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Blood Dragons
Escape into a supernatural world of love, revenge and redemption, where vampires are both predator and prey.
“No ordinary paranormal romance…the beginning of something new.' – Vamped Magazine
Dive into Rosemary A Johns' spellbinding secret world. Her debut thrilling fantasy is compelling and gripping, with the British Fantasy Society declaring, "At heart, this is a love story...very poetic and it tackles big questions about life and death."
There are three people in this affair...and two of them aren't human. In a divided paranormal London, Light is the rebel bad boy vampire of the Blood Lifer world, with a photographic memory. And a Triton motorbike. Since Victorian times he's hidden in the shadows with Ruby - a savage Elizabethan Blood Lifer. She burns with destructive love for Light. But he's keeping a secret from her, which breaks every rule in Blood Life. When she discovers the truth, things take a terrifying turn.
“TRUE BLOOD MEETS NEVERWHERE”
1960s London. Kathy is a seductive singer. But she's also human. Light knows his passion for her is reckless but he's enchanted. Yet such a romance is forbidden. When the two worlds collide, it could mean the end. For both species.
When Light discovers his ruthless family's horrifying experiments, he questions whether he should be slaying or saving the humans he's always feared. What dark revelations will Light reveal at the heart of the experiments? Will he be able to stop them in time? The consequences of failure are unimaginable. Unless Light plays the part of hero, he risks losing everything. Including the two women he loves.
A rebel, a red-haired devil and a Moon Girl battle to save the world – or tear it apart.
Blood Dragons is the explosive first instalment of the new fantasy series Rebel Vampires from the critically acclaimed author Rosemary A Johns. Experience a haunting new twist on urban fantasy with vampires, Rockers and dark romance.
Website : rosemaryajohns.com
Rosemary A Johns
About : ROSEMARY A JOHNS is the critically acclaimed author of the Rebel Vampires series. She wrote her first novel at the age of ten, when she discovered the weird worlds inside her head were more exciting than double swimming. Since then she's studied history at Oxford University, run a theatre company (her plays have been described as "uncomfortable, unsettling and uneasily true to life"), and worked with disability charities. When Rosemary's not falling in love with the rebels fighting their way onto the page, she heads the Oxford writing group Dreaming Spires. Rosemary is a traditionally published short story writer under the name R. A. Johns. Blood Dragons was her debut novel. Blood Shackles is the second book in the Rebel Vampires series. To sign up to Rosemary A Johns' VIP Email Newsletter with news of hot releases, promotions and the free short story “All the Tin Soldiers”, click here: http://eepurl.com/bQ0kMX Rosemary A Johns is a Goodreads Author: ttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15571684.Rosemary_A_Johns You can visit Rosemary A Johns online at https://rosemaryajohns.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RosemaryAnnJohns Twitter @RosemaryAJohns
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Write Through It
On Writing, Editing, and How to Keep Going
Five Ws and One H
Sturgis’s Laws
2017 A to Z Challenge
Shibboleths and Other Pitfalls
June 28, 2014 / Susanna J. Sturgis
For all too many people, the English language is a minefield. They’re afraid that if they take one wrong step, something will blow up in their face.
It gets worse when they learn you’re a writer, a teacher, or (gods forbid) an editor. Some people laugh nervously. Others clam up.
Many of those explosive devices we’re so afraid of are shibboleths. Like “Never end a sentence with a preposition” and “Don’t split infinitives.”
What’s a shibboleth? Here’s what the American Heritage Dictionary had to say:
A word or pronunciation that distinguishes people of one group or class from those of another.
a. A word or phrase identified with a particular group or cause; a catchword.
b. A commonplace saying or idea.
A custom or practice that betrays one as an outsider.
Readers and writers, teachers and editors, are forever getting them mixed up with rules. How to tell a rule from a shibboleth? Rules usually further the cause of clarity: verbs should agree with their subjects in number; pronouns should agree with the nouns they refer to. Shibboleths often don’t. No surprise there: their main purpose isn’t to facilitate communication; it’s to separate those who know them from those who don’t.
To complicate matters even further, the language is continually evolving. New words are born. Meanings morph. Nouns get verbed and verbs get nouned. If you’re too far ahead of the pack in adopting a new usage, someone‘s not going to be happy about it.
If that’s not enough, we’ve also got such everyday confusables like ensure/insure/assure, affect/effect — and is it irrespective that’s OK and irregardless that’s verboten, or is it the other way round?
No wonder English starts to look like a minefield, even to native speakers who use it all the time.
Editors have been known to make it worse. Been there, done that. It’s an occupational hazard. An example:
As an apprentice editor, I was initiated into the mysteries of the which/that distinction. “That” was for restrictive (essential) clauses: “The sweater that I’m wearing was made by my mother.” (This implies that I have other sweaters and my mother probably didn’t make all of them.) “Which” was for non-restrictive clauses: “The house, which was built in 1850, has been in his family for decades.” (The building date is extra information. It doesn’t specify which house has been in his family for decades.)
Hoo boy, did I go wild or what. Anyone who hadn’t mastered the which/that distinction was an ignoramus. I got to look down my snoot at them. I got to educate them.
Then I learned that British English (BrE) was managing to get along quite nicely without the which/that distinction. BrE writers liberally used which” for restrictive clauses. Their editors weren’t changing every “which” to “that.”
Wonder of wonders, I had no trouble understanding which clauses were restrictive and which weren’t.
By that time I’d so internalized the which/that distinction that it came naturally to me. This was an asset when I started copyediting for U.S. publishers, many of whom require copyeditors to change every restrictive “which” to “that.” Fortunately most writers won’t fight about this. Many have internalized the which/that distinction just the way I did. When editing the work of a BrE writer, I’ll generally stet the restrictive “which” and note it in my style sheet so the proofreader will realize that this was a conscious decision on my part, not a (gods forbid) mistake.
Another shibboleth is the widespread notion among U.S. copyeditors that “toward” is American English and “towards” is British English. They mechanically knock the “s” off every “towards” they come to. A few years back, Jonathon Owen, linguist, writer, and editor, did his master’s thesis on this very subject. As reported in his excellent blog, Arrant Pedantry, his research suggested that U.S. editors are creating the perception that “toward” is AmE and “towards” is BrE. For writers, it’s six of one, half dozen of the other. In edited manuscripts, however, “toward” overwhelmed “towards,” 90% to 10%.
In a recent online discussion, an assortment of editors took on the difference between “such as” and “like.” (If you haven’t heard of it, worry not: I’d been editing for 10 years before I was initiated into this particular mystery. Till then I thought “such as” was simply a more formal synonym for “like.”) According to those who observe the distinction, if I refer to “movies such as Lawrence of Arabia,” I am including Lawrence in the group. If I write “movies like Lawrence of Arabia,” I’m not.
Most of the editors participating in the discussion thought the such as/like distinction was a made-up “rule” — a shibboleth. I rarely use “such as”; when I use “like,” I’m not excluding the item(s) that follow from the group. I’ll wager that most writers do likewise, and — even more important — so do most readers. What this means is that if it’s important to know whether the item(s) are included or not, you better not rely on the such as/like distinction alone to get the message across. (The discussion suggested that readers of scientific literature were alert to the distinction, so if that’s your audience you’d best observe it.)
A caveat: English is riddled with sound-alike and look-alike words that don’t mean the same thing. These aren’t shibboleths. They facilitate communication. If you write or read, they’re worth learning. As an editor, I’m always on the lookout for them. The very capable author of a recent editing job consistently confused “imply” and “infer.” (A speaker implies that something is true. Her listeners may infer the truth from what she said.) I made the necessary changes and explained the difference to the author. He said he had a hard time keeping those two words straight.
Why does any of this matter? Here I turn to “Rules That Eat Your Brain,” by Geoffrey Pullum, linguist and frequent writer on English grammar and usage. “Zombie rules” are shibboleths by another name.
Though dead, they shamble mindlessly on. The worst thing about zombie rules, I believe, is not the pomposity of those advocating them, or the time-wasting character of the associated gotcha games, but the way they actually make people’s writing worse. They promote insecurity, and nervous people worrying about their language write worse than relaxed people enjoying their language.
If the language really were a minefield, what fool would venture out into it? Be brave. Write on.
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Sharon Stewart
And to make things even more complicated, “infer” has been used to mean “imply” since the 1500s. Damn.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=47
Susanna J. Sturgis
Yeah, I sometimes wonder if imply/infer is going the way of “comprise.” So far most of the authors whose work I edit are using “imply” and “infer” the way I understand them, and mixing them up often changes the meaning of a sentence. (Also AHD‘s Usage Note agrees with me. I love authorities when they agree with me!) These things are not true of “comprise.” When an author writes that a whole comprises its parts, I stand up and cheer. It doesn’t happen often — and most of the writers whose work I edit are very good. When I read “is comprised of,” I know what the author meant.
When someone uses “comprise” correctly, though, I don’t know if s/he’s observing the comprise/include distinction I learned as a novice: that, e.g., New England comprises six states, but New England includes Rhode island and Vermont. (There’s more to New England than Rhode Island and Vermont.) When an author uses “comprise” correctly, I don’t know for sure whether what follows is an exhaustive list. So far it’s never mattered enough to query. If it does matter, I wouldn’t want it to depend entirely on the reader’s knowing the difference between “comprise” and “include.” Sort of like “such as” and “like”! A little redundancy won’t hurt, might help.
Sue J
Interesting read. 🙂
My dilemma is just when I think I have it down, I realize I may not. Take punctuation and quotation marks, for example. I’ve researched and thought I had it right. Punctuation WITHIN quotation marks (at all costs) for American English.
If any word or words are wrapped in double quotation marks and are followed by punctuation of any sort, that punctuation must reside within the quotation marks. There are a few examples in your text above. One example, though, leaves me to question what I think I know–quotations ending at a sentence break a la SEMICOLON. I’ve researched this to death before, but clear examples elude me. I need a nauseatingly deep explanation of the quotation-punctuation rule with all possible scenarios/examples to nail it down once and for all. Does such a thing exist? I’d be THRILLED if you could share any resource you think could be of help.
Punctuation will drive you crazy if you let it! 😉
In American English (AmE), commas and periods nearly always go inside the quotes. Colons and semicolons nearly always go outside. Question marks and exclamation points go inside when they’re part of the quoted material, outside when they aren’t. Sometimes it takes a second or third look to figure out which applies, especially when you’ve got a quote within the quote. For instance —
She asked, “When are you leaving tomorrow?”
Did you hear her say “I’m leaving at six o’clock sharp”?
Dashes can be used in pairs to indicate a break in dialogue. Where they go depends on whether the speech is interrupted or not.
“I’m leaving –” she paused to look at her watch “– in fifteen minutes.”
“I’m leaving” — at this point a car horn honked out front — “in five seconds.”
I’d read the second example to mean that the speaker didn’t pause while the horn was honking.
My absolute favorite go-to reference for basic AmE is Words into Type. It hasn’t been revised since 1974, but its sections on grammar, including punctuation, are well organized, and the basics don’t go out of date. Copies can still be had online and in secondhand bookstores.
HTH!
I second that choice. I’ve been consulting that book since 1978. The info doesn’t go out of date.
I was introduced to WIT a year later, in 1979, when I started my first editing job. It’s been with me ever since.
The colon and semicolon exception makes sense to me, (Thank goodness!) but I sure never saw an example of it nor a specific reference to it so far.
Thank you for the book recommendation. I’ll definitely check it out.
susankroupa
Another great post! Your discussion of shibboleths reminds me of McWhorter’s Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, and Lynch’s The Lexicographer’s Dilemma that both point out how arbitrary some rules are and how they have evolved over time. (And it also reminds me of that West Wing episode of that name, since shibboleth isn’t a word I come across too often.)
My first reader has a better grasp of grammar than I can aspire to, and generally corrects my which/that, who/whom, toward/towards errors–and I usually follow her advice unless I have a reason (speech patterns or sentence rhythm) not to.
Anyway, loved this post and discussion.
annacastle
Great article, thanks so much! I’m a linguist and I agree wholeheartedly that many of the so-called rules people toss around in writing circles are bogus and stifling. People who aren’t aware of the existence of minor dialectal and register variations can be little Hitlers about their own traditional choices! The thing is to read and read (and read some more.) Then hire a good editor, like you!
And thanks for the refs, to Arrant Pedantry as well as to Words in Type.
Thank you for the support and encouragement! Editors (some of whom also have training in linguistics) discuss these things among ourselves a lot. Often we feel locked in by clients’ house styles — some reputable publishers really do insist on some of those shibboleths and “zombie rules,” and when you’re a freelancer working in isolation, you can’t sit the production editor down and explain that these “rules” aren’t rules at all. It can be frustrating to mechanically change every “violation” of one of these non-rules, not least because there’s a good chance you’ll overlook something important in the process.
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Everybody Has One
By Blake C. Patria, 14th Feb 2014 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/cmlh7zzk/
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An opinion of opinions in the proud American tradition of having an opinion.
On People With No Opinion
On People With No Valid Opinion
On People With Stupid Opinions
On People With Too Many Opinions
On Political Opinions
On Social Opinions
On My Opinion
On Your Opinion
In celebration of my American First Amendment rights, I am writing my opinion. I write under the impression that "you" know who "you" are, and "you" might even have a sense of humor.
Right now I will direct my opinion at people with no opinion:
Thank you for keeping your mouth shut. Nobody likes the opinions of a complacent person.
I'm told that everybody has one, so either you don't think yours is important, you are afraid to express your thoughts, or you are nobody.
Now my opinion is aimed at those I see as having or expressing no valid opinion; Thank you for the alcoholism, for this wealthy nation has been built upon your shoulders for several decades now. I can step into public, and see the fruits of your labors everywhere. Have you been to a mall lately? I have, and I was blessed with an understanding of why zombies are back in style, and selling more than ever! I should also thank you for being my bread and butter, for if a vast ocean of advertisement did not exist, I would have to mail my writing to magazines and publishing companies, then wait several months for a rejection letter.
I am truly amazed that a nuclear reactor in Japan can have a melt-down, irradiating the Pacific Ocean, and your concern is with the arrest of a teenage pop-star (whether you like or dislike said pop-star), but as they say; "hindsight is twenty/twenty". If you feel I am calling you short-sighted, I will take no offence to you calling me far-sighted. I should really spend more time in the present anyway, and I notice your opinions are one of the best ways to do that (if not the most available way)! I see your opinions, and the bait for your opinions in almost any place of commerce. It must be nice that a celebrity's personal life can distract you from the signing of the NDAA. Of course, there's no need for you to worry because people without a valid opinion don't attract the attention of the NSA. This is probably why you are overweight and depressed with a low self-esteem too. Chances are you are consuming the garbage that is advertised to you in those celebrity-stalker magazines, and on your television. With the time constraints you must have that force you to haphazardly consume whatever is thrust into your face, you probably don't have time to read the ingredients printed on it, but if you do, it stands to reason you don't have time to research any of those ingredients. Of course, why would a company want to harm their loyal customers? I suppose you've never met a person who sells addictive drugs, and if you have, you are probably too distracted to correlate the reasons why drug dealers and big corporations do what they do. I guess it's that distinction: Drug dealers are not as complex as huge, global corporations.
You're overweight because you eat garbage, but it makes you feel good so you don't care. You might get depressed for some reason, but your doctor has drugs for that. Still, there's that low self esteem that comes from realizing you're not as fit and gorgeous as the models in the magazines, or the actors on various screens. They have drugs for that too, and diet sodas! You live in a consumer wonderland with access to all kinds of information, and yet . . . you still don't know what aspartame is, and you wouldn't know a Monsanto if came up to you, and defecated on your shoes. This is probably because you are too preoccupied with your favorite sports team, or your new gadgets.
Just remember the next time you are watching The Walking Dead that consumption is an opinion too, and the consumer market is a democracy. So your opinion is valid.
Just because your opinion is stupid doesn't make it wrong. It takes all kinds of people to make up a world. If your opinion is that God created the world in six days, and rested on the seventh about six-thousand years ago, then please do so, and make this world that much more beautiful. I find the image of Mahalalel riding on the back of a tyrannosaurus to be quite awesome. I only implore you to keep such opinions (as well as all the others you got from your noble religious institution) out of the political and scientific arenas, and just let the Will of God guide the world. If the heathens vote for same-sex marriage, it is no fault of your's, and you will still have your place in Heaven for never committing such abominations of the flesh. If Planned Parenthood remains amongst God's people, it is all part of His Plan, and He will smite it of His own volition as He did with Sodom and Gomorrah. Just be sure not to look back lest you be transformed into a pillar of salt.
In America, you can never have too many opinions. I'd leave this opinion just at that for comic affect, but it is the opinion of the almighty Skynet that this section needs to be longer so I will tell you the story of the time I got a book in the mail about how I was going to die because the Pope is the antichrist, and a president is going to make it a law for Sunday to be a day of worship. I had read through The Book of Revelations before hoping I could adapt it into something else, but it was so insane and preachy that I just let it go. The next time around I read it, and discovered that "The Seven Stars" were Orion. "The Four Angles" were . . . uhhh . . . well . . . when I realized that "The Twelve Tribes of Israel" were astrological signs, I realized the four angels were seasons. This was when I was able to assign an astrological sign to every member, but I realized that Joseph was like the original Jesus, and Rachel was the original Mary. After a little more research, I realized that The Bible is a huge math equation, and that the only way to understand it is by understanding the language the Torahs were written in due to their numerical values. So I did more research on that, and a Jewish mathematician's finding was that the first letter of Genesis could me mathematized to create a torus (the same shape of an electromagnetic field), and that a slight alteration of a value in the symbol transformed the torus into a hand. A conversation about this with a Christian only disturbed me at how literally The Bible is taken so I wrote a paper called "The Evolution of a God".
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If it is broke . . . why? How well does an old solution fix a new problem? If you think it's broken, see the above sections. If you think it is not broken, see the above sections.
It's easy enough to point fingers, and play the blame-game, but who did you really vote for, and where did they get all that money for that campaign? What is money? Where does it come from? This dollar bill here tells me on the right side of Washington's portrait that it came from The Department of the Treasury in Washington D.C., but on the left side it says something about the "Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Texas". Another dollar says something about "The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Massachusetts". This other dollar says something about a "Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Missouri". This five-dollar-bill just says "United States Federal Reserve System" on the left of Abe, and on this fifty, it says the same on the left of Grant. What's the Federal Reserve? Wikipedia tells me it's an "independent central bank" that doesn't need the government to regulate its policies. It says here that it was founded in 1913 under The Federal Reserve Act in the wake of a financial crisis. It's says something about "elastic currency" . . . I guess that's inflation and deflation. It also says something about "public and private aspects", something about overseeing other banks, something about banks holding stock in the Federal Reserve, that they can elect their own members of the board . . . so it's like a bank for banks . . . and a bank for the Government. It looks like the Fed has a degree of immunity from government audits, and they hired an Enron lobbyist named Linda Robertson, and she was an "adviser to all three of the Clinton administrations Treasury secretaries". It looks like the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors is "appointed by the President of the United States, and confirmed by the Senate for staggered 14-year terms". Hmm . . . well . . . if winning an election takes money and sponsorship, who are the sponsors? Enron? Doritos? Halliburton? General Electric? The Bank of America? The Carlyle Group? What do they get out of it? I mean, The Federal Reserve looks legit, here's their website: www.federalreserve.gov, and here's that Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System . See . . . if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Are you broke? Why? What about people you know? The economy seems to be the thing on everyone's mind, and how will we fix it. All sarcasm aside, my opinion is that the dice are loaded. A more complex machine has more advanced functions, but it has more parts. If one of those parts don't work, the machine doesn't work as well. I feel there is a lot of greed and corruption involved in politics regardless of what party you favor. If you scratch a candidates back to get him elected, he'll scratch yours when he is, and anybody with enough money can own a senator, but who has enough money, and why would they want to own a senator? This is my only answer to that: It takes money to make money.
Many of these opinions go hand in hand with the section above. They're usually pretty universal until they reach the point where they get obnoxious. Sometimes they are even used as red herrings to distract from a shady dealing in the above section. Generally social opinions are an evolutionary stepping-ladder reflection of their times. Right now, it is generally accepted that racism is bad. It still happens, and so does sexism. Social conditions evolve. The leading civil rights movement is for homosexuals as far as the average person knows, but what they often don't know is that it also encompasses the transgender community. This can be a problem in that they're lumped in with the homosexuals. A trans-male is not a "lesbian" . . . that is called "misgendering" which is a transgender person's major problem. This causes them a painful disorder called "gender dysphoria" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria ). The rights exist, but the social climate as a whole is not yet fully aware of the issue. There will always be new social issues. My opinion: When confronted with a new social issue, don't be one of those prejudiced jerks you read of in books about old times because that social issue will probably be in a book some fifth-grader is reading a few decades from now, and you will be The Bad Person . . . actually, it helps to read a book or two in general.
My opinion is only as important as I say it is. Sometimes it is a sarcastic opinion. Sometimes I'm serious about it. I've heard enough idiot opinions that I often speak in satire to amuse myself and others who must suffer the same . . . and sometimes those who are sheltered from such opinions to the point where they think that everybody with half a brain thinks like them. I've been known to take "The Devil's Advocate", usually because some people just need to have their opinions challenged so they can back them up in the future.
I don't care if I agree or not as long as it's at least informed and/or interesting enough to be worth my time. Chances are you'll say something interesting even if it's about something I find stupid; the interesting facet of your opinion will have made it seem less stupid. I find it's important to always look for those if not for the opinion than for the person who had it.
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I am sure this article will conflict with many people's opinions - some of which they think are "facts".
Funny thing - when I saw the title I thought this was going to be about belly buttons, I am glad it was far deeper than that.
Thanks for readin, Mark! Yeah . . . it's weird how static facts are these days too--especially regarding history. It's like: You know how you remember something one way, and your friend remembers it very differently, and you're both sure you're right? It's almost like the past becomes as fractal as the future these days . . . but that's the Hyperverse I guess . . .
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Főoldal Hírlevél archívum 2003
2003.11.17 - THE VELVETEEN RABBIT or, HOW TOYS BECOME REAL
2003 november 17.
Ma egy érdekes rövid mesét küldünk el, valamint néhány érdekes idiómát. Elõzõ anyagunkra még várjuk a megoldásokat!
Várjuk a további nyelvtani kérdéseket.
Mai témánkhoz is jó tanulást kívánunk!
First Day At School
The child comes home from his first day at school.
His mother asks, "Well, what did you discover today?"
The kid replies, "Not enough. They want me to come back tomorrow."
cash in one`s chips
- exchange or sell something to get some money
I decided to cash in my chips to get some money to go back to school.
cash on the barrelhead
- money paid in cash when something is bought
I had to pay cash on the barrelhead for the used car.
caught short
- not have enough money when you need it
I was caught short and had to borrow some money from my father last week.
- a person who will not spend much money, a stingy person
My friend is a cheapskate and won't even go to a movie with me.
- a small amount of money
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or, HOW TOYS BECOME REAL
by Margery Williams
MEGHALLGATOM
There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was spotted brown and white, he had real thread whiskers, and his ears were lined with pink sateen. On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged in the top of the Boy's stocking, with a sprig of holly between his paws, the effect was charming.
There were other things in the stocking, nuts and oranges and a toy engine, and chocolate almonds and a clockwork mouse, but the Rabbit was quite the best of all. For at least two hours the Boy loved him, and then Aunts and Uncles came to dinner, and there was a great rustling of tissue paper and unwrapping of parcels, and in the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was forgotten.
For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some of the more expensive toys quite snubbed him. The mechanical toys were very superior, and looked down upon every one else; they were full of modern ideas, and pretended they were real. The model boat, who had lived through two seasons and lost most of his paint, caught the tone from them and never missed an opportunity of referring to his rigging in technical terms. The Rabbit could not claim to be a model of anything, for he didn't know that real rabbits existed; he thought they were all stuffed with sawdust like himself, and he understood that sawdust was quite out-of-date and should never be mentioned in modern circles. Even Timothy, the jointed wooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with Government. Between them all the poor little Rabbit was made to feel himself very insignificant and commonplace, and the only person who was kind to him at all was the Skin Horse.
The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most of the hairs in his tail had been pulled out to string bead necklaces. He was wise, for he had seen a long succession of mechanical toys arrive to boast and swagger, and by-and-by break their mainsprings and pass away, and he knew that they were only toys, and would never turn into anything else. For nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and experienced like the Skin Horse understand all about it.
"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.
"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
"I suppose you are real?" said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. But the Skin Horse only smiled.
"The Boy's Uncle made me Real," he said. "That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."
The Rabbit sighed. He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad. He wished that he could become it without these uncomfortable things happening to him.
There was a person called Nana who ruled the nursery. Sometimes she took no notice of the playthings lying about, and sometimes, for no reason whatever, she went swooping about like a great wind and hustled them away in cupboards. She called this "tidying up," and the playthings all hated it, especially the tin ones. The Rabbit didn't mind it so much, for wherever he was thrown he came down soft.
One evening, when the Boy was going to bed, he couldn't find the china dog that always slept with him. Nana was in a hurry, and it was too much trouble to hunt for china dogs at bedtime, so she simply looked about her, and seeing that the toy cupboard stood open, she made a swoop.
"Here," she said, "take your old Bunny! He'll do to sleep with you!" And she dragged the Rabbit out by one ear, and put him into the Boy's arms.
That night, and for many nights after, the Velveteen Rabbit slept in the Boy's bed. At first he found it uncomfortable, for the Boy hugged him very tight, and sometimes he rolled over on him, and sometimes he pushed him so far under the pillow that the Rabbit could scarcely breathe. And he missed, too, those long moonlight hours in the nursery, when all the house was silent, and his talks with the Skin Horse. But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the burrow the real rabbits lived in. And they had splendid games together, in whispers, when Nana had gone away to her supper and left the night-light burning on the mantelpiece. And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long.
And so time went on, and the little Rabbit was very happy -- so happy that he never noticed how his beautiful velveteen fur was getting shabbier and shabbier, and his tail becoming unsewn, and all the pink rubbed off his nose where the Boy had kissed him.
Spring came, and they had long days in the garden, for wherever the Boy went the Rabbit went too. He had rides in the wheelbarrow, and picnics on the grass, and lovely fairy huts built for him under the raspberry canes behind the flower border. And once, when the Boy was called away suddenly to go to tea, the Rabbit was left out on the lawn until long after dusk, and Nana had to come and look for him with the candle because the Boy couldn't go to sleep unless he was there. He was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into the burrows the Boy had made for him in the flower bed, and Nana grumbled as she rubbed him off with a corner of her apron.
"You must have your old Bunny!" she said. "Fancy all that fuss for a toy!"
"Give me my Bunny!" he said. "You mustn't say that. He isn't a toy. He's REAL!"
When the little Rabbit heard that he was happy, for he knew what the Skin Horse had said was true at last. The nursery magic had happened to him, and he was a toy no longer. He was Real. The Boy himself had said it.
That night he was almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst. And into his boot-button eyes, that had long ago lost their polish, there came a look of wisdom and beauty, so that even Nana noticed it next morning when she picked him up, and said, "I declare if that old Bunny hasn't got quite a knowing expression!"
That was a wonderful Summer!
Near the house where they lived there was a wood, and in the long June evening the Boy liked to go there after tea to play. He took the Velveteen Rabbit with him, and before he wandered off to pick flowers, or play at brigands among the trees, he always made the Rabbit a little nest somewhere among the bracken, where he would be quite cosy, for he was a kind-hearted little boy and he liked Bunny to be comfortable. One evening, while the Rabbit was lying there alone, watching the ants that ran to and fro between his velvet paws in the grass, he saw two strange beings creep out of the tall bracken near him.
They were rabbits like himself, but quite furry and brand-new. They must have been very well made, for their seams didn't show at all, and they changed shape in a queer way when they moved; one minute they were long and thin and the next minute fat and bunchy, instead of always staying the same like he did. Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out, for he knew that people who jump generally have something to wind them up. But he couldn't see it. They were evidently a new kind of rabbit altogether.
They stared at him, and the little Rabbit stared back. And all the time their noses twitched.
"Why don't you get up and play with us?" one of them asked.
"I don't feel like it," said the Rabbit, for he didn't want to explain that he had no clockwork.
"Ho!" said the furry rabbit. "It's as easy as anything," And he gave a big hop sideways and stood on his hind legs.
"I don't believe you can!" he said.
"I can!" said the little Rabbit. "I can jump higher than anything" He meant when the Boy threw him, but of course he didn't want to say so.
"Can you hop on your hind legs?" asked the furry rabbit?
That was a dreadful question, for the Velveteen rabbit had no hind legs at all! The back of him was made all in one piece, like a pincushion. He sat still in the bracken, and hoped that the other rabbit wouldn't notice.
"I don't want to!" he said again.
But the wild rabbits have very sharp eyes. And this one stretched out his neck and looked.
"He hasn't got any hind legs" he called out. "Fancy a rabbit without any hind legs" And he began to laugh.
"I have!" cried the little Rabbit. "I have got hind legs! I am sitting on them"
"Then stretch them out and show me, like this!" said the wild rabbit. And he began to whirl around and dance, till the little Rabbit got quite dizzy.
"I don't like dancing," he said. "I'd rather sit still!"
But all the while he was longing to dance, for a funny new tickly feeling ran through him, and he felt he would give anything in the world to be able to jump about like these rabbits did.
The strange rabbit stopped dancing, and came quite close. He came so close this time that his long whiskers brushed the Velveteen Rabbit's ear, and then he wrinkled his nose suddenly and flattened his ears and jumped backwards.
"He doesn't smell right!" he exclaimed. "He isn't a rabbit at all! He isn't real!"
"I am Real!" said the little Rabbit. "I am Real! The Boy said so!" And he nearly began to cry.
Just then there was a sound of footsteps, and the Boy ran past near them, and with a stamp of feet and a flash of white tails the two strange rabbits disappeared.
"Come back and play with me!" called the little Rabbit. "Oh, do come back! I know I am Real!"
But there was no answer, only the little ants ran to and fro, and the bracken swayed gently where the two strangers had passed. The Velveteen Rabbit was all alone.
"Oh, dear!" he thought. "Why did they run away like that? Why couldn't they stop and talk to me?"
For a long time he lay very still, watching the bracken, and hoping that they would come back. But they never returned, and presently the sun sank lower and the little white moths fluttered out, and the Boy came and carried him home.
Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded. He even began to lose his shape, and he scarcely looked like a rabbit any more, except to the Boy. To him he was always beautiful, and that was all that the little Rabbit cared about. He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.
And then, one day, the Boy was ill.
His face grew very flushed, and he talked in his sleep, and his little body was so hot that it burned the Rabbit when he held him lose.
Strange people came and went in the nursery, and a light burned all night and through it all the little Velveteen Rabbit lay there, hidden from sight under the bedclothes, and he never stirred, for he was afraid that if they found him some one might take him away, and he knew that the Boy needed him.
It was a long weary time, for the Boy was too ill to play, and the little Rabbit found it rather dull with nothing to do all day long. But he snuggled down patiently, and looked forward to the time when the Boy should be well again, and they would go out in the garden amongst the flowers and the butterflies and play splendid games in the raspberry thicket like they used to. All sorts of delightful things he planned, and while the Boy lay half asleep he crept up close to the pillow and whispered them in his ear. And presently the fever turned, and the Boy got better. He was able to sit up in bed and look at picture-books, while the little Rabbit cuddled close at his side. And one day, they let him get up and dress.
It was a bright, sunny morning, and the windows stood wide open. They had carried the Boy out on the balcony, wrapped in a shawl, and the little Rabbit lay tangled up among the bedclothes, thinking.
The Boy was going to the seaside to-morrow. Everything was arranged, and now it only remained to carry out the doctor's orders. They talked about it all, while the little Rabbit lay under the bedclothes, with just his head peeping out, and listened. The room was to be disinfected, and all the books and toys that the Boy had played with in bed must be burnt.
"Hurrah!" thought the little Rabbit. "To-morrow we shall go to the seaside!" For the boy had often talked of the seaside, and he wanted very much to see the big waves coming in, and the tiny crabs, and the sand castles.
Just then Nana caught sight of him.
"How about his old Bunny?" she asked.
"That?" said the doctor. "Why, it's a mass of scarlet fever germs! -- Burn it at once. What? Nonsense! Get him a new one. He mustn't have that any more!"
And so the little Rabbit was put into a sack with the old picture-books and a lot of rubbish, and carried out to the end of the garden behind the fowl-house. That was a fine place to make a bonfire, only the gardener was too busy just then to attend to it. He had the potatoes to dig and the green peas to gather, but next morning he promised to come early and burn the whole lot.
That night the Boy slept in a different bedroom, and he had a new bunny to sleep with him. It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with real glass eyes, but the Boy was too excited to care very much about it. For to-morrow he was going to the seaside, and that in itself was such a wonderful thing that he could think of nothing else.
And while the Boy was asleep, dreaming of the seaside, the little Rabbit lay among the old picture-books in the corner behind the fowl-house, and he felt very lonely. The sack had been left untied, and so by wriggling a bit he was able to get his head through the opening and look out. He was shivering a little, for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any protection to him. Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings. He thought of those long sunlit hours in the garden -- how happy they were -- and a great sadness came over him. He seemed to see them all pass before him, each more beautiful than the other, the fairy huts in the flower-bed, the quiet evenings in the wood when he lay in the bracken and the little ants ran over his paws; the wonderful day when he first knew that he was Real. He thought of the Skin Horse, so wise and gentle, and all that he had told him. Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.
And then a strange thing happened. For where the tear had fallen a flower grew out of the ground, a mysterious flower, not at all like any that grew in the garden. It had slender green leaves the colour of emeralds, and in the centre of the leaves a blossom like a golden cup. It was so beautiful that the little Rabbit forgot to cry, and just lay there watching it. And presently the blossom opened, and out of it there stepped a fairy.
She was quite the loveliest fairy in the whole world. Her dress was of pearl and dew-drops, and there were flowers round her neck and in her hair, and her face was like the most perfect flower of all. And she came close to the little Rabbit and gathered him up in her arms and kissed him on his velveteen nose that was all damp from crying.
"Little Rabbit," she said, "don't you know who I am?"
The Rabbit looked up at her, and it seemed to him that he had seen her face before, but he couldn't think where.
"I am the nursery magic Fairy," she said. "I take care of all the playthings that the children have loved. When they are old and worn out, and the children don't need them any more, then I come and take them away with me and turn them into Real."
"Wasn't I Real before?" asked the little Rabbit.
"You were Real to the Boy," the Fairy said, "because he loved you. Now you shall be Real to every one."
And she held the little Rabbit close in her arms and flew with him into the wood.
It was light now, for the moon had risen. All the forest was beautiful, and the fronds of the bracken shone like frosted silver. In the open glade between the tree-trunks the wild rabbits danced with their shadows on the velvet grass, but when they saw the Fairy they all stopped dancing and stood round in a ring to stare at her.
"I've brought you a new playfellow," the Fairy said. "You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbit-land, for he is going to live with you for ever and ever!"
And she kissed the little Rabbit again and put him down on the grass.
"Run and play, little Rabbit!" she said.
But the little Rabbit sat quite still for a moment and never moved. For when he saw all the wild rabbits dancing around him he suddenly remembered about his hind legs, and he didn't want them to see that he was made all in one piece. He did not know that when the Fairy kissed him that last time she had changed him altogether. And he might have sat there a long time, too shy to move, if just then something hadn't tickled his nose, and before he thought what he was doing he lifted his hind toe to scratch it.
And he found that he actually had hind legs! Instead of dingy velveteen he had brown fur, soft and shiny, his ears twitched by themselves, and his whiskers were so long that they brushed the grass. He gave one leap and the joy of using those hind legs was so great that he went springing about the turf with them, jumping sideways and whirling round as the other did, and he grew so excited that when at last he did stop to look for the Fairy she had gone.
He was a Real Rabbit at last, at home with the other rabbits.
Autumn passed and Winter, and in the Spring, when the days grew warm and sunny, the Boy went out to play in the wood behind the house. And while he was playing, two rabbits crept out from the bracken and peeped at him. One of them was brown all over, but the other had strange markings under his fur, as though long ago he had been spotted, and the spots still showed through. And about his little soft nose and his round back eyes there was something familiar, so that the Boy thought to himself:
"Why, he looks just like my old Bunny that was lost when I had scarlet fever!"
But he never knew that it really was his own Bunny, come back to look at the child who had first helped him to be Real.
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St Enodoc Golf Club
Luceco has recently supplied LED lighting for a general refurbishment at St Enodoc Golf Club, located on the north Cornish coast. After fully refurbishing the hospitality areas within the club house, the changing areas and Pro Shop were next on the list.
Celeste, an attractive circular LED luminaire from Luceco featuring a ‘corona’ backlight effect with a direct / indirect light distribution, was chosen for the ladies changing areas. The Celeste is ideal for many commercial and residential lighting applications offering up to 50,000 hours working life with no maintenance or re-lamping requirements. Celeste is available as standard output, digital dimming, microwave, and emergency variants including self-test.
Celeste can be surface mounted as at St Enodoc Golf Club, wall mounted, or suspended using a 3 point 1.5-meter suspension kit, creating an attractive “heavenly” pendant. The backlit accent effect is available in red, yellow, green, and blue plus a choice of decorative bezel trims including white, brushed chrome and steel finish. IP65 rated Atlas was also used in the shower and WC areas, providing an alternative to traditional 28 and 38-watt 2D compact fluorescent fittings.
Other luminaires installed in the Pro Shop included LuxPanel. Quick and easy to install and supplied with remote ‘plug and play’ drivers, high efficiency LuxPanels boast a market leading efficacy of 152 Llm/cW.
St Enodoc Golf Club overlooks the Camel Estuary and boasts stunning sea views. The club was ranked 99th in the World by “Golf Digest” and recently quoted as being “a little piece of golfing heaven” so is the ideal home for celestial LED lighting from Luceco!
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Australia’s newest accom boasts series of firsts
Kate Jackson Wednesday, November 28, 2018
A rash of new hotels is springing up all over Australia – and they all have a claim to fame.
Work has begun on the Gold Coast’s first high-rise in over a decade, Sunland Group’s $250 million 94-apartment development in Mermaid Beach.
More than 60 percent of the two, three and four-bedroom apartments, villas and penthouses are already sold.
The Brisbane-based developer paid $13.4 million for the 1,821sqm Hedges Avenue site in June 2017, with approval granted in February.
“More than 90 per cent of purchasers at 272 Hedges Avenue are local owner-occupiers who understand the unparalleled lifestyle benefits of its location, and the privacy and amenity afforded by the absence of short-term accommodation provisions,” managing director Sahba Abedian said.
The project, which includes a concierge service, lounge, boardroom, function room, swimming pool, spa, gym, sauna, steam room, and treatment rooms, is slated for completion in 2022.
Twenty-year hiatus ends for Marriott
Meanwhile, Icon Co has been contracted to build the $250 million mixed-use Marriott Docklands in Melbourne, the hotel group’s first new property Down Under in 20 years.
The Docklands project has been a long time in the making, according to developer Capital Alliance’s chief executive Mohan Du, who secured the deal with Marriot in 2015.
“We’re tremendously excited in moving forward to commencing construction shortly and delivering the Docklands Residences,” he said.
The project includes 200 luxury hotel rooms and 110 contemporary apartments across two 17-level towers above the newly rebranded District Docklands, formerly Harbour Town Shopping Centre.
Construction will begin next month with completion planned for mid-2020.
Ingot sparkles in WA
The largest Choice hotel in the country is due to open in Perth this weekend.
Formerly Comfort Inn Bel Eyre Perth, the four-star property will launch under the name Ingot Hotel Perth as part of the Ascend Hotel Collection.
Choice Hotels Asia-Pacific says the property at 285 Great Eastern Highway in Belmont, Western Australia, will begin welcoming guests from 1 December following its $50 million redevelopment.
It boasts 214-rooms and family suites and amenities including 24-hour reception, a fitness centre, swimming pool, function and conference facilities and a restaurant and lounge area.
General manager Paul Rogers said: “Our hotel is accessible and convenient, catering to short-stay business visitors while also appealing to longer-stay travellers who will appreciate being located so close to both the airport and some of Perth’s major cultural and lifestyle highlights.”
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Home > Ministry of Personnel > The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the following appointments/ repatriation:
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the following appointments/ repatriation:
8:15 PM Ministry of Personnel
ACC Appointments
(i)Shri Amitabh Verma, IAS (BH:1982), Chairman, Inland Waterways Authority of India under Ministry of Shipping is repatriated to the cadre with immediate effect.
(ii)Ms. Nutan Guha Biswas, IAS (AGMUT:1983), Additional Secretary, Ministry of Women & Child Development as Chairperson, Inland Waterways Authority of India under Ministry of Shipping in the rank and pay of Secretary, by temporarily upgrading he post till 31.07.2018 or until further orders, whichever is earlier vice Shri Amitabh Verma, IAS (BH:1982).
(iii)Shri Bala Prasad, IFos (MN:1983) (presently on compulsory wait), as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj vice Shri A.K.Goyal, IFoS (KL:1981) (superannuated).
(iv)Shri T. Jacob, IAS (TN:1984), Additional Secretary, Department of Personnel & Training, as Secretary (AS level), Union Public Service Commission vice Shri Asha Ram Sihag, IAS(HP:1983)
(v)Ms. Vandita Sharma, IAS (KN:1986), Member (Finance), Atomic Energy/Earth Commission, as Additional Secretary & Financial Adviser, Department of Space vice Shri A. Vijay Anand, IRS (C&CE:1980), (superannuated).
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Blog 2011 August St. Helena Hospital Joins Aid with ...
St. Helena Hospital Joins Aid with MedShare to Provide Much Needed Medical Supplies.
Aug 3, 2011 Philanthropy
Hospital donates life-saving surplus equipment
St. Helena, CA
St. Helena Hospital donated much needed medical supplies to MedShare, a leader in providing medical humanitarian aid, in sending critically-needed hospital supplies to war-torn Libya.
“Basic hospital supplies and equipment, such as beds are in need,” according to Bruce Currer, Regional Director of Materials Management for St. Helena Hospital. “We believe these supplies will make a life-saving difference.”
In its 13 years, non-profit MedShare has recovered and re-distributed over $93 million in surplus medical supplies and equipment donated by its partner hospitals and medical companies, helping fulfill the medical needs of humanitarian crises in 88 developing nations around the world. The current container shipment – over 1,000 items including hospital beds, gurneys, exam lights, exam tables, a ventilator, surgical packs, syringes, gloves and oxygen masks – is its fourth to Libya and marks its 700th such shipment worldwide. The container is sponsored by HOPE International Relief & Development Agency (USA), and delivery will be coordinated by I-GO-Aid Foundation based in Malta.
“We hope to help to relieve the suffering and extend hope and healing wherever and however we can,” says Currer. “We are very pleased to have the opportunity join with our MedShare partners in this effort.”
About St. Helena Hospital: With its many innovative wellness programs and other top quality health care services, including the Martin-O’Neil Cancer Center and Coon Joint Replacement Institute, St. Helena Hospital, situated in the heart of the Napa Valley, is one of the nation’s premier health care destinations. The hospital serves its local communities with comprehensive medical care, including cancer, cardiovascular and behavioral health.
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Baja California Sur, Mexico
When down in Cabo San Lucas, I always try to avoid the normal "tourist" destinations, but make a point to take a boat taxi to El Arco, Land's End, and Lovers Beach. There is something so special about this view.
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Oasis, Las Veredas, B.C.S., Mexico
I never want to leave Mexico. I could shop the local markets all day long, picking up fresh food, trying new flavors, and buying little trinkets. Even if there isn't any room left over in my carry-on, by the time I get to the airport I'll check...
Photo courtesy of Las Ventanas
Las Ventanas al Paraíso, a Rosewood Resort
San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Las Ventanas al Paraíso represents the epitome of luxury, with gorgeous, gigantic rooms featuring traditional crafts, handmade mosaic headboards, and classy furniture and accents. Balcony railings are awash in pink blossoms of...
Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Un-Cruise Adventures is all about experiences: not only cruising on the open seas, but exploring a place by kayak, by snorkel, and other off-the-beaten-path explorations. It's a small ship cruising experience that summers in Alaska and winters in...
Cabo Adventures
Blvd. Paseo de la Marina Lt 7-A, Centro, Marina, 23410 Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S., Mexico
For $170pp you can spend some time swimming with the dolphins. It's hard to resist the temptation of being in the water with these incredible creatures. Google "cabo adventures"
Photo courtesy of Cabo Sky Tours
Cabo Sky Tours
Camino viejo a San Jose, El Medano Ejidal, 23479 Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S., Mexico
Ever try hang gliding over the sea-strewn rocks and arches of Land’s End? If not, then strap yourself into a Cabo Sky Tours–powered flying machine and go ahead and look down as you soar over Pirate's Cove and Lover’s Beach. Keep an eye out for sea...
Photo by Prayitno/Flickr
Circuito Cultural of Cabo San Lucas
Blvd. Paseo de la Marina, Centro, Marina, 23450 Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S., Mexico
Each Saturday from October to July (and once a month in August and September), the marina of Cabo San Lucas becomes a stage for local artists, musicians, and performers to peddle their wares and showcase their creative skills in the Circuito...
Photo courtesy of Dinner in the Sky Los Cabos
Km 1.2, Todos los Santos-Cabo San Lucas Lt 1, El Arenal, 23450 Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S., Mexico
One of the newest "restaurants" in Los Cabos isn't to be found on the ground, but in the sky. "Dinner in the Sky" is the Los Cabos version of an increasingly popular international trend: dining above a spectacular vista, held aloft by the arm of a...
Photo by Anna Rodríguez Carrington/Flickr
Marina Puerto Los Cabos
San Jose, Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S., Mexico
If spotting Cabo's Pacific bottlenose or Pacific white-sided dolphins in the wild has made you keen for a closer encounter with the gentle marine mammals, you can sign up for a dolphin swim experience. Though you can't splash in the sea with...
Photo courtesy of Baja Discovery
San Ignacio, Los Cangrejos, 23473 Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S., Mexico
It's amazing to think that the gray whale trundles its massive body—an average weight of 26 tons and an average length of 40 feet—on the longest migration journey of all mammals: nearly 10,000 miles from the Arctic to Mexico's Baja California...
Photo courtesy of Wide Open Baja
Wide Open Cabo
Boulevard Paseo de la Marina S/N, Centro, Marina, 23450 Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S., Mexico
Guides take you off the beaten path—literally—for a scenic desert drive in an open-wheel vehicle you pilot yourself. Tours range from one-third- and half-day options to four-day trips that show off Baja California's rugged beauty and uncover...
Photo courtesy of SkyDive El Sol
Skydiving in Cabo San Lucas
Playa El Medano, Zona del Arroyo, 23479 Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S., Mexico
Instructors certified by the United States Parachute Association perform tandem jumps with brave souls who want to feel as if they're soaring straight down from the sun. Views are epic on this adventure, as you free fall toward the famous Arch of...
El Farallon
Camino del Mar 1, Pedregal, 23455 Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S., Mexico
Crashing waves greet you at El Farrallon, the stunning cliffside restaurant literally clinging to the Cabo San Lucas rock formation known as Pedregal, where you're so close to the water, you might even experience an accidental splashing! Arrive at...
Photo by Ruben Rodriguez/Flickr
Puerto Paraiso Mall
El Medano Ejidal, Marina, 23479 Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico
If you've had a tough time finding authentic souvenirs, you might find something suitable in an unlikely place: Cabo's biggest shopping mall. Puerto Paraiso may be the last place you'd think about going while in Cabo, but it has several stores,...
Photo courtesy of French Riviera
Sometimes, you just have to satisfy your sweet tooth and the only thing that will do is a French pastry—even if you're in Mexico. French pastry chef Jacques Chretien can help out; his French Riviera Bistro has pastry cases full of chocolate,...
Vitrofusión y Arte Glass Factory
Calle Sexta Avenida, El Arenal, Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S., Mexico
Unlike most parts of Mexico, Los Cabos isn't really known for locally made crafts, but a welcome exception is Vitrofusión y Arte, where artisans blow and pull glass into dozens of shapes and figures. Tours are available, but if you're short on...
El Tecolote Beach
You imagined a Mexico that was cheap and lively, with wandering Mariachi bands, beach vendors and strong drinks. Then you arrived in Cabo San Lucas and were served overprice drinks in a fancy hotel, playing elevator music, gated to keep out the...
Photo by Chef Steps/Flickr
El Espontáneo
Calle José Ma. Morelos y Pavón Sn, Downtown, Cabo San Lucas Centro, 23450 Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S., Mexico
Chef Juan Eumir specializes in what he refers to as "spontaneous cuisine," an approach to cooking that doesn't rely on recipes and is based almost entirely on what the chef has available at any given moment. Eumir says his cooking is informed by...
2 Travel News This Bistro Was Just Voted the Best New Restaurant in the United States
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Olympian & Affidea Ambassador Thomas Barr drops into Affidea ExpressCare
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Winners Announced for GPBuddy.ie National GP Awards 2018
Healthcare professionals from all over the country were honoured at the third GPBuddy.ie National GP Awards in association with Affidea, at a glittering awards ceremony in Dublin.
General practitioners and healthcare professionals were presented with awards across 11 categories by television personality, Dr Pixie McKenna. A further 21 nominees were commended for their contributions to healthcare across the country.
The annual GPBuddy.ie National GP Awards recognise excellence, innovation and collaboration amongst GPs, hospitals and healthcare professionals all over Ireland. This year, over 200 nominations were received from all over the country across all 11 categories, from both healthcare professionals and patients.
Dr Shane McKeogh of GPBuddy.ie said: “The quality of the nominations for the Awards this year was truly outstanding. We are all familiar with the pressure the healthcare sector is under and, in particular, GPs who are the cornerstone of family healthcare. These awards are about stopping and taking some time to appreciate the positive work that has been done to improve healthcare for patients, and the achievements of general practitioners and primary care teams in general across the country.”
Barry Downes, Country Manager at Affidea Ireland and a member of the judging panel, said: “The high level of excellence in General Practice and the stories of GP care that go above and beyond the call of duty, as documented by the patients themselves, gets better every year. Congratulations to all the winners, and the hard working and dedicated leaders in their fields who were nominated, which is a testament in itself.”
The Winners of the GPBuddy.ie National GP Awards 2018 are:
1. GP TRAINEE OF THE YEAR
Dr Ahmeda Ali – North-Eastern GP Training Scheme
GP Trainee, Dr Ali was presented with this award for her significant contribution to General Practice.
Dr Ahmeda Ali has been reported by one of her nominators as ‘encompassing everything that gives hope for the future of not only General Practice but Irish medicine in general.’
Dr Ali has an admirable work ethic and carries out her duties with compassion and good humour. She is a strong advocate for her patients and is committed to furthering her education and improving the quality of healthcare for her own patients and for the wider community.
Dr Ali has completed a Masters in Trauma Science. She is a member of several ICGP committees as well as WONCA. Dr Ali also works in a voluntary capacity with many charities including the Cavan Alzheimer’s Society, ‘Save our Sons and Daughters’ mental health charity and the St George Thomas Hospice.
In the words of one of her nominators, Dr Ali’s “attitude for carrying out research and for involving others in same is contagious.”
2. ESTABLISHING GP OF THE YEAR
Dr Anna Foy and Dr Peter Kelly – Greystones Family Doctors
This Awards recognises a GP/s in the early stages of his or her career who has demonstrated leadership and / or innovation in General Practice.
Dr Anna Foy and Dr Peter Kelly are both undergraduates of UCD Medical School and the Trinity College GP Training Scheme. Anna graduated from Trinity in 2015 and Peter in 2016.
Only four months after the arrival of Anna’s first child, herself and Peter established Greystones Family Doctors in Greystones, Co Wicklow.
Despite opening with NO medical card list, the practice has grown considerably and is now thriving after only a year. The Practice is fully integrated in the local community and manages the health needs of the residents of the local nursing home.
Drs Foy and Kelly’s success demonstrates the role that innovative GPs with entrepreneurial spirit can play in advancing General Practice in today’s health service. They were noted as an inspiration by nominators for their ambition and hard work. Anna is an example to other young female GPs – she shows that it is possible to create a new and dynamic practice on your own terms, whilst also maintaining a family friendly, work-life balance.
3. PRACTICE MANAGER OF THE YEAR
Georgie Sliney McCormack – Calderwood Family Clinic
This Award recognises a practice team member who has improved a practice’s performance and patient experience.
In the words of her nominator, Georgie ‘is the centre of the Practice. She is the most resourceful person I have worked with. She is very solution focused. She deals with staff in a very fair and pragmatic way. She takes care of all the parts of running a general practice leaving the doctors to see patients. She loves a challenge and is never afraid to take on anything new”
Georgie has been committed to furthering her skills and knowledge in General Practice Management since she started working with the Calderwood Family Clinic six years ago. Georgie has completed the ICGP practice staff and management courses and has recently been accepted on a Leadership in Healthcare Masters in the RCSI.
Georgie has been integral in growing the Calderwood Family Clinic from a one-doctor practice into a three-doctor teaching practice. She now gives talks to registrars on financial health and has helped to set up a mindfulness programme for staff and patients.
Georgie’s nominator notes that her most recent achievement was getting the practice GDPR ready which she says, wouldn’t have happened without her!
4. PRACTICE NURSE OF THE YEAR
Eilish O’Sullivan – Riverside Medical Centre
This Award recognises a Practice Nurse who has made an outstanding contribution to his or her General Practice and / or Community. In the words of her nominator, Eilish is ‘one in a million.’
Previously a midwife in the Coombe, Eilish has worked as a practice nurse for almost 30 years. It is Eilish’s intuition, experience, energy and enthusiasm that make her such an asset to her practice. She is described as always calm in a crisis and is an expert in picking up patients’ concerns such as those of vulnerable new mothers.
Together with her colleague Helen, Eilish has expanded the Practice Nurse role to take ownership of many areas of the practice. This has made a significant impact on the workload of the GPs at the practice.
Patients love Eilish and she makes sure that they feel understood. She treats patients with compassion while at the same time following up with them to ensure no stone is unturned.
In the words of her nominator: ‘Our practice is incredibly fortunate to have such an excellent nurse with a passion for nursing and providing care in the community.
5. GP TRAINER OF THE YEAR
Dr Jack Keane – Seaholm Surgery, Skerries, Co Dublin
This Award recognises an inspirational GP who is recognised by their trainees as providing invaluable leadership and direction.
In the words of his nominator, Jack has ‘been a mentor, trainer and a friend. He has been supportive, kind and considerate at all times and has gone beyond what would be expected from any trainer.’
Jack has been nominated for his actions in guiding his trainees through their first years of working in practice. He is always available to the community, carrying out his work fairly and in good humour. He is described as creating a positive energy around himself, which radiates out to staff and patients.
Jack is reported as leading by example. He provides direction to trainees in the practice and also guidance in how to protect themselves from the stress and risk of burnout that is so often associated with our roles as GPs.
Jack encourages his team and his trainees to take time out for themselves during the day – for a walk, a run or even a paddle out at sea. He is an avid watersport fan, and is often found out on his lunch breaks taking his rib-boat for a spin with staff on board or paddle-boarding around the harbour for an hour, back in time for afternoon surgery. He also plays the drums in a local band, and can be found heading up a music session in a local bar on a Friday night.
6. BEST GP AND HOSPITAL COLLABORATION
GP Dermatology Top Ten – Dr Rosalind Hughes, Consultant Dermatologist and Dr Roisin Hambly, Specialist Registrar, St Vincent’s University Hospital.
This Award recognises a GP and Hospital initiative that has improved services, access and communication in primary care.
GP Dermatology Top Ten is an educational initiative run by Dr. Rosalind Hughes with Dr Roisin Hambly at the Department of Dermatology at St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin.
80% of dermatology presentations in primary care are due to the ‘top ten’ common conditions. The GP Dermatology Top Ten initiative is a series of live interactive webinars delivered by consultants and specialist registrars that aim to assist GPs in diagnosing these common conditions in practice. The aim is to alleviate the pressure on dermatology departments by enabling these conditions to be treated in primary care.
7. INNOVATION IN PRACTICE
SNAP GP – Dr Tommy Lynch
This Award recognises a practice that can demonstrate innovation in primary care at a practice, local or national level.
Snap GP is an easy to use iPhone clinical imaging app for GPs.
Snap GP allows patient images to be securely transferred over an encrypted connection from an iPhone directly to the GP’s desktop without the risk of data corruption whilst at the same time, protecting patient privacy.
The app documents the patient’s consent using their finger to sign the screen which is embedded on the image and the images are removed from the phone and server immediately once the transfer to the desktop is complete.
8. SAFETY IN PRACTICE
ATRIAL FIBRILLATION AND STROKE: ABCD OF AF-STROKE PREVENTION IN GP – Dr Diarmuid Quinlan
This Award recognises an initiative, project or audit that demonstrably improves patient or staff safety in practice.
Stroke is Ireland’s third killer (after heart disease and cancer). Atrial Fibrillation or AF is a common condition that affects approximately 1.9% of the population and causes 20-30% of strokes.
Opportunistic screening increases AF detection. The AF screening device ‘Alive-Cor’ is FDA validated, specific, sensitive and superior to any other method. ABCD of AF-stroke prevention is a patient-centred sustainable approach to reduce frequency and severity of AF-Stroke.
9. RURAL PRACTICE OF THE YEAR
Buttevant Medical Centre, Buttevant, Co. Cork – Dr Michael Kennedy
This Award recognises a practice in a rural area that demonstrates excellence in patient care, for isolated patients in particular.
Formerly known as The Old School House Surgery, The Buttevant Medical Centre was originally established in 1967 by Dr Finbarr Kennedy and Practice Nurse Manager, Mary Kennedy. In 1998, together with their son, Dr Michael Kennedy, they bought the old boys national school and converted it into what it is today – a high-quality modern medical centre.
Dr Michael Kennedy is now the principal GP at the practice working alongside Dr Elizabeth Brosnan, Practice Nurse, Mary Riordan and Practice Administrators, Liz Hynes and Eileen Palmer.
The nominator notes that working as a rural GP is an enormous privilege, noting that this practice enabled them to create strong relationships with their patients while becoming part of a welcoming community.
Dr. Kennedy was described as a superb trainer and a constant source of advice. Dr. Brosnan was noted for her advocacy on behalf of her patients, stopping at nothing to achieve the best care for them. Nurse Mary is a great source of knowledge, while Eileen and Liz at reception were noted to be the backbone of the practice, “running a tight ship whilst protecting the doctors and the patients at the same time.”
10. PATIENTS’ CHOICE AWARD
Dr Eileen O’Connor, Louisburgh Medical Practice, Co Mayo
This Award is voted for by patients. It goes to a GP who is recognised by his or her patients as having a noteworthy positive impact on patient experience.
Dr O’Connor receives this award in recognition of her hard work and dedication to her patients and community.
From reading the nominations we received for Dr O’Connor, it is clear that she has a very close but yet professional relationship with her patients with many of them attributing their life saving treatment to her. She is reported as ‘caring, approachable and professional’ by many.
Dr O’Connor and her consultations have been described by her nominators as:
‘Being confident and thorough.’
‘Both calm and welcoming.’
‘Very honest to talk to.’
‘She takes the time to explain and clarify concerns.’
‘‘She is professional and dedicated to her patients and her work.’
‘It’s lovely to walk into a friendly face.’
11. GP OF THE YEAR
Dr John Latham, Latham Medical Centre, Dublin 8
This Award, nominated by GP peers, recognises a GP who embodies the highest principles of the profession and demonstrates leadership and excellence in patient care.
Dr John Latham has dedicated the last 35 years of his life working in The Liberties area of South Inner City, Dublin.
All who come into contact with John are infected by his contagious enthusiasm for General Practice. One of his nominators notes that there have been many medical students who have started their rotation to the practice expressing a wish to be a surgeon or a hospital specialist at the beginning of their rotation but leave with aspirations to become a GP, such is the effect that John has.
As well as working as a GP, John is a teacher and a mentor. He has roles as an undergraduate tutor for RCSI and Trinity, he is a GP trainer on the UCD training scheme and is an Assistant Programme Director on the North-Dublin City GP training scheme.
John is well known by the wider GP community through his regular column “Latham at Large” in FORUM magazine, through which he has regaled us with colourful reflections from General Practice for the past 20 years.
In the words of one of his nominators, John ‘has worked tirelessly to better the inclusion and access to healthcare for those in marginalised groups. His doors have never been closed to new patients and no patient is turned away, regardless of their background’.
In 1998, he was part of the Working Group that first started methadone treatment in Dublin for those with heroin addiction.
He was instrumental in securing funding for the provision of medical care for the residents of the Sundial Hostel, a hostel in Dublin 8, for homeless people who are addicted to alcohol. Many of these residents have multiple comorbidities due to their addiction and without the hostel, they would no doubt, be on the street with no dignity or comfort.
He is described as epitomising what it means to be a good GP. He always puts the patient first and his qualities as an individual ensure that he goes the extra mile for each and every patient.
He also has a very fulfilling life outside of General Practice. He is a doting husband to Linda, who has worked alongside him in harmony as the Practice nurse for many years. He is a loving father to two daughters, one of whom is following in his footsteps as a GP and he has just recently become a grandfather. He is also an avid sailor.
In the words of one of his nominators: ‘I have learnt a lot from his infinite patience, compassion, selflessness and overall dedication to both General Practice and to his patients and their families.’
Watch the speech of Barry Downes, country manager of Affidea, who talks about the importance of the work of GPs that is the foundation of the healthcare system. #gpbuddyawards #affidea #healthcare #awards https://t.co/nVQSH8HHPu
— Affidea (@AffideaGroup) October 10, 2018
Have you seen this highlights video of the #gpbuddyawards? Well done to all the nominees and winners on what was a brilliant and memorable night! @dopping_john @drahmedaali @GeorgieMcS @snapgp @DrMichaelBMC @GPDermTopTen @themedicsmic @itcarlow @lehnent https://t.co/tJVO6fJcv4 pic.twitter.com/WArBHgCJX1
— GPBuddy (@gpbuddy) October 5, 2018
Title sponsor @AffideaIreland also sponsors the Rural Practice of the Year award, and the winner is Dr Michael Kennedy of Buttevant Medical Centre! He is pictured with Joe Newell, CEO of @gpbuddy and David Corkery, Business Development Manager of @AffideaIreland #gpbuddyawards pic.twitter.com/5QRJXXosXk
— GPBuddy (@gpbuddy) September 21, 2018
Huge congrats and well deserved to all of the winners and nominees from our #AffideaFamily nationwide. Thank you for your continued hard work, commitment and dedication to healthcare in Ireland, and enjoy the celebrations! https://t.co/A9CriiEagK
— Affidea Ireland (@AffideaIreland) September 21, 2018
Incredible work done by Fiona and her team @SafetynetPC working with homeless patients who need their help. It was great to meet you guys at the #gpbuddyawards,
If anyone is keen to support this primary care charity service please check out to donatehttps://t.co/JHY9CiQJxN
— Snap GP (@snapgp) September 22, 2018
Fantastic evening last night at the #gpbuddyawards. Well done to all the nominees and winners and to @DrPixie for another great job of MC! Thanks to @gpbuddy, @sundaybusiness and the team @VitalCommsLtd for organizing the best event in the medical calendar! Can’t wait for 2019. pic.twitter.com/FokXB5meXx
— Barry Downes (@DownesBarry) September 22, 2018
Congrats, well deserved 👏🏻 https://t.co/TcXBVGCsVZ
This year's Practice Nurse of the Year is Eilish O’Sullivan! Eilish is picured here with Joe Newell and Dr Paul Ryan of @gpbuddy #gpbuddyawards pic.twitter.com/9GIUicEUqJ
Looking good @DavidCorkery3 ! Well done to @DrMichaelBMC , a well deserved winner. https://t.co/8i8NEO6gIb
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Salta gets City of Melbourne thumbs-up for BTR Docklands project
Michael BlebySenior Reporter
Mar 20, 2019 — 6.44pm
Salta Properties' $330 million hotel and build-to-rent tower in Melbourne's Docklands took a crucial step forward on Tuesday after City of Melbourne councillors gave the project a crucial vote of support.
The city's Future Melbourne Committee voted in favour of the revised project, paving the way for Planning Minister Richard Wynne to give a planning permit to Melbourne's first high-rise build-to-rent tower.
"It was very short, sharp and shiny," said Salta development manager David O'Connell, who said the council's recommendation was key and that the Minister's approval was likely after this.
Salta Properties' proposed new 26-storey build-to-rent apartment tower combined with an Indigo Hotel in Melbourne's Docklands. supplied
However, developers are delaying work on new projects and Salta, owned by the Rich List Tarascio family, is likely to hold off work on the Fender Katsalidis-designed tower with 276 apartments, 197 hotel rooms and 26 serviced apartments until the development cycle improves.
The site is part of a precinct that is likely to undergo extensive changes in coming years. State agency Development Victoria is drawing up a masterplan for the area around Marvel Stadium that will change the precinct around Melbourne's second stadium that includes Salta's site, as well as the neighbouring 685 La Trobe Street site, purchased by Chinese developer AZX Group for $31.1 million in 2014 and which has been on the market since last year, the Seven Group headquarters and broadcast centre on Harbour Esplanade.
City of Melbourne officials required changes to Salta's La Trobe Street project to reduce the visual impact of the building - originally proposed as three distinct rectilineal towers - into a waved, curved facade. The overall height has been cut slightly and changes made to ground floor features such as ramp and stairs to comply with Melbourne Water flood plain requirements, although there has been no change in the ground level measurement of RL3.0 metres.
The tower will also include the city's first Hotel Indigo, to be managed by the InterContinental Hotel Group.
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Michael Bleby writes on real estate specialising in construction, infrastructure, architecture based in our Melbourne newsroom. Connect with Michael on Instagram and Twitter. Email Michael at mbleby@afr.com.au
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Cash Office Executive | IKEA | Dubai II, UAE
Date: 23-Jun-2019
Location: Dubai, AE
Company: Al Futtaim Private Company LLC
About Al-Futtaim Private Company LLC
No two days are the same at Al-Futtaim, no matter what role you have. Our work is driven by the desire to make a difference and to have a meaningful impact with the goal of enriching everyday lives. Take our engaging and supportive work environment and couple it with a company culture that recognises and rewards quality performance, and what do you get? The chance to push the limits every single day.
As a humble family business that started on the banks of the Dubai Creek in the 1930s, Al-Futtaim has expanded to a presence in 31 countries, a portfolio of over 200 companies, and 42,000 employees. You’ll find us in industries ranging from automotive and retail, to finance and real estate, and connecting people with international names like Lexus, Ikea, Robinsons, and Adidas. Our team is proudly multicultural and multinational because that kind of diverse representation gives us the global mindset to grow and impact the people, markets, and trends around us.
About Al-Futtaim IKEA
We are a values-driven company with a passion for life at home. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people.
Al-Futtaim IKEA holds the franchise rights for IKEA in Egypt, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
You are driven to exceed your goals. You are inspired by working together in fast paced and complex environments. You are interested in people’s everyday life at home and in home furnishings.
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Live and share the IKEA values every day
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Make sure all the collections are made on time from the debtors of the company.
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Help the accountant of the company to maintain all the accounts.
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Home > News > The community rallies at the Grand Opening of The Lending Cupboard
The community rallies at the Grand Opening of The Lending Cupboard
Red Deer, AB—The Lending Cupboard officially opened the doors to its new facility at its Grand Opening yesterday. This marks another step forward in the organization's growth. Servus Credit Union was at the event to present $25,000 toward the Capital Campaign, aimed at covering renovations of the new space and some added operating costs.
"We're thrilled to have Servus come on board with us again," said Dawna Morey, Executive Director of the Lending Cupboard. "This funding will allow us to reach more people in the community who require our services." The new facility is 6,200 sq. ft., up from 3,500 sq. ft. at their previous main facility.
The Grand Opening celebration drew more than 100 people from community including local MLAs and City Council, as well as representatives from Red Deer County Council, Rotary, Lions, Moose and other service clubs. MLA Kim Schreiner, Mayor Tara Veer, Board Chair Gary Pottage, Campaign Chair Brad Williams and Servus's Rob Stryker spoke at the event.
"What resonates with us about the wonderful services the Lending Cupboard provides to Central Albertans is how it enables people to focus on recovering from their temporary mobility challenges and not have to worry about the costs," said Rob Stryker, Vice President of Retail Banking for Southern Alberta. "This focus aligns with Servus's purpose to shape people's financial fitness—helping them feel more in control of their finances and resilient to what life brings."
Read the news release to learn more.
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Khalifa Haftar
UN chief 'deeply concerned' as fears of new Libya war loom
As Haftar's forces continue Tripoli push, Antonio Guterres calls for political solution to avoid 'bloody confrontation'.
Guterres (left) meets Haftar in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi [Reuters]
The United Nations chief, Antonio Guterres, has ended a mission in Libya with "heavy heart" amid mounting fears of a full-blown war after renegade General Khalifa Haftar ordered his troops to launch a military assault on the country's capital.
Armed clashes took place on Friday near Tripoli as eastern forces loyal to Haftar continued their advance towards the city, which is controlled by the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) and protected by an array of militias.
"I still hope it is possible to avoid a bloody confrontation in and around Tripoli," Guterres wrote on Twitter after meeting Haftar in his stronghold, the eastern city of Benghazi.
"The UN is committed to facilitating a political solution and, whatever happens, the UN is committed to supporting the Libyan people," Guterres said.
According to Al-Arabiya TV, Haftar, told Guterres that his operation towards Tripoli will continue until "terrorism" has been defeated.
The UN chief had travelled to Libya this week to help organise a national reconciliation conference planned for later this month and aimed at drawing a plan for delayed elections.
But in a surprise move on Thursday, Haftar ordered his self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), which is allied to a parallel administration based in the east, to advance towards the capital.
I leave Libya with a heavy heart and deeply concerned. I still hope it is possible to avoid a bloody confrontation in and around Tripoli.
The UN is committed to facilitating a political solution and, whatever happens, the UN is committed to supporting the Libyan people.
— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) April 5, 2019
The UN Security Council on Friday called on Haftar's forces to "halt all military movements" after holding an emergency closed-door meeting.
Libya, which was plunged into chaos following NATO-backed removal of long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, has for years been split between the GNA in Tripoli and a rival government in the east allied to Haftar.
INSIDE STORY: Is Haftar aggressor or leader in Libya? (25:21)
Haftar's LNA troops on Thursday took the town of Gharyan, about 100km south of Tripoli, putting them closer than ever before to militias allied to the GNA.
They further moved north coming as close as 40km to Tripoli by taking the village of Suq al-Khamis after some fighting, a resident and an eastern military source told Reuters news agency.
Later on Friday, the LNA said they had taken control of the areas of Qasr ben Ghashir and Wadi al-Rabie on the southern outskirts of Tripoli, near the former Tripoli International Airport, closed since a city battle in 2014.
There was no independent confirmation. Fathi Bashagha, the Tripoli interior minister, later told Ahrar TV his forces had retaken the old airport while there were clashes in the Qasr ben Ghashir area.
Earlier on Friday, LNA forces failed to take a checkpoint about 30km west of the capital. They were pushed back by pro-GNA militiamen from the coastal town of Zawiya after a "short exchange of fire", AFP news agency reported, citing an unnamed security source.
Traffic was flowing normally past the so-called Gate 27, which lies astride the coastal road to Tunisia, on Friday morning, an AFP correspondent reported.
In another setback, forces allied to the GNA took 145 LNA fighters prisoner in Zawiya and 60 vehicles were confiscated, a commander told Reuters. An LNA source confirmed 128 had been captured.
Tripoli-allied forces took 145 troops allied to the eastern forces and confiscated dozens of vehicles in the town of Zawiya [Hani Amara/Reuters]
This came after militias in western Libya vowed to confront Haftar's attempt to seize Tripoli.
Al Jazeera's Mahmoud Abdelwahed, reporting from the capital, said that forces from Misrata are also believed to have joined Tripoli-allied troops to the south of the capital and are advancing southwest towards Gharyan.
Also on Friday, a militia known as the Joint Tripoli Protection Force based in the area and smaller towns around the Libyan capital announced it would also deploy to repel Haftar's offensive.
"There are reports of confrontations between Haftar's forces and UN-backed government forces on the outskirts of Gharyan," Abdelwahed said.
International powers urge de-escalation
Several governments and organisations have urged de-escalation, including those known to be Haftar's key backers such as France and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The two countries, along with the UK, Italy and the United States, said in a joint statement on Friday that "military posturing and threats of unilateral action only risk propelling Libya back toward chaos".
Maja Kocijancic, a spokeswoman for the European Commission, said the bloc is "deeply concerned by the military build-up that is underway in Libya and the escalatory rhetoric which seriously risks leading to an uncontrollable confrontation".
Matteo Salvini, Italy's interior minister, warned that the stability along the southern rim of the Mediterranean Sea was in danger, with Algeria also in turmoil following the uprising against its longtime ailing president.
Russia, which has thrown its support behind Haftar in the past, distanced itself from the offensive.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, denied any support for Haftar and emphasised the need "to avoid actions that would lead to the resumption of bloodshed".
The Lust for Libya: How a Nation was Torn Apart
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VLNA – Turquoise Threads
Before you start listening, answer this: what associations do you have with a band name like VLNA?
Personally, I prepared for somewhat ‘unpersonal’ and possibly even ‘harsh’ sounds when I started listening.
But I was in for a surprise:“Turquoise Threads“ is an ‘impressionist vocal’ album – an album with spoken words fragments, humming, whistling, intertwining with ‘a thick veil of atmospheric noir from threads of adapted violins, guitar’ (and electronic treatments).
VLNA are an unknown duo: two anonymous artists (at least one of them female) that have been recording music since 2008 via online file transfer (and haven’t met until years later).
“The concept behind this work is sound-exchange and a record that could be made by any two people who had never met before in person, but communicating through different channels and producing sound as pieces of information sent back and forth. It sounds like a stream, a flux of sounds going from one end to another.”
In this day and age, the on-line exchange is a well-known way of collaborative music-making. But I doubt if this album really could have been made by ‘ANY two people who had never met before’: these two unknown (?) artists clearly share their vision on what their music should sound like.
Apart from the opening track on the “Earthtones” compilation, this is VLNA‘s debut.
With a playing time of 25 minutes, it’s relatively short, but it’s impressive enough to hope there will be more like this in the future.
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Executive Moves: Transplace, TAPA, Thordon Bearings
Tracy Rosser is brought on board in U.S., Thorsten Neumann is hired to lead in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Neil Cooper is tapped to help grow Canadian company.
The Transported Asset Protection Association has appointed Thorsten Neumann as its first full-time president and CEO.
By Kim Link-Wills | May 23, 2019
Transplace has hired former Walmart SVP Tracy Rosser as executive vice president of operations.
Rosser, who will be based out of the company’s Lowell, Ark., Center of Excellence, will be responsible for providing strategic leadership and direction for Transplace’s transportation management business unit.
“Tracy’s strong leadership abilities and proven experience in leading multibillion dollar, multi-facility operations at the national level will accelerate and enhance our ability to deliver innovative, best-in-the-industry logistics solutions to help our customers optimally manage their supply chains,” said CEO Frank McGuigan.
Rosser comes to Transplace after more than 22 years at Walmart, for which he most recently served as senior vice president of transportation and supply chain. His responsibilities included all domestic and global transportation, strategy, procurement, Walmart’s private fleet and last-mile and supply chain services.
He also had several other leadership positions while at Walmart, including senior vice president of store operations, vice president of transportation and director of transportation. Prior to joining Walmart, Rosser spent nine years in the truckload transportation industry in positions in sales, marketing and operations.
The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) has appointed Thorsten Neumann (pictured above) as its first full-time president and CEO for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Neumann, who will assume his new role on June 1, is tasked with growing the end-to-end supply chain resilience association and delivering more risk management solutions for TAPA’s membership of manufacturers, logistics service providers and other supply chain security stakeholders. He had served in a voluntary capacity as chairman of TAPA’s EMEA region since 2006.
He began his global supply chain security career with Motorola Mobility in 1998 and joined Nokia in 2008. In 2015, Neumann joined Microsoft Corp. and most recently was the director of APS channel security and business resilience.
“TAPA celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2017 and this milestone presented an opportunity to look at what we had achieved to support our members’ supply chain security and, more importantly, to think about the future,” said Jason Breakwell, vice chair of TAPA EMEA, who added that “the appointment of a president and CEO for TAPA EMEA is now so important because it gives us the consistency and stability of leadership we need. It heralds the next stage of our ambition to take supply chain resilience into the boardrooms of even more industry leaders and for it to become embedded in their corporate strategies.”
Breakwell added that Marcel Saarloos, EMEA supply chain security manager for HP, will become chairman of TAPA EMEA.
Canadian company Thordon Bearings has hired Neil Cooper as vice president of sales to drive continued growth in the global water-lubricated bearings market.
Cooper previously held senior sales positions with Armstrong Fluid Technologies, Schneider Electric and ABB.
He will be responsible for sales across Thordon Bearings’ key market sectors, including marine, offshore, hydropower and industrial.
Thomson-Gordon Group President and CEO Terry McGowan said the company looked forward to Cooper leading “our sales efforts as we position the company for significant and sustained growth.”
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Manufacturers push for USMCA passage
“The certainty that comes from having USMCA in place will allow us to continue to invest in manufacturing in the United States with confidence,” says General Motors CEO Mary Barra.
Commentary: Clock ticking on trade deal ratification
Passage of USMCA in the United States must happen this year or wait for implementation in 2021.
Brokers relieved tariffs on Mexican goods suspended
President Trump agreed to indefinitely suspend threatened tariffs against Mexico after a deal aimed at stemming the flow of illegal migration to the United States was reached.
Brokers warn of serious impacts if Mexico tariffs take effect
There was a significant outcry among customs brokers at the southern border after President Trump tweeted last week that he plans to impose tariffs on all goods from Mexico to pressure the United States’ southern neighbor to curb illegal migration flows, one representative of brokers told American Shipper.
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Trump removes Turkey from GSP, reduces steel tariff
The country was removed from the United States’ unilateral trade preferences program, and tariffs on steel from Turkey were lowered from 50% to 25%.
Belgian firm absorbs bankrupt third-party freight payer
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Second-quarter net profit totaled CA$724 million compared with CA$436 million in the second quarter of 2018.
At the midpoint of 2019, many experts expect the economy’s momentum to slow due to the potential for trade tensions to accelerate, global economies to deteriorate or climate-related risks to materialize.
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SANSKAR - An Android App that Promotes Harmony Through Acceptance
Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh
Friday, March 1, 2013 to Sunday, March 1, 2015
Amrita Center for Humanitarian Operations and Management
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA)
United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC)
The project SANSKAR - An Android App that Promotes Harmony Through Acceptance is to develop and deploy an android app that promotes harmony through acceptance. The project is funded by United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC).
Our Chancellor Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (AMMA), in November 2012, addressed to the conference organized by UNAOC in which she laid out the basic approach to achieve cultural harmony. The three basic pillars of cultural exchange were laid out - Respect, Understand and Accept. The research at Amrita WNA drew inspiration and practical advice from this speech, which has enabled us to formalize the methods and carry forward the research in the area of using technology to further the mission of bringing harmony to the world.
UNAOC selected SANSKAR as one of the top 5 app ideas from around the world which could help enhance cultural harmony. This project was also showcased at CREATE UNAOC conference as well as got international media coverage in Voice of America and Rising Voices.
Salient Points
Designed and developed an android app to collect the compatibility data between various cultures.
Developed an algorithm to analyze compatibility between cultures.
Designed and Developed Android game to incentivize cultural interactions
Current Works
Participatory sensing based cultural knowledge generation for location aware mobile applications
Mr. Rahul Krishnan P.
Amrita in Top 5 at UNAOC Challenge »»
Wireless Networks and Techniques with Applications to Societal Needs (Indo Brazil Collaborative Research Project)
Advanced Integrated Wireless Sensor Networks for Real Time Monitoring and Detection of Disasters
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Stilton Blue
Shropshire is a distinct English Blue with a network of delectable blueish-green veins that pop against the deep amber-colored interior. Aged for up to three months, Shropshire is a cow’s milk cheese made with the addition of annatto, a natural food color from the achiote seed. The cheese is a bit firmer than traditional Stilton, as its subtle fruity and piquant flavors blend together with the tangy finish of blue cheeses.
Stilton With Date & Orange
A popular refreshing fruit cheese with pieces of orange and date added. A lovely desert cheese for any occasion! Suitable for vegetarians and is pasteurised.
Wensleydale with Apricots
One of many fruit-infused Wensleydale varieties that Coombe Castle has to offer, Wensleydale with Apricots is at once creamy, buttery and palate pleasing with the addition of dried apricots. Adding a hint of color and bits of texture, this classic Wensleydale cheese, clean, mild and ivory-colored, gets an upgrade with this “Fruit of the Gods.” Wensleydale with Apricots is great in a traditional European-style breakfast featuring hot scones and smoked meats.
Wensleydale with Blueberry
Coombe Castle’s Wensleydale with Blueberries starts with milk from cows that graze in Wensleydale valley’s famous limestone pastures that line the Ure River. This unique environment gives Wensleydale cheese the clean, mild creaminess and slightly sweet finish it is known for. With the addition of succulent blueberries, Wensleydale becomes sweetly addictive with a strikingly beautiful presence of the deep, rich azure color against the stark whiteness of the cheese.
Wensleydale with Mango & Ginger
Real Yorkshire Wensleydale is one of the most inviting and popular English cheeses. With its famous mild and creamy freshness, Wensleydale opens the door for an exciting adventure with additional flavors, especially the exotic duo of mango and ginger. The mango pieces add a lovely light-sweetness that dazzles the taste buds, while the candied ginger pieces provide a warm piquancy that lingers for a sublime after-taste.
Wensleydale with Pear & Apple
Coombe Castle has remained faithful to Yorkshire’s centuries-old traditions of creating delicious and fresh Wensleydale while adding candied apple and pears. Made from pasteurized cow’s milk, this young cheese has a clean, mild, slightly tart flavor with a firm and flaky texture. The flavors of crisp apples and pears evoke the seasonality of the fruits, creating a sweet mask upon the smooth cheese.
Wensleydale with Cranberries
Creamy Wensleydale has been infused with juicy sweet and tangy cranberries to produce this beautiful cheese. The flaky, open texture and fresh, clean flavor contribute to the honeyed aftertaste of the classic Wensleydale. All of this is enhanced by delicate, sweet cranberries, producing flecks of deep rouge within the pale ivory paste. This cow’s milk cheese is exceptionally creamy and is available with a harmonizing colored wax, hand-dipped by Coombe Castle.
Oak Smoked Cheddar
Oak Smoked Cheddar is an award winning, pasteurised cow's milk cheese produced by J.O.D. Foods, Effin, Kilmallock, Ireland under the brand name "Old Irish Creamery". This handcrafted cheese is naturally smoked using Irish oak generate subtle, smoked flavour along with firm and smooth texture. The cheese has won a bronze medal at the World Cheese Awards 2011.
Quickes English Farmhouse Cheddar
English Cheddar holds a rich history in that country’s cheese gastronomy, memorable for its hand crafted roots and utmost attention to flavor and texture. This farmhouse Cheddar is made from raw unpasteurized milk from Fresian cows, giving the cheese a full flavor and a certain amount of piquancy. Also unique is the natural rind, which develops during its maturation period. This delicious treat is not to be missed.
Cheddar & Claret Wine
Claret is a beautiful word that we are not ashamed to admit has been borrowed from the french translation (meaning red wine). We enjoy super-savoury suppers, and they have been known to turn into raucous occasions. Whilst enjoying a game of charades one evening, Archie the Exporter got a little carried away and spilled his red wine onto the cheeseboard, and we hasten to add, over Ms Crawley the cook. Once we had calmed down we tucked into our delicious cheeseboard and found that not only had the red wine created a visual masterpiece, but it tasted heavenly. No need to pour bottles of wine over your cheddar, we have taken care of that for you. Bon Appetit!
Whisky Cheddar
Infused with the robust flavor of whiskey, rich and creamy Aged Cheddar now has unique undertones of the smooth, woody and nutty taste of pure Irish Whiskey. Entrenched in the history and traditions of Ireland, Cheddar and whiskey are now together in one spirited Irish grass-fed cow’s milk cheese. This tasty combination is the perfect compliment to your party’s gourmet cheese platter and is also a unique gift item.
Tickler Mature Cheddar
Pleasantly playful and seriously sharp, we like to think Tickler’s name derives from the flirtatious dance of salty, sweet, and fruity that lingers on your palate after every taste. Tickler is crafted from local pasteurized cow's milk harvested from the lush Devon milk fields. After the 40 pound blocks have been made with traditional cultures they are aged a full 18 months, during which an unusual depth of tangy, sweet flavor develops. The cheeky company loves their award winning cheese so much that they specially created a beer that provides the ultimate pairing. A bitter blond ale should do the trick of balancing Tickler's nutty sweetness.
Double Gloucester with Blue Stilton combines two distinctly different cheeses into a delicious delight! One of England’s most popular cheeses, Double Gloucester, and the intense tang of Stilton combine to create a unique and flavorful cheese. The mellow, creamy taste and bold orange color of the Double Gloucester encases the alluring, earthy and white Stilton. The flavor combination is one that is tasty as it is beautiful! This show-stopping cheese is perfect on a cheese board.
Sage Derby
Sage Derby is the oldest and most famous of England’s “special occasion” cheeses—those traditionally made only for celebrations such as Harvest season or Christmas. Now available year-round, this blend of mild, cow’s milk Derby cheese and fresh sage has a stark white and crisp green marbled appearance. The combination of the two is thought to have arisen because sage was believed to hold powerful medicinal properties. Although not a sure “cure-all”, Sage Derby is still celebrated today for its uniquely sweet and savory flavor.
Shorpshire Blue
If you've been to England, you've probably seen it around: the carrot-colored paste and those royal blue veins. The orange color comes from annato, a natural, vegetable food coloring found in many cheeses. Full-flavored and unpressed, this bright orange cheese has a surprisingly smooth texture. A golden, russett rind forms after each cheese is made by hand, creating a sharp, tangy cheese that stands out among its blue brethern. A peppery Pinot Noir balances out the robust flavor of this cheese lingering on the palate.
Red Dorset Smoked
Dorset Red is created in the same way that Ford Farm makes its traditional cheddar, using milk sourced from local grazing herds and with the process conducted predominantly by hand.
However, the heat of the milk is lowered and less stirring is done, resulting in a milder flavour as well as a softer texture. It is pressed into block moulds and left to mature for around three months.
Dorset Red has a deep amber colour, due to the addition of annatto, a commonly used natural colouring which gives it a similar appearance to a Red Leicester.
Coombe Castle Clotted Cream
Clotted: A word with many meanings. Clotted simply means to clot or join together. To make our treasured cream, milk is gently heated, and over time the cream rises to the top and clots together, hence the name Clotted Cream. These perfectly formed clots of cream are a beautiful pale white colour and taste…..like creamy perfection! In the castle we like nothing better than to spend time eating warm English scones with strawberry jam and a dollop of Clotted Cream; so British and so utterly delicious. Afternoon tea takes place at 3pm, the tea is served in china cups and brewed in a teapot, the scones are always warm and when we drink tea our little pinky’s are always in the air. Since introduced in the early 17th century afternoon tea should be a grand affair. Clotted Cream will be a suitably royal companion to your afternoon!
Cotswald Cheddar with Shallots & Chives
Cotswold is a variation of Double Gloucester, which has been supplemented with chopped onions and chives for added flavour. A whole milk cheese that can be either pasteurised or unpasteurised; Cotswold originates in Gloucestershire County of England. The colour varies from golden yellow to orange and is a firm cheese similar to cheddar but not as hard. Shop owners usually sell pieces cut away from the hard and grey rind.
The taste of Cotswold is creamy, buttery, sweet and mild yet full-flavoured like cheddar. The savory taste of chives and onions gives it that extra zing. This variation of Double Gloucester pairs well with beer, Zinfandel or Shiraz and is popular as a pub cheese in England.
Wensleydale with Lemons
Wensleydale with Lemon is a unique combination of the classic Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese with the delightfully tart, yet sweet tanginess of lemons. Made with pasteurized cow’s milk, Wensleydale’s clean and mild flavor is an inviting complement for golden bits of candied lemon zest. This traditional Wensleydale is a fresh, young cheese, matured for only three weeks. With a flaky texture and a taste with subtle honey undertones, the Wensleydale is perfectly complemented by the addition of natural ingredients. The tart, fresh lemons give this cheese an eye-popping and mouth-puckering appeal, with the refreshing burst of the zingy fruit.
SnowDonia Wax Cheddar
Where Cheddars are concerned, our multi-award winning Little Black Bomber® is a modern classic. Our flagship cheese marries a delicious rich flavour with a smooth creaminess, lasting long on the palate but remaining demandingly moreish!
Black Bomber® has won awards at The Great British Cheese Awards, Nantwich International Cheese Awards, the World Cheese Awards and a Super Gold at Mondial Fromage in France.
Description coming soon.
Tickler Spicy Chili Cheddar
Somerdale Il Truffelino
Il Truffelino combines the creamy texture of Classic English Cheddar with the complex and luxuriant flavour of Black Summer Truffle.Beautifully presented, Il Truffelino is supplied in 4.4lb (2kg) wheels sealed in Black Wax to retain their fantastic flavour, then wrapped in specially designed Waxed Parchment.
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8 Bad Buys at Trader Joe's - and What to Get Instead
By Cameron Huddleston
There are plenty of reasons to like Trader Joe's: helpful employees in Hawaiian shirts, a no-questions-asked return policy, unusual items such as cookie butter and rosemary marcona almonds, and -- best of all -- low prices.
However, not everything is a good deal at Trader Joe's. We compared non-sale prices on a variety of items with similar items at Harris Teeter, Kroger (KR), Walmart (WMT) and Whole Foods (WFM). While we found that it's tough to beat Trader Joe's everyday prices, there are a few things that are better bargains at other stores.
Here are eight items you can get for less elsewhere -- and in some cases we're talking dollars less, not just pennies. For each one, we've suggested related items you might want to purchase instead at Trader Joe's because the regular prices are better than you'll find on competitors' shelves. And we end this slide show with a bonus item that's cheap at Trader Joe's -- but you have to judge if it's worth it.
An alternative to peanut butter, almond butter is one of Trader Joe's most popular items but isn't one of the chain's best deals. We found that Walmart was selling the Maranatha brand of almond butter for about $1.40 less than a jar of Trader Joe's almond butter.
What to buy instead at Trader Joe's: Organic peanut butter. If you stick with good ol' peanut butter, the organic variety is a good buy at Trader Joe's. The price on a 16-ounce jar at Trader Joe's was the same or lower than the prices on organic peanut butter at the other stores we checked.
Milk is a regular item on most grocery lists, and the organic variety in particular can be a big expense for big families. Whole Foods beat Trader Joe's price on a gallon of organic milk by a whopping $2.30.
What to buy instead at Trader Joe's: Almond and soy milks. If you want an alternative to cow's milk, Trader Joe's has low prices on its almond and soy milks. At $2.99 for a half-gallon carton, the price on both almond milk and soy milk was about the same or lower than at the other stores we checked.
With the exception of bananas, we found that Walmart beat Trader Joe's prices on a variety of non-organic fruits and vegetables including avocados, grapes and strawberries.
What to buy instead at Trader Joe's: Organic fruits and vegetables. If you shop at Trader Joe's, there's a good chance that you're picky about what you consume. So if you prefer organic fruits and vegetables, know that you're getting a lower price on them at Trader Joe's than at most other stores.
Whole Foods has the lower price on a 16-ounce package of mozzarella -- $3.99 versus $4.49 at Trader Joe's. Other conventional cheeses also were more expensive at Trader Joe's. For example, a 12-ounce package of sliced provolone cost 61 cents more at Trader Joe's than at Walmart.
What to buy instead at Trader Joe's: Specialty cheeses. If you like imported and artisan cheeses, you can find a good selection at low prices at Trader Joe's. We compared two common varieties: French brie and goat cheese. We found that brie was between 50 cents and $4 cheaper per pound at Trader Joe's that at competitors; a 4-ounce package of goat cheese was at least $2 less.
When it comes to organic chicken, both Kroger and Walmart beat Trader Joe's price per pound on breasts. The savings was 50 cents per pound on organic chicken breasts at Kroger but a more substantial $2 per pound at Walmart.
What to buy instead at Trader Joe's: Organic ground beef. At $5.99 per pound, Trader Joe's organic ground beef is $1 less per pound than its organic chicken breasts and between 50 cents and $2 less per pound than organic ground beef at the other stores we checked.
The popularity of Greek yogurt has exploded in recent years, all the more reason to be thrifty when shopping for the protein-rich snack. A 32-ounce container of Greek Gods brand yogurt was almost 70 cents less at Whole Foods than the Trader Joe's brand.
What to buy instead at Trader Joe's: Organic plain yogurt. Trader Joe's price on a 32-ounce container bests other retailers' regular prices by at least 50 cents.
Trader Joe's sells small packages of frozen fruit. So you'll pay nearly three times as much per ounce at Trader Joe's than if you buy a 64-ounce package of strawberries, blueberries or other frozen fruit at Walmart.
What to buy instead at Trader Joe's: Frozen meals are a bargain for those who don't have the time or talent to cook from scratch. For example, the price on its individual serving of pesto tortellini beat the prices other stores had on Amy's brand pesto tortellini by 50 cents. And Trader Joe's paneer palak -- an Indian dish with spinach and cheese -- was about $2 less than the Amy's brand version sold at the other stores we checked.
If you prefer phosphate-free dishwasher and laundry detergents, you'll find a better deal on them at Walmart. A 128-fluid-ounce container of Ecos laundry detergent was $8.97 at Walmart, versus $9.99 for Trader Joe's natural detergent. And a 75-liquid-ounce container of Palmolive Eco+ dishwasher detergent was $2.97 at Walmart, which beat the price of Trader Joe's 50-ounce container by $1.
What to buy instead at Trader Joe's: Natural toothpaste. At $2.99, a 6-ounce tube of Trader Joe's natural toothpaste was almost $2 less than the Tom's brand natural toothpaste sold at other stores.
You can't beat the price on Trader Joe's Charles Shaw wines, known as "Two-Buck Chuck" because a bottle can cost as little as $2. However, not all of the chain's stores sell the wine due to state or local restrictions. Also, wine enthusiasts often say you get what you pay for with this cheap label. But, hey, if you're using it to make sangria, you might not even notice. Sample a glass or two and decide.
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Long Branch detective pleads guilty in fatal DWI crash
Prosecutors will likely request a 364-day sentence but it is possible he may avoid all jail time.
Long Branch detective pleads guilty in fatal DWI crash Prosecutors will likely request a 364-day sentence but it is possible he may avoid all jail time. Check out this story on app.com: https://on.app.com/2q5RmTw
Alex N. Gecan, @GeeksterTweets Published 1:13 p.m. ET April 3, 2018 | Updated 8:04 p.m. ET April 3, 2018
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A photo of Jake Pascucci posted on the Long Branch police Facebook page in 2015.(Photo: ~Courtesy of Long Branch Police Department)
NEW BRUNSWICK - Long Branch police Detective Jake Pascucci has admitted he was driving drunk when he struck and killed a Stanhope woman on Ocean Avenue in Long Branch in September.
Pascucci, 28, pleaded guilty to strict liability vehicular homicide and driving while intoxicated before Superior Court Judge Lorraine Pullen on Tuesday morning. He agreed to plead guilty rather than let the case proceed to a grand jury.
"Under a plea agreement reached with Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Keith Abrams, Pascucci will be sentenced to 364 days in county jail as a condition of the probation he will serve upon his release," according to a prepared statement from the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office.
Pascucci's attorney, Steven D. Altman, who laid out the agreement in court Tuesday, said he would ask the judge for no jail time at sentencing.
Strict liability vehicular homicide carries a maximum five-year prison term but no mandatory minimum.
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It is possible a judge may throw out Pascucci's plea agreement with prosecutors, at which point Pascucci may withdraw his guilty plea, Pullen said.
Pascucci also agreed to forfeit his police job, and he must surrender his driver's license for three months for the DWI conviction.
Detective Jake Pascucci is facing a DWI charge after a fatal September 22 crash. (Photo: Courtesy Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office)
There are two tiers of DWI in New Jersey, one over a 0.08 blood alcohol concentration and another over 0.1. Pascucci admitted that his BAC was 0.08 at the time of the crash. The higher tier carries a mandatory suspension of seven months for a first offense.
Karen L. Borkowsi was 66 at the time of the crash. She was crossing Ocean Avenue when Pascucci, driving his personal vehicle, a Jeep Cherokee, hit her with such force the collision stove-in the car's hood.
Pascucci worked in the police department's traffic safety bureau following the crash.
Borkowski "was always generous with her time and always shared her love," according to her obituary. "She helped others realize their full potential in all she did."
Long Branch Detective Jake Pascucci has been charged with vehicular homicide. (Photo: Courtesy Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office)
Dashcam footage from Long Branch police who responded to the scene showed a large dent in the front of Pascucci's silver 2016 Cherokee. In the footage, Pascucci tells first responders he drove his car forward during a green light and Borkowski "walked right out in front of me."
Strict liability vehicular homicide is a relatively new crime in New Jersey. A third-degree offense, it is meant to keep drunken drivers in fatal crashes from avoiding stiff penalties if and when it is impossible to convict them of aggravated manslaughter or ordinary vehicular homicide.
Former Gov. Chris Christie signed the bill to establish "Ralph and David's Law" in July 2017. The law was named for 49-year-old Ralph Politi of East Hanover and 13-year-old David Heim of Sussex County. Drunken drivers killed both of them, but they were convicted of nothing worse than driving while intoxicated.
The case was moved to Middlesex County to avoid conflicts of interest. Long Branch is in Monmouth County, where Pascucci worked on a task force with county investigators.
Pascucci's sentencing is scheduled for June 28.
Alex N. Gecan: @GeeksterTweets; 732-643-4043; agecan@gannettnj.com
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12/23/2013 | Help with Yellow Jacket Extermination
Where Are the Yellow Jackets?
The home base for the yellow jackets is their nest, which can be somewhat hard to find. Although they can nest almost anywhere, the most popular spots for the wasps to build their lair is underground, in a dense bush, or in peaks outside of a home. Obviously the easy way to track the insects is to follow them from a food supply back to their nests. The swarm will often follow the exact flight path to and from the nest so a big group of them should be easy to identify.
Do You Have a Yellow Jacket Problem?
The thing about yellow jackets is they rarely venture out on their own, meaning where there's one there is many and a nest is usually in the vicinity. It's important to treat this potential problem because yellow jackets are far more aggressive than paper wasps or honey bees and bumblebees. If you have a consistent population of yellow jackets in the area around your house, it could be constituted as a problem. While yellow jackets do eat insects and caterpillars, making them an asset to a garden, if there is a household member with an allergy then they must be removed.
What Damage and Hazards are Caused from Yellow Jackets?
The most hazard that yellow jackets bring is with their sting. They are aggressive and often attack humans and pets even when unprovoked. The yellow jackets also can sting multiple times, which differentiates them from other wasps and bees. Other damage around the home can be caused to fruit as the wasps penetrate the flesh and leave it to rot. Yellow jackets also frequently make their nests in wall voids inside your home, which can eventually lead to the replacement of drywall or drop ceiling as the colony can reach up to 10,000 wasps or more.
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The 'calcium' is a tax haven | sports
July 14, 2019 at 2:35 am 0
Something moves in the calcium. Juventus intend to cheat the promising 19-year-old midfielder Matthijs De Ligt from Ajax. A footballer who, a priori, has everything to go to the Camp Nou, including the signing of his intimate friend Frenkie De Jong, and who, however, is meditating looking for fortune in football at the antipodes of his DNA. The Turin club tries to do the same to Real Madrid with Paul Pogba, who theoretically had a special connection with coach Zinedine Zidane, in charge of seducing the great French stars. The Napoli fight today to take James Rodriguez and Inter tightens to take the services of Lukaku, star of Manchester United, after signing the center-back Diego Godín. The secret of this infatuation, however, does not inhabit the margins of the field nor in the power of seduction of the clubs.
The long shipwreck of calcium, whose main competition has won eight years in a row the same club (Juventus), has found a lifeline in the fine print of a new law. The Italian populist government, formed by the 5-Star Movement and the League, has recently approved the so-called Growth Decree, a measure to stimulate work and investment in national companies that has an impact on football increasingly away from the summit that he represented in the nineties. Beyond the concrete actions in the labor market, the new norm also provides for a tax reduction for clubs that hire foreign players. Basically, they will save half of taxes in IRPF and will have that capital to seduce the stars that until now preferred other leagues.
The advantage that this season will have Series A is important. When until now a club paid 10 million net euros to a player, for example, it actually cost about 19 million. With the new law the cost would be reduced to a figure close to 14 or 15 million. "You save 50% of taxes. So a whole series of previously impossible operations are more approachable, "says Marco Bellinazzo, author of the prophetic book The end of Italian calcium (Feltrinelli, 2018).
The precedent that helped to sign CR7
The tax reduction in the payment of personal income tax in Italy adds to another incentive as was the 'flat rate' of 100,000 euros for income generated outside the country. In the case of footballers it is not a trifle, because it refers to image rights and sponsorships, which usually come from foreign companies. The signing of Cristiano Ronaldo for Juventus, for example, benefited greatly from this measure as the player charges about 40 million euros in that concept.
The operation of De Ligt
The author, journalist of the economic newspaper Il Sole 24 ore, remember that "Godin or Ramsey were signed before the regulations were approved, but it will also have an impact on their chips." "The real effect has been seen with an operation like that of De Ligt, where as a starting point they had four million more than the previous year." The Dutch player, in fact, can receive a salary of 12 million (eight fixed plus four bonus). A very high amount that has allowed the Vecchia Signora to compete with millionaire clubs like PSG and with the capacity of seduction for a player like De Ligt del Barcelona. The tax savings achieved is, precisely, the basis of the salary difference compared to what Barça offers.
The norm, designed in a general scheme of lack of investment in the south of Italy, initially anticipated a greater reduction for the southern clubs. The complaints of other clubs and the heterogeneity between this type of equipment caused that section was finally deleted. The Napoli, partly for that reason, was launched at the beginning with a lot of impetus to James Rodríguez. The operation has all the signs to close, but when unifying the fiscal criterion in all Italy, the interest of the club was something reduced.
The president of the Spanish League, Javier Tebas, complained bitterly about it a few weeks ago. "In Italy they are doing things differently and that will make them more competitive. There, players pay 10 times less taxes than in Spain. " The figure is not exactly that, but you could think that the Serie A now wins with fiscal tricks what it did not win in the field. The reality, however, is that Spain also used this tool in 2005 to give one of the greatest impulses to competition.
The Beckham law, approved by the then Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, was later suppressed at the beginning of the crisis (a similar time to the five years that the measure is expected to last in Italy). The big clubs, however, recovered in that period the strength lost compared to their competitors in other major leagues and gave rise to one of the most fruitful periods of Spanish football. The world of Italian football is convinced that the new taxation will mean the end of a long twilight.
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This fixed blade features a satin finished drop point blade, 5/32" blade stock and 1 1/4" blade depth, full tang construction. The handle has black/blue G-10 scales, and a lanyard hole. New from maker at the 2013 Blade Show.
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In the late 1970's Jerry Busse began making custom knives in a small 16' x 22' cabin with no insulation, heat, or running water. After completing his bachelor's degree in 1982, he became a full-time knife maker. Making knives on a full-time basis afforded him the time to continue his education and to complete two graduate degrees. He has taught at three different universities while continuing to make knives on a full-time basis.In 1991, Jerry met Jennifer while teaching at Michigan State University and they were married the following year. In 1992 they formed the Busse Combat Knife Company and decided to move away from doing only one-of-a-kind customs, and focus instead, on implementing the use of modern CNC machinery to help produce a few standard models at much more affordable prices. Their combined use of CNC technology and old world craftsmanship allowed Busse Combat to push the performance envelope to new heights and to experience dramatic growth.They now operate out of several new buildings and have grown from a one-man knife shop into a very modernized and highly automated production facility. As the company continues to grow and evolve, Jerry and Jennifer strive to find innovative ways to continue improving Busse Combat. Jennifer, who completed her bachelor's degree in Business, is currently working towards the completion of her M.B.A. while Jerry continues to explore the latest advancements in metallurgy and CNC technology."
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The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding
Written By: Alexandra Bracken
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Publisher: Recorded Books
Duration: 10 hours 2 minutes
Prosper is the only unexceptional Redding in his old and storied family history-that is, until he discovers the demon living inside him. Turns out Prosper's great-great-great-great-great-something grandfather made-and then broke-a contract with a malefactor, a demon who exchanges fortune for eternal servitude. And, weirdly enough, four-thousand-year-old Alastor isn't exactly the forgiving type. The fiend has reawakened with one purpose--to destroy the family whose success he ensured and who then betrayed him. With only days to break the curse and banish Alastor back to the demon realm, Prosper is playing unwilling host to the fiend, who delights in tormenting him with nasty insults and constant attempts to trick him into a contract. Yeah, Prosper will take his afterlife without a side of eternal servitude, thanks. But with the help of his long-lost uncle, Barnabas, and his daughter, Nell, a witch-in-training, it seems like Prosper has at least a fighting chance of ridding himself of Alastor before the demon escapes and wreaks havoc on his family. Little does Prosper know, the malefactor's control over his body grows stronger with each passing night and there's a lot Alastor isn't telling his dim-witted (but admittedly strong-willed) human host. From #1 New York Times best-selling author Alexandra Bracken comes a tale of betrayal and revenge, of old hurts passed down from generation to generation. Can you ever fully right a wrong, ever truly escape your history? Or will Prosper and Alastor be doomed to repeat it?
Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding
by Alexandra Bracken
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https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/business/article/Weak-demand-sinks-natural-gas-to-52-week-low-736647.php
Weak demand sinks natural gas to 52-week low
Published 12:00 am CST, Thursday, December 3, 2009
Natural gas prices have slumped well below what they were last year, and that trend will likely continue into 2010.
The New York Mercantile Exchange contract for January delivery at one point dropped to a new 52-week low of $4.432 per 1,000 cubic feet on Thursday.
Natural gas gave up 7.1 cents to settle at $4.459 per 1,000 cubic feet.
The government then reported that the amount of natural gas in storage rose again, surprising most energy experts. The country has never had this much natural gas in storage.
At this time of year, natural gas supplies normally get smaller as people turn on the heat in their homes.
That's not happening this year because the winter has been so mild. Instead, more gas was placed into storage last week, the first time that has happened this late in the year since at least 2001.
The salt caverns and other places where the U.S. stores natural gas are near or at capacity because major industrial power users have been shuttering plants or slowing production.
The Energy Information Administration said Thursday that natural gas stocks have set new national records for seven consecutive weeks.
For consumers, that likely means an extended period of cheap energy, though how long that will go on is not clear. But heating bills will be cheaper in most places and power companies that use natural gas also will feel less pressure to raise electricity rates.
Benchmark crude for January delivery gave up 14 cents to settle at $76.46 a barrel on Nymex.
In London, Brent crude for January delivery rose 48 cents to settle at $78.36 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the number of newly laid-off workers dropped unexpectedly to the lowest level since the week of Sept. 6, 2008.
Still, the U.S. continues to sip at its petroleum reserves as millions of laid off workers have stayed out of the morning commute. Oil companies are finding it easier to store crude and deliver it later when demand has hopefully picked up.
Refiners shut down much of their operations last year as energy prices tanked, and they're doing so again. Crude prices are still high enough that refiners are struggling to make a profit converting it into fuel.
Refiners that turn crude into gasoline and other fuels have slowed production and even shut down facilities permanently.
Oil imports have sunk to the lowest point since the fourth quarter of 1990, when the U.S. was preparing for the first Gulf War, according to analyst Stephen Schork.
In other Nymex trading in January contracts, heating oil increased 1.31 cents to settle at $2.0495 a gallon and gasoline added less than a penny to settle at $1.993 a gallon.
At the pump, retail gas prices ticked higher by less than a penny overnight to a new national average of $2.633 a gallon, according to auto club AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. A gallon of regular unleaded is 5.3 cents cheaper than it was a month ago, but it's still 83 cents more expensive than the same time last year.
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Pashinyan arranges expensive holiday while Armenians are in poverty
By Abdul Kerimkhanov
A couple of days before the anniversary of the April coup, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan decided to report back to the people by Facebook about promises he made.
As follows from Pashinyan's live broadcast, he fulfilled all his promises almost one hundred percent. Prime Minister dazzle users with a statement that excluded political persecution and similar promises.
It was most unpleasant for the Armenian citizens to hear about achievements in the economy and the social sphere. People still remember with anger Pashinyan's blather at the PACE about 50,000 new jobs. Society is also worried about mass cuts in large companies and the closure of enterprises, as a result of which tens of thousands of people have already found themselves on the street. In a similar lie and contradictory statements, Pashinyan gave a chance to the opposition, which has something to say about the real about his promises.
On the eve of the meeting with journalists, the press secretary of the Republican Party of Armenia Eduard Sharmazanov said that Pashinyan spoke compassionate words about grandparents who have debts when he was an opposition member from the rostrum of the parliament.
Sharmazanov accused Pashinyan of embezzling 124 million drams ($257,000) for celebrating Citizen's Day.
He was dissatisfied with the fact that money was not spent to cover the debts of grandparents, homes for the elderly, orphanages, but were wasted.
The decision to allocate large funds for Citizens Day, which will now be celebrated annually on the last Saturday of April, was made at a meeting of the Armenian government on April 18.
With the initiative to allocate money for the holiday, the Finance Minister of Armenia Atom Janjughazyan made a decision, the decision was made without discussion.
As many as 124 million drams (about $ 257,000) will be sent to the celebration of Citizen's Day from the reserve fund. According to the government’s decision, events will be held in all regions of the country.
Deputy from Enlightened Armenia faction Ani Samsonyan said that wasting this amount from public funds aims to fix their own glory in the calendar and celebrate this day magnificently. She considers the people have other more urgent household needs.
Residents of Yerevan believe that such holidays exist in order to distract society from real problems.
The Past newspaper managed to find out that the matter will not be limited to the 124 million drams. As the newspaper writes, the authorities of Armenia, in addition to the celebrating Citizen's Day on April 23, are going to have a feast. Noteworthy, on this day Serzh Sargsyan resigned in 2018.
"Members of the “Civil Contract” party are planning to organize a big feast in the evening in one of Yerevan’s famous restaurants. It is not excluded that it will end with a magnificent firework," writes the newspaper.
In a word, show must go on.
Abdul Kerimkhanov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @AbdulKerim94
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets
By Talis Saule Archdeacon
EUREKA! This Indiana-Jones-type of film jumps from one mini-adventure to another faster than you can tally up the clues.
Director: John Turteltaub
Disney has come out with yet another action/adventure movie. And, like many other Disney movies, it's captivating but lacks any real depth or character development.
"National Treasure: Book of Secrets" is an Indiana Jones-style film featuring a headstrong, erudite historian/archeologist who goes on an adventure to recover lost artifacts with his gruff but lovable father and strong-willed love interest.
After gaining fame for their exploits in National Treasure 1, Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicholas Cage) is asked to give a speech on the Civil War, Lincoln's assassination and vast sums of secret treasure hidden somewhere in the American Midwest. His family honor is thrown into question, however, when antagonist Jeb Wilkinson (Ed Harris) presents a missing page from the Booth diary which accuses Gates' great-great-grandfather of orchestrating the plot to kill Lincoln.
So Gates sets off with his whiz-kid sidekick Riley Poole (Justin Bartha) 's a fiercely loyal genius hacker who is relatively inept at everything else 's on a quest to prove his ancestor's innocence and find the lost Civil War treasure. Gates' and Poole's adventure takes them to Paris, London and various locations around the United States. Each new clue that Gates' team 's which includes his stubborn ex-wife and grumpy father 's brilliantly leads them on ever more daring missions.
Tracking down century-old clues to long lost treasure would normally be a walk in the park for the resourceful Gates. In this quest, however, he is being hunted by a gang of bloodthirsty mercenaries who want the gold and the credit all to themselves.
The plot is action-packed enough to make the film relatively interesting, but the numerous plot holes and ridiculous ease with which the obscenely hyperbolic characters complete each task end up making the movie little more than a mindless adventure flick.
The plot holes are glaring. First, there is the fact that Gates is able to elude the Secret Service, FBI, British Royal Guard and Europol without breaking a sweat. He is so far above and beyond law enforcement agencies that the police don't even bother to show up after a ten minute car chase and gun fight through the crowded streets of London.
Then there is the fact that Gates always seems to have the perfect tool for any situation. Need to beat a private security system? Like any good historian, Gates has access to a decoder. Need to break into the oval office? Luckily the ex-wife just got an invitation to the White House. Need to soak the nearby rocks to find clues? Luckily Gates had the inexplicable foresight to bring a backpack full of water bottles. The plot was exciting and the acting was good, but don't expect anything out of the movie except a couple hours of mindless entertainment.
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Proposal would make Westminster third municipality in Maryland to ban plastic bags; council seeking input
Councilman Greg Pecoraro and Councilwoman Mona Becker co-sponsored the introduction of the ordinance to ban the distribution of single-use plastic bags in Westminster. (Courtesy photos)
The Westminster Common Council is considering a proposal to ban the distribution of single-use plastic bags in the city and is seeking input at a public hearing Wednesday.
If passed, the ordinance would make Westminster the third municipality in Maryland to impose a bag ban, after Chestertown and Takoma Park. The General Assembly this year passed a bill allowing Howard County lawmakers to charge up to five cents per disposable bag. Montgomery County was the first in Maryland to institute a bag fee in 2012.
Westminster residents can give their input on the policy in person at the public hearing at 7 p.m. April 24 at Westminster City Hall, at 1838 Emerald Hill Lane. Residents can also mail or email a comment containing a name and address to Shannon Visocsky, city clerk, at svisocsky@westgov.com.
Council members asked City Attorney Elissa D. Levan to research the legality of taxing single-use plastic bags. She determined that the council did not have the statutory authority to do so. She said she also consulted city attorneys elsewhere in Maryland who had reached similar conclusions.
The policy would add a new chapter to city code that would prohibit the distribution of single-use plastic carryout bags at city facilities, city-sponsored events and events on city property. It would also prohibit businesses within city limits from distributing one-use plastic bags to customers.
There are several exceptions in the proposal, including: bags for laundry, dry cleaning, door hangers and newspapers; packages of bags for garbage, yard waste and pet waste; bags that contain prescription drugs provided by pharmacists or veterinarians; and bags used by a business to contain bulk items, frozen foods, flowers or potted plants, or unwrapped prepared foods or bakery goods.
The ban would not apply to biodegradable bags.
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By Erin B. Logan
The full text of the ordinance is available in the April 8 Mayor and Common Council meeting agenda, which can be found on the city’s website.
Councilman Greg Pecoraro and Councilwoman Mona Becker co-sponsored the ordinance’s introduction on April 8.
In a news release from the city Becker said, “In many ways, residents have become accustomed to using re-usable bags for shopping and errands. However, plastic bag trash is ubiquitous in our area; one needs only to look along the roadsides to observe the pollution. This ordinance represents the City's dedication to fighting pollution locally and regionally, and will position Westminster as an environmental leader.”
The proposed ordinance lists the reasons for the ban as to “protect the environment in the City and the planet; to reduce the presence of unsightly plastic bags in the public streets, gutters, rights-of-way, and trees,” and “to protect the City’s watershed.”
Violations and penalties would include a $100 fine for a business on the first offense and $200 for a second offense within a year of the first. Each violation within the year after that would be punishable by a $500 fine.
In cases where a business owner racked up repeated violations, the city could suspend or revoke a merchant’s business license.
If passed, the ordinance would take effect July 1, 2020.
At the April 8 meeting, Common Council members discussed possible changes they would consider to the ordinance.
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Pecoraro, who served as acting council president during the April 8 meeting in Robert Wack’s absence, said, “Over 200 cities and towns across America have already banned them. A number of counties have actively banned them. Two states have actively banned them.”
He said that they discussed how long it would take for the ordinance to go into effect and chose to give more than a year for that.
Westminster staff contacted the Chestertown government about the implementation of its plastic bag ban, and said it went pretty smoothly after initial resistance, Pecoraro said.
Becker said that reusable bags are ubiquitous and easy to get ahold of.
Mayor Joe Dominick, who does not vote with the council, said that while driving around the city he has seen plastic bag litter numbering in the hundreds caught in the tree lines.
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He said one concern was the impact on small business and whether a business with a certain number of employees should be given extra time to comply.
He also wondered about the enforcement burden of the policy.
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Councilman Benjamin Yingling said, “I tend to not like government to tell business what to do, but I understand that this is a big movement in our country. I will support introducing this ordinance, but I really want to hear [from] the local business community, get their feedback and learn more about the implications of this for business before I can say I will vote for this.”
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1One day Jonathan, Saul’s son, said to the officer who carried his armor, “Come, let’s go over to the Philistine camp on the other side.” But Jonathan did not tell his father.
2Saul was sitting under a pomegranate tree at the threshing floor near Gibeah. He had about six hundred men with him. 3One man was Ahijah who was wearing the holy vest. (Ahijah was a son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub. Ichabod was the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord’s priest in Shiloh.) No one knew Jonathan had left.
4There was a steep slope on each side of the pass that Jonathan planned to go through to reach the Philistine camp. The cliff on one side was named Bozez, and the cliff on the other side was named Seneh. 5One cliff faced north toward Micmash. The other faced south toward Geba.
6Jonathan said to his officer who carried his armor, “Come. Let’s go to the camp of those men who are not circumcised. Maybe the Lord will help us. The Lord can give us victory if we have many people, or just a few.”
7The officer who carried Jonathan’s armor said to him, “Do whatever you think is best. Go ahead. I’m with you.”
8Jonathan said, “Then come. We will cross over to the Philistines and let them see us. 9If they say to us, ‘Stay there until we come to you,’ we will stay where we are. We won’t go up to them. 10But if they say, ‘Come up to us,’ we will climb up, and the Lord will let us defeat them. This will be the sign for us.”
11When both Jonathan and his officer let the Philistines see them, the Philistines said, “Look! The Hebrews are crawling out of the holes they were hiding in!” 12The Philistines in the camp shouted to Jonathan and his officer, “Come up to us. We’ll teach you a lesson!”
Jonathan said to his officer, “Climb up behind me, because the Lord has given the Philistines to Israel!” 13So Jonathan climbed up, using his hands and feet, and his officer climbed just behind him. Jonathan struck down the Philistines as he went, and his officer killed them as he followed behind him. 14In that first fight Jonathan and his officer killed about twenty Philistines over a half acre of ground.
15All the Philistine soldiers panicked—those in the camp and those in the raiding party. The ground itself shook! God had caused the panic.
16Saul’s guards were at Gibeah in the land of Benjamin when they saw the Philistine soldiers running in every direction. 17Saul said to his army, “Check to see who has left our camp.” When they checked, they learned that Jonathan and his officer were gone.
18So Saul said to Ahijah the priest, “Bring the Ark of God.” (At that time it was with the Israelites.) 19While Saul was talking to the priest, the confusion in the Philistine camp was growing. Then Saul said to Ahijah, “Put your hand down!”
20Then Saul gathered his army and entered the battle. They found the Philistines confused, striking each other with their swords! 21Earlier, there were Hebrews who had served the Philistines and had stayed in their camp, but now they joined the Israelites with Saul and Jonathan. 22When all the Israelites hidden in the mountains of Ephraim heard that the Philistine soldiers were running away, they also joined the battle and chased the Philistines. 23So the Lord saved the Israelites that day, and the battle moved on past Beth Aven.
Saul Makes Another Mistake
24The men of Israel were miserable that day because Saul had made an oath for all of them. He had said, “No one should eat food before evening and before I finish defeating my enemies. If he does, he will be cursed!” So no Israelite soldier ate food.
25Now the army went into the woods, where there was some honey on the ground. 26They came upon some honey, but no one took any because they were afraid of the oath. 27Jonathan had not heard the oath Saul had put on the army, so he dipped the end of his stick into the honey and lifted some out and ate it. Then he felt better. 28Then one of the soldiers told Jonathan, “Your father made an oath for all the soldiers. He said any man who eats today will be cursed! That’s why they are so weak.”
29Jonathan said, “My father has made trouble for the land! See how much better I feel after just tasting a little of this honey! 30It would have been much better for the men to eat the food they took from their enemies today. We could have killed many more Philistines!”
31That day the Israelites defeated the Philistines from Micmash to Aijalon. After that, they were very tired. 32They had taken sheep, cattle, and calves from the Philistines. Now they were so hungry they killed the animals on the ground and ate them, without draining the blood from them! 33Someone said to Saul, “Look! The men are sinning against the Lord. They’re eating meat without draining the blood from it!”
Saul said, “You have sinned! Roll a large stone over here now!” 34Then he said, “Go to the men and tell them that each person must bring his ox and sheep to me and kill it here and eat it. Don’t sin against the Lord by eating meat without draining the blood from it.”
That night everyone brought his animals and killed them there. 35Then Saul built an altar to the Lord. It was the first altar he had built to the Lord.
36Saul said, “Let’s go after the Philistines tonight and rob them. We won’t let any of them live!”
The men answered, “Do whatever you think is best.”
But the priest said, “Let’s ask God.”
37So Saul asked God, “Should I chase the Philistines? Will you let us defeat them?” But God did not answer Saul at that time. 38Then Saul said to all the leaders of his army, “Come here. Let’s find out what sin has been done today. 39As surely as the Lord lives who has saved Israel, even if my son Jonathan did the sin, he must die.” But no one in the army spoke.
40Then Saul said to all the Israelites, “You stand on this side. I and my son Jonathan will stand on the other side.”
41Then Saul prayed to the Lord, the God of Israel, “Give me the right answer.”
And Saul and Jonathan were picked; the other men went free. 42Saul said, “Now let us discover if it is I or Jonathan my son who is guilty.” And Jonathan was picked.
43Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.”
So Jonathan told Saul, “I only tasted a little honey from the end of my stick. And must I die now?”
44Saul said, “Jonathan, if you don’t die, may God punish me terribly.”
45But the soldiers said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die? Never! He is responsible for saving Israel today! As surely as the Lord lives, not even a hair of his head will fall to the ground! Today Jonathan fought against the Philistines with God’s help!” So the army saved Jonathan, and he did not die.
46Then Saul stopped chasing the Philistines, and they went back to their own land.
Saul Fights Israel’s Enemies
47When Saul became king over Israel, he fought against Israel’s enemies all around. He fought Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, the king of Zobah, and the Philistines. Everywhere Saul went he defeated Israel’s enemies. 48He fought bravely and defeated the Amalekites. He saved the Israelites from their enemies who had robbed them.
49Saul’s sons were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malki-Shua. His older daughter was named Merab, and his younger daughter was named Michal. 50Saul’s wife was Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz. The commander of his army was Abner son of Ner, Saul’s uncle. 51Saul’s father Kish and Abner’s father Ner were sons of Abiel.
52All Saul’s life he fought hard against the Philistines. When he saw strong or brave men, he took them into his army.
The Holy Bible, New Century Version, Copyright © 2005 Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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by Alex Adams
Published in USA Apr 2012
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Alternate History
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The world has ended, but her journey has just begun.
Thirty-year-old Zoe leads an ordinary life until the end of the world arrives. She is cleaning cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals when the president of the United States announces that human beings are no longer a viable species. When Zoe realizes that everyone she loves is disappearing, she starts running. Scared and alone in a shockingly changed world, she embarks on a remarkable journey of survival and redemption. Along the way, Zoe comes to see that humans are defined not by their genetic code, but rather by their actions and choices. White Horse offers hope for a broken world, where love can lead to the most unexpected places.
"Starred Review. Adams has an excellent sense of timing, delivering gasp-inducing moments that punctuate her nightmare with verve. But it's Zoe's clear-eyed sense of self-preservation that will keep readers waiting for Adams' follow-up." - Kirkus Reviews
"Starred Review. The novel relies heavily on biblical and Greek myths to welcome readers to Zoe's nightmare, but it's a small price to pay for the jolt." - Kirkus Reviews
"The first-person, present-tense narrative adds immediacy and builds on the story's natural tension. Though the book loses focus as the journey drags on, postapocalyptic literature is hot these days, and this newest entry will appeal to its many readers." - Library Journal
"Written with such skill and confidence that it sits easily in the pantheon of post-apocalyptic thrillers alongside the likes of Justin Cronin and Stephen King." - Bookpage
"Adams' fantasy is brilliant! It's McCarthy's The Road on hope steroids. Adams' narrative is the prose of the world's destruction, beautiful yet horrible. Her amazing characters are full of both hope and hopelessness in the face of death - and worse. This is what apocalyptic fiction will aspire to be from now on." - RT Book Reviews
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Fig. 11. The process of the combination of extractive distillation and azcotropic distillation
In addition, the energy consumption of this process is greater than that of extractive distillation, but less than that of extractive distillation. So it is concluded that this process is especially suitable for the separation of requiring high purity of product. For instance, in the case of separating acetic acid and water, the concentration of acetic acid in water below 20ppm is required in industry.
(2) Combination of extractive distillation and liquid-liquid extraction
This method has been sucessfully used for the recovery of benzene and toluene from pyrolysis hydrogénation gasoline fraction [27, 28]. The mixture of benzene and toluene is firstly separated into two parts, i.e. one mainly containng benzene and the other mainly containing toluene. Then the rich-benzene mixture is dealt with by extractive distillation, while the rich-toluene mixture is dealt with by liquid-liquid extraction. The solvent used in these two processes is the same, sulfolane.
The reason why extractive distillation is selected for the separation of the rich-benzene mixture is that its boiling-point is lower than that of rich-toluene mixture, and thus the boiling-point difference between the rich-benzene mixture and the solvent is great enough, which facilitates the solvent recovery. However, the boiling-point difference between the rich-toluene mixture and the solvent is relatively small, which leads to some impurities accumulated in the solvent. Therefore, it is wise to select liquid-liquid extraction for the separation of the rich-toluene mixture.
The practical result from the Aromatics Plant of Yangzi Petrochemical Company with a capacity of 360kt a year showed that the the freezing point of benzene obtained by this method was 5.48 °C, the sulfur content in benzene was less than 0.5jo.g g~', and the non-aromatics content in toluene was less than 1000(j.g g' . The recovery yield of benzene and toluene was 99.9% and 99.1% respectively. This proves that the combination of extractive distillation and liquid-liquid extraction is effective for the recovery of benzene and toluene from pyrolysis hydrogénation gasoline fraction.
2.3. Tray configuration
One prominent characteristics of extractive distillation is that the solvent ratio (namely the mass ratio of solvent and feed) is very high, generally 5-8, which restricts increasing capacity. The liquid load is very large in the extractive distillation column, but the vapor load is relatively small. So when we design the extractive distillation column, it should be paid more attention to the channels of passing liquid phase.
In most cases, either tray column or packing column can be adopted. However, if the extractive distillation column is operated under the middle or even high pressure such as the separation of C3, C4 and C5 mixtures, or if the components to be separated are easy to polymerize such as the separation of C5 mixture, then it is better to choose tray column. Herein, two types of plate trays used in the extractive distillation column are introduced [29-35],
Under the middle or even high pressure, the plate trays, especially double overflow trays, are generally used as internal fittings. Both double overflow valve trays and double overflow slant-hole trays have ever been adopted. However, it is reported that, if double overflow valve trays are replaced by double overflow slant-hole trays in a column for separating propane and propylene, the feeds to be treated are raised above 50% with a tray efficiency similar to or higher than that of the valve trays and an energy save of 10% by decreasing pressure drop to about 1/3 of the original.
Slant-hole trays, very excellent and extensively applied in the industry, has opposite stagger arrangement of slant-holes, which causes rational flowing of vapor and liquid phases, level blowing of vapor, permission of a large vapor speed, no mutual interference, steady liquid level and high tray efficiency. On the basis of studying and analyzing the columns with multiple downcomer (MD) trays, a new-type multi-overflow compound slant-hole trays were invented, which adopt the downcomer similar to MD trays. The number of downcomers used is not too many, but only two. The downcomer has the feature of simple structure, longer flowing distance of liquid, higher capacity of column and high efficiency of trays. The configuration of the double overflow slant-hole trays is diagrammed in Fig. 12. In terms of the vapor and liquid load of the extractive distillation column, the tray parameters can be determined often by a computer program for tray design. Of course, it should be mentioned that the designed values must be within the range of normal operation condition.
Under the condition that the components to be separated are easy to polymerize, the big-hole sieve trays are desirable. For instance, for the separation of the C5 mixture, the key components being pentene and isoprene, it is known that the polymerization reactions among unsaturated hydrocarbons take place and hinder the normal operation of the column while the traditional valve trays are employed. However, in this case the big-hole sieve trays with the hole diameter of 10-15 mm are effective because the holes with large diameter prevent the trays from jam due to the formation of polymer. In addition, this type of trays eliminates the gradient of liquid layer and causes the rational flowing of vapor and liquid phases on the tray, with the help of directed holes arranged for decreasing the radial mix and bubble promoter installed in the outlet of the downcomer.
Fig. 12. Configuration of multi-overflow(double flow) slant-hole tray.
i ig. 13. The gradient of liquid layer on (he traditional trays.
Fig. 14. The gradient of liquid layer on the big-hole trays.
Fig. 15. The flowing direction of liquid phases on the big-hole trays,
Figs. 13 and 14 illustrate the gradient of liquid layer on the traditional trays and the improved gradient of liquid layer on the big-hole sieve trays, respectively. Fig. 15 shows the flowing direction of liquid phases on the big-hole sieve trays. This manifests that the flowing of liquid phases on the big-hole sieve tray is indeed rational.
2.4. Operation polity
We know that the simplest extractive distillation process is made up of two columns, i.e. an extractive distillation column and a solvent recovery column. Herein, we call it double-column process. However, at few times, only one column^ which is either as extractive distillation column or as solvent recovery column, is employed in the extractive distillation process. Herein, we call it single column process.
(1) Double-column process
For extractive distillation, double-column process is often adopted. The double-column process can be operated either in the batch way or in the continuous way. In the continuous way, two columns are operated at the same time, while in the batch way, there is still one column left not run.
Frankly speaking, we would like the continuous way than the batch way because the batch operation is tedious and the production efficiency is very low. However, the reason why the batch way is carried out arises from the solvent recovery column. Due to the very high boiling point of the solvent, the solvent recovery column has to be operated at vacuum pressure in order to decrease the temperature of the bottom and thus prevent the solvent from decomposition. Moreover, at some time there may be a strict requirement for the purity of the recycled solvent. All these lead to the difficulty of the continuous operation in the solvent recovery column. A strategy to solve them is by decreasing the boiling point of the solvent and canceling the vacuum system (see the next section 3.2. Extractive distillation with liquid solvent).
However, in fine chemical engineering, the batch way is often used. Although it is complicated, it is flexible and the amount of treated feed is not so many.
(2) Single column process
For the single column process, there are two cases: batch mode and semi-continuous mode [36-41], In the batch mode, the solvent is charged in the reboiler with the feed mixture at the beginning of operation. Therefore, it limits the amount of feed mixture to be processed, as the reboiler has a limited capacity. This increases the number of batches to be processed in a campaign mode operation. In this mode, finding the optimum feed charge to solvent ratio is an important factor to maximize the productivity.
In the semi-continuous mode, the solvent is fed to the column in a semi-continuous fashion at some point of the column. There may be two strategies in this mode of operation while charging of the initial feed mixture is concerned:
(a) Full charge. In this strategy the feed mixture is charged in the reboiler to its maximum capacity at the beginning of operation. For a given condenser vapor load, if the reflux ratio and the solvent feed rate aren't carefully controlled, the column will possibly be flooded.
(b) Fractional charge. "Full charge" isn't a suitable option to achieve the required product specifications for many azeotropic mixtures in a given sized column, operating even at the maximum reflux ratio, because the amount of solvent required in such separations is more than those that the column can accommodate without flooding. Mujtaba [40] proposed a fractional feed charge strategy for this type of mixture. In this strategy the feed mixture is charged to a certain fraction of the maximum capacity. The column can operate at a reflux ratio greater than maximum reflux ratio for some period until the reboiler level reaches to its maximum capacity.
However, it can be deduced that comparing with batch mode and semi-continuous mode, the latter is more promising because this mode can deal with much more products in the same column. A complete batch extractive distillation of semi-continuous mode consists of the following steps:
(a) Operation under total reflux without solvent feeding.
(b) Operation under total reflux with solvent feeding. For decreasing the concentration of the less volatile component (LVC) in the distillate, this step isn't absolutely necessary because the first part of the distillate containing too much of the LVC can be recycled to the next charge.
(c) Operation under finite reflux ratio with solvent feeding (production of the more volatile component (MVC)).
(d) Operation under finite reflux ratio without solvent-feeding (separation of the LVC from the solvent). Before the start of the production of LVC an off-cut can be taken.
It should be noted that the holdup on the reboiler must not exceed the maximum capacity at any time within the entire operation period to avoid column flooding.
Many researchers focus on exploring the semi-continuous mode in such aspects as simulations, improving equipment with an external middle vessel and so on, among which batch extractive distillation with an external idle vessel is an interesting topic. The typical process and apparatus are illustrated in Fig. 16.
In one example [37], the packed column with a 38 mm diameter was composed of three parts, i.e. scrubbing section, rectifying section and stripping section. The scrubbing section was packed to a height of 150 mm with 2.5 X 2.5 Dixon rings, and the rectifying and stripping were, respectively, packed to a height of 500 mm with 2.5 X 2.5 Dixon rings. The external middle vessel is a 2000 ml agitated flat bottom flask. The materials to be separated were charged to the middle vessel. The liquid flow from the middle vessel to the stripping section was controlled by an electric-magnetic device. The column was operated under the following steps:
(a) Operation under total reflux without solvent feeding;
(b) Operation under total reflux with solvent feeding;
(c) Operation under finite reflux ratio and total reboiler ratio with solvent feeding (production of the more volatile component from the top of the column, while no production of solvent from the bottom);
(d) Operation under finite reflux ratio and finite reboiler ratio with solvent feeding (production of more volatile component from the top and solvent from the bottom of the column simultaneously);
(e) Operation under finite reflux ratio and finite reboiler ratio without solvent feeding (production of slop cut or less volatile component from the top while solvent from the bottom);
(f) When the less volatile component or solvent in the middle vessel reaches the required purity or there is only a little liquid in the middle vessel, the operation is stopped.
The operation and simulation of this process in a batch column with a middle vessel is very complex, but it has many advantages such as flexibility, multi-component separation in one column and so on. It is especially suitable for the batch extractive distillation with large solvent ratio. However, when the boiling point of solvent is very high while the boiling point of the components to be separated are low, it is inconvenient to use the column, since the reboiler needs a high temperature heat resource or vacuum system.
Scrubbing section
Rectifying section
Middle vessel
Fig. 16. Single column process with an external middle vessel.
Tray Devices - Distillation System
Murphree Plate Efficiency Graph
Gilliland Correlation - Extractive Distillation
Reactive Distillation Design
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How this process can be improved for separating benzene from toluene by distillation?
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Online journo nabbed for libel
Bulatlat Contributors April 16, 2015 BicolToday, Elmer James Bandol, libel
“This is an attack on the rights of Elmer James Bandol and on the freedom of the press.”
By JOEY NATIVIDAD and EDUARDO CASULLA
BicolToday.com
Reposted by Bulatlat.com
LEGAZPI CITY — A correspondent for an online publication was arrested in barangay Poctol, Daraga, Albay, April 15, for a libel case.
Elmer James Bandol, 59, correspondent of BicolToday.com, was arrested by members of the Daraga Municipal Police Office on the basis of a warrant issued by Judge Honesto Villamor of the Regional Trial Court Branch 44, Masbate City on dated July 15, 2012.
Bandol’s libel suit stemmed from his article “314 million pesos losses of Masbate power coop traced to mismanagement – NEA” published by BicolToday.com on December 14, 2011. Eduardo Margallo, former general manager of the Masbate Electric Cooperative (Maselco) filed the charges against Bandol.
In an interview, Bandol said he was not given due process. He said the Masbate prosecutor’s office has recommended the filing of libel charges against him even without preliminary investigation.
“This is a manifestation of pure harassment,” Bandol said.
Elmer James Bandol decries the libel case against him as ‘pure harassment.’ (photo courtesy of BicolToday.com)
Bandol said his legal counsel Bartolome Rayco filed a motion for reconsideration, but the prosecution came up with the resolution prompting the issuance of a warrant of arrest. A P10,000 bail bond was recommended for his temporary release.
Online libel not existing yet
BicolToday.com condemned the arrest, saying there is no basis to file a libel case against Bandol.
In a report, BicolToday.com noted that Bandol was charged at a time when the Cybercrime Law was not yet enacted.
Republic Act No. 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act, which penalizes online libel, among others, was enacted in September 2012. Several petitions questioning the constitutionality of the law were filed until the high court issued its final ruling on the case in February 2014.
BicolToday.com argued that under the Revised Penal Code, libel is limited to printed publication and broadcast media and does not cover online publications.
Bandol has been a journalist for 36 years. Aside from reporting for BicolToday.com, he also writes for Associated Press and CBCPnews.com as a stringer.
Altermidya, a network of progressive media outfits and practitioners, condemned the harassment against Bandol.
Benjie Oliveros, spokesman of Altermidya, said, “This is an attack on the rights of Elmer James Bandol and on the freedom of the press. This is pure harassment. It shows all the more why freedom-loving Filipinos should fight for the decriminalization of libel and against the enactment of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.”
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The Superman Building in Providence has been included on the US National Trust for Historic Preservation's annual list of the nation's most endangered historic places. The 2019 list highlights 11 architectural and cultural sites that the private nonprofit deems at risk because of neglect, development or other threats. The 91-year-old vacant skyscraper is Rhode Island's tallest building at around 131 metres. Formally the Industrial Trust Building, it resembles the Daily Planet headquarters in the old TV show. The National Trust's interim chief preservation officer Katherine Malone-France says few buildings in Providence are as iconic or beloved, but the Superman Building has deferred maintenance needs after six years of vacancy. The National Trust says the list can mobilise support for preservation. This year's list also includes Nashville's Music Row and the National Mall Tidal Basin in Washington DC. Australian Associated Press
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Superman Building on endangered place list
The Superman Building was named for its resemblance to the Daily Planet headquarters.
The Superman Building in Providence has been included on the US National Trust for Historic Preservation's annual list of the nation's most endangered historic places.
The 2019 list highlights 11 architectural and cultural sites that the private nonprofit deems at risk because of neglect, development or other threats.
The 91-year-old vacant skyscraper is Rhode Island's tallest building at around 131 metres.
Formally the Industrial Trust Building, it resembles the Daily Planet headquarters in the old TV show.
The National Trust's interim chief preservation officer Katherine Malone-France says few buildings in Providence are as iconic or beloved, but the Superman Building has deferred maintenance needs after six years of vacancy.
The National Trust says the list can mobilise support for preservation. This year's list also includes Nashville's Music Row and the National Mall Tidal Basin in Washington DC.
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Beijing underwent this insane transformation in only 24 hours
Tony Manfred and Stephen Parkhurst
Dec. 2, 2015, 6:08 PM
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These photos were taken in the exact same locations in Beijing within 24 hours of each other.
On Tuesday, smog blanketed the city and hit 25 times what is considered safe. However, the pollution lifted overnight, resulting in a dramatic day-to-day transformation.
Story by Tony Manfred and editing by Stephen Parkhurst
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State Of The Union Memes From The 2016 Address Prove The Internet (And Obama) Never Disappoint
By Melissa Cruz
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
The Internet never fails to deliver, and as always, has produced some comedic gold following President Obama's final State of the Union address on Tuesday. A quick glance through Twitter shows that social media's best comedians were ready and waiting to pounce on the night. It also helps that our own president is a pretty funny guy himself, with his quick jabs at Congress and smooth, slightly underhanded way of calling opponents out. And so living up to the Commander-in-Chief's comedic standards, the Internet turned out with their best State of the Union memes.
Last year's SOTU had perhaps what became one of the president's most memorable lines of his entire presidency. It seemed to perfectly encapsulate Obama's keen ability to think off of his feet, and solidify the fact that he is way, way cooler than I'll ever be. When calling for bipartisan participation from both sides of the aisle, but particularly from a Republican-controlled Congress that has often been unwilling to budge, Obama reminded them: "I have no more campaigns to run." Many of the Republicans in attendance erupted in applause, to which Obama quickly retorted, off the script, "I know, 'cause I won both of 'em."
Boom. And of course, the Internet responded in kind:
2016's SOTU delivered with some equally great memes:
And perhaps the best three of the night, including a realization that Nikki Haley is actually just an older version of the Overly Attached Girlfriend, and that Biden is ready to take one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind:
Images: hotmessfolder.com, funniestmemes.com
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Organisms: Holstein (cattle breed) Subject Topics: reproductive performance
Reproductive performance of replacement dairy heifers submitted to first service with programs that favor insemination at detected estrus, timed artificial insemination, or a combination of both.
Our objective was to compare the insemination dynamics and time to pregnancy for up to 100 d after the beginning of the artificial insemination period (AIP) for heifers managed with first artificial insemination (AI) service programs that relied primarily on insemination at detected estrus (AIE)...
Masello, M.; Perez, M. M.; Granados, G. E.; Stangaferro, M. L.; Ceglowski, B.; Thomas, M. J.; Giordano, J. O.
Elsevier Inc., Philadelphia, USA
Journal of Dairy Science, 2019, 102, 2, pp 1671-1681
Effects of small dose estradiol cypionate after artificial insemination on reproductive performance in Holstein cows.
The goals of this study were to assess whether the injection of 1 mg of estradiol cypionate (ECP) at 13 days after service of artificial insemination (AI) increases fertility in the study subject and if the same dose injected in the near estrus (20±1 days) after artificial insemination services...
Leyva, C.; Aguilar, D.; Morales, J. L.; Pérez-López, S.; Véliz, F. G.; Soto-Domínguez, A.; Morán Martínez, J.
Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, UK
Journal of Applied Animal Research, 2016, 44, 1, pp 24-26
Vegetable oils rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids supplementation of dairy cows' diets: effects on productive and reproductive performance.
The aim of this study was to determine how polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) supplementation can affect the productive and reproductive performance in dairy cows subjected to a fixed-time artificial insemination (TAI) protocol under farm conditions. One hundred and ninety-eight Holstein...
Castro, T.; Martinez, D.; Isabel, B.; Cabezas, A.; Jimeno, V.
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Animals, 2019, 9, 5, pp 205
Genetic and phenotypic trends of fertility traits for Holstein dairy population in warm and temperate climate.
The main objective of this study was to investigate genetic and phenotypic trends for fertility traits in Holstein dairy population under warm and temperate climate. Fertility traits were: success in first service, gestation length, number of inseminations, insemination outcome, calving interval,...
Rahbar, R.; Aminafshar, M.; Abdullahpour, R.; Chamani, M.
Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido (UFERSA), Mossoro, Brazil
Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology, 2016, 4, 2, pp 43-49
Effects of summer and winter temperature-humidity index on performance of some reproductive traits of high producing dairy cows.
The aim of this study was to consider reproductive performance parameters and blood progesterone concentration changes in high-producing dairy cows (39±2 kg per day) after artificial insemination, in summer and winter. 270 heads of Holstein dairy cattle were choose in three big dairy farms, and...
Dashti, H.; Riasi, A.; Edris, M. A.; Gohrbani, G. R.; Omidi-Mirzaei, H.
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Iranian Journal of Animal Science (IJAS), 2016, 47, 2, pp Pe321-Pe327
Pregnancy outcome is influenced by luteal area during diestrus before successful insemination but not by milk production level.
The objective was to compare luteal area (LA), luteal blood flow (LBF), and progesterone (P4) concentration before and after artificial insemination (AI) in pregnant and open cows in the diestrus preceding insemination and during the first 21 d after insemination. A number of 119 multiparous German ...
Berger, H.; Lietzau, M.; Tichy, A.; Herzog, K.
Elsevier, New York, USA
Theriogenology, 2017, 104, pp 115-119
Reproductive performance and herd exit dynamics of lactating dairy cows managed for first service with the Presynch-Ovsynch or Double-Ovsynch protocol and different duration of the voluntary waiting period.
The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the reproductive performance and herd exit dynamics of dairy cows managed for first service with programs varying in method of submission for insemination and voluntary waiting period (VWP) duration. Holstein cows from a commercial farm in New York...
Stangaferro, M. L.; Wijma, R.; Masello, M.; Giordano, J. O.
Comparison of productive and reproductive performance and hair cortisol levels between Brown Swiss cross-bred and Holstein cows housed in the same barn.
The productive and reproductive characteristics of Brown Swiss (B) cross-bred cows were investigated by comparing with those of Holstein (H) cows housed in the same barn. Additionally, their hair cortisol levels were analyzed to evaluate the extent of stress experienced during dry and lactation...
Endo, N.; Kuroki, R.; Tanaka, T.
Wiley, Tokyo, Japan
Animal Science Journal, 2017, 88, 10, pp 1506-1512
Effects of dystocia on the postpartum complications, milk production and reproductive performance in dairy cows.
This field study investigated the effects of dystocia on the postpartum complications, milk production, and reproductive performance in Holstein dairy cows. Calving difficulty was scored on a rank scale of 1 to 5. Cows with a calving score of three or higher were judged to have dystocia. The cows...
Kim DongUk; Lee SooChan; Jeong JaeKwan; Choi InSoo; Moon SungHo; Kang HyunGu; Kim IllHwa
Korean Society of Veterinary Clinics, Seoul, Korea Republic
Journal of Veterinary Clinics, 2016, 33, 2, pp 87-92
Effect of timing of artificial insemination after synchronization of ovulation on reproductive performance in Holstein dairy cows.
The objective of this study was to determine the effect of timing of artificial insemination on pregnancy rates, calving rates, abortion rates, twinning rates, and calf gender ratio after synchronization of ovulation with Ovsynch protocol in Holstein dairy cows. The ovulation of 219 lactating...
Bayrİl, T.; Yİlmaz, O.
Springer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2013, 45, 2, pp 411-416
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Organisms: rats
Prenatal undernutrition affects the phenotypes of PCOS model rats.
Although polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is among the most common endocrine disorders in women of reproductive age, its etiology remains poorly understood. From the perspective of developmental origins of health and disease, some studies have investigated the relationship between low birth weight...
Iwasa, T.; Matsuzaki, T.; Yano, K.; Mayila, Y.; Yanagihara, R.; Yamamoto, Y.; Kuwahara, A.; Irahara, M.
BioScientifica Ltd, Bristol, UK
Journal of Endocrinology, 2018, 239, 2, pp 137-151
Rat articular cartilages change their tissue and protein compositions during perinatal period.
Articular cartilage (AC) covers the surface of bones in joints and functions as a cushion against mechanical loading. The tissue contains abundant extracellular matrix (ECM), which mainly consists of proteoglycans (PG) and collagen (COL) fibres. The property of AC is gradually changing by ageing...
Kobayashi-Miura, M.; Miura, T.; Osago, H.; Yamaguchi, Y.; Aoyama, T.; Tanabe, T.; Matsumoto, K.; Fujita, Y.
Wiley-Blackwell, Berlin, Germany
Anatomia Histologia Embryologia, 2016, 45, 1, pp 9-18
A comparative study on prenatal and postnatal changes in the histoarchitecture of mesentric lymph node in laboratory animals.
A comparative light microscopic study on the mesentric lymph node in prenatal and postnatal age groups of mice, rat and guinea pig was carried out in the present study. The lymph node is a critical cross road for encounters between the antigen presenting cells, antigenic substances from lymph and...
Geetha Ramesh; Sivakumar, M.; Kumaravel, A.; Ushakumary, S.; Basha, S. H.; Kannan, T. A.; Venkatesan, S.
Indian Association of Veterinary Anatomists, Orissa, India
Indian Journal of Veterinary Anatomy, 2015, 27, 2, pp 56-59
Effect of prenatal administration of dexamethasone in rats on profiles hematologic and glicidic maternal and offspring.
The effect of the administration of dexamethasone at the beginning and middle of the pregnancy in rats on hematological and glicidic maternal and offspring profile was evaluated. The animals underwent the following treatments: dexamethasone from the first to the seventh day and placebo from the 8th ...
Vilaça Junior, P. E. A.; Soares, A. F.; Wanderley-Teixeira, V.; Araújo, A. C. C.; Teixeira, A. A. C.
FEPMVZ - Editora, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, 2012, 64, 3, pp 606-614
Effects of induced maternal hypothyroidism on the ovarian development of offspring rats.
The effects of propylthyouracil (PTU) induced hypothyroidism of rats during pregnancy and lactation on offspring ovarian development and maturation were studied. Thyroid hormones and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) concentrations were determined using the radioimmunoassay method in order to...
Radovanović, A.; Roksandić, D.; Šimić, M.; Marković, D.; Gledić, D.
Fakultet Veterinarske Medicine, Univerziteta u Beogradu, Beograd, Serbia
Acta Veterinaria (Beograd), 2012, 62, 5/6, pp 483-493
Stereological and histological analysis of the developing rat heart.
We studied with quantitative and microscopical methods the heart of rats divided into five age groups: embryos at the age of 11 days, fetuses at the age of 16 days and 20 days and also heart samples of 3-day-old pups and young adults (5 weeks of age) were used (n=10 samples in each group). At the...
Altunkaynak, M. E.; Altunkaynak, B. Z.; Unal, D.; Yıldırım, S.; Can, I.; Unal, B.
Anatomia Histologia Embryologia, 2011, 40, 6, pp 402-410
Light microscopical and histochemical studies on developing rat parotid gland in prenatal, postnatal and adult terms.
This research comparatively studied developmental distributions of the parotid gland in rats at intrauterine 17 days (prenatal term), 30 days (postnatal term), and 6 months old (mature stage), using routine histochemical and histological staining methods. It was observed at prenatal term that the...
Altunlu, E.; Koç, A.; Kozlu, T.; Bozkurt, Y. A.; Ateș, S.
Atatürk Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Yayinidir, Erzurum, Turkey
Atatürk Üniversitesi Veteriner Bilimleri Dergisi, 2010, 5, 3, pp 129-139
In utero domoic acid toxicity: a fetal basis to adult disease in the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus).
California sea lions have been a repeated subject of investigation for early life toxicity, which has been documented to occur with increasing frequency from late February through mid-May in association with organochlorine (PCB and DDT) poisoning and infectious disease in the 1970's and domoic acid ...
Ramsdell, J. S.; Zabka, T. S.
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPA), Basel , Switzerland
Marine Drugs, 2008, 6, 2, pp 262-290
Change in expression of a 90-kDa glycoprotein GP90-MC301 during prenatal and postnatal testicular development: a differentiation marker for rat germ cells.
GP90-MC301, a 90-kDa glycoprotein recognized by the monoclonal antibody MC301, is a reliable stage-specific marker for preleptotene to pachytene spermatocytes in adult rat testes. In this study we confirmed that the glycoprotein is also useful as a marker for germ cells in prenatal and postnatal...
Tanii, I.; Yoshinaga, K.
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Mercedes Benz E Class W124 W210 Petrol 1993 2000 Workshop Manual Brooklands Books Ltd UK
The Mercedes-Benz E-Class W124 W210 (Petrol) 1993 - 2000 Workshop Manual
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The Mercedes-Benz E-Class W124 & W210 (Petrol) 1993 - 2000 Workshop Manual covers:
Brooklands Mercedes-Benz E Class W124 Series from 1993 to 1995 and the W210 Series from 1995 to 2000, Series E200, E220, E230, E280 and E320 fitted with the 4-cylinder 111 petrol engine and the in-line 6-cylinder 104 petrol engine.
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With the aid of this manual, many aspects of service, overhaul and repair are within the scope of an owner with a reasonable degree of mechanical aptitude.
About the Marcedes Benz E-Class
The Mercedes-Benz E-Class will be a personal choice of executive-size cars manufactured by Mercedes-Benz in a variety of engine and the body configurations. The E initially stood for Einspritzmotor, (German for fuel injection system engine); a new feature in volume production vehicles at that time in which the E-Class first appeared, with all the E just like a suffix to go to the engine nomenclature (e.g. 230E) in to the 1950s. It wasn't until the launch belonging to the facelifted W124 that your particular E was used just like a prefix (i.e., E220) and therefore the model referred to officially due to the fact E-Class (or E-Klasse). Presently all Mercedes cars used fuel injection system and then the company felt it wasn't necessary in order to this just like a distinguishing feature. Due to E-Class's size and durability, the cars also frequently serve as taxis in The european union. Older models just like the W123 and W124 are being used in Malaysia as inter-state taxis, along with the W211 is used in Singapore as being a taxi. Mercedes-Benz has the benefit of special-purpose vehicles (e.g., police or ambulance modifications) belonging to the factory. The W124 should be a mid-sized vehicle platform. To its pricey German engineering and build quality, the W124 principal purpose is to last many miles, with awards actually given and worn by high mileage versions.
Front suspension runs on the separate spring and damper which has a rubber top mount. The rear suspension belonging to the W124 features the Mercedes multi-link axle introduced in 1982 together with the Mercedes 190 and that is now standard on many modern cars. Estate cars (and optionally, saloons and coupes) had Citroen-like self-leveling rear suspension with suspension struts as opposed to shock absorbers, gas-filled suspension spheres for the provision of damping and an under bonnet pressurizing pump. Unlike the traditional Citroën application Mercedes opted for a fixed ride height and employed rear coil springs to take care of the static ride height when parked. The R129 took it's origin from the W124 platform, in return W124 was equipped with a roadster's engines, in its 500E version..
A lot of the 124's engineering as well as several of its features were advanced automotive technology at its introduction, incorporating innovations which are adopted usually in the industry. It had among the lowest drag coefficient (Cd) of any vehicle of times (0.28 for any of the 200/200D model for all the European market with 185/65 R15 tires) for the aerodynamic body, that included plastic molding for all the undercarriage to streamline airflow beneath the motor car, reducing fuel consumption and wind noise. It had a single windscreen wiper which in fact had an eccentric mechanism at its base that extended the wiper's reach up to the top corners belonging to the windscreen (more than whether or not it had traveled held in a simple arc). The saloon/sedan, coupés and convertibles had optional rear headrests that are going to fold down remotely this will assist rearward visibility when required. This feature was not available for those who are T-model due to its specific layout (no space to store the retractable headrests), even though the station-wagon serially came with a "neighbour-friendly" rear door that was pulled contained in the shut-position silently and automatically by a sensor-controlled servomotor. Except the 200, which had been well suited for a Stromberg or Pierburg carburetor but was not available in to the United States Of America, fuel injection was standard, and also the engines incorporated features that maximised performance. The most notable such feature was adding an oxygen sensor in to the exhaust system which, in conjunction with a semi-electronic fuel injection, can certainly make the engine run more efficiently. This new and further enhanced fuel consumption while simultaneously meeting stricter emission regulations. Mercedes-Benz's 4 wheel drive system, the 4Matic was first introduced out in the W124 in 1986.
The estate cars (chassis designation S124) came in 5- or 7-seat models, the 7-seater having a rear-facing bench seat that folded flush luggage compartment cover and an optional (in the us alone until 1994) retractable cargo net. In america alone 7-seat models were standard, 5-seat models were out of stock. The S124 estate continued in production alongside the brand new W210 through to the S210 estate launched at least a year later. A two-door coupe version have also been built, together with the chassis designation C124.
Mercedes launched a cabriolet (convertible) version in Europe in 1991, the 300 CE 24V, as well as in the united kingdom (RHD) and Japan (LHD), the 320CE, and The United States, the 300CE, in NINETEEN NINETY TWO. These versions were re-designated given that the E320 in 1993, complemented by way of less powerful, but less expensive E220 in NINETEEN NINTY THREE, as well as the mainland-Europe-only E 200 in 1994. Mercedes brought the E320 cabriolet (convertible) up to the USA and Japan from NINETEEN NINTY THREE to 1995. There was clearly 68 E36 AMG cabriolets built from 1993 until 1996 (54 LHD and 14 RHD) and possibly even fewer 300CE 3.4 AMG from 1992 until 1993 to complement the also rare E36 AMG coupe, saloon (RHD only) and estate. The E320, E220, and E200 cabriolets ceased production in 1997.
SsangYong Motor Company of Korea licensed the W124 design and is constantly on the produce a stretched version associated with the W124 as you move Chairman, by using a Ssangyong badge. It provides 2.9 m (110 in) wheelbase and 3.2 L Mercedes straight-6 M104 engine. Chairman currently has 2.3 L (M111), 2.8 L (M104), and 3.2 L (M104) engines in its product line-ups. SsangYong Chairman has developed a 3.6 L version of M104 engine recently as a result of high-end Chairman line up. The engine is recognized as XGi360. .
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Liberty Health Sciences Experiences a Significant Increase in Year-Over-Year Revenue and Provides Update on its Liberty 360 and Ohio Operations
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TORONTO, Dec. 7, 2018
TORONTO, Dec. 7, 2018 /CNW/ - Liberty Health Sciences Inc. (CSE: LHS) (OTCQX: LHSIF) www.libertyhealthsciences.com ("Liberty" or the "Company"), a provider of high quality cannabis, announced today that they experienced a significant increase in sales revenue in the quarter ended November 30, 2018 compared to the same period in the prior year. For the quarter ended November 30, 2018, revenue increased by 45% compared to the quarter ended August 31, 2018.
Liberty's recent quarterly revenue totalled $3.2 million and its fiscal year-to-date revenue totaled $6.5 million. This continued growth in revenue reflects the Company's improvement on returning patient count and the expanding dispensary base, as well as the strength of its partnerships with best-in-class brands such as PAX and Mary's Medicinals.
Liberty's patient count increased by 46% during the quarter ended November 30, 2018 to approximately 14,500 patients. Supporting this growth is Liberty's accelerated pace in opening dispensaries, adding three additional dispensaries over the last quarter for a total of seven dispensaries and six delivery hubs opened to date. Liberty expects to open another seven dispensaries by the end of February 2019 to a total of 14 dispensaries across Florida, including locations in Miami, Boca Raton and Gainesville, subject to the receipt of all necessary approvals from the Florida Department of Health. Under the state regulations, the Company is entitled to open up to 30 dispensaries. Accordingly, Liberty will continue to seek suitable locations in response to the state's growing patient count.
"We are happy with the progress we are making as we continue to move forward on both dispensary openings and operational capacity," said George Scorsis, CEO of Liberty Health Sciences. "Liberty remains committed to growth and operational excellence across Florida and to potential expansion opportunities in other states."
In support of the ongoing opening of its dispensary locations, Liberty expects to finish construction in phases on the planned 225,000 square feet Liberty 360 facility including the state-of-the-art processing and production space in 2019. Liberty is currently operating 20,000 square feet of cultivation space at the Liberty 360 property as well as 24,000 square feet at the original Alachua property to support the growing demand for product. The next phase, expected to be completed in early 2019, will add 80,000 square feet of cultivation space. Liberty is fully funded to complete these capital expenditures.
"Our cultivation team is doing an excellent job and we continue to get amazing yields from our operations," said Lewis Swarts, VP Operations of Liberty Health Sciences. "The automation we have introduced into our processing operations is paying dividends as we are able to keep up with the increase in demand from our growing patient base."
In addition to the expanded cultivation and processing space, the facility will also include a state-of-the-art research and development lab. With the completion of the processing plant, Liberty's extraction capacity will increase by nine times its current level.
The completion of Liberty 360 will allow Liberty to significantly increase its production capacity, expand its product line and provide scientific and technical support for Liberty's operations in other states. Liberty currently employs just under 200 people across its operations and dispensaries. With the anticipated completion of Liberty 360, the Company expects to employ a diverse workforce of up to 500 people including patient liaisons, scientists, engineers and cultivation specialists.
In Ohio, Liberty, together with their joint venture partners, the Schottenstein Group, expects to open their dispensary in Dayton, Ohio at the end of March 2019. Its processing facility will open subsequent to that in the spring of 2019, each depending on the receipt of the required regulatory approvals. The joint venture has secured a 10,000 square foot processing facility, which will be used for extraction, refining, formulation and packaging.
"Liberty is committed to bringing the same high-quality offerings to Ohio as we have in Florida," said Scorsis. "With the knowledge base gained over our last year of operation, we believe we have the team and tools to continue to succeed."
About Liberty Health Sciences Inc.
Liberty is the cannabis provider committed to providing a trusted, high quality cannabis experience based on our genuine care for all cannabis users and a focus on operational excellence from seed to sale and beyond. Liberty's measured approach to expansion opportunities maximizes returns to shareholders, while keeping consumers' well-being at the forefront of what we do. For more information, please visit: www.libertyhealthsciences.com.
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Any statements that are contained in this news release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often identified by terms such as "may", "should", "anticipate", "expect", "believe", "plan", "intend" or the negative of these terms and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements in this news release include, but are not limited to, expectations related to the Company's production capabilities, expectations concerning the receipt of all necessary approvals from the Florida Department of Health, the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy, and other regulators, expectations concerning the opening of new dispensaries and the Company's planned expansion and opening of the Liberty 360 facility, expectations concerning employment numbers , and the Company's future expansion and growth strategies. Forward-looking statements necessarily involve known and unknown risks, including, without limitation, risks associated with general economic conditions; adverse industry events; marketing costs; loss of markets; future legislative and regulatory developments involving medical marijuana; inability to access sufficient capital from internal and external sources, and/or inability to access sufficient capital on favorable terms; the medical marijuana industry in the United States generally, income tax and regulatory matters; the ability of Liberty to implement its business strategies; competition; crop failure; currency and interest rate fluctuations and other risks. Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list is not exhaustive. Readers are further cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as there can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which they are placed will occur. Such information, although considered reasonable by management at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated. Forward-looking statements contained in this news release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.
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UK pre-orders for 4G version of Microsoft’s Surface 2 now open
Dropbox opens business package to all as early access ends
- Jimmy Nicholls
The cloud file-sharing firm will showcase a range of collaborative features tomorrow.
Dropbox has made its business package available to everyone, following the end of its early access period.
The cloud storage company originally revealed Dropbox for Business in November, inviting people to sign up for early access.
The service aimed to seamlessly connect personal and business accounts instead of making users switch between profiles to access separated files.
However, the solution is now open to all, the firm revealed in a blog post, in which they also hinted at "Project Harmony", which will allow multiple users to track who is editing a file, discuss projects and synchronise copies.
The service currently costs $175 per year for five users, with each additional user charged at $125.
Controls can be put in place to restrict access of specific files to particular team members, allow users access to files from third party apps and track what has been shared.
Admins will also have the power to remotely delete files from former employee accounts, or select who will inherit the files as staff move on.
Dropbox faces significant competition in the cloud storage market, with Google, Box, Microsoft and Amazon all offering alternatives.
Alongside the business package launch, the company today claimed to have 275 million users, an increase from November’s 200 million.
In January the Wall Street Journal reported that the company was valued at $10bn, and had raised $250m at a funding round.
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Book Title: Toby’s Troubles
Author: Carole Brown
Genre: Romantic Mystery, Cozy Mystery
Everyone loves Toby Gibson. A co-owner of Undiscovered Treasures, a unique shop of antiques, collectables and junk, Toby is friendly, generous to a fault, the director of the local plays in Appleton and supports his church’s youth functions. But the minute his sister, Caroline and her new husband, take off for their honeymoon, a “ghost” begins to haunt the shop—or maybe it’s just an intruder. If so, Toby has no idea for what he is looking. To add to his troubles, he suspects Amy, not only is bidding for the property he’s wanted forever, but is in love with him. And he’s not interested.
Amy Sanderson who owns the only flower shop in Appleton—Bloomin’ Life—is drawn into capturing Toby’s “ghost” when her own business is damaged by a destructive intruder. Having loved Toby from childhood, she’s more than willing to join forces with him. But she has no interest in being his best friend or like a sister to him. And if she has to resort to schemes of outbidding him at his frequent auction attendences to get his attention, then so be it. She can be just as stubborn as the man who’s determined to ignore her love.
In between the break-ins, destruction of property, thefts and personal competitions against each other, Amy and Toby work together to find the thief who seems so determined to find a valuable item, he’ll stop at nothing.
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Besides being a member and active participant of many writing groups, Carole Brown enjoys mentoring beginning writers. An author of ten books, she loves to weave suspense and tough topics into her books, along with a touch of romance and whimsy, and is always on the lookout for outstanding titles and catchy ideas. She and her husband reside in SE Ohio but have ministered and counseled nationally and internationally. Together, they enjoy their grandsons, traveling, gardening, good food, the simple life, and did she mention their grandsons?
Guest Post from Carole Brown
Antique Shops, A Thief, the Community Theater, and Love
Toby’s Troubles, Book Four from the Appleton, West Virginia Romantic Mysteries series
I knew when I wrote this book who Toby was. But capturing Toby’s personality and presenting it in the right way, was a challenge for me. Readers can see his teasing, fun-loving character when he labels the person who’s breaking into his shop as a ghost. But Toby is also serious, smart and successful. The side of him who has had plenty of girl friends, but who’s never gotten serious with any of them, is prominent too. But I didn’t want him to seem frivolous and uncaring, because he isn’t that. With a focus on his interests, love has never—as of yet—been a primary concern, so when Amy Sanderson strolls into his life, she turns out to be his confidant in the time of his troubles. The question is: can she not only have a place in his life as a best friend, but also capture his heart?
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Who doesn’t love a place filled with valuable items, interesting history, and hard-to-find items? Undiscovered Treasures—a shop of antiques, collectibles and junk—could be described as the town gathering place. Everyone loves browsing there. Deciding on such a place for the business of brother and sister, Toby and Caroline Gibson, was a fun choice. From grandfather clocks to unique shaped vases, it’s a shop where treasure hunters could just find what they’re looking for.
A Thief:
There are way too many new people visiting Appleton, West Virginia, so how is someone like Toby suppose to guess what the thief is after? The thief definitely knows what he’s looking for, just not where. He’s tall, thin and a fast runner, especially when escaping across a rooftop. But then, maybe it’s not a new person in town. Maybe the thief is Toby’s part time help, who has a mystery all of his own. It makes things interesting, and a bit terrifying for everyone.
The Community Theater:
One of Toby’s loves is directing and overseeing the community theater. Caroline Gibson writes some of the plays, the actors are usually taken from the West Virginia area, and all proceeds go to charities. But when their main actors, of the current play, elope and leave the play desolate, someone has to step in to fill the gaps. Toby struggles with decisions he doesn’t want to make.
Toby is smart, funny, and a resourseful man. He’s also busy with his community theater activities and his business. Known as the one man in town who’s not interested, at the current time, in getting married, his reputation of loving and leaving is in danger of being wrecked by one small woman. Can she sabotage his well-laid plans and help him realize it’s now or never? Could it be the time when real love is captured by two people, even when one of them seems doomed to ignore what God’s put in their hearts?
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Oliver was gliding high on his first solo flight
From left to right: Peter Concannon, Oliver's flying instructor, Oliver Dudley-Heidkamp, Andrew Perkins, deputy chairman of the British Gliding Association and Mike Clark, chief flying instructor
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Teenager, 14, flies 1,100ft above Haddenham for seven minutes – on his own!
Was able to fly alone after EU lowered legal age from 16 to 14
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A young glider pilot celebrated his 14th birthday by launching into his first solo flight in a glider 1,100ft above an airfield in Haddenham.
Oliver Dudley-Heidkamp, of Churchill Crescent, Thame, flew the ASK-13 glider on his own for around seven minutes over the Upward Bound Trust’s airfield after a year and a half’s worth of training.
The youngster, who lives with dad Thomas, mother Christina and sister Danielle, seven, said: “It was amazing – like no other feeling I’ve ever had before.”
The Lord Williams’s School pupil has been interested in flying since the age of eight, when he first went up in a two-seater with his father.
Mr Dudley-Heidkamp said: “Learning to fly with the Trust has been a wonderful experience for Oliver and it has given him enormous confidence in himself. We are extremely proud of him.”
The teenager grasped the opportunity to get in the cockpit alone after new EU rules lowered the legal age for young people to fly solo from 16 to 14.
Oliver was presented with a certificate marking his achievement by Andrew Perkins, deputy chairman of the British Gliding Association.
Chief flying instructor Mike Clark said: “It is a great opportunity for young people to develop competence and judgement at a very young age.
“Flying an aircraft requires them to demonstrate enormous responsibility to ensure that they, and others, are safe together in the sky.
“Oliver has demonstrated that he can do this and I am delighted for him.”
It was amazing – like no other feeling I’ve ever had before.
Oliver Dudley-Heidkamp, young glider pilot
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Man convicted of selling deadly fentanyl to OD survivor
A Northern Kentucky woman's near-overdose on fentanyl led to a federal conviction of a Cincinnati man who sold the drugs to the survivor.
Man convicted of selling deadly fentanyl to OD survivor A Northern Kentucky woman's near-overdose on fentanyl led to a federal conviction of a Cincinnati man who sold the drugs to the survivor. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/2eDmOon
Terry DeMio, tdemio@enquirer.com Published 10:45 a.m. ET Oct. 28, 2016 | Updated 12:22 p.m. ET Oct. 28, 2016
Fentanyl, 30 to 50 times as strong as heroin, caused the overdose of a woman in Covington in 2014. The U.S. Attorney got a conviction who sold the deadly drug.(Photo: Provided)
It was the first time in Northern Kentucky that the U.S. Attorney's Office prosecuted a trafficker for distributing heroin or fentanyl to someone who overdosed but survived, officials said Friday.
Antoine Dudley, 32, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Covington to distributing a controlled substance that caused serious bodily injury on the fourth day of his trial. U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar accepted an agreement to have Dudley serve 25 years in prison followed by 15 years in supervised release. He'll be sentenced Dec. 1.
Prosecutors say Dudley had been selling heroin and fentanyl, to people throughout Northern Kentucky from September 2014 through his arrest May 8, 2015. He sold the powerful opioid fentanyl that caused his buyer's overdose on Nov. 21, 2014, and the Covington Fire Department revived the woman with naloxone. She has fully recovered, but the evidence showed she would have died if not for the paramedics' response.
A nationwide trend in prosecutions and sentencing for those dealing heroin and other opioids has been to trace the death back to the person who sold the drug to grab a conviction with a tough prison term.
U.S. Attorney Kerry B. Harvey noted Friday that use of naloxone to save lives of those who overdose isn't going to invalidate the crime of the person who sold the deadly drugs. "The severe penalty for selling drugs that result in an overdose applies, even if the victim survives," he said in a statement.
The plea agreement with Dudley requires him to serve at least 85 percent of his sentence.
"We intend to use every tool available to us in order to combat Kentucky’s opioid epidemic, including the mandatory sentence of 20 to life in cases such as this one," Harvey said.
Harvey's office gained convictions in March of the drug dealer and the mother of a woman who died in the Kenton County jail in September 2015 from an overdose. Kimberly Mullins, 44, of Covington, and Michael T. Howard, 41, of Cincinnati, both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to get a deadly drug cocktail that included fentanyl to Jamie Green, 25.
Also in that case, the assistant U.S. Attorney gained convictions of two women who pleaded guilty to conspiring to get Green heroin in the Campbell County jail prior to her day's lockup in Kenton County. Green had not overdosed in the Campbell jail.
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Heroin Resurgence
This son went missing in July during "Seven Days of Heroin." Now, he's found.
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Fentanyl blamed as Cincinnati overdose deaths soar
Hamilton County to boost Narcan by 400 percent
Drug deaths more than double, thanks to fentanyl
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5 lessons the DOD can teach you about innovation
While it might not always seem like it, Washington, D.C., is no stranger to cutting costs. At one of the branches of the Department of Defense, in fact, lowering the costs of failure can bring innovation, even in times of budgetary belt-tightening.
By Jackie Burns Koven
CIO | PT
Photo By: Navy Lt. Jeffrey Prunera
The Intelligence Community’s (IC) IT budget is flat-lining. Like most other federal organizations facing successive years of budget constraints, the IC has been continuously challenged to do more with less. One former IC executive quietly implemented innovative solutions that yielded millions of dollars in government savings by basing his strategy on Joi Ito’s maxim: “If you want to be innovative, lower the cost of failure.”
In just two years as the Defense Intelligence Agency’s CIO, Dan Doney spearheaded a number of initiatives revolutionizing rickety processes and tech. He explains that enabling the government to be innovative was not about bright shiny objects, but streamlining processes to discover, evaluate, integrate and acquire emerging ideas – big or small. The secret, he says, is to be “systematically opportunistic.”
Using simple platforms that could be adopted by most federal offices, he optimized how innovators interface with government, and how the workforce surfaced needs and solutions to mission problems. Here’s how:
1. Help wanted: post IT needs clearly and openly
In order for outside developers to address IT needs, they have to be able to find and understand them. The cumbersome online federal IT bidding system is its own worst enemy, keeping new solutions from getting in, and cutting-edge startups from even trying. Proposal and business development often introduces years of technical diligence, compete periods, government review and funding allocation. Typically, these delays are only financially feasible for large companies with a robust commercial client base.
Doney established the more user-friendly acquisition interface, NeedipeDIA, enabling outside developers and small businesses to easily discover and address DIA needs. He also launched the Open Innovation Gateway – an online environment simulating DOD IT environments so that companies could develop to DOD specifications and allow DIA to rapidly test and field the most promising capabilities.
[Related: Government websites best Amazon, Google in user satisfaction]
2. Form a DIY ‘Shark Tank’ to expedite acquisition decisions
Quick decisive action is required to onboard transformative ideas, Doney says. Multi-year government budget cycles and planning prohibit this approach, so he developed an internal venture capital mechanism at DIA to provide in-execution-year fiscal agility and crisp decision making to respond to new opportunities or mission needs. The process aimed to induce agency decisions within one month and 6 month pilot delivery timelines. “Agencies abhor a decision as nature abhors a vacuum,” he says.
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His “Ideas to Action” process designed to move quickly from idea, to decision, to execution, short circuited normal agency decision making consisting of over 140 agency boards. One such pilot delivered a workforce idea simplifying the transfer of unclassified material to classified networks, resulting in an estimated savings of $40 million and costing just $325,000 to execute. This process helped launch the IC’s first operational Top Secret wireless network and set the stage for broader adoption across the IC and DOD.
3. Don’t be a ‘brand snob’
Though difficult to imagine now, there was a time when nobody knew who Microsoft or Apple was. Distrust of outside ideas and not always knowing what to ask for are also endemic in centralized institutions. Doney says that innovators submitting unsolicited proposals and disruptive technologies often fall through the cracks. “Evaluating emerging technologies through a paper proposal process is a fool errand’” he says. He gave the example of an obscure business that approached DIA through NeedipeDIA claiming it could process data faster than IC systems. Doney recalls many dismissed it (including himself), but proffered them access to the Open Innovation Gateway. Sure enough, the company outperformed government tech.
[Related: Government wants to increase IT spending 1.3% in proposed budget]
4. Psst! The best solutions may reside in the floors below the executive suite
Top-down government acquisition processes run the risk of spending millions of dollars on multi-year contracts for tools the workforce does not want or need. So Doney helped launch the “Nerd Brigade,” a nod to the Geek Squad, composed of coders and technicians to streamline and automate workflows for what he calls “the disenfranchised end-user” with tasks not viewed sexy or important enough to receive funding.
Together technologists and end-users could ideate and iterate unique tools. He recalled that the Nerd Brigade built a solution in just two weeks for a group of analysts burdened with manual data entry that saved 65 percent of an analyst’s day. “The problem was never that there were not enough ideas,” Doney explains. “There are plenty of ideas, but no mechanisms in government to enable them to surface.”
5. Adjust expectations of IT without lowering standards
With low costs to execute and low risk if they fail, lean IT solutions should be an attractive option across government; however, each of Doney’s initiatives met resistance. Some argued that securing funding and in-house-expertise to maintain custom IT solutions would be too problematic given tenuous budgets. Doney proposes the need for a new delivery model disrupting this mentality – disposable IT. With an IT landscape that transforms every couple years, federal processes that require years to plan and deliver cannot succeed. “We must learn to deliver capabilities in weeks that aren’t intended to last years – by design.”
Any organization is capable of democratizing processes to execute “crisp decisions,” as Doney refers to it, and give voice to the mundane and unsexy workflows. Empowering the government workforce may be the most innovative solution yet. IT can only fix so much if bureaucracy won’t let it help itself.
Jacqueline Burns Koven served in the Department of Defense from 2009-2015. She is attending graduate school at Columbia University in New York.
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Security Implications of the Humble Computer Clock
NTP fixes denial-of-service flaws
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Time Waits for No One: 'leap Seconds' May Be Cut
2016 will be 1 second longer: Google can help you cope
The company will let others use it time servers to ride out a "leap second" on Dec. 31
By Stephen Lawson
Senior U.S. Correspondent, IDG News Service | PT
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Like a man eager to show off his new watch, Google is encouraging anyone running IT operations to ask it for the time.
The company will let anyone use its NTP (Network Time Protocol) servers, a move to help IT shops cope with the next “leap second,” which will be tacked onto 2016 just after midnight on Dec. 31.
Leap seconds help to keep clocks aligned with Earth’s rotation, which can vary due to geologic and even weather conditions. But an extra second can wreak havoc with applications and services that depend on systems being tightly synchronized.
Most Internet-connected devices get their time through NTP, an open-source technology that's used all over the world. NTP has its own problems, mainly around funding, but it's long been the standard. Google runs its own NTP servers and uses them to ease its systems through leap seconds, according to Michael Shields, technical lead on the company’s Time Team, in a blog post on Wednesday.
Time synchronization is critical for many things Google’s systems do, such as keeping replicas up to date, determining which data-affecting operation happened last, and correctly reporting the order of searches and clicks, the company says.
Ordinary operating systems can’t accommodate a minute that’s 61 seconds long, so some organizations have used special-case workarounds for the extra second. But sometimes these methods raise issues, like what happens to write operations that take place during that second. At times in the past, some Google systems have refused to work when faced with a leap second, though this didn’t affect the company’s services, a Google representative said.
So Google will modify its NTP servers to run clocks 0.0014 percent slower for 10 hours before the leap second and for 10 hours afterward. When the leap second takes place, they will have accounted for it already. Google’s been using this technique, called “smeared time,” since a leap second in 2008.
Enterprises running virtual-machine instances on Google Compute Engine, and those using Google APIs, will want to keep their own systems synchronized with Google’s slightly slower clocks during that 20-hour period. Client systems will also have to be set to that time in order to work with those servers. And it won’t work to run some servers on smeared time and some on regular time, because then clients won’t know which time to follow, Google says.
So the company is making its NTP servers available free through the Google Public NTP service. Users can take advantage of the service by configuring their network settings to use time.google.com as their NTP server. The company laid out detailed instructions for synchronizing systems to its smeared time.
Google won’t be the only company smearing time on Dec. 31. Akamai plans to slow down its clocks over a 24-hour period around the leap second. Amazon and Microsoft have done the same thing in the past.
In fact, the big cloud companies look ready to standardize on a 24-hour “leap smear.” Google plans to use the longer transition for the next leap second, partly to ease more slowly into extra second and partly to align itself with other companies. There’s no date yet for the next leap second, but Google expects it to come in 2018.
Leap seconds began in 1972 and are now administered by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS). They’re needed because Earth’s rotation isn’t uniform. It’s affected by things like tides in the oceans and the movement of magma beneath the Earth’s crust. Atomic clocks, which set the standard for most timekeeping, are more consistent than that.
Stephen Lawson is a senior U.S. correspondent for the IDG News Service based in San Francisco.
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Lighthouse Tender Peapod 13' 5" 160 lbs. 52 in. 650 lbs. 6" 30" 95 sq ft.
We've been working on this new 13'5" rowing-sailing design since Fall 2017. Much of the construction was done last summer in a class at the WoodenBoat School with finish work and rigs completed here at CLC by Travis Guthrie and colleagues. We don't have a release date for the kits and plans, but we're aiming for late spring 2019.
This design is modeled on the "peapods" indigenous to Maine. "Peapod" is a somewhat amorphous term for a double-ended rowing-sailing boat, used for inshore lobstering, fishing, and general utility such as tending lighthouses. Thus the design name: Lighthouse Tender. Designer John C. Harris was inspired by the "Old Sailing Peapod" from Washington County, Maine, detailed in American Small Sailing Craft, Howard Chapelle's indispensable reference work of traditional designs. The boat in American Small Sailing Craft was built "about 1886" and its hull shape recorded by Chapelle in 1937.
A good peapod is stable enough to allow the crew to stand and retrieve heavy lobster pots over the side. Rowing qualities are central to the design, but sailing rigs were added whenever much distance needed to be covered. Stable and easily driven, they make fine sailboats. Traditional working peapods were extinct by the 1960's, but thanks to Chapelle and others the type found a new life as a pleasure boat.
A traditional peapod is really hard to build. It took John Harris the better part of 20 years to translate the Maine peapod's subtlety of shape and character into a design that can be built easily using stitch-and-glue techniques, without a complicated mold or complex joinery.
"You'd never guess it, but the Skerry design was my first hack at a peapod, way back in 2000," John says. "At the time, however, getting plywood to bend into such a complex shape was out of reach of available design technology. Instead, the Skerry developed into a cousin of the round-sided dory---a simpler, though no less attractive shape. It was a happy accident, as the Skerry ended up really light and really quick to build, like a dory, and became one of the most popular boat kits of all time."
CAD/CAM has come a long way, meanwhile, and John remarks, "We've gotten a lot smarter." CLC's new Tenderly Dinghy was the big breakthrough, John says. "The Tenderly Dinghy can be stitched-and-glued by most first-time boatbuilders, yet there isn't the slightest compromise in that boat's traditional hull shape for the sake of construction ease. It's an absolutely free-form shape, unconstrained by the need to be shipped out as a pre-cut boat kit. Show a Tenderly Dinghy to a professional boatbuilder unfamiliar with the design, and they'll assume it was assembled using complex traditional techniques."
Before the 100th Tenderly Dinghy kit had shipped, John was convinced that he could have his stitch-and-glue peapod at last. In many respects, the new peapod design is a Tenderly Dinghy with a pointed stern instead of a transom. After some tinkering, the prototype Lighthouse Tender was built at CLC, and another during a class at the WoodenBoat School during 2018. Both hulls were finished at CLC while cameras snapped pictures for the instruction manual.
Early tests have been extremely promising. The Lighthouse Tender rows and sails beautifully. It's stable and, like its traditional forebears, carries a heavy load. Though the Lighthouse Tender is 18" shorter than the Skerry, its payload is 45% larger, at 650lbs.
We'll be working to put the kit (and plans for scratch-builders) into production throughout the winter and spring of 2019. Stay tuned for more photos and performance reports.
CLC's peapod has all of the subtle shape of a good Maine peapod, and it's lovely to row.
Rig options will include either a single balanced lug sail or a cat-yawl rig with two lug sails.
A traditional pivoting centerboard is standard, and the rudder kicks up.
All versions will include three mast steps, allowing numerous rig options.
Need more wind for photos!
In this photo, the boat is displacing about 810lbs.
The sterns of the two prototypes are closest to the photographer, showing the big skeg for solid tracking while rowing.
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Has NHS England ignored its own pharmacy services review?
by Grace Lewis 12/12/2017 3 comments Features
Keith Ridge said in October there is "no need to have a formal response" to the review
C+D examines Keith Ridge's claim that the 'Murray' review into pharmacy services has "by and large been taken into account"
When NHS England commissioned a wide-ranging review of the “value” of community pharmacy services in April 2016, it was designed to “make the most of the existing clinical services that community pharmacy can provide”.
The sector attached high hopes to the independent report – soon dubbed the ‘Murray’ review after Richard Murray, the director of policy at the health think tank the King’s Fund, who led the exercise – with the Pharmacists' Defence Association suggesting it could redistribute commissioning power across pharmacy.
When the long-awaited report was finally published in December 2016, community pharmacy looked on in anticipation at how the government and commissioners would respond.
So what did the 'Murray' review recommend?
Redesign of MURs
Existing medicines use reviews (MURs) should be "redesigned" to include "on-going monitoring and regular follow-up with patients".
“Ultimately MURs should evolve into full clinical medication reviews, utilising independent prescribing as part of the care pathway,” Mr Murray said in the review.
For MURs to be “safe and effective”, pharmacists should be given access to patients' full medical records.
NHS England must decide on minor ailments
“NHS England should set out how it intends to deliver” its commitment to have locally commissioned minor ailments schemes across England by April 2018, Mr Murray said. "Progress towards [the commitment] clearly needs to happen sooner."
He also recommended “building on the experience in Scotland”, where a national minor ailments scheme has been available for “nearly a decade”.
National smoking cessation services
“Consideration should be given to smoking cessation services becoming an element of a national contract.”
Electronic repeat dispensing
Mr Murray recommended “full use” of the electronic repeat dispensing service, and for it to become the “default” option for repeat prescribing – except for patients who are not yet stabilised on their medication.
Integrating services
Community pharmacists should be more involved in NHS England's 'vanguard' sites, to better integrate them into "long-term condition management pathways".
Mr Murray also recommended greater support from NHS England and national partners to help integrate community pharmacy into the 44 sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) across England.
Breaking down professional boundaries
The report urged the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), Royal College of General Practitioners, the British Medical Association and the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) to "come together and unravel professional boundary issues", to promote closer working relationships.
Independent prescribing
Mr Murray recommended "incentives for more rapid uptake of independent prescribing", to overcome the "relatively low take-up" across community pharmacy.
“Pointing the way” to the sector’s future
At the time, England’s chief pharmaceutical officer Keith Ridge said Mr Murray's “useful report points the way to a more clinical future for community pharmacists and pharmacy technicians”.
“The NHS locally and nationally will want to consider many of the ideas the report lays out,” he added.
The sector was not to hear from Dr Ridge again on the matter for another six months – and even then, only on prompting from C+D – when he said NHS England would formally respond to the review “at some point, hopefully in the not-too-distant future”.
Dr Ridge also told C+D at the time the commissioner needed to “think about how we are pursuing” the report's recommendation to transform MURs into “clinical medication reviews”.
Three months later, Dr Ridge acknowledged at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s (RPS) annual conference that community pharmacy was still “waiting with baited breath” for a response to the review.
So there was understandable surprise when on October 30, Dr Ridge dramatically changed tack. He admitted in an all-party parliamentary group (APPG) meeting that NHS England would not be publishing a formal response to the review “because we do feel that it’s by and large been taken into account”.
In light of this, C+D went to NHS England to find out if these recommendations are really being put into practice, and if so – how?
What is NHS England doing about the review’s findings?
Dr Ridge told C+D in November that NHS England is “already making significant progress” when it comes to “implementing many of its recommendations”, and these are “helping patients benefit from the expertise of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians as clinical healthcare professionals”.
When C+D asked for specifics, NHS England referred to its “significant investment” in programmes to deploy pharmacists and pharmacy technicians into wider primary care settings, primarily “to carry out medicines optimisation and relieve the pressures on GP practices and hospital admissions”. This is being funded and evaluated as part of the Pharmacy Integration Fund – which itself made headlines recently, when Dr Ridge admitted the sector was unlikely to receive its promised £42 million, allocated for 2016-18, by the end of the financial year.
On top of this, NHS England highlighted that Health Education England has used the fund to develop training and development programmes – such as the “flagship” Mary Seacole programme, a leadership training initiative for community pharmacists and technicians. There are “hundreds of places for community pharmacy…to ensure participants receive the tailored support they need”, NHS England explained. Many of these programmes are still being developed and will start in “early 2018”, it added.
“Clinical” pharmacists”
A total of 491 “clinical” pharmacists are now working in GP surgeries across England, as part of NHS England’s commitment to recruit 2,000 GP pharmacists by 2020-21, NHS England said. These placements are “providing great opportunities for pharmacists”, it claimed, adding that over 60% of the pharmacists in the programme are from a community pharmacy background.
Digital developments
NHS England also pointed out that “the rollout of NHSmail to community pharmacy will be complete this year”, addressing Mr Murray’s recommendation that “digital maturity and connectivity [should] be improved to facilitate effective and confidential communication between registered pharmacy professionals and other members of the healthcare team”.
The commissioner said the sector’s “digital infrastructure” is being upgraded to address the need for “greater interoperability” between healthcare providers.
What about the other recommendations?
Mr Murray's recommendation for MURs to be "redesigned" as "full clinical medication reviews" was the aspect of the review which gained the most attention from C+D readers. And yet, despite Dr Ridge acknowledging the speculation around this issue, NHS England did not address this at all in its response to C+D.
Minor ailments schemes may have fared even worse. Despite the review recommending that NHS England put its money where its mouth is and commit to its pledge for every clinical commissioning group (CCG) to commission a minor ailments scheme by April 2018, Dr Ridge appears to have back-tracked on this pledge completely. When pressed by MPs in October to explain how NHS England and the government will reverse the trend of CCGs decommissioning these schemes in their areas, Dr Ridge stated the sector has "moved on".
“I think we’re in a transition phase here from the traditional minor ailments scheme, through to something that is much more digitally-led,” Dr Ridge said. A far cry from the Murray review's call for blanket coverage of traditional minor ailments services across the country.
So has the review been implemented?
While NHS England can point to certain schemes which seem to parallel some of the recommendations – such as a push for greater access to NHS records – these strategies were in place long before the report was published.
When it comes to the more ambitious, and pharmacy-specific, proposals – revamping MURs, a national smoking cessation scheme or pushing for greater minor ailments commissioning – NHS England has either done nothing or actively back-tracked.
While the review could act as detailed roadmap for community pharmacy to play an expanded role at both a local and national level, there seems little urgency on the part of NHS England to make these recommendations a reality.
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I hope Ridge is okay, still seems to be sporting the midlife crisis beard.
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Field Norway Chess Completed
PeterDoggers
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On Tuesday the field for the Norway Chess tournament in June was completed with Anish Giri of the Netherlands. He will play together with Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk, Fabiano Caruana, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Sergey Karjakin, Peter Svidler and Simen Agdestein, who qualified by beating Jon Ludvig Hammer in a rapid match.
Norway Chess is this year sponsored by Unibet, an online gambling company located in Malta, even though the logo cannot be shown due to legal restrictions.
The second edition of the Norway Chess tournament will be the next super tournament, with many top 10 players playing. The dates are 2-13 June, 2014 and again the Stavanger region is hosting the event. Since the promotion of the region is one of the main ideas behind the tournament, again the players will be moving the pieces in different locations, but not as many as last year. Here's the schedule:
Norway Chess 2014 | Schedule
Day Date Time Event Venue
Monday 02.06.2014 17.00 Blitz Flor & Fjære – closed event
Tuesday 03.06.2014 15.30 1th round Hotel Scandic Stavanger Forus
Wednesday 04.06.2014 15.30 2nd round Hotel Scandic Stavanger Forus
Thursday 05.06.2014 15.30 3rd round Hotel Scandic Stavanger Forus
Friday 06.06.2014 15.30 School tournament Vitenfabrikken, Sandnes
Saturday 07.06.2014 15.30 4th round Vågen VGS, Sandnes
Sunday 08.06.2014 15.30 5th round Hotel Scandic Stavanger Forus
Monday 09.06.2014 15.30 6th round Aarbakke fabrikkhall, Bryne
Wednesday 11.06.2014 TBA Celebrety tournament To be announced
Thursday 12.06.2014 15.30 8th round Hotel Scandic Stavanger Forus
Friday 13.06.2014 15.30 9th round Hotel Scandic Stavanger Forus
The main hotel, where most of the games will be played, has been moved to a place between Sandnes and Stavanger: the Hotel Scandic Stavanger Forus. The blitz event will be held on the beautiful Flor & Fjære island, there will be a school tournament in the Vitenfabrikken in Sandnes, the 4th round of the main tournament will be at Vågen VGS and the 6th round at the Aarbakke factory.
More about the venues can be read here. Below is a map:
In November 2013 the second Norway Chess tournament was already confirmed. The main sponsors are Scandic, Stavanger Aftenblad, Altibox, Lyse, Aarbakke og Jadarhus. The five last of these were also sponsors for Norway Chess 2013.
The first players who confirmed their participation were Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Veselin Topalov, Fabiano Caruana, Sergey Karjakin and Peter Svidler. Mid-February Vladimir Kramnik also said “yes” to the organizers, and about four weeks later his compatriot Alexander Grischuk was added to the list.
Last year, besides Carlsen Norway's honors were defended by Jon Ludvig Hammer, but this time it will be Simen Agdestein. The 46-year-old grandmaster, who represented Norway as a footballer player two decades ago but is now mainly occupied with chess coaching, defeated Hammer in a rapid qualification match on April 27th.
The match, which took place during the Shamkir Chess tournament, was held in the TV2 studio and broadcast live on TV and online. Agdestein won with a score of 3.5-1.5, winning games three and four:
Yesterday, the final player was confirmed: Anish Giri of the Netherlands. Here's the full list of participants:
Norway Chess 2014 | Participants
# Name Country Born Rating World #
1 Magnus Carlsen Norway November 30, 1990 2882 1
2 Levon Aronian Armenia October 6, 1982 2815 2
3 Alexander Grischuk Russia October 31, 1983 2792 3
4 Fabiano Caruana Italy July 30, 1992 2783 5
5 Vladimir Kramnik Russia June 25, 1975 2783 6
6 Veselin Topalov Bulgaria March 15, 1975 2772 8
7 Sergey Karjakin Russia January 12, 1990 2770 9
8 Peter Svidler Russia June 17, 1976 2753 13
9 Anish Giri The Netherlands June 28, 1994 2746 17
10 Simen Agdestein Norway May 15, 1967 2625 161
Alongside the main tournament there will be an open tournament, held 6-9 June at «2020park», a real estate business park at Forus, in short walking distance from the Scandic Forus Hotel. It's a 6-round Swiss in three rating groups.
More information can be found at norwaychess.com.
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Pueblo Has Talent encore to celebrate life
The finals of this year's Pueblo Has Talent showcase was so moving it merits an encore performance.
One that similarly celebrates life, the community and those working to make a difference in it.
This free showcase, organized by Pueblo Has Talent founder Jesse Sena, starts 6 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Hall.
"The 2019 finals were highlighted by exceptional performances, many of which contained powerful messages regarding suicide prevention, mental health, finding hope and encouragement and other important topics," Sena said. "As a means of reaching beyond the Pueblo Has Talent stage and arena, this encore will provide to our community an opportunity to celebrate exceptional local talent and the gift of life."
Ushering in the showcase is aerialist Shyanne Ackworth, 15, the Pueblo Has Talent champion whose performance was dedicated to suicide awareness and her cousin, who survived a suicide attempt.
A past Pueblo Has Talent first-place finisher, young Taylor Kenney, is set to sing the national anthem after the presentation of the colors by the Pueblo Fire Department Honor Guard.
In addition to 2019's third-place act, the magic and comedy duo Imaggio Lucero and Shaul Molina, Saturday's performers include guitarists Anthony Martinez and Ember Peaslee, dancer Xavier Gutierrez, soloists Izaiah Padilla and Geek Star, pole artists Jaqueline Santos and Nadia Robinson, rapper Eirrace Snead, the dance team Marcus, Jake and Rudy, and dramatist Raistlin VanDeGrift.
Due to health issues, 22-year-old Brooklyn Salisbury — the vocalist and pianist whose powerful performance garnered her a second-place finals finish — will not be part of the showcase.
But her courage and heart — Salisbury performed from a wheelchair with a feeding tube connected to her nose — will be acknowledged by Sena in a tribute address.
Also to be honored is the late Donnalee Alires-Gonzales, a dedicated social worker and community advocate who died earlier this year from a rare form of cancer.
For Alires-Gonzales' work in suicide prevention — she founded and operated a program called "Give Life a Chance" — her family will be presented with a plaque and her memory will be saluted by Sena.
In addition to informational booths offering resources related to suicide prevention, mental health care, drug abuse awareness, and educational programs available to families and children, the Pueblo County Youth Advisory Council is set to make a presentation on its efforts to improve the lives of children and teenagers.
Sena also has invited the Juneteenth and Fiesta Queen courts, 40 young leaders recently recognized by the Latino Chamber of Commerce, and representatives of the Miss Pueblo County Scholarship Pageant to attend and be recognized.
"And local artists interested in displaying their work are invited to do so," he added.
For more information, Sena can be contacted at 671-5451.
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ChipsAway Teams Up With ALA to Unveil Game-Changing Repair App
Car body repair specialists ChipsAway have teamed up with leading GAP insurance provider ALA to launch a new smartphone app which could fix dents in both your car and your pocket with just the touch of a button! Click here to view the video!
The first to pioneer this brand new technology, the latest in their long line of industry-changing innovations.
“The experimental smartphone app uses the electro-magnetic pulses of the phone’s processor to ionise the metal on a dented car. The radiated waveform generates the high frequency energy pulses which bombard the panel, pushing it back to the original shape,” explains ChipsAway’s Technical Director and Head of Research and Development, David Anthony. “The app works on dents up to the size of the device being used – meaning dents up to the size of an iPad could be fixed in seconds!”
This announcement comes as fantastic news to drivers feeling the pinch of increasing insurance excesses. The app will help avoid costly claims over minor dents, and has been developed in response to rising consumer demands for cheaper alternatives to expensive body shop repairs. Recent figures claim up to one in three motorists do not have enough ready cash to cover their excess if required.
ALA Managing Director Simon England has been greatly impressed with this innovation from ChipsAway, commenting, “I’ve never seen anything like it, it will revolutionise the way we repair our cars. DentsAway is so simple to use; I had a dent on my own car that I’ve been meaning to repair for some time and it was repaired in seconds – I couldn’t believe my eyes! I can’t recommend this product highly enough.”
David concludes; “We’re extremely excited to be piloting this revolutionary technology with leading motoring firm ALA. We believe the app will not only combat rising insurance excesses but change the car repair marketplace forever.”
To celebrate the launch, ChipsAway is offering the chance for three lucky winners to bag a pair of Goodwood Festival of Speed Moving Motor Show tickets – to enter simply share the news about this exciting new app using the links below on Facebook or Twitter and the winner will be picked at random next week!
To enter you must have shared the DentsAway video on your Facebook or Twitter profile. The three winners will be drawn at random from all those who shared by on Monday 7th April 2014. Each winner will receive one pair of tickets to attend the Goodwood Moving Motor Show on Thursday 26th June 2014.
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A Simpler Life
As I reflect back on these past two weeks in Peru, as a part of my Interact club that I now leave in new hands as I move on to my college career,
I remember fondly the many laughs our group shared. We adjusted to the altitude together, bargained in the markets together, and hiked up mountains we thought were impossible to climb.
My favorite moments of this trip were when we were on top of a huge mountain we had just conquered and couldn’t hear anything except the sounds of nature. I loved our guided meditations where we were encouraged to think in the present and not worry about the past or the future.
I’ve had a glimpse into a more simple lifestyle here- at least from an American perspective- where they honor the things that give us life and protect you, such as the mountains and the water we drink and so often take for granted. In Peru they honor “Pachamama”, Mother Earth, and I really admire that, especially during a time where our environmental protection policies are up for debate more than ever before. We were shown how we can kill our meat in a respectful way that is more beneficial for the animal, the environment, and ourselves.
“I’ve had a glimpse into a more simple lifestyle here- at least from an American perspective- . . . ”
It’s safe to say that I’ll miss Peru and I’ll miss these people I’ve gotten to know over that past four years. I will sign off with a thank you to our teacher and a thank you to this club for all the opportunities they have given me.
Emily surveys the Mara Circles.
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Home News & Events Real Lives, Real Change Health Trachoma Sufferer Goes from Fear to Clear
Trachoma Sufferer Goes from Fear to Clear
Patients wait at a village health clinic in Mali for eye examinations to determine if they need surgery to help prevent blindness from trachoma. Women are nearly twice as likely as men to experience trichiasis, the painful, blinding condition caused by repeated trachoma infections. (Photos: The Carter Center)
Surgery is a vital component of the SAFE strategy to fight trachoma — interventions endorsed by the World Health Organization that includes Surgery, Antibiotics, Face and hand hygiene, and Environmental improvement through the construction of pit latrines. Above, a health worker in Mali prepares to perform simple eyelid surgery to relieve a trachoma patient’s pain and suffering. The Carter Center assists the Ministry of Health in training health workers to perform these surgeries, which can be performed in village health centers so patients do not have to travel far to receive the sight-saving surgery.
Since 1998, The Carter Center has been a pioneer in the fight against blinding trachoma. Today the Center works with ministries of health in six African countries to control trachoma, the world's leading cause of preventable blindness.
At 76, Tessougue Yietere had been in pain for years. She couldn't see well, she couldn't sleep, and she was scared.
Yietere lives in a village called Logo in Mali's Mopti region, where the Sahara Desert gives way to the Central African rainforest. For many years she had suffered from trachoma, a recurrent bacterial eye infection that can lead to blindness. The advanced stage of trachoma, called trachomatous trichiasis, is when the eyelashes turn inward, their sharp points raking across the eye with every blink.
"I felt pain, my eyes were watering all the time, and my lashes were jabbing the eye," Yietere said.
But Yietere didn't have to keep suffering. The Carter Center partners with the ministries of health in Mali and neighboring Niger, as well as four other nations, to provide medicine and train local health workers to perform a simple and safe procedure that reverses trichiasis.
At first Yietere feared letting anyone get near her badly scratched eyes, but the pain became too much, and she at last agreed to have the surgery.
It was a good decision, but it required a lot of courage and trust. A The Carter Center-trained health worker from her own area performed the procedure. After a few weeks, Yietere received a follow-up exam with joy.
"I am happy!" she said. "The pain disappeared. My lashes are not touching my eye. My vision is so much better."
Trachoma is the world's leading cause of preventable blindness. Of the 232 million people at risk for trachoma, most are children, and women are almost twice as likely as men to develop the advanced stage of trachoma that causes blindness.
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Enbridge pipeline approved, with 209 conditions
Federal panel recommends Enbridge's Northern Gateway crude oil pipeline can proceed if 209 conditions are met
Dec. 19, 2013 5:00 p.m.
Northern B.C. is the site of several pipeline proposals
A federal environmental review panel has recommended Enbridge’s Northern Gateway crude oil pipeline can proceed if 209 conditions are met.
After months of submissions from experts and the public, the National Energy Board Joint Review Panel concluded the benefits of a twin pipeline from northern Alberta to a proposed tanker facility at Kitimat outweigh the risks. Its two-volume report was released Thursday in Calgary.
“The environmental, societal and economic burdens of a large oil spill, while unlikely and not permanent, would be significant,” the panel concluded in its report. “Through our conditions we require Northern Gateway to implement appropriate and effective spill prevention measures and spill response capabilities, so that the likelihood and consequences of a large spill would be minimized.”
The panel said there would be significant effect on some populations of woodland caribou and grizzly bear, and uncertainty remains over the effectiveness of Enbridge’s plans to minimize the disruption the pipeline would cause.
“It is our view that, after mitigation, the likelihood of significant adverse environmental effects resulting from project malfunctions or accidents is very low,” the report states.
Conditions include protection plans for whales and other marine mammals, measures to protect caribou and other land animals and development of methods to track and deal with diluted bitumen spills.
Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver reiterated his position that “no energy project will be approved unless it is safe for Canadians and safe for the environment.” The federal cabinet must make a final decision on federal permits for the project by July 2014.
B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak said approval by the federal panel meets one of its five conditions, but doesn’t change the province’s position against the pipeline until its other four are met. They include satisfying legal obligations to consult and accommodate aboriginal communities and developing “world leading” safety and spill response on land and at sea.
“Now we have Alberta’s agreement for the five conditions, the federal government is talking about the importance of weighing the environment in the balance, and even Enbridge is talking about the importance of the environment in this equation,” Polak said. We believe we’ve made progress in highlighting the very important steps that are going to need to be taken … but we need to see evidence that this work is going to be achieved.”
Janet Holder, Enbridge’s project leader for Northern Gateway, said the company will work to meet the federal panel conditions, and those laid down by the B.C. government.
Northern Gateway has reached equity partnership agreements with 26 aboriginal communities along the pipeline route, but many others remain opposed.
“The Yinka Dene Alliance has clearly refused permission for Enbridge’s pipelines to cut through our lands and waters,” said Chief Martin Louie of the Nadleh Whut’en First Nation, speaking on behalf of the northern B.C.-based alliance.
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Poetry Pairing: Thom Gunn
Michelle / April 11, 2018
Selected Poems – Thom Gunn
“Thom Gunn was an Elizabethan poet in modern guise, though there’s nothing archaic, quaint, or sepia-toned about his poetry. His method was dispassionate and rigorous, uniquely well suited for making a poetic record of the tumultuous time in which he lived. Gunn’s dozens of brilliantly realized poems about nature, friendship, literature, sexual love, and death are set against the ever-changing backdrop of San Francisco―the druggy, politically charged sixties and the plague years of AIDS in the eighties. Perhaps no contemporary poet was better equipped―by temperament, circumstance, or poetic gift―to engage the subjects of eros and thanatos than Thom Gunn. This new Selected Poems, edited and with an introduction by the poet August Kleinzahler, supplants the 1979 Selected, presenting more of the later work and providing a fuller retrospective account of the breadth and magnitude of Gunn’s extraordinary achievement.”
At the Barriers: On the Poetry of Thom Gunn – Joshua Weiner (Request this title through InterLibrary Loan – Visit our Reference Desk!)
“Maverick gay poetic icon Thom Gunn (1929–2004) and his body of work have long dared the British and American poetry establishments either to claim or disavow him. To critics in the UK and US alike, Gunn demonstrated that formal poetry could successfully include new speech rhythms and open forms and that experimental styles could still maintain technical and intellectual rigor. Along the way, Gunn’s verse captured the social upheavals of the 1960s, the existential possibilities of the late twentieth century, and the tumult of post-Stonewall gay culture.
The first book-length study of this major poet, At the Barriers surveys Gunn’s career from his youth in 1930s Britain to his final years in California, from his earliest publications to his later unpublished notebooks, bringing together some of the most important poet-critics from both sides of the Atlantic to assess his oeuvre. This landmark volume traces how Gunn, in both his life and his writings, pushed at boundaries of different kinds, be they geographic, sexual, or poetic. At the Barriers will solidify Gunn’s rightful place in the pantheon of Anglo-American letters.”
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Barbie joins prestigious ranks of fashion council honorees
The idea is to celebrate Barbie as a fashion icon, coinciding with her 60th anniversary
May. 16, 2019 12:10 p.m.
In this Feb. 20, 2018, file photo dozens of Barbie dolls are displayed at the Mattel showroom at Toy Fair in New York. The Council of Fashion Designers of America will present its Board of Directors’ Tribute Award to the ever-evolving Barbie doll. The council said in a statement Thursday the idea is to celebrate Barbie as a fashion icon, coinciding with her 60th anniversary. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Gloria Steinem, Cecile Richards, Michelle Obama. Barbie?
The Council of Fashion Designers of America will follow up those prestigious honorees of its Board of Directors’ Tribute Award with the ever-evolving doll. The council said in a statement Thursday the idea is to celebrate Barbie as a fashion icon, coinciding with her 60th anniversary.
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The council’s president, Steve Kolb, says Barbie has had a “wide influence on American fashion and culture.” A human, presumably, will pick up the award at a June 3 ceremony.
In addition to Steinem, Richards and Obama, other past honorees include Tom Ford, Janelle Monae and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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Adult Ladies and Sherry Fitzgerald announce partnership
by Michael Walsh • Tue 20 Jun 2017, 10:16
The Adult Ladies section and Sherry Fitzgerald Lettings have certainly made a winning partnership since announcing their sponsorship deal before the Ladies Footballers’ win over O’Tooles in the Championship on May 24th in front of a large home crowd in…
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Camán to Croker
by Michael Walsh • Wed 19 Apr 2017, 10:09
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Céilí Lá ‘le Padraig
by Michael Walsh • Tue 14 Mar 2017, 10:54
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2002 Girls win U14B Camogie Championship Final
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Weekend of Finals for Juvenile Girls
by Michael Walsh • Fri 14 Oct 2016, 10:34
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by Michael Walsh • Tue 26 Jul 2016, 09:46
It’s a big week for Dublin Ladies Gaelic Football at underage level and Cuala girls are at the heart of it. We are very proud to announce that we have 4 girls from Cuala on the Dublin U16s squad who…
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Chains required on I-90, Winter Storm Watch Starts Tomorrow (2-22-19, 9:00 p.m.)
Snoqualmie Pass remains open to both eastbound and westbound traffic. However, the Washington State Department of Transportation is requiring chains on vehicles traveling in either direction on I-90 through the pass, with the exception of all-wheel drive vehicles. Oversize vehicles are prohibited.
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Watch, which is scheduled to be in effect from tomorrow evening through late Tuesday night. It was issued in response to a forecast calling for a prolonged snow event, which is expected to impact much of the region, with total snow accumulations of 4 to 7 inches possible. NWS also urges drivers to plan for slippery road conditions, adding that the hazardous conditions could impact the morning or evening commutes.
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AEP seeks fee to keep Conesville running
In an effort to keep Conesville and other power plants open, AEP Ohio wants to begin charging its customers a rider.
AEP seeks fee to keep Conesville running In an effort to keep Conesville and other power plants open, AEP Ohio wants to begin charging its customers a rider. Check out this story on coshoctontribune.com: http://ohne.ws/1xmOz4O
Benjamin Lanka Published 5:13 p.m. ET Oct. 7, 2014 | Updated 8:37 a.m. ET Oct. 8, 2014
AEP’s Conesville Generating Station is seen from the air. Terri Flora, AEP spokeswoman, said it costs far more to produce energy at the Conesville units than the utility can recoup on the market. The protection of a rider is necessary to keep the power plant operational into the future, Flora said. (Photo: Chris Crook/Gannett Ohio )Buy Photo
In an effort to keep Conesville and several other power plants open, American Electric Power Ohio wants to begin charging its customers a rider it says will benefit Ohio's economy and reduce price volatility for customers.
Consumer and environmental groups, however, said the plan will curtail electric competition and be harmful to air quality.
The power company last week filed a request with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to buy the energy from several coal-powered plants now operated by its unregulated affiliate AEP Generation Resources. The plan would affect Conesville Units 4, 5 and 6 in Coshocton County; Cardinal Unit 1 in Jefferson County; Stuart Units 1 through 4 in Brown County and Zimmer Unit 1 in Clermont County.
Essentially, the deal would allow AEP Ohio to sell the power back to the market with an attached rider that would fluctuate based on the price of electricity. When prices are low — as they are right now — AEP customers would pay a monthly fee, but if prices spike, the rider would reduce customers' bills. Terri Flora, AEP spokeswoman, said the rider would likely be about $2 a month if it took effect next summer, as the company is hoping will happen.
She said the company does expect overall rates to decline, but they would not go down as much with the addition of the rider.
The protection of a rider is necessary to keep the power plants operational into the future, Flora said. For example, she said it costs far more to produce energy at the Conseville units than the utility can recoup on the market.
"It cannot operate based on what the market conditions are right now," she said. "We may have to shutter it."
Closing the coal plants is not something the company wants to do, Flora said. Doing so would not only hurt those local economies, but it would force more reliance on natural gas, which can fluctuate in price especially during harsh winters.
The company estimated the economic benefit to Ohio from those plants exceeds $500 million annually while supporting nearly 4,600 direct and indirect jobs. Dorothy Skowrunski, director of the Coshocton Port Authority, said the Conesville operation contributes more than $41 million annually to the local economy. That includes more than 200 employees and a number of contractors, she said.
Dane Shryock, Coshocton County commissioner, said the Conesville operation was one of the top paying employers in the area.
"We would hate to lose it," he said.
The request from AEP Ohio comes as the commission is deliberating on a similar request from AEP and other power companies made for the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation, which operates the Clifty Creek plant in Madison, Indiana, and the Kyger Creek plant in Cheshire. The company is jointly owned by several utilities, including AEP, and is headquartered in Piketon.
The Ohio Environmental Council opposed the previous request, and staff attorney Trent Dougherty said the concerns are amplified by AEP's sought-after expansion. He said numerous experts testified in the original case that the rider would not protect customers from price fluctuations. Additionally, he said it's asking people to pay extra to support power plants that are no longer economically or environmentally appropriate.
"It's keeping alive plants that perhaps should be shut down," he said.
Scott Gerfen, spokesman for the Ohio Consumers Council, said 1.5 million customers have paid hundreds of millions of dollars to AEP to help it transition to deregulated power plants.
"AEP's requests include asking the (commission) to guarantee profits — paid by consumers — for what are deregulated power plants whose profits should instead be determined by the electricity market," he said via email. "Needless to say, we are concerned for consumers."
The original plan was filed in December, but the commission has taken no action on it yet. A spokesman said a schedule has not yet been determined for the new request. No similar type of request has been approved by the state.
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Maximum Security disqualified, Country House declared winner of 145th Kentucky Derby
Posted: May 4, 2019 / 07:24 PM EDT / Updated: May 4, 2019 / 07:28 PM EDT
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY – MAY 04: Maximum Security #7, ridden by jockey Luis Saez crosses the finish line to win the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 04, 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
In a historic move, the first horse to cross the finish line at the Kentucky Derby this year was disqualified and another horse was declared a winner.
Maximum Security splashed through a sloppy track to finish first at Churchill Downs on Saturday, but his team’s joyous celebration was cut short after an objection arose following the race and the horse was disqualified. Country Horse was declared the winner.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Heavy rain has caused the main dirt track at Churchill Downs to be downgraded from fast to sloppy for the Kentucky Derby.
Bad weather that was expected arrived about three hours before post time. Rain fell harder as race time grew closer, making for a tough trek for the handlers and connections as they marched from the backside barn area around to the front stretch.
An off track is nothing new for Maximum Security, the 4-1 favorite. The unbeaten colt earned the second of his four victories by 6½ lengths in a muddy six-furlong race at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 24. He entered the Derby with 3 1/2-length win in the Grade 1 Florida Derby on March 30.
After several hours of an overcast but dry sky, a light drizzle is falling at Churchill Downs in the prelude to heavier rain expected to arrive in time for the Kentucky Derby.
The main track and turf are fast and good for now, though that is expected to change.
Spectators continue to mill and mingle throughout the paddock and grandstand with drinks and racing programs in hand. Not to mention plastic rain ponchos in preparation for the main downpour.
Some women even have plastic covers festooned to big, fancy, colorful hats. Others thought better of it, given the gloomy forecast. Brenda Oliver spent $300 on a big poofy black and white fascinator for her first Derby and her friend Caroline Washle borrowed a massive hat from her mother. The 19-year-olds watched the weather reports and feared they’d be ruined by the rain, so left the headwear at home.
They watched other Derby-goers around them, hats on nearly every head, and started regretting that choice.
“The more I look around, the more I feel sort of out of place,” Oliver said.
Maximum Security is the 9-2 favorite in early wagering for Saturday’s 145th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. The Florida Derby winner is 4-0 in his brief career.
Tactius and Improbable are the co-second choices at 5-1. Game Winner is the 6-1 fourth choice.
The longest shot in the 19-horse Derby field is Bodexpress at 90-1. The colt hasn’t won in five career starts, although he’s finished second three times.
Only three so-called maidens have ever won the Derby; the last was Brokers Tip in 1933.
Morning showers have given way to heavy overcast skies at Churchill Downs, though another wave of rain is expected before the Kentucky Derby goes off later in the day.
Spectators seem prepared for the elements, with some carrying ponchos because umbrellas are banned. The forecast hasn’t prevented many from wearing colorful outfits and fancy shoes, though quite a few are wearing rain boots as a precaution.
A few rain-free hours have helped the main dirt track stay fast with the turf track listed as firm.
Bob Baffert not only has the Kentucky Derby favorite but two other horses capable of giving him a share of history.
Game Winner is the 9-2 favorite for Saturday’s 145th running at Churchill Downs after opening Tuesday as the 5-1 second choice behind Omaha Beach, who was scratched because of a breathing problem. Baffert’s two other horses, Roadster and Improbable, are 5-1 co-second choices that give the Hall of Fame trainer additional chances to win a sixth Derby and tie Ben Jones’ record.
The Derby’s only unbeaten horse, 8-1 shot Maximum Security, aims to improve to 5-0 lifetime. He and Game Winner are owned by Gary and Mary West.
The field features 19 3-year-old colts who will run 1¼ mile in the $3 million race that features a forecast of steady showers.
Post time is scheduled for 6:46 p.m. EDT.
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CCAA Championship Scores and Results
by Tim Renaud / Jul 14, 2019
2019 CCAA Championship: Girls & Boys 15-18 200 Freestyle Relay
In this video, you’ll see the Girls & Boys 15-18 200 Freestyle Relay during the 2019 Coastal Carolina Aquatic Association Championship Swim Meet.
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HomeAndroidHow to get free calls, texts and data plan in the U.S.
How to get free calls, texts and data plan in the U.S.
DJRipster May 22, 2014
Most of us in the U.S. are tethered to some kind of contract with a mobile carrier, and our monthly bills can get very expensive if we want to get a decent phone while we are on contract. FreedomPop has long since sought to shake the market up by offering basic smartphones for a one-off fee, and continued monthly minutes, texts and data for free. Most recently, the company even has devices like the Apple iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S4 on its lineup.
When the service first started, it offered the HTC EVO Design 4G for $100, and allowed customers to attach the device to a package with 200 minutes, 500MB of data, and 500 texts for free every month. Obviously you would have to pay once you pass these limited, and this is where FreedomPop could hit the margins, but for a casual user or as a SIM for a spare device, FreedomPop’s offering looked incredible value for money.
FreedomPop gives its customers access through Sprint's network and has continued to thrive, which can be seen as they offer a more decent selection of devices on their network. Some of the devices the carrier offers include:
Apple iPhone 5 ($399) [link] [specs]
Samsung Galaxy S4 ($349) [link] [specs]
Samsung Galaxy S III ($189) [link] [specs]
Samsung Galaxy S II ($159) [link] [specs]
Samsung Victory 4G LTE ($119) [link] [specs]
HTC EVO 4G ($100) [link] [specs]
Obviously, if you are someone who likes watching YouTube videos, checking Vine or posting Instagram pictures, you will find that 500MB won't last you very long. FreedomPop is also currently offering a $19.99 per month Unlimited Everything package which should satisfy the heavy users.
If you are interested in trying out the service head over to freedompop.com to select the device you like and get started.
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Violence Against Women Consultant
NAADAC Webinar — Overlapping Issues: Domestic & Sexual Violence, Mental Health, Trauma & Substance Use
Julie has been invited to provide an 80-minute webinar for the 2018 webinar series by the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC) for 1,000 participants; "Overlapping Issues: Domestic & Sexual Violence, Mental Health, Trauma & Substance Use", scheduled for October 10, 2018. Watch for more information.
BISC-MI conference: Religion, Faith, Spirituality and Science: Engaging for Safety and Accountability
Wed, Nov 14, 2018 9:00 AM 09:00 Fri, Nov 16, 2018 5:00 PM 17:00
to Sep 8
Expert Witness: Portland, OR
Tue, Sep 4, 2018 9:00 AM 09:00 Sat, Sep 8, 2018 5:00 PM 17:00
FREE WEBINAR: “Questions You Asked: Further Conversations on Domestic Violence, Social Justice, and Faith
The response to our May webinar “Uncovering the Roots of Violence: New Perspectives on Domestic Violence, Social Justice, and Faith,” was overwhelming. (Thank you the 1200+ registrants!) Participants from all over the world raised incisive questions that call for further conversation, so we are reconvening our panel of anti-violence pioneers to move the dialog forward! Watch the May Webinar
Join us on Wednesday, June 27 for Questions You Asked: Further Conversations on Domestic Violence, Social Justice, and Faith—a FREE webinar expanding the conversation on specific ways we can work together to change cultures of violence in our homes, our places of worship, and our communities.
Speakers include Riane Eisler, internationally known for her work to reveal the deep historical and cultural foundations of misogyny and violence in books such as The Chalice and the Blade and Sacred Pleasure; Julie Owens, a ground-breaking trainer in the field of domestic violence prevention and victim advocacy, and Ron Clark, Church-Planter and Minister of Portland, Oregon’s Agape Church of Christ, who has authored Freeing the Oppressed and developed innovative approaches to enrolling clergy-people as effective advocates for those who are victimized or oppressed.
The discussion will be moderated by Renita Robinson, CEO of the Green Bay, Wisconsin YWCA and longtime educator and advocate for victims of sexual and domestic violence.
Eisler, Owens, and Clark will respond to your questions about strategies for moving away from traditions of domination and forging healthier and more equitable relationships - without leaving behind the faith traditions that can inspire and sustain our journey. They’ll explain the key catalysts of positive cultural transformation, offer additional action-oriented resources and tools, and invite further dialog with attendees.
This webinar will be recorded, and all registrants will receive the video link.
REGISTER TO ATTEND JUNE 27 WEBINAR
Bank of America: Corporate Life Events Specialists (DV team) training
FREE WEBINAR: Uncovering the Roots of Violence
May 22, 2018 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
How can we re-shape the stories we live by and re-claim the power of faith communities as leaders in today’s intersecting movements to end violence and promote healthy, ethical human relationships?
Eisler, Owens, and Clark will candidly share the events in their own lives that sparked their passion for disrupting the roots of violence and will dialogue about how we can move away from traditions of domination and forge healthier and more equitable relationships – without leaving behind the faith traditions that can inspire and sustain our journey.
We’ll probe issues like:
How should we respond when sacred texts are used to justify violence?
How do we make sense of the ways in which religious texts seem to hold conflicting messages about how we are supposed to treat one another?
How can we help our faith communities stop ignoring or normalizing women’s experiences of intimate violence, while cultivating ears to hear and hearts to believe the experiences of women and other survivors of violence?
What roles can faith communities play?
Why is gender inequality the lynchpin of oppression and violence across different eras and cultures?
How does an intersectional understanding of oppression help us connect the dots between seemingly unrelated forms of violence?
What possibilities for action open when we understand domestic violence as a human rights and social justice issue?
Why are local interventions in violent behavior not enough to prevent violence in our families and communities?
What does it really take to move away from cultures of domination, driven by control and fear?
How can we build cultures of partnership which celebrate relationships of mutual benefit and mutual responsibility?
Don’t miss this timely and important conversation! Register to attend:
Live Radio Guest: "On Point" (NPR)
Julie will be a guest on the live call-in show, On Point, onNPR (National Public radio) on Friday, May 11 at 11:00 A.M. EDT. The topic is domestic violence, in light of the allegations of four women against NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle, author of the May 8th column, “I went back to a man who hit me. I’m still thinking about why” will also be a guest.
For information about how to listen, call in to make a comment, or listen to the show another time, click the button below.
Pathways to Safety International, Washington, DC
Sat, Apr 21, 2018 9:00 AM 09:00 Mon, Apr 23, 2018 5:00 PM 17:00
Workshop: Beyond ‘Pray, Stay, Obey’ — NC Council for Churches, Critical Issues Seminar
Workshop, “Beyond ‘Pray, Stay, Obey’”, NC Council for Churches, Critical Issues Seminar: Wisdom of Women, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Guilford College United Methodist Church
1205 Fleming Road, Greensboro, NC; Registration information and a list of available workshops can be found here.
DV & the Church Conference - Lenoir, NC (open to the public)
DV and the Church Agenda
"Broken Vows" DVD (Julie's story)
Panel of Christian victim/survivors
What Survivors May Believe
Myths Held by Faith Leaders
Wisdom from Faith leaders
Scriptural Issues:
Biblical gender equality
Headship
Supporting Christian Victims –What Helps, What Hurts
Pastors and faith leaders
Secular DV advocates
Creating a response in your Church
Resources for Survivors, Advocates & Church leaders
Resources for victims, abusers, faith leaders and DV advocates
Consultation, Pathways to safety International
Expert Witness: Iredell County, NC
Bank of America: DV Team training
to Feb 5
Domestic Violence & Religion: Private Consultation Book Review (online)
Thu, Feb 1, 2018 9:00 AM 09:00 Mon, Feb 5, 2018 5:00 PM 17:00
IMPACT Board of Director's Training
International Violence Against Women: Private Consultation - Charlotte, NC
Human Trafficking Intervention: Private Consultation - Charlotte NC
to Jan 9
Federal Grant Application: Private Technical Assistance – Raleigh, NC
Sun, Jan 7, 2018 9:00 PM 21:00 Tue, Jan 9, 2018 5:00 PM 17:00
Interview: Dr. Sophy Podcast
Julie will be a guest on the podcast of Beverly Hills psychiatrist Dr. Charles Sophy. The other guest will be domestic violence survivor and author Taylor Armstrong of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
http://www.drsophy.com/podcasts
Video Interview: Newsy.com
Women are the fastest-growing segment of America's prison population — and a majority of those women are survivors of domestic violence. Julie is interviewed by Chicago report Devan Kaney for newsy.com.
Radio Guest: "Viewpoints," The CRW Network
Guest on talk radio program Viewpoints with:
Host Donell Edwards, The CRW Network
Barry Goldstein, Stop Abuse Campaign
Lupe Moreno, Survivor/Break the Silence Advocate
Workshop: Understanding Domestic Violence and Its Impact on the Church
Peoples Church (map)
to Dec 30
Independent Peer Review: Pennsylvania Office for Victims of Crime
Sun, Oct 15, 2017 8:00 AM 08:00 Sat, Dec 30, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00
Expert Witness: Court preparation and testimony, Superior Court of Los Angeles
Sun, Oct 1, 2017 8:00 AM 08:00 Thu, Nov 30, 2017 6:00 PM 18:00
Bank of America Training: Domestic Violence Response Team
Domestic Violence Response team training
Webinar (Part One): Predominant Aggressor Screening for DV Counselors, Advocates and Interventionists
Julie Owens, Violence Against Women Expert Consultant & Trainer
Christopher Hall, MSW
Workshop: Exploring International Domestic Violence Work
Engaging Faith Leaders & Communities in Responding to DV
DVAC invites you to hear guidance about engaging faith leaders and communities in responding to domestic violence. We'll be learning from:
Rev. Marguerite Lee, President and Founder of Beauty for Ashes Ministry
Sa'idah Sudan, Founder of Baitul Hemayah
Sara Schreibman, Jewish faith community representative
We'll meet in our usual space in the "Kitchen Conference Room" at the Hal Marshall Building, 700 North Tryon Street in Charlotte. This program is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the Hal Marshall lots. Feel free to bring your lunch and a friend or two!
Workshop with Christopher Hall, MSW/IMPACT Family Violence Services
Sponsored by: IMPACT Family Violence Services (map)
Predominant Aggressor Screening for
Counselors, Advocates and Interventionists
FREE: Register by email to b.cote@impactdv.org
© 2019 Julie Owens. All rights reserved.
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Gareth Hinds
POE: Stories and Poems
In stories and poems written well over a century ago, Edgar Allan Poe established himself as the original American master of gothic horror. Now, acclaimed artist-adapter Gareth Hinds translates Poe's dark genius into the graphic novel format for Poe fans new and old. Blood, bones, and flickering firelight set the mood for Hinds's vision of Poe's macabre and tragic worlds. In "The Cask of Amontillado," a man takes a terrifying revenge on a friend who has insulted him. In "The Masque of the Red Death," a prince hosts a party in his abbey stronghold while plague spreads outside. A prisoner finds himself in the sadistic clutches of the Spanish Inquisition in "The Pit and the Pendulum," and in "The Tell- Tale Heart," a single milky eye incites madness and murder. Alongside the tales are visual interpretations of three iconic poems - "The Raven," "The Bells," and Poe's poignant elegy to lost love, "Annabel Lee." Taken together, these seven concise graphic narratives both amplify and honor a timeless legacy.
Graphic Novels Historical Horror Suspense
Vincent: A Saint in the Age of Musketeers
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David, a U.S. Army Special Operations Commander, distraught after losing his entire unit to a superhuman attack, wages an absolutely brutal one-man war on the eccentric billionaire and former superhero, Lance Cordrey, whom he believes is ultimately responsible. That is until Nelson Little, the head of a clandestine paramilitary outfit called Article 13, presents David with evidence that Cordrey may be a patsy, and David’s men were killed as part of a vast and twisted government/military conspiracy. Armed with this new information, David must dismantle the machine of said conspiracy piece by human piece while coming to terms with his own mysteriously emerging superpowers and wrestling with sincere doubts about Little’s trustworthiness
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Government consults on bank data-sharing plans
Call for evidence seeks views on open data plans
Matthew Finnegan January 29, 2015
The government has launched a consultation on plans to open banks’ data to third parties in order to create innovative new services.
The project to deliver an open standard for application programming interfaces (APIs) in the finance sector was highlighted as part of chancellor George Osborne’s Budget speech last year. The aim is to increase competition in the sector and support financial technology companies in building innovative services around bank data, such as comparison sites.
For instance, this could mean the creation of an application to show that a person who shops regularly at a supermarket would benefit from a current account offered by a retailer, which may offer reward or loyalty points.
The call for evidence, launched by the government yesterday, seeks views from interested parties on issues such as how open APIs can benefit bank customers, as well as how the API can best be delivered.
A previous report from Open Data Institute and consultancy firm Fingleton Associates noted that legacy infrastructure owned by some banks could struggle with the extra demand from such services.
Opening up bank data could also benefit the booming fintech sector, the government said.
“Key to our long term economic plan is making Britain the global centre for financial technology, or FinTech, and innovation,” said City Minister Andrea Leadsom.
“Making it easier for customers to use their data in more effective or creative ways can help achieve this, and we think the benefits and opportunities for customers could be huge.”
“Greater use of data is also about making banks work harder to win customers’ business through enabling new providers to enter the market more freely.”
The deadline for response is 25 February.
Image: iStock/PlainView
Why ForgeRock built a simulated bank for testing open banking APIs What you need to know about the CMA's Open Banking report
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Studying the data on worker fatigue
by Joe Balas
Construction remains one of the most dangerous industries to work in. According to a 2016 Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) report, construction led all other industries in fatal work injuries at 991—a rate of 10.1 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers.
To protect workers from injury, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) levies a full scope of safety regulations, ranging from procedures to the wearing of personal protective equipment (PPE). However, when it comes to the hazard of worker fatigue, there are no codified, statutory OSHA requirements set. As a result, worker fatigue goes underreported, and no formal mitigation strategies are developed.
Many industry experts believe that worker fatigue can be easily mitigated through work scheduling methods. Still, some believe it’s a condition of employment to which workers must adjust. Though there is some truth to both views, they do not account for the various hidden aspects of worker fatigue, namely its financial impact, its nature and scope, and its contributions to worker injuries.
According to the National Safety Council (NSC), the hidden costs associated with poor sleep (worker fatigue) cost the construction industry approximately $1.8 million per year on average.
The box to the right provides the individual increases in employer costs per year, based on a construction company size of 1,000 employees and a $2,000 average annual healthcare cost per employee.
Nature & Scope
In 2017, the National Safety Council (NSC) conducted a nationwide study on workplace fatigue, in which 2,010 adults working in varying industries and varying in age, gender, ethnicity and geographical location were included.
The study reported a 97-percent decreased cognitive performance in workers, showing that:
76 percent were tired at work
53 percent were less productive
44 percent had trouble focusing
39 percent had trouble remembering
27 percent had trouble making decisions
Along with these results, the study also revealed the percentage of respondents experiencing micro-sleeps (instances of nodding off) and where they took place.
41 percent off the job
27 percent on the job
16 percent on the road
The NSC results show two very critical features about the nature and scope of worker fatigue. The first is that fatigue, no matter the source (physical exertion, sleep loss or mental exertion), alters a person’s ability to perform mental tasks. This is clearly evidenced by the 1,950 survey participants (97 percent) who reported various decreases in their cognitive abilities while at work. This means workers are prone to various types of mental errors, showing the hazardous nature of worker fatigue.
The second feature is micro-sleeps, or instances of nodding off. The NSC results show that fatigue is prevalent both on and off the job. Twenty-seven percent of participants reported nodding off on the job, while 41 percent reported doing so off the job, illustrating that a constant state of fatigue is present. A cause for concern is the increasing degree of a worker’s fatigue when beginning a job and being on the job. This is the hazardous scope of worker fatigue.
Injury Data
According to OSHA, worker “fatigue is not a recordable contributor to an injury, incident or accident” and is, therefore, not considered a viable hazard. However, the best worker fatigue injury data is found in research literature.
Researchers Lombardi and Simon Folkard of the Université Paris Descartes estimated work-related annual injury incidence rates using data from the National Health Interview Survey (2004 to 2008), which investigated over 75,000 participants. In their review, it was estimated that there is an annual rise in injury incidence rates per 100 workers when workers receive less that 7 hours of sleep. See more data from this survey in Figure 1.
The Necessity of Sleep
Sleep is a biological necessity—a time reserved for the body to perform a host of vital physical and mental maintenance functions. When both functions are fully satisfied, the body produces a physically restored and mentally alert person. When sleep is disrupted, the body responds by sending out a number of different warning signs, alerting that more sleep is needed.
The contributing factors that disturb sleep include mental or emotional stress, medications, short- or long-term medical conditions, work-induced factors (e.g., shift work, long hours or weeks) and unrestful lifestyle choices. If the proper amount and quality of sleep is not present over a period of time, the constant state of tiredness known as fatigue will result. Unfortunately, many learn to ignore these signs and continue life as normal, whether at work or at home. This is dangerous, as most of us are very poor judges of how fatigued we truly are. As a result, we are unable to determine how unsafe we may be, especially at work. The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) recommends that adults ages 18 through 64 receive at least 7 to 9 hours of sleep per day to be fully rested and alert. Typically, we receive less than the recommended amount. In a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), around 180,000 workers, representing different industries, were surveyed over a 2-year period. The results show that approximately 38 percent of workers, ages 18 to 54, receive less than the recommended 7 hours of sleep per day.
Jobsite Risks
Matthew Hallowell, an associate professor of construction engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder completed a literature review of the causes and outcomes of occupational fatigue. He concluded that industries at the highest risk are those where people are working long hours, overtime or many days in a row, while exposed to harsh environmental conditions, such as working in the rain or snow.
Industry veterans know that as a construction project draws closer to completion, the effort put into installing building systems on site (electricity, plumbing, HVAC, etc.) becomes more complex. Typically, this makes workers more prone to injury, as they must work with and around other tradespeople. When fatigued, the chance of injury increases as the focus shifts to completing the job, and personal safety is often ignored.
Construction sites are busy places, in which equipment, vehicles and cranes are in continual motion. To be safe in this hectic environment, workers must focus on their tasks and also be situationally aware of their surroundings. This requires a certain level of attention and awareness, especially for machine operators. When fatigued, attentiveness begins to fade or becomes channelized. As this happens, the odds of an accident or injury taking place increases.
In his dissertation, Measuring and Managing Construction Worker Fatigue, Ulises Daniel Techera ranks each of the various causes and consequences of fatigue trends detected in the construction industry.
While it can be argued that the construction industry has made many technological advancements to improve working conditions, the human condition has not changed. Workers must still keep pace with project deadlines—working overtime within long daily shifts and workweeks—making worker fatigue a deeper and more widespread condition than most employers realize.
If you haven’t already, it may be time to consider taking an innovative step in implementing a worker fatigue mitigation strategy to increase return on investment, reduce experience modification rates (EMR) and increase workplace safety. Whether you consider investing in fatigue risk management system (FRMS) software or modifying your existing risk assessment management program, your decision to address and regard worker fatigue as a viable safety hazard can be critical for your business in more ways than one.
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By Team DBR on September 2, 2015
Harry Lessman
The South African speedster talks about his career, the decision to quit pro racing and what’s happening next…
For over a decade Neville Bradshaw has been a regular on the British motocross championship scene, dedicating his life to chasing the biggest prize in UK MX. He’s raced with passion, heart and a hunger for success and his incredible work ethic has made him a fan favourite.
The South African has also won a hat-trick of Red Bull Pro Nationals MX2 titles, lifted the British SX crown and taken a British Masters title. His story is one of determination and a steely desire to prove the doubters wrong.
In 2015 Bradshaw decided to go it alone and race with his own set-up. He was gunning for his first Maxxis moto win – he’s won an overall but not an individual moto – in his last season of racing before hanging up his boots for good. However, after just three rounds of the Maxxis, one change of manufacturer and one wrecked bike Bradshaw’s dream was broken.
“Towards the end of last year Dave and Vicki [of DB Racing] decided to pack it up. I believed that they were one of the best teams in the British championship paddock and I couldn’t really see myself going anywhere else from there,” says Nev. “So I figured the next best option for me would be to just do it on my own. I managed to put something cool together [with Husqvarna], worked really hard at it and busted my balls off in the winter trying to get everything sorted.
“Everything seemed to be in line but unfortunately I never really got a good feel with the Husqvarna. As good as it is out of the box – I was sitting sixth in the British championship after round two on a stock bike – I just didn’t feel comfortable on it.
“The chassis was just unreal for me. The bike never did what I wanted it do – I always seemed to be a foot away from where I wanted to be – and I spent so much of my own money changing stuff and trying to get it right. I’d be really frustrated on a weekend, I’d be riding round at 70 per cent but still getting decent results. Every week I was changing clamps, changing forks, changing shocks. I just couldn’t get comfortable on the thing.
“Engine wise it was unbelievable. I’d go as far as to say that it was quicker than my race bike from last year as a stock standard engine. But I just didn’t gel with the chassis and didn’t want to spend my last year feeling sketched out all the time and not enjoying what I was doing.”
Once you lose confidence in a bike it’s a hard thing to regain and harder still to get your head over that physiological hump and start riding at 100 per cent again.
“In the MX2 class especially you have to be feeling good. I think my last race on the Husqvarna I went 2-2 at the MX Nationals but last year I was racing with [Steven] Lenoir every moto – this year he was 30 seconds up the track from me. I just couldn’t find a good feel and I couldn’t push. I’m not there just to make up the numbers – eitherr I’m going to go all-in and do well or else I’m just not going to do it at all.”
Nev’s solution was simple – change machinery…
“I looked at all the bike tests and after the KTM and Husqvarna the Yamaha had the next best horsepower. I’ve always liked the look of the Yamaha so I gave it a ride. Honestly man, I just loved it! From the first day on the bike I gelled with it and I felt like myself again. That was a big thing for me. I started doubting myself after those bad races I was having. A few old sponsors came along and helped me out with some parts for it. We put a pipe and an ignition on it and I went to the British championships [at Canada Heights] just wanting to race and give 100 per cent.
“Obviously, I knew that my bike was nothing compared to the bikes I would be racing – a standard bike with a pipe and ignition just doesn’t cut it at that level. But I knew that I could make the time up through my corner speed and just enjoying being on the bike. So the first race I came from like 22nd to ninth and I was catching up to the group in front of me. I knew my speed was good and I knew that as the day wore on and the track got slower and rougher I was going to get better.
“In race two I started around 14th and, man, I just hustled on that first lap, it was awesome! I had such a good feeling on the bike. I came through to seventh, got into sixth and I could see [Harri] Kullas and [Petar] Petrov the whole moto. I could see Lenoir across the track staying the same distance away.
“Eventually I caught [Lewis] Trickett for fifth but three laps before the end I heard something go in the bike and as the two-lap board came out the bike let go. Right then and there all the effort, all the money, it was wasted. Right there and then I said to myself ‘that’s it, I’ve had enough’. I was heartbroken.”
It was a bitter pill for Nev to swallow – especially as pre-season he’d set his sights on one last career goal before calling it a day.
“There was one thing I was chasing this year – I’ll put my cards on the table, I didn’t want to end my career without winning a British championship moto. I’ve won an overall, I’ve had lots of seconds and lots of thirds but a moto win is the one thing that I’ve been chasing.
“But now I’ve realised that with people like Max Anstie in the class on a good day on a standard 250F I’m going to finish third or fourth. I’m never going to beat Max on a standard bike. So why should I bankrupt myself just chasing that one thing?
“The biggest shame of it all and the thing that is really bugging me is the amount of work and training that I put in for this year, the amount of money that I spent and the fact that I felt I was riding so well. I feel that my fitness is great. I had everything in line to have a solid year. But as always the finances came into it and I just can’t do it.”
Nev’s age obviously plays a part and although his hunger is still undiminished at 31 he finds himself with responsibilities he didn’t have a decade ago – grown-up factors such as a young family to provide for.
“If I was 19 years old again I would give up everything, just like I did before. I put every single thing I had into motocross and had an amazing career, better than I could ever have imagined. Over the last year-and-a-half I’ve been looking back a lot and thinking ‘sh*t, I’ve actually done pretty well out of this’.
As Nev talks it’s obvious the decision to walk away from the Maxxis was a difficult one and a heartfelt Facebook message he posted resulted in a huge reaction from fans.
“The support after that was so awesome to see, it makes me realise that I’ve done something really cool in my career. Everywhere I go people are saying how gutted they are and thanks for the memories and stuff like that.”
Nevalso received a lot of offers for help after his Facebook message but life’s just not that simple…
“There were a lot of people that wanted to help out. Financially, that’s one thing but it’s getting someone to look at your bike in the week, it’s getting parts to fix the bike, then you’ve got to practice and train all week to be at the front of the British championship, then there’s getting to the races and accommodation. It’s endless.
“I might’ve mistaken how much it took to keep an MX2 bike running at that level – I think that was my biggest underestimation. I was thinking that I was going to get two or three races out of the bike and then have the engine rebuilt. Whereas you really have to get it done after every single race.”
Throughout our conversation the passion behind Nev’s words is powerful. He has a lot of opinions and he’s most definitely not afraid to share them…
“I went riding yesterday and there was another pro rider – a really good rider – and he just messed around all day. That pissed me off a little. I’m buying all my bikes, buying all my spares, I’m faster than him still and I could probably still go and beat him on the weekend.
“I’m out there doing 30-minute motos – which I don’t have to do as this isn’t a job for me anymore – and he’s messing around all day. I think it has made me a little bitter, the way that motocross has turned and the money and people paying into teams and stuff. I think it has just ruined a lot of opportunities for a lot of kids that have potential.”
Nev’s still not short of offers to race for teams but the full package isn’t there for him.
“For the last 10 years I’ve been paid to race dirt bikes. The people that I would be racing in the British championship – let’s say between third and seventh – are getting paid to do it. So, yeah, I’ve been offered to go and ride for teams but there’s no wages. So what’s the point in putting your neck on the line every single weekend?
“You’re going to put them [the team] on the podium and put all of their sponsors on the podium but you’re not going to get anything back from that. I do really appreciate everything that everyone has offered me but if it’s going to be a job then I’m going to do the job properly but it’s a two-way street you know.
“Racing motocross at British championship level is a full-time job. You’ve got to train all week. You’ve got to ride your motorbike all week. You’ve got to sacrifice everything for it. So if you are doing that job you should be getting paid for it.”
The prize money available doesn’t cover expenses – Nev earned £400 for his 2-2 in the MX Nationals, Britain’s second-biggest series – and without a regular wage racing at a top-flight level just isn’t a financially viable option.
“That’s why I’ve scaled down. I’m just going to do it as a hobby and enjoy it. I’m going to use all of the work I have put in so far this year and over the winter to at least enjoy the rest of the year and keep me sharp to go race in South Africa. That’s something that I always wanted to do once I finished racing here. So now is a good time for me to do that, everything is in line and hopefully we’ll do well.”
Nev’s already showing good speed in the South African national series on a Vision Racing Yamaha, running third overall in MX2 and taking a double win in MX1 at round three of the series at Port Elizabeth.
“Once a month there’s a South African national so I’ll be flying back and forth. I got a deal from factory Yamaha out there and they’ve got some good sponsors that have helped out with flights and expenses and stuff. So the plan is to properly enjoy it you know.”
Despite his obvious problems with the sport Nev is still clearly in love with riding motorcycles. Circumstances may have forced his hand but the good news for his fans is he’ll still be running a pretty high profile in the UK.
“I’ll still be racing the MX Nationals because two of the kids in my academy race that so it will be good for me to be there on the Saturday helping them out and then to race on the Sunday. I’ll probably do some centre races and if there is a race at Canada Heights I’ll probably do that.”
And the Maxxis series? Is there any way he could be tempted to have another shot at that unfulfilled ambition to grab a moto win?
“If I got paid a wage – not even a massive wage but enough to cover my expenses and let me do the job properly. So if I had someone to cover that and I could put in the time in the week, dedicate two days a week to riding and not have to worry about keeping my practice bike going or building race bikes all week.
“All that stuff takes a little edge off the weekend whereas before you were fresh – you just showed up, raced, went home, trained, practised and then raced again. So if I could get that again, a small wage and be around people that want to do well. That’s a big thing, there are a lot of teams out there that just want to be there you know…”
The Maxxis series is certainly the poorer for Nev’s absence but his determination, never-say-die attitude and willingness to graft – attributes he always demonstrates on the track – should see him prosper whatever he plans to do.
“Motocross is awesome. Motocross can instil something in people that nothing else can. That’s why I think I’m very fortunate. If I use the same work ethic I’ve learned through motocross in another aspect of my life I’ve got no doubt I can succeed.
“My training schools for example – everyone is really pumped with them. My missus asked me why I think that is and I said to her it’s because I take pride in what I do, I give them everything I have on the day. You just have to take pride and work hard and if you work hard things come good for you. That’s what I believe.”
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FDA approves first drug-oozing implant to control addiction
Federal health officials on Thursday approved an innovative new option for Americans struggling with addiction to heroin and painkillers: a drug-oozing implant that curbs craving and withdrawal symptoms for six months at a time.
WASHINGTON (AP) � Federal health officials on Thursday approved an innovative new option for Americans struggling with addiction to heroin and painkillers: a drug-oozing implant that curbs craving and withdrawal symptoms for six months at a time.
The first-of-a-kind device, Probuphine, arrives as communities across the U.S. grapple with a wave of addiction tied to opioids, highly-addictive drugs that include legal pain medications like OxyContin and illegal narcotics like heroin.
The implant from Braeburn Pharmaceuticals is essentially a new delivery system for an established drug, buprenorphine, which has long been used to treat opioid addiction. But its implantable format could help patients avoid relapses that can occur if they miss a medication dose.
Roughly 2.5 million Americans suffer from addiction disorders related to prescription painkillers and heroin, according to federal estimates.
The matchstick-size implant slowly releases a low dose of buprenorphine over six months. Previously the drug was only available as a pill or film that dissolves under the tongue. It is considered a safer, more palatable alternative to methadone, the decades-old standard for controlling opioid addiction.
Probuphine is intended for patients who have already been stabilized on low-to-medium doses of buprenorphine for at least six months. Braeburn estimates that one fourth, or 325,000, of the 1.3 million patients currently taking buprenorphine meet that criterion.
The FDA previously rejected Probuphine in April 2012, judging the drug's dose was too low to reliably help the broad range of opioid-addicted patients. Braeburn and partner Titan Pharmaceuticals resubmitted the product with additional data and it received a positive endorsement from federal advisers earlier this year.
The FDA said Thursday that Probuphine should be used as part of a multipronged addiction treatment program that includes counseling and other forms of support. Doctors who implant the device must also receive special training to safely insert and remove the device.
FDA officials are spotlighting new treatment options for opioid abuse, after weathering heavy criticism for not acting faster to combat the epidemic of addiction and overdose tied to the drugs.
"We must do everything we can to make new, innovative treatment options available that can help patients regain control over their lives," said Dr. Robert Califf, who became FDA commissioner in February.
Heroin and opioid painkillers caused 28,650 fatal overdoses in 2014, the highest number on record in the U.S. Despite those numbers, experts say buprenorphine remains underused due to federal limits on how many prescriptions each doctors can write, gaps in insurance and a lack of acceptance by doctors.
Along with increasing compliance, Probuphine has the potential to address other problems associated with the oral buprenorphine, including illegal diversion and accidental poisoning in children.
Braeburn's CEO Behshad Sheldon says 2,200 doctors have already signed up to take the training course required to administer Probuphine. The company could train as many as 4,000 physicians by the end of the year, she says.
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Chance The Rapper Hires ASL Interpreters For The Rest Of His Concert Tour
Chance the Rapper just hired American Sign Language interpreters for the remainder of his tour, as if you needed another reason to love him.
Chance the Rapper makes history with ASL interpreters
Chance The Rapper is making history (per usual) as the first rapper to hire his own ASL interpreters from DEAFinitely Dope to bring on his tour
Posted by All Def Music on Wednesday, June 14, 2017
You'd think such an easy thing would be common practice for musicians, but weirdly, it isn't—the organization DEAFinitely Dope says Chance is the first rap artist to hire ASL interpreters for his shows. Instead, when you see sign language interpreters, they're usually hired by the festival or venue, like this awesome lady:
Come to the concert for Snoop Dogg, stay for Snoop Dogg's sign language interpreter pic.twitter.com/oVQ4qH3ZSL
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 13, 2017
"We've all been close to tears since we met him, because we just can't believe that he's willing to provide interpreters on his own," one of the interpreters, Kelly Kurdi, said in an interview with CBS News. Kurdi told CBS that usually deaf and hard of hearing people have to reach out to the venue and request an interpreter to ensure that there will be one at a concert.
Chance handpicking his interpreters is a good sign that they're gonna be pretty damn cool, and quick videos of the interpreters in action seems to show that this is the case.
When I got to the venue & saw the interpreters at the show I thought it was so dope! @chancetherapper pic.twitter.com/WIsquNS84l
— Veronica Mwila 🇨🇩 (@veronica_mwila) June 16, 2017
The interpreters started working for Chance at his Tampa show last Wednesday, and will work at every remaining stop on his tour.
Dude. You'd think he couldn't get more dope and then you wake up and @chancetherapper is already on to bigger better more helpful things. 🙌🏼
— gnolte🌞 (@genellenolte) June 15, 2017
Here's hoping that Chance starts a trend with this one.
@xxl with the write-up I don't even think @chancetherapper himself knew what he was getting into making this move...
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Born Chancelor Johnathan Bennett on April 16, 1993 in Chicago’s south side, Chance the Rapper began his musical career under the name Chano and formed Instrumentality with a close friend of his, J-Emcee. During his senior year at Jones College Prep High School, Chance was suspended for 10 days after he was found with marijuana in his possession. He used the time to release his first solo mix tape, 10 Day. As a result of the work, Complex magazine named him one of their "10 new Chicago Rappers to watch out for" in February 2012.
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Old tram depot on Leith Walk brought back to life as modern office spaces and creative hub
'Leith Walk Studios' will provide a space for the arts, small businesses and much more, say councillors.
Partners gather round the drummer from Pulse of the Place at the official opening of 'Leith Studios'
Part of the old tram depot on Leith Walk has been brought back to life as a modern office space and a creative hub.
'Leith Walk Studios' have officially opened and are part of a regeneration project that received £750,000 in funding from the Scottish Government and a further £550,000 from the City of Edinburgh Council.
Once used for trams, 60 years ago, the project has restored the 'at risk' listed former tram offices on Leith Walk into fully functional working spaces, for businesses and creative use.
The 1930s art deco building has been comprehensively restored as a ‘partnership centre’ bringing together employees from the Council, NHS Lothian and Capital City Partnership.
The community and arts development organisation Out of the Blue (OOTB) has also partnered with the council to manage seven shipping containers which were recycled and refurbished by local social enterprise, Rebuild, to create affordable workspaces for local artists and entrepreneurs.
Tenants of the units include musicians, painters, and designers who are using the spaces to create their own work and teach their skills to the local community.
Staff from Pulse of the Place teach drumming to Communities Secretary Aileen Campbell and councillor Kate Campbell
'It’s a brilliant project'
Councillor Kate Campbell, Housing and Economy Convener, said: ''This project has been led by the local community. As a result we have an amazing hub which delivers space for the activities that local people want to see happening and want to be a part of.
''With space for the arts, education, community growing, physical activity, social enterprise and small business it has something for everyone and I’m sure will be a much loved addition to the local area.
''It’s a brilliant project and we were delighted to work with Out of the Blue and our partners in the Scottish Government to bring this derelict space back into use and deliver for the local community.''
'First-hand the positive impact'
Communities Secretary Aileen Campbell said: ''I was delighted to see first-hand the positive impact this project is having on the local community in Leith. Leith Walk Studios will create employment and training opportunities as well as providing a base for local businesses and entrepreneurs.
This is another good example of how the Scottish Government is working in partnership with local authorities to support community regeneration projects, in this case bringing a derelict building back into use.''
'Through its construction it’s made a real impact'
Marcus Weurman, Development Manager, Hub South East, said: ''We’re incredibly proud to have been involved in this community regeneration project from the beginning, after proposing initial development ideas and assisting the Council with securing funding.
''Through its construction it’s made a real impact, providing trainees from social enterprise, Rebuild, with paid employment, skills and confidence. And we’re in no doubt the benefits will continue locally as the community space is further developed.
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''With so many parties involved in Leith Meanwhile, it’s been a true demonstration of real partnership working and I’d like to congratulate everyone who played a part in turning this space into something that can be used meaningfully by the community.''
The City of Edinburgh Council
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It has been a very interesting first round of Euro 2016, some amazing performances from teams who never even thought they would ever get to a major finals, let alone the last 16. The favourites have not really hit top form yet and it is looking like being a very open tournament with probably eight teams who have a chance of winning it, if they can up their game.
Belgium have an amazing team of individuals, but the total sum of their team performance is less that the individual qualities that the players have, France have scraped through, as have Germany, England, Italy and Spain, the notable performances have come from Iceland and the Republic of Ireland who have surpassed anyones expectations to get to the last 16.
Here are the games in the last 16 stage of the tournament, with my predictions of the teams to go through :-
Switzerland v Poland – Switzerland
Wales v Northern Ireland – Wales
Croatia v Portugal – Croatia
France v Rep of Ireland – France
Germany v Slovakia – Germany
Hungary v Belgium – Belgium
Italy v Spain – Spain
England v Iceland – England (easily)
If I was Roy Hodgson the England manager, on the way to every game I would put on the video of the game last month in Germany where the England team came from being 2-0 down against the World Champions to beat them 3-2, I would show the highlights, the players celebrations after the game and then show the celebrations in the pubs back in England, this would show the players that they have to reach this standard of performance to win these Championships and showing them the highlights of that game would certainly get them pumping.
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Powerproject Vision
Elecosoft collaborates with Seddon using Powerproject Enterprise to seek better ways of working
Already a Powerproject user, Seddon chose to work with Elecosoft because they wanted to improve control and co-ordination of the supply chain and production process. However, one thing the company knew they didn’t want was the status quo – lots of spreadsheets moving in every direction. Yet, with these aims in mind, Seddon wasn’t entirely sure what its options were. It turned to Elecosoft, as a trusted supplier of a platform they already knew, for support.
Technical Manager, Michael Crawford, led a task group to explore the company’s needs over six months. The result was OneProgramme. This corporate initiative set out to extend current best practices and embrace every team involved in planning and delivering projects: from earlier in the process, more consistently, and armed with the tools they needed to hit the mark every single time.
The Seddon team approached Elecosoft to consult, help scope the challenge, and recommend the best way forward. The result was adoption of Powerproject Enterprise across the construction business as a proving ground for the process, platform, and plan for change.
“They were fantastic. Our consultant was very open minded and patient, especially because there were several times we relayed information that was a bit contrary to what we said previously. It allowed us to be flexible in how we thought something should work, try it, and if it didn’t then we could tweak it. That kept a good cap on the development costs too.”
OneProgramme is well underway and Seddon is confident that the proof will be seen clearly when it delivers the first projects managed start to finish with this philosophy, programme platform and inclusive process.
Michael acknowledges the significant contribution and role that Elecosoft’s consultants and trainers have played so far in helping the company make the right decisions, select their platform, and embed the changes.
“I would recommend Elecosoft to anyone. The team did not over-sell, were never pushy on commercial basis, and were flexible on the odd occasion we exceeded our development hours… I’d recommend the service for developing a system to anybody.”
About Seddon
Established in 1897, Seddon has come a long way growing from a small family business to a national company employing over 700 people.
Seddon Construction has been keeping its promise of on-time delivery to customers for a staggering 120 years – and counting. This family firm is anything but traditional, however. It is proactive with its digital construction strategy and continues to seek better ways of working.
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November 2014 | Volume 25 | Issue No.4
Home Matters of Substance Matters of Substance - November 2014
Ross Bell
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One year ago Parliament ushered in a new era of alcohol harm reduction law with the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act, which promised communities greater say in liquor licensing decisions. It seems the law has over promised and under delivered, with commercial interests now actively undermining its purpose.
The fundamental principle of the law is to reduce alcohol related harm by setting constraints on liquor licenses based on the wishes of local communities. Parliament passed it after considering the powerful voices of many leaders who expressed great frustration at their lack of say in decisions that directly affect their communities.
Fast forward a few months and we see those same frustrations begin to appear.
Our last issue featured Mangere’s Southern Cross Campus in its fight against the expansion of a liquor outlet directly across the road. This liquor application, which had been notified in small print at the back of a newspaper during school holidays, was actively opposed by the school, the local board and public health officials, but was still granted by the District Licensing Committee. We all wondered why the voice of the community was ignored, why the spirit of the law was breached.
After facing strong community opposition another applicant in the same area voluntarily withdrew their licence application. That’s a great outcome but, once again, local communities were forced to express their views in a piecemeal way. A Local Alcohol Plan would have reflected what people think best for their neighbourhoods from the outset.
It’s clear the law has had a troubled implementation. All Local Alcohol Plans drafted by councils are being appealed. Lawyers are getting rich fighting provisions designed to protect communities. Look at what’s happening here in Wellington.
No less than eight lawyers represent different parties appealing Wellington Council’s policy. The sides in this fight are many and include Police, public health, supermarket giants, and hospitality and wider alcohol industry interests. Media reports show the council had negotiated special deals with the hospitality industry behind closed doors – even before public consultation began – to extend opening hours for on-licenses beyond the new national maximum.
Quite how the council can reconcile that proposal with the intention of the law is anyone’s guess. Extended hours won’t reduce alcohol harm, and prioritising commercial over community interests is bad form. It’s a sad state of affairs that this law, so full of potential, has begun to unravel so quickly. Communities fought hard to have a voice and thought they had been listened to. Now it seems they’re once again being ignored.
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Dayton’s Preschool Promise effort will provide tuition assistance to families and “quality assistance” to help preschool providers advance in the state’s rating system. JEREMY P. KELLEY / STAFF PHOTO
Preschool board plans marketing blitz in March
Jeremy P. Kelley, Staff Writer
Grassroots plan will explain new opportunities, try to connect to local families
The local Preschool Promise Board, sprinting toward a fall launch of expanded high-quality preschool in Dayton, will soon begin a large marketing campaign to explain the program to the public.
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The big challenge this first year is figuring out how to market a program that’s still in the process of being built, as the deadline for schools and other providers to sign up is still a week away.
“It is a significant lift, and we know it’s critically important,” said Robyn Lightcap, executive director of Learn to Earn Dayton. “We know not all parents understand what preschool options are out there right now. We know there’s a lot of confusion. … and we know we have to build systems to help them.”
RELATED: Thousands of dollars in tuition assistance available to preschool families
The Preschool Promise board approved a large marketing plan this week, including plans to hire a vendor to run a “field campaign” for grassroots outreach in Dayton. Board member and former Dayton mayor Clay Dixon said the marketing approach “is of the utmost importance.”
“That is actually how we’ll go out in the community, shoulder to shoulder, eyeball to eyeball, with the parents to make sure they are aware of the program, aware of what we do to get those kids into one of our quality programs,” Dixon said.
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The board’s request for proposals for field campaign vendors is going out this week. Lightcap said the vendor will hire people who know Dayton’s neighborhoods and can build relationships with community partners, all in an effort to connect with the families who would participate in expanded preschool. The income tax increase that Dayton voters approved in November will fund access to high-quality preschool for 4-year-olds in the city.
Lightcap said the key is figuring out who the “key influencers” are in each area, even down to the granular level of which parents moms of young children are listening to.
“It’s not as much knocking on doors (in most cases),” she said. “It’s more about building relationships with the trusted entities in the neighborhood – the churches, the social service agencies, the grocery stores, laundromats, pediatricians.”
RELATED: Preschool board trying to sign up schools, child care centers
Preschool Promise is still signing up schools and other providers this month – both those that are already high-quality, and those willing to work through the state’s quality improvement process. The overall marketing effort will launch in March, including traditional advertising, whether via radio or online, on buses or billboards.
“We need to make sure the community understands the purpose of the program, and make sure that our kiddos in all parts of the city get the quality they deserve,” Preschool Promise board member Jane McGee-Rafal said.
In April, families will be able to sign up their 4-year-old children for the start of the 2017-18 school year next fall, with significant tuition assistance available at approved centers and providers.
Preschool Promise officials said since the expanded program is brand-new, they don’t expect 2017-18 to be a perfect, completed system, with full understanding from parents, and maximum participation from school providers. The income tax increase is estimated to provide $4.3 million per year over eight years, allowing the program to build on itself over time.
The preschool board’s next meeting is March 2, when the group will discuss the budget for the 2017-18 school year.
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Wicomico fire chiefs oust breakaway Station 13
Wicomico County Fire Chiefs Association now requires recognized territories, something Salisbury Independent Volunteer Fire Company Station 13 lacks.
Wicomico fire chiefs oust breakaway Station 13 Wicomico County Fire Chiefs Association now requires recognized territories, something Salisbury Independent Volunteer Fire Company Station 13 lacks. Check out this story on delmarvanow.com: https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2018/11/30/wicomico-fire-chiefs-oust-breakaway-station-13/2152115002/
Liz Holland, Salisbury Daily Times Published 6:22 a.m. ET Nov. 30, 2018
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A view of the Salisbury Independent Volunteer Fire Company's truck at its headquarters on Snow Hill Road on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017.(Photo: Staff photo by Ralph Musthaler)Buy Photo
A volunteer fire company that broke away from the city of Salisbury nearly two years ago is no longer recognized by the Wicomico County Fire Chiefs Association after the group passed changes to its bylaws.
Members voted 9-4 on Wednesday night to adopt a new bylaw that requires participating fire companies to have recognized territories, something that the Salisbury Independent Volunteer Fire Company is lacking.
Cory Polidore, the company's fire chief, said the vote will have little effect on the unit which is still recognized by both the county and state firefighters associations.
“It doesn’t make us not a fire company,” he said. “It really doesn’t do anything to us.”
In addition to Polidore, fire chiefs from Allen, Hebron and Sharptown voted against the change in the bylaws, according to association members who attended the meeting.
Cory Polidore, chief of the Salisbury Independent Volunteer Fire Company. (Photo: Daily Times file photo)
The chiefs association has been considering several changes to its bylaws since mid-summer, and the group unanimously adopted two other changes that affect the Salisbury Fire Department.
One of them will allow the Salisbury fire chief, who is a full-time, paid city employee, to attend meetings which previously were limited only to chiefs of volunteer companies.
The Salisbury Fire Company has two volunteer companies under its command. The association also now recognizes Salisbury as one station rather than two under another bylaw change, according to members.
TIMELINE: The Salisbury volunteer firefighters split history
Court case lingers
The ongoing saga of Station 13 began in February 2017 when members of Company 1, the volunteer firefighters at Salisbury’s Station 1 on Beaglin Park Drive, announced they would separate from the Salisbury Fire Department effective July 1 after the city refused to participate in formal mediation to iron out disputes over station staffing.
In March 2017, the breakaway firefighters announced they were in the process of finding a new building with plans to take over a part of the county served by the city’s Station 1.
But a new fire service agreement between the city and county signed in April 2017 kept the boundaries of the Salisbury Fire Department’s coverage area intact.
In May 2017, the firefighters filed a suit in District Court against the city for the return of equipment and other items they say belong to them. The firefighters also asked for $494,316 in damages.
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The city filed its own suit asking the court to grant a temporary restraining order to prohibit Company 1 from spending any public funds distributed by Wicomico County. It also asks that Company 1 be compelled to produce an accounting of how it has spent any funds from public or charitable sources, and that an independent auditor be appointed to review records.
The city, in its lawsuit, also is asking for the money from the Lacy Fund be used to benefit the two remaining volunteer fire companies in Salisbury at Stations 2 and 16.
The lawsuit also is asking for a return of all funds derived from public or charitable funds that have been improperly spent and the return of personal property, vehicles, apparatus and equipment.
Five days after the city filed suit, Company 1 filed its own lawsuit against the Community Foundation over $75,000 from the Lacy Fund — a bequest to the Salisbury Fire Department administered by the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore — to which the firefighters believe they are entitled.
Since then, all of the cases have been combined. So far, no trial date has been scheduled.
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Statoil finds more gas offshore Tanzania
Statoil has announced a new natural gas discovery offshore Tanzania. It is the Norwegian energy firm’s eight discovery and includes up to 1.8 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas in […]
By Priyanka Shrestha
Image: Harald Pettersen/ Statoil
Statoil has announced a new natural gas discovery offshore Tanzania.
It is the Norwegian energy firm’s eight discovery and includes up to 1.8 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas in the Mdalasini-1 well.
That takes the total volumes of gas to around 22 tcf in Block 2.
Nick Maden, Senior Vice President for Statoil’s exploration activities in the Western Hemisphere said: “The Mdalasini-1 discovery marks the completion of the first phase of an efficient and successful multi-well exploration programme offshore Tanzania.”
Statoil operates the licence on Block 2 on behalf of Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) and has a 65% working interest.
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How Do You Sustain Your Brand's Value? Follow These 6 Steps.
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Cheryl Hodgson
global brand counsel, entertainment/new media companies
April 29, 2016 7 min read
When I broke the screen on my iPhone a couple of months back, I asked the Apple care team for help. And the experience that followed exceeded my expectations. The team member involved went out of his way, contacting the nearest store to arrange an appointment to replace my screen -- in less than an hour.
Related: 5 Examples of Stellar Logo Design and Packaging
It was that memorable experience which increased the value of Apple in my eyes, through my positive brand experience with the computer giant.
The design, look and feel of the Apple store itself has always provided me -- and obviously many others -- a unique, carefully crafted consumer experience. Apple fought and won the right to protect that experience with a trademark registration that covers the unique design and layout of its stores worldwide. And here again is the core of a good brand experience: Steve Jobs chose a brand name that could grow in the minds of the public, be legally protected and add to the value of the company.
Apple thus is a great illustration of how and why every new brand owner should make a conscious choice to invest in a trademark or trademarks to represent his or her company's consumer experience. For many companies, after all, the most valuable business asset is their brand.
Studies have shown that somewhere between 30 percent and 50 percent of the purchase price paid for a company is for its intangible assets, which are often labeled "intellectual property." The most common IP assets are patents, trade secrets and trademarks, including words, symbols, logos, slogans, trade dress and even sounds used to market a business’ products and services.
When the day comes to sell your company, and prospective buyers take an interest, their first question will likely be, “What’s your IP?”
Brand building starts with a unique product or service, and a clear plan to establish a channel, a bridge to the consumer. Today, brand building is likely to be a series of channels that connect with the consumer in different ways -- television, radio, print, social media, Internet sales or point of purchase in a store.
So, that's the objective: to create a memorable consumer experience at each touch point. The next question is, how do you get members of the public to associate their experience of the brand names and logos you promote to the public with your products and services? How do you build and protect a sustainable brand?
How do you emulate Steve Jobs' bitten apple -- and the immediacy with which iconsumers think "great computers!"? Here are six strategies to begin with.
1. Investigate -- Turn on the lights in a dark room to see who is there!
A professional search is like turning on the lights in a dark room; a search shines a light on the competition. Entrepreneurs sometimes bypass this step, opting to rely solely upon what they can discern from an online search. But this is not the wisest choice, particularly when you're investing thousands in marketing materials and packaging. Don’t risk being derailed before you even launch.
2. “Noodle” on it.
Think about the results. With a professional search, you will not only learn whether the brand name merits a major investment, but will have a way to formulate a smart plan to register. It is better to know the issues prior to getting married, and that also applies to selecting a brand name.
I recently conducted a search for a new fashion brand, which allowed me to develop a strategy to overcome an anticipated rejection of my client’s application based upon an existing registration. We used the search to gather facts; those facts greatly helped us successfully register the brand.
Related: How to Conduct a Patent Search to Make Sure Your Brilliant Invention Doesn't Already Exist
3. Select wisely -- Search for the intersection where selection meets protection.
The most common mistake new brand owners make is choosing a descriptive term. Descriptive terms are not good trademarks and should be avoided. Descriptive trademarks require costly advertising to garner public recognition, and they are extremely difficult and costly to enforce. Take a moment and learn what types of terms make strong trademarks. Check out: 5 Choices for a New Trademark.
As Margaret Walker, VP of intellectual property for Xerox Corporation shared with me: “Let’s understand what makes for a strong trademark, and what does not, and what your risk tolerance is. Are you okay to go out and invest this much money in something you are not going to be able to protect down the line?”
4. Proper use -- Use them correctly or “lose ’em.”
Correct trademark use involves the manner in which the brand owner, distributors, licensees and the public (including the media) use the mark. A guide for proper use should be created early in your brand’s existence. Marketing materials should provide a consistent brand presentation and include the generic term for the product or service.
Equally important, public use should be periodically monitored to avoid the risk that rights in the brand name will be lost.
5. Register with a plan -- Strategic registrations are invaluable.
Registration is like recording the deed to your house, allowing you to kick out squatters. A federal registration also protects the brand from increasing risks of domain-name infringement. With dozens of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) now available, registrations to assist in enforcement have never been more important. Don’t make the mistake of believing that a domain-name registration is a substitute for a trademark registration. Check out: Domain Names
Effective registration allows for orderly expansion both in the United States and internationally. For example, foreign trademark rights often go to the first party that registers. Pinterest learned this the hard way last year when it discovered that an earlier registration filed by a company in the United Kingdom could not be stopped. Pinterest's error: It had failed to promptly seek registration of its name.
6. Enforce and maintain -- Snooze and you will lose.
Managing and maintaining the brand’s public persona and reputation is vital. Sometimes called “policing your mark,” monitoring the marketplace is legally required in order to maintain rights.
The goal of monitoring is to ensure that differentiating thoughts and feelings about the brand are protected. This includes watching for new users using your marks for related goods and services, as well as third-party uses of similar but not identical words and marks.
Remember: Words like cellophane, aspirin and escalator were once trademarks. But then they weren't: Even the “walking fingers” of the Yellow Pages was found to be a generic term as a result of widespread and common use; AT&T failed to sustain its rights. Each of these former trademarks is now free for anyone to use.
So, don't make the mistakes described. Follow these steps, and you will be well on your way to growing greater value for your business, knowing that your brand is protected for the future.
Related: Protect Your Brand, Oprah Style: 5 Legal Strategies She Uses (And You Should, Too)
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10 social media accounts you need to follow in the pharma sector
by Dave Gray
In the last five years the pharma sector has finally become socially connected – but there’s more to be done to get the most out of the tools available
We’ve hand-picked 10 of the most important social media accounts and groups to connect with, no matter whether you’re just starting out, or you’re a regular tweeter.
These brands and users have been collated based on a typical month’s social activity and influence. We looked at popular hashtags, users who engage with industry, Klout score, audience sizes and a host of other analytics data to find these accounts and groups.
1 - FDA Drug Information (Twitter)
The FDA has several Twitter accounts for its various department, but this one has evolved into a surprisingly light digest of the latest approvals, breakthroughs and thought leadership. They don’t engage with any other accounts (except for other FDA departments) so don’t expect a re-tweet – but then, it is the FDA.
2 - Michelle Petersen (Twitter)
Michelle is the founder of health-innovations.org , an online community dedicated to supporting innovation in health. Her feed is worth following for general interest, but she’s also a great person to interact with if you’re connected to a new launch or development product.
3 - Professionals in the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industry (LinkedIn)
This is one of the biggest groups on LinkedIn for our sector. If you’re not a member, you should be. With over 200,000 members, anything you share will be seen by a lot of people. Discussion is wide-ranging, from the potential impact of big data (yes, people are still talking about that), right through considerations for tablet coating – it’s a broad church.
4 - Euro Pharma Mag (Twitter)
This is EPM’s very own Twitter account – we couldn’t leave it out of the list. We
love connecting with our readers, and share our daily news roundups – follow us and stay in touch.
5 – WHO (Twitter)
Arguably, everyone working in the life science sector should connect with the World Health Organisation. As the chief authority on guidance for stakeholders, this is really a must-follow account – as is evidenced by its 2.7 million followers. WHO on Twitter is concerned with highlighting global health issues and urging life science communities to act.
6 – Ben Hirschler (Twitter)
Ben is a top scorer in terms of ‘Twitter Klout’. He’s one of the most respected voices, writing on healthcare and pharma for news agency Reuters. Join his 15,800 followers for a mix of witticisms, insight and other, broad interest news.
7 - Matthew Herper (Twitter)
Another leading name from the world of journalism, Matthew’s account is a must for political commentary around the pharma sector. Matthew writes for Forbes and always has something to say about big pharma.
8 - EFPIA (Twitter)
“EFPIA is the voice of the research-based pharmaceutical industry in Europe”. That’s the description underneath the Twitter handle, and it sums the account up nicely. The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations represents the research side of the sector, and its Twitter account engages with the global community on a regular basis.
9 - Pharmaceutical Discussion Group (LinkedIn)
This group is great for manufacturers. Many people use it to post technical queries and conundrums regarding their in-house process. Group members are all invited to collaborate and share intelligence. Join this group to learn a lot and stay in touch with your fellow experts.
10 – NICE
Another one of those accounts that everyone (at least those working in the UK market) should follow. Stay up-to-date with the latest guidance and updates from NICE.
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Erskine & Erskine Has Provided Family, Business, Tax & Estate Law Services Including Probate Law Since 1876
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The fourth generation of lawyers known for integrity and personal service, Matthew concentrates on providing legal and fiduciary services for families with limited assets such as real estate or a business to families that own of unique assets.
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Unlike most trust and estate attorneys and other wealth management advisors, Matt’s focus is ensuring financial security while preserving the ownership of a unique—but often illiquid—asset for the client and the family. If your family needs legal services for a small estate that requires a probate attorney to planning for a complex estate with unique assets, contact Erskine & Erskine.
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Estate plans combine three elements: learning from the past, adapting to the present and anticipating the future. The document generators codify learning from the past through their processes and procedures. A Power of Attorney Holder or a Personal Representative adapts to the present. Only planning, with the help of a professional advisor, anticipates the future.
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Over the last year, Congress, the courts, and the IRS have developed habits that are likely to impact tax and estate planning. Here are a few: Trust Administration Documentation vs. Reality Reality matters. The courts and the IRS continue to focus on the actual...
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Digital decision-making: “3D” in the spotlight
Democratie.Nu is a Belgian democracy group, working on integrating digital technologies in democratic decision-making. In the recent Belgian municipal elections of October 2012, the organization set “3D” on the Belgian voting lists, an innovative approach to combine direct with representative democracy in the digital age. We have asked the activists behind Democratie.Nu (Paul Nollen, Marc Janssens, Bert Penninckx and Alexandre Zenon) to explain to us their special approach.
What is the main idea of the "3D" project?
The main idea of 3D (Digital Direct Democracy) is to use the extraordinary possibilities of the digital technology in all its aspects. 3D is not limited to a political programme. We define democracy as the "legislative power of the citizens". In particular we want to introduce the "democratic experiment" as developed by demoex Sweden. As part of this project citizens can determine how the representative votes on certain issues.
In Germany there is a lot of talk about liquid feedback as new software to allow direct decision-making. What does the software of "3D" have in common with liquid feedback?
Liquid feedback has two main applications:
The first application is a system that is able to manage propositions by citizens and to rank these propositions. Liquid feedback operates with the Condorcet Schulze system. We are using the same system but our software is more user-friendly. We are now working with the Pirates to improve the "liquid feedback" system.
The other application is "liquid democracy" which enables citizens to freely delegate when they want and who they want. These two option are included in our software but we have only single delegation, which means that the delegate cannot delegate somebody else. Of course these systems (liquid feedback with liquid democracy) can be implemented everywhere, not only in political applications.
Which goals does democratia.nu have in terms of realising more democracy at transnational level? What is your vision of democracy in practice in the EU?
We believe that democracy begins at local and national level. For us the EU is not a real democracy because citizens did not have the possibility to give their sovereignty to the EU. To make the EU democratic, there should be direct democracy in forms of referenda. Democratie.Nu strives to bring direct democracy at the EU level. But our priority remains at the municipal and national level.
- On Democratie.Nu at www.democratie.nu
- On demoex Sweden at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoex
- On “Active Democracy” in Sweden at aktivdemokrati.se
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arduino factory + production tour in turin, italy
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who would ever imagine that global cultural and economic revolution would spring from the tranquil fields of piedmont, italy, in tiny towns nestled against the stunning backdrop of the alps? but that’s exactly where arduino, the system of microcontrollers revolutionzing the maker movement and pioneering the concept of opensource hardware, was born in 2005 and continues to make its home today.
arduino’s story is unusual to say the least. five colleagues, seeking to empower students with the tools to create, developed the platform in 2005. now distributors estimate that over one million arduinos have been sold, and the arduino community is among the most resilent and inventive on the internet. forums like instructables and arduino’s own scuola connect enthusiasts to learn from one another, and arduino users build on the platform to open up new creative possibilities.
we traveled to turin, italy, to see arduino’s first officina, before setting off north to visit the italian factories that continue to be the heart of arduino manufacturing for the entire world.
the citofono to the torino officina arduino, nameplate CNC-engraved at their fablab
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located in what’s known as the ‘capital of the alps’, the torino officina was founded in february 2012 to oversee the development of the hardware and expand the educational and cultural initiatives that surround it. davide gomba, already an arduino veteran by the time, was among the associates instrumental in founding the office, and we’re lucky to have him as our guide throughout our visit. it’s late august when we arrive, and some of the office is still on summer holidays, but those who are there are hard at work preparing for the release of two new arduino products and organizing the rome maker faire in collaboration with make, asset-camera, and tecnopolo.
this officina is also home to italy’s first hackspace, the torino fablab, where makers share production equipment and tips as well as ideas and conversation in a workshop outfitted with four 3D printers, a sewing machine, two CNC routers, soldering irons, woodworking tools, and other equipment.
it’s ushering in the next stage of a long history of production and innovation for piedmont’s capital city. FIAT was established here in 1899, and turin’s history as an industrial powerhouse lives on today, most notably through the operations of car manufacturers as well as its thriving aerospace industry, where modules of the international space station were produced.
showing its italian pride in red, white, and green, system elettronica develops arduino’s PCBs for the global market right here in strambino, italy, using mostly locally produced machines
it isn’t long before we’re in the car enroute north to see where arduinos are made. the arduino production facilities are actually spread across three factories in piedmont, all along the outskirts of the town of ivrea. at system elettronica in strambino, the circuit boards themselves are manufactured, arriving to the factory as mass-produced sheets of copper and leaving identifiably as arduinos, coloured blue and white and circuit designs etched for the later embedding and assembly of their electrical componentry. a separate company, BCA, conducts some of the stages of assembly, while the electronic infrastructure is finished by hand and the products packaged and prepared for shipping at smartprojects in scarmagno.
system elettronica is our first stop. as owner ludovico apruzzese leads us around the factory, he explains that not only is the arduino hardware entirely made in italy but so are the machines that produce it. taking advantage of the industrial heritage of the region, much of his equipment is produced in the surrounding region of canavase, and many are driven by control circuits that apruzzese himself designs and produces in-house. he even makes the boards of the control circuits blue rather than the ordinary green, to match arduino’s characteristic colour.
these blue control boards are designed in-house custom for the arduino production line
system elettronica not only produces arduino’s PCBs but also the control circuits for the machines it uses to do so, which the factory owner makes blue to match arduino boards’ unusual hue. at system elettronica, the first step in the creation of an arduino board is a machine that punches out holes on sheets of copper vetrite, stamping out the spaces that will house the microchip and other electronic components, as well as those that will eventually permit makers to connect all kinds of sensors, screens, and input devices. here in strambino, apruzzese estimates, they punch about 2 million holes each day for their line of arduino production alone.
an arduino in the making: the future vias of the PCBs are punched into copper vetrite sheets
ludovico apruzzese, the owner of system elettronica examines a sheet of what will become arduino leonardos
holes punched, the sheets are brought to a larger room where rows of machines are at work. we are led to the largest of these, set against the windows: a series of acid baths across six holding tanks that will etch the circuit. as a factory worker secures the copper sheets at one side of the machine, a mechanical arm sweeps above the liquids to collect them, dip them into the first section of the bath, and then place them into the second where the rest of their journey is coordinated automatically beneath the surface. when completed, the arm lifts them from the water and returns them to the beginning, where the worker unfastens them and files them onto a loading rack.
WATCH: arduino PCBs are etched through acid baths in a 20-step system across six holding tanks
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a worker unfastens the sheet of boards after they’ve been etched
the freshly etched sheets of arduinos remain the original copper colour of the vetrite upon removal from the acid baths
enraptured by the flow of these machines at work, it is easy to forget how rare it is that electronics be produced from start to finish entirely at home, whether that means italy or america. but arduino does not outsource any of its production abroad, and factory founder and owner ludovico apruzzese is proud that such advanced production is all “made in italy”. the walls are graced by a border of the stripes of the italian flag, which he draws our attention to with a smile, and the red of the windowframes is striking against white walls with green border. davide reveals another charming secret: all of the lines of production in this factory are named after apruzzese’s wife and daughters.
proudly made in italy: system elettronica decorates its factory walls with the stripes of the italian flag
the italian attention to design detail isn’t lost in the production process either: our next stop in the building is the machine that stamps the arduinos– their bodies already their characteristic blue after the acid bath– completely white, much of which will be dissolved away in the next step. the machine looks little different from an ordinary silk screener, and a worker individually places each sheet by hand by a worker onto the platform and then pulls down the press, recoating it with paint as needed. what arrived as blue and copper boards are now completely white on one side.
screen printing the arduino PCBs white
arduino leonardos lined up after being screen printed
inside one of the machinery rooms at the system elettronica factory
their next visit is to the “solder mask developer”, or ‘alessandra’ (one of the owner’s daughters, as you might have guessed). here most of the white is peeled off the boards, retaining the border along the soldering holes and for accents such as the arduino name. at this point, the base PCB boards are nearly complete. the final machine at system elettronica is the miller, where three precision heads finely cut along the sheets of boards to remove the outer border and so that the grid of boards can be easily separated from each other later on.
looking in on the three-headed milling machine
a stack of arduino UNOs, freshly milled but not yet separated apart or removed from their white border piece
WATCH: a compilation of the making of an arduino PCB at system elettronica
throughout their production, the boards have made occasional trips to an oven for drying; now they’ll undergo testing via automated machines in a dedicated control room. this will mark the first of many quality assurance tests to which arduino subjects its boards before they’ll ever be packed or shipped to anyone.
in fact, although arduino is an opensource hardware system– all the diagrams and information for their construction is freely available online and enthusiasts are encouraged to build their own from scratch– only two facilities in the world besides arduino itself are currently licensed to use the arduino name on the boards they produce, a precaution adopted to preserve the high standards of quality to which the company is devoted. sparkfun in boulder, colorado manufactures the arduino pro, pro mini, and lilypad; and gravitech in california produces the nano. for now, everything else is made right here in italy.
official arduino T-shirts spotted on the packaging floor of smartprojects in italy
from system elettronica, the circuitboards are brought to a nearby assembly plant called BCA. interestingly, not a single one of arduino’s factories in piedmont produces exclusively arduinos. each one maintains various production lines for other companies and products, making the entire network more of an ecosystem than the top-down approach employed by many major electronics manufacturers. ‘it makes it healthier,’ davide explains, because there is no single client on whose demands the factories depend.
in fact today we don’t visit BCA, where the sheets are cut and other aspects of the boards’ assembly takes place, because at the moment only automotive parts are on the factory’s production lines, one of BCA’s other major clients. instead we head straight to the final stop in the making of an arduino, smart projects in scarmagno. here the human element driving the production process is inescapable. flooded with natural light, the open floor of the first warehouse we visit is broken into work countertops and tables. here, operators compile together arduino’s starter kits, assemble boxes, and package the products, the very final steps of the entire process.
but there’s still much to see before arriving at that stage. we step outside to walk over to another building in this small complex of old industrial spaces, and arrive in the single room where all microcontrollers are outfitted with their electronic infrastructure, a process achieved through a combination of machine automation and hand-soldering. the “pick-and-place machine” is the mechanical half of the process and permits the precise placement of SMDs (surface-mount devices) like capacitors and resisters. reels of components are loaded into a feeding rack at the front of the machine, while the arduino PCBs– now in smaller sheets of only about twelve boards– are automatically loaded in from the left. the mechanical head whizzes around the boards, picking up individual components from the reels and placing them onto the PCBs. it’s relatively standard operating procedure for PCB production, but that doesn’t make the process any less mesmerizing to watch.
WATCH: one of several pick-and-place machines fits arduino’s electronic infrastructure onto the circuitboard
on a small screen mounted to the right of the unit, a grayscale image not unlike what one would expect to see under a microscope is being constantly adjusted and overlain with green and red rectangles. this, it turns out, is the view from the camera housed within the mechanical head, and it is searching for indicative markings on the PCB that it algorithmically matches to its map of component placement, as well as scanning its own activity to ensure the successful picking up and placement of parts from the reels.
closer view of the component reels on a pick-and-place machine at smartprojects
from here the arduinos pass into a soldering oven, where they are inundated with “waves” of solder at 200°C, achieving the through-all holes (vias) that make the devices ready for the final steps of hand-soldering as well as more versatile forbuilding electronics projects. along the far wall, tens of the machine’s source reels of SMD components hang organized in rows, ready for use.
one factory wall houses extra component reels, necessary to build in the electronic SMD infrastructure of the boards
just steps away from this machine at work, three employees sit at tables that have been pushed together, each one armed with an array of boxes in which sit alternately headers, power and ethernet jacks, and other components. they are the human and handmade side of arduino electronics, and working with rapid ease but obvious precision, they place pieces by hand or tweezer into the holes of the PCBs and solder them into place. at another nearby table, a woman is preparing the new arduino robots for production, the finished models stacked onto a shelf below her.
several smartproject employees at work hand-soldering larger components onto the boards
closer view of a solderer at work
before arriving at smartprojects, the PCBs are thoroughly tested before ever leaving the system elettronica production plant. but here, their electronic infrastructure finally in place, each arduino is examined again, most in this very room on a dedicated suite of computers where they are loaded with the firmware and tested for general functionality, the responsiveness of their indicator lights, and other key functions. if everything looks good, then they’re sent down to the packaging floor we saw earlier, off to become someone’s exciting project somewhere on the planet!
tested throughout their construction, arduinos are loaded with the firmware and subjected to a final examination by hand before ever being sent to the packaging floor. such rigorous testing puts the probability of a malfunctioning device at less than 1%.
WATCH: arduino gets a new home!
we were curious about where the story of arduino all began, so davide brings us to the former site of the interaction design institute ivrea (IDII), unfortunately closed in 2005. the striking building once housed offices of olivetti, the world-renowned italian typewriter manufacturer acclaimed for its attention to graphic and industrial design and makers of the first commercially produced personal computer in 1965. even now, the exterior remains essentially the same as it was when massimo banzi, david cuartielles, and gianluca martino worked here and developed what would become arduino: a founding team quickly joined by IDII graduate student david mellis, now arduino’s lead software developer, and early arduino adopter ITP professor tom igoe at NYU.
banzi had just been hired to teach new practices in interaction design at IDII, itself a research and innovation initiative of olivetti/telecom. at the time, he like many other physical computing enthusiasts made use of parallax’s basic stamp microcontroller, but the device cost about $100 and was very limited in memory, as well as requiring knowledge of the basic programming language.
the site of the former interaction design institute ivrea, where arduino was first developed
influenced by ben fry and casey reas‘s processing programming environment, which simplified coding and permitted the creation of stunning interactive and generative screen-based projects, banzi alongside his collaborators at IDII sought to create an accessible, relatively simple to learn, cross-platform device for the field of physical computing. they also wanted it to be affordable, in the range of $30. as students and faculty developed the project, the impending closing of the IDII encouraged banzi to launch the project as opensource under creative commons licensure, and to make his students the first beta testers of the concept. the semester was successful, and word about arduino spread quickly among colleagues and online, where the arduino community still thrives and grows today.
arduino takes its name from the former ‘bar di re arduino’ in this piazza in ivrea
detouring into town, we visit the bar from which the family of microcontrollers takes its name. the ‘bar di re arduino’ is now under different management and is called ‘movida’, but davide assures us that it’s this place that was the local watering hole of founder massimo banzi while a professor at the interaction design institute ivrea. and when arduino existed as a prototype and business plan but still without a name, it was over drinks one night that the team, as the story goes, decided what their creation would be called.
there’s more behind that name, though: born in what is now ivrea, arduino of pombia was chosen king of italy from 1002 to 1014, and is popularly romanticized as a dedicated nationalist who sought to free his country from decades of foreign domination under the rule of the german ottonian dynasty. the revolutionary figure is a fitting namesake for the hardware producers, whose steadfast championing of opensource systems and alternative business models is a vital artery in the maker movement; and king arduino’s election from outside of the traditionally recognized noble lineage (albeit by a very limited sense of public) already parallels arduino’s democratization of programming and engineering.
WATCH: arduino’s davide gomba reflects on makerspaces and what they’ll mean for the future of factories
what’s next for the pioneering company? arduino has just recently launched scuola.arduino.cc, an integrated web portal that provides tutorials and project ideas from both company employees and the global arduino community, augmenting the already rich online community of diy hardware enthusiasts and arduino developers. arduino scuola addresses the international nature of its participants by providing information translated in english, italian, and german langauges. in real space as well, 2013 has seen the opening of an officina in malmo, focusing largely on educational initiatives (and where david cuartielles developed the arduino robot), as well as in bangalore, india.
the five members of the core team continue to collaborate from careers in new york and boston and lugano, switzerland, amidst their international travels for educational and cultural initiatives. the torino officina remains the heart of arduino’s infrastructure, but the company hopes to open more offices to expand their efforts in content creation and developmental projects.
as we catch our train out of turin, we’re struck by the way arduino’s factories and officine serve as striking microcosms of the company’s own ethos: the way man works in synergy with machine on arduino’s production lines; the italian attention to detail in aesthetics and quality control coupled with the heavy industrial heritage of turin and ivrea; arduino’s emphasis on education and outreach ventures; even the company’s partnering with an ecology of factories rather than adopting a conventional vertical, top-down approach. arduino and the very concept of opensource hardware is one of the sparks that ignited the maker movement, and the world that these makers are already constructing is one where sensors, microcontrollers, and smart systems– many themselves likely powered by arduino– might help us to live more efficiently, comfortably, and creatively within our environment. while integral to the heralded ‘new economy’, whats being created is something more than that: it’s a new ecology, a conceptual framework of collaboration whether between people and technology, among one another, or with their environments. and it’s happening at home, whether that means ‘made in italy’ in the factories that surround the birthplace of arduino, or built and shared and shaped and adapted in one of a thousand cities by any of many thousand people throughout the world.
system elettronica owner loads the screen-printed PCBs into 'alessandra' to peel away the extra white
a worker handling the acid-washed PCB boards
after the acid wash
by the time they leave the 'alessandra' developer machine, the boards show their characteristic arduino colour scheme
hand-soldering and assembly of the arduino robots
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boxes of arduino's ready to ship!
if you worked at the officina arduino in turin, this is the view you'd see from the windows of the main meeting space upstairs
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This beautiful article has many merits, chiefly its hands-on flavour and excellent pictures too, which well portrait the quasi-artisan nature of Arduino making. However, there is one thing that I find – as an Ivrea native – really irritating, i.e. neglecting that: 1) Piedmont has been an industrial powerhouse of Italy for five centuries – all industry in Italy, textile, car, electricity, tlc and movies to name but a few were born here, to then partly move to Milan and Rome over the years (not FIAT of course) 2) all the tiny towns mentioned in the article, including the stunning interactive design institute, were home to the most famous Italian company of the 50’s and the 60’s, a world champion like Apple today. OLIVETTI !! and this is nowhere to be found. Is this done on purpose?
Davide says:
Wonderful! Thank you.
Meticularius says:
davide, thanks for your thoughts. while we likewise felt it important in this article to acknowledge turin’s rich industrial legacy in general terms, we wanted foremost to focus on arduino without delving too deeply into specific historical details of the region.
given IDII’s importance in the arduino story, however, not mentioning olivetti’s ownership of the building and involvement in the institute was simply an editorial oversight, and we’ve since added that information into the article.
jenny db says:
I found this article delightful but frustrating. Wished it had had some editing (aside from the lack of caps). What are PCBs? (something “control board”?) Please explain what role the “arduino” circuit boards play inside a 3 D printer. Do they sell these circuit boards to makers of 3 D printers? What’s the supply chain? How did these guys get to be so big? How come the Asians haven’t swamped them? Maybe these were addressed in the article but they just didn’t jump out at me.
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Composed: 1940, Started in the summer. Completed September 14. (age 33-34)
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I. Prelude. Lent - Poco più mosso - Lento
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III. Scherzo. Allegretto
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V. Finale. Allegretto
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Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 57 (1940)
Shostakovich has come to be regarded as one of the most important 20th century composers. Working in all the traditional genres, he was particularly prodigious with his monumental cycles of 15 symphonies and 15 string quartets. Indeed, despite his early modernist tendencies and his distinctively contemporary and personal sound, Shostakovich primarily worked with traditional forms as well as within a largely tonal harmonic vocabulary. This sense of a modern voice within an unbroken traditional lineage is nowhere more apparent than with his glorious piano quintet of 1940. Impressed with his first string quartet, the Moscow-based Beethoven quartet asked Shostakovich to write a quintet featuring Shostakovich himself at the piano. The result was an immense success earning Shostakovich the Stalin Prize and a cash award of 100,000 rubles often cited as the largest sum ever commanded by a chamber music work. An early entry in his chamber music catalog, Shostakovich's quintet is one of his most popular works destined to join the small pantheon of singular piano quintets from the likes of Schumann, Brahms and Franck.
Traditional forms and modes of expression pervade the entire quintet. The first two movements supply a massive prelude and fugue in the finest Bachian sense. Shostakovich was a skillful and artistic contrapuntalist with masterful fugues all through his oeuvre. Directly inspired by Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Shostakovich wrote his own substantial set of 24 preludes and fugues for piano, again, a modern voice within an ancient tradition. Here, the prelude and fugue acquire an extra dimension due to the fact that the piano quintet naturally divides between strings and piano, each capable of multi-part textures on their own as well as combining for a unified ensemble. The fugue engages in a variety of traditional techniques including a prominent countersubject.
The third movement is a fantastic scherzo and trio, a highpoint of the work suitable for encore all by itself. In startling contrast to the poise and grandeur of the prelude and fugue, the scherzo dances with a rustic, wild abandon leering towards colorful parody and dark sarcasm so typical of Shostakovich. Less traditional is a second slow movement, a ponderous intermezzo placed between the scherzo and finale. Here is another face of Shostakovich so vivid throughout his work: an intimate sorrow that rises to a peak of anguish, a plodding sense of fate underlying a poignant song. But it is only a glimpse, an intermezzo that quickly fades into the relaxed tone of a breezy, uplifting conclusion. The finale has a clearly articulated classical sonata form with distinctive themes and a development section. A march-like feel is always just beneath the surface, occasionally swelling in grand gestures while, in between, a brief recollection of the intermezzo temporarily clouds an otherwise sunny end. Throughout the quintet, Shostakovich maintains a remarkable clarity of texture avoiding the dense or quasi-orchestral grandiosity towards which piano quintets tend. This is due in particular to a relatively restrained piano part and a fluid, dynamic ensemble where all five instruments are rarely active simultaneously.
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Nationality: Soviet | Polish
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appassionato, passionato, passionné [F], avec passion, passionnément—passionate; ardent
finale [I], final [F]—The final movement, sometimes explicitly titled thus
mosso—moved, with motion, stirred, agitated
piano quintet—ensemble (work) for string quartet plus piano. One of the most grand chamber music forms. For an extra rich sound, some piano quintets omit the 2nd violin and add a bass comprising the complete four-part string section of the orchestra.
più—more
poco, un poco, poco a poco—a little bit, e.g. "andante un poco moto" is andante with a little more motion than typical. "poco a poco" means a little bit at a time, gradually.
prelude, prélude, präludium [G], präludien [G, pl], praeludium, preludio—a movement preceding another almost by way of introduction: to let listeners and players acclimate, often to prepare for greater demands ahead
scherzo—lively, brisk, typically in a triple meter; usually a three-part form with central, contrasting trio
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Mobile Phones Issues in FIDE Events
Discuss anything you like about chess related matters in this forum.
Paul Cooksey
Re: Mobile Phones Issues in FIDE Events
Post by Paul Cooksey » Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:16 am
1. I think Holloid plastics should be contacted about mobile phone boxes
2. I suspect Martyn may be raising this as a pretext to sneak in his sandwiches
I realise I might be reopening old and uncontstructive topics, but if Carl moderates my post I wil l claim it is a breach of my human rights and will ask the ECF to take him to CAS
( , do feel free to moderate me Carl; I realise I should be above this sort of thing )
Post by David White » Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:10 pm
A couple of years ago, I was plaing in the same tournament and we had just started the game when my phone rang. I didn't answer the call but later found out that it was BT trying to sort out a problem I had with the phone! My opponent was quite happy to continue the game until the controller turned up to say that whilst we could continue the game it would count as a default anyway. I have not played in this tournament since.
It seems therefore that your opponent being happy to play on is not good enough but being in fear of their life is.
Post by Jonathan Bryant » Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:10 pm
One for the arbiters:-
Arbiter says "Please start White's clock".
Before the clocks are started, somebody's phone makes a sound.
Is this a default?
Formerly of the S&BCB http://www.streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.com
Richard Bates
Post by Richard Bates » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:12 pm
other games may have started and a phone going off could distract them, hence a default needed.
In most FIDE events the playing conditions allow photographers to buzz around taking close up photos and using flash photography for a period up to five minutes into the game. So opinion that the very early stages of a game are so critical as to necessitate draconian penalties for causing a distraction at that stage is arguably somewhat mixed...
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Post by Gareth Harley-Yeo » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:44 pm
Michael I sympathise with you. It seems the forumites have decided to hijack this thread with pointless stories of beeping mobiles.
You make a good point that these arbiter decisions need to be stamped out. The rules are the rules and should be followed to the letter. If my daughter was the female in question who's life was threatened I'm not sure who I'd channel my anger at more - The perpetrator or the so called chief arbiter overseeing the event who didn't want to create a fuss.
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Roger de Coverly
Post by Roger de Coverly » Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:47 pm
Richard Bates wrote: In most FIDE events the playing conditions allow photographers to buzz around taking close up photos and using flash photography for a period up to five minutes into the game.
Isn't FIDE's zero default obsession at least in part to allow all this photography? The old trick, as used sometimes by RJF, of turning up at the board five or ten minutes late had the merit of avoiding these distractions.
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Post by Mick Norris » Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:09 pm
Michael J R White wrote: snip
Regarding the initial issue about the mobile phone, I did escalate this to the CEO of the ECF prior to coming to the Forum, but the CEO requires me to provide him with evidence that the appeals process was exhausted. I think this is a somewhat ridiculous requirement, as records of appeals processes are supposed to be maintained by the tournament.
If the organiser doesn't reply to the CEO, it is unlikely the CEO will do anything further.
For the above reasons, I have posted here as the CEO of the ECF does not seem willing to be proactive in improving arbiting standards or stamping out the unwelcome actions of those who violate the rules.
Given the CEO has had problems with arbiters, as mentioned by him elsewhere on here, you might forgive him for this
Clearly, there is an issue of who you complain to if you have a problem with the arbiter - an interesting point I would like to know, as it happened to me recently
Does the Arbiters Association have a complaints mechanism? And can you be sure of justice if it is one of their (senior) members you are complaining about?
It is also interesting that everyone sees these as issues for the ECF (arbiters, coaching, etc) yet many don't want to give the ECF enough resource to sort them out
Any postings on here represent my personal views and should not be taken as representative of the Manchester Chess Federation www.manchesterchess.co.uk
Post by Paul Cooksey » Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:26 pm
Mick Norris wrote: It is also interesting that everyone sees these as issues for the ECF (arbiters, coaching, etc) yet many don't want to give the ECF enough resource to sort them out
Almost everyone might be a little more accurate . It seems to me that arbiters are independent of the ECF, but perhaps they will comment on how they deal with complaints, either unofficially here or through their association.
(I might see this the other way to Mick. If the ECF has no control of these bodies, the amount of resource the ECF has is irrelevant to the jobs being done well)
Alex McFarlane
Post by Alex McFarlane » Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:56 pm
The CAA is effectively the Arbiters' trade union.
If someone wants to query an arbiter's behavior in Scotland then the correct procedure is to go through the Chess Scotland Standards Committee. For obvious reasons this body is independent of the Board. Without trying to deviate too much, such a system in England would have been very useful un the last year and not just with my own situation but the actions of the Board re taking FIDE to court could have been raised.
At its last AGM the CAA suggested that the ECF should have something similar in place. Andrew Farthing has indicated that he may have a policy document available shortly.
The CAA obviously is unable to take any action against Arbiters who are not members.
The ECF has investigated complaints in the past.
www.scottishchesschamp.co.uk/
Post by Roger de Coverly » Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:44 am
Alex McFarlane wrote: Without trying to deviate too much, such a system in England would have been very useful un the last year and not just with my own situation but the actions of the Board re taking FIDE to court could have been raised.
I'd probably agree with you there.
I would fear that such a body would just be used to pursue some of the trivial feuds to which British chess sometimes seems to be vulnerable. As we know, Lancashire v Greater Manchester is 37 years (?) and counting. Surrey seem to have a handful of unresolved issues as well.
David Sedgwick
Location: Croydon
Post by David Sedgwick » Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:16 am
Alex McFarlane wrote: The CAA obviously is unable to take any action against Arbiters who are not members.
I've always advised anyone who has a complaint about my conduct as an ECF (Senior) Arbiter to refer the matter to the ECF Chief Arbiter at first instance.
Under the present arrangements, the power to remove an ECF Arbiter title rests with the Director of Home Chess, with the right of appeal to the Board. As Alex says, this arrangement is under review, with the possibility of establishing a separate Ethics Committee (or similar).
However, I should point out that, although the "senior arbiter" named by Michael J R White is certainly a respected organiser, he is not actually an ECF Arbiter (let alone a Senior Arbiter). It's not clear to me what action the ECF could actually take.
Roger de Coverly wrote: I would fear that such a body would just be used to pursue some of the trivial feuds to which British chess sometimes seems to be vulnerable. As we know, Lancashire v Greater Manchester is 37 years (?) and counting. Surrey seem to have a handful of unresolved issues as well.
I share those concerns. This proved to be a major problem when we had a similar body in Surrey. Moreover, we had great difficulty in finding enough suitable people to serve on the panel in some cases - almost everyone already had some involvement with the issue in question.
I find it hard to accept that the court case against FIDE should fall within the remit of such a body. This is surely a matter about which Council should hold the Board to account as it sees fit.
David Sedgwick wrote: However, I should point out that, although the "senior arbiter" named by Michael J R White is certainly a respected organiser, he is not actually an ECF Arbiter (let alone a Senior Arbiter). It's not clear to me what action the ECF could actually take.
That rather turns the issue on its head. The CAA could raise a problem with the ECF about the circumstances in which an organiser was able to overturn an arbiter's decision. The Congress is, presumably, a member of the ECF, as is the CAA.
Post by David Sedgwick » Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:05 pm
Roger de Coverly wrote:
If a CAA member complained to the CAA that (s)he had been improperly overruled, then indeed the CAA could raise the matter with the ECF. That's not the situation here.
We have one account of the incident, from a player not directly involved, who is complaining about an arbiting decision made by a person who is not an ECF Arbiter.
It's worth mentioning that the result of the game in question was ultimately not affected. According to the FIDE rating report, the alleged offender lost anyway.
The ECF appear to have decided that no further action is open to them, or warranted. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
E Michael White
Post by E Michael White » Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:28 pm
David Sedgwick wrote: It's worth mentioning that the result of the game in question was ultimately not affected. According to the FIDE rating report, the alleged offender lost anyway.
Do you not see that:-
the actual result does not make bad arbiting any better
players other than an opponent can be affected by an active mobile phone
in non-ECF/CS etc arbiter run events parents have no guarantee that those persons are CRB cleared. There were many young players taking part.
incidents like these would likely reduce if arbiters stuck to the rules
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Post by Alex Holowczak » Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:50 pm
E Michael White wrote: the actual result does not make bad arbiting good
I don't believe David said that it did.
E Michael White wrote: players other than an opponent can be affected by an active mobile phone
I don't believe David said they weren't.
E Michael White wrote: in non-ECF/CS etc arbiter run events parents have no guarantee that those persons are CRB cleared. There were many young players taking part.
The event was not organised by the ECF. If an untitled arbiter or organiser of a non-ECF event does not have a CRB clearance, what do you suggest the ECF does about this issue?
I would also argue that the arbiter isn't running the event - the organiser is. The arbiter would have been CRB cleared. You're right that we don't know about the organiser's CRB status. I would have thought most parents who were concerned about this would either not enter the tournament, or ask in advance.
E Michael White wrote: incidents like these would likely reduce if arbiters stuck to the rules
The arbiter, according to the given account, did. If this version of events is true, he was overruled by an organiser acting as an arbiter, who is neither a qualified ECF Arbiter nor an ECF Senior Arbiter. The ECF has given no endorsement as to his skills as an arbiter. So what can the ECF do? They can't detitle him, because he doesn't have the title anyway.
It's likely, I suppose, that the organiser was acting as an arbiter, presumably due to a shortage of volunteers. The blurring of the distinction between organiser and arbiter is a trait of English chess, mostly borne out of either a shortage of volunteers, or the fear that putting the entry fee up by £2 to fund the extra arbiter would lead to mass complaints/exodus from the players.
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As the finance function and its senior accountants become more pivotal in their organisation’s success, their roles and responsibilities broaden, with more stakeholders to satisfy. Christian Doherty delves into who relies on a modern finance function – and what for.
Contributed by Christian Doherty
Every finance team knows who the business’s customers are. They’re the ones who give their money in return for a product or service.
However, what about the finance team’s customers? Who does finance exist to serve, and how can it demonstrate its value to the business?
Traditionally the answer was straightforward: the finance team reports to the finance director, the FD reports to the CEO and that was that. Deliver the numbers to the board and Companies House, submit the tax returns and keep the directors out of jail – simple.
However, for more business owners the emphasis is now on how the FD and their team can partner with others to drive the business forward.
“Turning up at the board meeting with some numbers and leaving it at that just won’t cut it any more,” says Mark Masson, senior adviser at recruitment firm FD Recruit.
Expectations, he says, have changed, and trends have emerged to magnify the demands on finance to fulfill a broader remit.
“Some boards and companies are enlightened, and they see the FD as very much that broader operational commercial person,” Mr Masson reports. “Others are a bit restrictive, and therefore that affects the role as well.”
Central to finance’s growing role is technology – new, scalable tools that breach the traditional barriers separating finance from the rest of the business.
“Generally, these systems can be totally integrated with all the other operational systems in the company, so in a way technology is pulling the FD into the other areas of business as well,” Mr Masson adds.
Walking the walk
Andrew Hicks, FD of software services business Advanced, is living proof that finance leaders and their teams must now serve a wider range of masters. As FD, Mr Hicks says the emphasis is increasingly on developing ‘soft power’ in order to magnify finance’s influence over the wider business.
“Thanks to new technology tools and the evolution of the role, it has put the FD more front-and-centre as the bridge between the investors and business,” he says. “But beyond that, it’s now about understanding what the operational drivers are, and then challenging the business to enhance performance.”
For Mr Hicks, as the FD of a private equity-backed business, the underlying ethos of the investors is to build a company with real value.
“That means they monitor performance through operational efficiency and also return on investment. In short, they see the finance function as the key to translate what’s happening in the business into those terms.”
In practice, that means using both technology – data visualisation, in particular – and his commercial savvy to help support his colleagues’ performance improvement. “My role is to help translate and create real carry-on for what drives the business, what the metrics are and how they link into the financials, so that my colleagues can see what they’re doing in the business and what it contributes to the whole.”
Speaking the language
But what form does that process take?
For Mr Hicks, leaving the language of finance behind is the key. He gives the example of working with Advance’s chief technology officer.
“I’ve changed the conversation around the effectiveness of defect-fixing within the existing product range towards thinking through how much are we investing there, what return are we getting and why the defect production rate is creating inefficiency,” he says.
“I try to get to the point where we’re just discussing how the CTO is running his team, and then partnering with him on the effectiveness measures that he wants to drive as part of putting together a high-performing team. My job then is to help him unlock those and find the link between that and the financial contribution. Ultimately, the key is being able to communicate in their language.”
Charlie Walker runs Harmonic Finance, a recruitment consultancy working with a range of companies to find the right people to help them grow, from junior staff to CFO level.
In his experience, the recent trend towards the automation of ‘mop and bucket’ transactional accounting “has left finance with nowhere to hide, and now requires a different way of thinking from the chief financial officer: one that is geared towards taking well calculated investment risks”.
Recent Harmonic research among its clients has showed a recurring theme: the role of finance is increasingly encroaching on what before would have been considered the chief operating officer’s patch.
“And so because of that, customers require different things. Finance people may be natural introverts, but soft skills are so much more important – influencing skills, emotional intelligence. So it’s less back-office and more strategic,” says Mr Walker. “And it’s also about using the new tools to help the business understand itself better.”
Increasingly, data – capturing it, managing it, analysing and turning it into insight – is now perhaps the most powerful tool in finance’s armoury. And that is especially true in SMEs.
The Harmonic survey showed that 92 per cent of respondents working in start-ups and scale-ups believed that the successful future finance leaders will prioritise data and analytics. Walker isn’t surprised. “But while that’s being led by lots of firms that are growing ‘digital first’, and by non-digital native firms growing to understand the importance of data, it presents a problem for finance,” he explains.
A new breed of problem
“A lot of entrepreneurs 10 years ago came from a sales background or trading/front office. Now you’re getting people who are technologists, and what’s happening is that they are getting loads of data and are overwhelmed. They don’t know what to do with it. So they want a finance leader and team who can look at the data through the CFO prism and ask, ‘Will we make money from this?’,” says Mr Walker.
From talking to clients, he believes that the key priority for finance teams is to understand how to monetise that data.
“That is what will get them out of a pure finance focus and into more operational areas and influencing strategy,” he says. “We’re now seeing a change: finance teams who can interpret the data and deliver analysis that might have sat under the CTO within the finance team. And that also includes things such as IT, business intelligence and pricing – which five years ago was a COO remit.”
But how can finance, sometimes lampooned as the ‘sales prevention unit’ and traditionally seen as a blocker to growth, convince others in the business that they can support growth?
“They need to collaborate,” says Mr Walker, who believes that the core challenge for more compliance-oriented finance professionals will be developing a longer-term view of the business by understanding what the data is telling them.
“The pressure is clear: you’ve got all this information at your fingertips, and you’re not just running [back office] – what do you want to do? You’re in the board meeting; what do you want us to do?”
Many of the institutes are catching up with this approach.
In the US, much of Stanford’s prestigious CFO course focuses on business strategy and influencing from beyond the CFO remit, while more and more finance professionals at the beginning of their careers are opting for MBA-style education.
“We’re seeing people who are more proactive and aggressive, doing courses at places such as CASS, Cranfield and so on, to get up to speed on BI and data management,” Mr Walker reports. And that’s not to mention financial controller level people taking courses to learn to code SQL, rather than relying on external developers or freelancers.
There is the danger that by expanding finance’s role into more areas of the business, and taking an active role across more functions, that authority can become diluted as finance is seen less as a gatekeeper and more as a facilitator.
“That’s where the judgement lies around being relatively disciplined about where you’re spending your time to get the optimal result,” says Andrew Hicks, who believes that for the next cohort of finance leaders, balancing compliance and strategy will be the foundation of a successful career. And that requires what Hicks calls commercial curiosity.
“Try and understand how the business operates – and why – and what value it is generating. CFOs tend to be analytical, so having that understanding of what drives value, and what the moving pieces are, is so important.”
Christian Doherty is a freelance journalist
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Tens of millions of people around the world receive vital humanitarian aid every year and the need continues to grow exponentially.
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NGOs will be able to deliver more secure and efficient aid and recipients will have access to basic financial tools that create dignity, empowerment and economic opportunity after an immediate crisis is over. World Vision, which has been partnering with MasterCard to improve humanitarian aid delivery via digital identity and electronic payment technology, plans to pilot the new solution.
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AAAintheBeltway likes this.
Lebron is not out banging hookers,porn stars and driving under the influence of multiple drugs
Tony Stark said:
Lebron is not out banging hookers and driving under the influence of drugs
Lebron is watching the playoffs from home.
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Oh wait - now say something nice about your Masters champ!
wildchild said:
After 9 straight NBA Finals he needs a break
Yeah Tiger certainly hit some low points in life but he battled back and kicked some ass along the way. The media was piling on all the time and calling him all sorts of things. If you cant appreciate the story of a guy who was great, then crashed hard, only to reach the pinnacle again, I dont know what the fuck is the matter with you.
I was never a huge Tiger Woods fan but I really got tired of losers piling on when he was down and I hoped he would prove them wrong. Good for Tiger, the guy deserves a lot of credit for getting it back together. Its really too bad that losers like Tony Stark still have their spears out for him.
Tiger is smiling, I am smiling, Tony Stark is stuck in his parent's dank basement tugging away to images of Hillary Clinton.
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While Lebron has never been a degenerate piece of shit like Tiger
Lebron is illiterate and has attacked the country. He is garbage.
Lebron speaks better than Trump and Trump is destroying this country
This is garbage
https://nypost.com/2013/11/24/the-night-tiger-woods-was-exposed-as-a-serial-cheater/
The night Tiger Woods was exposed as a serial cheater
The life and career of the world’s greatest golfer fell apart with the swing of a club — and it wasn’t even his swing.
Four years ago this Thanksgiving, Tiger Woods’ wife, Elin Nordegren, chased him out of the house with a golf club after learning he’d been unfaithful.
She thought there was another woman, maybe two. Nordegren — along with the rest of the world — had no idea. In the years since, details have trickled out about what really happened that night.
Less than two weeks prior, Woods had won his first event in Australia, the Masters, by two strokes. Since 1999, not a year had gone by without him winning at least one golf major championship, and he won 14 majors from 1997 to 2008. In April 2009, he was photographed in the Oval Office meeting President Obama. On Oct. 1, Forbes named him the first athlete to earn $1 billion.
Woods was considered the greatest golfer of all time and a uniquely American success story, a multi-ethnic superstar dominating a historically white sport. He had a beautiful wife, a former model in Sweden who had been working as nanny to golf star Jesper Parnevik when she met Woods at the 2001 British Open. They had two children — daughter Sam, then 2, and newborn son Charlie — and a wholesome image that netted him $110 million in endorsements. He was 33 years old.
On Nov. 26, 2009, Woods and Nordegren, then 29, were hosting his mother for Thanksgiving at their $2.4 million mansion in Windermere, Fla., near Orlando.
The day before, at the Albertsons supermarket around the corner, the new edition of the National Enquirer was freshly slotted in the checkout racks. The banner headline read “Tiger Woods Cheating Scandal.” Inside was a spread detailing Woods’ months-long affair with a New York City nightclub hostess named Rachel Uchitel. She’d been photographed checking into the same hotel as Woods during the Australian Masters and was quoted as telling a friend: “It’s Tiger Woods! I don’t care about his wife! We’re in love!”
Wielding a golf club, Elin Nordegren chased after an Ambien-addled Tiger Woods outside their home in 2009.David Cannon/Getty Images
Sources close to Nordegren later told The Daily Beast that on Nov. 24, one day before the Enquirer hit stands, Woods put his wife on the phone with Uchitel, who insisted there was no truth to the imminent story. Nordegren and Uchitel spoke for 30 minutes.
Woods was satisfied; Nordegren was not. That afternoon, Woods left his cellphone unattended, and Nordegren scrolled through his call history. She found another name, Jaimee Grubbs, and called her. Nordegren got voice mail. She left a message.
“You know who this is,” Nordegren said, “because you are f- -king my husband.”
Nordegren didn’t tell Woods, and when he retrieved his phone, he, too, called Grubbs.
His call also went to voice mail.
“Hey, it’s, uh . . . it’s Tiger,” he said. “Can you please take your name off your phone? My wife went through my phone and, uh, may be calling you. So if you can, please take your name off that. And, um . . . just have it as a number on the voice mail. OK? You got to do this for me. Huge. Quickly. All right, bye.”
Over the next two days, Nordegren said nothing. But she read the Enquirer’s story and was shaken by the detail: Her husband had met Uchitel in June, four months after the birth of their son, at a club in New York City. Uchitel, who appeared on the front page of The Post after her fiancé was killed on 9/11, had had an affair with the actor David Boreanaz while his wife was pregnant. Uchitel’s pet name for Woods was “Bear.” She’d shown friends sexts Woods had sent and claimed Woods was getting a divorce.
‘I knew it was you’
On Thanksgiving night, after Woods, an insomniac, took an Ambien and fell asleep, Nordegren took his phone and scrolled for Uchitel’s number.
She clicked on it and found a text from her husband: “You are the only one I’ve ever loved.”
It was now 1 a.m. on Friday, and Nordegren, described by friends as an exceptionally controlled person, thought for a moment. How could she be sure to catch her husband in this lie?
She began texting Uchitel — as Woods.
“I miss you,” Nordegren wrote. “When are we seeing each other again?”
Uchitel replied immediately, expressing surprise that Woods was up.
Nordegren called Uchitel immediately. “I knew it was you,” she said. “I know everything.”
“Oh, f- -k,” Uchitel said. She hung up.
Nordegren’s screaming woke up Woods. He was woozy, but he grabbed his cellphone and ran to the bathroom, locking himself in and texting Uchitel.
“She knows,” he wrote. “I’m going to be packing.” He told her it looked like divorce.
Nordegren was still yelling at Woods, demanding he come out. When he emerged minutes later, she swiped the cellphone, took one look at his last sent message — “divorce” — and exploded. She threw it at Woods, chipping his tooth. She pummeled his chest and scratched his face. He wrested himself away, and Nordegren reached for the nearest weapon — a golf club — and began chasing him.
Woods tore out of the house barefoot, Elin in hot pursuit, their shouts waking the neighbors. “You’ve ruined our Thanksgiving!” Woods yelled, still running. “Are you happy now?”
He hopped into his 2009 Escalade; she dashed to a golf cart. It was 2:25 a.m. Woods pulled out of the driveway at 30 mph, crushed some hedges, careened into a curb, then hit a fire hydrant before smashing into a tree. He wound up in the street, unconscious, bloody and snoring. A neighboring couple ran over, and there was Nordegren, with the golf club, the Escalade’s two back windows smashed out.
“Help us,” she said.
Wall of silence
Woods was knocked out for six minutes; a neighbor called 911. According to Windermere Police Chief Daniel Saylor, officers found Nordegren “frantic” and “upset.” Woods was still on the ground, but now he had a pillow and a blanket. He was sliding in and out of consciousness, with cuts to his lips, blood pooling in his mouth. He tried to talk but made no sense; he’d also taken Vicodin.
While waiting for an ambulance, Nordegren told police it was a simple car accident — she’d been in the mansion when she heard the crash. She ran out, got in her golf cart, and when she realized it was her husband in the car, she used the golf club to extricate him.
The cops seemed skeptical.
“She supposedly got him out and laid him on the ground,” Saylor said. (Woods is 6-foot-1, 185 pounds; Nordegren is 5-foot-10 and 135 pounds.)
When the ambulance arrived, Nordegren ran back inside to get socks and shoes for Woods; when she tried to ride with him, a paramedic blocked her. The police report says she was told this looked like a domestic disturbance. Woods’ condition was listed as “serious.”
Woods was taken to Health Central Hospital, where he was treated and released. When investigators returned to the home that Friday evening, a little before 6, Nordegren invited them in and said she’d get her husband. She returned a few minutes later and said Woods was sleeping; she suggested they come by the next day at 3 p.m.
As officers pulled into the driveway that Saturday, Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, met them outside and said his client was indisposed. They should come back tomorrow at 3 p.m.
But before that meeting, investigators got a call from an attorney for Woods who said the couple would not be cooperating. Investigators petitioned for a subpoena: They wanted access to Woods’ medical records from that night. A judge denied the request, and the most the cops could do was issue a $164 ticket for careless driving.
Bimbo in every port
Uchitel hired Gloria Allred as the scandal blew up and scheduled a press conference. It was canceled. Reports circulated that Woods had paid her $10 million to keep quiet.
Had he only been more generous, perhaps Woods could have avoided what came next — the onslaught of porn stars, strippers, escorts and party girls who said they, too, had been having sex with Tiger. But as an increasingly astonished public learned, Woods also was really cheap, only ever buying one mistress a sandwich at Subway.
That mistress was Mindy Lawton, a diner waitress who said she and Woods had sex at his family’s home in Florida and in his Escalade, in a church parking lot, tossing her tampon out the window. There was also porn star Holly Sampson, who had sex with Woods the night of his bachelor party, and her colleague Joslyn James, who said she’d gotten pregnant by Woods more than once. Exotic dancer Cori Rist revealed Woods loved eating Froot Loops while watching cartoons. Grubbs said she’d texted Woods the day after the crash, saying she’d be devastated if anything happened to him, but she never heard back and when she tried to call, the number was out of service.
By Dec. 11, 2009, two weeks after Woods’ accident, the number of known mistresses was up to 14. He lost endorsements with Nike, Gatorade, Gillette and Accenture — the latter alone earning him between $10 million and $15 million a year. He announced he was taking a leave from golf and on Nov. 30, he pulled out of the Chevron World Challenge.
By the end of the month, Woods had entered rehab for sex addiction.
Nordegren used the time to renegotiate her prenup and mull her marriage. The day after the accident, Woods had reportedly told a friend that Nordegren had “gone ghetto” on him and that he needed to “run to Zales and get a Kobe special — a house on a finger,” referring to caught-cheating NBA star Kobe Bryant’s gift to his wife.
Woods’ golf game fell apart, and his career has never fully recovered. He now earns about $54 million in endorsements — half of what he made pre-scandal, Forbes says — and has not won a major tournament since.
Woods reportedly confessed to sleeping with 120 women, but sources close to Nordegren say she remained on the fence about leaving him until April 2010, when a 15th mistress was revealed. Her name was Raychel Coudriet. She was a daughter of the couple next door and first met Woods when she was only 14.
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Commission unwilling to let illegal Thai fishing off the hook
By Daniel Tost | EURACTIV.de | translated by Sam Morgan
Illegal fishing in Thailand could have massive ramifications for the country's trade with the EU. [Sam Sherratt/Flickr]
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The European Commission has officially warned Bangkok about dragging its feet in combatting illegal fishing, and the horrifying work conditions in the fisheries sector. Now an EU import ban on Thai fish products looms on the horizon. EURACTIV Germany reports.
After a year of inactivity regarding the issue, officials in Brussels have noticed the first signs of reform from the military government in Thailand.
But scepticism remains high. In the coming weeks the Commission could issue Thailand with a red card, confirming that its efforts in combatting the illegal activity have been insufficient. This could lead to an EU embargo on Thai seafood products.
In April, the Commission issued a “yellow card” to Bangkok. After “detailed analysis”, the Commission warned that flaws in the monitoring, control and sanctioning systems relating to fisheries had led it to conclude that Thailand is not doing enough.
At the start of October, the Commission will decide on the next round of cards to be issued regarding illegal fishing, officials told euractiv.de on Thursday (17 September). A specific date has not been set.
>>Read: Thai seafood products could be banned, warns MEP
“Europe must show how determined it is against illegal fishing, to this end, signing up to the fisheries reform was for the right reasons,” MEP Ulrike Rodust (SPD) told euractiv.de. Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing will eventually cause significant damage, she believes.
“Consistent action against states that do not tackle illegal fishing promotes fairness: not only vis-à-vis domestic fishermen and producers that need to abide by the rules, but also against other countries that would gain an unfair advantage on the significantly important European market,” Rodust said.
Testimonials from survivors and human rights organisations reveal the appalling conditions and practices in the Thai fishing industry. These include slave labour and the exploitation of thousands of displaced Rohingya refugees.
“The working conditions on fishing boats are abysmal and akin to modern day slavery,” SPD politician Dirk Wiese told euractiv.de. “They are intolerable conditions, the workers receive no protection. In many cases they are the victims of trafficking.”
According to Wiese, signs from both Europe and the USA suggest that the time is right to call for reform. “Sanctions and threat of action are something that Thailand would take seriously,” he said.
One of the reasons that the EU has focused on Thailand is the awful conditions on the boats, explained Catherine Zucco, a marine fisheries expert at WWF. “Illegal fishing and human rights violations are closely linked,” she told euractiv.de. “Unfortunately, the illegal fishing regulation (IUU) does not include the issue of human rights violations. In this respect, the issue must be politically resolved.”
Thai government steps up efforts
Meanwhile, Thai authorities have ostensibly sought to defuse the crisis. In the last week, Thailand’s agriculture minister Chatchai Sarikalya called the EU’s “yellow card” a catalyst for reforming the country’s fisheries policy. He said the government was fully committed to meet international obligations on combatting illegal fishing, protecting human rights and stopping trafficking.
In fact, Thailand has responded to the EU’s warning, Wiese observed. “The legal framework has been adapted and raids have been made against fishing boats. The registration process of vessels has been strengthened in particular,” the German MEP said.
But Ulrike Rodust believes that the Thai government should make a greater effort to document what actual steps it is taking against illegal fishing. This could include, for example, meetings between Thai institutions and scientists. “However, I find it difficult to judge what the actual implications and consequences of these meetings are.”
>>Read: Thailand’s junta rejects its own draft constitution
CDU politician Jürgen Klimke also believes the Commission’s yellow card has initiated action at a local level.
“Thailand’s military government has in the meantime implemented various mechanisms, such as changing the legal framework, stepping up its efforts against people-trafficking and fitting fishing boats with tracking devices, in an attempt to tackle the problem,” Klimke told euractiv.de.
“Tackling illegal fishing in Thailand is on the agenda,” he said, adding “it was clear during my visit to the country last April that this was the case”.
Frank Heinrich, another CDU politician, also believes that the EU’s message is hitting home in Thailand. “The yellow card has already had an effect, but has also been met with misunderstanding.”
Although he does not trust the Thai government’s motivation, he is convinced that they want to do away with their poor reputation. “Personally, it’s the results that are important,” Heinrich told euractiv.de.
Genuine reforms?
Increased efforts are needed to fight human rights violations, appalling working conditions and people-trafficking, said Wiese. “It is hoped that the Thai government will intervene more effectively and that, for example, trade unions will come out on top.”
According to Rodust, sending the right message to Thailand is the real challenge. “On the one hand, it is important that we make it clear that Thailand’s efforts so far have been noted and appreciated. But it must also be emphasised that this has to be continued, effectively and on a consistent basis.”
To what extent Thailand has actually implemented sweeping reforms is still not clear at the moment, said Zucco.”There are certainly positive signs. Ultimately, the EU will have to decide whether the measures they have implemented have been effective.”
>>Read: Thailand’s junta overwhelmed by bombing investigation
If no tangible progress can be seen in the long run, the EU could envisage giving Thailand a “red card”, leading to a trade ban on fishery products.
But such a decision would have to the taken by the 28 EU member states in the Council, where consensus decision-making is the tacit rule.
“Such an outcome would be based on the negative economic impact caused by the third country, this is, of course, not desirable,” Zucco explained.
The marine fisheries expert concluded that consistent enforcement of EU-instigated improvements to the fishing sector and fighting illegal fishing are vital to combat depleting fish stocks.
“Should the measures that the EU has drawn up for Thailand not be implemented sufficiently, the EU should take action consistently and impose appropriate sanctions, or at least not repeal the warnings that have been issued whilst the measures are being implemented on a short time scale.”
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Lifestyle has a strong impact on intestinal bacteria
Everything you eat or drink affects your intestinal bacteria, and is likely to have an impact on your health. That is the finding of a large-scale study led by RUG/UMCG geneticist Cisca Wijmenga into the effect of food and medicine on the bacterial diversity in the human gut, which is published this Friday in the prestigious research journal Science.
In this study researchers collected stool samples from more than 1100 people taking part in the LifeLines programme, which is monitoring the health of 165,000 residents of the Northern Netherlands. The samples were used to analyse the DNA of the bacteria and other organisms that live in the gut. In addition to stools, the study collected information on the participants' diet, medicine-use and health.
This study is unique in that it focussed on a group of normal people whereas previous research was frequently focussed on patients with a specific illness. Further, the study covered an exceptionally large group of people and studied their gut DNA in detail. "Normally researchers only investigate one particular region of DNA in which different groups of bacteria can be distinguished," Wijmenga explains. "We have mapped all the bacterial DNA to gain much more detailed information about bacteria types."
Coffee and wine
This DNA analysis made it possible to examine which factors impact the diversity of the microbiome (the intestinal bacterial community unique to each of us). And that appears to be many. Wijmenga says, "You see, for example, the effect of diet in the gut." People who regularly consume yogurt or buttermilk have a greater diversity of gut bacteria. Coffee and wine can increase the diversity as well, while whole milk or a high-calorie diet can decrease it.
"In total we found 60 dietary factors that influence the diversity. What these mean exactly is still hard to say," explains UMCG researcher Alexandra Zhernakova, the first author of the Science article. "But there is a good correlation between diversity and health: greater diversity is better."
Beyond diet, at least 19 different kinds of medicine - some of which are widely used -have an impact on microbiome diversity. An earlier study by Groningen researchers has shown that antacids decrease this diversity, while antibiotics and the diabetes drug metformin also have an effect. These are important findings Wijmenga stresses, "Disease often occurs as the result of many factors. Most of these factors, like your genes or your age, are not things you can change. But you can change the diversity of your microbiome through adapting your diet or medication. When we understand how this works, it will open up new possibilities."
Stool samples
Recent research has demonstrated the importance of this. It is now possible to combat obesity through a 'faecal transplantation' in which the intestinal bacteria from a slender person are introduced into the gut of an obese patient. An appropriate diet or a specific medicine may produce the same effect on the microbiome.
Currently a lot of research is looking into the microbiome, but it often seems hard to reproduce. It is therefore striking that the results of a Belgian group published in the same issue of Science show about 80 percent agreement with those of the Groningen group. "The key is the way the research was done," Wijmenga says. What was important was that the stool samples were frozen immediately by the participants themselves, and picked up by the researchers while still frozen. "When samples are sent in by post, as is often the case, you expose them to oxygen and high temperatures. These are conditions that some bacteria can't survive in. These two Science articles have therefore set a new standard for future research in this field."
This project was funded by grants from the Top Institute Food and Nutrition, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, CardioVascular Research Nederland and the European Research Council, as well as institutional funding to the individual authors.
References: Alexandra Zhernakova, Alexander Kurilshikov, Marc Jan Bonder, Ettje F. Tigchelaar, Melanie Schirmer, Tommi Vatanen, Zlatan Mujagic, Arnau Vich Vila, Gwen Falony, Sara Vieira-Silva, Jun Wang, Floris Imhann, Eelke Brandsma, Soesma A. Jankipersadsing, Marie Joossens, Maria Carmen Cenit, Patrick Deelen, Morris A. Swertz, LifeLines cohort study, Rinse K. Weersma, Edith J. M. Feskens, Mihai G. Netea, Dirk Gevers, Daisy Jonkers, Lude Franke, Yurii S. Aulchenko, Curtis Huttenhower, Jeroen Raes, Marten H. Hofker, Ramnik J. Xavier, Cisca Wijmenga, Jingyuan Fu Population-based metagenomics analysis reveals markers for gut microbiome composition and diversity. Science, 29 April, DOI 10.1126/science.aad3369
Paper by the Belgian Group: G. Falony et al. Population-level analysis of gut microbiome variation, Science 29 April, DOI 10.1126/science.aad3503
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IN the obligatory photo with Trump during the UN General Assembly Pedro Sanchez was taller and immeasurably better looking than the US president.
World politics are so unspeakably grim that there should be room for frivolity too, which is why it is also permissible to comment on Begoña Gomez’s €2,300 Jesus del Pozo frock.
At least she didn’t go in for Melania’s Morticia look, but Sanchez’s wife looked for all the world as though she’d got caught up in a tablecloth.
The snipers and the sitting ducks
SPAIN’S politics have degenerated into being caught out in a lie, denying the lie and then explaining what really happened.
Neither the Partido Popular nor Ciudadanos can accept how Pedro Sanchez’s Vote of No Confidence evicted Mariano Rajoy from the Moncloa, allowing him to move in almost before they had time to change the beds.
So the opposition’s Constitutional parties have taken to sniping and counting the sitting ducksthat they wing.
The count is two so far, with a third in their sights, Justice Minister Dolores Delgado.
Maxim Huerta, who apparently fiddled his tax, and Carmen Montonwho accepted a Master’s degree she did not need, did the honourable thing and fell on their swords.
Which is more than can be said for Partido Popular ministers who clung on like grim death. Few resigned – only Jose Manuel Soriaand Ana Mato instantly come to mind –and even then, not until Rajoy reluctantly told them it was time to go.
Rivera and his partyhave not yet been long enough on the scene to have possible transgressions brought to light, although Casado could yet go to trial for his own phoney Master’s Degree. But as far as he and the party he leads are concerned, it’s the old story of “don’t do as I do, do as I tell you.”
Out with it
NOW they’ve turned on Justice MinisterDolores Delgado who apparently had dealings with the sinister ex-police commissioner Jose Manuel Villarejo when she was a High Court public prosecutor.
Since Villarejo was imprisoned on remand for money-laundering and criminal activities, the politicians and public figures who courted him in the past clutch their metaphorical skirts about them every time they have to brush past him.
First Delgado
denied any relationship with him, then she said there had been “professional” contacts,then she admitted that she might have coincided with him at events with other people. Eventually she came out with it and said they met on three occasions.
Wily Villarejo recorded one of their conversations at a lunch with super-judge BaltasarGarzon, where she refers to the current Interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, a homosexual who came out years ago, as un maricon.
Delgado has rightly complained that, like Juan Carlos I, she is another of the commissioner’s eavesdropped victims.
True enough,but unfortunately for Huerta, Monton, and now Delgado, that old saying “Tell the truth and shame the devil” has fallen into disuse.
It’s one that all politicians should resort to when they’re up against it. They could at least shame their accusers into silence.
Loyal support
JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER, president of the European Commission also belongs to the European Popular Party and coincided with Pablo Casado at the recent party summit in Austria.
In response to Juncker’s polite “How are things?” Casadao replied, “I’m fine, but Spain is a disaster. That socialist president…” he tailed off.
Clearly Casado has never heard the term Loyal Opposition or if he has, it’s equally clearthat he has no intention of practising it.
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Comedy Night for Rape Crisis Tyneside and Northumberland
by Rape Crisis Tyneside and Northumberland (RCTN)
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This year, Rape Crisis Tyneside and Northumberland is 40 years old!
We have a whole year of fundraising events planned, including a comedy night on International Men's Day, with a line-up of hilarious men.
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DOORS FROM 7pm, PERFORMANCES START AT 8:30pm
You can pay on the door, either £20 general admission or £15 concession
The entire evening will be hosted by the fabulous, Lou Conran - superlative storyteller and a regular on the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. Lou will ensure the audience is in good hands, thanks to her masterful ability to tease audience members while becoming their best friend for the evening.
First on the bill is Hal Branson, an established comedian on the North East comedy circuit. Fresh from a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Hal has been described by NARC Magazine as 'effortlessly watchable' and counts The Huffington Post amongst his fans. Hal is guaranteed to win audiences over with his heart-warming wordplay.
Following on from Hal is former professional wrestler-turned-comedian, Lee Kyle. Described by the BBC as a 'top up-and-coming comedy performer,' Lee has just returned from his third Fringe performance, and will bring his delightful silliness to Newcastle this International Men's Day.
Third up is Matt Reed, who was born and bred in Sunderland. No stranger to The Stand, Matt has seen success in the forms of his stand-up Junk Box, and his podcast Mother’s Ruin, in which he declares his love for gin.
Headlining on the night is London-born stand up, Dane Baptiste. Original, provocative and exceptionally prolific, Dane has been hailed as one of the most exciting acts to break the circuit in years. Dane's long list of credits include hosting Live at the Apollo and Live from the Comedy Store; Mock the Week and 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, as well as his own BBC sitcom, Sunny D. Dane set out on a massive World Tour with his smash hit stand up hour, G.O.D. (Gold. Oil. Drugs.) and now the critically-acclaimed comic is set to delight at Newcastle's very own Stand Comedy Club.
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There are so many interesting articles online about running and fitness - motivating, inspiring, and sometimes jaw-dropping and debatable.
I come across a lot of articles and spend a lot of my spare time just reading and discovering more. I share what I find interesting with my friends, and they share with me. Sometimes you come across articles so good you just want to share it with everyone in the world, and currently my closest connection with the world is via Twitter. I share it on Twitter in the hopes of having that one person acknowledge the greatness of the piece, but alas…not everyone who follows me will have the same interests of reading a comic about running nor about the oldest female triathlete. And, even fewer click through to links, no matter how enticing the tweet is e.g. “OMDAYZ She’s 70 and completed the IRONMAN Triathlon!!” (I work in Social Media, it’s not an easy gig, people don’t like to click that much).
In the end, these articles just stay in my bookmarks lost amongst all the others.
So now, instead of bombarding Twitter and bookmarking my life away I’m going to write a little roundup of the articles I have come across this week :D.
“The Terrible & Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances” – A funny comic by illustrator Matthew Inman about his most memorable run and why he runs. He runs to eat, Food and Lycra relates to this guy.
“Children of the Marathon Recall a Forgotten Time” – An oldie, but a goldie from The New York Times. A feature about 3 children marathon runners from the late 70’s who all completed the New York Marathon before the age of 10. TEN. TEN TA RASS. At age 15, one of the boys, Wesley Paul, finished the Houston Marathon in 2 hours 38 minutes. Do you know what I was doing at 15? Hiding from P.E. teachers. Not sure how I feel about children marathon runners, but this is a great read.
“The First…” – By Charlie Dark, Founder of Run Dem Crew. The guy with the stories, the words and the knowledge to inspire everyone around him - one of the few people I know who is able to have an effect on every person he meets. Nothing but good words for this man, and I’m sure everyone who has ever met him will say the same thing. He wrote a touching email full of truths the other day, which was also shared on RDC’s FB page. Your First Run, do you remember it? Remember that feeling and carry it with you, and never forget why you run and how far you have come.
“Britain's oldest female triathlete: what's her secret?” – I do love reading The Guardian’s Running Blog, especially for articles like this. Eddie Brocklesby is 70, started running at 52 and discovered how therapeutic it was, especially after her husband died. She also just completed the Ironman Triathlon as the oldest woman in the UK to complete it. What a G.
“Where are all the fast women runners?” – Hold up what?! Another reason why I love reading The Guardian’s Running Blog, because they like to stir shit up and cause a debate by publishing opinionated pieces like this. Whatever gets people talking I guess. This journalist suggests that there are a lot less “serious” female runners out there, with many not willing to push themselves to see what their full potential is (unlike her who is “in the top 150 of half marathons run this year in my age group”). A subject touched upon many times, but still highly debatable. It caused a bit of a stir on Twitter when I posted to F&L, what are your thoughts?
“Meditation In Action: How To Turn Running Into A Mindfulness Practice” – A Huffington Post piece shared on RDC’s Facebook group about ways to meditate your mind whilst running. You might say this is some hippy hooha, but why not try it next time you go for a run? Free you mind and your body will follow.
"Nike Minus" - not so much a 'great running read' but it's jokes. A Russian Agency made Nike Minus, basically the opposite of the much loved Nike Plus Running app lol! Also, takes the piss out of Nike Fuel with their very own Nike Fool.
That’s all I have for now! Check them all out, check out the ones which grab your attention, scan read it or just look at the pictures – whatever you like, but I’m sure you will find one which will interest you. There are many articles like these out there waiting to be discovered, so if you have any feel free to share them with us!
Sometimes, you just have to read about someone else’s story to give you that little kick up the backside to get you moving, and to stop telling yourself you can’t do it. We are all capable of doing anything, and I for one definitely need a bit of a kick at the moment LOL! Gurlll gottta keep moving yo, these upcoming half marathons aren’t going to run themselves *pray for me*.
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British industry watchdog bans sexist stereotypes in advertising
A new Advertising Standards Association code reflects what smart brands already know: Sexism doesn’t (and shouldn’t) sell.
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By Jeff Beer 2 minute Read
The dopey dad who doesn’t know how to change a diaper. The stressed out mom, cleaning the house while her husband does anything else. The soap that will definitely (maybe?) get you laid. All familiar advertising clichés that have been beaten into the ground and into our heads over decades of mediocre marketing. Now Britain’s Advertising Standards Association (ASA) has introduced a new rule that aims to cut out of advertising overtly sexist depictions of men and women in gender stereotypical roles, as well as suggestions that transforming your body will make you romantically successful, and the sexualization of young women.
The ASA’s gender stereotyping project lead Ella Smillie told the Guardian that the organization doesn’t see its role as social engineering, but rather reflecting the changing standards in society. “Changing ad regulation isn’t going to end gender inequality, but we know advertising can reinforce harmful gender stereotypes, which can limit people’s choices or potential in life,” she said.
The ASA isn’t a government agency, but an industry organization with a self-regulated code of practice signed on to by all major advertisers. The new rule, which will start being enforced in June 2019, also applies to any social media posts by celebrities and other influencers paid for by advertisers.
Far from an intrusive Nanny State edict, the new rule is simply dragging lazy, negligent marketers still trafficking in this dreck up to what smart brands are already doing. It’s been two years since the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) in the U.S. and the White House announced the #SeeHer initiative to encourage advertisers, content creators, and the media to produce material that authentically portrays diverse women and girls. Also in 2016, Unilever CMO Keith Weed announced that the company pledged to drop all sexist stereotypes from its advertising after research showed that only 2% of ads portray intelligent women.
At Cannes Lions in 2016, Deutsch president Kim Getty gave a talk called “Men Versus Women: Exploring Marketing’s Impact on Gender Bias,” and told the audience of marketers that because women make up nearly half the workforce, when writing a script with a woman in it, assume she works. “Just start there,” said Getty. “When you’re writing a story for a man, assume he knows how to change a diaper and make dinner. Assume he’s capable, because so many men are awesome and capable. Just start there. So many stories don’t start there. Let’s start with how the world looks today.”
It’s now 2018, and brands shouldn’t need rules for this.
Jeff Beer is a staff editor at Fast Company, covering advertising, marketing, and brand creativity. He lives in Toronto.
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