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Emergency University Awarded Multi-Year Contract to Provide LinkedIn with Global Emergency Response Services, Health/Safety Training, Disaster Planning'
Emergency University's Systems Approach to Effective Emergency Care Focuses on Sustainability; WorkSafe Program Saves Lives with 100% Employee Response to Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) Victims and other Medical Emergencies
January 21, 2016 - Redwood City, Calif. - /PRNewswire-iReach/ - Emergency University, has been awarded a global, multi-year contract to provide LinkedIn® Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) with customized emergency medical and disaster response system design and training, and for employee health and safety compliance. With 8,900 employees, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network on the Internet. Emergency University’s services are currently being implemented across multiple facilities at LinkedIn locations in the US, Canada, Europe, South America, Asia and Australia. A roll out to all LinkedIn sites in 17 countries will continue throughout the year.
"LinkedIn selected Emergency University because we provide a single source for emergency response system design and training. Our standardized program ensures consistency for all employees worldwide. Plus, uniform training processes increase efficiency and effectiveness, streamline program management and reduce costs," said Emergency University Medical Director Dr. Odelia Braun.
The LinkedIn contract for Emergency University's WorkSafe™ Program includes:
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Emergency University assists corporations and government agencies in the design and implementation of life-saving internal emergency response systems, including comprehensive preparedness training, SCA response programs and early notification technologies. In 1989, Emergency University staff tripled SCA survival in San Francisco when they launched the first major urban AED program in the US designed specifically for non‐healthcare professionals. In addition to LinkedIn, Emergency University provides emergency response system implementation and training to major corporations including Cisco, Twitter, Levi-Strauss, CSX Transportation, Zynga, Procter & Gamble, and Norfolk Southern. Emergency University also provides CPR/AED training to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as part of its Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) Program -- the largest in the nation. The FAA’s PAD Program has achieved an unprecedented 100% SCA response rate and 75% survival rate for instances of witnessed cardiac arrest. More information about Emergency University is available at 1-866-233-4357 and http://www.emergencyuniversity.com
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Giving Kids the Gift of Travel
Colleen DeBaise
December 1, 2011 min read
Children's multicultural books, published by Hartlyn Kids of Hartford, Conn., priced at $12.99.
Editor's Note: We're rolling out 12 Days of Indie Merchant Gifts. Readers can vote for their favorite gifts, starting Dec. 12.
Today's gift is for that special kid in your life. It was hard to narrow down the submissions that we received in this category, because lots of merchants sent in photos of super-cute children using or wearing their one-of-a-kind products. But we liked this series of children's multicultural books created by Hartlyn Kids the best.
Aisha Greene says her books expose children and their parents to the diversity of cultures around the world, without leaving their doorstep. She says her company, an independent book publisher in Hartford, Conn., was inspired by this Maya Angelou quote:
"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."
To date, Greene's company has published two books, about trips to India and the Philippines, written by local authors who have knowledge of the area. "Our books are designed to give a true and authentic snapshot of the day in the life of a child from various regions around the globe," she says, adding that the company also sells toy passports. "It is a great and easy way to give the gift of travel to loved ones for cheaper than the cost of a plane ticket."
We liked Greene's entrepreneurial ambition, too: "Our goal is to visit every country and travel the globe... one book at a time," she says.
Check back tomorrow to see which indie merchant’s gift we’ve selected for Day No. 3. And don't forget to vote for your favorite, starting Dec. 12.
Day 1: "The Shopping List Bag" - L.E. Green Bags
Day 2: Children's multicultural books - Hartlyn Kids
Day 3: Chalkboard beer mug - The Man Registry
Day 4: Recycled china pendant - The Broken Plate Pendant Co.
Day 5: Vegan lip balm - Sprout Skincare
Day 6: Fair-trade-certified soccer ball - Senda Athletics
Day 7: Digital luggage scale - EatSmart Products
Day 8: Dog treat pouch - Sara Bella Upcycled
Day 9: "Not sent from my iPhone" Stationery set - Red Letter Paper Co.
Day 10: Key lime BBQ Sauce - Reva Foods
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This Folding Electric Bike Tries To Include Any Feature Bike Commuters Might Want
It’s electric. It folds up and locks itself. It even charges your phone while you ride. The Gi Bike tries to have it all.
By Adele Peters 2 minute Read
As more people start to commute by bike, designers are trying to tackle the various pain points involved with riding in the city–whether that’s finding ways to help cyclists squeeze bikes on public transit, adding electric motors so riders sweat less, or preventing theft. A typical design might focus on a couple of features at a time, but the Gi Bike, a new design that just launched on Kickstarter, attempts to include every possible detail a commuter could want.
“There are no full-featured bikes on the market,” says Agustín Augustinoy, the chief technology officer for Gi Bike. “If a bike folds, it has 20-inch, circus-like wheels. Electric kits look like DIY projects. No electric bike comes with lights, motor, and everything else integrated and working on the same battery with only one charging point.”
The Gi Bike can fold up, so it easily goes on subway cars or elevators, and can be stored in a small closet. But when it’s in use, it looks like an ordinary full-size bicycle. Flip a lever, and in three seconds, it fully transforms into a compact folded shape that can be wheeled around like rolling luggage.
“The rest of the bike is basically made around the folding mechanism,” Agustinoy explains. “For us it’s the proper way to fold a bike. It’s the only way you don’t need to lift the bike from the ground.”
For riders who live in hilly cities or have a long commute, the bike comes in an electric version that can carry someone 40 miles without pedaling. It’s also smartphone-integrated, so it can give directions and send alerts if there’s construction or heavy traffic on your route. It hooks up with social media accounts in case you have the urge to auto-tweet your bike rides. The bike can even charge your phone.
Once you get wherever you’re going, the bike can lock itself–both wheels and the folding mechanism lock automatically when you walk 10 feet away. Eventually, the designers hope to connect it with tracking technology as well.
To help keep riders safe, the designers added built-in front and back lights. Since their research showed that most cyclists are hit from the side, the designers also added LED lights to the sides of the front wheel. The lights automatically brighten at night.
It’s a long list of features, but Agustinoy says the team thinks that each is necessary, despite the steep price (The electric version will eventually retail for $3,590 but is available on Kickstarter for slightly less). “We believe it’s the perfect bike to commute to work,” he says.
Adele Peters is a staff writer at Fast Company who focuses on solutions to some of the world's largest problems, from climate change to homelessness. Previously, she worked with GOOD, BioLite, and the Sustainable Products and Solutions program at UC Berkeley.
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Property Jobs Today - a roundup of the latest industry moves
By Conor Shilling
Following a break for last week's final Bank Holiday before Christmas, we're back with a bumper edition of Property Jobs Today.
We're here to share your company's employment moves from new hires and promotions to departures and reshuffles. To see your latest property jobs news in these news pages, all you need to do is email us on press@estateagenttoday.co.uk and we'll take it from there.
We start this week's PJT with Knight Frank, which recently announced a reshuffling of its Home Counties lettings division. The global firm's Guildford, Ascot, Esher and Cobham lettings teams will now be working out of 'hubs' in Ascot and Esher to improve flexible working and increase administrative efficiency.
The Cobham and Esher team will be headed up by Jamie-Leigh Harvey, while the Guildford and Ascot team will be managed by Ross Harvey.
The department's regional partner is Neil Cunningham, who commented: "The move to centralise our teams means that they can work together more effectively and be more strategic about how they serve their clients."
Staying with lettings but moving on to Gloucestershire, managing director of CGT Lettings, Angharad Trueman has been selected as the ARLA Propertymark representative for Gloucestershire, Bristol, Bath, North Somerset and North East Somerset.
Yet to turn 30 and recently becoming managing director following a stint as operations manager, Angharad will be responsible for gathering ARLA members' views and sharing them with the board. He'll also organise two regional events per year and act as a local press contact representative for ARLA Propertymark.
"It’s a big challenge which I’m really looking forward to," says Angharad. "Through this role I’ll be able to meet fellow lettings professionals and hopefully be able to recruit new members."
Over at Rickman Properties - a leading independent agent in Kensington - William Rousset has been appointed as director of residential sales and lettings.
The firm's managing director, Kieran Ryan, says William's appointment was an easy decision to make.
"William brings with him a wealth of local experience, having been previously employed at Chard, Farleys and Chestertons. His enthusiasm shone through immediately," explains Kieran of his new colleague.
Meanwhile, it's all change at the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) where a new chief executive has been appointed.
Andrew Dixon has previously worked for Tesco, Boots and Proctor & Gamble. He was most recently working in Kenya as the chief operating officer of a supermarket chain.
"I believe the RLA has developed a great service for its members and this is reflected in the doubling of its membership over the last five years," says Alan.
"I look forward to bringing some additional experience to the team which I hope will extend the offer and further grow the membership."
There's a newly-created position at Edinburgh residential property investment and lettings firm Cullen Property as Mhairi-Clare Galletta has been appointed new business executive.
The role will see Mhairi-Clare advise landlords and property investors on opportunities in the Scottish capital as well as helping existing clients to generate the best returns from their portfolios.
"Watching a property transform from something fairly rundown into something extraordinary is one of my favourite parts of the job, and having the opportunity to help Cullen Property clients choose the perfect investment is very exciting," says the new recruit.
JLL has expanded its cost management and project management teams with two senior appointments.
Aimee Baker (right) and Dalene Kyzer (left) are two new directors for the firm's Project and Development Services (PDS) team.
Aimee has transferred from a similar role in Australia and will focus on project management in the public sector, while Dalene joins from Quantem where she was a partner and will be responsible for cost management for investor clients.
"These two appointments exemplify the outstanding talent and expertise we pride ourselves on at JLL," says Helen Gough, lead director of JLL's PDS UK team.
"With appointments such as Dalene and Aimee’s bolstering the UK team we will continue to provide market leading support to our clients across a variety of sectors.”
Last but not least, we turn our attention to Fresh Property Group - a purpose-built accommodation specialist.
The firm has recently appointed Scott Berry as its commercial and finance director. He will be based in London and responsible for the financial management and reporting, control framework and IT operations of a portfolio with rental income in excess of £100m per year.
"We currently have £1.1bn of assets under management across the UK and Ireland so Scott’s sector experience combined with his extensive knowledge and enthusiasm, make him a perfect fit for us,” says Rebecca Hopewell, Fresh Property Group's chief executive.
That's it for now - good luck to all new recruits and we'll be back with another edition of Property Jobs Today on September 10.
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CARTER, JUSTIN
Galatasaray Liv Hospital Istanbul 1 Guard
Height: 1.93 Born: 21 April, 1987 Nationality: United States of America
EuroLeague 2014-15 STATISTICS
Totals 14 6 359:06 116 32/63 9/31 25/36 17 43 60 37 10 19 7 6 19 53 175
Averages 14 6 25:39 8.3 50.8% 29% 69.4% 1.2 3.1 4.3 2.6 0.7 1.4 0.5 0.4 1.4 3.8 12.5
11 vs Zalgiris Kaunas 25:37 7 2/2 0/1 3/3 1 6 7 1 1 3 1 2 3 14
12 at Real Madrid 12:33 2 0/1 0/1 2/2 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 2
13 at Crvena Zvezda Telekom Belgrade 15:27 10 3/3 1/2 1/1 1 3 4 1 1 1 2 3 15
14 * vs ALBA Berlin 38:51 13 5/7 0/2 3/4 1 2 3 5 1 1 2 6 20
15 at Panathinaikos Athens 24:09 12 1/6 1/3 7/8 1 5 6 3 1 1 2 2 8 19
16 * vs Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 38:30 14 4/10 1/3 3/6 4 4 8 2 1 1 1 4 6 14
17 at FC Barcelona 24:17 9 2/3 1/3 2/3 1 1 2 1 1 5 13
18 at Zalgiris Kaunas 36:37 13 5/11 0/1 3/3 3 2 5 3 1 3 1 1 2 6 16
19 * vs Real Madrid 31:37 5 1/2 1/3 0/2 1 3 4 3 1 2 1 2 9
20 * vs Crvena Zvezda Telekom Belgrade 24:10 7 2/4 1/2 1 3 4 2 4 14
21 * at ALBA Berlin 21:08 2 1/2 0/1 3 2 3 1 1 1 3
22 * vs Panathinaikos Athens 35:37 10 3/5 1/5 1/4 7 7 6 1 1 1 2 5 18
23 at Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 24:23 12 3/5 2/4 3 4 7 4 2 2 19
24 vs FC Barcelona 6:10 0/2 1 1 1 1 -1
14 Totals 359:06 116 32/63 9/31 25/36 17 43 60 37 10 19 7 6 19 53 175
Average 25:39 8.3 50.8% 29% 69.4% 1.2 3.1 4.3 2.6 0.7 1.4 0.5 0.4 1.4 3.8 12.5
EuroLeague 2014-15 individual rankings
#1 in Games Played (14)
#14 in Fouls Drawn (53)
#24 in Assist-turnover ratio (194.7%)
Index rating 30 Karsiyaka Spor Kulubu vs. Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar 12/10/2015
Points 27 Stelmet Zielona Gora vs. Karsiyaka Spor Kulubu 12/18/2015
Offensive rebounds 5 Karsiyaka Spor Kulubu vs. Zalgiris Kaunas 10/29/2015
Defensive rebounds 7 Galatasaray Istanbul vs. Panathinaikos Athens 3/27/2015
Total rebounds 11 Karsiyaka Spor Kulubu vs. Zalgiris Kaunas 10/29/2015
Assists 6 Galatasaray Istanbul vs. Panathinaikos Athens 3/27/2015
Steals 4 Zalgiris Kaunas vs. Karsiyaka Spor Kulubu 12/2/2015
Blocks 2 Karsiyaka Spor Kulubu vs. FC Barcelona Lassa 10/15/2015
Minutes 38 Galatasaray Istanbul vs. Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv 2/5/2015
Played college basketball at Creighotn (2008-10).
Moved to Slovakia for the 2010-11 season, signed by BK Vahostav-SK Zilina.
Moved to Turkey for the 2011-12 season, signed by Vetelspor Manisa, TB2L.
In December'11 signed by Tere Gucu SK, TB2L.
Signed for the 2012-13 season by Usak Universitesi.
Played there till December'14.
Signed for the remainder of the 2014-15 season by Galatasaray Istanbul.
Signed for the 2015-16 season by Pinar Karsiyaka Izmir.
In January'16 moved to China, signed by Guangdong Southern Tigers.
In April'16 moved to Venezuela, signed by Bucaneros del Guaira.
Moved to Russia for the 2016-17 season, signed by BC Khimki Moscow region.
Played the 2011 Slovakian All Star Game.
Played the 2014 Turkish All Star Game.
2014-15 Galatasaray Liv Hospital Istanbul 14 116 8.3 32/63 50.8 9/31 29 25/36 69.4 60 10 37 7
2015-16 Pinar Karsiyaka Izmir 8 113 14.1 18/38 47.4 14/35 40 35/53 66 44 15 14 5
Totals 22 229 10.4 50/101 49.5 23/66 34.8 60/89 67.4 104 25 51 12
Averages 22 229 10.4 50/101 49.5 23/66 34.8 60/89 67.4 4.7 1.1 2.3 0.5
2015-16 Pinar Karsiyaka Izmir 3 25 8.3 7/8 87.5 2/7 28.6 5/6 83.3 6 3 4 2
2016-17 Khimki Moscow Region 2 0 0 0/2 0 0/2 0 0/2 0 2 0 0 0
Totals 5 25 5 7/10 70 2/9 22.2 5/8 62.5 8 3 4 2
Averages 5 25 5 7/10 70 2/9 22.2 5/8 62.5 1.6 0.6 0.8 0.4
2008/09 Creighton 35 283 8.1 79/154 51.3 14/52 26.9 83/123 67.5 192 39 62 10
2010/11 Vahostav-Zilina 38 795 20.9 217/358 60.6 36/115 31.3 253/343 73.8 306 94 90 39
2011/12 Vestel 12 168 14.0 42/76 55.3 9/43 20.9 57/83 68.7 71 24 13 13
Tire Gucu 25 459 18.4 102/201 50.7 39/122 32.0 138/195 70.8 140 42 63 19
2012/13 Usak 40 821 20.5 157/304 51.6 90/210 42.9 237/324 73.1 268 77 143 37
2013/14 Usak 30 435 14.5 101/210 48.1 32/111 28.8 137/191 71.7 177 49 85 39
2014/15 Usak 13 180 13.8 41/90 45.6 15/42 35.7 53/76 69.7 86 16 30 15
Galatasaray 20 205 10.3 48/103 46.6 17/49 34.7 58/89 65.2 83 22 44 17
2015/16 Pinar Karsiyaka 13 108 8.3 15/45 33.3 8/34 23.5 54/68 79.4 31 8 36 10
Guangdong 11 195 17.7 42/83 50.6 24/61 39.3 39/56 69.6 74 14 55 9
Bucaneros 14 226 16.1 42/84 50.0 25/72 34.7 67/85 78.8 78 14 55 9
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KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz 85
December 20, 2017 CET: 20:45
Local time: 20:45 MEDIOLANUM FORUM
Milan holds off Baskonia comeback
AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan snapped its four-game losing streak in the EuroLeague by downing Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz 92-85 at Mediolanum Forum on Wednesday. Milan improved to 4-9 in the standings while Baskonia dropped to 6-7. Curtis Jerrells and Andrew Goudelock led the winners with 15 points apiece, Jordan Theodore and Vladimir Micov each added 12 and Arturas Gudaitis posted 10 points and 8 rebounds for Milan. Toko Shengelia led Baskonia with 19 points, Rodrigue Beaubois added 15, Marcelinho Huertas had 11 and Vincent Poirier 10 for the visitors. Cory Jefferson, Jerrells and Gudaitis shined early for a 27-25 Milan lead at the end of a high-scoring first quarter. A 9-0 run that Andrea Cinciarini capped with a jumper gave Milan a 36-27 advantage. Micov and Goudelock helped the hosts to a double-digit margin, 49-37, at halftime. An outstanding Goudelock and Theodore pushed it to 76-58 at the end of the third quarter and the hosts cruised the rest of the way. A moment of silence was kept to honor Panathinaikos Superfoods Athens former general manager Tassos Stefanou, who recently passed away.
Shengelia shined early with a layup, free throws and a fast break dunk for a 4-6 Baskonia lead. Jefferson and Goudelock fueled a 7-0 run that Theodore capped with a driving layup for an 11-6 Milan lead. Johannes Voigtmann and Kaleb Tarczewski exchanged three-point plays, but Janis Timma and Poirier kept Milan within 14-13. Gudaitis hit 5 free throws and Jefferson and Jerrels each struck from downtown, but Huertas had 5 points late in the first quarter before feeding Beaubois for a triple that brought Baskonia within 27-25 after 10 minutes. Beaubois shined with a driving layup early in the second quarter, but Amath M'Baye and Dairis Bertans led a 9-0 run that Cinciarini capped with a jumper, which prompted Baskonia to call timeout at 36-27. Poirier dunked, but Jerrells answered with a driving layup, Micov hit a circus shot and Goudelock added a floater to make it a double-digit game, 42-31. Davide Pascolo scored in the paint, Micov added a corner triple and free throws by Theodore gave Milan a 49-35 lead, which a put-back layup by Timma cut to 49-37 at halftime.
Shengelia scored again and Janning dunked to give Baskonia hope, 49-41, right after the break. Goudelock stepped up with a driving basket and a three-pointer and got help from Theodore and Micov to boost Milan's lead to 60-45. A three-pointer by Miguel Gonzalez got Baskonia back on track. Beaubois and Voigtmann led a 0-6 run that brought the guests within 66-56. It didn't last long, as Theodore and Jerrells each hit one from beyond the arc and Tarczewski added an alley-oop slam for a 76-58 Milan margin after 30 minutes. Back-to-back three-point plays by Gudaitis and Mantas Kalnietis and a three-pointer by Jerrells seemed to seal the outcome at 85-60, but Baskonia had other ideas. Luca Vildoza, Shengelia and Janning fueled a mammoth 3-23 run that brought the visitors within 88-83 with less than three minutes left. Gudaitis hit free throws and Milan improved its defense to cruise to an important win.
Referees: PUKL,SASA; ZAMOJSKI, JAKUB; VYKLICKY, ROBERT
AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan 27 22 27 16
KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz 25 12 21 27
AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan
0 GOUDELOCK, ANDREW 25:31 15 4/6 2/7 1/2 1 3 4 2 2 1 2 12
5 MICOV, VLADIMIR 24:13 12 1/2 2/3 4/6 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 5 13
7 PASCOLO, DAVIDE 9:46 4 2/3 0/1 1 1 1 1
9 KALNIETIS, MANTAS 7:38 3 1/1 1/1 1 2 2 2 2
15 TARCZEWSKI, KALEB 15:06 5 2/2 1/1 1 5 6 1 2 2 12
20 CINCIARINI, ANDREA 8:44 2 1/1 1 1 1 2 4
24 M'BAYE, AMATH 13:29 4 1/1 0/2 2/2 1 1 2 1 5 1 1
25 THEODORE, JORDAN 30:44 12 2/6 1/4 5/5 4 1 1 2 4 4 7
34 JEFFERSON, CORY 16:45 7 2/3 1/3 1 1 1 3
45 BERTANS, DAIRIS 8:41 3 0/1 1/3 1 1 3 -3
55 JERRELLS, CURTIS 14:29 15 2/3 3/3 2/2 1 1 2 7 1 1 2 25
77 GUDAITIS, ARTURAS 24:54 10 1/1 8/9 1 7 8 2 1 1 1 5 23
Totals 200:00 92 19/30 10/26 24/28 7 20 27 18 7 12 2 5 24 25 99
Head coach: PIANIGIANI, SIMONE
KIROLBET Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz
3 VILDOZA, LUCA 22:49 7 0/2 2/4 1/1 1 1 4 1 4 2 2 5
5 GONZALEZ, MIGUEL 4:28 3 1/1 3
6 TIMMA, JANIS 22:41 6 1/1 0/2 4/4 1 1 2 1 2 5 2 2
7 VOIGTMANN, JOHANNES 15:27 6 2/4 2/3 1 2 3 2 2 2 2 6
9 HUERTAS, MARCELINHO 18:16 11 1/4 1/2 6/6 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 5 12
10 BEAUBOIS, RODRIGUE 22:45 15 6/8 1/3 2 2 2 3 3 1 10
11 JANNING, MATT 29:01 8 4/4 0/2 3 2 1 1 4 3 10
17 POIRIER, VINCENT 24:33 10 4/7 2/2 2 4 6 2 1 1 2 1 3 2 15
19 MARTINEZ, IVAN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
21 JONES, KEVIN 11:22 0/1 0/1 2 2 1 1 1 1
23 SHENGELIA, TORNIKE 28:38 19 8/10 3/6 4 4 1 1 1 2 7 26
Totals 200:00 85 26/41 5/15 18/22 6 22 28 18 7 14 5 2 25 24 97
Head coach: MARTINEZ, PEDRO
PIANIGIANI, SIMONE
"I think that tonight, in the first 33 minutes, we played maybe our best game in the EuroLeague. We played excellent basketball on defense and offense, moving the ball to have the right distribution for everybody's shots. And then we stopped a little bit in the last seven minutes, but Baskonia is a great team and this is something that can happen. We were a little but in panic because we lost many games that he led for two or three quarters, but this is a very important victory for us."
MARTINEZ, PEDRO
"They played better than us. Our approach, our intensity were not what they had to be in the first half. I'll take the way we recovered so many points in the second half as a good sign but they played better."
JERRELLS, CURTIS
"It feels good to get a win - we needed it badly. It was a good team win, a good defensive effort. At the end of the game, we kind of let them - this is basketball, they are going to make some runs, but at the end of day, we got the win. We got most of our guys back, getting healthy and we are kind of showing what kind of team we will be when we have a full roster."
Vladimir Micov - AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan
Vincent Poirier - Baskonisa Vitoria Gasteiz
Curtis Jerrells - AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan
Vincent Poirier - Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz
Andrew Goudelock - AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan
Matt Janning - Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz
Mantas Kalnietis - AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan
Marcelinho Huertas - Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz
Cory Jefferson - AX Armani Exchange Olimpia Milan
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PB Acharya sworn in as the Governor of Manipur
Neha June 29, 2019 Appointments & Resigns
Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya was sworn in as the Governor of Manipur on 27th June.
Justice Lanusungkum Jamir of the High Court of Manipur administered the oath of office to Acharya at the Darbar Hall of the Raj Bhavan, Manipur.
Acharya will discharge the functions of the Governor of Manipur, in addition to his current duty as the Governor of Nagaland, during the absence of Dr. Najma Heptulla, Governor of Manipur.
After swearing in, Acharya said that the Governor is the constitutional head of state and that he will discharge his constitutional duties.
Can a Governor be appointed for 2 or more states?
Article 153 of Constitution:
It says that there shall be a Governor for each state.
The 7th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1956 has facilitated the appointment of the same person as a Governor for two or more states.
Q. Who has been sworn in as the Governor of Manipur?
a. Pramod Balakrishna Acharya
b. Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya
c. Parmeshwaran Balakrishna Acharya
d. Pratap Balakrishna Acharya
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2 Smart, Cheap Ways to Be Fit
Last week we envisioned a world where we had a million dollars to spend solely on exercise and eating (I'm still laughing at some of your awesome answers—and also maybe stealing them for that magical day that, you know, I actually get a million dollars), but the truth is, you can get fit without sacrificing too much cash. Yael Cohen is the founder and CEO of F Cancer (I've edited the name here but you get the gist—Yael hates cancer! We all do! Stupid cancer!), which she founded after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. She's spent a lot of time researching and studying health—and how you can keep your body a healthy cancer-fighting machine. Here she is: When we spoke recently, and it was awesome. She has a lot of smart ideas for eating well and exercising, and I wanted to share these two with you ASAP because they're so good to think about throughout the day-to-day. Yael's No. 1 Way to Exercise on the Cheap: "I learned the hard way that I have to balance so I now schedule it in the way I would a meeting. I do it early in the morning, so I have
Last week we envisioned a world where we had a million dollars to spend solely on exercise and eating (I'm still laughing at some of your awesome answers—and also maybe stealing them for that magical day that, you know, I actually get a million dollars), but the truth is, you can get fit without sacrificing too much cash.
Yael Cohen is the founder and CEO of F Cancer (I've edited the name here but you get the gist—Yael hates cancer! We all do! Stupid cancer!), which she founded after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. She's spent a lot of time researching and studying health—and how you can keep your body a healthy cancer-fighting machine. Here she is:
When we spoke recently, and it was awesome. She has a lot of smart ideas for eating well and exercising, and I wanted to share these two with you ASAP because they're so good to think about throughout the day-to-day.
Yael's No. 1 Way to Exercise on the Cheap: "I learned the hard way that I have to balance so I now schedule it in the way I would a meeting. I do it early in the morning, so I have no excuses! It took a realignment of my thinking: It's not a chore; it's 'me' time; it's something I do just for me. Because I'm often traveling, I use exercises that use nothing but my body weight. It's crazy to me how hard I can work with just my body weight: squats, pull-ups, push-ups, lunges, sit-ups, dialing up the intensity as I go. And it's way better than the treadmill, which is boring as hell. Let's be honest."
Yael's No. 1 Way to Eat on the Cheap:__ "Food is the original medicine: What we put into it directly affects our overall health. Eating clean is the best way to go: If you don't know where it came from, or what it used to be, or if it never expires, you should be creeped out as hell. While it can be expensive to eat organic, eating clean doesn't have to be. There are certain foods that absorb pesticides more than others. The Clean 15 don't, and it's worth putting more of your money toward them. If it comes in a package, avoid it. Go for food from the source. That doesn't mean never eating crap—eat crap! Just eat clean crap. Eat a cookie that you know uses real ingredients, like butter or coconut oil. It makes it taste way better, and now there's actual value in those categories—they're not just empty."
What ways have you found are helpful in keeping the costs down when you're trying to eat well and stay active? P.S. Follow Yael on Twitter (@yael)!
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Risk Strategies Bolsters Mid-Atlantic Footprint, Private Client Practice with Acquisition of Creative Insurance Solutions
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BOSTON, June 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Risk Strategies, a privately held, rapidly growing national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, today announced the acquisition of Creative Insurance Solutions, a quickly growing provider of custom insurance and risk management programs to successful individuals and families. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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The Age of Monsters. The Era of Titans. The Never-ending War.* All of these titles have been applied to the years that followed when Godzilla first rose from the sea and lit Tokyo aflame. In the wake of his first attack, countless new monsters have risen up across the globe in the following years.*
Very few of these creatures are alike. You have flying ones like Rodan, insectoid creatures like Kamacuras, extraterrestrials like the Taligon, and downright mystical ones like the Torrentula. And then there are those that defy known science more then the others, like Gigan or Hedorah.
One could spend days talking about not only the beasts themselves, but the continent and world-changing events that they have had a heavy role in.
The Mechagodzilla Crisis of 1975. The day when three kaiju attacks occurred over the globes at once, a day where human civilization truly learned that it was not alone in 1977. The G War of 1987. The birth of the Biollante Forest's across the Middle East two years later. The Fall of Tokyo in 1995 that left the city a volcanic quarantine zone. The Oil Breach of 2011. That's just off the top of my head.
This collection could have easily been one huge timeline. It could have been a step by step description of every known attack.
But that has already been done. You can find timelines filled with every last sighting and full scale attack by an individual kaiju. Books have been written on the first battle of the Mechagodzilla Crisis alone.
That's why I've decided to write this after years of graphing footprint data and conducting interviews for Monarch, the North American K-Science division that has risen in prominence these last few years. To differentiate this book from other kaiju based media, I've decided to heavily line it with interviews from individual people. From military personnel to civilians, I've chosen to add a heavy human element, for lack of a better term. Brief timelines and event descriptions will be added as needed to shed light on mentioned material.
So sit back, relax, and you may just learn a thing or too about the amazing world we live in.
-S.G.R., Author and Monarch Agent
*I personally dislike the implication that human species and kaiju are locked in a eternal war. Yes, kaiju attacks can be devastating, but in time our civilizations may be able to adapt to them.
*Godzilla is not the very first kaiju in all of human history. Legends and historical evidence point to the existence of these titanic creatures long before Godzilla first attacked (Mothra, King Caesar, etc.) Nevertheless, Godzilla was the first to be seen and have his existence confirmed in the modern era, and he is also the one most races imagine when they think of kaiju.
Monarch File #1
"We were there in Tokyo on that day in 1954. We filmed away with our cameras from the top of Tokyo Tower as Gojira came out of the sea and walked through 300,000 volts of electricity. As he stomped his way through waves and waves of missile fire, we kept filming.
When Gojira unleashed his first blast of atomic fire from his maw, we kept filming.
As buildings collapsed and vehicles were flung through the air, we advised our listeners to evacuate.
We stayed.
As the city burned, we kept filming.
As Gojira walked up to the tower and stared at us with his burning eyes, we kept filming.
As he bit into the tower, close enough for us to feel his breath, we kept filming.
As the tower collapsed with us inside, we bid farewell to everyone still listening.
To this day, I don't know how we survived the fall, or why we didn't die of radiation poisoning.
What I do know is that someone has to be out there to let the world know when another monster comes ashore.
And as for Gojira himself, I can't help but pity him.
He was not evil by choice. He and the other monsters are simply too large, too heavy, and too strong. That is their tragedy."
Ishiro Honda, Director and Screenwriter in Toho Co., Ltd. Later Co-Founder of K-Watch. Excerpt from an interview in Osaka, 1963, in the aftermath of Godzilla's reappearance in and battle with the kaiju "Vishnu" in Osaka.
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"After Gojira was thought to be dead after that day in Tokyo Bay, he returned to menace the world once again on June 26th, 1963. International panic and speculation ran through the roof. Was this another of his kind, or the original, healed from it's wounds? Most chose the first option. I do not blame them. The alternative, that the beast that set Tokyo aflame was able to regenerate his flesh from a skeleton in nine years, left terrifying implications.
If the Oxygen Destroyer couldn't kill him, what could we do?
Ultimately, DNA analysis and additional tests from the ESP Institute of Japan has proven without a doubt that the current Gojira is indeed the same individual from 1954.
This explains why he goes out of his way to attack human vehicles and buildings, why he is so aggressive to all perceived threats, why he tears through obstacles that other large animals would try to navigate around.
He remembers the sheer agony inflicted on him, and he knows that humans did this to him.
I am not just talking about the Oxygen Destroyer.
As for how he could have regenerated so quickly from his wounds, recent evidence may shed some light.
This old photo, photographer unknown, shows what may have looked at the time to be a reef floating in an ocean.
Take a close look. Does the shape of those "coral" spikes look familiar?
Another photo. It's rather blurry, but you can see more of the shape out of the surface. White material under the spikes, black strips of material on it.
Some may think it to the floating corpse of a dead whale at the time. But now? It's obvious who that is.
Gojira was mobile after getting exposed to the device, but barely. Strips of his flesh had begun to grow over his skeleton, but even so he was in no position to attack. By the look of things, Gojira was basically drifting with the current at this point, barely able to move himself.
My personal opinion? It should have taken far longer for Gojira to fully regenerate, perhaps into the early 80's at least.
But here is another significant detail: These photos were taken, judging from the location named on the back, on the Sukhoy Nos, an island on the Russian Novaya Zemyla archipelago.
The area was visited by some Monarch operatives who confirmed its similarities to the location in the photo.
The island was the same location where the Tsar Bomba was detonated by the Russian government on October 30th, 1961. It was the most powerful nuke ever detonated, with a yield of 50 Megatons.
To this day, there has been no bigger explosion in the modern era.
Gojira is a creature who feeds on radiation. You do the math.
The high amounts of energy given off the blast not only supercharged his healing, it may have been why his size increased by nearly 30 meters during his second raid.
This raises yet another question: Did Gojira just so happen to be in the area when the explosion went down, or did he know what would happen?
Some may point out the sheer unlikelihood of such a thing, but keep in mind that Gojira has shown an uncanny ability to hunt enemy kaiju across the world in the past, along with the fact that he always seems to show up where his presence would be most needed.
In fact, that shall be the next subject of this speech. We will discuss Gojira's alleged "Sixth Sense"-"
Marshall John McCain of the Kaiju Defense Force (KDF), at the UN summit in Kyoto, 2001.
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Horton said:
I currently have no plans to include as a member of the Kaiju Defense Force, but he does exist in this world.
"The Radioassic Age, of which we are just beginning to understand, is a geological era believed to have occured between the end of the Cretaceous period and the beginning of the Paleogene.
While this era, and fossils from it are still being investigated, what we do know has sent shockwaves through the world of paleontology: essentially, the dinosaurs did not go extinct after the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction and the Chicxulub impact. Yes, there was great dying off and some species never recovered. But there were those that survived and adapted to this environment.
Essentially, for a hundred thousand or maybe even a few thousands years but not reaching a million years, there was one last great reign of the dinosaurs after the KT Impact.
Species across the world adapted to the new, likely highly radioactive and volcanic environment. Among these species were large pterosaurs, incorporating magma into their scales and even their flesh. Others, like the tyrannosaurs, survived and adapted to not only become highly resistant to radiation and other forms of energy, but to feed on it in some capacity. Both of these species are believed to be the have evolved over later generations into the Rodan and Godzillasurus races. Other notable new dinosaurs include the Angilasaur, an omnivorous variant of ankylosaur, one with a high resistance to the high and low temperatures that fluctuated around the globe during this time period. Another creature is the Titanosaurus Mafune species, which incorporated traits of both sauropods and spinosaurs to live a highly aquatic lifestyle, far beneath the sea. The amphibious Godzillasaurus, future evolution of the Tyrannosaurs Rex was also known to be part of this "Return to the Sea"-
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-The first decades of the era were likely something out of an old stop motion movie, with the surviving dinosaurs battling each other in a blackened wasteland filled with ashen rain and rivers of lava. But as time went on, the dinosaurs adapted more and more to their environment, and they weren't alone in these changes. Another important change was in plant life.
After years of the world looking like an inferno, the vegetation began to absorb radiation like a sponge, using it in the vein of sunlight. For the rest of the Radioassic, the world flourished once more under the radiation, a feat that will possibly take more then a few decades for us to understand.
Great jungles and forests sprung up, providing food sources for the adapted herbivores, and by proxy the old and new carnivorous species of the era. If you were to take a time machine and go the middle of this era, you would think the meteor had not impacted at all.
New species like the Shockirus louse, mistaken as a resurgent trilobite in 1954 by Kyohei Yamane, also came in to feed on the radiation resistant blood of semiaquatic creatures such as the Godzillasaurs.
Of course, the dinosaurs still disappeared with a few massive exceptions, but far later than previously expected.
The Graham Hypothesis states that radiation levels began to recede in the last years of the era, resulting in a large majority of megafauna heading deep beneath the earth to feed on or live in the radiation they had become dependant on near the core. Some of today's modern kaiju may indeed be remnants of this time who stayed close enough to the surface to be reawakened by the turbulence of the modern era.
Another school of thought believes that an extraterrestrial force caused the end of the Radioassic. It could have been something simple like an alien bacteria, or it could have been something far more dramatic, like a massive space faring predator or group of predators.
While the idea may sound over the top, the discovery of Taligon and the incursions of 1975 and 1987 prove that megafauna with the capacity of intergalactic travel are a very real threat.
Further adding to this alarmingly plausible theory is the recent investigation into the impact crater found in the North Pole, along with cave paintings of a prominent "Three armed Killer" from Muan and Infant Island theology-"
-Paleontologist Douglas Henshall, in the opening excerpt from the book Welcome to the New Age of Beasts, published in 2007.
I'd be interested to know how Godzilla got as big as he did, assuming he's descendent of a T-Rex, as the guy is WAY bigger.
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-It's good business, I'll tell you what. Yeah, the vines here in Syria are snappy and might spew a little teeth and vomit now and then in the jungles of the Middle East. You've got those things that look like venus fly traps with a dental problem, those wriggling things made of animal bone and weed that shamble to you like the spawn of George A. Romero and bloody Poison Ivy, and then there's the big snake like ones that you need HLS's (Heavy Laser Saw's) deal with, but it's all in good fun and profit.
Hell, ever since that disaster in '89, everyone's been here to harvest the forest's. Turns out that once you give it a little DECOM treatment, this stuff is perfectly edible.
You had the Soviets being bloody paid by Saradian government to come here when the spread got really bad in exchange for being allowed to harvest the plant material, you had the Yankee's as expected, you had the Sons of Varan* and Maoist* troops from the Chinese City-states getting into firefights over this stuff, the French and my countrymen, just name it. Food, research material, containment, everyone wanted it.
Hell, plenty of people still want to harvest this stuff.
As for my regiment? Well, we get paid, and that's that.
But even if this entire monster forest disappeared, I have a feeling that me and my rifle won't be going anywhere.
There will always be people interested in the Middle East, mark my words.
-SAS Sergeant Chauncey Louis Boxer, from an interview with the KNN (Kaiju News Network) during the ongoing resurgence in growth of the Biollante Forest in Middle East. Interview conducted in Syria, 2003.
**The Sons of Varan and Maoists were among many ruling groups formed in the years of turmoil that lead to the creation of the currently six Chinese City-States formed in the aftermath of the kaiju Varan's initial attack in 1957, which claimed the life of Chairman Mao Zedong and many other leading figures in China at the time.
In the country of Saradia, in the Middle East, Scientist Genshiro Shiragami and his daughter Erika finish work on a rose spliced with G-Cells for the Saradian government on the first day of February. The goal of this experiment is to make a hyper-adaptive plant that can grow and create lush forests and jungles in a short amount of time in the dry deserts of the region. Shiragami chose a rose as a test subject due to it being the favorite plant of his deceased wife.
Rumors persist that he spliced some of her own DNA into his plant.
During an experiment with some mutated plants on Valentine's Day, the mutated rose grows out of control, rapidly growing vines with fanged mouths at their ends before increasing in size. Seeking water and protein, the organism attacks and kills multiple humans at the facility as it is evacuated. The Shiragami's escape.
The organism penetrates the outside of the facility with leaves and vines as it grows in size, but it does not leave. The Godzilla/Plant Hybrid begins drawing water from underground springs and containers to sustain itself. It then releases a massive wail, one detected by the ESP Institute of Japan psionically, with the call appearing on wavelengths identified by radio. The Institute sends a now 19 year old Instructor Miki Saegusa out as their chosen spokesperson to investigate, and perhaps attempt to communicate with the creature.
Godzilla is spotted in the Indian Ocean, heading to the Middle East. Children in the institute collectively have a nightmare of Godzilla fighting a massive crocodilian creature with plant like features in tendrils, and the institute concludes that the psionic signal sent out by the plant must be attracting him.
At the entrance of the Persian Gulf, Saegusa is deployed by KDF helicopter, in the first attempt to use psionics against Godzilla. She attempts to reach into the creatures mind and redirect his path, but she fails and nearly falls into a coma in the attempt.
As Godzilla enters the Persian Gulf, the hybrid creature, now named Biollante after a mythical Saradian Queen, burrows underneath the building and reappears in Lake Al-Rafsa'h. Multiple Nations demand the creature to be destroyed, while the Saradian government claims ownership over it, wanting to study it's properties and possibly contain it for it's plans to fertilize the desert.
Godzilla surfaces in the morning at Half Moon Bay, Saudi Arabia. Godzilla moves through the nearby city before advancing forwards to Saradia. Saudi Arabian and Saradian authorities focus on evacuating nearby villages and cities. KDF and local air forces fire on Godzilla from the skies in the hopes of luring him back to sea, but Godzilla ignores all military attacks and begins advancing to Lake Al Rafsa'h. Godzilla eventually reaches the lake at nightfall after advancing through Saradia itself. Biollante, after remaining under the lake, surfaces.
Godzilla stands on the shore, and after a wail from Biollante, he charges into the lake.
The two fight, with Biollante attacking with it's vines and tendrils. Godzilla retaliates with two blasts of atomic fire, quickly burning and severely reducing Biollantes mass.
Biollante dissolves into a lightshow of golden spores and pollen, half of which lands around the shore and surrounding area, causing spontaneous flower growth around the area.
Godzilla regards this phenomenon before turning to follow the golden spore cloud.
The next day, Godzilla crosses over into Iraq as he continues following the sporecloud, which has gone underground. Dictator Saddam Hussein decides to engage Godzilla with his military forces, despite the UN urging him to avoid doing so.
Godzilla ignores or stomps through any military forces in his way, advancing through several villages on the border in the days ahead.
Godzilla attacks a nuclear plant in Iraq before heading in a straight line through the Mediterranean Sea, and Saegusa psionically senses Biollante heading the same way.
Godzilla crosses into Syria, fortunately avoiding damage to any major population centers before he reaches the Mediterranean.
At the edge of the shore, Biollante remerges, now 120 meters in height compared to it's previous 85 meters, and with a massive crocodilian jaw in place of it's earlier rose-like head
They battle, far more even now, with Biollante displaying the ability to fire acidic flame from it's mouth and corrosive blasts of sap from it's tendrils.
After twenty of minutes of fighting, Godzilla fires his atomic breath directly into Biollantes mouth, blasting out the back of it's head before he blasts the top of it's head off with a point blank blast.
Biollante rapidly dissolves once more, sending a shower of spores over the nearby countries. Green plant life, including ferns, trees, and flowers, grow in large quantities in desert areas in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, the border of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Saradia over the night.
Godzilla watches as the glowing remains of Biollante disperse across the sky, then he walks into the nearby Mediterranean, disappearing under the waves.
KDF Europe goes into alert mode in the event of him coming ashore.
As the Shiragami's watch this event from the shore, their security detail is attacked by terrorists from Bio-Major, a Red Bamboo Subdivision, only for the would be assassin's to be killed when a vine suddenly emerges from underground, sending the machine gun equipped truck they were attacking with off a cliff.
The Shiragami's are sent into protective UN Custody for their safety.
The excessive, and at times directly aggressive plant growth that follows remains an ecological issue in the Middle East to this day.
[UNRELATED INCIDENTS IN 1989 HAVE BEEN REDACTED BY ME FOR BREVITY]
In the Middle East, the rapidly growing "Biollante forests" begin expanding and utilizing fanged vines in self defense towards flamethrower troopers sent to combat the growth. In exchange for being allowed to analyze destroyed samples, the USSR assists ME forces in fighting the forests, with additional focus being on a way to harvest the vegetable material in an edible from.
Genshiro Shiragami begins working on project ANEB, with the objective of genetically engineering a bacteria strain that feeds on radiation, intended to clean up nuclear spills, with hopes for an oil spill eating strain in the future. The KDF and other military forces hope to use it to combat both the growing Biollante forests and the kaiju, specifically nuclear ones like Godzilla.
Work on Prototype Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria is successful in decreasing radioactivity of Biollante samples.
Explosive deployed ANEB is deployed in the Middle East with UN consent. It proves effective in combating the forest, and lowers the Biollante forests radioactivity to the point of rendering blown of fragments edible. Trade agreements over cleansed vegetable matter proves vital to repairing the damage wreaked by Godzilla's battle with Biollante and against the still growing forest.
Selling now edible radiation cleansed Biollante derived vegetables during the "Arab Spring" proves to be highly profitable to the Middle Eastern countries involved.
Multiple UN Nations sign the Kaiju-Human Gene Act of 1989, one made due to the kaiju related genetic incidents of the decade, amongst them the reveal of the Tian-Lung's origin as a genetic rogue creation of the Chinese government. This highly limits genetic research in kaiju or growth related areas, to prevent future monster outbreaks.
The Middle East is allowed to continue harvesting K-Material from the B-Forest, but they can not deliberately increase the forest's growth genetically.
Thus ends the massive "Genetic Renaissance" of the 1980's.
-From the Official Timeline of the Age of Monsters, published by the KDF in 2004 and updated yearly since then.
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Nuclear Radiation and lots of protein.
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The next file will be on the Monster Islands.
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Monarch Letter #5: (Monster Islands Part 1)
1966: Discovery of the island chain that would later serve as the Monster Island archipelago. Notable native species include a race of heavily armored dwarf Carnotaurs, Rhinoceros Snapping Turtles (With one particularly hardy specimen being called Kamoebas.), and quad-tusked Styracoboars.
1975: Shortly after the massive Battle of Accra, the infamous year ends with the biggest expedition on the Monster Islands yet, with the Prototype Mecha Red Ronin as a bodyguard and escort. More megafauna, like the slitjawed Boar Mole and the Scorpion Snakefish are discovered. Ruins resembling those in Mu are discovered, hinting at past human colonization on the islands. The Monster Islands Research and Containment Facility is established on these islands.
1976: Reports of Tyrannosaurs with amphibious features and prominent dorsal spines are reported on the Marshall Islands, with fishing boats being attacked and a cattle farm being raided.
A G-Force investigation reveals the presence of two five meter (male) adolescents and one fifteen meter (female) adult dinosaur, identified by Kyohei Yamane as members of the Godzillasaurus species. It is believed that Godzilla was once a member of this species before he was mutated and enlarged by nuclear testing in the 1950's.
The adolescents are successfully tricked into eating a shipment of tranquilizer laced whale meat. The larger female is battled by Red Ronin, and despite the size disparity between her and the 30 meter Mecha, she manages to pierce it's chest armor before being pacified by a rocket punch to the head.
The three Godzillasaurs are taken to the Monster Islands Containment Facilities as the islands first successful lesser kaiju captures.
They are placed on separate islands to prevent the female from attacking and killing what she would view as young rivals to her territory.
The male adolescents are given the names Cope and Marsh, while the female is named Tohru in reference to the green coloration of her scales resembling that of an ancient dragon of legend.
Excess Cattle, Goat, and Emu Herds are shipped from the USA and Australia to keep the creatures fed.
It goes without saying that all three specimens are to be kept away from all sources of nuclear power.
Note: Much of this information was classified at the time. Information unclassified around 2007 shall be stated in italics.
Monster Island has had no barriers for years, with the best hope being that the kaiju on the island would simply be uninterested in leaving. To better work on the islands defenses, the KDF secretly hires magicians and other magical specialists elite builders to assist in building better defenses. A blockade of Maser ships is placed around the island. A network of electric gates around the area is also worked on and completed by 1992. Said Gate involves the use of teleportation runes forcefield tech from Mu to draw lightning from the sky, creating what is essentially a wireless electric fence. The media is told that said fence is based on "experimental forcefield tech" to preserve the secret of magic until the official implantation of Scenario: Broken Masquerade years later. Meanwhile, a gas developed from venom glands found in the severed heads of Ouroboros are also used to develop a gas spraying security system around the shore, one meant to act as the first line of defense before the forcefield. Initial tests manage to ward off Saltora and Baragon.
-From the Official Timeline of the Age of Monsters, (2005 Edition)
Current Headcount as of 1995-2004:
Monster Island Head Count:
Three Megafauna
-Marsh
-Cope
-Tohru
Eight Kaiju:
-Saltora
-Gaira
-Sanda
-Gorosaurus
-Baragon
-Prospector Pete
-Tamamo
Unique:
-BullDozer
Headcount as of 2013-Now
Two Megafuna:
Seven Kaiju:
-Clover
-Shiranui
-From the 2015 Official Guide to Monster Island.
Next file will be about two attempts by the military to neutralize Godzilla in the 70's and 80's.
t-dugong
Beach bum, Esq.
Cool. More please.
t-dugong said:
I'm working on it. Which factors do you like so far?
ScriptGenius12 said:
The worldbuilding, mostly. Godzilla's various rampages is cool and all but seeing how the world is changed from the emergence of kaijus and their effects.
I mean, reading about ME countries being agricultural exporters tickles my funny bones and it makes sense in the setting.
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Another POD in this world: The UN is actually able to get things done.
Next File:
Operation: FROSTBITE/Operation: SEAGULL
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well umm
...Good luck with that!
High End Legends Galactic Empire would find it hard to put him down, let alone 20th century Earth.
In a sense, the UN here is actually capable of safely transporting and handling a refugee crisis, as well as hunting down terrorists.
With his mustache, steely gaze, and stout, muscly form, Commander Douglas Gordon* of the KDF is very recognizable when I find him in the gym of KDF-NA headquarters in Orlando, Florida. I then proceeded to attempt to conduct a Monarch-approved interview with him.
When I asked him for his thoughts on Godzilla, this was his one and only response.
"The lizard pulls new powers out of his ass all the time. That doesn't mean we can't make him bleed."
Following this statement, he went back to lifting weights and ignored all further questions.
Promoted to the role of Captain of the Gotengo following the death of his predecessor, Commander Hachiro Jinguji* in 1987, Gordon served with distinction and was later promoted to the position of Commander in the KDF for his service in OPERATION: TBTS (Take Back The Sea) following the Panthalassa Sea Outbreak of 1988. He has been demoted and promoted since then for actions both on and off the battlefield.
**Killed In Action.
1972: OPERATION FROSTBITE: Attempt by Kaiju Defense Force to neutralize Godzilla by luring him to the North Pole, where a massive missile launch is planned to cause an avalanche on top of him to force him into a state of dormancy.
Gotengo played a major role in the operation with it's drill.
Mission Failed
First recording of Godzilla's nuclear pulse. Despite the damage incurred in battle, the heat generated by the Gotengo's weaponry saved the lives of personnel in the water. (Either pilots whose ships crashed, or crew whose battleships were destroyed in the battle.)
1984: OPERATION SEAGULL:
A plan to lure Godzilla into the chosen Volcano of Mt. Mihara to kill(Unlikely due to Yiemniak incident, but it should be noted he was not completely submerged in magma at that point) or contain him inside the mountain.
Outline: Godzilla will lured into the volcano by audio of the vocals of another of his species, created from spliced audio of his own roars and Tohru's. Godzilla will be lured to the top, where explosives will be detonated around the mouth of the volcano, dropping him inside of it.
Godzilla is spotted approaching Tokai, lure used. Godzilla leaves the area and is lured to the top of Mihara. Explosives detonated.
Mission Failed: Godzilla escaped within half an hour with atomic breath.
First demonstration of Godzilla's ability to absorb thermal energy.
Isu Oshima evacuated.
Gotengo dispatched.
Godzilla used stored thermal energy from the magma to nullify the effects of the Ice Cannon, as well as beat it in a "beam clash".
Luckily, the fight with the Gotengo seemed to "sate" Godzilla, who returned to the bottom of the sea as usual. Red Ronin dispatched to bring the damaged Gotengo back to G-Base.
"Plenty of people want to destroy the kaiju. Others want to study these creatures. Everyday, more and more innovation goes into weapons and devices that can be used against the giants.
But where everyone obsessives over the future of a world with monsters, I try to look to the past to understand them. Their lives before first contact with humanity, what kind of ancient ecosystems they once fit into. In the case of mutants, I want to understand just how and why they became the giants they are today.
One monster certainly comes to mind: Godzilla.
For those knew to the subject of Megazoology, Godzilla is known to be a mutated Godzillasaurus. Three of these ancient creatures are currently kept on Monster Island, and questions about how they survived from the end of the Radioassic Period to the Modern Age can be applied to Godzilla as well.
One would logically assume that Godzilla was "Born" in the modern era in some deep trench, before the nuclear tests* believed to have created him occurred and transformed him from a Sea Reptile to a towering Titan. Observations of the Monster Island Godzillasaurs and fossil indicates that the creatures had a high resistance to radiation naturally, but presumably not to the extent of something on the level of a Nuclear Bomb. Yet, Godzilla's cells must have reacted with the bomb at just the right distance, for lack of a better term. To give an extended explanation of the hypothetical physics involved-
However, the hypothesis of Godzilla being born decades before the nuclear era has been met with heavy evidence to the contrary. Dating back to centuries are paintings from Odo Island and surrounding islands depicting an adult Godzillasaurus swimming around and sometimes coming onto land. Accounts exist of it attacking whales, schools of fish, and in one notable instance, a Mongol Raiding party can be found in myths and legends amongst native populations. Other accounts of it stretch to the Marshall Islands. The remains of a an old wooden ship of ancient Mongolian Build were recently found as a matter of fact near the waters of Odo Island. The Godzillasaurus in these legends is depicted as being dark in color, and having three prominent scars. One on the chest, one on the side, and one above it's left eye.
The ESP's research projects that involved attempts to communicate with kaiju, like Rodan and Godzilla went as well as you'd expect, but they did result in the Psychic agents involved getting brief flashes of memories to the Radioassic Period, of which the famed Miki Saegusa claimed to have witnessed a first person battle between Godzilla and another large predator from his point of view for less then a minute. While that story is another can of worms, it confirms that the individual animal who would become Godzilla was alive for not just hundreds, but possibly millions of years.
If this is true, the Godzilla himself barely aged since the time between the end of the Radioassic and his first encounters with humanity. One could justify this with excessively long hibernation times, but even so, such a creature would have died of energy loss if it hibernated so long. This trait has been mainly found in Kaiju and in more supernatural organisms.
Yet Godzilla had such longevity based traits long before Castle Bravo, if we take this into account.
The population on Monster Island does clearly age by contrast. Marsh and Cope went from Juveniles to full grown adults with a decade. Tohru has begun to show signs of old age typical amongst other large predators. Yet Godzilla was still in his prime for eons.
Then there is the most infamous account of the Godzillasaurus, the Shindo and Spielberg reports. I shall activate the recording on the screen behind me. Please be silent for the duration.
During a battle between American and Japanese forces in World War II on Lagos Island-
-seeing the soldiers as intruders to it's territory, the "Dinosaur" attacked. The old scars on it's body, in descriptions given by Yasuaki Shindo, Arnold Spielberg, and other enlisted troopers, along with it's estimated height match known lore surrounding Gojira on Odo Island-
"Shindo described it being unbothered by gunfire as it jumped across the mud to get at the soldiers-
-"Our grenades just made it angrier-"
"Knocked over our tank, seemed to realize that we were a threat very quickly, tore off the treads after knocking us over-
-"Major Spielberg and his CO immediately started yelling for everyone to fire when it came out of the jungle-"
-"After it got hit by those battleship shells, it fell. We thought it was dead. Suddenly it leapt up and seized Ramirez and Blasko in it's jaws. Sonofabitch was pretending to be dead"-
"It actually knocked one of our rockets back with it's tail before escaping into the jungle-"
-"Major Shindo and the rest of us found it resting in some grass, blood still on it. Shindo walked up to it and-"
"As I finished saluting him, the look in the dinosaur's eyes was not that of some beast, but of an intelligent being just like me and my men. To this day, I regret leaving it-"
Here is my conclusion, after years of speculation and research.
The original Godzillasaurus, before it's mutation, was long-lived far beyond any other known indiviudals of it's species. It was capable of feats of strength and durability exceeding other animals of that size.
Godzilla was an abnormal specimen long before the nuclear tests that mutated him in 1954.
-Professor Kenji Ando at G-Fest XX on June 19, 2013. Copies of the lecture exist online in multiple streaming and educational sites. Redundant parts have been redacted for brevity.
*Specifically Castle Bravo.
What effect does poison have on him? Surely there's a way of putting him down. Right?
It could make him ill if strong enough (EX: Anti-Nuclear Radiation Bacteria) but if he escapes back into the sea he can recover in time.
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I'm reminded of this thread.
Mystical Forces do indeed exist in this setting, but not Hogwarts.
The Oxygen Destroyer managed to incapacitate him from 1954 to 1961. It likely would have kept him down for far longer if he hadn't drifted in range of the Tsar Bomba explosion that supercharged his healing.
Threadmarks Interlude 1
Interlude: The First Wave
1954: Godzilla. Tokyo, Japan. First and only deployment of the Oxygen Destroyer.
1956: Meganulon. Rio, Brazil.
1956: Rodan. Albay, Philippines.
1957: Varan. Beijing, China.
First Kaiju attack to result in the death of a world leader, with Chairman Mao Zedong eaten by the creature during a last stand.
1959: Sasori the Giant Scorpion and Pancho Villa, the giant Gila Monster. Texas, USA.
First instance of a kaiju attack on North American soil, and first instance of a medium scale kaiju being brought down on foot.*
*It should be noted that Villa was already injured by the slightly larger Sasori beforehand, with it's open wounds being key to it's eventual defeat by high explosives. Sasori itself later escaped underground and remained at large until the 1980's.
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‘Poet from the Peaks’ pays visit to primary school in Arnold
Nick Salt Apr 4, 2019
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‘Poet from the Peaks’ Andy Tooze recently visited Burntstump Seely Church of England Primary Academy in Calverton to give a workshop on creative writing.
Known for his children’s books like ‘The Poetry Bug’, Andy, who lives in Buxton, Derbyshire, is often described as ‘the poet from the peaks’.
The popular poet said he had enjoyed his visit to the school in Calverton.
“I came to school today to work with the children, sharing some poems, and also getting them to write their own verse and present their work to the class.”
Andy helped every child to create their own poem about their favourite animals. “The poems the children wrote were absolutely fantastic,” he said. “It’s a lovely school with a great atmosphere and lots of freedom for self-expression. It’s been a brilliant day!”
PICTURED: Andy Tooze with pupils from Burntstump Seely C of E Primary Academy
Teacher at Burntstump Seely C of E Primary Academy, Sally Glover, said she was delighted with the response that Andy had elicited from the pupils. “I have been really surprised with the way the children have coped with writing their poems and then standing up in front of their classes and reading them aloud. They had fantastic expression when they were reading and even children who are usually reluctant to get up in front of class not only have done that, -but have done it incredibly well. It was such a pleasant surprise and they were all so supportive of each other.”
Though she is only in Year 1, talented pupil Ava wrote an excellent poem about a mythical creature. “It was really good because we got to write poems. Unicorns are my favourites, so I wrote about them. I liked today because a person we didn’t know yet came in to see us in class.”
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Going into her eighth Olympics, former shooting champion Nino Salukvadze has plenty of reasons to be proud of her long career, AP reports.
She has something even more special to celebrate in Rio de Janeiro: She and her 18-year-old son will both be competing.
While there have been previous cases of parents and their children competing at the same games, this is believed to be the first time a mother and son will participate in the same Olympics.
Going into
Georgian sports shooter Nino Salukvadze gained a license to the Olympic Games 2020 for the 9th time in a row
her eighth Olympics, former shooting champion Nino Salukvadze has plenty of reasons to be proud of her long career.
Salukvadze's son, Tsotne Machavariani, shot a personal best in the 10-meter air pistol at the European championships in February to snatch a surprise Olympic qualifying spot.
"I am very happy as the representative of the Georgian shooting federation but a million times happier as a mother that my son managed to do this," the 47-year-old Salukvadze told The Associated Press.
In the 28 years since she won a 25-meter pistol gold medal for the Soviet Union at the 1988 Seoul Games, Salukvadze and her family have kept Olympic shooting alive in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
Salukvadze and her father handle the coaching at a tiny range in the basement of the Sports Ministry which she helped pay to build. The main hall is bedecked with her medals, but the range can hold only five shooters at a time, meaning mother and son often head abroad to train at more modern facilities.
Over the decades, Vakhtang Salukvadze has mentored his daughter and grandson as they became world-class shooters, but he won't be going to Rio because of his age.
"His dream always was to see me and my son competing at the same Olympic Games. We made his dream true earlier then he thought," Nino Salukvadze said. "He's 85 and taking into account the Brazilian weather and the length of the flight, it was decided that he'll stay home."
Salukvadze briefly became a celebrity during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, which took place during a war between Georgia and neighboring Russia. After winning a bronze medal, she kissed a Russian shooter on the podium in a demonstration of peace.
"Why did it surprise everyone so much?" she said. "We're athletes. There's no conflict between us."
In the 120-year history of the modern Olympics, it has not been uncommon for fathers and sons to compete at the same games, a reflection of the historical preponderance of men's events on the program, but mother-child partnerships are much rarer.
Olympic historian Bill Mallon said there have been 56 cases of fathers and sons at the same games, 12 of father and daughter, two of mother and daughter, but none of mother-son — until now.
While Salukvadze won gold at her first Olympics, her son said he's not under pressure to match her achievement.
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"My mother tells me that although she was almost my age when she won her Olympic gold, she represented the Soviet Union at that time and had better training conditions, more experience in tournaments," he said. "She tells me that we do not have that luxury and she does not demand any results from me. I think this her way to calm me down and minimize my nervousness during the tournament."
While she can provide on-the-spot coaching, any motherly advice will remain a family secret, Machavariani said with a smile, AP informs.
"At the Olympics I will be representing my mother, my country and myself," he said.
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La Salle, Ateneo to clash right away in UAAP Season 81 big opening weekend
Mark Edward Lopez
Early treat.
Fans of De La Salle University and Ateneo de Manila University need not to wait very long as the two fierce rivals are set to clash right away in the big opening weekend of the highly-anticipated UAAP Season 81 Women’s Volleyball Tournament.
The four-peat seeking Lady Spikers look to start their title defense bid strong when they take on perennial foe Lady Eagles on February 17, 4 p.m. at the Mall of Asia Arena.
Des Cheng, Tin Tiamzon, Mich Cobb and May Luna are expected to headline the charge for the Ramil de Jesus-mentored squad against Kat Tolentino, Bea de Leon, Maddie Madayag and Deanna Wong of Ateneo.
UAAP Season 81 volleyball schedule for the first round. Opening weekend features Ateneo vs La Salle in the women's category. | @FOXSports_PH pic.twitter.com/tvERLSWkw6
— Antoine (@anton_FOXPH) January 31, 2019
Kicking off the action-packed weekend is the match-up between Tots Carlos-led University of the Philippines against Kath Arado-backed University of the East at 2 p.m. on February 16, followed by the previous season’s silver medalist Far Eastern University and semifinalist National University at 4 p.m.
Both games will be held at the FilOil Flying V Center in San Juan.
Meanwhile, serving as the opening salvo for the La Salle-Ateneo war are Adamson University and University of Sto. Tomas, who will lock horns at 2 p.m.
The first round of the tournament will run for five weeks and is expected to end on March 17.
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Greenwich High seniors protest reported graduation gown change
By Paul Schott
Updated 12:19 pm EST, Thursday, February 25, 2016
The Greenwich High School Commencement at the school in Greenwich, Conn., Thursday night, June 18, 2015.
Photo: Bob Luckey, Hearst Connecticut Media
Greenwich High School graduates will be getting a wardrobe change for this year’s commencement ceremony — a makeover many seniors have panned.
Breaking with the decades-old tradition of female graduates wearing white gowns and males wearing red, school administrators have decided to incorporate the school’s colors into a unisex “gender-neutral” outfit that will be red with white stripes. Diane Chiappetta Fox, the school’s student activities director, announced the change in a letter Monday to parents.
Headmaster Chris Winters said Wednesday the change will represent the unity of the graduating class. He pointed to school officials’ desire to recognize students who might not be comfortable with a gender-based dress code.
“We are increasingly aware of student choices with gender orientation,” Winters said in an email. “In an effort to respect all students, we will cease using separate-colored gowns for males and females. We strive for GHS to provide a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment for all. This small change of tradition demonstrates our commitment to those principles.”
Winters did not respond by deadline to a follow-up question asking whether any students or parents had complained about the different-colored gowns.
Many students in the class of 2016 are unhappy with the redesign. An online petition launched Monday by senior Allie Moore, which collected more than 400 signatures by Wednesday afternoon, calls for the school to continue the red-and-white tradition.
“At our last Greenwich High School event, we should be given a final opportunity to exercise our freedom with responsibility by expressing both of our school colors,” Moore wrote in the petition’s introduction.
Other seniors expressed similar views.
“It is a tradition for both red and white to be worn at Greenwich High School graduation,” wrote Emily Graffeo. “I’ve been looking forward to wearing white for four years, and it’s unfair that now we all are forced to wear one color. Females should wear white and males should wear red, but anyone that is uncomfortable with their assigned color should be free to choose what color they want.”
Other signatories said they were concerned the gown redesign could lead to other unwanted changes.
“Red + White do not determine a gender,” wrote Casey Deck. “By taking away one of the colors you are crushing school spirit and creating an issue that is non existent. What’s next? You’re going to take away girls and boys sports and change the uniforms to all one color? No one can even breathe these days without getting reprimanded for it. Toughen up, and get a grip!”
Graduation gowns have sparked similar debates at other area schools in recent years. Last year, officials at Fairfield Ludlowe High School considered switching to one color, and ordered some 400 blue gowns, but eventually decided to stick with the school’s traditional blue-and-white scheme after students voted to keep the status quo.
Winters did not say in his email whether school officials had polled students before moving ahead with the gown change.
“It is very common for colleges and high schools to have all graduates wear the same color,” Winters said. “We allow students to decorate their caps, thus expressing their individuality.”
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Housing activists occupy Green Point bowling club
1 May 2019 By Peter Luhanga
Reclaim the City builds concrete wall on bowling green in civil disobedience protest
Housing activists build a wall on a Green Point bowling green on Workers’ Day. Peter Luhanga
1 May 2019 - By Peter Luhanga
Reclaim the City used Workers’ Day to step up their campaign for access to affordable housing near Cape Town’s city centre. The housing activist group occupied a lawn belonging to the Atlantic Green Point Bowling Club on Wednesday morning.
The activists also constructed a wall made of concrete blocks, measuring about six metres in length and nearly two metres high. Lukhanyo Madyibi, Reclaim the City’s leader in Sea Point, said the wall symbolises the need for affordable housing on Green Point’s prime public land, some of which is currently used for bowling greens. Activists told GroundUp that the wall is the start of a house, and it is now the City of Cape Town’s job to finish building it.
This latest act of civil disobedience follows Reclaim the City’s protest on Rondebosch Golf Club on 21 March.
Scores of activists attended the the Workers’ Day protest wearing red T-shirts saying, “Land for people not profit”,
Some placards read: “Distribute golf club land for affordable rentals”, “I pay R5,000 per month but you pay R1,000 per year VOETSEK” (a reference to the rent golf clubs are paying for City-owned land), and “You should be ashamed”.
They also placed red flags with Reclaim the City’s logo on the poles of the security fence of the bowling club.
SAPS and Metro police officers arrived at the scene and spoke briefly to the protesters. No arrests were made and the protest dispersed without incident in the late afternoon.
Bevil Lucas, a Reclaim the City leader, said that access to land and housing is an important issue for working class people. He said the housing crisis is a consequence of the apartheid government not providing adequate housing accommodation for working people. But, he said, the post-apartheid government is also failing its obligation to provide adequate housing.
“We have a historic acute shortage of housing. We have been campaigning for decent housing in Sea Point, Cape Town city centre, and Woodstock. This site has been identified by the City as a site to build social housing. That in itself is a victory for the black workers who live and work in this area,” said Lucas.
He said it has been more than a year since City officials “earmarked the site” for social housing.
Green Point is a formal “white middle-class area” and post-apartheid has maintained that particular image and it is our objective to undo that, said Lucas. “Black workers have delivered services to their employees for many years in this area and have to travel from the Cape Flats to provide labour. … It is our view that they too should live and enjoy the benefits of this part of the city.”
Mayco Member for Safety and Security JP Smith wrote in response to the protest: “The South African Police and City enforcement services responded to the violation of the Prevention of Illegal Eviction and Unauthorised Occupation of Land Act. The persons occupying the bowling green vacated it within 20 mins after being addressed by SAPS. The structure erected on the bowling green will be removed by the morning. As with any reported land invasion, policing resources were required to be redeployed from other parts of the city. This may have given rise to the renewed shooting that was thereafter reported in Manenberg after Metro Police were redeployed to Green Point in response to the reported land invasion.”
Ashura Eaton was one of the protesters. She is unemployed and looks after her three children. She cannot afford her rent, and she says her electricity and water have been disconnected. She is facing eviction. To cook and access water she uses the facilities of the former Woodstock Hospital, which several hundred people have been occupying since March 2017. She said the City needs to understand that land such as the bowling green needs to be made available for housing “for us to be able to come back to the inner city where we belong”.
Ndifuna Ukwazi spokesperson, Zacharia Mashele, whose organisation supported the protest, said it is unjust that the Green Point Bowling Green is leased from the City for R1,000 per year.
UPDATE at 18:45 on 1 May: Councillor JP Smith’s comment was added.
Activists Nosipho Appolis and sisters Zimkhitha and Xolelwa Ntsiba joined the protest for inner-city housing. Photo: Peter Luhanga.
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What Are the Risk Factors for Lung Cancer?
Ignoring these risk factors could expose you to the dangers of cancer.
A risk factor could be any one of numerous influences that make you prone to developing cancer. There are unavoidable factors that you have no protection against. Some of these are a family history of genetically inherited traits, and age and gender issues. There are wholly avoidable factors such as obesity and tobacco and alcohol abuse that distort our lifestyles. Over and above these influences, there are environmental factors that trigger cancer like radiation exposure, and air, water, and soil pollution. While cancer is unquestionably one of the worst diseases that an individual can suffer from, it is also the most painful and dangerous when taken in consideration with all its side effects and symptoms.
Cancer, when it comes, usually reveals multiple factors impacting the individual. The most important way of preventing cancer is to marginalize the risks that are changeable through lifestyle correction. Giving up tobacco and alcohol cuts the risk of developing cancer substantially. Nutritionally deficient diets and extremely sedentary working conditions can make people prone to cancer. Excessive eating habits linked to obesity can make your risk of cancer shoot up. Avoiding junk food and reducing exposure to artificial preservatives, coloring agents, and additives is another way of avoiding or limiting cancerous activity within the body. It is therefore advised that one must always ensure they are following a healthy lifestyle pattern where nutrition intake is adequate and proper exercise is done. A healthy person is always free from diseases, be it cancer or any other fatal infection. Every doctor, dietitian, and specialist makes sure that they avoid prescribing medications by replacing it with healthy habits and natural ways, as there’s no better cure than prevention.
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On the other hand, alcohol is no less dangerous for the health. The less alcohol you drink, the lower your risk of cancer. No type of alcohol is better or worse than another--it is alcohol itself that leads to the damage, regardless of whether it is in wine, beer, or spirits. Moreover, drinking and smoking together is even worse for an individual’s health. Although not everyone who drinks alcohol develops cancer, scientists have found that, on the whole, some cancers are more common in people who drink more alcohol than others. Every year, alcohol causes an ample amount of health hazards, some of them even leading to death.
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Radon is a radioactive gas created by the natural breakdown of uranium in rocks. It is a byproduct of the decomposition of uranium in soils. Its presence is difficult to detect as the gas is tasteless, odorless, and invisible to the naked eye. In the US, radon exposure is considered to be one of the biggest risk factors contributing to cancer of the lungs. More than environmental radon, which is not as dangerous, it is the accumulation of the gas within the closed interiors of the home that elevates the risk of getting cancer. Exposure to radon causes an average of 21,000 lung cancer deaths each year.
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Employees most exposed to asbestos pollution such as those working in the mining field, textile plants, and mills show a higher mortality rate. Working for long durations in an asbestos-polluted environment increases the risk, especially for smokers. Cancer that is most prevalent among asbestos-exposed workers is mesothelioma. This affects the pleural sheath that covers the outer surface of the lungs. In homes, residents are at greater risk if older HVAC insulation materials degrade and release asbestos into the air.
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Any historical incidence of cancer in the family places direct siblings of affected individuals at a higher risk of contracting cancer. This is particularly true if the relative succumbed to cancer in their prime. Mutated genes of the affected individual pose a big risk to subsequent generations. The risk increases proportionately when defective gene carriers share other risk factors like smoking and environmental pollution. To avoid such factors, one must always opt for and be assiduous in pursuing regular health check-ups and proper living patterns that includes, most importantly, a healthy diet that includes the sufficient intake of important, cancer-fighting minerals and vitamins.
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Did Jordan Spieth Blow His Grand Slam Chances?
As part of our British Open preview, GolfDigest.com editors debate Spieth's John Deere appearance, Rory's poorly-timed injury, and their Open favorites in a roundtable discussion
GolfDigest.com Editors
Who will leave St. Andrews with the claret jug?
Sam Weinman, Digital Editor, GolfDigest.com: Welcome, everyone, to a special GolfDigest.com British Open roundtable, where our esteemed panel looks to touch on some of the many story lines in advance of next week's Open at the Old Course.
There's a lot to cover, so we'll get right to it, starting with the fact that the defending champion and World No. 1 will not be in the field.
Rory McIlroy blows out an ankle playing soccer. Is this bad luck or reckless hubris?
Jaime Diaz, Editor-in-Chief, Golf World: Mostly bad luck, with a touch of recklessness. Seems like in previous eras, tour players gave up some of the sports from their youth more willingly, deciding there was just too much to lose. There used to an annual softball game at the BC Open that caddies almost all played in, but very few players would participate.
In this era, seems like there's more of a determination to live a full life and not let golf get so important that it takes away from happiness. Maybe it's a Millennial thing (says the old guy), or maybe it's today's top young pros having more money and pretty much being set for life.
Ryan Herrington, Deputy Editor, GolfDigest.com: I lean more toward bad luck. It wasn't like Rory went skydiving or was doing something particularly dangerous. He could have just as easily tripped on the stairs. If I have a mild wince on this, it's the timing. He's in the heart of his season. A year ago at this time, he was starting the most impressive run of his career. Now, he's on the sidelines.
Joel Beall, Assistant Editor, GolfDigest.com: Bad luck, in the sense that he is a soccer fan.
This wasn't Aaron Boone blowing his knee out during a full-court basketball game. Dude was in the backyard kicking a ball with his buds.
A host of tour players are avid skiers in the offseason, and most guys have an arduous workout routine. I'd say those endeavors are more hazardous than Rory's incident.
Besides, the only person Rory is accountable to is himself. If golf was a team sport, he should be more cautious with his body, but tour players are independent contractors. He is his own boss.
Alex Myers, Associate Editor, GolfDigest.com: I'll lean on the side of being an old man too. If you're not a pro, playing any sport other than golf over the age of 25 is reckless. I stopped playing pickup basketball around then and my livelihood doesn't revolve around being in top physical condition.
Of course, a typical Rory workout is probably more hazardous than kicking a soccer ball around with friends -- not to mention trying to reel in a 300-pound shark like Jordan Spieth last week -- but nine days before the Open, I'd expect the World No. 1 and defending champ to be a bit more careful. It's unfortunate he won't be at St. Andrews and that his absence will unfairly cloud whoever wins.
Weinman: I'm not sure I agree that his absence will detract from who wins. Maybe I'd feel differently if Rory was in the midst of one of his Tiger-like unbeatable runs, but whoever wins this week will still have to beat 155 other guys.
Which is a great segue into Jordan Spieth, who as we know won't be at St. Andrews until after he plays in the John Deere Classic. I'm of the belief this is a bit overblown since everyone prepares differently, but do we feel like Spieth is already hindering his chances by not showing up earlier?
Myers: Not at all. The guy has a fancy simulator in his house! He's probably "played" the Old Course more than Old Tom Morris ever did.
The problem, like you mentioned, is beating 155 guys, which is no small task. The great Nate Silver said Spieth's win probability rose 33 percent with McIlroy out of the field. That's good news for Jordan.
The bad? Silver gives him just about a 10 percent chance of winning each of the year's final two majors, and a 1.1 percent chance of winning both and completing the calendar Grand Slam.
Diaz: In an ideal situation, I think Spieth would have gone to St. Andrews earlier, or maybe even taken a week long Scottish links tour with his dad and Michael Greller, similar to what Mark O'Meara and Tiger Woods used to do.
However, Spieth's personal debt to the John Deere Classic is deep, and it's admirable that he is honoring it. You get the feeling the kid has a conscience, and if he had pulled out of the Deere, it would have bothered him and undermined his chances at St. Andrews.
Beall: The time difference can be like running into a brick wall, but it's not like Spieth is flying commercial with a three-hour layover at LaGuardia.
We hold athletes to ridiculously-high standards. Instead of grilling this kid for staying true to his word, we should be celebrating it.
If he throws up an 80 in the first round, we can circle back to this discussion. Until then, it's an inordinate and unnecessary amount of heat for a speculative premise.
Herrington: Here's where I'm going to sound like the old guy, but I think Spieth should have politely told the John Deere folks that he couldn't make it this year. They would have understood, and he can repay his debt to them many times over in the years to come being a multiple major winner who actually plays in the Quad Cities.
But I just think this circumstance is so unique -- only five guys have ever won the first two legs of the Grand Slam -- that anything that potentially could help improve his chances of winning the claret jug has to be done.
Beall: There's been a lot of "I know I sound like an old guy" prefaces. You fellas know you ARE old, right?
Weinman: Of course, they always say one way to diffuse the pressure of big events is to downplay their significance, and in a way, Spieth pulling out of the John Deere would signal to his brain, "THIS IS A REALLY BIG DEAL." Not sure that helps.
Given all that, is anyone curious to see how Spieth fares if he's even near the lead on Sunday? When would the magnitude of this thing start to register?
Myers: I think it will start the minute he shows up at St. Andrews. Spieth has been the center of attention before, but nothing like this, especially with Rory out and Tiger being almost an afterthought at this point. As good as Spieth is, he showed he's still vulnerable under pressure with that ugly double bogey on the 71st hole at Chambers Bay. Yes, he recovered by birdieing the par-5 18th, but had Dustin Johnson wound up winning, the narrative surrounding Spieth would be a lot different.
Diaz: He's a truly great competitor -- it's probably his best attribute -- but Spieth wouldn't be immune to leaking some oil. Seems on Sunday at majors, the two times when players are most vulnerable to the enormity of the moment are the beginning and end of the round. It's odd that in the two big tournaments in which Spieth has lost the lead on Sunday -- the 2014 Masters and 2014 Players -- he got shaky in the middle of the round.
However, if I had to pick someone in golf right now to make six-footers down the stretch, it would be Spieth.
Beall: The severity of the task at hand will rear its head on the Road Hole. Illustrated in past Open scores at the Old Course, St. Andrews is not the most difficult of layouts. Yet many a championship aspiration has vanished at the 17th. Circumventing the Road Hole will be imperative to Spieth's Grand Slam chances.
Herrington: I agree that there will be a unique pressure on him the moment he arrives, but it won't really ramp up until he finds himself in contention over the weekend. Then the pressure will increase exponentially. And, interestingly, I think that Spieth can handle that pressure, or at least handle it as best as any current player right now.
Weinman: Well, as we know the last guy to be in the position Spieth finds himself in was Tiger Woods in 2002 (segue alert!). Guys, I'm admittedly mystified by his last tournament. How much do we read into the fact that Tiger shot three rounds in 60s and actually looked halfway decent?
Diaz: Well, it was a relatively easy course, and very soft, which effectively made the fairways and greens easier to hit. That said, I thought Tiger leading the field in proximity to the hole on his approaches was striking.
Here's the thing with Tiger: if "it" -- that quality of mind and execution that made him so special -- somehow clicks on, then he's dangerous again.
Myers: It's sad we're getting excited about Tiger finishing T-32 at second-tier events, but let's get excited! It should be noted that Tiger also led the field in strokes gained on his approach shots last week. In other words, his iron game is on point.
Everything else, though, remains a mess.
Beall: Jaime mentioned the mental aspect of Tiger's game. Woods has stated that St. Andrews is his favorite venue in the world, which one would think aids his fortitude. Coupled with two previous Open wins at the Old Course, his confidence should be riding high.
St. Andrews' wide-open confines give Tiger a chance, and I don't think his putting woes are as bad as believed. Moreover, the Old Course's greens, set up to receive a pitch from the soil rather than the sky, may negate his chipping yips.
By no means am I circling him as a top-five contender, but Woods has a viable shot.
Herrington: How scary is it that we're questioning Tiger's ability to mentally handle a moment?
While Greenbrier is a very positive step for Woods, he needs to have a few more of them before I'm sold that he's making real progress. If anything, I could see being back there and him not having the same game that won for him in 2000 and 2005 becoming a huge point of frustration. When you just knew you could do no wrong at a place and now suddenly doing right is difficult, I can't imagine what that will do to him . . . wait for it . . . mentally.
Weinman: I'm starting to feel that Tiger is destined for a David Duval at Bethpage-type return to golf, which is to say he contends in and maybe wins another major mostly on muscle memory, then falls back to earth. I have nothing to base this on, of course. Just a hunch. OK, guys, last question: if it's not Tiger or Spieth, who's winning this thing?
Diaz: I don't think Dustin Johnson was broken at Chambers Bay. Honestly believe what happened will make him more determined. There's a strong feeling among the people around Johnson -- and most importantly DJ himself -- that it's him who's actually the best player in the game.
The other guy who intrigues me is Adam Scott, just because Steve Williams is on his bag as he was at Chambers Bay, where Scott closed with 64. Adam is a different player with Steve, and St. Andrews will inspire both of them.
Myers: I was going to pick DJ, but with Jaime taking him, I'll go with the guy who won this event by seven shots the last time it was played at St. Andrews, Louis Oosthuizen. The South African shot a combined 14-under in his two rounds at the Old Course at the Alfred Dunhill Links last year, showing he hasn't lost his touch at the Home of Golf. Oh, and that back-nine 29 on Sunday at Chambers Bay wasn't too shabby, either.
Beall: Rickie Fowler. He's not coming in hot, with his debacle at Chambers Bay and a missed cut at Memorial, but he's got the short game to make some magic happen.
Herrington: I'm going off the grid, so to speak, with my pick and taking Paul Casey. He's quietly had six top-10s this year, including a T-6 at the Masters. He just missed winning at the Travelers last month. He was in the final group on Sunday at St. Andrews in 2010 and while that didn't go his way, I think it's a course he seems familiar and comfortable with. Maybe we'll have an Oosthuizen-Casey rematch come Sunday! Not sure that's what the crowds will really be calling for, but could be interesting.
Weinman: Calling it a Oosthuizen-Casey "rematch" is a bit charitable to Casey, given Oosthuizen's runaway, but OK. I hear you. As for my pick, do I dare be so bold to pick Sergio? Sure, why not? He's played solid in majors this year, made a run in last year's Open, and it would be a dramatic venue for his long-awaited first major. I don't really think this is going to happen, by the way, but it'd be cool if it did.
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Role Reversal: Contributions from Candidates
April 30, 2009 | by Courtney Gross
Just two candidates currently running for public advocate or city comptroller contributed to the Working Families Party last year, according to the Campaign Finance Board. Coincidentally, they were the same two candidates who received the party's endorsement.
Council members John Liu, a comptroller candidate, and Bill de Blasio, who is running for public advocate, each doled out $10,000 to the third party last October, both saying it to went to fight against the extension of term limits.
About six months later, though, their contributions may have been rewarded with an influential endorsement from the group, opponents allege. A Working Families Party spokesman said the donations did not curry any favor at the endorsement table. The group based its decision on merit, said spokesperson Dan Levitan, calling Liu and de Blasio brave for standing up against the term limit extension.
When the candidates made the donations, representatives say, they were running for different offices -- Liu for public advocate and de Blasio for Brooklyn borough president.
But like it or not, this is not the first (nor will it be the last) time political contributions from city candidates can be connected with the endorsements they receive months or years down the road. A long established practice, city candidates dole out funding from their campaign accounts to political groups and other New York politicians. Whether it's taking out an ad in a Working Families Party brochure, giving $500 to the re-election campaign of an influential assemblymember, donating $100 to the Stonewall Democrats or paying $135 to attend a luncheon held by the 504 Democrats, candidates for citywide office are making their rounds across the city via checkbook, and some expect payback.
No one may be looking for a reimbursement more than Liu, who in this election cycle has given 77 contributions, or $62,400, to political groups or candidates -- the most of any city candidate. During the 2005 cycle, when he was running for re-election to the City Council, Liu gave just five of these types of contributions, according to the Campaign Finance Board.
A Small Amount, But Large Paybacks
So far this election cycle, $346,440 has been spent by candidates on contributions to city organizations or other campaigns -- about 2 percent of the $14.5 million candidates have spent for the 2009 race so far.
Following Liu in handing out political contributions is Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz with $42,700, councilmember and comptroller candidate David Weprin with $22,110, de Blasio with $14,750, and comptroller and mayoral candidate William Thompson Jr. with $12,965.
These officials have bestowed their campaign dollars on fellow candidates. For instance, comptroller candidate and Councilmember Melinda Katz contributed $300 to Councilmember Dan Garodnick, who is running for re-election.
Or they gave to local organizations, like the $1,000 Weprin gave to Young Israel of Holliswood this cycle.
And sometimes it seems to pay off.
In addition to the Working Families Party endorsement, Liu has seen a couple of other nods from groups that he has contributed to. Last December, the council member gave $1,000 to the Transit Workers Union Local 100 for an ad and tickets to a fundraiser. Little more than three months later, Liu received the local's endorsement -- the first of his campaign.
Liu also gave a $250 donation last year to the McManus Democratic Association in Midtown , and he won their support. (In 2006, Weprin also gave to the group.)
The Liu campaign contends he is trying to connect with constituents. Liu's campaign spokesperson Juanita Scarlett said, "John Liu has supported organizations that share his views and priorities on issues critical to middle class families in New York -- issues such as health care, education, jobs and economical development." Giving to Democratic clubs, she added, "allow[s} him the opportunity to connect with voters who are knowledgeable on priority issues."
But his competitors allege the contributions are not so clean.
"I think it's ironic that someone running for comptroller -- who we are supposed to evaluate on financial uprightness -- paid for an endorsement," said Katz campaign spokesperson Ben Branham.
Liu is not the only candidate who has received endorsements from groups or other officials they contributed to.
Public advocate candidate and civil rights attorney Norman Siegel was the only candidate in that race to give any money to the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats last year, and he gave just $60. This year, he got their endorsement.
Regulated Enough?
By the looks of it, candidates will continue the practice until this November and beyond. In 2005, candidates shelled out $708,895 as contributions to colleagues and political clubs across the city.
According to Eric Friedman of the Campaign Finance Board, candidates cannot use public funding to contribute to another candidate or a political organization. "CFB rules protect taxpayer funds from being funneled through one campaign to another," Friedman said. "Political contributions are not an acceptable use of public matching funds. But the law does allow candidates to use privately raised funds to make contributions to other candidates or political committees."
While good government groups are critical of the practice, they are not looking to ban it or regulate it further. Calling the donations "ethically dubious," Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, the sister organization to Gotham Gazette's publisher, said candidates will give to groups or other candidates in hopes of gaining support.
"It's a practice that can't and shouldn't be banned, but it's questionable and arguably distasteful," Dadey said. "The contributors give to candidates with the knowledge that candidates will do what is necessary to win elections."
Logically, any citywide candidate is going to spend millions of dollars in hopes of getting elected. So, according to Gene Russianoff at the New York Public Interest Research Group , candidates who send their checks to groups or candidates across the city in hopes of getting support see that as an effective political strategy.
"They are spending on this instead of direct mail," said Russianoff. "They are making a political judgment."
If they want to spend their campaign contributions on donations to other groups, the law won't be there to stop them.
City Gears Up for Green Buildings
Photo (cc) broddi
This story originally incorrectly said there were 90,000 buildings in the city. It has been corrected to state that there are 975,000 buildings and properties, according to the city's Buildings Department.
Perfectly timed for Earth Day, the Bloomberg administration and the City Council introduced a package of legislation yesterday that seeks to improve energy efficiency in large commercial buildings and could require about 20,000 buildings to improve their use of electricity.
The plan hopes to reduce the city's carbon footprint by 5 percent -- roughly comparable to the carbon emissions generated by Oakland, Calif.
A combination of updating the energy code and creating efficiency and lighting standards, the energy plan already has racked up criticism from a wide array of interest groups, including the real estate industry and tenants rights advocates. Many are concerned over the financial impact of the legislation.
In addition to the energy efficiency legislation, the council also approved bills to create the city's own brownfield remediation program, warn parents of hot playground equipment and to require that the city report incidents in juvenile facilities.
Energy Introductions
At least 85 percent of the buildings that exist today still will be here in another 20 years, said city officials. So the best way for the city to decrease its carbon footprint is to focus on the built environment we already have.
"This is really the first time the city's iconic skyline will be moved into the 21st century to make sure that it isn't just great, but that it's actually green," said Council Speaker Christine Quinn.
The package -- a combination of four bills, two of which had been introduced before -- includes legislation that would require buildings larger than 50,000 square feet to audit their energy usage and make efficiency upgrades once every decade. Robert Newman, the council's legislative director, said the legislation would start by selecting 2,200 large buildings at random and audit their usage.
Those property owners could then be forced to retrofit their buildings, but only if the upgrade would pay for itself after five years, said city officials. For instance, if an audit found that the building needed better insulation, the owner would most likely have to better seal the building because the payback for that type of efficiency would occur after two and half years.
Many upgrades, from trading in current light fixtures for compact florescent bulbs to using efficient showerheads, pay for themselves after a period of nine months to two and a half years, according to city officials.
The package includes $16 million in stimulus funding to help property owners afford the building improvements. Even with that fund, though, the real estate industry is expected to balk at the legislation because the payback is not immediate.
"It's going to be really, really hard," said Newman of convincing some building owners to sign on.
If the package is enacted, building owners could save $750 million, said Newman.
The package would not require that buildings reduce their energy consumption by a certain percentage, but instead ensure that buildings abide by certain energy standards, such as using efficient Energy Star equipment.
Some of these improvements, advocates warn, could end up becoming permanent improvements to rent controlled and rent stabilized apartments, which landlords could then use to increase rents. Advocates say these improvement could amount to $275 per apartment annually.
"The whole premise of the green building's legislation is that efficient improvements will only be mandated if they will be paid back to the owner through energy savings, rent increases based on these steps should be prohibited. How can you have a landlord benefit twice -- once through savings on their energy bills and again through higher rents from tenants," said Judith Goldiner of the Legal Aid Society.
Quinn said that this would not be the intention of the legislation, and officials would work to prevent increases.
The legislative package also would require commercial buildings of more than 50,000 square feet to improve their lighting systems to meet the New York City Energy Conservation Code, which mandates a certain level of efficiency. That bill would not apply to residential spaces.
The city also proposed to close a loophole in that code that exempts renovations which account for less than 50 percent of a property from complying with the efficiency standards. If approved, any renovation would have to be in line with the code.
The legislation covers about 22,000 of the city's 975,000 buildings and properties, but, said city officials, about half of the city's total square footage. City buildings are also included, officials said.
The City Council unanimously approved legislation ( Intro 21a) that would establish an Office of Environmental Remediation, which would be charged with cleaning up the city's brownfields.
Currently, said the bill's sponsor Councilmember James Gennaro, the state denies aid to clean up much of the city's contaminated land, or brownfields, because they are "historic fill," meaning it would not pose an immediate hazard to groundwater. It is, therefore, too contaminated for many uses but not contaminated enough for state cleanup.
Under this bill, Gennaro said that land would be targeted by the city for cleanup and reuse.
"Most of the 7,000 to 8,000 acres of brownfields that we have would not qualify for the state program," said Gennaro. "So it's important we do what we do best: Do it ourselves."
The council approved legislation requiring playgrounds to post warning signs that equipment, from slides to surfaces, could be hot. The move comes after several children received second-degree burns last year.
The bill (Intro 896a) was approved by a vote of 46 to 2 with council members Melissa Mark Viverito and Rosie Mendez dissenting. Both voted against the bill because the warning language was "significantly weakened" during the legislative process.
The bill requires signs that read: "Warning: Some surfaces may be hot. Please take precautions with exposed skin." The legislation will take effect in 45 days, so signs should be on city playgrounds by the height of summer.
Reporting on Juveniles
Last year, Christopher Robinson, a Rikers Island inmate, was beaten to death while incarcerated for a parole violation. That incident sparked the City Council to unanimously approve legislation (Intro 937), which requires the Department of Correction report incidents that occur in juvenile facilities.
City officials hope that by tracking these incidents they can spot trends and prevent similar incidents in the future, said the bill's sponsor, Councilmember Letitia James.
The department will be required to report statistics on stabbings, hospital admissions that occur from assaults on staff, fights resulting in serious injury, attempted suicides and sexual assaults. Though the department reports some statistics from Rikers already, they do not break information down to this level, said James.
The Bronx Family Feud
Diaz photo by Jordan Moss at Bronx News Network
Ruben Diaz Jr., center, Joel Rivera, left, and Carl Heastie, right.
The call of "Don't forget to vote on April 21st" practically overpowers the latest Hot 97 hits pulsing from an audio store on the corner of Fordham Road and Jerome Avenue in the west Bronx.
Evening rush-hour riders depart from the screeching number 4 train, slide down two flights of stairs to the street to get a flyer, a handshake and a wide, mustached smile.
"I am running for Bronx borough president in two weeks," Assemblymember Ruben Diaz Jr. says, stretching out his hand.
Running might be an overstatement. For Diaz, who practically has a set of keys to borough hall already, walking would be a better characterization.
The seven-term assemblymember has only token, Republican opposition in next week's nonpartisan special election to replace former borough president turned-Obama administration official Adolfo CarriĂłn. For such a high profile position, the lack of opposition is relatively unheard of.
Just weeks ago, Bronx Democrats were preparing for a brawl between two political dynasties who have been wrestling over control of the county's Democratic party for months. Since that race has failed to materialize, Bronxites -- left with little choice -- can now ponder what this means for the county's new and old political guard.
A Look Back at the Bronx
The real battle occurred months ago.
Last fall, a rebel faction of the county's Democratic party snatched away power from the then-Democratic party chair, Assemblymember Jose Rivera, installing Assemblymember Carl Heastie as his replacement.
Rivera had held the reins of the Democratic Party in the Bronx since 2002, but it was not until early 2008 that rumblings of change started to emerge. Largely a patronage role, the party chair controls political appointments, many in the courthouse, and is supposed to unify the county's other political leaders.
According to those involved in the political battle, the rebel faction -- the Rainbow Rebellion -- formed as more state and city officials became unsatisfied with Jose Rivera's leadership. Those on the rebel side allege Jose was distributing political appointments and funding unfairly. They charged that he allocated patronage positions to those close to him and his family.
"It always appeared to people like it was Jose and (Councilmember) Maria Baez and a small clique, and that didn't sit well with a lot of people," said Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz of Riverdale, who helped orchestrate the Rainbow Rebellion. "I think that's how he managed to alienate a lot of my colleagues."
Things finally came to a head at the county organization's annual meeting last fall when the Rainbow Rebellion managed to oust Rivera and elect Heastie as the new Democratic chair. The legitimacy of those proceedings went to court, where Justice Robert Seewald found in favor of the rebels. The Riveras appealed the decision in January, but according to Assemblymember Peter Rivera, who is not related to Jose but is a close ally, they are considering dropping it. (Most familiar with Bronx politics believe the Riveras would have little chance of getting the courts to overturn the rebels' takeover.)
Explanations abound as to why there was a dramatic shift of leadership last fall: race, power, development projects, nepotism, patronage (it sounds like a political science course on New York City government, doesn't it?).
"It was a perfect storm," said Peter Rivera. "The stars were misaligned for [Jose Rivera], if you want to quote 'Romeo and Juliet.'"
Those close to Rivera say his leadership was hands off and power and ego -- conveniently close to a citywide election -- drove the rebellion.
"County organizations are very difficult, because every elected (official) has his own ego, his own motives, his own list of people he wants to hurt," said Mike Nieves, a Bronx political insider. "You have all these guys starting to grab for their piece. The Diazes wanted something. You get Carl Heastie wanting something... Enemies coalesce."
In addition to political patronage, others close to Bronx politics see race and ethnicity factoring into the party's divide. Anecdotally, Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic political consultant, said the decline in the Puerto Rican population and the increase in the black population in the borough was the reason for the coup d'Ă©tat.
"The organization may not be about power anymore," said Sheinkopf. "It may be about demographics."
Jose Rivera, left, and son Joel.
The Riveras are Puerto Rican. Heastie is black. Heastie did not return repeated phone calls requesting an interview. According to the 2000 census, the borough is about 49 percent Hispanic and 36 percent black.
Enter Assemblymember Ruben Diaz Jr., who is aligned with the rebels, and City Council Majority Leader Joel Rivera, who is Jose's son and had planned on running for borough president since at least 2007.
Many expected they would compete for borough president and present a classic political power struggle -- the quintessential family feud (minus the buzzers and nametags) of Rivera versus Diaz. That race, insiders say, would have solidified the newly minted leadership or given the Riveras an edge to grab back their position as the Bronx Democratic leaders.
But just six weeks ago, Joel dropped out of the race, leaving Diaz as the only Democratic candidate in a county where Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than 10 to one.
To Diaz and those close to him, the rebellion is over. The rainbow title -- which stood for racial and ethnic unity and diversity -- needs to be tossed aside. Now, the faction is simply the Bronx Democratic County leadership.
Despite a lack of competition in his current bid for borough president, Diaz says he is still wearing out shoe leather.
"Regardless of who is on the ballot I'm still out here at train stations," said the assemblymember outside of the Fordham Road stop. Dressed in a charcoal tweed coat on an exceptionally cold spring evening, Diaz addressed most passersby with his call (alternating English and Spanish) to the voting booth on April 21. A handful of residents approached him, recognizing his face from the streets. "We still have a phone banking operation," Diaz tells me. "I'm doing mailings. We are getting our message out there. We are running the campaign the same way we designed it six months ago."
Well, not entirely. Diaz has declined to take public matching funds, arguing the race is less than "competitive," which is true. He has raised $406,662 and spent $302,437, according to the latest campaign finance filings. Anthony Ribustello, Diaz's G.O.P. opponent, has only raised $5,170 for the race and has spent $4,428.
Diaz has spent most of last month in Albany, debating the state budget (his likely last duty as district 85's representative). If Joel Rivera had run, you can imagine some of that time would have been spent on Jerome Avenue.
"In a sense," said his ally, Dinowitz, "I think Ruben won this election months ago."
Diaz still has a platform. He calls it: "Jobs, jobs, jobs." As the poorest borough in New York City, the Bronx has often been slighted by a lack of resources and opportunity. Though Diaz admits that the post of borough president does not have a lot of influence, he still wants to encourage development and job opportunity by working with developers and through his own capital funding. He is as supportive of creating economic opportunity in the borough as he is of the Yankees -- he chants dismissively at those who pass by wearing Mets gear. Possibly to muster up support for the team, Diaz even suggested reduced ticket prices for those who live in the county.
He wants to create job training programs and affordable housing. Making the Bronx greener and reducing the borough's asthma rate, which is the highest in the city, has also made his to do list.
"I am going to be selfish," Diaz said. "It's going to be all about the Bronx, the Bronx, the Bronx."
The Rivera Crew
A tad farther east, Councilmember Joel Rivera strolls down Southern Boulevard touting his accomplishments as if he were a candidate.
The truth is, he is -- except he is running for re-election to the City Council's 15th district. Rivera says he changed his plans a day before he was expected to announce his candidacy for borough president, because he had already frozen his campaign finance account for his run -- at the time he didn't know whether Carrion would be sent to Washington -- and he wanted to "put politics aside."
Rivera argues that he would have had to start over fresh with a new campaign account if he had put in his hat. According to the Campaign Finance Board, that is not entirely true. While the board would have had to give the OK to Rivera to open his old account, there is no reason to think it would have said no. The city's new "doing business" rules, which cap contributions from city contractors, would not have applied retroactively, leaving much of his account intact. He would have had to comply with the special election caps, which are half of the normal contribution limits. Of the $207,451 Joel had raised for the race, he would have had to return $13,425 to run in next week's special election.
Joel says it's not like he thinks he couldn't have beaten Diaz. He argues it would have been a "coin toss" on who would have gotten the borough president title. "We could have won," Joel said. "We could have raised the money, but we would have inherited a splintered borough."
Now that he has abandoned that bid, he turns to a re-election run considerably more challenging than expected. The councilmember faces a well-financed challenger, Radame Perez, who actually used to fundraise for the Riveras. Perez has already raised nearly $156,000 for his campaign -- a sum that should easily cover the run. Despite that funding, Rivera contends he will win his seat for another four years.
Joel's new council campaign account has a little more than $500, according to the latest finance filings. Because his district overlaps with Peter Rivera's, his sister's (Assemblymember Naomi Rivera) and his father's assembly district, Joel says he already has an advantage come September's Democratic primary.
"You would really have to outmaneuver me in my neighborhood," Rivera said in his district office last week. "This district has voted for Riveras for 30 years."
Others aligned with the Riveras may be more vulnerable than Joel. Councilmember Maria Baez, a close ally to the family, has already conjured up six challengers, according to the Campaign Finance Board. Baez says she is running on her record and expects an endorsement from the county because of it.
Others beg to differ.
"I personally believe that the world would be a better place if there was a new councilmember in the 14th district," said Dinowitz, who shares part of his district with Baez. Adding that he was only speaking for himself, Dinowitz said the new county leadership would set up a formal process to hand out endorsements. All of the other council members have aligned with the new leadership.
Unity in the Bronx?
A comeback, those close to the Riveras say, can't be ruled out. They could be taking aim at district leader seats this fall in hopes of winning back a majority of the 24 in the county, which could allow them to reclaim the chairmanship.
False hope or clinging to nostalgia -- one can never tell.
At a recent gathering of his district's Democratic club, Peter Rivera refused to even refer to the newly minted leadership as the county leaders. To him, they are still the rebels.
"A lot of people will be watching," said Peter. "I think the future -- the political future of Bronx County -- will be determined in the next months."
The longer the dispute -- which some say is already over -- continues, the greater chance the Bronx will be balkanized, others argue. Fewer resources will gravitate to the city's poorest borough if officials only expect political infighting, say those aligned with the rebels.
"I look forward to a new day of unity in the Bronx," said Councilmember Helen Foster, who bowed out of the borough president's race at Heastie's urging. "The longer this drags, the longer Assemblyman (Jose) Rivera keeps this going on, it just does more damage to the borough and the people we are supposed to be representing."
Others hope that call for unity will hold.
As the wind picked up along Fordham Road last week, Diaz and his staff braced for another hour of handshakes and handing out palm cards.
A man who exited the train station approached Diaz. He asked, "You Puerto Rican?" Diaz replied in the affirmative. "I'm Puerto Rican too," the man answered. Striking the familiar campaign message, Diaz replied, "But I want to be everyone's borough president."
We will see if that resonates.
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We already know that there will be plenty new about the 2020 Formula 1 race schedule, with grands prix in Hanoi and Zandvoort to be added. Two from four races - Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Mexico - will likely make way on the calendar.
F1 will travel to Vietnam for a race for the first time in its history, while Netherlands will host the sport for the first time in 35 years.
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Why Buy Heritage Apple Trees?
It's difficult to find most of our heritage apples for sale now. Sometimes that's because - well - they don't taste great. More often, though, it's because they store badly, or bruise when travelling, or look funny, or the trees don't yield enough. We don't cook as much so don't need different varieties of cookers. Because we don't eat traditional old apple varieties we're unfamiliar with them, and don't plant heritage apple trees as a result.
We think that's a terrible shame, and not just because they can taste so delicious.
Britain has a rich history of apple trees and has the perfect climate for them; there are English, Scottish and Welsh varieties listed here. They are associated with the areas - or even villages - they come from. Here in Somerset we are in cider land, and are surrounded by villages with their own apple varieties - Yarlington Mill, Kingston Black...
Many varieties have their own stories to tell. You can find the apples Captain Cook took on his voyages here, or, incredibly, even buy direct descendants from the tree under which Isaac Newton sat.
Value For Wildlife
Not only that, but old fashioned apple trees can provide a rich, attractive and varied habitat for some our of rarest flora and fauna - as well as some of our more familiar wildlife. Other kinds of heritage fruit trees can do the same job too. Not only is the blossom great for pollinators, including bees, but you'll also find a lot of standing dead and dying wood in an orchard, as the trees are relatively short-lived.
Which Apple Trees Should I Buy, And When?
Have a look at our guide to planting, which will explain apple rootstocks and planting distances, and pollination groups. You'll also find lots of helpful advice in the resources below and in our FAQs. Our apple trees are all supplied as young bare root plants, so they're only available from November to the end of March - i.e. when they are dormant. You can reserve them in the nursery in advance of this period, however.
Our Apple Trees Are British Grown
We source our apple trees from several specialist traditional nurseries in the UK, so they are ALL British grown and - we hope! - high quality. There aren't many fruit tree nurseries left here, and we think it's important to support them and the varieties they sell.
We donate half of our profits from online apple tree sales to Common Ground.
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Everything you wanted to know about slime but didn’t want to ask a kid
By Deborah Sengupta Stith dsengupta@statesman.com
May 22, 2019 at 12:34 PM May 22, 2019 at 12:34 PM
Did your 9-year-old casually ask for a gallon jug of glue and a bottle of contact lens solution for her birthday? Has your leftover Easter food coloring mysteriously disappeared? Is your baking cupboard running light on baking soda and cornstarch?
Guess what, folks: You’ve been slimed. More accurately, you have a slimer on your hands.
But you already knew that. You’ve been dealing with the gloppy dishes and ubiquitous sticky handprints. You’ve spent hours corralling your young scientist’s creations away from the carpet, the furniture and your own body. You’re cursing whatever cultural forces have turned you into a disgruntled Ghostbuster in your own home.
You’re not alone. Slime is having a moment, its biggest one since Nickelodeon started marketing the green goop it spews on celebrities as Gak — a fun, gross product to torment your mom with — in the ’90s.
This time, the internet is driving the phenomenon. A search for slime videos on YouTube brings up over 60 million responses. On Instagram over 12 million posts are tagged slime, and on the makers marketplace Etsy you can browse over 60,000 slimes for sale, with refining categories like butter, clear, crunchy and fishbowl. The latter involves bubbly plastic vase filler beads mixed into colorful clear slime with the occasional faux aquatic creature suspended in the jelly.
“In the last couple years, tactile toys have become super, super popular,” says Robby Pettinato, brand director for Austin, Texas, indie toy emporium, Toy Joy. It’s a toy category that includes various putties, kinetic sand and even fidget spinners. “I’d say in the last two years is when slime — the really icky, gooey, drippy, weird texture kind of product — that’s when that became such a really big category for us.”
And he blames — er, credits — YouTube.
“So much of the toy industry is dictated now by YouTube, because there’s so many young kids that have their own channels, and that’s what other kids are getting all their media intake from,” he says. Slime was particularly well-primed for a YouTube explosion. “It’s this multifaceted toy. Not only is it a fun thing to play with for all ages, ultimately, but there’s the whole process of making it yourself, which is also a really cool thing. There’s a science aspect to it,” he says. “There’s a whole education aspect to it, where a lot of schools are making it in the science classes.”
While YouTube is the go-to spot for slime tutorials, reviews and general slime goofing, artsier slime videos ooze through Instagram. Manicured hands massage shimmering globules in hypnotic rhythms, creating oddly soothing crackling and popping noises. The photo- and video-based social media platform is where 15-year-old Jay Kang, owner of the successful slime business Snoop Slimes, slipped into the slime craze in its early days.
“During the summer of 2016, I started looking through Instagram because I was really bored and I had nothing to do during summer,” the Round Rock, Texas, high school student says. “I was just scrolling down on Instagram and I found this one post about this Gak-looking thing.”
Intrigued, she dug deeper and located a few accounts run by slime sellers. She direct messaged one of them, who explained that what she was seeing was slime and it was getting popular on Instagram. The young entrepreneur decided she wanted to create her own account and start selling slime, but her parents talked her out of it. She was only 12. They worried about safety. And what did she know about running a business anyway?
She spent the next year combing the internet, gathering information about online sales, packing and shipping and how to set up an Etsy account, and in 2017, as a seventh-grader, she convinced her parents she was ready.
It took her roughly a month to get her business off the ground. Unsure how fast her slime would move, she started with just a few bottles of glue, but after three weeks, a steady stream of orders was flowing in. She mixed plastic fruits and flowers into her slimes and added scents. She expanded her line from clear slimes to creamier butter slimes and floams (crunchy slimes that incorporate plastic microbeads to create different textures and sonic effects). Within a year, she was able to move her business from her family’s home to a nearby office park.
These days, Snoop Slimes has over 2 million followers on Instagram. Kang manages a staff of four. One room of her office has two industrial-size mixers and another is lined with stacks upon stacks of clear plastic bins filled with beads, tiny plastic animals and all other manner of whimsical curiosities that she orders wholesale to mix into her slimes.
Kang has a collection of slimes that are always available for purchase online, but like most successful slimers, she creates special limited-edition slimes that she sells in weekly restock events. Recent specialty slimes include a “Beauty and the Beast” clear slime with floating teapot, teacup and rose charms, a chocolate-scented Choco Mousse Butter Slime and a fluffy Magic Kingdom Cloud Slime that features mouse ear-shaped sprinkles and smells like rainbow sherbet. Every Friday at 8 p.m., she makes the custom slimes available, and many of them sell out rapidly.
Between the restock slimes and her standard collection, Kang estimates she sells about 1,500 slimes a week. Balancing school and marching band practice, she spends roughly two hours a night on her business, much of it making the aesthetically adventurous videos that cement her status as a slime influencer. She tries to post a video a day. Many of them don’t involve slimes she sells.
“I just want to try mixing new things in, and sometimes I just make videos out of random ideas,” she says.
She creates elaborate clay sculptures that she mixes into slimes. “I make (them) and then I smoosh them all together to make slimes. Those kind of break my heart a little,” she says with a laugh.
Kang has attended multiple slime conventions, where she sells her slimes, signs autographs and takes pictures with her young fans.
“I think slime conventions really made the slime community be able to bond with each other,” she says. When they interacted with each other only online, Kang says there was “drama” among young slime makers, “but now it’s like we’re all friends.”
A desire to help build that community drives SlimePop organizers Stephanie Bomely and Sharon Voorhees. They were toying with the idea of starting an Austin slime event when they took Voorhees’ daughter (and Bomely’s niece) Emmy to a San Antonio convention to sell slime last year. The experience was inspiring.
“It was so much (about) seeing the entrepreneurship that was happening among these mostly young girls,” Bomely says. There are some boys involved in the slime community and some older slime makers, but the majority of slimers are girls between the ages of 10 and 16. “Seeing that, and the kindness among all of them and how much they support each other — that’s what solidified it for me,” Bomely says.
Emmy, now 12, has been making slime for a few years. Working with a neighbor, she started her own slime company. They have an Etsy shop that posts modest sales, and they successfully sold slime at the San Antonio convention. While slime is unlikely to become a career path for her daughter the way it is for Kang, Voorhees sees the life skills it’s helping her develop.
“They’re running a small business,” she says.
“They have to figure out their revenue and how much they’re actually making, and (they) have to buy their supplies, to package their goods. Setting up their booth; they’re doing everything. And then they’re selling on Etsy and branding themselves. I think it’s really neat, it’s neat to see,” Bomely says.
Voorhees admits that it took some time to get past a mental block about the mess and surrender to her daughter’s slime obsession, but she came to realize that the benefits outweigh the negatives.
“They’re not playing video games, they’re not doing all these other things,” she says. Watching her daughter’s slime journey evolve, Voorhees and Bomely were both impressed.
“The creativity is huge,” Bomely says. “It started where it was just, like, slime she was making, and now you’re making glossy slime or cloud slime. There’s so many different types of slimes that these kiddos have come up with. And then it’s, like, coming up with a creative name for your slime, adding scents to it so that it smells like a favorite food or it smells like a vanilla candle.”
“It uses four of your five senses,” Voorhees says.
To survive your child’s slime obsession, Voorhees and Bomely recommend creating a designated area in your house for slime making, preferably a spot with tile floors and a nonporous surface to work on. Set clear expectations for your kids about cleanup responsibilities. A mixture of 2 parts vinegar to 1 part water will get slime out of carpet, and most slimers are perfectly capable of scrubbing it out themselves.
Beyond that, keep the STEM benefits in mind and remember that this, too, will pass. Voorhees has observed a pattern among young slimers. “You start playing with it, you evolve into it and you maybe fall out of it around your second year of middle school,” she says.
While Snoop Slimes’ sales continue to grow, Kang is aware that the slime trend might begin to cool. She plans to diversify her business by adding a custom merch line. And she’s not trying to retire at 18. She hopes to attend the University of Texas after high school.
Pettinato says slime sales have leveled off at Toy Joy, but he suspects the DIY slime craze has a lot to do with that. (Kang says the hand-mixed slimes sold on Etsy shops tend to be better quality than most commercially available products.)
Most of the slimes Toy Joy sells are products like Crazy Aaron’s Thinking Putty, a Silly Putty-like concoction that comes in specialized varieties like color changing, iridescent and magnetic. He also sees a market for uniquely packaged slime, The company behind Lava Lamps has a line of slimes that come in Lava Lamp-shaped containers. But even after the current craze dies down, Pettinato thinks some kind of slime market will remain.
“It’s such a classic toy,” he says. “Technically slime’s been around since the ’60s. I don’t think it’s ever going to go away. I think it’s very possible that maybe tomorrow there’s a new toy trend that sort of usurps it from that kind of conversation, but I think that slime in itself is relatively unique in that there’s so many different ways to make it and play with it and just enjoy it. I think Toy Joy will always have a slime or a putty section in the stores.”
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This is the Future of Vintage Shopping
You never have to sift through racks of musty-smelling vintage clothes again.
By Olivia Fleming
"Those are very Vetements," noted BAZAAR.com's Fashion Director, Kerry Pieri, as I pulled out a pair of tweed cigarette pants from an overstuffed bag of vintage T-shirts, jackets and jeans.
The bag had come from TagPop, a new start-up hoping to revolutionize the way we shop for vintage by hiring stylists to do the hard work for you. The concept is simple: customers can request generalized items like a pair of light-wash kick flare jeans or a corduroy jacket, TagPop processes your request, automatically searching your Facebook "likes" and interests to get a sense of your taste, where stylists then sift through hundreds of vintage pieces to find the perfect match. What you actually receive is a lucky-dip. And if you don't like it, you can return it indefinitely until they get it right.
"We are data-matching the goods to the consumer as opposed to measuring, describing, cataloguing, and uploading every single second-hand piece there is to our website," explains CEO Topper Luciani, who, along with Henry Lihn, co-founded TagPop. "That will allow us to reach a far larger scale than we would be able to if we were cataloguing each piece."
Vintage blouse, $15 and vintage tweed pants, $50, tagpop.co; Manolo Blahnik shoes, $625, neimanmarcus.com
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TagPop's objective is to take the hassle out of vintage shopping (no more sorting through racks of musty-smelling clothes!) and in turn, reduce clothing waste by 2 million tons in the next five years. Currently, Americans only recycle or donate 15 percent of their used clothing, and the rest—about 10.5 million tons a year—goes into landfills.
"There are a lot of used goods with a lot of potential to be worn by American people for an incredible discount, as opposed to being shredded to put into a cushion factory or put into a land fill," says Luciani, who started out selling vintage neckties on eBay in the late 2000s.
"Over the past eight years I have realized what a problem the tremendous consumption of clothing is, and what happens to all of that. The consumption isn't really the bad thing, it is just what to do with it all. Millennials spend the majority of their shopping time online, and are cause driven. To make a huge dent, we just need to change behavior in how we purchase fashion and how we recirculate our clothing," explains Luciani, adding that any surplus clothing TagPop doesn't use will be matched back to charities in need: work clothes for the Bowery Mission and children's clothing for Style Save, for example.
"Millennials spend the majority of their shopping time online, and are cause driven. To make a huge dent, we need to change behavior in how we purchase fashion and how we recirculate our clothing."
TagPop's prices range from $5 to $75 for each mystery item of clothing, depending on their "tier" (premium pieces are launching on the site Nov. 1). After I requested a selection of smart-casual clothes, like stylish wool trousers, a casual fall jacket, jeans, and a more formal blazer for work, I received two pairs of Levi's jeans (one of them being a rare 517 style I specifically requested, and the other pair was actually brand new, tags still attached), one pair of tweed pants, three T-shirts, one corduroy jacket and one premium herringbone jacket for a total of $250. I only returned the latter because the style wasn't very "me".
To ensure a customer receives pieces that match their individual style sensibilities, TagPop's team of stylists (a mix of fashion students and style-conscious staff) dissect a customer's order request while an automated program scans their public profiles online. "The most important pieces of data we get from you are your actual requests on the notes of your order," explains Lucian, adding: "When it comes to your data, we have Facebook, Instagram and Google data—as much as you have released about yourself. We use that data to look at your interests; for example it could be a particular sports team you're into or the college you went to—that can pertain to the kind of cool vintage T-shirt we send you." And if you return items, the company takes note of what you don't like, learning your taste over time.
Vintage premium jacket, $75, and Levi's corduroy jeans, $50, tagopop.co; Manolo Blahnik shoes, $625, neimanmarcus.com
The customer has to pay for shipping and returns, "but we give them unlimited chances to send their product back until it's the perfect match," says Luciani. "We think that our extremely low price point makes it worth people's while."
TagPop is also in the process of working with up-and-coming designers who aren't yet big enough for Gilt or The Outnet, but who need somewhere to liquidate seasons-old products. "We're not just working with second hand clothes, we're also a channel by which young brands, who are doing something good for the environment, can liquidate their clothes," explains Luciani. "Our system has the ability to buy these products from these companies and liquidate their excess inventory and give a great deal to the consumer without tarnishing their brand, because we're not selling it as their brand. We're selling mystery items."
Ultimately, selling vintage Levi's for a quarter of the price of other, premium vintage denim brands like The Vintage Twin, is where TagPop hopes to see a large amount of its growth, second only to its premium vintage T-shirts (TagPop sells 5,000 T-shirts per month, which is estimated to grow to 20,000 per month by the end of the year and to 1 million T-shirts by 2018—this will reduce waste by 6 million pounds every month, says Lihn). However, Luciani is aware that there will always be a market for people who want to try things on.
"Buying a pair of second hand jeans in SoHo for $200, you are paying for the opportunity to try everything on. But if you want great value and the same fantastic product, then you're going to go to TagPop."
Vintage premium T-shirt, $25, and vintage Levi's, $50, tagpop.co; Valentino shoes, barneys.com
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2018 Harvardwood Heroes Celebration
RSVP below to join us for our annual Harvardwood Heroes celebration. You are welcome to bring a guest.
Tickets are $125/person, and all proceeds go to support the Harvardwood Heroes program.
Past grant recipients describe the impact of the Heroes program on their volunteer service:
From 2016 Heroes Erin Sweeney MPP '07 & Antonio Valla MUP '08, GlassRoots
"With the generous Harvardwood Grant, we were able to offer our acclaimed Volcano Project to Science Park High School on March 30, 2017.... The knowledge gained in this program goes beyond casual intrigue or passing high school science; we believe a solid grounding in earth science will prepare students to understand and act on pressing societal issues such as climate change, oil exploration, pollution and species threatened with extinction, and hope to instill a desire in our inner-youth to stay in science classes in school, and to pursue science studies in higher education."
From 2015 Hero Marissa Gutiérrez-Vicario EDM '13, Art & Resistance Through Education
"Through the generous support of the Harvardwood Heroes Fund, one of our students will be awarded an academic scholarship in order to continue their studies after high school. For our students, this scholarship is incredibly important, as many of them may not be able to access federal funding due to their immigration status. Furthermore, ARTE believes it is important for our students to feel empowered as individuals. We want them to understand that their voice matters and that they are capable of making positive change in their communities, particularly on pressing human rights issues that directly affect them."
From 2014 Hero Kaitlin McGaw AB '00, Alphabet Rockers
"As the founder of Alphabet Rockers, I have dedicated my professional career to creating high-quality educational hip hop music experiences for children, families and educators. The 2014 Harvardwood grant helped support the production of a series of three family/community events in early 2015, each paired to the release of a video.... It is clear that the support of grants such as Harvardwood and others will be crucial to the continued success of this community-focused artistic project—and I remain so grateful that the $500 grant helped support myself and the artistic group of Alphabet Rockers in this incredible experience."
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Herald.ie› Sport› GAA›
Ros win game of Hyde and seek
ON HOME GROUND: Roscommon’s Cathal Cregg kicks under pressure from Galway’s Johnny Duane and Thomas Flynn during their Connacht FBD League Final at Dr Hyde Park last February which the Rossies won. Pic: Sportsfile
Nothing was going to stop the Rossies from playing Sunday's Connacht SFC final against Galway in their beloved Dr Hyde Park. But it has required a battle of wits and a battalion of volunteer workers to ensure that Roscommon GAA's recently maligned home received the green light from the Connacht Council.
And even that came with multiple caveats and conditions attached, of which more anon.
An idea of the hard work involved can be gleaned from the following county board WhatsApp message, sent last Friday: "Volunteers from clubs are required in Hyde Park this evening from 6pm to 9pm. If anyone is available to help out please bring spades etc. Please spread the word."
Hassle
Why all the hassle? Put simply, Hyde Park's swish new playing surface (reopened last year to replace the previous bog) isn't matched by suitably up-to-date facilities for those watching. Roscommon chairman Seamus Sweeney admitted to the local media last week that "in excess of €3 million" is required to "bring it up to the required standard".
And that's why, initially at least, Connacht chiefs appeared so hesitant about its suitability.
Kevin McStay was having none of it, though, after their semi-final win over Leitrim. At that stage, the second semi-final had yet to happen but the Rossies were "due" a home clash with Galway, red hot favourites against Sligo.
"We are in the Connacht final, we have the home venue," the Ros' boss declared. "We'll certainly be turning up in the Hyde. I hope someone else is there to meet us on the day and we'd be very, very absolute about that."
His county board wasn't quite so absolute a few days later. "Roscommon GAA fully accept the venue of the Connacht final will be decided by the Connacht CCC and this will be done when the winner of the Galway v Sligo game is known," the board stated on May 30, secretary Brian Carroll adding that he had held a "very constructive" meeting with his Connacht counterpart, John Prenty, with another planned for that coming weekend.
Ultimately, all's well that ends well. The Rossies got their Connacht final - at a cost.
Hyde Park received the go-ahead with a raft of conditions too numerous to mention, but including the following: capacity confined to 18,870; the final would be all-ticket, with no tickets available on the day; Roscommon would bear the costs of a scanning system to be introduced especially for the final; ground rent agreed at 5pc (reports suggest it's usually 10-20pc).
And beyond Sunday? Hyde Park shall not be eligible to host a future Connacht final until the following works are completed: new entrance on the Athlone Road side, permanent metered turnstiles, modern-standard dressing-rooms, permanent male and female toilets, tarring of roadways and areas behind the main stand.
Likely cost? Three million. "We will require the full support of the whole county to achieve it," said Sweeney.
Maybe that's what the spades were for: a dig-out!
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Rekha is the most stylish personality in Bollywood, has a sense of self-dignity: Sabyasachi
Sabyasachi Mukherjee also said that if a person wants to make an impact with their dressing they need to bring individualism to their sense of style.
bollywood Updated: Mar 10, 2018 08:46 IST
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Talking about Rekha, Sabyasachi said nobody can be more stylish than Rekha because she wears a similar saree for every award function as she has sense of self-identity. (AFP)
Fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee on Friday said Rekha is the most stylish personality in Bollywood as she has a sense of self-identity which is “sadly lacking” in many people in the film industry.
Among all the top actors that he has styled, the designer said nobody can beat the veteran actor, when it comes to making timeless fashion choices.
“When I think of a stylish person in India it could be red lipstick or over the top make-up, glittery red sari. I think nobody can be more stylish than Rekha ji because she wears a similar saree for every award function as she has sense of self-identity which is sadly lacking in many people in the industry,” Sabyasachi said.
He believes if a person wants to make an impact with their dressing they need to bring individualism to their sense of style.
Sabyasachi was speaking at the India Today conclave on ‘Front Row: Reinventing the Classic’ along with designer Naeem Khan.
Actress Rekha at the Yash Chopra Memorial Award in Mumbai in February, 2018. ( IANS )
The designer believes fashion industry for many years has made billions feeding on people’s insecurity.
“The more we keep the people insecure the more they buy clothing because they want to measure up to something that is unknown to them. The difference between fashion and style is when you are blindly following fashion, you are in an insecure space where you do not know who you are.
“When you are stylish you curate things because you are connected to yourself. A stylish person does not renounces fashion. A stylish person is someone who picks up what is relevant irrespective of whether it is in fashion or not,” Sabyasachi said.
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First Published: Mar 10, 2018 08:41 IST
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Amit Shah arms BJP’s cyber warriors in Pune with aggressive social media strategy
“If Sharad Pawar talks about farmers, we should point out that during his tenure how many farmer suicides took place while under the Fadnavis government, the state has witnessed a dip of 35 per cent in farmer suicides,” said a participant, quoting Shah
pune Updated: Jul 09, 2018 15:32 IST
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Hindustan Times, Pune
State CM, Devendra Fadnavis and BJP president Amit Shah at the 12th Rambhau Mhalagi lecture at Ganesh Kala Rangmanch in Pune on Sunday.(HT Photo)
Amit Shah, president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has planned an aggressive social media strategy to counter allegations springing from the opposition ahead of upcoming 2019 polls.
The BJP chief, while referring to volunteers as party’s cyber warriors, asked them to be prepared for the 2019 elections. Shah has asked the cyber cell volunteers of the party to respond aggressively to opposition’s allegations on social media.
Shah said that both the Fadnavis government in the state and the Modi government in the Centre have done a lot in the last four years which can be brought to the voters through social media with full pride, according to a volunteer who was present during the function.
While addressing the social media volunteers during his visit to Pune on Sunday, Shah gave an example of how volunteers should counter allegations of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar, if he talks about farmer suicides.
“If Sharad Pawar talks about farmers, we should point out that during his tenure how many farmer suicides took place while under the Fadnavis government, the state has witnessed a dip of 35 per cent in farmer suicides,” said a participant, quoting Shah.
Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis was also present during the function.
“I will still not believe that this is BJP’s golden era as we are yet to conquer Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Telangana,” said the participant, quoting Shah.
Armed with such an aggressive social media policy, it clearly seems that for the 2019 polls, BJP is ready to capture online content and voters.
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March 22, 2016 5:00pm PT by Lesley Goldberg
Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan Tatum Team for Dancing Competition Series at NBC
Yes, Channing Tatum will also appear and exec produce on the six-episode series. Dewan Tatum is set to serve as a judge.
NBC is ready to step up its dance game.
The network has handed out a six-episode series pickup to an untitled Jenna Dewan Tatum dance show, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Details about the format are being kept under wraps, but the hourlong project is described as a "fresh take" on the dance competition genre. Dewan Tatum will serve as a judge and mentor on the series, with husband and Step Up co-star Channing Tatum also set to appear onscreen. (Insiders stress that the latter will not be a judge as he is potentially expected to appear occasionally.)
The dance series hails from Endemol Shine North America, with Dewan Tatum and partner Meegan Kiernan set to executive produce via Purple Cup Productions. The series, in partnership with Free Association, is exec produced by Tatum, Peter Kiernan, Reid Carolin, Dewan Tatum and Meegan Kiernan.
Dewan Tatum started her career as a backup dancer for Janet Jackson and has worked with artists including Pink, Missy Elliott and Christina Aguilera. Her dancing skills helped earn her the starring role in 2006 feature Step Up, opposite a then-unknown Channing Tatum. The couple married in 2009. Dewan Tatum has continued to focus on acting, with a part on Lifetime's Witches of East End and her current recurring role as comic book character Lucy Lane on CBS freshman drama Supergirl. She is repped by UTA, Management 360 and Bloom Hergott.
The untitled Dewan Tatum series puts NBC in the dance competition business. The news comes as ABC's Dancing With the Stars returned this week with its 22nd season, netting a series-premiere low. Fox, meanwhile, renewed ratings underperformer So You Think You Can Dance for a 13th season — but changed the format to feature all children in what it dubbed SYTYCD: The Next Generation.
For NBC, meanwhile, the dance series comes as the network has found broad appeal with kid-friendly Little Big Shots. Check out the duo together in Step Up and on Spike's Lip Sync Battle, below.
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A Star Is Born (2018): Special Encore Edition Blu-ray Review
Posted on June 15, 2019 by Matt Hough
Interesting but not essential director's cut to the original release 4 Stars
Bradley Cooper’s 2018 refashioning of A Star Is Born is one of the chosen few to get a new theatrical lease on life and subsequently a new home video release, the new Special Encore Edition adding about eleven minutes to the previous version of the movie.
Rated: R
Director: Bradley Cooper
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Cast: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott, Andrew Dice Clay
Writer(s): Eric Roth (screenplay by), Bradley Cooper (screenplay by), Will Fetters (screenplay by), Moss Hart (based on the 1954 screenplay by), John Gregory Dunne (based on the 1976 screenplay by), Joan Didion (based on the 1976 screenplay by), Frank Pierson (based on the 1976 screenplay by), William A. Wellman (based on a story by), Robert Carson (based on a story by)
Plot: A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
IMDB rating: 8.0
MetaScore: 88
Disc Information
Studio: Warner Brothers
Distributed By: N/A
Video Resolution: 1080P/AVC
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audio: Dolby Atmos, English 5.1 DTS-HDMA, French 5.1 DD
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, French
Run Time: 2 Hr. 28 Min.
Package Includes: Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Copy
Case Type: keep case
Disc Type: BD50 (dual layer)
The Production: 4/5
In the Golden Age of home video, director’s versions of their films which integrated previously cut material back into the feature became a very familiar happening. Rarely have director’s cuts gotten a theatrical release (though it’s not unknown: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, for example), but Bradley Cooper’s 2018 refashioning of A Star Is Born is one of the chosen few to get a new theatrical lease on life and subsequently a new home video release. The new Special Encore Edition adds about eleven minutes to the previous version of the movie. While aficionados of the first theatrical release will note the new changes right off and be delighted to add this alternate view of the movie to their collections, the few added verses of songs and an occasional added song or dramatic sequence doesn’t really alter the original film in any meaningful way. What was good about the movie remains intact, and the occasional narrative weaknesses borne from awkward transitions between scenes are still present.
Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper) packs in the throngs of adoring fans at his arena rockabilly concerts, but an unplanned detour to a seedy club for a nightcap introduces him to Ally (Lady Gaga), a powerful vocalist whose songwriting and singing careers haven’t advanced due to her insecurity about her looks. Jackson takes her under his wing, turning a simple song of hers into a power ballad they can warble together at one of his concerts, the video of which goes viral and thrusts Ally onto the international stage. But Jackson’s drinking and drug use along with a hearing impairment which is worsening begin eating into his popularity and the desire for his services within the industry, just at the moment that Ally’s career is going great guns.
The curious will be anxious to know: what’s different about this encore edition? Major additions can be spotted almost immediately in Jackson’s opening song “Black Eyes,” with additional verses which bring the song to a natural conclusion. We get to hear more of Ally’s impromptu song in the parking lot that later turns into “Shallow” and later see Jackson and Ally collaborating on the new song “Clover” while on their first tour. There is a meaningful dialogue scene between Jackson and the young New Zealander who has replaced him as lead singer at the Grammy tribute to Roy Orbison, the best of the additions since it sets up the Grammy night fiasco so much better by milking the contrast between a Jackson in control and the one who makes a shambles of Ally’s big night. The encore edition also seems to concentrate a little more on Jackson’s deteriorating hearing.
The bones of the story remain the same – one star rises while her lover’s career falters – and this 2018 version retains the music industry motif instituted in the 1976 Barbra Streisand conception of the story. Nods to Gaga’s following in the gay community (a stunning introduction to her singing “La Vie en Rose” in a drag club) and her own transformation into a glittery glamazon have worked their way into this account while Cooper and his fellow writers have given Jackson a truly sad backstory with a lot of personal baggage which somewhat account for his drug dependency as an emotional crutch. Cooper directs the on-stage sequences with showy versatility from the opening pill and booze soaked song “Black Eyes” to that electrifying first duet between the pair with “Shallow” and Ally’s first real blossoming as a solo artist in “Always Remember Us This Way.” But apart from the raucous concert sequences and the scene at the Grammys where Jackson humiliates Ally on a national television broadcast (easily the most embarrassing version of this moment in all four filmed versions of the story), the best musical moments are quieter ones: Jackson’s noble acoustic solo “Maybe It’s Time” or Ally noodling on the piano trying out new songs. And we get some arresting images, too: a wind farm that provides a turning point in the relationship between Jackson and his loving half-brother Bobby (Sam Elliott), the behind-the-scenes frenzy at Saturday Night Live, and Ally learning dance moves with backup dancers inflicted on her by her driven manager Rez Gavron (Rafi Gavron). And one must not forget the slight nod to one of Lady Gaga’s precursors in the role, Judy Garland, as she warbles a few lines from the verse of “Over the Rainbow” in her introductory sequence in the movie.
In this version of A Star Is Born, the two leading roles are for the first time basically of equal importance (Cooper, in addition to all of his jobs in the movie, rates top billing as a testament to how much more interesting his character is in the film compared to those who preceded him in earlier incarnations), and Bradley Cooper is the real revelation here, using a guttural speaking voice (according to him based on co-star Sam Elliott) and possessing real vocal chops that hold their own with his lauded singing co-star. (His end, unfortunately, isn’t filmed expressively enough to generate the kind of poignancy that, for example, James Mason’s Maine achieves in the 1954 A Star Is Born.) Lady Gaga does a fine job as Ally though her vocals are unquestionably more impressive and consistent than her dramatic performance which sometimes seems too studied and rote. Sam Elliott offers his usual sturdy performance as Jackson’s caring but exasperated brother, but the real surprise in the supporting performances comes from Andrew Dice Clay as Ally’s limo-driving father, an old school gumba with his own never achieved dreams of crooning stardom. Rafi Gavron’s ambitious manager is an underwritten character (his part in Jackson’s ultimate fate is never dramatically resolved) that the actor does what he can with, and Anthony Ramos has a nice moment or two as Ally’s steadfast best friend. Popping in for brief moments are Dave Chappelle, Alec Baldwin, Brandi Carlile, and Ron Rifkin.
3D Rating: NA
The film’s 2.40:1 theatrical aspect ratio is faithfully rendered in this 1080p transfer using the AVC codec. Though the Blu-ray transfer may lack just a smidge of the UHD’s solidity of color mapping and bright highlights (due to the lack of HDR), the transfer is still mightily impressive and as good as any other high definition rendering of a modern film. Black levels are quite impressive, and color and brightness are managed nicely. The movie has been divided into 19 chapters.
Audio: 5/5
As with the UHD release, this Blu-ray offers the user a choice of either Dolby Atmos or DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 sound mixes. Utilizing the Atmos mix for this review, the soundfield is an enormous and impressive one with the music and audience response during the concert scenes pouring forth from every direction. The entire mix is stunningly enveloping. Bass response is thunderous at times, and dialogue has been well recorded and isn’t drowned out by the music. The Encore Edition defaults to the DTS-HD MA mix, however, so users need to be aware to choose the Atmos mix from the Main Menu if that is the audio track you prefer.
Special Features: 1/5
The Blu-ray disc offers both the theatrical and the Encore Edition in the opening menu under the Play button.
The only bonus feature is Musical Moments (28.33, HD) which can take the viewer to any one of eleven musical moments in the movie. A “Play All” feature is included.
DVD/Digital Copy: disc and code sheet are enclosed in the case. Both the theatrical and Encore edition redeem in HD at Movies Anywhere.
The Encore Edition of 2018’s A Star Is Born is really for serious fans of the film with its eleven extra minutes of material constituting interesting but not essential additions to what was already a very good motion picture. The lack of any of the behind-the-scenes bonus material found on the previous Blu-ray and UHD releases would seem to make those the essential purchases for those who were fond of the original theatrical release.
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Robert Crawford says:
Thank you for your review. For those that didn't know, this version of the film is available to those that own the 4K/UHD disc and you redeemed your digital code. Also, if you didn't buy the 4K disc, but just purchased the 4K digital stream. The movie is part of MoviesAnywhere so on Vudu it's in 4K/Dolby Vision/Atmos. Right now on iTunes its in 4K/Dolby Vision, but I'm pretty sure that Atmos will be added in the near future.
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Very important to know. Thanks for sharing!
Another thing I noticed is that if you use your ATV4K to access the Vudu app. on iTunes, you'll get Dolby Atmos derived from Dolby TrueHD. However, if you use your Roku unit to access it on Vudu, the Dolby Atmos is derived from Dolby Digital+
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One of my favorite Gregory Peck movies in his mid-career period.
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Thomas T said: ↑
Interesting that the blu ray jacket is using the billing used when the film was re-released in the 1950s when John Wayne and Susan Hayward were top box office stars. Since Wayne (upped to first billing from second) and Susan Hayward (upped to second billing from 7th) had become huge box office stars since the film's original 1942 release they get top billing although Hayward's is a supporting role. The original 1942 billing read starring Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard. With Raymond Massey, Lynne Overman, Robert Preston and Susan Hayward.
Same with the Universal DVD. The Billing Block was legally changed when it was re-released. But it wasn't when they re-released Desert Fury, where the re-release had Lancaster top billed.
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MLamarre said: ↑
Great news on Reap the Wild Wind. Looking forward to it.
Kino Insider, have you guys considered also releasing the other Universal-owned DeMille films The Plainsman (1936), Union Pacific (1939), North West Mounted Police (1940), The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944), and Unconquered (1947)? The two in bold never even had DVD releases.
We would be interested in some of these if they were available to us.
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mop said: ↑
I beg to differ. I looked in both the announcement and "Sweet Charity thread" forums before I posted. The only recent updates were about Amazon pricing. But now it *is* in this forum in the on-going posts, where I would argue it should have been *when it was changed*.
In the thread, Kino said that the release was delayed due to having to find another person to do an audio commentary, since Julie Krigo he to decline.
"Get a director and a writer and leave them alone. That`s how the best pictures get made" - William "Wild Bill" Wellman
Coming September 10th!
Blindfold (1966) with optional English subtitles
• Animated Image Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
Color 102 Minutes 2.35:1 NR
In the tradition of Charade and Arabesque, screen icons Rock Hudson (The Tarnished Angels) and Claudia Cardinale (Once Upon a Time in the West) co-star in this suspense-filled espionage thriller with a touch of comedy, wonderfully directed by Philip Dunne (Ten North Frederick). General Pratt (Jack Warden, The White Buffalo), a national security chief, and his aides approach successful psychiatrist Dr. Bartholomew Snow (Hudson) for a top secret mission for the United States government. A brilliant scientist, once a patient of Dr. Snow’s, has evidently had a mental breakdown and is hiding in a remote government safehouse known only as “Base X.” With enemy agents on his tail, Snow soon finds himself caught in the middle—and out of desperation, he falls in with a mysterious and beautiful woman named Vicky Vincenti (Cardinale). But is she helping him, or is she yet another sinister figure out to manipulate him? Co-starring Guy Stockwell (The War Lord) and Brad Dexter (99 River Street), with top-notch widescreen cinematography by Joseph MacDonald (The Sand Pebbles) and a rousing score by the great Lalo Schifrin (Mission: Impossible).
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More Agatha Christie on blu ray is a good thing. I don't think Endless Night is among her best books and the movie is just okay. The best thing about it is the Bernard Herrmann score which I believe has never had a legitimate soundtrack release. I'll definitely be adding it to my collection.
I don't believe that ENDLESS NIGHT ever had a theatrical release in the U.S. Glad that it's getting a chance on Blu-ray.
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rdimucci said: ↑
I didn't find this on the extended list dates of Kino's upcoming releases. I did see Endless Love. Are we sure Endless Night is coming out and do we know a date? Thanks!
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MarkA said: ↑
https://www.hometheaterforum.com/community/posts/4750990/
Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife. Doomed is your soul and damned is your life.
Worth said: ↑
My only concern is that this is not posted by Kino Lorber like the rest of the announcements.
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Crawdaddy's been quoting the 11 am weekend Kino posts for those who don't care to go look them up on
Facebook or Twitter.
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Thanks! I checked on Facebook and I have liked their page and follow them but I guess I don't see all of their posts. I just checked and it is on there. I was relying on this thread and they usually post a pic of the artwork and the announcements of their upcoming releases here and I just wanted to make sure as I am a huge Hayley fan!
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Mirage and Blindfold both coming! Mirage is a very good film and I'm pleased to say the psychiatrist in this film is not a cliché character. He is presented as fallible and rather unpleasant.
Blindfold is already out on Blu-ray in Europe and I can assure everyone that the transfer is superb. Kino have chosen wisely here!
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A wonderful week of release information. Thank you KL; you make my day..... everyday!!
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As several of my friends have painfully learned, Facebook decides in a seemingly arbitrary manner which of your friend's and followee's posts to show you. My favorite was showing me a post from a favored merchant announcing a one-day sale, but showing it to me two days later!
And to keep this post on-topic, I believe the Insider revealed for the first time on "the board that shall not be named" that SONG OF NORWAY will be coming out in 2020, scanned in 2K from an 35mm interpositive.
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Song of Norway has only been released on video in Pan & Scan 1.33.
Since it's from 35mm probably 2.35 scope and hopefully stereo sound since it is a musical. 5.1 or 2.0 stereo would be nice.
Premiere 11/10/1970
07/11/1971 - last day. Amazing eight month run at the LA Cinerama Dome.
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I wasn't debating that. The *new date* had not been included in this thread until after I mentioned it.
Support Your Local Sheriff (1969) only on Blu-ray!
with optional English subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Film Historians Michael Schlesinger and Jim Beaver
Color 93 Minutes 1.85:1 Rated G
Armed with a wry sense of humor and a straight-shooting sidearm, James Garner (Duel at Diablo) fights for peace, justice and fun in this outrageous, irreverent and very funny farce co-starring Joan Hackett (Will Penny), Walter Brennan (Rio Bravo), Harry Morgan (The Ox-Bow Incident), Bruce Dern (The Cowboys), Gene Evans (The Bounty Man) and Jack Elam (Rawhide). On his way to Australia, frontier opportunist Jason McCullough (Garner) stumbles into a small gold-rush town and decides to earn a little extra pocket money by accepting a temporary assignment as their sheriff. Happily applying himself to his new position, McCullough manages to turn the town derelict (Elam) into his deputy, outsmart the dreaded Danby clan (led by Brennan), and fend off the lusty advances of the mayor’s daughter (Hackett)—all without breaking a sweat or dirtying his shiny black boots! Directed by western legend Burt Kennedy (Seven Men from Now), Support Your Local Sheriff is sheer entertainment from start to finish!
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) only on Blu-ray!
• Audio Commentary by Film Historian Michael Schlesinger
• Deleted Scenes – Newly Transferred in HD
Screen legend James Garner (Support Your Local Sheriff) is back in the saddle in Support Your Local Gunfighter, a powder keg of laughs co-starring Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam, Harry Morgan, Joan Blondell, Marie Windsor, Henry Jones, John Dehner, Dub Taylor, Gene Evans and Chuck Connors. Hustling gigolo Latigo Smith (Garner) arrives in a mining town for an operation, but while in town he overhears that the local mining baron Taylor Baton (Morgan) is looking to hire the notorious gunman Swifty Morgan to wipe out his competition. Seizing the opportunity for an easy con, Smith passes off a reprobate cowhand, Jug (Elam), as the dreaded Swifty… with bankroll in-hand, he plans to head for the hills at first opportunity. Complicating matters are Barton’s suspicious pistol-packin’ daughter, Patience (Pleshette), and the arrival of the real Swifty Morgan (Connors). Now, can Smith come up with a scheme to save Jug’s hide, stop the mining feud and win over Patience—or will he end up blowing up the entire town! Directed by western legend Burt Kennedy (Ride Lonesome).
The Bounty Man (1972 TV Movie) only on DVD!
• Interview with Director John Llewellyn Moxey
Color 73 Minutes 1.33:1 Not Rated
Screen and TV legend Clint Walker (Sam Whiskey and TV’s Cheyenne) is Kinkaid, a bounty hunter obsessed with tracking down the man responsible for his wife’s death. Kinkaid is rugged, hard-driving, militant and particularly determined to find outlaw Billy Riddle (John Ericson, Bad Day at Black Rock), a young killer with a high price on his head. Kinkaid traces Billy, takes him captive and starts the long trek to justice. However, this journey may lead him to dire consequences… a gang of cut-throats headed by Angus Keough (Richard Basehart, The Satan Bug) is pursuing them. The great John Llewellyn Moxey (The Night Stalker) directed this action-packed western co-starring Margot Kidder (The Reincarnation of Peter Proud), Gene Evans (Support Your Local Sheriff), Arthur Hunnicutt (The Spikes Gang) and iconic stuntman turned filmmaker Hal Needham (Gator).
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe (1972 TV Movie) only on DVD!
Lock Up Your Sons… Here Come The Daughters of Joshua Cabe! Joshua Cabe (Buddy Ebsen, TV’s The Beverly Hillbillies) had to get three daughters fast, but what he got was three fast daughters! Due to an unusual homesteading law, an aging cowboy in the old west needs his children to help him establish his claim on his property. With his real daughters unavailable, he recruits three young women with criminal backgrounds to pose as his daughters. Charity (Karen Valentine, TV’s Room 222) the career criminal, Mae (Lesley Ann Warren, Clue) the prostitute, and Ada (Sandra Dee, Gidget) the pickpocket are the “daughters” in this lusty, bawdy western-comedy. The stellar cast includes Jack Elam (Support Your Local Gunfighter), Don Stroud (Von Richthofen and Brown), Henry Jones (3:10 to Yuma), Leif Erickson (Strait-Jacket), Michael Anderson Jr. (The Sons of Katie Elder), Paul Koslo (Mr. Majestyk) and William Katt (Carrie).
The Trackers (1971 TV Movie) only on DVD!
Sam Paxton (Ernest Borgnine, Marty) is devastated when he returns home to his ranch to find his only son murdered and his daughter kidnapped by Army deserters. On a mission of revenge, Sam gathers a small posse and seeks the help of an old friend, a tracker, to help him locate his daughter. Ezekiel Smith (Sammy Davis Jr., A Man Called Adam), an experienced frontier scout with a will of his own, shows up instead of Sam’s friend. Despite Sam’s bigoted reluctance, “Zeke” joins his posse. And when the posse deserts Sam after learning that the kidnappers are not deserters, but renegade Indians, Sam is left to depend solely on Zeke to help him retrieve his daughter. Julie Adams (Man of the West), Norman Alden (The Devil’s Brigade), Jim Davis (The Cariboo Trail), Leo Gordon (Tobruk), Arthur Hunnicutt (The Bounty Man) and William Katt (The Daughters of Joshua Cabe) co-star in this action-packed western directed by Earl Bellamy (Jungle Jim).
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I haven't seen Song of Norway since its theatrical release. Never on TV, never in a revival theater, never on home video. So, I am very anxious to see it again.
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Love the TV western movies of the early seventies . Only wish they were coming in bluray . All three movies are pretty good.
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And-Ones: Team USA, Walton, J. Crawford, Draft
February 13th, 2019 at 6:06pm CST by Luke Adams
USA Basketball has announced its 13-man roster for the upcoming 2019 World Cup qualifiers, with the squad once again made up of NBA G League players. Of the 13 players on the roster, Reggie Hearn, Xavier Munford, Cameron Reynolds, and Travis Trice have suited up for previous World Cup qualifiers.
They’ll be joined by nine newcomers, including players with a little NBA experience like Chinanu Onuaku and Emanuel Terry.
Josh Adams, Kyle Casey, Chris Chiozza, Charles Cooke, Michael Frazier II, D.J. Hogg, and Tanner McGrew round out the roster.
Team USA, having gone 8-2 in previous qualifiers, has already earned its spot in the 2019 World Cup, so there won’t be as much pressure on this group for the games taking place in Greensboro, North Carolina on February 22 (vs. Panama) and February 25 (vs. Argentina).
Here are a few more odds and ends from around the basketball world:
Former Michigan and Heat point guard Derrick Walton, who recently left his team in Lithuania, has signed with ALBA Berlin in Germany, according to the club (Twitter link; hat tip to Sportando). Walton was on a two-way contract with Miami last season and was in training camp with the Bulls in the fall before heading overseas.
Veteran NBA guard Jordan Crawford saw his one-month contract with Israeli club Ironi Nahariya expire and is once again a free agent, as Nicola Lupo of Sportando relays.
ESPN’s Jonathan Givony (Insider link) has released an updated 2019 mock draft at ESPN.com, with Murray State’s Ja Morant moving up to No. 3 to break up a run of Duke prospects at the top of the draft.
In an entertaining piece for SI.com, Jake Fischer spoke to a number of role players who have been traded along with stars to find out what it’s like to be an afterthought at an introductory press conference.
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Derrick Walton To Play In Lithuania
October 18th, 2018 at 8:53am CST by Luke Adams
After being waived by the Bulls over the weekend, guard Derrick Walton has lined up his next opportunity, with Lithuanian team Zalgiris Kaunas announcing today (via Twitter) that it has officially added Walton to its backcourt (hat tip to Sportando).
Walton, 23, signed a two-way contract with the Heat last year and appeared in 16 games for the NBA squad, playing limited minutes. He saw more extensive action for the Sioux Falls Skyforce, Miami’s G League affiliate, recording 16.1 PPG, 7.0 APG, and 4.0 RPG with a .442/.377/.902 shooting line in 27 games for the club.
Although the Heat initially tendered Walton a two-way qualifying offer, they withdrew that QO in July, clearing the way for the former Michigan point guard to sign a camp deal with the Bulls. However, he didn’t make the team’s regular season roster.
Walton joins a lengthy list of veterans who will play overseas in 2018/19 after seeing NBA action last season.
Bulls Waive Four Players
October 13th, 2018 at 2:35pm CST by Luke Adams
The Bulls have released four players from their 20-man preseason roster, the team announced today (via Twitter). Antonius Cleveland, Derrick Walton Jr., Kaiser Gates, and JaKarr Sampson will all become unrestricted free agents on Monday, assuming they clear waivers.
Cleveland was claimed by the Bulls off waivers from the Hawks back in July, while the other three players signed camp deals with Chicago in August and September.
Of the four, Sampson has the most NBA experience, having appeared in 169 total regular season games for the 76ers, Nuggets, and Kings. Cleveland and Walton saw some action last season in Atlanta and Miami respectively, while Gates – a rookie out of Xavier – has yet to make his NBA debut.
The Bulls now have 16 players under contract, with 15 on standard deals and one (Rawle Alkins) on a two-way pact. Today’s moves clear the way for Ryan Arcidiacono, who has a $50K partial guarantee on his contract, to open the season on Chicago’s roster.
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Bulls Sign Derrick Walton Jr.
August 14th, 2018 at 2:06pm CST by Luke Adams
AUGUST 14: The Bulls have made it official, announcing today in a press release that they’ve signed Walton.
AUGUST 10: Former Heat two-way player Derrick Walton Jr. intends to sign a new contract with the Bulls, agent Mark Bartelstein tells Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald.
Walton, 23, inked a two-way contract with the Heat last July after going undrafted out of Michigan. The 6’1″ point guard stuck with the franchise all season, appearing in 16 games for the NBA squad and 27 for the Sioux Falls Skyforce in the G League.
Although his role for the Heat was very limited, Walton averaged 16.1 PPG, 7.0 APG, and 4.0 RPG with a .442/.377/.902 shooting line in the NBAGL.
When Walton’s two-way agreement with the Heat expired at season’s end, the club tendered him a qualifying offer, retaining the right of first refusal. However, Miami withdrew that QO during the second week of July, allowing him to become an unrestricted free agent.
While details of Walton’s deal with Chicago aren’t yet known, the club has a little flexibility. The Bulls currently have 17 players under contract — 14 on fully guaranteed deals, two on non-guaranteed or partially guaranteed deals, and one on a two-way pact. As such, the team could give Walton a camp deal and allow him to compete for the last spot on the 15-man regular season roster, or it could ink him to a two-way contract.
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Central Notes: Arcidiacono, Dekker, Walton, Clarkson
August 12th, 2018 at 5:45pm CST by Dana Gauruder
The way that Ryan Arcidiacono‘s contract with the Bulls is structured to keep him eligible for the G League, Basketball Insiders’ Eric Pincus tweets. Arcidiacano has a $50K guarantee, which will allow him to play with the Windy City Bulls. He signed a minimum one-year deal worth $1,349,383. The 6’3” guard out of Villanova appeared in 24 NBA games last season as a two-way player, averaging 2.0 points in nearly 13 minutes of action. He posted a 13.8/4.5/8.6 line in 37 G League games.
In other news around the Central Division:
The Clippers will send $1,247,494 to the Cavaliers as part of the Sam Dekker trade, which was made official on Tuesday, Pincus reveals in another tweet. That amount isn’t random — it’s the exact difference between Dekker’s salary and a veteran’s minimum salary, essentially allowing the Cavs to take a flier on the forward at the minimum.
Derrick Walton Jr. gives the Bulls another alternative, along with Arcidiacono, to Cameron Payne as Kris Dunn‘s backup, Michael Walton of NBC Sports Chicago notes. Walton is expected to sign with Chicago, according to his agent, after the Heat cut ties with the former University of Michigan floor leader last month. Walton is a better perimeter shooter than Payne, who is more comfortable having the ball in his hands and running pick-and-rolls, Michael Walton continues. The Bulls have a number of players who can create for themselves, so Walton might be a better fit behind Dunn, Michael Walton adds.
Cavaliers guard Jordan Clarkson is unlikely to play for Philippines in this month’s Asian Games, according to a Sportando report. Clarkson was a late addition to their national team but won’t be able to join them in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Heat Notes: Trade Rumors, Walton, Haslem, Free Agents
August 12th, 2018 at 11:21am CST by Arthur Hill
Don’t be surprised if the Heat keep their current roster together for a while despite a flurry of trade rumors surrounding the team, Ira Winderman of The Sun-Sentinel writes in a mailbag column. Numerous Miami players have been mentioned in possible deals, with Hassan Whiteside, Dion Waiters, James Johnson and Tyler Johnson among the most prominent.
Winderman notes that team president Pat Riley indicated in a media session that month that he would like to keep the current core together to see what it can accomplish. A deal could still happen before training camp opens in late September, but Winderman believes it would be more of a surprise, rather than something that has been rumored for weeks.
There’s more today out of Miami:
Derrick Walton may go on to better things with the Bulls, but the Heat didn’t have playing time to offer him, Winderman adds in the same piece. The 23-year-old guard is close to a deal with Chicago after Miami pulled his qualifying offer last month. The Heat have a crowded backcourt with Goran Dragic, Tyler Johnson, Wayne Ellington and Rodney McGruder all established, Waiters returning from ankle surgery and Dwyane Wade possibly wanting to play another season. Walton appeared in 16 games last year as a two-way player.
The Heat are giving up a roster spot by holding onto veteran forward Udonis Haslem if coach Erik Spoelstra refuses to play him, Winderman states in a separate mailbag. Haslem, 38, has developed into a virtual assistant coach, getting into 14 games last season and 16 the year before. Even so, he has a standing offer to return to the team if he wants to keep playing.
The Heat don’t have much playing time to offer combo guards or big men, which is why Mario Chalmers and Jahlil Okafor didn’t consider Miami before signing elsewhere, Winderman writes in another mailbag. Along with the logjam in the backcourt, the Heat have Whiteside, Kelly Olynyk and Bam Adebayo all competing f0r playing time in the middle. Winderman speculates that the team could look for help at small forward if either Wade or Haslem doesn’t return.
Heat Notes: Trade Talks, Johnson, Whiteside
July 13th, 2018 at 1:40pm CST by Luke Adams
The Heat have been looking to shed salary, having made Hassan Whiteside, Tyler Johnson, and Dion Waiters available in trade talks, two rival high-ranking executives tell Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald.
According to those execs, however, Miami has been unwilling to attach a future first-round pick or a young player like Justise Winslow or Josh Richardson to those highly-paid veterans. As Jackson details, the Heat’s preference would be to move a big contract like Johnson’s for a lesser-paid – and perhaps less effective player – or a draft pick.
Whiteside, Johnson, and Waiters aren’t bad players, but they’re not positive trade assets on their current contracts, which span multiple seasons and will pay them $25.4MM, 19.2MM, and $11.6MM respectively in 2018/19. As such, the Heat will likely have to adjust their expectations and their asking price if they hope to move any of those players.
Here are several more notes out of South Beach:
In an article for The Miami Herald, Barry Jackson explores the Heat’s options with Tyler Johnson‘s contract and notes that agent Mark Bartelstein isn’t ruling the possibility of Derrick Walton returning to the Heat. Miami withdrew Walton’s two-way qualifying offer earlier this week.
Heat head coach Erik Spoeltra appears committed to a fresh start with Hassan Whiteside, telling reporters this week that he has been in “constant contact” with the veteran center this summer (link via The Miami Herald). “I’m looking forward to the start of the season with a healthy Hassan. I know he’s looking forward to that,” Spoelstra said. “And we still have a good part of the summer to get better. I think Hassan having an opportunity to start off the season healthy will be a really big boost for us.”
The Heat remain on the lookout for under-the-radar free agents who are participating in the Las Vegas Summer League or holding individual workouts in Vegas this week, writes Ira Winderman of The South Florida Sun Sentinel. “Guys are getting two-ways during Summer League right now,” assistant GM Adam Simon said. “So those guys come off the table. So my job, our job, is to make sure we’re aware of all players that are available and then when it’s time to make decisions, then, as a group, we make those decisions.”
In a separate article for The Sun Sentinel, Winderman examines how the Heat will handle their logjam at shooting guard with Wayne Ellington re-signing and a Dwyane Wade return still in play.
Heat Withdraw Derrick Walton’s Qualifying Offer
The Heat have withdrawn Derrick Walton‘s qualifying offer, making him an unrestricted free agent, according to RealGM’s log of official NBA transactions.
A two-way player for Miami last season, Walton received a qualifying offer to make him a restricted free agent. The qualifying offer was a one-year, two-way contract with a $50K guarantee, and gave the Heat the ability to match any offer sheet Walton signed with another team. However, Miami has apparently given up its right of first refusal by rescinding its QO.
Teams around the NBA have until this Friday to withdraw qualifying offers for NBA and two-way restricted free agents. If clubs keep their QOs on the table beyond that date, they can’t be withdrawn without the player’s consent for the rest of the summer.
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Walton, 23, saw limited action in 16 games for the Heat last season, playing more extensively for the club’s G League affiliate, the Sioux Falls Skyforce. In 27 NBAGL contests, the point guard averaged 16.1 PPG and 7.0 APG with a .442/.377/.902 shooting line.
Duncan Robinson is currently occupying one of the Heat’s two-way contract slots. With Walton seemingly no longer in the mix for the other spot, Miami should have a two-way opening going forward.
Two-Way QO Decisions: Walton, Cooke, Craig, More
June 28th, 2018 at 8:02am CST by Dana Gauruder
Derrick Walton Jr. has received a qualifying offer from the Heat, Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun Sentinel tweets. Walton, who had been on a two-way contract with the Heat, will thus be a restricted free agent next month. The undrafted 6’1” point guard out of Michigan appeared in 16 games with Miami last season.
As is the case for all two-way players who remain eligible to sign another two-way deal, the qualifying offer Walton received from the Heat will be a two-way contract offer with a $50K guarantee.
We have several other qualifying offer decisions involving two-way players to pass along:
The Pelicans will not make Charles Cooke a qualifying offer, Michael Scotto of The Athletic tweets. Cooke, an undrafted 6’5” shooting guard out of Dayton, appeared in 13 games for the Pelicans.
The Nuggets made a qualifying offer to Torrey Craig, ensuring he’ll be a restricted free agent, Gina Mizell of the Denver Post writes. The 6’6” Craig saw quite a bit of action with Denver last season, averaging 4.2 PP and 3.3 RPG in 16.1 MPG while making 39 appearances. The 27-year-old went undrafted in 2014, then played in Australia and New Zealand before the Nuggets signed him.
The Magic will not make a qualifying offer to Jamel Artis, Sportando tweets. The 6’7” Artis, who went undrafted out of Pittsburgh in 2017, saw action in 15 games and averaged 5.1 PPG, 2.5 RPG and 1.2 APG in 18.6 MPG. Artis will be on the Cavaliers‘ Summer League squad, Dave McMenamin of ESPN tweets.
The Kings have issued a qualifying offer to two-way player JaKarr Sampson, per RealGM’s transactions log. No QO is listed for Jack Cooley, Sacramento’s other two-way player, so it’s possible Cooley will reach the market as an unrestricted free agent.
Luke Adams contributed to this post.
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Heat Make Qualifying Offer To Derrick Jones
June 14th, 2018 at 11:29am CST by Arthur Hill
The Heat have tendered a qualifying offer to two-way player Derrick Jones, according to Ira Winderman of The Sun-Sentinel.
The move comes with minimal financial risk, as qualifying offers for players on two-way contracts are just $77K. Jones will now be a restricted free agent, and Miami will be able to match any offers he receives.
The rookie forward originally signed with the Suns last fall, but played just six games before being waived in December. He joined the Heat three weeks later and started eight games while the team was dealing with multiple injuries. Jones played 14 games in Miami, averaging 3.7 points and 2.4 rebounds per night.
The Heat will have to make a similar decision soon with guard Derrick Walton, their other two-way player, Winderman notes. They also must determine whether to pick up the guarantee on Rodney McGruder’s $1,544,951 contract for next season by June 29. They turned down their 2018/19 option on Jordan Mickey last month.
Atlantic Notes: Irving, Dinwiddie, Fall, Simmons
And-Ones: Dolan, Klutch Sports, Larkin, M. Williams
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Clippers Waive Tyrone Wallace, Sindarius Thornwell
July 6th, 2019 at 5:04pm CST by Luke Adams
5:04pm: The Clippers have officially waived both Wallace and guard Sindarius Thornwell, according to the NBA’s official transactions log. The 48th overall pick in the 2017 draft, Thornwell had a promising rookie season but struggled last year in a reduced role, averaging 1.0 PPG and 0.7 RPG in 64 games (4.9 MPG).
Thornwell’s $1,618,520 salary was due to become guaranteed on July 20, per ESPN’s Bobby Marks, so the Clippers won’t be on the hook for it.
3:54am: The Clippers will waive guard Tyrone Wallace, league sources tell ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski (Twitter link). Per Basketball Insiders, Wallace was on a non-guaranteed minimum-salary contract which would have become partially guaranteed for $300K in September, then fully guaranteed in January.
The news of Wallace’s release will be significantly overshadowed by other Clippers-related moves tonight, as the team reached an agreement to sign Kawhi Leonard and struck a deal to acquire Paul George during perhaps the most dramatic half-hour in franchise history.
Still, Wallace saw a decent amount of action as a role player for the Clips in 2018/19, averaging 3.5 PPG and 1.6 RPG in 62 games (10.1 MPG). His performance represented a step down from his 2017/18 showing, when he posted 9.7 PPG, 3.5 RPG, and 2.4 APG in 30 games (19 starts) while playing on a two-way contract.
Those rookie-year numbers helped earn Wallace an offer sheet from the Pelicans as a restricted free agent last summer, which the Clippers matched. Because of that offer sheet, New Orleans will be the only team not eligible to claim Wallace off waivers, tweets ESPN’s Bobby Marks. The former Cal standout will become an unrestricted free agent if he goes unclaimed.
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NBA G League Assignments/Recalls: 3/10/19
March 10th, 2019 at 5:15pm CST by Dana Gauruder
Here are Sunday’s G League assignments and recalls from around the NBA:
The Clippers recalled guards Jerome Robinson and Sindarius Thornwell from the Agua Caliente Clippers, the team’s PR department tweets. In 18 games with Agua Caliente, Robinson has averaged 19.7 PPG and 3.5 APG in 31.3 MPG. The 13th overall pick of the 2018 draft has appeared in 25 games with the Clippers. Thornwell has played six games with the G League club this season, averaging 14.7 PPG in 30.6 MPG but has shot just 18.5% from deep.
The Spurs recalled forward Chimezie Metu and rookie guard Lonnie Walker IV from the Austin Spurs in time for Sunday’s game against Milwaukee, according to a team press release. In 22 games with Austin, Metu has averages of 14.2 PPG, 7.6 RPG and 1.5 BPG in 27.8 MPG. Walker IV has posted averages of 16.2 PPG and 1.8 APG over 27.2 MPG in 26 games with Austin.
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NBA G League Assignments/Recalls: 3/8/19
March 8th, 2019 at 7:21pm CST by Luke Adams
Here are today’s G League assignments and recalls from around the NBA:
The Suns have assigned rookie guard Elie Okobo to the G League, the team announced today in a press release. Okobo, who has appeared in 43 games and started 11 for Phoenix this season, has fallen out of the club’s rotation since the All-Star break, so he’ll get some reps for the Northern Arizona Suns.
The Clippers have recalled guards Jerome Robinson and Sindarius Thornwell from the Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontario, a day after sending them down (Twitter link). Robinson and Thornwell combined for 33 points on 9-of-26 shooting for L.A.’s NBAGL affiliate on Thursday.
The Pistons have sent a pair of 2018 second-rounders, Khyri Thomas and Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, to the G League, tweets Vince Ellis of The Detroit Free Press. The duo will get an opportunity to suit up for the Grand Rapids Drive on Friday night against the Erie BayHawks.
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March 7th, 2019 at 9:02pm CST by JD Shaw
Here are Thursday’s assignments and recalls from around the NBA G League:
The Bucks recalled forward Christian Wood from the Wisconsin Herd, announcing the move on social media. Wood tallied 23 points and 13 rebounds in the team’s game against the Santa Cruz Warriors on Wednesday.
The Rockets have recalled forwards Gary Clark and Terrence Jones from the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, the team announced today. Both players practiced with the club Thursday and could be available for Friday’s game against Philadelphia.
The Clippers have recalled guards Jerome Robinson and Sindarius Thornwell from the Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontario, G League affiliate of the club, the team announced. Los Angeles also transferred two-way forward Johnathan Motley in a related move.
The Spurs assigned forward Chimezie Metu and guard Lonnie Walker IV to the Austin Spurs, the team announced in a press release. Both players are set to be available when the team hosts Raptors 905 on Friday night.
NBA G League Assignments/Recalls 3/6/19
March 6th, 2019 at 8:44pm CST by Arthur Hill
Here are Wednesday’s G League assignments and recalls from around the NBA:
The Clippers recalled guards Jerome Robinson and Sindarius Thornwell from their Agua Caliente affiliate, then reassigned them later in the day.
The Hornets recalled forward Dwayne Bacon and guard Devonte’ Graham from the Greensboro Swarm, the team announced on its website. Both players were sent to the G League yesterday, marking the 14th trip of the season for Bacon and the 10th for Graham.
The Bucks tweeted that they have assigned forward Christian Wood to the Wisconsin Herd for tonight’s game with Santa Cruz.
The Rockets assigned forward Gary Clark to their Rio Grande Valley affiliate, tweets Jonathan Feigen of The Houston Chronicle. Terrence Jones, who signed a second 10-day deal on Monday, was also assigned (Twitter link).
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March 5th, 2019 at 8:42pm CST by Chris Crouse
Here are Tuesday’s G League assignments and recalls from around the NBA:
The Spurs have recalled Lonnie Walker from the Austin Spurs, per the team’s website. The No. 18 overall pick from this year’s draft has seen action in seven NBA games this season.
The Clippers are sending three players to their G League affiliate. Jerome Robinson, Sindarius Thornwell, and Johnathan Motley, who’s on a two-way deal, will go to to the Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontario, per Los Angeles’ Twitter feed.
Tony Bradley is headed to the Salt Lake City Stars, as the Jazz announced on their Twitter feed. The assignment will be Bradley’s 11th of the season.
The Hornets have assigned Dwayne Bacon and Devonte’ Graham to the Greensboro Swarm, per the team’s Twitter feed.
The Warriors have recalled Jacob Evans from the Santa Cruz Warriors, according to the team’s website. The No. 28 overall selection from the 2018 draft has played in 23 games for Golden State this season.
The Grizzlies have assigned Jevon Carter to the Memphis Hustle, according to the team’s Twitter feed.
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NBA G League Assignments/Recalls: 11/27/18
November 27th, 2018 at 8:28pm CST by Chris Crouse
Here are Tuesday’s G League assignments and recalls from across the NBA:
The Suns assigned De’Anthony Melton to the Northern Arizona Suns, according to the team’s website. This will be Melton’s third stint in the G League this year.
The Clippers have recalled Jerome Robinson and Sindarius Thornwell from their G League affiliate, the Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontario, per the team’s Twitter feed.
The Magic have recalled Melvin Frazier Jr. from the Lakeland Magic, according to the team’s Twitter feed. The rookie has appeared in two games for the NBA club, seeing a total of 11 minutes.
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November 26th, 2018 at 9:19pm CST by Dana Gauruder
Here are Monday’s G League assignments and recalls from across the NBA:
The Wizards recalled rookie swingman Troy Brown Jr. from the Capital City Go Go, the team’s PR department tweets. Brown Jr. recorded 19 points, seven rebounds, six assists and three steals in a victory over Canton on Sunday. Brown was the 15th overall pick in the draft.
The Clippers assigned second-year shooting guard Sindarius Thornwell to the Agua Caliente Clippers, the team’s PR department tweets. Thornwell averaged 17.5 PPG in two G League games this season and has also made six brief appearances with the NBA club. He started against the Santa Cruz Warriors on Monday.
The Pelicans recalled rookie forward Kenrich Williams from the Westchester Knicks, according to a team press release. Williams appeared in two games for the Knicks under the G League’s flex system, averaging 14.5 PPG, 14.5 RPG and 4.5 APG in 29.4 MPG. He’s also appeared in five games for New Orleans.
Kenrich Williams
Troy Brown
November 11th, 2018 at 8:41pm CST by Eric Spyropoulos
Here are Sunday’s assignments and recalls from around the NBA:
The Kings assigned rookie big man Harry Giles to their G League affiliate in Stockton, according to a press release from the team.
The Hornets recalled rookie point guard Devonte’ Graham from the Greensboro Swarm, per a press release from the team.
The Magic recalled Isaiah Briscoe and Melvin Frazier Jr. from their Lakeland affiliate, according to a tweet from the team’s PR department.
According to a tweet from the Clippers‘ PR department, the team has assigned rookie guard Jerome Robinson and Sindarius Thornwell to the Agua Caliente Clippers.
The Timberwolves recalled rookie Keita Bates-Diop from their G League affiliate in Iowa, according to a press release from the team.
The Grizzlies assigned rookie point guard Jevon Carter to the Memphis Hustle, per a tweet from Grizzlies’ PR.
The Wizards have assigned Chasson Randle to their G League affiliate, the Capital City Go-Go.
The Thunder announced in an email that they have assigned Abdel Nader to the Oklahoma City Blue.
The Pistons recalled both Henry Ellenson and rookie guard Khryi Thomas, according to an email sent from the team.
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NBA G League Assignments/Recalls: 11/9/18
November 9th, 2018 at 8:01pm CST by Dana Gauruder
Here are Friday’s assignments and recalls from around the NBA:
The Hornets assigned rookie guard Devonte’ Graham to the Greensboro Swarm, according to a team press release. Graham has appeared in two games with Charlotte, averaging 3.5 PPG and 1.5 APG in 9.5 MPG. The 6’2 Kansas product, an early second-round pick, has averaged 23.5 PPG, 6.5 RPG and 8.0 APG in two outings with Greensboro.
The Sixers recalled forward Jonah Bolden from the Delaware Blue Coats prior to their game against the Hornets on Friday, Keith Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer tweets. The 6’10” Bolden, a 2017 second-rounder, has appeared in four NBA games this season but none this month.
The Spurs recalled forward Chimezie Metu from the Austin Spurs after assigning him to the G League on Thursday, according to a team press release. The 6’10” Metu, a second-round pick in June, is averaging 1.6 PPG and 1.2 RPG in 4.0 MPG over five games with San Antonio.
The Thunder assigned forward Abdel Nader to the Oklahoma City Blue, the team announced in a press release. The 6’6” Nader, acquired from Boston in July, has seen just seven minutes of action with OKC.
The Clippers assigned guards Jerome Robinson and Sindarius Thornwell to the Agua Caliente Clippers, then recalled Thornwell, according to the team’s PR department (Twitter links). The 6’5” Thornwell has yet to make his season debut with the Clippers after appearing in 73 games last season. The 6’5” Robinson, the 13th overall pick in this June’s draft, has appeared in seven games and averaged 2.9 PPG in 5.0 MPG.
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The international community has shown distinct commitment to gender equality and bridging the gap in the formal political arena. Despite this commitment, there is currently only 15 percent women's representation in legislature around the world, with only 12 countries where women hold 33% or more seats in parliaments (UNDP Report 2005). Politics is historically dominated and bespoke to men's experience. To succeed in this working field women have to adjust themselves by adopting certain professional identity which can be seen as a career strategy. In order to investigate what gendered professional identities women in the South and North of Ghana adopt in order to succeed in the field of politics, 10 women politicians were interviewed using semi-structured interview. The findings revealed that women in both the North and South have different perception about the field of politics. It was revealed that the women in the North mostly perceive the field to be inaccessible because they build their perceptions around group perceptions while the women in the South perceive the field to be accessible. Success in the field of politics is connected to success in the private space. Positioning in the field of politics is linked to how the women perceive the field. Overall, these positioning influence which career strategy the women adopt in order to succeed in the field of politics. The main difference is the women politicians in the North perceive the field to be distant and opt for “feminine” positions in the field while the women politicians in the South perceive the field to be accessible and as such take pride in positioning themselves in the supposed male positions in the field. This research contributes to identity construction discussions and delves deeper into different socio-cultural environments and spaces, by looking at how females perceive the field of politics and how they tend to identify themselves in the field in order to achieve their aims in the field.
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Performance Watch: Seen in sixty minutes
Stephen Eames: on leading complex organisations
By Stephen Eames2012-06-28T03:00:00+01:00
Is there a blueprint for how to go about starting a new job as the leader of a large and complex organisation? Probably not, but having recently done just that I would humbly suggest there are some important rules to follow.
The first lesson is to make sure you understand the local context. It’s all too easy to assume that what works well somewhere else will easily transfer. Don’t be fooled. While the challenges may be the same as everywhere else, the history, culture and perspectives of partners and stakeholders will almost certainly be different.
Experience is valuable, but much more important is an early reality check to understand what works and what doesn’t in the new setting. Judicious reference to previous experience is also important, as too much referencing to how things were done elsewhere can grate with people and has more resonance in your mind than theirs.
When you arrive, all sorts of people will be seeking your direction on a whole host of matters, especially if there is a crisis. This can be uncomfortable when you don’t know the local systems, politics and people so well. So, it’s important not to make too many decisions too precipitously. As Ian Davis, the former managing director of Mckinsey & Company, says: “There is a difference between being undecided and indecisive.”
Paradoxically, it’s generally easier to make tough decisions as early as possible, so I avoid prevaricating too much on issues that require firm and decisive action. Leaving things alone induces drift and familiarity, making some decisions much more difficult to take later.
Next, make sure you’re not overwhelmed by the welter of requests, pet projects and causes that people want you to handle or champion. The number one task early on is to prioritise. It’s essential to listen carefully and respond to these demands, but the way in which you do this will establish your style, as well as manage expectations.
Coupled with this is managing time. The intensity associated with taking on a new brief means your time for reflection will be limited, so plan for it ruthlessly and use it well.
Start building relationships quickly. This is relatively easy to do within the organisation, but it’s important to pay as much attention to external relationships so the balance between presence with staff and profile in the community you serve is established up front. Taking control of this agenda gives you a greater chance of mitigating against the risk of circumstances driving your time and priorities.
Unashamedly use every means possible to communicate your message and the major priorities you’ll be focusing on. Good news or bad, it’s generally better to be on the front foot and proactively influencing the media, and internal and external perceptions, wherever you can. There’s no substitute for visibility, but augmenting this as much as possible with a communications strategy that uses as many mediums as possible is vital. Consistency of message is also an imperative and it’s best to focus on strategic direction and style.
The worst thing to do is to commit to too much too soon, or make promises that can’t be delivered. Frugal, focused and frequent are the key watchwords for effective and consistent communications in the early stages of settling in.
Perhaps the most vexing challenge is in finding grounded and objective feedback. At the best of times, this is often distorted and filtered, and this is amplified when leadership changes happen.
There are serious bear traps to be wary of, as people are likely to tell you what they think you want to hear, or over egg or under rate what they are reporting to you. Triangulation and leg work are vital to making sure the information you’re receiving aligns with the frontline and external partners.
Collect and use data assiduously. This will help cut through anecdote, hyperbole and opinion and give you a stronger basis for pushing back on issues tinged with history or personal agendas.
Have a set of ground rules that can be your compass as you navigate through the complex array of competing priorities, people and problems that pop up at every turn as you bed into a new role. These should cover your expectations of others, what they can expect from you, things you won’t tolerate and the tone and style you want to convey.
Lastly, leadership positions can be all consuming, as I have found to my own cost in my career. If you’re not careful, you can find yourself working way beyond your daily sell-by-date. So make time to switch off, see the kids and get a life as well.
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Rough Guide to Chicago (the Band)
By Luke Baumgarten
Formed in 1967 in the Music Department of DePaul University, as cover band, the Big Thing. comprising (1) saxophone, (1) trombone, (1) trumpet, (1) guitar, (1) keyboard, (1) drum kit, and (1) bass.
Self-titled debut released under the moniker Chicago Transit Authority. The 171 weeks the album spent on Billboard charts is exactly 19 more than the real Chicago Transit Authority's number of bus routes (152).
Band left Chicago in summer of '68, citing general fascist militarism surrounding Mayor Daley's crackdown on protests during the Democratic National Convention, including Jeeps wrapped in barbed-wire running amok through Grant Park. Debut album carries chants from the DNC as middle-finger reminder to Chicago (the city) of why they left.
Heart of Chicago 1967-1997 and 1967-1998 were the band's fourth and fifth Greatest Hits compilations, respectively (both utterly superfluous and blatant money grabs), which is a striking though probably unintentional parallel to the actual heart of Chicago (the city). Called the Loop, it's the historical center of the city and is the second-largest business district in America, after midtown Manhattan. The first of these two comps, though, charted a No. 1 adult contemporary hit, as if anyone needed proof of the band's demographic.
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Trench art aluminum ring development set
Souvenirs and ephemera
© IWM (EPH 4364)
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Set of four aluminium trench art rings (three still attached to card, one separate)
Set of four aluminum trench art rings, showing the various stages of development, from the fragment of German aluminum nose cone through to completed ring decorated with eagle from German button
Collected by Mrs Alice Rapley Wood (1872-1963) who served as a nurse in France 1914-1916. She returned to England in 1916 and worked at Summerdown camp at Eastbourne, for occupational therapy cases, where the rings were made. Numbered EPH 4364A to EPH 4364D
First World War (association)
Ring: aluminium
Ring: brass
Ring 2 (on Card): Diameter 2.4 cm
Ring 1 (separate): Height 2.2 cm, Length 6.1 cm, Width 2.5 cm
Whole (all Rings): Weight 0.055 kg
EPH 4364
Rapley-Wood, Alice Carina
Home Front, UK, First World War
Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK
trench art ring, inscribed 'Ypres
© IWM (E(AUS) 2078)
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About Jacobson Medical
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We serve the community in which we, our employees and our customers care about
Community Engagement and Education Scholarship
Community engagement and education sponsorship are part of our core CSR mission. In the past, we have sponsored a number of local universities, non-profit organizations as well as sports events. Moving forward, we will keep our ‘care’ mission rolling by serving our community with the greatest effort we can afford.
Education Sponsorship
Sponsorship to “Jacobson Pharma Awards of Digital Story Telling”, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2013)
We were proud to establish this award for the S.H. Ho College, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong to give recognition to the winner of a digital story telling competition. This competition aims to encourage students to develop their English proficiency by making effective use of written, spoken and visual media to create original, reflective and inspiring digital stories that capture meaningful and unforgettable experiences gained in college life.
Sponsorship to the School of Pharmacy, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2013)
We sponsored the School of Pharmacy in the Chinese University of Hong Kong in support of their fellowships, scholarships, special award programs and lectureships.
Sponsorship to the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (2012 & 2013)
We sponsored Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong to recognize their students’ academic efforts by setting up three awards, which were ‘Jacobson Scholarship’, ‘Jacobson Prize in Pharmaceutical Science” and ‘Jacobson Outstanding Award in Research Project’.
Jacobson Cup Table Tennis Competition (2011-2014)
In line with our core value to contribute to our community and to strive for betterment of health and life balance, Jacobson Pharma Group has been the title sponsor for the “Jacobson Cup” table tennis competition since 2011.
Other Sports Sponsorships
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The Fat Boy Challenge (2010)
In 2010, we sponsored the Fat Boy Challenge which was jointly organized by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and the Faculty of Medicine in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, to promote better health concept to the society.
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Sponsorship to the ‘Charity Chinese Calligraphy Contest 2014’
We have sponsored prizes to the ‘Charity Chinese Calligraphy Contest 2014’ organized by Aide et Action, an international non-profit organization, to support their motto of ‘Changing the world through Education’. The donation raised from the event will be supporting the project of providing quality early childhood education for children who come from the underprivileged social groups in China.
Career Talk
Jacobson Pharma is dedicated to championing career in the Pharmaceutical industry as a preferred choice to young people. Our employees often share their rewarding experience of working in Jacobson Pharma with university graduates and young people who aspires to joining the industry.
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Inscape Reform Walls Offer Alternative to Mainstream Construction
12/05/2018 By Rachel Kats
Office solutions provider Inscape has made aesthetic and functional enhancements to its Reform Walls product, enabling them to be a full office solution that can provide an alternative to mainstream construction.
Images courtesy of Inscape
Fully equipped with electrical and hardware, the walls can be continually moved and reconfigured without damaging a building’s warm shell, ultimately transforming a regular office into a high-performing work environment in a cost-effective and sustainable way, says Gary Scitthelm, general manager of Inscape Walls Division at Inscape.
Reform’s aesthetic and functional enhancements include the use of Reform Light glass panels that provide a sleek, thinner base. Other improvements include updating trim features, adding hanging capabilities for worksurfaces, and overhead bins and improved power and data access.
A sound-absorbing tile system has also been added, which attaches to metal, fabric and glass panels by either magnetic or panel mounted options. These tiles provide not only acoustical benefits but also design flexibility and are offered in an array of colors and styles, including a whiteboard and privacy tile option.
“It’s nice to use that vertical space to really personalize the space, and I like it because many times offices are getting smaller and smaller, so the other thing we did was we added some cool finishes,” Scitthelm says.
A new planter option supports biophilic design to promote health and wellness as well as aesthetics.
“Another big thing we did is we added vertical planters, so that you can hook planters onto any one of the smaller panels, so you can stack them, you can put one over your desk, you can do a whole wall of biophilia if you’d like with the planters,” he adds.
What Makes Reform Walls Unique
Reform Walls are constructed using steel with a powder coat baked finish, which Scitthelm says makes them more durable and flexible than alternative products that may use aluminum or medium density fiberboard (MDF).
“Most other systems would use an aluminum frame and then tile system, where you would hang the tiles off of it, ours are completely unitized, which gives you great acoustics and it gives you great strength in the product and a superior finish on it,” he explains.
Inscape’s plan with the Reform Walls is to offer a complete office solution, fully equipped with electrical and hardware, to serve as an alternative to mainstream construction and reduce the need for drywall and other less-ecofriendly options.
“I’d consider commercial interiors one of the most wasteful things in the industry. It’s the number one contributor to landfill sites because as leases get shorter and shorter, they don’t just throw out the drywall but all the finishes that got built in around it,” Scitthelm says.
Together, they work with the building owners, facility managers, tenants, architects, designers and contractors to build a warm shell. They then install the walls via a ceiling and floor track that clip to a T-bar. The unitized panels are then connected to each other and the trim is applied.
“It’s a very simple system both to initially install and really easy to relocate,” he says. “We find that our clients not only love the aesthetics, but they also love the simplicity because it’s just easy to use and relocate and also we find that regularly, we’d be the same or less than conventional construction, the price per square foot, to build out a space using our methods.”
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The new enhancements are part of an ongoing evolution for the Reform Walls, Scitthelm explains, as they look toward more and more ways to unitize the product and improve flexibility and ease of installation. In fact, their overall goal is to make it the easiest product of its kind to install.
“Labor is becoming tighter and tighter in the U.S. on sites. We hear more and more that it’s just hard to get the trades, so we do want to do more and more in the unitized area so that it’s better for our clients and our distribution,” he says. “We want to be the mainstream construction alternative and make it beautiful and simple.”
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'Dark' Season 3 Release Date, Plot, and More on Netflix's Time-Travel Drama
The German sci-fi series will answer your burning questions very soon.
By Allie Gemmill
Filed Under Codex & Netflix
Netflix’s twisty German-language sci-fi series Dark has returned with its second season. Dark Season 2 took viewers to multiple time periods; introduced the villainous time-traveling crusaders known as Sic Mundus; and wove together the stories of various characters to not only make this story about time travel even more complex than it already was, but to also make it evident that fans still have no idea exactly how everything is connected. Maybe Dark Season 3 will finally clear everything up?
Dark takes place in the rural town of Winden, Germany, an industrial town whose residents are born, live, and frequently die there. The series focuses on four families in particular — the Nielsens, the Kahnwalds, the Dopplers, and the Tiedemanns — and spotlights multiple generations of each family over the course of a century. The action begins when multiple children go missing in present-day Winden, causing a handful of characters, including series protagonist Jonas Kahnwald, to investigate where the children went and why it’s been happening. As each of the characters probes further to discover the truth, revelations about the nature of time travel and just how deeply each person’s fate is entwined with Winden’s fate come to the surface. By the end of Season 2, every character is faced with an impending nuclear apocalypse that threatens to stop them all in their tracks.
Dark Season 3 has been confirmed, and it will also be the show’s final season. With all of this in mind, let’s take a look at when the show is set to return, which cast members are confirmed to come back, and what key plot points will be addressed in the new season based on how Season 2 ended.
Spoilers ahead for Dark Season 2.
Jonas is looking for a way back to his own time.
Has Dark Season 3 Started Filming?
Dark series creator Baran bo Odar confirmed on his Instagram on May 30 that production on Season 3 had begun. Odar shared a photo of the title page from a Dark Season 3 script, writing in the captions that filming would take place over four weeks, meaning filming would finish the first week of July 2019.
And it‘s official! We are working on Dark Season 3. It is the final cycle of this great journey. We always had three season in mind when we developed Dark and are happy to tell you that we will start shooting the third and final season in 4 weeks so we can deliver you guys the final chapter of Dark next year. Thank you Netflix for trusting us! Thank you to ALL THE DARK FANS AROUND THE WORLD! You are amazing! We love you! @darknetflix @netflix @louishofmann @lisa.vicari @gina.stiebitz @moritzjahnofficial @paullux1234 @andreaspietschmann @joerdis_triebel #darknetflix
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He also commemorated the first day of Season 3 filming, which took place on June 1, by sharing a photo of the crew at various shooting locations, including the well-established location of the Winden cave entrance regularly shown in Dark.
DARK Season 3... Tech Recce... And we are back to shoot... #darknetflix @darknetflix #mamiyarz67 #shotonfilm #filmisnotdead #kodak #cinestill
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When Is the Dark Season 3 Release Date?
A specific release date has not been confirmed for Dark Season 3, but Odar has seemingly revealed that it will be released in 2020.
There’s never been much of a pattern to the release dates for past seasons. Season 1 was released in December 2017, and Season 2 was released June 2019. If production stays on schedule and filming does wrap in early July, Season 3 could be released in the spring or early summer of 2020.
Is There a Trailer for Dark Season 3?
Not yet. Netflix likes to cut it close when it comes to releasing trailers to promote an upcoming original series or movie, often releasing it a month or two in advance. (The big exception is tentpole series like Stranger Things, which get months of buildup.)
Dark’s Season 2 trailer was released just one month before it premiered on Netflix, so this could still be the case for Season 3. However, because this is the final season, there could be more pomp and circumstance in marketing the season, and a teaser or trailer could arrive in late winter 2019 or early 2020.
How Many Episodes Will Dark Season 3 Have?
No episode count has been confirmed for Dark Season 3. The episode count will likely fall somewhere between eight to 10 episodes. Season 1 ran long, with 10 episodes, while Season 2 was trimmed back to eight episodes. The story certainly didn’t suffer in Season 2 with two less episodes, so it’s possible Dark could continue with this and serve up eight episodes in its final season.
Claudia Tiedemann travels from 1987 to 2020, hoping for answers about her role in the events to come.
Who Is Returning for Dark Season 3?
Let’s be real, this is a show about time travel, and it’s been established that it’s possible for characters who have been killed at one point in time to still reappear in another time. That means no actors are officially out of the series, because characters can resurface in any capacity necessary to tell the story.
While it’s a given that basically any or all of the characters could return for Dark Season 3, the following actors are definitely returning, as they will be essential to the forthcoming season’s story.
Louis Hofmann as “Jonas Kahnwald”
Lisa Vicari as “Martha Nielsen”
Moritz Jahn as “Magnus Nielsen”
Paul Lux as “Bartosz Tiedemann”
Andreas Pietschmann as “2052 Jonas”
Gina Stiebitz as “Franziska Doppler”
Mark Waschke as “Noah”
Jördis Triebel as “Katharina Nielsen”
Karoline Eichhorn as “Charlotte Doppler”
How Did Dark Season 2 End?
So. Much. Happens. At. The. End. Of. Dark Season 2. The Season 2 finale sets up a few key storylines for Season 3, so we’ll break them down to make it a bit more digestible. Just keep in mind that all of the following events happen simultaneously and are happening with a nuclear apocalypse about to go down.
The older Jonas is informed by the younger Noah that he needs to save teenage Bartosz, Magnus, and Franziska by using his time machine to get them to safety. All three teenagers will apparently be vital to the future of Sic Mundus, and Jonas, who will transform into Sic Mundus leader Adam at some point in his future, is responsible for keeping them alive. Older Jonas balks at the task until Noah gives him a letter from Martha, who Jonas believed was dead because she died just moments before the apocalypse in the previous time cycle Jonas lived through. We don’t see what Martha wrote to Jonas but it’s enough to convince him to whisk Bartosz, Magnus, and Franziska to safety at the very last moment. It’s unknown what time they travel to, but it could be 1921, the time period Sic Mundus sets up shop in and operates from.
Katharina Nielsen was hell-bent throughout Season 2 to get her youngest child, Mikkel, back after he mysteriously disappeared in Season 1. (It was revealed Mikkel traveled back to 1986 and stayed there, eventually growing up to be Jonas’ father, Michael.) Katharina manages to find the maps younger Jonas and her husband, Ulrich, were using to explore the Winden caves. As the nuclear meltdown inches nearer and nearer, Katharina manages to find one of the Sic Mundus doors in the Winden caves, which could lead her back to 1987 and to Mikkel. The only problem is: If she manages to find Mikkel and bring him back to a time that isn’t 1987, how will Mikkel’s absence affect the future? It would immediately mean Jonas isn’t born, and if Jonas isn’t born, everything we’ve seen over the course of two seasons would be drastically altered.
Adam has begun the third time cycle, progressing Sic Mundus in their war against time and their quest to establish dominance over it. Adam achieved this by tricking the younger Jonas into traveling to 2019 to try to convince his father, Michael, not to kill himself, believing Michael’s death started all of the events we’ve seen over two seasons. It was a trick from Adam, who needed Jonas to be in 2019 and with Martha so he could shoot Martha, giving Jonas the emotional burden necessary to fight to create Sic Mundus, eventually become Adam, and continue the time war. Whew … how is this an actual sentence?
Who survives the nuclear apocalypse in Winden and what happens in the immediate aftermath of the blast? We know most of Winden’s citizens will die, but Franziska Doppler’s father, Peter, and her younger sister, Elisabeth, will survive the blast because they took shelter in the bunker on the Doppler family cottage property. Claudia Tiedemann from 1987 traveled to 2019 to see her daughter, Regina, and both ended up taking shelter in the bunker, too. Finally, young Noah from 1921 took shelter in the bunker, sharing some intense, knowing eye contact with Elisabeth (who is no more than 10 in Season 2 and is already being established as a love interest for a teenager of maybe 16 or 17 who also happens to be from 1921 and … what?!) as if they’re going to become an item in the wake of the apocalypse.
The most tantalizing reveal involved the arrival of alternate dimension Martha, who came to save the younger Jonas from the nuclear apocalypse. Arriving after the established Martha had been shot and killed by Adam, alternate dimension Martha tells Jonas the right question to ask her is not what time she is from, but rather what world. With that final line, Dark opens up the story even further, revealing more than one dimension exists and hopping between them will be happening a lot in Season 3.
What Burning Questions Does Dark Season 3 Need to Answer?
In addition to picking up the aforementioned story threads in Season 3, there are some key questions Dark needs to address before it ends:
How many alternate dimensions are there?
Do the dimensions police one another? How do they keep track of what’s going on and where?
What will Sic Mundus do now that it has initiated the third time cycle? How exactly do they plan to win their war against time?
Exactly how does time travel affect the body and when does it begin taking a physical toll? Adam (the eldest version of Jonas) looks much worse for the wear after years of traveling back and forth, but he’s still able to do it, implying you can OD on time travel but not to the point that it keeps you from doing it at all.
Is there any way to stop the nuclear apocalypse in Winden in the established timeline without it affecting other time periods or characters?
Finally, on a more personal note: Are Jonas and Martha still going to pursue their problematic relationship as love interests even though it’s been revealed Martha is actually Jonas’ aunt? Or will Dark just continue to crib from Game of Thrones and act like it’s all super chill?
What roles do Martha, Bartosz, Magnus, Franziska, and Elisabeth have to play in Season 3?
What Time Periods Will Be Covered in Dark Season 3?
There’s been no firm confirmation on just how far into the future or past Dark will continue to move in Season 3. Season 2 involved jumping one year into the future for each respective time period, meaning viewers were taken from 1953 to 1954, 1986 to 1987, 2019 to 2020, and from 2052 to 2053. The year 1921 was also introduced as a time period, although it breaks the rules of being able to jump through time in 33-year intervals (not that Dark has ever worried too much about breaking big rules about time travel).
With an alternate dimension version of Martha appearing in the final moments of Season 3, Dark will likely explore other dimensions rather than restricting itself to different time periods within the established world and timeline. This will help broaden out the world of the show and break the doldrums of traveling between five different time periods, as we’ve seen in Season 2.
How Can I Watch Dark Season 3?
You will be able to watch Dark Season 3 on Netflix when it eventually premieres in 2020. Seasons 1 and 2 are available to stream now.
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Rail boss in road rage court case
A DIRECTOR of Anglia Railways has admitted assaulting a man in a road rage incident.
Mark Pickersgill, 40, of Burrell Road, Ipswich today admitted the charge of common assault when he appeared at Ipswich Crown Court.
Father of one Pickersgill had originally faced allegations of assault causing actual bodily harm and a charge of common assault on Raymond White in Ipswich in February this year, and a trial was due to take place today.
But Mr Recorder Alastair Wilson QC discharged the jury after Pickersgill admitted the lesser charge of common assault.
The Recorder told the jury: "You were due to hear a road rage case but the defendant has pleaded guilty to common assault. The Crown finds that plea acceptable."
Pickersgill will be sentenced at a later date and was released on bail.
Pickersgill joined the board of Anglia Railways in January this year.
He was assigned to lead strategy in key areas such as performance, service delivery, operations and fleet development.
He was previously Anglia's Fleet and Engineering Manager and joined the company in 1994.
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Placement of Telegram CDNs in Iran Requires Increased Transparency
June 27, 2017—In light of the decision by the messaging application Telegram to use closed content delivery networks (CDNs) —caching servers that allow faster delivery of multimedia data—in Iran, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urges the company to ensure that the Islamic Republic does not use the new service to interfere with user activity in any way.
“Given the Iranian government’s consistent pattern of pressuring companies to enter into arrangements that could potentially affect user access or security, we urge Telegram to be fully transparent about all requests from the Iranian government,”said CHRI’s Executive Director Hadi Ghaemi.
Since Iran signed the nuclear deal with world powers in 2015, more companies have been using or building infrastructure in Iran, bolstering the need for companies like Telegram to be fully transparent about its dealings with state officials or entities and ensure the highest possible level of user security standards.
In countries where privacy, the right to access to information, and freedom of expression are protected, CDNs do not raise issues. But Iran’s record on internet surveillance and censorship is poor, with hardliners in the government viewing any form of internet freedom as a threat to the Islamic Republic.
If using CDNs in Iran is the first step in a process of Telegram’s gradually increasing presence in Iran, then the company could become an attractive target to Iranian hardliners who have previously demanded that the government of President Hassan Rouhani filter or block access to the app. It could also bolster their claims that Telegram is working with Iranian officials.
Telegram has consistently pledged it will not compromise user accounts in any country context. It states it has not placed “Telegram servers” in Iran, but only CDNs. On its FAQs page, Telegram says it uses CDNs for “caching media from public channels with over 100,000 members.”
On July 22, 2017, Iran’s Deputy Telecommunications Minister Nasrollah Jahangard claimed “Telegram had agreed to move servers to Iran” in accordance with a directive from the Supreme Cyberspace Council.
The app’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov denied Jahangard’s claim: “No Telegram servers (or any other servers with private data of our users) will be moved to Iran or installed there,” he tweeted.
In a post published the next day, Durov added, “It seems that politicians/journalists sometimes refer to an internet traffic provider or a CDN provider that delivers or caches encrypted data of Telegram as ‘Telegram’ or ‘Telegram servers’, thus misleading the public.”
He continued: “There’s a world of difference between them: Telegram servers store private data and will never ‘travel’ to countries with internet censorship, while internet providers and CDNs operate all over the world and have no access to the private data of Telegram (and other secure apps).”
Internet security expert Collin Anderson, who has investigated the installation of CDNs in Iran, told CHRI, “Those companies that build a presence in Iran, even if only with the smallest footprint, must be fully transparent and upfront about their actions.”
Telegram’s decision comes at a time of increased state imposed regulations on owners of public channels on the app. In January 2017, the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance required all channels with more than 5000 followers to register with the ministry and install a state-controlled bot with admin access in a move that widened government internet surveillance powers.
Telegram has not provided details about the CDN providers it is working with in Iran or the CDN’s data traffic in Iran. These issues could be addressed in a transparency report, which are often issued by large social media companies.
“Telegram is the most popular messaging app in Iran, used by some 40 million Iranians,” added Ghaemi. “Any dealings with Iranian government agencies that could endanger the security, freedom and privacy of its users seriously undermines trust in the network and encourages mass migration to networks that are more secure.”
Update on July 27, 2017: After the publication of this article, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov tweeted the following to CHRI: “To the contrary – local caching nodes can’t aid state censors even in theory.” CHRI responded: We reflected your opinion, but IRI can always delete content based in Iran/write code to do it automatically b/c no independent CDNs there. In its responses, Telegram acknowledged its use of CDN servers in Iran. Based on information provided to CHRI by Telegram, this article was also updated to reflect that CHRI is specifically talking about CDN content in Iran and the potential disruptions that could occur and also reflect Telegram’s point of view on this issue. The article was also updated to reflect technical clarifications regarding the implications of CDN use in Iran and the need for transparency regarding any agreements concerning information and communications technology (ICT) with the Islamic Republic moving forward.
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Cork Airport key to EU tourist growth
By Pádraig Hoare
Cork Airport is key to a European tourist recruitment drive to bolster visitor numbers in the region, according to business and tourism figures.
Following on from its marketing campaign on the Paris metro station network in recent weeks, Tourism Ireland said it would partner with IAG-owned airline Iberia Express to promote flights to Cork from Madrid, as well as growing Spanish visitors to Cork.
The body said it was framing Cork Airport as an “important gateway to the Wild Atlantic Way and Ireland’s Ancient East” in its Spanish campaign.
Spain is the fifth largest market for Irish tourism, Tourism Ireland said, going from just 90,000 Spanish visitors in 2000 to a record 443,200 in 2017.
The body’s Spain manager, Barbara Wood, said a combination of the Iberia Express partnership and the marketing campaign of Cork Airport in the country could significantly boost tourists to the region.
“The importance of convenient, direct, non-stop flights cannot be overstated - they are absolutely critical to achieving growth in in-bound tourism,” she said.
Tourist numbers from France, Spain and Italy to the Republic have risen 30% in the past three years, according to Tourism Ireland.
About 12% of all visitors to the Republic come from France, Spain and Italy, and visitors from all three countries account for almost 13m bed nights, Tourism Ireland said.
Almost two in five French holidaymakers are repeat visitors, staying more than eight nights on average, with almost a third of all French visitors coming between April and June.
Almost 40% of Spanish visitors come during the off-season months of winter, said Tourism Ireland.
Head of leisure and business tourism organisation Visit Cork, Seamus Heaney said Cork Airport’s proximity to both the Wild Atlantic Way, Ancient East, the city centre and the county was a major selling point.
“Anywhere we have direct access, through ferries or Cork Airport, is always a great potential market. We’re working very closely with the likes of Tourism Ireland, Cork Airport and the ferry firms to get as many of those airline and ferry seats filled from the likes of France, Spain and Italy.
“Airlines are absolutely commercial entities and you cannot pull at their heartstrings. There is no sentiment involved and if routes are not used, they will not get onboard. However, if they see those routes being used, they absolutely will. The bottom line is pushing the message to use Cork Airport, and that access throughout Europe is now possible through Cork,” Mr Heaney said.
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Niall Scannell back in the line of fire
By Simon Lewis
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Niall Scannell will be thrust into action from kick-off this morning, as Ireland bid to win a first Test series in Australia since 1979.
The Munster hooker was promoted from the replacements bench to the Ireland front-row, to face the Wallabies at Allianz Stadium, because Sean Cronin was ruled out overnight with a grade-one hamstring injury.
Rob Herring comes onto the bench to fill the back-up berth vacated by Scannell, whose Test debut against Italy, in February, 2017 had come in similar circumstances. Then, Rory Best had taken ill and had withdrawn from the team at the last minute.
Today’s series-deciding encounter with the Australians will be Scannell’s second start in as many weeks. He will pick up a ninth Test cap, the Corkman having made a strong showing last Saturday, when asked to shore up the Irish scrum, after a shaky outing in the opening game at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium on June 10.
Despite losing Cronin’s speed and dynamism in open play, Ireland are getting themselves a solid scrummager and lineout thrower, important components of head coach Joe Schmidt’s side, as his Grand Slam winners attempt to close out a series in the Southern Hemisphere.
With a win apiece from what has been a compelling series, the expectation is that today’s finale in Sydney will be the most competitive, intense, and physical encounter of the trilogy.
Scannell’s extra ballast will not do the Irish any harm in front of a sold-out crowd, expected to be dominated by visiting supporters.
Schmidt has told his players they will need to put in their best performance of the season, if they are going to win this series, 2-1. Captain Peter O’Mahony, who today will make his 50th appearance for Ireland, alongside prop, Jack McGrath, does not disagree.
“We need to build on our performance from last week and that’s the main priority for us,” O’Mahony said.
“There were things we did a lot better last week that are going to have to step up again, this week, because we know how proud Australia are.”
“Their record at home is incredible and a team of their calibre, their performances, we have no doubt it’s going to be one of the best they’ve put in all year. We know we have to match that and go beyond, if we want to get a win.
“Of course, we want to go and win, but we know we’ve got to get our process right and our performance is paramount. If we don’t put in a good performance, we could be well-beaten by 30 or 40 points, if we’re not on the ball.
“There is that fear factor for us, that if you’re not good, they could put a lot of points on us,” O’Mahony said.
It might sound odd for the captain of the second-ranked team in world rugby — winners of 13 games out of 14 this season and 12 of them in succession — to be talking about a fear factor, but such are the expectations on this team to deliver now that a defeat this morning would make for a very long summer.
The joys of a Six Nations clean sweep, bookended by victories in Paris and Twickenham, would be overshadowed by the more recent agonies of a setback in Sydney. Such is the lot of a professional athlete or coach.
Outside observers can be less introspective. This is a side that might have been forced from Schmidt’s hand, due to injuries to Andrew Conway, Garry Ringrose, Dan Leavy, and now Cronin, but the incentive to deliver burns just as strongly in those who remain.
As a stress test for a World Cup, a third, very different team in consecutive weeks is an ideal benchmark for Schmidt’s assiduous preparations.
There are concerns, not least the loss of Ringrose from outside centre, the absence of his creativity forcing the Ireland management to return to the midfield partnership forged in Connacht between Bundee Aki and Robbie Henshaw. Aki resumes duties at inside centre, pushing Robbie Henshaw back to 13, where he started in Brisbane and admitted to defensive errors in the 13 jersey, as Ireland lost 18-9.
Schmidt said he was confident Henshaw had fixed those problems.
“I’d like to think so. Robbie is the sort of guy who works incredibly hard on his game and is very reflective about performance. If anything, the key for Robbie is to keep confidence in his decision-making, because he’s a good decision-maker.
“I think, once or twice, he slipped off tackles when he actually made the right decision, so he’s just got to make sure he finishes the tackle and gets those things right, because he’s a super player for us and I think his combination with Bundee will be good.
“We’re disappointed to lose Ringer this week. Garry Ringrose slotted in well, but just the capability they have out there does make it a real challenge.”
“I think Garry slipped off a few tackles that people will have probably seen, as well, and that’s the challenge this week, to make sure we can nail all of those. If not, then certainly as many as possible.”
It will need to be as many as possible, as the Wallabies come out firing in Sydney, determined to make amends for their loss in Melbourne and smarting that their many strike threats in the backline were nullified for long periods and that their poaching superstars, Michael Hooper and David Pocock, were successfully managed.
This is going to be another close contest, but Ireland can round off a remarkably successful season by making another significant statement with a series win in Australia.
AUSTRALIA: I Folau (Waratahs); D Haylett-Petty (Rebels), S Kerevi (Reds), K Beale (Waratahs), M Koroibete (Rebels); B Foley (Waratahs), N Phipps (Waratahs); S Sio (Brumbies), B Paenga-Amosa (Reds), S Kepu (Waratahs); I Rodda (Reds), A Coleman (Rebels); L Tui (Reds), M Hooper (Waratahs) – captain, D Pocock (Brumbies).
Replacements: T Latu (Waratahs), T Robertson (Waratahs), T Tupou (Waratahs), R Simmons (Waratahs), N Hanigan (Waratahs), P Samu (Brumbies), J Powell (Brumbies), R Hodge (Rebels).
IRELAND: R Kearney (Leinster); K Earls (Munster), R Henshaw (Leinster), B Aki (Connacht), J Stockdale (Ulster); J Sexton (Leinster), C Murray (Munster); J McGrath (Leinster), N Scannell (Munster), T Furlong (Leinster); D Toner (Leinster), James Ryan (Leinster); CJ Stander (Munster), P O’Mahony (Munster) - captain, J Conan (Leinster).
Replacements: R Herring (Ulster), C Healy (Leinster), John Ryan (Munster), T Beirne (Scarlets), J Murphy (Leinster), K Marmion (Connacht), R Byrne (Leinster), J Larmour (Leinster).
Referee: Pascal Gauzere (France).
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Abortion referendum to be held next year, Varadkar says
Micheál Martin claims role of ‘super junior’ minister being abused with four appointed
Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 21:17 Updated: Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 21:20
Michael O'Regan, Marie O'Halloran
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has confirmed there will be a referendum on the Eight Amendment to the Constitution on abortion next year.
He said Minister for Health Simon Harris would be responsible for bringing forward legislation to allow for the referendum on the amendment, which gives an equal right to life to the mother and the unborn.
Announcing his Cabinet to the Dáil, the Taoiseach said the “Rebuilding Ireland” housing programme would be reviewed within three months and any additional measures considered.
He said he was determined the Government would show new ambition when it came to climate change by setting out a road map to a low carbon economy.
“Climate will be the first item to be discussed at our first full day strategic Cabinet meeting in a few weeks time,” he added.
He said his Government would be one of purpose and a genuine partnership to work to improve the lives of all citizens.
Mr Varadkar said the amalgamation of the departments of Public Expenditure and Finance, and having the same Minister, was logical because of the restoration of economic sovereignty.
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Mr Varadkar said a country and political system which had weathered difficulties should be able to get the health services right. The recent all-party committee report on health would meet with a detailed response with proposed measures and timelines, he said.
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said the use of the “Super Junior” role was starting to be abused with four Ministers of State now in roles attending Cabinet.
Mr Martin described it as an “avenue of convenience” as Independent Alliance TD Finian McGrath, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, Joe McHugh and Paul Kehoe now hold Super Junior jobs.
The Cork South-Central TD congratulated his constituency colleague Simon Coveney on his transfer as Minister for Foreign Affairs, a department he described as “excellent”.
Mr Martin returned to his criticism of the appointment of outgoing Labour appointed attorney general Maire Whelan to the Court of Appeal and said it “stinks”.
“This is not something that can be got over with a ‘we’ll do better the next time’. And the silence from the Labour party is disappointing.”
He asked why Minister for Transport Shane Ross who staunchly opposed political intervention in judicial appointments “quietly wave through this appointment”.
He said it was a “good old fashioned trade between a judicial appointment and the re-opening of a Garda station”
Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald said Mr Varadkar’s first decision in the appointment of his Cabinet “reflects caution and conservatism”, and had a Cabinet of “procrastinators, excuse makers and responsibility evaders”.
She said it was very interesting to hear Mr Martin “talk tough” but he was for the second time ushering a Fine Gael Taoiseach into office.
She said Sinn Féin was criticised for abstentionism at Westminster but “the true abstentionists of Irish politics are in fact Fianna Fáil as they sit on the fence and look the other way and give you, Taoiseach Varadkar, a honeymoon of indefinite duration”.
Ms McDonald said the Taoiseach should make it clear that his promise of an abortion referendum should be early next year.
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Tigers drop season finale to University 10-2
Lisa Young / Sterling Journal-Advocate
University plated the first run in the top of the second inning. The Bulldogs would eventually defeat Sterling 10-2.
By Lisa Young | lyoung@journal-advocate.com | Sterling Journal-Advocate
PUBLISHED: May 16, 2019 at 8:09 am | UPDATED: May 23, 2019 at 4:04 pm
It was only the third loss for Sterling baseball all season, but this one stung a bit as No.1 University downed the No. 3 Tigers 10-2 en route to claiming the 2019 Patriot League title at Tiger Field Thursday afternoon.
Hopes for a close game or a possible upset evaporated in the second inning when University scored five runs, starting with an RBI single by River Jackson. With two outs and bases loaded, another run scored off a single by Andre Chacon. A wild pitch scored Nolan Johnson and a high fly ball that jumped over the center field fence for a ground rule double plated two more runs, giving the Bulldogs a 5-0 lead.
The Tigers, unable to get their offense moving in the first three innings, went down 8-0 in the top of the fourth when Chayden Cox hit a three-run homer over the left field fence.
Sterling failed to answer in the bottom of the fourth but managed to hold University scoreless in the top of the fifth. Then a two-out rally by the Tigers ended the shutout thanks to a leadoff walk to Trever Rausch and a single by Dylan DiOrio that put runners on the bases.
The pair scored on a double by Dustin Ferguson. Ferguson was tagged out at third while attempting to stretch his double to a triple. But the Tigers finally broke through to cut the lead to 8-2.
University tacked on two more runs, one apiece, in the sixth and seventh innings while holding Sterling off the score board for the 10-2 victory.
Daniel Thiessen took the loss for the Tigers, going 3 and 2/3 innings. The junior was tagged with eight earned runs, on eight hits with two walks and seven strike outs.
“I honestly thought Danny was really effective. As a unit both offensively and defensively, and even the other squad would probably say this too, that the zone bothered some people. I think they had a little thicker skin than we did, but I thought Danny really competed early in the at bats. The counts were in our favor, then he felt like he had to come back across the plate because maybe he wasn’t getting that outside one consistently.”
The loss dropped Sterling (7-2) to third in the Patriot League behind Eaton (8-1) and University (9-0). The top three teams in state advance to host regional tournaments this weekend.
“We actually set a new school record for most wins in a season with 19, breaking the ’91-92 season. The previous record was 18. We had four more games to do it, but it’s still quite the accomplishment for this program,” Squire commented after the game.
Sterling will host the 3A Region 7 tournament Saturday at Tiger Field, weather permitting. If the games are rained out they will be played on Sunday. The schedule is:
• No. 3 Sterling vs. No. 30 Manitou Springs — 10 a.m.
• No. 14 Lutheran vs. No. 19 Buena Vista — 12:30 p.m.
• Winners play each other to advance to state — 3 p.m.
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A closer look at the party where David Josiah Lawson died
Paul Mann
ARCATA — Police radio recordings logged what Arcata officers and medics found on arrival at the scene of an alleged stabbing on Spear Avenue that left a Humboldt State University teenager dead early on the Saturday morning before Easter.
Audio scanner traffic recorded on April 15 from 3 to 4 a.m. documents a series of officer/dispatcher exchanges. First police at the scene variously reported “a very aggressive crowd,” “a large group of angry individuals” and “possible violence involved.”
Officers did not indicate if the revelers, which they estimated to number 100, were feuding among themselves, with law enforcement or with neighbors, interlopers or onlookers.
Within two to four minutes, post-3 a.m., as sirens wailed in the background, police radioed that a woman had been stabbed, that multiple units were responding and that Arcata medical had been alerted.
Shortly thereafter came word via the California Highway Patrol of “at least one report that a man was down,” evidently referring to the fatally wounded student, HSU sophomore and criminal justice major David Josiah Lawson, 19, of Perris in Riverside County.
The wounded female may have been Lawson’s girlfriend, Ren, reportedly stabbed twice on one arm, according to an eyewitness.
Charged with murder is Kyle Christopher Zoellner, 23, of McKinleyville.
Between 3:08 and 3:10 a.m. (all times are approximate due to recording lags), Arcata Police confirmed that the scene at 1120 Spear Ave. was secure, that “a man is down, possible stabbing” and “CPR is in progress.”
A minute or so later, officers repeated that the scene was secure and that “one patient” was receiving CPR.
Between 3:14 and 3:15 a.m., Arcata Police reported “a very aggressive crowd.” An unidentified woman could he heard screaming in the background, sounding hysterical.
At about the same time the scanner traffic, preserved online by Lost Coast Outpost and furnished to the Union, recorded that no more units were available from Humboldt State University police, that Humboldt County Sheriff’s officers were en route and that more Arcata units were en route at about 3:20-3:21 a.m.
Shortly before 3:30 a.m., a female officer radioed for the second time, “I think I found the weapon,” apparently a knife allegedly wielded by Zoellner. He has admitted being in a fight with Lawson, but pleaded not guilty to the murder charge at his mid-April arraignment.
His family insists he is innocent, contending based on hearsay that he was just becoming conscious after being knocked out in a scuffle when he heard a voice saying, “Someone’s been stabbed.”
The second half of the hour-long scanner audio carries no more transmissions pertaining to the stabbing. The terse exchanges concern routine matters, a disabled vehicle, license tag checks and so on.
Evidently the crime scene quickly quieted down. There were no more reports of aggressive behavior or angry individuals, nor any suggestion of violence.
Nor is there any scanner record that the crowd taunted, rebuked or challenged police with words, gestures or other hostile behavior. An early radio call mentioned crowd control, but it did not come up later. There was no suggestion that the scores of attendees were a manifest threat to law enforcement.
The scanner traffic is equally devoid of insights as to whether the stabbing was accidental, intentional, an act of self-defense, an alcohol-fueled caprice or the result of racial intrigue. Zoellner is white, Lawson was black.
The court is determining if Zoellner should be held for a jury trial, pending the findings of this week’s preliminary hearing.
An eyewitness said, unconfirmed by detectives, that the prelude to the fatal clash centered on a missing Iphone that prompted a row between two females, one of them said to be the late Lawson’s girlfriend, Ren. Men and women are said to have joined the fray and one of the women reportedly unleashed a mace attack.
Zoellner’s family contends multiple fights broke out, that Zoellner himself was the victim of a beating and that pepper spray was employed by a woman to defend him, not to disable others.
An eyewitness, HSU student Elijah Chandler, a friend of Lawson’s who administered first aid at the scene, was asked by the Union shortly afterward if anyone in the crowd had aimed threatening words, gestures or actions at police and he answered, “No. All of my brothers were either subduing the assailant [to block his escape] or by my side, helping and talking to Josiah so he’d stay alive.
“The only thing I heard – it was monstrous, in my opinion – is the two Caucasian women, now that the police had arrived and were just making sure the assailant was going to be OK and that nobody touched him, they were saying, ‘I really wish that nigger does die. I really hope that nigger dies.’ They just kept repeating it and I heard this as I am giving Josiah compressions to fight for his life.”
If the crowd estimate of 100 is accurate, the house, driveway and backyard at 1120 Spear Ave. must have been jam packed the night of the invitation-only party. A small, single family dwelling with a garage attached at a perpendicular angle, the compact, one story structure has a tiny, unkempt backyard with a shabby, stooped greenhouse in one corner. The backyard is overlooked by a scruffy, narrow porch, fringed with an overgrowth of ferns.
A short asphalt driveway snakes to the left slightly in a confined cul-de-sac that terminates at 1120’s front door. The exterior paint is an exceptionally pale green with dark green trim. The house sits astride the top of a semicircle of several other homes tucked close together.
The short driveway gives on to Spear Avenue, hard by the single lane traffic circle where St. Louis Road, West End Road and Spear Avenue converge.
A young man who answered the front door Saturday and identified himself as an HSU student declined to say who organized the Easter party or name the owner, but said the house belongs to a property management company. An online search of an off-campus housing website showed the residence listed by California Lifestyles Realty in Arcata, monthly rent $1,500.
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How many child molesters do you personally know of in the J.W's?
by karter 33 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse
Introvert 2
I know one personally, older man in his seventies that was COBE and heard of others in my area north of Montreal.
WingCommander
I live in south-central PA, so what do you think? Red Lion? Yorkana anyone?
1. My high school valedictorian was a JW in the same Congregation as me. Found at several years after graduation that he was caught exposing himself to a room full of toddlers at his mother's daycare. The worldly parents who found out are the ones that told the police. He was arrested, tried, given a sentence, and was on the Pedo list for about 10 years. He was DF'd as well. Moved down South, married.
2. Same Congregation as above: 14-15 year old girl working summers with a JW-owned business. Woman was her sister-in-law. Started playing "games". It became sexual abuse as they violated her. She told her (MS?) father. What'd he do? Called the Elduh's, some of whom where the abuser's relatives. They basically slut-shamed her, guilted her into silence, and didn't do JACK SHIT about her abusers. It took her many years to come forward and put her abusers in jail. She of course? DF'd. Shunned by her own parents. She came back, but then left again. Who could blame her? She joins her (2) siblings as ALL being "out" of the JW's. I often wonder how her parents sleep at night. They should be ashamed of themselves.
3. Red Lion/Yorkana (again!) Martin Haugh's daughter's case. His Uncle John's adopted son was a total Predator Monster, and was caught abusing kids. Was Predator reported to police? Congregations warned? Nah! John had money and "pull", so shut the f**k up everyone, and move us to the neighbouring Red Lion Congregation! There, Predator Monster abused Martin Haugh's daughter and attempted other gropings I believe. What did John and Silvia do? Not a damn thing! Oh, except protect Predator Monster and move him around down South in order to cover their asses. Totally shameful and disgusting behavior. Martin eventually exposed this creep, and the Law is now involved. Hope the family finally sees FULL justice. A LOT of Elduh's in the Red Lion Congregation are going to need good lawyers in the very near future, and I'm betting WT HQ isn't going to foot their bills! (maybe, cause they gotta protect the $$$$)
4. Worst case I know of. Multiple "generations" of abuse in this case. Main abuser still in good standing. Brother. Husband. Father. Elduh. 144,000 Member. Incestous rapist. Child molester. I grew up around this family, and even studied (alone) with the Father in my home at age 13-14 from The Greatest Man book as I worked (lazily) towards baptism. (shudder) I quit my study eventually as I was bored and didn't want to get "dunked" cause I always felt something was "off" with the religion. Thank god I trusted my gut! Anyway, back in the mid-90's this family just imploded from the inside out. Everyone believed the 144k father that his wife was a "Jezebel" and having an affair, after like 20 years of marriage. She was DF'd for leaving him of course. That was it. Or was it? Years later, I come to find out the eldest son of this Elduh had been arrested on child porn charges, for like the 3rd time! He was being sent to the PA Federal Penitentiary. Anyway, I then found out the whole story over a period of years. 144k Father had apparently started his career of sexual abuse on his own sisters, by raping them. No one even knew he had sisters. Gee, guess he forgot to mention them? Then, he graduated to molesting his own children. (2 boys, 3 girls) Mother discovered this, divorced the creep, but probably wasn't strong enough at the time to break free from the JW cult-think and have him arrested. Anyway, oldest son was first arrested for nearly killing a newborn. Then child porn. Then child porn and bestiality pics again. (jail 25+ years) Late 90's, early 2000's, the younger son then moves into Red Lion Congregation, with letter from WT HQ following him. He's not allowed to go in Service with kids. EVER. Apparently, he had raped his youngest sister who was 14 at the time. He was 19 or so. He was DF'd. Not reported to the police as far as I know. He moved down South, and is married to an older woman whom had kids. (shudder) I hope the Law catches up with him. I heard from something the mother had posted online, that the (2) boys molested their sisters. Makes sense. It's a learned behavior (from the father) that just keeps repeating. Happy to report the mother and all (3) daughters are OUT of the JW's, at least physically. I believe the eldest daughter still is somewhat "mentally in", as when I tried to email her info to JWFACTS, etc she wrote me back about being "blasphemous" and other stupid shit. SMH. I myself, had hoped the PEDO Father (in his 70's by now) was gone or DEAD by now. Imagine my surprise while driving thru Columbia, PA back in June, and passing a Field Service group and seeing this disgusting creature knocking on doors? Yep! I'm sure the one Mount Joy, PA Congregation just LUVS their 144k SuperStar! See, WT HQ shuffled him to another congregation in Lancaster, where he re-married to a Pioneer, and apparently is reinstated in good standing. Do tell, when does Jah expose these PEDO monsters? In "his due time"? Kind of hard to do when the JW Org actively hides the abusers and victim-shames the abused into silence. SMH.
stuckinarut2
I heard the case of a very faithful sister who just this week approached her Circuit Overseer and said "I dont think that the Society's child protection policies are sufficient"
His reply?
"I Do" and walked away.
So, it seems that the Society and it's representatives take this matter very seriously. (Sarcasm alert)
joe134cd
His reply? “I do,” and walked away.
Very telling indeed.
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Measles outbreak: Fifth case of measles in Tennessee
A fifth case of the measles has been confirmed in Tennessee.
Measles outbreak: Fifth case of measles in Tennessee A fifth case of the measles has been confirmed in Tennessee. Check out this story on knoxnews.com: https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/health/2019/05/01/think-its-measles-call-ahead-before-going-doctors-offices-ers/3638172002/
Kristi L. Nelson, Knoxville News Sentinel Published 12:35 p.m. ET May 1, 2019 | Updated 10:30 a.m. ET May 3, 2019
Measles was declared eradicated in the U.S. in 2000, but measles outbreaks have been on the rise. Here's why that is happening. Dwight Adams, dwight.adams@indystar.com
The Tennessee Department of Health announced a fifth case of measles Wednesday afternoon, and health care providers are trying to get the word out to call ahead before potentially exposing others.
Unless it's a true emergency, there's no need to rush into your doctor's office or emergency room, potentially putting people at risk for the airborne virus, local health providers say.
Child with a classic measles rash after four days. (Photo: CDC)
Measles can spread easily
Local hospitals are asking patients who suspect they might have measles to call ahead before coming in.
"It would be best to call ... a primary-care physician or public health for advice prior to coming to the emergency department, especially for those with mild symptoms," said Dr. Mark Rasnake, infectious disease physician for the University of Tennessee Medical Center. "Calling ahead to the emergency department for patients with severe symptoms is a great idea. It gives us an opportunity to prepare for an entry to the facility that minimizes the risk of exposing other patients and visitors to measles. We have pathways to bring potentially contagious patients into the facility that avoid common areas like lobbies and waiting rooms."
East Tennessee cases: State confirms fourth East Tennessee measles case, all related to original case
Ann Metz, director of marketing for Tennova Healthcare, said Tennova is asking patients who suspect they have measles to wear a surgical mask and call ahead for directions on where to come in at its hospitals, Tennova North in Powell and Turkey Creek medical centers, "to avoid passing through the waiting room."
Effort to vaccinate hospital employees
Metz said Tennova has offered measles-mumps-rubella vaccine shots for all its employees who didn't have proof of immunity; Covenant Health's chief medical officer, Dr. Mark Browne, said Covenant hospitals are doing the same, "with a focus on those who work in direct patient care areas." Rasnake said UT Medical Center provides the vaccine to all hospital employees at the time of hire but also periodically reviews records to make sure employees are covered, especially during outbreaks.
"Most of our staff had proof of immunity or completed catch-up vaccinations prior to the recent Tennessee measles cases," Rasnake said, "but we have administered boosters to several team members that lacked full documentation of immunity when we did an intense review of immunity records over the past two weeks."
Officials have confirmed the first case of measles in Tennessee this year. Ayrika L Whitney, The Tennessean
No 'fix' for measles
Dr. Richard Glover, with Children's Faith Pediatrics, said his practice has fielded a lot of calls since Tennessee's first measles case of the year earlier this month from parents making sure their children are protected. He's getting fewer from adults looking for childhood immunization records, though some other practices are seeing that, he said — historically, the most requests come from teenagers who need to show proof of immunization for college or certain jobs.
As for parents worried that their children have measles, he hasn't had a lot of them — and won't, he thinks, until a case appears in a school or day-care center — but he's not sure he would see them in the office, anyway.
The protocol for measles, unless it's diagnosed within the 72-hour window when vaccine can still help, "is isolation (to prevent spread) and supportive treatment," which focuses on comfort and staving off complications while the virus runs its course, Glover said. "Parents want them seen, and I understand that. I'd like to see them. But to bring them into the office, you potentially expose all the children under 1 who can't get the vaccine yet."
Modern doctors haven't seen measles
Measles' early symptoms — fever, dry cough, runny nose, sore throat and inflamed eyes — overlap with so many other illness, including allergy season in Tennessee, Glover said.
By the time the white spots inside the cheeks and the red, splotchy skin rash appears, an infected person could have been contagious for four days or longer.
Tennessee measles outbreak: What you should know
Glover said many more common childhood illnesses also have rashes, including roseola, rubella, fifth's disease and sometimes strep. Though measles has a distinctive rash — a flat, red, blotchy rash that usually appears first on the face and spreads downward, with lesions becoming joined together as the rash spreads — few practicing pediatricians have seen it, he said.
At 55, "I've seen one case in my whole career, and that was in training," he said. "Probably, doctors in their upper 60s are going to be the ones who have seen this."
Glover said the measles vaccine came out the year he was born. Before that, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were around 500,000 cases each year in the United States, with around 48,000 people hospitalized, 1,000 cases of encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, and 450 to 500 deaths each year. The last documented measles death in the United States occurred in 2015.
"Measles caused all kinds of problems," including ear infections and encephalitis, both of which lead to some children losing hearing, and pneumonia, which is the most common cause of measles-related death in children, Glover said. "The vaccine was very well-received and worked very well."
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I've not much to say about this book that hasn't been said before. Both stories are nice and deep.
'Notes from Underground' - a mind bender!
'The Double' - a mind bender in a very different way!
Though hard going at times - I think that was largely due to translations - I loved this book. I'd love to read it in Russian, but I don't speak Russian :) ( )
ReneePaule | Jan 23, 2018 |
Hey wait, are you a misanthrope? Do you feel betrayed and disappointed with life? Are you a bitter, bitter man? Why narrator, I never would have guessed! Why don't you spend the next hundred pages telling me about it? That sounds like loads of fun. ( )
wealhtheowwylfing | Feb 29, 2016 |
This book contains two short novels that have some thematic common ground, which helps to explain why Penguin housed them in a single volume.
Notes from Underground:
This is a very dark and surprisingly modern novella in which an unsympathetic narrator, a retired junior civil servant, describes his gradual alienation from society, initially in a description of his philosophy, but then through narrating some of the episodes that led to his downfall. This book prefigures some of the themes of Crime and Punishment.
The Double:
This is an earlier novella that is more of a comedy, though the core story is a dark vision. Once again the narrator is a St Petersburg civil servant. This one sees himself as an essentially honest person, but gradually falls from grace, then encounters his double, a lookalike answering to the same name, who gradually takes over the "hero's" life. A compelling vision of a broken man trapped in his own nightmare ( )
bodachliath | Jul 6, 2015 |
This volume combines two of the great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky's iconic stories: Notes from Underground and The Double; both are thematically linked by their study of the human consciousness in a decidedly tragic-comedic fashion.
In the first novella, Notes from Underground, Dostoyevsky recounts in an extended monologue the thoughts and feelings of the eponymous Underground Man who rambles and rages against the oppressive society "above ground" with bitter irony and how, because he does not want to take part in any aspect of that society, retreats underground to an isolated and tortured existence. He attacks Western philosophy and idealism, choosing instead "conscious inertia".
The second part of this novella delves deeper into the Underground Man's psyche by three events that happened, seemingly before his descent underground, and how they work together to destroy him, demonstrating the uncooperative and irrational actions of humans.
The second novella follows a civil servant as he encounters his doppelgänger one stormy night, and thereupon descends into a nightmarish world as his double demonstrates all the charm and social skills the original Golyadkin lacks to the latter's despair. Eventually, the original Golyadkin encounters more and more of his doubles and must be committed to an insane asylum, leaving the reader questioning how much of the narrator's story was fabricated in his own head.
Both novellas study the human condition and, particularly Notes from Underground, deal with the themes of alienation and existentialism; both are at the start of a long tradition of modern novels that are permeated with a sense of ennui and the meaningless of existence. Both novels in fact explore these themes at length and are an excellent introduction to the works of one of the greatest writers in Russia and indeed the world. ( )
xuebi | May 30, 2014 |
I imagine Notes was just as difficult when it was published as it is now. The "story" is depressing and starts only in the second part of the novel. During the first part, I kept thinking, "How can the depressed extremes of this character ever be interesting? Is this book one long whine by a self-involved jerk?" As I read on, I started to understand that the man was relentless in following his motivations to their unsentimental beginnings. Uh-oh. This guy is doing something that very few of us do, and he's bragging about it. At that point, I knew I had better read on, no matter painful it gets. A cruel, self-centered, honest person. ( )
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Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I am a sick man. ...I am an angry man.
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‘It is best to do nothing! The best thing is conscious inertia! So long live the underground!’ Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky’s groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter sarcasm, he describes his refusal to become a worker in the ‘ant-hill’ of society and his gradual withdrawal to an existence ‘underground’. The seemingly ordinary world of St Petersburg takes on a nightmarish quality in The Double when a government clerk encounters a man who exactly resembles him – his double perhaps, or possibly the darker side of his own personality. Like Notes from Underground, this is a masterly study of human consciousness. Jessie Coulson’s introduction discusses the stories’ critical reception and the themes they share with Dostoyevksy’s great novels.
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Elton John bashes Venice mayor for withdrawing preschool books promoting homosexuality
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VENICE, ITALY, August 20, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – British singer Elton John publicly criticized Luigi Brugnaro, the mayor of Venice, for withdrawing several preschool books that promote homosexual behavior to children under the age of six.
During the past weekend, John called Brugnaro "extremely silly" and "boorishly bigoted" in an Instagram post. His post also depicted one of the storybooks that, according to the rock star, promotes an “all-inclusive world where families come in all shapes, sizes and colours.”
“Instead of encouraging a world based on inclusiveness, tolerance and love, he's championing a future society that's divisive and fosters ignorance,” the post continued. “Beautiful Venice is indeed sinking, but not as fast as the boorishly bigoted Brugnaro.”
The book depicted in the Instagram post, called "The Family Book", is a favorite of John’s and was among the books that were withdrawn from Venetian preschools, which seemed to spark the singer’s anger.
Elected in June, Brugnaro withdrew 49 books whose main characters were same-sex couples from preschools and nurseries last month, as he had promised to do during his campaign.
The books were bought by the previous administration, at the price of 10,000 Euros, ($11,200 U.S.) according to local media.
Brugnaro responded on Twitter in a series of tweets in Italian that said: "The challenge is to give real resources for saving #Venice.”
Another message he tweeted on Tuesday said, “At #Venice we definitely will not risk creating sexual confusion for children younger than 3 years old. We respect the growth of children!”
Hundreds of Venetians showed their support for their mayor with tweets like: “If you don’t share their ideas, you’re a bigot, redneck, homophobe, fascist, racist, etc. We are with you.”
This is not the first time John attacks Italians for standing against gay “marriage”.
Last March, John called for a boycott of openly gay designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana for saying they opposed gay “marriage” and adoption, and making comments against in vitro fertilization.
John and his partner David Furnish have two sons conceived through IVF.
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Elton John bashes Venice mayor for withdrawing preschool books… Elton John bashes Venice mayor for withdrawing preschool books promoting homosexuality News By Sofia Vazquez-Mellado
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Ikanos Goes for the Gateway
Craig Matsumoto, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading
VDSL chip firm Ikanos Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IKAN) is setting sights on the residential gateway, acquiring a network processor line and ADSL chips from Analog Devices Inc. (NYSE: ADI).
The $30 million cash purchase, announced after the market closed yesterday, gives Ikanos its first products beyond the DSL-chip area. (See Ikanos Acquires ADI Lines.)
The deal is expected to close during the first quarter of 2006, adding $25 million to $30 million to Ikanos's 2006 revenues. Analysts had expected Ikanos to report revenues of $120 million for 2006, according to Thomson First Call .
It's unclear how many employees Ikanos would pick up in the deal, but officials say the purchase would bring the company's headcount to 220, half of whom are in India.
The network processor acquired from ADI, dubbed Fusiv, targets access appliances and was crafted to transmit 100 Mbit/s upstream and downstream while running IP routing, VPNs, and a firewall at the same time. The 100-Mbit/s figure is a nice coincidence, matching the speed claimed by VDSL chipmakers, including Ikanos. (See Ikanos Intros VDSL2 Chips.)
Ikanos says it would use Fusiv as a home-gateway play, targeting the customer-premises appliances that would be central to carriers' triple-play broadband plans. The primary customer for Fusiv has been set-top box vendor Sagem Télécommunications SA . In January, ADI also announced ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen: 000063; Hong Kong: 0763) as a Fusiv customer, and Ikanos CEO Rajesh Vashist fingered Netopia Inc. as a Fusiv buyer during yesterday's conference call with analysts. (See ADI Targets Broadband and ZTE Picks ADI Chips.)
The deal shows Ikanos eager to expand beyond the VDSL chips that brought the company public in September. While Ikanos has claimed success in VDSL, the company faces the prospect of increased competition as large chip players such as Broadcom Corp. (Nasdaq: BRCM), Conexant Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CNXT), and Infineon Technologies AG (NYSE/Frankfurt: IFX) get more interested in the market. (See Ikanos Prices IPO , VDSL2 Fight Begins, Conexant Takes VDSL Plunge, and Infineon Launches VDSL2.)
Ironically, the ADI deal would intensify any rivalry between Ikanos and those firms; Broadcom and Conexant, in particular, already target home gateways. Even so, CEO Rajesh Vashist believes Ikanos isn't arriving too late, as he thinks his competitors will have to redesign their residential gateways anyway.
"They're based on network processing capabilities from some time back," he said on a conference call with analysts late yesterday. "There was not an expectation that VDSL or 100-Mbit/s or 200-Mbit/s performance would show up this quickly."
Still, Ikanos doesn't have the bigger chip companies quaking yet. In an email to Light Reading, a Conexant spokeswoman points out that her company has experience on its side, having worked the home gateway market "since its inception." She also notes that a network processor alone doesn't make a gateway: "We have WiFi and VoIP and transport technologies such as powerline [Ethernet] which further strengthen our portfolio."
Meanwhile, some companies such as Amedia Networks Inc. (OTC: AANI) and Netopia have begun incorporating VDSL into their gateways. (See Amedia Unveils Triple-Play Tech and Netopia Embraces VDSL.)
Ikanos's share price inexplicably jumped 10 percent on Jan. 10, which could be interpreted as a sign that rumors of this acquisition -- possibly in mutated form -- were making the rounds. Yesterday, Ikanos shares closed down 59 cents (3.4%) at $16.80.
— Craig Matsumoto, Senior Editor, Light Reading
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re: Ikanos Goes for the Gateway
TI and Centillium will cream them.
Besides, I have a very poor opinion about their engineering team.
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Fans of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra will be pleased to learn that the Orchestra has teamed up with their Conductor Laureate, Sir Charles Mackerras, to make their third recording together on Linn Records.
The recording sessions, which are taking place early this month, will result in what promises to be another outstanding recording of Mozart's works - a speciality of Mackerras'. Following on from their hugely successful collaboration on "Mozart Requiem", they SCO will tackle the popular last four symphonies (Nos 38-41) in a recording scheduled for release in 2008.
This will be the fourth album of Mozart that the SCO has recorded for Linn. The previous three albums - "Mozart Requiem", "Mozart Wind Concertos" and "Mozart Serenades" have all been very popular with the public and critics alike.
Politiken Selects Its Top 20
3 Linn albums included in its Best of 2018 list.
Double accolade for Brahms: The Symphonies
Classica names it one of the Best Recordings of 2018.
Robin Ticciati Enters The UK Charts
with 'Brahms: The Symphonies'
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Robin Ticciati Interview
The conductor talks to Presto Classical
Presto names Piemontesi's Mozart in its Top 10 of 2017
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Emergency Drug Dosing in Children,, Mike Wells
Наличие: Отсутствует. Возможна поставка под заказ.
Автор: Mike Wells
Название: Emergency Drug Dosing in Children, (Майк Уэллс: Опасности неверного определения доз лекарств у детей)
ISBN-13(EAN): 978-0-7020-4639-1
Серия: Emergency Medicine
Иллюстрации: Illustrated
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Подзаголовок: A resuscitation aid for paediatric emergencies
Описание: The contents of this book cover overcoming medication errors in paediatric emergencies, practical pharmacology in paediatric emergencies, emergency bolus drug dosing charts, emergency infusions dosing charts, equipment guidelines, and much more.
Автор: Walsh
Название: Cardiac Arrhythmias in Children and Young Adults with Congenital Heart Disease
Описание: "This volume reviews current pathophysiologic concepts and describes state-of-the-art techniques for management of cardiac arrhythmias in children and young adults with congenital heart disease. The book provides a thorough understanding of cardiac electrophysiology and detailed technical information on catheter ablation, pacemakers, and implantable defibrillators.
Автор: Nigel Raby
Название: Accident and Emergency Radiology
Описание: Illustrated with well-annotated radiographs which assist the reader in the interpretation of abnormal/normal radiographic appearances. Each chapter in this book deals with the basic radiographs required, important anatomy, normal variants, a system for inspecting suggested views, types of injury and ends with a summary of key points.
Автор: Teresa Pountney
Название: Physiotherapy for Children
Описание: A clinical manual and reference on paediatric physiotherapy, which examines the theoretical and clinical aspects of physiotherapy provision for children and young adults including: neurology; cardio-respiratory; musculoskeletal; oncology and palliative care; mental health; and, acquired brain injury.
Автор: Mirvis Stuart
Название: Emergency Radiology
Описание: Uses more than 200 case studies to challenge your knowledge of a range of topics in emergency radiology, including MDCT-A of vascular injury, CT and MR of spinal injuries, CT and MRI of CNS emergencies, and subtle and classic CT signs of bowel emergencies. This book offers a user-friendly tool for self assessment in this specialty.
Автор: S. V. Mahadevan, Gus M. Garmel (ed)
Название: An Introduction to Clinical Emergency Medicine
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
Наличие на складе: Есть (более 5-х шт.)
Описание: Building on the strengths of its award-winning predecessor, this new edition of An Introduction to Clinical Emergency Medicine is a must-have resource for individuals training and practising in this challenging specialty. Guided by the patient's chief complaint, this text presents a concise, methodical approach to patient evaluation, management and problem solving in the Emergency Department. Unlike other textbooks, which elaborate on known diagnoses, this extraordinary book approaches clinical problems as clinicians approach patients - without full knowledge of the final diagnosis. Fully revised and updated, the second edition includes new chapters on sepsis, bleeding, burns, neonatal, alcohol-related, and dental emergencies. Stunning full-color chapters include clinical images (photographs, ECGs and radiologic studies), detailed illustrations and practical tables. Written and edited by experienced educators, researchers, and practitioners in Emergency Medicine, this text is core reading for students and residents, and an important resource for practising emergency physicians, faculty, and other healthcare providers.
Автор: Mahmood
Название: Fundamentals of Pediatric Drug Dosing
Описание: Focused on pediatric physiology, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, this book illustrates the differences between the pediatric population and adults; knowledge of extreme importance not only during pediatric drug development but also in the clinical practice. Physicians, nurses, clinical pharmacologists, researchers and healthcare professionals will find this an invaluable resource. With the advent of pediatric exclusivity, and requirements to conduct clinical studies in children, an emphasis has been placed on finding a safe and efficacious dose of a drug in children. Children are not ‘small adults’, and drug dosing in this population requires special consideration. There are subtle physiological and biochemical differences among neonates, infants, children, adolescents and adults and dosing in pediatrics requires proper understanding of these factors. Furthermore, dosing in children, as in adults, should be based on pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data. This is an evolving area, as pediatric pharmacokinetic studies are becoming mandatory for getting approval of new drugs in this population.
Автор: Tack
Название: Radiation Dose from Multidetector CT
Описание: Computed tomography (CT) is a powerful technique providing precise and confident diagnoses. The burgeoning use of CT has resulted in an exponential increase in collective radiation dose to the population. Despite investigations supporting the use of lower radiation doses, surveys highlight the lack of proper understanding of CT parameters that affect radiation dose. Dynamic advances in CT technology also make it important to explain the latest dose-saving strategies in an easy-to-comprehend manner. This book aims to review all aspects of the radiation dose from CT and to provide simple rules and tricks for radiologists and radiographers that will assist in the appropriate use of CT technique. The second edition includes a number of new chapters on the most up-to-date strategies and technologies for radiation dose reduction while updating the outstanding contents of the first edition. Vendor perspectives are included, and an online image gallery will also be available to readers.
Название: Emergency care of children and young people
Издательство: Wiley
Описание: Emergency Care of Children and Young People is an essential reference for all health care professionals working with children in the emergency department setting. It explores the key skills needed for effective care and presents the evidence which underpins effective practice in an accessible and informative format.
Автор: Dr Ffion Davies,Dr Colin E Bruce,Dr Kate J Taylor-
Название: Emergency Care of Minor Trauma in Children: A Practical Handbook 1E
Описание: Succinct, highly illustrated, with a wealth of online ancillaries, this handy pocket guide enables doctors, nurses and emergency care practitioners to successfully manage common minor injuries in children at the point of care.
Автор: Swischuk
Название: Emergency Musculoskeletal Imaging in Children
Описание: This guide to the radiologic workup of acute musculoskeletal injuries and conditions in children is organized by anatomic site and covers injuries and conditions of the upper and lower extremities encountered in emergency room, outpatient clinic and office.
Название: Radiation Dose from Adult and Pediatric Multidetector Computed Tomography
Описание: Because of the radiation dose delivered, multidetector row CT (MDCT) may induce cancers, and the risk of death has been estimated at up to one per 1,000 examinations. Despite this, only a small proportion of referring clinicians, radiologists, and technologists are aware of both the radiation risks and their underlying mechanisms. This book is designed to rectify this situation. The first part of the book provides a comprehensive approach to all the factors that influence the radiation dose and subsequently the risk induced by using MDCT in children and adult patients. In the second part, guidelines are proposed for optimization of the radiation dose in order to obtain an image quality sufficient for appropriate diagnostic performance while restricting the dose delivered. This book, written by experts of international standing, will appeal to both general and specialized radiologists, including pediatric radiologists, CT technologists, physicists, manufacturers, and all professionals involved in MDCT.
Автор: James R. Roberts
Название: Roberts and Hedges’ Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine,
Описание: Covers the equipment, devices, drug therapies, and techniques you need to know for effective practice of emergency medicine.
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Dreams of Gods and Monsters, Taylor Laini
Склад Англия: 25 шт.
Автор: Taylor Laini (Лайни Тейлор)
Название: Dreams of Gods and Monsters (Лайни Тейлор: Сны о богах и чудовищах)
Издательство: Hodder
Серия: Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy
Описание: The incredible final novel in Laini Taylor`s breathtakingly imaginative Daughter of Smoke and Bone series, DREAMS OF GODS AND MONSTERS
Старое издание
Автор: Taylor Laini
Название: Dreams of Gods and Monsters
Автор: Taylor, Laini
Описание: The book that everyone has been waiting for ... the much anticipated final novel in Laini Taylor`s breathtakingly imaginative Daughter of Smoke and Bone series, DREAMS OF GODS AND MONSTERS
Название: Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Описание: Daughter of Smoke and Bone is a book unbounded by genre but located at a magical crossroads where The Passage meets Philip Pullman and Twilight meets Pan`s Labyrinth.
Название: Days of Blood and Starlight
Описание: It began with the breathtaking DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE... This November, the story continues in the astounding, must-read sequel, DAYS OF BLOOD AND STARLIGHT
Автор: Laini Taylor
Название: Days of Blood and Starlight (Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy 2)
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Название: Lips Touch
Описание: From the author of the astounding, must-read DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE trilogy, comes a vividly imaginative, award-winning short story collection.
Описание: The first book in the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by award-winning author Laini Taylor
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.
In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.
Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out.
When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?
Название: Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Описание: When the ancient evil of the Blackbringer rises to unmake the world, only one determined faerie stands in its way. However, Magpie Windwitch, granddaughter of the West Wind, is not like other faeries. While her kind live in seclusion deep in the forests of Dreamdark, she s devoted her life to tracking down and recapturing devils escaped from their ancient bottles, just as her hero, the legendary Bellatrix, did 25,000 years ago. With her faithful gang of crows, she travels the world fighting where others would choose to flee. But when a devil escapes from a bottle sealed by the ancient Djinn King himself the creator of the world she may be in over her head. How can a single faerie, even with the help of her friends, hope to defeat the impenetrable darkness of the Blackbringer?
At a time when fantasy readers have an embarrassment of riches in choosing new worlds to fall in love with, this first novel by a fresh, original voice is sure to stand out.
Автор: Taylor, Laini Hvam, Khristine
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Urban sociolinguistics,
Склад Англия: 149 шт. Склад Америка: 149 шт.
Название: Urban sociolinguistics (Урбанистическая социолингвистика)
Социология и социальные исследования
ISBN: 1-138200-7-9
ISBN-13(EAN): 978-1-138200-7-1
Серия: Language/Linguistics
Иллюстрации: 8 tables, black and white
Размер: 22.86 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm
Читательская аудитория: Postgraduate, research & scholarly
Ключевые слова: Urban communities, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General,LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General,LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Подзаголовок: The city as a linguistic process and experience
From Los Angeles to Tokyo, Urban Sociolinguistics is a sociolinguistic study of twelve urban settings around the world. Building on William Labovs famous New York Study, the authors demonstrate how language use in these areas is changing based on belief systems, behavioural norms, day-to-day rituals and linguistic practices.
Each chapter is written by a key figure in sociolinguistics and presents the personal stories of individuals using linguistic means to go about their daily communications, in diverse sociolinguistic systems such as:
extremely large urban conurbations like Cairo, Tokyo, and Mexico City
smaller settings like Paris and Sydney
lesser developed areas such as the Western Netherlands Randstad area and the Kohima area in India.
Providing new perspectives on crucial themes such as language choice and language contact, code-switching and mixing, language and identity, language policy and planning and social networks, this is key reading for students and researchers in the areas of multilingualism and super-diversity within sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and urban studies.
Автор: Lillis Theresa
Название: Sociolinguistics of Writing
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Описание: Bringing the study of writing to the heart of sociolinguistic inquiry, this textbook illustrates and challenges the 'great divide' between speech and writing and raises questions about what's involved in viewing any stretch of language as 'written/writing'. The book is organised around four main areas: 1) socially oriented text analyses of written texts; 2) modality inflected analyses of texts and practices; 3) writing as identity and performance; and 4) the analysis of literacy practices in relation to networks, access, participation and resources. Further topics covered include: what we mean by 'writing'; specific functions of writing and written texts within academic knowledge in sociolinguistics; and key practical questions about carrying out research into writing from sociolinguistic perspectives. Core sociolinguistic approaches to writing are explored throughout the book, including, for example, different aspects of the politics of orthography and writing systems.
Название: Sociolinguistics
Автор: Bassiouney, Reem
Название: Arabic sociolinguistics
Описание: The first introduction to the field of Arabic sociolinguistics, this book discusses major trends in research on diglossia, code-switching, gendered discourse, language change and language policies in relation to Arabic.
Автор: Baker, Paul
Название: Sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics
Описание: Describes the ways in which corpora can be utilised in sociolinguistic enquiry.
Автор: Hornberger, Nancy
Название: Sociolinguistics and language education
Описание: This book provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, including topics of nationalism and popular culture, style and identity, creole languages, critical language awareness, multimodal literacies, classroom discourse, ideologies and power, across various language education contexts.
Автор: Trousdale, Graeme
Название: An Introduction to English Sociolinguistics
Описание: This textbook provides an introduction to a range of sociolinguistic theories and the insights they provide for a greater understanding of varieties of English, past and present.
Название: Studies in corpus-based sociolinguistics
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
Автор: Trudgill, Peter
Название: Glossary of sociolinguistics
Описание: This pocket-sized alphabetic guide introduces popular terms used in the study of language and society. A central topic within modern linguistics, sociolinguistics deals with human communication and the use of language in its social context. This glossary provides full coverage of both traditional and contemporary terminology.
Автор: Swann, Joan (ed)
Название: Dictionary of sociolinguistics
Описание: The first comprehensive dictionary of the field of sociolinguistics.
Автор: Peter Trudgill
Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd
Описание: Examines the close link between language and society and the many factors that influence the way we speak. Ranging from gender, environment, age, race, class, region and politics, this work surveys languages and societies from all over the world drawing on examples from Afrikaans to Yiddish. It is suitable for sociolinguistics.
Автор: Salo, Linus
Название: Languages of homo academicus towards a sociolinguistics of scientific production
Описание: This book presents a sociolinguistics of academic publishing from an historical and contemporary perspective. Thought-provoking and challenging, this book will interest students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language planning and language policy, research policy, sociology of science, history and psychology.
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G. Cabrera Infante
García Márquez tells his story
Gwen Burnyeat
The Colombian Peace Process
The Colombian Referendum
Colombia’s History of Violence
Michael Taussig
In Colombia
Edward Luttwak
Biography and memoirs, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Americas, South America, Colombia
Vol. 5 No. 10 · 2 June 1983
pages 18-19 | 4067 words
At Tranquilina’s Knee
The Fragrance of Guava: Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza in conversation with Gabriel Garcia Marquez translated by Ann Wright
Verso, 126 pp, £9.95, May 1983, ISBN 0 86091 065 2
To judge by the reaction of some of his staunchest admirers, many readers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez were truly taken aback by what he wrote about the alleged behaviour of British troops in the trenches during the Little War for the Falklands. It’s surprising, however, that most of his disenchanted fans live not in England but in Spain, where the offending article appeared. Down there they are still writing letters of disapproval – though Spanish readers are not exactly what you could call a race of letter-writers. They don’t read the Times, you see. Besides, Spain is a traditional rival of Britain in most international affairs, from the World Cup to the Rock. Moreover, the Spanish were verbal supporters of the Argentine side in what’s usually called by Spaniards la guerra de las Malvinas. They, too, refuse to call the islands Falklands.
But this is not the first time that the Nobel Prize-winner of 1982 has lied in print, and not only in the banana republic of his fiction. He lies about any subject that takes his fancy. On Sundays he dissipates his boredom by writing his weekly column and sending it over to Madrid. In Spanish the words column and calumny come closer than in any English dialect, including Pidgin. But Garcia Marquez makes the homophones become synonyms every week.
It was with characteristic British reserve, though, that Lieutenant-Colonel David Morgan, Commandant of the 1st Battalion of the Seventh Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Riders, set about straightening things out. The Gurkhas are the British soldiers whom, in an ugly slur, Garcia Marquez accused of committing almost unprintable atrocities. When interviewed by the Observer Colonel Morgan placed the calumny in its true context: ‘We really have to put the record straight,’ he concluded after a precise rebuttal. ‘Especially as this man clearly has considerable influence.’ ‘This man’ is another name for a congenital liar. He says so himself – in so many words.
Perhaps Colonel David Morgan doesn’t know that what Garcia Marquez told about the Gurkhas is a trick his grandmother taught him as a treat, when he was a child. Marquez’s granny was not Indian or Nepalese but she knew a lot – if not enough to tell a Gurkha from a sepoy, at least how to tell a lie. ‘I am capable of saying the most atrocious, the most fantastic things, with a completely straight face,’ Garcia Marquez said in an interview. ‘This is a talent I inherited from my grandmother – my mother’s mother – Dona Tranquilina.’ Tranquilina means ‘the Quiet Old Lady’ in Spanish. ‘She was a fabulous storyteller who could tell wild tales of the supernatural with a most solemn expression on her face. As I was growing up, I often wondered whether or not her stories were truthful. Usually, I tended to believe her because of her serious, deadpan facial expression. Now, as a writer, I do the same thing. I say extraordinary things in a serious tone. It’s possible to get away with ANYTHING as long as you make it believable.’ The italics and the capitals are of course mine, but the interview was published in Playboy, in February 1983. In it you can also read the most astonishing confession of voluntary submission to political censorship by a writer since Stalin and Zhdanov died. Playboy: ‘One of the rumours about you is that you give Castro a first look at your novels before you submit them to your publisher. True?’ Garcia Marquez: ‘Well, with my most recent book, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, yes.’ Then the interviewer spoils the statement with a servile question of his own: ‘Did he like it?’
This declaration of dependence explains all the lies about Gurkhas and mass rape, but it doesn’t excuse them. Here are some samples of Dona Tranquilina’s evil inheritance. The ‘legendary and ferocious beheaders from Nepal’ advanced on the Falklands, according to Marquez, ‘shouting and cutting off heads’ – which of course makes one of the two actions, if simultaneous, rather awkward, not to say impossible. Nevertheless the ‘ferocious Gurkhas’ managed to behead ‘with their decapitating scimitars a poor [Argentine] boy every seven seconds’. Not, mind you, every five or ten seconds, but precisely every seven seconds. ‘Due to a queer custom,’ writes Garcia Marquez in his well-known inherited deadpan, ‘they held the severed head by the hair and then they cut off the ears.’ But he is merely re-telling it all: he has a star witness, who was there, sur place in the trenches, but begged to remain anonymous, leaving Dona Tranquilina’s grandson to the courage of his concoctions. ‘These beasts,’ the socialist writer writes about the Gurkhas, a racial minority, ‘were so bloodthirsty that when the battle was over, they went on killing their own troops, until they had to be handcuffed to subdue them.’ Mad Gurkhas and Englishmen, no doubt.
Where the gruesome met with the grotesque was the moment the Pope (the Pope, not Poe) made the English surrender a thousand Argentine prisoners, only to find that 50 of them ‘had to be operated on for lacerations in the anus’. An epidemic of hemorrhoids? No, erratic enemy sodomisers. All those soldiers had been brutally raped. (Can anybody be gently raped?) To save the honour of the Third World, the rapists were not the Gurkhas: it was all clumsily done ‘by the English’. British troops were not, as the Marquis of Queensberry once put it, ‘posing as somdomites’ – they were the real thing. The story is worthy of another marquis, De Sade as seen by Pasolini. The Argentine prisoners of war (and victims of sudden lust) had to be quickly interned in some secluded sanatoria that Garcia Marquez calls ‘special hospitals for the rehabilitation’ of soldiers whose families shouldn’t know the ‘state they were in’.
This kind of news-writing and storytelling combined makes Mark Twain, the famous author of ‘The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County’, look like a Jehovah’s Witness delivering a Sunday sermon. I must remind you that Mark Twain never got the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is obvious that it takes a different kind of lying to win it. Here it is, blooming wild.
Every Wednesday the Spanish newspaper El Pais prints, on what they call the ‘Noble Page’ (actually their version of an Op-Ed), an article with the Garcia Marquez byline. Before it’s too late I must warn the editors of Punch that each column wears, very visibly (like the one titled ‘Las Malvinas a Year After’), its author’s own copyright notice. It’s difficult to say if this is a mere legal formality, otherwise unheard of in Spain, to protect the penman from the swordsman, or just another authorial superstition among the many this writer has collected on his way to celebrity. To name only two, I can mention his painful habit of getting up very early in the morning to write his stuff – but never on Sunday, like Hemingway – and his donning an old brown robe to sit at his desk at dusk, like Balzac. Be that as it may, El Pais’s editorial page is thus made doubly noble by the new Nobel novelist. Recently a letter not to but from the Editor praised the writer’s exemplary habits of punctuality, order and cleanliness in terms so compelling they could force an untidy author like Tolstoy to jump in front of a speeding typewriter. Garcia Marquez writes weekly for Spaniards about all things on earth, but when he writes of things heavenly then he writes mainly of himself. To be fair, when he comes out as his own hero he always tells it as it should be – not like it was.
One of Garcia Marquez’s recent bellybusters was devoted to his trip to Stockholm to collect the Nobel Prize. Here he narrated how, in true populist fashion, he attended the ceremony wearing a liqui-liqui (some sort of traditional Colombian white linen suit), with a yellow sunflower in his lapel. In fact, his entourage, all two hundred of them, wore a yellow flower too: in their clothes, in their hair – everywhere. A national emblem perhaps, like the yellow rose of Texas? No, senor. A flowery exorcism against the evil eye: a Caribbean custom. A cumbia band was in full swing throughout the gala. The cumbia is a poor Colombian version of the Manhattan salsa, more gravy than saucy. A Spanish writer commented in Madrid’s Café Gijon that it was as if Juan Ramon Jimenez, the Andalucian poet, winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize, had gone to the Swedish ceremony wearing a Cordoban sombrero, a fancy chaleco and vaquero boots. He could even have taken along a flamenco troupe, with red carnations in their hair and lapels – and one or two with the gypsy rose clenched between their teeth. Olé!
The highlight of the Nobel performance was Garcia Marquez’s speech in Spanish. Here he showed off a first-hand knowledge of that avis vulgaris, the South-American caudillo. He lectured on many picturesque strongmen of the past. But when he came to the present-day variety he merely alluded to them, as if eluding name, rank and serial number. Perhaps he feared that if he named the dean of dictators, General Alfredo Stroessner, who has already been 29 years in power in Paraguay, he would have at least to skirt around Comandante Fidel Castro, who has managed to rule Cuba, all by himself, for 23 full years, without the benefit of the doubt of even a popularity poll! Stroessner rigs his elections but at least he has them – though he is usually the only candidate. When it comes to Latin caudillos Castro is the second-best bet. Any bookie will tell you that Fidel will outlive Fredo into first place any day now.
Meanwhile, back at the Academy, Garcia Marquez quoted from the grim statistics of Latin American exiles in the second half of the 20th century. ‘One million people have fled Chile!’ he claimed in his speech – and of course he lied. Later El Pais printed a news item from Santiago in which the Human Rights Commission in Chile stated that, in all, 200,000 Chileans have left the country, but of those only 20,000 could be considered true political expatriates. But our inveterate liar managed to forget all about Cuba (he didn’t even mention it), one-tenth of whose population has been living in exile for almost twenty-five years, in a bloodless decimation that is none the less cruel for that. During his self-addressed discourse Garcia Marquez twice mentioned the word ‘solitude’ and at least once quoted in full his by now famous title. It seemed as if he had not only invented the ‘concept of solitude’ (thus dismissing the autumn of Petrarch), but also the noun ‘year’ and even the numeral ‘one hundred’. Soon he will be copyrighting ‘Gabriel’. Finally, with a blast of the trumpet, he gave himself the title of ‘inventor of tales’ because, as he assured the august Academicians, he could ‘believe anything’. Of course. But he didn’t have to go all the way to Sweden in winter to prove it.
In a continuation of his celebration and jubilation by other means (and another column) Garcia Marquez told how Sylvia, Queen of the Swedes, danced the cumbia with the author during the Academy Awards evening. In sheer delight, this crowned head lost it a bit and hummed discreetly as she waltzed. Wait a moment! The waltz is in triple time while the cumbia is a two-time dance – so how could she? It doesn’t really matter if she goofed a step or two. No queen is perfect, you know. (Though her dancing partners sometimes are.) Anyway, she could have danced all night – even in the wrong steps. The writer, who claims he only writes prose metaphors, had his lyrics mixed up here. He probably got carried away by the memory of dancing the hours away with royalty. Ah yes, he remembers it well! The queen dressed in blue but he still wore the patriotic liqui-liqui, off-white and somewhat crumpled now, what with the abra-zos from the fans from fjords and farms, humble Scandinavians all. They came to Stockholm to see a humble Latin get a literary prize (for being chummy with Castro) which Borges, another Latin though not so humble, didn’t get (for once visiting with Pinochet). All military men are alike but some Latin dictators are more catching than others.
In his fifth column, the most unintentionally hilarious ever, Garcia Marquez appears at Castro’s door, bringing into his humble abode a rare present: a book! Castro claims that he has seen one of those before, but Garcia Marquez sweetly explains that to see what it really is you must open it first. Like this. See? Ah yes. How clever! We must do that more often in Cuba, you know. The novelist goes away, leaving the book with the Prime Minister-cum-President and Maximum Leader, a man so clever with words that mere legerdemain enabled him to trade watches with la Lollobrigida: she had a Cartier, he wore a dime-a-quartz Sanyo. It was then, when Marquez left, according to Gina’s wristwatch, early evening. Castro, moving his lips with stealth, began to read the first page.
Some time next day, late in the afternoon, Fidel (Garcia Marquez always calls Castro ‘Fidel’ – according to Graham Greene, in Cuba only his enemies dare call him Castro) came to see him: with eyes sore or at least redder than usual. He looked haggard and his voice had not the sound of musing but the hideous frog of insomnia. ‘Son of a gun!’ said Castro as a greeting, ‘you and your book didn’t let me sleep at all! I was hooked for the night.’
What volume of Marxist revelation was this that Castro couldn’t put down? To judge by his red eyes it had to be The Communist Manifesto. No, reader: it was Bram Stoker’s Dracula! (The Hammer and Sickle version.) Torquemada was right: nobody knows what evil lurks between covers. That’s why he created the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. (Latin makes lousy titles.) It was too late anyway: Castro was converted from political terror to Gothick horror in one single night of love. Since that fateful day Garcia Marquez has scrounged his library and those of his bibliophile friends and has even raided every Mexican libreria, looking for more fodder in the canon to feed the insatiable appetite Fidel Castro has now worked up for the macabre.
A more recent column shows Marquez feeding not only books but live authors to Castro: he took Graham Greene with him to Havana to meet with the Comandante. In his latest collection of dim-witticisms, Marquez gives rave notices to the spectacle of a tyrant posing for writers as frequently as Napoleon sat for painters: all laurels and a branch of green olive. Per festeggiare il suvenire d’un grand uomo, as Beethoven wrote – but then he erased it. This pièce de resistance (not by Beethoven precisely) is called ‘My Twenty Hours with Graham Greene in Havana’. In it Garcia Marquez gleefully tells us how he entered the United States duty free, as some kind of official contraband (which is not uncommon if you come from South America), this time in the company of Senor Greene: the couple of swell writers were smuggled into Washington by General Torrijos, then the President of Panama. The merriment becomes general too when the author of The Autumn of the Patriarch recalls how Torrijos even tried to disguise the author of The Power and the Glory as a Panamanian colonel! Devised by a Latin American general, this is not so strange a guise. Fidel Castro, who’s no general, has disguised many writers, if not as military at least as militants in his cause, whatever its course.
It isn’t true at all that Garcia Marquez could visit the United States only in disguise, be it as a civilian or a soldier. The man who gave us Leaf Storm now gives us a leaflet. He of course has generals to write about, but on 17 April 1961 he abandoned a sinking ship like a speedy skipper: even before it was listing. He left the Prensa Latina news agency, which he headed in New York, the very moment he read the cable announcing the Bay of Pigs invasion. He fled, contrary to his master Hemingway’s dictum on bravery, without grace under no pressure at all. Garcia Marquez apparently conceded defeat before the first battle: his heart had had reasons that other parts of his body couldn’t fathom, but no verba can hide these facta. Knowing that two lies never make up for one truth, Marquez has piled up lies until he doesn’t know how to tell the truth. He only has his deadpan face left.
Garcia Marquez came back to the United States, to the same city he had left in evil hour, but without a little help from his friend the general. He received a doctor honoris causa degree from the very American (and therefore capitalistic) university of Columbia. For the lover of analogies I can say that it is as if the University of Kiev had honoured Jorge Luis Borges with a similar degree. The analogy is only political, of course, not literary. In Manhattan our author was interviewed by the Argentine journalist from Life, Rita Guibert, then doing a book on Latin American writers, called Seven Voices. During the interview Marquez, mark his words, revealed his deepest truth: ‘I scarcely read at all: it doesn’t interest me. I read biographies and memoirs – the lives of men who have held power. Memoirs and revelations by secretaries, even if they aren’t true ...’ In the same Seven Voices a poet who has never written fiction, Octavio Paz, has this to say: ‘Garcia Marquez is an opportunist of the left, a man without ideas, tout court.’ At the Columbian ceremony the Colombian arrived wearing not the Panamanian uniform or the Cuban verde-olivo fatigues but the university toga.
Though the word ‘truth’ is a nonce to him, Marquez is telling the truth here. But his plight is not his only. Many foreign writers are not allowed to enter the United States. Just like hundreds of thousands and even millions of other aspiring visitors who are not Colombian writers. Every country, like each house, greets visitors as they deem best. Franco’s police, for instance, didn’t let me stay in Madrid in 1966, when I had just fled from Cuba, while Garcia Marquez lived happily in Barcelona almost until the Caudillo died He was, he claimed, analysing the death rattles of a patriarch – the Generalissimo to you. A hell of a patriarch! By the way, I’ve never seen him as anxious to visit Moscow as he is to stay in New York.
Now for something similar. The Fragrance of Guava is not Chanel in the tropics but a book of interviews. Or rather one long interview contained in a slim volume. This time the interviewee (Mark Twain hated the word as much as he loathed lies), by repeating everything he said to the Playboy interviewer, falls exactly between two stooges. The co-author of the book, however, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, is a Colombian writer and an old friend. Mendoza proves to be more of a Pliny than an Apuleius and never lets Marquez look like an ass – not even a golden one, as before. As a matter of fact, Mendoza is a good journalist, and though he has been a factotum of Marquez in the past, now tries hard to avoid becoming a camp-follower. He even redresses many mistakes made by Marquez elsewhere. Like claiming ownership of that fickle fable from Faulkner about the whorehouse being the writer’s ideal home from home – some sort of brothelhood of man, as it were. Here the minstrel machismo has been conceded to the gentleman from the South.
El Olor de la Guayaba (the title, like the yellow flower, comes from an old Caribbean custom) is the chronicle oft told before of a man who has not much to say about anything – but sudden prominence compels him to talk about everything, from art to zoology. Mendoza tries hard, to no avail. Even when he grabs hold of everything for the record. Or almost everything. He has left off the record, for instance, that moment of truth when Marquez explained to his friend, relator and countryman, who had lent him both ears, why he pretended he was a Communist when he wasn’t. (This happened 12 years ago in Paris and many in their circle remember his answer, a revolutionary revelation – or a clue to his character.) Marquez confided to Mendoza that he was certain that the Soviets were going to win in the end. He had figured out that they might be the only begetters of all encyclopedias (including Britannica) in about one hundred years. Marquez wanted to be in all those books, badly, even if they were written in cirillic characters. ‘Solitude’ is a song by Duke Ellington, about three minutes long.
Garcia Marquez began his truculent story of Gurkhas and mass rape in the trenches with this vignette, worthy of O. Henry at his most sentimental. An Argentine soldier comes back from the war in the Falklands. Before reaching home he decides to call – guess who? – mama. After this coup de larmes, a naturalist touch: the soldier phones from the actual 1st Regiment, stationed at Palermo, Buenos Aires. The young man asks his mother if he could bring along a buddy. You see, Mummy, he has been badly wounded and is terribly, horribly mutilated. He is a rookie of only 19, who had lost a leg, an arm and been blinded for life. The mother was happy to hear her son’s voice but is now horrified about having an invalid in her house. She said no, she wouldn’t have him: she couldn’t bear the sight, not to mention the company, of a mutilated man. Sorry, son. The soldier hangs up and shoots himself. This type of tear-jerker has been done already, only much better, by King Vidor in a motion picture called The Big Parade, with John Gilbert as the son who returns to mother from war a mutilated man. The movie was made in 1925 and it was straight fiction. Now Garcia Marquez tells it again but as news from the Falklands front. Blind soldiers who phone unknowing mama only to learn of her horror of mutilation and blindness. Now come on!
After this short short story unworthy of Maupassant even when floored by general paralysis of the insane, I feared that Garcia Marquez might tell us the one about the ‘yaller one-eyed cow that didn’t have no tail but a short stump like a bannanneer’. He was about to, in fact. So ‘lacking both time and inclination, I did not wait to hear about the afflicted cow but took my leave.’ That’s what Mark Twain did. You’d better follow Mr Twain, folks. He knows what he’s talking about. He tamed the tall tale into a darn good yarn and made great art out of lying. Now Gabriel Garcia Marquez, reversing the process, threatens to make all yarns look like news – and all because the quiet old lady loved to lie!
Vol. 5 No. 10 · 2 June 1983 » G. Cabrera Infante » At Tranquilina’s Knee
Vol. 5 No. 13 · 21 July 1983
SIR: Mr Cabrera Infante is right to inform us of Garcia Marquez’s insidious articles (LRB, 2 June), the more so given the large circulation and high prestige of the Spanish newspaper in which he publishes them. On the very day I read the LRB article a Spaniard credulously told me the story of the Gurkhas, a wild tribe from Asia who apply warpaint before charging off to their head-cutting exploits. However, Mr Cabrera Infante’s article is not a review of the book in question, The Fragrance of Guava, and does a disservice to those who might be interested in it. For even if it were packed with outright lies and dissimulations (which it isn’t) the nature of literary fame is such that we should still have to attend to them. A writer’s evasions and opinions, however muddle-headed, are of interest to anyone who reads his or her work. The understandable vitriol which Cabrera Infante pours on Garcia Marquez is noticeably, however, not devoted to the material presented in this book (except fleetingly) but rather to the aforementioned articles in El Pais. Someone should point out that The Fragrance of Guava is not full of ranting attacks on the British (who don’t come into it at all), nor even of lofty condemnations of capitalism. Most of it is taken up with mild recollections of his family, his attitudes towards his books, his early writing career, the effects of financial success and so forth. And while Cabrera Infante might decry it people do like to know, for example, that Garcia Marquez was the son of a telegraph operator, that he does not wear gold on his person, that he believes Chronicle of an Announced Death to be his best work although The Autumn of the Patriarch is the one by which his literary reputation will stand or fall. These things may prove to be false, but we may become interested in them precisely because of that. The reviewer could also have suggested something of the quality of the book’s production by telling us of the wooden translation of what is easy conversational prose, of the transposition of two of the captions to the photographs, of the people represented in another being described in the wrong order. And finally, I hope that it is a typesetter’s desire to save space rather than Cabrera Infante’s getting fed up and capitulating to British ignorance which leads to the frequent abbreviation of Garcia Marquez to plain Marquez. Or are we now licensed to speak of Mr Infante? Infante Cabreado?
David Callahan
SIR: Has Cabrera Infante lost his head? Down here where the Times isn’t read but the LRB is, the offending article was generally regarded as ironic. Tranquilo, hombre!
Paul Milican
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In a season fraught with top-drawer solo performances (Charles Nelson Reilly in Life of Reilly, Kathleen Turner in Tallulah, Melinda Lopez in Medianoche, and Jean Stapleton in Eleanor: Her Secret Journey), Judith Delgado towered over all. Playing fashion diva Diana Vreeland, the actress delivered a performance that lived up to Vreeland's motto: "Give 'em what they didn't know they wanted." Vreeland's life story garnered 1996 Drama Desk and Obie awards for creators Mark Hampton and Mary Louise Wilson when Wilson starred in it. Elizabeth Ashley did the honors when the national tour passed through South Florida in 1998. Nonetheless Delgado, a genius at transforming herself, turned the tastemaker and long-time Vogue editor into something of her own (and director Joseph Adler's) making. Even the actress's elegant, oversize hands conspired to become a perfect physical match for Vreeland's elegant, larger-than-life personality. It was a performance that reached out and grabbed us by our lapels.
"Have Character, Will Travel." So reads the business card of Daniel Ricker, self-appointed "citizen advocate," who spent the past year attending county commission meetings, city commission meetings, school board meetings, and Public Health Trust meetings, all in an effort to better understand how government operates. He even sat through the public-corruption trial of former county Commissioner James Burke so he could hear firsthand how deals are made at the county level. Why did he do it? Ricker, who made his fortune managing international companies that sell coronary pacemakers, says he became so disgusted with the sleaze and corruption of politics in South Florida that, rather than withdraw into apathy, he became hyperactive in the community. He took a year off work and dedicated himself to his task. A man of limitless patience (a necessary attribute in order to sit through some of those meetings), he says he never became bored and always found the working of government fascinating and important. Simply knowing that an informed member of the public was attending those meetings, watching every move they made, undoubtedly had a sobering effect on Miami's less-than-trustworthy politicians and bureaucrats.
In a county with woefully slim public-transportation options, Miami Beach planners looked out their windows, past the backed-up traffic at the stoplights, and saw the future. It was pretty, environmentally friendly, and didn't cost a lot. The ElectroWave shuttle buses premiered two years ago and have proven to be a wonderfully hassle-free way to navigate the often congested streets of South Beach. And a good thing was recently improved: In April the routes were expanded to cover more city blocks north of the original South Pointe-to-Seventeenth Street loop. Plus the fleet grew from seven to eleven vehicles, and payment options were increased (you can now use your parking debit card to pay the 25-cent fare). The shuttles are completely electric, with propane-powered air-conditioning units. "We are the only all-electric transit system in the country," exclaims Judy Evans, executive director of Miami Beach Transportation Management Association. "We've become a model for other cities."
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Lessons from the Goldstone Report
Daoud Kuttab
The angry political and public reaction to the decision by the Palestinian leadership to postpone discussions of the Goldstone war crimes report requires a sober look at the reasons and lessons that need to be learned to avoid repetition.
Anger came from Palestinians and non-Palestinians alike, including many supporters of Palestine. Arab media, especially Al Jazeera dedicated hours and hours of prime time TV to give space to bombastic attacks against Mahmoud Abbas and his leadership. Public accusations calling Abbas a traitor who sells out the blood of Palestinians in Gaza have become so common that it is worrisome.
Anti-Abbas demonstrations took place in Gaza and Ramallah, and many petitions, public statements and web-based messages were issued.
While the Palestinian president has established a PLO committee headed by a non-Fateh member to investigate what happened, a number of facts are undisputed. The Human Rights Commission members were ready and willing to vote in favour of turning the report over to the UN Security Council. At least 33 of the 45-member council appeared to be willing to vote for it.
It is also undisputed that although the Palestinian observer delegation has no right to vote, its clear support for the postponement was key to the decision of the voting delegates. Arab and Muslim leaders who were also under US pressure said in public that they could not be more Palestinian than the Palestinian leadership.
Many more details have now come out about the US and Israeli pressure and arm-twisting tactics. President Barack Obama called Abbas and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton worked her diplomatic machine using the US consulate in Jerusalem, all apparently due to the pleading of the Israelis.
The Israeli media publicly talked about harsh economic pressures threatened if the Goldstone report is not postponed. The Palestinians were apparently blackmailed with the possibility of denying licence to a second cellular phone company, which would have cost the Palestinian government $300 million in punitive fees. The fact that the second company includes some direct and indirect relations to the PA leadership has not been denied by Ramallah.
The Palestinian leadership was caught completely off guard and has failed to provide satisfactory justifications. Attempts to say that they are not voting members or that the war crimes report also implicated Hamas failed to convince anyone.
The longer the Palestinian leadership refused to take responsibility the longer the attacks have continued.
Even the high marks Abbas garnered coming out of the sixth Fateh congress and the holding of the Palestine Central Council that elected pro-Abbas executive committee members failed to shield the Palestinian leader from angry public attacks.
Understanding some of the circumstances surrounding this scandal can help put things into context. The terrible results, in Palestinian eyes, of the New York tripartite summit after months of high expectations from the Obama administration left Palestinians and their supporters totally disillusioned and hopeless in a US led diplomatic breakthrough.
With disappointment from the political process high, the only option to put real pressure on the Israeli occupiers seems to be in dealing with Israel’s crimes of war. The Goldstone Report was a Godsend and the squirming of the Israelis proved to many that the threat of effective war crime accusations might be their Achilles heel.
Another circumstantial problem is the controversy over the licensing of the Watania cellular company. For over two years the PA, with help from Tony Blair and others in the Quartet, has been pushing Israel to release the airwaves that would allow for the second cell phone company to work.
On the eve of the Goldstone discussions, the Israelis bluntly came out in public saying that the licensing of Watania was conditional on the PA’s position regarding the report.
Whether this was the motive behind the Palestinian decision or not, the appearance of a quid pro quo became fodder for discussions, to the point that even the former UN special rapporteur for Palestine, Robert Falk, mentioned this as a reason, even though he was unable to provide evidence of this allegation when confronted by a reporter.
Even supporters of the Palestinian Authority admit that it was clearly outmanoeuvred by the Israelis and the Americans, and was seen to be totally out of touch with its own public and the Arab and international supporters.
What are the lessons that the Palestinian Authority should derive?
To begin with, it is clear that Abbas relied much more on his close advisers than on the legal bodies that represent Palestinians, or at least the ruling Fateh faction. Neither Fateh’s central committee nor the executive committee of the PLO were consulted or involved in the decision. Leaks from the two groups say that whatever discussions took place within these bodies was totally unfavourable to postponing discussion on the report.
Even the Fayyad administration, while mostly a technocratic government, is reported to have been opposed to this decision. Had he sought and received approval from these two representative bodies, Abbas would have saved himself much of the personal attacks and would have made all involved responsible.
What comes out of the behind-the-scenes discussions is that Abbas and his top advisers rarely use the weapon of political and public opposition in Palestine. At a time when the Israeli government stands up to tremendous US pressure, stressing its refusal to fulfill international obligations, the Palestinians are not used to say that a decision will not fly by the opposition or the public at large.
In this context, it appears that Abbas seems to exaggerate the consequences of saying no to the US than the Western-trained pro-US Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
Reliable sources told this correspondent that Fayyad rejected US pressure on this issue, saying that the Palestinian public cannot handle this problem after what happened in New York.
Furthermore, the Palestinian leadership seems ill equipped to deal politically and publicly with such experienced and cunning counterparts. Instead of being caught off guard, the Palestinian leadership rarely makes political demands or uses the media to preempt a potential problem.
Imagine if the PA requested and received an Israeli release of 1,000 prisoners or the stoppage of house demolition in Jerusalem in return for its support for this unpopular move. Imagine if the PA leaked news of the US pressure in order to prepare the public for its decision, or used such leak to seek Arab and Muslim support so as not have to face alone the unbearable pressure.
The PA also needs to have a much better understanding of the feelings of its people. A trial balloon of the possibility of such a decision would have brought enough reactions to alert the leadership of the possible consequences.
Finally, as has been learned by so many scandals involving senior officials, the problem of cover up is often worse than the original mistake.
The Palestinian president did well to appoint a committee to investigate, but that is not enough. He needs to address his people, take responsibility for his actions, take some tough decisions, including firing some advisers, and then vow to keep his ears closer to the public.
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Freeze Tag Transforms With New Mitmegu Munzee Game Piece
Published: Feb 7, 2019 8:36 a.m. ET
February 07, 2019 (ACCESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- TUSTIN, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 7, 2019 / Freeze Tag (OTC PINK: FRZT), a leading creator of location-based mobile social games, on Wednesday released Mitmegu (pronounced ''Mit-May-Goo''), a new Pouch Creature game piece, for their flagship mobile game Munzee. The company is pleased to announce that more than a thousand of the new limited edition virtual game pieces sold within the first two hours of going on sale.
Mitmegu is an ever-changing Pouch Creature that transforms into new creatures when it lands on different types of Munzee game pieces. Mitmegu will turn into a Jootmegu, a Rohimegu, or a Lokemegu if it lands on a Water, Earth, or Fire Mystery Munzee respectively. This transformation process is different than other Pouch Creatures like Tuli, Vesi, or Muru, which rely on capture streaks to change forms. This change in gameplay was accompanied with a lower price point, which players have embraced.
''As we roll out more player owned bouncing munzees it's important we continue to experiment with new features and different pricing,'' said Rob Vardeman, President of Freeze Tag. '' Myths and Pouch Creatures have become a huge part of the game, so it's important we make these accessible to all players.''
Each individually numbered Mitmegu Pouch Creature Munzee is purchased by a player. That virtual game piece then travels around the worldwide map to be captured by other players. The Pouch Creatures line of products are based on set items in another Freeze Tag game, WallaBee. Pouch Creatures are also similar to the Mythological Munzee line, which has become a staple of the Munzee game.
In addition to the release of Mitmegu, the sale also included the restructuring of the Bouncer Upgrade credit. Formerly known as the Myth Upgrade, the Bouncer Upgrade credit allows Mythological and Pouch Creature Munzees to unlock new features. Previously Upgrade credits were only available for Mythological Munzees, but now all player-owned Pouch Creatures can be upgraded as well.
Bouncer Upgrade credits cost $5 each and allow players to rename and ''nudge'' their bouncing munzees. By nudging an upgraded bouncer players can move their Myths or Pouch Creatures to new areas of the map if they have not been captured within three hours. This feature is particularly important for Tuli, Vesi and Muru Pouch Creatures which rely on daily capture streaks to reach their next level.
Learn more about Pouch Creatures and Bouncer Upgrades on the Munzee blog: https://www.munzeeblog.com/.
About Freeze Tag, Inc.
Freeze Tag, Inc. is a leading creator of mobile location-based games for consumers and businesses. Our portfolio includes hits such as Munzee, a social platform with over 7 million locations worldwide and hundreds of thousands of players that blends gamification and geolocation into an experience that rewards players for going places in the physical world, Garfield Go, a Pokemon Go style augmented reality game based on the iconic cat Garfield, WallaBee, an addictive collecting game with over 2,000 beautifully drawn digital cards, as well as many social mobile games that provide endless hours of family-friendly fun. We also offer our technology and services to businesses that want to leverage mobile gaming in their marketing and branding programs. For example, our Eventzee solution allows businesses to create private scavenger hunts in physical places such as malls, tradeshows, company events or campuses to create immersive brand experiences. For more information about Freeze Tag, go to: http://www.freezetag.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve substantial uncertainties and risks. These forward-looking statements are based upon our current expectations, estimates and projections and reflect our beliefs and assumptions based upon information available to us at the date of this release. We caution readers that forward-looking statements are predictions based on our current expectations about future events. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Our actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including but not limited to, our ability to market our games, and our ability to implement new changes and release them. We undertake no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statement for any reason.CONTACT:
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SOURCE: Freeze Tag, Inc.
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Cast & Blast Outdoors — Quail tourney: birds, bird dogs and lucky dogs
When it comes to the outdoors, there is nothing greater for me than turkey hunting. Quail hunting though is a close ...
Cast & Blast Outdoors — Quail tourney: birds, bird dogs and lucky dogs When it comes to the outdoors, there is nothing greater for me than turkey hunting. Quail hunting though is a close ... Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: http://on.mgmadv.com/Kd2Uy9
By Steve Long; Published 12:03 a.m. CT Dec. 29, 2013
When it comes to the outdoors, there is nothing greater for me than turkey hunting. Quail hunting though is a close second though!
Quail hunting is a traditional hunting sport for our state. In fact, Union Springs is renowned as the Field Trial Capital of the World. Alabama Bobwhite Quail season started Nov. 14 and will go through Feb. 28. On certain preservations, such as Great Southern Outdoors, the season goes from Oct. 1-March 1.
Quail hunting is a gentleman’s sport that dates back to the 1800s.
It’s a social sport, where groups of hunters are led by guides through fields filled with peas, soybeans, Egyptian wheat, and other crops where the coveys of quail can bed down and hide from predators. The guides have trained bird dogs flush the quail from their hiding places, where they fly up to be met by the hunters’ shotguns. Witnessing the sudden rise of a flushed covey is a memorable and exciting experience that you just can’t find anywhere else.
Since we’re in the heart of field hunting country, there are local tournaments for quail hunting during the season.
Teams of hunters, say, four hunters to a team, five teams in all, compete in these tournaments. Great Southern Outdoors has a classic setup for these events.
On Thursday, the hunters arrive, meet and greet, and have a warm-up round of shooting clays that afternoon. Friday morning, each team is led to a field of its own to hunt, complete with a guide and trained dogs. At 8 o’clock, they start their hunt to see how many birds they can harvest. At 11:30, they call that first round over. The hunters return to the lodge for a good lunch, and some more socializing. The second round begins when the clock hits 1:30, with each team changing fields. The team that was on Field A is now on Field B, and so on.
At 5 o’clock, the teams head back in for the evening, get a good meal, share some good laughs and stories with each other, and call it a night. Saturday morning, Round 3, starts at 8 a.m. with a different field for each team. Round 4 starts again at 1:30 p.m. and ends at 5.
Once the fifth round is over, the birds are tallied and cleaned, while the hunters brag and boast about their fun.
A banquet is held that evening, with the tallies announced. The winning team receives the trophy, and each member is awarded a new over-and-under shotgun, shells, and most importantly, bragging rights!
I like to speak of heritage and what it means for us to be outdoorsmen, and this is a small part of what I love about it.
There’s always the joy of sharing memories and events while reliving some of the sport that our predecessors practiced; the camaraderie and kinship forged between strangers just overnight truly digs deep into what it means for us to be hunters.
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‘Hibernating’ research studies on standby to tackle next flu pandemic
The UK’s preparedness for another influenza pandemic has been greatly improved by an innovative network of research studies ‘hibernating’ on standby ready to be activated if an outbreak strikes, according to a newly published article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
The network could be replicated in whole or part by other countries, says lead author Colin Simpson, Professor of Population Health and Associate Dean–Research and Innovation at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
It could also be used as a model for other health emergencies, including other infectious diseases and chemical, biological and radiation incidents, he says.
The lead UK research institutions for the network include Dr Daniela De Angelis from the MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge alongside the University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh, King’s College London, University College London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Sheffield, University of Liverpool and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Daniela DeAngelis, Deputy Director, MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge
It was established by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), which is funded by the Department of Health and Social Care, after the 2009 flu pandemic.
That pandemic involved the A/H1N1 flu strain, commonly known as ‘swine flu’, and caused at least 3,700 deaths in the UK and more than 200,000 worldwide.
When it broke out, relevant research was rapidly commissioned, funded and delivered under challenging circumstances. But, even with accelerated processes, some studies were completed too late to have an immediate significant impact on clinical care.
The studies were slowed down by inherent delays in calling for research proposals and assessing, funding and setting up subsequent projects, including obtaining relevant ethical and regulatory approvals.
To combat delays, in 2012 a suite of studies was established (with relevant permissions put in place and arrangements made for data collection), pilot tested where relevant and hibernated in a maintenance-only state awaiting activation if another pandemic is declared.
The studies cover key care and public health aspects of a flu pandemic, including surveillance, vaccination, triage and clinical management.
One study has been funded to develop rapid turnaround flu phone surveys to monitor behaviour across the general population and identify ways to better communicate public health advice.
Although a lot of information about the research network’s performance will not be available until studies are brought out of hibernation, a number of important lessons have already been learned, says Professor Simpson.
For example, it is necessary to keep key stakeholders (including policy makers and those who initially agree to host the research) interested and engaged and to keep studies up to date in terms of research regulations, scientific and social changes, and technological advances.
One of the network’s benefits is the spirit of cooperation it entails, says Professor Simpson.
“All too often researchers are in competition when trying to answer research questions in an emergency situation. In contrast, the UK model allows for advance funding and planning of a complementary suite of studies, system testing and developing a collaborative network of researchers. Existing international networks such as the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium and the International Network of Obstetric Survey Systems either are or could be primed and ready to go internationally with similar studies.
“The challenge going forward, however, will be for commercially funded studies not to compete for scarce patient resources and to fit within this framework to ensure the highest quality studies are conducted most expediently. With this in mind, is now the time for an international register of planned pandemic and emerging infection studies with agreements over priorities and co-enrolment and collaboration?”
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(18)30786-2/fulltext
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The Levine Museum provides a variety of specialized visit opportunities. School field trip options include self-guided tours and special directed inquiry tours designed for a deeper, interactive exploration of stories and exhibit themes for students. There are also guided gallery tours for adult and family groups in addition to self-guided group visits. The Museum also offers for adults and students structured dialogue programs that surround themes presented in the museum galleries and that promote communication and learning across differences.
FIELD TRIPS K-12
The Levine Museum field trip offers schools an immersive and engaging experience of local New South history covering the period from the end of the Civil War to the present. Aligned with history and social studies standards, visits can be tailored to the needs of different learning levels from kindergarten through 12th grade.
Teachers can select from two field trip packages:
Groups interested in exploring the Museum on their own may schedule a self-guided tour. This option allows individuals to visit each exhibit at their own pace, and focus time in areas that are of particular interest.
Directed Inquiry
an activity-based exploration framed by compelling questions which encourage detective work, analysis of evidence and critical thinking skills.
ADULT + FAMILY TOURS
Levine Museum welcomes groups of all ages and interests. Self-guided and guided tours of the award-winning centerpiece exhibit Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers are available year round and are ideal for classes, business teams, community groups, family reunions, bus tours, clubs and other organizations.
In addition, groups may visit any of the temporary exhibits on display while at the Museum.
Groups consist of 10 or more individuals and should be scheduled approximately 2 weeks in advance of the visit.
Admission and Fees
Youth/Student ages 6-18 $4 per student
Adult and Senior $6 per person
Gallery Guide Fee $35 per guide (1 guide per 25 visitors)
Complimentary admission for 1 group leader and 1 bus driver.
Payment is due in full in advance or upon arrival at the Museum on the day of your tour and must be paid in a single transaction. Admission fees are based on the number of people who are present upon arrival. You are responsible for the number of Gallery Guides you reserve.
Vans and cars may park in the Seventh Street Station next to the Museum and receive 2 hours of validated, complimentary parking. After 2 hours, parking fees apply.
Bus parking is available but must be arranged in advance.
Bring your group and discover how the South has reinvented itself from field to factory to finance - from 1865 to today.
Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers Guided Tour
Guided tours of the award-winning centerpiece exhibit Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers are available year-round and are ideal for classes, business teams, community groups, family reunions, bus tours, clubs and other organizations. A Museum educator or New South Guide, will lead your group through each interactive environment, providing context and insights along the way.
Self-Guided Museum Tour
One circle. One shared experience. A multitude of takeaways.
Dialogue is one of the foundational programs at Levine Museum. As we work daily to use history to build community, dialogue (group learning conversations) enables us to bring in both intact and mixed groups for a chance to share perspectives on the topics highlighted in our permanent and travelling exhibits.
Trained facilitators lead groups through ice breakers, tours and learning activities before engaging in discussions designed to create group learning and individual understanding around a variety of themes.
Ideal for team-building, diversity training, and cultural competence, our changing dialogue programs give groups space to go more in-depth into topics that resonate with today’s world.
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I'd have to say a show that stands out in my mind was New Years' in Nelson with Shihad. Sweet crowd and Shihad themselves were amazing, good times all round.
What is your favourite NZ venue?
Dux de Lux (Christchurch) Personally I'm a fan of the smaller gigs, a better chance to really interact with the audience and coming home for an intimate sweaty gathering is always a treat!
What NZ musicians or bands would you like to see more of, and why?
Dictaphone Blues & Motocade. Both hardworking and genuine musicians who write music with depth and integrity. Amen
What is your most embarrassing on tour/gig moment?
Oh man so many.. most I'd rather leave on tour but one that comes to mind (which is more an on tour than on stage moment) is on tour with 48May, we were all crashing on some randoms lounge floor somewhere in Napier from memory. A few beverages had been consumed over the course of the night and eventually we all bunked up for the night. About 4am in the morning it was pitch black as I awoke to some feet shuffling.. the sound of a zip being undone and I heard our bass player saying "man.. what are you doing.. bro stop!" next thing you know there's the sound of water on a blow up mattress... only it wasn't water... turns out one of the crew members was sleep walking and thought he had made it to the toilet... if our bass player had have woken a second later he probably wouldn't be the same person he is today..
How did you come up with the band name Falter?
To be honest when we started out as a band we were in the mindset that a band name is just a brand, a name that people use to identify you. So as a result the band name was something we didn't discuss in length or take too much time to find meaning behind. In saying that I do like the idea of having a band name that truly represents what the band stands for. But really when you think about it..smashing pumpkins, foo fighters??...
How do you describe your music?
Our music is catchy, melodic and memorable. We try to bridge the gap between pop and alternative mainly because we all have a love for both genres but it's fair to say it probably leans more towards pop.. but live we'll bring a rock show no doubt.
What can we expect to see from Falter over the next year?
We've just released our debut album 'As Far As I Can Get From Here' so we're going to be busy playing shows, sharing more music with as many people as possible and hopefully introducing more and more new recruits! We're also planning on doing some travelling overseas with shows in the pipeline for Australia and America.
What advice would you like to give to other aspiring musicians?
Decide what it is you want to achieve as a musician from the beginning and always set goals to make this happen (be prepared for things to go pear shaped along the way!). Expect a journey of high's and lows that come with this industry and be firm in what you stand for and believe in. In saying that you also need the ability to be adaptable! Above all make sure your playing music for the right reasons and that you're always seeking new inspiration to better yourself as an artist and keep it all the more enjoyable!
Falter is Ben (bass, vocals), Thaddeus (drums), Simon (guitar, vocals) and Hook (guitar, vocals).
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Falter's debut album 'As Far As I Can Get From Here' is out now!
Psyrok
The Big Chill Bar in London, because it was my first gig playing my own material and it went well despite the nerves! I also really enjoyed playing at Sandwiches in Wellington recently, as it was my first gig back home after being away for almost a decade.
When I was younger I used to love going to St James Cabaret in Wellington to see bands like Supergroove and Shihad. I've been away for quite a while and I don't think it's even there anymore. I'm sure there's a lot of new cool places now and I'm looking forward to checking them all out.
I'm a big Salmonella Dub fan and always like seeing them play live. I really enjoyed seeing Supergroove in London last year after they reformed and would be keen to see them again. Also looking forward to seeing more of my mate's bands Elephant of the Ocean in Wellington and The Flaming Drivers in Queenstown.
Thankfully I haven't had any hugely embarrassing moments so far... not on stage anyway!
How did you come up with the name Psyrok?
It was given to me in a dream by an ancient spirit.
Original. Individual. Empathetic.
What can we expect to see from you over the next year?
I am finishing up a new EP in collaboration with Swedish vocalist Li'l Sister Jen at the moment, it will be titled 'Akinosuke' and will be released in the next few months. There is also a new remix of one of my tracks available for free download from my muzic.net.nz profile. (Ed Note - you must be logged in to download this track).
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Tiki Taane
In 1984 I mimed 'Blue Suede Shoes' by Elvis to about 60 people, it was my first gig, I was 8.
Nothing has beaten Caanan Downs, The Gathering 1996-99, those were tha days!
TrinityRoots, becoz I miss them.
I wet my pants while MCing in a club in Christchurch. Luckily no-one saw, so I pretended that I spilt a beer down my trousers.
What inspires you when writing music?
To be or not to be.
Sound waves that tickle your soul.
More art.
Always own your art. You will thank me in about 15 years time.
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Rocked The Nation 2: 100 NZ Pop Culture Stories
On Monday (July 6th), Satellite Media and C4 follow up the successful Rocked the Nation: 100 NZ Music Moments documentary series, with another six part series counting down 100 of New Zealand’s most influential, attention grabbing moments in pop culture.
Hosted by New Zealand’s own Rhys Darby, ‘Rocked The Nation 2’ will take viewers on a ride through the top 100 moments in New Zealand’s pop culture. We’ll revisit the important and the trivial, the famous and the infamous and investigate the events that make up the fabric of our kiwi lives.
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Registration for the 2009 National Battle of the Bands championship is now open. The championship is set to become NZ's largest R18 Band competition with events taking place nationwide; allowing bands throughout the country to participate.
Elimination rounds will be held at multiple live music venues in the main centres of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch as well as additional regional heats across the country. Judging and audience voting determines each region’s champion; who then represent their region at the National Final in Auckland.
Interested bands can register at the Battle's web site www.battleofthebands.co.nz and entry only costs $60.
Salmonella Dub - Freak Local EP
The Freak Local EP is a selection of mixes from Salmonella Dub's 7th album 'proper' due for release in October.
The EP features vocal contributions from the amazing Tuhoe diva Whirimako Black and MC madness from our Aotearoa celtic rasta, The Mighty Asterix. All mixed fresh for your ears from the bands Hapuku studio in Kaikoura.
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Fronted by the enigmatic Ruth Carr, her coy persona ignites and intrigues, while bandmates Ryan Beehre and Paul Dodge deliver an inventive indie arsenal which never loses sight of the desire to create fantastic songs.
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Home Community Fieldwork: Loving a difficult father
Fieldwork: Loving a difficult father
Laura Wainwright
A fox stalking ducks in the heath. Engraving by T. Landseer Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A fox stalking ducks in the heath. Engraving by T. Landseer after E.H. Landseer. By: Edwin Henry Landseerafter: Thomas LandseerPublished: -Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ —Engraving by T. Landseer via Wellcome Images, London; Creative Commons
On my desk sits a faded color photograph of my father. Holding a slice of white bread, Dad reaches across Georgica Pond’s brackish water toward a pair of swans. Tortoise-shell glasses hide his dark brown eyes, but he looks up, perhaps at my mother, and smiles. The two swans, white necks tightly curved, look wary, but I know it’s just a matter of time. Even the fiercest cobs ended up eating bits of bread from my father’s hand and coming when he called.
Dad loved all birds, but he had a particular affinity for swans. He admired their loyalty, how they mated for life and returned to the same nesting spot year after year. In a logbook Dad kept for most of his 89 years, he recorded the swans’ spring arrival to his cove, their exact nest site, the numbers of eggs laid and hatched, the date the cygnets learned to fly, and finally the family’s autumn departure. Each successive pair he named Oscar and Nestor for reasons I’ll never know. This entry in his distinctive, fierce scrawl was typical: “Swans nesting on east side of my little pond for the very first time. Nestor dropped 3 eggs two days ago. 4/5/90.”
For Dad it was simple. The swans and other birds were his friends. The foxes, snapping turtles, and other predators were his enemies. Red foxes are plentiful on Eastern Long Island. Ever since I can remember, there have been at least two dens in the woods near my father’s house. So as soon as the swans returned in the spring, Dad slept with his bedroom door open so his two English Setters could keep any foxes at bay. In case the dogs didn’t do their job, he kept a loaded gun in his bedside table. Still, he couldn’t always help. “Sad news. Our cygnets were born on time last Sunday, almost 45 days to the day. The foxes have been very active. So last night door was open. To no avail. This am by 5:30 all 10 cygnets were gone. The pen and cob seemed resigned. No sign of a struggle, as was the case four or five years ago. The answer is the fox knows birth time, so a dog must be put close to the nest. 5/29/86.”
For most of my life, when the phone rang early, it was Dad. He’d launch into the weather over Georgica Pond, tell me when I should expect it on Martha’s Vineyard, fill me in on swans, dogs, foxes, maybe a new girlfriend, and then abruptly hang up. Standing in my nightgown, covered in goose bumps, holding a dead phone, I longed for a smidgen of that energetic tenderness Dad gave so freely to the swans. Three days before 9/11, Dad had a stroke, which offered us a late chance to become close. With hard work and time, he learned to speak and even drive again, but he needed help. To get to the swans’ nest to count the eggs, he had to rely on a cane and a sturdy arm. That arm was often mine.
Seven years ago, on a gloomy March afternoon, when I arrived to visit Dad, he no longer had the strength to pull himself up from his red leather chair. “Go right out,” he whispered gruffly as I leaned over to kiss him. “The swans have nested just to the right of my dock. Check for eggs.” He paused and looked away; “You’ll need to go alone.”
The nest was in a warren of brittle cattails. I was afraid of the pen, and she must have sensed it. Instead of moving off the nest or begging for the bread I’d brought with me, she rose to her full height, hissed, and beat the air with her powerful wings. I dropped the bread and backed away. I was pretty sure there were four white eggs, but there might have been five or six. I trudged back in, knowing Dad would be irked by my vague report. “Oh dear,” he said sadly, and turned his attention back to Fox News.
Sunday afternoon, as I was climbing into my car to give my uncle a ride home, he touched my arm and pointed. A pair of fox cubs was emerging from the scrub oak along Dad’s driveway. Dazzled by the buttery light, the kits took cautious, tentative steps. “This must be their first time out of the den,” he whispered with excitement. I knew the mother must be nearby, but it took me awhile to find her. She lay in the shadow of a huckleberry bush, smoothing the long hairs of her fluffy tail with her tongue. She watched her children wrestle and tumble in a pile of dry oak leaves, then after several long minutes, rose, shook, and stepped back into the woods. Her kits followed. All evening I carried their wildness inside me. I didn’t tell Dad, and it was just as well. Four nights later, arms wrapped tightly around his dog, Dad died in bed.
When the family gathered to put Dad’s ashes in the ground a few weeks later, storm-force winds obliterated power across the entire 100-mile length of Long Island. We huddled under a makeshift tent in the East Hampton Cemetery in the blinding rain. The minister tried to say something soothing, but his words were swallowed by the wind. After each of us darted out to prod a yellow daffodil into his small square hole, we waited for the honor guard. They were lost. So finally, my oldest nephew put Dad’s simple box into the wet earth, and covered it with a lump of sod.
Long shadows stretched across Georgica Pond by the time my sister Snowden and I got back to Dad’s house. The rain had stopped, and I stood in the grass outside the kitchen, trying to commit the flat pond and huge sky to memory. Along the pond edge, a tawny flash pierced the gray. A fox. I yelled for Snowden, and together we ran at him, waving our arms and screaming at the top of our lungs. Lanky and long-legged, the fox loped directly to the swans’ nest. We heard honking, wing flapping, and then utter silence.
Snowden and I shuffled back to the empty house, and locked the door for the first time. Later I slipped outside with a flashlight. Bits of shell littered the nest cavity, but not a single egg remained intact. Near the dock, two white forms curled into balls like ghosts in the silvery moonlight. Swans will often try again, but not this pair. They still came to us for bread, but seemed as lost as we were.
Drawings of six species of foxes and jackals. —Courtesy The New International Encyclopedia
The next spring, when Snowden and I met at Dad’s house to continue the slow work of emptying it, another swan couple had claimed Dad’s cove. This new pair was wary of us, which was just as well. Our tenancy wouldn’t last much longer. Dad’s house was for sale.
Georgica Pond was lower than we’d ever seen it. We could walk along the shore to places we’d never been. One morning, rounding an unfamiliar bend, we almost stepped on the new swans’ nest. The pen hissed at us, but didn’t move. When we moved inland to give her a wide berth, I tripped over something in the wet sand. Peeling away long strands of seaweed, I uncovered the half-buried carcass of a fox. Flesh and fur had largely been stripped and eaten, but the bones were intact. Suddenly, I dropped to my knees in the damp sand, and found myself twisting the head with my bare hands. It snapped off with a crack. A few segments of vertebrae and a piece of trachea drooped from it.
“That stinks,” my sister said.
“I want it,” I replied, and later hung my trophy on one of the long nails outside Dad’s kitchen door, where he used to hang and season his mallards.
A few days later when I packed to leave, I put the fox bones in a plastic bread bag, tied the bag with a loose knot, and drove them to my home on Martha’s Vineyard, a place with plenty of swans, but not a single fox.
I left the fetid bag on the Windsor bench by our front door. Each time I went in or out and saw sweat beading the sides of the plastic bag, I’d feel a swell of pride. I could already picture this talisman, clean and white, perched on our bookshelf next to other bits of nature I’d collected or claimed. My husband asked if the bones were visceral payback for the swan’s eggs I hadn’t been able to protect, but it felt bigger than that.
The soft May evening I put the last of the lilac and a fistful of lily of the valley into a vase, I knew it was the time to tackle the fox skull. I set a large pot of water on the stove to boil and added several cups of bleach. When the water was hot, I sliced open the plastic bag with a paring knife. The smell of decay made my eyes water and turned my stomach, but I pulled out the skull and plunked it into the pot, like Dad would have. The rancid steam was oily. The stench clung to my hair and skin. After a few minutes, I had to put a top on the pot and go outside.
I let it boil an hour, then carried the pot to the porch and made myself grab the skull with a pair of tongs. Somehow the piece of trachea was still attached. I stabbed at the carcass with a fork, but the tough gristle held on. I moved to the jaw. Yanking at the dead flesh, trying pull it off in strips, I noticed the fox’s teeth. A canine was missing, and several of the back molars were rotten and brown. I dropped the fork. It clattered on the wood.
I put the fox skull down on the porch railing and studied it closely. This creature had had terrible toothache. Eating must have been painful. She probably suffered. My hands shook as I picked up the carcass and heaved it into the puckerbrush. A vertebra snagged on a strand of cat briar so the skull swayed and quivered in the evening breeze. Heedless of the brambles, I plunged into the thicket and pulled the fox down. After running to the garage and grabbing a shovel, I dug a small hole, lined it with grass clippings, and buried the soggy fox bones under a thick blanket of bittersweet, wishing I’d left her on the pond shore where I found her, on familiar ground, close to home.
maxz June 16, 2017 at 11:48 am
Enjoyed reading this powerful writing very much. Thank you.
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JLS 'using condoms to woo fellow stars'
It appears the boys from JLS have a new pulling tactic when it comes to getting together with fellow celebrities - and condoms are at the centre of it.
Band member Ortise Williams has revealed he is hoping to woo US rap star Nicki Minaj by sending her five packets of the group's own version of the prophylactic.
The singer revealed he is desperate to get together with the 28-year-old and is hopeful his cheeky ploy will pay dividends.
He told Metro: "I've been waiting for Nicki Minaj to call me. You know what, I'll send her five packets."
Williams admitted he has already tried to contact Minaj through Twitter, telling her that he would love it if the pair could get together the next time the American visits the UK.
JLS - whose members include Williams, JB, Aston Merrygold and Marvin Humes - first shot to fame when they finished second on hit TV show The X Factor.
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By Connor Byrne | June 25, 2019 at 8:05pm CDT
Keeping track of Tuesday’s minor moves from around baseball…
The Padres announced that right-handed reliever Kazuhisa Makita has cleared waivers and been outrighted to Double-A Amarillo. This is the second time the Padres have outrighted Makita, which gives him the right to elect free agency, but that would mean leaving what’s left of his $1.9MM salary on the table. The Padres inked the Japanese submariner to a two-year, $3.8MM contract entering 2018, but it hasn’t worked out for either side thus far. The 34-year-old Makita struggled in the majors last season and hasn’t pitched in the bigs at all in 2019. Makita has instead worked at the Double-A level, where he has put up a 3.82 ERA with 8.6 K/9 and 1.7 BB/9 in 37 2/3 innings.
The Marlins have released righty Ben Meyer, Wells Dusenbery of the Sun Sentinel tweets. To this point, Meyer has spent his whole career with the Marlins since they chose him in the 29th round of the 2015 draft. The 25-year-old’s nightmarish production in the majors in 2018 and with Triple-A New Orleans this season sealed his fate with the organization. In his MLB debut last year, Meyer registered a 10.42 ERA/6.42 FIP with 4.26 K/9 and 6.63 BB/9 over 19 innings. Meyer then notched a 7.43 ERA/6.90 FIP with 9.0 K/9 against 5.57 BB/9 in 63 Triple-A frames this season before Miami said goodbye to him.
The Rangers’ top affiliate in Nashville has released infielder Nolan Fontana, per the Pacific Coast League transactions page. Texas was the third AL West organization for the 28-year-old Fontana, a 2012 second-round pick of the Astros who also played for the Angels. Fontana racked up his only 35 major league PA with the Angels from 2017-18. He has hit .230/.350/.357 in 1,639 PA at the Triple-A level.
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sascoach2003
Saw both Meyer and Fontana this weekend. Meyer was a victim of bad luck, poor fielding, and lacks an out pitch against left-handed hitters. Fontana hit homers in the games on Friday and Saturday, and made two really nice defensive plays in the field. Both will get a shot some where, but both are AAA depth pieces.
birdsfan415
Mike Dunn was released by the Rockies earlier in the week following his DFA. Thought that would be a minor move too.
lowtalker1
Kaz would be on plane back home to japan if he elected free agency. No one else wants to touch him.
ccs94515
Isn’t Makita’s contract guaranteed?
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Filter or no filter, these apps will make your pictures pop
Taking photographs with your smartphone is just a way of life, whether it’s celebrating a night out with your best friend or chronicling a well-earned vacation with your partner. But for as reliable and high-quality as today’s phone cameras are, they might not be getting you the most out of every shot. To really capture a moment and make a perfect social media post, these photography apps will come in handy.
PicsArt Photo Studio
PicsArt Photo Studio is a slick, free photo app that is simple to utilize and understand. This all-in-one photo editor gives you the means to do just about anything you can think of with your photos, from simple touchups to complex effects to clipart and stickers to creating collages. PicsArt is available for free on Google Play as PicsArt Photo Studio: Collage Maker & Pic Editor and on the App Store as PicsArt Photo Editor + Collage.
Cymera
Cymera touts itself as the perfect beauty camera, giving you the tools necessary to turn your selfies into works of art. Available for free on Google Play and the App Store, Cymera exploits tools like a stable shooting mode and spot metering to take the perfect photo, whether it’s a selfie or a photograph for your Instagram. Cymera also features editing tools like blur, mirror and makeup to help you touch up your photos and make them stand out even more.
The free, easy-to-use Snapseed app, available on Google Play and the App Store, comes with a large assortment of editing tools to give your pictures a professional flair. You can alter and improve the quality of your photos with tools like white balance and curve adjustment, and the app also allows you to undo any edits you’ve made so that you can get your picture absolutely perfect. Snapseed offers Control Point technology, which allows you to assign enhancements at different points in a photo, and a Healing tool that allows you to cut out photobombers.
VSCO is available for free on Google Play and the App Store, and downloading it entitles you to a surprisingly deep range of presets, editing tools and community content. To get the most out of the app, you’ll need to opt into the $19.99 annual membership, which unlocks a complete library of over 130 presets, including presets that emulate the look of vintage film. A paid VSCO membership also entitles you to exclusive editing tools, including film coloring; weekly challenges to test your photography skills; and bonus content and tutorials.
Afterlight 2
Afterlight 2 costs $2.99 in the App Store, but it’s money incredibly well-spent if you want unique, high-quality photographs. That one-time price earns you a continuous stream of content updates, including new filters and tools. It also gets you access to textures and effects that will make your photos unlike anything else in your social media feed, including dust textures, double exposure and selective color adjustment.
These apps will put your smartphone photography on par with what even a professional is capable of capturing. Download these apps today and start taking photos that will rack up the likes and loves on social media and look great in a photo album.
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Lyons train station finally on track?
Julie Sherwood
Feb 28, 2008 at 12:01 AM Feb 28, 2008 at 8:42 AM
Plans for the station have been stalled for some two decades.
Long-delayed plans to build a train stop in the Wayne County seat may get a jump-start at an upcoming meeting involving U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and top officials with Amtrak and CSX, the senator says.
Lyons is about midway along the 85-mile stretch between Rochester and Syracuse, the longest section of tracks in the state Amtrak uses without a train stop, according to Schumer’s office. There has been talk of building a station, on and off, for two decades but plans have remained stalled — most recently after CSX cited safety and liability concerns, said Schumer.
CSX owns the property and set of tracks passengers would have to cross to get to the Amtrak train. County officials have presented design plans to address the concerns, but CSX has not yet signed off, said Schumer.
“The best way to jump-start long-delayed plans to construct a new station in the town of Lyons is to bring CSX, Amtrak and local leaders to the table and hammer out a pragmatic and safe plan for moving forward on this vital project,” Schumer stated Tuesday.
Schumer said he is setting a date “in the near future” to sit down with Amtrak, CSX and local officials to discuss constructing the station. Former Amtrak Chief Executive Officer George Warrington committed to creating the Amtrak stop in Lyons at a meeting with Schumer in 2001, according to Schumer.
“The town of Lyons should have its own Amtrak stop, a catalyst for driving local tourism and offering residents a terrific option for traveling to all corners of the Empire State,” stated Schumer.
Contact Julie Sherwood at (585) 394-0770, Ext. 263, or at jsherwood@mpnewspapers.com
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New faces for Revs opener
FOXBORO - The season opener for the New England Revolution is finally here, but the timing could be better for Steve Nicol's crew. Bad enough that the Revs welcome their MLS Cup nemesis, two-time defending champion Houston, to Gillette Stadium tonight (7:30 p.m.), but the hosts will have to face the Dynamo shorthanded.
The season opener for the New England Revolution is finally here, but the timing could be better for Steve Nicol's crew.
Bad enough that the Revs welcome their MLS Cup nemesis, two-time defending champion Houston, to Gillette Stadium tonight (7:30 p.m.), but the hosts will have to face the Dynamo shorthanded.
The Revs will be thin on the flanks, with left midfielder Khano Smith away on international duty with Bermuda, and right midfielder Wells Thompson out with a troublesome left heel bone spur that will also keep the second-year man out of Thursday's match at Chicago.
Nicol's choices are limited. He can either switch formations to a 4-4-2, pushing captain Steve Ralston back out wide right, allowing Nicol to field only one new starter. Or, he can stick with his 3-5-2, keeping Ralston in attacking mid atop Shalrie Joseph and Jeff Larentowicz, and introduce two new starters into the mix.
It looks like tonight the seven-year coach will choose the latter, with Gambian Sainey Nyassi filling the right and Honduran Mauricio Castro making his Revs debut on the left. Nyassi's under-20 Gambian teammate, Kenny Mansally, could also start up top with Taylor Twellman. Add defender Chris Albright, and that's four new starters to open the season. Quite the change.
"We're happy with the lineup we've got tomorrow, and we'll just go from there," said Nicol after yesterday's training session. "You can never second guess what is going to happen, be it lineups, suspension. All that matters is tomorrow, and then after that we'll move on to the next one."
Houston is still missing U.S. international midfielder Ricardo Clark, serving last year's end-year suspension for kicking Carlos Ruiz. But otherwise the Dynamo will be full strength, with the likes of Brian Ching up top, the amazing Dwayne De Rosario up the middle, and the tough Eddie Robinson in defense. The Dynamo have new faces, too, like former D.C. defender Bobby Boswell now teamed with Robinson in the back, speedster Corey Ashe out wide and new striker Chris Wondolowski.
"These guys got guys flying in from all over the world, and Rico is out, so they've got their own issues," said Albright about Houston. "It's about forgetting about all of that, going out and believing you can win. We believe we can, and they believe the same thing, so it'll be a good game."
Every time these teams battle - and it's always a battle - the focus is on midfield, where Joseph and De Rosario will go head-to-head. Whoever can establish midfield dominance will hold a substantial advantage.
"We have been short against them the last two years in the final, so this is a game we look forward to," said Joseph, who just returned from helping Grenada advance in CONCACAF World Cup qualifying. "It's a revenge game, sure, but at the end of the day they've still got the rings. It's going to be one tough game to open the season, and we're looking forward to getting started."
If Nicol chooses to play both Gambians, the Revs instantly up their speed quotient bigtime. Another key factor will be Castro, whom Nicol says is fit and ready after just a week training with the team.
"The transition, it' kind of been seamless," said Nicol of Castro. "It shows the type of character he is. He looks like a real good pro. He just gets on with his job, and that's what we realize we've got here."
The Revs also realize what they're up against, the best team in the league.
"I think we know what we're going to face, what we're going to have to overcome, but we know we have to do our thing," said Nicol. "If we do our thing, then it'll be difficult for them.
"They're a strong team. It's going to be a fight, that's what we mean to get from them."
Veteran Joe Franchino is also out, with a hamstring, meaning Nicol's bench will be quite short on experience tonight. ...
The Revs did add to their roster yesterday by signing defender Chase Hilgenbrinck to their senior roster, leaving the club with one slot left to fill. The 25-year-old Illinois native came out of Clemson, wasn't drafted in 2004, and then went and played four seasons in Chile. He originally tried out with Colorado, but was surprisingly cut a couple weeks ago. He will provide depth at left back.
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Inorg Chem. 2017 May 15;56(10):5873-5879. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00530. Epub 2017 Apr 25.
Syntheses, Structures, and Characterization of Quaternary Tellurites, Li3MTe4O11 (M = Al, Ga, and Fe).
Lü M, Jo H, Oh SJ, Lee S, Choi KY, Yu Y1, Ok KM.
State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Changchun 130022, People's Republic of China.
Three new quaternary lithium metal tellurites, Li3MTe4O11 (M = Al, Ga, and Fe), have been synthesized through hydrothermal and solid-state reactions by heating a mixture of LiOH·H2O, TeO2, and M2O3. The structures of the title compounds have been determined by single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction. Li3MTe4O11 reveal three-dimensional (3D) frameworks that consist of MO6 octahedra, TeO3 trigonal pyramids, and TeO4 polyhedra. The variable coordination mode of Te4+ within the framework leads to the formation of 1D channels that host Li+ cations on both tetrahedral and octahedral sites. The bulk and grain boundary Li+ ion conductivities for a Li3FeTe4O11 pellet in open air are estimated to be 1.0 × 10-4 and 2.7 × 10-6 S cm-1, respectively, at room temperature from the impedance profile analysis. A lower activation energy of 19.9 kJ mol-1 is obtained for the system, which is similar to that of Li10GeP2S12 (24 kJ mol-1). Detailed characterizations such as thermal, spectroscopic, and magnetic properties for the reported materials are also reported.
10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00530
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NEWS: Hoole hunting happy homecoming
For Newcastle Jets flyer Andrew Hoole Wednesday night’s Westfield FFA Cup Round of 32 clash with Melbourne Victory at Magic Park in Broadmeadow will represent a homecoming on a number of fronts.
Not only will Hoole return to the ground where he started his senior career at with Broadmeadow Magic at PS4 National Premier League level, but the Australian youth international will also play his first competitive fixture for the Jets since returning to the club from Sydney FC in June.
Speaking with local press following training at Magic Park on Tuesday, Hoole said that he feels that he learnt plenty during his spell with the Sky Blues, and is now eager to contribute to a Scott Miller coached Jets who have made him feel exceptionally welcome since his return to the club.
“I have settled back in [to the Jets] well,” Hoole explained. “Obviously pre-season has been tough, which it always is, so we are going into tomorrow night’s game full of confidence and fully focussed.”
“I think going to Sydney was good for me - it helped my game a lot. I learnt a lot of things down there [and] I am looking forward to bringing those things back to Newcastle to try and help the young ones as well.”
“It’s nice to be back in familiar territory, and I am looking forward to putting on a good show tomorrow night,” he said.
Hoole joined Broadmeadow Magic when he was “about 16” and advanced through their pathway to play a number of first team games as a teenager.
A shift to Jets Youth then occurred, before Hoole became a mainstay for the club’s Hyundai A-League squad between 2013 and 2015.
While the Jets were disappointed to see Hoole head south to Sydney last year, the livewire attacker is determined to make the most of his second spell at his hometown club.
“The club is moving in a good direction,” Hoole explained. “Scott has laid a good platform for the players this season [and] we need to take on board the information that he is giving us.”
“We need to be confident in front of goal - that’s one thing Jets lacked last season and we’ll look to rectify that this season, starting tomorrow night.”
“[Playing Melbourne Victory is a] big test but a good test for us I think - it’s good to get straight into it with a club like Victory. They are coming off two good results as well, so they have got momentum, but we’ll look to give them a good run tomorrow night.”
“I think to train here [Magic Park] is good for the team. It is good to get out there and get a feel of the surface,” Hoole concluded.
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Spring Valley woman facing meth, theft charges
By David Clarey on Dec 31, 2018 at 8:03 a.m.
Elizabeth Wallin - Pierce County Sheriff's Office
A Spring Valley man reported his daughter to police for allegedly stealing and selling his valuable coins worth more than $12,000 to fund her methamphetamine use, according to a criminal complaint.
Spring Valley resident Elizabeth Wallin is accused of stealing several collector coins and selling them through Craigslist listings to a Maple Grove, Minn., man. The 28-year-old woman turned herself in to Spring Valley police in April and gave them two glass pipes for meth use and admitted to using the drug daily, according to a complaint.
Wallin faces felony burglary charges, felony theft charges, felony meth possession charges and misdemeanor charges for possession of drug paraphernalia and theft. Wallin posted a $25,000 signature bond on Dec. 10 and has a preliminary hearing Jan. 29 at the Pierce County Courthouse.
According to the complaint:
Wallin admitted to stealing her father's coins since October 2017 and estimated she sold about 50. She told police that they were used primarily for buying meth and that she determined value through Ebay listings.
Wallin also said she stole three rings from her boyfriend, which she planned to sell at a pawn shop, and three of her 16-year-old niece's gift cards which she planned to sell. Her boyfriend later declined to consider them "stolen."
Police later interviewed the Maple Grove man, who turned over the coins he had bought from Wallin. The man said he had purchased coins from her four to five times.
Wallin was formally charged on Oct. 30 and had her initial court appearance on Dec. 10.
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Bears will play Utah State as Challenge Series resumes
Resumption of games between teams from Missouri Valley, Mountain West seen as a way to enhance nonconference scheduling
Bears will play Utah State as Challenge Series resumes Resumption of games between teams from Missouri Valley, Mountain West seen as a way to enhance nonconference scheduling Check out this story on news-leader.com: http://sgfnow.co/1ap0qtx
Lyndal Scranton, News-Leader Published 9:02 p.m. CT April 2, 2015 | Updated 9:06 p.m. CT April 2, 2015
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Missouri State picks up a quality home basketball opponent for next season as Utah State will visit JQH Arena as part of the Missouri Valley Conference-Mountain West Conference Challenge Series.
Ten games are scheduled between members of the two leagues in the first year of a four-year agreement with pairings announced on Thursday. The Valley-Mountain West Challenge Series was held for three years before a two-season hiatus.
The Bears will play Utah State on Dec. 1, with other games in the series scattered from mid-November through mid-December.
Utah State will return three seniors from a team that finished 18-13 overall and 11-7 in the conference. Stew Morrill retired after 17 years as Aggies' head coach, with longtime assistant Tim Duryes taking over.
Missouri State, 11-20 last season, is 1-2 in previous games of the series. The Bears beat Air Force at home in 2009 before losing at New Mexico and at home to San Diego State.
Other games in the challenge next season:
Nov. 13, Illinois State at San Diego State and Air Force at Southern Illinois; Nov. 14, Colorado State at Northern Iowra; Nov. 16, Wyoming at Indiana State; Nov. 18, Loyola at New Mexico; Dec. 2, UNLV at Wichita State; Dec. 12, Drake at Nevada; Dec. 20, Bradley at Boise State and Evansville at Fresno State.
"The reintroduction of this challenge series is a positive step for both leagues," Valley commissioner Doug Elgin said in a news release. "Tough nonconference scheduling has always been paramount in improving our league's stature on the national scene. The series helps institutions in both leagues achieve that goal."
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City of Johannesburg appoints new JMPD chief
Jan Bornman
Joburg Executive Mayor Herman Mashaba (Jabu Kumalo)
Johannesburg – Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba has announced a new chief for the Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD).
David Tembe, who has nearly 20 years of experience with emergency management services, took over his new position on Tuesday.
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Mashaba thanked the previous leadership of the JMPD for their hard work and said he had the fullest confidence in Tembe to succeed in the position.
"I have every confidence in Mr Tembe’s abilities and look forward to working with him as we run a corruption-free city that respects the rule of law and stimulates economic growth for our people," Mashaba said in a statement.
"I would like to express my deepest appreciation to JMPD's leadership team for providing the necessary support during the past transition period," he said.
Highly qualified
Tembe’s career in public safety began in 1981 as a paramedic with the Johannesburg emergency medical services (EMS). He became a superintendent in 1989 and was appointed director in charge of the EMS academy in 1999.
"Tembe was appointed director of operations in 2001, where he was responsible [for] leading the 26 city fire stations," Mashaba said.
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"In 2002, Tembe was appointed acting chief of the Emergency Management Services, where under his stewardship, the URBAN Search and Rescue was established and represented South Africa during Algeria and Iran’s disasters," he said.
Mashaba said Tembe holds a National Diploma in Personnel Management, Metro policing, as well as FBI Law Enforcement Executive Leadership (Virginia, USA).
He has also attended seminars on Law Enforcement Leadership in the USA since 2009.
National Traffic police chief David Tembe on the scene. #streetracing pic.twitter.com/8NNSmeEe
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Home » Entertainment » Jaya Janaki Nayaka Movie Review: JJN is Telugu star Sai Srinivas family entertainer drama
Jaya Janaki Nayaka Movie Review: JJN is Telugu star Sai Srinivas family entertainer drama
by Aiman
Written by Aiman
The upcoming Telugu film Jaya Janaki Nayaka starring Bellamkonda Sai Srinivas has generated quite the buzz in Tollywood, and according to latest reports, the makers of the movie have now locked the runtime of the movie at 2 hours and 29 minutes. The movie recently completed formalities with the censor board where it was given a U/A certification. The film has been directed by Boyapathi Srinu and is a picturesque romance filled with some adrenaline filled action sequences.
The film also features Rakul Preet Singh, Pragya Jaiswal and Catherine Tresa in important roles. The sound track, written by Devi Sri Prasad, has hit the mark with the audience, and together with the posters and the teaser trailers, it has created the perfect stage for a grand release. In a recent interview, Srinu said that JJN is the first romantic movie since Bhadra, and the big budget is justified by the family entertaining script that is targeted for everyone. He also said that the action in the movie is not out of context, and action mixed with emotions is his signature style.
The movie has spent quite some time in the pipeline and saw a delay of as much as two years before shooting started in November 2016. For the leading lady, the makers struggled, first failing to sign Shruti Hassan and then Tamanna Bhatia, who was busy with the shooting of Baahubali 2 and then for another Tamil film. It was finally Rakul Preet Singh who was signed in January 2016. Reportedly, Sai Srinivas has spent a lot of time on his body language and will be sporting a brand new look for the film.
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Home / News / Politics / Uduaghan Loses Delta South Senatorial Election, Seeks Cancellation
Uduaghan Loses Delta South Senatorial Election, Seeks Cancellation
February 26, 2019 News, Politics
Former Delta State governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has lost in the Delta South Senatorial District election to incumbent Senator James Manager of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared PDP’s Manager the winner after polling a total of 258, 812 votes to while Uduaghan got 125,776 votes.
However, Uduaghan has called for the cancellation of the election, saying it was massively rigged.
In a petition to the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, by his lawyer, E. Otaru, Uduaghan alleged that there were massive election malpractices “perpetrated through voter intimidation, where voters were compelled to vote against their conscience by thugs, who were openly brandishing various dangerous weapons.”
Uduaghan’s petition to the state Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Commissioner came as election officials were still collating the senatorial results at Oleh in Isoko area of the state.
The former governor’s lawyer alleged that “malpractices were made possible by the collaboration of INEC officials with these thugs identified as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, supporters.”
“The areas where these malpractices were more brazen and massive include Burutu, Warri North, Warri South, Bomadi, Patani, Warri South-West, Isoko North and Isoko South Local Government Areas.”
He said voters were intimidated by thugs at polling units 5, 6, 7, 8 in Ogbe Ijoh Ward One, Warri South West LGA, parts of Bomadi, four wards in Warri South-West and part of Warri North.
According to the lawyer, “Voting slips were hijacked and in some cases, destroyed, especially in polling units where it is perceived that the APC, head the upper level.”
“Based on the foregoing, we have our client’s instructions to call on you sir and appeal that the election in the aforementioned local government areas is cancelled,” Otaru said.
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Reviewer Anonymity Remains Threatened as IROs Grapple with Personal Disclosures
“Consumer education is a key element in understanding the role of an Independent Review Organization and what a medical provider may or may not be responsible for in the review process. Reviewer anonymity is a critical factor in protecting the independent and unbiased status of the medical reviewer in the IRO/appeals process.” — Ed Bolton, CEO and President of Nexus
Typically, employees who face harassment in a workplace setting have someplace to turn, whether that is a supervisor or the human resources department. But for medical professionals in the independent review industry, harassment regarding their opinions is far too common an occurrence and one that leaves these professionals at risk with little recourse for safety, either personally or professionally.
Within the scope of independent review, a dispute may stem from a medical review decision, during which a medical reviewer from an independent review organization (IRO) provides an opinion that assists the health plan in determining whether a consumers’ plan is required to cover a given service or treatment under review.
The medical reviewer, working independently, weighs evidence to render an unbiased opinion on whether the service or treatment in question is medically necessary, experimental or investigational, or meets the criteria for coverage under the plan. The system is designed so that the reviewer works behind the scenes, similar to an independent arbiter, and so that the reviewer does not come in direct contact with the two parties and is not unduly influenced.
In the field of independent medical review, this is known as reviewer anonymity and it is an area of increasing concern among IROs that provide peer review services for the health care industry. Learn more about this concern, among many others, in NAIRO’s latest white paper: Understanding the Vital Role of Independent Medical Review and Utilization Review Services.
“The problem has come to the forefront because our reviewers are getting harassed [more frequently],” says Lisa Ferzoco, Medical Director with MCMC in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Verbal threats, untoward contact persist
Over the past several years, Ferzoco has witnessed medical reviewers come under fire, bearing the brunt of verbal threats and, in some cases, physical intimidation from consumers who are unhappy about the outcome of the review decision.
In one case, Ferzoco recalls one reviewer who received phone calls on a daily basis full of “swearing and threatening” messages, leaving the medical reviewer afraid to go into the office. “We’ve had reviewers threaten to quit over this,” she says.
About 50% of reviewers have received some form of “unwanted communication” from a consumer whose claim was under review, says Ferzoco.
That’s despite mechanisms in place, including nationally recognized accreditation standards and laws governing external review, that seek to shield a medical reviewer from direct contact with a patient whose insurance claim is or has been under review, notes Aja Ogzewalla, CHC, Director of Regulatory Compliance with MRIoA in Salt Lake City.
Ogzewalla points to URAC accreditation standards, which are strict process guidelines followed by accredited IROs, that do not require the disclosure of a review’s identity, name, contact information or any other identifying details.
The majority of state external review laws do not require the disclosure of reviewer identity either, notes Ogzewalla. ERISA, and federal external review laws by extension, and some state laws do mandate the disclosure of the reviewer’s identity upon request.
Independence, anonymity are key
While most states do not require reviewer disclosure at the external-review level, anecdotal reports show that consumers often obtain personal details about an independent medical reviewer from their treating health care professionals, who may offer details unwittingly or may simply try to redirect a consumer’s complaints elsewhere.
That type of disclosure contradicts the very basis of independent review and decision-making upon which external review is built. “Reviewer anonymity helps maintain the independence of the review process,” explains Ogzewalla.
A lack of anonymity may result in other less-than-desired outcomes, including fewer reviewers willing to participate; potential administrative and legal burdens due to unfounded complaints (to a reviewer’s medical board, for example); increased liability and risk to both the reviewer and the IRO; and possibly an influenced final coverage decision.
NAIRO believes that reviewer anonymity is essential to the integrity of the review process and to the safety of the reviewers. URAC-accredited IROs include the board certification and qualifications of the reviewer in the form of a blind biography instead of releasing the reviewer’s personal information.
MCMC has taken steps to coach reviewers “to help minimize the likelihood” of direct contact, says Ferzoco. The internal policy focuses on mitigating contact points, such as using a blocked phone number and emphasizing the independent nature of the review process.
“We’re trying to distinguish the fact that we, as IROs, are making an independent decision,” she says.
Learn more about reviewer qualifications and conflict of interest through NAIRO’s latest white paper here.
This article was originally published on the NAIRO blog. To read the original publication and follow NAIRO’s blog to find out the latest IRO news.
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AC/DC to play London Wembley Stadium and Glasgow
NME Dec 12, 2008 10:22 am GMT
Angus Young of AC DC performing live in concert at Newcastle Arena.
New dates for 2009 added
AC/DC have announced that they will play two further UK arena shows on the 2009 jaunt.
The rockers will play at London‘s Wembley Stadium (June 26) and Glasgow Hampden Park (30) following their previously announced UK and Irish dates in April.
Tickets for the newly-announced shows go on sale on Wednesday (December 17) at 10am (GMT).
AC/DC will play:
London 02 Arena (April 14, 16)
Manchester MEN (21)
Birmingham NEC (23)
London Wembley Stadium (June 26)
Dublin Punchestown Racetrack (28)
Glasgow Hampden Park (30)
To check the availability of AC/DC tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.
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Cerebral Ballzy to headline Monster NME Radar Tour 2013
Jenny Stevens Oct 7, 2013 2:56 pm BST
Credit: Danny North/NME
The Amazing Snakeheads will join US band on the road throughout November
Cerebral Ballzy will headline the Monster NME Radar Tour 2013, with The Amazing Snakeheads joining them on the bill.
Taking place throughout November, the tour will start in Cambridge on November 15 and visit Coventry, Liverpool, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Manchester, London, Brighton, Nottingham, Bristol, Birmingham and Southmapton before winding up in Leeds on November 27.
Cerebral Ballzy will release their second album ‘Jaded & Faded’ before the end of 2013, having worked with producer Dave Sitek (TV On The Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beady Eye) on the release. New Domino Records signings The Amazing Snakeheads have been labelled by NME as “Scotland’s most exciting new band”.
Speaking about the tour, Cerebral Ballzy frontman Honor Titus says: “We’re super psyched to be back out there.”
Matt Wilkinson, NME’s new music editor, says: “Having seen both Cerebral Ballzy and The Amazing Snakeheads rip up stages countless times, I’m of the opinion that this will be the most thrilling and chaotic new bands tour NME has been involved in for years. It’s American garage rock meets snotty-nosed British punk, and I’m proud for us to be a part of it as we continue to support the very best in new music.”
Tickets for all dates go on sale at 3pm on October 7 at NME.COM/tickets.
The NME Radar Tour 2013 will visit:
Cambridge, Portland Arms (November 15)
Coventry, Kasbah (16)
Liverpool, East Village Arts Club (17)
Sheffield, Leadmill (18)
Edinburgh, Electric Circus (19)
Manchester, Deaf Institute (20)
London, Hoxton B&K (21)
Brighton, Bermuda Triangle (22)
Nottingham, Rock City Basement (23)
Bristol, Exchange (24)
Birmingham, Hare and Hounds (25)
Southampton, Joiners (26)
Leeds, Cockpit (27)
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Why neutering your cat or kitten is a good idea.
Home•Why neutering your cat or kitten is a good idea.
A fully mature, unneutered male cat will spend a good deal of his time trying to pass on his genes. To do this well, he needs to defend a sizeable territory, compete with rivals and court females. Since all of these require large amounts of energy, tomcats often look thin and ragged, with numerous scars and abscesses from countless fights. Straying, too, can become a real problem with both male and female cats as they seek a mate .
As well as the risk of unwanted kittens, there is also the real risk of cats, particularly feral cats, passing on diseases against which there is no vaccination and for which there is no cure, such as the feline immunodeficiency virus FIVEditors note – my rather wild Tomcat contracted this and eventually died from it after a fight with a wild cat. The wild cat was so big it looked like it had swallowed a Koala. Whole. – the feline equivalent to humans AIDS although there is no danger of humans contracting this.
Before spaying: the female reproductive tract comprises the ovaries, fallopian tubes and uterus womb.
After spaying: the ovaries, fallopian tubes and uterus have been removed.
Before castration: the male reproductive tract comprises two testicles testes within a skin sac scrotum, connected to the penis via the vas deferens spermatic cord.
When to neuter
Neutering known as spaying in females and castration in males should be carried out when the cat reaches sexual maturity at around six months the equivalent of adolescence in humans, and at any time afterwards. Individual vets have their own policy on spaying in-season females. This is due to the reproductive organs being enlarged with an increased supply of blood, so there can be greater risks involved in the surgery. The neutering of pedigree or show cats is often delayed to allow their full physical development.
Because the operation is more involved with female cats, the spaying procedure is more expensive than castration for males. Some animal charities have low-cost neutering schemes to help those owners on low income or receiving state benefits. Ask about this at your local animal veterinary clinic, or contact animal charities in your area.
Spaying females
The vet removes the ovaries, fallopian tubes and uterus under a general anaesthetic. They shave and clean the operation site to help prevent infection, then make a small incision on the mid-line from the navel towards the hind legs, or in the flank, in order to remove the relevant organs. They close the wound with two or three stitches, which they will remove about a week later, unless they are using soluble suture material which gradually dissolves on its own.
Castrating males
The vet anaesthetizes the cat and removes his testes and part of the spermatic cord through an incision in the scrotum; this incision is so small that it does not even require stitches.
Neuter behaviour
If neutered as kittens, the behaviour of male and female will be almost the same as it was before – at least fror practical point of view of an owner. Minor change you might encounter are:
-their territories are much smaller than those of unneutered cats
-territorial fights may still occur, but will he much less of a problem
-both sexes tend to be more affectionate and amenable
-they tend to spend more time at home although neuters may spray urine if they are emotionally disturbed by something, their spray smells nothing like the strong urine of a male cat, which is also sticky and difficult to clean from household furnishings
Pre- and post-operative care
The cat must go without food and water for 12 hours before the operation, but most cats are up and about, eating, drinking and playing, within a few hours of their operation. Females who have had a mid-line incision may take slightly longer to recover – around 48 hours. When you bring the cat home from the vet’s, he or she will probably still he drowsy from the anaesthetic, so put them in a warm, quiet place to rest undisturbed – with water, a litter tray and a light meal of cooked white fish or chicken – until they feel ready to join in the family activities. There is some truth in the observation that neutered cats become more inactive than unneutered ones as they age, although their life expectancy is greater. You may have to adjust a neutered cat’s diet, as well as play with him every day and encourage him to exercise.
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SAPD: Suspect beat 76-year-old woman with metal pipe before stealing her car
By Fares Sabawi
Updated 7:33 am CST, Friday, January 25, 2019
Neshia Harris, 22, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated robbery.
Photo: Bexar County Jail
A San Antonio woman was arrested Wednesday after she struck a 76-year-old woman in the head with a metal pipe and stole her car, according to police.
Neshia Harris, 22, is charged with aggravated robbery, jail records showed.
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Harris was caught on surveillance footage on Jan. 16 knocking on the door of a home in the 100 block of Banbridge Avenue, in the city's Southeast Side, San Antonio police said.
When the woman answered the door, Harris struck her multiple times in her head and body. The woman "sustained serious injuries" as a result of the beating, according to Harris' arrest affidavit.
Harris fled the scene in the woman's 2011 Toyota Corolla before police arrived, the affidavit says.
When police canvassed the area, they discovered the car Harris had arrived in and left behind, according to the affidavit. Officers contacted the car's owner, who identified Harris for them.
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The affidavit did not contain information on whether the two women knew each other or suggest a motive.
Harris' bail was set at $75,000, jail records showed.
Fares Sabawi covers crime in San Antonio and Bexar County. Read him on our breaking news site, mySA.com, and on our subscriber site, ExpressNews.com | fsabawi@mysa.com|@FaresInSA
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Where to go in Sydney's Surry Hills
The new Paramount House Hotel has put Sydney's former rag trade hood Surry Hills firmly into the spotlightSaturday, April 7, 2018
By Emma Holland
photo by Chin Chin
A once gritty industrial hood, Surry Hills has been determinedly making its way into the Sydney spotlight over the past decade. With the arrival of Paramount House Hotel, it's finally ready for its close-up. This new boutique opening, by Melbourne architects Breathe, sits proudly astride two newly connected buildings, its lobby set inside the former Australian HQ for Paramount Picture Studios. The first accommodation offering by the team behind such Surry Hills hot hangouts as Reuben Hills micro roastery and Paramount Coffee Project, the hotel will rank as a must-visit for locals and tourists alike.
Set on the upper floors of the functionalist Paramount House, the 29-room hotel comes with a lively lobby cafe where fresh farm produce can be picked up as part of The Locals Market initiative on Saturday mornings. Paramount Recreation Club's fitness classes are held on the roof, and Poly — a new dining experience from the team behind feted Sydney restaurant Ester — opens this year. Most rooms have a terrace overlooking the leafy streets below, once a den of rag trade iniquity, now somewhere that designer rags are de rigueur for the denizens of Surry's design shops and buzzing wine bars.
Eat: Chin Chin
Still riding the wave of energy from its opening at the end of 2017, be prepared for the inevitable queues, and explosive Thai flavours.
Watch: Golden Age Cinema and Bar
Head downstairs at Paramount House for an excellent range of films, plus live music in the cosy bar, and cocktails inspired by the programme of movies.
Do: Prince Alfred Park Pool
This 165ft outdoor pool is heated for those chilly winter mornings and has plenty of green space to lounge around post-swim.
Drink: Tokyo Bird
Tokyo Bird nods to Japanese bar culture and offers an impressive whisky collection — and seasonal cocktail list. Wolf some yakitori, wash it down with a sake, and watch the world go by.
New Sydney hotels
Mrs Banks: Staying here in Paddington is like taking a step back in time. The 1914 former bank has held on to its striking art deco-style facade and original brickwork.
Spicers Potts Point: This 20-room hotel in the inner-city suburb of Potts Point serves up complimentary cocktails and canapes each evening.
Sofitel Darling Harbour: When it opened late last year, it was the first new-build five-star hotel to open in almost 20 years. There's an infinity pool with cracking views across the city skyline, too.
Published in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK)
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Whicker: Rams’ superb defensive effort…
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Whicker: Rams’ superb defensive effort gets Gronked
Gronkowski's 29-yard catch sets up the Super Bowl's only touchdown
New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski catches a pass in front of the Rams’ Marcus Peters (22) and Cory Littleton (58) during the second half of Super Bowl LIII Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
By Mark Whicker | mwhicker@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: February 3, 2019 at 9:57 pm | UPDATED: February 3, 2019 at 10:06 pm
ATLANTA – The ball sailed out of Tom Brady’s hand and down the left sideline, with Rob Gronkowski and three Rams converging.
To the naked eyes of the crowd in Mercedes-Benz Stadium, it seemed like yet another hopeless pass in an evening that overflowed with them.
To Les Snead, the Rams’ general manager, it was a replay he immediately wished he could overturn.
“It’s interesting when you see that occur,” Snead said, in a massive locker room of resignation and fatigue.
“I’m saying, dang, I’ve kinda watched that for a lot of years. Tom made a good throw, Gronk made a good catch, they made the plays. That’s what we didn’t do.”
It went 29 yards and it set up Sony Michel’s touchdown, and it finally separated this Super pretzel in which the Rams and Patriots were intertwined.
It was also the longest play in this stunningly defensive game, a back-to-the-future Super Bowl that happened barely two months after the Rams had beaten the Chiefs, 54-51, and supposedly turned pro football into drag racing.
The Patriots won, 13-3. It was a siege that brought nationwide complaint on social media but also brought extraordinary tension on every play, any one of which could have re-directed the Lombardi Trophy. Gronkowski’s play sent it back to Foxboro, which has become its natural home.
Rams linebacker Cory Littleton, safety John Johnson and cornerback Marcus Peters were in Gronkowski’s space. All three had played with inspiration.
Because of Littleton, James White only caught one pass, for four yards, and Littleton batted away a fourth-down pass to Gronkowski and made two other stops on third down.
Largely because of Peters, Chris Hogan caught none of the six balls Brady aimed at him. Partially because of Johnson and Michael Brockers, the Patriots only had 154 yards in 32 carries, and that includes two 26-yarders on the final drive that led to Steven Gostkowski’s knockout field goal. They had 154 and 176 in their previous two playoff wins.
The Patriots won and Tom Brady wasn’t the MVP. That usually is not how it works. But Brady was 3-for-12 on third down, and he couldn’t find anyone consistently except Julian Edelman, whose 10 catches for 141 yards earned him the MVP award that should have been Gronkowski’s.
All told, it was a swaggering, sassy defensive effort from the Rams, who were dead last in the NFL in rush defense (per play) and 23rd in pass defense.
They played past their stats and into their promise, and a sharper game from Jared Goff would have been their validation.
New England Patriots’ Kyle Van Noy, left, and Rob Gronkowski, right, celebrate after the NFL Super Bowl 53 football game against the Los Angeles Rams, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, in Atlanta. The Patriots won 13-3. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
The Patriots’ Rob Gronkowski makes a catch just past the reach of Samson Ebukam of the Rams in the middle of fourth quarter to Super Bowl LIII at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia on February 3, 2019. (Staff Photo By Christopher Evans/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
New England Patriots’ Rob Gronkowski (87) attempts a catch against Los Angeles Rams’ Aqib Talib (21) during the first half of the NFL Super Bowl 53 football game Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
New England Patriots’ Rob Gronkowski (87) is tackled by Los Angeles Rams’ Samson Ebukam (50) after catching a pass during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl 53 football game Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
The Rams John Johnson III grabs Rob Gronkowski near the end of second quarter to Super Bowl LIII at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia on February 3, 2019. (Staff Photo By Christopher Evans/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
New England Patriots’ Rob Gronkowski (87) runs against Los Angeles Rams’ Nickell Robey-Coleman (23) during the first half of the NFL Super Bowl 53 football game Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Los Angeles Rams’ Marcus Peters, left, chases New England Patriots’ Rob Gronkowski during the first half of the NFL Super Bowl 53 football game Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
However, Littleton wasn’t buying it.
“That might have looked like an exceptional catch to you,” Littleton said. “But if we’d been lined up correctly, it wouldn’t have happened. We were scattered all over the field.”
Littleton didn’t pick up Gronkowski until the tight end had burst from the line of scrimmage.
“We could have gotten a little better bump on him,” Johnson said. “We were a little late there. But they make plays like that.
“We just embraced the plan. They came out in some funky formations, but we were able to line up correctly for the most part. We just made some small, technical mistakes. That turned out to be the difference.”
Littleton also got an interception on the Patriots’ first series, after Nickell Robey-Coleman deflected Brady’s pass to Hogan. But Goff got nothing out of it, and Johnny Hekker came out for the first of eight punts in the first eight possessions. His season high had been seven.
The Rams came out ornery. Ndamukong Suh threw Brady into the turf as if he were a balky piece of tape. LaMarcus Joyner ended one of Edelman’s catch-and-runs with a hard shoulder to the head.
“We wanted to make them feel us,” Dante Fowler Jr. said. “I thought we played fast, hard and physical, and our DBs were on point.”
Johnson pointed out that the Patriots recouped from last year’s loss to win this game, as if that provided hope. The only other two teams to follow a Super loss with a Super win were Dallas and Miami in Super Bowls 6 and 7. Normally you learn nothing from losing this game except how to lose it again.
“I can go home tonight and I can sleep,’ Johnson said. “But i know that it’s going to sting.”
Snead confirmed the sting, but not the sleep.
“There will be a reflection period,” he said. “But I can’t say it’s going to happen this week. Getting this close and not cashing in, that’s not in the manual.”
Not when the manual tells you everything except how to turn off Rob Gronkowski.
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LM Kicks Off Blade Installation for Shanghai Lingang 1 in China
LM Wind Power has installed the first two sets of its 66.6-meter long blades on a 4MW turbine due to be installed at the Shanghai Lingang Phase I offshore wind project in China.
Source: Shanghai Electric Wind Power
LM Wind Power was in charge of providing onsite support and service during the installation of the Siemens Gamesa 4.0MW-136 turbine, for which Shanghai Electric Wind Power secured a license in March.
According to the Denmark-based company, the 4MW platform is designed to serve the Windclass II areas in Shanghai and beyond.
The blade installation is part of LM Wind Power's two-year agreement deal with the China-based offshore wind turbine manufacturer, under which the company's blade plant in Qinhuangdao will deliver the LM 66.6 blade sets during 2018 and 2019.
"This deal is a significant milestone for LM Wind Power to expand in China's growing offshore market. We are proud to have earned the trust of Shanghai Electric Wind Power, a reliable and accountable partner that has demonstrated its leadership in the Chinese offshore market," said LM Wind Power's Vice President, Offshore, Alexis Crama.
"We look forward to supporting Shanghai Electric Wind Power and their customers in the coming years to further develop the offshore market and support China's green energy needs."
LM Wind Power has been present in China since 2001 where it currently employs nearly 2,500 people. The company operates three blade manufacturing facilities in Qinhuangdao, Jiangyin and Baodi.
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