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Venus Williams holds off Jakupovic to advance at Miami tennis
22 March 2019 | 11:49 am
MIAMI GARDENS, FLORIDA – MARCH 21: Venus Williams of USA serves to Dalila Jakupovic of Slovenia during day four of the Miami Open tennis on March 21, 2019 in Miami Gardens, Florida. Julian Finney/Getty Images/AFP
Venus Williams displayed the mental strength that has made her a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion on Thursday, holding off a spirited challenge by Slovenian Dalila Jakupovic at the WTA Miami Open.
The 38-year-old American, a quarter-finalist at Indian Wells last week, turned back Jakupovic 7-5, 6-3 in 78 minutes to reach the second round after a rough start.
Jakupovic was serving for the first set and Williams was on the back foot before the qualifier wilted under the pressure and 43rd-ranked Williams booked a second-round matchup against Spanish 24th seed Carla Suarez Navarro.
Tenth seed Serena Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion and younger sister of Venus, will open in the second round against Sweden’s Rebecca Peterson, who eliminated German qualifier Laura Siegemund 6-1, 5-7, 7-5.
Venus credits her mother, Oracene Price, with instilling the character and desire to match the tennis skills developed by their father and long-time coach Richard Williams.
“Growing up in my home, we weren’t allowed to be weak, so it just wasn’t an option,” Venus Williams said. “The only option was to be strong. You had a choice of being strong or being strong, so we were strong.”
Williams, a three time Miami Open champion, is the oldest player in the women’s singles draw but has no problem striving for more titles.
“I don’t think there is really any sacrifices,” she said. “I think it’s really only pluses, especially if you’re able to execute on your dream. That’s really what anyone and everyone wants.
“One of the challenges is that it’s really a lifestyle and there is never any moment where you’re not trying to get better or that you forget about tennis.
“You just feel intense pressure to get better and to work.”
Three consecutive breaks saw 80th-ranked Jakupovic ease into an early 3-2 lead with Williams struggling on serve, and she served for the first set at 5-4 before Williams answered to claim a set that saw seven service breaks in all.
Williams stormed ahead 5-1 in the second set and cruised from there.
Williams, in a record 20th Miami appearance, knows she faces a tougher test in Suarez Navarro even though she owns a 6-3 career edge on the Spaniard.
“She’s crafty, feisty, and competitive,” Williams said. “She plays maybe a little more topspin than others and then some slice. So it’s a little bit atypical game.”
Mari Osaka, the older sister of world number one Naomi Osaka, was ousted in her opening match, falling to American Whitney Osuigwe 6-2, 6-4.
Canada’s Bianca Andreescu, fresh off the Indian Wells title, rallied to beat Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu 4-6, 7-6 (7/2), 6-2 in her opening match.
World number two Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic downed Greece’s Maria Sakkari 6-1, 6-4, to become the first player into the third round.
In ATP first-round matches, Australia’s Bernard Tomic dispatched Brazilian qualifier Thiago Monteiro 6-4, 6-1 and Aussie Jordan Thompson downed Britain’s Cameron Norrie 4-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3.
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Is Hisense a good TV?
Clarence from Chesapeake, VA
Clarence needs to get a new 55" TV. What does Leo know about HiSense? Leo says that HiSense is a budget TV manufacturer from China, but the TVs are really well made. They're the next Samsung. Vizio is another really good TV. In fact, it's the best 2nd tier TV for the money.
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Scott joins us with the news that Sharp is selling their TV arm to HiSense, and is getting out of the TV business for good. Scott hasn't been much of a fan of Sharp TVs, and they only enjoyed about 3% of the market share. So it's not surprising that they're getting out. It's ironic, because Sharp invented LCD technology and will likely keep making the LCD screens for others.
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Will this be the year to buy a 4K TV?
Rick from Merced, CA
Rick is interested in 4K, and is wondering if this will be the year for it. Leo says that when he sees it, he'll go crazy because it looks fantastic. But there's a problem -- there's no standards. We're close, but they aren't finalized yet. Check out Home Theater Geeks this week, as Scott Wilkinson will be at CES talking about 4K TVs and their standards. But it's largely the reason why Leo isn't recommending buying 4K TVs just yet. And there's not much content out for it, either.
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What HDTV should I buy?
John from San Diego, CA
John was planning to cut the cord, so he bought a Roku. He's discovered he doesn't have an HDMI port on his old TV, though. So he needs a new one. Leo says that there's many options that won't break the bank.
Vizio has a great line of affordable HDTVs. He should go as big as he can afford. Leo likes 50" to start and he can get them for around $500.
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Samsung Mobile and T-Mobile USA Introduce Samsung Behold II
by Kristofer Brozio • October 5, 2009
For you android lovers out there we’ve got a new phone from Samsung on T-Mobile!
Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung Mobile), the No. 1 phone provider in the U.S. , and T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced the upcoming availability of the Samsung Behold® II powered by Android. The Behold II is a full touch-screen phone integrating the open and innovative Android platform from Open Handset Alliance™ with Samsung’s next generation TouchWiz™ user interface and T-Mobile’s high-speed 3G network for a rich mobile experience.
Following the success of its predecessor, the Samsung Behold®, the Behold II will be available exclusively from T-Mobile and is currently scheduled to launch before the start of the holidays. The sleek touch-screen phone is the first from T-Mobile USA to feature a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen, which provides crisper colors and wider viewing angles. In addition, the Behold II is equipped with Samsung’s innovative TouchWiz user interface, allowing easy customization with widgets located in a slide out tray on the left side of the home screen and providing one-touch access to a customer’s favorite and most commonly used features and applications. The Behold II offers three different homescreens to drag and drop widgets onto the screen and organize the different workspaces with favorite widgets and application shortcuts. Samsung’s intuitive cube menu also provides quick access to six top multimedia features, including music, photos, videos, the Web, YouTube™ and Amazon MP3 for music downloads.
“We’re excited to announce Samsung’s first Android-powered device with T-Mobile in the U.S.,” said Omar Khan, senior vice president of strategy and product management for Samsung Mobile. “The Behold II follows the success of the Behold that launched last year taking the device and user experience to the next level with the Android platform, a large 3.2-inch AMOLED screen, next generation TouchWiz user interface and customization capabilities and premium features.”
“T-Mobile continues to expand our line-up of Android-powered phones in time for the holiday season with the addition of the Samsung Behold II,” said Travis Warren, director, product marketing, T-Mobile USA. “The premium screen and quality camera coupled with Samsung’s innovative cube menu makes the Behold II a multimedia powerhouse that’s made even stronger by T-Mobile’s high-speed 3G network.”
The Behold II will keep customers organized and entertained with access to built-in Google™ mobile services, including Google Search™, Google Maps™, Gmail™, YouTube and Google Talk™ as well as thousands of applications and games available for download from Android Market™. The Wi-Fi-enabled Behold II also supports personal email and corporate email with Exchange ActiveSync, as well as instant messaging, and text, picture and video messaging. Additional features include a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, flash, five shooting modes and video capabilities, visual voicemail which allows customers to listen to voicemails in order of preference, MP3 player, up to 16GB of external memory, assisted GPS and Bluetooth® 2.1.
Model number: SGH-t939
3G coverage is not available everywhere. For information where T-Mobile 3G service is available or to see T-Mobile’s Personal Coverage Check tool, please visit http://www.TMobile.com/Coverage.
About Samsung Telecommunications America
Samsung Telecommunications America, LLC, a Dallas-based subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., researches, develops and markets wireless handsets and telecommunications products throughout North America. For more information, please visit www.samsungmobileusa.com.
About Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2008 consolidated sales of US$96 billion. Employing approximately 164,600 people in 179 offices across 61 countries, the company consists of two business units: Digital Media & Communications and Device Solutions. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.
About T-Mobile USA, Inc.
Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile USA, Inc. is the U.S. wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom AG. By the end of the second quarter of 2009, almost 150 million mobile customers were served by the mobile communication segments of the Deutsche Telekom group — 33.5 million by T-Mobile USA — all via a common technology platform based on GSM and UMTS, the world’s most widely used digital wireless standards. T-Mobile’s innovative wireless products and services help empower people to connect to those who matter most. Multiple independent research studies continue to rank T-Mobile among the highest in numerous regions throughout the U.S. in wireless customer care and call quality. For more information, please visit http://www.T-Mobile.com. T-Mobile is a federally registered trademark of Deutsche Telekom AG.
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The Play’s The Thing As Upstream Mixes It Up For “The Glass Menagerie”
Linda Kennedy as Amanda and J. Samuel Davis as Tom in Upstream’s “The Glass Menagerie.” Photo: ProPhotoSTL.com
Color blind casting for Upstream Theatre’s Tennessee Williams’ classic “The Glass Menagerie” doesn’t affect the outcome as an outstanding cast leads us to the same powerful conclusions for the Wingfield family and the infamous “Gentleman Caller.” A few directorial changes neither help nor harm the script either- just give us a little bit different perspective.
Linda Kennedy’s Amanda consoles her daughter Laura (Sydney Frasure) in “The Glass Menagerie” at Upstream Theatre. Photo: ProPhotoSTL.com
Director (Artistic Director of Upstream) Philip Boehm actually gives us a fairly straightforward production. He makes the Narrator Tom an older man rather than a young man reflecting on his life with his somewhat delusional mother and crippled sister, but that does nothing more than bring a few more tears to the eye in the finale. Also, his sister Laura, still suffering from the affects of pleurosis, is in a wheelchair for the entire play rather than moving around on crutches as in most standard productions. Other than that, you soon forget that mother and son are black while sister and the gentleman caller are white. Good acting crosses all color barriers.
One of our local treasures, Linda Kennedy, is nothing short of spectacular as Amanda Wingfield. Reminiscing about her days of seventeen beaus at once clamoring for her attention and the glamour of her privileged upbringing, she brings a flair of the dramatic to everything she does and says. Sashaying in her old gown (that still fits) or retelling stories about the charms of the South, she simply dazzles in the role. Her outbursts of anger mixed with this gentility are a marked contrast that she carries off with style.
J.Samuel Davis as Tom the Narrator in Upstream Theatre’s “The Glass Menagerie.” Photo: ProPhotoSTL.com
J. Samuel Davis (this year’s winner of a Circle Award for work at Upstream) also does remarkable work as Tom- both the son and the narrator. His older self hobbles on stage with a walker as he “remembers” (it is “the memory play,” after all) about his time in St. Louis with his family. So we must always keep in perspective that these are his remembrances as he struggles at a factory job while dreaming of becoming a writer. Having a poor example of a father, he struggles with the notion of leaving both women who are depended on him for both income and support while realizing that the road his father took of skipping out on family is not the honorable one. This leads him to becoming the most tragic figure in the piece.
Jason Contini as Jim marvels at the glass unicorn of Sydney Frasure’s Laura in “The Glass Menagerie” at Upstream Theatre. Photo: ProPhotoSTL.com
As Laura, Sydney Frasure has captured the essence of the shy, almost unapproachable young girl. With her amazing gestures and telling speech, she manages to act the heck out of this role while in a wheelchair for the entire evening. And Jason Contini almost steals the acting props with his wonderful performance of Jim, the gentleman caller. He is tough and tender as his extended scene with Laura is one of the most touching moments we’ve seen on stage all year. Even in rejection (he explains he has a fiancé), he manages to come across as tender and caring.
The Michael Heil set design is effective and “handicapped” friendly for Laura’s wheelchair and makes every seat a good seat in this small black box theatre. Steve Carmichael’s lights are perfect and Laura Hanson’s costumes are equally wonderful- down to the faded glory of Amanda’s ball gown and the period look of the rest of the cast. Philip Boehm’s direction is crisp and powerful keeping the ebb and flow of the Tennessee Williams masterpiece.
J. Samuel Davis as the Narrator (Tom) in the foreground as Linda Kennedy as Amanda and Sydney Frasure as Laura sit in the background. Photo: ProPhotoSTL.com
“The Glass Menagerie” is the official kick-off to the Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis which encompasses plays, lecture and other programs throughout the middle of May. This Upstream Theatre production of “The Glass Menagerie” is a worthy entry into the festival which focuses mainly on women in his plays. Give Upstream Theatre a call at 314-863-4999 for tickets or more information.
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Posts Tagged ‘prescription drug’
ObamaCare Already Rearing Its VERY Ugly Head
You’ve got to be amazed at the Democrats’ arrogance, incompetence, and ignorance.
They are apparently having their version of Casablanca’s Captain Renault moment: “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!”
Only, in this Democrat-retelling, Captain Renault instead says, “Gambling? There’s no gambling going on here! It’s just gaming, not GAMBLING! Why, it’s nothing more than two parties engaging in a predictive enterprise, in which the accurate prediction is rewarded in a monetary transaction. But gambling? You’re a violent racist to call that ‘gambling’!!!
Oh, my goodness. I think you just spat on me! It’s just the kind of thing you haters who attack us as “gamblers” would do!”
The ObamaCare Writedowns
The corporate damage rolls in, and Democrats are shocked!
It’s been a banner week for Democrats: ObamaCare passed Congress in its final form on Thursday night, and the returns are already rolling in. Yesterday AT&T announced that it will be forced to make a $1 billion writedown due solely to the health bill, in what has become a wave of such corporate losses.
This wholesale destruction of wealth and capital came with more than ample warning. Turning over every couch cushion to make their new entitlement look affordable under Beltway accounting rules, Democrats decided to raise taxes on companies that do the public service of offering prescription drug benefits to their retirees instead of dumping them into Medicare. We and others warned this would lead to AT&T-like results, but like so many other ObamaCare objections Democrats waved them off as self-serving or “political.”
Perhaps that explains why the Administration is now so touchy. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke took to the White House blog to write that while ObamaCare is great for business, “In the last few days, though, we have seen a couple of companies imply that reform will raise costs for them.” In a Thursday interview on CNBC, Mr. Locke said “for them to come out, I think is premature and irresponsible.”
Meanwhile, Henry Waxman and House Democrats announced yesterday that they will haul these companies in for an April 21 hearing because their judgment “appears to conflict with independent analyses, which show that the new law will expand coverage and bring down costs.”
In other words, shoot the messenger. Black-letter financial accounting rules require that corporations immediately restate their earnings to reflect the present value of their long-term health liabilities, including a higher tax burden. Should these companies have played chicken with the Securities and Exchange Commission to avoid this politically inconvenient reality? Democrats don’t like what their bill is doing in the real world, so they now want to intimidate CEOs into keeping quiet.
On top of AT&T’s $1 billion, the writedown wave so far includes Deere & Co., $150 million; Caterpillar, $100 million; AK Steel, $31 million; 3M, $90 million; and Valero Energy, up to $20 million. Verizon has also warned its employees about its new higher health-care costs, and there will be many more in the coming days and weeks.
As Joe Biden might put it, this is a big, er, deal for shareholders and the economy. The consulting firm Towers Watson estimates that the total hit this year will reach nearly $14 billion, unless corporations cut retiree drug benefits when their labor contracts let them.
Meanwhile, John DiStaso of the New Hampshire Union Leader reported this week that ObamaCare could cost the Granite State’s major ski resorts as much as $1 million in fines, because they hire large numbers of seasonal workers without offering health benefits. “The choices are pretty clear, either increase prices or cut costs, which could mean hiring fewer workers next winter,” he wrote.
The Democratic political calculation with ObamaCare is the proverbial boiling frog: Gradually introduce a health-care entitlement by hiding the true costs, hook the middle class on new subsidies until they become unrepealable, but try to delay the adverse consequences and major new tax hikes so voters don’t make the connection between their policy and the economic wreckage. But their bill was such a shoddy, jerry-rigged piece of work that the damage is coming sooner than even some critics expected.
The Democrats passed their totally partisan bill (the only bipartisanship was in the “Hell no!” vote, with 34 Democrats joining every single Republican).
The New York Times reported that Obama’s core promise was his pledge that he would transcend the starkly red-and-blue politics of the last 15 years, end the partisan and ideological wars, move beyond the divisive politics of Washington, and build a new governing majority that brought Democrats, independents and Republicans together. And now we know that his fundamental, core promise was just a total lie, a massive lie of the devil. Not only did he not try to become a unifying figure, as he cynically and deceitfully promised, but he became the most polarizing president in the history of the nation. And that broken promise is now erupting into open rage like we have never seen in this country.
Obama is trying to demonize Republicans for the anger, but HE WAS THE ONE WHO PROMISED TO BE A TRANSCENDENT FIGURE. HE WAS THE ONE WHO LIED.
Democrats have obfuscated every fact with spin and lies, and every single truth teller they could not bribe or intimidate they have tried to destroy.
Democrats can pass a pile of stinking lies on a 100% partisan ideological vote, but what they can’t do is make that pile of stinking lies that comprise ObamaCare actually work. The Democrats health care law is already an open disaster, and it will continue to grow into a bigger and bigger disaster no matter how many congressional kangaroo courts they hold to demonize businesses who reported that their costs will skyrocket under this evil bill.
Obama said if you liked your health care you could keep it. ABC was reporting that that promise was questionable back in July of last year. Now it is a proven lie. It was just another whopping lie of the devil all along. Businesses are taking hits in the millions and even in the billions of dollars. And one of them after another is going to start dumping their retirees into Medicare as the cost of offering private insurance plans soar under ObamaCare.
Obama’s reckeless spending is simply staggering. The CBO is reporting that it is a gigantic $1.2 TRILLION more than Obama said it would be. And they are reporting the terrifying news that the federal debt will soar to 90% of Gross Domestic Product.
Business costs are soaring. AT & T will take a billion dollar hit because of ObamaCare.
As bad as that is in dollars, the bigger hit may well be the one taken by Caterpillar, because it shows the abject hypocrisy and fraud of ObamaCare. Last year Obama said that “you can measure America’s bottom line by looking at Caterpillar’s bottom line.” And now that same Caterpillar is taking a $100 million hit due to ObamaCare. Now that same Caterpillar is saying, “From our point of view, a tax increase like this cannot come at a worse time.”
That means fewer jobs for Americans. A LOT fewer jobs. And no denials by our Democrat version of Captain Renault can change that with his sputtering denials.
And there are other hidden provisions that are starting to leap out of this bill that Democrats passed, but apparently never bothered to read.
Now we’re finding that Americans are going to take a hit as high as $2,000 under another dark tunnel provision in ObamaCare.
“The damage is coming sooner than expected.”
That’s the nutshell summary of ObamaCare.
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Posts Tagged ‘virtually any hospital in the country that can do isolation can do isolation for Ebola’
The Ebola Presidency Of Barack Obama And His Diseased Democrat Party
I’ve been comparing Barack Obama’s presidency to a metastasizing cancer all this time. But yeah, he really is a lot more like Ebola. Because under this demonic fool’s “leadership,” America is bleeding out and infecting the rest of the world with weakness that emboldens the human viruses otherwise known as rogue regimes (such as Russia, China, Iran and North Korea) and terrorists who want to impose their caliphate on people too weak to resist the disease of their ideology.
Let’s recap Obama on Ebola. Remember, he brought in health workers who had been infected with Ebola. And he assured the American people with these words on September 16:
First and foremost, I want the American people to know that our experts, here at the CDC and across our government, agree that the chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low. We’ve been taking the necessary precautions, including working with countries in West Africa to increase screening at airports so that someone with the virus doesn’t get on a plane for the United States. In the unlikely event that someone with Ebola does reach our shores, we’ve taken new measures so that we’re prepared here at home. We’re working to help flight crews identify people who are sick, and more labs across our country now have the capacity to quickly test for the virus. We’re working with hospitals to make sure that they are prepared, and to ensure that our doctors, our nurses and our medical staff are trained, are ready, and are able to deal with a possible case safely.
Obama told us Ebola would never get here. And to further reassure us, he told us that even if it did, we were completely prepared for it.
And of course, Obama, being a wise and competent messiah, was completely correct and Ebola never got here.
Except, oh, wait. It DID get here, thanks to his incompetence. And no, we WEREN’T prepared here at home, given the fact that after Obama allowed an infected man to come here from West Africa, two nurses contracted ebola and we’ve had infected people flying around on huge passenger airplanes and sailing around on giant cruise ships.
The worst problem with the CDS is the worst problem with Obama – stunning and appalling ARROGANCE.
Remember Obama’s appearance like unto a god in front of the Grecian columns? What did I say of Obama back in August of 2008?
It’s not that Obama wants to be pretentious; it’s simply who he is. […]
But in that gigantic stadium (even without the echoes), with all those pretentious columns in the background, and with all those cheering people, even a humble speech will come across with the aura of one of those vain but petty dictators talking to the people while wearing one of those fancy dress military uniforms with the big shoulder board epaulettes.
History now proves I was so freaking right it’s beyond unreal.
The term “malignant narcissist” applies quite well in describing this man.
Remember Obama’s nomination speech on November 5, 2008 in which he prophesied of his presidency:
“I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.”
Yep, that’s exactly what happened, all right. Messiah Obama healed the planet with the deity of his magnificence.
You Democrats are going to so burn in hell for believing this demoniac’s lies it’s beyond unreal. The reason we’ve got “global warming” now is because God had to increase the temperature of hell for you Democrats who worship homosexual sodomy on an alter of 60 million murdered babies as you pray to socialist human government in place of the God of the Bible. So get used to the heat, liberal, ’cause it will be the rest of your damned eternity.
Remember Obama assuring us about the Islamic State that has since established its own caliphate across the Syria and Iraq that Obama so godawfully failed in and now has its own freaking air force???
In a wide-ranging interview with the New Yorker, President Barack Obama compared Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq and Syria to junior varsity basketball players, downplaying their threat as small-league. He also shared what he thought were the chances of reaching Middle East peace agreements.
New Yorker editor David Remnick pointed out to the president that the Al Qaeda flag is now seen flying in Falluja in Iraq and in certain locations in Syria, and thus the terrorist group has not been “decimated” as Obama had said during his 2012 reelection campaign.
“The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama told Remnick. “I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.”
Remnick characterized Obama’s analogy as “uncharacteristically flip.”
Let’s just call it what it is, was, has been and will continue to be until the White House has been decontaminated of Obama’s moral stink and the millions of demons who now inhabit that place have been exorcised: the stunning personal arrogance of an appallingly wicked malignant narcissist.
Obama believes he’s a god. And he’s a devil-servant of the god of this world (that’s Satan, folks).
Even doctrinaire liberals like WaPo’s Eugene Robinson are using the term “self-delusion” to describe the Obama regime’s pronouncements of “succeeding” in the war with ISIS they refuse to call a war.
After weeks, if not months, of dithering, they finally came up with a name for the operation to call this non-war: “Inherent Resolve.” The problem is that that phrase is non-sequitur: there is and can be nothing “inherent” about “resolve.” “Resolve” is a choice, an act of will. Resolve is something you choose to have and never something you can be innately born having. And the thing that is crystal clear – given the fact that not ONE general claims that Obama’s strategy of having no combat forces has any chance of succeeding whatsoever – is that Obama very clearly does NOT have any “resolve” of any kind, “inherent” or otherwise.
If the generals are saying anything, they are screaming that Obama’s “strategy” cannot succeed.
But that doesn’t stop Obama from dishonestly claiming that he’s succeeding when in fact his operation against ISIS is nothing short of one long, sustained FAIL.
It’s all nakedly and cynically political for Obama. He doesn’t give a flying damn about American interests or US national security until AFTER the election. Because politics is all that matters to this thug.
So we get with Ebola the same damn thing we got with Islamic State: a bunch of Stalinist pronouncements that had absolutely no connection whatsoever to the real freaking world.
Here’s an example from Obama’s handpicked CDC muckymuck along with a brief description of how Frieden got to be Obama’s CDC muckymuck in the first place (i.e., because he’s a naked leftist ideologue):
We seem to be one of the few nations not taking the spread of Ebola seriously. Perhaps we are just a smidge overconfident. When Mr. Frieden assured the nation that we would “stop Ebola in its tracks” earlier this month, he listed several protocols that would keep the disease from spreading. Few of those appear to have been followed.
Mr. Frieden was previously Commissioner of New York City’s Health Department. Highlights of his time in that post include an aggressive anti-smoking media campaign and the successful (and controversial) effort to stamp out trans-fats. Given his past, he may have unwarranted confidence in the power of government. Critics have called him an “overzealous activist.” In facing down the Ebola virus, we hope he is that and more.
So Frieden was appointed to be Obama’s CDC head because he was a reliable leftist ideologue political hack. PERIOD. He has proven that he is utterly incompetent at stopping Ebola. But that is irrelevant to Obama.
The Chicago Sun-Times points out the incredibly contradictory statements coming out of the Stalinist Obama regime:
Frieden then: “We will stop it in its tracks, because we’ve got infection control in hospitals and public health that tracks and isolates people if they get symptoms.”
Frieden now: “Stopping Ebola is hard.” . . . “We have to rethink the way we address Ebola infection control.”
Here’s a memorable quote for you:
Frieden claimed that “virtually any hospital in the country that can do isolation can do isolation for Ebola.”
Sure it can. But also remember that any brain-eating zombie will be extremely disappointed when they get their chance to feast on the contents of Obama’s skull and the skulls of all his damn advisors.
I could go on and on and on providing the stunningly arrogant statements coming out of the stunningly arrogant Obama White House.
We’ve got RoseAnn DeMoro, director of National Nurses United, on the record saying:
“Our nurses are not protected, they’re not prepared to handle Ebola or any other pandemics,” DeMoro said. “The protocols that should have been in place in Dallas were not in place and are not in place anywhere in the United States, as far as we can tell.”
So far, we’ve had two nurses confirmed with Ebola. The second nurse flew on TWO passenger flights and the CDC that so blatantly assured us that they were the experts who were in charge of everything are now desperately searching for hundreds of passengers who were exposed.
If that isn’t bad enough, the aircraft she was on was NOT taken out of service immediately, but continued to operate:
The same plane used on Flight 1143 was used on an Oct. 14 flight from Cleveland to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The plane with tail number N22OFR later returned to Cleveland that afternoon before heading on a route from Cleveland to Atlanta and then back.
But, oops, it turns out that plane went on FIVE more trips:
Frontier now says it is notifying up to 800 passengers total, a figure that includes those on her October 10 Dallas-to-Cleveland flight, the return flight on Monday, plus five other trips taken by the plane before the airline took it out of service. Frontier says it’s telling those passengers to contact the CDC — which had said the risk to anyone on the return flight was extremely low — if they have any concerns.
For the record, the nurse, Amber Vinson, checked with the CDC and was told it was all right for her to fly:
A Dallas nurse who took a commercial flight from Cleveland hours before reporting symptoms of Ebola says that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention told her it was okay to fly.
But it just keeps getting better: a health worker who was exposed to Obama’s Ebola virus went on a cruise with 4,633 passengers and crew.
Now, if I wrote a book or produced a movie that described this kind of plot as to how the deadly disease spread, no body would bother with it. Because nobody could possibly believe a government could actually be that criminally incompetent.
But of course that was before Barack Obama, the most incompetent, bungling, demon-possessed fool who ever lived.
Keep in mind, if those nurses and healthcare workers shouldn’t fly, THEN WE SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWING PEOPLE FROM WEST AFRICA TO FLY HERE, SHOULD WE???
I mean, Obama basically has issued a travel ban: only it only applies to Americans in America rather than to infected West Africans coming from West Africa to make us sick here.
But Obama’s policy is not based on sanity, but on political correctness. It might hurt West Africa’s feelings if there’s a travel ban. It’s better to risk the American homeland, instead. Obama is viewing Ebola through his “legacy” rather than through his job as president of the United States with the duty of preserving American lives.
You want to put this into racial terms – the way the people who are demanding we keep exposing ourselves to Ebola rather than impose travel restrictions are – fine. Let’s just point out the attitude of the Obama regime: Ebola is ravaging amongst the primitive black people, but we’re better. We’re more intelligent and more advanced than those dirty blacks in Africa and we can treat Ebola where they can’t. So there’s your racist angle for you. As always, it’s LIBERALS who are being the racists, not decent folk who want to protect their nation from a terrifying disease that is clearly FAR more virulent than they’ve been claiming and that has no known cure.
Obama’s political ideologues like Frieden make the sweeping argument that a “total travel ban” would hurt our ability to fight Ebola. Bullcrap. Number one, NOBODY IS ATTEMPTING TO IMPLEMENT A TOTAL TRAVEL BAN; resources would keep pouring IN; it’s “OUT” that needs to be controlled. They claim that ANY travel restriction is tantamount to a TOTAL ban, which is what Obama always does as he employs false narratives and false dilemmas to get his way.
So I welcome infected nurses to keep flying around America. As long as infected Africans should have a chance to fly in from Africa, well, dammit, infected Americans should have a chance to fly around America, too. I hope an infected person knocks on your damn door and comes in and coughs in your stupid, ugly face if you voted for Obama. Because that’s the LEAST of what you deserve, DEMOnic BureauCRAT.
The right thing to do is to put everyone coming from West Africa through a quarantine process of at least 21 days. And to restrict travel to the United States to those who have no signs or symptoms of Ebola after a quarantine.
Anyone who isn’t truly demon-possessed ought to be able to see by now that just ONE patient like the one who flew here thanks to Obama can wreak havoc with our entire medical system and bring the whole damn thing crashing down.
Think about it: Thomas Eric Duncan caused at least two nurses, possibly more, to become infected. Those nurses and health workers have now spread the possible contagion to THOUSANDS. ONE INFECTED GUY did that. Let’s quit fooling around with this deadly disease.
A leading epidemiologist says that it’s only a matter of time before Ebola becomes airborne. That would be a disaster that we would have to go back to the Black Death to compare to. And no one will know it has happened until AFTER it has happened.
Just in case you hadn’t already concluded that the Obama regime is lying to you about Ebola and about every other damn thing it is doing, realize that the same Obama who appointed an ideologue to run his CDC just appointed an even BIGGER ideologue to be his “Ebola czar.”
That’s exactly what Obama did when he anointed Ron “Ku Klux” Klain, a Democrat thug political fixer, to be his expert on Ebola.
The Obama White House says it didn’t need a medical expert to head this operation; what they wanted was a leader. Fine. Hire a general or hire a CEO. But no, what Obama did was hire a SHYSTER LAWYER whose only “leadership” was in covering Democrat ass.
It’s really quite fascinating: Barack Obama doesn’t see himself as having an Ebola problem; he sees himself as having a political problem involving Ebola. So rather than get an actual medical expert who has dealt with pandemics before, Obama instead turns to a partisan political fixer. This turd Klain’s job isn’t to solve the Ebola problem, it’s to enforce loyalty to Obama from all the bureaucrats and medical people who might otherwise start turning on the president and leaking information to prove what a complete disgrace Obama is.
Barack Obama and the Democrat Party don’t give one flying damn about you, about your children or about this country. All of you are nothing more than a means to an end to these fascists.
You can’t trust Obama. On Ebola or on ANYTHING. The man has repeatedly demonstrated that he is a pathological liar and ideologue.
Fact about Ebola:
Rightfully, the Ebola virus is one of the most feared diseases in the world. Patients infected with Ebola contract something called “hemorrhagic fever” which essentially causes the body to completely deteriorate. In layman’s terms, the body basically melts. Blood seeps from the patient’s eyes, nose, mouth and other orifices. It is an incredible amount of suffering and a horrible death. There is no vaccine or proven treatment.
America’s destiny is to melt down the way an Ebola patient basically melts down. We’re losing influence, we’re losing economic power, we’re losing military strength, we’re losing resolve, we’re just losing, period.
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Student’s mom reflects on 9/11 tragedy
September 21, 2015 September 25, 2016 Ellie Lewis
Even 14 years later, the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, remain fresh in the memories of one Emmaus family.
In 2001, EHS senior Ashley Rivera’s mother, Denise Figueroa, worked as an associate in the Gap clothing store in Five World Trade Center; the WTC complex consisted of eight buildings overall. At the time of the attack, she was at her mother’s apartment near the Brooklyn Bridge.
Figueroa thought nothing was unusual about that day. But, when the news flash came out that something had hit the building, she had to see for herself. As she went outside to look, the second plane hit.
“Immediately, I felt fear. I didn’t think twice about getting my mom and daughter as far away from that area until I found out what was going on,” said Figueroa.
“The whole time I kept thinking ‘everything will be okay, they just need to put the fire out.’ I did not realize that as we stood there watching the building burn and sway, [complaining] about wanting it to be over with, people were dropping from the buildings. The guilt still hits me to this day,” said Figueroa.
Figueroa noted how the tragic event brought people in the city closer together.
“Although [I was] extremely sad, I never felt more proud to be an American. The way everyone came together to help each other out, the unity was incredible,” she said. “We all kept our heads up high and just kept praying for those who did not make it.”
The news spread throughout the city that they were under attack.
“At one point we all knew the first building was going to fall and [were] praying for it to just fall already, like we [wanted] the nightmare to be over with,” said Figueroa.
The Twin Towers before the attack of 9/11. Photo courtesy of www.businessinsider.com
Denise Figueroa, senior Ashley Rivera’s mother, recalled the tragic event of the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11. Photo courtesy of Ashley Rivera
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Owls Fall To UNH In Late Season Test
Matt Gad—Sports Writer
The Owls (14-9, 9-6) fell to a three-way tie for second in the Northeast 10’s Southwest Division Wednesday when they lost to New Haven, which was tied with them, Le Moyne and Adelphi for first place at the time.
They came into the game strong, starting fast and building a 44-41 halftime lead behind senior guard Kealen Ives’ 14 first-half points but the second half was a different story as a lack of defensive pressure resulted in the Chargers taking the contest, 99-77.
“You can’t give a hot team easy threes,” coach Scott Burrell said. “We wore down, played a lot of guys in the first half. [We had] mental mistakes on defense and they came out and hit some early shots, got some confidence and started rolling.”
Elijah Bailey hit the 1,000-point mark for his Chargers career during the game and rolled with 32 points to lead all scorers, while Derrick Rowland also kept New Haven hot from three-point range en route to a 27-point performance.
“Hopefully we can get healthy and just play smarter,” Burrell said. “We need to compete better, stick to gameplans and we need guys who don’t get a lot of minutes to step up.”
Senior Joey Wallace, who was put into the rotation after Ulyen Coleman’s injury, tallied 11 points and five rebounds, while Ives finished with 26 and C.J. Seaforth hit 21.
“I’m not gonna mention names but guys have to step up,” Burrell said.
The Owls have five regular-season games left, starting with Saint Rose Saturday at home, as they will seek to secure a spot in the NE10 Tournament, something they’ve qualified for since the 2010-11 season, and they will hope to continue to be with the services of star senior guard Isaiah McLeod, who battled an injury during Wednesday’s second half.
“His ankle’s bothering him so we’ll see what happens,” Burrell said. “He’s a different player when he’s not healthy.”
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Some Reports on @JimCarrey’s Commencement Speech at MUM @MaharishiU #mumgraduation
“I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”
This was one of many profoundly wise things Jim Carrey told the graduating class of 2014 at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa on Saturday. He was referencing his father’s choice in life, who could have been a great comedian, but chose instead to play it safe and become an accountant, thinking it would be a secure profession. But after several years he lost his job and the family had to do what they could to survive. In Jim’s case that meant leaving school to work at something he didn’t like to help support the family. But he also realized his father’s humor and love made people laugh, feel happy and forget about their cares. He soon realized he wanted to do that too and decided to become a comedian to make people forget their concerns. And he certainly succeeded beyond his wildest dreams!
Gazette writer, Diana Nollen, attended the MUM Graduation and heard Jim Carrey deliver his amazingly funny and deeply insightful Commencement speech. Earlier, during his introductory remarks, President Bevan Morris mentioned Judd Apatow’s story of opening for Jim Carrey in his early days, and after seeing Jim perform, decided to quit standup comedy. He said Jim is the number one funniest person on the planet.
So when Donna Marie Jones, the class valedictorian, was walking up to the podium we all wondered how she could follow such an act! Diana opens her piece quoting Donna’s opening remark, and then comments:
“Wow! What an honor to have Jim Carrey as my opening act!”
It was the best opening line to a valedictory speech, following the best commencement address ever.
Both were delivered Saturday at Maharishi University of Management, where about 1,000 people filled every chair and space in the Golden Dome to see 285 students from 54 countries receive bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degrees — and to hear what the veteran Hollywood funnyman would have to say.
Everyone, including Carrey, laughed at valedictorian Donna Marie Jones’ opening line. The mathematics major had the unenviable task of following Carrey at the microphone.
Read more: Jim Carrey wise beyond his wiseguy ways: Hollywood funnyman gives commencement address in Fairfield.
Sunday’s Hawk Eye cover story on Jim Carrey delivering the commencement address at Maharishi University in Fairfield was written by Bob Saar. He captured the joyful mood of Carrey’s wit and wisdom as he delivered a funny yet deeply powerful message of insight and encouragement to the graduates. Dr. Carrey (he received a doctorate in Fine Arts) touched the hearts and minds of the over 1000 people there in the dome with his understanding, humility and humor. Brilliant! To read this article, just click on it once, and then again after it opens larger. Other articles are available below as well. Other Iowa media that reported on the MUM 2014 Graduation with Jim Carrey are: The Des Moines Register, Jim Carrey mixes laughs with advice at Iowa college graduation; The Gazette/KCRG, Jim Carrey wise beyond his wise guy ways, which is another excellent article, but with a slideshow and voice-over; The Fairfield Ledger: Carrey infuses graduation speech with humor; The Iowa Source article with photos and quotes: Jim Carrey Gives Heartfelt, Laugh-Filled Commencement Speech; and The Fairfield Weekly Reader for a personal glimpse from Michael Sternfeld of what it was like to see Jim Carrey work with the MUM and DLF crew to get his presentation in place: The True-man Show: Behind the Scenes with Jim Carrey.
Michael Sternfeld later had a longer version of this article published as a cover story in Australia’s largest holistic magazine, Living Now, on pages 12+13, with a mention by the editor in the middle of page 3: http://bit.ly/1rmUTXE.
National news coverage was by The Hollywood Reporter: Jim Carrey Delivers Commencement Speech, Receives Honorary Doctorate, NY Daily News: Jim Carrey gives emotional commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management, CNN: Jim Carrey’s inspiring commencement speech, USA TODAY: Hear what advice Jim Carrey has for college graduates; The Wrap: Jim Carrey’s Commencement Speech Warns Students of His Own Father’s Failure (Video); Time: Jim Carrey’s Commencement Speech Warns Against Playing It Safe; and many TV news shows like Today: Jim Carrey delivers life lessons in commencement speech, Good Morning America: Jim Carrey Reveals His Father’s Failure Inspired His Comedic Dreams; PEOPLE Magazine, June 9, 2014, page 8, under StarTracks; and many major publications running the story. WPTV 5 included a comprehensive review of highlights from various media in the Newsy report: Jim Carrey Maharishi University of Management graduation speech; Tells graduates don’t fail at what you don’t want. The international press ran the news all over the place. The Hindu later came out with, Choose between fear and love, including many highlights from Jim’s inspiring talk.
Also visit the TM Blog for some more good quotes: Jim Carrey in Iowa? University Featuring Transcendental Meditation Scores Big with Commencement Speaker. KTVO posted two reports: Jim Carrey Gives Memorable Speech at MUM Graduation and Inaugural David Lynch MA in Film class graduates. Visit http://filmschool.mum.edu to submit your work for a chance at a scholarship.
Here is a sample of the highlights on a b-roll sent to the media. It is included in the Washington Post article: Jim Carrey gives commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management, which seems to be one of the best articles so far. And CNN just posted a second news report: Carrey Gets Serious at Graduation, Says His Dad Paved The Way For Him. The news anchor was surprised at how serious he was and what he shared with the MUM graduates: “That’s Jim Carrey. Wow! Jim Carrey told the crowed that he got into comedy to free people from concern.” More to come. This just in: Paresh David of The LA Times just published Could these be the best commencement speeches of 2014? and Jim’s address is 7th in the top 10! This is followed by TakePart, which listed quotes from Jim Carrey’s commencement address 2nd out of the top 6 commencement speech quotes of 2014: Six Commencement Speech Quotes That Got It Perfectly Right. Jim’s was listed after Colin Powell’s!
MUM has now posted a report with this video and photos at https://www.mum.edu/whats-happening/graduation-2014. From there you can also access Jim Carrey’s Commencement Address, his honorary degree award, as well as the Valedictorian and Salutatorian Addresses here. See MUM Valedictorian Shines Alongside Jim Carrey. See some Videos of MUM 2014 Graduation with Jim Carrey. Six months later, Jim Carrey appeared on Ellen. She asked him about his giving a commencement speech, and to date, over 60 million people worldwide have seen Jim’s inspiring talk.
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@MaharishiU Dean of Faculty, Dr. Cathy Gorini, interviews author Steven Verney on MUM’s KHOE
Steve Verney Cathy Gorini
Author Steven Verney is interviewed by Dr. Cathy Gorini, Dean of Faculty at M.U.M. on the KHOE radio program “A Chat with the Dean.” Titled “The Best of all Possible Worlds” Steven Verney’s novel is based on his experiences as a teacher of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi‘s Transcendental Meditation.
Steven sprinkles gems of Maharishi’s knowledge before the reader along with threads of life-changing experiences many teachers of TM will relate to while going about the business of bringing enlightenment to the individual and the world and balancing life in the “real world.” Readers have found it difficult to put down this well-written book.
Click to listen: Steven Verney and Cathy Gorini – mp3 58 min, 16.8MB
A generous percentage of book sales will benefit the David Lynch Foundation teaching Transcendental Meditation to at-risk populations.
To find out more about Steven and his book, read this post and listen to an earlier interview on KRUU FM: Writers’ Voices interviews B. Steven Verney, author of “The Best of All Possible Worlds”.
Visit Steve’s new website one of his son’s designed for him http://steveverney.com and blog. Read the overview of the book and see the Xlibris Book Trailer: The Best of All Possible Worlds.
Steven is at work on his second book, about a lama that got away. The main protagonist is also a philosophy professor. I’ve read an excerpt and can’t wait to see the book when it comes out. If it’s anything like his first one, which I thoroughly enjoyed, then we’re in for another treat!
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Ted Henry interviews “Dear Prudence” Farrow Bruns about her life with TM and Maharishi
This wonderful interview is also available from Ted Henry & Jody Cleary on Vimeo. Retired TV journalist Ted Henry conducts interviews with spiritual people for Souljourns. Last month he interviewed Prudence Bruns Farrow. You can also see the interview on their Vimeo channel: http://vimeo.com/67166559. Here is their introduction to the video:
SOULJOURNS – PRUDENCE FARROW BRUNS, HER LIFE WITH TM AND MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI
From the very beginning Prudence Farrow Bruns recognized an added layer or texture to her life, a spiritual dimension that would take her deep within.
She was among the first in the West to become initiated into Transcendental Meditation and in the mid sixties she traveled to Rishikesh, India to learn to become a TM teacher. Her own teacher in India, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who is credited for bringing TM to the world.
In India with her at this time, her sister and acclaimed actress, Mia Farrow, The Beatles, Mike Love of the Beach Boys, Donovan and others.
Prudence and her husband, Albert Bruns who is also a TM instructor, live in Seagrove along the Gulf of Mexico in Northwest Florida.
The interview was recorded in Seagrove, Florida in May, 2013.
See this related BBC news item: Prudence Farrow — subject of the Beatles song Dear Prudence — visits India’s Kumbh Mela. And this video: The Beatles “Dear Prudence”: A Portrait of Prudence Farrow Bruns, Maharishi and TM.
Who was Dear Prudence the Beatles sang to in India? What happened to her? Here is her story.
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Peter Wallace’s story of how he met Maharishi
PETER WALLACE SPEAKS TO VEDIC SCIENCE CLASS
Listen to TM movement pioneer Peter Wallace’s address to the Masters in Vedic Science class on the campus of Maharishi University of Management, via KHOE 90.5 FM – World Radio – Including Maharishi Gandharva Veda Music Channel. (mp3 90min, 82MB)
Here is another KHOE interview: Peter Wallace is interviewed by Dean of Faculty Cathy Gorini, in this installment in a series on the history of the TM Movement. Peter tells how his younger brother Keith, who did pioneering research on Transcendental Meditation, got involved. Keith is now Chairperson of the Department of Physiology & Health at M.U.M. Peter also speaks of the power and profundity of the Invincible America Assembly, of which he is a participant, as a manifestation of the greatness of Maharishi’s teaching. Recorded Oct 2 2011 (mp3 55 min , 19 MB)
Here is a later video interview uploaded by yogicflyersforheaven on Sep 3, 2011: Peter Wallace- Early History TM Movement and Maharishi
Short Transcription:
Jim Mayhew: My name is Jim Mayhew I am the founding facilitator of the Yogic Flyers for Heaven on Earth Foundation and today I have the great pleasure and privilege of interviewing a man that has been involved in the TM Movement right from the very beginning one of the first people to meet Maharishi. He has wonderful stories to tell of the early parts of the TM Movement. Very interesting insights to share, so without further ado… his name is Peter Wallace, by the way and he is from a family who has been very devoted to Maharishi for many years, and he is an successful artist and art dealer, his passion is Russian art and maybe if we have time later with the camera we will share some of his… So without further ado share some of your insights and experiences you had mentioned when you had first met Maharishi…
Peter Wallace: I guess it started really in Paris when I had an experience an existential experience to take charge of my own life and direct it in such a way that it would have some meaning. That involved figuring out what the meaning of life was and it involved doing something about it.
Other interesting related posts
Dr. Neil Paterson, Minister of Administration of the Global Country of World Peace, shares a relatively unknown chronology of how Maharishi’s private peace-creating efforts saved our world from total self-destruction. He gave this report on the Maharishi Global Family Chat. Click this title, Initiative to Create Peace in the World, and scroll down to July 09, 2016 to play it.
Les Crane interviews Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | Who was Dear Prudence the Beatles sang to in India? What happened to her? Here is her story. | Watch the 1968 CBC film of Maharishi at Lake Louise | Watch the 2007 International History Channel documentary on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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WANT TO STOP GUN VIOLENCE?
Columbine 15, Las Vegas 59, Sandy Hook 28, Orlando 40, Luby's 24, Virginia Tech 33, Sutherland Springs 27, Binghamton 14, Aurora 12,
Majory Stoneman Douglas High School 17 Santa Fe High School 10 etc.
Time to write to every member of the NRA and ask "WHY". WHY do they disrespect human life so much that they are not willing to work on a solution that makes sense to all. By the way, most of us do not consider having more guns a viable solution.
Listen to America's young people. They are going to make it happen.
NRA - Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
The young - Guns don't kill people. People kill people with guns.
Who in America doesn't want universal background checks?
Who in America doesn't want bump stocks banned?
Who in America doesn't want to provide help to mentally ill?
Except for the families and small segments of the medical and social services communities, the mentally ill have no lobby. With increasing national debt and huge deficits who in Washington will fund research, medication, out-patient services with supervision, in-care services with supervision that is not warehousing. No one! The well-funded lobbies control the priorities and votes.
Who in America doesn't want gun show loophole closed?
Who in America doesn't want the capacity of magazines reduced?
If you hunt a migratory birds, your shotgun must be plugged so it can be loaded with only three shells. If you have a semi-automatic long gun (an AR) designed to kill people, the magazine capacity in most States is unlimited. The only difference between an assault rifle and a semi-automatic long gun is cosmetic. An AR looks like something a Navy Seal would carry.
Who in America wouldn't rather be confronted by a crazed person in a school hallway with a dozen three-round magazines rather than a dozen thirty-round magazines?
"Nothing happens unless First A Dream" Carl Sandburg
WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? and Why?
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Leaked Trump transition doc flagged ‘white supremacy’ concerns for Kris Kobach
These "red flags" weren't dealbreakers necessarily.
Zack Ford Twitter Jun 24, 2019, 11:00 am
Preisdent Donald Trump and Kris Kobach at a MAGA rally held last October. (Photo CREDIT: Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
A massive trove of vetting documents from President Donald Trump’s transition was leaked to Axios, revealing significant “red flags” for many prospective appointees. Some of them, however, are still laying in wait for their chance to serve the administration.
Among those is former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who is vying to be Trump’s new “immigration czar.” Kobach previously chaired a “commission on election integrity,” which found no evidence of voter fraud despite Kobach’s exuberant claims to the contrary. Last month, he outlined a bizarre list of demands before he’d take the czar job, including walk-in privileges with the president, 24/7 access to a jet, and a promise to be nominated as secretary of homeland security later this year.
It’s unclear if he’s under consideration, but according to the vetting docs, “white supremacy” was a significant “red flag” for Kobach. “Past political opponents have accused Kobach of allying himself with groups that had connections to white supremacist groups,” the documents read. This probably refers to reports that Kobach accepted funding from white supremacist groups during his election in 2004.
But there have been even more reports of Kobach’s ties to white supremacy in the years since these transition vetting docs were compiled following the 2016 election. Last year, he was accused of employing three white nationalists on his gubernatorial campaign, and financial disclosures revealed he was still accepting thousands of dollars from white nationalists. His support for strict voter ID laws that disenfranchise racial minority voters and rabidly xenophobic views of immigration are not inconsistent with such views.
With Sarah Huckabee Sanders leaving her post as White House press secretary, another previous contender who might be back under consideration is Fox News host Laura Ingraham. One of the “red flags” from her vetting was her suggestion that people wear diapers to avoid sharing restrooms with transgender people. “Adult diapers, diapers for everybody,” she said on her show in June 2016. “No one’s going to be going to the bathroom. You have little kids, there’s going to be no bathrooms. We’re just going to all wear Depends.”
Given the Trump administration has dismantled transgender protections at every turn, it’s unclear there’s such a thing as being too transphobic to serve in it. A vetting doc for Ingraham in 2019 would have far more to work with, including some white nationalism of her own. Just last week, she suggested that those who suffered as a result of the legacy of slavery just need to get over it. Last year, she defended Trump’s immigration detention facilities for children as “summer camps,” a description that has only gotten worse with age in light of how conditions have deteriorated in these facilities.
The vetting docs, however, clearly didn’t get in the way of a number of other hires. Scott Pruitt was still brought on as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency despite “allegations of coziness with big energy companies.” Tom Price was appointed secretary of health and human services even though “dysfunction and division has haunted Price’s leadership of the House Budget Committee.” Both Pruitt and Price have since resigned in the wake of various scandals.
A number of other prospective candidates were flagged for anti-Trump comments they had made. Nikki Haley, who went on to serve as Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, was flagged as having said that Trump embodies what “we teach our kids not to do in kindergarten.” Ryan Zinke, who served as Trump’s secretary of the Interior, had described the president as “un-defendable,” while Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s acting chief of staff, had called him “not a very good person.” Energy Secretary Rick Perry had “described Trumpism as a ‘toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness, and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition.'”
The vetting docs included a separate 25-page document dedicated entirely to the “foreign entanglements” of Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer.
Responding to Axios’ request for comment regarding the leaked docs, principal Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley insisted that “President Trump has assembled an incredible team,” and “no disgruntled, establishment, D.C. swamp creature’s cowardly leaks can change” what he’s accomplished.
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SS Creed – Volume Seven: Sweden and Finland
translated from original SS publications. Specially, these articles are written by and/or about Swedes, Finns, Latvians and Estonians. The Finnish and Estonian articles deal with those nations’ participation in the war against the Soviet Union. Two of them deal with the “Lottas”, Finland’s female military auxiliary; another points out the Germanic racial features of the Finns despite their non-Germanic language. The Swedish authors express admiration for and gratitude toward the Germans. The Swedish ethnic group in Estonia is also portrayed. The Latvian article describes the Freikorps’ liberation of Riga from the Bolsheviks in 1919. There is even a poem by Baron von Manteuffel-Lotzdangen. The original illustrations are also included.
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SC. 51pp.
Everywhere in the northern war zone, our soldiers encounter young Finnish women in grey uniform and ski-cap. Dignified and serious, they return the greeting that our infantrymen shout to them while hurrying past. And when a transport train makes a stop at a train station, girls and women in the same undecorated, grey dress immediately step to the railcar windows and give the soldiers warm coffee and a friendly look. They are the Finnish Lottas [female Finnish military auxiliary].
Like Lotta Svärd, the heroic figure of the Finnish national poet Joh. Ludwig Runeberg, once followed her husband as caregiver to the battlefields, so do the valiant Lottas today accompany the Finnish freedom fighters to the vicinity of the front.
Behind their face, which is serious and calm like their homeland landscape, lives hard will and passionate feeling. For weeks and months on end the Lotta voluntarily denies herself the comfort of home life and trades it for the female form of war effort for folk and fatherland. Nobody asks out there what she is in civilian life, whether peasant woman or city woman, whether official or worker. She usually lives in the immediate vicinity of the soldier, sleeps at night in her pointed tent or bunker; she is always among men. And nonetheless nobody would get the idea to get fresh with her. She is considered a comrade; that she is there, is self-evident, and what she does, is right.
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Bedford United hosts vigil downtown
August 14, 2017 Ty Leave a comment
BEDFORD, Va. — Less than 100 miles from Charlottesville, where protesters clashed violently with white supremacists over the weekend, this small town of less than 7,000 put together a community healing event at Centertown Plaza where more than 50 attendees shared thoughts and held vigil for the three people who died Saturday.
Those gathered held signs and lit candles for the two Virginia State Troopers who perished in a helicopter crash while providing air support for law enforcement on the ground and for the 32-year-old woman who was killed when a car drove through a crowd of protestors in downtown Charlottesville.
The event was put together in less than 24 hours to synchronize with similar events across the country held Sunday night. Bedford United organizer Kim Kirsch said she arranged the vigil via Facebook after learning the closest similar event was taking place in Roanoke, Va.
Kirsch told the group she wanted the Bedford community to have the opportunity to come together on its own.
Speakers included Bedford Town Manager Bart Warner and other community members and leaders.
A follow-up event is scheduled for Sept. 17.
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Pete Seeger’s notable UNCG concert of 1983
Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger died this week. He was 94. Seeger was one of the most influential figures in popular American music, with a career that began in the 1940’s.
When he played at UNCG’s Aycock Auditorium in October 1983, there were rumors the Klan would protest. They did not like that Seeger was going to donate proceeds from the concert to the Greensboro Civil Rights Fund. It would help widows of those killed in the 1979 shootings at Morningside Homes. The Carolinian reported about 150 onlookers gathered to see; more than 100 police were on hand. No Klan protested. According to Carolinian writer Bob Pearson, the liberal activist Pete Seeger remarked as he entered the back entrance of Aycock, “I hope they (the Klan) keep it peaceful; they have a right to picket too.”
Carolinian writer Homer Yost noted Seeger’s banjo bears the words, “This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender.”
“Maybe Seeger’s banjo was what spooked the KKK Sunday,” Yost wrote.
One of the last songs of his performance that evening in front of 800 people began, “I am a truthful man from the land of the palm trees and before dying, I want to share these poems of my soul….”
Yost concluded his report by saying, “These words also tell us why Pete Seeger is another one of those American folk heroes who will live beyond his own life-time. He believes in truth — like grass growing through the cracks of concrete, it refuses to die. And he has always planted his feet alongside poor working people.”
The Carolinian articles courtesy UNCG Digital Collections.
October 11, 1983 edition.
By Mike Harris
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PCMag UK | Reviews | Networking | Internet Telephony & VoIP | Review
Intermedia Unite
By Logan Harbaugh, Jeffrey Schwartz Nov 15, 2018
Easy setup. Simple administration. Flexible and feature-rich. Excellent integration between Cloud PBX and Intermedia's other business cloud services.
Slightly higher-than-average price tag. Apple iOS client only works with iPhones, so iPads must use a generic softphone client.
Intermedia Cloud PBX is an excellent Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service with a deep feature set. Though it's not the cheapest, its features and their implementation and delivery are worth the extra cost when you factor in access to excellent support, cross-service integration, and a host of additional business cloud services.
For small to midsize businesses (SMBs) seeking cloud private branch exchange (PBX) and Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services, Intermedia's Cloud PBX has been a PCMag Editors' Choice winner since 2017. However, since the introduction of the Intermedia Unite platform (which begins at $30.99 per user per month), the company has grown its reach into this area. While it's already a strong choice for enterprise companies, features such as mobile phone controls, web and video conferencing capabilities, and secure file sync and backup make it a great choice for companies of all sizes.
HostPilot, the new Administrator portal, provides the full gamut of management tools for Intermedia's voice services as well as the rest of the company's portfolio, including email hosting, file encryption, and archiving. Available to new subscribers now, the company is migrating existing customers with its current cloud PBX service to the new Intermedia Unite offering. The company hasn't committed to a specific timeline for upgrading all of its customers to the new service, but it will likely take several months, if not more, company representatives indicated.
Intermedia Unite is the third major version of Intermedia's hosted PBX offering, and existing and prospective customers should like what they see. As of early 2018, Intermedia claimed 1.4 million lines used by 110,000 businesses. But with more than 50 million lines reportedly up for grabs in 2018 and more than a dozen strong competitors, Intermedia had good reason to up its game.
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While it doesn't have the brand recognition of better-known hosted PBX service providers, such as Vonage Business Cloud and Editors' Choice winners 8x8 Virtual Office Pro and RingCentral Office, Intermedia Unite remains a competitive offering that's well worth a look, especially for small to midsize businesses (SMBs). One reason it's less well-known might be that 80 percent of its sales go through a network of 6,500 partners, some of which are local while others are large national resellers. Some are also other service providers and there's even a retail arrangement with Costco.
Many of these partners offer Intermedia's cloud PBX as their own white-label offerings, just as we're used to seeing from smaller partners reselling services such as hosted Microsoft Exchange or Office 365. In fact, Intermedia's VoIP service got its start that way, originally introduced as an add-on to the company's hosted Microsoft Exchange email service before Microsoft Office 365 came along. Today, Intermedia says its hosted PBX service is the company's fastest-growing offering. The new Intermedia Unite offers 99.999 percent uptime with a financially backed service-level agreement (SLA).
HostPilot Admin Console
The aforementioned HostPilot Administrator console lets admins add, modify, and delete users. They can also view calling reports, add new hardware to the system, and add or modify individual services. Overall, I found that HostPilot provides admins with a broad view and management control of all the services Intermedia offers, including the hosted Microsoft Office apps, email protection, archiving, Microsoft Outlook backup, and email encryption.
A key component in HostPilot is UserPilot, a client-side app designed to let admins sync contacts from an organizational unit on an on-site or cloud-based Active Directory (AD) Domain Controller to the Intermedia directory. Admins can also manage Microsoft Office 365 and Skype for Business subscribers from HostPilot.
If you happen to use Intermedia for its various email, Microsoft SharePoint, and data protection offerings, then adding Intermedia Unite to the mix will let you manage voice, messaging, and file services from HostPilot, but it's by no means a prerequisite. HostPilot is suitable to manage the new Intermedia Unite service, which includes SecuriSync synchronization and AnyMeeting, the screen-sharing and video conferencing services.
At the time of my test, Intermedia hadn't given me full administrative access to view HostPilot, but the company said its new Control console lets admins centrally manage system and voice endpoint settings, provision or disable features on a per-user basis or to an entire group, add lines, set up an auto-attendant, create up to 10 hunt groups, and pull up reports.
The auto-attendant provides the usual features, including dial-by-name or dial-by-extension, and the ability to ring multiple phones sequentially or at the same time. HostPilot lets admins add, delete, or modify accounts; set up multiple admin levels, and provision self-service controls for functions such as changing passwords.
Integrated Communications and User Controls
Admins and users alike can access Intermedia Unite from any web browser, rendering a simple log-in user interface (UI). At the time of my test, the log-in page had three tabs: Users Services, Admin Services, and Voice Services. I couldn't access Voice Services with my credentials, and the Intermedia technician acknowledged that it should probably be removed since it's available in the HostPilot Admin console.
The User Services tab gives employees access to their Intermedia Unite dashboard, the SecuriSync file synchronization service, and password management tool AppID. If you choose My Services, then it will open the Intermedia Unite control panel for users. This control panel lets users manage their profiles, and access the AnyMeeting conferencing, SecuriSync, and Voice Services.
The Voice Services link at the bottom of the dashboard lets users manage their phone and fax settings. Users can set up and change their voicemail accounts (with the option of having voice messages sent to email addresses), set PINs, and create or modify greetings. While most cloud PBX service providers offer the ability to find users who aren't at their desks by auto-forwarding to a mobile phone, PC, tablet, or any other phone number, Intermedia Unite offers one of the more intuitive setup tools for this feature.
Some people want calls to simultaneously ring wherever they may be, such as on their desk phones and mobile devices, while others want callers to go through a sequence, ringing first in the office and perhaps 15 seconds later on another device. It's a matter of preference dictated by how accessible you want to be. Either way, Intermedia Unite's UI lets you choose from various options in a straightforward way. Users can determine how long their phone should ring before going to voicemail, manage their hunt groups, view call histories, and customize outbound caller ID settings, allowing it to be blocked or to display either the user's phone number or auto-attendant line.
Back in the My Services section of the dashboard, there's a Downloads and Instructions tab, which provides access to the Intermedia Unite softphone for Mac and Windows (Android and iOS versions are in the Google Play and iTunes app store, respectively). In addition to letting users download the Mac or PC app, it provides links to configuration instructions for Cisco, Polycom, and Yealink phones.
Intermedia Unite Client
Once you download the Intermedia Unite client, it's straightforward to use. Running on Windows 10, it's a rich, lightweight app that can run in the background. An incoming call prompts the Intermedia Unite app to flash in the Windows Taskbar. Clicking it gives you the option to direct an incoming call to voicemail or to pick it up. In my test setup, I could either answer the call from my Apple iPhone 7, Samsung Note 7, or the Polycom VVX 410 phone Intermedia provided for this evaluation. Unfortunately, I was unable to answer from my PC as I could with Vonage Business Cloud. Intermedia says that feature is coming. The company also says it supports any Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) client, but it doesn't provide specific recommendations so your mileage may vary. There are numerous free SIP clients available such as Jitsi, LinPhone, MicroSIP, X-Lite, among others; however, you should test each thoroughly with the Intermedia Unite service before deploying.
Both the phone and Intermedia Unite desktop and mobile clients provide the option to transfer, flip the call from the desktop to another phone or mobile device, or vice versa. It also gives you the option to park the call if you want to put it on hold before you flip to a different phone (see below).
It's easy to conference another caller an existing conversation, and flip or transfer a call. Since I was unable to access the voice administration features in HostPilot, it was hard to determine if the auto-attendant offered a virtual receptionist on par with the automated handling of incoming calls others such as Vonage offer.
At the time of this review, there was no Apple iPad version of the Intermedia Unite app. Hopefully, though, that will come for those who want to use their Apple devices to send or receive calls, which can be especially convenient when using the conferencing feature. I suspect neither will be deal breakers over the long term.
Among the calling features offered with the base Intermedia Unite services include voicemail with transcription, auto-attendant, Direct Inbound Dialing (DID), email and SMS notifications, call presence, 3-way calling, Do Not Disturb, and configurable line keys. Intermedia offers a variety of phones from Cisco, Polycom, and Yealink, though customers can port any SIP-compatible phone to Intermedia Unite.
AnyMeeting
Intermedia Unite will appeal to anyone who wants to share their screens or initiate a video conference on the fly. For a while, Intermedia had licensed GoToMeeting for that feature but, in September 2017, the company acquired AnyMeeting, which is now integrated into the new service. The Intermedia "My Services" dashboard provides a link to the AnyMeeting portal. The meeting schedule function tested earlier this year was still only available via the AnyMeeting website (see below), but the company plans to integrate it into the AnyMeeting app. Scheduling a meeting is nevertheless straightforward.
The Intermedia Unite client lets users enter a meeting. For participants that don't use the service, it provides a link to set up a meeting similar to Cisco WebEx, GoToMeeting, Skype for Business, and others. Creating a meeting on the fly is easy enough by just emailing a link during a call and entering the meeting.
Once in the meeting, participants can upload Microsoft PowerPoint or PDF files to share. The service also lets participants record the meetings but that requires an additional subscription. Similar to other screen sharing and video conferencing services, AnyMeeting allows the use of phone or workstation controls.
AnyMeeting is also included with the Intermedia Unite business subscriptions for up to 200 minutes per month with up to four participants (30 for customers with the pro edition). As noted, the SecuriSync service is also included, though it only allows up to 2 gigabyte (GB) files, which is the equivalent of a free Dropbox or Box account. From that perspective, it's more of a promotional add-on than an added value to the service.
We didn't test the service, though, so it's hard to say how it compares to paid Box or Dropbox accounts. However, it's probably worth considering if you have a need for those services, especially if you also use Intermedia's other offerings such as Hosted Exchange or Office 365. The advantage is a single point of management from the HostPilot management dashboard. Pricing for added SecuriSync capacity starts at $4.99 per user per month for 10 GB.
At $30.99, Intermedia Unite has a much higher entry price than rivals 8x8 Virtual Office Pro, RingCentral Office (for Business), and Vonage Business Cloud. However, the company also includes many features for which many of those others charge extra, such as fax, conferencing, call recording, voicemail transcription, local numbers, and AD integration. If you plan on using most or all those services, then the price may not be more (and could actually come out to be less). Add its large subscriber base, its long list of features, and its financially backed 99.999 percent uptime SLA, and Intermedia Unite should be reliable enough for any type of business customer.
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Logan Harbaugh logan@lharba.com
Logan G. Harbaugh is a freelance reviewer and IT consultant located in Redding, CA, who has worked in IT for more than 20 years. He was a Senior Contributing Editor with InfoWorld Labs for eight years, a Senior Technology Editor at Information Week Labs for five years, and has written reviews for many publications and web sites, including Storage Magazine, TechTarget.com, BizTech, EdTech, FedTech and StateTech, Virtualization Review, Information Week, eWeek, Network World, Linux Journal, PC Magazine, PC World and Internet.com. He has also written two books on network troubleshooting. See Full Bio
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Songza Shuts Down, Merges With Google Music Next Month
By Stephanie Mlot
3 Dec 2015, 10:02 p.m.
Songza will shut its doors on Jan. 31, as the streaming music service merges into parent company Google Play Music.
The Web giant acquired the music lifestyle company in July 2014, when "no immediate changes" were planned.
A year and a half later, changes are afoot. Songza users, however, can expect a relatively seamless move. Google began integrating features like curated playlists in October 2014, allowing Music All Access subscribers to play tunes for a specific time of day, activity, or mood.
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And on Feb. 1, visitors to Songza.com will be prompted to transfer their listening history and favorite playlists to Google Play Music. The move is free, and will not require a credit card; users just need to accept the new Terms of Service and Google's Privacy Policy.
"It's now time for us to focus on building a single, cohesive product," the Songza team wrote in an announcement. "Thank you SO much for being part of the Songza community over all these years. We're really proud of the work that we've done on Google Play Music and we truly hope you'll join us there."
Streaming music programs—especially those that boast new music discovery—are all the rage, quickly replacing downloads in the digital music market.
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Google Play Music has some catching up to do when it comes to streaming music popularity.
At the moment, "Spotify leads the way worldwide in active users, downloads, and revenue," according to a new report from App Annie. "However, new opportunities are growing and being served by other players, particularly in APAC markets where local content puts regional players ahead of global giants. Line Music and AWA Music have shown enormous potential in Japan while Saavn and Gaana grow rapidly in India."
Pandora Radio is most popular in the U.S., though. The Internet radio service might soon get a Spotify-like makeover, though, as it has pledged to incorporate more on-demand content after its acquisition with Rdio is complete.
Recognizing the popularity of streaming music on phones, T-Mobile recently introduced Music Freedom, which lets people listen to streaming music without eating into their monthly data allotment. On Tuesday, the Un-carrier announced 11 new partners, including SomaFM, Spinrilla, Aud.io, and TuneIn Premium.
For more, see PCMag's reviews of Songza and Google Play Music, as well as Why Google Bought Songza.
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Minister Davis offers parliament new vote on any Brexit deal
LONDON (Reuters) - British Brexit minister David Davis said on Monday the government would allow parliament the opportunity to debate, scrutinise and vote on any final Brexit agreement, offering a concession to Conservative Party rebels.
David Davis, Britain's Secretary of State for Leaving the EU, arrives in Downing Street, London, November 13, 2017. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
Prime Minister Theresa May is under pressure to offer a ‘meaningful vote’ on any deal for Britain’s departure from the European Union.
Members of her own party are willing to vote against the government to stymie a bill which she says is needed to sever ties with the bloc.
“I can now confirm that once we’ve reached an agreement we will bring forward a specific piece of primary legislation to implement that agreement,” Davis told parliament.
“This also means that parliament will be given time to debate, scrutinise and vote on the final agreement we strike with the European Union. This agreement will only hold if parliament approves it.”
May’s blueprint for Britain’s exit from the EU faces a crucial test starting on Tuesday, when members of parliament will debate the EU withdrawal bill that she says is crucial to give companies confidence that the rules will not change after Brexit.
MPs have proposed 186 pages of amendments to the bill, which largely ‘copy and paste’ EU rules and regulations into British law but also, critics say, hand the government wide-ranging powers and cut parliament out of some Brexit planning.
Davis said the government would allow parliament the chance to vote on a ‘withdrawal agreement and implementation bill’ once it has secured a Brexit deal with the European Union, which both sides aim to do by late next year.
“This confirms that the major policies set out in the withdrawal agreement (with the EU) will be directly implemented into UK law by primary legislation,” he said. Primary legislation means making law by acts of parliament or statute.
Some MPs welcomed the move, but others said the change in procedure would mean that if Britain failed to negotiate a deal with the EU, parliament would have no say, and that there would not be time for a proper chance to have sway over a deal.
“Hasn’t he just given the game away on what a sham offer this is? Totally worthless to parliament, essentially trying to buy off people,” Chris Leslie, a member of the opposition Labour Party and a pro-EU campaigner, said.
Reporting by Elizabeth Piper; Editing by William Schomberg and Andrew MacAskill
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Memo From Middle America | Who CARES If Trump Hate Makes Mexico Elect A "Left-Wing Anti-American" As President?
Allan Wall
Mexico hates us. And it’s Americans’ fault for wanting to enforce immigration laws.
At least that’s what John McCain thinks. He says we have a “problem” with Mexico and said during a hearing with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) head John Kelly:
“Right now, there is a lot of anti-American sentiment in Mexico. If the election were tomorrow in Mexico, you’d probably get a left-wing, anti-American president of Mexico. That can’t be good for America.”
Kelly added, “It would not be good for America, or for Mexico”. [Dems winning fight over wall, By Rafael Bernal and Mike Lillis, The Hill, April 9, 2017]
McCain made these comments (video here, Mexico statement at 4:30) after a discussion of the term “wall” and whether it could refer to something other than a physical border. The clear implication is McCain thinks a wall is offensive to Mexico and would provoke the election of a leftist, anti-American president. He didn’t name names, but was probably referring to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), a favorite to win the presidential election in summer 2018.
Of course, McCain, who practically threw the election to Barack Obama in 2008, lectured Republican audiences they shouldn’t be “scared” of an Obama presidency [McCain to crowd: 'Don't be scared' of Obama presidency, CNN, October 11, 2008]. McCain doesn’t care about a leftist being president of the United States, but he’s terrified a leftist will lead Mexico.
Unsurprisingly, Mexican politicians reacted swiftly to the McCain-Kelly exchange. Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray, who met with Secretary of State Tillerson in Washington the very same day as the McCain/Kelly exchange, said he’d already spoken with Kelly and "told him in a respectful but clear manner that the electoral decisions ... correspond to Mexicans alone… we expect from the United States…respect toward the Mexican electoral process”. [Mexico urges respect from U.S. for 2018 presidential election, Reuters, April 6, 2017]
Of course, McCain and Kelly didn’t advocate meddling; they actually suggested we subordinate our own immigration policy to Mexicans’ feelings. But even this was too offensive for Mexicans.
AMLO himself responded, claiming he wasn’t anti-American, promising “friendship and cooperation,” but not “submission,” and declaring Mexico is a “free and sovereign nation.”
Sounds great but it should work both ways.
Excelsior reported the next day AMLO told President Trump and Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly “to stop pursuing the migrants… respect human rights and…not attempt to resolve problems with the use of force.” Incredibly, this was coupled with a call not to “stick their noses into [the Mexican election of] 2018. " ‘EU debe aprender a respetar y a no meter las narices’: AMLO [The U.S. should learn to respect and not to meddle: AMLO by Isabel Gonzalez, Excelsior, April 7th, 2017]
Several days later, at a rally in Mexico City, AMLO repeated the warning, demanding “the United States not meddle in affairs that only concern Mexicans,” such as their election.
Well, we know how much Mexico respects our sovereignty, don’t we?
On April 6th, the day after the McCain/Kelly talk, the Mexican media reported that Margarita Zavala (right) wife of former President Felipe Calderon (2006-2012) and a presidential contender in her own right, met in Washington with Senator McCain. [Margarita Zavala y John McCain acuerdan cercanía a favor de relación México-EU, 24 Horas, March 6, 2017].
Felipe Calderon and wife Margarita Zavala are from the PAN party, not AMLO’s MORENA party, and that Margarita is currently the front-runner for PAN’s presidential nomination.
AMLO exploited this meeting, declaring in rallies on April 8th and 9th Margarita Zavala met with John McCain to ask the U.S. government’s help in stopping the Left (that is, AMLO) from winning the Mexican election.
[Zavala fue a Estados Unidos a pedir apoyo para que no gane la izquierda en México: AMLO AMLO website, April 8, 2017]
[Signan López Obrador y habitantes de la Ciudad de México Acuerdo Político de Unidad AMLO website, April 9, 2017]
But why is AMLO outraged? John McCain’s argument that we should not enforce our immigration laws because “Trump is Going to Cause the Election of a Leftist Mexican President” has been a common argument in the media for the past few months.
NATIONAL REVIEW, just five days after Trump’s Inauguration, published President Trump, Be Wary of a Mexican Backlash by former Bush administration State Department official Jose Cardenas (US born, Colombian heritage) [January 25, 2017]. It was subtitled, “A Hugo Chávez wannabe is running for president and riding an anti-Trump wave south of the border.”
Cardenas warned: “As it now stands, the Trump administration risks provoking a Mexican populist backlash that could result in an anti-American government led by a Hugo Chávez wannabe taking power in 2018, an outcome that could adversely affect U.S. prosperity and security for years to come.”
Cardenas called AMLO “…a left-wing populist rabble-rouser in the mold of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.” How do we avoid this fate?
Cardenas advises: “Reviewing NAFTA, developing an immigration policy that truly serves the national interest, and improving border security in the age of terror are certainly legitimate objectives. And President Trump is right to set them as priorities. But respectful, firm engagement — not confrontation — with our southern neighbors will be the surest way for President Trump to achieve those objectives.”
But what if Trump’s policies, by their very nature, provoke opposition in Mexico? Does Mexico have veto power over our immigration policies?
The Anti-Trump is Rising in Mexico, Feeding on Every Snub, by Nacha Cattan, Bloomberg, February 3, 2017
“By the time the last brick is laid atop President Donald Trump’s Mexican wall, it’s a fair bet that someone more antagonistic toward the U.S. will hold power on its southern side. Especially if that someone is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Which, thanks to Trump, looks increasingly likely.”
Sounds ominous.
Trump Could Give Momentum to Mexico’s Leftist Presidential Candidate, by Suzanne Gamboa, NBC, February 6, 2017
“President Donald Trump's fight-picking with Mexico may be indirectly involving him in the presidential ambitions of that country's own anti-establishment presidential candidate.”
"There's a deep concern that the potential rift between the United States and Mexico can only strengthen the candidacy of Andres Manuel López Obrador in the next year and a half," Peter Schechter, director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center of the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank, said in a recent conference call.
Trump presidency shifting political forces in Mexico — toward the left, by Alasdair Baverstock, Fox News, March 6, 2017
“As the U.S. looks back over one of the most divisive presidential elections in recent memory, Mexico’s own leadership battle is getting underway. As candidates for the top job come forward, the country’s main concern comes to the forefront: who can handle Donald Trump?”
The article also quotes an AMLO speech in which he declared: “We will bring down the Mafia of Power that has destroyed this country… Our politicians have betrayed us, lying and stealing, and allowing the United States to punish the poorest for their mistakes.”
Indeed, Baverstock says AMLO campaigns against corruption and “putting President Trump in his place.”
So this Narrative is common. But it seems absurd to claim Trump is pushing Mexican politics to the Left. It already was on the Left.
We’ve been through this before. Back in 2006, AMLO ran his first presidential campaign and American conservatives responded with the same kind of hysteria.
Besides, when we had a “pro-American” president in Vicente Fox, Americans were told we had to loosen up on immigration in order to reward him. And even before that, when Vicente Fox was president, we were told that we had to cooperate with Vicente Fox on immigration, to reward him for being a “pro-American” president of Mexico.
Indeed, how “pro-American” was Vicente Fox? The Fox administration (2000-2006):
Opposed us in international forums [Mexico sticks it to the “Yankee” War, by Allan Wall, FrontPageMag, March 21, 2003]
Meddled in our labor law
Meddled in our military
Offered Mexico as a haven for murderers
Worked to win the loyalty of Mexican-Americans
Threatened to negotiate with wartime enemies
Flooded our cities with dubious documents to prevent expulsions of illegal aliens
Used Mexican consulates to meddle in our affairs
Did everything possible to undermine our laws [Undue Influence – the Government of Mexico and U.S. immigration policies, by Allan Wall, The Social Contract Press, Winter 2002-2003]
Yet being “pro-American” isn’t a qualification for being president of Mexico. I’d be satisfied with having an American president who is pro-American. And with Trump, I believe we have one.
Who cares who Mexico elects as President? Whoever it is and of whatever party, he (or she) is going to promote the interests of the Mexican government, defend illegal alien Mexicans, and oppose what Trump is doing. We shouldn’t change our policies to please foreigners who probably won’t be pleased anyway.
Trump and the Republican Congress need to build the wall and enforce our immigration laws. And just as Mexicans don’t want us interfering in their election, they’re just going to have to get over us enforcing our own laws and following our own president.
American citizen Allan Wall (email him) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico. Allan's wife is Mexican, and their two sons are bilingual. In 2005, Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard. His VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here ; his News With Views columns are archived here; and his website is here.
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Protect yourself before you wreck yourself: 5 security resolutions for 2013
Meghan Kelly December 31, 2012 7:00 AM
On Dec. 31, people around the world will share resolutions to lose weight, become more productive, quit smoking, and read more often. But how many of them will resolve to secure themselves online?
We’ve seen cyber-attacks continue to increase in the last few years, and it’s not just the big guys like Google and Dropbox getting attacked. One of the biggest mistakes a company, or person, can make is to assume that they are too small to be a target.
Individuals are at risk, too: Consider the sad example of Mat Honan, the Wired reporter whose iPad, iPhone, and Mac were wiped because a hacker liked his Twitter handle.
But “securing your digital life” probably sounds like a daunting task, so we’ve put together five ways to get you, personally, on the road to a security-conscious state of being.
See those update notifications? Start using them!
Hackers are like groundhogs. They like holes. Once they find a hole (or make a hole), they can crawl through your system, leaving backdoors and other points of entry to get back inside. But in order to do that, the hacker has to get in first.
When companies discover holes, it is their responsibility to patch them up and send out an update to their users. We do hear the stories of attacking companies such as Adobe for taking their time to patch known vulnerabilities, but it’s in a company’s best interest to fix the hole, protect its servers, and protect you.
The only problem is that so many people don’t actually update their software. And I don’t just mean the software on Macs or PCs but on phones as well. When you see that little update button come through, whether it’s on your computer or your smartphone, take the time and go through the process.
You can use tools such as Qualys’ Browser Check to make sure your browser and related plug-ins are up-to-date. Try it right now, you might be surprised to find that some of your plug-ins are old and insecure.
Clean out your Facebook profile and read through the company’s privacy documentation
Your Facebook profile is an identity thief’s goldmine. It has your birth date, oftentimes your full name, your family members (their full names), your hometown, your current town, the schools you went to, your job, any groups you’re a part of, your political stance, your sexual orientation, your relationship status, and your photos. Anyone trying to answer a security question to get access to your bank account could likely find the answer on your Facebook profile.
You need to make sure you know exactly what is on there, and get rid of anything you feel could be used against you. If you’ve got 4,000 photos, go through all of them. If your posts were inappropriate when you first opened up Facebook, delete them. But don’t forget that anything you delete off of Facebook stays on its servers for some time, though the social network will eventually delete it completely.
You should also be aware of its privacy policies too. Facebook isn’t necessarily an evil, data-mining, privacy-upending machine. It’s a business that is trying to make money, and your data just so happens to be what it makes money off of. Get acquainted with what the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and the Data Use Policy say, and “like” Facebook’s Site Governance page. Unfortunately, you’re not going to be able to vote on any of the policy changes anymore, but at least you can get to know them and provide constructive feedback to Facebook when you feel violated.
Protect your phone and understand what your apps are doing
How many of you have the banking application Mint on your phone, but you don’t have a pin or pattern password protecting the phone itself? As Lookout Mobile recently said in a blog post, “Our smartphone knows more about us than perhaps anyone or anything in our lives.”
The Federal Communications Commission recently created a set of simple tips smartphone owners should check out based on the type of smartphone they have, whether that’s iOS, Android, Windows Phone, or even BlackBerry. The tips only scratch the surface of how you can protect your phone, but it puts you in a security frame of mind. Check them out and download some of the suggested security apps before 2013 — a year guaranteed to be filled with all new exploits and hacks — gets underway.
But protecting what’s on the phone isn’t always the problem. Sometimes it’s the apps you’ve already downloaded that are taking too much of your information. We saw this early in 2012 when Path, a social app, was found to be siphoning off users’ contacts without permission.
Bitdefender, an antivirus company, created the tool Clueful that tells you what your iOS apps are doing when you aren’t looking. I typed in Angry Birds Free to see what it does. Clueful reports that it tracks my usage, can display ads, could track my location, uses an anonymous identifier, and encrypts stored data. Good to know. If you’re trying to download an app you’re unsure of, however, it’s probably good to do a little more research.
Don’t be fooled by phishing scams and spoofed websites
One of the most successful ways hackers get your information is simply by tricking you into giving it up. Sometimes it’s a prince in Nigeria who is desperate to give you $50 million. Other times it’s less obvious, like an email faked to look like it’s coming from LinkedIn but is actually just trying to get your account information. When it comes to these “spoofed” emails, it’s always best to hover over any link in the email before clicking on it, so you can see the link’s true destination. (This only works on a computer with a mouse, not a phone or a tablet, obviously.)
You should also be very suspicious if a company is asking you for your username and password. Most companies guarantee that they will never ask you for a password or credit card information via e-mail.
But it’s not just emails that get spoofed. The websites that are often associated with those emails often take a digital polyjuice potion and pretend to be a trustworthy site as well. In order to catch these sites before you enter personal information, F-Secure‘s chief research office Mikko Hypponen suggests using Flag for Chrome or Flagfox for Firefox.
“It’s a handy extension which shows a flag in the URL bar of the browser, indicating the country where the website is hosted. This comes handy in more cases than you’d think,” Hypponen told VentureBeat in an email. “For example, if you follow a link that you think should take you to your bank’s website but the Flag shows the site is hosted in Uganda, you should probably close the tab.”
Organize your accounts and passwords
This is going to be the most painful resolution: knowing where all your accounts are online. You’ve likely set up an account for nearly every website you frequent nowadays. There’s the obvious ones like Facebook and Gmail, but how about your favorite retailers, Amazon, Groupon, Gilt, your local newspaper, your blogging platform? The list goes on.
It’s important to know where you accounts are because it’s important to know all the avenues a hacker may take to get your information. Look at Wired reporter Honan. Earlier in 2012, Honan’s iPhone, iPad, and Mac were all wiped after a hacker got into his Amazon account. The information there gave the hacker enough information to answer Apple’s security questions and access Honan’s iCloud account. There the hacker held the keys to Honan’s digital kingdom. Cyber-criminals often use a daisy chain to hop from one app to the next until they get to their trophy.
Start with your Gmail inbox and write a list of every website that sends you spam email, you’ve probably got an account on each one.
Once you know where all your accounts are, you should divvy them up into different password categories. At the beginning of my career Dave Marcus, a director at McAfee Labs, suggested the tier system to me. Put your most valuable accounts at the top with unique passwords for each. This should include your bank account, Gmail, and Facebook.
The second tier should have one, difficult password for all your semi-important accounts, and the last tier should have one easy password for all the accounts you could probably get rid of anyway.
Right now people are saying that passwords are the bane of Internet security. But no one has found the safest, but still consumer-friendly, way to replace them yet (though companies like OneID think they’ve got the right solution). So, until then you’ll just have to use easy to remember, but difficult to crack passwords such as passphrases. (Think of three random words that mean something to you and put them together, like “dogpeppermintsport,” and you’ll have a workable passphrase.)
There are tools to keep track of your passwords too, such as One Password and LastPass, but keep in mind that by using them, you’re putting all your eggs into one basket. While these services might help you remember your passwords, they are themselves protected by — what else — a single password. Eventually everything breaks, so be prepared.
Hacked image via Shutterstock
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Finding Your Roots
Reporting on the Reporters Preview
Preview: Season 5 Episode 3 | 30s
Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shows journalists Christiane Amanpour, Ann Curry and Lisa Ling that the stories within their own family trees are every bit as compelling as the news stories they have been covering for the world.
Major corporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Five is provided by Ancestry, Johnson & Johnson and AT&T. Major support is also provided by the Ford Foundation, Candace King Weir, the Lloyd Carney Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS.
Christiane Amanpour | "Gobsmacked"
Christiane Amanpour is left “gobsmacked” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Clip: S5 Ep3 | 56s
Lisa Ling | The Great Flood of 1761
Dr. Gates reveals reveals the family history of Lisa Ling.
Ann Curry | Only One Tool Available
Ann Curry is told her grandfather’s name, something she never expected to find out.
Clip: S5 Ep3 | 1m 35s
Season 5 Season 4 Season 3 Season 2
Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the stories of Ty Burrell and Joe Madison.
The Eye of the Beholder
Marina Abramović, Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Kehinde Wiley learn their family histories.
Dr. Gates explores the stories of Laura Linney, Michael Moore and Chloë Sevigny.
No Laughing Matter
Dr. Gates reveals the histories of comedians Seth Meyers, Tig Notaro and Sarah Silverman.
Roots in Politics
The family histories of politicians Tulsi Gabbard, Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan.
Freedom Tales
Dr Gates traces the family history of S. Epatha Merkerson and Michael Strahan.
Dreaming of a New Land
Dr. Gates reveals the family history of Kal Penn, Sheryl Sandberg and Marisa Tomei.
Reporting on the Reporters
Journalists Christiane Amanpour, Ann Curry and Lisa Ling learn their family histories.
Mystery Men
Dr. Gates, brings Felicity Huffman and Michael K. Williams their family histories.
Grandparents and Other Strangers
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps Andy Samberg and George R. R. Martin answer family mysteries.
Finding Your Roots: Season Five
Finding Your Roots: Season Five, Tuesday's at 8/7c on PBS (check local listings).
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A comic strip with facts, beautifully illustrated fiction and non-fiction, gripping stories and funny books are all on the shortlist for the Blue Peter Book Awards
Posted on December 4, 2014 by TheFableists
Award-winning author and illustrator Chris Riddell’s latest book on the adventures of Goth Girl is among six children’s books shortlisted for the prestigious Blue Peter Book Awards 2015.
For the first time, a book using comic strips to tell real-life stories is also nominated for an award.
The Blue Peter Book Awards, which are celebrating their 15th year, are special as they ask children to read the shortlisted books and then vote for the two winners.
The shortlist was announced live on today’s (Thursday December 4th) Blue Peter by Michael Morpurgo, author of more than 120 children’s books, including War Horse, and President of the reading charity Booktrust, which manages the Blue Peter Book Awards.
Morpurgo was also presented with the CBBC show’s highest accolade, the gold Blue Peter badge, for inspiring millions of children with his books.
Chris Riddell’s Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death is vying for the Best Story Award along with Boy in the Tower by primary school teacher Polly Ho-Yen and The Spy Who Loved School Dinners written by Pamela Butchart and illustrated by Thomas Flintham.
Adam Murphy’s Corpse Talk, which uses comic strips to tell the stories of scientists, writers, sovereigns and rebels from history, is competing for the Best Book with Facts with Animalium written by Jenny Broom and illustrated by Katie Scott, and The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff written by Andy Seed and illustrated by Scott Garrett.
The four judges – Liz Pichon, Michael de Souza, Anna James and Ewan Vinnicombe – highlighted the quality of illustrations used in many of this year’s shortlisted books, as well as the brilliant stories and imaginations of the authors.
Liz Pichon, author of the Tom Gates series, and winner of the Blue Peter Book Awards Best Story 2013, said: ‘We have a brilliant selection, something for everyone. There’s beautifully illustrated fiction, gripping stories, funny books and the FIRST comic strip style book with facts which is fantastic.
‘We keep hearing that kids don’t read anymore, but if you get the right books in front of them they really will – I’ve seen it!
‘The Blue Peter Awards are a fantastic way of showcasing even more great books.’
Michael de Souza, co-creator of Rastamouse said: ‘We have a great selection of original stories as well as a book using comic strips, which is very different.
‘Books open up a new world for children. If we want to encourage children to read, we need to give them great stories, great illustrations and something they can relate to.’
Blue Peter Editor Ewan Vinnicombe, who was the non-voting Chair of the judging panel, said: ‘In our 15th year of the Blue Peter Book Awards I’m really excited with the judges’ shortlist. There is such a good range of titles in the mix and I can’t wait to find out on World Book Day when the winners are revealed – live on Blue Peter.
‘It was great that we could honour Michael Morpurgo with a Blue Peter gold badge. His stories have inspired so many children over so many years to read and love books.’
Approximately 200 children from 10 schools across the UK will read the shortlisted books and vote for their favourites in each category. The two winning books will be announced on the Blue Peter programme scheduled for World Book Day on 5 March 2015.
The enormously popular Blue Peter Book Awards, which are managed by Booktrust, celebrate the best authors, most creative illustrators and the greatest reads for children.
The shortlist:
Best Book with Facts
• Animalium written by Jenny Broom and illustrated by Katie Scott (Big Picture Press)
• Corpse Talk: Season 1 by Adam Murphy (David Fickling Books)
• The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff written by Andy Seed and illustrated by Scott Garrett (Bloomsbury)
• Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho-Yen (Doubleday Children’s)
• Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death by Chris Riddell (Macmillan Children’s Books)
• The Spy Who Loved School Dinners written by Pamela Butchart and illustrated by Thomas Flintham (Nosy Crow)
The judges for this year’s Awards are:
• Michael de Souza – Co-creator of the Rastamouse book series and co-founder of Little Roots Ltd.
• Anna James – Editor, We Love This Book and Media Editor, The Bookseller, and former school librarian
• Liz Pichon – author of the Tom Gates series, and winner of the Blue Peter Book Awards Best Story 2013
• Ewan Vinnicombe (non-voting chair) – Editor, Blue Peter and Head of Presentation for CBeebies and CBBC
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Tech Nation’s Upscale 4.0 Announces its Top 30 Fast-Growing Tech Companies
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by The Fintech Times January 29, 2019 January 28, 2019
Tech Nation’s Upscale 4.0 has announced its top 30 fast-growing tech companies following a selection process which saw thousands of startups apply.
Upscale is based around honest conversations, meetups and workshops, delivered by scale coaches and seasoned entrepreneurs who have been through it all. The six-month programme is designed to help fast-growth tech companies with fundamental growth challenges, from hiring and international expansion to maintaining company culture.
“I’m delighted to welcome this year’s companies onto the Upscale programme,” said Sinead Daly, Mid-Stage Programme Lead at Tech Nation. “As we enter our fourth year, Upscale has built an incredible network of over 100 alumni, who have a wealth of experience to share with the cohort.”
With a strong focus on peer-to-peer learning, alumni come out of the programme with invaluable knowledge on the pressing, practical and often painful issues founders face. Some of these insights can also be seen in Upscale: the book, which features honest advice from some of the UK’s leading technology entrepreneurs and investors.
This year’s programme kicked off with a launch event at the Farncombe Estate in the Cotswolds on 24–25 January, where companies and founders had the opportunity to network and hear from seasoned experts, including Aneesh Varma, Founder & CEO of Aire, Angie Ma, Co-founder & COO of ASI Data Science and Cherry Freeman, Founder of LoveCrafts, on the challenges of scaling and leadership.
“Our off-site launch event will bring our founders together for the first time,” explained Sinead. “We’ll embed those tight-knit connections upfront, think about what scaling really means and explore how leaders can thrive while managing such rapid growth.”
Leading the way in UK tech
The 30 companies that have been selected represent some of the finest mid-stage talent from across the UK, some of which will grow to be future leaders in the global tech economy.
Tessa Clarke, Co-Founder & CEO of London’s highly successful food sharing startup OLIO, and a member of this year’s cohort, said: “As OLIO transitions from closing our Series A to being Series B ready, we’ll need to take our performance to a new level – we can’t wait to benefit from being part of Upscale 4.0!”
Another new member, James Hadley, Founder & CEO of Bristol-based software company Immersive Labs, added: “Immersive Labs is proud to announce that it will be joining Upscale, We look forward to sharing experiences with other fast-growing companies, while learning from Upscale mentors about how to succeed in a competitive global market.”
Spanning different locations, sizes and levels of performance, Upscale 4.0 also represents companies from across a wide spectrum of sectors, and reflects the growth seen in areas like ecommerce and fintech.
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Trump stops chemical attack (media won’t touch this)
President Donald Trump proved he will not be weak on terror and was credited for saving thousands of lives, but of course, the mainstream media is silent.
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, credited Trump’s warning to Syria not to commit another chemical attack for stopping the Assad regime from carrying another one out.
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“I can tell you that due the president’s actions, we did not see an incident,” Haley said at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing.
“What we did see before was all the same activity we had seen prior, for the April 4 chemical weapons attacks. And so I think that by the president calling out Assad, I think by us continuing to remind Iran and Russia that while they choose to back Assad, that this was something we were not going to put up with. So I would like to think that the president saved many innocent men, women and children.”
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Defense Secretary James Mattis backed up her claims, saying, “it appears that they took the warning seriously. They didn’t do it.”
Syria’s government and its ally Russia accused Washington on Thursday of concocting a “provocation” in Syria, which would then be blamed on President Bashar Assad’s government as alleged use of chemical weapons to justify an attack.
But previous identical preparations followed by mass carnage of Syrian civilians at the hands of Assad quickly debunk their “provocation” claim.
A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, said the U.S. had seen “activity” at Shayrat airfield that “indicated active preparations for chemical weapons use.”
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That is the same base from which the Syria air force launched an attack in April that the U.S. and others said used lethal chemicals to kill civilians. Syria denied the charge.
A Monday evening statement by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the U.S. had “identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime that would likely result in the mass murder of civilians, including innocent children.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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This is why women’s panties are trending on social media
by Tristan Greene — in Social Media
A women-led protest that began in Ireland has gone global. After a rape trial ended last week in a controversial acquittal, women took to the streets in a protest that’s now going viral with the hashtag #ThisIsNotConsent, and images of women’s underwear.
Trigger warning: please be advised the following article contains frank discussion of rape and has embedded media with imagery and terminology that discusses rape and consent.
An Irish man was acquitted of rape charges last week during a trial that centered on whether his 17-year-old accuser consented to their sexual encounter. The accused alleged the girl was a willing participant and that he wasn’t even sure intercourse actually took place due to his erectile dysfunction.
Over the course of the trial, jurors heard evidence that, immediately after the encounter, the 17-year-old said to the accused “You just raped me.” His reply, reportedly, was “No, we just had sex.”
During her closing remarks, the attorney for the accused, Elizabeth O’Connell, implored jurors to consider the way the child was dressed as evidence of her consent:
Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting someone and being with someone? You have to look at the way she was dressed. She was wearing a thong with a lace front.
Outraged by the implication that wearing a certain type of underwear indicates a person has given their consent to a sexual act, women around the world are posting pictures of their panties in protest.
Jurors in Cork were asked to consider the underwear a SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL was wearing when she was raped by a 27-year-old man.
Join the cause in solidarity, can’t believe this girl was subjected to these comments after such a traumatic event.#ThisIsNotConsent #Ibelieveher pic.twitter.com/PfkYERulgY
— Courtney Peterson (@_courtneymaria) November 13, 2018
Most of my underwear has lace on it. This doesn’t mean I want to be raped. No matter what I wear, no means no!! #ThisIsNotConsent pic.twitter.com/dUBaA702oS
— Clàudia 🎗️ (@catalanaalcor) November 14, 2018
Irish politician Ruth Coppinger took to the floor of the Dail – parliament, for the rest of us – on Tuesday to bring the issue up before the assembly.
I hear cameras cut away from me when I displayed this underwear in #Dáil. In courts victims can have their underwear passed around as evidence and it's within the rules, hence need to display in Dáil. Join protests tomorrow. In Dublin it's at Spire, 1pm.#dubw #ThisIsNotConsent pic.twitter.com/DvtaJL61qR
— Ruth Coppinger TD (@RuthCoppingerTD) November 13, 2018
A government review of rape trial procedures is reportedly underway in Ireland but, as social media has shown, the issue isn’t just a local one.
In fact, fifteen years ago in Scotland, 17-year-old Lindsay Armstrong took her life after she was forced to hold up her own panties during her rapist’s trial. Her mother, Linda Armstrong, told BBC News Scotland earlier this year:
It’s quite sad that there is still plenty of chance for people to go through what Lindsay went through. I feel like they are not taking it seriously enough.
The conversation about consent is no longer avoidable by citing a case-by-case basis and ignoring uncomfortable questions, thanks, at least in part, to the endless reach of social media. And the idea that some people are “asking for it,” likely won’t survive intelligent discourse.
As Irish Prime Minister Leo Vradkar put it:
Nobody asks to be raped. And it’s never the victim’s fault. It doesn’t matter what you wear, it doesn’t matter where you went, who you went with, or what you took — whether it was drugs or alcohol.
Counsel for man acquitted of rape suggested jurors should reflect on underwear worn by teen complainant on The Irish Examiner
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October 9, 2017 February 15, 2018
THE ENTHUSIAST!: Getting a Grip on Rock Climbing
by Lauren Power
Credit Joel Harvie
When it comes to enthusiasm for their hobby, it’s hard to top climbers.
“Climbing has one of the most balanced sets of physical, technical, and mental challenges amongst all sports,” says Joel Harvie, rockclimbing enthusiast. Harvie’s job at Wallnuts (57 Old Pennywell Road) involves engaging newer climbers and people who don’t really know what climbing is.
If you’re looking for a new obsession, you might find a new one in climbing. “Many of us daydream and obsess over completing our undone climbing test-pieces, spend all of our money travelling to famous rock faces while living out of a small tent for weeks, or sacrifice one career for another that accommodates going out climbing as often as possible,” says Harvie.
“Developing your skills as a climber allows you to constantly apply those skills and adapt them to new climbs, preserving the process of problem solving, and forcing you to use your mind and body for new movements each time you lace up your climbing shoes,” he says.
You don’t need anything to get started. The iron lats and deltoids of steel come later.
“People of all fitness levels can start climbing,” says Harvie. “There are variety of easy climbs set in the gym — three-year-olds manage to scale full routes, and people rehabilitating after injuries have a good selection of low stress climbs. We try to make our facility and the sport accessible to everyone.”
So, what are the first steps to your new vertical fixation? “I would recommend going indoors first,” says Harvie. “The intro package at Wallnuts includes all the gear you will need … The staff at the climbing gym are knowledgeable about all the equipment you’ll be using.” According to Harvie, the intro safety system is easier to operate than a microwave oven.
For those with little-to-no experience who are interested in trying out climbing, Wallnuts’ “Learn to Climb” package has all that you’ll need.
“The package includes an introductory lesson that takes about 30-45 minutes,” says Harvie. “The lesson covers the basic safety system needed to use the facility. It also includes an 11-day membership with all of the equipment included. This all costs $42 after taxes, which is a pretty sweet deal if you make the most of that 11-day membership.”
As with most hobbies, one of the greatest benefits is the community that’s attached to it. “We have a very strong community of climbers, which is always growing,” says Harvie.
“Climbing is very social … most people walking in off the street and trying the sport make friends very quickly.” The friendly atmosphere is boosted by the regular members events and competitions. “The gym also hosts team climbing leagues every fall and winter, grouping together climbers of all skill levels and encouraging the experienced to take the less experienced members of their team under their wings.”
When it comes to enthusiasm for their hobby, it’s hard to top climbers. “The never ending catalogue of climbs to choose from, and the many different styles of climbing for individuals to specialize in, allow us to happily live a liberating second life of vertical aspirations and adventure,” says Harvie.
“It is easy to get started, and with little commitment, anyone can embark on their own climbing pilgrimage.”
Lauren Power
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a walk along the tracks
Posted by subincontinentia on January 10, 2017 March 29, 2017
An abandoned train station has a loneliness all its own. A hub of motions, of all manner of comings and goings, new exchanges and intersections, has been rendered utterly still. As if time has frozen over. Scrub grows between the tracks like exclamation marks of this presiding stillness. And yet the architecture of all this activity remains, its continued presence amputated from its purpose, seeping with ghostly nostalgia. As I walk along these tracks, the ghosts of trains that ferried their last living passenger 23 years ago, whistle softly past my ears.
Back then Parthenay station had multiple passenger lines—linking to Niort in the South, Bressuire to the North-West, Thouars to the North and Poitiers to the East. A few years ago, the North-South line was re-opened but only to freighters. They shuttled earth mineral deposits, over a thousand tonnes at a time, from the quarries of Saint Varent to Niort, from where their loads were transported to large aggregate companies throughout France’s great south-west to make new motorways for more cars. They ran only at night, as if to conceal the irony of these last surviving trains carrying the very substance that spells further doom to their kind. Every year, 550,000 tons of freight was transported between Niort and Saint-Varent, and over one million tons between Saint-Varent and Thouars. All endings have in them their beginnings. Railway construction originally began in France with the development of short lines to access mines.
The station itself, a little run down and weedy, still looks as if it is waiting for a makeover. The station house now sells bus tickets, connecting Parthenay to the larger towns of Poitiers to the East and Nantes and La Rochelle to the West. The platform clock still functions, the time keeper of bygone schedules and trains that never arrive.
I never thought I would write about trains. The topic seemed the domain of a very specific kind of geek. But I understand the Parthenaisiens’ nostalgia for their train station. Train lines are like the connective tissue between places. They are permeable membranes, allowing the passage of new ideas, new ways of looking at the world. With the closure of its only train station, Parthenay, already a town edging off the map, had been thrown into even greater isolation. Some saw the freight run as a ray of hope that might, in some meandering way, resolve into the re-opening of the passenger lines between Thouars and Niort via Parthenay. Late into the night, in the hours of the quarry trains, I forayed into the blogs of local train enthusiasts, running them through Google Translate, trying to piece together a story from the broken shards of history. I find a Youtube video taken from a camera fixed on the cabin of one of the freight trains. The video lasts over thirty minutes. Thirty minutes of trees and a single track, all of it the same. I find it strangely soothing. I am reminded of train journeys in India, Egypt and Turkey, and all over the English countryside. A train journey takes time, it carries you, and lets you drift a little in its arms….
For almost 60 years, the Niort-Thouars line formed a section of the great Paris-Bordeaux line, a major artery that passed from Paris through Chartres, Chateau-du-Loir, Saumur, Thouars, Niort and Saintes, before joining Bordeaux. In 1938, when Tours and Poitiers were favoured in the circulation between Paris and Bordeaux, the Niort-Thouars line declined but continued to run. Then in 1983, the trains were stopped completely. Now, even the freight trains have been banned. In December 2015, the track was marked unsafe. And just in case anyone has other ideas, just before the viaduct, two hefty logs lay padlocked across the track.
It is an unnerving sight. The logs strapped across the track. Padlocked even. As if to say, don’t even think about it. You find yourself trying to imagine the wheels of a train clambering over them. A train track has a pleasing visual continuum that offers perceptual momentum to the eye. Train tracks always look like they could be heading anywhere. The horizon field they create takes the mind somewhere off the map. To parts unknown. Often constructed in the outlying parts of a town, where the trees and shrubs grow untended, they both protect the traditional provincial circuitry and nudge at the dormant spirit of adventure.
This visual continuum of a track runs in step with its utility, engineered to the very purpose of physical momentum. The logs not only disrupt the visual continuum, they disrupt any plausible idea of a moving train beyond that point. They disrupt the very purpose of the track. The visual and utilitarian disruption together create a conceptual paradox. One that simply stepping over the logs cannot altogether resolve.
I step over them anyway, and continue to follow the tracks.
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Consumers Advised to Consider Food Safety During Thanksgiving
15 October 2013, at 5:19am
CANADA - According to Bruce Cochrane, University of Manitoba's food safety professor is encouraging consumers to consider food safety when preparing the traditional Thanksgiving meal.
With Thanksgiving on the horizon, families across Canada will be sitting down to their traditional holiday meal this weekend.
Dr Rick Holley, a food safety and food microbiology professor with the University of Manitoba, says as a result of the increased consumption of poultry, the frequency of foodborne illness caused by salmonella or campylobacter increases during the holidays.
Dr Rick Holley-University of Manitoba
When we take a look at illnesses caused by various food commodities what we see is that meat, poultry and fish still cause more than half of the illnesses that are of record that are discovered but when you take a look at subsets and poultry in particular what you see is that more often than in any other food group illnesses leading to death are more frequent.
In the case of poultry what we see is a very close association among these organisms and foodborne illness caused by consumption of products contaminated by them and so this is not a frivolous issue.
It's a serious one and can, to a significant degree, be addressed by proper cooking and certainly handling of raw poultry in the kitchen to ensure that things like vegetables that often are not cooked when they're included in a salad don't come into contact with any of the juices of the poultry that's being prepared for cooking.
That segregation and kitchen hygiene are extremely important in reducing the frequencies of illnesses that come from consumption of chicken or turkey at holiday time.
Dr Holley says the improper cooking and handling of poultry can cause serious illnesses in humans and is a job that must be done in a conscientious fashion.
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Typewriter of the moment: Steve Allen
I miss Steve Allen. I miss “Meeting of Minds.” I miss finding out what Allen would be up to next.
Steve Allen at his typewriter, well before 1999
An Olivetti electric? Anyone know for sure?
Steve Allen invented “The Tonight Show” on NBC, and was its first host. It would have been great to have heard his opinion of Jay Leno’s leaving, and Conan O’Brien’s taking over.
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46 states agree to work for common education standards — Texas left out
(This issue has moved a bit since I first drafted this post — watch for updates.)
Ain’t it the way?
46 of the 50 states agreed to work for common education standards through a project of the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers. Texas is one of four states not agreeing. News comes from a report in the venerable Education Week (and to me directly via e-mail from Steve Schafersman at Texas Citizens for Science).
National standards for education are prohibited in the U.S. by law and tradition. Education standards traditionally have been set by each of the more than 15,000 local school districts. After the 1957 Sputnik education cleanup, and after the 1983 report of the Excellence in Education Commission, the nation has seen a drive to get at least state-wide standards, though a jealous regard for federalism still prevents national standards.
Almost all other industrialized nations have a set of national standards set by the national government, against which progress may be measured. All the industrialized nations who score higher than U.S. students in international education comparisons, have standards mandated by a national group.
So if it’s an internationally recognized way of improving education, as part of their continuing war on education, and their war on science and evolution theory, the Texas State Board of Education takes the Neanderthal stance, avoiding cooperation with the 92% of the states working to improve American education.
You couldn’t make up villains like this.
Article below the fold.
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Gambling to make government work, in Cave Creek, Arizona
It helps that it happened in a small Arizona town, in the desert, with a colorful name. You cannot imagine such a thing happening in Yonkers, New York, nor in West Bend, Wisconsin.
A deadlocked election for the Cave Creek city council came down to a draw from a deck of cards, a poker deck carefully shuffled by a robed judge.
Cave Creek, Arizona, Judge George Preston, shuffles cards to breal a deadlock between Thomas McGuire, left, and Adam Trenk. New York Times photo by Joshua Trent
We get the story from The New York Times:
Adam Trenk and Thomas McGuire, both in blue jeans and open-collar shirts, strode nervously into Town Hall with their posses. There stood the town judge. He selected a deck of cards from a Stetson hat and shuffled it — having removed the jokers — six times.
Mr. McGuire, 64, a retired science teacher and two-term incumbent on the Town Council, selected a card, the six of hearts, drawing approving oos and aws from his supporters.
Mr. Trenk, 25, a law student and newcomer to town, stepped forward. He lifted a card — a king of hearts — and the crowd roared. Cave Creek had finally selected its newest Council member.
“It’s a hell of a way to win — or lose — an election,” Mr. McGuire said. Still, it was only fitting, Mr. McGuire and others here said, that a town of 5,000 that prides itself on, and sometimes fights over, preserving its horse trails, ranches and other emblems of the Old West would cut cards to decide things. A transplant of 10 years from Yorktown Heights, N.Y., north of New York City, Mr. McGuire said he knew things were different here when not long after arriving he walked into a bar and found a horse inside.
Marshall Trimble, a cowboy singer, folklorist and community college professor who serves as Arizona’s official historian, said, “We are pretty tied to our roots here, at least we like to think so.”
Hans Zinnser, in the venerable Rats, Lice and History, relates the story of an eastern European town where such ties are broken by lice — the two candidates put their beards on a table, and a louse is placed between the men. The man whose beard the louse chooses is the winner.
Of course, this makes it difficult for women to participate in government fully.
Cave Creek is a typical cowboy, American town. Deadlocks in government can be resolved by a game of chance.
Government teachers, history teachers, go get this story and clip it — it’s a good bell ringer, if not a full lesson in democratic republican government.
So, as the state’s Constitution allows, a game of chance was called to break the deadlock. The two candidates agreed on a card game (alternatives from the past have included rolling dice and, on rare occasions, gunfights).
Mr. Trimble said a cutting of the cards or roll of the dice had decided ties a handful of times in Arizona local elections. Tie-breakers have also been tried in other states, including in recent years in Alaska and Minnesota, said Paul Fidalgo, a spokesman for FairVote, a Washington group that monitors and advocates for fair elections.
Mr. Fidalgo said the group objected to random chance as the decider of election outcomes.
“Definitely not a democratic ideal, to say the least,” he said, suggesting, among other ideas, that the tied candidates engage in one more runoff.
That was ruled out here as too expensive, and besides, this was much more fun, as Mayor Vincent Francia made clear, clutching a microphone and serving as M.C.
“Originally we thought of settling this with a paintball fight but that involves skill, and skill is not allowed in this,” Mr. Francia said to laughter.
Did you ever think that the ability to shuffle a deck of cards would be a job skill for a judge? There’s a reason law students play poker in the coffee lounge, and all weekend!
There’s more. Go read the Times. This is also why the New York Times is a great paper, and why we cannot function without “mainstream media.” Who else could have brought us the story?
Story from KPHO Channel 5 News, in Phoenix, with link to a great video (how can you capture the video for classroom use?)
AZ Central (Arizona Republic) story on the council meeting — approval of a 128,000 square-foot WalMart store was on the first agenda after the card shuffle decision
Story from ABC affliate, Channel 15
Politico report
“Mathematics of a tied election,” from Cox News, 2000
Lahood Productions’ 2004 election coverage — story of a deck of cards deciding an election in New Mexico in 1998
Gateway to state election codes, from the National Center for State Courts
Arizona election code; provision for breaking a tie by lot
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HomeArticles BlogWhat Does the Future Hold for Watford FC?
What Does the Future Hold for Watford FC?
October 25, 2018 Articles Blog 0
The start to the season for Watford football club has been a very good one. From their opening eight games, they have picked up four wins, along with one draw and three losses. This has left them up in 9th position and when you consider that some people thought they may struggle and be relegation contenders this season, they have to be delighted with the start they have made. The next question for them will be whether they can maintain their start and remain in the top half, or will this be too much to ask and will we see them slide further down the Premier League table?
Something that may be a little worrying for Watford fans is that they have not registered a win in their most recent four games. They began with four wins in a row, and now they have not won for four games. That is a trend they have to put right over the coming games, but overall after eight games, Watford would certainly take the position they are in right now.
The teams to have beaten Watford are Manchester United, Arsenal and Bournemouth, so there is nothing to worry about right now for The Hornets. They have been beaten by some good teams, who were expected to finish a lot higher in the table than Watford are. Their most frustrating defeat came at the hands of Bournemouth and that game finished 4-0, which was a disappointing result but Watford did have a man sent off early, which is something many would struggle to cope with.
If you are looking to find the best moment from Watford’s season so far, many fans would say their 2-1 victory over Tottenham, which was the last league game they won. Not only did Watford show they had the quality to compete with Tottenham, but they also showed great character and determination to fight back and come from behind. Fans will remember that victory for a long time and that was a special game and showed everything that fans want to see from their football team.
Looking forward, there is no reason for Watford to think they can’t maintain their position and finish in the top half of the Premier League this season. Watford are priced at 11/10 for a top half finish and, providing they show some of the spark we have seen from them so far this season, there is no reason to think they won’t be around challenging for a top-ten position.
One player who has received special praise this season is Troy Deeney, a player who shows the characteristics that fans love. Not only does Deeney know how to score goals, but he leads the team and drags them on his back when they need him the most. Deeney is going to have a big say in how Watford do this season, and his goals and character will be needed if his team are to finish in the top half of the Premier League.
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His Incomparable Contribution to the Vaishnava Fam...
He Offers a Seat of Honor to Everyone
He Answers Devotee's Questions Without Their Needi...
No Fear When Following in the Steps of His Gurudev...
His Incomparable Contribution to the Vaishnava Family
Dear Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaja,
Please accept my most humble obeiscances and all glories to your most revered Gurudev, Om Vishnupad 108 Sri Srimad Bhakti Dayita Madhava Goswami Maharaj, and all glories to His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad 108 Sri Srimad Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
You are a first class Vaishnava and one of those who inspire thousands around the world to follow the footsteps of the Sri Pancha Tattva and the chanting of the Maha mantra Hare Krishna.
I have known Your Divine Grace since 1999 and it has been a big fortune for me to see how you and our Guru Maharaj Srila Jayapataka Swami meet and work together, to make the Holy dham and the Vaishnava community better, in tune with the orders of both of your revered Gurudevas. His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Dayita Madhava Maharaja.
At your Gurudeva's ashram, our Gurumaharaja came first upon his arrival to India. This shows the respect and love that S…
During Jhulan festival in Vrindavan, Guru Maharaj was speaking Harikatha in the evening. Suddenly an unknown saint quietly came and sat down to hear Guruji’s Harikatha. He looked like a sanyassi but he was not carrying a tridanda. Guruji did not recognize him. He inquired about the saint and arranged to get him a seat.
Guruji explained that out of fear of an offense, he had to arrange a seat for the saint. In this way, there was a break to his Harikatha. Guru Maharaj then spoke about a similar instance that occurred during the time of Param Gurudev and also advised us to be cautious by always giving respect to others. He told us that we need to give special attention to our devotional practices. If we do not give attention to respecting others, then our devotional practices will be destroyed.
Not only this, Guru Maharaj does not even consider his own disciples as disciples, but as friends. Therefore in his conversations, he addresses them very respectfully. Having great regard for di…
He Answers Devotee's Questions Without Their Needing to Ask
Whenever any question arises in my mind for which I wish to seek an answer from Guru Maharaj, just by sitting in front of him and without having to ask, the answer to the question is often received.
Once when Guru Maharaj was in Bhatinda, there was a discussion in our house to ask Guru Maharaj whether his coming to math was by running away from home or was it with the permission of parents.While thinking so when we reached Guruji’s room we saw that Pandieji and his wife from Jalandhar were sitting.
Pandeji’s wife was crying because their son Bhagavan Das Prabhu had become math-vasi. As a mother, she felt that if he stays at home then it is good.Srila Gurudev convincingly told her that there is no reason for her crying and that he had come for the Supreme Lord’s service only. He continued, "Even I came to math running away from home," and he told his story in detail.
—Partha Sarati Das (Om Prakash Lumba)
Chaitanya Sandesh July-Oct, 1997 (Year 17, Issue No.4, Page 56-60)
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''Article originally published 12th of February 2008''
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| text = '''The new season is just two weeks away and the fans are eager to tell you about their expectations. But before that there are some additional things we need to inform you about. First, we are having second thoughts about the option to send [[Fans|tickets]] to your opponent and have decided not to add it.'''
'''The new season is just two weeks away and the fans are eager to tell you about their expectations. But before that there are some additional things we need to inform you about. First, we are having second thoughts about the option to send [[Fans|tickets]] to your opponent and have decided not to add it.'''
'''Secondly we will change the way training is calculated next season. [[Training]] will become minute based and depend on how many minutes a player has played on a certain position during the week, instead of being based on last position only. Not only is this a necessity for the future, it also makes training easier to grasp for new users and even though it may sound dramatic it will in fact not affect the way most managers train their players today.'''
In December we announced some news about how fans will work: Fans expectations. Soon you will be able to see what your fans expect out of you in the future. At the same time we announced the fan expectations we also announced some changes to the way the attendance and how home advantage will work. But since then we’ve in fact changed our mind about one of the new features: Sending tickets, which also was supposed to affect the home team advantage. Moreover there is also a ticket price increase and two other pending changes to inform about, but let's take things one by one:
=== Sending tickets to opponent ===
== Sending tickets to opponent ==
We have decided not to implement the possibility to send tickets to your opponent, at least not at this point. The reason for us changing our mind about this feature is that it adds a feeling of unnecessary complexity for something which would not play a big role in the game.
=== Home team advantage ===
== Home team advantage ==
As you will not be able to send any tickets, we will not change the current home team advantage either. With one exception though; the home team in a derby match will gain a small advantage, about half the ordinary home team advantage. Main reason for this is that teams, who happen to have a stronger team from the same region in their series, get a disadvantage compared to teams from other regions. The weaker team in a derby is often bound to lose, while a weaker team in a normal match still got a good chance to win at home thanks to their home team advantage. With this change, we keep the derby feeling at the same time as we give the weaker team in a derby a better chance to win - at least when they’re playing at home.
=== Ticket price increase for seats under roof ===
== Ticket price increase for seats under roof ==
Much more tickets will be sold under roof in rainy and cloudy weather next season, at the expense of tickets without roof – this still holds. The ticket price for seats under roof will be increased to 18€ at the same time.
=== Earlier announced stamina related changes ===
== Earlier announced stamina related changes ==
In our editorial from Oct 8 we announced two changes, related to stamina, which were to be implemented during this current season. This, as you know by now, never happened and it’s about time to give you an update about them:
* "Stamina level affects training" - will not be implemented.
* "Injuries depend on stamina, but injury times will decrease" – will not be implemented, but is still in the back of our heads when the time comes for a complete overlook over injuries.
=== [[Minute based training]] ===
== [[Minute based training]] ==
Next season, the amount of training a player receives depends on how many minutes he has played for your team during the week. The reason for this change is mostly to further prepare for the future implementation of planned substitutions, but it also means we will get a better and more logical training system instead of our current pretty unintuitive system where only the last position matters for training. In addition to that it will have a limiting effect on excessive skill trading.
While this may sound as a gigantic, dramatic change, it does in fact not change our lives or planning much. The majority of managers will still train their players as they always have, only at three special occasions the minute based training differs from the current system:
This will limit the excessive, almost industrial, use of skill trading where traders buy players before the training update and sell them right afterwards after they increased a skill – without ever played a match for their team.
=== How does minute based training work? ===
== How does minute based training work? ==
A player can receive 90 minutes training during a week (90 minutes training corresponds to one full training in today's system), and the position a player plays in is still important for training. Playing more than 90 minutes in a trainable position will not give him more training. Playing less, for example 50 minutes, will give him less training – in this case 50 min out of 90.
* Player V plays 50 minutes as a winger in the league game and 90 minutes as a wing defender in the friendly. He receives 50 min full winger training and 40 min winger training at 'half' speed.
=== Training block ===
== Training block ==
This feature will be designed for teams who want to train a certain part of their team, but feel they can’t do that as they got a star player who would become too expensive salary wise. Training block means you can choose not to give a player full skill training, even though he played in a trainable position during the week. This feature will not make it to the start of next season, but we aim to release it sometime during next season.
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This is an official Hattrick Editorial originally published in 2008-02-12 10:00:00.
The new season is just two weeks away and the fans are eager to tell you about their expectations. But before that there are some additional things we need to inform you about. First, we are having second thoughts about the option to send tickets to your opponent and have decided not to add it.
Secondly we will change the way training is calculated next season. Training will become minute based and depend on how many minutes a player has played on a certain position during the week, instead of being based on last position only. Not only is this a necessity for the future, it also makes training easier to grasp for new users and even though it may sound dramatic it will in fact not affect the way most managers train their players today.
1 Sending tickets to opponent
2 Home team advantage
3 Ticket price increase for seats under roof
4 Earlier announced stamina related changes
5 Minute based training
6 How does minute based training work?
7 Training block
Sending tickets to opponent
Home team advantage
Ticket price increase for seats under roof
Earlier announced stamina related changes
"Stamina level affects training" - will not be implemented.
"Injuries depend on stamina, but injury times will decrease" – will not be implemented, but is still in the back of our heads when the time comes for a complete overlook over injuries.
Minute based training
Next season, the amount of training a player receives depends on how many minutes he has played for your team during the week. The reason for this change is mostly to further prepare for the future implementation of planned substitutions, but it also means we will get a better and more logical training system instead of our current pretty unintuitive system where only the last position matters for training. In addition to that it will have a limiting effect on excessive skill trading. While this may sound as a gigantic, dramatic change, it does in fact not change our lives or planning much. The majority of managers will still train their players as they always have, only at three special occasions the minute based training differs from the current system:
Injured players will from now on receive training for the time they’ve played during the week, regardless of how injured they are at the training update.
A substitute who enters the pitch (or a player who has been sent off) will only get training for the time he’s actually played
Players will only receive skill training for matches played for the team they belong to at the training update. This means that if you buy a player (who played the league match for his former owner) on Tuesday morning you still have to field him on a trainable position in your friendly/cup match if you want him to receive skill training. This is only related to skill though, any match during the week still counts when it comes to form.
How does minute based training work?
Some examples for Team A (training crossing(winger)):
Player X plays 90 minutes as a winger in the league game and does not play in the friendly. He receives 90 min full winger training.
Player Y plays 90 minutes as a winger in the league game and 90 minutes as a forward in the friendly. He receives 90 min full winger training as he has played 90 minutes as a winger during the week.
Player Z plays 40 minutes as a winger in the league game and 90 minutes as a forward in the friendly. He receives 40 min full winger training and 50 min osmosis training.
Player W plays 90 minutes as a winger in the league game for Team B, and is then transferred to Team A where he plays 90 minutes as a forward in the friendly. He receives 90 min osmosis training, as he only receives skill training for the matches played for the team he belongs to.
Player V plays 50 minutes as a winger in the league game and 90 minutes as a wing defender in the friendly. He receives 50 min full winger training and 40 min winger training at 'half' speed.
Training block
HT-Tjecken
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Margie and Jerry Breunig — Dedicated Gardeners
February 23, 2015 - Featured, People & Places - Comments:
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Margie and Jerry Breunig have shared a lifetime love of plants. She was originally from Seattle but moved to California in her 20s. He was from Southern California but fell in love with this area during visits. They met in their 30s, married and lived in a house 6,000 feet up a mountain near San Simeon in California.
Jerry’s first career was in the aerospace industry but he vowed he would “never sit in an office again,” so his next career was in wastewater treatment for the city of Los Angeles, where he got lots of outdoors time. Margie worked as an investigative probation officer in Central Los Angeles and in Lancaster. She worked shifts of 60 hours on duty and 96 hours off duty.
When asked how they met, Margie Breunig says, “I was on my way home from work (first probation officer position at juvenile hall) after getting off my shift and stopped at a coffee shop to get something to eat. I sat at the counter and met Jerry there. We talked for a long time and made a date for the next day. We married two weeks later. It’s been 41 years now so I guess it was the right thing to do.”
When they lived in Cambria, Calif., they met Sharon Lovejoy, a renowned garden writer and artist. Lovejoy at the time had a gift shop with a garden called Heart’s Ease.
Breunig would walk by the Lovejoy home almost daily and not only fell in love with the garden but also with the home. She still keeps in touch with Lovejoy.
“It was a really old, old house with an existing old, old garden. At the time, I was new to gardening and Sharon helped me a lot on how to grow various plants,” she says.
Upon retiring, the Breunigs moved to the Kitsap Peninsula. Margie’s brother suggested she take the WSU Extension Master Gardener training.
Breunig says, “I was such an eager beaver. I just wanted to learn everything I could and it was so good. I learned the botanical names of plants and could name every plant in my gardens by both its botanical and its common name.”
That was in 1995 and she’s been an ardent gardener ever since and highly recommends the WSU Master Gardener training.
Creating and enjoying their garden has been a journey of learning and discovery. They are part of a group that plants and maintains the rose display garden at the Silverdale Library.
Margie belongs to Long Lake Garden Club and was an active Master Gardener for 12 years. They also attend workshops and talks offered locally. Favorite events are the Northwest Home and Garden Show and local garden tours.
Passion for Plants and Farm Houses
Both Breunigs love plants. But they also love older homes.
Their first home in this area was a 1930s farmhouse in Graham that they restored. That old farmhouse inspired them to design and build their two homes when they moved to West Sound. They had both homes built from the ground up and surrounded by gorgeous gardens.
Their current home was planned and built as a forever home, with the master suite on the first floor and plenty of space on the second floor for family and friends who come to visit.
Jerry has overseen every part of the homebuilding processes from beginning to end and Margie meticulously oversees the gardens. Their current house looks like it’s been on the 2.5-acre property for decades. The home is charmingly framed by a country porch, lawn paths to define the planting beds and various types of hardscaped paths made of brick or bark or crushed gravel.
Margie and Jerry are especially fond of roses and belong to the Kitsap Rose Society. Jerry is currently the secretary of the society. Their home was on the Rose Society Tour this past summer.
Both this current home and the previous one have been on several garden tours. Visitors could conceivably spend days walking through the gardens. One visit just isn’t enough to take in all the beauty and charm of the Breunigs’ cherished landscapes and plants.
Native plants around all the edges of the property frame the planting areas and provide privacy. The official greeter and protector is Sable — their 7-year-old Bernese Mountain mix (probably with Chow). Sable makes sure the black bear, raccoons, squirrels, deer, coyotes and birds stay out of too much mischief in the gardens.
Winston the cat adopted the Breunigs. Winston’s self-appointed purpose is to keep mice and rats away, but also to soak up as much sunshine as possible throughout the gardens.
The Breunigs’ garden is a Certified Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. The garden provides wildlife with food, shelter, water and numerous places to raise their young and to survive. Because of the bear, though, Jerry brings in all bird feeders each night.
Water and Hardscaping
Jerry and Margie water the garden by hand or use sprinklers. Most of the plants survive quite well once established, but do need watering sometimes during the hot, dry summer months. Because of their well capacity, they have to water one section at a time and do not have an irrigation system.
Trellises, paths, raised beds, holes dug for planting and other projects and enhancements are mostly the work of Jerry. Both Breunigs like garden art and garden furniture.
Chairs, benches, tables and other resting areas are strategically placed here and there. One patio area is mostly full sun, but there are shady areas too. Lots of containers in every shape and size, and even ones painted a coordinating color to best show off the plants are used to happy advantage.
Three types of garden ornaments that bear mentioning are a sign painted with the words “Real men dance naked in the garden.” It was a gift for Jerry that has been displayed in their last two gardens.
Tucked here and there are a few gargoyles, which Jerry loves. He first learned about them when he saw Notre Dame Church in France during World War II.
Here and there can also be found a few pigs and piglets. Margie fell in love with a lovely knickknack whose name is Henri the Pig. It’s been given a special spot in the house. Soon friends and family were presenting her with pigs for both inside and outside the home.
Tasty Plantings
Even though their home is a haven for every type of ornamental plant and abundant native plants, there are also areas for growing herbs, vegetables and small fruits. Some of these tasty and nutritious plants are even decoratively combined in with the ornamental plants.
As the trees have grown and sunny areas have become shadier, some of the vegetable and herb beds have been relocated to the sunny front-entry gardens flanking the path leading up to the porch. A few are in containers (including a wheelbarrow) that can be moved strategically to take utmost advantage of sunlight and heat. Last year, the wheelbarrow was planted up with squash. Raised beds contain tomatoes, chard, beans and kale.
Roses Galore
Roses are one of their favorite plants. At one time they had several hundred roses. Getting enough light is becoming a problem, so they’re growing some of their roses in containers so they can be moved to take advantage of maximum sun exposure.
In 2013 they had to treat the plants for rose midge. Margie has found that she can better control this pest, which prevents buds from forming, by washing soil completely off the roots and then replanting the roses into the container with fresh, clean, uncontaminated soil.
Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals
It would take pages to list all the treasured plants in the couple’s garden. One notable plant is a beautiful Japanese maple. The mayor of Orting gave Jerry a start of the maple years ago. “We’ve always moved the maple to our new homes,” he says.
Margie grows vegetables and annuals from seed. One room in their home (the laundry/garden room) has a whole wall of windows, lots of shelving on the opposite wall and a long countertop under the windowed wall. This is where she grows, pots up, divides and propagates plants from cuttings.
Tender plants, requiring wintertime protection, are stored under the porch, in the garage and sometimes in the garden room.
A very small sampling of their plants
Ornamentals:
Dwarf cotoneaster
Variegated bamboo
Hydrangeas:
H. paniculata — Little Lime
H. paniculata — Fire and Ice
H. macrophylla — Pia
H. macrophylla — Pistachio
H. arborescens — Invincibelle Spirit (pink)
Perennials:
Sedums
Epimediums
Calla lily — Queen’s night (nearly black blooms)
Cranesbill geranium — Roseanne (blue)
Dorotheanthus bellidiformis (pink flowers)
Ground orchid — Bletilla
Heucheras
Trees:
Parrotia
Coral bark maple
Weeping Japanese maple
Paperbark maple
Oxydendron arboretum (aka Sourwood)
Crabapple — Prairie fire
Dwarf conifers — many varieties
Roses:
Pretty Lady — peach
Julia Child — yellow
Lady Elsie May — pink flowers (looks like camellias)
Help Is Good
Margie and Jerry are the first to say that they couldn’t take care of their bit of paradise without help. They are very fit but admit that their bones are aging, and sometimes a gardener just needs a bit more muscle power.
They’ve hired assistants through the years to help move materials (mulch, bark, manure, crushed rock) to the paths and garden beds. They also had help initially and for a few years as they developed the numerous garden rooms throughout their site. And they have someone come in periodically to assist with weeding.
When asked how they manage to do most of it themselves though, Margie says, “He helps me.” Jerry replies, “I’m in charge.” She adds, “But he doesn’t always do what I want.”
The Breunigs keep up by pulling up weeds daily when they see them. And, both agree that no one could create such a festival of garden enjoyment all by themselves.
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GERMAN DESERTER'S WAR EXPERIENCE
J. KOETTGEN
B. W. HUEBSCH
MCMXVII
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
THE following narrative first appeared in German in the columns of the New Yorker Volkszeitung, the principal organ of the German speaking Socialists in the United States. Its author, who escaped from Germany and military service after 11 months of fighting in France, is an intelligent young miner. He does not wish to have his name made public, fearing that those who will be offended by his frankness might vent their wrath on his relatives. Since his arrival in this country his friends and acquaintances have come to know him as an upright and truthful man whose word can be relied upon.
The vivid description of the life of a common German soldier in the present war aroused great interest when the story presented in these pages to the English speaking reader was published in serial form. For here was an historian of the war who had been through the horrors of the carnage as one of the "Huns," one of the "Boches"; a soldier who had not abdicated his reason; a warrior against his will, who nevertheless had to conform to the etiquette of war; a hater of militarism for whom there was no romance in war, but only butchery and brutality, grime and vermin, inhuman toil and degradation. Moreover, he was found to be no mean observer of men and things. His technical training at a school of mining enabled him to obtain a much clearer understanding of the war of position than the average soldier possesses.
Most soldiers who have been in the war and have written down their experiences have done so in the customary way, never questioning for a moment the moral justification of war. Not so our author. He could not persuade his conscience to make a distinction between private and public morality, and the angle from which he views the events he describes is therefore entirely different from that of other actual observers of and participators in war. His story also contains the first German description of the retreat of the Teutonic armies after the battle of the Marne. The chief value of this soldier's narrative lies, however, in his destructive, annihilating criticism of the romance and fabled virtues of war. If some of the incidents related in this book appear to be treated too curtly it is solely due to this author's limited literary powers. If, for instance, he does not dwell upon his inner experiences during his terrible voyage to America in the coal bunker of a Dutch ship it is because he is not a literary artist, but a simple workman.
The translator hopes that he has succeeded in reproducing faithfully the substance and the spirit of the story, and that this little book will contribute in combating one of the forces that make for war---popular ignorance of war's realities. Let each individual fully grasp and understand the misery, degradation, and destruction that await him in war, and the barbarous ordeal by carnage will quickly become the most unpopular institution on earth.
I MARCHING INTO BELGIUM
II FIGHTING IN BELGIUM
III SHOOTING CIVILIANS IN BELGIUM
IV GERMAN SOLDIERS AND BELGIAN CIVILIANS
V THE HORRORS OF STREET FIGHTING
VI CROSSING THE MEUSE
VII IN PURSUIT
VIII NEARLY BURIED ALIVE ON THE BATTLEFIELD
IX SOLDIERS SHOOTING THEIR OWN OFFICERS
X SACKING SUIPPES
XI MARCHING TO THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE---INTO THE TRAP
XII AT THE MARNE---IN THE MAW OF DEATH
XIII THE ROUT OF THE MARNE
XIV THE FLIGHT FROM THE MARNE
XV AT THE END OF THE FLIGHT
XVI THE BEGINNING OF TRENCH WARFARE
XVII FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH THE ENEMY
XVIII FIGHTING IN THE ARGONNES
XIX CHRISTMAS IN THE TRENCHES
XX THE " ITCH "---A SAVIOR
XXI IN THE HELL OF VAUQUOIS
XXII SENT ON FURLOUGH
XXIII THE FLIGHT TO HOLLAND
XXIV AMERICA AND SAFETY
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Home » Travel Outback Australia » Road Trips » Tanami Road » Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater | The Real Story
February 20, 2019 August 18, 2018
Wolfe Creek Crater – The Real Story!
We visited Wolfe Creek Crater, near the western end of the Tanami Road. The real story is far better than the movie script!
Like many desert secrets, Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater hid in plain view for many years. It wasn’t recognised as a meteorite crater until the late 1940s by surveyors, who were doing an aerial survey.
A couple of years later, a group of scientists ventured there and confirmed it was indeed an impact crater. Now a National Park, Wolfe Creek Crater stands out in the flat desert plains country.
Wolfe Creek Crater is remote. It sits about 150km South of Halls Creek in Western Australia and nearly 950km North-West of Alice Springs, just off the Tanami Road.
As you approach along the Tanami Road, a vague mountain range appears on the horizon. Turning off the Tanami, the road travels South-East for a while until it swings North. Wolfe Creek begins to take shape and you start to realise just how big this crater is.
Fortunately, Wolfe Creek Crater is fenced, to prevent stock from damaging the site.
And the name? It’s taken from nearby Wolfe Creek, named after Robert Wolfe who was a shopkeeper and prospector during the Halls Creek gold rush.
This is the scientific explanation.
About 300,000 years ago, an enormous meteorite weighing about 50,000 tonnes came blasting into the atmosphere at 15 kilometres per second. That’s pretty quick. It slammed into the ground at an angle and vaporised on impact.
It basically melted the rocks and dug a hole about 120 metres into the rock.
The rocks melted and folded and vaporised, and parts of the meteorite have been discovered up to four kilometres away. The crater walls show clear signs of being melted and twisted into all sorts of weird shapes.
Over time, the crater has filled with sand and the crater walls have eroded quite a bit. The crater is still about 850 metres across and the crater floor is now about 20 metres below the surrounding land.
When it rains, the water collects in the middle of the crater floor. When the water evaporates, it leaves behind the salts that have leached out of the surrounding soil. That’s why there’s a small salt pan in the crater. Salt-tolerant plants grow in the salt pan and paperbarks grow on the fringes of the salt pan, sucking up the precious sub-soil moisture.
We didn’t expect greenery down in the crater. The salt pan provides enough moisture for some extra-hardy plants.
And this is the explanation provided by the Jaru and Walmajarri people.
They knew Gandimalal (Wolfe Creek Crater) existed thousands of years before the surveyors “discovered” it in 1947.
The Jaru people tell of how two rainbow serpents created Jurabalarn (Sturt Creek to the South-East) and Ngurriny (Wolfe Creek). One of the rainbow serpents came out of the ground at Gandimalal (Wolfe Creek Crater).
The Walmajarri people say the rainbow snake Kariputa pushed up the ground to form the rim. Because Kariputa was from the coast South of Broome, he was covered in salt. That’s why the crater’s centre is salty. Kariputa is still there, under the crater.
Personally, I like this explanation more…
Staying at Wolfe Creek Crater
WA National Parks provide a basic campsite with a drop toilet. There’s no other facilities, so you have to be self-sufficient. There’s also a day-use area with a drop toilet and excellent interpretive signage.
The crater rim from the carpark. You walk up a track to a lookout on top. It’s further – and steeper – than it looks.
The day we were there, a strong cold Southerly wind was howling across the desert. Once we’d made our way up the rocky path to the rim, we did well not to get blown back down the hill!
Tracks lead down into the crater via a narrow path. However, WA National Parks don’t permit this. Considering it’s a fragile environment, this is fair enough.
With the wind blowing a gale, Wolfe Creek Crater is just a little bit creepy. And not because we were having visions of Mick Taylor (John Jarratt) showing up and dismembering us. No, it’s just one of those places where the wind howls through the spinifex… somehow the place feels lonely.
Looking down into the crater, you’ll see a salt pan in the middle with a smattering of hardy salt-resistant plants. The rocks in the crater’s rim show obvious signs of having experienced a massive trauma. And if you look around, you’ll see rocks stones that have been melted and re-formed in another shape.
This really is a massive hole. Would have been even more impressive before it was filled in with wind-blown sand.
While Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater was made famous by the movies, don’t let this be the sole reason for your visit. Take in the surroundings and imagine how this must have been at the moment of impact.
And imagine a giant rainbow serpent appearing out of the ground here and forming the crater. I love this image. Somehow, it just fits the landscape perfectly.
Wolfe Creek Crater is on Jaru and Walmajarri Country.
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Author, The Georgia DUI Trial Practice Manual, © 1996-2007, Thomson-West Publishing (1100 pages).
Author, The DUI Book © 2006 Headlines Marketing (430 pages).
Named in July, 2003 as the "National DUI Lawyer of the Year" by the National College for DUI Defense, Inc. This is the first and only such award ever given to an attorney by the national organization.
Mr. Head with Dr. David Stafford (left) and Hon. Roderick Kennedy (right), NM Ct of Appeals at Annual Meeting of AAFS, Dallas Texas, 2004.
Attended the American Academy of Forensic Sciences meeting in San Antonio, TX, February 2007 for advanced scientific training.
Named to Top DUI Lawyers List in Georgia each year from 1998 to 2007.
Author, The DUI Book © 2006 ( www.TheDUIBook.com).
Attended the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Meeting in Dallas, TX, February 2004 for advanced scientific training.
Founder of Mastering Scientific Evidence in DUI-DWI Cases (1994) and program Chairman the 1st eleven years.
Named "Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics magazine every year that accolade has been awarded.
Named to the "Legend Elite" designation by Georgia Trend Magazine.
Named "Top DUI Attorney" by Atlanta Magazine.
Rated "av" by Martindale-Hubbell (America's oldest attorney rating service)["av" is the highest possible rating].
Law firm is rated as one of Martindale-Hubbell's "pre-eminent" Firms, 2002-2007.
Co-author (with Reese I. Joye, Jr.) of 101 Ways to Avoid a Drunk Driving Conviction, published by Maximar Publishing Company, Inc. of Atlanta, GA. Copyright 1991.
Author of DUI Trial Tactics (Seminar materials, 78 pg.) for Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Copyright 1992.
Co-author (with Reese I. Joye, Jr.) of seminar materials (228 pages) and speaker for DUI/DWI Workshop, 1992 ATLA National Convention, Washington, DC.
Speaker, 49th Annual Melvin Belli Conference, Washington, DC, 1992.
Program Chairman and Speaker, ICLE of Georgia's "Defense of Drinking Drivers" Seminar, December 1992.
Co-author (with Bentley C. Adams) of DUI Update (seminar materials, 50 pg.) for Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, January, 1993.
Presenter on Motion Practice in DUI/DWI Cases at the "DWI National Seminar", Las Vegas, Nevada (sponsored by the Minnesota Society for Criminal Justice, February 1993).
Author, Five Myths About Defending Accused Drunk Drivers, vol. 29, No. 3, p. 64, Trial Magazine (Publication of American Trial Lawyers Association); March, 1993.
Author, Handling License Revocations and Suspensionsin Georgia, published by Headlines Marketing Corporation, Copyright 1993.
Program Chairman and Speaker, ICLE of Georgia's "Handling License Revocations and Suspensions in Georgia" Seminar, April, 1993.
Speaker, "ICLE Practical Criminal Practice Seminar", May 6, 1993; topic: Recent Developments in DUI Law.
1993 ATLA National Convention, Speaker and co-author of 280-page materials for DUI/DWI Workshop; Speaker on "The Importance of Networking in Personal Injury Cases", 50th Annual Melvin Belli Conference, San Francisco, CA 1993.
Speaker and Co-author of materials for ICJE-Georgia, State Court Judges' Conference, Amicalola Falls, GA, October 22, 1993.
Co-author (with Reese I. Joye, Jr.) of program materials and speaker at the Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association's Criminal Law Seminar titled "DUI/DWI Workshop"; October 29, 1993.
Program chairman, Editor and Co-author for "Defense of Drinking Drivers Institute", ICLE-Georgia, December 9th and 10th, 1993.
Speaker and co-author (with Ural D.L. Glanville) at January 19, 1994 Georgia ICJE Conference for Superior Court Judges' Conference, Athens, Georgia.
Program Chairman and Speaker, "DUI Defense", Nashville, TN, April 22, 1994
Program Workshop and Materials, The ABC’s of DUI, Young Lawyers Section, State Bar of Georgia, May 24, 1994
William C. Head Speaking at November 2006 ICLE Statewide Broadcast at GPTV Studio
Seminar Workshop, Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, "Bring Your Files: DUI Cases", July 15, 1994
Sponsor and Attendee, "NHTSA Standardized Field Sobriety Test Certified Course", Atlanta, GA, July 29-30, 1994 (first ever for DUI Defense Attorneys)
Program Chairman, Editor of Materials and Panelist, "Mastering Scientific Evidence in DUI/DWI Cases", Atlanta, GA, Southeastern Educational Institute, October 14, 1994
Speaker, "DUI Update", Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Unicoi, GA, November 5, 1994
Host and Contributing Participant, "NHTSA Standardized Field Sobriety Test Certified Course", Atlanta, GA, December 15-17, 1994
Speaker,"Defense of Drinking Drivers in Alabama", Birmingham, AL, December 16, 1994
Speaker, "New Developments in DUI Accusations", Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Atlanta, GA, January 13, 1995
Presenter on the Intoximeter 3000 at the DWI National Seminar in Las Vegas, NV (sponsored by the Minnesota Society for Criminal Justice, February 1995)
Speaker (Intoxilyzer 5000) and Panelist (Ethics), "Defense of Drinking Drivers" Seminar, ICLE-Georgia, February 24, 1995, Atlanta, GA
Program Chairman and Speaker, "Mastering Scientific Evidence in DUI/DWI Cases" Seminar, Biloxi, MS, April 27 - 28, 1995
Speaker and Program Chairman, Georgia DUI Update, GACDL, June 2, 1995, Atlanta, GA.
Speaker, "DUI/DWI Workshop", ATLA National Convention, New York, NY, July 18, 1995
Speaker (three separate presentations) "National College for DUI Defense", Harvard University, Boston, MA, July 20-22, 1995
Wrote the 1995 update to Chapter ("Behind the Wheel") for high school text, An Introduction to Law in Georgia, for the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia
Interviewed for WSB-TV Channel 2 (Atlanta) news story about the reduction in number of DUI convictions in Georgia, aired July 21, 1995
Feature Story, Front Page of Atlanta Constitution, July 21, 1995
Host and Contributing Participant, "NHTSA Standardized Field Sobriety Test Certified Course", Atlanta, GA, August 18-20, 1995; September 19, 1995
Speaker for Cobb County Trial Lawyers’ Association on DUI Law
Subject of Gwinnett County jury trial (pre-trial motions) filming and 3-part special report by John Pruitt for WSB-TV Channel 2 (Atlanta) news concerning the inability of the State of Georgia to get Intoxilyzer 5000 breath test evidence admitted into evidence at trial of a 0.293 BrAC/accident case, which aired on October 9-11, 1995
Interviewed for special report on drunk driving by CBN (Christian Broadcast Network, which aired October 20, 1995)
WPBS Radio interview (live) about DUI law, October 12, 1995
Speaker, Atlanta Bar Association, "How to Use Publicity to Your Advantage", November 2, 1995
Multi-City Tour on "Advanced DUI Trial Tactics", November 3 to December 8, 1995 (Chicago, San Francisco, Atlantic City, Orlando and Dallas) and Speaker on 1 to 3 subjects at each site.
Program Chairman and Host, "Georgia DUI Defense Trial Practice" Seminar, January 26, 1996.
Author, The Georgia DUI Trial Practice Manual, published by Thomson-West Publishing, © 1996-2007 (updated annually)
Mr. Head Speaking for Attorney training Seminar Sponsored by www.waldenplatt.com on the topic of Drug Recognition Overview (DRE), November 11, 2006
In addition to presenting materials and lectures at over 300 seminars for attorneys, Mr. Head has been a guest speaker or interview subject on the topic of defending the drinking driver for more than 50 radio and television programs, from California to Massachusetts to Florida. He has been quoted on the subject of DUI law in newspapers and other publications around the country, including USA Today, CNN, NBC, New York Times, Lawyers Weekly USA, the National Law Journal, the Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Macon Telegraph and The Fulton County Daily Report. He has consulted with ABC News for a segment for "Day One" in 1995 and 2006, and has assisted "Prime Time Live" with another story in 1995. He has also been invited to speak to the Georgia General Assembly's House Judiciary Committee on the subject of DUI law. Mr. Head previously acted as Editor of the DWI Journal and still serves on the DWI Journal Editorial Board, the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Legislative Committee, and the GACDL Watchdog Committee (to monitor proposed changes in Georgia’s breath testing program).
Member of the following organizations:
Former Regent and co-founder of the National College for DUI Defense, Inc.
Life Member, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Life Member, Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Founding Member and Benefactor, South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
American Trial Lawyers Association
Founder and member of Georgia D.O.D.D. (Defense of Drinking Drivers), a statewide [GA] network of dedicated DUI defense attorneys
Joye-Cole-Huff Group (South Carolina DUI "think tank")
Mentor, 1000 Lawyers for Justice (pro bono legal assistance to incarcerated indigents)
Atlanta Bar Association
Board of Directors, The Georgia Innocence Project
Editorial Board, The DWI Journal, Fanwood, NJ
Class of Public Defenders Trained in 2003 on NHTSA Standardized Field Sobriety Tests in class sponsored by William C. Head [Instructors: William (Bill) Taylor and Robert Kupkowski. Who volunteered their time to help the Public Defenders with their DUI training].
Mr. Head has been named to the following lists:
Who's Who in the World
Who's Who in American Law
Who's Who in the South and Southwest
Who's Who in Business and Industry
Who's Who in America
Order of Barristers
Mr. Head is presently published in the following:
Chapter on "Georgia DUI Law and Other Serious Driving Offenses" for the Georgia Jurisprudence multi-volume set of Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company’s (© 1995 Rochester, NY).
Chapter in Medicolegal Aspects of Alcohol Determination (Fourth Edition © 2003) on "Defending the DUI Driver", Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, Tucson, AZ, (James C. Garriott, Editor).
101 Ways to Avoid a Drunk Driving Conviction, Maximar Publishing © 1991
The Georgia DUI Trial Practice Manual, [© 2007 Thomson-West Publishing].
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Home/Additive Manufacturing/Automotive Additive Manufacturing/BAC introduces higher-performance, lighter Mono R with 3D printed parts [new photos]
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BAC introduces higher-performance, lighter Mono R with 3D printed parts [new photos]
Both DSM's Novamid CF10 filament and clear durable resin XC 11122 materials were used
Briggs Automotive Company (BAC) has officially launched the all-new Mono R – a higher-performance, lighter and more advanced new generation of the iconic Mono. Mono R features parts 3D printed using DSM filaments and resins and offers world-beating performance on the road and track.
R is 35bhp more powerful and 25kg lighter than the standard Mono, at 340b hp and 555 kg – equating to a remarkable power-to-weight ratio of 612bhp-per-tonne. Mono R is one of the most exclusive supercars ever made, with a total of just 30 models being produced and sold to existing Mono customers around the globe. Ahead of its launch at the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2019, the full production run of Mono R has sold out worldwide.
“Today marks a monumental step in the history of Briggs Automotive Company,” Ian Briggs, Design Director at BAC, commented. “Not only have we become a multi-product brand for the first time, but we’ve done so with a truly remarkable feat of engineering, design and innovation in the Mono R. It’s the first time since we first laid plans for Mono a decade ago that we’ve designed something brand new – and that’s testament to the success of the business and Mono that we’ve reached this point. Mono R has been many, many years in the making, with thousands upon thousands of hours of research and work going into it – and we believe we’ve found the perfect formula for creating the most extreme Mono in the flesh and under the skin.”
Mono R Design
Although still undeniably Mono, the R sports a stunning new generation of the single-seaters design DNA. A brand new approach to body engineering has seen all surfaces designed from scratch and 44 bespoke carbon parts restyled to give the car a more aggressive, organic and futuristic stance.
The new look of Mono R is defined by the imposing shark nose front, which epitomizes true efficiency of form courtesy of a sleek and homogeneous redesign. The main beam LED headlights centrally mounted on the nose are a distinguishing feature that reduces the frontal area and contribute to a more minimalist appearance.
The BAC Mono R features new, 3D-printed air inlets that are lighter, more durable, and more cost-effective to produce than traditional inlets.
The new nose coupled with the Formula-inspired ram-air inlet system issue a hint at the R’s phenomenal performance potential, while the upper body design is more slender and organic to enhance aerodynamics. Lower down on the R, all technical surfaces are thinner and more blade-like to effectively sculpt and divert airflow.
Mono R’s sleeker and tighter appearance has been achieved by reductions in visible mass across the full body; plus there’s been a 20mm reduction in overall height and a 25mm increase in length over the standard Mono. The R has been the subject of numerous aerodynamic enhancements, with more efficient front arches and wider sidepods as well as a larger and more aerodynamically efficient rear spoiler extending over the rear arches.
New LED lights, twin-strut wing mirrors, rear crash box and a narrower tail incorporating new LED combination fog and reverse lights complete the exquisite look. Inside, the Mono R remains a perfect canvas for customer personalization, plus there’s a new-look, race-inspired, even lighter steering wheel and optional carbon interior side panels.
“Welcome to Mono R – The New Reference. This car is the ultimate benchmark-setter in terms of design, engineering and performance; that much is evident from the fact we sold out our full run of 30 models almost immediately to our very lucky current customers, who have a real treat in store when they get behind the wheel,” said Neill Briggs, BAC’s Director of Product Development. “It’s a result of exceptional teamwork by all of our employees, suppliers and partners and something for everyone associated with BAC to be extremely proud of. Mono R sets The New Reference as the pinnacle of what’s possible from a supercar, but also for what’s following from BAC in years to come – these are very exciting times indeed.”
Mono R Power
Having set The New Reference for design, BAC’s engineers have ensured Mono R breaks new ground with its engine, too. Co-developed with long-standing engine partner Mountune, the Mono’s 2.5-litre, the four-cylinder unit has increased in power by 35bhp to deliver an impressive 340bhp. BAC and Mountune left no stone unturned when it came to meeting power targets: increasing the cylinder bore size and reducing new billet crankshaft stroke to optimize power and torque delivery and increase rpm from 7,800rpm to 8,800rpm.
The BAC Mono R’s steering wheel features 3D-printed grips that are custom-made for the driver.
The new Formula-inspired ram-air inlet system provides pressurized air into an all-new throttle body and cylinder head system to further increase power, plus a higher-spec, drive-by-wire motor allows for quicker throttle response. As a result, the bespoke Mountune engine now offers 136bhp per litre – a new naturally aspirated global record for a road-legal model.
Mono R Innovation
Mono R is the first production car in the world fully incorporating the use of graphene-enhanced carbon fiber in every body panel. Using the revolutionary material enhances the structural properties of the fiber to make panels stronger and lighter with improved mechanical and thermal performance.
The brand’s latest world first comes as a result of a successful APC-funded Research & Development project into the production-readiness of graphene. Working alongside Haydale and Pentaxia through the Niche Vehicle Network (NVN), BAC is now launching the advantages into series production.
DSM and BAC are exploring the design and production of 3D printed parts incorporating new, organic shapes and hollow internal structures.
BAC has also teamed up with global science corporation DSM to use additive manufacturing for the first time on Mono R. By 3D printing parts using high-performance polymers (Novamid CF10 filament and clear durable resin XC 11122), BAC has been able to reduce the design-to-manufacture timeframes of complex geometrical components as well as save further weight.
Elsewhere, magnesium chassis and transmission components combine to reduce mass and improve weight distribution, while new carbon-ceramic brakes – which save 2.55kg of unsprung mass per corner – are fitted as standard. Add all of this to a new titanium exhaust system, lighter AP Racing brake calipers and an all-new carbon floor, and Mono R weighs in at a significant 25kg less than the standard Mono, at just 555kg.
Ultimate Driving Experience
Mono R achieves the ultimate driving experience not only with its remarkable power and innovation but also through various subtle vehicle dynamic enhancements. Suspension geometry has been optimized to reduce pitch under braking, with increased anti-dive at the front and anti-squat at the rear maximizing traction, while two-way adjustable dampers from renowned Swedish experts Öhlins feature for the first time.
The fuel tank has increased in volume and been lowered and the battery has been repositioned to the center of the car underneath the driver for optimum balance – thus lowering the center of gravity and improving weight distribution to near-perfect proportions.
The vehicle dynamic improvements combine to reduce braking distances and weight transfer, helping to deliver sharper turn-in, provide better rotation at the apex and better traction out of corners – aided by specially homologated Pirelli Trofeo R tires being fitted as standard on all Mono R models.
This together with lighter weight, more power and more efficient aerodynamics mean BAC has found the perfect recipe for ultimate success: faster lap times on the track and world-beating, head-turning driving experience on the road – The New Reference for what a driving machine can offer.
Power: 340bhp
Power-to-Weight ratio: 612bhp-per-tonne
Price: from £190,950
First deliveries: Q4 2019
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Speed the Plough joins Bar/None’s July 24 farewell to Maxwell’s
Speed the Plough at Maxwell’s on Oct. 20, 2012. (Photo © 2012, Steven P. Marsh)
STP is part of a promised ‘cavalcade of mystery stars’ joining Headliners Freedy Johnston and Band, James Mastro’s Health & Happiness Show and Chris Stamey with Anton Fier and Gene Holder
Myrna and the Hangar Boys (Human Switchboard’s Myrna Marcarian, Jared Michael Nickerson, Dave Schramm and Ron Metz) join lineup
WFMU to broadcast live from the lounge
Even before Maxwell’s closing was announced, Speed the Plough was gearing up get active again. The band, which can trace its lineage back to The Feelies through The Trypes, became active in 2009 after a long hiatus, but has been picking up steam lately in anticipation of a new album — a compilation of some of its long-out-of-print music from the early days plus six brand-new tracks.
But now they’re preparing to say goodbye to the venerated Hoboken club with one last gig there, on Thursday, July 24, as part of a Bar/None record label lineup.
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Weekend Caption Contest
Tim Tebow and His Mom to Appear in Pro-Life Super Bowl Ad
Kim Priestap January 26, 2010 Life Issues, Sports 22 Comments
Running a pro-life ad is controversial enough for the Super Bowl but that Tim and his mom have teamed with Focus on the Family has made it virtually impossible for pro-abortion groups to keep their mouths shut. But these groups aren’t stopping at just criticism. Even though no one has seen the ad and no one will until it airs live on February 7th, pro-abortion groups are pressuring CBS to reject the it anyway. And liberals claim to be the open minded ones:
The New York-based Women’s Media Center is coordinating the attack on the ad along with the pro-abortion National Organization for Women, the Feminist Majority and other groups
“An ad that uses sports to divide rather than to unite has no place in the biggest national sports event of the year — an event designed to bring Americans together,” Jehmu Greene, president of the Women’s Media Center, told AP.
CBS officials told AP they have approved the ad for airing and that they would block and issue-oriented ad not “appropriate for air.”
In an interview with reporters on Sunday, Tebow defended the ad.
“I know some people won’t agree with it, but I think they can at least respect that I stand up for what I believe,” Tebow said. “I’ve always been very convicted of it (his views on abortion) because that’s the reason I’m here, because my mom was a very courageous woman. So any way that I could help, I would do it.”
Gary Schneeberger, a spokesman for Focus on the Family, told AP that officials with the pro-life group “were a little surprised” by the opposition to the life-affirming ad.
“There’s nothing political and controversial about it,” he said. “When the day arrives, and you sit down to watch the game on TV, those who oppose it will be quite surprised at what the ad is all about.”
It seems the ad will be more along the lines of a testimonial about how Tim’s mom was encouraged to end her pregnancy with Tim when she contracted a dangerous infection:
Pam Tebow and her husband were Christian missionaries in the Philippines in 1985 and they prayed for “Timmy” before she became pregnant.
Unfortunately, as the Gainesville Sun reports, Pam entered into a coma after she contracted amoebic dysentery, an infection of the intestine caused by a parasite found in a contaminated food or drink.
The treatment for the medical condition would require strong medications that doctors told Pam had caused irreversible damage to Tim — so they advised her to have an abortion.
As the Sun reported, Pam Tebow refused the abortion and cited her Christian faith as the reason for her hope that her son would be born without the devastating disabilities physicians predicted.
Pam ultimately spent the last two months of her pregnancy in bed and, eventually, gave birth to a health baby boy in August 1987.
Good for Tim and his mom for standing by their convictions, especially when it will result in Tim becoming a target of pro-abortion groups. Many athletes go out of their way to avoid controversies for the purpose of protecting their images. That Tim is willingly discussing his pro-life principles in the largest public forum on the planet is truly refreshing.
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We Free Kings
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We Free Kings, Roland Kirk's third long-player, is among the most consistent of his early efforts. The assembled quartet provides an ample balance of bop and soul compliments to Kirk's decidedly individual polyphonic performance style. His inimitable writing and arranging techniques develop into some great originals, as well as personalize the chosen cover tunes. With a nod to the contemporary performance style of John Coltrane, as well as a measure of his influences -- most notably Clifford Brown and Sidney Bechet -- Kirk maneuvers into and out of some inspiring situations. His decidedly 'Trane-esque solos on "My Delight" are supported with a high degree of flexibility by one-time Charles Mingus' pianist Richard Wyands and Dizzy Gillespie percussionist Charlie Persip. The album's title track is a Kirk original, based on the melody of the Christmas hymn "We Three Kings." Incorporating recognizable melodies into Kirk's oft times unorthodox musical settings would prove to be a motif throughout his career. An example is the highly touted cover of Charlie Parker's "Blues for Alice." This is an ideal avenue for the quartet to explore one of Kirk's specialties -- the blues. The almost irreverent manner in which he fuses blues and soul music into the otherwise bop-driven arrangements is striking. "A Sack Full of Soul" is a funky number with a walking-blues backbeat that perfectly supports Kirk's swinging solos. The stop time syncopation is reminiscent of Ray Charles' "What'd I Say." The 1987 CD version also includes an alternate take of "Blues for Alice." One additional track -- a cover of the Frank Loesser standard "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year" -- was also recorded at these sessions and remained unissued until its inclusion on the ten-disc Rahsaan: The Complete Mercury Recordings of Roland Kirk box set.
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Pop-u-lar
A video of Kristin Chenoweth and the formerly unknown Sarah Horn went viral today. And as a publicist, I feel compelled to point out some lessons to be learned from these two ladies. First, all you aspiring singers and voice coaches and worship leaders and closet vocal powerhouses-- take special note of Sarah. As she tells the story, she ASKED for the opportunity to get on that stage with Kristin. She didn't wait on someone to call on her. She raised her hand and said, "PICK ME!" Second, she was prepared. She knew the song Kristin wanted to sing backwards and forwards. She had probably sung it to death in the shower. She was ready for the moment. Third, in spite of the probability of nerves, you can't really see them from Sarah. Why? Because she did what she had trained to do all her life -- she sang. She sang big and loud. She didn't need to be nervous. It was such a part of her life that it was second nature. And she nailed it. Aspiring singers waiting for their moment to shine can learn a lot from Sarah.
Likewise, seasoned performers and award-winning vocalists can learn some lessons from Kristin. Watch her engage Sarah when she starts singing. Kristin looks like a proud mom who just saw her kid sing for the school play. You can see in her body language how she is egging on Sarah to go for it, encouraging her all the way. And watch them especially on that last note. Kristin grabs Sarah and pulls her into her arms like she's her long-lost sister. I don't know what she whispered in her ear, but Sarah will probably remember it the rest of her life. Kristin showed grace, poise and gave space on stage for a nobody voice teacher. Kristin is a big star, you know. But she was humble enough to let Sarah have the spotlight. Another great lesson for all the other Big Stars who seek to keep their audience's adoration. I suspect Kristin even made a few new fans today as well.
And that, ladies and gentleman, is how you become pop-u-lar.
Photos used under Creative Commons from Rob Hurson, Phillip Pessar
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CFA Institute and Abu Dhabi Global Market Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Mark Collaboration in the Middle East and North Africa
ADGM 28/11/2017
New CFA Institute office, serving Middle East and North Africa, to open in Abu Dhabi in first quarter of 2018
28 November 2017, Abu Dhabi, UAE: CFA Institute, the global association of investment management professionals, today confirmed its intent to open a CFA Institute office in the Middle East in 2018 at a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremony, in collaboration with Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM
CFA Institute will work in close partnership with ADGM, the International Financial Centre in Abu Dhabi, to establish its new presence to advance the CFA Institute mission to lead the investment profession by promoting the highest standards of ethics, education and professional excellence for the ultimate benefit of society.
Both organisations will work together to explore new initiatives which strengthen the capabilities, proficiency and experience of financial professionals across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), including but not limited to:
The development of educational initiatives around the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS) and the Asset Manager Code (AMC)
Contributing insights into relevant regulatory frameworks to strengthen the financial system
Exploring opportunities which could contribute to the ADGM Knowledge Hub Initiative
A data centre related to financial sector information and intelligence
The collaboration between CFA Institute and ADGM underscores the mutual commitment of both organisations to contribute to a growing international centre of excellence for knowledge in the Middle East and beyond. Upon opening, the new office will join London and Brussels as the third CFA Institute office serving Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is a key market for CFA Institute, with over 5200 members and charterholders and eight societies. A total of 5773 candidates registered for the June 2017 CFA® Programme exams across the MENA region, an increase of 8% over the prior year, with the greatest number of candidates in the United Arab Emirates (1909), Saudi Arabia (869) and Egypt (544).
The ADGM Knowledge Hub, established in May 2017, was created to meet the evolving educational requirements of the financial community in Abu Dhabi. It provides an open platform for ADGM to collaborate with its stakeholders and partners to attract and maintain a sustainable stream of talent which is vital to the long-term success of Abu Dhabi. As part of the Knowledge Hub, the ADGM Academy will provide a comprehensive curriculum of training and courses for the financial services industry.
Gary Baker, CFA, Managing Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, CFA Institute, commented:
"The signing of the MoU today brings us one step closer to opening our new MENA office in 2018. We have chosen Abu Dhabi as the centre from which we willwork across the MENA region because the initiatives and objectives we hope to meet, in the pursuit of educational excellence and professionalism in the regional investment management industry, are complemented by the work ADGM carries out through the Knowledge Hub."
Khalid Al Suwaidi, Chief Operating Officer, ADGM, and Board Member, ADGM Academy, said: "We are pleased to further our relationship with CFA Institute and welcome them to ADGM. The financial sector is an important enabler of economic growth, innovation and business opportunities for Abu Dhabi and the wider MENA region. We look forward to working closely with CFA Institute and key Abu Dhabi entities to provide a robust financial ecosystem and an environment which is conducive to nurturing and attracting more qualified professionals to meet the needs of the financial sector in the UAE. The collaboration with CFA Institute dovetails well with ADGM’s commitment to supporting Abu Dhabi’s plans in advancing an innovative and knowledge-based economy."
Mohamed Al Hajeri, Executive Director, Human Resources Department, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), said: "ADIA is proud of its long-standing relationship with CFA Institute, an organisation with which we share a strong interest in promoting the technical skills, ethical behaviour and professional standards of finance professionals. We are very pleased to welcome CFA Institute to Abu Dhabi, and look forward to our continued collaboration in the future."
Commenting on the establishment of the CFA Institute office in Abu Dhabi, Homaid Al Shimmari, Deputy Group CEO and Chief Human Capital and Corporate Officer, Mubadala Investment Company said: "At Mubadala, enrollment in the CFA Program has been an obligatory requirement for our analysts since 2006. More than 150 analysts have gone through the CFA Program at various levels, delivering a significant boost to our human capital at Mubadala. I am confident that the CFA Institute decision to choose ADGM as a location for its physical presence will encourage more candidates to register for the CFA Program, especially as young professionals recognise the value of obtaining the CFA designation in help them advance their careers. This, in turn, will further enhance the skills and expertise of investment management professionals in the UAE’s financial services sector."
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Cleanzo
Dr. Rockzo, the Rock n Roll Clown, gets help from Dethklok to overcome his cocaine addition and come c-c-c-clean!
EP 1 The Curse of Dethklok
After performing a coffee jingle in the farthest reaches of the Arctic Circle to a sold-out crowd, Dethklok witnesses their French chef being chopped to pieces by the blade of their helicopter restaurant. The bad news is that Dethklok is now faced with the daunting task of cooking dinner themselves.
EP 2 Dethwater
In an attempt to make their next album the most brutal ever, Dethklok commissions a Russian nuclear submarine to record deep in the Nordic waters. Underwater, the band copes with seasickness, whale and radar pings infecting their tracks, and loss of food and oxygen.
EP 3 Birthdayface
It's Murderface's birthday and the whole band realizes that he's the hardest guy in the world to shop for. Murderface throws himself a party, which he hates, until the rest of Dethklok surprises him with their gift.
EP 4 Dethtroll
The band plays a song that unintentionally wakes a deadly Nordic Forest Troll. Dethklok doesn't care until they learn that the Troll is knocking out all DSL lines, making their Internet really slow. Dethklok must write the world's first Death Metal Lullaby to put the demonic beast back to sleep.
EP 5 Murdering Outside The Box
Dethklok has an end of the quarter employee evaluation to find out who's been embezzling from the company. The patronizing evaluation heads off with a pep talk and a corporate video that will have audiences and Dethfans alike vying for a spot on the Dethklok payroll.
EP 6 Dethkomedy
In a legendary bad move, Dethklok decides to do standup comedy. Pickles remains traumatized by a heckler while the rest of Dethklok learns that comedy is all about embracing the hate. Dethklok finds that they are very much naturals at this. The physical comedy routine they work out really kills.
EP 7 Dethfam
Uncomfortable and embarrassed, Dethklok painfully endures while their parents are in town for a visit. The guys are at first pissed and doubtful when their parents announce the release of their "Parents of Dethklok" album, but are then impressed by the depth of their parents' anger.
EP 8 Performance Klok
Dethklok has a huge fight on stage, which prompts the record label to hire a performance coach to keep the band together. The band falls in love with therapy for all the wrong reasons.
EP 9 Snakes 'n' Barrels
Pickles reunites with his old hair band, "Snakes 'N' Barrels", which has the rest of Dethklok worried that their drummer may leave them. When the ten-years-sober "Snakes 'N' Barrels" are given experimental psychotropic drugs before their performance, the result is something beyond brutal.
EP 10 Mordland
Dethklok has opened up their home for their annual Dethfan Day. Dethklok continues with their "normal" everyday activities (like liver transplant surgery and scrubbing toilets) while fans are ushered around the house, guided by an animated skull and a maze of velvet rope. Dethklok finds themselves in a sticky situation when two Internet geeks threaten to bring down Dethklok with their advanced Photoshopping skills.
EP 11 FatKlok
In a last-ditch scramble for tax breaks, Dethklok agrees to host an event with the London Philharmonic, but only under one condition: Dethklok gets to produce their own kind of laser light show. They've also taken in a distempered fat kid they found, and must juggle the responsibilities of parenting while upholding their charitable agreement.
EP 12 Skwisklok
Skwisgaar is to host the Skwisgaar Skwigelf Advanced Hand Finger Wizard Master Class Pay Per View Event, to promote the sales of a new guitar line, which includes the Skwisarmyatar, and the Antfarmatar.
EP 13 Go Forth and Die
Plagued by his stupidity, Nathan Explosion embarks on the dicey journey of earning his GED.
EP 14 Bluesklok
Depressed, Dethklok is whisked away to the Mississippi Delta to "discover" the Blues.
EP 15 Dethkids
Toki tries to compensate for his adorable charm by over-brutalizing his intentions and actions.
EP 16 Religionklok
Murderface searches for a religion after a near-death experience leaves him longing for greater meaning. He samples everything from Christianity to Satanism before finding his true church.
EP 17 Dethclown
The Tribunal commissions Dr. Rockzo, The Rock N Roll Clown, to gather information on Dethklok. Dr. Rockzo and Toki's sudden friendship has the rest of Dethklok uneasy.
EP 18 Girlfriendklok
Dethklok is asked to host the American Pornography Awards, but Nathan's controlling girlfriend puts a damper on the situation for the whole band.
EP 19 Dethstars
When Dethklok is given a Carte Blanche development deal, the future of silver screen entertainment rests in their hands.
EP 20 The Metalocalypse Has Begun
In this first season finale, the Metalocalypse creeps closer to fulfillment when Dethklok executes their most brutal performance to date, and the Tribunal finally makes their move.
EP 1 Dethecution
Since Dethklok's withdrawal from the public following the purported Dethwater Live "fan attack", the world economy teeters on the brink of disaster. Dethklok is finally lured back into the outside world with their protective "pelvic-thrust mace belts" to be a part of the world's largest public execution of criminals in recorded history.
EP 2 Dethlessons
Toki Wartooth is fed up playing in the shadow of Skwisgaar's lead guitar. Under the tutelage of a crusty old guitar master, Toki learns that the heart, too, has strings.
EP 3 Dethvengeance
The wounded, the scared, and the disfigured unite. Meanwhile, an oblivious Dethklok spends their studio time recording onto the purest of all analog formats: water.
EP 4 Dethdoubles
Fearing for their safety after a public gun mishap/bloodbath, the CFO hires look-a-likes of Dethklok to make public appearances while the band prepares for a Duncan Hills Coffee promotional event.
EP 5 Dethfashion
When promoting a new clothing line, Dethklok experiences the brutality of negative body image, dieting, and bulimia.
EP 6 Cleanzo
EP 7 Dethwedding
Metal meets mid-west etiquette when Pickles' brother, Seth, invites Dethklok to his Wisconsin wedding.
EP 8 P.R. Klok
Pickles' popularity soars when he gets a personal P.R. agent, prompting the rest of Dethklok to form a rival P.R. firm. Meanwhile, Pickles' P.R. woman has dark, otherworldy, and religious motives behind her Evil Press Releases.
EP 9 Dethcarraldo
Dethklok travels to the Amazon where they learn about native brutality from the Yannemango Indians.
EP 10 Dethgov
Nathan Explosion serves an emergency term as temporary governor for the state of Florida, sending Florida into a state of further emergency.
EP 11 Dethrace
William Murderface creates the "Nascar-type Theatrical Hybrid Event" and takes all creative and logistical control upon himself. Nathan and Pickles try to be supportive of their overwhelmed pal, while Skwisgaar and Toki attempt to get their driver licenses.
EP 12 The Revengencers
Dethklok visits the scarred and disfigured victims of recent bomb attacks in the hospital, completely unaware that Dethklok themselves are the target of the anti-Dethklok terrorist organization "The Revengencers".
EP 13 Klokblocked
When Nathan learns that his ex-girlfriend, Rebecca Nightrod, has already found new love while still in a coma, he decides to return to the dating scene. Unfortunately, the rest of the band makes it difficult for Nathan to make a true love connection.
EP 14 Dethsources
The band is fed up with Offdenson knowing more than they do. They want their fifth of everything and decide to hire an efficiency expert to tighten up matters at Mordhaus and maximize their weekly allowance.
EP 15 Snakes N Barrels II
When Pickles discovers through an episode of "Where are They Now Now?" that Snakes N Barrels has reunited without him for the "SOBERTOWN USA No Drugs Allowed Sober Rock and Roll Show" he and the rest of Dethklok travel to Los Angeles to put an end to this atrocity.
EP 16 Dethdad
When Toki gets news that his dad is dying, he's forced to travel back to his home town in Norway. The rest of the band decides to make a vacation out of it, citing "album inspiration" as their excuse to further put off working on their delayed album.
EP 17 Dethrecord
The world economy is crumbling and waiting for the next Dethklok album to stimulate it back into order. It's up to Dethklok to get the album just right and finished on time.
EP 18 Black Fire Upon Us
Dethklok's new album is released to the world. The Revengencers make their next move.
EP 1 Renovationklok
After the attack on Mordhaus, Dethklok is left without a manager and plagued by greedy record execs and forced to face the brutality of the slumping economy while dabbling in interior design. Will they spend everything and sign a deal that will render them powerless? Or worse, will they allow Murderface to turn the living room into an Arizona-styled sandscape?
EP 2 Tributeklok
Dethklok joins their own Dethklok tribute band as a last ditch effort to connect with their rock and roll roots.
EP 3 Dethhealth
After a near-death experience, Dethklok realizes they would rather be sick and not know then face the brutality of going to a doctor. After home remedies including drinking bleach, Dethklok learns that their ultimate fear will be realized, one of them has a terminal illness. Meanwhile Nathan tries to brave the brutality of going to the dentist and Murderface faces the possibility of being gay after accidentally ejaculating on a doctors face. Part of Season 3.
EP 4 Dethmas
Dethklok must experience the ultimate brutality of the Holiday season; spending time with their MOTHERS. Meanwhile Murderface ringleads the ultimate Christmas special that ends up being backed by the Christian church. And a particular ROCK AND ROLL clown makes a holiday appearance. Part of season 3.
EP 5 Fatherklok
After an onslaught of paternity suits, Skwisgaar realizes he will never change until he quits the band to find his father who abandoned him before birth.Meanwhile, Dethklok realizes they all have father abandonment issues and Murderface decides to repair the damages by appointing himself "Band Father."
EP 6 Fertilityklok
Toki falls head over heals for a girl he meets online. When things sour he tries to break it off and instead has to bear the brutality of being her date at her father's vegan funeral in 110 degree heat. Meanwhile Nathan experiences the brutality of dating a performance artist. And Murderface must attend a sexual harassment seminar after trying to match Skwisgaar's sexual prowess.
EP 7 Dethsiduals
Murderface wants the easy life but still wants all the rewards. After the band decides to kick him out for making their jobs more difficult, Murderface realizes the EASIEST way to make BIG money is to start his own label.
EP 8 Rehabklok
After Drunk driving HOVER DRUMS and causing billions in damage Pickles the drummer is thrown into rehab and his worst nightmares are realized when he is replaced- by a drum machine.
EP 9 Dethzazz
Toki tries to turn the life of his rock-and-roll clown friend, Dr. Rockzo, around by investing Dethklok's vacation fund. Everything goes smoothly until the media peers into Rockzo's past and discovers the clown's darkest secret.
EP 10 Doublebookedklok
While Dethklok's manager, Charles Offdensen, is absent cleaning up hundreds of problems caused by the band, Dethklok double books a gig--between Syria and Israel on the same day.
EP 1 Fanklok
Despite his bandmates' warnings, Nathan begins seriously dating one of his fans. But as the evidence of her past piles up, to prove her innocence, he follows her to the most brutal place on earth: Klokikon - the annual Dethklok fan convention filled with cosplay geeks and homosexual fan art. Meanwhile, the rest of the band starts smoking after Murderface lands the cover of Smokaroonie Aficionado.
EP 2 Diversityklok
After Dethklok is accused of being racist at a huge press conference, they combat the charges by opening an Urban Youth Dethcenter. Meanwhile, Toki, after being left behind, starts a special club that promotes equality and love but excludes Murderface because he doesn't have the right look.
EP 3 Prankklok
With their new album finally shipping, Dethklok plans their post-release traditions of vacationing, goofing off, palling around, and prank calls. Nathan, however, can't shake the feeling that something is wrong with the record... After being humiliated by Murderface's prank calls, Skwisgaar and Toki swear revenge.
EP 4 Motherklok
Dethklok heads to Tomahawk, Wisconsin to open a Dethfair in hopes that it will stimulate the economy they destroyed. Pickles uses this time at home to reconnect with his disapproving mother who tells him that she won't respect him until he gets a real job. Pickles decides to hang up his drumsticks and goes into an even more brutal profession: he becomes a realtor.
EP 5 Bookklok
Tired of taking verbal abuse from his bandmate, Toki writes a tell-all book called Skwisgaar Is Ams Dick and takes over as Dethklok's lead guitarist. But can Toki handle the spotlight? Meanwhile, Nathan buys a new favorite toy for the band: a defibrillator.
EP 6 Writersklok
After spending all their time with sluts and squandering the budget on their new record, Dethklok is shocked to find they've been assigned a new producer: A WOMAN. She sends them on a pre-writing vacation that turns out to be a brutal trip to a third world country where they're mistaken as women and captured as sex slaves.
EP 7 Dethcamp
In an effort to make friends, Toki goes to Rockaroonie Fantasy Camp - a weekend getaway to rub elbows with rock and roll royalty (but he attends as a camper.) Instead of meeting friends, he is bullied by other campers and has no one to turn to but celebrity counselor, Magnus Hammersmith; ex-Dethklok guitarist with a troubled past. With Toki - the diabetic scaredy cat - out of Mordhaus, Skwisgaar and Murderface act out and over do it with candy and scary movies.
EP 8 DethVanity
After Murderface is announced as the recipient of this year's Most Brutal Looking Musician Award, he travels to Mexico to get the best and cheapest plastic surgery possible. Meanwhile, the rest of Dethklok deal with the brutality of aging and letting themselves go.
EP 9 Going DownKlok
Dethklok returns to the water to record in their new Dethsub but, plagued with the lack of women, carpel tunnel sets in from excessive masturbation. The band regresses to an animal mindset. Pickles and Nathan spend their energy crossing the workplace relationship line and competing for the only woman on the sub: their producer.
EP 10 DethDinner
As Dethklok hosts the most important dinner of their career, the divvying of album credits, over tagging on social networking sites, and fights over a girl come to head. Can CFO keep their issues in check? Will the record executives forgive them for the past year of mistakes? Or will it be a total, brutal disaster?
EP 11 Breakup Klok
While the world awaits the final Dethklok performance, members of the band prepare for their post-Dethklok careers. Pickles starts a winery for the most alcoholic wine ever, Nathan and Swkisgaar look for a brand new sound that doesn't suck, and Toki works with Murderface on his campaign for congressman. Meanwhile, Salacia takes Dethklok's weakness as the opportune time to strike!
EP 12 Church of the Black Klok
Dethklok is notified of a looming secret that's been around for hundreds of years: the secret of the Metalocalypse. Before they can contemplate what this means, however, Nathan must give a eulogy and do the most brutal thing he has ever done: get in touch with his emotions.
Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem - A Klok Opera
Will Dethklok find their lost bandmate Toki Wartooth? Find out in this hour long Rock Opera special featuring a 50 piece orchestra and special guests Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, and Cannibal Corpse's George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher.
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SEC to Focus on Individual FAs Next Year
November 24, 2017 / Mark Brown
The latest enforcement actions report from the SEC suggests the regulator will likely go after advisors more often than firms, legal experts tell InvestmentNews.
The SEC brought 82 standalone cases in fiscal year 2017 compared to 98 the year prior, but advisors shouldn’t get too comfy, according to the publication. Eighty percent of the actions were against individuals, Todd Cipperman, a managing principal at Cipperman Compliance Services, tells InvestmentNews.
“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you,” Cipperman tells the publication.
The SEC is likely to continue prioritizing individual advisors over firms even though it’s more expensive “because of the fear and the deterrent effect,” he says, according to InvestmentNews.
In January, SEC chair Jay Clayton said much the same, according to the publication. Going after individuals and naming names also produces “more of a reputational effect,” Amy Lynch, founder and president of FrontLine Compliance, tells InvestmentNews.
The SEC is shifting staff to its new cybersecurity unit and its new Retail Strategy Task Force, launched in September, but it is also reducing the number of lawyers in its enforcement division by 100 through attrition, Deborah Meshulam, a partner at the litigation firm DLA Piper and a former assistant chief litigation counsel of the division, tells the publication. The cut isn’t likely to affect its enforcement brawn, however, according to Meshulam: the SEC will likely simply go after bigger fish, she tells InvestmentNews. MORE
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Oil Refining In Canada Makes Sense
Third-party economist’s report shows value-added enterprises
would be highly profitable in Alberta
Edmonton — A new, comprehensive report on the economics of upgrading and refining in Western Canada shows that an integrated upgrader-and-refinery plant would be highly profitable if it were built in Alberta today.
The report, entitled “Upgrading Our Future: The Economics of In-Province Upgrading,” was released on Monday, Oct. 6, at an event featuring Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan; representatives of two separate companies with proposals to build refineries in Ontario and BC; Ed Osterwald, an internationally recognized energy expert and senior partner with UK-based Competition Economists Group (CEG).
“Today, we’ve proven to Albertans that it makes economic sense to think like owners of the oil sands, and keep good jobs here,” McGowan said. ”Albertans should get the maximum value out of the resources they own. Doing so creates more jobs and wealth. It just makes sense for us as a province, and for us as a country.”
The report updates a 2006 study commissioned for the Government of Alberta’s Hydrocarbon Upgrading Task Force. [2006 HUTF study by David Netzer] By applying today’s costs and prices to the 2006 study, Ed Osterwald, an internationally recognized energy expert and senior partner with UK-based Competition Economists Group (CEG), who wrote the report jointly with fellow CEG partner Salman Nissan.
“There is an emerging consensus on the need to add value to our natural resources before they get shipped overseas,” McGowan said.
Among the participants in the release of the report was former federal international trade minister and former Alberta treasurer Stockwell Day, who has recently joined the advisory board of Pacific Future Energy, a BC-based company proposing a $10 billion oil sands refinery in northern British Columbia. Day will join the proceedings via teleconference.
“We support efforts like Pacific Future Energy, who are clearly looking to expand Canadian manufacturing and the good jobs that go with it,” McGowan said. ”Some might call it strange bedfellows, we call it a coalition of common sense. We’re delighted that there are leaders in the private sector committed to keeping good, long-term, middle-class, family-sustaining jobs in Canada.”
Olav Rokne, Communications Director, Alberta Federation of Labour at 780.218.4351 (cell)
or via e-mail orokne@afl.org
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Upgrading Our Future: The Economics of In-Province Upgrading
The report, entitled “Upgrading Our Future: The Economics of In-Province Upgrading,” was released on Monday, Oct. 6, at an event featuring Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan; representatives of two separate companies with proposals to build refineries in Ontario and BC; and the report’s author, Ed Osterwald, an internationally recognized energy expert and senior partner with UK-based Competition Economists Group (CEG).
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Jet School Bus: You’ll Never Be Late Again!
by S. Farrukh · December 2, 2014
Now you won’t have an excuse for being late to school. Paul Stender from Indiana has invented a jet powered school bus that reaches speeds as fast as 367 mph.
The bus is named “School Time” and is the brainchild of Paul Stender and his team at Indy Boys. The bus was fitted with a 42,000 HP GE J-79 jet engine that was taken from McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom fighter jet. The bus also lets out 80 foot flames, sending huge clouds into the air. The entire vehicle was custom built because the original bus would not have been able to withstand the speeds that it’s driven at. The tank can hold 150 gallons of fuel and none is left after a single quarter mile run. “A lot of it is handcrafted and the types of metals used would be more at home on an aircraft.” Explains Stender.
Despite its engine size, the school bus only seats three passengers. People from all walks of life get in line for a fast trip down the runway. This car was built for two reasons; one, to entertain people and two; to inspire kids to keep away from drugs. “We do a lot of displays at schools and we are trying to show kids there’s more to life than sitting in front of computers.
It’s important for them to have active hobbies and creative interests to keep busy and keep away from bad influences and drugs. That’s why we wrote our motto on the side of the bus, ‘Jet’s are hot, drugs are not’.” Said Paul Stender. School Time is presently on tour, exciting motor fans at shows all over America.
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Shanghai: the little towpath that turned into a forest of skyscrapers
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With five thousand years of prestigious civilisation behind it, the city has gone from rice fields to skyscrapers in three decades, without losing its identity, its dumplings, its magnolias or its jasmine.
Discover Shanghai and its river, the Huangpu. In a little over a century, the small towpaths along it have made way for what is now a huge megalopolis of 24 million inhabitants. On its left bank is the Bund. At the turn of the 20th century, foreign powers that had obtained concessions to trade in the city—mainly the United States, Britain, and France—had turned the Bund quay into China's Wall Street with big and beautiful Art Deco buildings. On the right bank is the Pudong neighbourhood, where in the space of 30 years, rice fields have been replaced by the world's largest concentration of skyscrapers.
What happened to the Shanghainese in the midst of all these changes? Their good mood remains unaltered and the energy they transmit to their city is felt everywhere here. Enjoy mandarin fish on one of the many sky terraces with breath-taking views of the city. Come enjoy steamed dumplings and grilled noodles on the streets of the old town or, even better, in neighbourhoods ignored by tourist guides. Be enchanted by the scents of jasmine, magnolia, and spices. Stroll through the former French concession. Even if people have been able to showcase its squares lined with plane trees, inherited from settlers, there are still alleyways little known to foreigners, where working-class Shanghainese neighbours meet at various times of day in their small courtyards. Be enchanted by the poetry of the Chinese language. Visit the ‘Living Room of Tenderness' or the ‘Silent Pavilion of Regard' and be carried off into the sweetest of dreams. Go to Jing'an to pray to the Buddha, amid a crowd of bankers. And stay in hotels whose architectural folly has no rival in the West. Shanghai awaits you...
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One Proud Jewish Soldier
Apr 17, 2004 | by Aish.com Staff
An ambush in Iraq leaves his leg shattered. What he learned about God, life and the army.
Joe Kashnow, age 25, was a cavalry scout with the United States Army on an escort mission in Iraq. He was driving in the left lane of a highway on the road to Baghdad, where buried in the median was an artillery shell controlled by remote detonator. As Joe's humvee drove by, an explosion sent shrapnel through the floor of the vehicle, shattering Joe's leg.
Altogether it will take 10 reconstructive surgeries on Joe's right tibia bone -- including multiple metal spikes and bone grafts -- and ongoing rehab to save his leg and get him walking again.
While recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Joe shared his story with Aish.com.
We don't hear much about Jewish soldiers. What led you to join the army?
It's been my dream ever since I was five years old! G.I. Joes were always my favorite toy. I loved playing out cataclysmic battles between good and evil, always confident in the winning power of good. To serve in the Army was, to my young eyes, the greatest thing someone could do.
Although I wasn't conscious of it at the time, I'm sure I got some of my sense of honor and duty from my grandfather who served as a tanker in World War II. In fact my grandfather was also saved by an act of Divine providence. He was due to ship out with his platoon, but because of some problem with his teeth the Army held him back. He was disappointed, but in the end that whole platoon was killed, and my grandfather's teeth saved his life.
What was your Jewish upbringing?
My father remarried an Orthodox woman, while my mother intermarried.
I grew up in Baltimore, the youngest of three boys. My parents divorced, and my father remarried an Orthodox woman, while my mother intermarried. One side of the family became religious and the other completely secular. I lived with my father in their new, observant family, and maintained an uneasy relationship with my mother. It was tough forging my religious identity, and it took a long time, perhaps even this Iraqi ambush, to solidify where I fit in.
How did army life help you find yourself?
Well for starters, basic training is all about discipline. Wake-up was at 5 a.m. and lights could not be turned on until then. But we only had until 5:10 to be shaved, dressed with neatly-pressed uniform and shiny boots, and bunks properly made. So really we had to get up much earlier -- especially if I wanted time to daven!
Even before breakfast we'd have about an hour of either strength or aerobic exercise, followed by a 5-mile run or a 10-mile "stroll" with full gear. Some people would find that miserable, but I loved it. I loved being in shape (I was getting paid to work out!), I loved the camaraderie, and I loved the feeling that I was doing something worthwhile.
Fast-forward to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Describe your experience and the ambush.
I was with the 4th Infantry division, the second wave of troops, which captured the northern parts of Baghdad and a few airfields north of the city. Iraq was hot -- and sandy -- and we got shot at a lot. We were a floating brigade and we had assignments all over the country.
We were on a routine mission. Some soldiers were sent to pick up supplies, and I was driving the gun truck at the tail end of the convoy. Just as my vehicle crossed an aqueduct, they detonated a homemade bomb by remote control and it tore through the floor of my humvee.
It was a miracle that no one else was hurt. The gunner was at the same level as the roof and he was fine. The windshield was peppered with shrapnel but nothing came through.
These kinds of things happen to the guy in the news, but you don't think it happens to you. After waiting 40 long minutes, I was airlifted to a hospital in the big tent city set up in Vilaad. When my condition stabilized, I was flown to Germany for two surgeries. Then I returned to the States for more surgeries and rehabilitation. It has been a long, arduous ordeal.
What an awful way to end your military career.
For some reason, it wasn't my time to die.
Actually, I don't have anything to complain about. There's a lot of guys who didn't come home at all. The timing of the blast was miraculous. Had it happened seconds sooner, the shrapnel would have come through the windshield. And had it happened seconds later, shrapnel would have come through the side door and cut me in half even with the bulletproof vest. It is impossible that I would have lived through either. For some reason, it wasn't my time to die. I think it was direct Divine intervention.
And the good news is that I'm now walking with a cane, albeit only short distances. The long-term prognosis is that I'm expected to be able to walk on my own (not run), and with a limp. That's great news as far as I'm concerned. I get to keep my leg. What could be better?
So much has been said about whether or not America did the right thing by liberating Iraq.
I believe strongly in what we're doing and I'm proud of my efforts. We made a significant contribution to combating terror. My commander was a man with a high price on his head, an ironic way of determining importance in the military. I was part of something greater than myself. And I don't believe there were any practical alternatives to war. Economic sanctions were just hurting average civilians. Whatever complaints there are now, the lives of the average Iraqi were much worse under Saddam. He was living in palaces and they were stuck in mud huts.
And as a Jew, I believe we helped Israel, since Saddam was paying off the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.
I should also mention that President Bush came by to see me in the hospital. Meeting him, whether you've voted for him or not, whether you like him or not, was an incredible experience. I felt his sense of responsibility and he seems to be very caring and interested in the soldiers' lives.
What kinds of Jewish things did you do in Iraq?
In Tikrit, I davened with tallis and tefillin in one of Saddam's palaces.
I was keeping the mitzvot as best I could. But it wasn't easy. Initially I was afraid that just wearing a yarmulke in Iraq might cost my life. That didn't happen, and I was even able to keep Shabbat unless we were on a mission. I grew a lot and had to be creative. I learned how to make grape juice from raisins for kiddush. And while other soldiers were playing Gameboy or watching TV, I used the time to study Torah. As I mentioned, I had to get up very early to daven properly. While stationed in Tikrit, I actually davened with tallis and tefillin in one of Saddam's palaces!
Were your superior officers supportive of your Jewish observance?
Not all of them, and that was probably the most difficult part. I had a superior who had no respect for religion and would go out of his way to be provocative and make observance difficult for me. For instance, he would intentionally schedule my dentist appointment on Friday night. And he would tell me it was my military duty to come lift weights with him on Shabbos. He threatened to have me "written up" for disobedience. He was completely out of line but I felt somewhat powerless.
But I don't want to give the wrong impression of the Army. In general people were tolerant and supportive. And on those occasions when someone crossed the line from good-natured teasing to outright anti-Semitism, my colleagues stepped in to defend me.
Yet it still sounds like you could have benefited from some outside protection.
Exactly. And now that I've been removed from active duty I've made it my mission to ensure that no Jew should have to endure what I did -- due to ignorance, bureaucracy, or both. Trying to be observant in the Army, I experienced a lot of hassles that should never have occurred. The Army lost all the kosher food I'd brought with me, and my wife had to work hard back in the States just to make sure I was fed. The United States Army needs to be more welcoming and supportive of religious Jews, and I want to make the road easier for others.
So my wife and I have started the Jewish Soldier Foundation (www.jewishsoldier.org). Our goal is to ensure that Jewish soldiers -- observant or not -- have whatever they need: kosher food, holiday packages, educational resources, and the full spectrum of ritual services.
What does your wife say about all this?
She is truly amazing the way she is handling this so well. We had been married just a few weeks when one evening a phone call came during dinner with orders to ship out to Iraq. So Sarai has spent most of our married life either apart from me or by my hospital bed in Washington DC. We understand the difficulties involved and that's why, as part of the Jewish Soldier Foundation, we are creating a support network for soldiers' wives and children who remain back home.
Would you like to see your own child one day grow up to serve in the Army?
I want the military to be seen a viable alternative to "my son, the doctor."
I don't agree with the stereotype that the Army is not a place for good Jewish boys. I want the military to be seen as job worth doing, a viable alternative to "my son, the doctor."
I'm proud of my service in Iraq. I've emerged with a greater commitment to Torah, and to helping other Jews. I love the United States Army and I just want to make it the best place it can be. That's why I'm so excited about the Jewish Soldier Foundation -- it's the perfect way to combine both my passions. And it's a way of showing gratitude to the Almighty for His protection.
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(29) Anonymous, December 30, 2011 10:06 PM
Discrimination against Jews in the Army
I am so upset to read this and see the comments posted. My husband will be stationed in Germany and I will be joining him. I was very tentative as a Jewish woman, but he reassured me that it will be OK as most of my interactions will be with other Americans / their spouses & families stationed there as well. Only when we venture out, site-seeing, shopping will we interact with the locals. I was told that the Germans trying to come to terms with their role in the Holocaust are very amiable to the Americans stationed there. But now my concern is the Military anti-semitism towards my husband, children & myself. Will we feel ostracized? Will we be excluded from being involved / invited to join in social activities others are involved with. Will my children be bullied? Now I am VERY afraid. I am astonished by the rise in anti-semitism and the use of the internet to "Change History" and lie about Jews and their roles and I am afraid. Although nor religious, I am Jewish, and never needed to hide this facet. Do I need to do this now to live safely in Germany and deal with the military and it's administration? Please any input is appreciated as I cannot get a straight answer about tis subject posted on any military / military wives / or DoD Civilian family sites! Please PLEASE help! Thank you.
(28) Anonymous, October 4, 2008 12:25 AM
jewish solider
please find out more information on the young man whowas beaten at fort benning.we need to do something before the drill sgts and our army covers up what happened that day.
(27) Ira Kurtz, May 28, 2007 11:57 PM
A job well done
You are a brave soldier and a good Jew> I commend your religious observance in the United States military. I hope you have a good life of Torah Mitzvot and mishpahah.
(26) SPC. Daniel C. Livingstone, January 20, 2006 12:00 AM
What I have just read of this Soldier is amazing. It makes me proud to be both Jewish, and be serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Unfortunitly however, being a Jewish Soldier seems to have come with a large price. It is shocking that the amount of open antisemitic, demeaning, and atrocious things are openly said against Jews.
I am currently serving with the 4-23rd Infantry (172nd Stryker BDE.) In Mosul, Iraq. But since my days as a Yeshiva Bochur in Lakewood, I knew that Yidden would protect eachother.
So now I request for your help to put a stop to persecution of Jews Military wide. And to assisit me in my time of need,
Daniel C. Livingstone
(25) Anonymous, April 8, 2005 12:00 AM
What a country! American Jews owe a tremendous hakaros hatov to the USA. It wasn't that long ago that Jews were kidnapped, and pressed into military service for the purpose of forcing them to abandon Judaism, as happened with the cantonists. The Chofetz Chaim even wrote a book advising Jews drafted into the Russian army how to act. But now, the American army provides kosher food, time for Shabbos and Yom Tov, and even seforim (if memory serves correctly, the US army published a set of ShaS during WWII)! According to the testimony of Joe Kashnow and Ted David Bittle, there is still antisemitism in the army, but where is there not antisemitism? Still, I have not had the honor of serving in the US army, so if I misunderstand, please forgive me, but it sounds as if a Jew wants to serve in the American military, he should not be deterred because of antisemitism. I would certainly support my children 100% if any of them would want to the join the American military, but with apologies to Joe Kashnow, I would probably still prefer they choose a career in medicine!! But most importantly, r'fuah shleimah to Joe Kashnow and Ted David Bittle, b'soch sha'ar Cholei Yisroel.
(24) Ted David Bittle, January 7, 2005 12:00 AM
I too am a purple heart recipient from Iraq and Jewish
I was wounded in Baghdad by a suicide bomber and lost my right eye and have a brain injury among multi-orthopedic injuries. I attended shabbos with my russian jewish friend in my squad prior to our crossing over into Iraq. I was with the Marine Corps Infantry and a line corpsman. I have had no contact with a synagogue since my return to the USA in May 2003- I was in the Naval Hosptial at Bethesda and I spoke with the Rabbi on various occassions. I am a college graduate and entered back into the Military after watching the distruction of the World Trade Center from our home in Jersey City, NJ - My wife and I were some of the first people on the Jersey side to provide assistance on Ellis Island. My wife was also a United Airlines Flight attendant and broke down after learning of United's involvement. Our lives have never been the same since. We have a sone Ari - But we now live month to month scratcing together funds to pay our bills and put food on the table with the help of social services and the VA. I have struggled with my religion since often reaching out to talk to a Rabbi or make my way to a synagogue, yet I never feel well enough. During the war on befor i was very outspoke when I hear any talk of anti-semitsm which I did regularly from our first fire team leader. If he wasn't slamming the jews it was blacks, etc. They began to hate me, yet I didn't care as I knew it was right to make sure all in earshot heard my protest. Words of hatred come from ignorance - Judaism means to go and learn/educate yourself.
(23) Reba, August 22, 2004 12:00 AM
I was very moved reading this article, and very proud of this young man.
(22) Michael Casper, May 13, 2004 12:00 AM
It is worth it.
Good job!. Serving in the military was worth it. I saw both sides as an enlisted Marine and officer as well. The only antisemitism I experienced was in the officer corps. I had to change my dog tags before Desert Storm to read "No Preference." The only thing that mattered is that I was Jewish in my heart and spiritually. Jewish warriors are the greatest.
(21) hasadya wilanksy, May 7, 2004 12:00 AM
i am looking for names and info on soliders in the american army i actuly working for joe kashnow on his foundation i was hoping you could help wiht my resheach so far all online serch has come up dead ended im tryig to collect info for a mimorele of all jewsih solders killed in the amy
thank you so much for you time i hope to hear from you soon
(20) margaret, May 2, 2004 12:00 AM
Thanks and many blessings from God for serving.
Your commitment to serve our country and help liberate the people of Iraq is wonderful. Thank you very much for your part and sharing your story.
(19) ilana, April 24, 2004 12:00 AM
Hashem bless and strengthen you!
What you and your wife are doing is really admirable. Thank you.
(18) Tzvi, April 23, 2004 12:00 AM
May you have a Refuah Sheleymah B'Karov. THANK YOU FOR DEFENDING OUR FREEDOM.
(17) David M. Frost, April 23, 2004 12:00 AM
Kol tuv
This soldier reflects great honor on America, the Army and his fellow Jews. I agree with him-- it would be great if more religious Jews were in the military (and great if the military could facilitate that). Joe-- thanks for setting a great example.
(16) Amber, April 22, 2004 12:00 AM
i love the site!!!
(15) Zamira Rajchgod, April 21, 2004 12:00 AM
Very moving & informative
We have a 21 year old observant friend who was recently shipped out to Iraq. We worry about him, & pray for his safety. Thank you for all you did for us & for your country. May Hashem give you a complete recovery & success in all your endevours.
(14) sjhepner, April 21, 2004 12:00 AM
kol ha kavod...
we Jews surely fight to keep our identity in blood sweat and tears...I am very touched by your story, Joe... thank you...
(13) Ira Kurtz, April 21, 2004 12:00 AM
G_d bless you
G_d bless you and your family and all the brave American soldiers and their families.You have fought a reightious war to eliminate evil from the world. I wish your orginization all the success and hope you get support from the Army brass. Best Wishes for a refuah slemah. Ira Kurtz
(12) Anonymous, April 21, 2004 12:00 AM
My heart swells
Dear Joe,
I would like to claim that I am speaking for a small community of religious Jews that are supporting non-Jewish family members in Iraq, and there are a few of us,- but that would not be true. I'm only speaking for myself. When I started sending packages to Iraq from Israel I did experience, amoung all of my warm feelings and patriotic duty, a sense of davkaness. I was sending Israeli products into Achashveroushe's palace. My family member is in the 4th Infantry and was also stationed near Takrit. I tried to include many different things in case there were Jewish soldiers in need of a little Yiddishkite. I wonder if you encountered any. To say the least I am so proud of our soldiers in Iraq - and I am especially proud of a Jewish soldier who fights to keep his Judaism.
(11) No, April 20, 2004 12:00 AM
Inspiring! Moving!
Joe Kashnow, You make us all proud!! Joe, you changed my perspective on jews dramatically! Thank you Aish for publishing this amazing interview.
(10) Kevin, April 20, 2004 12:00 AM
Good Luck & Keep the Faith
As a U.S. Air Force member, Godspeed on your recovery and thank you for all your effort to "stamp out" terrorism so we may all live in a peacful world.
(9) Stephanie, April 20, 2004 12:00 AM
It was wonderful to find this article. I am a female currently serving in the USAF. I have met so few Jews in my time so far, none of which were near observant. It's good to see there are others out there who serve with the same pride and a love of yiddishkeit. Keep up the good work and encouragement. My heart is warmed.
(8) Valerie Shore, April 19, 2004 12:00 AM
You make all of us Jews proud
I loved reading your article. Kol Hakavod! The way you acted in the army is a true kiddush Hashem for all Jews. May you have a speedy and complete recovery and continue making all Jews and Americans proud!!
(7) Mikhail Ekshtut, April 19, 2004 12:00 AM
As another observant Jew who just returned from a tour in Iraq I am proud to hear of other observant Jews who are serving. I want to thank you for your service and for what you are doing for us fellow Jews in the U.S. Military. God's strength to you in your recovery and to your new organization.
Mikhail Ekshtut
TSgt USAFR,
(6) Lt Col Larry Krauser, April 19, 2004 12:00 AM
As a USAF and USAF Reserve officer for 26 years I concur with the joy and honor to serve this great country. You may also look into the Jewish War Veterans as another avenue to provide support to our troops both overseas and in CONUS.
(5) David Talbot, April 18, 2004 12:00 AM
Jews in the Army
Great interview with the wounded soldier. I was in Vietnam and also wounded in the leg. I never had a problem with antisemitism and actually was given time off, in vietnam, to attend high holidays. I agree with your soldier, the Army is a great place to grow up, to serve the community, and to find your calling. In my 6 years active and 5 years reserve, I have never seen anyone who did not benefit from military service. Anyone who is just leaving high school and has no direction in life, should consider the military as an option--I did and never regretted my service.
(4) Bonnie Hoffert, April 18, 2004 12:00 AM
As a Christian who was taught from early childhood to respect the Jews, I have appreciated them all of my long life. Been to Israel and was very moved by the Biblical places I visited, but to read your story today was also very special. May the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob richly bless and keep you and your family. Sincerely, Bonnie Hoffert
(3) Arel Mishory, April 18, 2004 12:00 AM
What an inspiring story! I hope this young couple has lots of success and future nachas from their family!
(2) William Vogt, April 18, 2004 12:00 AM
Military Duty
I can relate to the difficulties of keeping kosher while deployed with the military. I am in the Army Reserves and spent a few months in Afghanistan last year. Although I do not follow all of the kosher guidelines, I still found it very hard to maintain my level of observance. There were several times when my meal consisted of vegtables and fruit.
(1) Jennifer Rudner, April 18, 2004 12:00 AM
As a proud South African jewess, I am very proud of you and what you have stood for despite the odds you faced. May you and your wife be blessed with much that Hashem can give you. You can stand proud and stand you will!
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By Kelly Fedor • Court Reporter
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A woman who went on an axe rampage in an Enmore service station in Sydney’s inner west had allegedly fantasised about wanting to kill herself and others.
Evie Amati’s District Court trial was told the 26-year-old was out drinking with friends when they took a capsule each of what they thought was MDMA.
Crown Prosecutor Daniel McMahon said it actually contained MDA, which is also known as ecstasy.
Evie Amati, 26, had allegedly fantasised about wanting to kill herself and others in the lead up to the axe attack. Picture: Supplied (Supplied)
The 7-Eleven store in Enmore where the alleged attacks took place. Picture: 9NEWS (9NEWS)
He said she was having a heated conversation with one of her friends on Facebook messenger when she wrote “most people deserve to die, I hate people… one day I’m going to kill a lot of people”.
She then went back to her home where she updated her Facebook status to read: “humans are only able to destroy, to hate, so that is what I should do”.
Twenty minutes later, Amati arrived at the 7 Eleven about half a kilometre away, allegedly armed with an axe and a kitchen knife.
Mr McMahon said she was also using earphones to listen to the song Flatline which had “pretty dark themes”.
Ms Amati took ecstasy on the night of the alleged attack, the court today heard. Picture: Supplied (9NEWS)
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He told the jury she used both hands to swing the axe into the side of one man’s face and cut him right to the bone.
She then swung it into the back of the head of another female customer, fracturing her skull, and as she left she attempted to strike an innocent man on the street.
Some of the ordeal was captured on CCTV.
A number of the alleged victims were in court today for the trial. Picture: 9NEWS (9NEWS)
Mr McMahon also referenced another Facebook message weeks before the attack in which she said “OMG I just destroyed an old couch with a new axe, it was incredibly satisfying but gives me ideas. Haha.”
“The offences were simply the result of her disinhibition,” he argued.
But Amati’s barrister Charles Waterstreet said she was not guilty because she was mentally ill at the time, as she battled depression following a sex change operation.
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Amazon is continuing its effort to bring its online business into stores.
The department store on Wednesday announced Amazon "smart home spaces" are coming to 10 of its stores in the Los Angeles and Chicago areas, starting in October.
Shoppers will be able to buy Amazon gadgets -- like Kindles and Fire tablets -- accessories and smart home products, such as the Echo speaker at these locations. The dedicated spaces within Kohl's are 1,000-square feet and will be staffed by Amazon sales associates.
This is the latest move by Amazon to tout its branded devices inside traditional brick-and-mortar stores. The company's products are also available in its newly-opened Amazon bookstores and at some Whole Foods locations .
To help people set up Amazon smart devices at home -- and encourage them to buy more -- the tech giant previously announced its own version of Best Buy's popular Geek Squad service. The online service allows customers to get a free consultation or book appointments for installations of smart gadgets, including Amazon products.
At Kohl's locations, customers can also schedule an Amazon expert to come to their home and install these devices.
Amazon is working hard to move the smart home category forward. Last week, it announced a partnership with Microsoft that would allow their respective voice assistants to communicate with each other in third-party products. The effort could make consumers more likely to adopt smart home products if different voice assistant can work together.
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The ultimate Galaxy S3 tips and tricks guide
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Authored by: Kris Carlon Oct 21, 2015
The Samsung Galaxy S3: for many, the most well-rounded Samsung smartphone ever. Even years after its release, the S3 is still proudly assisting many Android fans' lives. Whether you're a life-long S3 lover or recent convert, we've pulled together the ultimate guide to Galaxy S3 tips and tricks, features, tweaks and hacks to help you get the most out of your phone and have a bit of fun with it, too.
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Record and save music from the FM tuner
Granted, listening to the radio isn’t so popular anymore considering you can stream music using Spotify or Google Play Music, among the many other services, but radio has less of a draining impact on your battery (not to mention the fact it doesn’t use your mobile data).
If you don’t have a ton of songs already saved on your microSD card, or you're looking to free up some space, radio is a good option. You can even record FM radio and store it on your internal memory!
You can record songs from the radio with your Galaxy S3 and save them on your computer. / © AndroidPIT
Blocking mode
The worst thing is getting notifications in the middle of the night when you are just trying to get a decent night’s sleep. The Galaxy S3 has a Blocking Mode that you can switch on or off in the settings of your phone under the Device subcategory.
By tapping on ‘Blocking mode’ you will be able to customize what you would like to block, whether it is incoming calls, notifications, alarms, timers or LED indicators, for all time or just a specific period. You can, however, ensure that emergency calls are able to get through to you at any point in time by specifying ‘allowed contacts’.
Blocking mode will ensure you get a good night's sleep. © AndroidPIT
Though this isn’t the most secure way to lock your smartphone, it is kinda cool. Under Settings, you will need to go into ‘Lock screen’ and choose ‘Screen lock’. Tapping on this will prompt you to confirm with your current screen lock choice and then give you a list of ways to unlock your phone, as well as indicating which ones are the safest.
By going through the steps as directed and holding the device at eye level to fit your head within the form on screen, you can set it up so that your Galaxy S3 will recognize you by your face. It might mistake a similar looking person for you, however, so if you are worried about your content, you might want to stick with another, more secure locking method.
Face Unlock isn't the most secure way of locking your phone but could be used together with voice recognition. © AndroidPIT
Easy Mode for your home screen
If you are buying a Samsung Galaxy S3 for the first time, and are a beginner user, it might be a good idea to switch the user interface for your home screen to easy mode. What this will do is give you bigger, blockier icons on your home screen in order to make your apps and the other functions more visible.
To get into ‘Easy mode’, go into the settings of your phone and under the subcategory ‘Device’, choose ‘Home Screen mode’ and choose which mode you would prefer, and finally, press 'apply'. Once you feel more comfortable, you can always switch it back with the same steps.
Beginner Android users could profit from easy mode for their home screen setup. © AndroidPIT
Edit videos in Video Player
If you’ve shot a video and want to trim it down a little bit, you can do this right from the video editor, without the use of an external app from the Google Play Store. When a video is playing, tap on the menu button and choose trim. You can then choose which parts to trim out and which to keep.
Using a third-party app is not necessary; you can trim your own videos right in Video Player. © AndroidPIT
Video overlay
Multi-tasking with the Galaxy S3 can be done in many different ways, like with Multi Window, for example. Another way is having a video from Video Player play in a small window over the top of your home screen, or while browsing the web, texting with friends and so on.
To do this, go into the video that you would like to view, then select the icon in the bottom right corner. This will launch the video on the home screen, where you can start doing something else simultaneously. Tapping on the video will bring up the ‘X’ to close it.
Samsung tried to incorporate many multitasking elements into the Galaxy S3, including video overlay. © AndroidPIT
Remote wipe your phone with remote control
The Galaxy S3 may be old, but it remains desirable. If someone pinches yours, you can locate the device and make sure that no one gets your private and personal information by performing a complete wipe of your phone’s data remotely. You need to have signed up for your Samsung account and set up a password, which you can do from your phone when you are initially setting it up.
If your phone gets stolen or misplaced, sign in to Samsung's Find My Mobile, which helps you locate your mobile phone, lock it, make it ring, forward messages or calls, see call logs, wipe your mobile as well as unlock your screen (the last one is handy if you have forgotten your own lock screen password). You can also find the current location of your lost device and track its movement over 15-minute intervals for 12 hours, though this could cost you.
Thanks to your Samsung account, you will be able to locate your lost or stolen device and erase its contents. © AndroidPIT
Get yourself a Muse
Want to go for a run or a drive while listening to music, but don’t want to have to drag your smartphone around with you? Instead of lugging around your Galaxy S3, grab yourself a Samsung Muse. Plug it into your phone and it does the rest, with the aid of a companion app available in the Google Play Store, transferring over music to the pebble shaped device without having to use WiFi or Bluetooth.
The entire device is also touch-sensitive and all commands are done with light taps. Long battery life and an affordable price makes this a must-have accessory for your Galaxy S3.
The Muse, a portable iPod shuffle like device for your Galaxy S3. / © Samsung
Control the LED
By grabbing the app Light Flow, you can take advantage of the Galaxy S3 and its multi-color front-facing LED. With this app, you can customize what kind of notification color gets attached the what kind of action.
Want it to light up blue when you get an e-mail? How about yellow for when you get a text message? Easy peasy. This is an awesome way to get noticeable notifications without having to rely on a sound or vibration. Light Flow is available for US$2.49 on the Google Play Store.
Control the color you want for each type of notification. / © Google Play
Turn it into a gaming device
You can get a ton of emulators for any Android device, but one of the drawbacks of this is the lack of physical buttons. Sure, I love being able to bust out old-school console games whenever I please, but I can’t ever get into the swing of a game when having to use a touchscreen as a controller.
However, if you grab an official OTG USB cable, you can connect a controller to your device. Voila. You’ve got yourself a portable nostalgia gaming powerhouse.
With a quick cable, you too can turn your device into a console and controller. © GameKlip
Automate it
This isn’t unique to the Samsung Galaxy S3, but it is still pretty useful. By using Tasker, you can automate all sorts of things on your Galaxy S3. While on the surface it doesn’t look like it can do much, under the hood it’s a completely different beast.
You can have Tasker perform some crazy functions, such as changing data and connections settings based on time of day or apps. So, if you want to turn off data or WiFi during the night, Tasker will do this automatically. Maybe you want to have GPS off unless you’ve opened up the Google Maps app? Tasker can do that too.
Customize automated tasks on your Galaxy S3. / © CNET
Treat yourself to a new case
Okay. This one really doesn’t have much to do with helping your S3 keep up with devices nowadays, but a case can give your phone a facelift. With the new materials that Motorola has been exploring with their Moto X, it seems that wood is the way to go.
Thankfully, there are a ton of merchants offering wooden-styled cases that you can choose from in a variety of colors and woods. Bring a little bit of class to your device.
Bring the Moto X look to your Galaxy S3. / © casesinthebox.com
How to improve battery life on the Galaxy S3
One of the best ways to look after your Galaxy S3 better is to make the most out of its battery. Check out our guide to improving Galaxy S3 battery life. You’ll find a list of some simple things you can tweak on your Galaxy S3 to significantly improve the battery.
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Use S Beam
S Beam is a Samsung-specific feature for sending files between its phones which uses NFC and Wi-Fi direct at the same time. This makes sending larger files a lot easier. Setting it up is also easy to do.You can find out how in our Galaxy S3 S Beam tutorial.
S Beam is an underated Samsung-only feature. © samsung.com
Safe Mode on the Galaxy S3
When starting your Android in Safe Mode, like on your Windows PC, this will create a safe environment where third-party apps are not loaded. Here you can uninstall apps that are causing your phone problems, among other things. Check out our simple guide to safe mode on the Galaxy S3 for more info.
Fix Wi-Fi dropping issues
Some users have reported that Wi-Fi will annoyingly drop out for no apparent reason. Here we cover some tips on how you can amend this pesky issue so you won't suffer from Wi-Fi dropping out on the Galaxy S3.
Put a news ticker on the lock screen
Did you know that you can put a news feed on your Galaxy S3 lock screen? In this tutorial, we'll show you how easily it can be done.
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Clear the Galaxy S3 system cache
Clearing the system cache on the Galaxy S3 can do a lot for your system’s performance, making things a lot snappier in general. We explain the steps in our tutorial.
Galaxy S3 secret service menu
Did you know that this even existed? It’s a pretty nifty hidden feature on your Galaxy S3, and pretty much all phones have their own, all accessed in different ways. This walkthrough shows you how to access the hidden service menu on the Galaxy S3.
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Take a screenshot
In our forum thread, we show you how can take a screenshot with both the hardware and software methods, along with some GIFs of the process, so you won’t miss out on how it’s done! A Galaxy S3 screenshot should be on every S3 owner's tips list!
One of the cool ways to take a screenshot is with palm swipe. © ANDROIDPIT
Galaxy S3 factory reset
Performing a factory reset on the Galaxy S3 is one of the ways that you can improve your phone’s general system performance. Just make sure that you have backed up absolutely all of your data, files, pictures, apps, etc, first so that you can restore them to your phone after the wipe.
Monitor your data consumption
Not everyone has an unlimited data plan. In fact, most companies in North America don’t even offer these type of plans anymore. One of the main concerns I have from month to month is having to worry about exceeding my limit and then having to fork over more money unknowingly.
Thankfully, you can take advantage of the Galaxy S3 and its ability to set data limits. If you head over to Settings > Data Usage and tick the 'Set Mobile Data Limit' box, you can enable this setting. Once done, you can set a warning level by dragging the orange line and also a hard-limit (that your device won’t surpass) by dragging the red line. You can also check back here later on to see how much data you have used and also which apps are using this data. Super helpful!
It may be gimmicky, but Smart Stay is really useful too. © Samsung
Don’t lock the screen
Have you ever been reading an article or an e-mail on your device when the screen locks itself due to inactivity or because you’ve started day dreaming? Well, another feature that the S3 has is Smart Stay, which allows the device to check whether you are watching the screen before it times out.
To enable this, head over to Settings > Display and tick the box that says 'Smart Stay'. You can also set how long it takes before you device timeouts and locks the screen when there is no activity.
Use your voice
If you’re a fan of a more hands-off approach when it comes to controlling your device, make sure to check out the S-Voice feature on the Galaxy S3. It is particularly handy if you’re in a situation where you can’t exactly pay attention to your device's screen, but want to issue a quick command.
By double tapping the Home button, the S3 will bring up S-Voice. If you ask it, “What can I say”, it’ll actually pull up an entire list of commands that are compatible with S-Voice. Some examples include checking the weather, dictating text messages and starting or stopping music. There is also a 'Wake Up' command that will activate S-Voice just through you speaking (ie withough needing the double tap of the Home button), but this puts considerable strain on the battery.
S-Voice can be really useful if you prefer voice-activated commands. © Samsung, AndroidPIT
Get a daily briefing
If you're a news junkie, maybe you wish you could know the day's top stories even before you make it out of bed. With the Daily Briefing, your phone will read to you the day's main headlines, the weather, and any appointments you may have lined up. Just go to 'Alarm types,' then change it to 'briefings'.
Lock your video
By now, you probably know about the Galaxy S3's Pop-Up Play feature, which allows you to drag the video your watching over any other app and multi-task like a fiend.
But you probably didn't know that the Galaxy S3 also has a video screen locking feature which allows you to lock a video so that it's impossible to stop if you accidentally touch the screen. You can lock the video simply by pressing the power button once it's begun.
Just lift your Galaxy S3 to your ear to answer a call. © AndroidPIT
Use your ears
If you've ever wished taking a call could be a bit simpler, you should check out this feature. Using Motion Control, you can place or answer a call simply by moving your phone to your head – the most natural movement ever. You can also reject calls by swiping your hand above the phone's screen.
Silence music with your palm
When you're listening to music, you can pause a track simply by covering the Galaxy S3 with the palm of your hand. This can be switched on or off in the Motion section of the Settings menu.
Control your camera with your voice
Taking a group photo is inherently frustrating: the camera's countdown clock is always too fast or too slow and you miss out on capturing the perfect moment. But with the Galaxy S3, all you have to do is shout "shoot" at your phone and it'll take the photo. Sure you'll look a bit unhinged, but it's better than taking a blurry, dull photo.
''Lights, camera, action!'' Take photos with your voice. © AndroidPIT
Set custom vibrations
Custom ringtones are great when you want to know who's calling, but what about when you need your phone to stay silent? Luckily, the Galaxy S3 allows you to set custom vibrations for different people, so that you can still tell who's calling even when your phone is in silent mode.
Save your screen
Lots of phones make it easy to take a screenshot but the Galaxy S3 is arguably the easiest. All you need to do is swipe the screen with your palm. That's it.
Boost the volume
If you can't hear someone over the phone, the Galaxy S3 has a clever way of helping you out. If you've maxed out your phone's volume, you can add extra volume via a button that appears on your screen, next to the contact phone.
The Galaxy S3 has some pretty rocking speakers. © Samsung
Call everyone you know
Give the Galaxy S3 a double tap on the top, next to the headphone socket, with your finger to scroll to the top of your contact list, email list or email messages. Tap to top can be switched on and off in the Motion section of the settings menu.
Optimize call quality
This is one of the most interesting features of the Galaxy S3; the phone offers a personalized call-equalization setting which tests each of your ears with a range of tones and frequencies to see how well you hear them. It then creats a customized EQ curve for each ear, allowing you to hear your calls as clearly as possible. You can improve the Galaxy S3's call quality by going to Settings > Call sound EQ settings > Personalized EQ.
Got any other Galaxy S3 tips and tricks to share? Let us know in the comments below.
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Michael S. Jul 18, 2016 Link to comment
What FM tuner?
Lisa Michelle Apr 28, 2016 Link to comment
Downloaded videos taken on my S3 to my computer and they are not viewable - the sound plays great but the image does nothing. I have searched for any solutions and unable to find one - the videos are one of a kind of my baby and irreplaceable - any help appreciated!!
Penelope Channing Nov 13, 2015 Link to comment
It's still super useful for people who own Galaxy S3.
Acezar T. Oct 22, 2015 Link to comment
This is so useful reviews and tips to the owners. Keep it up.
Alberto Oct 21, 2015 Link to comment
Really? S3? Wait! do you still have news on the lumia 710? still have one somewhere.
Sema Oct 21, 2015 Link to comment
i cant believe you are writing about galaxy s3, and yet there is o much other recent topics out there..
Cher Marie Sep 24, 2016 Link to comment
Probably because A) it's an awesome phone and B) because there are people like me who apparently been living under a rock and is ridiculously behind on the smart phone obsession and knowledge...
That ain't none of my business though!! 😜
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Sahne Backe Jan 13, 2015 Link to comment
I didn't understand the way to boost the volume with this explanations in your article:
"Boost the Volume
If you can't hear someone over the phone, the Galaxy S3 has a clever way of helping you out. If you've maxed out on your phone's volume, you can add extra volume via a button that appears on your screen, next to the contact phone. "
Weston Perry Oct 25, 2015 Link to comment
When ur on the phone in conversation look at the menu. You will see a little green phone icon middle right. Click on that for volume boost. You can not boost before a call only during.
I'm impressed, Weston! You're one of the few people who've ever answered the THOUSANDS of questions that seem to go floating into nowhere on this forum. THANKS!!
trb Nov 8, 2014 Link to comment
Good to see that someone loves this phone. I'm just moving on to an iphone. Bought and S3 18 months ago. Good and bad bits: the non-functioning shambles called Kies was a real nuisance and the intrusive presence of Google was somehow creepy.
By the end of the year a software 'upgrade' had messed up the wifi connectivity, reduced battery life etc. And the response from Samsung? " If you have an S3, tough: we're moving on, so no sofware fix for your ancient device." Since then various facilities have ceased to function. Today it has decided that it doesn't contain a SIM.
I would never buy another Samsung product, because I just don't trust the manufacturer.
Robert Flores Jr Nov 8, 2014 Link to comment
LG g3 is awesome! 😀
Candy Philp
Candy Philp Feb 17, 2015 Link to comment
So when you upgraded the wifi wouldnt work anymore?!
Thats what I want NO WIFI availability!!! For wifi to be un-useable...tell me how please!!!!
AJ Small Mar 26, 2015 Link to comment
Try turning it off maybe?
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So we go from the Kia that looks like a Yukon to an actual Yukon. This spot could easily be filled with the latest Tahoe or Suburban, but I've always liked how the Yukon looks -- so I used it. This GM platform has provided a reliable 3-row alternative to the minivan that I've always appreciated. Although my 2011 model threw a rod and grenaded the engine, which I did not appreciate, but your results may vary. It's still cool.
This CPO 2019 Yukon XL 4WD Denali has it all. Breaking down the name, it's an XL, so it's bigger (Suburban sized), it's got 4-wheel drive (obviously), and Denali means top-of-the-line. These come absolutely loaded, this particular one at Suburban Buick GMC Cadillac in Costa Mesa, California, is offered at $72,000 with just over 6,000 miles! That'll save you about $10,000 off of a comparable new version. Just get it in black, it's the coolest. Find a GMC Yukon XL for sale
2016 Tesla Model X Performance
There's "cool" and then there's "pulling up with Falcon Doors" cool. It's hard to argue that one of the best SUV parking lot spectacles (if that's a thing) is the arrival of a Tesla Model X. My kids think the rear doors extending out and up is just about the coolest thing they've seen, and I tend to agree. Plus it's stupid fast. The Model X isn't cheap, but like the rest of these cool SUVs, it's available in the $75,000 range or less. This Model X Performance only has just over 25,000 miles, and it's for sale in the Chicago area at $69,957.
So, there are five great 3-row SUVs that I personally think are pretty cool. At least cooler than a minivan. Plus I found all of them in black! You may disagree, and that's OK. There are a ton of other great options, post your favorites that I may have missed in the comments! Find a Tesla Model X for sale
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For $1.2 billion, HP gets Palm, but what will the consumer get? Here are a few things I hope we see out of this deal.
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Hewlett-Packard just raised the ante in the smartphone wars by purchasing Palm, bringing to the table its standing as the world's largest PC maker and potentially bringing on a new era of WebOS devices. The future is still cloudy for the union of the ailing Palm and the mighty HP, but here are five ways HP can make the best of its $1.2 billion buy:
Keep WebOS, Ditch the Pre and Pixi
The language of HP's press release clearly shows enthusiasm for WebOS, but not so much for the hardware that currently contains it, Palm's Pre and Pixi smartphones. Indeed, HP and Palm should go back to the drawing board with hardware to fix issues like battery life and build quality while adding new features like front-facing cameras and bigger, prettier touch screens.
Hype up the next "iPhone Killer"
Why the scare quotes? Because the tech press popularized the term "iPhone Killer" in the Palm Pre's pre-release buzz, and promptly buried it when the phone didn't live up to the billing. Inevitably, HP and Palm will try again, hopefully with better hardware and, most importantly better marketing, which, as evidenced by the Motorola Droid, is crucial to winning mindshare in the insular tech world.
Ditch slate, go WebOS tablet
The HP Slate is a good idea that may be held back by its inherent netbookness. Unofficial reports on the Slate paint a picture of long start-up times, short battery life, and a chunky exterior -- all critical flaws if true. The Slate is intriguing because it's the answer to Apple's iPad with dual cameras, USB ports, Flash support, and a more open attitude towards software, not because it's based on Windows and Intel Atom. A WebOS tablet with an ARM processor could be the winning ticket.
Don't kill the Chrome
Last summer, Google listed HP as one of several manufacturers to develop products running Chrome OS, Google's Web-centric operating system. I've still got high hopes for Chrome OS, and would love to see HP release a Chrome OS netbook. WebOS shouldn't be the only tool in HP's shed.
Don't Fear What You've Created
Apple's iPad showed us how a mobile operating system can scale upwards and play a bigger role in personal computing. Down the line, it's possible that mobile, app-based operating systems could cannibalize full-blown laptops and desktops, which happen to be HP's core business. My concern is that HP would deprive WebOS-based devices of the best hardware in order to draw a clear line between them and computers. That didn't stop netbooks from becoming wildly popular, and it won't stop the rise of mobile, touch-based computing either.
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Press Report : LDV set to resume production after Weststar rescue
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Graeme Brown, Birmingham Post, 18th May, 2009
LDV is set to resume production by July following a last-ditch rescue of the Birmingham van company by Malaysian company Weststar. A takeover deal – for an undisclosed sum – is in the process of being finalised according to Weststar, which has been negotiating to buy the Russian-owned manufacturer since it applied to go into administration.
LDV suspended production in December as demand for its Maxus vans and trucks slumped in the recession. Its parent company, GAZ Group, the Russian commercial vehicle manufacturer, put it up for sale after running into severe financial problems itself.
The deal with Weststar, however, is believed to be subject to due diligence, the completion of financial arrangements and various approvals. “After completion, Weststar intends to continue production and research at the Birmingham facilities, using best practices including the highest standards of labour and energy efficiency in the country,” Weststar said in a statement. In addition to production, Birmingham will remain as LDV’s ‘centre of engineering excellence’.
An application to the High Court by LDV for administration is expected to be withdrawn today but, although Weststar says it is committed to maintaining production at the Washwood plant, redundancies among the company’s 850-strong workforce are still expected as production volumes match a commercial vehicle market in which sales are 45 per cent down.
Weststar imports LDV vehicles into Malaysia in kit form for assembly and sale in Far Eastern markets and it has plans to expand that operation. The company’s statement continued: “This strategy will see employment and value creation in the UK and Malaysia significantly increased over time.”
After completion, Weststar intends to continue production and research at the Birmingham facilities, using best practices including the highest standards of labour and energy efficiency in the country,” Weststar said in a statement. In addition to production, Birmingham will remain as LDV’s ‘centre of engineering excellence’.
Weststar went on to thank LDV suppliers, dealers and other creditors for their support, which was essential to a successful conclusion of the deal. “Weststar hopes to have LDV production re-started by July, 2009,” the statement added.
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Peter Liechti Retrospective
VATERS GARTEN – DIE LIEBE MEINER ELTERN, 2013
Peter Liechti (*1951) is a solitary figure in Swiss cinema– a radical eccentric and a true independent spirit, someone whose work combines a blatant disregard for limits and a joy for experimentation. Over the past 30 years, he has worked on around 20 films as a director, scriptwriter, cameraman and producer, which move between documentary, essay film, experimental cinema, art, music and fiction in terms of form and cannot be reduced to a common denominator. However, all his films – the early Super 8 experiments, numerous projects with the performance artist Roman Signer, his music and travel films and autobiographical works – bear testimony to the fact that for his cinematic poetry the other arts and their techniques are of fundamental importance: Contemporary music and jazz, visual art, as well as literature, poetry, texts, language. His film essays emerge in the space between multilayered images, the spoken and written word, as well as music and sound – which are all elements on an equal footing. Liechti's narrative approach is always personal, his view is one that does not presume to understand the world from the outset and take it for granted. A central motif is being on the go. Whether in Africa or eastern Switzerland, in the mountains or on a lake – his thought processes and very singular perception are always present. He frequently allows himself digressions and opens up unexpected associative spaces. Opinion and reflection go hand-in-hand, as do seriousness and humor, irony and empathy, critical self-questioning and sarcastic Swiss local history and geography. Liechti's interest in experimenting, his questioning of familiar patterns and his constant search for new forms of expression have created a great abundance of form in filmic narration. Arsenal is presenting a comprehensive retrospective of Liechti’s multifarious œuvre, taking in seven feature-length and six shorter films from 1985 to 2013, which include both internationally celebrated works, as well as some less well-known titles yet to be discovered here in Germany. We are particularly pleased that Peter Liechti will attend the opening weekend in person and will take part in Q&A sessions with the audience.
HANS IM GLÜCK – DREI VERSUCHE, DAS RAUCHEN AUFZUGEBEN (Lucky Jack – Three Attempts to Stop Smoking, Switzerland 2003,14.3., in the presence of Peter Liechti & 23.3.) On three treks from Zurich, where he lives, to St Gallen, where he grew up, Peter Liechti tries to kick his nicotine habit. Although he never used to be able to stand hiking, he pushes on, along Lake Constance and then over the Alpstein. He is always alone and on foot, with only a camera and notebook for company. Excerpts from his travel diary are voiced by the first-person narrator, sometimes disgruntledly, sometimes downright fondly. The strict smoking ban entails excessive thinking and the withdrawal symptoms open up the eyes and ears. Liechti's experiment with himself not only leads to a conflict with his ego but also with Switzerland, his homeland. A wonderfully open and funny travel film that always returns to the basic questions of life and death.
AUSFLUG INS GEBIRG (Alpine Forays, Switzerland 1986,14.3., in the presence of Peter Liechti & 21.3.) A mountaintop rap on the soundtrack: "Moths, Stollen, dead Alps, iron manure, Metzgertobel, Nonnenalp and Ritzenspitzen, Schmalzberg and Saustein, Höllritzeralp and Kackenköpfe..." Someone makes an excursion into the Austrian Alps, wanders around and rants about the "shit-slopes", the dull weather, the monotonous landscapes. A mountain tantrum, an aversion to having to enjoy nature, an anti-Heimatfilm impulse and a rotten temper; even raspberry cake can do nothing to help. "The mountain saps my brain." The rough Super 8 and video images thwart the standard sleek pictures of the Alps, the po-faced facetious voice-over monologue transforms into a criticism of civilization and a reflection upon the very activity of making film.
SIGNERS KOFFER –UNTERWEGS MIT ROMAN SIGNER (Signer's Suitcase – On the Road with Roman Signer, Switzerland 1996,15.3., in the presence of Peter Liechti & 25.3.) The Swiss performance artist Roman Signer blasts ribbons over the Stromboli to see how they survive the heat. He tampers with fuses and rockets. He catapults stools out of hotel windows and walks along beaches with fire crackers at his feet. He broadcasts his snoring from the tent. Explosions, collisions – the art of Roman Signer plays with the four elements, uses gravity, thermodynamics and pyrotechnics. Peter Liechti accompanies Signer across Europe, from the Swiss Alps to Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland, and to Bitterfeld. It is a tightrope walk between whimsy and melancholy. Local bands signal the change of location; sometimes Signer talks about what he is moved by shyly. This is not a portrait of an artist but a joint work by two accomplices – art demolition experts.
VATERS GARTEN –DIE LIEBE MEINER ELTERN (Father's Garden – The Love of My Parents, Switzerland 2013,15.3., in the presence of Peter Liechti & 30.3.) Peter Liechti's elderly parents are fundamentally different, they have completely opposing views and interests, yet they have been married for over 60 years. Alongside conversations that shift from slapstick to insanity and observations of daily life in his petty bourgeois parents' cramped apartment, Liechti creates a puppet theater as a second location. This forms the stage for reenactments of scenes with the mother and father being played by rabbit figures. As a puppet, the son can also react explosively. Wild sound effects and music function as a commentary. This is a very personal film that transcends the private to convey the feeling of life and sense of self of a dying generation. Unsentimental, yet full of empathy.
DAS SUMMEN DER INSEKTEN –BERICHT EINER MUMIE (The Sound of Insects: Record of a Mummy, Switzerland 2009,16. & 26.3.) Based on a literary text by the Japanese writer Masahiko Shimada that itself drew upon a true incident, this essay film chronicles a suicide. A man goes into the woods to starve himself to death. Recordings of the diary which meticulously log the man's slow demise and describe what he experiences, sees and feels can be heard on the soundtrack. A plastic sheet in the woods becomes a surface onto which the dying man's inner images, diverse memories and hallucinations are projected. The man himself is never seen. In conjunction with the soundtrack of noises and music, the associative image and sound montage creates a hypnotic maelstrom that attempts to make visible a dying man's stream of consciousness. A meditation on nature, life and death.
SENKRECHT/WAAGRECHT (Vertical/Horizontal, Switzerland 1985,18. & 24.3.) How far can a person walk horizontally on a frozen pond until it cracks vertically? In Liechti's experimental Super 8 film, the performance artist Roman Signer puts this question to the test. Later on he drops a stool from a bridge. Signer's actions can be understood as sculptures in time and space. The coordinates are vertical and horizontal.
THÉÂTRE DE L'ESPÉRANCE(Theater of Hope, Switzerland 1987,18., 24. & 28.3.) This short essay film reflects the staging of an important political event and media spectacle: Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev's 1985 Geneva Summit on reductions in nuclear arms. It is a montage of Super 8 footage shot on site and TV footage of the event that Liechti has edited, as well as recurring scenes from a suitcase performance by Roman Signer. Elvis Presley and Sun Ra provide the music.
KICK THAT HABIT (Switzerland 1989,18. & 24.3.) A "sound film" featuring the Swiss musicians Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl who recycle scrap electronic equipment to create innovative sounds – this is all but a conventional portrait of musicians. Recordings of studio rehearsals and concerts are combined with images of a train journey through a wintry landscape, of an excursion to Lake Constance and into the mountains, as well as visual associations that follow their own poetic logic and shape the film's rhythm. Shifts between noise-music and silence, velocity and calm, an unending stream of images and sounds, no discussions. Instead of only documenting avant-garde sound art, Peter Liechti allows it to communicate with his imagery. The smooth synthesis of a visual and acoustic form of expression.
NAMIBIA CROSSINGS –SPIRITS AND LIMITS (Switzerland 2004,18. & 22.3.) Twelve musicians and singers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Switzerland and Russia form the international ensemble, the Hambana Sound Company, which Liechti accompanies on tour across Namibia. Pictures of magnificent landscapes, observations of everyday life and musical scenes alternate. The musicians "back to the roots" project that involves local artists and seeks to create a sound portrait of Africa proves to be problematic. The legacy of colonization and the differences of opinion with regard to the fusion of African and Western sounds are too profound, stronger than the feeling that cultural differences can be cancelled out through music. Liechti's road movie uses montage and a voice-over to question his attitude towards the continent.
HARDCORE CHAMBERMUSIC – EIN CLUB FÜR 30 TAGE(Hardcore Chambermusic: A Club for 30 Days, Switzerland 2006,19. & 27.3.) Hardcore chamber music – what sounds like a contradiction in terms has been practiced by the renowned Swiss sax/cello/percussion trio Koch-Schütz-Studer for over two decades. In 2005, the group staged a music marathon in a purpose-built Zurich club: For 30 days, it improvised two 40-minute sets every evening at the same time. Condensed to 70 minutes, Liechti's film shows mainly close-ups of the musicians, their facial expressions and gestures and above all their art, as they improvise freely and play (together). The shifts between music, short statements by the trio and gazes into the audience create a fascinating impression of the process whereby music arises.
MARTHAS GARTEN (Martha's Garden, Switzerland 1997, 20. & 29.3.) Karl Winter lives reclusively in his apartment. He loves domestic order and silent hours in cafes. One night on his way home he meets a woman bent over a corpse. He is immediately fascinated by Martha. A love affair with fatal dynamics begins, throwing Karl off course. When love enters his life, so does something uncanny - he loses his bearings and eventually his mind. Insanity lies dormant beneath the surface of humdrum bourgeoisie. Liechti's only feature film till now is a winter film in black-and-white, with dream imagery, different levels of reality and the hero's inner voice off-camera, somber, abysmal, Kafkaesque – a combination of madness and wit.
GRIMSEL –EIN AUGENSCHEIN (Grimsel – An Eye, Witness Report, Switzerland 1990, 21. & 28.3.) The planned expansion of the Grimsel-West hydroelectric plant in the Bernese Alps that would include a gigantic new dam is controversial. Should humans create an artificial nature if it means that real nature is destroyed in the process? Peter Liechti dedicates his film to the landscape and its inhabitants, and tries to explore the uneasiness that surrounds such exploitation. Discussions with locals, fascinating footage of the mountain environment and shots of pylons and concrete walls that are hardly less impressive alternate. This is not militant agitprop but a complex reflection on the experience of nature and the excesses of civilization, or technology.
TAUWETTER (Switzerland 1987,25.3.) Snow and icicles melt. Bright plastic buckets filled with water attached to the brackets of a ski-lift make their way up and down a slope in Appenzell. Suddenly the smooth movement turns into violent swaying and shots ring through the air. The performance artist Roman Signer was there, with live ammunition. And the water flows. (bik)
Two books by Peter Liechti published by Vexer Verlag in St. Gallen "Lauftext – ab 1985" (2010) and "Klartext – Fragen an meine Eltern" (2013) are available at the box office.
In conjunction with SWISS FILMS and with the kind support of the Swiss Embassy.
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DEBURAU (INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPY of the 1918 French Trade Edition, and a copy the 1921 English Translation Edition) Comedie en vers libres
Guitry, Sacha.
Paris: Fasquelle, [1918]. First Edition. Softcover. Trade edition. Signed & inscribed by Guitry in March 1918 to Edmond Roze, theatre impresario and producer of this play. An extraordinarily NICE ASSOCIATION for this play. Also offered for sale along with the inscribed French trade edition is a hardcover English Version Translated by H. Granville Barker and published by Putnam in 1921. 8vo, green cloth, gilt-stamped. Very good. The first performance of the play occurred at the Vaudeville Theatre in Paris in February 1918. It was translated into English and ran on Broadway during 1920 and 1921. The French version was later made into a film in 1951, written and directed by Guitry. The title character of the play is based on Jean-Gaspard Deburau, who was a real mime in the 1830s and whose unforgettable character was at the center of the film LES ENFANTS DE PARADIS (THE CHILDREN OF PARADISE). Spine and pages darkened, some nicks and wear to extremities, but overall a very nice copy. Very Good to Near Fine.
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'This ugly carbuncle upon Mother Nature'So, the...
'This ugly carbuncle upon Mother Nature'
So, the Army Corps of Engineers has deemed Arundel Mills "Smart Growth" because it only takes 1.4 acres of wetlands and 3,000 feet of stream bed.
How ironic that a mall which helps degrade the county is named after it.
The politicians and the Corps, who are supposed to help protect our environment, have again caved in to the developers who are despoiling our green spaces and irreplacable watershed with concrete and construction. If this is Smart Growth, what would Dumb Growth be? Who decides when we have enough malls?
And, yes, the county is helping out with a bond issue to build an interchange to accommodate this ugly carbuncle upon Mother Nature's prostrate form. A terrible tragedy and gross dereliction.
Franklin W. Littleton, Baltimore
Annapolis overlooked local job candidates
I am mad as hell. This present Annapolis city administration surely can be cold when it comes to "homeboy favoring."
I read in utter dismay of the selection of the person to fill Richard Callahan's shoes as Recreation and Parks director for the city of Annapolis.
But Annapolis has a long history of forgetting the qualified home people it has around.
Thankfully, Pip Moyer chose Richard Callahan, who did a great job for more than 30 years. Even Anne Arundel County Executive Janet Owens made a good choice when she picked Dennis Callahan to be the county's director of Parks and Recreation.
Annapolis had two qualified gentlemen in Leslie Stanton and Dr. Leon Washington. When Dennis Callahan exposed the summer basketball league for drug use and it was in a shambles, it was Leslie Stanton, Dick Callahan, Berry Booth and Leon Fisher who settled it down again.
It was Mr. Stanton's "peace in the street" effort, by bringing in current and future National Basketball Association players to the city that saved Annapolis from a long hot summer that year. He was the dream maker who made it work. Dr Washington has coached, worked with students in the schools and knows the city. These two men were not given a tumble.
But I should not be surprised. Pip Moyer saved this city, but do you think they have named a gutter or a tree for him? No.
The Annapolis city administration did itself wrong with its choice for Recreation and Parks director.
As I write this letter, I am not fearing anyone, for like Martin Luther King, Jr., mine eyes have seen the glory and my pen is writing the truth.
Joseph "Zastro" Simms, Annapolis
The signs the courts refuse to let us see
In December 1998, my Anne Arundel County home was burglarized. Fingerprints were matched and a suspect was arrested.
It was discovered this individual's prints were found to match several other burglaries. He also had materials for making a bomb in his vehicle. He served approximately three months in the county detention center for these crimes while he awaited trial for burglarizing my home.
While in the detention center, he made several calls to my home and wrote a very disturbing threatening letter.
He requested a jury trial and a public defender. We went to court in October. We were not able to reveal his recent crime spree, his possession of bomb materials, nor his verbal and written threats.
During the court proceedings, I found myself on trial. While I sat there with the memories of my home being invaded, the public defender suggested a burglary may not have occurred.
The jury, "not wanting to ruin his life," gave a verdict of innocence and he has been released back into society.
After the trial we were able to give some of the jurors the whole story. They were appalled that this information is not permissible. Several stated they would never serve on a jury again. They expressed a loss of confidence in the police department and the courts.
In the shadow of Columbine, we are encouraged to "look for the signals." How about prior offenses, bombs, threats, three days in court and not a friend or family member present?
Often the signals are being transmitted loud and clear, but the court system doesn't allow them to be interpreted.
Mary Armstrong, Pasadena
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‘I learned how to exercise the right way’and lost 50 pounds.’
Erin Toole had been going to the gym without results'until a gift of personal training sessions made her rethink exercise and healthy living
Source: Web exclusive: May 2009
Erin Toole, a 20-year-old living with her mom on Salt Spring Island, B.C., didn’t have a inkling how unfit she was until she set her sights on being a lifeguard at the local pool. ‘When I tried to train, I could barely swim anymore,’ she confesses’despite the fact that she was hitting the gym regularly. (She was also hitting the bars regularly with friends, where she drank and partied late).
Toole says she was ambivalent about the excess weight she was carrying around, as well as her spotty skin. But she admits to later realizing, ‘I just wasn’t comfortable in my own skin.’ When her mom offered to get her a personal trainer for her birthday, she figured, ‘Why not?’
The breaking point
‘My first workout with Deb Leblanc was my first real workout ever,’ says Toole. ‘I had been going to the gym for so long and nothing had happened. It was because I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. I loved working out for real. Breaking a sweat. Elevating my heart rate.’
After that first session, Toole was hooked. However, she would have to undergo a complete lifestyle change to incorporate exercise into her life, and that involved setting goals and shifting her focus away from friends who didn’t have her newfound passion for exercise.
To learn how to exercise and do free weights the correct way. With the help of Leblanc, Toole lifted weights, and regularly went swimming and took spin classes and yoga. Toole also cut back on high-fat dairy and reduced her portion sizes.
The biggest obstacle
‘Some of my really good friends still drink a lot, and we aren’t interested in the same things anymore,” Tools says. “That’s been difficult. But I’ve made new friends who inspire and challenge me. Rather than go to the bar at night, I go to bed early so I can get up and go for walks or hikes. I enjoy that so much more.’
‘I always kind of thought I was a happy person,” Tools says. “Now I know I am. I’ve been told that I smile when I run, although I don’t notice it.’
Toole surpassed her first goal, to become a lifeguard, well ahead of schedule and recently accomplished her next goal, to run the BMO Vancouver (half) Marathon on May 3, 2009. ‘It felt pretty amazing,” Toole says. “All the training was definitely worth it. A part of me wanted the race not to be over yet’it was the fastest one hour and 47 minutes of my life. I’m hooked!’
In addition to shedding a whopping 50 pounds from her 5’8″ frame (‘I had no idea I was that overweight!’), Toole says that her acne-prone skin has cleared up.
The tips
‘ Set realistic, consecutive goals
‘You need to set goals that are hard enough that you have to work for them,’ explains Toole. ‘And then set a new one that’s a little bit harder. You have to push yourself.’
‘ Ask for help
Toole says that she wasted years at the gym working out incorrectly. ‘I’d choose a recumbent stationary bike or reduce the amount of weight on weight machines instead of increasing it.’ A personal trainer can provide direction and give you the confidence to exercise right, she adds.
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Debenhams 'seeks to close 50 stores' in radical overhaul
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Debenhams is understood to be seeking to close 50 of its 166 stores in a radical overhaul as it prepares to reveal a record £500m loss.
The struggling department store chain has previously said 10 stores were earmarked for closure over the next five years but has raised that target.
The retailer's survival plan, which was first reported by Sky News, will affect about 4,000 jobs.
Debenhams, which declined to comment, reports annual results on Thursday.
About 25 store leases are due to expire over the next five years, although the company will not necessarily want to close all of those outlets.
Debenhams will have to negotiate ending other leases with landlords, many of which may be reluctant to do so given the headwinds facing retailers.
The chain has been under increased scrutiny since rival House of Fraser collapsed in August.
Last month Debenhams sought to reassure investors about its finances after appointing KPMG to help improve its performance and maximise shareholder value.
It said annual profits would be £33m - below previous guidance of £35m to £40m.
It has issued three profit warnings this year and shares have fallen from 35p in January to just 8.5p, valuing the company at just over £100m.
Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley, who bought House of Fraser for £90m after it failed, also owns 29.7% of Debenhams.
That holding, which is just below the level at which he would be required to launch a takeover bid, has prompted speculation that the two chains could merge.
Last month an outgoing director from Sports Direct suggested the idea had been discussed at board level before later insisting his remarks had been misinterpreted.
The retailer later issued a formal statement confirming it did not intend to bid for Debenhams for at least six months.
Sports Direct has also denied claims that it wants Debenhams to collapse so it could buy it on the cheap.
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February 04, 2019 • 3 min read
YouTube personality Jackson "Bajheera" Bliton knows it's possible to be a physically fit gamer, and he's sharing the message with his fans on YouTube and Twitch. Follow this bodybuilder and self-professed nerd as he lifts and plays his way through the day.
Natural bodybuilder and 2015 Muscle Beach physique champion Jackson Bliton seems like your typical lifter. He's jacked, he trains hard, he owns lots of Tupperware, and the workouts he streams live on Twitch can clock in at two hours.
What happens next, though, dispels any notion that Bliton is typical: He'll spend seven hours playing World of Warcraft on live stream.
"It may come as a surprise that there are people who live the 'games and gains' lifestyle," says Bliton, better known by his online handle, Bahjeera. "It's cool to spread that around, to inspire some gamers to hit the gym."
"I'm a self-professed nerd," admits Bliton, as he strolls through the park with his wife. "But gamers do sometimes need to go outside, to take in the fresh air and the hi-def real-life graphics."
Follow Bliton as he takes fans through a typical day, including a vicious live-stream deadlift workout, his secret food hacks, and an epic gaming marathon.
The Gains
Bliton's garage is an interesting blend of home gym, gaming center, and video-production studio. In one corner sits a high-end gaming tower in front of a green screen. To the right is a weight station. A camera tripod ties the two worlds together.
"I've always wanted to put a home gym in the house, so we've been having a lot of fun with that," says Bliton, as he proudly shows off his setup.
Bliton streams his workouts live for fans right in the garage via Twitch. He answers questions between sets, before ending the workout with a Q&A session. Today's workout is strictly deadlifts, so he throws on his gaming headset and begins by warming up with the sumo version. The workout itself, however, comprises conventional deadlifts.
"My ultimate goal is to bring up my 5x5 max, so I figure I'll do 3 sets of 5 at the lower weights, and ramp up the load as I decrease the reps," Bliton explains. "I'm a big fan of volume, even if I'm not lifting quite as heavy."
For most people, deadlifting for two hours would be excruciating, but Bliton isn't "most people." He decides to celebrate with two more reps, this time at 405.
"I'm having fun today!" he gasps during his rest period.
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Because of the long hours spent gaming, Bliton knows he has to keep his nutrition on point. He's currently bulking, so his go-to meal three times per day is 12 ounces of chicken and 4 cups of rice in a Tupperware big enough to require two hands. Bliton's "secret" is to drizzle apple cider vinegar on top before he microwaves the meal—it thickens up into a delicious teriyaki-style sauce. He then tops it with salad greens and ranch dressing.
If you think Bliton geeks out over video games, you should see him talk about his evening dessert.
"This stuff is addictive! I take half a container of FairLife chocolate milk and pour it over double-chocolate granola. I'm a chocolate fiend," says Bliton. "If you're not bulking, though, this is cheat-day-only stuff!"
Now that he's finished with his weightlifting and food prep, the gaming portion of the day begins in front of a green screen. Bliton has played World of Warcraft for six years, but today he's test-driving a new release called For Honor. For the next seven hours, Bahjeera's Viking raider fights his way through this medieval hack-and-slash with his fellow gamers, while fans watch on Twitch. You'd think this would be a sedate activity, but Bliton gets so excited it's practically a cardio session.
How do you finish off an action-packed games-and-gains day? "I'm gonna get some food!" says Bliton.
Karen McGinty is the editorial manager for Bodybuilding.com, and has written on topics such as health, education, and women's issues.
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U.S. politics and the Middle East: Polarization and regional stability
Series: Intersections Podcast
Shibley Telhami, Sarah Yerkes, and Adrianna Pita Wednesday, December 21, 2016
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In this episode of Intersections, Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat chair for peace and development at the University of Maryland and nonresident senior fellow at Brookings, discusses with Sarah Yerkes the increasing polarization of American views toward Israel and Palestine and the future of U.S. policy in the broader Middle East.
Telhami lays out a stark assessment of the Obama administration’s legacy on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process: “[Obama’s] legacy on Israel/Palestine is not the good one that he’s going to be remembered for. If he does nothing at all, he’ll be remembered as the president who killed the two-state solution.. . .Eight years ago we said if [a peace deal] doesn’t happen on this president’s clock, it’s not going to happen at all. He came in believing it was important; he appointed a special envoy on his second day; and he failed miserably. He’s got nothing to show for it. Settlements have expanded on his clock; a lot more people don’t think anymore that a two state solution is possible, and that’s his legacy.”
And Yerkes examines the U.S. relationship with Egypt: “I think there will be a renewed and reset U.S.-Egypt relationship. For better or for worse, Sissi has really proactively reached out to Trump and Trump has showered him with praise. I think these are two peas in a pod who will work very well together, but that’s not necessarily to the benefit of Egyptians. Egypt passed their new NGO law which is far worse than the Mubarak-era law, they’ve seen this massive crackdown on civil rights, people tortured, thrown in jail, disappeared, and I think any sort of U.S. pressure on those issues is going to go away under the next administration, unfortunately.”
American attitudes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Washington has just agreed to give Israel unprecedented aid. What do Americans think?
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Ken Hackathorn on the B&T USW
Ken Hackathorn is a former Special Forces shooting instructor with the US-Armed Forces and now a civilian shooting instructor and specialized author. Belwo you will find his article on the B&T USW.
What is Old is New Again!
Review of the B&T USW by Ken Hackathorn
Recently, the Swiss firm of Brugger and Thomet (B&T) introduced a new special purpose handgun: the Universal Service Weapon—or USW, as they prefer to call it. It is, in fact, much more of a PDW (Personal Defense Weapon) than a handgun, as it utilizes a very slick side folding stock.
Handguns with stocks are nothing new. In fact, the first successful automatic handgun was the Mauser M1896 "Broomhandle" that utilized a wood holster/stock. The C96 pistol was extremely popular and sold well for decades. Issued to officers, crew served weapons personnel, and para-military police forces, the C96 gained wide acceptance in much of the world. Once the holster/stock was attached to the C96 Mauser pistol it performed as a short, handy carbine.
I must admit that I have always been charmed by the "Broomhandle." Events often trigger changes in small arms development. On Nov 13, 2015, devastating terrorist attacks in Paris, France created widespread shock across Europe. The ability of the "first responders" to deal with the deadly attacks was one of the first issues to come to the attention of those that studied the aftermath.
While some law enforcement personnel are extremely skilled at combat marksmanship, the sad truth is that most are not. In Europe, most police agencies do not spend a great deal to time or money making their officers skilled with firearms. Sound familiar? Make no mistake, while training is often better in the USA LE circles, it is less than most observers would prefer. Note that after the wave of "active shooter" incidents in the US, law enforcement officials finally realized that training and weaponry needed to be updated. Most agencies in the US now have their officers complete an "active shooter" response program. More importantly, it was recognized that many police officers are barely adequate to 10 meters accuracy wise under stress. Critics argue the answer is more, and better, training. True, but get over that idea. It is not going to happen. American LE firearms training is vastly better than it was decades ago, but it advances (improves) only in the smallest degrees over time.
The major change in US LE response to "active shooters" was to issue M4 style 5.56 Carbines to police officers as a replacement to the police shotgun. As part of the after action of the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, a need for a weapon platform that could be easily carried and deployed by patrol officers was the design goal. B&T stepped up to the plate with some ideas and a number of very portable designs. The USW is very unique in many ways. It comes with a holster that allows the USW to be worn on the duty belt, deployed quickly, and fired like a service pistol or, with utmost of ease, have the folding stock deployed and used as a mini-carbine.
In theory, with the shoulder stock extended, accuracy would be vastly improved. Part of my T&E of the USW was to test out this theory. Design wise, the USW is based upon the now discontinued Sphinx 3000 pistol. The Sphinx is basically a CZ 75 with vastly improved quality and built hell for stout. I was first exposed to the Sphinx 3000 when training the Swiss "Lynx" personnel over a decade ago. It proved to be an extremely nice sidearm. It was not uncommon for some Swiss personnel to have over 75,000 rounds fired through their Sphinx 3000s with little wear and tear—except maybe the need for a barrel replacement. B&T used the Sphinx 3000 as their base, but made many changes to design the USW for its specialized mission. The DA/SA trigger system is retained. In Europe, the heavy deliberate DA trigger is often considered a primary safety device for the service pistol. Until the DA first shot pistol came along, thanks to Walther, most police and military sidearms were carried with an empty chamber.
The USW features a lower receiver of aluminum alloy with a polymer grip housing and trigger guard. The rear of the lower receiver frame is extended to the rear to allow for the slide travel to be captured and a "bridge" is built over the slide to allow attachment of a small red dot sight. This sight is manufactured for B&T by Aimpoint. Called the Nano, it is the smallest Aimpoint made. Traditional iron sights are not provided on the USW.
Since the rear of the slide is captured in the receiver housing, the front of the slide is designed to provide the cocking serrations along with a flange that insure that the hand will not slip when grasping the slide to cycle the weapon for loading or clearing. This system works like a champ. Of course the USW has a threaded barrel (metric) for attaching a suppressor. Magazine capacity is 17, 19, and 30 rounds. Magazines are manufactured by Mecar and of top quality. Unique to the USW is a minimalist side folding stock the latches to the side of the lower receiver. A simple press forward on the retaining latch with the trigger finger releases the stock and it can be flipped into its locked position with minor effort. With just minor practice, the stock can be deployed and locked into place in just a matter of less than two seconds.
The USW is fitted with an ambi decocker and every facet of the USW is, shall we say, "typical Swiss quality." Google B&T USW if you want all the specs and details of the design. My desire was to test the USW and see if it did indeed live up to the hype.
My fist goal was to select a wide array of testers with varying skill levels. My testing period was spread over a month and nearly 2000 rounds of 9X19mm ammo. I removed the USW from the box, examined it, lubed with some Wilson Combat Lube and started the T&E process. First was comparison with USW against a Colt standard M4 and H&K MP 5. Drills used were the 1-5 drill at 25 meters and The 8-Ball drill. No surprise here, the M4 and MP5 out performed the USW— the USW did pretty well but the results regardless of skill levels were better. A PDW design isn"t expected to outperform either of those platforms.
The real interest was in how the USW would stack up against the service pistol. As test samples, I provided a Beretta M9A3, SigSauer P320, and Wilson Combat tuned Glock Gen5 M17. All handgun drills were done from low ready. As distance increased to 15 meters, I allowed the USW users to start with the stock deployed at shoulder/low ready. We did head shots on three silhouettes back to 30 meters. Two rounds from ready at 20 meters in 4.0 seconds was the final part of the exam. What I found most interesting was that regardless of skill level, the USW doubled the effective accurate range of the user. Skilled shooters can often provide excellent levels of accuracy to ranges far greater than most observers would believe. Sadly, the average police officer, soldier, and private sector gun carrier rarely is as skilled as they would like to believe. My sample pool of testers often reflected that point.
Two really critical points stood out. Adding an extra anchor point via the minimal shoulder stock was an asset. The real deal breaker was the Aimpoint Nano sight. The pure simplicity and speed of the Nano allowed users of the USW to extend their accuracy in the worse case to double the distance of their sidearm performance—in many cases they tripled it. In over 2000 rounds through the USW using two magazines (the 19 round & 30 round capacity were all that I have) the gun has yet to choke or fail with a wide variety of 9X19mm ammo. As part of the USW package, a sling is provided that allows attachment to a loop at the rear of the USW receiver. When used as a pistol, presenting the USW to the target and applying tension to the sling really works well to steady the USW. With the stock deployed, and allowed to hang on the sling, the USW can be easily carried out of sight under a jacket, wind breaker, or parka with ease. Ideal for executive protection detail work, the concealment package that the USW provides is far better than typical SMGs and Mini Car-15 style blasters. For those that have jobs that do not require a primary firearm like a carbine, rifle, or SMG, the USW has real merit. An example is a medic assigned to a tactical team. He is not a primary shooter, his job is to stay behind the team to help if any of the members are injured. But with the USW in his possession and on his hip, in an emergency it can be deployed quickly and used with great advantage compared to the standard service pistol.
Two points I would critique: One is that the double action first shot, while providing a higher degree of safety to less skilled gun handlers, does make the first and critical shot harder to deliver with accuracy at speed. The follow up second shot from the SA mode is sweet and easy to get precision shots with.
Second is the Aimpoint Nano. I love the design and concept, but the USW came without a manual for its use. There is little information available about the Nano concerning operating details. The brightest setting for the red dot does not seem to be ideal for really bright sunny days. A number of the testers complained about this issue. While the battery life is said to be one year on setting number six, the replacement battery is a CR1225; not something you will find at the local carryout.
My overall impression of the B&T USW is that it has a vary valid application. While uniquely European in approach, it does have a place in the USA. The price point will have a definite effect in its acceptance for American Law Enforcement.
Trust me, after shooting the B&T USW the first words uttered by nearly everyone is this is really cool. Those were my exact words after first using it, and the B&T USW is already in the inventory of the ISS (Independent Studio Services) prop guns department. Expect to see them in future action films.
Every time I handle my collector 1930 Broomhandle Mauser with shoulder stock I think this is really cool—now the B&T USW is smaller, holds a lot more rounds, is easier to use, has a better stock & holster, plus a better sighting system. So this new version of the PDW proves "what is old is new again."
Ken Hackathorn
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Home The Docket HR 2120 (BUSREGS-21) already affecting regulations
HR 2120 (BUSREGS-21) already affecting regulations
November 14, 2017 | by Bus & Motorcoach News |
WASHINGTON – A sweeping bill designed to roll back burdensome federal regulations on the bus and motorcoach industry hasn’t gotten a formal hearing in Congress, but it still has had a positive impact since it was introduced last spring.
HR 2120, “Buses United for Safety, Regulatory Reform and Enhanced Growth for the 21st Century” (BUSREGS-21), was introduced in the 115th Congress by Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., just in time for the UMA Capitol Hill Days “fly-in” in April. (The 2018 Capitol Hill Days will be held April 10-11.)
Participants spent time during fly-in introducing the bill and discussing the need for its passage with their congressional delegation. UMA members from across the nation also wrote to their congressional representatives in record numbers asking them to support the bill.
Since that time, the UMA legislative and regulatory team has been busy on Capitol Hill making the rounds, meeting with key congressional committee staff and elected representatives.
“We have been more than pleased how well the tenets of the bill have been received,” said Ken Presley, UMA vice president of industry relations and chief operating officer. “There is a real sense today in Congress that the regulatory burdens of the past decade were excessive and that it is time to turn the dial back just a bit. “The rate of new regulations and focus on finite enforcement is stifling entrepreneurship and expansion in the industry.”
Presley said the bill is already having a positive effect, with some of its provisions being enacted separately.
“The pending Safety Fitness Determination, financial responsibility and obstructive sleep apnea rules have been withdrawn for now and the Lease and Interchange of Vehicles rule is slated for major revisions by the end of the year,” he said.
A former business owner himself, Congressman Perry introduced an amendment to another bill that will stop the speed-limiter rule from going forward for passenger carriers, Presley said.
“The bill, HR 3354, the “Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act,” with the amendment plucked from HR 2120, has passed the House and now awaits Senate passage,” he said.
HR 2120 calls for:
Amending the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s mission statement to include, “fostering new and expanding passenger service through industry collaboration, encouraging new entrant applicants by expediting operating authorizations, and identifying passenger carrier drivers as a profession.”
Prohibiting FMCSA from including passenger carriers in any Safety Fitness Determination future proposed rule until all CSA/SMS reforms have been made; restricting its use, and continuing to assign “Satisfactory” or “Conditional” ratings as appropriate.
Removing commercial motor carriers of passengers’ CSA/SMS scores from public view until all reforms are completed as they are based on faulty and inconsistent data and methodologies.
Exempting motor carriers of passengers from any regulatory requirements flowing from the proposed rule regarding obstructive sleep apnea.
Clarifying that only Congress could increase minimum financial responsibility (insurance) limits for passenger carriers.
Exempting motor carriers of passengers from any regulatory requirements flowing from the NHTSA and FMCSA rulemaking relating to speed-limiting devices.
Mandating a recession of the Lease and Interchange of Vehicles rule for motor carriers of passengers and an expedited review of corrective action plans submitted by a passenger carrier.
Expediting the process for reviewing corrective action plans submitted by operators.
Mandating expedited treatment of new-entrant applications, full disclosure for delays and limiting registration fees to a maximum of $350.
Directing that motor carriers of passengers appealing fines shall not waive any rights to installment plans.
Requiring a full review and modernization of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations and directing a separate analysis for passenger carriers in all rulemakings that impact both commercial motor carriers of passengers and commercial property carriers.
Directing FMCSA to initiate a pilot program to compare the effectiveness of prescheduled garage, terminal or place-of-business vehicle and driver inspections with random destination inspections on motor carriers of passengers.
Prohibiting new regulatory mandates for motorcoaches or school buses that are not based solely on sound data and science that is directly associated with reducing crashes.
Requiring that public transit agencies that receive funds from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) disclose displacement of private-sector contract work. They also would have to post schedules for local public-transit meetings, combine FMCSA/FTA biennial reports, create business opportunities by requiring certification of private sector engagement, and educate grantees on utilization of “capital cost of contracting” methods of partnering with private-sector motor carriers of passengers.
“While we may be in a moment of regulatory respite, it is important to remember the environment that brought about HR 2120 to begin with,” Presley said. “The industry watched basic compliance reviews turn into comprehensive safety investigations that often lasted weeks instead of a few days.
“Destination inspections went from simple safety inspections to ‘we have to find something’ witch-hunts, with everything from the tiniest spot of oil from unknown origins to a motorcoach restroom being fair game,” he said. “Most agree that we need to return to managing our companies in a safe and efficient manner without fear of losing our businesses through zealous and often misapplied enforcement.”
Presley encouraged every owner, manager and staff member, including drivers, to go to http://p2a.co/Vxlhj9r, type in their name and address and hit send. A letter will go directly to their House representatives and staff members asking for their support of HR 2120.
Like most successful legislation that passes, HR 2120 was designed to attach to a larger House bill, he said.
“We believe the upcoming infrastructure bill is consistent with our goals and we envision inclusion of HR 2120 in that bill,” Presley said. “This is a unique opportunity for the industry to reclaim rational rules and business opportunities.
“UMA Capitol Hill Days is April 10-11. We have a lot of work to do.”
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As Boeing's problems mount, there's still no clear answer about when the 737 Max will return to the skies
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Almost a month after Boeing finished a software update for its 737 Max aircraft, it's still unclear when the plane will return to service.
The 737 Max has been grounded in much of the world since March following two deadly crashes that killed nearly 350 people.
Neither Boeing nor the Federal Aviation Administration has given a clear, public indication of when the 737 Max will receive approval to resume making commercial flights in the US.
Boeing faces mounting pressure from lawsuits and investigations related to the aircraft, as well as potential issues with the wings of both 737 Max and 737 Next Generation planes.
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Almost a month after Boeing finished a software update for its 737 Max aircraft, it's still unclear when the plane will return to service as pressure on the aerospace manufacturer builds.
The 737 Max has been grounded in much of the world since March following two deadly crashes that killed nearly 350 people. Technology designed to prevent the aircraft from stalling has come under scrutiny, as it activated during both crashes due to false sensor readings and pushed the planes downward at too steep of an angle.
On May 16, Boeing finished a software update for the 737 Max that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must approve before the aircraft can resume commercial flights in the US, but neither Boeing nor the FAA has given a clear, public indication of when the approval process may end.
According to a Bloomberg report from May, Boeing told one of its biggest 737 Max customers, SpiceJet, that the aircraft would likely be flying again by July, but Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg declined to offer a similarly concrete prediction during a June 3 interview with CNBC.
When asked if he believed the 737 Max would resume flight before the end of the year, Muilenburg said, "I do, but again, I can't give you the specific timeline on it."
Read more: American Airlines cancels flights on Boeing's embattled 737 Max through September as the carrier's $350 million headache gets worse
In response to a question from Business Insider about when the 737 Max might return to service, a Boeing representative did not give a timeline, but said the company is working to address requests from the FAA.
"Boeing is now providing additional information to address Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requests that include detail on how pilots interact with the airplane controls and displays in different flight scenarios," the representative said. "Once the requests are addressed, Boeing will work with the FAA to schedule its certification test flight and submit final certification documentation."
The FAA did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
Public uncertainty around the 737 Max's return comes as Boeing faces mounting pressure from lawsuits and investigations related to the aircraft, as well as potential issues with the wings of both 737 Max and 737 Next Generation planes.
The company also faces the prospect of continued financial fallout from the 737 Max. In April, Boeing said decreased production stemming from the 737 Max bans had cost it $1 billion during the first quarter of 2019. The company made $22.9 billion in revenue during the quarter, a 2% decrease from the first quarter in 2018, and $2 billion in adjusted profits, a 21% decrease from the first quarter in 2018.
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Munich Re looks to innovate, take lead as market changes
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MONTE CARLO, Monaco — While 2015 has not yielded many surprises for reinsurers, the challenges the industry faces means it must innovate to remain relevant, according to Torsten Jeworrek, member of the board of management with responsibility for reinsurance at Munich Reinsurance Co.
“Is everything good? Can we do business as usual? No. Not at all,” he said Sunday during a briefing at the Rendez-Vous de Septiembre reinsurance gathering in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Reinsurance buyers are becoming more efficient in the way they purchase traditional reinsurance, Mr. Jeworrek said.
He also said that “the old, celebrated pure-catastrophe” monoline reinsurer model has all but disappeared as reinsurers have seen the need to diversify their books of business.
Munich Re will meet the challenges by using its “creativity and know-how” to structure tailor-made solutions for clients, Mr. Jeworrek said.
The reinsurer will continue to expand its U.S. speciality and primary business in areas where rates are still rising, Mr. Jeworrek said.
Munich Re is building relationships with primary insurers and commercial buyers of coverage to develop innovative solutions to emerging risks, said Thomas Blunck, a member of the board of management with responsibility for special and financial risks and reinsurance investments.
Cyber is one area where Munich Re is seeking to develop innovative coverages, he said.
Cyber, he said, “is a highly complex and dynamic risk.”
“And that's good, if we do it right, because it is very difficult to emulate,” Mr. Blunck said.
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Build Your Career Get the Job
10 Job Search Apps to Help You Land Your Next Gig
By Sammi Caramela, Writer March 7, 2018 05:20 pm EST
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Searching for a job can be time-consuming and exhausting. You don't want to work just anywhere; you want a company that will support your dreams as much as you support theirs, sharing both values and goals.
Finding the right match can feel impossible – but it doesn't have to. All you need is a smart device and the right apps to take your search on the go so you can apply to job openings anywhere, anytime. Heck, even Facebook is getting in on the job search market.
Whether you're looking to make a big career change or you just want to find a new opportunity, here are 10 mobile job search apps to help you find your dream gig.
1. Indeed Job Search
Just like its full website, Indeed's mobile app lets you search for jobs and filter the results based on your industry, location, desired salary and more. The app aggregates listings from thousands of sources, including other online job boards, company career pages and newspaper classifieds. Users can set up email alerts to be notified when new jobs appear in a specific category. When you find a job you like, save it so you can apply later, on your desktop, or attach your resume to your account so you can apply in-app.
Download: Android or iOS
2. Jobs by CareerBuilder
With the CareerBuilder app, you can search for jobs by industry, location or company. You don't even need a CareerBuilder account to use the app: Simply upload your resume from your Dropbox or Google+ account and start your search. You can track and view your job-search history, save jobs for later, and view your competition with average stats on other applicants' education levels and years of experience. CareerBuilder will also recommend jobs and alert you when your application has been received and viewed.
3. LinkedIn Job Search
LinkedIn is easily one of the most popular professional networking tools out there, but it isn't just about selling yourself with a flattering personal profile. Just like on the LinkedIn website, LinkedIn Job Search lets you search for open positions in your industry and sort them by date posted, salary and other criteria. When you find something you like, you can apply directly in-app with your LinkedIn profile. The app will also recommend jobs based on your profile and past search criteria, and notify you when a relevant job goes live in your area.
4. Monster
The Monster app is a mobile companion to one of the biggest online job boards. Like competing apps, it lets you search for new openings and filters results based on your needs and preferences. Sign in to your Monster account to access your uploaded resumes, cover letters and previously submitted job applications. You can also sign up to be notified when new positions are listed.
With the Reach app by Big Rock Labs, finding local professionals and events in your industry has never been easier. Once you're logged in through your LinkedIn account or email address, you can search for nearby users with your phone's GPS sensor or for users who have checked in to specific nearby locations. If you find someone you want to connect with, "Reach Out" by sending a request. If the person accepts, contact information for the two of you is exchanged and you can start a productive conversation. You can also discover trending events near you and register to attend in-app.
6. Snagajob
Snagajob is a great app if you're looking for hourly work in the restaurant, retail or customer-service industries. It lets you narrow your search results by type, location, and other criteria, and an integrated map shows you the exact location of each job. When you find an opening you want, save it for later or apply in the app. You can also sign up for email alerts to be notified when a new position opens.
Switching jobs can be a real hassle, especially if the wrong person at your current company finds out. Keep the heat down with Switch, an anonymous job-search app that lets employed professionals quietly search for new positions. The interface, which resembles dating app Tinder, allows you to swipe right on potential jobs you're interested in. Hiring managers will see only your professional profile – not your name or contact information – and if they like what they see, you'll instantly be connected so you can chat further about the opening.
8. ZipRecruiter Job Search
ZipRecruiter Job Search streamlines the process by aggregating listings from more than 100 job boards including Monster, Career Builder and Simply Hired. The app lets you upload your resume so you can easily apply for jobs on the go. ZipRecruiter gives you the ability to bookmark jobs using the mobile app, then apply later once you're on your home computer. You can also set custom alerts so you're notified as new jobs are posted.
9. Glassdoor
Glassdoor not only allows you to search job openings, it also provides feedback from current and past employees regarding company culture, benefits, pay and more. It's a two-way street: You add your own comments on companies you've worked for and receive inside information on others in return. Gaining these insights helps you narrow down your options and weed out companies that might not be a good fit.
10. Good&Co
Good&Co is unique in its mission to match you with a career that suits your skills and interests. Using the app, you can take personality quizzes to better understand what you want and what you can offer employers. You are then presented with companies that play to your strengths, and you can then apply outside of the app.
Additional reporting by Brett Nuckles and Nicole Fallon.
Sammi Caramela
Sammi Caramela has always loved words. When she isn't working as a Business.com and Business News Daily staff writer, she's writing (and furiously editing) her first novel, reading a YA book with a third cup of coffee, or attending local pop-punk concerts. Sammi loves hearing from readers - so don't hesitate to reach out! Check out her short stories in Night Light: Haunted Tales of Terror, which is sold on Amazon.
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The Tom Cruise Underwater Scene In 'Rogue Nation' Is Absolutely Insane & Yes, Totally Real
By Allie Funk
It's no secret that the Mission Impossible franchise is full of crazy stunts. The latest, Rogue Nation, is no exception; in fact, a lot of the film's marketing has revolved around the fact that Tom Cruise did his own stunts for that insane hanging-off-an-airplane scene. But the scene that honestly made me clench my teeth the hardest was that crazy Tom Cruise underwater scene in Rogue Nation , when the actor seemingly holds his breath underwater for over six minutes. Believe it or not, this unbelievable event actually happened.
Spoilers ahead! To give the scene some context, Cruise's Ethan Hunt must insert a fake personnel profile into the facility's security vaults (which, naturally, are stored underwater) in order to help Benji (Simon Pegg) gain access to a highly-guarded building. Oh, and this has to be done in the three minutes before Benji reaches the facility's aboveground security checkpoint and is exposed as an intruder. Also, the security alarm will be triggered if the underwater vault senses any metal, which means no oxygen tanks. No pressure, right? The only logical plan of action, therefore, is a superhuman undertaking of diving into the vault and changing out the security profiles in under three minutes, all while holding one's breath. Who's up for the challenge? Why, Tom Cruise, of course!
Talking to Yahoo, Cruise explained how the extraordinary scene came to be. "The kind of training I had to do for that was pretty intense. I’ve done a lot of underwater scenes but I’ve never done one [like this] that will get the audience to lean forward and have a visceral reaction," he said. According to RopeofSilicon.com, Rogue director Wade Eastwood brought in a freediving expert to teach Cruise how to hold his breath for counterintuitively long periods of time for two months prior to the filming of the scene. After that training, Cruise was able to stay submerged long enough to film the anxiety-inducing scene in one long take.
As Rogue viewers saw, the resulting sequence was absolutely amazing, and also something that I myself have no intention of reenacting. Here are some other aquatic scenes that are awesome to watch, but not to try at home:
1. Kate Winslet In Titanic
Due to her refusal to wear a wetsuit, Kate Winslet reportedly got sick while filming Titanic. Also, that scene where she slid chest-deep into the water while wielding an axe on her way to save Jack? The gasp she let out was her actual reaction to the water temperature, as according to titanic-facts.com, the Pacific was a lot colder during shooting than originally anticipated. So to everyone who hates on Rose for later staying on the floating door while Jack hangs off the side, just remember that she dove into the water for him first.
2. Tobey Maguire And Kristen Dunst In Spiderman
Tobey Maguire told Parade in 2007, "When we shot that scene where we kissed in the alleyway and I was hanging upside down, it was really late at night, it was raining, and the whole time I had rainwater running up my nose. Then, when Kirsten rolled back the wet mask, she cut off the air completely."
I can actually verify firsthand how much rain-kissing scenes suck; when I was an actor, I once filmed a such a scene with the expectation that it would be incredibly romantic. But movie rain is incredibly different from real rain, and the result of trying to make out under a constant stream of water is a lot of choking. I'm pretty sure I coughed directly into my partner's mouth...not so cute, and not something I'll be trying again.
3. Isla Fisher In Now You See Me
While playing an escape artist in this film, Fisher shot a scene where she had to escape from chains while trapped in a glass box filled with water. But during filming, her chains got tangled and she couldn't reach the safety button to drain the tank. Fisher expressed that she thought she was going to drown at that moment. LOL NO THANKS.
There are many, many more stunts in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, none of which I have any desire to try myself. For those of you who believe that aquatic daredevil acts are best enjoyed passively with a giant tub of popcorn, you're in luck: MI5 is playing in dry, comfortable movie theaters nationwide.
Images: Paramount Pictures; Giphy (2); Columbia Pictures; Summit Entertainment
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How can I follow Bury v Bolton Wanderers?
Unable to make Bolton's trip to Gigg Lane? The Wanderers media team have you covered…
Bury v Bolton Wanderers
Gigg Lane, The JD Stadium
Kick-Off 7.45pm
Wanderers travel to local rivals Bury on Monday night fresh off the back of clinching their fourth win and fourth clean sheet in as many games after defeating Millwall in the capital last Tuesday.
The first league meeting between the Whites and the Shakers this side of the millennium, they did meet in the Capital One Cup two years ago with the Trotters running out 3-2 winners AET at Macron Stadium.
A former club of manager Phil Parkinson, Bolton will also come up against former midfielder Neil Danns in the clash following his summer move to Bury.
Kicking off at 7.45pm, here is how Whites fans around the globe can follow the action…
Fans who aren't able to attend the game in person have the option of watching from the comfort of Pure Bar at Bolton Whites Hotel with an array of drinks and food available.
Supporters can follow live updates, including instantaneous goal updates, of the game via the club’s official Twitter account, @OFFICIALBWFC.
Be part of the conversation and join in our matchday coverage by tweeting #BRYvBOL. We want to hear from you! Whether you are at the game or not, tweet us your pictures of you supporting the Whites and we will retweet some of our favourites or maybe even include you in our FANS' GALLERY!
Remember if your picture is included in our gallery, then you are automatically entered into our prize draw and could win a signed Bolton shirt at the end of the season!
Live updates are also available via the club's official Facebook page, BOLTON WANDERERS OFFICIAL and official Instagram account, OFFICIALBWFC.
Trotters fans can also follow our behind-the-scenes coverage from the game courtesy of Wanderers’ official Snapchat account, OFFICIALBWFC.
Team news will be posted across all of the club’s social media platforms roughly an hour before kick-off.
Meanwhile, Player subscribers will be able to listen to live commentary from the game on WANDERERS PLAYERHD in association with Tower FM.
You can subscribe to Player HERE for a monthly fee of £4.49, with annual subscriptions also available starting from £37.99.
Elsewhere, a match report and photo gallery will be available on the club’s official website, BWFC.CO.UK, shortly after the final whistle.
Match highlights will also feature on the club’s official YouTube account after the game, BOLTON WANDERERS FC, along with manager and player post-match interviews.
Tweets by @OfficialBWFC
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Secret Service Oversight
2015-02-12T20:01:41-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/a94/20150212200317003_hd.jpgMembers of the Secret Service Protective Mission Panel testified on their recommendations to improve the Secret Service’s protection of the White House compound. The panel, composed of former Obama and Bush administration officials, was formed in response to security breaches during the preceding year that included an incident involving a lone individual who jumped over a north lawn fence and gained access into the White House. Among their recommendations were bringing in outside leadership to provide a fresh perspective, additional resources, and increased annual training of agents.
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Making Mountain out of a Mole
by G Swaminathan
To be frank, I am amazed by the freedom of Indians now enjoy while a group of intellectuals and public crying hoarse on the escalation of intolerance.
Especially in Tamil Nadu, many of them are up in their arms to fight for something or other. Just look at this happening. Sometime back, a private recreation club barred a gentleman clad in dhoti from entering that club. It became a big matter of discussion in the media and television channels. Many objected to the club’s right to ban a person from entering just because he is dressed in the traditional dress of Tamils. They do not want to consider it as a code and condition of that particular club authority.
But, recently when the Court set a dress code for those entering the temples, again there was an objection. A land which patronizes devotion, culture and tradition why they should be hoisting protest for one should be dressed decently if they have to enter a sanctum of the God? Now, the argument goes that it is a matter of freedom to come on jeans, or skirts or leggins.
There is another big issue on Jallikattu. The Supreme Court banned the game of Jallikattu considering it not as a game of valor but cruelty to animals. In fact, whether it is cruelty to animals or not, in Jallikattu, many human lives will be lost because the raging bulls will tear the stomach or heart of the tamer with their sharpened horns. If the game is considered as traditional or expression of culture, the court should not have admitted the petition itself when it was filed. Very heated debates, exchange of words, support from all the Tamil Nadu politicians are in full blast on this issue now.
There was another case in the courts on a ‘beep’ song by an actor Simbu who is known for his vulgar antics. All the moral custodians and feminists are shouting and demonstrating to ‘punish’ Simbu for singing the song and Anirudh, the music director for setting music for the song! Wonderful, isn’t it?
A few years back the Tamil Nadu populace which erected a temple for actor Khushboo suddenly showed their ire on her and filed cases in all the courts because of her comments on sex which they considered immoral and against Tamil Culture. The print and electronic media make mountains out of such moles with great panache!
There is always a hullabaloo when someone says street dogs have to be killed or sterilized! I am sure in the same way, if someone says beggars should be sterilized there will be terrible pandemonium in the country and human right supporters will start shouting in high decibels!
However, none cares or demonstrates or acts to keep their surroundings clean, hygienic or follow the traffic rules, respect or educate people or behave decently in public!
We are never tired of talking about our past glory and make our present stink! If this can be called as the great Indian tradition and culture I feel only sorry for this freedom and also ashamed to be called as an Indian!
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Industry News Feed
Introducing Steam Labs
By Valve, July 11 in Industry News Feed
Behind the scenes at Steam, we create many experimental features with codenames like The Peabody Recommender and Organize Your Steam Library Using Morse Code. For the first time, we're giving these works-in-progress a home called Steam Labs, where you can interact with them, tell us whether you think they're worth pursuing further, and if so, share your thoughts on how they should evolve.
We've selected three initial experiments to share as we launch the Labs. Each of these is designed to help people find the games they'll love.
Micro Trailers are lovingly-generated six-second game trailers, arranged on a page so you can digest them all at a glance. Check out our new micro trailer collections for adventure games, RPGs, builders, and more.
The Interactive Recommender looks at your top-played games and uses machine learning to recommend other titles it thinks you'll love. Find old classics by directing it toward popular titles released in the past ten years, or discover that diamond-in-the-rough by zeroing in on niche games launched in the past six months.
The Automated Show is a half-hour video featuring the latest Steam launches. Leave it on a second monitor while you work, or glue your eyeballs to it and let hundreds of games wash over you.
So pop on your lab coat, try the experiments, and then share your feedback to help shape the future of Steam.
To follow future news and additions to Steam Labs, join the Steam Labs Community Group, where we'll share announcements and updates.
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Back to Tax in focus
Tax in focus
Australian Greens Party Policies for 2019 Federal Election
The Australian Greens Party has published their tax policy platform on their website and in various media releases.
Greens Party proposed reforms for individuals, business and political donations
Are you aware of the tax policies which may impact your clients, your business and your environment?
Tax policies
The Greens’ economic plan is centred on the proposition that a strong economy is a sustainable economy, built on a healthy environment. It is also based on the philosophies that our nation’s wealth is determined by the shape, not just the size, of our economy, and that the needs of the people should drive the economy, not the economy prevailing over the needs of the people.
Greens tax policy platform
Measures impacting individuals (directly or via partnerships and trusts)
Introduce a Buffet Rule that caps deductions so that individuals earning above $300,000 per year cannot deduct to a level below 35 cents in every extra tax dollar.
Oppose further tax cuts to the wealthiest Australians.
Remove $6.5 billion in public subsidies that go to private health companies for people who can afford private health insurance(reinvest this $6.5 billion back into the public health system to pay for health services, including expanding Denticare.
Measures impacting business
Introduce a 40% super-profits tax for large oil, gas and mining companies (a Henry Tax Review recommendation).
Fee-free University and TAFE 5-point plan to be funded by gas royalties and removal of fossil fuel subsidies:
Set royalties for gas extraction payable by offshore gas companies at a flat 10% royalty rate, raising $1.4 billion per year.
Remove the tax-free fuel rebate (fossil fuel subsidies), Australia’s 17th largest tax expenditure item.
Wind back $200 billion in tax credits for big mining and extraction companies, almost 16% of GDP.
Reduce the threshold for public reporting to $50 million to provide greater transparency over the tax affairs of the biggest companies in the country.
Reverse any company tax cuts for businesses earning more than $10 million per annum by restoring the tax rate to 30% (Small businesses to keep their current tax rate).
Re-introduce an economy-wide carbon price on direct emissions from facilities which emit more than 25,000 t of CO2-e per year to reduce emissions to drive a transition in renewables, and reduce household costs.
Eliminate billions of dollars in payments/subsidies to weapons exporters and those who make money from arms (almost $4 billion has been committed to assist arms exporters to Saudi Arabia).
Introduce a 110% wages tax credit for businesses with a turnover of up to $2 million so they can claim 110% of their wages bill against their income.
Double the GST registration threshold from $75,000 to $150,000 for small businesses, and $150,000 to $300,000 for not-for-profits. These thresholds will be indexed to inflation.
Remove employers from the superannuation collection process. The Australians Greens believe small business workers’ superannuation should be included with tax payments made by employers to the ATO and the ATO would then make payments to the superannuation funds based on advice from workers that is included in their annual tax returns.
Measures impacting ATO administration
Resource the ATO to recreate the 4,400 tax office positions that have been removed since 2012 and require accurate and timely reporting on tax avoidance, including a settlements register to detail any arrangement reached with the ATO.
Other tax-related measures
Setting a target of 100% of new passenger vehicles being electric by 2030, removing import tariffs and other taxes such as GST, stamp duty and registration, strong vehicle emissions standards, and rolling out fast charging infrastructure.
Political donation reform, including:
banning political donations from mining, property development, tobacco, alcohol, gambling, banking, defence and pharmaceutical industries, and putting a cap on all other donations of $1,000 a year;
until those bans and caps are in place, making sure every donation over $1,000 is listed publicly and disclosed in close to real-time;
banning donations splitting and all donations from foreign entities;
stopping all MPs from accepting lobbying jobs for five years after they retire, where a conflict of interest may arise;
requiring politicians to tell the public when and why they meet with lobbyists;
establishing a strong, independent federal anti-corruption commission to investigate politicians and governments.
Strategic Tax Planning Day
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Matteson principals offered contracts after uncertainty
By Frank Vaisvilas
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May 12, 2016 | 3:03 PM
The Matteson School District 159 Board voted unanimously Wednesday to offer two-year contracts to each of the district's five principals, to the relief of many concerned parents and teachers.
In March, some members of the board sent the principals contract non-renewal notices, but Board President Traycee Fox explained they would be allowed to reapply for their jobs provided they presented school action plans and goals to the board.
Board Member Carolyn Owens had said Superintendent Barbara Mason already had been evaluating principals and setting goals with them as mandated by the Illinois State Board of Education.
She believes Fox and three other board members were really targeting one principal for dismissal — Shahran Spears of Neil Armstrong Elementary School.
Fox had leveled criticism at Spears in previous meeting, in part for teaching children the Cherokee language and for distributing a CD to staff members that contained a song selected by a staff member that contained a dirty word.
Parents and teachers had pleaded with the board not to fire Spears, citing the positive atmosphere she creates at Armstrong.
Owens said Spears was really being targeted by Fox and board members Pamela Walker, Asia Norwood and Elliott Johnson because she had asked questions about perceived nepotism in the district. District Human Resources Director Sonya Norwood is the mother of board member Norwood and the sister of Walker.
On Wednesday, Fox told the Daily Southtown that the two-year contracts for all of the principals was what the board had been working toward all along. She criticized audience members for not coming out in numbers for something positive in the district such as a science fair, but filling the parking lot during meetings based on negative rumors.
Other evidence suggests Spears had previously been targeted for dismissal.
Spears had publicly explained during a previous meeting that she had not been offered the opportunity to discuss her school goals with district officials like the other principals after receiving her non-renewal notice. Her statements were confirmed by Assistant Superintendent Linda Johnson-McClinton.
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Owens showed the Southtown a letter she said was given to Spears stating that the reasons her contract was not being renewed was because Spears showed a "lack of respect" toward board members and made "disparaging comments" about them. The letter does not mention the CD incident or the quality of students' education.
And, at another meeting, an attorney for the district said that four other principals would be offered new contracts provided they presented their goals to the board. He did not mention Spears' name and told the Southtown that the board was not renewing her contract.
But Spears on Wednesday said she was "astoundingly happy" to be offered a two-year contract.
Parent Kenric Wiley said the contracts for all the principals were well-deserved. But, he said he's concerned certain board members could change their minds about the offer, so he won't be satisfied until the contracts are actually signed.
As concern in the community grew about the fate of the principals, a watchdog group was formed called the Concerned Citizens for Children.
Organizer Shawn Mitchell said that in the course of investigating why the board was targeting principals, the group found what appears to be questionable spending.
He circulated fliers to the audience of about 50 people Wednesday with questions about specific transactions made on procurement credit cards which are issued to board members.
For example, Mitchell questioned why $500 of taxpayer money was used for a dinner on Thanksgiving eve, and asked if it was necessary to spend up to $700 on hotel rooms in Matteson, Downtown Chicago and abroad.
CCFC members also question why board members voted for pay increases for family members who work for the district.
Audience members weren't allowed to ask those questions during the public comment portion of the meeting, which was preceded by an extended closed session, because Walker explained they didn't fill out comment cards.
But Fox said officials will take a look at the questions and have answers at the next board meeting.
"We want you to hold us accountable," she said.
Also on Wednesday Human Resources Director Sonya Norwood announced that there were 50 qualified applicants to replace the retiring Mason, and 40 applicants for the district's finance director position.
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Fox, Johnson, Norwood and Walker had voted to fire Finance Director Demetria Brown in April.
Board Member Bernice Brown, who is Demetria's mother, said on Wednesday that the district has had seven different finance directors in seven years. She said her daughter had her job before she became a board member, and didn't join the board because of her daughter's job.
Brown said that her daughter was fired because she wasn't "a team player," and corrected a situation in which a group of support staff members weren't being properly paid. In a previous meeting Brown also alleged that her daughter was fired because she had questioned what may be improper spending by some board members.
Frank Vaisvilas is a freelance reporter for the Daily Southtown.
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Carpe Carpio
The Carp Fishing Blog
Finding The Perfect Fishing Boat
Check out this video for important tips that can help you buy the perfect fishing boat for your situation. Below are some highlights:
Dual console or center console? The advantage of a dual console boat is strictly protection from the weather. On the other hand, a dual console takes up much more space, so that is something important to consider.
Versatility is also something to consider. The boat will likely be used for more than just fishing. Flip down seats are very convenient. Keep them down to provide a fishing deck and then flip them up when you are taking the family out boating. A marine stereo with waterproof speakers can also be great for family boating time, even if you may not listen while fishing. Check out Rock The Boat Audio for more information on marine stereos.
The Protective Snakehead Parent
Spawning snakeheads have a fascinating behavior pattern. The adults guard the balls of blood red fry and push them, at intervals, to the surface to breath air. Spotting a ball of surfacing fry, following, and then casting to them can be an exciting contest. Of course we are not trying to catch fry. We are trying to catch the guards.
Once we are within casting distance, the cry begins, “Tee, tee, tee!” (“Cast, cast, cast!”). We begin tossing our top water lures over the fry ball. The purpose is to aggravate the guarding adults into attacking. The action is fast and furious. Total sight fishing. There is really nothing else that compares to it. It can be exerting. A ball of fry could be worked for over an hour in sweltering heat. It is truly a team effort. Spotting, chasing, positioning. It all comes together with an explosive strike and a solid hook-set.
The “luk krok” (Thai name for the ball of fry) varies in size from about 0.5 to 1.5 square meters…
A DEAD SNAKEHEAD IS THOUSANDS OF THEM LESS IN THE WATER
Angling for the Giant Snakehead when the unique opportunity of the fish’s parental behavior while protecting it’s young presents itself is far above any other kind of fishing the most exciting of all. That is the topic I am going to talk to you about today. At the very moment I am writing those lines, I can see in my mind the whole scenario of a snakehead striking at a lure on top water. Bang! What a sublime visual treat is that all of a sudden explosion coming out of nowhere, that shotgun kind of sound going with it! There is absolutely nothing to be compared to that few seconds instant of a Giant Snakehead’s strike. It is the snakehead in its all splendor as a unique true warrior of the deep, as a “go for the kill” hitman who doesn’t know the meaning of fear. That strike is my ultimate kick, my brain orgasm, everything making my life worth living as an angler. The fight that will follow is secondary; it has almost no importance to me. The size of the fish, big or small, doesn’t matter either. To make it bite and to experience its attack is only what matters. The most difficult the challenge, the better!
To hook up a mother snakehead escorting her ball of baby fry might sounds kind of cruel for non-angling people who call themselves animal lovers. Too often animal lovers don’t have a single clue about the true reality and the cruelty of the water world and its inhabitants. The giant snakehead is a predator fish that maims or kills anything crossing its territory. It is a behavior deep down in its genes unlike any other predator fish species.
I’m a true snakehead lover and I see a benefit in hooking a parent snakehead as long as the fish is released safely next to its young. In fact in the particular context of Thailand where catch and release is just starting to be practiced by by local anglers, I feel I am almost saving a fish’s life each time I hook one of them. The fish learned a lesson about it. Once released, more cautious and prudent, it won’t bite again that easily for a while. The next local angler who will find that snakehead with its ball of fry will have to be very skilful to make it bite again. An almost certain death then is avoided…
A parent snakehead caught and kept by a fellow local angler for food is in fact what really breaks my heart. Is that so difficult to some to understand the fact that a parent snakehead caught but returned to the water means some of its thousands babies will stay alive and growing up later will became adults perpetuating the species and our good fishing at the same time? A single dead parent snakehead means thousands less fish in a reservoir in the following years. It is so evident. Mother Nature could be compared to a bank account. It works in a similar way. If you withdraw too often and too much from it, sooner or later you won’t have much left; some of these days maybe almost nothing left at all. Our waters are a bank account that all of us anglers are sharing together. It is mine. It is yours. Catching but releasing is like borrowing money and returning it next so later others can use some too.
The value of the angling knowledge about snakehead fishing that I collected on the water through years of practice has no price. Any angler has to pay his own dues before reaching whatever is his level of expertise. He can either keep it selfishly for himself or pass it to others. I choose the second for the purpose of giving to present novice anglers and future coming lure anglers the burning desire to experience by themselves that unique feeling of a snakehead’s strike on top water. The very same feeling I’m so addicted to. But I see a risk in it. By offering them my coming angling tips for the purpose of helping to get better chances to catch Giant Snakehead escorting their young, some might succeed later by catching more fish, more often. I can only hope they won’t forget what I just wrote above about the vital necessity of releasing all of their parent snakehead catches. That would be the most generous way to thank me for those tips.
MATING AND SPAWNING
After spawning, both the male and female parents can be found escorting and protecting their balls of fry, “luk krok” as they are called in the Thai language. That ball of fry will continue to remain in a tight school for several months before separating and becoming totally self-sufficient. When first born, the baby snakeheads are black in color, they then turn bright red and become more visible. The shimmering, darting mass of baby fish appears as an underwater shadow, changing shape and direction while guided by the parents. The “luk krok” (Thai name for the ball of fry) varies in size from about 0.5 to 1.5 square meters and moves vertically and horizontally. Occasionally, when sensing danger, the parents will split the ball apart and then reform. They eventually rise to the surface in what appears to be a sudden, very isolated rainstorm hitting the water. This periodic revelation of presence sets the stage for some exciting action.
TECHNIQUE AND LURE SELECTION
The technique is simple. Find the fry and cast your top water lure to entice a strike by the parent. Hunting, as much as fishing. Execution however, is the key to success and this becomes a bit more sophisticated. Like the technique, lure selection is very basic. I use three different types, a lure with two sets of treble hooks for open water (my favorite being the Thai handmade T.Surf), a frog imitation with a single set of double barbed hooks (Thai handmade Addy Lure) in heavy cover and a Rapala for both perimeter and open water areas. The first two are fished on the surface and the Rapala is a floater/diver.
When fishing open water, where no snags, submerged brush or thick aquatic weeds are present, I use the minnow shaped body, large propeller and two sets of treble hooks that offer a good strike to hook-up ratio. At night the parents and the fry hide and rest in the underwater bushes. In early morning, they start traveling from one location to another in search of food and areas of safety. As they spend the day moving about from place to place they can be spotted and cast to with this loud churning surface bait.
The frog imitation with a single set of double barbed hooks is most productive when the fry are resting close to or in heavy cover such as weeds or submerged bushes. There is no way that two treble hooks can make it though the obstacles without hanging up and disturbing the fish. The parents will flee and the fry will just move deeper into the cover. A second cast would be useless. The frog imitation two hook points are positioned up-ward, allowing the lure to be fished through weeds, grass and brush without hanging up or causing undue alarm to the fish. The lure is effectively weed-less and works perfectly in this situation.
The frog lure hook-up ratio is somewhat less than the lure with two sets of treble hooks The trade off, of course, is soliciting a strike in the first place. The double barbs are located at the tail of the frog. If the fish strikes from behind, a good hook set is a near certainty. A strike from the side or from underneath, quite often results in a miss. At best the chances are 50/50. If the fish bites the front part of the frog lure, hooking odds are reduced.
Experience has taught me that one of the parents always sticks close to the fry. The other patrols around a few meters away and is ready to bite anything that could be a potential danger to the babies. This danger is often a hungry jungle perch (Hampala barb). Usually it is the female sticking close to the fry while the male conducts the patrol. The female is often the larger of the two. It is not unusual to see a 6.0 Kg. mother snakehead with a 3.0 Kg. mate. It goes without saying that I am more attracted to the females. (This applies to snakeheads as well). Most often, it is the male that attacks your lure! When a female does strike first, it is generally because she is alone. Quite often, the male has already been caught, and sadly, was not released. You may have a better chance of sticking the bigger fish with the bigger mouth, but that is just the beginning of the battle!
The Rapala can be considered to be a “follow-up” bait. Used primarily in the open water scenario, I will throw it after making several casts with the surface lures, producing only slight interest, or no interest at all. This sometimes occurs because the fish was recently hooked, or because the fish simply feels the danger, and is more wary. The diving lure may pass through the submerged ball of fry or between the babies and the parent. In any event, it is used when the surface action slows. Picking the right time and place to use the Rapala will be discussed in another section of this article.
READING THE CONDITIONS AND MAKING THE PRESENTATION
When parents and fry are found in open water, the pattern is always the same. When disturbed, they will flee in the direction of the nearest submerged bushes or weeds to escape and hide. If they are found far away from immediate cover, there will be more opportunities to cast. This improves your chances. It is now decision time! Do I continue to cast with the top-water T. Surf, or am I going to go underwater with a diving Rapala? I have to make the choice. I have to read the conditions.
The behavior of the fish, at that very moment will dictate the strategy. There can be two kinds of behavior. The first is when neither the father nor mother reacts at all. They don’t care. We know the fish are there. We know that they are with their babies. They simply don’t display any kind of aggression or protective attitude. I won’t spend a lot of time making repeated casts in this situation.
The second pattern of behavior is good news to the angler. The fish are already seriously annoyed. Something is moving and making noise too close to the babies. This triggers a reaction that in the Thai language is called “lai glua”.
“Lai glua” is characterized by three distinct forms of aggression. The first is when the fish suddenly decides to pursue the lure, tries to bite it, and misses. In this case you can see a few bubbles rising to the surface. Something Thai snakehead anglers call “foam”. This half-hearted effort to eat the bait may or may not recur as you continue to cast.
The second behavior is when the agitated fish chases the lure with its mouth closed. It has no intention of eating the intruder. It just wants to send a very impressive message. In this unique situation, the snakehead will bat the lure with the top or side of its head. It is like a cat playing with a small mouse. It’s quite similar to a player using his head in a football game. I have seen lures knocked a meter or more above the water surface by this action.
The third pattern of behavior is when the fish will rise from the depths towards the lure, make a sudden U-turn that produces a huge water boil at the surface, and then heads straight back to the fry. It did not make contact. I have seen snakeheads do this 15 times in a row.
My advice now is to be extremely focused. The actual strike can happen at any time. In fact, when you least expect it! Often no strike will occur after all of that crazy attacking and boiling. But just as often, out of nowhere, the snake will hit your lure with the speed and power of a Thai kick-boxer with fins. You had better be ready! Keep in mind that there are quite possibly two parents with the luk krok. They may each have a different attitude.
The minnow shaped body lure and to a lesser degree, the frog lure are used it this situation. Cast the lure behind where you think the parent is and in front of the moving school of fry. Or make your cast to hit into the school just before they come to the surface. Try to become the intruder between the adult and the babies. Make as much lure noise as possible. Do not let the lure sink. Begin reeling as soon as it hits the water. Cast rapid fire, as quickly as you can. When the surface action by the fish abates, stop! Wait patiently for the fish to appear again, and then resume the frenzied attack.
As the ball of fry migrates from one location to another I keep tossing the surface lures that match the water conditions and cover. As long as I witness some level of interest by the parent, I will continue to present my offerings on the surface of the water. If the surface action becomes consistently quiet, and the underwater conditions are relatively free of obstacles, the Rapala is pressed into service. Judging from the last surface observation and the general direction that “luk krok” had been moving, I begin probing the depths with the diving lure.
Another condition that must be considered is the time of day. As with many fish species, giant snakeheads are usually most aggressive early in the morning and to an even greater degree, just before nightfall. It is always difficult to make a snakehead bite between 11:00 am and 4:00 pm. But with a bit of obstinate persistence and angling skill, it is often possible to goad the snake into losing control and striking the lure. Personally, as long as I can see the fry and can to cast to them, I will continue the pursuit for at least an hour.
An example of this obstinate persistence is when I caught my 7.50 Kg. IGFA world record. It was April, two o’clock in the afternoon and hot. It was during the dry season and temperature hovered around 38 degrees. My trusted friend Sanghop and my guest, Captain John Pierce from Phuket and I were chasing the luk krok. The cat and mouse game was on. The female snake was leading her young congregation around the lake. This went on for over an hour. We tried every top water lure in our boxes. Not a strike. Finally, we all switched to different colored Rapala magnum Shad Raps. This didn’t seem to be any better. We persisted. We weren’t giving up. We continued to cast, on and on until the big female finally got so upset she hit John’s underwater retrieve a couple of times. At then, she hit my lure, no bump and run, no slight nudging out of the way. She hit with the full force of a runaway freight train. Obstinate persistence pays! I have experienced this all too often. It’s a common occurrence.
After an hour or so of continual casting and no results I will quit. No big deal. That was a good challenge but the fish bested me. I lost fair and square. “Congratulations Mr. Shado, you’re too good today!”
OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIENCES
As important as strategy and technique are, every decision is based on lessons previously learned. Even finding and following the “luk krok” requires levels of expertise and experience. Let’s say that we located a ball of fry. Neither of the parents would strike and they are heading towards cover. You are in hot pursuit and they know it. They don’t know that you are some guy with a fishing rod, but they are aware of a threat and are beating a hasty retreat. The female doesn’t push the babies to the surface for oxygen as often now. And when they do come up, it is for a shorter period of time. Only a second or two and then gone again. How can we judge what will happen next? How long must we wait between the rises?
One way to know is by observing the size of the fry. Newly hatched fish, say a week or two old may have to surface every minute or so. Older fish may be able to stay submerged for as much as 5 minutes. Obviously, the older fish are capable of resurfacing a greater distance away than the younger ones, often behind your back. This is one reason why it is so important to judge the general direction that the ball in moving in. How often I have seen the fish surface after a prolonged wait, only to find that they are out of casting distance. You cannot afford to miss many casting opportunities.
On rare occasions, but frequently enough, the “luk krok” just disappears for good. I have not determined why this happens. Like a ghost, they appear and then are gone. Even the experienced local boatmen cannot explain this occurrence. The fish must come to the surface to breathe and they don’t just escape from your sight, there are too many sharp eyes watching. I have long wondered how they are able to disappear. It is still a mystery.
The local boatmen, as well as the experienced snakehead angler, have developed sharp eyes and are continually watching for the telltale signs of the “luk krok”. The boatmen especially, are invaluable in this pursuit. They are successful in all kinds of conditions. Even windy weather, waves and rain can’t totally obscure the quarry from their watchful eyes. First time “luk krok” fishermen are often frustrated when they can’t spot the ball of fry that the guide has pointed out to them. It is a skill that requires total concentration. Think about locating these little balls of fry, sometimes less than a square meter in diameter, on a body of water that may be 75 kilometers long. And think about doing this while the boat is moving. Many times the “luk krok” will be spotted in the brush 50 meters away from the boat. Before the newborn fish turn from their original black to tomato red, they are even harder to spot.
Occasionally, the mother snakehead will split the school of fry in two. The momma snake is instinctually smart and although she doesn’t recognize the angler or the lure as a specific predator, she senses danger and reacts to protect the brood. The two schools of fry may be separated by several meters distance. Each ball continues to surface and dive but does not move far from where she left them. She then moves as much as 10 meters away from both schools. When this happens, just stop and wait. It’s a matter of time, but the two parts will eventually reunite and she will move back in to lead them. Don’t resume casting too soon. Wait until the ball starts moving. Better yet, wait for the mother to surface. Your previous casts did not attract her so try something different. She also needs oxygen. Sometimes the male and female will surface together to take a gulp of air. Patiently wait until the very second that she shows her head and then make a perfect cast, one meter past her. Then begin reeling like hell. I call this the “caught by surprise” cast. At the very same moment that she is diving slowly back to the deep, she notices the lure directly above her and this may cause her to lose control. She rushes back to the surface in a split second and hammers the bait. She hadn’t seen nor heard that stranger (your lure) for more than twenty minutes. The danger was gone, and now, all of a sudden, here the damn thing is, back again! She can’t stand it any more ………..and bang!
Needless to say, the experienced boatman and expert snakehead angler have the edge in this kind of fishing. With time, most any dedicated angler can learn these skills. As one gains experience, he can predict which direction the fish are taking underwater. He can see the black shadow of the fry moving towards the surface and can anticipate where the cast should be made. The coinciding arrival of the lure and the “luk krok” at the surface can trigger an explosive strike.
The expert casts his lures fast and accurately. He will make reflex casts, putting his top water lure from a half meter to one and a half meters in front, or to the side, of the moving ball. He will then reel at top speed to have his surface lure hit the fry at the very moment that the babies are surfacing. This is the ultimate condition, as one of the two adults has to be near by, pushing the babies up, making them breathe. Momma or daddy snakehead is thinking: “What are you doing to my babies, you ugly bastard”. Baaam!!! Maternal instinct and predator reflex takes over. The snake has lost its control and is finally hooked.
The average angler, accustomed to normal fishing conditions, doesn’t feel, anticipate, or predict where to make his next cast during the “luk krok” period. He must re-learn some of his own fishing behavior. He will wait, look all around the boat, scan the water surface and not see what is about to happen. He will ask me. “Where is it?” “Where is it?” “Where did they go?” I’ll point to the underwater shadow and say, “there, see there, they are rising”. He won’t see a thing. He will cast to the surfacing fish as they twinkle briefly in the sunlight and will almost always reel back empty. The fish are on their way back down by the time that his accurate cast hit the water. Timing is critical. Obviously, some anglers learn more quickly than others, and quite frankly, this kind of fishing isn’t for everyone. But once a basic understanding of the process is gained, the hunt is nearly as enjoyable as actually catching the fish.
EXAMPLES AND INFORMATION
Now that you know a little about the how, when, where and why of luk krok fishing, let’s elaborate a bit on some actual experiences. As previously discussed, the snakehead’s behavior, at that particular time, will dictate my lure selection. The level of aggressiveness, the degree of agitation, and the “lai glua” behavior, are all factors to be considered. Following my usual pattern, I start with the surface lures and then as conditions dictate, I move on the subsurface diving baits. This is when I reach for Mr. Joker. This would be a magnum, floating/diving Rapala or Shad Rap. As long as it’s big enough and my favorite color, which happens to be fire-tiger, it works for me. A #9, #11 or #14 usually fits the task.
Using diving lures is not exactly my cup of tea. Something deep inside of me finds it a bit annoying to have to resort to a Rapala to finalize a potential catch. ‘Cause that Rapala guy is a killer! No mercy. I figure that when using this lure, I will finally hook one of the parents about 70% of the time. I don’t consider this to be the most gentlemanly way to close the deal. In a way, it lacks fairness. I have always preferred to challenge my adversary on top-water. It’s a personal preference, but I find nothing else quite so beautiful as the savage attack by an angry snakehead as he or she closes in to slam a lure moving rapidly across the water. The shotgun explosion is heart stopping. But, I have been accused of being something less than a gentleman a time or two, and to maintain that distinction, I will, on occasion, lower myself to go deep.
Often, being unable to entice a surface bite, I would just let it be that way. I accept it as a 50% failure, a failure that is of no importance at all to my pride or ego. But being the predator that I am, and always the challenger, I can’t always turn my back to that fish and say to him as I leave, “Okay Mr. Snakehead! Congratulations! I did my best to catch you and was outsmarted. You’re good amigo!” No, all too often I must give in to my competitive instincts and go the distance. The Thai have an expression that suits me well. “May yom pey” (refusing to lose). So I simply cannot resist. “Hey hey! So, you don’t want to bite ‘eh, Mr. Shado? Wait a minute, my friend, I got something for ya!”
I remember once finding a “luk krok” in a hidden bay on Khao Laem reservoir. One of the parents, I don’t know which, most likely the male, put on such a fantastic display of aggression that I will never forget it. It was a young fish, not big, maybe 3.0 kilos. But that fellow was one brave, crazy mean sucker. Even with plenty of escape routes, he meant to stand his ground. It was as if he was saying, “I’m here, this is my territory, my water and no matter who you are, I ain’t goin’ nowhere”. The fry were stationary, diving and surfacing, but not moving. And each time that I would cast, that brave little snake would tease me by chasing the top-water lure. He would boil under the bait and then return to the fry. We played this tune 20 times. Wanchai, my young boatman, was urging me to hook that rascal for good. “Switch to the Rapala Uncle Fang,” he said. (Uncle Fang being the Thai nickname younger people gave to me long ago.)
I just couldn’t. I knew that the first or second cast would nail him. He was so agitated that he’d hit the first thing that moved underwater. No, he deserved better. No point in hooking one more fish. I had built a respect for that brave little guy. After a couple more good-by surface casts, I asked Wanchai to start the outboard and move away. His two dark, round eyes stared at me in confusion, saying, “Tamai Lung Fang may dai tee Rapala?” (Why Uncle Fang doesn’t cast a Rapala.?) I looked at him and responded with a pure Thai answer. “Fang kikiek!” (Francois is lazy). I’m pretty sure that Wanchai wondered for quite a while afterwards why I let that easy catch go. I loved it.
When following a ball of fry, if you haven’t hooked either of the parents after repeated casts with surface or subsurface lures, it’s a pretty sure bet that they and the fry have reached the cover of submerged bushes. Tired from the chase, they will usually rest a bit. They begin to feel safe and secure. Wrong! I often hook fish in this situation, even if they wouldn’t hit in the open. You have to be fast. Put on the Addy frog imitation that has the very noisy front propeller. Depending on the how thick the cover is, you may be able to get in two or three final casts with the weed-less lure. You won’t have much time, as after a cast or two they will be on the move again. If luck is with you, they may even move back out into open water. It happens. The cat and mouse game can now resume. Just as often, they will move along the bank. Another few casting chances perhaps. But more often than not, they go deeper inside of the cover to hide. That chase is over, time to resume the hunt for more subsurface shadows.
Lure color is very important under “normal snakehead conditions”. It’s not so important when fishing “luk krok”. During the baby fry period, lure noise is the key. I fish mostly fire-tiger and red head / white body lures because, as they say in Thai, they are “tchat tchat”, (easily seen) on top, by the fish. Most any color will work. To punctuate that statement, I have caught numerous fish on terribly mangled lures. Hardly any paint left on them. No color at all. They looked more like a piece of wood than a lure.
The noise is entirely another matter. It makes all of the difference! During the luk krok period I use specially designed propellers, different from standard lures. As the prop blade turns it strikes a carefully positioned plastic “pearl” that is fitted to the lure using rigid wire. This produces a loud “klak, klak, klak, klak” sound that seems to be unbearable to the snakeheads. I once asked a friend to retrieve this lure across the water surface while I submerged myself and listened. No doubt about, it must be very irritating to a fish, a completely alien sound. I’m sure that humans and fish perceive sound differently. But I certainly didn’t like it and I have been accused of sometimes thinking like a fish. On top of the water however, it is music to my ears! This lure modification has been productive for me through the years. Regular big props work also, but the “pearl thing” seems to produce better. I’ve shared a boat with guys who were fishing standard props and were not getting any action. I asked them to let me try with the pearl prop and “BAM”, Mr. Shado met the landing net. It works great!
If I land the female first, I am already satisfied with the catch. She is often the bigger of the two and there is no need to stress the second fish. However, if I catch the male first and I am certain that the female is still out there, it becomes another story. We still have a challenge. I’ll safely keep the male in the boat. Then I’ll resume casting for momma. Sometimes I will catch both of them. Both mommy and daddy are then released near the fry. If mom doesn’t cooperate, then I just find the ball of fry and drop off dad.
I hear many interesting stories from the locals. One has to do with snakehead cannibalism. I cannot relate this as a truth in fact, but I like the story. It sounds good. I’ve been told that if both parents are caught (never released by the locals) then another snakehead will adopt the fry. The new parent, step-fish, I guess it would be, will protect and care for the babies, keeping them from jungle perch and other predators. The stepparent will escort them until they grow bigger and then, as they become tasty morsels, will begin eating them one by one. Sort of farming your own food. I’ve not read anything on the subject and it sounds (excuse the pun) a bit fishy, but the locals live on the water and maybe they know. Guess that it could be true……….
Jean-Francois Helias
Catfish Tip: Sour Bait and Early Season Cats
As early season walleye anglers might know, bouncing a jig and minnow on the bottom of the river while utilizing a controlled drift in “cat” waters, you are eventually going to tangle with this species, and more often than not, he will probably be disheartened once “ole whiskers” breaks water after a tug ‘n’ pull and rolling contest. But to the cat river rat, this is “sour ripe music to his ears.” catfish guide Reg Hougelin
What is sour bait you say? Well, it sure isn’t any magic potion. Put simply, it is just cut catfish bait from suckers, carp, baitfish etc. that turns very rotten with a little time.
During the winter, you have what is called a winter-kill, where fish die and lay on the bottom ’til the water temperature warms up and they rise to the surface where wind and current carry them to such places as river eddies, deadfalls, creeks, bridge abutments, etc. This is where the cats are going to be feeding too.
As water temperatures reach the low 50° mark, cats start moving upstream out of their wintering holes in search of food and places to spawn, such as feeder creeks, backwaters, etc. Known as the pre-spawn period, this is when sour bait really shines.
As mentioned before, sour bait is basically winterkill fish that is abundant at this time of year. Preparing sour bait is not difficult at all, but it seems that every catman has his own way of preparing it, though the basics are the same.
First, start by filleting the fish and then cut it into 2″ – 3″ chunks and lay the pieces in a canning jar until you are about 1″ from the top of the jar. Add a few drops of water and close the lid, but not too tight, so the gases can expel out. Bury it in the ground about 8″ – 12″ where the sun will hit it most of the day to let it start ripening. Leave it there for about a week and that’s it.
Catfishing rigs are quite simple and at this time of year I like using the old slip-sinker rig consisting of a sliding sinker, small bead, coastlock swivel and a wide-gap kahle hook. Always use the lightest sinker you can depending on the current and bottom content. I favor the flat sinker because it doesn’t roll on the bottom. Then I place a bead below the sinker to protect the knot where the swivel is tied. The swivel is important to prevent line-twist. Then use a 6″-18″ leader with a wide-gap kahle hook, and string on 1-3 chunks of sour bait, leaving the hook exposed.
As for hook size, I use a 2/0 – 4/0 size because through the years I’ve noticed that you do not need a 5/0 – 8/0 hook size to hook and land big cats at this time of year, unless possibly you are fishing for huge flatheads and blue cats. Change bait frequently to keep the fresh juices moving in the water.
If fished right, sour bait is big catfishing bait! I hope this little tip might help you out because the season is now (early spring).
Pre-baiting Tips for Carp
I’ve learned a lot about carp behavior during the past nine weeks fishing in Hungary; and have come to the conclusion that it is not specifically the BAIT that catches carp, but the method in which the bait is presented to the fish. The fish must see and recognize the bait as food. This is done by ‘PRE BAITING’ every day; in one spot; for weeks on end. The fish become aware that there is a REGULAR source of good food available to them. Believe me ‘word soon gets around’ and after a few weeks of work you will be ‘Hauling’. The longer you feed the better. The BAITING PYRAMID takes over, and the big fish bully the smaller fish off, making for great sport. The only thing you MUST have is PATIENCE.
The local fishermen in Hungary have been using Maize as a bait, both for use ‘on the hook’; and as ‘loose feed’, for over 100 years. “Modern” carp ‘specimen hunters’ have been visiting Hungary for around 10 years, but the methods they use, and the techniques they employ, have given them a ‘mixed’ welcome, from local anglers, wherever they fish. You see the problem lies in the fact that European anglers return the fish they catch to the water. This is almost ‘Alien’ behavior to your average Hungarian angler. He, or she, would be off home with the fish to help feed his family, and find the site of his quarry returning to the water ALIVE, too much to bear. But to each his, or her own.
I think we have made up for this however, by telling locals of this method. I returned this year to the same lake I have been fishing in Hungary for 3 years. I was surprised by the reception I got from some anglers, they were ‘glad to see me’. Apparently the method WORKS. It worked for us this year. We caught 3 carp. 23 Kgs, 19.6 Kgs, and 17.5 Kgs. It took a long time though, but what the hell, it was worth it!
As far as other baits go, PARTICLES are by far the most versatile. By particles I mean things like: Black eyed beans, Haricot beans, Californian walnuts, peanuts, etc. They MUST first be cooked until soft BEFORE use, as some beans can be toxic to carp if not cooked.
The Tale Of The Cobra Snakehead
You better not mention the word “Cobra Snakehead” to a “crazy snakehead hunter” like myself! For over a decade now, I have been absolutely hooked on fishing with top water lures for all Snakehead species. And that Cobra Snakehead, above any other one of those matchless snakehead fish, is a very special friend in the tales of my Thai jungle fishing adventures. So it wouldn’t be good to talk to me about that particular fish. I know I would be immediately thinking of having a break right now with my angling guiding service work to head straight away for the deep jungle of the Kanchanaburi province. A part of countries like Pakistan, India to China or Cambodia, it is in that precise area of Thailand, the land of smiles, that most of these rare serpent-heads can be found. At least I thought it was. Until I learned not so long ago from a fellow angler in the States that they inhabit Florida waters now too!
A FISH BELIEVED ERRONEOUSLY TO HAVE A POISONOUS BITE
In any material published by the Thai Fisheries Department, the true English name given to the Channa marulius is in fact Great Snakehead. Because of its long and thin reptile body and its cobra-like head, the Thai people call that fish in their language “Pla Chon Gnu Hao” which means “fish-cobra”. That is also why local anglers referring to that fish use the English name of “cobra snakehead” rather than “great snakehead”.
I do too. I feel it is in a way much proper, not to mention it sounds to my ears much better. A funny thing about it is, because of its serpent-like head, most Thai people still erroneously believed the cobra snakehead has a poisonous bite.
The Channa marulius has red eyes and is gold-tinted brown to pale gray in younger fish while older fish are generally dark brown with large black blotches. The most distinctive marking is the black spot rimmed with orange near the base of the tail fin, known as an eye-spot or ocellus.
When doing research about that unique fish I found out that it was exhibited alive for the very first time at a fair in Bangkok in December 1933. It is said that fish has inspired various other beliefs and myths through the centuries. Mason, a western scientist studying these species in 1878, wrote how the Karen people of Burma regarded this fish with “superstitious awe” and refrained from eating them. Mason stated: Karens have a legend that they were formerly men, changed into fish for their sins, and the Karens of Tavoy say, “if people eat them, they will be transformed into lions”.
A FISH SPECIES DISAPEARING STEP BY STEP FROM THAI WATERS
Because of its scarceness and its habitat, frequenting aquatic weeds or snagged territories such as submerged fallen trees close to the bank, the Cobra Snakehead could be compared in a way to his Malay counterpart, the Toman Bunga (Channa marulloides).
Nowadays the population of that distinctive Thai serpent-head species is alas becoming quite rare in Thailand. Even though I combed every single inch of water with top water lures where I thought a Cobra Snakehead might be hidden, it took me many years myself to fulfill my dream of seeing at least one of them striking at one of my lures.
Its flesh, like its cousin the Striped Snakehead (Channa striata), is exquisite and very much sought after by local people living by the water.
No one is caring at all how rare the Channa marulius is. Any specimen of any size is sadly considered as a potential “tom yum” (famous Thai soup cooked with lemon grass). Just after the spawn, it is known that it is not very difficult to make a female Cobra snakehead fish protecting its baby fry to bite at anything. What a pity for such an elusive predator fish to end that way!
Because of that kind of pressure from locals, it explains why nowadays most of the Channa marulius specimens caught by anglers are too often not exceeding the 3.00 Kg (6.6 lbs.) mark, even though it can reach a maximum weight close to 10.00 Kg (22 lbs.). The two biggest specimens ever caught with rod and line in Thailand that I have heard of were landed a decade ago. Both catches weighed 8.00 Kg (17.6 lbs.) and were hooked by two of my present team guides, Khun Sanghop and Khun Oot. One fish was caught at the Khao Laem dam, the other one at the Sri Nakharin dam. As for the current IGFA All Tackle world record for that species, it is held by my friend Gerard Cittadini (France) with a fish of 2.55 Kg (5.6 lbs.), caught in July 2001 at the Sri Nakharin dam.
SERPENT UNWELCOME UNDER THE FLORIDA SUN!
At the beginning of July 2002, I received an email from Scott Nelson, an American angler from Tampa Bay, Florida. A month before, I had guided him on a Snakehead fishing expedition at the Khao Laem dam with 5 other US anglers from Quest! Global Angling Adventures. Since that first Thai jungle experience, he was getting seriously hooked on Snakehead fishing, archiving everything he could find about them. Scott was forwarding me some really interesting news releases from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. It is so far the most serious and accurate report I have read through the garbage of too many media press stories published because of the actual snakehead phobia in America.
Here are some good extracts of that report entitled
NEW EXOTIC FISH NOW PRESENT IN FLORIDA’S FRESHWATER SYSTEM:
WEST PALM BEACH–An Asian fish commonly known as a snakehead is the most recent addition to Florida’s list of reproducing exotic fishes, scientists reported this week. “However, it’s far too early to know or even speculate on what effects the presence of this snakehead will have,” according to Paul Shafland, director of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation’s (FWC) Non-Native Fish Lab in Boca Raton.
There are now 31 documented exotic fish species reproducing in Florida’s fresh waters. Some of the better-known exotic residents include the walking catfish, Asian swamp eel, and oscar. The snakehead is an air-breathing fish similar in appearance and behavior to the native bowfin (or mudfish). Shafland said angler Bob Newland of Sunrise caught the first documented snakehead on October 5, 2000 while fishing a residential pond in Tamarac, Broward County. The angler initially thought it was a bowfin until noticing the ocellus, a distinctive dark spot rimmed in brilliant orange near the base of the tail fin. The fish measured 26 inches long and weighed four pounds.
The fish was tentatively identified at the lab as a snakehead by Shafland, who then sampled the catch site the next day, assisted by fisheries technician Murray Stanford. The researchers visually observed two large snakeheads measuring from 20 to 24 inches and collected a smaller specimen around 12 inches long using electroshocking equipment. More than 100 snakeheads from 6 to 28.5 inches long and from one ounce to six pounds have been collected so far. FWC is sharing information with other agencies studying exotic fishes, including scientists from the United States Geological Survey. Specimens of this fish have been given to Jim Williams and Leo Nico of the USGS in Gainesville for positive identification. ?
“There is relatively little information on the life histories and ecology of most fish species from tropical Asia,” Shafland said. ” As a result, useful information about how these fishes may interact with native species is sparse and some of it, especially in older sources, is suspect. Snakeheads have been described as being extremely aggressive and voracious, but based on our personal observations the species collected in Florida appears to be one of the less aggressive species of snakeheads.
We hope the public doesn’t over react as was the case with the media inspired hysteria regarding the appearance of the walking catfish back in the 1960s and even the swamp eel a few years ago,” he said. “The presence of this species immediately places it into the unwelcome and undesirable category, but more importantly it clearly demonstrates that illegal introductions of exotic fishes continue in Florida. “In fact, this is the sixth exotic fish that has been documented reproducing in Florida waters since 1992.” Shafland said.
“Obviously we need to do more to educate the public about the serious ecological consequences that the illegal release of exotic species represent.” Shafland pointed out that once a fish species is reproducing in the open water systems of south Florida, it is impossible to eradicate them. Preventing the illegal introduction of exotics in the first place is really the only viable tactic along with educating anglers, aquarists, and others about the illegality of dumping and/or transferring exotic fish from one water body to another. Shafland praised Newland for taking the time and effort to report catching what appeared to be a rather strange looking bowfin.
The Boca Raton scientist stated that the cooperation and assistance of knowledgeable anglers in identifying exotics is invaluable. “Our agency just doesn’t have the staff and the resources to monitor every square foot of fresh water contained in Florida’s numerous lakes, streams, rivers, canals, and impoundments,” he said. “Anglers are often the first to detect the presence of an exotic fish, and we often depend on their reports.” Since the first snakehead was caught in October, FWC scientists at the Boca Lab have initiated a comprehensive effort to determine their distribution, relative abundance, temperature tolerance, and associations with native fish. Food habits, habitat preferences, and reproduction will also be closely studied.
“Unfortunately, there are no quick fixes once an exotic fish begins reproducing and these studies will require several years to complete,” Shafland said. “We have already completed some preliminary temperature tolerance studies that indicate this snakehead cannot live in water temperatures below 50 degrees. “This is good news and bad news,” he said. “The good news is that snakeheads will be largely limited to the southern half of Florida due to lower winter temperatures farther north. The bad news is that much of southern Florida likely provides suitable habitat for this undesirable fish to establish a permanent home in.”
“Our initial stomach content evaluations showed that more than 50 percent of their food consisted of crayfish,” said Kelly Gestring, an FWC research scientist at Boca Raton. “Now that could in the long run have an effect on other species that feed on crayfish, but it’s far too early to know what, if any effects this new exotic fish will ultimately have.”
Shafland explained that exotics can sometimes adversely affect native species and habitats by changing the energy flow in the ecosystem, introducing parasites and diseases, genetic pollution of closely related species, and by competing with native species for food, shelter, and space. At the very least, even an otherwise innocuous exotic takes up space and energy that might someday be used more beneficially by a native species.
When forced to speculate on what effects the snakehead might have on native fishes, Shafland said that, “If there are any effects, these would most likely involve the bowfin (mudfish) since snakehead and bowfin share more than just general appearances. Both of these species are also predators that seem to have similar habitat and food preferences, and both can utilize air to survive in waters with little to no oxygen.” Some of the literature on the snakeheads suggests this fish can reach lengths of four feet, although Shafland is skeptical.
There is no question, however, that the snakehead is highly valued throughout Asia for its food value and taste. “I have eaten a few snakeheads since we began our research into this species, and can attest to their excellent taste,” Shafland said. “Their popularity as food within the Asian cultures in south Florida may even explain the presence of the snakehead in Florida waters.” Although not the same species reproducing in Florida waters, FWC Wildlife Inspectors Lts. John West and Pat Reynolds, Division of Law Enforcement, found another species of live snakehead for sale in two oriental food markets in late February. Some customers apparently believe that in addition to tasting good, snakeheads have a medicinal benefit.
Chung Hing Oriental Market, NW 167th St., Miami, and P. K. Oriental Market, Pines Blvd., Pembroke Pines were both charged with possession of a prohibited freshwater fish. All species of snakeheads are illegal to possess live in the state of Florida. Possession of live snakeheads is a second degree misdemeanor punishable by up to a $500 fine and/or 60 days in jail.
West said six live snakeheads were seized at the Pembroke Pines market and eight at the Miami market. The fish all measured approximately 12 inches long. Florida law also makes it a crime for anyone to release any exotic fish into state waters.
Siamese Giant Carp Fever
While guiding clients interested in the Mekong Giant Catfish I often wet a line apart of their fishing spot for Siamese Giant Carps or Pla Caho (Catlocarpio siamensis). As you certainly know it is a rare and unique species of carp that only exists in Thai waters. It has also the particularity to be the the “mother of all carps,” being the world’s biggest carp species. Exceptional specimens in the wild can reach weights of 100 kg.
Any local angler will tell you that this fish is the most shy and cautious from all the Thai fish species. That is the reason why just a few guys here are targeting that giant carp. To be a caho angler, you must have more patience than any other angler fishing worldwide for any other species of carp. You must be ready to accept to “waste time” in front of your rod, sometimes for weeks, months or even years. It is known that one can angle for that fish daily for months without getting a single bite. I know plenty of Thai friends who have never hooked one caho in years – even they still try and dream of it.
Last August, after my catch of a 46 kg Siamese Giant Carp I wrote a newsletter to angling friends from various countries saying: “It is a shame that the Catlocarpio siamensis had never made it so far in the IGFA record list! Here is the biggest carp in the world and yet, it has never been recorded by any angler!”
Fearing it could die for being kept too long on land we lost the IGFA World Record with this 46 kg specimen.
That splendid 46 kg Catlocarpio was really worth an All Tackle World Record. Fearing that fragile fish species could eventually die being kept too long out of the water, I took the decision to release that lovely Siamese carp fast without proceeding properly to the weighting and measurements required by the IGFA. And of course as a dedicated defender of catch and release I lost that day a potential All Tackle world record. No big deal to me! I was happy enough anyways to have hooked, fought and landed that 46 kg Catlocarpio, still my biggest catch so far in that particular species. I knew I would catch another one someday. It was just a matter of time!
My English friend Bruce Dale holding the estimated 45 kg Caho he caught with us last August at Bung Sam Lan Lake
Since August, some of our visiting anglers and myself landed more carps. But none of these catches were big size enough to be recorded. Beginning of October, my UK friend and angling client Bruce Dale landed a good size one. He already had 3 bites on the same day during his first stay with us, landing a 20 kg carp and losing unhooked 2 bigger fish. For the very same reason than I did, Bruce decided to release the fish promptly too. To act fast for the release we didn’t even weigh the catch. By experience we estimated the specimen weighing around 45 kg. So we lost that day another opportunity to make the Catlocarpio siamensis entering the IGFA record list.
On the 4th November, we could have done it at last with a hell of a great catch. We were guiding that day a Singaporean angler named Kelvin Lim who wanted to experience the Mekong Cat. One of my Fishing Adventures team guide and my fishing soulmate, Kik, brought a rod with him. Something he usually never do. I asked him : “Hey luk pee wan nee koon yak tok pla la ?” (Hey brother, are you going to fish today?). He gave me a big smile and said: “Kap! Pom may day tok pla caho nan ” (Yes ! I haven’t done Siamese carp fishing for a long time). And smiling even more: “Wan nee pom tja dai toa yai ” (Today I’m going to get a big one).
So we casted one rod each apart of the Mekong Cat spot and took care of our guest who was having a ball fighting the Cats. Then in the afternoon Kik got a bite. He used a custom built rod of 7 ft he built himself to fish for Snakeheads with surface lures. His small reel was loaded with 20 lb braided line. I wish you could have witnessed the fight that followed. On the first rush the carp was already far away on the other side of the lake. When the fish got closer to our pontoon after 20 long minutes and came up for the first time to the surface level in a giant boil we knew immediately that fish was a “monster”. Once it was netted, every one of us on the pontoon saw a giant Catlocarpio siamensis. Hon, a close friend of us and employee at the lake was there. He has seen it all in 17 years working there and can guess quite accurately without using scales the weight of any fish. He looked at the fish and said it was over 85 kg but couldn’t be 90 kg.
Fishing Adventures’ pro guide & fishing soulmate Kik posing with his catch, an estimated >80 kg Giant Siamese Carp. We decided to give that carp an estimated weight of 80 kg plus. That was the biggest carp caught at the lake during the past 2 years, and one of the very best catches over the past 17 years.
Unfortunately we didn’t have any scales with us that day except for my 50 kg portable scales. I purchased in April expensive 100 kg portable scales from England. But I had difficulties here to get them certified. The institute where I brought all of my various portable scales in the past to get the required certificate of calibration had only machines to test scales to 60 kg maximum. Being too busy guiding daily, we had no time at all to look for an institute able to certify these brand new 100 kg scales. Finally a friend found recently for us a company having bigger test machines. Good news and bad news! On the day of that great catch, we didn’t have with us those scales. We already brought them to be certified and we had to wait one week before to get them back. Unlucky again! I would have loved getting that world record for Kik, my team guide and fishing soulmate who is like a kind of young brother to me.
After missing the record three times, I was starting to think we were having a kind of jinx and that we would never be able to set an IGFA record for that species before any other foreign angler. Finally, on the 12th November we got lucky at last. Very lucky! One of my Fishing Adventures guides got the 100 kg Waymaster portable scales back with the certificate of calibration in the morning. Only a few hours before I was going to land in the beginning of the afternoon the 4th potential record carp since May 2001, since we started to be seriously interested in the Siamese Giant Carp fishing.
We were guiding that day 4 good nature Singaporean anglers who enjoyed with us witnessing the catch of that fish. I knew while fighting the carp it was also another “nice size” one. So I took my time, let the fish leading the fight, playing it gently and smoothly on 20 lb line, monitoring only the carp moves every time it played dirty trying to snag me in the obstacles close to our fishing pontoon. I was very relaxed thinking at the same time: “That one will be the one to enter the IGFA list. There is no way I am going to let that potential record go away this time!
At last the “mother of all carps”, the Catlocarpio siamensis, is going to enter the IGFA record list with this 45 kg specimen. Prior to net the carp, I asked everyone to be ready to help with the camera, scales and meter, to proceed as fast as possible to the required weighting and measurements. This time it had to be done on land. The 6 witnesses were all willing to help. The fish was weighted exactly at 45 kg. It had a total length of 117 cm, a length from its mouth to the beginning of its tail of 99 cm, and a girth of 96 cm.
Since we started last May to angle on a regular basis for the pla caho, using our brilliant and effective bait formula instead of the usual rice based bait favored by local anglers, we have landed up to today a total of 22 Siamese carps. And we lost unhooked or being snagged about 30 carps, some of them being real big ones. The 2 best local carp experts and close friends, Lung Dam and Pi Poot, who are fishing around 200 days every year for the Siamese Giant Carp catch less than 20 specimens per year. Humbly but proud of it, we can say it is therefore a brilliant score for our Fishing Adventures pro guide team than no other angler in Thailand has ever accomplished so far in such a short period of time. We know exactly where are the right fishing spots to be angled and we have the knowledge too of the proper rig and the bait formula. Now we have only to go on fishing for those magnificent creatures and try to do better. And eventually landing, sooner or later, a much bigger one again!
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July 18- New York on Thursday awarded two major offshore wind contracts to Norway's Equinor and a joint venture between Denmark's Orsted and U.S. utility Eversource, a key milestone in Governor Andrew Cuomo's ambitious plan to slash the state's greenhouse gas emissions. The two contracts add up to 1700 MW of capacity, or enough to power 1 million homes, Cuomo said...
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*Nordea net profit 681 mln eur vs 739 mln consensus. HELSINKI/ COPENHAGEN July 18- Nordea, the biggest bank in the Nordics, said it would review its financial targets in coming months, as the region's lenders struggle with weak growth at home and rising compliance costs from money laundering scandals overseas. Nordea's net profit fell 11% from a year earlier to 681...
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SANTA FE, Argentina, July 17- Leaders from countries in South America's Mercosur trade bloc met on Wednesday in Argentina, with plans as to how to push forward a recently struck free-trade deal with the European Union at the center of discussions. The presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay appeared together in the city of Santa Fe, in Argentina's...
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OSLO, July 12- Norwegian oil firm Aker BP has made an oil discovery off Norway which could strengthen its hand in negotiations with its sometimes partner Equinor on how to develop fields. The company said on Thursday it had made an oil discovery with partner LOTOS of Poland estimated to hold between 80 million and 200 million barrels of recoverable oil...
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OSLO, July 11- Norway's DNB said it had seen growth in all business areas as the Nordic region's biggest bank by market value reported second-quarter results in line with expectations on Thursday. DNB overtook Nordea as the region's biggest bank by market capitalisation in June helped by Norway's expanding economy and more efficient operations.
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HitecVision, Oman's Petrogas to buy UK oilfields from Total
2:42 AM ET Wed, 10 July 2019
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UPDATE 2-Shares in Norwegian Air rise after IAG denies report of another offer
3:52 AM ET Fri, 5 July 2019
OSLO/ MADRID, July 5- Shares in budget carrier Norwegian Air rose on Friday after British Airways and Iberia owner IAG denied a Spanish media report it was preparing another offer for the airline. The shares were up 6.3% at 0734 GMT, outperforming a flat Oslo benchmark index after rising as much as 12% at the opening of trading. Norwegian Air declined to comment.
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5:20 AM ET Thu, 4 July 2019
OSLO, July 4- Norwegian Air filled more seats on its planes than expected in June, compensating for a dip in passenger numbers due to the ongoing grounding of Boeing's 737 MAX jets, sending its shares higher on Thursday. Europe's third-largest budget carrier by passengers flown has curbed its rapid growth this year to focus on cutting costs and turning a profit.
Electric cars grab almost half of sales in oil-producing Norway
10:07 AM ET Mon, 1 July 2019
*Tesla is top-selling car brand in Norway this year. *Norway aims to end combustion engine sales by 2025. OSLO, July 1- Almost half of new cars sold in Norway in the first six months of 2019 were powered by fully electric engines, up from just over a quarter in the same period last year, ensuring the Nordic nation retains its top global ranking in electric vehicle sales.
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It’s amazing to recall about how quickly the online film and TV spilling industry has originated from close nothing to a major expanding market. The change of the gushing administrations has been so radical if actuality, that we never again ask “What would I be able to watch?” yet rather “Where would I be able to watch it?” And that undertaking to locate the right spilling specialist can be very irritating here and there.
In any case, that is the place Google Play says they need to help their client’s find what they need to watch, without the issue. In an ongoing blog entry composed by Google, the organization has declared the Google Play Movies and TV application, an application that stores the majority of the conceivable spilled titles from the best gushing organizations and allows you find where it tends to be gushed and for what cost.
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Streaming administration discoverer for mainstream titles: Easily find if your most loved show or motion picture is accessible on a gushing administration.
Find something new to watch: Instead of looking over interminably to discover a motion picture on a Friday night, now you can limit your hunt with only a couple of taps.
Create a watchlist of all that you need to see: In the watchlist tab, we’ll demonstrate to you when it winds up accessible to purchase or lease on Play if the cost has as of late dropped, or in the event that it is presently accessible to stream.
With the blast of gushing administrations now accessible, it’s winding up more hard to make sense of not exactly what motion picture or TV show to watch straight away, however where you can really watch it. Google today is revealing its answer for this issue with a noteworthy patch up of its Google Play Movies and TV application and a refresh to the Google Play Store itself that will demonstrate to you which spilling administrations have the substance accessible, notwithstanding whether it’s accessible for lease or buy, as previously.
The final product is something that is like Apple’s own TV application, which consolidates clients’ own library of motion pictures and TV with the capacity to search out what’s inclining and accessible in the realm of online video.
In the refreshed Google Play Movies and TV application, you’ll currently discover three tabs in the new base route bar which will guide you to your Home, Library or your Watchlist. The watchlist is a component the application as of late picked up too, yet now it has a substantially more conspicuous position.
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Richmond Police Violate Man’s Rights During Vehicle Search
August 22, 2012 January 1, 2014 CopBlock 347 Views Code Womack, Darryl A. Winston, Gene Lepley, internal affairs, Mark Holmberg, richmond police, WVTR
WVTR reports the following:
RICHMOND, Va. –Darryl A. Winston thought the Richmond officer who pulled him over for failing to use his turn signal on July 5 was mistaken.
But his troubles were just beginning.
It was around noon on that blistering hot day right after the fourth of July. The stop occurred at the market on Idlewood Avenue in Oregon Hill.
Winston had been visiting a friend in the adjoining Randolph neighborhood. He was driving a tricked-out 2004 BMW 740.
While the initial officer was checking his paperwork, a second officer told Winston he detected the odor of marijuana. Winston said he told him there’s no way that could be true.
“He asked could he search my vehicle,” Winston said. “I told him no.”
He said his paperwork was in order and they had no right to search the car he was driving.
“’You pulled me over for improper turn signals,’” Winston recalled telling the officer. “’Give me my ticket and I’ll be on my way. He told me, sit tight.”
About 15 minutes later, a K-9 officer and a drug-sniffing dog arrived.
Winston said he was ordered to step out of vehicle. “That’s when they snatched me, grabbed me, threw me against the police car, very aggressively.”
Code Womack’s house backs right up to the market. He had just arrived home at that point, and watched from his back door.
“Shoot, it was about 100, 100-plus outside,” Womack said. “They had this guy handcuffed. There was at least three or four police cars.”
“They said the dog alerted on the car,” Winston said. “And I said, ‘the dog alerted on my vehicle? What did he alert to?’ And they didn’t answer.”
“They searched his whole car,” Womack said. “They ripped it apart.”
“103 degree temperature,” Winston said. “I was sweating. And my sweat was running down my eyes. My eyes were burning.”
“He was dripping sweat,” Womack said. “His hands were behind his back, cuffed, so he couldn’t even wipe the sweat off his face.”
“They ripped the air ducts out” while searching for whatever they were looking for, Winston said. “They broke the center console.”
Darryl, who has his own tow business, said the stop took close to an hour. The whole time, people were coming in and out of the store, staring.
The officers found nothing, Winston said. He believes his rights were violated. He also believes it’s a case of profiling – black man in a trick Beemer with a sound system. The officer who made the initial stop is African-American.
Richmond police spokesman Gene Lepley said RPD’s internal affairs is investigating Winston’s complaint, and they can’t comment until that is completed.
Code Womack, who was located when CBS 6 went door-to-door to find potential witnesses, was surprised by the way the stop ended, given the strength of the police presence and the vigorousness of the search.
“I thought it was a big-time drug bust,” he said, “And they ended up letting the guy go. I was like, ‘what the heck man?’ Kind of a big deal to harass somebody like that, for no reason.”
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Tags: celebrity smiles pediatric dentistry tooth decay
Cavities can happen even before a baby has his first piece of candy. This was the difficult lesson actor David Ramsey of the TV shows Arrow and Dexter learned when his son DJ’s teeth were first emerging.
“His first teeth came in weak,” Ramsey recalled in a recent interview. “They had brown spots on them and they were brittle.” Those brown spots, he said, quickly turned into caviÂties. How did this happen?
Ramsey said DJ’s dentist suspected it had to do with the child’s feedings — not what he was being fed but how. DJ was often nursed to sleep, “so there were pools of breast milk that he could go to sleep with in his mouth,” Ramsey explained.
While breastfeeding offers an infant many health benefits, problems can occur when the natural sugars in breast milk are left in contact with teeth for long periods. Sugar feeds decay-causing oral bacteria, and these bacteria in turn release tooth-eroding acids. The softer teeth of a young child are particularly vulnerable to these acids; the end result can be tooth decay.
This condition, technically known as “early child caries,” is referred to in laymen’s terms as “baby bottle tooth decay.” However, it can result from nighttime feedings by bottle or breast. The best way to prevent this problem is to avoid nursing babies to sleep at night once they reach the teething stage; a bottle-fed baby should not be allowed to fall asleep with anything but water in their bottle or “sippy cup.”
Here are some other basics of infant dental care that every parent should know:
Wipe your baby’s newly emerging teeth with a clean, moist washcloth after feedings.
Brush teeth that have completely grown in with a soft-bristled, child-size toothbrush and a smear of fluoride toothpaste no bigger than a grain of rice.
Start regular dental checkups by the first birthday.
Fortunately, Ramsey reports that his son is doing very well after an extended period of professional dental treatments and parental vigilance.
“It took a number of months, but his teeth are much, much better,” he said. “Right now we’re still helping him and we’re still really on top of the teeth situation.”
If you would like more information on dental care for babies and toddlers, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can also learn more by reading the Dear Doctor magazine articles “The Age One Dental Visit” and “Dentistry & Oral Health for Children.”
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Mueller concludes Russia probe, delivers report to AG Barr
The Justice Department said Mueller delivered his final report to Attorney General William Barr and officially concluded his probe of Russian election interference and possible coordination with Trump associates.
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday turned over his long-awaited final report on the contentious Russia investigation that has cast a dark shadow over Donald Trump's presidency, entangled Trump's family and resulted in criminal charges against some of the president's closest associates.
The comprehensive report, still confidential, marks the end of Mueller's probe but sets the stage for big public fights to come. The next steps are up to Trump's attorney general, to Congress and, in all likelihood, federal courts.
The Justice Department said Mueller delivered his final report to Attorney General William Barr and officially concluded his probe of Russian election interference and possible coordination with Trump associates. The report will now be reviewed by Barr, who has said he will write his own account communicating Mueller's findings to Congress and the American public.
Barr said he could send his account to Congress quickly.
"I am reviewing the report and anticipate that I may be in a position to advise you of the special counsel's principal conclusions as soon as this weekend," Barr said in his letter the top Republicans and Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary committees.
With no details released at this point, it's not known whether Mueller's report answers the core questions of his investigation: Did Trump's campaign collude with the Kremlin to sway the 2016 presidential election in favor of the celebrity businessman? Also, did Trump take steps later, including by firing his FBI director, to obstruct the probe?
But the delivery of the report does mean the investigation has concluded without any public charges of a criminal conspiracy between the campaign and Russia, or of obstruction by the president.
It's unclear what steps Mueller will take if he uncovered what he believes to be criminal wrongdoing by Trump, in light of Justice Department legal opinions that have held that sitting presidents may not be indicted.
The mere delivery of a confidential report will set off immediate demands, including in the Democratic-led House, for full release of Mueller's findings. Barr has said he wants to make as much public as possible, and any efforts to withhold details will prompt a tussle between the Justice Department and lawmakers who may subpoena Mueller and his investigators to testify before Congress. Such a move by Democrats would likely be vigorously contested by the Trump administration.
The conclusion of Mueller's investigation does not remove legal peril for the president. Trump faces a separate Justice Department investigation in New York into hush money payments during the campaign to two women who say they had sex with him years before the election. He's also been implicated in a potential campaign finance violation by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who says Trump asked him to arrange the transactions. Federal prosecutors, also in New York, have been investigating foreign contributions made to the president's inaugural committee.
No matter the findings in Mueller's report, the investigation has already illuminated Russia's assault on the American political system, painted the Trump campaign as eager to exploit the release of hacked Democratic emails and exposed lies by Trump aides aimed at covering up their Russia-related contacts. Over the 21-month investigation, Mueller has brought charges against 34 people, including six aides and advisers to the president, and three companies.
The special counsel brought a sweeping indictment accusing Russian military intelligence officers of hacking Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign and other Democratic groups during the 2016 election. He charged another group of Russians with carrying out a large-scale social media disinformation campaign against the American political process that also sought to help Trump and hurt Clinton.
Closer to the president, Mueller secured convictions against a campaign chairman who cheated banks and dodged his taxes, a national security adviser who lied about his Russian contacts and a campaign aide who misled the FBI about his knowledge of stolen emails.
Cohen, the president's former lawyer, pleaded guilty in New York to campaign finance violations arising from the hush money payments and in the Mueller probe to lying to Congress about a Moscow real estate deal. Another Trump confidant, Roger Stone, is awaiting trial on charges that he lied about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails ultimately released by WikiLeaks. It's unclear whether any of the aides who have been convicted, all of whom have pleaded guilty and cooperated with the investigators, might angle for a pardon. Trump has left open the idea of pardons.
Along the way, Trump lawyers and advisers repeatedly evolved their public defenses to deal with the onslaught of allegations from the investigation. Where once Trump and his aides had maintained that there were no connections between the campaign and Russia, by the end of the probe Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani was routinely making the argument that even if the two sides did collude, it wasn't necessarily a crime. The goalpost shifting reflected the administration's challenge in adopting a singular narrative to fend off allegations.
Equally central to Mueller's work is his inquiry into whether the president tried to obstruct the investigation. Since the special counsel's appointment in May 2017, Trump has increasingly tried to undermine the probe by calling it a "witch hunt" and repeatedly proclaiming there was "NO COLLUSION" with Russia. But Trump also took certain acts as president that caught Mueller's attention and have been scrutinized for possible obstruction.
One week before Mueller's appointment, Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, later saying he was thinking of "this Russia thing" at the time.
He mercilessly harangued Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing from the Russia investigation two months before Mueller was named special counsel, a move that left the president without a perceived loyalist atop the probe. And he helped draft a misleading statement on Air Force One as a Trump Tower meeting between his eldest son and a Kremlin-connected lawyer was about to become public.
The meeting itself became part of Mueller's investigation, entangling Donald Trump Jr. in the probe. Mueller's team also interviewed the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, multiple times.
Even as Trump blasted Mueller's team, his White House and campaign produced thousands of documents for the special counsel, and dozens of his aides were interviewed. The president submitted written answers to Mueller regarding the Russia investigation, but he refused to be interviewed.
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New York overtakes London as attractive financial center
By Sheetal Sukhija, China National News
New York has overtaken London as the world's most attractive financial center
Britain's decision to leave the European Union has prompted banks to shift jobs
Brexit poses the biggest challenge to the City of London's finance industry
LONDON, U.K. - With Brexit posing as the biggest challenge to the City of London's finance industry and Britain's divorce from the European Union prompting banks to shift jobs out of the city - London's position globally has taken a beating.
According to a new survey, London has lost the position as the world's most attractive financial center to its biggest competitor - New York.
The Z/Yen global financial centers index, which ranks 100 financial centers on factors such as infrastructure and access to quality staff has ranked New York as the world's most attractive financial center.
The survey's authors have pointed out that London's ranking fell by eight points from six months ago - which was said to be the biggest decline among the top contenders.
Further, the surveyors noted that the drop reflected the uncertainty around Brexit.
Britain's decision to leave the European Union has prompted banks to shift jobs out of the city to preserve access to Europe's single market.
Further, experts have pointed out that Brexit has become London's biggest challenge since the 2007-2009 financial crisis as it threatens banks and insurers who has established presence in the city - and would now lose access to the world's biggest trading bloc - EU.
Due to this, some of the world's most powerful finance companies in London have begun moving staff to the EU to preserve the existing cross-border flow of trading after 2019.
A study published by Reuters in March said that around 5,000 roles are expected to be shifted or created in the EU from London by March next year - the date of Britain's EU exit.
Mark Yeandle, the co-creator of the index pointed out, "We are getting closer and closer to exit day and we still don't know whether London will be able to trade with all the other European financial centers. The fear of losing business to other centers is driving the slight decline and people are concerned about London's competitiveness."
Meanwhile, in the Z/Yen global financial centers index, New York took first place, followed by London, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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Satanic Temple opens gov't meeting with 'hail Satan' prayer
CP Current Page: U.S. | Saturday, June 22, 2019
By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Christian Post Reporter | Saturday, June 22, 2019
An image from The Satanic Temple | Facebook/The Satanic Temple
A Satanic Temple member was allowed to open a government meeting with the phrase “hail Satan,” prompting a walkout by residents and officials.
Iris Fontana, a member of the Satanic Temple, delivered the invocation Tuesday at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly, marking the first given by the Satanic Temple since the borough changed its policy in November, the Peninsula Clarion reported.
The new policy allows anyone to deliver an invocation, regardless of religion or belief.
“That which will not bend, must break, and that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared as demise,” Fontana said, according to Kenai radio station KSRM. “It is done, hail Satan.”
About 40 people protested the inclusion of a Satanic Temple invocation, some holding signs reading “reject Satan and his works” and “know Jesus and His love.”
Protester William Siebenmorgen flew to Alaska from Pennsylvania for the event: “God will be pleased with our public prayers of reparation. We want God’s blessings on America, not Satan’s curses. Lucifer is the eternal loser. Let’s keep him out,” he told KSRM.
The invocation prompted others to leave the meeting: "Assembly members Norm Blakeley and Paul Fischer and borough Mayor Charlie Pierce were among those who left the assembly chambers along with some audience members," The Associated Press reported.
Fontana was among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Alaska against the borough’s 2016 policy requiring those who wanted to deliver invocations at government meetings to belong to official organizations with an established presence on the Kenai Peninsula.
The Alaska Supreme Court ruled that the borough’s policy was unconstitutional, and in November, the borough government changed it to allow anyone to offer invocations regardless of religion.
Ahead of Tuesday’s invocation, a petition at a website called Return to Order, an initiative of the Catholic group American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, called for the cancellation of the event.
“How could a public institution which is meant to uphold the common good allow a representative of Satanic principles? Are immorality, corruption, and vice what we expect our public officials to promote?” read the petition, which received nearly 26,000 signatures.
“Evil is being accepted by the public as satanic actions like these break the barriers of horror we still have of evil,” it continued.
Founded in 2013, the Satanic Temple is known for its activism on church and state issues. In April, the group announced the Internal Revenue Service had granted its request for tax-exempt status, making it comparable to a church.
Last November, the group filed a lawsuit against Netflix and Warner Bros. over a depiction of their Baphomet statue in a new spin-off of the television series "Sabrina the Teenage Witch” titled “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”
In 2018, the Chicago chapter of the Satanic Temple forced officials to display its "Snaketivity" statue next to a huge Christmas tree in the Illinois Statehouse rotunda.
In 2016, the group announced the launch of “After School Satan Clubs” for elementary schools in response to the presence of evangelical Christian Good News Clubs at public schools.
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