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03/18/2015 by Dylan Kissane
Here at DOZ we spend a lot of time thinking about the future of marketing and writing about it on our blog.
Our own Kathy Lam has highlighted the potential and importance of content marketing, while guest poster Ally Greer of Scoop.it explained the sorts of content curation practices that marketers need to embrace to succeed in the future. Our friend Philip Dawsey of SunEdison has shown how marketing is now an essential part of every business, including basic household commodities. We’ve explained how to take social media marketing to the next level, the increasing importance of evergreen content, and the rise of interactive marketing.
As the strategies have changed, so too have the marketers themselves. Today more marketers are moving away from the agency and embracing self-employment and freelancing. These freelancing marketers are winning big contracts, working with other marketers to launch digital agencies, and working on one of an increasing number of marketing platforms worldwide.
But as new marketing strategies have emerged and new ways of working as a marketer have taken root, so to has the demand for tools to manage marketing efforts in this exciting new world.
And so that’s why we have turned some of our time to reflecting not only on the future of marketing, but also the future of marketing management.
We’ve put some of our thinking about the future of marketing management into a SlideShare presentation presented below. In the presentation you’ll learn:
where marketing is today, and where it’s going
why marketing is heading to the crowd
why prosourcing is better than crowdsourcing solutions
why new marketing management tools are required
what those new tools will deliver for marketers, managers, and brands
The future of marketing management is coming and new tools will emerge – and soon. Will your business be ready to adapt to these new tools and platforms, or will you be playing catch up?
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Dr. Dre offers public apology to ‘the women I’ve hurt,’ Apple responds
By Stephanie Topacio Long @STLwrites — Posted on August 21, 2015 3:58PM PST 08.21.15 - 3:58PM PST
Dr. Dre’s “grand finale” as a rapper likely hasn’t gone quite how he expected. Shortly before the release of the biopic Straight Outta Compton, detailing the rise of his influential hip-hop group, N.W.A., the music mogul and Apple consultant announced that he was dropping his first album in fifteen years, as a sort of final bow. But, while both projects have been extremely successful, they’ve also ignited controversy, dredging up assault allegations against Dre (real name Andre Young) that fit into the timeline of the movie, but were noticeably absent from the plot.
As the voices surrounding Dre’s past transgressions grew louder, the music mogul finally addressed the issue on Friday. In a New York Times statement, he issued an apology to “the women [he’s] hurt.”
“Twenty-five years ago I was a young man drinking too much and in over my head with no real structure in my life,” said Dr. Dre in his statement to the Times. “However, none of this is an excuse for what I did. … I’m doing everything I can so I never resemble that man again.”
The growing controversy, and subsequent apology also prompted the music consultant’s new employer, Apple, to make a statement addressing the issue. In a short release, Apple said “Dre has apologized for the mistakes he’s made in the past and he’s said that he’s not the same person that he was 25 years ago. We believe his sincerity and after working with him for a year and a half, we have every reason to believe that he has changed.”
The accusations that Dr. Dre is answering for are brutal and “too ugly for a general audience,” according to one of his accusers, Dee Barnes, in an essay on Gawker. She described an attack in which Dre allegedly smashed her head repeatedly against a wall. Ultimately, he pleaded no contest to charges of assault and battery.
Dr. Dre’s apology is certainly an improvement over previous comments about such allegations. In 1991, a Rolling Stone interview quoted Dre as saying, “it ain’t no big thing – I just threw her through a door,” about the incident involving Barnes. But different times require different measures. Now a billionaire businessman, as opposed to a gangster rapper, Dre and his multi-billion dollar employer are hoping this will put the issue to rest once and for all.
The controversy didn’t seem to affect the movie or the album, however. After a number one opening weekend that pulled in $60 million, Straight Outta Compton is expected to bring in at least $26 million in its second weekend, according to Variety. Meanwhile the album Compton: A Soundtrack, which is being streamed exclusively on Apple Music, has reportedly already garnered more than 25 million streams.
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Beware Of Faux Nationalism: Alternative Für Deutschland
by Defend Europa April 8, 2017 January 11, 2019
After Britain’s vote to leave the European Union back in June 2016, and Donald Trump’s victory in November, one could be forgiven for believing that the winds of change had firmly taken hold across the western world. So-called alternative far-right parties appeared to be on the march across Europe, with Norbert Hofer coming within a few percentage points of the Austrian Presidency during the winter, and the great advances made by Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom in the Netherlands last month.
However, the old phrase that “when something is too good to be true, it probably isn’t” could never be emphasised more clearly.
Particularly in Europe, the political and media establishment are keen to give the illusion that they’re somehow retreating with their tales between their collective legs or that they’ve been taken by surprise by the latest upset at the ballot box. But the reality here is that the people are being offered a pressure valve for their justifiable anger at the establishment, a ‘release of white anger’ if you will – however you wish to describe it, the point is the same: we are only being offered the illusion of change!
This ‘change’ is often dressed up in what some may call a ‘kosher nationalism’, with the same familiar traits all across Europe; anti-Islam, libertarian, free marketeers who sometimes moan about immigration figures too. The AfD party in Germany is a prime, contemporary example of such a party, who model themselves as a sort of pseudo-conservative party for the middle classes, opposed to mass immigration and in favour of reducing the welfare state, striking free trade deals and so on.
They are frauds.
Like all con-artists, they always expose themselves eventually, usually near election time when they all-of-a-sudden drop their radical rhetoric in favour of a more mainstream tone. The following is an extract of an article outlining the leader of AfD, Frauke Petry’s plans for their election campaign:
When the AfD meets in Cologne in two weeks, its co-leader Frauke Petry will push for a sentence to be included in the party’s manifesto stating that “there is no space for racist, anti-semitic … and nationalist ideologies” in the AfD, newspaper Freie Presse reported Saturday, quoting a motion signed by Petry.
The proposal is widely seen as an attempt to make the party more appealing to moderate voters who have been frightened off by the far-right rhetoric of other top officials including Björn Höcke, a regional party leader. Earlier this year, Höcke shocked with a comment about the Holocaust memorial in Berlin when he said that “Germans are the only people in the world who plant a monument of shame in the heart of [their] capital.”
There you have it; no nationalism, no criticism of anything Jewish and certainly no debate about the compatibility of third world migrants and German society because, well, that would be racist?
Time and again these parties, whether it be AfD, UKIP or others that are similar, adopt the same political correct rhetoric of all the other enemy parties. They accuse their own members of ‘anti-semitism’ for simply questioning the positioning of a war monument (see the ridiculous uproar caused when Björn Höcke of AfD dared to say that Germans should stop beating themselves with a guilt stick over WWII), they throw out anybody who dares to cross into the territory of political incorrectness, and they’re all too keen to boast about their growing contingent of non-Europeans in their ranks.
These people are not nationalists. They are expressly opposed to nationalism. They have no interest in preserving Germany for Germans of Europe for Europeans, no, they are merely a pressure valve or controlled opposition that are allowed to gain ground to give the people the illusion of change.
Another crucial point about this that is so often missed, is that AfD are welcomed by the establishment for taking votes away from the real nationalistic party in Germany, the NPD (National Democratic Party), just as UKIP took votes away from the British National Party in Great Britain. So of course, the establishment welcome the rise of these ‘kosher nationalists’ in order to detract away from the real opposition – their preferred method for the latter is of course the legal system, which has been trying to ban the NPD for some years now.
Do not be taken in by these fraudsters. Do not for one second believe that the political establishment will give up their power so easily – they will not.
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We are proud of our open‐enrolment policy, and as students progress through their schooling, it’s only natural that some develop a preference for applied learning. It’s a relatively small number of students compared to the boys who complete VCE, but having VCAL as an option sets De La Salle College apart.
LEARN MORE WITH THE CURRICULUM HANDBOOK
To learn more about the teaching and learning arrangements for Years 11 and 12 (VCAL), we encourage you to view or download the Curriculum Handbook.
VCAL Educational Tour in Wilcannia
De La Salle College holds strongly the Lasallian charism and tradition of supporting communities in need and in effecting positive change for those who have little hope. It is important for the young men here at De La Salle to live out our Catholic Social Teaching and to be the Lord’s presence by committing themselves to the service of the poor and particularly, supporting our indigenous brothers and sisters where there is a dire and desperate need.
The project at St Therese’s Wilcannia (NSW) provides our young men with an opportunity to be involved in both helping and learning about our Indigenous population.
This project is offered exclusively to Year 12 VCAL students, who travel to Wilcannia for nine days to work in the school and the community. By working at St Therese’s, Wilcannia, it is hoped that De La Salle students will:
help to improve facilities by renovating and attending to the maintenance of buildings.
develop a greater understanding of our Indigenous population by interacting with the local indigenous community and the school community.
develop an appreciation of the Indigenous culture through excursions to various local cultural sites.
contribute to the Catholic community by working in an isolated environment.
The student experience in Years 11 and 12
Visit Year 11 and 12 (VCE) to learn about the student experience during this time and find information on the VCE pathway.
VCE or VCAL – How We Cater for All Our Students
As students enter Years 11 and 12, they have the option to pursue a VCE or VCAL pathway. This gives them the best of both worlds – an education that suits their learning style, while having access to the pastoral care, community and co‐curricular activities that our school is celebrated for.
Our VCE Pathway
Most students choose the traditional academic pathway, VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education). This provides a well‐rounded and recognised academic foundation, and prepares students for entrance into higher education and university.
Our VCAL Pathway
Alternatively, our students have the option of completing VCAL (Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning). This prepares them to enter a trade or for vocational education and training after school. VCAL is Full Fee Paying.
Why do we offer two pathways?
In many cases, students interested in applied learning would have to leave their school at the end of Year 10. By offering VCAL, we enable students to continue in a school environment right through to the end of Year 12, while still readying themselves for a trade.
This system particularly helps when there are brothers at the College with different vocational aspirations. We believe in equal opportunity within a family and that’s why all students can complete Year 12, regardless of their chosen pathway.
All Year 11 and 12 students have access to our facilities and are part of the De La Salle College community. This system helps us maintain our strong family culture and provides an environment where all boys are supported and inspired to reach their goals.
Click here to learn more about our careers and pathways services.
The VCAL Pathway
The Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning, (VCAL) is a senior qualification accredited by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA). It’s designed as a pathway from secondary school into vocational education or training.
How is VCAL structured?
VCAL is based on a system of competencies rather than exams.
The course includes studies in:
Certificate II Events Management
Personal Development.
Students at De La Salle College also benefit from doing sport and Religious Education as part of their VCAL study program.
Students combine these competencies with industry specific learning and a work placement. We give our students the option of choosing VET subjects or an Australian School Based Apprenticeship.
Choosing VET subjects
Visit the Year 11 and 12 (VCE) page to learn more about VET subjects.
Choosing an Apprenticeship
Australian School Based Apprenticeships (ASBAs) allow students over 15 years of age to work as paid part‐time apprentices or trainees while at school. ASBAs enable young people to gain a vocational qualification and genuine workplace experience while also completing their school studies.
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Literacy and Numeracy Strand
Literacy skills in reading, writing and oral communication
Numeracy skills for personal, work and social lives
Further Literacy skills in reading, writing and oral communication
Further numeracy skills for personal, work (especially technical information) and social lives
Personal Development Strand
Delivered through Religious Education, Sport and project work both at school and within the community
Work Related Strand
Structured work placement (one fixed day per week with an approved employer) plus additional learning in OHS and other workplace skills
Industry Specific Strand
Any VET study or ASBA option
At De La Salle College, VCAL students typically undertake VET studies and work placements in:
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Breaking Down “A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice”
As educational choice grows, so does the evidence proving it works.
In today’s release of the fourth edition of a Friedman Foundation flagship report—A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice—author Dr. Greg Forster says,
“Twenty years ago, before this body of evidence existed, there was some excuse for making policy based on speculation, anecdotal observation, and intuition. Today, the effects of these programs are known, and there is no longer any excuse for policymakers and opinion leaders to be ignorant of the facts.”
Unfortunately, many people still are. To better educate the public and policymakers on what the empirical evidence says about school choice programs, we created the slide show below. We encourage you to click through and share it, or read on for our traditional text-only summary of A Win-Win Solution’s findings.
What Opponents of School Choice Say: School choice doesn’t improve outcomes for students.
The Truth: The majority of gold-standard studies of school choice programs find kids do better with school choice. Of the 18 random-assignment studies on the topic, 14 show positive effects; two show no visible effect; two show negative effects.
This edition of A Win-Win Solution is the first to feature studies that find negative effects on choice participants. Both of those studies examined the same program—the Louisiana Scholarship Program. The reports show student deficits in the program’s first year, but student improvement in its second year. Because its results appear to be anomalistic, researchers are watching this program closely. (For a more thorough breakdown of this study’s findings and what they mean for parents and policymakers, check out this blog post.)
What Opponents of School Choice Say: School choice hurts the students “left behind” in public schools.
The Truth: Nearly every study on the topic, even those conducted by anti-school choice organizations, shows school choice programs drive academic improvements in public schools. Of the 33 studies on the topic, 31 find a positive effect; one finds no visible effect; one finds a negative effect.
It is important to note that the one negative finding in this category is hard to explain given that nine other studies find a positive effect from the same voucher program. That study’s authors even say in their report, “Despite the exhaustive data available, we are not currently able to explain the negative effect of the threat on reading performance definitively.”
What Opponents of School Choice Say: School choice “siphons” money from public schools at the expense of kids and taxpayers.
The Truth: Every fiscal study ever conducted finds school choice has either a positive or no visible effect on taxpayers and public schools, meaning most programs save money. Of the 28 studies included in A Win-Win Solution, 25 show a positive effect; three show no visible effect; none show a negative effect.
Shortly after the Friedman Foundation finalized this edition of A Win-Win Solution, another fiscal impact study on Louisiana’s voucher program was published. That study found positive effects as well. (You can find it here.)
What Opponents of School Choice Say: School choice worsens racial segregation in schools.
The Truth: Public schools are more segregated now than they were in the 1960s, and not one study has ever found school choice causes segregation in schools. Actually, data show school choice programs help students leave more segregated schools to join more integrated schools. Of the 10 empirical studies on the topic, nine show a positive effect; one shows no visible effect; none show a negative effect.
What Opponents of School Choice Say: Private schools have a bad influence on kids.
The Truth: Many studies find school choice programs have a positive effect on students’ civic values, including tolerance for the rights of others, likelihood to vote or volunteer and more. Of the 11 studies on the topic, eight find a positive effect; three find no visible effect; none find a negative effect.
In fact, one study finds school choice reduces the likelihood of a student engaging in criminal activity after graduation.
Empirical Studies on School Choice
Any Positive Effect
No Visible Effect
Any Negative Effect
Academic Outcomes of Choice Participants 14 2 2
Academic Outcomes of Public Schools 31 1 1
Fiscal Impact on Taxpayers and Public Schools 25 3 0
Racial Segregation in Schools 9 1 0
Civic Values and Practices 8 3 0
What Opponents of School Choice Say: Yeah…well…this report just cherry picks studies to show what school choice advocates want to show.
The Truth: This report examines 100 studies that all used rigorous and high-quality research methods. The results are what they are, and the scoreboard is overwhelmingly in favor of school choice policies.
We understand that can be a hard pill to swallow for many skeptics.
A full explanation of this report’s methods can be found on pages 6–8, including how the author identified and categorized the studies found therein. If our readers should come across a high-quality study not included in this report, we encourage them to contact us at info@edchoice.org.
In the end, there’s more to school choice’s story than what the data say.
Parents want choice.
To read more analysis from this synthesis of 100 empirical school choice studies, visit edchoice.org/Win-Win.
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ON Semiconductor will acquire Irish maker of lidar, photodiode sensors, SensL Technologies
May 9, 2018 By Paige Beach Leave a Comment
ON Semiconductor Corporation, announced its acquisition of SensL Technologies Ltd. (“SensL”). SensL, based in Ireland, is a technology leader specializing in Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM), Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) and LiDAR sensing products for automotive, medical, industrial and consumer markets. This acquisition positions ON Semiconductor to extend its market leadership in automotive sensing applications for ADAS and autonomous driving with expanded capabilities in imaging, radar and LiDAR. By combining this acquisition in Ireland with previously acquired radar technology and design centers in Israel and United Kingdom, ON Semiconductor is uniquely positioned to provide a comprehensive set of sensor solutions for next generation highly autonomous vehicles and to solidify its position as a leader in image sensing and ultrasonic park assistance. In the second half of 2018, ON Semiconductor is planning to introduce samples to the market which incorporate technology from the radar assets acquired in 2017.
“The entire SensL team, founded by Carl Jackson and led by Bryan Campbell, have done a great job in bringing SiPMs to market and we look forward to expanding their market success and continuing their product portfolio in LiDAR, medical imaging and radiation detection,” said Taner Ozcelik, senior vice president and general manager Image Sensor Group. “The automotive sensor fusion demand is growing at an accelerated pace with a need for additional sensor technologies that are provided by the SensL team. Expanding our sensor technology assets and design capacity in Ireland will allow us to extend our leadership in established segments and to deliver new, world-class solutions for emerging segments.”
The SensL team will report directly into the Image Sensor Group. The team is located in Cork, Ireland and expands a global sensor design footprint that now includes major locations in the United States, UK, Japan, India, Israel, and Ireland.
SensL is a leader today in the new frontier of medical imaging with broad product lines around SiPM and SPAD technologies which pave the way towards affordable solid state LiDAR. The company has been a leader in the emerging field of automotive LiDAR with multiple customers and strong roadmap based on their leading SPAD and SiPM based depth sensing technologies. SensL has been a leader in these depth sensing technologies with deep investments in research and development for the past 15 years. The technology is based on CMOS, which provides the economies of scale for cost effective solid state LiDAR solutions and enables leading depth accuracy, distance and power consumption for challenging imaging situations. These depth sensing technologies also enables advances in industrial robotics, machine vision, drones as well as mobile and other consumer applications. Additionally, complementing SensL’s sensors with the expanded ON Semiconductor portfolio and strength in ASICs, ON Semiconductor will be able to provide more complete and optimized solutions to its broad customer base in automotive, medical, industrial and consumer markets.
This acquisition solidifies ON Semiconductor as a leader in sensing solutions for autonomous driving and ADAS applications, with a comprehensive portfolio of imaging, radar, ultrasound and LiDAR technologies.
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18th November 2018 /in Latest News /by Alex Johnson
Easigrass managing director, Anthony Gallagher, has been presented with a World Peace and Prosperity Foundation (WPPF) Award in recognition of his contributions to charities that help to improve the lives of disadvantaged people and societies. Anthony said he was honoured and delighted to collect the award at the 2018 WPPF reception and dinner held at The House of Lords, London on 7 November.
The annual award ceremony was first launched in 2012 to recognise distinguished persons and contributors, nationally and internationally, who “give exceptional services” in bettering the lives of vulnerable and disadvantaged people. WPPF founders, Prince Mohsin Ali Khan and Councillor Frances Stainton, said Anthony was “unanimously” selected by the board as an award winner, particularly noting his recent work to support the creation of an outdoor space for the Salvation Army Community Centre in Hoxton, London.
Anthony has always strived to support good and worthy causes where Easigrass products can really help to make a positive difference in the lives of vulnerable people. As a long-term supporter and admirer of the charity fundraising and work by The Worshipful Company of Horners, Anthony is a main contributor to a new project supported by the association’s Master, Gordon Warwick Haines MBE.
The Worshipful Company of Horners Master’s Charity Appeal was launched in early 2018 to raise funds and products to renovate the roof space of the Salvation Army Community Centre in Hoxton, London. The aim is to completely transform the large roof space into a multi-use safe space with access lifts for vulnerable people, including elderly, those suffering from early onset dementia and others struggling with a range of physical and psychological needs.
Anthony has committed to provide the grass design and installation service at cost price. This includes surfaces for sports, such as football, tennis and basketball; wheelchair friendly and safe sensory garden space for those with special mental and physical needs; as well a reading and relaxation area.
Anthony and his Easigrass team offer many years of experience in transforming rooftop spaces, as well as the top-of the range product technology to ensure the new roof-top well-being space will help to provide positive support to Hoxton’s community.
Anthony said: “I’m absolutely delighted and honoured to receive an award for our contribution to charities and special causes. What could be better? We always have to help others who are less fortunate than ourselves when we can. Easigrass would like to donate on an annual basis to the Salvation Army via the Worshipful Company of the Horners for their great work in communities throughout the UK that are handled by their amazing staff.”
For more information about WPPF and the awards, see www.wppf.co.uk.
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May 27, 2009 Movies » One-Night Stands
One-Night Stands
Repertory film listings for the week of May 28-June 3, 2009.
By Nate Seltenrich @nateseltenrich
Cruel Story of Youth (96 min., 1960). In the Realm of Oshima (PFA, 6:30)
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (94 min., 1968). In the Realm of Oshima (PFA, 8:30)
Amadeus (158 min., 1984). Sound designer Mark Berger in person. Quality Control: Selected Works from Zaentz Films (PFA, 7:00)
New Hyperion, or Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood (207 min., 1992). Karel Vachek: Poet Provocateur (PFA, 2:00)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (171 min., 1988). Picture and sound editor Vivien Hillgrove in person. Quality Control: Selected Works from Zaentz Films (PFA, 7:00)
What a Way to Go: Life at the End of the Empire (123 min., 2007). Followed by a discussion (Humanist Hall, Oakland, 7:30)
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Our annual guide to Northern California's summer recreation season.
by Nate Seltenrich
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For California to reach its ambitious climate-change goals, it must figure out how to deliver electricity when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing.
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Chairman of 15th Finance Commission NK Singh is addressing a press conference in Agartala Civil Secretariat.|EastMojo Image
Tripura: CM submits memo to 15th Finance Commission members
A delegation led by chairman headed by Nand Kishore Singh is on a two-day visit to the state
Agartala: Members of the 15th Finance Commission met leaders of political parties, trade unions and senior state government officials during their two-day visit to Tripura on Thursday.
Addressing media persons, 15th Finance Commission chairman Nand Kishore Singh said that a detailed discussion was made with everyone concerned for the overall development of the state.
Meanwhile, Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb submitted a memorandum to the commission members seeking special attention for the indigenous people. Deb also demanded action to fulfill the demands of the people living in the Autonomous District Council of Tripura.
The government has emphasised on the setting up of better infrastructure in the health sector so that people living in not only the state but also in other states of the Northeast and neighbouring countries like Bangladesh can easily avail themselves of better health services in Tripura.
The commission also said that if the waterways connectivity between the state and Bangladesh’s Chittagong Port could be made then the state’s economy will get boosted and the state would become a gateway for Southeast Asia.
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Senior cop's heartfelt message as search is called off
Detective inspector Matt Kehoe addresses media in the search for missing backpacker Theo Hayez. Marc Stapelberg
by Aisling Brennan
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3rd Jul 2019 2:37 PM | Updated: 4th Jul 2019 6:45 AM
UPDATE, 6.45am: A SENIOR police officer has told the Byron Bay community it was with "much sadness" that they had decided to end the search for missing backpacker Theo Hayez.
PHOTOS: The harrowing search for Theo
Detective Chief Inspector Matt Kehoe posted the following message on the Dear Byron Bay Community Board:
"This was not an easy decision but has been done in communication with experts and importantly, Theo's family," he wrote.
"It has been a very emotional day for Theo's family members and those involved in this operation and it will no doubt take an emotional toll in our community.
"As per the Region Commander's and Commander's comments I would like to wholeheartedly thank everyone who has assisted and supported in our efforts to find Theo."
UPDATE, 4.30pm: POLICE will no longer be physically searching for missing Belgian backpacker Theo Hayez in Byron Bay.
In a statement from NSW Police, the Tweed Byron Police District officers met with the 18-year-old's family today to tell them the search had officially been suspended.
While police have suspended the full-scale physical search, the investigations are ongoing.
Tweed Byron Police Commander Superintendent Dave Roptell would like to thank the Byron Bay community and the local volunteers who assisted with the search on behalf of the NSW Police Force, Belgian authorities and Theo's family.
"It's times like this which shows the strength of our community. We want to thank each and every person who assisted and who provided support.
"Throughout the entire investigation we have been liaising with the Belgian Federal Police, keeping them informed of our progress and work collaboratively with them. Belgian authorities have been appreciative of the work being undertaken.
"We met with Theo's family today and we send our thoughts to them all, both here in Australia and abroad," Superintendent Roptell said.
Search for missing backpacker captivates international media
Northern Region Commander Assistant Commissioner Max Mitchell said the Byron Bay community should be proud of their efforts throughout the search.
"This search has brought the Byron Bay community together in more ways than one, and they have supported not only our officers but Theo's family during this difficult time.
"I would like to personally acknowledge the hard work and dedication of our Tweed/Byron Police District officers and the Belgian authorities; their collaboration and support has been second to none," Assistant Commissioner Mitchell said.
The 18-year-old was last seen about 11pm on Friday 31 May 2019 at a hotel on Jonson Street.
Police were alerted on Thursday 6 June when he failed to return to his hostel and could not be contacted or located.
Officers from Tweed Byron Police District with assistance from several NSW Police Force units including the SCC Homicide Squad, local SES volunteers, NSW Surf Lifesaving and the Byron Bay community have conducted extensive land, air and sea searches since this date.
Further searches were conducted this week utilising the assistance of the NSW Police Rescue Squad near the Byron Bay lighthouse area.
Three officers from the Belgian Federal Police arrived at the weekend to support the ongoing investigation in an observer capacity.
Theo's family have requested privacy at this time.
Original story: BELGIAN police have been spotted on the ground in Byron Bay this week assisting the search for missing backpacker Theo Hayez.
The 18-year-old Belgian was last seen leaving Cheeky Monkeys Bar on Jonson St, Byron Bay, about 11pm on May 31.
Since his disappearance, NSW police officers have been scouring bushland, the ocean and surrounding swamp land in the Byron Bay area for any clues.
Despite receiving assistance of the SES, NSW Life Saving and the community, little to no evidence of Theo or his belongings has been discovered.
Abseiling teams were seen on Tuesday and Wednesday inspecting the cliff face at Cape Byron lighthouse.
SES crews also inspected Belongil Creek yesterday for any signs.
The community have also continued to coordinate their own search, which focussed on the Tallow Beach area yesterday.
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'Oh, Hello' Stars Nick Kroll, John Mulaney On Netflix Special
By Dylan Kickham
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney have been channeling eccentric, cantankerous, tuna-loving old men Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland for over a decade, but when it came to filming their Netflix special Oh, Hello On Broadway, they decided to add a new, darkly cruel undercurrent to their tried-and-true characters.
In past iterations, most notably skits on Kroll's Comedy Central sketch series The Kroll Show, Gil and George have always complained and bickered about the world around them, but never one another. It felt like it was always them against the world.
But in Netflix's Oh, Hello On Broadway, which is currently available to stream, the comedians twist the characters, revealing that Mulaney's George is actually a vicious bully to Kroll's Gil behind the scenes.
Elite Daily caught up with John Mulaney and Nick Kroll to talk about the added cruelty in their characters, and how John grew to love yelling at Nick night after night.
Elite Daily: One of the things that stood out to me, knowing the characters from like the Kroll Show skits and everything before, is in those like earlier skits you see them as such good friends and you think, “They hate everyone else, but they're always with each other –”
John Mulaney: Yeah, I had a problem with that. I didn't like it at first. It was Largo where we decided that [Gil and George] would fight. It was the Largo show in LA, and I was like, 'Nah, nah, it's them against the world, we shouldn't do this.' And I remember the first time we ran it, I was like, 'I don't like yelling at Gil.' And by the end of Broadway, I loved yelling at Gil. And I would stomp my feet – I loved screaming and being mad so much. But the first time, I was like, 'No, no, it should be them versus the world. They prank other people; they don't get pranked.'
Nick Kroll: Every night when George starts reprimanding Gil for the show, breaking the fourth wall, every night right by the staircase, when [to John] you're like, 'You think if you OD'ed anyone would give a shit.' It was stuff like that and then it was like whatever –
JM: Like 'You're God's bottom.'
NK: So every night it was a different thing.
JM: That white-hot meanness was so fun. And it also helped us really dial into the emotional arc of Oh, Hello. At a certain point it's so fun to do but when you're doing it 138 times you're like, 'Tonight I'm just gonna be like: I'm George and I'm mean!'
Other Journalist: So when the decision came to have that conflict with one another, how did you decide who was going to be kind of the instigator?
JM: Well, because George was always a little meaner to people during the prankings, and a little blissfully unaware of how cruel he was and how misogynistic he was... but he does have a daughter, so he's a good guy. He's a good dad like Louie. So that might have been it. I always was a little meaner to guests. But what became evident was because I never yell at anyone in real life I have so much saved up. So it was always there.
NK: I think it's a chance for both of us to exercise different things. Someone at some point described the show to us as 'George is an asshole and Gil is a baby.' There's a thing where John doesn't get to be an asshole, so playing George was really fun and I'm sure a release.
JM: Such a release. And then when the show was over, I would go to the gym for hours and get in physical therapy because I got this thing out of my system every night, where I got be like 'You're f—ing dirt compared to me,' — that type of thing.
NK: For me, you know, I like to have fun, but Gil is a true child who likes to be led around.
JM: Nick is very sharp and Gil gets rat f**ked every night.
Oh, Hello On Broadway is available to stream now on Netflix.
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Why You Should Book Your Next Exotic Getaway To Malindi, Kenya
By Philip Etemesi
The roar of the Indian Ocean's rapids is loud and thunderous.
But as I listen to the water crashing just meters away while lying in a claw-foot bathtub, part of me feels like I could easily drift off to sleep.
The other part of me wants to stay awake to soak up the pure paradise that surrounds.
“I love the noise in the same way that I revel in a good storm,” says Benito Marchission, owner of one of the slices of heaven that are the lodges of Malindi.
There are many Italian businessmen in the Kenyan coastal town who have committed themselves to developing the area and building five-star hotels that boast of hospitality excellence.
As a result, Malindi, the nation's most beautiful and peaceful beach town, feels like a little Sicily.
It has something to suit most everyone's fancy.
Swirling 30-foot waves make surfers' dreams come true, while down the coast, tranquil, turquoise waters beckon frolicking toddlers and families.
Fascinated by African beaches along the Indian Ocean from an early age, Benito led a team of investors to Malindi in 1996, before co-founding a commercial motor boat company there.
Benito became so passionate about the town that he decided to settle and support local Kenyans as well.
He decided to build a lodge, aiming to employ workers from surrounding communities during construction, and to run the resort long-term.
It took a year to obtain approval from the Ministry of Lands to build in Malindi.
About 150 locals joined in the daunting work of constructing his resort.
Most of the materials, including gum poles up to 8 meters long, were ferried to Malindi in wooden canoes from nearby market centers.
Guests today use the same canoes to sail a few yards into the Indian Ocean and back, simply for fun.
“We used very few drawings, and the design constantly evolved,” says Benito’s brother, Andrea, who served as co-architect, engineer and project manager.
“Despite the challenges, Benito and I thrived on the organic design and construction.”
Today, elevated wooden walkways link all the 10 suites that boast spacious beds and washbasins in Benito's resort.
The room's have all been given local names like Wafula's, which means "for one born during the rainy season."
Most of the resorts in Malindi ooze the same serenity as Benito's. Some are even better.
As guests weave throughout the lush, acacia-strewn grounds, they can encounter African grey parrots, African fish eagles or crested cranes.
More than 50 bird species have been identified, and white-breasted cormorant frequently surf the waves in front of the lodges near the beach.
The Italian lodges of Malindi have a dramatic, yet peaceful setting, inviting guests to gaze upon the sea while dining on a five-course meal.
Dishes such as seared tilapia topped with lemongrass and ginger and ravioli stuffed with potato, roasted red onion and thyme entertain palates as much as the setting does the spirit.
All of the exclusive resorts line the African stretch of sand are ready to spoil anyone willing to spend the money.
Perhaps you're looking for your own personal beach butler to deliver margaritas, or you want to splurge and rent out a beach cabana.
Your every wish can be easily granted.
After soaking in the sun, you could indulge in a tanning consultation or unwind with a "mahaba" massage, noted for its spiritual and healing aspects.
“You really feel as if you are deep in the paradise,” says Emy Gasgoine, a Brit living in Kenya who recently took her parents to one of the Italian resorts in Malindi.
“Everywhere around you are birds and butterflies, and beyond the white waters are the beautifully lush beaches of the Indian Ocean.”
Besides sipping sundowners in the lodges rock pools, guests might be pampered with spa or facials, enjoy a guided walk around the coastal town or share a beer with friendly locals while getting showered with traditional folk tales.
The more adventurous visitors can brave the waves go for a lengthy boat ride, or they can swim dip in the ocean under the watch of coastal guards.
Malindi is home to a true underwater paradise that attracts scuba divers from all around.
The deep waters satisfy all levels of divers, from beginners to experts, and they boast a large number of fish native to East Africa.
Roughly 40 percent of them can be found only in Malindi and neighboring waters in Mombasa.
Divers can swim with the likes of longnose butterflyfish, sailfish, mangrove snapper, barracuda and even the endangered green sea turtle.
The highlight of my own Malindi weekend, though, was being given a turn at the tiller — in the manner of screen goddess, Katharine Hepburn — on one of the original boats used in the 1951 Hollywood classic film, "The African Queen."
In 2010, the old, diesel-powered boat was discovered languishing in a Nairobi garden trailer.
Benito tracked it down, took a punt on the investment and had it restored.
The other one had reportedly been transported to Uganda.
Now, the boat’s skipper — dressed as Oscar-winning actor, Humphrey Bogart — runs 45-minute tours of the ocean.
Though my trip revealed no sign of the 2,000 cigarettes or tinned grub that Bogart boasts about onscreen, I was thrilled with the obligatory two cases of Gordon’s Gin kept in stock.
It is quite magical, steaming into the sunset.
You find your thoughts wandering back a century when you are on board.
Most of the visitors to the lodges are foreigners, although locals are increasingly being drawn to the lush spots for their intimate, secluded nature and stylish appeal.
The good thing is they are never crowded, so you don’t get the feeling you are a tourist with a to-do list.
And of course, there’s the sound of the water.
Some guests have even remarked that a month after leaving, they can still hear the turbulent rapids.
It proves that although a stay in Malindi may fly by too quickly, it’s an experience that lingers for a long time.
If luxury hotels and constant pampering are your idea of the perfect beach getaway, then Malindi is the gem you've been seeking.
Fly there and enjoy.
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Hernandez and husband Raul Torres also have 2-year-old son. (YouTube)
Published Tuesday, May 19, 2015
A South Texas woman has given birth to triplet girls, with two of the babies conjoined at the pelvis.
Dr. Haroon Patel, a pediatric surgeon at Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi, said Monday that it will likely be at least six months until the conjoined babies, who share a colon, will be separated.
Catalina, Ximena and Scarlett were born Saturday at Corpus Christi Medical Center-Bay Area, said hospital spokeswoman Lisa Robertson. She said the conjoined girls - Ximena and Scarlett - were transferred Sunday to Driscoll.
Patel said the conjoined babies, who were in good condition Monday at the hospital, will need to get "bigger and stronger" before undergoing separation surgery. He also said doctors will need time to work on a plan to separate the girls.
Robertson said the girls were born to Silvia Hernandez of Brownsville via cesarean section, at about 34 weeks. A normal pregnancy is about 41 weeks. Each baby weighed 4 pounds, 11 ounces. They were breathing without respirators.
Catalina remains at Corpus Christi Medical Center-Bay Area in good condition.
Hernandez and husband Raul Torres also have 2-year-old son.
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Agents Do Charity - on our greatest summer weekend of sport…
By Graham Norwood
Once a year you might be perfectly justified in putting your feet up for a weekend and enjoying some great sport - and this is that weekend, with the British Grand Prix, Wimbledon finals and Cricket World Cup finals all on the horizon.
But once that’s over, we just know you’ll be back to fund-raising and this week’s bumper bundle of good work is evidence that our industry is fantastic at helping charities.
Everyone here made contact with us at press@estateagenttoday.co.uk - do the same and we’ll feature you next week. In the meantime, it’s lights out and away we go…
[establish]; Andrews has unveiled the fourth home part of its innovative social housing project known as [establish].
Andrews celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2016 and raised £70,000 to kick-start this project. The fourth home it had launched is a pair of self-contained flats in Bristol’s Fishponds district, that will house a tenant each. The properties will be managed on a day to day basis by local charity, 1625ip which works with young people to avoid homelessness.
This is done in collaboration with its principal shareholder Andrews Charitable Trust, which has purchased and refurbished this property.
David Westgate, group chief executive at Andrews Property Group, says: “It’s a little over two years since we launched the first of the [establish] homes so the fact that we’re here today celebrating the fourth is just incredible. With a vision to provide 50 homes to local charities within 50 years, we’re already well ahead of that schedule and that is testament to the focus, drive and determination of not only the entire Andrews’ team, but also the local charities that we partner with.”
Dom Wood, chief executive of 1625ip, added: “Since launching the first home in 2017, our team has witnessed just how real Andrews’ commitment to social philanthropy is. We’re both delighted and honoured to now be here celebrating this new home that will provide two more young people with a home and vital support for the coming few years and look forward to engaging with more members of the Andrews’ team, without whom this initiative simply wouldn’t be possible.”
Pop-Up Market: Beresfords and the Brentwood Business Partnership have come together to host a pop-up market this weekend along Brentwood High Street and in the Baytree Centre piazza.
Taking inspiration from the likes of Spitalfields and Covent Garden it aims to offer street entertainment and a quirky ‘chill out’ area where people can sit back and relax. Beresfords is actively involved within the community and says that to be a part of an exciting project such as this, seeking to improve experiences for local people, is fantastic.
For further details on The Market Place or to find out about hiring a pitch contact Nicki Treffers n.treffers@:beresfords.co.uk Tel: 01245 447935.
Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity: The Agents Giving grant fund has recently helped super fundraiser Godfrey Haire of the Redhill Cubitt & West branch.
This year Godfrey is showing his continued support to Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity which supports families with a seriously ill child. Godfrey is taking part in the Ride 100 which is a timed 100-mile cycle race around London and Surrey on August 4.
This will be Godfrey’s fifth time taking part in this event so he decided to raise the bar and do the seven colours of the Rainbow Challenge which involves:
- Group 500km static bike ride outside the Cubitt & West office;
- Cycle the distance across America, 4828km;
- Cycle up Everest 4 times, a cool 120,000ft;
- Cycle up Sa Calobra, Mallorca;
- Cycle up Ventoux in the French Alps;
- Cycle Ride London Surrey as part of Team Henry with the rest of the Rainbow Trust riders;
- Hever triathlon, just to mix up the cycling!
Godfrey’s son Henry was born with a rare condition called posterior urethral valves which has left him with severe kidney and bladder damage and he is entirely feed through a tube in his stomach. A few months ago Henry underwent his 50th surgery.
He has had his bladder reconstructed using a part of his bowel and a Mitrofanoff made so he is able to catheterise several times a day. Henry also has a Hickman Line connected directly to his heart which needs changing every week in London. In the future he will need a kidney transplant but for now, thanks to the Evelina London Children's Hospital and support from their Rainbow Trust Family Support Worker Nicki, he is very happy child.
On a daily basis Henry has many syringes of medicines to keep his kidney function where it should be. He is also catheterized every three hours and is peg fed through a port on his stomach through the night.
Also, every week he attends the Evelina Children's Hospital where his Hickman line dressing is changed and bloods are taken. Even with all this he still smiles every day!
Godfrey comments: “Nobody expects to be in our situation, including us and as amazing as our friends, family and colleagues have been and will continue to be, there are times as a family we just need that extra bit of support. This is where Rainbow Trust have stepped in. Nicki our Family Support Worker is there whenever we need her, to help with the practical things like driving to hospital for Henry’s check-ups and treatments and entertaining Thomas, Henry’s little brother during the long waits for consultants and tests.
“She is also a brilliant emotional support when the stresses and strains of our situation gets too much. Nicki has been on this journey with families hundreds of times and because of that she understands the doctors’ jargon, she knows her way around the hospital and she is a dab hand with a Nerf gun! It's all these things and more that Nicki does that makes things just a little bit easier for us. She can’t cure Henry’s condition, but she can and she does help us and other families in similar situations cope day to day”.
Godfrey has a target of £10,000 for his 2019 fundraising events and has raised just over £6,000 to date, if you would like to donate: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/godfrey-haire
Leeds Mencap: Leeds city living specialist Morgans is continuing to build on its relationship with Leeds Mencap, after more than 30 property professionals from the firm recently spent a full day volunteering at the local charity.
Leeds Mencap supports over 450 children and adults with a learning disability in Leeds, as well as helping their families.
The charity provides a specialist playroom, family support, junior youth clubs, an inclusive dance project for 12 to 25 year olds, a siblings support group, school holiday play schemes, parent and carer support projects, a special Friday club for 18 to 25 year olds, as well as running a residential home.
Morgans has been donating both time and money to the charity for five years and managing director Jonathan Morgan says: “Having operated in Leeds for over 22 years we are extremely proud and protective of our city, and feel it’s really important to play an active role helping young people in Leeds.
“We have found that many of our team are keen to volunteer with deserving organisations, and by creating dedicated charity days, they can do it in a structured and meaningful way. Plus, when 30 of us descend, the proverb that ‘many hands make light work’ rings true, and we can achieve a lot of amazing things in a short space of time.
“Earlier this year we delivered 110 chocolate eggs to Leeds Mencap, so that all the young people who attended at Easter enjoyed a treat, and one of our sales team, Alex Lavigne, is also raising money for the charity with four gruelling challenges.”
Alex is completing four fundraising feats, including climbing the Three Peaks, completing a parachute jump, and running both the Leeds Half Marathon and the Leeds 10k.
Fine & Country Foundation: The new Fine & Country Sutton Coldfield and Lichfield held an afternoon tea fundraiser for the homeless yesterday.
The Fine & Country Foundation raises money for homeless causes in the UK and overseas. Fine & Country offices generate donations by giving a portion of the completion fee, hosting fundraising events and other creative methods. In return for their generosity, they are invited to select the homeless charity or project of their choice.
Fine & Country Sutton Coldfield have chosen to support YMCA Sutton Coldfield, a small, self-funded charity in the heart of Sutton who support homeless and vulnerable young people.
The Fine & Country Foundation aims to support as many homeless and vulnerable people as possible by creating achievable and transparent goals for their donors.
For every £30 raised by Fine & Country Sutton Coldfield and Lichfield, another young person staying with YMCA Sutton Coldfield will receive a one-to-one life coaching session.
The office has a number of fundraising events planned throughout the year to support local homeless charities, including the Wolf Run in September.
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DPS adjudication case study: Rabbits and a ‘disappearing’ lawn mystery
By Alexandra Coghlan-Forbes
Head of Adjudication, The DPS
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The Deposit Protection Service (The DPS) keeps deposit money safe for letting agents, landlords and renters during the course a tenancy. Its free, government-accredited custodial tenancy deposit protection scheme has protected over five million deposits over the last decade.
Its Dispute Resolution Service allows landlords, letting agents and tenants to resolve disputes without resorting to lengthy or expensive court procedures, and over the last decade has adjudicated over 60,000 disputes.
In our adjudication case study series, The DPS’ head of adjudication, Alexandra Coghlan-Forbes, is going to share examples of recent, real-life case studies with us.
She talks us through the guidelines that affect the way her team reaches decisions to help agents and landlords understand the process.
Our latest case study looks at charges levelled at what happens when a lawn disappears and rabbits get involved…
A landlord claimed £450 for the re-turfing of a property’s rear garden, saying the lawn ‘totally disappeared’ during the 24-month tenancy.
The tenant said the grass deteriorated as a result of a hot summer followed by a cold winter. They were not alone, they argued, a neighbour’s garden also ‘died’. Furthermore, there was poor drainage in their own plot, they said.
The tenant produced a statement from a gardener which described issues with lawns in the area caused by fluctuating weather. However, the gardener did not visit their property.
Since the condition of the grass was outside of their control, the tenant argued, the landlord should replace the turf.
The landlord argued that the grass was in good condition at the start of the tenancy, but was mud and animal straw by the end. Also, a neighbour had seen 14 rabbits in it, they said, and produced an email from the neighbour to that effect.
This email also described how the rabbits had damaged the tenant’s garden and a neighbouring property. The landlord provided the tenancy agreement which stated that the tenant should return the garden to its original condition, subject to seasonal change.
The check-in inventory at the start of the tenancy also described the condition of the garden as ‘good’. The landlord supplied dated photographs showing the garden at the start and end of the tenancy, as well as an invoice for the re-turfing costs.
Adjudicators upheld the landlord’s complaint because their evidence was more compelling. The quality of the check-in evidence was good and the tenant did not dispute it.
The check-out evidence showed extensive deterioration of the lawn, and adjudicators agreed that it had taken place.
The fact the gardener did not visit the property undermined the tenant’s claim that extreme weather and poor drainage caused the damage.
A check-out photograph of the green lawn of next door’s property also contradicted their claim that the neighbour’s garden ‘died out entirely’.
In gardening claims, adjudicators look at tenants’ obligations set out in the tenancy agreement and whether they need specialist garden maintenance knowledge or skills.
They will also note the seasons at check-in and check-out as well as whether there is adequate evidence that pets have caused damage.
While the pet argument in this case was weak, the landlord provided a witness statement and photographs to support it. The adjudicators found that the tenant should have maintained the garden to the standard it was at the start of the tenancy. Doing this needed no specialist knowledge and skill, they added.
When deciding whether claim costs are reasonable, adjudicators will look at garden size, amount of work required and whether there is an invoice to make good the damage.
Applying the above, the adjudicator concluded that the £450 cost to re-turf the garden was fair and reasonable.
*Alexandra Coghlan-Forbes is head of adjudication at The DPS
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Church Action for Tax Justice
Monday 24th of June 2019
Tim Hunt speaks to Dave Haslam founder of Church Action for Tax Justice.
How did you first get into tax justice?
I first became aware of the enormity of this issue reading Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxon in 2012, and, with some old friends, formed the Methodist Tax Justice Network.That developed useful work within the Methodist Church, but then it became clear a wider group was needed and a number of Christian bodies have come together to form Church Action for Tax Justice (CATJ).
Why did you start Tax Justice Sunday?
Tax has to be a serious issue for everyone with an ethical bone in their body. In the Churches, when a new social justice challenge arises, one way to focus people’s minds is to dedicate a Sunday to promote that concern. This has – and still is – being done around, for example, education, the elderly, prisoners, racial justice, refugees and fair trade. One of the founding partners of CATJ has been the Fair Tax Mark and, when they instituted Fair Tax Week in June 2018, they encouraged CATJ to publicise the Sunday in the week as Tax Justice Sunday (TJS).
How have CATJ and Tax Justice Sunday developed?
The first TJS was somewhat minimalist, although it did achieve national publicity. It came about soon after CATJ had been launched in the House of Lords in April 2018, by, among others, the Most Revd Rowan Williams and Dame Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Tax. Fair Tax Mark was there, also Tax Justice UK, and the Tax Justice Network. This demonstrated this is a partnership between those Christians who see this as an essential ‘mission’ issue and the secular groups active in the field. Since then CATJ has been consolidating its position and in March this year published its manifesto, ‘Tax for the Common Good’ (available on the CATJ website along with other resources for Tax Justice Sunday).
Is the tax justice movement spreading among the wider church community?
The Tax Justice movement is also spreading internationally among the Churches. In March I attended a small consultation in Durban, South Africa, organised by the World Council ofChurches and the World Communion of Reformed Churches. It included some 25 representatives from 16 different countries and a range of Christian traditions. It was called to develop the thinking of the Ecumenical Panel on the New International Financial and Economic Architecture, (NIFEA), and to formulate a campaign to initiate at the UN session reviewing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be held in New York in July. During the meeting we were constantly reminded of the effects of the dominant global economic system, how destructive it is for the vulnerable and disadvantaged. The representatives from the ‘Global South’ were insistent the process be called ‘Tax Justice and Reparations’ as reordering the financial system should incorporate the idea of repairing the damage done by the colonial past and the environmental destruction appearing in the present, due to the extractive and consumption drivers of Western economic growth.
Are church and other faith groups doing enough to ensure tax transparency in their own ranks?
The Churches of course have large investments, the Church Investors Group (CIG) represents Churches and Charities holding billions in shares. CATJ is urging the CIG to be more proactive in its engagement with large companies who find legal but arguably unethical means of dodging their taxes. CATJ does not distinguish between the legalities of ‘evasion’ and ‘avoidance’. Both are means of getting out of your social and moral obligations. The Churches cannot legitimately call on the wealthy to pay their taxes if it is not willing to put its own funds behind the push for transparency and tax fairness. Church members should be saying this to their investing bodies. Tax dodging is a sin and if taxes are not paid, social and public services will disintegrate and we will all bear the consequences.
Some would say we already are.
David Haslam is a Methodist minister and a founder and Chair of Church Action for Tax Justice. He is author of ‘The Bible and Tax’, a pamphlet available with other resources including for Tax Justice Sunday (7th July) from CATJ.
CATJ will also be appearing at the Fair Tax Conference, led by Fair Tax Mark, Friday 5th July in London.
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On 22nd January 2019, the Chair of the Tax Justice Network, John Christensen spoke at the European Parliament on ‘The Impact of Brexit on Tax Evasion and Money Laundering’, organised by the European Free Alliance of the Greens. Extracts from that speech are reproduced here and full text, video and slides are available.
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Avicii Wins Posthumous Best Dance VMA for Rita Ora Collaboration 'Lonely Together'
By Liz Calvario 8:21 PM PDT, August 20, 2018
Avicii remains in the hearts of his friends and fans.
Rita Ora paid tribute to the late Swedish DJ, a close friend, during the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards in New York City on Monday. The British singer took the stage with Bebe Rexha to introduce Maluma's performance, and announced that she and Avicii had been awarded the Best Dance VMA for their collaboration "Lonely Together," which was the last song the musician released before he died earlier this year.
"I wanna take a minute to say, I just found out that Avicii and I won Best Dance, so let's made some noise for Avicii right now," Ora told the crowd. "An amazing talent."
The #VMA for Best Dance goes to @RitaOra and @Avicii ❤️
— Video Music Awards (@vmas) August 21, 2018
Avicii was found dead in Muscat, Oman, on April 20. He was 28.
"It is with profound sorrow that we announce the loss of Tim Bergling, also known as Avicii. He was found dead in Muscat, Oman this Friday afternoon local time, April 20th," his rep said in a statement to ET at the time. "The family is devastated and we ask everyone to please respect their need for privacy in this difficult time. No further statements will be given."
Following his unexpected death -- which was later ruled a suicide -- Avicii's family issued statements expressing how much he would be missed.
"Our beloved Tim was a seeker, a fragile artistic soul searching for answers to existential questions," the second statement obtained by ET read. "An over-achieving perfectionist who traveled and worked hard at a pace that led to extreme stress. When he stopped touring, he wanted to find a balance in life to be happy and be able to do what he loved most – music. He really struggled with thoughts about Meaning, Life, Happiness. He could not go on any longer. He wanted to find peace. Tim was not made for the business machine he found himself in; he was a sensitive guy who loved his fans but shunned the spotlight."
"Tim, you will forever be loved and sadly missed," the statement continued. "The person you were and your music will keep your memory alive."
Fellow musicians, friends and celebrities shared their condolences following the news of his death. Ora had previously honored Avicii at the Netherlands' 538Koningsdag Festival.
"It's gonna be hard for me to sing this next song, and I'll tell you why," Ora told the crowd. "I had the honor of collaborating with somebody who changed my life, and he was a really good friend of mine… I haven't sang his song that we did together ever since he passed away, until today."
Kippenvel! Tijdens #538Koningsdag kreeg een huilende @RitaOra 40.000 mensen stil voor haar goede vriend Avicii. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/k1WTEjcAEE
— 538 (@538) April 28, 2018
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Controlling a Wheat Allergy
Yes, you'll need to read every food label. But having a wheat allergy does not mean you or your child can't enjoy good foods.
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Most cases of wheat allergy affect children under the age of 3, but adults can have a wheat allergy, too. Someone who has a wheat allergy has an allergy to a protein in wheat, which is a type of grain. The proteins in wheat known to cause an allergic reaction are albumin, globulin, gliadin, and gluten.
What Is a Wheat Allergy?
In a true wheat allergy, IgE, or immunoglobulin E, in your body causes the immune system to overreact when you consume a wheat protein. Symptoms of a wheat allergy vary, and can range from hives or eczema to gastrointestinal symptoms (such as vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramping, and pain).
If you think you or your child has a wheat allergy, it is important to see an allergist to confirm the diagnosis. "When someone comes in with what sounds like an IgE-mediated allergy, they should have some skin testing done," says Julie McNairn, MD, an allergist and immunologist in Cincinnati.
Allergen skin testing can help an allergist determine whether you have an allergy to wheat protein. The tests involve introducing a small amount of the suspected allergen into your skin through a prick or an abrasion. If a small, raised bump develops within a few minutes where the allergen was introduced, you are allergic to the substance.
Living With a Wheat Allergy
People who have a wheat allergy need to "avoid anything containing wheat," says Dr. McNairn. This includes wheat flours, beer, baking mixes, batter-fried foods, and many processed foods. This can be difficult, as a number of foods, such as ice cream and ketchup, may contain wheat proteins or use wheat flour in their recipe.
Additionally, eating out can be a challenge. Some concerns include:
Cross-contamination of wheat products in shared cooking pans.
Oil used in fried foods that was also used to cook breaded products.
Sauces in which wheat flour may be used.
Meat substitutes, common in Chinese food, that often contain wheat.
You will need to read labels of packaged foods carefully to determine if a product contains wheat. The Food Allergen Labeling & Consumer Protection Act of 2004 requires foods produced after January 2006 to be labeled as containing wheat in the ingredients, just below the ingredient list, or in parentheses after the specific protein.
You may also need to read the label each time, since manufacturers will occasionally change recipes. According to the Food Allergy Initiative, products that list the following as part of their ingredients list contain wheat protein:
Any type of wheat flour (e.g., all-purpose, cake, enriched)
Cereal extract
Sprouted wheat
Wheat bran
Wheat malt
Wheat starch
Whole-wheat berries
Talk to your allergist to determine whether you can consume the following wheat substitutes: amaranth, arrowroot, buckwheat, corn, millet, oats, potatoes, rice, soy, tapioca, and quinoa flour.
Wheat Allergy vs. Gluten Intolerance
People sometimes refer to gluten intolerance, which is also called celiac disease or celiac sprue, as a wheat allergy. But these are separate conditions.
In gluten intolerance, there is an abnormal immune response when gluten is introduced into the small intestine. And while most children will outgrow a wheat allergy by the age of 3, gluten intolerance is a lifelong condition that requires strict avoidance of gluten, which is present in wheat, rye, barley, and their by-products. It is important to distinguish between these conditions, since untreated gluten intolerance can lead to malnutrition, intestinal damage, and other serious health complications.
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Trustpoint Rehabilitation Hospital of Lubbock recognized among Top 10 facilities
by: News Release & Posted By Staff | newsweb@everythinglubbock.com
Posted: May 29, 2019 / 09:15 AM CDT / Updated: May 29, 2019 / 09:15 AM CDT
LUBBOCK, Texas (NEWS RELEASE) – The following is a news release from Trustpoint Rehabilitation Hospital of Lubbock:
Trustpoint Rehabilitation Hospital of Lubbock, inpatient rehabilitation is pleased to announce that it ranked in the top 10 percent of 868 inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) that qualified to be ranked in the IRF database of Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation (UDSMR) in 2018.
“Performing in the Top 10% of facilities in a competitive industry requires consistent focus and commitment to excellence from every member of the care team. We are proud of the recognition and achievement; and, of our continued contribution to Lubbock and west Texas.” – Craig Bragg, CEO
The rankings were determined by using UDSMR’s program evaluation model (PEM), a case mix-adjusted and severity-adjusted tool that provides facilities with a composite performance score and percentile ranking drawn from nearly three-quarters of all IRFs in the country. UDSMR’s PEM Report Card uses the indicators of efficiency and effectiveness contained in the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ reporting tool for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System (IRF PPS). The goal of the PEM Report Card is to recognize high-performing facilities for their delivery of quality patient care that is effective, efficient, timely, and patient-centered.
“This accomplishment is a great reflection of our patient care. The excellence within our team work from nursing and therapy has definitely earned this.”- Dr. Roger Wolcott, Medical Director
“To recognize the efficient and effective care it provides to its patients, we are pleased to present this award to Trustpoint Rehabilitation Hospital of Lubbock,” said Troy Hillman, Manager of the Analytical Services Group at UDSMR. “As the creator and caretaker of the nation’s largest database of rehabilitation outcomes, and with over 30 years of experience and data, UDSMR continues working with the industry to establish best practices. Development of the PEM Report Card has served as a tool to identify and recognize high-performing facilities, to work with them to learn how they provide efficient and effective care, and to share what we learn with others to elevate the performance of all. We look forward to working with Trustpoint Rehabilitation Hospital of Lubbock and the other top performing facilities across the country that rank in the top 10 percent to improve care in all inpatient rehabilitation facilities.”
This is the twelfth year that UDSMR has issued these awards. The PEM Report Card was developed as part of a proactive solution to the Institute of Medicine’s 2006 recommendation to Congress that every Medicare provider be reimbursed on a pay-for-performance basis. The data used for this report was based on 12 months of 2018 data, drawn from both Medicare and non-Medicare patients. The results were weighted and combined into a single composite score, and each facility was assigned a percentile rank from 0 to 100 relative to the other qualifying IRF subscribers in UDSMR’s database. The resulting distribution of the facility PEM scores for UDSMR’s IRF subscribers exhibited a normal distribution.
About UDSMR:
Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation (UDSMR) is a division of UB Foundation Activities Inc., a not-for-profit corporation affiliated with the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Founded in 1988, UDSMR administers the world’s largest medical rehabilitation database, and its instruments provide the field with a common language and measurement tools for outcomes and functional assessment. CMS has adopted UDSMR’s FIM® instrument as the basis for the IRF PPS, and UDSMR provides exclusive training and support to the agency.
(News release from Trustpoint Rehabilitation Hospital of Lubbock)
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Snow day? Yes, but no makeup day
Brooke Wohlrabe
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FAIRMONT — So far for the 2017-2018 school year, there have been three snow days, one early dismissal and one two-hour late start at Fairmont Area Schools.
This is maybe to be expected, since this is Minnesota, but many may wonder how missing several days of school affects the rest of the school year.
“In the past, people used to think you had to be in school so many days but that law changed about four years ago,” explained Fairmont Area Superintendent Joe Brown. “You now need to be in school so many hours,”
Fairmont Area has more hours than required by state law so students do not need to make up the time they have lost from snow days.
Under current state law, students in grade 7-12 are required to receive at least 1,020 hours of instruction. Grades 1-6 are required to receive at least 935 hours, and all-day kindergarten must receive at least 850 hours. A school board’s annual calendar must include at least 165 days of instruction.
At Fairmont Area, since there is all-day kindergarten, all students are in school for about six hours per day, not including lunch. With 174 days in the current school year, that equals 1,044 hours of instruction.
Kindergarteners at Fairmont schools receive an extra 32 days of school while grades 1-6 are getting an extra 18 days. Grades 7-12 get an extra four days of school above the required state minimum.
“I don’t want to be minimum school and just get by,” Brown said. “I want our kids to get full exposure.”
While students could have several more snow days and still receive the required number of hours, teachers also are affected by snow days.
“Teachers have to make up the time because teachers are under contract for so many days,” Brown explained. “Teachers are employed for 184 contract days and there are 174 student contact days.”
When there are snow days, teachers need to make up the hours from those days. Brown said the district is flexible when it comes to how teachers make up those hours.
“We encourage teachers to constantly get better and we want them to do staff development and there’s a lot of staff development that’s available online,” he said. “If teachers can document that they’ve put in eight hours of additional staff development training on their own time, and turn it in, we’ll count it as a snow make up day for them.”
Brown went on to say that the ultimate goal is to have all teachers not have to come back in June to make up time, but they do need to fulfill their contract.
When it comes to deciding whether to close school because of weather conditions, the decision is made by Brown, with a recommendation from the bus company, Minnesota Motor Bus.
Brown said that early on Tuesday morning, he got a phone call from the superintendent of Martin County West, Allison Schmidt, asking what he was thinking about deciding regarding the weather. Brown also talked to Blue Earth Area Superintendent Evan Gough. While Brown said Schmidt and Gough physically go out and drive the roads to test conditions, Fairmont’s bus company does that for Fairmont Area.
Brown said that on some days, such as Tuesday, the bus company believed it could get the kids to school in the morning but was not sure it could safely get them home after school.
“My number one priority is that kids and our staff get to school and to home safely,” Brown said.
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Motley Fool Australia » Investing » A commonsense plan to start building wealth (and stop losing money)
A commonsense plan to start building wealth (and stop losing money)
Motley Fool Staff | June 14, 2012
In retrospect, Debbie Klug knows she shouldn't have trusted him with her family's nest egg. "If you're not comfortable with somebody," she said, "just don't go there." It was a lesson hard learned.
Her previous experience working with a financial advisor had been a positive one. The advisor was part of a fee-based practice and he went to great lengths to get to know his clients. Klug parted ways with that advisor for a few years, though, and when she sought him out later, he had joined a company that didn't take clients with less than US$3 million in liquid assets. He pointed her in the direction of another advisor.
In retrospect, Debbie Klug knows she shouldn’t have trusted him with her family’s nest egg. “If you’re not comfortable with somebody,” she said, “just don’t go there.” It was a lesson hard learned.
Her previous experience working with a financial advisor had been a positive one. The advisor was part of a fee-based practice and he went to great lengths to get to know his clients. Klug parted ways with that advisor for a few years, though, and when she sought him out later, he had joined a company that didn’t take clients with less than US$3 million in liquid assets. He pointed her in the direction of another advisor.
The new advisor immediately made Klug uneasy. “I didn’t like the way he made predictions. I just don’t think the market is something that can be predicted and he was predicting things 10 or 15 years down the road.” Trusting her original advisor’s recommendation though, she handed over the keys to her accounts.
What followed could be used as a worst-practices guide for financial advisors.
Josh Brown, a financial advisor and author of Backstage Wall Street, said that a good advisor focuses on this question: “What’s the client’s real need?” Klug’s new advisor asked very few questions and so had no way of knowing her needs. In fact, Klug got the impression that her advisor “really didn’t care.” This was another bright red flag.
Without an open communication channel, the problems only compounded. Klug never ended up with a clear understanding of how the advisor was being compensated. “I never paid him directly,” she told us. “So I don’t know how he got [paid].” According to David Lo of JD Power and Associates, this isn’t unusual, as less than half of advisory clients say they “completely” understand the fees they’re paying. Nor was Klug’s extreme dissatisfaction surprising — Lo also noted that client satisfaction is closely tied to advisors’ communication efforts.
The advisor’s investment recommendations were no better. The investment approach that Klug learned from her father was to first have “ready money,” then a fallback stash of “safe money,” and finally, investments. For this advisor, the strategy was “to invest it all.” The bonds that Klug had kept aside as safe money were sold and reinvested in mutual funds. And while that alone was enough for her to lose sleep, the advisor either didn’t know or didn’t care about the tax implications of what he was doing, and Klug was “hit like a ton of bricks at the end of the year by taxes.”
The advisor also made downright odd recommendations, including suggesting that the family take out a home equity loan to pay for their son’s college tuition — when he was just starting his junior year in high school. It was a recommendation that they didn’t follow.
To top it all off, at the end of the day, Klug said, “I didn’t feel like I was making any more money with him than with Vanguard” — referring to the pioneer of low-cost index funds.
She ended up doing the only thing that made sense: She dropped that advisor like a bad habit and moved her money back to Vanguard.
There is a right way to do this
Talking to customers like Klug, it doesn’t take long to come to the conclusion that for many clients, the financial advice industry just isn’t working. For some, it’s spending money on a service that doesn’t seem to add much value. For others, it’s an outright disaster as poor communication, misaligned incentives, and high fees cripple financial standing and dash hopes of retirement.
But is it as easy to pick out advisory relationships that are healthy and successful? To find out, we talked to a wide range of industry experts from Josh Brown and David Lo to University of California professor Terrance Odean, as well as Carl Richards, author of The Behavior Gap, among others. In our conversations, three elements of a successful, valuable advisory relationship came up over and over again:
Creating a financial plan.
Combating behavioural biases.
Employing clear and illuminating communication.
These aren’t the only elements of a really great advisory relationship, but if you can identify these three key components in an advisor, then there’s a good chance that you’re getting real value from the relationship.
As the director of the Financial Services practice at quality-ratings giant JD Power, David Lo knows a thing or two about measuring the value of a financial advisor.
Regarding client satisfaction, Lo told us that “what we see is that satisfaction is correlated highly with best practices.” Which begs the question, “What are best practices?” At the top of the list, Lo puts “[having] a written financial plan.”
New York Times columnist and financial advisor Carl Richards further underscored how important a plan is:
The big story is that nobody is writing about is that nobody can make investment decisions in a vacuum — it all depends on the situation, goals in life, etc. Good investment decisions can only be made in the perspective of something larger. … We all want to take a plane, train, or automobile, but we have no idea where we’re going.
As important as this is, it’s also easy to ignore. I learned this through personal experience when I sought out a financial advisor — Will Duncan, a member of the fee-only Garrett Planning Network — because I realised that my wife and I had a portfolio full of investments and a vague idea of where we wanted to end up, but no plan for getting there.
As Duncan explained:
Until people have gone through the process they haven’t really solidified their goals. Sometimes we go through life and get so busy with the day-to-day stuff. If you don’t keep your eyes on the prize, it’s tough to get there.
According to research from industry watchdog FINRA, overlooking planning isn’t unusual. Among non-retired households, 58% haven’t tried to figure out what they need to save for retirement.
An investor doesn’t need a financial advisor to build and follow a plan. But will they do it on their own? Edward Jones managing partner Jim Weddle quipped, “I make a New Year’s resolution every year to lose weight, but I never do. Why not? Because I never pay for a trainer or coach.” A good advisor takes exactly that role, or, as Weddle put it, “We bring discipline to our clients’ savings and investments.”
Judging an advisor on this component is much more than checking a box though (“Yup! He gave me a printout that says ‘financial plan.'”). Today, cheap software can spit out a sharp-looking yet generic “financial plan” in no time at all, which allows some brokers and advisors to fake their way through this crucial step. By contrast, a worthwhile financial plan grows out of probing questions, a sharing of in-depth financial information, and a relationship with the advisor.
Combating behavioural meltdowns
The facts are plain: We’re not wired well to make consistently good, sober financial decisions. That’s why it can be a big help to have a third party keep our undesirable emotional impulses in check.
Richards, who wrote The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money, put it to us this way: “Unless we see Warren Buffett in the mirror, we need somebody to help us avoid making those genetic behavioural mistakes. … An investment advisor is a behaviour modifier … that helps us follow some of the best advice that Buffett’s ever given: Help us be fearful when everyone else is greedy.”
Few know more about the subject of behaviour-induced investing mishaps than Professor Terrance Odean. He’s a leading voice in the growing field of behavioural finance whose work has covered topics such as overconfidence, excessive trading, regret, and investors’ tendency to hold losing investments and sell wining ones — also known as “the disposition effect.”
When asked about the value of financial advisors, Odean replied, “Good financial advisors basically encourage investors to follow good investment practices. Left to their own devices, investors don’t do that.” He added that sometimes a good advisor is someone who simply “[injects] common sense where it’s needed.”
Finding a broker or advisor that actually delivers on this is easier said than done, though. A recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research that audited and evaluated financial advice came to an ugly conclusion:
The advice by and large fails to debias and if anything may exaggerate existing biases. … The evidence further suggests that advisor self-interest plays a role in generating the low-quality advice even when incentives of both the advisor and the client are aligned …
In short, in some cases, not only did the advisor not combat the behavioural biases, he made them worse.
The results do, however, suggest two ways for customers to increase the chances that their advisor does steer them away from biases. First, certain fee structures in the industry actively incentivise brokers and advisors to encourage behavioural biases like overtrading. The NBER team notes that their results are “in line with an interpretation where the advisor’s goal is to maximise fees by placing more weight on actively managed funds that create more income for the advisor.” And further, “evidence suggests that most of the interaction is driven by the need to generate fees rather than to respond to the clients rebalancing needs.”
For customers looking to avoid this outcome, fee-only financial advisors have a compensation structure that is much more aligned with clients’ interests.
In addition, customers should look for advisors that are willing to tell it how it is from day one. Unfortunately, the NBER paper notes evidence that many advisors pussyfoot around delivering the hard, but necessary, truth to clients because they’re too concerned with winning or keeping their business. When it comes to battling behavioural biases, an advisor like that is useless.
Clear and illuminating communication
David Lo at JD Power has seen the huge difference that communication makes in terms of customer satisfaction. “A huge part is the relationship with the advisor,” he said. That means not only “courtesy, friendliness, and responsiveness,” but, maybe more importantly, “did your investment advisor talk about investment performance, etc.” According to Lo, a “yes” answer to the latter “significantly raises” satisfaction scores.
David Shucavage of Carolina Estate Planners suggests that clients ask themselves: “Does this person really listen to you and ask questions of real depth? Do they understand what it will take for the money to bring you peace of mind?”
Just like in any other profession, though, there is doing what is necessary and then there is going above and beyond. Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner suggested that one way an advisor can do that is to don the professor cap:
This isn’t something I’d require, but it’s something that I’d seek: education and engagement. That the advisor is helping the investor learn and grow. I realise some people may not want this, but the best financial advisors should enlighten.
In a similar vein, Edward Jones’ Jim Weddle referred to the company’s advisors as “coaches” and “financial trainers” — a label that underscores that this relationship can be more than “Here you go, do this for me.”
These qualitative aspects of a good advisory relationship help set the stage for achieving the client’s financial goals. But they’re no guarantee of success. As Neal McNeil of Ibis Capital told us, “If the client needs a certain rate of return and [the advisor isn’t] accomplishing that for them, then the plan doesn’t work.”
Investment returns are a tricky subject in the world of brokers and financial advisors, and many industry participants are loath to tackle the topic. In the next section though, we take on this sticky subject in an effort to figure out how advisory clients can strike a balance between achieving returns while avoiding fast-talking brokers just looking for their next big payday.
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Drowsy: the appearance of a harlot of the Meiji, No. 30
Series; Thirty-Two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)
Yoshitoshi's Thirty-two Aspects of Women - Yoshitoshi's finest series of bijin-ga, or pictures of beautiful women, Thirty-two Aspects of Women features illustrations of beauties in a lighthearted reference to the thirty-two notable features of Buddha. The women depicted come from all social classes, representing beauties from the late 18th century through Yoshitoshi's own time.
Each design captures a woman in a scene from daily life, realistically and sensitively portrayed as individuals rather than idealized figures. Sumptuous fabrics are beautifully rendered, and hairstyles and facial features are drawn with the most delicate of lines. The series was beautifully printed using the most costly techniques, such as delicate bokashi shading, embossing, and burnishing, creating some of the finest prints of the Meiji era.
Thirty-two Aspects proved popular with the public when first published, and has been appreciated by viewers and collectors ever since. Designs in this fantastic series are some of the most highly sought after woodblocks of the Meiji era, and are certainly considered great masterworks of Yoshitoshi's career.
Drowsy: the appearance of a harlot of the Meiji, No. 30 - An intriguing print depicting a licensed prostitute reclining in an alluring and somewhat lazy fashion. She looks drowsily through half-closed eyes, resting on a pillow on a black lacquer base. She wears a red tie-dyed robe with a purple collar, loosely wrapped about her, and the red of the robe and the mattress convey a certain a feeling of sensuality. A very famous image from the series and one sought-after by collectors. This evocative print of a young prostitute is a classic and compelling Yoshitoshi portrait. Beautifully printed with delicate cloth embossing in the white screen at right and exceptionally fine line work in the hair.
Image Size - 14 1/2" x 9 1/2" + margins as shown
Condition - This print with excellent color and detail as shown. Diagonal folds. Slight creasing. Please see photos for details.
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The Game Café: Upgraded consoles and the future of the console cycle
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League of Legends: the new classes and subclasses explained
Sean Timm
With well over a hundred champions in League of Legends at this point, Riot recently took a look at, and reevaluated, how the game will categorize the many different champions. Far from simplifying the vast range of characters and playstyles, Riot is hoping to instead create an easier to understand vocabulary when referring to champions.
More than just referring to the role each champion currently has in the game, the new system is also meant to clearly show the intent of each character. Doing so will provide a better target for the development team to aim for, and will allow players to better see the trajectory and thought behind future changes. The terms connote not only similar strengths, but also similar weaknesses.
Even within each class however, there was still too much variation. So, Riot is creating subclasses as well, each meant to immediately connote the skills and focus of each champion in League of Legends.
Tanks are those best suited for taking the damage and disrupting the enemy, even if they can’t deal all that much damage themselves. Within that framework however, there are the subclasses of Vangard and Warden. Vangards are champions like Leona, meant to initiate the fight, what Riot describes as “Offensive Tanks.” Wardens on the other hand are defensive, like Braum. Meant to hold the line no matter what, they are built around keeping allies out of the line of fire.
One of the broadest of the previous classes, Fighters, durable, melee damage dealers, have been split into two subclasses as well, Juggernauts and Divers. Juggernauts, like Darius, can take damage and deal it, but have limited range and are easily kited. Not quite as durable, Divers are then much more mobile, like Vi.
Slayers:
Both meant to be vunerable, but high damage, classes of characters, Slayers are made up of Assassins and Skirmishers. Focused of mobility and incredibly high damage, Assassins are meant to get behind enemy lines and wreak havoc. With less burst-damage potential, but equipped with more defensive abilities, Skirmishers are built to survive in a fight (if they’re careful) but can still deal huge amounts of sustained damage.
Mages:
Broken into three subclasses, all mages are still offensive casters. Burst mages, like Lux, are meant to single out vulnerable targets and bring down a ton of damage in a short period of time. Alternatively, Battle Mages aim to be in the middle of the fight, laying out AOE damage. Then, Artillery Mages excel at long range, but suffer if an enemy can ever get close.
Controllers:
Taking the place of Support, Controllers are magic users more concerned with buffing allies and disrupting enemies than dealing damage. Within that though, there’s the subclasses of Enchanters, specializing in the buffing, and Disruptors, specializing in locking down the enemy and dictating the flow of battle.
Marksmen:
And lastly, Marksmen do not actually have any subclasses just yet. Despite the wide range of playstyles found within the group, Riot admits they have yet to decide the best way to break it apart. Marksmen, as a whole, are the ranged damage dealers who often rely on their basic attacks and skirt the edge of battle.
As for whether or not the classes and subclasses will help players better understand League of Legends, we’ll just have to wait and see. Until then, what do you think of the new categories? Let us know in the comments.
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Triaxial Sample Preparation Items
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Humboldt has an extensive inventory of all the tools and consumables used for preparing soil samples for triaxial testing. All products adhere to ASTM standards: ASTM D2850, ASTM D2166, ASTM D4767. T...
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A landslide and a wall collapse struck the Indian state of Odisha in less than 2 days: At least 7 fatalities
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At least 7 people have died and 8 more were injured after a landslide and a wall collapse occurred in Odisha's Keonjhar and Dhenkanal district in India, respectively. On Saturday, June 8, 2019, three...
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Oxford University interview questions
With the closing date for applications this Monday, the University of Oxford has released some sample interview questions.
With the closing date for applications this Monday, the University of Oxford has released some sample interview questions from the tutors who conduct the interviews to help explain the reasoning behind even the most strange-sounding questions.
Students applying to study biological sciences might be asked why animals have stripes, potential English students might discuss JK Rowling’s transition to writing for adults, and applicants looking to study history might be asked to imagine piecing together the past based only on historical records of sport.
Director of undergraduate admissions at Oxford Mike Nicholson said: "The interview is only one part of the Oxford admissions process, but for many students it is the part that makes them the most anxious.
"We know most students won’t have experienced this sort of academic interview before, so as much as possible we want to show students what they are really like. The interviews are meant to give candidates the chance to show their real ability and potential – which means they will be pushed to use their knowledge and apply their thinking to new problems in ways that will both challenge them and allow them to shine.
"The interviews are an academic conversation in a subject area between tutors and candidate, similar to an undergraduate tutorial. And like tutorials, the interviews are designed to push students to think, not recite specific facts or answers.
"Most interviews don’t involve strange or irrelevant-sounding questions at all. We will often provide candidates with material to prompt discussion – for example a piece of text, an item to examine, or an image. It is often best to start responding by making very obvious observations and build up discussion from there, rather than assuming that there is a hidden meaning or a highly complicated answer you have to jump to immediately.
"We hope that seeing some of the less obvious questions will reassure students that tutors aren’t trying to see how quickly students get the “right” answer or demonstrate their specialist knowledge, but how they respond to new ideas.
"We know there are still lots of myths about the Oxford interview, so we put as much information as possible out there to allow students to see behind the hype to the reality of the process. We now have mock interviews online, video diaries made by admissions tutors during the interview process."
Politics admission tutor Dr Dave Leal said: "Interviews are an opportunity for candidates to experience something of the style of our teaching and are usually more in the style of a conversation than a pure 'question-and-answer' format. We are not using the interview to find out what a candidate knows, but to investigate their capacity for independent and self-critical thought."
Interviews for undergraduate places are just one part of a very rigorous selection process, where academic ability and potential is assessed through a range of measures: at least two interviews; aptitude tests (in most subjects); written work (in many subjects); predicted grades; attained grades; and references.
Subject: History
Interviewer: Stephen Tuck, Pembroke College
Q: Imagine we had no records about the past at all, except everything to do with sport – how much of the past could we find out about?
Stephen: I would say this to a candidate who had mentioned an interest in sport on their personal statement, though it could equally be applied to an interest in something else – like film, drama, or music. What I would be looking for is to see how the candidate might use their imagination, building on something they know about (probably much more than I do) to tackle questions of historical research. Answers could relate to the racial/class/gender relations in society (who played the sports, and which sports, at any given time); international politics/empire (which countries were involved, did groups of countries play the same sport); economic development (the technological development of sports, how sport was watched); the values within a society (bloodthirsty sports to more genteel sports); health (participation rates); or many other issues – the list is long. I would usually ask supplementary questions, to push the students further – and often, I would have no answer in my mind, but would simply be interested in seeing how far the student could push their analysis.
Subject: English
Interviewer: Lucinda Rumsey, Mansfield College
Q: JK Rowling has just published a book for adults after the hugely successful Harry Potter series. In what ways do you think that writing for children is different to writing for adults?
Lucinda: Candidates who have grown up on Harry Potter might have read Rowling’s new book and have thought both about Rowling's change of audience and their own change as readers from child to adult. But even without knowing Rowling's work at all candidates could say something about themselves as readers, and how as readers they approach different kinds of books, and how writers develop a body of work and write for different audiences.
Mainly I always want to know that whatever they are reading, candidates are reading thoughtfully and self-consciously, and are able to think as literary critics about all the books they read. I worry that not all candidates might have the same access to a wide range of literature, and I am careful to judge them on what they know, not on what they don't know. If I asked that question about Shakespeare some candidates might have a view of his literary output, but many wouldn't. If I start with Harry Potter, everyone at least has a starting point of recognition. And I think Rowling deserves a mention as I am sure that there are many people applying to study English at university this year who became avid readers because of her books.
Subject: Experimental Psychology
Interviewer: David Popplewell, Brasenose College
Q: Why do human beings have two eyes?
David: This question may result from a more general discussion about the human senses, and can develop in a number of different directions, partly depending upon the knowledge and expertise of the interviewee. For example, two eyes are important for three dimensional (3D) vision. Why is that we can still see in 3D when only looking through one eye? What determines the optimum position and distance between the two eyes? Why is it that we see a stable view of the world even though we are constantly moving our head? How can an understanding of mathematics, physics and biology help us explain 3D vision? The discussion may develop in to a consideration of the different senses and the role they play in us interacting in our environment, including interacting with other people, and the nature of perceptual experience.
Subject: Modern Languages
Interviewer: Helen Swift, St Hilda’s College
Q: Should poetry be difficult to understand?
Helen: This question arose out of discussion of a few poems that a candidate said he had read, and we were talking through how these poems were conveying meaning (through things such as tone and the imagery they used). We wanted to push the candidate into more conceptual thinking to test his intellectual curiosity and how he would handle moving from familiar particulars (the poems he knew) to less familiar ways of approaching them. What's important for candidates to realise is that we don't expect a single correct answer to such a question; it's a starting point for a new direction of discussion: what sorts of “difficulties” might we have in mind? Are these specific to poetry or do they also feature in other types of writing? And so on.
What most interests us is that candidates are willing to venture down a new path, however uncertain this may feel: to have a go and show that they have the potential to develop their thinking further – and thus thrive on the sort of course we offer. Literature forms an important part of a Modern Languages degree at Oxford, but we know that most candidates won't have studied literature formally before in the language for which they're applying. What we want to know isn't that they've read a certain number of texts to prove their interest, but that they have the aptitude for studying texts: that they're able to think carefully and imaginatively about whatever they've have chance to read (poems, prose, drama) that's interested them, in any language.
Subject: Biological Sciences
Interviewer: Martin Speight, St Anne’s College
Q: Why do many animals have stripes?
Martin: The main aim of the question is to get applicants to think about biological topics and put them in the context of successful adaptations to life on earth. So I might expect students to start by thinking of some stripey animals, then move on to thinking about categories of striped animals – for example those that are dangerous (such as wasps, tigers, and snakes), those that have stripes for camouflage (such as zebras but also tigers), and those whose stripes are harmless mimics of dangerous ones. They might think of specific examples for detailed comparison: tigers and zebras for example both have stripes for camouflage and blending in with background, one to hide from prey and the other to hide from predators.
Other things that would be worth considering include whether stripes may only occur in the young of a species; whether the colour of the stripes matters rather than just the contrasting stripe pattern, and why do stripe size, shape, width and pattern vary in different species. There are no right or wrong specific answers to the questions – I’m just interested in candidates’ speculations about the advantages of having stripes.
Subject: Politics (Philosophy, Politics and Economics)
Interviewer: Dave Leal, Brasenose College
Q: When I was at school in the 1970s, there was talk of a pensions crisis that would one day hit. The talk persisted in the 1980s, and the 1990s – and then there was a pensions crisis, and little had been done politically to prepare us for it. Is there a fault with the British political system that means we can't sensibly address serious medium- and long-term problems when they are identified?
Dave: This question was an invitation to think about democracy and its limitations – it's a big question, but an important one. I have had candidates come up with good discussions about voting methods – for example, how having proportions of parliament voted in for much longer terms might promote more long-term policy thinking. Another approach might be to reflect on the responsibility of the electorate; if they do not think in long-term ways, it may not be politicians who are to blame, and the problem may be down to education. One might reflect upon the importance of having an un-elected second chamber to which all really important business could be delegated. One candidate suggested that no one should be allowed to stand for parliament unless they have dependent children, with the thought that this would ensure a personal motivation towards longer term thinking on a variety of matters.
There is no single 'right answer' to the question, most answers given serve as the basis for further elaboration: For example, in the case of longer parliamentary terms: What would be the wider consequences of that change? Would they be desirable? We are testing the capacity to begin to locate the source of a problem, and try out solutions through discussion. The precise solution students suggest matters much less than evidence of the refining of ideas and of self-correction where necessary.
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MAS 62 Testing Results
July 8, 2015 Ian McCollum Select-fire Rifles 28
Thanks to reader Thibaud, we have a translation of some of the testing results from the French military trial of the FN FAL and MAS Model 62. Thanks, Thibaud!
The documents tell us that the FA MAS 62 was tested along with the FN FAL, which was considered a benchmark. Here is the result of the testings :
Sights: The sighting equipment of the FAL was prefered by French soldiers during testing because of its similarity to the ones of the FSA 49-56, more familiar to French soldiers.
Sight adjustment: Satisfactory on both weapons. Some FAL rear sights were not enough tight to stay in place when shooting full auto.
Trigger and fire selector: Trigger was satisfactory on both weapons. All testers prefered the fire selector on the FAL.
Accuracy: Accuracy of the FAL was superior. Odd vertical dispersion with the 62.
Handling during firing: Satisfactory with both weapons. Handling of the FAL was considered better. The adjustable stock on the 62 was apppreciated.
Handling during scoped shooting: Satisfactory with both weapons. The adaptor to mount the scope on the 62, which is not needed to mount a scope on the FAL, was considered too fragile and complex. Possibility to use iron sights even when the scope was mounted on the 62 was appreciated over the FAL, which cannot be shot through the iron sights when a scope is in place.
Handling and transport: Both weapons were considered light, easy to handle and not cumbersome. The FAL was prefered for its lighter weight (about 400 grams / 0.9 pounds less).
Toughness and functioning: Satisfactory on both weapons.
Notes during testing: advantage to the FAL for its ease to disassemble and clean. The 62 was considered overly complicated, with numerous parts, some of which were easy to lose.
4 units (of testing soldiers) out of 5 prefered the FAL for its “technical maturity, its practical solutions and its better results during shooting tests”. The FA MAS 62 was nevertheless the better when firing grenades, even if its mechanical construction is less robust.
The test results did not end in adoption of any rifle, the FA MAS 62 returning to the manufacturer and the FAL not adopted either. Some French unit were isued FN FAL in small numbers, as it seems there was a “FAL lobby” in the French army of that time. When the Defense Minister of that time, Michel Debré, was told this, he said in anger that “the weapon of the French soldier will be a French weapon!” (why does that not surprise me?). The FAL rifles in the French army were disposed of and never came back.
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This was excellent material on a rifle I had never heard of. You have mastered the obscure and to me, the last of the interesting rifles. I’m researching obscure Finnish weapons. Do you know anything about the AR-10 Dutch made rifles that were chambered for 7.62X39 mm and sent to Finland? These would be the first of the Mutant AR/ AK hybrids. But the real white whale is uncovering documentation on a WW2 era Finnish semi auto rifle. I saw a picture of it in an old copy of Small Arms of the World, but I have never seen it referenced anywhere else.
“WW2 era Finnish semi auto rifle”
If you are searching info about Finnish WW2-era fire-arms check jaegerplatoon site, for experimental self-loading rifles: http://www.jaegerplatoon.net/ALMOST1.htm
snmp says:
Link to pics of the AR10 AI in 7,62X39 M43
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Link to the Rheinmetall 7.62X39 M43 base on CETEM/HK G3
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Ghenghis McCann says:
‘The FA MAS 62 was nevertheless the better when firing grenades…’
Am I right in assuming that the object on the barrel behind the front sight is a flip-up grenade launching sight?
Jacob Morgan says:
The French really liked rifle launched grenades, post WWII.
Steve Rupp says:
Rifle grenades gave a serious boost to a squad’s firepower without eliminating a rifleman, affording the grenadier the lethality of a light mortar within its range, as well as some anti-armor, illumination, and smoke capability.
They still do:
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One of the most important requisite for the next assault rifle for the french army (by the way it will be 100% foreign made) is the hability to fire a LOT of rifles grenades without been burned-out after some shoots.
Yes, it’s the same sight used on the MAS 49/56, from all indications. It’s actually the “rear” sight, the “front” sight being the upper outer curve of the grenade body itself.
Not all that accurate, but as they say, with grenades, close counts.
Bill Bulock says:
When evaluating any weapon intended for combat, never forget that it is a TOOL and the more reliable and foolproof the better. In combat there is no time to “tinker” with the weapon or try to find a part dropped in waist-high underbrush of knee-deep mud much less in the dark. This is why all Marines are required to show themselves able to field-strip and then re-assemble their weapons while blindfolded in less than a minute. Your and your team-mates’ lives often depend on it. So this must be at the top of the list unless the evaluator is serving behind a desk somewhere. It is also why even the Commandant MUST re-qualify with their TO weapon just like any other combat Marine. Ever seen a three-star suit taking orders from a Warrant Officer or a S/Sgt on the rifle range?
Also less parts mean than it is easier (faster, cheaper) to manufacture, unless this parts has very fancy shape; having 2 (or more) a bit worse weapons is better than having one
hairygreek says:
Finished boot/MCT last year. We never did it blindfolded. Did a lot of disassembly/reassembly and screaming ditties though.
When the Defense Minister of that time, Michel Debré, was told this, he said in anger that “the weapon of the French soldier will be a French weapon!”
I am glad that Britain did not have this policy, we would have been denied the Lewis gun, the Bren, the Maxim, the Thompson and the FAL, amongst others. We did go for a British design with the SA80, and that was a pig. However, even the French softened their position, because did they not buy SIG 540s to use before the FAMAS was ready?
In fact Manurhin SG540 was use in Lebanon by French army
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The only 3 manufacturers of the SG540 were Manurhin (in france), INDEP (Portugale) and FAMAE (Chilie)
R. Aballe says:
About FAMAE and Manurhin, I have no doubts but are you sure regarding INDEP? I thought they were bound by their links to H&K.
Earl Liew says:
I think there is a certain misconception regarding French nationalism and weapons procurement in that there really are probably just as many, if not more, realistic, open-minded, clear-thinking Frenchman as there are stubborn, overtly nationalistic ones. The tone of the evaluation report described above, along with the opinions of the troops involved, shows a lot of hard-headed objectivity and no tendency towards a bias in favor of the MAS 62. The real problem probably arises when the process gets up to a higher and more politically-driven level, as witness the obviously jingoistic remarks by Defence Minister Michel Debre ( who was, of course, a political appointee ).
This sort of accentuated “not-made-here” syndrome is hardly confined to France, as the historical record of firearms and weapons systems acquisition has consistently shown.
Hardly indeed. Hence why, for example, the US ended up with the lackluster M-14 in lieu of another .30 caliber rifle of the time.
The same pattern has always been apparent, and is by no means restricted to the French: more practical and objective lower echelons, with the degree of political and bureaucratic idiocy increasing as one ascends toward the rarified air of the upper levels of “leadership”.
Quite so, Steve, although I will say that the M-14 has nevertheless turned out to be a very capable weapon in its own right, even allowing for available and clearly better alternatives.
As for the increased degree of political and bureaucratic idiocy in the rarified atmosphere of the upper echelons of leadership, perhaps a case of anoxia ( oxygen starvation resulting in seriously impaired judgement ) commensurate with that sort of lofty altitude ( and attitude ) is something to be considered :).
“lackluster M-14″
But this weapons at least worked properly. Always remember than choice of worse weapons which at least work properly is better than adoption flawed weapons. Get for example US Navy Mark 18 WW2-era torpedo. USS Tang submarine (SS-306) fired Mark 18 torpedo which hit herself. WW2-era US Navy 1.1” AA gun
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_1-1-75_mk1.htm
ammunition has flawed fuse design (too sensitive) so shell can explode before reaching target; these gun were replaced with 40mm Bofors guns as fast as possible.
“upper echelons of leadership”
The worst case is when dictator claims himself a “weapon expert” and will give orders. For example Tiger tank (Leningrad, 1942) and Panther tanks (Kursk bulge, 1943) were used before being matured due to Hitler’s order.
jim in houston says:
The US Navy has always had an…. ummmmm…. interesting torpedo history. When I was in boats in the late 70s we carried a mix of the old Mk 14s, the electric Mk 37, and the otto-fueled Mk 48s. There was always a great deal of concern about the possibility of the 37s spontaneously lighting off or “hot running” in the reload (probably why we always carried 48s, which even in the pre-ADCAP version was a great weapon, in the tubes). There was much (false, usually attributed to a Soviet attack) rumor among the crew about what had happened to the USS Scorpion, which sank in the late 60s. Turned out years later with the publication of “Blind Man’s Bluff” that the Scorp had a 37 hot-run and detonate in the reload – the Navy knew this and allowed/ encouraged the rumors rather than admit a very flawed weapon was still being carried in the fleet.
And who can forget the Mk 45 – a nuclear weapon with a delivery range of about 20 miles – the ultimate suicide vest!
Sorry for the typographical error, my friends, in Line 2 — this should read as “Frenchmen” and not “Frenchman”.
When the Defense Minister of that time, Michel Debré, was told this, he said in anger that “the weapon of the French soldier will be a French weapon!” (why does that not surprise me?).
Channeling Louis Quatorze, his first minister Colbert, and the spirit of (destined always to fail) mercantilist economics in general.
Cherndog says:
I suppose a few shots later will result in the statement “gone with his pants.” The issue with the French weapons development community was usually bureaucrats and old-school commanders messing with the private sector just because some of the less-talented companies happened to have better connections with the government and wallets so fat you could not sit on them!
Like most cases, the best French weapons were usually sidelined because of obstructive bureaucrats and the lack of money or will (or both) to continue with a good development path. Or am I wrong?
The French were extremely protectionists during De Gaulle’s presidency years in military matters, and it was a country that was mass-producing it’s own infantry weapons since Louis XIV’s (17th century) years, so…but it was of little importance if the MAS-62 or the FAL were good weapons as the vast majority of the military expenditures of the 60s went to the nuclear programs (bombs, warheads, ICBMs, submarines), the Air Force and the Navy… the French Army was last in many priorities lists…that’s why at the end they have to use the MAS-49/56 until the early 80s with some units equiped with locally made SG540.
cutaway says:
If the French did use the FA MAS 62, it wouldnt be much different than the MAS-49 other than the 20 round magazine and full auto capability.
Pdb says:
You can see some elements of the Mas49 in the design I think…
In his American Handgunner interview Stephen Hunter (the thinking gun nut’s novelist!) mused that the origins of some handguns somehow resonate with a national character – the Colt Peacemaker is obviously American, the Luger is unquestionably German, and the Webley is as British as fish and chips. To which I thought “Yup, the 8mm 1892 is pretty French, isn’t it?” Apparently, this applies to long guns as well – that thing just looks French!
arnaudD says:
Right , at this time MAT49 and MAS49/56 work well , FAL are good rifle but we do not has the prupose of it
MAs49/56 are a good battle rifle , everybody are agree whith that
virgitti says:
j’ai utilisé ,un MAS 56 modifié 62 (dans le cadre d’un peloton “tireur d’élite” de janvier à mars 62 au 2ieme HUSSARD à Orléans ). particularité : une tige ,avec un point radio-actif (protégé par un sachet spécial ) pour les tirs de nuit .la crosse était posée sur le ceinturon et le tir se faisait au moment ou les projecteurs des chars s’éteignaient …….
je n’ai jamais retrouvé ” mon” fusil dans les divers documents d’internet.
pouvez-vous m’aider dans cette recherche ? merci d’avance .
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The Senate Must Reject Poison Pill Amendments to the First Step Act
By Jason Pye
On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) filed cloture on the motion to concur to the House amendment to S. 756. The bill will serve as the vehicle for the First Step Act, the prison and sentencing reform bill supported by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
But, as is often the case in the legislative process, there will be an amendment process for the First Step Act. Unfortunately, a trio of unfriendly amendments have been offered by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.). These amendments introduced by Sen. Cotton and Sen. Kennedy are poison pills, drafted and introduced with the purpose of defeating a landmark bill supported by President Donald Trump, not with the purpose of making the legislation better as amendments are meant to do.
Although Sen. Cotton, who has never prosecuted a criminal case, claims to support prison reform, nearly every dishonest or misleading criticism he has leveled against the First Step Act is aimed at the prison reform title of the bill. His office has been working to undermine the prison reform aspect of the bill since at least May. We’ve responded to nearly all of Sen. Cotton’s unfounded criticisms of the First Step Act.
Sen. Kennedy, however, claims he needs more time to read the First Step Act. This puts him in a weird position of opposing a bill that he says he hasn’t read. Of course, the original Senate version of the First Step Act, which was limited to prison reform, was introduced by May 2018. The sentencing reforms that have been added to the new version of the bill were based on the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act, which was introduced in October 2017 and marked up by the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2018. Sen. Kennedy sits on that committee.
Aside from the fact that the Cotton-Kennedy amendments have been introduced to hurt the First Step Act’s prospects of passage, there are a number of problems with the amendments that we’ve identified. For these reasons, we encourage the Senate to reject the amendments when they are brought to the floor for a vote.
Amendment 1: Excluding serious felons from early release to prerelease custody and supervised release
This amendment seems to be more of the same type of objections raised by Sen. Cotton in the past regarding the exclusions list on the prison reform side of the bill. The exclusions list is already superfluous because of the risk and needs assessment, which in its operation ensures that those who have committed such heinous crimes as Sen. Cotton has identified, will not become low- or minimum-risk of recidivism in order to earn time credits.
Additionally, though, this amendment is much worse than just unnecessary in its efforts to add crimes such as carjacking to the exclusions list. It also includes a broad-brush exclusion for any crimes not listed in the subsection for which the offender is sentenced to more than one year that “ha[ve] as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another” or “that, based on the facts of the offense, involved a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may have been used in the course of committing the offense.”
This wording effectively guts the purpose and functionality of the entire prison reform section of the bill. Virtually any offender could be classified under that language and thus would be fully excluded from earning time credits in any situation. The amendment pretends to be more of the same listing of egregious crimes that may arguably warrant exclusion, but in fact sneaks in unacceptable language meant to undermine the entire earned time credit system.
Amendment 2: Notifying victims before a offender is allowed to transfer out of prison early
This amendment masquerades as a harmless addition to promote victims’ rights, which is certainly a sympathetic cause. However, the amendment is not only redundant to current law and policy but its approach is also counterproductive and harmful for victims.
Much of what the amendment would do is already covered in 18 U.S.C. 3771, which is the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. This law was passed in 2004 as part of the United States Justice for All Act. It provides victims and witness with “[t]he right to reasonable, accurate, and timely notice of any public court proceeding, or any parole proceeding, involving the crime or of any release or escape of the accused.” The victim does, however, need to opt in to be notified.
There are other notifications that may be provided under this statute, such as a plea bargain or deferred prosecution. The statute also prohibits notification in the event that “such notice may endanger the safety of any person.”
Mandating notification as this amendment does is counterproductive in many ways to victims’ rights. Victims should be able choose whether or not to receive notification, as they already are under the Crime Victim Rights’ Act and operating policy. Unsolicited and unwanted notification could result in the serious unintended consequence of triggering trauma for a victim who does not wish to be reminded of his or her past experiences.
Additionally, the amendment would allow victims, upon this unsolicited notification, to submit a statement regarding the notification that the warden may use along with other factors to unilaterally deny a prisoner transfer into pre-release custody as a result of the time credits. This is a roundabout way to greatly discourage inmates’ successful participation in recidivism reduction programming, as her or his awareness of the ease with which one individual may deny his or her release is a significant deterrent and undermines the evidence-based objectives of the prison reform side of the legislation.
Of course, this outcome is also worse for victims, as reducing the likelihood of recidivism of offenders is inherently what is best for victims. This amendment discourages that, yet deceitfully pretends to advocate for victims’ rights.
Amendment 3: Tracking the effectiveness of the anti-recidivism programs
This amendment creates redundancy. The U.S. Sentencing Commission already provides detailed information on the recidivism rates of federal offenders. Although the measure of recidivism varies by report, the rates of rearrest, reconviction, and reincarceration are accounted for in many reports.
Although the rate of recidivism defined by rearrest is a common data point in U.S. Sentencing Commission reports, this is a poor measure. It is likely, though, that this measure is the one included in the amendment by its authors on purpose and for that very reason.
A former prisoner who is rearrested may not even be charged or tried, let alone convicted, of an alleged crime. Rearrest may also occur as a result of a technical violation of the terms of supervised release. In fact, technical violations represented nearly 70 percent of supervised release revocations in FY 2015. Technical violations didn’t involve a new major or minor crime.
Additionally, the First Step Act as it stands already includes multiple mechanisms to ensure the effectiveness of the anti-recidivism programming and other aspects of the legislation as well. The First Step Act includes its own reporting requirements, establishes an Independent Review Committee to report on the system, and requires a Government Accountability Office report of the risk and needs assessment and the programming together.
Sarah Anderson contributed to this post.
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Update on Vera Creron, nee Glide
We have received the following message, which we wanted to share:
My mother, Vera Creron, née Glide, who lives with my family, was interned to Biberach from Guernsey with her mother, Eugenie Glide, father, Thomas Glide and her Aunt Clara.
Vera, her mom, her dad and her aunt also spent some time at Dorsten.
I have attached a photo of Vera Creron at her granddaughter, Colleen’s wedding in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Vera is pictured with her grandson, Reid.
People will probably remember my mother’s father, Thomas Glide, as Thomas Glide was one of two chimney sweeps on Guernsey. He also had a furniture shop in St. Peter Port and was known on Guernsey as a businessman.
My father, Thomas Creron, was interned from Guernsey to Alderney death camp, where he saved many lives by supplying food to the “slaves” at the death camp as his job was the shepherd. He also gave information to the Allies that resulted in Alderney being freed without the loss of Allied lives. He stayed about a year after the war to detonate land and sea mines so that further lives were saved.
Vera immigrated with her second family to Canada in 1955.
Mike Creron”
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Guernsey Newsletter, April 2019
Patricia Holland honoured in Queen’s New Year Honours List
Frohe Weihnachten. Season’s Greetings…
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Previous Posts - from October and back
Nov. 10, 2016:
Evening edition:
Read comments, if any, on Daily Kos here
This brief story was prompted by the kindred spirits at The Daily Beast which had an article about the empowering of the major right-wing websites like Breitbart, Infowars, Blaze, and Drudge.
Sensible anti-Trump conservative radio host Charlie Sykes, a fixture on MSNBC since Trump’s ascendence, had some cogent, if chilling comments in
Breitbart and Infowars Become President Trump’s New Media Establishment
Denizens of the zany fringe will have an opportunity to capitalize on their Trump-supporting prescience, and some of them will have a direct line to the White House.
From Charlie Sykes:
I'd hoped that there would be a reckoning for the Alternative Reality Media after this election, but they have clearly now been empowered by Trump's victory. And they will undoubtedly be used to enforce allegiance and stifle dissent. I think one of the under-told stories of this campaign has been the role that these outlets have played in threatening, and intimidating some potential critics into silence.
Trump has made it clear that he countenances, even celebrates, the smearing of his opponents and critics—including members of their families. There is no reason to think that now that he sits in the Oval Office that will change. I fully expect they will be mobilizing their troll legions against [House Speaker] Paul Ryan [a Trump skeptic for much of the campaign] or any other congressional leader who bucks the Maximum Leader.
The irony here is that Rush Limbaugh has talked for years about the ‘State controlled’ media. We may be about to find out what that really looks like.
Not addressed in The Daily Beast is the burgeoning credibility of liberal websites like Daily Kos. Our readership are mostly members of the progressive choir. We are unlikely to change many minds. However we are a rich petri dish for ideas. Not only that, with the hunger for new voices and fresh faces to address the disasters the Trump administration and GOP Congress is sure to bring, the mainstream media will be looking for unaffiliated commentators.
Markos Moulitsas, who was named as one of the top 20 progressives in 2012 by New Statesman, is a regular on Sirius Progress Progressive Talk radio.
More and more correspondents from websites like Huffington Post, Politico, Daily Beast, and Buzzfeed are appearing on MSNBC. Hopefully they are also featured on other networks.
What has been lacking is much investigative reporting from liberal websites leading to — I hate this overused word — bombshells which make it in the mainstream media. Presumably this is due to lack of resources rather than the will to do it.
This isn’t meant to diminish the great value of analysis and opinion.
We are here. We are important. We have influence. We have power.
We have in aggregate tens of millions of readers. We have the capability to move stories into the public eye through reposting them on Facebook and Twitter.
Several Daily Kos stories have recently garnered over 50,000 Facebook shares just from Kos itself.
Here’s where Kos staff can help. They should carefully consider which stories deserve to be highlighted and kept on the main page, and the “Most Shared” section (which I understand is automatically generated) should be accurate and constantly updated.
As the one liberal website which easily allows publication of stories (previously called diaries) by anybody where they are visible for at least half a day on the right sidebar, we are incredibly inclusive.
However, we have so many submissions from new and regular contributors that it may be an arduous and sometimes thankless task to review them all and decide which ones should be assured greater readership. Just because someone is a frequent Kos writer shouldn’t mean nearly everything they write should be moved to “Community Spotlight” and the “Recommended List.” This shouldn’t be a popularity contest
Dr. Trump and Mr. Hyde…
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Clinical psychologist Avner Falk writes:
How can we square the magnanimous Dr. Donald with the mean and evil Mr. Trump? Well, the Jekyll-and-Hyde personality is familiar to psychological professionals. It is based upon what psychoanalysts call an unconscious “splitting of the self.” This kind of splitting develops early in one’s life, as a psychic defense, when the child cannot reconcile the “good” or pleasurable and “bad” or painful parts of himself. It usually goes along with an inner “object splitting,” when the child cannot reconcile the “good” and “bad” parts of its primary emotional “object,” usually the mother, upon which his very life depends.
The “splitting of the self” was given literary expression in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, while “object splitting” is given concrete expression in fairy tales, such as that of Snow White, whose protagonist has two mothers, one all good, but dead, the other all bad, cold, narcissistic, who keeps looking at her own image in the mirror. When this unconscious splitting persists into one’s adult life, the Jekyll-and-Hyde personality develops. Indeed, Donald Trump sees his world in split-up, black-and-white terms: to him, there are “very good people” and there are “very bad people” who must be denied entry, deported or killed. In reality, most people are both good and bad.
For the psychologically minded, this is a must read.
The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism. Trump’s shocking victory, his ascension to the Presidency, is a sickening event in the history of the United States and liberal democracy. On January 20, 2017, we will bid farewell to the first African-American President—a man of integrity, dignity, and generous spirit—and witness the inauguration of a con who did little to spurn endorsement by forces of xenophobia and white supremacy. It is impossible to react to this moment with anything less than revulsion and profound anxiety. David Remnick
Falk begins his essay with the now frequently quoted paragraph introducing David Remnick’s (also a must read) New Yorker article, see right ».
My new online friend, psychoanalyst Howard Covitz (who also writes on Daily Kos) named his own website “Nazi/Schmatzi — As long as Donald Loves his mother.”
Covitz never explains his title since his readership, mostly psychotherapists, know very much what he means.
Dr. Falk has done research into Trump’s mother and psychologically analyzes the probably effect Trump’s relationship with her had on his developing and later personality.
It’s not good.
It’s bad. Very bad.
Donny idealized his “smart” mother and identified with her, but under this idealization lay his narcissistic rage at her and his hatred for her. In The Art of the Comeback, published in 1997, he praised his “smart” mother and criticized the other women in his life. “Part of the problem I’ve had with women has been in having to compare them to my incredible mother, Mary Trump. My mother is smart as hell.” Donald dropped his mother’s middle name, Anne, in this sentence; if her name was Mary rather than Mary Anne, then she was not his sister Maryanne’s namesake. In his first TV debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump boasted of how “smart” he was in not having paid any U.S. federal taxes.
Donald Trump’s unconscious identification with his mother goes deep. As Mary Pilon has pointed out, he named a room after his mother at Mar-a-Lago, a landmark estate in Palm Beach, Florida built in the 1920s as a writer retreat for U.S. presidents, which he now owns. Mary Anne and Donald shared a penchant for dramatic hair sculpting: “For years Mary Trump appeared in photos with a dramatic orange swirl. Slight in frame, she took to New York City’s streets draped in furs and jewelry, a far cry from the teen-age girl who set sail during the Great Depression” (see www.newyorker.com/...).
If Trump was beset by the very same psychopathy as described by, I would venture a guess, a similar percentage of mental health experts and as climatologists who believe in climate change, and had liberal policies everything would be different. He’d still be extremely difficult to work with domestically, and he’d drive world leaders around the bend.
However, for all his narcissism and volatility he’d be beloved by liberals as our admired Mad King Donald.
Unlike Mr. Hyde, Trump’s personalty would be split between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Nice Guy.
This, alas, never happens in psychodynamic development because the reason such splitting occurs is that the evil half consists of a constellation of angry, hateful, even violent characteristics anathema to the core personality.
When Mr. Hyde takes control he can be unrestrained by the morals, the ethics, the basic goodness of his host, Dr. Jekyll.
Corrections and comment welcome from my psychologist friends.
One of the best looks at the psychopathology of Trump, by clinical psychologist Avner Falk.
And watch this:
“I'm not absolutely certain of the facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest
* "Better to be a dog in a peaceful time, than to be a human in a chaotic (warring) period.” I never smoked cigarettes, so don’t like to even vape cannabis, I’m a cheap drunk on one glass of wine, so maybe I will try a bite of this fudge a friend gave me… we all have to do what we can to get through this period of shock and grief….
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There were four possible outcomes.
One we all hoped for was obviously a landslide win for Hillary which gave the Democrats control of the Senate.
The second was that at least she won but we lost the Senate.
With a Trump win, the most unlikely scenario, would have been that the Democrats squeaked out a tie in the Senate.
The last outcome, alas, the outcome we must live with for at least two years, is that the Republicans control the Executive and Congress.
With that comes the egregious outcome that at the least they add a conservative to the Supreme Court, thus controlling all branches of government unless Justice Kennedy reins in the most horrible decisions.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg has to hang on for at least two, possibly four, years.
Here I thought the next two, maybe four years, would be a happy time and fairly boring without much to write about.
I look back to what I wrote from my perspective as a psychotherapist about how unfit Trump was to be president. I look back at my snarky stories mocking Trump. Up until last night I was assuming a landslide for Hillary and was making pictures of Trump’s campaign disappearing into quicksand. I made a picture to go with my title of an orange haired baby crying “WA! WA! WA! The Nasty Lady Took My BINKY Away!”
To say we, the writers on Kos as well as the entire liberal, underestimated the appeal of Trump is the understatement of — perhaps — our lives.
Now there is no doubt that times in America and the world will be INTERESTING. In this respect the Chinese curse is apropos:
“While seemingly a blessing, the expression is always used ironically, with the clear implication that 'uninteresting times', of peace and tranquillity, are more life-enhancing than interesting ones, which from historical perspective usually include disorder and conflict.” Wikipedia
To say we are afraid of what the future holds is putting it mildly.
Most of us feel trepidation, either because we see what will happen to the gains made during the Obama administration, but for many of us what will happen in our own lives or lives of people we love.
People face being deported along with their families and many may loose their health insurance.
We all worry about the emboldening of the prideful basket of deplorables. Already the likes of David Duke are claiming victory: “It’s time to do the right thing, it’s time to TAKE AMERICA BACK!!!”
We know who he and others who are of his ilk want to take America back from.
The burning question is whether this is what Trump really wants.
Halmartin Brown No reason to get up until the dogs want to go out.
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Halmartin Brown Kellyanne wouldn’t say whether Trump would try to get Hillary sent to prison which begs the question how that would be handled considering this law: Under a new law signed (in 2013) by President Obama, all former U.S. presidents and first ladies will receive lifetime Secret Service protection.
Halmartin Brown That arrogant, hedonistic, narcissistic fucker is getting a much bigger plane… wanna bet he orders a new one as the current Force One is aging. After all the most powerful person in the world must have the best airplane in the world.
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Halmartin Brown Almost five here but dogs still sleeping… I will get up when they want to go out and have coffee then, and take a nap or two later.
Halmartin Brown Trump is on TV but I have the sound off and the laptop blocks the screen
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Halmartin Brown Just like Hillary would have to do, Trump must face the other half of the deeply divided country… but she wouldn’t ignore the other half and Trump is perfectly capable of doing so — the question is whether Congress will let him. What will it be like having a president with the psychological makeup of Trump? How many of the characteristics we’ve recognized and written about will make him a dangerous president. Could he manage to become a fascist near-dictator? Since the country has so many people of color here legally, can he continue to disenfranchise them so Republicans keep winning elections? Can he stop all abortions? Can he allow industry to pollute worsening climate damage? Will people die for lack of health care? Will we see violence coming from both sides… a resurgence of Black Panther type groups?
I just woke up after about four hours of sleep. I couldn’t bring myself to turn on the bedroom TV to see Trump and his happy minions. So I’ve been looking at the computer.
My mind is whirling around how to survive next four hours and next four days and next four years. It is so deadly quiet here. The dogs are next to me in bed asleep. It’s 6AM EST so I could turn on Morning Joe but won’t/ I may not watch the news for a long time since I don’t want to see Trump and his minions gloating. A happy Rudy and Kellyanne, I can’t stand the image.
Every writer smarter by far about politics and government than I am will be saying the same thing - I will read them…. my only area of expertise is related to politics is psychology, so maybe we all should keep this FB page going and add to it and hopefully get more members to share out thoughts, ides and of course feelings on it. If I write on Daily Kos at all it will most likely be about psychological aspects of all this… but who knows….
I feel like shit about all the stuff I wrote when I became confident Hillary would win. All those pictures I made were dead wrong.
Election Day, 2016
Maybe I was overconfident —
I’ve never tried an edible but someone gave me this and I am tempted to try it:
We already are pretty sure that when Trump looses, no matter what the margin is, he will claim the election was rigged, and may use this as an excuse not to concede.
The candidate who was asked about conceding if he lost by Chris Wallace, in the final debate, gave an answer that, had it been anybody but Trump, would have been disqualifying:
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace gave Trump an opportunity to save that red meat for the base and pose as a reasonable politician. But for once, the GOP nominee didn’t take the bait. Instead of assuring Wallace and America that he would concede the election if he lost, Trump promised to keep the nation “in suspense.” nymag.com/...
And then there’s always amiable diplomatic ever-lovable cuddly bear Rudy Giuliani. When he was asked by Katy Tur, playing the admirably nasty woman in an wonderful interview which ended with Guiliani giving her a death stare, this morning, said that of course Trump would concede. However, he then brought up Gore and Florida, and laid the groundwork for him contesting the results.
Here’s another image my friends at the coffee shop enjoyed this morning.
All the talk about the Democrats rigging the election comes as Republicans are actually busting their white posteriors at the last minute, as they’ve done ever since they began to try to disenfranchise as many Democrats as possible. Their latest attempt to rig the elections came yesterday when they filed a lawsuit to disallow the ballots of mostly Hispanic voters who were trying to exercise their cherished American right to vote.
Thankfully, they failed.
This is what Donald “Tiger Killer” Trump, Jr., had to say to MSNBC’s Willie Geist as reported in NY Magazine:
But Trump Jr. proceeded to explain why his father might be justified in saying the 2016 election was an unfair fight. Specifically, Trump Jr. cited conservative provocateur James O’Keefe’s latest discredited videos, which purport to show Democrats scheming to bus voters across state lines (GOP voter-suppression efforts, inadequate measures to accommodate participation among the disabled, and the fact that we hold elections on a workday did not make his list).
“You know, we just want a fair system,” he said. “Some stuff is going on. I don’t know if it’s enough to move elections. But we’ve seen states, you know, a few thousand votes can make a difference.”
“If he loses, he will concede tonight?” Geist asked, again.
“If he loses and it’s legit and fair and there’s not obvious stuff out there,” Trump Jr. replied, “without question, yes.”
Of course we all know it is likely that, whether or not Trump concedes, he will attribute his loss to this being a rigged election.
Kellyanne just said on MSNBC that her candidate “is prepared to accept the results as he sees them.”
Rachel repeated several times: “as he sees them, as he sees them.”
He could care less than a flea cares which dog it bites whether he’s impugning our free elections, the bedrock of our democracy.
So enjoy the photo of the rigging…. and try to visualize it when you hear Trump and his surrogates having their post-election tantrums.
Monday, Nov. 7, 2016
The Trumporables are in a basket of people with deplorable values, morals, and beliefs. These paragraphs sum it up…. they have come out in droves and what is frightening is that there are so many of them:
Read this scary article from Rolling Stone (quote below).
It is the existential fear of displacement from a world that has slowly – too slowly, for too long – been chipping away at white male supremacy.
The "grab 'em by the pussy" moment was disastrous for Trump's campaign; it reinforced the defining narrative of his sexism. But it drew his strongest supporters even closer to him, because it reminded them of the world they're losing. They want to live in an America where they can grab women by the pussy and brag about it to their friends.
They want to casually use the n-word – just for the bad ones; they're not racist! – without being set upon by the PC police. They want what's coming to them, what's owed them.
And they are willing to burn down the world to get it.
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Here’s my morning prediction prompted by Obama skewering Trump for “losing his Twitter”
…. how Freudian can you get?
Psychoanalyst Howard Covitz also offers his perspective here on Daily Kos: www.dailykos.com/...
“Apparently, his campaign has taken away his Twitter. In the last two days, they had so little confidence in his self-control, that they said, ‘We’re just going to take away your Twitter.’”
We all know the psychology of this self-deluded man’s man testosterone fueled privileged to grab an woman’s p***y. We know how his vanity is off the charts, even for a world class narcissist.
Poor little Donnie, had his twitter taken away.
Anybody want to put odds on him taking back his twitter and whipping out a lot of tweets today?
Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016
Trump is poised to become the most powerful person in the world probably was a factor in some quarters for not revealing damaging indisputable proof as to what a cretinous choice he would be to be Commander in Chief.
I wrote this some 60 years ago when our male cat was about to be castrated. The cat’s name was Demetrius, but I’ll substitute Donald:
is gonna
get ‘em
she says
male cats
spray.
Mark Burnett, who produced “The Apprentice,” immediately comes to mind. Many commentators have suggested that he has off camera tapes of Trump which would more than embarrass him. He got much more than a mention on the SNL skit from Kate McKinnon last night :
“I could really go for another Donald Trump audio leak right now. Hey, Mark Burnett, Mark, m’baby, I hear you’re sitting on some pretty racist tapes of Donald on “The Apprentice,” now Mark, as they say on “Wheel of Fortune,” give me an N!”
There may very well be individuals waiting until after the election just to see how safe they feel before they come forward with their accounts of being sexually assaulted by Trump. Someone like Jane Doe who alleges he raped her when she was 13 years old may need to wait a year. Hopefully she’s in therapy as it does sound like she’s been traumatized twice, one after the incident and again as she considered suing him.
Other women may just have been afraid they’d be accused of lying to keep him from becoming president, but still want to liberate themselves from the burden of keeping a secret like this. It is possible there are dozens of women who were the victims of sexual assaults to varying degrees by Trump. After all, it appears that this behavior began decades ago. That’s a long time and he certainly had ample opportunities using his “star p***y grabbing power” being around hundreds of women he’s attracted to.
There may be other scandals we haven’t even imagined which involve people with knowledge of illegalities, people afraid to come forward with evidence lest he become President Trump.
Then there are the bomblets which really should have been bombshells except that the mainstream media didn’t give them their due. One could be David Corn’s “Mother Jones” story:
Mother Jones has reviewed that report and other memos this former spy wrote. The first memo, based on the former intelligence officer's conversations with Russian sources, noted, "Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years. Aim, endorsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and divisions in western alliance." It maintained that Trump "and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals." It claimed that Russian intelligence had "compromised" Trump during his visits to Moscow and could "blackmail him." It also reported that Russian intelligence had compiled a dossier on Hillary Clinton based on "bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls.” www.motherjones.com/...
Ideally the anonymous source could come out publicly , as could others with knowledge about this. In fact, Putin himself could reveal the blackmail material his FSB has just to show how close we cam to dodging a bullet he personally fired to elect his puppet.
If you missed it, the Bollywood ending of this is inspiring.
The FBI is charged with investigation of certain election crimes, not instigating them:
In democratic societies like the United States, the voting process is a means by which citizens hold their government accountable; conflicts are channeled into resolutions and power transfers peacefully. Our system of representative government works only when honest ballots are not diluted by fraudulent ballots. The FBI, through its Public Corruption Unit, has an important but limited role in ensuring fair and free elections. Election crimes become federal cases when:
The ballot includes one or more federal candidates;
The crime involves an election official abusing his duties;
The crime pertains to fraudulent voter registration;
Voters are not U.S. citizens.
Federal election crimes fall into three broad categories—campaign finance crimes, voter/ballot fraud, and civil rights violations. www.fbi.gov/...
There are also supposed to assure that our elections are fair and honest:
Someone threatens a voter with physical or economic harm unless the voter casts his ballot in a particular way;
Someone tries to prevent qualified voters from getting to the polls in a federal election;
A scheme exists to prevent minorities from voting.
As our premier law enforcement agency, they must enforce the Hatch Act. It should go without saying they should adhere to it:
The Hatch Act of 1939, officially An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law whose main provision prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president, vice-president, and certain designated high-level officials of that branch,[1] from engaging in some forms of political activity. The law was named for Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico. en.wikipedia.org/...
As usual, Wikipedia isn’t far behind breaking news:
On October 30, 2016, U.S. Senate Democrat Minority Leader Harry Reid stated that FBI Director James Comey may have violated the Hatch Act by sending a letter to the Congress on October 28, 2016, which stated that the FBI would be reopening their investigation of the Hillary Clinton email controversy.[31][32] Also on October 30, Richard Painter, a chief White House ethics lawyer for the George W. Bush administration, published an op-ed saying that he had filed a complaint against the FBI with the OSC and with the Office of Government Ethics about the same matter.[33]
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We’ll never known if former KGB head Putin studied Hoover, or admires him. However the connections between the methods of the two have been address, for example:
In some respects, the Putin parallel would be if former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had become president. Hoover was an American patriot; he broke up World War II Nazi operations and neutralized communist operations during the Cold War. He had, however, limited tolerance for nontraditional “free speech,” use of mind-altering substances, and homosexual behavior.
Putin has the same mindset — and with no democratic restraints. www.yahoo.com/...
They should change the name to honor the agent best known for being incorruptible.
Perhaps there is a curse, the ghost of master political manipulator J. Edgar Hoover wandering the halls of the building that unfortunately bears his name over the door of its headquarters.
This day divider I took in Seattle gave me the idea for my FBI story.
Sat., Nov. 5, 2015
Who are the two biggest liars in the world. I suggest it’s a tie between Putin and Trump. As was pointed out on Morning Joy today, either Trump wasn’t paying attention during his national security briefings our he is outright lying about knowing how involved Russia has been in trying to swing the election his way. Of course, we expect Russia to lie about their spyycraft against the United States.
Alleges 10 year affair. And there may have been a second woman.
While accusing Hillary of the confabulated crime of having a private email server, he’s hiding his own crime which could be actual treason.
None of his supporters will care. Not only the smitten have been brainwashed; but people who should know better have developed a deaf ear to evidence that Trump is the most dangerous candidate since George Wallace to run for president. At least Wallace wasn’t a puppet of NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV.
We know the family values candidate is a sexual deviant, a groper extraordinaire. Now it comes out that he is most probably an adulterer. I doubt anybody but Melania will care. (see right).
This is minor stuff compared to the Russia connection.
Unless the CIA (not the compromised FBI) reveals it, we’ll never know whether or not the FSB actually managed to lure Trump into a honey trap during the Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow, and have videos they are using to blackmail him. (see image right)
David Corn has been on the cutting edge of reporting this story:
Now we also discover that there’s a good chance somebody has been bugging the DNC headquarters. Also from David Corn:
The second sweep, according to the Democratic officials, found a radio signal near the chairman's office that indicated there might be a listening device outside the office. "We were told that this was something that could pick up calls from cellphones," a DNC official says. "The guys who did the sweep said it was a strong indication." No device was recovered. No possible culprits were identified.
The DNC sent a report with the technical details to the FBI, according to the DNC officials. "We believe it's been given by the bureau to another agency with three letters to examine," the DNC official says. "We're not supposed to talk about it."
A Democratic consultant who has done work for the DNC, who asked not to be identified, says he was recently informed about the suspected bugging.
The DNC officials will not say what countermeasures were subsequently taken. "As a general policy, we don't talk about such efforts," the other DNC official says. But this official adds, "You have to take all of this incredibly seriously." The first DNC official notes, "We are the oldest political party in this country, and we are under constant attack from Russia and/or maybe others.” www.motherjones.com/...
Would the Trump campaign take the risk of being connected to this, or an alt-right dirty trickster have the ability to do this? Could the FSB do it? You bet!
Trump is the master of denial, deflection, and projection. Hillary’s a criminal and should be in prison?
Newsweek bombshell here
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016
Note: The anticipated news conference with Jane Doe, who accused Trump of raping her when she was 13 was cancelled because she fear for her life and safety.
Trump and his supporters probably think Santayana is a rock band.
The teaming masses come to his rallies to hear reality star and unhinged comic Donald Trump. They connect with him the way Hitler’s crowds connected with him. Trump draws huge crowds, as enthusiastic as the crowds Bernie Sanders drew. Bernie’s crowds came to hear and support his message. However, crowds come to feel the intense thrill of the experience of being among kindred angry spirits worshiping their savior.
Not to belabor the differences between Bernie’s and Trump’s crowds, the former came en masse to support the message, the later come to idolize the messenger.
Today Trump is going to exploit another apparently reluctant woman, his own wife. For all news reports about her, she doesn’t enjoy the limelight. But she’ll be there today in a well publicized event talking about women’s issues and the Donald Trump she knows.
Family man? Empathic? Caring? Compassionate? Altruistic? We’ll have to see what she’s forced to read off the teleprompter and how convincingly she can come across if she has to utter words she knows aren’t true. If she has any insight she’ll know they are blatantly false.
Donald Trump doesn’t have a number one surrogate. He feeds off the attention from his crowds and they tend to reinforce his belief that he is winning despite all evidence to the contrary.
Michelle Obama has become first among Hillary’s many amazing surrogates: President Obama and Elizabeth Warren are both crowd pleasers and newcomer Alicia Machado is also highly effective. However Michelle is the main surrogate act. Hillary personally doesn’t have the star power her rival does. She’s not a performance artist, she’s too “presidential.” She doesn’t energize her crowds the same way Trump energizes his. That is to say she doesn’t feed them red meat so they can unleash their bloodthirsty rage.
The crowds that will come out for Melania’s performance will come out to see her, well, they will come out to see her perform because she’s a glamorous star. They are the people who watched “Life Styles of the Rich and Famous.” They are glamour junkies. They don’t care what Melania will say, they just want too see her.
Nobody is talking about what role in a Trump administration Melania may have. Democrats are already hoping for a Michelle to be on the Supreme Court or for her to have another important job in a Hilary Clinton administration.
The crowds that attend Michelle Obama events come to listen. They want to see her of course, and be a part of history, but the also come to hear the most admired and beloved first lady in decades.
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Weds., Nov. 2, 2016
I don’t see any Daily Kos (where I republish these stories) writers spelling out these words, but this election has necessitated editors and website administrators making decisions about the leeway to allow to those who submit stories in spelling out words that in the past, if used at all, had to contain asterisks and other symbols between the first and last letter.
By chance I just read two articles in a row. One was by Amanda Marcotte on Salon(above left). I’ll edit out the version of the f-word (used in a lewd sense, not as just a swear word), below. It certainly fits and describes a something about what Trump does exactly.
Who would have thought that, thanks to Trump’s own words, the R-rated name for part of a woman’s body which Trump thinks he has free rein to grab is being spelled out everywhere, including on the TV screen.
In the past year and a half, a lot of ink has been spilled about Donald Trump’s problem with women: his misogyny, the way he evaluates all women (even his daughter) primarily by their blank-ability, his shaming women for their body functions, and, of course, his bragging about sexually assaulting women with the immediately infamous phrase “grab them by the pussy.” my italics
The Daily Beast article (above right) included the spelled out C-word in the text, and printed out a copy of the Tweet that included it. No reason to show it here, so I blanked it out (right).
My point has nothing to do with the editorial guidelines, although there is a case to be made for not sugar-coating the crude misogynist language.
Trump didn’t start it, but he gave his imprimatur to it when the Access Hollywood video was made public. He has normalized crude and demeaning language about women since this always attends a man who demonstrates demeaning behavior with and attitudes towards women.
While not lewd, the man shouting Jew-S-A at reporters was interjecting a different kind of obscenity into politics.
Even though overt racial animus wasn’t that apparent when Obama ran, we did see things like this… made far worse by Trump promoting birtherism.
from 2112 httpjournalsaolcomjenjer6steph.blogspot.com/… But these bastards are attempting a NIGGERIZATION of President Barack Obama. And to make matters worse, Mitt Romney is openly embracing these racist ass folks for political gamesmanship.
You wonder why Republicans have trouble courting Blacks and Hispanics?
Here's the rundown of the situation. A California woman seen an offensive anti-Obama display in which the owner of the house put forth an empty chair, a yellow rope (noose), a couple of watermelons and the GO BACK TO KENYA (AFRICA) rhetoric alongside his Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan political signs.
Clearly the alt-right has brought politics into the gutter. However it is Trump’s rhetoric that has brought it into the sewer. As frequent comment StillAmused (who I doubt isn’t all that amused anymore) put it in a comment below: “Trump has drawn all the knuckledraggers out of the tall weeds.”
Wednesday, Nov 2, 2016 · 5:57:57 AM PDT · HalBrown
Here on Daily Kos we have this story which has so far gathered an astounding 50,000 + Facebook shares. The f-word isn’t spelled out in the title; but published in a quote in the story.
from www.dailykos.com/…
Afternoon update -
On MSNBC and Bloomberg's With All Due Respect hosted by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann they didn’t seem to think these Russia stories about Trump would be game changers prior to the election. But the public loves sexy stories, and they don’t necessarily have to involve sex; but Russia’s notoriously effective and sometimes very dangerous FSB would have been negligent if they didn’t try to compromise billionaire Donald Trump when he was in Moscow for his 2013 Miss Universe pageant. This part of the Russia story could also involve sex.
This morning (see below) I wrote about how the FSB might have lured Trump into a classic spy honey trap and have videos of him in sexually compromising activities with a minor, or for that matter since he was married, with an adult woman.
By now most of you have read David Corn’s article which, if true, leads to only one logical conclusion. The Russians have blackmail material they can, or already have, used on Donald Trump.
Since the in memorial, spy agencies have set honey traps to lure susceptible men (and women) into sexual liaisons or relationships which they later could use either to blackmail foreigners or force them to betray their own countries.
With Trump they easily could have found a 15 year old to come on to him and play on Trump’s sexual proclivities. Of course they would have videos of everything he did.
Considering that Putin is a former KGB agent I would be surprised if he didn’t order FSB (the new KGB) to get something he could use against someone he might need in his pocket in the future.
Now he must be breaking out the Stolichnaya Gold vodka, Beluga caviar, and Piramides Edicion Limitada 2008 Cuban cigars to celebrate his spymaster prescience.
Are honey traps real? You bet!
Oh, they're real. Honey traps, also called "honey pots," have been a favorite spying tactic as long as sex and espionage have existed—in other words, forever. Perhaps the earliest honey trap on record was the betrayal of Samson by Delilah, who revealed Samson's weakness (his hair) to the Philistines in exchange for 1,100 pieces of silver, as described in the book of Judges. The practice continued into the 20th century and became a staple of Cold War spy craft. Governments around the world set up honey traps to this day, but it's an especially common practice in Russia and China. The Central Intelligence Agency doesn't comment on whether its agents use their sexuality to obtain information, but current and former intelligence officials say it does happen occasionally. Slate emphasis added
Mata Hari. America’s history of prudery may work against them so it’s possible we don’t have a special unit, perhaps run jointly by the CIA and FBI, training women and men to be honey traps. We should. Honey traps can and have been used to ways. One is for blackmail and the other to recruit traditional spies. Ideally a woman could marry a man who would have knowledge of top secret information.
I assume China and Russia do this, and wouldn’t be surprised if Israel does too.
Even if the United State does I really doubt they would ever recruit teenagers. I am sure Russia and China would have no problems with this.
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President Obama Sings Happy Birthday to Malia with Kendrick Lamar and Janelle Monae
Best dad ever?
Jul 5 2016, 10:18 am EDT
Yesterday's Fourth of July marked two big milestones for President Barack Obama—his last July 4th as president and his oldest daughter's 18th birthday.
At the White House's Independence Day Celebration on Sunday, the president took to the stage after guest performers Kendrick Lamar and Janelle Monae to serenade "Happy Birthday" to his daughter Malia in front of the crowd.
"Just because it's the job of a father to embarrass his daughters, I've got one last job," he said after praising Lamar and Monae's performances. "It just so happens that we celebrate our country's birthday on the same day that we celebrate my oldest daughter's birthday. So, just a quick happy birthday for Malia," he added, before going into song, joined by Lamar, Monae and the whole audience. By the end of the song, a shy Malia greeted her father on stage with a hug.
Watch the sweet moment below.
[h/t ET
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Greenville County Council unanimous: Dog owners must now provide 'adequate shelter'
The Greenville County Council reached a final, unanimous decision Tuesday requiring dog owners to protect animals from extremes of heat and cold.
Greenville County Council unanimous: Dog owners must now provide 'adequate shelter' The Greenville County Council reached a final, unanimous decision Tuesday requiring dog owners to protect animals from extremes of heat and cold. Check out this story on greenvilleonline.com: https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2018/03/20/greenville-county-council-unanimous-dog-owners-must-now-provide-adequate-shelter/437832002/
Anna B. Mitchell, amitchell@greenvillenews.com Published 6:48 p.m. ET March 20, 2018 | Updated 9:39 p.m. ET March 20, 2018
Greenville County Councilwoman Liz Seman had proposed a change to the county's animal cruelty ordinance in response to multiple calls from the public during January's freezing and snowy conditions. Dog rescue advocates described lean-to shelters that barely kept out the rain, let alone wind. Anna B. Mitchell
Dog advocates who supported amending county law to require better shelter for outdoor dogs fill the Greenville County Council chambers on Tuesday, March 20, 2018.(Photo: Anna B. Mitchell)
Getting a dog house for your canine friend is the law now.
The Greenville County Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to require dog owners to provide adequate shelter for their dogs, protecting them from extremes of heat and cold.
The council voted to amend the county's current animal cruelty ordinance. It adds a clause that defines "adequate" as a shelter that can "reasonably be expected to protect the animal from physical suffering or impairment of health due to exposure to the elements or adverse weather."
The proposal also says that for dogs, the shelter must be a "suitable size" and must provide "a sufficient quantity of hay, straw, cedar shavings, blankets, or the equivalent, to provide insulation and protection against cold and dampness and promote retention of body heat."
The wording aligns with recommendations from the American Veterinary Medical Association.
Dog advocate Barbra Anderson-Richardson said she was proud to see animal lovers filling the seats at County Square again Tuesday. An overflow crowd of about 200 also showed up at a March 6 public hearing for the measure.
An animal advocate holds a sign that she and others waved during a Greenville County Council meeting Tuesday, March 6, 2018. The measure -- Ordinance 4.19 -- would require adequate outdoor shelter for dogs. It passed Tuesday but could face changes at its third and final reading March 20. (Photo: Anna B. Mitchell)
"We're very pleased with the county for rectifying these antiquated animal welfare laws," Anderson-Richardson said.
Sharon Finlay of Simpsonville was also at the meeting on Tuesday, there to represent the Auction for a Kaws animal charity along with that group's director, Keli Miller. Finlay, who fosters abused dogs, said she has personally seen animals suffer at the hands of their owners.
"This was an important step for the humane treatment of all animals," she said.
County Councilwoman Liz Seman, who chairs the county's public works and infrastructure committee, had proposed the ordinance change and brought it to the council in February after animal control officers approached her with stories of finding dogs frozen to death during January's snow and ice storms. These officers, she said, had no means within then existing county law to charge pet owners with a crime.
Under the amended ordinance, animal control officers inspecting a pet owner's yard will now have the power to issue a warning, a misdemeanor ticket or — in cases of cruelty — seize the animal if they see that it has no means of escaping wind, rain or cold.
More: Dog owners could soon face new shelter rules for their pets
More: In the doghouse: Greenville County calls on pet owners to offer proper shelter
Greenville County Councilman Rick Roberts described the amended ordinance as a "common sense" approach to the fair treatment of animals. He also promised to bring another measure before council: This one to limit tethering in the county.
He commended the roughly 150 dog advocates appearing at County Square on Tuesday to witness the vote, the vast majority of them wearing red shirts.
"I think it's a direct reflection on the compassion of our community — there's a lot of it out there for our animals and citizens," Roberts said.
Fran Rizzo celebrates with her foster dog, Legend, at Greenville County Square after the Greenville County Council approved stepped up requirements Tuesday, March 20, 2018, for adequate shelter for outdoor dogs. Legend was injured two weeks earlier, losing his ears in a fight with two other dogs. (Photo: Anna B. Mitchell)
Lee Knight with Upstate Animal Rescue cheered with the rest of the crowd outside council chambers after the affirmative vote, but he agreed that their work is not done yet.
"Tethering's next," he said.
County law currently allows dogs to be tethered to a choke collar or leash so long as it is longer than 12 feet. It also cannot be "of such unreasonable weight or design so as to prevent the animal from moving about freely." Knight, Anderson-Richardson and other dog advocates who have spoken to The News said they want to see a county law that more closely matches that of the city of Greenville.
The city of Greenville (which also defines a doghouse more strictly — as a shelter with four sides, a roof and a door) allows tethering only if 13 conditions are met, including a two-hour limit and the continuous presence of the dog's owner.
"I think that one's going to be a harder fight," Anderson-Richardson said.
The amended ordinance
An ordinance to amend Chapter 4: Animals and Fowl, Article II: Dogs, Cats, Wildlife and Exotic Animals, Section 4-19 – Cruelty to Animals, to add provisions concerning adequate shelter for animals.
(4) Failing to provide adequate shelter, sustenance, space, exercise, bedding, and sanitary conditions for the animal.
(i) Adequate shelter for an animal other than a dog means shelter that reasonably may be expected to protect the animal from physical suffering or impairment of health due to exposure to the elements or adverse weather.
(ii) Adequate shelter for a dog means a moisture proof and windproof structure of suitable size to accommodate a dog and allow retention of body heat. The structure must be provided with a sufficient quantity of hay, straw, cedar shavings, blankets, or the equivalent, to provide insulation and protection against cold and dampness and promote retention of body heat.
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Father of teen killed in TR Speedway wreck had history of giving minors alcohol, prosecutors say
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Jude Law expecting a baby girl
January 28, 2015 - 09:59 GMT hellomagazine.com Jude Law is expecting a baby girl with former partner Catherine Harding
Jude Law is expecting a baby girl, according to photographs of his former partner Catherine Harding's baby shower held at the weekend. Catherine, who is around eight-months pregnant with Jude's fifth child, showed off her burgeoning baby bump in photographs of her pink-themed "belly party" on Twitter.
The snaps show the aspiring singer/songwriter in a dusty pink maternity dress as she poses happily with friends. But the real give-away as to the gender of the duo’s future child came with the tiered pink cake, which was decorated with a pair of pink shoes and the message: "It's a girl!".
Love these girlies and the rest :) thankyou for such a lovely weekend xx pic.twitter.com/I8IBKzakIn
— Cat Cavelli(harding) (@CatCavelli) January 27, 2015
Another shot on Twitter was captioned with: "Love these girlies and the rest :) thankyou for such a lovely weekend xx."
Jude recently spoke about his joy at becoming a father again – the 42-year-old has three children with his ex-wife Sadie Frost; Rafferty, 18, Iris, 14, and Rudy, 12, is step-father to Sadie's 24-year-old son Finlay, and has a five-year-old daughter called Sophia with model Samantha Burke.
"Looking back, I can't believe I'm still working and maintaining my position. But I'm a happy man these days. Four children, another on the way," the handsome actor told Page Six.
The proud father went on to describe his children as his "bedrock". "My 18-year-old's in the business. My 24-year-old, a gifted musician on piano and guitar, studies music in college. They're my bedrock."
Jude's son Rafferty is now working as a model and the Black Sea actor sat front row as the 18-year-old made his catwalk debut for DKNY Men during London Collections: Men in June.
Jude and Catherine, also known by her stage name Cat Cavelli, announced their happy news via a statement in October.
"I can confirm that Jude Law and Catherine Harding are expecting a child together in the spring", read the statement which was released by Jude's representative.
"Whilst they are no longer in a relationship, they are both wholeheartedly committed to raising their child. They consider this a private matter and other than this confirmation no statement will be made. I ask that you respect the privacy of all parties involved and their families."
Cat Cavelli
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Roleplay Threads Strictly in character roleplay threads.
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Myen'Tal
He can’t remember anything, not a single fact that could explain this little hellhole he had just been spat out of. But he feels as if he’s fought a hundred struggles against a dire enemy and known triumph and defeat in equal measure. He can feel the unbridled strength coursing through his veins and propelling his massive physique. Had he always been this way? He couldn’t recall.
He spits tank fluid from his mouth and wipes it clean. He doesn’t remember his name or any other of the three surrounding him. Bending over to rest his hands on his knees, trying to block out the throbbing pains wracking his body proved more troublesome than his memory. In that moment, he catches a black number scarred deep into his own skin on shoulder. Zero-Thirteen. The marks had been left as an obvious clue to give himself a name, it would have to suffice.
Zero-Thirteen took in the room with a glance, his eyes rapidly adjusting to the change in lighting. Several corpses are lying before them and one of the tanks had been heavily breached. The other had miraculously opened up, letting a number forty-eight emerge with the rest of them. Within the span of an eye blink, he somehow managed to process everything with utter ease.
He knew from the moment he awoke, that this wasn’t a place to simply wonder around in. Something had attacked these people, most likely whoever smashed that pod open. Whether that was done by whoever was in there or something else remained to be seen. There would be no telling from the blood stains, with the dead’s vital fluids mixing together. But something was on the prowl, feral or cruelly calculating, driven on the murder path.
Zero-Thirteen gazes at the other three also in the room and attempts to think back on how he may have ended here. He didn’t feel like trusting them, but he didn’t feel like being a lone wolf either. “If no one can recall my name, Zero-Thirteen will suffice, if anyone desired to know… Where the hell are we?”
Treading briskly across the room and sweeping his eyes over everything, another unopened pod caught his eyes. A sharp whistle later, he inclines his head toward the outline of another beast of a man trapped within.
“Any ideas? As much as I want to be rid of this place, we may need all the help we can muster.”
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I woke slowly, wincing as the bright white light nearly blinded me. I sat up, blinking several times and taking in the situation. My last memory was of smashing a bottle over the head of a black armoured soldier who had grown impatient of my, what was it again? Ah yes, ‘foolish time wasting’...
“...Sir, are you actually listening to me?” The voice of my first sergeant brought me out of my reverie. Those damn memories of Trident, they were still fresh in my mind. Men screaming as the hangar bay was flooded with promethium and set alight. The choking cries of second squad as the corridor they were in had all the air vented. The howls of the first man I ever left behind, torn apart by the cultists as we exited the base through the unshielded hangar door, our stolen craft flung deep into space by the plasma core meltdown that tore the ship apart.
I pushed the memories aside and grinned at my sergeant. “Sorry my friend, you were saying?”
“There are several black armoured governor’s troops waiting outside, they want to speak with you on something although they wouldn’t tell me what. They seem rather impatient and eager to leave as soon as possible. Indeed one of them, a brute of a man, seemed tempted to shove past me and demand you leave right now. They also mentioned a Dr Gregory Crowe, saying he was the man who interviewed you a week ago.”
“Ah yes, I remember him. He never informed me why it was he was interviewing me. I assume this is why.”
As I spoke, a huge figure opened the door and stalked in. My hand closed around the neck of the amasec bottle on the table, long since drunk in a toast to the dead by me and my senior NCOs. As the man, presumably the one my sergeant had mentioned as impatient, marched towards me he was muttering under his breath. As he came closer I heard the words clearly. “...damned foolish time wasting, I’ve had enough of this.”
“Hold soldier,” I snapped at him as he reached for me. He hesitated a moment, then snarled and grabbed my arm anyway. I brought my right knee up between his legs, doubling him over. Then I brought my right hand, still grasped around the neck of the empty bottle, crashing down over his head and the glass smashed, sending the man face first into the floor. I heard a click and glanced towards the entrance to see another figure in black armour holding a gun in their right hand. The gun spat, I felt a slight impact on my cheek and everything went black.
“Fuck,” I hissed as I sat up, my hands clutching my head. That bastard really had wanted me to come quietly; the arsehole must have used a tranquiliser. It gave me a splitting headache that made every light seem blinding, every sound deafening.
I nearly collapsed again but forced myself to remain upright and opened my eyes, bringing my hands down to my sides. I didn’t know any of the men I was with except by reputation and I knew better than to show any weakness to men I could not be sure would not use it against me. Elsen Strab Von Kerg was easy to recognise from his injuries and had a reputation as an excellent field officer and if my suspicions were correct 272 was Nicholas Jozwick, another man with an excellent reputation for leadership, intelligence and courage. But I knew neither man personally and had no idea of the identity of the rest. I didn’t know if I could trust them.
"These two...I bet these two don't make it." The voice of 001 brought me back to focus and I saw he was pointing at me and 051. I laughed grimly though the laugh devolved into a hacking cough. What the fuck had that guy put in me. “You’d be surprised what I’ve survived sir.”
But 001 ignored me, focussing his gaze on 128. Then the room began to fill with gas and I felt my body weakening as it entered through slits in the walls. My vision began going black once again and the one word I had time to say before everything went black summed up the situation perfectly. “Shit.”
Who am I? That was my first thought upon awakening. I no longer remembered anything, as if I were a newborn with no memories to remember. All I felt was loss.
I thrashed about in my tank, beating against the glass. The mechanisms holding it shut finally gave way and I collapsed forwards, falling to hands and knees outside the tank and coughing up fluid. Only then did I hear the wailing siren and the footsteps of others in the room.
I stood quickly, protecting my body and trying to gaze every direction at once. It had the feel of an ingrained reflex, though I could not remember how I had learned it or when. Even as I did it, I regretted it as a shooting pain hit me in my back. It hurt so badly I almost staggered. Holding myself upright, I almost lashed out when several servitors sprayed me with chemicals and moved to disconnect cables as fluid streamed down my body. Robotic arms swung in to check me as others did this and gave me time to survey my situation.
I saw three other men standing nearby and took in their appearance. I did not recognise them and so instantly viewed them as a possible threat. Then I realised they were the least of my problems. As I stood, shivering and in pain, I looked over a corridor filled with death. Bodies in white medical uniforms and hulking cybernetic humans in red robes lay on the floor and I moved quickly over to the other three, preferring the threat I could see to the one I couldn't. “Where are we?” I said, gazing across the room.
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Powerful laughter resonated through the room as 77 threw back his head. Nicholas was a little shocked by this sudden burst of noise, but did not let it show. Instead he let his smile spread wider as if appreciating the same joke as 77. Then 1’s voice slithered underneath the deep bellowing waves of laughter. Although he spoke of him, the man seemed to eye up each of them at the same time. Nicholas was not a man usually unnerved, but there was something about this man that unsettled him, something few people managed to do. It was like watching an aquatic hunter with its dead eyes emptily surveying the space in front of it for prey. It never looked straight at you, but at the same time you could feel its gaze on you as it stared straight through you. 1 reminded Nicholas of such a hunter.
77’s laughter turned savagely into a loud chastisement of Elsen’s salute. Nicholas had found it quaint that the man still abided by the military traditions that in Nicholas’s experience only the most tight arsed commanders insisted everyone obey constantly. 77 referenced him and Nicholas wondered whether these two that had kept largely to them were offering him genuine compliments. Guile they seemed fully capable of, but both seemed capable of chastising him if they thought his comments stupid. They referred to their ‘associates’ telling them about the rest of the candidates gathered in the room. Nicholas couldn’t help but wonder if they were privy to more information than the rest of them and if so, why? Perhaps their designation or rank was not wholly sarcastic, or perhaps they were plans put in here by those monitoring them to get a better gauge of the rest of them. After all, Nicholas hadn’t seen anyone else who was part of this project before now, and he assumed the rest of them hadn’t. What did they have to base an assumption that they were really part of this project on other than the jumpsuits they wore, which could have been easily made for them so they would blend in better.
1 positioned the sword of Damocles over 48 and 51, furthering Nicholas’s suspicions that the two of them were somehow in on this whole thing. Either that or 1 possessed the gift of foresight and they had a psyker in their midst. The thought of 1 being able to read his thoughts at this moment made Nicholas uncomfortable and he attempted to raise whatever mental walls he thought might serve as some proof against such an invasion. A mutation like that would certainly help to explain 1’s peculiar appearance, voice, stare and all round personhood. If that were the case it would certainly be a logical choice to include a man who can read other’s minds without their knowledge if you wanted to conduct a covert evaluation. 77 seemed un-phased by the fact that his comrade was apparently ignoring his topic of conversation, implying that these two had some prior knowledge of each other and 77 had just come to accept 1’s actions as normal. This led Nicholas two conclusions. Either he was right and these two were just plants to test them covertly, or these two were connected somehow which meant there was a logic to this whole thing that eluded Nicholas’s grasp. Neither option was preferable to him.
However, before his could think on these matters much more, gas began to uncoil like a serpent from vent in the walls, hissing as it went. Two options presented themselves to Nicholas; either they had failed and they were about to die and be disposed of, or they were being knocked out and moved elsewhere. Either way, he would not slump into some awkward position as this unknown gas took its effect. So Nicholas slid down onto the floor and lay on his back, as if he were about to go to sleep for the night. His eyes focused on the blinding white lights imbedded into the ceiling. The brightness of them was so intense that they hurt his eyes, leaving burnt shadows on his retina that he could see every time he blinked. But he refused to stop staring at them as the gas filled his lungs and his limbs and mind became heavy. Even if he had wanted to move, by now Nicholas doubted he had control of his limbs. It was all he could do to keep his eyes open, even as stinging tear rolled down his face from staring at the lights for too long. It took longer between each blink for Nicholas to open his eyes again, and the blissful clarity of those harsh sterile lights seemed to last for shorter and shorter lengths of time before they went out completely.
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His life began as every life begins; immersed in fluid and only able to breath because of various tubes attached or inserted into one’s body. He finally achieved the first moments of consciousness of his life and was immediately aware of the device inserted into his mouth, the force of the liquid he was suspended in holding him in approximately the middle of this elaborate glass container he was in, but most importantly the pain that radiated from his core outwards and seemed to latch on to every nerve, muscle fibre, bone and scrap of skin on its journey out wards. He made a noise which without the rebreather in his mouth and the fluid around him would have been clearly recognisable as a weary sigh. He had only just achieved life and it felt like if the pain got any worse it would threaten to tear it from his grasp before he had a chance to experience any of it.
The blue hued liquid began to drain into a grate beneath his floating body and as the fluid levels decreased, he floated down until his feet and legs were forced to support his own weight. He feared that they would not be able to, for what new-born infant would be able to walk the moment it was disgorged from the womb. However, much to his pleasure he discovered that the powerful muscles in his legs comfortably supported his mass and after the initial strain of landing on his feet, resumed their protest of pain at the same volume the rest of his body was speaking to him at. As soon as the fluid had all drained, the capsule containing him opened and abruptly forced him out. His legs moved with an innate understanding of movement, but the proportions of his body and the strength in his limbs was so unanticipated that his first steps resembled a stumble before he righted himself.
The capsule thrust him into a world of blaring noise and repeating flashed of red that seemed in time with the beat of his own pulse. Where these angry red flares didn’t reach was wreathed in darkness and besides the hiss of the capsules he had just exited. Two other stumbled out of similar capsules next to his. They had number etched into their flesh, 128 and 13 respectively. He looked down and saw a similar brand on his chest; 272. His whole identity was contained in that number. Did it mean something? Did it correspond to letters or some addition of all the numerical values of his name? Was it some kind of code that he was meant to understand? If it was, whoever had assigned this identity to him had clearly not anticipated the amnesia he was now suffering. Perhaps his memory was always faulty and this was just the latest in a stream of forgetful births he had endured.
Half-machine cenobites emerged from behind the harsh glare of the warning klaxons, the purpose of the red lights apparently deemed more important than his identity to preserve, and 272 knew that they meant him no harm. They came with some sort of hose which washed the remaining blue liquid off of him and into the draining paths beneath his feet. After all the fluid was cleaned off of them, these man-machines contented themselves to disconnect the tubes and needles which had not already done so from their three forms before shuffling back into the darkness and apparently becoming inert, presumably waiting for one of the two remaining tanks to be opened and their occupants similarly birthed into this angry world of red and slowly numbing pain. One of the thrashed as if he were in a considerable amount of pain and the other hung there peacefully, how 272 imagined he had looked moments before.
272 and his counterparts began to move and survey their surroundings. The corridor looked like a charnel house, lined with the bodies of dead men and women and scattered and rent machine parts that would have once formed bipedal frames resembling people. 13 stated that he could not remember his name either, a fact that comforted 272 to know he was not the only one, before informing them that his number and therefore identity was, in fact, 13. “Funnily enough, we can all still read.” 272 quipped derisively. He did not answer the second part of 13’s question because he had no answer, nor was one immediately evident. That they were in some kind of military compound was plain enough from their surroundings, but anything other than the nature of their birthing chamber eluded 272.
A shiver forced the muscles in 272’s neck to spasm uncontrollably and for the first time he acknowledge that he was both cold and in pain. A machine placed a simple beige robe over him but it was little proof against the chill of this place and the coldness of the metal beneath his feet. 272 regarded the other capsules which stretched away from the hallway which reeked of death. Two had been opened exactly like the ones the three of them had been disgorged from, one broken violently from the inside, judging by the shatter pattern of the glass, and cables still hung loosely from it where the occupant had violently torn them from their place. 13 bleated inanely about whether anyone knew how to operate the capsule he stood in front of, the one with the still individual in it. The occupant in the next capsule along still thrashed madly and 272 wondered if they would have two broken capsules in a moment. 272 sighed. He almost launched into berating 13 for asking such a stupid question. Unless it was just the two of them suffering from amnesia, he doubted anyone knew how to operate one of these things. But some instinct told him to remain composed, read the people and surroundings and respond accordingly.
“I imagine it’ll open when…” 272 began saying when the capsule containing the more lively of the two remaining foetuses opened and spilled its thrashing child into the same world of alarms and death that they had been born into. Whilst all of their breathing seemed forced, and thus 272 deduced they were all feeling similar levels of pain to him, 48 who had just been disgorged from his capsule seemed in even more pain, his breathing shorter and his chest hiking uncomfortably. So much so that at one point he legs threatened to buckle. Clearly this process they’d been through had not been so well received by all their bodies. The man seemed jumpy, as if he feared they were going to attack him. That seemed like a waste of time to 272. They had all be freshly born in bodies far more well-endowed with muscle than those dead in the corridor, so it made no sense for them to start killing each other. Unless there was something to be gained from it, and at this stage, cold and in pain as they all were, fighting each other would gain them nothing.
48 burbled the same inane question of their location. 272 rolled his eyes, although hidden by the heavy shadows he doubted anyone else saw him do it. They were all in the same position, why did everyone assume they were the only one in the dark? If the just looked at the facts in front of them, the fact that they had all just be spat out of liquid filled capsules and the fact that they all seemed to have gone through the same process to make them considerably larger than what 272 imagined a normal human was, it was easy to assess that they were all in the same boat. Clearly, these two were cretins and could not be trusted. 128 had yet to speak, so his intelligence might still balance out this motley crew, but it was also possible that 272 was the only one possessed of both a functioning brain and such a powerful physique, having not traded it in like these other two had. Still, a nagging voice in the back of his mind told him to not abuse them until he had determined they were entirely without use. “That’s the same question we’re all asking.” 272 replied disinterestedly to 48.
“As I was saying…” 272 continued talking to 13 “I imagine they’ll open when whatever process it completed on us is similarly completed on our friend here.” 272 tapped the glass with his curved first finger. “However, judging by the number of tubes and needle stuck in all of us, it’s probably some form of complex medical procedure, and tampering with it will likely only endanger whoever that is in there.” There was a chance that the silhouette was still-born, but it wouldn’t help to burden 13’s brain with such a possibility. 272 walked away from the tank and toward the corridor. “If you all are so keen to find out where we are and what we’re doing here, I don’t think we’re going to find the answers here. Best we get moving, before whatever killed them comes back to try and pick a fight with us.” 272 where they were was a minor detail. Your position could be determined by a GPS or a map or any other kinds of tracking technology, software or intuition. The question that 272 found more burning and far more important was why they were here…
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post #24 of 54 (permalink) Old 02-04-14, 02:26 AM
Strange Bastard looked around, eyes locking on Ptolemy. In that odd, mellifluous voice, he said - 'Apparently, Two-Seven-Two is the smarter one.'
That made Ptolemy's eyes narrow. He looked at Nicholas, who was standing near his seat, and pursed his lips. He was so bland, so unremarkable, that it hurt. Handsome Bastard spoke, now - Mentioning associates, making a mockery of the other candidates, indicating the Lieutenant, Elsen. The name rang a bell - Ptolemy couldn't quite pinpoint where he'd heard it - But there was an air of familiarity about it. That could mean two things - Either Elsen was an outstanding, shining paragon of servitude and morality, or; he was a right bastard and deserved nothing but a noose. Probably the latter, Ptolemy mused, as he watched the man salute. His hand, his talon, was of high quality. That was interesting.
Ptolemy continued drumming his fingers against the bench. Strange Bastard said something particularly morose, pointing his fingers to two of the candidates - One-Eye and Lazy Bastard - And intoned that he thought the unworthy. The Intelligence Officer - Was he still an Intelligence Officer? - Swung his head around, a grin parting those soft, cherry-red lips, and met the yellow eyes of Strange Bastard. It was somewhat disconcerting, but Ptolemy matched his stare, the grin never leaving his face.
That was when the hissing begun, almost too quiet to hear. Ptolemy sniffed - An acrid stench clinging to the inside of his nostrils, and let out a low, mournful growl. Purple gas, flecked with golds and greens, was rising from the floor, enshrouding the other candidates. Yet, Ptolemy and Strange Bastard kept staring, intense as a firefight, as their limbs grew heavy and unresponsive, their vision blurred into darkness. The last thing Ptolemy saw, as he slumped over, was those strange, malign eyes, boring into his own.
When he awoke, he was surrounded by thick, murky water. No, not water - It was blue. Water wasn't blue, was it? There was a figure before him, through a barrier of glass, robed and hunched. Even though it was crouched over, examining something on the floor, it was big - Larger than a man, faceless and fearsome. Behind it, a pack of similar creatures - For they could not be human - Were running towards an exit, nothing more but a distant glimmer of light. The figure before him snapped its head upwards, tilted it in curiosity, and then turned, bolting after the others.
He could not remember his name, his age, his occupation - He was an object, an enigma. His head hurt- Oh, God-Emperor, it hurt. His whole body was aflame, crisscrossed with pale, near-invisible scars. Thick wires, throbbing with power, were plugged into his flesh, and they hurt, too. Everything hurt, everything was crying out in agony, begging for release.
He rammed his fist into the glass. Muscles, large and defined and handsome, bulged along his arm. His punch was sluggish, like a drunkard's, and did no damage on the thick door - At least, he believed it was a door. Twice more he lashed out, and twice more he found his efforts accumulated to naught. He was trapped, stabbed with wires and burning within. Only the breathing apparatus, a crude grille, which was attached to his face, kept him alive. The liquid started draining after his third punch, slow, too slow. It ran from his head, passed his eyes, draining away with a gurgle. When his head was clear, he lifted his hands and tore the breathing device free, gasping for air. Thick, blood-dappled phlegm dripped from the corners of his mouth, his lungs emptying an untold amounts worth of slime. He tried to talk, but his tongue felt swollen and numb.
He was being born again. The glass panel lifted, red light and the keening of alarms filling his ears, his eyes, his head. He attempted a step forwards and fell, landing on sore knees and palms, coughing rheumy fluid. Wires disconnected from his pale flesh, dripping with viscous blood and other, stranger liquids. Everything stank of disinfectant, blood and oil. What was this place? Where am I?
A number - One-Two-Eight - Was carved into his solar plexus. He scratched it, and decided in that red-bathed room, that One-Two-Eight was his name. What was he? Was he a beast, a genetic throwback, something altogether fouler? No, he realised. He was muscled immensely, built like an athlete - Bigger, stronger. He looked like a statue. His flesh was cold and hard.
One-Two-Eight stood, unsteadily, and surveyed his surroundings. There were others with him, abominable servitors and other tall, strong figures. A robe, plain and rough, was lowered over him by one of the milky-eyed servitors, after a spray down of tepid liquids. Down below, curled up in pathetic death-poses, were bodies. Some were clad in scarlet, others in white. Flesh-artisans, scientists and murderers and creatures that did not deserve the title of Humanity. One-Two-Eight made his way towards these, limping as blood flowed back into stiff, unsteady limbs.
The one marked with Two-Seven-Two was beginning to formulate a plan. One-Two-Eight listened to him halfheartedly; agreeing with some points, disagreeing with others. He needed a weapon, something to defend himself with, and the only likely option, was one of the dead.
He pressed his foot onto one of the red-robed corpses, rolled it over, and crouched down. His hands pressed against the robes, slipped beneath them. He had to be armed, he had to be.
'Whilst you lot stand around and bitch,' One-Two-Eight spat, as he searched. 'I'm going to get out of here. Follow me, if you like,' He turned his eyes to Two-Seven-Two. They glittered hungrily, like a frost-lion's. 'Or don't. But, I'm not staying. This is a mausoleum.'
Nyctophobia- Fear of the Dark Angel.
"No one ever spoke about of those two absent brothers. Their separate tragedies had seemed like aberrations. Had they, in fact, been warnings that no one had heeded?"
'Killing a man is like fucking, boy, only instead of giving life you take it. You experience the ecstasy of penetration as your warhead enters the enemy's belly and the shaft follows. You see the whites of his eyes roll inside the sockets of his helmet. You feel his knees give way beneath him and the weight of his faltering flesh draw down the point of your spear. Are you picturing this?'
'Yes, lord.'
'Is your dick hard yet?'
'No, lord.'
''What? You've got your spear in a man's guts and your dog isn't stiff? What are you, a woman?'
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Raucous laughter fills the chamber as 077 throws his head back, theatrically, and claps his hands together one time.
001, his yellow eyes still staring at seemingly all of you at once, says, "Apparently, 272 is the smarter one."
"Sit down fool!" yells 077. "Our associates told us the remaining numbers were allcunningindividuals. I see now, they are so cunning that they can't even pick up on obvious sarcasm! not to mention queasy-belly over here! There is no way of telling what rank any of us really are. The only reason I know you're actually a lieutenant is because of your reputation among the ranks,Kerg. I know your face." He points to his own with his index finger as he says this.
"272 is right," he continues, "rank is meaningless here. They left us no way of designating it."
Suddenly, raising a long arm pointing two fingers, one of them at 051, and the other at the still awaking 048, 001 abruptly changes the subject saying, "These two...I bet these two don't make it."
Eisen was going to kill each and every one of these three impudent asses. He'd never been especially fond of the summary executions granted to commanding officers under the Imperial Military Code of Justice – but to impersonate a superior officer purely for the purpose of shaming him?
To hell with rank and to hell with whomever was watching. They wanted the clockwork Lieutenant? The man without a heart. Then they damn well got him. He would feed force feed their innards from his bloodied hand just to watch them struggle to draw breath.
As rage filled the void where his heart had once been a hissing whoosh of gas flooded the chamber, rendering his intended streak of violence impotent – much to his chagrin. His augmentic eye, unaffected by the gasses, stared helplessly out at his compatriots has the strength bled from his body.
He gasped for life, for breath, horrified as his augmentics failed him – for then first time since his liberation from the Nexian Cartels truly feeling helpless. A decade of connections, blackmail, and forging alliances – it was all for nothing. He was not going to die in this sterile hell-hole, surrounded by men who laughed at him for his convictions – his purpose.
Clawing at the walls of his own fleshy prison, a cloying darkness overwhelmed even Eisen's formidable will. His last memory as consciousness escaped him was the simple and overwhelming need to survive. Eisen was a survivor – a killer and a monster – but a survivor. Come damnation he would still survive.
And if it took him a thousand lifetimes – he was going to kill the bastard who planned this.
When you come back into a state of consciousness, the first thing you feel is extremely intense heat. The burning hell of a hot poker going through your eye and moving around on the inside of your skull. Then all you can feel is cold. You manage to raise your head out of deep snow, and find your whole body half sunk into it. Its night here, windy beyond reason, and still snowing furiously, though most of it feels like tiny shards of ice. As you go to stand up, your legs fail you and you fall again. You notice large gashes and cuts on your red washed hand and arms. Frost has collected quickly on the parts of your mechanical limb, sticking to the drying and freezing blood. Your only clothing is some form of undergarment.
Some ways in the distance behind you is a bright light, coming from an opening in what appears to be a large structure of some kind. You can hear a thrumming siren coming from the building, and see only your footsteps in the snow leading from it.
The pain had come and gone. There would be more pain, more blood, and more suffering. There was always more suffering.
Snow and cold were the first things he was aware of – an odd chill greeting his nascent stumbling through the tundra. He wobbled like a freshly whelped colt on unfamiliar limbs. His body did not respond properly. It was a bit like wearing a pair of shoes sized for someone else, his natural gait was that of a man a foot shorter in his shanks. His mechanical augmentations responded with equal alien precision – unpracticed and sloppy.
His mouth stung with a dryness born of frost and pharmaceuticals, his lips already cracking and chapped from the cold. Survive – he had to survive. He did not know where he was nor did he care why he was there.
Frost whipped across his face- biting his flesh with cold. The blood – perhaps not all his blood – congealed across his flesh and metal, tinged with flecks of red-black frost. He shivered in the cold, rubbing his numb fingers across the protrusion of metal jutting from where an eye should be. The dull green light of the optic fluttered as he touched it – shifting between spectrums of light. He shut his other eye to prevent the wave of nausea that came from conflicting visual input as he cycled back to something resembling regular vision – a slightly green image
He was escaping. But to where? And why? Enemies would be coming soon. They always did.
He could not run – would not run.
No – someone would come for him – likely someone with answers. Possibly someone with a weapon he could take. Wandering naked through the winter tundra seemed a waste. He had nowhere to go in any event. Better to head towards an obvious danger than wander aimlessly through frost and wilderness.
He walked backwards over his own footsteps – taking care not to leave any obvious signs that he had back-tracked along his own path as he approached the door. He hopped to the side as he reached a good couple yards from the opening – far enough that his new tracks would not be seen by anyone from inside the building.
Pulling himself along the ground with his hands and knees, he concealed himself behind snow-covered shrubbery. Closing his fleshy eye he stared out towards the aperture from betwixt the thick foliage with his telescoping optic – catching the lay of the land.
There was something here that he'd bled for - something he'd been willing to kill for. It would show itself.
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"What do you mean they woke up early!?" Shouted Governor Phlintte at the top of his lungs, the loose hairs of his short white beard quivering with every word.
Magos Cyyrik stood still, his red hood draping his facial features in shadow despite the bright orange glow of his iris shaped visual augments. Cyyrik was tall, very tall, and his robes lay heavily over his form. The lead Artisan-Designer Magos of Chemorus Alpha stood in the Governor's chamber, alone with the furious mortal man...again.
The Magos looked up. His eyes bore into anything they looked at, no matter his mood and despite where he stared. They only moved with the rest of his head, whichever way it turned. Phlinnte stared back into the black cave, into those fiery circles, as unintimidated as usual.
"I said I don't know."
As hollow as his voice was, it was very clear compared to many priests of Mars. Though, where it came from exactly, was a mystery.
"Only one of them died in its amniotic tank due to the unexpected release, the rest seem to have-"
"ONLY ONE! Only ONE of them died!" Phlinnte roared throwing his hands in the air and walking in zig-zagging, circular patterns that made no logical sense to Cyyrik.
"Yes, Lord Governor. Despite being connected to several stabilization systems and medicinal pumps, Subject 051 did not survive the premature-"
Cyrrik was cut off again.
"I couldn't care less which one it was, Cyyrik! What I do care about is the absolutely insane weight on my shoulders due to this project! I had to extract the Imperium's tithe money just to fund this, drove my own office and councilmen into the ground with secrecy and errand, and if found out I would likely be judged as committing heresy! By the Emperor's name!" Phlintte takes a moment to breathe, gripping the back of a cushioned chair. "Since I decided to actually go through with this project, it has to be successful, or the entire Chemorus system is doomed, Magos, not just me. The fact that only a handful of the hundreds we selected made it this far is bad enough..."
"I understand, lord Governor. I would encourage you to remember that these Saviors are the prototypes. Even if only one were to survive, each one is a lesson as to what we have done right, and what we have done wrong. Your army will follow. As the Emperor did with the Primarchs and his legions."
"Bah!" said Phlintte, waving his hand in dismissal, "Don't give me comparisons using ridiculous myths. Get word to Diatre and the rest of his entourage to-"
This time it was Cyyrik who interrupted, "I would also encourage you to remember that if the arms traders feel disrespected, they may very well back out of this project, lord Governor. Diatre and his men have provided us with resources that would otherwise have been impossible to obtain."
In a hurry, the chamber doors opened and another figure dressed in the red of the Mechanicus enters. Cyyrik moves for the first time. His upper portion turning, and leaning slightly, to look at the newcomer. It was the Magos who first brought a well formulated plan for the project to the Lord Governor's ears, 95Jx-Tar VI. But that was not the name he preferred.
"You have news, Voldyrin Tar?" asked the Governor expectantly.
In an awful, grinding vocalization, Tar replied. "Diatre's team has searched the entire complex and has lost one of his men.... The other two subjects remain lost."
Rogal Phlintte was still gripping his fingers into the cushioned chair, until it was sent flying across the room.
The red beat of the warning klaxons continues without pause, as does the drumming of the alarm.
128, 013, 272, and 048
128 ruffles his hands through the robes and cloaks of several bodies. He finds nothing that resembles a weapon of any significance: several small medical tools of various types, clipboards, broken communicators, and some items he has no name for.
272 makes his way from the unopened tank after tapping on it's glass. 013 makes his way up the short ramp to inspect it closer. The figure inside has yet to show any indications of movement. He hesitates to tamper with anything, heeding 013's words.
128 finally appears to find something, but when he stands up it becomes clear that he's holding a mechanical limb torn from one of the cybernetic bodies covered in a red cloak. It is an arm with a fairly large clamp-like fixture on the end rather than a hand. In its current state, and slightly longer than his own fore-arm, 128 clearly intends it as a clubbing weapon. The rest of you search briefly for a similar limb but find none.
He and 272 then make to leave, and 013 and 048 decide to follow. Both sides of the room have a large double doored entryway. The entry way on one side is closed and locked, but the other is wide open. The doors are thick and metal, armored in fact. They remain in their slide-opened position as the group approaches. Before even turning into the enormous hallway, another sound becomes overtly clear. Running footsteps getting closer, and plenty of them. Boots, accompanied by rattling metal.
You hear multiple thunks. The red warning lights catch on the can-shaped projectiles just before they land and start violently spewing gas. Instinctively you all cover your faces. However, after a few moments nothing is different. Your breathing is fine, your eyes hardly water, and you still feel wide awake and alive. The only thing it does is obscure your vision, filling the hallway with a thick fog.
You hear a distinct command, "Fire!" followed by dozens of tranquilizer darts piercing the clouds of gas. All of you are hit by several needle-ends, injecting their fluid into your bodies upon impact. Again, there seems to be no effect.
The four of you then manage to make your way into a thinning section of the smog, and are immediately charged by a group of two dozen men all clad in black from head to toe, who immediately start beating against your bodies with electrical stun clubs, swinging over and over again as if their lives depended on it...
You have three choices and they are as follows: 1. You may attempt to throw the guards off of you and run. If you choose to do so you will be successful. Your post will end with you re-immersing yourself into the gas cloud and heading down the opposite direction of the hallway. 2. You may surrender to them, by holding up your hands and not resisting, they will bring you to your knees and put restraints on your arms and feet you cannot break out of. 3. You may fight back. You can incapacitate them, or you may kill them, but no more than six. Therefore, if all four of you attack, all twenty four men will be dead. The guards are normal humans, so having an Astartes like body, it wont be too much of a struggle. The weapons they are striking you WILL be somewhat effective, though. They will do more to slow you down than the gas or tranquilizers at any rate.
Even for your new body, the cold soon becomes too much, and with no noticeable movement of any kind, you make your final steps back inside the building through the open doorway which has its control panel destroyed on the opposite side of the wall. You immediately see five bodies dressed in all black torn limb from limb. They were all wearing light body armor. These men are noticeably smaller than you are. You find their weapons: five shotguns all empty and broken with no more ammo on the bodies. Oddly, these guns almost look like toys to you. In the better light, you notice several bloody but clotted dents in the side of your ribcage. You also notice the black lines in your chest and shoulder forming the number 111. The walls here are covered in bullet holes.
You move through the artificial white light and red klaxon flares with as much stealth as you can. The alarm that is sounding covers any noise you might be making. You find your way into a large open room. It is a cafeteria, and moving to one end of the room with many appliances behind a counter, you quickly find cutlery and grab the largest you find. As soon as you hold it in your hand though, it seems incredibly small.
There are three double doored entrances to this room. One is the way you came in.
You exit one of the other sets and take a peak around the corner of the short entranceway down the hall. You instantly see two figures moving in your direction at a fast pace, and these ones are at least as large as you are. At their current rate, they will be next to you in seconds.
You have two options and they are as follows: 1. You may attempt to attack these two individuals. If this is your decision, please PM me and we will sort out some important details. 2. You may attempt to avoid them by going back into the cafeteria room and going through the other set of doors. You may still carry the knife if you wish.
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One-Two-Eight opened his mouth to speak and Two-Seven-Two was glad that he didn’t stammer the same idiotic questions as the other two. Instead, despite his crass and vindictive delivery, Two-Seven-Two found himself agreeing with One-Two-Eight, mainly because it echoed what he already said. One-Two-Eight kept a long moment of eye contact with Two-Seven-Two. The edge of his lips curled into a handsome smirk and his eyes glinted, enjoying the fact that there was at least one other person in this world of confusion and pain who possessed some level of intelligence. “Well said.” Two-Seven-Two said, his voice smooth and genuinely complimentary of his comrade, whilst at the same time his eyes broke contact with One-Two-Eight and looked at the other two, indicating that if they had any sense they would follow them.
Two-Seven-Two left Thirteen to stare at the unborn child and made his way over to where One-Two-Eight was hastily undressing the corpses in search of something. The man produced a mechanical limb as long as his own forearm, brandishing it with murderous intent. It would be nothing more than a crude clubbing implement, but with the power hidden in each of their muscles; it hardly needed to be more than that. Two-Seven-Two turned over the few corpses that One-Two-Eight hadn’t pilfered and found nothing of any use. Clearly these men and machine-hybrids had not expected their children to turn on them. Perhaps they were supposed to have undergone some sort of indoctrination that would make them docile, but had been born prematurely? Or perhaps they had come here willingly, as test subjects, when they were whoever or whatever they were before this world of beating red lights and blaring alarms? Two-Seven-Two stored it as information that might pertain to their reason for being here.
Two-Seven-Two made his way towards the closed door, wondering if it would lead anywhere. He approached it and it showed no desire to open automatically for him. The control panel next to the doors seemed to incorporate both a key-pad to enter passwords into and an iris scanner and Two-Seven-Two suspected he would not be on the database which would store to approved irises and he was certain he did not remember something a small as the password to this door, since even to memory of how he came to be here was hidden from him or simply non-existent. That exit barred to him, he turned and headed towards the only entrance or exit to their birthing chamber. As he did so he explained to One-Two-Eight “Locked. It was worth a shot.”
Him and One-Two-Eight made to leave and Two-Seven-Two heard two sets of footsteps following them. Clearly Thirteen and Forty-Eight had decided to follow. Good, he might discover their purpose yet. As he walked Two-Seven-Two noticed that his steps fell into a natural pattern which seemed to be soundless. Two-Seven-Two’s feet rolled rather than fell, muffling the sound of his steps. He wondered where he might have learnt this skill. It wasn’t a product of whatever process they had been through that had bred it into them, either that or he was the only one who subconsciously fell into that pattern of stepping. However, it felt like he had always walked like this, or for as long back as his memory might have extended if he still had one. His silent foot-falls were more strenuous than he imagined walking ‘normally’ would have been, but Two-Seven-Two decided to let his body move in whatever way it felt most comfortable, and so his steps remained ethereal.
The four of them made to walk into the large hallway which led out of the chamber, numerous heavy treads sounded in the distance. Several can-shaped projectiles blinking yet more red lights were thrown down the corridor, landing at the group’s feet and violently spewing gas. Two-Seven-Two’s hand instinctively covered his mouth and he anticipating a painful eye-watering. However, that didn’t happen as he tentatively removed his hand from his mouth, he found that whatever process he had been through rendered him immune to this gas. The only negative effect was that they could no longer see down the corridor.
From the other side of the smokescreen a command to fire preceded several darts which struck Two-Seven-Two’s flesh. He watched as on struck his chest and emptied it’s payload into his bloodstream, but despite this and several doing exactly the same, Two-Seven-Two found himself unaffected by whatever compound was inside the needles. Unperturbed by either of the methods used so far, Two-Seven-Two vanished into the smog to confront his attackers.
His attackers had a similar idea, Two-Seven-Two being immediately greeted by several black-armoured men swinging crackling batons like mad men. The first swing Two-Seven-Two caught on its descent, his powerful arm easily holding back the man trying to hit him. Another flanked him and struck his left shoulder with his club. Two-Seven-Two grunted, his throat instinctively muffling the shout of pain. Two-Seven-Two released the first man and instinctively spun, his arm fully extended and hand held flat. The narrow side of his hand struck the man’s throat and the force crushed his windpipe. The man dropped to the floor, but already others were closing in to try and subdue him.
One made another swing at him and Two-Seven-Two blocked the strike with his forearm. He stepped inside the man’s guard and lashed out with a similar chop to his throat, causing his attacker to drop his baton and clutch his throat, a quiet gurgling escaping from his lips as he fell to the floor. Another electro-club struck his side and Two-Seven-Two felt his muscles seize and spasm. He forced himself through the pain and spasms to deliver an upwards strike with his palm that broke the man’s jaw and likely dislodged several teeth. He never had a chance to recover from this as Two-Seven-Two stepped into his personal space and broke his neck with a violent twist, letting the limp corpse fall to the floor. There had been no explanation or cause for attack. These men had simply attacked them and now they were his enemies. Two-Seven-Two did not know where he had learnt his fighting style or why, like his footsteps, each strike made these men fall silently to the ground, but he trusted his instincts and so kept going with his silencing strikes.
Two men rushed him, presumably hoping to overwhelm him by outnumbering him. Two-Seven-Two dropped his stance low and met them head on. Both swung for him in frantic downward clubbing motions. Both of their blows connected with his pectoral muscles, but Two-Seven-Two had not tried to avoid them. Painful as their strikes were, they could not stop him. Pushing through the protests of his body, Two-Seven-Two rose up and lifted both men off their feet by their throat before slamming the back down onto the metal floor. He released the one in his right hand for an instant to deliver a punishing strike into the face of the one in his left hand. Two-Seven-Two had merely intended for his blow to knock him out cold, but the force of his punch drove through the man’s black armour and crumpled the man’s face inwards, blood leaking through the hairline fractures in his helmet.
One more came after him hoping to take advantage of Two-Seven-Two’s kneeling position. Instead, Two-Seven-Two grabbed the shaft of the baton and pulled it with enough force to prize it from the man’s grip and pull him to ground. As he fell, Two-Seven-Two turned the under-sized baton over in his hand before bringing it down in a crushing strike on the man’s head. The force of the blow shattered the man’s skull and stained the floor in a mixture of blood, brain matter and bone and armour shards. The man he had released was scrabbling to his feet. Two-Seven-Two dropped the baton in his hand and pounced on him, his powerful hand wrapping dangerously round the man’s throat. He squeezed and the man struggled to breathe, his arms alternating between trying to prize Two-Seven-Two’s hands off of his throat and trying to beat him off.
Two-Seven-Two ignored these feeble attempts as he threatened to slowly crush the life out of the man. “Who sent you? What are your orders?” Two-Seven-Two growled menacingly. The man continued to fight for breath and Two-Seven-Two loosened his hands slightly and the man desperately wheezed shallow breaths in and out as his struggles for complete release continued. “Answer my questions and I’ll let you live. Now…” Two-Seven-Two reapplied the full pressure and the man’s scrabbles for breath became more frantic. “…let’s start with who sent you and what your orders are.” Two-Seven-Two continued this process of letting the man almost pass out, letting him snatch a few frantic breaths before reapplying the lethal pressure to the man’s throat. One way or another, he would have his answers…
OCC: I appreciate how successful my ad hoc interrogation is will be dependent on whether everyone else incapacitates/kills their foes and your discretion unxpekted, but if anything comes of it can we PM and discuss what Two-Seven-Two will ask, since he has more questions than just who sent them and what the soldier’s orders were.
He felt like a vulture, picking his way across the carcasses. Some were torn open, blood, oil and hydraulic fluids leaking from the red-robed corpses in a stinking, acrid pool. Those clad in white - One-Two-Eight had deducted that they were menials, lowly servants - All had similar, harrowing faces, as though they had died painfully. These were the most useless - They carried nothing, save surgical gloves and masks, and so One-Two-Eight quickly stopped searching these, setting his attentions firmly on the machine-men. There were strange symbols etched upon their metal-skin, cog-skulls and lightning bolts and tools. One-Two-Eight traced them with his fingertips, hoping to incite some kind of memory, a flashback, anything. Nothing came.
He cut his finger on a scalpel, laughably childlike in his grip, and smirked as the blood clotted around the thin, deep laceration. He picked at it, frowning, and found that it had sealed into a rough, callous-like scab. This one, with faded optical implants and a sewn-on rebreather, carried an abundance of medical equipment - Needles and thermometers, calipers and dilators, several scalpels of varying sizes and sharpness. He tossed them away, scattering them across the grated floor, and sighed. None of them were of any use - Aye, the scalpels were sharp, but they were too small in his massive, soft-skinned paws. He was more likely to cut himself than any attacker. His anger was rising, a throbbing inside of his chest, warming his body. Adrenaline was pumping through him, and he had no idea why. His heart hurt, his head hurt, his tongue, his teeth, his fingers - Everything was still aflame, as if dipped in promethium, and One-Two-Eight was unsure how much longer he could last it.
The machine-man's arm was a giant clamp, decorated with yellow chevrons. It was attached to his elbow with wires, screws and - One-Two-Eight had no doubt - A series of false-muscles, ligaments and reinforced bone, beneath the synthetic flesh. One-Two-Eight grinned, tearing the wires and pipes with his fingers, so that oil spurted over his hands. He twisted the screws and bolts, until the arm began to flop, and then stood, gripping the clamp with both of his hands - Pressing his foot into the dead man's - If it was a man - Armpit. He yanked, four times, before the arm pulled free with a slurp. He gave it a swing, splitting the air. It was completely improvised, but it would do. One-Two-Eight turned to the others, grinned at their expressions, and realised something - These lot were, essentially, beneath him. He was the only one with any sort of weapon, and he suspected that they weren't going to get in his way.
The group of men left, Two-Seven-Two and One-Two-Eight leading the way, the former stopping to check a door as they went.
'Gnn,' One-Two-Eight grunted, when Two-Seven-Two rejoined him. Were they friends, now? No, of course not - Allies, perhaps. A pair of men thrown into a strange, and rather, unfortunate survival and both desiring to survive. They were trudging along a large, enormous, hallway. 'I suppose so. Almost feels like we are being funneled, driven-'
Thudding. Footsteps. Lots of them, too. Heading towards the four of them, at a quick pace.
Something caught the red lights, revolving through the air towards them, small and can-shaped. Only, there wasn't one object - There was a dozen or so. They bounced off of the metal floor, the top section lifting, and unleashing a torrent of gas. One-Two-Eight narrowed his eyes, lifting his robes around his mouth and nose with one hand, wielding his claw-thing with the other. The walls were gone, Two-Seven-Two and the others, were gone. Smoke, or gas, covered everything. One-Two-Eight was utterly alone, but the cloying gas was no longer harming his senses, making him drowsy. He lowered his makeshift mask, looked around, and shook his head.
'Fire!' Barked a voice, and small, metallic objects whirled towards One-Two-Eight. Some missed, but other struck home, piercing his flesh with long, proboscis-like needs. Liquid was injected to him, and he expected himself to collapse, to struck the ground and ruin his face. But nothing happened, he remained standing, unfazed, staring at the needles in his skin. He tore them out, hastily - Not wanting to experience some kind of side-effect, and braced for more impacts.
Like fug was he going to die here, cowering in the smog.
One-Two-Eight pushed onwards, happy to see that the others were doing the same, and saw their attackers. There were two dozen of them, garbed in black - Black boots, black body-gloves, black gauntlets. Their faces were hidden beneath all-enclosing helms, with mirrored visors that made them look like bugs. What was worse, One-Two-Eight decided, was the fact that they were all sprinting forwards - Some discarding dart-guns, but all had drawn long, electrified rods.
The first that reached One-Two-Eight struck him in the thigh, and he felt his muscles tremble and seize, much to his chagrin. One-Two-Eight's other foot shot out, landing on the attacker's instep with a tremendous crunch. The man screamed, muffled by his helm, and fell over. The second man made a sloppy swing at One-Two-Eight, who sidestepped with remarkable - Preternatural- Speed, and gripped the man's weapon-arm. He yanked it back, bone erupting from flesh, and stole the stun-rod. A savage kick sent him stumbling away, knee snapped.
One-Two-Eight tossed the clamp-arm, gripped the stun-rod with both hands, and roared. The sound echoed above the din of grunts, screams and hisses, and it bought One-Two-Eight enough time. The third attacker stopped, fear digging its claws into his heart, and hesitated. One-Two-Eight swung the stun-rod, catching the man's helmet with immense, bloodthirsty force. His head exploded. Bone, brain and blood struck One-Two-Eight's face, a warm, sticky patina. He grinned through it, teeth showing white against his gory features, and turned.
He wasn't going to stay - To fight the other three rushing towards him. His allies, his companions, would provide enough of a distraction for One-Two-Eight to escape.
He ran, as fast as his huge legs could take him, still clutching fervently at the stun-rod.
I apologize for lagging behind, I'm caught up now .
“Hah. I don’t think they like us, brother.” Thirteen clapped a hand on forty-eight’s shoulder before he rejoined the scavenging for weapons. Another menial corpse thrown aside, thirteen cursed under his breath. How hard was it come by another massive machine limb? He considered the opening statements from his other companions. He couldn’t say he wouldn’t rather be stuck here with anyone else. Both one-twenty-eight and two-seventy-two’s arrogant sense of superiority bothered him more than he liked. Number forty-eight hadn’t spoken much himself. Perhaps he should have followed his own example, if only to escape the calculating glare of the others. Who would have thought speaking one’s mind would instantly brand a man an idiot?
The triple digit giants carried on about the situation, thirteen wouldn’t have admitted anything aloud, but their mutual decision to be gone from this place couldn’t have felt more right. The moment they moved for the open doorway, he was following them from a distance. He didn’t trust much of anything in reach of himself, not even the little machine handing him a heavy robe at the last possible moment. An image of thirteen picking up the little machine and hurling it into two seventy two’s spinal cord came to mind. He shook the image out of his brain.
Thirteen gave forty-eight a sidelong glance, pointing his head in two seventy two’s direction. “Could he look more ridiculous?” He whispered imperceptibly, silently chuckling at the giant’s stealthy dance through the red halls. “Does this look like the jungle to you? At least he-“He looked to one twenty eight. “Can actually kill something and look serious about it.”
Shouts interrupted his train of thought, followed by a storm of heavy footfalls heading in the direction of chamber pods. Thirteen’s hands immediately went to his invisible weapon strapped to his waist. When he didn’t feel anything, he fell backwards with a swift roll the moment the gas canisters fell all around them. He tucked his head beneath the slab of his arm, feeling the thick spray enter his eyes and nose. Kneeling in the fog for a moment longer, thirteen noticed he didn’t feel much of anything. He glanced up, but everyone had disappeared. The echoes of battle carried through the wailing sirens and red lights.
Thirteen didn’t consider turning tail and running. He simply didn’t feel like backing down to these scum, especially while others grabbed all the glory for themselves. Half blinded by gas, he rushed towards the sounds of fighting and was nearly enveloped by three soldiers in black coming from different directions. The first caught him by surprise, his stun baton bruising his left bicep and causing erratic spasms and contractions. Thirteen spun away from his follow up strike, thrusting his other fist beneath the belt of another trying to take out his legs. He caught the feeble man by his neck guard before he crumpled like a withered skeleton, wielding him like a shield against an onslaught of clubbing blows from the remaining two.
Thirteen bellowed in uncontrolled laughter, realizing the stupidity of the situation. He threw the convulsing human at the feet of his foes, the crunch of the impact surprisingly satisfying to his sudden lust for battle. The baton wielding shadows charged on, brimming with the promise of unbridled violence. Several strikes crashed into his lower ribcage, pushing him back several steps. Mustering their courage, both whelps pushed further into his guard. Thirteen leaned away from an attack aimed for the left side of his chest. His left arm twisted, catching the baton in the man’s own feeble grip. His foe collapsed with a backhanded strike across the temple, blood shooting from his nostrils, staining his robes. The corpse lies still and Thirteen’s vice-grip is already jerking the other’s faceguard around like a ragdoll. The struggle is brief, ending with the little creature’s head cracked open on his knee.
A dozen more angry shouts penetrate the weakening gas screen. How many had they killed already? Ten? Thirteen? A hundred more could be waiting to take their turn on the relentless giants and put their skills to the test. It wouldn’t be wise to get tangled up here any longer.
“We should fall back! Call out if you can hear me!”
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Impossible though it seemed, the only conclusion the man could draw was that he had been the one to kill the five men strewn across the room. He knew that their deaths ought to have troubled him – normal men blanched at such carnage – but there was something comforting in the charnel surrounding him. It was familiar, it was where he belonged.
The clotted rents across his side twinged with slight pain as he ran his taloned fingertips over them, examining a pellet of shrapnel in idle interest as he cast it to the floor.The torn rag-dolls of manflesh and their pathetic weapons elicited a bubbling ripple of laughter from the man. He bore them no ill will – well no more than he felt for anyone else – but his own survival superseded their right to exist.
He hummed to himself, mumbling the remnants of a song he could only grasp at the edges of as he traced his bare fingertips across the walls, caressing the bullet holes bored into the wall. He enjoyed their sharp edges and oblong presence – sniffing in the perfume of cordite in the air. Red and white klaxon blared in harmonious discord, welcoming him back to the chaos from whence he came.
The passage yawed, disgorging into a large room. Long tables finished with clean white ceramic tops stood in disarray, overturned food trays and shattered crockery covering the floor like caltrops. The broken glass was as nothing to the man's giant feet, he feet an idle sense of confusion as he wandered though the debris. The chairs and benches are too small – elfin in comparison to his own bulk.
He pulled a knife from the thick block of blades in the commissary’s scullery, disgusted at it's proportions. He tossed the cleaver aside, growling. “Why even bother!”
There was nothing here for him. He stuck a finger in the pot of stew – retching at it's flavor. Whatever had been in the pot best have been intended as some sort of punishment rather than actual sustenance. His taste buds were overwhelmed with more sensations than he knew how to process, a cascading and confusing mess of new information.
Sticking out his tongue as he squinted his fleshy eye, the man scraped the morsels of food from his mouth with a talon before spitting upon the floor. It was time to move on.
Exiting from the commissary the man found himself in a junction of some sort, another grey and featureless example of military architecture. Popping his head around the door jamb the man used his artificial eye, catching the outline of two massive figures through he flashing klaxon and flickering lights.
He hid, crouching in the blind spot where the doors swung inward.Until he had a better sense of what was going on in this madhouse he would have to assume that everyone was a potential hostile. They were not moving with any sense of deliberation in their movements, purpose in every stride. These men belonged here, they knew what purpose they served.
Not even daring to breathe he flattened himself against the shadows, knowing he had only seconds. Not even daring to breathe, he stood, ready to pounce. The cloaked figures whisked past him, urgent in purpose. He leapt upon the nearest of the giants, grabbing him by the larynx as he hooked his foot within the crook of the man's knee to drive him to the floor. The giant shouted in surprise as he toppled.
His cloaked compatriot tore the man from his victim, taking an elbow to the nose for his troubles. The second cloaked man growled in irritation, ducking a swipe of agumentic talons. Arms, snake like in their dexterity, brushed aside his swipe leaving him open for a hard high-kick to the solar plexus. He hit the wall hard, woofing in surprise as the wind was knocked out of his lungs.
The man he'd incapacitated previously leapt to his feet, rolling back upon his shoulders before springing up with preternatural ease. In a swirling mess of black cloak the two men drove him to the floor, stabbing a spike into his spine – paralyzing the man even as he thrashed in fury.”
The tallest of the pair tilted his head, his booming voice addressing the blank air before him, “"Diatre, we have 111. Do you need assistance with the others?... Understood."
The two cloaked men hefted the man across their shoulders, sharing her weight between them. The deep voiced man spoke as they dragged him along the corridor, seemingly nonplussed by his attempt to murder them both. “We are your allies. We will explain what is going on once everything is back in order.”
The man seethed with anger at his helplessness – his impotence. Only seconds ago he'd fancied himself a god, and how he could not even kill two unarmed men. Pathetic – what kind of man was he if he couldn't even protect himself from two men in robes.
But he was alive – he survived. That could only mean one thing. These men needed him for something. They needed him
“Then you are not good men,” The man replied, the sweet scent of five men's blood and cordite still upon his nostrils, “Good men do not befriend monsters.”
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Dadri lynching: 2 youths ‘forced’ priest to make beef announcement
The youths had forced the temple priest to make the announcement, police said, adding that it triggered the attack.
india Updated: Oct 01, 2015 19:26 IST
Relatives of Mohammad Akhlaq mourn after he was killed by a mob on Monday night at his residence in Dadri town, in Uttar Pradesh. (REUTERS)
Police probing the Dadri lynching said on Thursday that the “trigger” behind the grisly incident was the announcement by a local temple that beef was being consumed by the victim’s family. They added the priest and two youths were the “major links” in the case.
The FIR lodged in this connection has no mention of beef. Police claimed that the cow slaughtering was just an allegation by the assailants.
“FIR has been lodged under IPC section 147 (Punishment for rioting), 148 (Rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly), 302(murder), 307 (Attempt to murder), 458(house-trespass or house-breaking), 504 ( Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace),” an officer said.
Ten persons have been named as accused along with over a hundred unknown assailants. The FIR was lodged on the basis of a complaint lodged by the victim’s family. Seven of the accused were held on Wednesday.
“The priest and two youths who forced him to announce beef rumour are the major links. Further probe will reveal the exact sequence of events as to how it all happened,” superintendent of police (rural) Sanjay Singh said.
District magistrate NP Singh said that magisterial inquiry has been started.
Read: Neighbours didn’t help, says kin of man killed over beef rumour
“Situation in Bisrakh is under control and magisterial inquiry has been initiated and peace committees are also trying to maintain communal harmony,” the DM said.
Police have ruled out any personal enmity angle. “Initial probe has ruled out the possibility,” said the SP.
Meanwhile, the family of Mohammad Ikhlaq, who was killed by the mob on the night of October 28, and 50 other families of the village were planning to move out of the village.
Additional district magistrate Rajesh Kumar met the victim’s family and other people of the community and assured them full protection.
“We will move out to our relatives in Delhi or states if situation here deteriorated,” said Raisuddin, one of the residents.
“My children grew up with Hindu neighbours and we were living in harmony for several decades. But on day of incident none of Hindu family neighbour came to our rescue,” said Asgari, mother of the deceased.
SSP Kiran S said,”District magistrate has already ordered an inquiry. Sample of meet recovered from victim’s house has been sent by chief veterinary officer to Mathura for forensic examination. Most of named accused have been arrested.
National Commission for minorities has sought report over the incident from the DM.
However, kin of the accused claimed that they were innocent and implicated by police.
“Police took my grandson Sandeep and a few other young people from Hindu families and claim they killed the man. I know them they can not even kill insect,” said Shanti Devi.
Meanwhile, local BJP leader Harish Thakur alleged that the Uttar Pradesh chief minister was “discriminating” on the basis of religion.
“Rs 10 lakh compensation was immediately announced on the death of Muslim while on death or injury to Hindu community members state government remains silent,” he said.
Read: ‘Violence after lynching in UP village a move to polarise voters’
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NBA All-Star Weekend: 5 Observations and a Plea for More Barkley
Sean Pendergast
Sean Pendergast | February 18, 2013 | 6:00am
In the spirit of full disclosure, I feel like I should tell you that I chose not to stick around Houston for the NBA All Star Game and it's peripheral festivities (up to and including the transformation of the Galleria into some kind of three-story clown car on Saturday) this past weekend.
As a broadcaster/media member, I was "off duty" for the weekend, and as a human being I didn't really feel the need to gravy train my way into a bunch of parties and tweet pictures of myself with celebrities acting like I actually hung out with them for longer than the four seconds it took to snap the picture.
I did enough of that at the Super Bowl two weeks ago.
However, I did watch all of the events that mattered on television over the weekend, and have a few observations:
5. The biggest celebrity in the Celebrity Game on Friday was Ryen Russillo's bald spot The first event of the weekend involving a basketball took place on Friday evening at the George R. Brown Convention Center, as a couple dozen of the most obscure names to qualify under the banner of "celebrity" went to battle in what always qualifies as two of the most awkward hours of television all year. And after forty minutes of B-level hip hop artists destroying (or attempting to destroy) the kid from The Hunger Games with Queen Latifah looking on (read that again, and then imagine my self-loathing after watching the whole fucking game), all anyone wanted to talk about was ESPN radio host Ryen Russillo's ample bald spot:
@ryenarussillo never realized that hair gap until you hung your head in shame on that swat #TeamRussillo
— Matt Kornfeind (@mkornfeind) February 16, 2013
@ryenarussillo5 POINTS!!!You're rather terrible, Russ.And you need that spray can "hair" for your head.Embarrassing
— Matthew Brauner (@mattbrauner) February 16, 2013
.@ryenarussillo Got the over, but the story coming out of this is going to be the hair. It might be time to say goodbye to yesterday
— Andy(@adrewzak) February 16, 2013
@ryenarussillo you looked just like ginobli out there. Bald spot and all
— George Jung (@DJGeorgeJung) February 16, 2013
@ryenarussillo @notthefakesvp Is that a white Yamaka? #rogaine
— Bryan Peterson (@BPJTT) February 16, 2013
Is @ryenarussillo wearing a flesh colored yamaka? @notthefakesvp
— Dave Fantelli™ (@dfantelli) February 16, 2013
Is @ryenarussillo wearing a Yamaka instead of a head band @notthefakesvp ?#fasionstatement
— Che Phillmann (@Mursing_man) February 16, 2013
@espnradio @ryenarussillo nice look with the scalp colored yamaka
— Jason Thompson (@chapelwoodsalum) February 16, 2013
Just to be clear, I've actually met Russillo before (at the Oklahoma-Notre Dame game in Norman this past October) and he couldn't have been a nicer guy, but I dredge up these tweets because (a) every talk radio host who was jealous that Russillo was playing in that game was ecstatic to see that he's been hiding that wide-open space on his scalp for the handful of years he's been on television (His radio show is simulcast on TV on ESPN2.), revealing a seeming level of denial that we all have about something, and because (b) Russillo, as it turns out, is physically an amalgam for about 98 percent of us in sports talk radio -- a little pudgy, a little bald, a little awkward, and very white. It was like we were watching ourselves. (To be clear, if that was me, I'm not sure I liked what I saw; I hope Russillo doesn't ever make a sex tape, my confidence will be shot.) 4. Kenneth Faried won the Rising Stars game MVP because he actually tried In a Friday "none of the players gives a shit" appetizer to the "none of the players gives a shit" main course on Sunday, the various rookies and sophomores on Team Charles and Team Shaq put on such a wretched display of laziness and an utter lack of defense that the last two minutes, no joke, actually saw all of the players on both teams clear out and let the big time dunkers stage a de facto dunk contest with the actual game clock running.
Look, we all accept that the defensive effort level in these games will be practically nothing, but I think most of us want the framework of the event to resemble an actual game. The fans -- well, the 100 or so who stuck around to the end -- didn't seem nearly as entertained as the players themselves were. It was basketball masturbation of the highest form. Kudos to Denver forward Kenneth Faried for taking home MVP honors in the game with 40 points. Of course, Faried was the one player who was playing at regular-game speed the whole game, so giving him the MVP of that game was like giving Yi Jianlian the MVP of the workout video where he just dribbled around a bunch of chairs.
One serious suggestion to amp the effort level from "nonexistent" to "semi-consistent sweat broken": Right now the teams are selected from a pool of rookies and sophomores by TNT studio fixtures and NBA legends Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal. It's an effort to cross promote TNT's top-notch studio show, and have Kenny Smith break both of their balls for horrific selections, I get it.
But I think if they actually gave ownership of the selection process to the two best players in the game (This year it would have been Damian Lillard and Kyrie Irving), I think the players would feel a little more emotionally invested. At least the leaders of both teams would and maybe that trickles down. Again, it probably doesn't turn it into Game 7 of the NBA Finals, but it probably keeps it from degenerating into what we saw Friday.
3. Shooting Stars and skills contests have the randomness of a game of pop-a-shot I'm sure the tickets for the Saturday-night events cost a pretty penny and the price is largely driven by two events -- the dunk contest and the three-point shooting contest. For some reason, the league feels like they need to pile on a couple of other events, either to market more of their stars or to give us the illusion we are getting our money's worth. The Shooting Stars and skills competition are these events. And here's the thing about each of them: boiled down, each is just a completely random shooting contest:
-- The Shooting Star contest consists of four teams each containing a current NBA star, a WNBA player, and an NBA "legend." The winner is the team that makes a layup, a foul shot, a three-pointer and a half-court shot in the shortest amount of time. Sounds simple, right? Well, it is, however, what happens is that the first three shots are so easy for these teams to make that the winning team is basically the one that can make a half-court shot the fastest. And since a half-court shot is way more luck than skill, what does this contest prove? (Answer: Who cares, I guess.)
-- The skills contest, on the surface, seems like one that is set up to justly reward a player who exhibits the greatest dribbling, passing, and shooting chops, i.e. the most skilled player. However, the dribbling and passing portions are such fifth-grade rudimentary bullshit that the contest just boils down to the person who can make a foul line set shot the fastest. (To be clear, this year, I had no problem with that as my Damian Lillard +300 prop bet hit!)
My suggestion: next season, just cut out the window dressing of actual events and wheel a pop-a-shot machine to center court and let the players play that for fifteen minutes.
2. "As many shots as he's made in this building? Are you kidding me??" TNT announcer and former NBA nuisance Reggie Miller said this after former Rocket Robert Horry couldn't knock down a half-court shot to clinch what should have been an easy Shooting Stars win. (Truth be told, Horry couldn't even hit the backboard. Watch it.) One problem, Horry never played for the Rockets in Toyota Center, so he actually has taken very few shots "in this building." And if it looks like I'm nitpicking, well, it's Reggie Miller. I'll happily nitpick.
1. The dunk contest is the biggest abortion this side of the Charlotte Bobcats I hate, HATE, being "back in my day" guy, but it's not even up for debate -- the dunk contest was a billion times better back in the late `80's. And it's not just because the stars of the game (Michael Jordan, Dominique Wilkins, etc) took part in the contest back then. That's part of it. But the format was far superior to today's dunk contest.
On Saturday, we had to sit through multiple dunkers taking up an entire 90-second shot clock (plus stoppages!) and not converting a single attempt. It was a total crowd killer. In the `80's, if a contestant missed a dunk, that was it for that round. No mulligans. So there was tension and focus with each dunk attempt. (Yes, kids, all of those dunk contest specials that we saw highlights of all weekend of Jordan and Nique and Spud Webb and...yeah, those were all dunks those guys converted on one try.) Seriously, I implore the NBA, try it the old way next season. It'll be a thousand times better.
The one saving grace in the dunk contest, as usual, was Charles Barkley's commentary. Somehow, some way, Chuck manages to make entertaining mundane stretches like James White repeatedly dribbling balls off of his knee for two minutes. I'm convinced if we let All Star Saturday just take on its own natural evolutionary energy that in about twenty years it would just consist of Charles sitting at center court with an open microphone ridiculing mankind.
And after this past weekend, I would be good with that.
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Sean Pendergast is a contributing freelance writer who covers Houston area sports daily in the News section, with periodic columns and features, as well. He also hosts afternoon drive on SportsRadio 610, as well as the post game show for the Houston Texans.
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M&E engineer Mitie Group has bucked the trend in the industry by indicating that it showed good growth in the second half of the year.
Mitie put its continued growth down to being well placed to provide cost effective outsourcing solutions across the estates of new and existing clients.
It said: “We have continued to see the development of our FM and multi-service offerings winning a number of new contracts of this type during the period. These contracts will contribute to our growth for the coming year. The market for outsourced services remains attractive.”
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With a final swing of the gavel, the Iowa Foundation for Agricultural Advancement (IFAA) raised $382,500 for the 16 exhibitors of 4-H and FFA Grand and Reserve Champion livestock in the Sale of Champions Saturday at the 2018 Iowa State Fair.
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Forecaster warns incoming high winds could close Orwell Bridge
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Highways England said its officers are constantly monitoring wind speeds on the bridge Picture: DAVID MORTIMER
It's been an unseasonably warm week to end a month that last year saw East Anglia covered in snow - but change is on the horizon, and it could pose some problems for the Monday rush hour.
Experts are predicting a changeable weekend across our region – with mild temperatures and sunny spells on Saturday afternoon making way for grey skies, patchy rain and blustery winds throughout Sunday.
Forecaster Chris Bell, from Norwich-based Weatherquest, said we are likely to see some “strong winds” as the weekend goes on, with speeds of up to 45mph on Sunday evening into Monday morning – something that could potentially cause problems for those crossing the Orwell Bridge.
Mr Bell said it “isn’t out of the question” that highways officers may consider closing the bridge, if they judge the blustery conditions to pose a substantial risk.
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They added that closing the bridge is always a “last resort” and will depend purely on the wind speeds and direction at the time.
Mr Bell said conditions will remain changeable into next week – with patches of wet weather broken up by pleasant sunny spells.
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LNG Markets Analysis Spot LNG prices up on outages, crude
By Froley Alex on 18th January 2018 in Energy
Spot LNG prices for east Asia held steady for most of the last four weeks at around $11.00/MMBtu for February deliveries, but started climbing higher towards mid-January on the back of maintenance outages at major production facilities, and influenced by the continued uptrend of crude oil.
Asian LNG has maintained, and even widened, its premium of around $4.00/MMBtu over northern European spot gas prices, offering a continued incentive to reload LNG from Europe to ship eastwards to countries such as South Korea and Japan.
The ICIS February East Asia Index (EAX) opened the period at $10.800/MMBtu on 18 December, ticked up to $11.000/MMBtu, then climbed higher to $11.613/MMBtu on 15 January, its last day as the front-month assessment. This was up 12% from the average EAX price for January deliveries a month earlier, and up 17% from the February average a year earlier.
Various major consumers were heard in the market looking for spot cargoes, including companies from India, South Korea and Japan. Later in the period there was some talk of Japanese buyers moving their remaining requirements into March in the hope of securing lower prices than quoted in the market for February cargoes.
A string of production outages added tightness to the market. Africa’s 5.2 million tonnes per annum Angola LNG had to shut down for repairs in early January, cancelling a spot cargo tender as a result. Russia’s 10.8 mtpa Sakhalin 2 project cut its output to deal with production issues, then scheduled a mid-January outage, which may have resulted in Russia’s Gazprom buying a spot cargo from Australia’s APLNG to backfill lost supplies. The 18 mtpa US Sabine Pass facility also reduced its output in the first half-January, though a recovery of reported feedgas flows into the terminal by mid-month suggested the issues were over by then.
On 10 January there was a leak from the Sabah-Sarawak gas pipeline upstream of Malaysia’s liquefaction facilities at Bintulu, which was expected to reduce output from the nine train, 29.2 mtpa complex.
The first 4.4 mtpa train at Australia’s Wheatstone plant produced its first three cargoes on 31 October, 12 November and 21 November, but commissioning checks and possible outages meant there was no further cargo from the plant until 4 January, when the 160,000cbm Asia Excellenceleft the facility for Japan.
Added to these outages, oil remained strong throughout the period. In dollar per MMBtu prices, Brent crude rose from just under $11/MMBtu at the start of the four weeks to just over $12/MMBtu by the end. Spot LNG for East Asia has been hovering just below crude-parity. When LNG costs as much as oil, this can act as a cap on prices, because certain buyers could switch from burning LNG to burning oil, adding additional possibly supply to the market.
Apart from this direct fuel-switching link, oil prices also impact the LNG market because many long-term contracts index the price of LNG to the price of oil. The price of cargoes under these long-term contracts influences the spot market, because consumers can optimize between buying in the spot market and taking additional volumes under their long-term contracts. However, while long-term contracts are often linked to oil, they would typically be priced below direct crude-parity levels.
EAX-NEX spread encourages reloads
The ICIS February Northwest Europe Index (NEX) averaged at $6.879/MMBtu during the mid-December to mid-January period. This average was some $4.245/MMBtu below the EAX average. With spot shipping from northwest Europe to Japan indicated at only $1.00-1.50/MMBtu, there remained a significant incentive to re-export cargoes from Europe to Asia.
Reloads seen from Europe included: the 170,000cbm Pskov, which left the Dutch Gate LNG terminal on 26 December to head to Oita, Japan; the 148,000cbm Grace Cosmos from France’s Fos Cavaou on 12 January; the 138,000cbm Methane Kari Elin from the UK’s Grain on 13 January, heading to Pyeongtaek in South Korea; and the 156,000cbm Wilforce from France’s Montoir on 16 January.
The North Sea Forties oil pipeline, which had shut unexpectedly in early December, impacting production from North Sea oil and gas fields including Shearwater and Elgin-Franklin, and sending UK spot gas prices surging higher, was back in action by the end of the month.
Russia’s Yamal begins shipments
The first 5.5 mtpa train at Russia’s Arctic Circle Yamal LNG project caught the industry’s attention in December as its first cargoes set out to market, with traders watching to see where these vessels would head. The early cargoes from the project are all expected to be sold in the spot market, with the majority of supplies to be dedicated to long-term contract holders from later in 2018.
A fleet of dedicated ice-breaking LNG tankers is being built to service the Yamal LNG project. During the summer months these vessels will be able to cross through the Northern Sea Route across the Arctic direct to east Asia, roughly halving their delivery time to consumers in countries such as China from 30 days via the traditional Suez Canal route to 15. However, during winter, the ice is too thick even for ice-breakers, and the ships will deliver their cargoes west towards Europe.
To maximize the use of the ice-breakers in colder waters, the Yamal LNG cargoes are being transferred onto normal tankers in Europe, for possible delivery to higher priced markets elsewhere. This can happen either in a direct ship-to-ship transfer, with volumes pumped from one ship’s hold to another’s, or in a ship-to-terminal-to-ship transfer, where the ship delivers into the onshore storage tanks of an LNG regas terminal, then departs, followed by a second ship pulling up to the jetty and taking the volumes back out of the terminal tanks. The decision to use one technique or the other may depend on exact regulations and procedures in place at specific ports.
The first cargo from Yamal was shipped on the 172,000cbm Christophe de Margerie to Grain in the UK, arriving 28 December. The volumes were unloaded into the terminal tanks, then later reloaded onto the 155,000cbm Gaselys, an ENGIE ship that was initially seen heading (via a bunker fuel operation in south Europe) to Everett in Boston in the US. The ship appeared to make an about-turn shortly before arriving, and was heading east as of 19 January.
The second Yamal cargo was delivered by the 172,000cbm Boris Vilkitsky to Gate in the Netherlands on 29 December. The cargo was switched in a ship-to-ship transfer onto the 162,000cbm Clean Ocean, which delivered it to Gas Natural Fenosa at Ferrol, Spain.
The third cargo was on the 172,000cbm Fedor Litke. It was transferred ship-to-ship onto the 155,000cbm LNG Jurojin at Montoir, France on 10 January. The LNG Jurojin then headed eastwards into the Mediterranean Sea.
The fourth cargo was back on board the Christophe de Margerie. The vessel left the Yamal LNG port of Sabetta on 6 January heading for the UK’s Dragon LNG. This was expected to be the first delivery of Russian LNG volumes to enter the UK’s national gas transmission system, rather than being reloaded or transferred.
Cold US sees record storage draws
The Gaselys attracted interest as the first cargo of Russian LNG planned to head to the US. The ship broadcast a heading for Boston and crossed most of the Atlantic on a heading to the northeast US city, although as of 19 January it appeared to have turned round again to head back east, for unknown reasons.
The US has, however, been suffering some unusually cold weather across the states, resulting in above-average gas consumption for heating. Early January saw record volumes being taken out of US gas storage facilities, according to data from the Energy Information Administration, plunging stocks in the lower 48 states towards the minimum level seen in the past five years.
Such strong demand meant it made sense for the country to look to import extra supplies. The situation was particularly extreme in the northeast of the US, where prompt spot market prices for the Boston and New York areas (covered by the Algonquin and Transco Zone 6 hubs) were seen as high as $80-140/MMBtu on 5 January, compared to more normal levels for front-month delivery at the southern US Henry Hub around $3.00/MMBtu.
Although the US has seen massive increases in gas production in the past decade, and is now seen as a net exporter of gas on an annual basis for the first time in around 60 years, there are pipeline bottlenecks within the country that can restrict flows from production centres to the highest demand points at certain times. When pipeline capacity to the northeast of the country is full, the only option for extra supply is LNG.
Similar situations have been seen in Europe. For example in early 2017 there was a cold spell in southern France and Spain. Restrictions on pipeline capacity from the north to the south of France meant that French gas company ENGIE resorted to loading LNG tankers with supplies from the Montoir terminal in northwest France, then shipping the LNG around Spain to put it back into the French system at Fos in southern France.
In the US, however, companies are not able to bypass pipeline congestion by sending Sabine Pass cargoes from Louisiana in the south to Boston in the northeast. Shipping regulations from 1920, known as the Jones Act, require all goods shipped along the US coast to be carried by US vessels, which rules out the vast majority of the current global LNG fleet. Delivering a Russian cargo into Boston therefore makes sense, particularly as the cargo’s value within Europe would only have been around $7.00/MMBtu.
The ship’s decision to turn around by 19 January may just reflect further changes in market conditions since the vessel’s course was decided earlier in the month. ENGIE has control of the cargo and can opt to change its destination if it wants.
The Canadian Canaport terminal, also covered by the Jones Act as it transports gas via pipe into the US, has meanwhile taken in recent cargoes from Trinidad.
Meanwhile, the market is still waiting for the start-up of production from the 5.2 mtpa Cove Point liquefaction plant in the US state of Maryland. Late last year the plant was expected to start liquefying gas in November, with the first cargo expected to depart by the end of 2017. However, traders now anticipate a start-up towards the end of the first quarter 2018, or possibly beyond.
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Challenging Waters
The Diary of a Lake District Swimmer
"Meet the man who swam across the Lake District"
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Challenging Waters: The Diary of a Lake District Swimmer
To celebrate his 60th birthday, John Mather thought it would be a good idea to swim the length of all seventeen lakes in the English Lake District. This proved to be quite an undertaking, requiring a much greater deal of time, effort and planning than he had anticipated!
From Brothers Water to Windermere, John’s icy endeavours were rewarded with tantalising glimpses of wildlife amidst the awesome mountainscape and variable weather that was thrown at him. Indeed not everything went to plan, however the beautiful fragility of this wonderful land made its mark in many ways, as recounted in this illustrated account of his journey.
John has swum in many places in the UK and abroad. His coldest swim was in the freezing waters of Siberia’s Lake Baikal!
Title: Challenging Waters, The Diary of a Lake District Swimmer
Independent publisher: Sublime Swimming Press
Date of Publication: 28 February 2018
Includes 20 full page black and white drawings and 6 full page colour photographs
About John Mather
John Mather is passionate about swimming and has swum in many lakes and rivers in the UK and abroad in pursuit of his dream.
He first learned to swim in Bolton, Lancashire, and spent his formative years braving the best of what Greater Manchester‘s swimming pools could offer, before moving to Cumbria in his early 20s, and developing an enthusiasm for outdoor swimming.
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Sporting Stars Help Raise £12k For Forget Me Not
News & Media Sporting Stars Help Raise £12k For Forget Me Not
On Thursday 31st March the Stadium played host to four fantastic sporting stars, track and field runner Steve Cram CBE, Decathlete Daley Thompson CBE, 400m Sprinter Jamie Baulch and Rugby Union Star Phil Davies, for the third annual Forget Me Not Sporting Dinner.
The dinner was in aid of local charity the Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice, which cares for children across West Yorkshire who have life shortening health conditions.
With the help of private donations from guests and the evening’s auctions the dinner raised an amazing £12,000 for the hospice.
Fundraising Events Manager, Lucy Burnett said, “We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who made the evening such a great success, from our sport stars to our sponsors to our guests, it really was a fantastic night.”
Steve Cram CBE, who acted again as host at the annual dinner interviewed former team mate and Decathlete Daley Thompson, who won Olympic Gold Medals at the 1980 and 1984 games, 400m sprinter Jamie Baulch, who won the Olympic Silver Medal at the 1996 games and former Rugby Union player and current coach of Namibia Phil Davies.
Photography by ‘Mark Flynn Photography’ – check out his website for images from the evening!
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Jaguar Land Rover Seen Off by Small Business in Trade Mark Dispute
The careful scrutiny given to trade mark applications applies to multinationals with just the same rigour as it does to modest businesses. In a High Court case on point, a small company successfully blocked Jaguar Land Rover Limited’s bid to establish exclusive use of a sign in the form of the letters ‘LR’.
Jaguar Land Rover already owned the trade marks ‘Jaguar’ and ‘Land Rover’ and wished to add ‘LR’ to its intellectual property portfolio. However, its application to register the mark was resisted by a company which traded under the name ‘LR Motors’. The latter operated a single showroom, but conducted a nationwide trade in iconic second-hand Land Rover Defender vehicles.
LR Motors said that the proposed mark would confuse its customers, jeopardise its goodwill and amount to a misrepresentation to the public amounting to passing off. Those arguments were sufficient to persuade an officer acting on behalf of the Registrar of Trade Marks, who refused Jaguar Land Rover’s application.
In dismissing Jaguar Land Rover’s appeal against that ruling, the Court could detect no flaw in the officer’s decision. It noted that the car manufacturer accepted that LR Motors had established goodwill in its name. It was also common ground that Jaguar Land Rover had never used the initials ‘LR’ as a sign to denote its goods in the UK.
LR Motors was concerned to maintain its reputation as an independent retailer, unconnected to Jaguar Land Rover, and there was no evidence to support the car manufacturer’s assertion that it would be obvious to anyone that the letters ‘LR’ in ‘LR Motors’ was a reference to Land Rover.
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Home > Books > The Balance (Chronicles of Aurderia Book 1)
The Balance (Chronicles of Aurderia Book 1)
A Land of Fantasy and Elemental Magic is falling into chaos from Ancient Sumerian interference.
Follow along on the journeys of Shuran and his friends as they seek a means to triumph against dark forces and rally the world against the Chaos. The first book in the series will see the rebirth of an old force for good while old enemies begin to return.
What has happened to the magical world?
Ersetu, it is a land of wonders in sorcery, spells, and weaving of elemental magics. These abilities come from the Essence, an
energy stored in all things. For eons these abilities in the people of the realms went unchecked and chaos reigned. Multitudes of wars were fought over hundreds of generations and the toll on the lands was disastrous. Much of the world became poisoned and unlivable. People and magical creatures were dying off and all of Ersetu was on the verge of collapse.
The magical races come together…
A meeting of the lands great races was arranged to barter peace; it was decided that the only way to create a lasting truce was to bring about balance of the Essence. The Great Council was created with members of these seven main races to establish a plan for the balance. And so it was this council that devised the blending, a cross breeding of the races and thus combinations of the powers they each possessed. Through this program, the blended peoples could create offspring who could harness all the seven powers and forge a balance in the land to restore what had been devastated.
A sacrifice is made…
Two altars of power were constructed to represent both chaos and creation. Chaos altar, black as pitch, was made of dragon glass from the depths of Hell’s Mouth, land of the Drakkians. The Altar of Creation, carved from the purest of clear crystal from the mystic caves of Mount Aris high above the clouds in the Orenthal Mountains. Upon the completion of these altars, two zealots tapped the essence and poured power into the altars until the life force drained from them. Their sacrifice created the great balance, Lal-Li Mah, and allowed the lands to begin repairing millennia of destruction, bringing about a new era of peace and prosperity.
Prejudice causes the races to split…
After a few generations however, disdain and open prejudices of the blended race peoples turned to persecution. The “purists” sought to rid the lands of those with blended blood. These purists being of only single race blood lines feared those of mixed blood because of the abilities in Essence they possessed, however they used fear of a new unbalance to drive others to begin rounding up the abominations and putting them to death for the greater good. This was the great purification called, Sikil Mah.
Order is established under the rule of chaos…
Those who managed to escape notice left the healed lands of Aurderia and call themselves the forsaken. Some still lived among the realms of Aurderia but only because they could blend in and hide their powers or were protected by sympathizers and family. The Great Council forbade use of the Essence without sanction and schools were established for proper education until finally the Essence Academy was created in the capital city New Draven.
And so it was for hundreds of years… until Chaos was set loose upon the land by lust for power.
The balance between good and evil is a perilous thing. This is especially true for the world of Ersetu. Chaos has begun to manifest upon the lands threatening to tear the world apart again. Three children of seven elemental magic bloodlines are born to be instruments of change in the balance, but their roles are each different in this fantasy quest series.
Follow along on the journeys of Shuran and his friends as they seek a means to triumph against dark forces and rally the world against the Chaos. The first book in the series will see the rebirth of an old force for good while old enemies begin to return. The series blends fantasy and science fiction while adding a twist on the magic of dragons.
Take a “Look Inside” and read a sampling of the first sections
Series: Chronicles of Aurderia, Book 1
Genres: Epic Fantasy, Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Young Adult
ASIN: B00BWG4RAA
Other Books in "Chronicles of Aurderia"
Chronicles of Aurderia: Complete Trilogy
River of Souls (Chronicles of Aurderia Book 2)
Queen of Shadow (Chronicles of Aurderia Book 3)
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First published in ITIJ 96, January 2009
Happiest day of your life, or a total disaster? Roger St. Pierre investigates how the insurance industry is helping protect wedding couples from the unforeseen
It’s meant to be the happiest day of anyone’s life, but even the best planned of weddings can turn into an unmitigated disaster – and the risk of that happening is bound to increase if they should decide to follow the current trend to tie the knot in some exotic far-flung destination rather than just down the road at the local church,
There’s a lot at stake, with a recent survey by the Association of Bridal Consultants indicating that today’s typical American wedding will involve four bridesmaids, four ushers and around 150 guests – and cost an average US$30,000. Even among ordinary working families, budgets of US$100,000 are now not uncommon and in Europe costs run even higher. It’s a US$80-billion industry Stateside alone, And as town halls, hotels, museums and other, sometimes bizarre, venues now licensed for the performance of wedding ceremonies intensify fight for a piece of the action the overall spend on the first day of hoped for marital bliss is mushrooming around the world.
The brochures of the major tour operators are now overflowing with tailored wedding and honeymoon packages and many of the travel companies, Thomas Cook, Tui and Kuoni included, have dedicated wedding travel brochures that are flying off the shelves, even in today’s challenging financial climate.
Risky destinations
Factor in the travel costs involved in staging the event overseas – with the Caribbean, Mexico, Hawaii, Fiji, Bali, Tahiti, Mauritius and the Seychelles among the popular choices these days, not to forget that old favourite, Las Vegas – and the need for insuring the big day – and its run-up – against mishaps becomes even more pressing. Finland’s ice hotels, cruise ships crossing the equator or the international dateline, the basket of a hot air balloon, a rollercoaster car – the places where people now say ‘I do’ are becoming ever more inventive, each of them presenting its own risk factors, which means opportunities for the underwriter who’s quick off the blocks.
Venues are becoming ever more widely flung as destinations and tour operators alike cotton on to the potential of what has become one of the hard-pressed travel industry’s few vibrant growth areas at this trying time. With hotels and other places now legally entitled to stage weddings in an increasing number of countries, the future really does seem boundless.
"the places where people now say ‘I do’ are becoming ever more inventive"
Of course, the unforeseen can strike in many ways. I was on a flight back from Jakarta that was supposed to be landing in Amman en-route to London; except it got diverted via Bangkok instead, That was no great problem for most of us, except that the distraught young man sitting glumly in seat 14B was on to his way to his wedding, set to be in, you guessed it, Amman! And what if it’s not the groom but the bride’s trousseau that gets mis-routed? The old ‘Breakfast in London, dinner in Las Vegas, baggage in the Bahamas’ adage takes on a whole new dimension when you are trying to shift bride and groom, guests, wedding presents and attendant luggage from one continent to another.
Just consider the tick list of things that can go wrong. The bride, groom or a member of the immediate family could be injured or fall ill; a hurricane, tornado, flood or power outage wrecks the wedding or honeymoon; the wedding dress or presents get damaged, lost en-route or stolen; a guest is injured and sues; the priest, rabbi, imam or officiating person fails to turn up; the wedding pictures or video get spoiled or the photographer simply fails to arrive; caterers or other service providers go bust after taking a deposit or, worse yet, give everyone food poisoning. Or maybe the best man not only gets drunk and ruins the carpet but also manages to lose the wedding ring. All this and much more besides is now coverable, Some policies available today will even cover the cost of re-staging the wedding pictures if they have been ruined or simply didn’t get taken in the first place, because of a no-show photographer – and this will include the cost of a new cake, flowers, limos and other props, as well as the photography bill itself.
These and a wide range of other risks can all now be covered by widely available wedding insurance and there’s certainly a Lloyd’s broker somewhere who would cover the risk of the bride or groom getting cold feet and jilting the person who was set to become their partner for life. That’s traditionally been an exclusion, though, because it has been felt that it could encourage fraud scams, though some policies will now include a carefully specified ‘change of heart’ section that will, for instance, enable the father of a jilted bride to recover monies he has laid out to pay for the wedding that wasn’t to be.
There’s another eventuality that American and UK wedding policies now cover and that’s for the unexpected call-up for military service if the bride or groom happens to be a member of the armed forces or reserve.
Public liability insurance is another ‘must have’ for the sensible wedding planner. Injury to guests or staff, property damage and alcohol related accidents can all be covered. What for instance, if a guest carelessly drops a lit cigarette and the wedding hall burns to the ground?
"a hurricane, tornado, flood or power outage wrecks the wedding or honeymoon"
Most venue sites will automatically include insurance in their hire costs while home risks policies may also cover some elements, but there’s always the unforeseen and not already covered disaster to worry about. UK specialist wedding insurer E$L can even offer a policy extension to insure a ceremonial sword against loss or damage! Their standard policies start from as little as £26 and cover the wedding and reception from up to two years before the actual date of the ceremony.
The wedding insurance business was born in Britain in the 1980s and spread to the US over the following decade. First on the American scene was Weddinsurance, developed by Robert Nuccio of RV Nuccio & Associates in the early 1990s and upgraded to a new component-based product in 1997. The programme is now underwritten by Fireman’s Fund and is sold throughout all 50 states by brokers and agents, on a commission basis. Besides weddings, the company also covers bar mitzvahs, reunions, anniversaries and other such celebrations, with premiums generally ranging from US$100 to US$1,000.
Among common claims that arrive in Weddinsurance’s in-tray are the cancellation or postponement of weddings for such events as sudden illness, such as a heart attack or appendicitis, serious car accident injuries, or the unexpected closing of airports, such as occurred in the wake of 9/11.
“Only those who could manage to pay for the same wedding twice over without wincing should be without wedding insurance,” observes Nuccio, whose company’s standard cover limit is US$500,000, adding, “A US$10,000 wedding might well be more of a financial stretch for one family than a US$100,000 outlay is to someone else – it’s all relative and most of us will eventually spend far more than we can really afford, so it really does make sense to insure it. Ordinary travel insurance does provide a degree of protection, but is not comprehensive enough for everything, not by a long-way. It does, though, pay to take into account what is already insured on existing travel or home all risks policies and then to get the wedding insurance tailored to fill in the gaps, says Amsterdam-based travel consultant Dirk Van Est, who currently facilitates around 30 overseas weddings a year.
WedSafe, which now shares domination of this sector in the States with Weddingsurance and is a subsidiary of Aon, was started in 2000 as a direct result of the experience of company founder president Karen Sandau and her husband Roger when they realised just how much cash was at stake in connection with their own planned destination wedding on the romantic Hawaiian island of Maui. “It was a massive investment for us and we felt we needed protection against mishap,” remembers Karen.
WedSafe’s tailored range of policies is underwritten by Markel North America and covers, among other things, deposits that are lost through cancellation or postponement for such wedding list items as accommodation, transport, catering, entertainment, wedding attire, photographs and flowers – with some interesting exclusions, such as the bride or groom violating parole and being sent back to prison, a divorce from a previous marriage not having been finalised in time, or inclement weather, excepting where it is severe enough to prevent the bride, groom, immediate family members or the majority of guests from attending.
Tailor-made cover
British wedding insurance provider Dreamsaver Wedding Insurance, a part of Voyager Insurance Services Ltd, markets its product primarily on-line: “We offer four different levels of cover and can also include marquee cover if the event is to be staged outdoors,” said their spokesman.
Ecclesiastical, Confetti, Churchill and Swinton are other British insurers already very active in the market: “Our policies can be tailored to cover everything from spoiled cakes to cancellations, unreliable cars to wilting carnations,” said an Ecclesiastical spokesman.
SecureMyWedding.com was launched back in July by Bermack, Champion & Lewine, who have been in the insurance business since 1962; “Wedding costs have soared and the personal and financial investment can be endangered by circumstances unrelated to prudent planning,” a spokeswoman told me, adding: “Inclement weather, unreliable caterers or a reception venue that closes down unexpectedly are all things over which those planning a marriage have little or no control. Wedding insurance helps to buffer the emotional and financial toll that outside influences can have on what should be a special day.”
Debenhams is a British department store chain that offers its own range of wedding insurance packages. Their cover includes up to £1,000 for loss of documents that are essential in order for an overseas wedding to proceed and, unlike most other policies on the market, offers up to three months’ after the event cover for items on the wedding gift list. Public liability is covered for one month before and two months after the ceremony.
"there’s certainly a Lloyd’s broker somewhere who would cover the risk of the bride or groom getting cold feet"
Not surprisingly, from small beginnings wedding insurance has become very much a growth business, with less than one per cent of American couples currently taking out any form of wedding insurance cover: “For just one or two per cent of the wedding’s cost you can insure it, and, given the sums at risk, that has to make sound sense. The potential market out there is absolutely enormous,” says Kyle Brown of the Bakersfield, California, based Bridal Association of America.
New Orleans-based professional wedding planner Jennie Keller used to insist her clients took out wedding insurance for any events planned to take place in hurricane season. Now she insists on it year round: “I believe it’s crucial to be properly protected. It’s horrible to start off a new life together with a disastrous wedding day but at least proper cover can mitigate the pain.”
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Prediction of Suicide Ideation and Attempt Among Substance-Using Patients in Primary Care
Kevin A. Hallgren, Richard K. Ries, David C. Atkins, Kristin Bumgardner and Peter Roy-Byrne
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine March 2017, 30 (2) 150-160; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2017.02.160264
Kevin A. Hallgren
From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.
Richard K. Ries
David C. Atkins
Kristin Bumgardner
Peter Roy-Byrne
Background: Suicide is a major public health concern, particularly among people who use illicit substances and/or non-prescribed medications.
Methods: The present study prospectively assessed the incidence and predictors of suicidal ideation (SI) and suicide attempt (SA) among 868 substance-using patients over 12 months after receiving primary care within seven public primary care clinics.
Results: Participants reported a high incidence of SI (25.9%) and SA (7.1%) over the year following primary care visits. Suicidality was elevated in patients who were female; lacked a high school diploma; were unemployed; reported depression, anxiety, hallucinations, concentration difficulty, or violent behavior; used nicotine or stimulants; used the emergency department or mental health services in the past 90 days; reported current quality-of-life impairment in mobility or usual activities; or reported recent SI or lifetime SA at baseline. In multiple regression analyses, only past 30-day SI, any lifetime SA, past 90-day violent behavior, and current impairment due to anxiety or depression at baseline uniquely predicted SI or SA beyond other variables.
Conclusions: Results support the need for screening for suicidality among primary care patients who use illicit substances and identify key subgroups of these patients who are at particularly elevated risk for suicidality.
Annually, over 40,000 people in the United States die from suicide,1 and the annual rate of completed suicides has increased by 24% over the past 15 years.2 Suicide is currently the 10th leading cause of death and creates annual costs of $44 billion.3 Primary care providers are uniquely positioned to address health concerns related to suicidality. Three fourths of individuals who attempt or complete suicide interact with primary care providers in the 6 months before their suicide or attempt, whereas fewer than half receive psychiatric services within the same time period.4
Unfortunately, little is known about the incidence and predictors of suicidality among primary care patients who use substances. In the general population, alcohol or drug use disorders increase the risk for suicide by a factor of 10 to 145⇓–7, and the risk of suicidal ideation (SI) or suicide attempt (SA) for individuals with substance use disorders is only slightly lower than for individuals with mood or anxiety disorders.8 Alcohol and drug use disorders themselves are increasingly common presenting problems in primary care9: people with alcohol or drug use disorders have high rates of comorbid health problems10 and are nearly twice as likely to interact with general medical providers than specialty mental health providers within a typical 12-month period.11
Previous studies of substance-using populations have found greater suicidality risk among individuals with co-occurring depression and other mental health problems,5,12⇓–14 heavier substance use,5,15⇓⇓–18 medical conditions,5 female sex,5,13,15 previous violent behavior,19 and a history of suicide attempts.13,15 However, suicidality among substance-using primary care patients is understudied; most studies typically focus more on alcohol than other drugs, use cross-sectional designs, assess suicidality retrospectively, or focus on community or specialty addiction treatment populations rather than primary care. The aim of this study was to address these gaps by prospectively characterizing the incidence and predictors of SI and SA over a 1-year period after attending primary care appointments for patients reporting use of illicit drugs or nonprescribed medications within the past 90 days.
This study is a secondary analysis of data from a randomized clinical trial of screening, a brief intervention, and referral to treatment for substance use in primary care.20,21 Participants (n = 868) received a single brief intervention using motivational interviewing, typically on the same day as their primary care appointments, with an attempted 10-minute telephone booster 2 weeks later (n = 435) or enhanced care as usual (n = 433), consisting of substance use screening, a handout showing screening results and associated risk factors, and a list of referrals to substance abuse treatment services.
Participants usually completed screening and baseline assessments on the same day as their primary care appointments. The screen included 2 items to assess use of illicit drugs and nonprescribed medications within the past 90 days. Baseline interviews further assessed eligibility criteria and information about substance use, psychiatric symptoms, and health-related impairment (described below). Measures were intentionally brief to mirror those that could be implemented in primary care, and variables included for this analysis were selected to represent the breadth of domains assessed in the baseline interviews.
SI and SA were reassessed 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after baseline primary care appointments. Interviews were conducted in person whenever possible, with phone interviews as a backup option. Interviewers received extensive training on all measures, were observed during initial interviews to ensure adherence, and attended weekly supervision meetings throughout the study that addressed assessment quality and adherence. Full details of the study design and the main outcomes of the clinical trial are presented elsewhere20,21; in brief, there were no differences in substance use outcomes between treatment conditions, and both conditions had small reductions in substance use during the follow-up period compared with baseline. All participants provided written, informed consent. The study was approved by institutional review and data safety monitoring boards.
Participants were recruited from waiting rooms of 7 primary care clinics in King County, Washington. These clinics are part of a large, urban medical center and are considered safety-net clinics in that they serve a large number of patients who have a low income and limited or no health insurance. Few patients in this setting formally seek substance use treatment, and many patients have several suicide risk factors (eg, high rates of physical and psychiatric illness,22⇓–24 low income and/or unemployment,25 homelessness, and previous SI and SA23,26).
In addition to drug use within the past 90 days, inclusion criteria included age ≥18 years, speaks English, sixth-grade literacy, telephone or E-mail access, and plans to continue receiving care at the clinic. Exclusion criteria included formal substance abuse treatment in the past month (excluding 12-step groups such as Narcotics Anonymous), life-threatening medical illness, severe cognitive impairment, active psychosis, and imminent suicidal intent with a reported inability to control suicidal impulses. Seven patients were deemed ineligible before baseline because of imminent suicidal intent and were instead linked with appropriate clinical services; a full breakdown of other reasons for exclusion is available in the primary outcome study.21
Suicidality
SI and SA were assessed using 2 items from the Addiction Severity Index-Lite (ASI)27 indicating any serious SI in the past 30 days and any SA in one's lifetime (baseline) or SA since the last research assessment (follow-ups). The threshold for endorsing the SI item required that a patient “seriously considered a plan for taking his/her life.” The SA item required at least 1 specific self-harming behavior with some intention of dying, regardless of the actual lethality of the method. For safety purposes, patients who endorsed SI received additional risk assessment and were linked with appropriate clinical services during or after the interviews.
Substance Use, Demographics, and Psychiatric Symptoms
The ASI assessed the frequency of alcohol, opiate, sedative/hypnotic/tranquilizer, stimulant, marijuana, nicotine, hallucinogen, and other drug use over the past 30 days. Participants estimated the number of days among the past 30 that they used each illicit or nonprescribed drug class; 2 dichotomous variables were computed for each class, indicating any use or daily use within the past 30 days. ASI composite indices of alcohol and drug use severity were also computed; scores ranged from 0 (lowest severity) to 1 (highest severity).
The ASI assessed demographic variables including age, sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, and education. Psychiatric symptoms that did not directly result from substance use were measured on the ASI via single-item questions assessing depression, anxiety, hallucinations, difficulty concentrating, and difficulty controlling violent behavior within the past 30 days.
Drug Use Severity
The Drug Abuse Screening Test28 was administered at baseline to assess symptoms of nonalcohol drug use disorders over the past 12 months. The measure contains 10 yes/no items that are summed to create a single index of drug use severity; it has good reliability and criterion validity.28
Employment and Social Variables
Interviewers assessed at baseline whether participants experienced homelessness or incarceration within the past 90 days and whether they received welfare benefits within the past 30 days. Electronic state patrol records were reviewed for pending legal charges.
Clinical Services Use
Electronic medical records were reviewed from state inpatient hospitals, the medical center where the study took place, and state chemical dependency treatment facilities to assess emergency department, mental health, substance abuse, and outpatient medical treatment use within the past 90 days. Interviewers also assessed participation in 12-step groups within the past 90 days.
Health-Related Quality of Life
The European Quality of Life Scale (EuroQol)29 assessed current health-related impairments in mobility, self-care, activities, pain, and anxiety/depression at baseline. Patients also rated their overall perceived health status using a visual-analog health scale (VAHS), from 0 (worst imaginable) to 100 (best imaginable).
All analyses used binary outcomes reflecting any SI or SA within the 12-month follow-up. Summary variables were computed to reflect whether SI or SA were present at least once over the full 12-month follow-up. Outcomes were measured differently for SI (past 30 days) and SA (since the last assessment) at each follow-up, and indicators were computed to indicate whether any SI or any SA was known to be present on at least 1 occasion, absent throughout the entire follow-up period that was assessed, or unknown because of missing follow-ups. (SI was coded as missing if participants did not endorse SI at any of the completed follow-ups and missed one or more follow-up, in which case SI within the past month in all 4 periods could not be known. SA was coded as missing if participants did not endorse SA at any of the completed follow-ups and also did not complete the 12-month follow-up, in which case SA over the full 12-month period could not be known.)
Although it is not possible to definitively evaluate why follow-up data were missing, we examined SI and SA at baseline as predictors of “missingness” and found that missing follow-up SI data were more common for participants without baseline SI (18.1%) than for participants with baseline SI (8.7%; P = .003); missing data were unrelated to baseline SA. To address missing data, in all statistical analyses we used multiple imputation with chained logistic regression equations,30 which reduces bias more than other approaches, even when some data are not missing at random.31 Twenty imputation sets were generated using Gibbs sampling, incorporating all baseline variables (including baseline SI and SA) to improve prediction accuracy.
Descriptive statistics were computed to estimate the incidence of SI and SA over the 12-month follow-up period. Single-predictor logistic regression tested univariate associations of baseline variables with SI and SA over the 12-month follow-up. Significant univariate predictors (P < .05) were then entered into logistic multiple regression models to identify the relative importance of predictors when accounting for other predictors. All analyses were conducted using R software.32
All predictors except age, ASI severity indices, and EuroQol/VAHS were dichotomized to indicate that a symptom or characteristic was present (1) or absent (0). The remaining continuous variables (age, ASI severity, EuroQol/VAHS) were standardized as z-scores. Treatment condition was not entered into statistical models because of the lack of association with subsequent SI and SA (P ≥ .86).
Among the 868 patients with data at baseline, 12.1% endorsed SI within the past 30 days and 39.6% reported SA within their lifetime (Table 1; predictors of SI within the past 30 days and SA over the lifetime at baseline for this sample have been reported elsewhere14). Table 1 presents other descriptive statistics including demographics, employment, social issues, psychiatric symptoms, suicidality, substance use, health care utilization, and health-related quality of life. Participants were predominantly male and unmarried. Other demographics reflected the diversity of patients served by these clinics, including a high percentage who were unemployed and receiving welfare. Over a third were white and another third were African American. A majority endorsed feeling depressed or anxious, about half reported difficulty concentrating, and nearly four-fifths endorsed at least moderate pain or discomfort.
Baseline Sample Characteristics (N = 868)
Marijuana, nicotine, alcohol, and stimulants were the most commonly used substances. Hallucinogen and “other” drug use within the past 30 days was endorsed by only 19 participants (2.2%) and 33 participants (3.8%), respectively, with daily use endorsed by 0 and 1 participant, respectively; therefore, these drug classes were not included in subsequent analyses. Of note, just under half of the patients had emergency treatment within the past 90 days. Only 1 in 4 participants received mental health care in the past 90 days; fewer reported 12-step involvement or formal substance use treatment during the same time window.
12-Month SI and SA Incidence
Within the full sample of 868 participants, data on SI (within the past 30 days at months 3, 6, 9, and 12) and SA (throughout the full 12-month period) were available for 721 and 780 participants, respectively. As shown in Table 2, SI was endorsed on at least 1 occasion over the 12-month period by 25.9% of the sample, whereas SA was endorsed by 7.1% within the same period. Of participants who endorsed SI during follow-up, 21.1% also endorsed SA during the follow-up, whereas 73.1% of those who endorsed SA during follow-up also endorsed SI. Of note, most participants who endorsed SI (52.9%) or SA (78.2%) during the full follow-up period did so on only 1 of the 4 follow-up assessments, suggesting that those who endorsed SI or SA were not consistently suicidal over the full 12-month period.
Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempt Incidence over 12-Month Follow-up After Screening and Brief Intervention for Substance Use
Univariate Predictors of SI and SA
Associations between individual baseline variables and SI and SA incidence within the full 12-month follow-up period are presented in Table 3. Odds ratios reflect the increase in odds of subsequent 12-month SI or SA when a predictor variable is present (binary predictors) or when a predictor variable increases by 1 standard deviation (continuous predictors) without controlling for other baseline variables.
Univariate Predictors of Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempt
Among all baseline predictors, SI within the past 30 days and any SA in a lifetime were associated with the highest increased odds of subsequent 12-month SI. SI was unrelated to sex or education status and was less common among African Americans and patients reporting alcohol use at baseline. Unemployed patients had higher odds of SI, as did patients endorsing any psychiatric symptoms assessed in the ASI (depression, anxiety, hallucinations, difficulty concentrating, violent behavior) and patients with outpatient psychiatric care within the past 90 days. Daily stimulant use and higher baseline ASI drug scores were associated with higher odds of subsequent SI, as were impairments in mobility, usual activities, or anxiety/depression on the EuroQol. Better perceived health status was associated with lower odds of SI.
Suicide Attempt
SI within the past 30 days and a lifetime history of SA at baseline were the strongest univariate predictors of subsequent 12-month SA. SA was unrelated to race; however, SA was more likely among women and younger patients and less likely among patients who completed high school. All 5 psychiatric symptoms assessed by the ASI at baseline predicted increased odds of subsequent SA. SA was more common among patients with daily stimulant use, any nicotine use, higher ASI drug scores, and more days using alcohol or drugs at baseline. Higher odds of SA were predicted by emergency department and psychiatric outpatient treatment within the past 90 days at baseline, but not other medical and substance abuse treatment service utilization. EuroQol impairment in mobility, usual activities, and anxiety or depression were associated with greater odds of SA; higher perceived health status was associated with lower odds of SA.
Multiple Regression Predictors of SI and SA
Multiple regression models tested which baseline predictors were associated with subsequent 1-year SI and SA after accounting for other predictors (Table 4). Only the predictors with significant simple associations with SI or SA were included in these models, with 2 exceptions: any nicotine use within the past 30 days was omitted because of strong overlap with daily nicotine use, and alcohol use within the past 30 days was omitted because of its association with greater suicide risk among the general population, making it unlikely to be considered a protective factor.
Multiple Regression Predictors of Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempt
When controlling for other variables, 12-month SI was predicted by SI within the past 30 days, lifetime SA, and EuroQol depression/anxiety at baseline. Twelve-month SA was predicted by difficulty with violent behavior, SI within the past 30 days, and lifetime SA at baseline. Substance use, treatment utilization, and demographic variables did not significantly predict SI or SA beyond what was accounted for by other variables.
This study examined SI and SA over 12 months after patients with recent substance use received primary care in public, urban clinics. Incidence rates of SI (25.9%) and SA (7.1%) were considerably higher than estimated 1-year incidence rates for people in the general US population (SI, 3.7%; SA, 0.5%),33 which is consistent with research indicating that substance use is a substantial risk factor for suicidality.5,15⇓⇓–18 While variables reflecting substance use only occasionally predicted SI and SA within this sample (including a small, yet surprising association between alcohol use and lower SI risk), it is important that these findings be interpreted within the context of the present sample, which had markedly high suicidality in general. That is, while substance use variables did not predict which patients within this sample had particularly elevated risk, the sample as a whole had considerably high rates of SI and SA, suggesting that alcohol and drug use may still be associated with elevated risk for suicidality, although patients using alcohol in this study had slightly lower relative odds of suicidality than those who used drugs only. It should be noted that additional risk factors that frequently co-occur with substance use, including homelessness, unemployment, frequent medical service utilization, and psychiatric complaints, could also have contributed to the high SI and SA rates observed.
Several baseline variables had univariate associations with subsequent SI and SA, which may indicate subpopulations of substance-using primary care patients who are at a particularly elevated risk for SI and SA. These were often consistent with known risk factors, including physical and psychiatric health complaints,22⇓–24 daily stimulant use,17 violent behavior,19 and previous SI or SA.23 After controlling for overlap among risk factors through multiple logistic regression, SI and SA were both predicted by SI within the past 30 days and lifetime SA; SI was also predicted by EuroQol depression/anxiety and SA was also predicted by difficulties with violent behavior. These findings may help primary care providers identify which patients are at greatest risk. Nonetheless, suicidality is challenging to predict, and using these variables alone to assess suicide risk would inadequately predict actual suicidality outcomes for many patients. For example, most participants endorsing SI at baseline did not have subsequent SA, and conversely, fewer than half of patients who reported SA over the 1-year follow-up period endorsed SI within the past 30 days at baseline. In other words, it would be very challenging for providers to predict who will subsequently ideate or attempt suicide and when that will happen. Additional research may help in understanding risk factors for suicide in substance-using primary care patients.
People who use drugs are more likely to interact with primary care providers than with specialty addiction or mental health providers,11 giving primary care providers unique opportunities to intervene in both substance use and suicide. However, these opportunities are often missed.34 Given the burden that primary care providers have of screening for multiple health conditions, we are cautious about recommending yet another screen. However, a case could be made for proactive, episodic assessment of suicidality for primary care patients who use drugs as a critical step for preventing suicide within this high-risk population. This recommendation is consistent with increasing practices of screening for suicidality among patients with major depression, and it is consistent with national organizations' recommendations to screen and assess suicidality, and provide triage services for suicidal patients in primary care.35,36 We recognize that providers may be reluctant to screen for suicidality when adequate treatment and referral sources are not readily available; therefore, a case could also be made for additional research on effective ways to improve resources for addressing suicidality within primary care, especially in settings with high rates of illicit substance use.
Additional research testing integrated protocols for treating suicidality and substance use simultaneously within primary care is warranted, as has been undertaken for co-occurring suicidality and depression.37 The relationship between substance use and suicidality is likely multifaceted and multidirectional and may require specific considerations for patients with problems in both areas. For example, intoxication can increase acute risk for suicide, but additional factors such as depression, impulsivity, homelessness, and limited social support may both exacerbate and be exacerbated by drug use and suicidality.38⇓–40
This study has noteworthy limitations. First, the assessment battery was relatively small. Although this intentionally had the practical benefit of mirroring brief assessments that could be used in primary care, it may have led us to miss additional risk factors for suicidality. Likewise, several mental health constructs were measured using single-item questions (eg, anxiety and depression), which limited the ability to represent these constructs as complex, multifaceted conditions. We did not include a non–substance-using control group, limiting our ability to compare rates of SI and SA against non–substance-using samples from the same clinics. The ASI used different time intervals for assessing SI (past 30 days) and SA (since the last assessment) during the follow-up period, and this difference may confound the different findings between SI and SA. For example, the ASI may not have detected SI that occurred more than 30 days before a follow-up assessment, suggesting that actual SI rates during the full 12-month follow-up could be higher than what was reported here. Seven participants were excluded because of imminent suicidality at baseline, which restricted the sample and may have therefore also underestimated SI and SA rates in this population. Finally, we did not assess completed suicide, and it is possible that some variables associated with SI or SA are differently related with risk for suicide completion.
Strengths of the study include prospective examination of suicidality over a 1-year period, the use of brief measures that are suitable for primary care settings, and the use of an understudied sample of primary care patients with recent substance use and significant medical, psychiatric, and psychosocial impairments.
Substance-using individuals in public primary care clinics are at increased risk of SI and SAs. We recommend episodically assessing suicidality among primary care patients who use illicit substances or prescription medications for nonmedical purposes, which is consistent with existing recommendations and trends for increased assessment of suicidality in primary care. For patients who use substances, risk for subsequent suicidality is particularly elevated among those with recent SI, any lifetime SA, or difficulty with depression, anxiety, or violent behavior.
The authors thank the research assistants, research coordinators, patients, clinicians, and administrative staff who made this study possible.
This article was externally peer reviewed.
Funding: This study was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (grant R01DA026014) and the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (grant K01AA024796 and T32AA007455).
Conflict of interest: none declared.
Disclaimer: The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, or the National Institutes of Health.
To see this article online, please go to: http://jabfm.org/content/30/2/150.full.
Received for publication August 17, 2016.
Revision received October 20, 2016.
Accepted for publication November 15, 2016.
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4 Investigates: Undercover cameras expose illegal activity at city parks
Nathan O'Neal
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Some Albuquerque city parks have become havens for illegal activity, from open drug and alcohol use to drug deals conducted in broad daylight.
Over the course of two weeks, 4 Investigates went undercover at two Albuquerque city parks: Coronado Park near I-40 and 2nd Street and Bel Air Park near Menaul and Carlisle. After just 10 hours, our cameras exposed a problem that's painfully obvious: These public places have been hijacked by criminal activity.
At Coronado Park, 4 Investigates spotted two men exchange drugs for money in broad daylight. One man continued to find a spot in the park, roll up his sleeve and shoot up in the middle of the park. Our cameras also spotted frequent and illegal alcohol use.
"That park is a dangerous place to go for anybody," said Gerald Bischoff, who has a clear view of the illegal activity from his second-floor office. "Just about everything that you can think of that's illegal goes on in the park now."
Across town at Bel Air Park, there are signs of a similar story.
Gene Kuhn lives nearby and said walking his dog through the neighborhood park is like walking through a minefield.
"They break bottles over there. There's needles laying around," said Kuhn. "A lot of people don't go to that park at all anymore."
4 Investigates took video evidence of the illegal activity at Albuquerque's public parks straight to Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller.
"This is a major issue, what we're doing is acknowledging it and saying we've got to do something about it," said Mayor Keller.
When asked what is currently being done to make these parks safe, Keller replied: "We have a needle pickup program which has been very effective and we're also putting syringe deposit stations through some of these high use areas."
The City of Albuquerque maintains roughly 300 neighborhood parks. Mayor Keller admits there are serious problems at some of those parks and the police force is understaffed. However, Keller said his team is working on a plan which includes $100,000 worth of improvements to park infrastructure and adding city security patrols.
"I came in with a 400-officer shortage and I think we're going to knock out about 100 of that which is great and that'll help but right now we're strapped across the city, and that's why we're doing the things we can do," said Keller. "It's going to be a long road no matter what but I think at least we have some meaningful ideas on the way."
Mayor Keller's parks director is leading up that plan to erase illegal activity from city parks.
"We're not going to close parks every time we face a challenge because we can overcome these challenges because we're going to reclaim our parks and reclaim our city. There really is no pressing need to close off parks unless they're no longer producing park benefits" said Albuquerque Parks Director David Simon.
City staff insists that each park has its own unique problems which may require unique solutions.
As for public parks like Coronado, Mayor Keller told 4 Investigates the city cannot ignore the root problems of homelessness and addiction.
"There's physically no place for those folks to go. We can take them to jail we can take them to the emergency room, both of those are ineffective and expensive," said Keller. "Until there's somewhere besides Coronado Park we're going to have that problem."
Mayor Keller made it clear that cleaning up Albuquerque's parks can't be the job of the government alone. He believes the community has to help too, hinting that he'll be asking voters for funds to help turn public safety around in the near future.
However, as the city continues to work on solutions, many people who live and work around troubled parks say a fix can't come soon enough.
"There has to be something they can do," said Kuhn.
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Geneva – Mr Kofi Annan, Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation, is to visit Nigeria from 12-14 January to address a conference on elections being organized by a coalition of Nigerian civil society organisations.
Mr. Annan will deliver the keynote address at the conference, to be held on Tuesday, 13 January in Abuja, based on his work as chairman of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy and Security and the findings and recommendations of its report, Deepening Democracy: A Strategy for Improving the Integrity of Elections Worldwide.
Mr. Annan will meet with a broad range of Nigeria’s civil society organisations, as well as engage the audience in a question and answer session. He will also be meeting privately with various national stakeholders engaged in the electoral process.
The Kofi Annan Foundation, which Mr Annan chairs, focuses its work on peace and security, sustainable development, human rights and to the rule of law with the aim of helping to create a fairer, more secure world. As part of this work, the Foundation promotes impartial and transparent electoral processes through its Electoral Integrity Initiative.
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1. Government shutdown
President Trump heads to Texas today to visit the border with Mexico. This comes as the partial government shutdown rolls into its 20th day, as negotiations with Democrats over funding for his proposed border wall remain at a standstill. And they might stay that way for awhile. Trump stormed out of a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer -- after just 15 minutes -- because neither side would give an inch in this drama. Trump called the meeting "a total waste of time," while Schumer said the President had "a temper tantrum."
Now, some GOP senators are trying to put together a deal to end the shutdown and secure money for Trump's border wall by offering Democrats help for DACA recipients, among other things. But it's too early to tell if the Dems or Trump would even go for that. And the pressure to end the shutdown will only increase tomorrow: That's when thousands of federal employees will miss paychecks because of the shutdown.
2. Russia investigation
The polling data that Paul Manafort is said to have shared with a Russian during the 2016 presidential campaign was intended for two Ukrainian oligarchs who owed him millions. Manafort earned good money for years doing political work in Ukraine. In November 2016, he was expecting a payment of $2.4 million for some of that work. A spokesman for Manafort said the money was meant to reimburse debts that predated the Trump campaign and was not a quid pro quo for the polling data. All this is of interest to special counsel Robert Mueller because it shows Manafort had a stake in getting money from a foreign country when he led Donald Trump's campaign.
3. Vegetative state birth
Investigators in Phoenix are gathering DNA from male employees at a care facility where a woman in a vegetative state gave birth. Police have also served a search warrant as part of the sexual assault investigation, and the care facility's CEO has resigned. The woman, who has been in a vegetative state for 14 years, gave birth to a boy on December 29. The woman's family is "outraged, traumatized and in shock by the abuse," their attorney said. The baby is being cared for by the woman's family.
4. Saudi teen
A Saudi teen who fled to Thailand to escape her family has been declared a refugee by the United Nations. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun said she feared her family would kill her because she had renounced Islam. Qunun wanted to fly to Australia but ended up barricading herself in a Bangkok airport hotel room. She then whipped up support for her cause on social media. Australia is now doing health, security and other background checks on Qunun ahead of her possible resettlement there.
5. Congo elections
Congo's presidential election has a surprise winner. Opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi beat out two rivals in the often-delayed vote. But one defeated candidate is already questioning the result. If Tshisekedi's win holds, it'll be the first democratic transition of power since the Central African country gained independence more than 50 years ago. The election came after violent protests broke out after voters in three cities affected by an Ebola outbreak were told they couldn't cast their ballots until March. It's not clear how these votes will affect the result.
BREAKFAST BROWSE
Should have swiped left
She bragged online to her prospective beau about killing a deer. Too bad he was a game warden.
Something is causing repeating short bursts of radio waves to be released into space. And it's not the first time.
Pretty penny
Maybe it's time to look around the house for spare change. An old penny a man kept in a safe for decades could fetch $170,000 at an auction.
If you've been dying to dine -- nude -- at a restaurant in Paris, you better make reservations quick. O'Naturel is closing next month.
HAPPENING LATER
Big settlement
Fiat Chrysler, in a deal to be announced later this morning, will pay about $800 million in fines and penalties to settle charges its diesel vehicles violated US emissions standards.
TODAY'S NUMBER
That's the reward for information about an armored truck driver in Kentucky who's accused of taking a "large amount of money" before vanishing from work last month.
"I ... will not be working with him again."
Singer Lady Gaga, apologizing for recording the controversial song, "Do What U Want (With My Body)," with R. Kelly in 2013. Gaga said she wants the tune pulled off iTunes and streaming platforms. R Kelly has come under increased fire after a Lifetime documentary last week reviewed sex abuse allegations against him. He has strongly denied the claims.
Sweet smells
Welcome to Grasse, France, which just might be the best-smelling town in the world. (Click to view.)
London's property market is in a coma
Teen in coma after hammer attack
How does someone in a vegetative state have a baby?
Eric Garner's activist daughter in coma after heart attack
Woman thinks she has the flu, ends up in coma
4-year-old in coma after crash kills mom, sister
Israeli flight attendant in coma after getting measles
Woman raped in vegetative state, and then giving birth, is an outrage
Ex-prosecutor tapped to review how woman in vegetative state gave birth
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The Early Edition: September 29, 2016
by Zoë Chapman
US talks with Russia on cooperation in Syria will end if Russia and the Assad regime continue to bomb Aleppo, US Secretary of State John Kerry warned yesterday. [New York Times’ Michael R. Gordon] Kerry “made clear the US and its partners hold Russia responsible for this situation” in a telephone call to his Russian counterpart, Karen DeYoung reports at the Washington Post.
A tougher response to the Russia-backed Syrian government assault on Aleppo, including military options, is being weighed up at “staff level” in the Obama administration, officials said yesterday, though recommendations to the president have yet to be made. Jonathan Landay, John Walcott and Matt Spetalnick report at Reuters.
There is renewed debate on “Plan B,” centering on whether to authorize the CIA and its partners in the region to deliver weapons systems to vetted rebel units enabling them to strike Syrian and Russian artillery positions from longer distances, the Wall Street Journal’s Adam Entous and Felicia Schwartz report.
An “implicit understanding” within the Obama administration that there will be no major American response to the provocations Russia has carried out in Syria has begun to irk top national security officials, US officials reportedly told The Daily Beast’s Nancy A. Youssef and Shane Harris.
The US’s statement on Syria demonstrates America’s “de facto support for terrorism,” Russia’s deputy foreign minister said today, referring to State Department spokesperson John Kirby’s comments yesterday that Russia has an interest in stopping the violence in Syria because extremists there could exploit the vacuum to launch attacks against Russia. [Reuters]
What could motivate Russia’s “brutality” in Aleppo? The New York Times’ Max Fisher, citing analysts and observers, suggest it could be part of a calculated strategy aimed beyond Aleppo itself, designed to pressure the rebels to ally themselves with extremist groups.
The UN Security Council was criticized for failing to implement a resolution to protect medical facilities and staff in conflict zones from Syria to Yemen and Afghanistan yesterday, Edith M. Lederer reports at the AP.
Putin is making a mistake in supporting the Assad regime, with consequences for Syrians and Russia itself, which may pay a price in its relations with Europe in the Arab world, while finding it cannot control Assad and having to deal with a response from the US, Philip Gordon writes at the Washington Post.
Sanctions imposed by the US and Europe are affecting ordinary Syrians and preventing aid work in Syria, a UN assessment obtained by The Intercept’s Rania Khalek reveals.
The US will send an additional 600 troops to Iraq to assist Iraqi forces in retaking Mosul from the Islamic State, Helene Cooper reports at the New York Times.
Europe is bracing itself for a potential return of militants triggered by the offensive on Islamic State stronghold Mosul, US and European counterterrorism official said. Julian E. Barnes reports at the Wall Street Journal.
US-led airstrikes continue. US and coalition forces carried out 12 airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria on Sep. 27. Separately, partner forces conducted 10 strikes against targets in Iraq. [Central Command]
SAUDI ARABIA and JASTA
Congress voted overwhelmingly to override President Obama’s veto of JASTA, passing into law an act that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for any role in the attack, Jennifer Steinhauer, Mark Mazzertti and Julie Hirschfeld Davis reports at the New York Times.
President Obama accused Congress of making a “mistake” in overriding the bill, which would set a “dangerous precedent” for individuals worldwide to sue the US government. [BBC]
The veto was “the single most embarrassing thing the United States Senate has done possibly since 1983,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said yesterday, a comment Zaid Jilani and Alex Emmons at The Intercept call “hyperbolic,” recalling other Senate actions that were “profoundly” embarrassing, including greenlighting the invasion of Iraq.
Senators from both parties are already considering modifications to JASTA, reports the Hill’s Jordain Carney.
JASTA is part of a “potential sea change” in Saudi Arabia’s relationship with the west over its alleged connection to religious extremism and its conduct in Yemen, suggest Geoff Dyer and Simeon Kerr at the Financial Times.
Saudi Arabia has ways to retaliate against JASTA, warns Aya Batrawy at the AP, including curtailing official contacts, removing billions of dollars from the US economy, and persuading its allies in the Gulf Cooperation Council to scale back counterterrorism cooperation.
It’s “too bad” that the first Congressional override of a veto by President Obama is for a bill that will “harm US interests,” writes the Wall Street Journal editorial board, pointing out that there is no “hard proof” that Saudi Arabia’s government was complicit in the 9/11 attacks, and the fact that Americans can already sue nations that are officially designated as state sponsors of terror.
A US airstrike killed at least 15 civilians in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, according to local residents, while Afghan security officials are claiming it was militants who were targeted. Habib Khan Totakhil and Jessica Donati report at the Wall Street Journal.
A peace treaty was signed by Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and “notorious” warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar today, with Ghani promising to lobby the US and the UN to remove Hekmatayar and his party from terrorist blacklists, reports the AP.
RUSSIA and FLIGHT MH17
Russia is facing the prospect of an acrimonious legal standoff with the west after an international investigation concluded that a Buk missile brought across the border from Russia into Ukraine shot down Malaysia Airways flight MH17 in July 2014, Luke Harding and Alec Luhn envisage at the Guardian.
The investigation confirms Russia’s “already widely documented” role in the deployment of the missile system and in the subsequent and ongoing cover-up, observes the New York Times’ Somini Sengupta and Andrew E. Kramer.
Russian hackers harassed journalists investigating the downing of flight MH17, the Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima reports.
PAKISTAN and INDIA
India’s army carried out “surgical strikes” on what it said were terrorist bases across the border with Pakistan today, a move likely to increase tensions between the two neighbors, Niharika Mandhana suggests at the Wall Street Journal.
India’s Lt. Gen. Ranvir Singh said the strikes inflicted “significant casualties” on what he described as “launch pads” for terrorism in response to “specific and credible” information that terrorist had positioned themselves with the aim of carrying out strikes in India, Amy Kazmin and Farhan Bokhari report at the Financial Times.
Two Pakistani soldiers were killed in the “unprovoked” attack, government officials there said. [AP]
China repeated its warning that it may employ countermeasures against the planned deployment of a US THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea today, reports Reuters.
Japan is “playing with fire” if it steps up activity in the South China Sea by engaging in joint training patrols with the US, China’s Defense Ministry said today. [Reuters]
Joint military exercises between the Philippines and the US next month will be the last for the allies, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday, as he hopes to avoid upsetting China with which he intends to build stronger trade and investment ties. [Wall Street Journal’s Cris Larano]
Duterte met with Vietnam’s leadership today, hoping to strengthen an alliance in the face of China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, but Duterte’s “almost daily jibes” against the US and his positive rhetoric concerning China may not sit well with Vietnam, according to Martin Petty at Reuters.
CYBERSECURITY, PRIVACY and TECHNOLOGY
Were the Russians behind the Yahoo hack? The hacking of over 500 million Yahoo customers’ email accounts was motivated by espionage, not profit, according to an independent cybersecurity report released yesterday, which is consistent with Yahoo’s claims that a state sponsored actor was behind the attack. NBC News’ Chris Francescani reports.
Syrian Electronic Army affiliate Peter Romar pleaded guilty in Virginia federal court to conspiring to receive extortion proceeds and conspiring to unlawfully access computers over his defacing of media and government websites he considered were overly critical of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. [The Hill’s Joe Uchill]
HILLARY CLINTON EMAIL INVESTIGATION
There is no evidence Hillary Clinton ordered the deletion of an email archive that was under congressional subpoena according to the FBI, Katie Bo Williams reports at the Hill.
The State Department will process 3,000 pages of Clinton’s emails for public release before the election, part of what Josh Gerstein at POLITICO calls the “drip, drip, drip” of information about the investigation into Clinton’s private email server.
A vote on holding former State Department staffer Bryan Pagliano responsible for setting up Clinton’s private email server has been pushed back to after the presidential elections by the House, Kristina Marcos reports at the Hill.
Part of Guantánamo Bay’s Camp 5 prison complex is to be demolished and transformed into a medical facility for “low-value” detainees in a $8.4 million plan the Obama administration has already begun implementing, Carol Rosenberg reports at the Miami Herald.
Two men who found an unexploded bomb in Manhattan a few blocks from where a bomb exploded on Sep. 17 have been identified by investigators, Eli Rosenberg and Adam Goldman report at the New York Times.
The US has been accused of killing up to 22 Somali soldiers in an airstrike by an official from the region, Al Jazeera reports.
A three-month extension of Turkey’s state of emergency imposed following the July 15 coup attempt has been recommended by Turkey’s national security council, the AP reports.
The National Liberation Army in Colombia says it is ready to overcome outstanding differences with Bogotá and initiate stalled peace talks, it announced via Twitter yesterday, days after the peace deal between the government and the FARC rebels was signed. [AP]
A draft text calling for a the UN General Assembly to work toward a “legally-binding” nuclear weapons ban was sent by six non-nuclear countries to diplomats yesterday, Jamey Keaten reports at the AP.
Arguments against adopting a “no-first-use” policy regarding nuclear weapons are unconvincing, writes Bruce Blair at POLITICO Magazine.
President Putin is turning Russia into an outlaw state, says the New York Times editorial board, his behavior in Ukraine and Syria a violation of the rules intended to promote peace and of “common human decency.”
Zoë Chapman
Former Assistant News Editor at Just Security, Legal Researcher at UK-based human rights organization, JUSTICE
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Berkeley OKs Third Cannabis Dispensary on Short Stretch of Telegraph, Despite Opposition
Lily Jamali
Retail clerks sell cannabis to customers at The Apothecarium in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood. The business - recently purchased by a Canadian cannabis company - just got approval to open a new location in Berkeley. (Tiffany Camhi/KQED)
Berkeley officials have given the green light to cannabis retailer The Apothecarium to set up shop on Telegraph Avenue.
At a packed City Council meeting Tuesday evening, dozens of citizens weighed in over several hours on whether the city should grant its approval for the company to locate its fifth outlet near the UC Berkeley campus.
Bay Area Dispensaries Sign Big Deals With Canadian Cannabis Companies
Councilmembers overwhelmingly approved the slated location along a stretch of Telegraph that already has two other cannabis dispensaries.
The operators of one those those retailers expressed fierce opposition to The Apothecarium moving two blocks away.
"We got our permit recently and we spent $3 million to open what we think is a beautiful dispensary on Telegraph, never imagining we would have to fight an existential fight just 10 months later against a giant multinational corporation like these guys," said Marc Weinstein, co-owner of Hi-Fidelity, which opened last year next to Amoeba Records.
Weinstein also co-founded and remains part owner of Amoeba.
Last month, The Apothecarium accepted an offer of $118 million in cash and stock from TerrAscend, a Canadian cannabis company based in Toronto.
The deal is pending, subject to regulatory approval in the U.S. and Canada.
UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ sent a letter to Mayor Jesse Arreguin and councilmembers ahead of the meeting, expressing disapproval of the proposal, which places a third dispensary near campus.
"Of particular concern is the impact of legalization on youth below age 25, because research suggests that use among youth carries special risks to the developing brain that are not present for older adults," Chancellor Christ wrote.
The City Council had already granted permission to The Apothecarium to open at a different Berkeley location in 2016, but CEO Ryan Hudson said the deal with the landlord fell through.
"This is four years in the making and hopefully by the end of this year, we will have an Apothecarium in the city of Berkeley, which is what we've been trying to do for a long long time," Hudson told KQED.
The Apothecarium operates three popular dispensaries in San Francisco and another in Las Vegas.
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Woman yells 'f*** off, f****** cops' on boozy night out in Lincoln - and quite rightly ends up in court
'She was abusive and intoxicated'
Danielle HoeTrainee Reporter
The woman was angry with police (file photo) (Image: Getty)
A woman who was persistently abusive to police officers and shouted '**** off' at them on Lincoln High Street has been prosecuted.
Shaan Perkins of Breedon Drive, Lincoln was charged with a public order offence for disorderly behaviour on Lincoln High Street as she swore and barged police officers out of the way.
The 32-year-old was arrested on August 5 at around 11.30pm and she pleaded guilty when she appeared at Lincoln Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, August 30.
She was also charged with breaking bail conditions as she failed to attend her first court hearing on August 25, and she also pleaded guilty to this charge.
Highly respected policewoman loses her job after drink-driving while barefoot and in her dressing gown
Prosecuting Simon Rowe said: "This incident took place on Lincoln High Street. Police officers approached a group of people sat outside Blacks [the camping shop] on the High Street.
"Perkins pushed one police officer out of the way, telling him to '**** off'. It seems then she went and sat a small distance away from the police officers and continued to shout '******* cops'
"Other people where around the area enjoying the city centre of Lincoln and police said that people were looking distressed because of Perkins' shouting. As a result another officer approached her and arrested her.
"She then continued to shout 'get the **** off me' as she was being difficult while being taken to the police van. Police said that she was intoxicated and abusive.
"She has been before the courts on 16 previous occasions, with the most common offence being shoplifting."
Carer's moment of madness as he deliberately crashes into police car during chase
Mitigating, Mark McNeil said: "On the instance of my client not attending court she did not attend as she was suffering from fits. However, she did attempt to surrender to the bail conditions and went to her local police station.
"However, they told her that they had no information on their system in relation to the bail, so she went back home.
"So she did make initial attempts and has been suffering with bad health for some time. In relation to the High Street incident, she admits that her actions were foolish and that she should have just left the scene."
Chair magistrate Wendy Brett said: "For the first charge relating to the bail, we believe that time has been served for this offence as you have been in custody overnight. For the public order offence you will be fined £40 and will contribute £40 to costs and a £30 victim surcharge."
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Tag: local
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analysis of the Spread of Local Anesthetic Solution after Ultrasound-guided Lateral Thoracic Paravertebral Blockade: A Volunteer Study.
Anesthesiology. 2013 Feb 7;
Authors: Marhofe…
What does local tenderness say about the origin of pain? An investigation of cervical zygapophysial joint pain.
Anesth Analg. 2010 Mar 1;110(3):923-7
Authors: Siegenthaler A, Eichenberger U, Schmidlin K, Are…
A Prospective Study Comparing Platelet-Rich Plasma and Local Anesthetic (LA)/Corticosteroid in Intra-Articular Injection for the Treatment of Lumbar Facet Joint Syndrome
OBJECTIVES: To compare the effectiveness and safety between autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and Local Anesthetic (LA)/corticosteroid in intra-articular injection for the treatment of lumbar facet joint syndrome. METHODS: Forty-six eligible patients with lumbar facet joint syndrome were randomized into group A (intra-articular injection with PRP) and group B (intra-articular injection with LA/corticosteroid). The following contents…
CT-guided transforaminal epidural injections with local anesthetic, steroid, and tramadol for the treatment of persistent lumbar radicular pain.
Pain Physician. 2012 Mar-Apr;15(2):153-9
Authors: Wewalka M, Ab…
Use of Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 With Local Bone Graft Instead of Iliac Crest Bone Graft in Posterolateral Lumbar Spine Arthrodesis.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2013 Mar 7;
Authors: Park DK, …
Box cages packed with local decompression bone were efficient in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: five- to 10-year follow-up.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2012 Sep 15;37(20):E1260-3
Authors: Ba Z, Zhao W, …
Comparison of Ultrasound-Guided Local Ozone (O2-O3) Injection vs Corticosteroid Injection in the Treatment of Chronic Plantar Fasciitis: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Objective: Plantar fasciitis (PF) is one of the most common causes of heel pain. The affected area is often close to the attachment of plantar fascia to calcaneus bone. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of ozone (O2-O3) injection to corticosteroid injection under ultrasound guidance for the treatment of chronic PF. Design: Randomized clinical trial. Setting: Academic University and Neuromusculoskeletal Research Center. Subjects: Thirty patients with chronic PF. Methods: The patients were randomly divided into two groups receiving methylprednisolone (15 subjects) vs ozone (O2-O3; 15 subjects). The following outcome measures were assessed before injection and then two weeks and 12 weeks after the injection in each group; morning and daily pain via visual analog scale, daily life and exercise activities via the Foot and Ankle Ability Measure, and plantar fascia thickness at insertion and 1 cm distal to its insertion into the calcaneus via ultrasound imaging. Results: Intragroup changes showed significant improvement in pain, functional parameters, and sonographic findings in both groups (P < 0.05). Pain reduction (both daily and morning) and daily activity improvement were better in the corticosteroid group two weeks after injection; however, at 12 weeks, the ozone (O2-O3) group had significantly more improvement (P = 0.003, P = 0.001, and P = 0.017, respectively). Conclusions: Both methods were effective in the treatment of chronic PF. Steroid injection provided a more rapid and short-term therapeutic effect. However, ozone (O2-O3) injection led to a slow and longer-lasting treatment outcome. Ozone (O2-O3) injection can be an effective treatment, with slow onset and a longer durability in the treatment of chronic PF
CT-guided transforaminal epidural injections with local anesthetic, steroid, and tramadol.
Pain Physician. 2012 May-Jun;15(3):E348; author reply E348-9
Authors: Roy C, Chatterjee N
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Bone union rate with autologous iliac bone versus local bone graft in posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF): a multicenter study.
Eur Spine J. 2013 Jan 30;
Authors: Ito Z, Imagama S, Kanemura T, Hachiya Y, Miura Y, Kamiya M, Yukawa Y, Sakai Y, Katayama Y, Wakao N, Matsuyama Y, Ishiguro N
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to compare bone union rate between autologous iliac bone and local bone graft in patients treated by posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) using carbon cage for single level interbody fusion. METHODS: The subjects were 106 patients whose course could be observed for at least 2 years. The diagnosis was lumbar spinal canal stenosis in 46 patients, herniated lumbar disk in 12 patients and degenerative spondylolisthesis in 51 patients. Single interbody PLIF was done using iliac bone graft in 53 patients and local bone graft in 56 patients. Existence of pseudo-arthrosis on X-P (AP and lateral view) was investigated during the same follow up period. RESULTS: No significant differences were found in operation time and blood loss. Significant differences were also not observed in fusion grade at any follow up period or in fusion progression between the two groups. Donor site pain continued for more than 3 months in five cases (9 %). The final fusion rate was 96.3 versus 98.3 %. CONCLUSIONS: Almost the same results in fusion were obtained from both the local bone group and the autologous iliac bone group. Fusion progression was almost the same. Complications at donor sites were seen in 19 % of the cases. From the above results, it was concluded that local bone graft is as beneficial as autologous iliac bone graft for PLIF at a single level.
Subdural spread of injected local anesthetic in a selective transforaminal cervical nerve root block: a case report.
J Med Case Rep. 2012;6(1):142
Authors: Tofuku K, Koga H, Komiya S
INTRODUCTION: Although uncommon, selective cervical nerve root blocks can have serious complications. The most serious complications that have been reported include cerebral infarction, spinal cord infarction, transient quadriplegia and death.
CASE PRESENTATION: A 40-year-old Japanese woman with a history of severe right-sided cervical radicular pain was scheduled to undergo a right-sided C6 selective cervical nerve root block using a transforaminal approach under fluoroscopic guidance. An anterior oblique view of the C5-C6 intervertebral foramen was obtained, and a 23-gauge spinal needle, connected to the normal extension tube with a syringe filled with contrast medium, was introduced into the posterior-caudal aspect of the C5-C6 intervertebral foramen on the right side. In the anteroposterior view, the placement of the needle was considered satisfactory when it was placed no more medial than halfway across the width of the articular pillar. Although the spread of the contrast medium along the C6 nerve root was observed with right-sided C6 radiculography, the subdural flow of the contrast medium was not observed with real-time fluoroscopy. The extension tube used for the radiculography was removed from the spinal needle and a normal extension tube with a syringe filled with lidocaine connected in its place. We performed a negative aspiration test and then injected 1.5 mL of 1.0% lidocaine slowly around the C6 nerve root. Immediately after the injection of the local anesthetic, our patient developed acute flaccid paralysis, complained of breathing difficulties and became unresponsive; her respiratory pattern was uncoordinated. After 20 minutes, she regained consciousness and became alert, and her muscle strength in all four limbs returned to normal without any sensory deficits after receiving emergent cardiorespiratory support.
CONCLUSIONS: We believe that confirming maintenance of the appropriate needle position in the anteroposterior view by injecting local anesthetic is important for preventing central needle movement. Because the potential risk of serious complications cannot be completely eliminated during the use of any established selective cervical nerve root block procedure, preparation for an emergency airway, ventilation and cardiovascular support is indispensable in cases of high spinal cord anesthesia.
PMID: 22657834 [PubMed]
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Home / Latest News / Export dispute with Japan could be 'prolonged,' says South Korean President
Export dispute with Japan could be 'prolonged,' says South Korean President
byanca iulie 09, 2019 0
South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (L) is welcomed by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the G-20 Summit in June 2019.
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South Korea's president said on Wednesday Japan's export curbs on key materials used by South Korean technology firms could be prolonged, and Seoul will help companies reduce their reliance on Japanese suppliers.
Japan said last week it would tighten restrictions on exports of three materials used in smartphone displays and chips, citing a dispute with Seoul over South Koreans forced to work for Japanese firms during World War Two.
"We can't rule out the possibility that the situation would be prolonged, despite our diplomatic efforts to resolve the issue," President Moon Jae-in said at a meeting with executives from South Korea's top 30 conglomerates.
The action hit South Korea's chip industry — the backbone of Asia's fourth-biggest economy — and potentially threatens to disrupt global supplies of memory chips made by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.
"It is a very regrettable situation, but we have no choice but to prepare for all possibilities," said Moon, adding that the government will sharply increase spending to help Korean firms source parts, materials and equipment domestically.
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BIG INTERVIEW: Ex-Preston North End striker Lee Ashcroft’s loving it at Longridge Town
Longridge Town manager Lee Ashcroft pictured after guiding his side to the North West Counties League First Division North title
Last-day drama was in plentiful supply for Longridge Town and their manager Lee Ashcroft as they chased title glory in April.
A full season’s work for Town in the North West Counties League First Division North – their first playing at that level – boiled down to two results.
They faced Holker Old Boys at the Mike Riding Ground, while title rivals Avro took on AFC Liverpool.
Ashcroft’s men did their job, beating Holker 4-1 but the destiny of the title lay on Merseyside.
All Avro needed to do was match Town’s result but a late goal saw them lose 1-0 to AFC Liverpool and that sparked a title party back in Longridge.
Former Preston North End striker Ashcroft has been at the Longridge helm for five years and to have guided the team to glory gave him a great feeling of satisfaction.
“It was a fantastic effort by everyone at the club,” said Ashcroft.
“The chairman, all of the helpers we have, the players, we were all in it together. To win the title and score more than 140 goals made it a special season.
“We play a certain way, try to play out from the back which a lot of teams in the division don’t do.
“We had a great pitch to play on and tried to make the most of it.
“Avro pushed us all the way, right through to the last minute of the season.
“We led the table from the middle of August but fair play to Avro. At one stage I think we had a 12-point lead over them but Avro kept winning and we dropped a few points at one stage.
“Going into that last game they held the upper hand.
“We just had to focus on doing our job against Holker Old Boys, which we did – we won the game.
“Avro’s result meant we won the title, what a day it was.”
Town are now gearing up for life in the North West Counties League Premier Division, work already started on the pitch to improve drainage.
They will be rubbing shoulders with Northwich Victoria, Bootle, Runcorn Town, Squires Gate, Charnock Richard, Burscough and clubs of that ilk.
Ashcroft previously managed Northwich, with Longridge’s games against them ones to look out for on the fixture list.
“There are some good clubs in this division, some of who have been in higher leagues,” said Ashcroft.
“I’m going to keep faith with the lads who got us promoted and add one or two to the squad.
“It won’t be easy but we won’t be frightened by the new division.
“This time last year we were preparing to play in the NWCL First Division North for the first time after coming out of the West Lancs League and we didn’t do too badly did we?
“Last season we were getting crowds of nearly 200, when I first started here we had 30 people watching.”
During a playing career which started off at PNE – his home-town club – and included spells with West Bromwich, Notts County, Grimsby, Wigan Athletic and Southport – Ashcroft would be the first to admit that going into coaching was not something he gave much thought to.
There is a chuckle from the former Broughton High School pupil as he reflects on the subject.
Said Ashcroft: “It wasn’t something I thought I would turn out to be. I played for a manager called Alan Buckley at WBA and Grimsby who I took a lot from, so too Gary Peters at Preston.
“I managed Kendal Town and then Northwich – if I’m being honest I shouldn’t have gone to Northwich.
“When I was 42 I started playing a bit again and out of the blue I got a call from the chairman Brian Parkinson asking me whether I fancied being Longridge manager.
“They had just survived in the West Lancs League the season before.
“I’ve just done my fifth year here so there must be something I like about it!”
As a teenager, Ashcroft came through PNE’s youth system and he made his debut in the first team in January 1991.
He said: “I was in the youth team who were coached by Walter Joyce, he worked us hard.
“My first game was away to Scunthorpe in the Leyland DAF Cup, it was Brian Mooney’s last game for Preston – what a player Moons was.
“Then I played in the next league game against Bolton at Deepdale.
“I had to get away when John Beck was manager and I signed for West Bromwich Albion.
“A few years later I came back when Gary Peters was manager, first on loan and then I signed permanently.
“One of the stand-out moments of that second spell was scoring a hat-trick against Fulham at Deepdale.
“The group of lads we had then – Sean Gregan, Kurt Nogan, Gary Parkinson, David Eyres, David Lucas to name but a few – were a great set to be involved with.
“I left for the second time to join up with Alan Buckley at Grimsby, who had been at West Bromwich.
“I went to Wigan which wasn’t the best move, then a chance came for me at Southport with Mike Walsh, I had a coaching role.”
“That is when I started to realise coaching was for me.
“I enjoy coaching. I try to put on different sessions to get the best out of the lads.”
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El Ni·ño | \ el-ˈnē-nyō \
plural El Niños
Definition of El Niño
: an irregularly recurring flow of unusually warm surface waters from the Pacific Ocean toward and along the western coast of South America that prevents upwelling of nutrient-rich cold deep water and that disrupts typical regional and global weather patterns — compare la niña
Each year around Christmas time, a warm equatorial current flows southward along the coast of Peru. In the 19th century, Peruvian fisherman named that annual current "El Niño" in honor of the Christ child (el niño means "the child" in Spanish). Later, when scientists noted that in some years this warm current flow is more intense than usual, they adopted the name and applied it to that more potent but erratic climatic phenomenon. Now El Niño is used almost exclusively for the severe episodes rather than for the annual ones to which it was originally applied.
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Spanish, literally, the child (i.e., the Christ child); from the appearance of the flow at the Christmas season
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Police: Woman killed neighbor's ferret, poisoned her own dog
By Amanda Milkovits Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — A Providence woman is accused of stealing her neighbor's ferret and crushing its back, and force-feeding poison to her own dog.
Late last month, police found Bear the ferret and Rhody the chihuahua suffering and unable to stand inside Melissa Snead's apartment at 157 Willow St. in Marvin Gardens Apartments. The officers had been called there to make a well-being check, and Snead at first told the police that someone had a key to her apartment and hurt the animals.
As police spoke with Snead in apartment D1, Rhody lay on the bathroom floor, his mouth bleeding and his body "trembling with fear," according to a police report. Bear couldn't stand, and had to drag his back legs behind him.
Police said Snead told a patrol officer that she took her neighbor's ferret "as payback," accusing the neighbor without evidence of coming into her apartment and taking things. She claimed a photo of her daughter was missing, along with coins from a piggy bank, according to police.
Although the animals were rushed to a veterinary hospital, both were too injured to survive.
Rhody, who was only 4, had bruises and abrasions all over his body, signs of abuse over a period of time, according to medical documentation that Ocean State Veterinary Specialists gave police. The dog had internal bleeding and ulcers in his mouth from a "corrosive substance," and the vet suspected blunt-force trauma, according to a police report.
Rhody went into cardiac arrest and died. Bear, who appeared to have been suffering from a broken back for about a week, also died.
Detective Michael Otrando, who was investigating the break-in and theft of the ferret, drew a warrant for Snead on Thursday. Under questioning, Snead told Otrando that "it looked like the ferret was stomped two times," and that she "may have left some rat poison" out for her dog, according to a police report.
Snead, 32, was arraigned Friday at District Court on felony charges of breaking and entering, two counts of animal cruelty and two counts of killing an animal. She was released on her own recognizance, and a judge ordered pretrial services to monitor Snead's mental health.
Her estranged husband said that Snead has a mental illness and needs help.
Eric Snead, who filed for divorce in December, did not sound surprised when a Journal reporter told him about the charges on Friday. "That sounds about right," he said. "She's violent. You can see it in her eyes. She needs help."
He said that Melissa is only allowed to see their daughter in court-supervised visits. Eric Snead said that he and his mother share custody of the girl — and he feared for their safety.
"I worried about my mother's life many times because she's violent," Eric Snead said. "I knew I was always on the defensive. Always. I always watched behind me because I knew" something could happen.
And, he added: "I had to protect my daughter from her."
This week, a lawyer for Marvin Gardens filed an eviction complaint against Melissa Snead. She'd been warned about eviction a year ago, after complaints that she was allowing her sister and her sister's children to live with her.
Next week, Eric Snead said, their divorce will be final.
He blamed a broken mental health care system for letting Melissa Snead down. "It's a typical case where someone has a mental disorder, and nobody does nothing," he said.
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MilkBoy Philly
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Outsiders Improvised & Creative Music Festival Presents:
Synergy Effect: Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Will Calhoun (of Living Colour), Marc Ribot
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma
Jamaaladeen has always stretched the mold of what and how a bassist is supposed to play. He has re-defined his instrument's artistic potential. In the 1970's, his creatively free approach to the bass caught the eye of saxophonist Ornette Coleman. Tacuma became a member of Coleman's Prime Time. He toured with and performed on some of Coleman's historic recordings : "Dancing In Your Head", "Body Meta", and "Of Human Feelings". Tacuma continued to press the musical envelope with his debut album in 1983 entitled "Showstopper" and latest historical recordings “FOR THE LOVE OF ORNETTE” features Ornette Coleman and Bon Vivant with Free Form Funky Freqs is a trio with Vernon Reid and G.Calvin Weston He has worked with diverse artists: Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, Marc Ribot, Derek Bailey, Pharoah Sanders, Grover Washington Jr., Peter Murphy, The Roots among others. He has worked with orchestras led by Anthony Davis at Carnegie Hall. He is recognized for his artistic excellence worldwide with the "PARALLEL CULTURE" AWARD 2009, Marcus Garvey Foundation 50th Anniversary Award 2011, The Pew Fellowship in the Arts 2011 and the The Uptown Theater Hall of Fame Award. He has received The MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts and Civitella Ranieri residency fellowships, in 2017 he received The Club Club of Jazz Best Bassist Award, in 2018 he received the City of Philadelphia's Benny Golson Award, The Benny Golson Award includes a City proclamation and the Liberty Bell award - one of the highest honors from the City of Philadelphia . Since 2015 Jamaaladeen presents the annual Outsiders Improvised & Creative Music Festival in Philadelphia and continues to tour, produce and record worldwide.
American drummer, born 22 July 1964, in Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
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American guitarist and composer, born May 21, 1954.
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March 1, 2019 | Medical | Mechanical & Fluid Systems | Software
Finger Support Could Help Regain Motor Function
Support could help correct deformities.
Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, GA
A Kennesaw State University engineering professor and her team of students have developed a new finger support that could ultimately help those suffering from finger deformities regain motor function.
Finger deformation is very common among people who struggle with arthritis, Dupuytren's contracture, and mallet finger, among other ailments. (Credit: David Caselli)
Simin Nasseri, who teaches mechanical engineering in the Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology, says finger deformation is very common among people who struggle with arthritis, Dupuytren's contracture, and mallet finger, among other ailments. While there are supports available to help slow the onset of finger deformation, the devices had limited capabilities that rendered them unwieldy and uncomfortable, according to Nasseri. Additionally, many supports cannot be adjusted to fit different finger sizes and positions.
Armed with extensive experience in biomedical and manufacturing engineering, and with several family members and friends who have finger deformities, Nasseri says she was inspired to develop an improved finger support that would allow others to tackle daily tasks more freely. With the help of students, and after several months of research and mechanical testing, she has created a composite support with a soft polymer shell and a thin aluminum, steel, or carbon fiber sheet running the length of the apparatus to provide rigidity. The shell was printed entirely in KSU's 3D Center and the sheet was cut in the machine shop just across the hall in the University's Engineering Technology Center.
“Our support was designed to be used in ‘functional positions,’ meaning that you are able to slip it over your finger and perform normal tasks with your hands without difficulty,” says Nasseri, who will be completing the project this semester alongside student Shanice White. “Our final design is very durable and allows for a wide range of finger positions in order to maximize function.”
Nasseri started by conceptualizing designs of her own and soon began to recruit some of her undergraduate students in order to introduce them to the intricacies of engineering research. Since spring 2017, five students have played roles in writing literature reviews, perfecting the design, running simulations, fabricating and conducting mechanical testing on the finger support.
The device is a composite support with a soft polymer shell and a thin aluminum, steel, or carbon fiber sheet running the length of the apparatus to provide rigidity. (Credit: Kennesaw State University)
As a team, they have co-authored two journal papers and presented their findings at a regional conference. White, who is conducting a directed study with Nasseri this semester, will complete further testing and hopes to present her discoveries at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research to be held at KSU in April.
In a similar project, Nasseri and two additional students have conducted research on a foot support for bunion deformity using the same concepts. Though the finger and foot supports are still under development, the team hopes to obtain patents for their designs and bring it to market.
“This has been an excellent way for me to introduce our students to research and offer them a glimpse into the complete design and manufacturing processes,” Nasseri says. “This is an opportunity outside of the classroom where they can apply what they've learned on something tangible and ensure that it works as designed.”
Kyle Castellano, who served as student lead prior to graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering technology, says his experience working on the project is what ultimately guided him toward graduate school. Under Nasseri's purview, he conducted computer simulations to test the feasibility of the design before it was printed.
This article was written by Travis Highfield for KSU. For more information, visit here.
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Three Songs Selected for WOSRadio Podcast Series
I'm honored three of my songs have been selected for the WOSRadio podcast series "We've Got It Covered." The series will feature unique, original, covers of well known songs.
The shows are divided into decades: 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 50s & 60s, and Standards. Each show airs daily on WOSRadio for two weeks from late August to mid November.
'The Look of Love,' 'La Isla Bonita (Versión de Rose),' and 'Medley: I'll Make Love to You / End of the Road' will be showcased.
I'll be posting dates and links to listen as they become available. :D
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Selected as Featured Artist and Song on Reverbnation
I've VERY excited to have earned the spot as featured artist on Reverbnation's homepage. My new song "To Love Somebody" received a very high rating from a crowd review which earned me this honor and will be featured on the homepage as well.
Listen to "To Love Somebody" on https://www.reverbnation.com/meghanmonroeas well as three other new songs soon to be released and not yet on my website, or other purchasing and streaming sites.
I put my heart and soul into this song and it feels so wonderful to have it acknowledged. :D
Upcoming Interview & Magazine Feature
Join Meghan Monroe this coming Saturday on
Urban Teen Magazine Blog Talk Radio @ 11AM pst.
Meghan's 30 minute, radio interview with Urban Teen Magazine will also feature one, new song recently mastered in the studio.
In addition to the Urban Teen Magazine's Radio Show, Meghan will also be featured--in the coming months--in Urban Teen Magazine's entertainment/talent section @ Urban Teen Magazine.
I'm excited about the interview, the new music, as well as the magazine feature and would love for you to join me and check out the article!
‘A Lover is Forever’ Selected for Radio & Podcast Valentines Playlist
My new song, 'A Lover is Forever'--to be released in coming months--was selected for the Women's of Substance Radio & Podcast's 2016 Valentines Playlist along with seven other artists.
Station owner & DJ Bree Noble mentioned at the end of it's play, "That really puts you in the mood for love." Each instrument from the outstanding trumpet, dark, dirge like bow on the bass, the tender piano, the deft, stiletto of the drums, to the intimate, honest, sultry depth of my voice makes for an exquisite, vulnerable, but gorgeous song. We all heard and felt that instant connection in the studio and it really shows.
What an honor to complete a song in the studio and have it immediately selected to be played on an exclusive, Valentine's playlist for a global radio & podcast.
I'm truly touched it resonated so deeply with others--as it did me when I sang it--especially in the month for lovers and of love. ❤️
New Song Given Spotlight Placement.
'Your Husband's Cheating on Us,'--just completed in the studio by Meghan Monroe and unreleased--is chosen for spotlight, placement on a compilation with global distribution in 1200 digital outlets in 120+ countries, as well as Digital Radio Broadcast on all platforms through OAG Management in a non-exclusive agreement.
Meghan was selected to be the only artist on the selected compilation in the Rock category. To be released in the future, 'Your Husband's Cheating On Us' is an exciting, new sound and a very, compelling song (not to mention title :D!).
It's an honor to be selected as the only artist and song representing the rock genre on the compilation. The global compilation will be available at the end of 2016.
Looking forward to representing a new, global, rock sound!
New Global Distribution Deal
Meghan Monroe's entire recorded song collection--including all new recordings--has been selected for non-exclusive, digital, worldwide distribution to +500 stores & to +200 countries by Chaos Music Distribution.
This non-exclusive agreement allows for each contracted company and store within +200 countries and +500 stores to select any of Meghan's songs to be chosen for a variety of playlists both within that country and/or globally.
It's an honor to be selected by CMD, to have a new avenue for my music to reach the incredible people all over the world, and to be rewarded with a growing, national, and global audience of fans. ❤️
‘Santa Baby’ Awarded
Meghan Monroe's 'Santa Baby' received an award as one of the best, new, holiday songs by an independent, female artist by Women of Substance Radio & Podcast. I'm honored to have 'Santa Baby' open their podcast holiday edition.
'Santa Baby' will also be played throughout the holiday season on WOS Radio.
I'd love to be a part of your holiday celebration and festivities. To add 'Santa Baby' to your Christmas playlists visit iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/…/al…/santa-baby-single/id955977177or Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RWBXOD0….
Much love to you and your loved ones throughout the holiday season!! And thank you for all your support in 2015. MM ❤️
Meghan Monroe Radio Interview—The Celebefex Show
Jam City America Radio welcomes Singer-Songwriter Meghan Monroe to The Celebefex Show™ on Saturday May 2nd , 2015.
Show Air Times: 12 noon in San Diego. 1pm in Las Vegas, 2pm in Nashville, 3pm in Miami, 7pm in London, UK.
The Celebefex show plays in over 50 countries as well as iheart radio and other internet radio stations.
The Celebefex Show with interviewer James Walsh will be playing all of my new music 'Unlove You,' 'Medley: I'll Make Love to You / End of the Road,' an earlier song 'Meghan's Medley: Tenderly, For Sentimental Reasons, Autumn Leaves,' as well as will be debuting my newest fun, vibrant, exciting song to the world--'La Isla Bonita (Versión de Rose)'.
""Wait for it . . .!JamCityAmerica debuting an exciting new song this Saturday on my 55 minute radio interview with Meghan Monroe on the Celebefex Show on JamCityAmerica. This song is so much fun and so rich with flavor and excitement, I can't quit listening and dancing! I can't wait for you to hear it! Amazing artists on the song: Lenny Castro (percussion), Carlitos Del Puerto (bass), Raul Pineda (drums), Maitland Ward (guitar), George Friedenthal (piano), Jeff Elliott (trumpet & round horn), Vince Denham (saxophone), Producer: Rosemary Butler"
-James Walsh, Radio Host - Celebefex Show
It's going to be a fun interview talking about the making of the newly released songs, new music next to be recorded, my songwriting, as well as my years as a writer, director, and producer in the entertainment, technology, and media businesses.
Meghan Monroe's music is being purchased internationally in countries such as UK, Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Sweden, Germany, Spain, France, Malaysia, Denmark, Iceland, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland as well as a large global stream fan base.
You can purchase my music on most music purchase websites such as
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/meghan-monroe/i...
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Isla-Bonita-Versión-Rose/dp...
as well as find me on most all online radio stations such as iheart radio and all streaming sites.
I look forward to having you all tune in to the show and am excited to share 55 minutes of fun, thoughtfulness, laughter, and music together. Join us! :D
Listen to Meghan on Spotify
Subscribe to my mailing list for tour updates and behind the scenes content.
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Carroll Dunham Ten from Female Portraits 2000
These are not so much portraits as caricatures of portraits, each with a ropelike black frame that lends a seriousness to the disturbing figures Dunham calls "deformed characters." They began as quick marker sketches, which Dunham scanned into the computer and colored digitally. The studio then spent months trying to match printing inks to the fabulously elusive colors of the digital images, before ultimately printing them as lithographs.
Gallery label from Artistic Collaborations: 50 Years at Universal Limited Art Editions, January 17–May 21, 2007 .
One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs
composition (irreg.): 9 3/16 x 13 1/2" (23.3 x 34.3 cm); sheet: 13 1/4 x 17 5/16" (33.6 x 43.9 cm)
Universal Limited Art Editions, Bay Shore, NY
Gift of Emily Fisher Landau
© 2019 Carroll Dunham / Photo: Courtesy of Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc. (U.L.A.E.)
Female Portraits
This work is part of a portfolio with 12 other works online.
Carroll Dunham has 118 works online.
There are 22,305 prints online.
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David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, 1987
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David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, 1987 by Patrick Harbron
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Syd Barrett & Record Player 1969
© Mick Rock, 1969
David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, Animals Tour, Holland, 1977
© Barry Schultz, 1977
David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, Netherlands, 1977
Pink Floyd, Animals, London, 1977
© Guido Harari, 1977
Roger Waters, Hollywood, FL 1973
© Al Satterwhite, 1973
Pink Floyd 1967
© Baron Wolman, 1967
Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Pink Floyd, Fillmore East, September, 1970
© Amalie R. Rothschild, 1970
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Pink Floyd Legend David Gilmour
David Gilmour - legendary guitarist, vocalist and writer with Pink Floyd, is also renowned for his solo work: his highly acclaimed 2006 platinum album...
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The 43 Most Metrosexual Presidents of All Time
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On Thursday, the New York Times reported on the efforts of a new super-PAC, backed by TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts, dedicated to exposing President Obama as a radical, no-good “metrosexual, black Abraham Lincoln.”
But Barack Obama isn’t our first metrosexual president. He’s not even our first metrosexual Abraham Lincoln. Here’s our quick guide to the 43* most metrosexual presidents of all time.
1.) Chester A. Arthur: The “A” is short for Argyle. (It isn’t, really.) C-Span notes that our nation’s 21st president “was nicknamed ‘Elegant Arthur’ because of his ‘dandy’ dressing.” One biographer argued that Arthur’s “happiest years” came during his stint as New York City customs collector, because the “increased income permitted Arthur to spend excessive amounts at his tailor.”
Chester A. Arthur: Smithsonian Institution
2.) Thomas Jefferson: Accentuated by the fact that he was a contemporary of John Adams:
Thomas Jefferson: Wikimedia Commons3.) Franklin Pierce: Pierce sported what historians have classified as a post-powdered antefauxhawk. He was also a terrible president.
Franklin Pierce: White House4.) Abraham Lincoln: The original metrosexual Abraham Lincoln:
Abraham Lincoln: Library of Congress
5–42.) Miscellaneous.
43.) Bill Clinton:
Bill Clinton: Clinton Presidential Library
Update: Reader @ThugloniusCrunk points out that: “Young Teddy Roosevelt was called “Jane-Dandy” & “Oscar Wilde” by his elders in the New York Senate.” This is true. We’ve arbitrarily designated him the 17th most metrosexual president of all time:
Update 2: Bravo to the Photoshop wizards at TNR behind Metrosexual Abraham Lincoln, Hipster Rutherford B. Hayes, and Freegan Chester A. Arthur. We’re all richer for their contribution.
*Correction: An earlier version of this post misstated the number of people who have served as president. Although some observers felt that Grover Cleveland was a different man in his second term, only 43 people have held the office.
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Holloway loses to Poirier in bid for second belt
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ATLANTA — Dustin Poirier bloodied Max Holloway and won a unanimous decision for the UFC interim lightweight title on Saturday night, denying Holloway his chance to become only the fourth fighter to hold two belts at the same time.
Holloway, the UFC featherweight champion from Waianae, Oahu, moved up to the 155-pound class for the first time, attempting to gain the second belt. He also was trying to avenge his loss to Poirier in his first UFC fight in 2012.
Holloway had Poirier in trouble in the third round but couldn’t overcome Poirier’s relentless barrage of punches.
Holloway was bleeding heavily by the fourth round. There was so much blood on his face in the fifth and final round that it appeared he had difficulty seeing at times as he wiped his eyes.
Each judge scored the fight 49-46 for Poirier (17-4).
“This feels great,” Poirier said. “I feel like I’m in a dream right now.”
Holloway (20-4) had his streak of 17 consecutive wins end. He hasn’t ruled out a return to the featherweight class.
“I’m not going to take nothing from Dustin,” Holloway said in the octagon, looking at Poirier. “You beat a world champ and you’re a world champ.”
In the other headline fight of UFC 236, Israel Adesanya earned the interim middleweight title with his domination of Kelvin Gastelum in the fifth round.
Poirier’s possible reward for his win is a chance to face undefeated Russian Khabib Nurmagomedov.
The retirement of Conor McGregor, who was the sport’s most popular fighter, leaves a void in UFC. McGregor held featherweight and lightweight titles but hasn’t won a fight since November 2016.
Nurmagomedov said this month he would like to fight again in September, two months after the end of his Nevada State Athletic Commission ban for his team’s brawl with McGregor’s team following their fight in October.
“Right now I’m the champ,” Poirier said, adding he hoped Nurmagomedov could return for a unifying fight that would remove the interim tag on his title.
“We’ve got a belt to fight for,” Poirier said.
Poirier’s hope was shared by UFC president Dana White. When asked about a possible unification bout following Poirier’s win, White said “Yes, that’s the fight.”
For now, the interim title is worth celebrating for Poirier. Fans chanted for Holloway at times, but Poirier also had his share of fans.
“It’s cool to prove it in front of all these people, but I had to prove it to myself,” Poirier said. “This means everything to me.”
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10 Tech Skills That Will Earn You Over $100,000
Alison Griswold
A new report from tech jobs database Dice.com contains a breakdown of the industry's most valuable skills.
According to Dice's data, there are dozens of programming and data skills that will net you, on average, over $100,000, and some that routinely clear $110,000. Most of these skills are also quite specialized, Dice President Shravan Goli says, which helps boost their value.
The top-earning skill is R, a programming language most commonly used by statisticians and data miners. Of the more than 17,236 technology professionals Dice surveyed, those with that skill reported an average salary of $115,531.
We've compiled a ranking of the 10 top-paying tech skills below. If you're looking to make a career investment, these could be a good place to start:
1. R
What it is: A programming language widely used among statisticians and data miners
Average salary people with it earn: $115,531
2. NoSQL
What it is: A collection of database and data storage technologies
3. MapReduce
What it is: A programming model used to process and generate large data sets
4. PMBok
What it is: A standardized guide to project management
5. Cassandra
What it is: An open source distributed data management system
6. Omnigraffle
What it is: An application used to create diagrams, charts, illustrations, and other graphics
7. Pig
What it is: A data analysis tool
8. Service Oriented Architecture
What it is: A software design that helps computers cooperate over a network
9. Hadoop
What it is: An open-source software for storage and data processing
10. Mongo DB
What it is: An open-source document database
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Downturn sees rise in corporate prisoners
The recession has forced a lot of people to stay put in their jobs, even if they don't like them.
Last Updated: 31 Aug 2010
More people are stuck in jobs they would otherwise leave as a result of the downturn, according to talent consultancy Chiumento. No great surprise there, we hear you say. But the issue is that these ‘corporate prisoners’ (as they’ve been dramatically dubbed) could be proving detrimental to your business: the research found that harbouring such people within your organisation can hamper productivity and morale. Plus they’ll look funny showing up to meetings in orange boiler suits...
The paper’s author split these so-called prisoners up into six groups. The largest of these was ‘the escapers’, which apparently includes about 20% of employees: when a new job opportunity presents itself, these people will seize it with both hands and move on as soon as possible. Now obviously this isn’t great for employers, since it’s expensive and time-consuming to replace them. On the other hand it’s surely just a fact of life that employees will move on if better opportunities arise. In fact, we’re surprised this percentage isn’t higher.
Next up are the ‘visiting stars’, who are just using your company to boost their CV before moving onto bigger things after the recession. The key with these people is to squeeze the most out of them while you can, and start preparing for their departure in advance.
Others are more likely to stay put. As well as ‘economic prisoners’ (who figure that they won’t get such a generous pay deal anywhere else), Chiumento suggests there are also ‘prisoners of circumstance’ – over 10% of people apparently fall into this category, which covers people who are stuck in their job because they need to work locally or to do particular hours. We suspect this is probably a common issue, and it’s not necessarily a good thing for businesses as it means workers are unlikely to be as productive as they could be.
Happily, loyalty hasn't entirely gone out of fashion. Just over 4% of those questioned were apparently ‘prisoners of conscience’ – they stay with the company out of loyalty and because they enjoy their job, even though in some cases they have reached the limits of their abilities. But it looks as though those truly in it for the long-haul are becoming a rare breed – just 3% claimed to be ‘lifers’.
Essentially this is just a fancy way to make the point that employees tend to cover the full spectrum of engagement: some love the company and are keen to stay, others don’t like it much and will leave if they get a better offer. The better companies will have a lot more of the former than the latter – after all, a happy workforce is a more productive workforce...
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Club Briefs: Marco Island Yacht Club rings in New Year
When you cross the Jolley Bridge entering Marco Island, the first thing you’ll see to the right of the bridge is the Marco Island Yacht Club.
Club Briefs: Marco Island Yacht Club rings in New Year When you cross the Jolley Bridge entering Marco Island, the first thing you’ll see to the right of the bridge is the Marco Island Yacht Club. Check out this story on marconews.com: https://www.marconews.com/story/life/2018/01/05/club-briefs-marco-island-yacht-club-rings-new-year/1000540001/
Marco Eagle Published 5:02 a.m. ET Jan. 5, 2018
Joanne Foote, left, receives her 25 year pin from Commander Rhonda Gloodt during a recent gathering of the Marco Island Sail & Power Squadron. (Photo: Submitted)
American Association of University Women's Mission: Advancing equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research. The AAUW Marco Island Branch meets at 9 a.m., October through April, on the third Monday of the Month at the United Church on Barfield Drive. Information: Durell Buzzini, director for membership, 207-745-4679.
Bocce League
A Marco Island Bocce League is being formed to provide a coordinated bocce activity for the residents and winter vacationers to the Island. The teams may be made up of both genders. Based on the skill level and competitiveness, the League may be broken down into two or more divisions. Information: Charles Pineno, 540-336-4121.
Jolley Roger Crossword Puzzle Club
The Jolley Roger Puzzle Club meets every Wednesday afternoon to discuss, dissect and otherwise chat about The New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle. If tackling the Sunday puzzle is part of your regular routine and you would like to get together with people who share your hobby, call Lee at 394-1492 or Lynn at 609-678-0424 for meeting time and location.
Shell Club
During the current season and through Tuesday, Feb. 27, the Marco Island Shell Club workshop will be held from 9 until 11:30 a.m., in the Dessler Hall at The United Church of Marco, 320 N. Barfield Drive, Marco Island. Join us to craft beautiful and intriguing items for sale at our Annual Shell Show and Craft Sale, March 8, 9, and 10. Proceeds from these sales benefit the Marco Island Shell Club scholarship fund for Marine Science students and Rookery Bay Educational program. All are welcome to come and learn what shell crafting is all about. Information: marcoshellclub.com.
Just Friends meets for lunch and socializing the second Wednesday of each month at 11:30 a.m., at United Church of Marco, 320 North Barfield. To become a member, you must have been a member in good standing of the Marco Island Newcomers for at least three years. President: Sharon Cook. Membership information: Janet at 682-1010 or Candy at 970-0727. Luncheon information: Lisa at 293-9077 or Donna at 642-1985. Mail luncheon checks for $27 to Just Friends, P.O. Box 1685, Marco Island, 34146.
Marco Island Newcomers Club
Women meet for lunch, socializing and to learn about the local area, at 11:30 a.m. the second Wednesday of every month at the Hideaway Beach Club, 333 Hideaway Circle North. Information: Kecia Chronowski, 920-265-3544, and Kathie Richel 352-634-2547, or visit marconewcomers.org.
Marco Island Men’s Club
The club meets at 10 a.m. the second Thursday of each month at United Church of Marco Island, 320 N. Barfield Drive. MMC is open to residents of Marco Island, Goodland and the Isles of Capri. Information: Fred Stavola at pfstavola@aol.com or 239-389-1724 or marcomensclub.com.
Marco Island Woman’s Club
Marco Island Woman’s Club awards scholarships to graduating high school students, who live on Marco Island, and supports various local nonprofit organizations. The group meets for lunch at 11:30 a.m. the first Wednesday of the month. To become a member, Priscilla Penn at 239-642-3046 or go to marcowomansclub.com.
Democratic Women's Club
The Democratic Women’s Club of Marco Island provides a forum for discussion of public policy matters, to support qualified candidates for public office and to encourage qualified Democratic women to seek elected office. We have interest groups pertaining to issues affecting women. Meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month at Rose Auditorium at the Marco Island Library. The meetings begin at 5 p.m. and end at 6:30 p.m.
Calusa Garden Club
Business meetings begin at 12:30 p.m. and speakers begin at 1:15 p.m. the second Monday of the month, October through March, at the Fellowship Hall of Wesley United Methodist Church, 350 S. Barfield, Marco Island. Community members interested in gardening, floral design and environmental issues are welcome to attend and invited to join the group. Information: Jackie Purvis, 239-970-6644, or calusa.org.
Italian American Society
The Italian American Society of Marco Island meets at 7 p.m., the first Wednesday of each month, November through April, at MIHS Rose History Auditorium. This energetic group of men and women with Italian heritage are dedicated to remembering their roots while having as much fun as possible. Information: Carol Marrella Lindstrom 630-450-4092 or Gene D'Onofrio 239 642-3940.
Rhode Island Club
The Rhode Island Club have started their second year for current and former Rhode Islanders who enjoy getting together for an occasional dinner to reminisce about the old days and who they knew and where they came from. If you are feeling the need to connect with others from Rhody this is the group for you. Call Ann Sepe 401 632-6099 or Ann D'Onofrio 239 642-3940.
Cancer Support Group
Marco Island Cancer Support Group has been helping people for over 25 years. Join us on the first and third Thursday of the month at 10:30 a.m., 40 Heathwood Drive (NCH) and see if we help you. All are welcome. Information: baron.marbelle@gmail.com.
Civitan International
Civitan International is an organization of volunteer service clubs around the world, dedicated to helping people in their own communities. Civitans help wherever the need arises – from collecting food for a homeless shelter to volunteering at their local retirement home to building a playground for children with disabilities. Civitans have been helping people since the organization’s founding in 1917, by a group of businessmen determined to make a difference in their community. The Marco Island Civitan Club meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. at Mario's, 845 Bald Eagle Drive. For more club information, contact Nery Kircher 239-774-2623 or visit Civitan.org.
Marco Island Senior Squadron meets 7 p.m. the first and third Mondays in the CAP Hangar at Marco Island Executive Airport at the end of Mainsail Dr., off Collier Blvd. South (State Road 951). Capt. Bob Corriveau, Squadron Commander, at 239-331-2290. Information: marcoislandcap.org.
If you are a wartime veteran or current Legion member and are interested in joining, contact Bill Horton at 239-642-8928 or Bill Irvine at 239-595-4172. Meetings are held at 11 a.m., on the third Tuesday of each month, followed by lunch, at on the Marco Island Princess dockside at Rose Marina, all veterans are welcome.
Marco VFW Post 6370
The Marco VFW Post 6370 meets the second Tuesday, at the Mutual of Omaha Bank on San Marco Road at 7 p.m. at the rear entrance to the bank. The VFW sells U.S.-made flags of all types at wholesale prices using proceeds for veterans’ relief and welfare. New male and female veterans who served in combat areas are needed. Transfers are accepted from other Posts. Contact Dave Gardner at 239-289-5862.
Marco Island Lions Club
Meetings held the first Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. at Perkins Restaurant, 4335 Tamiami Trail East, Naples. Information: David Gardner, 239-289-5862. Club is not active in July, August and September.
Shrine Club
The Marco Island Shrine meets every Friday at 11:30 a.m. for fun and fellowship. All Masons and Shriners are welcome. Call for location. Information: Bill at 239-595-4172.
Chapter meets the third Thursday of the month at 10:30 at Hideaway Beach Club. Visiting and prospective member are welcome. Information, Karen Lombardi at 239-394-0028.
Chapter meets the second Thursday of each month, October through May, at 11:30 a.m. at The Club at Longshore Lake. Visiting Compatriots and prospective members are welcome. Information: email NaplesSAR@gmail.com or call Ed Lary, Chapter Registrar, at 239-732-7280.
Sons & Daughters of Erin
Southwest Florida Sons & Daughters of Erin meets at 6:30 p.m. the third Wednesday of every month at San Marco Catholic Church Parrish, 851 San Marco Road. Information: Kathleen Reynolds, 239-394-0220.
La Mesa Española
La Mesa Española meets at Stonewalls for coffee and conversation in Spanish on Wednesday mornings from 8:30 until 9:30 a.m. All levels from beginner on up are cordially invited. Native speakers willing to share their language with learners are especially welcome. Information: Ted at tjeismeier@gmail.com.
MIMYC
The MIMYC starts its winter season of Model RC Laser Sailing: Will sail Sundays from 2 until 4 p.m. at Mackle Park. The MIMYC has been in existence since 2008 and host the Annual Marco Island RC Laser Championships the first weekend of March. Information: 239-642-1825.
Marco Island Paddlers Association
Marco Island Paddlers Association Inc. (MIPA) is a nonprofit association for people interested in Kayak, SUP or Canoe paddling in the broader Marco Island Area. MIPA host group paddles, training sessions, and paddle related meetings and events. Information: email mi.paddlers.assoc@gmail.comor visit meetup.com/Marco-Island-Paddling-Association/.
Scuba Marco Dive Club
The scuba Marco Dive Club meets at 7 p.m., the last Thursday of each month at the dive shop, 1141 Bald Eagle Drive. The club shares dive stories, meets new dive buddies and has guest speakers on occasion. Information: 239-389-7889 or email info@scubamarco.com.
Car Guys Breakfast
First Saturday of every month at 8:30 a.m. at the Sand Bar, 826 E Elkcam Circle, Marco Island. Details call Keith Pershing 239-394-1887.
Marco Island Corvette and Muscle Car Club
Corvette and classic muscle cars gather every Friday at 8 p.m. in the Marco Town Center parking lot in front of Susie’s Diner. All Corvettes and muscle cars are welcome. Information: marcoislandcorvettes.com.
Antique Automobile Club of America
The Naples-Marco Island Region of the Antique Automobile Club of America is now meeting at 7 p.m. every third Monday at the First United Methodist Church of Naples, 388 First Avenue South, Naples. Information: 239-642-0147 or naplesmarcoaaca.org.
Marco Cruise Club
The club extends a welcome to fellow boaters with large or smaller boats. Marco Cruise Club was founded in December 1975 and is the one of the oldest boating clubs on the island. General membership meetings are held at 7 p.m., on the fourth Tuesday of the month at the Mutual of Omaha Bank on San Marco and Barfield Drive. Boating enthusiasts are welcome to join. Information: marcocruiseclub.com or Neil Blaauboer at 642-8493.
Marco Island Sail and Power Squadron
Join members of the Marco Island Sail and Power Squadron at the Captain’s Meeting (social hour), at CJ’s on the Bay, 5 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. No need to own a boat or be a captain; just have an interest in boating and enjoying the beautiful waters around Marco Island. Introduce yourself to a member wearing a name tag and allow us to welcome you. Information: 239-393-0150, email JustUs8032@yahoo.com or visit MarcoIslandSailandPowerSquadron.org.
Sailing Association of Marco Island (SAMI) is the club for those people interested in sailing or just meeting others who share a love of sailing. We have day or overnight cruises planned throughout the year, participate in a yearly regatta, meet for dinner or hold potlucks, and have interesting speakers. We welcome new members. Check our website: samisailor.org. Membership contact is Robin Singer 419-376-1387.
Sailing solo singles group
Marco Lutheran Church’s singles group meets on the fourth Sunday of each month from 4 to 6 p.m. Join for refreshments, discussions, programs, projects and lots of good friendship and fun. Information: 394-0332.
New Year’s Eve at the Marco Island Yacht Club was filled with merriment, music, dancing and fine dining as members said goodbye to the old and rang in 2018. Participants joined together at the stroke of midnight for the last group shot of the year. (Photo: Submitted)
Marco Island Yacht Club
When you cross the Jolley Bridge entering Marco Island, the first thing you’ll see to the right of the bridge is the Marco Island Yacht Club (MIYC). Members enjoy a full calendar of social and boating events, plus waterfront dining with the most spectacular views on the Island. We are currently welcoming new members. Check our website marcoislandyachtclub.net or call our membership director at 239-394-0199.
Marco Bay Yacht Club
Marco Bay Yacht Club is the oldest and most active yacht club on Marco Island with numerous cruise and social events a year. The club has boating events for both large and small vessels. There’s a club social at CJ’s on the Bay at 4:30 p.m. on the last Monday of the month. New potential members are always welcome. Come visit and see if this is the boating club for you. Information: Dianne Kernan at dianne@diannekernan.com or 239 389-0314.
Marco Island Road Runners
The Marco Island Road Runners Club meets every Saturday morning at 8 a.m. at Mackle Park. All running levels are welcomed. Find us on Facebook at Marco Island Road Runners or email Scott@ scotthicks11@gmail.com.
Kiwanis Club
The Kiwanis Club of Marco Island meets every Thursday at 7:30 a.m. for breakfast and meeting at Stonewalls, 551 S. Collier Blvd. Information: President Dr. Kathleen Reynolds at 239-394-0459.
Toastmasters Club
Meetings are every Wednesday from 6:30 p.m. at the Centennial Bank, 645 East Elkcam Circle, Marco Island. Everyone is welcomed. Contact: Chris Pritchard, colliertoastmasters@gmail.com or visit 1126118.toastmastersclubs.org/.
Marco Wine Tasting Group
Club’s purpose is tasting wines and meeting new friends. This is not for profit and is noncommercial. If interested, call Carol Martin 239-784-3025 for details.
Sunrise Rotary Club
The Rotary Club of Marco Island Sunrise meets 7:30 a.m., every Tuesday at Stonewalls, 551 S. Collier Boulevard. Breakfast starts at 7:30 a.m. with meeting following. Information: marcoislandsunriserotary.org.
Noontime Rotary Club
The Marco Noontime Rotary Club meets every Thursday at 11:30 a.m., at DaVinci’s Restaurant Marco Walk Plaza, 599 S. Collier Blvd., for lunch and meeting. Anyone interested in Rotary should contact Gwyn Steiner at 952-484-1058.
Civitan Club
The Marco Island Civitan Club meets the second Tuesday of the month and has social/educational meetings the fourth week, both at 6 p.m. The Naples Civitan Club meets the first Tuesday of the month at noon and has social/educational meetings the third week of the month in the evening. For more Civitan information call 239-774-2623 or email neryk@aol.com.
All knitters are welcome, expert to novice, every Wednesday from 12:30 until 3:30 p.m. at The Family Church, 1450 Winterberry Drive. Join us to share your stitches and your stories. Free of charge, walk-ins welcome. Parks and Recreation Department, Frank E. Mackle Community Park, 1361 Andalusia Terrace Marco Island. Information: 239-642-0575, cityofmarcoisland.com.
Marco Association of Condominiums (MAC)
MAC meets on the third Thursday of each month at 9 a.m. at the Marco Island Historical Society’s Rose Hall (across the street from the library). Information: 239-394-3222 or mac-online.org for a listing of topics and speakers at upcoming meetings.
Marco Meetup Group
The group is a social activities club for adult couples and singles. There are no dues or fees. Information: 239-595-4661 or curt.dixon@yahoo.com.
Marco Island Writers
Marco Island Writers meets from 6 until 8 p.m. with doors opening at 5:30 p.m. for registration and networking on the second Wednesday of every month, year round, at the Marco Center for the Arts at 1010 Winterberry Dr., Marco Island. All skill levels of writers are welcome. First-time visitors are free. Information: Elisabeth Noyes, phone 239-394-5856; email: marcoislandwritersinc@gmail.com or marcoislandwriters.com.
Great Books Discussion Group
The Great Books Discussion Group meets every the second and fourth Monday of the month from 3-5 p.m. Excerpts from great literature, including short stories are read and discussed. Information: George at 239-970-6644 or 610-710-5861.
Gourmet Stud Muffins
The Gourmet Stud Muffins is a men’s social club committed to the cooking and enjoyment of food: the history, preparation and eating. The group hosts regular events at a member’s house. Each member hosts at least one event a year. Participants contribute to purchase the food and help with preparation, sharing recipes, learning new cooking skills and ultimately enjoy a meal together. Information: Bruce Novark at bnovark@comcast.net.
Southwest Florida Ski and Travel Club
Snow skiing in Southwest Florida? Join fellow skiers and snowboarders for updates on our upcoming ski, non-ski trips and social activities. Business meetings are held the first Tuesday of every month; 6:30 p.m. at the Parrot Room at Gulf Coast Inn; 2555 Tamiami Trail N. (Route 41); Naples. Information: naplesskiclub.com or 239-839-3711.
Chess K-12 for all students from K-12. Parents, grandparents or guardians encouraged to attend. The club meets each Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon at Marco Lutheran Church, 525 N. Collier. Chess Marco for all chess players of all ages meets each Monday 9 a.m. to noon at the Marco Lutheran Church, 525 N. Collier. Casual chess players are always ready for a chess game. Information: Wade Keller 389-2525 or emailWK@KellerPublishing.com.
Alpha Chi Omega AXO alumni monthly luncheons
The Alpha Chi Omega Alumni Chapter is open to alumnae of Alpha Chi Omega chapters across the country. Call Donna at 239-594-9401 or emaildeltapidelta.axo@gmail.com.
Kappa Alpha Theta Alumnae
Kappa Alpha Theta Alumnae Chapter hosts a lunch bunch on the second Monday of each month from May to October at different local restaurants. Information: Pat Morton, 239-213-0474 or mortonsel@comcast.net
For more listings, navigate to the Life section and click on Club Briefs at marconews.com. Briefs must be emailed to mail@marcoeagle.com and should be submitted at least a week before desired publication.
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I Brought a "Wine Purse" to Paris and the French Were Not Amused
But I was.
By Jennifer Goldstein
Jennifer Goldstein
I recently got my hands on the PortoVino Purse, which lets you port your own vino, wherever you go. From the outside, it's a basic black shoulder purse accented with a dangly golden bow charm; inside, the polka-dotted lining conceals an insulated zipper pocket holding a 1.5-liter wine pouch with a valve you access via a flap on the bag's exterior. Clutch, right? That's what I thought as I packed it with carry-on essentials for a trip to France.
The PortoVino's first outing abroad was Le N3, a fancy restaurant in Vichy where it got to sit on a pretty stool next to my chair. The pouch was still empty, but that didn't stop me from showing it to my dining companions, two très chic beauty executives. I lifted the flap and fussed for a few seconds before the pert little valve finally popped out. When I looked up, one of the women was murmuring "Oh, no, no, no, no, no," and staring at me as if I were Justin Timberlake at the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, the flap was Janet Jackson's bra, and the valve was—well, you get the idea. The other just shook her head and made that French tongue-clucking sound that basically translates to, "Girl, bye."
"She just shook her head and made that French tongue-clucking sound that basically translates to, 'Girl, bye.'"
The next day, it was time for a fill-up. I plopped PortoVino on the counter at La Cave d'Agnès wine shop, pulled out the pouch, and mimed filling it until a local took pity on me and started translating. I expected the sales clerk to escort me to the door, but she freaking loved it. "C'est drôle!" she laughed as she got out her phone to take pictures. When she was done, I requested a white to accompany a canister of Pringles on a three-hour train ride to Paris, and she offered up a light, fresh sauvignon blanc from the Loire Valley. I bought two.
Sorry, but actually, not at all
Back at my hotel, I headed to the bar for a wine key. My plan was to take it to my room, open the bottles, and fill the PortoVino in private, but my car to the train station was already waiting and I didn't have time. So I did the whole operation right there at the bar. The bartender's reaction? Let's just say this: If you don't bring sand to the beach in America, then you don't bring wine to the bar in France—and you definitely don't bring two bottles of it to decant into the lining of a faux-leather tote bag with a spigot and a diamante bow.
Once my friend Käthe and I were settled on the 5 o'clock train to Paris, we pulled out two souvenir glasses we had picked up while in town. With their straw carrying cases and adorable wrist straps, they were designed for sampling the spring waters that flow from public taps around Vichy, but we figured they would be the perfect vessels for drinking sauvignon from le sac. They were not. Maybe it was their flat-bottomed shape or the glacially slow flow rate of the PortoVino valve, but when the wine hit the glasses, it sounded like a very drunk man was taking a very long pee into a toilet that was very far away. The French lady across the aisle did not appreciate the lusty splash or our accompanying giggles.
After three glasses, and three hundred dirty glances from our fellow passengers, I decided it would be better to drink directly from the valve instead of subjecting everyone to another drawn-out pour. Käthe thought it might be better to tilt the bag prior to dispensing in order to increase the flow rate and dampen the noise. Käthe was right. We kept drinking. Two hours later, when we arrived in Paris, the clutch was kicked.
Not playing around
Here are a few things you learn when you drink an entire tote bag of wine on a French train: Every station in the country plays the same two-note chime to signal a train's arrival. The chime sounds exactly like the opening notes of Soulja Boy's 2007 hit "Crank That." Googling the lyrics to "Crank That" while speeding through the French countryside requires international roaming data and dexterity you will not have after 750 milliliters of sauvignon blanc. French businesspeople do not want to hear you sing "Crank That" on their Tuesday trip from Vichy to Paris. And, finally, no matter how free it is, how pedigreed its provenance, or how many times you offer, no one in France wants to drink wine from your purse. So please stop asking.
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Honda's virtual showroom uses 'aspirational architecture'
27 March 2017, 09:09 a.m.
The Real View Test Drive project “employs neuroscience to educate and excite viewers by simulating and atypical, aspirational showroom.”
The virtual showroom (below) was created by creative production studio Saddington Baynes and DigitasLBi. It consists of a series of videos that mix live action and CGI to give customers an in-depth virtual tour of a particular vehicles features.
Creating ‘aspirational architecture’
According to Honda, 76% of customers take at least one digital action in the buying process. So the aim was not only to create a next-gen online experience, but also to “attract viewers on an instinctual, emotional level”.
This is where the team turned to the insights provided by neuroscience.
“I see neuroscience as an informed voice – a creative coach,” explains Saddington Baynes creative director James Digby Jones.
The team wanted to create an ‘architecturally aspirational space’ to fit in with Honda’s brand. Colour palette, camera angles, lens flare and motion blur were all employed to have significant effects on the way that consumers perceive and engage with the Honda brand.
The Real View Test Drive is made up of over 300 shots, over an hour of footage, 17 languages and 900 outputs.
You can see the resulting tour for yourself here.
Measuring engagement
The project was underpinned by Engagement Insights, a neuro-psychological test that Saddington Baynes believes measures a subject’s implicit emotional responses to images.
Engagement Insights was used at every stage of the creative process to refine the answer to the question of ‘what is a Honda showroom?’
Chris Christodoulou, CEO of Saddington Baynes, explains the process:
“Customer behaviour straight from the horse’s mouth can still be distorted by peer pressure, morals – any number of reasons. With Engagement Insights, we uncover subconscious emotions, identifying how viewers genuinely feel about an image, without outside interference.”
“Using a pool of respondents, we tested some very, very vastly different versions of architectural space. Some results were expected, some were downright shocking. One of our least favourite designs actually ranked among the best emotional responses!”
You can find out more here.
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Pavard’s Goal Awarded Best Goal In World Cup
Home » ➨ ✔ Sports › ➨ Read now » Pavard’s Goal Awarded Best Goal In World Cup
Joshua Oyenigbehin
Benjamin Pavard, France left back’s goal against Argentina in a 4-2 round of 16 match have been awarded the best goal of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, ahead of Ahmed Musa first goal against Iceland and other astonishing goals.
Pavard’s Stunning strike against Argentina topped the voting world soccer ruling body FIFA announced on Wednesday.
France came from a goal down to win 4-2 in a tough encounter against Argentina
Pavard’s effort won a public vote to be named the best of the 169 goals scored in the tournament, seeing off competition from Colombian midfielder Juan Quintero’s free-kick against Japan and Luka Modric’s goal in Croatia’s group-stage thumping of Argentina and also Ahmed Musa’s twin goals against Iceland in the group stage.
169 goals were scored in the just concluded world cup competition with 62 matched played and fans around the world unanimously chose Pavard’s goal as the best of the tournament.
3 Milllion Football fans and user of FIFA.com voted in an online poll to determine the goal of the competition.
“The ball bounced up as it came to me. I didn’t even think about it. I just tried to get over it and keep it down,” Pavard told FIFA.com after France’s Round of 16 thriller with Argentina. “I was trying to hit it in the direction it came from, which is what the strikers always tell me. I didn’t think it over, and when it went in I just felt so happy.”
Pavard’s goal saw off stiff competition to win the accolade, including Juan Quintero’s delightful low free-kick for Colombia against Japan in the group stage which finished second, and Luka Modric’s long-range stunner against Argentina, also in the group stage, which came third in the voting.
Joshua Oyenigbehin is an introvert who is passionate about Storytelling, writing and teaching. He sees his imagination as an unsearchable world, more magical than a fairyland. He has written a novel and working on another.
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be found in the “square” where the entrances to the Frontierland Walt Disney World Train Station and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad are located. This article covers how the queue or line is set up for the Walt Disney World version of the ride.
Splash Mountain Queue Layout
The line for Splash Mountain is set up in an interesting configuration that involves many turns and stairs to reach the loading area for the ride. You first start outside and then enter the Splash Mountain building that is themed with a country style look. After going inside the building, guests are sent back outside. Guests are then redirected to a set of stairs which leads guests back inside of the building. Inside of the building, guests are then led to the main queue area for the ride. Before getting on the ride, guests head down a corridor that winds down to the loading area.
Above Splash Mountain queue or line entrance photo by Michael Gray on Flickr. Photo enhanced by NavFile and released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license.
The wait time for the line can be for a significant amount of time as the attraction is one of the popular rides in the park. The ride, however, usually does not have wait times that are the highest in the park. Space Mountain and the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train are the two rides that are among the top two rides with the longest wait time in the Magic Kingdom. More information on the wait times for the attraction can be found on our wait time and ride time page.
Below you can view a video that showcases what the line/queue area for the ride looks like.
Splash Mountain Queue Music
The queue music for Splash Mountain features songs from the film Song of the South and other songs that were created by The Walt Disney Company for the ride. “Let the Rain Pour Down," "That's What Uncle Remus Said, "Sooner or Later," “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah,” “How Do You Do,” “Laughing Place,” and other songs are featured in the Queue. You can listen to the songs in the video player below. More information on the music for the ride can also be found on our music and theme song page for the ride.
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Access to Spinraza- an update
Clare Lucas
There has been further activity over the last week to push for access to the first drug for people with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA); Spinraza. Below is a summary of the latest news in the fight for access to this life-changing treatment.
Access update
This week, Wednesday 6 March, we were in Manchester along with SMA UK, TreatSMA, clinicians and families for the third NICE committee meeting on Spinraza. We are unable to share the details of the discussions that took place at this stage but assure you that the patient voice was well represented by those present. We expect to hear the outcome of the meeting in the next few weeks and will share any news as soon as we are able to.
In more positive news, it was announced last month that Spinraza is due to be made available on the NHS in Scotland for children and adults with SMA Types 2 and 3. Subject to final agreement, people will be able to receive treatment from April 2019, news which has been welcomed by families in Scotland. It was approved through the new ultra-orphan pathway assessment process for the rarest conditions, which was set up in October 2018 by the Scottish Government and follows the approval for people with SMA Type 1 to access treatment on the NHS in Scotland from May 2018.
Prof Alison Strath, Principal Pharmaceutical Officer at the Scottish Government, provided an update at the Cross Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on 27 February on the plans for making Spinraza available. We look forward to hearing more news in due course.
Minister meeting
Alongside Mary Glindon MP and leading clinicians Prof Muntoni and Dr Manzur, we met with Health Minister Baroness Blackwood on 5 March to discuss access to Spinraza and reforming NICE’s appraisal processes for future rare disease treatments. The Minister committed to working closely with Muscular Dystrophy UK when NICE’s appraisal routes are reviewed to learn from the charity’s current and past experiences.
The campaign for access to Spinraza has been featured in national, broadcast and regional media. This wouldn’t have been possible without the support of families across the UK, who have shared their personal stories with us.
Some of the key coverage is listed below:
An open letter was published by The Guardian from 30 clinicians involved in the care of children and adults with SMA. The letter highlighted clinicians’ frustration at an effective treatment being out of reach. The signatories – including consultants, physiotherapists and nurses – also joined Muscular Dystrophy UK and SMA UK in asking NICE to show flexibility.
BBC News and ITV News covered the story online, sharing UK families’ stories and a quote from the charity. ITV News also covered the story on its national lunchtime, evening and 10pm bulletins.
The Mirror Online spoke to families for a series of pieces highlighting the campaign for access. This included interviews with Paul Mercer, whose daughter, Kennedy, has SMA Type 1 and receives Spinraza; Shakil Malji, who launched a petition after his daughter was diagnosed with SMA Type 1; and Katie Prescott, whose daughter, Heidi, has SMA Type 3.
STV News and The Scotsman covered the announcement that Scotland is due to approve Spinraza for use on the NHS for people with SMA Types 2 and 3.
Metro Online ran a first-person opinion piece from mum Rachel Jamieson, whose daughter, Matilda, has SMA Type 3, to coincide with Rare Disease Day.
The Sun and Mail Online featured Shakeel Khan’s plea for the treatment for his six-month-old son, Haris. Haris was diagnosed with SMA Type 1 last month – after Biogen closed its compassionate scheme.
ITV London, BBC East Midlands Today, BBC Look North, ITV Calendar, ITV Granada, BBC Radio York and BBC Leicester have also interviewed families and Muscular Dystrophy UK spokespeople.
We would like to thank all the individuals and families who have been campaigning so tirelessly for access to Spinraza; writing letters, attending meetings and generally making your voices heard. We will keep fighting alongside you to make this life-changing treatment available.
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If you would like to share your story, please email Laura Burge at: l.burge@musculardystrophyuk.org
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Weeks In
1 1 2 Beerbongs & Bentleys
2 NEW! 1 Shawn Mendes
3 2 65 Divide
4 NEW! 1 Testing
5 4 23 The Greatest Showman Ost
The Greatest Showman Ensemble
6 3 4 Wish You Were Here
7 6 28 Six60 Ep
8 11 8 Invasion Of Privacy
9 7 49 Evolve
10 8 6 Kod
11 5 2 Love Yourself / 'tear'
12 NEW! 1 Daytona
13 16 73 Stoney
14 15 16 Black Panther: The Album Ost
15 9 3 Tranquility Base Hotel And Casino
16 17 33 Beautiful Trauma
17 NEW! 1 Goodbye And Good Riddance
18 13 10 Make Way For Love
Marlon Williams
19 14 3 Voicenotes
20 19 11 [question Mark]
21 18 133 X: Wembley Edition
22 24 21 Don't Smile At Me
23 23 63 American Teen
24 20 59 Damn.
25 22 170 Six60 (2)
26 25 29 Reputation
27 28 31 Heartbreak On A Full Moon
28 26 30 The Thrill Of It All
29 - 3 Good Thing
30 27 80 24k Magic
32 31 50 Melodrama
33 - 2 Don't Let Them Lock You Up
Hopetoun Brown
34 32 42 Dua Lipa
35 NEW! 1 Love Is Dead
37 29 20 Diamonds
38 34 3 We Light Fire
39 38 32 Ctrl
40 36 18 Culture Ii
This is the Official New Zealand Top 40 Singles Chart. The chart is based on retail sales both physical and digital from music retailers throughout the country. The chart is supplied by RIANZ. For more information please see the RIANZ website.
Full List Of Charts: Official New Zealand Top 40 Albums
#3096 15 July 2019
#3093 24 June 2019
#3089 27 May 2019
#3086 29 April 2019
#3081 25 March 2019
#3077 25 February 2019
#3073 28 January 2019
#3069 31 December 2018
#3064 26 November 2018
#3060 29 October 2018
#3055 24 September 2018
#3051 27 August 2018
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The Venga Boys »
Boom Boom Boom Boom
Boom Boom Boom Boom - The Venga Boys - Top 40 Singles
Boom Boom Boom Boom debuted in the Official New Zealand Top 40 Singles on 8 August 1999. It has been in the Top 40 Singles for 14 weeks with a highest position of #1. There are seven songs by The Venga Boys in the Top 40 Singles with three reaching Number One.
Chart placings for Boom Boom Boom Boom:
08 Aug 1999 Top 40 Singles 1
05 Sep 1999 Top 40 Singles 2
26 Sep 1999 Top 40 Singles 11
07 Nov 1999 Top 40 Singles 24
Chart placings by The Venga Boys:
Boom Boom Boom Boom Top 40 Singles 08 Aug 1999 14 1
Kiss (When The Sun Don't Shine) Top 40 Singles 06 Feb 2000 12 1
Sha Lala Lala Top 40 Singles 16 Apr 2000 17 1
The Platinum Album Top 40 Albums 14 Jan 2001 2 49
Uncle John From Jamaica Top 40 Singles 16 Jul 2000 8 5
Up & Down Top 40 Singles 14 Feb 1999 13 27
We Like To Party Top 40 Singles 25 Apr 1999 20 9
We're Going To Ibiza Top 40 Singles 31 Oct 1999 9 6
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ATO flags alternatives, flexibility for next STP deadline
07 September 2018 — 1 minute read
Hundreds of thousands of micro-businesses may be allowed alternative reporting mechanisms under the Single Touch Payroll regime, which is set to come into effect for small business next year.
The next STP deadline is 1 July 2019, for employers with 19 or less employees. Legislation mandating this deadline is still before the Senate, but the ATO advised best practice is to prepare for rollout as per the deadline.
However, the ATO acknowledged that some micro-businesses may not require payroll software, and is currently looking at alternatives for those entities.
“There's a larger cohort of what we would call micro employers, less than five, who don't currently use a payroll product. Our clear message to those is that we won't force businesses to take up payroll to do STP. We'll be working with industry to look at some alternate reporting mechanisms,” the ATO’s STP lead and assistant commissioner, John Shepherd, told My Business' sister title Accountants Daily.
“That was a learning from the pilot that we did with small business last year. The finding of that was that not all small employers would want to take up a payroll product, and also, the need to have low cost products available for that reporting,” he said.
Figures to April 2018 indicate about 700,000 employers will be required to start STP reporting in July next year. The ATO anticipates a wave of deferrals and exemptions for that deadline, assuming the legislation is passed.
“We don't expect that they're all going to start by July 1. That's a lot of employers to support. So, we'll be working with industry around that flexibility, around things like deferrals,” Mr Shepherd said.
Employers in remote communities with limited IT infrastructure and internet access will also have their situations considered.
“If you're in an area that has internet issues or internet challenges, there are exemptions available for STP. We acknowledge it's really hard if you've got no internet to send reports to us each payday,” Mr Shepherd said.
“Through [a] focus group, we’re working with industry on some flexible options to transition that group over the next couple of years,” Mr Shepherd said.
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TV personality Jill Martin; Ambush Makeovers; chef Marcus Samuelsson; Ingrid Andress performs.
Football Star Donald Driver Named "Dancing With the Stars" Champion
Singer Katherine Jenkins came in second
Published May 22, 2012 at 11:12 PM | Updated at 12:11 AM EDT on May 23, 2012
In this April 16, 2012 photo released by ABC, Donald Driver, right, and his partner Peta Murgatroyd perform on the celebrity dance competition series "Dancing with the Stars," in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/ABC, Adam Taylor)
He already has a Super Bowl ring, and now football star Donald Driver can add the "Dancing With the Stars" mirrorball trophy to his awards collection.
The Green Bay Packers receiver won the ABC dance show Tuesday after wowing audiences and judges with his kickin' country-themed freestyle routine. He and partner Peta Murgatroyd hoisted the glittery prize above their heads after being named the new "Dancing" champs.
Streamers and confetti rained down from the ceiling, filling the ballroom as they celebrated. Driver's wife and children joined him on the dance floor.
With just one point separating the three finalists, it was up to the viewers to pick the winner.
Katherine Jenkins' Thrilling "Dancing" Finals Night
Katherine Jenkins and her "Dancing" partner Mark Ballas hit the top of the leaderboard on the first night of the "Dancing With the Stars" finals with a perfect score. Backstage after the show, Katherine explained how difficult it was to just focus on the dance. Also, she dishes on how it felt to sing at the top of her freestyle.
(Published Tuesday, March 4, 2014)
He and his fellow finalists, Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins and Cuban actor William Levy, each earned perfect scores for their last performances Tuesday. Jenkins came into the final contest with a perfect 60 points; Driver and Levy each had 59.
Judges' scores combined with viewer votes determined the result.
Contestants eliminated throughout the show's 10-week season reunited for the two-hour finale. Martina Navratilova, Gavin DeGraw, Jack Wagner, Jaleel White, Sherri Shepherd, Melissa Gilbert, Roshon Fegan, Maria Menounos and Gladys Knight all donned costumes Tuesday for one last dance.
Knight did double performance duty, also singing "The Way We Were." Kelly Clarkson also performed on the show.
The next round of "Dancing With the Stars" will feature contestants from past seasons.
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Volvo Group and Samsung SDI enter strategic alliance for battery cells and modules
IAC invests $250 million in car sharing platform Turo
Protean develops advanced electric-drive ‘corner module’ concept for urban mobility pods
Audi carries out virtual testing of the assembly process of e-tron GT
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Future Transportation
Daimler delivers the first electric Freightliner truck to Penske Truck Leasing in US
21st December 2018 Alex 0 Comments
With the hand-over of the first fully electric Freightliner eM2, Daimler Trucks has started day to day-operation testing of heavy-duty and medium-duty e-trucks in the United States. On December 20th, 2018, Daimler’s subsidiary Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) handed over the first medium-duty Freightliner eM2 to US customer Penske Truck Leasing Corporation in Los Angeles.
Penske Truck Leasing is going to operate the electric truck in local distribution traffic in the Northwest Pacific and in California. In the course of 2019, Penske Truck Leasing Corporation will receive in total 20 fully-electric Freightliner trucks: ten medium-duty eM2 and ten eCascadia for heavy-duty transportation. In total the Freightliner’s innovation fleet will include 30 vehicles. The series production is planned for 2021.
“Penske is honoured to be the first company to put this new medium-duty electric truck into service,” said Brian Hard, President and CEO of Penske Truck Leasing. “I commend and thank Roger Nielsen and his team at Daimler Trucks North America for their outstanding collaboration and spirit of co-creation with us over the last nine months to bring this innovative technology to market. Penske is committed to providing the most effective vehicle technologies to our customers and driving innovation and sustainability when it comes to mobility.”
“We aim to be frontrunners with electric trucks just as we are with conventional trucks – and we deliver on this objective once again: With the hand-over of our Freightliner eM2 to Penske Truck Leasing Corporation, we now test electric trucks in all segments in day to day operations with our clients worldwide. When it comes to innovations the demands of our customers are pivotal for us. Together we develop solutions for the future of trucks”, Martin Daum, Daimler Board Member responsible for Trucks and Buses, emphasises.
The hand-over to Penske Truck Leasing Corporation is the first step towards electrification of the urban distribution traffic of the United States. Penske Truck Leasing Corporation is a leading global transportation services provider operating more than 270.000 vehicles and serving customers from more than 1.000 locations in North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Asia. With a range of 230 miles, the Freightliner eM2 is perfect for last-mile delivery services.
The batteries charge up to 80% in about 60 minutes, thus providing 325 kWh usable capacity for up to 480 peak horsepower. The Freightliner eCascadia is based on the Cascadia, the most successful heavy-duty long-distance truck in the North American market. At start of series production, the eCascadia will have up to 730 peak horsepower. The batteries provide 550 kWh usable capacity, a range of up to 250 miles and have the ability to charge up to 80 percent (providing a range of 200 miles) in about 90 minutes.
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S.P. Segera Sdn Bhd
S.P. Segera Sdn Bhd 93851-X
Kuala Lumpur (KL) Selangor Klang
S.P. Segera Sdn Bhd - We supply container, lorry crane, mobile crane and skylift.
S.P. Segera Sdn Bhd (93851-X)
Lot 1302, Jalan Telok Kapas, Rantau Panjang, Pelabuhan Utara, (Shapadu Highway) 42100 Klang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Website: http://www.spsegera.com
Website: https://spsegera.newpages.com.my/
Website: http://spsegera.n.my/
Francis L.H.Hua founded the company in 1982 as a workshop operator. He has managed to expand its operation with assets currently worth more than RM5,000,000.00 and activities in various areas of the logistics industry. After almost 30 years in business, he established a wide network of customers and service providers.
KEY OPERATIONS PERSONNEL
The daily operations of the company are the responsibility of experienced and qualified key personnel covering operations, technical and finance.
In addition to the key personnel, S.P.Segera also employs mechanics, technicians, welders, surveyors, general workers and operations staff on its management and payroll to ensure that all the operational activities are carried in a timely, professional and with peace of mind manner.
The main services provided by S.P.Segera are the following:
• Supply, operate and maintenance and repair (M&R) of logistics equipment including forklifts, heavy duty laden and empty container handlers and cranes for warehouse, container yard and haulage operators.
• Provision of transport services including road transport, heavy haulage and shipping.
• Civil Engineering works including construction and building maintenance.
• Provision of workshop services for vehicle maintenance and repairs including prime movers and trailers.
• Supply (25 ton — 100 ton) mobile crane, rough terrain , crawler crane.
• Supply (10 ton — 20 Ton) Lorry crane.
EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY
S.P.Segera own and operate its own equipment and vehicles worth more than RM5 million to ensure efficient and cost effective service. These include lorries, forklifts, container handlers and construction equipment. In addition to its own equipment, the company has also established alliances with other service providers to support its operations.
S.P. Segera Sdn Bhd Updated Company Profile — Home Banner.
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S.P. Segera Sdn Bhd added 4 new products in Lorry Crane Category.
Apr 12, 2018 at 03:16 pm. — Share
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S.P. Segera Sdn Bhd added 5 new products in Mobile Crane Category.
S.P. Segera Sdn Bhd added new product in Skylift Category.
Skylift SK260
http://www.spsegera.com
S.P. Segera Sdn Bhd added new product in Container Category.
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The Air and Military Museum of the Ozarks, open noon-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 2305 E. Kearney St. Admission is $5; $3...
The Guide The Air and Military Museum of the Ozarks, open noon-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 2305 E. Kearney St. Admission is $5; $3... Check out this story on news-leader.com: http://sgfnow.co/JK1pY8
Springfield Published 11:00 p.m. CT Dec. 18, 2013
Get out and enjoy some free ice skating at Mediacom Ice Park from 7:45-8:45 p.m. Saturday and 5-6 p.m. Tuesday. Skate rentals are $2.50. Call 417-866-7444 or visit parkboard.org for more information. (Photo: News-Leader file photo )Buy Photo
The Air and Military Museum of the Ozarks, open noon-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 2305 E. Kearney St. Admission is $5; $3 for ages 7-12;
for ages 6 and younger;
admission for military and patriotic holiday events. 417-864-7997
Christmas Market, 4-8 p.m. today, Farmers Market of the Ozarks, 4139 S. Nature Center Way, at the year-round heated pavilion at Farmers Park. Includes Santa, caroling, music and cocoa. 417-766-8711; email: Lane@LoveYourFarmer.com; LoveYourFarmer.com
Blue Christmas Service, 7 p.m. today, Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1551 E. Portland Ave. 417-866-2711
“The Rabbi’s Cat” (graphic novels for grown-ups), 6:30 p.m. today, Brentwood Branch Library, 2214 Brentwood Blvd. Adults.
417-883-1974; thelibrary.org
Under 400 Calories: Portable Party Dishes, 6-8 p.m. today, Taste Culinary Classroom, Price Cutter, 2021 W. Republic Road. Cost: $10. pricecutteronline.com
Organ Concert featuring Sibyl Sharp, noon today, King’s Way United Methodist Church, 2401 S. Lone Pine Ave.
Matt Barber, 5-6 p.m. today, The Gardens Retirement Community, 2730 S. Nettleton Ave.
Republic: Republic Community Band Christmas Concert, 7 p.m. today, Hood United Methodist Church, 139 N. Walnut St.
Ozark: “Keeping Watch,” 7:30 p.m. today (continues through Saturday), Stained Glass Theatre, 1996 Evangel St. Tickets: $10, $11 day of performance; and $8, $9 day of performance for ages 2-12; $8 for groups of 15 or more. 417-581-9192; sgtheatre.com
MainStage presents: Core 6, 8 p.m. Friday, Skinny Improv Comedy Theatre, 308 South Ave. Admission is $12; $10 students. 417-831-5233; theskinnyimprov.com
USA Christmas Party Dance, 7-10 p.m. Friday, Sonshine Royal Ballroom, 1329-H. E. Republic Road. Tickets: $10. Bring snacks to share; beverages provided. 417-827-7829
Candy Cane Lane, drive-thru Christmas light display, 5-7 p.m. Friday (continues Saturday), Rutledge-Wilson Farm Community Park, 3825 W. Farm Road 146. Admission is $3 a vehicle. 417-837-5949; parkboard.org
Copper Run Distillery: Holiday Drinks and Pairings, 6-8 p.m. Friday, Taste Culinary Classroom, Price Cutter, 2021 W. Republic Road. Cost: $10. pricecutteronline.com
Little Acorns: Furry Scurry, 11-11:45 a.m. or 1:30-2:15 p.m. Friday (continues Saturday), Springfield Conservation Nature Center, 4601 S. Nature Center Way. Ages 3-6.
; registration required. 417-888-4237
Science Sprouts Museum: Green Holidays, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, Discovery Center, 438 St. Louis St. Story time with Park Central Library, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.; science demonstration, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. General admission applies: $12; $10 for ages 60 and older; $8 for ages 3-15;
for ages 2 and younger and members; $7 for military with I.D. 417-862-9910; discoverycenter.org
Ozark: Ozark South Elementary PTA Holiday Shopping Bazaar, noon-8 p.m. Friday, 1250 W. South St.
Santa pictures from 2-8 p.m., door prizes every 30 minutes and a raffle. 417-582-5905
Rogersville: Journey to Bethlehem, outdoor tour event 6-8 p.m. Friday, First Baptist Church, 101 W. Center St.
The Unbound Mic Sessions, 6:30-9 p.m. Friday, Park Central Branch Library, 128 Park Central Square. Adults.
Ozark: “Keeping Watch,” 7:30 p.m. Friday (continues Saturday), Stained Glass Theatre, 1996 Evangel St. Tickets: $10, $11 day of performance; and $8, $9 day of performance for ages 2-12; $8 for groups of 15 or more. 417-581-9192; sgtheatre.com
MainStage presents: The Jeff Show, 8 p.m. Saturday, Skinny Improv Comedy Theatre, 308 South Ave. Admission is $12; $10 students. 417-831-5233; theskinnyimprov.com
Contra Dance, presented by Traditional Dance and Music Society of the Ozarks, 7 p.m. Saturday, Northview Center, 301 E. Talmage St. Admission: $6; $4 for students and members. 417-862-8681; springfieldcontra.org; email: springfieldcontra@hotmail.com
Askinosie Chocolate Factory Tours, 2 p.m. Saturday (continues Tuesday), 514 E. Commercial St. Purchase chocolate and chocolate creations made on the premises. Tour fee: $4 for adults and $3 for children and students. Proceeds benefit Chocolate University, a partnership between the company and Drury University. Tickets at askinosie.com or by calling 417-862-9900
Bass Pro Shops Breakfast with Santa, 8 a.m. Saturday, White River Conference Center, 600 W. Sunshine St. Register and pricing: 417-887-7334; basspro.com
Book Signings with Joyce C. Ragland and Ellen Gray Massey, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Library Center, 4653 S. Campbell Ave. Joyce Ragland sign copies of her book, “Dred the Fred.” Ellen Gray Massey will sign copies of her recent works: “Papa’s Gold,” “Our Robin Is Read,” “Footprints in the Ozarks: A Memoir,” “Brothers Blue and Gold,” “Her Enemies Blue and Gold” and “The Burnt District.”
Candy Cane Lane, drive-thru Christmas light display, 5-7 p.m. Saturday, Rutledge-Wilson Farm Community Park, 3825 W. Farm Road 146. Admission is $3 a vehicle. 417-837-5949; parkboard.org
Cozy Winter Comfort Foods, 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Taste Culinary Classroom, Price Cutter, 2021 W. Republic Road. Cost: $10. pricecutteronline.com
Ice Skating, 7:45-8:45 p.m. Saturday (continues Tuesday), Mediacom Ice Park. Admission is
: (skate rental $2.50). 417-866-7444; parkboard.org
Horse Drawn Carriage Rides by Shires for Hire, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday (continues Sunday), Park Central Square. Cost: $20 for up to four people. 417-848-4648, 417-742-2809; email: shawn@shiresforhire.com
Little Acorns: Furry Scurry, 11-11:45 a.m. Saturday, Springfield Conservation Nature Center, 4601 S. Nature Center Way. Ages 3-6.
Ozark: Civil War Lantern Light Tour, 7 p.m. Saturday, Smallin Civil War Cave, 3575 N. Smallin Road. Gather around a campfire for an evening of hot cocoa and coffee, storytelling, Southern belles, Baldknobbers and a lantern-light tour of Smallin Cave. Tickets: $19.95; $12.95 children. 417-551-4545; smallincave.com
Rogersville: Journey to Bethlehem, outdoor tour event 6-8 p.m. Saturday, First Baptist Church, 101 W. Center St.
Brentwood Holiday Happenings with music by Dallas Jones, 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Brentwood Branch Library, 2214 Brentwood Branch Library. Holiday refreshments provided. All ages.
Christmas Carol Sing, 6 p.m. Saturday, Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 815 E. Farm Road 182. 417-881-0833
Playhouse! An Improvised Kids Show, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, The Skinny Improv, 308 South Ave. Admission: $5;
popcorn. 417-831-5233; theskinnyimprov.com
Ozark: “Keeping Watch,” 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Stained Glass Theatre, 1996 Evangel St. Tickets: $10, $11 day of performance; and $8, $9 day of performance for ages 2-12; $8 for groups of 15 or more. 417-581-9192; sgtheatre.com
910 Ballroom Christmas Dance, 6-9 p.m. Sunday, 910 W. Battlefield Road. Cost: $10. Bring snacks to share, beverages provided. 417-827-7829
Horse Drawn Carriage Rides by Shires for Hire, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Sunday, Park Central Square. Cost: $20 for up to four people. 417-848-4648, 417-742-2809; email: shawn@shiresforhire.com
Longest Night/Blue Christmas service, 4 p.m. Sunday, Messiah Lutheran Church, 945 E. Seminole St. 417-881-2192
23 MONDAY
Holiday Sampler and visit with Santa, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday, Farmers Market of the Ozarks, 4139 S. Nature Center Way. Shop for Christmas dinner groceries and last-minute gift ideas Santa will be present. 417-766-8711; email: Lane@LoveYourFarmer.com; LoveYourFarmer.com
Askinosie Chocolate Factory Tours, 10 a.m. Tuesday, 514 E. Commercial St. Purchase chocolate and chocolate creations made on the premises. Tour fee: $4 for adults and $3 for children and students. Proceeds benefit Chocolate University, a partnership between the company and Drury University. Tickets at askinosie.com or by calling 417-862-9900
Ice Skating, 5-6 p.m. Tuesday, Mediacom Ice Park. Admission:
(skate rental is $2.50). 417-866-7444; parkboard.org
Christmas in Lights, 5:30-9 p.m. nightly through Dec. 28, Ozark Empire Fairgrounds, 3001 N. Grant Ave. The drive-thru show features more than 1 million lights. Admission: $12 a carload; $25 for limousines; $40 a bus. Shop for holiday gifts and items. Info: 417-833-2660; ozarkempirefair.com
Jordan Valley Park Festival of Lights, 635 E. Trafficway St., features lights and the Mayor’s Christmas Tree through Dec.
417-864-1010; springfieldmo.gov
Ozark Garden Railway Society Holiday Train Exhibit, Springfield Botanical Center, 2400 S. Scenic Ave. Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, through Dec. 31. 417-891-1515; parkboard.org/botanical
Photos with Santa, through Tuesday, Battlefield Mall, 2825 S. Glenstone Ave. Hours vary. facebook.com/BattlefieldMall or simon.com/mall/battlefield-mall
Santa’s Wonderland, Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World, 1935 S. Campbell Ave. Festivities include visits with Santa, craft projects, games, treats and more through Tuesday. basspro.com/santa
Singing Christmas Cards by the Radiate Quartet, 6:30-9 p.m. through Monday. Call Elena at 417-439-3995; email: radiatequartet@gmail.com
Windows on Boonville Avenue — Holiday Window Display, History Museum on the Square, 155 Park Central Square. See vintage images of the square during Christmas and old images of visits with Santa and downtown shopping on Route 66. Through Jan. 4. Museum hours: 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Museum admission: $5; $3 for kids;
for ages 2 and younger. Info: 417-832-1200 or 417-831-1976; email: info@historymuseumonthesquare.org; Facebook
Branson:
Branson Area Festival of Lights, dusk-11 p.m., through Dec. 31, Shepherd of the Hills Expressway and Roark Valley Road. The 1-mile drive is illuminated with more than 350 displays. Admission: $15 family vehicle, $25 season pass; $30 mini-coach, limo, church van, $55 full-size motor coach. 417-334-4084, ext. 338; explorebranson.com
The Dixie Stampede Christmas Spectacular, through Dec. 28, 1525 Missouri 76. Tickets and info: 800-520-5544; dixiestampede.com
“Keeping Christ in Christmas” with Collin Raye, through Friday, Branson Star Theatre, 3750 W. Missouri 76. Tickets: 866-943-0169; collinraye.com
“The Miracle of Christmas,” through Dec. 30, Sight & Sound Theatres, 1001 Shepherd of the Hills Expressway. 800-377-1277; sight-sound.com
An Old Time Christmas at Silver Dollar City, Silver Dollar City, 399 Silver Dollar City Parkway. Open today-Monday and Dec. 26-30. The festival features a five-story special effects Christmas tree and more than 1 million lights and the Gifts of Christmas Holiday Light Parade. Shows include: “It’s A Wonderful Life,” “Frosty,” “A Dickens’ Christmas Carol.” Also, festive food, a living Nativity, the Sounds of Christmas with Pure Heart and visits with Santa. Schedule and ticket prices: 800-831-4386; silverdollarcity.com
The Polar Express, with departures through Saturday, Branson Scenic Railway, 206 Main St. Admission: $24-$49 (tax not included). Families encouraged to wear pajamas. Reservations: 800-287-2462; bransontrain.com
Santa at Branson Landing Town Square, through Tuesday. Schedule: 417-239-3002; bransonlanding.com
Showboat Branson Belle: Cruises featuring the Christmas “Made in the U.S.A.” show with aerial violinist Janice Martin, the vocal group The ShowMen and emcee/magician Christopher James run through Dec. 31, with a New Year’s Eve cruise at 8 p.m. Dec. 31. 800-775-2628; showboatbransonbelle.com
Titanic Christmas and Winter Celebration, through Dec. 30, Titanic Museum Attraction, 3235 W. Missouri 76. Schedule and ticket prices: 800-381-7670; titanicbranson.com
“The Toy Shoppe,” Christmas production written and arranged by Kenny Rogers and starring Billy Dean, Starlite Theatre, 3115 W. Missouri 76. The Broadway-style production runs through Dec. 30. 866-991-8445; StarliteTheatre.com
White Flight at the Butterfly Palace & Rainforest Adventure, through Jan. 15, Butterfly Palace & Rainforest Adventure, 4106 Missouri 76. Admission: $18.95; $9.95 for ages 4-12;
for ages 3 and younger; $16.95 for ages 55 and older. 417-332-2231; thebutterflypalace.com
Carthage: Precious Moments Holiday Lights, more than 50,000 lights illuminate the chapel and grounds, daily through December. Choirs of Christmas celebration will feature choirs, ensembles and soloists performing traditional Christmas music, Fridays and Saturdays through December.
; accepting offerings. preciousmomentschapel.org
Nixa: Light of Hope International Christmas Spectacular light display, through Jan. 4, 5:30-10 p.m., Wasson subdivision, U.S. 160 and Northview Road. The light display, synced to holiday music at 103.1 FM, can be accessed by entering the subdivision at Milton Street and Northview Road and exiting via Wasson Drive and U.S. 160.
; accepting donations. lightofhopeintl.org; 937-505-0783; email: info@lightofhopeintl.org
Ozark:
Christmas Lights of Ozark at Finley River Park continue through Jan. 5. Drive-thru hours: 5-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday; 5-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Enjoy a mile of holiday light displays.
; accepting donations. 417-581-7002, ext. 2005. Carriage rides available 6 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 28. Cost: $20 a couple; $5 for each additional person;
for ages 2 and younger. 417-581-7002, ext. 2005
Republic:
Christmas Light Display, through Jan. 1, Liberty Place subdivision, 3099, 3064 and 3083 E. Bradford St., Republic. Donations will be accepted for the Republic Paw Pantry. 417-893-0086; 417-893-0076
Auction of ornaments by Fenton’s Collectibles, auction closes at 9 p.m. Sunday, Republic Community Center, 711 E. Miller Road. A minimum bid of $5 is required for each ornament. Proceeds benefit People Helping People.
Willard: Christmas on the Frisco, Frisco Highline Trail, Willard trail head, 107 E. Jackson St.
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Eureka Springs, Ark.: Christmas Snow Village and Trains display, Carnegie Public Library Annex, 192 Spring St. Hours vary through Monday. Admission: $5, $2 for children. 479-253-9417; eurekaspringshistoricalmuseum.org
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Sewing needles found in strawberries in Australia
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Business turning sour: Fonterra posts loss of $196 million
Strong Port Otago delivers $9m dividend
13 Sep, 2018 8:30am
Port Otago's $8million backhoe dredge Takutai works in the upper reaches of Otago Harbour in July. Photo / Stephen Jaquiery
Otago Daily Times
Strong gains in handling containers and record log numbers underpinned Port Otago delivering an increased $9 million dividend to its owner the Otago Regional Council, for its full-year trading to June.
Container numbers rose 10% to 205,000, a record 1.06 million tonnes of logs was moved across the wharves, fuel volumes rose 16% and ship calls rose 7% to 529 arrivals.
Port Otago chairman Dave Faulkner said the company's performance reflected the activity of exporters from across Otago and Southland.
''They're busy and product is moving, which is evident in the tonnages we're seeing across the port,'' Mr Faulkner told the ORC at a briefing yesterday.
Revenue for the year rose 22% to $109.4 million, earnings before interest and tax rose 2% to $12.7 million and after-tax profit rose $13% to $43.9 million.
Debt rose from $68.4 million to $77.6 million, with a further facility of about $20 million to draw on.
Mr Faulkner said after the meeting he was ''comfortable'' with the debt, given it was around 80% of the debt to equity ratio.
The $9 million dividend included a $1.5 million special dividend and takes the total of all dividends paid to the ORC since 1988 to just over $165 million.
During question time, Cr Michael Laws, who has been vocally critical of the size of dividend paid, asked Mr Faulkner if, given Port Otago was ''cash heavy'', it could sustain that level of dividend?
Mr Faulkner said Port Otago's intent, subject to trading conditions, was to pay a $7.5 million dividend and $750,000 special dividend next year, and thereafter increase the $7.5 million by $250,000 each year, for the coming decade.
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Mr Laws pressed Mr Faulkner over property arm Chalmers Properties, which had $19 million of sales last year and expects $31 million in the coming financial years, as Hamilton property is further developed and sold.
''What will you do with that [$31 million]?'' Mr Laws asked.
Mr Faulkner replied there was always infrastructure spending to consider and that Chalmers Properties was in talks about developing some bare land it owns in Auckland.
Cr Andrew Noone asked about the upgrade of straddle cranes in the future, and viability of going electric.
Port Otago chief executive Kevin Winders said while the company was looking at making all vehicles across its business electric, many of the hybrid versions were not yet powerful enough, or not yet even in commercial production.
''We have to wait for technology to catch up,'' he said, but noted hybrid ''small diesel and electric'' were the focus.
Cr Stephen Woodhead asked if the current overall growth in cargo handling was ''repeatable'', during the next two years.
Mr Winders replied that if rural Otago and Southland had good weather over the spring and summer growing seasons, that would translate into good exports.
He expected export growth from Oceania's dairy plant near Glenavy and also sawn timber miller Pan Pac at Milburn, but threw in a caution that export volumes were closely linked to Chinese demand for commodities.
Cruise ship numbers last season were 87 and expected to rise 117 this coming season, from which Mr Winders thought the Otago economy would get a boost from last year's $56 million spent to $75 million.
''Cruise ships are going to be a growth industry for us,'' he said.
Mr Winders said $35 million in capital expenditure was coming to an end, including $22 million being spent on a Port Chalmers wharf extension and $8 million purchase of a second-hand French backhoe dredge, which was only 40% of its ''new-build cost''.
While rival Lyttelton Port of Christchurch was dredging channels to 13m, Port Otago was already past that depth and the backhoe dredge would be doing further channel dredging in the future, he said.
Chalmers Properties' earnings before interest and tax rose from $13.5 million a year ago to $18.4 million. Its property portfolio rose by $22 million unrealised gain to $349 million; being up 4% to $168 million in Dunedin, up 8% to $136 million in Auckland and $45 million in Hamilton.
Demolition of an large asbestos shed in Fryatt St is due to start at the end of October, with a projected costing of $2.9 million, and to be completed and the area open to the public again by March next year.
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New agricultural spraying business Agdrone takes off in Whanganui
22 Feb, 2019 5:00am
Pilot Warrick Funnell operates Agdrone's agricultural spraying drone.
By: Sue Dudman
Sue Dudman is a reporter with the Whanganui Chronicle
sue.dudman@whanganuichronicle.co.nz WhangaChron
"You don't know what you don't know" - and when Warrick and Jan Funnell bought a drone for agricultural spraying they had no idea how steep the learning curve would be.
The Whanganui couple has set up Agdrone Ltd, seeing an opportunity to provide agricultural spraying services in areas where helicopters cannot fly.
During a visit to the Fieldays at Mystery Creek last year the Funnells saw a drone designed to spray weeds and thought it would be a good part-time venture.
They watched videos on YouTube of drones spraying rice paddies in Asia and in August went to a demonstration at Kinloch, Taupo. They then bought a
new drone.
"It was cutting edge technology when we bought it but it'll be an antique in two years," Warrick said.
"You don't know what you don't know. It's been quite a learning curve."
With the drone purchased, Warrick had to learn how to fly it and get his licence to operate it commercially.
In August he spent three days in Tauranga at a flying school where he learned theory and law about flying drones. A three-day agricultural chemical rating course in Auckland followed then a flight test with an approved person.
Warrick had to submit an exposition (standard operating procedure) to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and, having no idea what was required, contracted Aviation Safety Management Systems (ASMS) in Feilding to produce the 138 page document which was submitted to CAA in October.
"The concept of a UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] in agriculture is a pioneering thing. There's no written training syllabus for people like me. There is very little present-day New Zealand agricultural drone spraying experience to call on. Rice paddies are not situated on the side of hills that grow gorse."
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ASMS wrote the syllabus then Warrick had to go through his drone flying and agricultural spraying paces with an approved instructor. He then had an extensive interview with CAA to complete his qualification under CAA's Rule 102 which relates to safety of unmanned aircraft systems.
The Funnells' DJI AGRAS MS-1 drone carries 10 litres of water but there are drones that carry up to 30 litres.
Warrick programs in the work area and the drone flies within those specifications. However, in some cases, such as on hillsides, the drone needs to be operated manually.
"Most of the time I'm spraying scatter stuff. If it's dense, a big helicopter is more efficient.
"With scattered gorse, it can take 30 minutes to use 10 litres of water but if I'm solid spraying I've got rid of the lot in nine minutes. I can turn the spray off in between plants so it's not wrecking too much pasture or using more chemical than I need."
The drone's 3kg battery lasts 12-15 minutes, depending on the type of work the drone is doing, which means the batteries need to be changed regularly during jobs.
Spraying can only be done in line of sight and Warrick has to have an observer with him on jobs, with older brother Barry currently undertaking that role and doing the frequent battery changes.
To date, Agdrone has done agricultural spraying jobs on gorse, pampas, thistles, old man's beard and mānuka.
Other services include spraying moss on roofs and whitewashing horticultural glasshouses to reduce ultraviolet penetration. Warrick is keen to explore the possibility of forestry spraying in future, using the drone for work currently done on foot.
People can see Agdrone in action at a field day in Whanganui next month.
The field day runs from 10am to 12 noon on Tuesday, March 19, at 40 Burtts Rd, Durie Hill.
Attendees will be able to view the kill rate on gorse sprayed in late October and see demonstrations of spraying pasture weeds and scattered gorse on a hillside.
If the weather is very windy, the demonstration will be postponed. A message will be left on phone number 027 442 8322 on the day to advise of any postponement.
Agdrone will also have a stand at the Central District Field Days in Feilding on March 14-16.
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Stuart Dryburgh: On good, old-fashioned camera tricks...
Interviews - 2011
Cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh is the eye behind some of the most iconic images in New Zealand film. His first job in the industry was as a 'general assistant' on Middle Age Spread. From there he worked as a gaffer on films including Smash Palace, Goodbye Pork Pie and Came A Hot Friday, before becoming a fully-fledged cinematographer, learning much of what he knows from his mentor Alun Bollinger, who operated the camera for him on The Piano. Since shooting The Piano, Dryburgh has been working overseas, returning to film In My Father’s Den in 2004.
In this ScreenTalk, Dryburgh talks about:
Making his first film with the help of Lenny Lipton’s book Independent Film Making
The challenges of lighting a night shoot on Queen Street; and using film stock ordinarily reserved for news reporters
Meeting Jane Campion on the set of Queen Street
Learning about method acting as a young gaffer on Smash Palace
Being put in charge of lighting on Vigil under 'über-prepared' director Vincent Ward
Getting creative with a 'mass of messy light' on Alison Maclean’s short film Kitchen Sink
The reaction that Kitchen Sink gets overseas
Reuniting with Campion for An Angel At My Table
Using 'good, old-fashioned trick photography' on An Angel At My Table; and how they made Janet Frame’s red hair 'pop' on screen
His thoughts on the 'wonderful conundrum' that is Jane Campion
How he knew The Piano was going to be something special
Getting the call from Lee Tamahori to shoot Once Were Warriors
Why In My Father’s Den was one of the easiest films he has ever been involved with
The advantage of being a Kiwi on American film sets
This video was first uploaded on 12 July 2011, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.
Interview and Editing - Gemma Gracewood. Camera - Mark Weston
Stuart's Full Profile
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Community Media Centre
Bridgwater, Somerset
O2i Design Consultants worked with a local charity to create a new Community Media Centre. Our design team assisted Somerset Film in securing funding for the refurbishment of newly acquired premises. Somerset Film obtained considerable funding from Arts Council England. This funding was for the first phase of upgrading the Engine Room community media centre. The grant allowed the charity to refurbish their premises on Bridgwater High Street. The new studios enhance digital and creative media services. The new premises offer community rehearsal/meeting spaces, house a local film and TV archive and improve edit facilities. Better access and connectivity is now available.
O2i Design’s new building created flexible new studio spaces over three floors. New circulation links to the existing areas make the whole building fully accessible. A new three-storey rear extension has been added. The current building was gutted and the front facade retained. The building was gutted, leaving only the front facade and some spectacular temporary steel propping. A new steel and concrete framework created three flexible studio spaces. The new enlarged studio facilities include dedicated space for disabled filmmakers. This project has recently won “Best Public Service Building” across the South West for the renovation and extension of the Engine Room, Bridgwater for Somerset Film as part of the LABC South West Regional Building Excellence Awards 2017.
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Chelsea vs Arsenal Betting Odds - 2019 Europa League Final
Wednesday, 29/05/2019, Time: 21:00
1X2 Betting Odds
2.15 3.50 3.60 97.22%
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Maurizio Sarri has steered Chelsea to third place in the Premier League standings and the Italian will now attempt to land the Europa League trophy on Wednesday 29 May, with the Blues facing London rivals Arsenal in Baku.
This clash in Azerbaijan will almost certainly be the last competitive Chelsea match that Eden Hazard plays, with the Belgian thought to be on the verge of signing for Real Madrid and that could have a major impact to a team who have been carried by the playmaker for several season.
Sarri has been a football manager since 1990 although the 60-year-old has never won anything notable in terms of silverware, with Napoli following Juventus home in the Scudetto last season, while Chelsea lost the EFL Cup final to Manchester City this term when losing on spot kicks.
Bet365 go 5/4 that Sarri finally breaks his silverware duck by engineering a Chelsea win in normal time, with the same bookmaker going 4/6 that the west London club are lifting the trophy whether that’s in normal time, extra-time or on penalties.
Some would say that the 6/5 with Ladbrokes about Arsenal winning the Europa League is a decent price at odds-against, with the Gunners needing to bank this piece of silverware to make sure of Champions League football next term.
Unai Emery’s side finished just outside the top four in the final Premier League standings which means another campaign in Europe’s secondary cup competition unless the Spaniard can engineer a victory against Chelsea.
The good news is that Emery has won this competition no less than three times, with Sevilla succeeding under him each time and he’s been able to steer Arsenal past opponents such as Valencia and Napoli en route to reaching the final.
Striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang finished the domestic campaign as joint-top scorer along with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane, with the Gabon forward having linked up exquisitely with Alexandre Lacazette throughout the season and the pairing could end up making the difference in this one.
The big concern for Arsenal is that their defence might be too readily breached and they were effectively able to outscore Valencia over two semi-final clashes rather than shut up shop at any stage of proceedings.
Chelsea have already experienced the heartache of losing in a cup final this season and might feel it’s now their destiny to land a trophy after a penalty shootout victory over Eintracht Frankfurt in the previous round although the German side were the ones forcing the issue towards the death.
Ultimately, we’re talking about two evenly-matched teams. Chelsea are slightly stronger from a defensive point-of-view and have Eden Hazard causing any number of problems for a team who are sick to the back teeth of the Belgian.
On the flip side, Arsenal play the more flamboyant football and have a marksman in Aubameyang who has finished the season in excellent form, while Lucas Torreira and Granit Xhaka could shore up a midfield and clash swords with N’Golo Kante in the engine room.
William Hill offer 8/11 that both teams score in this game and we think it could be a high-scoring affair, with the clubs playing out a crazy 3-2 scoreline back in August which saw Chelsea take a 2-0 lead before being pegged back.
Hazard will be on spot kicks for Chelsea and Unibet make him the 24/5 favourite to score the opening goal of the game, with Aubameyang trading at 11/2 with BetVictor. You could effectively dutch these two players if you feel they represent the best chance of opening the scoring.
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On 18 September 1810, Chile broke from Spanish rule, declaring their independence. The Spanish had ruled Chile since the middle of the Sixteenth Centur
This public holiday is always celebrated in Chile on 18 September and marks the date when the Chilean people declared independence from Spain.
It is Chile's National Day and along with Christmas, this period is the most important holiday time in the year in Chile.
History of the holiday
On 18 September 1810, Chile broke from Spanish rule, declaring their independence. The Spanish had ruled Chile since the middle of the Sixteenth Century. The movement to independence had been driven by other South American countries revolting against colonial rule, the French and Spanish warring in Europe and the appointment of an unpopular Governor in 1808.
While Chileans celebrate their independence on 18 September, their declaration in 1810 was the start of a long struggle and the Chilean war of Independence lasted for eight years before Chile could officially proclaim independence on 12 February 1818. Indeed, it wasn't until 1826 when the last Spanish troops holding out on a remote island finally surrendered to Chilean forces.
With Independence Day being immediately followed by another public holiday (see below), the whole week around those days tends to be a period of celebration. Many schools and some companies will declare a week long holiday.
The events around the struggle for Independence are remembered with the 'Fiestas Patrias' (national parties). These fiestas include parades (often including 'huasos', the traditional Chilean cowboys), dancing, partying, traditional Chilean food, and displays of national pride.
Day of the Glories of the Chilean Army
19 September, the day after Independence Day is also a national holiday in Chile. It is effectively the grand finale of the Independence celebrations.
It culminates in the Great Military Parade of Chile, led by the Chilean Armed Forces, which commemorates the glories of the Chilean Army, in Santiago's O'Higgins Park.
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Takaka,, Nelson
By Kane Hartill
Rawhiti Cave
Grove Scenic Reserve
1hr 45min from Nelson Central
30 mins from Abel Tasman National Park
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Towns in Nelson Tasman
Venture over legendary Takaka Hill to find the township of Takaka, the main centre for Golden Bay. Enjoy friendly cafés and browse the art shops.
Takaka, Nelson
By Nelson Regional Development Agency
Takaka is located at the south eastern end of Golden Bay in the Nelson Tasman region. With a community that includes many alternative lifestylers, it’s a town full of character. There’s a small museum, a movie theatre and a great choice of shops and cafés. The town also offers plenty of value-for-money accommodation, including backpacker lodges, B & Bs and homestays. If you’re planning to hike in Kahurangi National Park, Takaka is a good place to stock up on essential supplies. Other nearby attractions include Te Waikoropupū Springs, the largest freshwater springs in New Zealand, and an art trail that will reveal the region’s creativity.
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Tenfold increase in interest from Brits wanting to move to New Zealand since Brexit referendum
In 49 days after the vote, there were 10,647 registrations from the UK compared with 4599 over the same period last year.
More than 10,500 registrations from people considering moving here from Britain have been lodged with Immigration New Zealand since the Brexit vote.
The agency's deputy chief executive, Nigel Bickle, said interest from UK nationals rose tenfold on the day Britain voted to leave Europe.
That day Immigration got 998 British registrations, compared with 109 the day before the vote.
Immigration "typically receives about 3000 registrations a month from people interested in studying, working or investing from British nationals via the New Zealand Now website", an agency spokesman said.
Before applying, would-be applicants can register on the site to check if their skills are in demand, explore visa options and check if they meet immigration criteria.
Massey University sociologist Professor Paul Spoonley said he was not surprised by the spike.
"I anticipate that post Brexit and if [presidential candidate Donald] Trump wins in America, you're going to see a spike in interest from people there about coming to New Zealand.
"We saw it during the Bush years from Americans, and I think over the next three to five years, you're going to see a significant increase in the numbers of migrants coming from both Britain and the USA."
Spoonley said middle-class professionals wanting a different lifestyle would be attracted to New Zealand.
"Brexit is the push factor and it confirmed the exclusive or narrow nationalism of the UK, of some at least," he said.
"We'd be getting people from the UK who are tired of a narrow-minded Britain and who want to experience something quite different.
"New Zealand is very different, it is multicultural, very tolerant and it's got a good lifestyle and a more temperate climate."
Spoonley noted Britain had almost the same land size as New Zealand, but its population was 64 million compared with 4.7 million here.
"Migrants move for lifestyle reasons as much as they do for economic reasons, and New Zealand has a pretty good deal on offer."
Britain had traditionally been New Zealand's main source country for permanent migrants.
It was overtaken by China in 2014, which has remained the largest source of immigrants since.
Spoonley did not think many of the Britons who registered interest would actually migrate. He believed China and India would continue to dominate immigration numbers in the foreseeable future.
Last month, Immigration accepted 272 applications for residence by Britons and 566 Chinese applications.
"The size and the depth of the Chinese middle class, and the push factors like pollution in China, always is going to mean the Chinese are going to be a very significant source of immigrants."
New Zealand experienced its largest population growth in the 12 months to June this year as a result of international migration.
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List of COOU (ANSU) Postgraduate Courses/Programmes
mcmedal001 August 17, 2017 Courses
Here is the list of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, COOU Postgraduate Courses / Programmes available for admission. These are the courses prospective postgraduate applicants can choose from while applying for admission.
SEE ALSO: Apply For COOU (ANSU) Postgraduate Admission – 2017/2018
Recall that COOU was formerly Anambra State University (ANSU) and here is the list of courses offered at Postgraduate level in the University. Anyone who wants to apply for COOU PG admission are advised to check this list to confirm if the course they want is available.
List of Accredited COOU Postgraduate Courses/Programmes
1.) FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE
A.) Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Agricultural Economics and Extension b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Agricultural Economics and Extension c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Agricultural Economics and Extension.
B.) Department of Animal Sciences: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Animal Science b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Animal Science c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Animal Science.
C.) Department of Crop Science and Horticulture: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Crop Science and Horticulture b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Crop Science and Horticulture c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Crop Science and Horticulture.
D.) Department of Soil Science: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Soil Science b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Soil Science c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Soil Science.
2.) FACULTY OF ARTS
A.) Department of English: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in English b.) Master of Arts (M.A) Degree in English
The scope of the programme includes five Areas of Specialization leading to the award of second degree (MA) in the following Areas:
Oral Literature
B.) Department of lgbo: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in lgbo b.) Master of Arts (M.A) Degree in lgbo c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Igbo.
3.) FACULTY OF EDUCATION
A.) Department of Educational Foundation: a.) Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) b.) Master of Education (M.ED) Degree c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Education.
B.) Department of Science Education: a.) Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) b.) Master of Science Education M.Sc (Ed) Degree.
4.) FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
A.) Department of Chemical Engineering: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Chemical Engineering b.) Master of Engineering (M.Eng) Degree in Chemical Engineering c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Chemical Engineering.
B.) Department of Civil Engineering: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Civil Engineering b.) Master of Engineering (M.Eng) Degree in Civil Engineering c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Civil Engineering.
C.) Departmont of Electrical/Electronics Engineering: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Electrical/Electronics Engineering b.) Master of Engineering (M.Eng) Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering.
D.) Department Mechanical Engineering: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Mechanical Engineering b.) Master of Engineering (M.Eng) Degree in Mechanical Engineering c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Mechanical Engineering.
5.) FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
A.) Department of Architecture: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Architecture (Applicants for Architecture must possess B.Sc Architecture 3rd Class) b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Architecture (Minimum of 2nd Class Lower Division) c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Architecture.
B.) Department of Environmental Management: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Environmental Management b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Environmental Management c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Environmental Management.
6.) FACULTY OF LAW
a.) Master in Law (LL.M) b.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Law.
7.) FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
A.) Department of Accountancy: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Accountancy b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Accountancy c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Accountancy.
B.) Department of Banking and Finance: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Banking and Finance b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Banking and Finance c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Banking and Finance.
C.) Department of Business Administration: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Business Administration b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Business Administration c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Business Administration.
D.) Department of Marketing: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Marketing b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Marketing c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Marketing.
8.) FACULTY OF SCIENCE
A.) Department of Biochemistry: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Biochemistry b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Biochemistry.
B.) Department of Biological Sciences: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Biological Sciences b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Biological Sciences c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Biological Sciences.
C.) Department of Computer Science: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Computer Science.
D.) Department of Geology: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Geology b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Geology c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Geology.
E.) Department of Industrial Physics: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Industrial Physics b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Industrial Physics c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Industrial Physics.
F.) Department of Microbiology: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Microbiology b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Microbiology.
G.) Department of Pure and Industrial Chemistry: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Pure and Industrial Chemistry b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Pure and Industrial Chemistry c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Pure and Industrial Chemistry.
9.) FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
A.) Department of Economics: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Economics b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Economics.
B.) Department of Mass Communication a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Mass Communication b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Mass Communication c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Mass Communication.
C.) Department of Political Science: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD)in Political Science b.) Master of Science (M Sc) Degree in Political Science c.) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) Degree in Political Science.
D.) Department of Public Administration: a.) Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Public Administration b.) Master of Science (M.Sc) Degree in Public Administration c.) Professional Masters Degree in Public Administration (MPA).
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Which Regions in Spain Have the Best and Worst Internet Access (and How This Affects Local Internet Usage)
By 2018, 86% of Spanish households had broadband access—with take-up rates varying widely depending on where you live. We delve into how the lack of broadband in some regions affects people's ability to manage their finances, stay connected to friends and family and engage in e-commerce on the Internet.
Erin Yurday - March 16, 2019
Access to high-speed broadband Internet connection not only makes it easier to stream videos, but can impact critical areas of life such as social interactions and managing a household budget and finances. Those living in regions of Spain with worse broadband access also tend to be less engaged in e-commerce, Internet banking and social media. See how your region compares.
E-Commerce Engagement and Broadband, by Region
Internet Banking Utilization and Broadband, by Region
Social Media Interactions and Broadband, by Region
How Does Broadband Access Affect E-Commerce Engagement?
We found that those living in regions with better broadband coverage tend to shop online more. Shopping online enables people to compare prices, find deals and save money on household expenses. This implies that those with better broadband access have an edge in managing their household budgets. The upwards trend line in the chart below shows the positive correlation between broadband access and e-commerce.
How Does Broadband Access Affect Internet Banking Utilization?
Similarly, areas with better broadband access also tend to have a larger percentage of the population using Internet banking to manage their finances. Internet banking can be useful for making payments and transfers, checking balances, downloading tax documents, tracking investments, etc.
The ability to use Internet banking over broadband certainly makes life easier for local Spaniards, enabling them to manage their accounts from the comfort of their own homes instead of going into a branch. Access to Internet banking can large impact on expats living in Spain who need to manage bank accounts or investments based in their home country.
How Does Broadband Access Affect Social Media Interactions?
We found that people's use of social media is less dependent upon broadband access than other types of Internet usage such as banking and e-commerce. This is not really a surprise, given so many people use their phones to post messages or make other contributions to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. Broadband is less of a factor when it comes to social media connectivity, as indicated by the relatively flat trend line below.
Changes in Broadband Access by Region in Spain
All regions in Spain have improved their population's access to broadband over the past few years, as you can see in the following chart. Some regions still trail behind, however. In particular, rural areas are typically less well connected than more densely populated areas, due to less incentive for the private sector to invest in broadband development. For example, 91% of households in Madrid (with 817 residents per square kilometre) have broadband access whilst only 81% of households in Castilla-la Mancha (with 25.7 residents per square kilometre) have broadband.
Internet Use by Region in Spain
Have Broadband Access
Participate in Social Networks
Participate in Internet Banking
Participate in E-Commerce
Andalucía 84% 60% 43% 49%
Aragón 88% 60% 47% 57%
Canarias 87% 57% 49% 42%
Cantabria 82% 54% 49% 56%
Castilla y León 82% 50% 42% 52%
Castilla-la Mancha 81% 56% 41% 47%
Cataluña 87% 60% 55% 58%
Comunidad de Madrid 91% 60% 56% 62%
Comunidad Foral de Navarra 87% 49% 51% 61%
Comunidad Valenciana 87% 61% 49% 53%
Extremadura 78% 60% 37% 46%
Galicia 82% 52% 50% 47%
Illes Balears 91% 62% 52% 56%
La Rioja 82% 52% 47% 55%
País Vasco 89% 45% 53% 58%
Principado de Asturias 85% 57% 44% 50%
Región de Murcia 87% 63% 41% 48%
The EU is behind target to provide all Europeans with fast broadband (over 30 Mbps) by 2020, leaving some members of the population without broadband. In order to see how Internet access affects people socially and financially in Spain, we gathered data from Eurostat on broadband connectivity and Internet usage for each region. "Broadband" means high-speed Internet connections over which information can be transferred at a much faster rate than dial-up modems.
Limitations of the study include the fact that other factors may impact a population's Internet use. For example, the proportion of people using Internet banking may reflect not just broadband access but also the ease with which consumers can visit a local bank branch.
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club turn to fans in bid to raise money following drummer’s brain operation
David Renshaw Oct 27, 2014 3:12 pm GMT
Leah Shapiro is recovering following Chiari malformations surgery
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are seeking funds to aid drummer Leah Shapiro as she recovers from brain surgery.
Last month the band cancelled all of their upcoming live dates after Shapiro revealed that she required treatment for Chiari malformations found in her brain. A GoFundMe page with a target of $33,000 (£20,000) has been set up with £8,600 raised at the time of writing (October 27).
A message on the GoFundMe page reads: “Leah has a serious medical condition requiring brain surgery and months of recovery. Many of you have asked what you can do to help support her and help her get through this, and I think we should all put a dollar in the motorcycle helmet and pass it around. Motorcycle club members always help out fellow members and especially the President of the club, good heavens! All donations will go towards Leah’s surgery and recovery.”
Shapiro originally sought medical attention after she started experiencing symptoms including dizziness, insomnia, headaches, tingling/numbness in her hands and a stiff neck. She underwent surgery earlier this month, leaving her unable to play drums.
The drummer joined Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in 2008 as a replacement for founder member Nick Jago.
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Movie Review: I’m Still Here
James McMahon Sep 20, 2010 9:54 am BST
Movie Review: I'm Still Here
As a silly, throwaway comedy it works fine. But a missed opportunity none-the-less
Given you’re reading this respected music website, and not ihatemylife.com, chances are you may be unaware of the late, professional wrestler Brian Pillman and his mid-90’s ‘Loose Cannon’ persona. Well done you, what’s the real world like? I’ve heard it’s brilliant. Who’s Prime Minister now? That bloody Berlin Wall, eh? When’s the new Michael Jackson record out?
Anyhow, allow me to fill in the gaps.
In 1995, with the cooperation of savvy management, perennial mid-card wrestler Brian Pillman worked an angle in which he faked being fired by one company to go work for another. To do this he actively pretended to be bonkers and repeatedly threatened to pull his penis out and “piss all over the fans” on the rival companies television show. Wrestling fans largely believed Pillman had really been fired; even if they didn’t they enjoyed the drama.
The thinking was that when he came back to the original promotion he’d be such a hot, extremely notorious commodity he’d make a whole load more money for his paymasters than he had done previously (that he actually ended up being headhunted by yet another company, then dying of a heart condition in a Minnesota motel room aged 35 barely matters – it was a hoot while it lasted).
Watching I’m Still Here, I couldn’t help but think of the genius execution of the wrestling angle outlined above.
Given that director Casey Affleck has now come out and admitted the film – in which Walk The Line actor Joaquin Phoenix is followed for a year, right from the point he announces his retirement from acting, to him deciding he wants to be a hip-hop artist, right through to a very public, very beardy breakdown on the David Letterman show – is a Spinal Tap style mockumentary and not a legitimate tale, it goes without saying that any conversation about the films authenticity is pointless.
But I also can’t help thinking that a significant reason to watch it has been lost due too (with baffling timing, Affleck pulled back the curtain this Thursday passed, the eve of the film’s release).
Now, despite being the sort of gullible idiot who is repeatedly duped into believing that Paul Daniels has snuffed it when those last night of music festivals rumors start going around, unlike the majority of Americas entertainment commentators, I long believed that I’m Still Here was a way to raise the profiles of those involved and not a documentary. That’s fine, it’s a good idea, I wish more modern day filmmaker’s thought outside the box.
But to admit it’s a hoax while most of its audience are queuing up to buy popcorn? Suspension of reality can be a wonderful thing. It’s like magic tricks. I know that when Debbie McGee is sawed in half by Paul its all being done with smoke and mirrors, but if someone told me that before the saw came out I’m not sure how much motivation I would have to watch the trick. Hope is important. I love a good disemboweling, me.
As a mockumentary, I’m Still Here is an enjoyable, if a slightly try hard comedy romp. It’s certainly a giggle. Any film that features a member of Spacehog doing a shit on someone in their sleep is alright with me. Not only that, but if I put my fingernails on my chin and start rigorously scratching, I might even concede that it’s an interesting comment on the vapid nature of modern celebrity.
But that’s all it is. Like walking past Alex Reid in the street and not shouting “UMBAGUMBABUMBA” really loudly in an attempt to freak him out and make his brain explode, that feels like a wasted opportunity to me.
Wrestling fans or not, my feeling is that Affleck, Phoenix and co intended I’m Still Here to be a ‘Loose Cannon’ style stunt that backfired when they realized upon screening the film that nobody really believed the actor was really turning his back on cinema and embracing rapping. I dunno. Maybe they could have made a film a little bit more subtle than one which features a member of Spacehog doing a shit on someone in their sleep.
Yet given very few people in the 90’s believed that Brian Pillman was really faking his insanity, and taking into consideration that a large proportion of people who follow professional wrestling are so stupid they believe that unicorns actually exist, I’d say this was a failing of the execution of the film, if not the original idea.
As a comedy I’m Still Here works fine. But go watch Dude, Where’s My Car? instead. It’s funnier and it doesn’t lie to you.
James McMahon
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Barnstaple parking decision has ‘destroyed confidence’ in council
Matt Smart
matthew.smart@archant.co.uk
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Updated: Thursday, April 6, 2017 (15:40)
The 'pay on foot' system at Bear Street has been scrapped.
Parking debate continues as council agree funding for pay and display machines to be reinstalled at Bear Street and Hardaway Head
The decision to reinstate pay and display machines in two Barnstaple car parks has 'destroyed' the public's confidence in North Devon Council, according to one of its members.
The council approved funding to facilitate the change of machines at its meeting on Wednesday evening.
But Barnstaple ward member, Councillor Faye Webber was said the decision to scrap a 'system the public likes' would destroy their faith in the council.
"It does nothing but destroy the confidence the public has with this council and I am sorry about that," she said.
The Queen Street car park in Barnstaple. Picture: Andy Keeble
"The equipment going wrong is no reason for doing away with a system the public likes.
"This is about the survival of this town and that's what is important to me."
Pay and display machines were reinstated at the council's Bear Street and Hardaway Head car parks on March 31 following a decision by its executive committee on March 6.
The decision was called into the council's overview and scrutiny committee, but no further action was taken, effectively binding the decision.
Council leader Des Brailey said the switch back to pay and display was down to resources.
"I support the barrier system, but what I can't support is 1,800 hours on one car park when we would otherwise spend 3-400," he said.
"From April to September the barrier was either knocked down or removed seven times.
"If we had ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) then just maybe we would be able to do it.
"Clearly there were difficulties and we needed to make a decision because it was costing us thousands of pounds each year.
"It's not cost effective - it's as simple as that. This clearly isn't the best way to run a car park."
Gazette readers had their say on the parking machines last month, with 90 per cent voting to say they would prefer the barrier to be kept.
The council yesterday announced it had appointed Jones Lang Lasalle (JLL) to draw up a new parking strategy for the town.
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