exception. The independent school setting is very unique example; here at CA we host not only domestic students but also students from all over the world. Two-thirds of our students call Cheshire Academy their home, which requires supervision, immense planning and dedication. Deb works long, hard hours coordinating paperwork, maintain files, communicating with personal doctors, dormitory parents, parents/legal guardians and more. Her position is not a typical 9-5. In fact her shift truly never ends. When she leaves campus, Deb shares "on call" duties with her fellow nurse Daron Gawronski. They field calls on weekends, holidays, and even in the middle of the night. The hours are long the work is hard and as the school's athletic trainer I can truly appreciate the sincere dedication and passion that Deb has for her position and for Cheshire Academy. Deb is a well respected member of the Cheshire Academy community and the work she does is vital to well-being of our school. I am so pleased to have to opportunity to nominate Deb and our Health Center for the ASHE Award.
Finalists: We're happy to announce the below eight finalists and recognize their hard work. Each of the finalists will receive a $100 Visa gift card.
Scott Byrd, Gatlinburg-Pittman High
Jenni Skopal, Cedar Park Middle
Amy Croom, Cape Fear Academy
Dawn Eggebrecht, Grace Christian School
Marcy Kwitny, Polytechnic School
Sheila Caldwell, Cambridge Park Preschool
Jasmin Whitfield, Sidwell Friends
Missy Nix, Creekside Elementary
Thanks to everyone who submitted nominations! We're thrilled to celebrate the hard work of all school health professionals by highlighting the contributions of these 10 stellar nominees. If you weren't able to nominate someone this year, have no fear, the ASHE Award will return in 2015.
We also want to take this opportunity to congratulate last year's ASHE Award recipient, Nancy Weida, on her retirement. Thanks for your many years of dedicated service, and enjoy some much deserved rest and relaxation, Nurse Nancy!
Happy School Nurse Day to all!
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CONCORD, MASS. (WHDH) - Two firefighters and a teenager were taken to the hospital Tuesday after a house fire in Concord triggered a potential hazardous materials situation, officials said.
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City and County of San Francisco Sues Turo, Continues Assault on Transportation
Updated on March 5, 2018 by Michael
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The City and County of San Francisco keeps coming up among AutoSlash blog posts as the least car-friendly city imaginable -- legislating the highest possible price on free rental days, suing Hertz for a problem that was largely caused by the City and County, legislating rental cars because of rampant car theft from all cars (here, here, and here), and we even had joked about Enterprise heading off one of the hypothetical lawsuits we had projected on San Francisco's behalf. Then San Francisco sues peer-to-peer platform Turo for "cheating competition" at San Francisco International Airport, where "cheating competition" in San Franciscoese translates in the rest of the world as "not giving the airport authority enough money".
Some people (SFO Airport Commission) got to have it.
Here at AutoSlash, we're already fairly confident that I'm already persona non grata in San Francisco after the line "actual human hearts might be stolen if left in a car in San Francisco" earlier this month. I'm probably permanently excluded just as if San Francisco were a casino (one is gambling leaving items in a car there). So here's the completely unvarnished baseline interpretation of San Francisco's new lawsuit against Turo from a layperson's point of view.
There's a reason rental cars (including award days) are so expensive at San Francisco International Airport. The airport authority extracts (sounds better than extorts) $18 for the AirTrain plus 10% of all revenue earned by the rental car company on each rental. Then there's the "voluntary" tourism assessment and honest-to-goodness sales taxes, as this $25.89 Hertz car more than doubles in cost to become $52.05 after the government's involvement.
The Fee Detective weeps at tax/fee burdens exceeding 100%.
Here's how the cash rolls in for the San Francisco Airport.
The Airport wants Turo to pay $18 for the AirTrain plus 10% of revenues like an on-site rental car company.
Use an Off-Airport rental car company? Your fees will include the $18 for the AirTrain, 10% of revenues, and the shuttle bus (included in your rates, of course) has to pay an additional $3.35 per trip.
The Airport only charges Transportation Network Companies (like Uber and Lyft) $3.80 per trip.
Turo occupies a part in California state law that's neither a Transportation Network Company nor a rental car company.
The City and County of San Francisco want to charge Turo as a rental car company. However, the vehicle owners offering vehicles under services like Turo hold a different role under the law in the State of California -- a lawful "personal vehicle sharing program" -- and unlike the TNC's and rental car companies, are not commercial entities unless the proceeds from a company like Turo exceed the total cost of ownership in a year. It's right there in California law and thus forms the basis of Turo's response -- Turo does what's required by the law, and San Francisco interprets Turo's actions to follow the state law as constituting a rental car company. Turo did make one combination strategic error, however -- cancelling the previous agreement and allowing San Francisco to file the first lawsuit.
As Turo allowed San Francisco to file the initial lawsuit, the company instead had to countersue. In their countersuit, Turo links directly to the provision of insurance code that shows personal vehicle sharing programs are not rental car companies. They point to an aspect of the California State Constitution that says only the voters of the State can approve new taxes. And they pull out the nuclear option of stating San Francisco officials are simply doing the bidding of major rental car companies (namely, Enterprise) to protect those same rental companies from new innovations.
One might ask "don't State laws and the State Constitution override city/county interpretations"? The City and County of San Francisco respond "ha"!
Turo believes the City and San Francisco is out-of-range with their interpretation that the vehicle owners should be punished as a rental car company when State law says the vehicle owners are non-commercial entities. Turo admittedly would be happy with a fee closer to that charged to the Transportation Network Companies ($3.80 per trip) -- there's precisely the same burden on the 1.5 miles of San Francisco International Airport roadways of a commercial Uber and a non-commercial "personal vehicle sharing vehicle" making that loop. Turo has no desire to accept the taxes and fees as if a rental car company if state law says they are not a rental car company (and on that count, we agree). And as long as San Francisco continues their fight against cars (whilst not fighting against crime), we'll probably continue to use the unofficial titleholder of "World's Loudest Underground System" on our future visits.
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DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO SERIES
STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEP
From the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Truly Madly Guilty, and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.
A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.
Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place.
Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.
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“Ms. Moriarty’s long-parched fans have something new to dig into…Big Little Lies [may have] even more staying power than The Husband’s Secret.”—The New York Times
“Funny and thrilling, page-turning but with emotional depth, Big Little Lies is a terrific follow-up to The Husband’s Secret.”—Booklist (starred review)
“Big Little Lies tolls a warning bell about the big little lies we tell in order to survive. It takes a powerful stand against domestic violence even as it makes us laugh at the adults whose silly costume party seems more reminiscent of a middle-school dance.”—The Washington Post
“Moriarty demonstrates an excellent talent for exposing the dark, seedy side of the otherwise “perfect” family unit…Highly recommended.”—Library Journal (starred review)
“Irresistible…Exposing the fault lines in what looks like perfection is a specialty of Liane Moriarty… Moriarty’s sly humor and razor-sharp insights will keep you turning the pages to find out.”—People Magazine
"The secrets burrowed in this seemingly placid small town...are so suburban noir they would make David Lynch clap with glee...[Moriarty] is a fantastically nimble writer, so sure-footed that the book leaps between dark and light seamlessly; even the big reveal in the final pages feels earned and genuinely shocking.”—Entertainment Weekly
“If you're looking for a novel that will turn you into a compulsive book-finisher look no further. Moriarty has produced another gripping, satirical hit...It’s can’t-put-downability comes from its darker subplots...A book that will make you appreciate the long days of summer.”—Oprah.com
"Reading one [of Liane Moriarty's novels] is a bit like drinking a pink cosmo laced with arsenic...a fun, engaging and sometimes disturbing read…Moriarty is back in fine form."—USA Today
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“Not your average mommy novel. It’s a juicy, twisted murder mystery replete with themes of marital abuse and self-denial…The perfect mindless beach read.”—Purewow.com
“Suburbia is about to get a lot more scandalous.”—Closer Weekly
"The Aussie author of last year’s runaway hit The Husband’s Secret comes back with another winning and wise novel that intertwines the lives of three women."—EW.com
"It’s no mystery why Liane Moriarty is a summer staple: with wit and compassion...[she] keeps it real."—Family Circle
“Riveting and insightful…Moriarty has crafted a great summer read full of perceptive glimpses into the many guises of human relationships: mother-child, husband-wife (and ex-wife) and above all, the strong bond of female friendships.”—Bookpage
"Deservedly popular Moriarty invigorates … women’s fiction through wit, good humor, sharp insight into human nature and addictive storytelling."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Liane Moriarty is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Three Wishes, Truly Madly Guilty, Big Little Lies, The Husband’s Secret, The Hypnotist’s Love Story, and What Alice Forgot. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two children.
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5.0 out of 5 starsCompelling on the screen or the page
I've been watching the HBO series and thoroughly enjoying it. So when a friend mentioned that it was adapted from a book by an Australian author (and the setting changed from a ritzy Sydney North Shore suburb to Monterey) I couldn't resist buying it.
WARNING: if you're watching the series and don't want the end spoilered, don't buy the book. The series has followed along pretty faithfully so far, with one or two smallish changes (the theater production isn't an issue in the book, for example).
Big Little Lies is beautifully written, with a rising air of tension throughout the book as we get closer and closer to the murder foreshadowed from the beginning. I won't spoil who the victim is for you, but suffice it to say I was a little surprised. I'd already figured out who the real perpetrator of the playground bullying probably was - it's always nice when you guess SOMETHING right - but there were definitely a few shocks in the last quarter of the book that I didn't see coming. It's an excellent book and well worth reading.
That said, if you haven't watched the HBO series, get on that right away. It's incredible; Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon are compelling as a pair of 'yummy mummies' who on the surface appear to have the perfect life, but beneath the surface things are far from the polished facade they portray. Alexander Skarsgard steals every scene he appears in as the poised, rich, handsome husband with violent tendencies behind closed doors.
Big Little Lies is a compelling story on the screen or on the page. HIGHLY recommended.
5.0 out of 5 starsI loved this book!
I rarely write reviews, but I have to for this book. It is just too good. It is not a mystery. You know someone dies. It is not a crime novel. It is a novel about women and people. There are three main characters, all mothers with kindergarten children in the same school. They are all so different, but so vividly portrayed in all their goodness and their flaws. You wish you knew them. The scene where the death actually occurs is so wonderfully written that I had to read it twice. Sounds odd, doesn't it, but you will understand when you read it. The book is so clever and so witty. The characters are so interesting. I am going to watch the tv show but I don't know how it can measure up to the book! Read this book!
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5.0 out of 5 starsFantastic book, READ THIS BEFORE YOU WATCH THE SHOW!
An amazing book about friendship, family, enemies, past lives, and the consequences of assumption and judgment. I read the book before watching the HBO series and I would STRONGLY recommend that you read the book before watching the show. The book is obviously much better than the show; the character development in the book is incredible and you become so attached to the characters, much moreso than I did watching the show. The show DOES NOT give justice to the deep, thoughtful, complicated characters that Moriarty created. I found the book hilarious, heartwarming, heartwrenching, and tragic. This is a true page-turner. I've ordered a few more of her books because I loved Moriarty's writing style. This book is definitely not your typical and superficial fiction; thought it was soap-opera like, parts of it were like a thriller and I truly couldn't put it down. I'd recommend it to anyone wanting a well-written juicy story about a complicated town where everyone has their secrets.
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3.0 out of 5 starsTerrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Men and Women who Lie About Them (some spoilers)
Beginning with a death, “Big Little Lies” uses the technique of spinning us initially back in time to work through all the events leading up to the big reveal of “whodunnit” (and who’s actually dead)
This is the story of a group of wealthy, white New Zealand families who all have children at the same primary school using a series of linked events and points of view that ultimately lead to a tragedy at the school’s “Trivia” night.
At times this zips along like a soapy, pastiche of life in suburbia (Bullying in school! Petitions about dumb things! Head lice!) complete with a cast of wacky, colorful desperate housewives while at other times it seems to be earnestly trying to make serious points about the ugly things that go on behind closed doors - even among families that appear to be “perfect” on the surface.
And therein lies the heart of the problem - “Big Little Lies” just can’t figure out what it wants to be and as a result the “fun” parts aren’t much fun and the “serious” parts end up with an unsettlingly smug “after school special” feel to them.
The moral at the heart of both “Big Little Lies” and “The Husbands Secret”, by the same author (which I also had problems with) is that Bad Things Happen To Bad People and Good People get magically saved at the end by giant, clunky, ridiculous plot twists - no matter what bonkers things the characters do prior to this.
For example, here we are asked to believe that Jane - a stable, intelligent young woman with a loving, supportive family - has one single night of ugly (but consensual) sex with a Very Bad Man who scares her and says mean things to her - and as a result immediately falls pregnant and instantaneously develops a crippling eating disorder and can barely function ever after. So - while we are supposed to like and sympathize with Jane - her behavior is just bananas.
Throughout the story Jane makes a pious point - multiple times- of refusing to ever seek out That Very Bad Man in any way (Not even Googling him! Gasp!) - but we are ALSO expected to believe that she interrogated him on that one night to find out where he lived (why?) and then five years later abruptly moves to the town he lives in so she can stage a big “gotcha” scene to “introduce” The Very Bad Man to a son he has no idea exists just so she can tell him the kid likes pumpkin?? (I’m not exaggerating - that’s her actual plan) MORAL: Sex with strangers will leave you bruised, damaged, crazy and pregnant ( But thin! And beautiful!) - and you will ultimately plot to use the child you adore as a revenge pawn. (What??)
Celeste is so passive that she can only be “released” from her Very Bad Man literally by death. MORAL: If you’re a fabulously rich domestic violence victim with an apartment and income -make sure you know an unstable person because you will NEVER get away otherwise.
Bonnie is so damaged by her childhood experience of domestic violence at the hands of her Very Bad Dad that she ultimately commits a horrible crime - for which she gets community service because she has PTSD. MORAL: You might escape - but you’ll be broken forever and become violent when you eventually “snap” decades later - but you won’t go to jail because you’re Nice! (Really? That’s not at ALL how PTSD - or law - works)
In an equally ridiculous sub-plot we are supposed to believe that Amnesty International would be fine with a million dollar donation generated by someone “purchasing” a 14-year old girl’s virginity from an internet site as a fundraising stunt. (I’m pretty sure the sound I heard was Amnesty’s collective heads exploding at the thought they were used in this way) MORAL: A teen who tries to sell her body on the internet as a fund-raiser is really just “misguided” because she did it for a good cause and simply convincing her to take it down is a parenting score!!! At least she’s not on drugs! (Are you kidding me? Somebody get this kid to a therapist -STAT!)
If all that wasn’t weird and unsettling enough - we end this tragedy with happy endings for everyone!! (Well... except for the corpse) And luckily - it turns out ALL men aren’t Very Bad Men - you just need to find a Very Good Man and all your problems will go away! So Jane finds a Very Good Man who isn’t gay after all (thank heavens! It was the OTHER guy who’s gay! What a wacky mix-up!) who makes her eat yummy muffins he baked himself - thereby instantly curing her eating disorder and Bonnie finds her nice, supportive husband is ... well...nice and supportive.
If you don’t have a nice man to rescue you - like Celeste you can look forward to life with an insane amount of money with a psychotic child who tortures and bullies girls including throwing them down flights of stairs (because - you know - violence against women is ... Genetic?) but that’s Ok because he’s “just acting out” and you’ll get to give inspirational speeches about how domestic violence can happen to ANYONE (cue ominous music) and that’s enough , right?
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Mayor Says New “Renting in Seattle” Program to Provide Resources for Landlords and Renters
Seattle Mayor Jenny A. Durkan has announced the official launch of Seattle’s new “Renting in Seattle” program, a centralized resource for renters and landlords to find information, services, and help with navigating the rules and regulations of renting in the City of Seattle, according to a release.
This follows the passage of two pieces of historic eviction-prevention legislation by the Washington State Legislature that allow tenants 14 days (instead of 3) to catch up on late rent before losing their homes, allow eviction-court judges to use discretion and consider extenuating circumstances such as job loss or hospitalization, expand a mitigation fund to ensure landlords receive judgment payments promptly while giving tenants more time to pay, and limit the attorney fees tenants can be required to pay. An additional bill provides more notice of rent increases by requiring 60 days’ notice of rent increases instead of 30.
“As we work to address our housing and affordability crisis, Renting in Seattle is one more tool that will help ensure Seattle can be a home for all,” Durkan said in the release.
“Renters make up the majority of households in our city, and it’s crucial that we have a range of resources so that renters have the tools they need to protect their rights, that property owners understand their obligations under the law, and that when questions arise, they can easily find the help they need,” she said.
Seattle mayor says it’s crucial that the city “have a range of resources so that renters have the tools they need to protect their rights.”
Renting in Seattle program says small landlords can help preserve affordable housing
The program recognizes that landlords, particularly small landlords, have a vital role in preserving affordable rental housing in Seattle.
A portion of the website is written specifically to a landlord audience, providing information, best practices, and tips. Renting in Seattle is providing quarterly trainings to help landlords understand Seattle’s laws.
Landlords and property managers also are encouraged to call the helpline with questions and guidance on how to navigate complex situations. Enhancing the rental relationship through education of both landlords and tenants about their mutual rights and responsibilities is an important goal of the program.
“We are pleased to see the launch of the Renting in Seattle website and the city’s recognition of the importance of providing information, training, and assistance to landlords,” said Brett Waller of Washington Multi-Family Housing Association in the release. “Landlords play a critical role in providing housing to the residents of Seattle and keeping Seattle housed. The Renting in Seattle website will better assist landlords in accessing essential information to help increase awareness and conformity to new landlord-tenant laws specific to Seattle on an easy-to-use portal.”
Renting in Seattle making city services more accessible
“This is an important effort to make city services more accessible and efficient,” said Nathan Torgelson, Director of the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections (SDCI), which will oversee the new program. “We started by thinking about the needs of the rental community and organized our information and resources to serve those needs.”
Historically, rental housing resources were spread across several city departments and various community partners, making it challenging for people to figure out where to find help. After deep consultation across departments and with the community, SDCI identified the need for a dedicated, centralized resource. Renting in Seattle consolidates information incorporating direct outreach and education to advance awareness of the city’s rental regulations, according to the release.
The Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections is now partnering with the Seattle Office for Civil Rights (SOCR) offering quarterly trainings, referrals, and technical assistance to tenants and landlords about their fair housing rights and obligations under city laws.
SOCR remains the enforcement agency of the city’s expansive housing discrimination laws. Renters may experience housing discrimination while seeking assistance with rental regulations, and landlords might have questions about how to comply with the rental regulations while trying to develop a reasonable accommodation policy. This approach creates better alignment for both tenants and landlords following Seattle’s rental laws.
“The Seattle Renters’ Commission had the opportunity to provide feedback during the development of the Renters’ Portal and expect it to be a helpful resource for renters and landlords in Seattle,” said Jessica Westgren, Co-Chair of Seattle Renters’ Commission, in the release. “We are excited to see the aggregation of information in a user-friendly format that is available to help renters find relevant information throughout all the stages of renting, including help finding a rental, navigating issues with landlords, and tenant’s responsibilities when leaving a property.”
Renting in Seattle includes a new plain-language website, www.seattle.gov/rentinginseattle, that organizes information on laws, tips, and resources, across various stages of the renting experience. The city has added a dedicated helpline at (206)-684-5700 to connect renters and landlords to information and resources and to take complaints about problems in rental housing.
The Renting in Seattle program is:
Administering more than $600,000 in grants to community partners who provide assistance to renters such as education, counseling, and legal services for eviction defense.
Expanding capacity with outreach efforts to help renters and landlords understand their rights and responsibilities. More than 50 outreach and educational events are planned for 2019.
Partnering with Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) to attend their weekly Housing Choice Voucher program (Section 8) orientations to bring vulnerable and low-income renters information about the program as they begin to look for housing.
Using social media and advertising to distribute information, including a 30-second video for both landlords and tenants narrated in 13 languages.
Source: rentalhousingjournal.com
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‘Aria for a Cow’ Film Begins Production
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A new animated short, titled Aria for a Cow and based on a song of the same name by the award-winning duo Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast) has entered the first stages of real production, following an inventive new crowd funded, “guerrilla” filmmaking strategy.
“We’re a small group of passionate people from all over the globe, working in new way, finding new solutions with limited resources and using technology to leverage talent from across the globe,” says producer Connie Thompson, who heads the project with veteran Disney animator Dan Lund and filmmakers Nikitha Mannam and Amos Sussigan, who utilized the same strategy for their previous shorts Broken Wing and Swan Cake.
In keeping with the way they worked on their first two shorts, Sussigan and Mannam have opened up the animation work on this project to a virtual world of creators. Eager animators – set designers, model makers and background artists from Burbank to Bombay are now on the Aria team.
“Crowd sourcing can be challenging in terms of getting your point across over the Internet,” Mannam says. “However, when we told people we were putting on this show, they immediately grabbed their toolboxes and marched into our global barn.”
Recent joiners include Linda Bel and the San Francisco Academy of Art University. Production has just begun, with recordings set to begin in early December. The filmmakers and their “global barn” of talent–encompassing artists, modelers and animators everywhere from Burbank to Bombay–are aiming for completion by spring 2014.
Aria for a Cow
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Springfield is being shaken up as comedian, actor and voice actor Harry Shearer will be departing The Simpsons. Producer Al Jean acknowledged the breakup and stated to TheWrap that Shearer was “offered the same deal the rest of the cast accepted, and passed.”
Shearer has been an integral part of The Simpsons’ voice lineup since its inception. Among the litany of characters the Saturday Night Live veteran created and enacted for the show are industrial baron Mr. Burns, his assistant Mr. Smithers, chipper neighborino Ned Flanders and the long-suffering Principal Skinner.
The Simpsons cast have often been in contract negotiations with FOX, being in the unique position of lending their voices to a record-breaking long-running toon. Several years ago, however, the cast agreed to a 30 percent pay cut in order to balance the production budget. Shearer and his fellow stars had been receiving just over $300,000 per episode since then.
Al Jean told The New York Times that rather than eliminating the characters, they will be “recast with the finest voiceover talent available … The show will go on and we wish him well.”
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The Met Mess: Two Toxic Articles Make Bad Situation Worse
March 21, 2017 by CultureGrrl
In the problematic tradition of kick-’em-while-they’re-down, the NY Post and Vanity Fair magazine have opted for tabloid sensationalism with headlines about the Metropolitan Museum’s financial predicament that are more click-worthy than praiseworthy.
Money-Losing Met Hands Execs Hefty Raises is the title for Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein‘s Post piece. They reported last week that “records show” the Metropolitan Museum’s top brass were getting “hefty pay raises and six-figure bonuses…despite a looming deficit that threatened to reach $40 million.”
Tom Campbell, speaking last fall at the Met Breuer
Photo by Lee Rosenbaum
That’s a misleading description of what the “records show.” Not explained in the Post’s attempt to create a compensation sensation is that the salaries and bonuses referred to in the article were paid before detailed budgetary analysis revealed that major cutbacks (including staff reductions) were essential to preclude a $40-million deficit in future years.
What’s more, according to a letter sent last week to the Met’s senior management (a copy of which was provided to me by Kenneth Weine, the museum’s new chief communications officer, “voluntary pay cuts [not “hefty pay raises”] were taken by [Met director] Tom Campbell, [president] Dan Weiss, and other senior staff members” once the severity of the Met’s financial crisis became clear last spring.
For reasons that I detailed in my 2009 post—Is Michael Govan Worth a Million Bucks? (answered by me in the affirmative)—I believe that high pay for high-performing leaders of major cultural institutions is not only warranted but necessary to attract and retain top talent.
That said, the Met’s top brass’ willingness to take (unspecified) voluntary pay cuts showed that they understood the bad optics of continuing to collect their usual compensation while staffers were being let go and the benefits of those remaining were being cut—all a consequence, at least in part, of deficient management. The optics would have been better if the museum hadn’t stonewalled my request for details about the size of those voluntary pay cuts: Were they merely token gestures or significant? (Guess we’ll have to wait for next year’s 990.)
Below is the chart of compensation for top staff from the museum’s Form 990 tax return for FY 2016, ending last June (as shown on p. 55 in the linked PDF). You can magnify the fine print, or view it more clearly at the link. According to the letter sent to the Met’s staffers, these figures show executive compensation for calendar year 2015, not fiscal year 2016. “It was after this time period, in the spring of 2016,” according to the letter, “that we found it necessary to impose significant cost-cutting.”
Many of those listed below (including Emily Rafferty, Jennifer Russell, Harold Holzer, Olena Paslawsky, Nina Diefenbach and Elyse Topalian) have since left the museum. Rafferty retired from the Met presidency in spring 2015, after having received a hefty “retention payment” of $1.58 million (bringing her total 2015 compensation to $2.28 million). I believe that’s a sum promised to her for remaining at the Met for a specified number of years, but Weine declined to answer my repeated request for confirmation of this.
More damaging than the Post piece, because it appears in a high-profile national publication, is William Cohan‘s Inside a Met Director’s Shocking Exit and the Billion-Dollar Battle for the Museum’s Future for the April issue of Vanity Fair (online now).
“Billion-dollar battle”? Sounds juicy. But the only “billions” in this exposé manqué are in the $2.52-billion endowment (as reported on the museum’s Form 990). There’s no “battle” over it—just a faltering effort to preserve it.
Art cognoscenti may remember Cohan as the author of an award-winning 2010 piece in ARTnews about the controversy over the authenticity of 74 “recently discovered” plaster casts of Degas sculptures. I’ll have more about this finance writer’s latest foray into the artworld, coming soon.
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Tombs of the Qutb Shahi
We are creeping slowly down the steep stone steps in pitch black, except for two tiny birthday cake candles, one in each of my guide's hands. Thick swarms of mosquitos cloud around the candles, momentarily distracted from lunch (me) by the weak flames. The six hundred year old stones are cool under my bare feet, but the air is thick and soupy. One hand on the wall, one on the ceiling, I slip my toes forward, searching for the edge of the step to keep from flailing down towards the burial chamber below.
I'm heading towards the actual resting place of the third Qutb king -- the public tomb above is just a "chhatri" or empty tomb, meant to serve only as a public monument. The entrance to the crypt below was originally covered by the black marble floor tiles, but someone has broken through to expose it.
The public tomb above is open and light and very soothing. A narrow balcony, just a few feet wide, overlooks a coffin-shaped monument set in the center of the stone floor. In one of the alcoves to one side, lie several more monuments of various sizes, some as small as a newborn baby. Most are covered in colorful cloths and heaps of marigolds and rose petals. Just beyond the balcony on the second floor are narrow doorways that seem to lead somewhere, although the outer walls of the mausoleum are just beyond. Passage ways for the souls of the departed, portals for them to hover, considering the boundaries between this world and the next, contemplating the accomplishments they leave behind.
In one corner, a dark barefoot Muslim man in a white crocheted skull cap called a “kufi” holds his hands to the sides of his cheeks and calls out spectacularly eerie prayer song, playing the echo in the chamber like an instrument. His song starts with a piercingly high call to Allah that seems to fill the small cracks in the ancient dome and winds its way through lower tones that I feel in my chest and shoulders. For a moment, all thought is swept away with the fading call, only to be slowly filled with new ones. Another call from the mourner, another wave of serene emptiness.
It’s easy to imagine myself sitting here all day, washing in the borders between this world and the next. It’s impossible to know what attracts the mourners to pray for these ancient kings. After all, these invaders from Persia weren’t exactly saints. Offspring of Genghis Khan, they built empires by force and in the end, were defeated by distant cousins, also descended from Genghis Khan. This particular king, Jamsheed Quli Qutb Shah, killed his own father while he was praying. He then blinded his elder brother and rightful heir to the throne and chased his other brother off to a distant city so that he could ascend to the throne. When he died, his exiled brother returned to take up the throne and became a great poet and patron of the arts.
The man in the kufi drifts over to me and with a smile full of white teeth and asks me, as best as I can make out, how I liked his prayer. He seems disappointed that I have come without a camera of any sort, but happy to receive 10 rupees, or about twenty cents and offers to take me down to the crypt below. Shoes are not permitted anywhere in the mausoleums, so I leave them on the terrace outside.
As we reach the bottom of the winding stairs, we have to duck our heads to enter the crypt. Like the monument above, the stone coffins in this room are covered in cloth and piled high with flowers, although it’s hard to see through the haze of mosquitos and darkness. I can clearly hear some scuffling in the marigolds from the corner of the room. I give it a few moments and, so feeling no bites or stings of any kind, decide that I’ve pressed my luck about far enough for the moment. Turning to the candles, I can see my guides white teeth smiling at me like the Cheshire Cat and motion at him to depart.
At one time, these tombs were appointed with carpets, chandeliers, quilts, pillows, Korans and rich tapestries, suitable for the royalty that had their last bath here. The walls were decorated with bold colors, some of which is still visible today. In the mosques adjacent to each of the tombs, you can still find small prayer carpets, but it takes some imagination to picture the splendor that these gardens must have inspired in their prime. One of the last royal rulers of Hyderabad ordered the restorations of the tombs in the 1800s, but that was a long time ago.
In all, seven Qutb kings rest here, along with countless wives, children, physicians, generals and ministers. Some of the most important chhatris are inscribed with Koranic verses, but, in accordance with Islamic tradition, most remain unadorned and unmarked. Other than the most important markers, the identities of those who lie below them have long been forgotten. Nearly all of the domes have at least one shrub that has managed to root in the dry cracks, clinging to a tenuous life before giving in to the scorching Deccan summer heat. Piles of rubble and weeds blend into the landscape, bake in the sun next to crumbling steps, toppled metal gates and rusted brown metal domes. Most of the markers that lie outside the main tombs have been split by weeds and rain.
One of the most impressive tombs doesn’t belong to a king at all, but instead shelters the sister of the sixth king. Fatima Sultan earned her own tomb when she negotiated to avoid a war with Aurangzeb, their badass Mughal neighbor from the north. Aurangzeb’s father was a heartsick romantic that built the Taj Mahal for his wife. Aurangzeb eventually put his father under house arrest to keep him from bankrupting the kingdom with any more elaborate projects. But with his father still at liberty to blow his inheritance building the Taj, his main princely concern was expanding the kingdom and keeping the revenue coming in.
The Qutb kings had very productive mines and must have seemed like a good addition to the Mughal kingdom. I can only speculate how Fatima Sultan managed to negotiate to keep her brother out of hot water with what was sure to be a losing battle, but however she did it, it was enough to earn her an upscale tomb to match the best of them. Unfortunately, her good work didn’t last.
The tomb of the eighth and last king of this particular dynasty is also here, but it stands empty, only partially completed. In 1687, this Qutb king had fallen behind in his payments to Aurangzeb. When the Qutb king was finally forced to hand over the fort after an eight month long siege, he handed over some serious booty, including the now famous Hope diamond and the Kohinoor diamond, a stunning rock that now sits at the center of the royal crown of the queen of England. Aurangzeb sent this last unlucky king of the dynasty off to prison in a remote desert town where he died twelve years later. Just proves what they say about death and taxes, the two certainties in life…
The future of these tombs is uncertain. In their current condition, it’s hard to imagine them standing in another hundred years, but predicting even a short distance into the future is particularly unreliable in India. Time will tell, but one thing is certain. I'll be washing my feet as soon as I get back to my hotel.
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Quantifying Compensation for Insolvent Trading - The Latest from the WA Court of Appeal
In a decision of importance for liquidators and litigation funders, the Western Australian Court of Appeal in Perrine v Carrello has further explained the important issue of how to determine the amount of compensation recoverable by liquidators where insolvent trading has occurred. Together with the NSW Supreme Court’s decision of earlier this year in Re Swan Services Pty Limited (in liq) (see our update here), the Court of Appeal has clarified the extent to which liquidators can seek compensation for unsecured debts from liable directors. The decision also deals with the tricky issue of insolvent trading in the context of "pay if you can" arrangements with suppliers and creditors.
Key point – when the debt was incurred
The key points for liquidators and litigation funders arising from Perrine are:
A liquidator recovering compensation under section 588M, Corporations Act, for a director's breach of his or her duty to prevent insolvent trading (set out in section 588G) is obliged to bring into account other recoveries by affected creditors in respect of their unpaid debts. Those other recoveries might include dividends paid to creditors as a result of unfair preference recoveries by the liquidator. This is consistent with the earlier NSW decision, Re Swan Services.
Importantly, a liquidator may, in the right circumstances, include in the amount of compensation recoverable from the defaulting director amounts invoiced even where the debtor company and unsecured creditor had a flexible repayment arrangement.
In a commercial setting, Perrine highlights the need for directors and their advisors, in a situation of managing a company in financial distress, to carefully consider "pay if you can" and "pay when you can" arrangements in supply terms - having those arrangements properly documented may be very significant in the event that the company cannot be rescued and is instead placed into liquidation.
Finally, Perrine is also a reminder of the importance for liquidators and their funders of being across this issue - including the details (like "pay if you can" terms) of individual creditor claims that will comprise a claim for compensation.
For those interested, further detail follows below.
The appellants were directors and (indirectly, through controlled entities) shareholders of the subject company.
The company relied on infrastructure provided by a separate entity ("PA"), including its office (the relevant invoices were for rent under a monthly lease) and staff. The company paid for PA’s services at commercial rates. In a “flexible arrangement”, PA did not press the company for repayments. Before it became insolvent, the company had unpaid invoices due to PA totalling $1.35m.
Proceedings at trial
At trial, the company’s liquidator successfully claimed the appellants had failed to prevent insolvent trading by the company. The relevant insolvent trading debt was the amount of $1.35m due to PA. The directors were ordered under section 588M to compensate the liquidator for that amount.
Issue on appeal
On appeal, the directors argued that they were not properly liable to pay that compensation because the nominal amounts on the invoices issued by PA to the company did not represent debts of the company. They claimed that the primary judge wrongly equated 'loss or damage in relation to the debt because of the company's insolvency' (as contemplated by section 588M) with 'debt' - because of the "pay if you can" arrangement in place with PA, PA did not suffer the requisite loss or damage when the company failed to pay its invoices.
The appeal failed, for reasons that follow.
Quantifying the amount of compensation - key principle
Significantly, the Court of Appeal noted the need to distinguish between the sum of the debts the subject of the allegation of breach of the duty to prevent insolvent trading, and the amount of compensation recoverable in respect of that breach.
This conclusion is consistent with the NSW position, as explained in Re Swan Services - in broad terms, it requires that other recoveries (such as unfair preference claw-backs) should be off-set against the relevant debts, before reaching a conclusion on the amount of compensation payable by a defaulting director.
Effect of "pay if you can" payment terms
The Court of Appeal concluded that the trial judge’s findings that demands for payment would not be made by PA until such time as they could be satisfied by the company were “expressed in very general terms” and “far removed from” the appellants’ assertion that the arrangement between the company and PA only gave rise to “due and payable” debts when the company's cash flow permitted payments to be made. Rather, the Court of Appeal found that the parties’ agreed constraint on demands being made was an arrangement not to enforce PA’s right to payment, rather than an agreement not to make a demand.
This was so even in light of other findings by the primary judge, including that:
the relationship between the company and PA was “multifaceted”;
PA showed forbearance to the company regarding its payment of invoices in an arrangement “designed to facilitate” the continuing supply of services and funding by the company to enable it to continue operating and to benefit PA; and
the minutes of the company’s board recorded that demands would not be made by PA to the detriment of the company’s cash flow.
This difficult outcome for the company's directors highlights the need for great care by directors and their advisors - especially in times of financial distress for a company - when deploying "pay if you can" and "pay when you can" arrangements in supply terms for the company. It is crucial that those arrangements are precisely documented and then properly managed, to reflect the intent of the distressed company in continuing to trade (and incur debt) - from a director's perspective, the focus must be on avoiding debts becoming due and payable (rather than simple arrangements to not enforce payment of debts that have become due and payable).
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Baker McKenzie advises Carlsberg on its acquisition of an additional 25% stake in Cambrew
Baker McKenzie advised Carlsberg on its acquisition of an additional 25% stake in Cambrew Ltd, the Cambodian brewer of the iconic Angkor Premium Beer. The transaction gives Carlsberg management control of the business in a beer market that offers appealing long-term growth opportunities.
Tracy Wut, Partner, Robert Wright, Special Counsel and Matthew Love, Senior Associate, of Baker McKenzie Hong Kong, advised Carlsberg on this strategic transaction.
Commenting on the deal, Tracy Wut, said, "We are pleased to support Carlsberg on this strategic, complex transaction, which aligns with our commitment to the SE Asian market."
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Established in 1847, Carlsberg is one of the leading brewery groups in the world today, with a large portfolio of beer and other beverage brands. More than 41,000 people work for the Carlsberg Group, with products sold in more than 150 markets.
Cambrew is one of the leading brewers in Cambodia. The brewery was commissioned by the Cambodian Government in the early 1960s. Cambrew Ltd assumed control of the brewery in 1991. Since 1991, the Carlsberg Group's partner in Cambrew has been instrumental in building up Cambrew and the Angkor Premium brand to their current positions.
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Introducing Prabal Gurung Sport
Prabal Gurung, who may well be the world’s most free-thinking fashion designer, has launched his first activewear collection: Prabal Gurung Sport, available exclusively at BANDIER. The collection, an essential mix of sporty separates, intuits the needs of today’s passionately active woman, whom Gurung views as “very much on the go and in charge.”
The collection comes to life on Hailey Baldwin, who fronts the launch campaign, animating Gurung’s inspiration — “the graphic lines, pure adrenaline and high energy of NYC” — a veritable Broadway Boogie Woogie to the beat of the city’s new circuitry — a dynamic rhythm that would Prabal-y please Piet Mondrian.
For Gurung, a celebrated designer of ready-to-wear, whose Vogue-approved resume includes a Parsons degree and stints at Donna Karan and Bill Blass — and whose celebrity clientele include everyone from Kate Hudson to Michelle Obama — the move into activewear represents an evolution and continuation of his lifelong service to “smart and mindful women, who take confidence in who they are, and are empowered by that confidence.” Gurung maintains that this collection is less of a departure and more of an organic iteration of the now: “The Prabal Gurung Sport woman is an extension of the woman we design for today. She is the Prabal Gurung woman off-duty, in her leisure time when she isn’t working the boardroom or red carpet.”
With the irresistible and omnipresent Hailey Baldwin helming the campaign, there’s no doubt that we’ll be seeing the supermodel-elevated activewear off-duty fashion-set (think Gigi, Kendall, Bella) rocking Prabal Gurung Sport from the studio to the street. “The idea behind this collection is for our ready-to-wear and active collections to be somewhat interchangeable — the PG Sport bomber can be mixed with a great trouser, and our ready-to-wear knits can easily be thrown on with the activewear leggings.”
Gurung’s choice to launch his activewear collection exclusively at BANDIER, which he calls, “a pioneer in the active movement,” was a natural one, because BANDIER, according to Gurung, “has created a wonderful interactive environment, bringing athletics, fashion and music together,” and he’s “very attracted to the merging of these worlds.”
BANDIER founder, Jennifer Bandier, believes that this launch will emerge as a watershed moment in the history of active fashion. “When a designer like Prabal brings his unique artistic vision, his meticulous design approach and tireless drive — which I’ve been a fan of for years — to the activewear space, it really feels like the moment when fashion and fitness have fused.”
And with the winds of change blowing strongly on the new frontiers of fashion, it's refreshing to hear Gurung, an unfairly mindful soul — hailing, as he does, from Nepal, the birthplace of Buddha — speak of all that remains constant: “With everything I create, I aim to evoke modern glamour. With this collection, the glamour is in the details, the ease, and the high quality.”
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New Indian Budget Doesn't Mention CERT-Fin
What's Leading to Delay in the Launch of New Initiative? Suparna Goswami (gsuparna) • February 2, 2018
When the Union government announced its budget for 2018 on Thursday, there was no mention about the progress in launching a Computer Emergency Response Team for the financial sector, or CERT-Fin, or any cybersecurity incentives for the financial sector.
A year ago, India's finance minister, Arun Jaitley, included a cybersecurity proposal in his budget speech to the Indian parliament for the 2017 financial year, announcing plans to form CERT-Fin for the financial sector with assured budget (see: The Challenges in Building a CERT-Fin).
But CERT-Fin has yet to see the light of day.
Some security leaders say three contributing factors leading to the delay in the rollout are the lack of: a definitive approach by the government, a governance model associated with certain technological challenges and a realistic framework for this activity.
"Formation of CERT-Fin requires a completely different approach and establishing clarity on who takes the ownership: Is it the government, RBI or any other body?" says C.N. Shashidhar, founder and CEO at SecurIT Consultancy. "Besides, the breach reporting structure also needs to be established and we found no clarity on any aspect."
The proposed CERT-Fin was announced as a way to help improve security in the financial sector, which has been hit by cyber thefts and attacks. But there has barely been any progress on these goals, Sivarama Krishnan, a cybersecurity leader at PwC India, says in a blog.
Cashless Security
Given the government's mission to set a target of INR 2500 crores worth of digital transactions for FY 2017-18 through modes such as Unified Payment Interface, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data-USSD, Aadhaar Pay, IMPS and debit cards, CERT-Fin was expected to play a big role in securing transactions through stringent security controls.
Its implementation will require coordination from all stakeholders, including regulators and law enforcement, to ensure that cyber response works seamlessly. The finance minister had said that CERT-Fin would work in tandem with all the financial sector regulators, including RBI, SEBI, IRDA and other stakeholders. But so far, there appears to be little progress.
Before CERT-Fin can be launched, every bank needs to have a SOC or similar infrastructure to detect breaches and have a mechanism to report to the authority, says Inderjeet Singh, CIO of BCL Secure Premise, a security solutions company. "As long as such a mechanism doesn't exist, it makes little sense to build a CERT-Fin as at this point in time majority of the banks do not have the SoCs," he says. "Without a SOC, banks will not be able to assess or give reports of their threats to CERT-Fin."
Shashidhar contends that the formation of CERT-Fin would require banks to report all security incidents and have a legal framework in place, and he says most banks aren't ready.
Many banks and financial institutions absorb losses from security incidents and do not publicly share any of the related information. The formation of the CERT-Fin will require a fundamental change in mindset on the part of the management of the banks and financial institutions, some security practitioners say.
Governance Concerns
The formation of CERT-Fin would mean that not only banks but other financial institutions in the country would come under one umbrella to share threat intelligence reports.
Some security practitioners argue that India lacks the technical know-how needed to run CERT-Fin.
One CISO, requesting anonymity, says: "The Indian government has been in talks with companies in Israel to help them with technology that can bring together financial institutions and banks to exchange data and information sharing.
"Recently when the Israeli prime minister visited India along with his delegates, officials from government brought up the matter with them. Talks are on between the government and companies in Israel." The government will soon issue an RFP for the project, the CISO says.
"What is needed is a software application which is capable of assimilating and assessing information from various SOCs of banks and other institutions across the country and highlight it on a single platform from where CERT-Fin can collect inputs and share it according to priority," he says.
Shashidhar says that it makes sense to leverage technical know-how from Israel, where experts are "known for their skills in understanding and dealinging with the threats of the dark web. They are extremely skillful when it comes to culling out a particular information from the dark web."
Launching CERT-Fin will require finding leadership that can build deeper capabilities in cyber intelligence gathering and analysis and threat intelligence, the bank CISO says.
And Krishnan suggests the minister of finance should fine-tune plans for CERT-Fin to cover a larger canvas and provide seed funding.
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Ask An Ophthalmologist: What Is Macular Degeneration?
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How Smoking Increases Your Risk For Eye Diseases
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Cigarette smoke is extremely toxic and contains as many as 4,000 active compounds, including tar, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, and heavy metals. In addition to harming the lungs, heart, blood vessels, and tissues of the body, these toxins have also been directly linked to two leading causes of vision loss, cataracts and macular degeneration.
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The cornea is the transparent, dome-shaped window on the front of your eye that covers the iris and pupil. Its main purpose is to refract light. It also contributes approximately two-thirds of the eye’s total focusing power, even though its focus is fixed. The cornea consists of three layers:
The stroma, which makes up most of the cornea.
The epithelium, consisting of several layers of cells covering the exterior of the stroma.
The endothelium, which is a single layer of cells lining the interior of the stroma.
Cataracts are usually the condition that’s familiar to most people when they think of eye problems. However, cataracts technically affect not the cornea but the eye’s crystalline lens, which is just behind the pupil and works with the cornea to focus light on the retina. Regardless, the cornea is susceptible to a number of other conditions, including: (more…)
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BR Home Page > MLB Players > P Listing > Matt Pagnozzi Statistics and History
Matt Pagnozzi
Position: Catcher
Born: November 10, 1982 in Miami, AZ us
Draft: Drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 40th round of the 2001 MLB June Amateur Draft from Highland HS (Gilbert, AZ) and the St. Louis Cardinals in the 8th round of the 2003 MLB June Amateur Draft from Central Arizona College (Coolidge, AZ).
High School: Highland HS (Gilbert, AZ)
School: Central Arizona College (Coolidge, AZ)
Debut: September 29, 2009 (Age 26-323d, 17,288th in MLB history)
vs. CIN 0 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Last Game: September 7, 2014 (Age 31-301d)
vs. STL 0 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Full Name: Matthew Thomas Pagnozzi
Twitter: @MattPagnozzi
Relatives: Nephew of Tom Pagnozzi
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20 STL-min A- 59 185 152 13 27 4 1 1 19 3 2 23 42 .178 .302 .237 .539 36 1 5 3 2 0 NJR · NYPL
21 STL-min A 74 239 215 29 45 10 1 0 14 4 1 15 54 .209 .277 .265 .542 57 4 5 4 0 1 PEO · MIDW
22 STL-min A+,AA 76 251 223 17 41 12 0 1 19 3 2 23 57 .184 .269 .251 .520 56 8 3 2 0 1 PLM,SPD · FLOR,TL
23 STL-min A+ 77 295 268 25 58 15 3 3 27 0 1 20 67 .216 .283 .328 .612 88 4 5 2 0 0 PLM · FLOR
24 STL-min AAA,AA 60 202 184 15 40 9 0 2 12 1 0 9 47 .217 .271 .299 .570 55 6 5 3 1 0 MEM,SPD · PCL,TL
25 STL-min AA,AAA 71 251 221 24 52 11 0 3 20 2 1 18 48 .235 .298 .326 .624 72 11 3 6 3 2 SPD,MEM · TL,PCL
26 STL-min AAA 86 291 253 21 56 7 0 5 32 0 1 26 78 .221 .299 .308 .608 78 11 3 7 2 0 MEM · PCL
26 STL NL 6 5 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .250 .000 .250 -26 0 0 0 1 0 0 /23
27 STL-min AAA 68 242 207 20 50 11 0 1 21 0 0 27 49 .242 .338 .309 .647 64 10 3 5 0 1 MEM · PCL
27 STL NL 15 44 39 4 14 2 0 1 10 0 0 2 8 .359 .405 .487 .892 143 19 1 1 2 0 0 2
28 COL-min AAA 54 198 178 26 49 13 2 3 29 0 2 16 40 .275 .337 .421 .758 75 4 1 2 1 0 CSP · PCL
28 TOT NL 12 34 29 2 8 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 10 .276 .323 .276 .598 59 8 1 1 3 0 0 /2
28 COL NL 7 25 21 2 6 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 8 .286 .348 .286 .634 65 6 0 1 2 0 0 /2
28 PIT NL 5 9 8 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 .250 .250 .250 .500 42 2 1 0 1 0 0 /2
29 CLE-min AAA 78 292 245 27 55 12 0 7 32 0 0 33 71 .224 .324 .359 .683 88 5 5 5 4 0 CLB · IL
30 ATL-min AAA 90 321 290 31 61 10 1 6 31 0 0 21 64 .210 .274 .314 .588 91 5 5 4 1 0 GWI · IL
30 HOU AL 9 22 21 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 .143 .182 .143 .325 -8 3 0 0 0 0 0 /2D
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Tim Sherwood handed Tottenham head coach job until 2015
By Chris McKenna
Tottenham have appointed Tim Sherwood as head coach on a full-time basis.
The former England midfielder guided Spurs to a 3-2 win at Southampton on Sunday as interim boss and has now been handed a contract until the end of the 2014-15 Premier League season.
Who is Tim Sherwood?
Former midfielder who played at clubs including Norwich, Blackburn and Spurs
Won Premier League with Blackburn in 1995 during a seven-year spell at Ewood Park
Subsequently spent nearly four years at White Hart Lane, making more than 100 appearances
Joined Spurs coaching staff in 2008 under Harry Redknapp
Took over as interim manager after the sacking of Andre Villas-Boas
Sherwood, 44, replaces Andre Villas-Boas, who was sacked last week.
"We believe Tim has both the knowledge and the drive to take the squad forward," Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy told the club's official website.
Sherwood, who won three caps for England, joined Tottenham as a player in 1999 from Blackburn, where he won the Premier League title in 1995.
He left White Hart Lane in 2003 and moved to Portsmouth but returned as part of the club's coaching staff in 2008 under manager Harry Redknapp.
Sherwood was working as technical co-ordinator when chairman Levy asked him to look after the first team following the departure of Villas-Boas.
The Portuguese, 36, left the club after winning only two of his last seven league games in charge.
"We were extremely reluctant to make a change mid-season, but felt we had to do so in the club's best interests," added Levy.
"We have a great squad and we owe them a head coach who will bring out the best in them and allow them to flourish and enjoy a strong, exciting finish to the season.
"This is the biggest gamble chairman Daniel Levy has taken for a long, long time.
"Sherwood now has to work with players at a whole different level - players with massive egos who will be banging on his door wanting to know why they are not in his team.
"It is not an appointment that is going to please all the fans, because some of them will have wanted a bigger name with much more experience."
"We are in the fortunate position of having within our club a talented coach in Tim Sherwood."
Sherwood has no previous managerial experience, but Spurs rejected an approach by Championship side Blackburn in October 2012 for him to become their boss.
He lost his first game as interim manager when West Ham knocked Spurs out of the Capital One Cup.
But the north London side recovered to beat Southampton, with striker Emmanuel Adebayor, who only featured once under Villas-Boas this season, scoring twice on his first league start of the campaign.
After that game, Sherwood made it clear after that game that he wanted his future resolved quickly.
"Daniel Levy has given Tim Sherwood the security of an 18-month deal and he has already shown he believes he is the man for the club's long term, not a stop-gap until a more glamorous name becomes available."
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"What would be ideal for me would be to have a chat with the chairman and see what's best for the football club moving forward," he said.
"I need to know what they're thinking. I don't want this job for five minutes.
"It's a massive club with history and tradition. But whatever happens needs to be right for me, too."
A number of managers had been linked with the position since Villas-Boas departed.
Former England and Spurs manager Glenn Hoddle also publicly declared his interest, with Guus Hiddink, Fabio Capello and Michael Laudrup also mentioned.
Sherwood's first game as full-time boss will be at home against West Brom on Boxing Day.
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Ten Lessons from 20 Years of Value Creation Insights
27 November 2018 By Gerry Hansell , Jeff Kotzen , Eric Olsen , Alexander Roos , Eric Wick , Ed Newman , and Hady Farag
In 1602, commerce evolved into capitalism when the Dutch East India Company formally syndicated its ownership. The first dispute between managers and shareholders came shortly thereafter, in 1622, when a “complaining participant” sued for control rights, citing disagreements on transparency, governance, and capital allocation. Throughout the next four centuries, company owners and managers have wrestled with how best to handle the inherent tensions between long-term shareholder value creation and myriad other management objectives.
BCG has been advising companies on value creation since our founder, Bruce Henderson, opened its doors more than five decades ago. Indeed, many of the firm’s innovations—such as the growth share matrix, experience curves, and cash trap—stem from our early work on the ways that competitive advantage and capital allocation interact to create value for a company’s owners.
In 1998, the firm published the first BCG Value Creators Report, which ranked the top corporations on the basis of the value they’d created over the previous five years and also attempted to draw out lessons from the winners. Since then, we have expanded our databases, refined our methodologies, and—continually developing our thinking—shared our perspectives annually. For our 20th report, we have now diligently reassessed our cumulative experience and distilled our perspectives down to ten lessons—including the source of some of the most common managerial mistakes—that we think really matter. (See “Value Creation Insights Through the Years”)
Value Creation Insights Through the Years
The 2017 Value Creators Report: Disruption and Reinvention in Value Creation
The 2016 Value Creators Report: Creating Value Through Active Portfolio Management
The 2015 Value Creators Report: Value Creation for the Rest of Us
The 2014 Value Creators Report: Turnaround
The 2013 Value Creators Report: Unlocking New Sources of Value Creation
The 2012 Value Creators Report: Strategies for Superior Value Creation
The 2011 Value Creators Report: Risky Business
The 2010 Value Creators Report: Threading the Needle
The 2009 Value Creators Report: Lessons from Consistent Value Creators in the Consumer Industry
The 2008 Value Creators Report: Missing Link
The 2007 Value Creators Report: Avoiding the Cash Trap
The 2006 Value Creators Report: Spotlight on Growth
The 2005 Value Creators Report: Balancing Act
The 2004 Value Creators Report: The Next Frontier
The 2003 Value Creators Report: Back to Fundamentals
The 2002 Value Creators Report: Succeed in Uncertain Times
The 2001 Value Creators Report: Dealing with Investors’ Expectations
The 2000 Value Creators Report: New Perspectives on Value Creation
The Value Creators Report: A Study of the World’s Top Performers
1. Value creation is not the only goal, but it is essential. The concept of shareholder value incites lots of debate. For some, it is the singular company objective. For others, it is a misguided target. There are plenty of points of view in between.
This debate sucks up a lot of air purposelessly, for two reasons. First, companies have shareholders, shareholders have rights, and shareholders are increasingly sophisticated, exercising their rights through activism and other channels. More often than not, a management team that loses the support of its investors also loses control of the company’s agenda, including the ability to pursue other, nonfinancial objectives.
Second, the conflicts among the differing points of view are not as intense as many believe them to be. There is a growing body of evidence that purpose-driven, sustainable strategies are also beneficial to shareholders. Our research on the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics shows that companies that perform well in terms of nonfinancial ESG measures also deliver better financial performance and command measurably higher valuation. (See Total Societal Impact: A New Lens for Strategy, BCG report, October 2017.)
Put another way, building a great company is not at all inconsistent with being a great stock.
2. Metrics alone are not enough to achieve this goal. Here are two points that they don’t teach in business school.
First, the theory that value creation comes solely from the act of making positive net present-value investments is of limited use in most modern public companies. Fundamentally, investors price a company’s shares on the basis of their views of the underlying business and the attractiveness of the available reinvestment opportunities. Because such expectations are priced into the stock today, the real value creation task confronting leaders of public companies is the need to make more and better investments than the ones already anticipated by investors or to increase—beyond expectations—the profits being earned on existing investments. Beating expectations as expectations evolve is what matters. It’s no small task, and it’s nearly impossible to achieve using metrics alone.
Second, strong and sustainable value creation is delivered in the trenches. Hardwiring value management principles into an organization’s systems and processes—including target setting, planning, capital allocation and risk assessment performance reviews, and incentive compensation—is just as important as getting the metrics right. (See Exhibit 1.) A comprehensive value creation agenda encompasses both the hard (performance) and soft (culture) sides of the challenge. (See “VF Corporation’s TSR-Led Transformation,” BCG article, September 2013.)
The only metric that correlates 100% with TSR is TSR.
3. Medium-term TSR must be the capstone metric. Two truths are critical to understanding many of the common mistakes made in the name of value creation: TSR is the only metric that represents the shareholder’s bottom line, and the only metric that correlates 100% with TSR is TSR. (See “Value Creation and Corporate Reinvention,” BCG article, December 2017.) Medium-term TSR, measured over a three- to five-year time frame, gives strategies the chance to be implemented and investments the opportunity to mature.
Substituting any proxy metric for TSR inevitably leads companies off course. When earnings per share (EPS) is the principle governing metric, for example, managers can end up “buying” increased EPS by cutting important investments such as R&D or making excessive capital expenditures, ill-advised M&A moves, or poorly timed buybacks. In contrast, TSR is balanced, and it takes into account all the critical factors that drive fundamental value: revenue growth (from reinvestment in the business), margin expansion (from cost control and pricing), and cash flows (which can be reinvested in more growth or used for debt reduction, dividends, and buybacks). TSR also takes into account how managerial actions that determine the valuation multiple, such as investing in the future, optimally deploying capital, or reducing risk exposures, affect investor expectations.
Medium-term TSR is the only performance metric that appropriately scores the game. This is why it is the only multiperiod metric mandated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and why it’s the principle performance metric evaluated by Institutional Shareholder Services. These two bodies exert outsize influence on corporate reporting and governance around the world.
4. Every company can find a path to value creation. Managers often feel trapped, or at least typecast, by industry expectations and macroeconomic factors. They overlook the inevitability that in every industry and for every cycle, there are winners—companies that outperform the pack.
Starting points matter, but for almost every starting point, there is a value-creating road forward. As always, in 2018, the leading companies in our sample of top value creators substantially outpaced their own industry as well as the total market. The median TSR of the top ten companies in each industry was higher than the industry’s median by 9 percentage points (in insurance) and 32 percentage points (in media and publishing as well as metals). (See Exhibit 2.)
The lesson is this: being in a sector whose market performance is below average is no excuse. TSR is a relative—as well as an absolute—metric, so whether an industry is under pressure or accelerating, every company has the opportunity to outperform its peers. No matter how bad an industry’s average performance is relative to other sectors and to the market as a whole, it is still possible for companies in that industry to deliver superior shareholder returns. (See “How Top Value Creators Outpace the Market—for Decades,” BCG article, July 2017.)
5. Growth is the most common path to TSR outperformance, but not the only path. Profitable revenue growth is often the primary driver of TSR outperformance over extended time horizons. For top performers during five- to ten-year periods, revenue growth accounts for an average of 50% to 70% of value creation. For this reason, it’s easy to forgive managers for concluding that growth is all that matters.
Still, this view is misguided for two reasons. First, it overlooks that myopic pursuit of growth is one of the most common paths to value destruction. (See Threading the Needle: Value Creation in a Low-Growth Economy, the 2010 BCG Value Creators Report, September 2010.) Aggressive growth can be a high-risk, high-reward proposition, and “bad” growth is a common cause of long-term TSR underperformance. There are many examples of companies that were able to sustain 10% or more top-line growth only to generate below-average or even negative TSR. In many cases, such disconnect is driven by M&A moves gone bad, prioritizing growth at the expense of margins, betting on a cycle that collapses, or investing in adjacencies in which the competitive advantages of the core business do not apply.
The second reason is that there are many examples of top-quartile value creators generating TSR from some combination of other factors, including margin improvement, cash return, and multiple expansion. Our 2017 list of the top consistent value creators over 20 years contained two tobacco companies, which, despite shrinking markets, adverse regulation, and ample brand disparagement, generated annual TSRs of 17% and 22% from 1997 through 2016.
There are many paths to top-quartile TSR.
6. Cash flow is underappreciated and often misunderstood. While growth is the most common route to top- and bottom-quartile performance, it is cash that accounts for most of the shareholder return that a company generates over time. Indeed, since 1926, about 40% of the TSR of the S&P 500 has come from cash returned through dividends—even more when buybacks are factored in. Furthermore, cash generation is the main driver for growth businesses, as it defines the magnitude of a company’s organic or M&A long-term reinvestment rate.
Beyond the simple truth that cash flow is king lies a less obvious point: investors do not value equally all dollars returned to shareholders. In fact, the method of return—share buybacks, dividends, or debt repayment—can have a powerful secondary effect on valuation. For 15 years, we have been arguing in our publications that dividends are especially important: material increases in payout often lead to a significant expansion of a company’s valuation multiple and therefore, in the right circumstances, can drive far greater TSR than buybacks. (See “Thinking Differently about Dividends,” BCG Perspectives, May 2003.)
7. M&A is a powerful tool—for those that commit to it. M&A has a bad rap, thanks to the commonly cited assertion that most deals destroy value. It is true that more than 50% of deals simply transfer wealth from buyer to seller. But there is an untold other side to that story: many long-term, top-quartile value creators engage in significant numbers of M&A deals. (See From Buying Growth to Building Value: Increasing Returns with M&A, BCG report, October 2015.) This should not be surprising: M&A is one way (and there are not that many others) to reinvest large amounts of capital. Furthermore, well-sourced and well-executed deals can serve up substantial returns. (See “The Real Deal on M&A, Synergies, and Value,” BCG article, November 2016.)
The factors that make successful acquirers successful are straightforward. These acquirers commit to M&A and approach it as they would any other industrial process: they climb an experience curve, become proficient over time, and scale up their capability. They also invest disproportionately in three key areas. (See “Lessons from Successful Serial Acquirers,” BCG Perspectives, October 2014.) First, they craft a proprietary view of the ways that they create value. This guides their M&A strategy. Second, senior leadership is deeply engaged in the M&A process, and managers at all levels of the organization are expected to source and cultivate relationships with potential targets. Finally, the most successful acquirers articulate a core set of operating principles that define the way that the M&A process will be managed with no additional bureaucracy.
8. Valuation multiples are no longer a black box. In many cases, managers think that a company’s valuation multiple is a random and uncontrollable outcome and that fickle investors don’t truly understand the businesses in which they invest. We respectfully disagree. While multiples move somewhat randomly over short time periods as they incorporate a wide range of information about future profits and risk, they are not random and certainly not uncontrollable. We have invested more than 20 years in building an analytical tool set that helps companies understand how their shares trade in public markets and which financial KPIs investors take as signals of a healthy (or unhealthy) business outlook. Our tools reveal the key drivers of valuation, which, in turn, can reveal strategic information about a business. (See Exhibit 3.)
Our tools reveal the key drivers of valuation, which, in turn, can reveal strategic information about a business.
One can point to countless examples. In many industries, investors look at gross margin as a proxy for a business’s resistance to commoditization (in, for example, technology) or its brand power (apparel). Investors in financial services put a premium on return on tangible equity. Biotech investors value forward-growth expectations—almost without regard to current profitability. In other sectors, investors put a premium on dividends, which they view as signals of a company’s confidence in future earnings and its managers’ willingness to put their money where their mouth is.
The drivers of valuation provide a rich and refined tool for common managerial tradeoffs, such as driving growth at the expense of margins or reinvesting free cash flow instead of paying down debt. Indeed, the success of companies such as Church & Dwight and VF has been achieved, in part, on a strong understanding of the way that business fundamentals and valuation multiples interact to inform strategic decisions. (See Improving the Odds: Strategies for Superior Value Creation, the 2012 BCG Value Creators Report, September 2012.)
9. The shape and asymmetry of investment opportunities are far more important than the precision of the calculations behind them. Too often, senior management wastes time and energy trying to get the data inputs for their models precisely right. The leading example of this phenomenon is the fruitless fretting over a company’s weighted average cost of capital. (Charlie Munger, the vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, once said, “I’ve never heard an intelligent discussion about the cost of capital.” He’s right.) What managers should be evaluating is how a proposed investment compares with the next-best use of capital. If the difference in the cost of capital assumptions (within reasonable bounds) reduces the attractiveness of an investment, it has likely already failed the test.
Even more important, excessive focus on technical precision takes time and effort away from the more meaningful determinants of investment decisions, such as the reliability and asymmetry of the forecast and whether there are any accounting principles at play that decouple reported earnings from cash flow. Management time and attention are much better spent on pressure-testing key assumptions, contrasting different approaches for evaluation (such as cash versus accounting metrics), and considering the different competitive scenarios in which the investment could unfold. (See Risky Business: Value Creation in a Volatile Economy, the 2011 BCG Value Creators Report, September 2011.)
10. Treating your investors like customers pays dividends over time. Relatively few companies put anywhere near the level of time, effort, and intensity into learning why investors own their stock that they put into figuring out why customers buy their products. This is a mistake.
Some customers are more valuable than others, so it makes no sense to try to serve every customer equally. Similarly, there are investors that a company wants and those that it would just as soon not have. Each investor has its own investment process, capital allocation preferences, KPIs, and buy-sell triggers. Investors differ in their willingness to support a company’s mid-to-long-term strategy—especially when results are likely to take time to materialize. The smart play for management teams is to identify the “right” investors and go after them, just as they would pursue high-value customers.
Doing so takes more than the typical approach to investor relations. Value-oriented leadership teams seek to engage in a genuine dialogue with sophisticated investors about the ways value will be created. They use such opportunities to benefit from the experience of portfolio managers and analysts, whose insights can help challenge conventional wisdom within the company.
Company executives also need to appreciate that the support of patient and long-term-oriented investors comes at a price—in the form sometimes of inconvenient transparency. During both good and not-so-good times, investors want a candid assessment of key market forces, the company’s strategies to win, and the upsides for sticking around, as well as the roadmap for getting to the payoff and how they can track progress. And when mistakes are made, investors want to know what lessons have been learned. They increasingly also want reassurance that a solid governance system—one that includes a proven board of directors and executive compensation that emphasizes the right metrics—is in place. (See Winning Moves in the Age of Shareholder Activism, BCG Focus, August 2015.)
All this takes time and sophistication on the part of management, but the effort is worthwhile. Over and over, we see that well-aligned investors are critical to ensuring the success of well-designed strategies.
The shape of the playing field has changed many times since the early 17th century and, indeed, over the 20 years of our Value Creators series, which have seen the dot-com bubble expand and burst, the surges in the middle years of the first and second decades of this century, and the great financial crisis. One of the biggest changes has been to the nature of business itself.
Value management grew up in an economy that was dominated by capital-intensive companies, for which value creation was largely about squeezing out incremental returns on physical capital (accounted for on balance sheets). Recent decades have seen the rapid rise of “discovery” businesses—including IT, pharma, professional services, and medical technology—for which value creation is much more about driving top-line growth and generating returns from investments that flow through the income statement. (See “Value Patterns: The Concept,” BCG Perspectives, May 2012.)
This proliferation of new business models is, in many cases, interpreted as making value management less relevant when, of course, the opposite is true. The 2019 Value Creators report will examine some of the new challenges we expect managers to face as advancing technology causes the economy—and the managerial principles that govern value creation within it—to evolve. But the use of TSR as a North Star that guides value-creating agendas and the application of the hard-won, timeless principles of value creation are more important than ever. The game may be changing once again, but the rules—and the ways of winning—remain the same.
Gerry Hansell
Jeff Kotzen
Alexander Roos
Managing Director & Senior Partner; Global Leader, Center for CFO Excellence
Eric Wick
Ed Newman
Hady Farag
Partner & Associate Director, Shareholder Value Strategy
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American farm show unveils 500kg butter sculpture
Once taken off display, the butter will be converted into renewable energy.
The sculpture in full (Pennsylvania Farm Show/Facebook)
A US farm show has unveiled a detailed 500kg sculpture made entirely from butter.
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The half-tonne dairy delight was revealed at the 103rd annual Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, where a butter sculpture has been made every year since 1991.
(Pennsylvania Farm Show/Facebook)
It is housed in a refrigerated case so that it won’t melt or spoil during its week-long display.
Once the show is over, the butter will be taken to a Pennsylvania farm where a methane digester will convert it into renewable energy.
The artwork was carved by Jim Victor and his wife Marie Pelton, who have been the show’s designated butter artists for the past 15 years and started work on the piece in December.
This year’s design features five individuals, an athlete, a soldier, a doctor, a firefighter and a dairy farmer, each wearing superhero capes and stood around a central table.
Sponsored by the American Dairy Association North East, the design is meant to inspire Pennsylvanians to support the state’s dairy industry.
“People love the butter sculpture at the show,” Emily Demsey, the show’s digital director, told the Press Association.
“It’s a staple of the annual event that people look forward to each year.
“We’ve never had a repeat design and always have a meaningful theme and message behind the design.”
Dutch airline KLM has come under fire for requesting breastfeeding mothers cover up to prevent other passengers being offended.
Tortoise picked up by California Highway Patrol
A 250-pound tortoise was rescued by police after being spotted by the side of the road.
Apple has released previews of a number of new emoji due to be rolled out later this year – including a range of disability-themed designs – to mark World Emoji Day.
NZ cricketer jokes: Kids, don’t take up sport … Take up baking or something
New Zealand all-rounder Jimmy Neesham reacted to his team’s agonising World Cup defeat to England by joking that children should take up baking instead of sport.
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Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos
Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos is an illustrated, transpacific feminist fairy tale for all readers that illuminates an ancient tradition and pushes back against normative standards of beauty.
When Gramma notices how much her granddaughter wishes she could look like a supermodel, Gramma shares how her own mother was made fun of when she moved to Hawai‘i from Okinawa due to the bold blue hajichi tattoos on the back of her hands.
Gramma then reveals the legend behind those mysterious markings. When the Okinawan Princess is kidnapped by Japanese pirates, will she wait for someone to save her or will she be able to outwit her captors? This trilingual story is written in Hawai‘i Creole, then translated into Japanese and the endangered indigenous Okinawan language called Uchinaaguchi. “Okinawan Princess” is part of ongoing efforts to revitalize Okinawan language, history and culture worldwide.
Lee A. Tonouchi is a full Okinawan yonsei born and raised in Hawai’i. He is known as “Da Pidgin Guerrilla” for his championing of Pidgin a.k.a Hawai’i Creole to be accepted as a legitimate language. His last book, Significant Moments in da Life of Oriental Faddah and Son: One Hawai’i Okinawan Journal, published by Bess Press, won the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Poetry/Prose.
About the illustrator:
Laura Kina is a “hapa, yonsei, Uchinanchu” artist and educator based in Chicago. Her artwork addresses Asian American and mixed race identities and histories with a focus on Okinawa and Hawai’i diasporas. She is a Vincent de Paul Professor of Art, Media, & Design at DePaul University and coeditor of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art (University of Washington Press, 2013), and Que(e)rying Contemporary Asian American Art(University of Washington Press, 2017).
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Last night at the inaugural National Basketball Players Association Players' Awards, which was solely voted on by the players, the Beard wouldn't be denied.
The players had their say and they tapped Harden over Curry to win the MVP. Harden did have mostly favorable stats (27.4 points, 7.0 assist and 5.7 rebounds per game) compared to Curry (23.8 ppg, 7.7 apg and 4.3 rpg), but Curry did lead the Golden State Warriors to a 67-win regular season.
Although the players gave the nod to Harden for MVP, they named Curry the Hardest to Guard and Clutch Performer. The Warriors' Oracle Arena received the Best Homecourt Advantage award for their raucous fans.
The Player You Secretly Wish Was on Your Team trophy went to LeBron James, and Chris Paul won the Oscar Robertson Visionary Award for his on- and off-the-court achievements.
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The players also named Ray Allen Man of the Year, flashing to a video tribute from President Obama that left the future Hall of Famer emotional. They also named Allen Iverson their Gamechanger, leading the "Answer" to comment: "This is one of the most special awards I've ever received because it comes from y'all."
The award for Best Defender went to Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan in a category that, ironically, didn't even include Kawhi Leonard, who won the league's traditional Defensive Player of the Year award. San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich was voted the Coach You Most Want to Play For.
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Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
This 13-Year-Old Cheerleader Serving Some Serious Sassy Face Is Taking Over Twitter As Everyone's New Favorite Meme
"When my teacher asks me a question thinking I'm not paying attention, but I get it right."
Man Films Racist Old Navy Encounter Where Store Managers Accused Him Of Stealing The Jacket He Wore To The Store
James Conley III says the employees never apologized after they realized their mistake.
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Even if you don’t use Internet Explorer, you could still be at risk from this IE zero-day vulnerability
You might think that any security issues with Internet Explorer shouldn’t be much of a problem anymore.
After all, most computer users have moved on to more modern alternative browsers like Chrome, Brave, Firefox, Safari, or Microsoft Edge.
And even Microsoft itself has been warning companies of the “perils” of setting Internet Explorer as their default browser, as it is no longer being updated to support new web standards and might leave your users in the equivalent of the browser Ice Age.
There are even some who have argued that Microsoft should stop issuing security patches for Internet Explorer’s legacy code four years after Edge’s arrival, and that instead they should force customers to move on.
Well, if you needed another reason to ditch Internet Explorer, security researcher John Page (known as @hyp3rlinx on Twitter) may have just given it to you.
Page has published proof-of-concept code (we won’t link to it here for obvious reasons) that demonstrates how users who open a boobytrapped .MHT file locally can unwittingly share information with a remote attacker.
.MHT files (the extension stands for MHTML web archive) are the default format used when users ask Internet Explorer browsers to save a webpage.
If you try to open an .MHT file on a computer running Windows 7, Windows 10, or Windows Server 2012 R2 then it will attempt to load the file using Internet Explorer – regardless of the default browser in place. (Internet Explorer 11 ships with every consumer version of Windows, including Windows 10. If you have an education or enterprise license than it can be optionally excluded.)
And what Page has found is a way to exploit a zero-day XXE (XML eXternal Entity) vulnerability in how Internet Explorer processes MHT files.
According to Page, “this can allow remote attackers to potentially exfiltrate Local files and conduct remote reconnaissance on locally installed program version information.”
The researcher cites an example of how if the MHT files requests a file at c:\Python27\NEWS.txt it could reveal details of the version of the software that had been installed – potentially useful information for someone attempting to attack a system.
All an attacker would need to do is convince their potential target via social engineering to open a malicious .MHT file.
Although Internet Explorer’s marketshare has dwindled to around 7% of desktop browser use the fact that it continues to be installed on so many systems means it poses a potential risk.
Page told Microsoft about the problem at the end of March, but their response suggests that they’re not promising a fix:
“We determined that a fix for this issue will be considered in a future version of this product or service. At this time, we will not be providing ongoing updates of the status of the fix for this issue, and we have closed this case.”
So, what should you do? Well, at the very least you need to be wary of unsolicited .MHT attachments. But maybe, if you have no use for Internet Explorer any more, consider uninstalling Internet Explorer via Control Panel from your Windows PCs.
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Manila Standard Today – Bautista’s only choice
By Emil Jurado | Manila Standard Today
I don’t know what’s in the mind of Commission on Elections Chairman Andres Bautista. He is now having marital woes such that his wife Patricia has accused him of amassing more than P1 billion in unexplained wealth, among other things.
If he does not tale a leave of absence or resign as his fellow Comelec commissioners are asking him to do, then he will have to face trial at the Senate once he is impeached by the House of Representatives.
That would be a circus, all right!
Trial at the Senate is a purely political exercise. Patricia can even be called to testify against him since the Rules of Court prohibiting spouses from testifying against each other would not apply to impeachment cases.
Andy was the classmate of my son Eric. I would advise him to heed what the other Comelec commissioners want him to do: Take a leave, or resign. And then he would have his day in court.
A very public impeachment trial would be bloody for him. I would not want anybody to go through what the former chief of the Supreme Court did. Renato Corona died a broken man, my gulay!
As it is, Bautista is already a useless entity at the Comelec. He may have supporters there, but he can no longer function as the commission’s chairman, its leader.
Resigning would be for his own good.
There is much at stake here. Already there are questions as to whether the integrity of the 2016 elections may have been compromised. Elections are the bedrock of our democracy.
Manila Standard Today – Another publicity stunt from Robredo
The Manila Times – How to hack an automated election system
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Developer of 45-story tower changes plans, will convert some apartments into condos
By Tim Logan Globe Staff,July 21, 2017, 12:06 p.m.
Revelopment of the Government Center garage site includes two towers, shown at the right in this rendering.(Pelli Clarke Pelli/CBT Architects)
In the latest sign that condominiums are the hottest slice of the local housing market, the developer behind one of the biggest rental buildings under construction in Boston aims to modify its plans and put for-sale signs on about one-quarter of the units.
HYM Investments recently told the Boston Planning & Development Agency that it’s decided to convert 118 apartments planned for a 45-story tower it is building atop the Government Center Garage into 55 condominiums.
“It’s pretty straightforward. We want to adjust to the market,” HYM managing director Tom O’Brien said. “The condo market is strong right now.”
While the building, originally planned for 486 apartments, won’t open until 2020, the shift comes amid signs of softening rents at the high end of Boston’s housing market as a string of new luxury apartment buildings compete for tenants. Condo pricing, though, remains strong, marked by quick sales of the relatively few units that are getting built.
That has some developers rethinking their apartment plans.
National Development, for instance, converted a portion of its Ink Block project from rentals to condos. Related Beal also waited until just before opening a new building along Lovejoy Wharf earlier this year to decide whether the complex would be rental or for sale. In the end, Related chose to offer the units for sale. Likewise, some suburban developers are scrapping plans for pricey single-family homes in favor of denser condo projects as land prices and other costs rise.
For O’Brien, selling large condos on the top 11 floors of what will be one of the tallest buildings in that part of downtown Boston makes sense.
“It’s a beautiful building with amazing views in one of the best locations in Boston,” he said. “From a risk perspective, selling 55 units at the top seems pretty manageable.”
Work already is underway on retrofitting some of the massive ’60s-vintage Government Center Garage to serve as the base of the tower and a planned office tower next door. O’Brien said construction on the apartment tower itself should begin in the fall.
Changing from apartments to condos will require BPDA approval but won’t mean any visible changes to the tower itself. The only noticeable difference from the outside will be a lobby to serve the condos high above, instead of the previously planned 1,300-square-foot storefront at street level.
Tim Logan can be reached at tim.logan@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @bytimlogan.
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Dubai International Airport enjoys double-digit passenger growth
Fresh off the back of its victory at World Travel Awards where it was voted “Middle East’s Leading Airport 2011”, Dubai International Airport has reported a 13.2 percent surge in passenger traffic in April.
Passenger traffic reached 4.23 million, up 13.2 percent compared to 3.74 million recorded during the same month in 2010.
However Dubai Airports partially attributed this rebound to the drop in traffic to and from Europe caused by the volcanic eruption in Iceland during April last year.
The year to date traffic stands at 16.5 million, an increase of 8.5 percent over the corresponding period in 2010.
Paul Griffiths, CEO of Dubai Airports said: “We have surpassed the four million passenger mark three out of the first four months of the year and that trend is set to continue.”
The AGCC recorded the largest increase in total passenger numbers in April up 29.1 percent (+153,864 passengers), followed by Western Europe which grew by 20.1 percent (+142,185).
Routes to the Indian subcontinent recorded 9.4 per cent growth (+83,718 passengers), whilst those to Russia and the CIS grew by 25.4 percent (+22,286 passengers).
Aircraft movements for the month totalled 26,597, up 6.7 percent from 24,917 recorded during the same period last year.
Dubai International Airport handled 179,397 tonnes of international air freight in April, up 5.6 percent from the 169,902 tonnes recorded during the same period in 2010. The year to date freight volume has reached 686,679 tonnes, a contraction of 0.3 per cent compared to 688,537 tonnes for the corresponding period last year.
Griffiths added: “Our busiest summer ever is just around the corner and we will be working hard to maintain high service levels and ensure the comfort of our customers. That includes the activation of our Summer Mission programme which deploys additional customer service personnel to help passengers pass quickly and smoothly through our airport.”
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Should I test for mold?
Molds are organisms that are found indoors and outdoors. They are part of the natural environment and play an important role in our ecological system by breaking down and digesting organic material. Molds are neither plants nor animals, but “fungi”. Fungi belong to a classification of their own.
Yeast, mold, mildew and mushrooms are common forms of fungi. Mold is essentially a description of fungi that grows on surfaces, such as the black substance on a moldy shower wall. Mold and mildew often refer to the same type of fungi. All mold is fungi, but not all fungi is mold. Molds grow in many colors, including white. “Black mold” is not a species or specific kind of mold, and neither is “toxic mold.”
Sometimes, the news media use the terms “toxic mold” and “black mold” to refer to molds that are a health hazard.Well water is often affected by chemicals or fertilizer bi-products leaching into the ground or streams that feed the aquifers that supply the well. Sometimes the source of the contamination is a chemical or mineral deposit deep in the ground that the aquifer runs through. It is also possible for well casings or heads to become damaged and allow chemicals or animal bi-products to pollute a well from the surface.
Where is Mold?
Mold spores are everywhere; they are found both indoors and outdoors. Mold spores cannot be eliminated from
indoor environments because some of them will be floating through the air and could be on settled dust.
Should I be concerned?
Mold is not usually a problem indoors unless the spores land on a wet or damp surface and begin growing. As molds grow, they digest whatever they are growing on. Unchecked, mold growth can damage buildings and furnishings; molds can damage wood, damage drywall, and in extreme cases cause structural damage to buildings. The potential human health effects of mold are also a concern. It is important, therefore, to prevent mold from growing indoors.
Fungi in the indoor environment raises three major concerns:
1. The potential health effects of exposure to fungi and their byproducts;
2. The effects of fungal contamination on the structural integrity of a building; and,
3. The negative aesthetic effects fungi can produce both visually and on the human nose (smell).
Although the issue of whether exposure to indoor fungi causes adverse health effects is controversial, there is no
doubt that a seriously mold-contaminated building can suffer structural damage, and that a foul-smelling, fungus filled building is aesthetically unpleasing. Controversies about health effects aside, the latter two reasons are sufficient to merit a Complete Mold Inspection and remediation when an environment is found to have fungal
contamination. People who have concerns about structural damage, the aesthetic effects, or possible effects on health of indoor fungi should seek the services of a Certified Mold Inspector. People who have concerns about possible effects they may be experiencing related to mold should seek the advice of a healthcare professional.
What are some Common Health Concerns?
Inhaling mold indoors can cause negative health effects in some people. Molds produce allergens, irritants, and
in some cases, potentially toxic substances (mycotoxins). Inhaling or touching mold or mold spores may cause
allergic reactions in sensitive individuals. Mold does not have to be alive to cause an allergic reaction in some
people. Some people can be particularly sensitive; infants, children, elderly people, individuals with respiratory
conditions (such as allergies and asthma), and people with weakened immune systems. Allergic reactions to mold can occur in people who have sensitivities.
What are some Common Symptoms of Mold Exposure?
There are many symptoms of mold exposure. Current evidence suggests that allergies or allergic reactions are
commonly associated with reactions to mold exposure. Most commonly the reactions include coughing, wheezing,
and difficulty breathing. Other symptoms can include “hay fever”-like symptoms, such as headache, sneezing, runny nose, irritated eyes, and skin rash (dermatitis). Molds can cause asthma attacks in people with asthma who are allergic to mold. Fungi in buildings may cause or exacerbate symptoms of allergies, especially in persons who have a history of allergic diseases (such as asthma and rhinitis). In addition, molds can irritate the eyes, skin, nose, throat, and lungs of individuals, whether or not the person is allergic to mold. Other symptoms include nasal and sinus congestion, burning, watery and red eyes, a sore throat, a dry cough, and skin irritation.
For more detailed information on mold and its health effects, consult a healthcare professional or the state or local health department. It is important to understand that Certified Mold Inspectors cannot offer medical advice to clients. People with health problems that may be related to mold should seek a physician trained in occupational, environmental or allergy medicine.
Where does Mold Grow?
Most of the mold found indoors comes from the outdoors because mold spores can easily float on gentle air currents. If the spores land on suitable organic material inside a building, mold can begin to grow. Once mold spores are present, mold needs three things in order to grow.
A little moisture or condensation can be enough. Common sites for indoor mold growth include tile and grout, basements, attics, and areas around windows and sinks. Sources of water or moisture include roof leaks, condensation due to high humidity or cold spots, leaks at plumbing fixtures, and floods. Mold has been found to germinate, grow and produce spores in as little as 24 hours after water damage occurs. Controlling indoor moisture helps limit mold growth. Moisture control is the key to mold control.
Mold also needs food to grow and can grow on virtually any organic substance. Buildings are full of materials that
mold can use as food, including paper (such as on drywall surfaces), cloth, wood, plant material, and even soil. Molds secrete digestive enzymes that decompose the substrate, making nutrients available. Some molds can even digest synthetic materials such as adhesives, pastes and paints. Molds can also grow on inorganic material, such as concrete, glass and metal, because it can grow on the dirt or dust that is present on the surface of those materials.
3. Temperature
In most cases, temperature is not an issue; some molds grow in warm areas, while others prefer cool locations,
such as bread stored in a refrigerator. Mold grows well in environments between 40º to 100º F.
Mold Inspections and Testing
While there are many approaches for identifying and testing for mold, Breakwater Inspections employs three basic
approaches for mold inspections and testing; Complete Mold Inspections, Limited Mold Inspections, and Surface
Sample Testing.
Breakwater Inspections is an IAC2-certified mold inspector. All mold Inspections are performed in accordance with the Mold Inspection Standards of Practice of the International Association of Certified Indoor Air Consultants (www.IAC2.org). A description of the types of mold inspections is below.
Limited Mold Inspection
• A non-invasive, visual examination of the readily accessible, visible and installed systems and components of only the specific room or area of concern.
• At least three air samples (one indoor and two outdoor).
• Possibly one surface sampling at an area of concern.
Complete Mold Inspection
• A non-invasive, visual examination of the readily accessible, visible and installed systems and components of the entire building.
• Moisture, temperature, and humidity measurements.
• Surface samplings at areas of concern.
For situations where there is a surface or an area of a building where there is a discoloration or something that looks like mold, there is also Surface Sample Testing is offered.
Surface Sample Testing
How to Prevent or Reduce the Risk of Mold Growth?
As we know, mold needs four conditions to grow.
1. Mold spores, which are present in the air everywhere and all the time.
2. Suitable temperatures, which are usually between 40 and 100 degrees; common temperatures to have in and
around homes.
3. Mold food, which is almost anything organic. This can include people and pet food, cardboard, and even drywall
(paper). Mold food can also be organic material in dust.
4. Moisture is the final condition needed for mold to grow. Moisture can be visible water puddles from leaks,
condensation on windows, or in bathrooms. Moisture can also result from basement and roof leaks.
To help reduce the risk of mold growth, there are several things that can be done.
• Reduce or eliminate water leaks in basements (or crawl spaces) either through windows or doors, or through
foundation leaks.
• Eliminate any water leaks in attics, either from roof leaks or flashing leaks.
• Eliminate any sources of standing water inside a house; these could include catch basins for condensation, or
the like.
• Cover sump pump pits in basements or crawl spaces.
• Always use bathroom vent (exhaust) fans, and make sure they do exhaust to the outside.
• Always use range hoods when cooking. Ideally, range hoods should exhaust to the outside.
• Control or reduce indoor air humidity. This can be done with dehumidifiers or whole-house ventilation systems
(such as Heat Recovery Ventilators or Energy Recovery Ventilators).
• Finally, good housekeeping practices are helpful.
Breakwater Inspections provides home and property inspection services. We do residential and commercials inspections, for buyers, sellers, and owners. We also do radon air testing, radon water testing, water quality testing. wood destroying organism inspections, mold assessments. We inspections homes, new construction, condominiums, and townhomes.
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Down Bear: Appendectomy Could Force Markus Wheaton To Miss Start of Season
July 31, 2017, by Luis Medina Chicago Bears News, Chicago Bears Rumors
The Chicago Bears’ injury luck isn’t getting any better.
Yesterday, the team announced that wide receiver Markus Wheaton had underwent an appendectomy, a procedure that could keep one of the team’s newest receivers out of action for a while – CSN Chicago’s Chris Boden reports Wheaton could be absent when the season begins. Wonderful.
Obviously, that’s not great news for Wheaton – who entered camp looking to stand out from the crowd of receivers on short-term, prove-it deals – or the quarterbacks, who are trying to build a rapport with new receivers on the roster.
Wheaton signed a two-year deal with the Bears this offseason, one of the team’s several attempts at rebuilding its receivers room by reallocating money to several potential pass-catching options that could have gone toward retaining Alshon Jeffery. Chicago already lacked top-end talent at receiver, but Wheaton fit a niche as a deep threat – something the team hasn’t had in recent years. Because of GM Ryan Pace’s busy offseason of hoarding depth pieces, the team has options to fill the void while Wheaton is sidelined.
Players such as Victor Cruz, Kendall Wright, and Tanner Gentry are three names who stand to benefit from increased snaps at practice. Head coach John Fox recently shared his vision of what he thought Cruz’s role would be, Wright enters camp as one of the most motivated players, and Gentry’s play in practice stood out during rookie mini-camp, as well as the first day of training camp.
Boden made note of Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford as being a recent high-profile Chicago athlete to undergo such a procedure, which put him out of action for three weeks. However, the physical demands of a receiver in the NFL are different than those of a goaltender in the NHL. Ben Roethlisberger once missed 15 days after an appendectomy, so Wheaton could be back sooner rather than later, but it’s not something all that common and shouldn’t be expected.
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Breaking: Birmingham sacks Monk
June 18, 2019 Editorial IV Sports 0
Birmingham City have announced they have parted company with manager Garry Monk.
The former Swansea, Leeds and Middlesbrough boss took charge at St Andrew’s in March 2018 and penned a three-and-a-half year deal.
He became their fifth permanent manager in just 15 months and guided them to safety in his first full season in charge despite a 10-point deduction.
They finished 17th after their punishment for breaking EFL profitability and sustainability rules in March ended hopes of a late play-off push.
But growing concerns behind the scenes saw Monk hold talks with club chiefs at the training ground last week, where chief executive Xuandong Ren has recently taken an office.
Monk has now departed the club with assistant Pep Clotet appointed as caretaker head coach and the remainder of the backroom staff staying on board.
A club statement read: “Birmingham City has today parted company with manager Garry Monk.
“The Board of Directors believe this to be in the long term interests of the Club.
“We thank Garry for his efforts and we wish him the best for the future.
“Pep Clotet has been appointed caretaker Head Coach and the remainder of the coaching and backroom staff – including Sean Rush, Darryl Flahavan, Ryan Needs and James Beattie – stay in place.
“Pep takes charge of team affairs with immediate effect.
“The Board of Directors are hopeful that over time the team can adopt a fresh and modern footballing philosophy, whilst maintaining the Club’s core values.
“It is our intention to drive the Club forward and challenge for promotion.
“As part of an overall review of Club operations, we will also seek to enhance our recruitment and scouting strategy.
“We have faced significant challenges in relation to Profitability and Sustainability regulations and whilst we will improve our squad and be competitive in the market – the Club’s owners are committed to continued investment – we will do so sensibly and effectively.
“The Club has a pool of talented players and those emerging via the Academy and Under-23s will be embraced, even more so than before. We are certain these young players – as those in our first team already – will be hungry to succeed as we begin a new chapter.
“In addition to our excellent Academy, Birmingham City Women and our Regional Talent Club are also thriving.
“The Board of Directors feel that it is vitally important for everybody at the Club to be sharing the same vision and commitment to the plans and processes.”
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Taylor Tobin
Taylor Tobin is a contributing writer for INSIDER and a Brooklyn-based writer covering food & drink, beauty, style, and pop culture. Past works can also be found at Observer, Brokelyn, and UrbanDaddy. She's a fan of bikes, books, and bourbon (not necessarily in that order).
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Cheeky tweet from US spy agency after awkward moment at G-20 summit
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[WASHINGTON] A tarmac tiff between US and Chinese officials as President Barack Obama arrived in the city of Hangzhou prompted the posting - and prompt deleting - of an uncharacteristically sarcastic tweet by a US spy agency.
"Classy as always China," read the Defence Intelligence Agency tweet, which linked to a New York Times article about the incident.
The post was quickly deleted but not before the Wall Street Journal noticed the snark.
The agency later tweeted its apology: "Earlier today, a tweet regarding a news article was mistakenly posted from this account & does not represent the views of the DIA. We apologise."
The tarmac kerfuffle included a shouting match that broke out as White House staffers tried to help American reporters position themselves to film Mr Obama's arrival in the eastern Chinese city for a G-20 summit.
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FLOOD ALERT: Derbyshire braced for more heavy rain
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"The public should be aware of the risk of minor disruption to travel due to localised surface water flooding and is advised to take extra care."
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Construction crews prepare for the Blade
The prep work to hang the Blade at the Paramount is underway. Staff photo
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Signs and sandwich boards on the historic Downtown Mall may soon be outshone by the reinstallation of a much anticipated, 33-foot sign at the Paramount Theater.
As the theater celebrates its 10th anniversary of reopening, construction crews prepare to bring back the Blade—a $175,000 project to put the Paramount’s iconic blade sign back in its place. This vertical symbol hung above the marquee from 1931, when the theater was built, until the 1960s.
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MN: Ellison Gets Apology from Critical Colleague
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Ginx Esports TV pop-up launches on Sky New Zealand
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Ginx Esports TV will launch as a pop-up channel on Sky in New-Zealand from August 13.
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50th Annual Peachtree Road Race Brings 60,000 Runners to Buckhead
Home / Buckhead Stories / 50th Annual Peachtree Road Race Brings 60,000 Runners to Buckhead
Isadora Pennington
This morning the 50th annual AJC Peachtree Road Race kicked off in front of Lenox Square. 60,000 runners and countless spectators, volunteers, police officers, and firefighters congregated at the start line for this 10K, the largest in the world. The temperature had risen to a balmy 75 degrees by sunrise and racers chatted, stretched, and warmed up in the now empty street.
The wheelchair races launched the event with more than 75 participants. Following invocations from a local rabbi and priest, a color guard flag ceremony, an address by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, and a moving rendition of the National Anthem perfectly punctuated by a flyby of three jets overhead the starting whistle was blown. In a flash Peachtree Road swelled with thousands of runners amid cheers from the crowd. The route ran through the heart of Buckhead and ended at Piedmont Park.
This year’s theme featured different decades at each mile marker with live music and vintage signage to match. At Jesus Junction families gathered on the sidewalks and the lawn to get a good view of the runners as they passed by. Some offered free high fives while others cheered and danced to the music.
The Cathedral of St. Philip’s Reverend Thee Smith and Dean of Cathedral Sam Candler were stationed nearby and blessed the runners with water as they passed. Candler started the tradition 20 years ago and it has become a beloved mainstay of the race ever since.
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Racers this year were vying for more than just your standard prizes and acclaim; record breakers were offered a whopping $50,000 bounty on top of their winnings.
According to the Atlanta Track Club Twitter feed, all four records have been broken and all $200,000 in winnings will be awarded today. Rhonex Kipruto broke the men’s record with an unofficial time of 27:01, Brigid Kosgei broke the women’s record with an unofficial time of 30:22, Daniel Romanchuck broke the wheelchair race course record with 18:11, and Manuela Schar broke the women’s wheelchair race record at 21:28.
Photos by Isadora Pennington for Buckhead.com
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“When I came to Caterpillar to interview for a Demonstrator Instructor position, I really had no idea what to expect.”
Erik Esposito has been a Demonstrator Instructor (DI) at the Caterpillar Demonstration and Learning Center in Edwards IL for nearly five years, but his extensive work experience in the construction industry leading up to that is what got him an interview with the Edwards team.
Esposito got his start early working in landscaping running a skid steer, eventually moving into residential construction before finally landing a job in the union where he spent twelve years learning from experienced operators how to run equipment ranging from track loaders to excavators and back hoes.
“I didn’t even know what a demonstrator operator job was back in 2013 when I was recruited by an Edwards DI. Moving into this type of teaching environment seemed like a really significant change after spending years in the field, but I was ready to give it a shot, said Esposito.”
Caterpillar currently has three Demonstration Centers around the globe. The Demonstration and Learning Centers help customers become more competitive through comprehensive training. At the center, visitors gain application and product knowledge in high-tech classrooms and in the field, benefiting from years of training and expertise on the latest Cat equipment.
At the core of the demo centers are highly skilled demonstrator operators with a minimum of 10 years equipment operation experience in heavy construction, general construction, quarry/aggregates and or mining industries. Using this knowledge and skill, DI’s provide a variety of services through the Demonstration and Learning Centers.
“The best part about my job is the customer interaction. Being able to take what these machines can do and putting it into a language that our customers can not only understand but leverage to make them more successful and efficient is the best part about my job. There are so many different things these machines can do – this is stuff I wish I would have known when I was still an operator in the field, “said Esposito.
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Go behind-the-scenes on Lara Logan's perilous trip to Africa, where she met wildlife filmmakers Beverly and Dereck Joubert
This week, 60 Minutes went to Africa to meet world-famous wildlife photographers Beverly and Dereck Joubert. We figured the couple lived an adventurous life in the wilds of Botswana, but we didn't expect what we found on the first day of the shoot.
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Spotify’s stock is too risky, this investor says
August 21, 2018 by Jayson MacLean
Since its IPO in April, investors have had success with Spotify Technology (NYSE:SPOT Quote, Chart), whose share price has risen 13 per cent over the past four months.
But even with the company’s dominance in the music streaming business —Spotify controls two-thirds of the global market— so much of the company’s future earnings are now baked into its share price that Spotify is now too risky a venture, says Ross Healy, portfolio manager at MacNicol & Associates.
Spotify went public on April 3 in an IPO that many saw as groundbreaking, with the Swedish company becoming the largest business to follow a direct listing on the NYSE, rather than the more typical approach of selling shares to institutional investors. Spotify’s ‘DPO’ was expected to result in high volatility in the company’s share price, but so far, that hasn’t been the case. The stock reached its record high on July 26 after releasing its second quarter earnings report and has since pulled back 5.5 per cent.
Healy says that while Spotify may indeed reign supreme within its corner of the entertainment industry, investors would be wise to tread with caution.
“Spotify, in line with all the FAANG stocks and that ilk, has had a wonderful run,” Healy told BNN Bloomberg viewers. “They are broadly considered to be the future of music, the future of retail, the future of entertainment and all the rest of that kind of stuff. However, the prices are now discounting a lot of that future, and Spotify from our point of view would have a huge downside risk if we had weak markets.”
“I would be very cautious about Spotify, as I am about most of the FAANG stocks, with the exclusion of Alphabet,” says Healy.
In its second quarter financials, Spotify reported an uptick in monthly paying subscribers (its main revenue source) from 75 million at the end of Q1 to 83 million by the end of June. The company posted revenues of $1.49 billion, in line with analysts’ expectations, with an EPS loss of $2.54 for the quarter. (All figures in US dollars.)
The stock saw a nice jump earlier this month on the announcement of a deal which will see Spotify become Samsung’s official music streaming partner, a pairing which aims at fortifying Spotify’s resources in the battle against competing streaming services such as those by Apple and Amazon.
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Top Ten Most Versatile EDH Cards of Core Set 2019 – Cards 10-6
by Ryan LaFlamme
July 30, 2018 | Posted in Monday Magic
Honorable Mention #1: Fraying Omnipotence
It only seems fitting – albeit coincidental – that the first card mentioned here relates to the Nicol Bolas story itself. Namely, the loss of his godlike planeswalker powers and his extensive planes-spanning machinations to regain his former stature. It’s a nice nod not only to the driving factor of the current timeline events, but it also decently encapsulates more than a few motes of the Magic story in general over the last 15 years.
Of course, flavor is nice and all, but that’s not what gets it the first honorable mention here. That honor is due to its exceedingly Black effect of delivering mutual pain to everyone involved. The card itself is a more modern iteration of the classic card Pox, with two notable exceptions.
First, Fraying Omnipotence in many ways is more powerful than Pox, as players must sacrifice half their life, cards in hand, and creatures on the battlefield, rather than just a third. This card simultaneously can cripple players with high life totals, massive creature armies, or who may be sitting on a large array of cards in their hand. Or, you know, all of the above. True, just like Pox it hurts you too, but with such cards you’re usually casting them when you’re behind in some fashion anyway, so it’s likely to be considered acceptable losses.
Second, while Fraying Omnipotence costs two additional mana than Pox, it’s much easier to splash into multicolor decks, making it more useful to a larger percentage of players. Fraying Omnipotent also forgoes Pox’s most negative effect: land destruction. With this style of card you can instill illness upon your opponent without also losing your mana base in the process. Insult without as much of an injury, as it were.
Honorable Mention #2: Transmogrifying Wand
Anyone who has ever played a monocolored EDH deck knows that while the color’s strengths are magnified due to increased card options and more synergy, so too are the color’s weaknesses, as you are unable to contend with the various restrictions that each color brings. No one color can singlehandedly address every situation they encounter with equal success. Which is why many so many players turn to colorless options like artifacts and nonbasic land.
Transmogrifying Wand is one such answer to those situations. For a mere three mana, this Harry Potter-esque wand allows any deck the ability to create Pongify-style spot removal. This is especially helpful to any color that isn’t, well, Black. Each other color has the ability to remove a creature from the battlefield (bounce, fight, O-Ring effects, or burning it if it’s small enough), but unadulterated one-sided spot removal is difficult for nonblack colors outside of cards with blatant color pie breaks. The vast majority of the time, giving an opponent a 2/4 creature in exchange for taking out their most potent or important creature in the process is worth the tradeoff.
Yes, you can only use its effect three times, and it must be done at sorcery speed, but don’t let that dissuade you from considering an artifact with repeatable destruction options. For many monocolor decks in particular, this magic wand will be easily worth considering.
Honorable Mention #3: Sarkhan’s Unsealing
Sarkhan’s Unsealing is another card that bears more than a passing resemblance to previous Red enchantments that also dish out damage based on the size of your creatures. Namely, Where Ancients Tread and Warstorm Surge. Aside from being slightly more expensive to cast, the main difference between them and this card is that those cards trigger off of creatures entering the battlefield rather than being cast.
However, for Red, barring some flickering or reanimation shenanigans, the outcome is largely identical to this card’s first ability for any creature of power 6 or less.
What makes Sarkhan’s Unsealing so advantageous by contrast though is its second ability. It states that whenever you cast a creature of power 7 or higher, you generate a one-sided Flame Wave that cooks all of your opponent’s creatures and planeswalkers for 4 damage. It’s true that Red itself doesn’t have a ton of base creatures that fits this criteria (only two dozen in fact), the single Red mana cost makes it wayyyyyyy easy to mix with other color (or colorless) options.
It does require a little finesse, but the payoff is more than worth it for a color that is perennially in need of repeatable mass damage.
Number Ten: Detection Tower
Of all the cards to make this list, few of them require as little of an explanation as Detection Tower. Mostly because this card is effectively a clone of an already existing Commander card with widespread application: Arcane Lighthouse.
Heck, even the artwork is similar.
In both instances, this land allows its user to get through the protections of its opponents’ creatures so as to be able to target them. The main difference between the two cards is that Arcane Lighthouse removes both Hexproof and Shroud protections for the turn. Yet given that standard sets haven’t seen a card with Shroud printed since 2011, it wouldn’t make sense for it to be seen reprinted here, especially for a core set. Hence the new version.
In exchange, Detection Tower provides something unique of its own: stripping away Hexproof of players as well. And this can be just as, if not more useful to slot in a deck, depending on whom you play regularly. Plus, the fact that Detection Tower is in a core set means it’ll be far easier to get your hands on a copy fairly easily.
Number Nine: Poison-Tip Archer
It’s a common refrain among EDH players when discussing deck construction to either brag or lament about the number of commons and uncommons their deck contains other than basic land, depending on the player’s mindset.
After all, one of the most appealing aspects to Commander decks is how easily it can be sometimes to simply throw many of your best cards together in a pile and make a deck around them. Commander is the epitome of multiplayer casual’s reputation as ‘Battlecruiser Magic’, where everyone is playing with big, splashy cards. And most of the time, those cards tend to be rares and mythics.
Multiplayer potential is not based on rarity, however, for what may be a lackluster ability in a duel may be an absolute beast with multiple opponents. Poison-Tip Archer is that kind of card. It may be an uncommon, but don’t let the silver icon fool you: this card can be down right devastating in the right hands. It won’t singlehandedly swing the board in your favor, but its synergy potential makes it something to sit up and take notice about all the same.
As a 2/3 Reach, Deathtouch creature for four mana, PT Archer here seems to merely be a multicolored Kessig Recluse. Not that such a comparison is bad; Kessig Recluse is a decent defensive creature on its own. Reach and and Deathtouch are a potent combination that helps protect the creature itself – and you – from haphazard attacks. In reality, though, its base abilities are more of a bonus, and not the reason it winds up being discussed here today.
The real potential to the card is its death-related trigger. It states that whenever another creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life, which can be scary to contend with in the right Commander settings – particularly those where you have a lot of sacrifice outlets at the ready or against players who love to run token armies. With this card you’re essentially trading the life syphon potential of Blood Artist (often a potent creature in its own right) for the one-sided ability to hit everyone but yourself with life loss instead. This is effective both as a massive series of triggers all at once or as a slow poison-related life drip over the course of the game.
All of a sudden things like casual board wipes have the potential to become a lot more painful.
Number Eight: Vivien Reid
In any given set, the average number of planeswalkers has traditionally sat at around five. In the last two years, with the advent of replacing Duel Decks with introductory-level Planeswalker Decks, that number has nevertheless climbed to seven.
Between six in the base set and a whopping five unique Planeswalker Decks, Core Set 2019 has 11.
Eleven.
That’s abnormally high in general, let alone for a core set. Yet here we are. So it was statistically improbable that we not make it through a top ten set list without at least one of them bearing real Commander potential. Which brings us to the new face of Green planeswalkers, Vivien Reid.
While it’s true that most planeswalkers increase the potency of an EDH deck to varying degrees, the best planeswalkers for consideration on this list are those that have the most widespread application to the most styles of decks. These are the ones that strike the right balance between abilities, mana cost, and attainability. Sure Nicol Bolas, the Ravager is a more powerful planeswalker, but a) he’s bonkers pricey at the time of this article, and b) he requires 11 mana to be fully actualized. (Plus if you’re spending 11 mana, you sure as hell better be getting something explosive out of it.)
Versatility is the key factor here, and Vivien fits that bill easily. Five mana for a 5 loyalty planeswalker is a nice start, ensuring she doesn’t get picked off easily. (That is, unless you’re in my play group where planeswalkers often have a Kill On Sight directive.) Her first ability is a helpful topdeck tutoring, letting you grab a land or creature from the top four cards, and is more or less guaranteed card draw in Green. (If you don’t find at least one of those in your top four in Green, something has probably gone horribly wrong.)
Her second ability is very reminiscent of Freyalise, Llanowar’s Fury, who itself was on a similar list for C14. Vivien’s actually provides even more target potential in this case, letting you pick off an artifact, enchantment, or a flying creature – a nice addition both in ability and befitting her archer-based character.
And her ultimate, should you be able to pull it off, is both incredibly Green and incredibly advantageous. At its worst it provides a permanent mini-Overrun by giving your creatures +2/+2 and Trample. That alone would be enough to earn her a spot in many decks. Adding Vigilance to the mix makes that even more potent. But the real kicker to her ultimate is the bestowing of Indestructibility. Forever. As anyone who has ever stared down an indestructible board before, that is not something to be taken lightly.
What makes these combination of effects so worthwhile though is that Vivien doesn’t fit solely into one deck archetype. Her abilities are pure Green-based utility and can be beneficial whether you’re trying for combat with impunity, protection and control, or card acceleration, and she can effortlessly slide into almost any Green EDH deck without much thought.
Number Seven: Resplendent Angel
One of the hallmark traits to any modern Magic set, core or otherwise, is that the designers painstakingly include cards that cater to the plethora of different formats and play styles in circulation. Once upon a time the primary concern was simply whether it was a neat card that coherently fit into a set, but over time more an more considerations have been added. Nowadays, any standard set release – in addition to maintaining power levels, storyline concerns, and relative balance – will contain cards for Limited, Standard, Commander, and even occasional cards explicitly made with Modern in mind. It’s a lot to juggle, certainly.
Thing is, while there are many cards that are added with a specific group in mind, there is also the occasional Omnicard – a card that just about everyone can benefit from. Resplendent Angel is an Omnicard.
It doesn’t take much effort to see why. Resplendent Angel is well above curve as a 3/3 flyer for three mana, making it useful in drafts and plenty of White aggro decks. Its activated ability then ensures it won’t only be seen as an early game card, as for an admittedly expensive six mana activation, it becomes a 5/5 Flying, Lifelink creature for the turn, putting it close to Baneslayer Angel territory in terms of usefulness.
But wait, there’s more! Because Resplendent Angel also states that if you gain 5 life in a single turn, you get to create a free Serra Angel. Her activation ensures that will happen by itself, but if you have other means of gaining life then you may also be able to benefit from it without the risk of attacking…
Resplendent Angel has ubiquitous appeal, but its potential in Commander is notable because reaching a point in gameplay where a six mana activation isn’t a huge deal is far more common here than other settings. At the same time, whereas in other formats a single bonus token may be enough to swing the game, in EDH you likely may have the time and means to assemble a small army.
At its absolute worst, Resplendent Angel is a complete package unto itself, but there is a lot of synergy potential to explore with here. Its triggered effect is just begging to be built around in a manner that is hard to resist. The biggest obstacle to its use for the majority of Commander players unfortunately will be its cost, as most Omnicards tend to be pricey due to demand on multiple fronts.
Number Six: Runic Armasaur
To many Standard players, the most obvious attribute about this card is that it’s an aggressively costed dinosaur, which will fit in nicely for the current Ixalan-heavy meta. Here, three mana nets you a 2/5 creature, making it a great enabler for a variety of different dino-centric strategies.
In the context of multiplayer gaming, however, all eyes are on the Runic’s ability, which states that if an opponent uses a non-mana ability of a creature or land, you can draw a card.
In the realm of EDH, this happens a lot. A real lot. Think about it: this means nearly every creature’s tap ability or static activation and nearly every utility land you can name – all of which Commander is perennially flush with – will allow you to draw a card. The sheer number of situations where you can benefit from having this simply sit on the battlefield is impressive, and there will be no shortage of decks where it will call home based on that fact alone.
You will draw cards with this creature. The real question is how long your opponents will let it sit on the battlefield letting you do so. Make no mistake, Runic Armasaur has the potential for some extensive free card advantage if left unchecked, making its only real down side the fact it’s a magnet creature for removal. Luckily its 5 toughness gives it a little extra defense to help keep it alive to that end.
It’ll probably need it.
That’s it for now! Check back in two weeks for Numbers 1-5!
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“I think you’re going to see one of the quickest and fastest Penn State football offenses that you’ve seen in a long time,” Clifford said. “Our offense is really hungry to prove that we can be a 400-, 500-, 600-yard offense each and every game consistently.”
Clifford’s confident demeanor Friday wasn’t just a show for the media. In the wake of presumptive starter Tommy Stevens announcing his spring transfer, Clifford stood up during a team meeting and vowed, “There will be no drop-off in the quarterback position.”
Clifford’s leadership has always been one of his defining traits and, with Stevens’ departure, he felt that was the time to be more vocal.
“When you lose somebody like that, obviously, there’s a lot of — there’s a little bit of doubt,” said Clifford, who still talks with Stevens every week. “I felt that in the team room that day. And I think that guys would say that i just wanted to make sure that everybody was good.”
Said offensive lineman Will Fries: “That was definitely a mature and really good thing to do, to get up in front of the team and say something like that because it gets everyone fired up and brings the confidence to the table.”
To Clifford, that’s just him being himself. (And, to teammates, that doubt has long since faded.) Since Day 1, Clifford has spent an inordinate amount of time in the film room and weight room while helping gather the receivers together for offseason drills. Early on his PSU career, in a story that James Franklin often shares to highlight Clifford’s competitiveness, the Ohio native broke his hand after punching a weight bench when not meeting his own expectations.
This offseason, he’s already started to break down opponents’ film while meeting with the wideouts as often as five days a week to work on timing and route-running. He’s excited to “show off” how he’s become more of a dual threat. And, fortunately, he hasn’t tried to knock out any weight equipment.
“He benches 350; he just got 16 (reps) on 225 as a sophomore quarterback, so he’s got a really good upper body foundation,” strength coach Dwght Galt said. “A lot of it is just his work ethic; he trains incredibly hard.”
On paper, Clifford is technically battling for the starting job with redshirt freshman quarterback Will Levis. But the “open competition” is widely seen more as a way to push and motivate Clifford than it is to actually find the next QB. Some players still toe the team line and refer to it as a competition; others speak as if Clifford is already the starter.
Either way, Clifford isn’t taking anything for granted — and, for those who doubt him, he doesn’t much mind. A few of his teammates, such as tight end Pat Freiermuth, recently tagged him on a Twitter post that ranked Clifford as the 11th-best quarterback in the Big Ten.
People will find out soon enough . . . @seancliff14 https://t.co/0B21AqAsOS
— Pat Freiermuth (@pat_fry5) July 10, 2019
Clifford just smiled about the tweet Friday. It’s impossible to miss the chatter and the doubts in this age, but Clifford acknowledged he simply sees them and moves on. He’s not the type of athlete to pin every sign of disrespect to his bedroom wall.
He doesn’t need any extra motivation.
“If you don’t think I’m motivated right now, then you’re tripping,” Clifford said. “I’m more motivated now than I ever have been.”
“I think we’re going to silence a lot of people who are doubting us.”
Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford runs a speed and agility drill against wide receiver Cam Sullivan-Brown during the annual Uplifting Athletes’ Lift for Life on Friday, July 12, 2019 at Holuba Hall. Abby Drey adrey@centredaily.com
Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford makes the turn in the sled push during the annual Uplifting Athletes’ Lift for Life on Friday, July 12, 2019 at Holuba Hall. Abby Drey adrey@centredaily.com
Penn State quarterback Sean Clifford runs a sprint during the annual Uplifting Athletes’ Lift for Life on Friday, July 12, 2019 at Holuba Hall. Abby Drey adrey@centredaily.com
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How a Culture of Courage Drives Innovation in Children's Hospitals
Innovation in children's hospitals is essential. It ensures relevance and resilience as technology and consumer expectations evolve.
Innovation starts with disruption, which is extremely good for health care—it will improve overall quality of care, patient safety, address epidemiology of chronic disease, and reconcile the dysfunctionality of health care. Nicholas Webb, presenter at the 2018 Annual Leadership Conference and author of What Customers Crave, describes disruption as nothing more than the speed and depth of innovation.
"Many health care organizations are still working the old playbook of predictable, linear and known change," says Webb. "If disruption is the future, and innovation is the driver of disruption, we have to ask—are we really disruptors? Are we building a culture that encourages courage to innovate? Are we listening to patient-facing stakeholders and turning the things they say into amazing innovations?"
The secret of innovation is surprising
Innovation is the creation of new value that serves your organization's mission and customers. The secret, according to Webb, is innovation isn't that hard. It just requires the willingness to connect with amazing people and engage in new ways to do things better. "Children's hospitals must embrace a culture of courage, the chance to do things differently. We feel uncomfortable about calling ourselves innovators, but the truth is, innovating is human nature. It's already there."
He suggests the best way to start innovating is learn the art of active observation. "It's easy to be an active observer, but organizations also have to create a mechanism that can take great genius and enthusiasm to serve enterprise and patient while adding more meaning to their life," says Webb. "Leveraging innovation to commute those observations to create beautiful experiences make you relevant in the future."
Four pillars of disruption in the next decade
Children's hospitals need to understand the four pillars of change to prepare for, and respond quickly to, evolving customer expectations. They want and need things much differently than they did in the last five to 10 years. "These pillars are a major aspect of what it means to have innovation value," says Webb. "When I look at the incredible mission statements of children's hospitals, that is exactly what the future of health care is. That's what disruption is all about, finding a different way to deliver on that mission and anticipate the needs of your customers."
These pillars include:
Hyper consumerization: People don't want to wait for an hour to see a physician. Amazon and Apple have taught the people to seek out zero friction interactions. At end of day, hospitals have to create the experience they expect. Patients and their parents will be empowered with more options.
Disruptive innovation. If children's hospital leaders build in innovation as part of the enterprise's fabric, if they institutionalize and make it thoughtful and real, they can forecast and meet patient and family needs, and even lead in the health care industry.
Connection architecture and enabling technologies. Children's hospitals are actually technology organizations that deliver patient care. If you want to serve patients better now and into the future, you have to enable important technologies. Consider the role of bio-enabled technologies in your patient care strategies.
New economic models. The existing financial model for health care isn't sustainable. It's important to focus on the causes, not just the care. If children's hospitals don't address the causality of disease and health care issues, it's a challenge to have financial resources to intervene early when it becomes imperative. Consider how your hospital can identify real problems before you have to provide expensive care after the disease has progressed.
Hardwiring innovation in children's hospitals is essential; it's the path to ensure relevance and resilience as technology and consumer expectations evolve. Patients and parents have more power in decision making and more options available to help them with those decisions. The focus should shift to optimizing in this time of hyper-consumerization, according to Webb.
"When asking how good you are at innovating, there are several questions children's hospitals should ask themselves: Do we have a formal innovation structure? Do we have a pipeline? Are we encouraging courage and making it part of our enterprise DNA? Embrace this opportunity to destroy the old and start over."
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Surface Pro 3 'notebook' reaches retail today
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Microsoft positions Surface Pro 3 tablet as a laptop replacement
Buy a Surface Pro 3, get it at summer's end
Microsoft may have unveiled new tablets to preempt Apple's expected June announcements
By Gregg Keizer
Senior Reporter, Computerworld | PT
Microsoft Wednesday kicked off pre-sales of its new Surface Pro 3 tablet, but some of those orders won't be fulfilled until the end of summer.
The interval between introduction and availability for the Surface Pro 3 was both in line with and longer than Microsoft's practice for the laptop replacement's previous editions.
Of the five models Microsoft introduced Tuesday, two -- the Intel Core i5-powered configurations with 128GB or 256GB of storage space -- will ship next month in the U.S. and Canada. Those models, which list for $999 and $1,299, will ship June 20 and go on sale in the company's own retail stores as well as others. Microsoft will deliver the $130 Surface Pro Type Cover, a new keyboard sized for the larger Surface Pro 3, on the same day.
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The other three models, including the entry-level $799 Core i3 with 64GB of storage space, and the two with the Intel Core i7, will not ship or hit retail in the U.S. and Canada until Aug. 31, more than three months from now. That's also when Microsoft will begin shipping and start selling all of the Surface Pro 3 models and accessories in 26 other markets, including the U.K., China, France, Germany and Japan.
Those schedules are similar to and different from past editions.
The original Surface Pro, for example, was finalized with pricing and specifications in late November 2012, and shipped in early February 2013, a stretch of about 10 weeks. But the second-generation Surface Pro 2, unveiled in September 2013, went on sale six weeks later.
For those who thought Microsoft jumped the gun with its rollout, Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticule Research, had an explanation.
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"Announcing the Surface Pro 3 prior to WWDC [Worldwide Developers Conference] but also in advance of its shipping would be one way to get in front of Apple's early June announcements," Rubin wrote in an email reply to questions. "In fact, [Panos] Panay even referenced rumors that Apple was going to add support for simultaneous app viewing on the iPad."
As Rubin said, Apple's developer conference, WWDC, is just around the corner: The confab kicks off June 2, less than two weeks from today, with a keynote where company executives, including CEO Tim Cook, will almost certainly trumpet the new iOS 8 and the latest version of OS X.
Panay, the head of Microsoft's Surface team, did make a subtle reference to rumors that iOS 8 may break with tradition and include a split-screen mode for the iPad. iOS has never let two apps display simultaneously; instead, each app appears in a full-screen mode, and interaction between apps is clumsy and limited.
"There's rumors of other side-by-side computing," Panay said yesterday near the end of the Surface Pro 3 introduction. "I'm showing you side-by-side computing. This is side-by-side computing. This is Windows," Panay boasted as he demonstrated Windows 8.1's split-screen mode on the tablet. "There's no tricks, no gimmicks, no nothing. It just works."
Microsoft has long highlighted Windows' ability to show two "Modern," nee "Metro" apps in the tile-based, touch-first user interface (UI) in its anti-iPad marketing.
The Redmond, Wash. developer may also have wanted to strut the Surface Pro 3 before Apple refreshed its MacBook Air, the lightweight notebook Panay used yesterday as a foil for the new Surface. Several times Panay pulled out a MacBook Air or referenced it -- "Best in class, there's no debate," he said at one point -- to hammer home Microsoft's pitch that its new device is not as much a tablet as a notebook replacement.
Microsoft began taking pre-orders for the Surface Pro 3 Wednesday, but will not ship the first models until June 20, while the remaining configurations (including the $799 tablet) won't reach retail until late August.
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Second fire in six months at Mall of Qatar
One of the largest malls in in the country, due for December launch, the Mall of Qatar has experienced another fire, the second within six months.
Due for December launch, the under-construction Mall of Qatar (MoQ) has had another fire break out.
Described as a “small fire”, this is the second such incidence at MoQ in the past six months, reported Doha News.
While there were no injuries or damage, according to the shopping centre, in April a significantly larger blaze at the twice-delayed mall took hours for Civil Defence to extinguish.
During that blaze, 14,000 labourers and staff were safely evacuated and, according to MoQ, an investigation was underway.
With over 500 shops, including 100 food and beverage outlets, the opening of the mall has been pushed back twice already, first from August to October, then earlier this month, to a December launch.
The latest was to ensure more “key offerings and facilities” would be available, officials stated.
At the time, the mall officials added that the complex had obtained its building completion certificate, signalling that construction was finished.
However, it was not clear whether the necessary Civil Defence permits had been secured.
MoQ said in its most recent statement about the fire that the blaze occurred at a store undergoing fit-outs.
It added: “At Mall of Qatar, we have invested in the latest state-of-the-art fire control systems that worked perfectly.
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IIoT & manufacturing: What are the key applications?
Across the UK and around the world, both technology experts and the media have focused a great deal of attention on the Internet of Things (IoT). Some marvel at its ability to make the lives of consumers easier, while others worry that an increasingly digitally automised world will no longer need as many jobs in manufacturing and other sectors.
But the reality is somewhat different. Developments such as IoT are not designed to replace the working man and woman, but rather to support them, and to achieve enhanced efficiency, safety, and productivity in the sector.
In fact, IoT is one of the more talked about, but least understood, trends in modern manufacturing. It could be argued that manufacturing leads the way in terms of IoT applications, and has embraced IoT technology and advances faster than any other sector. Use of IoT has helped thousands of companies improve their competitive advantage while providing a huge boost to productivity.
IBM defines IoT as "the concept of connecting any device (so long as it has an on/off switch) to the Internet and to other connected devices. The IoT is a giant network of connected things and people – all of which collect and share data about the way they are used and about the environment around them."
This general definition covers a global marketplace of increasingly interconnected devices designed to save time, money, and effort.
Embrace of IoT
In 2016, the manufacturing industry spent over $178 billion on IoT technology, which was more than twice the amount spent by the second largest sector, transportation. Despite the media focus on home and consumer applications, industry has embraced IoT to a far greater extent.
Companies use IoT for a variety of specialised purposes. Over three-quarters of companies who have invested in IoT claim that it has helped to develop their insight into market trends and tendencies, while two-thirds say it has served as a critical factor in expanding competitive advantage, according to US telecommunications firm, Verizon.
IoT's most obvious applications in manufacturing are in the manufacturing plant itself, with sensors and devices that monitor the production process, safety, and other issues. However, there are other applications which also help to support manufacturers, for example, in warehousing. Mail order companies, such as Amazon, utilise massive warehouse distribution centres and have worked with IoT technology to increase efficiency for years. Manufacturing is benefiting from the same technology when it comes to product storage and distribution.
One of the basic functions of IoT in any application lies in the harvesting, categorising, analysis, and application of data. Data well used can help businesses react more precisely and with more flexibility to market changes. Over one-third of manufacturers have already implemented IoT systems for data collection.
IoT based devices can create efficiency through monitoring production lines
IoT based devices can create efficiency through monitoring production lines as well. Sensors can keep track of both human and machine productivity shifts, allowing managers to devise strategies to maximise productivity or identify problems. Those problems could relate to either machines functioning improperly or to employee issues. Data collected from monitors can also help companies figure out the most effective manner in which to organise production.
Data collected from IoT devices can also help to improve quality control, ensuring that less time and cost goes into identifying and correcting quality issues. Those savings relate directly to increased productivity, which should lead in the end to increased profit.
More efficient operation equals time and money saved. Those who do not apply IoT technologies risk losing valuable ground on competitors. Costs for those not using IoT will only increase over time as competitors grow more efficient and productive. Companies have found that by using IoT, they reduce costs, increase quality, and improve delivery time to market.
Some companies have found significant savings in using IoT for even mundane tasks. Large scale operations require the storage of tools and other equipment in areas that can be difficult to navigate.
Large scale manufacturers are often world-spanning organisations that have vital facilities all over the world. A global manufacturer with a home base in London, for example, may have operations in locations such as Los Angeles and Sydney, in addition to their domestic operations. If fully connected, managers in the company headquarters can monitor production everywhere in real time. Manufacturers who assemble different components in different locations can benefit from this real-time information sharing and can plan more effectively for logistical and other needs.
IoT-based technology can place sensors and other devices into essential equipment to monitor performance over time. If programmed properly, IoT devices can compare performance data over time and predict maintenance needs or even provide warnings of impending breakdowns. Preventative maintenance can save days or even weeks in lost production through averting major equipment malfunctions.
These sensors and devices can also enhance worker safety. Machine malfunctions alone can create conditions that harm workers. Sensors can detect when workers are using machinery improperly and alert supervisors. They can detect the presence of unwanted liquids, gases, radiation, or other issues that can harm the health and safety of employees.
Best of all, IoT technology can include fail-safes that can shut down affected equipment if necessary. When seconds can make the difference between safety and injury, automatic shutoffs (as opposed to waiting for human reaction) can save lives and prevent property damage.
Fewer jobs?
One of the main criticisms of adopting the IoT lies in a perceived threat to jobs, especially in the UK and other industrialised nations.
History shows that the adoption of labour saving technology actually increases the number of jobs overall in manufacturing. When companies can save money and time in one sector, they usually invest the added capital into operational expansion. Experts have pointed out that the impact of the Second Industrial Revolution, for example, brought exponentially more jobs to manufacturing, but the IoT could result in even more dramatic growth.
the IoT will help to bring manufacturing jobs back to the UK
In truth, the IoT will help to bring manufacturing jobs back to the UK and other industrialised countries through restoring each nations' competitive advantage over less industrialised nations with lower labour costs.
In the last century, companies with labour-intensive manufacturing found that they could only maintain a competitive advantage by moving operations overseas or outsourcing to foreign companies. Labour costs in Vietnam, China, and even many parts of the United States undercut those in the UK considerably. IoT replacement of certain categories of workers reduces the labour cost edge, making British advantages, such as reliable infrastructure, political stability, and closeness to market, more important.
When combined with the 2017 cuts in corporate taxes, efficiencies brought in by the IoT have made the United Kingdom a much more favourable location to build or expand manufacturing.
Led by declines in the auto industry, British manufacturing and the economy overall has seen a slight downturn over the past year. Regulatory issues related to emissions controls and other factors have slowed production while demand has cooled. As the Trump Administration in the United States has slashed costly regulations and pushed manufacturing into overdrive there, it has grown even more imperative for British industry to create more efficiencies and reduce costs.
Martin Thomas, European Marketing Manager at Radwell said “Just like companies a century and a half ago considering whether or not to invest in Second Industrial Revolution technology, businesses today cannot ignore advancements if they want to grow or even survive. The IoT and all of its applications represent a vital investment. Some companies may choose to ignore it, but they will fall behind competitors, losing market share and profit.”
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You Can Now Buy a One-Year Stockpile of Emergency Food at Costco for $6,000
It promises to keep four people fed for an entire year.
By Katelyn Lunders
With all the natural disasters and tragedies in the news lately, it's easy to feel like the world is coming to an end. Enter Costco, which is selling emergency food kits seemingly aimed at survivalists and doomsday preppers (or, we guess, anyone who hates grocery shopping and just wants to get it over with in one fell swoop.)
Costco's $6,000 Nutristore Premium Food Kit includes 600 gallon-size cans of food and promises to feed four adults for a full 365 days (that's 36,000 servings).
The kit includes cans of hard white wheat, rice, pasta, dehydrated fruits and vegetables, lentils, beans, instant milk, sugar, salt, chicken bouillon, shortening powder, and beef- and chicken-flavored soy protein, which have shelf lives ranging from three to 30 years. In total, it's designed to offer four people 2,000 calories per day, on average, for a year.
"The idea came about making a great starter kit for a family who wanted to prepare for any kind of disaster," a Costco spokesperson told the Detroit Free Press. "This is a great value with shipping included."
According to TODAY, Costco has been selling the emergency kits for the past three years, but the Detroit Free Press article has created more interest in them.
"You have hurricanes. You saw what that did," retail expert Kenneth Dalto told the Detroit Free Press, referring to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. "You add to that climate change, and terrorism, and the idea of nuclear war, which is very much in the news with North Korea, and they can develop a missile that might be able to hit California—even Seattle."
And it's not just Costco selling emergency food kits: Sam's Club offers a $3,599 kit that can also feed four people for a year, and Walmart offers a $1,290 kit designed for one person. Even Amazon offers a $976 pantry supply kit.
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Overall, the online reviews for Costco's emergency kits have been positive, with the exception of a customer who wished the kit would have come with recipe ideas. Even if you aren't sold on the doomsday madness, this kit admittedly could come in pretty handy if you live in an area that's prone to natural disasters.
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Avoiding Real Drive Security Threats
July 7, 2014 /0 Comments/in General /by Allen Falcon
Are Your Users Letting Data Thieves in Through the Front Door?
When most organizations think about protecting files in Google Drive, they focus on Google’s security certifications, whether or not to allow external sharing, and setting up groups to make assigning permissions easier. Too often, they fail to consider the bigger risks to data: users and apps.
Users typically have the ability to share Drive content within your domain and externally. A simple user error (and the occasional intentional act) can expose sensitive data, creating headaches and potential liabilities.
Apps, whether browser extensions or on smart phones, can be installed by your users without your knowledge. These apps often request broad access to data ranging from contact lists to Drive content and can expose data before you know the apps even exist. Human nature tells us that if person wants an app, they “Allow” and “Accept” without necessary reading or understanding the permissions being granted.
Critical to securing data in Drive, organizations should monitor and manage both user permissions based on policies and content and third-party apps with access to data. An understanding of the access granted each App and whether others have deemed the App trustworthy, gives you the power to allow Apps that help your team work efficiently while blocking Apps that pose too much risk.
The First Step to closing user sharing and Apps permission risks is to audit and assess your environment. Audit user assigned permissions and third-party Apps with access and review the results for potential data security issues.
With an understanding of the scope of your risk, you can best decide if you should further investment in your Google Apps ecosystem.
In partnership with CloudLock, we are offering great discounts on our Google Apps Risk Assessment service. Normally a $1,000 per audit service, we will examine collaboration and permission settings as well as the 3rd party Apps that already have access to your domain for $300 or less.
Contact us for more information or to request a formal quote.
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4th of 5: More Ways to Collaborate in Google Apps
July 7, 2014 /0 Comments/in Education, General /by Allen Falcon
Google Apps is designed for secure sharing and collaborations. Many users, however, still rely on the back-and-forth of email to get their work done. Here is the 4th of 5 other ways to collaborate in Google Apps.
Comments and Real-Time Chats in Google Docs
You already know that, with permission, colleagues can view and edit shared documents together in real-time. They can also engage in real-time chat from directly within the document windows. Instead of calling a meeting, or setting up a conference call or hangout, team members can ask questions, suggest edits, and provide feedback immediately while working on the document.
If team members are working on the document at different times, they can highlight text and add a comment. Visible in the margin, fellow collaborators are notified by email of the comments and receive a link that opens the document at the comment. Comments can be directed to specific team members and team members can respond to directed requests by replying to the email.
Once a comment thread is finished, or the issue resolved, mark the comment as “resolved”. While the comment disappears from view, comments remain part of the document history and can be recalled should questions arise down the road.
Helping users get the most out of Google Apps is one of the reasons we offer a range of training and professional development services. Contact us if you want to learn more.
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3rd of 5: More Ways to Collaborate in Google Apps
Google Apps is designed for secure sharing and collaborations. Many users, however, still rely on the back-and-forth of email to get their work done. Here is the 3rd of 5 other ways to collaborate in Google Apps.
Shared Folders in Drive
Instead of sharing individual files with users or groups, create a project folder and share the folder with the team. When you share a folder, all work uploaded to the folder or created within the folder, the file automatically is assigned the same sharing settings as the folder.
Project managers can still set permission levels based on need — view, comment, or edit — and you can override the inherited permissions for individual files and for sub folders as needed.
Training users to find and enter a project folder before working on the project is an easy tip that saves time and effort.
If you want to help your team get more from Google Apps, Contact us about our training options.
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Restore Google Drive Files Offers Some (but not enough?) Protection
June 26, 2014 /0 Comments/in Education, General /by Allen Falcon
Among the myriad of new features and upgrades announced at Google I/O this week, Google added the ability to restore users’ Drive files that have been deleted from the Trash folder.
While offering some protection, the feature is limited in its scope.
You cannot restore individual files; you can only restore all files deleted within a date range you provide. The minimum date range is 1 day (24 hours).
You can only restore files for individual users, one at a time.
You can only restore files that were deleted from Trash within 25 days.
When restoring files, the permissions are not restored. Only the user will have access to the files.
With these limitations, we do not expect the ability to restore a user’s Google Drive files will be of great use to most organizations. With a limited retention period and lack of granularity, the tool provides a big shovel when most users need a spoon.
The solution also depends on users’ ability to recover information from the Trash folder, a process we find difficult at times due to the limited ability to search Trash in Drive.
True backup/recovery solutions give users and administrators that critical features that deliver more usability and effectiveness:
Flexible retention: Allow organizations to implement policies related document and records management, including extended retention and removal of data past retention windows.
File-Level / Item-Level Restore: Most data loss and restore needs result from human error or action and impact fewer than 5 files. Acceptable restore capabilities include the ability to restore individual files (or entire accounts) and should include the ability to select file by version or point in time.
Protect Meta Data: Protect the meta data as well as the files themselves. File ownership, permissions, etc. should be preserved and recoverable with the file.
Data Export: Provide the ability to export data so that it may be migrated to other accounts and/or other systems.
Administrative Control: Identify and allow backup/restore administrators that are not full domain administrators.
Absent many of these features, the ability within Google Apps to restore a user’s Drive files is a limited feature that will not meet most organizations’ needs for data protection.
Third party backup/restore solutions are still a necessary and appropriate component of a robust Google Apps environment.
Feel free to contact us if you would like to explore backup/recovery options and solutions.
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Alternatives to MS Office
May 9, 2014 /0 Comments/in Education, General /by Allen Falcon
With more businesses moving to the cloud, and Google Apps in particular, one of the questions that comes up is whether organizations still need MS Office. The fact that MS Office use is drastically lower than peceived within most companies is a subject for another post.
For many organizations, they still need a solution for existing (legacy) documents as well as documents shared with them by others still using MS Office. The good news is that you have a number of strong competitors that are free, or very low cost, and that run across multiple platforms. Here a few.
Cost: Free; Premium Edition for Windows is $69.95
Platforms: Windows, Android, iOS, Linux
Kingsoft Office is a free MS Office compatible suite available on Windows, Android (including Samsung devices and International), iOS (iPad and iPhone), and Linux. The suite integrates with Google Drive, as well as Box and Dropbox.
Office Suite from Mobile Systems Inc.
Cost: Android: Free or $9.99 for Premium; iOS: $1.99 (promotion; normally $14.99)
Platforms: Android, iOS
Work with and print Office format documents, as well as PDF and ZIP files. A file manager works with local files and attachments on smartphones and tablets and can also access Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, OneDrive and SugarSync, plus sharing via email, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct.
QuickOffice form Google
Cost: Free with Google Apps account
Edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files read PDFs. Works only with Google Drive and supports printing to Wi-Fi printers.
DocstoGo from DataViz
Supports MS Office 97, 2010, and 2013 formats. An in-app purchase is required to use Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, and OneDrive.
Allows workgroups to use email or social contacts to collaborate on documents. Works with Google Drive, Box, Dropbox and other WebDAV sites. The iOS version supports OneDrive as well.
CloudOn
Cost: Free; Pro version for $3.99 per month includes printing
Rather than building apps to execute on the local device, the CloudOn connects to a free service that executes Office apps in the cloud, and opens and edits files there. Only screen updates and gestures go back and forth. CloudOn saves to a Google Drive, Box, Dropbox or OneDrive account.
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Google Docs & Drive: Small New Features Make a Big Difference
August 15, 2013 /0 Comments/in General /by Allen Falcon
Google continues to enhance the Google Apps suite with updates to Google Docs and Drive.
In Google Docs:
A new spell checker runs in real-time. Marking misspelled words, the checker lets you review spelling via a traditional style tool, see spelling suggestions as you type, and setup automatic correction. You can learn more here.
New presets for numbered and bullet lists provide more formatting options in Documents. You can now also change the color, size, and style of individual bullets, as well as customize your own bullet styles. See this Google+ post for an animated demo.
In Google Drive, the current release (1.11) of Google Drive for Mac or PC includes two new features:
On Windows, you can now have shortcuts to Documents, Sheets, and Slides on the desktop or in the Start Menu — making it easier to use Google Docs as a primary (or strong secondary) productivity suite.
You may now also select where your Google Drive sync folder is located and choose your own name for the folder.
While major in scope, these updates reflect Google’s process of continuous improvement based on user feedback and requests. These changes improve ease of use and the end user experience.
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Quickoffice: More Than Office for Mobile Users
April 3, 2013 /0 Comments/in General /by Allen Falcon
With this week’s release of Quickoffice for iPhone and Android platforms, Google Apps for Business mobile users can now access and edit MS Office files on any iOS or current Android device. Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files are no longer captive to heavy and more expensive Windows laptops, netbooks, and tablets.
Overdrive …
The Quickoffice app also expands access to all files in Google Drive. In addition to users’ My Drive content, Quickoffice provides folder views for Shared with Me, Starred, Recent, and any subfolders.
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Helpful Hint: Modern Preview in Google Drive
February 21, 2013 /0 Comments/in General /by Allen Falcon
In the beginning, seeing a preview of documents in Google Drive meant clicking an link and waiting for a new browser window or browser tab to open up. Your preview would appear, if the file type was compatible, surrounded by all the menu bars and trappings of a Google Doc screen.
All that is changing.
Google is rolling out a new preview for files in Google Drive, starting now.
Google Drive will let you quickly preview more than 30 file types and quickly flip between files until you find the one you want. You’ll see the new preview automatically if you open a photo, video, or PDF. To see a preview of a Google document, right-click on the file name and select “preview.”
Once the preview window is open, you can …
Click on the arrows on either side to flip to other files.
Watch video files or scroll through multi-page documents.
Select and copy text from the preview — even for a PDF or Microsoft Word document
Use the zoom buttons to see a file in more detail.
Each file preview also gives you one-click access to share, download, print or open a file for editing.
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The Video Service in Google Apps
December 5, 2012 /0 Comments/in General /by Allen Falcon
OK, it is not really new. But, major changes are in the works. By the end of this year, Google Video for Business will be shut down with companies’ videos and the service capabilities moving to Google Drive.
Google Drive has many advantages over Google Video for Business. including:
Uploading and streaming HD quality video
Captions/subtitles in over 100 languages, and multiple tracks for each language
The ability to embed a video on any page
Advanced sharing controls, including the ability to prevent viewers from downloading the video
SSL streaming for secure watching of videos
User comments on the video page
API access to manage videos
Migrated Google Video for Business video files will not count against the user’s Google Drive storage quota (new videos will), and all links to them will be automatically redirected to Google Drive. As the migration happens, videos will be stored in a folder named “Google Video for Business.”
While migrated videos will not count towards Drive storage quotas, future videos will. Uploaded videos go through the same processing and compression as they did with the Video for Business service (a 30 minute video we uploaded uses only 28K), organizations that heavily use video may want to setup an additional user account to serve as the owner of videos. By creating a central account, managing additional storage, when needed, becomes easier.
For more information, feel free to contact us. Google has also published a nice help article on the subject.
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Inbox Size versus Email Relevance
August 8, 2012 /0 Comments/in General /by Allen Falcon
Now that many email services are matching Google Apps’ 25GB inbox, the IT folks are wondering if users really need that much space and if mailbox limits are still a good practice. For most companies, the answer lies in how users use email.
Most emails lose value over time. Like most conversations, the value of the discussion itself fades once the conclusion or result is reached. Granted, emails dealing with legal, contract, or financial issues have historical value and should be kept around. But think about the back-and-forth emails for scheduling a lunch meeting and picking a location. The conversation is fine; the end result is what really matters.
Use and content are more important than size. For users that do not have mobile access to documents, saving emails with attachments may be the only way to access important information in a timely manner. For these users, large mailboxes seem useful.
For users addressing customer service issues, emails from past cases create unnecessary clutter in the inbox and folders that can lead to disorganization and inefficiencies. For these users, limiting inbox sizes forces organization. Combined with an archive, customer related information is not lost while users have a cleaner environment.
And while some users believe that they need to keep everything and that they will need access to any past email at any point in the future, reality dictates that the need to go back to old emails is very limited. For these users, the discussion is philosophical more than pragmatic.
The challenge for the IT team, is that nearly every organization has all types of users.
You can provide a common solution. Instead of focusing on “how much” space to provide users, focus on “information value”. Users should have immediate access to information contained in emails that they need to perform efficiently and effectively.
Taking this point of view, email services can meet all user needs when:
Users have local, remote, and mobile access to collaboration tools and shared file services, eliminating the need for sending documents as attachments.
The system automatically archives email messages, potentially indefinitely, for future viewing by the end user.
Users can automatically groom they size of their inbox and email folders based on age, rather than volume, letting users keep and focus on information with the greatest value.
Creating an email service with these attributes eliminates concerns about remote/mobile access, sending/receiving messages with large attachments, and user efficiency.
The good news: The integrated tools within Google Apps — Gmail, Docs, Drive, and remote services — along with Google Apps Vault (or Message Archive & Discovery) deliver this ecosystem without complex configuration and expensive infrastructure.
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Ericsson Opens First India Experience Studio in Gurugram
CXOtoday News Desk 11 months ago
Ericsson has launched its first India Experience Studio in Gurugram. The Ericsson Studio was inaugurated on site by Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications (DOT), Govt. of India and His Excellency, Klas Molin, Ambassador of Sweden to India. Ericsson Studios world over house innovations in mobile technologies and futuristic use-cases on 5G and IoT. Visitors at the Experience Studio can interact with subject experts and see how evolving technology ecosystems will drive the transformation of businesses and societies.
Ericsson recently also set up a 5G Center of Excellence and Innovation Lab at IIT Delhi. The initiative is designed to fast-track 5G deployments in the country by bringing together telecom ecosystems, academia, industry and start-ups
Inaugurating the Ericsson Studio, Aruna Sundararajan Secretary, Department of Telecommunications (DOT), Govt. of India said, “I would like to congratulate Ericsson for setting up this Studio and Experience Center today. With the pace at which technology is evolving, initiatives like these provide for discussions and understanding of new technologies and their application in the real world. The use-cases and innovations showcased today are truly cutting edge and reaffirm that mobile technology will go a long way in delivering quality healthcare and better experiences for mobile phone users, enterprise and the society overall.
Nitin Bansal, Head of Network Solutions MOAI, Ericsson said “At Ericsson, we are committed to creating game changing technology that is easy to use, adapt and scale, enabling our customers to capture the full value of connectivity. As in the case of the 5G Center of Excellence and Innovation Hub , we are looking at the Ericsson Studio in Gurugram becoming the hub for innovation and discussion on futuristic mobile technologies.
The Ericsson Studio in India showcased5G Connected Drones, as it sees a huge potential in connecting drones using 5G cellular networks. Drones are increasingly being used for city surveillance, emergency response, patrol and inspections to improve operational efficiency and increase safety. Existing drone solutions connect using local radio links with a limited range of operation.
The company further believes that cities represent an ecosystem of residents, traffic, road infrastructure, vehicles, bikes, fleet owners, public transport, logistics providers, neighbouring municipalities, just to name a few. This ecosystem is complex, in the sense that there is a lot of fragmentation. The Connected Urban Transport solution showcased at the studio is designed to overcome this fragmentation, by monitoring and optimizing the available assets in cities. With a central dashboard overview of all connected assets that unites insights with actions, cities can solve their biggest traffic issues.
Internet of Skills that refers to the ability of using communication networks that convey not only images and sound, but the sense of touch, combined with virtual reality technologies is another attraction of the new center. Ericsson Research’s live demonstration is the next level of remote communication in healthcare sector. It showcases the ability to examine remote patients and to transfer these skills through virtual environment and haptic feedback over the network.
At the studio, Mixed Reality Mining demo displays the possibilities and future concepts on the AR and VR which can be adapted for a mining use case. It offers users a chance to experience what could be done with great connectivity, i.e. 5G, precise positioning, and augmented, mixed and virtual reality (AR/MR/VR) in a mining context, with the primary aim to support the interplay between human mine workers and automated systems.
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Women and the small things that really matter
Updated: 19:04 EDT, 18 June 2009
Time for change: An Iranian woman protests
The American humorist and political writer P.J. O’Rourke said the reason Communism collapsed was that nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes. He had
a point. It is the little things that matter.
Bulgarians wanted to step out in Gucci like the rest of us (even if it ended up being knock-off Gucci). They wanted to be free to look flash.
We think regime change is about the big issues, but, basically, we all want the same freedoms. It is much the same in Iran. These protests are not just about the freedom to vote, but the freedom to Twitter, the freedom to wear bling, the freedom to smooch, the freedom not to hang children.
Have you seen how many Iranian women there are on the streets protesting against the crooked re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Wonderful, isn’t it?
Do you not think that in this battle against repressive regimes and fundamentalist doctrines, women might turn out to be the Gdansk ship workers (who began the uprising against the Communist regime in Poland)? The catalysts, the ones who finally tip the scale, who say what everybody else is thinking, who do what everybody is scared to do.
They are a bright bunch, Iranian women. A friend of mine who knows the region says she meets a higher percentage of educated-up-to-the eyeballs females than in any other Middle Eastern country. Getting the qualifications to land a good job is still seen as the way out of oppression.
And, she says, what else is there to do under a government that places so many limits on personal freedom, other than study and read?
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And education, in turn, leads to thought. And thought leads, rather quickly one imagines, to questioning the fact that an Iranian woman can still receive 60 days’ imprisonment or 70 lashes for ‘bad hijab’ (displaying any part of the body other than the hands and face).
In Tehran in 2007, there was a police crackdown on such behaviour. That was the year before Ahmadinejad’s government proposed a bill to let men take a second wife without requiring the permission of the first.
An unmarried couple cannot date alone or even hold hands without running the risk of arrest. One woman, Kobra Najjar, who was forced into prostitution by her husband to
support his heroin habit, was sentenced to death by stoning for committing adultery. This was commuted to 100 lashes after protests in the international community.
The most interesting aspect of the uprising in Iran is that, to begin with, it was not the defeated opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi who captured the public imagination, but his wife, Zahra Rahnavard.
She was the chancellor of the all-women Al-Zahra university for eight years. She broke the mould by campaigning side by side with her husband, by holding hands at public
rallies, by speaking out on women’s rights issues, economic empowerment and discriminatory laws.
So Mousavi’s moderate revolution became entwined with Rahnavard’s gender politics. This explains the number of women rallying to his cause on the streets.
These eerily silent mourning marches, in tribute to those killed resisting Ahmadinejad’s regime, are not some colourful little quirk. Similar demonstrations took place before the Shah was deposed in 1979.
Campaign for freedom: Supporters of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi attend a renewed protest demonstrations in the street of Tehran today
This is the seventh day of protest, and each time it grows. The protesters march in silence to mourn the dead of the day before, and as some of these protesters are then attacked, and killed, so more join to mourn the next day, and the day after, until most
of the country is on the streets.
Mousavi and Rahnavard were among those leading the protests against the Shah. Back then, women walked silently on the streets, hoping, too, for deliverance from Sharia law. However, it was eventually extended.
Now they are back again: students, teachers, doctors. Intelligent women, educated women. They want to know how, in a free election, the results showed that voting patterns were the same throughout the country.
They want to know how, despite evidence to the contrary, the poll suggested that the opposition did not have a strong heartland. Also, they would like to hold hands and
wear red, if possible. A revolt into style, one might say.
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Pictured: The three Thai musicians who 'stabbed U.S. tourist to death with sharpened metal poles just because he got on stage to sing along'
51-year-old Texas businessman Bobby Ray Carter killed outside bar
27-year-old son, Adam, injured in attack with sharpened metal poles
Suspects were today being questioned by Thai police
By Jessica Jerreat and Damien Gayle
Published: 05:21 EDT, 1 August 2013 | Updated: 07:44 EDT, 1 August 2013
These are the three Thai nightclub musicians suspected of stabbing to death a 51-year-old American after he refused to stop singing in a bar popular with tourists.
Sathit Somsa, 40, Ratikorn Romin, 27, and Noppanant Yoddecha, 26, were today being questioned in connection with the murder of Bobby Ray Carter Jr, from Dallas, Texas.
Mr Carter, who has an 18-month-old daughter, had been on holiday in the popular Tourist region of Ao Nang in Krabi with his son, Adam, 27, who was also stabbed in the attack.
Suspects: From left, Sathit Somsa, 40, Ratikorn Romin, 27, and Noppanant Yoddecha, 26, sit cuffed as they are interrogated at Krabi police station in Krabi province, southern Thailand, over the murder of Bobby Ray Carter
The pair were on a night out in the Longhorn Saloon in the early hours of Wednesday, when a fight broke out.
Somsa, Romin and Yoddecha, who are accused of stabbing the two tourists with sharpened rods outside the bar, were this morning in handcuffs as they were interrogated by Thai police.
Thai badminton player beats up former doubles partner after...
According to Phuket Wan Tourism News, the steel rods used in the fatal attack are a popular weapon with locals.
Lieutenant Colonel Jongrak Pimthong said that Mr Carter had started to sing with the band and refused to leave the stage, after having a few drinks.
Attack: Bobby Ray Carter and his son, Adam, were on vacation in Thailand when he was stabbed to death
On its website, the Longhorn Saloon advertises 'jamming with the band' as one of its events and claims to be a friendly nightspot.
A Krabi tourist police officer told Fox News: '[Mr Carter] and his son quarrelled with all three musicians because he wouldn't stop singing despite the musicians taking a break.'
'He then demanded the money he had already given as a tip back. But the real fight broke out outside of that pub. He was stabbed twice and died while on the way to local hospital,' Lieutenant Colonel Attapong Seanjaiwuth added.
Well traveled: Bobby Ray Carter was president of an electronics company, with offices in Texas and China
Crime scene: The father and son were stabbed outside the Long Horn Saloon in Ao Nang
Mr Carter's son, who runs the Chinese branch of their LED Cool Lights business, was stabbed in the arm during the attack and is recovering in hospital.
The fatal attack comes at a time of increased concern for the safety of tourists in that region of Thailand, as well as other popular tourist spots in the country.
In October last year, a 21-year-old Briton was stabbed and left for dead after he tried to save his girlfriend from an attempted gang rape.
Tragedy: Bobby Ray Carter, third from left, and his son, Adam, second left, were enjoying a break with friends
Jack Cole and April Clifton, from Bath, were attacked by a gang on motorcycles as they walked along the beach in Ao Nang.
Miss Clifton was able to run to safety but Mr Cole was stabbed several times. He survived the attack but needed treatment for wounds to his face, chest, arms and legs.
A German woman had a thumb cut off in another attack, and a 19-year-old Dutch model was raped in Krabi last summer.
Bobby Ray Carter stabbing: The 3 Thai musicians suspected of killing American tourist
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Eagles' preview: Why Saints' home field is a big advantage, and can Eagles neutralize it?
A preview of the Eagles' opponent, the New Orleans Saints, plus news from around the NFC East, NFL.
Eagles' preview: Why Saints' home field is a big advantage, and can Eagles neutralize it? A preview of the Eagles' opponent, the New Orleans Saints, plus news from around the NFC East, NFL. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/sports/nfl/eagles/2019/01/12/eagles-preview-brees-foles-saints-home-field-big-advantage-can-eagles-neutralize-it/2507217002/
Martin Frank, Delaware News Journal Published 7:56 a.m. ET Jan. 12, 2019
Treyvon Hester kept the Eagles' season alive by blocking Cody Parkey's last-second field goal attempt. Martin Frank, The News Journal
PHILADELPHIA – The Eagles know what to expect having already played the Saints in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
It will be loud.
To prepare, the Eagles practiced inside Thursday and Friday, with the decibel-level turned way up to simulate the crowd noise. The Eagles used the same approach before their Nov. 18 game in New Orleans.
They lost 48-7.
The Eagles, like every team visiting the Saints, will use a silent count. Philadelphiaeagles.com explains the nuances involved in making the silent count work.
New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees (9) passes in the first half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) (Photo: Butch Dill, AP)
For the Saints, playing at the Superdome is a real advantage. The Saints have won 70.3 percent of their home games since 2008, as the New Orleans Advocate points out. They are also 5-0 in home playoff games.
But as Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins put it: "It’s not the crowd. It’s the guy throwing the ball."
That guy, of course, is Drew Brees, who will turn 40 years old Sunday. As this ESPN.com profile of Brees shows, he is a multi-talented athlete who once beat a younger Andy Roddick in youth tennis and had committed to play baseball at Texas Christian University before deciding to give football a try at Purdue.
In the story, friends and family members relay other untold stories of Brees' athletic exploits.
Brees is having a remarkable season. He set the all-time NFL record for completions and passing yards earlier this season. And also for completion percentage at 74.8 percent. That broke the old mark of 72.0 percent set last season by ... Brees.
New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton, left, greets Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson before an NFL football game in New Orleans, Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) (Photo: Butch Dill, AP)
Eagles quarterback Nick Foles knows Brees well. The two are from Austin, Texas and led their teams to state championships 10 years apart – Brees won his state title game, Foles lost his.
It will be interesting, however, to see how the teams adapt to this game. Brees was held out of the Saints' season finale on Dec. 30, and the Saints had a bye last week. So he'll be playing for the first time in three weeks.
Saints coach Sean Payton said he's not worried. The Saints used the same approach in 2009 and won the Super Bowl.
"A lot of it is dependent on the player," Payton said. "When you have a game day of 46 (players), it’s not like you can rest the whole team. It’s different than 90 (on the roster) in the preseason. We looked at it, specific to our team and what we felt was important."
For Brees, that meant falling eight yards short of 4,000 yards passing for a 13th straight season. He didn't care.
Versatile Sproles earns Eagles’ adulation Kevin Tresolini, The News Journal
Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas led the NFL with 125 receptions this season. Thomas said he felt snubbed by not being the first wide receiver taken in the 2016 draft (he was the fifth, going in the second round), as this USA Today feature shows. And Thomas' uncle is former Jets (and other teams) wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson.
New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara (41) runs with the ball during the first half of an NFL football game against the Bengal in Cincinnati, Oh, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston) (Photo: Bryan Woolston, AP)
Last week, the Eagles faced the NFL's team against the run in the Chicago Bears. Now, they're facing the No. 2 team in the Saints, who allow 80.2 yards per game. Keep an eye out for linebacker Demario Davis, strong safety Vonn Bell and nickel cornerback P.J. Williams. But the Saints' pass defense is ranked 29th, allowing 268.9 yards per game.
Saints running back Alvin Kamara is keeping quiet this week after saying over the summer that the Saints would have "beaten the (expletive)" out of the Eagles had the two teams met in the NFC Championship game last January. We'll never know because the Vikings beat the Saints on a last-second touchdown and the Eagles then beat the Vikings 38-7.
A prediction
It seems like everyone is picking against the Eagles in this game. And really, all along I felt this was a game the Eagles had no chance in. Now, I'm not so sure. As great as the Saints are offensively, they have only averaged 17.9 points over their last five games.
Sure, the Saints' defense is stout against the run, but is that the result of a great defense like the Bears have? Or because opponents have gotten behind early and had to throw, as the Saints' ranking of 29th against the pass might indicate?
The Eagles do have some matchup advantages, like their offensive line vs. the Saints' defensive line, with Alshon Jeffery on a much smaller cornerback, and Zach Ertz on the Saints' safeties.
Can the Eagles win? Yes. But they will have to play the perfect game. Will the Eagles win? I'm predicting Saints 33, Eagles 27.
Around the NFC East
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) is pressured by Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Fletcher Cox (91) during the first half of an NFL football game, in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Ainsworth) (Photo: Michael Ainsworth, AP)
Quarterback Dak Prescott is dealing with a minor knee injury suffered last week against Seattle. But both Prescott and head coach Jason Garrett don't plan to adjust the game plan. Prescott has been a full practice participant this week.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is obviously feeling pretty good about his team, celebrating by buying a 358-foot yacht, which is the size of a football field. He paid $250 million for the yacht, which has two helipads, a full-sized gym and a spa. Just think what Jones might buy if the Cowboys beat the Rams on Saturday and reach the NFC Championship game for the first time in 23 years.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, left, and Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie, right, before an NFL football game, in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Ainsworth) (Photo: Michael Ainsworth, AP)
In 2013, Washington went 3-13 in the final season under Mike Shanahan. The win total is how many of Shanahan's assistants from that miserable team have gotten head coaching jobs after the Green Bay Packers hired Matt LaFleur, who was the quarterbacks coach that season. The others were Kyle Shanahan (49ers), then the offensive coordinator and Sean McVay (Rams), then the tight ends coach.
It's no wonder that Washington has been mediocre at best since 2002. As the Washington Post writes, its quarterbacks since then have been, too.
Celebrity Philadelphia Eagles fans
Sylvester Stallone might be the most Philly of all non-native Philadelphians. The actor is not only "Rocky," a character synonymous with the city, but he's also an Eagles fan. Michael Perez, AP
Los Angeles Angels player Mike Trout is an Eagles die-hard. He spent a night off at the Eagles' season opener last fall, even getting a chance to hold their Super Bowl trophy. KYLE GRANTHAM/THE NEWS JOURNAL
Delaware native Ryan Phillippe is a Philly sports fan, period. Here he gets ready to throw out the first pitch before a Phillies game in 2010, but he's been a vocal Eagles supporter, too. The News Journal/WILLIAM BRETZGER
Kellyanne Conway, presidential counselor and New Jersey native, said in an interview with CNN last summer that she's a lifelong Eagles fan, and remembers cheering them on back in the day at Veterans Stadium. Andrew Harnik, AP
CNN's Jake Tapper is a vocal Eagles fan, as his Twitter followers know. His response to Sunday's "double doink" end to the game? HOLY CANOLI.
Jimmy Fallon shared a video of a roomful of Eagles fans including Ahmir Khalib "Questlove" Thompson and The Roots celebrating during last year's Super Bowl. Getty Images
Philly native Will Smith sporting an Eagles jersey in 2005, performing before Super Bowl XXXIX between the Eagles and the Patriots. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Comedian, Philidelphia native and Eagles fan Kevin Hart attempts to get onto the stage following the Eagles 41-33 win over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII at U.S. Bank Stadium on February 4, 2018. Elsa
Eagles fan and Doylestown native Pink performed the national anthem before the Super Bowl LII. Jerry Habraken, The News Journal
Rapper Meek Mill, a Philadelphia native and favorite of the Eagles, arrives at this season's home opener.
Former Vice President Joe Biden looks on during the celebrations after the Philadelphia Eagles win over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images
Bradley Cooper's character in "Silver Linings Playbook" was a massive Eagles fan and so is the actor. He was spotted wearing a throwback Eagles jacket on Monday, the day after the Birds beat the Bears. The Weinstein Company via AP
Tina Fey, originally from Upper Darby, is an Eagles fan with a sense of humor. She and Rachel Dratch returned to "Saturday Night Live" last season to poke fun at Eagles and Patriots fans. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
If it were up to Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins, he would be wearing a Giants uniform after the NFL draft, at least according to artwork that Haskings tweeted Tuesday night and then deleted. Haskins, who's from New Jersey, is expected to be one of the first quarterbacks selected in the draft.
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A picture of health: Baby Torben survives life-saving surgery after his parents are told he's just a day away from dying
MUM Kelly Anderson Chaplain is now hoping to raise funds for Yorkhill Children’s Charity after her little boy was saved by surgeons who said he was just hours away from death due to a rare heart defect.
Fraser Wilson
Little Torben has recovered (Image: Michael Traill)
TINY Torben Chaplain looked a picture of health – but, unknown to his doting parents, the nine-day-old tot was close to death.
The baby had to be rushed 150 miles for emergency surgery after a vigilant midwife on a house visit noticed his breathing was faster than normal.
The midwife insisted he go to Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, where scans showed Torben’s heart was grossly enlarged.
Mum Kelly Anderson Chaplain and dad Philip were told the newborn had a rare defect restricting his blood flow.
That triggered a dash by a team of cardiac doctors from Glasgow’s Yorkhill Hospital who arrived in a special air ambulance and took Torben away for immediate surgery.
Torben is now like any other healthy, happy six-month-old.
But if his parents had waited a day longer, he would have died.
Torben after his operation (Image: Michael Traill)
Kelly, 35, of Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire, said: “If the midwife hadn’t pushed us, we would have just stayed at home.
“It was Sunday lunchtime, it was snowing, we were 45 minutes from the hospital and I had a nine-day old and a toddler. I didn’t want to go anywhere. I said, ‘Do we have to? Can’t it wait?’ because he was a fat, healthy baby who was feeding well.
“But the surgeon said 24 to 36 hours later he would have just died in his sleep.”
As the air ambulance made its way to Aberdeen, Torben was sedated and put in a special incubator.
Kelly said “It looked like a coffin. When they closed the lid it was awful. He had surgical tape over his eyes and he looked dead. And we weren’t allowed to go with him in the plane.”
After driving straight to Yorkhill, the anxious parents learned Torben was having the operation straight away.
The couple were told the op could take up to 16 hours – so when they were called two hours later they were sure their son had died.
Kelly said: “There were seven or eight people standing around Torben’s bed. My husband said: “Oh, my God, he’s dead.”
“Then the surgeon walked out with a smile on his face and said it was good news.
“Phil just burst into tears and I thought I was going to fall over. He really is the strongest baby.”
After six days in hospital, Torben came home to celebrate his first Christmas.
Kelly, who is also mum to Brodie, two, now hopes to raise £1000 for Yorkhill Children’s Charity. You can support her at www.justgiving.com/Lumphanan-Caravanserai.
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Airdrieonians FCEx-Airdrieonians midfielder Ryan Conroy slams the club for making their transfer list publicConroy, who has spent three season in the Diamond, felt that the players on the list was forced out of New Broomfield in the public eye.
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Parsippany senior wins 3,200-meter run at Passarelli
Ally Schlosser came home a good 14 seconds ahead of runner-up Brooke Olson of Randolph
Parsippany senior wins 3,200-meter run at Passarelli Ally Schlosser came home a good 14 seconds ahead of runner-up Brooke Olson of Randolph Check out this story on dailyrecord.com: http://dailyre.co/1Op1NdX
Jim Hague, Correspondent Published 10:34 p.m. ET Dec. 23, 2015 | Updated 12:37 a.m. ET Dec. 24, 2015
Morristown’s Eric Clay and Parsippany’s Ally Schlosser display their trophies after both won the 3,200-meter run at the Passarelli Invitational on Wednesday.(Photo: Jim Hague/Correspondent)Buy Photo
MADISON Ally Schlosser turned 18 years old Wednesday. The Parsippany senior wanted to celebrate her birthday in a special way, by trying to win the 3,200-meter run at the Passarelli Invitational at Drew University.
The reason? Well, the 3,200-meter run was the featured event of the meet —and the winner of the featured event receives a significant trophy as well as the conventional medal.
“When I got here, I realized that it was the event with the trophy,” said Schlosser, who is one of the premier distance runners in the county. “I really wanted to win the trophy. The higher the distance, the better shot I have at winning.”
So when Schlosser got ready to run, she had a goal.
“When I got on line, I had a time in mind,” Schlosser said. “But then I really wanted the trophy. I didn’t care about the time. I never got a trophy before I wanted the trophy. As I went out, I knew I could have gone faster, but I was focused on the trophy.”
Schlosser got her wish — on her birthday, no less.
Schlosser came home in 11:33.56, a good 14 seconds ahead of runner-up Brooke Olson of Randolph, with Cassandra Harasts of Montville taking third.
“I know I have to start pushing it instead of getting in a comfort zone,” Schlosser said. “My comfort level is not so fast.”
But there are other events to worry about times. Not many times in one’s life do you get to win a trophy on your 18th birthday. It makes the day extremely memorable.
“All the girls I looked up to, like Mackenzie Barry (formerly of Mendham) and Kylene Cochrane and Brennan Sharkey (both formerly of West Morris), that whole group, all won trophies,” Schlosser said. “Now, I got one, too.”
The boys’ 3,200-meter run was also the featured event of the night, which meant that Eric Clay of Morristown had something to shoot for — the elusive trophy.
“I never got one for running,” said Clay, the talented junior. “All of my trophies came for basketball. I was excited to learn that there was a trophy for this year’s 3,200 (meter run). I came in third in this race last year, so I knew that there was a trophy involved.”
Clay went out and took home the trophy this year, holding off a late charge from teammate and friend Evan Quinn, with fellow Morristown runner Ben Edwards third.
Clay won the race in 9:52.07, with Quinn right behind in 9:52.60 and Edwards third in 9:55.57.
“It’s good that we were 1-2-3 at the finish line,” Quinn said. “It was nice to turn back and see my teammates behind me. I could feel Evan over my shoulder. I have to work on my finish, because Evan has such a great kick and almost got me at the end.”
But Clay had to admit that the competition between him and Quinn will kick in once the meets become more important.
“I guess when we get to the counties and sectionals,” Clay said. “For now, we’re just trying to get a good effort in. It’s nice to get a trophy in exchange for the small medals.”
Will Hendrickson had no idea how he would fare in the 1,000-meter run. After all, the Madison senior did not participate in cross country and was training on his own, before joining the Madison indoor track team last month.
“But I knew I was in the best shape of my high school career,” Hendrickson said.
Wednesday, Hendrickson participated in the 1,000 and blew the field away, crossing the line in a new school record 2:39.31, breaking the old mark held by former Dodger standout Jack Mahoney by three seconds.
“I went out, because I wanted to take it out fast, to see how fast I could go,” Hendrickson said. “I wasn’t expecting to do well, because it was my first individual meet. I took it out, then had to hold on the last 200 meters. I had a little bit of a kick left. It’s a pretty good feeling to get the school record.”
And who knows? Maybe the performance catapulted Hendrickson into one of the favorite slots for the 1,000-meter run at the Morris County Championships next month.
“I think it does,” said Hendrickson, who is still undecided about college. “It puts a little bit of pressure on me, but I can handle it. I just hope someone looks at me and gives me a chance.”
If Hendrickson keeps blistering fields like that, he will be the object of attention in a hurry.
The Randolph quartet of Jessie Pasquale, Meghan O’Malley, Savanna Brackelmanns-Puig and Elly Scherer won the shuttle hurdle relay in 32.61 seconds, setting a new meet record, breaking the old mark set three years ago by Columbia, but also broke the long-standing Morris County record, also set by Randolph, in 2009.
Randolph also won the boys’ shuttle hurdle relay, with Tana Gawe, Jack Coyne, Anthony Salemi and Ethan Damiano taking home honors in 32.21 seconds.
Randolph senior Nora May McSorley won the girls’ 1,000-meter run in 3:03.47, besting Mary Lynch of Villa Walsh by six seconds.
Parsippany senior Kathryn Campbell took advantage of the absence of Whippany Park’s Nickolette Dunbar and won the gold medal in the shot put with a throw of 34-8 ¼.
Jaylon Jorge of Morristown continued his fine early indoor season with his third consecutive victory, winning the shot put with a throw of 56-10, besting runner-up John Burk of Parsippany by more than five feet.
Multi-talented Leah Wis of Montville showed off her high jumping prowess Wednesday, winning the high jump by clearing the bar at 5-2, two inches higher than Catherine Jordan of Columbia.
Matthew Tomaino of Randolph won the boys’ pole vault by clearing 11 feet. Julia Benz, a freshman at Villa Walsh and younger sister of former county champs Monica of Villa Walsh and Mike from Delbarton, won the girls’ pole vault by clearing nine feet.
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