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Can't Stop The Music: Breeze Dance Company
Auditorium, Fri 19 - Sat 20 Jul
J.Sivell Breeze Dance Company are thrilled to be returning once again to the Octagon Theatre bringing an exciting evening of song and dance. Over 100...
Auditorium, Sun 21 Jul
The show that everyone has been waiting for! Three of the biggest rock stars of dance combine their incredible talents in a brand-new show. Watch Aljaž Škorjanec, Giovanni Pernice...
James Wilton Dance Company: The Storm
Auditorium, Thu 24 Oct
James Wilton Dance, one of Europe’s most in demand dance companies, presents The Storm, a whirlwind of lightning fast, athleticism, where acrobatics,...
Rip it Up: The 70s
Auditorium, Sat 26 Oct
From the Producers of Rip it Up the 50s and 60s comes the greatest music decade ever! Join Olympic champion Louis Smith, Rachel Stevens (S Club 7), Melody Thornton (Pussycat Dol...
Auditorium, Wed 6 Nov
The Russian State Ballet and Opera House Presents The Nutcracker A lavish Ballet of festive season. Music by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky. Featuring a live Orchestra with over 30 musici...
Auditorium, Thu 7 Nov
The Russian State Ballet and Opera House Presents Don Quixote. Music by Ludwig Minkus. Featuring a live Orchestra with over 30 musicians. Don Quixote delights in stories of bra...
Dance to the Music 2020
Auditorium, Sat 8 Feb 2020
Dance To The Music is a sumptuously beautiful and glamorous dance show, created, directed and choreographed by ex Strictly Come Dancing professional Kristina Rihanoff. Kristina i...
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ExxonMobil, Total, Chevron and Kosmos Energy recognised at Wood Mackenzie's Exploration Awards ceremony
Oilfield Technology, Wednesday, 03 July 2019 14:00
US supermajor ExxonMobil has been named the upstream industry’s most-admired explorer, an accolade awarded in conjunction with Wood Mackenzie’s industry-leading annual Exploration Survey.
Mike Cousins, ExxonMobil’s Senior Vice President Exploration and New Ventures, accepted the award at the second Wood Mackenzie Exploration Awards ceremony, held in June 2019.
Dr Andrew Latham, Vice President, Global Exploration Research, at Wood Mackenzie, said: “For the past 11 years, Wood Mackenzie has named the industry’s Most-Admired Explorer after collating the results of our industry-leading annual exploration survey. The survey canvasses views across the sector, marrying Wood Mackenzie’s unparalleled in-depth understanding of the sector with industry opinion.
“We ask the question ‘aside from your own company, which explorer do you most admire?’. We don’t restrict the question to a particular time period or any particular sectors. But most voters clearly have recent success in mind when making their choice.”
He added: “We’ve looked closely at previous winners. If you want to win this award, you need to make big discoveries, ideally as operator and in ideally in new frontiers. For the first five years of this award, the same company won every year – Tullow Oil. Then we saw Anadarko win in each of the next two years. For each of the past three years, our winner was Eni.
“This year, our overall winner is ExxonMobil. Arguably, it’s a long overdue recognition given the tremendous successes across plays as diverse as Guyana, Papua New Guinea, Nigeria, Romania, Cyprus and many others.”
Four other awards were announced at the event:
Discovery of the Year (2018)
New Venturer of the Year
Best Explorer of Unconventional Plays
Best E&P Explorer
Discovery of the Year is also based on Wood Mackenzie’s survey of exploration industry opinion. Over 250 senior business leaders and experts voted for the discovery that they consider to be the most exciting of the year.
Dr Latham said: “2018 was a good year for exciting new discoveries – big finds, new plays, even company-makers. Our award goes to Santos and partner Carnarvon Petroleum for the Dorado discovery. The find, in the Bedout basin, looks to be the largest oil discovery in Australia for over 20 years. The runners-up were ExxonMobil’s Hammerhead in Guyana and Chevron’s Ballymore in the US Gulf of Mexico.”
The New Venturer of the Year award reflects the need for explorers to continually renew their portfolio. Wood Mackenzie has long argued that the capture of good acreage is the key differentiator in exploration performance. This award was based on Wood Mackenzie’s survey results and analysis of licensing and farm-in deals over the year. Both research and wider industry opinion reached the same conclusion. The winner is Total, who has made bold moves into high-impact opportunities across many different proven, emerging and frontier plays.
With the phenomenal growth of US shale plays, onshore exploration has become a key area of interest. For the Best Explorer of Unconventional Plays award, company efforts at opening and extending unconventional plays were looked at, again drawing on both survey results and research. The winner this year is a company that has recently announced huge upgrades to its production guidance from its unconventional assets. Chevron plans to grow organically in the Permian basin alone to over 900 000 boe/d by 2023.
The Best E&P Explorer award reflects the tremendous contribution the smaller and mid-sized companies make to the sector. The award is again based on a mix of research and a survey. Once more, both industry and Wood Mackenzie’s analysis reached the same conclusion. For the second year in a row the winner is Kosmos Energy.
Read the article online at: https://www.oilfieldtechnology.com/special-reports/03072019/exxonmobil-total-chevron-and-kosmos-energy-recognised-at-wood-mackenzies-exploration-awards-ceremony/
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Sanjit Kumar Sinha takes oath as PPSC chairman
| Published: Tuesday, May 9, 2006, 19:35 [IST]
Chandigarh, May 9 (UNI) Senior IAS officer of the Punjab cadre Sanjit Kumar Sinha was today sworn-in as the chairman of the Punjab Public Service Commission after he took voluntary retirement from the administrative services yesterday.
Punjab Governor Gen (retd) S F Rodrigues administered the oath of office and secrecy to Mr Sinha at a simple ceremony at Raj Bhawan today in the presence of Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, several ministers and senior civil and police officials of the state.
Talking to reporters after the swearing-in ceremony, Mr Sinha said he would do his best to justify the new job given to him. ''I will face the challenge,'' he said while agreeing that the task of the PPSC chairman was a challenging job.
He suceedes Lt Gen (retd) Surjit Singh as the PPSC chairman.
Before Lt Gen Surjit Singh, Ravi Sindhu was the PPSC chairman who was unceremoniously removed following his arrest in the infamous cash-for-job scam case.
Mr Sinha had been holding the office of the Financial Commissioner Development (FCD) before resigning and taking voluntary retirement yesterday.
Mr Sinha had been in the thick of controvesry when he was removed from the post of the principal secretary to the chief minister in December 2003 following a hue and cry made by some ministers.
Hailing from Orissa as his home state, Mr Sinha has been holding coveted posts during his 32-year-long stint as the IAS officer in the Punjab cadre.
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Story first published: Tuesday, May 9, 2006, 19:35 [IST]
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Loyola Ramblers, Sister Jean Honored At Illinois State Capitol
By Jaclyn Driscoll • May 9, 2018
Governor Rauner poses with members of the Loyola men's basketball team, Coach Porter Moser, and Sister Jean.
Jaclyn Driscoll / NPR Illinois
The Loyola-Chicago Ramblers busted a lot of brackets and captured a lot of hearts when the men’s basketball team, as an 11 seed, made it to the Final Four in the NCAA tournament. For their accomplishments, they were honored at the Illinois State Capitol on Wednesday.
But this Cinderella team that went 32-6, eventually losing to Michigan in the semifinals, wasn’t the only story fans were watching. Sister Jean Delores-Schmit, the 98-year-old team chaplain, earned fandom by praying for Loyola and their opponents before each game -- a tradition she continued at the Illinois Statehouse on Wednesday when she opened legislative session with a prayer.
“May all that is done this day and every day be done for your honor and glory," she prayed. "Amen. And go Ramblers.”
Listen to the story.
Coach Porter Moser was also recognized and spoke on the House floor. He boasted of the team's accomplishments on and off the court.
Coach Porter Moser addresses members of the House. House Speaker Michael Madigan listens behind the podium.
Credit Jaclyn Driscoll / NPR Illinois
"At Loyola, we are tied with Harvard for the number one graduation rate in the country academically in the athletic department," said Moser. "I can see Sister right now clenching her fists because I said that one time and she corrected me. She said, 'No, Porter. Harvard’s tied with us.'"
Several lawmakers displayed Rambler signs and donned maroon and gold scarves to show their support. House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton, Democrats from Chicago, both received their law degrees from Loyola University.
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Your Money|Investing in an Emotional Trust Fund for Your Children
Wealth Matters
Investing in an Emotional Trust Fund for Your Children
Jacalyn Burke, an author, has worked in the child care industry for more than a decade.CreditCreditAndre D. Wagner for The New York Times
By Paul Sullivan
PARENTS think a lot about what their money might one day do for their children. Will it give them options in life to accomplish something meaningful, or rob them of ambition? Or will a lack of family money leave them at a disadvantage?
Of course, there are a lot of other outcomes. But fear about the bad things that money can do to children sends some well-to-do parents to lawyers and advisers to create trust documents with rules stating what children need to do to obtain the money. Even parents of modest means are encouraged to own life insurance policies in trusts to inhibit their children from getting all the cash at once should the parents die.
These are necessary in certain cases. But long before children are aware of what they might inherit, there are more foundational conversations that parents should have. What if parents thought about the capital — yes, financial, but also emotional and intellectual — that they were spending on their young children as assets in an “emotional trust fund” with trustee duties inherent in it?
That’s the concept being advanced by Jacalyn S. Burke, a former nanny, a commentator on parenthood issues, and the author of “The Nanny Time Bomb: Navigating the Crisis in Child Care” (Praeger, 2015). She argues that thinking in financial terms when it comes to parental choices could make a difference in shaping children who grow up to live meaningful lives — regardless of whether any money comes to them.
The essential components of an emotional trust fund are analogous to those of a conventional one — cash, stocks, bonds and property as the holdings, with trustees directing the investments in each, with an eye toward the recipient’s best interest. How investments in those assets are divided up, though, is what matters.
“That same structure we use for our financial lives could be applied to how we raise our children,” Ms. Burke said. “The different components could relate to a child’s life. A nanny comes in as a massive part of that portfolio, particularly if they work with them 9 to 5 and sometimes longer.”
Nannies and child care workers more broadly are the stocks in the emotional trust fund. Their influence on children is a bet on the future, and just like stocks, no one makes a selection thinking it will underperform.
Like stocks, some nannies do well from the start. Others pay dividends over time. And then there are the ones that seem like high-flyers but prove to be disappointments.
Ms. Burke said this is where her thinking started, largely because she found parents not putting enough time into selecting someone — or enough money into paying such a crucial person in their children’s development. Cutting corners and hiring a disengaged nanny early on, she said, could hurt a child’s ability to form relationships over the long run.
To choose well, she said, parents need to do their due diligence. “For someone who you’re employing for the majority of the time when you’re out of the home, you should go back and see how that stock has performed in the past,” she said. “Did it perform well for six months or for 10 years? A reliable performer is someone with various credentials who shows up each week — that’s a solid stock that’s not going to wobble.”
Karen Kaufman, a clinical psychologist in Manhattan, who also wrote the preface to Ms. Burke’s book, said distracted nannies can inflict lasting damage on children. (The same goes for parents.)
“Just about every nanny I see is on the phone,” Dr. Kaufman said. “They’re distracted. It’s all these little tiny disruptions that make kids question if they’re enough.”
Separating good from bad nannies is as difficult as trying to select a stock. Ms. Burke recommends detailed background checks but also visiting the nanny at home or where she was last working, to gauge her interaction with that family. This also serves to make sure the nanny is telling the truth.
“I was routinely asked by other nannies to pretend I was a parent and be a reference,” she said.
For people who have consistently chosen nannies who didn’t work out, Ms. Burke suggested finding a consultant to work with the family on finding the right fit, much as one would go to an adviser to help with selecting securities.
And as with stocks, trustees need to be dutiful managers — in terms of nannies’ work but also their happiness in their jobs. “When nannies got together and complained, you’d think the No. 1 complaint would be the awful wages they got paid,” Ms. Burke said. “It wasn’t. It was the lack of respect.”
Of course, it may take time before parents can judge how well their child care money was spent — or they may have an anchoring bias that keeps them with a mediocre nanny for fear that others will be worse. Enrichment activities are different. They’re the bonds in the portfolio.
Just as analysts following the declining prices of municipal bonds knew Detroit and Puerto Rico were headed into trouble long before a crisis hit, parents can measure their children’s responses to enrichment fairly quickly. Ms. Burke said she is not focused on the number or kind of activities for a child, but on how those activities are inspiring or hurting a child.
“There is so much value in doing something outside their school curriculum,” she said. “There’s a consummate value in enriching your children but not overextending them.”
Community, broadly defined, is the property component of the emotional trust fund. “A cloistered sense of the world does not do them well,” Ms. Burke said. “At the weekends, walk the dog around the neighborhood, have pancakes, play ball in your neighborhood, get involved in your church or synagogue. It gives your kid a great grounding in life.”
How parents spend time with their children is the cash in the emotional trust fund. It can be spent wisely to maximum benefits or it can be squandered on things that don’t matter or could do harm.
In some ways, spending that cash carelessly dovetails with too much enrichment — activities scheduled throughout the weekend keep families apart. Instead, Ms. Burke calls for parents to spend their emotional cash on experiences — sitting, playing, baking, talking — and not on more things.
“Cash is switching your phone off and doing things with your children,” she said. “What I hear from children is they just want down time with their parents. I can’t tell you how many extremely wealthy children say ‘I just want to play ball with Dad.’”
Like any trust fund, an emotional one needs a balance between what the trustees — the parents — are doing and how those actions are received by children — the beneficiaries.
“The nannies can provide a tremendous amount of education,” Dr. Kaufman said. “But the main theme is no one is as important as the parents. It’s encouraging parents to be more physically present, not to be on their devices, to make eye contact.”
None of this is to say that parents can substitute an emotional trust fund for talking to their children as they grow up about wealth and the responsibilities that come with it.
“Financial wealth is not a free ride — it’s a powerful tool,” said Kristen Armstrong, a wealth dynamics coach with U.S. Bank’s Ascent Private Capital Management. “In high school, having some conversations about being a family with significant wealth and being a family who has some opportunities is important.”
Given the amount of time and money parents spend on their children today, the emotional trust fund is an interesting concept. If nothing else, thinking in these terms might reframe how people spend time and money in their family.
A version of this article appears in print on , Section B, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: Investing in an Emotional Trust Fund for Your Children. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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Sports|American Sprinter Used ‘Passionate Kissing’ Defense in Doping Case. And It Worked.
American Sprinter Used ‘Passionate Kissing’ Defense in Doping Case. And It Worked.
Gil Roberts won a gold medal in a relay at the 2016 Summer Olympics.CreditCreditJewel Samad/Getty Images
By Rebecca R. Ruiz
The moral of this story is that it is perfectly O.K. to passionately kiss your mate, even if he or she has a sinus infection.
First, meet the characters: Gil Roberts is a world-class sprinter from Oklahoma who won a gold medal for the United States in a relay at the 2016 Summer Olympics. His girlfriend, Alex Salazar, was sick last spring.
When Roberts failed a drug test, he mounted one of the more novel defenses in the history of sports doping. He said that he had kissed Salazar passionately, and that her sinus medication had entered his body.
On Thursday, an appeals court sided with the passionate kissing defense. Roberts was exonerated.
“There could have been tongue kissing, but it was more that she kissed me so soon after taking the medicine,” Roberts said Thursday, expressing relief that he had evaded a ban of up to four years for trace amounts of probenecid, a masking agent prohibited by sports regulators for its ability to disguise other drugs.
Three arbitrators wrote that it was more likely than not “that the presence of probenecid in the athlete’s system resulted from kissing his girlfriend.” A different decision could have jeopardized Roberts’s Nike sponsorship, or his eligibility for the 2020 Olympics.
Professional athletes have attributed doping violations to contaminated beef, spiked energy drinks and vanishing look-alikes seeking to sabotage them. Rarely do their claims prove persuasive. But Roberts, with the help of his girlfriend’s testimony, dealt a blow to global antidoping officials, who had appealed a preliminary decision clearing Roberts last summer.
Even with such cross-contamination scientifically possible, regulators argued his account was implausible — including an antibiotic regimen his girlfriend had not seen through to completion, leaving one capsule as evidence. Regulators called him reckless and at fault for even an inadvertent violation.
“I’m like, how can I be negligent for kissing my girl?” Roberts said, noting she had kept her sickness hidden at the time, for fear it might dampen his desire to spend time with her.
At a hearing in New York last week, Salazar helped mount the winning defense. She testified about the sinus infection she’d contracted on a family vacation in India and about the 14-day regimen of antibiotics, now out of production, she obtained there.
She testified about her aversion to swallowing pills, which prompted her to empty each capsule’s contents onto her tongue. And she testified about the frequent and passionate kissing. Roberts produced his urine sample roughly three hours afterward, she said.
Salazar’s stepfather, who had accompanied her to procure the drug in what was described as semirural India, also testified, certifying he had in Hindi brokered the purchase of Moxylong — the antibiotic amoxicillin with traces of the prohibited probenecid.
“We weren’t even embarrassed in the courtroom. It felt very technical,” Salazar, 24, said.
“We had passport stamps, receipts, and all of the dates lined up perfectly,” she added, referring to the timeline of vacation, sickness and return home to Los Angeles in March 2017.
Flown in from France to testify at Roberts’s arbitration hearing was the foremost scientific expert on the matter — Dr. Pascal Kintz, a professor at the University of Strasbourg, whose testimony also figured into the first precedent-setting kissing case in 2009.
In that case, Richard Gasquet, a French tennis player, successfully proved that traces of cocaine in his body had been transmitted by a woman named Pamela he had repeatedly kissed in a Miami nightclub on the eve of playing in a tournament.
A tennis doping panel found him at fault, ruling he had acted recklessly by engaging as he did with a stranger. But the Court of Arbitration for Sport — the ultimate arbiter of sports disputes, which issued Thursday’s ruling — overruled it with a more forgiving opinion, and no punishment.
“Even when exercising the utmost caution, the player could not have been aware of the consequences that kissing Pamela would have on him,” sports arbitrators wrote in their decision about Gasquet, who had sued the woman he kissed to obtain a sample of her hair to prove routine cocaine use, which his own hair sample had disproved.
Another athlete, the decorated Canadian pole-vaulter Shawn Barber, similarly avoided a multiyear suspension in 2016, successfully attributing a low-level cocaine violation to an intimate encounter with a woman he had met on Craigslist the night before Olympic trials.
Jonathan Taylor, a prominent global sports lawyer who represented the International Tennis Federation in its appeal of Gasquet’s case, said that athletes were strictly liable for any substance in their system — even if that substance was ingested completely unintentionally.
“They will only avoid a ban in very exceptional cases, where they can show that they took every reasonable precaution,” Taylor said, adding that the further removed an athlete was from training and competition — and the more personal the atmosphere — the lower the level of precautions he or she might be expected to take.
Still, to prevent against a flood of similar such defenses, he said, the top sports court would surely require strong objective and scientific evidence to validate future accounts of cross-contamination by kiss.
Salazar said that since last spring, her boyfriend’s case had raised her own sense of caution. “Before I even take DayQuil, it crosses my mind,” she said. “Anything I take now, I think twice before I even go near him.”
A version of this article appears in print on , Section B, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: ‘Passionate Kissing’ Defense Clears Sprinter Accused of Doping. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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Coast Guard Auxiliary member Allen Burns leads a discussion on knots and knot tying under the auspices of the Ocean City Life Saving Station Museum. This particular program is held every Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. at the tram station on the Boardwalk.
Four ladies from the Ocean Pines Players will perform a period piece called "The Petticoat Regime" during the Ocean City Life Saving Museum summer activities on Mondays.
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Ocean City museum to offer free programs this summer
By Morgan Pilz, Staff Writer
(June 28, 2019) Learn about the creatures that inhabit land and sea, Ocean City history, knot-tying, beach safety and sharks during the Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum’s 10th annual summer educational programs, which begin July 1 and continue until Aug. 24.
Most of the free 30-minute programs will take place on the Boardwalk at the tram station, just north of the museum, at 10 a.m. There will not be a program on July 4.
“These programs are free, they’re fun and they’re built for the entire family,” Museum Assistant Curator Christine Okerblom said. “They’re not just for children, they’re for all age.”
During Monday’s new program, the “Petticoat Regime,” four Ocean Pines Players actors will perform a live reenactment.
“They’re all sitting around a table drinking tea and it really just takes you through the life of these women and what they did for Ocean City and what kind of positive impact they had,” Okerblom said. “Doing a history program helps us meet our mission which is to inspire people through the education and interpretation of Ocean City’s cultural and natural history. We wanted to reinvent the program. The petticoat program was a fun way to educate people but also to entertain people.”
The Ocean City Beach Patrol will lead a beach safety class on Tuesdays with information on rip tides, currents, digging holes, what the job of a lifeguard entails, prevention tips and how to use semaphore flags.
The sign on the back of lifeguard stands is used as a guide to direct safety seminars for Boardwalk guests. Participants can look forward to giveaways such as pencils, coloring books, sunscreen samples and waterproof first aid kits.
Members of the Ocean City Beach Patrol will bring an ATV or Jet Ski for kids to pose for pictures next to as well as brochures on how to remain safe on the beach.
Lt. Ward Kovacs of the Ocean City Beach Patrol encourages adults and children to come out and learn about the safety hazards and ways to avoid danger.
“We try to cater to people of all ages,” Kovacs said. “The most important lessons we want to make sure people understand is to stay out of the water until the lifeguards are on duty, to avoid digging holes deeper than the knee and to follow R.I.P.”
R.I.P. stands for Relax, I need help and (swim) Parallel to the shore. Kovacs encourages everyone to follow these instructions to remain safe during their stay at the beach.
Participating in the free museum programs allows beach patrol members to fulfill the education portion of its three-part mission, which also includes prevention and intervention, according to Lt. Kovacs.
A staple returning for the 27th year are lessons on knot tying, held every Wednesday outside the museum at the southern end of the Boardwalk by the tram station.
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary members return to demonstrate a number of different types of knots including a figure eight, reef knot, bowline, a double half hitch and clove hitch.
“This is something we enjoy doing,” said Don Schaefer, a U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteer.
Schaefer and fellow volunteer Joe Britvch will also hand out a one-page brochure with information and instructions about the different kind to guests to take home and practice.
“Our theory is they learn best by doing it and not just watching,” Schaefer said.
Thursday’s “All About Sharks,” which a museum educator will present this summer, is a popular activity. The informative program focuses on sharks found off the coast of Ocean City.
“Our shark program is a very well-attended program … it’s interactive, we have a lot of educational tools and visuals that people can touch and take a close look at,” Okerblom said. “You can even hold a Megalodon shark tooth and examine a real mako and tiger shark jaw.”
On Friday, “Land, Sky and Sea” will highlight how the island was formed, what birds fly overhead and what creatures inhabit the ocean and coastal bays.
“It teaches people about how the island was formed, the 1933 storm and how the inlet was created. It talks about what flies overhead, what birds you are going to be seeing when you visit in Ocean City and then it talks about the sea,” Okerblom said. “At the end of the program, once our educator is done talking, then you use binoculars and you work with the educator to look out into the inlet and try to identify things that are flying by.”
On Saturdays, visitors can head inside the Life-Saving Station Museum to watch staff feed a seahorse, American eels, a horseshoe crab, a blue crab, a diamondback terrapin and other sea creatures in the museum’s aquarium room while learning about the animals.
“Participants will get the chance to touch and feed a live horseshoe crab at our aquarium feeding,” Okerblom said.
Last year, several hundred people participated in the museum’s free programs during its two-month run and they continue to grow in popularity each year.
“It’s a very well-attended schedule of programs, and we have families and individuals that have been coming back on an annual basis,” Okerblom said.
Most of the Life-Saving Station Museum’s programs take place at the Boardwalk tram station, just north of the museum. The station has benches for guests to sit on and a roof for protection from sun and rain, though the free programs will be canceled in extreme conditions.
The beach safety program on Tuesdays takes place on the Boardwalk directly in front of the museum and Saturday’s aquarium feeding program is inside the museum at 813 S. Atlantic Avenue, at the southern end of the Boardwalk.
The 30-minute programs will be offered Monday through Saturday at 10 a.m. Although the programs are free to attend, admission to the museum costs $3 for adults, $2 for senior citizens age 62 and older and active duty military members, and $1 for children ages 6-17. Children 5 and younger get into the museum for free.
“We’re looking forward to another good year,” Okerblom said.
The Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. throughout the summer.
Visit www.ocmuseum.org, call 410-289-4991 or e-mail curator@ocmuseum.org for more information.
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The Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida is located between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, and is home to one of the most famous racetracks in the world. Austrian-Canadian businessman and horse expert, Frank Stronach, is currently expanding the Stronach Group-owned facility through the addition of a theme park. At its centre, since the end of 2014, stands a spectacular piece of bronze artwork: Pegasus, the fabled winged horse from Greek mythology, forms an ensemble with a dragon as a symbol of positive strength and the victory of good over evil.
3D-puzzle with 1,250 bronze pieces
The oversized sculpture is an impressive 33 m high and – Pegasus together with the dragon – over 60 m long. In order to realize such magnitude in connection with the organic shape in bronze, seemed an unbelievable, virtually impossible challenge at the beginning for all members of the project management team.
Located in the Swabian region of Germany, Göppingen-based Strassacker art casting foundry together with the Stark engineering consultancy from Ludwigsburg, who were commissioned to undertake the costing, calculation and design of the steel structure, developed an implementation concept. As a result, this allowed 250 t and 400 t of bronze and steel respectively to be formed in a period of only 2 years thus realising the customer´s conceptual presentation in a larger than life format. A total of 1,250 bronze parts were ultimately needed to assemble the sculpture as a 3D puzzle around the supporting steel structure. The dimensions were truly enormous: each of the castings was approx. 3 m² large and weighed 200 kg, having being elaborately produced by a partner company in China according to Strassacker specifications and then shipped to Florida.
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In order to be able to safely realise the bronze sculpture on site as well as within the planned time frame, the Miami-based scaffolding contractor, Scafform, used the PERI UP Rosett Flex modular scaffold system. Its metric 25 cm scaffold grid provided the required high level of flexibility for creating suitable working and access levels for the craftsmen and metal designers – adapted on the outside and inside to match the complex, organic form as well as continuously following the erection progress.
In addition, auxiliary building sections simultaneously under construction which were to be joined to the sculpture also had to be taken into account during the scaffold planning and assembly. For this, PERI UP could be ideally combined with system components taken from the VARIOKIT engineering construction kit – a big advantage, especially for large-span bridging. Both systems are based on the metric grid arrangement, can be quickly assembled by means of compatible connecting elements, and are also available at short notice from the extensive PERI rental programme.
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Behind the Scenes with Lucy Luscombe and the Like a Girl Film
Watch a behind-the-scenes interview with director Lucy Luscombe and the girls from the Like a Girl film.
Join Always in our mission to boost girls’ confidence by encouraging girls everywhere to embrace failure as fuel to build confidence and Keep Going #LikeAGirl. Watch a behind-the-scenes interview with director Lucy Luscombe and the girls from the film as they talk about turning failure into fuel to keep girls confident.
At puberty, 50 percent of girls feel paralyzed by the fear of failure.* This leads to girls avoiding trying new things because they’re too afraid to fail.
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Remembering Phoenix Theater Writer Kyle Lawson
Robrt L. Pela
Phoenix theater writer Kyle Lawson died on Thursday, February 1.
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Robrt L. Pela | February 2, 2018 | 5:00am
One afternoon about 25 years ago, Kyle Lawson took me to lunch at the Compass Room. My old friend, then the lead theater writer at the Arizona Republic, was worried about me.
“You’re going to the theater too much,” he said. “Four times a week! You’ll wear yourself out, and your fatigue will affect your opinion of what you’re seeing.”
“Oh, please, Burns Mantle,” I replied, because Kyle let me call him that sometimes. “Seeing everything I can gives me a better idea of who’s doing what. Besides, my quota is huge.”
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Thrilled to be spending the Republic’s money, I ordered another martini. “Anyway, I’m single. What the hell else do I have to do with my evenings?”
Kyle, who died on Thursday morning from congestive heart failure, liked looking after people. He wanted to play big brother to me, and I teased him mercilessly about it. “I’ve already got three big brothers,” I told him once while we waited on line at the Herberger. “They barely know I exist. How about you try that for a while?”
And then we both laughed.
That was our shtick: He’d be concerned, kind, and loving, and I’d roll my eyes and say something tart, and we’d both stand there, giggling and snorting. We were the Wheeler and Woolsey of theater criticism, playing the same arch scene, over and over, for one another’s benefit.
Kyle’s other gambit with me was to ignore my snotty comments. “Oh, God, Kyle,” I whined once during a Gammage intermission. “Please tell me we didn’t both drive across town to witness a bus-and-truck Mamma Mia!”
“Tell me your favorite ABBA song,” Kyle replied, pretending he hadn’t heard. “Mine is ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme A Man After Midnight.’”
The theater community loved Kyle, and will no doubt be lining up for weeks to pay tribute to his large heart, which finally failed him. They’ll recall his positive words and his more-than-fair approach to theater reviewing.
(Kyle hated being called a “critic,” and told me often he couldn’t bear to lean too heavily on any production or performance, because he’d once been an actor himself. It was another thing we bickered politely about. “Have an opinion!” I’d yell, and Kyle would change the subject.)
Friends will recall Kyle’s love for his dog, Bailey, about whom he wrote imagined conversations he posted on Facebook, and his wonderful relationship with his wife, Pat, who became Kyle’s full-time advocate when his health began to decline.
I’ll remember Kyle’s longstanding loyalty. He defended me tirelessly to theater folk who thought I was “mean” in print. (“Leave them alone and let them hate me!” I’d plead, but Kyle always refused.)
He wrote long posts and even longer emails, lauding my writing career, my devotion to my husband, my decision to care for my elderly mother rather than place her in a facility. He’d end every note with a sly reference to our disparate approach to criticism (“I’ve got this play I’d like you to read,” he wrote in one of his last emails to me. “Try to be kind.”).
And always, always, there was some oblique and warmhearted reference to our “brotherhood.”
Robrt L. Pela has been a weekly contributor to Phoenix New Times since 1991, primarily as a cultural critic. His radio essays air on National Public Radio affiliate KJZZ's Morning Edition.
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The Builders & The Butchers
Aug 13, 2012 Big Orange Studios, Austin, TX
Broke The Vein 04:12
Lullaby 03:44
Out Of The Mountain 05:26
Rotten To The Core 03:57
Words by Sean Moeller, Illustration by Johnnie Cluney, Recording engineered by Matt Oliver, Mastered by Sam Patlove
There are enough devil towns and evil doers lurching in the veins of the songs of The Builders and the Butchers to build another hell, to have a ground-breaking tomorrow and feel confident as a prospector that there will be no empty units. Someone's going to turn a considerable profit and others are going to unhappily see the competition move in and the neighborhood to shit. The devils that are sprinkled throughout, no, dolloped upon the bitter lines that the Portland band of freak country and bluegrass boys give their hearty venom are not of the pallor or shape that one would normally think. These are the people that you have beside you, the people that you share or shared kisses with, the people whom you trust your deepest and rarest secrets to when no one else is looking, or alive as far as you're concerned. These are the confidantes and lovers that sometimes split off and become thorny and unpredictably rotten.
Nothing's sacred in the God-forsaken town that is sung about in "Way Down In This Hole" - a potential commercial spot for enticing prospective buyers to this new division of hell's lairs. The kids are smoking before they're able to crawl across the ground and for those unclear on child development or the normal order of things, that's a bit early for a pack-a-day habit or more. Those kids are damned and those are just the babies! Imagine what the adults, their supervisors, are like in these rough and tumble (a phrase too soft for the circumstances) situations. It's the true loves - not the misguided ones - that bring the poor saps down to their knees, lash them front ways and back ways and leave them to bleed in the rain. There seems to be a solemn sensation that people will be continuously wronged all over the yard, in and out of the homes and wherever else people can scatter and lights can find them. It's maybe more realistic than we'd give it credit for. There are the staggeringly high statistics for the number of marriages that end in divorce and many of those people probably did something heinous to ruin those vows. They probably don't speak to each other anymore, most of them. They probably still get depressed and cry a bit in the shower - even years later - when they think about some of the long gone good times.
With the Builders and the Butchers, it sounds as if the good times are so tainted by the bad ones that they catch fire and they get nasty. The true loves are to be watched and the heart is to be exposed guardedly, grudgingly. There are to be no sudden movements or chances taken. There will be no going out on limbs because it could end in a situation where "the blood just rolled down your cheeks like tears." The new hell isn't all bad. It provides us with a fine bit of entertainment and The Builders and the Butchers are the house band - the reporters and the orchestra, evidencing the ire.
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Hi I'm Rob, a freelance digital illustrator with experience in design, animation, video editing, and comics. I have worked as a concept/character designer for several game companies and have also done many freelance comics and illustrations over the years. Currently, I make webcomics for Kiyat games and now on Patreon.
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Sascha Segan Motorola ROKR E1 Although the first iTunes phone connects easily with PCs and Macs, the sad truth is that music transfers and the phone's interface both feel clumsy.
By Sascha Segan and Mike Kobrin
September 9, 2005 12:18PM EST
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First phone with iTunes. Good call quality.
Extremely slow music transfer. Somewhat clunky software. No other cutting-edge features.
See the Motorola ROKR E1 in Action!
Although the first iTunes phone connects easily with PCs and Macs, the sad truth is that music transfers and the phone's interface both feel clumsy.
So What About the Phone?
Other than iTunes, nothing here is cutting-edge, but you will find a decent set of midrange features. The VGA camera is okay; images are a bit dim with some visible compression artifacts, but there are no annoying color tinges. Bluetooth 1.2 support includes headsets, contact syncing, and file transfer, but nothing fancy like stereo audio. We synced contacts and calendars successfully over Bluetooth with both Motorola's Mobile Phone Tools software on a PC and Apple's iSync on a Mac. We sent instant messages over AIM, and we downloaded e-mail successfully with the phone's basic POP3/IMAP4 mail client. The phone sends messages, surfs WAP sites, and connects to your PC for modem use, albeit with slow GPRS, rather than Cingular's faster EDGE network.
You can save photos, e-mail, or MP3 ringtones in the phone's anemic 5MB of memory or on the built-in 512MB TransFlash card, which is located very inconveniently under the battery. Adding such data to the card means shrinking the space available for your music library.
Until you press the iTunes button, the E1 works just like other Motorola phones, such as the V551 or the V600. Calls are clear, though we had some audio dropouts over Sony Ericsson and Logitech Bluetooth headsets. The 176by-220 color screen is fine indoors, but we had trouble reading it in sunlight, as it's not as bright as that of the V551. We like that the speakerphone is loud.
The ROKR's battery life was much as Motorola promised: More than 15 hours of music-listening time with headphones, or a rocking 12 hours, 30 minutes of continuous talk time. That's excellent for any phone, and even a little better than the Sony Ericsson W800i.
On the phone itself, there's sometimes a lag between pressing keys and actions taking effect. The volume control has only seven steps, and there's no way to fast forward or rewind quickly, because there's no click wheel (one of the great features of the iPod). And though Motorola includes an adapter for standard stereo-music headphones, unlike the adapter from the Sony Ericsson W800i, it doesn't have a mic on it, so you have to choose between your top-notch music headphones and a working phone headset.
The ROKR also lacks some of the iPod's audiophile features: It won't play songs recorded with variable bit rates (an expert option when recording from some CDs), or in high-quality 320 Kbps mode, and it has no audio equalizer.
But the deal breaker for us is the glacially slow USB 1.1 transfer speed. We dumped 51 songs totaling 251MB onto an iPod shuffle in 2½ minutes. The ROKR took 26 minutes to transfer the same playlist.
Bottom Line: Although the first iTunes phone connects easily with PCs and Macs, the sad truth is that music transfers and the phone's interface both feel clumsy.
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Lisbon Cutout (Emerald Green), 2016
spray-painted steel, laser cut, 209,5 × 148,5 cm
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spray-painted steel, laser cut, 83,9 × 59,2 cm
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artist's clothes, wire hanger, powder-coated screw, inkjet print, 98 × 45 × 2 cm
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Matt Keegan is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work addresses the complexities of language and cognition, and is often informed by personal narratives that illuminate larger socio-political histories. As an interdisciplinary practitioner, his work is made in a variety of media including steel sculpture, photography, video, and printmaking. Keegan’s exhibitions are frequently accompanied by artist publications that extend the show’s formal thinking and research. Publication-making has also been an ongoing part of the artist’s practice for over a decade.
Keegan’s work has been widely exhibited internationally in venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New Museum, Bard CCS Hessel Museum (all New York), The Kitchen, Sculpture Center, the Guggenheim Museum (NY, Bilbao and Berlin), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Grazer Kunstverein (Graz, Austria), ICA Boston, the Columbus Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Cambridge, Mass) where his 2016 video Generation, traveled after its 2017 debut at Participant Inc., in NYC. Keegan’s first monograph, OR, was co-published by Inventory Press in conjunction with his 2015 solo show, “Portable Document Format” at Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway. Keegan is the co-founding editor and publisher of North Drive Press (2004-2010) and founding editor of == (2012 and 2016).
His work is represented in numerous museum and private collections worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, The Annette and Peter Nobel Collection, Zurich, The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida.
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A friendship entwined with tomatoes continues to bloom and grow, even in unexpected gardens.
photographs by Charles Harris
On a warm summer night in a Fuquay-Varina backyard, a line of party guests belly up to a Bloody Mary bar laden with Mason jars filled with heirloom tomato juice in an array of yellows, oranges, and reds. They visit a BLT station with platters of sliced tomatoes and crisp bacon, white bread and Duke’s mayonnaise. They swarm a buffet table to sample tomato varieties with names like Tutti-Frutti, Bumblebee, and Black Prince.
The host of this garden party, Brie Arthur, is hard to miss in a tomato-red dress and a smile trimmed in a similar shade of lipstick. Her enthusiastic greetings carry across the lawn, where guests have gathered to marvel at the flower beds in which much of this feast was grown. Arthur, 40, is a garden writer who has made a name for herself promoting “foodscaping,” the idea that a vegetable garden doesn’t have to be an unsightly collection of lettuce patches and picked-over pole beans. Arthur’s half-acre garden — in a former tobacco field-turned-subdivision in Wake County — proves that you can grow food among your flowers.
Arthur is not alone in her gardening evangelism.
Her now-annual party was inspired by a tomato tasting event held for a decade by another North Carolina gardening expert, Craig LeHoullier, who is responsible for making the Cherokee Purple tomato a household name.
LeHoullier, 63, who lives in Raleigh, is an experienced tomato gardener and breeder. Part of his early heirloom tomato advocacy was an annual event called Tomatopalooza, held in the Triangle from 2002 to 2012. The event, a draw for fellow tomato geeks, helped LeHoullier convert people to growing heirloom tomatoes by appealing to their appetites. Arthur has picked up that mantle by doing the same thing at her parties, one tomato at a time.
It should come as no surprise that LeHoullier and Arthur are friends. As gardening authors and speakers, they have become stars in this field, and LeHoullier sees a kinship in their goals. “We’re two people dedicated to spreading our love of gardening and deep knowledge about growing tomatoes,” LeHoullier says. “We enjoy teaching people — and getting people off the destination of gardening and into the journey.”
Brie Arthur’s Fuquay-Varina garden, blueberries, onions, peppers, and tomatoes grow among the lamb’s ear, zinnias, and hydrangeas. photograph by Charles Harris
Today’s love for heirloom tomatoes can be largely credited to LeHoullier. “If most vegetable gardeners can name one heirloom tomato, it’s the Cherokee Purple,” says Mark Weathington, director of the J.C. Raulston Arboretum at NC State University. “It was 30 years ago that Craig introduced that, and look where we are now.” Every farmers market in July is a testament to LeHoullier’s influence.
The story of the Cherokee Purple is entwined with LeHoullier’s own. He has a doctorate in chemistry from Dartmouth College and worked in the pharmaceutical industry. In 1981, he planted his first garden plot, and he brought his scientific sensibilities to the hobby. Heirloom tomatoes quickly became his focus. He collected old seed catalogs from the 1880s. He sent away for samples of forgotten varieties from the federal government’s seed vault. He shared the most promising seeds with other gardeners and pushed small seed companies to reintroduce them.
That’s what led to the Cherokee Purple, which LeHoullier named. In 1990, he received a packet of seeds from J.D. Green of Sevierville, Tennessee, who said they came from a family who had gotten them from Cherokee Indians 100 years earlier. LeHoullier promoted the tomato, known for its rich taste and deep red-to-purplish exterior, and it became a breakout star among heirloom varieties. Beyond those efforts, LeHoullier also sold tomato starts — grown in Dixie cups — each spring at the State Farmers Market in Raleigh.
The first Tomatopalooza was intended as a way to get his customers together to share and sample tomatoes, and to encourage folks to grow more varieties. “Tomatopalooza educated people about the possibilities,” LeHoullier says. “They went from, ‘What do you have in a red tomato?’ to asking for one plant in every color of the tomato rainbow.”
As tastes evolved, so did Tomatopalooza: from a low-key gathering at Umstead Park or Lake Wheeler to a sprawling event hosted by a customer, Jimmy Holcomb, on his farm in Efland. Holcomb recalls telling LeHoullier, “Craig, you cannot have something with ‘palooza’ in the name and not have music and dancing and beverages!” And so, in 2007, 2008, and 2012, Holcomb hosted the event with an old-time band, cloggers, and a Tomato Queen.
While LeHoullier appreciated Holcomb’s energy as a host, Tomatopalooza was a lot to manage, and almost all of his harvest was eaten up by it. “The last two Tomatopaloozas, I don’t think I tasted tomatoes,” LeHoullier says. After a decade of events, he decided to call it quits and turn his attention to other ways to promote heirloom tomatoes. In 2015, he published Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time, which is now in its fifth printing. He’s also published a slim volume on straw-bale gardening and has another book in the works on dwarf tomatoes — plants intended for those who live in cities or apartments with limited garden space. These days, he’s working with others around the world to develop the best dwarf tomato varieties.
“These dwarf tomatoes he’s breeding are really designed for modern gardeners,” Weathington says. “Beyond being a tomato proselytizer, he’s trying to make it work for people.”
Heirloom varieties are prized for their depth of flavor, firm texture, and beautiful colors. photograph by Charles Harris
The same can be said of Arthur, who found her calling in convincing suburbanites to grow their food in flower beds while staying in the good graces of their homeowners associations. She grew up in a rural community south of Detroit where 4-H was a big deal. Although she didn’t live on a farm, she participated in the arts and crafts, gardening, and public speaking competitions that are also part of 4-H. She excelled, which didn’t surprise her parents, who recall an outspoken young girl who took over mowing the family’s three-acre lawn at age 8 and would lecture neighbors about not picking up their grass clippings. Her mother, Lynn Gluvna, who showed her daughter how to drive the riding lawnmower, says, “She picked it up very quickly. I was not up to her standards.”
Arthur would go on to earn a degree in horticulture from Purdue University. She moved to North Carolina and started working for a who’s who of North Carolina gardening experts: Nancy Goodwin of Montrose Gardens in Hillsborough, Tony Avent of Plant Delights Nursery near Raleigh, and Christine and David Parks of Camellia Forest Nursery in Chapel Hill.
When she bought her first home in 2005, she decided to grow her own food to stretch her grocery budget. But her homeowners association had a rule against vegetable gardens in residents’ front yards and would levy $300 fines. So Arthur tucked peppers and onions, okra and tomatoes among her ornamental flowers. She discovered that HOA officials didn’t recognize the vegetables and, in fact, gave her the subdivision’s Yard of the Year award.
That experience made Arthur realize: “It’s not the vegetables. It’s the way you grow vegetables.” Her 2017 book, The Foodscape Revolution: Finding a Better Way to Make Space for Food and Beauty in Your Garden, emerged from that epiphany. She has spent the past few years traveling the country to share her gardening approach with homeowners and developers.
That’s what sets Arthur apart, says Joe Lamp’l, host and producer of the PBS show Growing a Greener World, on which Arthur appears as a correspondent. As a passionate home gardener and professional horticulturist, Arthur can “connect the dots between the professional industry and the home gardener,” Lamp’l says.
Arthur’s Fuquay-Varina lawn is Exhibit A in her attempt to sway others to her way of thinking. Wheat stalks and walking onions rise above cornflowers. Peppers peek out from underneath hydrangeas. Tomato plants are nestled among blueberry bushes; staked to attractive, industrial-looking cattle fencing; and grown in hydroponic pots all over her deck. Tomatoes are one of the most consumed foods globally, she notes. “Why not show people how to grow tomatoes in a way that looks cool?”
From her first tomato shindig here in 2011 — two days after she and her garden were photographed for Organic Gardening magazine — to her latest garden party, the goal has always been to inspire. After guests have had their fill of Cherokee Purples, BLTs, and Bloody Marys, Arthur unveils dessert: a four-foot-long carrot cake. (The green carrot tops look lovely among zinnias.) Before the first slice is cut, she calls out her version of a toast: “Happy tomato tasting, y’all!”
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\r\nNew research has shown a connection between the type of corrosion with the Stryker Orthopedics Rejuvenate Modular Hip System and local soft tissue destruction.\r\nPreviously, lawyers were only accepting metal-on-metal claims regarding defective hip implants and some Stryker Rejuvenate patients did not have legal recourse because of this. Because of the potential link with components in the Stryker Orthopedics Rejuvenate Modular Hip System device, the Stryker Rejuvenate claims are now being investigated, and litigation is underway.\r\nThe report published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery on May 15, 2013, studied 12 hips in 11 patients who underwent total hip arthroplasty with a modular femoral stem design by Stryker Rejuvenate. This design consists of a titanium-molybdenum-zirconium-iron alloy body paired with a modular cobalt-chromium alloy neck. All patients showed local tissue destruction with visible corrosion at the femoral neck-body junction and increased levels of chromium, titanium, and cobalt in their blood, indicating metallosis. Metallosis is an adverse tissue reaction to heavy metals in the body, causing pain, failure of the hip joint, limited mobility, DNA changes and chromosomal aberrations, pseudotumors and dissolution of the bone.\r\nPatients implanted with the recalled Rejuvenate and ABG II Modular-Neck Hip Stems should also be evaluated for local tissue reactions, such as necrosis surrounding tissue, and have their blood tested to ensure their hips are functioning properly in order to prevent metallosis, even if they do not experience any side effects. Typically, hip implants are expected to last 15 to 20 years, but the Stryker Rejuvenate hips are failing in less than five years.\r\nCall now 916.714.8200 case evaluation\r\nWhat Makes the Stryker Rejuvenate Hip Implant Different?\r\nIn the news regarding lawsuits, the Stryker Rejuvenate hip implant is different from other hip replacement devices because it is not a metal-on-metal device. Instead, it uses a ceramic component which was meant as an alternative to the metal-on-metal devices and was marketed to younger patients as a modular hip replacement, with custom-made components to fit patients better.\r\nSome patients have reported developing metallosis after the implantation. Although this was initially believed to be impossible because the Stryker Rejuvenate does not have a metal-on-metal ball and socket design, the device has a metal neck piece that can rub against a metal stem, causing metal debris to come loose. Stryker responded to concerns about the Rejuvenate failure rate by alleging patients did not undergo rehabilitation following surgery or by blaming doctors\u2019 implantation techniques.\r\nCall now 916.714.8200 case evaluation\r\nStryker Hip Replacement Recall\r\nStryker\u2019s first recall occurred in 2007 when the company recalled the Trident metal hip. Five years later, in July 2012, Stryker voluntarily recalled its Rejuvenate and ABG II modular-neck stems from the market, due to reports of fretting and corrosion. On May 28, 2012, Health Canada announced that Rejuvenate was being recalled so the instructions for use could be updated. The recall was based on a reported rate of less than one percent for revisions associated with the Rejuvenate and affected only Rejuvenate devices sold in Canada.\r\nSince the recall in 2012, an increasing number of Stryker hip replacement lawsuits continue to be filed nationwide. As of May 2013, more than 160 lawsuits have been filed in a consolidated litigation currently underway in New Jersey\u2019s Bergen County Superior Court. 81 claims have been filed in the New Jersey litigation early in 2013.\r\nCall now 916.714.8200 case evaluation\r\nDefective Product Claims\r\nThe defective product claims usually fall into three categories:\r\n\r\ndefective manufacture\r\ndefective design\r\nfailure to provide proper instructions or warnings about the adequate use of the product\r\n\r\nThere are several entities that can be held responsible in a product liability case including all individuals and companies in the chain of distribution. Most often, the defendants in product liability lawsuits are:\r\n\r\nthe manufacturer of the product and any components\r\nthe designer of the product\r\nthe company who assembled the product\r\nthe first distributor of the product\r\nthe company who labeled the product\r\nthe reseller of the product\r\n\r\nCall now 916.714.8200 case evaluation\r\nWhat Damages Can I Recover?\r\nThe monetary compensation can cover both economic and non-economic losses, such as:\r\n\r\npain and suffering\r\nemotional anguish\r\npresent and future medical costs\r\nlost wages\r\nlost earning capacity\r\nproperty damage\r\n\r\nCall now 916.714.8200 case evaluation\r\nProduct Liability Law in California\r\nA 2-year deadline prescribed by California Code of Civil Procedure applies to personal injury actions in product liability. The components of a California strict liability action include:\r\n\r\nthe defective product was the cause of plaintiff\u2019s injuries or damages\r\nthe product was in a defective state when it left the defendant\u2019s possession\r\nthe product was used in intended manner\r\n\r\nCall now 916.714.8200 case evaluation\r\nThe O'Brien & Zehnder Law Firm Can Help You Build a Case\r\n
\r\nAt the Elk Grove-based O'Brien & Zehnder Law Firm, we represent individuals and families in the greater Sacramento and San Francisco Bay Area who have been injured by defective products.\r\nWe believe that manufacturing companies have a responsibility to customers and they should be held accountable when something goes wrong.\r\nIt is our duty to hold these companies accountable and to help injured persons and their families recover the maximum amount of compensation possible. Contact John M. O\u2019Brien & Grant Zehnder today at\u00a0800.722.4176 for more information and advice regarding product liability lawsuits in the state of California, Sacramento & Elk Grove areas.\r\nCall now 916.714.8200 case evaluation", "articleSection": ["Product Liability" ], "keywords": ["defective product" ]}
The Stryker Rejuvenate Hip Implant Recall Lawsuit
Posted on January 24th, 2014 by Staff
New research has shown a connection between the type of corrosion with the Stryker Orthopedics Rejuvenate Modular Hip System and local soft tissue destruction.
Previously, lawyers were only accepting metal-on-metal claims regarding defective hip implants and some Stryker Rejuvenate patients did not have legal recourse because of this. Because of the potential link with components in the Stryker Orthopedics Rejuvenate Modular Hip System device, the Stryker Rejuvenate claims are now being investigated, and litigation is underway.
The report published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery on May 15, 2013, studied 12 hips in 11 patients who underwent total hip arthroplasty with a modular femoral stem design by Stryker Rejuvenate. This design consists of a titanium-molybdenum-zirconium-iron alloy body paired with a modular cobalt-chromium alloy neck. All patients showed local tissue destruction with visible corrosion at the femoral neck-body junction and increased levels of chromium, titanium, and cobalt in their blood, indicating metallosis. Metallosis is an adverse tissue reaction to heavy metals in the body, causing pain, failure of the hip joint, limited mobility, DNA changes and chromosomal aberrations, pseudotumors and dissolution of the bone.
Patients implanted with the recalled Rejuvenate and ABG II Modular-Neck Hip Stems should also be evaluated for local tissue reactions, such as necrosis surrounding tissue, and have their blood tested to ensure their hips are functioning properly in order to prevent metallosis, even if they do not experience any side effects. Typically, hip implants are expected to last 15 to 20 years, but the Stryker Rejuvenate hips are failing in less than five years.
What Makes the Stryker Rejuvenate Hip Implant Different?
In the news regarding lawsuits, the Stryker Rejuvenate hip implant is different from other hip replacement devices because it is not a metal-on-metal device. Instead, it uses a ceramic component which was meant as an alternative to the metal-on-metal devices and was marketed to younger patients as a modular hip replacement, with custom-made components to fit patients better.
Some patients have reported developing metallosis after the implantation. Although this was initially believed to be impossible because the Stryker Rejuvenate does not have a metal-on-metal ball and socket design, the device has a metal neck piece that can rub against a metal stem, causing metal debris to come loose. Stryker responded to concerns about the Rejuvenate failure rate by alleging patients did not undergo rehabilitation following surgery or by blaming doctors’ implantation techniques.
Stryker Hip Replacement Recall
Stryker’s first recall occurred in 2007 when the company recalled the Trident metal hip. Five years later, in July 2012, Stryker voluntarily recalled its Rejuvenate and ABG II modular-neck stems from the market, due to reports of fretting and corrosion. On May 28, 2012, Health Canada announced that Rejuvenate was being recalled so the instructions for use could be updated. The recall was based on a reported rate of less than one percent for revisions associated with the Rejuvenate and affected only Rejuvenate devices sold in Canada.
Since the recall in 2012, an increasing number of Stryker hip replacement lawsuits continue to be filed nationwide. As of May 2013, more than 160 lawsuits have been filed in a consolidated litigation currently underway in New Jersey’s Bergen County Superior Court. 81 claims have been filed in the New Jersey litigation early in 2013.
Defective Product Claims
The defective product claims usually fall into three categories:
defective manufacture
failure to provide proper instructions or warnings about the adequate use of the product
There are several entities that can be held responsible in a product liability case including all individuals and companies in the chain of distribution. Most often, the defendants in product liability lawsuits are:
the manufacturer of the product and any components
the designer of the product
the company who assembled the product
the first distributor of the product
the company who labeled the product
the reseller of the product
What Damages Can I Recover?
The monetary compensation can cover both economic and non-economic losses, such as:
present and future medical costs
lost wages
lost earning capacity
Product Liability Law in California
A 2-year deadline prescribed by California Code of Civil Procedure applies to personal injury actions in product liability. The components of a California strict liability action include:
the defective product was the cause of plaintiff’s injuries or damages
the product was in a defective state when it left the defendant’s possession
the product was used in intended manner
The O'Brien & Zehnder Law Firm Can Help You Build a Case
At the Elk Grove-based O'Brien & Zehnder Law Firm, we represent individuals and families in the greater Sacramento and San Francisco Bay Area who have been injured by defective products.
We believe that manufacturing companies have a responsibility to customers and they should be held accountable when something goes wrong.
It is our duty to hold these companies accountable and to help injured persons and their families recover the maximum amount of compensation possible. Contact John M. O’Brien & Grant Zehnder today at 800.722.4176 for more information and advice regarding product liability lawsuits in the state of California, Sacramento & Elk Grove areas.
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Nestled between Franschhoek and Paarl, Pearl Valley Golf Estate offers its residents an exclusive lifestyle in the heart of the Cape Winelands. The golf estate consists of 212 hectares of prime property for sale in Pearl Valley, and includes approximately 500 residential properties, each with their own 360-degree view of the surrounding mountains.
The private lake situated on the grounds, together with the state-of-the-art facilities make it the ideal property location for investors, families and retirees alike. The properties at Pearl Valley Golf Estate have been built around a Jack Nicklaus signature golf course, one of the top golf course in the Western Cape and just one of several world-class facilities available to residents. These include an equestrian centre, an elegantly designed clubhouse as well as an onsite Camelot spa.
Besides a safe and secure environment for residents, the estate is also family orientated, with a indoor and outdoor gym, children’s play area, as well as a kiddie’s pool and slides. Adults also have access to a swimming pool area, to relax and soak up the sun.
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Premier for a novel Sound Generator
Unique sound for vehicles from the assembly line
Many advantages, especially when used in electric vehicles
First ever presentation at eCarTec in Munich
paragon will be celebrating a premier at eCarTec, the leading trade show for electromobility from October 23 to 25 in Munich. The exchange-listed direct supplier to the automobile industry will focus its presentation on a novel Sound Generator which has been installed in a demonstration vehicle.
The Sound Generator from paragon ensures that vehicles from the assembly line can have a unique sound. The desired sound will be synthetically modulated in its full dynamic range appropriate to the situation. The digital sound system uses cutting edge methods from sound synthesis and signal processing. Modern algorithms generate the freely programmable audio signals in real time.
When used in electric vehicles, the device enhances awareness and in doing so reduces the potential danger for pedestrians considerably. However, the virtual background sound also makes it easier for the occupants to adjust to the absence of an internal combustion engine. The Sound Generator is even of interest for vehicles with conventional drive; many a diesel or three-cylinder car can be made to sound like a race car as desired.
More products: Zero Emission System and cTablet Docking Station
In addition to the Sound Generator, paragon will demonstrate in Munich the Zero Emission System which has already been validated for use. The system features a modular battery pack including battery management system, charging system, motor controller and DC/DC converter as well as a cockpit system. paragon is targeting this system at light commercial vehicles used in urban and in-company transport.
Of particular interest is the cTabletDocking Station for perfect integration of a tablet computer in the driver's cab. paragon has now expanded this product to meet special requirements for fleet management.
The paragon stand at eCarTec 2012: Hall B2, Stand 405
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Regenstrief, IU Health Study Helps Chaplains Provide Proactive Care to Families in Crises
By Staff Reporter, Parent Herald April 30, 01:18 pm
INDIANAPOLIS -- A new model developed and implemented by the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University Health provides chaplains with a framework to deliver better care to families and surrogate decision makers during health emergencies.
"In times of crisis, patients and their families turn to hospital chaplains to provide spiritual support," says Alexia Torke, M.D., lead author of a study in the April issue of the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy. "While chaplains serve a powerful role supporting the families of people in the hospital, previous research has shown that many families miss seeing a chaplain in intensive care settings because the family members have many other responsibilities such as children or jobs, or simply are not in the patient's unit when the chaplain visits." Dr. Torke is a Regenstrief Institute research scientist and Director of The Daniel F. Evans Center for Spiritual and Religious Values in Healthcare at Indiana University Health.
The Chaplain Family Project supported family members in the ICU when the patients were severely ill and unable to speak for themselves.
The team of chaplains, physicians and researchers developed and implemented a new model for framing chaplain visits. The Spiritual Care Assessment and Intervention (SCAI pronounced "sky") framework, was designed to help chaplains provide proactive, semi-structured spiritual care to meet family members' needs while being responsive to each person's spiritual or religious preferences.
The SCAI framework defines spirituality broadly to include concerns about meaning, purpose and relationships as well as connection to God or another higher power. It can be tailored to support patients or family whether they are religious or not.
"We've seen how important chaplain care is to patients, family, friends and surrogates," continued Dr. Torke. "Our challenge is to provide assistance earlier in the process, hopefully before they become overwhelmed."
In the study, chaplains recruited 25 family members of hospitalized individuals. Each received at least one proactively scheduled visit from a participating chaplain. Visits took place either in-person or by phone, so chaplains could reach out to family surrogates wherever they were at the time. The new framework provides conversational pathways for the chaplain to explore areas where the greatest needs of the individual lies, including spiritual wellbeing and relationships with loved ones.
This novel work from Dr. Torke and her team shows promise in empowering chaplains to be even more effective in their spiritual care for families of patients in the ICU. Participating family members reported they felt emotionally and spiritually supported by the program, and overwhelmingly indicated that they would recommend similar chaplain services to other families in similar situations.
"The SCAI framework was very helpful for us as chaplains," said Saneta Maiko, PhD, M.S., of Indiana University Health, co-author and study interventionist. "It allowed us to have deeper conversations that addressed family members' distress much more effectively."
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Essential Essays Culture Politics & the Art of Poetry
by Adrienne Rich
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Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and a major intellectual voice of her generation. The Essential Essays gathers twenty- five of Rich's most renowned essays into one volume, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision. Her thoughts on feminism, poetry, race, homosexuality, and identity are still powerful and relevant today. Discussing everything from her fearless poetic vision to her revolutionary views on social justice, Rich's essays unite the political, personal, and poetical.
Included are Rich's landmark essays "Motherhood as Experience and Institution"; "What Is Found There," about the need to reexamine the canon; "Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts"; "When We Dead Awaken"; and "Compulsory Heterosexuality and the Lesbian Existence." As Sandra M. Gilbert writes in her introduction, "To re-read and to re-think Rich's prose as a complete oeuvre is to encounter a major public intellectual-- responsible, self-questioning, and morally passionate."
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I ordered "Adrienne Rich's Essential Essays" after encountering Sandra M. Gilbert recently in the Paris Review. I can't wait to re-read Adrienne Rich in this new collection. Rich is one of the strongest voices of modern feminism and instrumental in the development of my own thinking on being a feminist, a woman, a mother who is filled with anger and resistance against the patriarchy. I encountered Rich in the 1970s and she continues to give me comfort and guidance through the rage and outrageous-ness of this current decade of demagogues. There is such truth in her words...and in 2018 women are gathering again with a sense of collective power and hope imaging a new world. To read Rich is to know how deep blood flows toward our liberation.
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“The unmistakable design of a Lamborghini super car,” writes Lamborghini on its Facebook page.
Lamborghini joins the boom in supercar SUVs
Lamborghini is set showcase its new supercar SUV on Monday, the Urus
Supercar makers have long known that parked next to that snarling Lamborghini, racing-red Ferrari, or stately Bentley at some of the globe’s toniest addresses is a practical SUV. With the sport utility vehicle market growing by leaps and bounds, they increasingly want in on those profits.
Lamborghini unveils the once-improbable Urus SUV on Monday at its headquarters in Sant’Agata, Italy, where the supercar maker owned by the Volkswagen group is expanding the factory to meet utility vehicle demand. The Urus enters a luxury field crowded with the Mercedes G-Class, the Bentley Bentayga and the trailblazing Porsche Cayenne — and soon to be joined by Aston Martin, Rolls Royce and, in all probability, Ferrari.
Analysts say that the move into SUVs has become a natural fit for most brands, even supercar makers like Lamborghini, despite the risk of alienating aficionados.
“I think if you look at those brands’ image, I think you would look at an SUV — especially a Lamborghini — as almost a sell-out move. I don’t think that is the case anymore,” Jeff Schuster, senior vice-president at LMC Automotive in Detroit. “There is some risk to the purist, who can only see one view of the brand. But as long as they don’t move too far out of who they are, a lineup can include an SUV in these brands. I wouldn’t have said that five years ago.”
From bring nonexistent in 2006, high-end SUVs have more than quadrupled in sales since 2010, from 4,700 units to almost 21,000 units in 2016, driven by the Mercedes G-Class and Bentley Bentayga, according to IHS Automotive. The entry of the Urus along with the planned Aston Martin DBX and Rolls Royce “High Side Vehicle” is expected to push those numbers up to 29,300 by 2020. Even Ferrari is considering entering the category, with a decision expected early next year, which could leave McLaren as the only hold-out among supercars.
Luxury SUVS are merely following the mass-market trend. SUVs are the fastest-growing overall segment of the car market, tripling in sales in a decade from just under 8 million units in 2006 to nearly 26.5 million units last year. SUV sales are forecast by IHS Automotive to grow by another 28 per cent to over 34 million units by 2020.
Before having a true luxury option, IHS automotive analyst Ian Fletcher said, many SUV owners went to private modifiers and tuners to increase performance and add luxury swag to their off-the-line mass-market vehicle. “A lot of manufacturers said, ‘Oh, we can have a piece of that,’” Fletcher said.
Porsche proved the market with the Cayenne, and was followed by the Mercedes G-Class, “which went from being utilitarian to being something synonymous with the Kardashians,” he said.
The decision to enter the SUV market was a no-brainer for Lamborghini, which as part of the VW group shares luxury SUV platforms with the Bentley Bentega and the Audi Q7, bringing down development costs and increasing profit margins.
“The Urus looks like it will be far more rakish than the SUV range that the VW group has, and far more dynamic,” Fletcher said. Trailers of the Urus show the vehicle spinning around the desert, an obvious fob to Middle Eastern brand enthusiasts, but could also appeal to buyers in Africa and Russia, where road conditions in some areas may have discouraged buyers from indulging in the lower-slung sportscars.
“They are aiming to have a vehicle which epitomizes what the brand’s core characteristics are: sport, high performance and accessible to customers who had to give up a sports car because they are having children, or just couldn’t get into a sports car any more or it wasn’t practical,” Fletcher said. “It broadens the brand to a wider group.”
IHS forecasts Urus sales of 2,900 a year to a peak in 2019-2020, putting it on par with the Lamborghini Huracan. And as with cars in the super luxury segment, the profit margins can be astronomical.
In the United States, SUVS are reshaping the luxury market, outpacing car sales and reaching a new audience, with the appeal strongest in trend-setting cities like Los Angeles, Miami and New York.
“I think car companies want to keep the brand pure, but they cannot ignore the market right now,” said Jessica Caldwell, senior analyst at Edmunds. “They are in the business to make money and I think that is why they are going this route.”
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DiGiCo Consoles Support Country Music Association Awards
ATK Audiotek and Blackhawk Audio mix 52nd annual ceremony at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena with SD7 and SD5 digital consoles.
By PSW Staff • November 26, 2018
The DiGiCo SD7 and SD5 desks in position for The 52nd Annual CMA Awards
The 52nd Annual Country Music Association Awards ceremony, held on Wednesday, November 14 at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena and hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, recognized the best in country music released during the CMA’s annual eligibility period. Winners included Entertainer of the Year Keith Urban and Song of the Year “Broken Halos” by Chris Stapleton, who also garnered the Male Vocalist of the Year award.
Everyone who heard the show’s 22 music performances and awards introductions by those artists and others listened to them through a pair of DiGiCo SD-Range consoles: an SD7 helmed by Blackhawk Audio president Rick Shimer at front of house for the event’s music performances, and an SD5, which mixed the evening’s production audio, piloted by ATK Audiotek principal Pat Baltzell. The house audio was played through JBL loudspeakers using a combination of VerTec 4889 and VTX V20 enclosures.
“Rick and I have done this show for nearly 20 years, and the SD consoles have made a huge difference in both the house sound and the workflow,” says Baltzell, who was also the sound system designer. “We split the sound between us—Rick handles all of the music mixes from the stage, while I do the production mix, which is all of the audio elements other than the music: the awards introductions, acceptance speeches, video rolls, and so on. We’ve found that division of labor to be the most efficient workflow.”
Baltzell notes that the DiGiCo SD5 console, with 253 input channels and up to 124 aux and subgroup busses, might have seemed like overkill for the relative handful of microphones used for the awards presentations, versus the order of magnitude larger number of inputs that came close to maxing out the SD7 console at front of house. However, he notes that in addition to the production audio for the show, his SD5 console was also the fail-safe hub for the entire production.
Luke Bryan (center) and friends performing the first song of the night with “What Makes You Country” during The 52nd Annual CMA Awards (Credit: John Russell/CMA)
A separate music feed was being continuously sent from the SD7 to Baltzell’s SD5, in the event that there was an interruption in the feed from front of house to the broadcast truck, it could be switched over instantaneously. And in case the signal path from the venue to the Denali broadcast truck failed, Baltzell could route the audio for the entire production directly to the satellite uplink truck.
“As a result, the SD5 was taking on the potential for much greater responsibility for the event,” he says. “That’s one of the reasons I chose it—I knew it could handle that kind of pressure. It has tremendous capacity to do a lot of things simultaneously, and do them all well.”
While, thankfully, no such emergencies occurred and the event went smoothly, Baltzell said he was happy to have DiGiCo’s EQ and multiband compressors at his fingertips, because awards shows often have unique audio quirks and the CMA Awards are no exception. For instance, there are Meyer MM4 compact loudspeakers built into the steps leading to the stage used to cover the first row of seating, and every other seat in the first row has a JBL Control 25 speaker positioned under it to compensate for the higher-than-usual line array hang used to keep the stage sightlines clear.
“As a result, I don’t put the production audio into the bottom three speakers in each array, to create a buffer area around the podium microphone,” Baltzell explains. “The SD5 is able to zone all of that and let me dial in exactly the EQ I need for each of those speaker locations. And unlike years ago when most of the announcers were men, now we have a lot of female presenters, so for that I’m using the de-essing capability on the equalization to keep the sibilance out of the mix. I have a dialog rack that has a few outboard processors that I love to use for this type of work, but having the kinds of options the SD5 gives me is very helpful.”
And for a console that has to keep the speech supremely intelligible throughout the performance, but could be called on at any moment to be a music desk, the SD5’s sonic quality is another reason Baltzell chooses DiGiCo. “We were able to do strictly 96 kHz on this show for everything, including the monitors, and I have never heard a music show sound better than they do on a DiGiCo desk at 96k,” he says. “The sound is so clear yet has plenty of depth. On a big show like this, DiGiCo makes all the difference.”
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CTP Selects Alight Analytics to Power its Marketing Analytics
The award-winning agency is now using Alight Analytics' ChannelMix solution, the best-in-class data aggregation engine for marketing analytics, to manage its clients’ data.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (PRWEB) September 04, 2018
Alight Analytics is proud to welcome one of its newest clients: CTP, the award-winning marketing and communications agency based in Boston.
CTP is now harnessing Alight’s ChannelMix solution, the best-in-class data aggregation engine for marketing analytics, to manage its clients’ data.
ChannelMix automatically collects, cleans and organizes marketing performance data from multiple sources, producing analysis-ready datasets in a fraction of the time. Alight’s dedicated data solutions team manages each client’s data warehouse and maintains connections to their data sources, taking a complex and time-consuming duty off clients’ shoulders. Agencies can experience time savings of nearly 90 percent after adopting ChannelMix.
Using ChannelMix frees CTP from the time-consuming work of data aggregation, management and preparation, so its analysts can spend more time providing expert strategy and recommendations to clients.
“As our analytics practice continues to grow and drive more value for clients, the need for a smarter, scalable data management approach becomes paramount,” said Tyler Jordan, CTP’s VP, Director of Analytics. “ChannelMix allows our team to direct our energy and expertise to where it’s going to do the most good for our clients.”
CTP has built an enviable roster of clients, including nationally known names like Wahlburgers, Underwriter Laboratories, Red Hat and the Boston Red Sox, and has won numerous honors for its work, including an Emmy and the CLIO Sports Award.
“We love partnering with CTP because they understand the power of marketing analytics and what it can accomplish for clients,” said Matt Hertig, Alight’s CEO and co-founder. “By investing in ChannelMix, they’re making their analytics team — which was already delivering excellent work — even more effective.”
Alight Analytics serves advertising agencies across North America, as well as large brands in consumer goods, insurance and finance, sports and entertainment, retail and e-commerce, and other verticals.
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Make the most of your meats
Photo by David Morales
For carnivorous pie lovers, meat and pizza are a match made in heaven—and, of course, Italian meats especially remain a must-have for many pizzaioli. With options from soppressata and prosciutto to guanciale and ’nduja, finding the perfect pairing for your pizza toppings is easier than ever—and chefs from coast to coast are taking advantage of the myriad possibilities to create truly standout pies.
Here, PMQ checks in with these creative minds to find out what Italian meats are trending in their operations, how to maintain solid profits when incorporating these top-quality ingredients, and what flavor combinations are flying out the door.
“Right now, we’re seeing a ton of demand for crumbly sausage and gluten-free options. Meanwhile, spicy options can really bring out the flavor of your sauce and other toppings when paired well. One of our favorite combos (and our No. 1 seller) is our supreme pizza, called the Five Boroughs. We pair several Italian meats—including pepperoni, sausage and bacon—with black olives, red onions, green peppers and mushrooms. Another pizza on our menu that we’re seeing a lot of demand for is our Summer of 2010, which includes pepperoni, spicy sausage, jalapeños and pepperoncini. A few of our personal favorite combinations are pepperoni and cream cheese; Italian sausage with garlic, green pepper and onion; and meatballs and ricotta.
“For cost-effectiveness, we recommend that pizzerias cook their own sausage. It’s easy to do, and you create a much better product for a lower cost than a cooked product. We also recommend testing pepperoni options, since there are so many out there to explore—your new favorite might be right around the corner. But be careful; you don’t want to change your taste profile too much if you’ve found a combination that works!”
—Nick Parry, director of training and new store openings, Parry’s Pizza & Bar, eight locations in CO
“When choosing Italian meats for pizza, it is important to select items that are bold, rich and easy to use. Guanciale, lardo, soppressata, prosciutto cotto (cooked ham) and fresh sausage are great choices. These meats can be sliced thinly or, in the case of sausage, crumbled and added easily to a pizza. They add great flavor and richness.
“Guanciale, lardo and sausage are higher in fat, melting beautifully into the pizza while cooking—a great complement to fresh vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms and eggplant. They are also best paired with cheeses that are lower in fat, such as Parmesan, ricotta and Pecorino. Soppressata and prosciutto cotto bring a meatier component to your pizza, so they pair well with traditional mozzarella and Fontina cheeses.”
—Ken Arnone, master chef, Colavita, Edison, NJ
Photo by Liz Clayman
“I’ve been seeing ’nduja, a spicy spreadable sausage, popping up in a lot of different places. It’s a pork salumi from Italy—Calabria, to be specific—and typically made with parts of the pig such as the shoulder and belly, as well as tripe, spicy roasted Calabrian chili peppers, and a mixture of spices that pack a unique punch. It’s soft in texture, but not on the palate—it’s hot!
“Still, prosciutto is king. It’s my absolute favorite Italian meat topping for pizza. I love adding a few thin slices for that extra layer of complexity; those nutty, buttery overtones added to the usual sweet-salty combo can really make pizza explode. Prosciutto pairs well with so many toppings, but my personal favorite combos are earthy portobello mushrooms, a cool and creamy burrata, and Fontina.
“For a cost-effective option, I love mortadella. It’s far less expensive than cured meats but packs big flavor. I like to place it on the pizza after it comes out of the oven, or put it on before it goes in the oven, allowing it to crisp up. Both methods are great to get the full mortadella experience.”
—Michael Pirolo, chef and owner, Macchialina, Miami, FL; The Saint Austere, Brooklyn, NY; Pirolo’s Panino, Los Angeles, CA
Photo courtesy Oggi's
“Some of the most popular meats for pizzas now are prosciutto (thinly sliced Italian dry-cured ham), soppressata (Italian dry salami), salami and mortadella (a large Italian sausage or luncheon meat). Personally, pepperoni is always my favorite; it adds a slightly smoky taste to pizza and pairs well with creamy mozzarella. Pancetta is also a great one—it’s the Italian version of bacon, and who doesn’t love bacon? But prosciutto is the meat that really elevates a pizza. I find that adding it to the pizza for the last minute of cooking keeps its integrity but makes it slightly crispy.
“Pepperoni goes with almost anything (and is great on its own, too). I love to pair sweet Italian sausage with spicy veggies, like jalapeños and onions, to cut the sweetness, and a mild, good-quality mozzarella (which doesn’t overpower the different flavors). We have an option on the menu called the Sports Fan, which combines all of these ingredients with pepperoni.
“Price-wise, pepperoni is the most cost-effective and, taste-wise, it’s the most universally liked meat. Sausage is a close second, and offers opportunities for upsells with added veggies. But if you want to carry a more elevated offering, prosciutto is a great meat to have on hand, and it has great retail margins.”
—Jason Tsiames, executive chef, Oggi’s Sports | Brewhouse | Pizza, 16 locations in CA and AZ
“I think people are really enjoying making their own meats right now. We’ve made some fantastic duck prosciutto that works amazing on our pizza. I’m really into pepperoni right now, too; it seems like it’s making a comeback. Generally, we like anything that has a good amount of fat. We use a wood-fired oven, so the fat really helps keep the protein from drying out. Mortadella is one that works extremely well for us, because it has about 35% fat. Currently, we have a mortadella pizza that pays homage to a muffaletta sandwich, with fresh mozzarella and topped with an olive tapanade.
“For any meat, I always say, check quality first! I would never buy some mass-produced finocchiona, for example, just because it’s $3 or $4 cheaper. I look for the best-quality, humanely raised proteins.”
—Edwin Molina, executive chef, Double Zero, Atlanta, GA
“’Nduja, a spicy, spreadable pork salumi from Calabria, is packed with flavor. Its hot roasted peppers paired with ground pork provide a fiery taste that works as a great base for soups and sauces, too. I also enjoy pairing guanciale, an Italian cured meat prepared from pork jowls or cheeks, with smoked mozzarella and manzana peppers. The richness of the guanciale is a nice contrast to the smokiness of the mozzarella, and manzana peppers bring a heat level similar to a habenero. This pairing produces a rich, smoky, sweet heat that brings all of the flavors in line.”
—Josh Jacobsen, executive chef, Peel Handcrafted Pizza, Frederick, CO
“The Biz, one of our most popular pizzas, is an Italian meat lovers dream, consisting of all-natural pepperoni, salami, sausage, candied bacon, mozzarella and a seasonal onion mix. We also offer prosciutto atop the The Righteous Pig pie, which incorporates pesto, mozzarella, goat cheese, caramelized onions, arugula and a balsamic drizzle. But prosciutto currently seems to be the most popular Italian meat. We often get requests for it when customers create their own pizzas, and it goes well with so many of our fresh veggie toppings, from arugula to Brussels sprouts—it’s so versatile!”
—Lauren Passero-Brooks, owner, The Haven Pizzeria, San Diego, CA
“I see soppresatta trending as a pepperoni alternative. Pepperoni is really an American invention, so pizzaioli in search of a more authentic Italian experience are looking to soppressata, salami, mortadella and ’nduja. At Pizza LUPO, we serve Neapolitan-style pizza, so Italian charcuterie is most suitable. For example, we serve spicy soppressata on a traditional Margherita base and include a little honey drizzle for balance—the popular Sting Like a Bee pizza, named for Louisville’s own Muhammad Ali. We also use mortadella, an Italian-style bologna studded with pistachios and chunks of pure pork fat. We slice it thin and drape it cold onto a pizza made with a broccoli-anchovy mash base, topped with buffalo mozzarella and olive oil.
“Instead of looking for lower-price meats, I recommend using high-quality product in smaller quantities. Low-cost meats usually mean poorly raised animals and automated manufacturing, which result in low quality and poor taste. Do as the Italians do—use the best you can find, but in moderation. The Sting Like a Bee pizza uses only ½ ounce of soppressata, but what it lacks in weight, it makes up in flavor.
“Finally, I recommend restaurants make their own sausage. Pizza LUPO uses its own house sausage on the Vesuvius pizza, with béchamel, fresh mozzarella, house chili flake, smoked tomato, serrano chilis, chili oil, basil and scallions. Find good-quality, preferably locally raised, ground pork. With simple ratios of salt, spice and sometimes a little sugar, you can make a distinct signature sausage for about $4 per pound.”
—Max Balliet, chef, Pizza LUPO, Louisville, KY
Tracy Morin is PMQ’s senior copy editor.
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Regional Intelligence Advisor - EMEA
The Regional Intelligence Advisor supports intelligence-related tasks including processes, support requirements, technical aspects, training, procurement and operational methods. The position requires a good working knowledge of intelligence-related fields in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. This position will be located in the European Union.
Represent Pinkerton core values of integrity, vigilance, and excellence.
Assumes lead role in increasing adoption and understanding of intelligence products with internal and external clients.
Create and maintain a network of regional contacts to source local information for Pinkerton Intelligence products.
Create marketing materials and bespoke intelligence solutions for the regional campaigns.
Prioritize and respond in a timely manner to requests for intelligence information;
Correlate intelligence and contextual data used in preparation of briefing materials, presentations, and intelligence-related papers/articles.
Escalate production ideas to Regional Team Leader regarding world events and impact to the Company.
Focus on operational threats including research and development, production, delivery systems, doctrine, and capabilities.
Research and assess intelligence requirements involving risk assessments.
Share intelligence assessments and risk trends with partners and leaders with Regional Team Leader guidance.
Assess and maintain a variety of situational awareness tools to quickly and accurately advise decision makers on potential courses of action.
Review and utilize diagnostic tools and technology sources to develop complex data compilations.
Representtheorganizationinthepreparation, presentation, anddefenseofpositionsand recommendations at conferences, in working groups, and planning sessions.
Share involvement and progress in partnering with cross-functional teams on meeting intelligence requirements.
Contribute to regularly scheduled status reports (weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual)
Must have a Certificate of Higher Secondary Education or equivalent.
Must be willing to participate in the Company pre-employment screening process which may include a background investigation.
Must meet the country age requirements.
Must have the legal right to work in country of hire.
Bachelor degree in economics, intelligence studies, law, international business, regional studies, foreign languages, political science, or other related areas of study, with a minimum of one to three years of work experience in performing geopolitical, counterterrorism, or data analysis.Will consider experience in national security or criminal intelligence analysis that involves using the principles, concepts, and methodologies of all-source intelligence analysis to research, evaluate, and integrate all-source data in the preparation and presentation of intelligence analytical products.
Working knowledge of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; preferably in an intelligence-related field.
Additional regional language skills; Arabic and French are preferred, but others will be evaluated on proficiency and applicability.
Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
Able to manage and evaluate sensitive information.
Able to evaluate, recommend, and develop policy, project initiatives, and operation methods.
Effective time management skills.
Able to identify and solve complex problems by analyzing raw data and information from multiple unrelated sources into a finished comprehensive product.
Able to work independently with minimal supervision and under adverse and stressful conditions.
Strong client and results orientation.
Able to present and defend intelligence positions.
Able to interact effectively at all levels of an organization and across diverse cultural and language barriers.
Serve as a positive and effective team member.
Able to quickly adapt as the external environment and organization evolve.
Able to effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Must undergo and meet company standards for background and reference checks, drug testing, and behavioral selection survey.
Frequent sitting.
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VIDEO: Toronto Raptors fans anxiously watch for #KawhiUpdate
Leonard helped the Raptors win their first NBA Championship in franchise history
NBA Finals MVP, Kawhi Leonard, has yet to decide whether he will stay with the Toronto Raptors or leave.
Leonard helped the Raptors win their first NBA Championship in franchise history and fans have become attached to the Free Agent.
As one of the best Free Agency picks in the League, Leonard has his pick of the top NBA teams in the business. It has been reported that Leonard has sat down with the Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers.
Leonard is expected to meet with the Raptors last. While waiting for news on Leonard’s choice, social media has been flooded by fans anxiously awaiting news of his decision.
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Story Skeletons: Teaching Plot Structure with Picture Books
By: Shutta Crum
Use picture books to teach young writers how to organize plot logically. This article includes examples of basic plot structures, along with picture books that use those structures.
Picture books are quick reads, lots of fun, and often gems of characterization, mood, and dialogue. They are also perfect for teaching the young writer how to organize plot logically.
Many writers start new works by capturing tidbits of ideas on scraps of paper. But how do we make sense of those ramblings? This question leads to a classic step in teaching writing often called prewriting. It also points to what I consider one of the most important early steps in story making - creating organization through plot structure.
In prewriting, many teachers use a variety of story-mapping techniques to help children see relationships between ideas, including clustering, webbing, and listing items and actions that belong to the beginning, middle, or end of a story. All of these techniques are helpful, but do they go far enough? How does a student know which items listed in the "middle" section of a story map should go first, second, third? Sometimes it is the sequencing of the action in a story that can cause the student to falter. This step can be mastered through the use of visual and textual examples of standard plot structures.
When I introduce the idea of structuring a story, I talk about how our skeletons hold us up - otherwise we'd be… "puddles!" (The kids shout it out.) Stories have internal structures that hold them up, too. Knowing what the skeleton of a story looks like early in the process makes knowing what to write next in the drafting and revising steps a lot easier.
Below is a list of some basic plot structures, along with picture books that use those structures. Sharing these picture books will help students better understand how to shape their own story making.
Please note that the grade levels below indicate the suggested grade level of the writer or prewriter (storyteller). These grade ranges reflect the difficulty of the plot structure being taught, not the reading or listening age. The open-ended grade levels highlight the fact that many fine picture books can be used as examples for writers of all ages, even adults.
Cumulative or Toppling Stories
Cumulative stories such as Rhonda Gowler Greene's This Is the Teacher add repeating elements as the story progresses, until the plot finally topples over at the end.
Like the traditional tale "The House That Jack Built," the stories below add repeating plot elements and characters in the text as the story progresses, until the whole structure topples from its own weight - usually with humorous results.
This Is the Teacher
Gr. 3-up. From the time the students rush in, drop their lunches, spill the ant farm, and let loose a snake, until the teacher collapses at home, this cumulative story inspired by "The House That Jack Built" is one funny romp.
In Enzo's Splendid Gardens
Gr. 3-up. Also modeled after "The House That Jack Built," this story piles slapstick events one on top of the other as a bee buzzes into Enzo's restaurant and wreaks havoc.
The Cake That Mack Ate
Gr. 2-up. Another story inspired by "The House That Jack Built," this humorous cumulative tale told in reverse chronological order lists the ingredients and introduces everyone that had a part in baking the cake that Mack ate. At the toppled ending, there's a big surprise in store for readers when Mack is introduced.
Decreasing Stories
Carole Lexa Schaefer's The Biggest Soap has a "decreasing" plot structure — the soap that Kessy is sent to but becomes smaller and smaller as the story goes on.
Traditional tales based on a decreasing story structure include "The Tailor" and "Ten Little Monkeys."
The Biggest Soap
Gr. 2-up. Set in Micronesia, this story tells of Kessy, who is sent to buy "the biggest soap" for laundry day. On the way home, the soap gets smaller and smaller as Kessy uses it to help friends and family he meets along the way. When he finally delivers it to Mama, there's barely enough soap left for the laundry, but Kessy makes up for it with the stories he shares of his adventures.
Bunny Money
Gr. 2-up. Max and Ruby are shopping for Grandma's birthday gift, but the money is slowly used up as Max gets thirsty, hungry, and messy. (The laundromat alone costs three dollars.) Fortunately, in the end there's enough for them each to buy a perfect gift.
"Increasing" Stories
Bill Grossman's My Little Sister Ate One Hare is a counting story with an "increasing" plot structure — the items on the sister's menu grow more outrageous, until the story finally reaches a satisfying conclusion (she throws up).
While cumulative stories use textual repetition that piles up until the whole story collapses (often under the weight of pure silliness), stories with an "increasing" plot structure proceed logically to arrive in a planned way at a satisfactory conclusion. Traditional tales based on an increasing story structure include "The Little Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly."
Bark, George
Gr. 2-up. A mother dog takes her puppy to the vet only to discover he has swallowed a series of animals, each one larger than the last. Wonderful illustrations and a funny ending will make this a hit with young readers and listeners.
Mushroom in the Rain
Gr. 2-up. In this book with a doubly increasing structure, gathering animals shelter from the rain beneath a mushroom and discover there is always room for one more. Why? Because mushrooms grow bigger when it rains.
My Little Sister Ate One Hare
Gr. 2-up. This hilarious counting story with a wonderfully funny refrain relates all the horrible things a little sister eats, from one hare to 10 healthy peas. As the sister's appetite increases, so does the humor.
Simultaneous Increasing and Decreasing Stories
Gr. 3-up. This version of the folktale "The Tailor" (mentioned in "Decreasing" Stories, above) relates the decreasing nature of Joseph's blanket while also showing an increasing story below the floor, where bits of worn-out blanket flutter down to a mouse family, whose members use each scrap to decorate their home.
The Doorbell Rang
Gr. 2-up. In this story the number of cookies per child decreases as the number of drop-in visitors increases. But there's a surprise at the end! This is great for a math exercise as well as being an effective writing model.
Parallel Stories
Just Like Daddy
Gr. 2-up. In this easy reader, Little Bear does most things just like his daddy. In a surprise ending, he also does some things like his mommy. This story switches between the two main characters and clearly illustrates parallel activities.
Gr. 3-up. The parallel stories of a polar bear cub and a boy with his first camera serve to illustrate the characters' similarities as they make for the water's edge with their mothers for lessons in hunting and photography.
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
Gr. 3-up. Nothing ever happens in Sleepy Gulch. But when Farmer Hicks goes to town to look at the same wanted posters that have been there for 12 years, his wife, Elna, is in for some surprises. This parallel tale hilariously switches back and forth between the two characters and their situations.
Stories within Stories
Allen Say's Kamishibai Man is a story within a story: the tale the elderly storyteller tells reveals why he no longer performs his art.
With more advanced writers, explore the plot structure of the framing story and compare it with the structure of the inner story. For example, in The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash the inner story closely resembles a cumulative plot that heaps one silly event on top of another, while the framing story is told in a linear fashion.
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
Gr. 3-up. In reverse chronological order, a girl describes her school's field trip to her increasingly startled mother. Despite mayhem involving crying cows, joy-riding pigs, and a left-behind boa constrictor, all ends well in this story inside a story.
Gr. 3-up. Set in modern-day Japan, Say's story tells of an elderly Kamishibai man (itinerant storyteller), long retired, who, missing his rounds, decides to pedal back to the old neighborhood for one last performance. The story-within-a-story that emerges reveals why this unique type of performance art has all but disappeared.
Gr. 4-up. In this Caldecott Medal book, the three pigs escape from the illustrations and wander through the book's white space, creating a new story. Then a rescued dragon and a cat join the pigs as they reconstruct the classic story and outsmart the wolf.
Stories with Linear Time Lines
Every Autumn Comes the Bear
Gr. 3-up. With luminous paintings nature illustrator Arnosky vividly portrays a bear's search for a winter den and follows him through the last days before his hibernation.
Gr. 2-up. In this now-classic story marked by Carle's beautiful collages, a very hungry caterpillar eats and grows. After his stay in a cocoon, he emerges as a colorful butterfly. The time line in this book follows the days of the week and includes all the food the caterpillar eats.
Trashy Town
Gr. 2-up. Mr. Gilly is the trash man, and this time-line story follows his day as he empties the trash bins around Trashy Town into his truck. With a wonderful refrain throughout, this story is an engaging read-aloud.
Stories with "Around the Clock" or Full-Circle Time Lines
Lisa Wheeler's Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum has a full-circle time line. After a menagerie of animals escapes from a bubble gum mess, a bear and a hen get stuck and start the story again.
Chicka Chicka. Boom Boom
Gr. 3-up. Those naughty numbers climb up the tree and get in trouble. After they recover from their fall, can they resist doing it again? This fun story goes full circle and also provides a snappy introduction to the alphabet.
Gr. 3-up. In the first of Numeroff's popular series of circular tales, Mouse asks for one thing after another, all because a little boy has given him a cookie. Be careful what you offer a mouse! Also available in Spanish.
Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum
Gr. 3-up. Toad, Shrew, Goose, Bee, and Crow get stuck on a wad of bubble gum in the middle of the road. Oh, no! Here comes a blue truck. Ingenuity and cooperation pay off, but the story's not done yet, for in this full-circle tale a bear and a hen start it again.
Stories with Rising Action
The stories below are marked by rising action leading to a climax and a final denouement.
The Tailypo: A Ghost Story
Gr. 3-up. When a varmint sneaks into an old man's house, the old man cuts its tail off and eats it. In the night the varmint returns for his "tailypo." As the tension rises, this classic folktale retelling is sure to make readers shiver.
Saving Sweetness
Gr. 4-up. The sheriff is bound and determined to rescue the little orphan, Sweetness, before she runs into that desperado, Coyote Pete. But it isn't as easy as he thought. This story, with a traditional rising action plot, has lots of twists and turns and a humdinger of an ending.
Company's Coming
Gr. 4-up. This story is a wonderful example of what can happen when people jump to conclusions. Moe thinks there is something fishy about their intergalactic dinner guests and warns the marines. And just what have the guests brought in that package for his wife, Shirley? The tension rises rapidly in this humorous tale.
If your students are using clustering techniques during prewriting, have them cut out their ideas and glue them to a visual diagram of one of the plot structures. This will give visual learners a template for the drafting step.
Cut up a story into sentences and distribute them. Have the students line up in the order they think the story should be told. If it is a story with rising action, are they in line from least to most tense action? If it is a story with a decreasing or in creasing plot line, are they lined up correctly? (Hint: To make this even more visual, have the kids sit on the floor and use cushions, chairs, and stools so that their heights range progressively up or down.)
Craft Lessons: Teaching Writing K-8
These clear, concise writing lessons are usually a page in length, with a short discussion section, a how-to-teach-it section, and lists of necessary resources.
Deep Revision
This book about the process of revising both fiction and nonfiction includes insightful examples of early drafts and final revisions, with many exercises that encourage students to go deeper into the writing process.
Web Connections
The websites below about teaching writing with picture books may be found on the Book Links website. Click on "Web Connections," then "May 2006" to access the list.
WriteNet
WriteNet features a listserv where teachers and writers can offer advice on methods for teaching writing to students in grades K-12.
With a wealth of information for lovers of picture books, Picturing Books is a nonprofit, ad-free website created by a librarian that features interiors of well-known picture books, information on how picture books are put together, and tips on how to evaluate and share them.
Shutta Crum was the recipient of the Michigan Library Association's Children's Services Division 2002 Award of Merit as Youth Librarian of the Year. She is also the author of Click!, listed above. For more information, see her website.
Used with permission from Book Links magazine, http://www.ala.org/booklinks.Crum, S. (2006). Story Skeletons: Teaching Plot Structure with Picture Books. Book Links, May, 2006 (31-34).
Thank you for the opportunity to view this material. It will really help me assist my less vocal writers to develop their skills
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I write, edit and artist the cover of my short stories and mini stories in all categories. 5 to 15 pages for the mini stories no more no less and 16 to 35 pages form the short stories no more no les. It took 35years to perfect this idea for easy reading and short tention span youths. leaves you with a desired feel after break at work or home for 5 to 10 minutes. You will be refresh after a complete book in so few pages. Easy to download as files no binding or shipping cost. Read from you iphone, ipod, laptop.QuikBooksWorld.com and read more even your child can learn to read with mom or dad. After all they want to be a grown up too. Thank YouAutor: Williejames J.Forks
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At ReadWriteThink.org, we have numerous lessons using picture books. Here are links to three: Using Picture Books to Teach Characterization in Writing Workshop (http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/using-pic...), Using Picture Books to Teach Plot Development and Conflict Resolution (http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/using-pic...), and Using Picture Books to Teach Setting Development in Writing Workshop (http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/using-pic...)
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 22, 2012 - 1:38pm
Loved your article. Will definitely use it for my writing. As a picture book writer I know how essential the picture book form is to getting story structure. It is always a struggle developing a fluid and satisfying story in 300-1000 words. Thinking in pictures also helps. Your article enlightened my process. THANK YOU!
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." — Walt Disney
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8-Year-Old Has Had It With Sexist Clothes
Story from Fashion
Gendered Clothing Is (Still) The Worst, & This 8-Year-Old Has Had It
Landon Peoples
Long gone are the days of kids saying the "darndest" things. Nowadays, children are so scarily woke, they're outsmarting — and out-progressing — most grown-ups. Today, 8-year-old feminist Daisy Edmonds is here with a message about just how not here she is for mega-corporations still pushing out gender-controlling product to her and her girl-power-proud friends.
In the video, Daisy and her mom are shopping at U.K. chain Tesco when the inequalities between boys' and girls' clothes become so blatantly obvious, it would be silly not to whip out a camera phone and start recording a video. After comparing the graphics of the two groups of shirts — "Hey," "Beautiful," and "I feel fabulous!" for the girls, and "Desert adventure awaits," "Think outside the box," and "Hero!" for the boys — Daisy points out what's so frustrating about putting kids in gendered boxes from a young age.
"It's unfair because everyone thinks that girls should just be pretty, and boys should just be adventurous," she says in the clip. "Why should boys and girls clothes even be separated? We're just as good as each other." We won't spoil it for you, but she continues as if she were teaching a lecture on gender studies — and, as her mom quips in the background, it's "brilliant." As Daisy proves, it's important to remember that feminists come in all different genders, sizes, races, and ages.
And, of course, she's right. It's conditioning like this — yes, something as simple as separate sections and dressing rooms for boys and girls — that's responsible for how we treat acts of gender neutrality, or gender-embrace, today. (Heads turn when a man peruses the racks in the women's section of a store, for example.)
We're happy kids like Daisy — and earlier this year, the Filas kid — are speaking out and leading the pack toward different types of clothing for everyone, regardless of gender identity.
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Since this morning, our Zara senses have been tingling, telling us that we should expect a sale. That’s right, it's almost time for the fast fashion
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The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama
by George Cusack
This study examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland’s unique socio-political landscape. By contextualizing each author’s work within the artistic and political discourses of their time, Cusack demonstrates the complex negotiation of nationalism, class, and gender identities undertaken by these three authors in the years leading up to Ireland’s revolution against England. Furthermore, by focusing on plays written by each author in the context of the ongoing debates over Irish national identity that were taking place throughout Irish public life in this period, Cusack examines in more depth than previous studies the ways Yeats, Gregory, and Synge adapted conventional dramatic and linguistic forms to accommodate the conflicting claims of Irish nationalism. In so doing, he demonstrates the contribution these authors made not only to the development of Irish nationalism but also to modern and postcolonial literature as we understand them today.
The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama quantity
Categories: Literary Criticism
George Cusack
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George Cusack is an instructor in the Expository Writing Program at the University of Oklahoma. He is the editor, with Sarah Goss, of Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon.
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"Behind the Mask"
"Behind the Mask", "Boston Center for the Arts", "Cambridge River Festival", "Contemporary Theater of Boston", "Eric Bornstein", "Midsummer Night's Dream"
Behind The Mask Upcoming Events
Puppets and masks share common ancestry. And so we're excited to share with you some upcoming events of Behind The Mask, a performance troupe directed by long-time friend and PST board member Eric Bornstein.
May 24 through June 30
Mask Exhibit
Porter Square at the Porter Square Mall, CVS Window
Visit the Cambridge Arts Council's website for more info.
Opening June 2
The Plaza Theater at the Boston Center for the Arts
We proudly annouce our collaboration with Contemporary Theater of Boston, under the direction of Chris Cavalier, in a non-traditional adaptation journeying into the mysterious dream world of love, desire, and fiendish faeries. Featuring masks and costumes designed and created by Behind The Mask Studio
Cambridge River Festival
Behind The Mask Studio has created a tribute procession for the beloved storyteller Brother Blue, complete with giant puppets and a butterfly bonanza!
Behind The Mask will also put on an exhibition & workshop, with a performance of the story “The Woman Who Outshone The Sun”
Please visit http://www.cambridgema.gov/CAC/Community/river.cfm for more details.
Illustration of the Imagination: Masks by Four Contemporary Artists
Heftler Visiting Artist Gallery, Center For the Arts, Endicott College, 376 Hale St, Beverly, MA
Please visit http://www.endicott.edu/centerforthearts for more information.
Also, be sure to check out the Cambridge River Festival posters in the MBTA featuring the work of Behind The Mask Studio!
"Behind the Mask", "Diane Allison", "Eric Bornstein", "Little's Creatures", "PuppetSLAM", "adult"
PuppetSLAM is this Saturday night at 8pm!
You know what makes PuppetSLAM so much fun? It's different from any other live theater you're likely to find. And the Slam we're cooking up for this Saturday night promises to be equally unique!
Diane Allison will be here, performing a segment of her show "Miriam," the story of a prophetess who finds herself on the wrong side of God (as told with humor, pathos, and one life-size puppet).
ALSO— Behind the Mask Theatre will be here with a excerpt of "The Masks of Odysseus", their original production of Greek mythology featuring fine acting, costumes, and hand-made masks!
Other performers include Little's Creatures and many others, including two brave audience volunteers!
You definitely don't want to miss this show!
CALL 617-731-6400 OR CLICK HERE
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The Flaws of Individualized Religious Exemptions
Join us as we begin a series of posts focusing on the prioritization of religious freedom in American law and culture. This week our discussion focuses on religious freedom in the twentieth century up to the present and was being initiated with Ken Starr's post "Shifting Applicability: A History of Judicial Approaches to Free Exercise."
By: Robert Tuttle
Judge Starr’s post provides a succinct review of the history of religious exemption laws, and lays out the strongest rationale for a system of judicially controlled, fact-based exemptions. As he explains, Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (and subsequently the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act) because it recognized that laws may impose significant burdens on religiously motivated conduct, even if the legislators harbored no animosity toward the burdened adherents. So Congress adopted a regime that instructs government officials and courts to consider such burdens, and exempt religiously motivated conduct unless the exemption would threaten public values of the highest importance.
Stated in the abstract, the account is quite attractive. But the abstraction masks deep—and irremediable—flaws with the regime of individualized exemptions for religion. These flaws implicate aspects of religious liberty that are no less fundamental than the concern with religious flourishing that Judge Starr invokes.
First is the structural limitation on state competence to judge matters of religious faith, a limitation embraced by the Court in Hosanna-Tabor (2012), and more fully explicated in a Chip Lupu’s and my forthcoming book, Secular Government, Religious People (2014). Under the Sherbert-RFRA system of exemptions, claimants must allege that a government rule or action has imposed a “substantial burden” on conduct motivated by “sincerely held” religious beliefs. Even if judges are able to assess a plaintiff’s sincerity (to which I return below), the “substantial burden” inquiry is fraught with constitutional peril. How can a court decide when a burden is “substantial”? Hobby Lobby offers a helpful example. Those who oppose Hobby Lobby’s claim assert that the plaintiffs have experienced very little burden. To begin with, the law merely requires plaintiffs’ corporate entity to enter a contract with an insurance company; they are not directly subsidizing contraceptives, encouraging contraceptive use, or in any other way even remotely involved in what one might think are the acts they find objectionable. Moreover, the plaintiffs have the option of dropping insurance coverage for their employees, and paying the $2,000-per-employee required subsidy. In response, plaintiffs claim that they alone can determine the religious significance of particular acts, and believe any involvement is offensive, while dropping coverage is a religiously objectionable alternative.
The plaintiffs’ argument on this point is persuasive. Courts have no business telling plaintiffs what their faith tradition requires. Imagine if the parties had presented rival experts in moral theology, offering testimony on what constitutes “material cooperation” with another’s immoral act. By what standard would the court decide the correct interpretation? Thus, in most cases, the “substantial burden” component will be controlled entirely by the plaintiffs’ pleadings. If their counsel properly links their beliefs with the burden, the government should be unable to offer any rebuttal.
But that judicial incompetence has a necessary correlate: in most cases—as Justice Scalia observed in Employment Division v. Smith—the religious plaintiff will effectively be a “judge in his own case.” Assuming that the law carries some penalty, the plaintiff will automatically put the government to its proof—that the exemption must be granted unless doing so would threaten “compelling governmental interests.”
But that brings us to the second problem. If the “substantial burden” element ceases to be a meaningful part of the analysis because of limited government competence in religious matters, then a fact-based system of judicial exemptions is likely to threaten the principle of equality—both among religious faiths, and between religion and non-religion. Faced with the specter of granting a raft of religious exemptions, courts may well be tempted to impose their own ad hoc limitations, perhaps through the element of sincerity. These ad hoc judgments are likely to have an adverse effect on less-recognized faith groups (as American-Indian religious claims faced during the 1980s), or simply result in a patchwork of unprincipled and unpredictable contextual judgments.
Even if we assume that the system would produce a consistent and wide-spread practice of religious exemption from general laws, we confront another issue of equality: what is it about religious practice that deserves protection, when equally sincere claims of non-religious conscience would receive no protection? When the Court confronted similar issues with Vietnam-era draft exemptions, it ultimately extended the scope of protection to all deeply-held convictions, not just those that fit within any traditional notion of religion. It’s hard to imagine Congress or the courts doing the same with RFRA or other generic religious liberty statutes, but the privilege for religion demands more justification than anyone has yet offered.
Robert Tuttle is the David R. and Sherry Kirschner Berz Research Professor of Law and Religion at the George Washington University Law School, as well as professor of Religion in the university’s Columbian College of Arts & Sciences.
This piece was originally authored on June 2, 2014 for the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.
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LETTERS: Federal government is next Detroit
What happened in Detroit can and will happen elsewhere, even at the federal level of U.S. government. When financial commitments have been pushed beyond the limits of realistic boundaries, insolvency and bankruptcy will eventually come. It’s only a matter of time.
Trust, promises, beliefs, good faith, guarantees, moral duty — these are simply not enough at times. Most of us have learned that you can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip. When you promise or demand more than you know is realistically affordable, it’s past time to wise up and realize that you can only expect what is actually available, and nothing more. Indemnities and guarantees can be worth less than the paper they are written on. It’s up to each of us to do the math, look around and assess what’s really happening.
Detroit teaches us that limits always exist. Does the federal government have a duty to bail out Detroit and these workers’ pensions? And where does that money come from? How much more of that do we think there is, and what next, when that money is all gone? Our nation is $17 trillion in debt, with tax-paying contributors making up only about 50 percent of all those who currently work. Interest on that enormous debt and the burdens of our great social programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security comprise a large part of the nation’s overhead.
If we push too hard on a government that is weak and is concerned only for its political survival, and therefore makes large promises that it can never keep, at what point do the promisers become responsible for the consequences of their own excessive demands?
BOB JACK
The Review-Journal’s bias is showing. In your Thursday editorial on the shooting at Colorado’s Arapahoe High School, you argued that it was the presence of an armed guard somewhere in the school that limited the shooting. How can that be? The shooter was already dead when the armed guard arrived on the scene.
The editorial’s contention — that the shooter’s knowledge that there was an armed guard in the building prevented him from killing others — holds no water. Wouldn’t it be more plausible that after shooting others, then realizing that the real target of his anger, the teacher he was looking for, was not present, that the shooter took his own life simply out of frustration and anguish?
The editorial asks us to believe that this deranged individual stopped shooting simply because he knew he would eventually be cornered and caught or even killed. This contention displays your own bias (and might I add, that of CNN) toward unrestricted gun ownership. Easy access to guns by irresponsible individuals is simply drowning us in death. And your idea that the solution is to place a gun before every school entrance is not the answer.
RICHARD L. STRICKLAND
Eliminating poverty
In his letter, Mike Niederberger highlights the fact that the war on poverty, signed into law almost 50 years ago, has done nothing to solve the problem (“Trillions spent, war on poverty lost,” Thursday Review-Journal). But just eliminating programs, as Mr. Niederberger seems to suggest, is not the answer.
Instead, changes to reduce the number of people born into poverty and to improve their chances of getting the necessary education and job training to give them a path out of poverty must be implemented, so the programs can begin to wind down.
I don’t know why it is so hard to figure out that we need to implement a program to subsidize employers to hire and train the disadvantaged.
Collection vs. use of data
The element missing in the current narrative regarding the National Security Agency is discrimination between collection of data and use of information. Prohibiting the NSA from collecting already available data would be shortsighted and foolish. The collection is binary digital data — as in data, not information. Information requires calibration and analysis of data.
Possession of data does not compromise individual liberty, but does enhance national security. Restrictions should be applied to the use of information, not the collection of data, as is currently the practice. Individual liberty is only at risk when information, not data, is used.
PATRICK S. SHARP
Reid and Redskins
I have to shake my head every time Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says or does something. He certainly has made some remarks and done things that cause the average citizen to wonder where Sen. Reid has been the past several years.
Friday’s Review-Journal had an article in which the Sen. Reid, D-Nev., joins a group of people who want the Washington Redskins to change their name (“Reid says team name must go”). He is quoted as saying, “I mean, you can’t have the Washington Blackskins.” If a Republican had made a statement in that fashion, Sen. Reid would be the first to claim it was a racist remark.
Sen. Reid seems to have enough trouble doing the job of majority leader. Now he thinks he should get involved in football team nicknames. Perhaps if he wants the name to be changed, he and the other people mentioned in the article should buy the team and call it whatever they like. In the meantime, I would like to see Sen. Reid pretend he knows what he’s doing as Senate majority leader.
WALT DYBECK
Posted on: Letters, Opinion
EDITORIAL: AOC chief of staff admits goal of Green New Deal is reshaping American economy
It’s no longer a conspiracy theory to believe that climate change proposals are Trojan Horses for implementing the left’s preferred economic policies.
WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Republicans looking to expand their tent
Pushing Jews and African-Americans to leave the Democrats.
LETTER: Democrats all over the map about our border crisis
J.J. Schrader Henderson
At least Donald Trump is taking action.
CARTOON: Storming Area 51
Michael Ramirez, / RJ
Over a million people sign up to storm Area 51.
LETTER: Help American citizens before those in the country illegally
Darlene Jones Las Vegas
Charity begins at home.
CARTOON: Taking orders from the rear.
Democrats are being led by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the “Squad” and the radical left fringe.
LETTER: Baseball puts a robot behind home plate
Robert Michael Shapiro North Las Vegas
With whom will the manager argue?
LETTER: The Democrat circus is quite entertaining
Gary Rosenfeld Henderson
How much free stuff they can offer?
EDITORIAL: National Education Association to students: What do we care?
July 16, 2019 - 9:00 pm July 17, 2019 - 12:33 am
Item to emphasize student achievement fails at convention.
VICTOR JOECKS: Trump’s comments on AOC show how his greatest strength is his greatest weakness
By Victor Joecks / RJ
If only President Trump could see that one of his greatest strengths — his ability to shape national narratives — is also a great weakness.
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[Animals]. Grimshaw, Anne.
The Horse. A Bibliography of British Books 1851-1976; with a narrative commentary on the role of the horse in British social history, as revealed by the contemporary literature.
London: The Library Association, 1982. Limited edition. Boards. Small Quarto, pp. 474. No. 181 of 1000 signed, limited edition copies. More about The Horse. A Bibliography of British Books 1851-1976; with a narrative commentary on the role of...
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[Animals]. Horlacher, Levi Jackson and Carsie Hammonds.
Danville, IL: The Interstate, 1953. Second revised. Original Cloth. 12 mo (5 1/2 X 8 1/2), pp. 348, indexed, richly illustrated in b/w, "presents the most approved methods in sheep production and management", first edition was 1936. Scarce edition. More about Sheep
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[Anthropolgy]. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census, Sam L. Rogers (Director).
Indian Population in the United States and Alaska, 1910.
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1915. First edition. Original Red Cloth. quarto. pp 285. important early study, uncommon. More about Indian Population in the United States and Alaska, 1910
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[Anthropology]. (Budry, Paul, ed.).
La Suisse Qui Chante; Histoire Illustrée de la Chanson Populaire, du Chant Choral et du Festspiel en Suisse
Lausanne, Switzerland: R. Freudweiler-Spiro, 1932. First edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. 236, profusely illustrated w/ b.w. drawings and photographs. More about La Suisse Qui Chante; Histoire Illustrée de la Chanson Populaire, du Chant Choral et du...
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[Anthropology]. (Grenada National Trust & Barbados Musuem & Historical Society).
Proceedings of the Second & Third International Congress for the Study of Pre-Columbian Cultures in the Lesser Antilles (2 vol. set).
Saint Ann's Garrison, Barbados: The Barbados Museum and Historical Society, 1968 & 1970. First printing. Original Wraps. quarto. pp viii, 146. illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. contains laid-in chronological chart for the lesser antilles. in French and English. important and uncommon work. More about Proceedings of the Second & Third International Congress for the Study of Pre-Columbian...
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[Anthropology]. Anthropological Society of Washington.
Anthropological Archaeology in the Americas.
Washington DC: Anthropological Society of Washington, 1973. Third Printing. Stiff Wraps. Octavo, pp. 151. Good copy of this anthropological archaeology publication. More about Anthropological Archaeology in the Americas
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[Anthropology]. Beauchamp, William M.
Civil, Religious and Mourning Councils and Ceremonies of Adoption of the New York Indians - New York State Museum Bulletin 113 (Reprint).
Albany, NY: New York State Museum, 1975/1907. Reprint. Illustrated Wraps. Octavo, pp. 341-451. Nice reprint edition of a long out of print paper on the customs and ceremonies of the Iroquois in New York. More about Civil, Religious and Mourning Councils and Ceremonies of Adoption of the New York Indians - New...
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[Anthropology]. Bushnell, David I., Jr.
Native Villages and Village Sites East of the Mississippi - Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 69.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1919. First edition. Rebound in library buckram. Octavo, pp. 111. Indexed, illustrated with 17 b/w photographic Plates, color frontis. From the library of noted American anthropologist and historian Gene Weltfish, former professor at Columbia University and Fairleigh DIckinson University. More about Native Villages and Village Sites East of the Mississippi - Smithsonian Institution Bureau of...
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[Anthropology]. Castetter, Edward F. and Willis H. Bell.
The Utilization of Mesquite and Screwbean by the Aborigines in the American Southwest - The University of New Mexico Bulletin, Eithnobiological Studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 5.
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico, 1937. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Octavo, pp. 55. From the library of noted American anthropologist and historian Gene Weltfish, former professor at Columbia University and Fairleigh DIckinson University. More about The Utilization of Mesquite and Screwbean by the Aborigines in the American Southwest - The...
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[Anthropology]. Clarke, Eleanor P.
Designs on the Prehistoric Pottery of Arizona - University of Arizona Bulletin, Vol. IV No 4; Social Science Bulletin No. 9.
Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona, 1935. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Octavo, pp. 76. Illustrated with b/w and color drawings and photos. A good copy of this nicely illustrated monograph. More about Designs on the Prehistoric Pottery of Arizona - University of Arizona Bulletin, Vol. IV No 4;...
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[Anthropology]. Eiseley, Loren C. et. al.
New Interpretations of Aboriginal American Culture History: 75th Anniversary Volume of the Anthropological Society of Washington.
Washington DC: Anthropological Society of Washington, 1955. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Octavo, pp. 135. Good copy of this commemorative anthropology collection. From the library of noted American anthropologist and historian Gene Weltfish, former professor at Columbia University and Fairleigh DIckinson University. More about New Interpretations of Aboriginal American Culture History: 75th Anniversary Volume of the...
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[Anthropology]. Ewers, John C.
Early White Influence Upon Plains Indian Painting: George Catlin and Carl Bodmer Among the Mandan, 1832-34 - Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 134, Number 7.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution/U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1957. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Octavo, pp. 346. Indexed, 3 b/w Plates and 13 in-text Figures, including several fold-out maps. Prev. owner's name in pen on title page. A nice reading copy of this paper. More about Early White Influence Upon Plains Indian Painting: George Catlin and Carl Bodmer Among the...
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[Anthropology]. Fejos, Paul.
Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology Number Three: Archaeological Explorations in the Cordillera Vilcabamba Sountheastern Peru.
New York: The Viking Fund, Inc., 1944. First edition. Paperback. octavo (7 x 10). pp 75, 80 plates in b/w. 18 other in-text illustrations, drawings, and 4 fold-out maps/plans of archaological sites, also in b/w. Very uncommon study, with many photogravure-like illustrations of unearthed shrines and dig-sites. More about Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology Number Three: Archaeological Explorations in the...
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[Anthropology]. Fenton, William N. (ed.).
Symposium on Local Diversity in Iroquois Culture - Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 149.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1951. First edition. Rebound in library buckram. Octavo, pp. 187. Indexed, illustrated with b/w drawings. From the library of noted American anthropologist and historian Gene Weltfish, former professor at Columbia University and Fairleigh DIckinson University. More about Symposium on Local Diversity in Iroquois Culture - Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American...
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[Anthropology]. Ferdon, Edwin N., Jr.
A Trial Survey of Mexican-Southwestern Architectural Parallels.
Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research, Museum of New Mexico, 1955. First edition. Stiff Wraps with Mylar Jacket. Quarto, pp. 36. Bibliography, 2 b/w Figures. Limited edition of 500 copies. Nice copy of this interesting survey of Southwestern native architecture. More about A Trial Survey of Mexican-Southwestern Architectural Parallels
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[Anthropology]. Helm, June and Nancy O. Lurie.
The Subsistence Economy of the Dogrib Indians of Lac La Martre in the Mackenzie District of the N.W.T.
Ottawa, QC: Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, 1961. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Quarto, pp. 119. Illustrated with b/w drawings. From the library of noted American anthropologist and historian Gene Weltfish, former professor at Columbia University and Fairleigh DIckinson University. More about The Subsistence Economy of the Dogrib Indians of Lac La Martre in the Mackenzie District of the...
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[Anthropology]. Hester, James J., with sections by Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr. and Roald Fryxell.
Blackwater Locality No. 1: A Stratified Early Man Site in Eastern New Mexico.
Ranchos de Taos, NM: Fort Burgwin Research Center, Southern Methodist University, 1972. First edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Quarto, pp. 239. Appendices, Bibliography, Errata. Illustrated with b/w photos and drawings. An uncommon anthropological publication. More about Blackwater Locality No. 1: A Stratified Early Man Site in Eastern New Mexico
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[Anthropology]. Huber, Hugo.
The Krobo: Traditional Social and Religious Life of a West African People - Studia Instituti Anthropos Vol. 16.
St. Augustin: The Anthropos Institute, 1963. First edition. Boards. Quarto, pp. 306. Indexed, illustrated with b/w photographs. Frontispiece. More about The Krobo: Traditional Social and Religious Life of a West African People - Studia Instituti...
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[Anthropology]. Kortsen, Bjarne .
Tonal and Formal Structure of Norwegian Religious Folk Tunes.
Bergen, Norway: Published by the author, 1969. First edition. Original Wraps. Octavo, pp. xii, 131. More about Tonal and Formal Structure of Norwegian Religious Folk Tunes
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[Anthropology]. Kurath, Gertrude P.
Iroquois Music and Dance: Ceremonial Arts of Two Seneca Longhouses - Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 187.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution/U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1964. First edition. Boards. Octavo, pp. 267. Indexed, 3 b/w photographic Plates and 164 in-text Figures, mostly musical notation of the songs. A nice copy of this collection of Iroquois songs and dances. From the library of noted American anthropologist and historian Gene... More about Iroquois Music and Dance: Ceremonial Arts of Two Seneca Longhouses - Smithsonian Institution...
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[Anthropology]. Leon-Portilla, Miguel.
La Filosophia Nahuatl; Estudiada en Sus Fuentes
Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1959. Second edition. Original Wraps. Octavo, pp. 360, indexed. More about La Filosophia Nahuatl; Estudiada en Sus Fuentes
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[Anthropology]. Lockett, Hattie Greene.
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi.
Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona, 1933. First edition. Original Staplebound Wraps. Octavo, pp. 101, illustrated with b/w photos, University of Arizona Social Science Bulletin No. 2. Scarce. More about The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
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[Anthropology]. Mishkin, Bernard.
Rank and Warfare Among the Plains Indians - Monographs of the American Ethnological Society III.
New York: J. J. Augustin, 1940. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Octavo, pp. 65. From the library of noted American anthropologist and historian Gene Weltfish, former professor at Columbia University and Fairleigh DIckinson University. More about Rank and Warfare Among the Plains Indians - Monographs of the American Ethnological Society III
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[Anthropology]. Perceval, Don.
A Navajo Sketch Book.
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1968. Second edition. Original Cloth. Octavo, pp. xv, 98, illustrated w/drawings, "a collection of notes, sketches, drawings, and water colors of the Navajo and Navajo country done at different times" More about A Navajo Sketch Book
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[Anthropology]. Piggott, Stuart.
Studies in Ancient Europe.
Bristol: Leicester University Press, 1968. First edition. Original Cloth. quarto. pp 367. indexed. illustrated with b/w drawings and photographs. More about Studies in Ancient Europe
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New powers designed to strengthen coastal security unveiled by Home Office and Border Force
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Britain’s maritime security looks set to be bolstered as new powers specifically designed to help target smugglers and prevent illegal entry come into force. The Conservative Government has also revealed details of further investment in maritime patrol capability.
James Brokenshire, the Immigration Minister, said: “Our investments and improvements over the past six years have left us with one of the most secure borders in the world, but we know we must go further and continue to adapt and react to the challenges we face.”
Brokenshire continued: “That’s why we will be establishing a series of operational hubs, procuring additional boats and introducing new powers to make the UK’s coastline even more secure from criminals looking to smuggle guns and drugs or facilitate illegal entry into the country.”
The additional measures will complement ongoing joint work already undertaken to address the situation in Northern France. The UK and French Governments have combined to improve security, collaborate on returns and deter migrants from making the perilous journey across the Channel.
In addition, Brokenshire will meet with his Dutch and Belgian counterparts next month to continue discussions on their joint commitment towards strengthening port security and determinedly tackling organised crime.
From 31 May, new maritime enforcement powers will come into force. These will allow Border Force officers to stop, board, divert and detain vessels and arrest anyone they suspect has broken immigration law.
The stronger maritime powers, which form one part of the wide-ranging Immigration Act, are intended to combat three immigration offences in the territorial waters of the UK: assisting unlawful immigration, assisting an asylum seeker to arrive in the UK and assisting entry to the UK in breach of a deportation or exclusion order.
Introduction of specialist patrol vessels
James Brokenshire MP
Patrol vessels will also be introduced, in turn helping to intercept attempts to smuggle dangerous weapons, drugs and migrants into the country.
The first batch will be in place in the coming months, with all of the vessels operational by the end of next year. These vessels will add to the degree of protection already offered by the Border Force cutters and Royal Navy vessels which patrol the UK’s coastline.
In addition, Border Force will set up three maritime co-ordination hubs in Cornwall, the Thames Estuary and the Humber over the summer, all of them fully committed to tackling a range of threats on the UK coastline.
These hubs will see Border Force building greater partnership working with law enforcement and maritime partners, improving intelligence and creating a more flexible response team to address the threats identified.
The hubs will also enable Border Force to increase its presence at smaller ports and deploy officers quickly across the coastline where they’re required.
Border Force will use funding of £31 million (announced in the Budget last March) to crack down on illegal tobacco smuggling. This will see 150 additional Border Force officers deployed over the next four years and will help to reduce the tax revenue lost to the UK as a result of such criminality.
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Total War: WARHAMMER II - The Prophet & The Warlock
Article Type All PC Game News Features
Feature: WHAT THE F....
Steam Charts: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO Edition
By John Walker • 3 months ago • 99
Hello, and welcome to RPS's weekly round-up of the top selling games on Steam for the last weeeeee... WHAT?
Tagged with feature, Steam Charts, Anno 1800, Forager, Grand Theft Auto V, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Risk of Rain 2, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, The Elder Scrolls Online, Total War: Warhammer, Total War: WARHAMMER II - The Prophet & The Warlock, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator.
Total War: Warhammer 2 adds more rats and lizards today, free and paid
Today's The Prophet And The Warlock DLC for Total War: Warhammer 2 may be relatively small, adding just two new Legendary Lords, but the 'Doomsayer' update accompanying it is massive. Creative Assembly have overhauled campaign AI, added new AI factions, new regions and a new system of underground expansion for those sneaky Skaven. There's even a chunk of free DLC, adding a new Lizardman Legendary…
Tagged with DLC, Sega, The Creative Assembly, Total War: Warhammer, Total War: Warhammer II, Total War: WARHAMMER II - The Prophet & The Warlock.
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1. Patterson Building, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
2. Snodgrass House (Eugene, Oregon)
6. Younq, John Quincv Adams and Elizabeth, House (Portland, Oregon)
7. Holderness Building, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
8. Apartment A, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
9. Kern, Grace, House (Portland, Oregon)
This work was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 19, 2008
10. Doriot-Rider Log House (Tigard, Oregon)
11. Snodgrass House (Eugene, Oregon)
13. Christian, Daniel, House (Eugene, Oregon)
18. Cottage 12, Oregon State Hospital (Salem, Oregon)
National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2008), Current configuration achieved in 1958
19. Long Building, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
20. Collier House, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
21. Lane Building, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
22. Apartment B, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
23. Holderness Building, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
24. Hill, Martin and Carrie, House (Hood River, Oregon)
28. Peters, A. V., House (Eugene, Oregon)
29. Sanborn, George F., House (Portland, Oregon)
William & Harriet van Schuyver Mansion, at: 245 North Twenty-Fifth Street, was finished in 1909 for an estimated $35,000. William JAMES van Schuyver moved to Portland in 1860. In 1864 he went into the wholesale liquor business as W.J. van Schuyver & CO., becoming one of the leading whiskey distributors on the Pacific Coast, at: 63 Front Street. In 1865 William married Harriet Angell van Schuyver. On January 7, 1909 William James van Schuyver died suddenly at age 74 just before his new Mansion was ready for occupancy. He died at his home close by at: 835 Lovejoy St. (now: 2487 N.W. Lovejoy St. Home still standing). Imported draperies, hangings and carpets had already been installed at the new Mansion at a cost of $6,000. On February 13, 1909 it was announced the Mansion was purchased in cash by George Frederick Sanborn for $50,000. He and his brother A.W. Sanborn had formed the Sanborn CO., a lumber & timber concern. In 1896 G.F. Sanborn married Mayme Slattery Sanborn. On December 5, 1912 Harriet Angell van Schuyver died at age 71. In 1932 the address changed to: 1111 N.W. 25th Ave. On April 17, 1943 George Frederick Sanborn died at age 72. In January 1950 the Mansion became Finley’s Rest Home. Then Stewart’s Nursing Home. In March 1960 it became Allison Nursing Home. By 1979 it had become Hill House, part of the Gutman rehabilitation program. In September 1979 the Mansion was renovated into a condominium called the Sanborn House and it still is today.” – Source: Craig Addams, Dead Memories Portland.
30. Willamette House, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
31. Johnson Building, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
34. Apartment C, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
35. Apartment A, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
36. Jefferson Building, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
37. Charilie Building, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
40. Ranch House, Roba Ranch (Paulina, Oregon)
This work was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 2007.
46. Crestview House, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
54. Conser, Jacob, House (Jefferson, Oregon)
This work is documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey. This work was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974., Refinished in 1962
55. Britt, Peter, House (Jacksonville, Oregon)
Historic American Buildings Survey, Destroyed by fire in 1960
56. Patterson Building, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
61. Manning-Kamna Farm (Hillsboro, Oregon)
This work was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 10, 2007
67. Holman Building, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
70. McCall-Snell Building, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
72. Carson Hall, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
74. Condominiums, Goodpasture Road (Eugene, Oregon)
79. Crestview House Shed, Fairview Training Center (Salem, Oregon)
81. Kern, Grace, House (Portland, Oregon)
87. Younq, John Quincv Adams and Elizabeth, House (Portland, Oregon)
95. Beardsley House (Eugene, Oregon)
96. Amazon Family Housing, University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon)
97. Chase, Merle, House (Eugene, Oregon)
98. Chase, Gladys, House (Eugene, Oregon)
99. Chambers, Frank, House (Eugene, Oregon)
100. House, South Eugene Neighborhood (Eugene, Oregon)
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I want to believe: Hillary Clinton says aliens may have visited Earth
Published time: 5 Jan, 2016 01:12
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton © Jim Young © Reuters
Hillary Clinton has stunned the public with a new revelation: Aliens might have visited Earth, she said. The Democratic presidential hopeful says if elected president, she would dig deep into the secret Area 51 site, aliens and UFOs.
Clinton made comments when talking to Daymond Steer of The Conway Daily Sun in New Hampshire last week. It was the first time since 2007 that she was interviewed by the reporter. Setting politics and mundane issues aside, Clinton and Daymond spoke briefly about extraterrestrial life.
“I think we may have been (visited already). We don't know for sure,” the presidential candidate said, when asked about her husband’s comment’s to late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. In 2014, former President Bill Clinton told Kimmel that he would not be surprised if aliens visited us.
Mrs. Clinton also promised to expose the aliens and “get to the bottom of it,” a vow that might endear her to scientists, space geeks and UFO enthusiasts.
New year, new UFOs: Stargazers capture mysterious objects in January skies (VIDEOS) https://t.co/4crS0BNoBfpic.twitter.com/xiugvhZa5I
— RT (@RT_com) January 4, 2016
The Democratic presidential hopeful has like-minded people in her team. As she told the newspaper, John Podesta, the chairman of her campaign, is obsessed with UFOs and aliens.
"He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out," said Clinton. "One way or another. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51."
She added that she would like to look into Area 51, a secret military base in Nevada that has long been rumored to contain aliens. She initially called it Area 54 but quickly corrected herself.
Why the mainstream media refuse to acknowledge UFOs (Op-Edge by @LionelMedia) https://t.co/VAacXWZDBhpic.twitter.com/AAja2etjTS
— RT (@RT_com) December 29, 2015
However, as Bill Clinton told Kimmel, he had already looked in the secret base, but failed to find space invaders there. He had promised not to keep people in dark if he ever found them. "There are no aliens there," said Mr. Clinton.
When speaking to Daymond back in 2007, Clinton said that the number one topic of freedom of information requests that her husband received at his library was about UFOs.
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If all goes well, the 49ers presumably would add Bowman to the 53-man roster at the end of those three weeks.
Willis tried to play in the team’s Week 9 game against the Rams but the injury prevented him.
“It's not like having having a broken middle finger where you can put a pad on it and go,” he said at the time. “My feet have made me who I am today.”
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Author: Ryan Williams
‘Quarry’ is a step in the right direction for Cinemax
By Ryan Williams / September 20, 2016
Cinemax's latest endeavor, “Quarry,” promises both intense drama and unnerving action. The eight-episode season premiered Sept. 9 and airs Fridays at 10 p.m.
Four new shows for your fall semester
By Ryan Williams / August 30, 2016
Although fall means the end of summer vacation and the start of another semester, it brings a new set of shows to help you cope with the stress of school work.
Staller Spring Film Series: “Macbeth” review
By Ryan Williams / April 10, 2016
Kurzel’s “Macbeth” is a worthy addition to the Shakespearean cinematic genre, combining powerful performances and beautiful cinematography with the timeless source material.
Next on Netflix: “Daredevil” returns with a solid second season
By Ryan Williams / March 24, 2016
“Daredevil” is one of Netflix’s best series, combining strong acting, cinematography and the writing of a cable drama, with the intrigue of the superhero genre.
New and returning shows to look out for in February
By Ryan Williams / February 11, 2016
Take a look at some of the new and returning shows coming out in February, including the "Breaking Bad" spin-off "Better Call Saul" and the "Full House" sequel "Fuller House."
Hulu goes back in time with “11.22.63″
By Ryan Williams / February 2, 2016
Based off Stephen King’s novel 11/22/63, Hulu’s latest series blends time travel and conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Next on The CW: “The 100” returns for a third season
By Ryan Williams / January 23, 2016
After its explosive finale last year, “The 100,” a post-apocalyptic series on The CW, premiered its third season Jan. 21.
Next on Netflix: Master of None
By Ryan Williams / November 16, 2015
Following the end of “Parks and Recreation” last February, comedian Aziz Ansari returns to television with a starring role in “Master of None.”
“The Symbionts of Murkor” Book Review
By Ryan Williams / November 3, 2015
Local author Gary Tarulli returns to the science-fiction genre with “The Symbionts of Murkor,” a story of humanity’s resiliency in the face of hardship.
Next on Netflix: Fargo is a go
By Ryan Williams / October 12, 2015
Following its successful debut last year, “Fargo” returns Monday, Oct. 12 at 10 p.m. with another ten-episode season.
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Week Ending 4/5/13: Murdock v. Rutgers
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Alan Schorrs Employment Case of The Week ending April 5, 2013
Murdock v. Rutgers, New Jersey Superior Court, Essex County (Filed April 5, 2013)
It is not often that a New Jersey employment case captures international headlines, so the wrongful termination lawsuit filed on April 5, 2013 by ex-Rutgers assistant basketball coach Eric Murdock is naturally the Case of the Week. Murdock alleges in his seven count complaint that he repeatedly complained about the abuse and mistreatment of Rutgers basketball players by their head coach, Michael Rice. Murdock alleges in Count One for violation of the New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA) that Murdock was terminated in retaliation for complaining and objecting to Rices abuse of his students, which he describes as assault (both physical and verbal), battery, harassment, intimidation, bullying, defamation and other unlawful conduct.
Recently, a media firestorm erupted as video of Rice repeatedly verbally and physically assaulting players was released by ESPN. Since that time, Coach Rice and athletic director Timothy Pernetti have been fired by Rutgers, and many are calling for the dismissal of school president Robert Barchi. Each of those administrators now finds themselves as individual defendants in this lawsuit.
Unfortunately, when a lawsuit is litigated in the media, strange things begin to happen. Everything becomes magnified and sensationalized. I have previously reviewed two other cases this year where the media has played a significant part in the manner in which the lawsuit played. See my prior posts for McQueary v. Penn State and Clay Corporation v. Colter. It is difficult to discern here whether the attorneys are manipulating the media or vice versa, but likely there is a combination of both. The latest headlines as of Sunday, April 7, 2013 were that the FBI are investigating whether the attorneys demand letter constituted an extortion attempt. I do not intend to join the media frenzy. I will, however, analyze the Complaint and demand letter.
Murdocks Complaint contains seven counts, but really the only Counts that have any legs are his CEPA claim and common law (Pierce) wrongful termination claims. The essence of these claims is that Murdock complained that the coach was assaulting, harassing and bullying his players, and that he was terminated in retaliation for those complaints. Rutgers is claiming that the termination was simply a matter of non-contract renewal, but Murdocks contract had been renewed in the past, and so far they have offered no other reason for the termination. There is a scantily-pled Law Against Discrimination claim, but the Complaint really alleges no facts that sound like discrimination, nor does the Complaint identify the basis for the discrimination claim, although reading between the lines, it is possible that a claim could be made that Murdock was retaliated against for complaining about homophobic slurs made by Rice. The remaining counts are Breach of Contract and Duty of Good Faith and Fair Dealing; Negligence, and Civil Conspiracy.
The media frenzy has touched off a finger-pointing campaign. Pernetti blamed upper management for not permitting him to fire Rice. Upper management is blaming their attorneys, Connell Foley, for giving them poor advice. Pernetti was fired and awarded a seven figure settlement. In the meantime, newspapers are reporting, based solely upon anonymous hearsay linked to unidentified University officials, that the FBI is investigating Murdock and his attorney for extortion, with the sole piece of evidence being a routine demand letter sent by Murdocks attorney to Rutgers attorney seeking to settle the matter out of Court. The attorneys big mistake was that he included in his letter a monetary demand of $950,000, and that has now been sensationalized by the press. I strongly recommend that, except in the rare case where damages are liquidated, a demand letter should never include a monetary demand. A copy of Murdocks demand letter can be viewed here.
Frankly, if the FBI is investigating extortion for a lawyers demand, then the legal profession has much to be very concerned about. How else can matters be settled other than if not by attorneys writing to each other in attempts to amicably resolve lawsuits without resorting to the Courts? All Murdocks attorney said was that we have a strong case against you and if you do not properly compensate us, we will file a civil suit and ask a jury and judge to order you to properly compensate us. That is not extortion, that is lawyering, and it is, and should be, entitled to absolute immunity by the litigation privilege.
No New Jersey appellate court has ever addressed whether the litigation privilege extends absolute immunity to pre-litigation demand letters, but there is a published Chancery Division case, New Jersey Sports Productions, Inc. v. Bobby Bostick Promotions, 405 N.J.Super. 173 (Ch. Div. 2007); and two published Federal cases, Rickenbach v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 635 F.Supp.2d 389 (D.N.J. 2009); Waterloov Gutter Protection Sys. Co., Inc. v. Absolute Gutter, 64 F.Supp.2d 398, 415 (D.N.J.1999), that hold that pre-litigation letters are entitled to absolute immunity. While demand letters are not extortion and they are privileged, it is still a very bad idea to overtly demand a specific amount, because it looks like a threat and feels like a threat. If the purpose of the letter is to encourage settlement, demanding large monetary sums is not the best way to foster cooperation.
I do need to mention the most remarkable part of this entire story. According to the Complaint, the videos of Coach Rice that have been released to the press were obtained by Murdocks lawyer with a simple request made under the New Jersey Open Public Records Act (OPRA). Apparently, the attorney sent an OPRA request for video of the basketball team practicing (after Murdock had already complained and been fired), and the University simply sent the videos. This should be a great lesson as an alternate discovery device against public entities.
This is going to be a fascinating case, and we will periodically update.
Plaintiffs counsel: Barry A. Kozyra, Raj Gadhog, Kozyra & Hartz, LLC.
Defendants pre-litigation counsel: John K. Bennet, Jackson Lewis, LLP; Connell Foley LLP (on the investigation).
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Amy Winehouse: A tribute in art
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Amy Winehouse's untimely death took one of modern rock's greatest voice. But she left behind a definitive style: of beehive hairdos, arm tats and pre-Gaga hipster by way of Camden punk. Because her fashion sense was so unique (for better or for worse), I assumed that everyone saw Amy Winehouse the same way. Now, looking back over years of artists who used Winehouse as their muse, it becomes clear there are as many ways to view the singer as there are people to do the viewing. Was she a crazy, drugged-out freak, or a tragic beauty? Did she look like a donkey or like royalty? Is it possible that she was all of the above?
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The investigation into the NXIVM sex cult is widening and a federal prosecutor says there could be more criminal charges against its whiffy svengali and his followers.
Keith Raniere and five devotees are already facing sex-trafficking and other charges. His top confidantes include Smallville star Allison Mack and the Seagram’s booze heiress Clare Bronfman.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Moira Penza also told a Brooklyn judge on Thursday it’s possible more people could be charged in the investigation of the Albany-based cult.
Investigators allege Mack procured attractive women for Raniere’s carnal satisfaction and drafted them into a secret society of sex slaves.
The women were allegedly branded with Raniere and Mack’s initials and kept bone thin.
Meanwhile, Mack’s former boyfriend has broken his silence about how the pretty blond girl-next-door became ensnared in Raniere’s bizarre world.
Chad Krowchuk told Vice he had been living with Mack in Vancouver (where Smallville was filmed) for a number of years when some of their friends began showing an interest in NXIVM.
Following a 2007 retreat, Mack became bedazzled and wanted him to join too.
“That was the part that scared me the most,” Krowchuk told Vice.
“Before we had conversations about it, and we both thought it seemed kind of weird and creepy. I don’t necessarily know if she thought it was creepy, but we agreed it seemed a little messed up.”
According to Krowchuk and others, the Bronfman sisters — Clare and Sarah — set their sights on bagging a celebrity for Raniere.
Soon, he found himself in Albany taking cult courses. Mack picked up the tab.
“Most normal people couldn’t afford to do this,” Krowchuk said.
Former Smallville star Allison Mack and Nicki Clyne, a former star of Battlestar Galactica.
Mack’s close pal, Battlestar Galactica star Nicki Clyne, soon ditched acting for the cult.
“Nicki I know she was the first example of somebody who had a decent acting career, she was doing quite well, and then she took the courses and went, ‘f*** it, I want to do this thing instead,”‘ he said.
In 2009, he left and at the time, he said Mack appeared to be fine.
Bronfman is not accused of sex trafficking. All the defendants have denied the allegations.
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Nord Stage 3 as synthesiser vs. competition?
For fans of synths, pianos or keyboard instruments of any sort.
by mitya33 » Sun Sep 09, 2018 12:36 pm
I'm currently trying to choose between the Montage 8, Korg Kronos and Nord Stage 3.
I'm a pianist primarily but want to get into making electronic music too.
It's clear the Montage/Kronos can make just about every sound under the sun, as that's their speciality, but from what I understand the Stage 3 has much more emphasis on pianos and organs, with a "to some extent" synthesiser thrown in as well.
My question is, if I went for the Stage 3, how much would I be losing in the synth side of things vs. what I'd have got with the Kronos or Montage?
I've read the Sound on Sound reviews of all of these, but it's hard for me to understand as I'm very new to this and so much of the terminology is lost on me. If anyone can give me an idea in layman's terms that would be great!
Thanks so much in advance.
mitya33
Re: Nord Stage 3 as synthesiser vs. competition?
by Dave B » Sun Sep 09, 2018 2:33 pm
Lots. But it depends on what you want to do with it. If you want to completely build up a track in the machine, then the Nord isn't great as it doesn't have a sequencer and I'm not sure how multi-timbral it is (how many parts can be played simultaneously). But if you are going to drive it from a DAW, then things get a bit messier. The Nord has a sample playback engine and an A1 derived synth engine. The former is handy. The latter is a brilliant 'quick n dirty' synth rather than a huge Rolls Royce of a synth - more like a mini cooper. It will get you to where you want to go, and with a degree of style, but it's not a great, all-purpose wonder synth. It's designed to do about 80% of what we usually do and do it quickly and simply. Some here don't like that level of 'help' so it's a very marmite approach.
Going the Kronos/Montage route would mean that you have a one-stop shop for the entire backing track and only need to worry about adding real instruments / vocals.
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by mitya33 » Sun Sep 09, 2018 6:55 pm
I believe the Stage 3 is two-part multi-timbrality.
I had a go on it today and it sure is nice. The synth seemed great but I'm a total noob in this area hence my question.
My head says Kronos, since it seems to be all things to all men. I just don't like the physical look of it, wood panels notwithstanding. I suppose I could reverse the question and ask what I'd be losing re: piano quality if I took the Kronos over the Stage, given the Stage is all about the pianos (and organs.)
by Spevy » Sun Sep 09, 2018 7:17 pm
The short answer is there is a lot more in the Kronos and Montage. More choice of onboard waveforms, more effects, more simultaneous sounds and more control over how a sound changes over time.
Kronos has multiple synth engines and its strength is its versatility and choice. The Montage AWM2 synth engine is very deep with a lot of control over the behavior of a sound. Both the Korg and Yamaha offer in depth FM synthesis which appears to be lacking in the Nord. (I am a Kronos owner and am going by the Nord specs.)
With all that functionality comes complexity. There is something to be said for getting started with the simpler (but not simplistic) synth capability of the Nord. There is likely tremendous mileage to be had out of the Nord Stage 3's synth, particularly with sample playback. You can decide in the future to expand to a more complex synth such as the Nord Lead 3, Korg Prologue or the Sequential (formerly Dave Smith) Prophet X.
Spevy
by mitya33 » Tue Sep 11, 2018 11:39 am
Thanks, Spevy. That may be the most producent and sensible approach.
If I did start with the Stage, and added a drum machine or synth later, can I control them from the Stage? I've seen mentions of one machine controlling others (is this what they call Midi Thru?) so perhaps this is standard functionality for equipment in this field, but just wanted to check.
So if I was performing on the Stage, I could trigger drums from a separate unit, that sort of thing.
by mitya33 » Wed Sep 26, 2018 6:42 pm
by Hugh Robjohns » Wed Sep 26, 2018 8:23 pm
Yes, the stage can be used as a controller for other keyboards via midi, but it doesn't have dedicated pads or knobs to control them in the way that a midi master keyboard usually does.
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HGTV’s New Show “Unspouse My House” Heals Lonely Hearts Through Interior Design
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Why is it that on television, home design and monogamy always seem to go hand-in-hand? Well, thanks to HGTV’s ground-breaking new show, that’s no longer the case.
The network recently announced that it has picked up six half-hour episodes of Unspouse My House starring designer and self-proclaimed breakup expert Orlando Soria.
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Tags: Brian Thwaits, education, health and wellness, Human Resources, Mental Health
October 12, 2016 by Speakers' Spotlight
A Workout with the Brain Trainer
Brian Thwaits is a learning whiz who first demonstrated his flair for performance as an award-winning educator. He’s now an engaging and entertaining ‘brain trainer’ who shows people how to enhance their thinking, communication, innovation, and change management skills. Below, Education Today spoke to Brian about how teachers, students — and everyone — can use their minds to the fullest:
QUICK: READ THESE 20 WORDS AND then flip the page of this magazine and write them down: truck, cat, lawnmower, moon, chain, skyscraper, hat, tree, stove, apples, table, rake, mirror, football, bracelet, helicopter, door, bathtub, bridge, ghost.
How did you do? If you remembered around seven, you’re average, says educational speaker Brian Thwaits. The word list comes from his book The Big Learn: Smart Ways to Use Your Brain, and the exercise has become a regular opening to his presentations on how we can all become better learners. To keep audiences from getting too depressed about their results, he redeems their mediocre showing with a second exercise, presenting a new set of words in a different way.
But as he describes in The Big Learn, rather than read a list, the second time he presents the words like this: “First, create a picture of a CAR in your mind’s eye — your car, a friend’s car, a car you’d love to own. Now you see a DOG in the driver’s seat. Visualize a dog driving the car. On closer inspection, you notice that the dog is holding a large BALLOON on a string. It’s a big, red balloon.”
The results are completely different. Not only do people remember many more (or all 20), but they also tend to perk up and pay more attention to the talk. “They were involved, and they felt smart,” says Thwaits. “They think, ‘I’m going to listen to this guy now because he just blew my mind!’”
The exercise not only works well for Thwaits’s presentations but models a top piece of advice for educators: engage students from the start. Finding ways to make learning active works at any age, says Thwaits. For students, it increases retention, motivation and even the effort that students will put into learning. Even for adults, tweaking the way that you interact with information can improve your ability to remember it. Like much of his advice, the tip about engagement is one that this teacher turned speaker credits to his time in the classroom.
From Classroom to Podium
Starting out as an elementary teacher in a proverbial two-room schoolhouse in interior British Columbia (and then in the more prosaic Rexdale neighbourhood of Toronto), Thwaits later became certified as a reading specialist and was hired by Mohawk College in Hamilton. In his 22 years at Mohawk, he set up the college’s Reading Centre, taught business writing courses and started to teach workshops in the private sector. The last path led to speaking engagements, which eventually became so plentiful that he left teaching. Today he is represented by an agency called Speakers’ Spotlight to do presentations and keynotes across Canada for sectors as diverse as agriculture, banking, health care, human resources and, yes, education.
If the classroom experience has inspired his speaking, his work as a speaker has also clarified which tactics work best for teachers. One of his favourites is presenting information visually. “No matter how dry their information is, they need to dress it up a little bit,” says Thwaits, noting that teachers today face more competition than ever for students’ interest. “Microsoft recently released a study that said a gold sh actually has a longer attention span than we do now. We used to be at 12 seconds. We’re down to 8 because of devices, they said,” says Thwaits. “If people aren’t interested, they’re not going to pay attention.”
He’s a fan of technology like whiteboards and projectors for visualization, but even coloured chalk does the trick. Thwaits recalls an exercise he used as a teacher where he’d work with students to visually map the chapter of a text using coloured chalk, underlining and boxes, linking chapter subheads and concepts until the board was full. “When I was done, it would look like a piece of art,” says Thwaits.
Thwaits also stresses the importance of teachers being taught how to teach, and students being taught how to learn. “In the world we live in now, knowing how to learn is probably the most important thing to be successful, because things are always changing,” he says. “I wish we spent middle school teaching kids just how to learn, how to mind map, how to study for a multiple-choice test compared with an essay test and all that stuff, so when they got to high school, they’d actually know what to do.”
He says that he saw the fallout of not knowing how to learn in his role as a reading specialist. Thankfully he also witnessed improvements. “The strugglers, a lot of whom I dealt with, a lot of times are much better students at postsecondary levels because they’ve learned how to bear down and study,” he says.
Talking Brains
Today, Thwaits’s talks focus on tips that help audiences strengthen their memory and tweak their approach to internalizing information (see below). He also delights in busting a few persistent myths about brains. The idea that we use only 10 percent of our brains? Untrue. Those ubiquitous “learning styles”? No need to pin yourself to one, as a student or as a teacher, says Thwaits. Even more damaging, he says, is the one about being either left-brained or right-brained. “Families will say about their kids, ‘My kid’s really creative. They can’t do math. They’re too right-brained.’ Well, that’s not healthy.”
Want to train yourself a better brain?
Thwaits’s top tips help audiences do just that:
When people seem like memory wizards, it’s often because they’re putting in more effort than you, says Thwaits. Do you focus your full attention when you’re being introduced and repeat the person’s name afterwards to make it stick? Do you take careful notes when reading a book or attending a lecture? If not, you may be allowing your brain to slack off.
From learning multiplication tables to perfecting presentations, practice is another proven way to improve your brain, says Thwaits. While the tactic has flaws — it’s boring and time-consuming — those can be mitigated by embracing shortcuts like mnemonics and limiting memorization to highlights.
Since the mind remembers pairs better than single items, Thwaits advocates a trick he calls the Rule of Ridiculous Association. Use unexpected juxtapositions to increase your chances of recall: for example, remember a new colleague as Tommy the Turtle (especially if he looks like one) rather than Tom with the moustache.
For information to stick, it needs to be meaningful, says Thwaits. To make friends with a boring report, make notes in the margins that force you to think through what you’re reading. And that’s notes, not highlighting — rewording someone’s writing will increase its meaning for you personally.
Need to give a presentation? The more visual, the more memorable, says Thwaits. With the increased availability of graphics tools, this is a no-brainer for the brain.
Break down information into chunks for better logic and easier retention. It’s a technique widely used in everything from agenda items to resumé sections. Thwaits urges audiences to refine chunking even further: for example, by using bullets and visuals in written correspondence.
When you find emotional ways to convey meaning, information that could be boring becomes interesting, says Thwaits. Bump up the colour in your vocabulary, embrace unusual metaphors and even try out storytelling techniques to hook listeners and leave them asking for more.
Brian Thwaits, Adapted from The Big Learn: Smart Ways to Use Your Brain/This article first appeared in the Fall 2016 issue of the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association’s Education Today
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AB, Morkel make World Cup XI
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We saved our best for last - Oz
Cape Town - Following the completion of the Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, the International Cricket Council has picked the team of the tournament.
Brendon McCullum named captain of the side which includes five New Zealanders.
McCullum was chosen as the captain following his aggressive, innovative and inspirational leadership during the 44-day tournament that was the cornerstone of his team’s progression to the final where they lost to Australia by seven wickets.
In doing so, McCullum also scored 328 runs in nine matches with four half-centuries at a strike-rate of 188.50.
The team was chosen by a select group of experts who were given the task of picking a balanced side on the basis of performances in the tournament. Statistics were used but were not the sole basis for selections.
In addition to McCullum, the side includes four New Zealanders - Corey Anderson, Trent Boult, Martin Guptill, Daniel Vettori - three Australians in Glenn Maxwell, Steven Smith and Mitchell Starc, two South Africans, AB de Villiers and Morne Morkel, with Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara as wicketkeeper-batsman.
Zimbabwe’s Brendan Taylor, who finished with 433 runs in six matches, was named as the 12th man.
Team of the 2015 Cricket World Cup in batting order:
Brendon McCullum (New Zealand (captain)
Martin Guptill (New Zealand)
Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) (wicketkeeper)
Steven Smith (Australia)
AB de Villiers (South Africa)
Glenn Maxwell (Australia)
Corey Anderson (New Zealand)
Daniel Vettori (New Zealand)
Mitchell Starc (Australia)
Trent Boult (New Zealand)
Morne Morkel (South Africa)
Brendan Taylor (Zimbabwe) (12th man)
*The selection panel that chose the team consisted of:
Geoff Allardice (ICC General Manager - Cricket)
Andrew Alderson (Journalist, New Zealand Herald)
Harsha Bhogle (Broadcaster)
Richard Kettleborough (Member of Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and ICC Umpire of the Year 2014)
Chloe Saltau (Journalist, The Age)
Michael Vaughan (Former England captain and broadcaster)
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Santos Salumbides, also known as Shirley Luna Salumbides Shirley who is the
subject of this child custody case. Maria Lourdes Santos is an illegitimate child of
petitioner Horacio Luna who is married to co-petitioner Liberty Hizon-Luna.
It appears that two or four months after the birth of Shirley on April 7, 1975, her
parents gave her to the petitioners Horacio and Liberty. The couple doted upon
Shirley who called them "Mama" and "Papa". She calls her natural parents "Mommy"
and "Daddy." When Shirley reached the age of four (4) years in 1979, she was
enrolled at the Maryknoll College in Quezon City, where she is now in Grade 3.
A few months before September, 1980, her "Mama" and "Papa" decided to take
Shirley abroad. However, when the petitioners asked for the respondents' written
consent to the child's application for a U.S. visa, the respondents refused to give it.
As a result, the petitioners had to leave without Shirley whom they left with the
private respondents, upon the latter's request. The petitioners, however, left
instructions with their chauffeur to take and fetch Shirley from Maryknoll College
every school day.
When the petitioners returned on October 29, 1980, they learned that the
respondents had transferred Shirley to the St. Scholastica College. The private
respondents also refused to return Shirley to them. Neither did the said respondents
allow Shirley to visit the petitioners.
In view thereof, the petitioners filed a petition for habeas corpus with the Court of
First Instance of Rizal, Branch XV, against the private respondents to produce the
person of Shirley and deliver her to their care and custody. A decision was rendered
declaring the petitioners entitled to the child's custody and forthwith granted the
writ prayed for.
The private respondents appealed to then Court of Appeals, the appealed decision
was reversed and set aside and another entered, ordering the petitioners, among
other things, to turn over Shirley to the private respondents. The herein petitioners
filed a motion for the reconsideration of the decision but their motion was denied.
Consequently, the petitioners filed a petition for review of the decision of the
appellate court. Such was denied for lack of merit.
Upon finality of the judgment, the case was remanded to the court of origin. The
court affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeals.
The execution of the judgment was vigorously opposed by the petitioners who filed
a motion for the reconsideration of the order and to set aside the writ of execution
on the ground of supervening events and circumstances, more particularly, the
subsequent emotional, psychological, and physiological condition of the child
Shirley which make the enforcement of the judgment sought to be executed unduly
prejudicial, unjust and unfair, and cause irreparable damage to the welfare and
interests of the child.
By reason thereof, the respondent judge called a conference among the parties and
their counsels, and conducted hearings on the petitioners' motion for
reconsideration and to set aside the writ of execution. Shirley made manifest during
the hearing that she would kill herself or run away from home if she should ever be
separated from her Mama and Papa, the petitioners herein, and forced to stay with
the respondents.
Dra. Cynthia Dulay Bruce, a child psychologist, affirmed her findings that Shirley has
only grown more embittered, cautions, distrusting of her biological parents. She
claims she would be very unhappy with her biological parents since they do not
understand her needs, are selfish to her, and don't know how to care for her.
Presently, she is very difficult to encourage in seeing her biological parents in a
different light. That at the present time, to get Shirley back in this emotionally
charged transaction, would hinder Shirley seeing them as truly loving and
concerned parents. She would more deeply distrust them if they uproot her from the
home of the choice of Mr. and Mrs. Luna. The biological parents wish to do what is
also helpful to Shirley. I discussed with both parties the recommendations of
placement and follow up.
But, the respondent judge denied the petitioners' motion to set aside the writ of
execution The petitioners filed a motion for the reconsideration of the order and
when it was denied, they filed a petition for certiorari and prohibition with
preliminary injunction and restraining order with the respondent Intermediate
Appellate Court to stop altogether the execution of the decision of the Court of
Appeals. The petition was duly heard, after which a decision was rendered on May
25, 1984, dismissing the petition.
Whether or not procedural rules more particularly the duty of lower courts to
enforce a final decision of appellate courts in child custody cases, should prevail
over and above the desire and preference of the child, to stay with her
grandparents instead of her biological parents and who had signified her intention
to kill herself or run away from home if she should be separated from her
grandparents and be forced to live with her biological parents.
No. This means that the best interest of the minor can override procedural rules and
even the rights of parents to the custody of their children.
It is a well-known doctrine that when a judgment of a higher court is returned to the
lower court, the only function of the latter court is the ministerial one of issuing the
order of execution. The lower court cannot vary the mandate of the superior court,
or examine it, for any other purpose than execution; nor review it upon any matter
decided on appeal or error apparent; nor intermeddle with it further than to settle
so much as has been demanded. However, it is also equally well-known that a
stay of execution of a final judgment may be authorized whenever it is
necessary to accomplish the ends of justice as when there had been a
change in the situation of the parties which makes such execution
inequitable; or when it appears that the controversy had never been
submitted to the judgment of the court; or when it appears that the writ
of execution has been improvidently issued; or that it is defective in
substance; or is issued against the wrong party; or that the judgement
debt has been paid or otherwise satisfied; or when the writ has been
issued without authority.
In the instant case, the petitioners claim that the child's manifestation to
the trial court that she would kill herself or run away from home if she
should be forced to live with the private respondents is a supervening
event that would justify the cancellation of the execution of the final
decision rendered by the Court of Appeals. The respondents, upon the other
hand, maintain that there are no supervening developments and circumstances
since these events are not new as the Court of Appeals had taken into account the
physiological and emotional consideration of the transfer of custody of Shirley when
it reversed the decision of the trial court and gave to the private respondents the
custody of the child Shirley; and besides, the wishes and desires of the child is no
hindrance to the parents' right to her custody since the right of the parents to the
custody of their children paramount.
We find merit in the petitioner. The manifestation of the child Shirley that she would
kill herself or run away from home if she should be taken away from the herein
petitioners and forced to live with the private respondents, made during the
hearings on the petitioners' motion to set aside the writ of execution and reiterated
in her letters to the members of the Court and during the hearing of the case before
this Court, is a circumstance that would make the execution of the
judgment rendered in Spec. Proc. No. 9417 of the Court of First Instance
of Rizal inequitable, unfair and unjust, if not illegal. Article 363 of the Civil
Code provides that in all questions relating to the care, custody, education
and property of the children, the latter's welfare is paramount.
Since, in this case, the very life and existence of the minor is at stake and the child
is in an age when she can exercise an intelligent choice, the courts can do no
less than respect, enforce and give meaning and substance to that choice
and uphold her right to live in an atmosphere conducive to her physical,
moral and intellectual development. The threat may be proven empty, but
Shirley has a right to a wholesome family life that will provide her with
love, care and understanding, guidance and counseling. and moral and
material security. But what if the threat is for real?
Besides, in her letters to the members of the Court, Shirley depicted her biological
parents as selfish and cruel and who beat her often; and that they do not love her.
And, as pointed out by the child psychologist, Shirley has grown more embitered
cautious and dismissing of her biological parents. To return her to the custody of the
private respondents to face the same emotional environment which she is now
complaining of would be indeed traumatic and cause irreparable damage to the
child. As requested by her, let us not destroy her future.
G.R. No. L-68374 June 18, 1985
HIZON-LUNA, petitioners,
INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT, HON ROQUE A. TAMAYO, as Presiding Judge of
Regional Trial Court, NCR Branch CXXXI1 Makati, Metro Manila, MARIA LOURDES
SANTOS, and SIXTO SALUMBIDES,respondents.
CONCEPCION, JR., J.:
Review on certiorari of the decision of the respondent appellate court in case CA-G. R. No.
SP-01869, entitled: "Horacio Luna, et al., petitioners, versus Hon. Roque A. Tamayo, etc.,
et al., respondents, " which affirmed an order denying a motion to restrain the execution of a
final judgment rendered in a habeas corpus case.
The records of the case show that the herein private respondent Maria Lourdes Santos is
an illegitimate child of the petitioner Horacio Luna who is married to his co-petitioner Liberty
Hizon-Luna. Maria Lourdes Santos is married to her correspondent Sixto Salumbides, and
are the parents of Shirley Santos Salumbides, also known as Shirley Luna Salumbides, who
is the subject of this child custody case.
It appears that two or four months after the birth of the said Shirley Salumbides on April 7,
1975, her parents gave her to the petitioners, a childless couple with considerable means,
who thereafter showered her with love and affection and brought her up as their very own.
The couple doted upon Shirley who called them "Mama" and "Papa". She calls her natural
parents "Mommy" and "Daddy." When Shirley reached the age of four (4) years in 1979, she
was enrolled at the Maryknoll College in Quezon City, where she is now in Grade I I I.
A few months before September, 1980, her "Mama" and "Papa" decided to take Shirley
abroad and show her Disneyland and other places of interest in America. Shirley looked
forward to this trip and was excited about it. However, when the petitioners asked for the
respondents' written consent to the child's application for a U.S. visa, the respondents
refused to give it, to the petitioners' surprise and chagrin Shirley was utterly disappointed.
As a result, the petitioners had to leave without Shirley whom they left with the private
respondents, upon the latter's request. The petitioners, however, left instructions with their
chauffeur to take and fetch Shirley from Maryknoll College every school day.
When the petitioners returned on October 29, 1980, they learned that the respondents had
transferred Shirley to the St. Scholastica College. The private respondents also refused to
return Shirley to them. Neither did the said respondents allow Shirley to visit the petitioners.
In view thereof, the petitioners filed a petition for habeas corpus with the Court of First
Instance of Rizal, Branch XV, against the private respondents to produce the person of
Shirley and deliver her to their care and custody. The case was docketed in court as Spec.
Proc. No. 9417, and after the filing of an answer and due hearing, a decision was rendered
on March 9, 1981, declaring the petitioners entitled to the child's custody and forthwith
granted the writ prayed for.
The private respondents appealed to the then Court of Appeals where the case was
docketed as CA-G.R. No. SP-12212, and in a decision dated April 7, 1982, the appealed
decision was reversed and set aside and another entered, ordering the petitioners, among
other things, to turn over Shirley to the private respondents. The herein petitioners filed a
motion for the reconsideration of the decision but their motion was denied.
Consequently, the petitioners filed a petition for review of the decision of the appellate court.
The case was docketed herein as G.R. No. 60860 and on November 10, 1982, this Court, in
a minute resolution, denied the petition for lack of merit.
Upon finality of the judgment, the case was remanded to the court of origin and assigned to
Regional Trial Court, NCJR Branch CXXXII Makati, Metro Manila, presided over by
respondent Judge Roque A. Tamayo who, thereafter, issued an order directing the issuance
of a writ of execution to satisfy and enforce the resolution of the Supreme Court which
affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeals.
The execution of the judgment was vigorously opposed by the petitioners who filed a motion
for the reconsideration of the order and to set aside the writ of execution on the ground of
supervening events and circumstances, more particularly, the subsequent emotional,
psychological, and physiological condition of the child Shirley which make the enforcement
of the judgment sought to be executed unduly prejudicial, unjust and unfair, and cause
irreparable damage to the welfare and interests of the child. By reason thereof, the
respondent judge called a conference among the parties and their counsels, and conducted
hearings on the petitioners' motion for reconsideration and to set aside the writ of execution.
Shirley made manifest during the hearing that she would kill herself or run away from home
if she should ever be separated from her Mama and Papa, the petitioners herein, and
forced to stay with the respondents. A portion of her testimony is quoted hereunder:
ATTY. CASTRO:
xxx xxx xxx
Q Would you want to have with your daddy and mommy,
referring to Sixto Salumbides and Maria Lourdes Salumbides
A No, sir.
Q Why not?
A Because they are cruel to me. They always spank me and
they do not love me. Whenever I am eating, they are not
attending to me. It is up to me whether I like the food or not.
Q Now, if you will be taken from your papa and mama (Luna
spouses) and given to your daddy and mommy (Salumbides
spouses), what would you do if you will do anything?
A I will either kill myself or I will escape. Even now they said
they love me. I don't believe them. I know they are not sincere.
They are only saying that to me. And I know those words were
not coming from their hearts. If they will get me from my papa
and mama, they will be hurt because they know that my papa
and mama love me very much. 1
Dra. Cynthia Dulay Bruce, a child psychologist, affirmed her findings that
... She (Shirley) has only grown more embittered, cautions, distrusting of her
biological parents. She threatens to kill herself or run away if given to her
biological parents. She claims she would be very unhappy with her biological
parents since they do not understand her needs are selfish to her, and don't
know how to care for her. Presently, she is very difficult to encourage in
seeing her biological parents in a different light. 2
and that
... I reviewed with them (Salumbides spouse) that at the present time, to get
Shirley back in this emotionally charged transaction, would hinder Shirley
seeing them as truly loving and concerned parents. She would more deeply
distrust them if they uproot her from the home of the choice of Mr. and Mrs.
Luna. The biological parents wish to do what is also helpful to Shirley. I
discussed with both parties the recommendations of placement and follow
up. 3
But, the respondent judge denied the petitioners' motion to set aside the writ of execution
The petitioners filed a motion for the reconsideration of the order and when it was denied,
they filed a petition for certiorari and prohibition with preliminary injunction and restraining
order with the respondent Intermediate Appellate Court, which was docketed therein as CAG.R. No. SP-01869, to stop altogether the execution of the decision of the Court of Appeals
rendered in CA-G.R. No. SP-12212. The petition was duly heard, after which a decision was
rendered on May 25, 1984, dismissing the petition, Hence, the present recourse.
The issue is whether or not procedural rules more particularly the duty of lower courts to
enforce a final decision of appellate courts in child custody cases, should prevail over and
above the desire and preference of the child, to stay with her grandparents instead of her
biological parents and who had signified her intention Up kill herself or run away from home
if she should be separated from her grandparents and forced to live with her biological
parents.
It is a well-known doctrine that when a judgment of a higher court is returned to the lower
court, the only function of the latter court is the ministerial one of issuing the order of
execution. The lower court cannot vary the mandate of the superior court, or examine it, for
any other purpose than execution; nor review it upon any matter decided on appeal or error
apparent; nor intermeddle with it further than to settle so much as has been demanded.
However, it is also equally well-known that a stay of execution of a final judgment may be
authorized whenever it is necessary to accomplish the ends of justice as when there had
been a change in the situation of the parties which makes such execution inequitable; or
when it appears that the controversy had never been submitted to the judgment of the court;
or when it appears that the writ of execution has been improvidently issued; or that it is
defective in substance; or is issued against the wrong party; or that the judgement debt has
been paid or otherwise satisfied; or when the writ has been issued without authority.
In the instant case, the petitioners claim that the child's manifestation to the trial court that
she would kill herself or run away from home if she should be forced to live with the private
respondents is a supervening event that would justify the cancellation of the execution of
the final decision rendered by the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. No. SP-12212. The
respondents, upon the other hand, maintain that there are no supervening developments
and circumstances since these events are not new as the Court of Appeals had taken into
account the physiological and emotional consideration of the transfer of custody of Shirley
when it reversed the decision of the trial court and gave to the private respondents the
hindrance to the parents' right to her custody since the right of the parents to the custody of
their children paramount.
We find merit in the petitioner. The manifestation of the child Shirley that she would kill
herself or run away from home if she should be taken away from the herein petitioners and
forced to live with the private respondents, made during the hearings on the petitioners'
motion to set aside the writ of execution and reiterated in her letters to the members of the
Court dated September 19, 1984 4 and January 2, 1985, 5 and during the hearing of
the case before this Court, is a circumstance that would make the execution of
the judgment rendered in Spec. Proc. No. 9417 of the Court of First Instance
Code provides that in all questions relating to the care, custody, education and
property of the children, the latter's welfare is paramount. This means that the
best interest of the minor can override procedural rules and even the rights of
parents to the custody of their children. Since, in this case, the very life and
existence of the minor is at stake and the child is in an age when she can
exercise an intelligent choice, the courts can do no less than respect, enforce
and give meaning and substance to that choice and uphold her right to live in
an atmosphere conducive to her physical, moral and intellectual
development. 6 The threat may be proven empty, but Shirley has a right to a
wholesome family life that will provide her with love, care and understanding,
guidance and counseling. and moral and material security. 7 But what if the
threat is for real.?
Besides, in her letters to the members of the Court, Shirley depicted her biological parents
as selfish and cruel and who beat her often; and that they do not love her. And, as pointed
out by the child psychologist, Shirley has grown more embitered cautious and dismissing of
her biological parents. To return her to the custody of the private respondents to face the
same emotional environment which she is now complaining of would be indeed traumatic
and cause irreparable damage to the child. As requested by her, let us not destroy her
future.
WHEREFORE, the petition should be, as it is hereby GRANTED and the writ prayed for
issued, setting aside the judgment of the respondent Intermediate Appellate Court in CAG.R. No. SP-01869, and restraining the respondent judge and/or his successors from
enforcing the judgment rendered by the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. No. SP-12212.
entitled: "Horacio Luna and Liberty Hizon-Luna, petitioners-appellees, versus Maria Lourdes
Santos and Sixto Salumbides, respondents-appellants." The decision rendered in Spec.
Proc. No. 9417 of the Court of First Instance of Rizal granting the herein petitioners custody
of the child Shirley Salumbides should be maintained. Without costs. SO ORDERED.
Abad Santos, Escolin and Cuevas, JJ., concur.
Separate Opinions
AQUINO, J., concurring:
A judgment for the custody of the child, like a judgment for support is not final and
irrevocable. The welfare of the child is the paramount consideration. It would be for Shirley's
welfare to remain in the custody of the petitioners.
MAKASIAR, J., dissenting:
The resolution of the issue on who should have custody over the nine-year old girl has been
viewed from a limited approach. The majority opinion has been focused more on the
personal assessment of the child rather than on the general and specific laws and
jurisprudence that should govern this case. A nine-year old child, brainwashed by the
material luxury as well as constant attention showered on her by doting grandparents,
cannot possibly appreciate the incomparable love and solicitude her natural parents have
for her always, in good or bad times.
The determination, therefore, as to whose custody the child belongs must necessarily and
initially involve the question of parental authority. it appears that the law on parental
authority has been conveniently side tracked by petitioners.
Parental authority, known in Roman law as patria potestas, is defined as "the mass of rights
and obligations which parents have in relation to the person and property of their children
until their majority age or emancipation, and even after this under certain circumstances" (2
Manresa 8, cited in p. 657, Comments & Jurisprudence on the Civil Code, Tolentino, Vol. 1,
1983 ed.).
The following Civil Code provisions thus provide:
Art. 311. The father and mother jointly exercise parental authority over their
legitimate children. who are not emancipated, In case of disagreement, the
father's decision shall prevail, unless there
Art, 313. Parental authority cannot be renounced or transfer- red, except in
cases of guardianship or adoption approved by 'the courts, or emancipation
by concession (par. 1).
Significantly, the stern pronouncements of this Court in the case of Celis vs. Cafuir (L-3352,
June 12, 1950, 86 Phil. 554) are very much in point. This Court thus declared:
The word "entrusted" cannot convey the Idea of definite and permanent
renounciation of the mother's custody of her child.
This Court should avert the tragedy in the years to come of having deprived
mother and son of the beautiful associations and tender, imperishable
memories engendered by the relationship of parent and child. We should not
take away from a mother the opportunity of bringing up her own child even at
the cost of extreme sacrifice due to poverty and lack of means: so that
afterwards, she may be able to look back with pride and a sense of
satisfaction and her efforts, however humble, to make her dreams of her little
boy come true. We should not forget that the relationship between a foster
mother and a child is not natural but artificial. If the child turn out to be a
failure or forgetful of what its foster parents had done for him, said parents
might yet count and appraise all that they have done and spent for him and
with regret consider all of it as a dead loss, and even rue the day they
committed the blunder of taking the child into their hearts and their home. Not
so with a real natural mother who never counts, the cost and her sacrifices,
ever treasuring memories of her associations with her child, however
unpleasant and disappointing. Flesh and blood count.
Whether a child should stay permanently with a kindly stranger or with his
own mother, is not to be determined alone by considerations of affluence or
poverty, Poor youths who had to work their way thru school and college,
have, not infrequently, scaled the heights of success, as easily and swiftly as
their more favored companions, and done so with more, inner satisfaction,
and credit to themselves and their humble parents.
The guardianship or custody which parents exercise over -heir children is well-entrenched
in this jurisdiction. Thus, in the case of Reyes vs. Alvarez (8 Phil. 725), this Court declared:
The guardianship which parents exercise over their children by the virtue of
the paternal authority granted them by law has for its purpose their physical
development, the cultivation of their intelligence, and the development of their
intellectual and sensitive faculties. For such purposes they are entitled to
control their children and to keep them in their company in order to properly
comply with their paternal obligations, but it is also their duty to furnish them
with a dwelling or a place where they may live together.
This Court has long recognized that "the right attached to parental authority is a purely
personal one, and it is extinguished upon the death of the parent exercising it" (Abiera vs.
Orin, 8 Phil. 193),
Custody embraces the sum of parental rights with respect to the rearing of a child, including
his care. It includes the right to the child's services and earnings, and the right to direct his
activities and make decisions regarding his care and control, education, health, and religion
(p. 107, 59 Am. Jur. 2d.).
The right of the parents to the custody of their minor children is one of the natural rights
incident to parenthood a right supported by law and sound public policy. The right is an
inherent one, which is not created by the state or by the decision is of the courts, but
derives from the nature of parental relationship. Since the rights of parents to the custody of
their minor children is both a natural and a legal right, the law could not disturb the parentchild relationship except for the strongest reasons, and only upon a clear showing of a
parent's gross misconduct or unfitness, or of other extraordinary circumstances affecting the
welfare of the child (pp. 107 & 108, 59 Am. Jur. 2d.)
Article 363 orders that 'No mother shall be separated from her child under
seven years of age, unless the court finds compelling reasons for such
measure.' One of the cruelest acts in the world is to separate a mother from
her baby. This was often done in case of adultery by the mother, and the court
ordered that the custody of the child should be given to the father, but the
new article provides otherwise because the mother's maternal love-than
which there is nothing greater in this life-should be respected. Besides, she
could not exert a bad influence on a baby. And lastly, perhaps the presence of
her child will often redeem her (p. 199, The Father of the First Brown Race
Civil Code, Rivera, 1978 Ed.).
As long as the parents are living and they have not lost their parental authority, patria
potestas is limited to them. Other ascendants have no authority over the children, even if
the parents of the latter are minors (2 Manresa 13, cited in p. 661, Comments and
Jurisprudence on the Civil Code, Tolentino, Vol. 1, 1983 Ed.).
Parental authority is inalienable and every abdication of this authority by the parents is void
Planiol and Ripert 324, p. 664, Ibid.).
Whatever agreement or arrangement there was between petitioners and respondents when
the child Shirley was given to the former, the same has not been validated nor legalized by
the mere fact that the said girl had stayed with the petitioners for a number of years, in view
of the explicit provision of Article 313 mandating that parental authority cannot be
renounced or transferred, except in cases of guardianship or adoption approved by the
courts, or emancipation by concession.
Thus, the mother in case of separation, cannot by agreement vest the custody of a child in
the maternal grandmother as against the father (Mason vs. Williams, 165 Ky 331, 176 S.W.
1171, cited in p. 662, Comments and Jurisprudence on the Civil Code, Tolentino, Vol. 1,
Some United States courts have consistently ruled that since children cannot be bought and
sold, and since the parent is subject to obligations which he cannot throw off by any act of
his own, agreements by which the parents, or one of them, transfer custody of a child to a
third person, with the provision or informal understanding that custody will not be reclaimed,
are not generally considered legally binding contracts, unless they amount to statutory
indentures of apprenticeship, or are supported by other express statutory provisions. This is
especially true in the case of a parent who, having been compelled by poverty or
unfavorable circumstances to surrender the custody of his child, wishes to reclaim it when
circumstances are improved (p. 117, 59 Am. Jur. 2d.)
For this Court to award custody over Shirley to petitioners primarily on the basis of her
reaction and choice would run counter to existing law and jurisprudence as already
aforestated.
A nine-year old girl, although already at the age of discernment, is not capable of knowing
or defining varied feelings like love, anger or cruelty when such a girl has been exposed to
two contrasting conditions, the first for more than eight years and he second, for barely four
months. The child grew up amidst affluent surroundings the grandparents being well-off.
The lolo and lola, as most lolos and lolas are, doted over Shirley. In fact, she attended
Maryknoll College, a school for the elite and rode in a chauffeur-driven car. She grew up
amidst a luxurious atmosphere. Perhaps, in their own way of loving their granddaughter,
they showered her with all material needs and pampered her. Thus, the child had not been
made to experience disappointments, much less hardships. Life with her lolo and lola meant
having what she wanted. In the process, Shirley moved about in a limited world, created by
her Mama (Lola) and Papa (Lolo) world felt and seen through rose-colored lenses. The child
addresses her natural parents as "Daddy" and "Mommy".
Then all of a sudden, the scenario is changed and the girl finds herself in a very contrasting
situation, Having been used to the life style offered by her grandparents and having thus
absorbed a set of values different from the average and ordinary, she now finds life with her
natural parents harsh and unbearable. With the luxurious life she had with petitioners at the
back of her mind, she would naturally look at things in the respondent's home differently and
partially.
Four months is too insufficient a time for a nine-year old girl to comprehend and accept a
home atmosphere striking distinct from one where she had lived for more than eight years.
Four months is a very short time for the child to be able to understand, to absorb and to
appreciate two vastly different home conditions. Whatever set of values the second home
has to offer, the same cannot settle in a child for only four months' exposure. To Shirley,
therefore, any attempted discipline imposed her natural parents means cruelty and lack of
affection for her. Where before she could choose the food she wanted, now she has to take
whatever food is available within the limited means of her parents. She cannot realize that
in a middle-class family, the choice of food is restricted by the amount appropriated therefor.
The gauge is what and how much food could benefit all the members of the household and
not just one member. Choice for particular needs becomes secondary to what the family
budget can afford for the entire family. This explains why Shirley had a dislike for the
conditions existing in respondents' house which did not cater to her tastes.
In her answers to the questions which are quite leading, one can clearly sense that Shirley,
who was used to having all the lavish care and attention from petitioners, reacted negatively
to her natural parents whose ways are so different from the former. It would take some more
time and exposure for Shirley to be able to really say that respondents do not love and care
for her. She would have been given more time in respondent's home to allow whatever
values such place can offer to settle in her mind. It was unfair for petitioners to push Shirley
into a choice a decision which a nine-year old girl could not have made intelligently
without undue pressure and played-up emotionalism.
It must be noted with concern that Article 312 of the Civil Code clearly defines the specific
and limited role of grandparents when it states that "grandparents shall be consulted by all
members of the family on all important family questions." This has been interpreted to mean
that as long as the parents are living, grandparents and other ascendants have no authority
over the children, even when the parents are minors. Grandparents, therefore, cannot
question the form of instruction or education chosen by the parents for the children. The
grandparents can only advise and counsel the children. But if the parents are dead or are
absent, then the grandparents shall exercise parental authority over the children (Article
354, p. 663, Comments and Jurisprudence on the Civil Code, Tolentino, 1983 Ed.).
Evidently, the present petition for custody of petitioners runs counter to the parental
preference rule. Under the so-called parental preference rule, a natural parent, father or
mother, as the case may be, who is of good character and a proper person to have the
custody of the child and is reasonably able to provide for such child, ordinarily is entitled to
the custody as against all persons. Accordingly, such parents are entitled to the custody of
their children as against foster or prospective adoptive parents: and such entitlement
applies also as against other, relatives of the child, including grandparents, or as against an
agency or institution (pp. 207 & 208, Vol. 67A C.J.S.).
It has been an established rule that the preference of a child is only one factor to be
considered, and it is not controlling, decisive, or determinative. Thus, notwithstanding the
preference, the court has a discretion to determine the question of custody, and it is not
error for the court to refuse to discuss the custody issue with the child, The rights of a
parent will not be disregarded in order to gratify the mere wishes of a child where a parent is
found to be a proper person to be entrusted with the custody of a child (pp. 231-232, Vol.
67A C.J.S.).
In view of the foregoing, and considering that herein respondents have not been shown to
be unfit or unsuitable or financially incapable of keeping and caring for Shirley, the latter's
custody should be awarded to said respondents.
Judgment (Law)
Writ Of Prohibition
Certiorari
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Butcher celebrates one year in business
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Ash Taylor of Taylors Butchers, Ashby High Street with a pair of 12 inch sausage rolls.
A Scunthorpe butchers is celebrating one year after openings its door to the public.
Taylor's Family Butchers opened one year ago on Ashby High Street and owner Ash Taylor has said the shop's success has far exceeded his expectations - he's even increased his staffing levels from three to 15 members.
He said: "Business has been very good, we have gone from strength to strength.
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"We have gone from three members of staff to 15 and that is a reflection of how well the business is doing.
"We've also had good comments and feedback on Facebook.
"We opened in Ashby because it is an up and coming area and the High Street has unique shops.
"It has parking and I know a lot of people on this side of town."
Mr Taylor added that he has grown to love butchery through starting at the very bottom of the ladder.
"I started off as a pot washer when I was about 13 and I worked my way up to be a manager at David Jenkins and I was running the job when this shop became available.
"I had already done a meat management course and I really wanted to have a go on my own.
Scunthorpe landlord says his pub is the luckiest in the country after £1 million lottery win
"It has well and truly exceeded my expectations - there are queues outside on the path. It makes me really proud.
"We have really good staff, they are the most important part of the business.
"I enjoy seeing the different customers and cultures coming through the shop and talking about different cuts of meat."
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Pre-production Demystified – An Interactive Session with Satram Ramani
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– Mel Odom
Ask the film makers and they will admit that this quote couldn’t be truer!
Making a film isn’t merely shooting the scenes according to the script along with actors and crew members. In fact, the film is prepared on paper with every minute detail even before attempting to shoot a single shot. Each and every scene is well planned during the most critical stage of filmmaking, i.e. PRE-PRODUCTION.
What is pre-production?
What happens in the pre-production stage of a film?
What are the key elements to be considered while planning a film?
How can one make the shoot as seamless as possible?
These are some of the many common (and valid) questions that arise in the minds of film making students.
Seamedu School of Pro-Expressionism recently had the privilege of inviting Mr. Satram Ramani, a film professional, to enlighten the film making students with his vast knowledge about the industry and the processes followed.
What unfolded on Saturday, October 8, 2016 was pure gold
Satram, who has majorly worked as a chief assistant director as well as production manager in the film industry, has a host of blockbuster Bollywood movies to his credit – Ready, Bodyguard, Jai Ho, and the recently-released Freaky Ali. Now that’s some list, isn’t it? Satram Ramani admits that films like these become ‘superhits’ not just because of the actors or dialogues or music, but also because they are well-made pieces of art in all aspects. And that’s where pre-production plays such a crucial role.
The day-long session began with Mr. Ramani posing some questions about film planning to the students. He presented a few examples of pre-production documents that went into planning any film. This, in particular, was very interesting for our students, since they got a firsthand look at how their favourite films were originally planned on paper.
This was followed by an elaborate demonstration of the process of formulating documents such as call sheets, budget, schedule, script breakdown, and the production board – items that are immensely critical at the planning stage of a film.
His focus on the use of properties (or props, as they are popularly known) and the importance of using them to tell stories effectively was quite fascinating. He explained how props are managed during setting up a scene and how the overall production design is coordinated by assistant directors.
The students got great insights into the hierarchy of production management – right from the unit production managers to runners – during a film shoot.
Satram Ramani’s experiences – Full of insights
Satram’s many experiences as a chief assistant director and second assistant director helped Seamedu students understand the nitty-gritties of working as an AD on a motion picture. He discussed:
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Essentially, Mr. Ramani covered all bases related to preparing for film shoots – the most important one being ‘making every single second count’. He spoke about the spontaneity and presence of mind an AD is expected to possess to take instant decisions, since anything could go wrong during a typical shoot. For instance, an actor might get stuck in traffic and hence arrive late to a film set. In such a case, there must be an alternate plan of action ready with the team to execute until the said actor arrives.
Our always-curious students asked a number of questions and Satram answered each and every query with utmost patience and ease. As a token of immense gratitude, the students presented him with a beautiful bouquet as the interactive session ended with a huge round of applause, unsurprisingly.
It is said that ‘by failing to plan, you are planning to fail’ – and that was the biggest takeaway from this session. Indeed, Seamedu students will certainly prepare well for their next film project!
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Martin Scorsese’s ‘Vinyl’ Drops on HBO in February
Posted on Thursday, October 29th, 2015 by Angie Han
Martin Scorsese‘s latest project is coming to a small screen near you. HBO has announced a 2016 premiere date for Vinyl, the retro sex-drugs-rock-n’-roll drama from Scorsese, Mick Jagger, Boardwalk Empire‘s Terence Winter. In addition, the network has also slotted return dates for Girls and Togetherness. Get Vinyl premiere date details and more after the jump.
As confirmed by HBO today, Vinyl will kick off Sunday, February 14 at 9 PM with a two-hour premiere directed by Scorsese. Set in 1970s New York at the dawn of punk, hip-hop, and disco, the series follows record label exec Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale) in his quest to save his company and himself without destroying everyone else around him.
That date makes it perfect Valentine’s Day viewing for: 1) couples who don’t want to brave the cold, 2) singles who need something to do while everyone else is out getting laid, 3) casual daters who need an excuse to invite over their love interests, 4) pretty much everyone else, because who doesn’t want to dig into Scorsese’s latest directorial effort?
Vinyl‘s sprawling cast includes Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano, and Juno Temple as various friends and colleagues of Richie. Check out the trailer below:
Meanwhile, the new seasons of Lena Dunham‘s Girls and Mark Duplass‘ Togetherness will debut back-to-back the following week on Sunday, February 21. Girls launches the hour at 10 PM, and Togetherness follows at 10:30. The shows aired together earlier this year as well, but started a few weeks earlier, in January.
Girls‘ upcoming fifth season consists of ten episodes, as have most of the seasons that came before it. It could be the show’s penultimate run, as Dunham, its creator and star, has said she envisions the story wrapping up after Season 6. Togetherness‘ second season will have eight episodes, just like its first season did.
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Comedy, Drama, HBO, Release Dates, Television, Girls, Togetherness, Vinyl
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Loose at the Zoo
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Pilates & Movement Networking Night Announcements
The Connecticut Pilates & Movement Instructor Group will be having its first Meet & Greet Gathering at SOMA Movement Studio.
Unionville CT 06085
7 pm until Tired
Anyone who shares a serious love and passion for Pilates and Movement instruction. Instructors, trainees, apprentices, and serious students of movement are welcome to attend. This is a great night to meet other Pilates & Movement instructors and studio owners from around the state. Considering getting trained in Pilates or Movement? There will be representatives from several certification centers from Connecticut in attendance.
645 pm: Doors Open
700 pm: Night officially starts
710 pm: Fitness Fashion Show featuring Athleta, Vibram, and Crane & Lion
730 pm: Pilates Cadillac Performance by Visceral Movement Dance Company
740 pm: Opening Remarks by Mary Badon, MD MBA
750 pm: General Announcements, Selecting the Next Host
800 pm: "A Night with Mary Bowen: Pilates History and Perspectives"
The rest of the night: Informal Question & Answer, Networking, and Demos after Mary Bowen's program
Members of the Pilates & Movement Instructor group, please RSVP on our Facebook Group page
Non-Members, please RSVP on the SOMA Movement Studio Facebook page.
Check this page often for updates on all the activities planned for this event.
Distinguished Guests
Mary Bowen
In 1959, at 29, Mary Bowen began to learn the Pilates Method. She was in New York City as an actress, comedienne, and musical comedy performer with a recurring back problem. She saw an article in a newspaper with a man standing with his bare barrel of a chest, bare legs, swimming trunks and a white mane of hair. Joe was an intriguing sight – a human lion! In the short article he said “I base my method on the baby and the cat!” She had never had a baby or a cat, but she took it upon herself to find Joseph Pilates! That was the beginning of a life “root.”
Mary's back improved after only two lessons with Joe. Since walking into Joe and Clara’s studio fifty years ago, she has taken one to two lessons every week for all those years.
The Connecticut Pilates & Movement Instructors group is very honored to have Mary join us for the evening as our guest of honor. Please visit Mary Bowen's website or view her Pilates Anytime interview for more about Mary!
The lovely Sheila Morton Higgins is going to be at the Networking night and will bring some apparatus that Joe Pilates invented to help strengthen and align toes, feet and ankles. She will be available for question and answer and has generously volunteered to bring some of her apparatus to the Pilates Party and share a DIY trick for Pilates toe strengthening. Thank you Sheila! You can meet Sheila at the Networking night or visit her at her studio, Live Well Pilates in Avon.
Sheila Morton Higgins
Karry Orelup a comprehensively trained Peak Pilates instructor and is the instructor-owner of Becoming Balanced, a state-of-the-art, fully equipped Pilates studio located in Torrington, Connecticut. Karry is known in the community to be a resource and mentor for Pilates instructors at any stage in their careers. Karry has generously offered her expertise and to bring some of her equipment to the Networking night and contribute to the Pilates for Feet demo.
Karry Orelup
Ally Davis is the creative director and founder of Visceral Movement, a not-for-profit performance dance company in residence at SOMA Movement Studio. Ally is a choreographer, artist, and dance instructor. Ally has had the pleasure of working with & studying under many notable dance educators, choreographers, & artists in CT & NYC. Ally graduated with her Bachelor’s of the Arts from The New School in New York City, concentrating her studies in Choreography, Design, and Dance & Performance Studies. She also fulfilled a long-awaited dream in February of 2015, by founding Visceral Movement, which is a company of professional dancers focused on enlivening the Arts in the Farmington Valley & neighboring communities.
Ally Davis
Rose Ponte is the Economic Developer for the town of Farmington. Originally from Cuba, she immigrated to the United States as a child with her family and grew up in NYC. She has a diverse background and has worked in such organizations like the Nutmeg Conservatory and has been part of Connecticut Economic Development Association. In her role as the Economic Developer for the town of Farmington, she works with individual businesses to facilitate and support their growth and engagement with the community. She will be attending the Networking night and available for question and answer on how studios and business owners can engage with their municipalities. Read more about Rose in feature about her in the Hartford Courant.
Rose Ponte
Fernanda Araujo
Fernanda Araujo, the only Gyrotonic Method Instructor Trainer in Connecticut, will be coming to the Pilates Party and available for question and answer about Gyrotonic and demos for those interested. Originally from Brazil, she is a former professional dancer who came to the United States to study dance and choreography in NYC. She runs studio called A Spiraling Body in Fairfield offering both the Gyrotonic and Pilates methods.
Sonja James is a STOTT PILATES trained, Pilates Method Alliance (PMA-CPT) certified instructor who is has had amazing results using the Oov with her clients. Trained by the inventor Daniel Vladeta, an osteopath and neuroscientist, Sonja will show, explain and demonstrate how the Oov can be used with equipment or on the mat to help release the fascia of clients. The Simple enough for clients to use on their on at home, the Oov can help anyone learn three-dimensional stabilization, with axial elongation. Sonja works at Pilates Defined in West Hartford, which is generously providing their equipment for this demo.
Sonja James
Do you wonder if your business should be an LLC? Considering adding employees vs subcontractors? Ask Reuel Stoltz, who is a certified public accountant who has a private practice in West Hartford. He specializes in small businesses of all kinds as well as individual income tax and financial consulting. Reuel will be available to answer these questions and more.
Reuel Stoltz
Certification Center Representatives
A Spiraling Body
Fernanda Araujo is the only GYROTONIC Method instructor trainer in Connecticut. She offers GYROTONIC Method Pretraining, the first stage of GYROTONIC Method teacher certification at her studio in Fairfield.
Evolution Pilates
Cate Vallone, a Lead Instructor trainer for Merrithew Health and Fitness, will be present to answer questions about STOTT PILATES certification as well as the continuing education workshops that are hosted at her studio, Evolution Pilates in South Windsor.
Marlborough Pilates
Mary Beth Lawrence is the owner and instructor trainer at Marlborough Pilates. Her program has three stages spanning 10-12 months. It is a comprehensive, apprenticeship based teacher training program. Upon completion of the program students are eligible to take the Pilates Method Alliance (PMA) Certified Pilates Teacher exam.
Pilates Defined
Sonja James, a lead Pilates instructor will represent Pilates Defined of West Hartford. Pilates Defined offers a 450 hour, comprehensive, contemporary approach to teaching the classical work of Joseph H. Pilates to prospective instructors. Upon completion of the program students are prepared to take the PMA Certification Exam.
SPONSORS & Business representatives
FVPT is the official sponsor this networking night! FVPT is a physical therapy clinic that combines evidence-based rehabilitation with common sense and a holistic approach. They offer traditional physical therapy and modalities, Pilates and GYROTONIC® Method-based physical therapy, and FVPT is the only Hanna Somatic Education® Institute in Connecticut. This event would not have been possible without the generous support of FVPT and their physical therapist-owner, Boguslawa Badon, RPT.
Farmington Valley Physical Therapy
Athelta has been a premier fitness apparel brand exclusively for women since 1998. As athletes themselves, they live a life in motion. That’s why we design versatile and fashionable performance apparel for the gym, studio and everything in between. Athleta Westfarms will be attending the Networking Night, has generously provided clothing for the Women's Fitness Fashion show and will be hosting giveaways and special discounts.
Vibram is a worldwide leader in design and manufacturing of high performance soles, FiveFingers and other premium outdoor products. Vibram will be attending the Networking Night and has generously provided footwear for the Women's Fitness Fashion Show, and is hosting multiple giveaways and very significant discounts at the party.
Balanced Body has always believed that mindful movement like Pilates changes people’s lives. Their passion for positive change has resulted in their becoming the world’s largest provider of Pilates equipment and education. They were the first Pilates company to substantially update Joseph Pilates’ equipment by combining state-of-the-art engineering, materials and technology with a modern understanding of human biomechanics. Balanced Body has generously lent demo equipment for instructors' review during the Networking Party.
Balanced Body
Crane & Lion is an atheletic and fashion apparel company hailing from Boston, MA. Their name comes from the Crane & the Lion; two poses in yoga. The crane is a pose that requires strength and stamina. It inspires us to take risks and find our edge. The lion is a breathing exercise that helps us relax and relieve tension and strain. The juxtaposition of the two poses reflects how we live our lives: some days want to push the limit and other days, we need to recover. Their design philosophy stems from the desire to provide women with resilient clothing that is also chic and sophisticated. Crane & Lion strives to continuously aspire to be a part of everyday fitness fashion statement. Crane & Lion has generously provided clothing for the Womens Fitness Fashion Show.
Crane & Lion
Visceral Movement is a company of professional dancers focused on enlivening the Arts in the Farmington Valley & neighboring Connecticut communities in a way that makes dance accessible outside of traditional venues & concert performances. Through collaborating with other artists, performers, & fitness professionals, Artistic Director Ally Davis is most interested in diversifying the culture in her community by offering public & private performances, spontaneous and site-specific works, developing a rich curriculum of dance workshops & fitness classes for all ages, as well as organizing community Arts & family events. Visceral Movement will be featured in a very special Pilates Trapeze Table performance at the Networking Night.
Visceral Movement
Voilà Rouge is a Connecticut-based catering company specializing in organic, local, and multi-ethnicity food and beverages. Voilà Rouge will be preparing warm and cold hors d'oeuvres as well as a variety of warm and cold drinks for our guests. Voilà Rouge happily caters events large and small throughout Connecticut with farm-to-table, locally sourced ingredients with a special focus on beauty and presentation. Contact Voilà Rouge at 203.51V.OILA (203.518.6452).
Voilà Rouge
Founded by Chip Wilson in Vancouver, Canada in 1998, lululemon is a yoga-inspired, technical athletic apparel company for women and men. What started as a design studio by day and yoga studio by night soon became a standalone store in November of 2000 on West 4th Avenue in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood. Lululemon Atheletica has grown to design clothing yoga, running, cycling, training and most other sweaty pursuits for women and men. Lululemon Westfarms will be attending the Networking night and promises to delight and surprise.
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Midsomer Norton
Retail plans scrapped from railway development after high street competition concerns
There were fears that the development could harm the high street
Max BakerTrainee Digital Reporter
An artist's impression of what the new development at the Midsomer Norton railway station will look like. (Image: Context Logic)
Plans to include retail units and a micro-brewery in the development of the Midsomer Norton railway have been scrapped.
Company Context Logic has been commissioned on behalf of the Somerset and Dorset Railway Heritage Trust to develop the railway site, but faced a stumbling block with initial plans.
In the first proposal, the company planned several different changes to the site, including space for retail opportunities and a micro-brewery, commercial units, tourism accommodation units and new toilets.
However after submitting the first application, plans have now had to be changed.
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Joseph Marchant, the director of Context Logic, said that due to Bath and North East Somerset Council policy the retail units had to be scrapped.
He said the council has a policy to protect the high street, and there were fears from some that introducing retail units to the development on Silver Street could harm the retail scene in the town centre.
The council didn't comment directly on this claim, but said: "The application has not yet been determined.
"However, we can confirm that the applicant has submitted a revised proposal for the site which is currently the subject of consultation.”
An impression of the old plan for the development (Image: Joseph Marchant)
The focus has moved away from retail and is now about maintaining the heritage of the site.
The line originally closed in 1966 but was bought by the Heritage Trust in 1995 and restored, with a small section of track being relayed.
It now functions as a museum and small cafe and the neighbouring land is a nature reserve but that is soon set to change.
Shopping centre revival attempts in Midsomer Norton back on track after previous setback
The new plans include:
A new maintenance shed for local workshops and training space
Extension to existing building for tourism events, refreshment facilities and viewing space for activities around the station yard
Education and training room with relocated museum above this building
Heritage centre dedicated to ironwork, stonework and timber repairs with interactive environment that allows tourists to view traditional skills
Two one-bedroom tourist units with opportunity to generate income through a means other than ticket sales from tourist events
The Railway Trust has a series of aims that it is looking to achieve by developing the site. These include:
Improving the tourist experience associated with the Midsomer Norton railway station
Improving the footfall into Midsomer Norton
Creating a better public experience along Silver Street
Assisting young people through education and trailing within the new workshops and education facilities
Email max.baker@reachplc.com with your thoughts on this and other Midsomer Norton news.
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Alcoholic Beverages›
MAT value growth of bottled ale brands in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016
Percentage change in MAT value of leading 20 bottled ales in the United Kingdom (UK) in April 2016*
by Statista Research Department, last edited Apr 22, 2016
This statistic shows the percentage change in MAT (Moving Annual Total) value of the leading bottled ale brands in the UK in 2016. Of the bottled ales, Hobgoblin Gold ale had the greatest increase in MAT value in the past year at 157 percent.
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Percent change in MAT value
Sharps Doom Bar 45%
Old Speckled Hen -6%
Hobgoblin 9%
Newcastle Brown Ale -10%
Fullers London Pride -16%
Spitfire -26%
Old Crafty Hen 54%
Theakston Old Peculier 9%
McEwans No.1 Champion Ale 14%
Badger Fursty Ferret -20%
Bishops Finger -11%
Landlord 38%
Tribute 8%
Abbot Ale 0%
Marston's Pedigree 19%
Black Sheep Ale -31%
Hobgoblin Gold 157%
St Austell Proper Job 91%
Bank's Bitter 0%
Old Golden Hen 13%
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Cask conditioned ale and stout share of total beer sales in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2000 to 2017Cask ale/stout share of beer sales in the United Kingdom (UK) 2000-2017
Market share of leading premium bottled ale brewers in the United Kingdom (UK) as of April 2016 (based on volume)Leading 10 premium bottled ale brewers in the UK 2015/2016, ranked by market share
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Share of people who visit the pub once a week or more in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015People who visit the pub once a week or more in the United Kingdom (UK) 2015
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Leading premium canned ales ranked by volume in the United Kingdom 2013
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Italy: favorite beer brand as of May 2016
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Year-on-year volume growth of the cask ale market in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2011 to 2015
How many different cask ales do you stock over a four week period?
Share of beers cask ale drinkers consume always, often or sometimes in the United Kingdom (UK) as of July 2015
Cask conditioned ale and stout share of total beer sales in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2000 to 2017
Market share of leading premium bottled ale brewers in the United Kingdom (UK) as of April 2016 (based on volume)
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Share of people who visit the pub once a week or more in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015
Percentage change in MAT value of the leading 10 premium canned ales in the United Kingdom (UK) in April 2016
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Canned ale share of beer space in leading grocery retailers in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2013
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Share of beer space in Asda in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2013, by category
Share of beer space in Morrisons in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2013, by category
Beer production of microbreweries in Ireland from 2011 to 2016 (in 1,000 hectoliters)
When ordering real ale in pubs you regularly visit, what do you prefer to see?
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St. Joseph baseball blanks St. Augustine, 6-0
By Tyler JarnaginCorrespondent
Mar 7, 2019 at 8:43 PM Mar 7, 2019 at 8:43 PM
Freshmen Hunter Pankey and Jake Marcantonio combine on shutout for Flashes
St. Joseph Academy rode a strong game from freshman Hunter Pankey who pitched six shutout innings and delivered some big hits as well in a 6-0 baseball victory over St. Augustine High on Thursday at the Flashes' Kuhn Field.
Another freshman, Jake Marcantonio, threw a scoreless seventh to complete the shutout for the Flashes.
St. Joseph (2-2) scored the only run it needed in the second inning when Louis Marcantonio squeezed a single through to right field, bringing Evan Rodriguez home.
St. Augustine pitcher Brogan Napier struggled throughout and walked a runner with the bases loaded in the third as the Flashes went up 2-0.
Pankey helped himself with an incredible catch off a line drive drilled to his face in the fifth.
“It was just reaction,” he said afterward. “No time to think.”
The bottom of the fifth is when things came apart at the seams for the Yellow Jackets (1-2). St. Joseph's four-run inning started when Pankey hit a double to left field that brought Marc Maschio home. Grant Fortner hit a deep single to bring home another run before Leo Hyde finished Napier’s day by driving in the fifth run of the game.
Jett Lauster relieved Napier and gave up one more run in the inning.
The sprinkler system briefly halted the game as Jake Marcantonio prepared to pitch the seventh. But the Flashes brushed off the interruption and closed out the game.
Afterward, St. Joseph coach Phillip Wisser was ecstatic.
“That’s two freshmen that pitched today,” Wisser said. “What more can we ask for? When we came into this game we knew it would be a nice little rivalry game between two local teams. I know St. Joe’s is a smaller school, but I went to [Hunter] the other day and he’s been really good. In practice, I said, ‘What Hunter are we going to get today, Hunter Hunter or Hunter?’ Not that he ever lets down, he always competes and wants to win, but that extra is what we needed today and he brought it and, man, I can’t ask for more. He’s actually our everyday catcher so we’re cautious on pitch count, but fortunately we got mission week so we don’t even play next week, so we knew we could extend him a little bit more.”
Going forward, Wisser said the key issue for the young team is focus.
“We had five freshmen in the lineup. You’re going to make mistakes as a ninth grader. The focus that we had today is what we need."
As solid as St. Joseph, it can count on a boost in pitching in the coming weeks.
“Our top two arms are both injured right now, a lefty, senior Ethan Hawthorne, is going to be back in about two weeks,” Wisser said. “That’s going to be a huge addition. And then Louis Marcantonio, a junior transfer who has a little arm injury as well. Like I’ve told those guys, there’s no rush. We’ve got a good enough team without you. They’re both helping in other ways. (Louis) Marcantonio is now back in the lineup. The biggest thing is those guys come back when we need them mid-season to playoff time, we can hopefully make a little push.”
Next up for the Yellow Jackets is Creekside (3-0) at home Tuesday. The Flashes (2-2) host Gainesville St. Francis (1-1) today.
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Sandwich shop closes doors as fast food franchise ends long run in Steamboat
jrussell@SteamboatPilot.com
The Subway in Curve Plaza closed its doors in June.
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — This month customers showed up at the doors of the Subway at Curve Plaza looking for a Spicy Italian, a Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki or Meatball Marinara. But instead of placing their order, they were greeted by a note thanking them for their patronage for the past 12 years and letting them know that the store was closed.
Subway’s corporate offices confirmed that the store, which shares the same building as Kum & Go convenience store, has officially closed as of June 1. Steamboat Pilot & Today reached out to TSM Eagle, Inc. President Paul Van Engelenhoven by phone, but he didn’t want to comment at this time.
The Curve Plaza store is the second Subway store owned by Van Engelenhoven to close this year. The doors of the Subway located in Central Park Plaza closed just before Christmas in December 2018. That store was opened in 1990 by former owner George Barlow.
Barlow also opened the Curve Plaza store, which was located at the corner of Elk River Road and U.S. Highway 40, in June 2007. Less than a year later, in March 2008, Barlow added a Cold Stone Creamery to the Curve Plaza location. Barlow sold the store to Van Engelenhoven a short time later.
The announcement that the Curve Plaza Subway has closed its doors means town will be without a Subway location for the first time in 29 years.
A sign on the door of Subway at Curve Plaza let customers know that the business has closed in Steamboat Springs.
To reach John F. Russell, call 970-871-4209, email jrussell@SteamboatPilot.com or follow him on Twitter @Framp1966.
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Friends of Clayoquot Sound campaigner Jeh Custerra greets Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau outside a restaurant in Tofino. Custerra said he held up one finger to represent “One earth, one chance.” (Photo - Friends of Clayoquot Sound)
Tofino beckons Trudeau for quiet Easter vacation
Environmental group hopes latest Pacific Rim vacation inspires change in prime minister
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent Easter weekend with his family in Tofino.
“It’s a really cool spot that he loves coming back to,” Tourism Tofino chair JJ Belanger told the Westerly News. “He loves to surf and he loves the quiet and the solitude that he gets here. Sure, there’s always going to be a few people that are rumbling about it, that’s their choice. But, I think, when he comes here, he enjoys it and that’s what not only keeps him coming back, it’s what keeps all of our guests coming back.”
READ MORE: Tourism Tofino says town’s visitation generates $240 million annually
Belanger said the Prime Minister is “one of the 599,000 guests that enjoys coming to Tofino annually” and that Tofino is well-accustomed to hosting public figures, like politicians and celebrities, graciously.
“I think our community does a really good job of letting them enjoy their vacation and that’s something that makes Tofino a very special place for people,” he said.
“They have a job to do, as do you and as do I. When I go away on vacation, I don’t want to think about my job. So, if these people come to our community and we’re constantly hounding them, this is not going to be a place that they want to come back to. Obviously we do a good job at that, because [Trudeau] does keep coming back and he invests, as every other tourist does, in our community. He stays where he’s staying and he uses the products and services that we have while he’s here. He’s just like any other guest and I don’t think we should treat him any differently…When he’s on vacation, nobody should be talking about his job. Let him enjoy his vacation.”
Prior to a publicized visit to the West Coast last July, Tofino-based environmental group Friends of Clayoquot Sound released a statement encouraging businesses to deny service to the Prime Minister due, in part, to the government’s Trans Mountain Pipeline purchase.
“Be bold and creative, it is not often we have the potential to reach a politician whose decisions impact our lives,” the statement read.
READ MORE: Liberal government to buy Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5B
Friends of Clayoquot Sound campaigner Jeh Custerra told the Westerly News that he had heard Trudeau was returning to Tofino over the weekend and hoped for an opportunity “to hold him accountable.”
“How can we hold him accountable? Because this is someone who has the opportunity to influence not only Canada, but the world,” he said.
Custerra had attended the 35th anniversary celebration of the Meares Island Tribal Park declaration on April 21 and said he ran into the Prime Minister outside a local restaurant after the ceremony.
“I stuck around and ended up talking to him before and after his dinner…On our first interaction, I told him we have one earth and that the water, climate and land need to be protected. ‘Remember why you’re here Justin,’ is what I said,” he said.
Custera again voiced frustration over the Trans Mountain pipeline decision and also expressed concerns over the Trudeau government’s absence of charges against mining company Imperial Metals regarding the 2014 Mount Polley disaster.
READ MORE: 3 engineers to face disciplinary hearings in Mount Polley disaster
“He needs to refocus his priorities on phasing out tar sands and investing in green jobs, renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable transit, not buying pipelines and letting corporate polluters off the hook,” Custerra said. “The [United Nations] is saying we have 12 years to change humanity’s relationship with energy production…This is his opportunity and this can’t be an opportunity lost. This has to be an opportunity found.”
He added that he hopes Trudeau got the message during his latest West Coast vacation.
“Our hope is that our words remind him of his opportunity to lead and have a positive impact through his leadership in relation to some of the most fundamental issues to humanity’s future, including climate change and including environmental sustainability,” Custerra said noting Trudeau was visiting while the West Coast was celebrating the anniversary of the Meares Island Tribal Park declaration.
“He’s here on this very significant weekend that protected the territory that he’s here enjoying and being inspired by,” he said. “When the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation prevented clear-cut logging on Meares Island, they safeguarded clean water and healthy habitat for everyone who lives in and visits Tofino.”
READ MORE: Rumoured Justin Trudeau vacation sparks contention in Tofino
READ MORE: WATCH: Pipeline protest outside Justin Trudeau’s Tofino vacation rental
READ MORE: Behest of the West: Strength shown during Prime Minister’s meetings in Tofino
andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca
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CALLING ALL ASTRONAUTS – NEW SINGLE
June 28, 2017 SiteAdmin
Alt Rockers Calling All Astronauts are back with a new single. “Living The Dream” taken from the band’s second studio album “Anti Social Network” will be dropping via all digital and streaming platform on Friday 25th August.
“I’LL BE WAITING” DROPS END OF NOVEMBER
November 8, 2016 SiteAdmin
Northern Irish pop punkers Hello Casanova are back with their new single “I’ll Be Waiting”, dropping on Supersonic Media on 25th November. A straight-up but edgy personal love song, “I’ll Be Waiting” was recorded by acclaimed producer Rocky O’Reilly (And So I Watch You From A Far, Fighting With Wire, Bella Union artist exmagician). Despite an underlying Celtic-melodic guitar riff slightly reminiscent of Big Country, this composition also strongly calls to mind such modern-day bands as Blink 182 and Green Day.
The accompanying music video captures the live energy of a Hello Casanova show, presented in combination with unique visuals, featuring up-and-coming Irish skaters and bike athletes. “The music video was recorded in a skate park in southern Ireland and features people from the age of 6-26 all skating around having a great time while we perform,” explains Hello Casanova frontman Matthew Irwin. “Pop punk can be cliché. It can be the same three chords over, and it can be all chorus with the rest filler. We set out to try and give pop punk a different angle – to give all the heart that the genre deserves and to add our own spin on the sound”.
Watch the video here now!
DORJE HIT THE #1 SPOT ON ITUNES
October 16, 2016 SiteAdmin
Brighton based Hard Rock quartet Dorje, who are a part of the Supersonic Media Publishing roster, are back with their new EP “Centred and One”. The EP is sitting pretty at the #1 spot in the iTunes Metal chart, #3 in the iTunes Rock chart and an extremely respectable #14 in the iTunes general chart!
Check out the EP below now:
“BOLD EGO FLEDGLING” OUT NOW!!!
August 5, 2016 SiteAdmin
The Inconsistent Jukebox is the brainchild of Yorkshire musician / songwriter Barry Snaith. Together with an array of global talent from many creative genres, he crafts music, surrealist human art, motion graphics, dance and video, in a way like no other, which is guaranteed to blow your mind.
“Bold Ego Fledgling” is the first single from The Inconsistent Jukebox and features Ang Kerfoot on vocals. Paul Kerr, BBC 6Music selector says of “Bold Ego Fledgling” “It’s a stunning slab of gritty, grimy industrial electro reminiscent of the KLF at their idiosyncratic best. From the distorted, glitch guitars to the impassive rapped vocals, it’s impossible to slot it into one of those neat little genre boxes”.
“Bold Ego Fledgling” is out now! Check it out below on your preferred choice platform:
CALLING ALL ASTRONAUTS TO PLAY “BEAUTIFUL DAYS” FESTIVAL
May 24, 2016 SiteAdmin
Alt Rockers Calling All Astronauts will be heading to Devon this August to join the likes of The Levellers, Leftfield and James at Beautiful Days Festival. The guys will be playing on the Band Stand Stage on Sunday 21st August. For more information about the festival, including how to purchase tickets, ticket their website here.
HELLO CASANOVA JOIN THE SUPERSONIC MEDIA ROSTER
April 18, 2016 SiteAdmin
We are thrilled to announce that Northern Irish Pop Punk band HELLO CASANOVA have joined the Supersonic Media Publishing roster. Welcome aboard lads!
Check out their video for “Television” now
FRANCO & THE DREADNOUGHT – NEW SINGLE – “WHO CARES”
April 4, 2016 SiteAdmin
Franco & The Dreadnought’s new single “Who Cares” is release through Supersonic Media on 22nd April and you can watch the video exclusively now via Ralph’s Life Indie Music Blog.
FRANCO & THE DREADNOUGHT – “WHO CARES”
CALLING ALL ASTRONAUTS ANNOUNCE THEIR SECOND ALBUM
January 10, 2016 SiteAdmin
Alt Rockers Calling All Astronauts are back with their eagerly awaited second album, “Anti-Social Network”. The album will be released on Supersonic Media on 11th March 2016. The album will feature their 2015 single “Empire” along with 10 further previously unheard tracks. You can pre-order your copy of “Anti-Social Network” now here on iTunes.
THE BEAT CORPORATION RETURN WITH A GREAT NEW EP
The Beat Corporation are Manchester duo Jody Spence and Tyler Daly. They came together to create music with no limitations and to share a common goal, to make music with no boundaries. They have now teamed up with Supersonic Media to present their new “Slaving For The System” EP.
The “Slaving For The System” EP kicks off with the title track and is followed by “Got That Thing”, “No Pressure” and “DJ Dealer”. “Got That Thing” had it’s world exclusive first play on Mike Delinquent’s Kiss Fresh show, and you can hear it again here now:
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FRANCO & THE DREADNOUGHT SIGNS TO SUPERSONIC MEDIA
October 4, 2015 SiteAdmin
Supersonic Media are proud to announce their latest signing in the shape of Manchester boy, Franco and the Dreadnought. Franco & The Dreadnought is a solo project combining Franco’s heartfelt vocals and songwriting with his Dreadnought acoustic guitar. This lad from Manchester, England has the goods and the capability of packing arenas full of people waving their hands in the air and singing along with every fibre of their being.
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Elizabeth Phillips is the last surviving fluent speaker of Upriver Halq’eméylem, the language of the Stó:lō people.
B.C. elder receives honorary degree for efforts to keep Indigenous language alive
Honour recognizes her efforts efforts to preserve Halq’eméylem language
Jun. 6, 2018 10:30 a.m.
If not for a few key turns of events, Siyamiyateliyot Elizabeth Phillips might not be the last surviving fluent speaker of Upriver Halq’eméylem, the language of the Stó:lō people.
The first one was the tragic loss of her mother, who died giving birth to her in 1939. Her father already had several children to care for, and he took Elizabeth from her home village of Cheam across the river to Seabird Island to be raised by the Peters family, who were fluent Halq’eméylem speakers.
The second was becoming an honorary elder in the Stó:lō community while still in her 30s. The mother who raised her wanted to participate in the Elders Language Circle at the Coqualeetza Education Centre, but needed Elizabeth to translate for her as she only spoke Halq’eméylem. So Elizabeth was immersed in conversational sessions with elders several decades older than her, and kept her Halq’eméylem language skills sharp.
And the third is the 50 years of work she has put in formally working to preserve the language, cooperating with linguists and other professors from a variety of universities.
Now this formerly young elder is a true elder, approaching the age of 80, and has outlived those with whom she used to enjoy speaking her language fluently. But she continues to work to keep Halq’eméylem alive. For her efforts to ensure that current and future generations can speak the language, the University of the Fraser Valley is recognizing Elizabeth, whose Stó:lō name is Siyamiyateliyot, with an honorary Doctor of Letters degree at its June 6 afternoon convocation ceremony, starting at 2:30 pm. The public is welcome to attend.
It can be lonely being the last fluent speaker of a language. Elizabeth even thinks and dreams in Halq’eméylem, but has nobody to converse fluently with anymore.
While being interviewed, she casually peppers the conversation with Halq’eméylem words such as xwelítem for white person, and Kwikwetlem for the community of Coquitlam.
“I only knew Halq’eméylem at first, but I would listen at the door as the Indian Agent came to talk to my dad, and he would translate for my mother, and I got to know both languages. One day, a xwelítem spoke to me in English and I answered, and my parents were surprised that I knew English.”
As a child, many in her community spoke Halq’eméylem, but after residential school experiences, the children came home not knowing their language and eventually only the elders could speak it.
In spite of many obstacles, Elizabeth’s dedication has enabled her to share her knowledge of Halq’eméylem widely. She has devote over half her life to trying to save her ancestral language, and generously helps anyone who wants to learn it.
She worked at the Coqualeetza Education Centre on efforts to preserve the language, starting in the 1980s. These days, she regularly visits Halq’eméylem classes offered by UFV.
In the 1970s and 80s, she cooperated with professional linguist Brent Galloway and other fluent speakers to create the Halq’eméylem dictionary, helping to preserve a language that was fading fast.
“Halq’eméylem was an oral language until the Coqualeetza elders group created a writing system with Dr. Galloway,” recalls Elizabeth’s daughter Vivian Walker. “My mother and 11 other elders went and lived in a dorm at UBC where they learned to use the writing system and completed the orthography of the language. Without their effort the language might be dead now. And now my mom is the last one alive who was involved in this project.”
In recent years, linguist Strang Burton recorded her speaking her native tongue both on film and as an ultrasound recording, enabling students to see how the muscles move inside the mouth for certain sounds.
Elizabeth and the late Xwiyólemot Tillie Gutierrez and linguist Susan Russell co-authored Talking in Halq’eméylem, Documenting Conversation in an Indigenous Language, published in 2017.
For Elizabeth, it’s the casual encounters with her former students that make her efforts worthwhile. She has proudly witnessed some going on to earn their education degrees and become teachers. Others stop her on the street to thank her.
“I was waiting for the bus after shopping and a young man came up to me and said éy swayel [hello]. He was from a class that I have visited taught by Koyalemot Mary Stewart. It happens at bingo too. Someone came up and asked if I was Elizabeth and thanked me for preserving our language.”
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Police investigating man who lodged false report to cover up for loss of work permit
Mar 18, 2014, 12:05 pm SGT
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Rachel Au-Yong
Housing Correspondent
rachelay@sph.com.sg
A man lodged a false report to cover up for the loss of his work permit, the Police said on Tuesday.
The 37-year-old claimed that four unknown men armed with a knife robbed him around 8pm last Wednesday at Jalan Besar Stadium. They purportedly took off with his work permit and $300 in cash.
But police said the man made the statement to cover up for the loss of his work permit - he lost it after a drinking session at Serangoon Road.
Investigations against the man are ongoing. Anyone convicted of knowingly giving a public servant false information, or abetting it, can face up to a year in jail, a maximum fine of $5,000, or both.
Commander of Ang Mo Kio Police Division, Assistant Commissioner Keok Tong San said those who lodge a false police report "impede police responses to real crimes and emergencies".
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The 104th Tour de France cycling race, The 183-km Stage 17 from La Mure to Serre-Chevalier, France, on July 19, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS
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Fina World Championships Open water swimming: team 5km relay final (StarHub Ch202, 3.45pm). Synchronised swimming: solo free final (4.45pm). Diving: women's 3m s-final (9.15pm), men's 3m final (tomorrow, 12.15am) - StarHub Ch203.
Tour de France Stage 18 (Singtel TV Ch112 & StarHub Ch212, 6.45pm).
Barbasol Championship Day 1 (StarHub Ch204, tomorrow, 5am).
LPGA Marathon Classic
Day 1 (Singtel TV Ch115 & StarHub Ch209, tomorrow, 4.30am).
The Open Championship Day 1 (Singtel TV Ch114 & StarHub Ch208, 1.30pm).
Fina World Championships Open water swimming: men's & women's 25km finals (StarHub Ch202, 2.15pm). Synchronised swimming: team free final (4.45pm). Diving: men's 10m s-final (9.15pm), women's 3m final (Saturday, 12.15am) - StarHub Ch203.
The New Paper League Cup Final: Albirex Niigata v Warriors FC (Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm. Mediacorp okto, 7.15pm).
Barbasol Championship Day 2 (StarHub Ch204, Saturday, 5am).
LPGA Marathon Classic Day 2 (Singtel TV Ch115 & StarHub Ch209, Saturday, 4.30am).
Super Rugby Qualifiers: Brumbies v Hurricanes (StarHub Ch217, 5.40pm).
Live telecast times provided by Singtel & StarHub are subject to change. For latest updates, visit singteltv.com.sg & starhubgo.com or check the on-screen TV guide.
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on July 20, 2017, with the headline 'Next 48 Hours'. Print Edition | Subscribe
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‘Rough Crossing’ sails onto summer stage at Cortland Repertory
By James MacKillop
From left: Tanner Efinger, James Taylor Odom, Sam Balzac, Jason M. Shipman, Briana Gantsweg and Nathaniel Kent in Cortland Repertory Theatre's "Rough Crossing." (Provided by Eric Behnke)
At Cortland Repertory, Tom Stoppard’s uproarious comedy Rough Crossing might fairly be described as little-known, yet its setting and premise are immediately familiar. We are on a luxury liner in the 1930s when only the wealthy could travel. Shelley Barish’s nautical art deco set and Jimmy Johansmyer’s period costumes could just as easily serve for a production of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes.
Two world-famous playwrights, Sandor Turai (James Taylor Odom) and Alex Gal (Tanner Efinger), are rewriting their next musical comedy, which they expect to complete en route and premiere in New York City. The title signals how the voyage will be going.
Stoppard may have a reputation for high-domed, cerebral drama, like Arcadia or The Coast of Utopia, but he has always had a taste for madcap farce, even slapstick, especially when adapting work from Continental playwrights. Rough Crossing originated with the Hungarian Ferenc Molnar, who also wrote The Shop Around the Corner, adapted as the musical She Loves Me and Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail. The Hungarian title was The Play at the Castle, and the name of the ship is Italian Castle. All the characters but one speak with British accents, and Sandor and Alex could have been created by Noel Coward, but they retain Hungarian names as do several others.
Although the level of gag-writing, like the delivered glass of cognac that is always drunk by the wrong person, could compare well with Laurel and Hardy, Rough Crossing is by no means brainless. Questions about life imitating art and the play-within-the-play flirt with ideas from Luigi Pirandello, but they’re nothing to worry about.
Complications arise from requited love. Sandor and Alex are working with a shy, young French musician, Adam Adam (Sam Balzac), a former actor whose stage career was ended by a crippling speech impediment that choked off words at the beginning of sentences. He’s deeply in love with the somewhat older leading lady, Natasha (Briana Gantsweg), a glamorous brunette of undetermined East European accent. She is also pursued by her leading man Ivor (Nathaniel Kent), a wonderfully doltish ham who is terrified his wife will learn of his chicanery.
The playwrights and composer got on board before the stars knew they had arrived, and so the trio overhear Ivor declare his love for Natasha in clumsy clichés. This report devastates Adam, until the self-assured cabin steward, Dvornichek (Jason M. Shipman), reassures him that the two were just rehearsing the new ending of the play. Or were they?
A very strong cast led by James Taylor Odom (from last year’s The 39 Steps at Cortland Rep) gets everything right, guided by newcomer Trey Compton, with extensive national and regional credits. Compton had experience with fight choreography, which he lends to the scene of a storm at sea where colliding furniture compounds the mayhem.
Rough Crossing runs through Saturday, June 16.
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Press Office Exhibition
SFMOMA Announces SOFT POWER — International Contemporary Exhibition Featuring New Commissions And Recent Work By 20 Artists
Opening in October 2019 — the First Major Exhibition for SFMOMA Organized by Curator of Contemporary Art Eungie Joo
Released: April 10, 2019 · Download (439 KB PDF)
Tanya Lukin Linklater with Liz Lott, The treaty is in the body, 2017; courtesy the artist and Winnipeg Art Gallery; © Tanya Lukin Linklater
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (April 10, 2019) — Timely and provocative, SOFT POWER is an exhibition about the ways in which artists deploy art to explore their roles as citizens and social actors. Appropriated from the Reagan-era term used to describe how a country’s “soft” assets such as culture, political values and foreign policies can be more influential than violence or coercion, the title SOFT POWER suggests a contemplation on the potential of art and offers a provocation to the public to exert their own influence on the world. The exhibition opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) on October 26, 2019 and remains on view through February 17, 2020.
Organized by Eungie Joo, curator of contemporary art, and presented exclusively at SFMOMA on two floors of the museum, the exhibition features new and recent work by 20 international artists working in 12 countries. More than three quarters of the works in SOFT POWER are commissions and new works never before presented in the United States. Taken together, the works demonstrate what cultural theorist, filmmaker and catalogue contributor Manthia Diawara has called a solidarity between intuitions — a concept that acknowledges the complexity, darkness and opacity from which our reality emerges — the poetry and imagination of our differences. According to Joo, “Professor Diawara’s solidarity between intuitions expresses how specific works can enhance our understanding of others by association and relation, while maintaining their distinct contexts and content. I trust the public can relate to many of the concerns of the artists in SOFT POWER, and hope that this exhibition will unleash an untapped energy among us.”
“SOFT POWER reflects SFMOMA’s commitment to living artists and the world we share, as outlined in our new Strategic Plan,” said Neal Benezra, Helen and Charles Schwab Director of SFMOMA. “The diverse practices and perspectives represented in this exhibition embody the goals of this museum: to embrace new ideas, push boundaries and share new ways of looking at our world through the lens of contemporary art.”
Nairy Baghramian, Retainer, 2013 (installation view 2013, SculptureCenter, New York); courtesy the artist
The majority of works in SOFT POWER have never been presented in the U.S., including the four-channel video installation The Specter of Ancestors Becoming (2019) by Tuan Nguyen, co-founder of The Propeller Group. Co-produced by SFMOMA and commissioned by the Sharjah Art Foundation, the work explores the creation of memory and the agency that affords. Nguyen’s remarkable collaboration with descendants of French colonial soldiers once stationed in Vietnam — tirailleurs Sénégalais — features stories written by three members of the Vietnamese community in Senegal. Enacting fictionalized vignettes that reveal their own imaginings and experiences, his collaborators call forward the unresolved ghosts of history, receiving them with compassion and grace.
The 15 artists’ commissions for SOFT POWER also include five new sculptures by Haig Aivazian that explore the relationship between mythology and nation-building; the installation Who’s Afraid of Ideology, Part 2 by Marwa Arsanios; a site-responsive installation by Dineo Seshee Bopape; a new mural by Minerva Cuevas inspired by the history of Smokey the Bear and the environmental impact of fire; a sound sculpture enveloping the fourth floor by Cevdet Erek; a series of sculpture by Hassan Khan that echoes his concurrent solo exhibition at the Palacio de Cristal in Madrid; a performance and video by Tanya Lukin Linklater on encounter as a form of repatriation in collaboration with the Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley; an installation and photographic diptych by Cinthia Marcelle based on the traces of economic instability; a performance by Jason Moran in early 2020, along with a published conversation between Moran, IONE and Jessie Baird about the revolutionary power of the dream state; the first chapter of Carlos Motta’s new project on LGBTQI Dreamers; four large-scale abstract paintings by San Francisco Art Institute alumnus Eamon Ore-Giron; ongoing research into the market potential of gas hydrate by Pratchaya Phinthong; Xaviera Simmons’ enormous painting installation inspired by and responding to Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series (1940–41); and a series of “flat” sculptures based on teepee covers by Duane Linklater. Highlighting the technology of mobile architecture, Linklater’s new canvases patch together distant elements that comprise indigenous reality. Incorporating the ancient geometric patterns of the Omaskêko Cree, a large format inkjet printer and natural pigments that he harvests locally, Linklater produces objects masking their own purpose through their form: nonfunctioning teepee covers, now devoid of architectural purpose, but imbued with new cultural purpose.
SOFT POWER is also enlivened by several existing works, including a changing installation of five massive landscape drawings and tent from the durational performance Drawing a Line through Landscape by Nikhil Chopra at documenta 14; the premier of LaToya Ruby Frazier’s, Flint is Family, Part 2, in which Shea Cobb and her daughter Zion escape the ongoing Flint water crisis and “return” to their inheritance in Mississippi; Hassan Khan’s remarkable video installation Jewel (2010); a series of 15 banners and small abstract sculptures by Dave McKenzie; Pratchaya Phinthong’s “documentation” of migrant bilberry pickers in Finnish Lapland, Give More Than You Take (2010); and a wall installation and sculptures by Tavares Strachan from his Invisibles series. The exhibition features two works by Nairy Baghramian, including Retainer (2013), produced for her first major exhibition in the U.S. and extending her examination of systems of power, context, architecture and the materiality of sculpture. In this work, chromed steel supports large translucent slabs of cast resin and silicon reminiscent of a dental or gynecological intervention in process, but at a scale that confronts the full body. Within the context of the exhibition, Baghramian’s work suggests the temporal precision of physical states of matter, conjuring vast possibilities of adaptation, suffering and survival.
Full List of Artists Included in SOFT POWER:
Haig Aivazian (b. 1980, Beirut, Lebanon; lives and works in Beirut)
Marwa Arsanios (b. 1978, Washington, D.C.; lives and works in Beirut)
Nairy Baghramian (b. 1971, Isfahan, Iran; lives and works in Berlin)
Dineo Seshee Bopape (b. 1981, Polokwane, South Africa; lives and works in Johannesburg)
Nikhil Chopra (b. 1974, Kolkata, India; lives and works in Goa)
Minerva Cuevas (b. 1975, Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City)
Cevdet Erek (b. 1974, Istanbul, Turkey; lives and works in Istanbul)
LaToya Ruby Frazier (b. 1982, Braddock, Pennsylvania; lives and works in Chicago)
Hassan Khan (b. 1975, London, U.K.; lives and works in Cairo)
Duane Linklater (b. 1976, Ontario, Canada; lives and works in North Bay, Ontario)
Tanya Lukin Linklater (b. 1976, Kodiak, Alaska; lives and works in North Bay, Ontario)
Cinthia Marcelle (b. 1974, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; lives and works in São Paulo)
Dave McKenzie (b. 1977, Kingston, Jamaica; lives and works in Brooklyn)
Jason Moran (b. 1975, Houston, Texas; lives and works in New York)
Carlos Motta (b. 1978, Bogotá, Colombia; lives and works in New York)
Tuan Andrew Nguyen (b. 1976, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City)
Eamon Ore-Giron (b. 1973, Tucson, Arizona; lives and works in Los Angeles)
Pratchaya Phinthong (b. 1974, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand; lives and works in Bangkok)
Xaviera Simmons (b. 1974, New York, New York; lives and works in New York)
Tavares Strachan (b. 1979, Nassau, Bahamas; lives and works in New York)
Nikhil Chopra, Drawing a Line through Landscape (Part 2: On the Road), 2017; commissioned by documenta 14 ,2017 and supported by Piramal Art Foundation, Payal, and Anurag Khanna, Galleria Continua, and Chatterjee & Lal; courtesy the artist, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, and Galleria Continua, San Gimignano; photo: Madhavi Gore
October 24 – Artists’ talk with exhibition curator Eungie Joo
October–February
Open rehearsals by Tanya Lukin Linklater in the galleries
Performance by Jason Moran
LaToya Ruby Frazier and The Sister Tour
Conference on sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity and race at the border conceived by Carlos Motta in conjunction with the University of California, Santa Cruz
Organization + Support
Lead support for SOFT POWER is provided by Helen and Charles Schwab. Major support is provided by the Ford Foundation, Diana Nelson and John Atwater, and Katie and Matt Paige. Generous support is provided by Sabrina Buell and Yves Béhar and Sir Deryck and Lady Va Maughan.
About Eungie Joo, Curator of Contemporary Art
Eungie Joo joined the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in 2017 as curator of contemporary art, a newly established role that supports the museum’s mission to engage with the art and artists of our time. Previously Joo was curator of Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible (2015) in the United Arab Emirates. The exhibition included the work of over 50 artists and cultural practitioners from 25 countries and featured new works, performances and site-specific commissions by 36 of those artists, including SOFT POWER participating artists Nikhil Chopra, Hassan Khan and Cinthia Marcelle; as well as Julie Mehretu, Damián Ortega, Taro Shinoda, Adrián Villar Rojas, Haegue Yang and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Joo was Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum in New York from 2007–12, where she spearheaded the Museum as Hub initiative and curated the 2012 New Museum Generational Triennial, The Ungovernables. She was artistic director of the 5th Anyang Public Art Project/APAP 5 (2016); director of art and cultural programs at Instituto Inhotim in Brazil (2012–14); commissioner for the Korean Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); and founding director and curator of the Gallery at REDCAT in Los Angeles (2003–7). In addition to many other distinctions, Joo received the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement in 2006. A frequent contributor to exhibition catalogues and magazines, she is editor of Rethinking Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education (Routledge, 2011) and co-editor of Art Spaces Directory (ArtAsiaPacific and New Museum, 2012). She received her doctorate in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.
Publication: Soft Power: A Conversation for the Future
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, Soft Power: A Conversation for the Future, with essays by artist Marwa Arsanios on Ecofeminism; filmmaker and cultural theorist Manthia Diawara on the poetic concepts of Edouard Glissant; Whitney Museum of American Art curator Adrienne Edwards on the state of time- based art; writer Yasmine El-Rashidi on the colonization of narrative: SOFT POWER curator Eungie Joo on the exhibition; and composer Jason Moran in conversation with playwright and poet IONE and linguist Jessie “Little Doe” Baird on dreams and their manifestations. In addition, each participating artist is profiled in a 6-8 page section featuring installation images of the exhibition and commissioned contributions by a striking lineup of curators, thinkers and writers including: Haytham el-Wardany on Haig Aivazian; Athena Athanasiou on Marwa Arsanios; Eungie Joo on Nairy Baghramian and Cinthia Marcelle; Portia Mahlodi “Uhuru” Phalafala in conversation with Dineo Seshee Bopape; Naeem Mohaiemen in conversation with Nikhil Chopra; Max Haiven on Minerva Cuevas; Cevdet Erek on his practice; LaToya Ruby Frazier on her project Flint as Family; Hassan Khan on the concepts at play in his work; a photo essay by Duane Linklater; Magdalyn Asimakis on Tanya Lukin-Linklater; Meg Onli in conversation with Dave McKenzie; Karma Chávez on Carlos Motta; Jovanna Venegas on Jason Moran; Koyo Kouoh in conversation with Tuan Andrew Nguyen; Marcela Guerrero on Eamon Ore-Giron; Thanavi Chotpradit on Pratchaya Phinthong; Brian Keith Jackson on Xaviera Simmons; and Stamatina Gregory on Tavares Strachan. The publication Soft Power: A Conversation for the Future is distributed by Rizzoli and will be available in January 2020.
Open Friday–Tuesday 10 a.m.–5 p.m. and Thursday 10 a.m.–9 p.m. Closed Wednesday.
Adult general admission to SFMOMA is $25; admission for seniors 65 years and older is $22; and admission for visitors ages 19 through 24 is $19. General admission and special exhibitions for all visitors aged 18 and younger are free.
Private guided tours and group discounts for SOFT POWER are available through the SFMOMA Group Sales team. Tours are one hour in length and are not included with museum admission. Tours must be booked at least two weeks in advance. For more information or to submit an inquiry, please visit sfmoma.org/groups.
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Combing through the Collection: Showcasing the Unexpected in the Art of California Galleries
by Julia Askenase, February 2018
Installation view of Between Two Worlds: Art of California, featuring from left to right: Norman Zammitt, Blue Burning, 1982; Larry Bell, Untitled, 1969; and John McCracken, Right Down, 1967; photo: Don Ross
“I think a lot of California artists are really weird — but of course I’m biased,” says Nancy Lim, assistant curator of Painting and Sculpture.
Calling them “weird” might sound like a slight, but Lim clearly means it as high praise. Thanks to her curatorial focus on SFMOMA’s home state, the Los Angeles native spends countless hours ruminating on California artists in our collection — artists, she says, who “create fantastical, bizarre, gorgeous things.”
Between Two Worlds, the galleries’ current rotation, features a mix of familiar and lesser-known works, tied together by uniquely Californian themes. “It is essential that we think in more revisionist ways than we might have in the past,” says Janet Bishop, Thomas Weisel Family Curator of Painting and Sculpture. “It is exciting to be able to expand the stories we tell by displaying work by artists who may not have become household names or achieved great market success, but made really interesting work nonetheless.”
In fact, two works in the show — Donald Dudley’s Rainbow Series (1964) and Norman Zammitt’s Blue Burning (1982) — have never been displayed at the museum before, despite entering the collection decades ago. They fit perfectly in a gallery focusing on Southern California — in particular, the influence of smog on artists’ experimentations with color, light, and perception.
Read about the history of our collection
These works represent a sampling of what Lim has uncovered in her ambitious (and admittedly long-term) quest to fully account for all works by California artists in the SFMOMA collection. To this end, she constantly takes note of California artists she’s interested in showing, along with any unfamiliar names she encounters in her research. (For the purposes of this endeavor, SFMOMA defines California artists as those who have been active in the state during their careers.) Next in her process, Lim searches the SFMOMA database to see if we own any works by these artists. However, not all database records have representative digitized images. To offer a sense of scale: She is delving into a museum collection that dates back to 1935 and contains almost 37,000 artworks.
This bit of visual mystery requires tracking works down in storage, sometimes deep storage (the art nerd’s ultimate pursuit!). And with the help of our dedicated preparators and collection managers, she has been able to do so. Such was the case with Dudley’s Rainbow Series: Without an image of the artwork on file, Lim had no clue what to expect when she arrived at the museum’s Collections Center to view it. What she discovered was a striking early painting that is stylistically distinct from much of the artist’s body of work.
See more of Don Dudley’s work
There are many elements in Rainbow Series that appealed to Lim: “The saturation of the paint — it almost looks stained into the canvas. And sitting on top of that is the rainbow, which adds a pretty powerful graphic element visible from many feet back as you’re walking towards this gallery. There are also a lot of references to other artists embedded in here, from Milton Avery to Tom Wesselmann, which you can see in the flatness of the figures that are entwined and laying on a backdrop of flat ground, of flat land in a desert,” she enumerates. “And of course, the intense red.”
Don Dudley, Rainbow Series, 1964; collection SFMOMA, gift of Sharon Dudley; © Estate of Donald Dudley; photo: Katherine Du Tiel
Fact or Fiction?: Smog Creates Beautiful Sunsets
Lim considers the red sky a hallmark of the Los Angeles sunset, thought to be the result of pollutants in the air scattering short wavelengths. When examining the work up close, you can observe the crimson fading to peachy-pink in what resembles fine particulate, like a haze of paint.
By contrast, Lim stumbled upon Zammitt’s Blue Burning simply by walking through the storage racks. “I remember thinking, ‘That is an incredible painting, and I wonder who it is.’ But I wasn’t able to get close enough to see any information written on the plastic sheeting that was covering it. So, I let it go,” she recalls. Later on, she happened to search for Norman Zammitt in the database, which resulted in another artwork record without an image. When she returned to storage for the big reveal, she found the very same painting that had previously caught her eye.
Blue Burning certainly is an arresting work. The 14-foot-wide canvas is wrapped in geometrically precise horizontal bands of intense color, the height of each one determined by logarithm. “Initially, I had thought that all of this was airbrushed or applied by some kind of machine, but I was talking with his widow who corrected that misperception and said that it was all done by hand,” she says. “It’s really impossible to tell.”
Norman Zammitt, Blue Burning, 1982; collection SFMOMA, gift of Judge and Mrs. William J. Lasarow; © Estate of Norman Zammitt
Watch a KQED segment on Richard Mayhew from 2009
In the neighboring gallery, visitors will encounter the improvisational work of Santa Cruz–based painter Richard Mayhew.
“He always works from memory,” says Lim. “He never uses preparatory sketches or photographs. He puts paint on the canvas and starts attacking the canvas with a brush, and keeps brushing out and out until the painting is done.”
Richard Mayhew, Pamela’s Aura, 2004; the Pamela J. Joyner and Alfred J. Giuffrida Collection; © Richard Mayhew
The works by Mayhew come to SFMOMA from the San Francisco–based arts patron Pamela Joyner, known for her expansive collection of African and African diaspora artists, and her efforts to reframe art history to recognize and contextualize these artists within the greater canon. Mayhew painted Pamela’s Aura (2004) as a birthday present commissioned by Joyner’s husband, its sweeps of coral and pink an ode to her favorite colors. “You end up getting this beautiful cascade of those colors that’s more abstract than the other two Mayhew paintings on view,” Lim says.
Centered on the theme “The Decorative Impulse,” the final gallery features artworks that look almost hallucinatory, including dense, imagery-laden pieces by Lari Pittman and Elliott Hundley. Here, Lim explores the personal and political, something she aims to do in each rotation of the California galleries. Where environmental anxiety is subtly underscored in the “smog gallery,” gender and identity politics feature prominently in this one. “The primary story I’m trying to tell is [about] styles and materials that were once considered unsuitable for high art,” she says.
Judy Chicago, Rainbow Pickett, 1964/2004
During her research, she read about Pittman’s experience as an art student at UCLA in the early 1970s, when one of his professors called his paintings “faggy.” Meanwhile, she learned that an art critic in the mid-1960s had used the word “fruity” to describe the colors in an early, minimalist Judy Chicago sculpture.
“It’s amazing that this was valid critical language at the time — that critics and professors felt a reflexive need to denounce anything that seemed even vaguely feminine or gay,” she says. She felt compelled to include the anecdotes in her gallery introduction so that visitors could situate themselves in these biographical and historical contexts. (The Pittman work on view was created in 2008, while the Chicago works were made at different points in the ’70s.)
Lim also made a point of filling the gallery with works that heavily feature pink, a color historically thought of as effeminate and lowbrow, she notes. Almost every work in the room has some shade of it. “These artists embrace it and take incredible pleasure in putting it in your face — I wanted to make sure that people really see that as soon as they walk into this gallery.”
Watch Judy Chicago: The Female Aesthetic
Installation view of Between Two Worlds: Art of California, featuring from background to foreground: Judy Chicago, Rejection Quintet, 1974; Judy Chicago, Georgia O’Keeffe Plate #1, 1979; photo: Don Ross
Chicago’s Rejection Quintet series pairs first-person narratives of artistic transformation with colored pencil drawings of vulva-like imagery in vibrant pastel hues taking on the shapes of caves, flowers, and butterflies.
In the text portion of Female Rejection Drawing (1974), where petal-like forms peel away in a dizzying spiral, she asks a resonant rhetorical question: “Does anyone really understand what it means to have to suppress your femaleness in order to be able to express your artistness — or what it does to you?” The traced horizontal lines and handwritten cursive almost call to mind a composition notebook, or diary.
Judy Chicago, Female Rejection Drawing, from the Rejection Quintet, 1974; collection SFMOMA, gift of Tracy O’Kates; © Judy Chicago / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York
“It is like a diary. She’s so vulnerable and open, and I think that kind of earnestness is really moving.” Lim says. “And it’s also tonally very different from almost anything else that we have in the museum.”
Between Two Worlds is on view through March 4.
Julia Askenase
Julia Askenase is the Digital Experience Specialist at SFMOMA.
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ok let's begin in syria where a u.n. aid convoys arrived in east in the hotel we're hearing that the trucks have just crossed the last position to enter the besieged wrong place but a world health organization officials say seventy percent of supplies have been seized by syrian government officials now this all comes as the u.s. directly accuses russia of ignoring the terms of a u.n. cease fire and he's an auteur and killing innocent civilians hundreds of civilians are now fleeing to the west of the clave the syrian government says it seized thirty six percent of rebel territory and is vote to continue until it's all taken . pleasured. there is no contradiction between a truce and the combat operations advancement achieved yesterday and but they before in ghouta by the arab syrian army took place in the midst of this truce that's why when we speak about the resolution there are some positives that allow
for the achievement of humanitarian goals at the same time as allowing us to hit the terrorists this is why we have to continue with our operation while at the same time allowing civilians to leave it. as in a called who's joining us live from beirut in neighboring lebanon is in a first of all give us the update on this convoy that's moving into eastern. well yes this convoy has now crossed that government checkpoint like you mentioned heading to the main town of duma to distribute aid to the people but also like you mentioned the world health organization telling us that seventy percent of the supplies that were loaded onto the trucks were removed during inspection and what was removed the trauma kits surgical supplies things that are urgently needed inside the besieged the enclave now this has happened in the past systematic really the government does not allow such equipment to enter because they believe that rebel fighters will use them to treat their fighters those who are wounded but we have to remember a few thousand people have been wounded inside eastern over the past two weeks
that's why these supplies are really important and it's not just that there are four hundred thousand people inside eastern. united nations estimates now the aid supplies that are going in are enough for twenty seven thousand five hundred and the united nations hope to send in the remaining supplies on march the eighth so this aid of course is not enough then to give us some indication if you count of the kind of conditions that people are living in these go to because of course the fighting is still going on. yes the fighting is still going on dire conditions medical supplies lack of food so medics are saying that we can we cannot cope we need these supplies through to treat the people according to the united nations up to one thousand people need to be evacuated to proper hospitals some of them are sick some of them have been waiting for evacuation for months now eastern what has been under siege for four years and the bombardment continues overnight fourteen civilians killed according to the syrian observatory for human rights so the death
toll now over seven hundred civilians that's in two weeks so a very dire situation but it is clear from the pro-government alliance that they want to take. capture eastern at whatever cost a ground offensive is also underway they've taken a lot of territory mainly farmlands in the eastern side of eastern but the pro-government alliance vowing to push ahead with you know for a military victory xenophon out thanks very much indeed italy's facing a long period of political instability after voters delivered a hung parliament in an election which saw them support i'm t. establishment of far right groups in record numbers with two thirds of votes counted it's almost certain that none of the three main factions will be able to govern alone lawrence lee reports. just five years after the first questions a parliament the five star movements and see politicians policy or the clear individual winners in this election overcome pain that sold them finally to fight
corruption and overturn traditional politics the vote was more than ten points ahead yet to form a government they would have said betray their promise not to go into a coalition. equally lega formally the northern league led by matt seo salvini also appended the established order but his hardline n.c. immigrants euro skeptic policies it would be the biggest player in a right wing coalition but that group still fall short of being able to fill a jar it is well for selvi though the result is proof that italians are fed up with the status quo. one of the clearest outcomes of the five years in power the center left and a classic party have taken hits but they are still the second biggest party in the absence of any other solution they might stay on in government until another voting system and elections are organized and maybe ginty loney will be asked to continue as a caretaker in the meantime and then they will work hopefully on
a new electoral law that satisfies of everybody and forces the formation of a majority would be with us a lower percentage maybe thirty five percent is also a setback to silvio berlusconi who had looked like being kingmaker in an extraordinary political comeback but the biggest losers of all of the european union after a whole slew of election results in countries like austria the netherlands and france in recent months where the populace got close but will be sent back this is their breakthrough moments the result will be applauded most in capitals like budapest in warsaw where and see immigrants euro skeptic parties are already in power they will see this result in italy as their entry into the european mainstream all in all it's a deeply uncertain outcome for now italy is ungovernable. what we can cross live to lawrence of for the latest from rome lawrence are describing italy there as ungovernable so what happens now we move forward.
it is for forgive me it isn't only me i mean that's what italian papers are all saying today as well it is it is really a mess and although you can see some arithmetic that would if you added say five star movement plus the leg of party together that would actually get to a majority is by no means clear whether any of these parties are actually in the mood to try to work together at all it's a really really complicated solution about the worst you could think of to try to get some political stability for italy let's try and make some sense with francesca she was a political analyst here in rome do you think it's conceivable for example to give that situation that the five star movement and leg to the two breakthroughs in this election could work together or knows we'll soon find out in fact we couldn't know until today there was one day in which a leader five-star sudha an italian daily over room or their leader
and five thousand where secretly in talks before the elections all of these would be denied but now who knows certainly if you are the numbers you have an outright majority and you would be hundred percent entire establishment the other baselines now you we will be watching very closely is a hybrid so majority and italian guy in which you have some anti-establishment parties or in some mainstream parties part how it is possible to piece them together that remains a mystery what you think the european union and the people in places like brussels and berlin think about this enormous breakthrough in western europe that these populist groups have made on the one hand they shouldn't be. overly concerned. euro skepticism is on the rise but not to such extremes are there any political force or would would push for a referendum to leave the single currency or the e.u.
what we have however ears a semantics that has become considerably harsher is a v brussels and frankfurt and of course let's not forget that next year we have the european elections but it's all a terrible indictment of traditional policies really is news yes but we we saw this coming. turnouts end of the rise of anti-establishment parties has been around for a while we can also speak of surprise just a couple of sentences if leggett did get into power they in their right wing plan is of out sort of pools hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants do you think they could do that as i have witnessed lincoln or at work in government in all i can say is that they there is a big shift between what they say in a campaign and what they do in in
a day by day government thank you very much if you time. the leader of lega and dimaio the leader of five star and you to speak in the next hour or two so we'll see what they have to say about this side of the first back to you lawrence thanks very much indeed and voice from south korea have met with north korean leader kim jong un in pyongyang the delegates are the first south korean officials to meet kim since he took power at the end of twenty eleven rob mcbride's joining us live now from seoul rob things seem to be moving pretty quickly. that's right this delegation is. this mission is underway supporters say any chance of dialogue with the north should be grabbed at with both hands critics though argue that south korea is giving away far too much by going north with this mission with no guarantees that these talks are going to go anywhere before the delegates even left seoul earlier today there were no guarantees in fact that they
would meet with kim jong un the north korean leader well now we have their answer they are having a dinner hosted by kim that according to supporters of this mission is a success in itself and according to the government here in seoul when you combine the fact that they have now met with kim the seniority of the officials who were there to greet the south korean delegates and also the fact that they are being put up in an official guest house according to seoul it all points to the seriousness with which north korea is treating this mission and but given the fact of the problems they are trying to overcome are so extensive given the extent of the north korean nuclear crisis it really remains to be seen just what success this mission will have. from seoul with smiles south
korea's delegation heads north hoping to build on the goodwill momentum generated at the winter olympics when a high level north korean delegation attended the games as guests of south korean president moon j.n. kim jong sr of north korean leader kim jong un hand delivered the invitation to visit pyongyang from her brother south korea hopes this will be more than just a courtesy call. most of all i will deliver president moon's firm will and resolve to achieve the denuclearization on the korean peninsula and create a true and permanent peace for meetings between north and south all rare. summit talks were held in two thousand at the height of the so-called sunshine policy period that brought the two koreas closer together then again in two thousand and seven but with north korea's missile development a nuclear program increasing in pace in recent years relations slumped to their
lowest and most dangerous point for decades. for many people in south korea just holding talks is a welcome change to the hostile rhetoric of the recent past but without a commitment from north korea that it's willing even to discuss giving up its nuclear arsenal many conservative groups have condemned these talks as meaningless fasts this visit is meant to lead to more tools between the two koreas that is certainly achievable it's fun less certain this mission can jump start talks between north korea and the skeptical united states they want a meeting to lead to denuclearization to north korea giving up its nuclear weapons and north korea has no intention of doing that so there's no likelihood that the united states and north korea would be meeting as a result of this this visit could prove in the long turn either to be important in the search for a negotiated solution all right another false start in dealing with the north
korean crisis problem right al jazeera so. we've had a long period of simmering tensions on the korean peninsula since kim jong un took power at the end of twenty eleven north korea has fired sixty one ballistic missiles and conducted for nuclear tests can look to ease rising tensions at the start of the year when he offered to hold talks about his country's participation at the winter olympics the two sides held their first formal discussions in two years on january the ninth that's when north korea confirmed it would send a delegation to the games athletes from the two koreas marched into february's and then pick opening ceremony under a unified korean flag and on sunday president moon announced the make up of the delegation that would head north for two days of talks the trip is the first by south korean envoys in eleven years andrea like of is professor of korean studies at cookman university is joining us now from seoul thank you very much indeed for your time how significant is it do you think that this delegation has already met
the leader of north korea. the world is quite significant but there is one practical question how much can be achieved and the honest answer is not much right no north and south korea are interested in teaching in the impression as their tensions are not very high because there are some seen in the us from washington that people around trump c.d.'s about a possible military strike such a strike is like you to scull it into a major war naser norse nor cells of once so they try to start negotiations and it doesn't matter that they can look really negotiate anything significant it will just produce the right impression and reduce the chances the probability of americans beginning to shoot does this however open any doors at all between the
south and north korea with a view to talks in the future about the possible denuclearization of north korea. programmers it sounds good is not the position to talk about dennett barry's ation it has been lost thirty and position for twenty five years and not going to change that forced is the end all doing to talk about didn't there is action whatsoever second any issues related to the u.k. or program can be discussed or only busy united states and it's nobody else business for stop and it's not going to change and. normally to influence their position of the united states of such a vital question especially now when the. situation is the white house saw the are going to talk by the cannot talk nuclear weapons they cannot talk it cannot make a changes they cannot talk military matters it means they can talk only about some nice philosophy seems like annoyed shayne's of spoiled delay geisha and you know
all good looking. and then so on is there any chance that the south korea might be positioning itself almost inadvertently as a conduit if you like between the united states and north korea in the future the two sides of course have been very antagonistic towards each other and perhaps this might serve to provide some sort of route for negotiation at some point in the future. it might be very skeptical because if you decide that it's time to stop talking they will stop talking and if americans decide it's time to start talking they will start talking they don't need any kind of negotiation intermediary between be it subtle scary or chatting on russia with your paranoia indonesian name it. eve was sites make a political decision that it's time to stop talking about major issues about all north korean nuclear program the we'll start talking bombed nor efforts of as
a countries are likely to have but nonetheless it is goot there's such contacts being conducted because it creates basically quite unfounded but still very useful impression that situation is not that bad because vance sygate all last year there have been agreed deal of seagulls coming from washington is that people in the around president from i c b s about a military operation and military operation ease highly likely to scully into a major war so it might be a false impression it might be a lie but it's still a useful life what is this going to look like to the other countries the neighboring countries around the careers in asia or japan for example japan has a significant role to play in the security of the region. pennies are not happy about this context because he correctly see it as waste of time and probably sums
of ways to get around the international sanctions vance again as you've been also has relatively little influence maybe more than sounds good here but still very little influence on these developments. and everybody else every all as a neighbor say china and russia feel a great deal of relief because pretty much everybody who has a knowledge of situation understands that talks this but what talks are not going to produce any significant results nonetheless the very existence of talks and it uses a probability here is that one day or more likely one night we are going to hear explosions. and then you're sol and then we'll see something we have not seen for decades now forbes regular war in a highly developed industrial action and i like of thank you very much indeed for your time let's go live now to rome but italian prime minister kind of that matteo salvini the leader of the legal party is speaking let's listen and. it is
chosen to grow. and. thanks to the numbers thank you for those who have been close to me. i think my children. who have not seen the father there much during this period i thank the objective journalists few of them. i thank the network. the people of the network and. it is also i think free of free. communication with. many newspapers t.v. station. people with different opinions. full cast and made mistakes. thank you because the league. is
a political party which has grown than others i mean the five star movement. also. ahead and also we thank democracy. for this. there has been a move from four to eighteen percent in. the twenty italian region and. we have had incredible results especially of course in the north. and i. talk to all those analysts i. did not consider. this would be the result because the. problem a. threat to ease our thirty two percent. in the province is also
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percent. ten percent. ten twenty percent was gaining. twenty one plus percent twenty eight percent. seven percent an event six percent you're watching al-jazeera and we are watching salvini the leader of a leg up party the italian political party formally known as the northern league which is hardly anti immigrant and euro skeptic policies talking about the figures that have been coming in after the voting in italy's elections were across live now to lawrence lee for the latest from rome lawrence very obviously he's very proud of some of the figures that have been returned for his party. yes right at the top a very described as an extraordinary victory and it's all pretty transfer lists and
you know he says he's defending what he calls hard working men and women of italy who are suffering poverty and have their pensions cuts and you know that the european union is a big corporate machine in his opinion which doesn't work in their interests and at the same time he argues that the european union has systematically betrayed italy by letting all of these undocumented migrants in and then refusing to share them out of leaving italy to put up with the whole thing all by itself and clearly if you. poor italian then then there's there's a chance that you're going to find you know that sort of argument quite quiet feeling what he hasn't yet got to is whether or not he thinks he actually wants to be prime minister even though i dare say in his right wing blog beyond there is a good argument that he should be the candidates because they've got more votes now than phillips italia but his goalie's party for example but he's problem he's got to address on some level is how he squares off the fact that the right wing block
can get to forty percent in the polls in parliament which is what it needs to have a majority so it's a victory of sorts it's the sort of things that what the shift is into the european union in places like brussels daddy that he might be the italian prime minister we don't as you're a skeptic views is the kind of politics that the more uses in countries like hungary really in poland than to the western european countries aren't they live for us in rome lawrence thanks very much indeed i mean you're getting has been shaken by three strong aftershocks a week after a major earthquake killed at least fifty five people in the mountainous southern highlands are worst affected six hundred kilometers from the capital port moresby one hundred fifty thousand people remain in urgent need of emergency supplies damaged roads and landslides are hampering aid delivery food water and sanitation is badly needed a.b.c. australian journalist ethics of x. has more for us from on the capital port moresby. one of the things this earthquake
did was destroy food god and smoke people up there are a subsistence farmers without those gardens they don't have food and it also dammed rivers the mountains have caved in upon river systems and most people's access to water comes from those rivers and streams and they're now backing up and becoming polluted so there's an ongoing problem now about access to clean drinking water has only just started arriving that's because the area as i said he's quite remote but also because the government's capacity to deliver services is quite limited if the ideas coming in from the australian government and it's being distributed by an oil and gas company will search that has thirty three sites right around that region so at the moment it's the private sector and a foreign government that are actually doing the i deliver as some people were wondering where the government was but it said it had real trouble getting information from the quite carries about sixty three my volved towers were damaged a number of them collapsed and they've only been i would serve a store about forty of them so there's extensive damage that has limited the amount
of information that's come out in the painted government said it was basically flying blind and it didn't know where to send the ide but now that situation's improving they've got i going in tomorrow and it's been coming over the weekend from foreign governments and that's going to be ramping up by the next few days so everybody involved says the people there that really need food and water and medical care will start receiving that now. and a few moments we're going to have the weather with everton but still ahead on al jazeera china's national people's congress meets to make changes that could see president xi jinping stay in power for life. finally makes a comeback in colombia where thousands of locking music lovers and gathered for the i know cali fair. and sports shows going to have all the action from the dramatic final day of the world indoor athletics championships.
from the waves of the cells. to the contours of the east. we've had some drought breaking rain in australia just around queensland you can see this little puff of cloud hair they see the thunderheads extending from the gulf of carpentaria right down into northern parts of new south wales are missing some terrific now pools over the last few days actually travel one hundred eighty nine millimeters of rain here in twenty four hours in the same time period nearby julia creek had in the thirty nine melissa millimeters of rain come down and that inevitably caused the widespread flooding that we have seen this is the road between kong cari and julia creek as you can see it is completely water logged some parts of the north so as much as two hundred fifty millimeters of rain so we have had huge down poles in the past few days still a lot of rain in the forecast as we go through the next few days as choose states
picture you see the on shore breeze there just coming in from a nice three directions by law into showers from the sunshine coast gold coast has been it will make its way a little further west which is weak on into where to stay so the showers certainly set to stay the flooding rains will continue to spread see more heavy showers there up towards townsville right across the cape york peninsula but elsewhere for many it's going to stay fine dry and pretty warm. there with sponsored by the time piece. a survivor of the genocide there are people who beg me to kill them when they're suffering but if we have the power to do who's dedicated his life to searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. you know in the future is to draw. you know hope of finally laying the past to rest and giving peace to the victims' families because you need to if i could just trying to think about i could bury him. at this time on al-jazeera
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aid convoy sent to the east in a hotel for the first time since the attacks on the besieged rebel enclave escalated two weeks ago but u.n. workers say seventy percent of supplies including trauma kits and surgical equipment were seized by government forces before they were allowed in. south korean amble as have been meeting north korea's leader kim jong un and their first visit to pyongyang for eleven years the south koreans are trying to encourage them to talk to the u.s. program. a hung parliament is expected in italy following sunday's general election with two thirds of votes counted the anti establishment five star movement is the biggest single party but it trails of lightwing alliance which is thirty seven percent of the vote share so far. china's parliament is expected to approve a change to the constitution which will allow president xi jinping to stay in the job for life the largely ceremonial national people's congress holding its annual
conference in beijing china correspondent adrian brown is there tiananmen square has been the setting for some of the most of fining moments in recent chinese history not all of them peaceful now a new political drama is unfolding this carefully choreographed gathering involves almost three thousand delegates and almost as many journalists like parliament the media in china is controlled by the party offering uniform coverage of the national people's congress normally last for ten days but this year it's being extended by five days possibly to give delegates more time to discuss proposed changes to china's constitution which could mean she. being president for life the issue is overshadowing this congress but most delegates we spoke to didn't want to talk about it i don't want to discuss it i asked them he said. and no comment from him
either. party discipline though would ensure the amendment is passed that. those capable people should stay in their posts as long as possible. the decision is made by the party as a delegate i fully support it. the decisions made here will affect almost a fifth of humanity premier league chung presented his annual work report with his boss seated just a few rows behind him. he said the communist party not the country had faced an extremely complex environment both at home and abroad in his forty five page address he mentioned cheating paying eighteen times well me out and. that we were rarely even close around the party central committee was camera xi jinping at his coal hole high the banner of socialism with chinese characteristics and follow the
guidelines xi jinping saw on socialism with chinese characteristics for a new era the premier presented a vision of a vibrant growing economy but in language often reminiscent of them out. and there was one overriding message china will be great again so long as she jean pings at the helm adrian brown al-jazeera beijing a u.s. aircraft carriers arrived in vietnam for the first time since the end of the vietnam war a sign of warming relations between the two countries the visits by the u.s.s. carl vinson to the port of dining marks the biggest u.s. military presence in vietnam since one nine hundred seventy five wayne hay has more from. this visit by the u.s. military to vietnam is very symbolic the aircraft carrier the carl vinson anchoring off the city of dun neighing which is where u.s. ground troops first came ashore in one thousand nine hundred sixty five to begin
their campaign in the vietnam war ever since that war came to an end particularly in the last couple of decades relations between the united states and vietnam have been steadily improving in this visit will be seen as another important step in that process but it's also about the south china sea where the carl vinson is anchoring is the south china sea or the e.c. as it's known in vietnam china claims pretty much all of the south china sea and over the last couple of years in particular it's been very busy developing islands and reefs in that area which has caused a lot of tension with other claimant countries in southeast asia in particular with vietnam so this visit is about the united states sending a message to china as well that it wants freedom of navigation through the south china sea and also it's about vietnam sending a message to china that in the united states it has a strategic partner that it could call upon if the situation in the south china sea deteriorates. the shape of water a fantasy about a mute woman and
a hybrid creature has won top honors including best picture at the oscars but far from the on no glamour and glitz this year's ninetieth ceremony has been overshadowed by prevalence sexual misconduct in the industry from listenings robins has more. hollywood had more than awards on its mind at the ninetieth annual oscar ceremony host jimmy kimmel quickly brought up disgraced hollywood producer and accused sexual predator harvey weinstein who was expelled from the academy last year the academy as you are no doubt aware took action last year to expel harvey weinstein from their ranks there are a lot of great nominees but harvey deserved this about. the far reaching sexual harassment scandal in the growth of the b. two in times up movements were on the minds of many finally saying time's up it's a new day in hollywood with new challenges ahead for all of us while those serious
issues overshadowed hollywood's big night to a certain extent the show as they say must go on and it did. the oscar goes to. the shape of what. this may very well be the shape of water when the best picture award the story of a love affair between a mute cleaning lady and a strange him hideous creature at the center of a cold war weapons program it beat out stiff competition from get out lady bird and i told ya among other films. the shape of waters film director ke arrow del toro won the best director award. frances mcdormand won the best female actor award for her role as an angry and grieving mother in three billboards outside at the desert she asked all the women in the audience to stand and take a bot. thank you. thank you thank you the
world thank her all the overall. as many predicted the best male actor nod went to gary oldman for his did it in polluter in performance as winston churchill in the darkest hour. allison janney portrayal of an unlevel mother in i told you won her the best female supporting actor will rule the i did it all by myself. sam rockwell took home the best male supporting actor oscar for playing a violent racist police officer who turns over a new lease in three billboards i like to thank the academy never thought i'd say those words the chilean transgender drama a fantastic woman won the best foreign language film oscar. and the audience pleasing cartoon poco one for best animated feature the biggest thank you of all to
the people of mexico coco would not exist without your endlessly beautiful culture and tradition costume designer margaret olley woods big night is over but the movement against sexual harassment in the film industry continues to expand and grow stronger i denied everybody robert oulds al jazeera hollywood. that's craven's out as chief film critic at metro newspapers is joining us now from london thank you very much indeed for your time of course the oscars are all about glitz and glamour and entertainment at this time of course it was dealing with a very serious subject do you think it was able to deal successfully with the issues of sexual harassment in the industry. yeah i think it did deal successfully i mean it was as you say this is not quite heavy stuff for a film award ceremony to cope with but the host jimmy kimmel managed to sort of sail an even an even keel i feel i mean it's quite it was quite straightforward
sermon it's quite bland it wasn't too risque or too jokey it sort of dealt with the issues and moved on and they really needed the safe pair of hands that he literally just needed someone to open the correct envelope of the fiasco last year where the best picture award was nominated awarded to the wrong film. you used a phrase there they dealt with the issues and moved on do you think that there's a risk that the industry as a whole is going to end up doing exactly that it will deal with these issues but it will move on from them and perhaps not much will change. i think the industry as a whole or perhaps the traditional of the wind industry would have a tendency towards that but you saw that in frances mcdormand speech winning best actress that she's determined as as are the women of hollywood in general that this is just the start of something rather than you know sort of tokenistic gesture so where it's the movement the me too movement which is against section equality of the industries are started out as victims coming forward to protest against the likes of harvey weinstein since then they've moved on to the time's up campaign
which is literally calling time's up on the industry let's take you know proper practical steps to change things and in her speech frances mcdormand is saying right all the lady stand up not just big knowledge that there are women represented behind the camera but also to say right all the men in the room i want you to address these women's projects let's fund them let's move forward and she brought in the phrase which will become trotted out a lot now which is inclusion right which is when a big star goes into a film they can put a clause in their contract which says that there has to be good representation of diversity both in terms of the on screen talent but also in the cost of crude behind the scenes in addition to the issue of sexual harassment in the industry was there anything else that struck you as important in these awards. well i think it's just it's been a it was really exciting when the nominations the awards came out because there's been so many friends so much fresh talent coming to the fore not least to go with who is up for best director see any fifth woman in history to be up for that award
jordan peele has made history as the first african-american writer to win the first african-american win the best original screenplay award there was the first female cinematographer in the shape of rachel morrison behind the camera so it's been it's been a year where in the nineteenth year of the academy awards i think they've really pulled out the stops and showing that they can be relevant to the industry rather than sometimes they have felt a bit like they're a bit of a dinosaur but that is to film critic of metro newspaper thank you very much for your time colombian pop stars such a kid dominates the modern day music scene in their buds old school music lovers literally get in the groove again for an annual festival which celebrates sons on vinyl records of sons of m.p.'s he reports from cali. scoring the beans searching for them missing records or a rare treasure it might seem like a relic from a bygone age but not for the thousands who crowd columbus traditional meeting of music lovers and collectors. it's our twenty sixth year it's
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i'd it's time for the sports heroes to run out rob thank you very much cycling is under the doping spotlight again
a long awaited report by british members of parliament suggests that the former top of france champion bradley wiggins and his team exploited an anti doping loophole to take performance enhancing drugs wiggins won the most prestigious race in cycling in two thousand and twelve but the report claims that he was able to take a steroids before that to treat his ass after he and his team were given a therapeutic use exemption for it the t.u.e. system allows us to take medication to treat the just to make conditions weakens and team sky say they strongly refute the claims in the report while they report acknowledges that what weakens and team sky did was within the rules of the world anti-doping agency it also says the two crossed an ethical line bought the report didn't just look at doping in british cycling it then turned its attention to athletics the committee said it was shocks that four time olympic champion mo farah had received an injection of a legal supplement before the two thousand and fourteen london marathon bot that
the chief medical officer at the time had failed to record it on the run as medical records the report also strongly criticised the head of the international athletics federation said code it says he provided misleading all says to their questions on the scale of russian doping saying he knew more about the scandal than he revealed all sports correspondent lee wellings joins me now live from london the if what wakens team sky and mo farah have done is within the legal limits then why does this matter. that's the crux of this what we're dealing with here is effectively legitimized cheating nobody's going to get by and for anything nobody has technically broken any rules but this is a massive problem for those that watch and enjoy sport want it to be clean wanted to be fair wanted to be doping free and it's best summed up for me by shane sutton who is a key member of the bradley wiggins team form of i have now and effectively he told the committee that of others use of performance enhancing steroids technically was
unethical but not against the rules and i've been to a lot of these hearings and that's what the overriding feeling has been here that we're dealing with something that nobody can take hard and fast action against but it's a way of manipulation and it goes against the suppose it spirit put forward by. team sky who of course had bradley wiggins win the tour de france and others because photos being investigated as world don't forget if they're talking about having clean sport with zero tolerance of doping then why is there such mystery around the package in two thousand and eleven why is there such mystery around these therapeutic use exemptions it does seem very clearly as if what's happening here is the boundaries of being pushed and people are getting away with it you know what is going to be the fallout from this sport report what will change after it's been published. the fallout has to be limited in terms of actual action remember.
pais in britain that big power really is being i was to get things out into the open under parliamentary privilege to terms of actually doing something about it there's a limit there so what we're talking about here is very little damage and how far does that hurt someone like bradley wiggins or my foreign who's been mentioned or indeed sebastian coe a slightly different issue with him that was more about the politics of how much does it hurt that their reputation is being damage when you consider just how poisoned the sport of cycling in athletics has been everyone has to live with suspicion but these accusations when you go into the detail are quite done me so these are men far and we consider being held up as heroes particularly around the london twenty twelve olympics in britain and beyond well now their reputations going to suffer a lot yeah we're going to see how that goes down for the finale wedding thanks very much for unraveling that for us what about. the
story of russian doping has also been a big hit at the oscars. icarus five six faced the scandal and led to the countries in the pan one left documentary the direct to pay tribute to the russian whistleblower great three. who featured in the film for which i wanted to acknowledge that in this moment of happiness and winning this war there are real world stakes and there is a human life at stake and there are clean athletes who have been cheated and there is a a russian government that continues to not deny all facts and all truth while they hunt the man who literally brought this information forward dear basketball. boy usually during. well that wasn't the only big sporting achievement of the academy awards basketball legend kobe bryant continues to be
a winner even in retirement the former l.a. lakers star won an oscar in the animated short category four. a poem he wrote after ending his twenty year career on the court in two thousand and sixteen. feel better than winning the championship if you ask me i swear i do it's you know growing up as a kid i dreamt of winning championships you know and working really hard to make that dream come true but then like to have. something like this seemingly come out of left field you know. i heard a lot of people tell me when i started writing he would ask me where are you going to retire and i said well i want to be a writer and be a storyteller i got a lot of that's cute that's cute you'll be depressed when your career is over and you're come back to play you know i got that alive and so to be here right now and i have like a like a sense of validation is this is this is crazy. it's crazy. now to this football legend les no messi the argentine scored his six hundred
career goal for boss line on sunday as they beat atletico madrid one nil that now eight points clear of the second place to ponens in. the world indoor athletics championships wrapped up in birmingham on sunday with eight gold medals awarded but amid the celebrations the athletics world also mourn the passing of one of its icons helen gleason reports writers and gentlemen we remember the great show roger bannister. the final day of the walk in the athletics began on a somber night with a tribute to so roger bannister the first man to run a mile in under four minutes he died on sunday aged eighty eight. bannister would have enjoyed the action that followed the loudest she opened night was for great britain kasi he won the men's sixty metres hurdles final by the narrowest of margins at the world indoor title to the european gold he won twelve months ago.
three middle distance finals also took center stage on the track and there were two golds. your me can joke had defended his three thousand meters title and samual to pharaoh won the men's fifteen thousand meters becoming the youngest ever winner of the event at just eighteen. burundi's brown seamy and saba made it back to back to work titles as she won gold in the women's eight hundred meters. controversy came in the women school by four hundred meters relay to make it cross the line second but when later disqualified for being in the wrong position on one of the change from a to crying to silva i'm great britain to bronze behind the united states. drama two in the men's relay the usa that certain to win gold until poland can storming to victory down the home leg and
set a new indoor world record. that should have been the final medal of the knights but a thrilling men's pole vault contest took more than three hours to complete the world record holder renner level any eventual prevailed as the only compact set a clear five meters ninety to win the world in those title for a third time. telling place and they are. now phil mickelson has ended a five year trophy drought with victory at the world golf championships in mexico mickelson beat fellow american justin thomas in a playoff for his first tournament win since the open in two thousand and thirteen the playoffs didn't last long mickelson might call on the first extra hole to secure a forty five career title forty seven he's the oldest ever winner of a well go championship event. this is
a very meaningful when i can't really put it into words given the tough times of the last four years and struggle to get back here and knowing that i was able to compete at this level but not doing it the frustration that led to and to finally break through and have this validation means a lot to me. heise the netherlands topped the medal table at the track cycling world championships winning two golds on the final day on sunday custom built one hundred gold medal of the championships with a dominant performance in the points rice. had also topped the podium in the only m. and the scratch. geoffrey haviland and a second gold of the day in the men's one kilometer time trial but the effort took a lot out of him he could barely stand when he came off the track his medal was the hosts of fifth gold and twelfth overall of these championships
and that's all from me for now back to you rob john thanks very much indeed and that's it for me about this and for this news hour we're going to have more of the day's news in a couple of minutes with martin stick with us with more on that convoy heading into eastern go to see a couple of public. works
. march on al-jazeera. with all potential challengers out of the way egypt's president. is poised for a second time in. a series of stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds as president putin dominates the russian political scheme these reelection becomes more apparent we see what direction russia might take. with media trends constantly changing listening post analyzes how the news is being covered. and as more people around the world struggle to find clean drinking leaders and research as governor in brazil to address
a critical issue in march on al-jazeera more than forty thousand africans are facing deportation from israel is awarded more than ninety percent of. so white and . almost zero point one per cent of the two of those in danger of being thrown out of the country in which they sought refuge. at this time. the first eighteen weeks of arrives in syria's besieged. the hundreds of thousands of being try. again i'm sure with that as their live from doha.
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good morning. it's sunday, december 23rd nguy. let's start with a quick look at the weather. here's meteorologist lisa argen tracking doppler 7 for us. >> good morning. we have moist northwest flow and that's bringing in moisture from the pacific. it's going to interact with the frontal boundary later. we'll have a few showers in the north bay. before that front arrives. we're in the 40s and 50s with the cloud cover. 44 in san ramon. 52 in san francisco. 44 in santa rosa and we're warmer due to the cloud cover. here's the plan for today. cloudy skies through 10:00. in the low 50s. then in the afternoon, you'll see rain in the north bay with
numbers in the mid and upper 50s. by the afternoon, a few shower flip downs. even the city could see sprinkles. later on, back into the clouds with numbers in the 50s. i'll track it down and tell you what to expect coming up. developing news. at least 222 people are dead after a tsunami hit the coast around indonesia's sunda strait. this is a live look there at the damage. more than 800 people are injured. at least 28 people remain missing this morning. the country's disaster management agency says those numbers may rise since all affected areas have not been reached much the wave hit about 25 minutes after the anak krakatoa volcano erupted. there was no time for warning. developing news with the government shutdown. congress has gone home for the holiday without coming to an
agreement to fund the federal government. abc news reporter linda lopez explains the sticking point is president trump's demand for $5 billion to build a border wall. >> after failing to reach an agreement on border wall funding, both sides digging in. >> our great country must have border security. >> president trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell declaring the senate out of session until after christmas, asking democrats and the president to come up with a deal. >> push the pause button until the president from whom we'll need a signature and senate democrats from whom we will need votes, reach an agreement. >> following a lunch meeting with the president on saturday, republican senators indicated they would settle for less than the $5 billion. the president wants for the border wall.
but balked at chuck schumer's offer of>>et melouhat it's to be. it's got to make sense. i don't think i would take an offer of 1.3, when you previously offered me 1.6. thi political stunt. >> the wall is -- president trump to the hard right people. it's no way to spend $5 billion for political bone. >> they have a hatred for trump. they've won the house. they want the fight. they don't want to solve the problem. they're going backward, not forward. >> now with the halls of congress empty, not much optimism that this shutdown will end soon. will it get done before christmas? >> i don't think so. >> more than 400,000 federal employees began temporarily working without pay, including some border security officials. linda lopez, abc news, new york. many federal services will continue. airports are operating normally. they may be crowded with holiday travelers.
the post office is still running. so you'll still get your mail and packages. passport offices should remain open as long as they generate enough fees to keep them operating. federal benefits, like social security, medicare andd will be paid. wildfire victims don't have worry about the shutdown affecting the recovery effort. they say employees are still working. fema has been busy helping those in butte county as well as the fire companies in southern california. many people who showed upended up disappointed. we have a look at what's closed because of the shutdown. >> this is what i got. nothing. >> ricky from las vegas was hoping to see ft. point up close. but what he got was a closed barricade. >> sad, man. because i don't want no parking. sad, man. i'm not coming back. >> it's a shame, isn't it? i don't understand why it is. why it's happening. >> blame the partial government
shutdown forcing the closuref e they received partial funding from another source. al going but nighttime tours canceled. the hyde street maritime museum was locked uptight. this was the first stop on their vacation for this family. >> we're excited to see the ship. we'll have to do it another time. i don't know. >> federal employees are impacted by the partial shutdown. some are working without getting paid. >> they can never do without a full week's paycheck or a day's paycheck. especially in the holiday season when there are extra expenses. it's outrageous that they're being forced to go without. >> the municipal pier near aquatic park was another spot off limits. >> i don't understand how the government got so much money and
they can't get somebody to open this gate. >> james perez had this message for the president. >> trump, i need to talk to you, call me. >> no telling how long the partial shutdown will last. the national park service said anyone with alcatraz tours canceled will get refunds. yosemite national park is open. but visitors may notice the effects. the visitor centers are closed and they're not staffed. the concession, hotels, restaurants and gas station remain open. the park is a popular destination this time of the year. we have a complete list of what's closed and what's open during the government shutdown. you can find that online at abc7news.com. with the government in partial shutdown, incoming acting white house keechief of staff will mick mulvanely appear on this week. you can watch that at 8:00 right here on abc 7. time now is 5:06. this morning a man is being
treated for injuries he suffered g argroun repairnt that drew shop. rpt officials yhey ar alive. abc 7 news reporter explains what made the rescue so tiff. >> it was a rescue effort that lasted two hours at sfo. rescue teams were called in to find a plumber who passed out while he and his partner worked on an underground sewer project. a company that caters for airlines. >> had emitted some sort of fues that caused him to lose consciousness. >> the co-worker initially tried to drag his partner out. but when he started feeling dizzy, he left him, got out and called 9-1-1. when crews went in, they couldn't find him. the man regained consciousness and was trying to find an exit and didn't have a chel
walkie-talk walkie-talkie. it's as large underground as aboveground. that's why the search took about two hours. >> carbon monoxide explosion and entrapment at west fie a small explosion which triggered a huge response. >> we didn't fully understand exactly what was going on underneath the building. so we had a lot of haz-mat, out of an abundance of caution, that's why you see the multiple units out here in case it was bigger. >> air quality was never an issue so no need for vevacuatio. >> it didn't impact flights in and out of sfo. abc 7 news. we called the plumbing company for comment. but we did not hear back. time now is 5:08. a major change ahead for the tsa. federal marshals will be moved to the back of the plain for the
first time. traditionally they're seated near the front. they'll begin that on friday. tsa officials declined to comment on what specifically prompted the change, citing safety concerns. they did say it's important to > on the peninsula, we have antr update to a story we first brought you friday on abc 7 news. palo alto police arrested marcelo garcia martinez. he's accused of attacking a woman thursday night. she was walking on the street when the suspect came up from behind and shoved her into some bushes. when she started screaming, he punched her in the face repeatedly. neighbors came outside and the suspect took off running. high tide swamped parts of the bay area. we were in mill valley yesterday where you can see flooding at the park and ride. cal trans says the lower half of the parking lot is currently closed due to flooding caused by the tide and will remain closed
thlow- areas. the high tides were followed by unusually low high and low tid expected again today. 5:10 is the time. lisa argen has been tracking that accuweather forecast for us. so far, not too bad out there. >> no. there's a lot of cloud cover. because of that, we're mild. in fact, it feels pretty decent in the north bay where we're in the low 30s yesterday. mid-40s right now. 40s and 50s for everyone. fog is not an issue. we could see rain throughout the day in the north bay. while it fades to the north, it will slip to the south. that means a chance of rain for the rest of the bay. we'll bring in our storm impact scale up next. >> lisa, thank you. the last minute rush, the whopping number of people expected to hit the storeso spp. we're there as santa makes
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find yours. ask your diabetes care specialist about tresiba®. welcome back. the time is 5:13 on this sunday morning. we're taking a live look from the golden gate bridge camera. not many travelers on the roadwa roadways. good morning to our friends in marin county. we'll get a check of the forecast from lisa argen in a little bit. first, the countdown to christmas is on. millions of pieople hit the stores on super saturday. abc 7 news reporter carla saucedo caught up with shoppers rushing to get everything done. >> christmas trees might be shining bright, but the -- >> all the people, makes it festive. the frafrk is exciting, right? >> that depends who you ask. >> i like to avoid the crowds.
i don't know why i went shopping today. si rll around union square made it nearly impossible for some to shop in peace. the saturday for christmas is considered super saturday. the national retail federa hid plan to shop this weekend. that's about 134 million people. an increase of 8 million from last year. over in downtown burlingame, shops were busy with folks looking for a good deal. >> want to give 50% off and get rid of the merchandise to get new stuff in. definitely get better deals towards the end, i think. >> all the shopping too much to handle for this family. >> maybe this one -- >> back in the city, not everyone was spending but rather giving holiday cheer to the sff bunch of gift bags. got some mittens and sweat shirts and stuff. >> the true spirit of christmas
alive and well. those less fortunate.m in san francisco, carlos sauce o saucedo. abc 7 news. in the east ba oakland made christmas wishes come true. yesterday, we were in phillips church for the annual event. they've collected toys for the past years and give to families whose families otherwise don't have funds for the holidays. >> it's a good opportunity not only for her to give some gifts and also to appreciate the people who don't have people or parents to give them, buy them gift. >> we're lucky to be here. seeing kids' faces, smile and have a good time. >> the chp also handed out toys
to kids at love temple baptist church in east oakland. >> jolly old st. nick had a hand in the holidays for some military families. abc 7 news was at moffitt field where the alumni association and wine country marines distributed toys to the children of service people. >> we had an outpouring. we want this out there. the community -- once it's out there, the community responded genero generously. it was crazy. we have an overflow of toys. >> volunteers say the toys can make a big difference, especially for families who have loved ones deployed or injured during the holidays. dangerous waves off the bay area coast have affected families crab feast for christmas. commercial crab fishermen are finding the rough waters too dangerous to take out their boats resulting in a shortage of crabs for the holidays. restaurants, stores and fish markets are in short supply.
if you can find available crab for purchase, it can be more expensive than usual. >> it's too dangerous with the swells and the waves being so high. that affects us as in we don't have any crabs to supply the restaurants. i am hoping that it ends soon as new year's is coming up. there's a high demand for the crab. >> fishermen say the supply of black and rock cod have also been affected. hi there. sunday morning. waking up to a lot of cloud cover. many layers of clouds out there. live doppler 7 showing you a little bit of green. we'll show you more of this as it slips out of northern california. it's raining. the north bay will see showers today. it will be reinvigorated by another front that had allow for showers for everyone come tomorrow, christmas eve. still have our coastal flood advisory in effect through 1:00. high tide at 11:15 today.
the areas, once again, prone to 51 in san francisco. 49 in hayward. upper 40s in mountain view. and with 43 in livermore, it feels warmer out there. the golden gate bridge, nobody is there. the visibility is pretty good. we're looking for cloudy skies. showers in the north bay and then the showers could flip south throughout the day wet and breezy weather arrives for christmas eve. the storm impact scale is a 1. this is for a monday with scattered showers. anywhere from a tenth to .2 and the winds will be an issue that you'll notice monday and into christmas day. here's our timeline as we get through the day today. you'll notice the showers in the afternoon in the north bay. then by 6:00, they want to slip parallel to the coast. we could see a shower in the city, maybe half moon bay. but otherwise, there's a lull tonight and then the next system getting organized by early
monday morning scattered showers. by 3:00 in the afternoon, moderate rain from santa rosa to point reyes. this pushes to the east and south. 5:00 on monday, it's raining in the east bay and the south bay. thn by late monday overnight, still scattered showers. we could see a thunderstorm in the north bay. amounts very light from a couple hundredths in san jose to about a tenth in richmond, .2 in santa rosa. the light rain but behind it, it's going to be breezy. 11:00 on monday, christmas eve when you're out and about, if you don't see the showers, it's going to be getting windy. you'll look at the blues changing to yellows and reds here. these are northwesterly winds, southerly wind ahead of the front up to 30 miles per hour. behind it, we get that wind shift into christmas day. the wdsing oee 15o 25m s e hr we have a winter storm watch.
8 to 12 inches up to 18 inches through christmas day. then for the sierra nevada above 6,000 feet, 6 to 12 inches through 10:00 on tuesday. look at kirkwood at 15 inches. ten inches donder. boy do they need it. 59 in fremont. cloudy skies there. the accuweather seven-day forecast, the showers north. you can track live doppler 7 at 1:00 for christmas eve. that's a weak storm system. but it will be pesky enough to impact a lot of folks and then we're dry for christmas day. cold mornings after that. >> you have to grab the umbrella and jacket if you're doing last-minute shopping and getting ready for the feast on christmas day, right? >> yeah. >> just ahead,
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federation says americans will spend shy of 30 billion d on gift card this holiday season. that's up from last year by a couple billion. the types of card they're buying are also changing. 7 on your side's michael finney has been looking into the trend. >> holiday shoppers out in force at shopping malls and on their computers, too. and the big items being gifted this year, as in the recent past, gift cards. recent study shows shoppers plan to purchase an average of four gift cards this holiday season. each card will be worth about $50. the more than half will focus on experiences, not stuff. >> people don't really post so much about the things that they buy. they post about the things that they're doing. >> shelly hunter is the gift card girlfriend.
she keeps close track of the world of gift cards and says experiences are where much of the gift card world isersus, too. >> my husband is very hard to buy for. so i ended up getting him something great, which is an experience. >> the national retail federation says more than half the gift cards being bought this year are for restaurants, theaters and other entertainment venues. another trend? choice. >> we're used to having gift card for a particular merchant. this year we have new gift card on the market that give you a choice of brands. >> these are the gift cards labeled happy. they gocer focus on a type of food or dining. particular groups of people or their interest. you can think outside of the use gift card giving and come up with your own plan. that's what phyllis is doing for your son and daughter-in-law. >> give my son and daughter-in-law a gift certificate to a hotel, like
timber cove. >> wow. >> they like that place. that's where my daughter-in-law got pregnant. [ laughter ] >> that's the ultimate experience isn't it? >> i bought it again for them because you never know. >> the most important thing you can do when receiving a gift card is to use it right away. you could lose a card, forget you have it. or the store could go out of business. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. >> a single engine pane that landed on an alabama highway gave people a scare. about 50 miles east of birmingham. one witness tweeted video of the landing. as you can see the pilot pulled over to the shoulder after safely bringing his plane down. two people were on board. the pilot blamed an engine failure for this emergency landing. it's a christmas miracle in manhatta manhattan. he was on a platform near lincoln center and spotted a
blue chanel bag. he found a note written in russian. inside of that bag, 100, $100 totaling $10,000. he took this photo of that cash and turned it into the police department. >> it's not mine. the right thing to do, somebody lost $10,000. obviously, they're probably going through a lot of duress. >> figure it's something most people would have done. i don't think i did anything that extraordinary. >> turns out the bag's owner was on her way to the airport traveling to russia when she lost it. she reported her loss to the precinct where he dropped off the money and the chanel bag. take a look at how a wildlife shelter is wishing everyone a hoppy holiday. this is how they get ready for christmas down under in australia. this was a feeding at a wildlife shelter. we're not sure if he gets to
join the eight tiny reindeer on christmas eve. still ahead, a deadly tsunami strikes indonesia. we'll have the latest on this. new developments by
good morning. thanks so much for being with us. i'm chris nguyen. we're starting this half hour with a quick look at the weather. lisa argen is here. >> with the cloud out there, temperatures are not as cold as you would think. east bay valleys in the 40s. 44 in dublin as well as pleasant hill and antioch. closer to the bay, milder in hayward at 49 as well as oakland. 51 san francisco. 46 in novato. we're much warmer this morning. anywhere from a degree to about 9 degrees warmer due to the layer of cloud. we'll be looking at the cloud cover throughout the morning
hours and then by the afternoon, few peeks of sun east and south. showers develop in the north bay. stay dry in san jose and livermore. numbers in the mid and upper 50s. the sunsets a minute later today at 4:55. we'll be tracking a level one system for your christmas eve. chris? >> lisa, thank you. developing news out of indonesia. a tsunami that hit the coast around the sunda strait killed it 222 people. the country's disaster management agency expects the numbers to go up. the tsunami also destroyed hundreds of homes and damaged several hotels and restaurants. a combination of underwater landslides caused by the eruption of a volcano triggered the tsunami. officials say there was no warning before the waves hit. the town of paradise brought back an annual christmas
tradition despite destruction from the campfire. a christmas tree lighting and ice skating event was held last night. they have run the rink every year since 2012 and says this year would be no different. the paradise park district worked with the city to provide treats to attend ees. 90% of the homes were lost. the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in california history. a family from paradise will be spending time in southern california thanks to the generosity from strangers. their home was destroyed in the fire. the couple, along with their two children, were able to grab a few belongings before evacuating. all else was lost. another couple have a home in riverside county but spend most of their time in l.a. to be close to work. they offered it up on facebook rent-free for a year for a family in need. >> it's gotten better.
our kids love here. this home is beautiful. >> how the couple picked the salazars was not disclosed. we know that more than 1,000 families applied. 5:32 the time. across the valley, protesters hit the streets of paris for a fifth straight week there. protesters skirmished with riot police. authorities say the crowds were much smaller than those we saw a few weeks ago. nonetheless, protesters were vocal about the rising cost of living and economic hardship in france. they've called for the resignation of president emmanuel macron. tourist attractions like the louvre and the eiffel tower remained open. in san francisco, a group donned yellow vests and rallied outside the consulate with solidarity --
>> austerity measures and a widening gap between the rich and the poor is something that bay area residents can relate to. >> people in san francisco, the wealthiest city in the world and people are dying in the streets. 29,000 people living in tents in the bay area. it's an emergency situation. these billionaires need to mayer pay for public housing so people can afford to live here. >> similar protests took place inown to about 2600. according to the u.s. northern command, about 1200 are in california with the remaining 1400 split between arizona and texas. president trump sent the troops before the midterm election because of the caravan from migrants from central america. at its peak, 5800 troops were at the border or in staging areas. deployment was set to end on december 15th. but the pentagon extended it to january 21st. new developments with the
growing outrage over a high school wrestler in new jersey being told to cut his dreadlocks to finish a wrestling match. we're told the state launched an investigation now. >> new jersey's division of civil rights launching an investigation after growing outrage over this incident at a high school wrestling match. andrew johnson was given an ultimatum as he stood ready to compete. cut his dreadlocks or forfeit the match. >> i have not seen his problem with the referee or anything in a playated athletic regulat. hair is,y can attached to the ear guards. it's not known why a cap wasn't an option in this case. not wanting to hurt the team, andrew agreed to the cut wincing as a trainer chopped off his hair. the young man in all his humility pinned his opponent,
dejected but undefeated. the governor of new jersey saying on twitter, no student should have to needlessly choose between his or her identity in playing sports. nearly 13 million views later, many want to know what role, if any, did race play. according to a report by the courier post, maloney who is white acknowledged calling another ref a racial slur in 2016. he was suspended and sent to sensitivity training after the incident. the ref has not been fired but he has been sidelined pending the current investigation. zachary quiche, abc news many workers in the bay area could be taking home a larger paycheck. moreewide, the minimum wage will sta uimately wants to get it to $15 a the federal minimum wage is ar cities have minimum wage ordinances on the books. in san francisco, for example, a wage increase would kick in on
july 1st of next year. still ahead on abc 7 mornings, helping low-income families go green. the nonprofit group that's reaching a big milestone with solar panel installations this year. as we head to break, the time is 5:36. this is a live look from the abc 7 exploratorium camera pointed at the financial district in san francisco this morning. lisa ♪ ozempic®! ♪ oh! oh! (vo) people with type 2 diabetese f once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. and reache(vo) a1c and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. oh! up to 12 pounds?
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you can see the bridge in the distance. the salesforce tower to the right. a beautiful view to wake up to. we'll get a full check of the accuweather forecast and lisa argen will let us know what changes are ahead in the forecast. if you're looking for gifts, you can find some at the street fair in berkeley. more than 200 artists have best work for sale. the fair is on telegraph avenue between dwight and bancroft next to the campus. it will be open again tomorrow. san francisco's oldest department store is officially closing itstoda gump's near union square opened in 1861 as a frame and mirror shop t eventually became an exlusive store selling an array of exclusive items. they filed foreaye. li, a lotlseng out torne lastch
>> that's great. weatherwise, more of the same in terms of chilly temperatures you've been tracking. but one day of rain? >> we do. we have a chance in the bay area. it may get you wet. the breezy winds are going to be a factor out there as we get through the evening hours, sfo right now 51 degrees. it's in the mid-40s our coolest location. a lot of cloud cover. our mild he's start. maybe a damp finish. we'll talk about it coming up. lisa, thank you. the warriors get a spark off the bench
east palo alto family is going to be harnessing solar energy to help reduce their monthly utility bill and it's being installed by a bay area-based dptd with the help of volunteers. reporter david lieu louis shows us how 1100 homes have become sustainable. we're actually going to switch over to sports now and a lot happening there. let's see. let me get my prompter in place. in sports, this afternoon, the 49 railroads will play a final home game of the season. khalil mack and the bears top ranked defense will try to slow down the niners offense.
kickoff is at 1:05 p.m. at levi's stadium. tomorrow, monday night football the raiders. if you're not going to the game, you can watch coverage here on abc 7 at 5:00 p.m. tonight, the warriors host the clippers at oracle arena. the dubs opened a four-game homestand against them last night. we have the morning sports report. >> good morning everyone. the warriors are going to be busy for the mol days. last night they tipped off the first of three games in a four-day span highlighted by their christmas day showdown with lebron and the lakers. the dubs taking on the mavericks. draymond green finding his shooting touch. he had 14. most points since october 31st. drained two threes, ten boards. luka doncic, finished with 19. mavs up three at the break.
third quarter, doncic goes hard into the crowd. he ends up hitting the young kid in his seat. play was still going on. but he stayed with the kiduree . after the game, he gave his jersey and an autograph. great job. steph curry made seven field goals, six of them from distance. 22 points. night, player of the game, jerebko. 21 minutes. 10 of 12 shooting. a career high 23. six fours and a two-handed flush. get in there. plenty of energy for the dubs to the fourth quarter. they would blow an 18-point lead. wesley matthews, 3 of his 25. the lead was down to four. then with 20 seconds remaining, warriors by a point. kevin durant, the dagger. he had 29-12-8. the dubs win it, 120-116. >> this is a very accomplished team. i'm just trying to fit in where i can and do whatever it takes. if it's rebound or playing
defense or knocking down the shots. crashing the glass hard. you know, doing all the little things. that's what i try to ote made a whole bunch of was -- he shot the ball really well. but he got a lot of offensive boards too. he had four of them and a couple tip-ins. he had several plays that just got the crowd into it now to college hoops. the san francisco dogs know how to defend their home court. stanford cardinal, the latest team to leave the hilltop with a loss. the gm, bob myers checking out the action. the dons are undefeated. frankie ferrari, the great bounce pass. stanford better in the second half than the first. te'jon davis, off the turnover. strong finish. you got to play defense. ferrari was left wide open. stanford got the lead down to four. brice wills with the corner three-ball.
usf goes back the other way. the basket and the foul. san francisco wins it 74-65. they improve to 12-1 on the season. in berkeley, the bears taking on number one uconn. both teams undefeated coming in. asia thomas turning defense into offense. takes it the other way. had a team high 22. katie lou samuelson with the drive and the had 20. from behind the arc, one of her six threes. suffers the first loss of the year. uconn won 126 consecutive regular season games. a rare saturday matinee in san jose. the sharks hitting the ice against their long-time rivals. the kings second meeting this year between the two teams. sharks won the first in overtime. il ilya kovalchuk missed due to an
injury. the kings given a 1-0 lead. the great pass to lucas -- 30 seconds remaining. joe pavelski redirects the shot. 2-2 headed into overtime. the extra frame, kovalchuk on the break away. he wins it with the second goal of the game. surprise winner, 3-2 in overtime. that's a look at your morning sports. have a great weekend and happy holiday. i'm anthony flores. now your accuweather forecast with lisa argen. >> good morning to you. starting out with mild conditions and a nice view here from mt. tam looking back over the city. visibility is in good shape. we've had the fog for the past several days. this morning, about ten miles everywhere you look. so that's with the layered clouds. with those clouds, we will see a chance of showers mainly to the north of us today. north of the golden gate. around sonoma and napa. a few of the showers could slip south and then we'll be looking
at more showers developing for christmas eve. with that, we will rank that system and talk about rainfall totals in a moment. another point, the sun coming up well after 7:00. you'll notice that you can see pretty good out there from the sutro tower camera. salesforce tower and all the lights lit up. temperatures are mild in the 40s. you can see just a couple of spotty returns here on live doppler 7. we go closer to the north, just a little bit of snow. we have the advisories in the mountains to pass on for the next couple of days. but we're also looking at that coastal flood advisory for the high tide again later on today. 6.91 at 11:05. you can see the highlighted areas from mill valley, around the bay, th g, the numbers all in the 40s except for the coast and san francisco, 51. half moon bay is 49. hayward, 43 for you.
we bring in the storm impact scale for tomorrow. today is scattered spotty light showers in the north bay. this is tomorrow's system. it's a 1. most cities will see less than a quarter of an inch of rain. the winds are certainly going to be a factor beginning tomorrow right on through christmas day. the timeline for today will bring in a few light showers in the north bay. then 6:00, maybe a sprinkle. but overall, we're looking for this next system to cue up. 8:00 monday morning. here comes the front. by 3:00 in the afternoon, a few brief heavy downpours from santa rosa. by the later afternoon, when you're getting all that last-minute shopping done, we still have the wet pavement and some showers. even pretty good rain perhaps in livermore and around pescadero. pushes through. scattered light showers remain late in the day and through christmas, we'll get into the breezy westerly winds. a tenth throughout richmond, o maybe .25 in san francisco. look at the southerly winds ahead of the system. monday afternoon, 25 mira long
the coast. notice all the yellow still in place by christmas eve night and by christmas morning, it is blustery out there with winds up to 30 miles an hour. we're dry, windy and we're below average. on christmas day. we'll get that sunshine. winter storm watch in the sierra west slopes. 8 to 12 inches. up to 18 inches possible and then here in the sierra nevada, right through yosemite, looking at 6 to 12 inches with gusty winds up to 40 miles an hour. the amounts not bad. 15 inches at kirkwood. definitely need snow there. with the rain to the north, mid-50s there. we're looking at not only the shower activity raiders. low 50s with rain. the accuweather seven-day forecast. download the accuweather app and keep track of that rain today. level 1 tomorrow. lisa, thank you so much. appreciate it. see you soon. a family in east palo alto
will soon be harnessing solar eneruc t utility bill. it's being installed by a bay area nonprofit group. david louis shows us how more than 11,000 homes have become sustainable. >> don't push too hard at first. just get started. >> this home it the latest of about 11,000 to get a free residential solar system from grid alternatives, a bay area-based nonprofit that focuses on helping low-income families. it's relied on a small number employees to do the installation. the work is being done under the guidance of supervisors part of a year long training program. >> they're on the roof and on the ground. training and leading the volunteers. so within their short time here less than a year, they're able to explain two groups of
volunteers how to do it themselves. >> she used to be a set designer. >> i wanted a career in renewable energy. i was just looking for a place that aligned with my mission. personal mission to help low-income families in underserved communities. >> grid alternatives does many here and overseas. it usually cost bs $30,000. over the projected life of the solar system, the family is expected to save $10,000 in energy costs. the system is designed for each site. bank of america and other corporate sponsors provide free labor. it provided a half millio dollar grant to support the solar installation training program. >> we are trying to make an impact. we help communities being most sustainable. >> by the time it's turned on, the family expects to see a savings of about $42 a month on utility bills.
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different ton on stage last night. >> the candidates still attacking but the issues and not each other. good morning on this friday morning. i'm sheli muniz. >> i'm eric harryman. it's one minute past the hour on this friday, march 11th. we have a complete breakdown of the debate. brand new interviews this morning from the spin room from right after those cmeras were turned off. >> nbc 6 meteorologist erika delgado is here with a look at the fgrecast. >> we finally made it. rain-free on this friday morning. live first alert radar looking pretty quiet. this is good news as we head out e door this early in the morning. taking a look at conditions from ft. lauderdale into key west. dealing with just a few clouds. as you can see mostlyloudy in ft. lauderdale right now. a few clouds in miami and we're waking up to mostly clear skies down into the middle and lower keys. milstart as you can see. it is a breezy start to the day. looking like the breezy conditions will stick around for
why are we dealing with clouds across the area? we'll look at the moisture over the gulf of mexico creeping into weekend goes on. in the meantime we're expecting a nice start to our weekend. that goes for friday aswell. first alert forecast reaching the 80 degreemark. let's take a look at the friday roads. here is your first alert traffic report with kelly blanco. >> as you make your way out the door in miami-dade, i have good news and bad news. we have a traffic alert blocking those express lanes. i know this is bad, but it looked worse about five minutes ago. if you're headed out the door, hopefully this clears in the next few minutes. this is i-95 southbound approaching state road 112. you still see the flashing lights off to the side of those express lanes. off. that's cleared out of the way. this is that one traffic alert. the good news, 836 drivers
avenue, we had a crash with injuries blocking two lanes. also more problems on the dolphin expressway making your way eastbound before northwest 45th avenue. a left lane was completely blocked off. these two accidents on the up. you have nothing to worry about in broward countyty and in miami-dade just the one accident on i-95 southbound. just about 6:03 on your friday morning. the gop takes the stage, but this debate for the most part was very unlike the others, at least to this point. >> the candidates were on the attack, but over policies out. studio. a different approach this time from debates past. >> a lot more decorum. i think everybody was happy to see that, even the republicans. this morning each candidate's team trying to make the case for their man in the last four days heading up to the florida primary. that'u what's happening with what we're hearing. three of the four final
other destinations like st. louis and chicago and other states, also voting on march 14th. marco rubio is sticking to his home state to keep it frfr becoming his last stand. meanwhile ohio governor john kasich is heading to his home for him. this morning, his national spokesman is applauding the buckeye state governor for his performance hnd his example in miami. >> i don't think anybody scored any knockout punches. it seses like the other three candidates learned from john kasich when you're running for president, you have to act like a president. >> a big chunk of delegates supp for grabs next tuesday. 367 in all. remember, florida is a winner-take-allstate. dealing with radical islam was alsoson issue. donald trump said in the past
listen to how candidates reacted. >> i will tell you there's something going on that maybe you don't know about and maybe a lot of other people don't know about but there's tremendous hatred. >> i think you can be correct without needing to be politically correct. we will have to work with eem in the muslim face as islam itself faces a seer use crisis within it. the answer is not to yell china bad, muslims bad. you've got to understand the nature of the threats we're facing. >> nbc 6 is everywhere. our coverage of the gop debate. you're looking at a little piece of it ere, taking it across the university of mii campus where students were watching. a lot of these students were hoping the finally make up their for. some already stumping for gop front-runner donald trump. outside the event, it was a differentcene with protesters boulevard.
care, childl all these issues that the working class people, that are important to us, those are the issues that we want them to focus on. >> so no matter who the students choose to vote for, the organizers of the watch party say they're happy that they're watching because they want the younger generation to also be involved with this election. that, mind you, is what's going to make it very interesting come that final vote. >> on the democratic side, senator bernie sanders expected to be in three states today. north carolina, ohio and illinois. as for hillary clinton, she'll spend part of her day attending nancy reagan's funeral. yesterday clinton surprised staff at the fountain blue in miami bch. sanders attended a rally in tampa, kissimmee, gainesville. we'll have a live report from wad in the next ten minutes. nbc 6 getting an update from police. while you were sleeping
own ir taking matters into her own hands. she got an alert on her cell phone there was an intruder in her house. police say the 54-year-old woman was using her surveillance vis tell when she got an alert on her phone. she went home and found a 17-year-old boy running out the back door of her house at northwest 19th avenue near 72nd street yesterday afafrnoon. the homeowner pulled a gun on that burglar. he died at the hospital. you can catch the full report from erika glover in our next half hour. in opa-locka taxpayers dancing in the street. crowd gathered when fbi agents raid city hall. this morning those agents looking for more potential corruption and victims. nbc 6 reporter michael spears is live in opa-locka. michael, no one seems to be surprised here. former ziti leaders say this is long overdue. >> reporter: not at all, sheli. the tax parps we spoke with see
a federal public corruption investigation that could lead to sweeping changes here at city all. this morning fbi can tell you we'll have menplenty of evidence to dig into. you can see video from chopper 6. you'll see here fbi agents raiding city hall and carrying out box after box of apparent evidence. we'veeeen working to confirm evidence in this investigation. up until now the fbi has been tight lipped about the specifics.% we also know the newly appointed city manager steve shriver was ousted after exposing the city was millions in dead. taxpayers are damages. they rejoice as the raid was carried out. we spoke to them and also that former city commissioner. >> we don't carwho they are, we want them to go to jail. >> at this point the fbi said no one has been arrested.
mayor, mira taylor as she left. she left right after this raid began. we weren't able to get a kmont from her. coming up at 6:30, you'll hear from the ousted city manager about what he's saying about thehe city's finance system. we'll play it for you in the xt half hour. live in opa-locka, michael spears, nbc 6 news. michael, thank you so much. we'll talk to you again at 6:30. heavyweights stepping out of the ring to help get guns o south florida streets. we'll see how a violent sport is actually look 20g make some peace. springing forward can leave a lot of people lagging behind on monday.
that hourur welcome back.
across south florida today. >> last night was much better than debates in the past. tracie potts live in wrd. a key endorsement expected to come today.
the >> reporter: a moment of civility in what continues to be a tense race. now the democrats are following them, too. usy day for bernie sanders, starts out in north carolina, ends up in illinois with a stop in ohio. ohio is where hillary clinton is hoping to make her midwest comeback after that devastating loss in michigan. live in washington, tracie potts, nbc 6 news. later today we will be streaming live as ben carson officially endorses donald trump.
page, nbc6.com, or on the nbc 6 news and weather app. following breaking news overnight, this time out of berlin. that's where a 23-year-old is in custody after falsely claiming to have a bomb inside his suitcase. police say it all started when this guy was turned away at the tour door of the u.s. embassy. he got upset about at, he got violent and said he had a bomb in his suitcase. a police robot brought in to open up the bag and look in it. they only found personal items, clothes and other things. police did continue to say ere is, quote, many indications he is psychologgally disturbed. all right, south florida, 6:15.
dealing with a few clouds, but right now mostly clear skies. that will be the trend on and off as the day goes on, especially with that breezy east-southeast wind. this is a look outside our first alert camera. that's the american airlines arena. mostly clear. conditions. morning. our live first alert radar quiet across much of ft. lauderdale down into miami-dade county. we're also waking up to mild temperatures, 72 in the miami area as well as ft. lauderdale. 71 in kendall, closer to average, more seasonable outside our viewing area. nanaes up and down the gulf coast. we're dealing with a few clouds. the majority ofhe clouds now over the guks. for us things looking g gd so far. we're waking up to quiet conditions. for your first alert trafficforecast temperatures into the mid to lower 80s under breezy
risk of rip currents along the plik atlantic beaches. down into the keys we're expecting mostly sunny skies, breezy again with the wind out of e east-southeast allowing temperatures to warm right back up into the mid to lower 80s this afternoon. our zoomed-outlook, high pressure has been anchored off the carolina coast the past few days. now it is beginning to weaken, pushing further and further int the atlantic waters allowing for this moisture to creep back into our sunshine state. we'll see that overnight tonight tonight and especially into this weekend. the dry air, for our friends in the bahamas, things looking nini. all the moisture over the gulf of mexico will leave us a mix of sun and clouds this weekend, especially sunday into monday. breezy conditions, one rip current risk, two, marine conditions. we are expecting the uv index to be on the higher end of the
sunscreen handy, low 80s, isolated showers nday and monday, isolateed at bes at calle ocho, keep hydrated. it will be warm. we hope to see you out there. we will be there all weekend long. here is first alert traffic reporter kelly blanco. >> hope your morning is off to a good start. 826 on-ramp to 36th street is complety block add off due to a crash. let's change sources where we also had a crash on i-95 southbound, and i showed you this camera about t%n minutes ago. it definitely looks a lot worse. happy to report that accident is finally off to the shoulder, not bot@hering you any longer. the southbound lanes looking good. northwest 54th street, the express lanes have opened back up. let's change the camera and show you we do have a broken down car. this is 395 eastbound. you see the broken down truck blocking the entrance ramp around the area of parrot jungle trail.
normal and westbound lanes leaving the miami beach area towards the mainland is fine. a brand new accident on the palmetto expressway around the area of northwest 103rd street blocking a couple lanes. direction is still unknown. i'm going to make some phone calls for you. as soon as i get that information, i'll send out a push alert so you can avoid that area. the parents of a baby tossed into a dumpster by a funeral home. this happened back in 2014 when a homeless person foun the body in the garbage bin. the baby was eventlly laid to rest. a local boxing gym stepping into the ring to get guns off the streets. the plan is to give $100 gift cards for each working gun they turn in. the heavyweight factory gym donating $100,000 for the
you can bring the gun no questions asked. they take it from you. police s s every gun they get off the streets has a tangible impact on reducing gun violence. your time is 19 minutes past the hour. the cdc is pressing congress for soremone money to fight the zika virus. more than 200 cases reported in united states so far with several in south florida, all of them picking up the virus while traveling abroad. the cdc is asking for $2 billion to fight the virus in latin mayor canned help it from preventing it more -- in puerto rico the virus is spreading quickly. there is growing evidence that t zika could be linked to birth defects in newborns. s s consider this. this is your heads-up. if you set your coffee pot on monday morning so you wake up and your coffee is ready, donot forget we're going going to spring ahead over the weekend. if you don't set that clock, your day on monday is going to
>> we lose an hour of sleep. losing an hour of sleep will lead to a lot of grumpy people. chronic sleep deprivation can raise the risk of much more dangerous things. doctors say the solution makak sleep a bigger priority. sleep experts recommend adults get seven to nine hours of good quality shut eye each night. >> don't wake up grumpy. then you show up to work grumpy and everybody else is grumpy. >> even if you don't get seven to nine hours of sleep -- >> even if you only get four. 6:21 on your friday morning miami heat star talks about his health. what the big man had to say about a possible return to the courts. mother says she stumbled
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sure i'm healthy for myself, my family and my tem. he also says he continues to remain positive he will return this season. he didn't say if he is on blood thinners. later today, sheli and kaley and myself and erika delgado will be repelling down the side of the sonesta hotel all for a good cause. sheli is still a little apprehensive about jumping off a perfectly good building. we're pushing her along here. >> i signed up as a cheerleader and somehow was roped in. so we're doing it to support gilda's club, a charity that helps families impacted by cancer. the memberss are wonderful and the organizers are great. if you're interested in going over the edge or want to support the charity, you can go to their page right thtre. >> go to their facebook page, it's amazing. it's so fun. today is media day so we g to take part. hopefully that will encourage you to take part tomorrow. they raise good money for a
you can also go over there to cheer on the folks off the beach. 6:26 is your time. restoring relations with cuba, a hot topic issue during the latest gop debaba. a look at what the candidates are vowing the do. o o northwest miami-dade homeowner took matters into her own hands when respondingngo a possible burglary. officers are reminding the public why scenarios like this one can quickly turn deadly. more details coming up. south florida, if you're dropping the ds at the bus stop, we'll look at the forecast one more time. mild temperatures, mid to low 70s. no sun and clouds just yesterday. once the sunrises, we are expecting mostly to partly sunny
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welcome back. we'll gel you started with live breaking new chopper 6 over the situation. what you're looking at is in ft. lauderdale, northwest 1st street and 30th avenue. what it sounds like we'fe dealing with here, very early reports, information still coming in about a reported shooting there. in turn, police officers have set up a perimeter. again, these are live pictures from chopper 6. you're looking at northwest 1st street and 30th avenue. >> perhaps a bailout that stems from a shooting police activity. looks like there's a residential area. we did seee businesses around here. chopper 6 will keep you posted as soon as we get a new update. first a check of youou first alert traffic and weather together, starting from our hollywood diplomat and resort camera. ryan is off. erika is in.
great event. hopefully the wind won't be a factor. we're going to jump off a perfectly good building for a good cause. >> do you want good news or do you want the truth? >> lie to me. >> winds will begin to die down as the day goes on. the breezy conditions will stick around for the next few hours. as you can see, we're already waking up to breezez conditions. winds out of the east-southeast to 10 to 20 miles per hour. gusting as high as 25 miles per hour later this afternoon. mild start to the day. temperatures in the lower 70s. waking up around eight, ten degrees above average for this time of year. but at leaste're waking up rain-free. live first alert radar, quiet conditions so far this morning. dlouds over the gulf of mexico already leaving flooding rains across the mississippi valley. for your first alert forecast we'll have a mix of sun and clouds.
70s mid to late morning hours. at least breezy conditions, rain-free all morning long. let's take a look at the roads with first alert traffic reporter kelly blanco. >> we have a traffic alert in miami-dade. take a look at your screen. maybe you're getting ready for work, for school, making breakfast, getting the kids ready. thiiis going to be a problem. this is 826northbound. if you have our nbc 6 news and weather app, you got the push alert. this is northbound right before northwest 122nd street. around the area of northwest 103rd street. you'll find two lanes blocd off. your typical morning tie-ups on your southbound lanes. this is on the palmetto expressway northbound. no word on the this is involving a patrol car or not, but you can see two cars here off to the left-hand side. let's take you over to the maps
eastbound at 57th avenue. this accident is a brand new crash on the dolphin expressway. the other two that we had have cleared up. >> kelly, thank you so much. fight night for the republicans turnrnout to be pretty tame compared to other debates. the candidates focusing on the issues, not so much each other. this morning we have brand new reaction from the campaigns following that debate. julia bagg is live in the studio. some callink it a two-man race. others saying not so fast. >> guess w is calling it a two-man race? donald trump, of course. even before last night, ted cruz told me that, too. donald trump a little less subtle saying last night in a thinly veiled reference to his rivals marco rubio and john kasich that, quote, there arar two of us that cannot. we saw auch more tempered trump that left aside those nasty insults as they chalnged
immigration and education. here is what donald trump had to say. >> a lot of substance. >> i think the contrast with donald trump was remarkable. mr. trump does not know what he was talking abt. marco rubio was right on. >> now trump is jetting off for campaign stops in st. louis and chicago. meanwhile, ted cr also headed for illinois. john kasich is going for his home state of ohio for his must-win contest there. meanwhile, marco rubio focusing on florida. he needs to be winner take all to stay competitive in this race. one of the popular issues in last night's debate specifically was cuba. some of the candidates condemning obama's deal with the castro rooejegime. >> i would probably have the embassy closed until such time as a really good deal was made
>> the embassy is a former consulate. 's the same building. second of all, i don't know where cuba is going to sue us. if thaw sue us in a court in miami, they're going to lose. here is an idea, cuba has free elections, stops putting people in jail for speaking out, cuba has freedom of the press. we shouldn't be allowing billions of dollars to go to nations that hate us, to go to cuba, that go to iran. >> a s srong amemeca is what the entire world is begging for. where has america gone? >> on the democratic side, senator bernie sanders expected to be in three states today, north caolina, ohio and illinois. hillary clintowill spend part of her day attending nancy reagan's pham funeral. she surprised staffality the fountain blue yesterday and made appearances in north carolina and illinois. senatgr sanders saying he's going to stay in florida, attending a rally in tampa and kissimmee. he made a stop at the university of florida wearing a gators hat,
and vote there. >> i know florida is big football country, right? [ applause ] unless you're in on the field, football is a senior political correspondent stater sport. democracy is not a spectator sport. >> speaking right to his audience there. both contenders gearing up for the big prize. floridarimary next tuesday with its winter nsh take-all delegatee up for grabs. an update in the case of the fatal hit-and-run that happened in miami beach. take a look here. police released these surveillance pictures they say hit and killed a woman this past weekend. the victim, 55-year-old lilia mejia pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. police say she was hit by an suv early sunday morning at the intersection of northeast 19th avenue and northeast 177th
the driver is still on the run out there. if you know anything about the driver or the vehicle, contact miami-dade crimestoppers, that number, 305-471-tips. this morning fbi agents will continue searching through evidence during a raid that happened at opa locka city hall. we covered this yesterday. nbc 6 reporter michael spears talked to a lot of people in the community who were very happy to the fbi only confirming this is agents spending much of yesterday raiding city behind us. that investigation continues. agents seen carrying box after box out of city hall. specifics. we do know last november, the
shiver was ousted after exposing the city was millions of dollars in debt. he released this video statement. >> i pointed out several irregularity ts. >> mayor mira taylor left as this raid began. no one answered the door at her home. no one has been arrested. michael spears, nbc 6 news. this morning we have new video of the woman attacked by her roommate she met on craigslist. she is waking up. this video was sent to us by her family. nbc 6 was the first to tell you about the story of danielle jones last month. the 23-year-old was attacked by her roommate who she met on craigslist. jones has been i i a coma since that attack. 35-year-old byron mitchell i i facing attempted murder charges. taking matters into herwn hands. a south florida homeowner confronts a would be robber inside her home. shots were fired. we'll tell you what happened out of that.
coming from a republican presidential candidate. who is next to team up with donald d ump? we'll have that and the six stories you need to know before you head out the door. your friday forecast, mild start to the day. a mix of sun and clouds now that the sun has risen. waking up to mild conditions. it will be rain-free for the majority of the morning. how are the roads looking so far. >> definitely looking better in broward county. miami-dade we have a couple of traffic alerts. if you're headed out 595 to u.s. 441, an eight-minute drive ahead of you.
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perimeter set up by police because they do believe a suspect here, a posble shooting suspect has bailed out of a vehicle. this is northwest 31st street and 19th avenue. this is where the perimeter is set up because they believe a suspect has bailed out of his vehicle. >> we're talking about a possible shooptink as well. we'll keep you posted. here you go, chopper 6 over the scene where that perimeter is set up. we'll head over to kelly blanco with a traffic alert for us. >> on the palmetto expressway northbound, two lanes completely blocked off because of an earlier accident that right now has things slowing for you on the palmetto expressway northbound. just after -- just before rthwest 122nd street. again, around the area of northwest 114th and northwest 103rd strt. your southbound lanes looking busy. that's where we have no accident. it's your northbound lanes being affected right now, two left
give yourself extra time this morning if you're making your way out the door in miami-dade and on the palmetto expressway northbound. you know how it goes when we have accidents during rush hour. happy to report. stop and go traffic on the done shula expressway between the turrpine and killian parkway. >> now, first alert weather with meteorologist eri[a delgado, south florida's most accurate forecast. >> all right, south florida. dry conditions out there good news. the roads are busy as kelly mentioned. at least we're not dealing with
live first alert radar looking quiet. ft. lauderdale down into the city of miami. that goes for the keys as well. things are looking pretty good. mild start to the day, 72 in ft. lauderdale and pompano beach. 71 for the kendall area, mid to low 70s across much of the florida keys this morning. warmrm and more humid in south florida this morning. the next 24 hours won't be as breezy, but the rip current risk will remain on the higher end of the scale as moisture continues to creep up to south florida. that spotty shower chance returns for the weekend. your first alert forecast, a few degrees abgve average. a sfu clouds to start the day. it will be breezy. moments of sunshine and moments where there will be more cloud cover than sun out there. of course, with the breezy east-southeast wind, we're expecting rip currents to be a big concern for today. dry start for the weekend, warm
then a spotty shower comes for sunday, but really won't be a washout, isolated at best temperatures will be warm. if you're heading out there, come out to calle ocho and say hello. keep hydrated. ahead of the systemhat continues to pump in all this moisture from the southern plains into the lower mississippi valley, flooding rains again eected today. so definitely not good news for our friends out there. as the system continues to approach, we're expecting increasing moisture uv index on the higher end of the scale. keep it in mind if you have any outdoor plans, not only today but into the weekend. we talked about the weekend, spotty showers sunday into monday. warm temperatures stick around. looking like winter and spring never made it here. at least not spring.
summer the next few days. >> the south florida won takes matters into her own hams when she gets home to take a burglar in the act. erika glover has the latest on the vision. >> reporter: officers wa to remind people how things can turn deadly and whatnot to do. >> when the alarm went off at this home on thursday evening, officers say the 54-year-old homeowner was not there. instead, she was alerted of a possible burglary by the alarm company. police were also notified, but the homeowner was first to arrive. >> checking the home herself when she observed a subject exiting the home through the rear. at that point.
>> the homeowner shot the intruder identified onoy as a 17-year-old black male. he was transport to the rider trauma center and died shortly after. as this investigation continues, officers are focusing on the home where detectives say the teenager broke in. >> this incidnt brings a reminder for law enforcement to the public. police say, if you find someone on your property -- >> have the police go out and make that confrontation. that's what we're here for. >> reporter: at this point in the investigation officers are not releasing the name of the victim or the name of the homeowner. it is still unclear where the weapon came from. reporting in doral, erika glover, nbc 6 news. this morning, the mother aused of abducting her own son and taking him across state lines is back in south florida. 29-year-old leydibet hernandez triggered a nationwide amber alert after abducting her 1-year-old son logan. her plan was to get all the way to mexico.
hernandez's bond was set at $50,000. after that she'll be placed on house arrest until her trial happens. logan was hernandez's second child to be taken out of her custody. that little boy is now in the custody of the state. a central florida school bus driver is behind barps and so is her assistant. the two left a 13-year-o-o special needs student on the bus. we're not talking about once, but twice. polk county sheriff's deputies arrested gail brown and gwendolyn simms yesterday. the student was sleeping when everyoneelse got off the bus. thabus. brown then drove to another location, parked the bus and left with simmons. the student woke up, climbed out 30 miles home. police say the same thing happened earlier this month. a monster jam souvenir coming with a calling card for very creepy activity. this pink stuffed monster truck
event in rochester, new york. the symbol she's pointingg out, the heart symbol on the back of the toy can be a code for pedophiles meaning a little girl is ready to be traded for sex. there is a symbol for littl boys as well, very similar to that, a blue triangle. >> i'm absolutely sick. i bought this for my 2-year-old little girl. >> the company that makes that toy is based out of tampa and they have no idea what that symbol specifically meant. a spokesperson for the company saying they are shocked by this and have since pulled all those toys from all future events. the death toll o o the mass shooting in pennsylvania is at six. it's a story rewe told you about yesterday morning as breaking news. one of the victims was pregnant. prosecutors say the shooting at a back yard cook ourt was planned. two other people are in the hospital critically injured.
investigators say the shooters apparently targeted two of the victims and they hve not ruled out that drugs are possib a motive. 6:52 on your friday morning. former first lady nancy reagan being laid to rest today. the funeral takes place at the ronald reagan library in california. that's where she'll be buried next to her husband, former first president ronald reagan. what you're going to see today played out exactly how mrs. reagan mapped it out. they tell us she spent a lototf time planning her own funeral, had very specific things she wanted to have happen. throughout the past week, thousands of people passed the casket during a public viewing. the new prime minister of canada is waking up in washington. the white housebuzz amid a star-studded dinner last night. justin trudeau following the path of his father. trudeau is a former boxer and dra teacher.
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‘Sore’ North recruit building AFL form
AFL KANGAROOS TRAINING POLEC - AAP
Jared Polec has battled soreness and scrutiny in his start to life at North Melbourne but the Kangaroos are confident their prized AFL recruit is building towards his best.
Polec will get his first taste of playing in Hobart on Saturday night when the Kangaroos host fellow bottom-four side Sydney at Blundstone Arena.
The wingman was coming off a career-best season when he departed Port Adelaide to sign a lucrative five-year contract with the Roos.
Eight rounds in, Polec has been solid but not spectacular while the Roos have performed well below expectations to sit on just two wins.
North remain comfortable Polec will deliver a strong return on investment, having been restricted at training over the past month.
"He's been a little bit stiff the last few weeks," assistant coach Leigh Tudor said.
"He hasn't been able to train a lot. He's had a few little niggles that have held him back a little bit.
"But he puts his hand up every week, he wants to get out there and he's trying to improve himself.
"He's done some really good things for us so we're happy with the way he's going."
Polec was one of several off-season recruits expected to help lift North back into finals contention.
The 26-year-old was panned by Kangaroos great Wayne Carey for his uncontested style of play - a criticism also levelled at fellow recruit Aaron Hall, who was dropped after round six and has been unable to crack back into the senior side.
"You need a mix of everything in your team," Tudor said.
"Probably the outside run is something that we've targeted, and those guys are really good at that stuff.
"They win enough of their own ball but they're in the side for specific reasons ... which is their great ball use and their running power."
Tudor has been buoyed by his side's improved centre clearance work over the past few weeks, while the likes of Cam Zurhaar, Nick Larkey, Taylor Garner and Mason Wood have provided strong support to forward linchpin Ben Brown.
North were impressive last week against ladder-leaders Geelong, although the Cats' class ultimately prevailed.
The Roos will start firm favourites in Hobart, where they hold an imposing 14-4 record, although Sydney are coming off a last-gasp win over Essendon.
"At their best, they're a really hard side to play against," Tudor said of the Swans.
"(Luke) Parker and (Josh) Kennedy are two of the better midfielders going around so if they're winning the ball, they just set up the whole team."
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Marketing (Used) Cars in 2017
By Heather Fletcher
The markets may not be eating the auto industry’s dust as far as new car sales go in 2017, but President-elect Donald J. Trump may have introduced more certainty into forecasts with the promise to rollback environmental regulation, according to at least one industry analyst. Time will tell if fossil-fuel using vehicles reverse the trend toward cleantech that benefitted companies like Tesla in Q3 over “the entire U.S. oil industry” in 2016, according to Electrek.
Americans will buy about 17 million new cars in 2017, but will purchase more than 40 million used vehicles, keeping auto sales steady for the third year in a row, says Steven Szakaly, chief economist of the National Automobile Dealers Association in an article published Tuesday by Automotive News.
“He said potential deregulation under the Trump administration could benefit the general economy and that any easing in future vehicle fuel economy standards could help the auto industry,” writes Jesse Snyder. “But he has concerns about rising interest rates, lengthening auto loan terms and higher vehicle prices adversely affecting auto sales.”
What Fred Lambert wrote for Electrek on Nov. 10, though, suggests a U-turn to higher gasoline sales may not be on the horizon. (Or of fossil fuels, in general.)
“While Trump’s deregulation of the oil and gas industry could certainly recreate jobs,” he writes, “we have to keep in mind that more investments don’t represent a guarantee that the companies will be able to handle price slumps like the one we saw last year, and continues now, without more government subsidies. Coal and natural gas are rapidly becoming less cost competitive to wind and solar power.”
Now What, Auto Marketers?
With that economic outlook in the back of their minds, auto marketers can steal smart from eMarketer’s research in the sector.
Globally, automotive marketers are sticking with traditional channels, says the Sept. 8 article titled “Industries Shift Spending to Digital Around the World.”
At the same time, Harley-Davidson’s New York City division is using lookalike modeling of its best motorcycle customers to create 40 percent of its e-commerce sales, reads an Oct. 26 post.
“Half of our leads now come from lookalike models,” Harley’s Asaf Jacobi tells eMarketer.
If some auto marketers do need to tighten belts as European auto manufacturers have done after Brexit, they may want to follow the lead of migrating more marketing to digital channels, says Jon Davie, chief executive of digital marketing firm Zone, according to the Sept. 8 eMarketer story.
“[Davie] told U.K. ad trade publication The Drum in June 2016 that Brexit could ‘accelerate the move toward digital in the medium term toward more accountable marketing expenditure. ... The digital sector didn’t really suffer the same dramatic impact as traditional media did after the financial crisis. I suspect the same will be true for us this time around.’ ”
Perhaps only the auto manufacturers, though, know what their marketing budgets can handle. According to Electrek, Ford and GM are cutting U.S. jobs. According to the New York Times, Ford is replacing jobs it’s moving to Mexico for light car manufacturing with truck- and SUV-building jobs in the States.
“G.M. is investing $5 billion to upgrade its plants in Mexico,” reports the Times on Oct. 18. “Toyota, Volkswagen, Honda and BMW are all adding jobs and new products at their Mexican facilities. And as with Ford, any manufacturing those companies keep in the United States will probably involve more expensive vehicles whose profit margins justify the higher labor costs of building them.”
What do you think, automotive marketers?
Please respond in the comments section below.
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USA Daily for February 10
Feb. 09, 2010, 9:50 p.m. (ET)
USA Daily for Wednesday, February 10
The first edition of USA Daily for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games highlights USA House and the Allstate U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame Tribute, a living urban chalk-art exhibit displaying winter Olympians in the Hall of Fame. USA Daily also includes features about four-time ice hockey Olympian Angela Ruggiero's nomination for one of two of the 2010 vacated IOC Athletes' Commission openings and Olympians who are giving back to their communities.
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Nathan Adrian, Six Other Olympic Medalists Highlight U.S. Swimming Roster For Pan Am Games
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Thirty-five U.S. swimmers will compete at the Pan American Games next August in Lima, Peru.
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Nine Americans picked up wins on the penultimate day of competition.
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Two-time Olympic medalist Leah Smith posted first- and second-place finishes on a busy night.
Pac-12 Swimmers Edge Americans At USA College Challenge
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Olympians on both sides had an impact in the second-ever exhibition meet.
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The six-time Olympic medalist won two events on the first day of competition.
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Meanwhile, the men racked up five top-three finishes.
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U.S. Swimmers Add 8 Medals To Their Medal Count On Penultimate Day At Swimming Worlds Dec. 10, 2016
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Forums Community TechSpot News and Comments Today's Posts
Opinion: In-game purchases poison the well
By Julio Franco · 16 replies
Video games will always manipulate us. Each challenge and scenario in a game has been carefully engineered to make us react a certain way. Most of the time, that’s what we sign up for. But the moment real money enters the equation, something changes.
In-game purchases, also known as microtransactions, have been at the heart of several colossal fan freakouts over the past few months. Last Friday, Destiny 2developer Bungie changed the game’s experience points system after players discovered it was invisibly throttling their progress, which among other things slowed the pace at which they could earn loot boxes they’d otherwise have to pay for. A week before that, Star Wars Battlefront II ignited a furious online backlash after pre-release coverage revealed that the game’s purchasable loot boxes contained power-ups that made you more effective on the battlefield.
A month earlier, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War courted similar controversy with a convoluted loot box scheme that gave players gear and soldiers for their Orc army. September’s NBA 2K18 was so riddled with microtransactions that it significantly detracted from the experience of playing it. Less controversial fall games like Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Origins still gave players an option to pay extra money for better in-game gear.
The debate about in-game purchases predates any of those games. Way back in 2009, my boss, Stephen Totilo, wrote of a microtransaction-laden Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles spin-off: “Is there a dirty trick being played here on gamers? Who knows. There is the possibility. That stinks enough.” Today we’re still asking that question, even if the particulars have changed.
Viewed up close, the differences between the microtransactions in each of the fall games I mentioned above are manifold and relevant. Randomized loot boxes are inherently more exploitative than direct purchases. “Pay-to-win” systems that give tangible gameplay advantages are more of an obvious problem than systems that revolve around cosmetic items. Microtransactions in full-priced games leave a more bitter taste than in free-to-play games. Zoom out a bit, however, and those differences matter less. Whatever form in-game purchases take, their mere existence damages the trust between people who play games and people who make them. Like Stephen wrote in 2009, the possibility of dirty tricks stinks enough that the tricks themselves are almost beside the point.
Every game with a microtransaction system is a player revolt waiting to happen. That’s more true of full-priced games than free-to-play ones, but making a game free doesn’t necessarily make players feel any less taken advantage of. To see that in action, look no further than Destiny 2, whose Eververse microtransaction hub was generally seen as innocuous until last week’s XP revelations. Seemingly overnight, the grumbles of few players about the Eververse amplified into a roar.
The reason is simple: whenever some aspect of the game is locked behind a real-money paywall, every decision the developers make will be suspect. All games are designed to make us feel one way or another, and most operate according to calculations and algorithms that are hidden from the player’s eye. But when real money is involved, those hidden systems take on a more sinister quality. In the wake of the Destiny 2 blow-up, I’ve seen a common refrain from its players: What else aren’t they telling us?
Every game with a microtransaction system is a player revolt waiting to happen.
Microtransactions have become so prevalent in mainstream video games that it’s easy to forget what unnatural appendages they are. They’re not exactly “game design,” are they? They’re more of a marketplace experiment, albeit one that requires game design to function. It can be helpful to break the concept down to its basics, as a reminder of how in-game purchases can warp a player’s relationship with a game.
Imagine a video game boss fight. It’s this big monster that you have to beat, and he’s really tough. He defeats you over and over again, because he’s meant to test your abilities. You keep coming back, gradually learning his patterns and eventually overcoming him. After he goes down, you get a sweet new helmet. You equip the helmet and move on to the next challenge.
Now imagine the same boss fight, with one difference: if you want, you can just buy the helmet for $5. Just like that, the fight seems different. On your third or fourth death, you might begin to question the motives of the people who made it. Why is this boss so hard? Was he designed to be difficult in order to test your skill, or because the designers wanted you to eventually just give in and pay for the helmet? Is the game playing fair, or are you being manipulated?
Those two examples illustrate in the simplest terms the underlying problem with video game microtransactions. They will always have a detrimental effect on games, because they call into question a game’s integrity. They may be immensely profitable, and thus a smart business move. They may make it possible for a development studio to stay in business and keep making games. They may even appeal to a subset of gamers who like being able to pay for extra goodies. But in exchange for all that, game developers must be willing to undermine the design of their game on a fundamental level.
Games are built on trust between the designer and the player. We agree to play by the rules and in doing so, agree to trust the people who devised them. That agreement forms the basis for the rest of our relationship with a game, however lengthy or fleeting it may be. In-game purchases call our trust into question.
Some games will add microtransactions the “right” way, and won’t kick up much fuss. Others will get it “wrong,” prompting the next great Internet backlash. Still others might start out okay before making a change for the worse, or vice-versa. The particulars will always be different. But the moment a player is given the option to pay extra for something they’d otherwise have to earn, the damage is done.
This article was originally posted on Kotaku. Republished with permission.
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BSim500 TS Evangelist Posts: 607 +1,222
"But the moment a player is given the option to pay extra for something they’d otherwise have to earn, the damage is done."
^ Nailed it in that sentence alone. Good article. The excuse "If you can complete the game without them then it doesn't matter" has always been totally bogus, as the mere presence of MT's puts irresistible pressure on the devs to "shape" the base gameplay to be more grindy / "fake-hard" for everyone (whether you buy them or not) to "encourage" the purchase of de-grind MT's. Likewise, mechanic-altering MT's can themselves be altered at any time so their "innocence" at launch may not remain so and positive week one reviews can easily become misleading.
Expect to see more games that try and hide the effect of their MT's during launch-week only to quietly add them in at a later date. Battlefront 2's "removal and introduction at a later date" is ultimately nothing more than an admission to wanting to skew early post-release reviews or give them an excuse to delete negative reviews en-masse that comment on MT's because "we haven't put them in yet", and perfectly highlights just what EA has turned into. As mentioned yesterday - "Boycott the lot, stand firm and don't let up until this trash is removed completely".
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Kibaruk TechSpot Paladin Posts: 3,766 +1,160
Some games will add microtransactions the “right” way, and won’t kick up much fuss.
I think with this article they are just putting all games out there into a bad bad bad bag of games and I don't feel that way.
There are unscrupulous designers who will make games P2W, but there are so many good games that uses micro-transactions the right way and I doubt anyone is mad about it, like for example popular F2P game that used to charge for the base game, Guild Wars 2. How about Heroes of the Storm, or League of Legends. Sure, you can buy experience boosters and things of that sort but in no way it will give an edge of 1 player who has never payed for anything versus another that has payed, this systems are visual overlays for your hero, your gear, portraits, heck... a lot of things and none of those are game breakers or give you any advantage.
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cliffordcooley TS Guardian Fighter Posts: 11,387 +5,015
Until Micro-transactions can be standardized and managed, I'm not buying into them at all regardless of the game.
bolski TS Booster Posts: 65 +75
Bravo! Well-written article. Gaming on any platform has been ruined by MTXs. Time to get rid of them, period.
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Prosercunus TS Maniac Posts: 269 +109
I still game occasionally but micro transaction really will decide rather I pull the trigger on a game or not.
Jamlad
Where do preorder bonuses fall into this? I'm trying to remember if the bonus units in Empire Total War cost extra or if they were just tied to particular retailers.
Although CA did do this to Rome 2 where some of the factions could only be bought rather than unlocked.
Slappy McPhee TS Addict Posts: 161 +84
Kibaruk said: ↑
That is still part of the root problem. Period. Sure, someone can say it is up to each individual to decide if they want to pay $2 for a new outfit, etc, but it is purely a cash grab and there is no other way around it. The root problem is nailed down very well in the article. The human race sucks and is consumed by greed. For anyone out there that thinks that the excuse "video games cost more and more to produce" they need to do some actual RESEARCH. That is a myth and has been debunked by actual data evidence. If studios are having a hard time staying open because of cash flow problems then it is purely due to mismanagement of funds. Free soda, coffee, energy drinks, etc in the office ring any bells? Don't be fooled...these studios are making money at $60 a game it just depends on how quickly they make it which is a marketing issue and once again if they spend too much money to market that is on the studio for being *****s.
I am climbing back out of the rabbit hole now.
psycros TS Evangelist Posts: 2,712 +2,507
I get a big laugh every time the industry claims that they need MT to pay for a game cost $200 million to develop. The average big title employs about 200 people from start to finish. You could pay every one of them $100,000 a year - more than enough to do well anywhere in the world - and the total expenditure would be $20 million, not 200. Even if you factor in office rent, equipment, employee benefits and other costs of production you won't get anywhere near the investment they usually claim. So where does all that extra money get spent? Marketing. How often do we see TV ads now for the latest big-name FPS or MOBA? Its incessant on some channels. There's only one reason you spend that kind of cash on advertising and that's if you're trying to pull in the casuals. Research has shown that the casuals spend even more on MT than the competitive gaming crowd. EA and the rest of usual suspects are going to go right on producing pay-to-win games as long as enough jerks keep paying to win. So what's the solution? How about instead of releasing a single new game in a franchise every couple years, release two. One can be the hard-core, old-school test of skill with *NO* P2W and the other can be a theme park cosplaying as a serious game. They can farm out the P2W game if there's not enough resources to handle it in-house. This is already happening with mobile gaming so why not extend this scheme to PC and consoles? Let the kiddies have their playground and let the rest of us have a truly rewarding experience. If the hard-core players decide to stray into the playground they will have to spend nearly as much as the casuals to remain competitive..and if someone is dim enough to blow money on a casual game, let em'.
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cliffordcooley said: ↑
I respect your position and I feel pretty much the same. I won't even buy cosmetic stuff unless I can do it with in-game currency that I earned. If a multiplayer game lets players spend RM somehow to buy cosmetics, even ones that aren't buyable in-game, I'm fine with it. Same goes for consumables that are *also* buyable in-game. If they allow people to buy in-game currency with cash (or launder it somehow), I'm done with that game. When they start selling things that provide gameplay advantages and can ONLY be bought with RM, that developer goes on my blacklist.
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quadibloc TS Booster Posts: 83 +53
As the article noted near the end that some games do microtransactions the right way, and don't create a fuss by players, while it doesn't contradict the article's point that there is always the potential for that to change, it still calls the importance of the point into question.
A game without microtransactions could potentially add them; a game that does them right could switch to doing them wrong. Is the difference that big?
Slappy McPhee said: ↑
It's also due to releasing buggy, crappy games. How about putting some actual thought into the play-ability of a game and it's content rather than focusing on the visual aspect of it? We want games that have substance to it's story. Problem is, all are jumping on the MTX band-wagon. It's definitely more prevalent in the free-to-play (aka play-to-stay) mobile games so the backlash against purchased titles is going to hit harder has it did with BF II. Let's hope the backlash continues until these gaming companies get back on track and make excellent titles which we pay for and are not expected to have to pay for additional things to advance and enjoy the game.
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LeroN TS Enthusiast Posts: 85 +28
If we buy a game we have a budget for that game and the budget is a price of game.
But now you buy a game and you are engaged in the microtransactions because you see loosing your money in a competition with players have eganged in microtransactions already. They make you pay because you paid before. What a trap! But a lotterie in the microtransactions is even more evil system because it's unpredictable how much you need to spend to get what you need.
Today some ftp MMOs on PC with the microtransactions have a pretty balanced economy system when you still get some rewardes even if you are so lucky to get a certain things. Also players can sell and buy almost of things and they define prices of them. So even you got something unecsessary you can sell it for a game exchange and convert your expences into a profit. Wait but I mean Free-To-Play games.
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World of Tanks uses micro (or macro) transactions, and still you can happily play it for years without ever giving them a dime. I'd rather have that type of game, than a game I pay upfront, or where I have to pay every month.
If I paid once, then after reaching a certain peak, devs aren't really interested in developing the game further. Because they won't earn anything from me anymore. So the game will die. Or they will release another version, forcing me to buy it, which then basically switches the game to kinda yearly subscription.
And I don't want yearly of monthly subscription, because maybe I'm playing the game every 15 days, and the subscription looks like a waste of money.
With microtransactions I play it for free, although I'm tempted to buy this or that upgrade. And it turns out World of Tanks is earning lots of money even if the game is F2P. As long as the management is not too greedy, everyone is happy.
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The best comment I have seen with regards to why MT are cancer is by "cliffordcooley" on: https://www.techspot.com/community/...urus-arrives-next-spring.242847/#post-1653476
Abraka said: ↑
problem is, most of these MTA games require you to spend if you wish to stay relevant in the game. Mainly these are the PvP type of games. PvE isn't so bad (No Man's Land is a great example if you ask me of how it works well). But in games like Game of War, Mobile Strike, March to War, and now Battlefront II, these MTAs give the whales (big spenders) a completely unfair advantage over those that choose to grind their way up. And some, like Game of War, release new content weekly that the ONLY way you can get it is to spend, and it's usually in $99 packs. And even then, those $99 packs will NOT fully upgrade everything. You'll have to purchase multiple $99 packs. And then you can STILL get zeroed and lose everything that you built up (whether it's through money or pure grinding) which is a waste of money if you spent. And in order to get back to where you were, you have to spend again. THAT is the major issue we have with these MTAs.
If the MTAs do NOT affect the outcome of the game, especially in a PvP game, then that's one thing. But, if you MUST spend in order to advance, that is wrong, pure and simple.
Oh, and just because you sink money into a game via MTAs, does NOT guarantee that they will continue to update the game or fix it. I've seen too many games where these great new "updates" did nothing but ruin the game further and made it so out of balance that there was NO way to fix it. Game of War is a perfect example of this.
No, I prefer purchasing my game outright and earning my way through the game. MTAs to get you the most powerful items immediately is akin to cheating. It defeats the purpose of the game, and actually detracts from the enjoyment. Why would you want to spend money on a game and then finish it in 6 hours of play time because you could add ADDITIONAL money to the developer's pockets to let you bypass a lot of what is required to get it through good old fashioned work?
That is the problem these days. Instant gratification. The "I want it now" attitude (just like Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka who wanted everything now). It's called being spoiled if you ask me when you purchase things to get your way through a game quicker. Again, if it's cosmetic, that's one thing. But again, when it gives you a decided advantage over other people, that is where I feel it crosses the line and the game companies are only doing it due to greed. It has NOTHING to do with enhancing the game play for the players.
The old days of gaming were filled with games that developers made from the heart. They put their time and imagination into creating a fictional world we could jump into. And in order to advance, you had to figure things out via clues, grinding, etc. None of this "hey give us $5 and we'll give you the best weapon to defeat the bad boss" type of purchases. That is what has ruined a lot of the games these days. Game companies looking to make the quick buck immediately rather than creating a game that has substance that gets excellent reviews and earns it's profits from selling the individual game itself.
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Lexie Liu Wants to Make Music Perfect for Exploring Outer Space
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"American Horror Story: Apocalypse" Brings Back Madison Montgomery to Deliver Her Iconic Quote
We missed you, Madison!
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Well, folks, it finally happened. On Wednesday night's episode of American Horror Story, we finally got the Coven crossover we deserve just a few weeks after the first Murder House connection was revealed. Spoilers ahead.
After an episode filled with murder plots and big plot twists, the Coven witches — Cordelia, Myrtle, and Madison — finally returned at the end of the episode. Not only do they resurrect their murdered coven sister Coco (played by Leslie Grossman), but they also round up Dinah (played by Adina Porter) and Mallory (played by Billie Lourd) to say hi.
And it seems like Madison and Mallory have history with one another — and maybe even a beef with each other? — because Mallory looks stunned as Madison kneels down to her level, looks her in the eye, and says those magic words: "Surprise bitch. Bet you thought you’d seen the last of me."
After a five-year absence and lots of memes made from that one iconic line, Madison Montgomery is back in all of her Coven glory — and fans reacted accordingly on Twitter. All the Madison stans came out of the woodwork to react, with comments ranging from "I am still screaming!!!! The witches are back!" to the very excited, all-caps comment, "RYAN REALLY LET MADISON SAY SURPRISE BITCH AGAIN FOR THE CULTURE."
There's no telling what Apocalypse has in store with the Coven witches, but it's clear that from here on out, they're going to have a crucial role to play in the story and may end up squaring off against Murder House's Michael Langdon, aka the Antichrist, who is definitely up to no good. But for now, all we can say is: Madison, we've missed you. Welcome back.
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Spectacular light show brings anniversary celebrations to a dramatic finale
10 December 2018 @TeesUniNews
A Teesside University artist and academic was behind a stunning art show which showed an iconic building in a whole new light.
The dazzling light projection was made up of 200,000 lumens of light, eight supersized projectors and over 100,000 images which were displayed on St Helens Town Hall , rounding off the 150th anniversary celebrations and St Helens as Borough of Culture.
It was created by Simon McKeown, a Reader in Teesside University’s School of Computing, Media & the Arts, along with with BuzzHub St Helens CDP and commissioned by Heart of Glass.
Using high tech projection mapping technology, the artwork called 'We Are Still Here' - transformed the building’s Victorian facade, with colour, moving image and sound.
The piece was inspired by St Helens’ past, present and future. Internationally renowned multi-media artist Simon McKeown worked with BuzzHub St Helens Coalition of Disabled People over several months to create the work which featured their ideas and designs.
Heart of Glass have been working in partnership with DaDaFest, a leading disability and arts organisation based in Liverpool. 'We Are Still Here' was presented as part of DaDaFest International and marked the final day of the Merseyside wide festival.
Simon, who has exhibited all over the world and whose work touches on and considers disability, said: 'Working with BuzzHub on this outdoor light show has been a privilege. They are a fantastically strong creative team and they worked hard with me to achieve the work which was displayed.
This was state of the art in so many ways.
Simon McKeown
'Outdoor events on this scale are rare and exciting and the support of St Helens Council has been vital. Heart of Glass as the organisers are forward thinking, situating collaborative art and disability together into one massive event. This was state of the art in so many ways.'
Patrick Fox, from Heart of Glass, added: 'We were delighted to host this event, bringing what has been a remarkable year of culture in St Helens to a close. Taking our iconic town hall as a canvas, and working with Simon Mckeown and his collaborators has been a real treat, and we were excited to share the outcome in what was truly a colourful, thoughtful and awe inspiring experience.
'We were also thrilled to be partnering with DaDa Fest and a range of partners on the wider wrap around programme, placing the politics of disability front and centre. While this project closed 2018, it will be a springboard into future projects and collaboration, with art and artists in collaboration with communities playing a pivotal role in the shaping the future of our borough.'
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Light show brings anniversary celebrations to a dramatic finale
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Drag365: Show #25- Poppy's Playhouse at The West End
Poppy // photo by Michael Block
Day: Wednesday, January 24th
Show: Poppy’s Playhouse
Location: The West End
Queens Seen: Poppy (@thecolorpoppy), Vanna Deux (@vannadeux)
Vanna Deux // photo by Michael Block
You heard it here first: Poppy is going to be a superstar. You also heard it here first: Poppy and Vanna Deux are a drag duo you never knew you wanted but so desperately needed. After being crowned the winner of season 4 of the Ultimate Drag Pageant, Poppy was granted her own Wednesday night show at The West End. It’s a delightful little ditty of a show where Poppy provides playful mixes and introduces fans and new friends to her insatiable brand of insanity. But this night. This was the night we all have been waiting for. The night where Poppy welcomed Vanna Deux, the first runner up from season 4 of the Ultimate Drag Pageant, to the stage. Would this rivalry be the next Bette vs Joan? Tonya vs Nancy? Elphaba vs Glinda? Cat vs Dog? Well, actually yes to that one. This fabricated rivalry is enjoyable to watch together because where there’s loathing there’s also a hell of a lot of love and admiration. Both queens offer a different brand of comedy and performance. One is more on the classic end of the spectrum while the other pushes it off the edge. Together, that’s entertainment. Poppy is the queen of the mix. Each mix she puts together is strategic. Each beat is carefully planned. Each joke melts into the next. Whether it’s thematic or storytelling, the amount of though she puts in sets them above the rest. Poppy also happens to be unintentionally hilarious. When she’s not trying to be funny, she’s funny. Case in point: her soulful rendition of Lady Gaga’s “A Million Reasons.” Watch the video. There are a million reasons why you’ll put it on repeat. Vanna’s evening included her classics as well, but pulled out a new look for the occasion. While some called her Violet Beauregarde, it had essences of a modern working girl who doesn’t give an f. While they didn’t necessarily do a standard duo routine, their banter made up for it. Though they did present battling dog and cat mixes and a finale of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen.”
It’s a joy to watch the top tier performers in New York City. But there’s something exciting when you know you’re watching the emerging queens who are destined to be that top tier soon. Keep a look out for when you can see them again. You won’t want to miss it.
Labels: Drag, Drag Queens, Drag365, Gay, LGBT, Poppy, Poppy's Playhouse, The West End, Vanna Deux
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Home > Community Wellness > Partnerships with Purpose > SC Thrive
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SC Thrive | Streamlining access to benefits for thousands of South Carolinians a year
Too often, resources are available to help residents have access to health care, food and other needed assistance and benefits, but they don’t know about them or how to get them.
In addition to connecting residents to benefits, SC Thrive also:
Offers Mental Health First Aid training to provide awareness and education about mental health. The agency trains people to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental health issues and offers guidance on helping provide help.
Works with the S.C. Department of Corrections to help inmates before their release be prepared to re-enter society.
Assisted 8,775 residents with their tax preparations last year, netting $8 million in refunds. The assistance is available for single filers with $65,000 income or less or married couples with combined income of $95,000 or less.
Provides annual training for its partners and others who serve the public. The ninth annual “Go Big” training will be offered Oct. 3-4 in Myrtle Beach.
That’s where SC Thrive comes in. The non-profit helps streamline the application process for those benefits and trains workers and volunteers across the state to help residents learn about and apply for those resources.
“It’s efficient for case managers connecting clients to resources. It’s efficient because the process is simple and online. And it’s efficient for the client themselves. They don’t have to go to four or five agencies to take care of their basic needs,” said Stephanie McGuire, chief community relations officer at SC Thrive.
SC Thrive, a partner in the Tidelands Community Care Network, formed a decade ago as a program known as Benefit Bank of South Carolina managed by the state Office of Rural Health. The program came about after officials determined residents weren’t taking advantage of millions of dollars in available federal benefits that could help them have access to health care, food or other basic services.
The program grew quickly and became a non-profit in 2014. It focuses on helping residents have access to food, health care and financial wellness. It also pairs veterans with resources, helps raise awareness and lessen the stigma associated with mental health issues and prepares tax returns for about 9,000 South Carolina residents annually.
The non-profit also trains agencies and organizations throughout the state and provides technology to help them identify potential benefits for their clients and help them apply. SC Thrive has about 400 partners throughout the state, including hospitals, churches, food pantries and others.
“What we’ve done is partner with community-based organizations, faith-based organizations to give them access to our support tools,” McGuire said. “We cannot do what we do without our partners.”
Last year, SC Thrive trained about 3,400 partners in the state, who use that knowledge to help their clients – including seniors on fixed incomes and veterans – access benefits to help meet their basic needs and improve their lives. SC Thrive has completed about 235,000 applications for benefits such as SNAP and Medicaid since it formed.
“If we did not exist, thousands of South Carolinians would not have the resources they currently have because the barriers they face can be insurmountable to them,” McGuire said.
SC Thrive is one of about 25 partners in Tidelands Community Care Network, which was created by Tidelands Health in partnership with Access Health SC and The Duke Endowment. The network is comprised of health educators, state agencies, transportation providers, primary and specialty care providers and others who can help uninsured and underinsured residents gain access to medical care.
“SC Thrive plays an important role in helping pair residents with access to the resources they need through a streamlined, online process that helps eliminate the barriers residents have in accessing that assistance,” said Kelly Kaminski, director of community health resources for Tidelands Health.
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Opening times for JD Sports in Stockport
Stockport, Merseyway is a store belonging to JD Sports brand. It is open on: Monday 9:00 - 18:00, Tuesday 9:00 - 18:00, Wednesday 9:00 - 18:00, Thursday 9:00 - 18:00, Friday 9:00 - 18:00. At weekends its opening hours are: on Saturday 9:00 - 18:00, on Sunday 11:00 - 17:00. This store's address is: 83 Merseyway SC, Stockport, SK1 1QW. To reach the customer service directly please call the number 0161 477 6742. Stockport.
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This is the best way to cut cake for a big party
You will never cut a cake the same way again after checking out this ingenious method.
June 27, 2017, 5:06 PM UTC / Updated June 27, 2019, 3:36 PM UTC / Source: TODAY
By Tracy Saelinger
Anyone who's ever been in the unlucky position of being the person to cut up a cake at a party, listen up: There's a simple new technique out there that you need to commit to memory, now.
Cutting up a cake in front of a hungry horde is stressful: It just never seems that you can slice thing thing quickly or evenly enough.
Enter this method, demonstrated by Australian self-taught baker and blogger Katherine Sabbath: Using no more than a knife and a cutting board, she is able to deftly slice a cake into basically 10 even servings at once.
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I know, we can't stop watching it either, which is probably why the mesmerizing video has racked up more than 1.5 million views on Instagram. (Sabbath, by the way, is a former high school teacher who left the profession a few years back, after her social media account took off, thanks to the large following behind her cheerful, insanely creative desserts.)
It's a method that's been around for decades, Sabbath told TODAY Food, and pros frequently use it to serve wedding cakes.
She showed the technique on a round layer cake — you know, the kind that the rest of usually try to turn into triangle-sliced wedges, like a wheel of Swiss? Well, apparently, we were doing it all wrong: The key is to make rectangular slices out of a round cake. (Gasp!)
Decorate cakes like a pro with Courtney Rich's expert tips
In the video, her friend is actually doing the slicing, and she is filming, which picks up about three slices into the cake's midsection (though you can cut that first rounded-edge slice the same way, she told us.)
Hold a cutting board upright at at 90˚angle, against the side of the cake.
Using a chef's knife, cut length-wise, parallel to the edge of the cake, so that you get one long rectangular piece.
Guiding the slice with your knife, let it fall onto the cutting board, lowering the board as you finish slicing.
Cut the long rectangular slice into even portions.
A bonus is that the portions you get from the cake are reasonable — though "you can always go back for seconds or thirds," she writes.
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The person slicing even seems to be managing to carry on a conversation while doing the honors — and easily serves up cake for 10 in matter of seconds.
"This is how I've always cut all of my tall or wider-sized cakes," Sabbath told TODAY. "It's adaptable for any size serving and any type of cake."
As for placating a dozen five-year-olds who all want "a piece with Elsa's face on it," well, sorry, but good luck with that.
This post was originally published on June 27, 2017. It has since been updated.
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FG raises N6.7bn from savings bond in eight months
by Oluwatoyin Bayagbon 0 Comments
The federal government has raised N6.7 billion through the auction of savings bonds in the last eight months, the Debt Management Office (DMO) has said.
An analysis of data from the DMO showed that the savings bond was highly subscribed in the first few months.
At its debut offer in March, the debt office raised N2.068 billion from the 13.01 percent two-year bond.
In April, N1.288 billion was raised through the 12.794 percent two-year bond and 13.794 percent three year bond.
Subsequently, it raised N791.15 billion with yields rising to 13.189 percent for the two-year bond and 14.189 percent for the three-year bond in May.
Figures from the DMO show a yield of N6.3 billion in September, signaling an increase of approximately N400 million between September and October.
However, statistics showed reduced subscription for the month of October, with N389.19 million raised through the 12.059 percent two-year bond and 13.059 percent three-year bond.
According to the DMO, the savings bond was introduced by the federal government to “stimulate and deepen the savings culture among households, assist with the diversification of funding sources for the government, and encourage financial inclusion across the social and economic strata”.
The minimum amount that can be invested in the savings bond is N5,000, giving unfettered access to the retail market, while the maximum investment is N50 million.
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Get introduced (or reintroduced) to inverse, rational, exponential, and polynomial functions.
Delve into the laws of sine and cosine.
Dig into the rudimentary world of probability to determine your odds at winning the lottery.
What's the sure road to success in calculus? The answer is simple: Precalculus. Traditionally studied after Algebra II, this mathematical field covers advanced algebra, trigonometry, exponents, logarithms, and much more. These interrelated topics are essential for solving calculus problems, and by themselves are powerful methods for describing the real world, permeating all areas of science and every branch of mathematics. Little wonder, then, that precalculus is a core course in high schools throughout the country and an important review subject in college.
Unfortunately, many students struggle in precalculus because they fail to see the links between different topics—between one approach to finding an answer and a startlingly different, often miraculously simpler, technique. As a result, they lose out on the enjoyment and fascination of mastering an amazingly useful tool box of problem-solving strategies.
And even if you're not planning to take calculus, understanding the fundamentals of precalculus can give you a versatile set of skills that can be applied to a wide range of fields—from computer science and engineering to business and health care.
Mathematics Describing the Real World: Precalculus and Trigonometry
is your unrivaled introduction to this crucial subject, taught by award-winning Professor Bruce Edwards of the University of Florida. Professor Edwards is coauthor of one of the most widely used textbooks on precalculus and an expert in getting students over the trouble spots of this challenging phase of their mathematics education.
"Calculus is difficult because of the precalculus skills needed for success," Professor Edwards points out, adding, "In my many years of teaching, I have found that success in calculus is assured if students have a strong background in precalculus."
A Math Milestone Made Clear
In 36 intensively illustrated half-hour lectures, supplemented by a workbook with additional explanations and problems, Mathematics Describing the Real World takes you through all the major topics of a typical precalculus course taught in high school or college. Those who will especially benefit from Professor Edwards's lucid and engaging approach include
high school and college students currently enrolled in precalculus who feel overwhelmed and want coaching from an inspiring teacher who knows where students stumble;
parents of students, who may feel out of their depth with the advanced concepts taught in precalculus;
those who have finished Algebra II and are eager to get a head start on the next milestone on the road to calculus;
beginning calculus students who want to review and hone their skills in crucial precalculus topics;
anyone motivated to learn precalculus on his or her own, whether as a home-schooled pupil or as an adult preparing for a new career.
The Powerful Tools of Precalculus
With precalculus, you start to see all of mathematics as a unified whole—as a group of often radically different techniques for representing data, analyzing problems, and finding solutions. And you discover that these techniques are ultimately connected in a beautiful way. Perceiving these connections helps you choose the best tool for a given problem:
Algebraic functions: Including polynomial functions and rational functions, these equations relate the input value of a variable to a single output value, corresponding to countless everyday situations in which one event depends on another.
Trigonometry: Originally dealing with the measurement of triangles, this subject has been vastly enriched by the concept of the trigonometric function, which models many types of cyclical processes, such as waves, orbits, and vibrations.
Exponential and logarithmic functions: Often involving the natural base, e, these functions are built on terms with exponents and their inverse, logarithms, and describe phenomena such as population growth and the magnitude of an earthquake on the Richter scale.
Complex numbers: Seemingly logic-defying, complex numbers are based on the square root of –1, designated by the symbol i. They are essential for solving many technical problems and are the basis for the beautiful patterns in fractal geometry.
Vectors: Quantities like velocity have both magnitude and direction. Vectors allow the direction component to be specified in a form that allows addition, multiplication, and other operations that are crucial in fields such as physics.
Matrices: A matrix is a rectangular array of numbers with special rules that permit two matrices to be added or multiplied. Practically any situation where data are collected in columns and rows can be treated mathematically as a matrix.
In addition, Professor Edwards devotes two lectures to conic sections, slicing a cone mathematically into circles, parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas. You also learn when it's useful to switch from Cartesian to polar coordinates; how infinite sequences and series lead to the concept of the limit in calculus; and two approaches to counting questions: permutations and combinations. You close with an introduction to probability and a final lecture that features an actual calculus problem, which your experience in precalculus makes ... elementary!
Real-World Mathematics
Believing that students learn mathematics most effectively when they see it in the context of the world around them, Professor Edwards uses scores of interesting problems that are fun, engaging, and often relevant to real life. Among the many applications of precalculus that you'll encounter are these:
Public health: A student with a new strain of flu arrives at college. How long before every susceptible person is infected? An exponential function called the logistic growth model shows how quickly an epidemic spreads.
Surveying: Suppose you have to measure the diagonal width of a marsh without getting wet. It's a simple matter of walking two sides of a triangle on dry land and then using trigonometry to determine the length of the third side that spans the marsh.
Astronomy: One of the most famous cases involving the sine and cosine functions that model periodic phenomena occurred in 1967, when astronomer Jocelyn Bell detected a radio signal from space at 1.3373-second intervals. It proved to be the first pulsar ever observed.
Acoustics: The special properties of an ellipse explain why a person standing at a given spot in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall can hear a whisper from someone standing 85 feet away.
Computer graphics: How do you make an object appear to rotate on a computer screen? Matrix algebra allows you to move each pixel in an image by a specified angle by multiplying two matrices together.
Probability: Have you ever forgotten your four-digit ATM PIN number? What is the probability that you can guess it? A simple calculation shows that you would have to punch numbers nonstop for many hours before being assured of success.
An Adventure in Mathematical Learning
A three-time Teacher of the Year in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida, Professor Edwards has a time-tested approach to making difficult material accessible. In Mathematics Describing the Real World, he enlivens his lectures with study tips and a feature he calls "You Be the Teacher," in which he puts you in the professor's shoes by asking how you would design a particular test problem or answer one of the frequently asked questions he gets in the classroom. For example, are all exponential functions increasing? After you hear Professor Edwards's explanation, you'll know that when someone uses the term "exponentially," you should ask, "Do you mean exponential growth or decay?"—for it can go in either direction. He also gives valuable tips on using graphing calculators, pointing out their amazing capabilities—and pitfalls.
An Introduction to Precalculus—Functions
Precalculus is important preparation for calculus, but it’s also a useful set of skills in its own right, drawing on algebra, trigonometry, and other topics. As an introduction, review the essential concept of the function, try your hand at simple problems, and hear Professor Edwards’s recommendations for approaching the course. x
Polynomial Functions and Zeros
The most common type of algebraic function is a polynomial function. As examples, investigate linear and quadratic functions, probing different techniques for finding roots, or “zeros.” A valuable tool in this search is the intermediate value theorem, which identifies real-number roots for polynomial functions. x
Step into the strange and fascinating world of complex numbers, also known as imaginary numbers, where i is defined as the square root of -1. Learn how to calculate and find roots of polynomials using complex numbers, and how certain complex expressions produce beautiful fractal patterns when graphed. x
Rational Functions
Investigate rational functions, which are quotients of polynomials. First, find the domain of the function. Then, learn how to recognize the vertical and horizontal asymptotes, both by graphing and comparing the values of the numerator and denominator. Finally, look at some applications of rational functions. x
Inverse Functions
Discover how functions can be combined in various ways, including addition, multiplication, and composition. A special case of composition is the inverse function, which has important applications. One way to recognize inverse functions is on a graph, where the function and its inverse form mirror images across the line y = x. x
Solving Inequalities
You have already used inequalities to express the set of values in the domain of a function. Now study the notation for inequalities, how to represent inequalities on graphs, and techniques for solving inequalities, including those involving absolute value, which occur frequently in calculus. x
Exponential Functions
Explore exponential functions—functions that have a base greater than 1 and a variable as the exponent. Survey the properties of exponents, the graphs of exponential functions, and the unique properties of the natural base e. Then sample a typical problem in compound interest. x
Logarithmic Functions
A logarithmic function is the inverse of the exponential function, with all the characteristics of inverse functions covered in Lecture 5. Examine common logarithms (those with base 10) and natural logarithms (those with base e), and study such applications as the “rule of 70” in banking. x
Properties of Logarithms
Learn the secret of converting logarithms to any base. Then review the three major properties of logarithms, which allow simplification or expansion of logarithmic expressions—methods widely used in calculus. Close by focusing on applications, including the pH system in chemistry and the Richter scale in geology. x
Exponential and Logarithmic Equations
Practice solving a range of equations involving logarithms and exponents, seeing how logarithms are used to bring exponents “down to earth” for easier calculation. Then try your hand at a problem that models the heights of males and females, analyzing how the models are put together. x
Exponential and Logarithmic Models
Finish the algebra portion of the course by delving deeper into exponential and logarithmic equations, using them to model real-life phenomena, including population growth, radioactive decay, SAT math scores, the spread of a virus, and the cooling rate of a cup of coffee. x
Introduction to Trigonometry and Angles
Trigonometry is a key topic in applied math and calculus with uses in a wide range of applications. Begin your investigation with the two techniques for measuring angles: degrees and radians. Typically used in calculus, the radian system makes calculations with angles easier. x
Trigonometric Functions—Right Triangle Definition
The Pythagorean theorem, which deals with the relationship of the sides of a right triangle, is the starting point for the six trigonometric functions. Discover the close connection of sine, cosine, tangent, cosecant, secant, and cotangent, and focus on some simple formulas that are well worth memorizing. x
Trigonometric Functions—Arbitrary Angle Definition
Trigonometric functions need not be confined to acute angles in right triangles; they apply to virtually any angle. Using the coordinate plane, learn to calculate trigonometric values for arbitrary angles. Also see how a table of common angles and their trigonometric values has wide application. x
Graphs of Sine and Cosine Functions
The graphs of sine and cosine functions form a distinctive wave-like pattern. Experiment with functions that have additional terms, and see how these change the period, amplitude, and phase of the waves. Such behavior occurs throughout nature and led to the discovery of rapidly rotating stars called pulsars in 1967. x
Graphs of Other Trigonometric Functions
Continue your study of the graphs of trigonometric functions by looking at the curves made by tangent, cosecant, secant, and cotangent expressions. Then bring several precalculus skills together by using a decaying exponential term in a sine function to model damped harmonic motion. x
Inverse Trigonometric Functions
For a given trigonometric function, only a small part of its graph qualifies as an inverse function as defined in Lecture 5. However, these inverse trigonometric functions are very important in calculus. Test your skill at identifying and working with them, and try a problem involving a rocket launch. x
Trigonometric Identities
An equation that is true for every possible value of a variable is called an identity. Review several trigonometric identities, seeing how they can be proved by choosing one side of the equation and then simplifying it until a true statement remains. Such identities are crucial for solving complicated trigonometric equations. x
In calculus, the difficult part is often not the steps of a problem that use calculus but the equation that’s left when you’re finished, which takes precalculus to solve. Hone your skills for this challenge by identifying all the values of the variable that satisfy a given trigonometric equation. x
Sum and Difference Formulas
Study the important formulas for the sum and difference of sines, cosines, and tangents. Then use these tools to get a preview of calculus by finding the slope of a tangent line on the cosine graph. In the process, you discover the derivative of the cosine function. x
Law of Sines
Return to the subject of triangles to investigate the law of sines, which allows the sides and angles of any triangle to be determined, given the value of two angles and one side, or two sides and one opposite angle. Also learn a sine-based formula for the area of a triangle. x
Law of Cosines
Given three sides of a triangle, can you find the three angles? Use a generalized form of the Pythagorean theorem called the law of cosines to succeed. This formula also allows the determination of all sides and angles of a triangle when you know any two sides and their included angle. x
Introduction to Vectors
Vectors symbolize quantities that have both magnitude and direction, such as force, velocity, and acceleration. They are depicted by a directed line segment on a graph. Experiment with finding equivalent vectors, adding vectors, and multiplying vectors by scalars. x
Trigonometric Form of a Complex Number
Apply your trigonometric skills to the abstract realm of complex numbers, seeing how to represent complex numbers in a trigonometric form that allows easy multiplication and division. Also investigate De Moivre’s theorem, a shortcut for raising complex numbers to any power. x
Systems of Linear Equations and Matrices
Embark on the first of four lectures on systems of linear equations and matrices. Begin by using the method of substitution to solve a simple system of two equations and two unknowns. Then practice the technique of Gaussian elimination, and get a taste of matrix representation of a linear system. x
Operations with Matrices
Deepen your understanding of matrices by learning how to do simple operations: addition, scalar multiplication, and matrix multiplication. After looking at several examples, apply matrix arithmetic to a commonly encountered problem by finding the parabola that passes through three given points. x
Inverses and Determinants of Matrices
Get ready for applications involving matrices by exploring two additional concepts: the inverse of a matrix and the determinant. The algorithm for calculating the inverse of a matrix relies on Gaussian elimination, while the determinant is a scalar value associated with every square matrix. x
Applications of Linear Systems and Matrices
Use linear systems and matrices to analyze such questions as these: How can the stopping distance of a car be estimated based on three data points? How does computer graphics perform transformations and rotations? How can traffic flow along a network of roads be modeled? x
Circles and Parabolas
In the first of two lectures on conic sections, examine the properties of circles and parabolas. Learn the formal definition and standard equation for each, and solve a real-life problem involving the reflector found in a typical car headlight. x
Ellipses and Hyperbolas
Continue your survey of conic sections by looking at ellipses and hyperbolas, studying their standard equations and probing a few of their many applications. For example, calculate the dimensions of the U.S. Capitol’s “whispering gallery,” an ellipse-shaped room with fascinating acoustical properties. x
Parametric Equations
How do you model a situation involving three variables, such as a motion problem that introduces time as a third variable in addition to position and velocity? Discover that parametric equations are an efficient technique for solving such problems. In one application, you calculate whether a baseball hit at a certain angle and speed will be a home run. x
Take a different mathematical approach to graphing: polar coordinates. With this system, a point’s location is specified by its distance from the origin and the angle it makes with the positive x axis. Polar coordinates are surprisingly useful for many applications, including writing the formula for a valentine heart! x
Sequences and Series
Get a taste of calculus by probing infinite sequences and series—topics that lead to the concept of limits, the summation notation using the Greek letter sigma, and the solution to such problems as Zeno’s famous paradox. Also investigate Fibonacci numbers and an infinite series that produces the number e. x
Counting Principles
Counting problems occur frequently in real life, from the possible batting lineups on a baseball team to the different ways of organizing a committee. Use concepts you’ve learned in the course to distinguish between permutations and combinations and provide precise counts for each. x
Elementary Probability
What are your chances of winning the lottery? Of rolling a seven with two dice? Of guessing your ATM PIN number when you’ve forgotten it? Delve into the rudiments of probability, learning basic vocabulary and formulas so that you know the odds. x
GPS Devices and Looking Forward to Calculus
In a final application, locate a position on the surface of the earth with a two-dimensional version of GPS technology. Then close by finding the tangent line to a parabola, thereby solving a problem in differential calculus and witnessing how precalculus paves the way for the next big mathematical adventure. x
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Bruce H. Edwards, Ph.D.
Dr. Bruce H. Edwards is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Florida. Professor Edwards received his B.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Dartmouth College. After his years at Stanford, he taught mathematics at a university near Bogot·, Colombia, as a Peace Corps volunteer. Professor Edwards has won many teaching awards at the University of Florida, including Teacher of...
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Mathematics Describing the Real World: Precalculus and Trigonometry is rated 4.5 out of 5 by 46.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Ckeith from I bought this DVD along with two other math and two (2) science courses as a gift for my former High School Math & Science departments. I know from the subject areas covered in each that they will become a welcome part of the teaching strategies for those departments.
Rated 5 out of 5 by pgc1123 from Excellent course I bought this course for my grandson who will be taking precalculus in high school next year. It is an excellent refresher for me and will be a good head start for him.
Rated 5 out of 5 by wndwsman from A review from my college days It has been 40+ years since I have studied these subjects and it is fun to revisit all that I have forgotten. I wish this had been around during my college days to get an overview of the subjects prior to sitting through the faced paced lectures in a lecture hall. The instructor is great. I wish I would have been lucky enough to have someone like him back then.
Rated 5 out of 5 by FourC from Solid course, great professor This is a solid overview of the main topics covered in a course sometimes called College Algebra & Trigonometry, sometimes called Pre-Calculus. The professor is everything you would want in a math teacher. Very lucid, and his pacing is just right. I didn't find him dry but of course individual reactions vary. I do agree w. reviewers who said the real-world applications weren't too exciting. Pretty mundane stuff -- dimensions of a softball field, how high is the flagpole. Guess there's time for only so much in 36 lectures. If you're considering buying the course, here are some suggestions that may prove helpful: 1) It is not a course for beginners. You should have a good grasp of intermediate algebra. It's necessary to have skills in, for example, equation solving, operations with roots and exponents, navigating the Cartesian Plane. The professor is not going to teach these things, they are prerequisites. 2) Get the video. The visuals are good and you will want to follow along carefully as he walks through them. 3) Buy a Texas Instruments graphing calculator (and learn how to use it). The professor, rightly in my opinion, emphasizes graphical explanations. He uses the TI graphing calculator but he does not show you how to use it. If you can use the graphing calculator you will be able to actually learn a lot of amazing things just by playing around with it. If you don't want to spring for the graphing calculator, and they are relatively expensive, then you still must have a scientific calculator. All scientific calculators (except those labeled "for K-12") have the algebra and trig functions that the course uses. They are under $20 at any big box store. Don't try to navigate the course w/o any calculator at all, that's like learning how to drive a car without touching the steering wheel or the pedals. 4) Use the workbook. Yes it has some typos -- they all do -- it's like, the First Law of Workbooks. But it is nicely laid out with big margins and lots of space between lines of type, where you can insert notes or questions. I found it very useful to work through the examples after watching the lectures. How many of the practice problems to do is an individual choice. Finally, and I trust this won't seem frivolous, I appreciate that the professor took the trouble to dress nicely. I don't mean he looks like a fashion model, but just that he wears neat and pressed, well-coordinated outfits. And he varies them throughout the course. You other Teaching Company professors -- and you know who you are! -- that show up for every lecture in the SAME dusty, wrinkled black suit or hideously clashing shirt/tie/sport coat ensemble -- please take note!
Rated 5 out of 5 by flyingears from Whatever Dr. Edwards produces is tops! Great teacher!
Rated 1 out of 5 by Jim Williams from Not very good at presenting I originally bought all the series that James Sellers teaches. Sellers is a phenomenal teacher, however, this teacher on this precalculus series is not very clear and specific. This may be a good course for reviewing, but in my opinion, it's not the best for brand new students. One reason why I say this is because he's not very specific on how to use the calculator. He says there's a log, but than he just says "plug it in and here's your answer." I wish that he showed us step by step how to actually use the calculator for each equation, instead of just saying plug it in!
Rated 5 out of 5 by Velvet from A Good Background for Calculus This course looked in depth into what is needed for a background in Calculus. Exponents, Logs, Trig, Combinatorics, and Matrices were some of the highlights. Whereas I thought that most of the subjects were explained thoroughly, I did have to go back through some of the Algebra II course to get more information on Sequences and Series.
Rated 5 out of 5 by StudentatPreserve from Wonderful Course Prof. Edward teaches this course very well. We enjoyed it.
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City-County Council President Stephen Clay faces lawsuit from fellow members
Posted: 11:30 AM, Feb 08, 2018
INDIANAPOLIS -- Indianapolis City-County Council President Stephen Clay has been expelled from the Democratic caucus, and is facing a lawsuit from some of his fellow Democrats on the council.
Eight Indianapolis City-County councilors have filed a lawsuit against Clay, saying Clay's firing of the clerk and attorney for the council was "illegal, unauthorized and autocratic."
"The clerk of the council and general counsel were elected by the council as a whole, and that's who they serve. So, we're asking that they be allowed to return to their jobs," said Karen Celestino-Horseman, attorney for fired employee.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit include one of the fired employees and the following members of the council:
Zach Adamson
Jared Evans
Maggie Lewis
Frank Mascari
Vop Osili
Christine Scales
The lawsuit, filed in the Marion Superior Court, said Clay's firing of NaTrina DeBow and Fred Biesecker threw the council into "chaos" and prevented it from performing public business for the people of Marion County.
DeBow's responsibilities included managing a staff of five people. She was also responsible for setting agendas, office payrolls, reviews, administering oaths and signing the city's bond requests, she said.
Lawyers for DeBow are requesting a temporary restraining order that would bar Clay from preventing the employees from entering the office and doing their jobs.
A few days after firing the employees, Clay held a press conference, showing shredded documents that were found in the offices of the fired staffers. Clay said the documents included "historical pay information" of employees and employee time sheets from 2010-2012.
Clay told reporters last week the firings are part of a transition and any new administration has the right to bring in its own staff.
"This is the decision made by the office of the president, it does not have to be done in caucus or in concert with anyone. So this decision is mine. I did it, I own it, and I stand behind it. Period," said Clay.
No court date has been sent, but meantime Democrats on the City-County Council expelled Clay from the caucus in a vote Wednesday evening. They allege Clay 'conspired' with Republicans when he lined up their support to win the presidency last month. Read that resolution below:
A City-County Council vote is scheduled for Feb. 19 to see if Clay will remain president, or be forced to step down. Democrats confirm they have the votes to elect someone else president.
If Clay is replaced, the clerk and staff attorney are expected to get their jobs back and RTV6 was told the lawsuit will be dropped.
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Trinidad police gets makeover after resignation
Lady Tigers finish 4-1 in home tournament
Home / Tigers take home four wins at home
Tigers take home four wins at home
Malakoff goes 4-1 at home baseball tournament
MALAKOFF–The Malakoff Tigers varsity baseball squad went 4-1 at their home tournament Feb. 28 through March 2.
The Tigers began their tournament weekend with a game Thursday morning against Garrison.
The Tigers’ offense kicked off their first contest early as they plated five runs in the bottom of the first inning to take a 5-0 lead.
Garrison responded with two runs in the top of the second inning to cut the lead to 5-2.
Malakoff added a run each in both the fourth and fifth innings to increase their lead to 7-2.
Garrison scratched across two runs in the top of the sixth inning, but the Tigers held on for a 7-4 victory.
Riggin Smith picked up the win for Malakoff, going five innings with three strikeouts against Garrison. Smith added two RBIs in the game from the plate.
Cully McCoy came on in relief and picked up the save for the Tigers, picking up two strikeouts in his one inning of work.
The Tigers then took on the Kerens Bobcats in their first game Friday morning.
The Tigers plated two runs in the first inning and added three more runs in the second inning to take a 5-0 lead over Kerens.
Malakoff added one more run in the bottom of the third inning to increase their lead to 6-0.
Kerens scratched across two runs in the top of the fourth inning as the Tigers shut the Bobcats down 6-2 in four innings.
Cole Gaddis picked up the win in three innings of work for the Tigers with seven strikeouts.
Darion Peace and Erik Waldo added an RBI apiece for the Tigers against the Bobcats.
Malakoff struggled in their third game of the tournament as they suffered their first loss against the Mabank Panthers.
The Panthers scored two runs in the top of the third and fourth innings as the Tigers were held hitless in their third game, falling 4-0.
The Tigers finished up with two games on Saturday, starting with the Mineola Yellowjackets.
The Tigers came out on fire with five runs in the bottom of the first inning to jump out ahead 5-0.
Mineola scored their first run in the top of the fourth inning before Malakoff answered with two runs in the bottom half of the inning to increase their lead to 7-1.
Mineola added only one more run as Malakoff picked up the 7-2 victory Saturday morning.
Peace picked up the win for Malakoff on the mound, going four inning innings and striking out six.
McCoy added three RBIs for Malakoff while Nathan Jones drove in two runs in the victory.
Malakoff finished tournament play Saturday afternoon with a big win over Garrison.
The Tigers plated a run in the bottom of the first inning, followed by seven runs in the bottom of the second inning to take an early 8-0 lead.
Garrison trimmed the lead to 8-5 with five runs in the top of the third inning.
Malakoff responded with three runs in the bottom half of the inning to take an 11-5 lead.
Garrison added two late runs, but Malakoff picked up the 11-7 win in 3.5 innings.
Peace picked up three hits with Gaddis driving in six runs for the Tigers over Garrison.
McCoy and Waldo added two hits each and Jones drove in two runs for Malakoff.
After a 4-1 weekend, the Tigers moved their record to 5-4 on the season.
The Tigers head out for more tournament play as they take part in the Blanco tournament March 7 through March 9.
Malakoff Tigers
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Jeremy Scahill and Peter Beinart on WikiLeaks: Policy Porn, or Public Service?
Nation in the News
WIth the latest diplomatic cables dump from WikiLeaks sending waves throughout the political and media worlds, the organization's activities are raising questions such as, is releasing all this information gratuitous, even irresponsible? Or is it a valuable public service?
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WIth the latest diplomatic cables dump from WikiLeaks sending waves throughout the political and media worlds, the organization’s activities are raising questions such as, is releasing all this information gratuitous, even irresponsible? Is it just a bunch of policy porn? Or is it a valuable public service?
The Nation‘s Jeremy Scahill went on the Joy Behar Show Monday to debate the issue with Peter Beinart, senior political writer at The Daily Beast. Scahill argues that the main thing to remember is that these leaks shed light on important issues: diplomats spying on other diplomats, US attacks on Yemen and more.
But do we really need to know about Putin and Berlusconi’s bromance? And do the rest of the cables include information that might do more harm than good? Would we have gone to war in Iraq in the first place if WikiLeaks had been around? Watch the clip to hear Scahill and Beinart weigh in.
Jeremy Scahill is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and author of the book Blackwater. You can read his articles here.
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Film: Damon Smith reviews the latest movie releases
SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (15, 112 mins)
Chicago-born rapper Boots Riley makes his feature film directorial debut with an audacious, wildly inventive and frequently uproarious satire about workplace culture, black exploitation and rampant capitalism.
It's fair to say that Sorry To Bother You won't be everyone's tipple and there are madcap moments in Riley's script when the wheels threaten to come off this runaway train of thoughts.
However, patience and gargantuan suspensions of disbelief reap rewards over almost two hours, which simultaneously bamboozle, delight and astound.
The writer-director has a penchant for visual gags in background detail like a rogue photocopier, which churns out reams of paper, creating a snowstorm of tumbling A4 around despairing employees.
Some visual flourishes are impossible to miss.
A stop-motion animated instruction video credited to Michel Dongry is a nod to inventive French director Michel Gondry and a flaccid pun on the male appendage, which features so prominently in the film's loopy final act.
Dialogue crackles, from a workplace protest that inspires one young woman to gush, "That scene was crazy, like Norma Rae!", to the Machiavellian CEO who perceives anyone who can analyse a problem and adapt as "a cunning raccoon".
The unlikely hero is Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield), known to friends as Cash.
He lives in the garage of his uncle Sergio (Terry Crews) with activist girlfriend Detroit (Tessa Thompson).
Four months behind on the rent, Cash must find alternative accommodation unless he can raise the balance within two weeks.
He hopes a job as a telemarketer at RegalView alongside friend Salvador (Jermaine Fowler) will answer his prayers.
"We're not mapping the human genome here," deadpans Cash's manager (Robert Longstreet), who instructs him to follow the script and maybe - just maybe - he will be promoted to a Power Caller desk on the top floor.
Cash's tentative first efforts to engage customers are dispiriting failures until an experienced co-worker (Danny Glover) imparts sage words.
"You want to make some money here, read the script with your white voice," he whispers.
Sure enough, when Cash (now voiced by David Cross) erases all traces of Oakland from his patter, he secures his first sale... then another.
In record time, he is courting the attention of Mr X (Omari Hardwick), who manages the Power Caller team, and Steve Lift (Armie Hammer), CEO of futuristic employer WorryFree.
Sorry To Bother You plays with madness as Stanfield's everyman becomes complicit in modern-day slavery on a grotesque scale.
Hammer has a blast in a small supporting role while Thompson is poorly served as the film's female lead but she relishes her character's standout scene of performance art, which incorporates dialogue from the 1985 martial arts film The Last Dragon.
Writer-director Riley holds firm to his ambitious and outlandish vision, and occasionally draws blood with his barbs.
THE OLD MAN & THE GUN (12A, 93 mins)
Robert Redford makes his final screen appearance before retirement in David Lowery's gently paced crime caper - a (mostly) true story, which is also an unabashed valentine to the charismatic leading man.
Based on a 2003 article of the same title in The New Yorker magazine, The Old Man & The Gun possesses a simple, old-fashioned charm epitomised by the 82-year-old star at the film's emotionally molten centre.
Photographed in lustrous close-up, Redford beguiles us with each glance into camera as real-life bank robber Forrest Tucker, who ran rings around the authorities and escaped from San Quentin State Prison in a canoe.
Lowery pays homage to his star by lovingly re-appropriating footage from Redford's 1966 picture The Chase as one of these close brushes with the law.
"Looking sharp will take you a long, long way," coos Forrest at one point.
Redford could almost be reflecting on his own ascent into the pantheon of well-heeled Hollywood greats in such classics as Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, The Sting, All The President's Men and Out Of Africa.
In Lowery's picture, he discharges that star wattage one final time in swoonsome exchanges with fellow Oscar winner Sissy Spacey.
Dialogue between the couple is light and playful, kindling a smouldering on-screen partnership that casts a satisfying glow over every frame.
The film concentrates on events in 1981 when Forrest pulls off a series of bank robberies, often with ageing associates Teddy (Danny Glover) and Waller (Tom Waits).
"He had a gun... and also, he was sort of a gentleman," one Dallas bank employee confesses to police after Forrest casually 'withdraws' a large amount of bills from tellers' drawers.
During the getaway from one hold-up, Forrest evades police by stopping to help a stranded motorist called Jewel (Sissy Spacek).
Sparks of attraction fly over a cup of coffee.
Meanwhile, Texas detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck) becomes fascinated by Forrest's far from illustrious career on the wrong side of the law and is secretly relieved that the old timer is always one step ahead of the police.
"I'm sorry you didn't catch him," commiserates John's wife Maureen (Tika Sumpter).
"I'm not," he responds tenderly.
The Old Man & The Gun is the cinematic equivalent of a warm hug: comforting, heartfelt and undeniably pleasurable in the moment.
Lowery's script stages a couple of tense robberies with aplomb but characterisation always takes priority, and there is a lovely scene of verbal to-and-fro between Forrest and John in the corridor of a roadside diner.
Redford remind us why he has been setting hearts aflutter on screen for more than 55 years and Affleck is an appealing sparring partner in a game of cat and mouse where everyone, including us, wins.
MORTAL ENGINES (12A, 128 mins)
Shortly after the digitally-rendered dust settles on an eye-popping action sequence which opens Mortal Engines, the thorny issue of Brexit ripples thousands of years into our desolate future.
"Going into Europe - biggest mistake we ever made," despairs the Mayor of London (Patrick Malahide) as he surveys a post-apocalyptic wasteland dotted with motorised cities mounted on caterpillar tracks.
Adapted from the novel of the same title by Philip Reeve, Christian Rivers' rollicking action adventure doesn't stoke that political fire any further but does make a few mis-steps over the course of two breathlessly enjoyable hours.
The script penned by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson, engineers of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, idles in first gear for the initial 20 minutes and grinds through clunky interludes.
More than once, first-time director Rivers falls back on his Oscar-winning background as a visual effects supervisor and allows spectacle to trump substance, aided by an army of digital effects wizards and a vivid steampunk aesthetic.
By happy accident or cynical design, there are echoes of another fantastical saga during the picture's rousing climax - specifically, the thrilling Death Star trench run from A New Hope and a pivotal exchange from The Empire Strikes Back.
Mortal Engines is bolted together from the first book of a four-part odyssey set many centuries after the cataclysmic Sixty Minute War.
Survivors huddle on mobile metropolises fashioned from scavenged parts that "ingest" the resources of rival cities to feed roaring furnaces.
The largest of these behemoths is London, commanded by Mayor Magnus Crome (Patrick Malahide) with guidance from noted academic Thaddeus Valentine (Hugo Weaving).
Masked assassin Hester Shaw (Hera Hilmar) sneaks aboard London and attempts to assassinate Valentine in front of his daughter Katherine (Leila George).
Apprentice historian Tom Natsworthy (Robert Sheehan) intervenes before a fatal blow can be struck and, during the subsequent chase, he tumbles off a gangway and regains consciousness next to Hester in the wilderness.
The fugitives are forced to work together as they encounter famed pilot Anna Fang (Jihae) and a half-human, half-machine warrior called Shrike (Stephen Lang), whose past is inextricably entwined with the girl.
Mortal Engines is a solid opening chapter, which trades in gob-smacking set-pieces and product placement.
"The food of the ancients never goes off. It's indestructible," splutters Hester as she tucks into a popular branded snack cake, which survived the apocalypse.
Hilmar is an appealingly spunky heroine and verbal rat-a-tat with Sheehan's apprentice aviator allows the darling buds of romance to appear gradually in lands poisoned by humanity's greed.
Lang's moving performance sows the seeds of the film's most intriguing and emotionally rich on-screen relationship.
Shrike is unquestionably the most beautiful and heartbreakingly mortal engine on display.
He is the tormented ghost in the precision engineered machine.
TULIP FEVER (15, 105 mins)
Filmed in the summer of 2014 before lead actress Alicia Vikander deservedly won her Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for The Danish Girl, director Justin Chadwick's lust-fuelled period romp has been wilting on a film studio shelf for more than three years.
Harvey Weinstein's involvement as a producer can't be blamed for the delay.
Tulip Fever is a turgid, lifeless adaptation of Deborah Moggach's novel, which fails to bloom on the big screen despite some half-hearted propagation from director Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) and his starry international cast.
Not even Dame Judi Dench, pursing her lips beneath a wimple, can inject life into a plodding, water-logged narrative in which a lowly fisherman brandishes a basket of pungent goods and tantalises one potential customer by boasting, "I've got a nice thick eel," with a straight face.
Codswallop, more like.
Moggach's script, co-written by Tom Stoppard, is incapable of generating dramatic momentum and the multiple deceptions of the conclusion teeter precariously on the cusp of an unintentional comedy of errors.
Production design and costumes are impressive, captured in sweeping camera shots over and around a bustling quayside, and Danny Elfman's orchestral score plucks the heartstrings when the cast is unable to oblige.
Orphan Sophia (Vikander) is raised by the nuns of St Ursula in mid-17th century Amsterdam at a time when the most precious and widely traded commodity is tulip bulbs.
She reluctantly accepts a marriage proposal from wealthy merchant Cornelis Sandvoort (Christoph Waltz), who will pay safe passage for Sophia's relatives to live in New Amsterdam in exchange for a male heir.
"Marriage is a safe harbour," explains the Abbess (Dame Judi Dench). "Love, honour and obey - it's for the best."
Sophia initially fails to excite her husband's "dozy little soldier" and her inability to fall pregnant necessitates a hurried visit to local quack Dr Sorgh (Tom Hollander).
Cornelis commissions local artist Jan van Loos (Dane DeHaan) to paint a portrait of his blissful union and the painter falls deliriously under the spell of virginal Sophie.
Meanwhile, housemaid Maria (Holliday Grainger) enjoys a lustful romance with local fisherman Willem (Jack O'Connell).
When Maria discovers she is pregnant out of wedlock, which would bring shame upon her family, Sophia hatches a cunning plan to solve both of their predicaments.
Tulip Fever is a bouquet of missed opportunities that should have been left on that shelf to moulder indefinitely.
A cornucopia of rumpy pumpy - almost every inch of Vikander is on softly lit display - can't distract from her curiously restrained performance.
By contrast, Waltz exposes the vulnerability and sadness of his "lucky old dog", enriching a potentially two-dimensional villain far 4/10
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Sad! R.Kelly jailed after failing to pay more than $161,000 in child support
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By Kehinde Ajose On Mar 7, 2019 Last updated Mar 7, 2019
Musician R. Kelly was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon after failing to obey a judge’s order that he pay more than $161,000 in back child support.
Dozens of reporters and photographers crammed a narrow hallway to watch Kelly, sporting black sunglasses and a dark blue suit with a lighter blue dress shirt, as he made his way through security screening before the hearing began.
Kelly, who didn’t say anything audible, pulled off the shades as he walked into Judge Lori Rosen’s courtroom on the lower level of the Daley Center.
More than an hour after Kelly entered the closed court hearing, he was led away in handcuffs, accompanied by Cook County sheriff’s deputies. “He’s in our custody,” said Sophia Ansari, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office.
Recall that judge Rosen last month warned Kelly that he faced jail time unless he paid the child support. During Wednesday’s hearing, Kelly was found in contempt and ordered into custody, according to Cara Smith, chief policy officer at the sheriff’s office.
Kelly must pay $161,663 to be released from jail, she said. His next court date is March 13.
The arrest comes less than two weeks after Kelly put up $100,000 to be released from custody on criminal sexual abuse charges.
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Records connected to Kelly’s divorce case have been kept secret and out of public view. But paperwork on the back child support was made public in Kelly’s criminal court file. Kelly and his ex-wife have three children together.
Kelly’s publicist, Darryll Johnson, said the musician showed up with $50,000 or $60,000, but the judge wanted the full amount paid. “As you know, he hasn’t worked in a long time,” Johnson said.
When asked how Kelly can still live in the Trump Tower, he replied that Kelly “has some money.”
Kelly was “happy” when he arrived for the hearing, not thinking he would be jailed, Johnson said. But now he is “depressed, deflated and upset.” One man heckled Johnson as he spoke to the media.
The woman who posted Kelly’s bail after the criminal charges was at the Daley Center on Wednesday but left without speaking to reporters.
Kelly was indicted on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Cook County prosecutors allege he abused four victims, three of them underage girls, over a span of 12 years. Kelly and his attorney have vehemently denied the accusations.
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Kehinde Ajose has repeatedly asked to be called Mister Awesome but no one listens to him, so he prefers to wear the cap of visibility strategist, journalist and author.
He is the author of Donjazzyfied..a book on the lessons drawn from an African showbiz entrepreneur and also ‘5 costly mistakes entertainers make’.
He has been featured in mainstream media platforms like Vanguard, Thisday, The Sun,Punch, Kiss FM, Max FM etc
He was christened a formidable speaker by Edutainment magazine in 2008.
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DVD Drove Home Theater Sales In 3rd Quarter
By TWICE staff
Continued strong demand for DVD players, and the growing market for big-tube color TVs and surround-sound electronics, produced solid growth for third-quarter sales of home theater audio/video products, according to figures issued by CEA.
For the quarter, the figures show, factory sales of home theater products rose 14.6 percent to $2.65 billion, with video gear up 14.4 percent to just less than $2.4 billion and audio equipment up 16.1 percent to $252 million.
For the year's first nine months, total equipment sales rose 9.6 percent from last year to $6.51 billion, as sales of video products increased by 10.4 percent to $5.91 billion, and audio sales edged up 2.2 percent to $600 million.
For the quarter, growth in video hardware sales was paced by DVD players, which generated revenue of $296 million, up 174.1 percent from the same period last year. Through the first nine months the value of DVD player sales more than tripled to $672 million.
As previously reported, CEA figures show DVD player unit sales climbed 289 percent in the third quarter and were up more than four-fold for the first nine months. That indicates the average factory value of a DVD player sold during the quarter was $149, down 61.5 percent from the $386 average in the same 1998 period, and for the nine months, the average value dropped 29.1 percent to $283 from $399.
The value of projection TVs sold in the quarter dipped 3 percent to $446 million, a reflection of the relatively stagnant 7.5 percent rise in unit sales caused by July-August product shortages.
Nine-month projection value was up just 2.1 percent to $1.09 billion, though unit sales for the period rose 12.1 percent.
As was the case with DVD players, the projection performance difference between units and value stemmed from average pricing declines. The figures indicate that for the quarter the average price was off 9.8 percent to $1,311 from $1,454, and for the full period it was down 8.9 percent to $1,345 from $1,477.
In audio, meanwhile, the total hardware market rose 16.1 percent for the quarter to $252 million. All of the increase came in the form of a 24 percent, or $26 million, jump for A/V receivers, which accounted for virtually all sales of electronics, and a 19 percent, or $12.5 million, rise for home-theater-in-a-box speaker systems to $78 million. That indicates sales of all other audio electronics and speakers for home theater fell 50 percent to just $48 million.
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Dayton vetoes environment, economic development…
Dayton vetoes environment, economic development bills
By Rachel E. Stassen-Berger | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: May 22, 2015 at 11:01 pm | UPDATED: October 25, 2015 at 6:57 am
Gov. Mark Dayton on Saturday vetoed the Legislature’s measures funding environment and economic development programs, giving lawmakers more work to do in an expected special session to finish a budget he can sign.
“We’ve got a lot to discuss,” Dayton said at a Saturday news conference.
On Thursday, he used his veto stamp to take down the Legislature’s plans for funding of preschools through high schools.
The Democratic-Farmer-Labor governor’s objections to the measures are plenty: Not enough money for education programs, weakening of environmental protections, deleting funding for core functions of his Commerce Department and shortchanging and earmarking money for the state’s broadband build-out.
The governor is expected to call lawmakers back to work in a special session in the coming weeks.
Dayton said he would like the Legislature to provide an increase of $650 million to education programs, $250 million more than was in the $17 billion education budget bill he vetoed.
Lawmakers and the governor also will have to agree on funding for the environmental and agricultural programs and energy and economic development programs. The cash for those programs was all in the bills Dayton vetoed Saturday.
Dayton and lawmakers also have said they want action on a borrowing bill and an appropriation of constitutional Legacy Act funding. The Legislature ran out of time to approve those before their midnight Monday deadline in the regular session.
As a pot-sweetener, Dayton also offered to back a temporary income tax cut, modeled after something Republican House Taxes Chair Rep. Greg Davids proposed. That tax break would cost the state about $260 million.
LAYOFF NOTICES
The governor said that if the budget measures are not replaced quickly, layoff alert notices will go out to more than 10,000 state employees June 1.
On July 1, if the Legislature and the governor do not agree on bills to fully fund state government functions, nonessential state employees whose jobs are in the K-12 education, economic development, agriculture and environment sections would be out of work. A court would likely decide which employees were essential and have to continue working.
State parks, which normally get their funding through the environment allocation the governor vetoed, would have to stop taking reservations June 15 if that measure is not replaced by then.
Minnesota has had practice at shutdowns during times of bipartisan rule.
The governor has signed five budget measures into law. Those fund state government, higher education, public safety and prisons, health care and welfare programs and the Transportation Department — about half of the state’s $42 billion budget. Even if lawmakers and the governor cannot agree on schools, jobs and environment programs, the rest would still be funded after July 1.
The governor said he appreciated some of the provisions in bills he vetoed. Dayton highlighted the agriculture/environment measure’s funding of avian flu recovery funds and buffer zone enforcement to protect Minnesota’s waterways. He said he will insist those provisions continue in the next budget measure lawmakers send him but he demanded that much of the bill change.
“There are a number of parts of that bill that are just so destructive to our good environmental protection,” Dayton said Saturday. He noted the measure “raids” several environmental funds, eliminates the nearly 50-year-old citizens’ board of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and weakens other environmental protections.
House Speaker Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, said he was disappointed in the governor’s vetoes, particularly because “the DFL-led Senate and Republican-led House made every effort to accommodate his requests, including his highly publicized land buffer initiative.” But, Daudt added, “We will continue to work with him for Minnesotans.”
Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Finance Chair Rep. Denny McNamara was less optimistic.
“It seems the governor’s version of compromise is his way or the highway. Moving forward from this veto, which blindsided us, will be difficult,” said McNamara, R-Hastings.
House DFLers, many of whom voted against the environmental bill Dayton vetoed and did not have time to read or vote on the jobs bill, praised Dayton’s actions.
“Each bill contained a number of objectionable items that can be fixed or improved during a special session,” said House Minority Leader Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis.
Rep. Melissa Hortman was more blunt.
“Is anyone really surprised the bill we had for 90 seconds on the House floor turned out to be an incomprehensible pile of crap?” Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, said on Twitter after Dayton vetoed the jobs measure.
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Rachel E. Stassen-Berger was a Minnesota Capitol reporter for the Pioneer Press from 2001 to 2009 and again from 2015 to 2017.
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Posted on October 1, 2013 December 23, 2015
Uranus: A Guide to its 2013 Opposition
Up for a challenge? Got a big 12” light bucket of a Dobsonian telescope and looking for something new to point it at? This week, as the Moon reaches New phase on October 4th and stays safely out of the late evening sky, why not check out Uranus and its retinue of moons. And yes, we’ve heard just about ALL the Uranus jokes —its pronounced yer-in-us, thank you very much — but feel free to attempt to pen an original if you must.
Now, back to astronomy. Uranus reaches opposition for 2013 on Thursday, October 3rd at 14:00 Universal Time. Opposition is the point in time that an outer planet rises as the Sun sets. In the case of Uranus, its opposition dates advance forward by about 4-5 days each year.
The current location of Uranus in Pisces. Created by the author using Stellarium. (click to enlarge).
This also marks the start of the best time to hunt for the planet among the star fields of the constellation Pisces. Uranus will reach its maximum elevation above the southern horizon for northern hemisphere viewers for early October around local midnight. For observers south of the equator, Uranus will transit to the north. Incidentally, Uranus also currently sits near the equinoctial point occupied by the Sun during the March equinox, making viewing opportunities nearly equal for both hemispheres.
Uranus is 19.04 astronomical units distant during opposition 2013, or about 158 light minutes away. Shining at magnitude +5.8, Uranus presents a tiny blue-green disk just under 4” across at opposition.
Uranus currently lies six degrees SW of the +4.4 magnitude star Delta Piscium, on the border of the constellations Pisces and Cetus. Uranus will actually be crossing once again into the non-zodiacal constellation of Cetus later this year.
Discovered in 1781 by Sir William Herschel, Uranus has only completed 2 full orbits (2.75 to be precise) in its 84.3 year trips about the Sun. We can be thankful that William’s proposal to name the planet Geogium Sidus after his benefactor King George the III didn’t stick!
The path of Uranus into Cetus. Created by the author using Starry Night Education software.
At opposition, Uranus will be located at;
Right Ascension: 0h 40’
Declination: +3° 25’
Five of the 27 known moons of Uranus are also within the grasp of a moderate-sized backyard scope as well. The trick is to catch ‘em near greatest elongation, when they appear farthest from the “glare of Uranus” (hey, there’s a freebie for a snicker or two). An eyepiece equipped with an occulting bar, or simply nudging Uranus out of the field of view can also help.
With magnitudes ranging from +13 to +16, the moons of Uranus are similar in brightness to Neptune’s large moon Triton or the tiny world Pluto.
The five brightest moons of Uranus and their respective maximum elongations are:
Chart constructed by author.
And here’s a handy finder chart for the coming month, showing maximum elongations for each:
A corkscrew graph featuring the greatest elongations for the five brightest moons of Uranus through October. (Created by Ed Kotapish using PDS Rings Node).
The first two moons were named Titania and Oberon by William’s son John after characters from William Shakespeare’s A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream. William discovered the first two moons of Uranus on the night of January 11th, 1787 using his 49.5” reflector. His scopes were so advanced for his day, that it wasn’t until over a half a century later that William Lassell discovered Umbriel and Ariel using the Liverpool Observatory’s 24” reflector in 1851.
Gerard Kuiper would later add tiny Miranda to the list, nabbing it with the McDonald Observatory’s 82” Otto Struve Telescope in 1948. We would then have to wait until Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby of Uranus in 1986 to add more. To date, Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune.
The current convention established by the International Astronomical Union is to name the moons of Uranus after characters from the plays of Shakespeare or Alexander Pope’s Rape of the Lock.
There’s still a wide range of names in said literature to choose from!
It’s interesting to note that the orbits of the moons of Uranus are also currently tipped open about 25 degrees to our line of sight and widening. They were edge on in December 2007, and will be perpendicular to our Earthly view come 2029, after which they’ll head back to edge on in 2049. This is because Uranus and the orbits of its moons are tipped at a 97 degree angle relative to the planet’s orbit. This is why elongations for its moons are often quoted it terms of “north and south” of the planet, rather than the familiar east and west. Shadow transits of the moons can occur with about a year and a half during plane-crossing seasons, but they’re ~42 years apart and tough to spot on the tiny disk of Uranus!
An example of the orientation of Uranus’s moons on October 4th, with Oberon at greatest elongation. Note that Miranda is the tiny unlabeled moon with the interior orbit. (Created by the author using Starry Night Education software).
Uranus also reached aphelion in 2009 at 20.099 AU from the Sun —we’re still at the farther end of the spectrum, as oppositions of Uranus can range from 19.09 to 17.28 AU distant.
Uranus will rise earlier on each successive evening until it reaches quadrature at the end of the year on December 30th. At this point, it’ll be roughly due south at local sunset. Keep in mind, there’s also another ice giant worth hunting for in the adjacent constellation of Aquarius named Neptune.
So ignore those bad puns, and be sure to take out that 10” (scope, that is) and point it at Uranus!
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Lord Peter Wimsey bent down over General Fentiman and drew the Morning Post gently away from the gnarled old hands. Then, with a quick jerk, he lifted the quiet figure. It came up all of a piece, stiff as a wooden doll . . . But how did the general die? Who was the mysterious Mr X who fled when he was wanted for questioning? And which of the general's heirs, both members of the Bellona Club, is lying? 'I admire her novels . . . she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail' Ruth Rendell
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The first full-length study of its type highlighting over 400 British literary detectives, many famous through their film and TV adaptations. Using essays to highlight different types of detectives and focusing on some of the more famous such as Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Morse, popular crime fiction writer and former President of Britain's Crime Writers Association, Russell James celebrates the role of the detective in British fiction. Illustrations include original film posters and first edition covers from classic detective fiction. Future books by Russell James in this series will include Great British Fictional Villains and US Fictional Detectives and Villains.
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Christianity and the Detective Story is the first book to gather together academic criticism on this particular connection between religion and popular culture. The articles cover the origin of this relationship in the works of G. K. Chesterton, examine its development through the “Golden Age” of mystery writers such as Dorothy L. Sayers, and include discussions of recent and contemporary television crime dramas. The volume makes a strong case for viewing mystery writing as a valid means of providing both entertainment and religious insight.
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France, Algeria sign nuclear pact
ALGIERS, Algeria, June 21 (UPI) -- The governments of France and Algeria signed an agreement Saturday in which France will help its former colony develop nuclear power.
The pact was signed in Algiers by the French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, the BBC reported. He said the nuclear pact marked a "transformation" in the countries' ties.
Under the agreement, French and Algerian ministers agreed to conduct joint research and training projects.
Eventually, nuclear power plants could be built on Algerian soil, the British network said.
"There is no clearer signal of France's intention to establish an exceptional partnership with Algeria," Fillon said.
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UAE rejects accusations it hacked Qatari websites
Andrew V. Pestano
A Palestinian man holds a Qatari flag during a rally in support of Qatar in southern Gaza June 9. The United Arab Emirates rejected a report indicating it hacked Qatari government news and social media websites. File Photo by Ibrahim Khatib/UPI | License Photo
July 17 (UPI) -- The United Arab Emirates has rejected a report indicating it hacked Qatari government news and social media websites to post incendiary false quotes attributed to Qatar's emir that generated regional turmoil.
The Washington Post on Sunday released a report citing U.S. intelligence officials that said the UAE orchestrated the hacking in late May that sparked ongoing turmoil between Qatar and its regional neighbors.
The Post report said U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed that senior members of the UAE government discussed the hacking plan and implementation on May 23. The anonymous U.S. officials told The Post that U.S. intelligence does not know if the UAE carried out hacks itself or contracted to have them carried out.
The false reports posted on the Qatari websites said that Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani called Iran an "Islamic power" and praised Hamas, the Palestinian militant and political organization, The Post reported.
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Following the comments attributed to the emir, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt in early June froze diplomatic, economic and transportation ties with Qatar on accusations of supporting terrorist networks. The countries called on the nation, among other things, to downgrade its relations with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and close its al-Jazeera media outlet.
The UAE's ambassador to the United States, Yousef al-Otaiba, late Sunday said The Post "story is false."
"UAE had no role whatsoever in the alleged hacking described in the article. What is true is Qatar's behavior. Funding, supporting, and enabling extremists from the Taliban to Hamas & Qadafi. Qatar inciting violence, encouraging radicalization, and undermining the stability of its neighbors," the ambassador said in a statement.
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Anwar Gargash, the UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, also said the accusation the UAE hacked Qatar was "purely not true."
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NEWS | Rebels big winners over Ranges
By Nick Schomburgk
The North Ballarat Rebels registered their biggest win of the season yesterday afternoon, defeating the Eastern Ranges by a whopping 93 points at Eureka Stadium.
In a terrific display of skill and brilliance, the accurate Rebels kicked 25.8 for the game – including 17 goals in an exceptional second half – to dismantle one of the best teams in the TAC Cup competition.
Rebels’ captain Darcy Tucker, who returned to some of his best form last weekend, was again superb, as were usual suspects Jacob Hopper and Ben Simpson.
The move of Yestin Eades back to the forward line also reaped rewards, as the talented utility booted five goals in his best performance for the year.
However, despite the end margin, it was a hot contest early on.
The Eastern Ranges brought strong pressure in the opening quarter, but the Rebels’ capitalised on limited opportunities to lead by three goals at the first change.
It wasn’t much different in the second term either, as the Rebels continued to hit the scoreboard despite general play being relatively even between the two sides.
The second half, however, was a different story.
In a flash, the Rebels raised the bar to a level that the Ranges simply couldn’t match. Too tough in congestion and too fast on the outside, it was a dominant effort from the Rebels after the main break.
Rebels’ coach David Loader commended his side for a four-quarter performance.
“That’s as complete as we’ve been all year, probably,” Loader said.
“To win like that against quality opposition is really pleasing. Eastern are a good side. They certainly went neck and neck with us early on and we got a little bit of stretch and opened the gap up – and the boys played well in the second half.
“That was important for us, to be solid and play four decent quarters of footy against a team that I really think will be there when the whips are cracking.”
Unfortunately, the win was soured by a shoulder injury to Jarrod Berry in the third quarter.
The star flanker, who gained All Australian honours in the AFL Under-18 Championships earlier this year, had scans today on a dislocated shoulder. The full extent of the injury has yet to be disclosed.
After another development weekend, the Rebels will travel to Morwell on August 16 to face the Gippsland Power.
North Ballarat Rebels
4.3-27, 8.6-54, 16.7-103, 25.8 (158)
Eastern Ranges
1.3-9, 4.3-27, 7.4-46, 10.5 (65)
Goal Kickers: Y. Eades 5, J. Berry 4, J. Hopper 3, H. McCluggage 3, C. Wellings 3, C. Byrne 2, T. Templeton , M. Johnston , T. Williamson , R. Thompson , D. Rioli
Best Players: , D. Tucker , Y. Eades , J. Hopper , C. Wellings , H. McCluggage , B. Simpson
Goal Kickers: J. Gilbert 2, L. Wilson , A. Cotte , B. Hardwick , J. Hannon , D. Crocker , J. Smith , L. Jeffs , J. Parsons
Best Players: , B. Mitchener , B. Batty , B. Hardwick , A. Cotte , T. Hollins , D. Crocker
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TEAM SELECTION | Round 10 v Geelong Falcons
The North Ballarat Rebels have made five changes to their side for this week's crucial match against ladder-leaders Geelong Falcons at Eureka Stadium
Of the five changes, only one is a non-compulsory change. Willem Drew has been rested after already having played two games of football this week - playing for Victoria Country in the U18 National Championships alongside Rebels teammates Jarrod Berry, Hugh McCluggage, Jarrod Korewha and Shannon Beks at Simonds Stadium this past Monday, and also for Ballarat Clarendon College in the BAS Grand Final against St Patrick's College on Wednesday. James Gow has been named as the 23rd man for the North Ballarat Roosters for the second week in a row, Todd Clode serves the first week of a two-week suspension stemming from the Rebels Round 9 win over the Gippsland Power and Keenan Waterbury is returning home to the Northern Territory for a short holiday. Joe McKinnon was unlucky not to retain his spot in the line-up, and will return to play with North Warrnambool this weekend.
Tom Williamson, Lloyd Meek and Shannon Beks all come back into the side after missing the Round 9 game against the Power through Vic Country representative duties, Aiden Domic comes into the side as 23rd player for the second time and the exciting Cedric Cox, who has spent the year playing with Camperdown and the Hampden FNL's senior interleague team after coming to Victoria from Halls Creek in Western Australia.
The Rebels will take on the Geelong Falcons, who defeated the Rebels in Round 1, as the first game in a Eureka Stadium double-header on Saturday, starting at 11am with the North Ballarat Roosters v Casey Scorpions VFL game to follow at 2pm.
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Waynesboro PD joins CRIMEWATCH
By Dustin Haluska
The Waynesboro Police Department launched a new website earlier this week that gives residents who use social media networks and mobile devices an easier, more effective way to help fight local crime and stay informed.
The new franklin.crimewatchpa.com/waynesboropd website was developed in partnership with CRIMEWATCH Pennsylvania and is part of the CRIMEWATCH Network (www.crimewatchpa.com). The online tool gives the public direct access and alerts to crime- and public safety-related information happening in Waynesboro.
“This new website is the perfect entry point for establishing better police and public partnerships. Technology gives us the opportunity to communicate with the public and the anonymity of the tech avoids the potential risks of sharing information with the police...several police departments throughout the region are having great success using this technology," said Waynesboro Police Chief James Sourbier IV.
Sourbier encourages local residents to visit the webpage and download CRIMEWATCH Mobile from the Apple or Android App Store.
CRIMEWATCH allows residents to do the following:
Sign up for a free account to receive e-mail alerts regarding crime committed in certain areas Submit a tip to local law enforcement View recent arrests and "most wanted" lists File a right-to-know request Share information with others through social media Get connected with resources and services
Sourbier provided an example of a time when an individual has been accused of committing a crime, but still walks free in the neighborhood.
He said that CRIMEWATCH can not only alert the public of that example, but allows residents to remain anonymous when sharing information.
Sourbier identified that the police department has been searching for a cost-effective way to revamp its online capabilities. He estimated that it would have taken between $6,000-8,000 to rebuild the current website not including maintenance fees.
The total cost to join CRIMEWATCH Pennsylvania was around $2,000 with an annual maintenance fee, according to Sourbier.
"We had to come up with something new," he said. "Our officers had seen the CRIMEWATCH site and we reached out. I liked what I saw during a presentation and the financial savings were substantial compared to having to rebuild a website. It was a fraction of the cost."
The Chambersburg Police Department is the only other department in Franklin County that currently uses CRIMEWATCH.
"Chambersburg has one of the most active and successful CRIMEWATCH sites in Pennsylvania," Sourbier pointed out.
"I don't see a downside to this."
Contact Dustin Haluska at dhaluska@therecordherald.com, 717-762-2151 or on Twitter: @dhaluska
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