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Besides bacterial infections, which of the following are associated with an elevated D-dimer? Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
Sickle cell disease (SCD)
D-dimer is a fibrin degradation product (FDP), a small protein fragment present in the blood after a blood clot (thrombosis) is degraded by fibrinolysis. It is aptly named as it contains two D domains produced from cross-linked fibrin.
Several clinical scenarios might prompt a practitioner to measure or monitor D-dimer levels. In general, the D-dimer test may be ordered to screen for underlying thromboembolic events such as deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE), or to learn whether there is any change during the course of a specific therapy or disease process. In practice, D-dimer measurement has been most comprehensively validated in the exclusion of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in certain patient populations and the diagnosis and monitoring of coagulation activation in disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) [2].
The D-dimer test is used for its negative predictive value. Whilst a negative result rules out a thromboembolic event, a positive result can give an indication of thrombosis, but does not rule out other potential common causes such as sickle cell disease (SCD), cancer, HIV, surgery and pregnancy [1], therefore further investigation is required.
Due to the injury to vascular endothelial cells caused by toxins released from fast-growing tumour cells, and the fibrinolytic activator on the surface of tumour cells, cancer patients often exhibit abnormal coagulation and fibrinolytic activities, and their D-dimer levels tend to be higher than those in non-neoplastic populations [3].
Patients with sickle cell disease, one of the most common inherited diseases worldwide [4], experience both large and small vessel occlusions leading to end-organ damage and complications such as avascular necrosis (AVN). These multifactorial vaso-occlusive events result from various processes, such as reduced red cell deformability and a chronically activated coagulation pathway. An important component of the hypercoagulable state is increased thrombin production, supported by findings of an elevated D-dimer [4].
Whilst healthcare provision in the past decade has largely focused on the prevention and management of HIV, the link between HIV infection and thrombosis has gone largely unrecognised. Studies have shown that increased D-dimer levels are strongly associated with increased mortality in HIV-infected individuals as well as being predictors of the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) after commencing antiretroviral treatment. IRIS is a condition that is seen in some AIDS patients shortly after starting antiretroviral therapy. Recovery of the immune system is accompanied by an overwhelming response to a previously acquired opportunistic infection that paradoxically makes the symptoms of infection worse. Because elevated D-dimers have been shown to be very good predictors of patients at high risk, there is a strong possibility that testing for D-dimers will become part of the HIV treatment programmes in the near future. This would allow high-risk patients to be identified to possibly receive an alternate drug regimen and almost certainly to be assigned to a much closer follow-up [1].
1. Sysmex Educational Enhancement and Development (2012): The Role of the D-dimer test in clinical diagnostics. SEED Coagulation. July 2012.
2. Soheir S. Adam et al. (2009): D-dimer antigen: Current concepts and future prospects. Blood. 113(13):2878-2885.
3. Jing Yu et al. (2016): Tumor-specific D-Dimer Concentration Ranges and Influencing Factors: A Cross-Sectional Study. Plos One. ODI:10.1371/journal.pone.0165390 (November 11 2016):1-12.
4. Nirmish Shah, MD, et al. (2012): Characterization of the hypercoagulable state in patients with sickle cell disease. Thromb Res. 2012 November. 130(5):e241-e245.
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Sarah Jane Smith: Ghost Town - Review
What could be better than getting away from the daily grind of the city than going to a dusty old gothic mansion. Well, Josh could think of a few things, but unfortunately for him, Sarah has been invited away to the remote mountains in central Europe by an old friend.
And where better would there be to hold international peace talks than a quiet town in Romanian Mountains? By a series of clichés there is also a lot of secret laboratories, an amnesiac butler, a spot of murder and some possible ghosts. Josh decides to lampshade the events with some Scooby-Doo jokes but Sarah isn't very amused.
Ignoring the conga-line of haunted house and horror movie clichés, Ghost Town is actually quite a nice little breather from the arc of Sarah Jane's opening series. Once again, Sarah plays a dangerous cloak and dagger game, investigating a mystery whose roots extend beyond the immediate threat of the shadowy organisation who have been following her recently. There are also some lingering tension between Sarah and Josh from the previous audio to be addressed.
What lets Ghost Town down is the somewhat two-dimensional characters which include an American Couple, actually played by Americans not someone putting an accent on, Dimitri, the Igor-house Butler and the overall villain. But the only standout guest character is Yolande, Sarah Jane's friend, a likable old dear who likes to hold parties...
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Gillian Ayres OBE
Phaëthon
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Spotlights: Gillian Ayres
Gillian Ayres OBE 1930–2018
Oil paint on canvas
Support: 2439 x 3658 mm
Presented by the artist 1995
Phaëthon 1990 is a very large oil painting packed with a variety of interlocking but loosely defined shapes, including triangles, circles, semi-circles, arches and zig-zagging lines. Shades of yellow, red and orange are especially prominent, while many of the forms have been given thick white outlines. The surface of the canvas is thick with paint, which appears to have been applied quickly and freely in layers so that every area of the canvas is covered. At the top of the painting black and white lines radiate from multi-coloured bands that curve from one side to the other over the central composition, which is made up of loosely delineated shapes of various sizes. At the bottom edge of the work is a sequence of vertical parallel lines in black, brown and red paint, which the curator David Elliot has described as ‘a kind of garden fence behind which the intense drama of colour and form which comprises the centre of the painting can take place’ (Elliot 1990, p.4).
After a period beginning in the mid-1960s in which she worked predominately with acrylic paint, often producing work in muted colours (see, for example, Weddell c.1973–4, Tate T13725), British painter Gillian Ayres reverted to oil paint in 1976 and began utilising a much more colourful palette. Phaëthon’s thick layers of paint, exuberant colours and expressive paint handling are characteristic of Ayres’s work after she finished teaching at the Winchester School of Art and left London for north Wales in 1981. This painting was made using an upright canvas and a ladder in Ayres’s studio on the border of Devon and Cornwall, where she moved in 1987.
The title of this work refers to the figure of Phaëthon, who, according to Greek mythology, was the son of the sun god Apollo. The predominance of yellow, red and orange in the painting may allude to Phaëthon’s parentage, and in particular to the mythical account of Phaëthon’s journey in his father’s sun chariot, when he drove so fast it caused the surrounding landscape to burst into flames. However, the titles of Ayres’s works are usually conceived after the paintings have been completed, and in some cases have been suggested by the artist’s friends or by a process of free association. In 2001 Ayres remarked, ‘I like the titles and care about them but they do not describe the paintings’ (Gooding 2001, p.148).
Similarly, Ayres regards the forms in works such as Phaëthon as abstract, but has also claimed, ‘To get something … of the grand things in nature, but to make the paint itself do it, has been a constant ambition; one’s looking for something like that to happen’ (quoted in Gooding 2001, p.182). Elliot has suggested a conflict between ‘highly pitched geometric and organic forms’ in works such as Phaëthon, as well as a ‘transcendence from the material world’, that he compares to the abstract paintings made between 1912 and 1920 by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) (Elliot 1990, p.4).
Phaëthon was first exhibited in a solo exhibition of Ayres’s work at the Fischer Fine Art gallery in London in November 1990.
David Elliot, ‘Gillian Ayres’, Gillian Ayres: New Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Fischer Fine Art, London 1990, p.4, reproduced p.11.
Gillian Ayres, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1997.
Mel Gooding, Gillian Ayres, Aldershot 2001, reproduced p.162.
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All Sikh Gurus and Achievements -Trick To remember All Guru Names
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All Sikh Gurus and Their Achievements – Trick To remember All Guru Names
The era of the ten gurus of Sikhism spans nearly 300 years, from the birth of Nanak Dev in 1469, through the life of Guru Gobind Singh.
At the time of his the death in 1708, Guru Gobind Singh bequeathed his title of Guru to the Sikh scripture, Guru Granth.
Sikhs regard the 10 gurus of Sikhism as the embodiment of one guiding light which passed from each guru to their successors and which now resides with the scripture Sri Guru Granth Sahib.
TRICK To Remember Name : Nanak Angdan kr Amar ho Ram ke pass chale gaye lekin Arjun ne Govind ki Rai li or kitni baduri se Kudh Govind ban gaye.
Guru Nanak ………………………… 1469-1538
Guru Angad ..……………………. 1538 – 1552
Guru Amardas …………………… 1552 – 1574
Guru Ramdas …………………….. 1574 – 1581
Guru Arjundev ………………….. 1581 – 1606
Guru Hargovind …………………. 1606 – 1645
Guru Har Rai ……………………… 1645 – 1661
Guru Har Kishan ………………….. 1661-1664
Guru Teg Bahadur.……………….. 1664-1675
Guru Govind Singh …………….. 1675 – 1708
Guru Names
Guru Nanak (1469- 1539)
Guru Nanak Dev, first of the 10 gurus, founded the Sikh faith, introducing the concept of one God.
Son of: Kalyan Das ji (Mehta Kalu ji), and Mata Tripta ji. Brother of: Bibi Nanaki
Married to: Sulakhani ji.
Father to: sons, Siri Chand and Lakhmi Das.
Birthplace: Nankana Sahib (Pakistan), observed October 20, 1469 (April 14, 1469 Nanakshahi)
Became Guru: From birth – formally, February 20, 1507 (1499 AD at about age 30)
Place of Death: Kartarpur, September 7, 1539 (September 22, Nanakshahi)
Guru Angad (1538-1552)
Guru Angad Dev, second of the 10 gurus, compiled the writings of Nanak Dev, and introduced the Gurmukhi script.
Son of: Pheru Mall ji and Mata Daya Kaur (Sabhrai) ji.
Married to: Mata Khivi ji.
Father to: sons, Dasu, Datu, and daughters, Amro and Anokhi.
Birthplace: Harike, March 31, 1504 (April 18, Nanakshahi)
Became Guru: Kartarpur, September 7, 1539 (September 18, Nanakshahi)
Place of Death: Khadur, March 29, 1552 (April 16, Nanakshahi)
Invented a new script called “Guru-Mukhi”.
Guru Amardas (1552-1574)
Guru Amar Das, third of the 10 gurus, disavowed caste with the institution of langar, pangat and sangat.
Son of: Tej Bhan ji and Mata Lakhmi ji.
Married to: Mansa Devi.
Father to: sons, Mohan, Mohri, and daughters, Dani and Bhani.
Birthplace: Basarke (Amritsar) May 5, 1479, (May 23, Nanakshahi)
Became Guru: Khadur, March 26, 1552 (April 16, Nanakshahi)
Place of Death: Goindwal, September 1, 1574 (September 16, Nanakshahi)
Started the Langar or Community Kitchen.
Led struggle against Sati and Purdah System.
Guru Ramdas (1574-1581)
Guru Raam Das, fourth of the 10 gurus, began the excavation of the sarovar in Amritsar.
Son of: Hari Das ji Sodhi and Mata Daya Kaur ji.
Married to: Bibi Bhani ji.
Father to: sons, Prithi Chand, Maha Dev and Arjun Dev.
Birthplace: Chuna Mandi (Lahore, Pakistan) September 24, 1534 (October 9, Nanakshahi)
Became Guru: Goindwal, September 1, 1574 (September 16, Nanakshahi)
Guru Arjun Dev (1581-1606)
Guru Arjun (Arjan) Dev, fifth of the 10 gurus, erected the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib) in Amritsar, compiled and contributed to Adi Granth, 1604.
Son of: Guru Ram das and Ji Mata Bhani ji.
Married to: Ram Devi (issueless), Ganga ji.
Father to: one son, Har Govind.
Birthplace: Goindwal, April 14, 1563 (May 2, Nanakshahi)
Place of Death: Lahore, May, 30 1606 (June 16, Nanakshahi)
Martyred age: 43
Founded the Swarna Mandir or Golden Temple at Amritsar.
Composed Adi Granth in 1604.
Executed by Jehangir on charges of helping prince Khusrau with money and Prayer.
Guru Har govind (1606-1645)
Guru Har Govind (Hargobind), sixth of the 10 gurus, constructed the Akal Takhat.
He raised an army and wore two swords symbolizing secular and spiritual authority.
The Mughal emperor Jahangir imprisoned the guru who negotiated release for whomever could hold on to his robe.
Son of: Guru Arjun and Mata Ganga.
Married to: Damodri ji, Nankee ji and Maha Devi ji.
Father to: Sons, Gur Ditta, Ani Rai, Suraj Mal, Atal Rai, Teg Mall (Teg Bahadur), and daughter, Bibi Veero.
Birthplace: Guru ki Wadali (Amritsar), June 19, 1595 (July 5, Nanakshai)
Became Guru: Amritsar, May 25, inaugurated June 10 – 11 or 25, 1606 (June 11, Nanakshahi)
Place of Death: Kiratpur, February 28, or March 3, 1644 (March 19, Nanakshahi)
Transformed the Sikh into a militant community.
Established Akal Takht and fortified Amritsar.
Guru Har Rai (1645-1661)
Guru Har Rai, seventh of the 10 gurus, propagated the Sikh faith, maintained a cavalry of 20,000 as his personal guard, and established both a hospital and zoo.
Son of: Baba Gurditta ji and Mata Nihal Kaur.
Married to: Sulakhni ji (Kishan Kaur) and Daughters of Daya Ram.
Father to: sons, Ram Rai and Har Krishan, and daughter Sarup Kaur.
Birthplace: Kiratpur (Hoshiarpur), January 16, or February 26, 1630 (January 31, Nanakshahi)
Became Guru: Kiratpur, March 3, or 8, 1644 (March 14, Nanakshahi)
Place of Death: Kiratpur, May 30, or October 6, 1661 (October 20, Nanakshahi)
Guru Har Kishan (1661-1664)
Guru Har Krishan, eighth of the 10 gurus, became guru at the age of five, and is known for his wisdom and compassion.
Son of Guru Har Rai and Mata Kishan (aka Krishan or Sulakhni) Kaur.
Birthplace: Kiratpur, July 7, 1656 (July 23, Nanakshahi)
Became Guru: Kiratpur, June 10, July 7, or October 6 – 7, 1661 (October 20, Nanakshahi)
Place of Death: Delhi, March 30, 1664 (April 16, Nanakshahi)
Guru Teg Bahadur (1664-1675)
He was executed at Delhi by Aurangazeb for not embracing islam.
He called himself “Sachcha Badshah”.
Guru Govind Singh(1675-1708)
He founded the Khalsa in 1699.
Introduced a new rite “Pahul”.
He made his headquarter at Makhowal or Anandpur. He compilled a supplementary Granth.
He joined Bahadur Shah’s camp as a noble.
Guru Govind Singh 1675 – 1708
Guru Gobind Singh, tenth of the 10 gurus, created the order of Khalsa.
Sacrificed father, mother, sons and his own life to protect Sikhs from forced conversion to Islam.
Completed the Granth bestowing upon it title of everlasting Guru.
Son of Guru Teg Bahadar and Mata Gujri ji.
Married to Jito ji (Ajit Kaur), Sundri, and Mata Sahib Kaur.
Father to sons, Ajit Singh, Jujhar Singh, Zorawar Singh and Fateh Singh.
Birthplace: Patna (Bihar, India) December 22, 1666 (January 5, Nanakshahi)
Became Guru: Anandpur, November 11, 1675 (November 24 Nanakshahi)
Creation of Khalsa: April 14, 1699
Place of Death: Nanded, October 7, 1708 (October 21, Nanakshahi)
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2018 Senior Art Exhibition open at Lord Hall
The annual art show runs through Feb. 2 and features more than 70 works of art.
The University of Maine has opened its 2018 Senior Art Exhibition, “Collective Ground,” at Lord Hall Gallery.
The show, which runs through Feb. 2, features more than 70 works of art, including paintings, drawings, prints, digital paintings/prints and sculptures.
The nine studio art majors displaying work produced all aspects of the exhibition including matting, framing, hanging, labeling and lighting their works, as well as planning the opening reception.
The artists are Abigail Annis, Gabrielle Bock, Mea Clark, Ariel Goos, Deborah Heyden, Mary Manley, Liam Reading, Maya Silver and Madison Suniga.
The gallery is open 9 a.m.–4 p.m. weekdays. Events are free and open to the public. For more information or to request a reasonable accommodation, call the UMaine Department of Art at 581-3245.
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Palace: PH committed to maintaining peace in South China Sea
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THE Philippines remains committed to maintaining peace in the contested South China Sea (West Philippine Sea), Malacañang said on Friday, April 12.
This was the assurance of Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, after the Philippines and the United States (US) conducted joint military exercises from April 1 to 12.
“It is our principled stand that the peace in the West Philippine Sea should be maintained,” Panelo said in a statement issued Friday night.
As part of the joint military drill by two nations, a US Navy warship has been training with Philippine Navy ships in Subic Bay and in international waters off the South China Sea.
The USS Wasp, a helicopter carrier of the US Marines with F35B Lightning II fighter jets, reportedly sailed near Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal that China has occupied since 2012.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said Wednesday, April 10, that it is China’s “principled position” that non-regional forces like the US should “refrain from stirring up troubles in the calm South China Sea.”
Panelo said the Philippine government agreed that the sea dispute can be best threshed out through “peaceful negotiation and consultation,” in a bid to bolster ties with China for a “solid partnership beneficial to Filipino and Chinese communities.”
The Palace official, however, stressed that the Philippines also acknowledged the July 2016 ruling of Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration, which invalidated China’s sweeping claims to South China Sea.
“We have been informed of the recent statement of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the issue of the disputed areas at the West Philippine Sea,” he said.
“We remain steadfast in maintaining our claims with respect to our territory and exclusive economic zones pursuant not only to the said arbitral judgment based on accepted principles of public international law but consistent with the directives of our Constitution and the aspirations of the Filipino people,” Panelo said.
Panelo also expressed hope that China would refrain from putting Filipino fishermen at disadvantage, noting that such move might affect the relations between the two countries.
He made the statement following the reported presence of Chinese vessels near Philippine-occupied Pag-asa Island, which has already been questioned through diplomatic protest lodged by the Manila against Beijing.
“China should avoid performing acts that will place at risk the Filipino fishermen fishing in the disputed areas and at the same time cause irritants that will disrupt the current friendly relations of the two countries as well as imperil future bilateral negotiations on matters of mutual concern,” he said. (SunStar Philippines)
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Michael Cohen’s Sentence, Noodles and Beef, Miss Coco Peru, Michael Flynn, Avenue Q, Inside the Frathouse: HOT LINKS
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MICHAEL COHEN. Trump’s “fixer” gets 3 years in prison: ‘The sentencing in federal court in Manhattan capped a startling fall for Mr. Cohen, 52, who had once hoped to work by Mr. Trump’s side in the White House but ended up a central figure in the inquiry into payments to a porn star and a former Playboy model before the 2016 election.’
"Ultimately, federal prosecutors say they believe he still has knowledge of potential crimes that he has not shared with them," @PaulaReidCBS reports after #MichaelCohen sentencing. https://t.co/22QD0CSkHY pic.twitter.com/F1Ccq9Jweg
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 12, 2018
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STORMY DANIELS. Strip club owner says Stormy is lying about gay slur: ‘Leonard Del Percio — the owner of Goldfinger, where Stormy was supposed to perform last weekend — tells TMZ he used to own gay bars, so Stormy’s claim he called her right-hand man a “f**king f****t” is a bunch of BS. Del Percio’s fuming over Stormy’s allegation, and tells us his attorneys are considering filing a slander lawsuit against her.’
CHOUPETTE. Karl Lagerfeld receives texts and photos from his cat throughout the day.
NICK CANNON. The rapper/actor defended calling out females comedians for using anti-gay slurs in defense of Kevin Hart: ‘While appearing on BuzzFeed News’ morning talk show “AM to DM,” he said he was just trying to point out “we all grow” when retweeting examples of Sarah Silverman, Amy Schumer and Chelsea Handler using the word “f-g” to crack jokes after his pal Kevin Hart faced backlash for old tweets criticized for being homophobic. “I was sticking up for my best friend… I like to point out selective outrage and hypocrisy,” he said. “And the only reason why I pointed out some of the other people, and I could’ve kept going, I did extensive research… it was just showing how we all grow… I was like, ‘Wow, we can invite Mel Gibson to the Oscars, but Kevin can’t come?'”‘
INSIDE THE FRATHOUSE. Humiliation, homoeroticism, and animal cruelty. ‘There is a funeral in Andrew Moisey’s timely and provocative photobook, The American Fraternity: An Illustrated Ritual Manual, though it is unrelated to anything that happened on the campus of the unnamed university where the images were documented. It does, though, show young men looking awkwardly ill at ease as they attend the most serious ritual of all. Elsewhere, the same young men seem altogether more relaxed in a closed, all-male campus environment where heavy drinking, boorishness, bullying and misogyny are the norms. A world in which homosexuality is taboo but cross-dressing and semi-naked wrestling are acceptable and parading your penis and testicles is almost de rigueur.’
CASTING. Miley Cyrus filmed an episode of Black Mirror.
NOODLES AND BEEF. New evidence emergences in silicone injection death drama. ‘Dylan Hafertepen, Jack’s surviving “master,” has denied involvement (even though, according to a contract Jack shared online, Master Dylan controlled every aspect of his life). Dylan told Buzzfeed recently: “I did not make him inject silicone” and “This was his fetish.” On Australian TV, Jack’s mother, Linda, wanted to know who had injected her son with silicone, and Dylan said: “I have never done that for him. I forbid him from doing silicone.”But Facebook messages between Jack and his best friend in Australia, Kevin Reader, suggest that Dylan was directly involved with Jack’s silicone use. In a message dated March 18, 2017, during a brief breakup with Master Dylan, Jack mentions that Dylan “invoiced me the value of the gifts he had given me in our relationship… it wasn’t for everything, probably about $4,000… including the silicone.”‘ Background HERE.
HOLIDAY EATING OF THE DAY. Miss Coco Peru goes to a Panettone Festa.
HUMP DAY HOTTIE. Vinson Fraley.
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Curriculum>
Mr S Moss: Director of Careers email: smoss@tpc.academy phone: 0208 590 3808
Mr M Morris: Careers Co-ordinator
Mrs Wodu: Personal Careers Adviser (Prospects)
Providers, parents/carers & students: please contact Mr Moss by email or phone regarding any career education related enquiry.
“Our robust careers programme at The Palmer Catholic Academy, will prepare our young people for the many career opportunities in life. Our programme will empower all students to make informed decisions and manage the transition from learners to workers. We will engage with all students to develop their knowledge, experiences and abilities so that they will make appropriate and ambitious choices for their futures.”
Personal Guidance
We offer all of our students the opportunity for independent and impartial careers advice and guidance through our work with Mrs Wodu from Prospects. All students will receive at least three separate careers advice sessions at key transition points [Year 8 options, Year 11 Post-16 pathways and Year 13 post-18 pathways]. There is an opportunity for ‘drop in’ advice session for any students who have further career related questions. Students and parents are welcome to contact Mr Moss directly if they wish to discuss any careers questions or book additional careers advice.
Use the link below to gain more information on Prospects
http://www.prospects.co.uk/What-We-Do/Education-and-Learning/Careers-AdvicePlus
We also offer, through our provider ‘East London Connect’, a number of group workshops, presentations and one-to-one interviews on work-related learning opportunities such as workplace skills and UCAS applications.
The academy has a dedicated Careers Library containing computer access to career related websites and a range of resources for students to conduct independent research into potential careers and courses. The Careers Library is located in the Kolbe building.
GET INVOLVED: Students and parents are welcome to contact Mr Moss in advance to arrange ‘drop in’ sessions during lunch times.
Career and Labour Market Information [LMI]
Each term all students receive a ‘Career Bulletin’ which will highlight the latest career trends and labour market information. The Career Bulletin will be available on our website and to parents. Each ‘Career Bulletin’ will also have a focus on a specific industry or job type.
Specific career and LMI related lessons take place within our PSHE programme.
Year 7 students will understand the essential skills that are required for the workplace and will plan how to ensure they will meet these skills during their time at The Palmer Catholic Academy. All students will conduct a personality career test to identify how their personal attributes could lead to an appropriate career path. All students will have a clear understanding of transitional points and how they will be supported during these key times. Year 8 students will understand and challenge stereotypes within the workplace, such as girls and STEM related industries and will understand the link between education, skills and pay levels. During Year 8, students and parents will be given key information regarding options and career pathways.
Year 9 students will gain a deep understanding of the role of money as a motivator and the importance of personal financial management, including pay, credit & the impact of debt. In Year 10, students will understand and challenge discrimination in the workplace and understand the importance of equality. Year 10 students will understand and challenge topical workplace issues such as ‘The Glass Ceiling’ and ‘The Gender Pay Gap’. In Year 11, students will gain key information on potential Post-16 pathways and develop their own action plans to map out their priorities and potential career paths.
Sixth Form students will gain an insight into the political and economic landscape within the UK and globally. All students will develop their own Personal Development Plan and use this as a tool to track and monitor their progress and identify their own skills ‘gaps’. Up-to-date LMI will be analysed concerning work, pay levels, UK skills gap data, degree related careers and apprenticeship careers.
Careers and the Curriculum
All teachers at The Palmer Catholic Academy will highlight potential careers within their subjects. At key transition points [Year 8 options, Year 11 Post-16 and Year 13 Post-18] teachers deliver subject specific career led lessons outlining the range of pathways available. All students are required to choose GCSE’s within set option ‘blocks’ to ensure that a wide range of subjects are studied so that a wide range of career choices are available in the future. Option booklets outline the range of careers available and a Parents’ Evening for Year 8 options gives parents the opportunity to discuss subject based careers. Specific topics covered throughout the whole curriculum are enhanced with particular workplace skills and linked to a wide variety of job roles that are appropriate to the content.
Our STEM coordinator, Mrs Waterhouse delivers a range of activities and events to support the development of STEM skills, up-to-date information and STEM careers, targeting all students and in particular encouraging more girls into STEM based careers.
Encounters with employers and employees
At The Palmer Catholic Academy every student will have multiple opportunities to learn from employers about work, employment and the skills that are valued in the workplace.
We have welcomed a number of inspirational speakers to the academy, such as Toby Jones [Actor], Ben DePear [Channel 4 News Editor], Benita Refson OBE [President of Place2Be] and Dale Morgan [Entrepreneur].
GET INVOLVED: We welcome employer/employee guest speakers to our academy to engage with our students. Please contact Mr Moss if you are interested.
All Year 11 students take part in our Careers Day. This comprises of a number of workshops where students gain understanding of a range of workplace skills and the pathways available to them. We have a regular team of providers who facilitate engaging activities. We welcome to our academy, Dale Morgan [Entrepreneur], Unite Union, Apprenticeship Skills, Barclays Life Skills to deliver our Careers Day.
Skills London
We visit the annual event ‘Skills London’ with our Year 12 students. Skills London is the UK's biggest jobs and careers event with over 240 exhibitors including employers, universities, colleges and training providers. With this many exhibitors under one roof, our students engaged with a total of 55,000 job opportunities including apprenticeships.
Use the link below to gain more information on Skills London
http://skillslondon.co.uk/
Addressing the needs of each pupil
All students have at least three impartial careers advice sessions led by Mrs Wodu from Prospects. Students are supported through targeted careers advice based on their career interest or industry type. Students with additional needs or are at risk are allocated additional one-to-one careers advice sessions to ensure that they choose the correct pathway for their own career aims.
Our mentoring team, led Mr Datson with the support of Miss King and Mrs Millbery support our students through a range of programmes.
Next Gen Leadership Programme
This focus group programme is led by Miss King and builds the essential workplace skills that are required. The programme consists of developing self-confidence, role-modelling, leadership and presentation skills.
West Ham Foundation
The focus group programme led by Mr Datson is aimed to develop social enterprise within the community. Team working, leadership, collaboration and self-confidence and of course coaching skills which are built over a number of sessions over a year.
For more information on the West Ham Foundation please use the link below.
https://www.whufc.com/club-foundation/foundation
Child in Need Programme
Our Child in Need programme focuses on developing a wide range of skills including CV building, aspirations, workplace skills and teamwork tailored to a specific group identified by the mentoring team.
London Citizens Programme
Led by our mentoring team, this programme cultivates a wide of skills and is based on community improvement projects. Our selected students get the opportunity to negotiate with local councillors on community priorities and led on campaigns to improve the local community.
Wellgate Farm
This KS3 programme involves a selected focus group to regularly visit Wellgate Farm in Romford. Here students gain the essential self-esteem skills required by working in teams and caring for the animals.
For more information on Wellgate Farm please use the link below.
http://www.wellgatefarm.org/
Sports Leadership Programme
Led by the PE department, this programme gains essential workplace skills such as leadership, planning, implementation, confidence and coaching. Students develop a range of activities to deliver at our local Primary Schools. This can lead to formally recognised leadership awards and qualifications. “94% of students felt more employable” [www.sportsleaders.org].
For more information on the Sports Leadership Programme please use the link below.
https://www.sportsleaders.org/
Experiences of workplaces
All Year 12 students embark on 2-weeks work experience. Students have found it valuable in a number of ways. It may be that they would like to work in an area that they are considering as a career choice or is related to their UCAS applications. Students are encouraged and supported in finding their own placements or can use our providers ‘The Business Education Partnership’ [BEP] to source a suitable placement.
Work Experience will provide your child a chance to:
Help personal and social development and develop key skills in a work environment
Improve employability by searching for an own placement - linked to their chosen career
Learn about the world of work
Meet new people and find out what it means to work as a team
GET INVOLVED: We welcome employers to offer work placements for our students. Please contact Mr Moss if you wish to offer a work placement. All work places must have employee liability insurance.
Use the link below for more information about The Business and Enterprise Partnership.
http://bepgroup.net/temp/about/
Encounters with Further and Higher Education
Students have meaningful encounters with providers to cover a wide range of ways our students can learn about their Post-16 and Post-18 school options. Our Careers Day covers the many pathways that students can take after Year 11 including Apprenticeships and colleges. At risk students are supported through visits to local colleges.
In the Sixth Form, students visit Anglia Ruskin University for a number of workshops to gain an understanding of the application process, financial burdens and University life.
All Year 13 students are supported through the UCAS application process and are allocated a form mentor to develop their personal statements. All students are allowed two independently arranged visits to their top two UCAS choices.
All Year Groups across academic year will have opportunities for a range of programmes outlined above.
This 2018-2019 career plan is subject to change and updates over the academic year
Careers Programme PSHE
Enterprise Activity
Careers Advice and Guidance
Options & Subject Careers Programme
Option & Careers Evening
Employer Visit
Careers Day Event
Subject Careers Programme
6th Form
Higher Education – Year 13
UCAS – Year 12
If you would like a more detailed plan of your child’s career programme, please contact Mr Moss.
We believe our careers education and guidance programme will enable students to:
Enhance self-development
Review skills, interests and priorities
Consider issues of equal opportunity and stereotypes
Identify what influences decision making
Career exploration, including Apprenticeships
Consider work experience placements/options that suit their own skills, interests and priorities
Understand their rights and responsibilities in the workplace and who can help
Practice careers research skills
Understand the importance of gaining recognised qualifications
Judge the most appropriate route/s after leaving school
Develop knowledge of finance issues and how this may shape your futures plans
Prepare and produce your own CV
Apply for courses, training, apprenticeships or work
Recognise and practice good interview performance
Know where to get further help when you leave school
Our students' responsibility is to:
Be active in helping themselves as well as us helping them - visit the careers library to find out more about a career idea that interests you, be prepared to be realistic when making choices about the range of opportunities available and carry out all actions they have agreed to undertake with us. Contact Mr Moss if there are any concerns or extra support is needed.
Parents/carers can help by:
Attending all parent’s evenings to gain awareness of your child’s progress and attainment
Encouraging your child to try out new activities such as joining school and out-of-school activities
Giving option and career advice without pressure
Encouraging friends/family to talk about their experience of work
Take part in the Year 8 survey to discuss potential career paths for your child
Attend open evenings and options evening to discuss with teachers potential career paths
Volunteer to share your experiences at our academy by contacting Mr Moss
Useful websites for careers and Further/Higher Education information
https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/
https://www.careerpilot.org.uk/
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles
https://www.careersbox.co.uk/
https://www.ucas.com/
https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship
https://www.redbridge.gov.uk/jobs/work-redbridge/apprenticeships/
https://www.ncclondon.ac.uk/redbridge
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Production & Post / Graphics Creation / products
AI in Autodesk Post
July 10th 2019 - 10:00 AM
Jay Ankeney
We call it "Artificial Intelligence" but the real intelligence is in the design of the system behind it.
Autodesk is using Artificial Intelligence to teach its Flame 2020 software how to help creative artists do their job more efficiently when working on integrated VFX, color correction, look development and final mastering.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) was a leitmotif flowing through many of the introductions at April’s NAB Show 2019 and as usually happens, the most intriguing systems impacted by it were in post-production.
But what AI actually is sometime lies in the inner eye of the beholder, since AI can mean different things to different people.
So the series of articles of which this installment is the opening salvo is going to recognize that when delving into the implementation of AI in post, it’s useful to try to lasso this untamed topic with a definition.
Since we are beginning with some of the software released by Autodesk, I was very grateful when Will Harris, the Flame family product manager at Autodesk, avowed that to him, AI means, “Utilizing established methods for machine learning to produce an algorithm that can predictably produce results.”
In other words, you create a system that can learn, then teach it stuff, and let it autonomously do tasks for you based on what it has learned.
Facial recognition can determine not only identity, but also mood.
Harris started with the example of facial recognition, in which a variant of AI can identify different people by tagging their facemasks, but said that Autodesk has progressed the art far beyond that.
“In the Media and Entertainment space at Autodesk, we are taking the intelligence of VFX into the world of post-production,” he began. “For example, if you render something in a c.g. rendering engine you can produce a beauty image, but you can also produce render passes or something that is called AOV’s or Arbitrary Output Variables.
“They are the intelligence of the renderer spat out in different forms so you can post-process and adjust those renderings,” he continued. “A great example would be if in addition to that beauty image you rendered out a diffuse, non-lit version, and also a specular highlight and shadow pass. If you combine those all together, you could create a unique look to that face which did not necessarily exist before.”
Thinking in these terms lead Harris’s Flame 2020 development team at Autodesk toward the first way they decided to implement AI. Manually rotoscoping human images can be a very time consuming operation, but maybe AI could help alleviate this.
So now, with the release of Flame 2020 at the NAB Show last April, this result of AI learning is baked into the software.
Now, if you feed the system a source image and a reference Z-depth, it can produce a new image with the intelligence to identify the desired separation.
Flame lets you see the Z-depth created, and manipulate it.
“The system also knows that sky is usually at the top of the image, and ground is conventionally at the bottom,” Harris said. “So we gave the software what is sometimes known as a ‘suck it and see’ tool to give it a help figuring that out.”
You might like to know that The Cambridge University English Dictionary defines “suck it and see” as UK informal for “to try something to find out if it will be successful”.
“What you end up with is sort of an automatic tool in Flame 2020 that you can try and see if you like the results,” Harris said. “If the outcome is acceptable, you keep it. If not, you try something else.”
A second implementation of AI in Flame 2020 has to do with what c.g. renderers call a “normals pass” in which you are trying to re-light a face or any object to create a different effect.
Suppose the original shot was too flat, and you need a more dramatic look. Now you can create a “normal map” in 3D using another AI feature of Flame 2020.
“Again, through the training of scanning 100,00’s of face images, we’ve taught the software how to identify various ethnicities, facial variations, skin tones and expressions,” Harris said. “We actually used many 3D renders and then taught the software how to apply what it had learned to real human faces.”
With this kind of image manipulation control...
...it is amazing how you can alter the impact of facial expression.
This is all you need to dramatically enhance the lighting on a character’s face.
“Or, you can invoke many different kinds of keyers by using AI as a reference,” Harris said, “using any shape or shot that you choose. It’s all a matter of training the system which shape you want to pattern the key after.”
“Even if it doesn’t work perfectly, it gets you 80% of the way there,” Harris finished up. “Then you can take it from there. This is only the beginning of the ways that Autodesk is planning on incorporating AI in our Flame 2020 and other softwares.”
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Baja Room at El Camion, Soho, W1
Head here if… You want to drink in the company of a London cocktail legend
With the look, feel and welcome of a visit to the home of your trusted Latino friend, this downstairs bar oozes warmth, character and fun. And the best bit is the drinks are made by London’s living cocktail legend, the great Dick Bradsell…
TCL Rating:
Don’t get us wrong, it was possible to find decent cocktails in London in the Eighties but it certainly wasn’t easy. We know, we were there. In those days if you didn’t fancy getting trussed up and sitting in a hotel bar, you had to contend with embarrassingly named, shoddily made cocktails in places that have rightfully since closed down. Then Dick Bradsell came along. Like a fresh charge of tonic, he breezed into London’s bar scene and shook up much more than the ingredients. He made cocktail drinking in the capital sexy, cool and fun.
Zanzibar, Atlantic Bar & Grill, Detroit, Groucho, Lonsdale – any bar in London worth going to in those days, Mr B had a hand in its success – either getting things going or consulting on its offering. And we mustn’t forget his inventions which will go down in liquid history: the Bramble, Russian Spring Punch and the Espresso Martini. He’s also mentored some of our greats, including Nick Strangeway and Tony Conigliaro all of which go together to make him a don in our books.
Over the past few years he’s been a bit more low key, popping up at or setting up bars such as 23 Romilly Street, Circus and The Colony Club. Then about eighteen months ago he turned up at the Baja Room downstairs at London’s funkiest Mexican, El Camion. And frankly, we couldn’t be happier…
A selection of tequilas at the Baja Room
How kitsch, how camp, how delightful is a drink called the Pink Chihuahua (Altos Blanco tequila, freshly squeezed lime juice, orgeat syrup, freshly squeezed pomegranate juice and egg white)? It’s just the thing you’d expect to find in the middle of Soho. Don’t let the name or the colour fool you though, there’s no denying tequila is the star in this glass while the pomegranate and orgeat syrup sweeten it up just enough to appeal to both men and women – definitely one to order again.
It feels decidedly weird for Mr G to be ordering a Dry Martini in a place creaking under the sheer weight of tequilas on offer but order he does and happily it’s not a problem. Better still it is right in every department. Coupe glass, small piece of lemon peel and the temperature is spot on. The recommendation is Tanqueray No Ten and it comes through beautifully with some sweetness up front, a little pepper and a long, smooth finish. Leaving aside the feeling of being some kind of eccentric ex pat, or maybe because of it, this is the perfect reminder of just how perfect this simple drink can be.
TCL Choice
Buoyed up on the tequila Ms S goes for the Tommy’s Margarita (Altos Blanco tequila, lime juice, agave syrup). Again, there’s no holding back with the alcohol – this drink is nice and dry with a lovely hit of citrus making its presence felt – absolutely delicious.
After the Dry Martini Mr G decides to get on message and do the tequila thing. Even though he’s already had a sip of the Pink Chihuahua courtesy of Ms S he feels that a new drink by Mr Bradsell has to be savoured in full. The drink is mixed by Dick with his customary, no-nonsense efficiency. It’s also interesting to note that despite having invented the recipe and being an outstanding mixer of drinks he still tastes his concoctions with a straw (a technique he’s responsible for introducing) and we mean really taste them – you can see him weighing them up. It’s appealing with a rich red colour and there’s a satisfying depth in the flavour with the tequila coming through beautifully in the long clean finish. Looks like he’s invented another classic.
And To Eat?
It’s Mexicano all the way with all your favourites like tostadas, enchilladas and burritos.
What’s The Damage?
£6.50-£7.50.
The legend that is Dick Bradsell, serving up dry wit, good humour and fabulous drinks behind the bar.
Ms S says
Perfect for after work drinks through to full-on, late night party action. Go in a group and try for one of the booths or if you’re in a couple, pull up a stool at the bar. And if you fall into the “I don’t like tequila” camp – do yourself a favour and give one of the cocktails a go and prepare to be amazed.
Mr G says
This is a lovely, friendly good time bar. Better still everything about enjoying cocktails in London just gets so very much better knowing that Dick Bradsell is around and doing his stuff. I hope he decides to stay for a long time to come.
Baja Room at El Camion, 25 -27 Brewer Street, London, W1F 0RR. T: 020 7734 7711. elcamion.co.uk/soho
Open Tues-Sat 6pm-3am (after 11pm members only)
After WorkBaja Room SohoCasualCentralDick BradsellFemale FriendlyGirls Night OutKey BarmenRaising The Bar£ (£5-£7)££ (£8-£10)
Dressing for the cocktail hour
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Graphic, W1
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Jon Rodgers April 26, 2012
Attempted to visit with my wife on her birthday.
Turned away at 9:50pm, as being told that it is “members only at the bar tonight”, unless we want to eat.
Poor form.
Waste of time.
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RadioShack Compensating For Smartphone Squeeze
Fort Worth, Texas – RadioShack is compensating for razor-thin smartphone margins by selling more accessories, renegotiating its contract with Target, and beefing up its mobile staff and marketing.
In a classic CE industry conundrum, the company’s mounting losses, which escalated from $8 million in the first quarter to $21 million in the second quarter to $47 million in the third, are due in large measure to its success at selling smartphones in general and iPhones in particular.
In an earnings call that followed the release of its third-quarter results this morning, RadioShack interim CEO Dorvin Lively acknowledged that despite the greater sophistication and average selling price of smartphones, their gross margin rates are much lower than those of feature phones, leading to gross margin rate compression as the devices become a bigger part of the sales mix.
The problem was further exacerbated by the “dramatic uptick” in iPhone sales as carriers added them to their prepaid rosters, he said.
In contrast, RadioShack has achieved stable or improving gross margins in most of its other segments — including its stagnant CE business, which Lively described as “a huge” development.
To offset the bottom-line impact of prepaid smartphones, RadioShack is continuing to build its assortment of high-margin wireless accessories and headphones. The chain offered 28 cases for iPhone 5 on the day of its launch, Lively noted, and half of the purchases were made by customers who bought their iPhones elsewhere.
“We’re becoming a destination for wireless accessories,” he said.
RadioShack also sees growth opportunities in prepaid wireless plans, where smartphones are much less heavily subsidized and the chain can build on a private-label service launched last month with Cricket.
The retailer is also in talks with Target to reset the terms of its money-losing outsourcing arrangement with the discounter. RadioShack operates mobile departments in 1,500 Target stores, but lost about $14 million on the deal last quarter because it is excluded from sharing in accessory and prepaid sales, the two most profitable pieces of the mobile business. Lively said RadioShack is prepared to walk away from the partnership when its contract expires in April, and has issued Target a termination notice.
Meanwhile, the chain is working internally to further fuel its mobile business and direct more profitable sales by deploying dedicated, specially-trained wireless associates to high-volume stores this holiday season. In addition, it launched an eligibility alert program in September, when it first achieved the capability, in which customers are contacted and store appointments are made to upgrade their mobile plans.
The company will also roll out new TV spots produced by its recently hired ad agency, Grey Advertising.
To reduce overhead, the company cut 10 percent of its headquarters workforce in September, or 150 staffers. Excluding an $8.5 million severance charge that included a payout to former CEO Jim Gooch, plus other one-time charges, RadioShack trimmed its selling, general and administrative expenses (SG&A) by $11 million year over year, Lively said.
Turning to the current quarter, Lively said tight supplies of iPhone 5 will crimp sales while an ever higher smartphone mix will further compress margins. RadioShack will continue to close underperforming stores, having shut 70 year to date, and continues its search for a permanent CEO and a new chief merchandising officer following Scott Young’s departure in June, he said.
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Jordan Craig: Tristan Thompson BRIBED Me ... to Stay Single!
by Jeff Page at June 13, 2019 1:02 pm .
How much would you pay to make sure your ex stays single? Whatever the amount, Tristan Thompson probably has you beat.
A steady drip of details from recently-revealed court documents are reinforcing what we all kind of knew about Khloe Kardashian's ex:
Tristan is a total deadbeat dad.
The same documents are now alleging that Tristan paid ex-girlfriend and baby mama Jordan Craig over $100,000 not to date other men.
This is some wildly hypocritical behavior, as Tristan was already dating Khloe when this alleged transaction went down.
The court documents show that the 28-year old NBA player was locked in a child support battle with Jordan, 27, earlier this year.
RadarOnline reports that during her deposition on January 31, Jordan claimed Tristan paid her $112,000 in November of 2017.
"That was part of a bribe," Jordan stated, when asked why Tristan gave her the money.
When asked to clarify, Jordan added,
"He would help me if I wasn't like, dating anybody or talking to anybody, and that I would have to come see him."
It's not unusual for vast sums of money to change hands when celebrities split up, especially when the couple shared a child together.
But bribing your ex in order to control their dating life is a total creep move.
After all, Tristan was already hooking up with Khloe Kardashian, and whoever else he wanted.
Tristan cheated on Jordan with Khloe back in 2016, which came to light just after Jordan became pregnant with Prince.
The revelation was a bombshell for Jordan. After all, Tristan had pushed so hard to start a family with Jordan despite their fertility issues.
The stress of the betryal, and its intense media coverage, caused complications with the pregnancy and forced Jordan into bed rest for her health.
Thankfully, Prince was born in good health in December 2016. But Khloe should have seen Tristan's capricious desertion for the red flag that it was.
Just two years later, Tristan famously pulled the same stunt again with her.
This time, Tristan was caught cheating just days before Khloe gave birth to their daughter True in 2018.
Khloe tried to make the relationship work for the family's sake, but finally left Tristan in February when he hooked up with her sister's friend Jordyn Woods.
After Prince was born, Tristan said he wanted to stay close with Jordan for the sake of their son.
According to her affidavit, he even made an effort for the first few months. But, as Jordan wrote:
"He eventually made it clear that he did not want me to 'see' or date anyone. I could not agree to this."
As a result, Jordan wrote that "He became completely absent in Tristan's life."
Tristan disputes this of course, stating in his own deposition that he never said she couldn't date anyone, per se.
"If [she's] a single woman," he clarified, "I wanted to request her not to have random men around my child."
Yes Tristan, we're all sure you're very concerned about your child that you've only seen nine times since he was born.
It seems Jordan didn't intend to go celibate, even though she took the money.
According to Radar Online, she only accepted the bribe because she needed help taking care of her family.
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Jordan and Prince moved to a new house in Los Angeles in 2017, which has to be expensive for a single mother.
She used some of the money to help pay back her mother and sister, who helped finance the new home.
Jordan also spent $20,000 installing a pool for Prince, and another $16,000 remodeling his room to look like a castle. Extravagant, yes. Adorable? Also yes.
But why not, right? When your cheating celebrity baby daddy is making NBA money, you can go big and go home.
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Vlaemminck makes failed appeal on behalf of fruit seller in WTO v European law status
A Belgian boutique has been battling for the rights of a banana importer in his fight for the recognition of World Trade Organisation (WTO) rulings in Europe. Philippe Vlaemminck, managing partner of six-lawyer Ghent-based Vlaemminck & Partners, has been acting on cases concerning the trade of bananas and other fresh produce for more than 15 […]
Stepping up your persuasiveness
Securing instructions is easy for some, but not others. Pippa Blakemore provides five steps to sucess Converting contacts into clients is a fundamental requirement of lawyers today. However, although there are many to whom it comes naturally, there are many more who find it difficult and embarrassing because they feel as if they are being […]
Firm profile: Howrey Simon (London)
Howrey Simon Arnold & White’s London outpost is among the most successful of the US firm’s international outposts, reporting a fee income for 2004 of £8.8m, up by £1.9m on 2003’s figure. Management team (London): James Irvine, Isabel Davies and Peter Fitzpatrick Turnover: £8.8m Total number of partners: Seven Total number of lawyers: 21 Main […]
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Dechert London has concluded its protracted search for new premises with a deal to take up offices at Times Square. The Philadelphia-based firm has signed a lease to take on 55,000sq ft at Times Square, 160 Queen Victoria Street, with an option to take additional space. The office will accommodate 280 fee-earners and support staff. […]
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher has been hit by the loss of its Frankfurt managing partner who has quit the US firm to launch his own practice. Outsourcing star Thomas Heyman, whose clients include Deutsche Bank, is also taking European counsel Jens Ekkenga and Lars Lendorf and several associates. As first reported in German legal magazine […]
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Signy loses his horn
Tulkinghorn’s favourite corporate all-rounder Adam Signy thinks the hunting ban is “very depressing”. The poor love has been in mourning ever since the evil Blair edict came into force. Signy, of course, couldn’t really give a heck about the lack of horseriding, but is lamenting the end of the excuse to doll himself up in […]
Hextalls joint tech chief ups sticks for Finnish firm Mäkitalo
Hextalls joint head of technology, media and telecoms has quit the firm and moved to Helsinki to join top 10 Finnish firm Mäkitalo Rämö Juutilainen. Andrew Cotton joins as senior legal counsel at the five-partner firm. He aims to focus on the UK and Baltic markets. “I believe what I and Mäkitalo Rämö Juutilainen will […]
Kirkpatrick lures Addleshaws star with US link
The London office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham has poached experienced IT partner John Entstone from Addleshaw Goddard. Canadian Entstone said that he was keen to exploit the North American client base offered to Nicholson Graham & Jones following its January merger with US firm Kirkpatrick & Lockhart. “For a long time I’ve wanted […]
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What does Clifford Chance and Coca-Cola have in common? Ok, initials, yes, but what else? It emerges that CC’s partners are so rarefied that, like the holders of the secret recipe, they were obliged to take different flights to the partner retreat in Paris last weekend. Presumably in case the plane goes down and they […]
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Disney Designer – Limited Edition ColourPop Collection
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A couple months ago, just when you thought the merchandise Disney was putting out couldn’t be any cuter, they gave us the limited edition Disney Designer ColourPop Collection. If you are scratching your head wondering what the heck that is; ladies, prepare to have your mind blown, and gentlemen, you’re going to want to pay attention because this collection makes for a fantastic “any occasion” gift for that Disney loving lady in your life.
ColourPop is a California based beauty company that specializes in affordable beauty products that are cruelty free. The bottom line is that they make beautiful, quality, inexpensive products and don’t harm animals in the process. A major plus, which we are certain Disney’s most famous woodland creatures would agree. Looking at you supporting cast of the movie Bambi.
Disney partnered with ColourPop to launch a limited edition collection of make-up products inspired by who else than the most fabulous Disney princesses? Currently, the collection features Tiana, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Snow White and Cinderella most glamorously depicted on the packaging. The style of clothing in which they are drawn is reminiscent of the era when the Princess was introduced to the public.
ColourPop created kits for each princess, as well as “sold separately” items like eye shadows and their signature formula of creme lux lipsticks in colors taken straight from each Princesses movie palette/look.
I recently received a Snow White kit as a gift, and when I opened the packaging I was totally floored. The kit itself features a beautiful Snow White sketch on the outside, and when you open it, the inside flap has Snow White’s autograph. The products themselves are tied together nicely, with the eye shadow featuring a golden castle logo, and the lipstick packaging is gold with all the princess autographs. Also included in the kit is an ultra glossy lip color that cannot be purchased separately. It’s a clear gloss with iridescent gold flecks. The eye shadow included looks like a pale soft beige color, but when you sample it, it’s packed with the most subtle glitter hues, like the diamonds in the Seven Dwarfs Mine. I don’t think I will have the heart to use the kit, it’s almost too beautiful, and it’s also limited edition.
ColourPop currently has these products available, but I don’t expect this collection to last long; being that they are limited edition you could run the risk of the product selling out. Each color and kit is so beautifully put together, I want to snag 2 of each, one to wear/use and one to keep. What can I say? They could become collector’s items.
You can find the collection on ColourPop’s website, and at select retailers.
Until next week!
Author: Erika
Erika Roberts has been a Disney kid for as long as she can remember, but her love of visiting Disney Parks started after just one ride in a Doom Buggy. She couldn’t run to guest relations fast enough to offer up her soul in return for an Annual Pass. Since then Disney has taken all of her money, but has given her the most cherished memories; from watching her Nona’s face light up with happy tears as we strolled down Main Street on her first visit (she was 84 at the time), to her very own engagement on Halloween in front of the Haunted Mansion.
Erika is excited to be on the TMSM team and where Disney Parks are concerned, you won’t catch her dead on It’s a Small World. If she asks to ride that, this is a clear indication that she is in danger and you must send help. You will, however, catch her performing Random Acts of Disney (R.A.D’s), park hopping with her amazing group of impressively talented and kind friends (usually in some themed attire), hanging out by The Haunted Mansion, and ugly crying during fireworks… then begging for a Mickey Premium Bar to eat her feelings…this is a judgment-free bio.
Otherwise, Erika works for the State of Florida and is actively involved in her community. Erika believes in empowering others and spreading kindness to people from all walks of life. Erika also makes custom designed Disney inspired ears, etched glass, gifts, and accessories. You can check out, like or follow her work on FB, which also links to my shop’s Instagram: www.facebook.com/imagineering.emporium. She looks forward to getting to know everyone and sharing the magic of Disney!
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January 10, 2013 Gwen McCarter
Tech innovation is the stuff of magic when it presents us with the devices we never knew we couldn’t live without, or when it fulfills our collective geek dreams to see Star Trek become reality. (Now that we have the iPad mini with FaceTime, here’s hoping teleportation is next.) And then there are times when perfectly useful and good technology morphs into something hideous and terrifying. In the case of The Terminator (or, more accurately, in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which gave me many a nightmare), machines were positioned to take over the world because of one scientist’s desire to see his research through to its full potential. (If Joe Morton’s character couldn’t have foreseen the consequences in 1991, fair enough, but this wipe-humans-off-the-earth scenario has apparently become so much of a pressing concern that Stephen Hawking recently joined an “anti-robot apocalypse think tank” called The Cambridge Project for Existential Risk.)
A much more common and seemingly benign version of this shift happens when a popular tech innovation is stretched just a little too far. Take high-definition television (or the floundering 3-D fad, for that matter). In contrast to the charming pixelation that we were willing to tolerate for decades, HD has felt nothing short of amazing as a way to make pictures clearer and experiences closer. But the time has come when companies are attempting to make that experience so close that it’s no longer comfortable. Instead of interacting with a story through a filter that leaves something of its world to the imagination, instead of looking at a news anchor through a lens that kindly leaves his or her pores out of the picture, we’re confronted with an in-your-face, never-before-so-intense degree of the hyperreal.
This morning, I came across news that one of the products being showcased at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show is a horrifying ultrahigh-definition television set. New content will have to be created specifically for this device because it contains four times more pixels than current-generation HD TVs (a difference that would allow viewers to see the veins on a leaf, for example...or on Lady Grantham’s hands, should she go without gloves). According to NPR, only about 50 films have been shot using an ultra-HD camera since 2004.
I can imagine the reasoning behind the decision to introduce this 110-inch monstrosity relied on the idea that people love HD, so extreme HD must be the ticket to even greater success. More is more! That logic certainly applies to some things in the world, and not everyone despises the ultrareal experience as much as I do, but tech innovators are at risk of missing an important trend: the reintroduction of the human.
As a counterpoint to all things glitz, glam, corporate, and mass-produced, many of us have been gravitating for some time toward objects and experiences that are handmade, flawed, underground, and singular (hello, Etsy! hello, letterpressed and microbrewed everything!). The point isn’t necessarily to displace perfect objects completely, but neither is it to only fill our homes with handcrafted goods from Brooklyn. It’s more so to strike a balance, taking advantage of tech advancements while making sure we don’t lose touch with the human condition in the process.
In a December New Yorkerpiece, Trent Reznor discussed a nascent project--a collaboration with Beats Electronics that will launch a new kind of streaming music service as a follow-up to the likes of Spotify and Pandora. The idea behind the project (known informally as Daisy for now) is to offer suggestions to the listener through a combination of algorithms AND expert curation. According to Reznor, there was a need for this type of service because the first generation’s model “has begun to feel synthetic.” In another article, Reznor was quoted as saying Daisy would be a platform “in which the machine and the human would collide more intimately.”
In this new year, I’m looking forward to seeing more projects pushing in that same direction, more thinking that doesn’t thumb its nose completely at technology but that helps us reclaim some humanity in our digital lives.
Meanwhile, Daisy is set to come out in early 2013, and I will be watching The Graduate in glorious, romantic Technicolor on my regular old high-def TV tonight.
Gwen McCarter, Strategist
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People with Dicks: Do Better
I listened to this podcast on dick pics so you don’t have to. It 100% affirms everything most women know: many guys like sending dick pics, but only gay guys like receiving dick pics. I don’t have to actually mention women in the summary because women’s consent and desires do not factor into dick pic-ing at all. One man interviewed, who sent 5 dick pics that day alone, says, “And they say women don’t like dick pics, but I don’t know. I can’t imagine how they wouldn’t. I mean, it’s a dick pic.” He probably can’t imagine a woman needing anything more than his dick to orgasm as well.
Further (and more empathetic) reading: “I’m often asked why I started [Critique My Dick Pic], and the truth is that I woke up one morning to a dick pic so good that I felt inspired to change the others. That’s all it was—one excellent, well-planned pic from a person whose dick I explicitly wanted to see. I was jarred by how unnecessarily rare that move was and struck by the conviction that people with dicks could do better.”
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14 Dishes You Need to Try in Kerala
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If you're used to the standard north Indian dishes that are ubiquitous in Indian restaurants (think butter chicken), you're sure to get a surprise in Kerala. The coastal state's distinctive cuisine is tied to its ancient trading heritage and is a fusion of global Christian, Muslim and Hindu culinary traditions. Coconut, seafood and spices feature heavily, and combine together to give Kerala's food its own flavor. There are differences between dishes in north and south Kerala too — those from the northern Malabar region are characterized by richer spices and have Arab, Dutch and Portuguese influences. Don't be shocked to find beef on the menu either! It has become an intrinsic part of the state's identity since Syrian Christian missionaries arrived there with their recipes centuries ago.
Read on to discover the top dishes you need to try in Kerala.
Sadhya on a Banana Leaf
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For a quintessential introduction to Kerala cuisine, start with sadhya (Kerala-style set banquet) on a banana leaf. This vegetarian Hindu feast has more than 20 items, and is an important part of festivals such as Onam. The items are placed on the leaf in a particular order from left to right. Pickles, chutneys, salt, pappadam, and plantain chips are on the left. Curries are on the right. Rice, sambar, rasam, payasam, and curd are also served at different times. Sadhya is usually a lunchtime meal and is best eaten with your fingers (really, please don't use cutlery!). Here's a helpful guide on how to eat with your hands in India. Ideally proceed from left to right, for a progression of flavors from mild to pungent and sweet. When you've completed the meal, fold the banana leaf in half to indicate you've finished. That's if you can devour everything!
In capital city Trivandrum, order the extensive sadhya at Mother's Veg Plaza. Better still, get yourself an invitation to a wedding or special occasion at someone's home.
Erachi Ularthiyathu
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The name of this legendary Syrian Christian dish sure isn't easy to pronounce, so it's fortunate that it's known as beef dry fry everywhere (you can colloquially just ask for BDF). The dish is so loved in Kerala that many people refer to it as the state dish! To make it, chunks of beef are very slowly stir fried or roasted in a heavy pan along with coconut pieces, aromatic ground spices, chilies and curry leaves. Some tourists prefer Syrian Christian beef curry, as it's more like Indian food to them. However, the locals are prone to disagree.
Beef fry is popularly consumed with alcohol in local bars and toddy shops. So, you'll find the most delectable dishes there. Award-winning Mullapanthal toddy shop on MLA Road in Tripunithura, near Kochi, is among the best.
Meen Molee
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Don't like spicy food? This light coconut fish stew, which is a signature dish of central Kerala, is ideal. Trade with Portugal flourished in central Kerala and the dish is thought to be a variation of a Portuguese one-pot fish stew called caldeirada. Its name, molee, may be a derivative of the Spanish word mole, meaning a cooking sauce or mixture. The stew is made without the tart tamarind (kudam puli) that's common in other Kerala curries. Cardamom pods, cinnamon sticks, cloves, peppercorns and curry leaves provide the subtle flavors.
Meen molee is widely available in Kerala. It's a specialty at famous Fusion Bay restaurant, on KB Jacob Road in Fort Kochi. Gobble it up with appam or rice. Oceanos at the Elphinstone Residence in Kochi is recommended for seafood, including meen molee, as well.
Meen Vevichathu
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A hot and fiery Kerala fish curry, meen vevichathu is likely to make you break out into a sweat! This red, tangy, tamarind-based curry is associated with the state's central Kottayam district. It's traditionally made without coconut by boiling the fish in a clay pot with selected spices, especially plenty of Kashmiri chili powder. Sardines or mackerel further boost the flavor.
Try meen vevichathu at the ambient Fort House Restaurant, in the garden of the Fort House Hotel in Fort Kochi. It's served in traditional style with kappa (cassava plant root) as the accompaniment.
Kappa Puzhukku
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You may not expect kappa (tapioca/cassava plant root) to be widely consumed in Kerala. The story of how it happened is interesting. Cassava is said to have been introduced by the Portuguese. However, King Visakham Thirunal of Travencore ordered its cultivation during his reign in the 19th century to ward off recurrent famine. Residents were reluctant to embrace it, as it was viewed as poor man's food. However, that changed in the 1940s when a huge famine hit the state. Now, kappa is considered to be a delicacy. It's made by boiling and mashing the cassava plant root with grated coconut and spices. It's commonly eaten alongside fish curry.
Karimeen Pollichathu
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You can't visit Kerala and not sample the state's official fish, karimeen (pearl spot). This revered fish, native to the backwaters of the Kuttanad district around Alleppey, is synonymous with karimeen pollichathu. The fish is marinated in a spicy paste, wrapped in a banana leaf and steamed. Yum!
For authentic karimeen pollichathu head to the elegant Grand Pavilion restaurant at the Grand Hotel in Kochi, or family-run Karimpumkala Restaurant in Pallom near Kottayam. Karimpumkala started as a toddy shop in 1958 before expanding. Dishes are made from recipes belonging to the owner's mother.
Thalassery Malabar Biryani
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Kerala has its own style of biryani. In fact, there are a couple of different ones. Thalassery biriyani, from Thalassery in the Malabar region, is the most celebrated. Traders from the Middle East brought it with them. They settled there and established themselves as the Muslim Mappila (Moplah) community. Their biryani is heavy on spices and is made from short-grain jeerakasala rice, as opposed to the usual long-grain biryani rice.
Paragon Restaurant, founded in 1939 in Calicut (Kozhikode), is the place to stuff yourself full of Malabar biriyani. Paragon's off-shoot, Salkara, is also renowned for biryani. As too, is iconic Zain's hotel on Convent Cross Road near the beach in Calicut. If you'd rather dine somewhere more upmarket in Calicut, head to Mezban Restaurant at Hotel Asma Tower.
Nadan Kozhi Curry
Prefer chicken to fish but still want some fire in your mouth? Nadan food certainly packs a punch! This home-style cuisine is among the spiciest in Kerala. It tends to be quite oily too, and has many variations. In this dish, the kozhi (chicken) is marinated in chili powder, and red and green chilies are used to flavor the thick curry sauce. So, proceed at your own risk! Nadan kozhi curry goes well with rice, appam or Malabar parotta.
Enjoy it pier-side at Seagull Restaurant, on Calvathy Road overlooking the sea in Fort Kochi. Make sure you book ahead if you want a table with a sunset view.
Appam
Appam is likened to a Dutch pancake but it's made with a batter of fermented rice and coconut milk. This side dish is eaten as a bread with all kinds of stews and curries. Soft in the middle and crispy on the edges, it's a staple in Syrian Christian households where it's served up at all times of the day, including breakfast. When eating, break off a small piece of the appam with your right hand and use it to pick up some of the main dish.
Malabar Parotta
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This succulent south Indian bread is, as its name suggests, from the Malabar region of Kerala where it came via the Arabs. Its flaky, layered appearance makes it easily to distinguish from the conventional north Indian paratha. Tear it apart with your fingers and eat it with beef for the ultimate satisfaction. For Kerala residents, this combination isn't a dish but an emotion. Malabar parotta can be paired with any kind of curry though.
Pathiri
Another Malabar specialty, pathiri is basically a roti or pancake made of rice flour. It belongs to the Mappila Muslim community, who commonly eat it at dinnertime with a non-vegetarian curry. The pathiri can be cooked on a griddle (ari pathiri), deep fried (ney pathiri), or stuffed with meat and vegetables (erachi pathiri).
Puttu
Want to have a typical Keralan breakfast? Puttu with kadala (chickpea curry) is one of the most popular meals in the state. Locals even eat puttu with fish curry for breakfast, although this might be a bit too much for western palates early in the morning! The puttu is made by steaming ground rice and grated coconut together in cylinders.
In testament to the popularity of puttu, Dhe Puttu in Kochi and Calicut is totally devoted to the dish. This restaurant chain was set up by Keralan actor Dileep and television personality Nadirshah to showcase puttu. About 20 varieties are available there, and not just for breakfast. Some of them are really creative and curious, with meat and fruit mixed in! Go there at lunchtime for the puttu thali (platter).
Payasam/Pradhaman
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The king of desserts in Kerala, payasam is similar to kheer from other parts of India. It consists of rice that has been slowly cooked in milk, coconut, sugar, cashews and dry fruits. This dessert is always served during festivals. Pradhaman is a thicker, Kerala-style version of it. Different ingredients such as jackfruit, lentils, chick peas or mung beans are sometimes used.
Ela Ada
Don't pass up the opportunity to savor this sweet Kerala treat, which is a yummy snack. Ela means leaf, and the parcels are made with ada (rice) flour dough filled with a mix of coconut and jaggery (unrefined cane sugar), and steamed in a banana leaf. The banana leaf gives it a delightful smell and flavor. Bet you can't stop at only one piece!
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Higher Education: The United Church of Christ is a School-Related Church!
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There are 48 educational institutions related to the United Church of Christ, including academies, colleges, universities, and seminaries. They span the United States. Each is independent, self-governing, and fully accredited.
Each institution expresses partnership with the church—closely- related schools participate as full members of the UCC Council for Higher Education; others are historically-related which means they recognize a past relationship with the church but are not full members of the Council.
These institutions provide opportunities to explore moral values, the importance of social responsibility, an ethic of service, and the ability to think critically. Many have campus ministries that are ecumenical and interfaith. Each embodies the UCC ethos where God is Still Speaking . . .
Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu, a residential and day school for grades K-12;ksinfo@ksbe.edu; Kamehameha is historically-related to the UCC.
Massanutten Academy, Woodstock, VA, a residential, co-ed military academy; www.militaryschool.com
Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, PA, a residential academy for grades 9-12; www.mercersburg.edu
College and Universities
Full Members of the UCC Council for Higher Education
Catawba College, Salisbury, NC; www.catawba.edu
Chapman University, Orange, CA; www.chapman.edu
Defiance College, Defiance, OH; www.defiance.edu
Dillard University, New Orleans, LA; www.dillard.edu
Doane College, Crete, NE; www.doane.edu
Drury University, Springfield, MO; www.drury.edu
Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL; www.elmhurst.edu
Heidelberg University, Tiffin, OH; www.heidelberg.edu
Huston-Tillotson University, Austin, TX; www.htu.edu
Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL; www.ic.edu
Lakeland College, Sheboygan, WI; www.lakeland.edu
LeMoyne-Owen College, Memphis, TN; www.loc.edu
Northland College, Ashland, WI; www.northland.edu
Olivet College, Olivet, MI; www.olivetcollege.edu
Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR; www.pacificu.edu
Piedmont College, Demorest, GA; www.piedmont.edu
Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT; www.rocky.edu
Talladega College, Talladega, AL; www.talladega.edu
Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS; www.tougaloo.edu
Historically-Related Colleges and Universities
Beloit College, Beloit, WI; www.beloit.edu
Carleton College, Northfield, MN; www.carleton.edu
Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA; www.cedarcrest.edu
Elon University, Elon, NC; www.elon.edu
Fisk University, Nashville, TN; www.fisk.edu
Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA; www.fandm.edu
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA; www.grinnell.edu
Hood College, Frederick, MD; www.hood.edu
Ripon College, Ripon, WI; www.ripon.edu
Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA; www.ursinus.edu
Westminster College of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, UT; www.wcslc.edu
Seminaries of the United Church of Christ
Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT; https://andovernewton.yale.edu/
Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL; www.ctschicago.edu
Eden Theological Seminary, St. Louis, MO; www.eden.edu
Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster, PA; www.lancasterseminary.edu
Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA; www.psr.edu
United Seminary of the Twin Cities, New Brighton, MN; www.unitedseminary.edu
Historically-Related Seminaries
Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT; www.hartsem.edu
Harvard University Divinity School, Cambridge, MA; www.hds.harvard.edu
Howard University School of Divinity, Washington, DC; www.divinity.howard.edu
Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, GA; www.itc.edu
Seminario Evangélico de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR; www.seminarioevangelico.org
Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY; www.uts.columbia.edu
Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Nashville, TN; www.vanderbilt.edu/divinity
Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT; www.yale.edu/divinity
Schools of the AMA:
The American Missionary Association, a predecessor body of the United Church of Christ, was a visionary organization dedicated to education and racial equality. The AMA founded six college that continue to relate to the UCC Council for Higher Education. These schools are historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and are racially diverse, welcoming students from a wide range of races and ethnicities.
UCC Council for Higher Education:
The UCC Council for Higher Education is the official network that holds the educational institutions together. The Council meets annually to explore the educational landscape of the UCC and the world. www.ucc.org/higher-education/ucc-council-for-higher.html
UCC Council for Theological Education:
The UCC Council for Theological Education is the official network of the seven seminaries of the UCC along with Conference and staff partners. The Council meets annually to explore theological education as it relates to the UCC as well as the world.
Seminary Scholarships
Association of College and Religious Affairs: http://www.site.acuraonline.net/
Ecumenical Campus Ministry Team (ECMT): www.higheredmin.org
National Association of College and University Chaplains (NACUC): www.nacuc.net
National Campus Ministry Association (NCMA): www.campusministry.net
Student Ecumenical Partnership Network (STEP): www.stepnetwork.org
World Student Christian Federation (WSCF): http://wscfconnect.org/
Campus Ministries and Academic Chaplaincies
Beloit College: http://www.beloit.edu/slp/
Bucknell University: http://www.bucknell.edu/x4663.xml
Chapman University: http://www.chapman.edu/ChurchRelations/
DePauw University: http://www.depauw.edu/student/religlife/
Elon University: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/students/religious_life/
Hiram College: http://www.hiram.edu/current/campuslife/religiouslife.html
Huston-Tillotson University: http://htu.edu/students/religious-life
Lakeland College: http://lakeland.edu/StudentServices/SpiritualLife/
Massanutten Academy: http://www.militaryschool.com/page.cfm?p=301
Oberlin College: http://new.oberlin.edu/office/religious-and-spiritual-life/
Princeton University: http://www.princeton.edu/main/campuslife/religious/
Rocky Mountain College: http://www.rocky.edu/student-life/student-support/ReligiousLife.php
Tufts University: http://www.tufts.edu/chaplaincy/index.html
University of New Hampshire: http://www.unh.edu/campusministry/index.html
University of Rochester: http://www.rochester.edu/chapel/index.html
University of Vermont: http://www.uvm.edu/~spirit/
Ursinus College: http://www.ursinus.edu/netcommunity/page.aspx?pid=3385
Willamette University: http://www.willamette.edu/dept/chaplain/index.html
Yale University: http://chaplain.yale.edu/
". . .After three days [Mary and Joseph] found [Jesus] in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions…And Jesus increased in wisdom and in years, and in divine and human favor."Luke 4:46, 52(NRSV)
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Shay S. Kuperman
Shay S. Kuperman Partner, Energy Transactions & Projects
Shay Kuperman advises on mergers and acquisitions, strategic joint ventures and investments, and project development for many energy companies, chemical companies and financial investors. With each matter, Shay aims to negotiate deals that satisfy multiple stakeholders and help clients solve problems efficiently while also accomplishing their larger goals.
Throughout his more than 15 years at V&E, Shay has handled billion-dollar transactions in countries across the Americas, Asia and West Africa. A native Spanish speaker, Shay’s language skills have proven critical for many of his deals in Latin America, in particular, as well as in his work on pro bono immigration matters.
Double Eagle Energy Holdings III in the formation of DoublePoint Energy with FourPoint Permian, and DoublePoint’s subsequent acquisition of assets from undisclosed sellers
Castleton Commodities International LLC in its acquisition of the Carthage upstream and midstream assets in East Texas from subsidiaries of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for over $1 billion
Riverstone Investment Group in becoming a 50 percent partner with Kinder Morgan in the Utopia Pipeline Project, a common carrier project that will include approximately 215 miles of new pipeline and will connect with an existing pipeline and associated facilities
Devon Energy in the $2 billion sale of certain non-core upstream assets to multiple buyers in east Texas, the Anadarko Basin, the northern and central Midland Basin, and northern Oklahoma
Riverstone Holdings in the $3.75 billion acquisition by its portfolio company, Fieldwood Energy LLC, of Apache Corp.’s assets in the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. in its agreement with DuPont to purchase DuPont’s global Kocide and ManKocide copper fungicide assets
Pioneer Natural Resources in its $1.7 billion joint venture with Sinochem to develop 207,000 acres in the Permian Basin
The Lubrizol Corporation in its agreement to acquire Weatherford International’s oilfield chemicals business, Engineered Chemistry, and its drilling fluids business, Integrity Industries
A large international energy company in the $2.5 billion sale of its Argentine oil and gas operations
Trican Well Service in its definitive agreement with Keane Group, a privately-held, U.S. based well completion services company, for the sale of Trican's United States pressure pumping fracking business
Reliance Industries Limited in its acquisitions of interests in Marcellus Shale gas assets and joint ventures to develop those assets
KNOC in its $1.55 billion joint venture to buy a stake in the liquids-rich Eagle Ford shale in Texas from Anadarko Petroleum, including the subsequent sale of minority interest by KNOC to VOGO
Devon Energy in connection with the $2.2 billion sale of oil and gas assets in West Africa to GEPetrol
Rice Energy in the $336 million acquisition of 22,000 net acres and 12 developed Marcellus wells in Western Greene County, from Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC and its partners
Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. in its $234 million initial public offering of common stock
Royal Dutch Shell plc in the sale of its downstream businesses in Uruguay and Paraguay, as well as certain assets in Colombia to Petróleo Brasileiro S.A
Athlon Energy, an Apollo Global portfolio company, in the $250 million acquisition of West Texas oil and gas properties
Project Development & Finance
Samsung Heavy Industries and Samsung Engineering in the creation of a joint venture entity with AMEC to carry out the design engineering for fixed and floating offshore platforms, FPSOs, and subsea pipelines
Chevron Phillips Chemical in a joint venture with The Dow Chemical Company to combine styrene and polystyrene business lines, involving production facilities in the United States, Colombia, and Brazil
Santos Limited in a $16 billion joint venture with Petronas, TOTAL, and KOGAS, for the development of a two-train greenfield LNG facility in Queensland, Australia, including the negotiation of long-term LNG off-take agreements
Luminant in a joint venture with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. to advance the development of two nuclear reactors at Luminant’s Comanche Peak facility located near Glen Rose, Texas
Devon Energy in its $2.5 billion joint venture with Sinopec for five shale plays (Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, Niobrara, Mississippian, Ohio Utica Shale, and Michigan Basin)
skuperman@velaw.com
Riverstone Energy Limited Announces $100M Vaca Muerta Midstream Commitment June 28, 2019
Ascent Resources Acquires Natural Gas and Oil Properties from Salt Fork Resources August 31, 2018
Shay's Practices
Energy - Downstream Oil & Gas
Energy - Midstream Oil & Gas
Energy - Upstream Oil & Gas
Project & Infrastructure Finance
New York University School of Law, J.D., 2002
The University of Texas, B.B.A., International Business with highest honors, 1999
Admitted to Practice: Texas
Other language: Spanish (fluent)
Legal 500 U.S., Project Finance, 2013
Legal 500 Latin America, Corporate and M&A, 2012–2013; Projects and Energy, 2012–2013
Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2013–2015
Member: American Bar Association
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June 18, 2019 / 2:50 PM
Barrier Reef corals help scientists calibrate ancient climate records
An image captured by a scanning electron microscope reveals the growth aragonite crystals to form the layers of the Porities coral skeleton. Photo by Mayandi Sivaguru/ Bruce Fouke Lab/Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology/University of Illinois
June 18 (UPI) -- Corals can help scientists track ancient climate patterns, but new research suggests that traditional analysis methods for analyzing coral's ancient growth aren't as accurate as previously thought.
Luckily, scientists have developed an improved method, a combination of high-resolution microscopic analysis and geochemical modeling. Researchers described the new technique this week in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.
Deciphering the climate records coded in coral skeletons is similar to deciphering tree rings. As coral grows, new layers of calcium are deposited. Each layer traps geochemical signatures that can provide clues to the climatic conditions.
By measuring the amount of strontium and the lighter isotope of oxygen trapped in different calcium layers, scientists can estimate ancient sea surface temperatures. However, the technique isn't perfect.
RELATED Better understanding of coral-algae relationship could help prevent bleaching
Researchers compared coral-based sea-surface temperature records against temperature probe measurements.
"Remarkably, the coral records are accurate most of the time, but there are instances where measurements have been off by as much as nine degrees Celsius, and this needs to be rectified," Bruce Fouke, a professor of geology and microbiology at the University of Illinois, said in a news release.
As they grow, coral polyps deposit aragonite, a crystallized form of calcium carbonate. Unfortunately for climate scientists, seawater can also deposit aragonite crystals as it passes through the coral skeleton. Through a process called diagenesis, these seawater-derived crystals can alter the skeleton's chemistry.
RELATED Ecologists solve coral reef halo mystery, but questions remain
"It is difficult to tell the diagenetic aragonite from the original coral skeleton without using high-powered microscopes," said Kyle Fouke, an undergraduate student at Bucknell University. "It is also challenging to know exactly when the diagenetic alteration took place -- days or decades after the skeletons were formed. Unless you are using the newest microscopy techniques to help select your samples, you could be collecting and measuring a mix of the two very different temperature records."
To better understand the effects of diagenetic aragonite, scientists surveyed Porites coral skeletons growing on the Great Barrier Reef.
"Based on our analyses, we see that the older portions of the coral heads growing in deeper seawater contain a higher concentration of diagenetic aragonite," Fouke said.
RELATED Sponges sabotage coral reefs from the inside
The team of scientists was able to differentiate between the coral and diagenetic aragonite using a combination of light, electron and X-ray microscopy techniques. The high-definition imaging techniques also revealed an array of different aragonite crystallization patterns. Scientists suggest some patterns represent seasonal variations in skeletal growth, while other smaller-scale patterns likely code geochemical changes on a daily cycle.
Researchers used their findings to develop a correction factor that can be applied to previous coral surveys and other climate studies that relied on aragonite analysis.
"Because this has been achieved using the carbonate mineral aragonite, which is ubiquitous among marine life, this same correction factor can be used with other sea creatures that secrete carbonate skeletons and shells," Fouke said.
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June 11, 2018 / 10:50 AM
Capitals share more footage of Oshie's emotional hug with dad
Washington Capitals right wing T.J. Oshie (77) waits for a face-off during the second round NHL playoff game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals on April 26 at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. File Photo by Alex Edelman/UPI | License Photo
June 11 (UPI) -- Washington Capitals winger T.J. Oshie shared an emotional hug with his dad after winning his first Stanley Cup.
Cameras originally caught the embrace after the Capitals' Game 5 win against the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The Capitals released more footage from the postgame exchange in a video on Monday, shared on the team's social media platforms.
"We are the champions," the Capitals wrote for the caption on the video.
The 7-minute film begins with the Capitals getting off the plane, before showing game highlights. It later cuts to team captain Alexander Ovechkin hugging his friends and family before panning to Oshie meeting up with his father, Tim Oshie, who has Alzheimer's disease.
"We did it," T.J. Oshie said. "You're not going to forget this one."
"I love you son," his dad replied.
T.J. Oshie, 31, finished tied for fourth place in points during the Stanley Cup playoffs, trailing Evgeny Kuznetsov, Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom and Reilly Smith. His 21 points were tied with Jake Guentzel, Sidney Crosby, Jonathan Marchessault and Blake Wheeler.
"My dad ... he doesn't remember a lot of stuff these days," Oshie said while celebrating on the ice after the win. "But he remembers enough. But I tell you what, he's here tonight. I don't know where he is at. But this one will stick with him forever. You can guarantee that."
Tim Oshie was diagnosed with the disease in 2012.
Washington Capitals celebrate Stanley Cup on Las Vegas Strip Washington Capitals win 2018 Stanley Cup Capitals beat Golden Knights, move one win from Stanley Cup
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Home > Blog > UX for Beginners > A directory of UX design Slack groups
Hi reader, I’m going to take a wild stab in the dark and predict that there are two things you probably like… UX and Slack!
It’s unlikely you’ve wandered onto this blog if you’re currently questioning (quite rightly) why the abbreviation for user experience isn’t UE.
It’s also unlikely that you’ve worked in digital over the last few years and not developed a palpable love of Slack – the messenger app for teams that’s meant to kill the need for internal emails, but just means you have another browser tab open at all times.
One of the more fun developments in the Slackerverse is how companies and brands are opening up Slack groups for their customers and fans. These form a more exclusive platform for communication where you can message members directly or take part in larger channel discussions away from the wandering eyes of Twitter and really get into the nitty gritty of a subject.
As a celebration of our newly rebranded UX community, BetterUX, we’re presenting a directory of Slack channels that may be of interest to you, dear person who probably likes UX and Slack.
Many of these are aimed squarely at designers. Some are aimed at broader digital marketers, but all could prove helpful for your UX development, whether at the research, development or testing stage. Or maybe you just want to have a chat with a few people who know what the heck you’re talking about when you mention “IxD.”
BetterUX Community
To get the ball rolling, here’s a link to our very own BetterUX community where you can enjoy the following:
Rub shoulders with the best and brightest in the UX community.
Ask and answer questions in our UXChat channel
Take part in exclusive AMAs
Share your own experiences and seek advice from UX experts from around the world
13 more UX Slack communities
Please note: we’d like this to be a ‘living document’ – so if you have any more to add, we will happily include them. We’d also like to add any comments or reviews you have of your own experiences of these groups.
https://web-a11y.herokuapp.com/
Official blurb: “A community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier.” The a11y Slack channel offers support to “help to make web accessibility easier for front end developers to implement.”
Application requirements: just an email address, and you get immediate approval.
Candles – Junior UX community
https://slofile.com/slack/withcandles
Official blurb: “This is a channel to help junior UX designers across the world find a job!”
Members: 4.5k+
Extra details: the team has 29 public channels in total.
Code Newbie
https://codenewbie.typeform.com/to/uwsWlZ
Official blurb: “CodeNewbie started as a weekly TwitterChat to connect people learning to code by Saron. Since then it’s grown into a supportive, international community of people learning to code.”
Application requirements: standard ‘request an invite’ via typeform, the invite arrives fairly quickly.
Content + UX
http://mjmetts.com/content-ux-slack/
Official blurb: As hosted by Michael J. Metts, “I host a Slack group for people who are interested in the user experience of content. If you care about words and want to build better experiences, we’d love for you to join us.”
Application requirements: request via online form, with approval needed from the host.
Creative Tribes
http://creativetribes.co/slack/
Official blurb: “Join 1,000+ folk — startup entrepreneurs, strategists, marketers, developers, designers, blockchain enthusiasts, writers, and other creatives — to share and discuss strategies, experiences, and resources.”
Application requirements: one-time sign-up fee of $25.
Extra details: has been running for 4.5 years, has 20 different channels.
Dear Designers
http://www.deardesigners.co/
Official blurb: “Dear Designers is a private Slack group where new and prospective designers can anonymously ask questions and get answers from experienced designers who come from the startup, agency, and big software company worlds.”
Application requirements: if you’re a new designer with less than two years of experience you’re welcome to join. However if you’re a designer with 5+ years of experience interested in fielding questions and sharing from your experiences, send an email to hi@okaysee.com.
Designer Hangout
https://www.designerhangout.co/
Official blurb: “Join 15,000+ UX designers and researchers from around the world to discuss user experience.”
Application requirements: standard ‘request an invite’ via typeform.
The Designership
http://thedesignership.com/
Official blurb: “As a designer there are plenty of places to find inspiration, tools to improve work flow but there’s no trusted and active community of creatives to learn, share and grow with. That is where The Designership comes in!”
Members: 6,300+
Mind the Product
http://slack.mindtheproduct.com/
Official blurb: “Sometimes you just need to ask a question or debate a solution. Sometimes you want a second opinion on something you’re building. Sometimes you just want to vent and get commiserations from fellow product managers. The Mind the Product Slack channel is an amazing tool for all of this and more – and we have thousands of product managers actively engaged every day.”
Members: 10k+
Online Geniuses
https://onlinegeniuses.com/
Official blurb: “OG is the largest marketing Slack community. Join discussions with thousands of industry experts. With thousands of posts a day you can ask and answer questions around SEO, PPC, email marketing, Affiliate marketers and much more. Plus, we have special events like our weekly CRO teardowns and expert AMAs.”
Application requirements: it’s free to join, but they do vet all applications and may take a couple of weeks.
Members: 16,000 (including people from Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft)
Extra details: they host special events such as weekly CRO teardowns and expert AMAs.
Product Manager HQ
https://www.productmanagerhq.com/join-the-community/
Official blurb: “Connect, chat, and learn from the world’s largest Slack product community with thousands of product people around the world. In a few days, you’ll meet more product people in this community than you can in a life-time.”
Application requirements: one-off payment of $25.
UX Design Community
http://slack.uxdesigncommunity.com/
Official blurb: “UX Design Community is a platform for designers and researchers to share inspirations, resources and knowledge to help each other to grow.”
UX Mastery
https://slack.uxmastery.com/
Official blurb: UX Mastery was started “to rid the world of confusing, hard-to-use interactions and interfaces through quality design education. We write articles, ebooks, newsletters, host podcasts, and teach in-person workshops that are fun, practical, and highly regarded by industry.”
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Christopher Ratcliff — Content Marketing Manager
Christopher is the Content Marketing Manager for EMEA, which basically means the skipper of the good ship ‘UserZoom blog’. So far his requests for changing its name to the ‘USS-erzoom Blog’ have been rightfully denied. In his spare time, Christopher is a filmmaker and the editor of wayward pop culture site Methods Unsound. He used to be the deputy editor of Econsultancy, editor of Search Engine Watch, staff writer for ClickZ and features editor of CMO.com.
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The TRADE > News > Sell side > Credit Suisse to cut 4,000 jobs amid first loss since financial crisis
Sell side February 4, 2016 5:39 AM GMT
Credit Suisse to cut 4,000 jobs amid first loss since financial crisis
Credit Suisse reveals first annual loss since 2008, and confirms 4,000 jobs are to be cut.
Credit Suisse has suffered its first annual loss since 2008 and confirmed 4,000 jobs are to be cut in its annual results statement.
The bank today reported it suffered a pre-tax loss of CHF 2,422 million in 2015 and a pre-tax loss of CHF 6,441 million in the fourth quarter.
Its Global Markets (GM) division reported a 14% decline in revenues, with fixed income sales and trading revenues suffering a loss.
Credit Suisse created its GM division in October, bringing fixed income and equities businesses under a single roof.
The report explained: “The restructuring of GM activities is also continuing as we further reduce fixed income legacy positions and make the franchise less vulnerable to negative developments in the credit markets.”
Prime services results increased slightly despite significantly reduced leverage exposure, reflecting continued progress on our client portfolio optimisation strategy.
The Asian Pacific region, however, reported an increase in revenue for fixed income sales and trading of 15%, which Credit Suisse said was due to “investments in key hires” and “platform enhancements”.
Tidjane Thiam, chief executive officer at Credit Suisse, said: “Our focus will be on continuing to make the fixed income business model significantly less volatile and inventory dependent along the lines of our successfully transformed equities business.”
It was also announced the bank would be cutting 4,000 jobs as part of a cost-saving strategy. The report said: “We are implementing a reduction of approximately 4,000 positions (employees, contractors and consultants).”
Credit Suisse has targeted savings of CHF 3.5billion by the end of 2018.
Its litigation costs were significant to the results, as it announced CHF 821 million was spent on legal issues in 2015 and CHF 564 million in the fourth quarter.
The TRADE reported earlier this week that Credit Suisse had agreed to a settlement of $84.3 million with the SEC, after lawsuits were filed for misleading investors in its dark pools.
Tagged: Annual results, Credit Suisse, equities, fixed income
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Country has to decide what kind of 'pradhan sevak' it wants Modi
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New Delhi, Jan 12 (PTI) Launching his campaign to return to power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said the country has to choose its next "pradhan sevak" between an honest man working hard, and those who are on vacation when needed at home and are corrupt.
In the concluding address at the BJP national convention, Modi was unsparing in attacking his rivals, especially the Congress, saying they are joining hands as they want a "majboor" (helpless) government to indulge in corruption while people want a "majboot" (strong) government that the only BJP can provide.
He ridiculed the likely grand alliance of opposition parties as a "failed experiment in Indian politics", saying a campaign to give publicity to this idea is on.
The fear of "chowkidar" (watchman), a reference like 'pradhan sevak' he often uses to describe himself, and his campaign against black money and corruption have led to a churn in politics, Modi said.
Rivals are uniting against one person, he said.
Modi's remarks came on a day the Samajwadi Party and the BSP, bitter rivals for over two decades, announced in Lucknow their alliance for the Lok Sabha elections against the saffron party.
In his over 80-minute-long speech, the prime minister spoke at length about his development agenda, made a brief mention of the Ram temple issue accusing the Congress of causing delay in its resolution and projected his rivals as "corrupt" against his government's "spotless" record in office.
He claimed that for the first time in the country's history, there has not been any charge of corruption against a government.
This is now for the country to decide what kind of "pradhan sevak" (main servant) it wants, he said.
Will the people like a servant who puts one member of the family against another, who steals household goods and distribute them among his relatives, tells neighbours about the internal matters, he asked.
"Will anybody want a servant that who is on vacation when needed at home? And nobody knows where he is," he continued.
The BJP has often taken digs at Rahul Gandhi over his vacations abroad. The prime minister, though, did not name anybody.
Modi then made a pitch for himself, presenting himself as someone who works hard day and night, is concerned about the future generation, sticks to honesty and keeps everyone united.
"The county will decide what kind of servant it wants," he said, drawing loud cheers from thousands of BJP members. Party leaders have described this as one of its biggest conventions.
He also cautioned the BJP against any complacency, saying it is said at times that "Modi will come and deliver victory" and asked its workers to campaign like farmers work at their land.
The party has reached where it is due to "collective leadership", he said.
Modi said the way the BJP has run the government at the Centre and in states has convinced people that it is only this party which can take the country to new heights.
"Our only aim is development and we have a long way to go," he added.
Targeting the Congress over corruption, he referred to the National Herald case in which Rahul and his mother Sonia Gandhi are on bail and accused them of "grabbing land and people's money".
The opposition party believes in protecting its "sultanate" at any cost and its "first family" has no respect for the country's institutions, he said, claiming that the BJP believes in the Constitution.
In this context, he hit out at the Congress over the decision of its governments in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to withdraw the general consent given to the CBI for probing cases in their state, asking what irregularities they have done that they fear it.
He said when he was Gujarat chief minister for 12 years, the UPA government used all institutions with an aim to put him in jail, adding that they sent BJP president Amit Shah, who was then a minister in the state government, behind bars.
He still presented himself before a district level police official for questioning for nine hours because he had faith in law and considered it above him, Modi asserted, apparently referring to cases of riots and alleged fake encounters.
"Despite being harassed by the UPA for years, I didn't ban entry of CBI in state... We believed in law. We had faith in truth," he said, targeting the Congress for its "attack" on institutions like the CBI, the CAG and the Election Commission.
"These leaders on bail have no trust either in law or in truth... Can they (Congress) be trusted with power," he asked and also blamed it for crisis in banks, saying that there was "common process" and "Congress process" of loans when it was in power.
While the common process was for the common man, the "Congress process" was used by "scamsters" closed to its leadership to swindle public money from banks, Modi said.
In an apparent reference to Rahul Gandhi and his charge of corruption against him over the Rafale issue, he said one cannot make somebody understand a point if he deliberately does not want to understand it.
The prime minister said he was being "abused" after an accused in a defence deal- a reference to Christian Michel- was brought to India from abroad for the first time.
He said he would not claim that his government achieved everything but it has made honest efforts to work for all sections of society.
The prime minister said 10-per cent reservation in education and government jobs for the general category poor will enhance the confidence of 'New India'. PTI KR JTR PR VIT ZMN
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It is every individual’s responsibility to engage in the work that allyship requires. That work includes learning, recognizing, and understanding what it means to solidly stand in the gap for someone who may be different than you. If we don’t do this work, our circumstances will not change and future generations will judge us for standing idly by.
When we don’t stand firmly with others during difficult times or when they are in crisis, or we simply ignore injustice when we see it because it has all become too much to deal with, we are a part of the problem.
FROM ALLY TO ACCOMPLICE is a series of six monthly workshops and engagements for humans who are interested in authentic personal and professional growth. This curated cohort is open to 20 women and non-binary humans regardless of racial or ethnic background. Our activities will move us toward recognizing what it means to do the work necessary to be called an ally on the way to becoming full-fledged accomplices.
The work begins with open, honest, enlightening, but tough, conversations in a brave space. Together we will share, learn, and engage in meaningful interactions and build bridges to civil engagement and empathetic understanding one conversation at time.
Our sessions will be held in downtown Minneapolis on the second Saturday of each month beginning on February 9.
Your personal investment for From Ally to Accomplice is $2,000. Payment is due by FEBRUARY 1. If payment is not received by February 1, your space will be given to another applicant.
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Meet in person once a month to participate in a curriculum that includes six, three-hour group sessions. (The curriculum was developed using the Kemp Instructional Design Model)
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Hear from, engage with, and learn from local and national speakers on topics like Understanding Your Privilege, What is an Ally?, and Deepening Your Analysis
Enhance their individual experience through two one-on-one coaching sessions with The Woke Coach (additional one-on-one sessions are available at a discounted cohort member rate)
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Seena is a trained equity, diversity and inclusion facilitator. She received training through the artEquity Facilitator Training Program (designed for facilitators working at the intersection of art and activism). She currently participates as a member of the artEquity facilitation team working with organizations and individuals across the United States on creating and sustaining a culture of equity and inclusion through the arts and culture. Seena is also a certified administrator the The Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI®)—the premier cross-cultural assessment of intercultural competence. She has also received a professional Train the Trainer certificate from the University of Minnesota where courses included: Design and Develop Training Solutions, Deliver High Impact Training, and Measure Training Results.
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The couldn't give a XXXX FILES
Posted on October 7, 2013 Authoradmin
Our own Sculley and Mulder mixed up in one Captain W E Paranoia this month investigates the Aids virus. Did it just happen or was it created in a lab ?.
My father, Wing Commander Paranoia, used to say ‘you can’t enslave a free man, you can only kill him.’ Information is exactly the same, no attempts at imprisoning, restraining or gagging it will ever succeed. The more draconian the measures, the more hi tech the equipment used to impound it, the more channels will be found for it’s dissemination. Let’s not forget that the Net itself (probably one of the greatest information liberators we’ve invented) was created by intelligence and military forces bent on societal repression. Fears are rife through out the cyber community of increasing crackdowns on the information super highway, as the forces that be, like sick evil drooling vultures sharpen their knives and prepare to swoop. Take heart, they are merely sowing further seeds of their own inevitable destruction.
The seed fallen on the barren ground of disinformation this month concerns:
THE AIDS VIRUS
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Between January 1979 and October 1980 in the North American cities of New York, San Francisco and LA a strange new disease began manifesting itself in the gay community. At around the same time on two other continents the same disease was discovered amongst the heterosexual populations of Uganda and Brazil. The disease, a virus was unlike any other previously discovered in the history of humanity. It specifically and selectively attacked the T blood cells which are genetically programmed to acts as a frontline defence in the bodies natural immune systems. This meant that not only was the body unable to develop an immunity to the virus itself, it was unable to develop an immunity to even the most innocuous of infections. The victim could and would die of the first illness to which they fell prey. The virus was dubbed HIV and the state an infected victim might develop came to be known a Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or Aids for short.
The discovery caused world wide alarm and research into the origins of the virus pointed to Africa. Aids, we were told originated in a disease common among certain green monkeys, this had spread to the general population and thereby to the rest of the world. In addition Dr Robert Gallo and Dr Max Essex, the two top government Aids experts claimed the virus had been dormant in Africa’s population for decades and had only just manifested itself.
Epiodemiological research conducted by J E Carswell would seem to belie this claim. Several generations of sexually active adults, from the elderly to the young were tested in Uganda. In every case the virus could only be found in the most recent generation no trace was found in the elderly Ugandans. If Aid had existed for generations in Africa, were was it. Elsewhere on the continent it was found that before 1986 in South Africa only whites who had come into contact with Americans had contracted the disease it was until then unknown in the black populations. In Central Africa the pygmy population which lived closest to the green monkeys never manifested any signs of the illness. Not only that but it is unknown in biological history for such a complex virus to jump species. Dr Wilber Jordan also points out that with the level of sophistication amongst African Medicine and medical research its insulting to claim they would not have spotted the disease. Dr Jordan also points out that the virus is spread heterosexually in Africa, whilst in the west it attacks selective sections of the populace. A characteristic that is unheard of in naturally occurring viral infections.
So what is the truth, where did the plague suddenly appear from ?
EXPLANATION Qx – 1
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At a Home Appropriations Committee hearing in 1969 the Defence Department’s Biological Warfare division requested funds to develop, through gene splicing, a disease which would resist and break down a victim’s immune system. Deputy director Dr Donald M MacArthur stated: ‘Within the next five to ten years it would probably be possible to make a new infective micro organism which could differ in certain important respects from and known disease carrying organisms, Most important of these is that it might be refractory (unresponsive to treatment) to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease.’ The funds ($10 million) were subsequently approved and the virus was created. In 1972 the World Health Organisation published a similar statement. ‘An attempt should be made to ascertain whether viruses can in fact exert selective effects on immune infection, eg, by … affecting T cell function as opposed to B cell function. The possibility should also be looked into that the immune response to the virus itself may be impaired if the infecting virus damages more or less selectively the cells responding to the viral anti-gene.’ Are any of these descriptions beginning to sound familiar ? It would appear that our killer virus originated not centuries ago in the wilds of Africa but in a Pentagon laboratory less than thirty years ago. But how did it spread to the general populace ?
EXPLANATION XF – 2
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In 1978 in New York City the US government sponsored a Hepatitis B vaccine study. 10,000 gay men were screened for the study and 1083 were chosen. Those chosen had three important characteristics in common, the average age was 29, they had no record of recurrent poor health or any venereal disease, most were white and well educated. Similar trials soon began in San Francisco and LA. In 1981 the Centre for Disease Control published a report on the first 26 Aids cases. 20 cam from New York, 6 from San Francisco and LA. The average age was 29, most were white, well educated, with no previous cases of venereal disease. In exactly the same time period that HIV manifested itself after the Hepatitis B screenings in New York, the virus manifested itself in Central Africa and Brazil following World Health Organisation sponsored Small Pox vaccinations in the mid 70s. In the case of both countries the spread of the virus can be causally linked to the exact locations that the vaccinations were undertaken and would explain why those two locations have been the centre of the virus’ spread on both continents. It is a matter of public record, and well documented by the media that the CIA has used viral and biological warfare on target sectors of the world’s population. Most notably in Cuba and El Salvador.
The following information, though widely disseminated in the Eastern Block’s press, has been ignored by our media, in spite of the overwhelming evidence which points to one incontrovertible conclusion. Such irresponsible, outrageous and evil behaviour on behalf of a ruling body, should not and cannot be tolerated much longer.
For more information on Aids try this page http://www.livelinks.com/sumeria/aids.htm
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Thomas Cook close to unveiling rescue deal with Fosun for tour operating business -Sky News
July 11 (Reuters) - Thomas Cook Group is in advanced talks about a deal with Fosun Tourism and its lenders to recapitalise its tour operating business, Sky News reported on Thursday.
The world's oldest travel company could announce the deal as soon as Friday morning, Sky News reported http://bit.ly/2xIoqoS.
The report cited bankers as saying that under the outline of the proposed deal, Fosun and Thomas Cook's lenders would inject hundreds of millions of pounds of new equity and debt into the company.
Under the proposed deal, Fosun would become the majority-owner of Thomas Cook's tour operating arm while it would also own a minority stake in its airline division, the report said.
The report comes a month after the company said it was in talks with Fosun, its largest shareholder over a sale of its tour operating business after receiving a preliminary approach.
Thomas Cook said it had no comment on the report while Fosun Group could not be immediately reached for a comment. (Reporting by Philip George in Bengaluru, additional reporting to Sathvik N; editing by G Crosse)
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The 9 Best Vacation Spots Within Driving Distance of Berlin
By Barbara Woolsey Published On 08/19/2015
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Berlin’s a pretty great place to start a road trip from, not only because there are over a dozen countries within a day’s drive (or more, depending on how much you like to punish the autobahn), but also because Germany itself is hardly lacking in the "excellent vacation spots" department.
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Distance from Berlin: 35 kilometers southwest; 40-minute drive
Why it made our list: Let’s start with an obvious choice, Brandenburg’s capital and its pack of UNESCO World Heritage Sites from former Prussia. How about the gothic castle at Park Babelsberg or Sanssouci Palace, decked out with rococo interiors and manicured gardens? Cinema buffs should also take a tour of Studio Babelsberg, where Marlene Dietrich and the German celluloid expressionism took off, and Tarantino recently shot Inglourious Basterds.
Pro tip: Get around Potsdam on a bicycle, or better yet on foot via the 66 Lakes Trail. This 400km trail circumventing Berlin has one of its most scenic legs starting at Potsdam’s Brandenburg Gate, ending at an abandoned palace in Marquardt.
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Pfaueninsel (Peacock Island)
Why it made our list: Because yes, there are real peacocks here. This small island outside of Berlin can be reached by ferry from Wannsee Station. It was once a romantic retreat for Prussian royalty, today a protected nature reserve with lush flora and fauna. Check out King Friedrich Wilhelm II’s fairytale castle, and Luise Temple, the red-granite mausoleum of his former mistress.
Pro tip: Besides those gallantly feathered pheasants, look out for water buffalo, woodpeckers, and cormorants during the summer.
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Spreewald (Spree Forest)
Distance from Berlin: 97 kilometers south; 1.5-hour drive
Why it made our list: Berliners love getting away to Spreewald, a beautiful meadowy region in Brandenburg dotted with picturesque B&Bs. Here you can take a barge tour or rent your own canoe on the forest’s sprawling canals. There are plenty of secluded beaches and bathing spots along the way.
Pro tip: Pickled cucumbers are renowned as this region’s delicacy; don’t miss the Gherkin Cycle Trail. Just follow the signs of gherkins towards a fresh batch from a wooden casket.
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Distance from Berlin: 151 kilometers north; two-hour drive
Why it made our list: Because, pierogis. Need we say more? Szczecin may not be as lively as Warsaw, but it’s the easiest solution to a German’s craving for a plateful of dumplings. It’s a port town with sandy shores, charming cottages, and motley of architecture from over the ages.
Pro tip: There are lots of restaurants where overdosing on pierogis is possible, but Pierogarnia Kaszubska is always a sure bet. If you can get over the bad '90s interior (and don’t mind waiting for a table), it serves up hefty portions of handmade dumplings filled with everything from pork to sweet cream cheese.
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Distance from Berlin: 286 kilometers northwest; three-hour drive
Why it made our list: A pretty seaside town like Lübeck is definitely a rarity in the Vaterland. Lübeck’s Travemünde is known for its warm Baltic shores, old-school casino, and colorful catamarans. If you do manage to tear away from the beach, the town center is filled with medieval architecture and German brew.
Pro tip: Lübeck’s world-famous for its marzipan. Check out Niederegger, the flagship shop of Lübeck’s biggest producer, for everything from sculptures to gift boxes of the sweet stuff.
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Distance from Berlin: 351 kilometers south; four-hour drive
Why it made our list: Prague’s a place that everyone should go once in a lifetime, and luckily it’s just a morning’s drive from Berlin. In the winter, a lot of Germans end up over the border enjoying the city’s famous Christmas market for a few days. Cozy cafés, galleries, and parks also make it an awesome holiday spot in the summer, too.
Pro tip: If you’ve got the time for a serious road trip, you can hit a few different destinations on the way down to Prague like Potsdam, Dresden, and Swiss National Park.
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Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
Why it made our list: This Bohemian city is a Romantic era throwback to vacation spots -- after all, Beethoven and Chopin used to call it a weekend getaway (because of Karlovy Vary’s hot springs, which are said to have medicinal properties). Today you can fill up your drinking bottles for free, or enjoy the water in open-air pools and spas around the city.
Pro tip: Try a spa wafer, a warm snack made from the local water and salt, sold at various street stands.
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Distance from Berlin: 583 kilometers south; five-hour drive
Why it made our list: Rothenburg is Germany’s best-preserved town from the Middle Ages, and despite being awfully touristy, it’s beauty is worth it. The Plönlein -- a charming triangle square with medieval towers -- is one of the most photographed sites in Germany.
Pro tip: Make sure you check out its Christmas village -- it's open year-round, and has the largest collection of German Christmas decorations on the planet.
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Distance from Berlin: 597 kilometers southeast; six-hour drive
Why it made our list: Kraków’s a cool vacation spot because of its far-reaching history, from the ancient settlement of Poland to the more recent black mark of Nazi occupation. It’s an energetic city, especially in the evenings, when crowds form around kitschy cocktail bars and street food stands. Most of sites and attractions are within walking distance of each other, so find a parking spot and trek around Kraków by foot.
Pro tip: Check out in the old Jewish quarter of Kazimierz, where you’ll find historic synagogues and school groups donning kippahs by day, and upscale kosher restaurants and dive bars by night.
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Dubai World Cup dress code: What to wear to the 2019 races
There's no need for tweed – but it's well worth getting dressed up a bit
Scott Campbell
Fold up that tatty skirt and put away your crumpled blazer – the Dubai World Cup is no time for your scruffs.
The dresscode at Meydan racecourse is smart-casual, so it’s time to make an effort.
There’s no need for tweed and you (hopefully) won’t require your wellies like you might in Blighty.
The Dubai World Cup is one of the biggest events in both the sporting and social scenes – and people go all out.
And it’s no surprise with massive prizes up for grabs for the best dressed. It’s time to find that perfect, showstopping hat.
It’s not just the horses that will be strutting their stuff at the racetrack. Keep an eye out for where you can enter the competitions on the day.
This year, the Dubai World Cup is being held on Saturday March 30, with the first race at 3.45pm. Gates open at noon on the day, and hospitality packages kick in with 30 minutes to go.
Time Out Dubai will be bringing you live coverage throughout the day with galleries of all the best outfits, hats and action from the track. Click here to see the top pictures from last year's races.
There will also be plenty of entertainment, with Grammy Award-winning pop legend Gwen Stefani set to headline a huge concert at the end of the night.
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy Best Troubador
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By Elizabeth Newton https://www.tinymixtapes.com//writer/elizabeth+newton 2017-05-23T00:28:51-04:00
Styles: bluegrass, rhythm and blues, sax-a-ma-phone
Others: Waylon Jennings, Scout Niblett, Karl Blau
Will Oldham, known as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, brings a bluegrass band together to cover a collection of songs by the late outlaw country legend Merle Haggard, who died in 2016. Oldham’s voice, wherever it goes, brings a playful spirit with it, dealing with the dullness of a lifelong ache (“New Partner”) or with feelings more blunt and searing (“Kiss,” with Scout Niblett). On this new album, Best Troubador , Oldham imbues Haggard’s often cool songs with an unalienable warmth, whether in the slight whistles on the “s” at the ends of words or in the crack of his voice as he climbs a phrase.
In its nods to 1960s outlaw country, Best Troubador refers also to a recently emergent interest in that tradition, most notably, indie musician Karl Blau’s 2016 release Introducing Karl Blau . There, Blau reworked tunes by a range of lesser-loved country stars like Townes van Zandt and Tom T. Hall. Just as Blau lovingly regarded those renditions, Oldham too adores the tunes he covers all the way down — just enough to tease them. Blau somehow made Don Gibson’s “Woman (Sensuous Woman)” appealing, and so does Oldham endear us to the hangdog appeal of Haggard’s lines: “Losing wouldn’t be so bad at all/ But I’m always on a mountain when I fall,” he sings on “Always On a Mountain When I Fall,” a punchy, smartass romp. Elsewhere on Best Troubador , songs like “Haggard Like I’ve Never Been Before” further develop the perpetual failure of a persona so characteristic of not only Haggard, but also outlaw country past and present.
Of course, Haggard was his own man. As Tim Barker has written in his memorial essay about the legend, “everything about Merle Haggard was confusing.” As ironic, at times, as Bob Dylan but with considerably less hip credibility today, Haggard confounds critics who try to place his various conservatisms and strong-willed insights in a broader cultural context. As Barker writes, “[I]f it’s easy to imagine Merle Haggard finding kind words for Trump, it’s not hard to imagine alternative and contradictory scenarios. Among his usual posts about marijuana and Bernie Sanders, Killer Mike tweeted [on the day Haggard died]: ‘RIP Merle Haggard #OutLawCountry.’” Given the contradictions at the core of Haggard’s life, Oldham is then perhaps a fitting emulator, with his own public face often rebuking easy answers, meaning, or successes. Although widely beloved among listeners, as he recently put it, “I’ve never had a hit song and I never will.”
Best Troubador by Bonnie "Prince" Billy
On Best Troubador , Oldham’s band is loyal, loose, and loving in their historical reenactment of Haggard’s songs. In ways both large and small, their versions keenly emulate the styles of the originals, from the temporal proportions of the solos right on down to the swing of the drums. The magic, in all these songs’ forms, seems to reside inside the corners, in turnarounds, where worlds of meaning unfold in just one or two bars, changes of direction where bridge collides with chorus, refrain with solo, bridge with verse. Some of the slower tunes (“My Old Pal,” “Pray”) drag a bit, to my taste, but you can always skip them. True to bluegrass etiquette, solos are often passed around the room, and vocal duets reference country’s dance-centered past, as when vocalist Mary Feiock joins Oldham on “Nobody’s Darlin’” in a manner that recalls, say, Emmylou Harris when paired together with Johnny Cash or with Ricky Skaggs.
A key difference in these covers is their instrumentation, particularly the saxophone lines by Drew Miller. In Haggard’s original catalogue, saxophone does indeed appear from time to time, on “It’s All in the Movies” or “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink.” (In most early rock & roll groups, guitarists secretly wished that they wore saxophones, imitating the style of horn solos in dance bands.) On Best Troubador , the saxophone is not mere decoration, though; it shines on every take. We’re lucky every time we hear it, but nowhere more so than on “Some of Us Fly,” where its solo is the nicest 20 seconds of music made this year. Miller’s reedy blue notes refer less to the honky tonk of Don Markham (one of Haggard’s sax players) than to the classic mellow of Lester Young — a legend in his own right — had the man witnessed post-punk, the Gulf War, and whatever we’re living now.
Like all good covers, Oldham’s draw our attention to the raw material of the originals, which we might have otherwise missed: Haggard’s songs are made out of coarse language that is beautifully free from metaphor, grounded instead in the hardier affects: wishing you liked the way you make your living, reliance on luck and mercy, and constant running from trouble. “I keep two strikes against me/ Most of the time/A nd when it’s down to a phone call/ I’m minus a dime,” goes the representative “I Always Get Lucky With You,” which the band does real nice on Best Troubador .
The highlight, though, is a tune that arrives as a genuine surprise: “Wouldn’t That Be Something.” Although not one of Haggard’s more well-known tunes, this wondrous version makes us wonder why that is, exactly. The cover reveals a rare moment of utopian fantasy in Haggard’s narratives, in which the protagonist envisions a rocket flight together with a former love:
Wouldn’t that be something
If I spread my wings and showed you I could fly away
If I asked you to fly with me on some wild and windy day
Wouldn’t that be something, if we both fell together,
and you threw your arms around me like you needed me,
Wouldn’t that be something, hey, wouldn’t that be something?
You’d probably laugh if you could see the dream I had last night
You and I together on a maiden rocket flight.
You were seated there beside me with that happy frightened look
You and I got young again on that rocket flight we took!
Wouldn’t that be something if you look at me and see somebody great again
Wouldn’t that be something if you could sing to me,
‘Today I started loving you again,’
Wouldn’t that be something,
If we could look inside each other’s mind and always find each other when we needed to,
In the outro, the instruments dance together in an adorable jubilee. At no moment on the album does Oldham’s voice seem to blend so perfectly with Haggard’s own; in listening back to Haggard’s original, I swear he somehow picked something up from Oldham, in reverse. The fact that Best Troubador manages to outright milk unqualified whimsy from the life and music of one of country’s most rugged, ambivalent heroes — well, it’s really something.
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HCM City leader hosts Chief Minister of Australia’s Northern Territory
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Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem received Chief Minister of Australia’s Northern Territory Michael Gunner in the city on November 9 (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem received Chief Minister of Australia’s Northern Territory Michael Gunner in the city on November 9. The southern city has welcomed numerous working delegations from Australia over the years, especially in 2018 when the two countries are celebrating 45 years of the Vietnam – Australia diplomatic ties, Liem said. The official emphasised that the freshly-signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the Northern Territory’s Chamber of Commerce will contribute to promoting economic and trade ties between Vietnam and the Northern Territory, as well as between HCM City and the territory. Apart from carrying out the agreement on cooperation and investment between the two sides, HCM City hopes the Northern Territory will share its experience in high-tech agriculture and create conditions for the city’s agricultural products to access Australia’s farm produce market. For his part, Gunner spoke highly of contributions by the Vietnamese community in the Northern Territory to the local development. The territory appreciates Vietnam’s potential for development and exerts efforts to promote cooperation with Vietnam in economy, education, tourism and people-to-people diplomacy. He said in addition to the above-said MoU, the Northern Territory signed another MoU with HCM City’s Saigon tourism school and discussed… [Read full story]
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Music | Village Voice
Love and Affection: Classics (1975-1983)
This St. Kitts woman from Birmingham, U.K., was never much more than a cult artist in America and is now almost forgotten here except among gay women, although she keeps her private life very private and has never come out. The two CDs are distilled from 10 spotty, sui generis big-rock albums, and they just don’t wear down. This music still sounds fresh and muscular two decades later, and conveys so much felt intelligence about human relations it’s hard to believe Armatrading’s a loner. Forthright voice meets shy heart and no one knows who wins, probably including her. I hope somebody loves her, and vice versa.
Five Guys Walk Into a Bar . . .
Warner Bros./Rhino
I’m not claiming there’s much competition, but the greatest box-set name ever is perfect for a band that was never as great as it should have been. Their music was so loose and that was such an up; their music was so loose and their songs fell so apart. Come to think of it, bar bands are generally tighter. But if five straight hours of shambolic garage rock is what you seek, you couldn’t do better—the four CDs maintain a raucous level that crests rather than peaks and never gets boring. Ron Wood you know, Ronnie Lane you should. But above all, here for the hearing—why old-timers think Rod Stewart had something to sell out.
More:BirminghamJoan Armatrading LoveMusic NewsRecyclablesRod StewartWarner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
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Adjustment of Status (Green Card) from K1 and K3 Family Based Visas
NOTE: Updated I-765 & I-131 forms
updated forms
NYLondon 130
City: NYC
Local Office: New York City NY
My husband is filing renewals for his AP/EAD card and I noticed the forms have been changed since last year. Just wanted to remind everyone in case it hadn't been mentioned. The sample forms on here are the old forms too, so please make a note of that.
Best to everyone in the process!
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I-129F AOS
24/7/17 - I-129F mailed to Lewisville, TX via FedEx 19/6/18 - AoS mailed to Chicago via FedEx
25/7/17 - I-129F received at Lewisville, TX 20/6/18 - AoS received at Chicago. I-485/I-765/I-131
27/7/17- NOA1 Notice date on I-797C also via SMS and e-mail 27/6/18 - check cashed by USCIS
1/8/17 - NOA1 hardcopy via mail (hardcopy date: 27/7/17) 28/6/18 - received NOA numbers for all three apps, "submitted date" says 25/6/18
5/2/18 - NOA2 via SMS and e-mail and App 2/7/18 - received hardcopy NOA's for all three apps
7/2/18 - NOA2 hardcopy via mail (hardcopy dated: 2/2/18) 6/7/18 - received letter with date for Biometrics appt
13/2/18 - NVC received 9/7/18 - Biometrics appt
16/2/18 - NVC case number assigned/Case left NVC, status 'In Transit' 20/7/18 - Fingerprint Review was completed
20/2/18 - Consulate received 25/7/18 - Update on Current Status on I-485: "Case is Ready to Be Scheduled for An Interview"
8/3/18 - Medical 15 & 29/8/18; 12 & 26/9/18; 10/10/18; - "We are still reviewing your case and there are no updates at this time" email from USCIS "We last took action on your case on 18 July 2018"
23/3/18 - Interview & APPROVED! 16/10/18 - New card is being produced (I-765) (text & email notification)
26/3/18 - Advanced Processing 17/10/18 - Approved Form I-131
27/3/18 - Issued 19/10/18 - Card was Mailed To Us ( I-765) (text notification)
3/4/18 - Visa in hand 20/10/18 - received hardcopy NOA's for I-765 & I-131 in mail
12/5/18 - POE 24/10/18 - received EAD/AP combo card in mail
June 2018 - Wedding 7 & 21/11; 5/12 2018; 16 & 30/1/19; 27/2; 13/3; 8 & 22/5; 5 & 5 & 19/6 2019 -"We are still reviewing your case and there are no updates at this time"
email from USCIS "We last took action on your case on 18 July 2018"
19/6/19 - 365 Days / 1 year since submitting AoS
3/7 2019 -"We are still reviewing your case and there are no updates at this time"
USS_Voyager 1,060
Always get the forms from USCIS website
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10 minutes ago, USS_Voyager said:
I do Just wanted to make sure people were aware they are new in case they were updating the old PDF's they had on file, or looking at the sample forms on here, as the forms are quite different.
K1visaHopeful 1,721
State: Georgia
Local Office: Atlanta GA
I thought the general rule was to download it from the official USCIS website everytime you need a form, work fast and then double check the edition date section on the form outline page before you mail it?
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City: West Hartford
State: Connecticut
Local Office: Hartford CT
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Always lead with love ❤️
19 minutes ago, K1visaHopeful said:
The process can be overwhelming, some more than others. I was just trying to post a helpful reminder.
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2013 Salsa Warbird - Another Arrow for your Quiver
Cycling is an ever evolving sport. It seems like every year there is a new discipline with a new type of bike with something unique that sets it apart from its predecessors. While gravel riding is in no way new (especially to Boone County) more people are starting to explore beyond their regular paved routes. Recently gravel has gained the status that, in my opinion, it deserves. With races like the Dirty Kanza 200, the Almanzo 100 and the Trans Iowa seeing huge participation numbers (the Kanza filled up 450 spots in under 3 hours this past year) it's clear that gravel roads are becoming more than just a means for putting in off-season miles. Last year in Missouri we saw the invention of The Cedar Cross, a 100 mile race taking place on a mix of trails and gravel just southeast of Columbia. Bob Jenkins, the event's promoter, had the idea for the race and expected just a few participants. What he got was a full-blown gravel peloton with 120 racers on a wide range of bikes. The Cedar Cross returns May 4th, 2013. Making sure you have an appropriate bike to handle the rigors of Boone County gravel is paramount. Road bikes are fairly limited in choice of tire. Mountain bikes work well, but can be much slower than a more appropriate dedicated gravel bike. So what exactly is a dedicated gravel bike?
Introducing the 2013 Salsa Warbird.
One of the first in its class, the Warbird is a purpose-built gravel racing machine. With a lightweight aluminum frame that forgoes the usual rack mounts found on similar bikes, the Warbird is quick without sacrificing comfort. Salsa also offers the Warbird in a beautiful titanium frameset and complete bike. At the front end you'll find an ENVE CX carbon fork with superior tracking and stiffness. Avid mechanical disc brakes add a considerable amount of braking power that won't falter on those muddier days and a Shimano drive train offers smooth dependability.
The first thing you notice riding this bike is the wheelbase. The Warbird has a much longer wheelbase than your typical cyclocross bike which translates to a more stable feel over rougher terrain. Andy and I spent some time on Salsa's latest this past Summer in Utah. The bike was a blast on the fire roads and we even jumped onto some single track for a bit. The first time I swung my leg over the bike I was expecting the same feel as your everyday touring bike, but what I found was an awesome blend of comfort and speed.
One thing that I've always loved about Salsa is that almost all of their bikes can be used efficiently in a multitude of situations. The Warbird is a perfect gravel bike, a decent cyclocross bike and an ok commuter. I really think the bike could hold its own between the tape and over the barriers, but if you want to be a competitive cyclocross racer you'll be much happier on a more traditional cross frame. As a commuter, the lack of rack and fender mounts may have you getting to work in the morning wishing for something more along the lines of a Trek 520, Salsa Vaya or a more traditional hybrid.
Maybe you're a roadie that's used to long days in the saddle and would love some new roads to explore. Maybe you're a regular at Rock Bridge and Cosmo and want to jump in on some group rides when the trails are wet. Maybe you've got a training schedule that has you peaking for the Dirty Kanza. This bike was developed and tested in gravel races throughout the midwest, so what are you waiting for?
Tagged: gravel, Salsa, warbird
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Best Chill Out Music
Indie chill…. What is it? What does it mean? Those two words open up a postmodern rabbit hole into a quantum universe of indeterminacy. What might make one person mellow, sleepy, happy, and calm might be infuriatingly boring to another? That's not even to begin to dissect that first word, as what is and isn't 'indie' is a whole separate conversation.
Why is this fuzzy, quantum descriptor taking over? Is indie chill a genre? A musical movement? Without getting into a metaphysical debate, we can default to Descartes' view on existence. Indie chill is real, because it exists, because people think it's real.
But why are so many people gravitating towards this fuzzy genre? What does it say about the world we're living in? Let's discuss, shall we?
BEST NEW CHILL: EXHIBITIONIST - MOTIONLESS
by Ingrid Rosales
Welcome Exhibitionist’s second single, Motionless, which was released late last week. Listen to Motionless below and watch her interpretive-dance her way through the vid.
#chill
BEST NEW CHILL: AUÐUR - I'D LOVE
Icelandic phenomenon Audur is pushing the envelope of the R&B genre. His latest single, I’d Love, gives Arca a run for his money when it comes to musical artistry. Also, the track is just sexy as all hell. Watch the literally twisted video to I’d Love below.
BEST CHILL SONGS – WEEK 42
by Jess Grant
Grab your headphones, and for the next 30 minutes or so, accompany us as we press the pause button on Life and the play button on the following 10 songs from Kailee Morgue, Jessie Reyez, Swimful, Animal Feelings, Forest Blakk, and plenty of others.
What Is Chill Indie Music?
The term chill as a musical descriptor came to prominence in the '90s, as information technology was really getting going in earnest. If 'chill music' is a genre, of any kind, it may be the first postmodern musical genre. Which is to say, it doesn't have a hard-and-fast definition, or even a consensus on its musical characteristics. So let's go ahead and dig into its etymology a bit in search of a definition.
The word 'chill' is the variable that's going to help us solve this equation. Because it's been used to describe legit musical movements, as well, that have some defining aesthetics we can expound upon.
Chill music is a shortened version of 'chill-out music,' which was an honest-to-goodness musical style in the late '80s and '90s. Chill-out music stemmed from the chillout rooms in raves and dance clubs. London's Heaven Nightclub featured the first high-profile chill-out room, where ambient music like Brian Eno would mix with progressive House, Techno, and Trance, from artists like The Orb, Orbital, or The KLF. These chill-out rooms were meant as a respite from the overwhelming stimulation of the big rooms. Which is also where we get our first hint why this music's so vital. And why it seems to be spreading.
BEST NEW CHILL: FOREST BLAKK - LOVE ME
Forest Blakk is a new emotive songwriter hailing from Canada, and his debut single Love Me will have you in your feels. Trust me. I haven’t felt this pained since finding out the calorie count on the back of my food packages was only meant for ONE serving.
With the days getting shorter and the nights drawing in, we're helping to take the hard work out of compiling your fall playlists with yet another edition of Best Chill Songs. Featuring EDEN, Aquilo, TOKiMONSTA, Arctic Lake, Meadowlark and plenty of others, there's something here for everyone.
BEST ALT CHILL: GABRIEL BLACK - FREEDOM
by J. Simpson
It doesn’t seem like it should be so difficult, given American music’s common roots in the Blues and African-American music, but truly exceptional guitar/hip-hop hybrids are so rare and special. This is why Gabriel Black’s Freedom is such a chilling, powerful, noteworthy event.
Starting off as a mood, chill vibes started to permeate other genres. Most musical styles have some form of chill variant, especially if they've been around for a while. Downtempo/Trip-Hop is one variant, blending chilled hip-hop beats with noirish, jazzy vocals. Jazz, 'world music', hip-hop, and pop are all serve chilled, at times. Looking at this aspect of indie chill out also starts to illustrate some of its darker aspects.
One aspect of indie chill focuses on the relaxing, mellow, soothing, sometimes hypnotic aspects of a style. The other showcases how nearly any style, sound, or genre can be subverted, polished into sanitized, sterilized safety. This is kind of chill with digeridoos looped over stale house beats, looped ad nauseam. In our more enlightened, culturally-sensitive times, we'd like to think this style would've fallen out of fashion.
Not everybody's super adept at introspection, unfortunately. New Age-sounding beats paired with generic chanting samples are just as prevalent as they've ever been, if not more so.
Seeing as how we've made a case for chill being more of a mood or a feeling that a proper genre, per se, let's delve into some of the most popular variants of chill indie music.
TOP NEW CHILL: WYNNE - DISTRACTION
by Kenneth Tran
Spending most of his career in the shadows of other musicians, Wynne finally steps out on his own to create his very original debut release called Distraction. Sit down with We Are The Guard and take a bite into something smooth and refreshing. You deserve it.
BEST NEW CHILL: DARCI - LIFE
The newest track from Darci called Life blends the best of the R&B/hip hop world with chill styled electronic music. The weather is getting a bit chillier, so let's cuddle up with some nice tunes with some of We Are The Guard's musical picks. Enjoy!
TOP NEW CHILL: KAI MELLA - LOWKEY ALCOHOLIC
Up-and-coming producer/rapper Kai Mella brings together hip-hop and EDM in an infectious swirl with Lowkey Alcoholic. It’s not as far out as it seems.
One variant of chill music that is actually a genre in and of itself is 'chillstep.' Beginning in 2009, chillstep is a sub-genre of dubstep, toning down the bassy machismo of American dubstep and fusing aspects of more atmospheric genres, like Future Garage and Liquid Funk.
Of course, anyone who listens to non-American styles of dubstep realize its European counterparts were much lighter and more graceful, more romantic, even seductive. In a way, chillstep is just bringing that aspect to the forefront. This makes chillstep more suitable for your bedroom mixtapes, for the 'chill' part of 'Netflix and Chill,' which is, no doubt, what a lot of the genre is alluding to.
Chillstep is a breath of fresh air for those who love dance music but get burned out on constant low frequencies and blaring volumes. Much like the best love, the best dance music can be slow, subtle, delicate, and nuanced. It just makes it that much more satisfying when the climax comes.
BEST CHILL SONGS - WEEK 40
Music is supposed to be a safe space for all. Consequently, as we continue to process the devastating events at Route 91 Harvest in Las Vegas on Sunday, We Are The Guard invites you to take a moment to pause and reflect with the Best Chill Songs of Week 40.
TOP NEW CHILL: RITUAL - DROWN THE LOVERS FEAT. 6LACK
by Kurt Kroeber
Love loss and heartbreak are on display here. Drown The Lovers features a new relationship forming out of the sadness of the last one, drowning the memories of past lovers and starting anew.
BEST NEW CHILL: SLANG - COKEROACHES
I can say with utter certainty that I’ve never heard anything like this before. The hook is catchy, the rhymes are fresh and the production is unlike anything else out there. Listen to Cokeroaches by Slang.
TOP NEW CHILL: YAEJI - PASSIONFRUIT
Seoul-born, NY-based DJ/producer Yaeji’s coming from the bottom, but now she’s here with a sweet, melodic, hypnotic remix of Drake’s Passionfruit, from More Life.
Another of the first genres to use the 'chill-' prefix definitively is chillhop. Odyssey Magazine defines chillhop as "the intersection of jazzy elements, hip-hop, and electronic music." They position chillhop as a sub-genre of trip-hop, incorporating aspects of neo-soul and ambient music, first coming to prominence in the early 2000s. By that definition, Chillhop is essentially just 21st Century trip-hop. Which is to say, downtempo electronic music with all of the rough edges smoothed away, all shadows cast out, the darkness dispelled.
The ultimate representation of the chillhop sound is the Japanese producer/DJ Nujabes. Nujabes became popular with his soundtrack for the anime series Samurai Champloo. Adult Swim, who aired the anime in the United States, ended up picking up a number of Nujabes' other singles to air during breaks, becoming a bedrock of what would later become the Adult Swim Singles compilations.
For those that are familiar with that series or style, you're perhaps starting to imagine a sound - a mixture of shuffling, intricate polyrhythms; jazz samples; and sci-fi electronics. If you imagine what DJ Shadow might sound like if he limited themselves to sampling off of bebop LPs, '80s trance electronica, and Japanese City Pop, you're getting very close to what clickhop sounds like.
Nujabes' died too young, in a car accident on the Shuto Expressway. Another of chillhop's sonic visionaries died tragically, depriving us of his deep musical knowledge and magpie musical instincts. J Dilla also died in 2006 at the height of his creativity.
It's hard to imagine what might've happened had this fusion of jazz, hip-hop, and electronic music not lost its two most forward-thinking prophets. Luckily, Flying Lotus, sort of The Holy Ghost of clickhop, is still with us, ignoring musical boundaries and still creating some of the best indie chill songs out there.
Clickhop is closely associated with another flavor of mellow, heady hip-hop, sounding from earbuds and dorm rooms all over the globe.
Lo-Fi Hip-Hop
Browse through some random list of recommended lo-fi hip-hop albums. You'll notice a few things. You're likely to see a picture of some cute anime character focusing on something, most likely homework. You'll also see a list of titles from producers that you'd likely love but have just as likely never heard of.
Lo-fi hip-hop might be the most listened-to genre that no one actually listens to. It's the stuff of playlists, made to soundtrack all of life's demands. It's music for relaxing, for studying, for coding, for creating spreadsheets.
How you feel about lo-fi hip-hop will likely depend on how much content and context you like your music to have. At its core, lo-fi hip-hop is the ambient music of the 2010s, Music For Airports for bored, stressed college students and overworked office drones. If you're someone who responds to a strong narrative in your music, who looks for the human interest in the pop songs you sing along to, the punk anthems you pump your fist to, odds are very good you'll hate lo-fi.
Lo-fi hip-hop is also unusual in that it doesn't really have superstars. Some credit MF Doom's iconic Madvillainy. The real superstar of blurry, fuzzy hip-beats sans vocals, it would be YouTube user ChilledCow, who brought the genre to prominence when the streaming service began offering their live streaming option.
So here we have a genre created by curators just as much as creators, that sounds nice but is weirdly vacuous when you really boil down to it. Is lo-fi hip-hop the ultimate ambient music? Or is it empty musical calories? How you listen to music and what you use it for will be the judge of that.
Probably the most established of the various chill genres, chillwave's also probably the most popular, so it's one of the first to spring to mind when people hear the term. Perhaps fittingly, for a genre that got its start on the Internet, the term chillwave started out as a joke. It started with an anonymous blogger, writing under the name Carles for the blog Hipster Runoff, started throwing around silly genre names.
Chillwave ended up catching on in 2010, in earnest, when major publications like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times wrote pieces mentioning the genre. It became shorthand for a particularly strange, hard-to-pin-down blend of shoegaze-y, dreamy indie pop melded with various styles of underground dance music.
Some chillwave artists, such as Neon Indian, doesn't sound that dissimilar to indie rock in the 2010s. In many ways, chillwave is the independent rock of the second decade of the 21st Century. Independent music has always taken sounds from the reigning sonic zeitgeist of the moment. As a generation of independent musicians came of age, having cut their teeth of classic rock, artful '80s synthpop and plastic funk, and the somber earnestness of '90s and early '00s indie, the birth of chilllwave was perhaps inevitable.
Some popular chillwave artists, like Washed Out, Toro Y Moi, or Memory Tapes, are essentially ambassadors for other underground genres, like Alt R&B, neo-psychedelia, or even experimental, theoretical genres like hauntology or vaporwave. Chillwave is the sound of deep listening, of hard drives packed to the last byte with music from throughout time and all over the Earth. Decades of access to basically every sound ever laid to acetate was bound to have some sort of effect. We just didn't predict how weird, wild, and woozy it would sound.
The Case For And Against Chill
We've already mentioned some of the arguments that folks have made for and against various mellow musical genres, particularly chillwave and lo-fi hip-hop. The most famous analysis would be the New Yorker article "Against Chill: Apathetic Music To Make Spreadsheets To." Author and musicologist Amanda Petrutisch, with her lifelong obsession over the value of musical artifacts, is no doubt appalled at lo-fi hip-hop's lack of caloric content. While listening to some lo-fi playlists during one of her classes, Petrusich wrote down some of her associations, listening to the genre. "Koi pond, medical grade Marijuana, boutique hotel, hot-stone massage, European airplane, cool dentist."
She goes on to discuss the word 'chill' itself, as we did at the top of this article, trying to find the heart and soul of indie chill. There isn't much of one, according to Petrusich. "These days, to describe someone as “chill” is to propose that they’re slightly apathetic, but in a delightfully easygoing way. The rise of chill as an aspirational state suggests that perhaps the best thing to feel is not much at all."
Anyone who's spent any time on online dating apps has no doubt come across these modern Boddhisatvas, those describing themselves, as well as potential partners, as "looking for someone chill." That's a nice way of hinting that they won't catch feelings, that they're down for whatever, no matter what.
If you've ever dated anybody, you most likely recognize how challenging it would be to legitimately pull that off. You might even wonder if that's a good thing to aspire to at all? Yet we can't help but think of the phrase, "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
Can we really blame folks for feeling burned out, tired, stressed, possibly pessimistic, certainly guarded? When even true love is replaceable at the push of a button, when we're working 60 - 70 hours a week just to pay rent and, hopefully, get a little food?
On one hand, indie chill is the sound of late-stage capitalism, triumphant. It's the sound of people working themselves tirelessly to the bone, trying to pull themselves up by the bootstraps while the ground's disappearing beneath their feet.
It's not up to us to decide if a genre's inspirations or motivations are valid. People are gonna do what they're gonna do. At We Are: The Guard, it's our job to find what people are listening, perhaps speculating a bit here and there as far as why. Mostly, it's our job to sift through what's out there, the playlists and music videos, new album releases and social media feeds, sifting through the detritus and bringing you the best indie chill songs we can find.
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Accelerate Your Front-End Website Development with Harp
By Ezequiel Bruni | Dec. 10, 2014
I like static sites. To be more accurate, I like building them. There’s something pure about sitting there in front of your screen; it’s just you and your text editor, writing in plain old HTML and CSS.
Don’t get me wrong, dynamic sites are fun too. God knows I’m a fan of WordPress and the ease of use that it affords users. Static sites bring me back, though. I remember switching from WYSIWYG software to a text editor. I remember streamlining the development process with my first ever PHP function: include. Those were good days, but unlike so many others, they’re not all gone.
The difference is that now, we can do it better. Pre-processors like Less and Sass vastly improved the experience of writing CSS. We have any number of scripting languages to mix into our HTML, if we so choose. And then… then people did some really interesting things.
I’ve previously mentioned the Hammer app for Mac. It’s an app that introduces its own functions and expansions to good old HTML, allowing you to include a file as a partial in another, and other good things. It compiles the results into a regular static site that can be hosted anywhere. It’s actually got quite a few more features than that, but this article isn’t about Hammer. Why? It’s only available for the Mac platform.
Enter Harp…
Introducing Harp
It’s not an app, it’s a whole lot more. It includes preprocessors for CSS. It includes templating languages for HTML documents. It’s a mini server that can be used for development, or turned into an actual production server. You can use server-side JavaScript to turn it into a full app, as it runs on Node.js. Or, if you’re not a programmer, you can just build your static site, and then compile it for hosting elsewhere.
Because it’s based on Node.js, it’s cross-platform. It’s also MIT licensed, so it’s free. You can even make changes and redistribute or resell it if you like.
Now, people who have been keeping an eye out will have noticed that Harp is not the only tool of its kind. Lots of people are creating Node-based tools for getting web projects started quickly. My main problem with these is that they generally assume that you want to use their favorite CSS framework, animation library, or HTML boilerplate. Harp makes no assumptions about the code you want to write. It just gives you the tools to write it faster.
Mind you, it has to be installed and run via the command line. There’s no GUI for this. But once you get it going — and that isn’t hard at all — the benefits outweigh the learning curve.
CSS pre-processors
By now, I’m sure most of our readers are familiar with the ways that the web industry has tried to improve on vanilla CSS. When the mini-server for your project is running, LESS, SASS, and Stylus files are all automatically compiled into CSS.
The compilation is always satisfyingly fast. In all of my tests, changes made to my website have compiled in the time it takes me to save my file, then refresh my browser.
Also included are Jade and EJS. These are both JavaScript templating languages designed to help you write/generate more advanced HTML documents with more flexibility. Basically, you can build HTML templates, and store your actual page content separately from those templates. It’s kind of like using a CMS, only there’s no database (unless you want one), and you have to write all of the content into plain text files.
The real advantage is, of course, code maintenance, plus all the cool stuff that actual programmers can do with actual server and client-side JavaScript. These are also the languages that allow you to create more advanced systems, like blogs, all relatively easily (again, if you have a programmer on the payroll).
What’s the difference between the two? It’s mostly about how you prefer to write your code.
EJS keeps things simple. If you already know HTML, it’s just a matter of adding in EJS-specific tags, like so: < % include global/header %>. What I did there? Basically, I just grabbed the HTML for my page header from another file and imported it for use in my main template. You can do lots more complex stuff, of course. Here’s what the Harp documentation has to say about EJS.
Jade takes a very different approach to writing HTML altogether. It looks like this, as shown on the project’s home page:
h1 Jade - node template engine
#container.col
if youAreUsingJade
p You are amazing
p Get on it!
Jade is pretty cool,
That all gets translated into HTML and Javascript. Note the inclusion of an if/else statement right in the middle of it all, and the dependence on proper indentation.
Coffeescript is to JavaScript what Jade is to HTML. Basically, it’s a simplified format for writing JavaScript, which then gets compiled into the regular stuff. Like Jade, it’s heavily indentation-dependent, and drops a lot of the syntax.
It looks like this (another example shamelessly cribbed from the project’s home page):
math =
root: Math.sqrt
square: square
cube: (x) -> x * square x
And the output looks like this:
math = {
root: Math.sqrt,
square: square,
cube: function(x) {
return x * square(x);
The websites created with Harp can be hosted anywhere, of course. It’s worth mentioning, though, that Harp’s creators made a hosting platform specifically designed for stuff built with their software. The pricing ain’t bad, and it integrates with Dropbox for easy automatic updates to your site. Check it out here: www.harp.io
Harp, with its preprocessors, templating languages, sheer speed, and cross-platform goodness, is a solid addition to any designer’s toolbox. I say it’s worth the learning curve.
By Ezequiel Bruni
Ezequiel Bruni is a web/UX designer, blogger, and aspiring photographer living in Mexico. When he\'s not up to his finely-chiselled ears in wire-frames and front-end code, or ranting about the same, he indulges in beer, pizza, fantasy novels, and stand-up comedy. More articles by Ezequiel Bruni
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Bida Manda
LOCAL EDUCATION
Executive team spoke to 30 different organizations about GRCVB's mission and the value of tourism in Wake County.
LOCAL ENGAGEMENT
Served on a number of local boards and committees to ensure tourism is well-represented in discussions. Those include Wake County Economic Development, City of Raleigh Economic Development Advisory Group, Triangle Regional Film Commission, Centennial Authority, Raleigh Convention Center Commission, Regional Transportation Alliance, Raleigh Parks and Recreation Planning Committee, Research Triangle Regional Partnership and the Downtown Plan Advisory Committee.
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS
Served on boards and committees with state, regional and national organizations in the hospitality sector to ensure that Wake County tourism issues are being addressed, to confirm that our sales and marketing strategies are following national best practices and to position GRCVB as a leader with influence in the tourism industry.
COMMUNITY GUIDANCE
Worked with several groups to provide guidance on critical studies and discussion on issues affecting tourism. A few examples include: participated in a study concerning the future land use at RDU International Airport conducted by the Urban Land Institute; worked with the N.C. Travel and Tourism Coalition along with the N.C. Department of Commerce on issues affecting the N.C. Division of Tourism and the impact that private–public partnership will have on the department.
Met with and provided critical demand information and valuable Wake County hospitality data to a number of developers and investors considering new hotel and tourism infrastructure development investments or major renovations throughout Wake County.
Hosted frequent meetings throughout the year with the hospitality community, The Conference Table and leaders from municipalities in the county to gain insight on local trends and needs and share GRCVB's current sales and marketing initiatives. Hosted and managed (and will continue to facilitate) the following advisory boards and committees:
GRCVB Board of Directors
The Conference Table
Cultural Presenters Forum
Customer Advisory Board for Meeting Planners
Live Music Advisory Committee
Local Public Relations/Communications Committee
Wake County Beer Summit
International Bluegrass Music Association Local Organizing Committee
NCAA Men's Basketball Local Organizing Committee
GRCVB MARKETING REACH EXTENDED
Explored and implemented opportunities to generate additional revenue and savings for GRCVB. Identified and negotiated in-kind services, special rates and co-ops that have yielded a savings or revenue for GRCVB valued at $426,000.
Collected valuable weekly and monthly hotel performance information from Smith Travel Research to help identify our largest need periods and to better record demand numbers for Wake County. Gathered quarterly forecasts from PKF International. Created a monthly PACE report for county-wide hotels. Commissioned a joint study with Tourism Economics and D.K. Shifflet & Associates to obtain visitor data, giving us a breakdown on expenditures, motivating factors on what's driving the visitor to Wake County and demographic information.
Maintained all GRCVB technology in a cloud environment to allow staff easier access to data while out of the office. Continued to enhance PIXL (Partner Information eXchange Login), which allows our partners to update their content on our website including photos, videos and contact information and within our customer relationship management (CRM) software for sales/sports/tourism leads.
TECHNOLOGY SUPORT FOR SALES AND SERVICES
Deployed Map Publisher that allows Sales and Services staff to create custom maps for groups by incorporating data points directly from the Bureau's CRM system. Developed a new smartphone app through CrowdTorch that gives staff the ability to offer customized apps for major conventions and sports groups coming to Greater Raleigh. Also launched a CRM crisis or mega-event management tool, which more easily facilitates the Services Department's work with area partners to collect continuously updated hotel availability data during a short-term crisis or mega-event.
OTHER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Launched Mimecast email continuity service that allows GRCVB staff to communicate during a planned or unplanned outage. Also installed Citrix ShareFile to aid staff in securely transferring files and collaborating with area partners and key groups of partners. Finally, launched an Events and RSVP module to allow all departments to send out electronic invites and allow partner recipients to respond directly back with registration payment.
Continued to strive to be one of the best CVBs in the country; efforts recognized this year:
2013 Meetings & Conventions magazine Gold Award for one of the best sales and services teams in the country.
GRSA was named a 2014 Readers' Choice Award winner and one of the best sports marketing departments in the country by readers of SportsEvents Magazine.
Readers of Successful Meetings magazine voted GRCVB a Pinnacle Award winner for 2014, calling GRCVB one of the best CVBs in the country.
ConventionSouth magazine "Reader's Choice Award" for the best in the South for our high standards of professionalism and quality service.
ConventionSouth magazine awarded the GRCVB "The South's Best Destination App and Mobile Site."
Winner of the "2014 Award of Excellence" from Corporate & Incentive Travel magazine.
Travel Standard of Excellence WebAward for visitRaleigh.com website as one of the best in the industry.
Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts Silver W3 Award for the visitRaleigh.com website and one for the new mobile website.
Destination Marketing Association of North Carolina (DMANC) Platinum Award for Destination Print Advertising (meetings and conventions).
DMANC Gold Awards for Destination Print Advertising (leisure) and for Destination Marketing Initiatives for "Raleigh's New World" campaign.
Received the 2014 Economic Development Award from Downtown Raleigh Alliance for efforts in bringing and hosting the International Bluegrass Music Association.
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Innovation at VMware
Borathon
Flings
Inspiring Innovation
From the beginning, VMware has been on a mission to disrupt IT with our virtualization technology. We started with the premise that impossible is possible, but only with our talented people. We believe our people are responsible for our success, so we continue to fuel their curiosity and provide the platform to implement their ideas through a diverse set of innovative programs.
Getting Back to Our Creative Roots
Innovation is at the heart of VMware, and programs like Borathon give us an opportunity to build from our creative roots and work collaboratively on Flings, features, proof-of-concepts, hacks, or new workflows. Moreover, Borathon gives us an opportunity to engage as a community to work together to foster creativity and to build enthusiasm for our products.
Curious about the name? Our engineers wanted this event to reflect a bit of our history. So instead of simply calling this event a hackathon, they named it after their last code repository island name: Bora Bora. Thus, the name Borathon was born.
A Fling is a short-term project intended for interaction and exploration by other VMware employees and customers. Usually smaller utilities that perform a specific, useful function, Flings might not become part of a future VMware product offering or be fully supported, but many VMware customers find them incredibly useful. Based on customer feedback, the Fling author updates the Fling with new features or bug fixes. Some Flings are updated a few times a year, while others may be retired when their functionality is integrated into one of our products.
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R&D INNOVATION OFFSITE (RADIO)
RADIO is VMware’s unique, internal, three-day technical conference that brings together more than 1,400 of our worldwide engineers. We share innovative ideas, learn about technical strategies and projects happening across VMware research and development and allow our developers to network and have fun with their peers.
The heart and soul of RADIO is the Research Program, where proposals are reviewed and selected to become research talks and poster sessions. This event has been VMware’s biggest innovation catalyzer for the past 13 years. Engineers walk away with new ideas, different perspectives and new contacts, which help them solve some of our thorniest challenges.
Celebration of Innovation & Human Potential
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
These words were echoed by Pat Gelsinger, VMware’s CEO, during the closing keynote at RADIO 2019 in May. That is what RADIO is all about: a glimpse into the future, a celebration of innovation, and most importantly, a testament to our human potential.
"The ideas coming out of RADIO reflect the broad range of technology passions that exist within our engineering community, and these innovative ideas help VMware solve some of our customers’ toughest challenges. Many of the RADIO ideas take flight after the conference. Some merge into our product portfolios, some are showcased at other VMware internal conferences and some are shared with customers and partners at VMworld.”
- Ray O’Farrell, VMware's EVP & Chief Technology Officer
Since 2004, we host weekly technical talks delivered by and for VMware’s internal R&D community. It’s one way we stay connected to the great innovation work that happens globally and across all the business units. Whether it be a new idea, product demo, or sharing an epiphany (or failure), TechTalks is our platform to geek out and collect diverse mindshare.
We invite technical gurus, like Stanford CS Professor John Ousterhout, to share their wisdom and stories with our community.
Fostering Creativity and Entrepreneurship
xLabs is a place where creativity meets execution. Our mission is to fast-track great ideas to successful outcomes. We believe great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time, so xLabs offers VMware employees both with and without technical backgrounds a platform to bring their ideas to life. We invest and nurture great ideas, helping our innovators execute with the focus and agility of a startup.
This program is uniquely designed to support inspired, curious, and collaborative innovators, who love to tackle new challenges that will help shape VMware’s future.
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Discern God's call
Home▸ Questions Catholics Ask▸ Is it appropriate to speak of “lay ministries”?
Posted by Alice L. Camille
Saturday 08, December 2018 | Category: Doctrines & Beliefs,Clergy,Vocation and Discernment
Can a layperson be said to “preach”; or should we call what they do—if they do it at all—by some other term?
Believe it or not, this was a matter of heated debate two decades ago. The concern was whether the word “ministry” could be applied to anything done by non-clergy. This same proprietary use of nomenclature affects the realm of preaching and proclamation. Can a layperson be said to “preach”; or should we call what they do—if they do it at all—by some other term?
As a laywoman and catechist of the church, I’m invited to do a lot of things that were once the official domain of priests or religious. Fundamentally I teach; but rarely in a classroom. I give religious instruction as a writer of books, magazine columns, and Scripture commentary. I also make presentations at retreat centers, give diocesan workshops, speak at Catholic conferences, and offer parish missions. It’s when I appear in person that the business gets murky. When I do in person the same things I do in print, what am I doing?
When asked to give a parish mission, for example, it’s expected that the mission leader (traditionally a priest) would preach at the weekend Masses to introduce himself and the themes of the mission to the assembly. When I give missions, some parishes invite me to do this—but are careful to call it something else: a reflection, talk, pious exhortation, or catechetical teaching. I’ve written homiletic reflections that priests use in their preaching for 20 years. But when I deliver these words myself, it isn’t preaching.
Nomenclature first showed its sticky side when I attended the Franciscan School of Theology. Enrolled in the Master of Divinity program, I spent four years surrounded by men studying for the priesthood. They spoke of their context as “being in seminary.” However, when I talked of being in seminary, I learned it was appropriate to say I was in theology school. We sat in the same classrooms, attended the same lectures, and took the same exams. We earned the same degree. But our experience was “ontologically” distinct. That’s a big word meaning the very being or essence of our pursuit was different. In the end, they would be ordained. I would look for work.
It’s in this context that I’m happy to say that, yes, these days, we do have a name for what lay people who work professionally in the church do: lay ecclesial ministry (LEM). It’s a nuanced and delicately controlled term. But it’s a start.
Scripture on ministry (as service): Luke 10:40; John 2:5, 9: Acts 6:1-6; 2 Corinthians 3:5-6; 4:5-18; 11:23; Romans 12:6-8; 1 Timothy 3:8-13
Books: Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord: A Resource for Guiding the Development of Lay Ecclesial Ministry (USCCB, 2005)
Lay Ecclesial Ministry: Pathways Toward the Future, edited by Zeni Fox (Sheed & Ward Books, 2010)
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"Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world! Be witnesses of a different way of doing things, of acting, of living! It is possible to live differently in this world.” -- Pope Francis
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Chef-Enhanced School Lunches Promote Healthier Eating
More than 30 million students in the U.S. receive school meals each day, and many rely on schools foods for up to half of their daily energy intake. The availability of healthy foods in schools can have important health implications for students.
In 2010, Michelle Obama launched the Chefs Move to Schools program, which promotes more palatable meals through collaborations between chefs and schools. Another strategy many schools have adopted is choice architecture, a method that modifies the food environment to influence consumers toward healthier choices. For instance, placing healthier foods first in a buffet line has been shown to increase overall meal selection.
A study published in JAMA Pediatrics evaluated the effectiveness of chef-enhanced meals and choice architecture on student’s food choices and consumption. The researchers found that chef-enhanced meals had a very significant effect on promoting healthier food choices among students.
Surprisingly, when chef intervention and choice architecture were combined in a school, the researchers saw no added benefit beyond the effect of the chef. In chef-enhanced schools, students selected more fruits and vegetables, and their consumption of vegetables almost doubled.
Choice architecture techniques adopted by the schools included strategies such as putting vegetables at the beginning of the lunch line and displaying fruits in attractive containers. Signage and images promoting fruits and vegetables were prominently displayed. To encourage white milk selection, it was placed prominently in front of sugar-sweetened flavored milk.
“In schools, working with a professional chef can help the existing staff provide meals that are more visually appealing and taste better,” said lead researcher Juliana Cohen. “Choice architecture is a good start, but to get kids to eat more healthier meals and reduce plate waste, [schools] also need to focus on the taste of the foods.”
Choice architecture was effective at improving fruit and vegetable selection, but the researchers did not see any change in behavior for white milk versus sugar-sweetened milk. Cohen suggests that schools may want to consider policies that limit sugar-sweetened milk
“Schools should not abandon healthier foods if students initially reject them,” Cohen warned. Previous research has shown that children need ten or more exposures to new foods before they show a preference for them, and this study found that students ate significantly more of the healthier food options once they had time to get used to them.
Chef-intervention had the most significant long-term effect on the selection and consumption of fruits and vegetables, likely because of the increased palatability of the food and an increase in the variety of food options. However, many school districts may be leery of adding a chef to their payroll.
Cohen explains that a chef’s skills can go beyond just making the food taste better. “[Chefs] can also help with inventory control and more efficient use of the foods, so overall food costs can go down,” Cohen says. There is also the potential for districts to share a chef, which means the districts would also share the cost of the chef’s salary.
This study focused on elementary and middle school students, and future studies will need to investigate interventions at the high school level. The researchers also say that future studies should investigate other choice architecture strategies.
While the choice architecture strategies observed in this study did not have a long-term effect on food consumption, it’s possible that other strategies could. For instance, a previous study showed a significant increase in vegetable selection when veggies had attractive names, such as “x-ray vision carrots.”
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News from Vermont: Maple Run School Unified District Wellness Policy!
Vermont’s Maple Run Unified School District made a major leap towards improving its wellness policy rating by adopting a new wellness policy. Don’t miss the details on this exciting change!
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New Kansas City School Wellness Policy!
Exciting news out of Kansas City, Mo.! On Dec.12, the Kansas City Public Schools Board of Education passed a wellness policy to ensure opportunities for all students to practice healthy eating and physical activity throughout the school day!
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Alliance for a Healthier Generation has Announced the 2018 list of America’s Healthiest Schools
The Alliance for a Healthier Generation
A record 461 schools, from 26 states and the District of Columbia, were recognized today as “America’s Healthiest Schools” by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a national organization that empowers kids to develop lifelong, healthy habits.
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“Wellness Teams Work!”: New Policy Brief from the NOPREN/PAPRN+ School Wellness Policy Work Group is now Available
A new school wellness policy brief from the NOPREN/PAPRN+ School Wellness Policy Work Group is now available!
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Legality of adware distribution with P2P
Legality of adware distribution with P2P: an expert's analysis
By Suzi Turner for Spyware Confidential | October 14, 2005 -- 13:14 GMT (06:14 PDT) | Topic: Legal
After I blogged last week about Direct Revenue's new deal with KaZaA to distribute their adware, I received an email from a representative of another adware company asking what I thought about the legality of the arrangement. Adware bundling with peer to peer file sharing applications is nothing new. KaZaA, Morpheus, Grokster and others have long bundled adware. In 2002, it seemed to me that file sharing apps were one of the largest sources spyware/adware infections of users posting for help on forums. In the FTC's complaint against Walt Rines and Odysseus Marketing announced last week, one of the counts was "Failure to adequately disclose the presence and nature of bundled software". (page 10, PDF).
There is also the question of whether or not companies like Sharmaan Networks (KaZaA) and Grokster could be held liable for users illegally downloading copyrighted materials. In June, the Supreme Court ruled that peer to peer companies such as Grokster could, indeed, be held responsible for such piracy. In September, a somewhat similar ruling was handed down by an Australian court against Sharmaan Networks.
The question put to me was:
Saw your recent posting on the Direct Revenue/KaZaA partnership. Many have praised this move despite the fact the Supreme Court has ruled that these P2P networks are illegal. I can see why people are praising Direct Revenue for getting out of the distribution networks they are in, but I’m just surprised to see no one question the legality of distributing with KaZaA. Any thoughts?
Since the legal issues with both adware and peer to peer apps are thorny and IANAL (I am not a lawyer), I put the question to an expert. Eric Goldman, author of the Technology & Marketing Law Blog and professor of law at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, agreed to respond to the question of legality of adware distribution with peer to peer applications. With Eric's permission, here is his analysis.
This raises some interesting questions about copyright liability. Copyright infringement requires a direct infringer--the person who makes the impermissible copy. Presumably, KaZaA users are that direct infringer by uploading and downloading infringing files.
Once we identify a direct infringer, then in some cases we can identify other actors who are liable for those infringements. There are two principal doctrines establishing what we call "secondary" liability. Contributory infringement occurs when a party, "with knowledge of the infringing activity, induces, causes or materially contributes to the infringing activity of another." Vicarious infringement occurs when a party has the right and ability to supervise the infringing activities and has a direct financial interest in those activities.
In Grokster, the Supreme Court held that Grokster and StreamCast "induced" infringement. In my mind, the court simply clarified one of the standards for contributory copyright infringement. I should note that many of my law professor peers do not agree; they think Grokster created a third basis of liability to supplement contributory and vicarious infringement.
In either case, the author assumes that KaZaA is contributorily or vicariously liable for users' direct infringements (under the Grokster case or otherwise). The author (adware company representative) then asks the follow-up question: might an adware vendor be liable for KaZaA's contributory or vicarious infringement?
To be clear, the adware vendor is, in all likelihood, not liable for the users' direct infringements under standard contributory or vicarious infringement doctrines. Most specifically, the adware vendor lacks any technical way to know what users are doing with KaZaA or to control their copyright-infringing behavior. So, at most, the adware vendor helps KaZaA help users commit direct infringement.
Some commentators have termed such a theory "tertiary" liability. There is no case law or statute establishing tertiary liability...for good reason. Consider--should the electric company be tertiarily liable for copyright infringement because they provided an essential resource (power) to help KaZaA help users infringe? Should the trash company be liable under the same theory? What about KaZaA's landlord? You get the point; the witch-hunt for copyright defendants can reach a point of absurdity where businesses simply won't be able to transact with each other without a fear of being pulled into a copyright infringement lawsuit.
However, tertiary liability is the subject of an active case pending right now involving Napster. The plaintiffs in the Napster case have sued Bertelsmann for providing money and services to Napster to help operate the company. This is, in effect, seeking to hold Bertelsmann liable for helping Napster help users infringe. This summer, Bertelsmann moved to dismiss the complaint and the judge refused that motion. This means that to this judge, the tertiary liability doctrine is serious enough to have stated a cause of action. This doesn't mean it's good law yet, so we'll be closely watching this case to see if it gives us any clarity on the boundaries of tertiary liability
If tertiary liability is good law, then copyright owners have a whole new group of potential defendants to sue--including, potentially, adware vendors for supporting peer-to-peer file sharing vendors via the software download bundle. My belief, however, is that tertiary liability stretches the chain of culpability too far and courts will be wise enough to see that.
For example, the recent Sotelo v. DirectRevenue ruling refused to dismiss a claim that adware advertisers may be liable for a trespass to chattel committed by an adware vendor. If that theory sticks (and that litigation is at too early a stage to make any reliable predictions), then in theory if either KaZaA or a bundled adware vendor commits a trespass to chattels, the other bundled software vendor might be liable for that trespass.
I made some arguments against this type of doctrine in a recent News.com editorial. However, as a practical matter, the law on this topic is especially fluid right now, and we may be witnessing a rapid expansion of liability doctrines that sweep in lots of potential defendants for other people's actions.
A big "Thank You" to Eric for taking the time to share his expertise and knowledge here. We might have another opinion forthcoming. Interested readers -- stay tuned.
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160,000 resumes on Chinese recruitment site Zhilian allegedly exposed and leaked
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Foxtel files legal application to block proxy websites
The next hearing is scheduled for late August.
FCC chief Ajit Pai: Let's ban caller ID spoofing in SMS and foreign robocalls
FCC could gain new enforcement powers to go after foreign call centers caught spoofing US numbers.
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MySQL Cluster 7.4 out now: It's faster, more manageable, says Oracle
Along with detailing how data is distributed across machines, the latest version of the MySQL Cluster database is billed as offering better performance and easier system upgrades.
By Toby Wolpe | February 26, 2015 -- 13:00 GMT (05:00 PST) | Topic: Data Centers
Tomas Ulin: Improvement of current capabilities across the board. Image: Oracle
Some 20 months after version 7.3, the latest iteration of the open-source MySQL Cluster database is now generally available, with a promise of new management features and improved performance.
According to Oracle, which acquired MySQL when it bought Sun Microsystems for $7.4bn in 2010, MySQL Cluster 7.4 has faster in-memory processing and can run analytics workloads more efficiently.
As well as enhanced geographic redundancy features for faster maintenance, the latest version of the ACID-compliant transactional database also provides better reporting on distributed memory use and database operations, and performance-tuning options, Oracle said.
"Feature-wise, I wouldn't say there's really anything new. It's just an improvement of current capabilities across the board," Oracle vice president MySQL engineering Tomas Ulin said.
"It's faster if you have more cores on the system, so it can run on bigger machines with about a 50 percent improvement. It's also more scalable and you can run with better performance on more data nodes. We haven't increased the number of nodes you can use. But at the higher node counts with more cores, it performs better."
Ulin said version 7.4 of the technology, which provides shared-nothing clustering and auto-sharding for the MySQL database, showed the fruits of work in improving the speed of table scans.
"Cluster has always been a great database for fairly simplistic queries with extreme performance and latency requirements - so simple NoSQL-type operations, key-value type operations," he said.
MySQL: Why the open source database is better off under Oracle
Oracle's stewardship has been good for the MySQL database argues Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev.
"We've always had the capability of doing complex joins. In the last release we have the ability to do parallel queries as well, so you can actually distribute the load of more complex queries on several nodes and then merge the result in the end. That enables us to scale better on complex queries.
"What we've done with this release, when you get into these kinds of queries, table scans become quite important. So we've done some great improvements in table scans to improve the performance overall of more complex queries, which sort of broadens the use case for us a bit - so we'll see where that takes us."
On the management side, Olin said the ability to add nodes on the fly added in an earlier release brings with it the need to redistribute the data to run evenly across the system and on all the additional machines.
"What we've added with this release, which is a top request from customers, is to be able to see the distribution - to see how the data is distributed on the different machines - and how much data is being used. Also, when you start going in and deleting data, you get gaps. [You need to see] what that can mean and when you can start reclaiming memory," he said.
"It becomes very important - also in these kinds of in-memory databases - because memory is expensive and needs to be utilised in the best way. We've added a lot of extra information that you can access, not only about the data distribution itself but also the usage pattern."
Being able to see whether specific data in the system is being utilised heavily and causing the overall system to perform badly is also important.
Look at what Google and Amazon are doing with databases: That's your future
It may seem unlikely that ordinary firms will ever be able to emulate the resource-rich web giants when it comes to data architectures. But that possibility may be closer than you think, says Neo Technology CEO Emil Eifrem.
"You have very typical cases. This is not a use case for Cluster in itself but it exemplifies what the issue is - you can have the Justin Bieber effect, where you get very hot data for some reason because there's just an excess of people watching whatever he's writing or he's putting up a selfie or whatever. You can get similar usage issues either from hot data or from a faulty part of the system," Ulin said.
"It doesn't have to be the actual database but it can be for some reason that the other system that's accessing the database is going there and doing a lot of pinging of some hot data or wrongly designed, so you create some hotspots in the data. In this release you can now get a lot more information if there are particular fragments in the data which are being heavily accessed and therefore getting an uneven distribution of the load."
Other significant aspects of Cluster 7.4 are improvements to geo redundancy capabilities and online maintenance, which Olin said is now five times faster.
"For mobile operators, for example, maintenance windows are shrinking. A lot of these databases serve a much greater geographic span. If you were just running France, then you could put your maintenance window for Sunday at 1am and have four or five hours to run your maintenance. But now you don't find those longer windows," he said.
"So being able to do this maintenance in a much shorter time span [is important]. Also, at the same time the systems become bigger and bigger, so it takes longer to restart a node that's 256GB versus one that's 32GB. For that reason you need to shrink these things. That's one thing that we've put a lot of effort into to make it faster."
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Al-Houthi: the Saudis still rejecting the possibility of peace in Yemen
Yemen-Press
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, member of the supreme political council has confirmed that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s remarks to the media show a clear indication that the Saudis are rejecting the possibility of peace in Yemen.
In a statement to Yemeni News Agency (Saba), Mohammed Ali al-Houthi said that the Saudi-led aggression is a fundamental supporter of terrorist groups in Yemen.
“Those who review what is going on in the areas under occupation know with certainty that what is happening is not reconstruction but an increase of occupation through the militias affiliated with the coalition, and that they carry ideological orientations, whose first aim is demographic change based on superiority,” he added.
He stressed that “the Saudi regime is the one who chose the military solution in Yemen and rejected any political solutions.”
Mohamed Ali al-Houthi indicated that “the Islah negotiators and others said that those who are ordering them told them not to accept the solution in Movenpick or Taiz, are the Saudis.”
UN confirms Yemen’s Ansarullah fully abiding by peace deal
“Bin Omar said that the aggression hindered the solution, and now you refuse to implement the Sweden agreement,” Mohamed Ali al-Houthi said, aimed directly at MBS.
“Yemen, its army and its military, civil and security institutions are facing your US-Saudi-British-Emirati aggression and its allies in this war, classified as an illegal war [even] by [the US] Congress, he said, adding:
“What you have committed by these massacres and siege, which has produced the worst humanitarian crisis so far, would have been enough to awaken your noble feelings if you were a peace advocate”.
“What the aggression has caused in terms of humanitarian crisis and destruction confirms its distance from Yemen’s interests,” he added.
Al-Houthi concluded: “The money provided to those in Riyadh hotels is a political bribe that has produced the buying of loyalties of a mercenary government. Our society is aware of this.”
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Pura Vida Rises to the Top of Social & Search With Yotpo
Grow the brand by giving passionate customers a way to leave feedback & share it across different channels
Generate UGC through MAP & reviews widget, then use it in Google Search & Facebook Ads
Over 250,000 reviews collected, rose to the top of Google search results, & saw a 35% decrease in CPA with Yotpo Ads on Facebook
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Pura Vida Bracelets, sported by influencers and free spirits worldwide, all began when two friends took a college graduation trip.
In 2010, Griffin Thall and Paul Goodman were in Costa Rica to enjoy some surf and sun. There they met Jorge and Joaquin, local artisans selling beautiful handmade bracelets and struggling to make ends meet. Inspired by their story and desperate to help, Griffin and Paul asked for 400 bracelets to bring back to the United States with them.
Fast forward a few years, and Griffin and Paul were managing a multi-million dollar D2C brand on Shopify Plus, which had created steady jobs with solid incomes for artisans in Costa Rica and beyond. Their innovative marketing strategies and charity-minded business plan earned them both a spot on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List. To date, Pura Vida has made over $1.7 million in charitable donations.
Yotpo helped us collect content from our fans, amplify it across all our marketing channels, and track the results. We saw a huge increase in traffic and sales as a direct result of user-generated content. I would definitely recommend Yotpo to any online business who sees the value of social proof.
Griffin Thall
Reviews Collected
Through Yotpo
As Pura Vida was first getting off the ground, growth quickly became the young company’s main objective. “Our biggest challenge was getting everyone to know about Pura Vida,” explains Griffin. We knew our customers loved us, and we wanted a way for them to share that love.”
The company needed a way to generate a large volume of reviews, then leverage them across channels to spread awareness. They had tried a simple points-for-reviews solution, but, as Griffin explains, “We weren’t getting the results we needed. First, it proved challenging to get a significant amount of buyers to write reviews, and we certainly weren’t seeing an increase in traffic and sales from these reviews.”
With Yotpo, Pura Vida was able to grow their brand with the help of their best marketers: their customers. The team first implemented Yotpo’s Mail After Purchase feature. As Griffin explains, “Right away, we saw amazing results in terms of review volume, largely because of the in-mail review form.”
Pura Vida also implemented Yotpo’s review widget onto “every single product page, category page, SEO page, and even our home page,” in order to build trust and credibility from the moment a potential customer lands onsite.
The company incorporated their sudden influx of reviews and star ratings into Google search results, including Google Shopping Ads, Google Seller Ratings, and Rich Snippets in order to build trust upfront, improve SEO, and help drive more traffic to their site. The brand also took advantage of Yotpo’s Facebook Ad Integration, which allowed them to fill their Facebook ads with influential UGC.
Decrease In CPA
With Yotpo Ads on Facebook
“By offering a discount to customers who shared reviews on social, we started generating thousands of new orders a month. We’re averaging 17 customers a day sharing reviews on their social feeds and about 6,000 visits a month that come directly from reviews our customers shared to Twitter — talk about word-of-mouth marketing!”
Since implementing Yotpo, Pura Vida has generated a staggering 250,000+ reviews. Even more impressive is what they’ve been able to do with this content.
By implementing UGC into their Google ads and search results, Pura Vida was able to rise to the top of search results: “Today, if you search on Google for the word ‘bracelets,’ we’re the number one search term, the number one organically ranked, above some of the world’s biggest jewelry companies,” says Griffin.
Incorporating reviews into Facebook Ad campaigns proved to be another winning strategy. Pura Vida saw a 35% decrease in CPA on their Facebook Ads. Their most successful ad got a click-to-conversion rate of 17% and achieved a 255% ROI. “I highly recommend bringing your user-generated content to life by pairing a high-converting photo with an authentic customer review — this has been our highest converting Facebook Ad campaign,” says Griffin.
From the very beginning, Pura Vida built their marketing strategy around their passionate customers. By enabling them to share their love for the company, then using that feedback to build trust and inspire new customers, Pura Vida was able to effectively expand their brand presence. “We’ve grown 1500% over the past five years,” says Griffin. “If we didn’t have Yotpo, we wouldn’t be where we are today.”
“It’s not about you as a brand anymore: it’s 100% about your customers. At the end of the day, your customers are your brand. We are lucky to have a strong and loyal customer base, and we realized the power of using their voices in our marketing strategy.”
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How to Administer ZARXIO
ZARXIO is available with a BD UltraSafe Passive® Needle Guard that provides one-handed passive activation.1
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ZARXIO strengths
ZARXIO is available in prefilled syringes, in the same 2 dosage strengths as
NEUPOGEN® (filgrastim) and has an identical dosing schedule and route of administration to NEUPOGEN®.1,2
ZARXIO is administered by subcutaneous injection, short intravenous infusion (15 to 30 minutes)‚ or continuous intravenous infusion.1
You should not inject a dose of ZARXIO less than 0.3 mL (180 mcg) from a ZARXIO prefilled syringe. A dose less than 0.3 mL cannot be accurately measured using the ZARXIO prefilled syringe.1
References: 1. ZARXIO Prescribing Information. Sandoz Inc. April 2018. 2. NEUPOGEN® Prescribing Information. Amgen Inc. June 2018.
ZARXIO is a registered trademark of Novartis AG.
NEUPOGEN is a registered trademark of Amgen Inc.
UltraSafe Passive is a registered trademark of Safety Syringes, Inc.
Patients with Cancer Receiving Myelosuppressive Chemotherapy: to decrease the incidence of infection, as manifested by febrile neutropenia, in patients with nonmyeloid malignancies receiving myelosuppressive anti-cancer drugs associated with a significant incidence of severe neutropenia with fever.
Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia Receiving Induction or Consolidation Chemotherapy: to reduce the time to neutrophil recovery and the duration of fever, following induction or consolidation chemotherapy treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
Patients with Cancer Undergoing Bone Marrow Transplantation: to reduce the duration of neutropenia and neutropenia-related clinical sequelae, e.g., febrile neutropenia, in patients with nonmyeloid malignancies undergoing myeloablative chemotherapy followed by bone marrow transplantation.
Patients Undergoing Autologous Peripheral Blood Progenitor Cell Collection and Therapy: for the mobilization of autologous hematopoietic progenitor cells into the peripheral blood for collection by leukapheresis.
Patients with Severe Chronic Neutropenia: for chronic administration to reduce the incidence and duration of sequelae of neutropenia (e.g., fever, infections, oropharyngeal ulcers) in symptomatic patients with congenital neutropenia, cyclic neutropenia, or idiopathic neutropenia.
ZARXIO is contraindicated in patients with a history of serious allergic reactions to human granulocyte colony-stimulating factors such as filgrastim or pegfilgrastim products.
Splenic rupture, including fatal cases, has been reported following the administration of filgrastim products. Patients who report left upper abdominal or shoulder pain should be evaluated.
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has been reported in patients receiving filgrastim products. Patients who develop fever and lung infiltrates or respiratory distress should be evaluated. Discontinue ZARXIO in patients with ARDS.
Serious allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis, have been reported in patients receiving filgrastim products. The majority of reported events occurred upon initial exposure. Provide symptomatic treatment for allergic reactions. Allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis, in patients receiving filgrastim products can recur within days after the discontinuation of initial anti-allergic treatment. Permanently discontinue ZARXIO in patients with serious allergic reactions.
Sickle cell crisis, in some cases fatal, has been reported with the use of filgrastim products in patients with sickle cell trait or sickle cell disease.
Glomerulonephritis has occurred in patients receiving filgrastim products. The diagnoses were based upon azotemia, hematuria (microscopic and macroscopic), proteinuria, and renal biopsy. Generally, events of glomerulonephritis resolved after dose reduction or discontinuation of filgrastim products. If glomerulonephritis is suspected, evaluate for cause. If causality is likely, consider dose-reduction or interruption of ZARXIO.
Alveolar hemorrhage manifesting as pulmonary infiltrates and hemoptysis requiring hospitalization have been reported in healthy donors treated with filgrastim products undergoing peripheral blood progenitor cell (PBPC) collection mobilization. Hemoptysis resolved with discontinuation of filgrastim. The use of ZARXIO for PBPC mobilization in healthy donors is not an approved indication.
Capillary leak syndrome (CLS) has been reported after G-CSF administration, including filgrastim products, and is characterized by hypotension, hypoalbuminemia, edema and hemoconcentration. Episodes vary in frequency, severity and may be life-threatening if treatment is delayed. Patients who develop symptoms of capillary leak syndrome should be closely monitored and receive appropriate treatment.
Confirm the diagnosis of severe chronic neutropenia (SCN) before initiating ZARXIO therapy. Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) have been reported to occur in the natural history of congenital neutropenia without cytokine therapy. Cytogenetic abnormalities, transformation to MDS, and AML have also been observed in patients treated with filgrastim products for SCN. Abnormal cytogenetics and MDS have been associated with the eventual development of myeloid leukemia. The effect of filgrastim products on the development of abnormal cytogenetics and the effect of continued filgrastim administration in patients with abnormal cytogenetics or MDS are unknown. If a patient with SCN develops abnormal cytogenetics or myelodysplasia‚ the risks and benefits of continuing ZARXIO should be carefully considered.
Thrombocytopenia has been reported in patients receiving filgrastim products. Monitor platelet counts.
Leukocytosis:
Patients with Cancer Receiving Myelosuppressive Chemotherapy: White blood cell counts of 100‚000/mm3 or greater were observed in approximately 2% of patients receiving filgrastim at dosages above 5 mcg/kg/day. In patients with cancer receiving ZARXIO as an adjunct to myelosuppressive chemotherapy‚ to avoid the potential risks of excessive leukocytosis‚ it is recommended that ZARXIO therapy be discontinued if the ANC surpasses 10‚000/mm3 after the chemotherapy-induced ANC nadir has occurred. Monitor CBCs at least twice weekly during therapy.
Peripheral Blood Progenitor Cell (PBPC) Collection and Therapy: During the period of administration of ZARXIO for PBPC mobilization in patients with cancer, discontinue ZARXIO if the leukocyte count rises to >100,000/mm3.
Cutaneous vasculitis has been reported in patients treated with filgrastim products. In most cases‚ the severity of cutaneous vasculitis was moderate or severe. Most of the reports involved patients with SCN receiving long-term filgrastim therapy. Hold ZARXIO therapy in patients with cutaneous vasculitis. ZARXIO may be started at a reduced dose when the symptoms resolve and the ANC has decreased.
The possibility that ZARXIO acts as a growth factor for any tumor type cannot be excluded. The safety of filgrastim products in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and myelodysplasia has not been established. When ZARXIO is used to mobilize PBPC‚ tumor cells may be released from the marrow and subsequently collected in the leukapheresis product. Available data is limited and inconclusive.
The safety and efficacy of ZARXIO given simultaneously with cytotoxic chemotherapy have not been established. Do not use ZARXIO in the period 24 hours before through 24 hours after the administration of cytotoxic chemotherapy. The safety and efficacy of ZARXIO have not been evaluated in patients receiving concurrent radiation therapy. Avoid the simultaneous use of ZARXIO with chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
Increased hematopoietic activity of the bone marrow in response to growth factor therapy has been associated with transient positive bone-imaging changes on nuclear imaging.
Most common adverse reactions in patients:
With nonmyeloid malignancies receiving myelosuppressive anti-cancer drugs (≥ 5% difference in incidence compared to placebo) are thrombocytopenia, nausea, pyrexia, chest pain, pain, fatigue, back pain, arthralgia, bone pain, pain in extremity, dizziness, cough, dyspnea, rash, blood lactate dehydrogenase increased and blood alkaline phosphatase increased
With AML (≥ 2% difference in incidence) are epistaxis, back pain, pain in extremity, erythema, and rash maculo-papular
With nonmyeloid malignancies undergoing myeloablative chemotherapy followed by BMT (≥ 5% difference in incidence) are rash and hypersensitivity
Undergoing peripheral blood progenitor cell mobilization and collection (≥ 5% incidence) are bone pain, pyrexia, blood alkaline phosphatase increased and headache
With severe chronic neutropenia (SCN) (≥ 5% difference in incidence) are arthralgia, bone pain, back pain, muscle spasms, musculoskeletal pain, pain in extremity, splenomegaly, anemia, upper respiratory tract infection, urinary tract infection, epistaxis, chest pain, diarrhea, hypoesthesia, and alopecia
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Beware: Violations Of State Safety Requirements Bring Penalties For Both State Fund and Self-Insured Employers
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OCR Publishes Recommendations to Prepare for Cybersecurity Threats
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Get the Five W's and How: Negotiation Notes and Mediation Minutes
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Be Fully�Prepared: Negotiation Notes and Mediation Minutes
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The Mindset for Successful Mediation
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Federal Court Grants Broad Access to Mental Health Facility's Residents, Records for Purposes of Investigation
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New OARRS Reporting Obligations Become Effective March 19, 2019
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DOL Proposes Increase to FLSA Exemption Threshold
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Ohio Enacts New Cybersecurity Requirements for Insurers
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, February 2019
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Medical Marijuana Rollout in Ohio
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Man arrested for keeping TV sent to him by mistake
By: Ted Daniel, Boston 25 News
Updated: Mar 22, 2019 - 8:58 AM
FREETOWN, Mass. - A Massachusetts man was arrested for keeping a flat screen TV that was sent to his house by mistake.
Nick Memmo, 35, described what happened at his Freetown home Monday night when he was arrested on charges of larceny and misleading a police officer.
During a search inside, officers found a 86-inch flat screen mounted to the living room wall.
"They surrounded the house and knocked on the door with flashlights coming through all the windows. They told me to come outside then handcuffed me," said Memmo.
Memmo admits the TV was delivered to his home by mistake and he admits police tried to question him about it several days before his arrest.
"I answered what questions I could without putting myself in jeopardy," he said.
"I said 'Do I need to hire an attorney?' and they said I wasn't under investigation at that point. They were just asking questions. I answered a lot of questions with I don’t know just so I didn’t jeopardize myself," he said.
Memmo says he bought and paid for a 74-inch flat screen on Amazon.
When a third party shipping company delivered it, they also gave him a larger model TV by mistake.
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When asked if he ever thought they made a mistake, and whether he should return it, Memmo said: "I did and I looked into all the laws and said, 'You know, it’s a scratch ticket. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.'"
"Amazon said I had nothing to worry about. I made no wrong no decisions at that point," he said.
The shipping company told Boston 25 News it made numerous attempts to contact Memmo before going to police.
And the shipping company says Memmo signed for the delivery, something that he disputes.
"I have my phone ringing all day. I get calls from Google, website people, I have no reasons to answer all these calls. If it’s not important I just hang up," he said.
When asked whether he told them he was someone he isn't, Memmo replied, "No."
Memmo says if he thought he was going to be arrested, he would have just paid for the extra TV or given it back.
Now, he's looking at the possibility of jail time.
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From London to Tokyo: the teams that travelled the world to create Speedo’s new range
“The compression is there and I feel faster and higher in the water, which is good."
Wearing the right suit could mean the difference between first and second place to a competitive swimmer. So how did Speedo make sure its latest Fastskin range – Fastskin LZR Pure Intent and Fastskin LZR Pure Valor – ticked all the boxes?
The Speedo and Pentland Brands innovation teams travelled the globe to find out the preferences of athletes, at all levels, in the creation of Speedo’s newest suits. The swimmers were involved at all stages of the development process, advising the brand what made them feel lightweight, streamlined and – most of all – fast.
Ariarne Titmus (AUS) – “The compression is there and I feel faster and higher in the water, which is good. The new Fastskin makes you stand out and it will be easier to change out of too. It’s awesome, I feel like a little mermaid swimming in the water!”
From world-famous Olympic names like Mack Horton, Duncan Scott and Ariarne Titmus and Paralympians like Ollie Hynd and Sophie Pascoe, to hundreds of clubs, university and county-level swimmers and coaches, the feedback process was extensive. Everything was based on the insight that competitive swimmers feel all the intricacies of their racing suits, which has a crucial impact on their performance.
Caeleb Dressel (USA) – “The Speedo LZR Pure Intent feels really good. It’s springy and it’s connected. The colours look great and I feel fabulous. You’ve got to look good to swim good, so I’m all about it. It’s my own little super suit!”
Ben Hardman, Head of Innovation at Pentland Brands, said: “Elite swimmers are tuned into their suit like a formula one driver is to their car; they are hyper-sensitive and can feel the effect of any small tweaks that are made. Getting their feedback allows us to understand how our design and engineering decisions affect a swimmer both before and during a swim and from that we can improve the suit.
“We have an unparalleled network of athletes at the highest level, which we can tap into to help us develop the best product for all levels of competitive swim.”
Jonathan Higham, Speedo Brand Manager, said: “the athletes involved really pushed things forwards to ensure we can confidently launch our best Fastskin range to date. Testing in our focus markets has also brought our key distributors on the development journey which has meant they’re fully on-board with the new products and able to credibly sell-in to their customers.”
Uniquely, Speedo has involved its athletes in the development process of its performance ranges for twenty years, resulting in an amazing track-record world’s best suits for those with a passion for the pool.
The new suits are available for pre-order now here.
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Blu‑ray exploits could allow computer malware infection
A pair of possible exploits in hardware and software used for playing Blu-ray discs have come to light, reports PC World.
Alan Martin 2 Mar 2015 - 12:37PM
Stephen Tomkinson, a security researcher for NCC, presented his research at the Securi-Tay conference at Abertay Univeristy in Scotland on Friday. At the event, he showed how he had been able to create a Blu-ray disc that detects the player it’s running on, and then chooses one of two exploits to install malware on the host computer.
The first issue is with PowerDVD, CyberLink’s software for playing optical discs on Windows computers, which comes installed on many manufacturers’ computers by default. Blu-ray discs support additional content like dynamic menus, which are built into discs using Blu-ray Disc Java, and these use ‘xlets’ (small applications) for user interfaces. Tomkinson found a flaw in the software that allowed him to leave the xlet sandbox and launch malicious code. This is particularly serious because, as The Register puts it, “Users would have no reason to suspect the whirring of an optical drive indicated unknown software was running, making this a potentially nasty attack.”
The second targets certain Blu-ray disc playing hardware, though Tomkinson didn’t identify makes or models affected. In this exploit, he was able to get root access on a Blu-ray player, where he was able to ‘trick’ the system into running a command that would install malware. Network World explains that he “found it was possible to write an xlet that fooled a small client application called ‘ipcc’ running within the localhost into launching a malicious file from the Blu-ray disc.”
To keep computer users from becoming suspicious, the Blu-ray disc is programmed to carry on playing the expected video content after the malware has been launched.
Tomkinson has contacted the vendors of the software and hardware concerning the vulnerabilities with “varying degrees of success,” and Network World states that nobody from CyberLink could be reached for comment.
For now, Tomkinson advises that people should avoid Blu-ray discs from unknown sources and prevent them from running automatically.
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LMC Email update April 2018
Date sent: Tuesday 24 April 2018
Easter seems a long time ago and the roads are getting busier because the kids have now gone back to school, so I suppose we are all getting back to the normal working routine in our practices.
Although reflecting on that there is very little that is 'normal' about the average day in a practice.
The days I spend in my Practice are interesting and rewarding because there is considerable variety and I work in a very supportive practice with patients who generally appreciate all that we do for them. I am only too well aware that for some this is not the case in which case the working day can be somewhat different.
The LMC continues to work towards making general practice a better place to work.
1. Shingles immunisation programme
Good news reduced numbers of people presenting with shingles and now you can offer the immunisation throughout the year.
2. HPV Patient Group Directives published
PGDs are a useful tool for practices and a link to Public Health England and all PGDs.
3. Primary Care Networks
This forms a significant part of the planning guidance for the NHS for the coming year. This term is not new but reflects the importance placed on building on the registered list and working together in 'natural communities of care' with populations of 30-50,000.
4. Hampshire Health Record - now called CHIE (Care and Health Information Exchange)
This is helping save more and more lives with more practices contributing data and more people appropriately accessing this information for patient benefit.
5. Cameron Fund
The only charity specifically for GPs, some feedback on the amount donated by local GPs.
6. GDPR
Sorry guys but will be a regular topic in all our emails. We are working closely with LMC Law to produce some simple help, guidance and training, and will share the details with you shortly. key message, 'don't panic'!
7. Appraisals and Revalidation
A gentle reminder to all!
8. Reimbursement for a phased return to work
Some good news about improvements to the sickness reimbursement.
9. Appointments with GPs
Could the Daily Mail be changing its focus to be supportive of GPs?
10. Cancer referrals block in bid to cut costs
Another Daily Mail report, have you experienced this?
I have attached a letter from PHE and NHSE regarding the evaluation of the programme which not only suggests a reduction in clinical cases but also therefore has an impact on GP consultations. Practices can now offer the shingles vaccine opportunistically to patients throughout the year as they become of eligible age.
Evidence from the early implementation of this programme shows that there has been approximately 17,000 fewer herpes zoster episodes and 3,300 fewer episodes of post-herpetic neuralgia amongst the 5.5 million individuals targeted for vaccination in the first 3 years of the programme.
The PGD template (v02.00) for HPV vaccine for adolescent females has now been published, and is available (see attached).
This template supports the administration of HPV vaccine to girls from 12 years of age or from school year 8 in accordance with the national immunisation programme, and is valid from 1 May 2018 to 30 April 2020.
The PGD for men (MSM) has also been published, although this is not for General Practice but for vaccination of MSM through Specialist Sexual Health Services and HIV clinics. The operational guidance is available here .
All PGD templates are available on the Public Health England website , and a link to this page is available on the vaccs and imms webpage on the BMA website.
Earlier this year NHS England published its planning guidance for 2018/9, which described the plan for geographical based local primary care networks.
Primary Care Networks are likely to be formed around natural communities based on GP registered lists, serving populations of around 30,000 to 50,000 and involving primary care providers including general practice, pharmacy and some community and social care services. They will enable services to deliver better integrated primary and community care for patients and will provide a platform for providers of care being sustainable into the longer term.
In my previous emails I have repeatedly stated that the NHS has to build on the strengths of general practice as the major building blocks of care but we then need to be able to deliver out of hospital services at scale. Once you get much bigger than 50,000 you end up making the network remote from general practice. The benefit will be gained by local services supporting and integrating with local practices and where appropriate general practice and community services working together as one.
One lesson I would take from the work done in the Vanguards was that there were a number of benefits delivered but where there was a gap was in building these natural communities of care which are large enough to gain influence and power but small enough to be flexible, cohesive and effective.
Names may change but these networks are part of the Primary Care Home initiatives, but to be effective they will need to be resourced.
There are 176 practices out of a possible 188 practices providing information to the Hampshire Health Record. The patient identifiable data is accessed regularly by hospital based clinicians as well as the ambulance service and individual GPs. In addition the anonymised data is used for population based research, hence why the coding of clinical records is so important.
The LMC has been supportive of CHIE during its development and evolution over the last 15 to 20 years because with the right governance we are able to share appropriate information and help our patients and potentially save lives.
The Cameron Fund is the GPs' own charity and the only medical benevolent charity which solely supports general practitioners and their dependents.
The charity provide support to current and retired GPs, as well as their families, in times of financial distress, whether through ill-health, disability, death or loss of employment. They help those who are already suffering from financial hardship and those who are facing it.
Sir James Cameron, Chairman of the GP Committee of the BMA in 1970, persuaded the Government to transfer money, left over from a scheme to help GPs finance practice premises, to a new charity which would support GPs and their dependents in times of poverty, hardship and distress. Sir James consented to the charity being named after him and acted as a trustee for many years, until just before his death in 1991.
Each year Wessex LMCs collect donations from GPs via the "Charity Levy" and this year we have collected £37,500 for the Cameron Fund, which I believe is the largest contribution from any LMC in the country. I would just like to say a big thank you to all who have contributed. This charity does lots of good work and not infrequently we see and support GPs in difficulty and sometimes the result is that they face financial hardship and so we refer then to the Cameron Fund for help.
Wessex have always had strong links to the Cameron Fund with Dr Bob Button, my predecessor and Dr Stephen Linton a past Chair of Hampshire LMC who serves as the Treasurer and Chair of the Fund.
For those who have contributed thank you, for those who haven't please consider doing so and look at their website - click here .
As promised I have attached the next two of Dr Paul Cundy's blogs on this matter - he is the GPC IT lead in this policy area.
Blog 4 is focused on Privacy Notices - I have attached a draft privacy notice for Direct Care, Screening and Risk stratification.
Blog 5 is all about text and e-mails.
GDPR webpage
A hub page for GDPR information has now been launched on the BMA website .
This provides information on the regulation and hosts a suite of resources and blogs to help guide members. This page will be updated regularly as new guidance is published and more GP focussed information and resources will be added to this page soon.
The LMC has been in negotiation with LMC Law to provide a comprehensive package of training and documentation about GDPR and we will share this with you later this week.
For most GPs the annual cycle goes on in terms of your appraisal and every 5 years being Revalidated.
I would like to remind you that to practice as a doctor in general practice, you must be registered with the GMC and also be on NHS England's Performers List. To remain on the performers list you must successfully complete an annual peer appraisal, failure to do will mean you will be removed from the performers list.
It is therefore your responsibility that you have an appraisal every year and you should know where your Local Appraisal Service works from and who your Responsible Officer (RO) is.
Think about which address you use with the GMC, CCG, Appraisal Service and the RO, if you move house or change surgery I am sure you are good about informing your bank etc, well you should also inform the GMC, the Appraisal Service and the LMC.
If you are going to have an extended period out of your practice whether that be due to illness, maternity or you intend to have a sabbatical make sure you discuss your plans before you go. They will have lots of helpful advice and support to offer.
8. Reimbursement for phased return to work
NHS England has now confirmed that practices must be reimbursed under the SFE for cover for GPs on phased return for sickness.
Reimbursement should include the cost of cover for all the sessions (up to the weekly ceiling) for which the GP is still absent, to maintain the normal GP cover.
NHS England local teams should now be talking with CCGs where issues have been raised to rectify any misinterpretation of the SFE.
Half of patients wait more than a week to see their GP
The Daily Mail reported this week that the number of patients unable to see their GP within a week has doubled in four years to around 50 per cent.
The newspaper said the root of the problem is understaffed surgeries unable to cope with an increasing, ageing population.
In response Dr Richard Vautrey, Chair of the GPC commented that “under-resourced practices are struggling to cope with rising demand from a population with increasingly complex health needs. At the same time, too many practices are closing because GPs feel they are no longer able to offer the necessary safety and sustainability to their patients with the funding available.”
There is clearly widespread recognition of the challenges we face and these are impacting on patients and this is having an adverse effect on access for patients. It is now important that we find solutions to address demand and increase capacity.
The Daily Mail also reported this week that a recent survey carried out by GP online revealed that half of GPs have been blocked from sending patients for urgent cancer scans.
About 45% of GPs said that at least one of their referrals had been blocked or downgraded by cost-cutting staff in the last year.
The GPC commented that “at a time when there is an increased focus on reducing any unnecessary delays in diagnosing cancer, it is a concern that there remains so much variability in the ability of GPs to access appropriate diagnostic services.”
There have been a number of media reports that is full of criticism aimed at GPs because of the delay in diagnosing people who have cancers.
To improve the early diagnosis of cancer there needs to be improved access to diagnostic tests and also referral pathways need to be quick without any barriers.
As a practice, I am sure you will look at all unexpected cancer diagnoses.
Have you considered contacting your local McMillan GP or looked at their resources available for primary care - click here for more details.
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Attached file: 4 Blog Four Privacy Notices.doc
Attached file: 5 Blog Five Texts and E-mails.doc
Attached file: Template Privacy Notice for Direct Care.doc
Attached file: Template Privacy Notice for National screening programs.doc
Attached file: Template Privacy Notice for risk stratification.doc
Attached file: 17-18 VI053_03 - NHS England PHE letter re shingles vaccine supply and timeframe restictions lift - FINAL - published.pdf
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Walter Knight wife & children
I just finished what appears to be the last merge for Walter Knight-174 and find that there are duplicates for his 1st wife, Elizabeth.
Walter's existing profile has Elizabeth Gunne as his wife but in the sources it lists Elizabeth Willis as below.
Name:Walter Knight
England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1940 about Walter Knight
Spouse's Name:Elizabeth Willis
Marriage Date:4 Feb 1607
Marriage Place: Cumnor, Berkshire, England
Source Citation: Place: Cumnor, Berkshire, England; Date Range: 1607 - 1607; Film Number: 1279456.
Source Information:Ancestry.com. England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1940 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: Genealogical Society of Utah. British Isles Vital Records Index, 2nd Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah
Does anyone know the source where Elizabeth Gunne came from for his wife?? He was married in England before coming to America.
And does anyone know which ship he came over in 1622 or before?
WikiTree profile: Walter Knight
asked Oct 20, 2015 in Genealogy Help by David Mason G2G6 (7.5k points)
edited Oct 24, 2015 by David Mason
from a RootsWeb page: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=glencoe&id=I5548
Walter immigrated aboard the "Zouch Phoenix" in 1624. He was a carpenter and Master Salter who was in Nantascot and moved to Cape Ann in 1625. It is believed that he and Thomas and John Gray bought the entire Nantascot Peninsula from the Massachusetts Indians who had been decimated by plague and didn't need the land anymore. Walter moved to Boston in the 1640's and was living there as late as 1653. A man of questionable character, Walter was described by Gov. William Bradford as "an ignorante, foolish, self-willd fellow." He was frequently in trouble with the law for abusive language, assault, and abandonment. He apparently engaged in premarital relations with his second wife Ruth Gray.
commented Oct 27, 2015 by David Mason G2G6 (7.5k points)
From the book Massachusetts Bay Connections "John Balch...and wife Agnes arrived aboard Zouch Phenix along with Thomas Gardner, Thomas Gray, Walter Knight and Peter Palfrey - in the spring of 1624........and joined Capt. Robert Gorges...along with Roger Conant to search for a better place when Cape Ann failed. https://books.google.com/books?id=cSSVOxEEiOMC&pg=PA88&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false
Thought all would like to know: there is a registered Map of Hull Peninsula w/ the name of "Martin Knight" on it, an ancestor of Walter?: Right place: @ the very end of the Penninsula where the colonial village was. But I can't find any Martin Knight "grantee" info.
Link: http://titleview.org/plymouthdeeds/
Under: "Search Crteria" > "Plans" > "Book Search" , than enter Bk# 1 Pg# 85
commented Jan 15, 2016 by Sheila Sullivan G2G Rookie (100 points)
The PGM project places great reliance on the Great Migration series books, by Robert Charles Anderson (and sometimes others). Walter Knight is covered in The Great Migration Begins. His entry is in volume II, pages 1139-1142.
According to that source, he arrived "by 1626" -- no more specific arrival information was confirmed. Anderson calls his origins "unknown" -- apparently no evidence was found for the parents and birthplace on his WikiTree profile. There is some basis for positing an origin in Somerset, Dorset or Devon, and there is an account that refers to him and other early settlers at Cape Ann as "Dorchester merchants."
As for a wife, Anderson did not find a name and says "the claim that she was Ruth Gray is an unsupported guess." However, he was married to someone by 1642, as on 28 February 1642/3 he was "presented for not living with his wife." As to children, Anderson says "None recorded."
Anderson also indicates uncertainty as to whether the Walter Knight who is recorded at Salem in the 1640s is the same man who later appeared at Braveboat Harbor, or whether there were two different Walter Knights.
PS - No hint in Anderson of any wife named Elizabeth.
answered Oct 20, 2015 by Ellen Smith G2G6 Pilot (949k points)
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I'm reviewing my records for Walter Knight. I have no record at all of an Elizabeth "Gunne" but do have the marriage record in England of Walter Knight and Elizabeth Willis. My records include
* Torrey's New England Marriage's Prior to 1700 (my understanding is that he used source documents to compile these lists, including sources that have since been lost). On page 460 of the digit file he lists
"Knight, Walter & Elizabeth ___?____(1634?); b. 1610"
"Knight, Walter (1587-) & 2/wf [?Ruth GRAY]; b 1642, b 1620?, 1635?; Salem"
* Ancestry.com's U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Name: Walter Knight, Gender: Male, Birthplace: EN, Birth year 1587, Spouse name Elizabeth, Spouse Birth place: of MA (please note this does NOT say she was born in Massachusetts, it says she was living in Massachusetts at the time of the source record, basically, the marriage information was complied after the fact, not at the time of the marriage, and no one documented where she was born). Marriage year 1610, number of pages 1 Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. [I don't consider this to be the most reliable source since it incorporates info from various sources, which may be incorrect and isn't a primary source in and of itself)
* US Passenger and Immigration Lists,
Walter Knight
Arrival Year
Arrival Place
Source Publication Code
Primary Immigrant
Knight, Walter
Contains 35 articles excerpted from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-1961. About 17,000 names. Similar lists in Boyer, nos. 0702, 0714, 0717, 0720.
Source Bibliography
TEPPER, MICHAEL, editor. Passengers to America: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists from "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register." Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977. 554p. Reprinted with new introduction and indexes, 1978. Repr. 1980.
* Millennium File (which I find worthless as a primary source since it was simply created from family trees people submitted to the World Family tree and didn't require sources as a secondary source I include it in my records)
of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
Marriage Date
Mary Knight
* England and Wales Marriage Records Place: Cumnor, Berkshire, England; Date Range: 1607 - 1607; Film Number: 1279456
Spouse's Name
Elizabeth Willis
Marriage Place
Cumnor, Berkshire, England
*AGBI
Eng, Massachusetts
Directory of the anc. heads of New England fams. Comp. By Frank R. Holmes. NewYork, 1923. (274p.):142
*AGBI:
Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 2 Jun 1909, 571
commented Oct 22, 2015 by Laura Harlow G2G6 (8.9k points)
My records also only show Bridget Knight Varney as a daughter and I am willing to concede that there may be an error here in light of the NEGHS article on her. My source for Bridget as the daughter of Walter Knight was English Ancestry of Jeffrey Parsons article from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 142 page 247 http://www.americanancestors.org/PageDetail.aspx?recordId=26
Anyone have ANY sources pointing to the other children in the record?
That is good info Laura but still confusing. Sadly, I cannot read the story of Bridget Varney as I am not a paying member of NEHGS.
Under the Walter Knight "sources" we have this wonderful "story" from Family Search:
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"Walter was born in Staplegrove, Somersetshire, England about 1587. He married first Elizabeth --- in England. Walter Knight was among those coming to the new Plymouth colony during the first few years of its existence. According to a deposing in Plymouth County Deeds, his passage was paid for by Christopher Derby and was to repaid to his son Richard Derby who resided in Plymouth colony. It appears that Walter did not plan on repaying his debt however. "Thomas Harvey of Cohannett, yeoman, aged 21 years or thereabouts, deposed and said that he, the deponent, "having a bond or writing under the hand and seale of Walter Knight carpenter whereby the said Walter Knight stood endebted in the sume of five pounds sterl' unto Mr. Christopher Derby wch was payd for his passage over the wch five pounds is to payd unto Mr. Richard Derby here [at Plymouth]: as this deponent was reading the same (at the sd Knights request) in the ship as they came over The said Walter Knight snatched the said bond or writing out of this deponents hands and imediately tore the same into peeces." Walter Knight was among those who accompanied Roger Conant to Nantasket in 1622. This place was granted by the Plymouth colony authorities for the establishment of trade with the Native Americans. He, along with Thomas and John Gray, are reputed to have purchased the entire Nantascot Peninsula from Chickataubut, The Great Sachem of the Massachusetts Indians, who's people were weakened by the earlier plague and wars with other tribes. Roger Conant remained here about a year, and it is assumed that Walter Knight stayed about the same time. He was at Cape Ann in 1625 and in Salem, Massachusetts by 1628. Here his wife Elizabeth died on April 19, 1634. He remarried to Ruth Gray although the date is not known. Charles Bolton states that "he lived with his wife before marriage, but not so much after." He then removed to Boston. In 1640 he found in records as being fined for "giving rude speeches" and in 1642 he was "labeled a frequent liar." In 1653 he gave a deposition about his time in Nantasket in 1622, but his testimony was not considered reliable given his reputation. He died sometime after 1653 in Boston."
And a portion of that story is repeated in NEHGS Genealogical Register, Volume 142, April 1988, page 109-110.
With Walter Knight's appearance around 1622 in NE and subsequent court appearance at Plymouth, it may point to there being 2 Walter Knight as Anderson suggests.
So the search continues.
The article in NEHGS Register, Volume 142, April 1988, page 109-110, is a history of Hull, Massachusetts. It doesn't mention a Christopher Derby, Richard Derby, or Thomas Harvey. It does indicate that Walter Knight, with Thomas and John Gray, is "reputed" to have purchased the Nantascot peninsula from a Native American in 1622, and it does associate Walter Knight with Roger Conant. The sources cited for information about Knight are Samuel G. Drake's 1856 "History and Antiquities of Boston" and Sidney Perley's 1924 "History of Salem, Massachusetts."
Note that in GMB, which was published in 1995, Anderson reported that the first record of Walter Knight being in New England was in 1626.
Unfortunately, none of the sources on the list in Laura's long comment is a primary source. For example, Torrey's New England Marriages (in itself a derivative source) seems to be the source for a lot of the early marriages in the Ancestry marriages record. Torrey cites his sources, and I wish to reemphasize that Raymon Meyers Tingley is the only source he cites for the marriage of Walter Knight to Elizabeth. (Most of his records cite several sources.)
Tingley's book (which, by the way, I found online, at a free site) lists eight children for Walter, including 5 with Elizabeth and 3 with Ruth. I think it likely that Tingley was the original source for all of the more recent derivative sources that list the children.
PS - FWIW, Tingley listed 8 children but the WikiTree profile currently has connections to 9 children. The child on the profile that Tingley didn't list is "Richard Gunne Knight", born 1599 (when Knight is supposed to have been between 12 and 14 years old). Richard is even less well-documented than the others!
commented Oct 22, 2015 by Ellen Smith G2G6 Pilot (949k points)
edited Oct 22, 2015 by Ellen Smith
Why would that story indicate to you that there are 2 different Walter Knights? To me that adds credence to them being one and the same since the actions in his life here (refusing to pay his passage) and his later actions with his 2nd wife seem to match... I'm just trying to follow why that would be evidence of a 2nd Walter. (I also don't follow Anderson's reasoning either).
The documentation I listed reads "The baptism of Jeffrey in 1630 is clearly that of the Gloucester man, and the burial of James Parson "the Elder" in 1670 at least partially settles the question of the proposed relationship to Bridget Varney, who by that time was already the widow of William Varney. The story of Bridget and her thrice-married daughter, Rachel (Varney) (Cook)(Langton) Vinson, is discussed by Walter Goodwin Davis in The Ancestry of Nicholas Davis (cited above, 223-227), although even Mr. Davis fell into the trap set by Bridget's will and stated that Jeffrey Parsons was Bridget's son b a previous marriage. Faced with the dilemma of what to call a stepgrandson-in-law for who she probably felt affection, Bridget evidently settled for "son." The possibility remains, however, that some other than filial blood relationship existed between them." (He then goes on to write about the frustration that so many primary sources were destroyed by the WWII bombing of Exeter)
On the next page under Jeffrey Parsons' entry. reads "He married at Gloucester, 11 November 1657, Sarah Vinson, daughter of William and Sarah ____ Vinson. The long-sought answer to the riddle of his relationship to Brdiget Varney appears to rest with the fact that his wife was Bridget's stepgranddaughter. Bridget's daughter, Rachel (Varney) (Cook) Langton, married as his second wife and her third husband, Sarah's father, William Vinson.
Upon review, this isn't stating anything about her being a daughter of Knight, simply the issues about the confusion with Parsons.
The problem is that many of the records of the era have been lost, so there are limited primary sources. The Millenium file also lists Bridget Knight as a daughter of Walter Knight, but the MIllenium file isn't a good primary source.
"William Varney of Ipswich and Gloucester, Massachusetts" by Kathleen Canney Barber and Janet Ireland Delorey, published in The American Genealogist Vol. 81, No. 3. (July 2006, pub. January 2007). states "If Jeffrey Parsons was the son of Bridget Varney, then it seems likely that the Varneys were also of Barbados. At the same time, a Thomas Verney [sic] appeared at Barbados and apparently returned to England by 11 March 1641/2. On that date, a land conveyance between Capt. Fra. Skeete and Richard Estwicke referred to land "I had formerly sold to Mr. Tho. Verney which I took again from him by constent." Some have conjectured that Thomas Verney and William Varney were closely related, although our research has failed to disclose any connection.
It has now been proven the Jeffrey Parsons was baptized at Loddiswell, co. Devon, England on 1 August 1630, son of James and Allice (Crossing) Parsons. James Parsons was buried at Loddiswell on 21 July 1670. Therefore, Bridget, the wife of William Varney, could not have been either mother or stepmother to Jeffrey Parsons as she was married to William Varney well before 1670. The question fo why Jeffrey Parsons was called "my son" in her will is discussed later.
Tingley identified Bridget at the daughter of Walter and Elizabeth Knicht of Salem, Massachusetts, and born in England in 1611; he further assigned a marriage date of 4 May 1629 to William Varney, presumably in England, although not so indicated (Tingley, Ancestral Lines, 417). No source was given to support those assertions. Based on our research, we believe that Tingley was mistaken as to the date of Bridget's birth and parentage.
By her own deposition of November 1671, Bridget was "the widow Varnie aged about seventy one years" or born around 1600 Walter Knight born around 1587 by his own depositions (aged 39 in 1626, aged 66 in 1653) would have been only 13 years of age or younger when Bridget was born. Although it can be argued that court depositions regarding age can be misleading, the accuracy of Bridget's deposition is supported by the year of birth of her last child about 1639. If Bridget was born in 1611, she would have ceased bearing children at the age of 28 or 29, which would be unusual; whereas it was not at all uncommon to bear children until the age of 40 and occasionally beyond."
(I'm not sure I buy Barber and Delorey's argument about childbearing age... my tree if FULL of ancestors that didn't have additional children after the age of 30 despite being married, there are many reasons, even in the past for fertility issues to happen. So I'm not sure that this is enough evidence to disprove Bridget as the daughter of Walter.
Unfortunately my membership with NEHGS is currently expired and I'm not in a position to renew at the moment to do additional research in their files to try and get more information either for or against.
At this point, I would leave the relationship between Walter and Bridget, but annotate the questions and concerns.
When Anderson suggested that there might have been two Walter Knights, he was saying that the man who was at Cape Ann and Salem was the same man who later (circa 1642) didn't live with his wife. The Walter Knight who might have been someone else is a man who was at Braveboat Harbor (Portsmouth, N.H. area) between 1651 and 1668.
ADDED: Also, Anderson says that Samuel Drake's history of Boston cited the deposition of Walter Knight as the source for the story about the two Grays and Knight buying the Nantasket peninsula from Native Americans in 1622. He says that neither the deposition nor a "proper transcript" has been found, and suggests that if the story was true, Knight and the Grays would have tried to claim the land later when the town of Hull was established there. He says that the lack of documentation of the deposition and the failure of these men to file a land claim "suggests that Drake was imposed upon and that the deposition reported by him was fraudulent; we do not accept here the events portrayed therein."
Laura, certainly good info there. I too was confused about Anderson's contention of 2 Walter Knights.
So what should the profile show as to a wife for him? Elizabeth Willis? No one seems to know where Gunn came from and he 'unknown' is from my tree when we did a merge.
That was the initial reason for this G2G as I was going to correct the wives but have now learned something new about my 9th G grandmother, Bridget Knight Varney
"Unfortunately, none of the sources on the list in Laura's long comment is a primary source." Marriage records in England are actually a primary source.
However, NONE of the other records -- Anderson, et all. are primary either. The are accepted, but are not the be all and end of the discussion. I've found a number of primary sources for other lines and ancestors that are not included in Anderson's Great Migration (as awesome of a resources as that work is).
Laura, you have my apologies for not identifying "England and Wales Marriage Records" as a primary source. I misinterpreted that name as being one of Ancestry's databases of "index-only" records gleaned from a variety of unidentified sources.
Um, "England and Wales Marriage Records" -- at least on Ancestry.com -- is not a primary or original source. Read the description:
Original data: Genealogical Society of Utah. British Isles Vital Records Index, 2nd Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah
It's an index. So it's derivative.
Also, its contents might be accurate-- it may very well and accurately be referring to an original marriage record in a parish concerning one Walter Knight and one Elizabeth Willis. But how do we know this Walter who married Elizabeth Willis is the immigrant to Massachusetts?
commented Oct 26, 2015 by Jillaine Smith G2G6 Pilot (675k points)
From the WikiTree profile, Elizabeth Gunne's father is
Richard Gunne
Born 1567 in Saintbury, Gloucestershire, England
answered Oct 20, 2015 by Frank Gill G2G Astronaut (1.9m points)
http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Gunn
This interesting name has three possible derivations. The first from the Olde Norse Viking pre 7th Century personal name "Gunnr", meaning battle. Secondly, a metonymic occupational name for someone who operated a Seige Cannon, from the Medieval word "gunne" meaning a cannon. This could also have been used as a nickname for a person with a forceful temperament. The name is widespread in Scotland, especially in Caithness, where it is of Norse origin, Gunn was a Caithness, chief of the 12th Century. His name Gunnis an old West Scandinavian personal name. The Gaelic form is "Mac Gille Dhuinn" and means "son of the servant of the brown one". Two early marriages in London are between Richard Gunn and Joane Benson on 22nd October 1627 at St. Margaret's, Westminster, and Alexander Gunnt and Margery Hooper on 26th January 1665 at St. Mary Magdale, Old Fish Street. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of William Gun, which was dated 1218, in the "Assize Rolls Lancashire", during the reign of King John, known as "Lackland", 1199 - 1216.
Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Gunn#ixzz3p8aNn37p
Not sure if this should be continued here or if a new conversation about Bridget should be started, but this is a well sourced and concise record of the issue with Bridget. While I still have trouble with the assertions regarding childbearing age as "proof" as posited by Barber and Delorey, I think in the totality of the evidence, particularly the marriage record in England, it is highly unlikely that Bridget is or ever was a "Knight" and not the daughter of Walter. I will be changing my personal family genealogies to reflect this belief.
▼ Who Was Bridget?
William Varney’s wife’s name was Bridget, as indicated in the Probate Record for his estate. Three identities for Bridget have been suggested:
as Bridget Knight, daughter of Walter Knight;
as Bridget Parsons, widow of James Parsons and mother of the Jeffrey Parsons who married Sarah Vinson;
and as Bridget Deverell.
The identification of Bridget as the widow of James Parsons has been disproven. Her identification as the daughter of Walter Knight has been challenged and lacks any credible support or documentation. Her identification as Bridge Deverell, while a possibility, should be treated with some caution.
▼ Bridget as Bridget Knight - Not Credible
Bridget’s identification as Bridget Knight was provided by Tingley in a family history published in 1935.[3] [4] Tingley claimed that Bridget was born about 1611, the daughter of Walter Knight, and that she and William Varney married 4 May 1629 in Salem, Massachusetts. Tingley cited no sources nor provided any evidence for his identification or other statements.
Tingley’s identification of Bridget was questioned by Torrey but not refuted.[5] More recently, it has been challenged by Barber and Delory.[2] They argue that Bridget, based on her statements of her age, was too old to be the daughter of Walter Knight, based on his statements of his age. Further, that Bridget’s own statement of her age is consistent with the range of her childbearing years; and that her known childbearing years are not consistent with the birth date given by Tingley. Similarly, The Great Migration Project has been unable to identify the name of Walter Knight's wife, nor any evidence that he even had children.[7]
Another problem is where and when Bridget and William Varney met and married. Walter Knight was living in Massachusetts before Bridget married and, if Bridget was his daughter, it is likely that Bridget was also living in Massachusetts before her marriage. However, there is no record of William Varney in Massachusetts or elsewhere in New England prior to 1649.
Without documentation, then, the identification of Bridget as Bridget Knight is inconsistent with documentation that is available for Walter Knight, William Varney, and Bridget wife of William Varney. In fact, it is questionable that any such person as Bridget Knight even existed.
▼ Bridget as Bridget Parsons - Disproven
Torrey identifies Bridget as Bridget Parsons, a possible widow, with undertain birth dates.[5] Bridget’s identification as Bridget Parsons is presumably based on her will, which mentions, along with her children by William Varney, her “son” Jeffrey Parsons.[8]
Many Varney family histories have also followed that assumption to state that William and Bridget were married in Barbados,[6] where Jeffrey Parsons stated that he moved at an early age. This would resolve the problem of how and where Bridget and William Varney met and married. However, the assumption that Bridget is the mother of Jeffrey Parsons or directly connected to him has been disproven by Willis Parsons.[9] There is no documentation or other evidence, then, to support the identification of Bridget as Bridget Parsons. (See Bridget Deverell for further discussion of her will.)
Without Bridget’s connection to Jeffrey Parsons, there is also no reason to suppose that William and Bridget were married in Barbados. Nor are there any records in Barbados to suggest that either William or Bridget were ever there, although early records for Barbados are patchy.[2] (All available early baptisms and marriages for Barbados have been extracted for the International Genealogical Index where they can be searched.)
▼ Bridget as Bridget Deverell -Tentative
Barber and Delorey have suggested that Bridget “is probably” the Bridget Deverell who married a William Varney on 7 April 1629 in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England.[2] They were able to find a baptismal record for Bridget that is consistent with her age as reported by herself and as estimated from her child bearing years. And the marriage date is surprisingly close to that initially suggested by Tingley.
Allthough further documentation would be desirable, the identification of Bridget as Bridget Deverell presently seems the most plausible identification for the wife of William Varney.
(sources in next post)
answered Oct 22, 2015 by Laura Harlow G2G6 (8.9k points)
↑ Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers of St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. FHL #0924802, in Church of England. St. George's Chapel (Windsor Castle, Berkshire); Elisabeth R Poyser; and E. H. (Edmund Horace) Fellowes. The baptism, marriage and burial registers of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, p. 103 (Marriages), Secondary quality.
"William Varney and Bridget Deverell of the Parishe of St. Georg wthin the Castle of Windsor, were marryed here the vijth of Aprill. Anno domini: 1629 by virtue of a Lycence granted from the Deane and Praebendries"
St. George's Chapel was apparently popular for marriages at the time, serving not only residents of the Castle and "of the parish" outside the Castle, but from other parishes and communities as well. The wording in some entries clearly differentiates those who are "of the Castle" from those who are "of the parish" or from other parishes. Unfortunately, the entry for William and Bridget is less clear.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Barber, Kathleen Canney, and Janet Ireland Delorey. William Varney of Ipswich and Gloucester, Massachusetts. The American Genealogist. (Jul 2006), Secondary quality.
↑ Frye, Marian McCauley, and Harold E Frye. The Tingley family revised: being a record of the descendants of Samuel Tingley (____-1666) of Malden, Mass. in both the male and female lines. (Elkton, Virginia: M.M. Frye, c1970-2001 (Ann Arbor, Michigan : Edwards Brothers)), V.1, p.20, Secondary quality.
↑ Tingley, Raymon Meyers. Some ancestral lines: being a record of some of the ancestors of Guilford Solon Tingley and his wife Martha Pamelia Meyers. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1986), Secondary quality.
William Varney, of Ipswich, Mass. . . .Married 29 May 1629, Bridget, dau of Walter and Elizabeth Knight of Salem, Mass, b. 1611 England
↑ 5.0 5.1 Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Secondary quality.
VARNEY William ( -1654, Salem) & Bridget PARSONS [KNIGHT?] ( - 1672, Gloucester), wid?; b 1641?, b 1644, 4 May 1629?, b 1634; Ipswich/Gloucester/Salem
↑ Collacott, Margaret Oliver. The ancestors and descendants of Zephaniah and Silence Alden Hathaway: with notes on allied families. (Mentor, Ohio: unknown, 1961), Secondary quality.
↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), pp. 1139-1142, Secondary quality.
Walter Knight. Origin unknown, arrived about 1626, married by 1642, name of wife unknown, no known children
↑ Massachusetts (Colony). Quarterly Courts (Essex County). Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1911-1925, 1975), Vol. 5, p. 119, Secondary quality.
↑ “Jeffery Parsons of Loddiswell, Devonshire and Gloucester, Massachusetts”, by Willis S. Parsons, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), Vol 142, July 1988, Secondary quality.
Nice research on Bridget, Laura. Is she the only purported child of Walter Knight that people care about? (She's the only one I've seen discussed here or in the sources I've sampled.)
Yes, Laura, very well done and now the decision on whether to separate Bridget from Walter Knight. Anyone have a contact number for Marty McFly?
Oh, I see someone has already done that and also changed Bridget to 'unknown'
Ellen, I think Bridget has the most attention because she has to biggest paper trail... and because she has the most well known descendants and I haven't found a whole lot on those other children. I've never had them on my tree, and it is far easier to prove a positive than a negative (a child not listed in a will doesn't mean the child didn't exist, just that they weren't listed either because they had predeceased their parent or had been disinherited or had received their inheritance earlier), so the child listed is confirmed, but the child not listed isn't disproven. It makes it harder to argue against other children (even if the will issue isn't here in this case, it's a reasonable example).
David, In *my* opinion, I'd vote to separate her, with annotation why and a link to Walter for anyone who wants to follow the trail easily.
Before I close this question, I just checked William Varney profile and it shows a change on Oct.23,2015 but there is nothing under the changes tab or who did what. Why is it not shown? I can see that his wife was changed to Bridget 'unknown' but not who made the change. Or is that because Bridget was changed to an unknown that the software automatically listed a change but it was to Bridget, not William?? Just trying to understand the software process here. Thanks
David: It was Laura who made those changes. She changed Bridget's LNAB from Knight to Unknown. Bridget is now [[Unknown-296040]]. See http://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:NetworkFeed&who=Unknown-296040 for the history.
Please don't close this question. This has been a complex discussion that should remain open and accessible to other contributors interested in these people.
It was me and it should be because I changed Bridget's last name to remove Knight and add the possibility that it is Deverell (and left Knight as an alternate last name simply so people can find her as "Bridget Knight" since many records list her thusly.
Adding my voice to Ellen's: please don't close this question. Looks like we need to go through each of the claimed children and see what we can find. I'll start with supposed son William.
OK, I have changed the Title to better reflect this topic.
Great idea! We could have one response per child. I started with William.
I got through Elizabeth. No more time today for this. Hopefully others can help?
I had been working on Varney merges/edits and came across this website: http://home.earthlink.net/~herblst/varney_family.htm that sources: William Richard Cutter, New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Volume IV
Of note is that Bridget Knight is mother and accurate dates are listed for births in Barbados. As well as a marriage date for Bridget Knight and William Varney. Is the Barbados tie definitely disproven? Are there records available for Barbados?
One of the sources I looked at earlier in the week made reference to a Varney in Barbados. I think there was an indication that it was a different Varney family, but I don't remember the specifics, nor which source it was.
That Cutter book cited on the webpage you found is a 1913 book that is available online, free, from multiple sources. I have the impression that Cutter's numerous books were essentially republications of excerpts from earlier published genealogies. I've found them useful, but they aren't highly reliable. Anyway, the only Varneys mentioned in the cited volume of Cutter are two women named Abigail -- see https://books.google.com/books?id=NegUAAAAYAAJ&q=varney for details.
WILLIAM KNGHT (1613-1731)
This pertains to son William. I
[EDITED:] Ooops! Gotta start over on this one; I accidentally searched William WRIGHT, not William KNIGHT. Ugh.
[Note: I focused on NEHGS since not everyone has access to that; perhaps someone else can peruse familysearch.org]
There was a William KNIGHT in Lynn, Massachusetts, who left a will in 1653; wife Elizabeth; ch. John, Anne, Francis, Hannah and Jacob. Source: "Early Settlers of Essex and Old Norfolk," NEHGR, 6:346.
Here's more:
William Wright<ref>Charles S. Tibbetts, "William Knight of Lynn," in ''The Essex Genealogist,'' 18:71-</ref> was born about 1600 and died at Lynn 5 1m [March] 1655. He m1 in England a wife whose name is unknown, and by whom he had four children. He m2 about 1642, probably in Lynn, widow Elizabeth Ballard, born England in 1609 and who sailed on the ''James'' in 1635 with her first husband William Ballard. After William Knight's death, Elizabeth m3 at Lynn 28 1m 1656 Allen Breed as his second wife. First record of this Wm Knight in America is at Marblehead (then part of Salem) 2 Jan 1636/7; by 1638 moved to Lynn; made freeman there 2 May 1638. There's a bunch more info in the article about him.
I suggest that we take Knight-1436, adjust his dates, detach him from Walter and mother, and make him this William Knight.
From same article, children (1-4 by wife #1):
John2, b abt 1622; m Emma Wellman
Ann, b abt 1624; m bef 1653 as 2nd wife Edward Richards, b 1609-1627. Children. [more info in article]
Francis [the one currently ascribed to Walter??], b abt 1626; returned to England to fight under Cromwell against Charles I, and died there.
Johanna (or Hannah), b abt 1628; m bef 1648 Thomas Gage of Yarmouth. Children.
Mary b abt 1643; m abt 1665 Henry Wormwood. Children born Lynn.
Elizabeth b abt 1644/5; m1 c1661 John Farrington; m2 at Andover, Mass., 14 Nov 1667 Mark Graves
Jacob b abt 1645; m1 Sarah Burt; m2 Hannah Rand; m3 Elizabeth (Pitmen) Russell; m4 Rebecca (Rea?) Stevens
Daniel, b abt 1647; d 1672; unmarried.
answered Oct 24, 2015 by Jillaine Smith G2G6 Pilot (675k points)
edited Oct 25, 2015 by Jillaine Smith
I searched Ancestry.com for a William Knight who died 1731 in Salem, Mass. The closest thing I found was a man who died in Portsmouth, N.H., on 5 Feb 1730/1. He is documented by a large collection of user-uploaded images of a page from New Hampshire Probate Records recording:
Inventory of the estate of William Knight, who died Feb. 5, 1730/1; amount, 3292.16.7; signed by Hunking Wentworth and Tobias Langdon; attested by Deborah Knight, widow and administatrix, Jan. 11, 1732/3.
From Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/william-knight_17712852
this appears to be the Wm. Knight you reference with wife Deborah
From https://books.google.com/books?id=cSrlHHj2AFcC&pg=PA309&lpg to add to the confusion. Still looking.
Thanks, David. Clearly two different men. The second William you found appears to be the same I found above -- William Knight of Lynn.
In any case, the William Knight currently profiled doesn't match ANYONE.
In Pope's book, The Pioneers of Massachusetts, he lists 3 William Knight including the Lynn connection https://books.google.com/books?id=k___uh7sQAkC&pg=PA274&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false
For what it's worth.
Elizabeth Knight
Anderson's profile of her second husband (Peter Palfry) provides no maiden name, much less parents. She should be detached from Walter and any mother and renamed Elizabeth Unknown.
It looks to me like Elizabeth is a fairly well-defined person, and I agree with Jillaine that her profile should be detached from the profiles Walter Knight and Elizabeth. She may have been named Knight, but there is no good basis for connecting her to these parents.
FRANCIS KNIGHT (1617-aft 1753)
There was a William Knight of Lynn, Essex Co., Massachusetts who wrote a will 2 Dec 1653 (Source: "Will of William Knight of Lynn" in Essex Genealogist, 18:72, citing Probate Records of Essex County, 1:213; EQCR, 1:394) that names, among others, "my son Francis Knight"
This same article lists the children of William Knight and says this about Francis:
FRANCIS, b abt. 1626; returned to England to fight under Cromwell against Charles I, and died there.
Further notes in this article indicate Francis had no children.
Recommendation: change Knight-1437 to be the son of William of Lynn described elsewhere in this thread.
MARY KNIGHT (no dates); supposedly m John Osborn of Windsor CT.
I can find no record of her or her husband John Osborn. Osborn's profile has an old comment on it related to a John Osborn with wife Mary, no surname. Perhaps that person (who posted it) can be pursued and this profile adjusted to fit Mary Unknown, wife of some John Osborn, somewhere.
The unsourced content I found for Mary in Ancestry Family Trees is mind-boggling. It has her birth in 1620 in Southampton, England, and dying in 1701 in Woburn, Massachusetts. It has her married to several different men at the same time, bearing her first child 8 years before she was born; and performing some other unlikely feats, including living in multiple places at the same time. The John Osborne she is connected to in that Ancestry Tree is supposed to have died in 1686 in Weymouth, Mass. (where he is supposed to have been born in 1615!). There is a 17th century John Osborne documented in the History of Weymouth at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101067881399;view=1up;seq=38 but he has no life dates and his wife's name isn't given.
Thomas Knight (1636-1661)
The profile currently claims a specific birth date (in England), as well as a specific death date and place (Salem). The Salem Vital Records show no such death date nor any death date for a Thomas Knight.
So far, the only Thomas Knight I can find from this time period is a Thomas Knight, 21, who was transported to St. Christophers, imbarked in the Mathew of London, on 21 May 1635.<ref>"Emigrants to St. Christophers &c," in NEHGR, 14:353. </ref> This calculates back to a birth year of 1614-- 20 years earlier than the birth date currently claimed on "our" Thomas Knight. We also don't know what happened to the 1635 Thomas.
I find no other Thomas Knights that fit this profile. Maybe others can do better? If not, I suggest we tag him with {{questionable}}, and detach him as son of Walter Knight, with sufficient explanation in his narrative.
I'd be curious if someone could find a birth for him in England. Maybe he was a real guy named Thomas born on the date to someone. But there's no evidence of him in New England, much less Salem.
For what it's worth, I found an unsourced Ancestry Family Tree for someone who fits the profile of this Thomas Knight. Birth was allegedly 18 September 1636 at Cape Ann, Dukes County, Massachusetts (but Cape Ann isn't in Dukes County and apparently never was) and death was 1661 in Salem.
Interestingly, the original records that Ancestry showed me when I searched for Thomas Knight (1636-1661) were almost entirely from the 1800s (and Ancestry claimed these were "Matching Records"!). Notably, there's a will for a Thomas Knight of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts that was filed for probate on 1 April 1836. The will names his wife as Martha, daughter of Amos Howard, late of Malden, Mass. I wonder if records for this Thomas who died in 1836 have somehow gotten incorporated into people's Internet genealogies for the man who supposedly was born two centuries earlier!
Ellen, the ancestry.com family tree is probably pulling from the "original" fraudulent genealogy.
But the subsequent find suggests an opportunity for morphing THIS Thomas Knight-1889 into the 19th century man instead of orphaning him altogether.
Ruth Knight (1638-?)
This daughter was supposedly born in Cape Ann, Dukes Co., Massachusetts. Cape Ann was not in Dukes County.
A Richard Belcher (b 1665) married as his second wife one Ruth Knight in Woburn, MA 11 Oct 1705. <ref>Anderson, GM, Vol I, p 235, citing Woburn VR 3:22.</ref> She would be too old or this profile.
There was a Ruth Knight in Woburn, b there 23 Apr 1646, daughter of John Wright and his wife Priscilla. This Ruth married another Knight-- Jonathan-- on 31 Mar 1663. She died 13 Apr 1714.<ref>William R. Cutter, "Wright Family of Woburn, MA," in NEHGR 37:76</ref>
Absent any other identifying features of this Ruth, I suggest we make her the Ruth of Woburn and detach her from Walter and wife.
Jilliane,
Is your 2nd point is in error in that you have referenced Ruth WRIGHT, not Knight. Or are you saying Ruth was never a Knight at all but a Wright LNAB?
Should you revise that 2nd point in your answer? I do not believe we have sound evidence yet of Ruth KNIGHT having been in Woburn. And yes, I did see your other comment about having mistakenly researched Wright instead of Knight.
Or are you saying Ruth was never a Knight at all but a Wright LNAB?
Ruth Knight of Cape Ann, Dukes County, is on that same unsourced Ancestry Family Tree where I found Thomas. On that tree, their parents are alleged to have been Walter Knight 1587-1634 and Elizabeth Willis 1589-1634. (Note that both of these parents supposedly died before most of their alleged children were born. Also, the same tree indicates that Walter Knight emigrated to New England in 1653. Apparently someone believes he had children posthumously in Massachusetts many years before he emigrated posthumously to Massachusetts.)
Dave, yeah, I got the Wright and Knight confused in Ruth's case because she married a Knight. In either case, I say we merge her with the wife of Jonathan Knight.
Ephraim Knight (1640-?)
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Knight-1891
Another case of a birth in "Cape Ann, Duke [County]" when there is no Cape Ann in Duke County.
I find no evidence of an Ephraim Knight in New England in this time period.
Okay, here's my attempt to summarize what needs to be done with Walter's "children":
William Knight-1436. Merge with Knight-510, being sure to detach him from any parents in the process. Use vitals on Knight-510. There are more children of Knight-510 than currently included on his profile. Additional children we may want to add include:
Francis Knight-1437, (see #3 below), b abt 1626; returned to England to fight under Cromwell against Charles I, and died there. No children.
Mary b abt 1643; m abt 1665 Henry Wormwood (no profiles for either found on wikitree). Children born Lynn.
Elizabeth Knight-511 b abt 1644/5; m1 c1661 John Farrington; m2 at Andover, Mass., 14 Nov 1667 Mark Graves-672
Elizabeth Knight-173. She was a real person, but origins unknown. I have detached her as daughter of Walter and added a notation in her bio. She really needs to have her LNAB changed to Unknown; it would be great to find an existing, orphaned, recyclable Unknown-XXX to merge her into instead of creating yet a new, high-numbered Unknown.
Francis Knight-1437. Change birth to about 1626; detach from Knight-174, and make son of William Knight-510. Add to narrative that he returned to England to fight under Cromwell against Charles I, and died there. No children.
Mary Knight-1438. supposedly m John Osborn-182 of Windsor CT. I had trouble finding sources for the appropriate John Osborn in Connecticut. Osborn's profile has an old comment on it by Betty Tindle-19; related to a John Osborn with wife Mary, no surname. Perhaps Betty can be contacted and this profile adjusted to fit Mary Unknown.
Thomas Knight-1889. There is no evidence of a colonial person by this name anywhere in New England. I've added the {{questionable}} template to his profile. He should be detached from Walter.
Ruth Knight-1890. Merge her into Wright-1154 (note change in surname; who married a Jonathan Knight); use the vitals (including parents) of Wright-1154.
Ephraim Knight-1891. Merge him into Knight-1714, a later man by the same name who settled in Virginia; use the vitals (including parents) of Knight-1714.
Can someone else take this on? I've got two work deadlines looming. Thanks.
I started the merge for Elizabeth (I found an unknown to fill in info) Now have to wait for the other managers to approve it.
It was time consuming as I also found missing info for her 2nd, Peter Palfrey and his 1st wife Edith & children. Peter was a founder of Salem and a PGM subject so I had to fix a lot there. An interesting point is he came over on the ship Zouch Phenix with Walter Knight so there may very well be a connection (if we can find it later on)
Before proceeding further, I was concerned that the children had exact birth dates which someone had researched at one time in the past. I didn't want to disconnect ALL the children without further research to make sure they were NOT his children..
So I looked for some websites in the UK that might help with Walter's birth/baptism, his wife and children born there. So many websites are pay per (which I cannot afford) but I did find one free one that had a contact for Staplegrove, Somerset. I have sent an e-mail but not yet heard back. http://wsom-opc.org.uk/
If anyone else has a UK contact maybe they could also do additional research. It is possible that Walter Knight might also have lived in East Coker, Somerset as that was the residence listed for him in the passenger list for the ship Zouch Phenix.
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In Qatar, migrant workers for the 2022 World Cup compete in their own soccer tournament.
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Community continues to search for missing teens in Carroll County
Multiple Carroll County law enforcement officers are continuing to follow up on possible leads that could lead them to two missing girls. The girls were last seen near the Monon high bridge trail in Delphi yesterday afternoon. News 18 reports how many have spent hours searching and they say they won't stop looking until they are found.
Posted: Feb 9, 2018 11:56 PM
Updated: Feb 9, 2018 11:57 PM
Posted By: Staff Reporters
Original Publish date: Feb 14, 2017
DELPHI, Ind. (WLFI) – Multiple Carroll County law enforcement officers are continuing to follow up on possible leads that could lead them to two missing girls. The girls were last seen near the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi Monday afternoon.
Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, went missing Monday. The girls were last seen near an abandoned railroad bridge, known as the Monon High Bridge around 1 p.m.
“We're just praying for their safe return,” said Liberty’s grandfather Mike Patty. “I'm upset and confused. Obviously, very distraught. I'm just worried. All I want to do is have the girls get home safe."
The girls were dropped off near the bridge to walk around and hang out. They had made arrangements to be picked up by a family member later in the afternoon. But when the time came for the girls to be picked up, they never showed up.
Abigail's mom, Anna Williams, has spent hours at the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, just hoping to hear her little girl is OK.
“I’m getting scared now,” said Anna Williams. "It's getting cold and they've been out a long time. I don't know what time they ate last."
The girls haven't answered their phones since around the time they went missing.
"Missing, abducted, we don't know for sure,” said Patty.” The cellphone has been pinging around town – and here there is a cellphone tower – but the ping was last noted around five to six hours ago. And they say the phone is now dead.”
The last Snapchat from one of the girls was from 2:07 p.m. on Monday.
"I saw the texts where they got delivered, but they never got read,” said Patty.
Williams said, "It's a very scary situation right now and I just want her home."
Other people from the community say they won't stop looking even if it takes all night.
Based on information learned from friends and family members, Leazenby said investigators do not suspect foul play. They have no information to believe the girls are in any kind of danger, other than being exposed to outside elements.
Leazenby said investigators looked into having an Amber Alert issued. They were informed this event does not meet the criteria set by state guidelines to have an alert issued.
Police are asking for the public’s help. If anyone knows anything, they are encouraged to call the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office at 765-564-2413.
Libby is 5 feet 4 inches tall with blonde hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing a tie-dye shirt that's fringed at the bottom, gray sweats with unknown black lettering and black Nike shoes.
Abby is also 5 feet 4 inches with blonde hair and hazel eyes. Abby was wearing a gray sweatshirt with a burgundy T-shirt underneath and blue jeans.
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Walmart boosts starting pay, closing dozens of Sam’s Clubs
Walmart confirmed Thursday that it is closing 10 percent of its Sam’s Club warehouse stores on the same day the company announced that it was boosting its starting salary for U.S. workers and handing out bonuses.
Posted: Jan 12, 2018 9:29 AM
Posted By: Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart confirmed Thursday that it is closing 10 percent of its Sam’s Club warehouse stores — a move that a union-backed group estimated could cost thousands of jobs — on the same day the company announced that it was boosting its starting salary for U.S. workers and handing out bonuses.
The world’s largest private employer said it was closing 63 of its 660 Sam’s Clubs over the next few weeks, with some shut already. Up to 12 are being converted into distribution centers to handle online orders, the company said late Thursday.
It did not disclose how many people would lose their jobs, but said some workers may be placed at other Walmart locations. Making Change at Walmart, a campaign backed by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, estimates that 150 to 160 people work at each Sam’s Club store, meaning the closures could affect about 10,000 people.
Lauren Fitz, 22, said she was at her other job as a church secretary when a colleague texted to say that the Sam’s Club where they both worked in Loveland, Ohio, had closed. Fitz had been pleased earlier to read the news that Walmart was boosting starting salaries and offering bonuses.
“I thought, ‘This is really cool.’ And then to find out that my store is closing,” said Fitz, who said she had worked as a sales associate in the jewelry department for two months. At home, she got a call from her manager and had a letter in the mail saying the store had closed and she could seek employment at another Sam’s Club or Walmart store.
“It was very sudden and very shocking,” Fitz said. “I don’t think our managers had any inkling yesterday. It was a normal shift.”
On Twitter, Sam’s Club responded to people’s queries by saying, “After a thorough review of our existing portfolio, we’ve decided to close a series of clubs and better align our locations with our strategy.”
Local news reports said Sam’s Clubs stores were closing in Texas, California, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana and Alaska, among other states.
Earlier in the day, Walmart had cited the sweeping Republican tax overhaul that will save it money in announcing the higher hourly wages, one-time bonuses and expanded parental benefits that will affect more than a million hourly workers in the U.S.
President Donald Trump cheered the announcement with a tweet, saying, “Great news, as a result of our TAX CUTS & JOBS ACT!” White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders later said she would not comment on the Sam’s Club closings but that the wage increases were a sign that the tax measures “are having the impact that we had hoped.”
Walmart representatives did not respond to a question about the timing of the dual developments.
“This is nothing but another public relations stunt from Walmart to distract from the reality that they are laying off thousands of workers,” said Randy Parraz, a director of Making Change at Walmart.
Rising wages reflect a generally tight labor market. The conversion of stores to e-commerce sites also illustrates how companies are trying to leverage their store locations to better compete against Amazon as shopping moves online.
Walmart announced years ago that it would actively manage its store portfolio as it strives to put a dent in Amazon’s dominance online. With Thursday’s closing, that strategy is now extending to Sam’s Club.
Online retailers typically pay warehouse employees who pack and ship orders more than store jobs pay. Job postings at an Amazon warehouse in Ohio, for example, offer a starting pay of $14.50 an hour.
“This is about the evolution of retail,” said Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute. “The rise of e-commerce is leading to higher wages.”
Large employers also have been under pressure to boost benefits for workers because unemployment rates are at historic lows, allowing job seekers to be pickier.
But the low unemployment has meant that retailers have had trouble attracting and keeping talented workers, experts said. Walmart employees previously started at $9 an hour, with a rise to $10 after completing a training program. Target had raised its minimum hourly wage to $11 in October, and said it would raise wages to $15 by the end of 2020.
“They raised the minimum wage because they have to,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, said about Walmart. “The labor market is tight and getting tighter.”
While many department store chains such as Macy’s and Sears are struggling, retailers as a whole are still trying to hire. The retail industry is seeking to fill 711,000 open jobs, the highest on records dating back to 2001, according to government data. The longer those jobs go unfilled, the greater pressure on employers to offer higher wages.
Walmart, which reported annual revenue of nearly $486 billion in the most recent fiscal year, said the wage increases will cost it an additional $300 million in the next fiscal year. The bonuses will cost it about $400 million in this fiscal year, which ends on Jan. 31.
It joins dozens of companies including American Airlines and Bank of America that have announced worker bonuses following the passage of the Republican tax plan that slashed the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent. “Tax reform gives us the opportunity to be more competitive globally and to accelerate plans for the U.S.,” Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said Thursday.
The company said the wage increase benefits all hourly U.S. workers at its stores, including Sam’s Club, as well as hourly employees at its websites, distribution centers and its Bentonville, Arkansas, headquarters. A one-time bonus will be given to those Walmart employees who won’t receive a pay raise. The amount, between $200 and $1,000, depends on how long they worked at the company. Walmart said those being laid off at Sam’s Club will still receive a bonus.
In all, Walmart employs 2.3 million people around the world, 1.5 million of which are in the U.S.
Walmart also announced that full-time hourly U.S. employees can get 10 weeks of paid maternity leave and six weeks of paid parental leave. Before, full-time hourly workers received 50 percent of their pay for leave. Salaried employees, who already had 10 weeks paid maternity leave, will receive more paid parental leave.
For the first time, Walmart also promised to help with adoptions, offering full-time hourly and salaried workers $5,000 per child that can be used for expenses such as adoption agency fees, translation fees and legal or court costs.
AP Business writers Michelle Chapman in Newark, New Jersey; Chris Rugaber in Washington, D.C.; and Joyce M. Rosenberg in New York contributed to this report.
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Celery Bog extraordinaire Sam Postlethwait dies at 100
Walmart is changing its sick leave policy, and will pay bonuses for good attendance
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Fiat Celebrate 120 Years of History At The Geneva International Motor Show | WLMG News
Fiat Celebrate 120 Years of History At The Geneva International Motor Show
Geneva will set the scene for the début of the new 500 "120th" family, celebrating the first 120 years of the Fiat brand
Available on 500, 500X and 500L, the new "120th" range is characterised by a sophisticated two-colour Tuxedo livery
The spotlight will also be on the new Panda Connected by Wind special edition, a collaboration between Fiat and the Wind Tre Group
Completing the line-up is the Tipo Sport 5-Door, the top-of-the-range model developed in collaboration with Mopar
The 2019 Geneva Motor Show will see Fiat present its new 500 "120th" family. Available on 500, 500X and 500L, the new range celebrates Fiat's 120th birthday, a milestone that very few car manufacturers around the world have reached. The Swiss event will also witness the début of the new Panda Connected by Wind and 5-Door Tipo Sport, the result of the cooperation between Fiat and Wind, one of Italy's leading telecommunications provider.
Visitors to the show can become familiar with Fiat's idea of connectivity across the range: something that is always simple, democratic, safe and intuitive. These are the cornerstones of the Fiat tradition: offering technological solutions that are innovative but user-friendly, and just as capable of meeting modern daily mobility requirements as they are of accommodating the increasing focus of society on safety and communication.
A lot has changed since 11 July 1899, when the "Società Anonima Fabbrica Italiana di Automobili - Torino" was established, but its perception of the car and the way in which it is experienced has remained unchanged.
The 500 "120th" family
Geneva will host the world preview of the new celebratory range: 500X "120th" 1.0 FireFly Turbo with 120hp, 500 "120th" 0.9 Twin Air with 85hp and 500L "120th" 1.3 Multijet with 95hp. All three vehicles sport a sophisticated two-colour Tuxedo livery (black and white), an all-new feature for 500X.
The Tuxedo livery is accessorised with an exclusive matching key cover, copper-coloured details and elegant interior upholstery. The family also bear a special Fiat logo, with celebratory "120th" wording combined with the well-known connectivity or streaming symbol.
The new 500 "120th" family offers Uconnect 7-inch HD LIVE touchscreen, which is Apple CarPlayTM ready and Android AutoTM compatible as standard. Apple CarPlay lets drivers control their iPhone® using the Uconnect touchscreen, enabling drivers access to Apple Maps, Apple Music, send and receive messages, make phone calls and more through Siri® or the 7-inch touchscreen. Android AutoTM integrates an Android phone with the Uconnect® touchscreen to make it easy for the user to benefit from full connectivity while safely keeping their hands on the wheel.
*Android Auto, Google Play and Google Maps are trademarks of Google LLC.
Apple CarPlay is a registered trademark of Apple Inc.
Fiat 500X "120th"
For the very first time, the Italian crossover is available with a two-colour livery. As well as the black and white Tuxedo combination, it is also available in a choice of Pearl Tuxedo (Pearl White and black) and Silver Tuxedo (Silver Grey and black) colourways with black dashboard or Gelato White, Pearl White, Silver Grey and Cinema Black with matching dashboard. The Tuxedo livery also features black caps on the wingmirrors, Cinema Black side sills, chrome window frames and 16-inch (or 17-inch on request) alloy wheels with dark finish and full LED headlights. Inside, the car features copper coloured upholstery, control panel fascia and vinyl armrests on the doors. The 500X "120th" is also big on comfort, thanks to a full range of standard equipment including dusk and rain sensors, automatic headlights and parking guide system. The exclusive celebratory logo completes the look. A choice of four engines are available on the 500X "120th": 1.0 FireFly Turbo with 120hp, 1.6 E-torq with 110hp, 1.3 Multijet with 95hp and 1.6 Multijet with 120hp, all with 5 or 6-gear manual transmission.
Fiat 500 "120th"
The iconic 500 will also be on display in its "120th" guise, flaunting its new two-colour Tuxedo livery, enhanced by the chrome sill on the bonnet and 16-inch alloy wheels with copper finish. The passenger compartment sports a black dashboard and exclusive pinstripe (black with vertical stripes) seat upholstery, with embroidered "500" logo. Fully equipped - featuring fog lamps, 50/50 rear seat and bespoke mats - and available in the hatchback and convertible versions, the 500 "120th" is available with the 1.2 69hp engine, the 0.9 Twin Air engine with 85hp or the 1.2 LPG engine with 69hp. The vehicle also comes in a choice of Cortina Grey, Carrara Grey, Vesuvius Black, Ice White and Gelato White shades.
Fiat 500L "120th"
The new Fiat 120th family is completed by the 500L, also featuring the elegant two-colour Tuxedo livery (black and white). This is enhanced by Myron details on the bumpers, side sills and two-colour 17-inch alloy wheels, complete with black and chrome finish details on the front grille. A sophisticated black fascia on the dashboard, and exclusive seats upholstered in grey fabric and black eco-leather, enhanced by copper-coloured stitching and the "500" logo set the interior ambiance. The Fiat 500L "120th" also has fog lamps, dusk and rain sensors and rear parking sensors as standard. Customers can choose from the 95hp 1.4-litre Fire petrol engine with 6-speed manual transmission, the 95hp 1.3-litre MultiJet II turbodiesel with manual or Dualogic robotised transmission or the 120hp 1.6 MultiJet paired with manual transmission. As well as the classic two-colour Tuxedo version in black and white, other paint options include Gelato White, Cinema Black, Maestro Grey and Moda Grey, or the two-colour Maestro Tuxedo (Maestro Grey with a black roof) and Moda Tuxedo (Moda Grey and black top).
Panda Connected by Wind, celebrating 120 years of Fiat history at 4G speed
Geneva will also see the debut of the new Panda Connected by Wind special edition, the result of a partnership between Fiat and Wind, part of Wind Tre, a major player in the Italian telecommunications market. Available in Italy from April, the car has a dedicated new look and is equipped with 4G internet connectivity courtesy of the "WINDPACK". To celebrate its 120th anniversary, Fiat in cooperation with Wind, will be offering mobile connectivity to the customers of the new special edition on the go through a Wi-Fi router, capable of connecting up to 15 devices, and SIM with 50GB of monthly data 12 months, all included in the price.
The Panda Connected by Wind sports a special celebratory badge showing the number "120" and the expression "Connected by Wind", in addition to the gloss black accents on the skid plate, door handles and the 15-inch bi-colour wheels. Its white livery is paired with two optional exclusive features, namely a black roof and orange mirror caps, colours that characterise the Wind brand. Black fabric seats, embellished by white and green contrasting seams, Radio U-Connect Mobile and a special smartphone cradle complete the specification.
The Tipo Sport 5-Door - the top-of-the-range version developed in collaboration with Mopar - will make its debut at the Swiss Motor Show, in white with a contrasting black roof, wing mirrors and door handles. Equipped with a 1.6 Multijet 120hp engine with DCT automatic transmission, the Tipo Sport on display adds new front and rear sports bumpers, side skirts, rear diffuser, roof spoiler and the unique fog light bezel. The sporty look is completed by Gloss Black 18-inch alloy wheels with diamond finish (optional made by Mopar) and wide grille. The same exclusiveness continues inside with a Total Black ambiance that includes leather and fabric seats, with embellished double-stitched seams, and cross-pattern techno-leather upholstery on steering wheel and gear lever. Connectivity comes as standard with UconnectTM 7-inch HD LIVE touchscreen, which is Apple CarPlay-ready and Android AutoTM-compatible.
Authentic Accessories
A selection of Authentic Accessories, developed Mopar, will also be on show on the Fiat stand alongside new licensing collaboration projects. Visitors to the Fiat stand can admire the Gabs Collection, dedicated to the iconic FIAT 500. The colourful "SS19" collection will see its debut, encompassing the values shared by Fiat and Gabs: style, design, colour and recognisability ‘Made in Italy'. "500 Happy People" will also showcase their cartoon-style illustrated prints which focus on travel. A new collection of products, available at Fiat retailers, celebrating the brand's famous acronym (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino), as well as exclusive Geneva Motor Show limited edition "FIAT Centoventi - made in FIAT" T-shirts, will be available to purchase at the show.
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49 Percent of People Would Give Up a Year of Sex For This
And no, it’s not a date with Channing Tatum.
By Maggie Parker
Dean Drobot/Shutterstock
There are very few things that some women would actually be willing to give up sex for—like a lifetime of happiness with Ryan Gosling or cheese, apparently. But now you can add overall health to that list: A whopping 49 percent of people in the U.S. would give up sex for a year if it would improve their well-being, according to a survey conducted by Westin Hotels & Resorts.
The company surveyed over 6,400 people in five different countries, 1,110 of whom were from the U.S. The purpose of the study was to see how global citizens felt about well-being and how much it was worth to them. Apparently, it was worth a lot.
Hey, we love the emphasis on well-being, but here's the thing: You don't have to choose between sex and well-being. The truth is, they often go hand in hand. In fact, sex comes with a ton of awesome health benefits. And research shows that fit women have even more amazing sex. So if you're really looking to boost your well-being, start with these 11 tiny life changes that bring major bliss—no celibacy required!
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Dale Jackson
VIDEO: Charges dropped against Marshae Jones, Joe Biden struggling, John Merrill has no conflict and more on Guerrilla Politics …
Radio talk show host Dale Jackson and political consultant Dexter Strong take you through this week’s biggest political stories, including:
— Should Alabama have charged a pregnant mother who was shot after she started a fight?
— What has happened to former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign and can he recover?
— Why the obsession with Secretary of State John Merrill running for office while holding the same office he held when he ran in 2018?
Jackson and Strong are joined by Madison County School Superintendent Matt Massey to discuss the new Alabama School of Cyber & Engineering.
Jackson closes the show with a “parting shot” at the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team in which he says he hopes they lose their finals matchup.
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Tag: Dale Dickey
*NEW* REGRESSION REVIEW *NEW*
October 27, 2015 by pmbayobale, posted in Best and worst films, Cinema, Drama, Film essay, Hollywood, Movie review, Thriller, Uncategorized
Regrezzzzion
The only thing this film made me feel was aggression. Two stars for the two leads.
A father is accused of a crime he has no memory of committing. Cue a dull by the numbers mind-number of a thriller.
The trailers didn’t give much away BUT as soon as I saw that it was penned by Alejandro Amenabar and starring Hermione from Harry Potter, I thought why not?
What a mistake. I expected Regression to be in a similar vein to The Others. Slow burning with a tense but thrilling finale. Tragically, this was just slow. Hawke’s detective desperately kept things watchable. Only because his character was so laughable. His volatile mood swings made for unintentionally comical viewing.
The premise behind the regressive hypnotherapy had potential but it never really got going. David Thewlis did his best to make the psycho babble engaging BUT all it did was reduce me into a hypnotic state. It took a good 30 minutes before anything of real merit grabbed my attention.
I couldn’t care for the crime aspect of the story. Mainly because it was so generic and formulaic. Hawke certainly did his best but the red herrings were so lazy that I was a little insulted. And poor Emma Watson. A talented actress. Reduced to a nothingy role that anybody could have played. The only thing I could applaud was her impeccable accent. She was either crying or spewing uninteresting bile and repeating the same old story that wasn’t that engaging the first time. A waste.
Thankfully the middle act offered some redemption for this shambolic dud. The supernatural element behind a suspect cult was the much needed catalyst. Something that Amenabar has always excelled at. So why didn’t he put in more of it?
45 minutes in. I was finally intrigued. Hawke’s headphone sesh around a dilapidated warehouse was tense and unsettling. A brilliant scene as Watson’s commentary juxtaposed with some creepy images really put the heebie jeebies into the demented rituals that were supposedly re-enacted in this messed up crime scene.
Amenabar delicately teased the darker intent of this mysterious cult. Torture, sexual abuse and horrific sacrifices. That and Hawke’s paranoia and obsession did just enough to keep me from walking.
At first I thought Daniel Aranyo’s cinematography was a little too dull and murky for this lifeless flick. BUT he was finally able to get a little more creative. Hawke’s dream sequences were slightly Kubrickian in their execution. Especially when he wakes up to the hooded white faced Dementors surrounding his bed. There was also another scene that was a perfect homage to Rosemary’s Baby.
Dale Dickey (Winter’s Bone) was probably the only other character that made a memorable impression. She played the grisly grandmother with aplomb. If anything there wasn’t enough of her. She really stole every scene she was in. And for all the mystery, I expected more to be made of her character.
And that was the problem. The real horror after a promising second act was that it was all for nothing. The finale was terrible. The revelations were tragically predictable. It took a direction I really hoped it wouldn’t and with a twist you could see a mile away.
I can see what Amenabar was trying to do BUT it ruined the film. And the ‘Based on a True Story’ end credits undermined the whole piece for me. If not for Hawke and Watson’s involvement, I honestly don’t think this would have graced the silver screen. If anything, this is the sort of paranormal cold case story I see constantly featuring on the numerous channels of my Sky box.
Tagged Alejandro Amenabar, Dale Dickey, Daniel Aranyo, David Thewlis, Emma Watson, Ethan Hawke, Harry Potter, Regression, Rosemary's Baby, Stanley Kubrick, The Others, Winter's Bone
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*NEW* GHOST IN THE SHELL REVIEW *NEW*
May 1, 2017 September 11, 2017 by pmbayobale, posted in Animation, Anime, Best and worst films, CGI, Cinema, Drama, Film essay, Hollywood, Movie review, Reboots, Remakes, Science Fiction, Uncategorized
Like the protagonist, beautiful to look at BUT no heart or soul. Shame.
In the near future, Major (Scarlett Johansson) is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world’s most dangerous criminals.
It was always going to be a big ask to expect Hollywood to successfully remake a cult Japanese anime. I’ll admit. I haven’t seen the original BUT this effort has killed any interest to seek it out.
I could be doing a huge injustice by saying that BUT for all its moments, this sci-fi yawnfest failed to keep my attention.
The slow opener didn’t give me high hopes, despite the wonderful visual effects, as we watched Major’s ‘shell’ being freshly made off the assembly line.
ScarJo played the emotionless Major brilliantly. BUT her subplot was bland to boot. Suffering from ‘glitches’ (flashes/images of old memories), Major soon questions her origins. Wondering if the story of her “creation” was even true.
The only problem was that the truth had been revealed to the audience early on. So the puzzle solving was dull and formulaic as we waited for Major to reach the conclusion we already knew. A product. A military weapon. Nothing more.
Although . . . what a weapon. Her strangely alluring naked camo suit flagged mixed reactions. Especially when Major first stripped to reveal it. I’m sure that scene pleased the teenage fanboys.
The 12A rating restricted the little action that there was. Sacrificing bold visceral violence and the gritty neo-noir undertones for a wider market release. Tut tut tut.
Pilou Asbaek (BBC Four’s Borgen) was the only memorable supporting character as Batou. He worked well with ScarJo BUT the pair spent too much time apart. He bossed the military punk get up and funky Rutger Hauer look.
Jess Hall’s cinematography was incredible. The cityscape was a beautiful mish-mash of virtual avatars, skyscrapers and crazy neon colours. This could have easily fit into the Blade Runner universe.
It was great to see Takeshi Kitano in this. BUT after vowing to never make another American movie after his disappointment with Brother; I was surprised that this was the film to draw him back. Albeit, in an acting role.
A waste of a talented actor/filmmaker. His character nothing more than a zombified desk clerk.
And then in the closing minutes, the crew suddenly remembered that they had Zatoichi in their ranks and allowed him to dispatch some swift justice with an old revolver.
Where was that for the rest of the movie?
The cast sleepwalked through the generic murder mystery. The pace was agonizing. It felt a lot longer than 90-odd minutes.
How could a neo-noir murder mystery that tackled cyber terrorism, personal identity and corporate espionage be so god damn boring?
For all the fitting nods to Blade Runner, did they actually bother to watch the damn film? Come on.
Director Rupert Sanders featured a cast of virtually unknown/small time TV stars. Now that wasn’t a problem because this could have been the perfect platform for them to shine.
BUT with such weak and wafer thin characters at their disposal, it was never going to work.
Peter Ferdinando’s dreadful pantomime villainy did nothing to muster any spark in this cold and lifeless thriller.
If he hadn’t popped up in a giant spider tank (No, not a tank of spiders. An actual tank shaped like a spider) in the fiery finale, I would have forgotten about his character altogether.
I even felt the “surrogate mother” relationship between ScarJo and Juliette Binoche’s (The English Patient) Dr Ouelet was cold and forced.
There was potential BUT it never really got going and failed to make a lasting impression. Fans of the original may feel differently.
BUT disappointing is my final summary on the matter.
Tagged Anime, BBC Four, Blade Runner, Borgen, Brother, Ghost in the Shell, Hollywood, Jess Hall, Juliette Binoche, Peter Ferdinando, Pilou Asbaek, Remake, Rupert Sanders, Rutger Hauer, Scarlett Johansson, Takeshi Kitano, The English Patient, Zatoichi1 Comment
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Tag: Where’s My Donkey?!
THE WORST FILMS OF 2014 – PART TWO
March 20, 2015 by pmbayobale, posted in 3D, Action, Animation, B-Movie, Bad remakes, Best and worst films, Blockbuster, CGI, Cinema, Comedy, Controversial, Crime movies, Drama, Film essay, Hollywood, Hollywood mess, Horror movies, Movie review, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller, Uncategorized
Did you walk out of a film feeling angry, disappointed, baffled, confused?
Did you walk out of a film for that matter?
Did you sit in your car (or at home) reeling? Questioning, debating, pondering how on Earth it even got through the pitching process?
Then, welcome.
I think I’ve already compiled my worst films of 2015 which doesn’t bode well for the year that lies ahead.
BUT let’s (finally) review the worst films of 2014!
My criteria; Basically films that destroyed all excitement and anticipation or failed to deliver anything (Acting, talent, story, suspense, a movie).
Films that made me cry a little, scream with RAGE or just say, “I don’t think I’m going to bother anymore” . . . With the cinema (Woah, let’s not get too down now).
So I’ve already provided PART ONE from 20-11. NOW, it’s finally time for PART TWO with 10 – 1
SCALE: 10 DISAPPOINTED! – 1 WTF!
I’ll stick a few comments with each crappy film title accordingly. Enjoy . . . OR NOT. In fact, you won’t with these 😦
10. WALKING WITH DINOSAURS: THE 3D MOVIE
I know, it’s a kid’s movie. BUT the dino facts were so patronising and stupid that it put me in a rage! I mean, come on! Kids can read. BUT the slow TRI-CER-A-T-OPS pronunciation was infuriating.
Plus they interrupted any interesting development in the dull by the numbers story line. The effects were good BUT the 3D? What 3D?
Not even John Lequizamo’s vocal work could save the day. In fact he annoyed the hell out of me. A talking crow narrating the history of the dinosaurs to a family?
LOGIC?! It just didn’t help the main character grated against me and the story was so predictable and corny that you lost interest.
The purpose of a family movie is to appeal . . . to a family. I don’t even think the little ‘uns would be fussed about watching this one.
Go watch the vastly superior award winning BBC documentary series instead!
9. THE HARRY HILL MOVIE
Harry Hill making a movie? Any good? There’s only one way to find out?
NO! Hill tries to incorporate his TV Burp format to the big screen with a silly premise about taking his ill hamster to Blackpool.
Johnny Vegas does his best to get a chuckle as Abu the hamster. Abu? Wait. Isn’t that the name of another furry sidekick? Hmmm . . .
It was a shame with the talent at Hill’s disposal. Julie Walters, Matt Lucas, Jim Broadbent . . . Will from Inbetweeners.
For every good gag, Hill manages to balance it with a dozen duds.
It’s surreal, stupid and a mess to boot. I felt like I was on something watching it. Maybe I should have to try and understand how Hill thought this would be entertaining.
8. DEVIL’S DUE
Another regurgitated, predictable, lazy, teen horror movie that desperately attempts to reap from the Paranormal Activity hype.
Paranormal Activity was a treat, an actual creepy, tension builder, that recreated and improved what the overrated handy-cam trend setter The Blair Witch Project set out.
A couple go on an exotic Brazilian honeymoon. They get lost. Get drunk. Suspicious taxi driver recommends strange place. Takes them before they can say, “Wait a minute”. And that last drink, oh that inevitable last drink. Instead of passing out on the bathroom floor, poor Sam gets impregnated by a Satanic cult.
The main issue is that the writers and producers either have never seen Rosemary’s Baby and inadvertently delivered a poor modern day rehash of it or they knew what they were doing which is even more tragic.
However, too many movies have popped their ugly heads out from this craze and I pray that this be the last but unfortunately the true horror is that it won’t be. (Just keep scrolling)
7. THE LAST DAYS ON MARS
The . . . last film they should do about Mars. Oh my days. Shambolic. The pain endured watching this space turd was like having a xenomorph burst out of my chest and that still would have been more entertaining than this drivel.
Slow, tension less, shoddily acted, more holes than a sponge. This film should be jettisoned into space. Okay, rant over. Better? Better.
It is such a shame that an underrated cast have the opportunity to shine in a perfect B movie-esque vehicle and miss at every angle.
They could have done a shot for shot remake of Alien and they still would have messed it up.
If it wasn’t for the fact it was funded by the BFI and Irish Film Board, this definitely wouldn’t have made it to the big screen and rightly so. The fact it only featured at my cinema for five days says it all.
Also the film is called Last Days on Mars and yet when we join them, they are 19 hours away from going home so surely THE LAST DAY ON MARS. Couldn’t even get the title right.
6. NATIVITY 3: DUDE WHERE’S MY DONKEY?!
Ho, ho, ho – horrible!
From the moment the first badly mimed, badly choreographed and terribly out of sync flash mob started busting shapes, I knew I was in for it. And that was just from the adults. The kids hadn’t even started yet.
Just because it was Christmas that doesn’t mean you can slap any old thing together and expect people to pay and see it. It was lazy, unfunny and poor. At a push, worth taking the little ‘uns if they are aged up to 5 tops.
I’m sure it was fun for everyone who filmed it. It’s just a shame they couldn’t convey that for everybody else.
I didn’t get me in the Christmas spirit but it certainly got reaching for the ones in my cupboard. Should be Dude, Where’s My Money?
5. TRANSCENDENCE
Transcen-dunce or dense. A mind numbingly drab affair of a concept that has just enough meat to be a generic TV movie you’d expect to see on late night SyFy.
You know you’re onto a loser when the opening five minutes pretty much tells you what to expect and an established cast sleepwalk their lines and fail to make an impression.
It just proves that a little thing called story, along with some others called character, plot and interest still count.
Sleep walking performances, along with a by the numbers story line, relying on the popularity of familiar actors does not a good or profitable movie make.
I hope the memory of viewing this film will transcend, evaporating like the little nano-bots into nothingness. Avoid or upload at your own peril.
4. UNDER THE SKIN
Under the skin? More like grating against my skin. What the hell did I just watch? Now imagine Species. Replace Natasha Henstridge with the even more alluring Scarlett Johansson. Set it in a grittier, murkier Scottish backdrop and bang on, you have . . . something worse than Species.
In fact just watch Species or the even more dire sequels to this drivel.
ScarJo plays a flirty alien that feasts on weak, shallow, lonely Scottish men. How could this be so bad? How can the man who brought us Sexy Beast produce this?
I mean he did do the oddly bizarre Birth. You know Birth? Nicole Kidman and her husband who is reincarnated as a 10 year old? Oh, that Birth, yeah.
Where to begin? The insufferable shaky handheld camera work? The cheesy Day After Tomorrow guff that managed to be more vomit inducing than the Day After Tomorrow?
The redneck tornado chasers? Richard Armitage getting his arse sucked off by a twister? Well, it bloody looked like he was.
This just made me want to walk out of the screen. Go to the nearest store that had the Twister DVD. Go back to the projectionist and tell them to put that on instead.
It was cringe-inducing bilge. I have never laughed so much. This was a farce. I have seen B-movies on SyFy that have contained better story lines and characters than this.
2. AS ABOVE SO BELOW
As I watched, the more it blowed. Now childish sulky comments aside. Another found footage “horror” film graces the big screen with cheap scares, poorly acted, badly written characters and a laughable premise.
There is no tension. Random characters get bumped off left, right and centre without any background, interest or concern. Suspense. Naff all.
Loud noises and screams may make me jump out of my seat but what do you expect when the story has put me into a coma, near enough.
Feldman’s character with a dark past who constantly keeps reiterating that he will not go down into the catacombs; inevitably gets pushed down into the cave and what is his big secret?
He’s CLAUSTROPHOBIC! Why didn’t he say that in the first place? Idiot. Oh my God, it felt like something out of a comedy sketch.
1. AND THE AWARD FOR WORST FILM OF 2014 GOES TO . . .
THE PYRAMID
This film should be buried beneath a pyramid.
You know you’re onto a loser when the saving grace is Jay from The Inbetweeners.
What a load of s#@! The demon bared a striking resemblance to those devil dog things from the live action Scooby Doo reboot. The one with Matthew Lillard as Shaggy.
It took half the film before they even got into the flipping thing. The ending was abrupt and predictable after all that endurance with the shoddy, shaky camera work.
Seriously, these found footage films need to STOP. It was too dark to see anything. Half of the time you get an elbow or a nostril. Come on, we’re in the Go Pro age guys!
Mindless exposition about unoriginal premises that have been done to death with lifeless characters that bicker through predictable and unscary scenarios are not acceptable.
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